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FREEDOM FOR FINNS; % Czar Strikes Shackles From More Unruly Subjects. 1 V ARE GIVEN INDEPENDENCE; ! Free Government Set Up in Helsing' fors, the Capital, and Backed Up j hv Tronric SamF from the i Russian Empire. i The London Times, in Saturday'3 i ! issue, published the following dis$ patch from St. Petersburg,' dated imo| vember 3: "Finland has won her freedom. A j manifesto embodying all the demands j presented by the popular delegates at : Helsinfors to Prince Joan Ooolensky, j the governor general, will be submit- j ted by Secretary of State Luider tor j the imperial signature at Peterhon j Saturday night. The keystone or the new Finnish constitution is the re- j sponsibiiity not of the monarch as ; hitherto, but ot the secretary of state 1 *\ . and the diet. The presence or Kus- 1 sian warships off Helsinfors is in- j tended to signify that although the j emperor grants constitutional freedom j he intends to prevent the severance ; of the grand duchy from the em- j pire." A St. Petersburg special says: The ; text of the imperial manifesto grant- 1 ing amnesty to prisoners, signed by ; Emperor Nicholas, declares that by virtue of the intention expressed m j the manifesto of October 30, to ac- : cord the population inviolable prin- j ciples of civil liberty, free pardon ! # . is granted to political criminals ot ; various categories, who are enumer- ; > ated and also to participate in strikes ' r ,f and those responsible for breaking j -::v'* contracts. The pardon extends to those now in prison and to those not yet tried or on whom sentence has ???t been^ pronounced. Persons convicted of crimes committed over ten years ago are to be released and will be sent to Siberian colonies. Those who are ^ now colonists there will be allowed, after four years, to choose their place of residence, but are prohibited from living in the capitals, St. Petersburg and Moscow, for three years. Convicts folHnor lin/lor thaco \ UVV l?k!UU5 UUUVA VUVS/V have their sentences reduced one halt and persons condemned to imprisonment for life have their sentences re-, duced to fifteen years' imprisonment. " *3?e pardon extends to all prisoners who benefited by previous manifestos, j Persons arrested by imperial or ad- j ministration order are released. Those j condemned to death or liable thereto | have the penalty commuted to tif- j teen years' imprisonment at Iiard j labor. The amnesty decrees includes po- j litical offenses committed up to Oc- ; tober 30. According to the latest dispatches that have come out of Russia, Count Witte is making his force felt. His -" ~ hand is on the helm, and disorders are beginning to cease. Dispatches are brief from the riot centers. An Odessa dispatch says: "It is believed that the worst is over. Owing to the mobs being sat- | isfled with two days' carnival or j murder and destruction by flame, the revolt against law and order is dying down partially, perhaps, be 1 cause oi iacK 01 material upon wmcu I to prey." m several towns the entire Jew- ; ish quarter has been devastated and j the inhabitants killed or wounded, ! In Odessa soldiers are making a j house-to-house visitation seeking tor bombs apd arms. They are also i searching passengers on the street 1 cars. Almost the entire Jewish quarters of Moldanvah, Slobodka and Bugalov- i ka are devastated and their inhabi- ! tants have either been killed or wounded or have sought refuge in j other sections of the town. The whole fury of the mobs was directed ; unchecked against the Jews. CRIME CHARGED TO FIVE. ! Quintet of Negroes Held for Murder of Farmer Wilson. Five negroes are now under arrest ; at Franklin, Ga., in connection witn ! the killing of Max Wilson, the white j ' man who vas done to death in his field a few days ago. Doc Hardy, the alleged slayer of j Wilson was placed in jail. Four other negroes. George Houston ^nd his two sons, Ed and ! Charles, and Pleas Almand, are said x - 1 Uah/Iu in thn Anmmif- ! lO nave uuejveu nai u; 1U (.ut V,uuillhv- . ment of the crime, and they have been taken in custody by the oliicers. j WILSON ASKS FOR INQUIRY. j I Wants Crop Report Methods Investi- j gated by Outsiders. Secretary Wilson of the department I of agriculture has suggested to the j president that the committee on de- j partment methods, while looking info ; the office methods of his department, j give special consideration to the . method of issuing the crop reports I from that department. t CHILDREN ARE MANGLED! I In Wreck of Bank Building by Gas ; Explosion ? Sesides the Killed, ! Thirteen Persons Were Hurt. A special I'rum Ishpeining, Mien., j says three children are dead and i thirteen are injured, one family, as the result of an explosion there Sunday, which destroyed the Miners .