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VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , JULY 22, 1900
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Foreign.
A new dirigible torpedo recently
planned by a Swedish inventor has
aroused great interest in Swedish
naval circles. The torpedo is operated
by electricity.
The Russian embassy at Constanti
nople has addressed a sharp note to
the port, calling the auention of the
Turkish authorities to the advance of
Turkish troops Into Persian territory,
north of Uremiah, and requesting
their immediate withdrawal.
The suffragettes in Holloway jail.
London, who have been making trou
ble for the authorities by refusing to
comply with the prison regulations,
, have been ordered confined to their
cells for a period of 24 hours. But
their spirits do not appear to be de
pressed. and they are as determined
as ever to refuse to work or submit
willingly to the treatment usually ac
corded to criminals.
The Peruvian government has given
orders that passage money be ad
vanced to all Peruvian subjects in
Bolivia who desire to leave the coun
try on account of the ill feeling en
gendered by the arbitration award ot
President Alcorta of Argentina in the
boundury dispute between the two
countries.
Chancellor Von Buelow will resign be
fore the adjournment of the reichstagj
according to the report in well in
formed political circles A semi
official note, published in the Koel
nisehe Zeitung. gives similar indica
tions.
Count Casimir Undent, former Aus
trian premier, died at Vienna. Count
Casimir Badeni was born >n Poland
in 184C». Ho studied law, entered the
Austrian civil service and became
governor of A-ustrian-Poland.
General.
Albert Ryan of Colorado, an organ
izer of the Western Federation of
Miners, shot and killed H. F. 8nyder,
and fatally wounded Otto Miller, a
poster. at the United Stator, hotel Iu
Los Angeles.
Hermit Roosevelt, son of the ex
president. shot a hippopotamus.
John T. Miltiken, St. Louis, cleaned
up $300,000 In a recent wheat deal.
Detroit was selected as next year's
convention city by the executive board
of the Catholic Educational Associa
tion, and the dates were fixed as July
5. 6 and 7.
President Diaz of Mexico will come
to El Paso, Tex . to confer with Presi
dent Taft upon the occasion of the
latter’s western tour this fall.
At the close of the first day of regis
tration for the Spokane. Coeur
D’Alene ar» Flathead reservation
lands It Is estimated that 28,000 appli
cations were filed.
A state official with a mathematical
turn of mind has figured it out that
the recent floods in Kansas have cost
the people more than $1,000,000.
Congress will he asked at the in
stance of President Taft to authorize
the Issuance of bonds to the extent of
the latest estimate of the cost of the
Panama canal.
Upon conviction by court martial for
passing bogus checks and failing to
pay his debts. Major Charles J. T.
Clark. Twenty-sixth Infantry, has been
dismissed from the army.
Evelyn Thaw was again on the wit
ness stand and said her husband had
threatened to kill her when he got
free.
The Persian shah has taken refuge
in the Russian legation, and his cos
sacks are negotiating surrender.
"As soon as the tariff is out of the
way." said James J. Hill, the railroad
magnate, "this country will enjoy a
prosperity which will at least equal if
It does not surpass that which It knew
under the McKinley administration.
President Taft called the tariff con
ference leaders into consultation and
told them the corporation tax must
make good.
A call has been issued by Chairman
Warren Keifer for a republican state
convention to be held in Lincoln. Neb.,
on July 27.
Detroit was selected as next year's
convention city by the executive board
of the Catholic Educational associa
tion and the dates were fixed as July
5, fi and 7
The Phllliptne tariff bill passed by
the senate last week provides for du
ties on nearly 400 articles Imported
by those Islands
Fifteen thousand men with decorat
ed floats and carriages forming a line
more-^than four miles in length com
posed the great Elks parade in Los
Angeles.
Paris theaters have raised tie'll
price of admission, whereat there Is
great protest
The Rome Tribuna says Arch-Bishop
Farley of New York will be created a
cardinal at the consistory to be held
in November.
The tariff conferees agreed on are
custom court except one provision,
and dispute over drawback provision
of law.
The Persian hired Cossacks have
made overtures to the nationalists but
the shah will tight.
Congress will be asked at the in
stante of President Taft to authorize
the issuance of bonds to the extent
of the estimated cost of the Panama
canal.
