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NATIONAL ARBITRATION
AND PEACE CONGRESS AND ITS
New York Overwhelmed by
Delegates From Ends of
Earth.
Every Creed to
Unite For Peace
SEW YORK April 8.—More than
five hundred de!<
ding from every
National Abitratlon and
ss which assembles In
.prll 14. A score of dls-
forelgners, who will reprc-
5ns of the world In tho
in gathering. have al-
here and are being cn-
local organizations of
nationalities. Fully one
men. women and children
every class, creed and or
ganization In this country and abroad
have thus far secured seats on the big
floor of Carnegie Hall where the prin
cipal cessions of the congress will be
held.
Representatives of Many Beliefs.
No event In the history of this city
has ever brought together so many
representalves of such different belief,
birth and breeding. Farmers and col-
loge presidents, financiers and brnke-
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thor!tics are preparing to make official
preparations for the proper entertain
ment of tho visiting delegates. Eve:
club in the city has made arrang
menta to throw its doors open for the
repre.'-'r ntattlves.
Paacs Sirvice in Churches.
Arrange ments were completed today
by which It is expected that every con
gregation throughout the entire coun
try will simultaneously hold a brief
peace service at noon on Sunday.
April 14. when the congress is assem
bling. Bishop Potter. Archbishop Far
ley Rabbi Hirsch and Lyman Abbott
will lead a musical service on that
evening at which the great choruses
s are todav trav- i aml Kin = ln S societies of the city will
. ■ . | appear with a great orchestra which
Ion of the United j has been assembled for the occasion.
1 On the following afternoon the con
gress will be officially opened by the
president, Andrew Carnegie, with
speeches by Elihu Root. Governor
Hughes and Mayor McClellan. In the
evening Oscar S. Straus. Secretary of
Commerce and Labor, and tho cele
brated delegates from abroad will
speak at a session devoted to the In
ternational aspects of the peace move
ment.
Mass meetings of women and chil
dren. industrial and commercial men,
wage earners and college men will be
held on Tuesday. The final session
will ho devoted to the legislative and
judicial aspects of the peace move
ment and a public dinner, at which
President Roosevelt has promised to
be present or personally represented,
will close the congress.
Hero of Manila Bay Busy.
■Admiral Dewey Is today actively en
gaged. as head of the Patriotic Com
mittee of the congress, in providing
for a large representation from every
uflragists and anti-suffragists, j patriotic organization in the country.
t-sweepers will sit with the hero of Manila Bay are as
sociated on this committee the heads
• of the G. A. R.. the United Confeder
ate Veterans. Sons of the American
Revolution. United Daughters of the
Confederacy and a dozen other na
tional bodies. On the Legislative
committee are some ten United States
Senators, a score of Congressmen and
a dozen governors of States. E. H.
Karrlmnn. George Westinghouse John
Wanamaker, Marvin Hughitt and some
thirty other prominent men are active
In promoting a huge Industrial demon-
slration for peace under Marcus M.
Marks, chairman of the Committee on
Commerce and Industry.
Diplomats In this city and "Washing
ton are watching with deep interest
the progress of the National Arbitra
tion and Peace Congress and are be
coming every day more impressed with
the imposing array of delegates which
It is bringing here. This demonstra
tion for a rational promotion of per
manent international arbitration, it is
said by them, will have a wide and
powerful effect upon the second con
gress of the world, which will meet
in The Hague on June 15.
ityntcsmen and
elbow to elbow. Every college, labor
tinion. grange, legislature, fraternity,
church, industry nnd profession will
have a delegation in the congress. Of
tile 35 000 invitations which have been
sent out to representative members of
every conceivable class of human be
ings under the sun, almost 20,000 re
plies have been received by Robert E.
Ely, secretary’ of the National Arbitra
tion and Peace Congress today'. The
officers of the congress have not as
yet received one response to these In
vitations that did not express hearty
sympathy nnd promise of co-operation
in the general movement for a perma
nent basis of arbitration among the
nations of the world.
