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VOLUME 3. NUMBEB 231
Willemstad, Island of Curacao, Jan.
22.The Venezuelan government is
.actively engaged in garrisoning the
ports of the republic and furnishing
the troops with supplies.
According to the advices received
here the general public in Venezuela
received the news of the rupture of
diplomatic relations between Venezu
ela and France with the utmost in
difference, but diplomatic circles at
Caracas are indignant at the action of
the Venezuelan government in not al
lowing M. Taigny, the retiring French"
charge, to return to the shore after he
had gone on board the French line
steamer Martinique at La Guayra Jan.
14 in order to obtain his correspond
ence.
The Venezuelan government is con
sidering a project for laying a cable
between La Guayra and Porto Rico.
AWAITING AMERICAN ADVICE.
Reason for Apparent Hesitation on
Part of France.
Paris, Jan. 22.The apparent hesi
tation in France's decision relative to
Venezuela appears to be prompted by
the desire not to begin active meas
ures without first taking the advice of
the authorities at Washington. For
this purpose Ambassador Jusserand
has been fully instructed regarding
his government's point of view, which
he is laying before the American gov
ernment. The officials here agree that
France's action is somewhat ham
pered owing to Venezuela's peculiar
situation, the foreign claims upon the
customs being regarded as placing a
bloejkadp .?Vnost out of the ',j Weli
It is feared that if France stopped
commerce with the exterior President
Castro would immediately seize this
:as a pretext for refusing to comply
with Venezuela's obligations towards
.other nations. It is admitted that.
preparations are going on for reinforc
ing the French squadron, but the ob
ject of this step is still undefined.
This much is regarded as certain
France's next move will depend on
ihe result of M. Jusserand's confer
ences at Washington.
ADOPTS PLAN OF ACTION.
Russian Political Party Will Work
for Universal Suffrage.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 22.The role
of the Constitutional Democratic party
in the national assembly, according to
a resolution adopted at the convention
just closed here, will be to obstruct
all ordinary legislation. However, in
uase the attempt at the first session
to convert the assembly into a full
fledged constituent body is unsuccess
ful, the members of the Constitutional
Democratic party will endeavor to
secure the passage of an election law
providing for general, direct and equal
suffrage and statutes guaranteeing
liberty of speech, assembly press and
religion and measures for the pacifica
tion of the country. A resolution pro
viding for the participation of the Con
stitutional Democratic party in the
elections to the national assembly was
passed with only two dissenting votes,
thus nullifying the chances of a split
which the extremists hoped to effect
on this question. At the suggestion
Df M. Boditcheff the convention de
clined to favor any specific measures
regarding the solution of the agrarian
question.
DENIES CROSSING OCEAN.
Mrs. Taggart Said to Be in Highland
Park, III.
Wooster, O., Jan. 22.Friends here
claim to have received a letter from
Mrs. Grace Taggart, dated Highland
Park, 111., written on Wednesday,
showing the noted divorcee is not in
Europe. She referred in her letter to
the report that she had sailed for Eu
rope, saying she was very much sur
prised to learn she was on the way
across the briny deep.
Released Prisoners in Distress.
Victoria, B. C, Jan. 22.Russian re
leased prisoners of war, who recently
arrived by the Japanese liner Kana
gawa to seek homes, having refused
to go to Vladivostok when released by
I he Japanese government, are report
ed to be in distress and starving at
Vancouver and other points in British
Columbia.
CASTRO NOW IS
VERY BUSY MAN
Anticipates Rupture With France and
Ports of Venezuela are Now Be
ing Garrisoned.
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POPULACE SHOWS LITlIS MERES
OHIO BANKER SLAIN.
Mysterious Murder Occurs in Village
of West Farmington.
Warren, O., Jan. 22.The people of
West Farmington, a village near here,
are greatly excited as a result of the
mysterious murder of R. K. Lewis, a
wealthy banker and farmer. An un
known man came to the home of
Lewis in a carriage. Lewis and this
man, it is said, were in conference for
an hour. At the end of that time a
hired man in another part of the house
smelled smoke and rushed into the
room. He found Lewis lying dead
with his head crushed, while his hands
and feet were tightly bound. The
body was covered with burning straw,
which had been saturated in coal oil.
