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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS Mexico City The foreign office, through Minister lgnaco Mariscal, today to-day expressed appreciation of the action ac-tion of the American government in prosecuting Jose Banget for violation of the neutrality laws in organizing an expedition against . Mexico. Whether Mexico will seek to extradite Banget after he has served -his sentence in the United States, Ministr Mariscal said had not yet been considered. Mexico City u conference between officials of-ficials of the National Railway of Mexico Mex-ico and representatives of employes of that system, which was scheduled for today, was postponed until tomorrow. The men .will bring up the question of the management's policy respecting foreign employes. Mexico City As justification of his refusal to pardon Cannon and Groce, and in support of a denial which he made today of irregularity in the manner man-ner of their condemnation, Jose Santos San-tos Zelaya exhibited for the first time telegrams which he declared he received re-ceived from the American victims of Nicaragua's martial law. Zelaya's utterance was in reply to charges made by President Madriz of Nicaragua, that the executions of Groce and Cannon were illegal and that the United States government was justified in its resentment over this action. The telegrams follow: "El Castillo, Nov. 14. 1909. "Commander-in-Chief J. Santos Zelaya, Ze-laya, Camp de Martc: The confessions made by me in my trial are sufficient proofs of my voluntary guilt; therefore. there-fore. I do not attempt to maintain before be-fore you the innocence which does not extet, and I limit myself to asking that your recognized magnanimity be extended ex-tended to me, saving my life and imprisoning im-prisoning instead for the number of years you may designate, promising you on my word of honor never again 10 mix in tne political anairs of tle country, and, furthermore, to serve the government over which you preside in all that may be necessary for the peace of the republic, which Gen. Juan Estrada, Es-trada, with my humble collaboration, given in an unfortunate moment of excitement ex-citement and madness, has disturbed. "My salvation, after being condemned con-demned by the law and conscience to die, can only be the work of big hearts like yours, to which I appeal, and in which I put my trust, for the love of my good mother, who will be made happy by your noble action. Your servant. serv-ant. (Signed) "LEROY CANNON." "Senor Gen. Don J. Santos Zelaya, Campo de Marte: As you have always been magnanimous toward all, I pray you, in the name of God, to grant me clemency, now that I am in distress. I will, remain your grateful servant for life. For God's sake have pity on me. tour servant and brother Mason, "L. W. GROCE," "El Castillo, Nov. 14, 1909. "Senor Gen. Don J. Santos Zelaya, Campo de Marte: I reiterate my piea, Mr. President. I am guilty, as I have confessed, but I promise you, general, never again to mix in the political affairs af-fairs ot this country, which I love as my n because my adored wife is a Isicc. .3uan. She and my four children win ik: happy through your magnanimity. magnanim-ity. Your servant, fraternally, "LEONARDO W. GROCE." Washington A million members by March 1 to wage battle against the trufcts controlling the necessaries of life is the hope of leaders for the movement for the National Anti-Trust league. For final action regarding the organization of the league" invitations have been sent to every senator and representative in Washington, besides all prominent citizens, to attend a meeting here next Saturday, Preaidciu Taft will be invited. It is the plan of the leaders to obtain ob-tain the co-operation of congressmen. The senators from each state will be asked to suggest a man and woman as directors of the league and every representative rep-resentative will be invited to name men and women from his district to act as district representatives. For financial support the league will rely on a membership fee of 25 cents, 10 cents of which will go to the l a-tional a-tional organization and 13 cents to lh? state branches. Working capital of 5250,000 for the expenses of the fight against the trusts, it is expected, will be raised by March. Norman. Okla. F. R. Andrews, formerly for-merly a furniure merchant of Chicago, but who, with his family, came three weeks ago to live with his father-in-law, M. C. Pahlman, near Norman, was found hanging to a rafter in the barn there yesterday. Andrews, it is said, was once prominent on the Chicago board of trade, where he lost nearly everything