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CLOSEVATCH KEPT Oil ISLE OF PINES Squiers Ordered to -Probe Com plaints of Americans. FIGHT ON NAVAL PLAN Opposition to Coaliner Stations Likely in Senate. BerlprMltr Treaty Hotly Contented, bat Mlalaterlallsta Claim Ratification I Aniarrd. Epeda! Cable tIpatch to The Inter Ocean. HA VAN' March 6.

Minister Squiers will go to the Isle of Pines Monday. According to the Discuslon. bis visit is due to the pro-, tests mads by Americans there against the administration of the Island by the Cuban authorities. The government has placed revenue cutter at Mr. Squiers disposal to take him to the Island from Baracoa.

A mossaee from President Pal ma on the subject of the coaling stations was read In the Senate today It is said that on Nov. Mr. Squiers asked for four stations, one each at NlDe ClenfutKOS. Guantanamo, and Bahla Honda. The Cuban government re plied on Nov.

28, asking for a postponement of the fulfillment of the Piatt amendment to the Cuban constitution until reciprocity was arranged with the United States. To this the United States agreed. Seaate Mast Ratify Naval Bases. On Jan. 12 the United States insisted upon the fulfillment of clause 7.

The negotiations continued, and the United States accepted a proposal to stations at Guantanamo and Bahla Honda, the republic of Cuba being considered In this way to have complied with Its obligations under article 7 of the Piatt amendment. The agreement was forwarded to the Senate, according to clause 7 of article 8 of the constitution- This clause empowers the President to make treaties, but they will not be valid unless confirmed by the Senate. Fight Airrtntat Likely. According to the Discusion, the coaling station treaty will encounter active opposition in the 'Senate. The Senate today resumed Its discussion of the reciprocity treaty.

Senor Sanguily expressed fears that the treaty would give the United States economic as well as political control of Cuba. Senor Silva replied that the pretensions of those who declared that the Americans would absorb Cuban trade tinder the treaty, were doomed to failure. The coarse American goods eould not compete with French silks and European cotton goods. Under the 'treaty Cuba would gain an advantage of $6,000,000 in its sugar and tobacco, trades alone. He Quoted other figures to show the benefits that would accrae to Cuba.

-The Ministerialists made an effort to bring the treaty to a vote today, but the obstructionists refused to prolong the session, the vote standing 11 to 9. It Is claimed, however, that the vote Is not representative of the disposition of the Senate toward the treaty, which the Ministerialists claim will be i. AMERICAN RAILROADS PRAISED. Colonel Tstke laaaea a Blae Boole on Ills iBveatift-atloaa. LOXDOV, March 6.

The report of Colonel A. II. Yorke, chief inspecting officer of the board of railways, department of the board trade, who recently investigated American railroading in behalf of the board of trade, was Issued this evening In a blue book. Colonel Yorke found much to interest him In the practical construction- of American railways, but decided that comparatively little of it was available for English use. chiefly because the expense of a change would nullify Its advantages.

He was much Interested in the automatic and other mechanical devices, but thought the gain was counterbalanced by the increased risk to passengers and employes, which, in tlfe case of automatic signaling, might be due to the weather or possibly to the failure of the mechanism. Colonel thinks Great Britain must adopt a more economical freight car, but he does not believe it will be advisable to copy the American designs. He approves decidedly the American system of examination for promotion in the railroad service, and says that In this respect the American railways are ahead of the British companies. Colonel Yorke points out that New York, and Boston furnish valuable lessons to London in the matter of urban car lines, because those cities "outlined the system needed and financed the undertakings, not leaving the concessions to be scrambled for by private companies. In conclusion the Colonel pays a tribute to the uniform courtesies, including those received from President Roosevelt, and the.

facilities extended to him and expresses the nope that he will be able to return to America and traverse the entire United States In his of investigation. MORGAN WILL SAIL TODAY. Flaaaeler aad Parly to Learc Uavaaa for IK eve York. HAVANA. March 6.

J. Pierpont Morgan and his party leave Havana for New York via Tampa, tomorrow. They had luncheon today at Minister Squiers' residence Among those of Mr. Morgan's party present were Miss Morgan, Captain and Mrs. Casey, Dr.

Melker, af.d Mrs. Douglas. Mr. Morgan saw President Palma again today. It la stated, at Senor Palma's request.

