CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
WANTS MORE BATTLESHIPS.
Representative Hobion Say*
Coast is Defensales.
Pacific
CHURCHES JOIN
GRAFT CRUSADE
Washington, March 2«. —"Our na
tional defenaeleaancsa," was the theme
around which Representative Hobson,
Doings of the World at Urge Democrat, Alabama, voiced a prophecy Pittsburg Ministers Make Ef
of disaster in the house late thia after
Told in Brief.
fort Arouse Sentiment.
noon. A startling array of facta a* to
our unpreparedneaa for war as col
Ganaral Resume of Important Evant* lected by the general staff of the army Many Councilman Espected to Resign
was the basis for the appeal of the
Presented in Condanaad Form
Without Protest Banks ara
hero of the Spanish American war for
Called Upon to Testify.
for Our Buay Reeder*.
immediate action by congress.
He
declared It was imperative that a larg- i
Pittsburg, March 29. The Ix-nten
er navy be authorised at once if the
John R.vlmorwi is coming to th«- front United States would stave off puasible
season,
which ended Sunday, has been
a* a leader of the English Radicals,
invasion by a foreign enemy in the fu
too short a season of penile nee for
R<»su-ve1t ebook hands with over 400 ture.
“Any European nation of the first Pittsburg, and it will lie continued
Americana during a reception in Cairo.,
power,” said Hobson, “that has an with promise of even more startling
Egypt.
ad<-t(uatc army and merchant marine
confessions of graft this week.
The eruption of Mount Etna is sub
I will take Germany merely as an il
In several hundred church«-* the
aiding and all danger ia believed to be
lustration
could put 200,000 men
past.
feature of the Easter services w as th«-
aboard ship* in a single expedition.
A St. I>*uis woman finds contract One half could land on the coast of reading of a circular letter issued by a
marriage a failure and wants a di-’ Ixing Island and the other half on civil committee, urging the member*
vorce.
the coast of New Jersey ami inside of of every congregation to at ten«! a huge
Insurgents auggeat a aulwtitution of n few weeks they rould seize Washing indignation mass meeting to be held
a "pure parliamentarian" for Speaker ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia ami New Mime day this week. Sermons, too,
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Cannon and will continue their fight York without resistance.”
Holiaon said he would probably offer were di-rigt.i-d to arouse i-ublic con
for his removal.
an amendment to the naval bill railing demnation of such practice* as have
Officials of the state of Washington for six battleship*.
been rev« a)«d. Lessons in civic clean
would like to exchange school lands in
"We need that many a year," be
forest reserves for lai <1* of equal value said,* "to maintain the equilibrium liness were drawn by many pastor*.
adjoining the reserves.
It having been pretty thoroughly es
existing among the nations."
Referring to conditions on the Pacific tablishcd, according to District Attor
A Wisconsin man set fire to a wid
ow's house, claiming that the inaur coast. Hobson said:
ney William A. Blakeley, that at least
"It is unfortunate that I cannot re
ance money would do her more gu*id.
1102,500 was used in influencing legi*
fer to existing conditions on the Pa
He got throe years.
la
t ion, the source of the money and the
cific coast without these [ware dream
Four children in Hartford, Conn., ers crying out ’war ami jingoism,* but dispensers of it arc to be the focus of
were rescued by the police just as you can all verify for yourselves, you
the grand jury's attention tomorrow
their maniac father was about to mas who have no knowledge of existing
sacre them with an axe. The family conditions, that the city of San Francis- morning.
A consi<b-ralil<- |»>rtion of the lug
had just been evicted by their land
Nfl »te h. r • *n - >>■-•!» a*
lord.
bribe
fund is charg«! to <*ertain banks
she desire*. The legislator* of Cali
Several Tacoma women had express fornia, Oregon and Washington cannot that sought to get city dep«isita. They
cd a w illingness to adopt a certain toiay legislate ujam segregation of the succeed«!, but it is the desire «if the
promising baby which was being carvd yellow people.
grand jury, as pronounced in its report
"Th. .si- ¡.-*cia!at<-r« w-r-- (.¿I
for in a foundling home, but all barked
I will tell of Friday last, that the bank deposit
out when it was discovenl thnt the that dangerous question.
you why. W. arc defonsek -s on the ordinance lie rescind«*!, and the Irnnka,
child was eolared.
