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^ . ... ^ ' f ARMED MOB 00B8 B~i([ j Twenty-five IVleii Get $432,500 From a Moscow Institution. < ESCAPE WITH THEIR LOOT The Credit Mutual Bank in Heart of the City Itobbed in Broad l)ay ^ Light in a Manner That Wax Exceptionally Oarlnj ? (iuards Seized and Disarmed. < Moscow. Russia.?The Credit Mutual. , ? one of the largest banks in Moscow, j was robbed by masked men at dusk, , the robbers setting: $432,500. Circumstances raise the suspicion that the rob- i bery was committed under the direc- { tion of some one at preseut or previous- ( .. nmnlnvpil 111 in^titntinn , The bank is in Ilinka street, in the < heart of the city. The last of the clerks rliad just departed, leaving a guard of three men inside, while under the covered driveway outside were a policeman and the house porter. The street was crowded with people hurrying homeward. According to the story of the guards they were suddenly confronted with revolvers in the hands of . . twenty masked men. who had entered silently by the main door, which had been locked when the office force left the building. After a command to the guards to hold up their hands not a word was spoken. The guards were quickly bound and gagged and thrown iuto a dark corner. The robbers then took positions at all the entrances.' and the curtains of the windows were lowered. The chiet of the robbers, who directed the operations of his associates by gestures, showed thorough familiarity with the location of the vaults. When all was ready he went to the heavy, burglar proof safe and with a few whirls of the knob threw the combination of the lock, the heavy doors swung open and the treasure of the bauk was revealed. The plunder, consisting of gold, sil- a ver and notes, was speedily thrust into sacks. When not a kopeck was left the o robbers departed as silently as they o came, making their exit through the c main entrance, leaving no trace behind them. They had been in the bank less t than half an hour. Twenty minutes p later one of the guards succeeded in v freeing himself and gave the alarm. e The policeman and bouse porter, who \ had been standing in front of the bank v throughout, said they had seen no one enter or leave it. An immense crowd j was attracted to the scene by the news e of the robbery. c u MOB MOCKS SUPREME COURT. s v Lynches a Negro After a Federal Stay n Was Granted. a I Chattanooga, Tenn.?Ed. Johnson, a ^ r negro, was taken from the jail here by J, \ a mob of seventy-five men and hanged ? " to a beam of the county bridge over the Tennessee River. c The rope broke, the negro's body fell and the mob quickly riddled him with _ bullets. Sheriff Shipp and the jailer were looked in a bathroom while the f( mob secured the prisoner. r( Johnson was to have been hanged ihe day on which the lynching occurred ^ for an assault upon a white woman, a, but the United States: Supreme Court tc granted a stay of execution, and this ri action. served to enrage the citizens of C( the city. Ci At 10.45 p. m. seventy-five deter- n' mined men assembled at the jail and ^ gained admission. Overpowering the ^ sheriff and his deputies they secured w the prisoner and quietly led him to the a, bridge. The mob was composed of men of mature years. sj Washington. D. C.?The lynching at f( Chattanooga. Tenn.. of the negro, Ed. Johnson, after an appeal had been granted him by the United States Su- p preme Court, is an act in contempt of the court probably without precedent C( In its history. The question of pro- g) ceedings by the Federal Government ^ against the leaders of the mob who g. lynched Johnson is being considered by the Department of Justice. s, CHEAPER TO KILL LABORERS." (X Costs Less Than Protecting Them at Work, Contractor Tells Dr. Strong. ty New York City.?A contractor of tl prominence, according to Dr. Josiah al Strong, recently told him that the killing of workingmen was cheaper than R protecting them. u| The statement created n stir when w made by Dr. Strong, who is President b of the American Institute of feocial S>er- si vice, at the Municipal Art Society diu- k ner. ^ "Nine men are killed evesy day in ti New York," he continued, "in accidents which are for the most part avoidable. Our city is fast becoming a veritable ^ human shambles." Coal mines and railroads, he said. E were slaughter houses for the laboring men. Last year there were 2500 accidents to laboring men that the public knew nothing about. ? Froze to Death in Mother's Arras. John Cook, called as a juror, with ^ his wife, drove through a severe storm ^ from Elk Mountain to Hanna, Wyom- s ing, that he might reach the court on v . time. Mrs. Cook carried their young baby, which froze to death in her arms before the railroad was reached. ' Killed Carrying Father's Dinner. ^ While carrying his father's dinner, e Carl Wolfe, aged eleven, was run down ^ u by a Baltimore and Ohio train, at s Portsmouth, Ohio, and so badly t mangled that death soon resulted. f Landslide in Brazil. A storm in Brazil caused landslides v and floods. Twenty persons were killed or injured at Rio Janeiro, and landslides at Petropolis. capital of the j State of Rio Janeiro, killed fifty per- t sons iind injured many more. Peasants Steal Trees. The peasants of the Province of t Tomsk, Siberia, are in many places i cutting down trees on the crown lands and in forests belonging to fie land- jr owners of Tomsk. t In the Public Eye. King Alfonso is expert in running an , automobile. The late General Wheeler was a de- 1 vout Christian. * Richard Crober refuses to go into English politics. J. P. Morgan is "seeing Rome" aud ^ ^ vicinity in an automobile. The Rev. John Talbot Smith dc- j I ' nounced the plays of Ibsen as im- , moral. ?Richard Mansfield advises xiniversity ] boys to select some great man as a ; mot] . 