IINERS MAY STRIKE AUIN Aaotbcr Qrt-t Stranle TbU SvM*r

* Tbrtalrard.

TMEOPESATORS AND HEN AT ODDS. Thrlr Dtttcr* «<r> Dae la the Fit ere at the Mtocowoen is Rrcofalxt t% Meaibrr* at CaaclUallaa Beard Mea Who M.O Bern btecled k< Mlaer* at the Several DUtrtctt—

Exccaiive Board Acta.

Wilkctbarre, Pa. (Special) —Another i!irk strike cloud has loomed up on the" homon of the anthracite region. The executive boards of the United Mine Workers in session here indorsed the selection of ttyeir three district presidents on the bferd of conciliation, authorized by the strike commissign, and if these members ore not recognized by the operators the executive boai

will contemplate calling a

of mine workers to declare a general suspension of work until their members

are given recognition.

The district presidents, as a result of the meeting, issued the following

i the dispute.

THE LAfEST NEWS IN SHORT GTiEJET.

shot and home in The man mted, and

Charles A. Psetcott. who killed Patrick Whalen in hil Brooklyn, is a bnmbtmker talks as though he was deni' tlie police found bombs and machine appar?/.* in his room-

The worst panic in the Jtistoryxif the Montreal stock market was cagsed by the announcement of the failure of A. E. Ames & Co., of Toronto, Prices declined

to the lowest level of the year.

Contrary to expectation. President L. F. Loree, of the B. & O., was not elected a member of the board of directors of, the Philadelphia and Reading Road . A two-month strike-that involved 7.000 glove-workers in Fulton county. N. Y„ nd which has ‘

The shipwrights, caulkers and joiners employed by sevoral Camden firms demand shorter working hoars and more lized A change of venue has been granted in ufd* the cases of Jett and White to Morgan /

»»»

irr.,1 \ ; — \ I —... ... — .. ..

"They reoorted

jected on the ground

resent ati si

that the operators obround that the mine

nization as it i : award of t

5 the i

me workers ol each district on nciliation board reoorted that the representatives of the operators refused to recognize them or the mine er»' credentials, or accent them as hers of the conciliation board.

"They n

str.

ed by their org miza each district. The l

mission relative :o the manner of si lecting the members of the conciliatio

beard provides as follows:

"That is to say, if there shall be a division of the whole region into three districts in each oi which there shall exist an organization representing a majority of the mine workers of each district, one member of said boards of conciliation shall.be appointed by each of said organizations and three other persons shall be appointed by the operators. the operators in each of said ■“■tv «» "opinion that they appointed their representatives as provided for by the section oi the award and voted unanimously to re-affirm their former action. The district officer- have been

fesSr&ras

purpose of adjusting many grievances which have accumulated, and to this

’Surss.

grievances arose, that the men would not strike, and where strikes occurred, ordered them back to work, per.dmg a decision by the <%nc-!iation board, which they hoped would soon be formed m accordance with the commission s

1 nio

e causing a yam-

page of streams. From Pittsburg come? rn announcement cf an advance in the price of window glass,

he resi|

rustre o accepted. - of tl

t /tonas

ias B Re of $629.5,

the will of the late

shew s that he left a fortune of $629,553. Four, railroads in Chicago have made their peace with the freight handlers. The United States revenue cutter * ‘ Haven,

of the

he United States revenue Seminole brought to Vineyard. Mass., Second Maty Johnson,

schooner Edward E Briray, accused of killing J. French, a member of the crew,

at sea.

John Barrett, commissioner general of the St. Louis' Exposition to the Orient, returned, after having traveled 4S.o*> miles on'business for the Exposition. Maji -

, retired, was s at Dayton. O., Saturday, and is i

,h, c.

onel Newberry Bank, in Manila, accused of embezzlement, was arrested in WashMrs. Mary McKnig^t. of Grayling. Mich., was arrested on suspicion of poisoning her brother, John Murphy, and his wife and child. Prof. John H. Hicks was killed by some unknown intruder while leaving the home of his fiancee, in Wooster, 0 The various cotton mills in Lowel

:c;v . BY A

CYCLONE

Lait* Part of the Town of QalaecvlUe,

On., Destroyed.

