CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Reiume of Importan* Events
Praaantad In Condensad Form
for Our Buey Raadara.
Thr political situation in Eagland is
extremely tanas.
Rooeevelt will be as closely guarded
as any king during hie visit in Rom«-.
Secretary Ballinger will bring suit
against Collier’s Weekly for attacks
upon him.
At least aix bankers will be indicted
as a result of th«- Pittsburg graft scan
dal and investigations.
A guide who hel|>ed Cunningham lo
cate illegally on Alaska coal claims,
t*ing chagrined at th«-small fee paid
him, has told all he knew about the
matter.
Eight cases of smallpox have devel
oped in th«- town of Charleston, Wash.,
near tbs Puget Sourxi navy yard, and
all schools, saloons and billiard halls
have lieen closed.
Decollette dresses will be barred
from the Eucharist congress in Mont-
resl next September, which will be at
tended by Cardinal Vanutelli, papal
delegate from Rome.
Donald Graves, 14 years old, was
Shot through the right eye at bia home
at I«ong Beach, Cal., by Jesse Fransen,
aged 11 years, and died two hours
later. The two lads were playing In
dian with a 22-calibro rifle.
A plan ia being formulated by the
heirs to the millions of Russell Sage,
to make a systematic war on loan
sharks by establishing loan agencies
where |«eoplc in stringent cirrumatan
cea can borrow at reaaonable rates of
interest.
Maintaining utm.iat secrecy until the
hour of attack, government secret ser
vice agents made raids simultaneously
on bucket shops in New York, Phila
delphia, Jersey City, Baltimore, Cin
cinnati and St. Ixtuis. In all 16 arrests
were n>a«le. Five millionaires are said
to have l>een caught in the dragnet, ex
tending from the Missouri river to the
Atlantic.
Admiral Fournier of France predicts
war between the United States and
J apan.
A Seattle woman ia believed to have
poisoned nearly 60 valuable dogs in
that city.
Pinchot refuses to say whether or
not he was summoned to meet Roose
velt in Eruope.
Nat Godwin, the noted actor, has
purchased a ranch of 869 acres near
San Jacinto., Cal., for >54,000.
President Taft says the policy of re
turning men to congress for successive
terms makes the East more powerful
in that body.
The French government ia conduct
ing extensive experiments in aviation
and ia considering the appropriation
of at least >4,000,000 for aeronautics.
More than 3,000 white and negro
men, women and children, employed
in the American Tobacco company’s
atemmeriea in Louisville, Ky., have
struck for higher wages.
Three hundred thousand coal miners
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illin-
oia, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Okalohoma
ami Arkansas have quit work, pending
settlement of a new wage scale.
The de|*artment of agriculture has
forbidden the fee«ling, or "floating,"
of oysters in brackish water, previous
to sending them to market, believing
it a fruitful source of typhoid infec
tion.
The Young Egyptian company haa
published a protest against Colonel
Roosevelt's speech at Cairo, declaring
that hia remarks were offensive to the
whole nstion and were made only with
the object of pleasing hia official boats.
The fi«-r«*e»t tornado in years, accom-
|«ani«d by heavy snow, has caused im
mense damage and I imm of life in South
ern Austria. A passenger train was
blown off the rails near Auggie. and
rolled down an embankment, killing
four persona and injuring 13.
Demanding the privilege of partici
pating in the next state election and
all others to follow, representatives of
the Votes for Women club of Californ
ia have made a formal request upon
the local registrar of voters that their
names Ir enrolled upon the great reg
later.
Snow storms and blixxard» are
aw<M>ping the entire Rocky mountain
region.
Senator Adds, of New York, is con
victed of bribe taking and resigns hia
seat in congress.
Coal miners of the East demand an
immediate increase In wages or a
strike will follow.
MILLIONS TO FIGHT SHARKS.
Plan Is to Charge Only Legal Rates
on Furniture Security.
New York. April 4. Mrs. Russell
Sage has inaugurated a stata-wldc plan
to thwart ll>e loan sharks who fatten
upon the necessities uf the poor.
