The Audubon Republican
AUDUBON.
The corn husking liar is up agalns’
a crop of nearly 2,800,000,000 bushels
this year.
The.latest fashion decree provides
for pockets in women's dresses. They
will never agree.
Washington is to have a woman’s
hotel—with an electric hair curler, of
course, in every room.
Every good citizen is opposed to
bossism, but very few of them have
the nerve to tell wifey so.
It would seem cruel to kill a scorch
ing chauffeur without giving him a
few moments’ time to repent.
Mistakes are banana peels on life's
highway. They give you a tumble,
but you must get up and toddle on.
The French cabinet falls to pieces
so often anybody would think it had
been bought on the installment plan.
A Detroit matt has erected a monu
ment to Satan. Why didn't he build it
in New York, where Satan could see
It?
Caruso, the tenor, objects to hotels,
prefering to live alone. An inherit
ance from his celebrated ancestor,
Robinson?
Take this one home and try it on
your guesser: How cold must it be
to be twice as cold as two degrees
above zero?
France is to be congratulated on
abandoning the habit of having crises
every time the parliament makes a
face at the ministry.
As to some of the gimcrackeries
brought to this country from Europe,
it is patently absurd that they should
pay duty as “works of art.”
Motoring, it is said, eliminates indi
gestion. For the man who happens to
get in the way it often eliminates all
other known maladies, also.
The experience of Labrador explor
ing parties shows that lovers of ad
venture don't have to go up to the
Arctic regions to lose their lives.
Every other day or so now a Rus
sian mob breaks into, a vodka shop
and proceeds to give the world an
object lesson in the cause of temper
ance.
Eighteen soldiers at a Kentucky fort
deserted when ordered to another
state. There is no gainsaying that
Kentucky girls are handsome.—Roch
ester Post-Express.
While out hunting with King Alfon
so, Emperor William shot twenty
three boars, as against the king's
twenty-nine. It wasn’t a very good
day for boars, either.
The Japanese government has de
cided to issue a new foreign loan of
$250,000,000 at 4 per cent. War is
what Gen. Sherman said it was, for
those who have to pay the cost.
One-third of the Dominican navy is
now at the Norfolk navy yard for re
pairs. It consists of the 600-ton gun
noat Presidente, which hasn’t been
overhauled before for seven years.
Operas are now given as sacred
concerts in New York on Sundays.
They are so old-fashioned in that town
that they consider it necessary when
they break the laws to do it under
cover.
A play is to be brought out in New
York with John D. Rockefeller and
Ida M. Tarbell as two of the principal
haracters. Let us hope, in the inter
sts of propriety, that there may be no
dg pulling.
New Jersey boasts of a n»n 72
ears old who can neither read nor
vrite and has seen only one loconio
ive, and that at a distance of half a
nile. Only think of boasting of a
nan like that!
King Alfonso killed forty-one wild
jigs while he was out hunting ’iith
he kaiser. This doesn’t mean neces
sarily that he would be willing to help
aur Yankee farmers with their pig Lili
ng if he should come over here.
The amount of letter writing that is
lone daily in New York is illustrated
ny the fact that 235,000 letters on an
average are collected there every day
between 4:30 and 7:30 p. tn. And they
aren’t all love letters, either.
In order to prove that the eternal
feminine does not change with the
procession of the centuries, it Is only
necessary to point out the* fact that
every time a woman becomes a great
genius she marries a millionaire.
Walter Vaughan Morgan, the new
Jxjrd Mayor of London, being a bach
elor, has selected his niece. Mrs. Horn
by Steer, to be the lady mayoress.-In
the absence of particulars, we are in
clined to suppose that Mrs. Steer Is
from Texas.
There have been 165 accidents
among mountain climbers in the Alps
this year, of which sixty-five were fa
tal. Lazy people have never been
able to understand why mountain
climbers should be willing thus to
risk their lives.
Hear this from Chancellor E. Ben
jamin Andrews: •'Played under due
supervision, football breeds not cal
lousness but kindness and restraint.”
Somebody has fooled the gentleman.
