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BEFORE YOUNG TURKS
Short but Decisive Battlle Ends
the Old Regime.
SULTAN TAKEN PRISONER
Report That Abdul Hamid Was Forci-
by Removed from His Palace.
Constantinople.—The city fell into
ike hands of the Young Turk’'s forces
an the evening of the 24th inst.
The Yildiz garrison surrendered on
the following day to, the Constitution-
alist forces. The commanders of
these battlions began sending in their
submission to Mahmout Schefik Pasha
amd the whele of the troops protecting
tke palace gave their formal and un-
conditional surrender shortly after
dawn. Niazi Bey, who is called the
hero of the July revolution, is now in
eommand of the garrison.
Londen.—The Daily Telegraph’s
Vienna correspondent sends the re-
port that the Sultan was taken out
of the palace by force at a late hour,
and that Mehemmed Reschad Effendi,
mephew of ‘Abdul, was installed in his
place.
The number of casualties probably
will never be known, but it is estimat-
ed far into the thousands. Around
the Taxib barracks alone it is be-
lieved that 1,000 or more men fell.
The private houses within the line of
fire suffered greatly. One of the
keaviest losses to the parliamentary
forces occurred through the misuse
of the white flag by the besieged
Tasch Kischla barracks. For more
savagery of the fanatics has brought
the people.
Several warships are now in these
waters, but the disorders are so far-
reaching that the efforts of the pow-
ers to restore normal conditions have
at yet hardly been felt. The French
eruiser Jules Ferry arrived here and
eft almost immediately for Latakia,
where swarms of refugees are pour-
ing in.
Marines Landed to Stop Riots.
British, French and German war-
ships are at other ports, and marines
have been landed to quell disorders
as far as possible at the more import-
ant points.
One of the missionaries at Alexan-
dretta, Mr. Kennedy, with 450 Turk-
ish troops, has gone to the relief of
Deurtyul, an Armenian village of the
eoast, where 10,000 people within the
walls are besieged by immense bands
of Kurds and Circassians.
PARDONED BY GOVERNOR
Court Record Cleared of All Charges
Growing Out of Goebel Case.
Frankfort, Ky.—Governor Willson
cleared the Kentucky court records
of all charges growing out of the
murder in January, 1900, of Senator
William Goebel, who was declared by
the legislature to have been elected
governor, except those hanging over
State’s evidence witnesses in the al-
leged conspiracy, by granting pardonse
before trial to former Governor W. S.
Taylor and former Secretary of State
Charles Finley, who have been fugi- !
tives in the State of Indiana, for nine
years; to John Powers, brother of
Caleb Powers, who is believed to be
in Honduras; to Holland Whitaked,
of Butler county, John Davis, of Lou-
isville and Zach Steele, of Belle coun-
ty, who did not flee the State.
These over whom indictments are
left hanging are Wharton Golden, of
Knox county now in Colorado; Frank
Cecil, of Belle county, now a railroad
detective in St. Louis, and William
H. Culton, of Owsley county, said to
have died in the West recently.
These cases, with the possible ex-
ception of that against Cecil, will be
dismissed, leaving Henry E. Youtsey,
now serving a life sentence in the
State penitentiary, the only person to
suffer for the assassination of Goebel.
EIGHT DROWNED
Steamer Eagle Mysteriously Goes to |
Bottom of Mississippi River.
New Orleans.—Eight people were
drowned and seven others on hoard
had a thrilling escape from death,
when the towboat Eagle of the Louis-
jana Petroleum Company went downs
fn the Mississippi river about 40 miles
south of New Orleans.
The Dead—Captain George Joyce,
Second Enigneer Charles Goodbub,
Fireman Charles Martin, Mate Rich-
ard De Blane, two negro deckhands,
negro chambermaid, cabin boy.
The accident occurred at daybreak
while most of those on board were
asleep. Without seeming reason the
boat began to dip and take water, and
soon went down, breaking in half as
it sank. Without opportunity of giv-
ing alarm to their sleeping compan-
fons those on deck were thrown into
the current of the deep channel.
They caught hold of wreckage and
kept afloat until they attracted atten-
tion on shore.
