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MARCH 18, 1304.
Condense
March 7, fire broko out in tim T.vnonv, i,0r,
tre at Elmira, N. Y. The flames spread to
neighboring buildings and reached the Audi
torium. Both buildings were totally destroyed.
Officers of the "Princo George,' one of the
ships in the British navy, report that an Im
portant signal book is missing from the vessel.
Two officers and two seamen have been placed,
under arrest. This Is said to be the third in
stance In which important naval documents, have
disappeared from the British navy in the past
three years and with the exception of the Secret
War Code, the missing book is the most import
ant document in the navy. ,
The Commoner.
7
d News of the Week
Brendel & Co., a banking house at Berlin,
failed March 7. The difficulties aie attributed to
embezzlement by a clerk.
A collision between freight trains at Jeller
son City, Mo., March 7, restated in the death of
three trainmen. '
John Evans of New York, general manager
of the banana trust, says that last year 28,000,000
bunches of bananas were sold in this countiy
and he expects the consumption to increase sev
eral million bunches in 1904.
At Prague, Bohemia, March G, there were
many riots among the students, brought about by
demonstrations for and against Russia.
Rev. Willard D. Rice, the well-known Pres
byterian divine, died March 6 at Philadelphia.
He was 87 years of age.
In New York, March G, while leaning from a
third story window, Margaret Waddington, eight
years old, lost her balance and fell to the yard
below. Not a bone was broken and the physi
cian was unable to find even a scratch on the
child's body. It is claimed that this Is the third
time this child has fallen out of windows, each
time without sustaining, injury.
An Associated press dispatch, undor date ot
'New York, March 6, says: John Maberg, .a
steamship steward, has been pronounced out -or
clanger -at the Norwegian hospital, Brooklyn, af
ter having undergone an operation remarkable
in hospital records. Dying froni the effect of
false teeth which he had swallowed, being im
bedded in his throat, the man's neck was slit
open and the teeth extracted through the open
ing thus made. The heroic operation was re
sorted to only after every other attempt to re
lieve the sufferer had failed.
- George W. Mayfield of Nebraska and Joseph
M. Mayfield of Indiana, two brothers who had not
met for IHfty years, recently enjoyed a visit with
one another in the city of Omaha, Neb.
An Associated press dispatch, under date of
Tacoma, Wash., March G, says: Mexico is on
the eve of a revolution', according to Colonel H.
H. Thompson, who has just returned trom that
country. Colonel Thompson says the prospective
revolution is dependent upon President Diaz's
release of the reins of government to Limantour.
"Limantour is a sympathizer of th2 church," said
Colonel Thompson. "The belief prevails that
Limantour will return to the church the lands
which have been confiscated, and thjs will be
the signal for a revolution." Senor Bernardino
Reyesr formerly commander of the army is the
man who will head it. Limantour will have only
the police of Mexico City and about 2,000 ruralcs,
or country police.
William Epperson died at Kansas City, Mo.,
March G, at the age of 71 years. He was the pio
neer packer of Kansas City, having built a pack
ing, plant there in 18GS.
It is reported that Baron Toll, the explorer,
perished in the Arctic ocean.
At Springfield, O., March 7, a mob battered
down the jail doors and securing possession of
Richard Dixon, a negro, who had murdered a
police officer, riddled the negro's body with bul
lets and then .suspended it in the air. f
It is reported that the czar of Russia has
Engaged Mr. Horace G) Burt, until recently the
president o the Uniorf pacific' railroad,' sl an
expert on communication's 'and railways infl&tne
czars domain. Newspaper dispatchos say that
Mr. Burt is to make a report on needed Im
provements for the trans-Siberian road and that
his remuneration for two repprts will bo $100,000.
In the house of commons, March 7, Mr.
Balfour said that it was not within the region
, of practical politics to suggest a tax on food
. and added that Joseph Chamberlain had reached
the same conclusion.
Reports from South Dakota say that the
loss of cattle on the range has been very heavy
during the past few weeks, owing lo the scarcity
of water. . '
March 7 more than 2,000 laborers employed
on structures building in New York went on a
strike. They protest against the increase of llio
working day from eight to ten hours.
It is estimated that the damage caused by
the earthquake at Lima, Peru, will amount co
$500,000.
, Charitable institutions are bequeathed ?200,
000 by provisions of the will of Sarah Schermer
horn of Newport, N. Y. Of this sum, the home
for consumptives at Denver receives ?50,000.
The Academy of Science at St. Petersburg
has offered ?3,750 to anyone giving information
in regard to the whereabouts of the party of
Baron Toll, the Arctic explorer, from whom noth
ing has been heard since he left the yacht Sea
ria in 1902, and started for Bonnet island.
March 9 the governor of Ohio called out live
companies of the Ohio national guard to restore
order at. Springfield, O., the disorder being oc
casioned by the lynching of a negro at that
place.
Richmond P. Hobson, known as a naval hero,
is a candidate for the democratic nomination for
congress from Alabama. His opponent is Con
gressman Bankhead. '
Governor Cummins of Iowa was asked to grant
requisition papers authorizing the removal from
Boone, la., to Pierre, S. D., of Mrs. Sherman
Dye, who is charged with sending poisoned candy
to Miss Rena Nelson of Piprre, S. D. On March
8 the governor refused to grant the requisition.