He has been watching a game of cro
quet.—Chicago News.
fin* •<■
The Emperor of Japan has sum
moned Field Marshal Oyama to report
concerning his campaign against tbn
Russians. Owing to the fact that
Oyama didn't once regret to report
the emperor has probably had no
means of finding out what happened.
A. C. Roil, Pub.
BIG FIRE SWEEPS
DUBUQUE EEVEES
IOWA
Estimated that Damage of
$300,000 has Been Done
to the City.
THE FLAMES SPREAD RAPIDLY
Are Driven by a Fierce Southwest
Wind—Fireman Fight Desperately
to Save Lumber Yards and Boat*
Moored at the Wharves.
Dubuque, Nov. 24. —Fire swept
the levee district of Dubuque last
night, wrecking five business con
cerns with an estimated loss of $300,-
000.
The fire broke out in the warehouse
>f the diamond Joe Boat company
shortly before 10 and when the fire
department reached the scen6 the
building was a mass of Hames. A
strong south wind fanned the flames
ind they spread with alarming rapid
ity. Colemans saloon, one of the
oest known along the river, was the
aext burned to the ground. In turn
same the Ernsdorff Buggy company
with its big supply. It shared the
'ate of the other two and was totally
lestroyed. The Iroquois Pearl But
ton factory was the last building in
the block and it fell about one hour
after the fire started.
The Cooper Buggy company paint
shed and warehouse standing in the
rear of lhe block is a heap of ruins.
The firemen fought desperately to
save the lumber yards. The loss is:
Diamond Jo company, $50,000.
Coleman, $5,000.
Ernsdorff, $75,000.
Iroquois Hutton factory, $70,000.
Cooper, $30,000.
Adjacent property, $2,000.
It required heroic efforts to save
the Diamond Jo boats in the harbor.
At 2 a. m. the fire wap under con
trol.
OLD SOLDIERS MAY
BE GIVEN PREFERENCE
Des Moines, Nov. 22. —With Jus
tices Bishop and Weaver dissenting,
the lowa supreme court yeeterday
held the lowa Soldiers’ preference
law constitutional, reversing Judge
Obed Caswell in the case of C. 11.
Bhaw, appellant, /s. the City Coun
cil of Marshalltown. Chief Justice
Sherwin wrote the opinion upholding
the law and Justice Bishop wrote, the
dissenting opinion, Justice Weaver
concurring.
The case has probably been one of
the most noted before the lowa jur
ists in recent vears. Ever since the
adoption of the law by the last gen
eral assembly, it has been one of the
chief matters of discussion among
public men, especially those who
have subordinate positions to fill by
appointment. The gist of the law is
that appointive public offices shall
be given to veterans of the civil war
in preference to other candidates,
other qualifications being equal. The
law will affect practically every state
office and the appointive city, town,
county and township positions
throughout lowa.
The test case was brought by the
town council of Marshalltown. Mr.
Shaw is an old veteran and pressed
his claim for the place on the basis
af the newly enacted law, but the
council saw fit to ignore him and to
ippoint L. Derby, who was not an old
loldier. Mr. Shaw appealed to the
district court and Judge Obed Cas
well ruled adversely to him, holding
;he law unconstitutional as class leg
islation.
With the support of the G. A. R.
Mr, Shaw appealed the action to the
(owa supreme court, where it has
been under consideration for months.
One of the most noted cases in
which the decision of the supreme
court will immediately be effective
's the ouster proceedings against
Tom Graham, night watchman at the
capitol. Custodian McCurdy has
Graham’s discharge now under con
sideration, Graham refusing to resign
without a protest. With the prestige
given by the supreme court upholding
ihe validity of the soldier's prefer
ence law, Graham is more than likely
io retain his position.
NEWTON FACTORY IS
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Newton. Nov. 27. —The factory of
.he Hawkeye Incubator company of
•.his city was totally destroyed by fire
jarly yesterday morning, with a loss
>f about $25,000, with only about $ /,-
100 Insurance.
The alarm was turned in at 3:15,
.nd the two fire companies rushed at
>nce to the tire, but not in time to
lave the main building and adjoining
iheds. The wareroom alone was sav
<l. The contents of both buildings
ras totally destroyed.