CA CRUSHED IN A COTTON MILL

Terrific Wlad-

estrayed the MUt—

Scores at Woweu a ad Children Workers Csaghl la the Wreckage sod KlUeJ or Hor ribly Mantled —Sook Two Noadrcd Cot laics. Hots af Operatives, Destroyed end s Naaher Fnaad Dead Is the KoUs—Terrible Havoc la Tat Mlaatct.

esvllle, Qa., Swept by 1 >rai, Which Partly Destr

Gainesville, Ga. (Special).—Just after hour the city "Was struck by

'-five

spec city

terrific cyclone, killing persons, as near as can be ascertained, injuring scores of others, unroofing the city hotels, other Urge buildings and destroying the Gainesville cotton

milfe*

The death li-t is expected to be of much greater magnitude bv morning, as nearly thirty are believed to be hurt beyond hope of recovery. The property Toss is something li':e $300,000. ' Of the killed probably two-thirds were women and children who were operatives in the cotton mills. The death list includes only about iix negroes. The storm came from the south out of almost a clear sky, swooping down on the Gainesville cotton mills near the Southern Railroad station r With a terrible crash the two upper stories of the building were swept away, leaving thirty-two operatives dead in

the room, .

The cyclone then swept around the I outskirts of the city to the suburb of New Holland, two miles pway, where are located the Pacolei cotton mills, one of the largest institutions of this

character in the South. plant of the Pacolet “ it seriously damaged,

standing

d their friends Chicago and

operatives resumed work.

Striking laundry girls ai

raided two laundries in

created quite a row.

Prof. Henry Wade Rogers was elected dean of Afce faculty of Yale College. All but 10 members of the police force

of Erie. Pa., went on a strike.

Edwin Gould offered $1000 reward foY the capture of John Heffcman's rnovderer. and said nine other members

offer a sim

ation by the meeting—one is to make application to the national president oi the mine workers to issue an order for) a general suspension of work through-

out the whole anthracite region, to delphia which was erected in memory continue until the operators agreed to 'he German spldiers who partic.adjust existing grievances and live up : P*'«l '".the Franco-Prussian war to the award of the anthracite strike i ' " e miners of the Continental C .1— -a •t.» . I Lomoanv near Meyersdale. Pr

ilar amount, making the total amount

$10,000. • .

A petition was filed jn the United States Circuit Court in San Francist to declare the Copper King Minin ^ >mpany, a London corporation, to 1

nkrupt.

•eiled in Phila-

led in

was

bly too pied by

Company but proba-

:arby. occu-

people. These id children, 'as nearly all i.i

pied' by operatives who were employ) in the mills, were completely dernolisl

•d. killing thirty-three ‘

were mostly women ai the heads of families w< the factory at work.

The store of Joseph Logan, near the Gainesville cotton mills, was crushed to ruins by the wind, and eight men who had taken refuge in it were instantly

killed.

The Jones general store met a similar fare, and in the ruins two people, one man and one woman, were crushed to death. The woman was Mrs. Jones, wife of the proprietor. Reports from White Sulphur, several miles from Gainesville, are to the effect that the storm struck thei terrific force, however,

■ storm struck there with '. killing a dozen people, er, is absolutely not con-

DEATH AND RUIN IN FLOODED AREA North Topeka, Kansas, Sceat of Terrible Dcstrnclioa. 289 PEOPLE DEAD AND 280 MISSING. Hawkers af People Drowsed er Uaacceiitcd Far la Other Parts af Flooded Dlstric:* la Throe Slates—Maay Fatafltles Feared From the SoHeriat and Eiposer* Eadared by Naadreds af Wswea aad CHIdrtn-Tbe Property Loises la Topeka Estimated at S4.tM.0W—Pahlk Balldlap Taraod lata Skelters lor the Homeless.