She
has returned from her trip across the
continent to put into immediate effect
measures to eave the unfortunate from
the exactions of the usurer.
The Sags millions will capitalise a
chain of nude I loan establishments
which will advance money to the poor
on their household goods at the legal
rate of interesL
The plan haa been prepared by the
Sage Foundation, in cooperation with
Orion H. Cheney, state superintendaeit
of banka, and awaits only Mrs. Sage's
Anal approval.
Mr. Cheney, who haa lieen waging a
bitter war upon the loan sharks, said
today :
"When the Sage Foundation ent«-rs
this field not only will it accomplish a
moat worthy mission but at the same
time it can be made financially profit
able. The concerns which take unfair
advantage of the unfortunates who are
financially embarrasaed will be either
driven out of the business or forced to
conduct their business on the same fair
basis as the Sage Foundation.”
Mr. Cheney aaid he Lelieveil the p«a>r
who have to rvaort to the securing of
loans on their furniture should lie cared
for in preference to the claaa that se
cures advances on salary.
AVIATOR SWOOPS TO
DEATH ON ROCKS.
JUDGE WILLIAMS
PASSES TO REST
Grand Old Man of Oregon Has
Crossed Bark River.
End Came ss He Had Often Wished,
In Harness and in Full Pos
session of Faculties.
GEORGE H. WILLIAMS
: Of no distemper, of no blast he died. :
; But fell like autumn fruit that mcl- ;
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lowed long.
: E'en wondered at because it fell not
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sooner.
Age seemed to wird him up for four
score years,
! Yet slowly ran he on seven winters
more,
I Till, like a clock, worn out with
beating time,
j The wheels of wearly life at last
stood still.
Portland, April 5. With the same
serenity that had marked the later
years of his long and useful life, Judge
Ghorgv H. Williams early yesterday
morning passed to the Great Beyond.
Sunday night Oregon's grand old
man had retired at the usual hour, af
ter a quiet day apent in good health
Fan Sebastian, Spain, April 4. An
other French aviator haa met death
while making a flight in an aeroplane.
Hubert Leblou, who, prior to hia tak
ing up aeroplaning was a noted auto-
mobilist, wan killed while making an
exhibition flight here yesterday.
He was circling the royal palace of
Miramar at a height of 140 feet when
hia motor broke.
He attempt'd to
glide back to the shed, liut the ma
chine turned and swoo|>ed with terrific
force against the rocks. The aviator
was crushed.
Mme. I,cblun witnessed the ’accident
sod when the body was rvcoverxd fn-m
the sea, she rushed shrieking towards
the ambulance to which it was being
carried. She threw, herself upon the
lifeless form, kissing it repeatedly and
refusing to be led away. As the weath
er was stormy, Lsblon's flight was un-
ex|>ectcd and only a few people as
sembled to see th«- start.
After the
start, however, an enormous crowd
quickly gathered and followed the l»«ly
to the police hospital. There was an
examination, but the doctors were only
able to confirm that death must have ■ and spirits. At the rising hour the
turn instantaneous.
empty tenement of clay was found re-
i dining as he had gone to sleep, the
face as placid as that of a slumbering
ITALIANS CHEER ROOSEVELT.
j child. There was no evidence of a
Seen in Theater at Naples Receives struggle as the spirit left thr body, no
indication that there had been the
Grand Ovation.
slightest degree of suffering.
Judge
Naples, April 4.
Ex President Williams had died in the manner he
Roosevelt was given a tremendous re had often wished by "simply slip
ception at the Theater San Carl«», ping away.”
where he attended a jicrformance to-
For a week Judge Williams had been
nighL The Americana in the box«-» unusually cheery, and for five months
startrd the cheering, which was taken he had been freer from physical suffer
up by a great Isdy of students »rated ing than for several years. For a long
in the third gallery.
