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TEDDY'S VIEWS NOT AFFECTED His Established Opinion Anent the Railroads Remains Unchanged. HAS NO MORE TO SAY Calls Attention to Former Acts and State ments in Declining Invitation to Make Public Speech on Subject. President Roosevelt has decided not to accept the invitation of the Illi nois Manufacturers’ Association to de liver a speech at Springfield, 111., on the railroad situation. He addressed a letter Monday to C. H. Smith, pres ident of the association, stating that it would be impossible for him to accept their invitation because he did not feel that he had anything to say at this time, in a special address on this special subject. The president has received a great number of requests for a statement from him or a manuscript by him concerning the railroad situation. He has given these requests the utmost weight and .most careful considera tion. After fully looking into the matter, the president informed his advisers that he had come to the con clusion that there was nothing now which he had to say at the comment concerning the railroad situation; that he did not deem it either wise or proper to say anything with a view to any immediate situation in Wall street, and that as he should only give expression to the definite and settled policy to be carried out wholly without regard to the exigencies of the moment and as his views on the policy in question were already a matter of record, it did not seem nec essary at this time to repeat them. To the different men, friendly and unfriendly, who have visited him or written him, he has answered verbal ly or in writing that his words and acts spoke for themselves and needed no explanation whatever and that he should not in his future course de viate one hair’s breadth from the course he has pursued in the past and is now pursuing. It was pointed out in administra tive circles that the president has made no reference in speeches or messages to the question of the phys ical valuation of the railroads. His position on this question, it was said, is that the roads themselves will work out this problem as an item of boon keeping and reference was made to the fact that two railroads, the North ern Pacific and the Great Northein already have submitted figures as to their physical valuation. It can be stated on authority that the president will ask congress at its next session for power to deal with the question of overcapitalization of railroads. A similar request was made at the last session, but favorable ac tion was not taken upon it. In his letter to Mr. Smith, the pres ident inclosed copies of the ‘‘speech’’ he made at Raleigh, N. C., October 19, 19#5, and the one he delivered before a delegation of railway employees in Washington on November 14, 1905, to gether with his last messages to con gress at the beginning of the first and second sessions of the last congress. The president concludes his letter to Smith as follows: “You will see in the two speeches and the two messages that I have said about all that 1 would say if I spoke now. As I said to your body the other day, I have already ex pressed again and again my carefully thought out beliefs. I am more firmly than ever convinced that these beliefs are wise, and that the policy I rec ommended in my messages at the opening of each of the last regular sessions of congress must be carried out. Just at the moment I do not se3 that I have much to add to what I have already said, and I think that what has occurred since I wrote the two messages in question merely il lustrates in striking fashion the de sirability of the course I therein out lined.” BANK MAKES AN ASSIGNMENT. Corbin Company at New York Closes Doors to Protect Creditors. The Corbin Banking company on at New York assigned Thursday for the benefit of creditors to George C Austin. Two members of the com pany are George S. Edgell and Aus tin Corbin. Mr. Edgell is president, and Mr. vice president of th- \ Hotel and Land ♦ Vin said that a k ■- V the liabilities Vets at $3,000, DOGMAS TO TOP SHELF. Union of Methodist Ministers at Cincin nati Startled by Statements oi Retiring President. The Methodist minij-.ers in Cincin nati had a sizzling session at the Methodist Book Concern Monday in the regular meeting of the local Meth odist Preachers’ Union, at which meeting Rev. Dr. Davis W. Clark re tired after his term of two years as president of the union. All was serene until Dr. Clark de cided that theological dogmas are “curios and could well be kept on the top shelf.” Immediately there was a storm, mostly of protest. However, a few of the ministers sided with Dr. Clark. The subject was so enthralling that nearly everybody present desired to voice his protest or his defense of I}r. Clark’s words. Dr. Clark was led to make his state ment about dogmas being “curios’’ in his reference to Professor H. G. Mitchell, of Boston University, who has been on trial before the board of