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EVENTS OF THE DAY Newsy Items Gathered from All Parts of tlio World. PREPARED FOR THE HUSK HEADER Lets Important but Not Lou Inlor eating Happenings from Points Outildo the State. Japan ha nt Chlnn nn ultlmntum on tlio rnllroad situation In Mnnchurln. Cleveland, Ohio, officers nra having n row over tho Whltla kidnaping ro ward. r IOrd Kitchener la to bo field mar hIikI and organise tlio British colonial forcea. Marriage of pretty cashier lim caused Lo Angeles hotel men to mn ploy men. Thn Moors are again showing actlv Ity mil another cUih with Spanish troop I exacted, Tliu murder of a Mexlcnn girl by Chinaman has caused nn outbre ak nt Zotlii, Moxlro. Venezuela I about to bring ton loo llio disputes with foreign power dating from Cartro's regime. A cmo of Ilubonlc plsguo has been found In Sacromento county, Cal, Tlio situation Ii udt rcgorded alarming. Tlio Chlnoto government ha mado arrangement to Install a tolephono plant In Fckln with a rapacity or 200,. 001) lino. Tlio Instrument uru to bo American make. Heat Ii clnlminii ;noro vlctlma at -Chicago. Striking baker at Montreal, Canada, havn cauaed a broad famine. Tho Jaj hnvo called off their strike on Hawaiian sugar plantatlona. The Stockholm atrlke la causing a famine and la spreading throughout -Sweden. An Oregon woman haa bean arreatrd at Oakland for swindling rallroada by fake Injury clalma. Ilernani J. Mullaney haa declined Mayor Iluraa'ii offer to bo chief of po lice In Chicago. Onn of the four aurvlvlng wives of the Mormon loader ilrlgham Young, la dead. She waa 88 yeara old. Three wealthy I.oa Angeles rnon have received demands for money with Joatli aa tho penalty for refusal. Mayor Kby, of llurknvllte, IV, has 1een arreatrl for threatening to dyna mite Pennsylvania Itnllroad tralna. Thn Illlnola board of arbitration la at work nt Chicago and hopes to' bo able to settle tho atrcutcar troublo without n atrlke. Tho direct primary law was the auio of a riot at Indianapolis. A bronto bust of James J. Hill haa boen unveiled at the Seattle fair. Tho asylum superintendent and two experts agTo that Thaw la still Insane. In a referendum oUctlon 3-cent Mtreet car fares wu beaten In Cincin nati." Spanish soldiers nt Melllla nro said to have trapped the Moors and routed them. Germany la now the only nation op posed to giving Americans a share In the Chinese railway loan. Charles H, Moyer haa been re-elected president of tho Western Federation of Minors far tho eighth time. Two thoussnd Cooneyites arc await ing the end of tho world nt Dublin, spending tholr time In prnyar. A Mississippi prencher has been forced to Ilea for his Ufa becausohe at tended a confuruncaof negro preachers. Count Zeppelin has mado two un nuccvssful utlumpts to fly from Frank fort to Cologno and each tlmo an acci dent cnuied n fnllure. Don Jalmo, tho pretender, says ho will not take n hand In the revolt un less Alfonso Is unable to handle the situation and asks his aid, A labor crisis la fast approaching in Sweden. Great Britain haa begun building nn norlal navy. A Fronch aviator has reached a height of 800 feat In his aeroplane. Tho wholo Missouri rnclflo system Is to bo merged into onu company by Gould. Chicago carmen threaten a genornl utrlko and pollco are drilling to bo ready for troublo. Two Italian chlldron hnvo boon ab ducted. In St. Louis and uro held for u ransom of $25,000. Tlio Wright brothers are busy mak ing furthor chungoa and ImprovomonU In their aoroplane. MOTOIIMAN 18 DLAMED. Evldenco 8hows'Ha Han by Switch Near Ooeur U'Alene. Hpoknno, Wash., Aug. II. In tlio collision of two pasionger trains on tho Coeur d'Alono & Spokane rnilway Sat urday afternoon, two miles west of Coeur d'Alene, 12 parsons wero killed and 102 Injurod. About 00 of the lat ter sustained only slight Injuries and am not In hospitals. Motorman Campbell, of tho wrecked train, who was reported among tho dead last night, Is nllvo today, but It Is thought It Is only njnattrr of a few hours until ho die. Ho was badly mangled In the vestibule of his car, and Is barely breathing. Campboll stated tonight that ho un derstood his orders wero to meet the other train at a siding five mlloa from where tho collision occurrod. It Is learned from an olllclsl who do cllnna to Im quoted that Motorman Campbell, uf the