It Is said that the government is very anxious to make a good impression on Mr. Morgan. AMERICAN SHIPPING AIDED. i Domlaleaa -Govemmeat ladaeed to Change Port Charcei. SANTO DOMINGO.

March 6. United States Minister Powell has achieved another success in obtaining from the Dominican government the withdrawal of the decree, lowering the port charges, which seriously affected the Interests of the Clyde steamship line. Minister Powell has steadfastly main talned that Injustice was being shown to. American Interests and be demanded that the government should faithfully -keep its engagements. RUSSIA AND AMERICA AGREE Coaatriea Said to Be fa Afrord' oa Behrlag Sea Coat re vera jr.

ST PETERSBURG. March 6. Referring to ihe Bchrlng sea arbitration, the Messenger Russia and the United States were fully in concord regarding the general questions connected with the dispute and Kuisia reaervea ine ireeaom oi action necessary for the further treatment of questions In accordance with her own and 1 -saW t' iSllt rii i --'-'2 SENATOR ARTHUR PUE GORMAN. (He was chosen yesterday to be leader of the minority in the United States Senate. Senator Gorman on Thursday took the oath at the beginning of his fourth term In the Senate.

He had served eighteen years- before he was defeated by George L. Wellington in 1896. Last year he again made the fight for the Senate, and) succeeded in defeating Wellington decisively.) NAVAL PLANS KEPT SECRET Details Are Bluntly Refused to Reichstag Budget Committee. LUMP SUMS ASKED Herr Richter Told That That Sufficient Information. Is Adi ilralty alata Secretary Voa Tlrplts la.

That Mark Reserve la Keeeaaary. Special Cable Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. BERLIN. March 6. That the government is trying to keep the naval plans secret as far as possible, was brought out by the de- hate OU the budget la tbv budg-et committer of the Reichstag The government leaders refused to furnish the chamber detailed Information on various parts of the budget, making a great deal of mystery out of some portions of its requirements.

Herr Richter, the Radical leader, com plained In the budget committee that the government is simply asking for lump sums for the maintenance of the fleet, and has cot even specified the ships or stations on which money is to be spent. He affirmed that the Reichstag had the right to have detailed information on the subject. Details Are Dealed. Admiralty Secretary von Tlrplts replied that the Information supplied by the Navy Department was adequate. Administrative discretion required some reserve.

The Increased maintenance expenses were largely for vessels on foreign service. As a matter of fact. Germany's battle-ships were rather behind than In advance of the naval program. Second Refaaal Made. Herf Richter again asked for a list of the ships ready equipped for service and for copies of the Cabinet orders directing the thips to be put into commission.

Secretary von Tirpits declined to furnish the latter, but said he would hand Herr Richter personally a list of the ships ready for service. The strong German force sent to East Asiatic waters was, Secretary von Tirpits explained, assigned to that station at the request of the foreign office. BALFOUR PRAISES BIBLE WORK. Commends Reeord of British Soelety Now a Ceatary Old. LONDON.

March ts Premier Balfour, speaking at a meeting held at the Mansion House todsy as a preliminary to thecelebra-. tlon of the centenary of the British and Foreign Bible society, paid tribute in the highest terms to its work. He said few organizations had such a wonderful record in increasing the activity and usefulness of the Bible, today, no less than a century ago, the source of comfort and hope to the uneducated, while to thef ducated, who are no nearer the kingdom of heaven, it augmented In, scientific Interest and was a more valuable source of spiritual life than in the precritlcal days. Lord Mayor Samuel, who presided', commenting on the nonsectarlanism of the society, called attention to the fact that he himself was a Jew. The president announced that the centenary or the society in 1904 will be celebrated by an extension of the work andf ty raising the sum of 1.250,000, or which 175,000 has been subscribed.

RETURN OF JESUITS OPPOSED. 'ossMsasMaam Movement Aaralast Their Readmit. taaee to Germany Spreads. "Dedal Cable Dtnpatch to The Intar Oceaji. BERLIN.

