a Sr frm—— ir WiLL OBSERVE ECLIPSE DECLINES TO ARBITRATE | - ! fie U. S. Navy Completes Arrangements > to That Effect. Rear Admiral Chester, superintend- ent of the naval observatory, has completed arrangements’ for the ob- | servation of the total solar eclipse of Castro Says Venezuela and U. S. Have no Pending Questions. STATE DEPARTMENT A August 28-30 of this year, an event aes - | of the greatest importance to as- | tronomers. congress appropriated Ss B udez | Says Cass of New York and Burm | $5,000 for this purpose, and the naval Acynalt Go. Must Reman in | party will be sent out to establish Courts. three separate stations, namely, one — | near the central line of the eclipse, - possibly on one of the islands of the inister Bow ablec je State]; » : Minister Bowen cabled th Columbretes group off the east coast Department on the 14th from Caracas one the near Valencia, Spain, and the central line, close to fused to arbitrate the pending issues ably between Venezuela and the United | near States. Minister Bowen further stat- | railroad from Tunis to Algiers in Af- ed that President Castro had de-| rica. clared that the disputed asphalt cases Exact locations cannot be finally by the Venezue- | settled until local conditions are per- sonally examined, and for this pur- Minister Bowen's telegram formed | pose the expeditionary force will con- the principal topic of discussion at | sist of Rear Admiral Chester in Friday's meeting of the cabinet. That | charge, about seven men of the staff the situation is not regarded as acute | of the naval observatory, L. E. at this time was indicated clearly by | Jewell of Johns Hopkins university, the determination of the President | Dr. S. A. Mitchell of Columbia uni- and his advisers to pay no present | versity "and Dr. N. B. Gilbert: of heed to Castro's refusal to arbitrate. | Dartmouth college. Prof. H. F. Bige- It is the indicated President and Secretary Taft, who, reau will accompany the expedition in the absence of Secretary HayV, is | in charge of meteorological work. being relied upon for advice in mat- must be adjudicated lan courts. ters pertaining to foreign affairs, RCOSEVELT'S BIG HUNT simply to await further develop- | - ments in Venezuela. It is not be-| Will Spend Days in Saddle and Nights lieved that the situation now is of in Sleeving Bag. such a character as to warrant alarm. | § : : Philip B. Stewart, who is arrang- Indeed, the President is proceeding Dy ey ariong ing the details of President Roose- 1 WE a Q r ia < i . # i. ‘ | with the arrangements for his south-| oft. punting trip in the White river Western rip ¥ithout reference to the country next month, has received a Venezuelan dispute. letter from Secretary Loeb, saying The New York “Tribune: gays; In | {here has been o change in the Presi- answer to a request for a statement gent’s plans to visit Colorado on the ‘present Venezuelan troubles Mr. Stewart says the President ex- the “Tribune” received the following pects to live eatirely .in the open, if signed cable dispatch’ from President the weather during his visit to Castro: “I do -not.believe there will Colorado is favorable. © “The Presi- be any trouble, and if there should | gent?” ‘continued Mr. Stewart, “will be any Venezuela would win, because spend his days in the saddle and his she never drifts away from the right, nights in a sleeping bag wrapped in a reason and justice, which are the rubber blanket.” } strength of weak nations.” fd Elia ati nl, The “World” prints this dispatch COMPLAINT NOT HEEDED from President Castro: “There is in reality between .Vene-! Claims He Warned Uncle Sam uel 1 Washing bt i F : : ; zue a an Wa hington no question of | Against Failed Firm. sufficient importance to occupy pub- 1 vais ‘ . 