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Mil MUST ANSWER
President Arraigns tie Oil Octo
in Special Message.
LODGE AMENDMENT ADOPTED
II. Oil Pipe Lines Placed Under
Jurisdiction of Interstate Com
merce Commission.
President Roosevelt In a special
message to Congress, made a drastic
arraignment or the Standard Oil com
1any as 4 gigantic monopoly disre
garding thl rights of all competitors
profiting pjormously by conspiring
with rallrcjuls to receive secret re
oates andi!derlving great advantage
through not being amenable to the
Inter-State Commerce Commission.
The Presdent announced that steps
are being taken to prosecute the
Standard Oil Company under the El
lclns antl-rcbate " act; urged the
speedy pasjige of the Knox bill, lim
itlug immurtty granted the represen
tatives of corporations, and especially
asking for xich legislation as will
give the lnter-Stato Commerce Com
mission control of the company.
The speciil message had been so
timed as to have an important bear
ing on the tmendment of Senator
Lodge to thai Hepburn rate bill, mak
lng pipe lins common carriers.
Within two hours after the mes
i 8age had beet rend to the Senate the
Lodge amendment was unanimously
adopted, 75 Senators voting for It,
and all pipe sines carrying oil were
placed under the jurisdiction of the
Inter-State Commerce Commission as
common carriers. This means that
hereafter the Standard Oil Company
must publish a)l its rates and submit
them to the commission for approval
and they can be increased or dim
inished aj the commission considers
proper. The oil monopoly will be
under precisely th? same restraints as
railroad corporations.
H. H. Rogers and John D. Arch
hold of the Stand ml 01! Company
made an extended answer to the
President, denying secret rates or
Illegal methods land declaring their
company Is the (victim of "the man
with a muck rak"
SUGAR TRUST INDICTED
New York Central Railroad
Charged Also With Rebating.
Is
The April Federal grand Jury, at
New York City handed down seven
sealed indictments in the sugar re
bating cases. TI13 indictments are
against the following:
The New York Central railway.
The American Su?ar Refining Com
pany.
The New York Central & Hudson
River Railroad Company and Nathan
Gilford, vice president of the com
pany, h.
The American Sugar Refining Com
pany, of New York,! and C. Goodlee,
Edgar and Edwin Eafle, the latter two
being wholesale sugar dealers of De
troit, Mich. j
vThe New York Central & Hudson
RiWfRailroad Company! and Nathan
Guilford7vlce presiirntl and F. E.
Pomeroy, general traffic (manager.
The American Sugar Rt-fining Com
pany and the American Refining Com
pany, of New York, nnd'C. Goodlee,
Edgar and Edwin Earle, Nathan Full
foil, Nathan F. Pomeroy and Edwin
Earle. '
The nr3t six indictments were found
tinder the "'Efkins anti-trust law,"
which provided penalties of a fine
not exceeding $10,000 or imprison
ment not exceeding two years, for
giving, grnntlng. applying for or ac
cepting any rebate or concension from
the regular freight rates, as pub
lished by a railroad company as a
common carrier.
The seventh indlctme.r. found
against Guilford, Potnerv. Edgar and
Bdwln Earle, charges the:.'. vith hav
ing collectively conspired t violate
the provisions of the Elkiks antt
trust law.
FATAL COLLISION
Two Trains on Pennsylvania Railroad
Meet Head-On.
Because orders were misunderstood
two fast trains of the -Pennsyvania
railroad met head-on at 10:40 o'clock
at night on the single track Iff the
Petersburg branch, or tut-olft at
Clover Creek Junction. 17 Initial east
of Altoona, Pa. Both engine1 five
1 niall car3 and one coach were tlmol
-ished.
Beveu persons were killed, if cord
ing to the reports received at til; su
perlntendent's office in PitturJfcand
17 injured. (f
The dead are: Brakeman
Harder, of Harrisburg;" unl
-woman, Duncannon, Pa.; TJnl
man, whose body has been rei
ed; Baggagemaster Kerr, of H
burg; Trainmen Dougherty, ; S
and Derrick, are also reporte4 1
Western Maryland Buys Car'
The Western Maryland Rai
Company has awarded a contrac
700 steel coal cars to the Pr
Steel Car Company of Pittsburg
contract represents an outlay bf V
000. The cars are to be deltv
about the latter part of tile
LOSE $13,150,000
Hartford Insurance Companies! F
Up Liabilities Resulting Fom
'Frisco Disaster.
