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Russia's Fina By Walter J. Ball HE other day the Rbssi T finally win the war at say that Russia's econ critical condition. Wh a which was projecte'd For months Paris drei purpose of this loan, circles in London fully believe thai cause the customers of the French 1 time to subscribe. The Franco-Rus not strong enough to draw more m, drawn upon French stockings. The the Far East. with the St. Petersbui existing) as a climax. These thing restoratioL of French confidence in Now comes the crowning disai1 dollars value. in Russian property It must also be remembered th world-already exceeds $4.000,000,0) least $200,000,000. At the same tit duced by the withdrawn industrial z thousands of men she has sent to 1 zre too sparse and meagre to jtLstij enormous. It must also be borne in mind mot of the Japanese kind, or Russia be compelled to go to foreign money In evidence of any willingness on , to a call for a domestic loan. shouli The people of that country of "You dragged out of them, but they will they have at the disposa! of their borne is a thousand times lighter Again, look at the fearful losse, daily from the strikes 'prevalent all sorption of the Siberian railway fo commerce. All things considered. Russia is to stand the financial strain of this Sun. Why Equita' Meth< By George Batch E need no longer fear W only the people kno the doom of it is cei Its heart is sound, a ' ' experience of the last - people, when they ar have what they want that the evidence was not sufficient that vast jury, the American peopl done. but to show them what was Lloyd. Miss Tarbell. and now Mr. In that vast, far-minded audience, t was clearly made out in sucn a w; gress and the Supreme Court of t] between the evil and the good, co guilty. We have now reached the -Every trust must come to judgmE falsely accused will be acquitted: t bery, perjury, and corruption will I forth fruits meet for repentance. oi and enginery which have served t There are difficulties and dang, able and will not prove fatal. It r happy incidents and some grievou leaders get on the right side of the business honesty wiMl be establish< be secured, is as certain as that the 'with grass and flowers. Through sC dence and human foresight that g which, without undue taxation by t fil their hearts with joy and gladi Electricity a By Dr. Heniry Srr F we could look into the Ithe trucks beneath th ing essentially of coilh and closely fitted bety These coils of wire Co the current is switch well as through the and repulsions between the magne coils of wire cause the armature t to move the train-the motion of i car-wheels by a simple gearing. This current reaches the car t1 trolley through an overhead or und :aomi conducting medium, such as an unbroken connection between tb where the power is generated. The central dynamo in questiot to be a ponderous a~air, suggestiv, mysteries. Yet in reality it is a d with the motor which drives the tr; consists of a wire-wound armature the poles of an electromagnet. IB is reversed, for the armature. instE made to revolve by a belt adjusted 'The wire coils of the armature thu lines of magnetic force which conr so doing generate a current of indi in due course the third rail or the motor.-Harper's Weekly. 'The Race Pr -By President Roc Nthe first place, it is t Iwhite man, that in th upon his own effort t Every vicious, venal, foe to his own race ti ored man's self-respec tical work of the cou ability and integrity and the positit requisite of the race is. moral and Laziness and shiftlessness. the every kind, are evils more potent f oppression of white men put togt-th crime in another colored man, wbh bringing colored criminals to Justice well as an enemy to all the peopl sake of their race, be foremost in law-breaking black men. If the st: efficiency can be raised hiah enoug this continent is secure. The stabi w&.fare of the black race. as it is In the next place the white me colored man more than all other who i-s his neighbor, North or Soul Facts About Our Tun~nel. Among the interesting facts ab the new F-nnsylvania Railroad t nel and terminal in New York these: Total cost. $00,000,000, in dition to the $10.000,000 for the tion site, on which were about dwellings: dally train capacity, 9 Jets and Flashes. Levi D. Barr. the minister of Quakers in Los Angeles. married t divorced persons the other day had to make a public confession ask forgivness at the meeting the. n First Day. With nearly every acre of plov' land in the county