i a Radel oe
“BUDENCE OF COLLUSION
More Testimony of Graft In the
Harrisburg Capitol Case.
CAST IRON SOLD FOR BRONZE
“Specially Designed” Fireplace Fix-
tures identical With Stock Found
in Pittsburg Store.
In his testimony before the Capito!
Investigation at Harrisburg, former
State Treasurer = Frank G. Harris,
said: “I had no idea the people
were to be defrauded as they have
been. I wash my hands of the whole
affair; it is outrageous.”
Harris confessed the $2.000,000
metal filing case contract had been
awarded without limit as to amount
and therefore in violation of law;
that it had been awarded in 1902,
before the contract was let for the
building in which the cases were to
be placed; that the board made no
effort to find out why the price was
fixed at $12 a foot as compared with
$6 a foot thie previous year, and that
nobody tried to get an estimate of
the total the contract.
He admitted the minutes of the
board do not show the Pennsylvania
Construction Company was ever ay-
thorized to supply the cases for
which it received $2,000,000.
The burden of Harris’ testimony
was that the board trusted every-
thing to Architect Huston and had
been led.”
of
“fooled
Immediately his testimony brought |
paid
fur-
few
was
fact that Huston was
for designing the metal
niture, although, except for a
orna:g@nts, all the designing
done by the manufacturer.
Cast Iron at $4 Per Pound.
That there are at least three thou-
sand pounds of cast iron in the light-
ing fixtures the State bought of Con-
tractor Sanderson as pure bronze at
$4 a pound was shown by the -testi-
mony of William F. Sauter, President
of the Williamson Bros. Company,
fron founders of Philadelphia, who
swore to making iron castings known
as “loadings” for the Pennsylvania
Bronze Company, which Sanderson
organized especially for this work.
The price on these
cents a pound.
‘out the
$50,000
The State paid Sanderson $72 each |
for 50 sets cof brass and irons for as
many fhieless fireplaces in the Capi-
tol. They wee put in as ‘‘specially
designed,” and Architect Huston got
4 per cent 3 ” them.
The probing commi yn hought
pair exoctly like them for $33 from
Aiken & Co. of Pittsburg, who have
been carrying them in 8 for ten
years. Secret Harry -S. Calvert
took th stand testified to the
facts.
iening”’
a
tock
TRACK DYNAMITED.
C. & P. Flyer Had Narrow
Near Cleveland.
used Sunday af
attempt to wreck
the Cleveland
Dynamite was
in. an
Ne. S11
noon
train
Pittsburg
railroad.
at 5 p.m,
at 8:15 p.
A larze
and
branch of the Pennsylvania
This train leaves Pittsburg
<2)
i
ni.
piece Was
ford, and had it not been for the
track walker, a terrible wreck would !
have vcecurred, as the train goes very
rapidly near this point on its
to Cleveland. The wreckers must
have done their work in broad day-
light, as the attempt was discovered |
just after dusk, when the night rack | 3
| men do not go to church.”
walker made his first round.
The track walker said he heard a
dull explosion and ran down
track.
of the
up from the force
and ran all the way to Bedford, wav-
ing his lantern as he ran, for fear the |
train might already be near. But he
reache¢ Bedferd before the train, and
toled the operator what he had found.
the track and flagged the train.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
Salvation
enthusiastic
(General Booth, of the
Army, was accorded an
reception on his arrival
“from the United States.
ernor and Mayor of
eral.
Communication has now been
opened with all the important points
affected by the earthquake in Mexico.
The loss of life will reach 100 and
of the State of Guerrero, it is said,
has been devastated. .
John Bundren, aged 101, of Ten-
nessee, sends to England for the
sweetheart of his youth, and will wed
her upon her arrival at his Tennes-
see honie. They were separated by
parents 80 years ago, and both have
remained single.
A strike has been practically de-
clared by the machinists of the
Grand Trunk in Canada, who are
members of the International Ma-
chinists Association. Under the
new law the men cannot go out,
however, until the minister of labor
has had an opportunity to adjust the
dispute. The men want a 15 per
cent. increase in wages.
Would Disfranchise Negroes.
The. Senate, by a vote of 23 to b,
has adopted a joint resolution to de-
clare the fourteenth amendment to
the national constitution void and
disfranchise negro in Florida.
