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f. - TMP R OV EITCO NDITI ON 5 1 AT SAN FRANCISCO G ? \\ Removing Wreck and Ru2n j Left by Earthquake Ci and Fire. n I, | . RIGID ECONOMY WITfl RATI3NS " f? cJ Ac'.anl Kebullillu:: of the City Hat Begun v ?The Mayor Says There Should Be >*o r; Break In the Kelief Movement?Un- ^ dergronnd Chinatown Amazes the Tolice?Other California Towns Pre- a: paring to Keconstruct ? The Insane C1 - . Asvlnin Horror. o: San Francisco.?The loss of some 300 I> lirao nnil thn /larletafirtn n f nlmncf ^ "'""" '"?"4WV'" "* ]j four square miles of the best part of it [ San Erancisco Lave now beeu written b in history, and every one is confident V for rapid progress in the rebuilding of P'- c a greater and better city. S( The actual beginning of the disen- tl r-;j tanglement of the earthquake and fire is stricken town from its disordered con- ? dition is on and the work of reconstruction will proceed rapidly from this ir time. On many sides are visible indi- n ? ! cations of the determination of mer- a t^ chants to resume business. Gangs of ^ ~ men with teams are excavating for d, foundations in numerous vacant lots, ai and in other places the removal of de&y . bris is well under way. , The streets are early thronged with laborers on their way to the burned dis- la trict, where they are cleaning up. The tl boats from cities across bay and local electric cars from suburbs are packed sl trifh TrArlrin<rm?M hi In many places advertisements are posted oy walls seeking laborers, and J) there inquiries for men are met with numerous responses from heads of * families who are willing to take any kind of labor. Relief work was continued on a ? * large scale, under General Greely, and with a closer check than ever against waste and against the unwor- , * thy. Distribution of food to the home- ?. Jess is being made on the army ration P plan, as evolved by General Greely, J and the output of supplies was lessened so that twenty-one days' food is * now in sight. With no immediate prospect that t conditions will be so normalized that the community will be able to feed and take care of itself for several ;weeks, the citizens' committee has be- . gun to evolve some way to provide against a failure of supplies. Mayor . Schmitz informed the general committee that 700 carloads of food and sup plies had been distributed since April 18, and transportation lines had information of only 108 cars on the way. ?*! 0 * "If," said the Mayor, "this information is correct, we will soon be worse .. off than we were a week ago. If the h information has gone abroad through the country that we are amply supplied g it is most unfortunate, for it is appar- ^ ent that we are not. It is not even ? known how much money we can de pend upon with which to purchase supplies, for you hav? heard from Mr. ^ Phelan, on several occasions, that part v at least of this money subscribed by or individuals or companies in the East is 'disbursed through private agents here> m "While it is true that contributions Sir of money will be very much more to the purpose than contributions of sup- f? plies, it should be made known to the .world if the one is not available the other will be moot gratefully received." Chairman Phelan made a gloomy gpeech, in which he said that the L( Rockefeller and Standard Oil contribu- . tions were being distributed through ?;T Standard Oil agents, and that prob- ^ ably many other heavy contributions f18 .which had been put down to tho credit ' of the committee might be distributed In the same way. "We 1 ave but $51S.- es 000 of real money," said he. "though funds placed, to our credit in all parts . of the country total $3,500,000." . * Clothing and bedding sent will prove ie: of the greatest value. One of the chief needs now in the relief camps is for re women's and children's warm clothiug. ar Thousands are wearing the clothing ?? they escaped from the tire in. No material of this kind will be wasted. ,, , In the future food will not be given t0 shle-bodied males in Sr.n Francisco ve with a view to forcing them to go to . work. Luxuries will be given only to 01 those who are ill. * The exo*U3 of San Frr.-:ciscans has ee 4 lightened the drafts on the food supplies to a large extent. According to a Southern Pacific official 200,000 of the gt population of th:s city nave left and pj the Southern Pacific Company has ^ carried 50,000 persons to points east of * Ogden since April 18. ^ In order to reduce the expenses of (j, the army at San Francisco as much s-' > as possible, so as to have more funds je for the relief of the earthquake sufferers. General Greely has decided that w 1000 additional^ troops will be enough ea to take care of the situation. General Bell sent General Greely full informa- w tion as to what lias been done with the Q. $2,500,000 appropriated by Congress. It _ is estimated that ?500,000 of this fund ^ is still unexpended. ^ The American Red Cross forwarded $300,000 by wire to James D. Phelan. Chairman of the Red Cross and Relief Committee. Mr. Phelan was advised that SI.000,000 more is at the disposal R of the committee. ai Reports from the refugee camps and m hospitals show an astonishingly small of percentage of sickness and the fear of di threatened epidemics has been buried, in it is hoped, for all time. of The water supply is getting better re TOWN SHATTERED BI 11 AIL,. Housetops Beaten In and Live Stock ol Killed at Branchville, Va. 11 ; di Branchville. Va.?During a severe fj rain and electrical storm here large 01 hailstones fell, killing many fowl, h, small animals and two horses. Housetops were beaten off and the Seaboard ? 