promising a crop, San Diego, Cal.. is suffering fr a labor famine. There are not ib enough men in the county to han ncial Weakness .ard. .n .irister of Finance boasted: "We can ths desk." But can they? It Is safe to omic resources and finances are in a most at has become of the great Russian loan for January or February last in France? v gold from New York and London for the but no loan came. Well pcsted financial the project has received its quietus be )anking houses, usually docile, refused this ian alliance, a hollow thing at best, was mnev for Russia out of the already heavily an came more Russian financial losses n -g massacre and internal disturbances (Ytill were not by any means conducive to a Russian securities. .er of Mukden. with its loss of millions of estroyed and captured. At Russia's public debt-the largest in the ), entailing an annual interest charge of at ne Russia's earning power is greatly re nd agricultural capacity of the hundreds of he Far Fast. Published Russian statistics -y an estimate of this loss, but it must be that Russian loyalty to the Government is would not always, when she wants money, centres to get it. Not a sign has yet been :he part of the Russian people to respond i one be made by the Russian Government. must and you must not" may hnve money never rush, as do the Japanese, to put all Government. A financial strain willingly han one imposed by force. in money already incurred. and increasing over Russia in Europe. Further, the ab r military purposes is paralyzing Russian no better fitted than is Japan. if as we'l, war for many montbs longer.-New York ble Business >ds Will Prevail' 1or trusts or combinations In any form. Let - that any oppressive trust is illegal. and tain. We cannot despair of the republic. nd through its executive forces, as the three years in great cities has shown, the , aroused, can do what they please-and . The difficulty up to this time has been , and sufficiently well attested, to convince e, not merely that wrong things had been -rong. and how it could he corrected. 'Mr. awson., have testified: "ut there was still he people, lack of conviction that the case iy that, if a sifting were undertaken, Con te 'nlted States could easily discriminate ad protect the innocent and punish the point where there is no longer any doubt. nt. Those that can prove that they are hose that have been guilty of robbery. bri e -compelled to mend their ways and bring go into the scrap-heap with other engines 2eir purpose. s befo're us, but they are not Insurmount iay take time, and there will be many tin ; istresses before the people and their processs of volution. But that in the end d and rewarded and industrial peace will prairies of the West will soon be covered me of the mysterious ways of divine Provi -ass will feed the flocks and herds, from rusts;- the people will receive their food to ess.-The Christian Register. s a Motive Power ith Williarns interior 'of a mechanism In connection with e car, we should find an apparatus consist ; of wire adjusted compactly about an axis, reen the poles of a powerful electro-magnet. stitute what is called an armature. When ad on it passes through this armature. as lectromagnet. and the mutual attractions tic poles and the electric current in the revolve with such tremendous energy as :s axle being transmitted to an axle of the irough the third rail, or in the case of the ergound wire. All that is essential is that an iron rail or a copper wire. shall forms e motor apparatus and the central dynamo will be found, if we visit the power-house, a to the untechnical minc. of impenetrsble evice essentially the same in construction uin. That is to say, its unit of construction revolving on an axle and fitted between' ere, however, the sequence of phenomena 'ad of receiving a current of electricity, is to its axle and driven by a steam-engine. s made to r-evolve cut across the so-called ect the two poles of the magnet. and in ieed electricity. Which flows away to' reach trolley-wire, and eltimately to propel the oblem. isevel t, me of the colored man, as It is true or the a long run his fate must depend far more ian upon the efforts of any outside friend. >r ignorant colored man is an even greater an to the community as a whole. The col t entitles him to do that share in the poli atry which is warranted by his individual m he has won for himself. But the prime industrial uplifting. ;e, and above all, vice and criminality of or harm to the black race than all acts of e. The colored man who fails to condemn fails to co-operate in all lawful ways in is the worst enem. of his own people, as .Law-abiding black men should. for the relentess and unceasing warfare against indards of private mor-ality and industrial a among the black race, then its future on lity a.nd purity of the home is vital to the o the welfare of every race. n. who, if only he is 'willing. can help the rhite men put together, is the white man passenger accommodation daily, 200. 