ELAN 1 PISES NY Founder of Zion City Expires at Shiloh House. AN ALLEGED DIVINE HEALER Ascerted That He Was Elijah, the Re- storer, Spoken of in the Scriptures. erstwhile Christian Catholic Church, died at Saniloh House, Zion City March 9. There were present with him when he died only Judge D. N. Barnes and two personal attend- ants. The death of Dowie was unex- pected. John Alexander Dowie was born Im Edinburgh, Scotland, May 25, 1847. 1860 his parents removed to ar ‘Australia, where for seven years the youth was clerk in a business house. Here Dowie developed the commercial jnstinet that served him so well later in life. He saved enough money dur- ing this period to return to Edinburgh at the age of 20 to take a five-year course in theology and the arts. He became a master of Greek and Hebrew and cultivated a literary taste that re- sulted in after years in a library of $10,000 volumes. Six years of denominational activity weared Dowie, who longed for a wider field of operation. He forsook his church and in 1878 went to Mel- bourne where he set up a Free Chris- tian tabernacle-——the first of its kind— and organized a Divine Healing Asso- ciation which afterward became inter- national in character. He became president of this asso- ciation and gained fame by going out into the country during the preva- lence of putrid fever and apparently effecting many cures by prayer and the laying on of hands. After 10 years in Melbourne, Dow- je decided to remove to England, - where his association had a number of branches, but the fates took him “across the Pacific and his announced intention of making Great Britain world-headquarters was never carried out. Dowie landed in San Francisco in 1888, and came to Chicago in 1890. The Christian Catholic Church in Zion City, the outgrowth of the ori- ginal international Divine Hes aling As- sociation, was formally organized in February, 1896, Dowie becoming gen- John Alexander Dowie, overseer of the eral overseer. Four years afterwards Dowie, before a large audience in the | Auditorium Theater, announced that he was Elijah, the restorer, spoken of | ——in Malachi. This assumption of a | Jiblical personality created even more of a sensation among his followers | than any of the worldly successes of | the “prophet.” Previous to this Dowie ed out his plans for Zion City, the crowning effort of his life. Six thou- sand acres of land were purchased or | secured by options and in August of | 1901, the first building was erected in | Zion City, which a year later had a | population of 10,000. { In December of 1903 Zion City was | placed under control of a federal re- ceivership, which was dissolved a | week later on Dowie's presentation of ability to pay dollar for dollar for ! all indebtedness. At that time Dow- ie estimated the value of his hold- | ings in Zion City at $25,000,000. | Since then the values of the lace factory and other industries and hold- ings at Zion City are believed to have increased to $28,000,000. Eighteen months ago Dowie began | the promotion cf a second Zion City in Mexico. While engaged in this undertaking his health failed and he went to Jamaica shortly before Christmas, 1905, for his health. While there he suffered a stroke of paralysis. from which he never fully recovered. It was. at pointed Wilbur lieutenant and had mark- | this time that Glen Voliva, general overseer of the church. A month after Voliva took charge in Zion City, he by pow- er of attorney vested in him by Dow- je, had all the property belongig to the church transferred from Dowie to . Overseer Granger, charging ex- | travagance and gross mismanage- ment by Dowie. About 400 of his flock adhered to Dowie till the end. SACKS GIRLS’ DORMITORY he ap- his first Thief Gets Away With $6,000 Worth of Jewelry. Bert Curtis, aged in New York, stolen jewelry ing a call at Miss vate boarding school Scarsdale. It is alleged that Curtis visited school and secured permission to one of the students. Two hours er the theft was reported. 27 Lockwood's for girls pri- at the see lat- Ship Had Rough Voyage. The French line steamer La Savoie, which arrived at New York from Havre, had gales from the north- west and west from March 3, which changed to a storm from the south on the seventh with very heavy seas. At 11 o'clock in the morning a giant wave swept over the vessel from the port side, broke in a door of the smoking room on the prom- enade deck and smashed and carried away the stairs from the main deck to that above, smashed a port light in the pursers room and causel other slight damage. Many Perish at Sea. The British steamer Malaga was lost in sight of Castellamare, Di “Stabia, Italy, March 7, during a severe storm. Twenty-nine bodies have come from the wreck. It is not known how many lives are ‘lost, but bodies have been coming in almost hourly. “Castellamare is a village of beauti- ful homes on the Bay of Naples, about 20 miles from the city of Naples. .. Saratoga, N. Y., has been definitely ‘decided upon for the National en- -campment of the Grand Army of the Republic this. vear. { the. Chicago, { Holdrege, | Louis that | sixth set of twins. { court on Friday, | to court expecting to by | freely that the adjournment was taken. 