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JEFF DAVIS WIDOW CHALLENGES MILES Defies Army Officer to Show Letter in Which She Is Said to Have Ex-pressed Thanks for Treatment Accorded Fallen Leader. CHARGES CRUELTY AND SHIFT OF RESPONSIBILITY Soldier Is Asked Why Defense Was Not Made During Life of Wit- nesses Evasion of the Facts Is Alleged in Statement. Special Dl.patch to The Inter Ocean. SAVANNAH. Feb.

20. In a public communication Mrs. Jefferson Davis today called on General Nelson A. Miles to produce a letter which be Is-reported to have from her thanking blm for bis kind treatment of her husband. President Davis of the Confederacy, at Fortress Monroe, or to cease referring to It.

Her letter says In part: "I have not the least memory of having written such a note to htm. It is conceivable that whilst in ignorance of the facts or in hopeful recognition of some improvement in the treatment inflicted upon my husband may have made some acknowledgment of what I may have construed as common humanity at a time when, bad I known the facts as they existed. I neither could nor would have written save In Indignant protest. "Forty yeais have passed since General Miles perpetrated the cruelties for which he Is now undergoing some measure of punishment at the hands of his own public. During that period he has not hesitated to shift the responsibility for his acts upon others.

Calls Art Gratuitous. "The publication of the Instructions under which he claims to have acted and the correspondence which led up to them have long since convinced every candid mind that his treatment of Mr. Davis was gratuitous, neither justified nor required by the orders of his superiors. "The public attention cannot be deflected from the terrible charges under which General Miles rests by a controversy over a letter concerning even the existence of which no stronger proof is advanced than the bare assertion of General Miles. But in so far as it may be of any importance, my estimate of General Miles' character is such that I am constrained to demand tbat if the letter exists a photographic reproduction showing the date, the place of writing, the contents, and the signature to be given to the public.

If it is of the vital Importance which General Miles seems to claim, surely the situation from his own standpoint suggests that the slight trouble Involved would be Justified. "In a memoir of Mr. Davis' life, written by myself after his death, I exposed General Miles as fully as I thought was needful, but purposely added very little to the testimony of General Miles' subaltern. Dr. Craven.

furnished in his 'Prison Life of Jefferson printed and published while Mr. Davis was still a prisoner. I had experienced so many times General Miles' adroit evasions and substitutions of his own Invention for the truth In other matters, that I did not choose to rest on my unsupported testimony. Caaratea With CraMr Delay. "In a letter to the New York World my daughter answered General Miles untruthful version of his conduct, given to the public after forty-years of putative silence, broken only by rumors of secret asseveration of bis innocence and Invective against me and in many other of the devious ways with which he "While the witnesses were alive why did he not put in his defense and tax his subaltern with falsehood? Awakened to the helnousness of his conduct by a closer association with educated gentlemen, he doubt- mi 1 1 LUC BUBUIV HUIVU Btll auJ CUUHa to him.

now that the passions attendant upon war are passing away, and he stands forth revealed to bis countrymen In his true light. V-- In hntv writ mil tn kHnr a -'railing accusation' against any sinner, however great bis fault, and I do not desire any controversy with any one, especially not with one whose perceptions of truth are so vague and misty." Fare Cat In Mllea ray. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. WASHINGTON. D.

Feb. 20. General Miles will not receive the pay of an officer on the active list while serving as adjutant general on the staff of Governor Douglas of Massachusetts. The House is insistent tbat General Miles and other officers detailed to instruct militia organizations shall not receive more than their retired pay. and the Senate will be forced to accept this proposition, distasteful as it may-be.

The conferees on the army appropriation bill at their meeting today virtually reached an agreement on the question of retired army officers' pay. The House conferees plainly told their Senate associates tbat if they held out for the amendment proposed by Mr. Lodge the House would object to a number of amendments In which Senators are much Interested. It was agreed that the Seriate conferees should aee Mr. Lodge and others who have contended that General Miles should be permitted to draw active pay and allow the prohibition to-become applicable to officers hereafter detailed.

