REWBERG GRAPHIC.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
lik e ly to Prore I
The house h u been naked to aee that
Jews get better treatment in Bosnia.
The Poit Arthur channel is not so
well closed as Admiral Togo reports.
The Prohibitionists are likely* to
nominate Gneeral Nelson A. Miles for
president.
The hoose committee has decided on
a lamp appropriation of $3,000,000 for
rivers and harbors.
The opening of the Cuban congress
was attended by wild scenes of disorder.
Fights were quite numerous.
Russians will only harass Japanese
force in Corea, playing the waiting
game decided upon by Kouropatkin.
Secretary Hay will intervene for the
release of two American newspaper cor*
respondents held by the Russians at
Niu Chwang.
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Senator Gibeon, of Montana, declares
the hue and cry about a land lobby
urging the repeal of several laws to be
largely baseless.
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HFFORT TO PROTECT THE JEWS.
8t. Petersburg, April 6.— Reports re
ceived by the ministry of the interior
indicate that the precautionary meas
ures taken to prevent anti-Jewish dis
turbances during Easter week, when
the ignorant are easily aroused to a
sort of religious frensy regarding
“ blood atonement,” will result in the
avoidance of serious trouble.
In spite of the pft&Lutlons, however,
it is considered possible there may be
attempts at rioting, but the authorities
may be relied upon to suppress these
with a strong hand. The following
private telegram was received today
from Odessa:
“ Reports of anti-Jewish disturbances
which are common at Easter time cause
more alarm than usual this year, be
cause of the occurrences last year.
Tbe Jews here are nervous but the
authorities have confidence in Gover
nor Eidhardt, who is in charge of the
city, and who is an energetic and hu
mane man, as well as in Baron Kaul-
bars, commander-in-chief of the troops
in Southern Russia. Under the cir
cumstances, therefore, anything like a
serious disturbance is regarded as im
possible.
“ The official papers have published
strongly-woided warnings, and the city
is placarded with notices that all who
disturb the peace will be severely pun
ished.” -
The house has voted down the senate
amendment to build a military road in
Alaska.
FOR TRBATY WITH RUSSIA.
W orking for Protection of
St. Marys, Ohio, reservoir, one of the
St. Petersburg, April 6.— Ambassador
largest in the world, is in danger of
McCormick is negotiating with the for
breaking.
eign office for a treaty with Russia
Odessa gave a warm welcome to the
Russian survivors of the battle of which w ill give to the United States
corporations the right to sue in Russian
Chemulpo.
Russians captured a Japanese steam courts and to Russian corporations the
er, seised maps, telegrams, etc., and right to sue in courts of the United
then sunk her.
States.
Under the Russian law, United
Semi-official advices give the number
of Russian troops in the Far East as States corporations can be sued, but
cannot sue in the courts of the empire.
nearly 2Q0,000. ____
This has caused United States firms
Russia is too busy with Japan to fel great annoyance as well as losses in the
low or make any objection to British past.
In addition the ambassador
advance in Thibet.
hopes to secure in the treaty a broad
Another attempt has been made on clause which will authentically give to
the life of Pope Pius, this time by two United States corporations all privileg
es in whatever character, now enjoyed
men disguised as clergy.
by the corporations of any foreign
It is reported that Japan atfer bom country.
barding Vladivostok, dropped a numbei
Although there are difficulties in the
of floating mines in that vicinity.
way of accomplishing the desired re
The three bandits who held up the sult, the Ambassador’s advances have
Oregon express and killed a messenger been met in the friendliest spirit and
got no loot from the wrecked express the indications are that his negotia
tions will terminate successfully.
car.
The only countries now enjoying the
* Rains make the flood situation in In privileges which Ambassador McCorm
diana more grave.
ick is striving to obtain for the United
French court decides the Panama 8tates are Germany, Greece, Bulgaria
canal case against Colombia.
and Italy.
The Botkin murder trial has been re
sumed with the ury alleged to have
Caal Found Near Port Arthur.
been bribed.
