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t Till: OMAHA 1A1LY KET-: SATURDAY, MATtCH 14, 1903. niE Omaha Daily Bee. E. IlOS EV AT K It, EDITOR. I'fHLlSUiD KVEHY I(jKNINQ. TERMS UF BLHSCKII'TION. Ialty Hee (without Kimilay). One Year M I)aliy 1W ami Huntley. One Year ' mummied Hee, One Har J ' P'itirln y !p, On'' Trar. ;.. .-.....? Fnturuav Hce, One Year l" Uwtntlith IVMury Farmer. On Year.. l.M DKIJVKHKD Y CARRIER. Inlly Hre (without Sunday), per copy.. 2c Ially Hee (without KmnlHy), per week.. 12c l'Mily Hee lmiiillng HJiidayi, per week..l7e Piimliiy lire, wr ropy '. 6c l.verilng Hce (without Sunday), per week Sc ivenlng Uee (including Sunday), per week loo Comnlalntn of Irregularities In delivery Should be addressed to City Circulation LHi partment, OFFICES. Omaha The liee Building. South Omaha City Hall Uuildlng, Twen-ty-tlfth and M Strwta. Council HlufTs 10 I'earl Street. Chit-ago 14i Unity liulldtng. New fork 232S l'ark Row Hulldlng. Washington Ml Fourteen StreeU CORRESPONDENCK. Communications relating to news and ed itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Uee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, pnyahln to The T.ee I'ulillshlng Cnmptnjr, only 2-oent tamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. TUB BEE FCBLI3HINO COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. : (Jeorge It. Tzschjck, secretary of Tha Bee I'ublinhlng Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete roplea of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday lice printed during the month of euruary, iuj, was as follows; 1 ..21), 10 2 fc..ao,rM 3 S(,(i:to 4 SO.tMMI 6 80.4(H) 6 S(),R70 7 UO.ftilO 8 UU.StUO 8 MU.U10 10 30,500 11 att,os2 12 ao.tMo 13 RO.tMO 14 30,0 70 15 2f,23! 18 8 1,330 17 l,o4 18 31,4IH 1 81,400 20 ai.eio 21 81,670 22 2,il5 23 81,80 S4 ai.nno 25 20 27 28 ...31.00O .. .31,0X0 ...81,MH ...31.7SO Total Less unsold .803,482 md returned copies.... 0,34 Net total sales 844.0H8 Net average sales ;U),143 GEORGE 13. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my p.esence and sworn to he l ore me this 28th day of February, A. D. 1903. M. B. HUNOATK. (Seal.) Notary i'ublic. The weather man seems loath yet to put his eold wave flag la storage for the bummer. The Ohio club banquet shows that the Ohio man cunnot be kept down no, mat ter where he Is transplanted. The proper thing for the Nebraska Bryaultes to do by way of retaliation is to start a movement to crush Have Hill in New York and Arthur 1". Gorman In Maryland. The promise . to enforce the law against the fencing In of public land has been made several times before. The people hereabouts are from Mis souri on that pnlnt. Whenever a frtinchlsed corporation pays out good money to hire lobbyists to secure a change in the method of as sessmeut and taxation, put it down that the proiMMHtt change Is designed to fa cilitate tax-shirking. Upon second thought ex-Mayor Ames of Minneapolis has decided to return to answer the charges madu against his official conduct. Of course the fact that a requisition had been Issued for his apprehension had nothing to do with his change of mind. The Interview of J. Tierpont Morgan with President Kooseveltat the White House will probably start the polit ical gossips again. But if Mr. Morgan wants anything that he ought hot to have, we may be sure Mr. Roosevelt will not hesitate to say no to him. The banquet to the Methodist govern ors at Chicago was attended by the chief executives of five states and the assertion is made that one out ot every four of all the gm-riiers of the states In the Arnerlean union are members of the Methodist church. There must be method In Methodism. While many things can be said against the secret session of the United States senate one thing can be suld In Its favor: The temptation to endless oratory is appreciably reduced when the galleries are cleared of spectators and nothing even to prevent fellow senators from taking to the cloak rooms. Several thousand Invitations are to be sent out to teachers In this section to attend the summer school of superln tendency to be held In this city. If all these Invitations are accepted our schools will be in danger of having nothing but superintendents and princi pals and no Instructors when the next school year opens. The law enacted two years ago re moving all legal executions In Nebraska from the county In which the murder was committed to the state penitentiary at Lincoln has been successfully ap plied to the first case that has arisen slncM It went 'nto force. This Is one field where the localities will not ob ject to state assumption of duties for merly left to them. Some mcuitiera of the legislature seem to question whether Hartley was