The resolution was introduced by
Senator Jehn S. Beard, of Pensacola,
who said the amendments were ir-
regularly adopted and illezal. He
believed the Supreme Court of the
United States weuld uphold this State
in disf{ranchising the negro. The
House will adopt the resolution with-
out a discenting vote-
he
castings was 4 | With the public health, were taken at
3 (a
| Science.
| committee
| movement.
|
gie,
| say
Escape |
after-{
fast |
and is due in Cleveland :
: | church
blown out of |
the rail a short distance beyond Bed- |
way |
the |
}e found a. large piece torn |
out of the rail, and the roadbed torn |
explosion. |
He knew the fast train was about due |
{ typhoon
| nut trees were destroyed and that a
The operator ran with him further up |
in Tokyo |
The Gov- |
Tokyo were |
among those who welcomed the Gen- |
{ pointment of Captain George Curry; |
| Mexico
many persons are injured. The whole |
ted
20,000,000 STARVING.
Russian Peasantry Must Suffer Be-
fore Next Harvest.
Writing from the Russian famine
district, Dr. Konnard, who was sent
by the Society of Friends (Quakers),
to investigate conditions among the
peasantry, draws an appalling pic-
ture of the suffering.
This is the worst famine Russia
has known. No less than twenty
millions of people throughout the
southeastern provinces cannot live
without aid to see another harvest,
and I may say this estimate has been
approved not only by the Zemstovo
organization, but by the Government |
itsgd) The famine-strickean region
is spread over such a wide area (five
times the size of I'rance) that ‘more
than ten degrees of latitude are in-
volved. :
It will be seen
needed to the
that funds will be
end of July to feed
all these millions, and then , the
harvest will not bring relief, for
there are many hundreds of thou-
sands to whom
bring relief, for
land not cattle.
they have neither
The few cows in ex-
istence are in such a pitiful condi-
tion that they are useless for 1milk-
ing purposes. The result is that
babios and young children are being
forced to eat the coarse black bread |
and the indigestible young cucum-
hers, which are luxuries to the adult |
Russian t to-day, but are death
to the baby, or at any rate’ spell
disease.
The people have sold their-all and
most cases have likewise sold in
advance all the harvest mizht bring
them. They have sold themselves
and their , and from ail over the
peasan
in
provinces . reports are
voung women and girls
themselves to obtain
‘Th
of
sell
5-1
10
For. these
whom the
suffering = people, to!
coming harvest means
nothing, must be afforded dur-
ing the whole of the ccming year:|
Meanwhile epidemics of disease add
to the terrible conditions obtaining.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
=
Salina
rajlet
Committee Named to Urge Project
Before Congress.
Steps looking to the creation of a |
new government department ati
Washington, or a bureau in some de-
partment already existing, to deal
meeting of a committee of 100,
named last June by the American As-
sociation for the Advancement of
The meeting named a
of seven to prosecute the
The committee organized by elect-
ine Prof. Irvi of Harvard;
President, following Vice |
Presidents: Elliot of
Harvard, Felix Dr. William
Welsh of John Hopkins University,
Pr. Lyman Abbott. President James |
BB. Angell of the University of Mich-
igan, Jane A Andrew Carne:
Archbishop Ireland, Judge ILind-
of Juvenile Conrt of Denver,
John DD. 10 ex-Secretary of
Navy.
g Iisner,
the
President
Adier,
A
aaams,
the
and
the
ne
Us,
TOO MANY SERMONS.
Would Silence 75
Cent of the Sermonizers.
That cent of present day
sermons from the pulpit could be dis-
pensed with to the. betterment of
attendance was the opinion
expressed by Mr. Butler, of Pennsyl-
vania, a delegate to the national con-
ference of church clubs in session at
Washington.
“The church might stagger under
the blow,” he remarked, “but its re-
covery will be rapid and lasting.”
