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0 2 THE WATERLOO PRESS THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1907. 1907 MAY 1907 Su MoTulWe Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 tf'L Q. N. M. P.

Q.F. 4th. 12th. 20th527th. PAST AND PRESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTHr Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for th Enlightenment the Many.

Woman Dies of Frisk t. Frightened by a policeman entering her home to arrest her husband, Mrs. Josephine Hess, aged 46 years, of dropped dead. Anthony Hess, the husband, ran over a boy- -with a wagon. The child was taken to a hospital and his condition grew worse, and the police decided to arrest the driver.

As the woman saw the policeman coming into the house she fell to the floor unconscious. The policeman tried to revive her, but she was dead. The husband's arrest has been deferred. Robber Got 2,830. Just as Harry E.

Ricker, manager of the Metropolitan Opera House in St. Paul, bad finished counting up the receipts of th afternoon and evening performances, a robber struck him over the head with a blunt weapon, felling him to the ground, and got away with $2,850. The money represented the full amount taken in at the two performances of John DreWs "His House in Order." Mr. Ricker was not seriously There is no clew to-the robber. r- Patrolman Killed In a Pistol Doe I.

Patrolman William Sattersi of Cincinnati, died from wounds received In a pistol duel with S. J. Schwartz, a resident of Shanty town, on the street In Cincinnati. -Schwartz was shot five times by the officer, but It is believed oe win recover. auei iouowea an attempt by Satters to arrest Schwartz for threatening to kill another resident Of Shantytown.

Woman Din at Age of 113. Mrs. Tena Monensko, a Polish woman who went to the Laporte (Indiana) County Infirmary in 1876, when she was 82 years has Just died there at the age of 113 years. Mrs." Monensko was the second Polish woman of great age to die at the infirmary within the past year, The other woman was Mrs. David Reese, who died at the age of 117 years.

Woman Baraed to Death. Mrs. Kate Kearner, aged 60 years, was burned to death at her home in Philadelphia while preparing breakfast and $700 in notes which she carried in a pocket of her dress was destroyed. Mrs. Kearner poured oil Into the kitchen stove, to quicken the fir and a burst of flames set her clothing ablaze.

Flood Caused by Cloudburst. Seven persons are missing and much property destroyed as a result of a cloudburst at Oklahoma City, and subsequent rising of the Canadian river and Lightning creek. The missing are all residents of Capital Hill, a suburb) of Lightning Creek, and are believed to have drowned. All camps in the low lands habe been swept away. Mayor Sehmlts Confesses.

Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco, has weakened and, in the hope of securing immunity from punishment or at least concessions In the way of reduced sentence, has made a partial confession of his guilt of the charges of graft Train Falls Forty Feet Into Creek. Two men were killed and 100 passengers had a thrilling escape on the Wabash railroad when the engine and one passenger coach on west-bound train No. 27 left the track near the Brldgeville Station, near Pittsburg, and plunged into Charter's creek, forty feet below. Mrs. Bowie Takea In Boarders.

Dowle's widow is taking boarders. Ben MacDhui, Dowie's former beautiful summer home near Muskegon, has become a summer boarding house. The 260-acre 'estate is being cut up for cottage lots. Fire Destroys Paper Mill. Fire destroyed the Talt Sons Paper Company's plant in North Bridgeport, causing a loss of about $63,000.

ToTrn Devastated by Fire. The town of Markle, ten miles south of Huntington, was partially destroyed by fire. Fourteen buildings were burned, including nearly all of the business houses of the town. Teacher Dlea from Horse's Kick. Noah Johnson, aged 25 years, a school teacher, died at Hartford City, from the effects of a kick by a young horse which he sustained several days ago in his barnyard.

Suspected of Wife Harder. Simoa Buskin, a Slav, is police turveillarfe at PVtston, in connection with the disappearance of his wife a week eyo. IIr brother, believing she was the victim of foul play, caused a warrant to be issued for the husDtesd's arrest. TTo Whiskers on This Road. Orders have been issued to conductors on the Burlington railroad to have clean shaven chins, to shave every other day, eschew celluloid collars, and wear white ties and white linen waistcoats after May 1.

niMiGRATioar breaks records. Arrivals for April Will Total More than 140,000, Chiefly Italians. How stupendous is the rush of -immigration to the port of New York this spring is shown in a tabulation that niikes it appear that April's arrivals will total more than 140,000. There are waiting in the harbor 10,400 men, women and children, chiefly Italians. When the twenty-five ships due within the next few days arrive there will be waiting in the harbor and at the piers about 40,000 prospective dwellers in our land.

