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Wf ' - ' ilr mm | PEACE BIRDS DEPART, I' ?Drawn by Cartoonist SPECTACULAR MARINE PAGEAN' In Spotless Array Uncle Sa in Hampton Roads the Jamestown Ter-CenNorfolk, Va. ? Americans have turned from thoughts oMhe International Peace Conference to the most splendid international war spectacle this country and probably the world ? has ever seen. The Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, the newest A1\?-v milifurr r?o_ IWVi 1U & lclll , Mbi 11 uc a uxiinui j ? *am , val, marine and historic exhibition," '.according to the official statements. History will be given its due at the Exposition as well as the arts of peace, but the distinctive feature will be the sight of Hampton Roads?al; ready a famous naval arena?alive with the fighting craft of many nations, the shores glittering with soldiers in friendly rendezvous. Thp remarkable naval display is made possible by the fact that the Jamestown Exposition is the first great American fair held on a deepwater harbor. Practically all the civilized nations have accepted the President's invitation to send sections of thfeir navies. As the summer advances the varying types of fighting craft, from saucy torpedo boats to the largest war vessel afloat, will pass through the harbor in endless procession". The United States Government will have an extensive display, showing the evolution of guns and fighting ships from the early days of the Nation to the present. There will also be 3 large encampment of militia, Tegular army and foreign troops, s "There are twenty-five battleships ana jbrhisers in the line headed by the Connecticut just off the Government pier at Fortress Monroe, which trails away up the broad channel leading to Norfolk. The vessels are anchored MVeral thousand yards off the Expo- 1 sition shore, and, arranged in a huge semicircle, are visible from every part : of the grounds. Every ty?e of fighting craft in the American navy is represented in the present rendezvous. The battleships range from the 16,000 ton Connecti- ' cut and Louisiana down.to the all but abandoned T^exas. the oldest Ameri- ; can battleship and sister of the Maine, , Which was wrecked in Havana harbor, i The Texas was built at the Norfolk ; navy yard many years ago, and, being j a local product, is to remain at the Exposition as a permanent feature of the naval exhibit. With her sight guns and paltry 6315 tons of weight ( T?o<! rol-i on ranwd nlnnirsirie the I It mammoth Connecticut, which mounts ; twenty-four guns and displaces 19,000 tons of water, offers a striking .example of the progress of the American navy since thedays of 1SS6, when the Teias and the first Maine were authorized by Congress. The Brooklyn, bearing on her after turret the memorial plate simply and eloquently inscribed "July 3, 1898," will also remain a permanent naval exhibit during the seven months of ,the life of the Exposition. The cruisers of the fleet are all mbdern craft, though the variance in size between the largest and the smallest is as great as that which marks the heavier vessels of the battle class. The armored cruisers Tennessee and Washington, each of 14,500 tons and__mounting twenty guns apiece, are the heaviest of the cruisers. The smallest cruisers are the Denver and V the Cleveland?3100 tons each?the j|?y third class of the protected vessels of the navy. In the cruiser class the most interesting vessel is perhaps the ;l Brooklyn, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Schley in the battle with Cervera's squadron off Santiago, Cuba. h : , The fleet has been arranged so as to give the visitors to the Exposition | the' best possible opportunity for * viewing the fighting strength of the American navy. The glistening white hulls, spotless in their new coats of paint, ana tne duii superstructures ui i the two and three piped line-of-battle ships and armored and protected f cruisers, form a marine panorama as viewed from the water front esplanade of the Exposition grounds such : as- has seldom, if ever, before been ; presented tc the American public. The Navy Department has pre-1 pared a lis: cf the foreign vessels to be in Hampton Roads. $*: "" " jj|V. Toulon Arsenal l ire. Five large buildings were destroyed J by the fire, alleged to be incendiary. ' A ?at the Toulon (Franc?) arsenal.! Thirty men were injured and the sub- j marine and to:_:edo static::-; were damaged. ?