and then suffered a collapse. The body will be sent to Ohio, his former for-mer home, for burial. Washington Cardinal Gibbons called to pay his respects to President Taft, The President expressed deep regret at the death of Cardinal Satolli. Philadelphia The sleet and rain storm which lasted fortv-eieht hours in this city was indirectly responsible for four fatalities and the serious injury of scores of persons. Four men met death; two being electrocuted bj-crossed bj-crossed wires, one dying from exposure expos-ure and the fourth, a brakeman, slipped from his ice-covered freight car. New York In accordance with a curious cu-rious provision in fhe will of John W. Wallace, a Brooklyn millionaire, who died a few Cays ago, his body has beeuj cremated and the ashes scattered in. a field. "I believe a man gets out of life all that he is entitled to," says the will. "And when he dies, he should not occupy ground that may be needed by future generations for highways or for planting corn." Washington Solitary confinement with a bread and water diet, it was annourctd, has become the popular form of sentences imposed by United States army courts-martial on soldiers found guilty of desertion or abscence without leave. Recently, several such cases have arisen in the department of the east, and this kind of sentence was imposed with the approval of Maj. Gen. Wood, the commander. Liverpool The Atlantic steamship companies today agreed to an advance of. west-bound passenger rates of at least 5' per cent. . - Cadriu, Spain A hurricane wrecked the village of La Linea, nenv the Gibraltar Gi-braltar boundary line, in this province. prov-ince. Forty houses fell. Rome Funeral rites over the body of Cardinal Satolli were held Tuesday at the Church of St. John Lateran. There were present all the cardinals and the officials of the Vatican, the diplomats accredited to the Holy See, members of the Roman aristocracy and many An.ericans. The latter included Princess Rospigliosi, formerly Miss Marie Ma-rie Jennings Reid of New Orleans, who was assisted by Cardinal Satolli in obtaining ob-taining the annulment of her marriage to Col. F. IT. Parkhurst. Cardinal Yircenzo Vannutelli pronounced pro-nounced tlu absolution at the catafalque. cata-falque. Monsigneur Kennedy, rector of the American college was present with the college choir, which sai.'g with the choir of the Sistine chapel. Dubuque, la. Archbishop Keane, who is in ill health, announced yesterday yester-day that upon the appointment of a coadjutor, which event probably will be announced from Rome within a month, he would retire from participation in the affairs of the diocese. Mexico City President Diaz has sent a congratulatory telegram" to President Madriz of Nicaragua. It was in reply to one received from Madriz, stating that he is now head of the government. govern-ment. . St. Louis Rev. Martin S. Brennan, astronomical instructor at Kendrick seminary, located Halley's comet through a six-inch telescope last night, using 214 diameters a few degrees due east of Albenib (Tamma) and Pegasus. This is the first time the comet has been located through a small telescope. Rome In the death of Cardinal Satolli, Sa-tolli, the Catholic church loses one of its strong men and the church in America one of its finest friends at the Vatican. Cardinal Satolli knew more about conditions in America than any dignitary connected with the Curia, Cu-ria, and the holy father depended largely large-ly on his judgment when questions affecting af-fecting American church affairs were under discussion. Monsignor Satolli also stood high in the confidence of Cardinal Mery del Va, the papa? secretary sec-retary of state, and was frequently called into consultation by him when knotty questions were to be solved. Berlin Lieutenant Ernest Shacklcton announces that he will head another Antarctic expedition. Shackleton, on his last expedition, got within 111 miles of the south pole. St. Petersburg A story of how the czar, like Harounal-Raschid, took a two hours' walk disguised as a simple soldier is officially reported from Li-vadia Li-vadia by the court bulletin. His majesty ma-jesty wore the- uniform of a private of the Sixteenth rifle regiment, with complete com-plete accoutrements; a rifle, 120 cartridges car-tridges and a flask filled with water. The, czar walked alone. Unrecognized, he saluted the officers, and he thus had an opportunity of seeing the soldier's life as it really is, and not as it appears ap-pears at imperial parades. A second anecdote also comes from Livadia, though unofficially. The czar, accompanied by an adjutant, was strolling stroll-ing in the gardens when he