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* . HOW WE DO GROW! ] i ? i I Census Office issues State-1 ment as to Population. i EIGHTY MILLION PEOPLE The Bulletin Shows Estimates of 1903 + for All Cities of 25.000 Pcpula tion and Upwards in the Southern States. I ' The Census bureau at Washington j i issued a bulletin Thursday, which gives the estimated population of the United States for 1903, exclusive of Alaska and the insular possessions ot the United States, at 79,900,3S9. This | , is an increase of 3,905,814 since the census of 1900. According to these estimates New York is now a city of 3,716,139 inhabitants; Chicago is rapidly approaching the two million mark, having 1,873,880 inhabitants; Philadelphia has 1,367,716; St. Louis has just passed and Boston has almost reached the six hundred thousand mark; Baltimore * has 531,313; Cleveland, Ohio, is now a considerable distance ahead of C'n? cinnati, which cities have 414,950 and 332,934, respectively. Detroit, Milwaukee and New Orleans have just passed 300,000 and Washington is close to that figure. Tfcft foBnwinsr are the estimates of *" the population in 1903 of all cities giv- ! en 25.000 and upwards in the southern states: Arkansas?Little Rock, 42,036. *' * Kentucky?Covington, 44.759; Lexingtct\ 2-7,S09; Louisville, 215,402; i Newport, 29,315. < Louisiana?New Orleans, 300,625. i 7 I * Tennessee? Chattanooga. 30,469; j Knoxvitle, 34.344; Memphis, 113,669; ; 4 ISflishville, .82.711. Texas?Dallas, 44,159; Fort Worth,"! 2'?192; Galveston, 31,742; Houston, ! 56^760; San Antonio, 58,016. Florida?Jacksonville, 31,79$. Georgia?Atlanta, 96.550; Augusta, I 41,283; Savannah. 64,562. South Carolina?Charleston, 56.062. \ Virginia?Norfolkt 55.149; Richmond' 86,148. ' i Alabama?Birminghain. 42.087; Mo, bile. 40,636; Montgomery, 32,884. There are no cities credited with ) 25,000 population in Mississippi and North Carolina. . * Considered by states New York lends in population, with more than seven and a half million;; Pennsylvania exceeds six and a half million, and Illinois has passed five million; Texas has over three million, having passed Missouri. But twenty-two states now have less than a million inhabitants, and four fcien exceed two million. INDIANS DIE IN WRECK. * Untutored Children of the Forest Mangled in a Railroad Smash-Up. A fast mail crashed into a passenger trs&'.on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad near Maynard, Ohio, Thursday morning, causing the death of three > Indians and injuries to twenty-three others who were on their way to New York for exhibition purposes. After the bodies of the dead had been removed from the wreck and \ placed in a row on the prairie beside I the tracks, an incident probably upparalleled in railway records took place. The uninjured amvng the Ja dlans gatbc-red about and led by Chief j Iron Tail, solemnly chanted the Indian "death song." The dead are: Kill Head, Philip Iron Tail, Thomas Comelast. ? Fatally injured: Big Chief White j Horse, Luther Standing Bear, Annie j Gooseface. / Those less seriously injured were: Mrs. Thomas Comelast, Tommie Come- ! last. 6-year-old boy; Sammy Lonebear, ' Abraham Goodinow, Blind Eagle, Lit- ( tie Elk, Charge the Enemy. Head Chief | Highball, William Sitting Bull, son of Chief Sitting Bull, 27 years old. i STATEHOOD BILLS OPPOSED. ! > . t I Minority Report Filed in House by Tennessee Representative. Majority and minority views of the t ^ statehood bill, recently reported from the house committee on territories, were filed in the house Friday by Rep- j resentatives Hamilton, of Michigan, and Moon, of Tennessee, respectively. j Mr. Hamilton reviews the provisions ; of the bill at length and urges the ' * necessity and justice of admitting the j four territories as two states. The | minor.'ty views are signed by Repre- | sentatives Moon, Loyd, Robinson, of , Indiana and Thayer. WATSON BACK AT CLEVELAND, j Reiterates Charges that Ex-Presider.t ! # Entertained Negroes. Hon. Tfccmas E. Watson has replied j to the denial made by ex-President ? Cleveland that he (Cleveland) invited j Fred Douglass and his white wife to receptions at the executive mansion. Mr. Watson forcibly re'terates e\ery charge made and places the mat- 1 ter once more up to Mr. Cleveland. - - ' MOROS COURT DEATH. ! Genera! Wood's Troops Forced to Slay j Treacherous Fiiipinos After Peaceful Overtures Failed. I i The following bulletin was posted j at the war departmen*. Washington. j | Monday: General Wood reports that he invii- ! ed Sultan Taraca to meet him at Yfc- j