March 6. The movement against the proposal before the federal council for the readmlttaoce of the Jesuits to Germany is spreading, The local government of the duchy of Saxe-tVelmar has stated that through their Prime Minister, they will vote In the Federal council against the repeal' of the anti-Jesuit law.1. Many meetings to protest against allowing the Jesuits to return have been held in Hesse, Ba-varlarand To California Easily aad Comfortably. If you contemplate the journey this season, remember that the Southern Pacific-Sunset Route operates the finest transcontinental special train service in operation. The celebrated "Sunset Limited," the train that set the pace several years since, now leaves New Orleans dally, through without change to El Paso, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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Neiinyer, General Agent. GERMANY'S T1JE rNTKR OCEAITi ATUItDA MORNIXCr, MAB CH 7, 1 903. AMERICAN SUCCESS EXPLAINED. Germane Tell Why United States Is Galalaar Over Their Country. BERLIN, March Export, a trade paper ievoted to extending German foreign trade, devotes a series or articles to studying the methods by which Americsn goods are supplanting German goods In foreign markets.

The article consists largely of letters from Germans living In Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, and Australia. The writers explain that the German bouses are being beaten because they are unwilling to guarantee agents fixed salaries, as Americans do, and also because they depend on sending out catalogues, whereas Americans keep stocks of goods in established agenciea. where buyers are able to purchase after seeing the goOQs, and, prefer to deal with the Americans. The German agents. It Is added, are largely taking service with Americsn houses, because of the better terms offered them and owing to their handling exclusively American wares.

Export urges the German manufacturers lo abandon their "penny-wtee paund-foolish policy" and give their agents decent, fixed salaries, so as. to enable them to withstand the flattering offers of their American competitors, adding: "This Is ail the more American competition in the world's markets will evidently grow keener luring the next ten years." i 1 1 i 1. SUGAR PRODUCERS SEEK AID. eenaaa Hasafaetarers Deilr Aas. trlaa System of Allotment.

BERLIN, March 6. The sugar producers of Germany want the government to introduce the Austrian system of allotting to both refiners and raw factories the amount of sugar' they may produce yearly. Count von Carmen Interpellated the government in the Reichstag today on what it Intends to do for the sugar Industry in view of Austria's action. He said Austrian sugar would enjoy an ad- ventage in the American and British markets unless Germany adopt the allotment system. Treasury Secretary von Thielmann, In announcing that the government did not approve of the allotment plan, said it was highly probable that the United States customs authorities would carefully examine the new status of Austrian sugar after September and decide that it enjoys an Indirect bounty under the double-allotment system, as in the case of Russia's Indirect bounty.

Moreover, continued the Secretary, the authority for deciding whether sugar enjoys a bounty is vested in the international commission created by the Brussels treaty. Baron von Thielmann gave the reasons he had for believliSg that the International commission would take up the question whether Austrian sugar would enjoy an indirect bounty. EYE-CURE STORY SCOUTED. London Specialists Itldleale Reports of Wonderfnl Apparatus. Special Cabls rHopatch to The Inter Ocean.

LONDON. March 6. Specialists in diseases of the eye ridicule the story printed this morning that Protsasor Peter Steins of Paris has Invented an apparatus by which the blind will be able see. One oculist declined to discuss the subject, fca the ground that it would be a waste of time. Another said blindness is due to so many causes that It is the sheerest nonsense to say that one piece of apparatus will enable the blind to see.

The story, this doctor said, probably amounts to no more than that Steins baa achieved good results in a certain form of blindness by using a particular apparatus. He concluded by saying: "Who Steins Is I do not know." CARACAS MENACED BY REBELS. nevolBtlonlata Claim Castro la In Hard Straits, WILLEMSTAD, Curacoa, March Advices received here from revolutionary sources In Venezuela say the revolutionists have gathered their forces around Caracas, that all the eastern psrt of Venezuela, except the city of Cumana, la held by them, and that President Castro has been unable to call a session of Congress because of the lack of a quorum. The steamship which arrived here today from Maracaibo, Venezuela, carried only one-third of her usual cargo, and brought no coffee. The merchants of Maracaibo say they cannot pay the present export duties, which, they add, are more ruinous to them than the blockade of the Venezuelan coast by the fleets of the allied powers.

31- EDWARD TO MEET LOU BET. Ena-llah Klag to Coafervvtth President of Fraaee af Cherbourg-. Special Cable Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. PARIS, March 6. The Echo de Paris says that when King Edward starts for the south of France at the end of this month or the beginning April he will: land at Cherbourg and have an Interview with President Loubet, either at Taris or on his way to the Riviera.