The Fagle was
barge, which
Bagle sank.
conveying an oil
broke away when the
Destroyer Is Launched.
Philadelphia.—The torpedo boat de-
stroyed Joseph B. Smith, built for the
United tates government, was
launched at the yards of the Cramp
Shipbuilding Company.
; Ohioans Want High Tariff.
Washington.—A protest of the La
Belle Iron Works of Steubenville, O.,
against the reduction of rates propos-
ed in the sheet steel schedule in ‘the
tariff bill as passed by the house of
representatives was presented to the
genate by Mr. Scott and read at
fength. Mr. Culbertson stated that in
1907 the entire product of the United
States Steel Corporation was valued
at $757,000,000, while the importation
of similar products amounted to only
34,000,000.
DESPERATE SITUATION
State of Siege Has Brought People to
State of Starvation in Sev-
eral Places.
Beirut.—The situation in As
Turkey is one of the extreme gravity.
How many thousands have been mas-
sacred cannot even be estimated, be-
cause the disturbances have been sO
widespread that it is impossible to se-
cure details of the happenings during
the last ten days.
The latest estimates of the number
killed in the villayet of Adana reach-
es approximately 25,000, and thou-
sands have been slain in the towns
of other districts.
The state of siege which several of
the places are undergoing has brought
the inhabitants to the verge of star-
vation, and each day brings its tales
of further atrocities and the depths
of misery and despair to which the
than an hour, the machine guns of the
attacking party poured a hail of shots
into the garrison, and then the de-
fenders hoisted the white fiag. In-
fantry moved forward in the open
and the gunfire was suspended. When
the battalion was within 4060 yards of
the barracks, the guns behind the
walls opened up a deadly fire on
them, 27 being killed and 80 wound-
ed.
In one quarter some 6,000 or 7,000
troops were engaged in the conflict,
but with the terrific exchange of
shots, few non-combatants were Kkill-
ed. Half of the Saloniki chausseurs,
who were brought from the country
districts several months ago and
placed in the Yildiz garrison by the
committee of union of progress and
who took a prominent part in the rec-
ent mutiny, fell fighting in or near
the barracks, where they murdered
most of their officers only 10 days
ago. In the pockets of some of the
dead were found large sums of money
in gold, which, it is assumed, was
part of the price of their loyalty.
TO STOP MASSACRES
President Taft Takes Measures to
Safeguard Americans.
‘Washington.— Realizing the impo-
tency of the Turkish and the Persian
governments to adequately safe-
guard American lives and property in
the present disturbed conditions in
their countries, the state department
has intimated that it will welcome
any assistance in this direction from
the governments of Great Britain and
Russia.
Diplomatic representations having
this object in view already have been
made to the foreign offices at London
and St. Petersburg, whose ships and
soldiers are at or nean the scene of
the massacres and ready for active
operations. At the same time efforts
are being made to learn whether the
powers of Europe have taken steps
to check the horrors now being per-
petrated against those people.
President Taft is deeply stirred
over the reports of horrible atrocities
which have reached him regarding
the Armenians and is anxious that
no stone be left unturned to afford
relief wherever possible.
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JAPANESE WARSHIPS HERE
Expresses Friendship for
Uncle Sam.
Los Angeles.—For the first time in
10 years warships of Japan entered a
Pacific caast port of ithe Tnited
| states, when the cruisers Soya and
{ Aso, comprising the Japanese train-
ling squadron, commanded by Rear
| Admiral Ijichi, steamed into San
{ Pedro, April 25. The Aso and Soya
are on a peaceful visit of some weeks’
i duration, which will take them to all
|of the principal ports of the Pacific
| coast.
The Aso is the flagship of Amdiral
Ijichi, a veteran of the war with Rus-
sia. He said:
“Personally I can only express my
| pleasure at the increased evidence of
| friendliness between the United States
(and my country. I have no doubt
jthat our visit here will be one of
Admiral
{lasting pleasant remembrances for us. |
{We of Japan have great admiration
| for Americans and I am glad of this
{opportunity to return here for even
!so short a stay.”
UNLAWFUL MILLINERY
Big Hats and Those of the Zoological
Variety Barred by Proposed
llinois Bill.
