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:
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"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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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¡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.
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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.
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