More than 200 lives lost, 20,000 people homeless, property valued at $6,000,000 to $8,000,000 destroyed, crops damaged to the extent of several million dollars, thousands of sheep a6d other livestock drowned, great industries Armour. Swift and Cudahy packing plants temporarily stopped and railroad traffic interrupted make up the terrible record of the flood and fire disasters 1 Kansas. Iowa. Missouri and Nebraska. Hundreds of mQes of country ar numbers of small towns are flooded, but the indications are that the waters have dorr their worst, and the Kansas River and other streams are slowly receding. North Topeka, Kan., the center of the havoc of the combined destroying elements, presents '* deplorable spectacle. The conditions at that point are these: Dead by drowning, 170 to aoo. Homeless. 8,000. People missing, aoo. Property losses, $4,000,000. Houses burned, 200. At Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan.: Dead by drowning, 15. People homeless, lo.opo. Property losses, $2,000,000 to $4,000,-

000.

The death list is increased by fatalities

in other sections of the flooded districts in the several states, and the estimated

roperty losses may be largely increased, measures of relief have been

taken. The Convention Hall at Kansas

and other large public buildings been turned into shelters for the

homeless. It is feared that much sickness and many deaths will result from the suffering and exposure endured during the past 48 hours by thousands of

women and chil<!

prope Prom taken. City a

A monument i delphia which wi

commission: the second that a delegate ! Company near convention be called to consider the , uP°n receivfhf advisability of taking the above «c- 1 P*1‘

tion."

[eyersdale.

■ceiling notice of fi

for mining coal.

Coal

nts U< in

MRS TAYLOR FOUND GUILTY.

Momiccllo.

Kate

flaadredt Die af Platae. Hongkong (By Cable).—Consul General McWade, of the United States,

that the 1 amini gsi is appalling.

writes that the famine situation Kwangsi it appalling^ Hundreds ; dying. The people are uttering many anti-foreign threats and much alarm it lelt in the district. Plague has occurred at Yokohama. A stoker a Bombay steamer was quarantined with the disease on May 4 and two fatalities occurred. The area in which the plague victims lived has been quarantined.

• Seven Mea UBed.

Birmingham. Ala. <Special).—, Uc header eastbound freight and :

•A dou-

reight and a west-

md freight on the Southern Railway lided at Bryan, twenty-two miles west of here, with the result that both

trains caught fire

sr

It that both

: and were burned and killed and others may

TtBve

ut it is alleged tha tor went to sleep on duty a deliver an order.

Morel at Ralhrty Crosalag.

Tiffin. O. (Special).—Three Heidel-

berg students were fatally and one seriously iniured, the result of a Pennsylmia (Jkiwngcr train striking a carriage

Chester Bradley and

t of last

had

at a crossing here. Ch« Albert Bolmer. of Tiffin, year's university football

. .lister Ada was badly cut and bruised, but will live. The others will die. The girls are daughters of a wealthy farmer living in Seneca county.

policy by pt tav Rau, a

The Condmncd Wocisn Shows Aojer When dom at a tb: Verdict is Aaaeoocetf- | land- adopt

(Special/—Mrs. I fl'J-i.f? e Taylor was found guilty of murin the first degree for pausing the

death of her husband. She was sentenced to death and her execution fixed for the week of July 5 a! Dannemorra

prison.

Mrs. Taylor was arrested and lodged hi jail at Monticello on February 8. charged' with having killed her hus'band or. Tuesday. January 27, by shooticg him in the back with a revolver. According to the confession of her 16-year-old daughter, Ida May Taylor, the woman afterward dismembered the body and put it in the cook stove. It was oatd chat afterward she threw the charred bones into the chicken yard. T wo weeks afterward the disappearance of Taylor began to Arxcite/comment. Mrs. Taylor told neighbors that her husband had gone ov« the mountains on businesf. Whet' trying to make a deal with Peter Terkins, her fincle. Mrs. Taylor was fqrced into a confession that she had killed her hus-

band and burned the body.)

Fifteen hundred delegates of the operative societies of the United K

meeting in Doncaster, Eng-

resolutionS' protesting

ions . _

"tampering with the _ftechy preferential tariffs." * ~ ' William

the Brit-

... icted in Liverpool of murdering the captain and six of the crew, and were hanged yester-

Gustav Rau, a German, and

for delivering

Morocco a young woman who escaped from the harem and who has been con-

demned to death.

