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REVISE TARIFF THEIR SLOGAN The National Association 6f Man ufacturers Express Wishes, QUICK ACTION WANTED Members Go Ga Record by Adopting Reso lution at Closing Meeting in New York-Other Reforms Planned. The National Association of Manu facturers of the United States went on record at their closing session in New York Wednesday as in favor of -a revision of the tariff at the earliest opportunity, and the negotiation of juore reciprocal treaties. A lively debate preceded the vote, tyhich was upon the acceptance of the report of the committee on tariff and -reciprocity. The committee based its recommendations on a poll of the 3,- 000 members of the association. Of the total number replying 55 per cent declared for immediate revision, while 20 per cent expressed a “hands off” sentiment. An effort to table the report was defeated, and it was adopted as re ported. The mass of resolutions adopted by the associatioi at the wind-up includ ed indorsement of the open shop, in dustrial education, the improvement •of the consular service, commendation at the national river and harbor con gress, urging the president to with draw approval of the new German treaty until testimony can be obtain ed regarding the effects upon domes tic labor and industry likely to rollow the customs administrative changes, and opposition to all illegal combina tions, either of capital or labor. This last resolution was given, add ed force by the convention’s declared intention to raise ?1,500,000 to carry •out a campaign of education, concern ing dictatorial combinations. Of this campaign of education, Pres ident Van Cleave, following the closing session, said; "We shall endeavor to assist in -educating the .public in industrial .righteousness. We shall be just as ready to oppose unlawful acts by com binations of labor. We believe in in halations of law. We believe in in dustrial liberty and we are opposed to all forms of individual oppression. And, if anybody undertakes to com pel any one to submit to such op pression, we shall endeavor to as sist the party so assailed.” The association, re-elected James W. Van Cleave of St. Louis, president, and F. H. Stillman of New York treas urer. The convention closed Wednes day night with a banquet. FIENDISH WORK OF WRECKERS. Pails Were Disconnected and Fast Limit ed Tumbles trom a 1 restle. Train No. 20, one of the Southern Pacific coast line train, was wrecked at West Glendale, ten miles north of Los Angeles, at 12:30 Wednesday morning. The wreck was the deliberate work of train wreckers. One man was kill ed and twenty-two injured, three prob ably fatally. In acomplishing the wreck of the train, a devilish ingenui ty had been exercised. At a point on a trestle over the Arroyo Seco, me fish plates and bolts of two connect ing rails had been removed, and in .the apertures, where the bolts were taken, strands of heavy wire were fas tened at the cud of each rail. It was evident that some person had hidden on a hillside close to the tres tle, had pulled the wire as the train Approached and spread the out ward toward the edge of the trestle. Yellow Fever Appears in Cuba. A report from Havana is to the effect that one yellow fever patient •of the province of Matauzas, was re ceived in the Havana hospital Tues day, the first case reported from that city for several months. REPORT OF CHEMIST AWAITED. Dr. Rowland and New Wife Still Languish in North Carolina Jail. Safely secured behind prison bars, charged with the crime of poisoning his 11-year-old son, and accused Oi causing the sudden death of Lngineei Strange, Dr. David Rowland, a prom inent physician of Raleign, N. C., eagerly awaits the results of the anal ysis of the stomach of his son and Strange. With him at the jail at Hen derson is his young wife, erstwhile widow of Strange, whom he married one week after the mysterious death of her husband. MRS. M’KINLEY DEAD. Wife of Haityr Preside: t Joins Husbcnd in Great Beyond-Victim oi Apoplectic Stroke. At Canton, Ohio, Sunday afternoon, Mrs. McKinley, wife of the martyred president, passed from earth, as the result of a stroke of apoplexy. The transition from life to death was so peaceful and gradual that It was with difficulty that the vigilant physicians and attendants noted when dissolution came. There was no struggle, no pain. Mrs. McKinley never knew of the efforts made for days to prolong her life, nor of the solicitous hope against hope of her sister and other relatives and friends for her recovery. Mrs. McKinley's last words were for death. An attendant said:- "Mrs. Mc- Kinley would say, ’Why should I lin ger?’ ‘Please God, if it is Thy will, why defer it?* She would say also, ‘He is gone now, and life is dark to me.’ Other kindred expressions would also fall from her lips.” At the McKinley home when death came, there were present Secretary Cortelyou, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Bar ber, Mrs. Sarah Duncan, Mrs. Luther Day, Justice and Mrs. William R. Day, Drs. Portmann and Rixey aud the nurses. ‘‘Mrs. McKinley lasted hours longer than we expected,” said the secretary. ‘‘Her vitality was wonderful,” said Dr. Portmanu. It was by Secretary Cortelyou that the announcement of the demise was given to the public. While little hope was entertained in Washington for her recovery, the news of tho death of Mrs. McKinley caused profound sor row in the national capitol, where she so long made her home while her husband was a member of congress, aud later president. President Roose velt learned of her death shortly af ter 2 o’clock, when he received a tel egram from Secretary Cortelyou, who has been in Canton since Mrs. McKin ley was first stricken. He immedi ately announced that he would at tend the funeral. There were expressions of regret from many officials | whose duties brought them in contact with the white house, and fron all attaches of the executive mansion many of whom served there during the McKinley ad ministration. All paid the highest trib ute to the memory to the late presi dent’s widow. The body of Mrs. McKinley will be placed in the cault in West Lawn cemetery which holds the remains of her husband until the completion ,of the new mausoleum on Monument Hill, when both caskets will be trans ferred to receptacles in tliat tomb. Mrs. McKinley’s life of almost sixty years has been more familiar to the nation by the fact that more than half of it was a period of invalidism. Through all this, however, she show ed a firm and unwavering belief in the career of her husband and by her cheering words, in simile of'persou al afflictions, encouraged him when there was darkness at hand. She "believed that his star of des tiny would never set until he had be come president, and for more than a quarter of a century cherished that belief until her hopes were realized. After President McKinley’s death, she expressed a desire to join him and prayed daily that she might join him. Lately, however, she frequently told friends she desired to live until the completion of the McKinley mauso leum, which is the gift of the nation, and which is to be dedicated on Mon ument Hill, September 30, next. BONDS GIVEN BY MILLIONAIRES. Six are Indicted on Bribery Charges by Grand Jury at San Francisco. The grand jury at San Francisco Saturday afternoon indicted six mil lionaires on charges of bribery and at tempted bribery and returned addition al indictments against Ruef and Mayor Schmitz. Judge Coffey fixed bail at $..000 on each of 126 counts contained in the twenty-eight indictments. All the ac cused furnished bail. The grand jury adjourned until June 10, when investigation of alleged brib ery by officials of the Home Tele phone company and by other persons will be resumed. r AN APPLICATION OF BED SLATS Would Be Mora Effective Than Sunday C.osing, Declares Chicago Mayor. “Bed slats applied to unruly boys will do more than Sunday closing re form in Chicago,’’ says Mayor Basse of Chicago, “and most of the people do not want Sunday closing.” This was the mayors answer to the delegation of the Sunday Clos ng League. The mayor said he would order the saloons closed on 3unday if he was commanded by the supreme court to do so, but not otherw^. BRONZE STATUE OF GEN. GORDON Unveiled at Atlanta With Impos ing and Elaborate Ceremonies. HOST IN ATTENDANCE Thousands of Georgians and Many Visitors from Other States Join in Paying Tribute to Confederate Chieftaa. Many thousands of Georgians and visitors from other states gathered in Atlanta Saturday to participate in aud witness the exercises incident to the unveiling of the heroic bronze eques trian statue of General John B. Gor don, which stands majestically in re viewing attitude on the northwest cor ner of the state capitol grounds. Elaborate preparations for the event were made by the commission, which, more recently, has had charge of the work under legislative resolu tion, and the occasion in every detail was so arranged that it was one long to be remembered. The unveiling ceremonies which be gan promptly at noon around the monument, upon stands erected for the occasion, was preceded by a splendid military pageant. In it par ticipated state and federal troops, and one of its divisions was com manded by General W. S. Edgerly of the United States army. The oc casion was indeed a significant 'one. The troops assembled at the junc tion of Peachtree and West Peachtree streets, and included the Fifth and Second regiments infantry, national guard of Georgia, four troops of Geor gia cavalry, the Atlanta artillery bat tery, federal troops from Fort Mc- Pherson, cadets from the state univer sity at Athens, from Gordon institute at Barnesville, from the Marist col lege of Atlanta, hundreds of Atlanta school children, confederate veterans and many civic bodies which united in doing honor to Georgia’s typical soldier, statesman aud patriot. The exercises took place upon a specially erected grand stand, upon which sat the many guests