\a tional bank. The dead: Steven Goodman, aged 12 years; Alice McGee, aged Id years; Edward McGrath, aged 12 years. James F. Mullen was fatally injured. A gas leakage in the basement o? the bank building was primarily responsible for the explosion and loss of life. Gas was detected coming from the building, and two workmen went in the basement about y o'clock Sunday morning with lighted candles to investigate. The flames evidently ignited the gas in the basement, tor a tremendous explosion followed. The two workmen were blown through a basement window and landed uninjured in an open box car standing on a nearby track. The building was completely wrecked. The three children were passing the building on their way home from church, and were caught in the falling debris. All the teams in the city were summoned to the scene and the work ot moving the huge piles of debris ana extricating those under them was rushed. The explosion broke windows in many stores in the business district and scattered the papers and documents of the bank for blocks around. TO SEEK SOUTHERN TRADE. Members of Chicago Commercial Body to Visit This Section. The Chicago Commercial Association has decided to cultivate closer relations with the south. The organization is composed of merchants, manufacturers and bankers. A committee of fifteen, made up ot representatives in the different lines of business, will start south November 12th, and visit a number of prominent cities in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. Later in the year cities in Louisiana, Mississippi and other states will be visited. The party to leave November 12th will go via the Monon to Louisville and thence to Frankfort, Paris and Lexington, Ky., to Chattanooga, Kingston, Tenn., to Rome, Marietta, Atlanta, Augusta, Millen, Macon, Albany, Americus. Columbus, Ga., to_ Opelika, Montgomery, Selma, Birmingham and Decatur, Ala., returning via Nashville to Chicago. The trip will occupy two weeks, and it is proposed to meet and talk with the leading business men of the cities where stops are made. GIRL'S HEAD FISHED OUT. Taken from Waters of Boston Harbor Enclosed in Handbag. What is confidently believed to be the head of Susanna A. Geary, the dress suit case victim, was recovered in a leather handbag from the bottom of the harbor at Boston Sunday. It was dragged to the surface very near the point where Lewis W. Crawford and William Howard, who have confessed to disposing of the dismembered girl, said they dropped it from the stern of an East Boston ferryboat. The head completes the body of the girl. The trunk was found on September 21, and the limbs were picked up October 27. The bag was weighted down with a quantity of shot. DEADLY WORK OF TORNADO. Wind Storm in Oklahoma Kills Seven People and Injures Many. Mountain View, an Oklahoma town, was swept by a tornado iate Saturday afternoon, killing seven people and doing much damage. The school house, two enurcnes, | two livery barns ,one hotel, a cotton gin and about twelve dwellings were blown away, and many more houses are wrecked. OFFICERS AND FEUDISTS CLASH Mountains of Kentucky Gory Scene of Battle of Bullets. Following a month of fear and anxiety resulting from conditions which resemble somewhat those which prevailed in Breathitt county recently, the mountain sides above Mlddlesboro and Pineville, Ky? Sunday nignt echoed to volleys from rifles of militia and possemen on one side, and the Ball brothers on the other. The climax came when the first attempt was made to arrest Frank Ball for the killing of Jack Bolen of Aliddlesboro, a month ago. No TO IMPORT DAGO LABORERS. Mississippi Planters Will Use Them ?n Cotton Fields. 1 7>%AlrOAn Vflloo OOT'C 11 will jauivouu, JIIOO., su.