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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMS BUM, PA,
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He Contrasts Church Sta
tus in This Country and
In France.
UKES OUR SINCERITY
Catholics Have Heal. Liberty la
United States Irnlo for Arch
Blsliop Ireland and Also for Prcsl.
dent Roosevelt Lone; Tnlk With
Bishop O'Oornian.
Rome, March 19. The Pope gave
M audience lasting about an hour la
Ms private library to Bishop O'Gor
nun of Sioux Kails, S. D. He asked
whether tho United States Govern
ment was satisfied with the solution
f the Church question In the arehl
iclago, and expressed pleasure when
!ic was assured that It was fully
satisfied.
The conversation then turned upon
rchbishop Ireland. The Pope in
lulred after his health and highly
iralsed his speech on the French
Hate and Church Question, remark
ng that the portion enumerating the
-ause of the present situation in
Trance, which despleased French
thollcs and provoked criticism,
as quite true. His Holiness added:
"The French Catholics should
Pope Piu X.
avp followed the advice of my
Jlnstrlous predecessor."
Alluding to the beginning of the
.Trench crisis the Pope said:
."While I was bowed with sorrow
"'.tfcauso of the news of Mgr. Mon
r ignlnl's expulsion I received a cable
despatch which consoled, cheered
ad encouraged me. It was signed
;-y Archbishop Ireland."
The Pope waxed eloquent In
tweaking of the sympathy repeatedly
expressed by American Catholics,
hich, he said, constituted one of
f-.'ie most wonderful events In hls
y. The feeling of fraternity In
America toward the persecuted
.""Tench Catholics made him look to
ward America. He contrasted the
".berty granted the Church In
America with that pretended to be
, Wen in France. He praised Presl
r'ent Roosevelt, whose sense of fair
ness and justice In dealing with the
Church he admired.
MOB KILLS NKGRO WOMEN.
'J hey Had F" tally Wonnded a White
Woman and Child In Arkansas.
Stamps, Ark., March. 21. Mrs.
'Tlla Rhoton. her daughter and small
.ion, of McKamle, near this place,
net two negro women. They shoved
Jrn. Rhoton out of the road and
leked the little boy. Mrs. Rhoton
rotested, and the wamen fatally cut
;irs. Rhoton and her daughter with
t-arors.
The negro women were placed In
7 rchoolhouse for safe keeping. In
the night the guards were over
cowered by a mob and the prisoners
r.ere shot to death.
Woman Tossed by a Cow.
Middletown, N. Y., March 20.
Mrs. George S. White, of near Bud
vllle, was feeding a cow when It Im
paled her on Its horns and she was
tossed high In the air, falling on the
floor beneath the animal. She was
soon rescued, but her condition In
regarded as critical.
Canal Junketers 8 tart Home.
Kingston, Jamaica, March 21. The
Congressional party which has been
Inspecting the work on the Panama
Canal have arrived here from Colon
on the steamer Panama. They ex
pressed satisfaction with the pro
gress made In the construction work.
London, March 20. The Bank of
England has secured the whole of ',
this week's gold supply, about
$2,000,000, paying an advance suffi
ciently large to shut oat possible
American and other competition, i
i $4&mB
SALVADOR JOINS HONDURAS.
,ft()0 Salvadorean Troops In the
Field Guatemala Show Her Hand.
Panama, March 20. Information
bas been received here from appar
ently reliable sources In Salvador
tending to show that the Republic
of Salvador has formed an alliance
with Honduras In the war against
Nicaragua.
Twenty-five hundred Salvadorean
troops are said to have made a land
ing at Amapala on March 10 and to
have started on the march to Cholu
teoa the next morning. Tho troops
are under tho command of Oen. Jose
Presa, are well equipped and came
from San Miguel, Honduras.
Oen. Bonllla, President of the
Honduran Republic, hns started for
Segovia, Nicaragua, leading a con
siderable number of soldiers, among
whom are two large detachments of
Nlcarnguan revolutionists under
command of General Chavarria and
Chrmorre.
