ission s the new odore 00Se-~ Presi- will large e en- rdica~ it is ed to dig- com= Pen- alton, phin; ware, yublie vern- sident stions » the the rators taken d by con- sign- ns of nven- 1t ac- opin- ypera- of a Jjuired has inten- rk 10 gives 12,000 Pitts- the ity to pany which was ading ne in He is 1 two anda, er of Albert nd J. | arm rrins- stop- fell of its Mur- Li " Tornado Was a Mile Wide -ing, mashed to death and his body TORNADD LEVELS VILLAGE Several Killed and Many Hurt in Texas. FIRE FOLLOWED THE STORM and Level- ed Everything in Its Path. A tornado which swept through Bellevue, Texas, destroyed = every- thing in its path. The entire town is a mass of ruins, only three build- ings now standing, at least 11- persons are dead, and a number in- jured. The tornado was followed by fire which consumed the wreckage. The town of Bellevue consisted of over 20u. houses. Among those know killed are: R. L. Russel, wife and four children; A. D, Carr, Tom Mount, W. W. Bell, two members of Gray family. The seriously injured: Two daugh- ters of N. E. Smith of Bowie, Mrs. Gault, Mr. Gray and five members of his family, Mrs. McGraw. A A. D. Carr was caught in a build- are cremated. The tornado was a mile wide and traveicd eight miles, leveling every- thing in its path, ruining crops and destroying all farm houses and barns on the way. This section is thickly settled. All the houses were equipped with storm cellars and the people ran to them as soon as they saw the tornado | approaching. Those who could not | reach them suffered. Fire followed up the work of the cyclone and rapidly destroyed por- tions of the towns which escaped the work of the cyclone. BURNED DISTRICT Engineer Says Area Covered by Fire |* Is 15 Square Miles. “An engineer states that the area devastated by fire in San Francisco approximates 10,000 acres, or about 15 square miles. There are few cities in the world where so much valuable property is contained in an equal ter- ritory. Within this 15 square miles were 100 banks, some of the finest buildings in the world, thousands of mercantile and manufacturing estab- lishments and more than 230,000 in- habitants, besides 40,000 transients. “Notwithstanding the enormous and 150,000 people are still standing and practically uninjured. There still re- main the great ship yards at the Po- trero, the Pacisic mail docks, the stockyards at South San Francisco, the docks and manufactories along the water front from Mission creek to Hunters Point, the mint, the post- offices and a large retail district on Fillmore and Devisadero streets.” A very different estimate is made by the city engineer of San Francisco. A trifle less than four square miles, or about 2,500 acres were burned over by the fire following the earthquake, according to City Engineer Wood- ward, who, completed an official map of the burned area. CAMPAIGN FUND BILL Foraker, Knox and Bailey Improve on Tillman's Measure. The senate committee on privileges and elections by unanimous vote au- thorized Senator Foraker to report favorably the Tillman bill to prohibit insurance and other corporations from contribution to campaign funds. The bill was amended by a committee consisting of Senators Foraker, Knox and Bailey, and was made to apply to corporations of all kinds and to all elections for presi- dential and vice presidential electors; for legislatures where United States senators are to be chosen, and for representatives in congress. It makes offending corporations subject to a ‘fine of $5,000, and an employe of corporations subject to a fine of $1,000. The measure does not apply to per- sons receiving such contributions. INDIAN AGENT TAKES LEASES sub- Department of Interior Claims They Were Sold Contrary to Rulings Made. The Indian agent, acting under in- structions from the department of the interior, has taken every producing oil lease owned hy Guffey & Galey, put of their possession and placed the land in the possession of the allot- tees from whom the lease was taken. This action was taken on the ground Guffey & Galey had sold their leases contrary to the expressed pro- visions of the lease and the rulings of the department of the interior, un- der whose supervision the leases were taken. The price quoted or the sale was alleged to be 31,250,000. . Guffey & Galey have leases that cover fully the 4,800 acres which is the maximum the company is allow- ed to lease. The specific charge against Guffey & Galey is that they gold their leases, including all their producing wells, to a trust company of St. l.ouis, and the leases were again transferred, this time going to the Osage and Oklahoma Oil & Gas Company. Knox or Presidency. The twentieth annual banquet of the Americas Republican club, held in the Hotel Schenley, Pittsburg, mark- ed the launching of a boom for United States Senator P. C. Knox, of Pittsburg, as the Republican candi- date for President of the United States in 1908. The boom was start- sd