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Forth by Managers
Leals Exposition.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
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Coates Kinney, the author and poet,
is dead.
Secretary Root is prepared to turn
over his office to General Taft.
Japan and Russia are growing bitter
and regard each other with suspicion.
Mayor Carter Harrison, with seven
others has been held for the Chicago
theater Are.
The house has passed the army ap
propriation bill, carrying approximate
ly $75,000,000.
Major Hoyt Sherman, brother of
General W . T. Sherman and of Secre
tary John Sherman, is dead.
The Middle West is suffering from
severe cold snap. The temperature is
far below zero at many points.
Representative Hermann says it is
false economy not to pass a river and
harbor bill at the present session.
Roosevelt has decided to ignore the
charges against H. Smith Woolley and
has reappointed him assayer at Boise.
Secretary Root is strongly opposed to
the proposed law that all Philippine
freight be carried on American vessels.
He says it will place the country at the
mercy of ship owners.
It is reported that Po^e Pius intends
to retire in a short time.
Japan proposes to make a military
demonstration in Corea.
Russian military activity at Black
sea ports is greater than ever before.
Although war rumors are very num
erous, the trend of affairs makes more
for peace.
St. Louis, Jan. 37.—The Louaiaina
Purchase exposition com
ready and is waiting for the full and
generaWinstallation of exhibits. The
point has been reached where the man
agement of the exposition is no longer
occupied with the rapid advancement
toward completion of the buildings,
but instead, - it now lays particular
stress upon the importance of the
speedy shipments of exhibits, especial
ly those assembled by domestic exhibit-
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Officials of the exposition make the
statement to the Associated Press that
the one thing of paramount importance
to insure the anticipated successful and
auspicous opening of the fair is the im
mediate commencement by domestic
exhibitors to ship cars as rapidly as
can be had.
Owing to the unprecedented partici
pation by both foreign and domestic ex
hibitors* vast amounts of exhibits have
been and are now in course of arrange
ment and collection. The time for the
opening of the exposition is rapidly ap
preaching, but apparently the know
ledge of the fact is not causing the
shipment of exhibits to be rushed for
ward with the promptness and dispatch
that is absolutely rteceseary to secure
rapid delivery of the cars to the fair
site, and to avoid possible congestion
in the handling of the cars after they
have reached 8t. Louis.
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The fair management has devoted
more than ordinary attention to prep
aration for the handling of cars and the
arrangements are now completed. Ad
equate railroad facilities are ready, the
warehouses have all been erected and
all the buildings are in such a state of
completion that installation of exhibits
can be commenced immediately.
What the management now most
ardently desires is the prompt ship
ment of exhibits from the different
parts of the country to begin immedi
ately. Otherwise, if there be delay,
congestion in traffic handling after 8t.
Louis is reached is almost an assured
condition.
NOI THAT KIND OF POWER.
Seventeen men, including the man Corea Joining W ith Japan Would Not
Drag France la.
agers, will be indicted for the Chicago
theater tragedy.
Paris, Jan. 27.— The attitude of
Corea
in the event of war between
Thefl ood danger is over at Pittsburg
and the general Eastern situation is Russia and Japan has been the subject
of much comment among the diplo
much improved.
mats here, as it is believed Corea’s giv
A noted diamond thief, suspected of ing aid to Japan might constitute two
a San Francisco offense, has been cap powers attacking Russia, thus bringing
tured in Minneapolis with $12,000 in in France, under the terms of the
diamonds.
Fianco Russian agreement.
One of
the
ambassadors,
therefore,
asked
For
1 General'Taft has reached the United
States and w ill assume the duties of eign Minister Delcasse what the result
secretary of war as soon as he-arrives at would be if Corea joined Japan and the
answer is in substance that Corea is
Washington.
not considered to be that kind of a sov
® Senator Burton, of Kansas has been
ereign independent power, whose assist
indicted for bribery in connection with
ance to Japan against Russia would
St. Louis grain concern, placed under a
bring about the contingency contemp
ban by the postal department.
lated by the Franco-Russian agree
The accidental death of a Corean hit ment. Although the answer was con
by an American electric car in Seoul fined to Corea, it is understood that a
started a serious riot, which was quick similar view prevails, thereby confirm
ly quelled by the American legation ing previous reports on the same sub-
ject that China’ s joining Japan would
guard.
