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NEWS OF THE WEEK
in a Condensed Fcrni for
Busy Readers.
Cor
Rnuffli of tha Lass Important but
Not Lots Interesting Events
of the Past WMk.
Carnegie has given an endowment ot
46,000,000 to Carnegie Institute.
All railway employes east of the
Mississippi will demand more wages.
Cubans are eager lor a division as to
when the end of intervention will come.
President Joseph Smith mya the
Mormon chuich has abandoned poly
gamy. President Bonilla, of Honduras, Is
gathering forces to continue the Central
American war.
The amount of coffee being import
ed into the United States is decreasing,
but tbe importation of cocoa is increas
ing. Roosevelt is counting on compelling
congtess at its next eessiou to pass a
reform land law by enforcing present
statutes.
Eight more indictments are coming
for San Francisco telephone men.
lleney has sent a warning to Detwiler
that he had better give up.
England is becoming aware of the
fact that 75 per cent ot the canned
goods used in that country come from
the United States unlabeled and that
English labels are put on by the ini
porteis. A part of the outer wall 01' the Vati
can has collapsed.
A denunciation of the ciar may cause
dissolution of the donma.
Roosevelt fays corporations have con
spired to defeat his policy in 1908.
Thaw has been declared sane, but
Jerome will appeal for a riiiht to see
the evidence.
T" John A. Lewis has reached Chicago
from Mexico and will at once start the
fight to secure control ot Zion City.
Governor Swettenham, of Jamaica,
resinned because he was ordered to
apologize by bis home government.
The army quartermaster's depart
raent at Manila is under fire because
the payroll has been found to be pad
ded.
Heney has found that the telephone
companies contributed to both sides in
the campaign of Schmitz for mayor of
San Francisco.
Harriman's lawyers are defending
before the Interstate Commerce com
mittee the right of railroads to water
stock. They also claim rival roads have
a right to combine.
Oklahoma elections gave Republicans
control.
Six men were overcome by gas in a
mine at Lead, S. D.
The Hermann defense has attacked
Hitchcock's methods of conducting the
iland office.
Doctors in the Thaw case have dis
agreed, some saying him sane and oth
era insane.
J. J. Hill has formally retired as
president of the Great Northern and his
on Louis has assumed control.
As a result ot the city election in St
Louis the Democrats are in complete
control of every branch of the city gov.
einment.
All cities and towns of Colorado ex
cent Denver have just held municipal
elections. The liquor question was the
chief one and in a large number of
places the temperance people carried
the day.
A' letter from Harriman to a friend
published in Eastern papers, says
Roosevelt asked him to raise $200,000
for the 1904 campaign fund, which he
-did. The president Eays the statement
as lalse.
On the liner Siberia, due in San
Francisco May 3, are coming a number
of Chinese military officers being sent
'by their government to the Jiameetown
exposition to study the warships of all
nations.
Nicaragnana have captured another
Honduran port.
Ruef has appealed to the Supreme
eouit for release on bail.
A new movement has been started in
the South to end the race problem.
The government is to prosecute Hill
for violation of the 28-bour law for
stock.
Railroad employes are willing to
yield on the question of wages but are
firm tot nine hours
A storm at Havana drove waves into
the city, causing much damage. Many
.lives were endangered.
WILL Bt NO STR KE.
Railroads and Trainman Have Reached
an Agreement.
Chicago, April 6. The differences
between the Western roads and the
members ot the Onter of Conductors
and the Brotherhood ot Trainmen were
finally adjusted yesterday. The men
abandoned their demand tor a nine
I hour work day and the roads made an
'advance ovet their previous proposition
in the pay of baggagemen, flagmen and
brnkenien ot $7.60 pet month.
The original demands ot the men
were for an Increase ot IS per cent and
for a working day of nine hours. The
managers offered an Increase In pay of
10 per cent and declined to grant .the
nine-hour day. The agreement was
reached mainly through the efforts o(
Chairman Knapp, of the Interstate
Commerce commission, and Charles
Neill, United States labor commission
er. The agreement, wnlen goes into
effect dating from April 1, follows:
The pay of conductors in the passen
ger service to be Increased 110 per
month, that of baggagemen $7.60 and
that of flagmen and brakemen $6.50
per month as applied to the schedules
in effect November 1, 1900.