by Representative James Francis Burke, and his words, naming the junior Senator from Pennsylvania as the next Republican presendtial can- didate, were received with the great- | would consent est enthusiasm. REPLACE FEDERAL BUILDINGS: President Will Recommend Appro- priations When Loss Is Known. At a conference between the President and Senator Flint of Cali- fornia the question of the reconstruc- tion of the Federal buildings damag- | ed or destroyed in California was dis- cussed. Officials of the Treasury Depart- ment are now engaged in making an estimate of the loss. As soon as official information shall -reach the President of the amount of money necessary to repair the loss, he told Senator Flint, he would send to Con- gress a special message requesting it to make appropriations to cover the loss. Agents of the Treasury De- partment have been sent not only to San - Francisco, but also to San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento and other Cali- fornia cities where the Government buildings were damaged by the earth- quake to obtain accurate estimates for the necessary appropriations. Every Government building in Western California is believed to be either destroyed or damaged. All of them in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Sacramento will need re- pairs at least, and one or two will have to be replaced entirely. COMPROMISE REFUSED Miners of Fifth Ohio Suk-District Declare Strike. A settlement of differences be- tween miners and operators of the Fifth Ohio sub-distriet vanished, with the refusal of the convention of the United Mine Workers of America to accept the compromise proposi- tion of the Lorain Coal and Dock company. The miners agreed to re- cede from some demands made sup- plementary to the 1903 scale, but to no modification of the wages and working conditions in that scale. Headquarteys for the miners will be at Bridgeport, O., the home of National Vice President T. L. Lewis. WILL BEAR FIRE LOSS 'Frisco Burden to Be Divided Among 107 Companies. There are 107 companies to share the San Francisco insurance loss. This loss is estimated by the local agents at between $175,000,000 and $200,000,000, but New York sends word that the insurance men there think the loss will not exceed $125, 000,000. Chicago's loss was $125,- 600,000 and three companies defaulted to the amount of $45,000,000. The loss in Baltimore was paid in full. It amounted to $35,000,000. The State supreme court has made a sweeping order granting a rehear- ing in all cases in which a petition has been filed and in which the time for granting a rehearing will expire before the first of May. TRAIN DYNAMITED Engine Blown to Pieces and Engi- neer and Fireman Are Serious- ly Injured. A quantity of dynamite placed on the tracks of the Lehigh Valley rail- road near Yatesville, five miles from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., exploded and wrecked a fast freight train and severely injured Engine®r J. R. Thomas and Fireman H. C. Brown, of this city. The dynamite had been placed on the track within 15 minutes of the time the train struck it. The engine was lifted from the track and flung to one side, the tank was torn loose and thrown high in the air and down an embankment, and three heavily load- ed freight cars which were behind it were torn apart and hurled down the embanitment. Sheriff Davis was hastily sum- moned, but as yet has made no ar- rests. The outrage occurred near the East Boston settlement, where, since the suspension of mining, the Ital- ians have caused serious troubles. Canada’s Gift Declined. It was announced in the house at Ottawa that the United States gov- ernment had declined to accept the $100,000 appropriated by Canada for the San Francisco relief fund. The money will be set aside for a time in the hope that some means may be devised whereby it can be used. NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. Two-Cent Fare Bill Introduced. Representative Sulzer offered a bill in the House which, if passed, will reduce railroad passenger rates all over the country to 2 cents a mile. His bill requires all railroads engag- ed in inter-State commerce to sell mileage bcoks containing one, two, three, four and five thousand miles at a flat rate of 2 cents a mile, or less if they desire, the books to be good on all railroads in the inter- State business and their connections. The chief objects are to require a 2- cent fare, the abolition of the prac- tice of charging $20 for a $20 book, on which the extra money is returned when the cover is surrendered, and to make the mileage good until used. The President has sent to the sen- ate the nomination of Julius Jacobs to be assisant treasurer of the Unit- ed States at San Francisco. The senate committee on postoffices and post roads voted to report favor- ably the nomination of Benjamin F. Barnes, assistant secretary to Presi- dent Roosevelt, to be postmaster of Washington. Famous