OCR Text |
Show NEWS NOTES BY WIRE, j At Home. WASHINGTON. April 2. Assistant Secretary Sec-retary of Stato Loomls has received prl-vato prl-vato advices from corrcflpondonts In Santo Domingo to tho effect that the Morales Government Is steadily Bninlng In power and Infjucncc In the Island, ,nnd that tho business Interests havo reached the conclusion thnt Morales Is now strong enough to maintain a stable Government for Homo time to come. INDIANAPOLIS, lnd., April 2.-Con-grcssman Jcsso Ovorstrcct wns renominated renomi-nated today by tho Republicans of tho Seventh district -by acclamation. The delegates to the natlonul convention were Instructed for Roosovelt. PITTSBURG. April 2. Ten thousand workmen, members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, will bo mado Idlo this evening unless an agreement Is reached today by tho executive execu-tive board of tho association and thn representatives rep-resentatives of tho American Sheet Tin company, by which the men aro cm-ployed. cm-ployed. ALTO ON A, Pa., April 2. Tho scale agreed upon by ihc Joint scale commltteo last night, giving 60 conts a ton for pick mining, was ratified by the miners' convention con-vention today. Tho scale fixes for one year tho wages of C0.000 raihe employees. WASHINGTON. April 2. Tho Navy dc-t dc-t partmcnt was advlncd today of tho departure de-parture of the Vlck3burg from Chemulpo for Shanghai. Tho Raleigh and the collier Pompeii remain at Chemulpo. WASHINGTON. April 2 R. Newton Crano has been appointed United States dispatch agent at London In placo of Joseph Jo-seph B Gllticr, resigned. Mr. Crano has performed all tho legal work of the United Suites embassy la London for somo tlmo nasL NEW TORK, April 2. A meeting of tho creditors of D J. Sully Sr. Co.. to consider tho latest offer of a scttloment mado by tho Huspondcd firm, may bo held next 1 Mondar. WASHINGTON. April 2 The Interior partmcnt has received an official dispatch dis-patch from Portland, Or., saying that tho grand Jury will report sixteen indlctmonts In connection with tho land frauds, which have been under Investigation for somo months. Tho frauds, It Is claimed, wero committed under the lieu land law and the timber and stono act. SAN FRANCISCO. April 2. Tho .steamer .steam-er Coptic, which sailed for tho Orient today, to-day, carried 3S00 tons of general merchandise. mer-chandise. 2500 tons of which, was consigned con-signed to Japan This includes 1000 tons of barley for the Japaneso Government. NEW TORK. April 2. P. E. Pierls, commissioner for Ceylon to the St. Louis exposition, arrived today on the steamer Prlnzess Alice from Bremen. WASHINGTON, April 2. Representative Representa-tive Williams of Mississippi today introduced intro-duced a bill providing that tariff duties on any article shall not amount to moro than 500 per cent ad valorem. CHICAGO. April 2 The three Polish boys who two weeks ago set lire to tho lloldeh public school, destroying it, have been released by Judgo Tuthlll. He held none was old enough to know the extent of his wrongdoing. The mothers of tho boys, unable to speak English, cried as they thanked tho Judgo for freeing their sons. SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, Tho brig Lurllne, bound from Altata, Mexico, for Gray's Harbor, has arrived In this port with tho second mate, Fred Romer, In Irons. Romer became violently lnsano three days ago, and when the ship was about seventy miles west of San Francisco Fran-cisco ho attempted to kill the captanx. CHICAGO. April 2.-Officers of tho Amorlcan Can company announced today that all differences between the company , and its employees havo been amicably adjusted. ad-justed. Tho four plants of tho corporation corpora-tion In and about Chicago, employing 2000 persons, will resume operations Monday. BERKELEY. Cal., April 2. Regarding a report that tho regents of tho University Univer-sity of Illinois are considering Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of tho University of California, as a successor to President Draper. Mr. Wheeler said, today: "I havo not heard a word of the contemplated action ac-tion of tho regents of the University of Illinois, and theroforo I would rather not discuss tho report." WASHINGTON. April 2. Senator Fora-ker Fora-ker has introduced a bill to amend tho act providing for tho govorpment of tho Territory of Hawaii, prescribing the manner man-ner of appointing public officials and their removal for cause by tho Governor. CHICAGO, April 2. Tho tlirco Polish boys, who two weeks ago, sot flro to tho Holdcn public school, destroying It, havo been released by Judge 'Tuthlll. Ho held none was old enough to know tho extent of his wrong doing. Tho mothers of tho boye, unablo to speak English,, cried as they thanked -tho Judge for freeing their' sons. . Abroad. VLADIVOSTOK. April 2. Twelve of tho customs officers at Vladivostok have boon withdrawn and sent to Irkutsk.' Tills Is tho flfst step In tho direction of closing tho custom house hero because of tho poor trado prospects In consequence of. the war. TRIESTE. April 2.