7. was arrested ! charged with having | valued at $6,000, dur- | RAILWAY STRIKE AVERTED Settled—Conditions of Pittsburgh District Extended. All danger of the long-threatened strike of Pennsylvania railroad train- men passed when existing differences were satisfactorily settled at a con- ference in Philadelphia = between General Manager Atterbury and a committee of the trainmen. Following the conference, the offi- cials of the company authorized the following statement: “All differences between the Penn- sylvania railroad and its trainmen were settled at a conference between General Manager Atterbury and a committee of the trainmen. With a view to effecting a speedy arrange- ment concessions have been made by both the trainmen and the railroad. The conference convened on the afternoon of the 6th of March, after which it was immediately announced that a settlement had been reached. “The settlement was brought about after the determined demand of the trainmen and yardmen from Erie and other points on the Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburgh, to be given the same rate of pay that had been granted in the Pittsburgh yards, and which had been termed the Pittsburgh scale. “It ‘was held that to refuse this was a discrimination against the other yardmen of the company. The compromise on this demand was the extension of the Pittsburgh yard rate to a radius of 45 miles around Pitts- burgh. This will take in the coke regions and all large yards that have always been considered a part of the immediate Pittsburgh territory. “The settlement is a decided com- promise, inasmuch as the Erie and other yardmen have accepted’ the cseneral advance granted March 1, and have withdrawn their demand for the Pittsburgh yard rate. RAILROADS RETALIATING. Wage Scale Burlington Stops Improvements in Omaha Because Laws are Obnoxious. Following the action of General Manager A. L. Mohler, of the Union Pacific railroad in calling off work toward the construction of a 12-story general headquarters building in Omaha because of the United States supreme court's decision compelling Nebraska railroads to pay delinquent taxes amounting to $1,000,000 with interest, and the action of the Legis- lature in enacting a 2-cent fare law, Burlington & Quincy through Yeneral Manager announced that no work would he done toward the erection of its mammoth freight depot for which plans had been completed, until con- ditions had reached a “more settled state. In the Legislature now is a bill pro- viding ferainal taxation for Omaha. HOLDS RECORD FOR TWINS Elder Brown ls Father of Eight Pairs and His Eldest Son of Six. E. R. Brown, of Ravenna, O., father of eight sets of twins, has just heard from his eldest son in St. the latter's wife several presented him with the In each case they are a boy and a girl. Brown says his family was numeri- cally strong long before President railroad, days ago | Roosevelt propagated his race suicide | idea. Mrs. was a Brown, who died 11 years ago, full-blooded Cherokee In- aian. At the World's fair in 1893, the twins were weighed and aggregated over two tons, the biggest being 320 pounds. Thaw Defense Rests. The defense in the Thaw case rest- ed immediately after the convening of and an adjournment thereupon was ordered until Monday morning. District Attorney Jerome said that while he had been informal- ly notified of the changed plans of the defendant's counsel, he had come be confronted additienal expert testimony as to Thaw's state of mind. His witnesses were not ready, he added, and it was upon this representation and with the granted consent of the defense IMMENSE VOLUME of Work Completed by Recently Ad- journed Congress. During the 59th congress, 34,879 bills and joint resolutions were intro- duced in both the senate and the house, about a fourth more than in the 58th congress. There were 26,- 154 house bills and of these 6,940 be- came laws, while the same proportion of the senate bills received approv- al. Faith Did Not Heal. Becoming a convert to the “Gift of Tongues” religion which teaches heal- ing by prayer, Moses Wellons, aged 55, of Darberton, O., dismissed the physician attending him for typhoid fever saying the Lord was to be his physician. Wellons died. Dr. H. D. Snyder, who attended him, says Wel- lons would have recovered under medical attention. Killed by Dynamite. Advices received from Chihuahua. Mexico state that 35 men, women and children were killed at San Andoes, 20 leagues from there by the acci- dental explosion of a large quantity of dynamite. STOPS DIVORCE INDUSTRY The South Dakota Legislature Passes Bill Extending Residence Re- quirement. The South Dakota House passed the Senate divorce bill, requiring a residence of one year in the State and three months in the county, be- fore beginning a divorce suit, with all hearings in open court. This law is- intended to stop the divorce in- dustry of the State, which has become distasteful