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SENMTE PASSES RATE BIL
Foraker, Morgan and Petius Cast
the only Negative Votes.
MANY AMENDMENTS WERE MADE | 325
Pipe Lines Express and Sleeping Car
Companies are Classed as Com-
mon Carriers.
After nearly three months of c«
tinuous consideration and a constitu-
tional debate that will go down in his-
tory, the railroad rate bill passed the
senate. There but three
in the negative, Foraker of Ohio, and
Morgan and Pettus of
Seventy-one senators voted for it
The hill now goes to conference v
were
the probability that it will be enacted |
into law practically as it passed the
senate, though there may be
changes of an important character.
some
votes |
Alabama. |
MORMONS LL PLANTS.
icipal holding in Sait
r+ Light and
to ‘be taken
fs.
Ame
yany
can
will also acq
h Y railway, and build
an electric line from Juab county,
{l'tah, to Oneida county, Idaho. It
1 known Intermountain
3ii d Rai Company, and
be incorpatel both in Utah and
capita
the
oad
Railway |
over by al
composed of |
DAMFGE BY FOREST HiREa
Flames Swe: p Several Counties
of Northern Michigan.
GREAT AREA IS LAID WASTE
People Compelled to Flee Without
Saving Mcre Than the
Clothes They Wore.
I.atest adviees from the forest fire
| zone in Michigan indicate the worst is
|
Idaho. |
Simultane announcement |
is made the Salt Lake and l.os |
Angeles railroad, another church
has been sold to a local |
This road is
the
for $500,000.
0
in le and runs from
1
oth
{ The rains hoped for failed.
city to the 1 : President Joseph
F. Smith, of the Mormon Church,is|
| quoted as saying that the divorce of
| ¥
Many amendments were made to
the Hepburn bill in the senate, the |
most important of them being: Pipe
lines, express companies and sleeping !
car companies are made common car-
riers and are brought under the terms
of the bill; a stringent
against granting free passes is in-
serted; no common carrier engaging
in interstate commerce is
to transport commodities in
has a direct or
which it produced; it is made impera-
permitted
which it
prohibition |
indirect interest or |
tive that railroads furnish switch: con- 1
nections: in time of war preference is
{ converts
religion from business is made on ac-
count of the fact that the Mormons,
whom the church sought to protect
ears ago, no longer need protec-
on of the church in business affairs.
The church entered business to assist
and strangers belonging to
the church, but as they ara now on
a firm. footang the church withdraws
from business entirely.
If this policy is completely
ried out the the traction
Car-
sale of in-
ter ill be rollowed by the sale of
stocks banks, sugar factories, the
{ great '. M. 1. department store
given to the transportation of troops |
and materials of war; the penal
clauses of the original interstate comn-
merce act are restored,’ adding im-
prisonment to the fines imposed by the
Elkins’ act for violations of the pro-
visions of the law: a broad court re-
view js provided for: no interlocutory
may be issued against an order af the
interstate commerce commission
without hearing and five days’
to the commission; the phrase ‘in its
judgment’ is eliminated, thus reduc-
ing the chances of making the bill
unconstitutional by delegating: the
legislative power of congress to an
administrative board.
NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL
Carries $99,764,000 — Amendment to
Buy Chains in Open Market
Defeated.
After two weeks’ debate the House
passed the naval appropriation bill,
carrying $99,764,000. When the
notice |
| detailed at
similar enterprises. It
less than a
n which will profoundly af-
fect the pelitical and social life of the
and m
EFFORT TO ROB SUB-TREASURY
Shots Fired by Guardians of Uncle
Sam's Strong Box.
An attempt to loot the United
States subtreasury, Commercial and
Kearney streets, San Francisco, was
foiled by soldiers from Company G,
of the Elevenih infantry. The
diers detailed to guard Uncle
treasure x claim that their
was retu 2d.
from Company G were
the treasury, three being
located on either side of the place.
At 11:50 o’ctock at night
stationed on the Commercial street
side of the subtreasury say they no-
ticed a man attempting to reach the
nen
| mill at
| residences
will |
commercial |
| has perished.
| to death in a
over. Fires are reported burning in
a few scattered districts, but for the
most part the flames have died down
and no further great loss is expected.