bishops on charges of preaching heresy. Dr. Clark said; “I protest against the manner in which the ecclesiastical authorities have been trying his case. “The board of bishops receive him practically condemned already, and with his case unjustly weakened. Here is a great scholar of whom the Methodists may well be proud, virtu ally exiled.” A murmur of disapproval swept over the audience at the word ‘curios” and as soQn as Dr. Clark sat down half a dozen preachers tried to get the floor to voice their disapproval. Dr. Clark said: “Now I am opposed to making any more theological defi- save us from them; the kingdom of God is within you. You cannot write it in books. It is love and service and faith. Our dogmas may well be kept as curios and placed on the top shelf. We may keep them as we do our ‘rule of conduct for preachers,’ which we have not de stroyed, but which we simply pre serve as a curio, although we know Ic cannot be observed and enforced in this day and represents the ideas of the past.” The Reverend H. O. Enwall said: “The church wil lsuffer an inestima ble loss in casting out so lovely a soul as is Dr. Mitchell.” Dr. M. Pearson said: “I desire to voice a strong protest again *t the at titude that our* creed is a curio, fit for the top shelf.” The Rev. Albert Thomas followed with this dramatic statement: “The action of the bishops was vicious and a discredit to the church. Dr. Mitch ell is an inspiration. If he is a heritic I would like to be one like him.” “I do not care what becomes of me, ecclesiastically,” said Dr. Clark, in closing. LOTTERY SCHEME IN LIMELIGHT. Federal Authorities are After Prominent Mississippi Citizens. Sensational disclosures regarding the operation of a lottery scheme on the Mississippi coast was placed in the hands of the federal authorities at Jackson Monday. Judge Niles has called a special term of the federal court to meet at Biloxi April 22, to indict the persons involved, some of whom are alleged to be among the most prominent citi citizens of that section of the state. It is said that a regular drawing of prizes has taken place aboard ves sels in the waters of the gulf DEATH GRIPS BISHOP GRANBERRY. Venerable Methodist Prelate Dies Sudden ly While Sitting in Chair. Bishop John C. Cranberry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, died suddenly at his home in Ashland, Va., Monday, while sitting in a chair. He was 76 years of age, and had been bishop since 1882. The death of Bishop Granberry makes four bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who have passed away, during the past, two years, the others being Bishops Ti gert., Hargrove and Smith. PARSON BARNWELL ACTS NAUGHTY Atlanta Baptist Pastor Fired for Kissing Woman of His Flock. For kissing or attempting to kiss Mrs. C. A. London, the wife of his Sunday school superintendent, Rev. G. L. Barnwell, the pastor of the Edge wood Baptist church at Atlanta, has been discharged from the pastorate of the church by the board of dea cons. Mr. Barnwell declared that be would Immediately surrender his min isterial credentials and ao penace to*- his misconduct. HAULING MAILS A GREAT GRAFT Uncle Sam is Hit for Highest Lim it by the Railways. STATISTICS STARTLING Roads Charge Government More Than Three Tunes the Ton Rate Allow ed the Express Companies. A Washington dispatch says: Be tween the investigation that the cen sus bureau is makiug with a view to determining the relative pay the railroads receive for the transporta tion of mail and express matter, and the investigation which the postal commission is preparing to make with a view to determining further wheth er rates of mail pay should be re duced or not, there will be much light thrown on the subject. Professor Adams, now statistician for the interstate commerce commis sion, investigated the subject for the v\ oicott postal commission. One of the mail routes he investigated was that between New York and Buffalo. He found that the government paid $31.73 per ton for the transportation of mail between these two points. He then investigated the express busi ness between the same points. He found that the average rate which the express companies ?jiake to the public was $25 per ton, and that the con tract they had with the railroads was that the latter should haul ex press at forty per went of the gross charges, which would amount to $lO per ton. Thus, he found, in actual practice on this road, the government paid 3.17? times as much for the trans portation of mail as was charged by the railroads for the transportation of express. But in order to err on the side of goodness, if at all, Professor Adams made his calculation on the basis of the railroad’s getting fifty per cent of the gross express charges, and found that even on this basis the railroad charged the express companies $12.50 per ton for performing a not dissim ilar service than that for which the government paid it 1f01.73 pel 1 ton. It is believed by many