re lieved from duty In the greenhouse on a properly executed certificate of par don. The wardeu of the penitentiary accepted the document without Inquiry as to its genuineness and that was all Hartley required. If the pardon papers were faulty It certainly was not the fault of his accldeuey. Ezra the Tar doner. The Teter Cooper club has formally endorsed the fusion members of the 'e-1 braska legislature for loyalty to the peo ple's interests as against the corpora tions. It Is to be feared that the club will have to revise Its blanket endorse ment before the members go home apd specify more distinctly by making ex ceptions of a few corporation fusionlsts who vote wrong or. dodge conveniently by gutting Lata h absentia fuluxua. simply 'jL TAX-amitKixa wipor. The Mil road representatives have pre vailed upon ' the house, which Is con sidering the new revenue bill, to In-cni-poTt in It an amendment by which the Mate' Hoard f Trrfnsportatlon Is vested with the assessment of all the rail mails oixTatlng In Nebraska. Irre sectlve of whether they cross cotiuty lines or not In other words, the pres ent law, which leaves for local assess ment railroad completely within the Jurisdiction of a single county and makes .subject to the state IxMirtl only those that are In two or more counties. Is to be changed so as to deprive the local assessing authorities of all powers over local railroad corporations. There Is no adenuate warrant or ex cuse for this change and the pretexts ti r fired In Its siiimort will not bear In siM'ctlon. The only argument made for the change is that the state board Is better able to arrive at a fair valuation of this property than the local aiithorl- tlna nroannmlilv hortnnaa tliA atnta liotirtt Axes the, valuations of railroads which traverse two or more counties. .The logic of this, however, is decidedly faulty. Nothing whatever prevents the county boards from reaching as good an estimate of the value of this property as the state board. In point of fact, the local authorities ought to be better able to value railroads In their own county than the state board, at a distance from It and unfamiliar with Its character, condition and special earning powers. Surely the railroads would not prefer to have the state board fix the assess ment rather than the county board un less they were convinced that the state board could be bamboozled more easily Into agreeing upon valuations below what they should be. , That there Is an African In the wood pile who has not been brought ont goes without saying. The object In trans ferring the assessment, of railroads en tirely within one county from the county l)0ard to the state board Is to clinch more strongly the evasion of municipal taxes. There is no question here of distribution of terminal values or even of rolling stock, because the road Is taxable In one county Jurisdiction only, and if the basis. of valuation of state and county were approximately the same there would be no substantial dif ference as regards state and county taxes. But by having the assessment made by the state board these local rail roads will have the' figures certified down for city taxation in the same manner as the other tax-shirking rail roads, and if the city tax commissioners continue to assess as they have been doing, on the 100 per cent basis, while the state board under the new law will use a 20 or 25 per cent basis, these roads as well as the others will unload the greater part of their taxes onto the in dividual property owner. The interests affected for the present are the Omaha Belt line and the Omaha Bridge and Terminal company, both of which have made strenuous efforts in the last few years to secure recognition by the state board in order to get away rrom county and city assessors. There, is no more reason why these two insti tution, which are wholly within Doug las county, should be assessed by the state board than that the bank, or tha department stores, or the stock yards ana pavking houses should be likewise assessed, while the property of the home, owner and shopkeeper is left subject to run city and county taxation. The nm. posed amendment is a tax-shirking scheme pure and simple and should be spewed out before the bill Is put In final form for passage. Til XKXT PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. Although the presidential contest of 1004 is more than a year distant those who take an interest in political affairs are already looking forward to it and calculating the chances. The Washing ton correspondent of the New York Evening Fost, who may fairly be as sumed to look at the situation impar tially, from a careful review of the po litical field reaches the conclusion that never before In the