Instead
the wind subsided, and with a gale no
longer present to fan the flames or
carry the burning brands, the fires
gradually ceased, leaving in their
wake desolation in many districts.
Fire started by a spark from a saw-
Stanley, Wis., burned 100
and a dozen business
buildings, entailing a loss of $200,000.
Six blocks were burned.
The greatest havoc is. in Delta,
Marquette, Dickinson, Menominee,
Iron and lL.uce counties, with less ser-
ious damage reported from Ontono-
gon, Gobebic, Houghton and Alger
counties. Probably $1,000,000 will
cover the losses, as the standing tim-
ber through which the fire swept will
be saved if cut within a year or two.
There are reports of persons missing,
but so far as known only one man
This man was burned
Delta county logging
camp.
There is no doubt much destruec-
tion has been occasioned by the, for-
est fires. The exact condition in
districts at a distance from Marquette
are not ascertainable, but it is be-
| lieved most of the people of the ham-
sol- |
Sam’s |
fire |
those |
entrance of the building. He was
{ ordered to halt, but instead, started
to run. whereupon a guard fired at
him. The bullet did not take effect, |
and two of the guards gave chase, |
leaving their one companion behind. |
Almost immediately the soldiers on
House adjourned al the amendments |
to the bill had been considered. Two
amendments had been agreed to in
committee of the whole.
which were not at all satisfactory to
certain interests, and upon these
separate votes were taken by
House to-day.
The amendment providing that the
however, |
the | ¢
| some of the bullets striking the wall
Secretary of the Navy could go into |
the open market and purchase chains, |
anchors and cordage, should it be de- |
monstrated they could be had cheap-!
er in free markets than they could
be made by the Government, was de-
feated by a vote of 116 to 129.
By the action of the House on the
second amendment upon which a sep-
arate vote was demanded in conjunc-
tion with the naval appropriation bill
a 4 per cent. differential will be al-
lowed bidders from the Pacific coast
on the new ships provided for in the
bill, the Secretary of the Navy being
instructed tc make this allowance in
favor of such shiphuilders.
The vote on this amendment was
very close. Three Republicans chang- |
ing from no to yes, Messrs. Haugen
of Towa, Thomas and l.ongworth of
Ohio.
Denies Garfield's Statement.
the Clay
one guard on Commercial street, says
street side began firing, and |
he saw four men run to the windows |
of the upper story of the treasury
building.
Fully 50 shots were exchanged,
of the building on the north side of
Commercial street. The men were
later seen to come down the stairs,
but were not again heard of.
DEATH'S HAND AT THROTTLE
Train Speeds on Its Way While the
Engineer Lies Dead in the Cab.
Victim of Heart Failure.
Oliver Morris of Hagerstown, Mr.,
a freight engineer on the Cumberland
Valley railroad, was found dead in
hic cab rear Carlisle, Pa. The train
was running at its usual rate of speed
when Morris’ death was discovered.
The conductor of fhe train noticed
the collopsed condition of the engi-
neer, and on investigation found him
dead. Morris was 60 years of age
and leaves a family. Apoplexy is
| thought to have caused death.
Vice, President Thayer of the Penn-
sylvania railroad issued a statement
in reply to the letter of Commissioner |
of Corporation Garfield made public.
Mr. Thayer denies vigorously the
statements of facts made by Mr. Gar- |
field respecting the granting of re-
bates to the Standard Oil Company
| By
and reiterates his interview of May 5 |
fn which the Pennsylvania railroad’s
relation with Standard Oil and ether
corporations was defended.
BISBEE MINES MERGED
New Corporation With $20,000,000
Capital Announced.
The formation of a $20,000,000 cor-
poration to take over the Calumet
and Pittsburg, Lake Superior and
Pitisburg, Junction and Pittsburg and
Duluth Mining Companies, oberating
at Bisbee, Ariz., has been formally
announced.
The concerns are
Charles Briggs, James
Hostson, of Calumet,
Cole and associates of
Pittsburg.
Nearly every well-known man in
the United States Steel Corporation
is heavily interested.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
controlled by
and Thomas
and Thomas
Duluth and
ports wer
|
It is estimated that the capital re-
quirements of new enterprises now
being launched in Japan foot up $117,-
102,000.