'Air Line Railway's sheet iron warehouse roof was ruined by the hail. Vegetation and crops were almost com- cl pletely cut off. The storm continued tl for forty-five minutes. u ' ;* Limited Ballot For Women. By the narrow margin of one vote the bill of Senator Raines, which al- o lows women in cities of the third class a to vote on matters pertaining to taxa- ^ tion when they are taxpayers, passed h the Senate of New York at Albany. ii Victory For Free Seeds. After wrangling two days, the House, Washington, D. C.. put into Y the agricultural bill, by a vote of 133 C to 58, a paragraph carrying $202,000 tl for the distribution of free seeds by li members of Congress. u I?!; . . . . !*- '*iV X; -ti5 ' Chinese criminals ana tne rauure 01 any a raid upon fantan games or ave dens. Probably no other class of profesonal meu suffered so severely as the jysicians, more than 1000 of whom id their offices in the burned district, ew saved even so much as a scalpel, ot only have their libraries, instruents. records of personal research id office paraphernalia been deroyed, but the diplomas, without hich they cannot practice in another :ate, have drifted to the four winds The Oakland refugee camps are beg deserted at a rapid rate. The ilv hindrance to more rapid evacua 3ii being the difficulty of getting mon' for transportation from friends id relatives at other points. The ails are congested, the express com- j inies nearly swamped vitli b-oiness id the telegraph companies working ery available end of communics>n to handle the enormous mass of ; isiness. i H. J. Kinney, formerly of Hoi j jrings, Ark., has been released un- ] ir a pardon from Oakland prison, llowing his trausfer from the Gov- j nment prison at Alcatraz Island. He as arrested on the first day of the ] e for having drawn a revolver in der to compel an automobilist to , rry his wife, children and two in- , red women to a place of safety. ie policefcian who made the arrest , isunderstood the situation, and Kiny languished in prison for ten days ( fore he got some one sufficiently in- , rested to seek a pardon for him. . The conditions following the earthlake at the State Hospital for the ] isnne at Agnews, in Santa Clara >unty, have yet to be^ully told. , Desperate maniacs were lioerated ' the f.ambling of the walls, and Ith no other means of detention at md, many of them had to be tied to ses like wild beasts. Several inmates escaped during the citement, but were recaptured and , e housed in the San Jose jail. The 0 most dangerous have been sent to ockton. One hundred and one bod3 have been taken from the ruins. < As for the remainder, Agnews now ; sembles a'tented city. About 850 i e being cared for on the lawns. The ouads are roped off into two sec- * >ns. On one side the women live in i eir tents, and the men brve a little wn on the other ude of the inter- | tning ropes. raER towns will rebuild irthquake Ditmaen Ontsldo of Sail Francisco to Be Repaired at Once. Bakersfield, Cal.?The rest of the ; ate is following the lead of San i ancisco and getting ready to re- I lild and go at it again. The cities which have the most to j > are San Jose and Sant:?. Rosa. The image at other points is not excesve; perhaps Salinas is the next heavst sufferer. There the Spreckles sugar factory, hich was twisted out 01 shapo by the rthquake. has begun jn addition hicli will cost S2"?0,000. Damage as heavier at Hollister, one of the ilest towns in nortnern California id the county seat of Sau Benito, ian was reported at first. It is esoiated at half a million. To Reward Army Ileropt. Washington, D. C. ? President i ooscvelt has called upon the War | id Navy Department to report the j lines of the officers and enlisted men ! the Marine Corps and army who splayed special gallantry in checkg the San Francisco fre by the nse ' dynamite; this with a view to their ward and commendation. Child Drowns in Cistern. Josephine Modisette. the six-yeard daughter of Frank Modisette, of elena, Ark., who disappeared four lys ago and was thought to have illen iu the river, was drowned in an d cistern iu the rear of her father's 3ine. Great Britain Has a Surplus. The British Chancellor of the Ex- i lequer introduced the first budget of ! T.ihora 1 nilminis}ivi tinn. n ml ail- I ounced a surplus of $17,333,000. Governor Iloch and That Kiss. All Kansas is aroused and excited ver the charge that Governor I-Iocli ttempted to kiss Mrs. Stanley, the ife of his predecessor. The iucident as begun to assume giant proportioug i the political eye. Resisting Eighty Cent Gas. Consolidated Gas Company, of New 'ork City, applied to the Uuited States Circuit Court for injunction to prevent tie enforcement of the eighty cent rate ivr until its constitutionality is