000: men at wvork, about 10,000: time yut required for trip under the Hudson, m- two minutes. In proj'ectiing this en ire terprise the engineers believe they n ave solved all the problems which ta- baffled the most daring engineeors of :00 twenty-three years ago.-Philadelph i )0; jLedger News of the Day. What Is thought to be a record clip he of mohair from Angora goats has just been sold by a company which last d1 year started a goat ranch near Taco dma. The goats yielded fr-om four to xtnine poundls of hair each, a total of 4.0 pounds. -ed Fifty Iggorotes from Lu;zon. en route > to the Lewis and Clark Exposition at >l Portland. held a dog feast near Seat al tie on April 21, to celebrate a safe :lle trip across the ocean. They ate four NEWS TROUGUOUT HE COUNTRY Minor Happenings of the Week at Mcme and Abroad. Down in Dixie. Attoriey for Morris Menges, who got a verdiet against Gen. Louis Fitzgerald for $1,000.000 for his services in con nection with the purt-hase of Balti more's interest in the Western Mary land railroad by the Gould interests, argued against a reversal of the ver dict on an appeal. A special invitation has been ex tended delegates to the International Railway Congress to visit Richmond. Va., at the conclusion of the Congress. A reception committee has been ap pointed by the city to arrange details of the visit. At the National Capital. Gov. A. B. Cummins. of Iowa, a wit ness before the Senate committee, strongly favored rate regulation. Commissioner Garfield says Govern ment agents are investigatiig the oil situatior in three States. Through the North. Receivers were appointed for the Haight & Freese Company, brokers, in Boston and New York. it being alleged in the New York complaint that the company had closed out customers on fictitious sales. Booker T. Washington delivered an address at Cheney, near Philadelphia, on the benefits of Industrial education for the colored youth. The Knights of the Golden Eagle be gan their annual convention in York, Pa. The department stores and express companies in Chicago encountered al most no interference in sending out wagons, but the strikers received ac cessions and more are expected today. At least 19 persons were killed and about 75 injured by the Cleveland and Cincinnati express over the Pennsyl vania running into a freight train con taining dynamite. which exploded, at South Harrisburg.-Pa. Approximately 100 persons were kill ed by the ternado which visited Snyder, Okla., and at least 150 were injured. A break occurred in the ranks cf the striking teamsters in Chicago. It is reported that President Alex ander, of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, will be obliged to retire from office and that a whole new set of offi cers will be elected. A large amount of money taken in by the Franklin "get-rich-quick" syndi cate is said to be in a bank vault in Hoboken. There is a stron= movement in the Citizen's Union of New York looking to the renc;nination of Mayor McClel lan. Foreign Affairs. The Italian Government has Inter ested itself in the case of Mrs. Anna Valentina, under sentence of death for killing Rosa Salza at Hackensack, N. J. and she will probably be reprieved until her case can be disposed of by the United States Supreme Court. Chinese merchants held a meeting at Shanghai and decided to boycott Amer ican goods as a protest against the proposed Chinese exclusion treaty. The vessels of Rojestvensky and Nebogatoff are believed to have united. The trans-Atlantic steamship com bine. formed to end the rate war, is in danger of total disruption, several lines having given notices of withdrawal The celebration of the Schiller cente nary continued throughout Germany. Ambassador Choate was formally called to the Middle Temple in the Inns of Court at London. In the House of Commons Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman moved a vote, of censure of the Government for its Irish policy, but the motion failed. Twelve persons were killed and 50 wounded in an attack on Jews at Zhitonier, Russia. The city of Vienna has