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FAVOR THE PANAMA CANAL Departmental Assembly Passes a Reso ultion PANAMA Representative Lassa De Levega at Tuesdays session of the de partmental assembly introduced the following resolution which was unan imously adopted The assembly of this department considering of transcendental and de cisive importance to the isthmus and the republic of Colombia the opening of the interocanic canal which will contribute powerfully to the develop ment of commerce and economic in terests of the country which are the true foundation of order and peace coinmemks to the patriotism and en lightened judgment of the next con gress the consideration of this im portant question Dr Juan B Perez has been elected third senator for the department of Panama The senior senator of the department is losea Arango and he and Senator Obaldia who was elected second senator and Dr Soto are all in favor of the Panama canal Slated for a Place WASHINGTON D C Mr Edgar B Clark of Cedar Rapids la presi dent of the Order of Railway Conduc tors is slated lor the place of asssist anl secretary in the department ot commerce Mr Roosevelt told a call er recently that he had practically de cided upon an assistant secretary and a western source is authority for the statement that Mr Clark is the man in vTew Consols at a Low Point LONDON Consols touched 90 on Tuesday the lowest point on record since the Franco Prussian war The fall is attributed to the continued dearness of money and the forthcom ing Transvaal loan of 150000000 Daily conlerences regarding the loan are being held between Chancellor ot trie Exchequer Ritchie and leading financiers The latter suggest that the interest be fixed at 2 per cent and that the price of issue be 95 - Ml ilft1 m - -A 3 W AGAIN IN COURT MUST NOW ANSWER TO FEDERAL AUTHORITIES 0FJHERIV1AN LAW This is the Accusation Against Them The Cases Dismissed in State Court for Lack of Jurisdiction but that Does Not Settle Matter CHICAGO Ten Indiana coal com panies and ten Individual operators were restrained by Judge Kolilsaat In the United States circuit court Tuesday from continuing their combination for the regulation of coal prices and output The defendants were given until April G to show cause why the order ahould not be made permanent The corporations and individuals en joined aro the same as were recently tried in the state court on the charge of raising the price of coal and re stricting the output in Illinois thus causing the coal famine in Chicago last winter Judge Chetlain dismissed the case on the ground that the offense committed was against the federaal law and not the statutes of Illinois The defend ants are The Crescent Coal Mining company Brullette Creek Coal com pany Wabash Valley Coal company Oak Hill Coal Mining company Coal Bluff Mining company Park County Coal company Glen Oak Coal Min ing company Nevins Coal company Indiana Fuel company McClelian Sons Co corporation Jane Shirkie Wal ter S Bogle Hugh Shirkie Max Eich berg J J Higgins J Smith Talley Josepii Martin Edward Shirkie H It McClelian and John Shirkie The injunction granted will stand until further orders of the court It recites that the action of the court is taken upon the application of United Stales District Attorney Behea and upon affidavits of Assistant States Attorney Albert C Barnes and orders that the defendants are especially re strained and enjoined from in any manner complying with or executing the terms of a certain contract made and entered into between you during the month of March 1902 which by its terms went into effect April 1 1902 or any similar contract They are restrained from entering into any combination among them selves to ship the bituminous coal mined and to be mined on their prop erty in Indiana to the Crescent Coal and Mining company at Chicago for uniform sale by that company to con sumers in carload lots on their sev eral accounts at prices arbitrarily fixed by them or their representatives in bucIi a manner as to destroy competi tion between themselves as to the sale o such coal as is O may be the sub ject of commerce among the several states and in violation of the Sherman act No opposition was offered in court to the entering of the order When the notice was first served upon the de fendants some days ago the appeaiv ance of each was entered with the ex ception of the Wabash Coal company which was represented in court by its attorney f - w - - te Loss IN Internal revenue Decrease in Everything Except on Spirits WASHINGTON D C The month ly statement of the collections of in ternal revenue show that for the month of February 1903 the total re ceipts were 1G250409 a loss of 2 407250 as compared with February 1902 The receipts from the several sources of revenue are given as fol lows Spirits 9808822 increase 199110 Tobacco 301 9708 de crease 470301 Fermented liquors 2851082 decrease 1135077 Oleo margarine 53913 decrease 155 279 Adulterated butter and process or renovated butter 11837 law not in force last year Miscellaneous 455043 decrease 911505 For the last eight months the decrease in the total receipts as compared with the corresponding period last year was 28342724 PRESIDENT WILL GET A BEAR