A —————— o_o, k Bh. Sm a i SA Lovley es iat a hn i corm BIVD JESSE JAMES. . he TF - WW as RL iL J Desperadoes sped — . ~8 Four Are_Cau Both Parties Can Claim Cr redit | Even more daring than the .. GOAL MINERS WILL STRIKE] i Anthratite District Ordered to { bery of th Mutual! bank at 4 for Reform Measures. . h ° Oo ol Suspend Operations. was ine atten iw FT daylight to rob the! CONFERENCE WAS A FAILURE PASSED 2-CENT FARE LAW bank at Kharkoff, | ea college boys and Early Adjorunment was Caused by the Serious lilness of Governor ives quietly with bank customers | Operators in Ohio and West Virginia Appeal Pattison. drew revolvers and to President. d up their os = employes fled . -— -_— fhe seventy-seventh (Genera 1eaded clerk Without agreement on a wage scale, sembly. eof Ohio, whi April 2d, has ping id guards out- barred sine enact legis reform themselves the h of the State. } 5 t : Ht fi 3 ash ! windows, ar ii redi . { party 1} ox HE Tor 1 Jumped out to the street and at- “ ~ Dr 1 icanc Cc . 1 as the Republicans contre cempted to oscape under cover of re- House and the Democrats, ceman was mor- and four of bers were ; volver fire. One j amb of Toied 2 independent - ticket, had a one in the Senate. John M. Patti; ed the decis aid vf Senator L ‘ ed on an majority of GOSPEL : WAGONS FOR UTAH journ thi% carly, signed every hon measure passed by both + horses. Vol . : N ; : ddd i Volunteers Wanted For Mission | The SU mmportant legisiation enact- = sion ed follows: ! Work Among Mormons. Repeal of inheritance law. n iD. PD. Nga ' 11 “ai . > 0 i Yi ~ > . Tra n radlway re in C of the Utah Gospel mission acing county officials on © . 3 i f Tiare i ents ohhcinls of 1: me to Pittshnre the interest dial < » . i cf Dow Dr. Incre: $1,000 a tax on saloons to of his ar. . . v > local. option by d seizure law to of liquor cifeciive combinat law. rough prosecutions’ © 20s pel is under ions and -Lrusit Ss men, the mission ach every point yrmon. field: or n. are. absent ie to «1 e each from seminaries i endeavor -to secure tract aration in favo hop ut ool IMMIGRATION RECORD Siates Senators Ais : s { A Spa Arrivals York Harbor in One vole of peaple. : EH - nber 11,000. MEXICAN CONGRESS OPENS Over 11 ants arrived in 1 TY ? the harbor of New York March 29 on Prsident Diaz Says the Country Vas», ie : from Fain rd 1 from Euro- Greatly Benefitted by Monz y : Fastahe vr is the re- Reform. hi beet ng nual f 1-an- Ellis nual 4 Govern the the | overpowered | 1d much | Nutting ! the joint conference of bitaminous coal operators and miners of the cen- tral pompetive district at polis adjourned sine die, ( fairs in such a condition that a strike of from 178,000 to 384,000 soft coal miners, besides 150,000 anthracite miners ordered out, seemed inevit- able. | The miners directly affected are in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Western | Pennsylvania. Miners and onoTatons of the South- western district, comprised of Mis- | souri. Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, | Oklahoma and Indian Territory, de- cided to report.a disagreement. Towa miners have .agreed with the operators.to suspend work for Gh days. Michigan, West Virginia and p von the 1egality of the campaign | '00M on the second floor, while in the | | Kentucky miners,- it-is said, will fol- | ions by insurance aT cellar, were two others with ‘their | low the lead of the central district. | throdits cut. Near the bodies were | {| The disagreement came . after a pos | found::five large bowie knives and a | struggle lasting | the interstate agreement, “which has :xisted since 1898. betw . opera- tors and miners, through which ‘scales; amd other differences been adjusted. Thé {inal vote in 10 days, and disrupts wage have the conforence of the central ‘competitive field. on which the other districts base ti settlements, was on a motion offered ei by President John Mitek of. the ! United Mine Workers, to restore for of twd years the’ wage scale of 1898, which ‘would “have been an’ increase in: wages "of 55 per ‘ cent. The | Indiana and Ohio proposal and de- operators of llinois, voted .against the feated it. The ference followed. Operators of West- ern Pennsylvania and the i