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Treasury Warrant For $100,000 Is Turned Over to Spanish. Minister at Washington. At Washington Saturday the Span- s'' ish minister, Duke D'Arcos received -from Secretary Hay a treasury warrant for 100,000 and the United States received the final cession of "any and all islands in the Philippine archipel- age lying outside of the line described -iu article 3 of the treaty of peace between Spain and the United States of December 19, 1898." At the same time a protocol was signed by Mr. Hay and Duke D'Arcos exchanging ratifications of the treaty of cession. The specific purpose of the transaction is to add the islands of Cagayan-Sulu and Sibitu to the possessions of the United States.

The ceremony attending the ex- -change of the ratifications and the -payment of the $100,000 warrant was au interesting one. The Duke D'Arcos arrived at the state department by appointment at 10 o'clock. He had with him the Spanish version of the treaty, handsomely engrossed and bearing the signature of the queen regent of Spain ami the Spanish royal seal. Mr. Hay joined the minister in the diplomatic room.

The officials long in charge of the execution of treaties and ratifications were called in. The American text of the treaty bear-' ing the signature of President Mo-Kiuley, was handed Mr. Hay and he in turn presented Duke D'Arcos with the ratification executed by Presi- dent McKinley. The treaties in each case were handsomely bound, that of Spain being in red, with the royal arms in gold, while America's was bound iu dark blue, bearing the na---tional coat of arms. A brief protocol was then signed.

It recited the form-alties of ratification of the treaty sign- -ed at Washington November 7th, 1900, providing for the cession of any and all islands of the Philippine archipelago, etc. The treasury warrant for $100,000 had been prepared in advance and was handed to the Spanish minister. There was an exchange of felicitations over the close of the transaction, and the Duke D'Arcos departed with his 000 warrant and the ratified THE KOREA LAUNCHED. Largest Steamer Ever Built on This' Side Floated at Newport The Pacific Mail liner Korea, the largest vessel ever built for the American merchant marine service, was launched at the yard of the Newport News, Ship Building Company Saturday. A crowd of 20,000 people witnessed the event.

Miss Katharine Winthrop Tweed, daughter of the president of the Facifio Mail Com-: pany, christened the Korea. The Korea is the largest steam vessel ever built on this side of the At-lantic. With a longth 572 feet 4 inches and a beam of 03 feet, she will displace 18,600 touB on a draught of 27 feet. Some idea of the size of th Korea may be derived from the fact that from the top to the bottom of the bare hull is a distance of forty feet, while the distance around the rail nearly a quarter of a mile. She is to be fitted with engines ol 18,000 horse-power, sufficient to pro-, pel her at a speed of from 18 to 2fl knots.

The Korea will acoommodatt 1,400 passengers, of whom 200 will first cabin passengers. She is designed for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co, to ply between San Francisco and Hong Kong. Just as the Korea Blipped down the ways, George Banuaster, a oolorerl man among the employees gathered about the vessel, was struck by one ol the falling props and received injuriet from whjch he died within a few hours. r- RESPONSIBILITY IS PLACED. Blame of the RIo De Janeiro Wreck Laid on Captain and Piolot.

Captains O. F. Bolles and J. K. Bulger, United States inspectors ol bulls and boilers, have handed down their decision at San Francisco on tlm responsibility for the wreck of thr City of Bio De Janeiro February 22 I at entrance of the Golden Gate.

Their decision places the blame for tun wreok upon the late Captain War I and Pilot Jordan, i The pilot being 4 state officer, is not' under the jurisdiction of the United States inspectors and they have no power to punish him. CUBAN HAIL RATES. After April 1st Domestic Postage and Classification Will Be Effective. Postmaster General Smith, in accordance with a deoision arrived at by the cabinet has issued the following order: Postmasters are informed that on and after April 1, next, the Unite I States domestic rates of postage an it classification Shall apply to all mail matter passing between the United States and Cuba. Notices of tbil change should be displayed in poat-oflloes' corridors and given to the pub.

lio press when aooepted as a news) item. Calhoun Connty Conspirators Sen-tenced. In the United States Court at Birmingham, Friday, the Calhoun county gang of conspirators, who were recently convicted, were sentenced. This was rather an unusual oase, the members having passed counterfeit money on innooent parties and then had them arrested and taken before United States commissioners on the charge of lfaving counterfeit money in their possession. This was done in order to get witness fees in appearing against them.

