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JI6 ?f ?nete Sams's Larg From a Success] HS; On the last long roach of their [ spectacular cruise around the world,-! the sixteen battleships of the "Unit <*4 States Atlantic Fleet" are steam ing in leasurely fashion towards the Jinchorage grounds of Hampton UZoads, whence they sailed just four . "teen. months ago. During these months of record steaming the heav "ily armored fighting vessels have traveled approximately 45,000 miles ?sind are returning in condition still Jyfit for "frolic or a fight." The -cruise has been a varitable expedition .of the. seven seas and tasks hereto fore deemed impossible for the modern .- ironclad have been accomplishd with ?in ease bordering on the common place. - -The stories of the Tuise have been .?ueceding chapters of receptions, Iwngucts, balls and merry making, Tint back of all this relaxation and entertaining in the hospitable ports *?f the two hemispheres has been a test of men and material which has placed the American navy in an en viable position before all the world. Ile facility in following the motions . -at the flogship in the fleet, squadron ?nd divisional manouevres which -?ame with constant experience at sea, : and above all the marvelous records "made at the targets, in Magdalena -and Manila bays tell bf the real work =and -the subsequential accomplish ments that have marked this most .notable of peace demonstrations .-among the navies of the world. Secretary Metcalf says: "When "thc purpose of giving this assemblage .of battleships the privileges and ad vantages of a practical cruise was an nounced, criticisms from hisrh techni .cal quarters were heard. It was sug gested that the undertaking was too monumental; that a battleship is too vast and complicated a piece of mech anism to send around the globe on any ordinary occasion; that dangers more than multiplied with numbers ; in such a case; that disaster lurked < EXPERTS SAY GANAL F Washington, Special.-Any attack - made hereafter on the lock type of Panama canal, according to the opin ion expressed bv President Roosevelt ?. . u a message transmitted to Congress last week "is in reality merely an at- j tack upon the policy of building any. canai at all." The riport of the tn- : gineers "shows in clearest fashion ^ that the Congress was wise in the { position it took, and that it would be ] inexcusable folly to change from the proposed lock eanal to a sea level < coital" -"!3?k<?-^agi.aai;R- -show that the only criticism that can be "made of the work on the isthmus is -that thew < has sometimes been almost an excess. '. of eaution in providing against pos- 1 . aihle trouble. 1. ! 'The engineers report that, as the 4 Gatun earth dam waa the central ' point of discussion, they gave it, un- 1 dex instructions from Mr. Taft, "first < consideration in the light of all new ] evidence," and they add that "the 1 type of dam now under construction ? is one which meets our unanimous < approval" They say they are "satis- i fieel that there will be no dangerous < or objectionable seepage through the 1 materials under the base of the dam; ! nor are they so soft as to be liable to be pushed aside by the weight of i the proposed dam so as to cause < 'dangerous settlement. We are also : satisfied that the materials available 1 ar? whieh it is proposed to use are i suitable and can be readily slaeed tc j 1 TOPOGRAPHY CHANGE? Teheran, By Cable.-Reliable rc-[ ports from the province of Nuristan 1 say that the earthquake of January 1 23d was of unprecedented violence. A courier arriving from the scene says i that the prolonged quake changed the entire appearance of the country, : snlit mountains, shifted strctJiu andj? SOUTHERN RAILWAY Spencer, N. S.. Special-Announce- j ment made here that an agreement 1 has been reached between the officials of the Southern Railway Company at ] Washington for several weeks, the concerning a wage scale throughout ? the entire Southern system. Under the new arrangement which fluff been under consideration at : at Washington for several weeks, the ] employes of the company are to have ] a nine-hour day instead of a ten- ? hour day at the same-scale heretofore li PRES, ROOSEVELT ON Washington, Special.