The main factory is a two story
•rick building, 80x100 feet and the
hed 60x100 feet.
A large amount of the stock for the
ear was on hand, as the incubator
<eason was just opening. Several
ars of lumber has just been received,
rhich was all destroyed.
At 3:45 the east wall of the factory
tuilding fell into the street, but no
.ne was injured.
The fire originated in the paint shop
m the second floor, but the cause is
nknown.
The total loss may reach $30,000.
TWO HURT IN EXPLOSION.
Diagonal, Nov. 24. —A twelve horse
ower gasoline engine exploded early
esterday morning in the Great West
rn engine house, probably fatally
ijuriug two men and wrecking the
uilding.
The gasoline leaked, caught fire
nd the explosion followed. Colonel
fisinger and bls helper, Lloyd Alley,
tere both blown some distance by
Se explosion and seriously burned.
*bey may die. The engine house is
total loss.
WOMAN AND FIVE
CHILDREN MURDERED
Independence, Nov. 25. —Mrs. Wil
liam McWilliams and her five child
ren were yesterday afternoon found
murdered in the kitchen of their
farm home six miles south of Inde
pendence. Their skulls had all been
crushed with a carpenter's hammer,
while their bodies were literally
butchered with a large knife. The
husband and father, William McWil
liams was arrested here last night
and there is every evidence that no
was the perpetrator of the horrible
crime. Opinion Is divided as to
whether he is insane, or whether he
killed his family out of murderous
malice. Late last night he was bemg
put through a “sweat box” inquisi
tion in the hope of being forced to
confess to his deed.
Never before have the criminal an
nals of this section of the state borne
the record of so brutal a murder. The
victims had evidently been called in
one at a time Into the kitchen, where
the bodies were found in a row, and
struck with a hammer, not once, nut
many times, until dead. Then the
murderer hacked and stabbed at each
lifeless body until It was horribly
mutilated. The mother apparently
had been at work preparing din net
when she mot her fate, for when the
murder was discovered a meal was
still on the stove cooking, and there
were other evidences of the inter
rupted preparation of a meal. The
oldest child, a son 18 years of age,
had evidently been called from a corn
field near by, for, as he lay on the
floor, he had on a pair of husking
gloves and he was otherwise attired
for work. The babe of the family,
a little tot not more than two or
three years old, had been called in
from its play, for It wore its cap and
mittens and It had in its lifeless
hands a piece of bread and butter,
one blow had sufficed for it, and then
the inhuman flend placed Its lifeless
body in the arms of its mother. The
only evidence of a struggle was found
in the death of the oldest daughter
of the household, a young girl of 16;
her hands were badly cut, as though
she had grasped the murderer’s knife
in her fight for life. The other two
children were about 10 and 8 years
old respectively.
The crime was first discovered by
a milkman named Saunders, who
regularly visits the McWilliams every
other day. He called at about 2
o’clock yesterday to get his usual
amount of milk, but found no one
about the premises. He walked to
the kitchen, looked in and there saw
the six bodies in a row. He has
tened away to give the alarm and offi
cers at once started for the scene
of the crime. They found McWil
liams nowhere about the house or
premises, but they discovered an
abandoned suit of clothes of his which
was badly besmeared with human
blood. They extended their search
for him anl last evening located him
in Independence, when he was taken
into custody.
McWilliams has for some years
been considered a peculiar man, es
pecially since he suffered a sunstroke
about two years ago. He has been
sullen and reticent, having little to do
with his neighbors, and at times dis
playing an ugly disposition.
CONSUMPTIVES
Des Moines, Nov. 21. —Secretary
Kennedy of the state board of health,
Dr. A. M. Linn, chairman of the com
mittee of the board in charge of the
relations of the schools to the board
with respect to tuberculosis, and Dr.
R. E. Conn iff of Sioux City, yester
day reached an understanding with
respect to the action taken by the
board of health recently relative to
the presence in the school rooms of
lowa of teachers and pupils suffering
from consumption.
It was decided that the board act
ually had taken the action referred to
and that Dr. Linn and Dr. Kennedy
were appointed a committee to draft
the form of rule which will be pro
mulgated pursuant to the action of
the board.