The utterance was warmly ap-
planded and was delivered during
a discussion of the question, “Why
Mr. Butler Per
ST
io pel
230 Islanders Drown.
Colonial Director Dernburg, of
Berlin, has received a cable message
from the Governor of the Island of
Yap, announcing that a disastrous
swept over the Caroline
Islands on Good ¥'riday, and that 230
of the 800 natives of the TUlulthi
group were drowned; that the cocoa: |
famine threatened the surviving
natives.
i
GOVERNOR LOSES HIS JOB
ES {
Trouble Arcse Over Grant of Land |
to Politician. _
Governor Hagerman, of New Mexi- |
against whom charges were pre-]
ferred, has tendered -his resignation,
and ‘the President announced the ap-
co,
Governor of ‘Samar Province, Phil- |
ippine Islands, as Governor of New |!
in Governor Hagerman’'s
The resignation, it is under-
request of the
place.
stood, was at the
President.
The cause of most of the trouble,
it is said, is found in the fact that
Governor Hagerman turned over 7,-
000 acres of land belonging to the
Territory to the Pennsylvania De-
velopment Company, of which W. H.
(Bull) Andrews, territorial delegate
from New Mexico, is the promoter.
Governor Hagerman came to Wash-
ington to present his defence. The
meeting in the President's office is
said to have been quite an interesting
inquisition.
In France the average span of life
is seven years longer than it was 60
years ago.
Stolen $25,000 Recovered.
The police secured a confession
from John Gunderson, who held up
a clerk in the Northern Express
Company's office at St. Paul, Minn,
and compelled him to open a safe
and hand out a package
$25,000. The money was recovered.
A Delgian anarchist, named Van
Loo, fired six shots from a revolver
at the Belgian Consul in the pres-
ence of the latter's clerks, but did
not hit him once. Yan Loo was ar-
rested.
| leigh
the harvest will not |
! suddenly left the
| phoned to his home in Brooklyn for
| the
| do
| actions conducted
| firmity
BANK CLERK TOOK $50,000
President Organized Employes
and Effected His Arrest.
SPECULATED IN BUCKET SHOPS.
Douglas Had Been With Company for
Leng Time and Was Not
Suspected.
W. O. Douglas, loan clerk of the
Trust Company of America, was ar-
raigned in the West Side police. court,
New York, and remanded without
bail on the charge of taking from the
company $50.000 in bonds. He' was
arrested on the complaint of Oak-
Thorne, president of the trust
company, who discovered the loss of
the bonds, and personally traced
Douglas to a hotel in. Forty-seventh
street. gig: i
Mr. Thorne stated that after his
arrest Douglas admitted he had taken
the bonds, which were those of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
| Railroad Company, about 10 days ago,
and also told where they were. He
| said he had made no attempt to dis-
pose of them, and did not know why
| he took them.
Douglas had been with the com-
{ pany a number of years, and was’ not
suspected of any wrongdoing until he
office. He tele-
his wife, whe -.anet him, and . they
| went to the Fortyv-seventh street hotel
| where he registered under an assum-
[ed
name. Douglas’ salary with the
trust company was $7,500 a year, and
he was not known to be in financial
straits. Douglas attributes his
trouble to gambling 4n bucket shops.
MRS. EDDY’S FRIENDS
FILE ANSWER
IN SUIT.
Defendants Say That Action Was
Instigated by “Certain Evil-
Minded Persons.
A general denial of all the allega-
tions of the complainants in the suit
{ for an accounting of the property of
Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, filed
March 1, was the legal answer made
April 17 by the defendants named in
original action.
The specifications
in the original
| bill are that Mrs. Eddy is and for a
been incompetent to
to understand trans-
in her name; that
the defendants, with other leaders
of the Christian Science Church
who were named in the original bill,
have possessed themselves of the
person and property of Mrs. Eddy
and have carried on her - business;
that on account of Mrs. Eddy's in-
these versons are bound to
give account of all transactions un-
dertaken in her name, and that the
long time has
business or
-defendants have wrongfully convert-
| who he said were
to their own
To these representations the
fendants filed specific and detailed
denial, declaring also that thev have
no knowledge of many of the allega-
tions of the complainants, and de-
manding that the complainants fur-
nish preof thereof. They also de-
clare that they have reason to be-
lieve that the bill of complaint was
not brought by the plaintiffs in good
faith, but that “the so-called ‘next
friends’ have been induced to loan
their names at the instigation and at
the expense of certain evil-minded
persons who are furnishing money
for the prosecution of the bill of
complaint for ° their own evil pur-
poses and to advocate their own sel-
fish dnterests.”
ed property use.
de-
YOUNGSTOWN CLERGY DENY.