wetabound train, tho extra which was wrecked, hsd orders from the dispatcher to pull out of Coeur d'Aleno and to tako a siding about three-quarters of a inlla out, In order to allow the regular eastbound train to pas. Ho passed that siding, either forgottlng his orders or Imagining he could mako tho next siding, about an other mile ahead. It was between tho two aldlnga that tho collision occurred. ACAPULCO.IN RUINS. Destitute Inhabltanta of Mexican City ' Faco Famine. Mexico City, Aug. .'I. A dispatch from Acapulco today atates that 73 dis tinct shocks of earthquake have been fell there since the first shake Friday. The city has been destroyed and the In habitants face a famine. During onn of the shocks a tidal wave cngulfedjtho harbor and a number of lives woro lost. Chllpancingo also has been practical ly destroyed. What tho earthquake of Friday failed to do was accomplished by thn stronger one Saturday, which either leveled or rendornd unlnhabltablo ovcry building In the two places. All the markets at Acapulco wero dostroyed In tho shocks of Saturday and the country people are afraid to take In more produce to tho town. I'eople aro camping In tho public squares and have no foal. The buildings standing are being levoled by dyncmlto, as they aro llttlo morn than tottering walls. During the heavy shock Saturday the water In tho harbor receded 33 feet, and then ruehed back, covering tho dock and piers, causing considers bla damage. The peoplo aro aulTcrlng from exposure. Tho tents In tho pub lic squares and street do not keep off the heavy rains that fall at this season of the year. Funda are being raised in Moxlco City to relieve the distress of Guerrero. In Mexico City Saturday the shock was heavier than any other yet experi enced. So far as known no lives wero lout In tho last tremor. REBELS DECLARE REPUBLIC. Don Jaime do Oourbon to Lead Revo lution In Spain, I.ondon, Aug. 3. Quickly following meaaagea received hero early tody that Spanish troops had been repulsed in a collision with revolutionaries at Barco lona, came a report that tho Insurgents in that city had proclaimed a republic. Color la lent to the report by other dispatches emanating from Cerbero on the Franco-Spanish frontier. Thcsa tell of a continuance of fighting between the troops and revolutionaries In Ilarcelona, showing tho government has not gained control of the Insurg ents, as censored dispatches stated. Ofllclals of tho Spanish government nt Madrid and other points have con tended for several days that tho rioting was the work of anarchists and social ists. These claims nro challenged by n message received yesterday from Uarcolona by Way of Cerbero. stating: "Nino thousand urmod revolutionar ies hnvo formed a committee of public safety. A meeting of Carllst loaders haa been hold nt Figuoras, and the ar rival is expected of tha pretender, Don Jalmo do Bourbon, In order to place himself nt tho head of tha rabllion." Cigarettes Under Ban. Mlnnaannl. Autr. 3. Tho clirnretto Is an outlaw In Minnesota, The now stno law prohibiting tholr sslo wont Into effect Saturday, and It Is now II- tntrnt in nut tlmm nn (tin market. Tho clgnrotto mnrket assumed n peculiar pnuso in mo closing noura. inu prico varied, nnd was as unsattled as tho stock market after a Hurry In Wall street, Ip tha ovening there was n shortugo In popular brands at somo cigar stores, and sent up prlcos. He- nnrli pnmn from ntlutr HArttnnsnf frnnh supplies, which caused a ruah there. t Ship With 3,000 Overdue, nnrtinn. Nntul. Auir. .'t. Rnmn nliirm haa been created by tho non-arrival here of tho British steamer Worntnh,- fi-nm Rvilnnv. for London. Shu Inffc Tort Natal July 20, and alnco then has not boon peon uy any vossoi, n, soarcn has boon instituted tor hor. The uf aUh has 3,000 persons on board. ' i- PROCEEDINGS OE Thursdsy, August 0, Washington, Aug. 15. Tho tariff has bcon revised and tho extraordinary ses sion of congrosw Is ended. Doth houses andjourned sine die at 0 o'clock today. Tha conference report was agreed to by tho senate, 47 to 31, at 2 p. m., and soon afterward the concurrent res olution making certain change In tho leather schedule was adopted by both houses. I'resldont Toft arrived at tho capltol at 4 :45 and entered the president's room. Ills appenranco there, the first time since ho becamo presldont, caused