An effort will be made to obtain the consent of these Senators to receding from the Lodge amendment. The House inserted a provision In the army bill that no retired officer detailed for duty in. connection with the national guard shall receive active pay above, the rank of major. This would force General Miles to serve without compensation beyond that of a retired Lieutenant General. The provision Is believed to have been aimed entirely at General Miles.

It is now considered certain that that provision as prepared and adopted by the House will be ac cepted by the Senate. PRESIDENT AGAIN CONSIDERS EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS Kot Believed That Meeting? Will Be 1 Tailed Before Xeat Fall A wait a Ae- tlaa affeaale. WASHINGTON. D. C.

Feb. 20. The President is awaiting the action of the Senate committee on interstate- commerce on rall- road rate legislation tomorrow before announcing his plans with reference to an extra si-Kslon of He talked today with Representatives Townend and Esch, the framers of the railroad rate bill which passed the House, and! told them that while he bad practically-given up hope of action In the Senate he thought there was a possibility that 'the bill might be passed. He admitted to them there was no likelihood of this. The President said to callers today that he had not derided yet whether he would call an extra session this spring.

He said it was an open question iu. his and if it should become necessary to call one he could readily change bis plans for the spring and summer. While the President said he might an extra session In the spring, It is known that be has no such intention. Olea at Ripe A are' of 1T. NEW YORK.

Feb. 20. A man who is be-lkved to have been the oldest person la New York city, died today at the age of 107. He was Joseph McGrath, a stone cutter, and a native of Ireland. In his youth he was an athlete.

He lef; four generations cfde-(cendacts. numbering 2CG. Flaraia aad Cnba'Yia tig Fear." "Chicago-Florid Special' Pullman eteper. to Su Augufttlne, leaves 1 p. rxcept Sunday.

"Only one night out." Dining car service all the way from Chicago, Florida via Asheville. N. C. 9 a. m.

daily; 3vp. daily train for all Southern points. Fuji information "Big Four" office, 238 Clark u-ecL J. Tucker. G.

H. JL. SURPRISE THEIR SCHOOLMATE. One of the prettiest parties of last week isnuerea juiss Helen McJunkin by her friends. The occasion wasthe hostess' birthday, which was made the opportunity for an old fashioned surprise gathering, after me traditions or surprise parties of tne rural districts.

Miss McJunkin Is a South Side gin auu Tery popular in tne nign scnooi cir cle. ANTI-SPITTING LAW CAUSES 150 ARRESTS Police Are Kept Busy in Haling Violators of Expectorating Ordi nance to Jail and Vehement Pro tests Are Expressed. More than 150 spltters were tken in custody by the police yesterday in their tffort to make Chicago a "Spitless Town' and a repetition of the program, with even more than that number of arrests, is announced for While it Is estimated that at most street corners some one expectorates on the sidewalk at least once a second, making sixty a minute and 3,600 an hour. Assistant Chief cf Police Scbuettler believes his men equal to the' task of arresting every" All the men taken in custody yesterday were booked at the Central station and then placed in the "hoodlum wagon" and carried to the Harrison street station, where they were arraigned before Justice Caverly, most of them being fined 1 and costs. Those who denied they were guilty of spittlng-or declined the ride in the patrol wagon were allowed to put np a cash bond of 3 and arrange for a hearing later in the weeav' Xta BYotewt Auralast Arrest.

Some of the men arrested accepted the matter as a Joke, others declared that It was a Joke carried too far, and all protested loudly against their arrest. It was not all humor and Indlgirity, however. There was a little touch of pathos that for a time held the attention of Justice Caverly when Jesse Rickey was brought before him. Dickey pleaded guilty, but declared that he bad cot had any employment for weeks, that his wife was dangerously 111 with pneumonia, and that if fined for the of fense he could not pay the fine and would have to go to the bridewell, and thus leave his wife helpless at home. He was discharged.

The order for the arrest of the spitter was Issued Saturday by Assistant Chief of Police Scbuettler. who detailed the flying squadron to begin operations yesterday. Police and' Patrol Wag-on a Basr. They began at 9 o'clock, and all day the policemen were kept busy bringing violators to- the city hall. The patrol wagons were constantly on the go, and a -long line of "spltters" was drawn up' be fore Justice Caverly for most of the day.