Farm hands and day laborers have been attracted by the stories high" wages, and general prosperity that have been sent to the old country by relatives and friends. Besides, the new. immigration law will go into effect on July 1, and makes it harder for laborers to enter the country, so there is a rush to get In before the new barriers are raised. The record for April of 190G was 131,631. There have already landed 101,400, and by the end of the month the figures will be' over 140,000, making the record month, in the history of the station at Ellis island.

LAKE MICHIGAN WRECK. I Baraje Areadla and Crew Supposed to Rtc Geie Down. The wooden lumber barge Arcadia, which left Manistee, on April 12 for Two Rivers, undoubtedly has been lost in Lake Michigan, with its captain and owner, Harry May, and his wife and twelve other persons. Marine men have given the vessel up as lost and would not be surprised to hear that the wreck was caused by a boiler explosion. Some hold the theory that it went down as the result of the big storm of: April 14.

The boat has not been heard from since it left Manistee. Wreckage has been found along the beach from Pentwater north to Little Point Sauble, and part of it has been identified as the cargo of the lost craft. Portions of its cabins and bulwarks also have been found. The Arcadia was a wooden steamer 119 feet in length, 20 feet beam, and "0 feet draft, registering 230 tons, and was built in Milwaukee in 1SSS. DREAM SAVES HIM Fortune Seeker Recalls Deposit Slips He Had Given.

Swindler. As the result of a dream Frank Dines, rural mail carrier from Marlin, Ohio, saved his $1,027.23, while F. E. L. Mansfield of Los Angeles, alias Prof.

Eugene Lenox, psyehist, occupies a cell at the Central police station) in Toledo, and probably will be. arraigned on a charge' of practicing a trick to defraud. Dines, who expected Mansfield could find him a fortune, turned over to the professor three certificates of deposit, aggregating which he agreed to indorse. He says he dreamed during the night that he was about to be swindled. lie confided in the police and Mansfield's arrest followed.

CASXOT TAX FEDERAL BONDS. United States Supreme Coart Decides Three Iowa Coses. The United States Supreme Court, in a 'decision in three cases coming from Iowa, held that no State can tax United States bonds, and that banks cannot be required to pay a tax upon the government bonds which they hold. In all three cases the Des Moines authorities levied a tax on stocks and bonds, including United States bonds, held by banks under the State law, which provides that "shares of stock of State banks' and loan and trust companies shall be assessed to such banks, and not to the individual y'W- -V v.y" y'- Wall of Water loosed. i Just five minutes after the first annual Sportsmen's Show opened in Pittsburg Wednesday night at the Duquesne Garden, a huge tank, which was to be used for the water sports, suddenly burst and 100,000 gallons of water rushed out over the large hall.

1 There were several hundred visitors present and these, panic-stricken, succeeded in reaching the promenade of the gardeiv which is about, ten feetv higher than the floor space being used for the show, before any of them were injured. ReTlve Conneetlent Bine Law, Mayor Fisher of Meriden, who is professor in Wesleyan "had the police notify the proprietors of ice cream, candy, fruit, cigar and news stores in that hereafter they must close their establishments on Sunday. Delivery by boys of Sunday newspapers will be tolerated and druggists may open for certain hours. 1 Dolly Flow 100,000,000 Feet. A telephone message from Caney, announces that the greatest gas well ever drilled in the western country was brought in there late the other afternoon.

As near as it could be gauged, the well has a capacity of 80,000,000 to feet a day. Only 'one other well ever drilled, the big Moses, in West Virginia, can approach (this record. Flood Mine to Stop Fire. The flooding of the nomestake mine at. Lead, S.

has been begun for the purpose of extinguishing the fire which broke oat in the 500-foot level four weeks ago. During this time the company has fought the fire by every means known. The flames have gained steadily and the fire has now spread into the upper levels. Steps In Eiriae'i Path. Lindsay B- Hicks, the miner who for seventeen days was buried in the Edison mine at Bakersfield, attempted suicide at Reno, by leaping in front of a switch engine.

A bystander saved his life by hurling him from the track. He is not drawing well as a theatrical attraction. Sees Son Killed la Flash. Mrs. Mary Kinsler, a Black Hills woman, in a flash of lightning thought she saw her son killed hundreds of miles away and learns he was killed at that time.