congressmen to form In lino to bo re ceived by him. Thoro waa a constant procession of handshaking statesman throough tho president's room from too tlmo of his arrival until his departure at 5:50 p.m. Atalx minutes past 5 tho l'ayno tariff bill, as tho measuro will be known, was laid boforo the president. He picked up a pen sup plied by Chairman Fnyno, which had been used by both tho vice president and tho speaker In signing the bill, and attached his signature. After writing "Wlllllam II. Taft," tho pres ident addod: "Slgnod five minutes after 5 o'clock, August 5, 1009. W. II. T." Wednesday, August 4, Wsshlngton, Aug. 4. As though protesting against being callod out to a nlitht acrslon, senators were very tardy In their attendance upon the meeting of the senato tonight. Nearly an hour passed after the appointed tlmo before a quorum could bo assembled. It was finally obtained after an order had been Issued to tho sergoant-starms to bring in tho absentees, tor over sn hour the sonata employes had been tel ephoning to the homes of senators, and wero told that tho tolephono hod been temporarily detached. A number of tho senators spoke on the tariff measure when a quorum was finally assembled. Simmons, of North Carolina, declared rates were hlghtr on goods used by tha common people than by tho rich. Uoverldgo Insisted that the next tariff measure should be drawn up by a commission. Tuesday. August 3. Washington, Aug. 3. The complete collapse of all Important opposition to the conference report on tho tariff bill waa evidenced today when the senato agreed to voto on that measure at 2 o'clock next Thursday. Half an hour after unanimous consent had been given for that course a disinclination on the part of senators to speak brought an early adjournment until noon tomorrow. Tho lack of intorcst in tho proceed ing was evIdenL This waa caused by an agreement of Western senators to voto for tho conference report and to correct tha hide and leather schedule by means of a concurrent resolution to bo acted upon separately. The form of tho concurrent resolution was agroed upon at an Infonnal conferenco In Aldrlch's commiteo room. Instruc tions aro given by this resolution to the enrolling clerks of the senato and house to change the language of the provision reducing duties on boots and shoes and harness. Monday, August 2. Washington, Aug. 2. Tariff legis lation has been delayed again by the hido and leather question, and the con ferees wero called together onco moro todny. Western senators will compel further changes in tho hides and leather schedu e. These senators com plain that tho leather schedule as ar ranged by tha conferees with tho ap proval of tho president, is unfair to tho statos Interested in protected hides. It was agreed that some action must bo taken to conclllato them If tho conferenco report is to bo adopted. Saturday, July 31 Washington, July 31. Thohouso to night adopted the conferenco report on tho tariff bill, 196 to 183. Twenty Republicans voted against tho report and two DamocrnU for It. Payne appealed to his Republican colleagues to stand by tho bill, saying that if they wanted to drlvo thoir party Into chaos they would voto against it. Dut ho said It would be a delusion to vote against tho bill upon tho Idea that tho Dingloy rates would be continued. "Wo hnvo revised tho tariff nnd hnvo taken off unnecessary duties," said Payne. "Not all along tho line genorally, but in our revision of tho tariff bo hnvo rovlBcd tho tariff down ward nnd yot wa b'&va held tho scales bo ovonly that wo hnvo dona no Injury to nny person or any industry in tho United States. "Those rates Increase tho rovenuo from customs loss than $4,000,000. Tho corporation tux is estimated to produce ?2U,0U0,0U0 and tobacco $0, 333,333. "The Dingley law, during ull Ita period of existence has provided ample revonuo, and thoro Is no doubt this law will do tho Bama for another 12 yoars." Washington, July 31. After three hours' discussion tho senate passed tho CONGRESS IN BRIEF urgent deficiency appropriation bill, Including $20,000 for tho president's traveling expenses, appropriations for executing the tariff bill's provisions, reducing tho salaries of flvo judges of tho now Customs court from $10,000 to $7,500 par annum, and reducing the salaries of other Custom court ofll clals. Thero