A falling building in Philadelphia
killed seven people.
The Retail Lumber Dealers’ associa
tion of Mississippi and Louisiana was
sued In the chancery court of Holmes
county at Lexington. Miss . under the
anti-trust statute for the recovery of
penalties aggregating $14,184,000.
State troops were called out to keep
order among 3,000 rioting steel work
ers at Pittsburg. Pa.
A conference at tne white house re
sulted in conclusion to reduce corpo
ration tax from two to one per cent.
The story of a recent fight of Philip
pine constabulary with Moro outlaw
has reached America
A wind storm at St. Louis was de
structive to property.
Fire at Duluth, Minn, destroyed
$500,000 worth of lumber.
When the Paclfl • coast, Unitarian
conference affirmed its approval of
the Methodist platform. It changed
two words in plank No. 1 to commit
the Unitarian church to woman suf
frage.
Civil service employes are anxious
to have congress investigate the sys
tem. for they believe they will get bet
ter salaries.
If departments at Washington want
to show low estimates next winter
they must not expect congressional
relief.
Delays in harvesting in the wheat
belt has caught warehouse men short
and boosted wheat seven cents a
bushel.
Two powerful banks In Chicago have
united, giving them a financial power
of $83,000,000.
Conference committee on the tariff
Is working night and day, but refuses
to divulge details of work.
Germany has raised the tax on beer,
tobacco and brandy.
Members of congress see no hope
of insurgent success and predict com
plete Aldrich victory on tariff com
promise.
President Taft speaks favorably of
the plan to connect church and gym
nasium. and praises the worker whose
vacation is short.
Congressman Klnkaid has persuaded
the secretary of the navy to loan Ne
braska the figurehead of the battle
ship Nebraska.
More than 4.000 Western Union tele
graph poles in Iowa w'ere broken by
the recent storms and floods through
out the state.
Wolgast ami Nelson fought a ten
round bout at Ivos Angeles, the for
mer getting much the better of it.
Delegates of a number of New York
business associations will go to Wash
ington to urge that a tariff commis
sion be Incorporated as a part of the
♦arlflf bill.
There is about to come from the
press an 8,000-word booklet by Mrs.
Mary Copley Thaw of Pittsburg, deal
ing with the case of her son, Harry K.
Thaw.
Washington.
The revolution in Colombia is at an
end, according to a message which
was received by Senor Gusman, Co
lombian charge d’affairs, who rushed
immediately with it to the state de
partment.
A shake-up in the personnel of com
merce and labor took place when ap
proximately 100 employes were re
duced. and the resignations of about
ten others were accepted. This ac
tion was taken by Secretary Nagel as
a result of an investigation into “the
efficiency” record of the employes in
his department.
Hon. Church Howe, consul general
at Manchester. England, arrived in
Washington. Mr Howe has returned
to the United States upon a leave of
absence, and after transacting some
business in connection with his office
will start for Nebraska to spend the
remainder of his leave at home.
All discrimination is not forbidden
by the act to regulate commerce, but
only such discrimination as is undue.
This, in effect, was a decision of the
Interstate Commerce commission an
nounced in the case of the Morbeck
Demer company against the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad and the Pennsylvania
railroad.
President Taft was presented with
a "big stick." a bludgeon six feet long
and shaped much like the big emblem
of Rooseveltian authority, which be
came famous in cartoons during the
last administration. The donor was
J. 11 Forbes of Ottawa. Kas.
As an indorsement of his stand dur
ing the discussion of the tariff, the
Union League club of Chicago has in
vited Senator Dolliver to address the
annual dinner of the club, Washing
ton's birthday. February 22,* 1910. The
invitation has been accepted.
By the decisive vote of .'117 to 14.
more than the necessary two-thirds
the house passed the senate joint
resolution providing for the subniis
s. m of the income tax amendment
question to the states. The negative
votes were all cast by republicans
The resolution now goes to the presi
dent for his signature.
Personal.
Charles R Crane of Chicago, vice
president of the Crane Elevator Com
pany, has been chosen by President
Taft as minister to China.
James l’. Samniis has been elected
Exalted Ruler of the Elks.
President Taft announces that his
dates for the trip beginning Sept. 13
are liable to revision.