history of the re publican party were Its prospects of success, twenty months before the presi dential election, so good as they are to day. He says the republicans are ap parently In control of all the states of the north except Nevada. "In Rhode Island the results were divided, but no one supposes that this state would be lost to the republicans In a presidential vote. Montana has recently given a republican majority of 10,000, Idaho of 5,000 and Colorado of 7.000. Maryland, In spite of its election of a democratic senator In the person of Mr. Gorman and 'its new ballot law. gave a sub stantial republican plurality on the re cent congressional vote. It will require a series of political explosions in di. lodge the republican-party from Its pres ent position in season to affect the result In 11HM. The democrat callable of charging the mine and touching the match has not yet been spied out by observeri In Washington." The republican party continues strong with the people ltocause it has kept faith with them and because the policies and principles for which It stands have been fully Justified by results.. All that It promised when testored to power has been more than realized aud every pledge since made In regard to the mat ters which affect ue Interests aud wel fare of all the people has been kept. Republican policies brought the country prosperity and are maintaining it. An other reason why the republican party continues strong with the people is that they have had, in the course of the democrats in the last congress, renewed proof of the unfitness, and Incapacity of that party for the duties and responsi bilities of government. Strictly speak ing there is not now a democratic party, but factions each calling Itself demo cratic and getting ready for a desperate struggle for supremacy In the next na tlouaL convention. A party so dlvlil.ni and demoralizedi n.d jwlww representa tives in congress have shown themselves so Incompetent and unpatriotic, cannot hope to win the support of a majority of the American xfple. The veteran democrat, ex-Senator Vest of Missouri, recently expressed doubt m to whether the democrats will "get together" by 1!"H. It Is perfectly evident that they willvnot, fo union between, the radical ism of Hrjnn and the conservatism which Is best represented by Cleveland Is out of the question. The republican party v.iil go into the national campalgu of 1004 with as strong a claim to pPular coulidence and support as It has ever had and with most substantial assurance of success. CUKCESSIOX TV VCULIV OPlSluX The adoption by the United States senate of Senator Allison's resolution, authorizing the committee on rules to re-examine the rules of the senate, with the view to ascertaining what changes, if any, are necessary, and csieclally to make inquiry whether it Is expedient to In any way limit debate In the senate, and if so, to what extent. Is clearly a concession to public opinion. At the same time Senator Piatt of Connecticut gave notice of .a, proposed modification of the rules by which three-fifths of the senate could make an order fixing the time for a vote oh a pending ques tion and also the limit of time any sen ator could occupy In debate pending such final vote. Since the speech of Mr. Cannon In re gard to the unanimous consent prac tice of the senate there has been very general discussion In the press of the rules and methods of that body and they have beerl disapproved in almost every respect While the subject Is by no means new there was never before quit$ as much Interest taken in it as was aroused by the proceedlnes in the senate during the closing days of the last congress and it appears that this made an Impression upon senators. If such men as Mr. Allison and Mr. riatt will earnestly endeavor to reform the senate rules It Is not to be doubted that they can accomplish it, backed as they would be by an overwhelmin nonnlnr demand for a change. The committee on rales of the senate ronnia t Messrs. Spooner, chairman. Aldrlch, Hoar, Elkins, Teller. Cockrell unci Bacon. Most of these are stcong stick lers for the traditional parliamentary practices of the body, but thev mnv not be disposed to wholly disregard popular sentiment. STCDTIXG VCR RAlLltOAD METHODS. The chief Inspecting officer of Fnir- llsh railways, who recently investigated American railroading, has made his re. port to the British Board of Trade. He found much of interest in the practical construction of American railroad but concluded that little of It was nvnltl able for Entrlish use. in mmn e , - - ...... . i . i L II VJ details of railroad operation In this country the report states that we are in advance of England, but in the very important matter of safety