established a phyto-pathological institute for the study of the disease or plants. The Princess Margaret of Connaught, who already knows German. Italian and French,' is now studying Swedish, as she is to be married to the Crown Prince of Sweden in the fall. Miscellaneous Matters. Process servers were sent out to hand subpoenas to all the directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Kaiser Wilhelm sent a message of greeting to the International Railway Congress. Admiral Rojestvensky has sailed from French Indo-Chinese waters, the French admiral there accusing him of violating his pledge not to return. A young man charged at Kingston, FEigiand, with assaulting his father, pleaded as a reason for the act that it was the first time he had seen his father sober. A new way of stealing even large bales and boxes when cargo is sent to Tientsin by rail says The Hong Kong Post. has been discovered. One end of a strong rope is tied round a tree. and the other end, to which an anchor is attached, is thrown among the things on an open truck as it passes, to take its chances of a haul. The Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemens Association, which has been in session at Waynesboro, Pa., has adl journed. In the British House of Commons Premier Balfour called attention to the necessity of redistributing the fleet an army in view of a possible invasion o Inia. particularly by Russia. Upomn his retirement as president of the i-on and Steel Institute. Andrew~ Carnegie made this instituzte a gift of $25000. Not Allowed to Protest. St. Petersburg. By Cable.-The po. lice prevented a meeting Sunday of resident r ergy who desired to pass resolutions of sympathy with the mert ropolitan Arnonius, who :1as beer transferred to the Caucasus, on ac count of his agitation in favor cof a revival of the patiarchate. Wher representatives of the clergy asked ar officer if they :night huold a meeting in a church, he re-piied in the negative. saying that his orders were not to per 300 MOR0S SLAIN American Troops Get Bus Again a Our Fastern Possessions AUTLAW CHIEF FLEES GEN. WOOD Fierce Fighting on the Island of Jo1 Results in the Rout of Pala, a Noted Slave Trader and Warrior, the Amer ican Logses Being Seven Killed and 19 Wounded. Manila, By Cable-Fierce fighting i has been going on the last two weeks :n the island of Jole between the out law Moro chief Pala, with 600 wellarm ad followers, and troops under the per sonal command of Major General Leanord Wood. Pala's losses thus far t ire 300 killed, while those of General Wood are seven killed and nineteen I wounded. Pala and his remaining fol lowers, in accordance with Moro tra jition, prefer death to capture. General Wood, with detachments from the Fourteenth Cavalry, the Sev- I enteenth, the Twenty-second and the Twenty-third Infantry and Constabu lary Scouts, has driven Pala and his followers into a swamp, which has been surrounded. Pala was a noted slave trader and warrior when the Americans occupied the islands. Later, he escaped with his followers to the island of Pula Sekar, near Borneo. One of Pala's leaders deserted and took refuge in the British se.tlement at Lahad. Pala, discovering his whereabouts, landed and demanded of the British magis trate that he turn the deserter over to him. The demand was not com plied with and Pala ordered a massa :re. Twenty-five persons, including several Britons, were killed. Pala es caped to the island of Jolo and organ ized the present uprising. It is reported that the Borneo au thorities requested General Wood to apprehend Pala, dead or alive, and turn him over to them. Chicago Strikers March. Chicago, Special.-Marching with draped banners and muffled drums, more than 2,000 union men Sunday fol lowed the body of George S. Pierce, a striking teamster, who was killed by a deputy sheriff, from his home to the union station here, whence the body was taken over the Pennsylvania Railroad to Louisville, Ky., for burial.. No funeral se:vices were held in Chi cago, but the escorting of the body to the station was made the occasion of a labor demonstration In which not only the Teamsters' Union, but organ ized labor genera:lly, participated. The progress of the procession was without incident. The men, marching solemnly four abreast, each wore on his coat lapel a white button with this inscription in black: "We mourn the loss of a murdered brother." Eutawville Lynchers Acquitted. Orangeburg, Special.