Baptists and other conformist religious bodies in England have started a crusade against what they claim is a traffic by cyrtain American colleges in honorary

degrees.

_A peculiar epidemic among miners in Westphalia is said by physicians to be causdd by a parasite that afflicts only people who are deprived of sunlight to a

great extent.

Lady Henry Somerset, having under-

gone a serious surgkul operation, will be unable to attend the convention of the

World's W. C. T. U. at Geneva. The Japanese House of Representa-

tives adopted all the appropriations

moved for naval expansion, but rejected the proposed expenditure for Formo

—ilways and harbor

firmed.

! Dr. Smith, city physician oi Gainesville, says he visited too wounded and

has personal k The propert; mills occasionc

the cottages and outbuildings ii mated at $75000. The Gainesville c ton mills arc damaged to the extent The local physicians were unable to cope with the situation and surgeons f 1 and medical supplies have been ordered sent from Atlanta. A special train carrying a corps of surgeons and supplies arrived, making the total number of physicians now in the city about forty. The physicians who have assisted in the work of relief say that the scene at the mills were appalling, the victim being crushed and mangled in every

conceivable manner.

There were 500 persons at work in the cotton mill when the cyclone struck. The mill was a three-story building. The first stonr was left standing, but badly wrecked. The second and third floors were completely demolished, and the employees were caught under the

wreckage and mangled.

Ike Orsate Hone.

Philadelphia (Special).— Representative Orangemen from all parts of the country, numbering more than aooo, were present at the dedication of the Orange Home, an institution for orly phan children and infirm Orangetr a Hatboro, near here. Thirty-six orphan boys. 28 girls and 44 old conples from kuine, Ohio, New York and

) ir works.

The crew of the fishing schooner Helen F. Whitten, of Gloucester, Masi arrived at St Johns, the schooner hai ing been crushed in the ice and f^r me Queen Helena received United Stall Ambassador Meyer in private audietK in Rome and showed great interest in the

St .Louis Ettpooit Mbs Edna Telfener. John W. Mackay, was r to Signor Gino de Marl

married i

, irtiiuv

Two hundred people are reported to have been massacred at Smerdesh by

Bashi-Bazouks.

Premier Prior was dismissed from office by the lieutenant governor of British Colnmbia. ^ Prince Julius of Schleswig-Holstein, brother of the King of Denmark, died at

Itzeboe.

Two boys were burned to death in a fire in one of the master's houses at Eton

College.

Prince Henry's flagship Ariadne went aground off the breakwater at Brest.

sy now has five rise-president* or more than any other railroad. International Paper has declared Its quarterly dividend of 1 1-2 per cert. Paris for the first time in a long while is payme any attention to American

•curilie Tt.

talk over Southi E. H. Harriman.

Diamond Steel preferred is reputi by some interests in the company to ' worth considerably more' than it is brings. '

n is coming East to Pacific matter a. jkith

\

New Jersey, were entered upon the books as 2he first charges of the home. The following officers were elected: Rev. George Worrell. Philadelphia. President; Thomas Milligan, Boston vice president; Dr. J. W. Carroll, Hat-

Bowers, Philadelphia, sum of $63,000 has b«*en 1

the imtimtion.

vice president; Dr. J. W. Carroll,

boro, resident physician; Mrs. Ida

Philadelphia, matron. The

pendei

expended upon

Plot Ayalas! Ugly's Uaf. Paris (By Cable).—A dispatch to the Patrie from Marseilles says thi archists have been arrested at Mentone on itupidion of being engaged in a plot against King Victor Emmanuel on the -tKtgskm of his approaching visit to Parts. Five other suspects escaped. The police found incriminating papers on the

arrested men.

SteaaKrs Crash, 22 Loot Antwerp (By Cable).—The British steamer Huddersfield, which sailed from this port for Grimsby, England, collided with the Norwegian steamer Uto. The Huddersfield -foundered. Twenty-two Austrian and Italian emigrants were drowned, saved. The bows ol the aged.