Judge Bruce sentenced them as follows W. J. Pruett, three years for perjury and two years for conspiracy; David A. S. Priggs, two years for conspiracy John A.

Terry, one year for perjury. Hood Company to Build New Plant The Hood Maohine Company will erect a new buildfng for its plant on First avenue, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, Birmingham, The new building will be constructed of steel and iron and will be absolutely fire proof. It will be two stories high, eighty feet wide and 150 feet long. It will occupy the site of the present buildings. The cost of the new buildings and additional quipment is estimated at between $25,000 and $30,000.

When oompleted the new plant will be equipped with much labor-saving machinery, suoh as electric cranes, pneumatic tubes and other facilities for the rapid handling of metal and material. Philadelphia Capitalists liuy a Traot of Land On Sand Mountain. A Scottsboro dispatch says: T. Coleman and J. F.

Horton, prominent capitalists of Philadelphia, have been here prospecting this week. They have purchased a body of land on Sand Mountain, and one on the mountain just north of town belonging to Capt. 3. B. Harris for a large consideration, and will soon establish large works at both places.

The Philadelphia capitalists represent two compa uies, the Alabama Coal, Mining and Mineral Company and the Alabama Ochre Company." Will Build Seven Engines for Cuba. The Birmingham Maohine and Foundry Company, whose plant is located at East Birmingham, has received an order from Cuba for seven Corliss engines, which it is stated, will cost when completed nearly $100,000. The engines are to be used on sugar plantations in Cuba. Prior to the Spanish-American war of 1898 the Birmingham Maohine and Foundry Company had built up a considerable business in Cuba, but it practically ended with the beginning of hostilities, and it is only within recent months that the company has been able to get a new start in that country. Prominent Man Killed By Mare.

H. Levy Jones, aged 42 years, a successful business man and planter of Pleva, died Friday night from a fraotured skull. Mr. Jones was kicked on the head by a pet mare and a large crack was made in his skull. The most skillful physicians were unable to save his life.

Mr. Jones was one oi the best known men in Madison county, and was recognized as a faotor in county politics, although he was never a candidate for office. Xuskegee Institute Secured $20,500 A New York dispatoh, dated March 21th, says: Booker T. Washington tonight annouuoed that as a result of the meeting held last Monday evening in the city by the Armstrong Association for the Tuskegee Institute, has been given or promised, including $5,000 from Mrs. O.

P. Hunt ington, which may be used in tho endowment fund. Towards the $25,000 for ourrent expenses neoessary to be seeured before the gift of $10,000 promised by the of Brooklyn is available $13,800 have been received. Making Ready For Woman's Press Association. A joint meeting of the Up-to-Date, Kettledrum and Irving Book Clubs, was held Friday with Mrs.

M. P. Jemi-son, for the purpose of arranging the details of the entertainment of the Wom-ans' Press ssociation, which meets in Tuscaloosa April 10 and 11. One of the features of the entertainment to be accorded the gifted members of the association will be a reception at the residence of Mayor and Mrs. W.

G. Cochrane on Thursday evening, April 11. ENGINEER FELL DEAD WHILE WORKING. AT A FIRE IN MONTGOMERY. One Han Killed and Another Injured in a Wreck-Other State News.

BIO FIRE AT MONTGOMERY. Engineer Fell Dead While Connecting Hose A fire on the premises of Mr. W. E. Pierce, 506 South Court street, Montgomery, shortly before 1 o'clock Friday morning, destroyed two handsome residences, owned and ocoupiod respectively by Mrs.

Fannie Anderson find Mr. W. E. Pieroe. A great deal of the furniture, silverware and other artioles of value were saved from the burning buildings.