-,:' W'i':v her Unfavorable. Coll worth or has prevailed over an e onus a by large area, retarding agri- , cultural progress as we!! as trade in ' light weight wearing apparel audi ai* otii.r spiing .goods. tov: . . hjif. + ' . A. \ -A,.: . WAR BIRDS GATHER. DeMar, for the Thiladelphia Record. [OF ALL NATIONS AT NORFOLK m's Great Armada Awaits Foreign" Guests of the tennial Exposition. The British fleet will consist of four armed cruisers?the Good Hope, Argyll, Hampshire and Roxbourg. under the command of a Rear-Admiral. The German fleet will consist of the armored cruiser Roon and the protected cruiser Bremen, under the command of a Commodore. The Austrian ships will consist of the armored cruiser Sankt Georg and the protected cruiser Aspern, under the command of a Commodore, who will be promoted to be a Rear-Admiral. The Brazilian fleet, under a RearAdmiral, consists of the battleship Riachuelo, the cruiser Barroso and the gun vessel Tamoyo. The Brazilian fleet will be the only foreign one containing a battleship. The Argentine Republic will send the training ship Presidente Sarmiento under the command of a commander. The Japanese fleet, in command of a Vice-Admiral, will consist of the armored cruiser Trukuba and the protected cruiser Chitoso. It is noticeable that while Japan sends some o? her finest warships to represent her navy, and one of her foremost generals, the Russian Government will not be represented by a single ship, nor is it known that any officer of her army will come here. The other foreign countries to be represented will be France, Italy, auu ruMu^ai. Italy will send two vessels in command of a captain, the armored cruiser Varese and the protected cruiser Etruria. Chile will send the protected cruiser Ministro Zentene under the command of a captain, while Portugal will send a protected cruiser, probably the Don Carlos. Spain has not signified her intentions of sending any war vessels. The entertainment committee of the fleet is now arranging a water carnival. Each vessel of the great fleet has been asked to provide a float for the occasion. The pageant will be on some evening yet to be determined. Several ships have already decided on the floats they will send. Three will send three of their cutters to represent the three old-time craft which brought the Pilgrims to Jamestown. Another float will represent the Great Harry, a renowned ship of war of that period, and on the request of the Admiral the Navy Department is now searching the archives to know, just what the vessel was like. Then there will be pirate ships, gondolas, a float showing Neptune and his trident and much else besides. During the carnival the ships will be iliuminated, and there will be a hundred searchlights playing over the brilliant scene. Aside from such diversions the strong armada will have little to do in the waiting days. The ships long ago completed their toilets and are so cnJr and snan thev hurt the eye. No where. is, there an atoning blemish. It is all spotless buff and white, touched off here and there with the glint of polished steel and the shimmer of shining brass. From the flagship definite announcement came that the fleet will disperse .on May 15. Two divisions will then go to sea for manoeuvring purposes, one division will go to navy yards for such minor repairs as may be needed, and one division will remain here until relieved by one of the divisions coming in from manoeuvres. The four divisions, sixteen battleships in all, are to reassemble here on June 10, set apart as Georgia Day, when there will be a celebration in honor of the birthday of the mother of President Roosevelt. As the foreign ships arrive they are officially welcomed by a boom of cannon from the Connecticut, ttie flagship of Rear-Admiral Roblev.D. Evans, commanding the Atlantic fleet. All the American vessels now at anchor belong to this fleet. The unique feature of the Exposition will be the harbor for small craft, with an area of 1,2$0,000 square feet, inclosed by piers, costing the United States Government $4u0,000. Ranker Arrested For Renting Wife. Mrs. Augustus T. Post, aged sixty, whose thirty-two-year-old husband, a banker, is rated as a millionaire, had. him arrested cn a charge of knocking her senseless in their apartments at ihe Holland House, in New York City. Rank President Arrested. Charles C. King, the president of the First National Bank ol: Scotland, S. D., was arrested in Chicago, charged with misuse of the banri ? funds. ' MOYER-HAYWOOD HOWL Attorney for Men Accused of Murder of Governor Steuenberg Issues Their Statement. Clarence Darrow of counsel for Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone of the Western Federation of Miners, who are charged with complicity in the murder of former Governor Steunenberg, issued a formal statement at Boise, Idaho, Wednesday night. It was anticipated that the statement would be a direct reply to President Roosevelt's "undesirable citizen" letter, but the statement is general and the references to the president are to former letters of the excutive. The statement in part is as follows: "We have been charged with kill- j ing ex-Governor Steunenberg with a dynamite bomb. Our trial is to begin May 9. The details of the assassination have been published broadcast for more than a year. The press of the country, especially of that section of Idaho where we will be placed on trial, has bitterly denounced us,' and the Western Federation of Miners, to which we belong. "We were not in Idaho for years before the crime was committed. Under the law we could not be extradited from Colorado. But in spite of this, we were arrested on a perjured affidavit, charging that we weTe in Idaho at the time of the commission of the crime, and that we immediately fled from the state, and on this perjured affidavit the governors of Idaho and Colorado kidnaped us in the night time, refused us an