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DEMAND it CONSTITUTION Zemstvoists Make Direct Election a Condition For Their Support. SEVERE BLOW TO COUNT WITTE He is Amazed at the Vote of the Zemstro Congress? Dismisses GoTernor to Please the People?Professional Patriots Fought to Block Sense of the Congress, But Failed. ' Moscow, Russia.?Defiance of Count rWLtte's underhaud opposition to the will of the masses while pretending to be their friend was voiced by the Zemstvo Congress when it demanded . that a constitution be framed by the first Douma, and that the members of that body be elected directly by all the people as the double price of the support which in the same resolution it promised to the I aperial Government. In other words, without specifically at taciiing tne l'remier. ^lt exposed me shallowness of liis deceptive policy by insisting on tlie very points he most opposed, making them in effect the conditions of its co-operation with him to save the tottering throne of the Romautoffs. luissia must have a constitutional monarchy, and that constitution must be drawn by tne first popular assembly. Such is the ultimatum f the Zemstvoists. That action is regarded as one of the worst blows Witte has received in the whole of his career. Prince Eugene Troubetskoy, Count Heyden and other professional patriots playing at popular government, fought stubbornly to block the sense of the Congress in respect of the resolution making the foregoing demands. The practical men among the Zemstvoists seemed to realize that in debating with these noblemen they were dealing with dilettanti who, if permitted to do so, .would fritter away this grand opportu' nity to assert the might of the nation <1 en in at that nf tlif? Rmnprnr Reasonable respect was shown to the Prince and the Count while they aired their opinions, but when it was seen they were trying not -only to sugar the pill for Nicholas, but to turn the medicine into its own antidote, the subtle courtiers of imperial favor under the guise of constitutional principles were promptly voted down. The leaders of the congress went further. At the suggestion of the Executive Committee they inserted a provision subjecting all Ministers save those of the court to the responsibility of the Cabinet. Mr. Mulikoff explained that if the Ministers of War. Navy and Foreign Affairs could run amuck through the interests of the people by declaring ;war or peace or martial law at will the constitution would become a farce. ', Hold Wilte Responsible. ' It was rdade ^lain the congress was no riot of demagogy, however, when the Executive Committee rejected Professor Kovalevsky's amendment creating a committee of Zemstvoists to advlca fha Pramior nnnH i n or AAnrantiAn of the Douma. The committee intimated full responsibility for the peace of the nation and the rights of the people must rest on Count Wltte's ambitious shoulders until he could shift it to those of the Douma members, who iwould take care of it satisfactorily? to the real friends of Russia. At the same time the committee showed it did not purpose letting Prince Troubetskoy nor a hundred like Lira make fools of the Zemstvoists, for iwhen he tried to have the significant rvvords "precious conquest of the people" in the reference to the imperial manifesto of October 30 stricken out in favor of "precious acquisition" his palpable truckling to the Czar was re- 1 jeeted summarily. Little attention was 1 paid to the dismal warning of Mr. Karauloff, a one-time revolutionist who 1 ,was a Siberian exile for two dozen j years, that by making the Douma a 1 oonstituent assembly the Zemstvoists 1 iwould "precipitate a struggle with the 1 t forces of anarchy aud plunge the country into a sea of blood." It was re- j marked sarcastically that the re- ] formed revolutionist had looked between prison bars so long he couldn't adjust his perspective to the new order of things. Vote Amazes Count Witte. St. Petersburg, Russia.?Consterna- , tion was discernible iu Count Witte's ! manner when be learned tbe Zernst- . .voists shook off his check rein and .went straight at national reform along j the paths he had piled high with obstar } cles. The Premier, who promises peace and plenty to thte people while , his agents in Warsaw and elsewhere , order their Cossacks to shoot down pa- J triots without mercy, manifestly was ., taken aback by the insurrection of the congress. He was amazed to learn that his pet aversion in the Executive { Committee's program, the direct ballot, had been passed by a two-thirds majority over the heads of his henchmen and lobbyists. Attempts were made to spread here the impression that tbe Premier personally favored both