It was Secretary Kennedy’s impres
sion that the board did not act, and
had named a committee to draft a
rule to be considered at the next
meeting. A majority of the board,
however, appears to be under the im
pression that the body took definite
action as described.
Therefore Dr. Linn and Dr. Ken
nedy will immediately promulgate
notice of the adoption of an amend
ment to rule 2 of the state board of
health, which will provide in terms
that teachers and children affected
with tuberculosis shall not be permit
ted to teach or attend school in the
schools of lowa. This rule now is in
effect according to the decision reach
ed yesterday.
It is up to the boards of directors
of the school districts of the state to
require such showing as will satisfy
them and the health officers that teach
ers and pupils having consumption
are actually excluded from the school
rooms of lowa. It is supposed that
a physician’s certificate will be final
in this matter.
MASON Gin MAN
KILLED BY WOMAN
Mason City, Nov. 26. —Patrick Rey
nolds was accidently killed at six
o’clock last evening by a rifle bah
fired from a gun in the hands of Mrs.
Will Brock. Reynolds is an old resi
dent, 70 years of age. He lived alone
in the rear of the apartments occupied
by the Brock family. The men had
just returned from a hunt and had
laid their guns down. Mrs. Brock
took the rifle in her hands and in
some manner it was discharged, the
ball taking effect in the middle of the
forehead of Reynolds, who expired
instantly. Mrs. Brock is a young
woman, was married only a few weeks
ago. She is crazed with grief. No
blame is attached to her.
Murderer Given Life Sentence.
Sigourney, Nov. 25. —Johnston T.
Martin, convicted of the murder of
Arthur Lynch last December, waa
yesterday sentenced to the peniten
tiary at Fort Madison for life. Judge
Scott overruled the motion for a new
trial. T*»* will be appealed to
the supreme court.
ARE SHUT OUT
SEN. BURTON GUIL
n ON SIX COUNTS
St. Louis Jury Returns Ver
dict Against the Famous
Statesman.
USED INFLUENCE OF OFFICE
Practiced as a Lawyer Before Post
office Department—Will File Bill of
Exceptions to Verdict and Appeal
to the Supreme Court.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 26. —Senator J.
R. Burton of Kansas was last night
found guilty on all six founts in the
indictment upon which he has been
o> trial for the last week in the
United States circuit court charging
him with having agreed to accept and
having accepted compensation from
the Rialto Grain and Securities com
pany of St. Louis, to appear for the
company in the capacity of an attor
ney before the postoffice department.
The case was given to the jury at
10:35 and at 12:50this morning the
verdict of guilty was returned.
Senator Burton was ordered to ap
pear in court at 10 o’clock Monday
morning, when his counsel announced,
a bill of exceptions would be presented
and an appeal asked for. Court
then adjourned.
Senator Burton, on advice of his
counsel, refused to discuss the verdict.
Senator Burton was indicted on
eight counts, two of which were
quashed before the case went to trial.
The penalty provided by the statute
is not more than two years’ imprison
ment nor more than SIO,OOO fine on
each count and a forfeiture forever
of the right of holding a position of
trust or profit under the United States
government.
Unless the verdict is reversed in
the supreme court, Senator Burton’s
seat in the upper body of the national
congress will at once become vacant.
The term for which he was elected
expires March 4, 1507.
FINAL CHAPTER OF
BLOODY WAR ENDED
Washington, D. C., Nov. 26. —With-
out formality the final chapter in the
bloody war between Russia and Japan
was enacted in the diplomatic room
of the state departmet yesterday
afternoon when at 5 minutes past 4
o’clock Baron Rosen, the Russian am
bassador, and Mr. Takahira, the Jap
anese minister, on behalf of their re
spective sovereigns, exchanged ratifi
cations of the treaty of Portsmouth
which was signed Sept. 5, last. The
only witnesses were Prince Kudacheff
the secretary of the Russian ambassa
dor, who was with him at Tokio when
the war began and again served as
one of the official secretaries through
out the peace conference at Ports
mouth, and Mr. Hioki, counsellor and
first secretary of the Japanese lega
tion. Sidney Smith, chief of the dip
lomatic bureau of the state depart
ment, and Eddie Savoy, the personal
messenger of the secretary of state,
were also present when the exchange
occurred.