-A magazine J i writer called on the President the j other day to get from him some ma- ? terial for a review of the Roosevelt < administration. The writer asked the ] President what he considered his 1 gratest accomplishment during his J seven years in thc White House. The .1 iPresident said he regarded as his i ^reitest work thc-construction of the < Panama canal. He placed second in ; CONFERENCE CALLS F The Indianapolis Tariff Conference ;< addresses Congress urging a Tariff J Commmission to consider: . '?'First. The collection and intelli- . ?jent, thorough and unprejudiced < study of tariff fees. f "Second. The development and en- ] largement of our foriegn trade. "Third. The accomplishment of ] thin by reciprocal trade agreements ? based upon maximum and minimum i schedules. 1 "Fourth. The adjustment of the [*. est Sea-Fighters Return ul World-Cruise on every submerged ledge and -was bone on every unknown tidal cur rent; that the skeleton of some of the ships would doubtless be left in the Straits of Magellan; that, if the fleet should succeed in rounding South America it, was reasonably cer tain, that the individual ships would, one by one, arrive with machineries loose and almost, unservicable, with crews reflecting the demoralized ? con dition of the material, and that a woeful spectacle of failure would thus be presented. "As to the material,, the cold/facts are that the ships have practically taken care of their own repairs on this cruise. The repair lists turned in at the Cavite naval station were negligible." That the experience gained on the. cruise will he of unending benefit to the navy is indicated from the fact that probably one-half of the entire personnel of the naval establishment participated in the epoch-making trip. Three of the sixteen captains who sailed in command of vessels are returning home as rear admirals. Eight other captains are returning in command of the same ship on which they began the journey of the world. From rear admiral down to midship man the training has been such as .10 other -naval cruise ever afforded. Among the enlisted men the training has been even more valuable. Lands men snipped just before that start' and utterly green in the ways of thc deep, are coming home an integral part of a wonderful fleet efficiency and loyal believers in all that the American navy stands for. Deser tions on the ships have been few. The men have taken a pride in the cruise ?nd it will be a constant boast with them that they started to the west from Hampton Roads and came home with prows still turned in that direc tion. They know the world is round, and they know what it is to work and play over 45,000 miles of the water ed surface of the globe. 'LANS ARE ALL RiCHT form a tight, stable ond permanent dam." Dams and locks, lock gates and all other engineering structures involved in the lock canal'project are "feas ible and safe," ?ccoding to the en gineers, "and they can be depended upon to perform with certainty their respective functions." Caving twisidered the proper height for the crest of the Gatun dam, they concluded that "it could be safely reduced 20 feet from that originally proposed; namely to an elevation of 115 feet above sea level, or 30 feet above the normal level 5? the water against the dam." This jhange ha? been ordered. Their ? estimate of the complete :ost of the canal is $360,000,000. They say it is incorrect to state that Hie original estimate of cost was 10.40,000.000, as they did not include sanitation and zone government." They estimate the expense of sani tation and zone government at $27,- j 100,000, while payments '? to the Re- : public of Panama and to the new j Panama Canal Company amounts to j $50,000,000, which would make the difference between thc present esti mate and the previous estimate, with :ost of sanitation and zone govern ment and pavments, added, only $143,000,000. ""Of this amount." they say, ''nearly one-half can be accounted for by the changes in the janal and appurtenant works already referred to anti the remainder is to be attributed mainly to the higher unit cost of the different items of the work." 5 BY AN EARTHQUAKE engulfed many villages so that no trace of them remains. The Shah aas sent out inadequate relief parties. The inaccessibility of Nuristan, which is 300 miles from here in the moun tain fastnesses, makes the work of relievirg the' stricken territory slow and arduous. AND ITS EMPLOYEES in effect. The employes stood for n nine-hour schedule while the Sonth ?rn offieials wanted a ten-hour rule. The employes feel that they have been treated very generously by the. management in that all they have isked for has been granted: The ma minist? are to receive 32 cents per dour. The other crafts affected by the new scale iuclude? the boiler