to the people of South ‘Dakota, “tic as the heartrendering .able to proceed. THAW'S MOTHER TESTIFIES Examination Was Brief—Witness Overcome with Grief} JEROME ASKS LUNACY QUEST Prosecutor Says If the Defendant Is Insane the Trial Should End. Mrs. William Thaw, with tears trickling down her cheeks, sat in the witness chair on the afternoon of the 6th at the trial of her son and told how he had confessed to her his love for Evelyn Florence Nesbit and his hatred for Stanford White, who, he said, was the ‘“wickedest man in New York.” Mrs. Thaw injected intense dramat- ic interest in the -trial. . Iler testi- mony was in some respects as pathe- narrative told by Harry K. Thaw’s wife. When Mr. Delmas had deftly limit- ed her examination to the change she had noted in her son's condition fol- lowing his return from Paris in 1903 after Evelyn Nesbit had told him her life story and when District Attor- ney Jerome had with great considera- tion, conducted a short and ineffectual cross-examination, the mother love welled strong in Mrs. Thaw and she felt she had not done her all. She was loath to leave the witness chair. “There is the question of heredity,” she protested when both Mr. Delmas and Mr. Jerome told her she might step down. “I have asked you, madam, all that is considered necessary,’ said Thaw's attorney, with the utmost deference. Mrs. Thaw half rose, hesitated and was about to sit down again when the leading counsel for the defense offered her his hand to assist her {fom the stand. ‘Twice during the recital of the events which had caused her to fear that- all was not right with her sen, Mrs. Thaw broke down and was un- Her face flushed and she made an effort to speak, but the words would not come. Shortly after Mrs. Thaw was called to the witness stand District Attorney Jerome attemptéd to halt the pro ceedings by suggesting the appoint- ment of ‘a commission in lunacy. Justice Fitzgerald ruled that a com- mission was impossible, as.it has not been established that Harry K. Thaw is now insane. SHUT DOWN A MYSTERY Conflicting ‘Reports About Steel Works. The Midvale Steel Works at Nice- town, Pa., shut down on the 5th and 2,000 workmen are idle, without any definite announcement as to when work would be resumed. The cause of the shutdown is in- volved in mystery. Some officials say there was no shutdown at. all, and Axiel Petre, the general manager, says that only 400 men were affected and that it would be over in the morning. Treasurer John C. Desslet admit- ted it was the greatest shutdown in the piant's history; that virtually all the men except repair gangs are out, and that he does not know when work would resume. The explanation advanced by most of those who would talk was that there was a coal shortage. Midvale the NO REVOLT IN COLOMBIA Minister of Foreign Affairs Says All Is Peace. The persistent rumors current in Panama of the imminence of a revo- | lutionary outbreak in Colombia prompted a correspondent to send an inquiry to Bogota, to which the fol-| lowing answer, signed by A. Ves- quez Cobo, the Colombian Minister ; of Foreign Affairs, has been receiv- ed: “The reports of revolution in Col- | ombia are malicious and may be de- | nied. The people unanimously de- sire peace, and absolute peace reigns | throughout the Republic. Proof of | this is found in the fact that the Na- tional Assembly has been convoked to meet April 1.” SOUTH NOT FOR LYNCHING Former Governor Montague, of Vir- | ginia, Says Real Sentiment Is Against It. J. Montague, formerly governor of Virginia, gave an address at Har- | vard University in which he touched | on the subject of lynching in He} South. He said in part: “Some of us are taught to tavors lynching and therefore to fear strong arm of federal power. This | barbaric malady will not be finally | eradicated in America until the peo- | ple exercise a self-restraint born of conviction and not of fear. “I give it as my deliberate opinion shared by the bulk of the law abiding people of the southlana, that there is | never an occasion where resort to lynch law is justifiable among civiliz- | ed people.” A. Adams Jury Disagrees. The jury in the trial of Steve Adams, at Wallace, Idaho, for the murder of Fred Tyler, announced through Foreman George Ellers that it was impossible to.agree on a ver- dict, and was djscharged by Judge Woods. NEBRASKA HAS 2-CENT FARE Railroads Retaliate by Abolishing All Special Rates. The two cent a mile passenger fare bill, recently passed by the Nebraska legislature, became a law March 17. Simultaneously with this law going into effect the railroads in Nebraska issued circulars absolutely abolishing all classes of reduced fares. The circular says that it is the purpose to make the two-cent rate the only possible rate to apply oi Nebraska assenger fares. a is the daughter of | legible address and postmark. I will | U. S. Circuit | Louis. | tions, which are = z CROWDS THRONG ABOUT PAL=LE Mounted Officers Disperse the Clam: orious People With Whips Instead cf Fire Arms. The lower dama, Russian parlia- opening day of the or house of the