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Show DEMOCRATS IH Tnc n ILLINOIS PUT DID TO DEADLOCK A MEMORIAL China Holds That Portuguese Have Illegally Occupied Disputed Territory for Years, and Insists That Islands be Evacuted by Portugal. Friday. The dispute between Portugal and China over the of possession of the dependencies Macao has become acute. The Portuguese government Is sending General Joaquin Jose Machado to induco China to come to an amicable understanding. This, notwithstanding the fact that the government has reLisbon, ceived word that China absolutely refuses to enter Into negotiations with the Portuguese delegation units" Portugal renounces the dependencies, including the neighboring Islands. China holds that ail the dependencies of the town of Macao have oeen for oocupied Illegally by Portugal some years, that the only concession of territory ever made to Portugal was of the town of Macao, and slM insists that the territory and Islands be evacuated by Portugal. The Seculo reports that the Brli lsh government, at the request of! China, has intervened In China's favor. WIRELESS Claire Wallace JIynn Springfield, Congressman liam Lorimer of the Sixth congressional district, was elected United States senator on Wednesday by the Joint session of the general assembly. of The election Ltirimer came through a coalition of Democratic asRepubsemblymen and licans. The hall of representatives through the hours preceding the close of the deadlock was crowded with a host of politician. Strong effort were made by former Senator Hop-kin- a aides to head off the break to Lorimer, but they were unavailing. Two house members did not vole Haley aud Mope and, with Senator Schmitt absent, the total vutiug strength of tbe joint session was SOU, 00 iu tne senate and 100 iu the Wild cheers filled the hall house. when the decision was announced. The balloting was attended by suppressed excitement and some confusion. It was on the ninety-fiftballot that Lurimer was chosen, the vote 108; being: .Hopkins, 80; of the the and drums dauntless voice of tbe fife began to awaken the quiet streets early In the HE anti-Hopki- rat-a-t- morning. Adam to his lloth, brought window by tbe insistent call of the fifes, raised his eyes to the cloiidess blue of the spring sky and then let them shift back uneasily to bis shabby room. As the sounds died away, Adam went and stood beside tbe bed. On it was laid the full uniform of a Zouave, discolored with the smoke of many battles, ragged and worn with tbe stress of weary marches. Near one shoulder a faded stain spoke of a wound received at Alexandria. Adam looked long on tbla uniform, S3. Stringer, Hacking incidents characterized the and then, brushing away a mist before the name election. Former Lieutenant Governor bis eyes, he whispered who brother brave the Dan!" Dan, Nonhcott, a Hopkins leader, now United States district attorney, was bad first donned them in 61, who bad love and energy and dragged from the main floor of the with unabated house by policemen who would have pride worn them on every Memorial tbe thrown hint through the main door day since the first, had gone to was had not a doorkeeper lnteriered. great assembly," and only Adam Norihcott resisted every step he took, left And Adam! There was no part for hut was physically not capable of In all these half pleasant, half him of the the oiber eflorts combating h REPORTS! WEATHER Commencement Day Horror Caused By Little Girl Becoming Excited and Dropping Candle. vBY Wil- 111. men. New Scheme to Warn People of ApMr. lo rimer, in an address to the proaching Storms. assembly, following hia election, said Washington. Flashing around ' the he favored a downward revision ofthe tariff and pledged himself In beworld by wireless telegraphy pr0,,0,",,, ,akea'to-the'guI- f logs of approaching storms and other disturbances of the elements Is one' of the latest international projects, NORTH 6ENDS IN RESIGNATION. according to an announcement made here. Director of Census Bucked Against Still another of perhaps little less Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Importance Is the proposition to equip diS. N. D. North, Washington. the vessels of all nations with uni-- ! rector hie of tbe has tendered census, form signals. and It accepted on These are the leading problems to resignation, E. Dana Durand, deputy be threshed out at a conference of die--1 Wednesday. commissioner of corporations, has tinguished meterologlsts of the prin- been nominated to succeed Mr. North. on In cipal nations, to be held London Mr. North's resignation Is a direct reJune 2x next. sult of his recent controversy with The proposed conference la the out-- 1 (Secretary Nagel. growth of a meeting of the leading It had been