The estimated net losses tf
Hartford fire insurance companies!
the recent San Francisco fire.
Jan nut h tha rtffinlnlu ni-o' IjVptl
$2,700,000; Hartford Fire, $5,7 0,ol
National Fire, $1,500,000: rlel
$700,001;; Phoenix, $1,600,000; Sel
tlsh Union and National, $1,0( O.OQ
total, $13,150,000. J
DUN'S WEEKLY SUMMARY
Violent Decline in Stdpk Market Not
a Reflection of the fteal Business
Conditions.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s
of trade says:
Weekly review
The violent decline i
prices of 8e
of business
curitles Is no criterion
conditions. Railway earnings have
continued to surpass tiiose of the
corresponding period irj any previous
year, ti. -ain for April being 9.3
per cent's r the saijie amount of
1905 and Oi .er standiids of meas
ure were unusually gratifying ex
hibits. I
Liabilities of failure last month
showed a decrease of 6ver 40 per
cent in manufacturing! and 12 per
cent in trading branches of business
as compared with the previous year.
The only drawbacks regarding the
future are the labor controversies and
the stringency in the numey market,
neither of which may prove of more
than temporary duration. Manufac
turing plants report Utile idle ma
chinery, and trade in seasonable
merchandise feels the impetus of set
tled weather.
Foreign commerce for the last week
shows gains of $14,909,972 In exports
and $2,943,729 in imports, as com
pared with the same week last year,
commodity prices are well maintained
by a good demand and die crop out
look Is fully as bright as usual at this
date, while in many departments in
creased acreage is under cultiva
tion. Of greatest importance to the iron
and steel Industry of all ewnts of the
pa3t week was the strike of the
longshoremen on the lake water
front. If this struggle is not prompt
ly settled it will soon become im
possible to maintain pig iron produc
tion at the highest point on record.
Otherwise the strikes on May 1 were
not of sufficient magnitude to affect
the progress of the steel business.
Failures for the week are 212,
against 215 the previous week, 199
the preceding week and 212 the cor
responding week last year.
Continued favorable weather has
allowed good progress In planting, the
germination of crops, the enlargement
of country retail trade, improved re
orders for summer goods ami the
placing with confidence .of a volume of
fall orders fully equal to a year ago.
Collections also have measurably im
proved. Easier money for legitimate
business needs is likewise foreshad
owed.
Railway earnings are large clear
ings still make, records for this sea
son of the year and the call for re
placement at San Francisco is a
feature helpful to trade In many lines.
There are of course, some few unfav
orable features in general industry.
KILLED 3Y A BOMS
Russian Students in Paris Engaged
in Dynamite Plots.
A bomb explosion occurred in the
forest of Vlncennes n?ar Paris, kill
ing a Russian named Striga and dan
gerously wounding a companion nam
ed Sokoloff.
The two men were proceeding
through the woods, each carrying a
bomb, with the evident purpose of
hiding them for future use. While
so doing the bomb which Striga car
ried exploded killing him instantly.
Sokoloff was struck by fragments of
the bomb and fearfully lacerated.
The explosion occurred In the out
skirts of the forest, on the road bor
dering on the suburban town of
Charenton, several persons witnessing
it. Striga's right hand was torn off,
his right leg broken and his ab
domen torn open. The po'lee found
revolver in Striga s pocket.
Striga and Sokoloff both were stu
dents of the School of Mines and
members of the Rus-tian student's
union. They also belonged to the
Revolutionary society. , Neither of
the men has figured in the police
registars of suspected forelgnors.
The residences of Russian revolu
tionists have been searched, leading
to the discovery of alleged incrimin
atory documents. Two cousins of
Sokoloff were arrested.
IRON STRIKE AT BUFFALO
Ten Thousand Men Demand Increase,
Which is Refused.
AH the employes of the iron foun
dries of Buffalo. Depew. Tonawanda. i
Lockport and Niagara Fall's, inclu'd- j
ing molders, coremakers and helpers, j
went out on strike. Thirty-six cor-!
poratlons, employing about 1,200 !
molders and coremakers, are affected, r
Altogether about 10,000 employes are I
involved. !
