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For the Woman who Wants to Know? For the Son and Daughter who Need to Know. For the business lian Too liusy to Know. What Was Done Last Week In This World of Ours History-making Eventi tn All Lines of Activity. Brief, Classified, Complete, to Date. A Ready Reference Encyclopedia. ?Jtmeftcan J?f/a/rS? IIBIJBCTIONS INT MANY CITIES, I Municipal elections In sovoral States I Monday and Tuesdaydld not result In any 'Striking party changos. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, was re eloctod as a Democrat on tho platform lof municipal ownership with a plurality of 0,W8 over Graeme Stewart, Republi? can. : In Ohio's principle cjtles tho honors wore divided, Thomas L. Johnson being re-elected Mayor of Cleveland and "Gold |cn Rule Jones" as Mayor of Toledo, whllo tho Republicans of Clnolnnatl elected their candidate, Flolschmann, as Mayor over Movlllo IS. Ingalls, prosldont of the Big Four, who was a Fusion can? didato. Johnson thus becomes the ac? knowledged head of tho Democratic, ma? chine, and Is oxpoctcd to be its candidate J?or Governor. Other'Ohio towns wont Republican, as usual. ! Michigan wont Republican by about 40,? 0O0 on tho voto for Supremo Court Jus? tice and university regents. St. Louis was carried by the Democrats on a local? ticket which Insures a rebuke to tho House of Delegates "ring." Baltimore's electoral primaries under the now law rosulted In the nomination ?if tho regular organization's choice for Mayor, Robert M. McLano and the re? tirement of Mayor Hayes. This was a -victory for Senator , Gorman's political machine. I In Montana tho Democrats carried Hel? ena and Patrick Mullens, the Heinzo ami? ti ust Democratic candidate, Was eloctod Mayor of Butte,* likewise Omaha. Kansas City, Kan., elected TV B. Gilbert, Re? publican, Mayor, and Loavonworth's new Mayor Is Dan Anthony, Independent, a nephew of Susan B, Anthony. PROHIBITION LAW REPEALED. * A bill repealing the prohibition'law In ? Kow Hampshire, which has been In force for forty-eight years, has boen passed by the Legislature and Governor ?Jachelder. It pr?vidos for a salaried Stato license committee with power to issue licensee. Tho towns are to decide by local option if saloons aro wanted. ?HILL ATTACKS ROOSEVELT. A ?harp attack on the record of Presl Hent Roosovolt was made by Ex-Senator David B. Hill in arguing for the corpora -, tlons In tho franchlso tax cases before ' 1 i Court of Appeals at Albany, Tues? day. Ho charged that whllo Mr. Roose? velt was Governor of Now York he was responsible for the Stato assessment pro? vision puroly ns "political expediency." PHILADELPHIA'S RESCUER. The new Republican Mayor of Philadel? phia, John Weaver, who was Inaugurated. Monday, Is disappointing tho machine leaders and pleasing the reform element by taking an aggressive stand against ev? ery form of corruption in the Government of the city. PRESIDENT IN YELLOWSTONE. President Roosevelt entored the Yel? lowstone Park, fWcdnesday, In rough riding outfit with 'John Burroughs, the author-naturalist, as hie only companion, leaving behind at Cinnabar, Mont the rest of the presidential party. In tho fastnesses of tho big forest preserve tho President expects to remain for two weeks studying the wild animals and on joying a complote rest. Camps at dlf i ferent localities for his uso have been ' established. During his trip across Dakota, after leaving the twin cities, tho President's most Important utterance was In defense of the American army in the Phlllpines. Ho declared that President McKlnley's promises for tho Filipinos had been ful? filled and praised the work of Gov. Taft. His Sioux Falls speech dealt with the wage worker and the tiller of the soil whose problems ho regarded as the most Important of all. Prior to. this, in his Milwaukee speech, reforrlng to anti-trust legislaci?n ho took a somewhat apolo liotlo tone, saying that Congress had pono about as far as it could in this direction. GEN. CORBINS SOCIAL SNUB. Politics and personalities havo resulted In the refusal of tho Metropolitan Club, of Washington, tho most exclusivo or-' garrizn-tlon ap prominent men in .the country, to admit to membership Gen. Corbin, notwithstanding that his name was backed by Secretary Root and all the Influenco of the Administration. The club" governors havo not filed any charges against Corbin but based their Objections on personal disltko. Army and iiavy officers who belong to the club are ?aid to resent this action as a slight to the. service. ? STATEMPAID LOBBY. The fact has leaked out that tho State !?f Now York, through tho action of Its unacy commission, has had a paid, lob lyist at Washington during the recent Pession of Congress. For helping to bring about tho passage of tho bill for the deportation of alien lunatics at Now ??Cork the Commission paid Goodwin Brown ?2,500. ^DD CITY ELECTIONS All over Kansas tho town elections resulted In favor of enforcing tho pro? hibition law. Tho Baltimore Republican organization Was surprised to find that Congressman W?chter, an independent candidato for Mayor was nominated. This sooms to provo that direct primaries cannot bo controlled by party machines. Commerciai. BIO MEDICAL COMBINE. Tho Inter-State Medical Association, composed of physlolans and druggists trom nearly overy Stato, was formed at