5 CREAT DISASTER IN CHINA Powder Magazine Blows Up at Canton, Killing Many. 40 MEN ENGULFED; 2) KILLED Mexican Authorities Propose to Punish Those Responsible for Dam Breaking. Very great destruction of life and property was caused at Canton, China, by the explosion of a gun- powder magazine. Twenty-one bodies already have been recovered from the ruins. Hundreds of persons’ were in- jured. Fifteen buildings were razed and more than a hundred were seri- ously wrecked. A section 200 feet long of the massive city wall was thrown down. The historical many- storied pagoda escaped with slight injuries. Roofs of houses a mile away were blown off. A number of important mercantile establishments were com- pletely demolished. The bodies recovered from the ruins” were shockingly mutilated. Many corpses of men . and women were without heads: The officer in charge of the maga- zine was among those killed, - and when his body was recovered a pipe was found clutched in his hand, which suggests the possible cause of the explosion. One of the great walls Chuviscar irrigation dam, at Chihu- ahua, Mexico, suddenly gave way, en- gulfing nearlv 40 men under the en- crmous weight of masonry and wa- ter. Between 15 and men are dead, 13 injured, some fat- ally, and several others unaccounted for. All the vi¢ 5s are Mexicans. The disaster is the latest of a large number which recently have of the 20 ‘of the work- ‘for the three months ending Dec. i est on record, claimed nearly 200 victims in this | State, and mestly in the neighborhood of Chihuahua. authorities are | making a thorough investigation into | the present catastrophe, and will se- | verely punish those on whom they | may place the blame. EXPRESS RATE MUST COME DOWN | First Ruling by Inter-State Commerce Commission Under the New Law. The Inter-State Commerce Commis- sion has rende: i its first opinion. in a cas2 involving the reasonableness cf an expre rate... The.case was brought by the Society of American Florists, who claimed that the rate charged by the United States Express | Company on cut flowers from. Naw Jersey points to New York city was | rmrenconahle, eveessive and unjust. | The rate tiil July 1¢56, was 50 cents par hundred pounds, and at that time was raised to $1 ner hundred pounds Commissioner Franklin Lane, who delivers the oninion of the Commis- sien, holds that the rate should be reduced to 69 cents per hundred pounds. The express company defend- ed its increase of 100 per cent in its | rate by claiming that the delivery service given cut flowers in New York was much more expensive than that given other articles, and that it could not increase its rate a sufficient amount to meet the expense of this special service without largely in- creasing the total rate, because of its contract with the railroads under which it is required to pay 45 per cent of its gross receipts to the rail- road companies for their servica. Japan Protests to Russia. The Russian troops have not yet been withdrawn from Northern Korea and the Japanese commander has been instructed to make a protest. It is believed the signing of the Russo- Japanese treaty be followed by the conclusion Franco-Japanese cntente. Tho will of a More Indian Lands to Be Opened. Commissioner Ballinger, of the gen- eral land office, authorized a state- ment concerning the proposed open- ing to settlement of th2 Blackfeet Indian reservation of 1,500,000 acres, in Northwestern Montana, which will be surveyed this summer. 2 CARNEGIE BACKS PEACE PLANS | Offers to Send Commission fo South American Republic. It is known that Andrew Carnegie has entertained the idea of financing | s of | a “peace mission to-the republics South America. Diego Mendoza, formerly Colombian minister at Washington, is going on this errand at a salary of $25,000 a year. Senor Mendoza was the only repre- | - America at the re- | Orleans, sentative of South cent peace congress in New York. It is not likely will call officially on President Cas- tro, of Venezuela. It is certain that he will not go to his own country and dent Reyes negie’s association of conciliation. The reason for Senor Mendeoza’s omis- sion of Bogota from his itinerary is one «of self-preservation. 2h( Twenty-Five Hurt in Wreck. Westbound Burlington flyer No. 5 was wrecked just east of Manhattan, Montana, by running into a hand- car. Fireman Harry Gilmore was killed and 25 passengers were in- jured. $89,000 GEMS IN BASKET Boy Dumps and Burns Contents With Waste Paper. J. H. French reported to the of jewels Mrs. St. Louis police the loss valued at $39,000. Mrs. French concealed the jewels in a waste paper basket. Her small son burned th2 contents. She search- ed the alley where the paper was burned, but found no trace of the jew- els. i ployes Kill { hours ending | found ahonut that Senor Mendoza | | Congress has power to create railroad definitely | | ment control. leavor to enroll Presi- | as a member of Mr. Car-| | mian | wages, { locomotive engineers and construction FINES INSURANCE