> u. Within the next three months Mississippi plinters expect to receive several thousand Italian laborers who will be employed in the cotton fields of the state next season. Sf PENSIONS FOR RICH Nova! Result of Service Order of the President. MILLIONAIRES INCLUDED Pension Commissioner Sees No Objections to Paying Out Money in Such Cases?Believes it Will Revert to Charity. A Washington special says: Pensions for millionaires, is one of the new developments under the executive order of last year. According to Commission of Pensions Warner, the application of a millionaire for a pension has been recently favorably passed upon. He did not want the psnicn, according to the commissioner, on account of the money it carried with it, but simply to perfect his record of honorable service in the civil war. This view of the disability order is being taken by many well-to-do --etcrans who would not otherwise appjy for pensions. The fact that they are eli- j gible and performed the service stip- | ulated in behalf of the government j 3nd that the government is to reeog- j nize this service by a pension and the I accompanying records of the same make the service pension a desirable addition to the f&mily records. The commissioner does net look upon this class of pensions as an undesirable burden for the government to bear. He takes the view that the funds distributed is used by the applicant to relieve want. In the case of the millionaire pensioner, he has knowledge that the recipient has just made a bequest of a hundred thousand dollars for benevolent purposes. NEW TRICK OF PACKERS. Claim Immunity Under Alleged Agreement With Secretary Garfield. A Chicago dispatch says: Complete Immunity from prosecution under the pendinj indictment returned by the federal grand jury several months ago is claimed by J. Ogden Armour and the other defendant packers and agents charged with being promoters of the so-called "beef trust" in adrwloac in hnr filAd Pridav ftf* UlllVUMi yiVUM ? | ternoon by Attorney John S. Miller, | the packers' representative. The new plea, which came as a j complete surprise to the government, sets up as facts that when Secretary Garfield of the department of commerce and labor, investigated the trusts, he promised the packers that whatever testimony they gave without being under oath, or whatever i documentary evidence they voluntarily produced, the defendants#should have the same rights, indemnities and immunities as if they had testified under oath and compulsion. Under this new plea, Attorney Miller hopes to establish the fact that there was an agreement between the packers and the government that they should testify and give evidence without being subpenaed or the oath administered, but that as far as immunity was concerned, it should be considered as if they had ben subpenaed and took the oath. STREET DUEL RESULTS FATALLY One Killed and Three Badly Wounded In Tragedy at Cordele, Ga. Rufus Burge killed, Will Burge shot in three places. Policeman J. H. Eorman arm broken and internal injuries, Chief of Police T. H. Johnson badly cut and bruised from effect of heavy \ blows, and J. P. H'H.ndey, a contractor, J seriously cut?is a record of the re- j suits of a fight that occurred in Corr>< ? Tri/lotr mnrninp- nf- fhrPf* I i' 1 1UM J AMV4?*.^0 V?V | o'clock. Rufus Burge and his brother, Will, j came to town Thursday night and get ! somewhat under the influence of'whis- I key. and it was in the attempt to ar- | rest them that the wholesale duel j was precipitated. REFUSES TO SEND SOLDIERS. Alabama Coroner Nonplussed Over Order to Arrest the Sheriff. The governor of Alabama has refused to send troops to aid the coroner of Baldwin county to arrest the sheriff, telling him that, very probably. he will he advised by his lawyer that he h8S a right to summon a posse to meet the situation. This is the first time '.application has been made for troc.ps to take one man, and that man harmless so far as bodily harm goes, as he is a peace officer himself. WILL DISPOSE OF SMOOT CASE. | Further Testimony Will be Heard if j Offered, Says Burrows. Senator Burrows, o? Michigan, the chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, who has arrived in Washington for the coming session of congress, said Sunday night that he expected to have the case of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah disposed of before the term ends. JEWS ARE