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THE REVIEW THE WOMAN who cooks. mAy find the woman who wants a cook through a Want Ad. i a ILLINOIS, EVENING, MARCH 31, 1910. No. 90.

Illinois Miners Quit Work This Afternoon Ask Wage Increase That Totals Mid- Night Tonight 200,000 Will Be on Strike. OBimtu. mtaaa WOULD Mtnm 80MM Mines wemU be Dally ol ten 14WMMO 1,760,000 Dally to striken In LOSMBO Wage torn If strike lasted ninety days Indianapolis, March two hundred thousand organized miners In I the bituminous ooal fields of the United State! will strike at midnight tonight and stay away from the mines until the operators consent to pay the advance in wages of 6 cents per ton, according to the announement today from the headquarters of the United Mine I Workers of America in this city. i NO CONFERENCE TODAY. President Lewis said this morning he I had no Information that the miners and operators of any district will get together today.

TO DIRECT THE STRIKE. Members of the executive board will leave tonight for their respective dls trlcts to represent the national administration in the direction of local strikes. LEWIS TO ILLINOIS. Lewis will visit the Illinois field to morrow and does not expect to return to bis office here until Saturday night. ASK MORE.

Joint Scale Committee of Miners and Operators of Illinois Meet Menday. St. Louis, March miners will leave the mines by 4:80 this afternoon and not re-enter them until the new wage scale is signed. A meeting of the joint scale committee of operators and miners will be held Monday. ENOUGH FOR TWO MONTHS.

Operators say they have enough coal on hand to last two months. The Increase in wages demanded by Illinois miners totals $14,000,000. CONCESSIONS. Plant! Allowed to Mine for Their Own CoMOjpption. Danville, March 31--The Western Brick company of this city, which mines its own coal and employs several hundred men, received permission today from the United Mine Workers II- GtfRTliiue" 1 )0 ttfs I present force, pending the signing of the new wage contract.

LASALLE PLANT, TOO. The Hegeler plant at LaSalle will al- jso be permitted to mine for its own I consumption. HASN'T A POUND. I The Hunsen Coal company, controlled I by the Illinois Steel company, Is en- ideavorlng to obtain permission to continue operations. This company has not a pound of coal In reserve, and one of the officers stated unless they secured permission to continue mining i the steel mills at South Chicago will 'bo compelled to shut down.

READY TO TREAT. I Iowa Operators Satisfied to Make Desired Increase. Des Moines, March coal operators, it Is stated are ready to grant the Increase of 6 cents asked by the mine workers. Operators at least have indicated to the state mine officials they are willing to'treat with the men upon favorable terras to miners Every mine In Iowa will suspend this afternoon, when the present wage scale expires. NOT CLOSE TOGETHER.

The mine situation was not hopeful when the operators and Iowa miners met this afternoon. Although operators indicated they were willing to grant a 5 per cent increase to the men who care for the properties during suspension, the workers do not seem willing to accede. NOT TO LAST LONG. Springfield, March McDonald, president of the Illinois miners, does not think the shut-down of mines will be of long duration. A meeting with operator? is to be held soon when McDonald believes an agreement will be effected.

Walt on Big Districts. I Saglnaw, Mich. March 31. Thomas Davis, commissioner for the coal i mine operators, said today that Mlch- igan operators are Inclined to await the action of some of the larger districts. I About 3,400 Michigan miners will quit work tonight, CARRY MAIL Wilburton, March 31.

An ex plosion in the Great Western ooal mln here today killed six men. ARREST; AND DIES Belolt, Wis, March 31. John Hay aged 56, who was shot last night by Policeman Janvrin, while resisting ar rest, died today. -e- Express Ban Down Train Soldiers; 22 Were Killed. Mulheim-Am-Rheim, Germany, Mar appears today that upwards two hundred persons were more less seriously Injured when an expres ran down and Wrecked a military train bound for Strasburg yesterday.

23 DEAD, MORE DYING. The total dead are twenty-two. Six injured are dying. The victims were soldiers. GAVE RIGHT OF WAY.

Two signal men have been arrestei charged with having given both train the right of way at the same moment, WAYNESVILLE DEATH SUDDEN Waynesvllle, March Katherine Shaffer died suddenly of neuralgia of the heart at the home of her daughter, Mrs Andrew Brock, five miles north of town, about 10 o'clock Tuesday night. Carlisle, March 31. The graduating class of the Indian school at Carlisle received diplomas today from the hands of Commissioner of Indian Affairs Valentine, who delivered an ad- 1 dress to the class. LEAVES A FORTUNE WASHOOR MAI) George Weller Came From Germany; Retired Farmer. Mt Pulaski.

