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Snow slides are reported from al
most every point in the Interior ot
British Columbia
The chief source of wealth of Japan
Is her coal of which 9000000 tons
were mined In 1901
The Brooklyn Yacht club has ac
cepted a cup from Sir Thomas Liptor
for a race of small racers
Another foreign wrestler has arrived
In America ready for business He is
a Spaniard and Is known as Napolcpn
Pascal
Colonel Thomas Marshall Green onG
of the most widely known historian
in the south has just died at his home
in Danville Ky
Senator J W Bailey of Texas has
resigned as director of the Kentucky
Trotting Horse Breeders association
He gave no reason for his action
Hadji Mohammed Bui Abdullah the
Mad Mullah against whom the British
have been conducting a campaign in
Somaliland has escaped Into Italian
territory
A great great grandson of Thomas
Jefferson is a candidate for mayor of
Richmond Va He is Colonel George
Wayne Anderson a member of the
state senate
Harry Y Hill a veteran theatrical
manager is dead at his home in Sara
toga N Y as a result of a stroke of
paralysis He was 68 years old and
a native of Troy
Henry Marr of Columbus Ind a
farmer lives in a house exactly in
the middle of this great country A
stone in his barn lot marks the spot
by census officials
Rev Samuel- A Taggart for many
years state secretary of the Young
Mens Christian associations of Penn
sylvania and widely known through
out the country is dead
Charles A Robinson who in part
nership with Mr Peyton of Califor
nia made a national reputation as an
owner of coursing greyhounds is dead
at his home in St Louis Mo
There are more than a dozen busi
ness women in Chicago enjoying in
comes of from 3000 to 10000 a yeai
resulting from their own enterprise
prompted and managed by themselves
It is believed that the Rothschild
family as a whole is worth about
1500000000 the French section be
ing represented by about 350000000
and the English branch by considera
bly more
Charged with misappropriating
200000 of the funds of the suspended
Federal bank at New 1ork City David
Rothschild former president of the
institution yesterday was held in 25
000 bail for examination April 20
The St Petersburg correspondent
of the Paris Journal says that Grand
Duke Cyril was on the bridge of the
Petrapavlovsk when the explosion oc
curred and was thrown into the sea
which led to the saving of his life
In a volume just published in Gert
many by Prof Viereck he credits
Benjamin Smith Barton of Philadel
phia with being the first American
student to visit a German university
Barton studied atGottingen in17S9
There was a general suspension of
business in Danbury Conn during
the hour of the funeral service over
the body of Lieutenant Ernest A
Weichert who was one of the victims
of the explosion on the battleship
Missouri
In the hope that one of the eighteen
George Millers named in the Chicago
city directory may turn out to be the
missing son of the late Charles Miller
of Brooklyn who left an estate of
100000 Chief ONeill of the Chicago
police detailed men to investigate
Former Chief Jail Guard W F Huff
man is charged in an indictment re
turned by the grand jury at St Louis
with conspiracy It is alleged that
Hoffman was implicated in the effort
to get saws Into the city jail to aid
George Collins who was executed
March 26 for the murder of Detective
Schumacher to escape
Nearly every day for the past two
years the secretary of war has re
ceived a letter from a man in Massa
cnusetts who simply gives his address
and says nothing else The letters
are supposed to be reminders that the
writer is awaiting a reply to some
communication to the department on
a matter of interest to him
Postmaster General Harris chief of
the naval bureau of supplies and ac
counts already has received about
2500 in subscriptions to the fund for
the benefit of the dependent relatives
of the men who lost their lives on the
battleship Missouri This does not
include the proceeds from the enter
tainment given Monday at the Lafay
ette theater which is estimated to be
about 1600
There is a movement on foot to
apply the curfew law to the national
capital About 4000 cities end totrns
in the United States mostly in the
west now have curfew laws to keep
children who are unattended oft the
streets after a stated hour in the even
ing
The loss of life from accidents and
disasters in the United States last
year was Fires 1792 drowning
2471 explosions 736 falling build
ings etc 474 steam railways 4090
electric railways 573 electricity 156
mines 788 cyclones and storms 487
lightning 139
THE TWO HOUSES
WHAT
THE FIFTY EIGHTH
GRESS HAS DONE
HOUSE HURRYING WORK
CON-
THE TWO IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
Panama Canal and Cuban Reciprocity
Considered of Greatest Interest
Bills of Public Nature and the
Amount of Appropriations
WASHINGTON The Important
legislative accomplishments of the
sessions of the fifty eighth congress
were confined to two subjects Cuba
and Panama The reciprocity treaty
between the new island republic and
the United States initiated by Pres
ident McKinley was made operative
by legislative enactment The ratifi
cation of a treaty by the senate and
the subsequent initiation of legisla
tion for the government of the canal
zone commit the United States to the