Resent the Statement They Share
Marriage Fees With Cabmen.
The Ministerial Association, of
Youngstown, O., has sent out a cir-
cular denouncing statements that
they shared with cabmen the
they received for
who come
circular
of the testimony
was - arrested for
couple into his cab.
He gave the names o
in the
tion,” and declared
isters wanted to get in.
a cabman who
to pull a
of
trying
N ILOILO IN RUINS.
Capital of Panay—
20,000 Homeless.
A message from Manila, P. I., says:
The town of Iloilo, island of Panay,
was totally destroyed by
morning, with the result that 20,000
persons are homeless. As this
patch is filed the conflagration is
still raging and, owing to the heavy
wind blowing, it is beyond control.
No estimate has as yet been made
of the amount of damage, owing to
communication with lloilo being seri-
ously affected.
Iloilo is the capital of the island
of Panay, located on the east coast.
The port is second in importance in
the Philippines, next to Manila.
Earth shocks were felt here at in-
tervals for three hours early this
morning. The majority were very
light.
Reports from the southern part of
the island of Luzon announce that
severe earthquakes were felt at
Nueva Caceres, Camarines province,
and at Tayabas, 62 miles southeast
of Manila. Buildings were destroyed
in both places, but no loss of life
has been reported.
Fire Destroys
UNCLE SAM CHEATED.
Inferior Quality of Paper Supplied for
Public Printing.
That the papers supplied for gov-
ernment use too frequently fall be-
i | low the specifications, lack durability
containing |
or in some way are not adapted to
the purpose for which they are in-
tended, is the statement made by
Chief Wiley, of the Chemistry Bureau,
in a circular issued by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Valuable doc-
uments and scientific work are record-
ed on papers which deteriorate, thus
rendering the records useless.
fire this | gap
fees
marrying couples
from out of the state. The |
was caused by publication
| thought to be students,
WIDE AREA OF DISTURBANCE
Extent of Shock Greater Than Any
That Has Occurred for Half
a Century.
A message from Mexico City, April
16, says: Heavy earthquake shocks
continued until 4 o'clock this morn-
ing on the west coast. The telegraph
operator at Chilpancingo reports that
he had seen about a dozen corpses
and knew of 30 people injured. The
shocks this morning completed the
destruction of Chilpancingo, shatter-
ing the new municipal palace. The
hospitals, schools .and jail are in
ruins.
The bishops of Chilapa confirms
the story of general destruction in
that vicinity. Fourteen persons were
killed, in one house and the number
of injured is given as 39.
In Tixtla it is reported that 12
bodies have been taken from the
ruins, and that twice that number of
wounded are being cared for in tem-
porary structures, erected in the open
country. Tents and food are being
provided for the homeless.
The town of Ometepec, which has
a population of 4,000, and Ayutla,
which is much smaller, have been de-
stroyed. The whole of the west
coast. from Acapulco south to Cal-
ina Cruz, the Pacific terminal of the
Tehauntepec railway, has been badly
damaged.
Up to this time the npumber of
deaths reported is 32, and the wound-
ed 93, but it is thought that these
figures will fall far short of the real
number of fatalities. Acapulco was
partly submerged from the great
waves which dashed over the break-
water. Although no breath of wind
was stirring, on the night of the first
shock, the sea was lashed into fury,
and as the shocks continued, the har-
bor took on the appearance of a ty-
phoon-swept ocean. Just how much
of the port has been submerged is
not known. A message says that
the houses, as far as the church, are
under water, but there are numerous
churches in the place. Communica-
tion by rail with Vera Cruz is entire-
ly cut off, owing to the sinking of
roadbeds on the Mexican & Inter-
oceanic Railway.
Reports from nearly all of the large
cities in the southern part of the Re-
public have now been received, and
although many of these places felt
the shock severely, no Kloss of life
has been reported, and the property
loss is insignificant.
NATIONAL PEACE CONGRESS
Views of Noted Men—Enthusiasts
Urged to Not Expect Toco Much
from The Hague Meeting.
