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Show Lo SEVERE.QUAN VST MEXICO IT CAUSE AN —-ENORHUUS LOSS THE PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL PESTS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Draws Attention Begin to Totter and Fall as Result of Earthquake. Some Five Hundred Miles—Four People Injured, While Damage to Property Was Slight. Mexico City—Mexico City was vis ited by two severe earthquake shocks on Thursday, one at 4:30 p. m., last ing four minutes and 28 seconds, and the second at 9:17 p. m._ Investigation shows that four people were injured during the earthquake, one mortally. The shock was felt over an area of some 500 miles, from north to south, expending itself at Guanajuato on the north and Rincon Atonio on the south. Calle San Francisco, the main thoroughfare of the city, was cracked in places for many blocks. It is feared here that the shocks will be repeated, and few are sleeping soundly at night. It has been many years since such successive shocks of any severity have been felt here. All of the injured were Mexican workmen When the second shock occurred, the theatre crowds rushed to the streets, and the people were panic stricken when the walls began fall ing. It was in the second shock that the greater damage was done. JEROME ON TRIAL. Taking of Evidence Against District Attorney of New York. New York.—William H. Tillinghast the self-confessed bribetaking juror in the interests of the Metropolitan Street Railway company, was the chief witness at the hearing which began Thursday on the charges pre ferred with the governor against District Attorney Jerome. The charges of neglect of duty were made by a committee of stockholders of the Metropolitan Street Railway com pany, headed by William F. King. The proceedings were before former Chief Justice Andrews of the court of appeals, who was Governor Hughes to appointed by take evidence for and against the accused official. Franklin Pierce appeared as counsel for the complainant, and Mr. Jerome conducted his own defense, Silver Dollars Will No Longer Shipped Free of Charge. Washington. —Secretary be Cortelyou has issued a circular announcing that the amount appropriated by congress for transportation of silver coin for the year 1908 having become exhausted, “no more standard silver dollars will be sent to applicants free of charge for transportation from the office of the treasurer of the several assistant treasurers of the United States.” The policy of shipping to banks silver coin free of express charges was adopted about twenty- five years ago. Will Issue More Bonds. New York.—The directors of the Union Pacific Railroad company met here Thursday, At the conclusion of their meeting an official statement was made announcing that the stock- holders will be called to meet on May 5 to authorize an issue of bonds, to be secured by mortgage on the company's unmortgaged lines, including the Leavenworth, Kansas & Western and the Topeka & Northwestern. The stockholders will be asked to ratify the taking over of these two roads by the Union Pacific. General Horne a Free Man. Kansas City.—On the ground that he was insane when he committed the crime, General Richard C. Horne was acquitted of the charge of murdering H. J. Groves, managing editor of the Kansas City Post, by a jury in the criminal court on Thursday. General Horne, on November 23, last, after he had been notified that his services were no longer needed by the paper, shot and wounded O. D. Woodward, theatrical manager and president of the Kansas City Post, an evening paper, and H. J. Groves, the managing editor, in the editorial of: Kansas City Bank Will Reopen. Lawmakers to Highest Court Be Acted Upon at This Seasion. Carolina and Minnesota. and men of small means, and will be mer and renter can raise tobacco and a valuable adjunct to our whole finan- market it and have some money at the end of the season after paying the cial system.” “The time has come when we should grocery bill.” prepare for a revision of the tariff. ORCHARD WILL BE WITNESS. This should be and, indeed, must be, preceded by careful investigation. It Will be Taken to Colorado to Testify is peculiarly the province of the conAgainst Steve Adams. gress and not of the president, and indeed, peculiarly the province of the | Pueblo, Colo.