Pacific ocean.
if found guilty, be deprived of th«- use
Through the efforts of their gram!-
"The Japanese navy is rated at 490,- of city money. It is known that some
eon, Cody Koala, a reconciliation has
000 tons, ami our* at 695,000 tons.
been effected tx-tween Colonel W. F.
All of <>ur 695,000 tons sulwtantially representatives of the banks are to be
<'.*dy (Buffalo Bill) and Mr*. Cody.
is in the Atlantic ocean and ha* io stay call«! tomorrow to testify.
Colonel ami Mrs. Cody became es
there.
The six banks that have been named
tranged three or four years ago and
"Do you think I am talking war? 1 by the grand jury as having I • en in
since that lime they have lived apart.
am trying to arrange this equilibrium
volvcd In the scandal are the Columbia
Their supplies stolen by Cree In in the Pacific ocean under which we
diana in the wilds of the Rocky Moun c«*uk! come to mutual concessions and National, the German National of
Pittsburg, the Farmers' National De-
tains, and with every one of their 44 Solve the problem.
horwea dead of starvation. 22 men be
"i am trying to take the only way posit bank, and the Second National,
longing to a Canadian Northern Rail io prevent war."
the (ii-rman National, of Alb-ghany,
way survey party, headed by Engineer
and
the
Workingmen'* Savings 4
C. F. Hgnbigton, arrived in Vancou
SENDS RELIEF TO ESTRADA
Trust company.
ver, B. (’., after having fought their
The directorate of the Farmers’
way to civilixation through midwinter
G*n«ral Gordon Prepares Expedition National ha* announced that it will
snowdrifts.
and Defies Madriz.
comply with the district atUirney's
A Pittsburg councilman fainted when
New Orleans, La., March 28. The call for information and the Second
asked if he had sold his vote.
crisis in the strained relations between National has prcfiarod a certifi«! state
Ex President Roosevelt was warmly the representatives of the Madri* ami ment which is to Iw presenU-d to the
The other
welcomed at Cairo by the kbodive of the Estrada factions of the Nicaraguan grand jury tomorrow.
Egypt.
government was reached late today, banks have taken no action.
It waa still unlearn«! tonight wheth
Samuel Compere ia
doubtful of w hen General Gordon, who is organis
er Charles Stewart in hi* talk with Dis
R >ckefcller's plan to diapise of his ing an Estrada relief expedition, sud
denly apppearvd th«- Madrix consul trict Attorney Blakeley told all he is
great wealth.
ate and entering the room where Luis believed to know of the men higher up.
The senate has amended the corpora Corea, Madriz's minister to Washing Stewart is an ex-Select councilman,
tion tax law so as to limit the pub b>n, and other Madrix officials were in who was declared by the grand jury In
licity of reports.
conference, defied them to keep him its presentment Saturday to hav«‘ been
River* of molten lava are flowing from starling hia ex;ieditiun for Cen the man to whom 145,000 of bribe-
tainted money was given at the Hotel
down the sides of Mount Etna, and sev tral America.
It was a dramatic acene. Corea and Imperial in New York.
eral villages are in great danger.
Genera) Altachul were seated ata table
Marion Clark, diacoverer of the Mar- when Gordon suddenly entered.
He ETNA MAY CAUSE TREMBLOR
ipooa grove of big trees in California, calmly tokl this enemies that therepirt
ia dead. He will be tarried in^the big that he waa organising an army was Pent-Up Lava Likely to Force Pas
reo grove.
sage, Scientist Believes.
true.
"Then you are liable bi a >1,000 fine
Women suffragists are active in
Catania, March 29. While thwquan-
France and candidatea will be tail for and three years' imprisonment, accord tity of lava from the craters of Mount
the office of deputies in every district ing t<> American law*,’’ shouted Coraa. Etna continues to decrease, the intern
"I am ready to sign a statement al activity of the volcano was stronger
In Paris next month.
that I am raising an army here and today than yesterday. Frank A. Per
W. II. Buckley, attorney, of Al
that I have chartend a ship and I defy ret, the American authority, believes
bany. N. Y., admits he was able to
you to do anything," was (ionion's re thnt the decrease in th«' flow of lava is
obtain advance information on court
ply. He then handed each of the Mad du«- to obstruction* in the new craters,
decisions in insurance cases.
rix officials hia card and walked out.
which prevent its flowing freely, and
During ant«’ election troubles in St.