Japan has landed troops at Masam- not constitute/ two powers attacking
Russia. .
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pho,*Corea.
Henry Waiteraon says Brayn is a tool
in the hands of Republicans.
Coreans are attacking Japanese in
many sections and serious trouble is
feared.
Russia is reported to be growing
nervous over the continued delay in
negotiatoins.
The house committee has decided
that there will be no river and harbor
bill this session.
Fulton s bill protecting the Colum
bia against misbranded salmon has
been reported feet the senate.
Pleasant Armstrong was hanged at
Baker City last Friday morning for the
murder of Minnie Ensminger. —
.. A thaw in the East is causing great
floods and many cities are greatly
alarmed, particularly Pittsburg.
The senate has passed the Gorman
resolution calling on Roosevelt for pa
pers relating to the Panama aaffir.
The United States has sounded both
Japan and Russia and finds that neither
cares for the good offices of any outside
power to bring them together.
Ice'blocks many Eastern streams and
floods are feared.
A Canadian multimillionaire will
build a yacht to compete for the
America’ s cup.
Senator Hanna is confined to his bed
with a severe clod. His doctor says he
must have rest.
Fire at the Greensboro, N. C., state
normal college destroyed $100,000
worth of property.
The internal revenue receipts for
December show a decrease of $166,061
over the preceding month.
AMERICA NOT FRKMTBNED.
It Expects No Trouble Over Sensing Con
suls to Manchuria.
Washington, Jan. 27.— Count Cas
sini, the Russian ambassador, had a
long talk today with Mr. Loomis, act
ing secretary of state, on the Far East
ern situation. The ambassador’ s ad
vices gave some hope of peace, though
the phase of the question which re
ceived most attention was the uncon
tradicted statements which have ap
peared in certain newspapers regard
ing the attitude of this government.
The Russian government, of course,
could not presume to question the pre
vious assurances received from this
country regarding its neutrality because
of any newspaper publication, but the
recurrence of these statements has
proved annoying.
There is no anticipation on the part
of this government of any hitch in the
reception of our consuls in Manchuria.
The evidence of approval of the com
mercial treaty which Russia has given
convinces the state department that
the consuls w ill receive every courtesy.
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THIRTY-SEVEN FATALITIES IN
ALABAMA TORNADO.
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Came la the Night When People W ere
la Bed—Oae Hundred People are In
lured—Articles are Scattered Over i
Distance el Tea Miles—T^s
Is Ho wed Down.
Chicago, Jan. 26.— Fire in the 20-
story Masonic temple caused a panic
among the 4,000 occupants of Jlhe build
ing, and damaged the stock and fixtures
of tenant^ to the extent of $80,000.
All occupants of the b u llin g escaped
without serious injury through the
bravery of the elevator men, who re
mained at their posts operating their
cars while dense clouds of smoke filled
the building.
The fire broke out in the suite of five
rooms on the fifth floor occupied by
Robert Friedlander A Co., manufactur
era of X-ray apparatus.
A lighted
match, carelessly thrown by an em
ploye into a pile of excelsior in the
packing room is believed to have start
ed the fire. There was a large number
of X-ray vacum tubes stored in the
company’s rooms, and these exploded
the moment the heat reached them;
The thousands of occupants of the
building, with the memory of the Iro
quois theater holocaust, which oc
curred but one-half block away, fresh
in their minds, were alarmed when
clouds of smoke filled every floor and
rushed to the elevators. Many women
fainted in the scramble to get into the
elevate re, but none was seriously in
jured. The large building was emptied
within half an hour after the fire was
discovered.' Hundreds of men and
women groped their way through the
smoke and came down the stairs.