—A special to the house of representatives to originate ||Chieftain from Ouray, Colo, says: a tariff bill and to determine uponits |Harry Orchard, under sentence of terms; and this I fully realize. Yet it death in Idaho as the self-confessed seems to me that before the close of Steunenberg, this session provision should be made murderer of Governor for collecting full material which will |will appear as the chief prosecuting enabla the congress elected next fall, |witness against Steve Adams at Telto act immediately after it comes into lluride in May, where Adams is to be existence, tried in connection with the mysteri “T am of the opinion, however, that ous disappearance of a man named one change in the tariff could with Barney during the riots of 1901 and advantage be made forthwith. Our torests need every protection, and one method of protecting them would be to put on the free list wood pulp with a corresponding reduction upon paper made from wood pulp when they come from any country that does not put an export duty on them. 1902. To bring Orchard here as a witness it will be necessary for the idaho board of pardons to commute jhis sentence of death to one of life /imprisonment, and word has been re\ceived in this city from most reliable |sources that such action will be taken Ια ἀπο time. “Ample provision should be made| for a permanent waterway commis- Bad Man Makes Dash for Freedom sion with whatever power is required While on Way to Jail. to make it effective. The reasonable Helena, Mont.—Sheriff James Webb expectation of the peopie will not be | met unless the congress prvoides at of Yellowstone county was shot and this session for the beginning and killed Tuesday morning on the Musprosecution of the actual work of wat- selshell about six miles from Billings, erway improvement and control.” by William Byckfound, a_ horsethief, The reading of the message was wanted in Wyoming. Sheriff Webb followed closely in both houses. In the house of representatives the de- located the man Monday night, and claration that the time had come for early Tuesday morning put him wuna revision of the tariff elicited hand der arrest. They were about to start clapping on the part of the Demo overland to Billings, when Byckfound cratic members. Democratic approval asked permission to go to the camp It was given, also was given by way of pounding wagon and get a drink. desks to the suggestion that congress and Byckfound got into the wagon. In could with advantage forthwith το- the wagon was a rifle, and before the move the tariff on wood pulp, with sheriff realized his danger Byckfound corresponding reduction upon paper made from wood pulp. |shot, the sheriff dying almost instantjly. In the excitement the murderer escaped. Anarchist to Be Deported. Ruef’s Bail Reduced. Kansas City.—All the requirements San Francisco.—Paul Bignami, said | San Francisco—The district court laid down by the comptroller of the to be the head of the local colony of jof appellate has ruled upon the ap currency for the reopening of the Naanarchists, was arrested on Wednesplication made by Abraham Ruef, the tional Bank of Commerce, of this city, day and an attempt will be madeto many-times indicted political boss, for were complied with when Receiver have him deported. Bignami, who jhis release upon a reasonable amount George T. Cutts on Thursday received came here from New Orleans about a of bail, alleging that $1,115,000, the $2,870,000 in cash from a syndicate year ago, on Tuesday harangued a aggregate amount upon all his indictwhich took over all the slow paperof | rome and was heard by Policeman ments, was exorbitant. The appellate the bank and all the assets termed Rocco to say that the fleet on its arcourt ordered Ruef released upon a “bad” by the government officials. rival should be blown out of the nominal bail of $5 upon each of the The bank will open on Monday with water that President Roosevelt thirty-seven duplicate indictments, 47 per cent of its deposits in its vaults should be assassinated, and that the but did not reduce the bail upon the and with Comptroller Ridgely as its | entire police department of this city other indictments, amounting to president. should be wiped out of existence $790,000. Hoosiers Want Bryan and Kern. Decisions of Lower Courts in Cases From North President Roosevelt calls the atten tion of the lawmakers to certain measures on which he thinks there} Farmers of the New England States should be action taken by the present and the South Have Lost Millions congress. He say s child labor should| of Dollars as Result of Depredate prohibited throughout the nation. tions of These Pests. Al least a model child labor bill should be passed for the District of Columbia. It is unfortunate that in | the one place solely dependent upon Washington.