LEXIIGTOI HEEATFCID
LEXINGTON. OBCGOM
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
Id a Condensed Form for Our
Easy Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Pest Week. '
The provincial governors of the Phil
ippines have petitioned the commission
for home rale.
Roosevelt is said to be working to
secure Piatt's place in the senate when
his term aa president expires.
Attorney General Moody will fight
vthe railroads in their effort to break
down tbe employers liability law.
The Ute Indians in Wyoming, on
learning troops have been sent after
them, have broke camp and headed for
Montana.
By the verdict of the jury'in the
Stanrdard Oil case at Findlay, Ohio,
that company is liable to a fine of from
$50 to $$5,000.
Russia is in terror lest worse reac
tionary outrages than the country has
yet known follow the congress of
"Black Hundred" organization at
Kieff.
A grand jury at San Francisco in its
report .finds that the police of the bay
city have been lacking in discipline
an 1 recommends that a new chief be
appointed.
The New York Central railroad has
been fined $102,000 for granting re
bates to the sugar trust and F. L. Pom
eroy, traffic manager, must pay $6,000.
An appeal has been taken.
Taft has reported in person to the
president on Cuban affairs.
The sunken French submarine has
been located and all on board are dead.
The gunners of the battleship Maine
have broken rail previous records in
target practice.
The president will soon appoint a
vice governor -of the Philipines and a
supreme judge.
Owing to the failure of the potato
crop a famine is threatened in West
Ireland this winter.
Republicans claim Hughes is gain
ingg over Hearst in the New York
gubernatocrial fight.
Chief Wilkie, of the United States
secret service, is investigating the al
leged shortage at the sub-treasury in
St. Louis.
British stockholders of companies
whose money is invested in Cuba leel
safe now that the United States has
taken charge there.
In the tests of the Britise battleship
Dreadnaught all eight of ber i0 and
12-inch guns were fired at once with
out damage to the vessel.
William Scully, the greatest land
owner in America, is dead. His for
tune isjestimated at about $50,000,000,
including 200,000 acres of land in Illi
nois, Kansas and Nebraska.
Russia is preparing for another gen
eral strike.
Richard Croker, former leader of
Tammany hall, New York, will soon
visit bis old home.
Should Hughes be elected governor
- of New York, he may use tbe office as
a stepping stone to the presidency.
Tbe president of the Cnicage elevator
trust has admitted grain men only
technically obey the spirit of the law'.
The earnings of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad for tbe year ending
June 30 showed an increase of more
than $2,000,000 over the previous year,
In the trial of the Standard Oil for
conspiracy at Findlay, Ohio, one of the
company's lawyers declared the corpor
ation to be the only good trust in exist
ence. Cuban rebels have petitioned for the
retention of Commander Colwell in
Havana, as he is liked by all and a
good officer. Colwell is commander of
the U. S. cruiser Denver.
A Federal grand jury at Jackson,
Tenn., has indicted the Standard Oil
company on 1,524 counts. The max
imum fine would be $30,480,000 and
the minimum $1,624,000.
Wholesale dealers in diamonds have
announced an advance inn prices of 20
per cent.
Congress is very likely to approve a
plan to advance the salaries of postal
employes.
Chicago commission men have lodged
g protest. with Secretary Wilson, claim
ing the new meat inspection law creates
a monopoly.
The threatened lockout in the build
ing trades at Oakland is on. Nearly
11 the mills are closed and building is
almost at a standstill.
CYCLONE IN SOUTH.
Cuba and Florida Swept by Heavy
Gale All Wires Down.
Fort Pierce, Fla., Oct. 19. The con
ductor on train No. 98, just in from
Miami, reports terrible destruction
there by the hurricane yesterday. Ful
ly 100 houses were blown down, and
the city is in a demoralized condition.
The handsome churches of tbe
Episcopal and Methodist denominations
were both blown down. The concrete
jail was leaning, with danger of turn
ing over, and the prisoners had to be
removed. The car sheds are blown
down and the top as blown off the pen
insula and Occidental steamer sheds.