James F. Rager, of Allegheny, 21
years old, was found dead along the
Turtle Creek branch of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. He was a freight
brakeman and it is presumed that he |
fell from his train.
D. F. Hurd, general agent of
Lake Shore road in Pittsburg, re
Stands at Head of Great Exporting
Nations of the World.
The world's international commerce
will aggregate fully $25,000,000,000
in 1908, says a bulletin issued by the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
the term, “world’s international
commerce,” is meant the imports plus
the exports of all countries of the
world from which statistical trade re-
e available.
The figures given indicate that the
trade between nations in 1906 will be
six times as much as in 1850 and 25
cent more than in 1900.
teresting fact is that the
States now stands at the head of the
world’s great exporting nations.
per
AMERICAN CONSUL KILLED.
Assassinated at His Country
Near Batoum
W. H. Stuart.
consul was
Place
in Russia.
the American vice
killed at his
The assass-
and
country place May 21.
ins escaped.
Batoum is a seaport town of Asiatic
Russia on the east shore of the Black
shot
sea four miles north of the mouth of
the Choruk and has a population of
10,000.
Two Killed.
Marshal MacDees at lenox,
shot and killed by a negro
I was trying to arrest. The
negro was later killed by a posse. He
was a desperate character and is said
to have shot two negroes a man and
a woman, at Tifton several
azo. It was for that crime that the
Deputy
Ga., was
i officer was trying to arrest him.
the |
ed to go with the Standard Oil Com- |
pany in New York.
General Confereiice of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, was elected
a Bishop on the first ballot.
In the past four years the Pennsyl-
vania railroad has issued new stock
and bonds to the amount of $432,-
860,000. Within the same period it
hae retired $107,500,000 bonds
notes, leaving the
§tal for four vear
s £225 260,000.
and |
net addition to cap- | I
Hr.
| kill
| became a free man, May 18.
. Tloa NaprotaTry oF tha | : S 2
Dr. John J. Tigert, Secretary of the | yeterance as he stepped outside the
Berkman Ends Sentence.
Alexander Berkman, who tried to |
Henry C. Frick, July 22. 1892,
His first
workhouse
was an expression of re-
{ gret that he had not succeeded in
ick. He declared he did
slaying Fr
what he 1
has reg d his act. He declared
he had ng now against the man
whose he ied to tak Berk-
man hat 1 in the Western
D rkhouse for 13
lets reported destroyed were able to
save but little more than the clothes
they wore. The people of neighbor-
ing towns are expected to give shel-
er to the homeless temporarily, and
while there is hardship there will be
no starvation. But to help in giving
the sufferers a new start in life there
seems room for charitable efforts.
The furniture factory of the Estey
Manufacturing Company, a five-story
building at Owosso, Mich., where 200
men find emplecyment, was burned.
Fire in the lumber yards of Phil-
lips & Menzmer, at Marathon City,
Wis., burned 3,000,000 feet of lumber,
valued at $50,000.
PLATFORM COLLAPSES
Attending Presbyterian
Assembly Injured.
By the collapse of a platform on
which was grouped about cone thous-
and people for the purpose of having
a picture taken, five commissioners
Ministers
byterian Church were injured at Des
Moines, la. The injured were:
Dr. C. Lukins, Roswell, N. M., hip
bruised; Rev. W. O. David, Monongah,
W. Va., hip bruised; George Wills,
Mendota, Ill., back injured and rend-
ered temporarily unconscious; Rev.
J. M. McGaughey, Chariton, Ia., leg
sprained; Rev. W. C. Buell, Taos, N.
M., back bruised.
TO MUCH BEAN TEA.
Members of Richest Indian Tribe Dy-
ing Like Sheep.
Bean tea is killing the Winnebago
Indians. It is said that the once
powerful tribe will be extinct in from
20 to 25 years. The mescal bean,
imported from Mexico, is responsible
for the numerous deaths.
The Winnebagos occupy 15,000
acres of fine land just across the riv-
er from Sioux City. They are the
richest and most debauched tribe of
Indians in existence. They have a
reserve fund of $1,000,000, or $1,000
for each member of the tribe. Their
death rate is twice as rapid as the
birth rate.