Colonel Roose time |>rior to last fall he had been in
velt rose and la>w«-d hia acknowledge convenienced by an internal disable
ments, which only served to increase ment more or leas chronic, yet it was
the tumultous applause.
of such a nature that hie active inter
During an intermission students to est and participation^ir. business affairs
the number of 200 marched to the rear was not impaired, and not even hia
of Colonel Roosevelt's box. where they m«»t intimate friends realised the pain
were presented to the ex-president by he had suffered.
Professor Boggiano. of the University
of Naples, who, in a graceful speech,
I6TH AMENDMENT WILLIAMS'
recalled the colonel’s parting injunc
tion to President Taft, that the great
est problem for the United States was Oregon Jurist Last of "War Senate,"
and Close Friend of Lincoln.
the maintenance of a the moral well
being and strength of the people.
"The right of citizens of the Unite«!
Professor Boggiano aaid that thia was States to vote shall not be denied or
slao the greatest problem for all coun abridge«! by the United States, or by
tries.
any state, on account of rare, color or
Colonel Rixscvelt, replying, ap|ieal- previoua condition of servitude.”
cd to the students to aspire to the high
The foregoing ia
the Fifteenth
est ideals, but warn«d them that their \ Amendment to the constitution of the
aapirationa must be coupled with prac United States, adopted by congress in
tical methods.
1870 and later ratified by the states.
"Life ia a struggle," he aaid. "You The text of the amendment was pre
must not keep in the clouds.
Your pared by the
Oregon statesman,
ideals must be auch as can be real George H. Williams, and was present
ised.”
ed and adopted with only a minor
change In wording.
Pet Dog Funeral Elaborate.
Jutige Williams was one of the last,
Chicago, April 4. Beth, a blood«! if not the last, member of the "war
cocker spaniel which haa won many senate,” an«! had !>ecn a warm |>emon-
blue ribbons at bench shows, is dead, al friend of Lincoln and also of GranL
l»ut if there ia any poet mortem satis
Sent to the senate from Oregon in
faction for a departed canine in an 1864. he soon became a power in the
elaborate funeral. Beth must have iL administration forces.
He was the
Wrapped in an embmider»d ojw-r» coat, originator of the "reconstruction acL”
her casket lined with the trophies of which he later, aa attorney general in
her show victories, Beth was buried be Grant'! cabinet, enforced.
neath a fine old mission willow yester
day, sorrowing friends witnessing the
Cotton Mills Closing.
cerrmony. Beth was the |>et of Mias
Boston, Marh 31. Fifty per cent
Suxette Newton, the young daughter of the spindles in Southern cotton mills
of Mra. California Newton.
are idle, according to statistics assem
bled by the American Wool and Cotton
Students Have Hat Bonfire.
Reporter. The figures show the cur
Delaware, 0., April 4. Cheering tailment now in progress not only in
for the ancients, who never had bald the South, but in all sections of the
heads. or ought never to have had country, is more extensive than has
them, the boy students of Ohio Wes ever been known in the history of the
leyan university, last night made a trade, even taking into consideration
bonfire of their hats. Dancing around the panic year of 1907. Mill after mill
the bonfire, they swore never again tn ia dosing down entirely until new cot
imperil the hair of their heads by ton arrives or market conditions im-
, prove.
wearing hats.
GLASS TRUST PROBED.
Imperial Company Is Said to Control
33 Factories in Eleven Slates.
Pittsburg, April 2. It was learned
tonight that after three months' inves
ligation, Federal officers are ready to
present to a special gran«I jury here
next Monday evidence that the Imper
ial Wirslow Glass company is a trust in
violation of the Sherman acL
The corporation forme«! under the
laws of West Virginia, la aaid to con
trvl 33 large window glass factories in
11 different states.
The com|>any haa offices in Illinioa,
Indiana. Kansas. Massachusetts. Mich
igan, North Carolina. New York. Ohio,
Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Many
prominent glass manufacturers from
these states are said to have b«wn
served with subpoenas to appear brfore
the grant] jury aa witnesses.