A two-story brick building collapsed.
Houses Ruined at Key West.
St. Augustine, Fla., Oct. 19. Fre
qpent messages were received at tbe
wireless telegraph Btation here yester
day giving the progress of a severe hur
ricane, which swept from Cuba to the
lower east coast of Flordia. Early in
the morning the storm was reported in
the vicinity of Havana, doing great
damage there, but details are lacking.
Later the storm reached Key West,
blowing down small houses and trees,
being particularly severe along the
water front.
Havana Totally Isolated.
New York, Oct. 19. At 2 o'clock
this morning cable communication with
Havana had not been restored and tbe
Western Union company was unable
to got in connection with Miami or
Key West, the land lines throughout
Southern Florida having been pros
trated. It is impossible to get information
that will give any basis lor an esti-nate
ot the damage in Havana. The cable
lines on the western Cuba end are con
nected with Havana by land wires and
the presumption is that these wires
have been put out of commission, a
single dispatch received by the Asso
ciated Press from Santiago de Cuba
btating that the weather there is
clear. This dispatch came by way of
Bermuda, but Santiago de Cuba, which
is nearly 500 miles from Havana, re
ports tLat all wires to the capital are
down.
GUILTY AS CHARGED.
Verdict of Jury Against Standard Oil
in Ohio Case.
Findlay, Ohio, Oct. 19. After de
liberating 32 hours the jury in the case
of the State of Ohio against the Stand
ard Oil company; of Ohio, returned a
verdict of guilty on the charge of con
spiracy against trade in violation of the
Valentine anti-trust law.
The verdict was rendered at 4:35
o'clock this morning, the jury having
announced its readiness to report exact
ly at 4 o'clock. The court and attor
neys arrived in a half hour, when the
verdict was rendered.
As the jury was leaving the room
Mr. Troup stepped up to the court and
said he wished to make a motion for a
new trial of the case. Judge Banker
assured him that all such motions
would be entertained, as a matter of
course. The court at once adjourned
and five minutes after the verdict had
been rendered the building was dark
and deserted.
NO CHINESE ON CANAL.
Chairman Shonts Says None of These
Menials Will Be Employed.
Chicago, Oct. 19. Chinese labor is
not being employed in the Panama
canal zone, nor will it be, according to
Chairman Shonts, of the canal commis
sion, who is in the city to attend the
celebration of his mother's eighty-third
birthday. Mr. Shonts said sanitary
conditions on the canal zone are excel
lent and work progressing steadily.
"I cannot imagine how the report
was started," he said, "that Chinese
were being employed as laborers on the
canal. I have never contracted for
Chinese labor, but simply invited bids.
There are no Chinese employed in Pan
ama, to my knowledge, except, per
haps, as laundrymen, and none will be.
The published stories that 5,000 of
them are at work in the canal zone is
absurd."
Tracks Full of Cars.
San Francisco, Oct. 19. Freight
shipments to Ran Francieco over tbe
Southern Pacific have again been tied
up. The new embargo will become
effective tomorrow and no more freight
will be received for shipment to San
Francisco or Oakland yards or forward.
The congestion has rapidly been in
creasing since the embargo was remov
ed. At present over 3,500 cars are
standing idle on the tracks. Cars have
been coming into the city at the rate of
over 400 every day and all efforts to get
them unloaded have proved of no avail.
Japanese Sealers Claim Damages.
Victoria, B. C., Oct. 19. According
to advices from Japan, directors of the
Toyi Fishing company, of Wayakama,
owners of the schooner Toye Mam No.
5, which had five men killed and 12
captured when raiding tbe St. Paul is
land rookery in Bering sea, last July,
have approached the Japanese govern
ment asking that a claim for damages
be lodged with the American government.
HUNDREDS PERISH
Storm Sweeps Florida, Cuba and
Central America.
LOSS REACHES INTO MILLIONS
Shipping Receives Serious Blow and
Everywhere Loss of Life Is
Reported Great.