construction of the Panama canal
connecting the waters of the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans
The special session now denominat
ed the first session was called for
the purpose of carrying out the pledge
of the nation to Cuba The Panama
development was one which arose sud
denly and received decisive nd imme
diate action at the hands of President
Roosevelt and the senate
The conservatism incident to the
approaching presidential campaign as
usual was manifested by those re
sponsible for the acts of the national
legislative body The annual supply
bills were made up with an eye to
economy Incidentally they were pass
ed with greater dispatch than hereto
fore has been the case
The senate ratified the treaty nego
tiated with Cuba to carry out the
terms of the Piatt amendment
It also ratified the Chinese commer
cial treaty which provides for two
open ports in Manchuria
Chairman Hemenway of the house
committee on appropriations in a
statement compiled under his direc
tion gives the total of all supply bills
subject to slight changes in pending
bills as 597802324 to which must
be added 84971820 for interest on
the public debt The estimated reve
nues are 704472060 By these fig
ures the expenses are 22000000 less
than the revenues The estimates of
the various departments on which the
appropriation bills were based ex
ceeded the total estimated revenues
by 42845862 - No river and harbor
bill making provision for new pro
jects of improvement in the rivers and
harbors of the country was undertak
en Likewise no omnibus measure
carrying provision for new public
buildings was allowed to pass
Several amendments have been
made to facilitate the administration
of the public land laws The allot
ment in severalty of lands owned col
lectively by Indian tribes in various
sections of the country has been pro
vided for in a number of acts A step
in the direction of world peace has
been taken through the formation of
an American group affiliated with the
Inter Parliamentary union for interna
tional arbitration and the official rec
ognition of this group by the pass
age of a joint resolution extending an
Invitation to the union to hold its next
annual meeting at St Louis and ap
propriating 50000 for the expenses of
the same A joint resolution was en
acted providing for the transportation
aboard a government vessel of not ex
ceeding 600 of the public school teach
ers of rorto Rico to the United States
during the coming season for the pur
pose of broadening their views by
travel and a course of study in the
summer schools for teachers in this
country
Long Day and Night Sessions Are to
Be Held
WASHINGTON Long day and
night sessions are the program in the
house this week as the leaders plan
to end the session Thursday On
Monday Mr Williams the minority
leader is to be given consideration of
his resolutions calling on the attor
ney general first for information of
any prosecution by him of the inter
ested parties in the Northern Securi
ties company and second what has
been the result of any investigation
he has made on the coal trust
The conference report on the post
office appropriation bill is to be con
sidered Tuesday The Alaska dele
gate bill is before the house as a
continuing order to be considered
in the absence of the conference re
ports which are yet to come on the
military academy the general defici
ency and the sundry civil appropria
tion bills There undoubtedly will be
many requests for consideration of
minor matters by unanimous consent
and the outlook is declared by the
leaders to indicate an exceedingly
busy windup
The civilizations of a people may be
inferred from the variety of its tools
Hungarian Emigration Law
Vienna The Associated Press is in
formed on the highest authority that
Emperor Francis Joseph as expressed
great surprise at the opposition evoked
both in Hungary and United States
against the Hungarian emigration
law His majesty attributes this op
position to a misapprehension of the
real tenor of the measure The em
peror has further declared- his con
viction that when the terms of the
law are fully and completely under
stood the opposition to it will disap
pear
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ROSEBUD BILL IS SIGNED
Precident Gives Approval to the Open
ing
WASHINGTON The president
signed the Rosebud reservation bill
Saturday In honor of the event
Congressman Burkett presented every
man in the white house offices with
a rosebud The delegation then went
to the general land office where it
was learned that the land would be
opened under the lottery plan such
as was used in opening the Kiowa and
Comanche lands in Oklahoma Pros
pective settlers may register at Bone
steel Fairfax and Chamberlain until
the middle of May when the drawing
will occur at Camberlalin Full par
ticulars will be given to the newspa
pers soon
The plans for tlie opening of the
reservation are not yet completed but
it is expected that arrangements will
be made so that the opening will take
place by July 1 next It is likely
that the plan to be followed will be
the same as that carried out in the
Kiowa and Comanche opening in Ok
lahoma in 1901 when the claimants
were registered and the order in which
the entries to be made determined by
a drawing of the names This meth
od as carried out in Oklahoma by
