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Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented in Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
J. J. Hill and a party of New York
bankers are en route to »cc the North-
west.
Th«- proposed American South Polar
ex|H!dition has tx-en abandoned for thia
year.
Coalition of British Liberals atxi
Irish has blasted the hopes of the Tor
ies in parliament.
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Edward
Payaon
Weston fiaasi-d
through Syracuse, N. Y., on his walk
across the continent.
Three lives were lust and aix per
sons arc miaaing aa the result of a ho
tel fire In Cincinnati.
President Taft has ordered the re
moval of the Alaskan district attorney
and the United States marshal.
It is believed that the Milwaukee
road will tap Willapa Harbor, Wash.,
and then build direct to Portland.
Charles J. Wi-zler, accua«*<i of mur
dering hie mother-in-law at Gig Har
bor, Wash., has made a full confeaaion
of the crime.
In an address before the highest in
tellectual personage* of Fran««-, Roos«-
Veit |»ut human rights always above
property rights.
Mr». Hetty Green, ocle bra It'd fur
years aa the richest and shrewdest
business woman in the world, will
w»<»n retire from active business life, it
la understood, and will turn over the
hatxiling of her immens«- fortune, es
timated at »56,000,000, to her daugh
ter, Sylvia, now Mrs. Slyvia Astor
Wilks*.
Aa a sequel to the sus|ensi<»n of D.
P. Crawfonl arxi Harry H--rt»>r-. fr<4n
Stanford by th«» student affairs com
mittee, E. M. l»eaf, editor of the «»I-
lege magazine which published the
charges which led to the diaminaai of
the two athletes, was »eired by a
crowd of students and thrown into
Lake l.aguinta*.
The government cotton inquiry will
go deeper than originally expected.
Two Eastern |a«toffice thieves got
ten years and »6,000 fine for stealing
stamp«.
It is claim«! Australian i»ecf can tie
sold in the United States chea|x»r than
the home product.
A Kansas woman lost her life trying
to rescue the pictures of her parents
from her burning home.
A big freight »learner, loaded rvady
to »ail for Boaton, was destroyed by
fire at her dock in Rotterdam.
While playing in a farmer's yard
near Colfax, Wash., a 5-year-old child
was run over by a hog and its leg bro
ken.
I President Fallicrea, of France, ex
changed calls with Rixiaevelt and the
audience in a French theater roee to
greet him.
Aftonreya, principals and clerks en
gage«l in a genera) fight in a Sacra
mento court room.
Deputy sheriffs
s«-|>arated them.
Foiir cases of appendicitis in five
years, ami thr«w of them within the
butt six montlia, is the record of a Col
fax, Wash., family.
A daring thief has l«x»ted the cathe
dral of Moscow, Russia, of precious
atones from the pictures of the saints
am! the image of the virgin, to the
value of »54X1,000.
An expedition will leave Co|x»nhagen
this summer to retrace Cook's route
through the Arctic ami recover instru
ments arxi supplies which Cook claims
to have left at certain points.
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The Colorado Conservation commis
sion has turn«! down the Pinch«»t poli
cies and declared for state control of
water.
The present exmdition and future
prospect* of the Harriman lines were
never better, according to the traffic
manag«-r.
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RESIST RICE EXPORTATION
WOULD ABOLISH SLUMS.
Crop Failure» In China May Cause
Serious Outbreak».
New Socialist Mayor oí M.lwauke»
in for Clsan-up.’
Pekin, April 25.
Attacks upon
magistrates and several mission build
ing at Changtch Fu and reports of dia-
lurbancea at other points in Hunan
province have aroused diplomatic cir
cles. Concern is felt lest the trouble
«lartod in Changsha may develop wide
significance.
The Chinese government, fearing
revolutionaries may take advantage of
the unrest growing out of the food sit
uation, is taking stringent measures to
suppress disorder.
Fuller advices
from Changsha emphasize that the
rioting is not primarily due to anti-
foreign feeling. but was turned against
foreigners only ujx>n the discovery
that the governor's efforts to prevent
the exportation of rice were balked
largely through
foreign
influence.
Thousands are on the verge of starva
tion, owing to the failure of the crops.