Springfield, Ill.—Big hats and those
ornamented with the skins or bodies
of “birds or insects” are prohibited
under heavy penalties in a bill. intro-
duced in the house by Representative
Hilton.
The bill provides that it shall be
unlawful to sell or to expose for sale
any hat more than 18 inches in dia-
meter or with plume, aigrette, pin or
other ornament projecting more than
six inches beyond the rim, or bear-
ing the dead body or stuffed skin of
a bird, snake, lizard or other animal,
reptile or insect subject to decay and
likely to become a breeding place for
germs.
thoroughfares. The
from $100 to $200. The bill was re-
ferred to the committee on miscella-
neous subjects.
Family Too Large; Ends Life.
Des Moines, Ja.—Peter M. Miller,
father of 14 children, committed sui-
cide by swallowing carbolic
Shortly before taking the drug he told
his wife that he coud no longer take
care of so large a family. The widow
is destitute.
SCHIFF’S $100,000 GIFT
Will Found Jewish Normal
In Two Cities.
Schools
Cincinnati.—Announcement that Ja-
cob Schiff of New York had made a
donation of $100,000 for the establish-
ment of two normal schcools for the
training of Jewish Sabbath school
teachers was made here by Bernard
Bettmann, president of the board of
governors of the Hebrew Union col-
lega
Wearing hats contrary to the sta- |
tute is prohibited in public places or |
penalties are |
acid. |
STORM STRIKES
THE FOREST CIT
Four Lives Lost, Three Persons
Hurt and $1,000.000 Loss.
SEVERAL TOWNS SWEPT OVER
Woman Walking in- Park Is Blown
into a Pond by Wind and
Is Drowned.
Cleveland, O.—Six persons killed
and nine fatally hurt, and hundreds
of thousands of dollars’ dorth of dam-
age marked the path of a small-sized
tornado which passed across the
northern part of Ohio at noon Wed-
nesday.
Three. persons are known to be
dead and a fourth is missing.
The Dead.
Jasper Cromwell, blown from a
train at Cleveland Furnace Company's
plant.
Mrs. Olive Phalen, a nurse at State
hospital; skull crushed by stone
blown from building.
Unidentified woman, blown into a
pond at Wade park and drowned.
Joseph Vessla, killed by falling
smokestack.
Louis Petro, crushed by falling
roof.
Joseph Slazek, struck in head by
flying timber.
The largest single damage was done
to St. Stanislaus church, East Sixty-
fifth street and Forman avenue. The
wind almost demolished the structure.
The loss is estimated at $125,000.
The storm consumed only five min-
utes in passing a given point, but dur-
ing that brief period it was as dark
as night, hail battered in windows,
lightning set fire to hundreds of build-
ings, one-fifth of an inch of rain fell,
and the wind, which reached a veloc-
ity of 66 miles an hour, razed build-
ings and chimneys, tore off roofs,
laid low many telegraph and tele-
phone lines and demoralized traffic
upen the steam and electric railways.
The squall started in Indiana and
gained force as it traveled rapidly
eastward. It apparently had gathet-
ed full force when this city was
reached, and passed over the lake a
few miles east of here.
In neighboring towns considerable
damage was done. Ten dwellings
were reported to have been blown to
the ground in the southwestern part
of the city. Many homes were burn-
ed, as the fire department could not
attend to all the calls.
AMERICAN SCHOONER FIRED ON
Canadian Cruiser Captures Fishing
Vessel on High Seas.
Vancouver, B. C. — The Dominion
cruiser Kestrel arrived in port, hav-
ing in charge the American halibut
fishing schooner Charles Levi Wood-
bury, which she captured after firing
four rounds from her machine guns
+d threatening to sink the alleged
poaching vessel unless she surrender-
ed.
The action took place Sunday after-
noon in northern waters, alleged to
be contiiguous to Canada.
Five bullets tore through the air in
the direction of the Woodbury each
time the machine gun was fired as
the vessels headed at full speed from
the west coast of Vancouver Island
toward the middle of the Pacific.
The last series of shots meant bus-
iness. The gun was pointed at the
fish boat, which was then 200 yards
away and making for the open sea.