'T-TT-. - - - - . <\ "sraction revolution Mayor Weaver Forcas Fhila:le]phi: Company to Give Up Franchises. jraft Tide Turnlns: Buck ? Qnaker Clh ltreoTers Street Grants Worth Mil. Kons-monopoly Bess For Terms. Philadelphia.?The terms of capitula ion of the Philadelphia Rapid Transi L'ompany. which for more than te: rears has enjoyed a monopoly of al street railway privileges in Philadel ?hia. are now in the hands of counsel 'or the city and the company bein: viiipped into legal shape. Caught in a trap which menaced it> rery existence, with the Philadelphia tnd Western Railway Company at the ?ity line as an active competitor ant vith no complacent councils or politi al leaders to fall back upon, the fransit Company has given up some )f its most valuable franchises and las opened the doors, perforce, to its competitor. Besides that, it has given George [Jould his opportunity to reach tide vater, for no one doubts that he is he real force behind the Philadelphia tnd Western, and thus has thrown the loors open to railroad competition in riiuua?ipiiiu. Tliis transit revolution, which is even nore important to the city than was he political upheaval of May, has come ibout through the franchises which he Philadelphia Rapid Transit bought rom the independent street, car com>any at the time of the merger in 903. These franchises gave the right o construct underground, surface and levated lines on almost every street n Philadelphia. There were time limits to them, and orfeiture of franchises if these were lot complied with, but with councils nd the administration under control hese conditions need not be noticed? hey could always be extended. The Market street subway was to be inished in three years. Extension fter extension was granted and work pent on leisurely. The last extension f time expires this April. Unless anther extension is granted, this franhise aud others expire. The political revolution swept away he support the Rapid Transit Comany had depended upon, and this reek it faced the veto of the subway xtension, saw the Philadelphia and Western throw off its mask, aud awoke rith a bump. To save itself from ruin the Rapid 'ransit Company gave an astonishing xample of self-sacrifice. It agrees to omplete within three years a subway nder Market street, from Fifteenth treet to the Delaware River; a sub ray under Broad street, from Walnut orth to the end of the opened street; subway under Walnut street, from troad to Fifth, under Fifth street to Lrch, and under Arch street to Broad; n elevated road from South street and >elaware avenue to Frankford. It surrenders the following franhises: For a subway under Chestnut street -thus clearing the way for the Philaelphia and Western's proposed line; >r surface lines on Broad street?thus amoving for all time the danger that lat thoroughfare will be disfigured y tracks: for elevated roads in Ridge renue, Passyunk avenue and Germaniwn avenue?thus restoring to the city ghts which open the way for future jmpetition; for elevated roads on Lanister, Baltimore and Woodland avelies, in West Philadelphia, all of 'hich were to be connecting links rith the Market street elevated, but hich will now go to the Philadelphia nd Western and will give that com ^-.11 ,1 i ? IV /x w Ar.4-AMn nn/1 UIIJ' lull JLiilllu iu me nmnu ctuu >uthwestern sections of the city. The agreement covering all this was >rmally executed at the meeting in le Mayor's office between officials of le city and the Rapid Transit Cornany. The Transit Company undertakes tc jmmence construction of the Broad :reet subway at once. The least estilate on this work places the cost at >4.000.000. The 'ioop" subway from Broad reet, under Walnut to Fifth 6treet. lence to Arch street and then west > Broad street will cost about $4,000,X). Completion of the Market street subay-elevated line will cost not les? lan $3,000,000 beyond what has been [ready expended. All the franchises vacated by the apid Transit Company will be taken p by the Philadelphia and Western hose tracks now run from Parkersurs. Pa., to Sixty-third and Market :reets. Fifty miles away from Parersburg at Hanover, Pa., runs the Western Maryland, a Wabash conuec nn 0 CRIME IN CAMPAIGN GIFTS district Attorn?y Jerome Says He Can't Find Any Felonious Intent. New York City.?In a brief which Lie led