: crew was

stated jehind

Two lilted frooi Aaibjth.

London, Ky. (Special).—John Fartnei

and a young man named Whitaker were killed near Bernstadt. in this (Laurel) county. A brother of Whitaker was

slightly wounded. The survivor stt .that he was riding some distal

the other two men, when be heatyd shots fired. As he came up to where his brother and Farmer lay dead in tfif road some persons in the bushes oear the roadside f-rrd on him. wounding him in the arm. He fired four ah<^ at them

and made his escape.

r^lyii

Scores af People Perish at Tepefca.

Topeka, Kans. (Special).—There is ground for hope that the worst has passed. The Kansas Riv« is so slowly receding as to be hardly perceptible, but the five-mile-wide stream is gradually

settling back/into Up and down the

cheering intelligence that the waters I subsided to the extent of exactly sevei and a half inches. It may be some hour before another drop may be noticed. With 175 or 200 lives lost; millions of dollars of property destroyed; with hundreds of pistols-shots as signals of distress, blended wifti the agonizing cries of unwilling inhabitants of treetops and roofs of houses, and the waters creeping upward, and then slowly subsiding, and alternately changing hope to dispair, the city has passed the most memorable Sunday of its existence. Through all this discomforting condition of affairs was added the presence of a cold, dismal

rain.

The work of the heroic rescuers was not abated in the least try the conditions which confronted them. For long, dreary hoars knee-deep in water, and sometimes io water up to their necks, they

worked with might and main.

: itnpas i coal <

NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFATS.

Aoim: W. Mscbeo Arrtslcd.

August W. Machcn, general superin- I

•ee delivery system of |

FOR PEACE OF TEE WOSID

Recent Mohawk Ccc-

ferrate.

BRILLIANT ARRAY

SPEAKERS.

d upon

tendent of the (rei

the Postoffice Department, and whose summer home is at Westminster, Md., was a'rested here charged with receiving bribes in connection with a contract held by Groff Brothers, of Washington, D. C, for a patent fastener - used on

atreet letter boxes.

The arrest of Mr. Machcn took place at the Postoffice Department about 1 o’clock, after Mr. Machcn had been in fhe office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow all morning and under sharp cross-examination, conducted by Mr. Bristow and Assistant Attorney Gcne^ Robb, oi the

Postoffice Department:

Diller B. Groff, one of the partners in the firm of Groff Brothers, accused of having bribed Mr. Machcn, called at police headquarters and stated that he had heard a warrant for his arrest was j j. out. He was served with the warrant, _ and was released on $.0,000 bond. | cho!

Samuel A. Groff, the other member of | can thoi (,.it and action,

the Groff firm, was taken into custody ( of large hearts and broad minds, but of h'? “"h W *‘ re, fV ed ° n reCC ’ Pt 0l i to' l»dy brought together this year this

: £' u sSMrtuE £

sufficient, evidence, most of it docu-| d f“ 1 ' >" «l uaI nunlUr .

nrs/v,'™,

to about $22,000 or 40 per cent, of the ! « h « mo “ progressive tendencies of the amount paid during the last three years i Amencan people than this assembly at by the government under its contract | Mohonk. An analysis of the list of

£z-Secretary Foster, fcdwiril Evretl HateDr. Jcsitb Sircar, tr. Ljasa Abbott, Solictor PeaficM, Japanese Consol sod Others Make Addressrs—Platform Declares

tor ObHfitcry Arbitration.

Lake Mohonk (Special).—A fast significant In itself of the growth of the sentiment in fas-or of international arbitration and the grip it has secured u

the minds of thinking n

the largely increased attendance at the ninth annual Conference on International Arbitration this year. The largest previous attendance had been about 2t*. This year it was 250. These Mohonk

1 number of the leaders

of P Am

:ce4ings in Mr. Bristow's office was remarkably cool. He admitted nothing. In fact, he declared his innocer— of any wrong conduct on his pan. one time characterizing the chart and arrest as a grandstand play

arrest as a grt of the departi

Naval Coailag Stations.

