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CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Return« o f Important Eventa
Presented In Condensed Form
fo r Our Busy Readers.
Arguments have been concluded
the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy.
in
Trouble is brewing over German in
vasion o f the financial field in Persia.
British politicians are much worked
up over proposed changes in the cor
onation oath.
The bond issue to build the Lake
Washington canal at Seattle has been
declared invalid.
A great grand daughter o f the great
Kentucky hunter, Daniel Boone, died
at Tualatin, Oregon.
A jealous dog in San Francisco near
ly killed his mistress when he saw her
petting a sick chicken.
A Newport, Ore., man committed
suicide by allowing the tide to carry
him out to sea on a small raft.
Chinese are protesting against the
acceptance o f foreign railway loans by
communications written in their own
blood.
About 250 persons in Fort Collins,
Wyoming, were made sick by ptomaine
poisoning from eating ice cream at a
banquet.
Business men in Georgia offer to pay
the president’s traveling expenses on
his Southern trip, over which congress
is wrangling.
State Senator D. W. Holtslaw, o f
Illinois, has confessed that Senator
Broderick paid him $2,500 to vote for
Lorim er for U. S. senator.
Tw o young women have gone into
camp near Middletown, Cal., and be
gun peeling tan bark. They do nearly
as much work as the men and say it is
better than idleness.
SEE BY T E L E G R A P H . N E X T .
French Scientist Perfects Apparatus
to Take Photographs by Wire
Paris,
May 30.— Television, the
science o f seeing hundreds o f miles by
the means o f a telegraph wire, is
step nearer realizaion.
Edouard Belin, a young French
scientist, has perfected and soon will
test publicly an apparatus which act
ually, it is Baid, w ill take a picture
telegraphically. Thus the image o f a
person or article before an objective
lens in N ew York would appear prac
tically instantaneously on a negative
in San Francisco at the other end o f
the line.
About two years ago, it will be re
membered, a German professor named
Korn interested the scientific world by
exhibiting photographs telegraphically.
Pictures obtained < were imperfect,
however, and showed practically no de
tails.
M. Belin, following Professor Korn’ s
lead, has perfected telephotographic
apparatus in which the senate commit
tee on posts and telegraphs is much in
terested.
CURTISS MAKES
RECORD FLIGHT
Albany to New York, 137 Miles,
With One Stop.
Actual Time in Flight 2 Hours 32
Minutes—Wins $10,000— Train
Could Not Keep Up.
N ew York, May 31.— Glenn H. Cur
tiss flew from Albany to New York
City in an aeroplane, Sunday, May
29, winning the $10,000 prize offered
by the N ew York World.
He covered the distance o f 137 miles
in 2 hours and 32 minutes, and came to
earth as quietly and as lightly as a
pigeon.
His average speed for the
distance— 54.06 miles per hour— sur
passes any other record made by an
aeroplance in long-distance flight. In
its entirety, his flight perhaps eclipses
1,002 FAM ILIE S EXILED.
any flight man has made in heavier-
than-air machines.
Russain Hebrews Receive Notification
The start was made from Albany at
7 :03 o ’clock under weather conditions
to Quit Kiev.
as nearly perfect as the most fastid
K iev, May 30.— One thousand and
ious aviator could demand. One hour
two Jewish families have now received
notification that they must leave the
city in accordance with the determina
tion o f the Russian government to
drive back into the pale all Hebrews
who are unable to establish their legal
right to remain outside its confines.
This number includes 50 . fam ilies to
whom notices o f expulsion were sent
today.
An additional 193 fam ilies livin g in
the suburbs outside the city proper are
subject to deportation before June 1
unless in the meantime they produce
proofs o f their ’ righ t o f residence in
their present sites.
It is impossible to get statistics
showing the number o f those already
expelled.
Even the Jewish R e lie f
committee is unable to state the exact
figures, but" the committee estimates
that between 200 [and 300 Jewish fam
ilies have left the city.