CRISIS IS THREATENING.
Question of Shorter Hours Takes a
Serious Turn.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 21. —Despite
the decision arrived at by the council
of workmen on the morning of Nov.
20, not to attempt the introduction
of a movement for an eight hour day,
the question of shorter hours.is taking
a critical turn and threatens to pro
duce an industrial crisis. At the
Hubbard, Pahl, Westinghouse and
other Important works the men in
sist on a reduction of hours and have
adopted a course of dropping their
tools after they have labored eight
hours. The employers had a meet
ing tonight and resolved to stand
firm against the d?mands of the men.
The local works will be closed unless
the men consent to the old system
of sixty hours a week.
CASHIER LOOTS
ASSAY OFFICE
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 24. —George
Edward Adams, for seven years
cashier of the United States assay of
fice in this city. Is under arrest, ac
cused by secret service officials of
the theft of $35,000 in gold dust, to
which he had recess in his official
capacity. Of ti ls sum $12,000 was
taken from Ad; ms’ person by Secret
Service Agent Connell, who has been
at work on the case for several
weeks. Mr. Connell claims that
Adams has mate a practically com
plete confession that he has abstract
ed more than $30,000 from miners’
pokes since Jure last and substitu
ted sand to nriintain the weight.
Adams was ta’ten before United
States Commissioner Keifer this af
ternoon and held in $30,000 bonds to
appear for preliminary examination
on Friday next. Adams made no
statement other than to demur to the
amount alleged to have been taken.
Secret Service / rent Connell, on the
witness stand, te .‘ifled that from the
result of his investigation and exam
ination of Adams’ accounts he had
reason to believe that the shortage
would exceed $35,‘»00.
BULLETS AND DISEASE, 2 TO 1
Washington, Nov. 24. —Col. John
Van R. Hoff, medical edpartment.
United States army, who has recently
returned from the Russian army in
Manchuria with which he went
through part of the campaign in the
war against Japan, has been author
ized by the chief of staff to give out
excerpts of his offi dal report. Ac
cording ta Colonel Hoff the number
of killed and dead of wounds was
37,642 mpn and the number of dead
from disease 18,830. These statis
tics are exclusive of casualties at
Port Arthur and show almost exactly
two men dead from results of battle
to one man dead from sickness. This
record is, according to statistics, the
beat made In any war up to the pre
time.
OPEN MUTINY
ON BLUCK SEA
Russian Stronghold of Sebas
topol May Fall to the
Soldiers.
OFFICERS ARE CAPTURED
Held By Their Own Men, Who Join
Rod Flag—Only Remaining Regi
ment Cheers Mutineers, But Re
mains Loyal Up to Date of News.
Sebastopol, Nov. 26. —The sailors of
i this port and the Brest regiment have
i mutinied and joined the workmen whe
are holding a meeting under the red
flag. The city is in a state of panic.
Odessa, Nov. 26. —Troops have been
sent here to quell the disorders at
, Sebastopol, which are reported to be
increasing. Railway traffic with
Sebastopol is interrupted. The wounds
of Admiral Plsarevskf, who was shot
by the mutinous sailors, are serious.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 26. —Details of
the mutiny at Sebastopol are not
available at. the admiralty, the dis
patch to the Associated Press from
the war port giving the first intima
tion of the outbreak. An officer of
the staff said that four equipages ano
the Black Sea fleet were at Sebas
topol at present. He explained that
in addition to other long existent
causes of discontent the sailors had
been stirred up by their retention in
the service as reservists, the ukase
releasing many of them from the ser
vice, having been published here only
yesterday. The infantrymen of the
i Brest regiment had hitherto been con
sidered entirely reliable.
Sebastopol, Nov. 27. —The long ex
pected mutiny of sailors who have
been on the verge of revolt for months
has come, and Russia’s stronghold on
the Black sea is in danger of falling
completely into their hands.
The situation is very critical. All
. the shore equipages, numbering 4,000
I men, are in open rebellion, having
■ driven their officers away or taken
them prisoners.