Minister Corea was angered by the that in a few day*, the molten mass
louis a mob tried to lynch the city proceeding ami said he would endeavor will either force a passage or an earth
clerk, lari were Stood off successfully to have Gonlon imprison«! at once.
quake will result. Mr. Perrot went to
by a daughter of the chief of police.
IxM-al government officials said they day from Nicoloai to the Alpine club
A Black Hand member instantly would refuse to take official action un refuge, which is situated near the cra
kill««! by a sheriff’s posse while romov- • til order* were received from Washing ters, and Inter telegraphed down as
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ing money from a hiding place where ton.
follows: "The activity of Etna today
Later in the day General Gonlon sud is stronger, but th«* lava is slower.
his victim had bssn ordered to leave it.
denly wheeled on the two detectives Terrific explosion* in the Interior of
A definite agreement has been reach following him ami thrnshed them both. th«* mountain continue."
ed on the Canada-United State* tariff. It is believed that part of the relief
exp«!ition will attempt to sail tonight.
Muskrat Drains Fish Pond.
As the beef packers' investigation
proceeds, the price* of beef continue to
Spokane, Wash., March 29. - Near
Atlantic Fleet to Cruise Mediterranean Kalispell, Mont., boring a hole in an
rias.
Washington, March 28. The secre embankment that sustaim-d one side of
The American Federation of Labor
has filed charge* against the *tcel cor tary of the navy announced thia after an artificial fish ¡Hind, a muskrat a few
noon that the whole Atlantic battleship day* ago drained the pond and caused
poration.
fleet would, in November, pnx-e«i to the loss of many of the fish, many of
Plnchot has sailed for Europe. and European water*.
The principal which, instinctively heading up stream
it is believed he intends to meet Roose- «ruisc will be made in the Mediterran when the water* began to fall, floun
velt in Naples.
ean. It is intended to divide the fleet dered into a small creek that pound
Barney Oldfield, driving a Knox while in the Mediterranean in order into th«- pond and escaped into small
It marshes that lin«*d the stream. The
auto, made 20 miles in 18 minutes at thnt various porta may be visited.
is not hinted anywhere that the fleet or pond was «iwncd by Richard Greig,
Daytona, Florida.
any part of it will go further than the who stocked it several year* ag<» with
Louis R. Glavis has confessed that Eastern Mediterranean. The official trout from a government fish car.
he worked deception on Cunningham statement is that the fleet will, after
Ten Fight With Knives.
in the Alaska coal cases.
the cruise, go to Guantanamo.
Walla Walla, March 29.- A* the re
Witnesses before
the Pittsburg
Get Mor* Pittsburg Grafter*
suit of a battle with knives between
grand jury testified that councilmen
Pittaburg,
March 28.
Former four Italians and six Japanese early
were bought as low ns 350.
Councilman Charles Stewart was in this morning two Italians were ser
The president of the Paper makers’ the sweat hex for four hours this after iously wounded. Antonio Ponti, one
union was escorted out of the town of noon. He ia believed to have told of the participants, may die from hi*
Rumford Falla. Maine, by citixens. who many thing* that will cau*<* new sen wounds. Two J apanese were arrested.
intimated that he was not wanted sation* Monday when the officials "get The fight arose over the possession of
a bicycle.
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their lines out?*
there.
ROOSEVELT VISITS TOMBS.
COLORADO MINES
DEFY MINE LAW
Wonders al Glories of Old Egypt
Will be Guest of Kaiser.
Berlin, March 26.
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Fsnperor Wil*
ham's invitation to Th«-«iorc Roos
•veil to be hi* guest at the royal
castle promise* effectually to fru*
Irate the ex-president's exproaaed
desire to be received in Europe as
a plain private citiaen. Th«* invita-
tion i* at variance with all court
precedent*.
Heretofore no foreign private cit-
ixen has ever enjoyed hospitality
at the royal castle, and the only
js-rson not of princely rank who
has twain thus honored i* Count Zcp
pciin, whom the Kaiser has called
the greatest man of the eentruy.