The total loss is estimated at $12,500, fully insured. William H. Kelly, engineer o( Steamer Company No. 2, fell dead just as he was connecting't'he hose of his engine to the water plug just in front of the residence of Mr. W.

F. Vandi-ver, four doors south of the burning buildings. Eelly was one of tho most popular firemen in Montgomery. He had been in the department for many years, and was at one time Chief of the Volunteer Department. Two handsome bay carriage horses were burned to death before they could -be rescued from the burning barn.

Plow Works to be Enlarged. Ground has been broken by the Austin-Bryan Manufacturing company at Ensloy for the foundations of two new buildings, each to be of about the same size as the present plant, one of which will be utilized for a woodworking shop, in which will be made the handles, beams and all other wood work necessary for the turning out of plows complete in every detail, an the other, will be used in making room for the increasing output, which will be doubled as soon as these buildings are complete. The company is also considering the mattor of making other improvements and adding new features to its immense plant in the near future. Engineer Killed and Fir man Hurt. Tobe Green, engineer, was killed end his fireman, W.

H. Bamell, fatally injured in, a head-end collision between freights on the Mobile and Montgomery Division of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, one mile north of Wilcox, Friday morning. Orders had been given to stop at Wilcox, but for some reason they were not followed and the collision occurred. No others were injured. Killed by Falling Trough a Trestle, An unknown man fell through the railroad trestle at Horse Creek Thursday evening and was instantly killed.

He had no papers by which he could be identified. In his pocked was found a paper envelope, on which was written A. Duncan." The envelope bad the advertisement of Goldberg Lewis on it, but did not state their plaoe of business. McL 'stcr Hotel to Be Enlarged. The McLester estate, owners of the McLester Hotel at Tuscaloosa, have decided to built an addition to that popular hostelry.

The addition wil be made in the rear of the present four-story building and will consist of twenty rooms. That will give the McLester a capaoity of sixty-three rooms. The present number of rooms is inadequate to the business. AMinerKilllcd. B.

M. McDonald, a white miner, was killed at Blossburg Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'olook, being "run over by a train on the Southern railroad. McDonald wag walking along the traok and the train which killed him baoked upon him. He was horribly mutilated, both legs and both arms being cut off and his head mashed. A Tuscaloosa dispatch says that capitalisil who have been in that city several days for the purpose of investigating TuBoaloosa as a suitable location for a box faotory, have decided to looate there, and establish suoh an enterprise.

DISASTROUS CYCLONE, I Twenty Persons' Killed and Forty Injured. Tornado Sweeps Southern Sec. lion of Birmingham. Hundreds of Houses Torn Into Fragments and Much Other Property Destroyed. A fearful tornado, in all the fury of its pent-up rage, swept down upon the southern section of Birmingham shortly before 10 o'olook Monday morning and in its ruthless course up the valley left death and destruction in its wake.

The frowning storm king summoned all the wrath at bis command and with an awful grinding roar tore hundreds of houses into fragments and claimed twenty human lives, the price of his unwelcome visit. Twenty persons were crushed and lulled by the Hying debris and scores of men, wcmen and children were mangled beneath the wreckage, which was strewn from east to west for a distance of more than two miles. It is estimated that 500 houses were destroyed and damaged, entailing a property loss of between 300,000 and $500,000. Among the dead are Dr. G.

C. Chapman, one of the most prominent physioians of the city, and the wife and child of Hon, B. J. Lowe, chairman pf the state democratic executive committee. The fearful catastrophe has cast a gloom over the entire city, but willing hands have set to work to relieve the suffering and distress that sends np Its pitiful cry from the pathway of the storm.

The following is the list of the dead and injured, reported to a late hour Tuesday night The Dead. Dr. G. 0. Chapman, Mrs.

Robert J. infant child of Mrs. Lowe, J. Alexander, merchant, corner avenue and Twenty-fourth street; little daughter of Mr. B.

B. Hudson, colored, collector Union Mutual Association of Mobile; Carrie Hudson, colored Maggie BldviiTs, colored; Carrie Henry, Lizzie Goodloe, colored; F. Steadmire, school girl, colored; Lizzie Green, colored; unknown negro cook for B. B. Hudson; unknown carpenter, struck by flying timber, unknown negro, Pratt City; John Gardner, Irondale; three negro children, Irondale.