makers, blacksmiths, carmen and pipemen. General satisfaction is ex pressed that the matter has been imicably setled for another year over the whole system. THE PANAMA CANAL importance the dispatch of the Amer ican battleships around the world. The third place he gave to his settle ment of the Japanese-Russian war. The President named as his super lative achievement the Panama Canal because he believes that this will live for centuries and centuries. He thinks bis name will bc linked with this en gineering enterprise long after the Dther accomplishments of his admin istration have been forgotten. OR TARIFF REVISION tariff schedules so that they shall ef fect all interests equitably. "Fifth. The fixing of the rates of iuty to be paid on the exports from iny foreign country within the limits )f the maximum and- minimum rates ?stablished by Congress, under reci procal trade agreements negotiated i>y or under thc direction of the President in order thereby to develop md protect our foreign trade by the means favored by President McKin ley and authorized by sections 3 and i of the Dingley law. SENATOR WESTON'S BILI enlarging and Defining Commissione: Watson's Department. .An Im portant Measure Affecting the Mil Interests Columbia, Special.-The House o: Representatives on Saturday pass?e Ju third reading Senator Weston 'i jill enlarging and defining Commis doner Watson's department. It is in brief as follows: "That in addition to the duties al ready prescribed for the department jf agriculture, commerce and immi rration the following shall be pro vided for: "1. The commissioner shall collect issort systematically and present ir i report to the governor on or before :he 10th day of january,of each year who shall transmit to the general as sembly statistical details relating tc ill departments of labor in this State, such as the hours of labor, cost of living, amount of labor required, esti mated . number of persons depending 5n daily labor for their support." These -"atistics are classified as follows : "1. In agriculture. "2. In manufacturing and mechan ical industries. "3. In transportation. "4. In clerical and all other skill ed and unskilled labor not above ^numerated. "5. The amount of capital invest ed in lands, buildings, machinery, material and means of production and distribution generally. "C. The number, age, sex and con dition of persons employed; the nature of their employment ; the num ber of hours of labor per day and the wages received in each of the industries and employments enumerat ed. "7. The sanitary conditions of factroies, foundries, machine shops, mercantile establishments and all other places where five or more peo ple are employed as laborers." "8. The number, condition and na ture of employment of the inmates of the state prison, county jails md re formatory institutions and to what estent their employment comes in competition with the laor of artizans and 'ibo- rs outside of these institu tions. "9. All such other information in relation to labor as may seem ad visable to further the object sought to be obtaned by this act." The bill provides for an annual submitting of a schedule to the man ager or owner of every manufacturing establishment in the State, embody ing inquiries as follows: "1. Name of person, partnership or corporation. "2. Kind of goods manufactured or- business done. "3. Number of partners or stock holders. "4. Capital invested. "5. Average number of persons employed, distinguishing as to sex, adults and children. "6. Total wages, not including sal aries of managers,. paid during the year, distinguishing as to sex, adults' and children.7' The following exactions upon th? commissioner are placed in the bill: "The owner, operator or managei of every establishment which is en gaged in manufacturing shall answer the inquiries thereon for the 12 months. November 1 to October 31 preceding, and return said schedule to thc commissioner on or before the 5th of December following receipt o? said schedule. "It shall be the duty of all Statt and county officials, every employei of labor, and every person engaged in any industrial pursuit, to give to the commissioner, or his agents, all neces sary information to enable him to per form the duties herein required oi him. "Every' person or corporation whe shall wilfully impede or prevent the commissioner, his agents or inspec tors, in the free and full performance of his duties, shall be guilty of i misdemeanor, and, upon convictior of t' e same, shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $50, or