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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Urge Told in Brief. Uanaral Return« of Important Events Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Reader«. The political situation in Eagland is extremely tense. Roosevelt will be aa cloeely guarded aa any king during hie visit in Rome. Secretary Ballinger will bring suit against Collier's Weekly for attacks upon him. At least six (tankers will be indicted aa a result of the Pittaburg graft scan- dal and investigations. A guide who helpeti Cunningham lo cate illegally on Alaska coal claims, being chagrined at the small fee |>aid him, has told all he knew about the matter. Eight cases of smsllpox have devel oped in the town of Charleston, Wash , near the Puget Sound navy yard, and all schools, saloons and billiard halls have been closed. Decollette dresses will lie barred from the Eucharist congress in Mont real next SepUmlwr, which will be at tended by Cardinal Vanutelli, papal delegate from Rome. Donald Craves, 14 years old, was shot through the right eye st his home at Ixing Reach, Cal., by Jesse Fransen, aged 11 years, and died two hours later. The two lads were playing In dian with a 22-calibrs rifle. A plan la being formulated by the heini to th<- millions of Russell Sage, to make a systematic war on loan sharks by establishing loan agencies whtre people in stringent cireumstan cm can borrow at reasonable rates of interest. Maintaining utmost secrecy until the hour of attack, government secret eer- vice agents made raids simultaneously on bucket shops In New York, Phila delphia, Jersey City. Baltimore. Cin cinnati and SL i-ouis. In all 16 arrests were macle. Five millionaires are said to have teen caught in the dragnet, ex tending from the Missouri river to the Atlantic. Admiral Fournier of France predicts war between the United States and Japan. A Seattle woman is believed to have poisoned nearly 50 valuable dogs in that city. Pincluit refuses to say whether or not he was summoned to meet Roose velt in Eruope. Nat Godwin, the noted actor, has purchase«! a ranch of 86» acres near San Jacinto., Cal., for |64,OOO. 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 is conduct ing extensive experiments in avistion and is 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 stemmeries in Louisville, Ky., have struck for higher wages. Three hundred thousand coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illin ois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Okalohoma and Arkansas have quit work, pending settlement of a new wage scale. The department of agriculture has forbidden the feeding, 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 has published a protest against Colonel RooMVelt's speech at Cairo, declaring that his remarks were offensive to the whole nstion snd were made only with the object of pleasing his official boats. The fiercest tornado in years, accom panied by heavy snow, has caused im mense damage and loss of life in South am Austria. A passenger train was blown off the rails near Auggie. and rolled down an embankment, killing four persons and injuring 18. Demanding the privilege of partici paling in the next state election and all others to follow, reperventatives of the Votes for Women club of Californ ia have made a formal request upon the local registrar of voters that their names be enrol led upon the great reg ister. Snow storms and blixxaids are sweeping the entire Rocky mountain region. Senator AI Ids, of New York, Is con victed of bribe-taking and resigns his scat 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. Rusnell Sage has inaugurated a slate-wide plan to thwart the loan sharks who fatten upon the ruM-eaaitiee of 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 Sage millions will capitalise a chain of model loan establishments which will advance money to the poor on their household goods at the legal rate of interrat. The plan has been prepared by the Sage Foundation, in cooperation with Orion H. Cheney, state superintendent of banka, and awaits only Mrs. Sage's final approval. Mr. Cheney, who has been waging a bitter war upon the loan sharks, said today: ** When the Sage Foundation enters thia field not only will it accomplish a most worthy mission Imt at the same time it ran be made financially profit able. The concerns which take unfair advantage of the unfortunates who are financially embarrassed will be either driven out of the business or forced tn conduct their business on the same fair basis aa the Sage Foundation." Mr. Cheney said he believed the poor who have to resort to the securing of loans on their furniture should lie cared for in preference to the class that se cures advance« on salary. AVIATOR SWOOPS TO DEATH ON R(X’KS. JUDGE WILLIAMS PASSES TO REST CLASS TRUST PROBED. Imperial Company Is Sa.d to Control 33 Factories in Eleven States. Pittsburg. April t.-It •“ J-1™' tonight that after thre. months tnve. tigalion. Federal officer» are ready to present to a special grand jury here next Monday evidence that the Uni*^ ial Window Glaaa company is a trust tn violation of the Sherman act The corporation formed under t laws of West Virginia, is »»id to con End Cam« st He Had Often Wished, trol 33 large window glass factor,«« in 11 different states. In Harness and in Full Pos The company has offices in Illinios, session of Faculties. Indiana. Kansas. Mas-sjrhuselto. Mich igan. North Carolina. New York. Ohio. Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Many prominent gi— manufacturer, fnm these state, are said to have been GEORGE H. WILLIAMS | served with subpoenas to appear before : Of no distemper, of no blast he died, : the grand jury aa witness««. i But fell like autumn fruit that mcl- • Unite«! States District Attorney Jor lowed long, dan said tonight: , . . ! E'en wondered at because it fell not ; "The inv«>stigation of ‘he Imperial sooner. Window Glass company has been under Age a-rmcl to wind him up for four ; way for days, and agents of the de score years. partment of justice have visited «very Yet slowly ran he on seven winters : one of the 33 plan a operated under the more. charter of the company. Till, like a dock, worn out with : "The company was incorporated in beating time, West Virginia early this year, and its The wheels of wearly life at last : .Urged control of the window glass Stood still. business is to be investigated with in tent to show that it is a monopoly in restraint of trade Portland, April 6. With the same • The Imepnal Window Glass com serenity that had marked the later pany is a hokling organisation, the years of his long and useful life. Judge manufacturers pooling their output and George H. Williams early yesterday selling through the company exclusive morning passed to the Great Beyond. ly. Price« have been compared with Sunday night Oregon's grand old those of the American Window Glass man had retired at the usual hour, af company and there is but slight differ- ter a quiet day spent in g*x»l health SOSS.” ____________ • Grand Old Man of Oregon Has Crossed Dark River. Fan Sebastian, Spain, April 4. An other French aviator has met death while making a flight in an aeroplane. Huliert Lebloo, who. prior to his tak ing up aeroplaning was a noted auto mobilis t, was killed while making an exhibition flight here yesterday. He was circling lhe royal palace of Miramar at a height of 140 feet when his motor broke. He sttempted to glide back to the shed, but the ma chine turned and swooped with terrific force against the rocks. The aviator was crushed. Mme. Ix-blon witnessed the 'accident and when the body was recovered from the sea. she rushed shrieking tew arils the ambulance to which it was being carried. She threw, herself upon the lifeless form, kissing it repeatedly and refusing to le led away. Aa the weath er was stermy, lx-blon's flight was un expected and only a few people as sembled to ace the start. After the start, however, an enormous crowd quickly gathered and followed the body te the police hospital. There was an examination, but the dorters were only able to confirm that death must have and spirits. At the rising hour the been instantaneous. empty tenement of clay was found re- 1 clining 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 aa the spirit left the 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 Carlos, ping away.” For a week Judge Williams had lieen where he attended a jerformance to night. The Americana in lhe boxes unusually cheery, ami for five months started the cheering, which was taken he had been freer from physical Buffer up by a great body of students seated ing than for several years. For a long in the third gallery. Colonel Rooee- time prior to last fall he had been in vclt rose ami bowed his acknowledge convenienced by an internal disable ments, which only served te increase ment more or leas chronic, yet it whs the tumultous applause. of such a nature that his active inter During an intermiaaion students to est ami participationjr. business affairs the number of 200 marched to the rear was not impaired, ami not even hie of Colonel Roosevelt's box. where they most intimate friends realised the pain were presented to the ex-president by he ha<l suffered. Professor Boggiano, of lhe University of Naples, who, in a graceful speech, I6TH AMENDMENT WILLIAMS' recalled the colonel's parting injunc tion te 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 citixens of the United Professor Boggiano said that thia was States to vote shall not be denied or also the greatest problem for all coun abridged by the United States, or by tries. any state, on account of race, color or Colonel Roosevelt, replying, appeal previous condition of servitude. ” ed te the students te aspire to the high The foregoing is the Fifteenth est ideals, but wanted them that their Amendment to the constitution of the aspirations must tie coupled with prac United States, adopted by congress in tical methods. 1870 and later ratified by the states. "Life is a struggle,” he said. "You The text of the amendment was pre must not keep in the clouds. Your pared by the Oregon statesman, ideals must be such 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. Judge Williams was one of the last, Chicago. April 4. Beth, a blooded I if not the last, memtier of the "war cocker spaniel which has won many senate," and h»l tieen a warm |>crson- blue ribbons al bench shows, is dead, al friend of Lincoln and also of Grant. tiut if there is any poet mortem satis Sent to the senate from Oregon in faction for a departed canine in an 1H64. he soon became a power in the elaborate funeral, Beth must have iL administration forces. He was the Wrapped in an embroidered opera coat, originator of the "reconstruction act,” het casket lined with the trophies of which he later, aa attorney general in her show victories, Beth was buried be Grant's cabinet, enforced. neath a fine old mission willow yester day, sorrowing friends witnessing the Cotton Mills Closing. ceremony. Beth was the pet of Miss Boston. Marh 31.- Fifty per cent Suxette Newton, th« young daughter of the spindles in Southern cotton mills of Mrs. 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, O., 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, lhe boy students of Ohio Wes ever tieen 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 to is closing down entirely until new cot imperil the hair of their heads by ton arrives or market conditions im- iprove. i wearing hats. JAPANESE SPIES MAY NOT BE Pl NISHEII. Washington. April 2. The War de partment has turned over to the local Philippine government the prosecution <>f the two Japanese alleg*-d to have been engaged in securing plana for the fortifications of Corregidor, Manila hart-or, through the bribery of Joseph G. Saxe, an American soldier. This has tieen done in U h - hope that the local attorneys in Manila may be able to find s*'n.c section that will serve to bring about punishment of the offender», whom the United States c*d*- *!