ars on March CI for consultation and J that the sultan refused to come and ! instead made extensive hostile preparations. Marching columns from Marshut and Vicars left on the 2d of April to assemble the cavalry. The Vicars' column was fireci mio aooui | ten miles from Vicars and one enlisted man was seriously wounded. Til's Marshut column was strongly resisted at the mouth of the Taraca river, although every effort was made to accomplish a peaceful landing; two en listed men were seriously wounded. The combined forces assembled in the valley on the 4th of April and a large number of fortified cottas were destroyed from April 4th to April 7th. The troops then returned to their proper stations. Newcomb, Company K, Seventeenth infantry, and Wampler, company D. Twenty-third infantry, were killed. Every effort was made to bring the Moros to terms peacefully, but in each instance our troops were attacked before firing a shot and force was only used when all peaceful methods failed and the enemy attacked us. The two chiefs who have been at the bottom of all the trouble on the east side of the Linao for two years are now in hiding, and they will be arrested i/ possible. General Wade, to whom General i Wood's report was made and who transmitted it to the department, adds that the conditions in the Taraca valley for the last three months had been -snch as to render the above acticr. absolutely necessary. ** * A MOST STRENUOUS STRIKE. Franklin Union's Labor War at Chicago Results in Murders. Another name has been added to the death roil that has distinguishes the progress of the Franklin Union'j I labor war on the International Assc- ! ciation of Pressmen at Chicago. Roy J Travis, an 18-year-old press feeder, being assaulted by Franklin Union pickets, drew his revolver and fatally wounded Michael Boland Monday. The strike of the union has bee'i marked by one previous killing ani nearly 100 assaults. Scores of cases of intimidation have been reported to the police and nearly ,300 arrests followed. Fifteen Franklin union members were indicted by the December grand jury. Tho union to?timnnv fihnwprl STiPTlt nearly 140,000 on the strike and In addition, was twice fined $1,000 for violating injunctions. Its officials were also fined and sent to jail by Judge Holdom. Now Judge Kohlsaat, in the federal court has granted a sweeping injunction against the organization. SKIRMISHES MARK RETREAT. Frequent Sharp Fight* Occur Between Japs and Russians in Manchuria. An Associated Press dispatch ot j Monday from St. Petersburg says: I Dispatches received from the Far East ! report constant skirmishing between J the Japanese forces which have cross- j ed the Yalu and the Russian outposts, j The Russian pickets, in obedience j to instructions, fall back when hard | pressed by the Japanese. Several of j these skirmishes have been hotly con- I tested, and there have been several j casualties on both sides. It is no part of the Russian plan of campaign to bring on a general engagement at present. The Cossack detachments which form the advance guard have been ordered to harass the j nrtvaririntr .Tnnanesp -n pvPrv wav no^- i sible, but always to fall back when out-' numbered. Money for Rivers and Harbors. The bouse Monday passed the bill reported by the committee on rivers j and harbors, appropriating $3,000,000 ! for the restoration or maintenance of channels, or of other river and harbor improvements. GEORGIA SCHOOL OFFICIALS i i To Hold Annual Meeting in Dublin, j Splendid Program Arranged. County school superintendents all j over Georgia will be interested in the program of the annual meeting of the . ? ?? ?.V. ?-x^ 1 /.inlo Vi etot.1 CUUillJ' SCUUUt Uluviaio ui lUb oiun,, ; which is to be held in Dublin on May 3.! 4 and 5. This program has just been perfect-1 ed and given out by the state schoai i commissioner. The various subjects i and the list of those who will d'scuss ! them is enough to prove that the meet-! ing will be of great value to those ia ! terested in this line of work. APPEAL OF BEAVERS DENIED. S i Refusal to Grant Writ of Habeas Cor- ' pus Sustained by High Court. The United States supreme court : Monday dee'ded the New York case j against George W. Beavers, late chief j of the salary and allowance division ' of the postoftice department, against Beavers. It was an appeal from a decision by, the circuit court for the southern district of New York refusing to grant a writ of habeas corpus. V v ' * to?MpiheTap| ) Seems to Be Plan of Russian Officers in Manchuria. A CONTINUOUS RETREAT ! Hope to Draw