Battio Creek, April 3, with a capital of 110,000,000. A chemical plant costing ?1,000,000 is to be built at Battio Crook, und a sanitarium at Eureka Springs, Ark, Other plants have been bought out. ASPHALT TRUST DECREE, After hearing the report of the receiv? ers of the National Asphalt Company, Judge Klrkpatrlck, of the United States CIroult Court of Now Jersey, entered a ?lnal decree of salo of all the properties of tho asphalt companies, Tho net earn? ings of the trust during the year woro paid? to bo 1775,408.03. GLASS MACHINE MERGTSR. Jt was announced at Indianapolis April Ktli, that tho American Window-Glass Company and tho American Machino Co,, 'makers of- glass-blowing machines, would be merged at Pittsburg during the week, Tho now company will be_capitallzed at |50,000,00O and will erect blowing-machine plants, THillD NILE DAM OPENED. ? A third subsidiary barrage upon tho Nile, the Zlfto Dam, midway between Cairo and the soa, has been opened, It '?\u 1,331 feet long and contains fifty arches, each IG feot broad. It cost 12,250,000. NEW GOLD FIND IN NOME. Recent advices from Nome, Alaska, tell of moro rich gold finds on.the Shungwak end on Inglechuck. A stampede from ?Suidi? le reuorted and an unusuully ac tlvo season Is anticipated In tho new dis* truot. FIRST WIRELESS NEWSPAPER.' Tho Los Angol?s Timos has put into op? eration tho first and only dally newspapor to reoclvo Its nows entirely by wireless telegraphy, It Is on the Island of Santa Catalina, thirty mllos off tho mainland of California, and .is appropriately named "Tho Wireless." FARMERS' PROFITS BIG; Professor Daviseon, of the State Uni? versity of Nebraska^ hag compiled a patn phlot based on figures of the last census,! showing that the farmers of tho State of Nobraska are reaping larger dividends on ?hoir Investments than any of the^blg so called trusts of the country. Deducting living expenses und cost ot Implements from the valuo of his products, Professor I Davissen finds that the'farmer has a IS [ per cent. Interest on hta Investment. SHOE STORE SELLS COFFEE. C. Shenkborg and Company, wholesale grocers of Sioux City, Iowa, havo appeal? ed for an Injunction against a retail shoe storo, which Is selling a brand of coffee prepared by the wholesale firm to sell at 20 cents a pound, for 6 cents, as a apo? dal attraction. When tho grocers refus? ed to soil the coffee to the shoe dealers thoy bought It from retail dealers. TEXAS' NEW OIL FIELD. 1 . Tho discovery of a now oil field at Har ward, Texas, has caused a boom In prop? erty Blmllar to that following the Beau? mont discovery. Land Increased from ?10 to $400 an acre In a few days. CHICAGO'S COMMERCIAL WIRELESS, The president of the American De For? rest Wireless Co., announced at Chi? cago, last week, that within, sixty days hie company would bo prepared, to send messages from Chicago to all tho prin? cipal cities In the country at the rate of one cent a word. Work on a station at Evanstoii, HI?, near Chicago, has been begun. STEEL TRUST'S BIG YEAR. ' The first annual report of the United States Steel Corporation was made pub? lic Tuesday, thus setting tho example of voluntary publicity for other trusts. It shows that tho net earnings after de? ducting $21,000,000 for repairs were $133, 303.763, on Increase of $20,000,000 over 1001. Over the $99,055,006 used for In? terest, dividends and other funds there remained a surplus for the year of $34, 253,656. Tho Total not earnings of the first three months of the present year were $24,656,136 as compared to $26,279, 599 for the same period of G902, This decrease wns said to be largely due to | the railroad congestion which prevented prompt delivery. COURT DECIDES AGAINST KEENE. Judge Lurton of the United States Cir? cuit Court of Appeals decided Monday I not to make permanent the Injunction | asked for by the agenta of James R. Koeno to restrain the Harrlman Inter? ests from voting their 900,000 shares In tho Southorn Pacific. The decision was based on tho fact that the Union Pacido Company, which holds that stock, was not party to tho action and the question of the legality of this holding of stock of one company by another was not pass? ed upon. Senator Foraker, ? of Ohio, as counsel for the complainants, gave notice of appeal to tho United States Court of Appeals. Pending further litigation tho annual meeting of the Southern Pacific directora at Louisville. Ky., Wednesday took no decisive action. PROFITS OF BEET SUGAR CO. At tho apnu?l meeting of. the American Beet Sugar Co., Tuesday, President Ox nard reported net profits of $725.670 and a surplus of $300,000 In spite of the low record prices. He predicted a rise In prices. IS SALT LAKE BOTTOMLESS7 This Is tho question Insistently perplex? ing tho ablest railroad engineers which E. Hi Harrlman has been able to employ I for the solution of his Salt Lake cut-off [ problem. Within the past week additional sections of the roadbed which they are filling In across tho northern pnrt of the mke to save sixty miles in the Journey lo San Francisco havo sunk out of sight and 180 foot spliced piles have beoh driven without finding any firm foun? dation. Great secrecy prevails at the cut? off, but It has leaked out that twelve la? borers have been killed and fifty cars beon plunged Into the lake. ?c/oni/fic. TO STUDY TURKESTAN. < Under the auspices of tho