up to within meterologlsts of, the world, held in the last few supposed days that the controEurope several years ago. The United States will be represented by Pro--j versy between Secretary Nagel and lessor Willie L. Moore, chief of the Director North had been amicably weather bureau. adjusted. The friction between the two continued, however, and at last Tired of Life at Ninty-nlnNagel put - the matter Secretary Mich. Uncle Dearborn, Billy squarely up to President Taft, saying Gray, 99 years old and the patriarch that either he or Mr. North would of this section, decided Saturday have to leave the service, as existing that there was nothing left to live for, conditions between them were Intoland so drank a quantity of parts erable. green, from the effects of which he THIRTY MILLIONS. 8UES died. After mixing the poison in a tin dip- Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Comper at his well and drinking it, the pany Claims Damages. aged man calmly laid down to die. York. The trial of the New wife His discovered him, however, and called a physician, who vainly suit of the Pennsylvania Suendeavored to saye Uncle Blllya" gar Rennlng company against the life. American Sugar Refining company was begun here Wednesday before Citizens Searching for Brutal Judge Holt In the United States dls- derer of Child. trict court. are Los Angeles, Cal. Hundreds The suit la brought under the Shercontinuing the search throughout the man anti trust law, $10,000,000 dam-Griffith park vicinity and In this ages in triplicate being claimed neighboring cities for some trace of against the American Sugar Refining the brutal murderer of little Annie company, charged with closing down school girl, the Philadelphia plant of the PennPbltera, tbe who was killed on May 17, but as sylvania company after securing s yet only slender clews have been ob- controlling Interest, and putting Its tained. Feeling Is still running high. own representatives on the board of Sheriff Hammlll has offered s personal directors. reward of $250 for the capture of the QUAKE IN CENTRAL WEST. slayer. It Is expected that the state and county will add to the reward. Several 8mall Fires Started by Over Mrs. Morse Declares Thers Was Plot turning of Stoves. to Ruin Her Husband. Chicago. A light earthquake last-New York. Mrs. Clementine only a few seconds was felt In lug Morse, wife of Charles W. Morse, states of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconthe tbe former banker, asserted In Iowa and contiguous sin, Michigan, In an interview that long ago at 8:41 oclock beginning territory, in vowed that persons high power morning. Wednesday they would ruin her husband, ana Throughout the territory affected that they have kept their vow against the only damage reported was of a deMorse Mrs. and truth. justice clared that government officials had minor nature. Several small fires boasted also that they would cause were started by the overturning of Morse's downfall, but Mrs. Morse stoves, and many chimneys were said that she did not then believe razed. Aurora, 111., la said to have the courts oould be used as a party suffered In this respect. to the plans of her husband's eneJerome Greeted With Hisses. mies. New York. An attempt to regisUnited States to Have Two ter a vote of confidence In District Dreadnoughts. Attorney Jerome was hissed down The building plan of Wednesday night at a big Cooper Washington. the United States navy for the fiscal Union meeting in which Mr. Jerome year of 1911 will call for two battle- gave an account of hla stewardship. What effect this will have on Mr. ships of the most advanced Dread-naugtype, also five torpedo de- Jeromes' political ambitions Is problestroyers and one modern repair ship matical. He has been desirous for for the fleet notwithstanding the some time. It Is understood, of seek$10,000,000 decrease which Is to be attormade in the naval estimates by order ing a renomlnailon for district of President Taft. Secretary Meyer, ney on an Independent ticket. Tbe in announcing this program, said the district attorney in his address debattleship appropriation will not be clared that Thomas F. Ryan, charged with traction manipulation, had not affected by the reduced estimates. committed any crime. Butte and Helena to be Connected by President of Standard Oil Company of Trolley Line. Indiana to Succeed Roger. Mont. A special to the Helena New York. James A. Moffalt, a diRecord from New York states Chat (he $2,500,000 bond Issue of the Butts rector of the Standard Oil company ft Helena Electric Railway company of New Jersey, will succeed the late of baa been underwritten by J. G. White I Henry H. Rogers as ft Co., the well known railway eon - the company, It is underatood on good trarting