Commissioner Richards of tne general
land office is generally commended at
the interior department where it is
desired to prevent such wild scenes
as transpired at previous openings
There are 245 quarter sections of pub
lic domain embraced in the territory
to be thrown open and the indications
point to a large number of prospective
settlers
IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE
Will Clear Calendar Preparatory to
Adjournment
WASHINGTON The time of the
senate the present week will be de
voted wholly to clearing the calendar
preparatory to adjournment which
most senators still say will occur dur
ing the present week There remains
only one appropriation bill to be
passed by the senate that for the mili
tary academy A number of the sup
ply bills are still in conference how
ever and it is expected there will be
more or less discussion of conference
reports The general calendar is very
heavy and an effort will be made to
pass as many of these measures as
possible
There are a number of provisions
in the military academy bill which
will be debated at some length This
bill probably will be taken up tomor
row but it may give way to other
business including a speech by Mr
Cullom on the countrys foreign af
fairs and another by Mr Bacon on
the subject of the tariff and trusts
There also will be some speeches dur
ing the week on the desert land bill
and it is probable that the conference
report on the canal zone government
bill will lead to debate
AS TO WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
Cabinet Considers Advisability of Gov
ernment Control
WASHINGTON The most import
ant matter considered at the cabinet
meeting Tuesday was that looking to
the control by the government of wire
less telegraphy The subject was
broached iy Secretary Hay in connec
tion with the communication received
recently by this government from Rus
sia
Thus far wireless telegraphy has
not figured in international affairs
and no conventions covering its use
have been considered It is believed
that sooner or later the subject will
be taken up by diplomats with a view
to reaching an international agree
ment upon it
The discussion was tentative in a
measure and definite decision was
reached It is likely however that
in the near future some action will
be taken that will provide for a proper
government supervision of the wire
less system of telegraphy
FIRST TORNADO HITS IN KANSAS
Town of McPherson Is Visited by a
Destructive Storm Cloud
MPHERSON Kas A severe tor
nado struck McPherson Sunday after
noon demolishing six residences and
causing more or lass other damage to
property Three persons were in
jured one seriously Much damage
was done in the country north of here
A funnel shaped cloud approached
the town from the south following
the course of a ravine The residence
of S W Rieff was first struck and the
house barn windmill and outbuild
ings destroyed All the members of
the family escaped except a young
man who was bruised and scratcheJ
The residence of Mrs S P Fisher
was next struck The building was
picked up and carried a considerable
distance and demolished The family
had seen the approach of the storm
and escaped The large Fisher apple
orchard was ruined
Taft Favors Camp Sites
WASHINGTON Secretary Taft
has addressed a letter to Senator
Proctor of the senate military com
mittee strongly urging the purchase
of the four great camp sites at a cost
of several million dollars which arc
to be used for joint maneuvers and
drills by the regular army and the
militia The secretary explains in
his letter that he withdraws his dis
approval of the original project
wherein the sites were named in the
interest of the speedy acquisition of
the lands
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THREE
EXECUTED
TRIO OF CAR BARN BANDITS ON
THE SCAFFOLD
NIEDEBMEYER THE FIRST TO GO
Marx and Van Dine Quickly Follow
All Three of the Murderers Keep
Their Nerve and Show No Signs of
Weakening
CHICAGO 111 Compelled to te
carried to the scaffold Peter Nieder
meyer leader of the car barn ban
dits was hanged here Friday at 1035
oclock Weak and pale but with a
slight suggestion of a smile the ban
dit failed to carry out his oft repeated
boast that he would die before reach
ins the gallows
Hanging of his asosciates Gustax
Marx and Harvey Van Dine quickly
followed
Although it was expected at first
that Niedermeyer would be able to
walk to the gallows with but little or
no assistance it was found at the last
moment that he was too weak
Straps were placed over his ankles
and just above his knees He was
then placed on a truck and wheeled
to one of the floors of the jail after
which he was carried to the scaffold
and placed in a chair on the trap
He was not asked the customary ques
tion if he had anything to say and the
rope was quickly placed about his
neck He settled his neck into the
noose and the trap was sprung
The body shot through the trap
and for twenty minutes after it
moved convulsively the physicians at
first being of the opinion that he was
strangling to death that the rope had
been placed too low After examina
tion however the physicians an
nounced that his neck had been brok
en
Niedermeyer appeared on the scaf
fold wearing a red rose but without
a coat Previous to the execution and
during the reading of the death war