SLAUGHTERED, Bloodshed, Outlawry and Pillage Continue to Hold Sway in Many Russian Cities and Towns. Dispatches of Friday from Russia were very meager owing to the disturbed condition of the country. The situation in St. Petersburg, where order is maintained by a show of armed force, remains critical, though improvement is shown in the resumption of operation by electric lighting plants. Communication by rail with the frontier has not yet been re-established. From many of the interior cities come reporis of conflicts in whicn the Jews appear to be the principal sufferers. In Kieff the loss of life and property has been very great. In Theodosia, Kostroma and Saratoff the disorders have been most serious. There is an unconfirmed report that Kishineff has been totally destroyed by fire. A London newspaper's St. Petersburg correspondent estimates that in the leading provincial towns of Russia 1,000 persons have been killed and 10.000 seriously wounded in the last twenty-four hours. The revolutionary movement in Finland is unchecked, the Finnish national guard is opposing advances of Russian troops and compelling them to retire. The Kieff correspondent of Reuters Telegram company (London) says, under date of November 3:"The Jewish quarter has been given over to plunder, rapine and murder ever since the emperor announced the granting of a constitution. On that day, during a monster demonstration in front of the town hall, a shot suddenly was heard. The Cossacks and dragoons immediately charged into the crowd, firing right and left, and the police and others dragged away the dead and wounded, numbering more than 130, into the neighborhood court yards, while the terror-stricken demonstrators fled, pursued by a mob of ruffians, who attacked them as they ran. "On Wednesday Ac-ting Governor Karrass promised prominent Jewish merchants that immediate and strong measures would be taken for their protection, but the pillage assumed colossal proportions, and the police and military stood absolutely impassive, only firing upon persons who defended themselves against looters and on houses where Jews had fired on their assailants. While almost all the Jewish houses were laid in ruins, Christian establishments were untouched. "Thousands of families have been ruined, and the theater of anatomy is filled with corpses. Attempts were made without success to wreck the offices of the liberal newspapers, ancl it is stated that some forthcoming lawsuits are likely to reveal the names of prominent organizers of these attacks. "Many corporations have wired Count Witte, begging protection, and he ordered that vigorous measures be taken, but without effect. HELD 5KIDC.H IUI luit c.i'vc.mi. Department- Report on Ravages of Pestiferous "Rust Mite." The department of agriculture at Washington in a report just issued says the red spider or rust mite has been quite prevalent in some sections of the cotton growing area of this country during the past two years. The spider is a minute yellowish red mite which feeds on the cotton plant, principally on the under sides of the leaves, but at times attacking all parts of the plant. The report says the. pest is probably distributed throughout the entire cotton growing area of the south, although during the years past it has appeared ii> injurious numbers only in 1903 when it caused considerable damage to cotton in South Carolina and Georgia. FARMER ASSASSINATED. Through Revenge Negro Fired Bullet Through White Man's Back. Max Wilson, a farmer, was assassinated while in his field, near Franklin, Ga., Friday morning by a negro, named Dick Hardy. Wilson was sitting on a stump when the negro shot him in the back, killing him instantly. The bullet passed entirely through Wilson's body. Three children who were picking cotton saw the negro assassinate Wilson. and gave the alarm. The murder was prompted by revenge. Three months ago Mr. Wilson killed Hardy's brother in self-defense It is said that Hardy has repeatedly said that- he intended to kill Wilson. TO OUST THE GRAFTERS. Strenuous Municipal Campaign in Philadelphia Closes. With scores of orators exhorting the voters to support their favorite candidates, Philadelphia Saturday night closed what was probably the most sensational political campaign in its existence, From city hall to the county line the city