—In explaning the procongress for its legislation there jvisions of the agricultural appropriashould be no law whatever to protect tion bill, Mr. Scott of Kansas, in the children by forbidding or regulating house of representatives on Tuesday, their labor, called attention to the ravages of the The president renews his recom- }brown tail moths and the Texas catmendation for the immediate re-enact- tle tick. The former, he said, were ment of an employers’ liability law, rapidly destroying the groves and fordrawn to conform to the recent de- ests of the New England states, while cisions of the supreme court. Within the Texas tick had been one of the the limits indicated by the court the ‘Tbe tick, he liw should be made thorough and greatest pests known, comprehensive, and the protection it declared, was responsible for the quar#ffords should embrace every class of antine line which for nearly twenty employee to which the power of the years has stretched across the councongress can extend. try from one ocean to the other. The Attention is called to the urgent annual cost of maintaining that line need of amending the interstate com- to different states and the nation was merce law and especially the antihardly less than $500,000. Tuat, trust law along the lines indicated in however, he said, was the smallest bis last message. by The declaration is made that it has item inflicted upon the country now become important that there the cattle tick. The less to the north could not should be an amendment to the antitrust law because of the uncertainty even be guessed at, but he estimated as to how this law affects combina- the annual loss suffered by the states tions among laboring men and farm- south of the line could not be less He therefore said ers if the combination has any ten- | than $40,000,000. cency to restrict interstate com- that it needed no argument to justify merce. The substantive part of the a most liberal appropriation from-the anti-trust law should remain as at \tederal treasury for eradicating these present; that is, every contract in re- [Νο pests, and the committee had restraint of trade or commerce, among jcommended $250,000 in each case. the several states or with foreign nations should continue to be declared CRUEL WAR IS OVER. iegal; provided, however, that some rroper governmental authority (such |Kentucky Farmers and Tobacco Comag the commissioner of corporations, | pany Bury the Hatchet. ucting under the secretary of comCincinnati, O.—An end to the night merce and labor) be allowed to pass cn any such contracts, It is import- riding in the Kentucky White-Burley has been brought about ant that we should encourage trade jdistrict agreements between employer and | through a formal agreement reached employee when they are just and fair. lbetween the American Tobacco comA strike is a clumsy weaponfor right- | pany and the executive committee of ing wrongs done to labor, and we |the Society of Equity in conference should extend, as far as possible, the at Winchester, Ky. process of conciliation and arbitration | A prominent member or the δοas a substitute for strikes, leiety in contirming the agreement, “The question of financial legislalpaid: “It is all settled. The cruel tion is now receiving such attention | war is over and we lave won, There in both houses that we have a right |will be no more night riding or vioto expect action before the ‘close of lence, but there will be no 1908 crop the session,” says the president, “It of tobacco. The American ‘Tobacco is urgently necessary that there should be such action. Moreover, ac- company has agreed to buy all the pooled leaf of the 1906 and 1907 crops, tion should be taken to establish posand will pay nearly $14,000,000 fog it. tal savings banks. These postal βᾶγWe have prevailed in the just fight, ings banks are imperatively needed for the benefit of the wage workers and are now confident that the far- a Affirms Measures That He Believes Should Appropriation is Asked from Government to Aid in Destruction Washincston—In a special message of Moths and Cattle Ticks. presented to congress on Wednesday, People Panic Stricken When Walls Disturbance is Felt Over an Area of of STATES CAN NOT Flt - TRE RATES FOR RALROADS To Save Orchard From Gallows. Boise, Ida 4 petition asking that Indianapolis—The Indiana Democratic state convention closed its two the state board of paxdons commute days’ session Thursday, after naming the sentence of Harry Orchard in acthe recommendation 8 state ticket, adopting a platform cordance with made by Judge Wood in ‘sentencing and instructi the thirty delegates to vote for W m J. Bryan for pres- Orchard to be hanged May 15, will be ident. John W. Kern of this city was | cirenlated at Caldwell, where the mur| der of Governor Steunenberg was endorsed for the vice presidential commiited. It is understood. that Mrs nomination. The convention was enSteunenberg, widow of the assassinat thusiastic and a majority of the nom- ed governor, has signified her desire inations were hi contested. There io sign the petition. The pardon board were six candidates for governor, and will meet in regular session April 1, the nomination was made on the fifth when Orchard’s case will probably be ballot. taken up Fleet Will Not Visit England, London.