March 31 --George Wei ler, one of our wealthy retired farmers, died a i East Cook street about 5 o'clock Wednesday even- Ing after a short Illness. He was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, April 20, 1832. CAME PENNILESS He came to the United States when a young man in the spring of 1852, and settled In Broadwell township, Logan county. Coming to this country poor, he worked and saved his money, acquired a large fortune and owns several hundred acres of land In this county SIX CHILDREN LIVE He was married in 1863 to Elizabeth Brooker and to them were born six children. Mrs Weller died In 1878 and he afterwards married his brother's widow and retired from farm life and built one of the handsomest homes In Mt Pulaski, selling it after a few years to Charles Anderson and building himself another residence in the same neighborhood equally as large and beautiful as the one he sold.

He Is survived by his wife all his children having died In early life. SHOWER FOR MRS. DAY OF CLINTON Clinton, friends of Mrs. Clyde Day surprised her at the home ot her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

C. H. Church, the occasion being novelty shower. Many useful and beautiful presents were received. Light refreshments were served.

Mrs. Day was formerly Miss Amber Church. i Brussels, March court today authorised the Princess Louise to begin a suit for the nullification of Baroness Vaughan's ownership of two villas at Ostend erected upon ground bought by the late King Leopold of Belgium. The daughter contends that the money thus spent belongs rightfully to the father's heirs: WE8TON NOW IN ILLINOIS Laura, March 31. Weston, the pedestrian, passed here this morning on his tramp from Los Angeles to New York.

Plan Presented to U. S. Au thorities; Not Feasible Now. Washington, March 31 --An alrshl line, fully equipped, with regular day of sailing, is proposed to the postofflc department by A. Brodbeck of Sal Lake City, who would have the mall fly through the air, Instead ot beln, transported by rail and water.

THE DETAILS. "The line would go from New Yorl to London, via Peking," explained Mr Brodbeck in unfolding his plans to th postofflce department, "and would hav branch lines The great advantage this route is that It avoids the Atlantl and Pacific oceans. The principal sta tions would be New York, Chicago Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, Sa Francisco, Seattle, Fort Williams, Beh ring, Sakhalien, Tokyo, Peking, Ir kutsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Mascow, 81 Petersburg, Riga, Berlin, Cologne, Part and London." MEANS APPROPRIATION. In answer to his Inquiries and with out committing the department as tc the feasibility and practicability of th suggestion, the second assistant post master general directed Mr. Brodbeck' attention to the fact that no money Is now available to defray the expense of transporting mall by airships, the appropriations being specifically made to meet the cost of mail service upon railroads, steamboats, electric am cable cars.

Before the department can furthe consider the plans, therefore, congres must make an appropriation to cove the cost of forwarding mall througl the air. Details of Death of Miss Me- Aboy of Clinton Don't Settle Question. Clinton, March SI--Although the coroner's Jury says suicide and the relatives of Miss Anna McAboy deny that she killed herself, there will always be a mystery about her death. Miss McAboy was found dead early Wednesday morning. In her room was found an eighth of an ounce phial of sulphate of strychnine on the dresser near the bed.

The attending physician said from the position of her body that death was due to an overdose of strychnine. The phial was half empty. Some of the'powder had been spilled on the dresser top. but the cork had been replaced In the bottle. FEELING BADLY.

Mrs J. B. Stevens, Miss McAboy's mother, stated that her daughter had been feeling badly for a day or two and had been unable to attend to her duties as relief operator at the tele- ihone office. She told her mother Tuesday night that unless she felt bet- er Wednesday morning she would not go to w'ork. Some young people called at the house Tuesday evening and Miss McAboy entertained them on the porch.

She seemed In high spirits. She re- tred about 9:30. TO KILL VERMIN. Members of the family stated that the strychnine was kept In the house as poison for rats and mice. Friends and members of the family refuse to be- ieve she the overdose with Sul- ildal intent.

They recall how distaste ul the thought of suicide always was her. Watseka. I March most mportant evidence In the Sayler case oday was given by Mrs. Myrtle Green, lister of the murdered man, who de- ilared Mrs Sayler showed no sign of grief over the death of her husband and blamed him for the trouble. This caused Mrs.