we are far behind. While much Interested in th automatic and other mechanical devices, ne tnought the gain was counterbal anced by the Increased risks to passen gers ana employes, which In the case of automatic ignaling might be due to the weather or possibly to the failure of the mechanism. Terhaps there Is not much fnr im... lean railroad managers to len the management of English railways. out it. is unquestionable that 1n the matter of safety the Enclish rnllminlii are greatly superior. The statistics con clusively prove this. More care Is taken there than in this country for the pro tection of imsseugers. It seems there Is generally better discipline on English ruuu, mere is no doubt that in most respects American railroads nm ,.i or superior to those of any other coun try, out in the matter of . Is room for decided improvement. If the Elkhorn had not been t,.r, in a tlmoly manner by the Northwest ern the attempt to smuggle through the legislature a bill to take the llmir nt . debteduess off railroad mr,r.H.. would uot have been suspended Tha purpose'of the bill was unouestinnnhi. to make way for the absorption of Ne- Di-asaa railroads by controlling or oper ating roids In the natu of the North. ern Securities company. If the litiga tion still pending should turn out disas trous to the merger Interests nn in door incorporation law In Nebraska would come in handy for them to tor out with anew. It will be wn members of the legislature to keep a weather eye out anyway lust to m.u sure that the bill in question is not res urrected before tlie session closes. Of the relief funds received bv the committee at Stockholm for the benefit of the famine sufferers In Sweden, fs., 000 out of a total of f25S,ooo has come from the United States, la other words, nearly a third of the contributions so far have been sent by citizens of this country for the most part by former natives of Sweden. Tills certainly speaks well not only fo"r the generosity of our Swedish-Americans, but nUr. t tlUlr thrift and iudust rV Wllicrl ttna " " ti nil 9 placed them in iHisltlon to extend ko. Ii substantial help to their countrymen. Preparations are already under wav for Presl.H'nt Roosevelt's western tour, which is to have as lis first objective point the dedication of the Louisiuuu Purchase exiiositlou at St. Iouls, April 30 next Unless the president Is espe cially fortunate lie will miss greatly the exierienced services formerly rendered on such occasions by Secretary Cortel you as master of ceremonies en route. It will take a clever man to take Mr. Cortelyou'a place In this capacity. The good people c.f Council Bluffs are undergoing another purity spasm, grow ing out of the demand for the strict en- forctuitut tit the mulct law 1 which thlrst-qnenchlng station are to be closed promptly at 10 o'clock every night and conform to Sabbath observance rule. It Is worthy of note In this con nectlon that the street cars between Omaha and Council Bluffs run every dav in the week ami until 1 o'clock at night. A niatlnaaUhed Ilolit-l p. Philadelphia Fress. Tha man who can hold up congress and (tet $47,000 for the Job doesn't have to worry about how lie Is going to mske a living. The beatl Voter of Kovy. Chicago Tribune. Being In a generous frame of mind. Pres ident francla of, the Louisiana Purchase exposition granted an Interview fifty min utes long to Emi.eror William the other day, but other monarch must not consider this a precedent. Mr. Francis' time is llm lted. Expansion in National Kmenses. Boston Transcrlnt. The expansion of thl rmlnlrr Into not a world power, which it was before, but a war power, synchronixes, with an In crease In appropriations for 1903-04 to 1753,484,018 from $511,840,708 In 1892. The Increase amounts to $241,643,810. or about ou per cent. Dally Ronnd of Warning". Phlladelnhto. Press. Bryan sounds a warnlnr nrnttr nearly every day now, but people have got so hard ened to it that they Just go right on with their business, and the warning never touches them. The Nebraska bogle man ought to try and get up something that will lit the conditions of the present time. Drlrlnat the Knife to the Bone. Philadelphia Record (dem.) Mr. Bryaa has said some very disagree able things about Mr. Cleveland, but he has never said anything so keen and so delicate Mr. Cleveland said of him. When the ex-president was asked if he thought silver would figure at all as an Issue within the democratic party, be replied: "I did not know that any one thought about silver nowadays. Ilaala of Prosperity. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, y A free trade paper puts this conundrum: "If our exports to Porto Rico can be ex panded six times In four years by free trade, why won't a more reasonable tariff increase our exports to all the rest of the world?" Porto Rico has the benefit of an untaxed traffic with all the United States, and the advantage also of being part of a protective country. Porto Rico's pros perity, like that of the nation generally, Is on a protectionist basis. Hamming with Prosperity. New York Tribune. Present conditions are not favorable to corners in wheat. In coal or In anything necessary for the comfort and sustenance of Americans. Every conspiracy to raise prices of food, fuel or clothing to exorbi tant figures ought to fail, and Is likely to fail. But in spite of the effects of tbo coal strike and the high prices of meats this republic in the main is buzzing and humming with prosperity. There are not nearly enough engines and' cars for the rapid handling of the large quantities of goods which are pressing upon the rail roads. THE NATIONAL TIPPLE. Beer Chases Coffee from the Iieadlna; i Place. Springfield Republican. Coffee grows in popular favor as a bev-i erage in the United States, while tea does not. Consumption vf distilled spirits holds its own per capita, also -that of wines, while of malt liquors there Is a marked 'n crease. The "3tatlstlcal abstract" of the United States just published for 1902 pre sents a summary which makes possible the following comparisons: CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA. 4 H O s? en g g cj e : P3 p-i it- 3 3 O." OS Of : o. a s a- 3r OB , OB Ql CB u : i : i i :g : : r : : i 3 i87i Tu Tm 0 Tra TTo" 18X1 1.64 8.25 0.47 1.38 8.65 18H1 1.29 8.00 0.45 1.4:1 15.31 1901 1.14 1".6 0.37 1.33, 16.20 1902 0.94 13. S7 0.63 1.36 17.49 The present average yearly consumption of tea is about one pound per capita, or less than the consumption of thirty years ago. But the per capita consumption of coffee In the same time has nearly doubled and that of beer and ale has more than doubled. As the use of wines and distilled spirits Is about the rame relatively as thirty years ago. It Is evident, from the malt liquor statistics, that the consump tion of Intoxicants generally has Increased materially. POLITICAL. Unil'T, Only thirty women took advantage of the right to vote for candidates for the school board nomination at the republican prima ries In Cincinnati." The number of men who voted was in excess of 23,000. There have been only three republican mayors of Chicago In twenty-five years John it. Roche, elected In 1887-; H. Wash burne, elected in 1891, and George B. Swift, elected In 1895. None of them bad a second term. One member of the United State senate Is 82, ten are over 70 and only seven are under 60. Of the 357 congressmen In the Fifty-seventh house there were only fifty seven under 60. One was 80, another 76 and another 71. M. E. Ingalls, president of the Big Four railroad, is the candidate for mayor of Cin cinnati on the big four ticket citizens'. In dependent, democratic and fualon ticket. Ills opponent Is Mayor Fleishman, whose ability to "raise the dough" Is an impor tant element of success. The chaplain of the Utah house of rep resentatives, who prayed especially for the salvation of democratic members, scooted for the timber line to escape their wrath. The intentions of the chaplain were lauda ble, but he should have known that the mi nority would not take kindly' to prayer as a means of salvation. There are sixty-three commit teea In the house of representatives at Washington, and only one of them was entirely exempt from the effects of last fall's election. That Is the committee on expenditures in the Treasury department, of Which "Bob" Cousins of Iowa is chairman. Every other committee lost from one to five members through defeat in convention or at the polls. Senator Morgan of Alabama has achieved additional fame as the long distance talker of the senate. Up to the close of his pre liminary remarks on the Panama canal March 2, he had filled 125 pages of the Record with 216,000 words. Since the extra session began he has been In a continuous state of eruption, but the overflow has not been gathered Into the Record, and history Is likely to lose the sequel to his serial. It Is a matter for congratulation, however, that while Alabama has the long distance record, Nebraska's eminence for continu ous performance remains unsullied. Sena tor Allen's aculevuut as yt hat no rlvL MURDERS HIS WHOLE FAMILY Mlsaonrl Farmer Slays Wife aa Sli Children with Sledaehammer Tata Ilia Own Throat. ST. LOUIS, March 11 Adolph Krauss, a Oermsn farmer living twenty-one miles west of St. lyinls, last night killed his wife and sit children with a sledgehammer. It Is believed Krauss suddenly became Insane. After killing his family Krauss cut his throat and died todsy, but did