REVISION AND AT ONCE.
National Manufacturers Association
Favoro Tariff Reform and Moro
Reciprocity at Once.
, Now York. Tho National As
sociation of Manufacturers of the
United StaleB went on record Wcdnos
day an In favor of a rovlHlon of tho
tariff nt tho earliest opportunity and
tho negotiation of .more reciprocity.
Tho committee based its recommenda
tions on a poll of tho threo thousand
members of tho association. Of tho
total numbor replying G5 per cont de
clared for Immediate revision whllo 20
por cent oxprosscd a "hands off" sontl
muot. Eight per cont bolloved that
tho ttmo for revision had not arrived
and tho other 17 per cont oxpresscd
Indifference.
Tho mass of resolutions adopted by
tho association on this the closing day
of its convpntlon, Included Indorse
ment of the open shop, Industrial edu
cation, the Improvement of tho consu
lar service, commendation of tho na
tional river and harbor congress and
opposition to all Illegal combinations.
Of this President Van Oloavo said:
"Wo shall endeavor to assist In edu
cating tho public In Industrial right
eousness. Wo shall bo Just as ready to
opposo unlawful acts by combinations
of capital as those of combinations
of labor. We nro opposed to all forms
of Industrial oppression. And, if any
body undertakes to compel any ono to
submit to such oppression wo shall
endeavor to assist tho party so as
Balled. Wo shall In particular endea
vor to sustain public officials who try
to enforce tho laws "
Tho association selected James W.
Van Clcavo of St. Louis prealdont
nnd F. H. Stlllman of Now York
troasurer. Tho convention closed
Wednesday night with a banquot.
RESENT PACKERS ACTION.
Live Stock Commissioner Firms Re
fuse to Sell Stock 8ubject to
Post Mortem ' Inspection.
Kansas City. Mo. Tho llvo
stock commission .morchnnts in Kan
Has City decided Thursday on a plan
of opposition to the packers' post
mortom inspection order, Armour,
Morris & Co., Swift & Co., tho
National Packing company and
(Schwarzschlld & Sulzberger notified
tho .commislon men recently that be
ginning Monday, May 27, they would
refuse to purchaso cows or heifers
except subject to examination after
killing, with tho understanding that
if condemned bocnuso of a diseased
condition of the meat, tho settlement
for tho carcasses was to bo made on
tho packer's valuation. The order Is
to tako effect In Kansas City, Chi
cago, St. Louis, Omaha and St.
Joseph.
Tlio commission merchants hero
mot at tho Btock yards oxchango
Thursday and ndopted a resolution
that they will sell no cows and holf
ors to tho packers under tho terms of
tho now order. A roll call of tho
commission firms doing business at
tho stock yards was read and overy
firm was roproBontod. None voted
agalnBt tho resolution In addition
tho llvo stock dealers have advised
tholr customers to ship no fat cows
or heifers for tho first few daya
noxt woek.
No "Vindication" Intended.
Washington. An official state
ment was made at the Department of
Justice Friday regarding the1 assign
ment of David P. Dyer, jr., to go to
Europe and receive tho surrender of
Charles F. Grotefend, formerly pay
ing teller of the Washington National
. bank, of St. Louis. It Bays that Dyer's
designation for tho work was mado
wholly without tho kuowledgo of tho
president or the attorney general, and
"when It became evident from news
paper publications that an effort was
being mado to give tho appointment
' the character of a "vindication" to
young Dyer, the Department of Jus
tice took Bteps to terminate his con.
nectlon with tho service.
To Control Farm Products.
. St. . Louisa - The details becamo
known Wednesday or an organization
ihnt has boon in nrogresB of forma
tion for several months, to control tho
nrioa of farm nroducts. Tlie organiza
inn is known as the St. Louis equity
exchange and lt3 leading promotors
are Rev, J. T. Tuohy, a- Catholic
priest, Georgo W. Wlcklino and Owen
uvular- Unnriminrters havo been os-
, -i r
"tablished In Indianapolis and there
are unions in fourteen staios.
Destructive Nebraska Storm.
Lincoln, Neb. A Bovoro elec
trical, wlndi and rain storm pro
vailed near the town of Davoy, nine
miles from Lincoln Friday evening.
Charles Schlltzner, a farmer, was
klled by lightnning and his 7-year-old
aon was badly Injured, possibly fa
tally. Tho rulnfall amounted to a cloud
burst, tho preclpftatlon being placed
at six Inches. Cornfields and gardens
'were destroyed and the country
bridges washed out-
WALKING THE
MARY BAKER G. EDDY SUIT
Property of Christian Science Lead
er Subject of Contention.
tls Claimed by Her Son That She Is
Incompetent to Handle Her
Estate.