The Guatemalan Government Is re
ported to have refused to grant the
request of some Honduran revolu
tionists for permission to cross tho
frontier for the purpose of Invading
Honduras.
DOWIE REMEMBERED VOLTVA.
Provided in II In Will That Zlon Must
Cant Usurper Out or Ixso Request.
Chicago, March 20. Wilbur G.
Vollva must be ousted as head of the
Christian Catholic Church or Zlon
City will lose Its big share of the per
sonal fortune of John Alexander
Dowle. The founder of Zlon City
demands the removal of Vollva in hla
will.
Aside from the dower portion of
one-third to his widow, Dowle left
all of lils fortune to the church on
the condition that Vollva's power be
brokeu. It Is said that Dowle's be
quest to tho church is several hun
dred thousand dollars.
lloy .Made Counterfeit Money.
Denver, Col., March 19. By tho
arrest of Arthur Sweeney, of this
city, a lad of seventeen, one of the
biggest gangs of young counterfeiters
In the country was uncovered by tho
Secret Service men.
Tho gang was composed of thirty
youths, whose ages ranged from six
teen to twenty-four.
The story of Sweeney's counter
felting, how he learned to mould and
finish. Is told by his mother, who
says her son worked alone. She naid:
"Arthur made counterfeit money
under my eyes and I never dreamed
he was doing it with the Intention of
passing it. Four years ago his
father, an expert brass moulder,
moulded things for children to play
with and taught them how to do It.
The model was put away, but Ar
thur got It and began to mould
nickels and quarters right in the
kitchen."
New Trade for Tommy Atkins.
London, March 19. Tommy At
kins is to learn another trade In ad
dition to the efforts of the Brltlnh
Government to teach htm plumbing.
shoemaklng and mule driving. The
War Office has arranged with Har-
rod's stores to have some of the
British soldiers instructed In pack
ing groceries. The company will
pay about $1,25 a week In addition
to the army pay. Preference In the
occupation Is given to men about to
be discharged from duty, so that
they may be able to find employment
when leaving the Government's ser
vice. It Is believed that other Lon
don stores will follow In the foot
steps and employ a number of sol
diers. Pay of Canal Commissioners.
Washington, D. C, March 19.
President Roosevelt by Executive
order fixed the salaries of the three
new members of the Isthmian Canal
Commission. The salaries of Major
Slbert, Major Galllard, the army offi
cers and Rear Admiral Rosseau, the
naval member of the commission, are
fixed at $14,000 and each one it
given a house at Panama In which
to live. While away from Panama
their actual expenses will be paid
by the Government.
Man Who Steals Wife is Killed,
Richmond. Va., March 21. C. B.
Miles, a miner, at Seaboard, Taze
well County, was shot and instantly
killed by Richard Farrell. It Is al
leged that Miles, who had been
boarding with Ferrell, had become
too fond of Ferrell's wife. He was
ordered to leave the place, but he
persuaded Mrs. Ferrell to go with
him. Ferrell came upon the two
while they were making their escape
and promptly shot Miles dead. Fer
rell gave himself up.
Richmond Monument to Poe.
Richmond, Va., March 19. The
Mayor of the city signed an ordi
nance appropriating $5,000 and
granting a site for the proposed
monument in Richmond to Edgar
Allan Poe on condition that $5,000
more be raised by the Poe Monument
Association of this city.
Wreck In Manchuria Kills 17.
Harbin, Manchuria, March 21 As
the result of a collision between a
passenger train and a freight train
at TuruBhlche Station, seventeen per
sons were killed and thirty-five In
jured. menu Fulls Wants to Be a City.
Glens Falls. N. Y., March 21. This
village, the largest In the State, has
decided to petition the Legislature
for a city charter. The Democratic
Village ticket was elected by more
than 100 majority.
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Covering Minor Happen
lags from ail Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIQN
Compiled and Condensed for the
Rwy Reader A Complete Record
of European Despatches and Im
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty prnuid.
Detectives searched all parts of
Erie, Pa., for Horace Marvin, Jr., be
lieved to be secreted In that city.