3 eo IQ P rig lic attention or worthy of considera- Colonel Russell B. Harrison 1s In receipt of a letter from B. St. John tion by serious persons: Your: minis- ter holds himself aloof from the good understanding which exists, but Ven- ezuela will defend with ardor the] common interests and honor of both eountries.” | Hoyt of Pittsburg. in which Mr. Hoyt says he called the attention of the Postoffice Department last year to the Storey Cottca Company of Philadel- phia, which recently failed "and that no Ta ae | investigation of the company was ADMITS SHE OWES | made by the Department. Mr. Har- : rison, at the request of Mr. Hoyt, will forward the correspondence to Presi- « Ler ~ © oO Q [=] Q Mrs. Chadwick Tells About Son > . bt Some ‘of dent Reosevelt. ler Creditors. Jt is charged by intimation that In the bankruptcy court at Cleve- | some employe or employees of the land, Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick detailed | Postoffice Department may have been some of her financial transactions, in | protect:ag the company from the in- the course of an examination by At-| vestigation asked for by Mr. Hoyt. torney Louis J. Grossman, acting for Referee Nathan Loeser. Mrs. Chadwick said she did not cars to state how much she owed James | 'W. Friend of Pittsburg, but after sev- | dead at Reedburg, Wis. eral other questions had been asked | 'The Delaware Legislature adjourn- and answered, she said that the actual | eq without choosing a United States sum she had received from Mr. Friend | Senator. was $75,000. For this she said she | The astronomical expedition t gave him notes for $150,000. She said | ay D 0. ii : he ow son that Mr. Friend had assisted her mi] y Yon | lie. !n New York hes making other loans to the amount of | giscoyered 30 couble siars $150,000. For this she gave jewelry | As the result of a quarrel over as security, which was later appraised | land near Des Moines, Ia., James Blee at $42,000. Of the loans for $150,000 | shot and killed Isaac Sailer, his half she said she received the entire sum. | brother. Mrs. Chadwick said $225,000 is the A fire in the Empire State building total of her indebtedness in Pittsburg. at Broadway and Bleecker street, New Mrs. Chadwick said that she was not | York, did $50,000 damage, and threw able to give as many details of her the occupants of the building in a transactions as she would like to, be- panic. cause of the absence of papers which Patrick Welch, 72 years old, fell were held in a number of cities. She Jown the stairs at his home i Bolt. had sent for the papers, aad expected gjre, 0. and was killed to have them when the hearing is retired business ian continued next Thursday. Mrs. Chad- wealthy. wick testified‘that her total indebted- The Brat Br x 1 loath : ness would not exceed $750,000. Of | Ste Be vill FAghOe aw © ge as this sum, borrowed from various per- Sher bial Ne Jo. 's . SLR ’ sons, she had received only $517,000, Sour 1 : y Al feaving $268,000 for commissions to the an oreign saloons in a resident money lenders. She said she owed certa®n banks in A serious outbreak occurred at Cleveland $200,000. The names of Candia, Crete, between 15 French sol- these institutions she was willing to | diers and -20 Greek marines. Six give to Mr. Loeser, trustee for the Greeks and two Frenchmen were | killed. crediters privately. —_— Fire at Carbon, Ind. destroyed 20 JACKIES HONORED business houses and 40 residences, = causing a loss of $200,000. The busi- TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Michael Clifford, ased 102 years, is and was Johannessen, Bresnahan, Behnice, ness section of the town is practically Behne and Corahorgi Get wiped out. Medals. | During violent storms through Ok- Acting Secretary of the Navy Dar- { ]ahoma several persons were drown- ling has issued a general order an- ed, among the victims being D. E. nouncing the award of medals of Richmond, John Thomas, Charles G. honor and a gratuity of $100 to each | Schoonover and Orville Pemberton. of the following named men on the! Albert Nickle, seven years old, was battleship Iowa: ‘ drowned in the Mahoning river at Johannes J. Johannessen, chief wa=-' Warren, -O. ter tender; Edward Floyd, boiler ma- | for several hours without result. of Spain; one 10 or 15 miles within | that President Castro has flatly re- | the edge of the shadow path, prob- | intention of the low of the United, States weather bu- | BOM THRO IN WARSAW Baron von Nolken, Chief of Police Seriously Wounded. ONE OFFICER WAS KILLED Six Officers in Assembly Room of Praga Police Station Injured by First Explosion. While driving to the police station | at Praga, Baron von Nolken, chief of the Warsaw: police, was severely | wounded by a bomb thrown into his | carriage. A companion escaped with- | out a scratch. - The assault on the Baron was tne result