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THE WEATHER: In St. Paul and vicinity today Snow. VOL. XXVII.—NO. 11. CZAR SEIZES REINS, DECLARES FOR PEACE Emperor of Russia Reported to Have Ordered Admiral Alexieff INotto Make Any Movement of Troops Without Personal Command of His Ruler—Russia's Position In Far East Situailcn Explained. Special to The Globe. LONDON, Jan. 10. — The Morning Post's St. Peterburg correspondent telegraphs the following: "I have excellent authority for stat ing that the czar is throwing his in fluence into the scales of the peace proceedings. The recent meeting of the Asiatic council was of a stormy character, and ended in dramatic fash ion. "Am I emperor of Russia or am I not?' his majesty exclaimed as he left the council chamber. "Am I the em peror of peace or am I not?' The em peror subsequently dispatched a tele gram to Admiral Alexiefl! ordering him not to make any movement of troops or take any action whatever without his majesty's direct personal commands." Germany to Remain Neutral. LONDON, Jan. 10. —It is learned on the highest authority that It has been decided in the event of war between Russia and Japan that Germany will maintain a strict neutrality and that other members of the dreibund will observe a similar attitude. The importance of this decision, which will almost Immediately be an nounced in some official manner in Berlin, cannot be overestimated. It vill in a measure insure that hostilities ■will be confined to the two powers concerned and it will be certain to give a great stimulus to the efforts •which France and Great Britain are making in St. Petersburg and Tokio respectively in favor of peace: Russia Massing Troops. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 10.—The STREET CAR STRIKERS START AN AUTO LINE ■ Bloomington Traction Employes Will Fight Company With Automobiles. BLOOMINGTON, 111., Jan. 10.—The striking street railway employee here have decided to establish an automo bile service to compete with the street cars, and will operate the machines as long as the strike continues. Arrangements will be concluded with a Chicago company for the re quired number of autos, and the pa tronage of strike sympathizers will be solicited. The fourteen members of the board of aldermen announced their willing ness to serve the city as police officers tonight and Sunday. While there Is no certainty of any outbreak, Mayor Morrison thought that the effect would be salutary. Sheriff Edwards' staff of city depu ties was reinforced by the arrival at noon of twenty deputies from the rur,al districts, and the augmented police force and aldermen will give a company of sixty men. DYING MAN DRIVEN FROM CAMP BY HIS COMPANIONS Lumberjacks In Northern Woods Turn Adrift Man Stricken With Fatal Attack of Hiccoughs. Special to The Globe. DULUTH, Minn., Jan. 10.—John Kollak, an employe of a lumber camp, near Duluth, was driven from the place by his companions today because he was afflicted with hiccoughs and. he is now dying at a Duluth hospital. Kol lak had been hiccoughing for ten days before he came to the city, and was so weak he could scarcely walk to the SEA GIVES UP DEAD Bodies of Several Clallam Wreck Victims Recovered. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 10.—Today's developments in the steamer Clallam disaster were the recovery of the bod ies of eight more victims of the wreck and the appearance in life of W. H. Grimes, one of the passengers, who was reported drowned. Thirteen bod ies, all told, have been taken from the waters of the straits of Juan de Fuca. Those recovered today include Miss Louise Harris, of Spokane; Mrs. Thos. Sullins.of Mount Sicker; Miss Vallaley, Of Victoria; Miss Ethel de Prose, .of Tacoma; Alexander Harvey, a deck hand on the Clallam, and three uni dentified women. These are all at Vic toria. Grimes, the unexpected sur vivor, was among the last to leave the Clallam. He and five or six others, after being washed into the sea, man aged to climb upon the pilot house, which had been swept from the deck. They were rescued by the tug Holyoke and taken to Port Townsend. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Jan. 10. —There is little or ■ no ground for hope that many of the passengers or crew of the ill-fated steamer Clallam will be found alive. All day today and until far into the night the storm kept up with unabated" fury, making ! the . work of deep sea tugs engaged in, the search for victims and wreckage one of diffi culty ■ and danger. No . further ' bodies have been recovered, I and of the -five brought here ; yesterday, all ; have been Identified, the fourth : proving to :be the remains of C. F. Johnson, of; Victoria, a relative of Chief Justice Hunter, -of the provincial court. V The fifth body is that of Archie ; Hudson, a young: man connected with the steward's depart- < ment The Only Democratic Newspaper of General Circulation in the Northwest* THE ST. PAUL GLOBE most reliable news received here is that the mass of Russian troops in the far East are concentrated at Vladivo etock or on the northern frontier of Korea. A traveler who has lately returned from the far East estimates that be tween 100,000 and 200,000 soldiers were in the vicinity of Vladivostock. He surmised that the Russians will oc cupy Northern Korea, but thonght that the possible collision was not immi nent for a month or more when taking into consideration distances and the difficulties of marching. Russia's Position Explained. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 10.—By an authority conversant with Russia's position in the far East and her atti tude toward American interests there, the Associated Press today was given this statement: "In view of the wide circulation given the reports without a basis in fact, charging Russia with hostility to American interests in the far East, it seems expedient that the attitude of Russia should be again defined. "Russia repeatedly has expressed her intention of development of commer cial Interests in Manchuria, knowing that the Chinese policy of the United States government is guided merely by an aim to develop trade and not by political ambition. "Russia has shown her good faith by refraining from any action which would endanger the conclusion of the Amer- Continued on Last Page. CHICAGO TEACHERS DO NOT CHEW GUM Schoolma'ams Do Not Follow Example of Boston Educators. CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—"Bostoir may be a city of the elect, but Chicago is ahead of it In Its gum-chewing manners. Chi cago school teachers do not chew gum —at leaßt hot in the school room." This declaration was made yester day by an official of the school board. Teachers who were met In the board rooms and asked the question, "Do you chew goim?" turned away in hor ror at the suggestion. "I do not know of a teacher who chews gum." said one. "I never heard of such a thing," said another. "It is outrageous to ask such a ques tion," declared a third. "I do not know what gum tastes like," confessed a fourth. Supt. Cooley says: "Our teachers do not chew gum." nearest railroad station. His unfeel ing companions complained that he kept them awake at night. The patient hiccoughs twenty times a minute, and if he undertakes to talk the trouble is increased to a succession of gasps. Kollak's physicians say the hiccough ing is due to irritation of the pneumo gastrlc* nerve, and is a certain form of dyspepsia. Noted Woman Dead. - ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 10.—Heart dis ease caused the death today of Mrs. Mary Preston Kennerly Brown, sixty nine years of age, widow of Maj. Gen. John S. Brown, of the Confederate army, who was living with her sister here. Mrs. Brown followed her hus band and brothers through the Civil war, acting as a nurse in hospitals and on battlefields. Even after her hus band died of fever, after the siege of Vicksburg-, Mrs. Brown continued as a nurse until the end of the war. THE NEWS INDEXED. PAGE I. House and Senate Forecast. Gen. Reyes Turned Down. PAGE 11. Col. Van Duzee Is Dropped as War Will Build Two Cross-Town Lines. Historian. Demented Woman Kills Herself. Want T*in City Painters Employed on Capitol. Will Dedicate New Church. PAGE 111. Burnett County Review. News of the Northwest. Postmaster General's Anuual Report. PAGE IV. Editorial Comment. PAGE V. Sporting News. News of the Railroads. Affairs Abroad. PAGE VI. Globe Popular Wants. PAGE IX. Market Record. PAGE X. Agriculturists Will Convene This Week. Grand Jury Will Resume Today. Minneapolis Matters. MONDAY MOKNINO, JANUAKY 11, 1904. FARMERS FLEE IN FEAR OF ERUPTION Five Hundred Mountaineers Take to the Road Scared by Smoke. Special to The Globe. / LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 10.—A vol canic eruption is anticipated in Rowan county and hundreds of the Inhabitants have fled from the neighborhood of Sugar Loaf mountain in the past three days- Smoke is issuing in great volume from five fissures in the sides and top of the mountain, and the cone is now enshrouded in an Inky envelope. The terror stricken people say that the earth trembles at the base of the moun tain and a dull roaring Has been heard for several days. Not less than 500 fugitives have left the country in the valley and foothills. The people are poor and in their super stitious dread of the upheaval of na ture ascribed the manifestations to su pernatural causes. The farmers with their families fill the roads leading out of Rowan county. They are driving their stock and tak ing with them whatever of their house hold goods they can tarry. The formation of Sugar Loaf is vol canic, but very ancient, and scientific men are disinclined to believe that there is danger of an eruption. A par ty has been sent up the mountain to investigate the causes of the disturb ance, but it is not possible to subdue the panic that has seized upon the people. GIRL REFUSES TO BE SAVED FROM SIN Blows Out Brains When Officers Re move Her From Dance Hall. Special to The Globe. BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 10.