Engineer Dead. Brigadier General Edward Wellman Serrell, a noted civil and military engineer, died in New York, aged 80. General Serrell was the engineer who first surveyed the inter-oceanic can- al routes for the Government across the Isthmus of Fanama. He built the Hoosac tunnel and planned and con- structed the Niagara suspension bridge. A band of robbers in the guise of soldiers robbed the treasury at Dus- hot, near Tiflis of $117,500. transferable and | | committee, gave out a complete state- ! ment of money contributions received .they arrive. CTY RIG. FROM RUNS Conditions Existing In the City of San Francisco. - FOR THE HOMELESS HORDES Temporary Shelter and Provisions for | the Comfort of the People of San Francisco. Temporary structures have been erected in Golden Gate Park for the housing of 40,000 people. was commnienced by the Shelter Com- mittee, and the homeless who have been sleeping out of doors for near- ly a week were moved into comfort- able quarters. About the same time a supply of blankets and bedding was received, and these have been taken to ‘the park. : At present there is little suffering. | : : +. | and began he voyage At the same time the committee is | = ie 5 sending as many of the refugees as | She encountered terrible weather in possible to interior points. Work and succor have been promised. - The railroads furnish transportation grat- tions {rom the committee. The seizure begun of all vacant houses in the unburned district is under way. been taken, where the homeless are housed and the sick found good ac- commodations. A committee of architects has been sent out to ex- amine churches and other buildings, including school houses, with a view of turning them into living rooms for the homeless. Supplies of food are coming in rapidly from outside points, and are being centralized in the freight sheds and warehouses still standing. The city was laid off covering areas of four blocks. - sub-committees in these districts This work | | sons of SUNK WITH THIRTY-FIVE Top Heavy Belgian Training Ship Foundered in Bay of Biscay. The Count De Smet de Naeyer, a cadet sailing ship used by the Bel- gian Government or training officers for the Government service, found- ered in the Bay of Biscay April 18, with a less of 35 lives, including the captain and the officers commanding the cadets. The cadets included the many prominent Belgians. | Twenty-six survivors of the wreck | were rescued by the Dunkerque. The Count De Smet de Naeyer was built at Grennock in 1704. It is al- leged that she turned turtle when she was Jlaunched, necessitating altera- tions to improve her stability. Most of her officers resigned after her first voyage, declaring that she was still French bark | top heavy. | voyage i survivors is Many vacant flats have | | reaching in districts | The | burst, regulate the supply of food furnish- ! | ed to the families living within their | boundaries. The close of the first week follow- | ing the San Francisco earthquake is marked by two divergent statements. Gen. A. 'W. Greely reports to Federal government 287 the limit of casualties. ly Coroner William that the total number reach 1,000, and may number. He says have found and buried 300 bodies and that an examination of Chinatown and the cheap lodging houses section will disclose hundreds of dead among the ruins. Walsh of dead will exceed that PROVISIONS ABUNDANT Manufactories Preparing to Reopen for Business in a Short Time. An idea of the task which confronts the food committee may be gained from the fact that throughout the city | the | deaths as | Simultaneous- | declares | deputy coroners | p han | Inorg 111 | O., author of a remarkable book en- rations for 349,440 persons were dis- | 2 y i in wheh the navies of all nations will tributed in one day. This is an average estimate, based on reports from a few of the food de- pots. At one point provisions were given out to 672 persons an hour for four hours. This station is neither one of the largest nor one of the smallest, and, so its reports were used as a basis to strike an average. All flour that was received in sacks is exchanged at bakeries pound for pound for bread. Almost all the bakeries in the unburned region have opened, and are selling bread at 5 cents a loaf. There is no danger of a meat fam- ine. Representatives of the Western Meat Company, in South San Fran- cisco, reported to the relief commit- tee this morning that there are now in the yards 1,500 cattle, 3,000 sheep and 500 hogs. More than 200 cattle are killed and dressed daily, and sheep and hogs are put under the ployees is at work. The Southern Pacific ordered all cattle cars to be rushed to San Fran- knife as fast as | The full quota of em- | cisco with precedence over passenger | trains. Several of the tories near the water front and Mar- ket street are preparing to resume operations at the earliest possible moment. AMERICANS ASSAILED Russian Declares