Mattia
VOL. IV.
CUBA BEATS TRUSTS
BY BIG HOUSE VOTE
Differential in Refined Su
gar Is Wiped Out By
Overwhelming Vote
Yesterday.
WASHINGTON. April 15.—The Cuban
reciprocity bill was referred to the com
mittee on rotations with Cuba on motion
o. Senator Platt, of Connecticut.
WASHINGTON. April 19.—The Demo
crats and the Republican insurgents rode
rough shod over the house leaders yester
day afternoon when the voting began on
the Cuban reciprocity bill.
They overthrew the ruling of the chair m
committee of the whole on the question of
the germaneness of amendment to remove
the differential from refined sugar during
the existence of reciprocity agreement
provided for in the MH.
The vote to overrule the decision of the
chair, attempted by Mr. Sherman, of New
York. was 171 to 1», J7 Republicans Join
ing with a solid Democratic vote. Having
won this preliminary victory the •mend
meat was adopted in committee—l 64 to in
—and later in the house by a still larger
majority—ls& to 106. On this occasion. 64
Repnhlica ns voted with the Democrats
for the amendment.
Te bill then was passed by an over
whelming majority—S47 to 52.
analysis of the vote shows that 124 Re
publicans and 123 Democrats voted for the
amended bill, and 42 Republicans and 10
Democrats against It. To Thursday
night's Democratic caucus the defeat of
the Republican leaders who sought to pass
the bill without amendment is attributa
ble. Previous to the holding of the cau
cus the Democrats were very much di
vided and the opposition of the Republi
can beet sugar men showed signs of dis
integrating. Yesterday when It became
apparent that the Democrats would act
together the beet sugar men decided at a
meeting attended by 32 of them to take the
bit tn their teeth and overrule the chair.
One of the surprises of the session was
the attempt of Mr. Roberts, a Massachu
setts Republican, to take the duty off
Mdes. He offered two amendments and
appealed once from the decision of the
chair, but was voted down each time. The
bill as passed authorises the president, as
soon as may be after establishment of an
independent government in Cuba and the
enactment by said government of immi
gration .exclusion or contract labor laws
as restrictive as those of the United
States, to negotiate a reciprocal trade
agreement with Cuba by which tn return
for equivalent concessions the United
Slates will grant a reduction of 30 per
cent from the Dingiey rates on goods
erweing into the United States from Cuba,
such agreement to continue until Decem
b-r 1. 19».
During the existence of such agreement
the duty tn refined sugars and aH sugars
above No. 16. Dutch standard. Is to be
L 836 per pound.
WARM DEBATE-CONSUMED
ENTIRE SESSION OF HOUSE
WAHHIXGTOX. April lA—When CM
house met today at 11 o'clock there was a
psvapect of a memorable session ahead.
The general debate on ths Cuban recip
rocity bill was to close at 3 o'clock and it
was the intention of the leaders, if possi
ble to hold the house in session until the
final vote was taken.
The action of the Democratic caucus last
night which decided to vote solidly for
the removal of the differential on refined
sugar, gave the leaders much concern, as
they were unable to figure out exactly
what strength the proposition would com
mand on the Republican side. The dis
closures of Mr. Underwood last night,
relative te overtures made to the Demo
crats on the basis of an abandonment of
the Crumpacker resolution, added a new
complication to the situation and there
seemed a likelihood that It might figure
in the debate today in a sensational fash
ion, The whole atmosphere of the house,
in fact, was charged with electricgy and
presaged the coming storm. Mr. Rich
ardson, of Tennessee, the Democratic
Rader, was the first speaker today.
He made a careful, dispassionate speech
explaining w—y he had voted in favor of
reporting the MH. He stated frankly that
he doubted whether the enactment of the
bill would do much to bring about the
reciprocal trade relations between Cuba
and the United States, which was earnest
ly te be desired. But he had voted for It
tn the hope that it might accomplish
something. It would at least reduce by
20 per cent the outrageously high rates
of the Dingiey law so far as Cuba was
concerned. These high rates could not
stand and he said Mr. Grosvenor's speech
a few days ago was a warning of the com
ing storm.
He thought the time for a revision of
the tariff was at.hand and the fact that
the pending bill began It in a modest way.
commended the measure to him. Mr.
Richardsr.n called attention to the action
of the two counties in the district of Mr.
Babcock, of Wisconsin, endorsing the lat
ter's bills to remove the duties from
steel, and. amid Demcratlc applause, said
that the Democrats proposed to give Mr.
Babcock an opportunity later on to vote
for the bill bis constituents had endorsed.
He outlined also the Democratic program
relative to offering an amendment to abol
ish the differential duty on refined sugar.