Arizona Rough Riders Will Present One to Him TUCSON A T Fitty rough riders ot Bisbee and southern Arizona find ing Jiat President Roosevelt will con fine his itinerary to the porthern part of the territory have arranged an ex cursion to Grand canyon where they will greet their former leader Desiring to give the president some token or their esteem they have se cured a large black bear captured in Sonora and will present it to him when they meet him in the canyon They realize that it will be somewhat awkward lor the president to carry a live bear around with him but they have decided that he win get at leasL one bear on his western trip SPURIOUS TWO DOLLAR BILL Bad Orthography and Thick Paper Points for Detection WASHINGTON D C The secret service dvision of the treasury depart ment has received a new counterfeit 2 silver certificate series 1899 check letter C Lyons register Roberts treasurer The counterfeit seems to have been printed from photo etched plates on two pieces of stiff paper with silk threads between On the back of the note the word certificate is spelled certifiecate public is spelled pur lic when wdn and May Mayl The thickness of the paper should at tract attention Coal Barons Again in Court INDIANAPOLIS Ind Summons were served Monday on eight Indiana coal companies ordering them to ap pear in the United States district court at Chicago tomorrow to answer an ap plication for a restraining order filed by United States District Attorney Be thea They are the same companies that were indicted at Chicago for conspiring to raise the price of coal during the famine last winter when Judge Chet lai decided that the state courts had no jurisdiction New Black Hills Railroad CHEYENNE Wyo Articles of in corporation were filed Tuesday of the Wyoming Black Hills Railroad com pany to operate in South Dakota and Wyoming with 2000000 capital Lewis C Twombly will be president and general manager and the following Minneapolis capitalists are interested in the enterprise A E Johnson Phil lip S Harris Carleton L Wallace Ed win G Potter and Alpha E Hoyt The road will be about 100 miles in length and will open up a vast coal country It will connect the Burling ton and Chicago Northwestern sys tems Irish Land Bill LONDON It is understood that the Irish land bill which the chief secre tary for Ireland Mr Windham will introduce in the house of commons Wednesday provides tor a grant ot 500u0000 from the imperial excheqer and the appointment ot three estate commissioners to arrange for the transter ot land Our Uncle Samuels Cash WASHINGTON D C Tuesdays statement of the treasury balances shows Available cash balances 222 094017 gold 121722853 Pope is in Good Health ROME The pope is enjoying better health and has resumed his private audiences Work is Not Yet Resumed PITTSBURG The American Bridge company has not yet resumed work on the Wabash bridge with nonunion men and quiet prevails in the vicin ity The strikers have established headquarters in a frame building near the American Bridge companys south side plant and just below is the house boat which is quartering the nonunion men Cooks have been employed and cots placed in the house for the strik ers i i P pwsasssfeii i2 FREE NEXT YEAR MRS MAYBRICK TO BE LIBER ATED IN 1904 IS IN NO SENSE A PARDON Womans Release in Accordance With Established English Practice for Good Conduct Life Prisoners Can Always Escape with Fifteen Years LONDON Mrs Florence Maybrick the American woman who was con victed at Liverpool in 1889 on the charge of poisoning her husband James Maybrick by arsenic and whose sentence of death was commutted to penal servitude for life will be re leased in 1904 The announcement comes from the home office which authorizes her Washington lawyers to use the fact of her release next year as a reason for securing the postponement of the trial of the lawsuits bearing on the prison ers interest in land in Kentucky Virginia and West Viginia Mrs Maybricks pending release is in no sense a pardon being strictly in conformity with English practice whereby a good conduct prisoner is released after serving a stipulated part of his sentence In the case of life prisoners this period is placed at fif teen years and Mrs Maybrick will next year have been in jail for that time Those who are in a position to know say that Home Secretary has shown great courtesy in con nection with the suits now pending in America Mrs Maybrick who was Miss Flor ence Elizabeth Chandler and a mem ber of a well known and prosperous southern family was married July 27 1SS1 in St James church Picadilly to James Maybrick of Liverpool She was then IS years old vivacious and beautiful and also a favorite Her husband was over 40 years old In the spring of 1889 Mr Maybrick became ill and in a few days he died His brothers investigated his death and charged Mrs Maybrick with the mur der of her husband A long trial fol lowed and a number of doctors swore Mr Maybrick died of arsenical poison ing The defense proved that for twenty years Mr Maybrick had been a con firmed arsenic eater and that he daily took doses that would have killed a dozen ordinary men Mrs Maybrick was eventually sentenced to death by the Judge Sir Fitzjames Stephens