Revolution Was Inspired by Free Masons. A violent attack on Americans foundries and fac- | | can Federation of : y | by this means the is to all who come with recommenda- | this 2 She started on her ill-fated second April 11 and anchored off Flushing till Easter Saturday, when she was towed into the North sea to Australia. the Bay of Biscay, labored heavily and foundered. It is supposed that a boat or raft was launched and that ‘survivors were but no details or list of obtainable. rescued, GREAT CHANGE IN VESUVIUS Crater Fifty Times Wider and the Mountain Lower. Professor Mattsucei, director of the Royal Observatory, succeeded in the crater of Vesuvius. He describes the spectacle there:as one of great grandeur. The the crater, which before the eruption was about 100 feet, is now about 5,000 feet. There is no eruption of incandes- cent stones as before the recent out- but a small quantity of ashes is being ejected. Vesuvius seems to be assuming the character of a dead volcano. The cone of the crater, which before the eruption rose to a | height of 6,000 feet above sea level, has diminished about 800 feet. Work is being vigorously pushed to re- establish the funicular railway to the observatory. BROOKLYN NEXT Seer Predicts Coming Disaster for the City of Homes. John I.. Griffin, of East Liverpool, titled, ‘“‘A Journey and Hell,” soon to be says that a vision revealed to him years ago and described in words written three years ago he foresaw the destruction of San Francisco by earthquake and fire. The chapter which he wrote at that time has been Through Heaven published, seen by persons who vouch for its accuracy. The next great city to be de- stroyed, Brooklyn. according to his vision, is Then will follow a war go under. Griffin was a coal miner for many years and later a leader of the Volunteers of America. He is now a house painter. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. The directors of the Lorain anf West Virginia railroad decided to in- crease its capital stock from $10,000 to $2,000,000. King Edward, Emperor Nicholas and Emperor William will meet at Darmstadt, the capital of the Grand Duchy of liesse, during the first week in September. The First National bank, at At- talla, Ala., was closed by direction of the Comptroller of the Currency up- on information received from Nat- ional Bank Examiner Cooper, that the bank was insolvent. A heavy snow storm prevailed over the greater part of the State of Maine. The fall in the central por- tion reached a foot in depth. Wire communication was interrupted at many places. The governor general of Voronezh has hastily left for the village of Diewitz, where, it is reported, Cos- sacks have killed 19 and wounded 50 persons in suppressing peasant dis- orders. The executive council of the Ameri- Labor, through | President Samuel Gompers, issued an was made in the monarchistic con- | vention at Moscow by M. Shmakhoff, | the celebrated reactionary who at- tempted to stir up anti-foreign feel- ing by declaring that the revolution in Russia was inspired and directed by American Masonic organizations working through the Jews and the Social Democrats. The object of the conspiracy, he said, was to over- throw the throne and the church all | the Russians hold dear. Phelan Reports Cash at $4,931,030. Chairman Phelan, of the finance for the relief of San Francisco, up to and including April 26. The list shows the grand total of $4,931,030, of which $213,950 was contributed lo- cally. A dispatch to the Morning Post from Shanghai says the customs re- turns from the whole of China for 1905 were $23,407,000, against $20,- 995,400 in 1904. Steel Trust Earnings. The quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation was held in New York, and was organized by the re- election of the officers. The report for the quarter ended March 31 shows net earnings of $36,634,490, which is the mext to largest quarter's earn- ings in the corporation’s history, the largest having been those of the quarter ended September 30, 1901, which were $37,300,577. In March last the earnings were the largest for a single month on record. appeal to all organized labor through- out the country to contribute one day’s pay in aid of the California earthquake and fire sufferers. President Roosevelt signed the joint resolution of Congress appropriating $1,500,000 additjonal for the relief of the San Francisco sufferers. Mrs. Eliza D. Stewart, or “Mother Stewart’ as she is affectionately called, qupetly celebrated her 90th birthday anniversary at her home, “Farnsworth Retreat,” near Hicks- ville, O. The crew of the French ' fishing schoqner Lanine arrived at Sydney, Nova Scotia, and reported the loss of their craft off Port Michaud. News from Alabama reports the nomination of Captain Richmond P. Hobson of Merimac fame for Con- gres in the Sixth district by a major- ity of 500 over the spresent repre- sentative, John H. Bankhead. The courts of Allegheny