passed pon in the courts. very day. and iu several sectious of jo saved districts the force o" water i the faucets is almost as strong as it as before the big tire. Estimates prepared for General freely show that 7000 tons of food ere distributed free in San Francisco tiring the first ten days. The daily jst of relief was about $1."H),<)00. The figures show .hat considerably lore than enough to feed the city has een given out. The number of per- i ins who still require relief is 200,<R)0. I t is expected that before long free | )od will be supplied only to women, tiildren and sick and fetble meu. One of the best signs that order is ! lpidly arising out of chaos is the ex- j msion of the telegraph, telephone and j treet car system. The Southern Pa- ! itic Railway has obtained its tenipor- | ry franchise to run tracks into the s Ity for the disposal of debris. It is now known that the wholesale : r heavier valued district in the lower art of the city suffered the most se- j erely from earthquakes, while the i eaviest damage from official dyuamit- | lg and back firing occurred in the anking and insurance district along an Ness avenue. Both of these quesons are important factors in deterlining the losses. From several jurces of information it would seem lat the earthquake damare involved i fully forty per cent, and that of dyamite twenty per cent, of the entire estruction. There are 10S companies interested i the San Francisco disaster, and it 19 ow predicted by conservative insur ace men uere Tnat wurnn tuiriy uays venty-eight of them will be out of usiness. Five already have -one uner and the remaining twenty-three re in danger. Now that underground Chinatown is ftposed, the police, who thought that ley had a good idea of the ramificaons there, are astonished at the revetions. No family of rodents ever innelled more persistently nor ingenusly than did the denizens of this aarter. So complete was the chain of lbways that every part of Chinatown id its underground exit. The main rteries have been traced as far as eavney street on the south and Powi street on the north, a distance of iree blocks. The tunnels extend un?r the streets. This subterraneau iaze explains the mysterious escapes 1VIFE MURDER CHARGED Harvard Professor Took Body to Chicaero Fcr Burial,, ARSENIC FOUND IN STOMACH Erich Muenter, Against Whom Accnnation is Made, Disappeared After Funeral?Wn a Faitli Curl>?t? IJurlal Certificate ItefuRed by Physician*? Second Child Born. Cambridge. Mass.?A warrant was sworn out by the "Cambridge police charging Erich Muenter, an instructor in Gorman at Harvard University, "with the murder of his wife, who died about two weeks ago. ?Muenter took the body to Chicago for Durial on April n, aim iueu uiaappeared. He is a native of Germany, and before coming to Harvard was an instructor iu bis native language at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Kan. He is thirty-five years old and lived at 107 Oxford street, tbis city. His wife was formerly Miss Leone K. Krembs, of Chicago. The attention of the authorities was called to the case just after the woman's death on April 10. Ten days before that time a child was born to Mrs. Muenter, who was attended by a faith cure doctor and by two nurses of the same cult. The physician was a Mrs. Nicherson, of Winchester. The nurses are both residents of Cambridge, a Miss Case and Miss Derrick. Some time after the child was born two regular physicians, Drs. Frederick W. Taylor and Herbert Mclutyre, were called in. Both of these physicians decided tflat Mrs. aiuenter avus buuw ing from some ailment of the stomach. They prescribed for her, but later, it is alleged, they ascertained that the nurses were not following directions. Drs. Taylor and Mclntyre then declined to have anything further to do with the case. A few days later Mrs. Muenter died. On the same day Muenter applied to Dr. Mclntyre for his signature to the certificate of death, but Dr. Mclntyre declined to sign the paper. He decided that the case needed investigation, and notified Medical Examiner William D. Swan, who as soon as he received Dr. Mclntyre's report performed an autopsy on the body. The Medical Examiner sent the stomach to Professor W. F. Whitney, the chemist of the Harvard Medical School. Having taken this step Dr. Swan permitted Muenter and the two nurses to take the body to Mrs. Muenter's former home in Chicago for burial. The party left Cambridge and took along Muentor's two children, Helen, aged three, and the Infant. A report of the analysis of the stomach was received by Medical Examiner Swan from Professor Whitney. Professor Whitney reported that he had found marked traces of arsen'.. Dr. Swan immediately laid the case before George A. Sanderson. District Attorney for Middlesex County, who in turn notified the Cambridge police. The authorities quickly issued a warrant for Muenter, charging him with the murder of his wife. The Chicago police were notified to hold the man if he could be found in that city, and circulars were sent out containing his complete description. The report of Professor Whitney paused intense surprise at Qarvard University. The university authorities stated that