The bullets, which were aimed
high, ripped the mainsail of the
schooner and one or two knocked
splinters off the mainmast. Captain
Sinclair feared he would be sunk
right there if he did not stop, and he
| hove to.
~ Roosevelt Inland.
Mobasa. — Theodore Roosevelt and
{party left here on a special train
April 22 for Kapiti Plains station,
whence they will be conveyed to the
ranch of Sir Alfred Pease for their
first shooting trip. The party is ac-
companied by F. J. Jackson, acting
governor of the protectorate. Before
leaving Mr. Roosevelt telegraphed to
King Edward thanking him for the
message of greeting read by Mr. Jack-
son at the dinner given in Mr. Roose-
velt’s honor at the Mombasa club.
Award Contracts.
Washington.—Among the contract
awards announced at the war depart-
ment were the following: To the
Tredegar Iron -Company of Richmond,
Va., for furnishing 1,200 12-inch cast
iron shells, at $32 each. To the Beth-
lehem Steel Company, for furnishing
1.600 seven-inch target shells at
$10.48 each; 1,000 eight-inch shells
lat $17.86 each, and 600 10-inch shells
|at $32.70 each.
Nineteen Sink With Ship.
Christiania.—Nineteen persons were
i drowned off Christiania by the sink-
|ing of the Norwegian steamer Edith,
{after collision with the Brtish steam-
ier Oxford. Those who went down
| with the Edith are the captain and
| his wife, one passenger and 16 mem-
{ bers of her crew.
The German emperor has extended
|
|an invitation to King Edward and
| Queen Alexandra to visit him at
Corfu.
Gift for President.
| Washington.—The President has
received a unique present from the
| Philippines in the form of a large suit
| case which was used by John S. Hord,
{collector of internal revenue, in
| bringing to Washington statistics for
|use in considering the Philippine leg-
islation. The frame is of mahogany
iand the front is made of small inlaid
| blocks of native wood, about 120 dif-
| ferent specimens, highly polished and
{| bearing the initials “W. H. T.” in na-
tive gold and the initials “P. 1.” in
native mother of pearl
|
|
|
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WHOLE CITIES ARE WIPED OUT
Moslems Declare Their Intention to
Utterly Destroy the Armen-
ian Race. :
Alepho, Asiatic Turkey.—The entire
population of Kirikan, located be-
tween here and Alexandretta, even to
the last babe, has been massacred.
The French mission at Ekbaz is be-
seiged -by fanatical moslems. The
Armenian village of Deurtyul is sur-
rounded, and according to a messen-
ger, who crawled through the Arab
lines at night and made his way here
for help, the situation there is hope-
less. The buildings on the edge of
the town already were in flames when
he escaped. 5
The massacres are being carried
out with the greatest violence.
Neither women nor children are spar-
ed. ~The motto of the moslem is
“no twig of the accursed race shall
the suffered to live.”
Reports are that 10,000 were slain
at Adana. .
Beirut.—Five American women mis-
sionaries are in danger at Hadjim, in
the villayet of Adana, Asiatic Turkey.
One of them, Miss Rose Lambert, has
sent a message down to the coast,
asking for immediate help. The
women are entirel y alone and de-
fenceless. The villages surrounding
Hadjim are in flames, and Hadjim
itself is invested by Nomad tribes-
men. Messages ffom the interior
are being suppressed by the authori-
ties.
The situation in that country north,
east and west of Alexandretta, aris-
ing from the anti-Christian outbreaks
is most serious. There has been mas-
sacres and pillage at Antioch and riot-
ing at Birejik.
At Ayas, on the west coast of the
gulf of Alexandretta, 4i8 murderers
have been released from prison. They
at once joined the mob and began
committing repredations.
At Tarsus 100 persons have been
killed, 800 houses have been burned,
and there are 5,000 persons without
homes.
SAYS CHRISTIANS ARE TO BLAME
Head of Foreign Missions Throws
New Light on Armenian
Situation.
Baltimore. — Terrible as are the
cruelties being inflicted - upon Chris-
tians at Adana, they have brought
the trouble upon themselves, accord-
ing to Rev. Dr. James L. Barton, for-
eign secretary and executive head of
the board of commissioners for for-
eign missions.