with Judge O'Sullivan in the ourt of General Sessions District At>rney Jerome holds that the giving ot olitical contributions to political pares by officers of insurance companies as not a crime, because it cannot be hown that such payments were made ith felonious intent. To be larceny. Mr. Jerome says, such ppropriations of policyholders' money rould have to have been made, under lie Penal Code, "with intent to deprive r defraud the true owner of his proprty. or the use and benefit thereof." Ir. Jerome is of the opinion, as be ays in his brief, that that was not he case in the political contributions rom the insurance companies. Cracksmen Kills Policeman. Policeman Fred Booth was shot dea.l I'hile a party of officers at Jackson lich., were trying to arrest three men uspected of having robbed the safe if he postoffiee at Brooklyn, Mich. The hieves escaped. Tried to Save Moro Women. Advices from Manila say that tho American troops in action at Mount Dajo made every effort to save women md children, and that many Moro? tided General Wood's forces iti the alack on the outlaws. Sporting Notes. Lafayette College and Princetor lave severed football relationship. The spring meeting of the Maryland rockey Club will be held at Pimlicc rack April 1C to 28. Eugene Hildebrand returned to th( =addie at Hot Springs after eighi nonths on the ground. Harvard football coaches are critic zed in the annual report of the gradu ite treasurer for their extravagance. In the committee substitute for th< Frelinghuysen Automobile bill in Nev Tersey tbe obnoxious features of th< ;atter are retained. ' SNOWSLIDE BURIES MINERS i Many Lives Lost in an Avalanche at j Silverton, Col. r COLORADO TOWNS ENGULFED Twelve Miner* Employed at the Shen[ nniloali Mine Were Canght by a 1 SnoTrsllrto and Swept to Death? I Were Fleelnjr to Silverton to Escape Starvation. ' Silverton. Col.?Twelve miners em: ployed at the Shenandoah Mine were caught by a great snowslide and swept ' to their death. Their bodies have not ' yet been recovered. Assistance has been summoned from Silverton to help ' dig the victims from the snow. Twen| ty others are reported lost near Ouray. , The men killed were members of the I force employed at the Shenandoah 1 Mine, and were on the way to Silverton to escape starvation at the mine, the suodIv of provisions having run i short. Tliey left the mine, breaking i a trail in the deep snow as they went i along. At a particularly dangerous i point on the trail, in the side of a steep mountain, one of the trail breaki ers stumbled. This started the snow i sliding and the entire side of the mountain seemed to be moving. i The twelve men were engulfed almost immediately. One of nine men who escaped hurried on to Howardsville, three miles down the gulch, and telephoned to Silverton for help. All the miners here took refuge in the tunnel. They reached Ouray, coming over the mountain on snowshoes. Communication had with several other mines shows that the men employed at those mines are safe. Durango and the other towns in the San Juan regioy in Southwestern Colorado have been cut off from communication by train nearly a week, but the management of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad is making strenuous efforts to reopen its branch line in that part of the State, which is blockaded by heavy snow on the Cumbres Range. The main transcontinental lines have been kept open and through train service has not been , much delayed during the storm. The heavy snowfall in the mountains insures an abundance of water for irrigation. Ouray, Col?It is feared that at least twenty miners have lost their lives in the snow slides which have exit off , from all outside communication six hundred miners employed in the various mines within a radius of twenty miles from Ouray. The exa:ct number of deaths will not be known for days. As many as twenty-five mines are completely isolate^. The damage may reach $1,000,000.' At the Camp Bird mine, four miles from the Bird mill, a snowsllde completely isolated fifty or more miners. The body of William J. Cressey, an Englishman, who lost his life in the slide at the Camp Bird mill, has been recovered. It is said there is sixty feet of snow at the high tower of the tramway of the Camp Bird, and the snow is deep all ialong the route of the tramway. In the Imogcne Basin the snow is from 150 to 300 feet deep. This will present work on the reconstruction of J the tramway for several weeks. I* f BURGLARS MURDER WIFE. ,While Two Robbers Hold Husband Third Shoots Mother in Bed. Tamaqua, Pa.? Three masked men entered the bedroom of John Morrison, a night foreman at the Eagle Hill col. liery, at Cumbola, at 4.50 o'clock a. m., and while one stood guard over the wife and ktfnnt the other two took Morrison ddwn stairs and forced him to give up $8G. A shot was heard from the bedroom nnd Morrison's two guardsi forced him in the parlor and lorked the door. He smashed the door and rushed to the bedroom to f}nd bis wife lying dead iwith a bullet hole in her right temple and the infant with