of a conspiracy on the part of the revolutionary party. Shortly be- | fore 8 o’clock in the: evening a stranger threw a bomb into the as- sembly room of the Praga police sta- tion, situated in an important suburb of Warsaw, across the Vistula river. Six policemen were injured and a wall of the room torn out. The bomb- | thrower was also injured and was ar- | rested. Word was at once telephoned to Baron von Nolken, who started at once for Praga. He was compelled to pass along a certain street to reach the bridge across the river Vistula. PROTEST AGAINST GIFT Preachers Spurn Offer of $100,000 by : John D. Rockefeller. Congregational ministers represent- ing Boston and various sections of New England have forwarded to the American board of commissioners for foreign missions a protest against the acceptance by the board of a gift of $100,000 from John D. Rockefeller. The protest is based on the ground that the Standard Oil Company, Of which Mr. Rockefeller is the head, “stands before the public under re- peated and recent formidable indict- ments in specific terms for methods which are morally iniquitous and so- cially destructive,” and that” “the acceptance of such a gift involves the constitutents of the board in a rela- ticn implying honor toward the donor and subjects the board to the charge of ignoring the moral issues invol- ved.” Among the signers are Daniel Ev- ans, Cambridge; Edward F. Sander- son, Providence, R. I.; George N. Gutterson, Derrick, N. H.; N. Van Derply, Marblehead, Mass.; Reuben Thomas, Brookline, and James S. Williamson, Haverhill. JAPANESE ARE IMPEDED . Damaged Roads and Bridges Delay Pursuit of Russian Armies. The Japanese continue to closely follow General Linevitch’s rear guard, . on by congress in December | iyo up the sack of gold. | He was a | The river was dragzed | against certain carriers | | Here the bomb-thrower lay in wait. | When passing the castle of the Gover- nor General, the maa tarew a bomb into’ the carriage. The coachman was thrown from the pox by the force of the explosion, but was uninjured. Von Nolken was hurt about the head, neck and arms and legs, and although in a serious condition, he will recover. The police official who accompanied Baron von Nolken started after the | bomb-thrower and caught him. .The criminal proved too strong and broke away. Another policeman in plain clothes started after him, and was shot the number at 50,000 and revised esti- dead. A girl, who was passing when mates of the Russian losses from the | the bomb was thrown, was injured by | commencement of the battle of Muk- | | flying splinters. ” den and ending with the fighting at | According to the theory of the police | Tie Pass, place the total at 175,000 the . revolutionists calculated upoa killed, . wounded or captured. Baron von Nolken going, to Praga on learning of the explosion of the | bomb at the “station there, and Knew | he must pass the castle, that being | the only road by which he could reach s x | the only bridge across the Vistula. Big Sum by Highwaymen. | * Baron von Nolken is very unpopu- J. E. Baly, a liveryman who was | {1ar. He is hated by the masses of | acting as a messenger for the Central the Polish population, who hold him bank, of Oakland, Cal, was held up responsible for the sanguinary Sub-|anq robbed of $10,000. He was on his pression of the disturoances here atl way to the Standard Oil refinery at | tite *end of January. | Point Richmond. | ee es The robbery took place on the road- | GOLD BASIS FOR | 7o¥ between Stege and Point Rich- | mond. The highwaymen jumped otit | of a clump of brush at the side of the | . road and covered Daly and former | President Diaz has issued a decree | Deputy Sheriff Roach, who was riding but the damaged bridges impede their progress and possibly will create sufficient delay to permit the Rus- sians to reconcentrate, reinforce, partially reorganize and construct works at Changchun and Kirin. The first Mukden prisoners are ar- riving in Japan. The government has chartered ‘and fitted out 40 steamers to assist the transports in carrying prisoners and woundéd. : Revised figures of the Japanese losses at the battle of Mukden place ROBBED OF $10,000 Messenger for Bank Relieved of a| MEXICO. Mints Will Be Closed to the Free] Coinage of Silver. for