was a large atUndanco when tho bill was taken up. HID CONFEDERATE SEAL. Colored Government Employe Was Davis' Bodyguard, Washington, Aug. 0. James H. Jones, a colored employe of the senato atatloncry room, la 111 at his home in this city, and his friends fear he will die. Jones was Jefferson Davis' color ed bodyguard and valet, and Is the only living being who knows where tho great seal of tho Confederacy Is hid den. He declsres ho will dio with the hid the scsl himself Under In struction from Davia at the tlmo Itlchmona was evacuated and prom lied Davis when he was on his death bed that ho would nover divulge the hiding place. He positively denies that the soal was thrown Into the James river, as ono story declares. He says ho could put his hand on the seal today, but he never will. The negro has been offered largo sums of money for tho seal by various Confederate soceitics, etc., but always refused. Jones has been in tho government employ for about 20 years. Ho was originally appointed a laborer In the senato stationery room by Secretary of tho Senate Cox. He made good, and is well known and liked by members of the senate and official. Special Session Scheduled. Washington, Aug. 7. The adminis tration and the leaders in congress aro considering a plan for a special session of congress to be held in October, 1910, to consider tho report of tho na tional monetary commission. It has been decided not to attempt to present tho report of the commission at tho next regular session, which will begin December 1. It is renlixed that the subject will demand extended debato and there Is a strong belief that it would bo best to consider it at a ses sion colled especially for that purpose, New Lincoln Cent Ready. Washington, Aug. 3. Distribution of tho new cents, which bear tha head of Lincoln instead of that of the Indian which has ornamented thorn for so many years, haa begun. Tho Philadel phia mint has a total of over 30,000, 000 of tho now coins on hand with which to supply the orders that are coming in from banks throughout the country. There aro 1,650,000,000 pen nies of the old stylo in circulation, however, and it will probably boa good many years before the Lincoln coin entirely supplants tho familiar Indian head. Old Landmark to Qo. Washington, Aug. 3. The district commissioners today received bids on the contract to tear down tho Anacoa tin bridge, which Is one of the historic landmarks of the national capital. It was over this bridge that John Wilkes Booth sped his horso to escape from the city the night he shot Lincoln. The old bridge has been replaced by a handsome now structure, connecting Washington proper with the suburb of Anacostia. May Not Move Barracks. Washington, Aug. C. Senator Jones says tho cntlro Washington dolcgation opposes tho removal oi tho barracks from Vancouver to beattie. no says tho proposal did not originate with the delegation, but haa been consistently resisted by thorn. Ho questions that tho War department will persist in the removal against tho protests of tho en tire tepresentatton o: Oregon and Washington, Checks Water Grab, Washington, Aug. 3. To frustrate tho attempt on the part of combina tions to socure control of the water- power of tho country and to carry out the policy of tho administration for tho conservation of the nation's natural resources, approximately 42,000 ucrct of land for watorpowor altos were tem porarily withdrawn in Colorado, Mon tana and Utah, by Acting Secretary of tho Interior Plerco today. Dato for Meeting Is Set. Washington. Aug. 7. President Taft, of the United States, and Presi dent Diaz, of Mexico, aro to meet at El Paso, Texao, October IS. This nrogrant has been arranged ua n result of correspondence between the United States and Mexico. Director of the Mint Washington, Aug. 7. President Taft today appointed T. Piatt Andrew, of Massachusetts, as director of the mint. INTERUROAN CARS MEET. Collision Near Coeur d'Alene Results In Death of 13, Spokane. Wash., Aug. 2. Thirteen persons wero killed and 88 moro or less seriously injured in a head-on trolley car collision Saturday afternoon, at Coldwell, on the Spokane and Coeur d Alone branch of tho Spokane & Idaho railway, 25 miles east of Spokane. Offllals of tlio lino have not made a statement us to responsibility for the wreck. It Is said the eastbound