a constitution and universal direct suffrage, but ap- i parently that did not deceive the in- ] telligent. It is known the best Witte . iwould do for the people, if he had his'1 way, would be to give a direct ballot j to dwellers in large cities and rnaue all j other Russians vote for electors to choose their representatives iu the < .Douma. Premier Witte made a show of concession to the popular den?aud by dismissing the Governors of Yaroslav, Estland, Perm. Tomsk, Kazan and Neidyart and the Prefect of Odessa. Negro Murders Three. John Brown, a negro, formerly of .Diruiuiguuiu, 5uoc uuu Kiueu 1115 wue and her father and mother .at their home in Meriden. Miss., and escaped. New Governor of Finland. Privy Councilor Nicholas N. Gerhard has been appointed Governor-General of Finland by Premier Witte. Election Suits in Kentucky. Foi;ty suits .contesting the recent election of every official in two couu* ties were begun in Louisville, Ky. Newsy Gleanings. Eugene Field day was generally observed in the Missouri schools. The schoolgirls of San Francisco. Cal., have taken kindly to the bareheaded habit. The taxpayers of Eastern Londcta are complaining bitterly of the rigor of the assessment. Great plans, are being laid in Eugland to make the young men of that island good rifle shots. The Italian Government olfera a prize of $2000 for the plan of a dwelling best suited to the climatic-conditions of Italy. % ESTIMATE OF POSTOFFICE Postmaster-General Cortelyou Makes His Annual Report' Account* Asked of the Treamry Depart* ment to Run Our l'ontal Service For tlie Year. Washington, D. C.?Postraastor-Uenera I Cortelyou receutly completed and forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury the estimates for the Tostoffice Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907. They-slww a reduction of expenses wherever it is\|>elieved it will not impair the service, but provision is made for development of postal facilities to meet the growing needs of all sections of the country. The amount asked for salaries in the department proper is $1,401,250, an apparent increase of $01,990 over the current appropriation; but as $58,300 of this is simply a transfer from other appropriations, the net increase is only $3090. The estimate submitted for next year is $44,020 less than the estimate submitted one year ago. Tb% I P 4- li sv A ..frr\nr?f + vicinal r sjl iuc ucimiiajcm, iuviv\fore, will remain practical!}' as it now is during the next fiscal year. The estimates for the postal service at large?the lield service?aggregate $193,000,000, an increase over last year's appropriation of about $12,000,000. This increase represents the normal growth of the service, based upon what the postal ^authorities regard as the most careful and conservative estimates. Each succeeding year sees a large increase in the business of the department. The principal items in the increase are the rural delivery service. railway mail service, compensation to postmasters and their clerks, and the compensation of letter carriers. For the maintenance of the rural delivery service, and its proper extension. more than $29,000,000 will be required. The estimates for the railway mail service and railway mail transportation call for an increase of about $3,600,000 over the current appropriation. To provide for the compensation of postmasters and cler'ts in postoffices an increase of nearly $2,000,000 will be necessary for the coming year; and for the competition of city letter car risers an increase of more ttian $yuu,ouu will be needed. That the extension of the pneumatic tube service is contemplated is shown by the fact that the estimate carries $322,000 more than the current appropriation. A number of other an<J comparatively minor increases have been asked for in order to allow for the natural expansion of the service, and to meet the constant demand for improved postal facilities. Curtailment has been recommended wherever possible, and mauy decreases are shown. TO PUNISH OYSTER BOATS.'"1 Crews Thrown Overboard When They ' Refuse to Work, It Is Alleged. Philadelphia, Pa.?Outlawry has so increased on the Chesapeake Bay oyster boats that the President has been appealed to by the relatives of men shanghaied aboard the fleet and thrown overboard or killed. Captain of Detectives Donagby has* written to the Commissioner of Navigation at Washington and ;to Attorney-Geueral Carson at Harrisburg appealing to the authorities. Mrs. James McCabe, who believes her husband as murdered by the oyster men, has addressed a communication to President Roosevelt direct. In response to all these calls it may be predicted that a revenue cutter will soon be steamiug up to