Carnegie In? stitute Professor Raphael Pumpelly, the geologist and author, has started for Rus? sia, where ho will endeavor to obtain per? mission to visit Turkestan, Ho goes t? ascertain whether that region offers a good field for the study of tho relation between physical geographical changes and economic, social and ethnological changes. PRIZE ESSAY ON TUBERCULOSIS. A committee appointed by King Edward has awarded tho piizo recently offered for the best essay on tho erection of a sanitarium for tho treatment of tuber? culosis In England to Dr. Arthur Latham. His essay, which has been published, rec? ommends life In the opon air, complote freedom from debilitating circumstances, methodical hlll-cllmblng an abundant diet of milk, fatty foods and vegetables, va? rious hydrotheraupotlc methods and con? stant medical supervision. CONGRESS OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. An International congress of arts and sclonces Is to bo held at St. Louis for ton days during Soptember, 1901. Two of the highest authorities In each branch represented will present papers, one on history of that particular field during tho past century and ono on the prob? lema now pressing for solution. The pro? ceedings will bo published as a perma? nent contribution to scholarship, BURGERV FOR BRIGHT'S DISEASE, Dr. Goorgo H. Edelbohls of New York has announced runt Brlght's Disease may be successfully treated by surgery. He claims that tho removal of tho sur? rounding membrane of the kidney frees the diseased and weakened kidney sub? stance from too great compression and Increases the circulation In this organ by the formation of now blood vessels be? tween the released kidney nnd tho sur? rounding tissue. HEARD GHOST OF BEECHER. The Rov. W. Isaac Funk, head of the publishing house of Funk and Wag palls. Now York, lias taken the public Into his confidence in res-nrd to a recent experience with a ritualistic medium ?Sfhen the spirit of Henry Ward Beecher ??font him a communication through an? other spirit called Rakestraw. It wue to tho effect that certain valuable coin, ono of the only two widow's mites In ex? istence, which Funk had borrowed from ' a friend of Beecher'Yoars ago had not been returned. The spirit told Funk to look for It wh'ch he did, and unexpected? ly found the coin under some old papers . In his ?????. The whole matter has been | placed In the hands of the Society for j Psychical Research, . The Whole Field at a Glance. That monopolistic commercial combinations, in whatever guise, can bo reached by existing law was dis? covered to the people of 'this Country, Thursday, when the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Paul, gave as its unanimous opinion that the $400,000,000 Northern Securities Company, created t? hold a con? trolling interest in the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railroads, was illegal and In violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust law. While this decision is sub? ject to review by the Supreme Court, tho defendants having appealed, every form of commercial consolida? tion, the whole movement toward trusts, is halted pend- ' ing that final adjudication. In line with this judi? cial thunderbolt was the veto of the Southern Pacific merger bill-by, Governor Lanham, of Texas. On the other hand the effort of James R. Keen e to invalidate the Union Pacific's holdings of Southern Pacific stock failed in the decision of Judge Lurton, of the Circuit Court and the Keene Pool was dissolved thereafter. Another legal decision of general interest was that of the Indiana Supreme Court malting the weekly wage law unconstitutional. The Steel'Trust's frank dis? closure in its annual report of enormous volumes of business resulting in net earnings of $133,308,763 and undivided surplus of over $34,000,000 has attracted much attention; also the prosperous condition of the beet ' sugar industry in spite of low prices as shown in the $300,000 surplus of the Beet Sugar Co. Two large combinations were reported, one of drug and medical . concerns at Battle Creek with $10,000,000 capital, the other a $50,000,000 glass-blowing machine concern at Pittsburg. The aggregate spring attitude of organized labor has been the feature of the week in Europe as well as In America. Holland has been face to face with its long expected crisis in the strike of its Gov? ernment-controlled railroad men supplemented by wide? spread sympathetic strikes. So far, however, this labor movement does not appear to have been particu? larly effective, anti-strike legislation having proceeded. The Italian capital has been for several days paralyzed by a general strike of all trades in sympathy with the printers' demands for more pay and shorter hours. But arbitration gave promise of relief. The social unrest of Europe was further emphasized by Russian riots at Nijni Novgorod, in which thirty persons were shot down and many others wounded. The trend toward open insurrection In the Balkans has continued with many fierce encounters. Servia's King suspended constitution to serve personal onda. Russia began a partial evacu? ation of the Niu-Chwang section of Manchuria. In this country the area of? labor troubles has widened with the' threat of 60,000 men In New York building trades, the ordorlng of sympathetic spinners' strikes through? out New