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Show it COALVILLE TIMES. M. J. PETEKSON. U IiUmI -- JUll, Edil.r IM PmMAn Ib MM, a tnuM Mr IU (mMI. MmkHlat lUMi. DUk, wtMurnoii. TMIltMMMaMMMMll 1 lM M e BBBM VTAH STATE NEWS Blstera Succumb in an Effort to Sava Lives of Helpless Children. Montreal. The little village of St Gpnevieve Is In mourning pver the loss of fourteen lives in a fire which destroyed the convent of Ste. Anne there early Friday. One nun, nine- - children ranging In aee from 10 to 19. and four ag d women perished In ihe flHmes. Two nuns were so severely burned that In their grief is feared they will die over the catastrophe the villagers In find some comfort lfiating the heroism displayed by Sisier Marie Adjuteur, who gave up her life and Sisters Marie Therese and Marie Koo ertlne, who were perhaps faullv burned In their efforts to save the lives of the children and helpless old wt men In their chaige. The fire started about midnight In the old ladles hospital and the smoke was so thick that the (blldren on the floor above were unat le to get down A number of new cues of smallpox were reported In Salt Lake last week. Bingham Junction In to have a new bank to be called the Jordan State bank. For the coming achool year $514,000 will be needed to run the 8alt Lake City school The public school pupils of Salt Lake planted 19.119 trees, shrubs and plants at their homes on Arbor day. The Salt Lake branch of the Wells SUIT FOR A GALLOWS. - Fargo ft Co.'s - hank has been purchased by Walker Brothers. "bankers. Remarkable Action' Filed in a Montana Town. Louis Beckham and Joseph Knaacb Mont -A remaikable Lewlstown two lads who escaped from the Re form school at Ogden, havg been re- civil act. on has just been Instituted Ares against by County Attorney captured. Sixteen candidates came up for ex Tubbs Bros., lontraitors. It grows tin- old county jail, amlnatlon before the State board of out of the sale of was bought tn by the contractwhlih ol week. Seven pharmacists last ors for $10,0110 According to their these received --certificates. weie to have all understanding, they August 24 will be Ctahday at the of the old timber in the Jail yard, and Lewis and Glark centennial exslt!on. so they carried away the gallows. A movement la on fst to have the this week the sherifT of Meagher Tabernacle choir present on that date county appTtedtf Sheriff 81ater for A number of senators and congress executhe use of the galloWw-forthmen will visit Utah during the month tion of H H. Metzger. It wAs-the- n at June for the purpose of becoming discovered that the gallows was mlsaT better posted upon Irrigation matters Ing. Tubbs tlros. assert they believed The report of the Grand lodge, I. O they had bought the gallows. The O. Fh of Utah, shows there were but county commissioners dispute this twenty-fou- r deaths of members of that and will bring an action to compel the order In this state during the past contractors to return the gallows or year. to pay Us value. Members of the Denver business Shaking Up In Indian Department mea'a association will visit Salt 3. com be will The May ob party Washington. Fred H. Wilson, act-fa- g . posed of about ISO of Denvers leading superintendent, and seven clerks buslnea a men. of the Indian warehouse in New York The aeaaloa of the Grand lodge, 1. City were summarily dismissed from . O. O. F., held fa Balt LakejCity last office Friday by Secretary Hitchcock, was well week, attended, every lodge as the result of revelations made in an la the atate except one having a full Inspection of the office by Indian Inspector Nealer, who preferred charges representation. of Irregularity in the conduct of the At Moab, the, Jury in the case of including Wilsons accounts, In W. F. Reeder brought 1a a verdict of Bot guilty of the murder of the Ute order to protect a number of emIndian, Bill Charley, The Jury was ployees who were not performing any service for the government Tbls out forty-livminutes. Wilson was able to do by .reason of tne tact that he was also the disburslight between a coyote and a. bulling agent for tbe warehouse. dog one dar last week, the coyote were fourteen persons on the There proving the victor, literally chewing while Inspector Nesler aspayroll, his adversary to shreds. serts tbst four or five were sll that A new trial has been ordered at were necessary. Of those on the roll Edmonton, Man,, for Charles King, the It la asserted