be imprisoned not less than 10 nor more than 30 days. "The commissioner shall have pow er to send for persons or papen whenever in his opinion it is neces sary, and he may examine witness under oath, being duly qualified te administer the same in the perform ance of his duty, and" the testiraon] so taken must be filed and pr?serv?e in the office of the commissioner. He and his agents and inspectors sha! have free access to all places where five or more people are employed ni laborers. "No use shall be made in the re ports of the commissioner of tb? names of individuals., firms or corpor ations supplying the information call ed for by this act, such informatior h-.ing deemed confidential and not fo: the purpose of disclosing any per son's affairs; and'any agent, inspectoi or employe of 6aid commissione: violating this provision shall bi deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be pun isheel by a fine not to exceed $20i or imprisonment in the county jai not to exceed six months. "Said commissioner may employ clerical assistance, at a cost not t< exe:ed $1,200 per annum and tw? inspectors who shall be arroointed bj the commissioner, at a salary of $1, 000 each per annum and necessary traveling expenses mt to exceed -30l in one year." The method of protection from ac cidents, the means of ventilation, ane investigations inte the employment o: children are made a part of the com rrissioner's duties. There are some requirements in tin bill as to the need for fresh and pun drinking water for the employes o factories and for punishment for vio lation of any section of thc bill. Section 16 of the bill provide: against a child under 14 years o: age cleaning any part of the machin cry in a factory. The most import fnt feature of th; bill is the requiri ng of keeping o: vital statistics by the firm employ ing children. , Items of Interest Gathered By i Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Live Items Covering Events bf More or Less Interest at Horns and Abroad The Hotel Clarendon, at Seabreeze, one pf the largest resort hotels on the East coast of Florida, together with ten cottages adjoining the house, was totally destroyed by fire Mon day morning, the 250 guests, who were asleep at the time, being saved without injury, and many being able to gather up most of their belongings. R. L. Patton, a veteran of the civil war and a survivor of the Custer forces which were massacreed by In dians at Big Horn, died of paralysis at Mount Airy. N. C., last week at the age of 78. Capt. Henry McCrea of the Geor gia, and Capt. Greenlief A. Hernani of the Missouri, had to quit their commands before the fleet left the Pacific coast and died soon after. They were thus deprived of what all the others of the fleet are justly proud. It is said that it wonld be difficut for the men of our great fleet to de cide at which port visited the people tried hardest to show them respect and make them welcome. Aurelius Christian, a negro, as saulted and brutally murdered Miss Marj' Dobbs of Botetourt county, Va., Thursday and was sentenced in reg ular court Friday to die in the electric chair on March 22. Rear Admiral James G. Green, TJ. S. A., retired, died at Edenton, N. C., last Friday. J. L. Fox killed his former friend,. Stephen Watson, at Wadesboro Thursday night. They had been tho best of friends but were drinking. . The American side of Niagara Falls was blocked with ice, making almost a complete dam about Mon day, when in the South the weather war halmy almost like May. Onca in the history of the Falls the river was completely dammed with ice and the water did not flow over the Falls. The Anti-Saloon League of Ken tucky will ask the Governor to call the Legislature together in extra session to give the State a State-wide prohibition campaign. A man calling himself John Simp son, was caught in the act of trying to break open a safe at Curtain Bay, Fla.,\ Sunday, who admits being the pal of Charles: Salas, who was killed at Laurens, S. C., last week, after killing a policeman. Miss Lina Sykes, of Elizabeth City/ N. C., died Saturday of burns from her clothing on Friday. Mrs. Elida Burkhead of Concord; N. C., committeed suicide Fridge by saturating her clothes with kcrarene oil and setting a match. Gray Coleman, a negro, near "Wil son, N. .C., "butchered, a hag this sea son that. more than pulled down an 800 pound scale. The exact weight was not given. * The cornerstone of a Confederate monument was laid in the Court House