—Agnes Hol land, a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, blew her brains out late last night aft er being taken from a ball room by one of the sheriff's officers and being threatened with a term in the House of the Good Shepherd, a girls' reforma tory at Helena. The girl is said to be of a wayward disposition and beyond the control of her parents, who have twice placed their daughter in the reformatory. HOTEL BEAT ESCAPES Much Wanted Swindler Breaks Jail at Springfield. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Jan. 10.—Wil liam J. Reid, alias L. O. Hoffman, who is charged with swindling thirty-two hotels of about $10,000, from the At lantic to the Pacific in 1902, and is now under sentences aggregating ten years for these offenses, broke Jail here today, under remarkable circumstances, and it- still at large. To accomplish his escape he unlocked nine doors and sawed through three chains, visited six different rooms of the county jail, passed in front of sev eral guards and finally climbed an eighteen-foot wall. All this was done about 3 o'clock this morning, yet he was not missed until 7 o'clock. He was supposedly too weak to move without the use of a crutch, had been practi cally bedridden for three months and so far as the prison officers know, had eaten nothing but beef broth in all that time. Sheriff E. P. Clark tonight made a thorough investigation, but he finds that many details of the escape are • still unexplained. Reid was arrested in San Francisco under sensational circumstances in June, 1902, and after a legal battle was brought to Springfield. He was sen tenced to four years and six months in the county jail for swindling hotels here and immediately sentenced in Bos ton to five years in state prison for swindling Boston hotels. i We Must Look ReaHNice Because (Jncfe Voter Will Have His Eye on Us for a While. SPOONER NIT YET THROUGH TALKING <ii Senator Will Make Extended Reply to Charges Made Against Payne. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 10.—At the beginning of tomorrow's session the senate will "resume consideration of the Penrose and Carmack resolutions for an investigation of irregularities in the postoffice department. There are still some Democrat^ senators who desire to be heard on tf[is matter and Senator Spooner has intimated hiK intention to make a more extended ply to Sen ator Carmack's charge that Postmaster General Payne had been at^ all luke warm in the prosecution of frauds in his department. The nomination of M$ Buchanan to be minister to Panama: remains un acted upon and discussion of it will be resumed at the next executive session of the senate. Senator Lodge, of the committee on foreign relations, has given notice of his Intention to move to lay on the table Senator Morgan's mo tion to reconsider the vote by which Mr. Buchanan's nomination was con firmed, but will not make the motion until it is evident that scussion is exhausted. The motion when made will be undebata'ole and if it prevails will bring discussion to en end. Other questions expected to be taken up during the week include a bill providing for a forestry reserva tion in the Southern Apalachian moun tains and the resolution pertaining to good roads. Senator Cullom expects to report the Panama canal treaty after the regular morning meeting of the senate com mittee on foreign relations next Wed nesday. The Republican leaders in tend to urge the promptest possible consideration of the treaty after tt Is reported to the senate, and will try to keep it before the senate constantly to the exclusion of all other business. House Has Appropriation Bill. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 10.—The house, during the present week will pass the legislative, executive and ju dicial appropriation bill, thus dispos ing of the second of the big supply measures. The committe on appropri ations expect to report the bill to the house tomorrow and to call it up the following day. It Is expected that the debate will not take such a wide range as it did when the pensions appropria tion bill was. before the house and that it can be disposed of within a couple of days. The indication* now are that the urgent deficiency bill, the next to follow, will be reported tho }ast of this week or the first,<rf the coming week. It is desired to get .some of the appro priation bills over to the senate as rap idly as possible. There are a few min or measures about ripe for action which will be taken up from time to time. Unless the appropriations com mittee shall-be ready to report the ur gent deficiency bill by Thursday, the house may be in session olily five days this week. WAITING FOR VOTE Ohio Legislature Will Re-Elect Senator Hanna Tuesday. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 10.