St. Petersburg, April 0 . —A corres
William J. Bryan has been decided pondent of the Associated Press at Port
against in contest for $60,000 in the Arthur telegraphs today as follows:
Bennett will contest.
The Chinese prophesying new attempts
Senator Clark, of Wyoming, says to block the channel are at the present
land ring boasts of spending money to moment awed. . All is quiet in port
and the situation is unchanged through
secure repeal of present laws.
out the peninsula.
Deposits of coal
F. A. Heinse and superintendents of similar to that of Caidiff, Wales, have
his mines have paid fires of $20,000 been found in the vicinity of Port
for contempt of court in Montana.
Arthur. The discovery is an extremely
timely one, tn view of the necessity of
The Oregon express was held up at obtaining apt ample supply of fuel for
Copley, Cal., and Express Messenger the fleet.
O’ Neill killed. The treasure box was
carried away.
Cannon Bought In England.
Bell, of Caliornia, created a sensa
Paris, April 6.— The St. Petersburg
tion 4n the house by declaring that vet correspondent of the Figaro says that
erans in the soldiers’ homes in his state Russia has ordered 260 cannon in Eng
land for the Manchurian army.
are robbed by the canteen system.
NOW WAIT ON IDAHO.
CREMATED BABIES
Are Ready to Report ea Oraat
Irrlgatioa Project.
Authorities Do Not Desire Repe
tition of Bastes Outrages.
CHANNEL ALMOST BLOCKED.
Satisfactory negotiations are proceed
ing rapidly for a settlement of the
strike in Colorado and it is believed Japaaese Can Easily Finish tbe Bottling
ef Pert Arthur.
the trouble will soon be over. - *.
London, April 6.—-Further reports
Officers have a bandit rifle for a clew
of akiimishing between the Russians
in search for Oregon express robbers.
Japan w ill face big odds on the Yalu and Japanese in the Yalu river region
river as the Russian forcé is thé larg are reaching London, but' no reliable
est.
details are given.
The Daily Telegraph’ s Seoul corres
Russians believe that the Chinese of
Manchuria are secretly aiding the Jap- pondent believes that the defenses of
Port Arthur have been so weakened
• Wichita, Kan., women show their that the early capture of the port is to
disapproval of Smoot by hanging him be expected. There is little doubt, the
in effigy.
correspondent says, that pnly a narrow
Circulation of counterfeit Japanese passage is left and that at the first
money in Corea is causing great an favorable opportunity the Japanese
noyance.
will block the channel. The Russians
Japan expects a long war and urges have taken many 12-inch guns out of
all her citizens to come to the defense their ships to arm the old and new de
of the country,
_ _ _______ _________ fenses of Port Arthur.
A correspondent of the Morning Post,
Russia will let China make protests, at Yinkow says that the position there
if any are made, against, the British is daily becoming stronger. A fort
advance in Thibet.
9
night ago the Japanese could have
The Santa Fe is building stockades landed with comparative ease, while
around the Topeka shops preparatory now they would experience great diffi
culty.
f
ffor the expected strike.
The corrspondent says he has re
Kouropatkin is willing that the Jap
ceived trustworhy information that the
anese shall win a few victories in the
concentration of troops along the rail
hope of luring them on to Harbin.
way has been so rapid that^it is now
Secretary Hitchcock has assured Ore impossible for the Japanese to carry
gon entrymen that filings made in good the war into Manchuria, with any hope
faith will stand, even if the timber and of success: apd that the most they can
do is to isolate Port Arthur and possibly
stone act is repealed.
Japan has finally allowed war corre Vladivostok.
spondents to proceed to the front.
TIME IS PRECIOUS
TAWNEY MAKES PLANS T9
TEST
1J05 FAIR BILL.