-h Tatt at i Home Asjaln. Secretary Taft has returned from a trip to Panama and West Indies, and, while he refuses to talk politics, is expected to early announce his position regarding the Ohio contest. Runaway Coed' Is Found. Miss Lora Bryant, a student in the normal school at Ypsilanti, Mich who mysteriously disappeared several days ago, has been found in Helena, Mont. No reason for her flight is assigned.

Boston Man Implicated. Developments show that the great bond steal from the Trust Company of America in New York was engineered by a Boston man, and that Loan Clerk Douglass was merely a scapegoat. Iodoform's Finder a Suicide. Prof, Albert Ritter von Mosetigh-Moor-hof, the famous surgeon and introducer of iodoform, threw himself into the Danube in Vienna, while suffering from mental trouble, and was drowned. THE WATERLOO PRESS.

THURSDAY MAY 2, 1907. CLERK'S ODD ERROR. MAY CHANGE OWNERSHIP OF WESTERN RAILROAD. Queer Mistake May Make Difference of 30,000,000 to New York Man and Relatives Case Decided la Favor of Joseph Lelter. The error of a law clerk many years ago may.

mean a fortune to Russell Sage Raphael of New York and his mother and sisters. Many years ago Nathan Raphael, a close friend of Russell Sage, purchased worth of second mortgage bonds of the Wasatch and Jordan Valley Railroad Company, which 'owned a line la Utah. The interest on the bonds of the road was defaulted and the first mortgage was foreclosed, cutting out the boldejrs of the second 'mortgage securities." A short time ago Russell Sage Raphael, a son of Nathan Raphael, began suit in the federal court on the bonds, and secured a judgment for including interest. This judgment has been returned by the sheriff as unsatisfied and has been filed in court. While, working up this case" Raphael's lawyers that when the first mortgage was foreclosed the holders of the second mortgage, probably by a clerk's error, were not made parties to the suit.

This, It is claimed, invalidates the foreclosure proceedings; The old railroad property, which now belongs to the Denver, Rio Grande and Western, is said to be worth about $30,000,000. The second mortgage bonds issued by the original road amounted to $800,000. It is not known who owns the other $120,000 of these bonds. MANY CLAIM MAN AS 1IISBAND. Seventeen Marrlaorea and Frauds Are Charged Against Prisoner.

Dr. John Carver, who Is believed to have married at least seventeen times, was captured at Fort Smith, Ark. Carver is alleged to have defrauded the women out of $150,000. The specific charge on which he was arrested was that of defrauding Mrs. Lola Davis of Battle Creek, Mich out of $25,000.

He mar-tied her In October, 1900, at Battle Creek. ne went with her to New York, where they decided to buy a boarding house, lie told her to go home. raise all the money she could on her property and forward him a draft, and he would make arrangements to have her come on in two weeks. Carver, she charges, received the money and disappeared. He is wanted in Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Norfolk and Saginaw, and officers have been after him for three years.

Carver; it is said, has bean representing himself as traveling secretary of the New York Jockey Club, and, according to the police, passed forged checks, ne is a graduate of Pittsburg Dental College and is 40 years old. EXPOSES THEFT OF 02,000. Woonsocket Electric Machine pany offers Heavy Loss. A shortage of about $92,000 in the accounts of the Woonsocket Electric Machine and Power Company, Woonsocket, It- I was revealed' by" the issuance to the stockholders of a circular letter announcing that a heavy defalcation had been discovered. The letter, which was issued by order of the directors, further stated that the resignation of Levi Cook Lincoln, secretary-treasurer and general manager of the company, had been accepted.

Negotiations have been under way for the sale of the business to the firm of Estabrook Co. and the circular says the embezzlement will not interfere with this sale, although the stockholders may be called on to make good any deficiency. LEITER IS CLEARED BY JCRV. Verdict of Acquittal in Last of Coal Casea at Beaton. The jury in 111., returned a verdict of acquittal in the case of the people against the Zeigler Coal Company, charged with employing mine examiners without certificates of competency.

The case grew out of the explosion In the Zeigler mines two years ago. The motion of Joseph Letter for a new trial in the case of similar character, in which he was convicted In February, was overruled and the case taken to the Appellate Conrt on This is the last of prosecutions instituted against Mr. Letter and his company as a result of the explosion. STORM WIPES OCT VILLAGE. Elaht Lives Known to Have Been Lost In Texas Tornado.