<>e« not touch. It Is quite evident, however, that the charge of bribery will not hold, as the Supreme court has rule«! that the britie must be offered to an official. Of course. Private Saxe can and prole ably will be tried by military court martial, but it d*«s not seem probable that there will be any way of punish 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 posed legislation affecting th«- disposal of waterjiower site« <>n the ptdilic do main, Secretary Ballinger today tem porarily withdrew from ail forms of distiosition 6,823 acres along the Lem hi River. Idaho, and 4.175 acres along the Columbia river in Washington. Approximately 42,750 «. res of land in Montana was designated for settle ment under the enlarged homestead act. This land, it was said, was not susceptible of successful irrigation at s reasonable cost from any known source of water supply. Thia makes a total of 28.bhM.240 acres in Montana designed for settlement under lhe a<L The coal lands withdrawn from the public domain, it was announced, in clude large areas within unopened In dian and military reservations. As such withdrawals are without effect, Mr. Ballinger has cancelled them to clear the record. These lands were already withheld from entry t>e«au»e they wer« within Italian or military reserves, and their inclusion within coal land withdrawals was a duplicate of their reservation. The total area involved in the correction of the rec ords was 811.354 acres, located in res ervation» in New Mexico. Colorado. Utah. North Dakota. Washington and Montana. VISIT TO POPE DECLARED OFF Roosevelt Declines Restrictions Imposed by Invitation. Great Roman Pontiff E«preset Wish to Avoid Repetition of Fairbanks Incident Rome Stirred. Pope to Roosevelt. : ! : | : ! 1 The holy father will^be delighted to grant an audience to Mr. Rovae- veil on April 5 and hopea that noth- ing will arise to prevent it, such aa the much regretted incident which made th*- reception of Mr. Fairbanks impossible. : ; : ! j : ! ! It would be a real pleasure to me to be presented to the holy father, for whom I entertain high respect, loth personally and aa the head of a great church. ... I decline to make any stipulations or submit to any conditions which in any way would limit my freedom of conducL Roosevslt to Pope. Rome. April 5.- The audience which it was believed that ex-Presidcnt Ro*«evelt would have with the po|w to day will not take place, owing to condi tions which the Vatican has imposed, and which Mr. Roosevelt refused to accept. Although the definite negotiations relative to the audience ended lie fore Mr. Roosevelt left Egypt, the an nouncement was withheld until after Mr. Rooaevelt reached Rome tonight at the solicitation of his American Catholic friends here, who believed that in the meantime the Vatican might cnange its attitude. On«- of the ex-president's American friends who had i>een with him in Egypt, came to Rome yesterday with out any authorization from Mr. Rooae velt, and interceded with Cardinal Merry del Vai, the papal secretary, in an endeavor to avoid the situation, which, as it now standa, haa caused a real sensation in Rome, although it was not entirely unexpected. Ilia efforts were unavailing. When at Gondokoroin February last, Mr.J Roosevelt wrote to Ambassador Leishman, saying that he would be glad of the honor of an audience with King Victor Emmanuel and th«- pope. The audience with the king was promptly arranged. Before an arrangement could be reached relative to an audience with the pope, several telegrams were paaa«d snd the negotiations were ended by Mr. Roosevelt's refusing in any way to be limited aa to his conducL An audience with the |>ope under the circumstance 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 luase-s, fence« and trees being blown down, and in some instance bouse overturned. Railroad property suffered heavily, and in one case 15 men narrowly es caped with'their lives. Both the Western Pacific and the Southern Pacific are out of commission ■gain. The damage to th«- Southern Pacific will I»- repaired by Wednesday, but the outlook for the Western Pacific is dark. The expensive pifieline of the Utah Copper company, which cost $40,- 000, was extensively washcii away. The storm l*«s at Saltair Beach, 20 miles west of here, will amount to $10,<H>0. The pavilion and other val uable resort concessions were wrecked and railway tracks entering the resort were washed away. Omaha Fir« Costs $500.000. Prices Blamed on Tariff. Washington. April 2. Increases 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 the duty on paper was re sponsible for an increase of half a cent a pound in the price of macaroni, be cause the macaroni was wrapped in pa per. «> ii ¡n a similar way, olive oil was higher on account of the duty on tins. He testified that there had been a gen eral upward tendency in the price of groceries in the last ten years. Curtiss Firm Insolvent. Buffalo. N. Y„ April 2. An invol untary petition in bankruptcy was filed here today against the Herring-Curtiss company of Hammondsport, N. Y., manufacturers of flying machines. Three creditors allege insolvency. Glenn H. Curtiss, the aviator, is vice-president and general manager of the company. ! Omaha, Neb., April 6.- At a late liour tonight 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 mill of the Man ey Milling company. The elevator and tlie 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 welcome Colonel Roosevelt on his return to Am erican shores. It is ho|ied to have a large detail of the original regiment go down the harbor on a chartered veescL Five distant states propose to send del egations to the welcome. They are North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and California. ts 4