Fatally Injured. Mrs. B. H. Thomas, Mrs.

W. H. Thomas, Mrs. D. D.

McLaughlin, Mrs. J. Furguson, Mrs. Mylum, Prof. Grambs' mother-in-law; Carrie Elin, colored, W.

P. Dickinson, medical student, concision of brain. A terrific rain storm followed the wind and greatly retarded the work of relief, which was immediately began by an army of volunteer rescuers. Tilth of the Storm. The storm struck the city in the extreme southwestern corner and plowed its way eastward, leaving a path 150 feet wide through the entire southern section, extending from Green Springs on the lolt to Avondale on the east.

It continued its course onward nntil its fury was spent in the mountain beyond Irondale. The morning dawned cloudy and sultry and grew more threatening as the day advanced. Clouds began to gather, and shortly after 9 o'clock sharp lightning flashed from the southwest. The air became heavy and stifling, and it was evident that a storm was brewing, but no one dreamed that it would burst withsuoh fury upon the oity a few minutes later. The volocity of the began to increase, and suddenly from out of the overcast sky the funnel-shaped oloud made its descent, and, huggingcloseto the earth, passed through the city in leaps and bounds, leaving death and desolation in its pathway.

The altitude of the cyclone was not more than seventy-five feet. The negro' shanties and cottages ia- the lowlands in the path of the storm were the principal sufferers. The larger residences on the highor ground suffered but slightly. The large trees on the hillside of the St. Vincont's Hospital were torn np by the roots, and large masses of stone were twisted out of the ground, and broken and scattered all over the driveways of the entrance to the institution.

Like a Rubber Hall. From Eighth to Tenth street the wind devil bounded like a rubber ball, and when It again desconded it struck a two-story house occupied by Joseph Busenhelhner and almost razed it to the ground. Onward the wind sped in its fury, demolishing trees and fences, until it reached Eleventh street, where it swept through a small pine grove, tearing the trees up by the roots and burling them through the air like arrows. Beyond the grove the storm cloud swooped down upon a negro settlement and the frail cabins were crushed like egg shells, not one being left In the pathway of the tornado. Eastward the storm swept, cutting its way through another strip of woods, striking the Second Presbyterian Churoh at the corner of Avenue and Fifteenth street, almost demolishing the structure, The pews were piled on the top of the debris, a small oak table which was used in the rostrum being deposited on the topmost point of the wreckage.

The storm then struck the more thickly settled residence portion of the city, and its work of destruction increased. It left the two blocks bounded by Eighteenth anc Twentieth streets and Humbolt and Avenue a total wreck. With a few exceptions all of the houses in that territory were hurled to the ground and the scene now presented is one of complete desolation. A Sad Fatality. One of the saddest fatalities of the day was the death of the little 4-year-old child of JB.

B. Hudson, near Nineteenth street and Humbolt avenue. Mrs. Hudson, acoompanied.by another child, had gone to the city at the time of the storm, leaving the younger child at home with the negro cook. Both were killed among the falling timbers of the house.

In crossing Twentieth street the terrific wind snapped the big poles of the Bell Telephone Company as if they were pipe stems, and they fell to the street below taking heavy cables with them, and seriously impairing the telephone communication, for a large section of the South Highlands. This fact prevented the anxious head of many a family living in that district from communicating with their home, and the consequence was that great numbers of distracted husbands and fathers were soon hurrying to the Highlands to see what misfortune, if any, had happened to their loved ones. -The wind here seemod to veer upward and for a spaoe of a block did but little damage. Destruction on" Brown's Hill. Brown's Hill lay in the path of the storm, and within two or three blocks nearly a hundred houses were demolished and soveral lives lost and a number of persons more or less seriously injured.