th* fleet and giving the oyster boats the examination they need, releasing the men who bave been shipped irregularly or forced iboard the boats. Peter Barnes, one of the agents who lias employed oystermen in Philadelphia. and who is alleged to bave had a hand 4n shanzhaine both James Mc Cabe and William Clark?both reported dead?has disappeared. Along the water-front streets of Pliilidelphia men have been kidnaped boldly and carried ofjj to Baltimore. Ihey are first filled with liquor, and easy jobs on the oyster boats are offered mem at $22 a month and found. When intoxicated the men are gathered together in tens and twenties and taken to the Baltimore and Ohio station. When they arrive in Baltimore a "black Maria" is backed up to the train and the meu are clubbed into it. They art carried to -the wharves and put aboard the oyster boats, and in a iew hours they find themselves tossing idout tne uueasapeatce. Once out on the bay, working with the oyster tongs and dredges, the men ire treated with all the brutality of the sld-time slave ship or the most rascally modern lime-juicer. The men when they refuse to work, it is said, are murdered aud thrown overboard. TUSKS SOR PRESIDENT. Also Gets Letter From Emperor Menelik Which Cannot Be Read. Washington, D.C.?Two elephant tusks of hue ivory and a-fine lion's skin, presents from Menelik, Emperor of Abyssinia, were given President Roosevelt by El Hadji Abdullah Bash, Minister of Commerce of Abyssinia, who is touring the United States. El Hadji also laid before tfce President a letter of greetings from his august master, written on the royal stationery in the Abyssinia language, which nobody in Washington could read. Even El Hadji's interpreter, who talks Arabic, but not Abyssinian, was floored. STEAMER SEEN TO BLOW UP. Tragedy Near Halifax Witnessed by Another Vessel's Crew. Halifax, N. S.?The captain of the 3teamer Kilkeel, which arrived here,' reports that he saw au unknown twomasted steamer blow up and disappear fiftv miles past of Halifax. * Hottentot Leader Dead. Hendrik Wittboi, a daring leader ofc the Hottentot rebels in German West Africa, is dead. Prominent People. The Kaiser puts in twelve hours of work, a day. King Edward likes nothing belter than a game of bridge. The Kaiser haa on only one occasion visited the French capital. The Bishop of London, Dr. Ingram, is denouncing race suicide. Senator Piatt says he intends to di< with his business suit on. Signor Caruso, the famous tenor, is a gifted black and white artist. Lord Roberts arises at ten minutes to 6 both winter and summer. OIE IH BLAZING WRECK' Montreal Express, on Boston and Maine, Hits Local Train. t COLLISION DUE TO THICK FOG Of the Dead a Dozen Were FaAaengerA iR Two Rear Cars of the Local Train? 1 Heary Weather Hid Lights of the 1 Standing Train?Quick Rescue by Survivors-^Only Few of Dead Identified Lincoln, Mass.?Sixteen persons wore killed, twenty-five were badly injured, aud probably a score of others received minor hurts in a railroad wreck which occurred at 8.15 o'clock at night at Ba- ! ker's Bridge Station, a mile and a half west of Lincoln, on the main line of the Fitchburg Division of the Boston and Maine Railroad. The regular night express which left Boston at 7.43 o'clock for Montreal, by way of the Rutland system, crashed into the rear of an accommodation traiu bound for point.-, on th* Marlboro branch line, and which started from Boston at 7.1H o'clock. Of the dead a dozen were passengers in the two rear cars of the Marlboro traiu. The other two were Engineer Barnard, of the Montreal, express, aud his fireman. No passenger on the express was injured. Of those who 2ost their lives a number were apparently killed instantly in the collision, while others were either burned to death by the Are which ensued, or died from suffocation. A nnrtial lie)- rtT tho rlonrl is na fnl. lows: William J. Barris, Maynard. I Three-year-old child of Mr. Barris. Eugene Barnard, engineer of the Montreal train. ? Lyons, fireuian of the Montreal train. Anna Plillbridge. aged flvo years. Acton; died in Pullman car of tlie express shortly after being taken from wreckage. Daniel Weatherbe. Acton. May Campbell, Maynard. c May Collins, Concord Junction. a Nellie Sweeney, Concord. a Magano, Concord. a Seven unidentified bodies. t On account of the heavy traffic the a local train was_delayed, and it was x about six minutes behind time when it c stopped at the little- station. It ^ras b known that the Montreal express was t due. and persons who were at the sta- f tiou say that a ti$.iBman was sent back p to set a torpedo and a red light. $ The night was unusually dark, part- e ly owing to a dense mist which came a up