Already all the available quarters in
the hotels, apartments and boarding
bouses all over town have been en
gaged far In advance of the session
which lasts from April 14 through the
37th. Sympathizers with the move
ment as well as the officers and mem
bers of the committees of tho eon-
gress are preparing to throw open
their homes for the aceommodation of
the delegates. The Sine and city an-
Y» -VSHINGTON. April 8.—It has just
dawned on the country that the work
cut out for Congressman Burton and
his colleagues on the newly appointed
Inland Waterways Commission will.be
enormous. In all the discussion of the
navigable waterways of the United
States, little has been said or written
that would disclose their vast reaches.
The inland streams of the United
States are in keeping with the wonder
ful distances of the country'. As ave
nues of transportation they are a mar
velous system in themselves.
It is not generally known that the
navigable distance of the Mississippi
river extends over
river and Us tributaries alone. The
splendid reaches of the Columbia river
and the mileage of scores of other
navigable streams emptying into the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the
Gulf of Mexico, are r.ot taken into con
sideration. With this mileage added,
the navigable rivers of the United
States are the wonders of the world.
A faint idea of the immense volume
of water that sweeps through tho Mis
sissippi valley my be gained from the
fact that every second the Mississippi
river pours into the Gulf of Mexico
675,000 cubic feet of water. For more
than a quarter at a century this great
volume of water has served little to
advance the cause of commerce. Tho
Government, instead of harnessing the
great tide and making it bear on its
bosom fleets of freight-carrying steam
ers, ha? been content to fight its en
croachment on farming lands, regard
ing It rather as a destructive agency
than as a great factor in the advance
ment of the country’s prosperity.
With the appointment of the Inland
space of 2,161
miles for the average steamers, and Waterways Commission, and the pas-
2,237 miles for the smaller craft. Tak- sage of a big appropriation bill for
lng into consideration the tributaries waterways improvement by the last
of the Father of Waters, these com- Congress, this policy Is about to be
bined would make a river system 13,- changed. The freight congestion that
160 miles long, through which a good has paralysed the railroads and has
sized steamer could make its way. ■ gripped the commerce of the whole
Some idea of the distance these fig- United States, has driven the Federal
ures convey can be gained only by Government into taking steps for the
comparison. It is astonishing to find creation" of another means of trans
that it is slightly greater than from portation. This decision was reached
New York to Bangkok by way of only after coal famines caused untold
London. If the steamer were driven suffering through the Northwest, and
by powerful engines, and-made a con- the agricultural States found them-
tlnuous trip, it might complete the selves embarrassed in the midst of
journey In about fifty days. However, plenty, because of the inability' of the
if it were compelled to make as many railroads to carry their products to
stops as fall to the share of the aver- market, while the manufacturing States
age river statewer. this time would be felt the same embarrassment, because
greatly lengthened. of the impossibility of getting delivery
These figures are for the Mississippi of raw materials.
MOTHER OF EVELYN NESBIT THAW
WAS MOST BITTERLY DENOUNCED
‘Even a Beast Protects Its
Young',” Declared Delmas
. in Closing Address.
Declared God Heard
Cry of Fated Child
DEPUTY SHERIFF SHOT DEAD
IN COUNTY, ALA,
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April S.—Dep-
utv Sheriff John Roderick, of Center
ville, Ala., was shot and killed at a
house near a lumber plant in Bibb doun
t.v late today'. Roderick and Sim Dar
den, a Tuscaloosa deputy, had gone to
a house to arrest a man named Redd
charged with burglary'. As they ap
proached the door was thrown open and
Roderick was instantly' killed. The
men all escaped.
LULU B. GROVER
IEFT ALL IB MI
NEW YORK, April S.—President
Roosevelt is the sole beneficiary un
der the will of Lulu B. Grover, of 20S9
Lexington avenue, which was filed in
the office of the surrogate today. No
petition was filed with the will and
the value of President Roosevelt’s be
quest are therefore unknown. The
main part of the will, which is very-
brief, reads as follows:
“I give to Theodore Roosevelt at my
death everything that is mine, house
hold furniture personal property, jew
elry, diamonds, estate, all money in
bakn to my credit and my cat Snow-
dorp Low and everything that is mine.
