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Show ARMENIANS PROTEST SULTAN'S AGAINST W1IKE PUNS REACH BY CENTRAL WEST Several Deaths, Many Injuries and Much Suffering Follows in Wake jf Worst Storm in Years. In Chicago Traffic on Suburban Unoa Waa Practically Tied Up, Many People Being Unable to Reach Their Homes. Chicago. Several deaths, many injuries and much suffering followed in the wake of one of the worst billiards experienced in this section in several years, which struck this section on Tuesday. Traffic on surface and suburban lines was practically tied up hotels Tuesday night, and down-towwere Oiled with residents of outlying districts, who found themselves unable to reach their homes. The storm, which broke early in the day, raged with increasing fury until nightfall, subsiding somewhat toward midnight. One of the must tragic occurrences In connection with the storm was the wrecking in the harbor at Waukegan of the fishing boat Anspach, in which two men lost their lives and six others had narrow escapes from death. The boat left the harbor early in the day to visit nets set ten miles out in Lake Michigan. Caught In the storm on the return trip the vessel battled with the elements until it regained the harbor at 6 o'clock, only to bo blown against a protection wall and crushed. Captain Oliver Rubier, with five men composing the crew, were thrown upon an ice pack. Four of the men succeeded in clinging to the ice and were rescued. Two slid into the water and were drowned. gale, Milwaukee, Wig. A forty-mil- e a swirling, blinding, drifting mass of snow and a temperature steadily falling toward the zero mark, enveloped Milwaukee In another blizzard Tuesday night. Traffic is again demoralized, the streets are piled with snow and business is practically at a standstill. Trains, both Incoming and outgoing are late. Des Moines, la. The whole state of Iowa was storm-sweTuesday, and trains generally were badly delayed, while telegraph and telephone companies also suffered. In Des Moines street railway traffic waa demoralized all day and residents of many outlying sections were obliged to walk. In the western part of the state the storm was the worst in many years. fourteen Neb. Nearly Omaha, Jncbea of anow fell, the heaviest in twenty years. There was a heavy run of livestock at the yards, and much suffering from the stdnn was n the result from Detroit, Mich. Dispatchesvarious points throughout - Michigan tell of a heavy storm, with high winds and a heavy fall of snow. At Mar shall the fall of snow was reported to reach twelve inches within one hour. Topeka, Kang. Tuesday a blizzard prevailed over Kansas, which begun on Monday evening with a sleet, followed by a rainy night, turning to In Jewell snow Tuesday morning. county the wont storm of years Is reported. In the vicinity of Topeka a half inch of rain has fallen with the temperature at SI degrees above sera. - Stoessel Takes All Blame. St. Petersburg. The trial of Lieutenant Genera Stoessel reached the last act on Tuesday, the prosecution waiving the privilege of putting in rebuttal to the defense. The last word was given to the accused general, who uttered only a few sentences In a firm voice, and shouldered the entire responsibility for the surrender of If the court decides Port Arthur. that the surrender was a crime, he concluded, I ask for the death sentence." Pennsylvania Woman Loses Life Try- ing to 8avo Grandchild. York, Pa. Two deaths resulted from a Are on Tuesday in the home of Isaac Herrington, agent for the Pennsylvania railroad In this city. Herrington started the ktichen Are and stepped outside temporarily. When he returned the house was ablaze. Mrs. Herrington rushed upstairs to rescue a grandchild sleeping there. She was overcome by smoke and suffocated. The child waa also suffocated. To Prosecute Land Grant Railroads In Oregon. Washington. That congress should authorize and direct the attorney general to prosecute land grand railroads In Oregon for not having compiled with the terms of their grants disposing of land in tracts of not mors than ICO acres and at not more than (2.50 per sere, was the subject of a joint resolution reported to the senate on Tuesday and placed sn '.he calendar, from the committee on Judiciary by Senator Fulton, who asked for Its Immediate consideration. Borah's Bill Bumped. senate voted Washington. The down Senator Borah's amendment to the code bill prohibiting senators and congressmen from accepting fees for servicer as attorneys In any court procedure in which the United States is directly or Indirectly Interested. There was no record vote, but only a few senators stood with Borah, Burkett, Brown, Dixon, Bourne, LaFoliette, Clark