Will Try to Bring M attar Up Under
pension , o f Rules — House
0"T~—
Mestiate About Granting a Apocini
Rulo and the Session Is Drawing to
Washington, April 4.—The leaders
of the bouse hesitate to invoke the
power of a special rule to secure consid
eration of the Lewis and Clark expo
sition bill, if it can be avoided, and
Chairman Tawney has decided to try to
bring the measure up under suspension
of rules. Ho will call the bill up to
day, unless the Oregon men do not
deem the time opportune.
Those in charge of the bill believe it
will be better to find out just what
strength the bill has in the house, and
this will be shown on a suspension
vote, even if two-thirds of the mem
bers of the house necessary to supsend
the rules do not vote for the measure.
Tbe time is drawing so near the end of
the session that further delay may be
dangerous.
WINS CANAL CASE.
Has Perfect Right ta
Washington, April 6.— The Boise-
Payette irrigation project in Idaho has
reached the stage where, having re
ceived the endorsement of the engineers
of the reclamation service, it is ready
to be reported to the secretary of the
interior for his approval, as soon as
the state land board has designated
La* disposition it will make of the
60,060 seres of land belonging to the
state and lying under this project.
It is doubtful if the secretary of the
interior will pass on this prpjeet until
a clear and explicit statement has been
received from tbe state authorities as
to the policy which will be followed by
them in disposing of these lands. Un
der the provisions of the reclamation
law of June 17, 1902, {be right to use
water of lands in private ownership
cannot be sold for a tract exceeding 160
acres to any one landowner, and such
landowner must be an actual bona fide
resident on such land, or occupant
thereof residing in tbe neighborhood.
It is within the discretion of the secre
tary to set the limit of area for each
homestead, which lim it shall represent
the acreage which, in his opinion, may
reasonably be required for the support
of a family. Under tbe terms of this
law the farm area under the Boise-Pay-
ette project will probably be set at 40
to 80 acres, according to the locality
and character of the soil.
Paris, April 4.—-The first civil trib
OOVBRNMBNT AID ONLY HOPB.
unal of the Seine today decided the case
of th e. Republic of Colombia against
the Panama Canal company in favor of Taft Says Philippines Cannot Out Nec-
Raltronde W ithout It.
the defendants. Tbe decision holds
that the complaint of Colombia is not
Washington, April 6.— Secretary of
receivable, and condemns the plaintiffs War Taft was before the senate com
to pay the costs of the action. This mittee on the Philippines today to go
decision has the effect of removing the over the Lodge and Cooper bills for the
legal obstacles in the way of the trans amendment of the act providing for the
fer of the canal concession from the civil government in the Philippines.
company to the United States.
Great interest was* manifested in the
The decision is a long document, section providing for aid in railroad
fully reviewing all circumstances of building by authorizing the Philippine
the commission and reviewing the ar government to guarantee an income of
ticles of the treaty, etc., principally ar not exceeding 6 per cent on capital in
ticles 20, 21 and 22 of the treaty of vested in the construction and equip
March 20, 1888, whereby the company ment of such roads. Referring to the
acquired its rights.
sections of the bill providing for the
“ These rights,” the decision says, government building of railroads in the
“ have the manifest purpose of assur event willing capital was not found to
ing the full exercise of sovereignty oyer undertake the projects. Secretary Taft
he canal. It results from what is es said that he did not favor government
tablished before this tribunal that Co ownership of the system, but he had
lombia is not in possession of the terri • offered it as an alternative, after hav
tory traversed by the canal. By com ing investigated thoroughly the experi
ing before the French court in order to ences of the British government in In
obtain its rights over tbe canal, Colom dia and the Dutch government in its
bia tacitly admits its inability to jtself colonies.
control the canal. It therefore follows
Senator Burrows inquired if it were
naturally that it has lost sovereignty not possible to interest capital in rail
over the territory traversed by the road building in the Philippines with
canal. It also appears that this sov out government aid. Secretary Taft
ereignty is maintained by the new re said he believed a few links of a sys
public of Panama, which is in actual tem might be constructed, but not the
possession of the authority and power general railroad building needed tor
and administration and its policing. the progress of the islands.