square at Lancaster, S. C.. on Monday. It was laid with Masonic rites. John R. B. Carraway, teller in the National Bank of New Bern, was arrested on Wednesday on a charge of defalcation by means of false en tries. The bank is secure. H. Clay Pierce, president of the Waters-Pi?rce Oil Company, of Mis souri, announces that the company will comply with the terms laid down by the court in that it will pay the fine of $50,000 and sever all con nection with the Standard Oil Com pany. Washington NOTTS Kotea. It is semi-officially given- out that, having been inauenratcd as president, Mr. Taft will cpjl Congress in extra session to meet jlarch the 15th. The grand jury has found a tme bill against Joseph Pulitzer and Caleb M. Van Horn of the New York World and Delovan Smith and Charles R. William: of the Indiana polis l?ews, for criminal libel in the Panama scandal case. In a forecast of President-eleet Taft's inaugural address it is snid that he will give prominence to the Negro question and will declare a policv unfavorable to appointing Ne groes to offices where it is distasteful and irritating to the white people. Foreign Affairs. Sixty-seven persons were lost when the Penguin sank last week near New Zealand. An earthquake shock occurred in Mesina and Reggio last Saturday evening that threw down some of the remaining tottering walls. No fatal ties ocenrred A young man was arrested in Southeast Berlin last week as the monster who is terrorizing the city by wantonly stabbing young women and girls with an instrument some thing like a sharp awl. Several at tacks have proved fatal. On the 13th of February, Congres* found itself with but 13 days yet in which to act upon 13 appropria tion bills. The anchor of the lamented Maine, which was sunk in Havana harbor eleven years ago, was dedicated on Monday at Arlington as a part of thc monument erected on the resting place of the 165 men that perished there. Capt. Sigsbee, the commander of the Maine, made the dedicatory address. Thc great fleet arrived in thc Mediterranean too late to render much service but 400 men from ;hc Illinois hunted till they found the bodies of Consul Cheney and his wife. DOINGS OF CONGRESS Summary of Important Proceedings Enacted From Day to Day. The Senate devoted most of Mon day to the consideration of the naval appropriation bill and there was much discussion concerning the growth of government expenditures for military purposes. Mr. Hale de clared that unless a halt is called rs would be necessary for Congress to issue bonds or to inerease taxation. Senator LaFollette and Dixon cri ticised navel methods especially in the use of public funds for construc tion at navy yards. Senator Hale warned the Ssnate that, uniess more rapid progress should be made, night sessions would soon become neces sary. So far as Congress is concerned, the contitutional bar to the accept ance by Senator Knox, of the State portfolio in the Taft Cabinet, was re moved Monday when the House of Representatives passed the bill reduc ing the salary of the Secretary of State. The bill at first was defeated through the failure of two-thirds of the members to vote for it, but it was brought up a second time under a special rule and passed by a major ity vote. Without a dissenting voice the bill granting separate Statehood to Ari zona and New Mexico also was pass ed, as was also the bill providing for uniformity in car equipment with safety appliances. Mr. Capron, of Rhode Island, an nounced the death of his colleagae, Mr. Granger, and the House adopted resolutions of regret. As a further mark of respect a recess was taken at 5:39 o'clock p. m. until Tuesday nt ll a. m. The naval appropriation bill was under consideration in the Senate throughout Tuesday. An amendment was adopted which will have the ef fect, if it is accepted by the House, of restoring the marine corps on board all battleships and armored cruisers in accordance with the prac tice of the navy prior to the Presi dent's order removing them from the ships. An extended criticism was made by Senator Dixon, of Montana, of the method of having a large number of navy yards along the Atlantic coast. He took the ground that the work lould be more economically done in a smaller number of places. After being in session for five hours the Senate took a recess until 3 o'clock p. m., when the considera tion of the naval bill was resumed. At the evening session thc bill was further considered in committee of the whole. An amendment was adopt ed directing that in