of Arkansas, Bacon. Stevenson and Rlrhardscn. Senator Borah says he will introduce another MU accomplishing the same object. Much Excitement In Armenia aa Result of Turkish Reserve Forces Being Ordered to the Frontier. Tlflis. MiNE OWNERS FISH IS BEATEN Reports have been received here from Armenia that all the or Turkish army reserve forces, in Van, Mush and other vlilayets of Asia Minor have been called to the colors and are departing rapidly for the frontier. At the same time a league of the Turkish revolutionary party Is increasing the revolutionary agitation. Appeals and proclamations are being issued exhorting the population to protest in every way possible against the warlike plans of the sultan. The league holds that war would be especially disastrous at this time, as then-la famine in Asia Minor. At TlfliB the apprehension of hostilThe Russian ities has not abated. military authorities have ordered that all horses in the Caucasus available for military purposes be registered. The doctors of Tiff Is held a meeting recently and volunteered their services in case of war. The concentration of Turkish reserves on the Persian and Russian frontiers in Asia Minor, if in progress, is an outcome of the border difficulty with Persia. Recently Turkish troops crossed the Persian frontier to the vicinity of Uruinlah and committed depredations. To this Russia, under her treaty obligations to Persia, objected and began the concentration of a strong force on the frontier of the Caucasus. This show of military activity was though to have been sufficient to put a stop to the Turkish agRe-dia- a gression, and the Russian movement was said to have been discontinued. If the reports from Armenia are true, the difficulty In Asia Minor, which is closely connected with the railroad aspirations of the powers in the Balkans, may assume serious im- port Says Standard Oil Company Can Afford to Pay Fine. Washington. Mr. Rainey, of apeaklng on hla bill placing on the five list petroleum, rude and refined, said: The real and effective method of limiting the power of the Standard Oil company, is to remove the tariff ol fifteen cents a gallon on petroleum. Do that be said, and admit Russian oil tree, and you will have struck a Mow at the Standard Oil organization. He charged that whenever a par tlculariy nefarious treat was threatened with some injury it rushed for protection to the Republican party. So long as the present schedule on oil remained, Mr. Rainey asserted, the Standard Oil company could afford to pay the 129,000,000 fine. Ml-nol- AN AND MINERS j NIGHT UNDERSTANDING PAY HARBIN FLOG Masked Men Visit Kentucky Town and Chastise Ten of the Resi8!t take city. A special to the Herald from Goldfield, Nevada, makes dents With Switches. tl statement that members of the Mine operators' association, mostly leaser. who have tired of the light bet cin iii,. mining companies and County Judge la Warned That Hia ll'r lime been In consultation Immunity From Similar Punishith t E. .Mahoney, vice ment Depended Upon Friendpresident of the Western Federation of Miners, ship He Wae Expected to and believe they have reached a mu8how Tobacco Growtual understanding whieli will be ers' Organization. No Appeal From the Decision, But It ie Considered Probable That Mr. Fish Will Takt Further Legal n.iiu-rs- , Steps to Gain Poeaeasion of Road. agreeable to both sides. The proposition iv to adopt ihe Tonopah scale, which in jt.ou for miners, and $4 for muckers, the union to call oft the strike and permit their members to wrork in an open camp. This is the plan now outlined, which is said to meet with the approval of Mahoney, and whh-will be submitted to the association in a day or two. ll seems likely to be accepted, thus ending the strife w iiiiii now interferes with the operation of many properties. Tiie difference in the wage scale would he more than offset in the aav-ir- g in the hire of guards, and would permit iriiiperiies to resume work which are nut so situated that they can prelect their men. The opposition to the plan, it is expected, will come from the Consolidated company, but it is supposed by those interested that this obstacle can be overcome. Chicago. Judge Bell of the superior court on Thursday dissolved the Injunction secured lust Octobed by Stuyvesant Fish, by virtue of which the llarrimau interests were restrained from voting 281,221 shares of the capital stock of the Illinois Central railroad at the annual meeting of the company. The theory on which counsel for Mr. Fish based tbelr arguments In support of the injunction that it was contrary to the laws and puhllc policy of the state of Illinois to allow foreign corporations to own and vote the stock of domestic