Under the peculiar influence of this
deadly bean the Winnebagos are dy-
ing like sheep. It has taken the
guise of religious mania, under which
the merest children are compelled to
begin to use the drug. The bean is
brewed into a tea and stupidity soon
follows its drinking.
TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN MILL.
One in- | Kentucky Drinking Bee Ends in Death
United |
of Participants.
A triple tragedy occurred at Lynn-
ville, Ky. A visitor to the ware-
house owned by Mark Wilson, a
prominent merchant, found the pro-
prietor, his brother, West Wilson,
and Arthur lying on the floor shot to
death. Revolvers were found beside
the bodies of Arthur West and West
Wilson.
Two citizens reported that they
had been at the warehouse shortly
before 7 o’clock in the evening and
left the trio apparently on good
terms, although all had been drink-
ing. The supposition is that West
Wilson and Arthur West engaged in
a shooting affray, killing each other,
and thai one of the bullets struck
Mark Wilson.
The troubles in the Balkans be-
tween the Turks and Balkans are
again serious. The latest reports
| from the Baritze and Prochterje dis-
ved to be right, and never
{is in progress.
weeks =
tricts are that the continual fighting
The Turks are pres-
ent in force and are burning and pill-
aging villages, and murdering men
and boys.
Gets $11,000 for Broken Neck.
Hugh O. Jones, clerk of. courts of
Mercer county, Pa., who sued the
Mahoning Valley Street Railway Com-
pany for $50,000 damages for a brok-
en neck received in an accident, was
awarded $11,000.
Mining Town Destroyed.
A report has reached North Bay,
Ont., that the town of Cobalt, one of
the mining centers in N Ontario,
has 1 comple destroved by
fire. It is also reported veral
neople were killed by an
ely
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to the General Assembly of the Pres-| City
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RUSSIAN DEMANDS
of
General Amnesty and Abolition
Death Penalty Among the |
First.
draft of the address to the |
the Em-
opening of |
throne in reply to
peror’s speech at the
Parliament was submitted to the low- |
er house of Parliament by the com- |
mission. It consists practically of the |
following ten demands:
|
i. General a } . |
2. The abolition of the death pen- |
alty.
5... The suspension of martial law |
and all exceptional laws. |
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{. Full civil liberty. |
5. The abolition of the Council of !
the Empire. |
bv. The revision of the fundamental
law.
7. The establishment of
sponsibility of ministers.
&. The right of interpellation.
9. Forced expropriation of land.
10. Guarantees of the rights of
trades unions.
Before the House convened the
cabinet virtually had decided on am- |
nesty for political prisoners with the
exception of those charged with mur-
der, attempted murder, or robbery.
the re-
DROPPED INTO RIVER
Aeronauts Fail in Attempt to
Get |
Photographs.
IL.eo Stevens, a well-known aero- |
naut, and Tracy Tindell, who made
an ascension in a balloon from
N. Y., were blown into the
When nearly across, the big
airship became unmanageable and |
crushed into the Palisades, hurling |
both occupants into the river. They
were .rescued, but the balloon was |
wrecked.
The ascension was made at 2
o'clock. The wind was blowing in a
southeasterly directicn, the most fav-
orable for a lengthy journey, and so
far as eould be gauged, at about 25 or |
20 miles an hour. The balloon
quickly rose to an altitude of about
1,000 feet and then started traveling
at a very quick rate, in the direction
of New Jersey. It was evidently
blowing a good deal harder at that
altitude than on the ground, and this
is what caused the trouble.
A moving picture camera was on
board and it was the intention to set
it in operation as soon as the balloon
had attained a height of 1,000 feet.
The object was to procure a moving
panoramic view of New York from
the clouds for exhibition purposes.
CARNEGIE OFFERS MILLION
Yonkers,
Hudson.
Willing to Assist in Building and En-
dowing United Fine Arts Build-
ing in New York.
It was announced in New
that Andrew Carnegie was the
man who, as previously reported,
conditionally promised $1,000,000 to-
ward the ereetion and endowment of
a united fine arts building in the
city to house the dozen societies
composing the Fine Arts Federation.
