EARLY REVAL PREDICTED
Steel Makers Think Markets Will
Improve—Prices N _t Cut.
TRADE IS NOT EMBARRASSED
No Large Stocks on Hand to Be
Unloaded and Business Is
on Safe Basis.
New York.—At a special meeting of
pig iron and steel manufacturers of
the country, at the offices of the
United States Steel Corporation, it
wag again decided to maintain the
present schedule of prices.
The meeting was attended by
principal officers of corporations
which produce 90 per cent of the
nation’s output of pig iron and steel,
among them being Chairman E. H.
Gary and President W. E. Corey, of
the United States Steel Corporation,
representatives of the Jones &
Laughlin Steel Company, Pennsyl-
vania Steel Company, Lackawanna
Steel Company, Cambria Steel Com-
pany, Bethlehem Steel Company, Re-
public Iron and Steel Company, In-
Jand Steel Company and Rogers,
Brown & Company.
The object of the meeting was the
discussion of the advisability of re-
ducing prices, in order to stimulate
demand. Reports as to the pig iron
industry showed that present produc-
tion is on the basis of one-half the
annual output in the topmost year
of the recent high-water mark rec-
ord, which was 27,000,000 tons.
Activity in Europe.
All pig iron markets were reported
quiet, except in Great Britain, where
today’s prices moved upward under
good demands from the continent of
Europe.
Many important makers of steel
and products at the meeting stated
that in most lines of finished pro-
ducts the indications point to an
early revival of buying on a moderate
scale.
Only a small group at the meeting
spoke in favor of a reduction in sell-
ing prices.
After a full discussion of market
conditions, the meeting decided that
as prices were designedly kept down
to reasonable rates throughout the
long period of unexampled activity
and that as the markets are likely to
improve under domestic requirements,
there is no good reason why prices
in any channel of the iron and steel
industries should be reduced. The
gense of the meeting was formally ex-
pressed through E. H. Gary, chair-
man of the United States Steel Cor-
poration.
No Large Stocks on Hand.
Important officers of steel ingot
and wire manufacturing companies
seen at the close of the meeting ex-
pressed the opinion that there is no
basis for the rumors that large ton-
nages of crude, semi-finished steel
products are to be dumped on the
foreign markets. The largest pro-
ducer present said:
“We have no large surplus stocks,
and are not likely to have. The
trade took in sail when the gales
came. Consequently, stocks are
small and are being absorbed to the
extent of production. All our pro-
ducers who export have built up that
trade so as to have a continuous
movement of products at prices
which assure a fair return to the
makers and under safe conditions as
to creditors.”
WOMAN FASTS FORTY DAYS
Weight Drops from 123 to 105, but
With No Ill Effects.
Long Beach, Cal—Misg Ettza Pris-
cilla Grove, a Chicago school teach-
er, completed her 40th day of fast-
ing and acceded to the request of
her sister to partake of nourish-
ment.
In the effort to equal the record of
Dr. S. H. Tanner, who fasted 40 days
in the 80s, Miss Grove’s weight was
reduced from 123 to 103 pounds, but
she declares that she felt no ill ef-
fects from her experience, and- that
she could have containued fasting for
a much longer period.
RICH STRIKE IN COLOMBIA
Two Men Reach New York With
Tales of Fabulous Gold.
New York.—Claiming to have pan-
ned out $2,000 in gold dust in two
months in Colombia, Adam TUmbholt
of Washington, arrived here on the
steamship Venitia from Santa Maria.
With him was C. W. Bruce, who had
$300 in dust as the result of 10 days
labor there, he asserted.
Both men were enthusiastic over
the field for mining they had visited
and said they expected to return and
obtain more of the precious metal.
ORDERS COMING IN. -
Activities of Steel Corporation Show
Slight Increase—Ten Per
Cent Gain Shown.