England,'the strike of screwmen'at New Or? leans docks and the war between rival unions of carpen? ters. The threatened Wabash strike was averted by concession of 12 and 15 per cent, wage advance on tho Western Division. Increasing trouble over the execu? tion of the anthracite strike award, resulting in fresh walkouts, has required ' the attention of President Mitchell. Local elections in,a number of States have re? sulted In no .political upsets or changes of general im? portance, Chicago re-elected Mayor Harrison by de? creased majority on public ownership platform. Toledo called again its Golden Rule Mayor Jones and Cleveland its Mayor Johnson, who thus becomes the acknowledged leader of Ohio,Democracy. The Ingalls fusion movement failed to rout Republican Cincinnati, Democrats carried St. Louis and Kansas towns sustained prohibition. Pres? ident Roosevelt has entered on the rest period of his journey in Yellowstone Park. Philadelphia's new mayor has entered on a reform crusade. The rejection of General Corbin by the Metropolitan Club, of Washing? ton has stirred official circles. A monetary commission has been planned to harmonize silver standard countries, The Postoffiice Department investigators have unearth? ed new signs of corruption. Dr. Edelbohls, of New York, has announced the success of surgery for Bright'a dis? ease. The Rev. Funk's spiritual message from'Beecher has attracted much attention. Pennsylvania has a new law against cigarette selling to minors. Commissioner of Education Harris reported increase in college attend? ance of nearly too per cent, male and about 150 per cent, women. An American Catholic, the Right Rev. George Montgomery, of San Francisco, has been made Arch? bishop of Manila. M. Serpollet made at Nice the new auto record of one kilometre in twenty-eight seconds. ?ducationai S?oaim, CATHOLIC SCHOOLS EXEMPT. The Catholic parochial schools of New York State, by decision of Attorney-Gen? eral Cunneen, are distinguished from tho public school system ae being free from public school laws. The caso In point was the admission of non-vaccinated pu? pils by the parochial schools of Dtmklrk after thoy had beon refused' admission to tho public schools. SOHOOL FOR SUPERINTENDENTS. The School Journal announces tho pro? gramme of a unique school at Omaha, Neb., during tho coming summer. It will grive instruction in the principles and practice of supervision and managing pub? lic' schools. Lectures- and conferences will be conducted by prominent State and city superintendents. VIEW8 OF STANFORD'S PRESIDENT. In an address on "University Tenden? cies" at Chicago University President Jordan, - of Stanford, spoke in favor of coeducation and of a longer rather than a shorter college course. Coeducation he called a "tendency of mind, n?t a matter of the sexes," and said, "if wo could drop tho soldai butterflies and do nothing-dandies from the campus, most of the evils of tho university'.system would disappear. CARNEGIE AIDS CORNELL. President Schurman, of Cornell, noiinced Alonday that Andrew Carnegie had asked to be allowed to pay all bills lnourred by students on account of sick? ness during tho recent typhoid epidemic or by their parents. YALE'S NEGRO ORATOR. William Plckens, the negro orator who won the Ton Eyck prize at Yale last week, and who was the first negro so honored, has received a request for a copy of his essay on Hayti from ex President Cleveland. Ho was ono of four competitors for tho J100 .prize. SALARIES OF TEACHERS LOW. . In dealing with, the vital question of?' compensation for public school teachers, the Journal of Education calls attention to tho fact that "the postman, tho po? liceman, the fireman, tho riurso, the dross maker, tho milliner, the typewriter and about everybody else gets more pay than the teachor of the community and no ono of thorn requires as much natural talent, as extensive or expensive prepara? tion." DR. HARRIS' NEW REPORT. Tho most notable feature of the United States Commissioner of Education Har? ris' now report is tho great incroase In tho number of aspirants for higher edu? cation. Thoro are, ho says, 75,472 men In colleges and universities as against 44.D2U ten years ago and 27,879 women students as again 10,761. The only decrease notod is In tho schools of theology. Socioiogicai. CIGARETTE SELLING A CRIME. Gov. Pennypacker of Pennsylvania has signed tho bill making It a misdemeanor for any person td sell cigarettes or cigar? ette paper to minors. He also signed a bill for soparato Juvenile Jails. NEW JERSEY LICENSES NURSES, Gov. Murphy of New Jersey has signed tho bill requiring trained nursos to bo licensed, Ho explained that it does pot apply to those who do not claim to bo graduato or trained nurses. OFFICE ROTATION AND ORIME. Owing to tho wholesale dismissal of policemen" in Pittsburg since tho recent election of Recorder Hayes, that city Is reported to be suffering from on Increase of thievery and other crimes. ALASKA DEPENDS ON GAMBLING. The recent enforcement of an executivo order against gambling houses In Alaska has resulted dlsasfrously to the principle cities of that territory in the matter of finances. It discloses the astounding fact that! the public Institutions of those cities havo been dependent largely on fees and fines from tho proprietors of gambling and drinking resorts. WOMAN