The site of the lL.enox library may
be chosen for the building, if satis-
Zactory terms can be made with the
trustees.
York
Bank .Not Liable.
-In an opinion by Justice Holmes
the Supreme court of the United |
States decided the case of the Mer- |
chants National bank of Cincinnati |
against Wehrmann in favor of the |
bank. The case involved an effort to |
hold the bank liable for nine of 40
shares of a partnership which it had
acquired in satisfaction for debt. The
| under the law enter into an outside |
business involving unlimited lia- |
bility.
i college, announced that Andrew Car-
Carnegie Gives $50,000.
President Rammelkamp
of Illinois |
negie had given the school $50,000.
He said, however, the conditions of
the gift would not be made known un-
til the matter had gone before the
board of trustees. He added that |
there was no request regarding the
acceptance of the gift.
STUDY OF EARTHQUAKES
Scientist Would Reduce Danger to
Ordinary Risk.
That it is possible to reduce earth- |
quakes and voicanoes to the level of
ordinary risks for insurance and to
save numberless human lives by a
systematic study of earth physics is
the opinion of Professor Thomas A.
Jaggar, Jr., the Harvard geologist,
who has just returned from Italy
where he went to study Mount Vesu-
vius. :
As a means of forecasting earth-
guakes Professor Jaggar said he would
like to see at Harvard an endowed
laboratory for the studv of earth!
movements, with a view to the pro-
tection of human life.
Will Investigate Land Sale.
It was announced that the house |
committee on public lands would in- |
vestigate the complaint of Secretary |
of the Interior Hitchcock involving !
the purchase of 8,000 acres of tim- |
ber land in New Mexico by the Penn-
svlvania Development Company in
which Delegate W. H. Andrews,
Francig J. Torrance and Arthur Ken-
nedy of Pittsburg are interested.
Over 3,000 Laws Enacted.
The files of the index clerk at the
State Department show that the first
session of the Fifty-Ninth Congress
has broken all records in the matter
of completed legislation up to this
moment. Already more than 3,000
laws have been enacted which is be-
tween 700 and S00 more than in any |
preceding session, up to the begin- |
ning of the month of May. The |
aw was |
1 e nature |
of the total en-
ral laws.
greater part of this mas
made up £
and onl
actm
igor, Pa.;
| burgh; awarded bronze medal.
{ shot in the head at her home.
| Emmett had sued for divorce.
| to go on strike for an
| wages from $3.30 to
| the general
| hour
CARNEGIE HERD AWARDS
Largest Number Yet Made by the
Commission.
CHILDREN RECEIVE REWARDS
Girl, Aged 13, and Boy,
Are given $2,000 Apiece
wards Their Education.
Agzd 15,
To-
Twenty-one medals and $10,950 in
cash were awarded by the Carnegie
hero fund commission. The award
was the largest in the history of the
fund, all previous beneficiaries num-
bering but 26. Of the 21 persons re-
ceiving awards two were girls. In 11
cases the scene of heroism was in
Pennsylvania, 5 in Ohio, 3 in New
York, 1 in New Jersey and 71 in
Cennectitcut. The reason for the
preponderance of cases in Pennsyl-
vania lies in the fact that the com-
mission endeavored to investigate as
many cases as possible in the least
time, and cases in states far removed
are now under investigation by
Special Agents John P. Cowan and
George A. Campsey.
These 21 awards were culled from
66 cases which have been investigated
since the last meeting of the com-
mission in January. Up to April 390
of this vear the commission has re-
fused 4S¢ cases, made 26 awards, and
{ at that time had 424 cases under in-
vestigation.
A striking feature of the 1
awards made is the vouth of those re-
ceiving commendation, several of
whom were mere children.’
List of Carnegie Heroes.
Michael Gismondi, aged 27, Mt.
Pleasant, Pa.; died as a result of act;
wife given silver medal and $600.
William Watkins, aged 24, Edwards-
ville, Pa.; awarded silver medal and
$1,208 to liquidate mortgage.
Timothy 'E. Heagerty, aged 41,
Ashtabula, O.; awarded silver medal
and $1,200 to liquidate mortgage.