GORMAfl WILL LEAD SENATE- MTIIORITY Maryland Man Elected Chairman of Democratic Caucus. FACES A HARD TASK Will Seek to Outline a Policy for His Party. Steerlnar Committee la Seleev.es! I Brlaht Oat look for Cohan ana Css'al Treaties. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocsan. WASHINGTON.

D. C. March 6-Senator Arthur P. Gorman cf Maryland was toaay unanimously chosen as chairman ef the Dem ocratic caucus in the United States Senate, and, therefore, becomes again the Democratic leader- in that body. The Democrats In the Fenkte.

after four years of factional division and rivalry, have again turned to their great! leader as the Motes who may lead them to better success than they have had since his retirement from the Senate on March 4, 1899. Mr. Gorman is recognized as one of the best political strategists who baa ever held a teat in the United States Senate, but he iakes up the leadership now under more try ins: circumstances than he ever contended with before. Even assuming that he will have the united and enthusiastic support of his party he will have command er little more than bne-thlrd of the Senate. There are now 33 Democrats in the Senate and 67 Republicans, when Mr.

Gorman re tired from the Senate and Ahe leadership of the minority party there he had the support not only of the Democrats, but also of the Populists and most of the Silver Republicans. The political complexion of the Senate then was 44 "Republicans, 34 Democrats, Popu lists, 5 Sliver Republicans, and 1 Independent. The Populists and Sliver Republicans gen erally co-operated with the Democrats, and the Republicans had to rely upon Mr. Kyle of South Dakota, an independent, to give them a majority in the senate. Sltaatlon Was Different Then.

The situation then was all to the advantage of the Democratic leader because of bis ability to unite all minorities against the plurality party. Mr. Gorman played his cards well and was able to exert a powerful Influence on legislation, but be was wise enough not to try to embarrass the admin istration, either during the war with Spain or immediately following it. In the settlement of questions developing from that war. During the four years that Mr.

Gorman has been out of the Senate the Democratic party has not had a competent leader in the Senate, and for the last two years has had practically no leadership. The minority nas been split into factions more than has the majority, and has been almost without or ganization or definite policies. It will be Mr. Gorman's work to bring together the various factions in the minority and outline a policy for bis party which will have a guiding con trol over the Senators who today selected him for their leader. Mr.

Gorman selected the following steering committee later in the day: benators oor- nun Cockrell Martin Ba con Dubois (Idaho. Money Bailev (Texas). Blackburn andTlHman (S. C). The new members on the committee" are Messrs.

uorman, uiacKourn, ana iui- man. The committee will try to map out a policy which shall be rursued. It Is unaerstooa that Mr. Gorman will outline his policy witn a view to shaDinK the policy or the party in the campaign. of 1904, when he may be the candidate for But whether he shall be the candidate or not, nis tnenas in the East expect him to so unify tne party in th Senate as to make It posslDie tor tne con servative Democrats to control the next national convention and shape the Democratic issues for that campaign.

Favors Caaal Treaty. Mr. Gorman is not hostile to either of the wo great treaties now before the Senate tot ratlfli-ation. He recognizes IBIl ll hiuiviu.i I tomorrata to oDDOse or delay the rati fication or the canal treaty, and It Is said that fe win tiB his influence to curtail the debate on that treaty and bring it to a vote as earrs as possible. The one Democrat wno is openiy nnnnin the treaty is Senator Morgan, and while Mr.

Gorman has little sympathy with that oDnositlon. he will insist that ine Aia- Vamn Senator shall have ample opportunity to express his views and not be put to the inconvenience of speaking to continuous session. The Republicans are not disposed to force Mr. Morzan to a test of physical endurance, as they now have ample time to consider the treaty and to allow mm to epeaa as long as be detires. The treaty will be ratified when Mr.

Morgan has concluded his speech unit la satisfied to allow a vote. Senator Gorman Is said to be. in favor of the ratification of the Cuban reciprocity treaty, or at leat of placing no embarrass ment in Its way, but of allowing the Repubi lican administration to carry out its policy and accept full responsibility for it. Weald Leave It to Kepabllcaae. He realizes that there a division among Republican Senators regarding this treaty.

and it 4s said he will counsel the Democrats to withdraw their opposition and allow the Republicans to settle their own quarrel over reciprocity in their own way and accept the responsibility and whatever embarrassment may follow the ratification ot this treaty. Some ot the Democrats are not disposed to follow Mrv Gorman's advice, but having chosen htm for leader, they will no doubt allow him to outline the policy of the minority Id the Senate. The Republican leaders are; therefore, satisfied that the Cuban reciprocity treaty will be ratified after a reasonable debate, and that those Republican who have secretly aided the Democrats in decaying It will now come Into the open and vote with the admin istration in favor of ratification. Senator Aldrich maintains that the treaty Is stronger) in the new Senate than it was in the old and, that it win nave tne neceteary two-tnirds vote for ratification and ceveral vote to spare. The only embarrassment to the Cuban treaty is that the time for Its ratification ex pires March 31 and the time may have to be extended.