county, in an opinion handed down by Judge S. A. McClung, upheld the consti- tutionality of the Greater Pittsburg law passed at the recent extra ses- sion of the Pennsylvania Legislature. Germany to Care for: Subjects. Ambassador Sternburg has recelv- ed by cable instructions from the German Foreign Office to ascertain the condition of the German subjects in San Francisco who may have suff- ered from the earthquake and fire and to take steps to relieve their wants at the expense of the German Government. The Ambassador ac- cordingly has telegraphed the German Consul General in San Francisco, Franz Bopp, to carry out this in- struction. diameter of’ America’s “Good” Women. There are many varieties of good women in the world, some passive and others active, some subjective and others aggressive. The good American woman is the most active and aggres- sive of her sex. She exercises the strictest discipline over her own fam- ily. She has the most decided conviec- tions on social questicns. In nine cases out of ten she is an anti-drink- er, anti-smoker and anti-gambler.—~— Blackwood’'s Magazine. Tall Englishwomen. After taking measurements of the height of women in France, England, and America, a doctor announces that the Englishwoman is the tallest and the American woman comes next. The average height of the French woman is five feet one inch. The American woman is nearly two inches taller, and and the women of Great Britain one- half inch taller than the latter.” Am- erican women, however, weigh slight- ly more than either of the others, their average weight being about 117 pounds. Broom and Pail in Union Now. The housekeepers of Maine will have a new source of trouble when the new Serub Women’s Union, the first lodge | of which was organized at Portland, gets its organization completed throughout the state. The scrub wo- men of Brunswick met and elected Mrs. Delia Nelson president and Mrs. Cyrus Cobb secretary and treasurer, and adopted a uniform scale of 20 cents an hour instead of 12 to 15 cents, the price heretofore. They will address the scrub women of Portland and the state organization will scon be effected.—New York Tribune. Femininities. The bachelor maid seldom boasts that she is self-made. Many a true reform is started in a club—or switch. By saving her old clothes any wom- an can be in style once in a lifetime. Most new wrinkles are caused by worrying over those we already have. Hereafter Nicholas ILongworth will be known as Alice Roosevelt’s hus- band. Every woman likes to be just a few years younger than the other women of her age. ven the woman who has perfect feet worries all the time for fear no- body will see them.—Woman’s Maga- zine. Grit of Women Doctors Best. In a lecture on “Medicine as a Pro- fession for Women,” before students of Bryn Mawr College, Dr. William H. Welch, professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, uttered two very interest- ing facts. One was that as doctors women had exhibited traits of courage and endurance often counted as mas- culine virtues, while it was frequently the men who were hysterical and who behaved in a fashion commonly called feminine. The other disclosure was a supple- menting of the familiar fact that the United States had been the pioneer country for women doctors, with the more astonishing statement that Rus- sia came next in the number and at- tainments of its women physicians. Queen’s Gift Did No Good. There are many stories told of the queen of Italy’s acts of kindness to her poor subjects. The following, how- ever, shows that even the good in- tentions of queens are not only ful- filled. Her Majesty recently noticed a pleasant faced little girl and the queen spoke to her. There was a short conversation and the _ queen asked the child what she could do in the way of needlework. “I can knit stockings, signora,” replied the girl. “Do you know who I am.’ continued the queen. “Yes, signora; you are the queen. “Well, then, make me a pair of stockings and send them to the pal- ace.” A few days afterwards the ar- ticles arrived and the queen, in re- turn for the gift, sent the child a beau- tiful pair of silk stockings, one filled with sweets, the other containing money. Next day the queen received a letter from her little friend as follows: “Signora, your gift haz caused me many teams. My father took the money, my big brother took the sweets and as for the stockings, why, mother took them for herself.”