Ever since the new Turk party
came into power the Armenian Chris-
tions have been planning to revolt
and set up a separate kingdom. It is
this ambition for an Armenian king,
Dr. Barton declares, that is at the bot-
tom of the trouble. :
Dr. Barton draws a sharp distine-
tion between the native Christians be-
longing to the Armenian church and
the Protestant Christians connected
with the various missions. He de-
clares that the Moslems have no ill
feeling toward these Protestant Chris-
tions, of whom there are over 5,000 in
Adana. .
BUYS TELEPHONE SYSTEM
New Association Will Own Plants
Valued at More Than $15,000,000.
Wheeling, W. Va.—At Fairmont, W.
Va., Z. F. Robertson, acting for large
independent telephone interests, pur-
chased a controlling interest in the
Consolidated Telephone Company,
which operates some 4,000 telephones
in nine West Virginia counties and
two in Maryland, doing a local and
long-distance business, with ex-
changes at Fairmont, Mannington,
Clarksburg, Grafton, Elkins, Philippi,
Buckhannon, Kingwood, Terra Alta,
Newburg, Parsons, W. Va., and Oak-
land and Mountain Lake, Md.
Robertson acted on behalf of in-
terests that are allied with the Na-
tional Telephone Company of Wheel-
ing, which operates largely in West
Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with
between 12,000 and 15,000 telephones
in use.
This move is preliminary to the for-
mation of the largest independent tel-
ephone company in the United States,
With plants valued at $15,000,000, cov-
ering Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylva-
nia, Maryland and a part of New
York state. The new company will
operate more than 150,000 telephones.
Several meetings of the promoters
have been held. and the final consum-
mation of the deal will follow within
a few days.
Former U. S. Senator Dead.
Indianapolis.—Former United States
Senator David Turpie. born in Ham-
ilton county, O., in 1829, died at his
home in this city. He had been in
ill health for 10 years. Mr. Turpie
defeated - his Republican opponent,
Benjamin Harrison, for the senator-
ship from Indiana in 1887. He was
re-elected in 1893. The legislature
‘of 1899 being Republican, Mr. Turpie
was retired and Albert J. Beveridge
succeeded him.
Night Rider Cases.
Paducah, Ky.—One hundred and fif-
teen defendants were dismissed as
the result of a compromise in the
night, rider suits of Henry Bennett,
A. H. Cardin, C. W. Rucker, J. M.
Wood, Laura Tooney and G. W. Gor-
don in the federal court. All the cases
will be continued.
Erie Awards Big Contract.
Contracts have been placed with che
McClintic-Marshall Construction Com-
pany of Pittsburg, by the Erie Rail-
road Company for the Hoboken via-
duct and will require about 5,700 tons
of steel. This road is arranging to
place orders for about 6,000 tons,
which may come to Pittsburg con-
cerns, or be divided among different
bidders.
Cleveland.—By a unanimous vote, the
207 members of the Lake Seaman’s
{union decided to zo on strike here.
ROBBERS DIG TUNNEL
10 GET TREASURE
Subway Under Bus.ness Houses
to Reach Bank Vaults.
ESCAPE WITH THE PLUNDER
Robbers Had Been Hard at Work for
Several Days in Driving
the Tunnel.
Suffolk, Va.—Tunneling their way
under four other buildings to reach
the vaults of a bank, robbers gained
admission to the Bank of Suffolk,
carried away with them a large
amount of loose currency, gold and
silver, and succeeded in escaping.
Although the loss was discovered
by the officials of the bank Monday
morning no notification thereof was
given to the police until late Tues-
day.
It is thought the thieves must have
worked at least ten days before they
succeeded in reaching the bank by
their underground course. It is be-
lieved that they finished their job and
made their entrance into the bank
either on Sunday or Sunday night.
They attempted to break open the
vault, but did not succed in this. They
secured about $1,500. The police
have no clew.
Inside the tunnel were found empty
bottles, cigar stumps and bits of
food, which make it evident that they
must have spent most of their time
in the tunnel. Employes in one of
the stores under which the robbers
tunneled say that they have observed
some peculiar noises beneath them
during the nast week
This is the first bank robbery in
Suffold since 1876, when “Big Frank”
McCoy, Tom McCormick and another
were chased and run down in the Dis-
mal Swamp. As they were wanted
in Delaware, however, on a more Sser-
ious charge they were given up by.
the Virginia authorities.