The unknown stranger was missing.
It is believed that the murder fol
lowed a quarrel over business matters,
as a number of account books of the
dead man were found lying on the
table in the room where the crime was
committed.
Lewis, who was a widower and sev
enty years of age, lived alone in the
house with a hired man. Detectives
have been summoned from Cleveland.
ARMENIANS HOLD PASSES.
Troops Unable to Succor Beleaguered
Mohammedans.
Elizabethpol, Transcaucasia, Jan.
22.A courier arrived here during the
day from Agdam with dispatches de
scribing the repeated attempts made
by the authorities to get a convoy of
provisions to the starving and be
leaguered Mohammedans of Shusha,
Transcaucasia The convoy set out
three times with a strong escort of
troops, Mohammedan volunteers and
auxiliaries, but was intercepted by the
Armenians holding the mountain
passes. The whole district around
Agdam is harried by Armenians and
others who are perpetrating horrible
atrocities, not giving any quarter to
the wounded or to women or children.
The Mohammedans are greatly en
raged at the attack made on the cele
brated shrine of Karapirim. After a
savage conflict the Armenian attack
sis broke and fled, leaving fifty dead
or wounded.
LIBERALS GAIN MORE SEATS.
Slaughter of British Unionists Con
tinues Unabated.
London, Jan. 22.The electoral
slaughter of the Unionists proceeds
unabated. Out of forty-one returns
during the morning the Liberals take
twenty-one seats, of which twelve were
captured from the Unionists, includ
ing Woodstock, where the Marlbor
ough influence did not suffice to stem
the ami-Conservative flood. Among
the Unionists who lost their seats is
Bir Wiliiam Hart Dyke, Conservative,
former member for the Dartford divi
sion of Kent, who was president of the
louncil from 1887 to 1892.
The totals to date are: liberals,
149 Unionists, 111 Irish Nationalists,
?8 Laborites, 37.
Extension of Minnesota Road.
Duluth, Jan. 22.The Duluth, Rainy
Lake and Winnipeg railroad has
placed an order for eight locomotives,
which, with its recent order for 8,000
tons of steel rails, are to be used in
i the immediate extension of its line
from its present terminus at Ashawa
to Rainy Lake.
Decision Closes Saloons.
I Atlantic, la., Jan. 22.The ten sa-'
loons in this city were closed when
uews was received that the supreme
court had dissolved an injunction
against the state executive council to
prevent the publication of revised cen
sus figures, showing that Atlantic had
I less than 5,000 population. Cities less
I than that size have no power to li
rense saloons.
I Warm Weather at Chicago.
Chicago, Jan. 21.Saturday was,
with one exception, the warmest win
ter day experienced in this city since
the establishment of the weather bu
reau, the temperature reaching 62.
In 1876 a January day attained a tem
perature of 65, which is the record for
winter.
DEMANDS OF MINERS
V-'
EMPLOYES OF CENTRAL COMPET-
ITIVE DISTRICT AGREE ON
WAGE SCALE.
AFFECTS LARGE SECTION OF COUNTRY
TWELVE AND ONE-HALF PER
CENT INCREASE IN PAY IS
REQUESTED.
Indianapolis, Jan. 22.The sub
committee of the scale committee of
the United Mine Workers' convention,
which has been considering the wage
scale demands to be made by the
miners of the Central competitive dis
trict, composed of Indiana, Ohio, Illi
nois and Western Pennsylvania, and
also to be made by the miners of
Iowa, Michigan and that part of the
Virginias that ships to the West, and
Northwest, has agreed to report to the
general committee meeting the follow
ing demands:
FirstAdmission of the Southwest
ern states to the Central competitive
field.
SecondA 12y2 per cent increase in
wages.
Third1Prohibition
of employment
of boys less^ than sixteen years of age.
RATE CAUCUS HELD.
Republicans in House Slightly Modify
Hepburn Bill.
Washington, Jan. 22.The Repub
lican members of the house committee
on interstate and foreign commerce
held a caucus at the capitol at which
the Hepburn rate bill was discussed.