If this amendment carried, he said, five
or six million dollars would be taken from
the sugar refiners and given to the Amer
ican consumers of sugar.
Just before Mr. Richardson took his seat.
Mr. Bromwell, of Ohio, asked him this
question;
“Does the gentleman from Tennessee
know anything of a reported bargain be
tween the leaders on this side and the
Democrats on that, by which the Crum
pack ar resolution is to be smothered in or
der to passage of the pending blllY*
“Absolutely nothing." replied Mr. Rich
ardson.
Mr. Fordney. of Michigan, opposed the
MH.
Mr. Hepburn, of lowa, aroused consid
erable excitement by bringing forward the
revelation made in the Democratic caucus
last night concerning the alleged over
tures made from the Republican side to
abandon the Crumpacker resolution. If
the Democrats from the states threatened
would vote against overruling the chair.
After reading the account of the caucus in
a morning paper he proceeded with great
emphasis to declare that the charge la
true or the statement. If made, was of a
very serious character.
“It charges some members of this bouse
with attempting to traffic with the legis
lation before this body.” he said. “It
charges them with a willingness to shelve
legislation which members here consider
very important tn order to secure the ul
timate triumph of this bill.
“I do not believe it. I think the gen
tleman from Alabama (Mr. Underwood),
must have been mistaken or misinformed,
gut. nevertheless, I think it his duty to
this house to be more explicit and to lo
cate this offense where it properly be
longs.”
Mr. Hepburn continued to express his
doubt whether such allegations will be re-
sorted to to pass such a bill when he Is
convinced that 90 per cent of the Republi
cans were Indifferent or opposed to it. He
quoted from the speech of Mr. Grosvenor,
of Ohio, the statement that Mr. Grosvenor
declined to support a bill for a fifty, forty,
thirty, or twenty-five per cent reduction.
It was only when the concession was re
duced five per cent further that he was
induced to rupport it. In other words,
said Mr. Hepburn, had it not been for
that last nickel of reduction the gentle
man from Ohio, to quote hts own lan
guage, would today have been with the
Insurgent attempting to divide the Repub
lican party and attempting to destroy it.
"Great God!” exclaimed Mr. Hepburn,
"on what a slender thread bangs ever
lasting things!” (Laughter and applause.)
Mr. Hepburn also satirized the two-and
a-half-hour speech of Mr. Long, of Kan
sas. which he described as a “great phys
ical effort.” which befitted the Kansas
statesman for a championship in the prize
ring under the Marquis of Queensberry
rules. He denounced the feature of the
bill to compel Cuba to accept our immi
gration laws when the greatest need of
Cuba today was labor. If the Yankee was
what he was sometimes said To be—cun
ning. grasping, avaricious and adroit
then he would say this section of the bill
had been written by a Yankee.
KIM STUDENTS
KEEP THE EMPIRE
IN TURMOIL
ST. PETERSBURG UNIVERSITY RE-
OPENS, BUT ATTENDANCE
WAS VERY SMALL.
MANY EXILED.
ST. PETERSBURG. March 12.—The St.
Petersburg university and a number of
other higher educational institutions were
re-opened yesterdays The attendance
was light and bottles of ill-smelling chem
icals were opened in many of the lecture
rooms.
Students* reports gave the total number
of arrests In Moscow during the last two
or three weeks, as 1.800. They anticipated
the exile to Siberia of the greater part of
the four-hundred students who offered the
government armed resistance in the Uni
versity of Moscow. Professor Timiriasieff,
at Moscow, is reported to have refused
to co-operate In meting out punishment
to students, on the ground that his lecture
room had been filled with strange persons,
whom he took to be spies, while his for
mer diligent students were nowhere to be
seen.
The turbulent elements continue to util
ise the theatres as places for the dlgtribu
tlon of vevotuHonary literature. At Ntffit!-’
Novgorod, during the recent celebration
of the Mrthday anniversary of Gogol, the
Russian author, leaflets were thrown from
the gallery of a theatre at a moment
when the place was darkened. The ush
ers picked up the packages and began dis
tributing them, thinking they were the
atrical notices.
From many towns it is reported that
political prisoners are generally resorting
to starvation tactics in order to force
their release or obtain a hearing. Forty
eight persons thus secured their release a
short time ago. from a detention prison,
tn this city, where they had been held
without an inquiry for nearly a year. Six
others have so reduced their strength as
to necessitate their removal tn a prison
hospital, in the great transport prison
for condemned criminals here, which is
now filled with political prisoners, the
wardens are seeking to dissuade their
charges from refusing food by promising
their release shortly. .