The Brest regiment of infantry has
gone over in a body to the mutineers.
General Neplueff, the commander of
the fortress, is a captive.
The Bielostok regiment, the only
other regiment in the city, received
1 the mutineers with cheers, but thus
far It remains royal.
Some of the artillerists have also
joined the men in revolt.
Besides the Bielostok regiment the
two battalions of artillery and a bat
talion of the fortress have mutinied.
The Euxine fleet is standing in the
offing and is still obeying the orders
of Vice Admiral Chouknin, but the
crews are disaffected, and there Is
grate doubt whether they can be re
strained from joining the mutineers
and greater doubt that they will fire
upon them.
The Seventh army corps and the
commander of the corps have been
hastily summoned from Simerfopol,
eight hours distant.
There is every evidence that the
mutiny was deliberately and perfectly
planned by the social revolutionaries,
who have been pushing their propa
ganda with great energy since the St.
Petersburg strike was organized to
save the Cronstadt mutineers.
RATE FIGHT REGARDED
AS NEARLY OVER
Washington, D. C. Nov. 27. —The
great contest for effective rate legis
lation that has been on for many
months has bben practically won by
the administration and its supporters.
This is the confident belief of men
that are leading the fight for the rate
measure. It is known here that the
president himself feels he has t«?aten
the opposition utterly. Things have
been moving at a rapid pace in rate
matters this week. Accessions of
strength to the cause of effective rate
legislation have been coming daily
First came the news that at least
three republicans and four democrats
on the senate committee would unite
in supporting the bill, such as the ad
ministration wants. Since then there
have been many signs tnat tne opposi
tion is wavering. A report was pub
lisihed this morning that Elkins him
self had gone to the White House to
promise his support for anything the
president wanted. Elkins denies this
At any rate it is known that the attor
ney for one of the biggest systems in
the country informed the president
that the administration nacl won ns
fight and he was willing to accept a
bill on administration lines. Other
signs of weakening on the part of op
pom-nts of rate legislation are numer
ous. It will be weeks, probably, be
fore tho senate committee reports.
Senators who oppose the president’s
plan may keep up a losing fight
through much of the -session. Indi
cations are, however, that in the end
there will be a general rush to the
administration side.
SULTAN REJECTS THE
PROPOSALS OF POWERS
Constantinople, Nov. 23. —The port?
has rejected the proposal of the pow
ers for the international control of
the finances of Macedonia.
Vienna, Nov. 23. — A dispatch from
Constantinople says that the reply of
the porte, which was handed Baron
von Calice, the Austro-Hungarian am
bassador last evening, rejects the pro
posals of the powers on an points,
and declares that the public opinion
of Turkey would not countenance
their acceptance. The porte agrees
to extend to two years the terms of
the civil agents of the powers in
Macedonia.
Athens, Nov. 23, —The warships of
the powers which propose to make a
demonstration against Turkey, arrived
at Piraeus yesterday and exchanged
salutes and official visits.
The commanders of the vessels are
awaiting instructions.
An egotist thinks he has as many
rights as the other fellow has wrong*.
POWERS TO HISIT
WRATH ON TURKEY
International Fleet is Expect
ed to Sail for Sultan
Ports.
POWERFUL FLEET AT ATHENS
Foreign Ministers There Pay Visits
to Commanders —Austro-Hungarien
Ambassador Telegraphs Fleet to
Sail.
Athens, Nov. 24. —It is understood
that the international fleet will sail
today.
The foreign ministers yesterday
paid visits to the commanders of the
warships of their respective coun
tries. The commanders later held a
conference on board the Austrian
flagship.
Vienna, Nov. 24. —Baron von Calice
the Austrian-Hungarian anibassauor
at Constantinople, itas telegraphed
Admiral Ritter von Jeulne for a por
tion of the international fleet to sail
inimeuiu.vi.,, jawwu.ug ciinvr to
Mytilene (an island of the Grecian
archipelago belonging to Turkey, in
Asia), or for Besika nay (neat me en
trance of the Dardanelles.)