Concord, N. H. Following sev
eral skirmishes tho first legal battle
fought about tho person of Mrs. Baker
G. Eddy, leader of the Christian
Science denomination, in connection
with tho suit in equity seoking an J
account of hor property, was opened
In tho Merrimack county superior
court hero Thursday.
The original suit, brought by Mrs.
Eddy's son, Georgo W. Glover of
Lead, S. D., his daughter, Mary Baker
Glover, and Georgo W. Baker of
Bangor, Mo., a nephew of Mrs. Eddy,
was brought In the name of the Chris
tlan Science Leader by hor three
relatlvos, nctlng as "noxt friends" and
was directed against Calvin A Fryo,
Mrs. Eddy's secretary, and several
other leaders of the Christian Science
church. It asked for nn accounting of
Mrs. Eddy's property, which the
"noxt frlonds" alleged was being mis
applied by tho defenuants. Threo
trustees, Henry M. Baker, Archibald
McLollan, and Joslah E. Fernald.
wore appointed by Mrs. Eddy and em
powered by n trust deed oxecuted by
her to manago her property. Tho
trustees then petitioned tho court to
bo substituted for tho "noxt friends"
as plaintiffs In tho suit in equity to
socuro an accounting of Mrs. Eddy's
property. Following this the original
plaintiffs petitioned the court to In
clude the trustees as defendants in
the original, suit.
Thursday's hearing was upon the
motion of the trusteos that they be
substituted for the "noxt friends" aB
plaintiffs in tho suit against Frye and
other defendants.
HORSES AND MULES IN DEMAND
Government Has Increased Difficulty
In Securing Enough Animals
For the Army.
Washington. Increased difficulty
is being experienced In obtaining
horses and mules for the army. Bids
which havo just been opened show
that prices generally have increased.
For tho cavalry, 725 horses aro to bo
bought at an average of $175 each.
Tho artillery corps is to buy nearly
350 for which (211 is tho average
price. Army mules heavy enough to
do draft work bring $188 each and
nenrly 300 of these havo been con
tracted for. Lead mules, somewhat
lighter in weight, bring $168, and pack
mules, still llghtor $131. The quar
termaster department say that army
mules aro bought practically by the
pound, An experiment is being mado
at Fort Rlloy, Kan., In buying yearly
a small number of pedigreed colts
and putting them through a courso of
training for tho cavalry servlco. This
experiment has provod beneficial and
36 of the blooded horses have re
cently boon purchased In different
parts of the country.
Pat Crowe Acquitted.
Council Bluffs, la. Pat Crowo
Tuesday evening was acquitted by a
jury in tho district 'court of tho charge
of holding up two street cars in this
city about two years ago and robbing
their crews.
PLANK.
VICTORY FOR HADLEY.
Supreme Court Commissioner Rec
ommends that Oil Trust Have Char
ters Revoked ande Ousted.
Jefferson City, Mo. Judge Robert
A Anthony, appointed by the u
pveme court of Missouri, to take l-s-tiinony
in the suit instituted by At
torney General Hadley, against tha
Standard Oil company, the Wators
Pierce Oil company and the Rpu')
He OH comnany. charging a conspir
acy, Friday made his report to :ho j
court. His findings hold that tho
Standard, Waters-Pierce and Repub
llce Oil companies entered into an
agreement to control prices of oil.
Ho recommends that their charters be
revoked and that they be ousted from
the state. In his report he holds
that the Biipremo court has the au
thority to make tho ruling of ouster.
The report says that In pursuance
of the agreement the oil com
panies prevented competition among
themselves and others In Missouri,
scurlng control of 00 per cent of the
oil business, depriving the people of
free, full and wholesome competi
tion; that the oil companies misled
tho public Into the belief that they
wore separate and distinct corpora
tions, when in fact the agreement
made them one corporation .
Tho findings of the commissioner
sustain in toto the contentions of At
torney General Hadley In tho peti
tion filed with the court two years
ago.
More Frisco Indictments.
San Francisco. Tho grand jury
Friday evening returned bribery in
dictments as follows: Against Pres
ident Patrick Calhoun of the United
Railroads 14; against Assistant to
the President Thornwell Mullally 14;
against Attorneys Tiroy L. Ford and
W. M. Abbott of the legal department
of the United Railroads, 14 each;
against Mayor Eugene E. Schmltz, 16;
against Abraham Ruef 14; against
President Louis Glass of Pacific
States Telephone & Telegraph com
pany 2; against Theodore V. Halsey,
formerly an agent of that corpora
tion 1.