train did not tako a sidotrack as It had been ordered. It Is Incomprehensible why the motormen did not avoid the col lision, as the accident occurred on a straight track. The motorman of the westbound train is among tho dead. Doth trains were running at a high speed, especially tho westbound train, and woro presumably boyond control. The wracked cars were ground to gether In one confused mass. The in juries are of all kinds. Legs and arms aro broken and heads and bodies aro crushed. Hrulsea and scratches from splintered wood and broken glass are numerous, and Internal hurts, which It is feared will swell the list of fatalities, were Infliccted. Th first csr of the train, the smok er, was so smashed that nothing but the trucks remained. It was crowded with men and scarcely one of them es caped aiivo and uninjured. This is the first serious wreck in the history of tho road. The track was cleared in about an hour and a half. PEOPLE IN PANIC. Repeated Shocks In Mexico Add to Earthquake Damage. City oi Moxlco, Aug. 2. With tho people absolutely frightened and trem bling In terror from their awful exper ience in Friday's earthquake shocks, flvo diatinct shocks wero felt again Saturday, and tho damage Friday is light compared with the damage Satur day. All communication was cut off from Chllpancingo, Acapulco and surround ing towns by the quakes, after it was restored following Friday's shocks, but information of tho serious nature of tho shocks camo through before the wires went down. In every instance tho frightened operators at the keys in tho stricken towns, talking to the equally frightened operators in tho capital, declared "the town Is com plotcly, wrecked," orworda to that ellect. Tho operator at Chllpancingo, capital of the state of Guerrero, reported that the palace or Uovemor IJamien t lores. which had been partiaily'wrecked, com pletely tumbled down, but that the family had left Its crumbling walls. The shocks here were more severe than the former ones were, and not an American and but few foreigners re mained Indoors. Tho parks and plazaa are crowded to overflowing and many people are In actual want of food. OSAKA IN RUINS. Important Japanese City Is Swept by Terrible Conflagration. Osaka, Japan, Aug. 2. At 6 o'clock yesterday morning the terrible confla gration which boa reduced to ashes a large portion of this city waa under control. Up to that hour 13,000 build ings hod been destroyed. An area four miles squ.ro waa swept by the flames. A fire which threatened to destroy this city started at 4 o'clock Saturday morning. At 9:30 Saturday night the fire hod consumed one-fifth of the town. Tho firemen who had been fighting all day, were completely exhausted and troops were called out to assist in tho fire fighting and to preserve order in tho city. Tha exact amount of damage done by the flames cannot bo estimated at present, but the total will be large. A number of persons have boen killed and seriously injured by the fire, Osaka is one of tho "imperial cities' of Japan, and la ono of tho most im portant manufacturing and commercial cities of the empire. It shelters al most three-quarters of a million peo ple, The largest of the Duddhist tem ples, for which the city is famous among travelers, covers an enormous area. The chief public building of Osaka is tho palace, built of stona in 1583. San Francisco Vanj$ Irrlgatlontsts. San Francisco, Aug. 2. An emphat ic bid for the next session of the Na tional Irrigation congress will be made by San Francisco representatives at Spokano when tho annual meeting con venes in the Northern city this month. The Son Francisco convention league will have ardent boosters present with a lecturer and a photographic exhibit to convinco the doubtful ones. A dele gation from tho Oregon Itailroad & Navigation company and the Southern Pacific likewise will lend ita support to tho San Francisco boomers. Adverse News Suppressed. San Sebastian, Spain. Aug. 2. (By wny of tho French frontier.) Nonawa ia allowed to bo published from Uarco lona. except that favorable to tho gov ernment, but reliable private reports say that tho revolutionists still hold a large part of the city and that the ar tillery haa not succeeded In driving them out. Reclamation Chiefs Gathered it Portland for Conference. N6 NEW PROJECTS ENCOUIAGEB Claims on Fund