Mikado's Forces Far from Their Base and Then Concentrate for Attack in Overwhelming Numbers. The trend of advices received in Shanghai, China, indicates that the Russians do not intend to offer battle to the Japanese. Everything seems to indicate that the czar's forces are steadily falling back as the Japanese advance into Manchuria. Chinese coming from southern Manchuria report that a great retrograde movement is in progress all along the Russian line. It it; even stated that the Russians will not. attempt to hold Niuchwang, if it is seriously threatened by the Japanese. The Russian plan of campaign, view ed in the light of this retrograde move- !1 ment, seems to have for its object the ! drawing of the Japanese forces fair into Manchuria, where no assistance could be expected from the fleet. Then the Russians hope to concentrate, fall upon the Japanese in ove:whelming force and crush them, in , fact, the Russian general officers seem- ' to be adopting the tactics which 1 proved so fatal to Napoleon when he 1 invaded Rassia. Chinese refugees from Manchuria tell stories of great hardships being 1 enduring by the Russian army. There is lack of clothing, food and equipments cf almost every kind. Hun- < dreds of the soliders are sick, and the hospital arrangements are so defective < that many of the sick are dying for , want of proper nursing. _ The Japanese are reported to be rapidly advancing from the Yalu river, which they crossed several days ago. The Russians are making no attempt to resist, simply falling back as the ] Japanese come on. If the Russians persist in their retrograde tactics it may be difficult for the Japanese to i force a general engagement. - i General Kuropatkin's visit to New Chwang has inspired boundless confl- < dence. The government has ordered i 1,000 reserves to reinforce this position; while an additional force of 15,000 men is ready to concentrate upon this place at short notice if necessary. ; It is estimated now that there aie j 400,000 Russia* roops in Manchuria. | General Wojack has taken over the command at New Chwang, from Gen- ; eral Kondratvitch. The preparations . for the defense of the town are cdm- j plete. EX-QUEEN ISABELLA DEAD. Grandmother of the Present Spanish Ruler Passes Away in Paris. Ex-Qneen Isabella, of Spain, grandirin<r AtfnnKn. Hied in Paris. I AUWUWA V* France, Saturday morning. The queen had been afflicted with grip for two months, which gradually ' affected her lungs. Friday night she became unconscious, and the death 1 agony came at 7 o'clock Sunday morn- i ing. i The deceased queen had been one of . the conspicuous figures of Paris since J she left Spain. After her abdication in 1870, she continued to live with queen1? ~nm.lfl.Annn in fV?Cl TtVotlfll r>flnlt;)l i.v maguiutcuLc 'u ^ * . ?e , giving largely to charity. In September. 1868. a revolution broke out in Spain, which ended in the formation of a republican provisional government and the flight of Isabella to France. In 1870 she abdicated :n favor of her son, Alfonso XII (father of the present king) who succeeded to the throne in 1875. Mexico Sells Treasury Notes. The Mexican government has sold to Speyer & Co., of New York, $6,000.000 of two-year 4-1-2 per cent treasury notes of the national government. A considerable part of this lot was taker by the Deutsche bank of Berlin. SENATE EULOGIZES HANNA. Many Speakers Review Life and Public Career of Departed Statesman. The senate Thursday listened to eu- < logies of the lato Senator Hanna. The ] galleries were well filled and the 1 speakers given close attention. Those : who spoke were: Messrs. Fcraker, Scott. Cockrell. i Piatt of Connecticut, Cuilom, Black- i hum Flkins Fairbanks. Daniel. Pel 1 kins, Depew, Beveridge, Dolliver. i Kearns and Dick. I Mr. Foraker's address was a candid : review of the public career and a frank 1 analysis of the character of his late ] colleague. A NOTABLE EXPOSITION. i Commemorative of First Permanent English Settlement of America. A Washington special says: Deep ] interest is sure to be manifested ^ throughout the entire south in the ex- ^ position to he held at Hampton Roads. ' Va., commemorative of the three hundredth anniversary of the first perma- J nent English settlement in America, ! that on Jamestown Island. LEVEES ARE IN DANGER, Wind and Wave Threaten Calamity Along the Mississippi?Blizzard and Sncw Gtcrms Rage. Friday the Mississippi river at Memphis registered 3Z.S feet, a rise of 4.3 'eet in three days. This stage is \ | >-10 above the danger line, and prospects now point to 38 