The railroads are not to make any re
luct ion in crew or increase in mileage
for the purpose ot offsetting the in-
reased wages given the passenger
trainmen.
Oveitiine la the passenger service to
be allowed on the basis ot 15 miles
per hour, to be computed for each part
of the run separately. Time is to be
gin at the schedule time ot leaving.
Roads on a basis of more than ten
hours per day for a helper or construc
tion train service are to make no in
crease in tbe rates paid for such ser
vice. The increases granted in the
agreement are to apply also to rates
for special services as specified in the
ndividual schedule.
Upon roads having a better basis for
day's work or for payment of over
time or other allowances in all branches
of train service, the acceptance of this
agreement is not to act as a reduction.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive r ire-
men was also granted by the railroads
an increase of 10 percent.
NEW SPELLERS GAINING.
Champions of Simplicity Rejoice Over
Number of Converts.
New York, April 5. Chairman
Brander Matthews, of the Simplified
Spelling board, at its first annual meet
ing today submitted a report stating
that at least 100,000 persons were us
ing the form of spelling urged by the
organization. Most of tbe criticism
again;t the board's activity, Professor
Matthews declared, bad corre from
men ol letters, but this bad been mere
than offset by the support of men of
science. Professor .Matthews says rresi
dent Roosevelt's warm attitude toward
simplified spelling had also been i
powerful factor in advancing the work
Resolutions were adopted thanking
Andrew Carnegie for the aid be had
rendered the board and expressing the
conviction that through the help thus
rendered there "would be insured for
countless gent rat ions a great diminu
tion in the labor of teaching and learn
ing with a proportionate increate in
the things taught and learned; a vast
increase in the facility ot spreading
ideas, and therefore a vast increase in
each individual's stock of original
ideas."
REGARDED AS PERSONAL.
Hermann Explains Why He Made Way
With Letterbooks.
Washington, April 6. During the
hour he was on the stand today Binger
Hermann narrated the circumstances
under which he ordered the destruction
of his 35 private letterbooks, gave his
reason for so doing, and also explained
tbe distinction be drew between per
sonal and official correspondence.
While telling the story of the books, he
for the AM. time displayed eigns of
emotion, and bis earnestness and
stiaigthforwardness as he talked direct
to the jury were convicing.
From bis own testimony it was evi
dent that Hermann never drew a fine
distinction between the official and the
personal in his correspondence with
Oregon friends, In fact, tlie bulk of his
correspondence with personal acquaint
ances at home was regarded by him as
personal, notwithstanding much of it
dealt more or less extensively with land
office business.
How Germany Understands It.
Berlin, April 5. The statement
made at the British foreign office today
that Great Britain had net In any way
altered her request that the question of
the limitation of armaments be includ
ed in the program of the coming peace
conference at The Hague causes tome
surprise in Berlin, as the German for
eign office understands that Great Brit
ain does not insist on the question be
ing formally included in the program,
but only reserves the privilege of rais
ing the question in the conference, thus
leaving the other powers free.
Two-Cent Fare for Michigan.
Lansing, Mich., April 5. The sent te
today, 27 to 3, passed a bill requiring a
2-cent per mile passenger fare on ail
Lower Peninsula railroads, the net
earnings of which exceed $l,200a mile.
TORNADOJN SOUTH
Sweeps Through Louisiana, Mis
sissippi and Alabama.
CUIUS A SCORE OF VICTIMS
Portions ' of Four Towns and an In
sane Asylum Devastated Loss
Placed at $600,000.
New Orleans, I., April 6. Probably
15 lives were lost today by a tornado
which swept across portions ot three
Gulf states and which was traceable for
a distance of 300 miles. The tornado
moved from west to east over the south
ern extremity of Louisiana and Missis
sippi, and striking into Alabama tors
snort distance. Portions ot four towns
were destroyed, and damage approxi
mating $500,000 was done.