—Great Britain has not in |vited the American battleship fleet to ivisit England as it returns home, or |to make any official calls at British |ports on its way, as the British ad |miralty understands that the Ameri }can government do¢s not desire that |the voyage be further delayed. Thity |} would be the case if the ships came ito England. It is understood alst that {the United States has expresséd the wish that there should be no demon{stration in honor of the fleet at the ‘British ports in the Mediterranean. Reign of Terror inaugurated by the Washington —In refusing to grant to Attorney Genera! Young of Minnesota, a writ of habeas corpus releasing him from the penalty imposed by the United States district court for the district court of Minnesota on the charge of contempt of court in instituting a proceeding in a_ state court or enforcement of the railroad rat’ law aftcr the federal court had prohibited such a course, and in affirming the decision of Judge Pritch- ard of the United States yircuit court for the western district of North Carolina, discharging from imprisonment James H. Wood, a ticket agent of the Southern Railway of Asheville, after be had been sentenced by the Ashe \ille police court to serve a term on the rock pile on the charge of collecting for a ticket on that road a greater price than was permitted by the state railroad law, the supreme court of the United States has added another to the series of decisions which have rendered notable the present term of that court. In both cases the right of the states to fix rates for railroad transportation was the issue, and both involved conflicts between the federal and tne state courts. The decision in each case was opposed both to the state and to their courts. Contention of Chicago Not Upheld by Supreme Court. Washington.—The case of the interstate commerce commission vs. the Chicago Great Western Railway company, known as the meat rate case and involving the right of the company to reduce the freight rate on livestock products without making a similar reduction in the rate on livestock itself, was decided by the supreme court of the United States on Monday in favor of the company. The suit was instituted in the interest of the city of Chicago, it being alleged that the change had worked incalculable hardship to Chicago by diverting shipments of livestock from that city to St. Paul and to Missouri river points, Sullivan Found Guilty. Salt Lake City—The jury in the ease of Joe Sullivan, charged with shooting Policeman Charles Ford on the night of December 14, following the hold-up of the Albany saloon, found Sullivan guilty, after being out 48 hours, and recommended that his sentence be life imprisonment. The judge, of course, has the privilege of pronouncing the sentence of death. at 10 c’clock Wednesday morning, April 1. At that time Judge George G. Armstrong, before whom the ex-convict was tried, will impose upon himeither the death penalty or life Raiders Responsible for Loss of Tobacco Beds. Many Tenant Farmers, Tired of Conditions, Preparing to Leave the State, While Farm Owners Are Placing Their Property on the Market. Lexington, Ky—Because of warntng letters and visits from night riders, many farmers in nearly all of the forty-two counties in the white burley tobacco districts are busily destroying LONG-SUFFERING WOMAN SEWS MATE IN BLANKET AND WHIPS HIM. Gowrie, Ind.—Mrs. Ivan Olgrey has given a demonstaration of her curefor drunkenness, and while it was effective it will never become popular. Mrs. Olgrey had suffered long under abuse heaped upon her by her intemperate husband, but made desperate finally she sewed him up in a blanket while he slept from the effects of drink and gave him a horsewhipping. He is confined to his home as a re sult of the beating and certain promises he madeto her. According to his wife, Olgrey has been in the habit of coming home from town drunk and beating her. She states that she warned him of her intention to punish himif he persisted, their tobacco beds and at the present time less than one-third of the number usually planted have been started. In many counties huge signs have been erected on buildings and in high places near by declaring the intention of the farmer not to raise a crop this season. Realizing