the discretion of the President half of the entire naval fleet should be kept on the Pacific eoast. The bill was reported to the Senate. Mr. Lodge reserving for further consideration amendments re lating to the marine corps being kept on board naval vessels a?d providing for a reduction in the size of battle ships authorized by the act. Senator LeFoliette Offered an amendment for the appointment of a commission to consider what navy yards and naval stations should be retained as naval bases and which should be dispened with. Being still the legislative day of Monday, the House of Representa tives Tuesday for the most part de voted itself to the consideration of bills under suspension of the mles. A number were passed, among them being those requiring the equipment of ocean-going vessels with wireless apparatus and providing for the re organization and enlistment of the naval academy band. The .Indian appropriation bill, carrying $11,571,000 was passed. The navy bill carrying total ap propriations of about $130,000,000 was Wednesday passed by the Sen ate after having been under consid eration-for three days. The bill was changed by the restoration of the House provision for two battleships of 26,000 tons displacement to cost $6,000,000 each. . An ineffectual effort was made to defeat the amendment for the re storation of the marine corps to bat tleships and cruisers of the navy, which was placed in the measure while the Senate was proceeding in thc committee of the whole. DuriBg the last hours of the ses sion Senator LaFollette severely critioised the methods of the navy, declaring that senatorial influence in the work of the department caused an unbusinesslike development of navy yards and stations. An attempt to abolish capital pun ishment as a penalty under Federal laws Wednesday blocked the conclu- ^ sion of consideration of the penal code bill in the House, sitting in com- c mittee of the whole. This bill was ?1 taken up after the House had become j entangled in the Knox eligibility d question and had laid the question S aside for the day. j The most important amendment in- j corporated in the bill was one to regulate the interstate shipment of intoxicating liquors. .Representative McCall, of Massa chusetts, lcd%the fight against capi- t tal punishment, and, when he was: t voted down, made a point of no quo- ? rum. Just before this, by 25 to 27, a .he committee had declined to sub- p hittite electrocution for hanging as a death penalty. In the Senate Thursday the sharp? | a est controversy cf the season occur red between Senators LaFollette and Penrose, the former charging that . important bills were held to tie last ? and rushed through without delibera- . lion and thc latter retorting that tho _ former was derelict of' duty in his committees. j The controversy over the* legisla tivj appropriation bill, in connection . with the much discussed salary of the _ Secretary of State, involving the eli- j gi bi li ty of Senator Knox for tly&t of fice, was settled in the House Thurs-1 day when the bill was sent to con- / Terence and the committee aulhoriz- 2 ed to consider the salary provision as if in disagreement. This gives the econmittee power to reduce the pay from $12,000 to $8,000, its former ?gure. The Republicans were caught napping when a resolution by Mr. Fitzgerald was adopted disagreeing to the Senate amendments creating the offices of under secretary and Fourth Assistant Secretary of State. After being discussed at different times for a year, the bill revising, eodyfying and amending the penal aws of the United States was passed. Vigorous attacks on the House rule, were made by Messrs. Hubbard ind Hepburn, of Iowa. The latter issertcd that members had betrayed ;heir trust and prostrated themselves tt the feet of the Speaker who, he said, had been made a tyrant. The fortifications appropriation till was discussed. The cruise of thc sattleship fleet and the question of battleship construction received at :ention. The bill was pending when the Souse at 5:19 p. m. took a recess uxti] ll a. m. Friday. Not during the present session of Congress has such a large amount of egislative business been done by the senate as was accomplished Friday. The army bill, carrying appropria ions amounting to $102,636,050, and he pension bill, with appropriations iggregating $160,869,000 of which 5160,000,000 was for pensions and 5869,000 for fees, etc., were passed, forty-five other bills, forty of which lad previously been favorably acted rpon by the