and construct Ion company. authority here. Mr. Moffiatt has had This Insures the building of the line active charge of the transportation between Helena and Butte. Work la comto begin at once, according to local problems of the Standard Oil authorities. as an old railroad right pany for the pant two years, a task himself. of way will be utilized for a major Vo which Mr. Rogers devoted Standard of He the also is Is end this of president the distance, portion Oil company of Indiana. He Is 57 already graded. rears old. was dead! The whole post bad heard of it nearly a year ago. Who, then, was this silent, mysterious figure, springing suddenly from the crowd and joining them? Who are you?" asked the man. Adam wavered a moment before he answered. The simple query blotted out his cherished dream; perhaps it would make the continuance of his march lmiKissllile. But finally be turned and answered; "Dan Roth's brother." Suddenly he felt the silent of a handshake. The veteran meant to be his friend. Then the command of Forward march!" came to them, and they were off ones more, this time flashing warm, triumphant, Into Riverside drive. The long Inarch was over. Beside him stood the color-bcareholding aloft the tattered glory of the regiment. The words of the orator floated on the quivering air, and the cannon boomed from the gunboat In the river; but all sounds now seemed to come to Adam from a great distance. He wds aflame with tbe spirit of devotion; the darkened lamp of patriotism had been lighted anew In him, and in tbe whole world there woe nothing else. Presently Adams kindling eyes fell upon a man among the crowd of spectators, a man whose haggard face and encoui-ageiin-u- r, Burned, in Spite of Efforts of Parento and Friends to Save Them. Central City, Ky. Five children who took part in the commencement exercises of Mrs. B. C. Boyd's school In this city Monday night were burned, four fatally, while the fifth may not recover; the audlenre was changed from an applauding group Into a fighting mob and several other children were slightly Injured. Panic was averted by the roolness of the men In the audience, who covered the flaming children with their coats. Little Dorothy Clay was the unwitting cause of the catastrophe. The little girls had formed In a circle and had drilled back and forth In their while muslin dresses, the audience gathering enthusiasm as the enter Ulument progressed, 'ibeu the lights were extinguished, and an electric randle In the hand of each child flashed out brilliantly. The aunta, mothers, fathers and playmates In tha crowd cheered and aplauded so enthat Dorothy grew thusiastically frightened and dropped her candla. Tbe flames leaped to the white muslin and in a twinkling five dresses r hours in Oklahoma. A number of bouses have been washed away The dead are: Mrs W W. Brown and throe children of F. Foraker. Mrs. Mattlo Jones, negress. Mrs. Brown and the children were drowned In Salt Creek while attempting to eseaiie from high water. Mrs. Jones dropped dead of fright when the watera of Boggy creek, near Enid, surrounded her home. Railroad tracks near Shawnee, Tulsa, 1 aw nee, Muskogee, Vlnlta and Oklahoma City are la bad condition and seel Ion of track are washed ouL Bridges are unsafe along the Arkansas, Clmmama and Canadian rivers; and traffic Is generally delayed. The Hood Is the worst since 1872, and the loss of crops will reach many thousands. twenty-fou- PLAGUE IN VENEZUELA. Precautions Taken to Prevent 8pread of Dread Disease. s a result of the reapof bubon pearance plagne hero. President Gome has sued a decree of disease making the declaration obligatory and providing for the establishment of a corps of maritime sanitary police to prevent the Importation or transmission of infectious diseases. The report of the director of Hie sanitary commission announces one case of bubonic plague, and extensive sanitation measures already have begun. The authorities have set apart a building to be used as a special hospital and the sanitation of all houses has been ordered. All persons leaving Caracas are being Caracas.