the four States voted for al. Anthracite Miners’ Scale issued orders for a total n of mining in the three cite districts beginning morning, April 2. The operators of the propos- commit- suspen- anthra- Monday tee Western Penn- Western Pennsylvania, | Indiana- | leaving af- | disruption of the con- | miners of | iin the | Judge at Spring TE eG WORKMEN BUTCHERE Arrested for Contributing.Insurance Company’s Money {0 Political | Commitiee. On a charge that his connection | of with the contribution of $48.702.50 | | | Corpses, Horribly Sioshey; Were Found in Same Room. from’ the funds of the New York Life {iasaranes Company to Cornelius N.| MAY HAVE BEEN MAFIA'S WORK Bliss, treasurer of the Republican | rm ee national commitiee in the campaign of | : 1904, constituted grand larceny in the; Knives Used by the Slayers Were { first degree, George W. Perkins, a | Left Beside Their Victims. | member of the firm of J. P. Morgan Money Not Taken. | & Co., and until recently first vice nal resident of the New York Life In- : . j surance Company, was arrested on a Six murdered Bulgarians were | warrant issued by City Magistrate | found in an old house at 245 Tenth ! Moss. avenue, south, Minneapolis, Minn., ! Mr. Perkins’ counsel. admitted to| ang the police are uncertain how or Justice Greenbaum that Mr. had advanced Perkins i" when the murders were committed al- the sum named to Mr | Bliss upon the request of the late |'N0ugh the evidence thus far secured | John A. McCall president of the New | itdicates that the men were killed dur- | | York Life ing a fight among 12 Bulgarians who | i al a c o | e'''wis atierw: wd reimbursed | 14d rented the house. through the action of the company’s| The police are convinced that rob- finance committee. It was conténied | P€IY Was not the cause of all the that Mr. McCall had executive au-| Murders as considerable money was | thority to order the payment, and that | found on the bodies. They also [if any crime was committed it was | SCout the idea of any secret society participated in by every member of | With motives of revenge. The dead the finance committee present when | 2r¢ Said tobe: Nicol Dimitri, Kirle the matter was acted upon Dimitri, Agne Narotil, Kerstan Yovho, The arrest of Mr. Perkins and the | Unka Naudaba, and Baakon Kapan- subseouent issuance of the writ of | ui i a 3 corpus will have the effect of | Tr our of the bodies, horribly cut and the highest courts of the state | S slashed wit knives, were found in a hatchet. ee The Dimitris were evidently father © 8( il p 16 me ro “OT ~ Italian Army Officer Lectures Before Ison. All of the men were com cil. ratively you aud smooth-faced. }.ondon Socisty. nien’s were secured from Dr. Ballabone, an ex-staff eaptain TS in and satche that of ‘the ffalian army medic: corps, found To¢ the fore the London Thera- bodies four nedy for The nationality of the men was de- termined by a pastor of a 1 who. read the letters house. He 1 found be has discovered | i 1 the : 1 nd among the a cure, f an injection con- papers a discharge froin the Turkish ; taining ] benzoic elements. army, belonging to Agne Narofil. Five or six injections in the muscles 8." Magnuson, cwner of the house, will subdue a recurrence of the dis- says’ dn Italian rented part of the { ease. The remedy does not eanse ir- | house of him four months ago, paying | ritation or other harm. It operates by | four months’ rent in advance, to be combining with the uric acid in the used to hot 12 railroad laborers of i blood, rendering it soluble, and there- whom he was foreman. The 12 men | by enabling it to be more easily eli- | moved into the house and lived quiet- minated. It also blood destroys the toxins ly, working dav. BiG FIRE IN JOHNSTOWN every BOYS LAUGH AT SENTENCES field Calls Acticn of Jury in Riot Cases an Outrage. Laughing Resulted in Loss of ‘About $1,000,000 openly in court at the Flame Started in Early Morning and TWO FACTIONS IN CLASH Quarrel Over Management of the Building Fund Leads to the Tragedy. A factional quarrel in the Metho- dist Episcopal Chyrch at Coaldale, W. Va., broke up a social in a fatal riot. members who received wounds Benjamin Capeley is and his wife, with almost