United States District Attorney Jor
dan said tonight:
"The investigation of the Imparia)
Window Glass company has been under
way for 90 days, aixi agents of the de
partment of justice have visited rvery
one of the 33 plan » operated uraler the
charter of the company.
"The company wm incorporated in
West Virginia early this year, and its
allege«! control of the window glass
business is to be investigated with in
tent to show that it is a monofmly in
restraint of trade
"The I me [trial Window Gia»» com
pany is a holding organization, the
manufacturers pooling their output an«!
selling through the company exclusive
ly. Prices have been compared with
those of the American Window Glaaa
nimpany and there ia but slight differ
ence.”
JAPANESE SPIES MAY
NOT BE Pl NISHED.
Washington, April 2. The War de
partment haa turned over to the local
Philippine government the pnwecution
of the two Japanese alleged to have
iwen engaged in aecuring plans for the
fortifications of Corrcgidor, Manila
h ar I «or, through the bribery of Joseph
<). Saxe, an American soldier.
Thia haa been done in tin- ho|x- that
the local attorneys in Manila may be
able to find Some section that will
servs to bring about [ainishmcnt of the
offenders, whom the United States
c«idc doe» not touch.
It is quite evitient, however, that
the charge of bribery will mil hold, ax
the Supreme court haa ruled that the
bribe must be offered to an official.
Of course. Private Saxe can and prole
ably will be trie«! by military court
martial, but it does n«-t seem probable
that there will be any way of ptinish-
ing the Japanese if found guilty.
POWER SITES ARE WITHDRAWN
Washington and
Idaho
Lands With
held by Ballinger.
Washington, April 2. In aid of pro-
¡>aocd legislation affecting the disposal
of waterpower sites on the public do
main, Secretary Ballinger today tem
porarily withdrew from all forms of
die|>oaition 5,823 acres along the Lem
hi River, Idaho, and 4,176 acres along
the Columbia river in W ashington.
Approximately 42,750 acres of land
In Montana was designated for settle
ment under the enlarge«! h«>mestead
acL Thia land, it was said, was not
iiusceptible of succ«-aaful irrigation at
a reasonable rust from any known
source of water supply. This makes a
total of 28,888,240 acres in Montana
design«-«! for scttlement uraler the act.
The coal lands withdrawn from the
public domain, it was announced, in
clude large areas within unopened In
dian and military reservations. Aa
such withdrawals are without effect,
Mr. Ballinger haa cancellc«l them to
clear the record.
These lamia were
already withheld from entry !«cau»e
they were within Indian or military
reserves, and their inclusion within
coal land withdrawals was a duplicate
of their reaervatitm.
The total area
involved in the correction of the rec
on!» was 8)1,354 acre», located in rea-
ervatios.« in New Mexico, Colorado,
Utah, North Dakota, Washington and
Montana.
VISIT TO POPE
DECIARED OFF
Roosevelt Beelines Restrictions
Imposed by Invitation.
Orest Roman Pontiff
Espressa Wish
to Avoid Repetition of Fairbanks
Incident
Rome Stirred.
Pope to Roosevelt.
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Th«- holy father will^be delighted (
bi grant an audience to Mr. Rooac-
velt on April 5 and h«qw*a that noth-
ing will arise to prevent it, such aa
the much regretted incident which
mad«- the reception of Mr. Fairbanka
impossible.
Roosevelt to Popo.
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It would be a real pleasure to me
j b> tie pr«-ecnted bi the holy father,
5 for wh<>m I entertain high r«-sj»-ct.
i lioth personally and as the head of a
j great church. ... I dec line to
: make any stipulationa or submit b>
j any conditions which in any way
! would limit my freedom of conducL |
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Rome. April 5. Th«‘ audience which
it waa believed that ex-Pr<-sidcnt
Rooevclt would have with the pope to
day will not take [dace, owing to condi
tions which the Vatican has impoe«<d,
aid which Mr. Roosevelt refused to
accept.