who spoke for two days in charging the jury and who said it was impossible for them to find ner not guilty in the face of the medical evidence He died some time later in a madhouse From the time of Mrs Maybricks conviction her mother the Baroness von Roques has been unremitting in her attempts to obtain the prisoners release in which she has been aided by influential friends on both sides of the Atlantic In 1900 after the death of Lord Russell of Killoween chief justice of England a letter Avritten to Mrs Maybrick in 1895 was discovered It showed that the eminent lawyer was convinced that she ought never to have been convicted and it has been gen erally understood that all the recent American ambassadors to the court of St James have done everything pos sible to obtain Mrs Maybricks pardon BIGGEST MAN IN CHICAGO Could Only Enter Cars Having Double Sliding Doors CHICAGO 111 James II Mahler the biggest man in Chicago if not in the United States is dead He weighed 480 pounds although his height was only five feet ten inches Mr Mahler was the president of a medical concern and descendant of a noble German family He was so broad that he could not use th ele vated i ailway nor the Illinois Central suburban trains because of his ina bility to pass through the turnstiles Only surface cars having double slid ing doors could accommodate him All his wearing apparel had to be made to order as nothing in stock sizes was large enough President Rejects Escort CHEYENNE Wyo Senator War ren wired the committee at Laramie that President Roosevelt desired to make his horseback ride over Sher man mountain practically alone Senator Warren Otto Cramm of Laramie and perhaps two others will accompany him but he wants no body guard either of troops or cowboys Ex President Dies Poor MAZATLAN Mexico Carlos Ecta ex president of the republic of Salva dor has died here in exile poor and almost friendless Governor Canedo paid the expenses of his burial Earthquakes in Mexico CHILPANCINGO Mexico There was a sharp earthquake shock ac companied by subterranean noises at La Union Sunday afternoon An earthquake shock also was felt at Zihualenejo rjssjrr r x H ARBOR DAY IN NEBRASKA The Governor of the State Issues a Proclamation Governor Mickey has Issued the following Arbor day proclamation The recurring spring season is again at hand bringing with it that holiday which is distinctively of Nebraska origin and which has here received its most complete recognition The observance of nearly all public festivals is actuated by motives of sentiment but Arbor day is commem orated because of the practical value and utility of the acts which emanate from it Through its beneficent influ ence Nebraskas treeless plains have been dotted over with beautiful groves affording grateful shade dur ing the heat of summer protection from the blasts of winter fuel for home consumption and which have also had a marked effect in making the climatic conditions more favora ble for agricultural pursuits The denuding of the natural forests for lumbering purposes has occasioned physical disturbances a study of the effects of which are more or less ag itating the scientific world but it is certain that any resultant Injury can be neutralized by the systematic con servation of remaining forests and tho planting of trees in harmony with that progressive spirit of the times which takes into consideration the needs of tne future as well as of the present By virtue of the authority vested in me by law I do hereby proclaim and designate Wednesday April 22 1903 as Arbor day and I earnestly urge every citizen of the state and espe cially the pupils of public and private schools to observe the day by the general planting of trees and the beau tifying of lawns and premises The occasion to obserce the day by the because of the death since last Arbor day of Hon J Sterling Morton the originator of the day and one of Ne braskas most honored eitizons I suggest that an extra tree be planted in memory of him who did so much for the state and whose practical ideas concerning forestry are proving of especial value DETTREY SAYS IT IS GOOD Points to a Bright Future for the Mine Workers HAZELTON Pa President William Dettrey of district No 7 United Mine Workers of America made the follow ing statement regarding the award of the strike commission The award of the commission as based on the demands of the United Mine Workers is very good The rec ommendation for settling the troubles will in my opinion in the near future bring an additional increase of wages to the class of workmen who are en titled to better financial conditions Judging it as a whole I think the re port of the commission points to a bright future for the United Mine Workers Storing Anthracite East PHILADELPHIA Pa A decrease in the hard coal traffic is enabling the Reacting company to fill the hins at Landlngville Pa and other storage yards The coal shipments over the Reading main line have been reduced from 10000 to 7000 cars weekly and large quantities of chestnut pea and buckwheat have been recently stored There is a heavy demand for anthra cite in the west which is being regu larly supplied An Iowa Aopointee WASHINGTON It is understood that E E Clark