half of her face torn away by a shotgun charge, is dying; Mrs. R. Harper was wounded in the side, and Henry Gar- den was shot in the leg. Two un- known men, who fled after the fight i were also hit. There had been ill of long | standing over the management of funds raised for the ereciion of a new | church building The dispute over | the money created two factions, which threatened to disorganize the congre- gation. Many opposed the holding of a social, fearing an outbreak. During the evening there Of several bullet dead, feeling | | clash between adherents of the rival | factions, and it is said a blow was j struck. Instantly the. shooting be- | gan. It is alleged James Hotten was | one of the leaders among the dis- | putants. {- Almost as soon as the shooting be- | gan Benjamin Capeley fell to the floor with a bullet in his heart. Mrs. | Harper, Henry Garden and two other men: were shot within the next few minutes. It is believed Mrs Capeley | received her wound when she step- ped from the door. . There 1s wild disorder the mov- juent the revolvers began to crack. and children shrieked and the exits. Mrs. Harp- lotten were arrested ling in the "authori pen ties. vestigation by WIRELESS CAUGHT BY KITES .Recezived Through Bodies of Two Men on the ‘Ground. Experiments were Alex Messages made by Dr. Bell, Arling- ton, Va. which wireless télegraph messages were received-by means of Dr. Bell's famous tetrahedral kites. Messages were received from the Washington navy yard, from Gallilee, on the New Je coast, near the Atlantic Highl ands, and from the steamer Bermudian, 100 miles out { from New York, and more than 350 miles from the kites. The kites were up 2,000 feet, car- i rving 400 feet of wire. At the end of the wire stood A. Potter p the United States Weather Bu with his hand on the wire. His other | hand clasped that’ of G. D. Macdon- Graham near Gel .. by | ald, who had held of the receiver, so the operator oraght the messages | from the kites 2,600 feet in the air through the padies of two men. Bridge Trust Wan Convicted. Henry Hughes of Fremont, O., the first of the 18 bridge agents and cor- porations to be fried on a joint in- | dictment returned by the Erie county | jury charging of the ine anti-trust found | guilty. : : law, was CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. Richard Ivans, charged with the murder of Mrs. Bessie Hollister in | Chicago was found guilty of first de- | eree murder and sentenced to hang {+ The bill, providing for a two-cent SH fare in Iowa, was killed in the house by a vole of 57 to 40, after ia hot argument. The City Council has granted to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail way a franchise to enter Seattle, Wash. George Barney and George Isock | were, burned to death while fighting a fire at the Dodge colliery at Seran- ton, I’a. Many threats have been = made against the life of Premier Witte. He received ‘a warning that unless he left { the government in a week he would be killed. A fishi ng boat struck a floating niine March 26 off the coast of the province Echizen, Japan, and was blown up. Seven of her crew are missing. The Ohio Senate passed the House bill repealing the Dana law, which prevented the name of a candidate ap- pearing more than once on a ballot. The Mexican Supreme Court has Hah ! fie sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois light fines imposed for rioting, thet, Sopnstown, Po. sof 31, 900.080 | Lire an \nicrican ¢ ongress to oe telegraphed 10 President Roosevelt dights hors whor were nmestod hy the loss from fire which ed three z appeal to appoint a commission | diovs he Aas ak Yortne ihe Hage business Blocks in a Main, Bed- ! investigate coal mining conditions Yiots nt Suifieit oO WAIEEd Gut 1 and Clinton Sea datnaged Kept in 1 make recommendations regard- ly gy | several others and ik cost the hein miliore’ we of the police court. Tree. Judge Mil 1c of ono Hic Puitdions de- | until nuners wages. when the riclers were arraigned eT a es | By the adoption of the resolution Nett: sp} a 3 ne stroyed are those of the Swank Hard-! DK i 3 . 