the difficulty of making a living for their families in case the decision to raise no tobacco 15 adhered to, many tenant farmers are preparing to move to other states, while many farm owners have placed their property on the market with | the avowed purpose of leaving Kentucky. The murder of Farmer Hedges in DECISION IN MEAT CASE. Sullivan will know his fate DANG. FARMERS FROM KENTUCKY WIFE EFFECTS REFORM OF DRUNKEN HUSBAND imprison- ment. Engine Crashed Through Mill. Nicholas county, and the raids in Woodford and other counties last week, have increased the alarm. In announcing their determination to go elsewhere the tenants declare that it will be impossible to subsist from the proceeds of crops of hemp, wheat and corn. She Laid on with Enthusiasm. In the neighborhood of Mount Sterling many farmers have received but he laughed at her. The other day threatening letters, with which were he went to town, coming home in his matches, powder and poison, and in usual condition. After some words he both farm districts and tobaceo towns armed guards have been p:aced at the is said to have given his wife several severe lashes across the back, she threatened points. finally running to the barn to make her escape from him. HAYTI IS TRANQUIL. Olgrey soon relapsed into a drunken President Says Foreign Warships Are stupor and was taken to his bedroom and put to bed by the farmhand. Mrs, Not Needed. Port au Prince.—President Nord | Olgrey soon followed, and, taking her Alexis, in ay interview at the palace some carpet warp, she sewed on Sunday, declared that conditions spouse securely in a blanket in such a manner that it was impossible for in the republic were absolutely tranhim to move hand orfoot. quil. He said that he did not question Going then to the barn, she, secured his ability to preserve order and proa heavy whip, which she laid on with tect foreign interests here. Should such enthusiasm that the pain soon the powers, however, decide to keep brought Olgrey to consciousness and the warships in this harbor, he would made him roar for merey. His pleadnot object, but he added that there ings for clemency were unheeded by ~~ was on necessity for such a thing; the woman until she had brought him there was no possibility of a popular into thorough submission, outbreak against the foreign resiShe extracted promises from him of dents. The government, continued the president, did not intend to take a complete reformation, made him sign further action looking to the prosecu- a pledge and agree to confine himself tion of the participants in the recent to the farmfor a period of six months. revolution, except in the case of the His wife is to do all the business that disloyal soldiers, who are subject to requires a departure from the confines military punishment. of the home place during that period. The whole affair was seen by the hired VISTORY FOR CASTRO. man and the agreement was put into writing, he acting as witness. Mrs Americans Holding Concessions in Olgrey is a highly respected woman Venezuela Lose Rights. Caracas, Venezuela—The high fedding on the snow-covered tracks of eral court of Venezuela has handed the Copper Belt railroad, carried three down a decision, from which there is Bingham.—A runaway engine, skid- in the neighborhood where she resides She has been married 2% years. BEAR BESIEGES SCHOOLHOUSE. men to their death on Saturday, and no appeal, against the Manoa comdemolished Colonel Wall's mill. The pany and the Orinoco company, limmen killed were J. M. Goodwin, engi- ited, American concerns, annulling neer; Charles Madden, conductor; the famous Fitzgerald concession unJames J. Joyce, fireman. The engine der which these companies claimed jumped the track at a sharp curve, rights in Venezuela. The claims of and crashed through the mill. Mada- these companies constitute one of the den and Joyce were hurled through matters which are now being disthe air and struck the building, being cussed diplomatically between Washkilled. Goodwin was found pinioned ington and President Castro. Rudulph beneath his engine. Two other men Dolge, representing the Orinoco comsaved their lives by jumping before pany, the present owners of the Fitzthe engine reached the curve. gerald concession, has filed a protest Boys Finally Make Escape, Get Aid, and Bruin Js Killed. Loudonville, O.—Willie Smith was standing at the blackboard in a little country schoolhouse, near Howard, demcnstrating to the teacher that he did not know overly much about long division, when something appeared at the winuow. Willie’s eyes and mouth opened wide and soon his hypnotized stave attracted the attention of the with the American legation here other children. At the window was Officers Fight Duel in Dark. against this decision, a great big cinnamon bear. El Paso, Tex.