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VOLUME XV. ALBANY, OA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 27, 1906. NUMBER SO. RUSSIAN BALTIC PROVINCES Revolutionists Depose Old^ Authorities in Some Coun ties, While Their Leaders Are Shot in Others. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 27.—A dispatch from Gomel says that halt the town Is In flames and that fighting Is going on between troops and revolutionists. The disorder extends to five counties surrounding Gomel. The peasantry deposed the old authorities and elected revolutionists to fill their places. Fire and Blood In Baltic Province. WEKIN, Livnla, Thursday, Jan. 25.—The pacification ot the Baltle province is reaching the final stage as far as the Agrarian movement Is concerned. Nearly 250 revolutionists have been shot, several thousand ar rested and 5,000 rifles captured by the troops. The revolutionists have stopped burning, but occasionally fire on the troops. The revolutionists In this district burned 200 castles valued at $4,000,000, not including articles which they contained. TO BETTER SYSTEM Of Bookkeeping and Re cording for the City Government is Planned by Council. Arrangements are under way for changing the present system of book keeping by which track is kept of the business of the city of Albany, to methods more convenient and up to date. The change has been contemplated for several years. Attention to the de mand for a better system was called by retiring Mayor A. J. Lippitt in his admirable annual report submitted to the Council on January 1, and at va rious times, before and since, the ques tion has received the attention of . members of Counqiil | Now that the city will have the full time of City Cleric Rust, it. will be possible to have the books and records of the municipal government kept in a much more elaborate and satisfactory manner than heretofore, and no time loo Add Per Cent. Lowell, Mass., Jan. 27.—Three lives were lost early today in a fire which damaged the Richardson Hotel here to the amount of 650,000. it is feared that the list of deaths will be in creased when the ruins are searched. Several injured have been taken to hospitals and numbers are being treated in other hotels and in resi dences. The dead are all women. Two have not been identified. The fire, it is believed, started in the kitchen from an overheated stove rjknd was burning- an hour' before be ing discovered. A party of gentle men playing cards smelled smoke at 2 o'clock thlB morping and gave the alarm and 'summoned the fire depart ment. / People from the third and fourth floors were rescued from windows In their night clothes. to value of our Farms A by using merican Field ence Five Carload! X just received at Albany Machinery Co. 1 THREE LB LOST I Mi FIRE The Richardson Hotel, at Lowell, Mass., Takes Fire from Kitchen Stove. Three Women Perish. The Dead Identified. Lowell, Mass., Jan. 27.—1 p. m.—All the dead have been identified. There were more than 400 guests In the hotel and the register was not available for hours. It was then dis covered that only three lives hod been lost. V MABEL PAGE’S MURDERER Sentenced to be Electrocuted at Cam bridge on June 10. /Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 27.—Charles Tucker, who was convicted of the murder of Mabel Page in March, 1904, wnB sentenced today to bo electrocuted on June 10. He declared that he was innocent of the crime. ATTENTION, R. Al M.—Special con vocation Albany chapter, No. 15, R. A. M., Monday evening, 7:30 o’clock. Work in Royal Arch Degree. All visiting brothers cordially invited. DANIEL MAYER, Secretary. will be lost in making arrangements for the contemplated change. In fact, a request has already been made of a well-known firm which fur nishes modern bookkeeping outfits that one of its representatives be sent here, and a reply has been received stating that one of the concern’s trav eling men will be in the city In the course of a few days. Under the new system, it is probable that the Council will adopt the rule of apportioning to each department of the government, at the beginning of the year, a certain amount, within the limits of which, except in case of ex traordinary demand, it will be neces sary to hold expenditures. Another change which will in all probability be made will bo the plac- ing In the hands of the clerk of the work heretofore dono by two separate boards of tax assessors, one of real es tate and the other of personalty. Such an arrangement would, have manifest advantages. 1 IS GHEH Mfgpf SESTERCE Commander of the Ill-Fated Steamer Guilty of Criminal Negligence. New York, Jan. 27.