its arms around her neck. There is no clue. ' MORE GRAIN ON HAND. Larger Proportion of Crops Unconsumed Than in Former Years. Washington, D. C.?In the farmers' hands on March 1 were 158,403,000 ousiieis or wneat, or zz.y per cenr. of last year's crop, according to the Crop Estimating Board of the Bureau of Statistics. Last year at the same time there were 111,055,000 bushels on hand. Corn on hand is estimated at about 1.108,000,000 bushels, or iO.'J per cent, of last year's crop, as compared with 954,686,000 bushels at this time last year. Of oats there are reported on hand about 379,805,000 bushels, or 39.8 per cent, of the crop. Electric Shock Kills Student. While making electric experiments, the results of which were to be used for his commencement thesis, Perley K. Dodge, of the senior clas*: of the Massachusetts! Institute of Technology, was killed by an electric shock in the power | plant of the- United Shoe Machinery Company at Beverly, Mass. Palma Elected President of Cuba. The Presidential electors of the six provinces met in their respective capitals in Cuba and elected Tomas Estrada Palma President and Domingo Mendez Capote Vice-President. Insurance Official "Warned. Samuel Ur.termyer, counsel to the Policy-Holders' Committee of the New York Life, has written a letter to President Orr warning him that he and his fellow officials will be held personally responsible for all moneys expended in their campaign for proxies. Roosevelt For Peace in Coal War. President Roosevelt entered the fight for peace in the soft coal regions by threatening the railroads which were j for a strike with drastic legislation. Women of the Hour. A Cincinnati woman has 1000 ca1 naries. Girls of the '00 class at Barnard ColI lege, New York, gave a college circus, ? "The Dippydrome.'' It is not true that woman lacks cre! ative genius. In fact, the inventive t talent is marked in woman. In one week's mail Miss Helen Gould received requests for money calling in the aggregate for $1,300,000. Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver I-Iobbes) I suggests slumming expeditions among the idle and thoughtless elements of ' the upper circles." 3 < * ' ' ' >'c 'j '' \ " '*A " >' : ./ j FRANCIS GOES TO AUSTRIA President Names Trey Wan io Replace Storer in Vienna. Retirement Due to Friction Following Activity in Clinrch Politic*?Place For Former Governor Blnr.k'* Friend. Washington. D. C.?President Roosevelt has adjusted the unsatisfactory condition existing in the American Embassy to Austro-Hungary by appointing Charles S. Francis, of Troy, N. Y., to that post. Bellamy Storer, the retiring Ambassador, is now in Egypt with his wife, although the President has been expecting him to come to Washington to have a talk about the matters which have caused friction and perplexity. The appointment of Mr. Francis was not expected. The secret of the man picked for the Austrian Embassy was so well kept that no inkling of it escaped until the news was announced in the White House. The new Ambassador is a son of the late John II. Francis, of Troy, who began a diplomatic career of merit by serving as Minister to Greece. To this place Charles S. Francis was appointed by President McKinley in 1897. The older Francis was also thp diplomatic representative of this Government at Vienna, the post to which the son has now been appointed. Mr. Francis, as was his father, is an active politician, and had much to do with the nomination of Frank S. Black for Governor of New York in 189(5. Mr. Francis is a Cornell graduate and a trained athlete. He was the single scull champion of this country. He is of pleasant address and has great tact and patience. The activity of Mr. and Mrs. Storer in church politics in Vienna was not the only factor in a situation which the President deemed it unwise to allow to continue, but it was the most important. Mrs. Storer desired the authorization of an additional Cardinal in the United States. When last in the United States Mr. Storer told friends he desired to be transferred to Rome. It is believed he desired to be sent to the Italian capital when Henry White was appointed Ambassador there. President Roosevelt was surprised and. it is said, displeased at the effort made to enlist his indorsement for any one in the matter of a new Cardinal. At no time was he disposed to grant Mr. Storev's desire to be transferred to Rome. Some of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Storer are inclined to think they will not return to the United States to live. They do not care much fo.1 Cincinnati, and their house in Washington is leased to the French Ambassador. Mr. Storer's wife is an aunt of Representative Nicholas Longworth. KILLS SEVEN LABORERS. Foreman With Crowbar Effectively Defends Himself From Attack. Bristol, Tenn.?A band of foreign laborers on the construction work of the Southern and Western Railway at Marion, N. C., attacked a foreman- In resisting the assault the foreman seized a crowbar and clubbed seven of the infuriated Hungarians to death within three minutes. The foreigners