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,THE CHARGES That Jie Attorney-General Will Prefer AGAINST THE CAR LINES Attorney General Moody Makes Statement Regarding Suit to be Filed Aaginst Private Car Line Maintained by Pabst Brewing Co. and Railroads Refunding 12 Per Cent. of Freight Charges for Trans portation. Wash.in] n..t~l Special. - Atorney General Moody made a statement with regard to tile petition which will be filed by his direction in the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Wisconsin. brought under the Elkins ]aw to test the le , gality ft certain commis'sioners paid by railroads (after the reeeil)t of the published rates) to a private car transit company, controlled by stock holders of the corporation shipping freight in those cars over the rail road's lines. The statement folows: "The petition is against the Mil waukee Refrigerator Transit Com pany; Pere Marquette Railroad Com pany; Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail road Company; Erie Railroad Com pany; Chicago, Rock Island & Paci tie Railroad Company; St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company: the Wisconsin Central Railroad Com pany; the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company and Pabst Brewing Com pany. "This case arises out of the follow ing state .of facts, which have been investigated by the inter-state Com merce commission and also by private interests adversely affected, brought to the attention of the Attorney Gen eral and by him carefully considered. "Conferences have been held be tween the Attorney General and Dis +rict Attorney Butterfield, of the east ern district of Wisconsin, in Chicago and Washington; and on Friday last, at a conference between the Attorney General, the assistant to the Attorney General, Mr. Purdy, Special Assistant 4 District Attorney Pegin, the district attorney, and Special Counsel Charles Quarles, of the Milwaukee bar. the form of the petition was determined upon. "It appears that the Pabst Brew ing Company are large shippers of been over the various railroads run nin- from Milwaukee. Some of the principal stockholders of that corpo ration organized and own the Milwau kee Refrigerator Transit Company, a corporation operating private cars. To the latter corporation the control of the shipments of the Pabst Brew ing Company was given by an agree ment entered into between the two corporations named. The various rail roads mentioned as defendants, while receiving as freight money the open and published rates for the transpor tation of commodities, have paid to the transit company, in whose pri-* vate ears the been was transported, a commission of about twelve per cent. upon the amount of the freight money collected, with the effect, of course. transportation by the railroad com panies is so much less than the pub lished and open rate. Eandolph-Maconl Professor Dead. Richmond. Special.-Dr. A. C. Wightman professor of biology at Randolph-MaconL College. diedl in Ashland of paralysis. resuilting from acute indigestion. $3,000 More Raised in Chicago. Chicago, Special-Every synagogue in Chicago was crowded by mourners and over $3,000) had been added to tile fund of $13.000. Money in Demand in New York. New York. Special.-Money on call went to 15 per cent. the highest rate for several years. Last Saturday's bank statement shov-ed the surpltus to be almost exhausted and since theni large sums have been sent from New York to the interior, leaving practi eally nothing to be lent in this mar ket. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw was in New York and it was reported that he intended to deposit several million dollars of government funds with the banks to relieve the situa tion but this report could not be con Iirmed. $80,000 Warehouse Fire. Athens, Ga.. Special.-Athens was visited by a disastrious fire Sunday ( morning which wiped out a large cot ton warehouse belonging to Deadwiler Company and more than fifteen hun dred bales of cotton stored there, to gether with $20,000 worth of flax be <!onging to the Aberdeen Linen Mills. ot this city. The cause of the fire is unuanown. Negro's Side Crushed. New Berne, Special.-A very ser ions accident occurred on the yard of the Atle',. and North Carolina Railr- 'C. , younug niegro named Henry . .nlkins,. waiter boy for the Blades Lumbler (Company, while in tihe discharge of his duty passed heC tween two cars. going to the mill with <water. For som~e reason he stopped. and the .shiftin~g engine backed to couple other ears. Henry was canght boetwcen the bumipers. His left side was badly crushed. Senitor Burton Indicted. St. Louis. Special.