Twenty-five thousand dollars will be
at President Taft's disposal on his
western tour.
Rockefeller has decided nearly all
his property in Clcvelaud to his son.
Terry McGovern, once feather
weight champion, is a physical wreck
and has been taken to sanitarium.
The Roosevelt expedition which has
been hunting for the last five weeks
in the Sotik district, arrived at the
farm of Captain Richard Attenborough
on the south shore of lake Naivasha.
Gov. Johnson of Minnesota who has
passed through several operations, is
! said to be improwing.
END OF THE TARIFF
PRESIDENT WILL PROBABLY SIGN
NEXT WEEK.
FREE IRON ORE ANO OIL
These and Other Items Will Be Taken
Up by the Conference at an
Early Day.
Washington. — The republican con
ference committee- Senators Aldrich,
Burrows, Penrose. Hale and Culloui,
ami Representatives Payne (N. Y.),
Dalzell (Pa.), McCall (Mass.). Routel
(Hi.). Oalderhead (Kan.) and Fbrdney
(Mich.)—is now near the end of its
deliberations on the tariff hill and its
report is expected to be completed by
the latter part of this week. How long
it will take the senate and the house
to pass finally upon the work of the
conference committee and what will be
the ultimate fate of the measure as a
whole is the subject of varying conjec
ture. hut the general impression in
j piarters usually well informed is that
the report of (lie committee will lie
adopted by both houses and will reach
'he hands of the president early next
week.
Most people here expect that Presi
dent Taft will sign the hill. He. him
self. caused a Hurry throughout con
gress last Friday night by the issue
>f what amounted to an informal mes
sage to congress, in which he reiter
ated ills conviction that the national
platform of the republican party meant
and the sentiment of the people as a
whole demanded, a bona fide down
ward revision of the tariff.
in all probability the five subjects
which have received President Taft's
personal attention—iron ore. coal, oil,
hides and lumber—will be taken up by
the conferees during the latter part of
tlie present week. There are a num
ber of paragraphs in the bill which
cannot be disposed of until rates arc
determined for the subjects named.
Proceeding on the assumption that iron
ore and oil will be placed on the free
list, anil that existing duties on coal,
hides and lumber will be materially
reduced, the conferees are preparing
amendments to be offered on articles
related to the foregoing raw materials,
in consequence all of these subjects
may be disposed of immediately after
duties have been determined for the
more important subjects.
Outside of the questions which are
receiving * lie personal attention of
President Taft, the greatest difficulty
anticipated relates to the wood pulp
and print paper schedule. On account
of the statement of Representative
Mann, who was chairman of the spe
cial committee while investigating this
whole subject nnd reported reduced
rates to the house, that he would vote
against the conference report unless
the views of his special committee
were recognized, the conferees have
delayed the disposition of this sched
ule.
The house will be in session Mon
day and will probably adjourn until
Thursday.
The senate meets Tuesday and may
adjourn until Friday unless there ap
pears a prospect of a report from the
conference committee by Thursday.
Nothing of importance except the em
ergency bill is before congress. This
measure may be passed by tlte house
Monday, but If it is not it is planned
to have a senate session on Tuesday.
SHAH DOWN AND OUT.
Sultan Ahmed Mirza Takes Up Reins
of Government.
Teheran.—Mohamed AH, shah of
Persia, was dethroned Friday and the
crown prince, Sultan Ahmed Mirza,
was proclaimed shall by the National
Assembly, composed of the chief
Mujtehids and the leaders of the na
tionalist forces, in the presence of an
immense crowd in Parliament square.
Mohamed AH has taken refuge in
the Russian summer legation at Zer
zende, where he is under the protec
tion of detachments of Cossacks and
Sepoys despatched to Zerzende by the
Russian and British diplomatic repre
sentatives.
The new shah is yet in his minority,
and Azad U1 Mulk, head of the Kajar
family, has been appointed regent.
Sipahdar. one of the most active lead
ers of the government, lias taken
office as minister of war and governor
of Teheran.
DON CARLOS IS DEAD.
Claimant to Throne of Spain Passes
Away After Long Illness.