The tornado began at Alexandria,
La., soon after 1 o'clock yesterday
mornjng, instantly killing tour persons
there, fatally injuring three and seri
ously wounding 13 others.
Soon alter daylight it reached tbe
Mississippi river, killing four persons
at Jackson, 1., while at Bayou Sara,
La., at least half a dozen others were
killed. There was one fatal Injury at
Jackson.
The tornado next appeared at Car
son, Mite., where great property dam
age was done. About noon near elma,
Ala., the Inhabitants saw the clouds
rise Into the air and the storm disap
peared.
The insane asylum at Jackson, 14. ,
was almost wholly wrecked, with a loss
ot about $200,000. In addition to three
female inmates killed many sustained
injuries. Two negroes were killed on a
nearby plantation. Reports from the
surrounding country indicated that
there was probably more loss of life
among the negroes, whose flimsy cabins
quickly collapsed before the wind.
HONOR MEMORIAL DAY.
Cemmander-ln-Chief of Grand
Army
Issues Proclamation.
Zanesville, 0., April 6. -Commander-in-chief
Brown, of the Gand At my
of the Republic, today Issued his
Memorial Day proclamation, of which
the following is a summary:
On Thursday, May 30, will occur the
annual ceremony of garlanding the
graves of the dead, and the corainandei-in-chief
calls upon the posts to see that
the last resting place of every Union
soldier, sailor or marine in their re
spective localities is fittingly decorated.
Wherever practicable, public com
memorative services of the heroism of
the dead should be held at some central
point.
Department commanders are charged
with the duty of patriotic instruction
in the public schools insofar as the co
operation of the school authorities can
be secured. Let Friday, May 24, or
the last day preceding Memorial Day,
be set aside for this laudable purpose
In accordance witli a time-honored
custom, each post will attend divine
service in a body on Sunday, May, 26,
to render praise and thanksgiving unto
the God of nations for tlie manifold
blessings of the put and the undis
turbed enjoyment of the fruits of an
enduring peace won by the Union aims.
CZAR TO ABDICATE.
Will Appoint Grand Duke Michael Re
gent for Infant Czarevitch.
London, April 6. The Daily Mirror
claims to be in a position to announce
upon the "highest authority that tlie
emperor of Russia purposes to ahdieata
within a mi nth and that Uranu Unite
Michael will be appointed regent dur
ing the infancy of the czarevitch. For
the past three or four weeks, the paper
says, events have been proceeding in
this direction with lightning-like ra
pidity in St. Petersburg, but the secret
has been well kept.
"Lately," says the paper, "the em
peror's mind has given way even more
completely, and he has ehown himself
incapable of performing the smallest
duties of his rank."
Warrants for Trainmen.
Colton, Cal., April 6. Coroner Van
Wie today swore out warrants for the
arrest of the employes of the Southern
Pacific who were held resonsible for
the wreck on March 28, in which 25
people were killed and 75 injured. The
following are the names of the men
against whom warrants were issued:
L. R. Alvord, foreman of the switching
crew; J. G. Crusemeyer, switchman,
Clarence Warminfgton, engineer. The
complaints charge them - with causing
the death of H. F. Walthers, of Sacra
mento, who was among tbe killed.
Tax Collector Short 940,000.
New Orleans, April 6. As a result
of an examination of the accounts of
Ferdinand Hudenheifer, state tax col
lector, it was announced today that
there was a shortage of over $40,000.
MAKE LAST PROPOSITION.
Mediators Still Hopeful Of Preventing
Big Railway Strike.