One village was totally destroyed, extensive damage was done to property and crops at other points and eight lives are known to have been lost as a result of a storm that was general over Texas late Saturday and which at several points assumed the proportions of a tornado. The little village of Hemming, in Cook County, was practically wiped out and five persons are known to have been killed there. At Sulphur Springs hail banked in drifts from a foot and a half to two feet deep and stalled all trains. Steamer and Crew Are Lost. All hope for the safety of the fishing steamer Searchlight, which was struck by the furious northwest gale off Harbor Beach, Tuesday night, was abandoned when the life savers who have been searching for tLe missing craft returned to port with pieces, of wreckage they had picked up in Lake Huron.

The Searchlight's crew of six members went down with the craft. Fonr Killed In Explosion. Four miners were killed and nine severely injured in an explosion on the sixth level of the Morgan slope at the Black Diamond mine of the Pacific Coast Company, twenty-five miles from Seattle, on the Columbia and Puget Sound railway. Forty men were waiting to be dropped into the mine when the explosion occurred. Bomb Sent to Postal OOlcIal.

An infernal machine was discovered in the private drawer of Postal Inspector Hennen, in Toledo. Hennen turned it over to secret service officers. Inspector Holmes of Cincinnati was notified and secret service men put to work Every employe of the Toledo postoffice has been sworn to secrecy. Kills Man and Herself. A few hours before the time set for his wedding Thaddeus S.

Ross of Oil City, Pa was shot and killed instantly by Miss Belle Stroup, a former, sweetheart of the man. The woman then shot herself through the Woman Captures Robbers. Mrs. Robert Craft, a storekeeper at Norfolk, at the point of a revolver captured three desperadoes who were robbing her store and turned them over to the police. AMAZES THE WORLD.

Engineer! nor Activity In Tfew Vera la the Greatest Ever. Probably never before in the history" the world has there been in progress at one time such a stupendous amount of building and public improvement as that by which New York" is now being transformed. There are now under way in New York engineering projects whose value Is $344,000,000, and contracts have been authorized but not yet let for more work. This does not include the expenditure annually of to improve the water supply for jrhich an aggregate expenditure of has been The following tabic gives thei details: Work. Estimated Cost.

Pennsylvania tunnels and terminals $100,000,000 Hudson Companies tunnels, subways and terminal 100,000,000 New York Central terminals and electrification. V. SO.000,000 Battery tunnels and subway ex- tension 0,000,000 New York and Long Island tun- nels i 4.000,000 Subway extension and pipe galleries, East Side 40,000,000 Subway extension and, pipe gal- Jerles. West Side f.0,000,000 Subway bridge loop 15,000,000 Manhattan bridge Williamsburg bridge Rlack well's Island; 15,000,000 Smaller bridges 1.000,000 Total 1440,000,000 1U2.000.000 New water supply Grand total 11.000,000 These figures do not include the work on the Ambrose channel in tho harbor, which is a $4,000,000 job, nor do they take into account the engineering work done on great buildings. There- was about $40,000,000 worth of building done in New York last year for office and factory buildings alone.

It is safe to say that from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 of that work required the servicea of expert engineers. There is probably more work of that kind going on this year than last. So it may be said that besides the already mentioned there is fully $14,000,000 more of engineering work goins on, making a grand total of worth of construction in connection with transportation and building already under way or provided for in and around New York which may be described properly as great engineering projects. This sum of $025,000,000 may be termed a fact established, but there are other vast projects still in the stage of contemplationmore tunnels and bridges and buildings, some of which undoubtedly will be constructed in the not distant future, which will amount to from to $300,000,000 more. The above outline of large operations in progress does not refer to the new buildings which will be erected, except the tunnel and railway terminals.

Mammoth hotels, apartment houses; stores, theaters, must be added to, the list anything like a complete idea of the construction work in New York is to be obtained. New York City's great project for securing a water supply from the Catskills will cost about $162,000,000. That, project means tha construction of enormous dams, in half a dozen different valleys, the' wiping out of many settlements, the construction of a long system of tunnels and pumping stations, including the. tunnel under the Hudson river, the erection of gates and the distribution of the water in the city. It is the largest undertaking of the kind the world has ever known.