Iowe to Theodore Roosevelt a debt
greater than I can ever pay- in this
world and in this way- I wish to show
I am not ungrateful. He has been my
good angel who spread his wing of
shelter o’er my peace through life and
was my' only true friend in trouble.
I gladlv give my little all to him and
only wish it were millions instead of
so small an amount. "I hope he will
accept it in the spirit I give it and
with God’s bessing.”
It has been announced that Presi
dent Roosevelt will accept the estate-
bequeathed to him and turn it over to
some Ne wYorlc charity. The cat is
being cared for now under directions
issued by the President.
CAN’T BOMBARD COAST
TOWNS, SAYS UNCLE SAM
iiiy is who
Hllft-HiSiin
Bar
V. ELECT KGKE SIHiTH
5 PBESHI
HE MADE AN EXPRESSION ON NA
TIONAL POLITICS.
75 CANDIDATES
State Board of Pharmacy
Holds Examination in
State House.
Batch of Current
Gate City Nevjs
board for Norfolk. In all eight car
loads have he,-a shipped oompri-ing
agricultural and mineral exhibits with
cases for displaying them. State Ge
ologist W. S. Yeates is now at the
exposition grounds superintending the
unloading and placing of the exhibits
from this .State, all of which will be
ready and in place at the moment of
tho opening of tho exposition. Geolo
gist Yeates is tho executive officer of
Georgia’s Jamestown commissi-yi. and
will be in control of the exhioits at
Jamestown.
NEW YORK, April 8.—The trial of
Harry K. Thaw, charged with the
murder of Stanford White, is nearing
the end. Attorney Delphin M. Delmas,
the California advocate, this afternoon
began his -closing address to the jury
and after he had spoken for more than
two hours and a half, an adjournment
was taken until tomorrow morning.
Mr. Delmas expects to conclude before
the luncheon hour is reached. District
Attorney- Jerome will make the closing
address of the trial on Wednesday and
Thaw’s fate should be in the hands of
j the jury- Wednesday evening.
I Justice Fitzgerald today ordered the
i jury locked up until the end of the
j trial. In view of this the judge’s
charge to the jury undoubtedly will be
delivered immediately after the justice
concludes. The latter says his speech
will occupy not more than three or
four hours.
Declaring he would not base his plea
uron the “unwritten law” because his
client found ample protection in the
written statutes of the State of New
York, Mr. Delmas made a striking ap
peal to the sympathies of the jurors
and so far as he progressed today the
FIREMEN BORIE
UNDE
Election for Water Bonds.
ATLANTA. April S—Atlanta
will
ATLANTA, April S—Seventy-five ap
plicants for license to roll pills and I ^ .
compound <’rn--> >n G-org! appeared ’ "f bonds to l.r-rw the water system,
before the State Board of Pharmacy There are something over 3.000 votes
In the hall of the House of Represents- i registered, nnd t will take more than
live- in the State capitol today and 2 -°° n to <' arr >’ t’ 1 '' elecetion. The nec-
etood their examinations. The entire j cssity for the improvement is imminent,
day was consumed in the work and the I ~ ~
results w* 11 not he known until tornor- } Reformatory for Negro Youths,
row, though, as usual, all but a few of i
CAR BARN AND POWER PLANT
BURNED IN GOTHAM
NEW YORK, April S.—Fire early
today- destroyed the combined car
horn and power plant of the New York
City Railway- Company covering the
greater part of the block 'bounded bv
Lenox avenue. One Hundred and For
ty-seventh street and Seventh avenue.
The loss will reach a million and a
half dollars.
More than- three hundred cars were
burned and the plant, except for the
electrical department, were destroyed.
One fireman, Capt. J. Ryan, was kill
ed under a falling wall, and a. dozen
fir-'mon and others were more or less
seriously injured.