Rome.—Don Carlos of Bourbon, the
pretender to the Spanish throne, died
Sunday at Vareze, in Lombardy. He
had been ill lor a long time and the
latest reports indicated that he was
suffering from apoplexy, with the ac
companying paralysis.
Don Carlos, duke of Madrid, who
claimed under the special law of suc
cession established by Philip V to lie
the legitimate king of Spain, with the
title of Charles Y!I. was born at. Lay
bach. Austria. March BO, 18-1S.
New Shah Back in Palace.
Teheran. Persia.—The new shah,
the former crown prince, Sultan Ah
med Mirza, accompanied by his tutoi
and a British and Russian escort,
drove from the Russian legation to tin
Sultanabad palace. As the shah en
tered the palace the escort quitted
him and returned to the legation, thus
signifying that his majesty was nc
longer under Anglo-Russian protec
tion. A brief ceremony was held at
the palace, at which the recent and
other members of the council formally
acclaimed the new sovereign.
THE PERMANENT VACATION SEASON.
PAPERS BARE DEATH SECRET
SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES IN
BANKER SAYLER’S DOCUMENTS.
Contents of Packet Left by Dr. Mil
ler’s Victim Inspected by
His Brothers.
Crescent City, 111. — Contents
of the private packet left by the late
Banker J. It. Sayler. opened Thurs
day. arc said to be of a startling
nature. According to W. It. Nightin
gale, who was present when the secret
papers were read by brothers of the
decedent, the contents, which he re
fused to divulge, have a direct bear
ing on the killing of Mr. Say *r by
Dr. W. L. Miller last Sunday.
“We can’t give what we found to
the public, at least not now,” said Mr.
Nightingale. “I will say, however,
that it is evidence which will prove of
value to the prosecution of Dr. Miller,
who is charged with murder, and of
Mrs. Sayler, charged with being an
accessory.”
As soon as tbp - ontents of the
packet w.orf 1^*. >y Thomas and
Willis Sayki, brothers of the late
banker, and Mr. Nightingale, State's
Attorney Pallissard, at Watseka, was
notified by long-distance telephone.
He secured a horse and buggy und
came at top speed to this village.
The fourth and final bullet fired
at Mr. Sayler was found in the din
ing room of his late home. Three were
previously found in the body. The
fourth was embedded in the south
east corner of the room.
Watseka, 111.—The county jail is
still under a strong guard to prevent
an attack on Dr. William L. Miller,
slayer of J. B. Sayler, the Crescent
City banker, whose funeral Wednes
day was attended by thousands. Mil
ler has written to his wife urging
her to come to him at once and she
is expected Friday.
A dispatch from Blalrsville, Pa.,
quoting Mrs. Miller as having for
given her husband and only awaiting
his summons to fly to his aid was re
ceived simultaneously with a private
message from Mrs. Miller to Sheriff
Heikes of the same import.
SNELL INSANE. SAYS JURY.
Decides the Clinton Millionaire Was
Incompetent to Make a Will—
Another Appeal Likely.
Clinton. 111. — The jury in the
contested will case of the late
Col. Thomas Snell returned a verdict
last night finding that Col. Snell was
not competent to make a will. The
estate is valued at $1,500,000.
Col, Snell made only a few be
quests, leaving the estate in trust un
til the death of all his children and
grandchildren. It then was to be dis
tributed among his great grandchil
dren and their heirs. The will was
contested by his son, Richard Snell,
a banker of Clinton, who was cut
off with $50 in the will. The first
trial resulted in a disagreement. At
the second trial the jury returned a
verdict breaking the will, but the su
preme court set aside the verdict on
the ground that Improper evidence
was allowed to go to the jury. It is
announced that the case will again be
appealed to the higher courts.
Quake Kills 300 Persons.
London. — Special dispatches re
ceived here from Athens say that
300 persons were killed or injured
by the earthquake that occurred
in the province of Elis, in south
ern Greece. The damage to prop
erty also was very great. Hot
water is flowing from many of the
springs in the stricken district, while
the water in the rivers and brooks
has turned a reddish color.
Missing Toller a Suicide.
White Plains, X. Y.—With a re
volver still In hfs right hand, the
body of Harold C. Cox teller of the
Home Savings bank, who has been
missing from his home here since
July 5, was found in the woods, cox's
accounts at the bank were correct.