PRESIDENT. Prcsecutor Asks Prison Sentence, but Judge Thinks Defendant Victim of System. Willlam A. Brewer, Jr., former pres- ident of the Washington Life Insur- ance Company, was fined $500 for making a false and fraudulent report to the New York State Superinten- dent of Insurance in regard to’ the financial condition of that company. Two indictments charging perjury were dismissed. Mr. Brewer paid the fine. The indictments against Mr. Brewer were an outcome cf the insurance in- vestigation and were based upon of- fences alleged to have been eommit- ted in 1901. Assistant District At- torney Nott asked that a prison sen- tence be imposed. “I believe that the defendant is a victim,”’ said Judge Blanchard, “of al very vicious practice that obtained in ail the insurance companies. in view of his hitherto blameless life and his age I have made up my mind to impose a fine. Mr. Brewer is 73 years old. tired from the ‘Washington Life 1904. He re- in RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. Increase of Number Killed Quarter of 1906. The accident bulletin issued by the Interstate “Commerce = Commission, 31, shows that during the quarter the total number of casualties to railroad passengers and to railroad employes while on duty was 20,944, an increase of 1,084 over those reported during the preceding three months. The number of passengers and em- ployes killed in train accidents was 474, an increase of 207. The number of passengers killed in train acci- dents in this quarter, 180, is the larg- except that. for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1904. Of the 180 passengers killed in this quarter, 143 are attributable to three accidents. The number of em- ed was 84, an increase of in Last three. OVER 20,000 IN A DAY. i Ruzh of Immigrants Into New York Breaks All Recoras. All records for the number of im- migrants arriving at New York in a single day were broken in the at “6 o'clock May 2. Fourteen steamships brought into the arbor ‘20,729 immigrants, from nearly every section of the civilized world. This exceeds by 5,000 the largest num- ber immigrants ever landed in a single dav. ers brought The steamer of 8,267 steerage passengers. Bulgaria alone had 2,734 passengers in her steerage. With the faeilities at the Ellis isl- and immigrant station severely taxed by unusually heavy arrivals the past few days, many of those who came to-day 1 be forced to undergo a long wait before they CiL SHIP BURNS; FIVE DIE lan Crew of British Tank Steamer Thrilling Escape in Bay of Biscay. The British steamer Westgate land- ed at Plymouth, England, with the survivors of the crew of the British tank steamer Silverlip, which was destroyed May 1 by an explcsion of benzine in the Ray of Biscay. The Silverlip was on its way frem Singa- pore .to London. The engineer Have and four firemen ware killed, and four others of the crew were seriously burned. Forty-eight survivors were rescued by the West- gate. After the the ship was blazing cil. launching many the seg around quickly succeeded in steel lifeboats, but the had to jump overboard to reach them. Body of Marvin Boy Found. Lying in a marshy piace of the body of litile Horace Marvin of Dr. H. N. Maryin, whose mysteri- ous disappearance from the Day Mea- dow farm, near Dover, Del, had baf- fied solution since March 4, was ‘half a mile from the Mar- by Ollie Pleasonton, a explosion covered The sailors the I) land, vin farm i farmer. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Wm. Cross, his wife, and their two {sens were found dead from inhaling illuminating gas in their home in Jer- ey City. Abraham Ruef ootiod for FY for <a change of wenue, on the ground that i he { Francisco county. cannot have a fair trial in San President Roosevelt has made pub- lic a letter from Judge Farrar, of New contending that under ‘the post-rocad clause of the Constitution under Govern- corporations entirely Taft, in his report reply- demands of certain isth- employes for = higher an sincrease - for Secretary ing to the canal recommends train conductors, but turns down the request of steam shovelmen. An Onio man, a_candidate for Con- gress, says that in a recent conversa- tion with President Roosevelt, the latter said that Secretary Taft is the best equipped man for the presi- dency in 1908, and should be nom- inated. to Big Jewelry Theft. on -=Greene, who, with Charles A. Roehrer, was arrested in New York, upon the arrival of a steamer from Europe on March 17, charged with. the theft of several thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry in London, made a confession when ar- raigned in court. Greene’s confes- sion exonerates Roehrer from any complicity in the crime and places the entire responsibility upon him- self.” Both men were remanded for further examination. Ccnfesses A. Prestc | trophe | the I'other 11 24 | From Naples, five steam- | Leap creek coal mining districts. during | with | +280 § | ernor receive 40 per INOTHER WINE DISISTER Several Killed and Others Injured