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Cities on
Fires Break Out In Ruins and Add to the Destruc
tionHundreds of Lives Lost and Many
Persons Injured Losses Enormous.
CITY'S WATER WORKS WRECKED
The City Hall, Costing $7,000,000,
It in Ruins. Magnificent Palace
Hotel Burned.
FALLING WALLS KILL MANY
Frantic and Homeless People Throng
Streets and Parks While Many
Fled to Other Places.
Earthquake and fire have almost
destroyed the city of San Francisco
and a number of towns along the
Pacific Coast. The fire which broke
out in the ruins of San Francisco
got beyond control owing to the lack
of water and the flames spread over
three-fourths of the city. The num
ber of lives lost cannot be accurately
stated, but will not exceed 600. The
property loss Is estimated at from
20o,ooo,0()o to $300,000,000.
It was 5:13 o'clock on the morn
ing of the 18th when a terrific earth
. Btaoek rocked the- whole "city and sur
rounding country. One shock appar
ently lasted two minutes and there
was almost immediate i collapse of
flimsy structures all over the city.
The water supply was cut off and
when fires broke out in various sec
tions there was nothing to do but al
low the buildings to burn. Tele
graph and telephone communication
was shut off for a time. The West
ern Union was put completely out
of business' and the Postal was the
only company that managed to get
wire out of the city. About 10
o'clock the Postal was forced to sus
pend. Electric power w'as stopped: and
street cars did not run. Railroads
and ferry bents also ceased opera
tions. Fires raged all day and the
fire department was powerless to
do anything except dynamite build
ings. Following the first shook there was
another within five minutes, but not
nearly so severe. Three hours later
thore was a slight quake.
Reports from districts outside of
San Francisco indicate widespread
damage. S.n Jose. 50 miles south,
lost many buildings and from 15 to
20 persons were killed. The annex
of the Vendome hotel collapsed and
fires broke out. Stanford univer
sity and Palo Alto suffered greatly.
A message sent "April 20, 2 p. m.
says: The fire is now positively
stated to be under control, with the
probability that one quarter of the
-.city-lying west of Franklin street, and
known as the western addition, north
ward to the Presidio, will be saved.
The stand made at VanNess avenue
was generally successful, the flames
crossing that avenue to the west in
only a few places.
The following message was receiv
ed at Washington from Gen. Funston.
In command of the Federal troops at
San Francisco:
"About 300.000 people homeless.
Everything quiet. Troops are co
operating with the police. Famine
seems inevitable. All large supply
stores have been burned. The most
energetic efforts from outside can
only prevent frightful suffering. I
request that everything possible be
done in the way of food supplies,
tentage and blankets. No more
troops needed tit present."
At Sanford many of the handsome
buildings were demolished, and two
persons were killed. One of them
was Junius Robert Hnnnu, of Brad
ford, Pa., and the other was Otto
Curts, -a fireman. Six other students
are lying in the Palo Alto hospital
with bruises, cuts and internal in
juries, all California students.
The court house at Redwood City
and other buildings collapsed.
Menlo Park, Burlingame and other
fashionable places suffered greatly.
Thousands of people are homeless
and many are huddled in the parks
and public squares beside the house
hold goods they were able to save.
The city is under martial law and
all the downtown streets are patrolled
by cavalry and Infantry. Details of
troops are also guarding the banks.
Most of the principal buildings have
already been destroyed and others
RAILROAD FINED
Burlington Pays $40,000 and Each of
Two Officials 10,000.
The Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy . railroad, Darius Miller and
Claude G. Burnham, officials of the
road, were found guilty in the Feder
al court at Chicago, of granting re
bates In violation of law. The rail
road corporation was fined $40,000
and the two officials $10,000 each.
The fines were paid at once, the
defendants going to the office of
Vnited States Marshal Ames, where
a check was made out for the full
amount of the three fines.
First Steel Passenger Car.
The first of the experimental steel
passenger cars which the Pennsyl
vania railroad is building at the- Al
toona shops has been turned over to
the motive power and transportation
department for trial. The steel cars
were ordered several months agd
and for a time the Pennsylvania held
Its 1906 passenger equipment order
until It could be seen how the steel
cars would work, but the demand for
new passenger cars was so urgent
that the usual wooden cars with steel
frames were contracted for.