Under such circumstances it only re
mains for the, Panama company to ac
TARINO ADVANTAGE OF WAR.
cept the actual situation of authority
and the facts relative to the territory Diplomats Confident Britain Is Moving
embraced by the concession. There
Because Russia Is Busy.
fore the action commenced by Colom
Paris, April 6.—The British advance
bia is not receivable.”
Although np form al notice of appeal on Thibet is attracting widespread at
was given, it was stated at the close of tention, the genera) view being that it
the court that Colombia and Bonaparte is due mainly to Russia’s preoccupa
Wyse, the original concessionaire, tion in the Far East. Government
would appeal*- It is said that an ap officials are inclined to share this opin
peal will not cause delay, since today’s ion. An ambassador said today:
“ It is manifest that Russia’s hands
decision is held to confirm the com
being
tied gives Great Britain an op
pany’s full right to transfer to the
portunity
to advance in Thibet. As
United States.
part of the same diplomacy, Great
Britain is re-establishing friendly rela
AMBRICA WILL RB5PBCT IT.
tions with France, thus neutralizing
any French opposition to the Thibetan
Consul Miller CHves Notice Regarding program.”
Martial Law at Nln Chwang.
In this connection the ambassador
Niu Chwang, April 4.— United States related a conversation with Foreign
Consul Miller today informed the citi Minister Delcasee regarding the Fash-
zen! of his nationality of the United oda incident. It was pointed out dur
States’ acquieeence in the proclamation ing this conversation that if the inci
of martial law by the Russian author! dent had occurred while Great Brit
ties here. The United States gunboat ain’ s hands had been tied by the Boer
Helena will leave Niu Chwang tomor war, the future of Central Africa would
row. -The British gunboat Espiegle is have been entirely different. It was
the conclusion of those taking part in
awaiting additional instructions.
Russian aothority has been estab the conversation that the time to settle
lished here without friction. There is minor scores was due to the preoccupa
no apparent alarm, although movable tion of your adversary elsewhere, and
property is being partly removed. It it is the diplomatic view that Great
is understood that immediately after Britain is now adopting that principal
the 11 ships now here are loaded, the and advancing in Thibet while Russia
port and river w ill be closed, as tbe is elsewhere engaged.
work of providing for a system of de
fense at Niu Chwang is prorgessing.
100,000 Men Have Crossed tbe Lake.
Berlin. April 6.— One hundred thous
and men and 6,000 horses, besides con
Nation W ins Point In Land Frauds.
8an Francisco, April 4 — The govern siderable artillery, have crossed Lake
ment won its second important point Baikal since the outbreak of the war,
in the technical battle over the alleged according to the Tageblatt’s military
land fraud case today, when Commis expert. Writing from Lake Baikal un
sioner Heacock denied the motion of der date of March 19, he says that he
the defendants, F. A. Hyde and Henry found that the authorities had done
P. Dimond to dismiss the complaint everything imaginable for the comfort
and discharge them.
Commissioner of the soliders on the railway and the
Heacock is deciding against the conten lake, and that the railway equipment
tion of the defendants, said that the cer was adinirable^ All the bridges are
tified copy of the indictment established steel, with stone abutments and are
a prima facie case against Hyde and carefully guarded.
Dimond and that the competency of the
Washington court had been proven.
W orking Hard to Oot Float Ready.
Paris, April 6.— According to a St.
Draft ef River and Harbor Bill.
Petersburg correspondent of the Echo,
Washington, April 4.— The house de Paris, work is carried on night and
committee on rivers and harbors today day at Croustadt in order to prepare a
completed its draft of an appropriation fleet to leave there at the end of July
bill carrying approximately $3,000,000 or the beginning of August for a war
to continue existing contracts for river port in the Far East, which is expected
to be free from ice in thsee weeks..
and harbor work.
PHILADELPHIA
STIRRED
UP
OVE*
GHASTLY REVELATIONS.