in West Virginia. FIRE DAMP WAS THE CAUSE Survivors Climbed to Safety Up the ‘Emergency Stair, but Some Were Injured. Fourteen miners are dead as the result of an explosion in Whipple mines in the Leap Creek district, Fay- ete county W. va. °° The mine has been thoroughly ex- plored, and all who were working on the day of the accident have been accounted for. ; The dead are: Robert ‘Armstrong, Chas. Burgess, Nutson Burgess, Ras Wiley, Raleigh Tucker, Ed. Smith, Geo. Samper, Wm. Wilson (colored), John Thompson, Arnold Kelly, John Langton, James Farmouth, Samuel Longworth and a man named Assy- nick The damage to the mine will be re- paired and operations resumed Mon: day. It was said the bodies last found were on-a shelf just off the main path where. the other victims were earlier found. Four injured men, who were taken to the State Miners’ Hospital, at Mec: Kendree, - were: Henry Milton, white, and three unknown white men. The mine where the explosion oc curred is a shaft 450 feet deen. It has two openings, and belongs to the Dison interests, who also own the Stuart mine, where an explosion oc: curred last January, that. killed 86 men. The - explosion’ occurred at about 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon, in-the main return heading, about 1,200 feet from the foot of the shaft. It is sup: posed to have been caused by an ex traordinary heavy shot. Ninety-four men were in the mine at the time. Of the men left in the mine at the time of the explosion, 30 came out just before the crash. Of the 64 men left inside the mine when the catas- happened, 53 escaped through second shaft of the mine. The men are accounted for as either dead, wounded or missing, and the mine officials think that the cas: ualties cannot amount to more than 11 at the most. A syndicate headed by the Fayette coal king, Dixon, owns the. . mine, which is considered one of the most valuable properties in Fayette or BIDS FOR SUBMARINES. Companies Are Ready to Construct Torpedo Boats for the United States Navy. Three companies bid at the- Navy Department for the contracts. for sup: plying as many submarine torpedo boats as can be built for $3,006,000 appropriated for ths purpose by the last Congress. The Lake Torpedo Boat Co.,.of Bridgeport, Conn., sub- mitted what on its face was the low- est bid, to build at the Bath Iron Works, in Maine, any number of 235: ten beats above five at $198,000 each, the largest, of 500 tons, to cost in lots of five or more, $233,000 each, with a maximum surface speed of 15 knots The Sub-Surface Boat Co., of New Yozk, submitted plans for a boat of 250 tons, to cost $250,000. MICHIGAN REFORM IDEA Bill, Including Popular Vote for. Senator, Passed. With only seven negative votes the lower hcuse of the Michigan Legisla- ture passed the primary election bili advocated by Governor Warner. The bill provides for a popular vote on candidates for United States Sen ator. It also removes the provisc that if no candidate for the nomina tion of Governor and Lieutenant Gov cent of the votes cast in a primary election the nomina tions must be made by the convention as are all the remaining nomination= for the State ticket. The bill also prohibits newspaper advertising by candidates. Primary WILL PRCSECUTE GRAFTERS Civil and Criminal Suits to Be Brought Against Men Who Held Capitol Jobs. Civil and criminal suits be Attorney General Todd, of against the men - who have so far been implicated by the testimony before the inwestigation commission in plundering the State treasury in the capitol graft. A com- plete iist of those who will be named as defendants will hot be known until the inquiry is completed. The commission will hold no more public sessions until after the Legislatura adjourns. } As the commission cannot finish its work in time to report to the pres- ent Legislature, as provided in the resolution creating that body, the in- vestigators will send a report to the general Assembly, which will simply be an announcement that the inquiry is incomplete and a request that its time be extended indefinitely and that it be authorized to make its report to Gov. Stuart when ready. will brought by Pennsylvania, Liquor Shipments Stopped. “On and after June 1, 1907, agents must decline to receive shipments of infoxicatinz liquors when consigned to offices in the state of Kansas.” This general order has been sent out from the office of the Wells, Fargo Express Company, in Kansas City. it means that after June 1, about 550 express offices in Kansas will re- reive no more C. O. D. liguor. The agents of the cther express companies doing business in Kansas said this morning that they were expecting | similar orders at any time. ‘are sincerely: .desirous_ of - MONUMENT TO McCLELLAN Bronze Statue Unveiled at the Capital —President Roosevelt and Many High Officials Present. With appropriate civic and military ceremonies and in the presence of a distinguished audience the heroic equestrian statue in bronze of Major General George B. McClellan