—William H. Vansehaick was today found guilty- of criminal negligence in failing to have fire drills on the steamer General Slocum, which he commanded in June, 1904, when the steamer was burned with a loss of more than a thousand lives. He was imme diately sentenced to ten years imprisonment by Judge Thomas, of the United States district court. The jury disagreed on two other counts, in which Captain Van- schaick was charged with criminal negligence by using life preservers of poor quality on the steamer. ATTORNEYS OF' BEEF TRUST TRY TO SUBSIDIZE THE PRESS. Bold Effort at Bribery Exposed by Authority of President Roosevelt. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—By authority of President Roosevelt, cor respondence has been made public at the White House relating to methods alleged to- have been' employed by attorneys for the beef pack ers |vhq are under indictment at Chicago, to influence public opinion in behalf ot the packers. The documents consist of a communication made to Attorney-Gen eral Moody by United States District Attorney Morrison, of Chicago, set ting out certain alleged facts regarding the payment of a sum of money to a Chicago newspaper reporter by one of the attorneys for the beef packers; a letter of the attorney-general to the President transmitting Mr. Morrison’s report, expresslpg the opinion that np way existed under the law by which the alleged offense could be punished; and a letter from the President to the attorney-general directing the publication of the correspondence. Mr. Morrison's letter, which contains the allega tions'regarding the payment of money, says: "That on the 27th day of December, 1905, Judge George W. Brown, who is one of the attorneys for the packers in the ‘beet trust' case, gave to a Mr. Hasler, who is n reporter for the Inter-Ocean, and who reports the proceedings of the ‘beef trust’ qpsp,- ( a cevtain^'amytinL-.at..money,, os tensibly as a Christmas present, the exact amount I do not know, and directed him to give 6100 of it to a Mr. Eiwell, who is a reporter for the City Press of Chicago, and who is also detailed to report the court pro ceedings in this case and whose reports are UBed by all of the news papers of Chicago, and largely by the Associated Press. Mr. Hasler had intimated to Mr. Eiwell before that day that he was 'going to receive a present, and on that day met him in the corridor df the Federal building and handed him $100. Mr. Eiwell declined to take it, and he pushed it into his pocket with Judge Brown’s card and told Mr. Eiwell that Judge Brown had sent it to him. Eiwell went to his employer and told him about it and his employer told him to take the money and give it to Judge Brown, which he did, and Judge Brown told him that he did not mean anything by it; that he JuBt wanted to make him a Christmas present” , Mr. Morrison in his letter says that Judge Brown called on him and explained that lje had given money to Eiwell out of gratitude for com plimentary articles concerning himself. Judge Brown also admitted giv ing Hasler money. He said the money he gave was Ills own and his clients knew nothing about It. Attorney-General Moody, In transmitting Mr. Morrison’# letter, says the articles of the Inter-Ocean reporter Were "misleading" and contained ) "mnny false statements of facts.” In his letter authorising the publica tion of the letters, President Roosevelt Bays; "Extraordinary efforts have been made in this case, as In one or two similar cases, to poison the public mind by the dissemination of false and misleading statements, and it is right that the public should know why and how their circulation Is secured.” ^ Y GENERAL STEPHEN D. LEE New Orleans, Jan. 27.—General Stephen D, Lee, General Com manding the United Confederate Veterans, today issued a .general or der calling official attention to the death of General Joseph' Wheeler, reciting the principal facts in his life and eulogizing his record arid achievements. ' : . - Approved by the United ^States—A Boycott Fight May Be First/Move by France. ^ / Washington, Jan. 27.