That, however, can easily be done by the State department, as Cuba is now as anxious for the ratification of this treaty a is this government. Chanties In the There Is a general feeling among the Democrats that the vacancies caused by the retirement oi Democratic senators from committees which have to deal with ques tions before the present called session should be filled, and it wss decided that the designation of the members of these committees should be made by the steering committee, but that their selection should later be rati fied by the caucus. The steering committee 111 have a meeting tomorrow, when the question of supplying the vacancies on the regular committees of the Senate will be taken up. The caucus today placed In the hands of the steering committee authority to decide for the Democrats whether there should be a general reorganization ot the Senate committees or the mere filling of the vacancies on those committees which will deal with pressing questions during the extra session. The committee Is empowered to negotiate with the Republican steering committee with a view to agreeing on a general reorganisa tion, but so far as there was expression of opinion on this point it was favorable to the view of leaving the question of reorganiza tion on genersl lines to be determined by the Republlcsns, as they are In power.

There Is no doubt, however, that the Demo. cratlo steering committee will Insist upon so on to on fc The l1 Waiter's Smile fUj I tf Quaker Oats the order be And to open hi. lice we SsS'i! Vs I The Smile that won't ff Bill. 'JMS'' I llsl, it ii having some of the committees filled, for the reason that the Democratic party has lost quite heavily in some or the committees which are in control of present business. Vacancies to Bo Filled.

They will ask. for Instance, that the va cancies on the committee on foreign relations be filled. Senator Bailey retired from this committee before the adjournment of the last Congress, and. by unanimous con sent. Senator Clark of Montana was appointed to tne vacancy, it Is expected that the steering committee will confirm this ac snd also will have a successor to Senator Rawlins on the tame committee.

It Js thought necessary to have these vacancies filled Immediately, as that committee will have to deal with the pending treaties." iney also win ask that the Democratic vacancies on the committee on Interoceanie canals, caused by the retirement from the 8enate of Messrs, Harris and Turner, shall be filled. It also is probable that they will ask that the places vacated bv Senatora Vest and Turner on the committee on commerce shsll be filled before the nomination of Dr. Crum to be collector at the port or Charleston is taken up by that eommittee. A similar demand nrobablv will tw. maris In all other eases in which committees have charge otnomlnatlons over which thr mv be controversy.

The caucus was la session for almost two hours. MAD SWEDE CLAIMS REWARD. Says He Told President ef a Spaniels WASHINGTOX. D. C.

March 6. A Swede who gave bis name as Z. Berg of Providence. R. tried for an hour today to see the President.

He was urged by the White House attaches to reduce his communication to writ ing. This be endeavored to do, but railed. One of the secret-service officers Inter viewed him and found bim possessed of hallucinations. Berg said that several years ago he had informed the United States government that the Spaniards Intended to blow up one of its battle-ships, and he wanted the President to Bee to it that he received ooo ror nis iniormatton. Berg waa persuaded to return to Provi dence and there place his claim In the hands ot a lawyer.

SESSION WILL BE SHORT. Senator Callom gays It Will Last Abont Two Weeks. WASHINGTON. D. C.

March the Senatorial callers at the White House today were Senators Hanna. Piatt or Con necticut. Hale, Lodge, Clark of Montana. Clarke of Arkansas, Ball or Delaware, and Cullom. Few or them would venture a pre diction as to the length of the extraordinary session, a majority saying that no accurate notion ot the time it- would take the Senate to conclude ite work could be given at this time.

Senator Cullom, chairman of the for eign relations committee, thought the session might last two or three weeks, and Senator Hale expressed the belief that the business of the extra cession would be concluded In two weeks. BOLD CRIME IN JOHANNESBURG. Daring; Attempt to Rob Castoma Of ficlals of 923,000. JOHANNESBURG, March 6. A desperate attempt at highway robbery In the center of Johannesburg waa made today.