several were rendering Utah rancher who. was found. guilty no service. whatever. One of them aad sentenced to hang for the murder waa a barkeeper, who, It Is charged, ot his companion, Henry Hayward. seldom visited the office. The Independent Telephone company hat a force of men erecting poles Senator Platt ia Dead. between Lehi and the point of tbo Washington. Conn. United States mountain. They will have the line Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt of constructed as far as Lehl this week. Connecticut died at his summer home The total enrollment of Salt Lake in Washington, his native place, at Citys public schools for the past 8:53 Friday night. The end came almonth baa. been 12,567. The average most unexpectedly, the immediate number of pupila per teacher Is 39. cause being the breaking of the abThere have been 971 cases of tardi- scess which had formed ln the right ness. lung and which produced strangula' Through aa explosion In (he bottom tion. Mr. Platts family was present of the Howard abaft at the Columbus when the end came. The funeral will Consolidated mine at Alta, two min- probably be held next Tuesday, with ers, Jury Lowney and Horace Kelly, service In the Congregational churcn. lost their Uvea Friday afternoon of Both houses of congress will be represented. last week. - e i ' FOILED PLOT TO PARTITION CHINA of-fle- e 1 ' VETERAN ACTOR DEAD. PROTECT PANAMA Emperor William and Secretary flay policy of throwing about Chinas la Nipped in the Bud Well Laid tegrlty all the protection which the Scheme of Franca. moral Influence of the United States could sway. This waa true. But it was soon discovered that the initiaTHE SECRET HAS LEAKED OtfT. tive of this action really came from the German emperor" who suggested Old World Powers Had Planned a the step through his able embassador to Washington, Baron Von Sternburg. Division of Eastern Asia, But Thsfr Schemes Came to Naught.' - Recently the state department per mltted the publication of a brief chapter of the diplomatic correspondence Washington. An Interesting diplo- of the United States." which afforded matic secret, certain ample explaining proof that the move in ques events of the past and having an im- tion waa made at the instance of the s portant bearing upon the future kaiser. of the powers, may now be disEmperor William's motive in this closed The information comes at n action has never been explained. The opportune moment, for just now tie explanation Is now given upon unlm diplomatic world IX eagerly dlseuc-In- peachable authority. the alleged violation of neutralIn December, 19U3, and January s ity by France In permitting and February, 1904, the kalBer dis fleet to make use of Kam-ran- covered evidence that indisputable hay as a base. There are w'dl Foreign Minister Dehassa of France defined rumors of the formation, of a was working upon a project of enorcloser alliance between Great Dfritaln mous importance and slg THREW GIRL FROM BRIDGE. and Japan, an alliance which. If tf-- nlflcance. Delcasse was easting ferred, may send the English fleets to about for DK,ans 0f averting the war Crazed With Drug, Cincinnati Man Commits Terrible Crime. Japans assistance in case the Ras The plan was nothing less than tht slans win a victory over Togos ships formation of a new alliance, or an ar Cincinnati. Charles Finch was aranl in foreign chancellories? and la rangement which would have had all rested. charged with throwing Loretta embassies both here and abroad much the force of an alliance, concerning Kreckeler, aged 9 years, from th speculation Is rife as to whether the the far eastern question. First, France Liberty street viaduct to the ground victorious Japanese ever will get ottt and Great Britain were to reach an below, a distance of eighty-threfeet. of Manchuria, or whether on onspre-tex- t understanding as to their alms in The girl is In a serious condition and or another, they will remain there China and In eastern Asia generally. expected to die at any moment. Flncb Indefinitely and virtually add that Then each was to use Its influence to was Identified by both the girl and rich empire of 50,000,000 of people to bring Its brother, who was a witally into the combination her their territorial possessions. When arrested Ln other ness to the crime. terms. j upon The disclosure involves the United words, France was to was Finch with In cocaine, and stupefied Russia, bring States and all the