The cause of the strike is a demand
for an increase of wages for the mold
ers and coremakers. The former
want an increase of 20 and the core
makers 25 cents a day.
Alleged Fraud Involves Millions.
The American Bond Company, a
$3,000,000 corporation with palatial
offices in the Chamber of Commerce
building, Chicago, was thrown into
the hands of a receiver, through ac
tion of the Federal court. Two ap
plications for receivers for the com
pany also have been filed in the State.
courts, and one complainant, William
Seweli, alleged that the concern, on
the face of its statements of business
mdtttons, Is promoting what will
prove more than a $1,000,000 fraud.
as its present liabilities will exceed
its assets by that enormous total, he
says.
$33.22 PER HEAD IN U. S.
er Capita Money Circulation Beats
All Former Records.
The per capita circulation of the
l,;nlted StateB lias reached the unpre-
ttdented record of $32.22T This is
&.sed on a population of 84,428,000.
e former maximum record was
t0t.8S, attained February 1 of this
Mr. On April 1 tf this year the per
PMta circulation -iwas $31.75, on
tOrch
1 $31.72 and
on January 1
i82.
Czar Supplants Count Witte With
a Reactionary Politician.
NEW MAN IS A WEAKLING
When Fresh Crisis Comes Czar May
Be Obliged to Call Count Out
of Retirement.
Premier Witte has resigned and
former Minister of the Interior Gore
mykin has succeeded him. Minister
of Justice Akymoff is also booked for
retirement.
M. Goremykln's elevation to the
premiership created amazement.
He is not only regarded as a reac
tionary, but the general opinion Is
that he Is not equal to the task of
facing the coming crisis. Count
Witte's retirement from public life iB
complete.
There is now no question of his ap
pointment to be president of the coun
cil of the empire. He will again as
sume the role of a spectator of the
great events which are taking place,
returning to private life, from which
be was summoned last summer to ne
gotiate the peace of Portsmouth.
While reasons of health are assign
ed for his retirement, it must be ac
cepted as a victory for the reaction
ists at court.
Count Witte simply served the em
peror's purpose as a barrier between
him and the people, during the try
ing months of the revolution, and now
that the uprising is suppressed and
the treasury again replenished, the
count has been ignomihously dis
missed. M. Goremykln is considered a
mediore man of insignificant appear
ance as well as capacity. While for
some time he has been called a lib
eral, it was only In contrast with such
men as Von Plehve and H. Slplagu
ine. the late interior minister. He
began his career in the ministry of
justice, becoming assistant minister,
from which post he was called In
1895 as a protege of the dowager em
press, to become minister of the
interior.
PANIC IN WALL STREET
Prices of Stocks Fall Rapidly on
Enormous Transactions.
Wall street on May 2 passed
through the most, exciting crisis since
the great panic of May 9, 1901, when
Northern Pacific sold at, 1,000, and
when a short time half the great
banking houses in Wall street were
insolvent. The transactions, aggre
gating 2,500,000 shares, were the lar
gest since that memorable day.
Rumors of hou?es in trouble added
to the excitement, but investigation
proved them to be the Invention of
the bears. Only one failure was an
nounced, that of Charles W. Saacke
which created comparatively little
comment. ' His total liabilities are
estimated to be between $20,000 and
$00,000.
Prices cmmbled rapidly with each
offering and stocks continued to pour
out in enormous amounts until into
the afternoon, when just before 1
o'clock the bears began to notice that
everything they offered was being ab
sorbed. The turning point had come: London
was buying stocks by the thousand.
The banks sent in an abundance of
call money at 4 per cent. In the last
hour a complete change of sentiment
took place and at the close the gen
eral belief was that the crisis had
passed.
IRON WORKERS STRIKE
Move Promises to Stop Work on Large
Buildings in Chicago.
Just as the wreckers started the
demolition of old structures to make
room for $6,000,000 of new buildings
in the Loop district of Chicago, a
strike was called which promises to
tie up the building industry of Chi
cago. One thousand structural iron work
ers, following orders dropped work
and their idleness will precipitate the
first important labor disturbance in
the building trades since the 1900
lockout.