—Mounted Customs The little girls scurried to the platSettle Inspectors Charles Logan and Charles Coloradoans Will Attempt to form and hung about the teacher's Strike of Machinists. Jones fought a duei in the dry bed of skirts. The teacher tried to keep her Denver, Colo—Believing that the la- voice from the Rio Grande river in this city trembling as she an& Rio nounced that lessons were over for Thursday night and both were killed. bor trouble on the Denver Grande railroad is an unjustifiable Their bodies were found Friday mornthe day, but her charges were not destrike, the! of a ing. It is supposed that each mistook lockout, instead ceived. She was scared. For an hour the other for a smuggler. At first it chamber of commerce and other busi- the bear hung about the schoolhouse, was believed that the two officers had ness organizations are planning meas- now and then peering into the winMerchants say that dows, just in time to lower the courbeen killed by smuglers, but this the- ures to end it. ory is discredited as tracks around they have raised large sums to secure | age of the larger boys who were wonwhere the bodies lay all fit the shoes conventions here this year, and have derfully brave when they did not see of the dead men. Three shots were labored unceasingly to prevent the efthe dripping jaws of the monster. heard by people living in the neigh- fects of the financial panic from beWhen darkness came at the end of borhood at 9 o'clock at night. ing felt in Denver and Colorado. They the winter afternoon it was decided declare that as the railroads are the that something must be done. While Judge Roasts Chief f Police. greatest beneficiaries by this work some of the pupils tantalized the bear Helena, Mont.—From the bench of they have the right to insist that the the district court, Judge Clements railroads do all in their power to | by scratching on the glass of the | window six of the boys ran out of the gave Chief of Police Flannery of Hel- avert labor troubles. | door for the nearest farm house. ena one of the worst castigations | Never did boys run faster. A huntCongressman Littlefield Resigns. imaginable, calling him a murderer in Rockland, Me.—Governor Cobb on |ing party was organized and the bear connection with the shooting of a Con- | was captured. The carcass weighed tramp in a duel, cursed theofficer and Sunday received a letter from }425 pounds. For two weeks the bear said that if a policeman attempted to gressman Charles E. Littlefield tenarrest him he would kill him, adding dering his resignation as representa- |has been wandering about the hills that he would as soon do it as eat tive from the Second district of |near Brink Haven. It kilied 24 sheep breakfast Clements on Thursday discharged a youth on a forgery charge, but he was rearrested for an alleged burglary that night, hence the citing of the chief to appear in court Supports Plan to Establish Bureau of Mines. National Washington.—Thomas F. Walsh appeared by invitation before the house committee on mines and‘ mining on | Monday in support of a bill proposing | to establish a beureau ef mines. Mr. facet Walsh called attention to the that the government had never given the mining industry a helping hand, although the annual mineral produc tion of Colorad alone is ipproximate- lv $50,000,000, and in the next twenty gears will produce a from mining alone. billion dollars the farm of J. N. House. Maine. The resignation is prompted ‘on | by Mr. Littlefield’s desire to take up | Boy, Does Stunts in Sleep. his law practice, which has been seriOxford, Pa—Leavine his bed on a ously interfered with by his congres- | | night when the temperature hovered sional duties. |} around zero. Edward, a young son of Sailors Afraid of Cargo. |Samuel Neff of Fulton township Philadelphia —Fifty members of the | walked half a mile to the homeof the eighbor, Eben D, Reath, and erew of the British steamship Kiora, 11 self upon the windowsill loading dynamite at Thompson's ly Point, N. J., for the construction of | f the second floor, all the while fast the Panama canal, left the vessel on | asleep and clad only in the lightest of Saturday and no amount of persua- | night wear sion could induce the seafarers to reout turn to duty. They claimed that the Koira is a floating mine, and that going to sea with such a dangerous car-} go meant death if any aecident should | occur to the craft. shipped, ceeded after Another crew was which for Colon the Kiora pro The bov walke 1 down the stairs the door without arousin g any and of |