—Kansas City Star. For the Outdoor Girl. It seems that the outdoor girl is here and that she is hereto stay. When the first cold wave comes she retires for a season of social activity, but out she comes in her sporting togs along with the first robin and enjoys her- self in the open for the balance of the year. Just now this creature, who keeps her life full of fresh air, is rejoic- ing in a very chic sporting jacket. It is the most comfortable and conven- ient wrap of its kind ever modelled, she declares. The jacket is knit by hand and fashioned like a short box coat, being devoid of all seams except those un- der the arms. A collar, such as men wear on their sack coats, and deep cuffs of leather, also pocket flaps, give the garment lots of style and makes it fit for hard wear, The ascot stock is the only neck- wear permissible with the jacket. “I don't know how we outdoor girls ever lived without it,” testified a golf enthGsiast. “It hits the wrap ques- tion off just right, for it is warm without being burdensome, and does not interfere with a good swinging drive. Best of all it is becoming to the slender, and no woman who really goes in for an outdoor life grows fat.” —New York Sun. Woman Made Humdrum By Man. Sir William Ramsey has brought a storm down around his devoted head by the ‘declaration in a recent lect ure to the ladies of Clifton College, England, that women lack originality, Sir William maintained that few wo- men are original; that most prefer the humdrum round, and will not attempt anything new. A leading lady practi- tioner, one of the few medical women of high rank in the West End of Lon- don, interviewed, accused Bir William of a fondness for generalizations at the expense of the sex. “It is all very well to charge women with want of originality,” she said: “Is it not the fact that for centuries women have been trained in am at- mosphere which would kill originality even in the strongest mind? It hag been nothing but repression in all di- rections for her. When she had aspir- ations out of the common feminine run they were sneered at. However, this sort of a thing is being broken down in America and in our own col- onies, where women have a much bet~ ter chance to escape ‘custom’s idiot sway,” and the barbarous convention- alities of the older land, and are tak= ing their places confidently beside the best men in all spheres of activity. In England the policy of repression con- tinues, but the number of women at the universities achieving the highest honors is increasing every year, and there is hope even for the older lands of Europe.” Carriage Etiquette. Carriage etiquette is rigid and pre= cise. Take the matter of getting into a victoria for example. The footman stands on the sidewalk. He may have the lap robe over his arm, or it may be over the front of the carriage. The lady steps into the victoria with- out noticing the respectful way in which he touches his cockaded hat. She settles herself comfortably down in the cushions. Then her part is done and his part begins. It is his task to tuck the lap robe about you, and then pass back of the carriage and see that it is properly adjusted on the other side. All this must be done with the greatest de= liberation. The footman finally finishes his work and places himself on the side- walk by the victoria to receive his mistress’ orders. It is then that his mistress for the first time says where she is going. To be really elegant, the lady must show no signs of hurry. Slowly and deliberately she turns to the footman and mentions the des- tination to which she will be driven. It is regarded as a shade more elegant for the lady to look directly in front of her and, not noticing the waiting footman at all, to speak her wishes as if she were addressing the wind, and as if it ought to be glad to obey her. In calling the lady does not leave her carriage until the footman has rung the door bell and learned if the lady of the house is home. If she is out, he leaves the card and returns to the vehicle for orders. The same thing is required of the chauffeur of a private motor. The ar- rival of a private motor in front of a house has indeed come to be an oc- casion of ceremony. The vehicle hurdles up. The chauf- feur alights, opens the door and re- ceives the card. He goes up the steps and rings the bell. The lady is at home. He hands in the card and returns to the motor. Its occupant then alights. If there is a footman, he accompanies her up the steps to ring the bell again if necessary. In any case, he must extri- cate the occupant of the vehicle frome her rugs before he allows her to alight irom the motor.—New York Sun. Fashion Notes. Have you seen those smart little braided lcose coats. just reaching the hips? It takes a murderous array of hate pins to keep the modern chapeau in place. : The traveling cloaks are smart enough to make any woman pine for a journey. Babies of six months old are shod in boots of buckskin with soles as soft as a glove. Many of this year’s coats boast of a Ggzy high collar, often luxuriously, linéd with fur, The steel-studded ela tic Relts are general favorites and nd% means insignificant in price. Auto hoods of rubber, lined with silk and provided with wide rain- capes, are not really horrible. Scarfs of tinted liberty silk are worn agajo with street suits, the long bright ends fluttering from the coat front.
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