Miami, Fla., Oct. 20. The steamer
St. Lucie, Captain Pravo commanding,
has sunk off the Florida coast. One
steamer arrived in port tonight bring
ing 60 injured, who were taken to the
hospital, and it is said 28 dead bodies
will be brought up tomorrow.
Captain Bravo says that he anchored
on the lee side of Elliutt'B Key, 25
miles south of Miami, yesterday morn
ing and soon afterward a tidal wave
engulfed the entire island.
He Bays there were 250 residents on
the island, all of whom where lost. The
St. Lucie was crushed by the same
wave and of the 100 passengers on
board 25 were killed. Captain Bravo
was seriously injured.
A Darge containing 100 people is
said to have been torn away from its
moorings at Elliott Key and after
wards picked up near the Bahama
islands, 50 of her passengers having
been drowned.
Havana, Oct. 20. A cyclone of un
precedented severity, accompanied by
a terriffic downpour of rain, swept over
the pr ovinceB of Havana and Pinar del
Rio Wednesday night and resulted in
20 deaths in this city and the serious
injury of a dozen or more persons.
The damage is estimated at fully $2,
000,000. The dead are all Cubans of
the pooler class.
San Juan, Porto Rico, Oct. 20. The
Red Star Line steamer Philadelphia,
from La Guayra, Venezuela, for New
York, arrived here today. Her cap
tain reports that a Dutch steamer was
lost in the cyclone at a point between
Caracas and La Guayra.
Twenty miles of the railroad con
necting La Guayra with Caracas have
been totally destroyed by the storm,
according to officers and passengers of
the Philadelphia.
San Salvador, Oct. 20. A tempest
has raged incessantly lor ten days
throughout the republic, flooding the
rich valleys, principally that of Majada,
and resulting in great loss of life and
the destruction of cattle and crops.
The topography of various depart
ments has been changed, buildings have
fallen, burying their tenants in the
ruins, and the iron bridges over the
prinicpal rivers have been carried away.
The rivers are bringing down the bodies
of persons drowned in the storm and
the carcasses of cattle, and the sight of
these tends to increase the terror of the
people.
Guatemala and Honduras also have
suffered greatly. It is said the losses
there will amount to many millions of
dollars.
GRAIN TRAFFIC BLOCKED.
Shippers May Appeal to Interstate
Board Against Railroads.
New York, Oct. 20. There has for
some time been active complaint by the
New York grain trade at the railroad
de'ay in bringing wheat and corn to
this port.
The comlpaints have besome bo gen
eral, says the Journal of Commerce, to
day, that the railroads have finally de
cided that until they can secure poss
sesion of equipment they will not re
ceive any more grain. This refusal is
absolute and applies to new as well as
old business.
Tbe grain trade is greatly excited
over the decision, and a joint meeting
of the Produce Exchange grain commit
tee with the committee on trade and
transportation was held today with the
steamship interests to devise ways and
means, take legal advice, and if neces
sary make lormal appeal to the Inter
state Commerce commission against the
action of tbe roads.
Blaze In Freight Sheds.
San Francisco, Oct. 20. Fire broke
out last night in the freight sheds of
the Southern Pacific on Berry street,
between Fifth and Sixth, and made
rapid progress on account of the inflam
mable material in its path. Some
alarm was felt throughout the city on
account of the quickly spreading action
of the flames, but the reorganized fire
department proved itself equal to the
emergency and surrounding property
was protected. The water supply was
ample and in good order. Alongside of
the sheds 50 freight cars were consumed.
McKlnley Memorial Fund.
Canton, O., Oct. 20. Secretary Hart
zel, of the McKinlev National Memori
al association, today gave out a state
ment Bhowing total cbntributions of
$556,664,to which should be added $74,
062 interest. Of this sum there has
been expended $178,886.
MRS. DAVIS DEAD.
Widow of President of Confederacy
Passes Away.
New York, Oct. 17. Mrs. Jefferscn
Davis, widow of the president of the
Confederacy, v ho has been ill for a
week at the Hotel Majestic in this city,
died at 10:25 last night.