feet, or possibly |igber water. The strain upon tile levees continles to increase with the increasing leight of the flood, against which an inceasing watch must be maintained light and day. Captain Lucas and Chief Engineer Pharr expresses firm convictions that :he levees with careful watching will rtand the ordeal. Active measures, lowever, are being taken to guard igainst every approach of the water. A number of streets in North Memphis have been overflowed with backwater from Fiyou Gayoso, delaying iraffic to some extent, but no damage las occurred. Railroads have expe rienced no Interruption whatever, and t will take a 40-foot stage of water to give them any serious trouble. Notices have been given to steamboat captains passing the exposed levee in the vicinity of Luxora, Ark., to reduce speed or keep on the opposite side of the river in order to prevent damage to the levee from wave wash. The water at this point is high upon the levee and is causing considerable alarm to the inhabitants of that vicinity. The levees at Golden lake and Bradley Landing, Ark., are under a very severe strain and forces are at work topping and strengthening them.. The water on the Arkansas, side, opposite Memphis covers the low lands to a distance of from 15 to 20 miles. Snow Storm in Dakota. A severe wind and snow storm prevailed over North and South Dakota, Thursday night and Friday, and in some instances railroad traffio was blocked and telegraph service se? riously hindered. ... I * / f . S p j Fair Building. Wrecked. ' The high wind that prevailed in St. Louis Friday completely destroyed the partially completed bazar building in the Japanese reservation in the world's fair, not a timber being left standing. None of the workmen was, injured. The work of reconstruction was begun almost immediately. No other buildings on the grounds wero damaged. Blizzard in Nebraska. Nebraska was swept by the worst blizzard of the year Friday and the most severe April storm known in many years. A fine sheet of sleet and 3now was driven by a wind that at times reached the proportions of a hurricane. Minor damage was reported from several towns. Cattle on the ranges turned out for spring grazing will suffer, the temperature having fallen 20 degrees within twelve hours. ANENT ANTI-JUG LAW. Reprecentative Clayton Plies Favorable Committee Report in House. A Washington special says: A report favoring the passage of the Hepburn and Dolliver bill granting the state's police power over original packages of liquor shipped within their borders as interstate commerce was filed In the house Friday by Representative Clayton, of Alabama. The report says: "There has arisen considerable misapprehension as to the meaning and purpose of the proposed legislation. It has been said by some to be a prohibition measure and by others to be an attempt to deprive the individual citizen of the right to have beer, wine and other liquors shipped to him from another state for bis own'use and enjoyment. Neither of the assertions Is true, as (we think) has beeu demonstrated. "This bill is not intended to prohibit the sale and use of beer, wine or Dther intoxicating liquors which have been uniformly held by the United States to be legitimate articles of commerce, nor is the measure designed to abridge the right of a citizen of one state to import from another stale such beverages as he may desire for bis own use, as before saying. The purpose of ths proposition law and it3 sole purpose is to allow each state to sarry out its own domestic or internal policy in regard to the control of intoxicating beverages within the boundaries of the state. "The sole effect will be to pe:m:t the state, if it so wills, to circumscribe the sale of intoxicating beverages svithin its boundaries to the full extent that it may desire to restra.'n such traffic or to regulate rhe sale of the same through the medium of its own laws, including local option laws, high license laws or dispensary laws." RUSSIAN EXHIBIT BEING SOLD. f Disposed of at Auction for Benefit of the Red Cross Society. A St. Petersburg special says: The Russian volunteer fleet steamer Kasan, damaged during the first bombardment of Port Arthur, has been converted into a hospital ship. The peasant industries exhibit formerly intended for St. Louis is being 3old at auction for the benefit of the Red Cross Society. I i HOUSE IS DECADENT Assertion of Cochran in Denouncing Pension Order. USURPATION iS CHARGED New York Congressman Calls on Members to Assert Their Rights. , An Attack on President Roosevelt A Washington