Green at the time to denounce Dr. Miller. EX-SENATOR'S NIECE IN Aurora, March aused Miss Ella Bessie Hopkins, niece if former United 'States Senator'Hop- kins, to commit suicide at the latter's lome at an early hour yesterday by rownlng. herself. In a-cistern.

Her body was found later by the colored butler the bottom of the cistern. ALT HAS A NEW CABINET Rome, March new cabinet has em formed with Blgnor Luxxatti as remler and minister of 'the interior. TOTTERS Uncle Sam Will Stop Domination By Other Nation. Washington, March sltuatio; in Liberia is causing apprehension here The attack by native tribes upon th English factory and Llberian troops en dangers the existence of the republic In addition there is a state of practice demoralization at Monrovia, the capita and the finances of the country are 1: a desperate plight EUROPE MAY STEP IN. These might easily serve as pretex for intervention by some Europeai powers, Such intervention usually leads permanent domination and the state de partment is resolved this shall not be The cruiser Birmingham is on its wa; to protect American Interests.

Landed at Hamburg and at Once Starts For Copenhagen. Hamburg, March 31. Gifford Pin chot landed here yesterday. This morn ing he left for Copenhagen. NOTA9LES ATTEND MEWEMERAL Taft and Others Likewise Prominent Act as Honorary Pallbearers.

Washington, March 31. Funeral services, simple and unostentatious were held today for the late Justice Brewer, and an hour later the body was on the way for burial at Leavenworth, Kan. PRESIDENT ACTS. The president of the United States, members of the supreme court, except Moody, who Is ill, and representatives rom the house and senate acted as Honorary pall bearers. Only relatives and a few intimate friends were pres- mt beside them.

That's What His Nephew's Wife Says, But He Denies It. Loralne, March 31. Mrs, John Balltnger, wife of Secretary Ballinger's ephew, caused a sensation here yea- erday while the guest of her sister, Irs James Bowen, by declaring that Secretaiy Balllnger is to be appointed President Taft to succeed Justice Srewer on the supreme court Bench. Mrs. Balllnger Is quoted as follows: "The whole status of Mr Ballinger's osltlon in the investigation brought by charges by Plnchot and Glavls as been changed by the sudden death Justice Brewer.

Mr. Balllnger Had ntended to make a complete defense of hese charges, and then hand In his esignation. Now I have it on the ighest authority that he will change Is course of action so as to coincide rlth his appointment in the Immediate uture as Justice Brewer's successor." When Mrs. Balllnger was shown Sec. etary Ballinger's denial of her statement she said at the time she ha no dea It would get into the papers.

MASONIC AND PYTHIAN TEMPLES Bloomlpgton, March new ythlan lodge temple for the five hun- red members-of the various lodges of 10 city- seems to be a certainty, al- lough all plans are not yet com- leted. Both -lodges favor going ahead, he question now Is kind of a uildlng. Flans for the new Masonic temple to erected at the northeast corner of efferson and 'Prairie street, are progressing and the new building will be in the not far distant fu- ure. SKY mm is Dissatisfaction Is Shown in Washington 1 Over Tariff Agreement. TARIFF RESULTS TO TWO NATIONS United States Canada's In- termedlnte rates on thirteen groups of commodities, Including ninety-seven articles.

Canada mcares application of ea- mlnlmnm tariff, of United States, tire minimum tariff of United States. Washington, March Canadian agreement Is attacked by many tariff experts as a "compromise" which extends most of the advantages to Canada. This view is vigorously eombatted by the government officials. They declare the United States has obtained all It could hope for from Canada in the way of tariff concessions and that Ameilcan trade will have a better opening In Canada now than at any time since tho Canadian government adopted the protective tariff. The reduced rates apply to only $6,000,000 of the export trade which the United States enjoys with the dominion.

TO SPEAK TENT It Will Be Placed on Y. M. C. A. Tennis Courts.

CAPACITY OP TENT 4,000 Judge Covington Tonight for Local Option. NOT THE END. Negotiations Looking to Reciprocal Trade Treaty are lately. Washington, March terms of agreement which have averted a tariff war between the United States and Canada were made public by the State Department yesterday afternoon simultaneously with the sumblsslon of the same to the parliament of Ottawa. THIRTEEN GROUPS.