Chicago, April S. In a final effort
to avert the Impending railroad strike,
Commissioners Knapp and Neill. tlie
agents of Piesldvnt Roosevelt, will
make a direct appeal to the full com
mittee of conductors and trainmen to
day. The meeting will be held In the
Sherman Ilonse, and the Fedeial medi
ators will lay before the 170 delegates
the final proportion ot the general man
ageis. What tliat proposition is neith
er the commissioners nor the labor
chiefs would disclose tonight, but it is
understood to contain some minor con
cessions. The decision of Messrs. Knapp and
Nell) to visit the meeting ot the laboi
delegates and appeal to them direct
was reported at a conference with the
labor chiefs, which lasted until 11
o'clock last night. It was taken to In
dicate that the committee which has
been conducting the negotiations refut
ed to accept the terms ct the manager
and that It Invited the Federal mediat
ors to attend the meeting and find out
io a direct manner what the delegates
thought ot the offer.
At the meeting today the entile mat
ter will be put up to the delegates and
it is believed that it will end the con
ferences. The controversy will either
lie settled or the threatened strike,
which has been suspended fur several
days while the neitotiatlons wer lend
ing, will be declared. Tbe prospects
for an amicable settlement seem more
remote.
Chiefs Morrissoy and Garrebton at
tended a meeting ot the full committee
and it was said they learned the temper
of their men as to what concessions
they would make In the interests of
peace.
"la the nine-hour day tbe tea 1 stum
bling block In the way ot peace?" was
asked of Mr. Garretton.
"I am not at liberty to discuss the
situation now," he replied, "but as a
mutter of tact there ha mitbsena min
ute since the conferer.ee has begun that
the nine-hour day was not the real
stumbling block. The men are deter
mined on that issue."
In the event of the negotiations being
broken off and a strike resorted to,
which Is a strong probability, the teal
issue will be tbe nine-hour day.
DUNNE LOSES OUT.
Chicago Voters Turn Down Mayor
for New Man.
Chlcagc, April 3. -The Republicans,
headed bv rrederick A. llusse for may.
or, carried Chicago yesterday. Perhaps
no one was more surprised at the result
than the Republicans themselves. It
marked the climax of the most mystify
ing and the filthiest campaign ever
waged In the city.
Chicago will now speedily settle its
streetcar problem, which has lieen
handed back and forth for 11 years as a
political asset, tlie service growing more
wretched and antiquated every yeat
Within 00 davs the traction companies
must accept tlie ordinances, rehabilitate
tbe lines entirely, provide sulllcient
cars, abolish straps, repave the streets,
sprinkle and keep the streets in order,
build such extensions as the city shall
order and turn over, as from February
1 of this year, 65 per cent ot the net
profits. The city may Invest this sum
against the time it will buy the lines
for $30,000,000 plus the amount spent,
or it may be used to lower fares.
FRISCO IN DARKNESS.
Electric Light Plant Valued at Two
and a Half Millions Destroyed.
San Francisco, April 3. The destruc
tion of tlie electric light and power
house of the San Francisco Gas A Elec
tric Light company at Twenty-second
avenue South and Georgia street by fire
last night plunged almost tbe entire
city into darkness, resulted in tlie in
juring of five firemen and causing a loss
estimated at $2,500,000.
Extra police weie placed on duty at
the temporary hall of justice and city
prison at Eddy and Mason streets.
Owing to the darkness, the buildings
having no gas connections, no one was
allowed to enter or leave the city prison
and no prisoners were released on ball.
His Chauffeur Burns Spy.
San Francisco, April 3. When Su
pervisor James G. Gallagher was dash
ing about San Francisco last winter in
his red automobile, the quiet, unassum
ing young mahout at the wheel was
none other than a diBguised detective in
the employ of William J. Burns. When
Gallagher went to Ruef 'a office, to get
the boodle money, when he secretly
sped to the home of Mayor Schmitz to
arrange upon franchise programs, when
he went to the bank to deposit his own
share, this mahout was always with
him in the automobile.
Vota on 8aloons In Newbraska.,
Omaha, April 8. City elections
were held In all cities and towns of Ne
braska except Omaha, South Omaha
and Lincoln. Probably three-quarters
of tbe towns ignored party politics,
voting only on the question of licensing
saloons. In only a few towns were tbe
existing conditions ohanged.
TO GIVE UP PLUNDER
Harriman Coal Companies Oiler
Government Stolen Land.