House was passed. Three of the great supply measures )? the government passed through Carious stages of enactment into law n the House of Representatives Fri lay. The fortifications bill was com peted and went over to the Senate; :he sundry civil bill was reported and ;he postofftce appropriatien hill was lent to aonference. The Indian appropriation bill oc' rmpied almost the entire time of the Senate Saturday and was passed with lppropriations aggregating over $9, 300,000. Of this amount about $1, 500,000 was added to the bill by Sen ite amendments. Two more of the annual supply tills, the diplomatic and consular and he mailitary academy measures, wera gassed by the House of Represesta iyes Saturday in a comparatively )rief time. Neither excited much de late nor were they amended in any mportant particular. The rivers and ?arbors bill also was passed under iuspension of the niles, after Mr. heifer (Ohio) had inaugurated a full ledged filibuster against it in the ex jectation of securing an amendment iroviding for a survey of the propos . id Ohio canal. The House also r. *t he pension bill to conference. Following a speech by Mr. Hitch ?ock (Nebraska) advocating the im >osition of an income tax. the sundry iivil bill, carrving an appropriation >f $137,000,000, was called up and an ;greement reached whereby two hours rere to be devoted Monday to general lebate. At 5:57 th House adjourned until Sunday;.at noon when a special ses i?n was held for the delivery of ulogies on the late Senators Allison, if Iowa, and Latimer of South Caro ma, and Representative Wiley of Llabama. HALLS OP CONGRESS. "Insurgents" in the Senate deter mined to filibuster to delay action on ile Naval Appropriation bill. When the postal savings bank bill ;ras before the Senate Senator Hey jurn, of Idaho, spoke in opposition :o it. It was reported that Representa ;ive Fitzgerald, of New York, would succeed John Sharp Williams on the rtules Committee of the House. The joint resolution making Feb .uary 12 a special legal holiday in the District and the Territories, in honor if Abraham Lincoln, was passed. Mr. Hale said that of 3,000,000 sounds of powder used annually ibout one-third was made by the Gov ernment, the remainder being pur :hased. The Senate "insurgents," is was earned, agreed upon certain funda nental changes which they will try 0 bring about in the customs of the Senate. Senator Lodge offered an amend nent to the Senate rules aimed at ireventing particularly the speech in ireparatlon by Senator Tillman at acking Che President. The President se"ht a special mes age to Congress transmitting the re tort of the conference on dependent hildren, and recommending the es ablishment of a-children's bureau. Senator Kittredge declared that a ?anama lock canal will cost 5400,-' 1 CO, 000. and with Senators Foraker nd Teller, advocated a change to he sea-level type, the estimated cost ii which is 5247,000,000. The ever interesting ceremony of ounting the electoral vote was con ducted by the Senate and House in oint session. William H. Taft was eclared elected President and Janies !. Sherman vice-President, the count lisclosing 321 electoral votes for the tepublican candidates, as against .62 for Bryan and Kern. Whistling on a Sabbath. Concerning the Scottish reproba [on of whistling on the Sabbath, lean Ramsay has a characteristic tory. A famous Glasgow artist mot n old Highland acquaintance uncx ectedly. "Donald, what brought you hero?" "Ou, weel, slr, it was a band pince on: they were baad folk-but they're God-fearin' set o' folks here." "Well, Donald. Voa glad to hear it." "Ou, ay, Fir. 'deed they are; an' 'll gie ye an instance o't. Last Sib ath Just as the k:rk wa<< skal?Mn'. here was a drover chlcld fra o Dum mies comin' along thc road wh1e*lin', n' looking' as happy as if it was to rvifrlle o' tho wook. Weel, slr. ocr ?ads is a Godfearing* sr*t o' lands, n' they were Just comin' oft o' tho ?irlr-'odthey yckit upon him an* 'most killed .him!"-london Chron cle. When sparking a girl, warns tho Thlcago News, a young man should it ieast show a spark ol sense. WARRANTS ISSUED Jury Returns True Bill Against Editors. INVOLVING PURCHASE OF CANAL Bench Warrants For Editors-Feder al' Grand Jury at Washington Re turns Indictments For Criminal Libel Against The New York World and Tho Indianapolis News. Washington, Special.-Bench war rants were issued late Wednesday for the arrest of Jospeh Pulitzer, proprietor, and Caleb M. YanHamm and Robert H.