not Injure himself with the hammer, as first reported. The coroner will hold an Inquest today. The dead In this tragedy are: AUGUST KRAUSS, 38 years old. father and murderer. MRS. AUGUST KRAUSS, 87 years old, the wife and mother. CARRIE, aged 11. AMY. aged 9. PHILIP, aged 7. GEORGE, aged . MARY, aged 6. BABY BOY, aged 8 months. B. F. Andre, postmaster at Bellefontalne, received a letter from Mrs. Krauss stating that her husband bad been acting strangely and that she feared violence at his hands. She asked in the letter that the local lodge of the Modern Woodmen take steps to protect her. In his more cheerful moments Krauss frequently told his wife, neighbors say, to keep all weapons out of his reach, as he feared in times of despondency he might use them upon himself or on the members I of his family. , LEGISLATURE IN A FIGHT Missouri Speaker Makes Sensational Charge and Blows Follow In Chamber. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March 13. Speaker White Cotton took the floor today when the discussion of the Davidson school textbook bill was on In the house and made the charge that boodle was being used to defeat the bill. As the discussion proceeded Representa tive C. M. Selph of St. Louis and Door, keeper J. E. Clark became Involved in coa troversy because the doorkeeper demacjed Selph to keep quiet. Clark struck Selph and the house was in an uproar. Several members jumped on desks and yelled for crder. Some moved to adjourn, while at' least a dozen others rushed to the doorkeeper's tatlon and took part in the row. . Order was finally restored, after the apppolnt tnent of a committee to assist the sergeant- nt-arms In clearing the lobby and seating members. . . WIFE IS NOT IN THE WILL Burdlck Gives Small Sum to Other Relatives, bat Balk to His Children. BUFFALO, N. Y., March 13. The will of tbo late Edwin L. Burdlck, murdered In his home here Friday, February 27, was made public today. He cuts off his wife, whom he was suing for divorce, without a cent. He leaves 12,600 to relatives and the rest of his property to his three children, sharo and share alike. The will was made December 8. 1902. Mr, Burdlck names as executors Augustus 13. Kellogg, George H. DunBton and George C. Miller. He names Charles Parke and Rlsley Tucker, Ma business sasoclates, as guar dians of his children. y The petition for the probate cites the following as the heirs at law and next kin of Burdlck: Alice H. Burdlck, widow; Ma rlon Burdlck, aged 15, daughter; Carroll Lewis Burdlck, aged 12; Alice Hull Bur dlck, aged 10, daughter. MEXICO ASKS AMERICANS' HELP Smelte'r and Trnst Officials and Cor nell Professor Aid in Establishing- Currency. MEXICO CITY, March 13. J. W. Jenks of Cornell, Charles A. Conant, vice president of the Morton Trust comDanv or Tnw York, and Edward Brush, vice president of the American Smelting and Refining company. Invited by Finance Minister Lim- antour to study the silver situation and aid in forming a plan for giving Mexico a stable currency, were formally presented to the minister today. The conviction grows that the country will soon adopt a modified gold standard. giving stabllMy of value to the silver peso. EARTH ROCKS IN FAR WEST Seismic Disturbances Alarm 01mila, Tacoma and Seattle Rcs- 1 F. Idents. OLYMPIA, Wash., March 13. An unusu ally' perceptible earthquake waa felt here at 6:25 tonight. Buildings were shaken so that occupants ran Into the streets in alarm. The principal shock was preceded by a tremor of a few seconds and followed by flight tremor, the entire disturbance lasting nine seconds. Two distinct shocks were felt In Seattle about 6:40 tonight, and Tacoma also felt the tremors. SAY JUDGES HAVE MANY WIVES Utah Press Statements Lead Special Grand Jury to Probe Polyar. , amy Charges. SALT LAKE CITY, March 13. At the request of County Attorney Westervelt, three Judges of the district court today (ailed a special grand Jury to Investigate the charges recently made of the practice of polygamy in this city and county. Statements In the press that locsl Judges recently contracted plural marriages s believed to have been instrumental In bringing about the proposed Investigation. UDGE 0RDERS A VERDICT Says that Indiana Coal Operators Have Violated No Law of Illinois. CHICAGO. March 13. Judge Chetlain to day instructed the Jury In the case of the udlana coal operators to bring In a verdict of not guilty. The Jury was then dis charged. The court held that if there was any vlo- atlon of law by the operators It was,a vlo atlon of the Interstate law and not the ststutes of Illinois. Such being the rsss the offense should come before a federal Jury. FIFTEEN DIEJN COAL MINE Usploalon Wrecks Illinois Pit, Slay. Inar Tb-re Oatrlabt and