became enraged over the conduct of the foreman, thinking he was taking advantage of their inability to grasp English. While the foreman was seated on a bank they sprang on him and slightly injured him before he got the bar. Thousands of Hungarian and Italian laborers employed in the construction of the Southern and Western Railroad have become enraged over the killing and more trouble is feared. Fought Duel to Death on Raft. On a raft in the middle of the Kentucky River near Valleyview, Ky., Wingfleld Crowe and Nelson Home fought a duel to the death with knives. For nearly an hour the men struggled on the raft trying to cut each other to death. Toward the end Home lost his unite, Dut ne managed to isuan?n; Crowe into semi-consciousness. He then got a pistol from his coat and shot Crowe three times. The duel was wituesseil by fifty persons on shore. To Reapportion South. When the legislative bill was taken up in the House, Washington, Mr. Keifer took the floor in advocacy of his reapportionment bill reducing the representation in Congress as follows: Alabama, 9 to 5; Arkansas, 7 to 5; Florida, 3 to 2; Georgia, 11 to G; Louisiana, 7 to 3; Mississippi, 8 to 3; North Carolina, 10 to C; South Carolina, 7 to 3; Tennessee, 10 to 8; Texas, 16 to 12, and Virginia, 10 to 8. Two Little Girls Drowned. Two little girls, Ada Lamb, thirteen years old, and Myrtle Lockwood, eleven, of Olean, N. Y., were drowned in Olean Creek. The sled on which one was drawing the other was found on the thin ice through which they went, a single hole near the thicker ice telling the story of their deaths. Their bodies were recovered. Lieutenant's Mother a Suicide. Mother of Lieutenant Carl Bussche, nf tho Eighteenth Infantry, killed her self in her son's quarters, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., while suffering from melancholia. Succeeds Miss Anthony. At a family council, Rochester, N. Y., it was decided that Mary Anthony should continue the late Susan B. Anthony's suffragist campaign in Oregon. Two Killed at a Crossing. Erie train No. 20 struck a cutter containing Mrs. Jane Phelps and Charles Hemstraught, just west of Binghaniton, N. Y., killing both of them. They were eighty and seventy years of age, respectively. A blinding snowstorm probably diverted their attention while attempting to cross the tracks. Earthquake in Formosa. An earthquake at Kagi, Formosa, destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed many hundreds of paople. Labor World. Indictments against twenty-two coal companies for conspiracy in Cincinnati have been dismissed as the presentments were too defective to risk .1 trial. President Lynch, of the International Typographical Union, says that 5908 printers are on strike. There are 47.liS3 members of the union and its allied crafts and -30,938 are working eight hours a day. President James M. Lynch, of the International Typographical, has practical? been re-elected as no nominations havo been made against him. - ? " IMMUNITY FOR PACKERS iudg-e Humohrey Frees Beef Men Who Gave Garfield Facts. CORPORATIONS TO BE TRIED Cannot Bo Proaocuted an Individuals, tho Court Decide* ? Information Obtained Wm Not Voluntarily Given, But Win in Re*pou*c to Government'* Demand ?Trust Itself Vulnerable. Chicago, III.?By :i decision of Judge .7. Otis Hump lire}* in the United States Circuit Court here all the meat pack era who were inaicien uy ;i reuerai Grand Jury 011 clmrges of conspiracy in restraint of , interstate trade - are granted immunity from criminal prosecution. Under the decision the. indivWuals are to go free, but the indictments against the corporations of which some of the indicted men are members and others are employes are to stand. The individuals who go free under the decision are: T. Ocden Armour, Edward Morris. Charles- W. Armour. Ira N. Morris, Louis F. Swift. Edward F. Swift, Charles N. Swift, Edward Cudaby, Arthur Meeker. T. ,T. Connors. P. A. Valentine, A. FI. Vceder. Arthur F. Evans, I. A.. Carton. Robert C. McManus and D. E. Hart well. The corporations that must stand trial are: Armour Packing Comnany, Armour & Co.. Cudahy Packing Company, Fairbank Canning Company and Swift & Co. Tiwlna T-Titmnlirav cnn1r<? frtr iimpIt .On hour before indicating wliat the ultimate decision wou}d be. Reviewing the salient features of the case, the court went into a consideration of some of the points involved. In conclusion he summed up his decision as follows: "Under the law in this cnse the immunity pleas filed by the defendants will be sustained as to the individuals and denied to the corporations, and the jury will find iu favor of the Government so far as the corporations are concerned and against the Government sn far as the individuals are concerned." During the rendition of the decision the court was crowded by defendants and spectators. Edward Morris and Edward Swift were in court, and both smiled when the decision was .announced. .T. Ogden Armour was not present, but some men prominent in the employ of Armour & Co., who were under indictmcnt were there, and