SUFFRAGE PROPAGANDA. Elpora N. Rabcock. Chairman of tho Press Committee of tho Woman Suffraga Association, reported to the recent Now Orleans Convention that. 71,000 general articles and 2,000 special articles besides a page of plate mattor every six weeks had been sent to the.press of the country in] the' past year. She said that three-1 fourth? of this matter WM t?ss?. Sre//y/ous. AMERICAN FOR MANILA CATHOLICS. The Right Rev. George Montgomery, Coadjutor Archbishop of San Francisco has boon appointed Archbishop of Manila. Also the Rev. D. J, Doherty of Philadel? phia has been choHen as one of the bishops In tho Philipines. TO UNITE CATHOLIC SOCIETIES. On Invitation of Bishop Farley of New York prominent Catholics have conferred with ^the object of bringing about a national federation of Catholic societies. The purposo of unification is said to be entirely for educational purposes. NEW SECRETARY OF Y. P. S. C. E. Von Ogden Vogt, a graduate of Bollot College, Wls., 1901 has boen chosen to succeed John Willis'Baer as Secretary of the Christian Endeavorers. REV. HEBER NEWTON RESIGNS. Rev. Heber Newton, of New York, who recently accepted the position of preacher in tho Memorial Church at Stanford Uni? versity, Cal., has resigned. It Is bo lleved that his retirement was duo to se Vere crtlclsm of his efforts to harmonize the different creeds. The most dissatis? faction was expressed by other ministers of his own denomination. ' ;? NO MORE HERESY TRIALS. Professor Henry Van Dyke, Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, ; said at New York Monday before the Presbyterian Union that the prospecte of the Presbyterian Church were brighter because tho whole spirit was changing from apologetic to missions. For many years they had boen misrepresented as to what they thought and believed, but now tho revised creed would enable them to clearly state their beliefs so they heed ho longer be hampered by predestination, etc. He thought that there would bo no more heresy trials. FATHER JOHN HATES TOLSTOI. Father' John of Cronstadt, regarded as a saint in Russia, has refused to accept honorary membership In the Council of the University of Dupat, because of the election thereto of Count Loo Tolstoi. Ho calls Tolstoi "a Godless man," and "the worst heretic of our evil days," and re? fuses to bo placed on/a footing with "an author" who Is the porsonlflcutlon of Satan." RABBI'S VIEW OF RESURRECTION. Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, Rabbi of Tomple Isreal In Chicago, preaching on tho Res? urrection, described tho doctrines as used In the Christian churches, as a "subtle drug." Ho said ho found it best to take tho Judlalstlc view of Immortality?to worthily in this world and leavo all bo yond In the hands of God, Ho advised against pinning faith to a vnguo hopo of a meeting hereafter as there is a possi? bility that a rounlon' thoro- might bo a disenchantment, Just as we are ofton dis? appointed In each othor in' this life whon meeting after a long separation, Ho said we should compensate ourselves for ?our losses, Whon a mother loses a child sho should he a mother to some othor ohlld who needed It and thus find hor child resurrected In the best sonso, BAPTISTS CLAIMING ST. PATRICK. The religious press has boen getting considerable amusement out of tho claim seriously made by tho Rev. Addlson Moore, a Now Jorsey Baptist,? thut St. Patrick was In roal|ty a Baptist, This conclusion is based upon the internal evi? dence of St. Patrick's preaching. Mr. Moore also finds evidence that Ireland's patron saint baptised his converts by emersion. THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. The latest statistics regarding the re? ligious press of the United States, as gathered by the "New World," a Catho Ho paper at Chicago, show that the Cath? olics load numerically with 250 papera, having 870,000 circulation. Baptists are second with M2 papers, having 465,000 cir? culation, Others In order of circulation aro Jews, Episcopalians, Disciples of Christ, Congregatlonallsts, Lutherans and Adventlsts, while 128 other religious bodies have their organs. ??-?-1 PRESIDENT'S REMOVAL POWER. The U, S. SuprouT? Court dismissed, Monday, tho case of former Genoral Appraiser Shurtleff who had brought suit to recover salary for tho? period since bis removal from onice by Presldont McKinley, He claimed that ho was ap? pointed for life on gpqd behavior and could not legally bo dismissed except ? because uo. longer needed. Gxecittwe, EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES. According to Treasury Department fig? ures our exports of manufactures have In? creased from $102,856,016 in 1880 to $403,641, 401 in 1002. In 1880 they ropresent 13.43 por cent, of the total volumo of domestic exports, and in 1902 had lncreasod to 29.77 per cent. ALASKA BOUNDARY COUNSEL! Secretary Hay has chosen as counsel for tho United States before the- Alaskan Boundary Commission Judge Jacob M. Dickinson, of Chicago, David T. Watson, of Pittsburg and Hannis Taylor, ox-Unit? ed States Minister to Spain. They will go to London in the fall. MONETARY COMMISSION PLANNED. Secretaries Hay, Shaw and Root held a conference Tuesday and decided to open diplomatic negotiations with Mexico to bring about harmony as to the monetary standards of that country and our own. Professor Jonks, of Cornell, who