corporations was denied by the court. Under the ruling of the court the previously enjoined stock, which is held by the Union Pacific railroad and the Railroad Securities company of New Jersey, can be voted at the annual meetiug of the Illinois Central, which is to be held in this city on March 2. There la no appeal from the decision handed down by Judge Bail, but it is considered probable that Mr. Fish will take further legal atepa to regain Central, possession of the Illinois B. Farrar, of New Orleans, Judge who has acted as leading counsel lor Mr. Fish throughout the controversy, said, after the rendering of the decision, that the case will now be tried on its merits, but declined to say how quickly new proceedings will be Instituted. POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS. Senator Knox's Bill Calculated to Economy and Thrift. Washington. Senator Knox introduced si bill to establish a system of The savings honks on Wednesday. Mil embodies the plan outlined by Postmaster General Meyer in bis annual report, and in which he advocated in a public address as being calculated to encourage economy and thrift, and to afford a place of deposit free from any possibility of doubt for vast sums of money which otherwise would be hoarded and kept out of circulation through Ignorance or lack of confidence. The bill authorises the postmaster general to establish a system of postal savings banks comprised of such money order offices an he may designate for that purpose. Accounts may lie opened and deposits made in any postal savings bank established under this set by any person of the age of 10 years or over in his own name, by a married woman in her own name and free from any control or Interference by her husband, by a trustee as such on behalf of another person, or by n parent, guardian or other person for the benefit of n child under 10 years old, or by any charitable or benevolent society or association. Withdrawals of deposits may be made at any time subject to certain rules. The bill carries an appropriation of $100,000 to give it effect. 8TOES8EL SENTENCED TO DEATH Lieutenant General Condemned for Hie Surrender at Port Arthur. St. Petersburg. Lieutenant General to death Stoessel was condemned Thursday evening by a military court for the surrender of Port Arthur to the Japanese. General Fock, who commanded the Fourth East Siberian division of Port Arthur, waa ordered reprimanded for a disciplinary offense which waa not connected with the surrender, and General Smirnoff, acting commander of the fortress, and Major Gen- eral Stoessel, were acquitted of. the charges against them for lack of proof. The court recommended that the death sentence upon Lieutenant General Stoessel be commuted to tea years imprisonment in a fortress, and that he be excluded from the service. General Yoder, president of the Sympathised With the Woman. Denver. The jury In the case of court, read the sentences amid a tense By a great effort of Miss Beatrice Gordon, charged with Bllence. General Stoessel maintained O. W. of the murder Deputy Sheriff rigid, soldierlike, impassivity. General Cartridge and Match in Letter. Shirley, returned a verdict of acquit- Smirnoff also was seemingly unmoved, ' tal. Miss Gordon on the witness stand but there were tears in the eyes of Versailles, Ky. While Assistant told of her relations with Shirley, General Reiss. Postmaster Kelly White was stampwith whom she had lived aa houseing the incoming mall here, a cartPOWDER HOUSE HORROR. keeper for a number of years, and ridge In an envelope which was being claimed that on the night of the killent through the malls exploded. An Four Whits Men and Twenty-eigh- t ing she waa preparing to leave the investigation proved that the letter In Atoms. Blown to Chinamen Shirley home and sever all relations question was one of twenty which with the man. He had abused her Berkeley. Cal With a force that ware received in the name bundle of constantly during all the years she hook the entire bay region like an mail matter at the Versailles office, waa with him, aha claimed, and on earthquake, and a detonation heard and each, in addition to the blood-rethis night advised her to kill heraelf. for miles, the Judson packing house warning to the party addressed, conIn a struggle for the possession of a of the Hercules powder works at Pi- tained n cartridge and a match, indicrevolver, the weapon was discharged nole, fourteen miles north of here, ative, no doubt, of the intention of and Shirley waa killed. The Jury was blew up at 4 oclock Thursday after- the sender, should the warnings not The letters were noon, and in the explosion four whlta be heeded. out leas than an hour. to tobacco growers. Chinamen