the Sudbury River. According to a ;those at the station at the time, the p light had not been f?et more thau a d minute before the roar of a heavy s train around the curre a short distance t from the station was heard. Within a p few secoads the headlight of au on- e rushing locomotive penetrated the mist and the two ponderous engines of the, f express train traveling at an estimated 0 speed of thirty-three miles an hour, b with nine cars behind tuem. crashed v Into the local train. $ The impact was so-terrific that it was e heard by persons living a mile distant, n rhe leading locomotive telescoped the a rear car of the Marlboro train and the a second engine forced the demolished o mass against the third car of the local r and completely wrecked it. In those p two cars al! but two of the fatalities , occurred and practically all of the inju- , p ries. . . . n The forward locomotive of the Mon- 1 treat train was destroyed. The engine r following, although considerably dam- a aged, did not leave the rails. One of 1 the cars of (lie express was thrown " from the track, but the collision appar- r ently had little effect upon the passen- t j gers. They stated afterward that the I shock was comparatively slight. Passengers from l>oth trains, railroad a employes and Villagers rushed to the v wrecked cars aud assisted many per- o sons to escape. d After some delay messages were sent t to Boston, Waltham and Concord for doctors, nurses, surgical appliances and wrecking trains. Several of the bodies were badly disfigured. E The majority of those injured were women. ; All the sixteen bodies have been taken from the wreck. Three of the six- t teen were alive when taken out, but b death ensued soon afterward. b e Lieut. McClelland arrested. ? ii Shortage of $440 in Company Funds * Kept by Army Officer. if Spokane, Wash. ? First Lieutenant' 1 Donald C. McClelland, of Company E. * Tenth United States Infantry, is undei r arrest at Fort Wright, charged with * conduct unbecoming an officer. An in, c restigatiou of the company's accounts r disclosed a shortage of $440. The fuuda c were deposited in a Spokane bank td * the credit of Lieutenant M<;CIellaud. a The lieutenant is a patient in the 0 post hospital. He is suffering from I1 self-inflicted wounds made while he was shaving* One of the slashes in the v neck severed a small" artery. LieutenJ ? ant McClelland rose from the ranks. * He enlisted in New York and saw T service in Cuba and the Philippines. ^ The McCurdys Out. Richard A. McCurdy. President of the Mutual Life, of New York City, his son Robert and his son-in-law Tliebaudi ^ liave resiened their positions with the company. Sailors Rise in Mutiny* Four thousand sailors at Sebastopol c mutinied, being joined by a regiment g of troops. To Celebrate in Japan. Great preparations are being made in Japan to celebrate tbe return, of tbe ( Manchuriau armies. New Servian Loan. A new Servian loan of $14,000,000 at j eighty-one, with four and a half par T cent, interest, was issued. ^ Battleship Exceeds Contract. . j The battleship Virginia exceeded her l contract speed in a four-hour run on c tbe Cape Ann course. With the Toilers. The resumption of work in the tin f and Sheet mills of the country cofltin ues. Every affiliated union in the Los Angeles (Cal.) Buildings Trades Council lias unanimously voted for the weekly assessment. Efforts of certain labor leaders to organize the laundi.' workers of Washington, D. C., are said to be gradually meeting with success. Journeyman barbers in the City of. Mexico will strike if the master barbers cut the percentage of receipts from firty to forty per cent. > WEALTH OF OUR FARMS | Production this Year Reaohed $6,415,000,000, Secretary Wilson Says., { Cern, 3,708,000,000 Bunhels?Three Other Crops With New Hl;h Values? Criticism For Trailer*. 1 Washington, D. C.?Secretary Wilson < of tbe Department of Agriculture lias sent to the President his annual report. In it the Secretary says that it is gratifying to present evidence of the unprecedented prosperity which has rewarded the diligence of the farmer and the efforts of his department. v A year of unequalled prosperity has , been added to the most remarkable series of similar years that has come 1 to the farmers of this country. Farm crops have never before been harvested s it such a high general level of produc- } tion and value. Corn has reached its highest production, over 2,700,000,000 1 bushels, of a total estimated value of c ? 