Robert W.” Simpson, aged 46, Ash-
tabula, O.; awarded bronze medal and
$500.
Michael Sasso, aged 22, Ashtabula,
O.; awarded bronze medal and $500.
Michael P. O’Brien, aged 23, New
York city, awarded silver medal.
George B. Williams, aged 28,
Elizabeth, Pa.; died as result of act;
silver medal awarded sister.
Miss Lucy E. Ernst, aged 20, Phila-
delphia, awarded a silver medal.
Walter E. Murbach, aged 22, Elyria,
0O.: awarded silver medal.
Newton Stuchal, Unity township,
Westmoreland county, Pa.; died as
result of act; bronze medal and $1.-
000 awarded to his wife.
James WW. Gilmer, aged 25, Char-
leroi, Pa.; died as result of act;
bronze medal and $200 awarded to his
father.
Harry E. Moore, aged 38, Alliance,
0O.: lost three fingers as result of act;
awarded bronze medal and $500.
John M. Delo, aged 27, Oil City,
Pa.: sustained fractured skull and lost
hearing of left ear as result of act;
awarded ‘bronze medal and $500.
Therese S. McNally, aged 13, of
Waterbury, Conn., an orphan; award-
ed bronze medal and $2,000 to be ap-
plied toward education in annual in-
stallments of $400.
Daniel J. Curtin, aged 15,
York city; awarded bronze medal and
$2,000; set aside as a special fund to
apply toward his education.
William 1.. Wolff, aged 35, Camden,
N. J.,, awarded bronze medal and
$500.
Richard X. Hughes, aged 42, Ban-
awarded bronze medal and
$250.
Edward H. Campbell,
Buena Vista, Pa.;
medal.
William J. Wild, aged 19, Cleveland,
0O.: awarded bronze medal.
Charles A. Swenson, aged
Brooklyn, N. Y., awarded bronze
aged 19
awarded bronze
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21,
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Edward Murray, aged 39, Pitts-
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The decision of the Senate com-
mittee on inter-ocean canals is in
favor of a sea level canal across the
Isthmus of Panama.
Frank Emmett, a painter, is under |
arrest at Detroit, charged with killing |
his wife, aged 28, who was fatally
Mrs.
‘Will J. Davis, who was manager of
the Iroquois Theater, Chicago, at the
time of the great fire in that build-
ing, was arraigned on a charge of
manslaughter growing out of the
fire. .
City election returns from Denver
show that the Municipal Ownership
| city ticket wags defeated with the pos-
sible exception of two Election Com-
missioners and three of the sixteen
Aldermen.
By practically a unanimous vote
the iron molders of Pittsburg decided
increase in
3.50 a day, and
observance of the nine-
day.
Charles T. Wenham, formerly agent
for the Canadian Pacific railroad in
Chicago, was indicted on a charge of
embezzling $51,000 belonging to the
company. He is in New York.
Patrick H. Hughes, an ex-lieuten-
ant of police, was found dead in the
Western Maryland Lumber
pany’s yard at Cumberland, Md. A
fall of lumber crushed out his life.
Before the Interstate Commerce
Commission John M. Jamison, presi-
dent of the Jamison Coal Company,
swore that J. R. McGinley had given
Robert Pitcairn, then general agent
of the Pennsylvania railroad at Pitts-
burgh, 500 shares of Jamison com-
pany stock.
the college trustees have
accepted gifts from John
feHer and Andrew Carnegie, vy E.
Bird, for 19 years an instructor in
the astronomical department of Smith
College at Northampton, Mass., tend-
ered her resignation.
Because
New.
Com- |
D. Rocke- |
DISPUTE FINALLY SETTLED
Sultan Yields Ali Points and Great
Britain Is Satisfied.
The Anglo-Turkish difficulty has
been settled to the satisfaction of
Great Britain, the Turkish govern-
ment having yielded on all points
unconditionally.
Foreign Secretary Grey announced
in the house of commons that a sat-
is factory note had been received from
the Turkish government acceding to
the British demands that a joint com-
mission be appointed to delimitate
the Sinai peninsula frontier.