-A- Burglar Beats Boy and Then Leave Him In Blazing Building, Sanitary commissions have been Chicago Insensible from a blow delivered by a burglar, Jdhn Adams, appointed at La Gulra and Puerto to prevent, M possible, (be 18 yeara old, lay helpless while flames crackled alKiut him Tuesday night, spread of the disease to these ports. the burglar, according to the police, Senate Against Free Lumber. having set fire to the house before he Tbe lumber schedule Washington. fled. The boy wu alone In his brothers of the tariff wae under consideration on Monday, home, having been left to guard the almost the entire day with Senators Root, Heyburn, Borah house. In a noise the Hearing wi and Dulliver contending on, the oae v' kitchen, he found there a negro Iwilow th table, tha carving - kstto - wtlh haA (or protection.' which he had sliced a loaf of bread Clapp, Burkett and McCumber argulying on the table. Adama snatched Ing aa strenuously against the policy. tbe knife but was felled the next mo- Tbe day closed with more than a s ment. The flames from the kitchen vote against Senator were seen by a passerby, who soundfree lumber amendment, ed an alarm. Firemen found the boy the ballot showing 25 for and 54 still lying insensible on the floor and against. dragged him out. The surprise of the day wae tbe atDulliver, who hereTAFT WILL PRESS GOLDEN KEY. titude of Senator tofore had stood with the "progree Ives" throughout the fight He took Opening of positive posit ion against tbs radical on 1. Occurs June positon demand for free lumber. Seattle, Wash. The formal exerStricken With Leprosy. cises of the opening of tbe 1 on June Washington John Early, the leper exposition will consume one hour and eighteen whom earn has provoked widespread minutes, end will be followed by the Interest, on Monday submitted to an pressing of the golden key by Pres- examination by Dr. E. Epiers'of Coident Taft In the White House that penhagen, one of the world's forte will set the wheels in motion. The most leprosy experts. Dr. Eplers asexercises are scheduled to begin at serted that in his opinion there Is no 11 oclock Pacific time, and the pres- possible doubt that Early Is afflicted ident's part will be performed at with the disease; Early does not or 3:28, Washington know the result of the examination, 12:28 p. m time. The oration of James J. Hill, though Dr. Eplers communicated It president of the Great Northern road, to Mrs. Early. The disease Is In ar. ' will be 30 minutes long. The fair Is Incipient stage, he said, and might ready now. except flower and grass be arrested if proper measures were beds, and Installation of some exhib- followed. its. tore upward toward the north star." Tho Hunter Hunted. Mayor Shot by Burglar. Pittsburg. Thomas Donovan, one Cedar Rapids, la. A series of senof the detectives employed by the sational burglaries came to a climax voters league which brought the graft early Monday when ra unknown thief Information against seven councilman hot and wounded Mayor John T. and two bankers In this city some Previous to entering time ago, was arrested Tuesday. Donbouse tbe burglar robbed ovan, who was charged with conspir- Father J. J. Toomey'i home, covering ing to falsely Indict and subordinate the priest with his revolver. While the witnesses, was lodged In the county the police were Investigating Tbla Information against him Tourney affair the bandit entered tbe Jail. and others waa made last Saturdav Carmody home, two blocks distant. in behalf of Councilman John F. The mayor was aroused, grappled Klein, who was recently convicted with the Intruder and was shot in tbe and sentenced to a tram In the peni- abdomen. Ca-bell- o n4 . two-third- for Alaaka-Yukon-Paclf- 0 Alaska-Yukon-Parlfl- c 1 "There Goes One 1 , vice-preside- RYE Oklahoma City, GUIs. Five people are dead, at least ten seriously injured, several thousand acres of crops are Inundated, and every stream la the northern and eastern parts of tho Dresaea of Children Caught Fire In an state raging, as a result of almost unInstant, Four precedented rains during tbe last Being Fatally TRIED TO CREMATE VICTIM. e. 1 OF Unprecedented Rains Responsible for Lose of Lift and Destruction of Property Along Waterways. were afire. Mothers fought to reach their children, veritable small bonfires on tbe platform. Tbe children, frenzied with the pain, made efforts to clamber over the footlights to their relatives. Little liouise Marshall, a screaming rocket, leaped over the footlights and Into the lap of her aunt in the audience. JJ' 'ihe ht iflll CM DEATH ItteKI Congressman Lorimer Gets Hopkins' Toga as Result of Coalition of Democrats and Republicans. Anti-Hopki- Two Countries Fail to Come to Understanding in Dispute Over Dependencies of Macao. FLOODS ' of Thoso Grizzly F ightera, Boys." sad, reunions, these enthusiastic pa- twitching body marked him apart rades through the great city, these Rage, wild, unreasoning rage at fate, glorioue awakenings of memories ot cried out from all his features. With deeds well done In the past That was some fascination Adam noticed that what ate into his soul and blotted out his eyee were fastened upon the flag, the light In bis face. He had been a or all that was left ot It But what coward coward! In those days, when a gase. His glance was a menace, his the uniform before him had been a look burnt with the hatred of one bright red, and the gun, leaning