The National Arbitration and Peace
Conference, under the presidency of
Andrew Carnegie, began its sessions
in Carnegie Hall, New York Apri! 15
At the second day's. session
dozen college presidents,
fepresentatives of the
of Oxford and .Cambridge,
college men in the interest
movement and showed them
spoke
of
what
| Railroad
I'red A. Wann, former officials of the |
half |
including |
Universities |
to |
the |
PEOPLE FLEEING FOR LIFE
by Molten
Volcano.
Forest Fires Caused
Lava from Chilean
SHOCKS FELT
IN EUROPE
Damage in Spain but No Deaths Re-
ported — Turkey Also
Shaken Up.
Chile—Meager advices
indicate that southern
Chile is in the throes of a volcanic
horror almost as terrifying as the
earthquake disaster of last year.
Gigantic forest fires have been
started by the hot lava and hundreds
of ‘persons, as well as thousands of
cattle, are fiecing for their lives
from the -flames.
Slight earthquake shocks have ac-
companied -the eruption and this has
added to the panic. Ashes, boiling
water and large streams of. molten
lava have been emitted from one of
the numerous Andean volcanoes. Sub-
terranean rumblings, inky blackness
and electrical displays of terrifying
force have accompanied the eruption.
Valdivia province has suffered the
most but the country from Tolten
south almost to Port Mont is said to
be affected. In
trict the disaster
worst.
The
life
story
Valparaiso,
received here
is said to be the
indicate little loss
but it is feared when the full
is told it will be found that
many persons perished.
reports
Mexico . City,
wrought by the
Mex.—The damage
the recent. earthquake
has extended to the very border of
Mexico, and the shock was distinctly
felt even ‘in parts of Central
ica. Numerous towns in the Tehuan-
tepeec isthmus region, it is reported,
have suffered severely.
Madrid,
shocks were felt on the 17th at Tor-
tosa and at Murcia. Much damage
was done but no casualties were re-
ported.
Constantinople,
quake shock was
earth-
and
Turkey—An
felt here
at the upper part of the Bosphorus.
ALTON'S CONVICTION AFFIRMED
Judgment of $60,000 Against Road
and. Officials. for .Rebating
; “is Sustained.
The United States Court of Appeals
aflirmed the in the Dis-
triet Court Chicago
and M. Faithorn
conviction
the
John
of
granting rebates.
The company and the
were found guilty last year and
aggregate fine of $60,000 was imposed
by the court. The railroad company
line for
I was fined $40,000 and the two officials
they could and should do to advance |
the cause of universal peace and the |
emancipation of Christendom
the curse of war.
Vice Chancellor Roberts
from |
| ernment which
of Cam- |
bridze University and Pro-Vice Chan- |
cellor Rhys of Oxford were the two
foreign educators who spoke.
dent John Finley of the City College
Presi- |
of New York was an American repre- |
sentative in place of President Eliot |
and President
of Illinois,
of Harvard
the University
unable to be present.
James of |
who were |
Dr. Felix Ad- |
ler of Columbia also spoke, and Presi- |
dent Butler of the same university |
presided.
While the Carnegie Hall ‘meeting
was in progress another largely
at- |
tended peace meeting was being held |
in Cooper Union.
Buchanan introduced the
who
Joseph R.
speakers,
Powderly.
for its general topic “Organized La-
bor in Relation to the Peace Move-
ment,” was an enthusiastic one.
Five Hundred People Homeless
Detween 500 and 600 people were
rendered homeless by a fire which
- | swept the town of Westwego, on the
preachers !
“combina- |
50 other min- |
river, opposite New Orl-
all 42 buildings were de-
The loss is estimated at
Mississippi
eans. In
stroyed.
$50,000.
CLEAN OUT THE CASHIER.
Russian : Students
in Pistol
dressed
Supposed
Proficiency
Ten well
Education.
young men,
entered the
| university at St. Petersburg and be-
dis- |
|
|
| Provinces and the Punjab.
to fire on the officials with re-
volvers.
Show | against the State Auditors and State
Supreme |
Court handed down a decision to-day |
Lin
This gathering |
was representative of organized labor. | ; 4
pearance of a packet containing $10,- |
mail |
from the Atlantic National Bank, of |
to the Chemical |
included Terence V. |
The meeting, which had |
$10,000 each.