President Roosevelt conferred with
C. S. Mellen, head of theNew Haven
Railroad, on the railroad question.
Attorney General Jackson called
on the New York, Ontario and West
ern Railroad to refund $117,101
paid by the State on a damage claim.
Thomas Bailey Aldrleh, a poet and
writer, died In Boston.
Several members of the younger
element In New York society lost
from $250,000 to $500,000 each In
Inst week's break In the stock mar
ket. Mysterious boxes containing ques
tionable victuals are sold to Immi
grants on Ellis Island at a dollar
each, protests being of no avail.
Three men held up the village of
Eagle Mills, N. Y., and blew open
the post office rafe, but got no booty.
Experts said shells picked up after
Brownsville riot had been used in
rifles belonging to negro soldiers.
Health authorities of Pittsburg.
Pa., prepared to combat an epidemic
of fever resulting from flood.
Upton Sinclair, founder of Helicon
Hall, told of dpnamlte having been
found In the place.
After Introducing In evidence what
Is known as the Hummel affidavit, in
which Evelyn Nesblt Thaw Is said to
have accused Harry Thaw of cruel
ties, District Attorney Jerome, of
Kew York rusted tho S'tato's rebuttal.
President Roopevelt has appointed
nn Inland waterways commission to
devise a plan for improvement of the
various rivers to help the railways.
None of Governor Hughes' reform
measures have been passed by the
New York Legislature and it was
declared Senate leaders were plan
ning to kill the most important by
delay.
Sixty-three medals awarded for
heroic deeds will be distributed by
the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
from Pittsburg, Pa.
Two passengers on the Amerlka
were arrested In New York on a
charge of being concerned In $50,
000 Jewelry thefts In London. They
had gems worth $20,000
FOREIGN NEWS.
Dr. Luclen Hoton, of Antwerp, de
fended American meat, saying condi
tions In packing houses here were
no worse than in other countries.
M. Stolypin, Russia's premier, out
lined a broad programme of reforms
In presenting the government'
policy before the Duma.
Troops were sent to quell an upris
ing of Moldavian peasants against
the Hebrews which is spreading.
Capture of Trujlllo,, Honduras, by
Nicaragua, rouses fear in Washing
ton that American interests may be
endangered.
In a quarrel In a cafe in St. Peters
burg, a despatch said, Prince Nlja
radze shot one companion fatally
and wounded two others.
San Domingo Is reported by a de
spatch to be greatly agitated over the
treaty with the United States, which
has aroused popular resentment.
President Castro returned to
Caracas amid the plaudits of a great
multitude.
Through the efforts of the United
States Ambassador to Vienna, says a
despatch, the Austrian Phoenix In
surance Company will pay sixty per
cent, of its San Francisco fire losses.
London, says a despatch, is exe
crating "Yankee" securities on ao
count of the slump in Wall street.
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A vigorous war on the absinthe
habit Is being waged by a group of
French Senators and Deputies, says a
cable from Paris.
Because they can make little
money on present transportation
fares, London tubes and omnibus
companies, says a despatch, will
probably raise their rates.
SPORTING NEWS.
Joshua Cran.e Jr., and C. E. Sands
will play in the finals of the indoor
court tennis championship tourna
ment in Boston, Mass.
An investigation will be made of
Calvin Demarest's amateur billiard
standing.
"Bill' Squires, heavyweight cham
pion of Australia, will sail for
America to challenge James J. Jeff
ries, who will probably accept.
Get S20.SU0 for Fall.
New York, March 20. Char
lea B. Taylor, a stonecutter,
obtained Judgment for $26,000
against the Remington Construction
Company for Injuries sustained by
him by the fall of a scaffold during
the erection of the Van Norden Trust
Company'! building at Fifth Avenue
and Sixtieth street.
GUT 8F.RUM FROM CONVICTS.
Baltimore Doctor Wnnld Mr.ke Anti
toxin Factories of Prisons.