That the damage to property and in
dividuals was not greater was probably
due largely to the efficiency of the fire
drill of the employes. When the great
fire bell at the top of the rotunde
sounded the alarm of fire, every jani
tor, engineer and fireman in the build
ing responded and long before the fire
department bad reached the scene the
temple fire brigade had attached hose
to the stand pipes which extend from
the basement to the roof of the struc
ture and eight streams of water were
turned upon the conflagration by the
volunteer firemen.
The fire depart
ment used but little of its hose, the
building’s equipment being called
into use.
Tuscaloosa, Ala., Jan. 25.— A diaas
trous tornado* swept over Moundvilla,
Ala., a town of 300 inhabitants, lfi
miles south of Tuscaloosa, early today,
and as a result 87 persons were killed,
and more than 100 injured. Every
business house, with the ecxeption of a
small store, was completely destroyed.
The tornado struck the city from the
southwest, and mowed a path a quarter
of a mile wide through the town.
Surgeons were rushed to Moundville
from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa, and
all possible was done to alleviate the
sufferings of the injured. By the force
of the Storm persons were blown him
dreds of feet from their beds in the
blackness of the night. Through ter
ror, a father, mother and three chil-
dren fled from their home to seek ref
uge, and in their excitement left a 5-
year-old boy in bed. Today he was
pulled from beneath some timber, and
thus far it is impossible to find any
other member of the family.
Bedding, carpets and wearing* ap
parel are scattered over a distance of
ten miles through what was a forest,
but vyhich is now as clear as if cut by
the woodman’s ax.
Freight cars were torn to splinters,
the trucks from them being hurled
hundreds of feet from the track. The
depot, the hotel, warehouses, gins, 30
homes, seven storehouses, together with
their stocks, were completely des
troyed. Where they stood it is impos
sible to find, even the pillars upon
which these structures rested.
Bales of cotton which were stored in
warehouses were torn to atoms, the
fragments of lint lodging in trees, mak
ing it appear as though that section
had been visited by a snow storm
Heavy iron safes, the doors of whioh in
some instances were torn from their
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hinges, were carried away by the force
of the wind.
The Dalles Canal W ill Not Be Delayed
r* for Lack of Ponds.
IS ABLLB TO FIRBPROOF WOOD.
A Chicago Chemist Makes Use of Sul
phate of Alluninola.
Chicago, Jan. 25.— Joseph L. Fer
rell. of Philadelphia, threw handfulls
of exoelsior on a hot gas lire in the
rooms of the Western Society of Engi
neers last night in demonstrating a
theory. It smoked, but did not blaze
Mr. Ferrell, who is a chemist, had
been asked to address the engineers on
the subject of fireproofing wood and
combustible fabrics. He told them it
could *be done cheaply, and then he
made the practical demonstration des-
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composition Mr. Ferrell had used to
fireproof the wood and cotton. His
plan is to saturate the material under
pressure.
From a commercial viewpoint Mr.
Ferrell said there was nothing in the
way of making any theater safe from
spreading flames. W hile Bulphate of
amonia, which has been used, is ex
pensive,*' sulphate of aluminum is
cheap, costing 75 cents a hundred
weight, and the expense of using it is
comparativley small.
TO LBT PANAMA QO ITS WAY.
War Feeling In Colombia Is Dying Out
Very Fast.
New York, Jan. 25.— Mail advices re
ceived from Bogota indicate, according
to a Herald dispatch from Panama,
that the war feeling in Colombia is dy
ing out, and there is a general desire to
allow Panama secession to pass with
out a disastrous war.
Heretofore tho newspapers of the
capital have been filled with patriotic
declarations that it would be necessary
to have a war to reclaim the lost terri
tory. Now all uge^reconciliation or
anything to avoid further serious com
plications. John B. Perezzote, who
has been agitating war with the United
States by speeches and writings, is re
Destruction of the Cotton-Boll W eevil.
ported to have been placed under ar
Washington, Jan. 27.—The secretary rest.
of agriculture has aproved the plans for
the cotton boll weevil investigation in
Fire Drives Families Oat.
the Southwest, for which an appropri
Chicago,
Jan. 25.— The plant of the
ation of $250,000 has been available.