The conviction of the
followed the prosecution
defendants
of the gov-
alleged that rebates
had .been granted to the Schwarzs-
child & Swizberger Company in
shipments of meats. The
were said to have been paid to the
packing company under the guise of
“refund of terminal charges,”
amount being $1 on each car for the
use of the tracks of the packing com-
pany in getting the cars of
out from the packing house to the
main line of the Chicago & Alton.
MAIL CLERK STOLE $10,000
Had Just Married and Intended to
Quit and Engage in Business.
The mystery concerning the disap- |
000 in currency, in transit by
N.C.
of
Wilmington,
National Bank, New York, was
| cleared up by the arrest at the ins-
{ ward A. Nelson,
| paring
tance of postoffice inspectors, of I&d-
27 years old,
ployed in the railway mail
He made a complete confession.:
Most of the money was found
buried under Nelson's home. He
was recently married and was pre-
to leave the postal service
{ and c¢ngaged in business.
They then tried to ‘break |
| open a safe, but it proved too strong- |
| ly built.
obtained was
his
All the money they
$850, which the- cashier had in
pocket. They then escaped.
count of the local knowledge
showed it is supposed they are
strangers to the university.
not
75,000 Deaths in Week.
ing April 15. Seventy thousand of
these occurred in Bengal, the United
| municipal,
On ac- |
they |
| returned a verdict
State Will Recover.
In the suit of Governor Deneen
Treasurers, the State
favor of the Governor. The suit
was for the recovery of fees which
the defendants collected during the
past 35 years, as commissions for
collecting the interest on county,
township and drainage
The State will recover
$75,000 and $100,000.
districts
between
Chicago Bankers Sentenced.
The jury in the
America conspiracy case in Chicago
finding Former
| Judge Abner Smith, the bank's presi-
There were 75,000 deaths from the !
plague in India during the week end- |
The epi- |
demic began in the Punjab in Octo- |
ber. 1897, since which time nearly
1,500,000 deaths have occurred.
In authorized statements of W. J.
Bryan's views, government
experiment is favored first, and
that fails. then government owner-
ship of railroads is advocated. +
Oklahoma Constitution Adopted.
The constitution for the State of
Oklahoma was adopted April
Only one of the 12 Republican mem-
bers, Delegate Cloud, an Indian
clergyman, saw the finish. Presi-
dent Murray signed the
copy of the Constitution
alfalfa pen.
with
The United States Supreme Court
decided former Senator Patterson
must pay fine for contempt of State
Court in his Colorado newspapers.
19.
sheepskin |
control |
if |
|
|
an | tion.
|
|
dent, guilty, and fixing his sentence
at two years in the penitentiary and
a $1,000 fine.! Gustave KE. Sorrow,
vice president, suffered the same seu-
tence. Jerome V. Pierce, cashier,
was fined $500 without imprisonment,
while F. E. Creelman, a director,
was found not guilty. ?
The House passed the Young anti-
cigaret bill, making unlawful the
selling of cigarets or cigaret papers
in Illinois. The bill now goes to the
Senate.
Brooklyn Wants Bryan.
With William Jennings Bryan as
the chief attraction the Democracy
| of Brooklyn, in observance of the an-
| niversary of the birth of Thomas Jef-
ferson, engaged in an enthusiastic
Democratic reunion and demonstra-
In extending the welcome to
the guesis Mr. Shepard paid a tribute
to Mr. Bryan whom he welcomed with
the words that the Brooklyn Demo-
cratic Club then and there “declared
its streng and loyal hope that Mr.
Bryan would lead the party in 1908.”
the Bueno river dis- |
of |
Amer- |
Spain—Severe earthquake |
in |
the suburbs. It was especially sharp |
& Alton |
and |
two officials |
an f
the |
rebates |
the |
freight |
em- |
service. |
defunct Bank of |
CAN'T BE GUARDSMEN
Fostoffice Employes Must Attend to
Mail Business.
That the duty to the government of
postoftfice clerks and carriers who
are members of militia companies is
paramount to that of their military
service, except at critical times, is
the decision of First Assistant Post-
master General Hitchcock regarding
the employes of the postoffice at Lo-
rain, O., on strike duty with Compa-
ny IB of the Ohio National Guard. The
postmaster accordingly has been noti-
fied to have Captain A. F. Gove and
Sergeant Phinney either return to
work immediately or resign their po-
sitions.