Senator Clay Begins Third Term.
Washington.—Senator Clay entered
upon his third term as a senator from
Georgia. His credentials were pre
sented by his colleague, Senator
Bacon.
BATH HISTORICAL PAGEANT.
Great Celebration Is Begun in the An
cient English City—Illinois Girl
Taking Part.
Hath, England.—Victoria park, the
beauty spot of this ancient city, was
a scene of splendor Monday when the
great historical pageant was opened.
People from all parts of the United
Kingdom were present, as well as
many from other lands. But the
guests who attracted the most atten
tion were the young women who have
been sent here from nearly every
town in the world that was named
Bath after this, the mother city.
Among these young women was Miss
May Sisson, who represents Hath, 111.,
and whose mother was born in
Hath, N. Y.
Another American woman taking
part in the ceremonies is Mrs. Spen
cer Trask of New York city, the au
thor of "King Alfred’s Jewel.” This
dramatic poem was so admired that
Mrs. Trask was invited to write verses
in honor of the American towns named
Hath, and did so, adding a peace hymn
for both countries.
The pageant will last six days, and
includes eight episodes, from which
will be gained an idea of the range
of history of the city, extending back
to the British King Hladud, who
ruled before the Homans established
on the Avon river the town they
t ailed Aqua Solis, "waters of the sun."
In the pageant the lesser king. Rich
ard Nash, whose management of the
bathrooms gave to Hath of the eight
eenth century precedence over the
other fashionable resorts, Epsom
Harrowgate and Scarborough, is not
subordinate in interest even to King
Hladud, King Edgar, Henry VII .
Queen Elizabeth or Queen Charlotte,
for the seventh episode is devoted to
the “Glorious Time of Beau Nash and
Ralph Allen. 1752.”
CHINESE MASONS HIDE LING
Empire Approves Protection of Slayer
of Elsie Sigel, According to
Denver Orientals.
Denver, Col. — That Leon Ling,
slayer of Elsie Sigel in New York,
never will be found through the
assistance of his countrymen or the
Chinese government is stated by Chi
nese here. His protection, it is said,
was approved by the empire after the
report of the consul at New York had
been received.
A Chinese newspaper, having the
unofficial sanction of the Chinese gov
ernment, has reached Denver, in
which the report of the Chinese cou
sul in New York is printed in full.
This report followed an Investiga
tion made by the consul at the direc
tion of the authorities at Peking. The
report after citing the facts of the
case as generally known, states that
it has been discovered that Elsie
Sigel, fearing disgrace, went to Leon
Ling's room seeking aid, and in a
ment of desperation took her own
life by poison. Ling, the report states,
was absent at the time and found the
dead body of the girl upon the bed
upon his return. Frightened by the
discovery, he called Chung Sing, says
the report, who advised him that,
should he tell the truth to the police
regarding the finding of the body he
would not be believed and probably
would be lynched. Frightened by
this view of the case. Ling adopted
desperate efforts to dispose of the
body and conceal Ills own where
abouts.
Michigan Shoe Dealers Meet.
Detroit. Mich.—The State Retail ;
Shoe Dealers' association of Michigan j
met here Monday in annual session, j
The program provides for a discus- ]
sion of- tlu* advisability of forming a ,
mutual insurance company lor the i
members.
Harvest Hand Suddenly Rich.
Ledford. Ind.—While working in a
harvest field Friday. Fred Edgar was 1
apprised of the fact that by the death
of a relative in New Jersey he was
one ot' the heirs to a vast estate. The
information came through State Sen
ator George Wilhelmi of Kentucky.
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy Is 88.
Loston—Mrs. Mary Laker (! Eddy,
founder and leader of the Christian
Science denomination, passed her
eighty-eighth birthday Friday at her
residence at Chestnut HilL
NAME A NEW SHAH
SULTAN AHMED MfRZA ACCENDS
PERSIAN THRONE WHEN
FATHER FLEES.
VICTORY FOR NATIONALISTS
Ruler a Minor and Azad Ul Mulk Is
Proclaimed Regent — Dethroned
Monarch Refugee in Russian Lega
tion, Protected by Czar's Troops.