has Just submitted a report on this subject, Chas. /A. Conant and ono other are to constitute a commission to visit tho sllvor standard countries in the hope of securing a uni? versal gold standard. RED CROSS FIGHT ON. The latest, development in-the contro? versy over tho leadership of tho Ameri? can National Red Cross Society since Miss Clara Barton was sustained by the Exocutlvo Commlttoo under tho now Con? stitution which gives her autocratic pow? er Is the suspension of the dissenting mi? nority of the Executive Committee. No? tice to this offoct has been sent out to Genoral Wilson, John W. Foster, Ex-Sec? retary Foster and tho1 rest, requiring them to show cause why they should not be expelled. ANOTHER P. O. INVES1UGATION. ; It Is a poor week that does not enow a now Investigation outbreak In the Post? onica Department at Washington. A third great division of " this department, .the Bureau of Post-Olllco Supplies, hend? ed by M. A. W. Lewis, has now beon lii vaded by First Assistant Postmaster Wynne on charges of scandalous and cor? rupt practices preferred by Blngham & Co., of Philadelphia. RECORDS AT GUN PRACTICE. Tho United States battleship Iowa low? ered all records for accuracy with six pounders at Pensacola, Fla., Wednesday, her gunners flrty thirty shots In succes? sion, each falling truo. Three gun crows participated. The Illinois recently low? ered all records for 13-Inch guns. ARM y GENERAL STAF-F NAMED. Socretnry of War Root has approved' tho selection Of three colonels, six liouten ant-colonels, fifteen majors, nineteen cap? tains and ono lluetenant, to constitute tho general staff. undor tho new law, which becomes operativo August 16th, when O'onornl Allies will retire. Tho three general officers who are to head the staff nro yot to be named by tho President. . The. duty of this body will bo that of a sort of advisory council to the Socrotary of War to prepare plans for tho natlonnl dofonse, etc CATTLE FOR FILIPINOS. Reports from.Mnnlla say that Govornor Taft has planned tho Immediate expendi? ture of $1,000.000 out of the recent appro uriatlnn In buying farm animals to bo distributed at cost in tho Improvorlshed provinces, e 'ffft'scoiianeous. AUTO RECORD BROKEN, In a machine o fhis own design re? sembling an Inverted boat. Mr, Serpollot of France, hade a new automobile record of a kil?metro In 28 seconds at Nioe, Tuesday, This was at tho rate of more than 80 miles nn hour. girl, CHAMPION typewriter, Miss Mary E.. Prettymnn, an employe of the United States Patont Office made a now record at typewriting recently, doing 17,600 words In a woiklng day of six and a half hours, FRANKLI NCELEHRATION IN 1900. Tim ?American Philosophical Society has deeded ,0 observe In January, 1908, tho two hundredth anniversary of tho birth of Benjamin Franklin, who found? ed the society. A commlttoo of many prominent people has boon appointed to arrange plans. TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH. Many Uves wore lost and much prop? erty was dostroyod In Clehurno and Whlto counties, Ark., and about Hanco vlllo. Aln., by windstorms, Tuesday and Wednesday. Many small towns In Ar konuus were In the track of tho storm and eleven persons were killed at Hope woll Settlement, Ala. In Arkansas 12 persons wore reported dead With many points still to hear from DEATHS.l ? ore iff ? ?Politics? CHINESE COURT'S PILGRIMAGE? The Dowager Empress of China, the Emperor" and tho Court started last Sun? day on an elghtocn-days journey to the western tombs, Over' fifty trains were used and'the lavish expenditure Is re? marked by those who don't take stock Intho stories of Impoverished China. EXPENSES IN BRITISH ARMY. A'British commission reported that the average and legitimate expenses of In? fantry officers exceded thoir pay by $500 to $750 annually whllo cavalry officers' expenses exceed their pay by $3,000 to $3.600. In order that competent officers may bo secure^ who do not have Other oxpehscs was fecommonded In addition to rules limiting tho expense of polo. DREYFUS CASE REOPENED. An exciting debate In the French Cham? ber of Doputlos, Monday and Tuesday, which resulted in tho Invalidation of tho election of ,tho Nationalist, Syvoton, ted to tho reopening of tho Dreyfus case with a prospect of Droyfus' complete vindication. M. Jourcs, the Socialist leader, brought out two now facts, ono that documents on which Droyfus had? boon convicted bore tho forged signa turo of tho German Emperor, the other that1 a letter from General Pcllleux to the then War Minister, M. Cavaignao, was suppressed, This letter confessed to bolng obliged to work against ,Droyfus with forgeries. The Nationalists were wrought to fury by this attack. Formor Premier, Brisson charged Cavaignao with being a' traitor to the memory of his fathor, who was President of the Re? public In 1848. SERVIASr KINO'S TRICK. King Aloxander played fast and loose with tho Servian Constitution for his personal ends, Tuesday, when he sus? pended It for a few minutes long enough to repeal tho laws passed under it and retire the ?radicals In power. , Then by another proclamation the constitution was re-established. RUSSIA LEAVES MANCHURIA. The formal retirement of Russia from the second section ot Manchuria Includ? ing Nleu - Chwang began Wednes? day according to agreement. The rail? way terminus, one hours march from