The “Iron Trade Review” says:
The awarding of contracts by the Na-
tional government and municipalities
and the buying of wire tin plate and
other products offered by interests
more or less directly connected with
the farmers, continues to be the main
support of the market, but the deci-
sion of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railroad to begin upon the
building of 2,500 steel cars and 70 lo-
comotives at its Milwaukee shops, is
an encouraging indication of increased
railroad activity.
In some finished lines, especially
structural material and malleable
castings, there is a rather surprising
number of small orders, and in many
cases prompt delivery is insisted up-
on. The activities of the steel cor-
poration show a slight increase and
some of the large independent inter-
ests report orders for the first half of
March amounting to fully 10 per cent
more than for the first half of Februa-
ry. The steel corporation is contin-
uing the new construction ordered
last year and other improvements
are being approved but appropriations
for the whole year have not yet been
considered.
RELIEF FOR LABOR.
Prospects That Congress Will Pass a
New Measure.
Washington—Speaker Cannon and
Vice President Fairbanks announced
their belief that the present congress
will pass an employers’ liability act
which will meet and overcome the
unconstitutionalities of the present
law pointed out by the supreme court
of the United States in a recent de-
cision.
These statements were made un-
reservedly by Speaker Cannon, and
guardedly by the Vice President to a
delegation, led by Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, from 87 national and inter-
national trade and labor organizations
and unions of farmers assembled in
a national conference in this city.
The delegation called on the speaker
to lay before the house of represen-
tatives, through him, a memorial en-
titled, “Labor’s protest to congress.”
RATES MUST BE SAME
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Decision Affects Operators.
Washington, D. (C.—Commissioner
Lane handed down a decision of the
Inter-State Commerce Commission of
particular interest to Virginia and
West Virginia coal operators, the case
being that of the Red Raven Ash
Coal Company and others against the
Norfolk & Western Rallway.
The commission held that the com-
plainants operating in the Clinch Val-
ley are entitled to the same rates on
coal in car loads eastbound as
charged from the Pocahontas and Tug
river coal fields in West Virginia, the
distances to the seaboard being sub-
stantially the same, but the commis-
sion held that no money damages
should be allowed complainants on
shipments.
HELD UP BY BANDITS
Robbers Get Away With $47,000 and
Victim’s Rig.
Reno, Nev.—Three bandits, heavily
armed, overcame Edward Hoffman
and a companion on a road two miles
from Rawhide, threw them to the
ground and made off in their victim’s
two-horse rig, taking gold and bank
notes amounting to about $47,000.
The money was consigned to the
Coalition Mining Company at Raw-
hide.
WAR ON LOUISIANA RACING
Legislature Will Be Petitioned to
Abolish Betting at Tracks.
New Orleans.—New Orleans news-
papers announced the beginning of a
campaign to abolish horse racing in
Louisiana.
The names of many well known
men were printed as signers of a pe-
tition for presentation to the legisla-
ture, which meets in May, asking the
abolishment of betting at Louisiana
tracks.
Death of Bishop Fowler.
New York.—Rev. Charles H. Fowl
er, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
church, died at his home here. His
death was due to heart failure re-
sulting from a complication of dis-
eases. He had been in poor health
for two years, but during nearly all
that time he took a more or less ac
tive part in the affairs of the church.
CAPITAL NOTES.
A house bill increasing the pay of
persons engaged in the life-saving
They had penetrated far into the in-
terior with only such supplies as they
were able to carry on the backs of
mules.
Bad roads make the conveying of
machinery to the field impossible, the
returned miners say. Both men con-
fidently assert their belief that Co-
lombia bids fair to become a second
California, so far as gold production
is concerned.
Representative Charles E. Little-
field of Maine, resigned his seat in
congress in order to resume the prac-
tice of law.
WANT ROOSEVELT VISIT
{nvitation Resoluticn Introduced in
Australian Senate.