suddenly noticed a sentry attacked by hemorrhage. hemor-rhage. The man vainly tried to salute the emperor. His majesty at once sent his aide-de-campe to order the soldier to leave his post and to report himself to a doctor. But the sentry refused, declaring de-claring that he was bound by oath rather ra-ther to die than to leave his post without with-out being relieved. The emperor himself him-self then approached the soldier, and observed to him that by the same oath he was bound first to obey his emperor, emper-or, and that by the military code he, the czar, had, together with the officer of the guard, alone the right to relieve a sentry. The czar ordered the soldier to pass him his rifle and to be off at once. The emperor then stood on duty till the guard hurried to relieve the imperial im-perial sentry. Pittsburg Surgeons at Kittinang. Pa., had placed Norman Barnett, the little son of George Barnett, on the operating op-erating table to cut out his appendix. Just as the knife was ready the lad was seized with a fit of coughing which cured him. He coughed up a needle which is believed to have caused his illness. He is rapidly recovering. New York The sharp teeth and claws of Clayton, a trained leopard, nearly cost, the life of Mrs. Pauline Russelle, his trainer, today, but the length of his tail saved her. Clayton was ugly and would not pes-form. pes-form. Mrs. Russelle prodded him with an iron bar and called to her assistant for aid. As she turned her head to call for aid, the leopard leaped, bore his mistress to the ground and stood over her growling. The quick-witted assistant spang to the cage, grasped Clayton's tail, took a hitch around, the bars of the cage with it and rescued Mrs. Russelle in safety. The woman was badly torn, and at the hospital it was said her recovery is doubtful. The attack occurred in private training quarters. Pekin The highest government officials offi-cials are pessimistic with regard to British support of the proposals of the American government relative to the Manchurian railways, but believe that more active German support would bring about a realization of the scheme. The Chinese government is placing reliance in W. W. Rockhill. the American Ameri-can embassador at St. Petersburg, to secure Russian assent to the proposals, which would also mean French support. sup-port. Parma. Italy On the hills between Parma and Piacenza, an immense landslide land-slide is slowly moving. It is two miles in length, half a mile wide and its depth is estimated at seventy-five feet. On top of the slide is the village of scopoio, recently occupied by a thousand thou-sand people. The village is doomed to destruction and the inhabitants have abandoned it, transporting their valuables valua-bles and the furnishings and altars of their churches to safer ground. El Paso. Tex. Supposing he was suffering suf-fering from catarrh, E. P. Stegall, a roundhouse foreman for the Soutliern Pacific railroad at Valentine, came to El Paso today for treatment, and a surgeon removed a knife blade two Inches long from his nose. Stegall mi with an accident twenty-two years ago and had carried the blade in his nose since- Tallahasse, Fla. In a struggle early today with two safeblowers, Paul Sauls, 17 years of age, who was left to watch the postoffice building, shot and killed them both in the basement of the building. build-ing. The boy was only slightly injured. in-jured. The cracksmen, both of whom were white, have not been identified. Young Sauls was on duty for his father, fa-ther, who is night watchman at the building. Some one knocked on the door and shouted that a mail pouch had been picked up in the street and the boy opened he door to receive it. The lad found himself looking into the barrels of two pistols and the order or-der came to "hands up." "My hands came up as they pounced upon me," he said. "As they tried to bind me with a rope, I managed to get my pistol in, line and fired, the shot taking effect, for one of the men clung to me. I then placed my pistol on my shoulder and fired to the rear several times, after which I was free from their grasp." That every shot from the boy's revolver re-volver hit its mark is shown by the bullet holes in the dead men. One has holes in his forehead and right temple, while the other was shot through the stomach and face. Boston Boston Tuesday in the first partyless election held under a new charter elected former Mayor John F. Fitzeerald to fill the mayor's chair again, this time for a four-year term, giving him 46,968 votes, and a plurality i of 1,223 over his nearest opponent, i James J. Storrow, banker, former president pres-ident of