During hia stay in the palace,
May 12 to 15, Mr. Roosevelt will
have th«* suite occupied by King Ed-
ward on his rwert visit, and will
be the center of attraction in a bril-
liant circle comprising the Empcr-
or’s clo*«.**t official adviror»..
Investigation by Inspector Dis
closes Bad Conditions.
Coroner's Jury on Primsro Disaster
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Cairo, Egypt, March 25. Up with
the sun today, after a restful night at
the Mena H*>use, Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt and his party early prepared
for a vi*it to the metropolis of Sak-
kara, where arc the wonderful tomb*
of various king*, of Thy at«l of th«*
Api* bulls.
ljist night th«* sphinx was view«! by
nukit light, an«l ColotK-l
veil -ai.l
today the weird sight had been thor
oughly enjoyed by himself and his
family. It waa the moat interesting
thing he had seen during hi* trip to
Africa.
Tonight Colonel Roooevclt and his
family return«! to Cairo, din«! with
the American ronsul general, Mr. Id-
dings, and later attendtx! a lianquet
tendered him by Sir Eldon (¡oral, the
British agent and <*onsul general in
Egypt.
Major F. K. W’atson, pasha, aide-1
de-camp to the kh«!ive, who met Col-;
onol Roose*, elt a year ago at Port
Saoi, was an early caller al the M<-na
h< us«* today. He pai<! the resjiecta of
th«* khedive to th«* Amprican hunter
and tendered him the use of the khe-
dive’s special cam«-) corp* for the
eight-mils ride across the desert of
Sakkara. Such a tender always is a
»(■ecia! mark of favor and Colonel
R«io*evelt accept«! it with pleasure.
The colonel and Kermit each rode one
of the animals over the dreary waste
to the Necropolis, but Mr*. Roosevelt
an«! Miss Ethel cno*e a more comforta
ble convcyarwte.
EXPLOSIVES ARE SAVED
Blacksmith
Rushs*
into
Powder Magasin*.
Colorado Fuel
Iron Company on
Burning
Pittaliurg, March 26. Reports of
•criou* forest fires are coming in from
many s«*ctiona of Pennsylvania and
West Virginia.
Three miles below
Parkersburg, W. Va., the forest* are
ablaze and farmer* are working fran
tically to atop the flames.
At Bridgeville, near here, tbe flam«-»
of a atublsirn brush fire threatened two
IKiwdcr magazin«-», in which were
stored 400 piunds of powder and a
larg«- quantity of dynamite. Men had
fought the flarne* fruitlessly until it
■eemed nothing could save the maga
tine* and house* near by.
Harry
Skiles, a blacksmith, finally ruah«-d to
one of the magazines, smashed in a
door, and with the aid of the fire fight
ers carried the szplosivea out • { the
danger Zone.
An area three miles long and two
miles wide has laten devastat«! tn Ken
nedy and Stowe townshi|*s of serond
growth timber am! the loss thus far ia
«■•timat«! at 260,000.
Oil derricks,
trnks of crude oil and at>out 300,000
feet of timber have l««*cn destroyed.
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Rack.
Denver, March 24.
Characterizing
the system employ«! by the Colorado
Fuel 4 Iron company in the operation
of it* mine* in Southern Colorado ■*
"open defiance of the law," State La
bor Commissioner E. V. Brake, in hi*
report on the I’rimero coal mine disaa-
t«-r in which 76 miner* lust their live*
January 31, calls U|ion G«ivernor Sha-
froth to appoint a «-«mmiMlon to make
a rigid investigation of conditions in
La* Animas and Huerfano counit«-«,
where the Colorado Fuel & Iron prop
erties are located.
Mr. Brake finds the following c«indi-
lions existed in the I’rimero mine pre
vious to the explosion:
Insufficient sprinkling a* provided
by l»w; local gas explosion* frequent;
lack of sufficient timliers, houses in
the camp of poor construction; no
check weighrn«*n for the benefit of the
miners.
In the opening of hi* report Mr.
Brake declarer, that the Colorado Fuel
4 Iron company employs inexperien
ced, non-Ei.glish speaking miner*, lie
cause they are "not familiar with
wage condition* in this country and
can lie secur«! at a lower wage than
English s|>eaking min«*r».”