leading powers of and Great Britain was to bring in a large box of the dnig was found In Europe It will be remembered that Japan. Details as to the form of the his pocket. a few days after the outbreak of hos According to the story of the bov, proposed agreement are lacking. It Is tllit lea between Russia and Japaa quite likely they were not formulated the children were on their way to fourteen months ago, Secretary Haf beyond general terms It is known, school when they were suddenly lent out to the powers his now fa- however, that they contemplated a Stopped bv a man ln the middle of the viaduct. The man grabbed at the boys mous note asserting tho principle of division of eastern Asia Into spheres hat, and the girl told him not to touch the maintenance of thendpalalstra-tlv- of influence in which each of the par it. The man then declared, Ill throw entity of China and lnvlting''aA ties to the agreement was to exercise you over the bridge, and. seizing thf rights girl, tossed her over the viaduct ral herence thereto. At the time It was paramount This Is the great scheme that was and then escaped. ' generally supposed Mr. Hay had done foiled by the aeticn of Secretary Hay this in pursuance of his and the German emperor. RELIEVED THE TENSION. Insurrection Prevented by Representative of Uncle Sam. corre Washington. Diplomatic spondence made public at the state department contains a dispatch from Minister Barrett at Panama, giving an account of the assistance rendered there at by him in averting trouble the time of the attempted revolution led by General Huertas last November. After it had been arranged that Gen eral Huertas should resign and the Panama army disbanded, a hitch oc' curred. About fifty soldiers marched, house, unarmed, to the government followed by a great crowd, and the president of the republic that they would not accept the government's terms of being paid off In two payments, but demanded the whole pay.at that time. Minister Barrett, who was present at the time, advised the president to be absolutely firm, but the soldiers persisted and muttered threats against the president. Minister Barrett then addressed tbe soldiers, telling them that if they did not accept these terms and engaged in any acts of insurrection, riot or mutiny, they would be dealt with in a most summary way. and that if necessary the naval forces, in the bay and the marines at Ancon and Empire would be used to maintain order, with tho severest punishment for those who Miniswere responsible for disorder ter Barretts address bad the desired effect. iel&-tlon- g Rqjest-rensky- h Jefferson Succembs Joseph Heroic Struggle Against Grim Reaper. West Palm Beach. Fla. Joseph Jef ferson the eminent actor, died at his home. The Iieefv,' at Palm Beach at 6:15 Sunday evening The end cam after a day of unconsciousness and after a hetuic struggle of days which bad exhausted his vitality. At the death-behis wife, his sons Charles and Frank Jefferson, his nurse. Miss Mabel Bineham.Dr K B Potter and his faithful servant, Carl Ketteler, were present. The sickness of Mr Jefferson which ended In his death was contracted, it Is believed, while on a recent visit to his son, Charles B. Jefferson, at Hobs Sound, a few miles above Palm Beach, where he went to meet bis friend, former President Cleveland It Is believed that from a slight Indiscretion in his eating there he suffered an attack of Indigestion Since his return to his home his condition grew steadily wors-- with slight rallies until the end g e well-define- well-define- d MASSACRE OF RUSSIANS PREDICTED St Petersburg. The new from paints a picture of veritable before the expected storm. A litI ter received here reads: "You know what happened at Warsaw. but you only know part of whit la occurring throughout the countiy. All Poland ia In a great conflagration of socialism, terror of which la ever"We ywhere exciting a terrible panic. expect at Easter a general mgsssne ot the Russian 'goverWent filEo and the wealthy, and the blowing up ot the Vistula bridge to prevent tbe arrival of troops from Russia. "The police are doing notllng. They pretend to be blind and deaf to what Is passing on around Bern. The existing regime Is the caum of discontent, which Is on the increase among the Idle workmen driven from Japan Has Received the Reply of thf French Government. Toklo. The announcement that ln response to Japans' representations France has promised the expulsion