Canada, In return for the application of the entire minimum tariff of the United States, has granted its Intermediate rates on thirteen groups of commodities contained In the commercial treaty giving preferential rates to France, which rates subsequently have been extended to twelve other countries with which England has most-favored-nation treaties. TREATY NEXT. It was stated in a well-informed quarter that negotiations looking toward a reciprocal treaty are likely to be started very soon--that there was not sufficient time to get at this matter before the date at which the maximum-minimum question had to be settled, or It would have figured, perhaps more prominently in the agreement reached. AVERTS WAR, THAT'S ALL. 'it Is not contended In Washington-- In fact, It was not expected--that the United States has driven a sharp bargain with our neighbors across the border.

Primarily, however, the idea was to avert a disastrous tariff war, and our officials did the best they could with the means at hand--the Payne-AIdrlch tariff act. Among those persons who never have agreed that the Payne tariff law was the "best ever enacted" the outcome of the negotiations with Canada will scarcely conduce to a change of opinion. LOCAfi OPTION CALENDAR. Tonight--Judge W. A.

Covington, Georgia Friday--Seaborn Wright. Georgia. Saturday afternoon--Rev W. A. Sunday.

Saturday night--Mrs. Leonora Lake, St Louis. Sunday afternoon--David "Ross, Springfield. Rev. W.

A. Sunday, when here Saturday will speak In a tent In the Y. M. C. A.

tennis court grounds. Arrangements to this effect were made this morning The tent will accommodate an audience of 4,000 people. There will be no seats; all those who hear the man will bo expected to stand up. TOO MANY FOR CHURCH. This arrangement was made because It was sure more people want to hear Mr.

Sunday than could be got Into any of the churches. For a while It was In the plans to have him speak at the First Methodist and First Baptist churches. Local option managers are sure the tent will be a much better arrangement. JUDGE COVINGTON TONIGHT. The local option sneaker tonight Is Judge W.

A. Covington of Georgia. He will be heard at the opera house. He is said to be a very good speaker, Is a leader of the bar in Georgia and is the man who wrote the local option statute that applies to all that state. There will be no band for this meeting.

This meeting Is for women as well as men and the women are especially Invited. ADDRESS IN GERMAN. IN CANADA, TOO. Ottawa, Ont March 31 The successful conclusion of the tariff agreement with the United States was offi- lally announced in parliament this itternoon. THE JEW TARIFF French Minister of Commerce Gives Luncheon in Celebration.

Paris, March 31--Minister of Commerce Dupuy gave a luncheon today celebration of the conclusion of the Franco-American tariff agreement. American ambassador Bacon was' the rueat of honor. There were also pres- tnt a number of prominent American and French officials. Dupuy and Bacon made felicitous speeches. Trenton, N.

March 31. Requisi- ion papers for the extradition of J. )gden Armour, of Chicago, recently in. icted by the Hudson county grand ury for conspiracy In controlling; the rices of meat products, were filed with Governor Fort today. The drvs will try it again tonight-at the corner of Herkimer and Jasper streets.

Rev. Emil empke will be the speaker His address will be in German and the speaker is the German Methodist minister. Tomorrow night the local option. speaker will be Seaburn Wright of Georgia, who also will be heard at the opera house. Some Bay he Is the most eloquent speaker the local optlonlsts have brought here this campaign.

EFFECTIVE FOR DRYS. The drys are complaining loudly today about the way Speaker John F. Cunneen was treated last night al Herkimer and Jasper streets. J. M.

Gray says that so far as making votes goes it was the most effective speech of the campaign, this not because of anything that the speaker said, but because of the treatment that was accorded him by some people In the neighborhood The argument Is thit unfair treatment will secure dry votes in other parts of town. LEE URGES FAIRNESS. J. M. Lee attended the overflow meeting at Jasper and Herkimer streets last night for about fifteen minutes.

Mr. Lee made a few remarks to the youngsters who were gathered around In that place He told them they should accord the speaker fair treatment and should not follow the lead of those drys who went to the opera house a week ago and hissed Mayor Rose of Milwaukee For a short time the crowd thought that Lee was a dry orator that had been sent there to speak to the overflow meeting. He got the boys straightened out on that proposition and then left. VARIANCE IN ESTIMATE. There Is variance i estimate as to the number of colored people who attended the meeting last night at First Presbyterian church.

J. 1C. Gray says they had almost fifty colored voters at that meeting, a man fro mthe wet side who was sent to the meet- Ing to count the number of colored voters reports tha.t there were just twenty-seven It was stated yesterday that 300 colored voters were expected to be present at that meeting. The wets are saying today that the drys made a mistake advertising the meeting; that they should have let it be known that "Tip" Carter would be present and would make a speech in support of the dry cause It is thought that If this announcement had been made In advance, four out of five of all the colored people In the city would have been present to witness the regeneration of Tip. The committee in charge of the automobile section of the local option parade Saturday Is making efforts to get all the machines in the city to Join Of course they will not be able to do this but do expect to get a large number of the owners to bring out their cars.