Following a request from the health department that more publicity be given the anti-splttlng ordinance, Alderman Willlston stated yesterday that he would introduce an amendment at Thursday evening's session of the city council providing fof the erection of signs and notices at prominent places on the streets and In all municipal buildings and wherever large numbers of people oongre-gate. He expects the amendment will be adopted and It probably will not be long before the efforts of the police department are augmented with signs declaring "Decency and the ordinances both prohibit spitting. Writers te Meet at Winona Lake, lad. RICHMOND. Feb.

'20. The Western Association of Writers announces Its twentieth annual meeting for Winona Lake, during the first week of July. Charles Eugene Banks, president of the association, announces the following speakers: John Mc-Govern, Colonel William Llghtfoot Buscher, Minneta T. Taylor. Ople Read, Warf Bangs, Esther Griffin White, the Rev.

E. B. Helney, and others. Prefer Death lo Trial for Blatant y. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ill.i Feb.

20. Swan Monson, facing bigamy charges, committed suicide by hanging himself In the county Jail last night. A valise strap was tied to a bar of the cell. After his marriage to a Kewanee young, woman on Jan. 26 an undivorced wife living in Princeton, appeared.

THE TSTEli OCHAK, TUESDAY MORXIXG, FEJ YR UAHY 21, 1003. BEGGAR LEAVES $400,000 TO RO THSCHIL WHO REFUSES IT Baron Employs Detectives to Trace Indigent Relatives of Wealthy Receiver of Alms in Paris-Finds One in New York. Special Diapatch to The Inter Oceaju, vfve Feh. 20. Through the cour tesy of Baron Rothschild.

Max Fldler, a Brooklyn oulltmaker. bas become tne neir to a part of the rortnne leit ny a beggar -in France, of whom he only learned today tbat he was a nephew. The beneficiary has sevt-n sisters living in Odessa, who will share the riches. Abraham Fldler of Nice, France, died there last August at to age of) years. When bis HARRISON WILL RUN IF CALLED TO LEAD Mayor Willing to Respond to Cal of Party if Dunne's Candidacy Seems Inexpedient When Con vention Meets Saturday.

I AMATEUR MANAGEMENT- IS BLIGHT TO JUDGE'S HOPES 'Long Haired" Sponsors of Jurist Looked Upon as Jonah and May or's Friends Are Hoping for Switch at Last Moment. Mayor Harrison is believed to entertain the lingering hope he may. by some chance, be nominated for mayor Saturday. He admits he would like to make the race against Harlan, and In his interviews sMce the Re publican convention met he has intimated that the platform was a weak repetition of bis own declarations on the traction ques tlon. His resolution offered to the city coun cil Thursday night proposing to inaugurate municipal owasrshlp on the Chicago Pas senger company's streets was intended as an answer to the strongest argument of Judge Dunne's adherents for Immediate municipal ownership and was regarded by them as a bid for the mayoralty Mayor's Friends Confident.

Some of the mayor's friends declared yes terday would be nominated Saturday, but most of them said he probably had let the day go by when he could become a candidate, They caid do clamor at the convention, how ever sincere It might be, would be likely to satisfy the DunnefoIlowlcg their candidate had not been treacherously deceived and that such would Invite defeat at the polls. The mayor's friends say be has been repeatedly, urged to become a candidate by conservative Democrats who fear Dunne and Republican business men who distrust Har- lan. These rumors were not denied by Mayor Harrison when he was questioned about them, but be would not say who the people were who had asked him to enter the race. "I admit I would like to hang John Maynanl Harlan's scalp to my belt," said the mayor, "I can beat him 25,000 votes. It would do me good to go out after him." Mayor la Willing-.

Suppose the convention should set up a unanimous clamor for you to make the race next Saturday, would you accept the nomina tion?" "There will be no such clamor." The mayor declined to answer the question more directly. Many conservative Democrats along with Mayor Harrison friends are finding fault with Judge Dunne's campaign committee and personal advisers. Daniel L. Croice. Henry M.