Trains Will Run Slower.
Chicago. Aftor discussing the
question several weeks, tho Western
railroads havo reached an agree
ment to lengthen the Bchedule of
their through passenger trains. All
tho roads will put a now schedule into
offoct June 9 by which the minimum
time of passenger trains between here
nnd Kansas City, will be 14 hours and
30 minutes. Tho average running
time now of the fastest trains is 13
hours and 30 minutes.
Theodore Tilton Dying In Paris.
Paris, Franco Theodoro Tilton,
tho Amorlcan editor and author, who
has been ill In this city for several
days past of pneumonia, was weaker
Friday. He can no longer rotain
nourishment and therefore his
chances of rocovory are greatly loss
oned. In 1874 Mr. Tilton preferred
serious chargos against Henry Ward
Beochor, who has boon his pastor
and Intimate friend, and demanded
civil damages in the sum of 100,000.
Serious Conflict Promised.
St. Petersburg. Promior Stoly
pln's pronouncomont on tho agrarian
question in tho lower house of parlia
ment Thursday, is generally looked
upon as Indicating tho beginning of
a serious conflict between parliament
and tho government.
SAWNEGROSOLDIERSSHOOT
Editor of Newspaper at Brownsville,
Tex., Describes the Raid.
He Saw One Man Killed and Was
Himself Slightly Wounded Posi
tlve They Were 8oldlers.
Washington. . Paulino S. Precla
do, editor of a Mexican newspaper In
Brownsville, Tex., and an eye witness
to the shooting of Frank Nntous, tho
only man killed In tho affray there,
was on tho stand Tuesday before tho
senate committee on military affairs.
Dramatically tolling his story in
Spanish and having interpreted for
tho committee, the testimony easily
provod to bo tho most important of
fered during tho present hearing.
When tho shooting bogon Preclado
was sitting In the court in tho rear of
Tillman's saloon. According to his
story Mr. Crlxwell, who conducts a
saloon across the street from Till
man's place, rushed in excitedly and
reported that tho "negroes were out."
Tho doors to Tillman's saloon were
immediately closed and barred and
Natous, the bartender, started across
the court to bar the gate which con
nected tho court with the alley. Pre
clado followed, but before he had
emerged from the saloon Into the
court ho saw five or six negro soldiers
In uniform enter tho gate. They
fired several shots and Natuous threw
up his arms and exclaiming in Span
ish, "Oh God," fell on his back. Ho
waB Jellied Instantly. Another bullet
grazed Preclado's hand and it bled
profusely. Still another bullet passed
through Preclado's coat and vest near
tho left breast pocket and broke his
glasses which were In a case in the
pocket.
The men immediately proceeded
down the alley, shooting as they went.
He sworo positively that tho men
were negro soldiers.
Mrs. McKlnley Stricken.
Canton, O. After a consultation
Thursday afternoon at the McKlnley
homo Dr. E. O. Portman, the family
physician of Mrs. McKlnley and Dr.
J. E. Eyman, superintendent of tho
Masslllon state hospital, and a phy
sician of wide reputation, a state
ment was Issued that Mrs. McKlnley'
could not long survive the attack of
apoplexy from which she is suffering.
The doctors say, however, that they
think dissolution will not come for a
day or two. Mrs. McKlnley was In
a comatose condition Thursday night
and it is stated that there are no
grounds for hope of a better turn.
Endorsed Anti-Saloon League.
Columbus, Ohio. Following two
hours of exciting debate, which, at
times became acrimonious, tho Pres
byterian general assembly Wednes
day adopted without a dissenting vote
resolutions declaring that the per
manent committee on temperance
should not embark upon or Isterfero
in political work and endorsing the
American Anti-Saloon League as a
"safe, sane aud effective organization
In the advancement of temperance."
The assembly pledged to the leaguo
tho fullest co-operation "consistent
with the constitution of the church."
Marshals Annoy Diplomats.
Washington. Just what the state
department can do to relievo mem
bers of the diplomatic corps, who
possess automobiles from vexation
when they make an excursion Into
Maryland, has become a question of
imporsance, but regarding which no
path of pfocodure seems open. Sev
eral diplomats have been halted by
the town marshal at Glen Echo, a Bub
urb of Washington, and escaped ac
tual arrest only after elaborate ex
planations as to their identity and im
munity. Gates Inspects Tulsa Property.
Tulsa. John W. Gates, the noted
Wall Btreet plunger and son, Charles
L. Gates, and party of ten New York
ers, woro In Tulsa Friday night, en
route to Beaumont, Texas, where the
annual meeting of the Toxas company
takes place on May 28. 'Gates and
party Inspected tho interests of tho
Texas company here Friday. The
Texas company of which Gates is the
principal owner is building a pipe line
frcin Tulsa to tho gulf. Gates denied
all connections with the Standard Oil
company.