Many students are preparing to go
abroad for study. It is said that this ac
tion has caused more serious attention to
be given to the project attributed to the
finance minister, M. Witte, to increase the
fee for the issue of a passport to go
abroad from fifteen roubles to a sum pos
sibly many times larger than this amount.
General report has it that Minister Witte
seriously proposed to charge all Russians,
who desired to go abroad, three hundred
roubles for the first six months and two
hundred' roubles for each additional
month. Economic as well as political
reasons are urged in favor of this project.
The passport fee was increased about
two years ago frdm five to fifteen roubles
per half year, the addition being for the
benefit of the Red Cross society. Foreign
ers continue to five roubles for per
mission to cross the Russian frontier.
FOR MUHDEROF SIX
BfiTSON FACES
TIUAUURY
WITNESSES IDENTIFIED THE PRIS-
ONER AS THE MAN WHO SOLD
THE MURDERED MAN'S
STOLEN MULEB.
LAKE CHARLES. La.. April 18.-Ed
Batson, who is on trial here for the mur
der of six members of the Earl family
near Welsh, has been positively identi
fied by a dozen witnesses as the man
who attempted to sell Ward Earl's mule
at Lake Charles February 14.
Among the witnesses was Miss Maud
Earl, who is one of the two survivors of
the Earl family. She testified as to the
ages of the family, her father, mother,
and four brothers being the persons mur
dered, and she also related the finding of
the bodies, ten days or two week after the
murder was perpetrated.
Batson's mother is a regular attendant
on the court and her son Is very affection
ate toward her.
FUNNY STORY~KILLED~
LISTENER WITH LAUGHTER
NEW YORK April Dr. Nathaniel
Marston Freeman, a wealthy retired phys
ician of this city, died suddenly in the
Aschenbroedel c>ub. from heart disease.
He had been playing chess when some
body told a funny story. Dr. Freeman
was so convulsed with laughter that he
was unable to resume the game. Sud
denly he lurched forward and died.
ALL HOLLAND
FOR QUEEN
ANXIOUS
WILHELMINA SO CRITICALLY
ILL THAT HER SUBJECTS
FEAR DEATH MAY TAKE HER
FROM THE THRONE.
NEW YORK. April 19 —Dispatches from
Holland diclose that there Is general
gloom over the condition of Queen Wilhel
mina, cables the London correspondent of
the Tribune.
The heir presumptive to the throne is a
Germa* prince of the Orange blood, but
the succession is undetermined. The Dutch
constitution provides, that in default of a
legal hair, the sovereign and states gener
al shall designate a successor. This has
not been done, and the states general will
exercise the right of selection In case of
the queen's death.
A bulletin issued thia tpomfng from
Castle Loo announced that Queen Wilhel
mina had a fairly quiet night; that the
disease—typhoid fever—is following Its
normal course and that no complications
have supervened, although her majesty’s
strength is diminishing slightly in propor
tion to the duration of her Illness.
In consequence of the queen’s illness,
the birthday of Her husband. Prince Hen
ry of the Netherlands, passed practically
unnoticed today. Telegrams of sympathy
with her majesty in her Illness are pour
ing in from all parts of Europe.
The afternoon bulletin issued from Cas
tle Loo read: i
“During the day there has been nothing
special to note in the course taken by the
queen's Illness. Her majesty sleeps at in
tervals and remains fully conscious.”
FLORIDA IS GIVEN
U. S. FISH HATCHERY
WASHINGTON, April 19.—At the con
clusion of routine business today the sen
ate agreed to a conference asked for by
the house committee on the Chinese exclu
sion bill. The chair, Mr. Frye, said that
he felt bound to appoint conferees who
would represent the majority sentiment of
the senate. He named Messrs. Platt, of
Connecticut!; Dillingham, of Vermont,
and Clay, of Georgia.
Among the other measures passed are
the following:
Granting permission for the erection of
a monument or statue in Washington, D.
C., to the memory of the late Benjamin F.
Stevenson, founded of the Grand Army of
the Republic; appropriation of 315,000 for
the establishment of a fish cultural station
in Florida; to authorize the construction
of a bridge across the Neuce river at
Kingston, N. C.
Funds for Monuments.
ATHENS. Ga., April Ik—The bazar
run-during thia week closed last night and
netted about* 3800 to be used for Winnie
Davis hall and Elisha Clarke monument.
PARTY LEADERS WILL
MAKE STUDY OF NEGRO
Congressman Thompson,
of Alabama, Issues Invi
tation to Visit Negro
Plantations.
WASHINGTON, April 19.—The impend
ing row over the Crumpacker resolution
to agitate the negro question in the south
is likely to be settled in a novel and effect
ive plan of Representative Charles Thomp
son. of i.ie Tuskegee, Alabama district.