This water supply for New York is far greater enterprise than the Panama canal in the engineering problems and even in the money outlay. There are also private engineering problems going on in New York which reach into the millions. Many of these have to do with the construction of great buildings. Journeymen tailors at Palo Alto, Cal.j have In several. States the machinists unions have increased nearly 500 per i cent in membership during the last year.

v- Fourteen 1 new unions have affiliated with the Minnesota State Federation of Labor since the beginning of the year, and five applications are pending. San Francisco (Cal.) union men affiliated with the iron trades council have voted, to strike May 1. Over 0,000 men are involved. They demand an eight-hour day. I A Chicago (I1L7 elevator men have been negotiating with the building managers for an increase of $10 a month in wages and the matter has been submitted to During the years of-the existence of the United Hatters of North America-they havo used 270,000,000 labels.

Last year the union hatters made nearly 30,000,000 A new wage scale increasing tho wages of the union -barbers of Oakland, CaL, is under discussion between the bosses and the employes The wages will be arranged upon" a -sliding scale. The International Union of Bill Posters and Billers have articles of agreement with all circuses and outdoor shows, through which all bill posting and. billing will be done by union men. The Musicians' Union of Ohio, is in a tangle with the Cincinnati Orchestra Association. The main cause of the tfoublev is over the desire of tho association to draw on European talent to the detriment of musicians in this country.

Many members of the United Association of Pumbers, Gas Fitters and Steam Fitters are urging that the organization establish a home for the: aged and Infirm, along the same lines as the typos At a meeting held in New York recently it was announced that arrangements are being made for the' formation of a permanent organization in favor of abolition of child labor, It was stated that the movement was national, and hope was expressed that the organization would succeed in arousing public sentiment, without which legislation will be of no use. Record figures are presented in the last quarterly report of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers of England. Its reserve funds now amount to 728,937, and during the last three months its membership has risen from 102,800 to 104,880. The society has never been so prosperous In Its history. St.

Paul (Minn.) tailors, who have been affiliated with an "independent" union for a long time, have, concluded to become a "regular" organization. A committee from the Minneapolis union has been conferring with the St Panl men, and it is annouated that the will be made soon. BIG FAffi IS NOW ON. JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION OPEN i TO THE PUBLIC. President Presses Gold Button, De-.

livers Address and Reviews nlflcent Kaval Fageaat Axald Thunderous Salutes. The exposition opened Friday by President Roosevelt on the shores of Hampton Roads, amid the salutes of cannon from nearly 100 war ships and In the presence of numerous officials and diplomats representing our own and foreign governments, should have an Interest for Americans second to none attaching to any former national exhibition In our history. The Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition commemorates the 300th anniversary of the first permanent English-speaking colony. In America, and, besides, interest In It should be great because of the many historic associations of the surrounding territory. The soil adjacent has been the scene of more bloody battles during the Revolutionary War, the war of 1S12 and the Civil War than any other part of America.

York town and Appomattox are close by. Gons from the war ships of five great nations voiced a salute In unison 5 i (a I V-V-. I 4" BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE to the American flag and to the President of the United States at the opening of the Jamestown exposition. The boom of the cannon sounded over the waters of Hampton Roads, where nearly half a century ago' the Monitor and the Merrimae met in the; memorable conflict which brought Into being the armored craft of war. i From the "little' Yankee cheesebox set.

upon a and the rectangular mass of Iron which carried the Confederate flag In 1S62 to the modern fighting machines typified by the flower of the American navy Is a far cry. Yet many of those' who stood on the shore and saw the naval pageant in the roadstead recalled the day when the waters which form the rendezvous of great war Vessels were splashing with the shot and shell of the first battle of steel-clad ships. From the bridge of the Mayflower, 1 'jt'-; HISTORIC SPOT KEAB JAMESTOWX. whose decks were tie meeting place of the peace plenipotentiaries of Russia and Japan less than two years ago, President Roosevelt reviewed the great assemblage flag-draped fighters. Steaming down the long column the President' was greeted by each vessel with a salute of twenty-one guns.

Ceremony Bearon at Sunrise. At sunrise the opening ceremonies were begun by the United States artillery, which fired a salute of 300 guns. The President reached Discovery Land- PwijSV, "WM. x. WHERE THE JAMESTOWN lug shortly before noon, and amid applause from the thousands gathered to extend their welcome he was received by the exposition management Then followed the program opening to the public the enterprise commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of the first English, settlement In America.