The strike promiaes to stop nearly
all construction work tjf a large
character.
Boston Wool Market.
Foreign wools attracted the trades
this week in the absence of domestic,
which are especially scarce. The bulk
of sales has been in foreign cross
breds, both South American and
Australian, and a demand was noted
for New Zealand. The firmness of
the foreign markets is reflected here.
Territories are so scarce that there
are hardly enough sales to make a
price. Pulled wools are , quiet, al
though some transactions of a sup
erior grade at 00 to fi2c are made.
Leading quotations follow: Ohio and
Pennsylvania XX and above, 34 at
3414c; X, 32 to 33c; No. 1 and half
blood, 39 to 40c; one-eighth and one
fourth blood. 39 to 40c; fine unwash
ed, 25 to 2Gc.
Public Debt Statement.
The monthly statement of the pub
lic debt shows that at the close of
business April 30. 1906. the total
debt, less cash in the Treasury,
amounted to $984,413,247, which is an
Increase for the month of $2,789,809.
Five Are Drowned at Sea.
The British steamer Blanefield,
which sailed from Junln, March 10,
for Dover was sunk off Beachy Head
by the British bark Kate Thomas.
Five persons were drowned. The
cargo of the Blanefield was valued at
$250,000.
Professor Israel C. Ruasell, aged
54, head of the geology department of
the University of Michigan, died of
pneumonia. Professor Russell was
widely known as a scientist.
LARGE LIBRARIES LOST
Millloni of Books Destroyed In San
Francisco Fire.
Among tho greatest losses from the
fire are the magnificent llbrarhw of
San Francisco. Library after library
holding in all more than a million
volumes, disappeared in the fire. It
is believed that their market, value ex
ceeded $3,000,000. The public libra
ry was the eighth in size In the Unit
ed States. Librarian George W.
Clark said:
"We have available $750,000 that
Andrew Carnegie gave us. We have
a block of land bounded by Van Ness
avenue, Hayes, Franklin and Felt
streets, and we have $1,000,000 avail
able for a new library building.
Doubtless the building of a new
home for San Francisco's books will
begin soon."
The Mechanics Institute library
and the Mercantile library were burn
ed, with 100,000 volumes. The Sutro
library of 200,000 volumes collected by
the late Adolph Sutro, was destroy
ed. The library of the Society of the
Pioneers Is gone. One of Its priceless
features was the typewritten reminis
cences of pioneers bound in 12 vol
umes. The.nohenilan club lost its lib
rary of 5,000 volumes, many of them
autograph copies from noted authors.
The French library of 10,000 books,
which was in the Spring Valley build
ing, is no more. The B'Nai B'Rith
library contributed 10,000 volumes to
the pyre. The flames took the cost
ly library In the Crocker mansion.
Nothing remains of the 33,000 vol
umes of the San Francisco law lib
rary. The supreme court lost Its lib
rary rf 10,0(10 volumes and the fine
collections of Appellate Judge Harri
son, and of Dr. Tyler, dean of Hast
ings law college, are In ashes.
Of all the big libraries In San
Francisco, one nlone is intact. The
Bancroft library, containing an im
mense collection of histories.1 works,
was stored at Twenty-sixth and
Valencia streets and is undamaged.
This collection was purchased some
time ago by the University of Cali
fornia and doubtless will be taken to
Berkeley for the use of the students
as soon as possible.
BIG SUM FOR INDIANS
Cherokee Lawyer Gets Enormous Fee
for Conducting the Case.
Robert S. Owen, a full blood Chero
kee Indian and a lawyer of ability,
will receive a fee of a little less than
$750,000 for winning a case which
was decided by the Supreme Court
of tho United States.
The case is that of Eastern Chero
kee Indians of the Indian Territory,
against the United States. The
amount involved is about $5,000,000,
and, of this. Attorney Owen will re
ceive 15 per cent., the largest fee
ever received by a lawyer in a Su
preme Court case.
The award against the United
States is the largest ever given in
favor of private parties. The claim
of the Indians grew out of the treaty
of 183$, under which the government
agreed to pay the cost of removing
the Cherokees from Georgia and oth
er Southern States to the Indian
Territory.
The Government did ,not pay the
cost of removal, as agreed in the
treaty, and after years of litigation
the supreme court decided it must
do so, with interest at five per cent,
for 68 years.