Several weeks ago the governor, to
prevent high prices, prohibited ail ex
portation of rice. British and Japan-
cse merchants and shippers engaged
in the rice trad«- protested to their re
spective legations at Pekin in an effort
to induce the diplomatic corps as a
body to protest. Thia was frustrated
by the refusal of th« American and
German legations to join.
The British Slid Jap«! •
then pr->
tested to the Wai Wu l*u, which, in
view of the treaties now In force, was
reluctantly compelled to instruct the
governor that he must postpone his in
hibition of export*. A jump in the
price of the people's food quickly fol
lowed the suspension of the inhibition,
and drove the [«»or in de»|»eration to
wreck the government buildings, and
afterwards consulates, missions arxi
other foreign buildings.
Three men implicated in the recent
bomb plot against the regent, arrested
at Pekin, eonf«<sa«d their guilt. Two
leaders, educated in Japan, professing
to Ix-long to the Sun Yat Sun party in
San Francisco, say ls»mb methods are
discountenanced, and hence * the three
men acted upon their own reaponaibil-
>t>.
Milwaukee, Wi»., April 23. Thia
was a busy day for the Socialists, who
have just taken the reins of city gov-
' ••rnmenL
Mayor Seidel came out
»trongly for abolition of the slums, and
declared that he would support any
movemet for carry ing out of plans of
' the central council of philanthropists
for the tearing down of tuberculosis in
In Evant of Sarious Trouble, Nations fested tenements and houses, and a
general purification of the city, moral-
May Have to Unite As In the
, ly and physically.
Boser Revolution.
Mayor Seidel declared that he would
' not issue permits for Saturday night
dances in places ’in which dancehalls
Washington, April 26. There is con are connected with saloons, and that he
cern at the Slate department over the would try to arrange for fr«-e Saturday
Chinese riots in Hunan province lie ntght dances with municipaliy.provided
cause of the |a«sibility thsi the trouble music In school houaes.
Mr. Seidel announced that he would
may spread rapidly at any moment
It is realized h< re that information in [my a visit to Chicago and confer with
the Chinese provinces travels with Dr. Evans, health commissioner of
lightning-like rapidity from mouth to that city, to secure ’advice on the en-
mouth. So, with flaming anti-foreign gsgiog of a gixxi man for health com-
|KMtcrs living |>ost<d in the streets of miaaioncr.
Oustide of this pn-gram for the car
Changsha, it is readily understood
wnat the effect may be on the nptgb rying out of platform pledgee, Victor
Berger atvxxinced that the central com
boring districts.
If the riots spread it is believed that mittee was ho [»rogrvasing in its work
the foreign nations will stand together of organizing the state that there
with the Chinese government U» help would be 100,000 votes [oiled by that
bring about order and prevent blood ticket thia coming fall.
Mayor Seidel said he would ir.sjx-ct a
shed. as during the Boxer troubles.
Effective naval vessels in the vicin numl-er of institutions, txepitala, places
ity ap|w-..r to tie the I itid Stat»- of charily am! other buildings involved
cruiser Cleveland, the Japanese gun in the jurisdiction of the health com
boat UJi, and the British river gun- missioner, when in Chicago. He will
also continue inquiring for a commis
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The Cleveland, which has just ar sioner of public works qualified to fill
rived at Hankow is of 3,200 tons dis the new »6,000 position aa chief of
placement and carries ten 5-inch guns, the board, when the one-man plan g«x-a
The mayor said he ia
eight 6 |ioundcrs, two l-fiounders. four into effect.
Colt automatic and one 3-inch field gun. looking around for other experts.
STORM LOSS »30.000.000.
Worst Blizzard in Many Year» Raga»
Through Middle Watt.
Chicago, April 2b. - Western and
other fruit pruducing status wilt be
called u|«»n this year to supply all of
the Middle Western states, in addition
to their regular buaiiieaa, for no fruit,
with the possible exception of straw-
licrriea and a few late gra|»ee, will be
grown in six or eight states.
Of these Michigan and Missouri have
heretofore been counted U|x»t> for very
large supplies, but they will be forced
to Imy everything this season.