Melbourne, Australia.—The sugges-
tion was mooted in the Australian
senate and greeted with much en-
thusiasm that the federal government
invite President Roosevelt to come to
‘Australia as the guest of the Com-
monwealth during the visit next win-
ter in Australian water of the Amer-
ican battleship fleet.
service of the United States was pass-
ed by the senate with an amendment
giving to the dependent mother the
same pension allowances as the bill
gives to a widow.
By a vote of 148 to 115 the house
laid on the table a resolution calling
upon the President to supply the in-
formation on corporations gathered
by the bureau of corporations.
The house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce heard argu-
ments by representatives of various
commercial organizations in favor of
the Maynard bill providing for a un-
iform bill of lading.
Pension appropriation bill, which
ORCHARD HEARS SENTENCE
Death Penalty, But Judge Favors
Imprisonment.
JUDGE THINKS HE TOLD TRUTH
Says He Believes All the Condemned
Man Said and Recommends
Commutation.
Caldwell, Ida—Stating that he be-
lieved that Harry Orchard, in his tes-
timony in the trials of William D.
Haywood and George Pettibone for
the murder of ex-Governor Frank
Steunenberg, told the exact truth, at-
tempting to conceal nothing, Judge
Fremont Wood, in the district court,
sentenced Orchard to be hanged on
May 15 next. He also, in a long ad-
dress, recommended that the state
board of pardons commute Orchard’s
sentence of death to imprisonment in
the state penitentiary.
The sentence of death was pro-
nounced in accordance with the piea
of guilty entered by Orchard Tuesday
of last week, when arraigned. Judge
Wood presided at both the Haywood
and Pettibone trials.
In sentencing Orchard and recom-
mending the commutation of his sen-
tence, Judge Wood reviewed the case
from the time of the killing of Frank
Steunenberg to the present.
Orchard asked permission to speak
and it was granted. He thanked
the court for the review of the case
GERMANS KILL HOTTENTOTS
Expedition Having Enormous Guns
and 700 Camels in Fierce Fight.
Berlin—The government publishes
a cablegram from South Africa, re-
porting a battle between the German
expeditionary force and a body of
Hottentots in the Kalahira desert.
The German troops had been sent out
to find Simon Koppers, the last of
the Hottentot chiefs, who is still hos-
tile.
The engagement was a very severe
one. The enemy lost 58 killed.
Seven men and several women were
captured, but Koppers escaped.
The German losses also were
heavy. Captain von Erckert, com-
mander of the expeditionary force,
Lieutenant Ebinger and 12 privates
being killed, and 17 wounded, of
whom nine were seriously hurt.
The German force left Cochas on
March 6, 430 strong, with enormous
guns and 700 camels. They made
forced marches into the waterless
desert for four days before stopping
long enough to cook a fresh supply
of food. The only water found was
a dirty pool, which was insufficient to
quench the thirst of the camels.
Captain Erckert finally located the
Hottentots marching. He made the
attack next morning at daylight and
soon there was fierce fighting all
along the line. The German com-
mander fell in the first onslaught, and
the second officer in command took
charge of the expeditionary force,
which drove the Hottentots from one
position to another, until finally they
broke and fled in all directions.
Chief Kopper’s power has been
given and for the kindly remarks in
regard to him. He repeated that he
had told the whole truth and that no
promise of immunity or of mercy
had ever been made to him.
Before he had concluded tears
were streaming from his eyes and he
all but broke down as he again, in
broken voice, thanked Judge Wood
| for his recommendation to the board
of pardons.
After the court proceedings, Orch-
ard was taken back to Boise and
placed in the penitentiary. The
board of pardons meets on April 1.
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL
More Liberal Allowances Made Than
in Measures of Preceding Years.
Waskington.—The ship subsidy
bill wag passed by the Senate. It
pays to 16-knot vessels plying be-
tween this country and South Amer-
ica, the Philippines, Japan, China and
Australia, $4 per mile, the amount
awarded by the act of 1891 to ves
sels of 20 knots only.