A couple of men attacked two customs officers conveying (25,000 to the bank and; throwing pepper in their eyes, secured the money bags, which they threw to a horseman, who galloped off. The horseman In his flight knocked down a man named who was fatally In jured and soon Subsequently the horse bolted and unseated it -rider, who was then arrested and the money recovered. EARTHQUAKE SHAKES SAXONY. i Hob sea Tremble violeatly aad People Pass Msfat In Streets. BERLIN, March 6.

Earthquakes have been felt for two days In the district, of Voigtland, Saxony, and in the Erxgeblere mountains. Yesterday a shocks were slight, but those of today were violent. The Inhabit ants of Grasliti left their houses and passed the night in the streets. Tremors were felt far as Plauen, Reichenbach, and Zwickau. Houses at Unter Sachensburg and at Asch shook for several seconds.

There was great excitement throughout the affected district. AMERICAN PIANIST DECORATED. IliaTh Ronmanlaa Order Is Conferred on Leopold Godowsky. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. BERLIN, March 6.

The Queen of Rou- manla has' conferred the Order of the Crown Leopold Godowsky. an American pianist. who, by special request of the Queen, played nine times before the court recently. Mr. Godowsky has been Invited to Constantinople play for the Sultan in April.

TO DISCUSS BALKAN PROBLEM. Prlace Klcholaa of Montenea-ro. It Is Said. Will Meet Csar In Rome. Special Cfcb'a Dispatch to The Inter Ocean.

PARIS, March 6. It is reported here that the occasion of the forthcoming visit of the Csar to Rome Prince Nicholas of Montenegro will meet the Csar and King Victor BfS- manuel for the purpose of discussing the Balkan problem. STRIKES BARRED IM PACT Sash and Door Workers. However, Secure More Wages. 63 MILLS INVOLVED Employers Agree to Hire Union Men Only.

Gna Company's Workers Will Meet To- might to Plan Extension of the Strike. Sash and door- manufacturer of the city have conceded the demands of the wood workers fcr aa Increase in wages, but the rym-pathetla strike which has formed part of the contract for several years, has been wiped out. The material manufacturers have combined with the building contractors and are determined that sympathetic strikes will not be tolerated in any By the terms of the contract signed yesterday the mill owners grant an increase of 3 cents an hour to machine and bench hands and 2 tents an hour to wood carvers. The new scale is 28 cents an hour for machine men and 30 cents ror wood carvers. About 1.800 men are benefited by the increase, whioh will aggregate about $100,000 a year.

The employers agree to hire only union men and will pay time and one-hair ror overtime and double time tor Sundays and holidays. The settlement Includes fifty-three sash and door mills In the city, and the increased rate of wages will date back to -March 1. Seek an Injnaetlon. Steps are being taken by officials oT the Cigarmakers' International union to secure an injunction to restrain an independent union formed or sweatshop workers in the city from using a blue label which is said to be an infringement on the union label of the international organization. The label in question is tne same size and color as the genuine la bel, and to a casual observer might easily be mistaacn lortoe genuine.

The members of the so-called Independent union are said to be employed In a few sweat-, shops in the Ghetto districts, against which the regular union has been waging warfare in the courts for counterfeiting the union label. The bogus label was registered a Springfield. March 4. and Attorney Clifford Is preparing a prayer for an Injunction whlth win be asked for in a few days. The strike of ladles' garment workers at the establishment ot the Dernbnrg Manufac turing company, 220 Adams street, waa settled yesterday by John C.

Drlscoll ot the Chicago board of arbitration. The striking men sna women win return to work this morning. The principal clause in the agreement which caused the strike was the requirement that tne nrm employ only union workers. This was changed to give the firm the right to em ploy nonunion workers after It had notified tne union and railed to get the required nun her of union hands. Gas Employee Meet Toalaht.

A mass meeting of the employes of the Peo pie's Gas Light and Coke company will be held tonight at 88 Franklin street, for the purpose oi extending the strike or the meter inspectors to other departments. The circulars sent out by Organiser Fitzpatrlck or the Chicago Federation ot Labor invites en glneers. teamsters, firemen, bookkeepers, collectors, and all employes to attend the meeting. The circular concludes with the following appeal: "Come to this meeting. Dcn't be afraid or the People's Gas company, it Is only the servant or the people.