SU G AR W EIGHERS
Three Checkers Enter Pleas o f Guilty
[— Leaders Still Fight.
New York, May 28.— The long series
o f surprises in the sugarunder weighing
conspiracy trial culminated today in
the sudden closing o f the prosecu
tion’s case and the entering o f pleas o f
guilty by three o f the men on trial.
These three were fellow employes o f
the four checkers convicted last winter
o f complicity in the frauds on the W il
liamsburg docks o f thejAmerican Sugar
Refining company. A ll o f them work
ed under Oliver Spitzer, the dock su
perintendent, also convicted and sen
tenced to two years in the Atlanta pris
on, whose confession and pardon and
appearance as a government witness
was the first big sensation o f the pres
ent trial.
Counsel for the three men who de
cided to give up the fight— Harry W.
Walker, assistant dock superintendent,
and Jean F. Voelker and James Halli-
gan, Jr., checkers— today withdrew
their pleas o f not guilty as soon [as the
government, after introducing some
new testimony, announced that it had
closed its case.
Sentence w ill be
passed on them later.
A fte r a conference o f counsel, court
was adjourned until Tuesday next,
Judge M artin denying formal motions
for the dismissal o f the indictment
against the remaining three defend
ants.
W ith three minor defendants elimin
ated, there remain on trial the chief of
the group, Charles R. Heike, secretary
o f the American Sugar Refining com
pany, and his form er subordinates,
Ernest W . Gerbracht, superintendent
o f the Williamsburg refinery, and
James F. Bendirnagel, the refinery
cashier.
Today’s evidence consisted, for the
most part, o f letters written by Heike.
$1 ,500,000 BLAZE
HITS MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis, May 28.— S ix big build
ings in the factory district south o f
South Minneapolis are on fire and the
flames are spreading. A general alarm
has been sounded and St. Paul has
been asked for help.
A t 2:15 this
morning the loss was already $1,500,-
000 .
WAR P L A N S ARE HURRIED.
JAPAN’S NEXT
WAR WITH U. S.
Magazine Predicts Trouble With
America in 1915.
Opening o f Panama Canal, Chinese
Affairs and Immigration P rob
able Cause o f Hostilities.
Victoria, B. C., May 26.— T. Naka-
hashi, president o f the Osaka Shosen
Kaisha,[who recently visited America
as a member o f a commercial commis
sion, contributes an article to the Tai
Yo, a Tokio magazine received by the
steamer Inaba Maru, stating his b elief
that the next war waged by Japan may
be with America. The immediate is
sues at stake are the immigration and
Chinese questions.
Mr. Nakahashi, after dealing with
Japanese immigration in H aw aii and
the United States, goes on to consider
United States policies and says:
“ While the relations o f Japan and
America have been friendly for 40
years, they may change in character,
the increase o f Japanese armament
having affected American feelin g to
ward Japan, and there is a suspicion of
Japan regarding the Philippines.”
By 1914-15, Mr. Nakahashi says,
the Manchuria, China and Philippine
questions and others w ill require ser
ious study. The article concludes:
“ Altogether the relations between
Japan and Am erica w ill become deli
cate in 1914-15, when the Panama ca
nal is completed, and the Japanese
must constantly endeavor to solve the
situation beforehand and
avert a
crisis.”
Japanese newspapers devote much
space to argument fo r naval incre
ment, and the next session o f the diet
will see great debate on this question.
The Asahi, o f Tokio, completing a
series o f articles in which the neces
sity o f renewing many o f Japan’s fight
ing ships and the disparity o f Japan’s
navy compared with other powers is
dealt with, quoted a naval official as
stating that in order to equal the West
ern powers, excluding Great Britain,
construction o f 25 fighting units dur
ing the next 10 years at an outlay o f
over $200,000,000 is necessary, this
being based on a fleet o f battleships
and armored cruisers.
The Asahi
questions the efficiency o f Japanse-con-
structed warships in comparison with
those o f Western builders.