Robert L. Owen, the attorney who
has bandied tho case before the su
preme court and who gets the Im
mense fee of about $750,000, while a
Cherokeo by blood, was educated In
Eastern colleges and is a man of
marked ability. A justice of the
supreme court has said that his ar
gument before the court in the case
was one of the best he had ever
heard. For winning a case for the
Choctaws and Chickasaws against the 1
government several years ago,
got a fee of $265,000.
Owen
GOLL FOUND GUILTY
Jury
Finds Nineteen Counts
in In-
dictment Are True.
Henry G. Goll, formerly assistant
cashier of the First National bank of
Milwaukee, was found guilty by a
jury in the United Stales District
Court on 19 counts out or 34. The
cpunts in the indictment against the
defendant on which he was found guil
ty relate to false entries and the mis-1
applications .of funds in the hank.
The amount of money which Got! I
was alleged to have misapplied was J
about. $250,000. The trial lasted three 1
weeks. The most Interesting test!
mony was offered by the former
president of the bank. Frank G. Blue
low, who is now serving a 10-year
sentence at the Leavenworth prison,
he having pleaded guilty to looting
the bank.
POLICE FIRE ON MOB
Three Foreigners Shot Down in Anthracite-
Coal Region.
The first serious collision in the an
thracite coal regions since mining
was suspended April 1 occurred at
Mount Carmcl, Pa., between a mob of
Idle mine workers and a platoon of
the state constabulary force, and re
sulted lu the injuring of 20 men,
three of whom may die. The dis
turbance was ciiused by an attack on
a detail of the constabulary by sever
al hundred foreigners, who became
incensed at the presence of the po
lice. The crowd threw stones at the
officers, who were forced to fire on
the crowd.
Oil Lands Sold.
The Fisher Ol1 Company has sold
to the Pure Oil Company all of Its
producing properties, located in
Greene county, Pennsylvania, Marlon,
Wetzel, Monongahela and Tyler
counties. West Virginia, and In Mon
roe, Washington und Belmont coun
ties, In Southeastern Ohio. The lease
holds consist of about 20,000 acres in
the counties named, -m which are
300 producing wells with an aggregate
net production of 1,000 barrels a day.
The consideration was $1,000,000.
Mounted Troops Disperse Mobs
and Crush Revolutionists.
MANY INJURED IN ONSLAUGHTS
Soldiers Suffer From Attacks of the
Rioters Police and Military Act
With Toleration.
The long-dreaded May Day failed
to bring the revolution which in
flammatory Journals predicted, in
France, but none the less it brought
scenes of extreme violence.
The labor districts, which thous
ands of troops controlled with difft
culty, and even central portions of
Paris have taken on the appearance
of a Beige, with regiments of infan
try and cavalry camped about the
Arc de Trioniphe, the Bourse, the
Bank of France and the great rail
way station, while military sent!
nels paced before the banks and pri
vate establishments. The main
thoroughfares in the residential por
tion of Paris remain tranquil.
In the West End, far removed from
riotous scenes, people were disposed
to treat the evenls in the labor quart
era as harmless effervescence. It
was, however, much more than that,
Throughout the afternoon dragoons,
republican guards and cuirassiers
charged disorderly masses, sweeping
the Place de la Republlque and the
board Boulevard de Magenta. To
ward nightfall cavalry charged with
drawn swords and many persons were
wounded on both sides. The manl
festants overturned omnibuses and
threw up hasty barricades.
Over 1,000 arrests were made dur
lng the day. At no time did the
demonstration reach the magnitude
of a revolt, but was rather a leader-
less tumult in which the serious la
bor element, struggling with revolu
tionists, anarchists, roughs and a
large number of the curious, was
hopelessly confused.
Reports from the provinces show
that there were violent demonstra
tions at Marseilles, Brost, Bordeaux,
St. Etienne, Lyons and Rouen. At
Marseilles processions carrying red
Hags and creating violent disorder
came in collision with the troops and
a number of persons were Injured.
At Bordeaux processions paraded the
streets singing revolutionary songs
and the cavalry charged them, wound
ing many.