that city, remains In Russian hahds. The local governments are bolng trans? ferred to the Chinese. GENERAL STRIKE AT ROME. A strike ' In all trades was proclaimed at Rome, Italy Tuesday because the do? manda of the printers for wage inoreaee and shorter hours were not granted. The . Government called out the troops at once to patrol tho streets. About 25,000 men left their work In answer to the call. At the same time the leader of the Socialists proposed to have the printers^ troubles settled by arbitra? tion. The strike greatly 'interferred with the' Easter festivities, and as the strikers include the teamsters visiting pilgrims were greatly incorivenlenctd. A number of the latter were injured Wednesday, RUSSIAN RIOTERS SHOT. During a lobar riot at Nljni Nobgo iod, Tuesday, 30 persons were killed and 00 wounded when the artillery , fired point blank at the rioters to restore or? der. REPORTED CHRISTIAN MASSACRE. It was reported at Sofia, Tuesday, that a body of Albanians attacked Okhrl da Sunday night and killed the Chris? tian population numbering , 11,000. This was part of ? general uprising In the Balkan provinces whloh has gained headway during tho -past week. The Macedonian Committee Is expected to proclaim a, general Insurreotlon about April 20th, when there will bo over 100, 000 armed men in tho field. So' far thero has been no indication thaJt Russia In? tends to take the part ? of Bulgaria against the Turk, as the Sultan hae a tree hand In the execution of tho pro? posed roforms. AMERICAN-CHINESE TREATY. In the revision of tho American Com? mercial Treaty with China articles are being negotiated at Shanghai which tend to place this country in the position formerly occupied by England In stip? ulating for an open door to tho trade of all nations and tho, entire abolition of llkln taxes. tfndustrt'al. DEMANDS OF MASONS' HELPERS. Tho 13,000 members of the Laborers' Union Protective Society, composed of the bricklayers' nnd masons' laborers of New York and vicinity, have demanded an advance of wages from 36 to 371-2 oonts an hour to go Into effect June 1st. A general strike will be ordered if the demands are refused. This would make tho bricklayers idle also. STRIKE AT NEW ORLEANS. A serious tlo-up of shipping began at Now Orlonns Aprll\ 4th, when the steam- ( ship conference of that place rofused to continue to pay tho scrowmen accord? ing to an agreement made last Octqbor. The movoment of cotton Is now almost over and tho sloampshlp ngonts wish to go back to the old arrangement. The men held a mooting Sunday and decided to quit work, LABOR WAR PREDICTED. A gonornl labor war was predloted be? fore tho Chicago Federation of \Labor last Sunday, by Frank Buchanan,\ load? er of tho Ironworkers' strike He said tho timo was ripe for concerted action by tho labor organizations of tho coun? try ngainst the rapidly growing comb! nattons of capital. Ho favored strikes nnd thought a general contest necessary. DAMAOEB FROM LABOR UNION. Tho suit of tho F. R. Patch Manufac? turing Co.. of Rutland, Vt., against the machinists' union of thnt placo has re? sulted In a verdict awarding $2,500 dam ngos to tho company, More than one hundred attachments had been served on members of the union. The firm claimed that as a result of the boycott ngainst them their business fell from $169,000 during the first five months of 1902, before tho strike to $41,000 for the last seven months of the year. A WABASH SETTLEMENT. Tho differences b'etwon the officials and the employes of tho Wabash railroad wero settled April 4th. On the Western Division rtn advance In wages of 12 per cont. for passenger conductors, baggage? men and brnkemen was granted and an advanco of 15 per cent, for conductors and brnkemon In other service. This scalo lg to be extended to the Middle and Eastern divisions when similar advances nre made by competing lines, The sched? ule cannot bo changed without thirty days' notice, holng binding to both com? pany and employes. The company Is not to discriminato against employes bo ouiiso of their brotherhood association, TROUBLFv OVER STRIKE AWARD. Thoro has beoi\ considerable dissatis? faction among Pennsylvania miners over the Interpretations of the award of the strike commission made by some of the operators. On April 4th about 3,000 men were Idle around Shamokln because they refused to work the full nine hours on \ Saturday, The Delaware and, Hudson Company tried to persuade thoir miners * to work ten hours because of tho brisk ~ demand for coal. Others have beon asked to work 9 1-2 hours. Laborers at one colliery struck for $1.60 a day, to which they doclared they were entitled - under tho award. President Mltohelt, ol tho Minors' Union, was summoned, BUILDING TRADES TO STRIKE. Tho Now York Board of Building Trades ! ' representing 60,000; men, has framed der. mands for increases In wages ranging from 10 to 20 per cent, and has ordered ? strike on May 1st if they are not grant? ed. This would paralyze building opera? tions throughout the city, ns the Board? controls practically the entire supply o! skilled labor In their line for New York and vicinity. INDIANA COAL STRIKE ENDS. - Indiana minors resumed work Wed-' nesday, aftar six days' - Idleness, tho miners convention having accepted tho concessions, made by the operators. MITCHELL ON TRADE DNIONS. ' Writing of Labor's position in yester? day's Issuo of Collier's Weekly, John Mitchell, the miners' leader, -repeats his approval of tho coal strike award and denies that trade unionism le a menao? to society or social order. He takes th? . ground that tho stronger the unions! : grow tho more conservative thoy become, t COTTON MILL STRIKES EXTEND? ING. Tho National Milt Spinners' Associa? tion, at Boston, took steps, Wednesday, ? toward extending tho strik? of spinners in all tho factories ^throughout New ??'