Capt. Ryan’s engine, with his crew,
and the crew of two engines were
working in an alley outside the build
ing when tho explosion In the paint
them will, on doubt get through all
right. The .State Board of Pharmacy,
nil of whom were present, is composed
of R. H. Lind, of Augusta, president;
O. d. Jordan, of Mor.ticollo. secretary;
S. E. Bnvne. of Macon; W. S. Elkin,
Jr., of Atlanta; J. G. Dodson, of Amer
icas.
ATLANTA. April S.—Atlanta’s Meth
odist ministers headed by Dr. J. W. Lee
of Trinity Church, will urge the County-
Commissioners this week to give 150
acre? and a fund to provide a reforma
tory near Hapeville for negro youths.
The county now has a white reforma
tory. but none for negroes. It is believ
ed provision will be made for the es
tablishment of this institution.
Capt. Park Asked to Be Orator.
ATLANTA. April 8.—Capt. R. E.
Pnrk State Tree, rarer. received a tele
gram today’ asking him to deliver the
annual address before the Confeerate ■
Veterans in Augusta en April 26tn. .
Captain Park replied to Chas. G. Good- •
r : 'h. through whom the invitation came. ■’
that It would he impossible for him to ;
d,i so as ho has already aeeepted an in- i
vitation to deliver the Memorial
address in Covington.
Ter
Governor Offered Reward.
ATLANTA April 8.—Governor
red today offered a reward of $250 for
the arr-st of the unknown peson who
murdered Homer Moss, a merchant of
Nicks jack. Cobh County, last Friday.
The merchant was called to the door
of his home In the night by the ring
ing of a bell, and was shot to death. A
reward has also been offered by the
r- latlves of the dead man.
Chnttanc
AT1.AX
1 rata, it
I* Fry.
t Mysteriously Missing
April S.—Thomas A.
i <1 and a business man of
Term., is mysteriously
Tuesday he came to At-
. In c.'~i inv with Attorney Henry
r.v. He called up "Walter P. An-
.- ar-d was with him for a short
While Mr. Andrews and Mr. Fry
>rd mto an office to transact some
ioss. ho waited them outside.
i they returned he was gone ar.d
to* sine ■ been he -rd from. Every
was made to find him without
hold an election tomorrow for $350,000 I young woman heard her life history-
repeated to the men who are to judge
her husband and bowed her head as
her mother was denounced in the bit
terest terms and tones the eloquent
lawyer could command.
“Even a beast protects its young”
ho declared with scornful emphasis.
"But this unnatural mother deserted
her daughter in this city- of millions
to be betrayed by a false friend, to be
lured Into a gilded palace and there
left the victim of a grayhaired man.
wounded, bleeding and devoured.”
Mr. Delmas went with great detail
into the life Evelyn Nesblt had led
up to the meeting with Harry Thaw.
In all of his remarks he referred to
her "as this child.” for child he said
she was today-. He told of Thaw’s
great love for her and his efforts to
rescue her from "the clutches of Stan
ford White.” whose achievements in
his profession, the attorney declared,
was an aggravation of his crime.
Mr. Delmas before beginning his at
tack upon Evelyn Thaw’s mother pour
ed out a, torrent of denunciation upon
the architect who became the victim
of Thaw’s pistol. He accused him of
tho "crime of rape” and then declared
that President Roosevelt had said in
a message to Congress that such a
crime should be visited with death.
This was one of the suggestions which
Thaw himself made to his counsel for
his summing up speech—one of the
suggestions which played so Important
a part in the proceedings before the
lunacy commission.
God Heard Her Cry.
Mr. Delmas declared that God heard
the cry- of the fated child upon whom
Stanford "White had fixed his gaze and
subject of Thaw's insanity at the time r? orn ot ' t* 10 floor ripped out
the west wall sending tons of brick
down on the firemen and burying half
a dozen of them in the ruins.