Baptists United.
Norfolk, Va. The Baptist conven
tton of North America, with tho Bap
tlst hosts of North and South, East
and West, united Wednesday in na
tlonal assembly after their separation
following disagreements on tho negro
and other ante-bellum questions moro
than half a century ago. Their first
annual session convened at the James
town exposition Wednesday with be
tween 4,000 and 5,000 delegates ir At
tendance.
WENT IN A HURRY
11AN LITERALLY ROLLED OUT OF
TROUBLE.
Old-Timer Tells of Tough Experience
. in a Western Texas Town Where
the Country Was Wide
Open.
Tho passing of gambling in Texas
brohght out reminiscences of the early
days when tho games were run wide"
vpen In many of the towns of the
ttotc. Jess Fry of San Antonio, who
was in the front during tho construc
tion of the Southorn Pacific through
tho western, part of Texas, tells this
story.
"In 1884 I was railroad and express
agent at a new Btation, which was
then tho end of the llrtt) of the South
cm Pacific. This experience of mine
happened on a monthly pay day.
Every worklngman In camp had
money. Most of them had tho gam
bling fever, and leeches from all over
tho west were .on hand to get their
share of the dinero.
"On this particular day the most
notorious of the professional gamblers
in camp was Iko Winters, who had
como over from Tombstone, Ariz.
Along In tho evening Winters and a
few others started a poker game in
a tent which was pitched just at the
edge of a steep hill. When I got
through with my duties as agent 1
went up to tako a look at the game.
"I was invited to take a hand, nnd
that being about the only way to pass
away the time I sat In. The other
players wore sitting upon empty pow
der kegs and boxes, and I went to the
commissary tent near by and got an
empty flour barrel, which I used for
a scat.
"The game progressed without in
cident for an hour or two, and then
thero occurred the biggest rumpus I
was ever in. There were five or
six players besides Winters. Among
them was a half-breed Mexican who
had come over from Mexico with a
reputation as a killer.
"He was, like Winters, a profession
al, gambler.
"Tho pot was a large one. The half-
breed Mexican and Winters caught
match hands. Both men claimed the
pot. Each started to reach for It
about the same instant, each draw
ing his gun with his right hand. They
fired at each other simultaneously.
"That was only the beginning ol
tho melee. The light was knocked out,
and in the darkness the flash of pis
tols could be Been. I am old enough
now to admit that I was scared.
"The first thought that occurred to
me was that I must seek some place
of safety. Why not crawl into the
empty flour barrel? I got into the bar
rel all right, and was lying thero
trembling when ono of the gamblers
gave the barrel a kick to get it out
of his way and sent it beneath the
flap of the tent and away it went,
rolling down that steep hill, with me
inside of it.
"That hill was nearly half a mile
long, and the barrel went tumbling
down it, bumping over stones and
crushing through tho desert vegeta
tion. Toward tho end of the decliv
ity it was going at a terrific speed.
"I suffered untold agony during that
terrible ride. I could not get out.
I was rolled over and over at the
ate of a hundred times a second, it
seemed to me. It happened that there
were no nails protruding through the
barrel. Had there been I would havo
been punctured full of holes.
The barrel finally came to a stand
still and I crawled out. I was bruised
all over, but managed to pull myself
up the steep hill to the railroad sta
tion. I had escaped from tho scene of
tho shooting, but I felt that I would
probably have fared better had I re
mained there.
"Tho shooting affray resulted in the
killing of Winters, tho half-breed Mex
ican and another gambler." N. Y.
Sun.
Medicine of Bamboo Sap.
In India the sap of tho female bam
boo Is used for medicinal purposes.
"Tabasheor," or "banslochan," is sold
in all Indian bazars, as It has been
known from the earliest times as a
medicinal agent. It is also known in
Borneo and was an article of com
merce, with early Arab traders of the
east. Its properties are said to be
strengthening, tonic and cooling. It
has been analyzed and has been
shown to consist almost entirely of
silica, with traces of lime and pot
ash. From Its remarkable occurrence
In the hollows of bamboos tho eastern
.mind has long associated It with mir
aculous powers.
A Promise.
"Reginald, what is this I hear about
your having been engaged In a fight
with our new neighbor's little boy?"
"Yes'm, I was."
"Now, I wish you to promise that
you will novor quarrel with him
again; will you make mo that prom
Iso?"
"Yes'm; he kin lick me." Houston
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