of those who have investigated the matter that the first duty of the government is to see to it that the railroads take additional precautions for the safety of the mail. The long list of wrecks which have occurred within the past year have resulted in the destruction of many thousands of dollars of mail which had it been carried in electrically lighted steel cars, they declare, might have been saved, as actual experience has shown the mail to be immune from danger in case of wrecks, when car ried in such cars, it is contended that the rates of pay are ample to justify the government in requiring all future mail cars to be thus con structed. BEER OUTPUT IS CURTAILED. Strike of Brewery Workers in St. Louis is Having Its Effect. The strike inaugurated by the Uni ted Brewery Workers, by reason of which 1,300 employees quit work in the twenty-one East St. Louis brew eries to enforce demands for increas ed wages, has already had the effect of curtailing the output of beer. The breweries will continue to supply local trade, but it is announced that out of-town business has been abandoned for the time being. QUICK DEATH DEALT FOUR. Train Strikes Carriage at Crossing and Occupants are Mangled. Four persons in a carriage—two men and two women —were instantly killed late Sunday afternoon at a crossing of the Chicago and Alton rail road, two miles east of Kansas City by the Alton’s western flyer. The bod ies were horribly mutilated and it was some time before they were iden tified as Mr. and Mrs. George Henry aud Mr. Monner and wife. DEATH DEALT SIX TRAINMEN. Two Engineers, Two Firemen and Two Brakemen Killed in Freight Wreck. Six train tnen were killed in ahead on collision between two freight trains on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad six miles south of Fort Val ley early Monday. Fire broke out immediately and the two brakemen were burned. Over 300 head of cattle were also cremated und eight cars of merchandise were destroyed. The engineers and firemen of both trains met death. The other two vic tims were brakemen. TEMPORARILY BARRED. Alabama is Enjoined From Putting Into Effect Her Recently Enacted Rail road Rate Laws. At Montgomery, Saturday, Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United States circuit court gave the first setback to the railroad rate and regulation laws just passed by the Alabama leg islature liy issuing an order restrain ing the application of any or all of them which will tend to decrease the compensation of the carriers or pre vent them from operating without re straint. The order is for thirty days, during which time the question of a permanent injunction will be consid ered. The laws restrained are one making the rates of freight on June l, the maximum rates for all time, the 2 1-2- cent passenger fare regulation, ana tho bill classifying railroads and com modities and fixing rate%, on 110 arti cles of shipment. It was agreed that the reductions in these rates would make it impos sible for the rail lines of the state to do business without loss. Judge A. B. Humphrey of Louisville, said the Southern would fall behind $75,000 to $150,00 a year, and the statement was made that the roails are not now earning 3 per cent the valuation placed lor taxes. Judge Jones explained that the or der was simply one to hold the state off until until it could be determined what was just and right, and did not pass upon the merits of the situation at all. DEATH CLAIMS GALUSHA GROW. Aged Ex-Congressman, With Notable Rec ord, Passes From Earth. Former Congressman G. A. Grow' died at his home in Glenwood, Pa., Sunday morning as a result of a gen eral breakdown, attributed to old age. Mr. Grow was elected to congress from the Wilmot district of Pennsyl vania as the youngest member of that body in 1851, and after retire ment from public life for nearly forty years, he re-entered the house of rep resentatives at large from Pennsylva nia fourteen years ago. When he re tired four years ago, nis public serv ice in the house extended over the longest period, although not continu ous service, of any man who ever sat in that body. During the antebellum days he was one of the best known men in the United States, and in 1864 he came within one vote of being nominated for vice president In place of Andrew Johnson, who became president on the death of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Grow was elected speaker of the house of representatives in 1861, and occupied that position during the first two years of the war, until his retirement from congress in 1863. Mr. Crow’s greatest public service was as the “father” of the homestead act, through which measure many mil lion acres of western farm lands were opened up to settlement by home steaders, an act which has been cred ited with doing more than any other one thing for the development of the great west. WILL REPLACE LOST CROSSES. Consolation for Veterans Who are Minus Their Badges of Honor. Duplicate