their joy was manifest When the judge announced that the indictments would not lie against them, the defendants crowded together and shook hands. District Attorney Morrison raised the mipstion of the date for the trial of the corporations. He asked that the rase be set for trial and tliat it commence within two weeks. This met with a storm of protests from the attorneys of the Dackers. who insisted that they would be unable to prepare the case before fall. Aft^r some discussion Judge Humphrey dieted that the lawyers agree among themselves on a date and notify hiiu Df their decision. It is expected that the total number of witnesses in this trial will be at least 1G00. Attorneys for the packers declared when asking for a postponement of their trial that their witnesses would number 1500. The Government began its activities directed toward a prosecution of the packers and packing corporations in the summer of 1004. Shortly after the Commissioner of Corporations had begun work on his investigation at the instance-of Congress. In November of that year the Federal officers at Chicago and fifteen /lUUs nnHnir eimil 1 tn nPnilk1 V served subpoenas upon some 275 witnesses. some railroad men, some packing bouse clerks, some cattle men, some traffic managers and some officials of defunct packing companies nnd prepared for the presentation of a case before the Grand Jury. FIGHTING A CRAFTY REBEL. Germans 1-Inve Foe in Africa Who Has Cost $150,000,000.Berlin.?Official dispatches received from German Southwest Africa announce the- failure of the comprehen sive surrounding movement unuertauen by the German troops against Jacob Morengo, the last anil most active of the native leaders of the rebels. The movement had been going on for weeks, and six large detachments with fifteen field and machine guns participated in it. Colonel Deiinling, the former Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, in a speech in the Reichstag said it was an error to suppose that Morengo was a savage with rings in his nose and ears. He was as hard-headed and intelligent n man as he had met. wore English riding clothes and spoke Dutch from having lived in Cape Colony. Morengo owned a large farm in German Southwest Africa and had a certain amount of generosity, for he gave a German whose farm he had plundered $150 with which to return home in th,e first cabin. The Reichstag passed the fourth supplementary African budget of $7,500,000. The total cost of the insurrection up to date is about $150,000,000. Settling Disputes With Canada. Rapid progress is being made by Secretary of State Root in settling all disputes between the United States and Canada. I ???- ???. Astor to Give Sou Cliveden. It is assorted that Waldorf Astor will marry Mrs. Dannie Langhorne Shaw at the end of April in Virginia and that they will live at Cliveden, the Thames residence of William Waldorf Astor, which will be the wedding gift from Mr. Astor. He will also bestow nnon his ?on an income of $100,000 yearly. Telephone War in Iowa. Three hundred independent telephone companies linve combined in Iowa to light the Bell Company. News of the Hour. An agreement on Morocco is in sight. Earthquakes continue in the West Indies. One million dollars is to be the cost of the new St. Thomas' Church. New York City. The British War Secretary favored retrenchment in army expenses at home and abroad. The Bank of Montreal, Canada, has decidcd to open a branch in Mexico City, and enter the banking field. Russia plans to make Vladivostok take the place of Dalny in her projects for the development of Manchuria. FREELAND BANK CLOSED Promoters Accused of Using Money to Float Other Schemes. ?. M. Krerett, Caaliltr of tlie First National. and William Ueckley, al<iivryer, Placed Under Arrest. Wilkesbarre, Pa. ? F. M. Everett, :ashier of the First National Bank of R'reeland, and William Beckley, a young Attorney of Bloomsburg, who with Everett and a man named McKillipp were the promoters of the bank, are in custody at I-Iazleton, charged with wrecking the bank, which dosed its door3. Everett is charged with the embeztlement of a sum close to $60,000. aad Beckley . with conspiracy. Everett re. fuses to talk aud is very despondent. Beckley has merely-said that the directors acted hastily in causing the arrests, and that everything could have oeeu straightened up at twenty-four lours' notice. The news that tin; bank was closed :r&tted a profound sensation when it became generally known, an1 scores of mine workers, most of them foreigners, who had savings deposited there quit work and rushed to the bank. An exited crowd'hung around all day. The directors, who are all men of substance about Freeland. say that while it will take a thorough investigaUon to ascertain how much the bank aas lost, the depositors will not lose. They estimate the loss from the examnation which has been conducted so 'ar at $36,800. In the pockets of Attorney Beckley tfere found fifteen notes for $5000 each, Irawn by the Pennsylvania Paper Hills, of Catawissa, on the First Narional Bank, of