President Palma states that the naval ling statfon leases will be definitely

coalinj

negotiated this week. He says the ter will not be delayed on account jA the absence from Cuba of Secretary of State Zaldo, as Secretary of the Treas-

1 Montes will

j and distinguished

a diplomat, statesman and imissioner gave him unique

officer in the person of W. Foster, whose long a career as a diplomat.

SSSkS

In his opening address Mr. Foster said that the most edifying and auspicious event to come under the observation of believers in arbitration had come from a quarter of the world to which AngloSaxons had not been inclined to look helpful 1

has been waiting to secure an ; |j ne . he said, had threatened to light the approximate idea of the cost of secur- 1 tcrc h , f war and thrust these two prosinformation is now forthcoming, so the 1 and Argentina agreed to submit then money consideration and other details ' differences to the arbitration of the Kin*

! £,x,±. His '"’ ,0 *“ —'"

•ferring to the Venezuelan

King led by

hands.

It is the President's desire that the Senate, when it ratifies the original naval station agreement, shall add to it provisions authorizing the President t& conclude the details thereof without

_ . . _ .tails thereof without [ them to the Senate. This r will be done. The Ii‘

probably will be done. The Isle of Fines Treaty has already been drawn, and its conclusion, it is expected, will

be quicLly accomplished.

Venczoelaa Blockade.

It is probable that the United States government will recognize the legality of President Castro's decree closing a number of ports in Venezuela now in

the possession of the insui

Short of Food aad Fact

Des Moines, la. (Special).—The relief authorities announced that they were confronted with a food and fuel famine. Meat markets all over the city declare they have but two or three days' stock on hand. There is no train entering the city and no prospect of getting a shipment of freight into Des Moines. Bakeries are overtaxed by reason of the demand of the six thousand flood refugees

through the relief association.

The temperature of the past three days has been such as to cause great suffering and to threaten great loss of life through exposure. Now it transpires that there is but a meager coal supply, and that the light and power plant and the waterworks have an in-

sufficient supply. F

hie for teatn-hauling and no

be shipped in.

At tlie water company’s office it was stated that the situation was alarming. Notice was sent to every resident in the city to draw an extra supply of wateto provide against the dosmg of the plant. Owing to the breaking of another levee, the commons, on which 60 tents were placed for flood refugees, was flooded, completely submerging the tents. The occupants escaped. Hop* ha( been inspired in the breasts of the 6006 flood refugees by the report that the river has begun to slowly decline. The condition of the sufferers has been slightly alleviated by the better organization of the relief fora

ladlctBcots for Peoat|e.

Montgomery, Ala. (Special). — The United States Grand Jury returned indictmems against white residents ’ allapoosa counties, charging

I ding negroes in servitude.

surgents. » does no

loekade, but practical

consequences of its enforcement be similar to one. No foreign has a right to trade in a closed port

drr pain of seizure and that is the penalty imposed* on captured blockade runners. It is assumed that the Venezuelan government will have ready a suitable number of vessels to make semires and

enforce the decree. ■ It is known that for some time that government has been qnietly inc

ing the small nucleus of the navy left at the end of the allied powers' blockade, and it may be now in a position to establish an effective blockade of the insurgent ports. If not, then as paper block-

ades are not rt law. each natic self whether it

' pr-

of'l'

the

_ite ret Coosa and Tallapoosa counties, ronage, or holdir- —— ~ SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Ten persons were injured in a collision of trolley cart in Charleston.

Mass. Two of the victims are ed to die. /

All the grand officers of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen were re-

elected ' at the convention ii

Col.

It is now reported that in addition to the eight trainmen who were killed in the Southern Railway freight wreck at Bryan. Ala., Wednesday, five tramps foui colored and one white) were tilled and their bodies burned.

in must determine for it-

^ will respect the decree of No notice has yet been received here the reported English protest against . e decree, but something of the kind is expected, in view of England's refns' to recognize thq last blockade order.

Adalleralions of Heap.