the reform of the monetary system with him. Daly and Roach were com: | pelled to jump from the buggy aad | Then the | last. The decree establishes the | robbers tied the men to a fence and “peso” or silver dollar at a value of | gagged them. 50 cents gold, and the theoretical unit | = of the Mexican currency is defined to | be the dollar or “peso” of 75 centi- | 5 An important fea- | Infant Has Extra Ride After Mother Leaves Train. FORGOT BABY. grammes of gold. ture of the decree is a provision for a- reserve exchange fund which at The six weeks’ old -baby of Mrs. E. first will consist of $10,000,000 or | 1z.000.000, and may be increased. | R. Merrymea of Hillsdale, Ill, arrived | The original plan did not provide for | home after having been carried 200 the immediate establishment of this | miles by rail before the anxious moth- fund, tut it is now deemed wise tO | er discovered what had become of the start with one simultaneously with | child the beginning of the new monetary | system. The mint will be closed April | 16 to the free coinage of silver and | the new monetary system will go into effect May 1. Mrs. Merryman and her baby daugh- ter were visiting in a nearby town. On returning home the mother was met at the train by her sister. Mrs. | The publication of the decree gives | Merryman was so anxious to get home | great satisfaction in business and fi- | that she forgot about her sleeping | nancial circles. It assures a con- | *fafant and hurried away. Telegrams | tiruance of stable exchange and 'as- were sent after the train, and in cures business men against losses in | Towa the child was found, still sleep- | impoi ting. ing. —_— Mormons Moving Back. New Trials for Jett and Powers. Mormons have decided to come back | A new trial for Curtis Jett, under to Illinois. At the meeting of the | Sentenged to hang for the assassination | Illinois conference of the Mormon | of J. B. Marcum, in Breathitt county, church, in Warren county, it was de- | Ky., was ordered by the Court of Ap- cided to build three churches, one in | peals. A fourth trial of Caleb Powers | Monmouth, another at Oquawka and for the assassination of Gov. W. S. | the third at Warsaw. It was at| Goebel will begin in a short time, the | Mcamouth the trial of Joseph Smith Court of Appeals having overruled the the first prophet of the Mormon petitica of the Commonwealth for a church, took place in 1841. rehearing. WOUNDED BY BOMB. Postal Investigation. | ie oe es oan 3 Soldiers and Two Policemen Vic- other stock while on duty, and which | tims of Explosion in Warsaw. resulted in the dismissal of a num- A bomb thrown from the window of ber of them, has resulted in a general | a house in Volsk = street’ Warsaw, investigation on the part of the Post- | Russia, exploded in the midst of a office department into similar cases in | passing patrol composed of police and other cities, includ:ag Pittsburg. It | infantry. J is known that inspectors are now at | Six soldiers and , io policemen work in Pittsburg looking up charges | were dangerously wounded. They who, ‘it 1s | were removed to the military hospital. claimed, have used the time orf the | The assailant escaped. ker; Patrick F. Bresnahan, water | Fire partially destroyed the McDer- | government in soliciting subscriptions | “Strike Declared. tender; Heinrich Behnice, fireman; | mott and McGowan store, at Niles, O. | for stock of various kinds. It is un- | At a meeting of : the executive Frederick Behne, fireman; Demetri The less will reach $5,009, partially | derstood that snould any flagrant vio- | hoard of Amalgamated Association of Corahorgi, fireman. insured. lations be found among the carriers in | yop Steel and Tin Workers of the While the Iowa was engaged OR" rhe first trains from the west into | Pittsburg the offending ones will be |gecond district at Wheeling a strike manouevers January 25, a plate of yf,ivland are now being run over the summarily dismissed. | was declared in the Laughlin and one of the boilers blew out, filling the completed Wabash extension from Whitaker plants of the Whitaker- fire room with steam -and scalding (est Virginia into South Cumberland. | Mis. Chadwick Writing Book. Glessner company. water. The seamen rushed into the Ath “General ‘Hogers: of Jae] Mrs. Cassie 'L. Chadwick