of the Russian second Pacific squadron from Kamranh bay and affirmed her determination to maintain neutrality ia received here with pleasure and has relieved the tension of popular feel Inc, although It la believed that If entered Kamranh bay for the purpose of finally preparing for a dash north the purpose was aeeom pllshed before he was ordered to leave. There la also a supicion that Rojest ensky may simply make a technical removal from French territorial waters by going outside the three-mil- e limit. Hence the incident will remain unclosed until the Russians dewaters. part from the factories and railroads because they ale Poles. They say they will have vengeance." A letter from VUna saya: Work Is Impossible under the existing conditions the government's endless commissions have accomplished, and the landlords, workmen and peasants are convinced that open revolt and the bayonet are the only remedies. Easter may witness the inauguration of another Insurrection like that of 1863, which began as this mayj with a Russian massacre. Commenting on the above, the Rasa must act declares tbe government promptly if awful carnage is to be avoided. Tbe only thing to be done, It says; Is to summon the moderates GARMENT WORKERS QUIT. to give guarantees that the promised Declare Sympathetic Strike With reforms will be realized. Drivers is Futile. Chicago. Discord has broken out among the principals In the Montstrike. Sunday night This Is the third of the Burton boys gomery Ward Garment union decided Workers the to die a vlolest death. Fletcher Burto break away from the teamsters nn ton was killed by Ben Walker ln 1891, til the latter organization decldes to still a fugitive from and Walker spread the strike to other organizajustice. The Gibson brothers were tions. as accessories to the crime convicted Officials of the garment workers deand sentenced to life imprisonment, clared that the present sympathetic Strike of the teamsters against Mont hut were subiequently pardoned. Ward ft Co. to enforce the Jim Burton was shot down on the pomery. demand of the garment workers, was same night t at Fletcher was killed, fruitless and that nothing was to be but he recovted, only to meet death gained by remaining with the teama year later i the hands of C. H. Al- sters. This decision of the garment work lison, a parth in of the Gibsons. Alli- era Is likely to put an end to the presson was subs quently acquitted. ent controversy. Indo-Chine- PISTOL DUEL IN CALIFORNIA TOWN Bakersfield, Cal. A feud betseen two well known mountain families, the Walkers and Burtons, and extending over a period of two decides, broke out again tn the mining tows of Havllah Monday afternoon, vhen Newt Walker and Dave Burton foight a pistol duel ln tbe street, resulting ln the Instant death of Burton and hts companion, a man named Bagsby. Ten or a dozen shots were fired before Burton fell, and Walker, after reloading hla pistol, made his esespe and Is now bidden In the mountain fastnesses. The wool situation tn Utah took a Dowds Asks for Protection. epurt Friday when 150,000 pounds of Washington. Acting Secretary the clip at Milford was sold for 20 Loomis has received a cable from the cents a pound. That is the highest consul Texas. Congressman Hempstead, general at Shanghai confirmpries that has ever been paid for ing the report of the attack three other Chi- John M. Pinckney and by southern Utah wool. nese on Mr. Kennedy, the Dowie mis- men were killed at a mass meeting Peter A. Stone; aged 21, of Ogden, sionary at Tslngll, and stating that al- here Monday night, called for the purla dead as the result of a fall from his though he had been badly injured, the pose of petitioning the governor to bicycle. Ha la the third member ol missionary would recover. Before the send rangers here to enforce the lo- President Spends Sunday In Camp. Glenwood Springs, Colo. President Roosevelts hunting party, ln camp fifto sec etary Congressman teen miles northwest of New Castle, private Pinckney, w s making a speech to a spent a quiet Sunday. The party had motion. Cai aln Brown had the floor. been Invited to attend church services He used lan uage which was objected at New Castle, but it was decided that hunting togs would be inharmonious to, and at e same time grasped with Easter gladness. After a week ln Tompkins I the coat. Congressman the saddle the sportsmen welcomed Pinckney ?rang forward and the the chance to rest. Bear tracks