He will take twenty leading Republican
congressmen, Including Mr. Crumpacker
himself, on a week’s visit to his plantation
home in Macon county, Alabama, leaving
here on May 20.
They will be shown tpe southern negro
In his highest type, represented by the
students of Booker Washington's school,
and also in his lowest type, as represent
ed by the cotton field-hand. Not one of
the party has ever seen the negro in his
native element.
In the party will be Senator Ffye, of
Maine; Representatives Crumpacker, of
Indiana; Littlefield, of Maine; Jenkins, of
Wisconsin; Ketcham, of New York;
Southern, of Ohio; Connor, of Iowa;
Davidson, of Iowa; Barney, of Wisconsin;
Brown, of Wisconsin; Roberts, of Maine;
Gillett, of Massachusetts and others.
Speaker Henderson has been Invited and
will go if he can leave congress.
The congressmen will be accompanied
by their wives.
Mr. Thompson invited the congressmen
to be his guests primarily because they
are personal friends of his, but the deep
political significance of such a visit can
hardly be estimated. There has always
been a conversion of northerners to the
southern view of the negro question when
they visit the south and see the condi
tion for themselves, and a conversion of
these twenty political leaders may lead
to unexpected results, especially as some
of them are strong advocates of the
Crumpacker agitation at this time. The
spot they will visit is not only In a state
that Would be deeply affected by the pass
age of such a measure, but it is In the
very heart of the “black belt” of the
south.
The visit of the congressional party to
Alabama will be followed by & secret visit
of the noted Ogden party which toured,
the south last year. Announcement of
this second visit was made yesterday b"y
Dr. J. L. M. Curry. '
President Roosevelt has promised that
he will go throughout the south this year,
and he may join the Ogden party.
“DOWN~WITH LOUBEIT 7
SHOUTED MAN AT HOTEL
PARIS, April 19.—While President Lou
bet was visiting the exhibition in the Jar
din des Tuilleries this morning, an indi
vidual posted at a window of a hotel op
posite, attempted to start a demonstra
tion against the president.
His cries of “Abas Loubet!” (down with
Loubet), however, only endangered him
self as the crowd present started a coun
ter demonstration and started threaten
ingly in the direction of the hotel.
The disturbance of the peace was arrest
ed. but later, ho wax released from cus
tody.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1902.
ONLY OFFICIAL
BALLOTS TO
8E USED
CANDIDATES WILL NOT BE AL
LOWED TO HAVE THEIR OWN
TICKETS PRINTED BUT MUST
USE THOSE FURNISHED.
Candidates In Georgia, who are to be
voted for In the stage Democratic pri
mary on June sth. are stirred up over the
new rule of the state Democratic execu
tive committee. At least some of them
are stirred up, as some of them are not
fully acquainted with the new ruling.
Only one form of ballot Is to be used
in the coming primary, while heretofore
there had been all sorts of tickets used.
It has been the custom for years in Geor
gia to have tickets bearing only his own
name, while the name of his opponent
was left off entirely.
The executive committee has ruled,
however, that only one form of ballot
must be used, and that the names of all
candidates must appear on the ticket.
Rule No, 13 of the executive commit
tee says:
“Resolved, That the chairman of this
committee be instructed to appoint a sub
committee to prepare under regulations
this day made the official form of ballot
to be voted at the primary, this day pro
vided for, and to furniih same to the va
rious chairmen of the county committees,
and that only such uniform ballot shall be
voted at said election.”
The sub-committee which was appolrfted
by Vice Chairman Ed T, Brown to arrange
an official ballot for tha primary report
ed as follows regarding the ballot:
“Under this resolution only this offi
cial form of ballot should be voted at said
primary, and under the ruling of the
state committee two ago, any other
form of ballot, not containing names of
all candidates, can be tnrown out should
the point be raised.” *
It will now devolve on,the chairmen of
the various executive committees to have
the ballots prepared containing the names
ot all the candidates running for state
house offices, for the judgeships hnd so
licitorship, congressmen. senators, and
local candidates, the copt to be divided
up among the men whose names appear
on the ticket.- iob ■
Some of the candidates are raising a
howl about the new rule, and some of
them are complaining about the heavy
assessments which are being made by the
counties. Some of the counties never call
on the state house- candidates for any
money, but collect the entire cost from
the local candidates. t »
MEXICO CITY SHOCKED
BY QUAKING EARTH
CITY OF MEXICO, Abril 19.—A severe
earthquake shock wa» felt here at 7:50
last evening.. JM-duWlon Was a minute
and a half, exceeding any experienced in
recent years.
SWINDLER SECURES
UNCLE SAM'S MONEY
REPRESENTS ( HIMSELF TO BE A
POSTOFFICE INSPECTOR AND
ROBS MANY MISSISSIPPI
POSTMASTERS.