Baltimore, March 21. In an ad
dress to the Baltimore County Medi
cal Association Dr. H. Burton Steven
' son made the startling statement
! that antitoxins could be used with
I better effect If, instead of obtaining
them from the lower animals, thoy
were got from human beings, be
causo only a few animals are sus
ceptible to the diseases of man. H,
said:
"This great obstacle can be over
come by using criminals In our pent
tentlarlos for the production of
serums. A law making the punish
ment for certain crimes optional with
1 the convict, Imprisonment on the
one hand, Inoculation with certain
disease germs on the other, would
aolve the problem."
GETS A PRIZE AND DIES.
Town Belle Expires After Skating
Four Hour in a Kink.
Rnyvllle, La., March 20. "I fee!
so tired," gasped Miss Mary Hlxon,
twenty years . old, the belle of the
to n, after she had skated four
hours in a rollar rink wlthoutmlssinc
a number. Miss Hlxon fell back
into the arms of her escort, Roland
Williams, and was dead in a few sec
onds. A physician said that the nlght'o
exertion had effected the girl' hecrt.
Miss Hlxon recently adopted tho
roller craze, and had become a pro
ficient skater. An hour before be
ing stricken she and her partner had
been awarded the prize for the most
graceful couple on tho floor.
Mllo of Pennies Wanted.
Sayre, Pa., March 19. To aid In
the erection of a Presbyterian
Church r. plan is on foot to raise n
mile of pennies. Each member of
the congregation has been supplied
with a narrow strip one foot In
length. On one side of the strip In
printed the financial plan. The
other side Is divided Into spaces
largo enough to hold a penny each
sixteen to each strip. The coin side
of the paper Is coated with an ad
hesive preparation to hold tho pen
nies. It Is calculated that when the mile
of pennies is received tho sum of
$848,88 will have been added to
the building fund.
Schoolgirl' Suicide Part.
St. Louis, March 19. Fearing to
face her teachers because she played
, truant from school, Llebllng Slo-
cumb, 11 years old, committed sui
cide with carbolic acid at her home,
1389 Granville place.
It was developed through testi
mony at the coroner's Inquest that
the girl had entered into a suicide
pact with Gertrude Harper, 10 years
old. Gertrude testified that she had
told her mother that she was going
to take her life and was prevented.
The girls were school chums. They
brooded over a scolding given to
Llebllng and agreed to die together.
Thought He Was Obeying nn Order.
. Orange, N. J., March 20. JarueB
Mehan, 27 years old, a deckhand on
the steamboat Frankle, which piles
between Mount Holly and Philadel
phia, walked overboard and was
drowned while in a dazed condition.
While he was asleep some of his
mates Jokingly shouted an order in
his ear.
To Carry Chinese Relief.
Washington, March II. The
transport Buford will take 6,000 tons
of Red Cross provisions to China for
the relief of famine sufferers. The
transport, which is now at San Fran
cisco, will stop at Honolulu on Its
way to Shanghai, and probably will
carry a special party of Congress
men who are to visit Honolulu as the
guests of the Hawaiian Islands.
Taft to Sail on the Mayflower.
Washington, March 21. An
nouncement as made at the Navy
Department to-day that Secretary of
War Taft will sail for Colon on the
Mayflower Instead of the Columbia,
as heretofore stated. He will leave
from Charleston. Hie complete
itinerary has not been arranged.
BOO Dig for Hermit's Gold.
Kalamazoo, Mich., March 20.
More than five hundred person
started digging for hidden gold about
his home when it was found
that Frank Van Arsdale, a hermit,
was dead. The death of his sweet
heart caused him to seek the life of
a hermit.
King Leopold Hud a Stroke.
Brussels, March 20. Notwith
standing the official denials, private
inquiries confirm the report that
King Leopold, who la viultlng the
Revlera, had a cerebral attack a
few days ago. He was for some
time unconscious.
Coeburn, Va., March 19. Ten
miners nine whites and one negro
are dead as the result of an ex
plosion In the Greenough mine here
caused by black damp. One of the
men was taken out of the mine alive,
but died later.
South Noralk, March 21. Jamei
Cooms, of Darlen, Conn., is in Jail
here for thirty days because on St.
Patrick's Day he painted his two-months-old
child green. Ills wife
caused his arrest for cruelty.