were men and twenty-fou- r Brutal Murdar at 8cofield. killed. Ten tons of dynamite went up Pitchfork Tillman's Name Used in an Scofield, Utah. A brutal murder oc- In the terrific blast, shattering the W. W. to and Adroit 8windle. dust sheds splinters. curred at this place last Saturday foreman of the packin'! Stillwell, beat Louis when Washington. Loaga literally Rising in the senate night, was blown to atoms at his post to a out the brains of Jerry Berts, an Aus- house, of question privilege. Senator Not a particle of his body of duty. trian countryman, with a was recovered. Manuel Enos, Joseph Tillman on Wednesday made comscantling about six feet In length, and Grace and W. A. Rodregues were the plaint of the use of his name in conwhich had been used for a bar to other white men killed. The twenty, nection with efforts to sell railroad double doors Inside the formers sa- eight dead Include every man who grant lands In the northwest which loon. The dead mans skull was was at work in the packing house. might be affected by the inquiry be has set on foot concerning such lands. crushed In just above the right eye None escaped. The Hercules plant is owned by thn He said hla attention and also at the base of the brain, had been called while another blow broke his neck Du Pont De Mours powder trust, and to a very adroit scheme of swindling used for black the is of manufacture Berts had ejected the murderer from of high explosive power. The In which hia name waa used aa a dea building in which a dance was in powder loss to the company due toi the acci- coy, and that letters bad come from progress, and the murder waa in re- dent is placed at about 1100,000. At Connecticut, Wisconsin, Virginia and Is usnul In such esses, no definite Michigan. venge for this acL cause for the accident can be given. Admiral Evans to Retire. War Would Be Inhuman Event. Slugged, 8hot and Robbed. New York. Declaring that war beWashington Beyond the statement Colorado Springs, Colo. Otto Feh- - that Rear Admiral Roliley D. Evans tween the United States and Japan would be the moat inhuman event ringer, a druggist and wholesale will probably be precluded from com- In the world's history, and was "too llquor dealer of this city, waa slugged. mandlng the Atlantic liatlleahip fleet shot and robbed on a country road n Its return voyage from the Pacific, hellish to be thought of, Baron Takahlrg. the new Japanese am- three mllea northeast of this city. by reason of his retirement on acbassador to Washington, said, upon Thursday evening, by an unknown count of age August 18 next, the navy department officials decline to make landing in New York from the man, who had induced the merchant tliany predictions as to who will be In steamer Etruria that the Japanese to accompany anhim to the place on fine uncle had some pretext that command of the fleet on the homepeople know absolutely nothing of u wine which he wished to sell. Tits break In the cordial relations which robber secured a diamond stud and ward voyage. With the exception of two historic between the been have Sperry, none of the fleet adring valued at $1,000, a roil of bill Admiral mirals with Admiral Evans has much nations. Talk of war, Baron Taka-hlr- and checks amounting to icon. more than a year of active service In declared with much emphasis, ringer ia In a critical condition. was utterly unntelllglbie to him. prospect Fleet at Callao. Buried Underneath Falling House. Wants Judga Impeached. .Callao. The American battlcfdrpK. Washington. A petition for the Im-- j Pittsburg. Friends fear that David under Rear Admiral Evans, looking Reed, 50 years old, a steamboat fire- clean and trim and powerful in the euchment of Judge K R. Wllfley of j man, and Edward' Hobbs, his friend, tropical aun, came to anchor In this Shanghai, judge of the United States are hurled in the debris of two Penn port soon after 8 o'clock Thursday court for China, signed by Iirrin Anavenue houses that collapsed early morning. The booming of salutes an- drews, a resident of Shanghai, and Monday, after the flood liad weakened nounced the arrival of the fleet, hu' other citizens' of the United States their foundations. Reed roomed at there was no need to send out slgnsls. bring there, was Introduced in t.e one of the houses, and was iaat seen for every resident of Callao and grea' house Wednesday by Mr. Waldo of going toward the house. Hobbs la crowds front Lima, that stands bi'k New Yonc. The petition, n voluminous typewritten document, prays for thought to have gone home with him. on the hllla, had awaited with Neither has been seen since. City emthe first glimpse of the advanc- the Imiiesehment of Lebbeua It. for high crimes and mlsdemannrs