-The "Eutaw ville Case" was ended much earlier than had been expected, and at 5:26 Friday afternoon the jury came in with a verdict of not guilty. But ten minutes were required to reach this determination. The result of the trial is no surprise to the people of Or angeburg. Many would not have been surprised if the jury had rendered a verdict without leaving the jury-box. John H. Palmer, S. A. Eadons. Andrew Martin. Penny Martin and Benny Mar tin will return to Eutawville at once. They were charged with having taken the life of Keitt Bookard on the night of the 11th of last July. They were arrest ed on October 14th, were placed in the penitentiary for safe-keeping until the prelimi nary exemination before Magistrate A. E. McCoy, on the 9th of December, when they were committed to the Berkeley jail to await trial. No effort to secure bail was made. As is well known the principal evidence against the mcn was the testimony of H. C. Edwards. who was arrested on the same charge as the others and made a confession. Gaynor-Greene Case Drags. Montreal, Special.-The final stages of the Gaynor-Greene case before it is considered on its merits by the ex tradition .commissioner, were enter ed upon Saturday, when the prosecu tion endeavored to Introduce the ef forts to offset the expert testimony of witnesses for the defense, who had de clared that the printed ev-idence pre sented by the United States was not leral. D. Frank Lloyd, assistant United States district attorney at New York, was called, but the defense ob jected to his evidence. A pplies to Canal. Washington, Special.-In an opinion rndered by Attorney General Moody regarding the application of the eight ho'ur law to the employes of the lsth r ian Canal commission on the Isth : s of Paniama, the Attorney General 1:- 1:s that the law applies to those em in yes. An inspection of the opinion s iwed that it did not ecver ali the gwund desired by\ the Panama Canal cmmissior.. end renserpuently it vill e returnfed to the Attorney Gernral for f":ther consideration. Killed Two and Himself. Memphis, Tenn., Special.--A triple ragedy ocurred here tonight, when Thomas McCall. a night watchman for he Illinois Central Railroad, shot and :illed Edith Ferguson and Hal Wil iiamson. The murderer, an hour la ter, turned the weapon upon himself. firing a bullet into his head. The shooting occurred on Caihoune street. in the southern part of the cit:-. Edith Ferguson, it is claimed, was well known in New York City. She came here in February jast. Jealousy is given as the cause of the tragedy. Mr. Tiliman Much Better. Augusta, Ga., Special.-Hcn. B. R. Tillman, United States Senator from South Carolina, who went to Atlanta about two weeks ago to be treated for nervous trouble, passedc through Au gusta on his way back to his home at Trenton, S. C., much improved, and to all appearances, cured. He will remain at his home, for the next few (ILLED IN TORNAD 6 Lives Lost and Great Destructio of Property 6 WERE SERIOUSLY WOUNDE 7he Tornado Struck the Souther End of Town and Cut a Clean Swat 100 Yards Wide Through Its Entir Length. Marquette, Wis., Special.-Whe arkness fell over this stricken cit uesday it was known that 26 lives ha een lost in the tornado that wrecke art of Marquette early and did muc amage in this vicinity. Of the injure 6 were seriously hurt. and some C hem may die. Several of the other re suffering from broken limbs an nternal injuries. In several cases er ire families have been killed. A ma tamed Switzer, a night watchman a he railroad yards, lost his three chi] tren. N. P. Nelson. with his wife an hree children, were found dead. Tw >ther children were not at home an scaped injury. Tuesday night order had practicall >een brought out of the chaotic condi ion that prevailed and a relief com ittee had begun dispensing ai< mong the relief sent from outsid vere 25 pupils from Bethany Colleg ho acted as nurses. TRONADO 100 YARDS WIDE. The tornado struck the southern en >f the town and cut a clean swath 10 ards in width through its entir ength. Coming as it did at midnigh l the people were caught without noment's warning. A heavy rain storr Lad preceded the-wind. When dayligh )roke over the town it found the ei ire population in a state of panii 3usiness was entirely suspended an very one who escaped injury turne s attention toward aiding th vounded. The tornado seems to have forme bree miles south of Marquette and di Lot spend its force until it had passe nany miles north of the town. In Mai juette the residence portion west of th dain street suffered the principal darr Lge. The houses In the course