crosses of honor wil-1 be supplied by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to those veterans who have been unfortunate enough to lose th,eir originals. This announcement was made Saturday in the form of a general order by General Stephen D. Lee, general commanding the United Confederate Veterans. LOUISIANA PEACHES ARE RIPE. For First Time in Thirty Years Luscious Fruit is Picked in March. Ripe peaches gathered months ahead of time were picked a few days ago in Plaquemine parish, Louisiana. The mildest winter in thirty years was the cause of the peaches ripening in March, and samples of the fruit will be saved for exhibition at the James town exhibition. BANK NOTES TO BE COUNTED. Work Will Require Services of Twenty- Four Men for Two V/eeks. In view of the fact that not for over five years has there been an ac counting of the unsigned bank notes in the vaults of the treasury depart ment, Comptroller Itidgely has secur ed the authority of Secretary Cortel you to have such a count made. The work w'lli consume ai least two weeks' time and require the services of six clerks and eighteen counters. The vaults at present conu.in about $173,0b</,OUO of these notes. IN TRAIN WRECK TWENTY-SIX DIE Frightful Smash-Up of Fast Flyer on the Southern Pacific. RAN INTO OPEN SWITCH Besides the Killed, About One Hundred People Were Hurt-Nearly All of the Victims Were Italians. A disastrous wreck on the Southern Pacific occurred one and one-half miles east of Colton, California, late Thursday afternoon, when westbound train No. 9 from New Orleans for Ban Francisco ran into an open switch. Ten of the fourteen coaches were derailed. Twenty-six persons are known to have been killed, and the final list will probbaly total much higher. The injured number abou*. oue hundred. The wrecked coaches were hurled In every direction and four wero smushed into splinters. Most of the dead are Italians from New York and New Orleans, going to San Francisco. They occupied the smoker and day coach. The Florence Roberts Theatrical company occupied one coach, which was hurled from the track, aud both ends of it crushed in by impact against the others. Two of the twenty-two members were injured. The train, which was due in Lo Angeles at 7:30, was nearly 12 hours behind time and was running at a |piigh rate of speed. There was abso lutely no warning of the catastrophes The engineer saw the signal when only a short distance away and had not time to sound a whistle of warn ing, much less to reverse the throttle or set the brakes. He called to his fireman to jump and both leaped wild ly from opposite sides of tho engine. The engine left the track, turne t over on Its side and ploughed a great distance along the right of way. The broken wreckage of the day coaches and smoker, filled with ths bodies of the dead and injured, were hurled all over it. Helpless passengers Imprisoned in the wreckage culled frantically for help. By a miracle the train was not set on fire. Those of the passengers who escaped set at once about the work of rescue. Dozens were pulled and lifted from the wreck age and laid beside the track until ve hicles arrived to convey them to tho hospitals. Members of the theatrical company aided nobly in the work of rescue. Men aud women alike cared for the injured. Plush seats were taken from the coaches and bedding from the Pull mans, and the roadside was couvertel into a temporary hospital. Several of those taken from the wreckage ex pired before conveyances could bo had to carry them to Colton, it was half an hour before any medical aid could be secured. The wrecked train is fhe regular Sunday Express, leaving New Orleans daily. This train left the latter city at 11:55 a. in. Monday. JACK TARS IN PIRATICAL ROLE. Hundred Men of Battleship Connecticut Take Charge of a Steamer. Ont hundred sailors from the Unit ed States battleship Connecticut, lying in Hampton Roads, while en routs from Willoughby Spit to Fort Mon roe, on the Norfolk and Portsmouth Traction company’s steamer, Oceun view, Thursday, without upparent cause, took charge of the steamer aud put the crew completely to rout. The sailors broke out window lights, broke down doors and did all kinds of other damage. Kuroki Slated for Jamestown. It was made public in Tokio, Japan, Thursday, that Geueral Kuroki will represent the Japanese army at the Japanese celebration in 1907. THIS REWARD IS TEMPTING. Captor of Abscendmg Bank Teller Jones, Will Get Big Money. A circular has been sent out from Charlotte, N. C., offering a reward of SI,OOO for the apprehension of Frank M. Jones, the absconding teller of the Charlotte National bank, who disappeared on March 16. An exam ination of his books showed that he was $68,000 short, and It Is believed he has the greater part of this amount on his person. Ten per cent of all the alleged em bezzled funds recovered will be paid to the person making such recovery, in addition to the reward of SI,OOO.