have an no one appearing to been sighted ln several directions b( shooting from the present camp, and It Is know who red the first shot though by the party that at least one It Is sajd t at a kinsman of Brown more bear will be bagged before another move Is made. fired, and hat Congressman Plnck to A first number fall. was tl ney Castro Will Challenge Fate. of men apt ared to be engaged ln the Venezuela President CasCaracas, shooting, a d something like 100 shots , course of a speech at were fired. Brown was a lawyer who tro, lnonthe "I do not be19, said: April had been pacticing here for twenty lieve there Is a possibility of a new conflict for the republic, but If. against years. reason, right and Justice, anything Is which I do not wish to qualnocent bys finder. Porter la said to cogitating, I swear to you I shall know how ify. have been ntoxlcated. He declares to draw Inspiration from the memory to sesre Reives, but of the valor patriots exhe flred- -l formerly and If encour-sgemen- t that whisk polled his aim. The buk hibited In these plains; Is wanting I shall seek It ln let almost ent through ' Schediks Inbreast, jus below the heart. Porter the indomitable character of the habitants of these districts, and so is tn Jail. supported, challenge fate. MASS MEETING ENDS IN TRAGEDY bis family to meet death as the result fall, bis father and a brother both meeting death In that manner. Bheep shearing la In active progress at Webbs shearing corral, west of Lhl. The sheep are reported In better condition than for years, and tho fleeces are heavier than In recent years and the wool of a superior grade. The Grand Army veterans of Utah are making great preparations fu their annual encampment at Ogden, May 15. when they will have with them as guests. Commander-In-Chie- f W. M. Blackmore of Boston, Adjutant General J E. Gilman and their families. David Fisher shot Joe Brown, a Portuguese, at Qphir, the hair striking the man in the head, death resulting. Fisher is tn Jail aad avers that the deed was committed In self defense. The Portuguese is said to have been a drinking man and very quarrelsome. During the thunderstorm at Mt. Pleasant, lightning struck the reel deuce of Stuart Seely and did) tome damage to the walls of the building, but fortunately no one waa burt. Tbe family had not arisen for the day when the bolt truck the house. of a r cablegram arrived a message waa cal option law. at the department from Mr. J. M. Brown, a leading lawyer and Dowie, dated at a jjlace ln Arkansas began on his private car, asking Mr. Loomis prominent the shooting, which became - general for protection for hla missionary; in an instant Showed Disrespect to Fellow Member. The dead are: J. N. Brown, ConSpringfield. A peculiar spectacle gressman John M. Pinckney, Tom was witnessed In the lower house ot Pinckney, brother of the congressthe Illinois legislature Friday. Revers- man; John Mills n leading prohibing all precedents, members of the itionist bouse unanimously remained seated When the trouble began Tompkins. while the oath of office was administered anew to Representative Frank Bystander Gets the Bullet. Comerford, recently expelled because of failure on his part to substantiate Schefilk Glendive, Mont. Joseph charges which he made alleging cor- was shot and probably fatally woundruption on the part of his fellow mem-ber- s ed at Wibaux, Monday, by Homer Porof the legislature. Comerford. ter, while the latter waa engage l in after his expulsion, was by a row with William Reives, known as hla constituents. Dead wood Dick. Schedlk was an in d Dies With Hit 8scret Tacoma, Wash. A man known here aa J. C. Johnson died Friday. Before dying he summoned his family and several neighbors, and with great effort, confessed that bis true name was George W. Deal, and that he was fugitive, haTlng murdered a men In Texas. Johnson said he lost his first family In" the Galveston flood, and the crime committed after that, While trying to go Into details the sick man dtJ and the story of hla crime remained un u t-- UNCLE SAM WOULD After M.ntjw hfMU la Mnmt Ob FOURTEEN CREMATED IN A CONVENT FIRE Noted Coast Pioneer Dead. Berkeey, Cal. pr. Gideon A. Weed Is dead here at the age of 72 years. He ws a native of New Jersey and resided In Nevada and ln Washington when thore states were admlite 1 into the Union. He organ ed the xtatp medical board of Washington an : for ten years was a ,e.ent ol the nuHe?