Secretary Wilson believes that the best Pittsburg plate glass company, 442-452
methods for meeting the ravages cab sed Wabash avenue, was destroyed by fire
by the boll weevil will be put into tonight and from this building the
actual practice the facts which have flames were communicated to the seven-
been accumulated by the department story factory and apartment building of
during the past two years in the matter the Buckler medical company, just east
of improving culture conditions, the of the building of the glass company.
planting of early maturing varieties of A number of families who lived in the
cotton, substitution of other crops, etc. Bucklen building were compelled to
make hasty exits, but all escaped un
harmed. The Bucklen building was
Destructive Fire la New York.
New York, Jan. 27.— The buildings badly burned on the west end, but not
at 544-548 Broadway, occupied by destroyed. Loss, $800,000,
A gas explosion followed by fire in a
Marion, Ind., hotel, wrecked the build
ing and caused the death of three per Morimura Bros., Japanese goods; E.
sons.
$200,000 Plre la Factory.
R. Donar A Co., hats, and Cranford A
New
York, Jan. 25.— Fire in the up
A torando which struck Austin, Tex Quigley, Rossenware Bros., and Finkle-
per
floors
of the six-story factory of the
steln
A
Maaget,
clothing,
was
destroyed
as, caused several thousand dollars’
E.
W.
Bliss
company, in Plymouth
by
fire
early
today.
Estimated
lose,
loss by unroofing houses. No one was
street,
today
did $200,000 damage.
$250,000.
hurt.
Washington, Jan. 26. — Senators
Mitchell and Fulton have made a thor
ough investigation of the status of Ore
gon improvements, in view of no river
and harbor bill at this session. They
found that only one project can be
taken care of in the ordinary way— in
the sundry civil appropriation bill—
and. that is the canajj nd locks at The
Dalles. The senators were advised by
the chief of engineers that there was
on hand January 1 an unexpended bal
ance of $1,200,000 for the bar at the
mouth of the Columbia river.
The
amount for the river between. Portland
and the sea was less than $100,000.
For this project Major Langfitt recom
mended $1,200,000, but the war depart
ment cut the amount down t<^$500,000,
believing that no more than that
amount could be utilized in one year.
It was stated by the chief of engineers
that the half million, if it could be ob
tained this year by any means, would
be sufficient until a river and harbor
bill could be passed early in the ses
sion, perhaps before the holiday recess.
The engineers recommended, and the
war department concurred in the rec
ommendation for the... appropriation of
$500,000. ' In addition, $125,000 is
favored for 'dredging.
It is deemed
very important, the senators say, that
this appropriation should be made, but
under ths existing conditions it cannot
go in the regular sundry civil bill, in
nhe regular course. All of the Oregon
improvements, except The Dalles, are
affected, and it is-, doubtful whether
anything can be done before January of
next year. It is the intention of the
delegation to make the very best fight
possible to get the necessary funds for
carrying on the Oregon improvements.
Russian Troops Expect W ar.
Victoria, B. C., Jan. 26.— Four Ital
ians, who have been working on the
Manchurian railway, who arrived by
the Victoria from Yokohama today, re
port the Russian soldiers all expectant
of speedy war with Japan, have been
passing through there and large detach
ments of artillery have been arriving.
Great camps of soldiers are being made
at many points ready for concentration
on the Yalu frontier when necessary.
Fortifications were being hurriedly
erected in many places in Man
churia.
(treat Radiant Discovery.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 26.— What is said
*> be the richest radinm bearing earth
n the world has been discovered in the
Llano gold and coal fields, 115 miles
north of this city. Rumors of the dis
covery of the earth bearing a large per
cent of radinm in the Llano have been
tersistent for some time, and today
them rumors were verified by the re
turn of a party of scientists who had
visited the mine to investigate the re
ports. ^
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NEW LAW A0REED UPON BY HOUSE
PUBLIC LAND COMMITTEE.