He says that he did so after consultation with
the attorney general, and explains: "The ruling
I am compelled to make upon this application
exhibits grave defect in the law. Under the fed
eral statute, as construed by every recent deci
sion of the supreme court of the United States
and by an older case in our own supreme court,
I have no authority whatever to extradite Mrs.
Dye. The holdings in those opinions are clear
and explicit, to the effect that to warrant ex
tradition the person accused must have been per
sonally in the state whers the crime was com
mitted and fled therefrom after the commission
of the crime. Mrs. Dye was not in South Dakota
arid therefore could not have fled from that state.
I regret this conclusion, because if Mrs. Dye is
guilty of murder, she must be tried for that ol
fense in South Dakota or not at ail, unless the
statute be changed. I have submitted the mat
ter to the attorney geenral and this ruling is
made under his advice."
Congressman Victor Murdock of Wichita,
Kas., was renominated by the republican con
vention March 8.
Jacob Romeo, who served the Tenth Ohio
district in congress from 1884 to 1888 died at his
home in Toledo, March 8.
On March 8 the republican congressional con
vention for the Fifth Alabama district met at
Tuskegee. One-third of the delegates were ne
groes. The delegates to the national conven
tion were instructed for Roosevelt and W. B.
Walker was nominated for congress,
On March S the republican caucus of the New
York legislature selected Dr. Andrew, 3., Draper,
president of the Illinois university arid, former
superintendent of public instruction, to '1)6, com
missioner of education for the initial term of
six years. He will be elected at the iojnt ses
sion of the legislature. 7 . : '
Colonel W!."'A. Mcintosh, general .'counsel or
the Postal Tolegraph company, is dead In Ja
maica, wherp he was spending his vacation. His
homo wad at Atlanta, Ga.
Thfl Servian government Intends establish
ing a consulate at Now York city with a viaw
to increasing and facilitating trade with the
United States.
An Associated press dispatch, under date or
St. Louis, March 8, says: The frame work ot
the Russian national pavilion at the World's fair
was torn down today on receipt of a cablegram
from St. Petersburg by Contractor LeGover who
has been in charge of the woric. Work on the
frame work of the pavilion was well under way.
The cablegram was from the department of the
Interior, briefly ordering such work as had been
completed torn down.
The lower house of the Ohio legislature en
.March 9, passed a bill permitting pools to be
sold at the raco tracks in Ohio. The bill passed
by a vote of 72 to 19.
,An, Assoc,atel Pi'ess dispatch, under date or
W kesbarre, Pa. March i, says: The city of
Wilkesbarre and the Wyoming valley was in a
turmoil today. The mighty flow of water spread
out north and south, cast and west, making the
north branch of tho Susquehanna river a vast
maddened coursing lake, swooping in Its path
whatever there was to Invade and tho scene was
even more terrifying than on Tuesday. Indus
tries all along the entire stream trom Pittston
to Nanticoke are closed down on account of tho
water invading many places, and In many places
water is flowing into the mines. In tho central
portion of Wilkesbarre today business was crip
pled on account of basements being filled with
water. At 10:30 tonight tho water here at the
bridge was 28.2 feet above low water mark, but
much higher in the lower section of town. At
Plymouth the entire business section of tho town
is under water. Only a few business houses es
caped the flood and as a result tho merchants
have lost thousands of dollars' worth of goods.
Tho ice is gorged there and the water backed
up so rapidly this afternoon that many families
found it impossible to leave their homes and arc
living on tho upper floors. Summing up tho sit
uation in brief, over ?1,000,000 worth of property
was destroyed in the Wyoming valley and over
200 families rendered homeless. Though the liver
is falling tonight, towns in the vicinity of Blooms
burg are experiencing the worst flood in their
history. The great spans of the steel bridge
erected by the state at Catawlssa were swept from
their piers.
Eight hundred houses at Middleton, Pa., are
surrounded by water and hundreds of people are
rendered homeless.
The French steamer Combrodgc was wrecked
March 9 in a storm off the coast of Cochin, China.
A London cablegram says that it is believed 100
persons perished in the wreck.
Bishop Charles S. Smith of Detroit speak
ing before the general conference of the African
Methodist church, recommended that the United'
States government acquire the Island of Santo
Domingo as a place of refuge for negroes.
The committee at Denver appointed by the
city council to investigate charges of padding
registration rolls made its report, charging
prominent politicians with fraud.
President Roosevelt, in a letter to President
Shepperd of the Jamestown Exposition company,
indorses the tercentennial to be held in 1907. as
demanding tho united action of the people in com-,
memoration of the real birth of the nation.
-Captain W. W. Gibson, ordnance corps,
United States army, now on duty in the Philip
pines, has been substituted as a representative
of tho United States army with the Russian,
troops for Captain W. B. Kerr, who has fallen ill.
Of course there is some reward in sight for
Mr. Foraker. Else why should ho bring down,
maledictions upon .bte head by introducing a trust
favoring tyili merely to give the president an op
portunity to make a spectacular repudiation
thereof?
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