PROPERTY IS WORTH MILLIONS
Asks Immunity In Return, but Only
a Small Part of Stealings
Is Offered.
Washington, April 4. It was learned
tonight that the Harriman corKration,
whose ramifications extend to coat land
and other vast Interests In the Far
West, are offering to restore to tlie gov
ernment properties tiny have hereto
fore claimed as theirs by good and am
ple title. They prefer to do this lather
than be prosecuted.
Coal land worth in the aggregate mil
lions of dollars Is to be restored to the
public domain, as a result of the recent
activities of the Interstate Commerce
commission. The commission several
months ago inxestlgated the land frauds
In Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. It
was found that this whole section was
honeycombed with corruption and Its
reports Indicated that the guneial land
oltice had been either hopelessly incom
petent or worse In permitting the rail
Mad companies and their allied corpo
rations, the Union Pacific Coal com
pany, the Utah Fuel cnuiny and the
Coloiado Fuel A Iron roiutiaiiy to se
cure, by various and devious melhcds,
control of great areas of the richest coal
land in the West.
The Union Pacific Coal Company Is a
subsidiary corporation ot the Union
Pacific Railroad company. Alt the
stock ot the coal company, except
qualifying shares fur directors, is ow ned
ly tlie railroad company. The coat
coniny secured control of a large
amount of scrip and used it to secure
entry of land, which was rich In the
finest bituminous coa'l of tlie Wyoming
fluid.
As it Is the coal company Is anxious
to teturn the valuable land t) the gov
ernment and end the matte! . But the
matter will not be allowed to end
there. While there is no possible de
fense lo the title nnder which this scrip
land has been claimed, this, though
very valuable, constitutes only a small
part of the coal land now held by the
Union Pacific railroad, the Union Pa
cific Coal company, tho Union Fuel
company and other concerns.
JAPANESE SMUGGLED IN.
Hundreds Cross Border From
Can-
ada and mexlco.
Washington, March 4. Information
has reached the immigration bureau of
tho Ifepartment of Commerce and La
bor that hundreds of Japanese have ar
rived in Mexico destined for the United
States. Inspector llraun, who was sent
to Mexlro to investigate, telegraphed
toduv that he bad Interviewed several
hundred Japanese, principally laborers,
who are now in Mexico. Many of them
are in straightened ciicumstawes. They
have no Intention of lemaining in Mex
ico, but do desire to come to the United
States. They xpect to obtain employ
ment on the tailroads of the West and
Southwest, Some of them have al
ready applied for admission to the
United Suites and have been denied.
WANTS TO REGAIN STRENGTH.
Russia Says Time Is Not Ripe for
Limiting Armsmsnt.
St. Petersburg, April 4. According
to Professor De Marents, who was re
ceived In audience by Emperor Nicho
las yesterday, Russia believes the time
is . not ripe for the discussion of tho
question of limitation of armaments, as
practical results cannot be obtained,
but if the United States and Great Brit
ain are determined to bring the subject
before the conference Russia is not in
clined to Insist on its exclusion.
In conseqiienere of tlie unsuccessful
war Russia's army and fleet are far
below her normal strength and she Is
not willing to restrict her freedom of
action in regaining her naval strength.
Four Jurors Are Accepted.
San Francisco, April 4 Three of the
first talesmen who will sit in the jury
box, subject to peremptory challenge,
were passed by the prosecution and the
defense as a result of the second day's
proceedings in the trial of Abraham
Ruef for extortion. One having been
passed by both sides the first day, four
talesmen have now been temporarily
selected. When this number has been
Increased to twelve they will be sub
ject to peremptory challenge, the de
fense having the right to excuse ten
jurors and the prosecution five.
Rejects Bering Tunnel Scheme.
St. Petersburg, April 4. The cab
inet today rejected a proposal made on
behalf cl an American syndicate for the
construction of a railroad tunnel under
Bering stiaits, by which it was hoped
ultimately to connect the Trans-Siberian,
with the Canadian Paclflo railroad.