The houses in that part of town were mostly one-story cottages and went down with the first gust of wind, burying their occupants under the wreckage. In its ec-centrio course the tornado seemed to strike that section with renewed force. A great many of these cottages were owned by their oocupants, who lost everything in the world they possessed when their bouses and their furniture were destroyed. At Avondale. After leaving Birmingham the storm struck Avondale at the extreme southern end, and fortunately did not pass through a very populous district.

The residents of Faggot's Hill were the principal suffer ers, though there were no deaths reported. Those injured were Miller Harbin, Mrs, Harbin and child, Mr. Flynn, Mrs. J. J.

Hendon, Miss Jennie Sheldon, Mrs. Mann, Mr. and Mrs. Lowery, and others less several injured. There were about twelve houses destroyed, and the property damage is estimated Storm Visits Pratt City.

Pratt City, March 25. Pratt City was visited this morning by the most NOMINEES AND PLA1F0RM. Full Text of the Democratic Platform. Complete List of the Candidates the State at Large and Congressional and Senatorial Districts. The constitutional convention is to be composed of four delegates from the state at large, eighteen from the nine congressional dlstriots, thirty-three from the senatorial distriots and juo hundred from the oounties, mak ing a total membership of one hundred and fifty-five.

The demooratio nominations have been made as follows: -State-at-Large. ohn B. Knox, of Calhoun. Bobert J. Lowe, of Jefferson.

William 0. Oates, of Montgomery. Frank S. White, of Jefferson. Congressional Districts.

First W. F. Glover, of Choctaw; E. B. Morrisette, of Monroe.

Second Thos. G. Jones, of Montgomery; S. C. Jenkins, of Wilcox Third Jere N.

WilliamB, of Barbour; M. Sollie, of Dale. Fourth W. W. Vaughn, of Dallas; L.

W. Grant, of Calhoun. Fifth M. M. Smith, of Augusta; T.

Heflin, of Bandolph. Sixth Ed. De Graffonreid, of Hale; T. L. Long, of Walker.

Seventh C. L. Haley, of Marshall: 0. E. Hood, of Etowah.

Eighth Emmett O'Neal, of Lauderdale; B. W. Walker, of Madison. Ninth A. O.

Howze, of Jeffarson; J. F. Thompson, of Bibb. Senatorial Districts. First W.

T. Sanders, of Limestone. Second D. C. Almon, of Lawrence" Third George H.

Parker, of.Cul man. Fourth J. W. Grayson, of Madison, Fifth P. W.

Hodges, of Jackson. Sixth H. T. Davis, of Etowah. Seventh Leonard F.

Greer, of Cal-houu. Eighth B. Graham, of Talladega. Ninth J. J.

Bobinson, of Chambers. Tenth J. C. Maxwell, of Talla-poOBa. Eleventh G.

A. Searcy, of Tuscaloosa. Twelfth E. W. Coleman, of Jefferson.

Thirteenth B. M. Cunningham, of Jefferson. Fourteenth A. Altman, of Sumter, Fifteenth John H.

Baker, of Elmore. Sixteenth C. P. Sogers, o) Lowndes. Seventeenth J.

D. Burnett, o) Conecuh. Eighteenth C. H. Greer, of Perry.

Niueteenth Dabuey Palmer, ol Clarke. Twentieth Chas. Miller, of Marengo. Twenty-first Chas W. Locklin, el Monroe.

Twenty-seoond B. C. Jones, o) Wilcox. Twenty-third Geo. H.

Malone, of Henry. Twenty-fourth A. H. Merrill, oi Barbour. Twenty-fifth W.

H. Samford, of Pike. Twenty-sixth D. S. Bethune, -61 Bullock.

Twenty-seventh George P. Harrl-. son, of Opelika. Twesty-eighth Tennent Lomax, oi Montgomery. 1 Twenty-ninth J.

A. Davis, of De-Kalb. Thirtieth Pitts, of Dallas. Thirty-first A. H.

Carmiohael, 61 Colbert. Thirty-second B. Inge, of Hale. Thirty-third G. L.