JACKSON, Miss., April 19.—One of the
boldest prisoners, and the most original
impersonator, was arrested this morning
at Laurel by United States Deputy Mar
shal Henery, and brought to this city on
the noon train. Sidney Holmes Is his
name, and ho has been traveling all over
the state representing hiipself as postoffice
inspector and getting large sums of money
from the various postoffices in Mississippi.
This'is the most original game that has
ever been played in this section, and
Holmes has been working it for a long
time.
There is no telling how much money
Holmes has gotten from Uncle Sam’s of
fices through this state, but as he has
worked it for some it is thought that he
has secured a great deal.
OGDEN PARTY WILL*BE
IN ATHENS THIS WEEK
Robert Ogden, of New York, and his par
ty of New York millionaires, interested in
education, will meet in Athens next Fri
day at the Southern Educational confer
ence.
When the conference is concluded the
party will make a tour of all the educa
tional institutions in the south, as they did
last year. It Is. said that Mr. Ogden will
have more than fifty people with him on
the trip.
The visit of this party is being looked
forward to with a great deal of interest
by the educators in the different parts of
the south. State School Commissioner G.
R. Glenn will attend the sessions of the
conference. Athens has made all the nec
essary preparations for entertaining the
money kings, and will do everything to
make their visit pleasant.
COLU MBUS WANTsTaY
AT ST. ANDREWS DEEPENED
COLUMBUS. Ga., April 19.—The Colum
bus board of trade held an Important
meeting yesterday afternoon at which res
olutions were passed asking congress to
appropriate $50,000 to deepen the harbor
at St. Andrews Bay. The resolution
asked congressmen and the Georgia sen
ators to work in conjunction with Sena
tor Malory, ot Florida, to this end.
Body Found In River.
COLUMBUS. Ga., April 19.—The body of
Henry Munn, a negro, who waa drowned
at the North Highland dam on April 10th,
was found yesterday by Mr. W. E. Berry,
the ferryman. He pulled the body to the
shore with a rope, and it was turned over
to Alex Toles, the colored undertaker,
and prepared for burial.
MATERIAL 1
NEEDED 81
STRIKERS
STRIKE BENEFITS PROMISED
BY NORTHERN WORKERS IS
NOT FORTHCOMING ~ OUT
LOOK GROWS SERIOUS.
AUGUSTA. Ga., April 19.-Mr. Albert
Hibbert, of Fall River, Mass., secretary
general of the International Textile union,
who is to conduct the mill strike in behalf
of the union, arrived in the city* at 4
o’clock yesterday afternoon. He had been
expected for nearly a week, but had be'en
detained at Washington, D. C., where he
attended a meeting of the National Fed
eration of Labor, to secure their co-opera
tion in this strike. He was so far success
ful as to secure its endorsement of the
strike and its moral support, but beyond
voluntary aid extended by any union in
response to whatever appeal he may make,
no material aid was promised him.
This question of material aid Is what is
interesting the strikers. They went Into
this strike upon the representation if not
upon the orders of the eastern officers,
where, according to their own statement,
they had no grievance as to wages except
at the King mill, and refusing to post
pone the strike even for one week that a
committee of citizens might examine into
matters and make its report. It was un
derstood that the strikers were to receive
32 strike benefit per week, and upon this
understanding they went out. The strike
has now been on two weeks. The opera
tives have about spent their money, and
they will need help next week. They have
very little in their local treasuries, and
hence awaited anxiously the coming of
Mr. Hibbert.
The encouragement he has brought Is
not of a nature to satisfy the more far
seeing of the strikers. He stated to a
reporter that the unions at Fall River and
New Bedford would raise about S4OO per
week under the 5 per cent assessment plan,
and the first installment would be due to
day. More than that will doubtless be
raised, but the SI,OOO per week pledged two
weeks ago does not seem to be in sight.
There are about 7,000 hands out of em
ployment, whose weekly wage earnings
were about $35,000, and among whom SI,OOO
would not go very far, being only an aver
age of 15 cents each. When even less than
SI,OOO weekly is in sight It is no wonder
that some of the thinking ones among
the strikers begin to wonder what is to
be done.
During the big strike in 1886 the Knights
of Labor sent in to the strikers during
eight weeks of the strike over $22,000, and
by a system of orders which were accept
ed by the merchants (and most of which
was finally lost to them), $30,000 more was
raised. As the number out on strike then
was less than one-half of the number out
now, it enabled the managars to pay the
strikers 80c per week. With this the strike
-lawt~mtne ten weeks, when the wnffering
and privations could no longer be borne
and the strikers surrendered uncondition
ally.