althou itself devoid of was ment, cident, great the the gh in made the sion of a revolutionary St. Petersburg students of the city oe: demonstration by proletariat and police and the populace less serious injury to latter. The situation was such that the authorities finally were forced to fill the streets with military patrols, as in the ominous days of the Tre- poff regime. : After the adjournment of the ses- sion of the house a tumultuous crowd by this time estimated to number close to 40,000 persons, with red ban- ners flying and—accompanied by the music of revolutionary chants, start- ed, like the followers. of Father Ga- pon on January 22, 1905, toward the central quarter of the city, where the winter palace of the emperor is lo- cated. Few elements a number of the prelude of “Red Sunday’ were lacking and the command “fire” would have precipi- tated a similar massarce. But the present prefect of St. Petersburg, General Dracheffski, followed anoth- er course and dispersed the proces- sion by charges of mounted gendar- mes armed with whips and, by an imposing display of force, prevented the demonstrators from reforming. Feodor Golovin, president of the Moscow zemstvo and Constitutional Democratic member of parliament from Moscow province, was elected president of the house. AGAIN SUED FOR DIVORCE Second Mrs. and Abandonment. Dan R.-Hanna, only son of the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, is for the second time the defendant in a divorce suit. Mary Harrington, obtained a divorce from him, and her dodging of coun- ty officers in the effort to retain her children and her final escape to Eu- rope on a steamer sailing from New York with the children were an ex- citing episode of the time. Then Hanna married the divorced wife of Walter De S. Maud, an Eng- lishman, on February 19, 1900.. She the late Charles W. Gordon, a millionaire, who be- queathed Gordon park to the city of Cleveland. March 5 she filed suit for divorce, alleging extreme cruelty, abandonment and neglect of duty. She asks for adequate alimony and the custody of her daughter beth, five years old. She has resided in New York since last fall and swore to her petition in that city on March 1. NEW POSTCARD ORDER Postmaster General Prescribes the Form, Shape and Quality. An order has been issued by postmaster general providing regulations governing the size, form and weight of private post cards ent- ering the mails. Such must be made of an unfolded of cardboard, not exceeding three and nine-sixteenths by five and nine- and three-fourths by four inches. They must in form, quality and weight of paper substantially like the government postcard. They may be of any color, not interfering with a Very thin sheets of paper may be attach- ed to them on condition that they completely adhere to the card. bearing particles of glass, metal, ca, sand, tinsel or other similar sub- | stances will not be accepted for mail- ing, except when enclosed in envelop- es. Care for Mrs. Lincoln’s Grave. Jovernor Hanly has signed the bill under which the state of Indiana take charge of the grounds in is located the grave of Nancy the mother of Abra- The governor will ap- Will which Hanks Lincoln, ham Lincoln. { point a commission to have charge of | the grounds and maintain them. OIL MEN MUST APPEAR Court Judges at Louis So Decide. The Standard Oil Co. lockefeller must stand trial By a decision the four United States Circuit judges, sitting in the case, it is held that the St. in St. suit against the oil trust can be brought to St. Louis for trial, no mat- ter in what portion of the country may have legal residence. The opinion was written by Judge | | against American citizens and must Sanborn, and Judges Hook, Adams and Vandevanter concurred. There are 70 defendants in all, cluding Rockefeller, H. H. Rogers, H. nates, and 61 companies or corpora- the Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey, and its subsidiary companies. Japanese Schoo! Bill Defeated. Senator Caminetti’s bill providing that the discontinuation of seperate schools in California for Japanese shall be decided by a vote of the peo- ple in the city in which the schools are located, was defeated in the Sen- ate by a vote of 12 to 20. Revolutionists Take Towns. It is reported that.Honduras revo- lutionists have taken possession of the towns of Morolica, San Antonio de Los Flores, San Lucas, Guinope, Yuscaron, Danli and El Paraiso. Many volunteers are joining the revo- lutionists as a result of the reverses to the Honduran army under Presi- dent Bonilla. The Honduran troops are reported to be deserting. Gen. Bonilla, the president of Honduras, personally led his forces in the at- tack on the Nicaraguan positions at Namasiquo in Honduras. in- | which result- | ed in several encounters between the | and more or | of | | sylvania { death | Philadelphia a sugar factory, Hanna Alleges: Cruelty | In 1898 his first wife, | Eliza- | | the murder | William | ced not guilty their | waters, the night of December { hour I compulsion) the | “| had betrayed her. new | postcards | Culpeper. piece | | that : : : | desert sixteenths inches, nor less than two | £80 son said: | This Governrient Won't and John D. | rendered by | | ness { oppressively defendants in the government ouster . : | of the | Secretary | can Minister Furniss to | Government of Haiti that this coun- in- | | well as Americans. M. Flagler and six other trust mag- | SUIT AGAINST SUGAR ThUaT Pennsylvania Sugar Company Wants $30,000,000. WAS Refinery Kept Closed Board and Could Not Compete for Trade. A suit and $30,000,000 tentative damages was commenced in the United States cir- cuit court at New York by the Penn- Sugar Refining Company against the American Sugar Company, H. O. Havemeyer, dent, John C. the its presi- Parsons, corpora- 1 | | { | | . | Sweltenham FORCED OUT OF BUSINESS | { January by Order of | rand asking for $10,000,000 actual | | Refining | tion's general counsel, and Gustav B. | Robinson, Werner. Kissel, Walter D. L. Trigg, and Morris J. of Adolph Segal, in Philadelphia, whose bankruptey, was one of the financial sensations of last year, of Bank President Hipple, of Philadelphia. The complaint, filed, alleges the defendants, in violation of Sherman anti-trust act, Frank SS. that the engaging in the refining of sugar, and actually did succeed ing it from operating its plant. George | involving millions, | x : | ton coupled as it was with the | | by . | States conspired to | reve e ainti sorporati from | , 3 prevent the plaintiff corporation iro | and racking necessary in prevent- | | v a policy The complaint states that the plain- | tiff was capitalized at $5,000,000, and had in December of 1903 and was ready to begin operations. On De- cember 20, 1903, the complaint al- leges a meeting of the refinery’s board of directors was held at which the defendants, Kissel, Robinson, Trigg and Werner, majority of the board, were present. A resolution was adopted, it is erected in | | ment. SWETTENHAM Insult to Admiral Davis Caused His Downfall. Churchill, under the colonies, announced of commons that Gov. of Jamacia has decided that the government must accept his resignation, which was tendered on 23 because of the f{insult- ing letter in which he ordered Rear Admiral Davis, commanding the American fleet, to leave Kingston take away his ships, which he had brought to relieve the sufferers by the earthquake and assist in re- storing order. When the resignation was receiv- ed it was tentatively accepted by the government, but the matter was left open to give Swettenham a chance to reconsider, as it was the desire of President Roosevelt and the British government to smooth the trouble over. IS OUT His Winston secretary the Spencer for in house LUMBER MEN COMPLAIN The action grows out of the failure | Want Relief From Having to Furnish Part of Car Equipment. A hearing was begun in Washing- before the interstate commerce commission in a proceeding brought wholesale and manufacturing lum- ber associations against practically all of the railroads of the United for an order to compel the railroads to provide permanent stakes to the use of flat cars for the hauling of lumber. The proceeding is directed against that has been in existence for more than 50 vears, under which the lumbermen have been compelled to furnish their own racking any pay freight on the weight of such equip- They are now contending for the adoption of permanent steel | stakes. who composed a | GENERAL BOOTH IN AMERICA | Says His Anti-Suicide Bureau in Lon- claimed, to the effect the plant should not be run. No proceedings looking toward the commencement of operations were to be taken the board of directors. Through the without further orders of | complete and absolute control of the | which it is charged the de- directors had, the refinery kept closed and thereby a competitor board, fendant has been prevented from becoming of the sugar trust. HIGHER LAW IN VIRGINIA Strothers Brothers Acquitted for Kill- ing Brother-in-Law. James and Philip Strother, trial at Culpeper, charged who have been on Va., for the last two weeks, of their Bywaters, by the jury. James and Philip Strother brother-in-law, William F. were pronoun- F.. By- 15, one married (under sister, had their Strother, and after after he The tragedy took don is a Success. General William Booth, the leader of the Salvation Army, arriv- ed in New York on the Minneapolis. After visiting his daughter, Com- mander Miss Eva Booth, he will leave for Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Van- couver and Seattle, whence he will aged | sail for Japan. | thusiastically | tion of the success which has atte {| founding | many | ive weeks of the with | brother-in-law, | | journed killed | [ bill. Viola | admitting that he | the place at Rotherwood, the home of the | miles shot four brothers about The after he had window and they asserted afterward they supposed he was trying to his bride. Addressing the jury, “Gentlemen Strothers, By- waters Judge of the from | 8 | tion of Mayor fled through a | | erence The present visit is purely a pri- vate one and he will make no public address. General Booth spoke en- of his several coloniza- after which he spoke nded the bureaus in The. : first work in London, he 500 cases. projects, of anti-suicide cities of England. said, brought Passes 2! 