Death was due to pneumonia induced
by a Bevere cold which Mrs. Davis con
tracted upon her return from the Ad
irondacks, where she had spent the
summer months. Although grave fears
were felt from the first, Mrs. DaviB'
wonderful vitality, which brought her
safely through a similar attack a year
ago, gave hope of ultimate recovery
until Monday night, when a decided
change for the woioe was evdient and
the attending physician announced that
tbe end was near. It was then believ
ed that Mra. Davis could not survive
the night, but she rallied slightly dur
ing the early hours of yesterday.
Shortly after 7 o'clock yesterday
morning she had a similar Bpell and
Rev. Nathan A. Seagle, rector of St.
Stephen's Protestant Episcopal church,
was hurriedly summoned to give religi
ous comfort to the patient in her last
moments of consciousness. The clergy
man remained some time and an hour
later it was announced that Mis. Davis
had lapsed into a state of coma. The
period of unconsciousness lasted to the
end.
Mrs. Davis has for some years made
her home in this city, where she had a
wide circle of friends. Throughout ber
illness solicitous inquiries regarding
her condition were continually made
at her apartments.
STAYS UNDER SEA.
Another French Submarine Boat Is
Lost Off Biaerta.
Biserta, Tunis, Oct. 17. The French
submarine Lutin left this port this
morning for plunging experiments.
Signals received at 10 o'clock tonight
reported her disappearance. Two tor
pedo boats and three tugs went out in
search of the submarine.
It now appears almost certain, ac
cording to the news received at a late
hour tonight, that the crew of the Lu
tin has suffered a fate similar to that
which overtook the crew of the subma
rine Farfadet here last year. The crew
of the Lutin numbered 14 men.
Admiral Bellue, commander of the
Tunis naval division, who went out on
board a tug, returned at a late hour to
night and said that, owing to tbe heavy
seas and the obscurity, it was impossi
ble to continue salvage operations until
day. The tags and torpedo boats, how
ever, will remain through the night
near the place where the Lutin made
her final plunge.
One of these boats reports that its
drag encounters resiBtane as though a
vessel were lying at the bottom. The
government salvage steamers belonging
to this port, will return in the morning
and particcipate in the work.
The British consul general here pro
posed to the French resident general to
telegraph to the British admiralty at
Malta for salvage and assistance. This
nffnr wAfl accented.
The Lutin was a single sreew steef
marine boat built at Rochefort in 1901.
She waa 135 feet long and had a dis
placement of 185 tons.
SEAL RAID DELIBERATE.
Japanese Crew Compelled Captain to
Consent to Slaughter.
Victoria, B. C, Oct. 17. Clear evi
dence is forthcoming by advices receiv
ed today by the steamer Empress of Ja
pan that the raid on St. Paul island by
Japanese sealers was premeditated, and
the statement that the Japanese landed
for water and were treacherously fired
upon by the Americans, as reported by
the Japanese government by directors
of the raiding schooner, is shown to be
untrue. Hunters of the raiding schoon
er, Toye No. 2, which appeared off St.
Paul island two days before the raid,
went to the captain with the ultimatum
that unless he permitted them to go
ashore and club seals on the rookery,
they would refuse to work and compel
him to return. The master 'agreed.
Further discussion took place as to the
division of prospective spoils, and
knives were drawn. At midnight a
boat was lowered with the oarlocks
mo filed and sent in, the vessel being
but a mile from the rookery in the fog.
Four other boats followed.
Make the Oregon New Ship.
Washington, Oct. 17. The Naval
Construction board today approved es
timates for repairs to the battleship
Oregon, which call for an expenditure
of nearly $1,000,000. When the secre
tary of the navy approves this report
work will begin at Puget sound navy
yard and will probably require two
years to complete. One hundred thou
sand dollars is to be expended for new
guns, $250,000 for repairs to machin
ery, about $400,000 for general repairs
to the hull and superstructure, and
$141,000 for new equipment.
Secede From New Union.
Perth, Australia, Oct. 17. The leg
isatlive assembly today, by a vote of 19
to 8, adopted a motion that the state of
Western Australia secede from the rest
of the commonwealth.