-sltof that state. He was r of Seattle for two term tervtn lSTS to 1879, and tccl; a Lad ng yir in suppressing the at:t!Chi:sse Go, rs there. ' i d Cala-bazo- " An Vdvance in Wages. ' rittsburf A general advance of in wages is announced 10 per cei by the Ma ifactnrers Association of Murdr Mystery In West Virginia. Huntington, W. Va. Bound hand and foot and tied to a tree, the body CHICAGO WANTS First Steps Taken to Purchase Street Railways. Negotiations for the purchase of the Chicago street railways were opened Wednesday between the traction representatives and the city of Chicago. A proposition is pending under which the companies at once will proceed to modernize their lines and sell to the city at a fair profit, thus getting rid of all legal complications and securing immediate municipal ownership. The nearest approach to definite results obtained from the conference was a practical agreement on a joint conference to be held soon by tbe mayor, the traction interests and the city council committee on transports tlon. PACKERS ON THE CARPET. Kansas Wants Reports of Their Private Car Lines. of Topeka, Kan. Representatives th witAriBoar x4 Dowd Rackln companies and the McDowell Stoc! state board of railroad assessors on Wednesday to explain their failure to make complete reports of their private car lines, as required by the law passed at the recent session of the leg- islature. They said it was Impossible for them to comply with the law at once, as they had not been keeping their records ln a way to make the obtaining of the information easy. Hoch on Trial. Chicago Johann Hoch, bigamist, was placed on trial ln the criminal court tn Chicago Wednesday afternoon for the murder of Marie Waleker Hoch, one of his wives. Mrs. Amelia Fischer Hoch, the defendant's last wife and sister of Mrs. Marie Walrher Hoch, will be one of the principal witnesses for the state. Hoch has entered a plea of not guilty. Mrs. Fischer Hoch declares she saw Hoch give some white powders to her sister just before the latters death. The prosecution, in order to make it possible for a wife to testify, will offer evidence that Mrs. Fischer Hoch waa not Hochs legal wife at the time. REFUSE TO ARBITRATE. Teamsters Strike in Chicago Growing In Proportions. Chicago. Although Influences are still at work ln the hope that an amicable adjustment of the difficulty existing between the teamsters and Montgomery, Ward ft Co. can be reached, the Indications are that the strike of the teamsters will spread to other concerns. Montgomery, Ward ft Co. have steadily refused to arbitrate the demands of the garment workers, although offering to accept conciliatory measures with the teamsters. Cassini Needed at Washington. St. Petersburg. The report that Baron De Rosen, formerly Russian minister at Toklo, will succeed Count Cassini, Russian embassador to the United States, la not confirmed at the foreign office here. On the contray. It Is said that Count Cassinis servlcet at Washington are highly valued, and that no change at present la contemplated. It is regarded as entirely unlikely that the government would agree to Count Cassinis transfer at any time after peace is concluded. Russian Will e Purchase More Boats. SL Petersburg. The American submarine boats have proved so satisfactory that the admiralty has Just signed S large order for additional boats, which will be built at Llbau under the direct supervision of the Inventor. Ex tensive trials have demonstrated the ease and reliability with which the boats can be handled, and especially their large radius of action. Some of the .first lot of submarine- - boats are also on their way to Vladl " man was found near of a become effective on June Big Ugly on Saturday, with a knlfs Pittsburg, I. that wi embrace ia its benefits blade thrust through hla heart His n. consisting of patternthroat had been cut from ear to ear, 8iO!) work Is believed by the authorities uachlnUts, blacksmiths, and ithe was makers, murdered before he was that movers an others connected with the tied to the tree. Pinned to the coat ol mu Mntry ni foundry trades of the the man was a of . iit.v-ergtrlit In announcing the the Inscription: piece paper, bearing t r'rcvlar says the advance v.ium e. Yon will bother ns no more. it msd? v utarliy to the workmen, The Identity of the body and of tbs voetok.were reduced lasr Jwa L whose vb murderers Is a piofond mvstery. well-dress- PUBLIC PLANTS. Amerl-can-Mad- d - V. |