announces | = room ‘end labored to secure the boil hs ns lor ia atiss [he autobiography is in preparation | Venezuela Warned. er and ship against injury by closing | and will soon be given to the public. | The Venezuelan government, it is the valves and isolating the affected the Armour Packing Co. and the St.lgp, oaims to have received a hand- | announced from Caracas, has received Louis Refrigerator Co. to boiler. General Allen of the in command of the Federal troops in tion of $1,000,000. the island of Samar, reports that the | tuted against other uprizing among the Pulajanes is now | have used private cars minder control. during the last 10 years. CZARS FLEET DAMAGED Not a Russian Escaped. Reports Reach St. Petersburg of Ter- affray in the strects of nedo Attack. . A report is in circulation in St. March 10, Petersburg that Japanese boats have sunk the Russian when a biz battle entrapped by CI pattie- | were ship Navarin and the battleship Si sol and a few Japanese soldiers, who | carries with # 1 | three miles south of Iwo. > Veliky. Both of these vessels are in | cjgsed thé city gates and blocked the | navy and the-law De: | has been named Nushuma. It is near- | Admiral Rojestvens flee wale | narrow tS. rding to the re- | case provides that a ly 2% miles in circumfereence and is sailed recently from si Be, Mada- | port, n a : | missed shall not heres 4180 feet above sea level. 1 gascar. Verne, the recover | Captured Japanese report a terrible Mukden on detachment torpedo of Russians, the last to leave the city, “hinese bandits a | The approval of the | Some offer from a publisher, the work |a note from the American minister, back taxes on private cars used init pe printed in the original style, | Mr. Bowen, requiring an answer as to constabulary, | the state on an approximate valua- without alteration. Suits will be insti- companies that in Arkansas whether Venezuela will arbitrate the . | questions pending, and saying that in 20) bombs | case of a refusal the United States \ the Powen- | will feel free to take the steps which may be necessary to secure justice. discov | | | The police | hidden in a brick gra ski cemetery in W Loses Rights of Citizenship. s1t has approved | | i | | | i i nas New Island for Japan. President Roosevs Arrowood of | paper the story of the volcanic throw- flicted on Midshipman North Carolina, recently | a new isiand in the sea of Japan, sertica from the n | to any of the rights - | The Russian third Pacific squadron, -| under Admiral Yabogatoff, has left y for Port Said. recommended by Acti { Darling. The correspondent at Tokyo of the | the sentence of the court-martial in- | London Daily Telegraph sends to his | ried for de-|ing up in the last days of December of | The island | WILL BATTLE WITH TOGD Two Russian Fleets Will Proceed to Meet Japanese Squadron. PROGRESS TOWARD PEACE Confirmed That Emperor William of Germany Has Tendered His Good Offices. At the: Russian admiralty itis strongly intimated = that Admiral Rojestvensky will effect a juncture with Admiral Nebogatoff within 10 days and then proceed .to meet - Ad- miral Togo. The third division of the Russian second Pacific squadron, commanded by. Rear Admiral Nebo- gatoff, left, Suda bay, Island of Crete, yesterday for Port Said. The retreat of the Russian army is being conducted in a splendid fashion. In four days’ actual marching after leaving Tie pass the rear guard has fallen back 70 miles and the heads of the columns are already entering Gunshu pass, 40 miles further north, keeping up with the Japanese column marching north over the Grand Trade route. With the. bridges and railroad de- stroyed behind the Russians the Jap- anese are unable to press the rear. It is believed that the bulk of Field Marshal Oyama’s enemy is still at Tie pass, the flanking column being com- paratively weak. For two days there has been some skirmishing, accompanied by artillery exchanges between the Japanese on the Grand Trade route and the Rus- sians screening the retreat. With the crossing :of the, Sungari river at Chantichiatu protected many mili- tary men here believe that Gen. Liné- viteh, while prepared to withdraw to Harbin, will attempt to hold the line from Kuanchangtise to Kirin, so as to control the rich Sungari valley as a source of supply