--The Federal grandi jury convened and returned an indietmnent against United States Sen itrBrton, of Kansas. It is stated tr t certain features int the former in d (! icten against Senit or Burton. which was p~uasned, were remedied in A GHASTLY DISCOVERY Woman's Nude Body Found in Swamp. Irene, Lexington County, Special. The dead bod, of an unknown colored woman, thought to be about 19 years old, was found near the head of the mill pond of the Saxe-Gotha cotton mills late Saturday afternoon. The body naked, except one shoe and stocking, lying face upward in a few inches of water, far in the swamps. Mr. John Taylor, a nearby farmer, heard his dogs at bay in the swamp, and upon going tto them discovered the body. Late in the night Coroner Wilson and Dr. John W. Sandel reached the spot to hold the inquest. The found her clothing about 10 yards off and it appears that she was well dressed, with good, heavy dresses and nearly new shoPs. More tln 100 colored people viewed the body, but it could not be identified. Dr. Sandel could find no trace of violence., -nd the sup position is that the girl in a demented condition and lost, undressed herself and was frozen. There has been no decision as yet by the coroner's jury, as they are awaiting efforts to identify the dead body. T'he exact spot is about three miles from Lexington and one mile from the Southern Railway. W. L. Hadden Acquitted. Spartanburg, Special.-In the case >f W. L. Hadden, charged with the murder of Tom Glenn, the jury re turned a verdict of not guilty. The killing occurred several months ago in the upper section of the county. When adden and his family returned from preaching one night a member of the female number of the household com plained that some one was peeping in a window. Mr. Hadden rushed to the door with a pistol and fired one shot. He came back and retired to his bed. The next morning he was shocked to find the lifeless body of his neighbor, an aged man. Thomas (Glenn, stretched on the ground some distance from his house. In this case Stanyarne Wilson represented the defendant and Solici tor Sease the State. Dropped to Death. Anderson, Special.- -Mrs. Maude Broadwick, wife of Charles Broad wick, an aeronaut with Riddell's Southern Carnival Company, fell from a baloon here Thurstay afternoon and was instantly killed. Mrs. Broadwick vas an experienced ballonist herself and had made two ascensions while ere, but was not to go up. Her hus and was to make the ascension and parachute drop, and she was standing by to give the signal to cut the ropes when all was ready. She gave the signal all right, and when the balloon hot up into the air she was seen hang ng to the ropes between the balloon ad the parachute. After she had reached a distance of 200 or 800 feet she dropped to the earth, striking on the hard ground and was instantly killed. New Bank for Anderson. Anderson, Special.-The organiza tion of the Anderson Banking and rust company was effected by the election of the following directors: \. F. Cox, H. C. Townsend, T. Q. Anderson, J. M. Evans, G. N. C. Bole man, T. L. Clinkscales, Jr., T. A. Rat liffe. Jr., W. W. Sullivan and W. A. Wtson. The dlirectors then met und -hse the following officers: W. F. Cox. president; H. C. Townsend, rice pr~sident; T. A. Ratliffe. Jr., secre tarv: Quattlebaumn & Cochran, attor nevs. The new bank is capitaliized at $200,000. Grand Jury Takes Hand. Spartanburg, Special-The present ment of the grand jto-v which was tubmitted at the convening of court Saturday morning wa's of a sesational nature. inl that it iTkes special pre sentments against co)unty dispensers ber and liquor-and the county board of control, for not performing their duty and not properly carrymug out the laws. Palmetto Briefs. Batesburg is to have an annual fair after this year. It will be known as the Tri-County fair, and will repre sent the industries and resources of Lexington, Saluda and Aiken con ties, the famous Ridge section of South Carolina. The railroad commission has post poned the hearing on freight rates tc November 10. on which date a large number of the traffic and freight peo pie will appear before the commission. The hearing is for the purpose of ad justing disputes on rates in this State as compared with rates to points in Georgia. Four Centuries Since Reformation. Columbia, Special.-Suniday was observed here by the Lutheran con gregation as the four hundredth anniversary since the beginning of the reformation by Martin Luthern. Ar able address was delivered by Dr. Horneri, of Charleston. It was vern instructive arnd was highly enjoyed by the large congregation present. James Byars Killed by Madison Cook Gaffney, Special.-As a result of ar unfortunate difficulty in westerr Cherokee, near Williams school horse about 10 or 12 miles from Gaffney Saturday afternoon. James Byr is dead and Madison Cook is in jail chrzed wit is murder. Both met are vbite and were snpposed to hlavt een friends. Although there had bee ain old feud between these tw< men it was supposed to have beer IS -OR PEACE M. Witte Getting the Russians Pacificated MUCH WORK STILL AHEAD Great Efforts Being Made to Pacify the Common People and Quiet Them Down. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-Count Witte is continuing negotations with the Zemstvo Constitutionalist party with brighter prospects of at least partial success. He makes no con cealment of the fact that lie regards their support as being almost vital to the achievement of ihe task which he is undertaking. The Count is now holding a series of conferences with Prince Eugene Troubetskoy, brother of the late Prince Sergius Troubetskoy and the idol of the party whom the Count wishes to take the portfolo of education, and whith Prince Dolgo roukoff, Prof. Mili.ikoff and M. Stako vich who was summoned from Mos cow and M. Struve. editor of the Os vobojdenie, the organ of "emancipa tion," published int Paris, who arrived here recently after four years exile in the cause of freedom. The conservtive wing of the party is becoming less intransigeant in its attitude toward Count Witte, although demanding the fulfilment of certain conditions before giving him open support. The members insist primar ily on the removal of the "wolves" of the old regime as they term the governors and police officials of many provinces and cities who are not in sympathy with the new order of things and who are charged with de librately inciting the worst elements of the population with the full conni vance of the police and troops under their control to make attacts upon the "intellectuals" and Jews which have filled the country with tales of horror and bloodshed for the last ten days. This condition, Count Witte is anxious personally to meet as he fully realizes that the obnoxious officials are ob stacles in his own path. With the Count's promise to support a demand for a constituent assembly when the national assembly meets in January some are content and a distinct dis position is manifested on the part of certain leaders to hold up Count Witte's hands and work with him in the introduction of the new regime. Figures On Cotton Ginned. Washington, Special.-The census bureau issued a bulletin showing that up to Nov. 1, 6,483,646 bales of cotton had been ginned in this country. Round baies are counted as half bales. The figures are the result of telegra phic reports made by agents of the ensus bureau from all the cotton growing States. Owing to the fact that no report was made on Nov. 1. 1904, comparitive statistics are not available. The last previous report for the present year, showing results to October 18, last, gave 4,940,728 bales. The figures, according to to day's bulletin, for the various States are as follows: Alabama 815,457; Arkansas 211,113; Florida 48,218; Georgia 1,302,390; Indian Territory 135,72; Kentucky 303; Louisana 231, 24;Mississippi 510,077; Missouri 14, 181North Carolina 438,821; Okla homa 144,830; South Carolina S22, 140; Tennessee 100,247; Texas 1,692, 24S and Virginia 7,479. $50,000 Virginia Fire. Suffork, Specia .-Wcdnesday mor ning at 2 o 'clock a disasterous fire broke out in the littie town of Wha leville. Nansemond county, about ten mies fr-om here. nearly destroying tihe place. Thirty buildings wvent up in smoke and the loss will be about $50, 000, with not more than $20,000 in. surance. The fire started in the livery stables of Jno. Matthews, and in a few minutes had gained such headway that it was impossible to control the flames until everything in reach had been destroyed. There is no fire protection in the place, and water had to be taken from two streams and wells nearby. Several horses and thousands f dollars' worth of stock were con sumed. A Great Fire in Birimgham. Birmingham, Special.--Fire totally destroyed the five-story building on Twentieth street of the Moore & Han dley Hardware Comp'any. The build ing was erected at a cost of $73,000 and the stock was valued at $173,000. The two-story structure on Avenue A adjoining that of Moore & Handley nd recently occupied by the Avon dale Laundry, was also burned, the loss being $10,000. The plant of the Philip Carey Manufacturinlg Company n Avenue A was totally destroyed with the contents, the loss being esti mated at $12,000. By Wire and Cable. Count Witte is slowly prcgressing in his work to establish constitutional government and order in Russia. William T. Stead, who has just arri ved in Berline from Russia, gives his impressions of what he describes as "h-l pretty well let loose.'' Jewish residents of New York have started a movement for the relief of those who suffered by the massacres in Russia. Prince Charles of Denmark is ex peted to take oath as King of Norway th later part of this month. Mrs. Mattie M. Bly. of Winchester, was killed by a uin at Harper's Ferry. Lady Florence Dixie. writer, explo re and champion of w.omanl's iighits; is dead. Louis Fitzgerald, Jr., son of Osi. Lo s Fitzgerald, was accident ally killed by a train while returning from th Lon Is land raese. FIERCE ELECTION CONEST William Randolph Hearst Contests the New York Election, Charging Fraud By Wholesale. New York, Special.