Destroys
Pacific Coast
are in imminent danger. Over all
the scene of desolation hangs a
dense pall of smoke.
The entire district surrounded by
Vallejo, Howard, East and Sansome
streets, embracing practically the
entire wholesale portion of the city,
has been swept clean by the fire.
Also the district bounded by Market,
Eighth and Folsom streets, has been
devastated. In the latter district
were included most of the city's fin
est and most substantial buildings.
The area covered by the (lames up to
nightfall of the first day was about
eight square miles, or several hund
red city blocks. Most of the build
ings untouched by the (lames wore
greatly damaged by the earth
shocks.
ReporU from cities near San Fran
cisco show the dest ruction was gen
eral. Santa Rosa, tin miles north,
was damaged to the extent of $1,000,
000. At Napa, many buildings were
shattered and the loss will amount to
$300,000: Xo loss of life Is reported.
At Vallejo the damage was slight in
comparison with thai suffered In
other cilles. The loss will be about
$10,000.
News comes from Niles, a small
town in the Santa Clara valley, about
15 miles from San .lose, stating that
the earthrpiake demolished the State
Insane asylum a! Agnews, near San
Jose, bnring many of the Inmates in
the ruins. It. is stated that San Jose
suffered severely. This news was
brought by an automobile from San
Jose to points where wire communi
cation had been established with liOS
Angeles temporarily.
A message from Salinas, at 11
o'clock at night gave the following
Informal ion:
One hundred and twenty bodies
have been taken out of the Agnew
insane asylum near San Jose, and
thore are probably 150 more corpses
in the ruins. The magnificent struc
ture was demolished.
Kight dead' Italian? wore taken out
of an Italian hotel at San Jose. At.
that place the Presbyterian church,
St. Pal rick's cathedral and the High
school were destroyed. The new hall
of justice at San Jose. just, compil
ed at a cost of $;:ri),noo, was demol
ished. All hut Iwo of the iiniveisily build
ings at l.eland Stanford are in ruins.
At Ioma Priola. IS miles from San
ta Cruz, a mine house slipped on the
side of a mountain burying 10 men
in the ruins.
Not a town around San Francisco
has escaped damage by eathquake.
At Redwood City nil business build
ings are in ruins. The now Carnegie
library is totally destroyed.
At Alameda, the terra colta and
sewerpipe plant of Clark & Sons is
in ruins. The huge chimney caved
In. crushing the machinery beneath.
The employes had several narrow es
capes from death as a result of the
earthquake.
. According to Mr. Duffy there 'were
about 300 persons killed In the des
truction of the three hotels of Santa
Rosa, and not fewer than 500 in the
whole town of Santa Rosa. The busi
ness section of Santa Rosa collapsed
inside of live minutes. Then the fire
burned Fourth street from one end
to the other, starting at each end and
meeting in the middle, thus sweeping
over the ruins and burning the im
prisoned people. Santa Rosa is 75
miles north of San Francisco.
Latest reports show that 20 persons
were killed by the earthquake' in San
Jose. The Hall of Records is des
troyed, as well as the Hall of Justice.
All the main buildings are damaged.
R. H. Tucker, in charge of the Lick
observatory, says:
"No damage was done to the in
struments or the buildings of the ob
servatory by the earthquake.
California has suffered from seis
mic disturbance, more or less, as far
back as history makes record. In
100 years it is estimated that the
subterranean forces have been made
manliest 200 times, but the combin
ed effect in that period is not com
parable with the result of this ap
palling catastrophe.
It is a matter of dispute whether
the convulsion of ixos was as great
a calamity as that, of 1S72. In March
of the latter year there was au up
heaval in the Inyo valey which car
ried devastation over an area of
hundreds of square miles. Ten
small villages were destroyed and the
loss of life was between 30 and 50.
FIRE IN PHILIPPINE
Towns Destroyed and Thousands of ;
People Homeless.
Fire has swept the town of Mari- J
quina, in Rizal province. Many
thousands of persons are homeless ,
and starving. Two thousand dwell-;
ings are in ruins. The government i
is rushing assistance to the sufferers, j
Fire also destroyed Pasil, near the I
town of Cebu. Two hundred dwell- j
Ings were burned and many persons
are homeless. '
Degree for King Edward.