Catawissa. Three blank notes, signed by the treasurer of )f the Pennsylvania Paper Mills, were ilso found in hio pockets. It is in this Institution that the directors of the Freeland bank believe that Everett and Beckley have sunk the money that is missing. Everett, Beckley and McKillipp induced a number of prominent business men to organize the banU with a capital stock of $50,000 in 1901. Not the ieast suspcion that anything was wrong was entertained until Wednesday, when a bank examiner, although find^l*A Krt/vUrt nnnnttATifln afcotrvhl' /lie tli? IUC UUUIV5 aypcXt cuuj Oil (W&UI, Vt*u :overed that the outstanding accounts ivith other banks were unusually large. This led to inquiries which, it is said, Indicated tha'. the statements of other banks did not agree witii the Freeland bank regarding these . accounts, and it was then discovered that about $60,000 . ivas missing. HEAItD SUICIDE 50 MILES AWAY. Lover Fired Fatal Shot Whfle 'Phoning to His Fiancee. Frankfort, Ind.?Though fifty miles away at Indianapolis Miss Buchanan, of that city, over the telephone heard . her fiancee, Dr. Ellison Dixon, a wellknown dentist of this city, kill himself with a revolver in his office. Dr. Dixon and Miss Buchanan had had a falling out and he told her over the wire that he intended to take his life. Then the terror-stricken girl heard the pistol shot and the sound of a falling body. She at once notified the Indianapolis jpolice, and they com municated with A'rankrort. wnen jjr. i Dixon's office was broken open his body was found lying near the telephone, the receiver hanging by its :ord. MOST, THE ANARCHIST, DEAD. Passes Away at a Friend's Home in Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Ohio.?Johann Most, the Anarchist, died at noon at the home of Adolph Knaus, 152C Cutter street, in this city. The family with whom Most had been staying since his arrival here is poor, but attended to all of Most's wants gladly, withholding no expense, as Knaus and Most were old friends. Most came to fill a lecture engagement, but was ill when he arrived and was not able to appear on the platform. The body will undoubtedly be taken to New York for burial. Johann Most was born at Augsburg, Bavaria, on February 5, 184G. His father was a court officer and gave the boy a good education. NO MORE JERSEY HANGINGS. Bill Substituting Electricity For 1he Rope Passes the Senate. Trenton, N. J.?Senator Minturn's bill providing for the putting to death by electricity of prisoners convicted of murder was passed iu the Senate, j This will end hangings in this State. I One feature of the law which makes j it different to that of New York is that it stipulates that all executions ! shall take place in some secluded spot, selected by the keeper of the State I Prison, and shall not be carried out in the prison bounds. New Jersey is the fourth State to adopt this method of executing murderers. T?TTC1.ir A MCI TfcTTm fPA n 171 1 TIT : U?jy UUj3.:iAno rui iu j. 1_L. i Two Months Bloody Record in the Baltic Provinces. St. Petersburg, Russia. ? Lettish newspapers analyze the repressive measures of the Russian Government in the Baltic provinces from December 14 to February 14. The military hanged eighteen persons and shot 621. Three hundred and twenty were killed in armed eucounters and 251 were flogged, : Ninety-seven farm houses, twenty-two dwellings, four schools, two town halls and three clubhouses were burned. HEAD BLOWN OFF BY HIS SON. Farmer Dies the Victim of an Accidental Shot. Suffolk, Va.?Henry Spivey. a fiftytraor.nlil fni'mor livinor nonr nnvrsriDft Va., had half his head blown away by his son, Mills Spivey, aged nineteen years. The shooting is claimed to have beeq accidental. Mills, who had been hunt* ing, was cleaning his gnn when it went off, the entire charge entering tbtj i back of' his father's head. The old roan fell from his chair, dying. Newsy Gleanings. Geza vo* Fejercary, the recently appointed premier of the Hungarian cabinet, has received alomst every decoration his country can bestow. Rufus Bullock, who was a reconstruction Governor of Georgia, is spending his declining days at Albion, N. Y.. his boyhood home. He is helpless from paralysis. Captain Stubbs, secretary of Liverpool Orphan institution, is one of the few living persons who served on Nelson's flagship Victory. Offer* llible (a Church. King Edward has offered an appropriately bound and inscribed Bible to the Protestant Episcopal Cburch at Williamsburg, Va., tbe second oldest church in the United States, in commemoration of tbe 300th anniversary of the establishment of the Gburcii of Virginia. Anitrnlulitn G?itnr? L^ntnste. ^ Gesture language still exists in parts^ of Australasia. Some tribes possess so excellent a code that it is almost as efficient as a spoken language. . | COULD NOT KEEP UP. " Broken Down, Like Many Another Wornan, With Exhausting Kidney Troubles. Mrs. A. Taylor, of Wharton, N. J., says: "I had kiduey trouble In its most painful and severe form, and the t torture - went through now seems to have been almost unbearable.'