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Show Condensed Telegrams PARIS, March 17. Maurice Hutln, the former president of the new Panama Canal company, died yesterday. BALTIMORE. March 17. Senor Pru-denclo Pru-denclo de Murfuindo, consul general from Uruguay to the United States, died at his homo hero yesterday of pneumonia, KANSAS CITY, March 17. Richard C. Simmons of Chicago, traveling frolght agent of the Chicago, Rock Island &. Pacific, Pa-cific, died In a hospital here yesterday. ASHBVILLE, X. C.. March 17 John P. Cudahy of Kansas City, who recently figured fig-ured In a sensational attack on Jere L.I1-11s, L.I1-11s, has arrived hero and Is stopping at one of the hotels. PARIS. March 17. M. Poltel. formerly secretary to M. Duez, the embezzling government liquidator, has been arrested, charged with the misappropriation of $G000 In connection with the sale of tho church property. j DALLAS. Tex., March 17. John A. Air-hart, Air-hart, aged 19, a former student at Simmons Sim-mons college of Abilene, Tex., who was Injured In a football game October 10, Is dead. He had been for the greater part of this period unconscious from concussion of the brain. ROME, March 17. King Victor Emmanuel Em-manuel will be represented at the .International .Inter-national exposition at Buenos Aires by the duke of the Abruzzl, who will sail In April aboard a battleship. On the homeward home-ward trip the duko probably will visit the United States ALBUQUERQUE, is'. M., March 17. Resolutions have been adopted by the Albuquerque Al-buquerque Commercial club protesting against the proposed Elephant Butte dam in southern Now Mexico on the ground that it would be an injustice to tho lands above tho dam. The resolutions will be sent to congress. BELLEVILLE. X. J., March 17. Tho Belleville township committee has decided decid-ed to equip the members of the police force with electric torches. The aim is to enable them to distinguish the numbers of speeding automobiles and thereby effect the capture of those who violate the twolve-mlle-an-hour regulator. NEW YORK, March 17. Petitions are being circulated In Jersey City, asking congress to raise tho wreck of the United States steamship Maine and asking that tho mllltnry mast and fighting lop of the ill fated battleship be sent to Jersey City for erection In a proposed "military park" there. Several thousand signatures to the petitions have already been secured. LOUISVILLE, March J 7. In the federal fed-eral court the Louisville & Nashville railroad rail-road pleaded guilty on ten counts in eight Indictments charging rebating, and Judge Evans Imposed a line of $1000 for each count, a total of $10,000. The eight Indictments In-dictments contained forty-seven counts, but it was admitted that conviction on many of the counts was impossible. NEW YORK, March 17, A decision of the United States board of general appraisers, ap-praisers, given out today, rules that small medals commemorative of tho Alaska-Yukon Alaska-Yukon exposition are not duitable at the rate of 60 per cent as? Jewelry. Instead, the board grants the claim of the Importers, Import-ers, allowing them to bring In the medals as "manufacturers of metal" with a tax of 45 per cent. PEORIA. 111.. March 17. Among the many peculiar provisions of the will of the late Gen. John Greene Ballance, who died at Miami, l'la., about a month ago, was one giving his body to the Peoria Medical socletv for dissection, Tho provision was carried out In so far as offering the body was concerned, but the medical society has declined to accept the tendor and tin body will be interred. LONDON, March 17. The Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom In session here marked Its jubilee jubi-lee annual meeting by adopting resolutions resolu-tions in favor of tariff reform "In the Interests In-terests of British trade, increased employment employ-ment and colonial preference." Tho association as-sociation proposes to urge the government to take the necessary steps to carry out the purpose of the resolutions. LONDON. March 17. A bottle which was thrown overboard from Commander Peary's arctic ship Roosevelt off Greenland Green-land on September 2. 100!i. was picked up off Klnsale. Ireland, yesterday. A letter Inclosed In tho bottle and addressed to 10. Mlllan of Frankfort-on-the-Maln. says the bottle was set adrift with tho object of ascertaining tho rate of tho current on the Labrador coast. NEW YORK. March 17. Warner M. Vannorden, former president of the Van-norden Van-norden Trust company. Is far away over seas and consequently did not appear yesterday yes-terday to prosecute Bessie Roberta and May Williams, the two women he accused ac-cused of holding him up on the street and robbing him of ?8,000. In view of the fact, which his attorney admit tod. that Mr. Vannorden did not expect to return from Europe for six months, tho women wore discharged from tho $30,000 ball bonds In which each hod been held since shortly after their .arrest on January 20. NEW YORK. March 17 Large increases in-creases over 1 90S in the number of men employed and in salaries and wages paid by tho United Slates Steel corporation are shown In the annual report of the corporation cor-poration Jusi Issued in printed form, Tho average number of employees In the service ser-vice of all compnnles In the corporation Is shown by the report to have been 19n,-f.OO 19n,-f.OO In 1000 as against lGf.,211 In 100S. Salaries Sal-aries and wages paid during 1009 aggregated aggre-gated $lol,itl3,:t3i as compared with $120.-510,829 $120.-510,829 in tho yeo' previous. KANSAS CITY, March 17. Because of keen competition In tho use of gas and oil for fuel, the coal operators of Missouri, Mis-souri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas cannot afford to grant the raise In wages demanded by the United Mlno Workers of America at their recent conference In Kan.sns City. This Is the substance of a statement Issued here by the south-wcsUrn south-wcsUrn operators The question Is soon to l Ihrashed out at the miners' convention conven-tion In Indianapolis. |