King Edward VII., of England,
through Sir Mortimer Durand. his
ambassador, will receive the degree
of doctor of laws from the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania at the univer
sity's observance of the bl-centenary
of the birth of Benjamin Franklin.
Dowie Gets Injunction.
Dowie has executed a neat flank
iiovemenl on bis enemies by secur
ity 'against their interfering with his
return to Zion City and prohibiting
ant' demonstrations against him.
MILLIONS FOR SUFFERERS
Quick Respnse to the Needs of
the Unfortunate on the Coast.
PROMPT RELIEF OFFERINGS
Congress Votes $1,000,000 and the
People in All Sections Subscribe
Liberally to the Fund.
Operating through the army, the
nHvy, the marine corps and the rev
enue cutler service, the Federal gov
ehnment moved with commendable
promptness and energy to relieve the
appalling distress attending the un
precedented catastrophe at. San
Francisco and in the surrounding
cities and towns.
Congress appropriated ' $1,000,000
available immediately foi relief of
the sufferers.
The secretary of the treasury au
thorized the telegraphic transfer of
$10,000,0(10 from the sub-treasury at
New York to San Francisco. The
cash will be deposited in New York
and immediately paid out on the or
der of San Francisco hanks entitled
to the same.
The war department officials have
been making estiinaies of the losses
sustained by the government. The
quartermaster's stores in San Fran
cisco wore in rented buildings and
the loss in goods stored there by the
quartermaster's department is rough
ly estimated at about $3,500,000. The
loss of the commissary supplies is
estimated at $200,000.
Among the larger contributions
were the following:
Mystic Shriners, $100,000; Andrew
Carnegie, $100,000; James D. Phelan,
ex-Mayor of San Francisco, $1,000,
000; State of Massachusetts, $500,
000; Canada, $100,000: . W. Astor.
$100,000; Standard Oil Co., $100,000;
V. S. Steel Corporation, $100,000;
Chicago, $250,000; C. J. Barrage,
$lo0,000: Woodmen of America. $100,
000; Philadelphia, $100,000; EL It.
Harrlman, $200,000, and hundreds of
other gave In sums of smaller
amount.
A subscription or $10,000 for the
relief of the San Francisco sufferers
was made by Robert Lebaudy, the
French philanthropist, through the
French ambassador.
John D. Rockefeller authorized his
agents In San Francisco to expend
$100,000 for the relief of the homeless
and destitute of that city.
Ladonbcrg. Thalmann & Co., of
New York, telegraphed to Thornwell
Mullally, at San Francisco, to place
at the disposal of Mayor Schmltz the
sum of $75, (Hio as a contribution to
the relief fund from the I'nited Rail
ways Investment Co., Ladonbcrg,
Thalmann & Co . Patrick Calhoun, C. j
Sidney Siiepard and Ford, Bacon &
Davis.
hazard Frors and J. & W. Selig- j
man have, each subscribed $10,000 i
for the San Francisco sufferers. j
Brown Bros. & Co., No. 59 Wall ;
street. New York, subscribed $10,000
for the earthquake sufferers.
M. Guggenheim's Sons notified
Con. Funston that they had contri
buted $50.ooo for the relief of the
San Francisco sufferers.
From ail parts of the country re-
ports, of prompt and liberal offerings
are "coming in. Over $iil,000 was j
raised in Pittsburg the day following
the disaster. ;
PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS
Charles P. Donnelly, of Philadelphia, i
Elected Chairman.
Charles P. Donnelly, of Philadel
phia, was elected chairman of the
Pennsylvania State Democratic com
mittee by acclamation to succeed
State Senator J. K. P. Hall, of Ridg
way, at its annual meeting. The
committee also decided to hold the
confirmation of candidates for Cov
er and other State officers at Har
rlsburg on June 27. State head
quarters will be transferred from
Harrlshurg to Philadelphia. The
following were elected division
chairmen, who constitute the State
executive committee:
John Waller, of Lebanon; E. S.
Doty of Bedford; William J. Bren-
nen, of Pittsburg; W. H. Kneib. of ;
Erie: D. J. Driscoll. of St. Marys;
W. T. Creasy, of Catawissa; James j
I. Blakeslee, of Mauch Chunk; Frank;
B. Rhodes, of Media. I
EARTHQUAKES IN MICHIGAN
One Man Killed in a Mine Buildings
Rock and Chimneys Fall.