special says: In the house Saturday Mr. Cockran, of New \ York, spoke on his resolution directing an inquiry by the judiciary committee as to whether there was authority ia the law for the recent executive order relating to pensibns of age disability. | The committee on rules reported an i order directing the order to lie on the table. Mr. Cockran's remarks were the first he had delivered since his entry into the fifty-eighth congress as the successor to George B. McClellan. When he began to speak he at once commanded the attention of members of both sides of the house. He said the resolution was offered solely to vindicate the dignity of the house. He did not, he said, question j the propriety of paying liberal pensions to federal soldiers, but he declared that the basis of these payments should be the laws of congress, 1 - ' " "and not any seii-consuiuicu aum?.ity." If, ho said, the president's order is recognized by the house, "what fragment of power is there left to the house?" By one stroke of the pen, he declared, the president had appropriated $30,000,000, and he said it was a matter with which congress must deal, if it be animated by a shadow of loyalty for the constitution which created it. He vigorously asserted that "we are here at the parting of the ways," and inquired "if this order be tolerated without protest by the house, what power is there that the execuive cannot usurp?" After attacking what he declared to be the president's usurpation of powers of interpretation, he said that the order should not be retroactive. Mr. Cockran appealed to members of both sides of the house to consider the I enormity of this proposal which he said affected the liberty and safety cf the government. In h:s opinion, the steady decline in the dignity of the house had attracted much attention. He said: "If yre cannot rescue ourselves from degradation and decrepitude into which we seem to be hurrying, then we better leave the condition to be lamented rather than to be discussed." Tears, he said, belonged to women, while discussion belonged to men. | The dignity and power of the house, hp maintained, were within the con trol of its own members, "and," he said, "it needs but loyalty on our part to restore us no merely to an important, but to a dominant position." The congress, he said, had so lost caste that today there was not a paper outside of Washington that gave more than one or two paragraphs 1 about its proceedings. DEATH CLAIMS W. A. TURK. Popuar General Traffic Manager of Southern Victim of Pneumonia. After three days' illness, 77. A. Turk, general traffic manager of the Soutnern railway, died Saturday night at his home in Washington, D. C., of pneumonia. Mr. Turk was 53 years of age, and is survived by his widow and two children, Miss Margaret and Randolph. Mr. Turk's death was a great shock to tbe soutnern coiony in wasnmgiu.i, ! and will undoubtedly be felt in all regions traversed by the Southern system. He h'j been prominent in railroad interests in the south for over twenty years. First Fair Pass to Roosevelt. At St. Louis, Saturday, "Pass No. 1 to the world's fair grounds during the regular period" was made out in the name of Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States. factional church rumpus. Trustees Swear Out Warrants for Elders and Lay Members. The famous factional fight in the Christian church of Huntsville, Ala., came out afresh again Sunday. As a result two elders and'three members of the church were placed under arrest for wilfully defacing and injuring the church building. Only one faction has worshiped in the church for several months past, and Sunday last the other faction posted a notice on the doors warning every one away, charging that the present trustees were illegally elected. THIRTY-TWO MILLS CLOSE. Fall River Operative* Now Work Only Four Days in the Week. Thursday's developments in the movement at Fall River, Mass., looking toward a widespread curtailment, shows that at least thirty-two cotton mills owned by foreign corporation? will be shut down for two days oi each week. The curtailment movement affects about thirl eon thousand operatives. BURTON GIVEN SENTENCE. J i Kansas Senator Must Serve Six I Months in Jail and Pay Fine of $2,5CO Was Edict of Court. % At St. Lou!s, Wednesday, United ; States Senator Burton, of Kansas, was sentenced to six months imprisonmei.it -r| in the Iron county jail and fined $2.5t)0 for having been convicted of using his influence before the postoffice depart- -'jj raent in * behalf of the Rialtd Grain and Securities Company, of St. Louis, and having received payment from tin company for his services. In passing sentence Judge Adams said: 'After a fair and impartial trial by a jury of exceptional intelligence, you have been found guilty of the offense ?