Muenter was appointed instructor in German nearly two years ago. while he was stationed at the University of Kansas. He at no time had acted as professor at Harvard, but received his appointment as instructor temporarily, that is, from year to year. He was serving his second year at the university wheu his wife died. c FEARING SIX GIRLS, LAD DIES. Commits Suicide Rather Than be Graduated the Only Boy in Class. Oxford, Pa.?The only boy in a class Df seven, James Andrews, aged sixteen years, committed suicide rather than Graduate. His body was found in White Clay Creek, where he had drowned himself in about four feet of water. His coat pockets were filled with flatirous aild stones, which held bim down. Young Andrews was a senior in the Oxford High School, but was so diffident that he did not wish to take part in the graduation exercises, especially as lie was the only boy. His relatives and teachers insisted upon it. and the fear of having to appear with so many girls weighed upon his mind so that he threw himself into the creek. When the body was recovered a note nddressed to bis mother was found asking her to take care of bis younger brother. Young Andrews bad confided to several of bis companions that Le never would graduate. LIGHTNING KILLS BOT. Stroke Burns Hair From Head?Sister Badly Injured. Erie. Pa.?John Peters, of Utica, Vanango County. Penn., a student at the Edinboro State Normal School, while walking through the fields near Edinboro Lake with his sister Margaret, a student at the same institution, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. The hair of his head was entirely burned off. but his body bore no marks. His undereJotJjjng was destroyed. his shoes torn into shreds and his hat was perforated. His sister was knocked dowu by the shock and severely injured. It took her an hour to x*each a farmhouse only a quarter of a mile distant. Dowie Challenges Trnducers. Dowie, speaking iii the Tabernacle at Ziou City. 111., challenged his tradueers to accuse him there. Dowie held his meeting while Voliva, the rival leader, was holding one. The test proved a "frost" for Dowie, there being only about 150 of his followers among his listeners. Millionaire Student Hurt by Auto. Edward K. Wallace, a Yale freshman, worth $2,500,000 in his own right, was thrown from his motor-cycle and fatally hurt. Sporting Notes. Six nations will compeLe in the French Grand Prix for automobiles. At Schenectady. N. Y.. Union College adopted basketball in place of football. Slosson is now champion, having defeated Schaefer in the final billiard match 500 to 390. H. L. Bowden's Mercedes made the best showing in the motor boat races at Palm Beach, Fla. Thirty-two American athletes will compete for world's honors on track and field at Athens Gre?<*?. " $100,000,000 FOR THE NAVY " Commiit?e Provides Tor a Great United States Battleship. Over ?50,000,000 For Ihe Increase of tlia | Force?Toped?? Boat Destroyers nnd Submarines Provided For. Washington, D. C.?The Naval Appropriatiou bill was reported to the House by Chairman Foss, of the Committee on Naval Affairs. The measure carries a total of $99,734,215, against estimates by the department aggregating $121,565,718. The largest single item iu the bill is that of $20,000,000 for pay of the navy. Under increase of the navy there is appropriated $17,830,829 for construction and machinery and $15,143,000 for armor and armament. Aside from these items the Bureau of Ordnance gets $8,408,000; the Bureau of Equipment, $6,874,028; construction and repair, $7,782,824; for public works, under yards and docks, $2,843,450, of which amount $95,050 is to be expended at the Boston yard, $128,500 at the New York yard. $459,500 at Charleston, $207,000 at Olongapo, $100,000 for a floating steel drydock and $300,000 for preservation and repairs at navy yaflds. The department's request for an increase of 3000 in the number of petty officers and men is refused because of I the fact, as stated in the report, that the present quota of 34,500 men, and apprentices to the number of 2500, is short of being filled by about 5500. An appropriation of $406,000 is recommended for modernizing the batteries of the Massachusetts and Oregon and for new guns on the New York. An increase of $1,000,000 is made in the appropriation for coal and transportation, due to the increase of the fleet, and the requirement is made that coal be shipped in American bottoms. Under increase of the navy the bill contains the following provision: "One first class battleship, carrying as heavy armor and as powerful armament as any known of its class, to have the highest practicable speed and greatest practicable radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armament and armor, not exceeding $6,000,000." Three torpedo boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed and to cost exclusive of armament not to exceed $750,000 each, are provided for. The Secretary of the Navy is "authorized in his discretion to contract for or purchase subsurface or submarine torpedo boats to an amount not exceeding $1,000,000." The cost of such a program, it is estimated, will be $10,000,000 for the battleship, $2,250,000 for the three