ployes and others have made a search ing column. The battleships will re i of the ruins, hut the bodies have not maln here ten days. the conduct of his office as Judge opon ebargts of corrupt conduct." yet been founi l, d two-by-fo- j ! Ko-gor- o - a - exix-c-tanc- Wll-fle- y ITS DEBTS WITH BONDS CIIIZERS Trouble at Goldfield May Be Settled, Men Accepting the Tonopah Scale and Work in Open Camp. Court Dissolves Injunction Restraining Railroad King From Voting Shares in Illinois Central General Relaa, chief of staff to RAIDERS Eddyvllle. Ky. Night riders 300 strong visited Eddyvllle at 1 o'clock Sunday morning and whipped ten men, four of them white and six negroes. The white men, who are suffering from sore hacks as the result of a severe with chastisement switches, are: Police Judge C. W. Rucker, Lead Woods, former city marshal; Press Fralick, who occasionally acted as deputy city marshal, and Grace Robertson, a saloon porter. The connection between the whipping of the white men and the negroes and the tobacco war In western Kentucky la not apparent and uo one has been able to offer any explanation. None of the victims waa kuown to be either active or Influential In opposition to the farmers pooling movement No attempt waa made at destroying stored tobacco. After the whipping had been admln-iatere- d the mob awakened County Judge W. L. Crumbaugb and warned him that hla immunity from similar enpunishment beresfter depended exwaa the he upon friendship tirely pected to show the tobacco growers' He waa told that hla organization. gray hairs alone were responsible for his being spared this time. The only tobacco man visited was J. M. Bradshaw, who la a tobacco prlzer for one Mr. of the growers' associations. Bradshaw was ordered to close up a billiard hall which he owns. Settlement to be Made Which ia Satiw factory to Both Debtor and Creditors. Bonds Run for Forty Yoara. of Washington. The settlement the debts of the Dominican republlo is rapidly nearing a completion, which is regarded as satisfactory to both debtor and creditors and which reflects favorably on the agents of the United States government who have been instrumental in carrying out the busts of settlement. The recent financial disturbance is given as the cause for the abandonment of the plan first agreed upon, whereby a New Yotk banking firm was to purchase the bonds of tiie republic iu a sufficient amount to salihiy the creditors. In place of thia plan, the creditors themselves have now agreed to take these bouda as payment of 80 per cent of the claims, while the remaining 20 per cent is to lie paid in cash from the $4.000, 000 which haa been accumulat55 per cent of the customs ed. receipts of the republic find now on deposit in New York. Besides this judgment, the creditors have consented to a reduction of their claims to an amount aproxlmating 50 per cent. This reduces the total infrom $30,000,000 to $17r debtedness 000,000. The creditors are to take the The bonds are to bear' bonds at 98 Interest at the rate of 5 per cent and' run for forty years. The government has reserved the1 right to redeem them at the end of ten years by paying 102V4 for them The agreement will lessen to some ex- -' tent the present heavy drain on the revenues of the republic. Inasmuch ae It is provided that after the settlement has been made but $100,000 a month shall be applied to the Interest of the bonds sml the sinking funds for thMr redemption. The interest will amount to $1,000,000. a year, which will leave $200,000 annually to be applied toward redemption of the bunds. la-ln- FREE-FOR-AL- FIGHT. L Ons Boy Killed and Three Others Reformatory. One York. New boy is dead from GerDispatches Would Indicats That wounda and three others seristab Trouble la many Creating ously hurt aa a result of a fight on In Europe. Thursday In which twenty boys from Cablegrams Washington, in the correctional instituand SL Petersburg recently tion on Randalls Island. The dead! published in American newspapers on boy was Meyer O'Bhanaky, 15 years! the Balkan situation and the North old. Itaefello Sfonxa, the same age, ea treaty, questioning Germany's is under guard at the Institution, sincerity with regard to her an- charged with having inflicted the nounced policies regarding these mat- wound which caused O'Shanskys ters, were called to the attention of death. Baron Sternberg, the German ambaa-- ' aador at Washington, on Sunday. The Thres Thousand Mon Needed. ambassador declared the published The urgent need of Washington. statements made it appear as if Ger- authorization congress of the reby many Is creating trouble In Europe of 3,000 additional enlisted cruiting by refusing to adhere to the rules ot men and about 