32: oo hefore him, spoke eof the recommen- Yo Clomernis : : hava The ionalities: | providing for the signing of individ- lation of the jury that é fifo a onl are Comy ang 165, Wiere Lne | Swedes, | ual 2 menis by ¢ viet « officials | 3 tt Rr ra oo £ 1 whole- | Y 31 on unt of vouth of the ac- o> i ese and ha ational ors (of the United | ntl. v i the | | Mine Workers such operators us i a 7 en : which | ¢ are willing to pay the 1903 scale, the Sa tin ih ; hia Journal, and| TIONS | iiners’ onal convention opened S$] hia re 8 ih i sone Tresi- 2 ta the way the continuance of min- | aE i fo Jy. dence of:l. A. liture deal- Vice Pres Grannis and Gillette | 18 operations in the Pittsburgh dis- | HY Jury ag made 1p of Shang ¢r, whose business building wis I oy trict by the Pittsburgh Coal Company husine gs. ncn ang , hen haa slightly damaged by the fire. and Gerry Retire. . a enn ations, no matter | tion is an outrage. The loss on the Swank buildin nd Vice Pre Eobert:A. Graunis a op Si pt to] on t % will ~ $200 oe. with rade i LIE YPerators tecide to 1G 1 De 5,500,000, witl MW, and Walter R. Gillette, and Trustee (do. This action was taken March 20. TO REBU! LD FAMO us SHIP | insurance, lawyers, architects and ruction. Elbridge the Mutual Life | re J . other professional men who occupied Hrosperit a } Insurange tendered their | SHORTENING ITS LINE Bateieshis Now Yor 's Now io¢ Small ic in the building will suffer a due to & meeting of the hoard | Suns : for Her Class. fully $100,600." The remaind- | 8. Grannis and Gil- | P. R. R. 8aid to Be Planning 100- Stripped of her guns and 3, | or of the”million is made up among mulated hot h vice presidents Miie Cut-Off in Ohio. | and every vital workine part, with the other losers. capital, and 23 The resignations Were The Pennsylvania Railroad Com- | nothing but the mere hull left, the TT ee F——— § scooniog. . oe pany is planning to shorten its New | armored cruiser New York, the flag- Boston Wool Market. MOROCCO CONFERENCE f Directors of the Equitable Life elect- | York-Chicago run’ by two hours. To | ship of Rear Admiral Sampson at the The Boston Wool Market is firm | hie i ed John N. Beach, a dry goods mer- { accomplish this it must buy two hatrle of Santiago, now lies at the| With a steady demand in evidence, Disputed Question of Police Control Chant, as a member of that board. { roads and build a connecting link. It | Boston navy vard and will be rebuilt This has resulted in a way from the | Has Been Settiad. TROUBLE COMING IN AFRICA is now planning tthe purchase of the land renamed “Trenton.” inereased firmne abr oad. However | : agreement was wehed b | Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western| Since she was placed in commis-| some feeling exists that the market : Moroccan conference aot Algeciras sreat Britain May Have War With | { railway and air line from Fort | sion at Philadelphia, August 1, may latter reach a hard - position. | on all points and a committee was ap- > SS Wayne to Findley, also the Northern ! 1893, then one of the most modern The goods market is not in a condi- pointei to put the conclusions in Abyssinia on Its Hands. | Ohio, which runs from Delphos to fighting )s, sie has become anti- tion satisfactory to traders. Terri- form for final adoption by the bot The situation in Somililand, near Akron. | quated. To modernize her more than tory wools are active. Pulled wools The much disputed question of poli l Abyssinian frontier, is causing By constructing a 12-mile line from ! $1,500,000 will be spent. are in fair movement, B supers hav- control was setiled by the placing of | anxiety, view of the recent death Findlay’ to Carey, thus connecting —— ing the Foreign Wools are | four ports under French control, two kunnen. Governor of Har-! with the Northern Ohio, at least 100 Reorganizing Consular Services. strong. Leading quotations follow. others under Spani control and two powerful pro-British in- ' miles can be saved between Pittsburg The conferees of the Senate and! Ohio and Pon lvania—XX and | more under the joint control oF the turbulent tribes. and Chicago. It is also planned to ! House have agreed on the bill to re. | above, 4 : 32 to 33e; No. . France and Spain. A sun dent le last two months Abys-| construct a 49-mile Hne betwe en Ply- organize