At Lyons a crowd of manlfestant's
attacked the street cars, breaking
the glass windows down, whereupon
the dragoons charged the rioters,
wounding a large number. There
were lesser disturbances at many
points.
ANOTHER TEXAS TORNADO
Three Counties Struck by a Hard
Wind Storm and Much Damage
Done.
A tornado swept over parts of
Brown. Wise, Denton and Greyson
counties, Texas, doing damage to
crops and farm property, killing two
persons and probably two others. At
the village of Cowen one house was
destroyed and a Mrs. Parks killed.
Two other occupants of the house
were badly injured. Half a dozen
other houses were partially demol
ished. At the village of Stoney the house
of Joseph Foster was blown down on
the family and the ruins took fire.
Mrs. Foster and the children crawled
out of the ruins safely, but Mr. Fost-
er was pinned down and so badly
burned he died.
At Sherman a Methodist church
was blown down and at Brownwood
several houses were partially wreck
ed. At the last-named place and in
the surrounding country there was a
terrific fall of hall which did much
damage to all kinds of crops and hurt
much live slock.
Some of the hail stones measured
10 Inches In circumference and weigh
ed eight ounces after having laid on
the ground for a period of 10 min
utes. Longshoremen Strike.
Dispatches from Lake Michigan
ami Lake Erie ports indicate that
there has been an almost unanimous
response among the unions to Presi
dent Kenfe's strike order. Unofficial
estimates set the figure at 20,000.
It Is estimated that about 40 vessels
are tied up in Milwaukee, and that
RoO men are idle as a rasult of the
longshoremen's strike. The strike
of the longshoremen put un effective
embargo on Lake Erie commerce and
it Is expected traffic will stop at all
upper lake ports.
Big Lumber Failure.
The National Lumber Manufactur
ing Company, having large Interests
in West Virginia d Alabama, was
placed In the hands of a receiver on
a petition filed in the United States
District Court at Chicago, by a num
ber of small creditors. The assets of
the company are said to be $100,000,
but the liabilities are not given. The
failure of the Bank of America In
Chicago several months ago is said
to have been responsible for the em
barrassment of the lumber company.
Engineers Get Better Wages.
A new schedule of wages and
agreement for the betterment of the
condition of the locomotive engi
neers on the Delaware & Hudson
railway system went into effect May
1, which means a substantial increase
of 10 per cent on every 100 mile run,
and one haur less for day work, for
switch engines.
The Norwegian authorities expect
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth to
be present at the coronation of King
Haakon.
INSURANCE RATE INCREASED
General Advance to Replace Losses
on Pacific Coast.
There will be a general advance in
fire rates In all cities of the Unlt-
,ed Slates in the near future to en
able the companies to recoup In a
measure their San Francisco losses
Rates have already been raised by
more than a score of companies on
property in New York, the advances
ranging from 5 to 50 per cent.
A committee of five has been ap
pointed by the Fire Insurance Ex
change to deal with the question of
advancing rates.
Without awaiting the decision of the
committee a large number of com
panics have increased rates, with the
Intention of reco.uplng their San
Francisco losses as speedily as pos
sible. The eaample Bet will undoubt
edly be followed by all of the other
and the Increase will be general, ap
plying to property in all cities and
sections of the country.
Hall & Henshaw, New York repre
sentatives of seven foreign and out
State companies, announced they had
advanced rates from 5 to 50 per cejit.
on property In the congested districts
of New York and Brooklyn.
The Fire Association of Philadel
phia advanced Us premium rates In
the congested central district of that
city 25 per cent, and the American
Fire Insurance announced that it had
reinsured In the Commercial Union
Company of England Its entire out
standing risks, except the perpetual
Insurance! They nl3o had ordered a
25 per cent, advance In premiums of
risks in the business of New York and
similar action will be taken else
where. With the advance in prem
iums the Fire Association also re
duced from 15 to 10 per cent, the
commission allowed insurance brok
ers..
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Gov. E. W. Hock was renominated
by the Republicans of Kansas.
A band of robbers in the guise of
soldiers robbed the treasury at Dus
hot, near Tiflis of $117,500.
The bottle blowing plant of the
Evansvllle, Ind., Glass works burned,
causing a los3 of $110,000.
James C. Dahlman, Democrat, was
elected mayor of Omaha over Eras
tus A. Benson, by a surprising ma
jority.