whose hand Is forever set against the against the foot of the bed, had insignia of law and royalty. The ceremonies were drawing to a sparkled and shone, he had failed to answer the bugle call of bis country. dose. A bugler stepped forward ana Tbe sounds in the street below grew played tbe first bar of the "Star Spanlouder, and the sun streamed Into tbe gled Banner. From bis higher place room, sending a sudden riot to Adam's Adam saw the man whom be had been heart The veins' In his temples watching push his way to the edge of throbbed like ceaseless threshing ma- the crowd, directly facing the flag. chines, separating all the chaff of his The people were singing now. The man's arm shot out Something long life of failure and cowardice from this strange, burning prayer that gleamed In the sunshine, something sprang up within him, that he might sang in tbe air above tbe words in once, only once, go forth In the uni- trlmuph shall wave," and an old form of the country he loved, to march Zouave stumbled and fell forward behind the flag be had failed to pro- upon tbe white stones. tect, to be an American soldier! The commander of the post stooped He found himself taking off bis coat over the fallen man and lifted his with shaking hands, and, almost be- head. The man waa a stranger to fore be realized It, he was hurrying him. He looked at a Zouave. standing Into the uniform He dusted the near, silently questioning him. fes and put it on his bead. The He pushed In front of Peterson, worn tassel fell over his ear, and he if. Just as that scoundrel fired. He tossed it back with a new, free fling tried to grasp tbe flag, air. 1 guess he of hie head. The mantle of Dan saw what the fellow aimed at" seemed truly to have fallen upon him, Who is he?" asked the officer. "And bringing with It the spirit ol 61. what le he doing here? He la not one A man leading two little boys by the of my men. hand pointed him out to the children. He was Dan Roth's brother. We There goes one of those grizzly old have all beard of him he waa the fighters, boys. I tell you, they did hoy that wouldn't join in '61. But togreat work!" Tbe words reached day he he Adam and sent a gleam to hia eyes. The old man knelt down beside Adam. With one great tlirob of hia heart Just below the dim stain on the shoulAdam stepped into the street and der of Dan's Jacket, the stain which swung into line. The man next to him marked that day at Alexandria there glanced In his direction, and his face wa a new, fresh one. Tho heart that whitened. lay beneath it was at peace. Dan Roth! Surely old Dan Roth (Copyright, M0J, by J. B. I.lpplncott Oa.) moth-eate- n Chr-mod- Car-mody- s tentiary. Private Contract Holds Good. lud. That Laura Washington, Bunn Clark Is the legal wife of the Rev. E. E. Davidson, former pastor of the First Christian o'mrch. was decided by Judge Houghton In the county court. Miss Clark, the daughter of a former mayor of this city, alleged that Davidson and she were recently married in a SL Louis hotel by a private contract drawn up by the preacher on the liack of an enveSoon after publication of the lope. charge Davidson left. He was last beard from at Toronto. Libel Suit Dismiaaed. libel milt Francisco. The San brought by P. H. McCarthy, a local labor leader, against J. D. Spreckels, Charles W. Horrlck and Ernest B. manSimpson, resport lvely owner, ager and managing editor of the Call, waa dismissed Tuesday by Police Judge Shortall. The ground for disfiled missal. as slated in the demurrer Bacon, ' which by Attorney Robert was susta:ncd, was that tbe complaint did not set forth farts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The case grew out of an article published In the Call. Killed as He Knelt in Prayer. Kenned, Mo. While kneeling la prayer at church services at Europa school house, fifteen miles southwest of here. Homy Culp was shot and , Charles killed by his old. 18 Champ fired years Champ, three bullets Into Culps body and brother-in-law- fled. A posse of citizens beaded by tbe sheriff. Is searrhlng for him. Culp killed Harry Champ, brother of the slayer, last August, after having been driven from home by the Champ brothers. He was acqnlttcd. the Jury deciding his act was Justifiable. Convicted of Maltreating Children. Paris. On the charge of having maltreated young children confided to his care, Cecil H. Sargent, an Englishman. and bis wife, who was Josephine Levine or New York, were found guilty in the correctional coart on Monday. Sargent was sentenced to two years and his wife to thirteen Witnesses months' Imprisonment. testified that the Sargents had beaten the children and deprived them of food. Sargent and his wife were ar rested last February, and the case-haattracted considerable attention- s |