Practically every building in the
block bounded by Washington avenue
and Third street and
Sixth
and
and 23 minutes later Curtiss made his Seventh avenues south is burning.
Washington, M ay 30.— Official dis
Census figures show the average sal
first stop near Poughkeepsie, where Among the buildings on fire are the
ary o f ministers to be about $663 per patches received at the State depart there was an hour's intermission. R e Sixth Avenue hotel, the oldest hostel
ment both from Lima,
Peru, and
suming his flight at 9:26, he sped ry in the city; the J. I. Case Im ple
year.
Quito, Ecuador, indicate that war-like
southward,
and landed within
the ment company, the Waterbury Imple
A Colorado cowboy carried his preparations between Peru and Ecua
wounded partner 37 miles on horseback dor are being rapidly ’pushed forward, boundary o f Manhattan Island at 10:35. ment company, two threshing machine
Paulhan’s flight from
London to warehouses and the Pittsburg Plate
$ 8 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 IN G O LD C O M IN C .
to receive medical attention.
and that a conflict seems inevitable.
Manchester, 86 miles, exceeded the Glass company. One man was serious
In
view
o
f
the
fact
that
both
Peru
Thieves have stolen the Minnesota
Curtiss feat for distance, but not in ly burned and may die.
Bullion to Total $ 8 0 0 ,0 0 0 Already
coat o f arms from the noted H ill stat and Ecuador had accepted without re speed or in danger. The Frenchman’s
on Way From North.
The fire started in the Sixth Avenue
serve
Secretary
Knox’s
proposition
for
ute in the exposition grounds at Se
average was 44.3 miles an hour and hotel. The wind carried the flames to
the United States, Brazil and Argen
Seattle, Wash., May 26. — Eight
attle.
below him lay English meadow land the implement companies’ buildings
tina to mediate between these two
hundred thousand dollars’ worth o f
A French submarine was accidentally countries in the matter o f their bound Curtiss followed the winding course fof and into the St. Paul railroad yards.
gold was shipped from Fairbanks to
sunk by colliding with a warship and ary dispute, the State department offi the historic Hudson, with ju tting head
Seattle, marking the beginning o f the
lands,
wooded
slopes
and
treacherous
her entire crew o f 27 men were cials are at a loss to understand their
E S T R A D A 'S A R M Y IS R O U TE D . movement o f the season’s output o f
palisades.
He
swung
high
over
the
drowned.
precious metal.
present attitude.
great bridge at Poughkeepsie, dipped
It was the understanding o f the offi
A cablegram from Fairbanks to the
Deposed Alaska officials claim their
End
o
f
Revolution
in
Nicaragua
Seen
at times within 50 fe e t o f the riv e r’s
Washington Trust company, o f this
removal was due to the Guggenheim cials that in opening the mediation broad surface, and jockeyed like a fa l
in Easy Won Battle.
city, stated $700,000 worth o f gold
interests, because o f activity in prose proposition they had o f necessity ac con at the turns.
Bluefields, Nicaragua, May 28.— The bullion had been shipped. The Na
cepted the conditions proposed by the
cuting grafters.
Only once did his craft show signs government forces under cover o f the
offer, the principal one being the im
tional Bank o f Commerce also received
Roosevelt says he would like to see mediate withdrawal o f their armies o f rebellion. This was off Storm King, fire o f the gunboat San Jacinto, today a message from Fairbanks that $100,-
near W est Point, when, at a height o f routed the insurgents and captured
football rules change so as to elim i from the common frontier.
000 was en route.
nearly 1,000 feet a treacherous gust Bluefields Bluff. This loss to the Es
nate some o f the dangers, but does not
The gold is expected to reach Seattle
struck
his
planes.
The
machine
drop
fa vo r abandoning the game.
trada forces probably ends the revolu between June 10 and 15. The first
Rare Fossils Soaght fo r Museum
ped 40 feet and tilted perilously, but
gold shipments this year are a week or
Miss Mathlldo Townsend, considered
New York, May 30.— Two expedi Curtiss kept his head and by adriot tion.