Railroads Are Likely to «offer—Much
Their Holding* within Forest
serves Is Devoid of Timber, aad Un
der the Mondell BUI Exchange W in
Be on Bqual Basis.
Washington, Jap. 22.—The house
public lands committee today author
ized Representative Mondell to report
favorably his bill providing that pub
lic lands chiefly valuable for tim ber
shall pot be subject to location or selec
tion in lieu of tracts relinquished with
in forest reserves, and that selections
made or sought to be -made on lands
chiefly valuable for the timber they
contain, in lieu of lands within forest
reserves, shall be void and of no effect.
Mondell’s bill has the approval o f
the interior department, which in its
report to the public lands committee
upon it, said that the area of forest re
serve lands now actually created exceed
63,000,000 acres, with the addition of
the large temporary withdrawals for
future incorporation in reserves, and
called attention to the fact that under
the present law all private holdings
within reserves may be made the basis
for securing like areas of lands ontside
of reserves. The pendency and prac
tice is to appropriate timbered lands in
lieu o f those surrendered, whether the
latter are timbered or denuded, and the
experience of the general land office
shows that great areas of valuable tim
ber lands have been acquired in ex
change for lands included in reserves,
and from which the timber has been
stripped.
At the present time various railroads
with land grants embraced in forest re
serves have 2,500,000 acres of land
available as basis for making lieu land
selections. Much of this Iknd is de
void of timber, but under the present
laws it may be exchanged for valuable
timber lands.
Advantage has been
taken of the present law relating to-
lien selections, and great areas o f
worthless land turned over to the gov
ernment in exchange for lands contain
ing valuable timber. It is expected
the Mondell bill will prevent the con
tinuation of these abuses.
FOR ANNEXATION OF PANAMA.
Morgan’s BUI Also
of
Washington, Jan. 22.— Senator Mor
gan today introduced a bill providing
for the annexation of Panama to the-
United States, “ the rights and proper
ty of Panama resting in the United
States without reserve."
The bill appropriates $10,000,000 as
compensation to Panama for its conces
sion; places $10,000,000 at the disposal
of the president for the. compensation
of Colombia and appropriates $60,000,-
000 for the purchase of the property o f
the new Panama Canal company in
Colombia, including the Panama canal.
It is especially provided that the pro
visions of the bill shall not have the
effect of repealing the Spooner act.
Mr. Morgan gave notice that he
would submit some remarks on the bill
tomorrow. A preamble to the bill sets
forth that, many nations have recog
nized the secession of Panama, and the
independence of that republic is an ac
complished fact. The bill asserts that
the president of the United States ap
proved and protected the secession with
the naval forces of the United States,
and the president and the senate recog
nized the independence of the new re
public by appointing and accrediting a
minister to that republic.
After providing for the construction
o f $he Panama canal by the United
States, the bill declares that all the
rights and properties of the republic of
Panama of every description shall vest
in the United States of America with
out reserve and shall be subject to its
sovereign jurisdiction.
Morgan also introduced a concurrent
resolution'‘d irecting the president to
enter into negotiations with the govern
ment of Nicaragua and Costa Rico for
the Construction of a canal via the Nic
araguan route.
President and Leader Confer.
Washington,
Jan. 22.— President
Roosevelt and Senator Aldrich, of
Rhode Island, the Republican floor
leader of the senate, had a long confer
ence today. It is known that the stat
us of the Panama canal treaty was un
der consideration. The president is
taking occasion to discuss the matter
with the Republican senators with a
view to an early ratiflation of the treaty
if possible. It is understood.he talked
on the subject with 8enatcir Hanna,
chairman of the interoceanic canal
committee.
Trouble Feared at Seoul.
Seoul, Jan. 22.— The emperor of Co
rea has ordered that 700 revolvers and
clubs be distributed to the “ peddlars,"
who are nominally secret police and a
dangerous element. Many Coreans aie
leaving Seoul, fearing trouble.
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