The caucus reached an agreement
regarding the phraseology to be used
in defining the rate which may be
fixed by the commission. This will
provide for a "just, reasonable and
fairly remunerative rate* which shall
be the maximum that may be
charged" by the carrier.
Chicago, Jan, 22.A severe rain,
sleet and snow storm which com
menced before midnight, caused one
of the worst tie ups which this city has
known in many years.
Few telegraph wires are working
out of the city in any direction and
there is no communication whatever
with the east.
Almost the entire street car system
is paralyzed and all cars are ouo
of commission. Traffic is at a stand
still and all telephone lines are
crippled.
CHARGES OF INDIFFERENCE.
CHICAGO TIED UP
BY FIERCE STORM
Severe Rain, Sleet and Snow Storm Put
all Telegraph Wires Out of Com
mission Last Night.
IMPOSSIBLE O MOV E STREET CARS
Made Against American Officials in
Porto Rico.
Washington, Jan. 22.Some broad
charges as to the indifference of Am
erican officials in Porto Rico to the
wishes of Porto Ricans were made by
Mayor Robert O. Todd of San Juan in
a hearing before the house committee
n insular altairs on the proposed bill
to reorganize the insular government.
Mayor Todd charged that the six Am
erican members of the executive coun
cil, who are also the heads of the de
partments of the insular government,
flo not consult the five native members
of the body and do not even invite
them to meetings of the council. This
body is both executive and legislative
in its functions and stands in the re
lation of a senate to the house of dele
gates of Porto Rico. Under the pres
ent government organization the
eleven members of this body are ap
pointed by the president of the United
States and it is required that only
five of them shall be Porto Ricans.
Consequently the natives insist their
representation is wholly inadequate
and they desire they be granted a
senate to be elected wholly by the'
people instead Q the. council.
ELING OF DISTRUST
INQ OPENLY AT MOROCCAN
CONFERENCE.
LACK OF CONFIDENCE IS APPARENT
ENVOYS OF LESS INTERESTED
POWERS NOT HOPEFUL OF
AGREEMENT.
Algeciras, Spain, Jan. 22.Behind
the screen of amiability that envelops
the relations of the envoys of the
powers to the Moroccan conference a
rising feeling of distrust is observable,
due seemingly to the unwillingness of
both France and Germany to define
their positions beyond reaffirming now
somewhat wearisomely their adher
ence to the open door, the sovereignty
of the sultan and the integrity of his
territory. The French delegates in
all their conversational reconnais
sances with their opponents have been
unable to learn precisely what is the
position of Germany, nor apparently
have the German representatives been
able to ascertain the joint intentions
of France and Great Britain. Extreme
caution and lack of confidence have
begun to destroy the favorable at
mosphere for negotiations which was
created by the courtesies and assur
ances of the first day. There is a feel
ing among the ambassadors of the less
interested powers that trouble is in
sight. The Moroccan delegates have
become conscious of this and take sat
isfaction therefrom.
Moors Greatly Interested.
Tangier, Morocco, Jan. 22.The
American charge d'affaires, Hoffman
Philips, says the Moorish population
here is in a state of great expectancy
over the result of the international
conference at Algeciras. He believes
that the majority of the Moors would
prefer the status quo or the open door.
Preparing for Bombardment.
Malaga, Spain, Jan. 22 The report
is current at Melilla, the Spanish set
tlement on the north coast of Morocco,
that the Moroccan gunboat Sid Bt
Turki is preparing to bombard the
Maripica factory, where the Belgian
flag is floatinc:.
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FRANCE AND GERMANY NOT ACT-
PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT.
Monster Petition to Save Historic
Frigate Constitution.
Washington, Jan. 22.A monster
petition signed by 30,000 citizens of
Massachusetts was presented to the
president during the day, opposing the
recommendation of Secretary Bona
parte that the old frigate Constitution
be either broken up or made an ob
ject for target practice.
The petition itself is 170 feet long.
Et was unfolded before a group includ
ing, besides the president, Admiral
Dewey, Senator Frye of Maine, Sen
ator Spooner of Wisconsin, Represen
tative McCall of Massachusetts and
some invited guests. The president
suggested that the old frigate be
rigged and equipped as she appeared
in her fighting days and sent to An
napolis.