-Immediately upon the announcement of the result of the election Tuesday, Mr. Hearst gave notice of contest, and evidences of fraud have accumulated rapidly ever since. Atoorney General Mayer stated Thursday night that he had received information of the recovery from the North river of certain ballot boxes used in the election . He said the matter was under investigation. The contest over the mayoralty election, inaugurated by William Ran dolph Hearst, the Municipal Owener ship candidate, developed interesting and spectular features Thursday. For twelve hours the boxes contain ing nearly 600,000 ballots cast in last Tuesday's election choked -the streets in the vicinity of the headquarters of the board of electors in Sixth avenue between Forty-first and Forty-second streets. The ballot boxes had been gathered during the night by the police and conveyed iin patrol wagons to the election board's headquarters. There the officials refused to receive the ballot boxes and the police, acting under a court order signed by Justice Gaynor, compelling the police authori ties to sturn the ballots over to the election board, had nothing to do but remain outside and await the pleas ure of the election officials. COMPELLED TO RECEIVE BOXES Appraised of the situation the at torneys of Mr. Hearst appeared be fore Justice Dickey of the State Su preme Court, and secured from him an order compelling John R. Voorhis, president of the board of electors, to accept the boxes. The order was ser ved promptly and the ballots then ] were receipted for by the election board. Under strong guards the pat rol wagons containing the boxes were driven to various warehouses in this city and Brooklyn, where the ballots were stored subject to the orders oi the election board. State Attorney General Julius May er had a long and important confer ence with District Attorney Jerome, after which it was announced that the Attorney General's office would re main open until midnight. Superin tendent of Elections Morgan appeared before Messrs. Mayer and Jerome with six of his deputies, and placed evi dence before the prosecuting officials. Another feature of the contest was the announcement by the Citizens' Union that it would join the forces investigating the charges of fraud and wrong doing at Tuesday's election, its prime object being to secure a new election law in the State of New York. PRINTED BOGUS BALLOTS. Mr. Hearst's order was obtained from Justice Gaynor after the cir ulation of a story that a printingr irm had been turning out large num beds of fac simples of the official bal lot and that these were to be marked for McClellan and placed in the bal lot boxes in place of the Hearst bal lots to be rernoved. The moment this rumor reached Hearst headquarters it was decided that the ballot ought not to remain longer in the station houses, and the application of Justice Gaynor was made as quickly ar, the papers could be drawn up. It was reported tha+ many of the ballot boxes ini Brooklyn were not properly sealed and that their covers were merely pasted down making it possible for any person to open the box and close it again without detec tion. The law requires that the boxes be closed with wax. Among the allies aiding Hearst is William M. Ivins, the Republican can didate for mayor in Tuesday's elec tion. Mr. Ivins volunteered his services to Mr. Hearst and the offer-was ac cepted. Another attorney acting for Hearst is Judge John F. Dillion, who was at one time Judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa. Came Together on a Curve. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Special.-Five persons were killed, 10 seriously in jured and a score slightly hurt in a head-on collision between a passenger train and a coal train on the Delaware, Luckawanna & Western railroad, near Huntlock 's creek, a short distance fom this city. All of the killed were trainmen. The injuries to the passen gers were caused by the terrific force f the trains coming together, the en gine on the passenger train bein~g forced almost through the baggage car. The passenger train dashed in to the freight on a sharp curve. Father and Two Sons Must Face The Gallows. Valdosta, Ga., SpeciaL.-The sup reme court of Georgia has affirmed the decisions of the lower court in the case of the Rawlins n~en convicted of the murder of the -:wo Cartec children near here, J. G. Rawlings, the father, and two of his sons, Milton arnd Jesse, must go to the gallows, while another son, Leonard. must serve a aife sen tence in the penitentiary. Murder and Suicide. North Wilkesboro, Special.