for the army. Progress Toward Peace. The party within the government which is urg*ag the Emperor to.indi- cate to Japan Russia’s willingness to end ‘the war if a reasonable basis can, be reached has been greatly en- couraged the last few days, and an actual pacific proposal may be just ahead. The subject has occupied much of the attention of the confer- ences at Tasrskoe : Selo. Certain grand dukes, supported by Gen. Sakharoff, the minister of war, Ad- miral Avellan, the head of the ad- miralty and what is known as the war party are still bitterly opposed to | the idea of peace under present cir- | cumstances, but with the exception of | the ministers of war and marine the | Emperor's ministers, backed by M. Witte, solidly favor this course, and the convincing arguments they offer are telling. French influences in| | | | | i { | | | the same direction are now being supported by German opinion. The rumor that Emperor William had tendered his good offices now seems to be confirmed. Simon Burns Loses. The long-standing controversy tween the Buras and Hayes factions of the Knights of Labor was decided | by the Court of Appeals of the Dis- | trict of Columbia favorably to the | latter. J. W. Hayes was elected general secretary of the order serveral | years ago, but his right to the office was disputed by Simon Burns, of | Pittsburg, who instituted a contest in | the Supreme court of the The decision there was favorable to | be- | ground that the courts of the Dis- trict’ of Columbia have no jurisdic- tion in the premises. Will Visit the Philippines. Secretary of War W. H. Taft and party on a trip to the Philippines are Sena- tor N. B. Scott, of West Virginia; Grosvenor, of Ohio; Miss Alice Roose- velt and a number of the wives of Congressmen and government officials. Tt is announced that all will pay their own expenses to and from San Fran- cisco, excepting railroad fare. RUSSIANS STILL RETREATING Japanese Following But Not Pressing the Enemy. The Russian rear guard is retreating | slowly and engaging in occasional | sirmishes, It has now reached a position 27 miles north of Tie pass. The Japanese are slowly advancing without pressing the the course of the retreat the Russians are destroying bridges, the railway roadbed and highways and carrying off stores and demolishing “buildings” and everything not portable. Reports of a wide turning movement by the Japanese are no longer being receiv- | ed. Dynamite Wrecks Car; Two Dead. A car loaded with dynamite in an Illinois Central freight train explod- ed near Kenner, 12 miles north of New Orleans. Two men are missing. One dead man has been found, but he is | an unrecognizable mass. Consider- | able damage was done in Kenner, where buildings were wrecked and glass and kitchen ware destroyed. | Houses nearby were demolished. Orders More Engines. It was officiallly announced at the general offices of the Pennsylvania railroad that the company had de- motive power for delivery in Septem- ber and October of this year. The order will consist of 38 freight loco motives, 15 passenger engines and 15 shifting engines. All of the new mo- | 1 3 | tween northwest and southwest | systems of the Pennsylvania 1 3 | west of Pittsburgh. the District. | Burns, but it was reversed on the | Louisiana, sailed from Charleston, S. a. i Bi | the naval station and | Among those who will aceompany | Speaker J. G. Cannon, Gen. wuarles | [placing iron bars in Russians. In! cided to purchase $1,080,000 worth of | | tive power will be equally divided be- FINNISH RULER SHOT Young Assassin Boldly Enters Office and ‘Fires Three Times. A message from Viborg, European Russia says: Governor Miasorodoft L was shot and seriously wounded by a boy said to be Hjalmar Reinikke, a ccafessed Anarchist. The assassin, who is about 15 yeas old, obtained an entrance to the Governor's office and fired three times at him, one bullet inflicting a serious wound, and the others slightly wounding the Gover- nor’s legs. The Governor's clerks and. secre- tary were unable to stop the would-be assassin, who reached the . streets. There he was arrested struggle. cal. i . The youth who shot the Governor admits he is a revolutionist. He hails’ from Kurikke parish, in the north- western part of Finland, but recently has been living in Stockholm. KILLED BY TORNADO Storm Sweeps Over Southern Por: tion of the State. : southern part of Randolph county, Ala. Nine lives are ‘known to have been lost and damage amounting to thous- ands of dollars was done to property. The tornado started at a point mear Doublehead and proceeded in a north: westerly course. The residence of Mack Carlisle was demolished and R. C. Haynes, of Roanoke, was killed Six miles east several demolished. Three or four negroes . were Killed on Holly plantation, near. Rock Mills. At Lime postoffice a ° store was demolished, a white girl was killed aa her mother seriously injured. 