Secretary Hibbert and the local leaders
were in counsel last night and today. It
Is not expected that there will be any
change next week, beyond inaugurating
relief work, and seeing how far the aid
extended will go. The real fight will begin
after that.
FIGHTING EXPORTATION OF
HORSES TO BRITISH ARMY
NEW ORLEANS. April 19.-General
Samuel Pearson, Boer commander, who
Is fighting the exportation of horses and
jnules to the British army In South Africa,
finished testimony yesterday before Colo
nel Crowder, U. S. A., Investigating officer,
and furnished him with additional evi
dence in support of his contention. He
gave him the names of three Americans
who were solicited to enlist, or did enlist.
In the British army at the solicitation of
British officers. General Pearson spent the
morning at Camp Chalmette, and reported
his observations to Colonel Crowder, and
will transmit them to his own government.
Three transports are now waiting to take
horses and mules to South Africa. Colonel
Crowder. It Is expected, will finish the In
vestigation today. ,
DEWEY HAS DECLINED"
DENVER’S INVITATION
DENVER, April 19.—The Rocky Moun
tain News prints this morning the follow
ing from Admiral Dewey:
“WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 18.
“News, Denver: Do not Intend visiting
Denver at this time. (Signed)
"GEORGE DEWEY.”
The above was In response to an invi
tation to Admiral Dewey tp be present at
a banquet to be given to General Funs
ton, May 1.
MUOBWHiTESIDES,
OF SflVflNNftH,
DIESJLN. y.
SOUTHERN CAPITALIST, VICE
PRESIDENT OF ATLANTIC
COMPRESS CO., DIED
FRIDAY.
SAVANNAH, Ga.. April 18.—Major S. J.
Whiteside, whose death is annbunced in
New York, was a pioneer in putting in
many valuable properties in Savannah. He
lived here with his family and went to
New York on business two weeks ago.
Before the war Major Whiteside, who
was born in New York, went to Pensa
cola and afterwards resided at Columbus.
He built the first cotton compress in Sa
vannah and the first artificial ice ma
chine. At the time of his death he was
vice president of the Atlantic Compress
company.
He leaves two sons, a widow and a
daughter. The funeral will take place in
Brooklyn. t
SEVERE EARTHQUAKES
ARE FELT IN RUSSIA
ST. PETERSBURG. April 19.—Severe
earthquakes occurred at Shamaka. Trans-
Caucasrfa. during the night of April 17th,
causing a panic among the inhabitants
who escaped the recent visitations. Earth
shocks were also felt in the district of
Ferghana, Turkestan, early yesterday
morning.
STEAMER HOLOCAUST
ON THE OHIO RIVER
OCEAN LINERS
ARE TO BE
MERGED
$150,000,000 OF MORGAN’S
MONEY IS THE* CAPITAL OF
GIANT SHIP CONSOLIDA
TION. ’ v
NEW YORK, April 19.—J. P. Morgan,
who Is now abtond, has practically con
summated a plan to combine all the lead
ing trans-Atlantic steamship lines. Lon
don dispatches to the Associated Press,
announcing the combina'atlon. were to
day confirmed at the Morgan banking
house. The companies to be consolidated
will. It is understood, include the Ameri
can and Red Star lines. White Star line,
Dominion line, Atlantic Transport line and
tne Leyland line. The two last named
lines have been under Morgan control for
some time.
Probable additions to this list are the
Cunard, Wilson and Holland-American
companies and It is understood that a
"working agreement” will be reached with
the other leading trans-Atlantic compa
nies, including the North German Lloyd,
Hamburg-American (general trans-Atlan
tic), Allan and Anchor lines.
It Is yet too early to give the exact
scope of the scheme, but as ndw outlined
there will be an American holding com
pany into which all the steamship com
panies which propose to enter the combine
will put their stock holdings—“pool their
issues”—in exactly the same way that
the various concerns embraced In the
United States Steel corporation threw In
their holdings, receiving in return stock
of tjie main or parent company.
*150,000,000 Capital.
Just what the capitalization will be Is
not yetdtnown, but the amount is likely to
be well In excess of $150,000,000. This phase
of the project Is based entirely upon the
number of companies taken Into the com
bine.
Ope of the most interesting feattires of
the plan deals with the subsidy question.
The White Star and Cunard lines receive
liberal subsidies from the British govern-,
ment. These subsidies would be withheld
or abrogated if the ships of these lines
changed their flag from British to Ameri
can. Because of this the ships of the
White Star, Cunard and the English sub
sidled companies win doubtless continue
nominally under British conUoL
G. W. PSrklns. of J. P. Morgan & Co., is
authority for the statement that Ameri
can interests dominate the proposed amal
gamation and declares that the result will
prove not only a great triumph for Mr.