-News comes from Watauga that a man nam ed Joseph Sanders living near Virgil, whipped his wife and that she left home, going to her brother's house. The husband follov-ed her, wait ing for her appearim -mid when she came out shot her through the head. She died instantly. He then went into the ,ods -a killed hirmself. Result of Tuesday's Voting in Various States SOME CONTESTS ARE CLOSE McClellan Carries New York by Small Majority-In Pennsylvania the Machine Beaten, While Mary land Loses Its Constitutional Amendment. The result of Tuesday's elections in he States where elections were held ta fill various offices, are given in the Eollowing detailed summaries: New York City. McClellan, Democrat, is elected nayor by between 3,000 and 4,000 >urality. Jerome, independent, with lepublican endorsement, wins by bout 8,000 over James W. Osborne. Democrat. W. R. Hearst, Municipal )wnership mayoralty candidate, harges fraud and declares he will -ontest McClellan's election. Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. A landslide buried the disreputable lepublican machine under an adverse najority of 60,000 to 70,000 City Par ;y sweeping the city. There were few r disturbances thand bad been ex ,ected. Berry, Democrat, with inde )endent endorsement carries the State !or Treasurer. Maryland. The defeat of the Poe disfranchise nent amendment by 20,000 is indicat d, and election of Republican candi late for State comptroller. Legisla ure is in doubt. Ohio. Fiht on Governor Herriek resulted n a Democratic landslide, the plural ty being estimated as high as 60,000. Democrats carried Cincinnati as well is Cleveland. "Boss" Cox announces is retirement. Virginia. The Democratic plurality is about 0,000, showing a reduction, and the Republicans gain about nine members f the legislature. Massachusetts. Guild, Republican, carries the State or Governor by 29,435 plurality, and Draper, for Lieutenant Governor, by 3nly 3,942. Kentucky. Democrats will have a good major ty in the legislature electing Senator Blackburn's successor. The Demo ratie ticket in Louisville is elected with the possible exception of the ninor places. Rhode Island. Republicans elect Geo. H. Utter, for' (overnor, and gain in the legislature. Chicago. Clean sweep by Republicans. Reut nNew York. New York, .Special.-Returns are complete in Greater New York in the Nlayorality contest with the exception f 51 election districts scattered hrough the city. The vote on these eturns gives McClellan, Democrat, ~21,15; Hearst, Municipal Ownership, l,657, Ivins, Republican. 132,317, a >lrality for McClellan of 3,158. Whipped the Machine. Philadelphia, Special-Philadelphia has been swept by the reform move ent, the City Party ticket winning by a suprisingly large plurality. While eturns from only six of the 42 wards~ in this city had been counted up to midnight; enough is known of the re uit ini tihe remaining wards to indi ate the defeat of the Republican lo ral ticket by from 60,000 to 75,000 plurality. Saw Father Murder Child Knoxville, Special.-James Winsted as been confined to jail at Rogers ile, Tenn., for several weeks on the charge of having murdered his own child. The evidence against him, whieh wa purely circumstantial, was to have been heard this week in court. Winsted 's wife, a sufferer from con umiptio,. while lying on her death bed, has just made a confession that s saw the crime committed, the girl being her stepchild. End of Suit-Case Mystery. Boston, Special-What is confident y believed to be the head of Susanna A. Geary, the dress suit case victim was recovered in a leather handbag from the botton of the harbor Sunday. [ was dragged to the surface very near the point where Lewis W. Craw ford and Win. Howvord. who have con fesed to disposing of the dismember ed body of the girl, said they dropped itfrom the stern of an East Boston ferry boat. The head completes the bod of the girl. Patterson's Case Contined. Richmond, Special.-The case of W. W. Patterson, the young white man of Hnrico, charged with criminally as saulting Miss Cora Crittenden, was continued in the Henrico court until the January term Patterson was ar rested October 2 and released on $1,500 bail ar Condctor F'alls and Dies Under Wheels. ampa, Fla., Special.-Thomlas Hughes, white, 23 years old, a con dutor on a trolley line running be teen st. Petersburg and Pass Grlle, fell between the ear and the traler and the wheels passed over hi body. Hughes died soon after lwig taken to St. Petersburg. luzh wa~s from New York, where his- pet ar sid to~ be prominent. ENGLISH POOR DESPERATE Enormous Crowds March to Munici pal Offices, Where Premier Balfour Makes a "Speech of Despair" to Deputation of 30-Starting of In dustries at National Expense De precated by Premier. London, By Cable.