torpedo hnnl- rtastrnvars nnd Sl.000.000 for the submarines, or a total of $13,250,000. Regarding the big battleship, the report says: "The great naval powers of the world are building battleships of large tonnage. England has recently launched the Dreadnought, a ship of nearly 19,000 tons; Japan is building one of even larger tonnage, and Germany has recently increased the tonnage of some of her ships heretofore authorized to 18,000 tons. The Secretary of the Navy recommended that'if Congress shall authorize but one battleship this year 'it shall be the largest and strongest battleship that is known to be afloat.'" The committee recommends that the limit of the cost of the Connecticut be increased to $4,000,000, an increase of $380,000, made necessary "by the increased cost of construction in navy yards." The bill carries an appropriation of $100,000 to repair, equip and restore the old Constitution and put her as: far as practicable in her original condition, but not for active service. . HEROISM AT SEA. Thrilling Acts of Self-Sacrifice as Cadet Ship Sank. Hamburg, Germany.?The survivors of the Belgian cadet ship Cointe de Smet de Naeyer, -which foundered at sea, lauded at Cuxhaven and came to this city. Their story shows that uo storm or sudden squall was responsible for the disaster, but that it was due to a mysterious leak, which was not noticed for some time, presumably on account of tlie cement in the cargo soaking up the water. When it was noticed !t was too late. All hands were called to the pumps, hut the hand pumps failed and then the steam pumps gave out. As the water rose In the hold the ship set signals of distress, which were unavailing. When it was finally decided to abandon the ship great difficulty was experienced in launching the boats, the sea then wcsliing over the decks. Two of the boats were sunk, but the third got away with twenty-four persons in her. Commander Fourcault, First Officer Barns Van Suylen and Chaplain Kuypers refused to leave. Each was at his post when the ship broke in two and sank, carrying them down with it. The last seen of the chaplain he was making the sign of the cross. The first officer was picked up by the lifeboat after the ship sank, but seeing that the boat was too heavily loaded, he threw himself overboard and was drowned. Anti-Cigarette Law Valid. The Parks Anti-Cigarette law passed by the Inst session of the Indiana Legislature has been declared valid by the Supreme Court. The court interpreted the law as meaning that it is illegal to sell cigarettes in Indiana or keep them for sale, but it is not illegal to smoke them and it is not illegal to bring them iuto the State. A New York Life Not to Contest. Thomas A. Euckner, vice-president of the New York Life Insurance Company, denied a report that the company would test the constitutionality of the law requiring the publication of the list of policy holders. Public Must Pay 'Frisco Losses. The losses of the fire insurance companies in the San Francisco conflagra<inn will hnvp to lie naid by the sreneral public throughout the United States instead of the stockholders. Rates huve already been raised. Mail Burned at Toronto. Fire of unknown origin did $40,000 damage to the general postoffice at Toronto, Canada. The charred body of George Letray, the engineer, was found in the ruins. A great quantity of mail matter was burned and lost< but the registered mail in the vaults is safe. Gapon Story Confirmed. i The Novoe Yremya, the leading paper of Russia, has published a story which tends to confirm the reported, murder of Fathe; Gapon by revolutionists. ~ ? . ? POLICE FIRE ON STRIKERS Four Men Shot Down in Pennsylvania Coal Region. MINERS EXCITED AND ANGRY Counted Constabulary Fight For Life "VVlth Foreign Miners at Mount Carmol ? lUot Caused by lleport That the Terms of Agreement Were Kejected. Wilkesbarrc, Pa. ? Mobs of riotous foreigners attacked twenty-two men of Troop C of the Pennsylvania State Mounted Police at Mount Carmel. In repulsing tliem the troopers shot seventeen, four of whom were fatally injured, two others being in a critical condition. Four troopers are injured, L. F. Koch being the most seriously hurt The rioting started, following a mass v?aartf fa?*alr?n hnt?n minq TT'rtrlrnrC! uiuului5 ut iviclqu wlmjl ujiu-. itviuviw, at which their leaders told them the operators had refused*to grant any of their demands. An attack "was planned upon seventy employes of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at the Sayre colliery, where they are sinking a shaft and building a breaker, but mining no coal. Sheriff Sharpless asked for Troop C, and Lieutenant Smith and twenty-two men were rushed to the scene. When they reached Mount Carmel the Sheriff was not there and the local authorities were missing, but news of their arrival soon filled tJbe streets with an excited throng, and the Commercial Hotel, where they breakfasted, was surrounded and stoned by the crowd, while the troopers were hooted and cursed, and when they appeared at the door were pelted with stones. They charged with clubs, but the crowd fled before them and again fired volley after volley of stones at them. Four men had been struck