The exercises Included an address by Harry St George Tucker, president of tho exposition, and one by 'President Roosevelt singing by the exposition chorus of 700 voices, the pressing of a gold button by Mr. Roosevelt, which marked the formal opening, and a review, of the assembled military forces. Tne, First Settlement. It was in the year 1607 that three small vessels which had sailed from London on the 19th day of the preceding December entered the broad waters of the James river. These were the Susan Constant of 100 tons, the Godspeed of 40 tons and the Discovery of 20 tons, commanded respectively by Christopher Newport, Bartholomew Gosnold and John Itntcliffe.

In this fleet were 105 men besides tho crews. They had already landed a few days before upon a sandy point which they named Capo Henry, after tho then Prince of Vales. Captain John Smith, destined to play an important role in our colonial history, was at this time in Irons on board the Constant as a result of dissensions which had arisen while the little fleet delayed in the West Indies. On entering the James they hoped they had found a water way which, in accordance with their instrue-, tions, they were seeking that would afford them an entrance Into the south seal Thirty miles upstream above Newport News and on the northerly side of the river the explorers came upon a peninsula some three miles long by one and a quarter wide at its greatest width. It extended in a southeasterly direction and at its northeastern end it was joined to the mainland by a narrow isthmus.

The river is here three miles in width. What was then a peninsula is now an island, the river having cut a channel through the narrow isthmus, which at present is abont a quarter of a mile wide and is spanned by a bridge. It is in commemoration of the settlement of this island and the marvelous progress made in the intervening 300 years that the present exposition is being held. The exposition is not located on the site of the original settlement, but on the south ern shore of Hampton Roads the finest land-locked body of water in the world. Site of the Snow.

The exposition site comprises about V. -si JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. 500 acres, which are beautifully laid out. The exposition buildings proper consist of 25 structures, among them being an auditorium and convention hall, 160x230 feet, having wings 02 feet long, and an auditorium 01x91 feet, with a seating capacity of about 3,000 a palace of manufactures and liberal arts, 2S0x550 feet; a palace of machinery and transportation. 2S0x550 feet; a States' exhibit palace, 300x500 feet; a mining and metallurgy building.

100x250 feet; a hygienic and medical building, 100x250 feet; a pure food building, 90x300 feet; a palace of history and historic arts, 124x129 feet, and an education building, 124x129 feet. Besides these are what is known as are arts and crafts village which consists of seven cottages of colonial architecture. These are the textile buildings, 53xSS feet copper, silver and woodworkers' shops, 44x137 feet; pottery shops. 48x50 feet iron shops, 48x50 feet model school, 35x45 feet, with a model school room 25x52 feet mothers and children's building, COxlOO feet, and Pocahontas hospital, GOxSO feet. Most of the States have made appropriations or otherwise provided for buildings and exhibits.

Some of them have reproduced with fidelity some famous building connected with their history. Pennsylvania, for instance, has raised a second Independence Hall, Massachusetts its old State House Maryland has reproduced the home of Charles Carroll of Carrollton; Georgia has erected a second Bullock Hall, the home of the mother of President Roosevelt. In every instance the State buildings are characteristic Four of the Western States, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, have jointly erected a gigantic building in the form of a maltese cross, each State to occupy, a section. Even Oklahoma, the last State to enter the sisterhood, has erected a suitable building. Among the foreign countries which take official part in the celebration are Great Britain, Germany, Russia, France, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Sweden and Greece of the eastern hemisphere and Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, Salvador, Peru, Guatemala, if; A oosrf t.

si i ii fy? SETTLERS FIRST LANDED. Nicaragua, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Panama oftthe western hemisphere. The naval features of the exhibition will, be the greatest and most impressive ever witnessed. Crack battleships and cruisers representing foreign nations from Brazil and Chile to Japan will be present during the entire period of the exposition and the United States will have from IS to 20 battleships, beside numerous cruisers and torpedo boats. At no time during the exposition will there be fewer than 100 warships, either riding gracefully at anchor or engaged in elaborate maneuvers.

One feature of the naval display that will; arouse deep interest will be a realistic reproduction of the battle between the Monitor and Merrimae, as It was fought in 18G2 and for which the government has appropriated $10,000. Woodson Morris, 77 years old, has been sentenced at Newkirk, O. TM to ninety-nine yea rs in prison tor murder. 1355 Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, executed. 1CC2 Royal Society of England incorporated.