Entombing; Others. SPRINGFIELD, 111., March IS Fifteen men may have lost their Uvea in a miue explosion at Cardiff. In a telegram received by Secretary Ryan of the t'nited Mine Workers, three bodios are reported as being recovered so far. There Is little hope for the twelve other u who r working ia ib uUaa, OTIIF.R LI TtlA 6tR!l. The bitterness with which the racial war fare Is wsged In Bohemia Is 'illustrated by an Inrldent related by a Vienna corre spondent of the London Time. It appears that some months sgo a ("tern credit bank was wrecked by maladministration, for which a prominent Cserh prelate was largely responsible. The affair reflected a certain amount of discredit upon the whole Csech clerical party, end seems to bavo intensified Its Jealousy and animosity against a large savings bank In Prague, which wss exceedingly prosperous and en tirely under German control. Recently ru mors began to prevail that this bank had lost heavily through a financial crisis in Lelpslc and was not in a position to meet its engagements. The rumors appear to have originated, ssya the correspondent, In Czech clerical circles, and to have been propagated by anonymous letters and dis patches among the Czech agricultural popu lation, whose savings were deposited with the bank. In consequence, a formidable run began. Fortunately, the Institution possessed a sufficient reserve of rash to meet all demands, and other large financial bodies went to its aid. Nevertheless, rflore than $1,000,000 was paid out to 6.000 fright ened depositors. The Narodnl Llsty, the chief youiig Czech organ, expresses the hope that the prestige of the Oermsn bank has received a mortal blow, but has not a word to say In condemnation of the un principled attack upon it. The new IS, 000-ton battleships which have been authorized by the British ad miralty will carry four twelve-Inch guns mounted in heavily protected turrets, fore and aft, and eight 9.2-Inch guns, mounted In smaller turrets placed at the four cor ners of the citadel, after the fashion of our earliest class of battleships. Between these guns on the open superstructure will be mounted eight twelve-pounders, four on a side. Two more will be mounted by each conning tower and eight at the bow and stern of the deck below. On the same deck will be the ten six-Inch guns, the forward and aft ones placed to give end-on fire. The armor belt will be complete at the water Hue and vary from nine to three and a half inches. Above a complete belt of seven Inches thickness will run to the base of the after barbette. Above that will be a further belt of seven-Inch plate amid ships, protecting the six-Inch guns and connecting the secondary turrets. There will be no Inclined armored deck, a flat deck above . and below the armor being substituted for It. The assigned speed Is a minimum of eighteen knots and as much over as can be managed. Municipal reform is the topic of tte hour In St. Petersburg. M. ZInovleff, the assist ant minister of the interior, has JuBt pub lished a report In which, among other things, he says that the hospitals, the water works, and sanitary matters have been mis managed most shamefully. There is noth ing new In the statement, and nobody doubts the truth of It, but there are many different opinions as to the best way of effecting a remedy. The bureaucrats ascribe the whole mischief to the system of gov ernment by elected representatives, and maintain that the city administration ought to be entrusted to a bureau of the Interior department. Unofficial opinion, as voiced by the Novoye Vremya, holds that the source of the trouble Is to be sought in tha restricted franchise which practically puts all the authority In tho hands of a small and self-interested class. Others blame the injudicious Interference of the prefect. M. Zinovleff In his report expresses the pro found conviction that the mismanagement is not the outcome of the administrative system, but of the disregard of the prln clples upon which It Is founded. By evad ing these, he says, a clique of house owners have succeeded in arrogating to themselves all the powers of a deliberative, executive and supervising body. Hi agrees that the prefect has made many blunders, and says that he ought not to have anything to do with the local administration, having plenty of other things to attend to. At the annual meeting of the Greek Archaeological society M. Kavvadlas gave an interesting summary of its work during the last twelve months. Outside Greece it has made substantial progress with the excavntion of the famous temple of Hera, at Samos, which Herodotus declared to be the "largest of all the temples which he had seen," and which is nearly double the size of the Parthenon. Within the Greek kingdom the restoration of the Lion of Cherronea and tha reconstruction of the celebrated temple at Bassae have been be gun. Colonel Leake prophesied nearly a century ago that Greece, If free, could easily restore the latter building out of the fragments lying around it. The strength ening of the Parthenon, the restoration of the- Erc-hthelon the repairs to the wall of the Stoa of Attalos, and the building of museums at Chalkls, Nauplla, Sautorln and Mykonos complete the work of a very active year. In a few years' time the ex cavation of the ancient market place will be begun, as the compensation due to the owners of property on its site Is found to be smaller than was expected. 