Morgan but will make the United States
the real ruler of the merchant marine of
the world.
Mr. Perkins also said the plan would be
of great benefit to importers and export
ers as well as to the great railroad In
terests of the Country. I
Its effect will be felt by shippers from
Maine to California, Mr. Perkins says,
and will also result in a better under
standing between the commercial inter
ests of this country and Germany.
“It Is true,” he added, “that Morgan
will act as syndicate manager in this
combination, Just as he brought together
and welded the various interests in the
United States steel corporation.
Financial Details Later.
“The finaAcidl details have been com
pleted to the extent that that cash neces
sary for the deal haakbeen subscribed. It
is too soon to speak about the directo
rate, but let It be borne In mind that con
trol-of the company will be held here.
“It Is taken as a matter of course that
the Interests now prominent in the va
rious steamship lines “will be taken Into
the consolidated directory.”
Banking interests identified with the
proposed underwriting syndicate said to
day that th* new company would have a
New Jersey charter. They thought that
no very great amount of cash contribu
tions would be required from the under
writing syndicate but were reticen| as
to how far the owners of underlying com
panies had the option to take new stock
or cash.
The Rothschilds, they added, were to
be among the underwriters.
BRAVE ENGINEER STOPS
FLYING CAR IN MAD RACE
VICTOR. Col.. April 19.—A thrilling race
down a mountain side saved a trainMoad
of passengers by a margin of four sec
onds.
At Eclipse, on the Florence and Cripple
Creek railroad, a loaded freight car broke
loose, with Brakeman Lund on top. As
Lund applied the brake th£ chain broke,
and the car started again at a terrific
clip.
Conductor Blondy, on an engine direct
ed by Engineer Rush, undertook to cap
ture the car to prevent a collision with a
suburban train due to leave Anaconda
about the same time.
After wrapping a message around a
lump of coal. Blondy hurled it through
the window at Eclipse station. The ope
rator succeeded in holding the passenger
train as It was pulling out of Anaconda.
The pursuit of the freight car was now
on in earnest, engine and car taking the
serpentine track at full speed, although
it seemed Impossible to hold to the rails
on the sharp curves. The car was over
taken four seconds from Anaconda. Con
ductor Blondy made a coupling from the
pilot, the air-brake was applied and the
runaway was brought to a stop.
chineseTcFty has”
FALLEN TO REBELS
CANTON. April 19.—The rebels are be
sieging Nan-Ning. an Important city in
the province of Kwang-Si and it is report
ed that the place has already fallen.
The telegraph wires beyond Wu-Chow,
between Canton and Nan-Ning, have
been cut.
MRS. THOMAS DIXON, SR.,
DIES IN NORTH CAROLINA
SHELBY, N. C.. April 19.—Mrs. Amanda
D’.xon. wife of Rev. Thomas Dixon. Sr.,
died at her heme at 10:30 yesterday morn
ing. She was the mother of Revs. A. C.,
Thomas, and Frank Dixon, prominent
Baptist divines.
NO. (3,
70 Lives Lost By Burning •
of Steamer City of Pitts
burg Between Cincin
nati and Cairo.
CAIROj 111.. April 20.—One of the worst
disasters in the history of river naviga
tion occurred shortly after 4 o'clock this
morning near Ogden’s landing, near this
city. While almost all aboard were asleep
the steamer City of Pittsburg was dis
covered on fire, and In a few minutes was
burned to the water. The loss is over
SBO,OOO on the steamer and does not in
clude the cargo, both being a total loss.
The latest estimates are that there were
150 persons aboard, and that not more
than half of them were saved, many of
the latter being burned or injured. As
the register of the steamer waa burned,
no list can be given, either of the victims
or of the survivors, and in the confusion
It has been impossible to get complete
lists. Captain Phillips admits that the
death list may reach sixty.
Many passengers clung by finger tips
to the burning boat, with bodies sub
merged, until, overcome by fire or water,
they sank to death. Wesley Neely, a
fisherman, rescued two from the wheel
house. One was a man and the other a
woman. The latter clung to the boat un
til her hands were burned.
A company on board a small gasoline
launch, which happened along, served cof
fee as long as it lasted, and this was all
the refugees from the City of Pittsburg
had In the way of nourishment from 7,
o’clock last evening until the Kigcfre ar
rived at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon.
Most of the passengers were still in j
bed when Second Clerk Oliver Phillips'
gave the alarm. The engines at once
started all the pumping engines, while
the crew brought all the hose into play.