This morning at 3 o ’clock the Ma- ten days earlier than usual and repre
the most beautiful heiress in Washing tions from the American Museum o f
manipulation restored the equilibrium driz gunboat San Jacinto began bom
sent the first clean-up. The gold was
ton, turned down several foreign counts Natural History w ill leave N ew York
o f the machine.
barding the bluff, the troops landing shipped via Lake Le Barge, the White
and married a plain American.
next week for Montana and Wyoming,
W ith his eyes and brain cleared o f under cover of her guns.
There was Pass and Skagway.
The “ je t ” o f light on H alley’ s in search o f dinosaurs with three horns the cobwebs of sleep, he went with his only slight fighting, however, until 6
The Fairbanks camp this year will
comet, discovered by Harvard observ on each nose, and horses with four toes mechanician and a handful o f specta
o’ clock, when the Madriz forces suc produce between $6,000,000 and $8,-
ers, has entirely disappeared.
The to the foot. The museum scientists tors to Van Rennselaer Island, in the
ceeded in taking the position o f the 000,000, according to mail advices just
comet w ill be visible in the W est until hope to find specimens o f both varie Hudson, three miles south o f Albany, enemy and the bluff.
received.
ties,
the
party
which
is
to
search
for
where he was to starL W aiting at the
about June 10.
The Estrada troops were under com
fossils o f the Cretaceous period going river brink was a special train charter
Governor Hughes o f N ew York, to Montana.
Russians Lured to Hawaii.
mand o f General Zeledon.
The force
The expedition is in
signed the bills to enable the state to charge o f Professor Barnum Brown, ed by the New York Times for Mrs, o f Madriz in the engagement is esti
N ew York, May 26.— Two[New York
accept the g ifts o f land and money and he will have three or four help Curtiss and her party. From the train mated at 500, and that o f Estrada at lawyers and the editor o f "a Russian
offered by Mrs. E. H. Harriman, and ers. A similar expedition w ill go to they could not see the actual start, but 200
paper o f this city w ill go to Washing
others, for a park embracing the Hud Wyoming for researches in the evolu those on the island witnessed a re
The Estrada gunboats Blanca and ton tomorrow to seek aid from the de
markable
scene.
son R iver Palisades, and providing for tion o f the horse. Two or three fossil
Ometepe escaped up the Escondido riv partment o f commerce and labor for
W ith the signal that Curtiss was off, er.
$1,500,000 bond issue by the state for specimens o f the eocenic age are need
Russian peasants imported from Si
the special train o f five cars and a lo
improving the land.
The government generals, Lara and beria to the Hawaiian islands to work
ed to complete the museum’s chain comotive gathered impetus and sought
A strike o f all union ’ teamsters in showing the development o f the horse to follow. But so quickly had he flown Chavarria, have not yet attacked on sugar plantations. Those in charge
from the creature no bigger than a dog that fo r 21 miles the locomotive, run Rama, which is in the hands o f the o f the movement say the Russians
Portland seems certain on June 1.
revolutionists.
to the s w ift and graceful Sysonby,
have been treated virtually as slaves,
Glenn H. Curtiss w ill try to fly from whose skeleton is one o f the treasures ning nearly a mile a minute, was un
General Estrada ta^es his [defeat at thrown into ja il on trumped-up charges
able
to
catch
up.
Albany to New York with but one stop, o f the institution.
Bluefields calmly. He says he intends and many o f them left destitute and
to make further resistance. N o dam starving. They were lured to the is
Grain Fields Fire Swept.
A collision between a bark and a
age has yet been done to American lands under false representations.
Young Women Peel Bark.
large steamer in the English channel
Chico, Cal., May 31.— News has property here.
coat 22 lives.
Middletown, Cal., May 30.— Gertie been received here o f the first serious
Secret o f Ages Sought.
Nevins and Crystal Patriot, robust grain fire o f the season, in Butte coun
T w o Killed on Way to Fight.
Scranton, Pa., May 26.— Dr. F. W.