Teheran.—The war of the National
ists for a new rule in Persia was per
fected Saturday when the crown
prince, Sultan Ahmed Mirza, who was
proclaimed shah Friday, was placed
on the throne abdicated by Mohamed
Ali. It is now believed the lighting
will cease.
Mohamed All has taken refuge in
the Russian summer legation at Zer
zende where he is under the protec
tion of detachments of Cossacks and
Sepoys, dispatched to Zerzende by the
Russian and British diplomatic rep
resentatives.
The new shah is yet in his minority,
ami Azard ul Mulk, head of the Kajar
family, has been appointed regent.
Slpahdar, one of the most active lead
ers of the movement, lias taken office
as minister of war. and governor of
Teheran. Gen. Llakhoff, through
whose negotiations with the National
Ists the surrender was effected, wus
escorted by mounted Baklitiart rifle
men to the parliament building and
was greeted with loud applause by the
people. He was informed that he
might remain temporarily in com
mand of the Cossack brigade provided
he Btrictly obeyed the orders of the
war minister. This arrangement was
communicated to the British and Rus
sian legations.
The shops and private houses occu
pied by the shah's soldiers have been
plundered and the residence of the
manager of the Indo-European Tele
graph Company has been looted.
St. Petersburg.—The Russian for
eign office received a dispatch Friday
night from M. Sabelin, charge d’af
aires at Teheran, saying the shah had
taken refuge at the Russian summer
legation at Zerzende. The shah was
accompanied by his wife and one of
his sons and a small party of loyal
adherents, and his action was in ac
cordance with an arrangement pre
viously worked out by the Russian
and British legations.
M. Sabelin immediately informed
the British displomatic representative
of the shah’s arrival and a convoy of
Sepoys was forthwith dispatched to
Zerzende. During the shah's stay at
that place protection will be furnished
by a joint detachment of Cossacks
and Sepoys.
The full strength of the Russian ex
pedition is now at Kasvin and, if nec
essary, the cavalry could get to Teher
an In two days. The foreign office is
under the impression that a detach
ment probably will be required, not so
much to protect the shah or to op
pose the Bakhtinri tribesmen as to
handle the street mobs and the Te
heran rabble, which is bent on pillage.
The troops inevitably will be sent in
if a single Russian is killed or if a
foreign mission requests protection.
In this event the role of the troops
would be confined to police duties.
Both the Russian officers and the offi
cials of the Russian legation at Te
heran have been enjoined to remain
strictly neutral in internal affairs.
THREE KILLED IN COLLISION
Open Switch Is Responsible for Wreck
on C. & E. I. Railroad Near
Champaign, III.
Champaign, 111. — Three men
were killed and two injured In a
head-on collision between south
bound passenger train No. 23 and
north bound train No. 26 on the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois railroad at
Royal, near here, yesterday.
The dead:
W. E. Barker, engineer, Chicago.
Nelson Paulson, fireman, Villa
Grove.
F. H. Hollenbeck, express messen
ger. Chicago.
An open switch was responsible for
the wreck. Passenger train No. 26
was on the siding to permit No. 23 to
pass. The latter took the switch trav
eling at the rate of 50 miles an hour.
The impact was terrific. Engine No.
23 was smashed and the front end of
the express car was crushed like an
eggshell. The damage to the engine
of No. 26 was small and the express
car on the south-bound train was the
only one to leave the track. Aside
from a severe shaking up the passen
gers on both trains escaped without
injury
$100,000 Short in Accounts.
New Orleans.—Wyatt H. Ingram.
Jr., trust officer of the HIberian Bank
& Trust Company of New Orleans,
was arrested Wednesday evening on
charges of being a defaulter and forger.
It is alleged that he is between
$75,000 and $100,000 short in his ac
counts.
Long Flight by Glen Curtiss.
New York.—Glen H Curtiss, the
aeronaut, made a flight of 31 minutes'
duration in his aeroplane at liemsted
Plains Long Island. He alighted I
without mishap, saying lie could have
remained in the air for an indefinite ;
period,
Glidden Tourists ueave Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, Minn The Glidden
tourists, who arrived in this city Fri
day afternoon, left Saturday morning
for Winona. The Studebaker, No.
luog, was first to arrive.