and badly injurftl when Lieutenant Smith ordered the men to draw their revolvers and fire. At the first few volleys few were hit, the bullets going high, and the rioters replied with showers of stones and some shots. Three times the troopers loaded their revolvers and fired more than 150 shots. , The mob fought back, howling, cursing, throwing stones and clubs, charging upon the twenty-two nnd paying no heed to those who fell before the steady fire of the revolvers. Not until they had exhausted the last cartridges did the troopers withdraw and make their way hastily to the Sayre Colliery, where they found protection behind the high stockade. Meanwhile the rioters, picking up their wounded, slowly dispersed, and when Sheriff Sharpless arrived the town was quiet. He reached the colliery and took refuge behind the stockade with the troopers. In his opinion the force, although it was reinforced by the remaining members of Troop C. until Lieutenant Smith has more than fifty men, was not strong enough to attack the mob.. The town has a population of 9500 foreigners, and these were aroused to a high pitch of excitement. A large number of them are drinking heavily, and it is feared there may be serious iruuuii:. SCHOOL HEADS IN FATAL DUEL Professor U. F. Duff, Famed as an Archaeologist, Shot Dead. Deming, New Mexico.?Professor W, H. Dickey, superintendent of the Deming Public Schools, shot and instantly killed Professor U. Francis Duff, superintendent of the Luna County .schools, one of the most prominent educators in New Mexico and a student of archaeology who had achieved national reputation by his writings. The shooting took place shortly after noon in front of the postoffice in the main street of Deming. Dickey had been driving about town In a buggy during the racrning and had passed Professor Duff several times. As he drove in front of the postoffice Duff stepped out, drew a revolver from his pocket aud called to Dickey to stop. Quick rs a flash Dickey drew his revolver, leaped from the buggy and opened lire. Both pistols cracked at once. Professor Duff fell dead with a bullet through his head. Dickey was shot in the side, but is not believed to be fatally hurt. For come months there had been bad blood between the men, arising from differences in connection with the management of the Deming schools, although it is hinted that personal matters*have also entered into the quarrel. It is said that Duff had frequently threatened to shoot Dickey on sight. It was simply a question of which could shoot first. DIVIDES FRIARS' LAND MONEY. Vatican Settles Distribution of $7,000,000 Paid by United States. Rome, Italy.?The Vatican has definitely settled the question of the money, $7,000,000, paid by the United States for the friars' lands in the Philippines, having decided that the interest shall be divided into three separate sums and be distributed yearly by the Vatican, one to the Philippine dioceses, another to the institution erected by the religious orders in the Philippines, and the third to the orders, largely for their missions in ine X' ar i^asr, ana aiso to the support of the aged friars who "were in the Philippines. Cardinal Merry Del Val, papal Secretary of State, warmly urged a settlement on the above basis. W. J. BRYAN IN JERUSALEM. Astonished to Find Few Christian Tourists There. Jerusalem.?William J. Bryan, who is visiting Jerusalem in the course of Ills tour of the world, addressed a special meeting held in the Tabernacle by the Christian Missionary Alliance. He spoke for seventy minutes ou the life tfl' Christ and His teachings, and expressed astonishment at the small proportion of Christianss from America and Europe visiting the Holy Laud. Constitutional Democrats Win. The recent elections to the Russian Parliament show that the Conservatives and Reactionist parties are in a hopeless minority. The Constitutional Democrats hare a working majority ot seveu. Friars Accept Vatican Plan. Advices from Rome say tbnt the Do minicans and other religious orders have accepted the Vatican's plan foi the division of the $7,000,000 paid bj the United States for friars' lauds. V **;' ' ' ' v : *.T; ~: , ' 1 ?m YANKEES WIN AT ATHENS Secure More Trophies Than Any Other Nation Does. Official Score of American Athlete* i* IX First*, G Second* and 5 Thirds in 39' Brent*. Athens. Creech?The Olympic games of 1906 were brought to their official close when the King of Greece crowned '' - " ' > ?~ ?