Although th«- definite negotiations
relative to the audience ended before
Mr. Roosevelt left Egypt, the an
nouncement waa withheld until after
Mr. Roosevelt reached Rome tonight
at the solicitation of his American
Catholic friends here, who believed
that in the meantime the Vatican
might eftange its attitude.
On«- of th«- ex-president's American
friends who ha«i been with him in
Egypt, came to Rome yesterday with
out any authorization from Mr. Roos«--
velt, and interced«-d with Cardinal
Merry del Vai, the papal secretary, in
an endeavor to avoid the situation,
which, as it now stands, has caused a
real sensation in Rome, although it
was not entirely unexpected.
His
efforts were unavailing.
When at Gondokoro in February last,
Mr.,' Roosevelt wrote to Ambassador
Leishman, saying that he would be
glad of the honor of an audience with
King Victor Emmanuel and the |opc.
The audience with the king was
promptly arranged.
Before an arrangement could be
reached relative to an audience with
the pope, several telegrams were
passed and the negotiations were ended
by Mr. Roosevelt’s refusing in any
way to lie limited aa to his conducL
An audience with the po[ie under the
circumstances is now impossible.
STORM DOES S2OO.OOO DAMAGE.
Utah Trains Must Again*Use Portland
Route to the'East.
Salt Lake, Utah, April 6.—Two hun
dred thousand dollars will not cover the
loss caused by the terrific wind storm
that swept Salt Lake City and North
Central Utah last night.
Farm prop
erty suffered big loss«-», fences and
trees lieing blown down, and in some
instances houses overturn«-d.
Railroad property suffered heavily,
and in one case 15 men narrowly es
caped with'thcir lives.
Both the Western Pacific and the
S«iuthem Pacific are out of «'ommiasion
again.
Th«- damage to the S«>uthern Pacific
will be repairtxi by Wednesday, tiut
the outlook for the Western Pacific is
dark. The expensive pi|wline of the
Utah Copfier company, which exist >40,-
000, was extensively washe«i away.
Th«- Bb>rm loss at Saltair Beach, 20
miles west of here, will amount to
>10,000. The pavilion and other val
uable resort «-onceasions were wrerki-d
and railway tracks entering the resort
were washed away.
Omaha Firs Costs $500.000.
Prices Blamed on Tariff.
Washington, April 2. Incrvas«-» in
the price of olive oil and macaroni are
laid at the door of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law by Wallace Pierce of Boston.
Pierce said th«- duty on pa|>er was re
sponsible for an increase of half a cent
a pound in the price of macaroni, lie
cause the macaroni was wrapped in pa
per.
In a similar way, olive oil was
higher on account of the duty on tine.
He testifted that there had been a gen
eral upward tendency in the price of
groceries in the last ten yean.
Curtiss Firm Insolvent.
Buffalo, N. Y., April 2. An invol
untary petition in bankruptcy waa filed
here today against the Herring-Curtiss
company of Hammondsport. N. Y.,
manufacturers of flying
machines.
Three creditors allege insolvency.
Glenn H. Curtiaa, the aviator, is
vice-president and general manager of
I the c«>mpany.
Omaha, Neb., April 5,- - At a late
hour b»night fire broke out in the Cen
tral grain elevator, owned by the Nye-
Schneider-Fowler company, located at
Twenty-eighth and Oak .streets, and
fanned by a high wind, quickly spread
to the adjoining flour mil) of the Man
ey Milling company. The elevator and
the mill were destroyed, entailing a
loss of >500,000. Nearly 100 box cars,
about half of which were loaded with
grain, standing on nearby tracks, were
destroyed.
A large amount of other
property narrowly escaped.
Rough Riders to Be Hosts.
New York, April 5. Rough Riders
will be the host that plana to welcoms
Colonel Roosevelt on his return to Am
erican shores. It ia hoped to have a
large detail of the original regiment go
down the harbor on a chartered v<waeL
Five distant states propose to send del
egations to the welcome. They are
North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming,
Idaho and California.