The bill was amended in the Sen-
ate so that 12-knot vessels will re-
ceive $2 per mile, which is the allow-
ance under existing law to 16-knot
vessels. Amendments were also adopt-
ed providing that if two or more
lines of steamships ply from Atlantic
ports to South America under the
provisions of the bill one line shall
stop at two ports south of Cape
Charles, and stipulating that no more
shall be paid for subsidies than is re-
ceived from ship service by the gov-
ernment.
$30,000,000 SUIT DISMISSED
Sugar Company Has 30 Days to Try
Again Against. Trust.
New York—Judge Holt in the
United States circuit court dismissed
the suit for $30,000,000 damages
brought by the Pennsylvania -Sugar
Refining Company against the Amer-
ican Sugar Refining Company for al-
leged violation of the Sherman anti-
trust act.
Judge Holt granted leave to the
Pennsylvania Company to amend its
complaint within 30 days.
Fleet Will Visit Janan.
Washington.—The American battle-
ship fleet is to visit Japan. The de-
sire of the emperor of the Island
Kingdom to play host to the “Big
Sixteen” was laid before Secretary
Root by Baron Takahira, the Japan-
ese ambassador. The invitation,
which was couched in most cordial
terms, was made the subject of ex-
tended consideration by President
Roosevelt and his entire cabinet to-
day. Secretary Root was directed
to accept the invitation and the ac-
ceptance was laid before the Japanese
ambassador.
FARMERS DRIVEN OUT.
Fearing to Raise Tobacco and Unable
to Exist Otherwise, Many
Move Away.
Lexington, Ky.—Because of warn-
ing letters and visits from night rid-
ers, many farmers in nearly all of
the 42 counties in the white burley
tobacco region are destroying their
tobacco beds; and at the present
time fewer than one-third the normal
number have been started. In many
counties huge signs have been erected
on buildings and in high places near-
by, dtsplaying the intention of the
farmer not to raise a crop this sea-
son.
Realizing the difficulty of making
a living for their families in case
the decision to raise no tobacco is
adhered to, many tenant farmers are
preparing to move to other States,
while many farm owners have placed
their property on the market with
the avowed purpose of leaving Ken-
tucky.
Interstate commerce commission
decided it had no jurisdiction over
ocean-going commerce.
William J. Byran in a speech at
Chicago, declared that Secretary of
provision abolishing all but one pen-
sion agency, was passed by house.
Resolution calling on President to in-
form house by what authority of law
he exercised power in Panama was
adopted.
Private Banker Indicted.
Chicago.—Five indictments against
A. C. Tisdelle, private banker, whose
bank at 94 La Salle street, was de-
clared insolvent several months ago,
were returned by a grand jury here
War Taft favors corporations against
| the people because he once offered to
| give a railway in the Philippines a
| perpetual franchise.
Mme. Anna Gould, who divorced
| her husband, the Count Boni de Cas-
| tellane, said on arriving in New York
for a visit with her relatives, that
badly weakened by this defeat, but it
will be necessary for the Germans
to continue a vigilant watch over the
approaches to the desert.
NEGROES MAY RE-ENLIST
President Is Said to Have Approved
Measure to This Effect in House.
‘Washington.—With the approval of
President Roosevelt, Senator Warner
of Missouri, introduced a bill intend-
ed to permit the re-enlistment in the
army of former members of the
Twenty-first infantry, who were dis-
charged without honor by the Presi-
dent, on the ground that they partic-
ipated in or were engaged in “a con-
spiracy of silence,” with reference to
the shooting affray at Brownsville,
Tex., in August, 1906.
The bill authorizes the President
to permit the re-enlistment of such
of the negro ex-soldiers as can estab-
lish to the President's satisfaction
that they were not engaged in and
had no guilty knowledge of the affray.
One year from the date of the ap-
proval of the act is given for the
ex-soldiers to establish their inno-
cence.
Men permitted to re-enlist will get
pay and allowances from the time of
their discharge “without honor,” in
November, 1906.