Thirty million dollars is a rough es
timate made tonight of the loan in thia
year’s fruit crop by the cold tempera
ture» and blizxardous condition which
obtained through the Upper Missis
sippi valley last night and today and
extended aa far East aa Ohio.
Fears are expressed by conservative
observers in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa,
Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Indiana
atxi Missouri that small fruits, with
the exception of late strawberries, will
be a total loss.
Unofficial reports tonight are that
Kansas has suffered a loss of »M,000,-
000; Iowa, th,000,000; Michigan. 15,-
000,000;Wisconsin, 11000,000, Illinois,
»4.000,000, and Indiana »2,000,000.
Lake Michigan, lashed into fury by
a tierce northwest gale, tossed about
like corks all boats then on its sur
face, and kept within harbors all other
craft.
The blizzard played a number of
freak pranks in Chicago, in one In
stance lifting the roof from a barn and
dropping it on a alowly-movlng locomo
tive on the tracks of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad.
There was a general im|>eding of
steam railway, elevated and surface
passenger traffic in thia city and the
Northwest.
Several inches of snow fell in Mil
waukee during the storm, and the bliz
zard extended into Northern Michigan,
where a fall of two feet was reported.
A wind blowing 48 miles an hour ac-
companied the storm.
Governments Begin to Realize
Gravity of Situation.
The Snipe is a British river gunboat,
which has just liven refloated after
having run aground near Changsha.
S.hv in ' x tons displacement, earn, s
two 6-|>oundera and four 46 inch Max
ims.
The Japanese guntaiat is 620
Steulicnville, 0., April 23. The
tons displacement and carries four 12-
lives of 18 'miners were snuffed out in
laiunders and three Maxima.
a tremendous explosion in the Youg-
hiogheny 4 Ohio Coal company’s mine
MONEY IS TIED UP.
at Amsterdam last night. Seven men
bruited and turned were rescued from
New York Bankers Try to Sell Stocks the mine and their escape from death
is regarded as miraculous.
Ft* Buyers.
The interior of the mine was wreck
New York, April 26. The fianncial
ed and all ventilation shut off.
The
Review says the markets of last week
cause has not yet been determined.
registered a sharp revulsion of senti
ment fro-n tin h->)>cful temper <>f th.
30 STUDENTS ARE BURNED.
week before. It was th«- commonly
accepted view of the cloae market ob
servers that the advance has tx-en or Mobs Set Fire to Technical School
Gunboats are Refuge.
ganized by imfxirtant capital and by
banking interests to stimulate outside
Hankow, April 23. The situation in
interest in the dealings and to pro Hunan province is reported as critical.
claim a feeling of confidence at the Women and children are fleeing for
financial center which might react on their lives from Changsha, the capital.
general liusineas.
A number of villages near the city
The action of the market at the have been burned by native mobs.
opening of last Week was sufficient to The country is placarded with threats
demonstrate the failure of the experi- to kill all foreigners.
ment. Ina trad of buying onlera, the
This news was brought by mission
country sent orders to sell stocks and ary refugees, who arrived here today
took advantage of the higher pries» from Changsha atxi nearby stations.
established.
Many of them had traveled 30 miles on
The professions of contentment with foot and reached the Yangtac Kiang
the conditions of the steel trade which river in rags. Their houses had been
hail i-ume from official soun-i-s in con- burned and they lost all of their per
nc-etion with the marking up of stocks sonal ■ -ffl-cts.
and the predictions of an increast- in
The missionaries said that gunboats
the dividend rate on United States in the river have their guns trained
Steel am! of a favorable quarterly upon Changsha am! nearby |x>inta and
statement of earnings, had to be con have afford«! a refuge for many of the
trasted with the yielding (rice of pig foreigners. Three thousand Chinese
iron, proposals for reducing output to imperial soldiers are occupying the
avoid an unwicldly surplus accumula strategic points of the capital, and de
tion, and a falling off in new orders tachments are being hurried to the
for different lines of finished products. outlying districts, where lioting is re
ported.