5-Cent Fare Bill. The North Dakota legislature March 8 The closing sion saw the passage in the senate of the two-and-a-half-cent railroad fare These measures are now before governor. ad- Ses. the Indorse Mayor Schmitz. meeting in San Francisco of and Korean Exclusion a spirited debate, reso- passed indorsing the ac- Schmitz and the board education at Washington, in ref- to the San Francisco school At a Japanese league, after lutions were of | children. Harri- | jury; I} thank you for a verdict which I think | will be approved by the public. It is | an established precedent in the state of Virginia that no man tried for de- | fending the sanctity of his | should be found guilty.” Cards | mi- | Railroad Held Responsible. The Coroner's jury which been Sei the wreck February 16 in the Bronx on the New York Central railroad; as a re- sult of which 23 persons met death, returned a verdict finding “that the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company did not take all the necessary precautions to its passengers at this point and con- sequently were culpably negligent and that the responsibility for the existing conditions seems to be di- vided between the construction and operating departments.” has of WARNING TO HAITI Stand Oppression of Americans. Acting upon complaints of a number of American citizens engaged in busi- Haiti that they treated and island by the oot has instructed Ameri- inform the for in were driven Government | try cannot permit discrimination insist that any decree of expulsion must be applied to all foreigners as Perkins Pays N. Y. Life. George W. Perkins, former first vice president of the New York Life Insurance Company and now a mem- ber of the firm of J. P. Co., has sent to the New York Life his personal check for $54,019.19 to reimburse the company for the Re- publican campaign contribution made from its funds in 1904, in connection with which Mr. Perkins recently was made defendant on a charge of lar- ceny. Unable to Fix Guilt. A coroner's jury Was unable to de- termine whether Webster Guerin, the artist who was found dead in his studio in Chicago, came to his death from a shot fired by himself or by Mrs. Michael McDonald, who was in the studio at the time of the shoot- ing, and is now under arrest charged with killing Guerin. The jury was out eight hours and then returned an open verdict. The case will now go to the grand jury and the crimi- nal court. Morgan & | home | | tion CURRENT NEWS ITEMS. The two-cent maximum fare bill passed the Illinois house by practical- ly a unanimous vote. The Oklahoma constitutional con- vention, 80 to 5; adopted the proposi- providing for the initiative and | referendum. guard. | | plans | expected over A. coroner's jury censured the Cumberland Valley railroad for em- ploying boys in positions where. they are responsible for lives. Robbers dynantited Farmers Savings Dank ] In., and got several thousand Five hundred dolla was. reg where the burglars crossed It dollars. rs overed a fence. ana ‘that which it is the turning government to the first of next reported from Hay have been made will result in the Cuban officials by is of native | January. | Schwerin, |" their | tive two being | out | | tion was formally opened, | Miller i The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg- and the Grand Duke of cklenburg-Strelitz, have declared intention of granting consti« tutions to the people of their respec- duchies. These are the only German states without constitu- tions. New Orleans’ Me immigration sta- an old Southern Pacific depot having been equipped for this purpose. The sta tion contains quarters for 60 men and 30 women. It will be used until the $75,000 station authorized by congress can be built. Harry White, was tried at Wooster, der of Thomas Dye, Orrville, has been and William first the Alliance boy who O., for the mur- 18 years old, of acquitted. Allen Iverhart, who were with White at the time of the murder, and were indicted with him, are yet to be tried. Scores of guests in the City Hotel Diamond street and Cherry alley, Pittsburgh, narrowly escaped being burned to death in an exciting fire which was discovered about midnight. Mrs. Nettie Stewart, of Sheraden, was seriously injured by jumping from the second story after she had slid down a telogroph pole from the fourth floor. Largs Coal Shipments. The month of February was a -rec- ord-breaker for coal shipments on the Monongahela river. According to the records at Lock No. 4, 17,006,000 bushels of coal passed through that lock during the 28 days of the month. This amount was loaded in 1,760 coal boats, barges and flats. During the month 1,705 empties pass- ed up through the lock. Attorney General Bonaparte decid- ed in the South Carolina case that a state cannot import immigrants under the contract labor law. .
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