—Senator M. A. Hanna arrived tiere from Cleve land this evening, and will remain un til after his re-election to the United States senate. The house and senate will ballot sep arately on United States senator next Tuesday. There wilt be a joint session Wednesday, when the result of the bal lot will be announced. Mr. Hanna will be returned jto the senate by the largest * majority ever given a candidate for the office, the Republicans having a majority of 25 In the senata and 66 in the house, or 91 on joint ballot, the total number of members being 143. YOUTHFUL HERO IN COMMAND. iiiS§s i* Capt. Herman I. Bearss, although but twenty-one years of age, has al ready quite a naval record. He distinguished himself during the Boxer troubles at Tien Tsin, and later led a company of marines up a steep cliff on the island of Samar and captured a Filipino stronghold. He is now in command of a company of marines on patrol at Panama. UNIONS MAY UNITE Organization to Include All the Building Trades Proposed. TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 10.—Two im portant international labor unions will open their annual conventions here tomorrow. One Is the Bricklayers' and Masons' International union and the other Is the International Hod Carriers' and Building Laborers' union. The most important matter that will come before both conventions will be the proposition to affiliate with the j Structural Trades' alliance, and organ ization which is now in a formative state but which Is intended to bring about a federation of the baaic trades engaged in buildings. This alliance will, Include ten trades in all, among which will be the masons and hod carriers, carpenters, painters, plumbers, struc tural iron workers, steamfltters, tin smiths and others. 1 President George B. Gibblns, of the Bricklayers' and Masons' International union, said that such an alliance would be a great benefit to both employers and employes. Its purpose, he said, was to provide a means of doing away with the strikes that result from petty grievances and that are often the re sult of conflicts between men of differ ent unions engaged in work on the same building. The matter of affiliation is now being voted upon by the subordinate organ ization of the Bricklayers' and Masons' union and the result will be known be fore the convention adjourns. It is generally believed that the proposition of affiliation will receive an affirmative vote. The sentiment among the dele gates present to the hod carriers' con vention is that the convention will adopt the alliance proposition by an overwhelming vote. PKICE TWO CENTS. GHAMBERLAINANGRY Will Attempt Disruption of Lib eral Unionist Association. LONDON, Jan. 11. —An acrimonious correspondence between the Duke of Devonshire and Joseph Chamberlain Is published this morning. The duke, who Is president of the Liberal Union ist association, formed at the time the Liberal party split on the home rule question, wrote to Mr. Chamberlain suggesting that the association should dissolve owing to the difficulty of al locating the funds now that the party had become divided by the fiscal con troversy. Mr. Chamberlain, In a long rejoinder said he thought it beßt to "let sleeping dogs die," but that if the Duke of Devonshire wanted to make a fiscal test question he had "best take a vote of the members of the associa tion and let the defeated party retire." The duke replied, objecting to such a violent disruption of the association and asking for a friendly discussion of the arrangements for dissolution. Mr. Chamberlain closes the corre spondence by announcing that as the duke will not accept his views he is determined to call a meeting on his own responsibility and the course to be pursued will be decided at this meeting. TWIN BROTHER REFUSES TO BE SEPARA TED BY DEA TH Hoping to Join Brother Who Died Three Years Ago, La Crosse Youth Blows Out His Heart. Special to The Globe. LA CROSSE, Wls., Jan. 10.—Discon solate because of the death of his twin brother, Arthur M. Reichert, aged nine teen, today placed a heavily charged shotgun to his right side, pushed the trigger with a cane and blew out his heart. The force of the shot tore out his entire left side. Three years ago his twin died, since which time he has been in a pitiable frame of tnind, and his relatives guarded him closely, fearing his reason was tottering be- DRILL SCHOOL BOYS Kipling Would Make Soldiers of English Students. LONDON, Jan. 10.