An earthquake shock, which was
felt distinctly throughout Hancock
county, Mich., and was most pro
nounced in the Quincy mine, killed
Timothy Leary and Injured four oth
ers while working one mile below the
earth's surface in that property.
In numerous t" .ildings rocked,
chimneys fell and dishes rattled, ter
rifying the citizens and causing
scores of men, women and children
to rush from their inmes. Many
miners on the day shift refused to
go below again.
Postal Clerks Rescued.
Eleven postal clerks, all alive,
were taken from the debris of the
San Francisco postoffice. All at first
were thought to be dead, but it was
found that although they were bur
ied in the stones, every one was
alive. They had been for three days
without food or water. Atl the mall
in the postoffice was saved.
Chinese Riots Were Local.
Bishop J. W. Bashford of the
Methodist Episcoiml church, who has
just returned from China, presents
what may be regarded as an authori
tative and unprejudiced account of
conditions in that country. Traveling
5,000 miles through China since the
American boycott was instituted, he
did not witness a Bingle manifestation
of hostility on the part of the natives.
Local causes, he declares, were re
sponsible for the three riots which
have occurred in the empire during
the past year.
ROAST NEGROES TO DEATH
Mob at Springfield, Mo.,. Takes Awful
Vengeance on Two Prisoners in
County Jail.
A mob of 3,000 men took Horace
Duncan and James Copeland, negroes
from the county jail, at Springfield,
Mo., and hanged them to the goddess
of liberty on the court house. A
fire was then built under them and
they were roasted to death. The men
were charged with assaulting Mabel
Edwards, but it is said they were
probably Innocent.
The mob further vented Its fury on
the blacks by taking from the jail
William Allen charged with the mur
der of O. M. Rouatk last January.
Duncan and Copeland were sus
pended from telegraph poles In the
public square Sal unlay night. The
mob, to add to the horror of the oc
casion, kindled bonfires under the
negroes and they were slowly roasted
to death,
Allen, protesting his innocence,
was taken from his ceil early Sunday
morning, forced to ascend a statue
called "Justice" and told to jump.
The rope which had been placed
about his nock, the other end bavin?
been fastened to the tower, broke as
Allen's weight fell on It, and the
negro dropped Into the pyre contain
ing the charred bodies of his former
companions in prison, Duncan and
Copeland. Allen was taken up the
tower again and compelled to jump.
This time his captors were more suc
cessful in their work, and the nogrl)
slowly strangled to death.
The sheriff appealed to Gov. Folk
and six companies of State Militia
were sent to Springfield to prevent
further trouble.
TEN KILLED IN RIOT
Controversy Over Proper Date for
Easter Ends in Slaughter.
Ton Greeks are reported killed In a
riot at the little station of Gurley,
Ark., 40 miles south of Helena, Ark.
Others were injured. Gurley 13 at the
end of the construction work on the
Memphis, Helena & Louisiana rail
road, on which the Greeks are engag
ed. The 'rioting began in a dispute be
tween Roman Catholics and adherents
of the Greek Church as to the date on
which Easier should he celebrated.
Sunday afternoon shooting was
general, and seven men were killed.
This morning a message was received
from Sheriff Kildeens saying that with
his force of 20 deputies he could not
quel! the riot, and asking that Gov
ernor Davis be requested to send
troops. He' added that three more
men had boon killed. The Governor
ordered a companv of militia to Gur
ley. IMMIGRATION RECORO
Arrival from Russia During March
Were 24.202.
Tho total immigration to the
Vnited Slates from all countries
during the month of March, mod,
according to a statement issued by
the immigration bureau was 133,215,
or an increase of 70 per cent, over
March, moi. The number arriving
In March. 1005, is given as
120.932. The number debarred dur
ing the same month was C50, an In
crease of 40 per cent, over mm.
The Russian immigra'ion to this
country during March, mofi, was 24.
202, an increase of 75 per cent, over
1901, the immigration for March,
1005, being 1,318. t
For the six months ended March
31. moo, tho immigration from all
countries was 4t3,31i;, an increase of
3S per cent, over a similar period In
1904. For the same period the im
migration from Russia increased 40
per cent, those arriving numbering
81,733.