PRESIDENT AT BALL GAME
Learns a Few Things About “Spit
Balls’ and Eats Peanuts.
Washington.—President Taft went
out to the baseball game Monday, saw
Washington walloped, 8 to 4, by the
Boston American leaguers, was ini-
tiated into the mysteries of the ‘spit
ball,” shared a five-cent bag of pea-
nuts with Vice President Sherman,
who sat in the box next to him, wish-
ed hard for Washington to win and
said sadly that he hoped he wasn’t a
“hoodoo.”
No one in Washington could recall
just when it was that a President of
the United States last attended a ball
game in this city. With all of his
love for outdoor life and sports, Mr.
Roosevelt did not go within the ball
grounds during his seven years at the
White House.
Vice President Sherman, a dyed-in-
the-wool “fan,” kept a detailed score
of the game, supplying the President
with such statistical information as
he asked for every now and then.
MILLIONS SMUGGLED
Prominent Women Said to Be Back
of Offer to Loeb.
New York.—Further investigation
of the systematic smuggling of Paris
gowns into this port led the custom
house officials to declare the syndi-
cate had probably smuggled in $1,000,- |
000 worth of goods each year for the
last 10 years, thus defrauding the gov-
ernment out of $600,000 annually in
customs duty.
Tfforts to avoid criminal prosecu-
tion and to shield from publicity the
prominent women for whom the
$55,000 worth ®of recently seized
gowns were intended resulted in the
offer by reputable attorneys represent-
ing anonymous clients of $260,000 to
the government to drop the investiga-
tion. The federal grand jury ¢s in-
vestigating the’ case and it is inti-
mated the identity of the smugglers
will be revealed. *
COAL ROADS ENJOINED
Must Not Increase Freight Rates in
West Virginia.
Richmond, Va.—Court action es-
topped the proposed increase in
freight rates on coal shipped from the
New River and Kanawha districts of
West Virginia to lake ports.
On the petition of the Cabin Creek
Consolidated Coal Company of Kana-
wha county, W. Va., United States
Circuit Judge Goff issued an injunec-
tion restraining the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railroad from filing a schedule
with the Inter-State Commerce Com-
mission increasing the rate.
Settlement With Venezuela.
Washington, D. C.—President Taft
sent to Congress a report hv Secre-
tary Knox regarding the settlement
of the Venezuelan claims necotiated
by William I. Buchanan. To hear
the claims submitted to the arbitral
tribunal at The Hague that tribunal
will meet on February 13, 1910. Ven-
ezuela has selected Senor Roque
Saens Pana of the Argentine Fepub-
lic as the judge to represent her at
The Hague.
Steel Wire Price Cut.
Cleveland.—The American Steel
and Wire Company announced ~ cut
of 10 cents per 100 pounds, or $2 a
ton, in the prices of all classes of
steel wire. The plants of the Amer-
ican Steel and Wire (Company are
now running at about 75 per cent of.
capacity, and it is thought that this
reduction will stimulate business.
The ant can draw twenty times its
own weight—and so can a mustard
| plaster
plaster.
FIVE MEN MEET DEATH
Steamer Collides With Ice Floe and
Almost Immediately Goes
to the Bottom.
Mackinaw City, Mich. —Five men
were drowned when the steamer Eber
ward collided with a heavy ice floe
and sank five miles west of here.
The dead—John Hern, James Perry,
John Meberoth, Kinney McKay and
an unknown deck hand.
Captain T. LeMay, First Mate A.
P. Galine, Chief Engineer Frank Bald-
win, Second Engineer S. R. Shipman,
Charles Lester, Frank Gutch, August
Palmer, John Winterhaler, A. Quinn
and Mrs. Winterhaler escaped in a
yawl boat.
The boat went to the bottom in one
of the deepest spots of, the Straits of
Mackinac and will be a total loss te
gether with her cargo of corn. She
was bound from Milwaukee to Port
Huron, Mich. So completely was the
bow of the steamer shattered by the
collision with the ice floe that she
was flooded from stern to stern al
most instantly.