-Tho Third corps of tho Austrian army is" prepared to leave hero at any moment for Ragusa, on tho Adriatic Six steamers are. ready to take tho soldiers on board should a call be mado for their services. It Is declared In Trieste that this Is really a critical moment mo-ment in the Balkans. ST. PETERSBURG. April 2.-A Toklo dispatch received here, reporting tho members of tho United States loKatlon thore as making enthusiastic speeches on tho occasion of the Perry banquet given at Toklo March 31st, arouses much comment com-ment here, in vlow of Prosldont Roosevelt's Roose-velt's proclamation enjoining the strictest neutrality of word and speech on the part of all Govornment officials. SEOUL, Korea, April 2. Klm Ka Jin has- been appointed Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs,. following Pak Che Sun In this office. Pak Cho Sun was until; recently re-cently Korean Minister to China. Beford tho offlcO of Forolgn Minister' was given to Kim Ka Jin it was declined by PaTv Cho Sun, who said ho did not wish to officiate of-ficiate r PANAMA, April -2. A. meeting f .tho leaders of the railroad . laborers' strlko was held last night,' at which the result of tho Interview of the four delegates with President Amador yesterday 'was' explained, ex-plained, tho substance being that It was agreed to await the arrival of the canal commissioners here before . taking any further steps. , , ST. PETERSBURG. April 2. Finance Minister Kokolzoff- has decided' to" pur-chaiuj pur-chaiuj for tho account of tho Government S2.5C-0.0Oi) worth of preference shares of the EnzolI-'p"icran railroad and $t5.CO0.C00 worth ,hares of the Discount and Loan bank . rala. XESV(.iVAXG, April 0. Tho authorities authori-ties here wero considerably aroused today to-day by the arrival of tho press boat. Indiscreetly In-discreetly bearing two Japaneso servants, who were arrested and probably will not be released for several months. THE HAGUE. April '2. Queen Wll-helmlna Wll-helmlna and her husband, Prince Henry, will start April 1th for Italy, where they will spund n month for the benefit of the Queen's health. ST. THOMAS. D. W. T.. April 2.-Gen. Jimlnez. former President" of San Do-mlngq Do-mlngq and a leader of a recent revolution in that republic, arrived today from Monto Chrlatl, Santo Domingo. Personal. HAVANA. April 2.-Caylan De Ayala, the first Spanish Minister to Cuba, arrived ar-rived today and was shown apodal attention. at-tention. Ho was brought oohor In th President's launch.. A luncheon w&s given to him by prominent Spaniards, ho being convoyed to the function In President Pal ma's carriage ' NEW TORK. April 2. It wan learned tonight that Mrs. George J. Gould Is 111 at her homo In this city, recovering from tho effects of an operation for appondl-cltls appondl-cltls which was performed last Wednesday. Wednes-day. Her condition Is said to be favorable. fa-vorable. NEW TORK. April , 2, Miss Cocllia Loftus Is 111 with scarlet fovor, and her temperature Is 103 tonight. When aho arrived ar-rived on Thursday aho- was 111, but played thnt night. MLss Loftus did not appear today, and an understudy took her part, CINCINNATI, O.. April 2. Mrs. E. B. Hunter, wlfo of a prominent business man of Memphis, committed sulcldo tonight In her apartments at tho Grand hotel while returning from an Eastern sanitarium In charco of a nurse. PARIS. April 2. M. E. Ingalls of Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Is here, spending a month In Paris. Ho says tho roport of his Intention to retire from the presidency of tho Big Four railroad Is (irroneous. SAN FRANCISCO. CaL, April 2. A circular cir-cular was Issued today announcing tho appointment of B. A Worthlngton as assistant as-sistant director of maintenance and operations op-erations of tho Harrlman railways, with hoadquortors nt Chicago. Mr. Worthlngton Worthlng-ton will be' Mr. Kfuttschnltt'.i naelstant. Mr Worthlngton a fow years ago was tho prlvato secretary of IT. E. Huntington. Hunting-ton. WASHINGTON. April 2. Gcorgo W. Flshback. a representative In the Forto Rlcan Legislature, was presented to the President today by Senator Heyburn of Idaho. Mr Flshback Informed the President Presi-dent thnt Gov. Hunt would sail for tho United States on April 12th. |