PACKER'S TRIAL A FARCE
President Roosevelt Sends Special
Message to Congress.
In a special message delivered to
Congress President Roosevelt declar
ed that the result of the recent trial
of the beef packers in Chicago was
a "miscarriage of jiutlce," and that
the interpretation placed by Judge
Otis Humphrey on the will of Con
gress "is such as to make that will
absolutely abortive."
The message, which is most sen
sational in character, ts based largely
on a letter to the President from
Attorney General W. H. . Moody, in
which the latter reviews the pro
ceedings of the case of the govern
ment against the packers.
Mexican War Veteran Dead.
Captain Upton H. Herbert, one of
the few surviving veterans o the
Mexican war died at Alexandria, Va.,
after an operation to remove a piece
of shell or bullet that has at times
made him almost - a cripple. He
commanded the Fairfax Company in
the fifties, and during the Civil war
had chaige of Mount Vernon mansion
and grounds.
New Record in Wireless Telegraphy.
A wireless telegraph message
which traveled 2, MIS miles was re
ceived at sea by the steamer Moltke,
which arrived at New York. The
message was sent from the Poldti
wireless station on the English coast,
and contained 83 words.
ANOTHER NEGRO KILLED
Young Man Held Up on His Way
Home Shoots Assailant. '
At Springfield, Mo., Leslie Peters,
10 years old, shot and killed Ralph
Burns, one of two negroes who at
tacked him while he was escorting a
young woman to her home. Peters
drew a pistol and fired at the ne
groes, who fled, as he supposed. Ha
ran after them, not knowing he had
hit one, and stumbled over the dead
body of the man he had shot. - The
other escaped.
TO PSOSECUTE RAILROADS
Department of Justice Sucures
Facts from Companies' Books.
HAS EVIDENCE IN HAND
Decisions of 8upreme Court In Paper
and Tobacco Trust Cases Aid
Attorney General.
Prosecutions of the anthracite and
bituminous coal trust have been de
cided on by the Department of Jus
tice. Attorney General Moody engaged
Charles E. Hughes of New York and
Alexander Simpson, Jr., of Philadel
phia, to conduct the cases. Hughes
was the man who conducted tha
searching into the Insurance scan
dals. The coal-carrying roads, which
own the anthracite coal m'ines, will
bo defendants in the case. These
roads include the Pennsylvania,
Baltimore & Ohio, Reading. Lehigh
Valley, Delaware & Hudson. Dela
ware, Lackawanna & Western,
Erie, New York, Ontario & Western,
New York, Susquehanna & Western
and the Central "Railroad of New
Jersey. Proceedings will also lie
brought against the different roads
In the bituminous coal fields.
This is the first action of the De
partment of Jiutlce under the di
rections of the Supreme Court In the
paper and tobacco trust cases. In
which the court held that corpora
tions were not granted Immunity from
punishment because the officials of
the corporations furnished evidence
on which prosecutions could be
based, and that these officials must
produce the books of the corpora
tions. in the announcement of the Depart
ment, of Justice relating to the selec
tion of the two lawyers to conduct
tho case it is admitted that the
Government now has in its possession
evidence which will enable the Gov
ernment to go Into court and show
that tho coal roads have engaged In
the sale of coal in Inter-State com
merce, which is forbidden by law,
especially as there has been discrimi
nations against mine owners not in
the trust. The two lawyers have
been engaged to advise with the At
torney General and actually to con
duct, the prosecution which will be
brought.
TANGLES UP PROPERTY
i
i Supreme Court Decision Makes Il
legal 500 Divorces in' Chicago.
It is estimated by Chicago lawyers
that the decision of the supreme
court of the I'nited StateE holding
illegal all divorces, except . ..in both
parties to the suit resided within tho
i same jurisdiction, will make illegal
1 jito divcrces that have boon granted
: in that city alone, and pave the way
1 for all manner of complications in
j the next generation over inheritance,
! and the rights to property,
j Several prominent attorneys de
i claw that the decision means chaos,
In regard to the title to personal
; property. Complications will arise,
j particularly In the cases where men
i who married after obtaining dl
! vorces now held to be illegal. Prop
I erty left by men so divorced and so
' remarried must go to children of the
first marriage, and cannot bo held by
children born of the subsequent mar
j Wage.
i LADRONES MAKE ATTACK
Three Members of Luzon Constabu
lary and One Outlaw Killed.