Senator Foraker had introduced a
bill previously to provide for the re-
storation of the discharged men to
the army. It differs from the ad-
ministration bill in permitting the
negro soldiers to re-emnlist upon mak-
ing oath that they were not involved
in the affray. ?
ORDERS FOR 136 LOCOMOTIVES.
New York Central Also Contracts for
24,000 Tons of Rails.
New York.—Orders for 136 new lo-
comotives and 24,000 tons of steel
rails have just been placed by the
New York Central Railroad Compa-
ny. The order for locomotives is
one of the largest which has been re-
ceived by the builders since unset-
tled business conditions began.
The new equipment is for the com-
CANNON SCARES HAITIAN
Their Capital Thrown Into Panic
When British Guns Are Fired.
SITUATION IS TENSE
London Advices Say Outbreak Was
Anti-Foreign—Very Grave,
Says Washington.
STILL
Port au Prince, Haiti—The British
cruiser Indefatigable and the German
cruiser Bremen have arrived here un-
der orders from their governments
to give full protection to any foreign
residents in Port au Prince in case
their lives or interests are threatened.
At present the city is quiet, but
there is an underlying current of
anxiety, as shown by the fact that a
panic was caused by the booming of
a heavy gun on the British cruiser
when she came to anchor. The In-
defatigable announced her arrival by
three cannon shots and the detona-
tions terrorized the people.
Officers and soldiers alike rushed
precipitately to their posts, women
and children ran hither and thither in
seeming despair, crying hysterically,
and .it was some little time before
they could be calmed.
Surprised the Britisher.
General Derenoncourt, chief of the
harbor force, said the commander of
the Indefatigable, after he had learn-
ed of the panic he had caused, show-
ed surprise and begged the General
to express to President Alexis his re-
grets.
Postive denial is made by Haitien
officials of the reports that other ex-
ecutions have taken place than those
on Sunday merning, when 10 or 12
conspirators found, according to the
government’s statement, with arms
and ammunition for revolutionary
purposes in their possession, were
shot to death.
Under a decision taken by the
Council of Ministers, the government
today authorized the sending on board
the warships and out of the country
the authors of the last insurrection,
who have taken refuge at the French,
German and Spanish consulates at
Gonaives. The government reserves
for itself the right to prosecute in
implicated in uprisings, conditional
on foreign representatives agreeing
not to give asylum in their respective
consulates in case of further revolu-
tionary movements being attempted.
Anti-Foreign Outbreak.
London—A brief dispatch was re-
ceived at the Foreign Office from the
English Consul General at Port au
Prince, saying the outbreak in Haiti
was undoubtedly anti-foreign. This
is all the information that has reach-
ed the British government officially
since the first brief message an-
nouncing the summary executions
and saying a massacre of Europeans
was feared.
EXPLOSION KILLS THREE.
Shattered by Force of the
Explosion
Linton, Ind—Three workmen were
killed and six injured, one fatally, by
an explosion in the press mill of the
United States Powder Company at
Coalmont, 14 miles from here.
The Dead—Crede Simmons, George
Gorby, Sr., Lon Smith. Fatally in-
jured, Charles Myers.
Nothing is known as to the cause
of the explosion. The men had been
at work but a short time when the
explosion came.
The force of the explosion was
heard and felt for miles. All win-
dows in Coalmont were destroyed and
pany’s lines east of Buffalo. The
money for the purchase is provided
for in the recent issue of $30,000,600
equipment trust notes.
Bank Robbers Get $900.
Muskogee, Okla.—Two robbers, be-
lieved to be members of the gang
that held up the Tyro (Kan.) bank
last week, walked into the Davis
bank at Hoffman, Okla, 30 miles
| southwest of here, covered the bank
| officials with pistols and, gathering
{up $900 in currency, mounted their
horses, which were standing outside,
and escaped.
Washington Has $500,000 Fire.