rant Neidermeyer snatched the paper
from the chief deputys hands and
placed it in a pocket and made re
marks in anger at this time and once
or twice when he was being taken to
the scaffold
Shortly after 11 oclock Marx was
led to the scaffold Neatly dressed
and with a white rose as a button
iere which had been given him by his
little sister the night before He was
pale but his courage never left him
while he stood on the scaffold He
made no statement Two priests of
the Roman Catholic church of which
Marx had become a member accom
panied him to the gallows He re
peated a litany with them kissed a
crucifix after which the jailer sprang
the trap at 1117 He was pronounced
dead at 1134 his neck having been
broken
Harvey Van Dine was hanged a
short interval after his companion
Marx a few days before a bitter ene
my of Van Dine but now the best of
friends in their last hours of life
Incidents in Van Dines execution
were similar to those that character
ized the execution of Marx Like
Marx Van Dine was composed pre
ceding his execution
HEARST FILES A COMPLAINT
Asks Attorney General to Proceed
Against Coal Combine
WASHINGTON D C Representa
tive William R Hearst of New York
filed a- complaint with Attorney Gen
eral Knox alleging that a combination
of the Philadelphia Reading rail
road and the Central Railroad of New
Jersey under a common management
has stifled competition and petition
ing the department of justice to pro
ceed against them under the Sherman
anti trust law The complaint asks
that the action be taken to restrain
the Reading company while the owner
of the stock of the Philadelphia
Reading company from owning hold
ing or voting upon the stock of the
Central and decreeing that the stock
be returned to its lawful owners and
that all the provisions of the anti
trust law be applied to the parties in
these transactions when found upon
investigation to be guilty of wilful
violation and disregard of the law
SPIES ARE ON EVERY HAND
Operations of Russians in Manchuria
Are Hampered
MUKDEN The operations of the
Russians in Manchuria are greatly
hampered by the immense number of
spies Major General Kondratsvitsch
commanding the Ninth East Siberian
Rifle brigade says the Japanese have
taken advantage of the convenient lo
cation of New Chang which is full of
spies
In the guise of beggars ragpickers
and lackeys says the general these
spies sniff everywhere They have
grown pigtails showing that they
have been preparing for their work
for a long time and that they are un
willing to trust entirely the informa
tion supplied by the Chinese They
are hard to get rid of These insects
as soon as they obtain information
cross the river into Chinese territory
where they use the telegraph
Children of the Revolution
WASHINGTON Mrs Daniel Loth
rop the founder of the organization on
Thursday called to order the National
Society of the Children of the Ameri
can Revolution in the absence of Mrs
Julius C Burrows the president who
is out of the city There was a large
attendance of delegates The reports
of the various officers for the year
just ended showed the society to be
in excellent shape There has been a
large increase in the membership
the total at this time being more than
600
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STATEHOOD BILL
After Long Discussion Is Passed by
the House
WASHINGTON After a debate ex
tending through the entire session the
house on Tuesday passed the bill pro
viding for joint statehood of Oklahoma
and Indian Territory under the name
of Oklahoma and of Arizona and New
Mexico under the name of Arizona
In discussing the rule which had
been reported by the committee on
rules providing for Immediate consid
eration of the bill Mr Williams the
minority leader declared that no re
publican had any idea that the bill
would become a law at this session
Delegate Wilson of Arizona opposed
the bill It was favored by Delegates
Rouey of New Mexico and McGuire of
Oklahoma
The bill was passed 147 to 104 a
strict party vote
The question of additional accom
modation in the way of office and com
mittee rooms occupied the attention
of the senate the greater part of
Tuesday The question arose in con
nection with the provisions in the civil
appropriation bill one for an exten
sion of the east front of the capitol
building in accordance with sketches
left by Architect Walters and the
other for an an outside senate office
and committee building Much
riety of opinion was expressed and the
question was still under discussion
when the senate adjourned
or person of Chinese descent as used
in said laws shall be construed to
mean any person descended from an
ancestor of the Mongolian race which
ancestor is now or was at any time
subsequent to the year 1800 a subject
of the emperor of China and in any
proceeding or examination In relation
to the exclusion of a person alleged to
be such a person conducted by the
government the statement under oath
of a duly appointed immigration or in-
Several minor bills were passed dur
ing the day
ROSEBUD BILL IS PASSED
Some Modifications Made in Senate
to Meet the Views of President
WASHINGTON After several
months of hard work and presever
ing energy the South Dakota delega
tion had the satisfaction on Monday
of witnessing the passage in the sen
ate of the Burke bill which proposes