Ashton, Robert Lindblom. and others of like ideas, the conservatives Bay, are threat ening to manage the campaign. Fees of Mayor oa Uaard, The Harrison people say the campaign committee is being made up of the mayor's political enemies. The wrangle over the remainder of the ticket is causing Judge. Dunne's frienda and the caucus Friday night threatens to result In a vigorous disagreement between the Harrison and anti-Harrison The mayor's friends say they will be In a posi tion to control the convention, but that they will' allow Judge Dunne to name his ow ticket unless he puts on it too many political enemies of the mayor.

The Hopkins-Sullivan element wants ex- Coroner Traeger nominated for treasurer and Frank L. Childa for city attorney. Mayor Harrison has not forgiven Traeger lor holding him to the grand jury as a result of the coroner's investigation of the Iroquois fire. Frank L. Childa was discharged as attorney for the water office because he joined the Hopkins-Sullivan faction In the fight against the mayor last spring.

Hopkins-. Adherents Spnraed. Two anti-Harrison candidates on the ticket with Judge Dunne at its head a critic of the mayor and Captain A. C. Anson for city clerk not an ardent Harrlsonite is re garded as "too strong" by the Harrison fac tion, and they promise to make a row at the Friday night caucus-.

Tbey say they will stand tor Dunne and Anson, but Traeger and Childa are too much Hopkins-Sullivan. Chairman Carey of the county committee, In whose ward Traeger lives, is said to have called on Commissioner -of Public Works Block! before going to California and de clared for him for treasurer. The Twenty- Ninth ward has indorsed Block! for the place. StU! further to hinder the Traeger candidacy the Harrison people sprung the candidacy of W. B.

Moak of the Thirty-Second ward for city attorney. With Anson for city clerk and Moak for attorney, Traeger would be shut out and Blocki'a chances greatly improved. Dnnne Wants Pole. Frank Koraleski, a Polish lawyer of the Seventeenth ward, was proposed to Judge Dunne yesterday for city attorney. Kora-leski'a name was suggested as an opponent to City Attorney Smulski, who la of the same nationality.

Gabaa Atda Dnnne. The Gahan faction will hold a meeting of Sixth ward Democrats at Thurman hall. Forty-Seventh street and Cottage Grove avenue, this evening in the interest of Judge. Dunne's candidacy. The Fourteenth Ward Municipal Ownership club has passed resolutions threatening to oppose aldermanlc candidates who do not pledge themselves to vote on the traction question as directed by the expressed will of the people on the "little ballot." The Eleventh Ward Republican club has Indorsed1 Emll A.

Zuts for alderman. The election commissioners Issued yesterday the official notice of the Democratic conventions to be held in the city various towns and wards. The city and thirty-live aldermanlc conventions will be held- on Saturday, the city convention at North Side Turner hall at 10 o'clock, and the ward conventions at 8 o'clock In the evening. The South town convention will be held at 440 State street, Feb. 28, at 3 o'clock In the afternoon: West town, Horan's hall, Harrison and Halsted streets, Feb.

27. 10 o'clock a. North town, Brand'a hall, Clark and Erie streets, March 1, 10 o'clock a. iik; Lake View, Lower Socialist Turner hall. Belmont avenue and Paulina street, Feb.

28, 8 p. Jefferson. Games hall, Milwaukee andKedxle avenues. Feb. 25, 9 p.

Lake. Watlta hall. Forty-Seventh and Halsted streets. Feb. 27.

p. Hyde Park, 6512 Cottage Grove avenue, Feb. 25. 9 p. Calumet.

Marquette hall. One Hundred and Eighteenth street and Howe avenue, Feb. 28. 8. p.

Cicero. En- c-lothes were removed the shabby receiver of aims was found to have, sewed In the Iln-Inga drafts amounting to the sum mentioned. A wllL also was found bequeathing the entire sum to Baron Rothschild. When informed of his legacy the Baron assigned detectives to trace the beggar 'a life and relationship. It was found he had been kidnaped from Odessa in childhood, and became a professional beggar, which be continued te be all his life.

glne house. Morton Park. Feb. 28. 8 p.