of th ornado were all, with two or three e. eptions. completely wrecked. In thi ection there were a number of moder esidences, of which only one was lei tanding. The Swedish Lutheran an dethodist churches were among th irst buildings struck and they, togethe vith the parsonage adjoining the Mett dist church, were demolished. Monday afternoon was hot and or >ressive. Late in the evening a terrif ain broke over the town. The rai ontinued to fall in torrents until mic ight, when the tornado struck. Withi ess than five minutes it had wrough ts terrible work and passed on. Tel( 'raph and telephone wires were cai -led down an& it was several hour efore those outside could be apprise f the plight of the city. It was not until 8 o'clock that phys! 'ians and surgeons began arriving froI urrouding towns. In the meantimf lozens of volunteers set to work 1 lear away the debris and extricate th~ lead and injured. The Swedish Luti ran parsonage and several privat esidences were turned into temporar iospitals. The dead were taken to tore room near by. NARROW ESCAPES. Dr. Lund, the Lutheran pasto assed about among the suffering. mir stering to their comfort, while thirt r forty other persons, working undi is direction, cared for the injured >ther points. There were many narrow escap4 rom death. The infant daughter < has. Sallon was lifted in her bed an ~aried to the middle of the street. rt ~eiving only a few scratches. Sailc Lnd his wife were seriously injures [he mattress upon which the bab aughter of the Rev. Smith lay we oubled up in such a manner as 1 over the child and protect it from fal ng timbers. In spite of the destructic >f the Smith house. the entire faml !scaped uninjured. Mr. and Mrs. 0. llvin were carried on their bed a di: :ance of 500 feet and laid down withoi eing seriously injured. --wenty Warships Sighted. Hong Kong, By Cable.-The Germs steamer Neumuhlen arrived here Moi day from Colombo, March 28. and r ports having sighted 45 vessels, which 20 were warships, in the vicil ity of Kamranlh Bay, Annam, May 5t The coasting steamer Hlaimun, whi< also has reached this port, observed Japanese cruiser off Amoy, Straits Formosa. Damage in Missouri and Kansas. St. Joseph, Mo.. Special.-A terri: wind storm at 9:13 o'clock Tuesde worked havoc to many buildings in th eity and vicinity. At Elwood, Kansa ross the Missouri river from this eit large elevator belonging to the Ha oun Company. was partially destroye Four men are imprisoned in the wvreci age, and it is believed that they cann be extrinted alive. The loss is $100.00 The walls of a five-story brick buildir in St. Joseph belonging to the Robert Parker Grocery Company were blov down. Five men in the building na rowly escaped. General Badger Dead. New Orleans. Special.-General A gernon S. Badger. United States a praiser for New Orleans. is dead, ag< 65. General Badger was in comma; of the Metropolitan poli'ce in the batt of the 14th of September. 1874, wh' Governor Kellogg was overthrown at was seriously wounded. In 1S7S was made postmaster and thereaft was collector of customs and later a praiser. Greene and Gaynor Still Fighting. Montreal, Special.-It was ma' known before Judge LaFontianle th; it is the purpose of the defense in ti Gaynor-Greenle case to show that the ofence, if proven, is not extraditabl They. will call a number of Unit' Stat~es lawyers. the first of who; Abraham .1. Rose. of New York. test fle to that effect today. They w also endeavor to prove that the defen ants are charged with conspiracy Georgia. while if there was such conspiracy, they claim it was consul mnadi New York. 500 PEOPLE- MAY BE DEAD The Tornado Struck the Town of Sny der at Night and Did Vast Damage. Sapupa, I. T., Special.-At 11.40 o'clock Wednesday night the dis patcher for the Frisco in this city re ceived a report from Enid, 0. T., ad vising that a tornado had struck Sny der, Okla.. wrecking the town and killing five hundred people, among whom was the station agent of the h Frisco at that town. The request e came also for assistance. On the strength of the report, the dispatcher ordered a relief train with physicians to be sent from Chickasaw, I. T., and Ouanah, Texas. The wire between Snyder and Sapupa went down at 10 d p. m. The station agent at Snyder, who was killed, was J. M. Logan. Guthrie, Okla., Special.