interview with family or a chance to appeal to ti}e courts and brought us on a special train a thousand miles from home and into a state and community systematically poisoned against us by newspapers and officials. We have been in jail fourteen months and de j mea oan, wane constantly ueiuaiiuius a trial. Every effort has been made to teach the farmers, business meh i and working men of the community that we are asassins and outlaws. "Our case is about to be reached and the president of the United States ?in no way interested, officially or otherwise?sends two letters broadcast over the country charging us with guilt and crime. These are republished in every paper in the land, and especially every paper in Idaho. "The governor of Colorado adds his words of spite and venom to those of the president and says that we are not only guilty of the crime charged, but many others. While the presiident of the United States and the governor of Colorado are sending out their statements, the judge of tnis. county has brought acitizen before him for contempt on the charge that ' he tried to influence the mind of h prospective juror by saying that the state administration was trying to railroad us. On the appearance of this man in court, the judge told the state's attorney that he. should have this obscure farmed indicted for felnnv hecause he tried to influence the mind of a prospective juror. The pres ident knows how much greater weight will be given to his words than those I of an obscure citizen. "If we are to be tried in court, every law-abiding citizen, however great' or humble, should do everything in his power to cool the passions of man rather than add fuel to the flames. If we are to be' thrown to the mob the officers should at least open our prison doors and give us some chance to defend ourselves." ROUGH MAY DAY IN PARIS. City Witnessed Scenes of Disorder and Many People Injured. The expectation in Paris that May day would pass without violence was not realized. The day began in calm, but toward the evening the working center in the vicinity of the tradesunion headquarters became the scene of serious disturbances.The sum total of the day's operations was over one thousand arrests; twenty persons, including policemen and citizens, badly injured and a greater number of persons suffering from contusions, or from being tram-' pled. GIRL GETS BIG HUBBY. Heavy-Weiqht Brinson, Tipping Beam at 5S5, Weds Again. W. T. Brinson of Waycross, Ga., who weighs 5S5 pounds and is claimed to be the largest member of the order of Elks in the world, was iflarried Sunday afternoon to Miss Lucios Allen of Sophortcn. The wedding occurred I at the Methodist parsonage. Brinson is a wealthy turpentine operator and is a wiuower cf about a year. Miss Ailen, it is said, weighs only 105 non^ds IMMIGRANT RECORD BROKEN. Within Twenty-Four Hours 20,729 Arrived at New York. All records for the number of immigrants arriving at the port of New York in a single day were broken in the twenty-four hours ending at 8 o'clock Thursday night. By that hour fourteen steamships had brought into the harbor since S o'clock Wednesday night 20,720 immigrants. This exceeds by fully 5,000 the largest number of immigrants ever landed in a single day. MORE GASH NEEDED % \ To Complete the Buildings at Jamestown Exposition. BOND ISSUE IS PLANNED Company Finds Itself in Sore Straits and Appeals to Government Without Success?Bona's Amount to $400,000. A Norfolk dispatch says: To complete in detail the construction of the Jamestown exposition and liquidate all the floating indebtedness of the exposition company, the board of directors of the Jamestown Exposition Company, at a meeting late Saturday evening, authorized the issuance of $400,000 in bonds, the 500 acres of improved property, including magnificent permanent buildings, being offered as security. The matter of negotiating the bonds was left with the board of governors and Treasurer Beaman. Washington Not Surprised. A Washington special says: An- | nouncement .that the Jamestown Extosition Company finds itself impoverished before the exposition buildings and grounds are completed was received with no surprise by govern-, ment officials. From the time the company came to congress and to the executive departments of the government with requests for appropriations there has been a tendency among the government people to refuse as far as possihlp all concern in the Jamestown ex position. It was only tfie last days of the last session of congress that the attempt to secure a substantial appropriation was successful. That the company was in sore straits for money was evident ten days befbre the exposition was formally opened. A meeting of the board of directors of the campany was called, and it was decided to postpone the opening owing to the lamentably unfinished condition of the buildings and grounds. This would subject the company to law suits for damages to concessionairies, an expense it was in no condition to stand, even if the exposition had to be opened in'an unprepared state. Before the announcement by the company that it needs $350,000 to complete the buildings and grounds an attempt was made to get help from the United States government, but the government was not be won over to the plan, and the company then evolved the plan of getting out a bond issue, secured by the land on which the exposition stands. PROMISES EX?