Amid the streamii of water on all sides,
the flames frdm the lower deck and dense
clouds of smoke the passengers „rushed
from their state rooms and a frightful
panic ensued. The appeals of the officers
and drew could not appease the terror
stricken crowds that interfered with those
working with the lifeboats. Few could
adjust life-preservers or do anything else
for themselves.
The smoke was stifling. Great clouds
floated through the blazing steamer,
choking the passengers and adding to the*
terror. Children cried
that they be saved. They knew, as well
as their elders, that death confronted
them and clung to their mothers as
though they alone could save them. Life
boats were manned and every effort wks
made to save the passengers from the fur- .
nace of flames. Sturdy boatmen rowed
desperately in their heroic work of rescue.
Boats were sent from the shore to do
all they could in the work of rescue.
Laden to their limit with passengers, in
the scant attire they were able to gather, >
boats were landed at the river banks.
As fast as one boat could be emptied it
returned to the ill-fated steamer, the
rescuers not waiting to catch a breath
of rest. v ' -X » ■’
.... Partial Xht Thpae Lost .
The following partial lists were revised
up to midnight so far as possible with
meager information obtainable:
CAPTAIN WESLEY DOSS, retired riv-,
er pilot, 1536 Eastern avenue, Cincinnati. \
MISS MARIE TESBIM, Cannelton, Ind.
THREE CHILDREN of Mrs. Fannie
McCullum, al Leavenworth, Ind.
PATRICK BURK AND SEVEN MEM
BE RS OFHIS FAMILY, of Owensboro,.
Ky.
CHILD OF PILOT AL PRITCHAHD, of
Memphis, Tenn.
CLAY BREEZE, WIFE AND 80N,.
Uniontown, Ky.
CHILD of Archie M. Allen, of Pitts
burg, Pa.
MISS MARY LISTER, Carrollton. Ohio.
MR. ADAMS, of Ohio.
MR. DOWNS, of Memphis.
MISS of Owensboro, Ky.
L. L. HUNTER, of Litinti, Pa.
Members of the crew missing:
JOE REDDING, 1216 Budd street, Cin
cinnati. striker engineer.
FRED JONES, Newport, Ky., striker
engineer. *
TOM SMITH, Memphis, Tenn., steers
man.
WILLIAM RENTZ BOLLINGER. U
Walnut street. Cincinnati, first steward..
HENRY THOMAS, colored, Cincinnati,
second steward.
JOHN BOTTS, Cincinnati, oook.
TONY GILFOYLE, Cineinndtl. baker.
First pantry man. thrap colored flre
ment, six cabin boys, two chambermaids,
six deck hands, two cooks.
Bodies Already Recovered.
CAPTA'N WESLEY DOSS.
MISS MARIE TESSIM.
YOUNGEST OF THE M’CULLUM
CHILDREN. ', Vyalffi
BEAUTIFUL BATTLE FLAG
GOES TO DALLAS REUNION
Among The interesting relics of the civtl|
war that will go to the reunion at Dalias
from this citj’ is * he beautiful old flag oV
the Bartow artillery, which is sacred with,
memories and loved by every veteran who
chances to see it The part played by the
Bartow artillery during the civil war is of
itself sufficient to give the flag a promi
nent place tn the hearts of the veterans,
but there is something more than that, s
Colonel Frahcis Bartow, whose name
the command had, was killed at the first
battle of Manassas, and his wife, who
was at hts home in Griffin at the time,
with her qwn hands stitched the flag that
will be carried during the parade at the
Dallas reunion. It is the second flag of
the Confederacy, with red stripes at the
top and bottom and white in the center.
It is entirely of silk, the white piece in
the center being a part of the wedding
dress of Mrs. Bartow.
On one side of the flag is the name of
the command. On the other side is the
following inscription, worked in embroid
ery: “I so to Illustrate if I Can my Na
tive State.”-
The flag will be carried to the reunion
by J. D. Nipper, of 181 Ashby street, At
lanta. It w!ll be seen for the first time
since the war by Third Lieutenant Ben
son W. Roberts, now of Tyler, Texas.
MANY WAYCROSS~ME'n
WILL VOTE FOR GUERRY
WAYCROSS. Ga.. April 19.-A poll of
the business men of Waycross yecterday
showed out of 121 who have expressed
their preference for governor, 56 were
for Guerry, 35 for Estill and 30 for Terren..
All the county officers have opposition
except Glerk of Court E. J. Berry. It is
likely that a warm contest will be waged
from now on in Ware.
BODY OF BOY FOUND~
IN CARCASS OF HORSE.
NEW YORiv. April Is.—On .Hooper’s
land in Chesapeake bay the 'body of a
boy has been found concealed in the car
cass of a dead horse, where it was hidden
after a murder, says an £ikton, Md., spe
cital to The World.