17C3 Georgia Gazette, at Savannah, first issued. 1775 Battle of Lexington, first engagement in the American Revolutionary war. 1S0G Admiral Villeneuve, Nelson's antagonist at Trafalgar, committed suicide while a prisoner in England. 1S09 Austrians defeated by Napoleon at Abensberg, Bavaria. 1S41 First handicap steeplechase race run in England.

1842 Gen. Pollock entered Jellalatad with his troops, 18G1 Virginia secedsd from the Union. 1S74 Mad Lucas, the Hertfordshire hermit, immortalized by Dickens, found dead. 1SS0 Afghans defeated by tie British at Ahmed Khel. 1SS3 Parliament buildings at Quebec burned.

1SS9 Oklahoma land opened to settle-, ment by presidential proclamation. 1S0O First Pan-American conference closed at Washington. 1S91 Czar proclaimed the expulsion of the Jews from Moscow. Star steamship Teutonic broke trans-Atlantic record. 1S93 Australian Joint Stock bank failed for $05,000,000.

1594 Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh marked to Ernest Grand Duke of Hesse. 1595 rerry, escaped train robber, captured at Weehawken, N. J. 1S3G International Arbitration Congress met at Washington. 1597 Attempt made to assassinate King Humbert of Italy at Rome.

key declared war against Greece. 1598 Spurgeon's. Tabernacle in London destroyed by fire. Gen. Joaquin Crespo, ex-president of Venezuela, killed in battle.

1S09 Resolutions introduced ia. Massachusetts Legislature revoking the order banishing Roger Williams in ic35. 1901 Severe floods at Pittsburg and Cincinnati. Massacre of Jews at Kishineff. Russia.

Carnegie gave $1,500,000 to erect Temple of Peace at The Hague. 1904 Fire in Toronto destroyed 000,000 worth of property. 190G Prof. Curie, discoverer of radium, killed by an accident in Paris. Larce wart of San Francisco de- stroyed by earthquake and fire.

Stend Would Avert War. William T. Stead, the famous English try, where he expects to make a stay of several weeks, partly for the purpose of attending the peace conference at New York. In a newspaper interview Mr. Stead expressed himself as strongly in favor of the united action of Great Brit ain and the United States in the coming Hague conference toward disarmament, and the promotion of international amity.

He particularly urged the carrying into effect of article 8, which was unanimously recommended by the former conference. This would treat a dispute between two nations the same as a dispute between two individuals, and recommends that before proceeding to hostilities each party should call in a special mediator, corresponding to a second in a private duel, who should be allowed a period of not exceeding thirty days in which to settle the dispute. If such a proccdude had been followed, he said, neither the South African nor the Russo-Japanese war would have broken out when it did. Trust Conference at Cblcaeo. The executive council of the National Civic Federation has decided to hold the national conference on combinations and trusts at Chicago, May 2S to 31, inclusive.

Governors and presidents of the uuvi uu, vmi i agricultural, labor, economic, financial and law associations will be asked to appoint delegates. The purpose of the conference is to consider trust and combination problem, especially the question of State and federal regulation of corporations, and the question of what amendment, if any, should be made to the Sherman anti-trust act. The subjects more particularly indicated for discussion are: Governmental power over corporations engaged in interstate commerce; the construction, capitalization and control of corporations, and the just and practicable restriction and regulation, federal and State, OI iu iiaLLsjJui Liitiuu, production, distribution ana laoor. Interesting New Items, Andrew Carnegie ha3 given $15,000 for the erection of a science hall at Deni-son university, Newark, Ohio. Five members of a mob that took a negro from jail at Hankie, were accidentally wounded by their companions when they shot at random after the ne gro's escape.

On application of Russell B. Harrison, Federal Judge T. C. Munger at Omaha appointed H. G.

Leigh receiver for the Citizens' Gas Light Company of Nebraska City, Neb. The threatened strike of 35,000 New York express companies' employes has been averted by the granting- of an increase in wages and a reduction in working hours to the men. To curtail expenses the new government of Honduras has appointed all Nicara-guan consuls, cousul-gcnera la, charge d'affaires and ministers to act for it as well as for their own country. Charles G. Dawes of CVvgo, former Comptroller of the Currency, an address at Shreveport, declared the Sherman anti-trust law a dead letter, and said it never had been and never can bo enforced.

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