24 SIX MINERS KILLED Others Fatally Two "Injured by + Explosion. 22 Six miners dead and four injured, Gos two fatally, is the result of an explos- ion in the mine of the Princetod Cod and Mining company at Princeton, : Fad. The dead: Hudson Weatherly, Edmend Geiser, Albert Geiser, Harry Taggart, William Biggs, George Dili. John Dill and William Jones were* fatally injured. When the explosion occurred most of the miners had left the mine.. Whether the explosion wag a premature shot or an overcharge is not knowin. * Te Railroad Earnings. Increases averaging 9.24 per cent are shown by the gross earnings re- ports of 17 railroads for the second week of March. Net earnings reports of 95 railroads for January show an average increase of 11.48 per cent and the same roads for the seven months to Janary 31, 1905, show an average increase of 8.12 per cent. ‘CURRENT NEWS EVENTS At the departure southward of Gen. Kuropatkin, crowds of thousands of civilians and soldiers gathered at the station and gave him a great ovation. Professor Frank K. Sanders, dean of the theological department of Yale university, has resigned. He ex- plained to his class that the ‘reason for his action was to assist in reduc- ing the expenses of the department. The directors of the Tennessee Coal, iron and Railroad company have de- clared a dividend of cane per cent. on the common stock, payable May 1. This is the first dividend on this stock, since November, 1900. Secretary of the Navy Morton and party, including Speaker Canon, Sena- tor Hale and Representative Meyer of , for Guantanamo, Cuba, to inspect observe the North Atlantic fleet maneuvers. J. H. Stone, H. C. Quintard, W. Russ and James ‘Russ, officers of the Nonpareil Cork Works of Camden, N. J., charged with conspiracy against the United States Government ‘by life-preservers, have reinstated their plea of mot | guilty. The men haa changed the | plea of not guilty to guilty to allow | them to demur to the indictment. | They will be tried April 3. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION | Leaking Gas Ignites at Bellaire and House Is Wrecked. { An explosion which wrecked the | home of John Fogle, in the high water district occurred at Bellaire, O. The | sas had been leaking and boys shoot- ing rats in the house over the high | water struck a’ match and the “gas ignited, blowing out the side of the | house. . Mrs. Fogle .was badly cut and | burned, her daughter, Mrs. Clew ‘Smith, had four ribs broken and was | burned and cut. The victims fell into | the water, but were rescued. | “Jim Crow” Law Is Upheld. | In an opinion delivered by the | Court of Appeals at Annapolis, Md, the act passed at-the last sessien of | the Legislature, commonly known as | the “Jim Crow” law,’ oad requiring steam railways in the State of Mary- | land to furnish separate - compart- | ments for white and colored passen- | gers, is valid, so far as it affects com- merce within the State, but invalid as to the interstate passengers, aad must be construed as not applying to them. Boston Wool Market. | While the Boston Wool market is considered by dealers to be in a strong position, business is light in most orades. Quotations of leading do- mestiec descriptions follow: Ohio and Pennsylvania—XX and above, 34@ X, 30@3lc; No. 1, 36@37c; | 37@38c; fine unwashed, 24@ unwashed delaine, 27@28c. Michigan—Fine unwashed, 21@22c; quarter-blood, unwashed, unwashed delaine, 25@26c. 29@30c; without a“ The Governor's condition is. criti-- A disastrous storm swept across the nouses - were w > A 8 oF — C la CO da ci al fe be ‘dace ; =: Hu { ,and | 4 dm HN on th i expo. prod and Ee =
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