The headquarters of the Philippine
constabulary at Molos, Island of
Luzon, was attacked several days
ago by a band of Ladrones. Three
native members of the constabulary
and one Ladrone were killed. The
affair creates no alarm here, where
it is regarded as merely an incident
of the effort to establish order in the
islands through the employment of a
native conlabulary.
Similar conflicts biVweem local
i outlaw bands are of more or less fre
j quent occurrence.
j WARRANTS FOR DOWIE'S ARREST
- The Prophet Must Kesp Away from
! Zion City. '
j ' Overseer Wilbur G. Vollva.
j swore out warrants for the arrest of
I John Alexander Dowie charging him
with three serious crimes,
i ' An ultimatum has been served on
i Dowie that he must remain away
from Zion or the warrants, which are
in readiness, will be served. The
warrants, drafted by Judge y. V.
Barnes, accuse Dowie of violation of
the banking laws, obtaining money
under false pretenses and fraud.
la a formal announcement. Dea
con Fielding H. Wilhlte and his wife.
Deacon John Lewis and Deacon
James Peters were expelled from
the church and banished from Zion
City for remaining loyal to Dowie.
Boiler Explosion Kills Three.
i Thiee members of the crew of the
British battleship Princess of Wales
I were killed and four were Injured by
a boiler explosion while the vessel
I was undergoing her speed trials.
The connecting rod bolts on the high
pressure engine and the top cylinder
coverings were fractured.
Federal Official Indicted.
Fred O. Murray, recently appoint
ed collector of the port of Buffalo,
and former treasurer of Erie county,
was Indicted by the grand jury on a
charge of stealing from the county of
Erie sums aggregating $38,870 and
receiving stolen property in a like
amount. In all, 17 indictments were
handed in by the grand "Jury, which
has been investigating alleged graft
ing in connection with the purchase
by the county of the North street
cemetery as a site for the Sixty-fifth
regiment armory.
THREE 8TRIKERS KILLED
Fatal Results of Battle With Officer
at Wlndber, Pa.
Rioting, ending in bloodshed, was
the climax of the troubles between the
striking miners and the officers of the
law at Wlndber, Pa. The indignation
of the strikers at the arrest of soma
of their comrades blazed forth Into
fury that resulted in a conflict with
deputy sheriffs, in which three were
killed and at least twelve seriously
Injured. Twenty charged with re
sponsibility for the riot are under ar
rest, closely guarded, and Wlndber ia
now practically under martial law.
The dead: Mike lonovan, Steve
Slonovich, Maro Dentzgo, Paul
Zllls.
Seriously injured: Eugene Delaney,
chief engineer of tho coal company;
Charles Foster, 12 years old: shot
In the abdomen; Charles Stizak, shot
In the leg; Four Foreigners, wounded
by bullets and carried away by the
rioters.
MORE KEARSARGE DEATHS
Court Is Appointed by Admiral Evans
- to Investigate Explosion.
Two more deaths were reported
to the navy department as the result
of the explosion on the battleship
Kearsarge. Frederick Thomas Fish
er, chief gunner's male, died Sunday
night, and James S. McArdle, elec
trician, first clnss, died Monday.
Hear Admiral Evans has cabled the
navy department that be has appoint
ed a court of Inquiry, consisting of
Rear Admiral Browuson, Capt. Ing
ersoll and Lieut. -Commander Brad
shaw, to investigate the accident.
SOME EARTHQUAKE RECORDS.
Year. Place. Ma Lost.
iru.1 Teddo I90 0CD
ITIl l'Bkln U50UO
ITM t'nlro 40 000
lr.Vi Matron A. 00U
lr'.T Uilitn 41 000
111 rnmla 18 000
MM Julian 10001)
V.iH St. I'lnrre, Mnrtliiliiia DO 000
llH Keruliana, Turkoman 10000
HI". India 15000
!!Kl". Calabria. Italy 270
liili Hlmmakalia, Cancanla WW
li" Tamaznla, Moxlno 100
Sentenced to Jail.
Judge Humphrey in the United
States circuit court at Springfield,
111., declared Col. James Hamilton
Lewis, corporation counsel of Chica
go, In cDntempt of court in the Alton
water works case, and sentenced Col.