Sir Henry Taschereau, chief justice
of Canada, has resigned. He prob-
nbly will be succeeded by Charles
Fitzpatrick, minister of justice.
The isthmian canal commission met
and decided toi ask for an appropria
tion of $25,43S,2Sl to continue the
construction of the canal during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1907.
The Tenth regiment of the Penn
sylvania volunteers, which was camp
ed in San Francisco at the time of
the Spanish war, has sent a donation
of $10,000 to the relief committee.
Max Diltrlch, a leather worker, of
Dresden, Saxony, who was arrested
recently on the suspicion of murder,
confessed, that he had killed eight
persona in the course of seven, years.
Steamers which arrived at Lelth
from Iceland, report that Mount Hec
la has been in eruption, ashes being
scattered over a wide area. The
disturbance, however, was not ser
ious. The Allin Steamship Line has plac
ed an ordor with a Glasgow firm for
the construction of a 10,000-ton pas
senger steamer for the company's ser
vice between Liverpool and Glasgow.
By the explosion of a .large quan
tity of dynamite which they were en
gaged in thawing out over a fire, four
river drivers were killed and their
bodies horribly mangled at a point
on the Arlstook river, about five miles
above Oxbow, Me.
According to Coroner Walsh of San
Francisco, the deaths in the earth
quake and fire of April IS will total
1.500 wheu the debri3 is cleared away
and a final accounting of the bodies
already recovered and those yet miss
ing, Is made.
Professor W. H. Dickey, super
intendent of the Deming public
schools shot and instantly killed Pro
fessor U. Francis Duff, superintend
ent of the Luna county schools, one
of the most prominent educators In
New Mexico.
According to a preliminary report
on the production of anthracite in
1906, made public by the United
States geographical survey, the ton
nage during that year was the larg
est in the history of the industry.
The amount was 69,339,152 long tons;
value $141,879,000.
New Zealand Offers Aid.. ,
President Roosevelt has gratefully
declined New Zealand's offer of $25,
000 for San Francisco on the ground
that outside assistance is unneces
sary. Premier Seddou has conse
quently sent $6,250 to New Zealand's
agent at San Francisco for the relief
of the New Zealandera there who
suffered from the earthquake.
L. & N. Gets Panama Contract.
One of the first large contracts for
material for Panama, anticipation of
which has led the Pennsylvania, New
York Central and other systems to
seek lines to gulf ports, has been
awarded to the Uiulsville & Nash
ville, which will hattl 20,000 cars of
cement from Louisville to New Or
leans, The road's management fig
ures on putting a car of cement into
New Orleans every 45 minutes -
Peasants Dispersed and Two Killed.
A number of peasants invaded the
town of Kallasln, Russia and de
manded the release of one of their
number, who hnd been arrested. The
authorities thereupon summoned
troops, who fired upon the peasants
and dispersed them with their bay
onets. Two peasants were killed and
one was wounded.
The volcano of Stromboll, after a
period of quiet, is resuming activity
and la emitting smoke and solid ma
terial.
MARKETS.
PITT8BURG.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
Wheat No. I rod .' f m
Kye No. 2 73
Corn No. 2 yellow, ear ftl
No. 8 yellow, shellecl 55
Mixed ear 5-1
Oats No. ! wblte 87
No. 8 white 84
Flour Winter patent 4 10
Fancy straight winters 4 00
Hay No. 1 Timothy 15 00
Clover No. 1 10 is
Feed No, 1 white mid. ton M
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Bran, bulk H 00
Straw Wheat.
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Dairy Product!.
Butter Elgin creamery I
Ohio creamery
Fancy country roll
Cheese Ohio, new
New York, new
Poultry, Etc.
Hens per lb $
Chickens dressed
Eggs Pa. and Ohio, (resh
Frulti and Vegetables.
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Onions per barrel go
BALTIMORE.
Flour Winter Patent t m si
Wheat No. II red B2
Corn Mixed 2
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Butter Ohio creamery g, ,
PHILADELPHIA.
FlourWlnter Patent I 5 m in,
Wheat No. red. M J
Corn No. 2 mixes 8ft 84
Oats No. S white 85 M
Butter Creamery at
Bggs Pennsylvania flrats n ,
NEW YORK.