IS GUILTY OF CRIME
Jury Says Vanderbilt Road Gave
Sugar Men Rebates.
LAWYER BLAMES PUBLIC OPINION
Company and Its Traffic Manager
May Each Be Fined In Sum of
$120,000 for Offense.
New York, Oct. 18. A verdict of
guilty of granting rebates on sugar
shipments was returned by a jury in
the United States court here today
against the New York Central Railroad
company and Frederick L. Pomeroy,,
the company's general traffic manager.
Sentence was deferred until Friday to
permit the attorneys for the defense to
file motions with the court.
In discussing the jury's verdict, Aus
tin G. Fox, counsel for the defendants,
placed tbe resposibility for the convic
tion of his clients upon public opinion.
"You can't defend rebate cases Jin the
present state of publio opinion." said
he.
According to the provisions of the
Elkins act, under which the convictions
were secured, the maximum penalty is
a fine of $20,000. As both the Central
and the personal defendant, Frederick
L. Pomeroy, are convicted by tbe deci
sion of the jury on all of the counts
charged in the indictment, the total
fine for each can be $120,000.
Letters from Lowell M. Palmer,
manager of tbe traffic business of the
sugar refining company, to Mr. Pome
roy, acknowledging the receipt oi drafts
amounting to thousands of dollars,
were admitted. It is charged that
these drafts represented the payment of
a rebate of 5 cents per hundredweight
on shipments of sugar to W. H. Edgai
& Son.
CHINA ARMING FOR FIGHT.
Increasing Army and Revenue Under
Two Great Statesmen.
Washington, Oct. 18. Conditions in
China, which were generally supposed'
to have improved since the cessation of
tbe boycott on American goods and its
consequent agitation, are really much
worse, and tbe anti-foreign feeling is
greater than it ever was. Information
of an absolutely trustworthy character
has raeched Washington to this effect.
The Chinese army, under tbe guid
ing hand of Yuan Shin Kai, considered
by those who know China to be the
greatest man in the country, is being
increased at a tremendous rate, and the
government is putting a great deal of
money into its main fighting force.
Yuan is viceroy of the province of Chi
li, in which Pekin is situated. He h as
very great influence and hia main poli
cy seems to be to increase the army
This fact, coupled with the show of for
eign hatred, which is becoming more
and more apparent, makes the situation
serious.
Tank Shao Yi is rapidly becoming
one of the most powerful men in China.
Not only has he an enormous salary ae
viceroy, but he is also vice president of
the foreign office and director general
of the railway between Hankow and
Pekin, and occupies the same position
in regard to the railroad from Pekin to
Niu Chwang.
PLOTTING AGAINST ALLY.
Charge Is Made by Russian Writer
Against Japan.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 18. The St.
Petersburg Telegraph Agency has re
ceived a dispatch from Tokio saying
that the anti-British movement in In
dia is receiving much encouragement
from Japan, where every effort is being
made to foster a feeling of kinship be
tween the two dark races and to preach
the lessons of the Russo Japanese war.
The Hindoo Btudents now in Tokio,
the correspondent of the agency contin
ues, have just published an address, in
which they appeal to India to heed
the call of "Asia for the Asiatics," and.
to rise and cast off the British yoke.
For United Tariff Revision.
Logansport, Ind., Oct. 18. Senator
Beveridge spoke here tonight, before a
large audience, making his first politi
cal speech in the Indiana campaign.
The senator devoted the most of the ad
dress to a discussion of the tariff. He
made a plea for a limited tariff revis
ion. He said there should be changes
in some tariff schedules because the
conditions under which they were
made have changed and it would be
better not to imperil the whole pro
tective system by putting oC admitted
ly needed changes.
Militia Ordered Out.
Columbia, S, C, Oct. 18. Governor
Hey ward has ordered out the militia to
prevent a threatened disturbance at the
hanging Friday at Conway of Com
mander Johnson, a white man of
means, aecsued of having murdered
Rev. Harmoi D. Grainger,