1.216,000,000. Hay comes second, f ivith a value of $005,000,000. Cotton = s expected to yield $375,000,000. The ?hort wheat crop of last year is fol- J owed by one of 084,000,000 bushels, j ind its value, $525,000,000, overtops the ' lighest value ever before reached. A Anltr An a nrnn nArii ro a r?h p*l ita lighest production this year, four * ;rops?corn, hay, wheat and rlee? 1 eached their highest value. No crop * >ut corn produces the income that the r lairy cow does. The estimate of the " t'alue of dairy products for 1905 \ eaches $605,000,000. The farmer's hen 1 ompetes for precedence with wheat, 2 >oultry products aggregating $500,000,- 1 K)0 in value. The Secretary thus summarizes the J >osition of farmers: * "If the farmers' economic position c n the United States is to be condensed 8 0 a short paragraph, it may'be said ' hat their farms produced this year ' vealth valued at $0,415,000,000; that c arm products are yearly exported ] vith a port value of $875,000,000; that ' armers have reversed an adverse in- a ernational balance of trade, and have >een building up one favorable to this * ountry by sending to foreign nations J 1 surplus which in sixteen years has t iggregated $12,000,000,000, leaving an J ipparent net. balance of trade during } hat time amounting to .$5,002,000,000 1 Kn)nn/k(\ a?a<nof mnn. I IJLltrr Uil uuvtioc uaiaucc u^uiuot Uiuuifacture's and other products not agriuitural, amounting to $543,000,000, has ' >een offset. The manufacturing indus- ( ries that depend upon faTm products ^ or raw material employed 2,154.000 >ersons in 1900 and used a capital of J 4,132,000,000. Within a decade farm- 1 rs liave become prominent as bankers ' nd as money lenders throughout large * reas, and during the last five years 3 irosperous conditions and the better lirected efforts of the farmers them- r elves have increased the value of J heir farms thirty-three and one-half 1 >er cent., or an amount approximately * qual to $0,133,000,000.*' < The value of horses and mules on arms excedeed last winter $1,452,000,- J 00. Milch cows are advancing in num- * lers and are worth $482,000,000. The ? alue of all other cattle is estimated at 1 662,000,000. Sheep are declining in lumber and total value, while swine s aaintain their previous position and \ re valued at over $283,000,000. In the J ggregate, the value of farm animals } f all sorts has increased over that :iven in the census of 1900 by nine ? ter cent. . ^ Speaking of the growth of the De? * artment, the Secretary reports the * lumber of persons on the rolls July 1, , 3 905, to be 5440. Of these, 2326 are ' ated as scientists and scientific assist nts. ' e In dealing with the crop report# * leak" Secretary Wilson, after refer-' J ing to the "gross breach of frust on L he part of one of the employes of the ? bureau of Statistics," continues: "This Department acted with vigor * nd dispatch when it got evidence of T rrong-doing on the part of its own 0 fflcials, but we have no' evidence of 0 isciplinary or preventive action at the raders* end of the line." 0 J _____ T SENDING OUT THE SEEDS. Apartment of Agriculture Has 38,000,- * 000 Packages For Distribution. * ^ Washington, D. C.?The annual dis- t ribution of vegetable and flower seeds t y the Department of Agriculture has t egun, and before.-planting time it is e xpected that the whole amount, ag- i regating 38,000,000 packages, will be s ii the hands of the people in all sec- li ions of the country. t The bulk of the 38,000,000 packages ^ XK. J T 5 SUUjec'l li> lue ui:uei"? ul oewaiuiai nuu i tepresentatives for distribution among p heir constituents, the Secretary of Agiculture reserving one-flftli of the enIre amount to supply the statistical rop correspondents, the Weather Bu-? rj eau, and for other purposes. The ountry has been divided into six secions, with especial regard to climate nd soils, arid the seeds will be sent F uly to those localities to which their s ropagation and growth are believed to tl >e especially adapted. In addition to b egetable and flower seeds the Depart- i< aent seuds out quantities of cotton, tl orage and field seeds to localities to o rhich they are best suited, and from 'o /hich it is thought good results may ie obtained. JEWS KILLED AT ROSTOFF. A thousands of Others Financially Ruined During the Disorder. Washington, D. C.?The State De- g tartment has received advices, through b, onsular sources telling of the killing fl ?f fifteen Jews and the wounding of C] everal others at JRostoff-on-the-Don. tl PHYSI-CIAN AND SON INSANE. s 3onditiou Attributed to Use of Cocaine and Opium For Rheumatism. Marion, Ind.?Dr. C. C. Cronkhite, a V >hysiclau of this city, and his son, L burton, twenty-five years old, a grad- ei tate of Purdue University, were both! f< leclared insane in Justice Holman's r; lourt, and werp confined in the county, oi ail by Sheriff Mills. They admitted,' p laving