Washington. — Elsinger brothers’
lumber yard, the grandstand of the
Washington American league basball
club and about a score of residences
in the vicinity of Seventh and U
streets, Northwest, have been de-
stroyed by a fire which broke out
about midnight. The flames are not
yet under control. The loss already
approximates half a million dollars.
Swindler Is Sentenced.
Philadelphia.—Frank C. Marrin,
alias Franklin Stone, who was con-
victed of using the mails to defraud
in connection with the Storey Cot-
ton Company, of this city, was sen-
tenced by Judge Holland in the
United States court to four years’ im-
prisonment and to a fine of $5,000.
| He was later released in $10,000 bail
pending an appeal.
Equipment for Naval Station.
Washington.—The Standard Engi-
neering Corporation of Philadelphia,
was the lowest bidder, at $127,667,
for furnishing the power plant equip-
tion, bids for which were opened at
the navy department.
FABULOUS GOLD FIND
American Whalers Reported to Have
Struck Bonanza.
Winnipeg.—A special from Dawson
City says the Royal Northwest
mounted police expedition to Fort
McPherson has returned, bringing
word of a fabulously rich gold find
60 miles east of Herschell Island.
she had had plenty of married life
and was not engaged to the count’s
cousin,
American whalers are the lucky men,
together with the wrecked crew of
| the Duchess of Bedford, which was
taken North byCaptain Miklesen.
ment for the Great Lakes naval sta:
several buildings were damaged.
| Plate windows in Linton were
| broken. Physicians went to Coal-
| mont from surrounding towns as
| soon as the explosion was heard and
| ronderad what assistance was possi-
| ble.
Latest Addition to Navy.
The new battleship New Hamp-
shire, with Captain Cameron McK.
Winslow in command, was placed in
commission at the League Island navy
yard with the usual ceremonies. The
warship will be ready for service in
about a month.
Still Trust in God.
Washington, D. C.—The motto, “In
God We Trust,” was voted back on
the coins, but five Representatives,
Bartholdt and Kuestermann, Repub-
licans, and Gordon, Cooper and Slay-
den, Democrats, voted “no.” Repre-
sentative Longworth simply voted
present, thus avoiding flouting either
his father-in-law or religious senti-
ment.
Old War Vessel Burned.
Washington.—The old Monongahela
sloop of war, has gone at last, after
many hairbreadth escapes and extra-
ordinary experiences. She was
burned to the water's edge on the
evening of St. Patrick’s day at Guan-
tanamo, Cuba, where the United
States government has a naval sta-
tion.
Reduction Affects 1,800.
Dover, N. H—The 1,800 employes
of the cotton factories of the Coch-
eco Manufacturing Company were no-
tified that the mills would be closed
for two days and that unless business
conditions immediately improve a
four day’s a week schedule would be
followed indefinitely.
Liberia Appeals for Help.
Washington.—The government of
| the little African republic of Liberia
has appealed to America to protect
| her territorial integrity against
| France. The state department has
| been informed that a delegation is
{now on its way from Monrovia to
| Washington to make a personal ap-
| peal to the President and Secretary
| Root to restrain the French from
| forcibly taking possession of a large |
part of the country lying on the bor-
der between Liberia and French
| West Africa.
FORTIFICATIONS BILL cuT
Fears Entertained That Big Expen-
diture Now Might Be
Misinterpreted.
Washington—The fortifications bill,
carrying a total appropriation of $8,-
210,611, instead of the $38,443,945
asked for by the War . Department,
was reported to the House Committee
on Appropriations by Chairman
Smith, of the sub-committee on for-
tifications.
The sub-committee felt, aside from
other considerations, that to recom-
mend an appropriation of $38,000,000
for fortifications at this time would
be an action which might be very
reasonably construed by Japan as an
official declaration that the United
States was preparing for a war with
that - nation. The amount recom-
mended by the committee is larger
than any which has been annually
appropriated since the Spanish-
American War.
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TO GUARANTEE DEPOSITS.
Bill Introduced by Bates Provides for
Insurance Fund.