Law officers of the government hold
that the prompt distribution and de-
livery of mail cannot be interfered
with for any reason and the Post-
office Department accordingly main-
tains that none of its employes
should belong to the National Guard
and has discouraged the practice.
SUBMARINES TO BATTLE.
Government Test Will Be Conducted
Off Newport.
Beginning on April 30 and contin-
uing for a couple of weeks, two sub-
marine boats, representing different
types of underwater craft, will con-
test off Newport for the $3,000,000
that has been appropriated by the
government for building new sub-
marines. The United States sub-
marine board will choose that type
of boat which makes the best show-
ing in the coming contest.
The coming try-out to be
thorough. The boats will show their
| speed, quickness at diving, ability to
attain and maintain: deepth under
water; radius of action and any other
fine points their inventors think they
have.
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FOUR HELPED IN MURDER
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| Judge Supplied Guns to Assassins in
I/ Kentucky Crime, Confession Says.
John Smith, charged with the as-
sassination of Dr. R. D. Cox, went on
the witness stand at Lexington, Ky.,
{and fully confessed to the assassina-
tion of Jim Cockrill, saving Britton
was not present, but that he, Curt
{ Jett and John Abner killed Cockrill.
Smith fired once, Jett four times and
Abner three times.
LSmith said that while they were
{discussing plans to kill .Dr. Cox it
{ was learned that Cockrill would be in
| Jackson the following day. It was
| immediately arranged to Kill Cock-
rill ‘from the Court House window
with guns given by Judge Hargis for
the purpose.
FIRST CHINESE NUN
She Is Daughter of Wealthy Rice
Planter of Hawaii.
The first Chinese nun in the history
the Order of the Sacred Hearts of
Jesus and Mary was invested with
the veil at the Roman Catholic Ca-
| thedral of Honolulu, March 31. Here-
after to be known as Sister Aleida,
she was Miss Mary Wong Long, only
| daughter of Wong Long, a wealthy
merchant and rice planter.
The girl was sent as a child to the
convent school. More than a year
ago she became a novitiate and last
Friday took the vows. She is 24
years old.
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Eight Burned to Death.
ight persons were burned to
death nera Gunter, Tex. The dead
| are: J. C. Price, Bell, Annie, Hom-
| er, Elmer, and a boy whose name has
{not been learned, all children of
Price, Jottie Byers, step-daughter of
| Price, and Aline Upchurch, a niece of
Price. Price attempted to start a
| fire with kerosene, when an explosion
occurred. The victims were burned
beyond recognition.
Battleship Plans Signed.
Secretary Metcalf signed the plans
and specifications for the two 20,000-
| ton battleships to be built for the
United States navy. They are to be
of the general type of the Dread-
| nasjight of the Dritish navy. The
plans will be sent to twn navy yards
land such private - shipbuilding firms
[as signify their intention to make
| bids.
Swettenham’s Successor.
Sydney Olivier, until recently prin-
cipal clerk of the West African de-
partment of the colonial office, ex-
colonial secretary of Jamaica and
acting governor of the island in 1900,
1902 and 1904, ‘appointed to succeed
Sir. Alexander Swettenham as gover-
nor of Jamaica, sails for Kingston
May 4 to take over the governorship
of the island.
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
Directors of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, at a meeting in New
York City, passed the usual quarterly
dividend on preferred stocks.
The British steamer Andalusia,
from Swansea for Barcelona, founder-
ed off the Spanish coast. Her cap-
tain, first officer and a sailor were
picked up and brought to Gibraltar.
All the rest of the crew are believed
to have been drowned.
A bandit held up the Northern Ex-
press Company’s Union depot office
at St. Paul, Minn., and compelled the
clerk to open the safe and give him
a package containing $25,000. The
| robber escaped.
| At a ineeting of the National Pub-
| licity Association, National Demo-
| cratic Committeceman
{ Troup offered a resolution for the
| campaign books of 1904, showing who
were the contributors, to be opened.
| 1t was not adopted.
The murderer of William H,
Stuart, an Englishman, who was
American Vice Consul at Batum, and
who was Killed at his country place
near Batum May 20 last, has been
{ sentenced by court-martial to be
| hanged, but in view of his youth- his
| sentence was commuted to 10 years
imprisonment.
Alexander