to open to settlement 416000 acres
of Indian lands in Gregory county
South Dakota Yielding to a sugges
tion understood to have come from
the White House the South Dakota
senators incorporated an important
amendment in the bill It is to the
effect that for the first three months
of the opening 4 an acre shall be
charged for the lands After the
land has been on the market three
months it is to be sold for 3 an
acre and thereafter at the rate of
250 an acre
The Rosebud bill passed the house
several months ago As soon as the
bill is approved by the president
Representative Burke will take up
with the secretary of the interior the
question of regulations governing the
sale of the Rosebud lands
HIS SECRET DIED WITH HIM
Former Subject of England Passes
Away at St Louis
ST LOUIS Without kith or kin
at his bedside Thornton Fleetwood
aged 72 claiming to have formerly
been a professor at Eton England
died Tuesday in the charity ward of
the Oily hospital From the brief his
tory he was able to give the authori
ties before hii death it is believed
that Fleetwood was utterly alone in
the world having no relatives in Amer
ica or in England from whence he
came to this country three years ago
His apparent education and refine
ment attracted the attention of the
attendants and he was prevailed upon
to tell something of himself but he
refused to say much concerning his
life He contrrted a severe cold
which resulted in death Unless the
body is claimed it is stated that in
terment will be made in the potters
field
THE PENSION APPROPRIATION
The Measure Carrying 137000000
Passed by the Senate
WASHINGTON The pension appro
priation bill carrying an appropria
tion of over 137000000 and the
emergency river and harbor appropri
ation bill which carries 3000000
were passed Thursday by the senate
leaving only the general deficiency and
te military academy mills of the en
tire list of supply measures still to be
considered by the senate
The house bill increasing the size of
homestead entries in Western Nebras
ka to 640 acres also received favorable
consideration While the river and
harbor measure was tinder considera
tion Mr Gorman sharply criticised the
failure to bring in n general river and
harbor bill
Speeches were made on the pension
bill by Messrs McCumber and Scott
the latter declaring that he favored
a service pension of 25 per month
Agreement on Grain Rates
CHICAGO Western roads on Thurs
day practically reached an agreement
on the adjustment of the grain rates
and the work of checking the rates
according to the plan of settlement
has commenced The plan originally
proposed was adopted reducing the
St Louis differential over Chicago
from 5 to 3 cents and making the
tlrough rates from Nebraska points
the sum of the locals through Omaha
with the exception of certain territory
in the northeastern section of
Christianity In Japan
men of
Many of the prominent
To tb fa creed
Christians
Japan are
member of the imperial
belong one
caSnet two judges of thc supremo -court
of the leroer
two presidents
minis
house of parliament three yice
mention a hos
ters of state not to
of officials in the lower ranks in
the present parliament the president
and thirteen members in a total mem
In the
bership of 300 are Christians
nrmv there are 155 Christian officers
or 3 per cent of all and the two larg
est battleships are commanded by
Christians In Tokio three of the
edi
have Christian
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tors
Growth of City Clubs
The growth of city clubs of high
class has given cause to open eyed
amazement in this generation In this
metropolis there are two such
zations each of which has more than
three thousand members and each of
which owns real estate valued at
of dol
many hundreds of thousands
lars Most of the well known clubs
in this capital are flourishing and
show in every way that they are man
aged with striking ability Club life
in the principal communities of this
country has made giant strides in a
third of a century
Latest Society Craze
According to the English papers
the latest society craze seems to be
the game of magic crosses Three
crosses of small size and in a num
ber of various colors are laid on a
table in a straight line and the per
son holds a magnet which he moves
slowly down the line of crosses One
by one but not in rotation the crosses
are attached to the magnet and when
they are at last all arranged in order
the expert can gain an insight into
the character and fate of the experi
menter Even cabinet ministers have
consulted the magic crosses
A Hurry Up Call
Cyrus Townsend Brady the author
had occasion to consult his physician
for a slight ailment on an extremely
cold day He was busily engaged in
his literary work on the doctors arri
val Hurrying into the reception hall
from his library he said Doctor I
wish you to get through with me as
speedily as possible I left the hero
and heroine by the side of a little
babbling brook and Im afraid they
will freeze to death if I dont get
back soon
So sacred is the person of the Em
peror of Korea that to touch his body
with a Aveapon of iron constitutes high
treason Rather than violate this
tradition allowed
an abscess to put an end to his life
in 1800 believing it would be wrong
for him to submit to the surgeons
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