+a. * y T" ' > > INDIANS WIN $4,000,000 Government Must Pay For Removal of the Cherokees, Fifty Thousand Red men tJeneflt by Largest Private Claim Erer Allowed Agalmt the United State*. Washington, D. C.?Tie responsibility for tlie payment of the expenses I of the removal of the Cherokee Indians from the Eastern States to the In, dian Territory, more than half a cenI tury ago, has been decided by the Su! preme Court of the United States to rest with the Government. By this decision the largest private claim ever allowed against the United States Government was awarded. It will distribute $4,589,588 among the Eastern Cherokees, who number about 50,000 persons. Nearly all of this money will go to residents of Indl.m Territory. The opinion was handed down by Chief Justice Fuller, and affirmed the decision of the Court of Claims with slight modifications. These expenses were charged to the Cherokee treaty fund and the Indians alleged that this was improperly done. The question of Interest on the paym&nts also was raised. The' judgment of the Conrt of Claims was in favor of the Cherokees and against the United States, and called for the payment of about $4,000,000. The case has received much attention from Congress and in the courts. The modification in the decision of j the Court of Claims, which was made I by the Supreme Court, consisted in cutting out tne oia settlers or western Cherokees, thus giving the entire sum awarded to the Eastern Cherokees, who did not remove from their homes in North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee until 1838. Robert L. Owen, who is an Indian and represented the Eastern Cherokees, said that originally there were about sixteen thousand of them, but that their descendants number about fifty thousand. The award will be divided among them after expenses are paid. The original, claim was for $1,111,* 284, but the award carries an allowance of interest since 1838. The money used in the removal was part of a fund growing out of the sale of the Eastern lands of the Indians and held in trust for them. The Government es pecially resisted tie allowance of intdrest, but it was overruled. The old settlers were cut out because the court found that they had heretofore been fully reimbursed for their share of the expenditures from the trust funds. The decision provides for a per capita payment to the Cherokees who remain in North Carolina, Tennessee and other Southern States. There are about six ! thousand of them. They asked for onefourth of the entire award. Mr. Owens will receive a fee of fifteen per cent, of the award, the largest ever allowed in a. Supreme Court case. . PARIS MOBS IN CHECK. Min^r Riots on May Day?Troops Preventing a Serious Outbreak. Paris.?May Day was a day of high nervous tension and considerable excitement, but there has been no organized movement which by any possibility could be described as revolutionary. There were perhaps 100,000 persons on the streets in the character of manifestants and some of them suffered severely at the hands of the police and aniriiprs hut there was no concerted purpose on the part of the mob, and curiosity was the principal motive for the presence of a large majority of the crowd. About a thousand disorderly persons were arrested. The workmen, on the whole, were orderly, and. barring a few hotheads, I confined their demonsti-atlons to wear j ing scraps of pasteboard on their hats | or collars with the inscription: "A daj I of eight hours' work and a Sunday hoiI iday." BABY AND MOTHER DROWN. Mrs. Scheibner Leaped Off the Pier tc Save Her Little Son. New York City. ? Mrs. Marcus Scheibner and Jacob, her two-year-olc son, were drowned in the East Rivei : off the foot of Tenth street Mr Scheibner is a Jewish lecturer. Mrs. Scheibner, her husband anc two children, the second one a boy oi seven years old, went to the pier at th( foot of East Tenth street to spend ar hour or two. . Little Jacob ventured tooVear th( edge of the pier and slipped into th< water. Mrs. Scheibner, with a cry oi horror, ran to the pier's edge. She sav her baby swirling in an eddy and be I ing carried from the pier. She stooi ' dazed- for an instant, and then leapec j into the river after little Jacob. Botl were drowned. THOUGHT GOD HAD FORGOTTE> Woman of 108 Years. Despairing oi Death, Cuta Her Throat. Uniontown, Fa.?Mrs. Mary McKit ! trick, 10S years old, so far as knowr the oldest woman in America, kiilei ! herself at the home of her son, Lukt j McKittrick, an octogenarian, near this city, by cutting her throat with a carv j iug knife. She had been in ill healtl for several weeks and her miud hac | failed. She declared God had forgot ten her and had neglected to call her Mrs. McKittrick was born in Countj j Kildare. Ireland, March 17, 1793. The fact of her birth is duly recorded in tin j parish register, and the authenticity o1 ; her age is well established. She waj ! eighty years old when she came tc America. Gapon Executed as a Spy. A document purporting to have beer ? Ti?.,rti?f;rtno)(Tr \Vnrkr | iSSUGCL oy xue x\evuiuuuuaij ?. ~? : men's Tribunal of Russia claims thai ! Father Gapon was executed as a spy j after having admitted his guilt. Thinks Mother Sent Poison. j Josephine Davenport, the child liv I ln?? near Trenton, N. J.. who was poi souecl by candy, toid the authorities she believed her mother seut her the lios of sweets. ??????? 