of Cedar Rapids la has been chosen by the president to be assistant secretary of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor Mr Clark is well known in railway circles being president of the Order of Rail way Conductors He will also be re membered as a member of the anthra cite coal strike commission Mr Clark was strongly recommended to the pres ident by Justice Gray and Senator J P Dolliver of Iowa Warned to Keep Sober MILWAUKEE Wis Members of the Federated Trades union have been warned to stay sober Frank J Weber business agent of that organization at its meeting Wed nesday night served notice on all its members that hereafter he would refuse to consider grievances present ed by men who are under the influence of liquor Pedestrian Makes Long Journey GUAYAQUIL Ecuador Guillermo Koppel the Mexican pedestrian who left Argentina about a year ago on his way to -St Louis has arrived here Sultan Calls Revolt Over LONDON The Times correspond ent at Tangiers says the sultan of Mo rocco is disbanding his irregular troops and has announced officially that the rebellion is ended The cor respondent adds however that the situation is inexplicable as the pre tender Bu Hamarajt has not been captured and the government troops have failed to recapture Taza and never attempted to punish the rebel lious tribes EARLY CONGRESS PRESIDENT DETERMINED ON A SPECIAL SESSION CUBAN TREATY LEGISLATIOH President Believes the Treaty Should Be Put Into Effect Before Market ing of the Sugar Crop Session Probably Be Called in October WASHINGTON President is fully determined to call con gress together in extra session on or before Ocfober 1 All sorts of pres sure has been brought to bear upon him in the hope of inducing him to abandon this project But the presi dent has decided that it is essential that legislation must be enacted to put the Cuban treaty into effect be fore the marketing of tne sugar crop of the island for this year The pres ident has told those who have called upon him to protest that in his opin ion the necessary work can be ac complished within two or three weeks and that nothing need prevent an adjournment in ample time to allow senators and members to take part in the fall campaigns in their respective stat es There is no doubt that if the presi dents plan should be carried into ef fect with the leaden in both houses in harmony with him the desired joint resolution could be disposed of within a week But congress is not in the habit of acquiescing in the wishes of the president in matters of this kind Within an hour after the formal election of Mr Cannon as speaker the bill box will contain sev eral hundred bills the authors of which will push their favorite meas ures with their utmost vigor The so called Aldrich financial bill is one which will cause prompt discussion It was not because they opposed the principles laid down in the bill that the democratic members of the house refused to allow it to be discussed dur ing the last few days of the last ses sion but they argued with a great deal of force that so radical a depart ure from existing law should not be forced through the house under whip and spur during the last hours of a dying congress especially as the bill had not been printed more than twen ty four hours when the attempt was made to pass it The fact that under the Panama canal treaty something like 150000 000 in 2 per cent bonds will be put upon the market within the next few years may have an important bear ing upon the fate of the Aldrich bill Heretofore United States bonds even when bearing the lowest rate of in terest have always commanded a pre mium This is due in part to the fact that such bonds are the basis of na tional bank circulation and are also required as a guaranty that United States funds deposited in banks will be repaid when needed The Aldrich bill as it is well known provides for the substitution of state municipal and other bonds for such purposes and it is believed that should that bill become a law and the outstanding indebtedness of the United States be increased as it must be as soon as active work begins on the canal the result will be the depreciation in val ue of government bonds But that the Aldrich bill or some similar meas ure will be put through congress at the next session is a foregone con clusion and that an attempt will be made to have it enacted into law just as soon as congress resassembles whether it be in August or Decem ber is equally certain Think It Is a Mere Feint LONDON The morning papers hardly discuss President Castros res ignation probably because they re gard it as a mere feint This is the view expressed by one or two papers which comment on it The Daily Chronicle gives as its opinion that the apparent unwillingness of uie powers to submit the question of pref erential treatment to The Hague ar bitration tribunal induced President Castro to endeavor to show the world trat Venezuela is behind him Will Remove Havana Wrecks HAVANA The secretary of the treasury has received a proposition to remove the wreck of the battleship Maine It came from an American whose name the secretary declines to disclose The proposition does not call for payment either ray Pending its acceptance it