erected under the auspices of the army of the Potomac, was unveiled in Washington, May 2. President Roosevelt made the principal speech, and with General Frederick D. Grant on his rignt and Governor Stokes, of New Jersey, on his left, witnessed an imposing mili- tary parade of regulars ana militia. Mrs. McClellan, the general's widow; Mayor George B. McClellan, of New York, son of the general, and Dr. George McClellan, of New Jersey, a nephew, who pulled the string re- leasing the bags in which the statue was enveloped, occupied seats on the President’s stand. The diplomatic corps, the army and navy, and civil and military were largely represented at the gatherings. Secretaries ‘Taft and-:Garfield and Senator Wetmore occupied ~seats on the President's stand. Brigadier General Henry C. Dwight, U. S. volunteers, president of the Army of ‘the Potomac, presided. Major General J. Franklin Bell, of the staff of the army, was in command of the military parade, whicn consisted of three divisions of infantry, artillery and cavalry of the regular: army, the National Guard of the District of Co- lumbia, and the Third regiment of the New Jersey National Guard, Battery A, of the field artillery and two troops | of cavalry from that State, in com- mand of Brigadier General Dennis A. Collins. | The President deliversd a typical] speech, in which he tomehed upon al variety of subjects, including war, peace, National pride, the family and the qualities that make for brother- hood and fraternity. | ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. Bomb Explodes as President of Guate- mala Passes Along Street. Etrada Cabrera, president of Guate- mala, narrowly escaped assassination. He left his private residence in the morning for his customary drive, ac- companied by his staff. While pass- ihg along Seventh avenue an explo- sion, at first supposed to have been caused by a bomb, occurred, killing the horses attached to the carriage, wounding the coachman and injuring several staff officers, including Gen. Orellana, chief of staff. Examination showed that the ex- plosion had been caused by a mine. The conspirators dug a tunnel from one of the group of houses rented by a man named Rafel Rodil, placed explosives under the roadway and connected them by a wire with a bat- tery in Reodil's house, and from there discharged the mine. Many suspects have been arrested. MRS. THAW TO GIVE $200,000 Promise to Western College Condi- | tional on Cost of Son's Trial. | Mrs. Wm. Thaw has given assur- | ances that she will donate at least | $50,000 to Westminster College, a | Presbyterian institution to be open- | ed at Denver, Col, soon and endowed by wealthy people. If the drain on her furtune in defending her son, Harry, for the murder of Stanford White, is not too great, she will make her donation $200,000, to be paid within a year. Mrs. Thaw’s promise . was being kept secret, but several Presbyterian ministers, who had been informed of her intentions substantiated the story. Friends of the university ex- pect to raise $1,000,600, Not Much Labor Trouble. May day passed with comparatively few of the annual labor difficulties throughout the world. A demand for troops in ~~ the Boston teamsters’ strike, the-threatened tieup of ocean shipping “at Atlantic ports in the East. a walkout of 3,000 employes in the building trades at San Francisco, a demonstration in Paris, France, and the total crippling of industry in Warsaw, Russia, are the principal disturbances. A number of strikes scattered over the country are in the building trades. Increased wages and shorter hours are the demands generally. UNITED STATES INTERESTED Would End the Trouble . Between Mexico and Guatemala. . The strained relations between | Mexico and Guatemala, arising from the failure of the latter to surrender under extradition proceedings for trial in Mexico, Gen. Lima, charged with | complicity in the assassination of ex- President Barillas, is a matter of serious concern. to the officials. They | Ten. ance of peace in all the three meri- | cas, pending the meeting and conclu- sion of the second Hague conference; otherwise the presentation of certain subjects to the conference by the United States would lose much of its | force. | With this in- view the partment has gone to unusual lengths in its efforts to terminate the war | between Nicaragua and Honduras and | prevent its spread. After the suspension for over a year in the work of reconstructing the famous Campanile of St. Marks, at Venice, owing to artistic differ- ences, a committee of inquiry has an- nounced its apvroval of the work. Re- building will continue. State De- | Molders Get Increase. The threatened strike of 15,000 union iron molders of the Pittsburg district has been averted, the employ- ers granting an increase of 20 cents a day, instead of the 16 cent increase which they offered some time - ago. The new scale, as demanded by the molders called for a minimum rate of wages for molders and core makers of $3.50 a day and