Town of Evanston, Town 4S0O North Clark atreet, March II, I p. m. ST. LOUIS BRIBER GOES ON TRIAL AFTER YEARS' DELAY Maalelpal Assembly ma a Who Fled to Mexico Makes Vain Pleat to Co art Qaaik Ills Case. BUTLER, Feb.

20. After a delay of nearly three the trial of Charles Kratx, of. St. Louis, a former member of the municipal assembly of that city, began here Kratz is charged with' accepting a bribe, while a member of the municipal assembly. from an agent of the Suburban Street Rail way company, to pass a bill giving an ex tensive franchise to that corporation.

Krats was arrested in St. Louis some three years ind after his release on bond went to Mexico and was- later ex tradited. After the trial began, the defense moved that the case be quashed, which was over ruled. The defense then submitted a peti tion to the court asking that the state be compelled to furnish the defense with trans-scripts of the testimony taken before the tt. Louis grand Jury which returned the indictments against Kratz.

DEADLOCK STILL FIRM. Mlasonrl Lestlslatora Fall to Elect Sen ator a Trrent jr-Seveath Ballot; JEFFERSON CITT, Feb. 20. With seventy legislators either absent or not voting, the twenty-seventh ballot of the Joint secslon -of -the Missouri Legislature to elect a successor to United States Senator failed materially (6' change the The result of the yotea as follows: 49; Niedringhaug4l: Kerens, 4i Hooten, Pettl- John, 1. VALENTINES WILL MOVE EAST.

After Seat Fall They Will Make none In Ifew York. Mr. and Mrs. P. Valentine, upon moving to New In the will live at Thirty Fifth street and Park avenue.

The summer will be spent In the country near Announcement of the pro MRS. P. A. VALENTINE. posed change of residence followed the resignation of Mr, Valentine from the directory of the Union Stock Tards and Transit com pany.

Mrs. Valentine, formerly Mrs. P. D. Ar mour, has spent much time with her two sons In New York.

'Of course. I dislike leavina mv old friend. here." she said: yesterday. "I am an old aet. tier, you know.

I was born In Chicaaro and have lived here all my life. But I am de. voted to NeW York, too, and then I will be near my big boys. AO, I will not be going abroad for soma time. I have not been on the continent for number of years and do not contemplate go- BISHOP M'LAR EN'S BODY TO BE BROUGHT HOME TODAY Keraalai Will Lie In Mate at Cathedral of SS.

refer aad Paal tatil Kaaeral Tn a rdajr. The body of.Bishop William E. McLaren. who died In New York Sunday after a lingering illness, will arrive in Chicago In charge of Mrs. McLaren, his son and two daughters, and the Rev.

Thaddeus A. Snively. rector of St. Chrysostom's church, at 4 o'clock thl afternoon. The remains will be taken from the rail way station to the Cathedral of SS.

Peter and Paul, Washington boulevard and Peoria street, where they will lie in state open to public view until Thursday morning at 11 o'clock, when funeral services will be held at the cathedral. Bishop C. P. Anderson will conduct the services and preach the funeral sermon. Delegations representing the Church club, the home missions society.

Church Home of the Aged, and other Episcopal organisations will attend the funeral, interment will be in GracelanuV-Q i i John Bergen Jones Is dead at Springfield, 111., aged 1 years. His father. Captain Edward Jones, was a pioneer settler of Illinois. Mr. Jones was formerly assistant postmaster at Alton, and was an old newspaper man.

Congressman Norton P. Otis of the Nineteenth district died early yesterday at Hudson Terrace, hla home In Yonkers, N. Y. He had been III for several months. Congressman Otis, who waa 65 years old, was formerly mayor of Yonkers and had been active in the Republican politics of Westchester county for many years.

He was chairman of the board of directors of the Otis Elevator company and possessed a large fortune. The Rev. Dr. Arthur Millard died at Pana. yesterday after a short Illness.