has been decided to include the Maine in advertisements for bids for the removal of various wrecks Forty Welts for Laziness NASHVILLE Ind Twelve -white caps took Henry Mathis from his cab in Thursday night tied him to a fence post and beat him unmercifully After the whipping he was warned to keep quiet or the mob would return and whip him again Half an hour later his wife found him cut the ropes and took him home The white caps told their victim that they whipped him because he was too lazy to work Mathis has forty eight ugly welts on his back THE CUBA TREATY Imperfections Tend to Measures In jury W 1HINGTON D C Acting Sec retary of State Loomis and Mr Queenan the Cuban minister after discussing the prospects of tho ratifi cation of the Cuban treaty within the time limit on Friday decided to cable President Palma requesting him to call the Cuban congress Into extraor dinary session immediately for this purpose as that body otherwise would not meet until April 7 seven days af ter the expiration of the legal timo limit for the exchange of ratifica tions From such Imperfect readings of tho treaty as can be had at this stage tho state department officials have some doubt as to their ability to do anything whnfpvw with the convention Tho amendments made by the senate par ticularly that added to the ratifying article though probably not so intend ed my result in the complete loss of the treaty There are conflicting clauses which it may not be possible to reconcile Article II provided orig inally that the present convention shall be ratified by the authorities of the respective countries and the ratifi cations shall be exchanged at Wash ington D C as soon as may be be before January 31 1903 and the con vention shall go into effect an the tenth day after the exchange of rati fications and shall continue In force for tho term of five years from tho date of going Into effect and from year tO year thereafter until the expiration of one year from the day when either of the contracting parties shall give notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same Usually it is provided that a treaty shall go into effect as soon as the rat ifications are exchanged and with the slight change in this respect the orig inal ratifying clause of the Cuban trea ty was in the usual form 2nd would not have led to complications The date of January 31 was changed by both governments before the United States senate acted to March 31 and that is how the article stood when tho senate added this sentence This treaty shall not take effect un til the same shall have been approved by the congress This led to complications which aro now vexing the departments here where two different dates are fixed in the same article for the taking effect of the treaty The weight of opinion inclines to the belief that following tho common law principle the last stip ulation should govern which would de fer the operation of the treaty until after the congress acted But a more serious difficulty s pointed out as fol lows It is hardly regarded as feasible and is certainly In violation of precedent to exchange ratifications of a docu ment which is not a treaty as this Cuban convention will not be in the opinion of some of the state depart ment people until the congress has set Its approval upon it If this view is correct then the exchange of rat ifications will have to be deferred un til next winter at the earliest and this delay it is thought would cause the failure of the treaty in its present form because of the inability of the negotiators to meet the requirement of article 11 which demands that the exchange take place before March 31 La Soufriere in Eruption KINGSTOWN St Vincent The eruption of La Soufriere which began Sunday continues and increased in activity during the night until it be came most violent at 7 oclock Monday morning At S30 its violence was un abated and the spectacle was awe inspiring The crater is belching forth dense black olouds which rise heaven ward accompanied by loud roaring and flashes which rend the spreading pall of smoke which now envelops the entire island in darkness Electrical discharges occurred at intervals during the night while stupendous volcanic clouds produced exceedingly beautiful effects Politics Cuts a Figure WASHINGTON In connection with the appointment of Mr Person as post master at Wilson N C the postofiice department has issuec the following statement After a careful investiga tion the department came to the con elusion that Senator Pritchard was right in the statement that Mr Vick had not supported the republican tick et and consequently had forfeited his claim to party recognition Fourteen Natives Killed PORT OF SPAIN island of Trinidad Fourteen natives were killed and for ty were wounded during Tuesdays ri oting Quiet has been restored Senate Confirms Appointments WASHINGTON D C The senate has confirmed the nomination of the members of the court of private land claims who were renominated yes terday and also the following nomina tions Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York Hamilton Fish New York quartermaster gen eral with rank of brigadier general for a period of four years Colonel Charles F Humphrey - V s V