4 Newsy Gleanings. Conditions at Mount Vesuvius ar< reassuring. Up to this date the Filipinos have cost us ?35 apiece. South America is eager to buy see oud-haud automobiles. The endowment fuud of the coI!eg< at Newberry, S. C., has received ?23, 000 from Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Chi cago. Chairman Shonts says that the mos quito is almost extinct in the Cana zone. Panama. ine atuierus wuo huu jiutca m mc k>h* dium. There was a big; assemblage, aud all the athletes were received with applause. The men from the United ; States received an ovation, but the greatest reception of all was for the winner of the Marathon race, Herring, the Canadian. The athletes expressed themselves as highly delighted with the games. The Games Commission proposes that busts of the winners be placed in the Stadium. The foreign competitors are discussing the erection of a marble statue of Victory on the hill overlookI? *flifl CfoHSiim 1 U? LUW kllUU lUili. The overshadowing importance of the Marathon race in the estimation of the Athenians, as compared with the other events, is shown by the hero worship of which the winner has become the unwilling object. The Greeks have recovered from their disappointment that one of their countrymen did not win, and are now showering gifts and attentions on the victor. The Americans took eleven firsts, six seconds and Ave thirds out of twenty-nine events, in many of which, however, the Americans did not compete. James E. Sullivan, manager of the American athletes here, announced the American victory to President i Roosevelt in this cablegram: rg "Americans won hurdle, half mile and standing jump. Final score for Stadium events: America, eleven firsts, six seconds, five thirds; total, seventyfive points. Great Britain and all her > possessions, four firsts, six seconds and three thirds: total, thirty-nine points. Greece and Sweden tied for third piece. Great athletic victory for America." The list of American firsts, which does not include the winning by C. M. Daniels, New York A C., of the 100 metre swimming race, follows: -i/vr? Dunninff P a rp?Won bv AW J1CUC i.vuuum0 Archie Halm, Milwaukee A. C. Hurdles?Won by R. O. Leavitt, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. 400 Metre Running Race?Won by; Paul H. Pilgrim, N. Y. A. C. | 800 Metre Running Race?Won by; t Paul H. Pilgrim. N. Y. A. C. 1500 Metre Running Race?Won by, ' J. D. Lightbody, Chicago University. Running T?ng Jump?Won by Myer Prinstein, ...dh-American A. C., New: York. Standing Broad Jump?Won by Ray; C. Ewrr, N. Y. A. C. Standing High 'Jump?Won by Ray; : C. Ewry, N. Y. A. C. Free Style Discus Throwing?Won by Martin J. Sheridan, Irish-American A. C., New coru. Throwing the Weight?Won by Mar tin J. Sheridan, Irish-American A. 0., New York. . , 1500 Metre Walking Match?Won by, George N. Bonhag, Irish-American A.. ' C., New York. GOV. HOCH BY ACCLAMATION. Kansas Platform Approves Roosevelt'g Rate Regulation Message. Topeka, Kan.?Governor Hoch was . renominated by acclamation. i When be appeared to accept he reL ferred to the cats of the press and the ' growls of society, who used the name ? of respectable women in order to injure bim. This reference was to the recent ' hugging and kissing episode. . The platform declares for railroad rate regulation as outlined in jrresi* dent Roosevelt's message. State Officer of New York. Governor Higgins, of New York, appointed Otto Kelsey, State Controller, as Superintendent of Insurance; May> nard N. Clemeut as State Commissioner of Excise, and John Sanford, Congressman J. W. Wadsworth and H. K. i Knapp as State Racing CommissionL ers. Kansas Crop Prospects Bright. There were never better prospects L for a -bountiful crop than at present in f Kansas. Sunmer County has the best i wheat prospects that it has ever had i at this time of the year. i Eight Tin.:s a Murderer. ' At Dresden, Saxony, Max Dittrich, ' a leather worker, who was arrested rer cently on the suspicion of murderTcon* fessed that he j'ad killed eight persons J in the course of seven years. 1 Cotton Crop Reports Denounced. n? nmont cmn rpnnrfs were de UUt CLUlliCUV V. V|, -wr- -- - _ , nounced by the International Conference of Cotton Growers and Manufac- v< p, turers in session at Wasnington, D. C. ^ Fatalities at San Francisco. The Coroner of San Francisco stated i that it was likely that 1000 more bod1 ies would be found in the ruins, bring? ing the total of dead up to 1500. 5 Order Restored in Paris. J Order has been completely restored 1 in Paris, three-fourths of the strikers have returned to work and the public * is calm. r i Lottery Plant Seized. ; Secret Service men seized in New 5 York City a lottery company's printing > plant which had been shipped from , Wilmington, Del. Carteret. N. J.. Becomes Roosevelt. Carteret, N. J., hereafter will be i known as Roosevelt, in accordance "T Aoiolofnva i Willi a law ijaaseu uy mc u<r^ioimu>v t aud accepted at a special election, r There were 300 votes favoriiig tlie change and only one against iti Casli in Auto Ends o?.nk Run. Using an auto to rusr $200,000 to the Dollar Saviu/s Jank of Paiusville, s Ohio, the First National Bank of > Cleveland stopped a run on the former institution. In tbe Limelight. ^ Rojestvensky lias made a formal ap? plication to be retired. J President Roosevelt enjoys the reputation of being a careful marksman i among his brother hunters. The University of Pennsylvania recently conferred an honorary degree ou King Edward of Englanu. i (General Funoton no louger lias to fall back upon his Philippine laurels. He has a new crop of home growth. .Tobn W. Rindle ha *-arrived at Bel grade to iresent his .letters accrediting 1 him as Minister of the United States to Servia.