an advance of 20 cents a day to the men now receiving $3.50 or more a day. The new scale also calls for a nine-hour day. | end to the other, | ways came back { that their progress was shut off by! ia jelly, | window, | leaned | engineer | ony’s | wealth. | swept over | persons. { distance up and down the coast are completely ruined, { millions of dollars. Fe : | kinds were leveled and great trees in ENTOMBED MEN RELEASED Seven Miners Found Alive After Four Days’ Imprisonment. SUFFERED FROM EXTREME COLD Believed That in a Few Days They Will All Recover from the Effects. Alive and well, and having suffered no greater physical discomfort than that entailed by the cold in the raw, damp air of the mine, the seven men who were entombed in mine No. 38 of the Berwind-White Co., near Johnstown, Pa., by a terrible rush of waters, were reached after they had been there over four days. They show few evil results of their | experience, and it is said that one or two days in the hospital will put them in good shape. When the news was received that the men were alive it was resolved to allow them to remain where they were until the heading could be pumped out. This required three or four hours. As the waters on which the gigan- tic pumps have been working un- ceasingly for the last five days slow- ly receded, party after party started for the spot in No. 4 heading, where | it was supposed the men were. Min- ers who know the headings from one started in, but al- with the statement the depth of the water. Suddenly there was a shout from some few officials near the mine mouth. Then eam appeared in { sight. . Tiny water were still clothes. He looked and the crowd and then joyously shook his read “Yes.” In a few words he related that he had made his way along with the water to the imprisoned men and | found them alive and well. In a few minutes after Ream had apneared, he headed a party of sev- ral others who started for the men. running from his ENGINEER’S HEAD CRUSHED Ran Some Distance Before Fireman Discovered the Accident. accomodation No. 246, bearing a heavy load of passengers from Pitcairn to Pittsburg, ran for awhile at a 40-mile. clip while the en- gineer, his head crushed almost to hung half out of the eal dying. As the train : was . approaching Homewood, Engineer Goughnour felt something unusual in the movement of the big machine, and, that he had run over something, out of the cab window Train Pitcairn and FAST TRAIN DERAILED Defective Rail Causes Accident on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Train No. 716, fast flyer northbound on the Ohio River division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was wrecked at Pleasantview, three miles south of Ravenswood, W. Va. Two were fatally injured, four seriously injured, and 10 or 12 so badly crip- pled and bruised that physicians’ at- tention was necessary. The wreck was caused, it is claim- ed, by a defective rail. The entire train except the engine left the track and two rear coaches turned over and rolled down an embankment. Nearly all of the injured were in the second coach. The fatally in- jured are! Wm. Stanley, Pittsburg, salesman, internal injuries; St. Joseph's Hospital. Judge Ohley, Charleston, head and back hurt; nal injuries. Richard Cowell, Parkersburg, hurt in back; probably fatal; taken to St. Joseph's IHospital. traveling taken to 5 W. Va, probable inter- STEEL TRUST REPORT Dividends Unchanged—Unfilled Or ders Shown to Nearly Equal Record. The directors of the United States | Steel Corporation declarel a quarter- ly dividend of 14 of 1 per cent on the common stock, the same as previ- ously paid, and the regular quarterly | dividend of 13; per cent on the pre- | ferred stock. rivulets of dirty mine | at the officials | i had Roden through | | | { have | Cc { and most of the victims | of thinking | he | | of Jooked hack to ascertain the trouble. | He leaned out just as the locomotive was passing under one of the frames ‘supporting the ropes { most, iron | placed | to warn trainmen of the proximity of | bridges, and he was just in time ‘to have his head dashed against iron beam. Without a groan .or a struggle, he fell against the window sill ‘and lay there. The train reached Homewood and shot through without sped, and the fireman ran across to the engineer's scat and shook him. As soon as Goughnour's was discovered, the fireman charge of the engine and succeeded in stopping the train in hundred yards. to the station and the was taken to the East End FHospitai, where it was found that he had sustained a compound fracture of the left side of the head. He is 39 years and married. His recovery is extremely doubtful. To Offer $10,0000 for Confession. A movement has been started in Brownsville, Tex., to raise. by popula subscription $10,000 to be paid to any soldier or officer of the Twenty- fifth Intantry who will confess to hav- ing. participated: in the raid on Brownsville, or who will give the names or produce the necessary evi- dence to convict the