-The desperate condition of the poor of London was brought to the notice of Premier Bal four by a remarkable deputation of the wives and other women relatives of the unemployed who did not hesi tate to tell the Premier that unless something is speedily done to lessen their sufferings there would be blood shed. "Don't forget that hungry men are desperate men," said one of :he speakers, who all had the same tale to tell of husbands out of work and starving wives and children. Enor mous crowds of women from all parts of London marched through the streets headed by a deputation which Mr. Balfour received at the offce of the local government board.. Only thirty of the women were admitted to the presentee of Mr. Balfour. The Premier was very sympathetic. He acknowledged that the evil was very real, but he had little to suggest in the way of alleviation except an ex pression of hope that public charity would come to the aid of the unem ployed. He deprecated the socialistic suggestion that industries should be started at the national expense for the benefit of the unenployed as calculated to destroy the springs of enterprise and energy of the nation. At the close of Mr. Balfour's "speech of despair" as the delegates described it, Mrs. Crooks, wife of Williams Crooks, a- Labor party mem ber of the House of Commons, and several other women excitedly invit ed Mr. Balfour to come and live among them for a few months. The Premier remarked that he was quite aware that nothing he had said could be other than disappointing. They had his genuine sympathy and he felt most acutely the magnitude of the evil from which they were, suffer mng. A mass meeting of the women was held later to hear the report. of the delegation. Mr. Crr Iks, M. P., said that Mr. Balfour's reply to the dele lation was unworthy of the Premier of a great country. The mention of Mr. Balfour's name was greeted with a storm of hisses. Havana in Unsanitary Condition. Washington, Special.-Senator Cul lom, Ilinois, chairman of the foreign relations committee. called on the President to lodge complaints against the Cuban governrn ent for not keeping its promise to ma ': i the city of Havana in a sanita condition. He said that he had been informed by a number of business men that the Cu bans had built no sewerage system since the Americans evacuated and American residents fear an epidemic will be the consequence. Cars Crash in Knoxville. Knoxville, Special.-A car loaded with paving material collided with an incoming suburban electric car Friday afternoon on West Main Avenue, op posite the University of Tennessee campus. Nine persons. all living here were injured. James Varner, motor man, may die. Among the others hurt are: Mrs. R. E. L. Mounteastle, vein in throat severed; and W. S. Shields. president City National Bank, cut on head. The accident occurred at the bottom of two hills. It is claimed that the brakes on the work car failed to No More Tolls On Little Kanawha Parkersburg, Specia.-The Little Kar.awha river, wvhich has been con rolled for 40 years by a corporation which exacted toll on all passengers and freight, was Friday turned over to the United States under purchase recently made, and from now on wil be a free river. New locks and a dam will be built to improve navigation. Killed By Gas Explosion. Detroit, Mich., Special.-A news pecial from Ishpeing, Mich., says three children are dead and thirteen people are injured, one fatally, as the result of an explosion here Sunday which completely destroyed the Min ers' National Bank. The dead: Ste ven Goodman, aged 12 years. Alice McGee aged 10 years. Edward Mc Grath, aged 12 years. James F. Mul len was fatally injured. .A gas leak age in the basement of the bank build ing was primarily responsible for the eploionl and loss of life. The News in Brief. The head presumably of Susan A. Geary the suit-case victim, was found in Boston harbor in a hand-tag weighted with shot, exactly as des cribed by the men who admitted dis posing of the body. A supplemntary report of the con dition of the Equtable Life.Assuranlce Sciety on .iune :30, 1905. was issued by Supnendent of Insurance, Hen dricks. of New York. A plan for Federal control of nar atine in Southern States is to be sub mitted to the Chattanooga Quaran tine and immigration Convention fox Rev. Dr. Ingram N. W. Irvine whom Bshow Ethelbert Talbot of the Pro test ant Episcopal church, unfrocked ater a prolonged controversy. was ordained a priest of thie Orthodos Green church. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefellel attended church in New York, hearing srnoanemnatory of bridgi LARGE OUTLAY Sixteen Million Dollars More for Coast Defences FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS Chief of Engineers MaKenzie's Re port Makes Estimates, in Addition to $23,693,434 Already Expended, For Construction of Sea Coast For tification. Washington, Special.-Sixteen mil lion dollars will be necessary to com plete the engineering work of fortifi cations of the sea cast of the United States under plans of the Endicott board. according to the report of Brigadier General Alexander McKen zie, chief of enzineers. There has al ready been appropriated for this pur pose $2S,603.434. Permanent projects at 31 diferent points have been adopted and most of them are well under way. These points include: Baltimore, Washington, Hampton. Roads. entrance to Chespeake -Bay at Cape Henry, Cape Fear river, Char leston, Port Royal,' Savannah,' SC John's River, Key West, Tampa Ba, Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans end~ Galveston. The defense of the Great Lakie ai the St. Lawrence river is under con sideration. The estimate for the completion of these fortifications does not contem plate anything more than the projects outlined by the Endicott board. Modern appliances and additional pro jeets which may be adopted by4he Taft board appointed last summer and the fortifications of the insular possessions may increase the esti mates when additional work is ap proved by Congress. It is estimated that $4,263,364 will be required -to put into execution by the engineer de partment the schemes of the artillery and signal corps for control of the sea cost.defenses. The reconstruction of the works de stroped by the storm og 1900 at Gal veston is nearly completed, but the barracks and quarters and other post buildings which must be located at Forts Travis and San Jacinto are nz-. protected, as well as range-finder sta tions and other engineer accessories. Work has been progressing on the fortifications for the defenses: of Ma nila Bay and Subig Bay, Philippine Islands, and at the naval station'at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and for the purchase of sites for. fortifications in Hawaii. N'egotations have been continued for the acquisition of a tract at Mo bile, Ala., and another near Charls.. ton, S. C. The total estimatesifor fortification works under the engineer deartment for the fiscal year 1904 amount to $11,424,153, including' $1, 33,953 for sea wall defenses at Gal eston, Tex. Defenses of insular possessions: Sea coast batteries, Manilla, $2. 000, ;sea coast batteries, Subig Bay, Phillpine Islands, $500,000; harbor Hawaii, $520,000; procurement of land for sites for defenses of the Ha waiian Islands, $326,100. Expenditures on river and harbor improvements in the United States reached $22,383,623. This does not in lude $2,265,073 under the Mississippi river commission. No estimates are made this year for river and harbor' improvements save those provided for nder continuing contracts. This amounts to $17,456,801. An estimate of $2,000,000 for the ississippi river commission is made he estimates for the continuing of contracts include the following: Deleware river, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, $1,000,000; Savannah arbor, Ga., $210,000 ; St. John's riv er, Floriada, $309,750; Hilsboro Bay, Florida, $3tS,350; Black Warrior and fombigbee rivers, Ala., $603,466; Southwest Pass, Mississippi river, $500,000;. South Pass, Mississippi riv or, $50,000; Bayou Plaquemine, Lou isiana, $100,000; Galveston harbor, Texas, $230,000; Galveston ship chan nel, Texas, $200,000; Cumberlan4 riv or above Nashville, Tenn., $200,000; Tennessee river, Chattanooga, Tenn. to Riverton, Ala., $240,000. Finns Get Self-Government. St. Petersburg,By Cable-The mani festo of Emperor Nicholas granting the demands of the Finns -has been signed and dispatched to Helsingfors. t convokes the Diet on Deeember 20, abolishes the dictatorship, rescinds Governor General Bobrokoff's illegal entments, annuls the manifesto of F'ebruary 15th, 1809., which provided for common legislation in the empire, and all the laws since enacted. It announces that the extraordinary Diet now convoked is for the revision of the Diet's electoral basis. Powerful Forces to Hold Down Fin nish Capital. Hesingfors, Finland, By Caske. Three Russian battleships, a crmiser and 10.000 troops have arrived here from Revel. The warships are an-. chored in the harbor. Batteries hare been placed on two eommariding l1~ outside the town and "the canponain the Sceabog fortress have been 'turned against the city, which also lies under the guns of the warships. Engine Boiler Exploded. Dallas. Texas. Speial-AX wreck oc curred on th'e Hudson and Texas C,?n tral railroad near En:;is early Satur day. Brakeman Gleuin was' killed out riht and En'ineer Davenport and Ficimnr Tr' er p:-oba'bly were fatally inired. AV .n. r tramn rnmn-7lrl