Mr. Brake also scores the coroner's
jury which investigated the I’rimero
disaster, declaring that the jury was
" i-om|«■*«•<I of employes of the company
and returned a verdict without careful
examination, exonerating the company
from blame.”
He states that he finds children em
ploy«! in mines arxl wiisht-r* of the
company in violation of the state law.
MAILBAG WINS LONG FIGHT.
Uncle Sam Say* Railroad* Mu»t In
stall New Device.
Chicago, March 24. No more”b«iot-
ings” for the long abu*«i mailbag.
After more than a quarter of a century
of experimenting the Poetoffice depart
ment has adopted an automatic device
for the delivery of mail pouches from
rapidly moving trains. Within a short
time notices will lie s«-rved u;*>n al! of
the roads transjmrting mails that from
a certain date they will lie required
«•ither to atop their trains when de
livering fiouches or to install the aut«>-
matie device designed and manufactur
ed by F. H. Burr, of Atlantic, Ia.
Th«* Burr device won easily over,
nearlv 100 other devices recently test
ed on the Rock Island road. It* record
of (irrformancc through an entire year
of service ia said to have b«*vn perfect.
M*>r«* than 4,000 deliveries were made
at a speed up to 70 miles an hour.
SIX ARE LOST WITH SHIP.
Schooner Arthur B. Founders
Fraser River.
Off
Vancouver, B. C., March 24. The
62 ton gasoline schooner Arthur B.
Iiound from Tacoma for Nanaimo, B.
C., with a cargo of gypsum, founder«!
off th«* Fraser river lightship last
night during a storm and Captain Mc-
Cranahan and a crew of five men per-
iahed.
Th«* Arthur B. waa built at Port
Tuwtwtd In 1897 and was owned in
Tacoma. A at iff westerly wind pre
vail«! in the gulf laat night and off the
san*l heatia a big aea waa running. At
8 o'clock last night the Arthur B.
called in at Stevoeon and left ahorlly
after. The lightkeeper, in charge of
th«- lightship off the Fraser river, saw
the vessel at 9:30 o’clock laboring
heavily and while he was watching she
foundered before his eyes and went
down. The Arthur B. wa* us«-d in the
cement an<i plaster carry ing trade
twe< -i I’ugi t aound and British Coiffi
bia ports.
Villagers Homeless by Fire.
Charleston, W. Va., March 26 With
almost every house in th«* prosfwirou*
villagi* of Mount Hope (le*troy«*d by
fire today, at least 2,000 homeless per
sons arc tonight sle<>ping on the eom-
mona. Condittona which followed the
conflagration are much worse than
early reporta indicated. Upon the ar
rival at Mount Hope tonight of the
special train bearing the National
Oebon Exnects Cook Today.
Guard, tents were diatriliuted and an
New York, March 24.- Captain B.
effort i* being made to house a* many
8. < >sbon. secretary of the Arctic club
as possible. Many of the families lost
of America, and one of Cook’s staunch
all their household effect*.
ent supporters, said tonight that Dr.
Axtell waa one of Dr. Cook’s closest
Pension Bill Passes House.
friends snd the letter received by Ax
Washington, March 26. The pension tell undoubtedly was reliable. Captain
bill, carrying appropriations of about Oabon believes Cook will be in New
1156,04)0,000, was pa*s«xi bv the house York tomorrow. He said the letter re
today. Nearly the entire session was fer rod to waa in reply to one Dr. Ax
occupied by a «>nte*t made chiefly by tell had sent to Mr*. Cook. Captain
Republican* against the provision a* O*b«>n waa unable, however, to give
reported from the committee on pen-: any definite information on which boat
■ion* for abolition of the pension agen the doctor would arrive.
cies now in operation throughout the '
Hero of Monitor is Dead.
country.
New York, March 24.— Rear Admir
al John Entwistle, U. S, N., rotir«i,
New York Warm In March.
died today at his home at Paterson, N.
New York, March 26. The mercury J., aged 73 years. Admiral Entwistle
rose to 77 degroe* thia afternoon, the was in the boiler room of the Monitor
highest temperature
recorded for during the famous engagement with
March in New York for 40 years.
the Merrimac in the Civil war.