London, Nov. 24. —The persistent
refusal of the Turkish government to
accept European control of the rev
enues of the vilayets of Macedonia,
notwithstanding the ultimatum pre
sented by the allied powers is about
to lead to the putting into operation
of the threat of a naval demonstra
tion with the view of compelling the
acquiescence of Turkey in the Euro
pean control of the administration of
and the proposed reforms in Mace
donia.
The obduracy of the sultan appar
ently is based on the belief that he
has the passive support of 'he em
peror of Germany and upon the jeal
ousies supposed to exist among the
powers interested.
In diplomatic quarters it had been
supposed to the very last that the sul
tan would yield and even now it is ex
pected that he will do so before the
international fleet takes active meas
ures.
It is understood that the sultan ap
pealed vainly io Emperor William,
Emperor Nicholas and Emperor
Francis Joseph against the projected
demonstration. The combined fleet
of the powers now assembling at
Piraeus consists of six large and four
small vessels commanded by Admiral
Ritter von Jedine of the Austrian
navy. Great Brltian is represented
by the armored cruiser Lancaster and
the scout ship Sentinel, Austria by
the armored cruiser St. Georg and the
torpedo cruiser Szigetvar, Italy by
lhe ammored cruiser Giuseppe Gari
baldi and the torpedd boat destroyer
Ostro, and France by a cruiser and a
gunboat.
ENGLISH CABINET ON
EVE OF RESIGNATION
London, Nov. 24. —Recent rumors
of an early dissolution of parliament
and an appeal to the country are
gradually crystallizing into more defi
nite form, and while no official in
timation has yet been forthcoming,
the idea is prevalent In well informed
political circles that Premier Balfour
will take an early opportunity to
place his resignation in the hands of
the king. Should this materialize
the liberals will be invited to form a
government, parliament will meet for
a few’ days session and a general
election will occur early in the new
year.
The political situation was so rad
ically altered during the last week
that even the government supporters
no longer argue that Mr. Balfour has
a sufficiently united party at bis back
to meet parliament again with the ob
ject of initiating any legislation to
the public advantage.
A cabinet meeting has been called
for today. This will be only the sec
ond held this fall, and the fact that
there have been so few conferences
betweet the ministers is taken as
another indication of the imminence
of a change of government.
DROPS HER CHARGES
FROM THE WINDOW
Lawrence, Mass., Nov. 23. —All but
one of 400 girls attending the paro
chial school of St. Anne’s parish,
whoso lives were endangered by fire
in the building yesterday escaped
without injury, although twenty-five
of them were caught in nets by fire
men as they were dropped from a
third story window by a teacher.
Rena Drouin, 12 years old, was taken
to a hospital suffering from the effects
of fright and inhaljng smoke and it
is thought that she wiij recover.
All the pupils except those on the
third floor who escaped by means of
the net, marched out of the building
in good order when the alarm was
given. The fire was caused by an
over heated furnace.
Sister Mary, one of the teachers,
and her twenty-five pupils, who were
on the third floor, could not get down
the stairs on acount of the dense
smoke. The teacher led the children
to the windows beneath which the
firemen stretched a net. Under the
sister’s direction the girls climbed
over the sill and were assisted to
drop and were caught safely by the
apparatus held by the firemen. After
the last child had been cared for Sis
ter Mary herself reached the street
by means of a ladder.
In Dark Over La Follette.
Madison, Wls., Nov. 23.—Politicians
generally agree that Gov. LaFollette’s
ultimate purpose relative to the Unit
ed States sentorship is not clarified
by his call for a special session of
the legislature, Dec. 4. They hold
that the main purpose of the call is
to remedy a law relative to rebuilding
the capitol. This work would be at
a standstill If the law is not perfected.
The governor will at least not go to
the senate for the opening of con
gress.
COMMISSION
HAS NO POWER
Federal Judge Overrules In
terstate Commission
Order.
WILL HAVE EFFECT IN tOWA
Railroad* Win Their Case—Chicago
Jurist Declare* /that Commission
Cannot Compel Railway* to Obey
Their Ruling*.