100 officers to bring reform in Macedonia laid down by marine corps up to its required the and the Muerzeategcr programme, waa presented on Wednesday even hinted, he added, at the exist- quota of the house comto a ence of a secret treaty between Germittee on naval affairs, by sevenl and Austria These many, Turkey. The additional men naval offleerg. statements, he declared, are absolute- and officers are needed to complete ly false and unfounded. the marine guards of vessels about to go into commission and to relieve enHitchcock Resigns to Manage the Taft listed men and officers serving in tropics! climates. Presidential Campaign. H. Frank Hitchcock, Washington. Labor Unions to Aid Health Officers. first assistant postmaster general, Ban Francisco. Meeting! were held concluded hla service with the governon Sunday by members of ths Retail on ment Saturday, and Monday handed his resignation to the presi- Butchers association of San Frandent. In a abort time he will take up cisco, members of the Barbers' union the work of managing the Taft presi- and the owners of barber parlors Mr. throughout the city to further the dential campaign In earnest. ridHitchcock will take a few days vaca- plans of the health authorities In tion before he enters upon his political ding the city of rats and other aids to spread of the plague, should there work. He will make his headquarters the be a return of the dread disease to the In this city. Mr. Hitchcock will be city with the return of warm weathsucceeded by Dr. Charles M. Grand-fiel- er. The institutions nil agree to lend now chief clerk In that office. every assistance to the crusade. Sen-Yor- HINT8 AT SECRET TREATY. pin-tidate- d, Banker Sent to Jail. Francisco. R. E. Ragland, presof the Citizens State bank, recently suspended, was on Satsentenced by Police Judge Con-la- n to six months' imprisonment for exhibiting a revolver in a rude and threatening manner to J. Pomansky, a depositor in the bunk, who sought to recover hla money. An additions! sentence of three months' Imprisonment was imposed on the hanker for carrying a concealed weapon. Ragland's attorneys gave notice of an appeal. Utah's SurveyonGeneral Must Worry Along on Samo Old 8alary. Washington. An unsuccessful effort was made in the house on Saturday when the legislation, execution and Judicial Mil was under consideration to amend it, increasing the salThe proaries of surveyor-generalposed increase would have given the of Utah $3,000. insurveyor-genera- l stead of $2,000. Representative Howell made a speech in favor of the increase, In which he chided hla fellow members for Increasing their own salaries and denying the Increase to others. San ident which urday Father's Criminal Actions. Chicago. Joseph Mulhall, 11 years Boy Tslls of Hia of age, on Monday before United States Commissioner Foote, testified that his father, James T. Mulhall, is a criminal. It la alleged that the father waa Implicated in the swindling of Minnesota produce raiser under ihe name of the NIccolct Creamery lie la said company of Minneapolis, i.ow to be a fugitive in Canada. Jacob Nathanaon, arrested for 'he same offense alleged against Mulhall, ia fighting extradition. Nixon Says Goldfield la All Right. Washington. Senator Nixon of Nevada called upon President Roosevelt Monday and said of the situation In Goldfield that the mines are rapidly filling up with n fairly good das of men and that work la going right along. The closing down of the copper properties, he said, had glutted the labor market In the west, and in short time, he believes, there will be a good many men ready for every one who struck. The Nevada state constabulary will be ready for service March 7, when the troops will retire. Could Add Millions to Texas. Treasurer of Edison Company SuiFort Worth. Tex. B. F. Yoakum, cides. head of the Rock Island railroad lines, West Orange, N. J. John F. Ranaddressed the State Association of treasurer of the Edison ManuCommercial Societies here on Satur- dolph, company, of which Tbonra ills speech discussed problems facturing day. A. Edison Is president, committed suior development which the country cide in the cdlur of his residence on faces, lie declared there Is but one New Valley way on Monday by shootpesiiloE or demand for which he will ing himself in the head. It Is begive up his present work, and that la lieved that Mr. Randolph was lie could so that to be governor, insane, ns neither in his bust-- the state. Ho said he could lbs nor his family affairs was there bring five million people to Texas la any known cause for the act. Mrs. lour years if he was governor of tho Randolph attempted suicide when she Rate. learned of her Ini: 'ImuJs dta1 tern-eorari- ly p |