\J|i charged in the indictment against you. . v*ll "A motion for a new trial in your behalf has afforded me an opportunity to carefully review and consider the c evidence. As a result of this, I am satisfied that the jury reached tha || just and true result. The evidence abundantly warranted their verdict, ~$|g and I find no reason, either in the law ?|| governing the case or In the proceed- -^8 ings attending the trial, for disturb- . "Your conviction necessarily results ;?% in your punishment. Its importance, in my opinion, is not confined to it3 , Jg effects upon you. "Your exalted station in life, and the ^ character of your offending give "unus- ^-ll ual significance to your conviction. Tt demonstrates that the law of the land r!|| is equal to any emergency and that It can be administered regardless of the personality and station of the accused; -A It also demonstrates to all the peoplethat public office cannot be prostituted jfsfl to self-serving purposes and that publie office is not a sure and safe sup- -::M port to private thrift. "The humiliation attending your con- ' M . viction and the statutoi^r disqualifies- tions resulting therefor, which forever incapacitate you from holding any of- 'Jm flee of honor, trust or profit under the government of the United States, are . # " in themselves heavy punishment for J&K your offenses, and leave but little in , ! the way of severity which could be added. "It is neither my pleasure nor \)ur- " pose to impose any unnecessary punishment. | "I think the majesty of the law' will ;|||! i be sufficiently vindicated and the pub- 'MI3k lie welfare sufficiently safeguarded by :M imposing a single sentence, warranted ; JgS^ . as it is on any one of the six counts, M indictments, of which you were con- :?$ "This sentence will be that yon be confined In the Iron connty Jail for a *J| period of six months, and that you pa/ :& , a fine of $2,500." % The case will now bo appealed to the United States district court of ap- -jjjS. peals, the highest tribunal in the mat* Senator Burton, who is senior senator from'Kansas, was convicted after an exhaustive trial, in which various %J| < letters from him to the R'alto Graft '.'Jm [ and Securities Company, the checks which he received in payment for his '.vial ..... \J Ulfll services in behalf of the concern asfore the postoffice and the testimony of numerous agents of the government -JgB were introduced. Senator Burton's defense was that he was acting mer<?iy . -J8 in the capacity of an attorney and uitl - Jl not employ his senatorial influence in ^|| the work. A POINTER FOR CARNEGIE. Fearing to Die Rich, Miser Gives Away Property to Deserving Poor. Clark Ridley, of Newmarket, Mas3., ~'|fg having reached the age of 85, has de cided that it is a disgrace to die rich and announces that he will at/once _ give all his property to deserving per- * sons of his own selection. Already be /ri has disposed of three houses and lots ;|||| I and says he has several left, together >|jji with other property valued at $15,000. Ridley has been known for many iJsj years as a miser. "The rich men give * JS property to some institution," h* said. "That is not really a deed of charity. ^S?j If a man has got something to give away he shpuld give it to somebody ' ;Jjfa that will appreciate it and do *hem some good." MANY HOUNDING HARDEN. Alleged Swindler Having 5 Strenuous . ^ Time With Officers of the Law. After being the principal Wednes- ^ day morning in a habeas corpus trial before Judge Calhoun in the Atlanta/ :,$j city criminal court, which resulted in the writ being denied and which waa 3 followed by highly sensational devel- % opments, then beng served successively with a state and United States war- 2^3 rant, and afterwards kept in hiding for several hours. Leroy C. Harden, the || prisoner arrested in Tampa, Fla., on ft * jl warrant from Cincinnati, was finally hustled into a United States mail car that left Atlanta Wednesday night BOMB-THROWING DENIED. Alfonso, of Spain, Says No Attempt Was Made to Kill Him. Kins Alfonso of SDain. received a telegram from President Diaz, of MexIco, congratulating him on his escape /pf from an attempt on his lifa at Barcelona. , The king replied, assuring the president that the report that the explo- * ; J 3ion was an attempt on his life was