Smith, of Mobile, i THE PLArFpRM. fli After an experience of thirty years, affording every necessary faoility to qualify the nogro for the exercise of the franchise, it has been demonstrated that, as a raoe, he is incapable of self government and the intelligent exeroise of the power pf voting. Therefore, in the interest of both races in Alabama, we favor tho holding of a' constitutional oonventiou for the purpose of regulating the right to vote so as to perpetuate the rulecf the white race in Alabama: First The demooratio party of the state of Alabama, in convention assembled, endorses the act to provide for the holding of a constitutional convention to revise and amend the constitution of the state, approved December 11th, 1900, and favor the carrying out of all the provisions of said aot. Second -That the oonventiou 'shall regulate, all queatioDs.of suftragoao as not to oonflict with the constitution of the United States, and for the best interest of the tax-payers of the state of Alabama. serious and destructive cyolone in its history.

About o'olook dark and heavy clouds were seen eondding across the hoavens from the southwest, and a few minutes later a rumbling, roaring sound heralded the approach of a most terrific storm. The first thing it struck iu its, path was Se tipple and houses of mine No. 6. In a minute's time thej were swept to destruction, so crippling the mine that it bad to suspend operations. Thence in a northeasterly dirootion, it struck tho West Highlands of Pratt and a three-room house was lifted off its pillars and set on the ground.

It then demolished the colored church in that vicinity, leaving nut a "stone upon a stone." cyclone seems to have skipped about a half 'mile of a thickly populated locality, and descending in the heart of the city, blew the steeple off the Southern Methodist church, and otherwise bo seriously injuring it that it is considered a total loss, and will have to be rebuilt anew tore the roof from the new high school building; unroofed one saloon, I. Bonfeld's dry goods store, the Birmingham Southern depot and T. C. I. commissary jumped the north side of First street, and alighting on the drift track, wreoked innumerable negro houses and left desolation in its wake.

There is one negro reported dead and another negro injured. Nearly every church in town was damaged. Besides the Southern Methodist, which was so badly wrecked, the First Presbyterian was twisted nearly off its fillers; St. James A. M.

E. church lest its steeplt Bising Star Baptist church was badly injured and three other colored churches on the drift track were more or less seriously damaged, The losa will run up into the thousands. At Irondale, After leaving Gate City, the storm struck Irondale, a mile or two further on, shortly after 10 o'clock, and very nearly demolished that prosperous little town. There were four killed, and the total property damage is estimated at about $18,000. The dead are George Gardner and three unknown negro children.

Dr. Laird Declines. The oongregation of the Broad Street Presbyterian churoh, Selma, was much dissappointed Saturday morning when a letter came from Bev. W. B.

Laird, of Danville, declining the call to the pastorate of the Selma churoh, A suitable successor to the beloved Dr. Ceoil, who has gone to Biohmobd, has been hard to secure and when Dr. Laird was found it wits univeroal agreed that the right man had been selected. PORTO K1CAN5 NEED CASH. Business Men and Farmers of Island Anxious to-Secure a Loan.

The chamber of commerce of San Juan has called a mass meeting of the principal planters, bankers, agriculturists and merchants 'with a view to agreeing upon some feasible plan for the relief of financial depression. The outcome of the meeting wiU probably be a petition to Governor Allen to call an extra session of the legislature and to authorize a loau of from. 83,000,000 to $5,000,000 for ths beue8t agriculture. Chiriir Is. Relenting.

A dispatch to the Cologne Gazette (Berlin) 'from Pekin, dated Thursday, March au imperial decree in accordance with article 10 of the peace conditions has been placarded on the walls of Pekin threatening all anti-foreign societies with punishment. Big Blaz; In Milwaukee. Fire at Milwaukee Friday night completely wiped out the big piano establishment of William Eohliing Sons, on Broadway, and wrought further destruction to adjoining property, entailing a loss close to $300,000, fully covered by insurance. NINE-YEAR MYSTERY CLEARED. Bones of Hissing Ohio Man Found In Florida and The skeleton of James Tod arrived at Warren, Saturday and a mystery was cleared away.