Five of her crew were caught with-
out warning asleep in their bunks and
went to the bottom with the sinking
steamer. The survivors, who happen-
ed to be on deck at the time of the
accident, had barely time to float a
yawl boat. They were picked up by
the steamer Kennington.
DIES AT MARRIAGE ALTAR
Miss Hart of Washington, Pa., Ex
pires in Colorado.
Denver,
way from Washington, Pa., for health:
and also to become the bride of W.
H. Ferguson, one of the leading attom
neys of Colorado, Miss Ethel Leona
Hart, dropped dead at Boulder, Colo,
ust as she was being led to the altar.
Miss Hart is the daughter of Birt
Hart, a former member of the Penn-
sylvania legislature. She came here
about a week ago. ’
Just as the wedding march was be-
ing played the young woman was
stricken with an attack of heart trom-
ble due to her excitement attendant
to the marriage and died within a
short time.
The body was taken to her old
home in Washington by Mr. Ferguson
for burial.
TILLMAN CALLS ON TAFT
South Carolina Senator Visits White
House for the First Time in
Séven Years.
Washington, D. C.—Senator B. R.
Tillman of South Carolina paid &
long- deferred call at the White House
today and incidentally got his first
glimpse of Booker T. Washington, who
was waiting to see the President.
This was Tillman’s first visit to the
executive office in seven years. He
Taft.
“I came,” said Senator Tillman, “to
see if the office seekers had fried any
fat off the President, but they haven’t
fried a pound.” -
Asked why he had not visited the
White House in the past seven years
Senator Tillman replied:
“I waited until a gentleman got
here.”
President Makes Nominations.
Washington.—The President made
the following nominations: Envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipo-
of Towa; collector of customs for the
district of Miami, Ohio, George W.
Huntley; citizens to be assistant sur-
geons in the navy: John G. Ziegler, of
Pennsylvania; Glenmore F. Clark, of
Kentucky; William M. Kerr, of New
York; George A. Riker, of New York;
Thares Harlan, District of Columbia.
' Pennsy Buys N. & W. Stock."
New York. — Announcement was
made in this city that Kuhn, Loeb &
Company have sold approximately
$19,000,000 worth of the stock of the
to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany. This, together with the pre-
vious holdings of the Pennsylvania
and its subsidiaries, gives the Penn-
sylvania possession of about $37,500,
000, or 37% per cent of Norfolk &
Western stock and practical control.
To Buy Waters-Pierce.
Houston, Tex.—It was authoritively
announced here that the Houston Oil
Company will soon take over the
Texas property of the Waters-Pierce
Company. Official announcement is
expected within a few days. The
Houston Oil Company, which is cap*
italized at $30,000,000, last Friday
passed out of the receiver’s hands.
The company will maintain its head-
quarters in Houston.
Will Welcome Japs.
San Francisco.—Plans for entertain-
ing the officers and men of the Jap-
anese training cruisers Azo and Soya,
were discussed at a meeting in Mayor
Taylor’s office. Nothing will be left
undone to give the Oriental guests a
welcome that they will not soon for-
get.
The United States court of appeals
at New Orleans denied a rehearing in
the railroad rate cases of Alabama,
recently decided in favor of the state.
As a result, the roads must secure in-
tervention by the supreme court of
the United States or obey the law.
Visible Supply of Grain.
New York.—The visible supply of
grain in the United States Saturday,
{April 17, as compiled by the New
York® produce exchange, was as foi-
lows: ‘Wheat 32,628.000 bushels, de-
crease 2,234,000 bushels; corn, 5,051,-
000 bushels, decrease 1.260,000 bush-
els; oats 8,916,000 bushels; decrease
487,000 bushels; rye 522,000 bushels,
decrease 80,000 bushels; barley 3,716,
000 bushels, increase 33,000 bushels.
The visibly supply of wheat in Canada
last Saturday was 9,050,000 bushels,
an increase of 303,000 bushels.
Colo.—Traveling all the
was cordially greeted by President .
tentiary to Chile, Thomas C. Dawson, -
Norfolk & Western Railway Company”,
on their way to visit American ports,
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