The Chicago Federa tlon or Labor has pledged itself to stand by the wage-earners until tneir rights aa American citizeca are established." BOURKE COCKRAN ILL IN EAST. Reported Recovering- from Serloas At tack at Aasoaan, Egypt. NEW TORK, Msrch Bourke Cock- ran is ill at Assouan. Egypt, with bronchial pneumonia. For a week his condition has been extremely dangerous, but a nrivate cablegram received here announces that the crisis has been passed and that the patient is now improving.

Mr. Cochran left some time ssro for a tour of Europe. After a stay in England and France he 'decided to go to the south and pass a month in Egypt. He planned to reach Assouan and then make a desert tour, ac companied by his servants and guides. On reaching Assouan, however.

Mr. Coch ran became ill, but not until'tbe cablegram announcing his Improvement was received did his friends here learn ot his sickness. $33.00 Pacific Coast Via Chicago tt Northwestern railway daily. Low rates to Helena, Butte, Spokane, Ogden, Salt Lake. Tourist sleeping cars dally.

Dally and personally conducted excursions. Tickets, Clark street (telephone Central 721) and Wells street station. SYMPATHY OBITUARY Otis T. Stantial. for eleven years superintendent of the Illinois Malleable Iron company.

515 Deversey avenue, died at bis home. 1690 Wellington avenue, yesterday of pneu- monla. He contracted the Illness which resulted In his death two weeks ago. Mr. Stantial waa a graduate of the boston School of Technology and previous to his connection with the-Illinois Malleable Iron com pany was employed as head chemist by the Deering and Crane companies.

He leaves widow and a ton 17 years old. Captain William A. Winder, one of the' most promfbent government officials In tho West, died of cancer at his apartments at thai Millard hotel at Omaha, yesterday. aged 80. Captain Winder won fame on tho battle-fields of-the Mexican and civil wars.

and for eighteen years bad been allotting agent of the land department at Roseend agency. South Dakota. He was a brother-in-law of Admiral George Dewey. James Madison Bell, the colored poet. friend-arid associate of John Brown, and con- temporary of Douglass, Phillip.

Lovejoy, and others of anti-slavery fame, died Wednesday at the home of bin son, Andrew Bell, 863 Thirty-Third street. The funeral will take place from the Institutional church at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, the. Rev. B. W.

Arnett officiating. General Robert Sanford Foster was at Crown Hill today with military bonora. The honorary' pallbearers were: General. Lew Wallace, Admiral George Brown, General George F. McGinnis.

F. D. Meacham, Colonel Oran Perry. Senators Starr and Law-ler. S.

P. Blount. Captain W. A. Ketcbam, and Charles W.

Joel J. Bailey, one of the best known men in the notion trade in the country, is dead at Philadelphia. Pa. Mr. Bailey was in tie seventy-seventh year, and was a pioneer la -the wholesale notion business.

He retired a few years ago, having amassed a fortune ot several million dollars. The body or Hubbard T. Smith, late Vice Consul at Cairo, Egypt, reached Vineennes. yesterday, and was at once taken to the home 6f the family. The funeral services will be conducted at the First Presbyterian church at-.

Vineennes this afternoon. Sir Edward Bertram. Bates died yesterday at Bombay, India, or enteric fever. He waa head of the firm of Bates Sons, own a number or steamships plying be- tween Liverpool and Boston snd Galveston Be was In his twenty-sixth year. Elder Uriah Smith, tor fifty-five years con tinuously the editor of the Adventlst Review, and Herald, and an author who is known all over the world among that denomination.

died suddenly yesterday at his home In Battle Creek, Mich. Mrs. T. O. Thompson of Chicago, whose husband is an old-time newspaper man, who served as private secretary to Mayor Cartes Harrison the elder, is dead at Beloit.

Wis. Thaddeus Kattell of Chicago, manager of the Bingbarorea Oil Refining company, and a relative of the late Jamea G. Blaine, is dead at Bingaamton, N. Y. Professor Gaston Paris, member or the French academy and professor or the College ot France, died yesterday in Paris.

He waa born in 1839. Ter Make Poll Tax on Chinese foOO. OTTAWA. Msrch 6. It is understood that the government intends to Introduce a bill next session ot Parliament raising the poll tax on Chinese from $100 to LW.

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