Another suggestion was that the
vessel be sent to Washington. In no
unmistakable way the president indi
cated that the vessel ought to be pre
served. Senator Spooner remarked:
"I think we should not only pre
serve-the Constitution but should also
construct a modern battleship, if pos
sible the finest in the world, to bear
the name Constitution II."
This suggestion was approved cor
dially by the president, who indicated
that it might not be many years be
forea new Constitution, as invincible
as the old, would plow the seas.
Admiral Dewey cordially endorsed
the project to save and restore the
historic vessel.
OFFICIAL WILL BE REMOVED.
Friends Unable to Save Consul Gen
eral at Rio Janeiro.
Washington, Jan. 22.Eugene Zeger
of Chicago, who is United States con
sul general at Rio de Janeiro, is to
be removed from office for the good of
the public service. Secretary Root has
made this announcement to the friends
of Mr. Zeger, who have appealed to
the president to retain him in office.
Mr. Zegers proposed removal is
due directly to his trpuble with Am
bassador David E. Thompson of Ne
braska, against whom he transmitted
charges. This is not given as a rea
son, however.
It is said at the state department
that the German friends of Mr. Zeger
in Chicago have made urgent repre
sentations to the president in his be
half. The president recognizes that
Mr. Zeger performed excellent serv
ice for the Republican party among
German-Americans during the last
campaign. It was also said further
that Senator Cullom has displayed
much interest in Mr. Zeger's case
and urgently recommended his reten
tion, but the president found himself
unable to comply with his wishes.
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CHICAGO HAS
NOW AWAKENED
The Few Men Arrested For Committing
Crime are Receiving the Maximum
Punishment Allowed.
YOUN AND OL ARE BEING PUNISHED
The Young Mother
has to supply Strength and Nourishment for
herself and baby. She can meet this in-
creased demand by taking
^HEUSER-BUScjy
Chicago, Jan. 22.The law laid air
iron hand during the day on offenders
of the class who have terrorized Chi
cago recently by their armed hold-ups
and attacks on women. In one cage
an octogenarian in spite of the plea of
his attorneys that his life race v/as
nearly run, was sentenced to ninety
nine years in the penitentiary. In an
other court three youths under nine
teen years of age were sentenced to
prison for life after having been con
victed of an armed robbery.
No mercy because of his great age
was shown Nicholas Holland, when lie.
was found guilty of attacking a little
girl. Although eighty-six years of
age he was given a sentence that, if
he could live that long, would free him
from prison at the age of 185.
Peter Brady, Joseph Hase and Law
rence Roscoe were the youths sen
tenced to the penitentiary lor life. Th
life sentence was inflicted under that
portion of the statute which provider
such imprisonment when revolvers
are carried in such attacks. The three
boys were convicted of eight robberie.s
in one night. The largest amount of
money secured by them as booty wa
one dollar.
INCORPORATED IN MONTANA.
Four Companies Apparently Controlled
by Milwaukee Road.
Helena, Mont., Jan. 22.Four cor
porations, the directors representing
the Chicago Milwaukee and 'St.- Pafij#':
Railway company, have filed articles o:
incorporation here. The companies
are the Enterprise Land and Improve
ment company, Western Townsitc?
company, Republic Coal company ancf
the Rig Horn Timber company. Bach
company has a paid up capital o-
$100,000, the incorporators and direc
tors being Burton Harrison of Chi
cago, George F. Shelton and Thomas
Allen of Butte.
Mr. Harrison is one of the officials
of the Milwaukee. Shelton is attornev
for the company in Montana and Al
len is connected with the traffic de
partment.
WILL PAY ALLEGED SHORTAGE.
Former Kansas Treasurer Waives.
Statute of Limitations.
Topeka, Kan., Jan.. 22.F. E.
Grimes, ex-state treasurer, has noti
fied Governor Hoch that he would
willingly waive the statute of limita
tion and pay every cent of the alleged
shortage found covering his adminis
tration of the office. Recently expert
accountants found a shortage of $77,-
000 in the treasurer's office covering:
the administration of ex-Treasurer
Grimes and running into the admin
istration of T. T. Kelley, the present
treasurer. The accountants were un
able to state what became of the
money.
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