the consular service. The! l. 78 to 59¢; No. 2, 38 to 40c; fine of all the police is to be selected from 'sinian tribes have on three occasions | mouth, on the Northern Ohio, and House amendments classifying the | unwashed, 26 to 263 quarter-blood, } power and he is 1 t the frontier tribes under Brit-| Wooster, which would shorten the service were accepted as to every im- | 'nwashed, 32 to 3234c; three-eighths- the sultan and to t} ! vq it is expected | gistance 50 more miles, thus cutting portant post except Manchester. Eng- bleod, 23 te 33%ec: half-blood, 2215 matic representatives ol ul 1 i brian 11 be forced to take the time between New York and Chi- | 1and, and this remains a consulate in | 10 33c; unwashed delaine, 28 to 29c¢: powers. to protect Subjeats. cago two hours Class 2 at $6,900 a vear. | fine washed delaine, 361; to 37c. DEPEW IN SECLUSION ENTOMBED 2C DAYS TWO TR TAINMEN 4 KILLED NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. oHI0 LEGISLATURE ; Hopes of Family for Restoration cf Fourteen, \ ho Lived on Hay and Track Washed Away by High Waters More Rigid Ieialaeish Law. After rejecting the Senate amend- : Health Not Realized. Neroals of Focd, Are Taken and Victims Buried. Senator Dillingham submitted the Ments® prohibiting the acceptance of that Senator Depew would From French Mine. - tc his place in th Fourteen of the 1,200 miners who this time have not heen entomt bed i at the reasca that hopes of France, 20 ago were rout mine ': and well been realiz He lived on hay found in i the i BF rground stables and Shepard cst Scarboraugh- d which they took on-Hudson >. them nearly three clusion 1 daenly left scue the entombed So than two tha a few per in me neighbor by a party xploring the v9 i tt Emigrant F Ath for Catala, Saly: Marie Rustis in Lox Hofman, the suffi Jaseph pianist, secure glven a ants desirin 1g husban t y 9 have child t t by the were reguir bed, Mrs. C Ss aeacon in Dowie's « home: in Zion Cit trealment. She jaundice and had She leaves three 1€ came {og tbout a Tony shand is where ¥ by the are paid the than dation, ! covered. The Chesapeake & Ohio accommo- runiting from Cincinnati to Huntington, W., Va., was ditched at Quincy, Ky.. and Engineer John Spotts and fireman Stephen Ernest, of Covington, Ky.. The track had by high waters. buried under night their were killed. been washed The victims were the engine, and at mid- bodies had not been re- Both were married. Baggagemaster George Richford and Express Messenger Hand were - also seriously injured. engine, tend- er, baggage car and ress cur were the only ones to leave the track. All of the passe rs were badly aken up, but hurt. The in- Covington, Ky away I'l none were taken to Liospital. jured fo a families are fleeing through fear of cneral massacre at Easter. R. S. Wieth and wife, of Newark, O., were injured in the wreck of a Southern railway train near Holton, le wi ish Legislation to Preserve Elk. That a herd of 600 elk may be properly ation is find- ing favor tol which will i set aside ition. of the Olympic In the State | of Washingten for this purpose. The bill was intr by Representa- tive Humphrey, of state, and has just been favorably reported to the | House from the Committee on Public | Lands passes by public officials and exempt- {ing sleeping car companies {rom operations of the me the House concurred in the other Senate amend: ments to the Wertz :port of the Committee on Immigra- tion on his bill] amending the immi- gration laws. The head tax on in- coming aliens i3 increased from $2 {o assure railway 5 nl samships are ice ( % . 