He waa 77 years of age and had held many charges throughout central Illinois. He was a personal acquaintance of Henry Ward Beeeher, Charles Dickens, and Spurgeon. During -a riot at Papa he lost one eye while attempting to rescue the kidnaped coal operators. Julius A. Boylan, a member of the New York cotton exchange for thlrty-flve years, Is dead at his home In East Orange, N.

J. Many years ago he conducted a large wholesale dry goods business in Cincinnati, but removed to New York at the close of the civil war. Albert La known among musicians and nnisicarpublishers as an arranger' and composer, is dead at his home in New York from pneumonia. He arranged the scores of many of the musical comedy successes produoed in recent years. Chleasro Man Leetarea at Prlaeeton.

PRINCETON, N. Feb. 20. Prof esor John Mstthews Manly "of the University of Chicago, lectured before the Princeton faculty tonight on recent thesrite of evolution, with special rtftreccc lo the evolution of Uu drama." fit '-vT i 1 -i Z. Why do so often refer to the family physician? Because, we make doctors' medicines.

We give doctors the formula for Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and they prescribe it for coughs, colds, bronchitis, consumption. We trust them; they trust us. Ask your doctor about this medicine. ifwlira' MOTHER BODY DROPS! THE CLUB FRAflCAIS Consul Merou Rules Against Society in Controversy Between Frencl) Organizations Letter 'Points Settlement. (Continued from First Page.) cago and wrote to the Paris organization In of the application.

The club was ac cepted Into the mother alliance. I believe the club sent to Paris the money. This happened In the first days of the alliance. 1898 to 190L TraaMe Arlui frealt. "During the.

latter part of this term cooperation with the university was negotiated and established. Funds came through my hands to the society, which made It necessary that a new organization should bo established, under form of an incorporated This was done. I was absent during the summer of 1902, and when I came back I learned of the difficulties which had sprung np principally because of a request emanating from the Club Francaia that the credit which is accorded, by contract to cer tain pupils of the alliance of the universltv should be shared by the club's students. Because of the previous arrangements, I found it -impossible to comnlv with th club's requests. Disagreeable- discussions followed.

The result waa that the affltlatinn. between the club and the Parisian alliance could not continue. The Parisian body decided the affiliation did no longer exist. I have a letter from the club's officer where they say they are satisfied1 with the (Disaffiliation, The club waa. but la nn innnr ated.

'Respectfully. H. MEROU." Conanlalnt J. H. Hyde.

When James H. niA. the -Equitable Assurance society of New York, was president of the alliance In America, he received a letter from Berth des Combres Favard, secretsry of the Club The communication was a complaint over the alleged "stepmother" treatment ahown the club by the alliance, and more consideration was asked Mrs. Knowles declares that the the committees' work will In no manner interfere with- the club's theatrical Derform- ancea. The club will alve twelve nerform- ances during the year, the first to be gives March 14 at Steinway hall.

first per-, formance is a five-act play and the curtain 111 go up at 2 o'clock o. m. The alliance will give the first performance of the year Jan. 26 for the benefit of the organisation's library. The latter performances will be manaaed by Mme.

Petite, who since her arrival in Chi cago less thsn a year ago. baa won the con fidence and admiration of the alliance. Miss now an actress, was for more than a year secretary of the Alliance Francaise, and her resignation followed an objection -made through President Harper of the University of Chicago to some of her favorite photographs, in which she Is ahown accompanied by her favorite Miss Rinebart lived with her mother in a South Side apartment and was a photographer's model. Flashes of Light; -Patches of Shade; Humor and Pathos Immigrants Conceal $5,000 Worth of Diamonds Beneath Skin of Stallion Smuggle. Tbem Into America; 8peclal Dispatch to Th Inter BURTON, Feb.

20. Concealing Xa.OOO worth of diamonds beneath the skin of a Clydesdale stallion, a party of Immigrants who recently passed through this city smuggled the -stones through the United States custom-house at New York. -The fraud was discovered by F. K. Reely a farmer near here.

The animal, which had gone lame, left at his place several weeks ago, the immigrants charging him to take good care, or It. When they returned the horse was still lame, and could' not travel. They took it, paid Reely, and, going to the woods, put a bullet through its bead. They took oft! the skin, in a fashion which inter ested Reely. wbo was quietly watching.