Double the Amount Available Eleven Millions to Bo Appropriated. Portland, Aug. 3. An apportionment of the reclamation fund among tho vav rioua government Irrigation project for the year 1910 will not bo determin ed until Secretary of the Interior Bel linger holds a further conference with the officials of the reclamation scrvica today. Mr. Balllnger yesterday held a preliminary conference with these offi cials, at which were present tho super vising ongineerof the six division into which the entire reclamation field la divided. There Is to be apportioned for these projects about $11,000,000, but tho demands for funda aggregate an amount fully double that available. The conference, which waa an execu tive one, waa held in the offices of the reclamation service in the Beck build ing. There were present all of the di recting and supervising officials of the service. In addition to Mr. Balllnger they were: F. II, Newel, director; A. P. Davis, chief engineer: O. II. En sign, chief electrical engineer; D. C Iiennr, consulting engineer, and the following supervising engineers: P. E. Wevmouth. Idaho division: I. W. Me- Connell, Central division; II. N. Sav age, Northern division; C. H. Swlgart, Washington division; L. C. Hill, Southern division, and E. G. Hopson, Pacific division. "Today's conference was only pre liminary and there Is nothing definite to announce regarding tho probable ap portionment of the reclamation fund, for the reason that final conclusion were not reached," oald Mr. Balllnger last night. "The various supervising engineers presented their demand for funds with which to carry on tho work undertaken by tho government, during the ensuing year. These re quests will bo considered further at an other conference which will be held to morrow. It will not be until after to morrow's bearing that I will be able even roughly to determine how the) funds for this "work shall he expended. "From the fact that the demand for money far exceed the amount of funds that will be available, I find It Will be. a difficult job to decide on any appor tionment that will satisfy all. Oregon haa not been receiving ita share of the proceeds from the sale of public land within ita border, as contemplated un der tho reclamation act. To see this state next year receive more nearly Ita share of this fund ia another prob lem with which I am confronted, espe cially In view of tho increased demands coming In from other sections of tho reclamation field." GENERAL STRIKE CALLED. Open Secession Reported In Many Communes of Spain. Bayonno, France, Aug. 3. With all trades unions in Northern Spain de claring a general strike today, and with several communes In Catalonia having proclaimed a republic, condi tions In Alfonso's kingdom are any thing but satisfactory. While the gov ernment on the ono hand sends out re assuring dispatches to the effect that it haa tho revolt in Barcelona and neighboring districta thoroughly under control, on the other hand it admits that it haa seited the telegraph and telephono lines In the Biscay an pro vinces. In on effort to keep the revo lutionists and strikers from communi cation with each other. Thla conflict of official reports, taken with the' fact that the municipality of Palamos has declared Itself freo and Independent, lead unbiased outaldern to believe that tho revolt is anything but suppressed, and that while revolu tionists may be cowed in Barcelona Itself, they aro waiting in small band in the hills for mora reassuring times, and will then reassert themselves. Suffering at Acapulco. Mexico City, Aug. 3. A dispatch from Acapulco state that aevero shocks continue. All the buildings that re main standing are uninhabitable and many are suffering from -lack of shelt er. Tents and temporary shacks in which people aro sheltered ore inade quate. Local authorities have sworn In a number of citizena as special po licemen, as tho force of gendarmes is insufficient. There haa been some loot ing. Feed, clothing nnd medicine, are urgently needed, but thus far no relief steps have been taken. Alabama First at Income Tax, Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 3, Tha houso of representatives yesterday unanimously ratified the proposed in come tax amendment to the) Federal constitution. The senate will vote on the question of ratification Wednesday.