38 and, Sieamships are i piset to sion bill and it will be a law as socn fines of $100 for bringing to the 2% stoned by the (ovotao: Tred : Tt , a "PAV A ” £0 O15 J = REAM. i Unie Mimes any versen prevented [B20 ities Ho State com- from entering by Tengen of afflic mission of three members who have tions of mind or body. The present powe r to regulate rates within the law provides fur such fines only in | State, have general supervision of the case of aliens afflicted with | 50 classification. ete The mens loathsome or contagions diseases. bers are to fo ppointed by the Gov The bill adds to the cluasges of aliens ernor and will serve six years. The now exclided by law ali imbeciles. Ini 12 the one agreed upon by the feeble-minded persons, persons who shipvers and railroads alike. are mentally or physically defective, bial o such defect being of a nature which Packers’ Trial in Sebisnitiar. may affect the immigrant’'s ability to Vadze I A. Fhumpkr of Chicago, i . = Judge 1. A. whre > ear a livi children under 17 He trial for the packing . Sago, vears unless accompanied by parents set the lal 10r the packing corpora- | re Re rm lions aol itions, which were denied immunity | and strengtlic the provisions ex- 1 - 2 Ig the hearing ended last week, for cluding nolyvgamists, criminals and second Monday in September : sec { 210 a n Septe be prostitutes. : NT bres he Ea trict Attorney Morrison entered 3 i : irs diy La formal motion for a new A telier in a New York hank has trial of immunity Tt been arrested for the theft of $34,000. denied, as was a motion His peculations are said to have ex- made by Attorney Miller relative to | tended over a period of years. the corporations } he rporations. = AN TEE Toe { LATEST QUEEN OF NAVY To Curtail Public rinting. Howing the ugges- Battleship New Jersey Comes Out of Foflowning tin sugse Ly : i : tion, the House veral resolu- Tests Covered With Glory. : : IVeTd: fonoiy The performance of the battleship | tions fo correct il iSeiess printing | ' v : { of public documents 0 empower New Jersey in maining a speed of or 1 : Cr oh io be apo : : . . | ti { 110 O 3 WO 19.18 ki an hour in a 4-hour en- | to fix th ply | 100 un re ho NT r “l | * Lo IX li) 1Der1r duranc run Off : th . New hkngiand | of documents th be printed should y yapled wit hor “1M 9 | Shot const, couple wi By fier remarkable | the demand arise for a iditional one speed the day before over a | ies of a publicatic tn rss re ile at a Ne or ! ve et i: 0, af | thority to order ther I 3.4 S an | : ttt hy 1 F A ’ was claimed this acti y a he head of al merican-built 1 in eavi } ~ sult ins x y D- hatileshing In speed. | + 1 saving the Gov up 1 08 | wards of $1,000,000 annually. - the ! ' jand commis- | | er, was declared by | be due | company is affirmed the sentence of death against lichardson, Mason and Harle, con- victed of having murdered Mitchell Devers at Chihuahua four years ago to collect insurance on their lives. FOUR FIREMEN KILLED Explosion Shatters Buildings and Pre- vents Fire Spreading. Four firemen perished and about a score of firemen and citizens were in- jured in a fire accompanied by a series ions that demolished a six- of explosio story factory building at Bedford and | Downing ' streets on the lower west | side of New York city. That the damage, which is estimated at from $300,000 to $400,000, was not far great- Chief Croker to to the explosion, which shatter ‘ed the building and crushed the blaze beneath tons of debris at the moment when the flames were completely be- Yond control and threatening to sweep the entire block. Wrangel Arnon Destroyed. A cable dispatch dated March 26, from District Attorney says that the 1 Juneau, United James J. town of Wrang- almost destroyed Alaska, States Boyce, el, Alaska, by fire anc for aid for the sufferers. lispatech states that every store in the town burned. The custom house w saved. The report is circulate in New ‘ork: that Charles A. Peal dy, presi- dent of the Mutual soon to Life resign Insurance was, a} » . LY o i LIK Har trie mar who the also sold 10 « han ih with ope: and dent have Wipe This agai Ad way man in n €Oo-0 the and and Sinc lutel Sh entit reba his ¢ The visio facu of ect bers ing « He in a taine and It dent: bene duct: the furni good wood In isten $100, mem ceive the Me Radc Theo mem! gible Caml is to unive for t dents Thi at Yi five ticket 1890-¢ letter all. Tw goods curre and t the c¢ feren surplh tal, sc about Me; at Ye the 1 mempk cost t In amousl they withd non-m to $17 ily. ¥ in 19C $60,50 A Ww dent stores petitic trades small agains when with ¢ to sus The btuden led to betwes trades cut pr paign the la best tc by of lines c opposi The agains ative college there | of stoc some 1 shopwi an org to the by find relieve
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