Nine, years ago James Tod, of Warren, a nephew of War Governor Tod, disappeared from Dayton, One day the past week his skeleton Was found near Spruce creek, in Florida, and was identified by gold in his teeth, a watch and a ring of keys. There' were ijo speeches at Verdi's grave. There are' no orators who could have put into words, what' the silence said. 'l'uird That there shall be inserted in suoh constitution a provision limiting the rate of taxation by the state, eonnties and municipalities, and that suou rato of taxation shall not exceed the rate now fixed by the present constitution, but a lower rate shall be fixed if practicable. Fourth That the constitution framed by said convention shall be submitted to the qualified eleotors of this state for ratification or rejection.

F. th -That we pledge our'faitfe to the people of Alabama not to deprive any white man of the right to vote except for oonviotion of infamous crime. Sixth That the provisions of the present constitution relating tofxemp tions of real and personal property shall remain unchanged. Seventh That Seotion 89 of Article IV. of the present constitution in reference to the removal and location ol the State Capitol shall remain un ohanged.

Eighth That the rights and privileges conferred by the present constitution upon corporations not be enlarged. CZAR IS GUARDEP. Life of Russian Ruler Is Constantly In Danger of Being Cut Short. The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Cologne VolksZeitung (Berlin) under date of March' 17th, forwards by mail news to the effect that there is evidence' in St.

Petersburg of the existence of plots against the authori-tigs. He asserts 'that sums of money are being distributed to the faotory hands in St. Petersburg' and viciuity to induce them to join the disaffected students. It has-: not been learned whence this money comes; but. indications point to high sources about the" court.

The fact is, the corres-respondent continues, the secret police no longer trust even the highest entourage of the czar. New precautions for the protection of the czar's life have been taken, namely, a mechanism which allow no one to open the doors of the room in which the czar happens at the moment to be. The czar now has five desks in. his study, which he uses one after the other; the walls of the walls of the czar's study and bedroom are liued with steel armor. The correspondent finds that evidence of the plots was general.

Orders were recently given to keep all the troops in St. Petersburg ready. Sunday the police were distributed in force on all the main streets of the city. The military commander of St. Petersburg, M.

Kloigels, received a number of warnings. The Berliner Tageblatt points a special dispatch from St. Petersburg by way of Lemberg, to the effect that the Karpovitch investigation has revealed a great plot, similar to the ni-hilistio conspiracy, with Kieff as a center, the main branch at Odessa and ramifications extending to the lowest strata of society. The plan was to make an attempt on the life of the czar, who was thereupon removed to GVatchinia. WAR ON VAQRANTS.

Atlanta Police Make Big Raid On Ne. gro Dives and Poolrooms. A dispatch from Atlanta, says: The police carried out a simultaneous raid on all the negro dives and poolrooms in that oity Friday and one hundred and fourteen negroes were arrested and locked up on the ohargo of idliug and loitering. A large majority of the arrests ocourred during the morning. It was the biggest raid of the kind ever made by the Atlanta police, and it was the outcome of the -recent determination of the mayor and the police authorities to rid the city of the loafers and vagrants by putting as many of them as possible in the chain-gang- Simultaneously the negro rool rooms in the; oity were surroundod by the police and the raids made.

All the patrol wagons were run out and the negroes hauled to the police barracks and locked up. A few negroes who were not vagrants, but who were caught in bad company, were arrested, and these were afterwards released, but the big majority were the very class the police were after, and they will be tried and sentenced by the recorder. DEADLOCK STILL ON. Nebraska Republican Legislators Un-. able To Elect Senators.

A dispatch from Lincoln, Nebraska, says: Fifty-four Republicans went into cauoua ErJihy night again in an ef fort to end the long term senatorial deadlock. Balloting up to 11 clock was without material ohange. Th feature of the joint convention ballot at noon Friday -was the gain of D. E. Thompson of one vote, that of Statt Senator Crounse, heretofore one of the strongest of Mr.

Thompson's opponents. The proceedings bordered on the sensational. Mr. Crounse said Mr. Thompson was not his choice for the short term, but he believed it duty he owed his constituents to end the deadlock if he could, 1 pnnp npiaMAi 1 di irirn TURHI IftW.