Fairmont, Ga., March 21. Mrs,
James Tolbert, was attacked and hw
two-year-old baby murdered by t
negro here.
MANY MILLIONS LOST IN FIX)OI.
Estimate of Dnmnge By Rasing
Waters end Fire In Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 19. With
the rapid receding of tho waters of
the Monongahela, Allegheny and
Ohio rivers which Is taking place
here, conditions are fast assuming
normal proportions and the great
est and most destructive flood In tin
history of the city is at an end.
With tho recedlug water the ex
tent of the damage caused Is laid
bare. The most conservative flgurri
are $10,000,000, and they run frov.i
this all the way to $20,000,000.
Blocks of buildings were burned b nil
others dynamited to check spread cf
flames.
The loss of life Is not yet definitely
ascertained. At lcnBt a score of per
sons met death In the flood and many
are said to be missing.
JAPAN BUYS KKUPP GI NS.
Engineers From That Empire Also
Employed at Essen.
Berlin, March 21.- Japan In con
tinually receiving war material from
the Krupp works.
Several Japanese officers are now
at Essen to take over the guns, and
Japanese engineers are employed at
the Krupp works, something that
concern, which maintains the great
est secrecy as to Its methods, would
not permit unless it had or was do
slrous of cultivating the closest nnd
widest commercial relations wlt'i
Japan.
Expelled From Assembly.
Trenton, N. J., March 21. Foi
the first time In tho history of tho
New Jersey Legislature n preacher
han been driven off the floor of tim
House. This was punishment In
flicted on the Rev. J. Frank Burke,
tecretary of the New Jersey Anti
Saloon Ieapuo, because of hio
charges of conspiracy made ai?a'nst
Assemblymen Perkins, Klenert and
Alexander for the failure of the
House Judiciary. Committee, of which
they were u majority, to report tho
local option bill Introduced at the
lnstanco of the League.
Mr. liurke failed to substantiate
his charges and this was the punish
ment decided upon by the House.
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Governor R. D. Gleen,
of North Carolina has aroused con
siderable surprise In the South and
indignation In his own State by the
strong measures which he has
adopted to prevent lynching and
other lawless practises In his State.
IUU Were the Thieves.
Worcester, Mass., March 19. A
robbery in Luckes Jewelry store, in
Bay State House Block, during last
three weeks which mystified the
police, has been cleared up by find
ing nearly $300 worth of watches,
chains and lockets in a rat's nest
near the show window.
A hole In the casing of the Jew
eller's cabinet was discovered, and
on Investigation a rat's nest was un
earthed in which were found three
large gold watches, eighteen lockets,
two diamond studded lockets, two
gold chains and two rosaries.
Spontaneous Explosion.
Toulon, France, March 21. The
Court of Inquiry appointed to deter
mine the cause of the explosion
March 12 on board the Battleship
Jena, decided to-day that the dis
aster as caused by a spontaneous ex
plosion of the powder, due to de
composition and the elevation of the
temperature of the magazine. It
was also stated that this powder was
very unstable and had caused pre
vious accidents.
Scissors in Woman's Leg.
Wichita. Kan., March 19. A pair
of five inch surgeon's scissors were
taken from the thigh of Mrs. W. R.
White, of Braman, Oklahoma, at tho
Wichita Hospital. She was operated
on for a tumor four years ugo, and
the scissors were loft In the wound.
The scissors worked through her
body to her thigh, causing excru
ciating pain. They were discovered
With aid of the X-ray.
All Paid Toll to Robbers.
Oaxaca, Mex., March 19. A band
of ten armed bandits held possession
of the highway about four miles from
Tulo and robbed thirty persons of
more than $3,600. The highway
men escaped Into the mountains be
fore an alarm was given. Rural
Guards are In pursuit.
Senator Aldrleh In Paris.
Paris, March 21. Senator Nelson
W. Aldiich, of Rhode Island, and
Mm. Aldrleh have arrived here, in
a few du.ve they will start on un auto
I mobllo tour in Italy.