So far, over seventy-five cor owners in the city have promised to Join In the parade and that many from the country and surrounding towns will be In. MEETING PLACE. The automobile owners who intend to take part will meet at the corner of West Eldorado and Church streets at 11 o'clock Saturday morning. They will become a part 'ot the main parade and when that Is over parade through the outer parts of the town where the main formation will not go. The route of the parade has not yet been definitely determined but It will pass through practically every business street In the city and part of the residence districts.

The will be decorated 'and the occupants wllf carry REPORTS ENCOURAGING. i The reports from the county outsld Decatur are most encouraging. It li? expected that the number of farmed 3 taking part In the demonstration be large. The parade will start at 11 o'clock TONIGHT'S OUTLYING MEETINGS. East Side Christian Church--Rev.

W. McDonald, Rev. O. P. Wright.

Dlxon. Church of the Brethren--D. S. barger, William McGinley. Dr.

J. Fischer. Sargent's Chapel--Dr. W. H.

Penbal' legon, W. G. McCullough, Oeorfli Oakes. Free Methodists--Dn R. W.

Gammon Dr. R. J. Kellogg P. Irving.

Locust, Street Mission--R. C. Augus. tine. Rev.

J. M. Lively, Dr. T. S.

klns. Antloch Baptist--Rev. J. F. John W.

Evans, Rev. Mr. Crockett FRIDAY NIGHT'S OUTLYING INGS. East Side Christian--T. F.

Drew, Rev. O. B. Huston, William Nleder- meyer. Sargent'B Chapel--C.

F. Evans, T. Roberts, R. C. Augustine.

Wesley Chapel--Kev. E. H. Shuey, Capt George R. Bacon, F.

C. Collegt Street Chapel--Dr. Galloway, H. Baldwin. Westminster--Warren F.

Hardy, J. Lyons, William McCullough. Locust Street Mission--Rev. Mr. rence, 3.

8. Baldwin. Walnut Grove U. E. if, Smith, Rev.

Mr. Boggess, Ed March. Cantrall Street Chapel--Carl Well, epp, George Oakes, Rev. T. N.

Swing. AN INlfflSE But Employes Refuse Hold to Their Demands. New York, March Erie road company today offered all its em- ployes now receiving under S300 per month, an Increase of 6 per cent in wages, provided the original demands made by the men be withdrawn. Representatives of the men refused. HEM, IN DENEEN Alliance Between Cullom and Lorimer Is Hinted.

Washington, March a senatorial combination be formed by Mr. Lorimer which will cause Governor Deneen any inconvenience? This question is being discussed by members of the Illinois congressional delegation familiar with the, Intention of Mr. Lor- Imei to precipitate the deep waterway question as an issue for a contest with the governor for popular favor MAY BE SO It would appear from that Mr. Lorimer is confident of tho support of his colleague On the other hand. Senator Cullom is not discussing the situation, nor Indicating any determined course of procedure From what can be learned of Mr.

purposes he will charge Governor Deneen with responsibility for the ad- joutnment of the legislature without the appointment of a committee to meet a federal board of engineers to arrange a plan of cooperation. Wausau, Wla, March 31. Rain la the south last night and the work of nearly (00 men prevented the tion of Sehofleld by forest fires and to-, day the fire Is almost extinguished. FRUIT IS HURT IN NEBRASKA Lincoln, Neb, March heav frost visited the southern section of i Nebraska today, damaging the fruit. WEATHER FORECAST.

Chicago, Mar. 31. --Following are weather for the next thirty- six hours: Fair tonight and Friday; cooler In', east and south to- i night. Weather Map. Canadian northwest--Partly cloudy: er, 28 to 38 above.

Northwest--Generally clear; 36 to rain Devils Lake, .01. Moorhead. Huron, 08, St. Paul, .01. Wen and southwest--Generally clear: er, 'a to 4S above.

Rain at Calm, .06. Ohio valley--Generally cloudy; 4C to above, scattered llfht Local Okmrallons. The foliowlnc the range of recorded by Prof. H. Coonradt, XJn weather observer.

Xoon 41 76 Lowest ThurMsy Sun rlnci (BUndard time) Sun fSPA-PERI.