been users of cocaine and cl ipium for rheumatism. ol le In the Public Eye. The Saltan of Morocco has a well >rganized army of 20,000 men. Charles F. Herreshoff designed the C Toquois, that defeated the Fife. > Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has re-' iigned the leadership of his Bible class, in Salt Lake City owes her new public! w ibrary to John Q. Packard, a modest 01 >1(1 miner. ?j Count Tolstoi, for the time ai least,- ^ las given up reading magazines and; w lewspapers. George Washington, colored, was tlae; ?' ,'ounder of the town of Centralia, State 1? >f Washington. * ^ : - -x- x . ? . ^ HE DKE 6RAF1 " * ^ew Exposures in the Investigations of the Armstrong Committee, .AWYER HUGHES STILL AT 11 leorge W. Perkins Makes Rovelatloni Itezardlnjt Private Transactions in New York Life Insurance Securities? President McCall Also Testifies?8700,000 in Bonds Borrowed Fran Compso] New York City.?President McCall, ^ice-President Perkins and other oficers of the New York Life testified xjfore the Armstrong insurance comnittee. In one year t$700,000 of non-taxable lecurities were removed from the vaults of the insurance company and cept out for several days. A cashier's heck of the Central National Bank or tiie above r.mount was depositee! n the vaults in exchange. The inference drawn at the hearing was that he transaction was carried through o enable some institution or individuals to evade the paying of taxes. The $50,000 which J. P. Morgan & 3o. paid to Judge Andy Hamilton and leducted from the New;, York Life's irofils in the United States steel cor>oration syndicate was never entered is a debit in the life insurance comlany's books. President McCall testlied he had no detailed knowledge is to what had been done with the noney. That $40,000 which -was paid to Jeorge W. Perkins on the Kidder, 'eabody & Co. loan transaction waa leposited by Mr. Perkins in his peronal bank account. Other moneys eceived, by him for the. benefit of tylic, the New York Life's agency organization, were treated in the same vay, a statement of the amount due he organization being made annuilly. Mr. Perkins is one of the three trusees of Nylic. No regular separate <Iylic accounts were kept by him. Alhough the New York Life's money vas used to make the $40,000 menioned above, Mr. Perkins denied that t belonged to the life insurance com)any. The name of Edward E. McCall, a jrother of the New York Life's preslient, wow a Supreme Court justice, vas brought into the investigation. iVhen counsel for the New York Life 1 e signed notes-on which Andy HainIton got money, and he helped in naking the "payment of"$85,000 to the Republican National Committee in .900. It was almost at the c'.ose of the ifternoon session when Mr. Hughes, wrnsel for the committee, brought out he facts in regard to the removal oi he New York Life's non-taxable selurities. Cashier Theodore M. Banta volunarily told of the transfer of thfe Securiies when Mr. Hughes asked him in a teneral way if ue knew of any irreguarities in the company. The transaction occurred, the witness aid, either in 1901 or 1902. The securiies removed, from the vaults were few York City bonds. Treasurer Randolph - took them from the vault. Che witness could not say on whose irder Randolph acted or to whom the ccurlties were delivered. The transacion occurred either at- the close of he yeat or at the opening of a ndw ear. mu _ r% 1 1 aVaaI. xue oeiiiriu r>uuunui jouuu. *.-ucv;t? rhicb-was substituted was put in the nvelope which contained the securiies. This check was not banked and vas taken up when the securities were trought back a few days later. The :hcck was the only receipt for the >onds. While the bonds were out of he New York Life's possession, the witness declared, they still remained >n its books as part of the company's ssets. "Was it about the time when the wnership of New York City bonds vas valuable for personal taxes?" sked Mr. Hughes. "Yes," was the witness' ceply. The witness thought that a transacion similar to mis had been carried hrough once before, while Mr. Gibbs yas treasurer. The witness said that he New York Life didn't Have to pay axes, and if some person had the >onds, why, lie would, of course, be xempted to. the amount of his holdugs in those securities. Mr. Banta aid that he knew that Mr. Randolph iad intimated that he didn't approve his practice. President McCall and Vice-President 'erkins were on the stand the greater art of the day.. * SULTAN YIELDS. 