FTRF5 DESTROYS HELICON HAM
One Life Lout in Upton Hlnrlilr't
Co-operative Colony Homo.
Englewood, N. J., March 19. la
a fire believed to be of Incendiary
orlgtn which destroyed Helicon Hnll,
tho co-operative colony house con
ducted by Upton Sinclair, author of
"Tho Jungle," nonr Englewood, M.
J., one life was lost nnd half a doz
persons were seriously injured.
Upton Sinclair.
Penned in by the flames, women and
children leaped from windows into
i blsnkets held by rescuers, and the
survivors say It Is a marvel that
any one escuped alive, so rapid was
; tho spread of the flames.
Whether the fire will prove the
death-blow of tho Sinclair colony,
as the destruction of the Brook Farm
i phalanstery did of that enterprise.
was not niHde known. Mr. Sinclair
salJ that the loss would bo $50,000,
snd that there was $40,000 insnr
ttiic"? Whether the colony would be
nhle to recover financially he would
not say.
He is understood to havo Invested
In tho colony most of tho accumu
lated savings of "Tho Jungle" nnd
hi j other novels, a sum of $16,000.
The rest of the purchase price of thu
property, which was $05,000. vua
coveted by a mortgage.
Kub-TreuMil')' Cui.li Not Found.
CViicnpo, March 20. The olllcl.a
count of tli'? money In the Sub-Treasury
Is co-npletsd and with it went
the last hope thnt the missing $173,
000 might bt accounted for through
a mistake in depositing or checking
up.
Practically $62,000,000 wns guno
over under the direction of Deputy
Assistant Treasurer Gideon C. Ban'.?,
who came from Washington to super
vise the work.
Irf. Osier's Mother Dead.
Toronto, Ont., March 20. Mrs.
Featherelone Oi.ler, mother of Prof.
Osier of Oxford, died hero, aged 100
years old 3 months. On December
14 she celebrated the 100th anni
versary of her birth. Up to that
time she has been perfectly well nnd
was In possession of all her facul
ties. FINANCIAL.
Stocks suffered violent decline,
which were followed by substantial
recoveries.
E. H. Harrlman denied he would
retire from active railroad work.
Stocks scored further advances o
heavy buying.
Figures of the bank statement
showed an Increase in surplus re
serve of $981,375, a decrease la
loans of $13,880,300 and a decrease
in deposits of $15,914,700.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
Wholesale Price of Farm Produce
Quoted for the Week.
The Milk Exchange price for stan
dard quality is 3 4 per qt.
Butter.
Creamery, extra 31 3tt
Firsts 29 0
State dairy, fancy SO
Cheese,
Fancy 14H14i
Small 14 ft 14 &
Part Skims 7 Q 9
ERg.
State and Pcnn 21 ff2l
Western Firsts IS $20
Duck $5 40
Live Poultry.
Chickens, per lb 8 11
Fowls, per lb it
Dressed Poultry.
Turkeys, per lb to 4JH
Chickens, Phlla. lb.... 11 011
Geese, spring, lb H '
Ducklings, per lb 18
Fruits Fresh.
Apples GreenlngB
per bbl $1 60 $3 2
King, bbl 2 76 4 2ft
Ben davls, per bbl.. . . 1 60 8 26
Vegetables.
Potatoes, L. I., bbl...$l 86 4j$! 00
Cabbages, per 100.... 1 00 2 00
Onions, white,
per bbl $4 00 7 50
Beets, per bbl 1 00 1 61
Hay aud Straw.
Kay, prime, cwt. $1 00 $1 16
No. 1, per cwt. 80 1 10
No. 2, per cwt 66 7$
Straw, lang rye. .60 65
Grain, Etc.
Flour, Win. pats. $8 00 $$ II
spring pats i 20 6 00
Wheat No. 1. ,
No: 2, red 84 tt 85
Oats, mixed 48
Clipped white 62 II
Live Stock.
Beeves, city drsd. 1 O
Culves, city drs'd. 8 & 18
Couutry drs'd. TH HVtl
&cep, perewt. Ji 00 4 00
mm m