the chamber of commerce and former chairman of the scho'ol board. The most remarkable feature of the election to many was the small vote of 1,783 given to the present mayor, George A. Hibbard, who received 3S,00d votes two years ago, being elected on a "reform" ticket over Fitzgerald. The fourth mayorality aspirant, Nathaniel Na-thaniel H. Taylor, found only 629 supporters. sup-porters. The campaign, noteworthy in many ways, was easily Boston's greatest. A record vote 95,125 more than 84 per cent of the registration, was cast. Mr. Fitzgerald won his victory in spite of the fact that not one of the daily newspapers of the city supportel him. He based his campaign on a plea for vindication, his previous term in office having been conspicuous for the exposure by the finance commission of graft among a number of his subordinates subordin-ates in the city hall. Like Mr. Storrow, Stor-row, he is a Democrat in national, anJ has been a Democrat also heretofore, in local j.o'ifics. Reno, New One of the largest land deala thai has been consumriated in the state for some time has just been completed in the office of the surveyor genoral at Carson. Salt T.-fre capitalists, capital-ists, Emong whom are included the 31c-Cornick 31c-Cornick interests, have filed in the neighborhood of 500 applications of land owned by the state aggregating 53,229 acres. The first payment on thi.-land, thi.-land, which will be made in a" few days, amounts to $13,307.23. The Jano is located in every county of the state, with the exception of Ormsby county, which has practically no land for sale owned by the state. After the first payment has been made, and the applications issued by the surveyor general, contracts will b signed up for the payment of the balance bal-ance of the purchase price. These contracts con-tracts bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, and the entire amount may be paid at any time within with-in the next fifty years. Paris The government has decided upon measures to meet the war proclaimed pro-claimed by the episcopate against the public school, and Minister of Education Educa-tion Doumergue will announce the following fol-lowing decisions during the forthcoming forthcom-ing debate on the school question in the chamber of deputies: First A modification of the bill recently re-cently introduced to enable the government govern-ment to clothe the public authorities with full power to meet the siuation at every point. Second The submission of a bill Introducing In-troducing state control in Catholic or so-called private schools. Third The substitution of the state as the defendant for teachers in suits brought against them by Catholic parents' par-ents' associations. Washington Former Queen Lilui-kolani Lilui-kolani of Hawaii, accompanied by a party of relatives and friends, arrived in Washington. They took quarters at a hotel, with the intention of remaining remain-ing several weeks. Ottlwa, Ont. Hon. Sydney Fisher, Canada's minister of agriculture, professes pro-fesses to see the time ahead when the United States will have ceased, by reason rea-son of congestion of population, to be the food producing nation that she is. But he gives assurance that there neea be no fear, as Canada will then be more than able to feed us all. Mi-. Fisher naid that in ten years Canada's products of agriculture had increased from $100,000,1)00 to $563,000,000,' and that she has net touched the fringe of her possibilities. Berlin Emperor William opened the Prussian diet this week. The proposed ' legislation outlined in the speech from the throne includes a bill for the reform of the election law and another to counteract the tendency of the laboring labor-ing classes to desert the farming districts. dis-tricts. The speech foreshadowed a considerable consider-able deficit in the forthcoming budget, notwithstanding the increased receipts through improved conditions of trade. The deficit is due chiefly to increases of $30,000,009 in the salaries of government govern-ment employes. i New York Mrs. T. P. O'Connor, wife of the Irish Nationalist, who came t( this country to cure her insomnia, confesses that her first nights in New York City have shown no signs that she has been benefited by her brief stay here. New Yorkers are viewing her experiment with particular Interest, be cause Mrs. O'Connor is probably the first person in the world who ever came to New York to try to find sleep. "But I hope for better results after a few days," said Mrs. O'Connor hopefully. hope-fully. . "Anyway, I am going to try it for three weeks, and if the air and climate cli-mate doesn't help me then I shall have to go back to England." New York George Maddox, said by the police to be a leader of the "rope ladder band.'