4. The reported decision of the British gov ernment to establish a new naval squadron, with headquarters on the northeast coast. Independent of the regular Channel squad ron. Is the direct result, probably, of an Important Conference held the other day In London, which was attended by many naal xperts, high naval officers and prominent members of Parliament. Several of the speakers alluded openly to the Increase of the German fleet, and the necessity of making present preparation to meet a pos sible futur emergency. The proceedings opened with the reading of a letter from George Merellth, who wrote: "Germany, once foremost among the nations for Intel lectual achievements, now spouts pan-Ger manism over Europe, and seeks to commsnd the North Sea. For our part we have only to take the warning they give us, and be armed, stationed and alert. That Is the way to prsserve the peace." Mr. Spencer Wilkinson, the well known writer on naval subjects, said that Germany's announce ment of her Intention to create a strong r.avy had awakened them to a sense of the fact that they could not have a fixed standard of naval defense. It had been Little A, The sailor blouse suits for small boys and the same Is true of the Russian blouse are quite fanciful In fabrics and trimmings this season but they gain that effect of becoming ( boyishness fancy tweeds and homespuns have the preference In regard to material and of these two styles of sulfa we have made a special feature. Russian Blouse Suits it to 4 years Sailor Blouse Suits 3i to 8 years XO CLOTHING irowmiv Fif'y Years Ihe Standard Awarded Hlghist Honors World's Fair Higfmt lasts U.S. Gov't Chimlst- ntOK BAKINO POWDIS OO. ONICAOO customary t talk of a twd-power standard, but he thought the time had come whrn no: a two-power standard, but a three-power standard might be necessary. POINTED nEFLF.CTIOS. "When I visit Blarkpool In the summer t always pay a visit to my old landlMlr." "Well, I suppose It's only right that vnu should pay her something, old ninn." Stray Stories. "George," she said, "what's the Use of bookkeeping?" "Why. it enables you to tell where vour money has gone to. "Heavens!'' she cried; "I never tvnnt to learn It." Chicago Post. "Wow!" yelled the vlrtlm. "See here barber! You've c: i off part of mv ear!" , ''So I have," replied '.he Ixirhef, i-oollv, but culm yourself. We make no .xlr.t charge for correcting fa.ial l lmihe. I ll trim the other ear down to a ilecent ilr.c. too." Philadelphia Press. Don t you always feel a little mean when a street car conductor overlooks vou and you get your ride for nothing?" "Yes. ar.d I always spend the nickel fur 11 cigar or something just as soon us I cnn. mi unet0 8et 'r'd f th lei'IInK-" Chicago Trib- Merrltt A man shouldn't bother a woman by talking business. Cora That's right, dear. If vou mean business go talk to papa. Smart Set. "Why are you crying, little boyT" asked the tourlfit In Texas. "Boo-hoo!" sobbed the . younsster, "da cyclone -blew down every house !n town but one." "What one was that?" "The school house." Philadelphia Record. Wife (with a determined air) I want to see. that letter. . Husband What letter? .v."TI?at ..""il ,you iunt "PeiPd. I know by the handwriting that It is from a woman, and you turned pale when you read It. I will see It! Give It to me, sir!" "Here It is. It s your milliner s bill." New York Weekly. HIS LAST MARCH. W. D. Nesbit In Chloagi Tribune. (John T. Mason, 14 years old, a Teteran of the civil war, was heard during the night singing "While We Were Marching Through Georgia." Next morning he was found lifeless In his bed. his eves wld open. A physician who was called state:! inai me om man must nave died about th time the song was heard by the others I i the house. Local news item.) ' "Bring tho good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song!" He heard the far-off chorus as his com rades marched along; He heard the clank of sabre, and the Jang . ling bit and epur, . : . 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