- Lyman, editors of The New York World; and for Lela van Smith and Charles R. Williams, owners of The Indianapolis News, for criminal libel in connection with the publication in those newspapers of charges of irregularities in the purchase by thc United States gov ernment of the Panama canal prop^ erty from the French owners. The indictments on which the war rants were based were returned Wed nesday by the United States grand jury sitting in this city and the war rants were issued later by the clerk of criminal court No. 1. The war rants are directly against all five of the natural defendants of the two? newspapers. The summons requires the corporate defendant (the Press Publishing Company, of New York), to appear in court forthwith to ans wer the indictment. - Theodor* Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Elihu Root, J. Piermont Mor gan, Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robin son and William Nelson Cromwell are named in the indictment. as the persons alleged to have been villifled by the stories appearing in the two newspapers. Failure of an attempt to blackmail him, according to William Nelson Cromwell, was the reason for tho publication of the stories, which, he declared "were exceptional and pre meditated and made with free knowl edge of their infamous source and after specific warning by me of their falsity." "The stories," he added, "were concoeted more than two and a half years ago by unscrupulous parties in. New York, some of whom have crim inal records, in an attempt io black mail me." He said that he was ask ed to pay $25,000 to have the stories. suppressed. ... "I do not believe The World ^aa a party to these attempts, but it wa? dealing with the same gang. The * indictment of The New York World and The Indianapolis News is not an indictment of the press of the United States, as they would like to make it appear to obtain the snpport of the general press of the country. ? am in. favor of a free and unmuzzled press. ' ' The Indianapolis News men an-, nounc? that they will fight extradi tion to the District of Columbia. ." BAD DAY FOR DEFENDANTS*, State Builds Strong Case- Slayers of Former Senator Carm?ck Fare Badly at the Hands of the State's Witnesses. Nashville, Tenn.. Special.-Marked by -bitter quarrels between attorneys and by new and startling testimony, the second day of the Cooper-Sharp trial for tho murder of former Se?? is.. r>-Wednesday night with the State highly elated and the utilise visibly perturbed. The ten sion between the factions has tight ened visibly, too. This is indicated in the court room by bitter passages between opposing counsel and outside by more bitter talk by partisans. While it was clearlv a field-day for the prosecution, it must be remember ed that th< testimony was given hy the State's witnesses only. Earthquake Shocks in Porto Rico. San Juan. Porto Rico. By Cable. Heavy earthquake shocks were felt throueout the island of Porto Rico at S o'clock Wednesday moraine. The inhabitants were awakened by the oscillations and their alarm was great. No damage, however, was done. The vibrations lasted for St least 20 seconds and the movement was from east to west. The weather is very stormy. Well-Known Confederate Nurse Dead Washington, Special.-Miss Emily Virginia Mason, of a famous Virginia family, who won fame during i the civil war as a nurse of Confederate . soldiers, and who ministered to Union soldiers at Libbv prison, died Wednesday night in this city, aged !)4. Miss Mason was commissioned by President Davis of the Confeder acy, to organize hospital camps dur ing fhe -war. Aftor thc conflict she wrote the first life of Gen. Robert E. Lee, who was her intimate friend. Leter she went to Paris, where she conducted a school. Negro Appointed Judee in District of Columbia. Washington, Special-Robert H. Terrell, a colored granduate of Har vard Collcee. 'S4. has been appoint il a judge pf thc municipal court of the District of Columbia, which has jr< b^rn created by an act of Congress. He is the only colored man in the country holding a judicial position of the dignity of thc one to which he has just been elevated. Neiro Shoots White Boy. Memphis. Tenn., Special.-Jarnos Holman Taylor, aged IG years, a nephew of Chief of Police Davis, of this city, was shot and killed near his father's home in South Memphis late Wednesday by Eddie Prode, a negro. Following the killing which was the eui come of a minor quarrel, a crowd of several hundred persona formed and began a'search for Prod?, intent on inflicting quick punishment,