specially invited for the occasion, including the members of General Gordon s tamily, ex-governors of Georgia and their families, judges of the United States courts, members of the John B. Gor don monument association, Sculptor Solon H. Borglum, the officers of the Ladies’ Memorial Association of lue United Daughters of the Confederacy aud many others. Platforms had been placed immediately in front of the monument, where seats were provid ed for those who took part in the cho rus, aud seats were also specially ar ranged for the 200 voices which participated in singing the song, ‘‘The New South,” especially written and arranged for this occasion. The invocation by Rev. William F. Glenn and music by the band was fol lowed by the reading of the history of the John B. Gordon Monument As sociation by its first president, Judge W. L. Calhoun of Atlanta. Then followed the principal address of the occasion by General Clement A. Evans, comrade and lifelong friend of General Gordon, who was with him on the famous 12th of May, ISG4, at Spottsylvania, when, by forcing Gen eral Robert E. Lee to the rear, the gallant Gordon probably saved the in trepid confederate leader’s life. The statue was unveiled, following General Evans’ address, by Mrs. Fran ces Gordon Smith and Mrs. Caroline Lewis Gordon Brown of Vermont, the two daughters of General Gordon. The dedication poem, following ''Dixie,” by band, was read by Its au thor, Charles W. Hubner, of Atlanta, and the exercises closed \vith the for mal delivery of the monument to the state by Captain N. E. Harris of .Ma con on the part of the commission, and its acceptance by Governor Ter rell. GARNER IS FINALLY CORRALLED. Alleged Embezzler Located Through Move ments of His Wife. R. F. Garner, wanted in New Or leans, on the charge of embezzling $36,700 from the Southern Pacific road, was arested in Cartersville, Gu., Fri day afternoon at the Beil residence. Garner has been living near Car tersville for about two months. Sev eral weeks ago his wife arrived in Cartersville, and stopped at the Bell home. Since her arrival every move she made has been watched and final ly the detectives learned that her hus band hod entered the residence. PILE OF INDICTMENTS Returned Against Alleged Grafters in San Francisco—Fourteen Counts Against Pat Calhoun. The grand jury at San Francisco Friday evening returned bribery in dictments as follows: Against President Patrick Calhoun of the United Railroads, fourteen. Against assistant to the president, Thoruwall Mullaly, fourteen. Against Attorneys Tierey L. Ford and W. M. Abbott of the legal de partment, -fourteen each. Against Mayor Eugene Schmitz, six teen. Against Abraham Reuf, fourteen. Against President Louis Glass of the Pacific States Telephone and Tel egraph company, two. Against Theodore V. Halsey, for merly an agent of that corporation, one. Reuf, Schmitz, Calhoun, Mullaly, Ford and Abbott are charged with bribing fourteen supervisors to grant an overhead trolley franchise to the United Railroads. Schmitz is further charged with bribery in connection with the fixing of the gas company’s rate, and with receiving ?5,000 in the United Railroad’s franchise deal. The indictments against Glass are additional to the eleven Indictments already returned against him on the charge of bribing supervisors to re fuse a competitive telephone fran chise. The indictment against Halsey is for the same offense. Superior Judge Coffey fixed bail in the sum of SiO,O(JO on each of the charges, and gave the accused until until Saturday morning to furnish bonds. OKLAHOMA PLEA PRESENTED. Three Commissioners Confer With Presi dent Regarding state's Constitution. President Roosevelt Friday gave an audience to Messrs. Ledbetter, Moore and Hayes, democratic members of the Oklahoma constitutional conven tion, who were appointed by the.pres ident of that body to go to Washing ton to consult with the officials of the administration regarding its attitude toward the constitution recently adopted. The committee declined to state what the president said to them, hut admitted that he had referred mem to the attorney general for another conference. They pointed out that they were anxious that the president should indicate the objectionable fea tures of the present constitution be cause then the convention could be reassembled and those features cor rected. They did not want to have the con stitution submitted to the people for ratification, to be, followed by the president’s disapproval of the instru ment, which would delay the admis sion of the state until a later date. The committee said the people were anxious to have the constitution con form to the provisions of the enabling act. OUSTER MOVE IS RECOMMENDED. Three Oil Companies May Be Forced to Leave State of Missouri. Judge Robert A. Anthony, appoint ed by the supreme court of Missouri to lake testimony in the suit insti tuted by Attorney General Hadley against the Standard Oil company, the Waters-Pierce Oil company and the