SOCIALISTS
URGE MEN
President of Prewed
pany at Pitteburg Flatly
to Arbitrate, *f
—- 4. Jjiiffcv
Pittsburg, Pa.—Preside!!* Frank N.
brewed Si
Company Friday blocked all chance
for a settlement of the groat McKee**
Rocks strike l>y arbitration by refus
ing to see any committee from tint
strikers.
A tense undercurrent of unrest Ml
apparent and with quantities of
liquors hidden about the strikers'
headquarters and th'e uhdfcrtain tem
per of the strikers and their sympa
thizers. trouble was expected Satur
day. Martial law was declared anil
tin* troops have ordered to kill*
It was said that the men hav«
taken the advice of socialistic leaden
and were addressed by orators preach
ing "burn, blow up and pillage.”
Wild rumors of dynamite heir,
carted into McKees Rocks an
abundant. It was reported that strik
ers had been sent to Pittsburg to pur
chase gasoline.
A strike leader said there was
basis for the rumor that a letter h
been sent to the car company s*
ing that unless the strikers were}
once reinstated in their positions t
would burn the entire plant.
The events Friday were higl
colored by the appearunce of t;
wives and women sympathizers. W ^y
their babes in one arm and brick ^
and slag in their free hand, these,^
Amazons resisted attempts to enter
their homes in search of rioters.
Pittsburg. Pa.—The company's an
nouncement that it would attempt to
operate the mills Friday caused thd
constabulary, police and private
guards to prepare for further bloody
battles with the strikers at the
Pressed Steel Car plant in McKees
Rocks, where hundreds were wounded
Wednesday and Thursday and a situa
tion as alarming as (hat at Home
stead 17 years ago prevails.
The foreign element, which com
prises the main body of the strikers,
8aw only red when confronted with
the uniforms of the mounted con
stabulary Thursday and it was not
long until they had thrown them
selves headlong at the miuions of tRo
law.
NEW CHANCELLOR IS NAMED
Emperor Appoints Dr. von Bethmann*
Hollweg to Succeed Prince
von Buelow.
Berlin.—Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg
has been appointed chancellor of tho
empire in succession to Prince von
Buelow.
Emperor William arrived in Berlin
at eight o'clock on a special train
from Kiel. IJle received Prince von
Buelow in the small garden of th®
Berlin palace, where the two men
could he seen from the bridge acros®
the Spree as well as from the Burg
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Dr. von Bethmann-Hotlwcg.
strasso. The emperor shook the prince
warmly by the hand and the two -
walked up and down the garden for.
three-quarters of an hour Id animated
conversation. About li o'clock Dr.
von Bethmann-IIollweg appeared io
the garden, whereupon Prince von ,
Buelow bade furewell to hfa majesty '
and tJie emperor walked to and fro
with the newcomer.
Emperor William haa presented
Prince von Buelow with the order of
the Black Eagle in diamond?. -Doth
the retiring and the new chancellor
were warmly greeted by thq crowds
outside the palace.
Chicagoan Envoy to Chf$a.
Washington. — President Aft has
decided to appoint Charles R. v
Crane of the manufacturing firm of
Crane & Co. of Chicago af minister to
China.
Mr. Crane is a member of the firm
of which his father, R. T4 Crane, was
the organizer and is still the head,-it
being one of the largest in Chicago.
President Taft regards him as ono
of the ablest business then in the
country and declared that he \YfU*>de- ^
lighted to bo able to soguro ruoh a
man for the Chinese mission, which
ho regards as one of the most iu®or- ;• -
taut m tin- diplomatic sntrvioe.vSjBE;*^
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King of Denmark Visits Czar*4} '
St. Petersburg King fijrede^efi? of.
I'ccni irk, .H , ni’ipanied..,‘by Q(f$en
l.n-dsi and a .mat sl,ir<9fcjw|P& « ‘ ij
on '
borg. They were met by
Nicholas, two i niprQdgSQH^^HgPjSH
queen ol Greece.
Safe Blowers Get M.100. -V
Rockford. 111.—Burglnriffifcle.J^t&gi
the post-ofllee safe in thtwlitom offjll
A Cooke. Huntley, III.. Sti eScApS
with money, stamps m Je**™
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