He saw hem -'pick over the Inner side of the and after they had left he examined He noticed scars, and the Inner side of these seemed to have been carefully scraped. Reely finally found a half carat diamond fa one scar. He cut the hide in small strips, boiled It. and got two more good stones. Steal $5,000 Worth of Sitter Bullion, Think 'Bars Are Lead and Sell Them for $110.

Special Di.patcb to The Inter Ocean. SPRINGFIELD. 111., Feb. 20. After entering plea of guilty in the federal court to a charge of stealing silver bullion, George Majors of East 8t.

Louis gave evidence against his former companions, 'William Burroughs and William Rogers. The three were Indicted at East St. Louis for breaking Into a ear consigned to the government mint at Philadelphia, and stealing large quantity of silver bullion. Presuming The heavy bars were lead, the men sold the plunder to a St. Louis junk dealer for $110.

The value, of the salver taken amounted to about $5,000. Majors told the court that Rogers broke the seal on the car, and that Burroughs carried the metal into a near by corn field, from which some days later Majors hauled it to East St. Louis. Government detectives recovered the bullion a few days after it was taken. Allen-ed Robber Eieapei, CHARLESTON.

S. Feb. 20. Gua De-ford, who is wanted here on the charge of robbing postofflces In this vicinity, escaped from the custody of a United States marshal near by Jumping through the window of the train bringing him to this city. Three other members of a gang of alleged robbers wan were captured in Baltimore, arrived here today.

GIRLS WORSHIP AT SHRINE OF MR. WU Relative of Wu Ting Fang Causes Feminine Hearts to Flutter at -Annual Banquet of Congrega-tional Club. With quaint humor that brought hearty plaudits from their sudltors, two scholarly young men from the Orient. Knel Ling Wu, a cousin of the former Chinese Minister to the United States, and Naotaro Otsuka, a Japanese lecturer-1 now engaged in special work at the University of Chicago, addressed a large gathering last night at the annual dinner of the Chicago Congregational club at the Auditorium hotel, while Miss Yoko Hojio, a dainty little maid of fourteen summers, clad in picturesque robes, sang national hymns and ballads of Japan. Mr.

Wu was attired In the conventional evening dress of the sverage well groomed American, and responded to the call to speak on the subject, "The Progress of China During the Last Ten Yesrs." -r Girla Aaaalra Chlaamaa. "Oh, isn't he handsome?" "audibly whispered one fair haired girl guest to her companion. "I coulcr hug him." "If that young man Is a sample of the Chinese gentleman, I'm for China," exclaimed an elderly matron. "He's great, ejaculated a pretty little girl of 16 during a spell of applause at a telling remark of the youthtul looking Mr. Wu spoke with a clear voice and quiet dignity of a man of mature years.

He baa mastered the English language, and was perfectly at ease, bowing in a dignified! way In acknowledgment of the applause1 of his auditors. Mr. Wu waa sent to America by the Chi nese government for a course of study. He Is now taking a postgraduate eourse at Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y.

Telia of Chlaa'a Hepea. "When the president and committee of the Congregational club suggested the subject of this address it seemed a great pleasure to me to present a subject In the interest of my country. It is our high privilege to strive to come into closer touch With the affairs of the far East, and to realise more completely what has been going on during the last ten years among the millions of souls on the other side of the Pacific "China today is no longer remote In in terest from the rest of the world. Little was known of her actual strength until the middle of the eighteenth century. It was about this time tbat colonisation was In full swing among the European powers.

This In ternational rivalry has led to territorial expansion In Asia and Africa. The. mineral and agricultural wealth of South Africa has been the stake of important struggles and contests. Tnrkey in Asia affords a tempting field for colonization, and South too, attracts the eager attentions of expanding world powers. But China exceeds them all in regard to the commercial interest and mineral resources.

RUSSIANS PLAN TO TURBUROKI'S RIGHT Building Railroads Along Shakhe Looking Toward Rapid Concen-j tration of Troops for Sudden 7 Movement. Special Cable Dispatch te The Inter Ocean. TOKIO, 20. The Russians are build ing two light railways, one connecting Fu shun and Yenting and the other extending from Fushun to the upper Ehahke. This, taken in connection with other activities and the heavy concentration of troops.