Lewis to tiO days' imprisonment in
the Sangamon county jail. The sent
ence is to be remitted If Col. Lewis
within the next five days will dis
miss certain suits which he brought
in the Madison county circuit court.
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
The senate confirmed the following
appointments: Charles H. Keating,
Ohio, deputy auditor for the post
office department: postmasters:
Pennsylvania A. J. Sutton, Smith
field; M. K. Strawn, Star Junction.
The President sent the following
nominations to tho senate: Major
general to be lieutenant general,
Henry C. Corblu; associate justice of
the supreme court of Oklahoma,
Milton C. Oarber. Postmasters:
Pennsylvania H. D. Patch, W'ilmer
iling; C. W. Houser, Duryea; H. S.
Williams, Fairehance. Ohio C. M.
Ingram, Marysvllle.
The Supremo court of the United
Slates dismissed for want of juris
diction the case of J. N. Searle vs.
the state of Georgia, involving the
validity of the Georgia state law pro
hibiting the running of freight trains
on Sunday.
In the supreme court Attorney Ed
mund F. Richardson of Denver, Col.,
entered a motion to advance the
hearing in the cases of Charles H,
Mover, W. D. Haywood and George
A. Pet.tibone, in custory in Idaho on
the charge of assassinating former
Gov. Steunenberg of that state.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Henry II. Rogers, or the Standard
Oil company, has presented the Gran
view institute, a hospital at Oil City,
Pa., for tile treatment of consump
tives, with a check for $1,000.
The stockholders of the New York:
Central & Hudson River Railroad
Company voted to increase the capi
tal stock of the company from $150,
000,000 to .$250,000,000. The old
board of directors was re-elected.
The House passed the Shartel
bill authorizing national banks to
loan to Individual depositors 10 per
cent of their capital stock and 10
per cent, of their surplus, providing
the total Bhall not exceed 20 per
cent, of the capital stock.
The religious troubles between the
catholics and Mariavits. the new
catholic sect. In many places In Po
land are assuming a serious phase.
Marconi Wireless Telegraph reports
gross earnings of $32,209 for last
year, an increase of over 100 per
cent, as compared with 1904.
President Wants Insurance Law
President Roosevelt transmitted to
Congress an Important message re
lating to Insurance legislation. Ac
companying the message were the
report and recommendations of the
insurance convention held In Chicago
last February. Among the recom
mendations Is the draft or a bill
which Congress is urged to enact in
to law, with such amendments as Its
wisdom may suggest.
Boat Struck a Snag.
Tho big side-wheel excursion
steamer Louisiana, carrying 400
passengers, struck a snag In the Ohio
river near Evansvllle, Incl., and will
bo a total loss. The passengers were
panic stricken, but by running the
boat at full speed into the bank ail
were rescued.
The new Christian church at Fol
lansbee, W.' Va., was dedicated.' The
sermon was preached by President T.
E. Cramlett, of Bethany college. Rev.
Herbert Smith is the uastor.
The Ohols sf Faint.
' Fifty yean ago a srelt-palnted hems
was a rare sight; to-day an unpalnted
bouse is rarer, if people knew the real
value of paint a bouse In need of paint
would be "scarcer than hen's teeth."
There was some excuse for our fore
fathers. Many of them lived in bouses
hardly worth preserving; they knew,
nothing about paint, except that it was
pretty; and to get a bouse painted was
a serious and costly job. The differ
ence between their case and ours la
that when they wanted paint It hnd to
be made for them; whereas when we
need paint we can go to the nearest
good store and buy it, In any color or
quality ready for use. We know, or
ought to know by this time, that to
let a house stand unpalnted is most
rostly, while a good coat of paint, ap
plied iu season, is the best of invest
ments. If we put off the brief visit of
the painter we shall In due time have
the carpenter coming to pay us a long
visit at our expense. Lumber Is con
stantly getting scarcer, dearer and
poorer, while prepared paints are get
ting plontler, better and less expensive.
It Is a short-sighted plan to let the val
uable lumber of our houses go to pieces
for the want of paint.
For the man thnt need paint there
are two forms from which to choose;
one is the old form, still favored by cer
tain unprogresslve painters who have
not yet caught up with the times lead
and oil; the other Is the ready-for-use
paint found in every up-to-date store.