Washington.—Representative Bates
introduced a bill to amend the na-
tional banking act by the creation of
what is to be known as ‘the national
bank deposit insurance fund.” The
bill directs the controller of the cur:
court any persons who hereafter are |
Windows Fourteen Miles Away Are |
rency to assesg every national banh®
annually according to its capital.
These assessments shall continue un-
| til a fund of $6,000,000 is raised,
| which fund shall be held by the
Treasurer of the United States as a
guaranty to depositors in national
banks.
Mr. Bates also introduced a bill
| providing that when an enlisted man
in the United States navy shall have
served 25 years, he shall, upon mak-
ing application to the President, be
placed on the retired list, with 75
per cent of the pay, cash rewards,
benefits and allowances he may then
be in receipt of.
SOLDIERS KILL CUBANS
Alleged Deserters Claim Deed Was
Done in Self-Defense.
Havana.—An investigation into the
charges of homicide against three
American soldiers, who were arrest-
ed after their return from a boat trip,
has resulted in the finding-of three
service revolves and uniforms buried
near the spot where the boat was
abandoned by the soldiers. The men
are also charged with attempt to de-
sert.
They obtained the services of two
“Cubans to aid them in navigating
their boat, and afterward the boat
was found on the coast. The Cubans
having disappeared, the soldiers on
returning to the garrison, said they
killed the Cubans in gelf-defense.
BILLS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. |
Judiciary Sub-Committee’'s View of
Prohibition Measures.
Washington.—By the vote of 3 to 2
the sub-committee of the Sen-
ate Committee on the judiciary
declared unconstitutional all of the
bills intended to remove federal
barriers against States exercising
control of their police powers for the
regulation of the liquor traffic.
Local Option Defeated in Jersey.
Trention, N. J.—By the vote of 44
to 15, the New Jersey house of as-
sembly defeated the Anti-Saloon
league’s local option bill. Objection
was made to the ward option feature,
to its grouping, as well as conflict with
the clauses of municipal and county
option. The alleged methods of the
Anti-Saloon league, intimidation and
sending letters threatening the as-
semblymen with political defeat, were
condemned. Strenuous efforts were
made by the Anti-Saloon league,
through church influence, to pass the
bill, as a similar proposition went
down to defeat last year.
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Czar Spares Stoessel's Life.
St. Petersburg—The Emperor con-
firmed the death sentence passed up-
on Lieutenant General Stoessel, and
also the court’s recommendation for
commutation of the sentence to ten
years’ imprisonment in a fortress.
The former commander of Port Ar-
thur ineffectually petitioned for a full
pardon.
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Hummel Completes Sentence.
New York —-Abraham H. Hummel,
who was sentenced to serve a year
in the penitentiary for conspiracy in
connection with the Dodge-Morse di-
His term was reduced to about 10
months by the allowance made for
good behavier.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Washington—Public Printer Charles
S. Stillings to-day tendered his resig-
nation to the President and it has
been accepted.
Admiral Evans reported to be
alarmingly ill; insisted upon being
allowed to retire as soon as he
reaches San Francisco, and Presi-
dent has consented; great fleet
reached Magdalena Bay ahead of i
schedule.
Mental Healer Arrested.
Kalamazoo, Mich. — Mrs. Mabel
Woodham Needley, whose two-year-
old son ‘Walter died last December
from pneumonia, while under treat-
ment by two mental healers, was ar-
resto and charged with manslaugh-
er.
$60,000,000 Left to Family.
South . Bend, Ind—The will of
James Oliver, the richest man in In-
diana, was filed for probate. He left
| his fortune of $60,000,000 to his fam-
ily, the bulk of it to Joseph D. Oli:
| ver, his son.
Miles of Idle Cars.
Pennsylvania Railroad officials say
the blockade of idle cars all along
the line is unprecedented in the his-
tory of the road. Ten miles of
empty coal and coke cars are stored
| between New Florence and Lockport.
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