\CT JUSTICE. Roosevelt Puts HayWood-Moyer Affair Un tn Labor People. In a letter read Sunday before the Central Federation Union, in New York, President Roosevelt states that if evidence is submitted to him showing that there has been a miscarriage of justice for or against Moyer and Haywood, awaiting trial at Boise. Idaho, charged with the murder of Former Gpvernor Steunenberg, ho will bring such evidence to the attention of the attorney general for such action, if any, as it may be in the power of the federal authorities to take. SOUTHERN WILL FIGHT. Rate Reductions in South to Be Resisted in Courts. News reaches Washington that the Southern railway will resist in the courts the attempt to put into effect any reduction of rates as provided for by various state legislatures in the south. Alabama has passed a law providing for a 2 1-2 cent rate, North Carolina has placed the rate at 2 1-4 cents 11 <.?>]. mlloe Innir and I Uil all ILfaujj UTCi VV/ ivno mmv* Virginia has adopted a measure for a flat rate of 2 cents. ? * ; SETTLED FOR $600,000 LESS. McAfee's Damage Suit Against Railroad is Compromised. The suit of W. H. McAfee versus the Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line railroad, owned by the Seaboard Air Line, for $625,000, was settled by agreement at Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday, for $25,000. This is the largest suit ever instituted in the Alabama lower court and grew out of a claim for pay of construction work done on the road between Birmingham and Atlanta. It had been on trial nine days when settled. BRONZE STATUE OF McCLELLAN \ Unveiied at Washington With Fitting Ceremony?President Speaks. With civic and military ceremonies, and in the presence of a distinguisned audience the historic equestrian statue m bromie of General George 11. McCieilan erected under the aus pices of the Army or tha Potomac, j was unveiled at Washington Thursday, ^resident Ilooeevelt made the principal speech. t v.-.V,/;;---. ' ' ' ' ? . 'v V V . 4 ' ; " - -.. i EXCHANGE IS ENJOINED. Price Charges That Cotton is Classi* fied by Improper Standard?Seller is Favored. Upon application of Theodore H. Price, Justice Bischoff at New York, Thursday, granted a temporary injunction restraining the clasisfication committee of the New York cotton exchange from classifying cotton by what are alleged improper standards. Under the order of Justice Bischoff, the exchange is enjoined from classifying cotton by samples drawn from bales so long'before the time of classification as to enable them to become bleached, from classifying samples unless the bale from which they were taken can be identified, unless they are compared with proper grades, or without affording an opportunity for ' comparison with standards of every grade, or from classifying * cotton which is unmerchantable uecause of sand and dirt. The order also requires the classification committee of the exchange to deliver to members of the exchange a set of the type of standards used by it in certifying and classifying cotton. Mr. Price declared in his petition that the classifying committee classified samples which are not tagged so as to identify the bale from which it was taken, that the. classification. is made by improper standards and | that the committee is influenced by undue pressure to produce an overclassification in favor of the seller. He asks that the injunction be made permanent. Late Thursday night, Henry W. Taft, represeming.the New York cotton exchange, secured from Judge Bischoff a modification of the temporary injunction. It was represented to Judge Bischoff that, the - injunction might seriously interfere with current contracts to the Injury of the members of the exchange. Judge Bischoff accordingly modified the injunction so that it would not take effect pending a hearing in uie matter iuunuaj. RECORD PRICE FOR CONVICTS. Alabama Gets $45.25 Per Month Each for 175 of Her Wards. The ihaking of a contract for 175 convicts at $45.25 each per month, which has been closed by the state of Alabama, sets a new pace in the matter of service on the part of the wards of the commonwealth, while it serves to indicate the great demand for re- liable labor on the part of the industries of the section. Tne contract was with the Henderson-Boyd Lumber company at Richburg. There was one bid of exactly the same amount, but for 100 men instead of IK. The best contract other than this one was that made with the Hand Lumber company at Bay Minette, some days ago, for $43, up to that time the most remunerative ever made, it was for 100 men. There is a bad shortage of labor with the lumber mills at this time, caused by the farming people rushing back to the farms for the spring plants ing. . I 4 ' 1 ELEVEN BODIES RECOVERED. All Victims of West Virginia Mine Explosion Accounted For. The bodies of eleven I dead have been recovered from the Whipple mine /near Charleston, W. Va., where