The War Department is giving at ‘tention to representations which hav been made in Washington and in Manila, to the effort that the adulteration of Manila hemp is threatening to destroy the industry of hemp-growing, and the department communicated with Governor Tail on the subjert. Tht following cable message was received: “Ask for conference with cordage manufacturers to learn how many, il any, competent expert inspectors “ hemp before baling we could se> from the United States, and what ary. Personnel of service most important, if inspection is to be made hon-

est and effective."

Military Trsla m 00 the DecBaz. Incoming reports of armv inspectors of military colleges are said to show a generally unsatisfactory state of affairs so far as the military training of the students is concerned and the In-spector-General is about to send a circular letter to the heads of the colleges demanding remedial measures.

The

lie hii

Malar Hawn Exonerated.

e Secretary ol War will make pubis findings in the case of charges by Maj. G. K. Hunter against Maj. Robert L Howze for alleged cruelties in the Philippines. Thd’ Secretary finds that the charges are not sustained.

A Dntl With Rapim.

Toledo, O. (Special).—A duel with rapiers has been fought near Adrikn, Mich. The combatants were a young man of Adrian, who unfler the name of "Prince Robert,” is a frequent contributor to the magazines and F. O. Ellis, of New York. Mr. Ellis was the challenged party, the affair being over an alleged insult offered to the fiancee of "Prince Robert.” At the first onslaught Mr. Ellis we* slightly wound

and gave up the fight.

_ > the Venezuelan imbroglio.

Mr. Foster sail the event showed some of the evil effect* of transforming the populous nations into great military powers and also served to bring into was a high compliment to President Roosevelt to be solicited to -act as arbitrator of that dispute.” said the speaker, "but it enhanced his reputation still more to decline the offer and to lefer the contending parties to the tribunal which his own government had done so much to

RUSSIA CAN BE HELD GUILTY

For the Massacre ol Jews in Kisbeocf—Court

Cassini Mzkes Reply-

Philadelphia. Pa. (Special).—A cablegram was sent to Count Tolstoi, at Moscow, asking him if the Russian government could be held guilty of the

^isheneff. He

massacre of the Jews in Kish

answered by cable:

Guilty is government. First, excluding Jews from common rights, making the separate caste: secondly, inculcating by force in Russians an idolatrous faith instead of Christianity." Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador at Washington, listened attentively

>r at Washington, listened att<

the reading of Count Tolstoi'i gram sad in answer said:

"I will say this much: The unfortunate calamity to a number of Jewish subjects of Russia is deeply deplored, (nd measures have been taken not only P pu-ish the perpetrators, but to preyer the recurrence of the misfortune.' N

ik. what good can result

Now,

I ask, what good can result to the Jews from the campaign waged against Russia in life United States? "The two governments are traditional friends, the friendship i| too old and too well founded to be seriously disturbed. Such calamities have occurred in other countries, and will, unfortunately, occur again, I need no) snerity instances."

Veoetodan Ports Close J. Caracas, Venezuela fBy Cable).—The Official Gazette published a Presidential decree temporarily suppressing the Custom-houses at La vela, Quanta, Puerto Sucre, La Guayra, Cano. Co loud 3 and Ciudad Bolivar, and allowing steamers from the United States 15 days and sailing vessels 30 days. These allowances count from June I.

Wins New Office. Pekin (By Cable).—An imperial edict

tints V

just issued appoints Wu Ting-tang, the

former Chinese minister at

of tl

member e ink will be

_ _ rs designati

tocol. The appointment practict

office.

ton, to be

office. His the five_officers designal

lintment'

ig-tang. th WashingIhe foreign

below that of ■d in the pro- — “ tally cre-

Praytd as Fire Raged.

London (By Cable).—A telegram from Grimsby says the Huddersfield fed ag emigrants and five other

were taken ashore with the crei

Huddersfield.

WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT. Second Assistant Postmaster General Schallenberger removed Svend Schibsby. of Kansas' City, a postal clerk. Iwcafise he headed a movement to secure payment of traveling expenacs. A committee representing the B'nai B'ritb is anxious to acquaint Secretary ay with detailed testimony regarding ic massacre of Jews in Russia. The Secretary of War has decided that the charges brought by Major Hunter against Major Howse of cruelty toward the -Filipinos are not sustained bv the evjratc*.

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