—As a prelim inary to a naval demonstration, France is now considering the Initiation of a boycott of all the Venezuelan products, of which she is the largest foreign pur chaser. No plan ot- action has been finally determined Tip'on, hut the ap parently complicated situation at Al- geciras has caused a suspension in the programme for the immediate dispatch of warBhlps to La Guayra, and It Is probable that the cruisers now in the West Indies will await the arrival of the two additional cruisers, now fitting out In France before proceeding to Venezuela. A boycott against Venezuelan pro- IEI Venezuela’s Position With Reference to Taigney’s Forced Departure Not Tenable. CARACA8, Venezuela, Thursday, via Port of 8paln, Saturday, Jan. 27. Twenty-five diplomats today dellvored to the Venezuelan government a formal Joint note that they oan not accept Venezuela's position that M. Talgney, former Frenoli charge d'affaires, was deprived of his official char acter and ranked only as a French citizen at the time of his forced depart ure from Venezuela. The diplomats communicated the text of the note to the representative governments, . iHrar With Perfect Smoothness. Boilers at Municipal Plant Will Now Have ■ Long Rest. The new motor-drivon pumps re- cently. installed .at the waterworks sta tion are now in dally operation, and the proceas ot supplanting the steam machinery which began on the first day of October ts now complete. * For a few dayB a little fire will bo maintained under the boilers, but this will be merely a matter of precaution. The motor-driven pumps being new, it is a possibility that their operation may be interrupted as the. result of some irregularity not yqt discovered, and to guard\ against such a contin gency a email head of steam is being kept up. None of the steam mahbln- ery is being UBed, however, and after a few dayB the hollers will have all the fire drawn from under them. The two pumps are working smooth. Ijf and satisfactorily,, and,- no. trouble' Is feared. The smaller of the two Is kept In operation at all tlmeB, so as to maintain domestic- pressure on the mains.. But should an alarm of fire be turned in, the smaller pump will be cut out nna the larger one, which ex erts a pressure of eighty pounds and is driven by a 70-horsepowor motor, will be put in operation. With both pumps working, a pressure of 110 pounds wquld 1)6 exerted.’ The waterworks and light plant is now ns it was intended to be when the extensive changes that have been made were decided upon. The pumps and air-lift machine are mo,tor driv en, while the city is lighted with cur rent from the Big Shonls without a wheel at the municipal station being turned. Wlth-a complete steam plant in reserve, it may safely bo stated tliat'there is not a more up-to-date municipal station* In the .South than Albany now boasts. !E Has Some Difficult Prob- s lems—Powers Trying to Revise the Moroccan System of Revenue. ducts could be established by the Is suance of an official decree at Paris, but no Information on this subject is obtainable here, and it Is said that no decision has so far been reached. Washington Approves Course. Paris, Jan. 20. — President Loubet presided today at a council of minis ters, nnd in the course it Is said on good authority a decision was reached relative to France’s eventual action towards Venezuela after Premier Rou- vler had given the ministers a com plete explanation of the situation. The measures to bo taken have not yet been made known, but, it is under stood that the United States has been| advised of France’s course of action, which is entirely approved at Wash ington. Russell Works for Peace. Washington, Ian. 26. — In a cable gram from Caracas, dated January 2R and received at the State Department last night, American Minister Russell reports that be has practically suc ceeded in restoring friendly relations between Colombia and Venezuela. These were severely strained through the escape of a rebel Venezuelan gen eral across the frontier into Colombia and the tardiness ot the Colombian authorities In satisfying Venezuela’s demands for thp general’s extradition. Mr. Russell’s cablegram, it Is Bald, throws no new light on the Franco- Venezuelan imbroglio. Algeolras, Jan. 27. — The Moroccan conference resumed its sessions today and spent two hours reviewing the work ot the committee bn Moroccan revenue. The powera have several important objects in examining the revenue system, or lack of system, i Morocco and in making an effort t regulate it. The proposition to tax land owneri was opposed by the Moorish sentatlves, as the landlords i never be found. Internal conditio of Morocco appear to raise an < stacle to any proposal yet put forwa and the problem promises to be a cc plicated one. DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE IN GREENE-GAYNOR TF ■ Savannah, Ga„ Jan. 27—Sesalo the United StatOB court ih the C and Gaynor trial today were t with further examinations ot mentarj- evidence and argumen counsel as to its admissibility. — H ere And have them filled hy experienced pharmacists with pure ingredients and exactly in* the manner that your physician wants them compounded. m Lsman -Sal e ■