an explosion of gas dccurred late Wednesday, and this was thought to be the full, extent of the fatalities. The number of injured is five. The mine was very slightly damaged, and the cause of the explosion is yet unknown. ' HOME WRECKER MEETS DOOM. Husband Found His Wife and Physician Together in Room. Dr. Wayne McCoy, a physician at South' Point, Ohio, was shot and instantly killed Thursday night by Captain John Dayis of the Portsmouth i ferryboat. Captain Davis had returned unexpectedly at midnight and found Dr. McCoy in his wife's room. PRESIDENT STANDS PAT. Will Make Public Statement Declining Nomination for Another Term. A dispatch from Washington says: President Roosevelt has decided to set at rest all talk that he will be a candidate for the republican nomination for the presidency next year. It is learned on the highest authority that at the proper moment the president will issue a statement to the American people announcing his determination in the matter. - i ADMINISTRATION TICKET Will Be Taft and Hughes According to Present Outlook. Taft and Hughes is the ticket which seems to the majority of the administration'followers, and they point out that the campaign is practically coni ceutrated in the two states of Ohio {-and New York. | In each state the president has.been ; attacked personally and in each state be has the right to ask for vindicaj :lon* | v. . ? ' YOUR GRANDMOTHER USED IT. . * Bat She Never Had Solphnr in Sach Convenient Form as This. Your grandmother used Sulphur as her favorite household remedy, and so did her grandmother. Sulphur has been curing skin and blood diseases for a hundred years. But in the old days they had to take powdered sulphur. Now Hancock's Liquid Sulphur gives it to you in the best possible form and you get the full benefit. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur and Ointment quickly cure Eczema, Tetter, Salt Rheum and all Skin Diseases. It cured an ugly ulcer for Mrs. Ann W. Willett, of Washington, D. C., in three days. Taken internally, it purifies the blood , and clears the complexion. Your druggist sells it. Sulphur Booklet free, if you write Hancock Liquid Sulphur Company, Baltimore., / Even the dignified man would rather bend a little than go broke. A Woman's Back I Has many aches and pains caused by;' v?j weaknesses and falling, or other displacement, of the pelvic organs. 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Every ingredient entering into "Fa-. ^ vorite Prescription" has tho written en- . dorsement of the most eminent medical; ^ writers of all the several schools of prac-; tice?morn valuable than any amount of? - ^ non-professional testimonials?though the latter are not lacking, having been ton- >^jj| tributod voluntarily by grateful patients. in numbers to exceed the endorsements' given to any other medicine extanv iot "-,ys the cure of woman's His. <; You cannot afford to accept any medicine' '' >' of unknown composition as a substitute for this well proven remedy of knowW: composition, even though the dealer may make a little more profit thereby. Your interest in regaining health is paramount A to any selfish interest of his and It is an insult to your intelligence for him to try . $ to palm off upon you a substitute. You know what you want and it is his business to supply the article colled for. . > ?3 Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are a* - m original "Little Liver Pills" first put up by old Dr. Pierce over forty years ago, much imitated but never equaled. Little sugar-coated granules?easy to take as candy.. . The Age Limit. ' " > 5^ Pr&.ddent McCrea of the Pennsyl- ^ /'* vania Railroad has acted wisely and commendably in raising the age limit at which men may enter the employ, of his company from 35 to 40 yeaJ8. .; v^ There was never a mere senseless notion than that which, would limit the age of efficient service to 60 or . 5* even 65. Many of the strongest men /. in public and business life are over >. 60, and some of them are beyona 70. Farragut was 60 at the beginning of the Civil War, and Oyama was, over : }? 63 at the outbaeak of the war between Japan and Russia. Hayrn wrote his . p oratorio, "The Creation," after he was 67, Goethe finished his "Faust" ait S3 : .% *-riA HnmhnlAt- his "Cosmos" at 76."*' Among grand old men In the annals of American statesmanship It Is suffi- $jls cient to mention the. names of George ; Is F. Hoar, John Quincy Adams and Thaddeus Stevens. Henry Ward j:i| Beecher never preached better than in the last year of his life. J. Pierpont \ p Morgan and H. H. Rogers, both over; " ^ 60, do not yet begin to show signs of senility, and Mark Twain is still "cut* 'j| ting up," though -past 70.?Leslie's , Weekly. . i , _ -i / ~ MAY HAVE DIED OF OLD AGE. ^ "They say Miss AHingham's mother ;t used to be a grand opera chorus girl." | "Used to be? Why, isn't she yet? ' $ Did she meet a Pittsburg millionaire?" i?Chicago Record-Herald. FRIENDS HELP . {/j St. Pdul Park Incident. . . ? - < m "After drinking coffee for breakfast I always felt lanquid and dull, having no ambition to get to my morning duties. 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