.' who worked daily in a eymnasium to keep in proper physical trim, is under arrest here. The police, searching his aoartments after his arrest, ar-rest, took $3,000 !n valuables from trunt's and closets, three revolvers, a crucible and several ingots of gold and t silver. Maddox is being held for the grand jury in $10,000 bail. "Well," he said to the detectives, "T led ytsi fellows a merry chase, anyway." any-way." According- to the police, Maddox was a daring and methodical worker. He would hitch his rope to a chimney and lower himself clown to unlocked windows win-dows to effect an entrance. He is 24 1 years old. said to be of good family and ruined by stcck speculation. Chicago. The Chicago Federation of Labor adopted resolutions calling upon the national pure food commission to investigate if peanut shells constitute the basic element in the manufacture of breakfast foods. "In a recent freight train wreck it was discovered that several cars consigned con-signed to breakfast food concerns were loaded with peanut sheels from the peanut butter factories in the south," said President John S. Fitzpatrick. Seoul, Korea. Viscount Sone Japanese Japan-ese resident general in Korea, left for l'okio. Many civil and military officials, offi-cials, both Japanese and Korean, the xoreiegn consults and other friends, gathered at the railroad station to , wish the viscount a pleasant trip home I and an early return here. It is believed that the resident general gen-eral will explain his Korean policy to the Japanese government, and if the same is indorsed he will return. Should the government fail to approve his plans he will proably resign. Washington. After having been in the course of construction for four years, the new national museum in this city wiil be opened to the public by the middle of February. ne section of the mammoth building has been practically completed. It is in this building that the Koosevelt collection col-lection of African mammals will be exhibited. ex-hibited. It will take a year, however, to mount sufficient of these trophies to make a fair showing in the exhibition halls. London. After Jan. 10, when the writs will issue for the election, the peers will be debarred from taking further part in the campaign. They are showing feverish anxiety to utilize the remaining week to the best advantage. They will address 116 Conservative meetings. A list of candidates so far prepared shows no fewer than fifty three-cornered contests, which probably would give seats to the Conservatives, but the labor candidates apparently have no disposition to yield. For the first time the Conservatives have four labor candidates in the field. The Unionist association of Ireland has issued a manifesto to the British electors, accusing the Nationalist par- j i ty of separatist designs, which is I j proved, the manifesto asserts, by the i , party's acceptance of American-Irish ' fuodns, and the recent tour of Captain ! Condon and John O'Callaghan. dele- ! gates from, the United Irish league of j the United States, as John F. Redmond's Red-mond's guests. ' The manifesto warns the British peo- pie that home rule would lead to Irish independence, involving a standing i menace from a military and naval j standpoint. ' William 'Brien. who formerly rep- ! resented the Nationalists of Cork in ! parliament, has decided to return to ; politics. He was nominated as a can-didate can-didate for Cork'City. i Rev. J. Campbell, pastor of the City J Temple, in his sermon related a char- i acteristic anecdote. He was the guest. ! early last year, at a luncheon party. ! The conversation turned on what each i would do if he knew that he had onlv ' two months to live. Chancellor Lloyd- 1 George, who was present, replied: "I would introduce my budget and i proceed with it until my appointed i time, so that I could leave the world ! with a good conscience." j i Chicago. An exiting chase through the sr.ov.- and a revolver battle betwee two vobhrrs who attempted to rob the posio.T-je and residents of Norwood Park, a suburb, resulted in the capture ' of one robber and the wounding of the j other. j i London. Prolonged earth shocks, ex- J tending over two hours were recorded on the Isle of Wight and at the ob- I servatory at Laibach on Saturday. They were estimated to be about .".600 miles distant. The West Indian Cable company reports all well in the islands. Den-er. Harvey A. Shlpman, a min- Ing engineer of international reputa- j tion, died here Sunday night of pneu- j monia. 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