Many Chinese have been killed, In
GRAZING LANDS NOT INCLUDED one inatancv a technical school was
art
on fire and 30 students were burned
Secretary Wilson to Take All Such to death, their escape being prevented.
From Reserves.
When vessels approached Changsha
Washington, April 26. Although to rescue the imperiled ones the
stockmen who hold permits to graze in Chineaee mob saturated junks with
forest reserve« are protesting against kerosene oil from looted stations of the
the elimination of non-timbervd lands Standard Oil company and, setting
from forest reserves, Secretary Wilson them afire, allowed them to float down
announced today that the law docs not stream in an attempt to destroy the on
contemplate the inclusion in the re coming steamers.
Six Chicagoans, three of them wo
serves nf any but timls-red lands and
that whenever non-timbervd lands arc- men, are believed to be imperiled, per
found within reserves they must be re haps slain in Hunan province. Every
where there Is carnage and the future
stored to the public domain.
Mission
In making the elimination he will holds out dark pnsjx-cts.
use discretion to protect the water sup aries fear that at any moment they
plies of cities and towns, but beyond will be slaughtered right and left.
OHIO (OAL MINE DIS
ASTER KILLS IS MEN.
that he will insist that all large areas
Bodies Dug From Debris.
of grazing lands, particularly around
the outer boundaries, be taken out. He
Birmingham, Ala., April 23. Re
holds that grazing lands cannot I* re «»very of bodies from the mines at
served to prevent stream pollution. Mulga today was very slow.
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had been brought to the surface, the
Phones for Dispatchers.
rescuer* encountered a bad cave-ln and
The it was found neceaaary to remove tons
St Paul. Minn., April 26.
Great Northern railway has just order of earth and rock. Some of the rock
ed the telephone train dispatching ap had to be blasted away. The rescuers
paratus to lie installed on six more di secured four bodies under the debris,
visions of its road. This road is al but it took hours to extricate the
ready using telephones for this |*ir|«»s«' mangled forma from the mana. Ex
on approximately 2,100 miles of line, perts who have examined the mine are
and in every new extension which in positive not one of the entombed men
cl m les the Fergus Falls, Breckenridge. lives. Forty-two men were in the mine.
North Dakota. SL Cloud and Cascade
Russia Get» Rockefeller Coin.
Blizzard Hits Michigan.
New York, April 26. Russians here divisions, reaches in the neighborhood
have receivrei advices from St. Peters-1 of 1,1X10 miles. The telephone system
Calumet, Mich., April 23. A heavy
burg to the effect that John D. Rocke of the Great Northern will extend blizzard, with a 50-mile wind from the
feller has given a large sum reported over the entire main line.
north, struck Keswena yesterday and
to be 1500,000 - to establish a sanitar
reached its climax shortly before mid
ium far tuberculosis sufferers at Ab-
Tennessee Mas Snowfall.
night The storm swept from Duluth
bas-Tuman, a watering place In Trane- ^Nashville, April 26. - Flurries of to the Soo. Three inches of show has
Caucasia. At the Rockefeller office at snow were intermittent here all day. fallen ami the temperature is now
26 Broadway no one could be found to So far the damage in Trnnaeeee from about 20 degrees, a drop of 20 since
say anything about the reported gift. | the present cold snap has been slight. morning.
Six convicta in the leaven worth,
Revenue Man In Trouble.
Kan., |»en escaped by overpowering
Honolulu, April 25. Alleging tech
the crew of a switch engine and forc nical violations of law, special agent
ing them to ran the engine through W. B. Thomas, of the internal revenue
the gates and out into the country.
service, has mad«- a rv|»»rt to Washing
A Chicago doctor has l»evn award«-d ton in which the removal from office of
»100,000, payment in full of a contract collector of internal revenue W. F.
tn furnish all medical treatment for a Drake, of Hawaii, is recommended.
woman during her life.
She lived The report follows an investigation
about five years after the contract was of the affairs of the collector's office
made, during which time the ¡»hyaician by Thomas, which, it la stated, reveal
ed technical irregularities.
faithfully lived up to his agreement.
Thusnas’ report is said also to rec
W. J. Bryan called on President TafU
ommend the removal of Deputies Doyle
Wet snow is crushing trees arxi tele and R. S. Johnstone.
phone and telegraph wire* in Ohio.