'urkish Ruler Gives Way Before European Powers. Vienna. Austrian ? The Neue Freie 'resse published a dispatch from Contantinople saying that the Sultan, tirough Tewfik Pasha, Foreign Minis?r, has announced to Baron von Cal:e, Ambassador of Austria-Hungary, tiat Turkey accedes to the demands f the Powers regarding the financial Dntrol of Macedonia. PEASANTS' CONGRESS IN JAIL. l11 ihe Delegates at Moscow Have Been Put Under Arrest. Moscow, Russia.?The president and 11 the members of the peasants' conress, which was in session here, have een arrested under the, existing modied martial law. The prisoners inlude M. Tchirikoff, a well-known aujor. ACCUSE RECTOR OF FRAUD. outh Dakota Clergyman Charged With Illegal Fencing. Cnaha, Neb?The Rev. George G. yare, an Episcopal clergyman of ead, S. D., was indicted in the Fed:al Court here charged with illegally mriug 150,000 acres of Government inge land. Mr. Ware is chief owner f the U. B. I. ranch, but fills his pulIt regularly in Lead. He is also larged with inducing a number of thers to make illegal filings and reuse them to his ranch company. LYNCHED AFTER PRAYER. onfessed That He Had Been an Accomplice iu Crime. New Orleans, La.?Monroe B. Willms, colored, was lynched one mile est of Tangipahoa, La., by a number F white men upon his own confession c a crime recently committed upon [rs. Rhoda George, an aged white oman. Tlie negro held to the last that Nop?y Knighten, now in jail in New Or:ans, actually assaulted Mrs. George. Williams was allowed to pray for thirr minutes before his execution. , ' . * * . - v. \ ' ' ' V f;' " , Going Same. "Lightning sure acts strange." "Yes?" "Yes; a streak of it came in ow kitchen door yesterday, struck two chairs and the table, ran around the dining-room, up the stairs, tore through every upstairs room, and finally went out of the window. I near died laugh ing." "You must have thought it was funny?" i "Yes, it reminds me of how pa acts , when grandma Is after him."?Houston Post ' Odd Usea of the Telephone. The telephone has come to be of assistance in about all the vocations and avocations of the everyday world. Not only has it annihilated time and space on the superficial earth, but the Norwegian fishermen drop into the ocean depths a line with telephonic attachment by -which the swish of the approaching herring, codfish or mackerel is communicated to the anxious listeners above. in some or toe most delicate operations of hospital surgery the telephone proves helpful, and in ordinary medical practice the country mother raises the baby to the transmitter in order, that the physician in the village may. determine whether or not the cough is croupy. Concerts have been transmitted more or less successfully over the wires, and Sunday morning preaching effectively conveyed. After a reeent revival, in which scores of eager "seekers" had put in their requests for prayers, the evangelist handed his secretary a list of names with their telephone numbers and with the instruction: "Just call ud each one of these sisters-and brothers to-morrow morning and ask them how it goes with their souls. Till them to keep on with their sprayers and Inform them, that I am praying for them right along."? Atlantic Monthly. (From the Chicago Journal, Nor. 0, 1905.) When Commissioner Garfield went to the Chicago packers and asked permission to inspect their books, the condition was made that no information he might obtain therefrom would be used In oourt proceedings against them. v Mr. Garfield gave this pledge, it is stated, and the packers allowed him to study their business in all its details from the inside. Now, it is announced, the results of his study have been turned over to the i. ' Government department of justice to be employed in legal prosecution of the i packers. > Commissioner Garfield i would not i have veritiired to give the' pledge that was demanded by the packers without [ Instructions from Washington. He pledged, not his own word, but the Government's. It is not his good faith. but tne Government s, tnat is in question now. The Journal has no concern for the packers, except as they are citizens of Chicago. If it can be proved that they are guilty of engaging In a conspiracy in restraint of trade, they ought to be punished. i But their guilt, if they are guilty, must be fairly proved. They must be given a square deal. Since the Government has elevated its vision to such a height as to overlook the nest of defiant criminal trusts almost within the shadow of the capitol dome, in order to fasten itself a thousand miles away upon Chicago, the Government and the President cannot be too careful to avoid suspicion that they are more, anxious to prosecute Western offenders thap offenders in'the East. Some of the methods already employed in this case have not been particularly distinguished for decency. 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