Chicago, Nov. 21. —Judge Bethea,
in the United States circuit court yes
terday decided that the order Issued
by the interstate commerce commis
sion, directing that the railroad rate
bn live stocx between the Missouri
river and Chicago be lowered in con
formity with rates on uressed beet '
was illegal.
The Chicago Great Western and
seventeen other corporations were
the defendants in two suits brought
by the interstate commerce commis
sion. The first related to the decision
of the commission in which the lower
ing of the rates on live stock to a
point where they would conform with
the rates on dressed beef was ordered.
The second was an application ob
the part of the commission for an in
junction against the railroads pro
hibiting them from refusing to lower
the rates.
Several weeks were consumed by
the introduction of expert testimony,
and the court considered the evidence
for two weeks. In summing up the
case Judge Bethea declared that there
was no evidence of collusion on the
part of the railroads, and that the
rates on live stock were not a dis
crimination. He held further that the
interstate commerce decree was not
binding on the railroads, and that
the commission had not the power
to compel the railroads to obey their
rulings.
DOUGHERTY PLEADS
GUILTY TO FORGERY
Peoria, 111., Nov. 25. —Newton C.
Dougherty has pleaded guilty to five
of the forgery cases against him and
he has been taken to the Joliet pen
itentiary. He appeared before Judge
Worthington at 10:45 o’clock yester
day morning, plead guilty and was
given a sentence of from one to four
teen years on each of the five counts,
the same to be concurrent.
The prisoner accompanied by W.
T. Irwin, one of his attorneys, his son
Ralph and a deputy sheriff left the
jail at 10:30 o’clock. As be left
the building Dougherty said to the
jailor, “Well, I guess I’ll have to do
it.”
In the court room there were 200
spectators who had heard that the ex
educator and financier would plead
guilty. Attorney Irwin addressed the
court. He said that. Dougherty had
turned all of his property over to
him and tnat he (Irwin) had been
given right of attorney to settle the
affairs of the prisoner. He added
that Dougherty’s property would
amount to more than the school board
defalcations. He admitted that Dongh
erty had been careless and that he
stood willing to take his punishment.
Judge Worthington replied as fol
lows: “I find It necessary to, send
him to the penitentiary, as the law
provides. It will be a severe punish
ment. In count No. 200 the sentence
will be confinement in the peniten
tiary at Joliet, 111., for an indetermin
ate term, not less than one year or
more than fourteen years, solitary
confinement. In counts 21. 240, 243
and 244 the same sentence. That is
all.”
While the court was speaking
Dougherty looked straight ahead of
him and did not move a muscle. He
said nothing when the sentence was
pronounced and was taken back to
jail escorted by his attorneys.
UNSPEAKABLE TURK
HINTS AT MASSACRE
Constantinoule, via. Sofia. Bulgaria.
Nov. 25. —The Porte’s reply to the de
mands of the powers Is not only a
categorical rejection of the demands,
but contains thinly veiled threats that
the pressure of Europe will possibly
excite the Turkish population to re
prisals on the Christians. The com
munication states that the Turkish
government finds it absolutely impos
sible to accent financial control of
Macedonia, as It would violate the
sultan’s sovereignty. After agree
ing to the prolongation of the man
dates of the foreign civil agents the
note concludes:
“If the powers increase the pres
sure in order to compel the accept
ance of the control scheme the Im
perial government declines all respon
sibility for the consequences which
may arise from the discontent among
the public.”
DAWSON IS AFTER POLE.
Alaskans Have an Ambition to Reach
the Northern Goal.
Winnepeg, Manitoba, Nov. 24. —
Dawson Mall advices say that Dawson
City people are out to capture the
North Pole on methodical and scien
tific lines. For this purpose the
International Society of Polar Re
search of Experiment has been
formed with a membership of some
200, including the governor of Yukon
and all the important -eople of that
count ry.
Experiments will be made the pres
ent winter and in June next a dash
will be made ior the pole. The
promoter of the scheme Is D. Anthony
Varicle, a French scientist and ex
plorer. The plan is to start from
Grantland, dashing overland by ice
to the pole and continuing 600 miles
to Franz Josef Land, taking in all
about 130 days. Ships will be wed
at each end and wireless communi
cation maintained throughout the
trip.
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