—Rudyard Kip ling has written a letter to Sir Clinton Dawkins, who publishes It in the Na tional Service Journal. The letter points out that "there exists in the average English public school a highly efficient system of conscription for games, based on the physical coercion of the young conscript." He proceeds to point out that the system actually is smoothly at work in many sections of the community, turning out annually from 7,000 to 10, --000 boys trained to its standard. He then suggests that even 10 per cent of the hours devoted to cricket, football and other games should be given to military drill and target work. He says it would not come to much more than one and one-half hours a week for the thirty-six weeks, but in the five or six years of the course it would go far toward making trained men. If the proposed percentage of time is taken up under the existing system there would be no need to gush about patriotism and self-sacrifice any more than one would gush over fagging or our school house cricket matches. He recommends that the national service league take up the idea. . READ THE GLOBE. THE ONLY LIVE NEWSPAPER IN ST. PAUL. COLOMBIAN ENVOY TURNED DOWN AGAIN State Department Practically Declines to Reopen Pan* ama Question. Special to The Globe. WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 10. — Without waiting for a reply to his re quest that his corresponuence with Secretary Hay be sent to the senate. Gen. Reyes has begun a new note which he expects to present to Mr. Hay within the week. If this note meets with no more favorable consideration than did the first one, he will prepare another. Gen. Reyes said today that his negotiation with the state depart ment had only just started. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 10.— Secretary Hay yesterday sent another communication to Gen. Raefel Reyes, the Colombian envoy, in response to his protest against the action of the United States regarding affairs on the isth mus of Panama. While state depart ment officials decline to make any spe cific statement as to its nature. It Is understood that in a general way it follows the lines laid down In the re ply to Gen. Reyes' first note, which practically declines to reopen the Pan ama question. The second communication to which an answer was returned yesterday dealt with considerable detail on cer tain specific points regarded as highly important and meriting special consid eration and presented an emphatic for mal protest against the action of the United States in Panama matters. Sec cretary Hay's answer, it is said, fol lows the lines of the recent message of President Roosevelt to congress on the Panama question, Justifying the steps taken by the United States on the subject. The secretary's reply does not dis cuss with Gen. Reyes one matter which he urged In his second note, namely, the transmission to the senate of the correspondence which has passed be tween himself and the state depart ment. It Is known that the officials ot the state department resented the sug gestion of Gen. Reyes as highly im proper, and for this reason its answei does not discuss this request. It was said tonight that Gen. Reyes might leave this country within the next ten days, but no information was obtainable on that subject tonight. From the standpoint of the state de partment th*r# 1b no reason why he should hasten his departure, as he might very well remain and rendei considerable service to his country. The suggestion was made tonight that possibly he might remain and make an effort to open diplomatic re lations with the republic of Panama, through Its representative here, for the adjustment of such questions as the assumption by Panama of a portion of the exterior debt of Colombia. Some suggestion also has been made, al though not officially,jof a reunion-*>f the two governments under the name of the republic of Colombia, Panama to have an autonomous government, with absolute authority to deal with all questions relating to the control ot canal matters. cause of grief. Shortly before noon today he went to his own room, Haying he would try to sleep. A few minutes later the family was startled by the report of the gun and rushed up stairs to find him in fragments. He had fre quently expressed the belief that he would join his brother Immediately aft er his own death, and wished for the time to come, as they were insepara ble during life and he had suffered pit iful loneliness since the passing of his brother. GEN. JIMINEZ BUSY Revolutionists in San Domingo Have Some Real War. SAN DOMINGO, Friday, Jan. B.— Revolutionists continue to fire shells into the city and several private dwell ings have been damaged. The revolutionists have defeated Gen. Castillo at San Cristobal, capturing two cannons and a considerable quantity of arms and ammunition. Many were killed and wounded in a fierce fight last night. A man named Pierce, an American, entered the city today, bearing a com munication from Gen. Navarro, min ister of war in the Jiminez government, to United States Minister Powell. The messenger was arrested by the govern ment authorities, who took the message from him and sent him back. In his communication Qen. Navarro requested Minister Powell to intervene with the provisional government, but the minister refuses to treat with the general. San Pedro de Macoria is quiet The situation here remains unchanged but matters are complicated because it Is impossible to foresee the duration of the revolution or its outcome. Business in general is suffering In consequence