-1 had back- V ; ; ache, pains in the side and loins, dizzy spells and "hot, feverish headaches. There were bearing-down nalno nn/1 flta IrMnolf Mfgji iiHiuo, uuu iuc biuuw/ lww?5w?fc^0 secretions rassed too frequently end with a burning sensation. They showed sediment. I becam% dlscnraged, weak, languid and depressed, so sick aud sore that I could not keei) up. * As doctors did not cure me I decided to try Doan'g Kidney PilU, and with such success that my troubles were iiil gone after using eight box?.:, and my strength, ambli on and general health is flue." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, Nj Y. ' New Railroads For tlie Finns. The Finnish Senate has ordered a loan to be raised to the amount of ?2,000,000, which is to be spent in the various railway projects. WORST FORM OF ECZEMA Black Splotches All Over Face?Affected Parti Now Clear as Kver?Cared by the Cutlcura Remedies. "About four years ago I was afflicted wiHi hl?dlr jnlrtfphpe all nvpr mv fnH> and a few covering my body, which produced a severe itching irritation, and which caused me a great deal of annoyance and suffering, to such an, extent that 1 was forced to call in *wo of the leading physicians of my town. After .. thorough examination of the drfeaded complaint they announced it to be skin eczema in its worst form. They treated me for the game for :ha Iea-;.Ji of cne year, but th? treatment-did me1 no good. Finally my hu9ban . purchased a sei of the Cuticara Remedies, and afte^ usia0 the contents of the first bottle of Cuticura Resolvent in connection with tie Cuticura Coap and Ointment, the breaking out entirely stopped. 1 continued the use of -he Cuticura Remedies frr six mo:.ths, and after that every splotch es entirely gone and the affected parts were left as clear as ever. The Cnucura Remedies not only cured me of that c -eadful dise.-M, eczema, but other comp.'.catp'1 trrubles as well. Lizzie E. Sledge. ?40 Jones Ave., Sehna, Ala. Oct. 28, 1905." did me absolutely no good. I was thoroughly discouraged. "Then I gave up coffee and commenced Postmu i>ojd Coffee. At first I didn't like it, but after a few trials and following the d'rections exactly, it was grand. It was refreshing aud satisfying. In a couple of weeks I no- , tieed a ereat change. I became 1 stronger, my brain grew clearer, I was not troubled with forgetfulness as ill coffee times, my power of endurance was more than doubled. Tlie beart trouble and indigestion disappeared and my nerves became steady and strong. "I began to take an interest in things about me. Housework and bome-uiakIng became a pleasure. My friends have marveled at the change and whon they enquire what brought it about, I answer 'Postu 111 Kood Coffee; and nothing else in the world.'" Name given by I'ostuui Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reasm. Read the little book, "The Uoad to Wellville," In pkga. yUBBllOHl rj||i||ivjot? aan. The application blank I open and read carefully. When and where were you born? Are you single, married or a widower? If married, how many children have you, and are they .all dependent upon you? Do you own. or rent the house in which you live? er do you board? How long have you resided at your present addrtes? Where did you previously reside and how long? What position do you hold and what salary do you receive? If out of employment, what is the last position you held and at what salary, and why did you leave your last position? Have you ever been discharged from any employment? If so, give particulars. At what salary will you accept a position? Do you use intoxicating liquors and to what extent? Do you smoke cigarettes? Do you receive any income besides your salary? If so, state amount and from what sources. Then follow equally searching questions about liabilities, creditors, the procuring of a bond, etc. Tl/e names and addresses of nearest relatives, of five references, neither relatives nor previous employers, and a full account of the disposition of one's time for the ten years before the application, whether employed or not, are required to ' satisfy the company that your application is safe to consider.?Reader. Public 'Phoned on Berlin Street*. The German postal authorities have decided to erect public telephone stations in the streets of Berlin to be operated on the penny-m-tne-ioc sy?- .. tem. \ CRAND TO LIVE And the Last Laujjh Is Always the Best. 'Six mouu'.s ago I would have laughed at the idea that the/J could be anything better for a table beverage than coffee," writes au Ohio woman? "now I laugh to know there is. "Since childhood I drank coffee as freely as any ot:icr member of the family. The result was a puny, sickly girl, and as I grew into womanhood I did not gain in health, but was afflicted with heart trouble, a weak and disordered stomach, wrecked serves and a general breaking down,, till last winter at the age of 38 I seemed to be 011 the verge uf consumption. My friends greeted me with 'How bad you look! What a terrible color!' and tliis was not very contorting. "Tin* doctors and patent medicines