Republic Oil company, charging a conspiracy, has made his report to the court. His findings hold that the oil com panies entered into an agreement to control prices. He recommends that their charters be revoked and that they be ousted from the state. RUSSIA VOTES BIG FAMINE FUND. Parliament Provides Nearly Nine Millions for R|iief Measures. • The lower house of the Russian par liament Friday by 176 to 146 votes, adopted the law providing for the appropriation of $8,750,000 for famine relief purposes. The Poles and mem bers of the group of toil abstained from voting. MANY EMPLOYES TO LOSE JOBS. Railroads Will Reduce Expenses By Cur tailing Their Payrolls. Between 50,000 and 100,000 men will be thrown out of employment by the railroads of the country before the end of the first week in June, accord ing to reports in Chicago. In addition to the employees in the regular service, many thousands ol laborers will be discharged by the railroads which have abandoned new work and new extensions, owing to the difficulty of raising money. ANOTHER ROW WITH THE JAPS Work of Mob in San Francisco Greatly Angers Foreigners. VIGOROUS KICK IS MADE Restaurant and Bath House Wrecked by Hoodlum3~Protest is Made and Sec retary Root Takes Action. Information that Japanese have been subjected to ill-treatment and Indignaties in San Francisco reached the state department Sunday from two sources, and Secretary Root has taken measures for their protection through two channels. Ambassador Wright at Tokio cabled the information, through Japanese channels, that a Japanese restaurant and a Japanese bath house, in San Francisco, had been demolished by a mob, and Viscount Aoki, the Japan ese ambassador at Washington, laid before Secretary Root dispatches from the Japanese consul general at Suu Francisco detailing the same occur rences. Secretary Root at once made a re quest on Attorney General Bonaparte of the department of justice that iho United States district attorney in San Francisco be directed to make an immediate investigation of tha complaints. Mr. Bonaparte thereupon telegraphed both the United Stales district attorney and the United Slates marshal at San Francisco to make a thorough investigation and to forward their report by telegraph to the do pa rtmeut of justice. Besides setting to work the machin ery of the federal government, Secre tary Root telegraphed the information to Governor Gillette of California, in this telegram he called upon the state of California to perform tho duties imposed upon her by the terms o£ the treaty between the United Slates and Japan, which stipulates that Jap anese shall have the right to reside in the United States, and shall have full protection to their persons, prop erty and business. Jhe double move affording protec tion to the Japanese was taken by the secretary because of what is re garded as doubtful authority vested hi the officers of the federal govern ment to prosecute violations of the criminal law. The secretary docs not go so far as to say that the federal government is without authority In this respect In the absence of pro cedure by a state, but ho is frank to admit that federal jurisdiction may be somewhat weak. As to the merits of the case, Sec retary Root is inclined to ascribe tfie occurrences; both reports of which have come through Japanese sources, to the disturbed conditions existing in San Francisco as the result of la bor conditions. Japanese Indignant. A special from Toltio, Japan, says: A report from the consul for Japan in San F/ancisco confirms the news of attacks made recently upon Japan ese restaurant keepers in that city. The public here is indignant, but the press refrains froni’**any hasty com ment, trusting the Washington gov ernment to prevent the repetition of similar occurrences. The disturbance occurred in a res taurant conducted . by Japanese on Folsom street and was followed by an attack upon a Japanese bath house on the opposite side of the street. The trouble arose over the expulsion of two white men from a Japanese restaurant on Eighth street. They were followed by a mob when they went around to the place on Folsom street, which wrecked both places, the men themselves escaping through a rear entrance. The police say the rea son that there was no interference was because all of the patrolmen on the street had been withdrawn for duty in other sections of the city, where disturbances prevailed, owing to the strike of the car men. OFFICIALS OUSTED BY COURT. Contented Election Case in Louisville Do cideU Against ius ocinoeiats. The Keutucity cOur., oi appeals on Monuay fianuui uown its oy.iiiuu in me conii'Hteu electron casta irum the city of Lours •'Me and JeiveroOit coun ty, upnoidiug uie contentions or iho iusioursts and acciai.:. o uie eiccuou void. The court ruicn that Governor Beck ham ha., Luc 4,0- v -o nil me vacan cies by appointment n.iti an election for all city ana coumy oiitciais ia ordered tor next Nu’ember. The de cision of tuc cour.. is unanimous.