has been in a turmoil'practically for six months, engaged in a contest that promises to leave its scars for a long time to come. j" EMPRESS OP AL j I 7 ; . ... " THE CZARINA IN COURT COSTU* LITTLE GIRLS AND A BOY, TE BROWNIE PINCUSHION. This entertaining Brownie cushiQn has a ping-pong ball for head, arms and legs of wire, with cloth hands and feet and bean-stuffed body made of bright-colored cloth. ? Philadelphia Record. IN HONOR OF FRANKLIN. When the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin is celebrated, on January 17, 1906, j the kindly regard in winch tne memory I of the first American Minister to | France is held in Paris will be shown j by the dedication of a bronze statue of Franklin, given to the city by John H. Harjes, at present the resident member in Paris of the firm of Morgan, Harjes & Co. The statue is by John J. Boyle. It will be a replica of j the one in front of the Philadelphia ; Postoffice and will be placed in the ' small grass-covered plot in the Rue I Franklin, near the Place du Trocaj dero and just in front of the Trocadero I Palace, which has been given for that j purpose by the Municipal Council of i Paris. The pedestal will differ from j that supporting the Philadelphia fig I ? ! PARIS P.EPLICA OF OUR FRANKLIN STATUE ! ure, that being deemed too massive j for the site to be occupied iu Paris.? j Philadelphia Record. Caraway Seed*. j The so-called "caraway seeds" are; i strictly not seeds, but the merioarps | into which the fruit in this order splits when ripening. Caraway is cultivated in Europe to a greater extent i than in this country, for there many I nations use it even in bread. Here i its use is largely confined to use as a spice in sweet foods. Its value as an aromatic stimulant is too well known to need comment.?New England Grocer. L THE RUSSIAS. j ~ W-HI "--I IE. SHE IS THE MOTHER OF FOUR CE HEIR, BORN LAST SUMMER. ] 1 ??^ ' -'J NEW PHILIPPINE SEAL The Armorial Device Adopted by the Insular Government. Several years ago, writes a Washing- yJSj, ton correspondent, French E. Chadwick discovered that the great seal of V* the United States had been heraldically faulty for a hundred years, and M forthwith the design was corrected by experts and a new die was cut for the fils State Department. This led to a study of the devices used by the other Fed- ; eral Departments, and new designs ? were soon made for fte Army and Navy and for the customs service of la# the Treasury. Even the flag of the President had to be altered. The ex- ' fgzA perts who were consulted in these "^SI^ 4-KA comA tlmA UU5tT3 auvui uic oauic uwc uv*- fftm a new coat-of-arms for Porto Rico and ; a new seal, which gave some indication that the island had passed from ^ Spanish sovereignty to that of the .J? United States. In the last few months, however, Porto Rico has abandoned THE PHILIPPINE SEAL* its new seal and coat-of-arms and re '-Jl turned to its former device, on which the name of the island is spelled ajB "Puerto Rico." and this 1s now affixed ro an oraciai uucumems iu ic^uiuc ?uu authenticate them, notwithstanding the fact that in all such*documents the t name of the island is spelled "Porto Rico," in conformity with the laws of the United States. Almost simultaneously With this action by Porto Rico, the Insular Government of the Philippines was getting rid of its old Spanish seal and substituting a new device. On July 3, 1905, the Philippine Government enacted a statute establish- ^ ing a great seal, to be placed on ail commissions, official documents and papers. It is a clear-cut and pleasing device, as appears in the accompanying sketch.?Philadelphia Record. A Student of Modern Finance. A policeman who arrested a man carrying suspicious bundles asked the usual question, "What have you there, and where did you get it?" The up-todate prowler replied: "These are my ivil non-ledger assets."?New York Evening Post. Moses as a Sanitarian. | Moses himself was a sanitarian of j no mean accomplishments, and many I of the principles established by him In sanitary science might well be exploited in modern times. The type of camp which he established for the detention of unfortunate lepers, well modified to suit modern principles, I would serve for the check and practical elimination of consumption.?Sdr [entigc American. .. . .V