?. England. CARPENTERS UNIONS AT "WAR. The)members of the - United Brother? hood of Carpenters at New York < wer? ? called out Wednesday In an ^attempt to crush a rival union. The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, and a strike of the brotherhood in all parts of the oo?n?. try was threatened. The United Board/ of Building Trades, however", refused to sanction the strike. The Amalgamate^ men claim to be ab-lo to supply th< strikers' placea. j?egat and Criminal? WOMEN FOR GRAND PRIX. M, Chaumie, tho French . Minister o| Fino Arts, has granted permission to wo? i' men students to enter the examination? for places in the contest for the G'ranA .Prix de Romei the winner of which hat his expenses paid by the Government foi; four years, three at the Villa Medi?le In . Romo and one In travelling through Italy' and Greece. Milo. Rozet, a soulptor, has passed; the two preliminary trials, and la now ready for the final test of six weeks'., solitary confinement. Malo students are strongly opposed to female competitors. / NEW YORK ARTISTS CO-OPERATE, y The "Co-operative Studio Building,"-atY. New York, erected by artists who.found It impossible to obtain desirable quarters' for studios and homes combined, was opened for Informal inspection April 4th. The building has thirty-four apartments, some for families and others for bach? elors, all with good studio light. WILLIAM THE SILENT IN BRONZE. The Holland Society of New York has'? pledged itself to expend $40,000 to erect a statue of William , the Silent. . The statue will be of bronze and will be plac-' ed so as to face tho Hudson river. Hen-), ry M. Shrady, a young New York soulp? tor, was ohosen to model it. He will go to Holland to study tho life and environ? ments In which William the Silent lived. ACTRESS-MANAGER-AUTHOR. Miss Edith Ellis Bakor, a Brooklyn, N. Y., actress,-has decided to lease Mrs. Os borne'e play-house In New York city, to spite of tho recent failure there, and act as its manager, at tho same time playing In "The Point of View," the society .dra? ma whloh she will present and which Is of her own writing. ACTRESS TO EMULATE DALY. Miss Amelia Blngham, the actress, has decided to erect at New York a threat?? of her own, to be conducted on the late Augustin Daly's linos: She has already secured part of the site and has collected . a stock company. She says she will not put herself forward as a ? tor, tilt Will simply bo a part of the company. SLANG BENEFITS ENGLISH. Professor Brander Matthews, in til? April Harper's Magazines pointa, ont elded advantages to the language? the uso of slang or provlnolallem In ' or phrase. He thinks there Is no da of defilement from.these Americanism Or Britishisms, because most of them ax? in ept and useless and are therefore of ahart Ufe. He think? English fortunato having so many sources of refreshment. INDIANA PATERNALISM. Another law which placed the weekly wages of laborers under state guard? lananlp dp Indiana has Moon declared unconstitutional by the state Suprema Court on the ground that It Is paternal? Ism and in conflict with the liberty and equality theory of our constitution, The court says tho law deprived work?' men of making contracts. PENNELL WQUEST BEGUN, Tho Judicial inquiry Into the death of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ponnoll of Buffh? lo whose traglo taking off was connect? cd In the public mind with tho xeplalned murder of E. L, Burdick was begun Friday. Tho main object of the ques? tions put by tho District Attorney le to throw light upon tho Burdick murder. RAILROAD MERGER FORBIDDEN. The decision of U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in tho case of tho United Stato* was rondorod at St. Louis Thursday? by Judge Thayer, all tho other Judges con? curring. It was adverse to the merec? of tho Northern Pacino and Groat Northern companies which was an ac? complished fact many months ago. Th? Court onjolns tho Northern Securities from acquiring or attempting to ac quire any further stock of these com? panics and from voting at any election of the same. It further onjolns the Northern Paolflo and tho' Great North? em Railroads from paying dividends to the securities' company and orders th? ruturn by the latter of all tho stock of the said companies hold by It. J. P. Morgan, who engineered tho big merger, declined to express an opinion of the decision other than to say that an appeal would be taken to the Su? preme Court, Ho said capital was anx-' ions to know its rights In the matter of railroad operation. When they knew this ho thought railroad men would find ways to operate their propwtlua proni? ably. TEXAS MERGER VETOED. Governor Lanham, of Texas vetoedi Thursday the Southern Pacltlo merger bill which was passed by the recent legislature, on the ground that tha mir fc-od roads are pareli?! and competine' line?,