‘Since the first note,” said the sec-
retary, ‘“‘another has been received
stating that the Turkish government
agreed to a joint commission, which
will be appointed to make a topo-
graphical survey and map with the
view of fixing the boundary so as to
secure the maintenance of the stat-
us quo. The boundary will run from
Rafakh in a southeasterly direction
to a point not less than three miles
from Akabah.”
The secretary added that the Brit-
ish government had accepted the re-
ply. which gives every reason to
| hope that a completely satisfactory
| settlement of the details will ba
reached.
PERISHED IN DEATH VALLEY
Dead Bodies of Two Young Prospect-
ors Found in Lonely Spot.
Joseph Constantine, a prospector
who has just returned from a trip in-
of the bodies of two young men at
| the foot of the Funeral range. One
| of them carried a watch inscribed
{1*M. €. H., and wore a seal ring
bearing the letter “H.”
The men perished nearly 30 miles
from water. The fingers of one of
the men had been worn to the bone
digging in the sand, evidently in an
attempt to reach water. Constantine
and his men brought the bodies out
and buried them near Carrol Springs,
Nev.
DEEDS OF MANIAC
Rejected Suitor Kills One, Wounds
Others and Shoots Himself.
Crazed by drink and by disappoint-
ment in a love affair, James H.
Clark, a telegraph operator in
Chamblee, a dozen miles north of
Atlanta, Ga., began a rampage of
crime.
In less than 24 hours he killed one
man, severely wounded three others,
slightly wounded a fifth, and clubbed
a sixth with a shotgun, set fire to the
home of one of his victims, and,
when surrounded by a posse, shot
himself through the heart.
FOUND NINE MURDERED
Florida Minister and Family Victims
of Terrible Butchery.
The murdered bodies of the nine
members of Rev. Ackerman’s family
were found 10 miles north of Milton,
la.
Ackerman, his wife and seven chil-
dren, the eldest about 14 years old,
were killed with an ax and their bod-
ies partly cremated in their home.
Examination showed that the parents’
skulls had been crushed. Citizens
have raised $1,000 to be offered as a
reward for the apprehension of the
assassins.
The Boston Wool Market.
High prices, a small supply and a
slight tendency toward activity are
the foafturss of the wonl market.
Much of the interest is still centered
in the West. mainly in the form of
speculation as to what the growers
will finally do in the matter of
prices. The current prices are consid-
ered prohibitive. Pulled wools are
quiet. In territories, clothing wools
are all that are now available and
sales are of small volume. Foreign
grades are firm. Leading quotations
follow: Ohio and Pennsylvania XX
and above, 34 to 35¢; X, 32 to 33c;
No. 1, 38 to 3%; No. 2, 38 to 40c;
fine, unwashed, 25 to 26c¢; quarter
| blood, unwashed, 32 to 3314c; one-
half blood, 321, to 33c; unwashed de-
laine, 28 to 29¢; fine unwashed de-
laine, 36%; to 37c.
MAY HAVE WAR
Sultan's Troops Mobilizing
Transcaucasian Frontier.
There is considerable excitement
in Transcaucasia owing to the possi-
bility of a war with Turkey this sum-
mer. Turkey seems to be mobilizing
troops near the frontier, explaining
that they are simply engaged in ma-
neuvers. Nevertheless, the viceroy of
Trancaucasia appears to be prepar-
ing for possible eventuaities.
General Malama, the chief of staff,
and the artillery and commissary
officers have made an extensive in-
spection tour of the frontier and the
fortifications of Kars, the strongest
fortress on the border are being
strengthened.
Near
Frisco Limits Skyscraper.
| At a meeting of the San Francisco
| joint council on building laws with
| the various sub-committees it was
definitely decided to recommend the
following ordinance: On streets 100
feet wide or over, the height of
buildings facing thereon shall be
unlimited. On streets 80 feet wide or
| over the height of buildings shall be
limited to 200 feet.
| Window Glass Factories Will Close.
Manufacturers of window glass in
Indiana met and decided to close their
| plants from May 16 to June 10. The
cause assigned is high-priced fuel
and scarcity of skilled laborers. All
| window glass manufacturers have
| been invited to take similar action.
Marsh Lindsay, ti murderer of
| “Celery King’ Johnson in Wyandotte
| county, Ohio, began to serve out his
| life sentence in
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