guilty. SOCIALIST COLONY FAILS Will Be Sold Out to Pay Debts—Free Lovers in the Fold. “Equality,” ~a - -socialistle established in 1897, at Wash, order, Judge Joyner directing that the property be sold to pay the col- debts. The colony was established by colony Bellingham, the | would begin suit in the Circuit Court the ! | by the water. | recovered, and it is believed that the | other slackening | condition | took | a couple of | He backed the train | unconscious | | the aied { ated decided has been wiped out by a court | | tutional | | Be Earnings for the quarter ended March 31, were reported at 39,122,492. These are the biggest earningsc for any similar quarter in the company’s history. The unfilled orders on hand April 1 were 8,043,858 tons, as compared with 7,018,712 for the same quarter Jast year. This item was larger than generally been looked for and nearly equals the record. Wm. E. Corey was re-elected presi- dent of the corporation. All. the other officers whose _terms expired were re-elected. : USES c. 0. D.“IN SWINDLE Adams Express After Man Thought to Have Cleaned Up a Fortune. The Adams Express Company has found evidences of a systematic swindle throughout all of its large agencies in the country, and for three days past has been trying to .cap- ture the swindler. So far no arrests have been made, and it is thought the -swindler has changed his base of operations. The swindle is said to been worked by means of the D. method of sending goods, are relatives lately deceased person, to O. D. package was sent. he bereaved relatives, 99 times out 100, paid the charges without question, only to find some article al- if not quite, worthless. Mine Accident in Belgium. The Anglew mine, near Liege, Bel- gium, was flooded. Two hundred miners escaped, but 1S were shut off Nine bodies have been 0. some whom the C. drowned. nine have been | CURRENT NEWS ITEMS. Wabash and the Wheeling & Lake Irie decide to double-track the roads from Pittsburg to Chicago. Henry M. Whitney announced that he is a the Democratic nomination for nor of Massachusetts. Mrs. Tena Menensko, who entered LaForte County, Ind., Infirmary 18748, when she was 82 years old, at the age of 113 years. changes made in the con- sular service is that of David R. Birch of - Pennsylvania, consul at © Malaga, who is promoted to consul at Genoa. Jere K. Cooke, the ister of Hempstead, L. I., who eloped with a young girl member of his con- gregation, was unfrocked at his own request. The Thaw family has given up all hope of having Harry K. Thaw liber- from prison om bail, and have not to press the issue with attorney. to-day formally candidate for gover- in Among Episecpal min- the district The Wisconsin State day adopted a resolution memorial- izing Congress in favor of a Consti- amendment for the election Assembly to- of Senators by popular vote. Brotherhood of Co-operative Common- | Some colonists adopted the doctrine of free love. HURRICANE KILLS MANY ions of Dollars. A hurricane of terrific violence San Juan Batista, Cam- pache, Mexico, entailing great loss of property and the death of several The cocoa groves for causing a loss of Crops of various the forest were snapped like pipe- stems. It is feared that there may have been heavy loss to shipping if the siorm extended into the gulf. Diamond Prices Mounting. Diamond importers who have turned from Europe within a days agree that they have re- few been | 000 | Also Ruins Property Valued at Mill- | | preparations some | | Washington, | the Welsh ploding I Jewish obliged to pay higher prices for dia- | monds than ever before, and that the | American buyers are eagerly taking all the choice stones they can get. The month was the coldest in the last 26 years, and within a degree of the coldest April ever ex- perienced, according to the Weather | tees, | session. Bureau. | compiled, the appropriations April | | Senator Attorney General Stead stated he of Lasalle county, Ill, against the llinois Central. Railroad for $3,000, of back taxes. The United States. gunboat Paducah has sailed “for Puerto Barrios, Guate- mala, where it is reported warlike have recently made. ,Oxford conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Science on Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, re- gent of the Smithsonian Institution, D.C. In the Criminal Court at Barre, Pa., Stephen Savage he was one of the men who Congregational Church Edwardsville two years ago by qaynamite. Near Pabianice, Poland, tacked a carriage containing merchants, whom they shot and killed. The robbers took all the meney and valuables of the dead men and threw the bodies into the river. According to official figu University Wilkes- confessed wrecked at ex- bandits at- five just at the last session of Congress were 2920 - 768,142, or about $1,000,090 more than was indicated by the estimates of Allison and Representative chairmen of the two commit- out at the close of the res Tawney. given been
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