-Telephone reports from Hobart, Okla., indicate d that the entire town of Snyder, Okla., was destroyed by a tornado. A train of doctors, nurses, and other assis t tants is said to have left Hobart for - Snyder. Wires are reported down be d tween Snyder and other neighboring 0 towns, and all news is being received d 'from Hobart. Later reports from Chickasaw, I. T., y which place is communicating with Hobart, Okla., indicate the truth of - the earlier report concerning the - storm. No estimate of the number of dead is obtainable. Oklahoma City, Okla., Special.-I ports have reached here from Hobart d and Anadarke confirming the news of a tornado at Snyder, but no details are I known. The Frisco railroad is send a ing a relief train from Chickasaw to a Snyder. It is rumored that 400 people are killed and injured. Fort Worth. Texas, Special.-The d telegraph operator at Chickasaw, I. T., e states that he talked over the tele phone with' Hobart, Okla., near Snyder d and that all the wires in the vicinity d of Snyder are down, but relief trains are being sent from several directions to Snyder. Snyder is a town of 1,000 - people in Kiowa county, Oklahoma, e located on the Frisco, 45 miles north of Vermont. a i Lawrence, Kan., Special-A destruc t I tive wind storm passed down the main d street of Lawrence, doing considerable e damage to buildings. Everett Hall ri was unroofed, and a large number of - plate glass windows were broken by hail and wind. So far as known no - body was seriously hurt. The electric c light plant was put out of business. The President at Chicago. t Chicago, Special.-President Roose velt's train arrived at the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad station a few d minutes after noon and was met by Sraeme Stewvart and other members of the reception committee. The President Sand party immediately started for the o Auditorium Annex. C The streets through which the Presi dent's carriage drove were lined with vpolice, and men in uniform and plain aclothes mingled with the crowd every where. In addition. there were over fifty detectives who followed the Presi dent's carriage and watched the crowds , closely. for any disturbance. -President Roosevelt addressed the yMerchants' Club at the luncheon given r him by~ the merchants' organization at t the Auditorium. The theme of his talk~ ,was the upbuilding of a great navy for sthe sake of the nation's commerce and fthe nation's honor. He appealed to d other commercial organizations to pro Imote the idea of a big navy. The Pres Ident stated that the unions must obey .he law. s Road to be Sold on June 7. -Richmond, Special.-The sale of the SFarmville and Powhatan Railroad. y which was to have taken place lasi 5week. has been postponed until June 7. The line extends from Farmville t to Bermuda Hundred, and is 88 miles long. It is in a receiver's hands. Mess Hall Burned. I Lexington. Va., Special--The cadet - mess hail at the Virginia Military In a- stitute was destroyed by fire Wednes ifday. Heroic efforts were made by ca - dets and the Lexington fire departmenl . to save the building, but ivithout sue hcess, as the fire had gained considera a ble headway when discovered. The ifloss is covered by insurance. The or igin of the fire is unknown. 50 Die; 100 Hurt. ic Harrisburg, Pa., Special.--The East y ern Express of the Pennsylvania Rail s road, going east.. ran into a freight s train at 1.10 o'clock Thursday morn ing in South Harrisburg. Two cars -of the freight were loaded with dyna .mite, and three terrific explosions foi .lowed. Both trains were piled in Imass of wreckage, which immnediately . took fire and many smaller explosionm gfollowed. It is estimated that 50 ars .dead and 100 injured. Definite figures ajcannot he had at this hour as the blaz ing mass is unapproachable and many people are pinned in the debris. Dropped as a Deserter. lWashington, Special-First Lieuten ant Alphonse Strebler, Fr-rty-seventl Company of Coast Artillery, who dis appeared from his station at For: Hunt, Va., three months ago, was drop ped from the army register as a de serter. Lieutenant E trebler was con Ic nected with the quartermaster an< ecommissary departments, and becaus4 of some deficiencies in his pays ac .counts was confined to his quarters a the time of his disappearance. Will Be Tried Again. IJacksonville. Fla., Special.-Attor 1rey General Moody ordered Distric Attorney Stripling to proceed witl another trial against Helen Wilmanm ePf ost. convicted of using the mails fo: cfraudulent purposes, and sentencedi ti one year and one day. Mrs. Post hai appealed the case, and in view of th< 1- opinion remanding the case back fo r trial, that the ability to heal by men 2tal science could not be questionle< by the court, it was thought that the nce wonnid he dismissed - TO VISIT 11HE SO President Roosevelt Expresses Intention WILL COME IN THE EARLY Chief Executive Will Visit at Two North Carolina Points and pects to Take in All the States Has Not Hitherto Visited. Washington, Special.