The first must be mixed with oil,
driers, turpentine and colors before it
is ready for use; the other need only
be stirred up in the can and it M
ready to go on. To buy lead and oil,
colors, etc., and mix them into a paint
by hand is, in this twentieth century,
about the same as refusing to ride in a
trolley car because one's grandfather
had to walk or ride on horseback:
when be wanted to go anywbere.
Prepared paints have been on the mar
ket less than fifty years, but thoy have
proved on the whole so Inexpensive, bo
convenient and so good that the con
sumption to-day is something over six
ty million gallons a year and still grow
ing. Unless they had been In the mala
satisfactory, it stands to reason there
would have been no such steady,
growth In their use.
Mixed paints are necessarily cheaper,
than paint of the band-mixed kind, be-'
cause they are made in a large way byi
machinery from materials bought ia
large quantities by the manufacturer.
They are necessarily better than paint
mixed by hand, because they are mora
finely ground and more thoroughly,
mixed and because there Is le'i chance
of the raw materials In them being
adulterated. No painter, however care
ful be may be, can ever b sure that
the materials he buys are not adulter
ated, but the large paint manufacturer
does know In everv case, tiasaiise
everything he buys goes through the"
chemist s hands before be accepts it.
Of course there are poor paints ok
the market (which are generally cheap
paints). So there Is poor flour, poor
cloth, poor soap; but because of that
do we go back to the hand-mill, tha
hand-loom and the soap-kettle of tha
backwoods? No, we use our common
sense in choosing goods. We find out
the reputation of the different brands
of flour, cloth and soap; we take ac
count of the standing of the dealer that
handles thtm, we ask our neighbors.
So with paint; if the manufacturer boa
a good reputation, If the dealer is re
sponsible, if our neighbors have bad
satisfaction with It, that ought to be
pretty good evidence that the paint la
all right.
"Many men of mnny minds"
Junny paints ot many kinds; - m I
but while prepared paints may differ f t
considerably in composition, the better, 4
grades of them all agree pretty closely, "V-y
In rpstiltii. "All roods lend to Rome. V
and the paint manufacturers, starting
by different paths, have all the same
object 1o make the best paint possible
to sell for the least money and so cap
ture and keep the trade.
There Is scarcely any other article ot
general use on the market to-day that
can be bought with anything like the
assurance of getting your money's
worth as the established brands of pre
pared paint The paint you buy to-day,
may not be like a certain patent medi
cine, "the same as you have always
bought," but If not. It will be because
the manufacturer bas found a way ot
giving you a better article for your
money, and so making sure of your
next order, P. O.
As Good as the Mothers of. Old.
New York and its people are not
half us bad as they are painted. The
doings of the people in olden times .
make the weaknesses of the "smart
set." of to-day look as mild as the do
ings of a well-ordered Sunday school
convention. All this and more Mrs.
Frank Cronise told the Minerva club
at its meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria.
She also said that Rev. Dr. Park
liurst and Kev. Madison C. Peters are
the Jeremiahs of our time. And
there are the Jeremiahs In) every age.
At this the audience burst into ap
plause, for the club has had troubles
of its own, and bas no use for Jere
miahs of any kind. v.
"You see a few women drink and
gamble, and therefore we forget the
millions who do neither, and the hun
dreds of millions of men who do
both," remarked Mrs. Cronise, ad
drsslng figuratively Rev. Dr. Peters,
whom she called "the apostle at
large to the women of Gotham." "I .
contend," she went on, "that we are
quite as good wives and mothers as
the women ot past generations. We
differ in degree and not in kind. The
standard of living has changed, and
we have changed to meet it." '
Mrs. Cronise ventured tbe asser
tion that the clubs of our country and
city contain as fine housekeepers as
ever managed a household, whose
cooking would make the best profes
sional chefs turn green with envy.
Millions of Cantaloupes.
Twelve million six hundred thou
sand is the estimate of tbe number
of the famous Rocky Ford canta
loupes shipped from the Rocky Ford
district in Colorado last season. Sev
en hundred cars were sent out, as
against 593 carloads the previous
year.
Parents too Strict.
Fearing that he would be punished
for spending 7 pence on sweets Instead
of buying fruit for his mother a
schoolboy at Adorf, Saxony, threw
himself la front ot s train and was
killed.
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