Th-- newly elect«! Socialist adminis
tration has taken office in Milwaukee.
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Natives on Coast Have Lively
Time Picking I p Cargo.
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Thousands of Tons of Valuable Goods
Jettisoned in Effort to Save
Ship from Going to Pieces
Hughtown, Scilly Islands, April 21.
Inhabitants of the Rocky Scilly is
lands were famous wreckers of primi
tive times, but they will forever re
member thia aa the greatest day in
their hiatory.
The Atlantic tranxjtort liner Minne
haha, wrecked Monday, disgorged part
of her 17,000 tons of valuable cargo,
casting it upon the waters all day long,
to be gathered up by those who cared
to lake the trouble.
Farming and fishing were aban
don«!, and even school was dismissed,
while most of the population of the
nearby islands, men, women and chil
dren, devoted themselves to obtaining
treasures from the waves.
The salvagers decided to try to res
cue the Minnehaha by cutting her in
half, in the same way the Chicago
White Star steamship Suevic, which
went ashore near the Lizard in March,
1907, was saved.
Every effort to lighten the ship is
now imperative.
Today the waves
beat up too high and strong for the
tugs to go alongside.
Consequently
goods were thrown ovt rboard from the
forward hold as fast as the stevedores
could handle them.
Huge cases, containing automobiles
and pianoa, followed one another over
the side, striking the water with a
great splash.
Sewing machines and
clocks went with them, while furniture
floated everywhere.
Many bales of cigarettes covered
the face of the water, and tons of cheap
American novels floated to the nearby
shore of Bryhe, where they were piled
like seaweed.
Tidings of the jettisoning of wealth
spread early and a flotilla of fishing
craft and luggers scurried to the scene.
Aa fast aa the cargo hit the water,
enterprising boatmen pulled up the
smaller cases, while they took the
larger ones in tow.
The machinery was taken from the
wreck and stored.
Two hundred and twenty-four head
of cattle swam ashore, while ten were
drowned.
The seamen here think it will be im-
poasible to save the Minnehaha, and
look for the first strong wind to break
her to pieces.
ROOSEVELT IN PARIS.
French Papers Give Warm Welcome
to the Colonel.
Paris, April 21. Colonel Roosevelt
arrived here at 7:33 o’clock thia morn
ing. The Paris morning newspapers
unite in warm expressions of welcome
to the ex-president. The Matin prints
a message of eulogy from M. Pinchon,
th«- foreign minister, who says M.
R<x«evelt ever was foremost in the
cauM- of peace.
”We French have more cause to re
member this than any one,’’ says the
foreign minister, “for Mr. Roosevelt
is surely a faithful friend to France.
He han manifested friendship to uh un
der all circumstances, with perfect dis-
intvrvHtedni-as. He has acted as a
statesman who understands that the
tw<» great republics owe each other
support, since they obey the same
principles to carry out the same work
and have the same ideals.
It is a
friend we are going to receive, a
friend sincere, just and tenacious. Let
us honor him.
'Thetaiore R<s«evelt appears to me
as a man without fear, who consults
only his own conscience and makes wil
lingly sacrifices to the inspirabons
thereof, notwithstanding the conse
quences which might follow his action.’’
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Man Drinks, .Then Is Lost.
Ix« Angeles, Cal., April 21.- With
in lens than 24 hours after his marriage
to a Loa Angeles girl, Thomas Hughes,
a temperance worker, who Lad been
engaged in anti-saloon and morality
crusades in Cincinnati, Chicago and
mon- recently in San Francisco and
Oakland, disappeared and his bride ap-
I»ealed to the police yesterday to find
him. He vanished after taking one
glass of Iw-cr, his wife said. Hughes
married Miss Cora Reek, immediately
after testifying at the trial of a hotel
proprietor, whose arrest he had caused.
Aviator Breaks Record.
Charleville, France, April 21.— The
French aviator, Roger Sommer, accom
plished a remarkable feat today, which
established a new world's record for
aeroplanes. He made a flight of more
than five minutes across country w th
four passengers.
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