Flour Patents 5 0 U
Wheat No. I! red 89
Corn No. 2 87 84
Oats No. 8 wblte 88 1
Butter -Creamery 28 28
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LIVE STOCK.
Union 8tock Yard, Pittsburg.
Cattle.
Extra, 1,460 to 1,M0 lbs
Prime. 1.SU0 to 1 ,00 lb
(Jond. 1.VOO in 1 Mm 11..
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, 2 50
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Tidy, 1,080 to 1.160 lbs".'.'.'.",'.
iir, wou 10 1.1UU 10s
Common, 700 to DOO lbs
Common to good fat bulla..'.'.',
unimon 10 good rat cows ,
Sellers, 700 to I, lOOlbs
Freeh cows and springers
Hogi,
Prime heavy hogs
Prime medium weights.. .., .
Best heavy Yorkers
Good light Yorkers ""
Pigs, as to quality "'
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Fair mixed ewes and wethers"
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Culls to choice lambs
Calves.
Veal Calves
Heavy and thin calves.
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B. Hoffman, executor I In Orphan t
of W M. hotter, do- L Court of Jeffersoq
For Discharui,
term, 1)06.
April Oth, 1906, netillnn of Frank 8. floffmaa.
executor, presented, praying that he be for
ever discharged from his said office as -ecutor,
etc., whereupon the said court mada
an order that notire of aald application bw
given by publication In the Hiiynoldevllls)
Htar as re. 1 ui red by law. Returnable on tbt
21st day of May at 10 o'clock a. m., when ajxl
where all nartfns Interested ran he hn&pd tn
show cause, if any. why the said Court should
not mane an order discharging the aaUl
Frank 8. Hoffman as executor.
J08SPH B. Means,
Clerk of the Orphans' Court.
Petition of James .
Kellv Johnston and 1 v '
Otis "Howard John- f '." l"B.
aton, executors of V n",,' v . " ,7
822i R9ynold9- ft.
tOB DISCI! ARGR. '
Anril 0th. 190(1. netltlnn of .Turn.. Kmllm
Johnston and Otis Howard Johnston, nxao-
utors, presented, prayinu that they be forevet
discharged from their said office napxiw.titnr
etc., whereupon the said Court made an or
der that notice of said application be given
yj iiuuuuuiioii in me tteynoiasvuie
Star as renuired By law. Returnabla
on the 21st day of May at 10 o'clock
a. m.. when and where all nartles lnterMtri
can be heard t ahow mnnA. if an i
aid Court sli uid not make an order, dis
charging me a lu James Kelly Johnston ana
Otis Howard Johnston as executors. -
JOHKPH B. MlCAKS,
Clerk of the Orphans' Court.
CLEAN GLOVES AT HOME.
Now that the wearing of white and
delicately tinted gloves is so much.
the fashion, many women clean their
own gloves. Gasoline or naphtha ta
generally used, and the glores 'are
cleaned on the hnnds. The chances
are that the naphtha saturates the
kid, and often does much harm to
the skin, irritating the hands and
leaving them red and sore.
Women who clean their own gloves
will be glad to know of something en
tirely new a substitute, in faot, of
their own put upon the market which,
solves the difficulty of glove-cleaning
Is a wooden hand to be used In place
of one's own hand. To make it easy
to slip the glove over the wooden,
hand, and also clean It, the two mid
dle fingers are so arranged that they
can be moved, and the thumb has a
pivot at tho lower edge which fits into
a hole In the wooctea sjandard. ' -In
this way the thumb may be moved
hack and fort during the cleaning pro
cess. Ceorgo Wyndham made after-dlnnei
speeches the subject of an aftet-dtn.
nor speech of his own before a society
at Dover, England. He complimented
Americans on their skill at poat-pran-dial
oratory, and then went on to dis
cuss the possibility of boring an au
dience. He said tho severest reproof
for a bore which he recollected was
that administered 'by the great Talley.
rand while driving with a friend, who
kept telling him' stories As they
passed through the streets of a Conti
nental town, Tecalls the New York
Tribune, which In those days were po
liced by many sentries, they observed
one sentry yawn at his post, and
Talleyrand said to hla friend, "Hush,
w art overheard."
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vunriiig visitors aooui on
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