-Just 'bet he reached Washington the Presid informed the representative of three press assodiations, who W West with him as his guest, that hoped to make his proposed trip Georgia this fall, and that he w also visit Arkansas, Louisiana, Fko, da and Alabama, the only States ti he has not traversed in his capaci. as Chief Executive of the nation. the same time Mr. Roosevelt decr that this would positively be the extended trip he will make while the White House. Nan Patterson Free. New York, Special-After mot eleven months in prison, and mistrials on the charge of mu Caesar Young, Nan Patterson from the Tombs a free wom she left the great building wh been her home since a few da Young was found dying in a t lower New York, 2,000 people her with cheers, for the ne District Attorney Jerome wo for her dismissal from cus spread throughout the vicini court house. But the ac had but a few seconds t hear the demonstration was whisked away in a cab attorney, Abraham Levy. Details of the 'Wreck Harrisburg Special.-Ninet sons are known to be dead than 100 others were injured in road wreck and dynamite which occurred early Thursda Pennsylvania Railroad in the part of this city. That no sons were killed is considered ably by the Pennsylvania Ralir ficials, as a full box car of d exploded directly at the middle heavy express train. The list and injured is as follows: The following is a list of the V. L. Grabbe, Pittsburg. Geo. Ziegler, Pittsburg. Jas. R. Phillips, Pittsburg. Paul Bright, Pittsburg. Mr. Shaw, Pittsburg. J. L. Silberman, Philadelphi Mrs. Robert G. Dougherty, P phia. H. B. Thomas, Parkesburg, gineer of express train. 0. K. Hullmant, Altoona, Pa. Norma Martin, 7 months old. Nine unidentified bodies. The Pennsylvania Railroado gave out a list containing the of 98 persons who were injured treated at hospitals or eleswher company also gave a list contain names of 36 persons who were i wreck and whose injuries are not~g Mill Men Adjourn~ Knoxville. Tenn., SpeciT.-With unanimous adoption of a report f the committeeon the nomination officers for the coming year, the n annual convention of the AmeiF Cotton Manufacturers' Assoca came to a close Thursday aftern Th fies chosen were: PrsdnR. M. Miller. Jr., C lotte, N. N.; vice president, Arthr Lowe, of Fitchburg, Mass., re-elec secretary-treasurer. C. B. Bry:ant, Charlotte, N. C.. re-elected; chir of board of governors. R. R. Ray McAdenville, N. C., re-elected: c late governors, R. S. Reinharilt Lincointon, N. C.; F. H. Remey. Augusta, Ga.: David Clark, of f lotte, N. C.; E. A. Smith, of Charl N. C. The next place of meeting selected by the conventi bi referred to the board gov which will meet withi the ne days to determine it. Jew Orle Augusta are the fav rites. Killed Wif and Himself. Valdosta, Ga. Special.- John itt, a white ma of Adel, shot a ed his wife, ot her sister and b er, woundilg them slightly, and Isurrounde by a posse of citizens,. and insta tly killed himself. cause of the tragedy is* 'nkno it is kn wn that Hewitt. who-ta in bad/health recently, was once fined (in a sanitarium and for wek had not lived with his' (Flood in Virginia.' ,oanoke. Special.-A speci 9ristiansburg to the Roanok pys: The heaviest flood in Vory of the oldest inhabitants tsseton Wednesday. doin culable damage to every.thing a! water-courses. Railroad bridg ces, cattle, hogs and fowls we Iaway and houses were floode has never been reached befo great floods of 1901 were muc than Wednesday's. The rai down in torrents for two hou ning at noon almost without < m ig. A special from Pulaski says.. ing did great damage to t' system there. Northern and South -Ba New York, Speci .--Anrou was made in t 'city that a meeting or bot - the Northe Southern divi ions of the Church will,. e held at St. May 16 and 1 .wehn the que organizing a Ge ral Conven the Baptists of Nor6\h America ing Canada, will be. discuss deoiaion was separated slavery question many years Telegraphic Briefs. The Society of the Army of tomac, which held its thirty union at Manassas, visited Run battlefield and other poi terest. At Henry House luncheon was made and bri es delivered. The old St over which the army passe nal grand review, was als Several aucient c'istoms are vived at the weddir4g of the