D octors Threw Light on the
of a Woman—With
el a
Other
el
Is
Jail Until dread Jury
Philadelphia, April 1.— Details o f
the wholesale slaughter of infants, who-
were thrown alive and crying into a
furnace in a house located in the heart
of Philadelphia, were brought out un
der oath at the inquest conducted by
Coroner Dugan today. Official inquiry
was being made into the deaths of tw o
young women, alleged to have been the
victims of a syndicate of malpractition-
era whose crimes in this city have
startled the entire country.
The full story of this crematory,
where hundreds of babes are alleged to
have been destroyed, may never be
told. The curtain has, however, been
lifted, and as a result three accused
persons were sent to prison today.
The place where the murders are al
leged to have been committed is the
house of Mrs. Elisabeth Ashmead, 266-
South Twelfth street, and Mrs. Ash
mead is accused of being the principal.
The charge was made by Dr. David
Mosier from the witness stand in the
coroner’s court during the investiga
tion of the death of Sarah Hughes and
Mary B. Sloan. Dr. Mosier swore h e
had seen Mrs. Ashmead throw living
infants into a furnace in the cellar o f
her house.
The spectators who crowded the cor
oner's court were held spellbound dar
ing bis recital. The accused woman,
with eyes closed and trembling, suc
cumbed completely under the accusa
tion, and fell back swooning into her
daughter’s arms. The intensity of the
situatioA was relieved by the coroner,'
who promptly submitted the case to
the decision of the jury.
Following the reading of the verdict
Mrs. Ashmead, her son, Howland Ash
mead, and Dr. Matthew McVicker were
committed to the county prison to
await the action of the grand jury, ac
cused of being accessories to the deaths
of two young women.
AMMBND5 IMMIGRATION ACT.
BIB WeaM Place Inspectors at
Principal Ports.
Washington, April 1.— Senator Dil
lingham introduced a Mil today to
amend the immigration act of 1903.
It permits aliens to pass in continuous
transit from one point in foreign con
tiguous territory to another point of
foreign contiguous territory through
the United States without payment of
head tax. Aliens having once paid the
head tax may pass through foreign con
tiguous territory in continuous transit
and again enter the United States with
out the payment of the tax.
The privilege under the act of 1903
permitting an alien to send for a rel
ative or friends is amended to restrict
the privilege to relatives. It is pro
vided that there shall be at least one
inspector of immigration and one sur
geon of the United States public health
and marine hospital service assigned to
each principal port where aliens em
bark for the United States to inspect
aliens intending to seek admission to
the United States.
FLAO UP AQAIN.
Russia Rescinds Order to Americans
With an Apology.
Niu Chwang, April 1.— The Russian
commander of the post has visited the
headquarters of the American corres
pondents, and, after apologizing for his
action in compelling them to haul down
the American flag at the time martial
law was proclaimed, granted them per
mission again to hoist the stars and
stripes over the mess tent.
The action of the commander was
largely due to strong representations
by United States Consul Henry B.
Miller that the civil administrator in
vaded neutral rights when he ordered
the lowering of the flag from buildings
belonging to American citizens, even
though it was dqne through the appre
hension that the flag was illegally used
by Chinese for the purpose of resisting
police inspection.
The British flag,
which was ordered taken down, will
also be allowed to remain.
To Olve Chaplain* Higher Rank.
Washington, April 1. — President
Roosevelt and Representative Hull, of
Iowa, chairman of the military affairs
committee of the house, today dis
cussed a bill which provides a- higher
rank for the army chaplain. It is
urged that sufficient provision is not
made in the present law rewarding any
army chaplains for meritorious service.
During the Spanish-American war sev
eral chaplains ware recommended 'for
gallant service, but It was impossible
to give the reward. The president is
deeply interested in the matter.
Oon boat is DUoMatleS.
Shanghai, April 1.— The Japan«
consul has visited the Russian gun be
Mandjur, and verified the report th
she had been dismantled.