Trouble with the wild tribes o f L i
young women o f Lake county, have ty. It occurred 10 miles south o f
beria is at an end, the leading chiefs
Salida, Kan., May 28.— A desire to Lang, o f this city, today explained the
taken a contract to peel tanbark and Chico, on the farm o f E. Davis and ad
having sworn allegiance to that gov
see the Jeffries-Johnson prizefight cost circumstances that are said to have
have pitched camp on the side o f joining places, and burned over 800
the lives of John Banks and Clarence led to the death o f C. C. Dickinson, o f
ernment.
Mount S L Helens, where they are hard acres of ripe grain, worth about $40,
Bloominger, each 17 years old, and New York, ex-president o f the Car
One hundred and twenty-five cases of at work. The young women peel as 000. Some o f the grain was insured.
caused Clarence Dishman and A lva negie Trust company. Dr. Lang says
champagne which were a part of the much bark in a day as a great many Scores o f farmers fought the flames
Netherton, each 18 years old, to sus that Mr. Dickinson, greatly interested
for
six
hours
before
its
progress
was
men
do.
They
wear
men’s
clothing,
estate o f Harry K. Thaw are missing
tain serious injuries here tonight. in a process which he says w ill trans
stopped.
Many
men
were
overcome
camp alone in the mountains, at least
and cannot be located.
While beating their way toward San mute base metal into silver, le ft a
two miles from any other habitation, by the intense heat and smoke and had
a
Missouri
Pacific chair in which he had been instructed
A delegation o f minister« failed to and are leading a “ strenuous life ,” to be carried from the fire, which trav Francisco 'on
persuade the San Francisco authorities with a pace that would make Roosevelt eled almost as fast as a man could run. freight train, the boys were caught in to sit, and leaning over a furnace
a wreck. " W e are going to beat our heated to 4,000 degrees, inhaled the
to refuse a permit for the Jeffries gash for breath.
way to the Coast and see the b ig fight fumes.
Johnson fight on July 4.
Bear Lassoed From Auto.
on July 4,” was the message the boys
Canada to Breed Pheasants.
Cody, Wyo., Ma 31.— When a big le ft for their parents when they left.
A Chicago scientist haa succeeded in
IOO Lose Lives in Fire.
Vancouver, B. C., May 80.— This brown bear paused to look at an auto
isolating and studying an original ion
Victoria, B. C., May 26.— Detail,
Japs’ Friends Boycotted.
o f electricity, and supports the “ ionic summer 1,000 pheasants w ill be bred by mobile near the ranch o f ,G. fC. Rude-
o f the disastrous fire at
Aomori*
hypothesis" advanced by Faraday in the provincial government in the Coast son at the foot o f the B ig Horn moun
San Bernardino, Cal., May 28.— A North Japan, in which 100 person*
district for distribution here. H ereto tains today. Rudolph Rovingo, the cow boycott was declared today by the San
two.
were burned to death and 8,000 o f the
fore the breeding haa been done only boy chauffeur, holding the steering Bernardino county building
trades 11,500 buildings w ere rased, with lose
An explosion o f some mysterious gas by local enterprise, but now the gov wheel with one hand, .lassoed bruin aa
I council on all merchants and business o f $2,000,000, were received by the
during a chemical experiment in New ernment has established breeding head the ear swept past him.
The captive men o f this eity, Redlands and R iver steamer Inaba
Maru
today.
The
York suffocated the ex
expert mentine quarters at Chilliwack. The birds to was dragged to the Rudeeon ranch and
side, who employ Japanese or other burned area is one and three- seven the
affected two be raised this year are all Mongolian is on exhibition there, with several
, Asiatic labor. The council represents ■ miles long and a quarter o f a
o f the best breed.
bare spots on his coat.
i several hundred workmen.
I bread.
James A . Patton lost about $1,200,-
000 in one day speculating in wheat.
Conflct
Appears Inevitable Between
Ecuador and Peru.
GLENN H. CURTISS
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