Indicates a plan to turn General Kurokl's right." General Kuropatkln is continuing his oper ations, -Increasing his entire defenses, and gives -indication of a resolute intention of retaining his position when the expected great battle-occurs. The headquarters of the Japanese armies in the field report that the Russians yester day moved a division from the front of tne Japanese center to the front of the left, and advanced from Ta mountain. Several columns moved fifteen miles westward, halting at Hangchiataitsu, which la two miles north west of Wancblayuantxu. Rattlaaa Coatlnae Bemkaranaeat. The Russiana continued to shell portions of the Japanese lines Saturday and the Japanese freouentlr failed to respond to the bombardment, which often was entirely inef fectlve, and Is described as being largely a waste of ammunition.

The Tokio newspapers print thestate-ment that 126 Jananese. who were captured at Heikoutai, were roped together and pa raded! through the streets or Muxaen. This information comes from Chinese sources, and it is impossible to obtain veri fication here. It is said that there win oe an official inquiry Into the matter, and that the Japanese government will make a protest if the report is found to oe true. Tha caDture Is announced by the Navy De partment of the British steamer Powderham, bound for Vladivostok with a cargo of Cardiff coal.

Where the capture was made Is not stated. The Powderham is a steel screw steamer. 3.019 tons reaister. and is owned by the Pow Derbam Steamship company of Plymouth. Biperl a Compromise.

PARIS. Feb. 2a Admiral Baron von Spaun (Austria-Hungary) and Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis (United States) have been destg nated to draw up the report of the interna tional commission of inquiry into the North sea incident. This will be presented in secret session on.

-Wednesday for discussion and final approval. The Austrian and American Admirals were chosen as representing ele ments of the commission which are entirely neutral and not connected directly or by political affiliation with either Russia or Great Britain. No positive decision has yet been reached upon the main points', but circumstances seem to Indicate a definite Inclination of the majority of the commission toward partially justifying or excusing Admiral Rojestven sky's action. board apparently Is seeking to reconcile differences so that the decision may not be a pronounced victory for either side but measurably acceptable to both. Snnadron Paaaea Laagelaad.

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 20. The' third Rus sian squadron passed the southern end of Langeland island this morning. It consisted of four ironclads and- four transports, and proceeded northward and passed the north ern point of Langeland, escorted by a Danish torpedo-boat and a German ironclad. The latter after traversing the Langeland belt returned southward.

COUNCIL AGAIN CALLED GRAFTERS BY TOM JOHNSON Ma for a( Cleveland, Ohio, Charcei Two Members With Crime nnd Immediate lavestlaratloa Ia CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 20. At the meet ing of the city council tonight Mayor Tom L. Johnson directly charged Councilmen Dewar and Wilke, Democrats, with having accepted bribes from the Cleveland Electric Illuminating company. The charges are the outcome of Mayor Johnson's allegation of two weeks ago tbat the recent deftat of the ordinance anoex the Tillage at South Brcokljn to tha city ef liiunl I will gladly gire you a full dollars worth of my remedy to test.

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Special EHapatoh to Tha Inter Ocean. NEW YORK, Feb. 20 The American Smelting and Refining company has secured control of tne Guggenheim Exploration smelting company has proposed to the exploration company thai a new company be formed with a capital of one-half of which shall be 6 per cent cumulative preferred stock and the other halt common stock. The Guggenheim company agrees to turn over to the new company a majority of the stock of the Western Mining Company of. Colorado, a majority of the stock of the Velardena Mining and Smelting Company of Mexico, the entire stock of the Federal Lead Company of Missouri, other Colorado companies' stocks and properties, and a largei number of mining properties situated in It is also to pay into the new company approximately $5,000,000 to complete certain purchases now under way.

Will Get More Attention Then. "We don't hear much about Mrs. Chadwlclc nowadays. BN. She's probably waiting until these Russian troubles have quieted down." Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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