A hundred men with picks and shov
els at once set to work to dig their
comrades out of the ruins. Capt. Ry-an
was horribly- crushed, but still alive
when taken out. A priest knelt by his
side and administered the last sacra
ments of the church a few minutes be
fore Ryan died. One by one the other
firemen were dug out.
he committed the homicide was not
even hinted at.
. Even a Beast Protects Young.
Mr. Delmas based his argument sole
ly on the story of Evelyn Nesblt Thaw.
"With flushed, checks, but dry eyes, that
Hi ! l Cltv Cadets Ordered Disbanded.
ATLANTA, April 8.—An order was
Issued today from the office of Adju
tant General S. W. Harris, directing the
disbandment of Coma any T. fifth infan
try. known as tho Hill Citv Cadets of
Romo, commanded hy Caplain "Wright,
on account of a lack of interest which
h.as result'd in its failure to maintain
dav i a standard. The disbandment was
• j ordered in advance of the Georgia
| troops It 'vat: -he only company in
j Rome, though fho-e |« at T/ndalp
nearby. It is expected the Rome com-
norv will be reorganized in the neag
future.
"WASH NGTON, D. C., April S.—Gov
ernor-elect Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
who is enroute to New York from
where he will sail for Europe, called at
the White House today- with several
friends to pay their respects to the
President.
Mr. Smith was asked for an expres-
ion on National politics and made the
following response;
"The next President has got to be
a man who represents the interests of
the masses of the people.”
"The President and I are the best of
friends." These words were uttered
by Senator Scott, of West Virginia, af
ter he had a long talk about political
matters with the chief executive to
day.
Senator Scott’s name had been men
tioned as one of those who had been
present at a dinner when tho “Anti-
Roosevelt” plot had been divulged. The
Senator declared that he was not at any
such dinner.
"Yes, the President and I talked
about the Presidential nomination,”
said Senator Scott. "The President-
said that there were any amount of
men who would make a. good Presi
dent.”
Jacob Riis also talked with the Pres
ident today. He declared that the i
President meant what he said on the
night of the election in 1904, that he
would not accent another nomination
for the Presidency. All the President
wants, said Mr. Riis. is to see that h'3
policies are carried through. Tele
grams and letters continue to be receiv
ed by the President bearing on the dis
closures made at the White House re
garding the "Combination” to defeat
the President’s policies. They assure
the Pi esident of support in his fight.
WASHINGTON, April S.—In spite of
Secretary Root's recent visit, in spite
of Andrew Carnegie’s gift of several
hundred thousands of dollars for the
building of a peace palace for the Bu
reau of American Republics, all is not
harmony between the Latin-American
republics and the United States.
Scarcely had Secretary Root returned
with words of praise for all he saw be
low the equator, before Nicaragua and
Honduras fell out over a lowly mule
and resorted to fisticuffs. Uncle Sam
is preparing to spank them. Now it is
Chile that has caused the rift in the
lute.
Chile is sulky. The long-drawn-out
republic that takes up much of the
space on the western coast of South
America, believes it is entitled to more
dignified representation here in Wash
ington than it has enjoyed in the past.
Grateful under the ovation given at
Valparaiso and Santiago, Secretary-
Root lent a willing ear to the Chilean
appeal, and prospects seemed bright
that the little republic would gain its
ends.
Then there was trouble. Brazil la
the only South American nation that
has been deemed of sufficient import
ance in (he past' to entitle it to the
honors of an embassy here. When
Chili strove to get into the Brazilian
class there was an uproar in South
America that rocked the Andes and
U. S. Commander Fullam Lays
Down Law to Nicaraguan
General.
Foreign Interests
Would Suffer
PUERTO CORTEZ, Honduras, April
4, via New Orleans. La.. April S.—An
authoritative statement of great mo
ment in the relations of United States
to Central American republics has
been given out here. It is to the ef
fect that bombardments of coast towns
cannot be permitted, “during tho fre
quent wars and revolutions in Central
American States.” This statement is
by Commander Fullam. of the United
States bungoat Marietta, and is part
of a letter to General Juan J. Estrada,
general commanding the Nicaraguan
expedition engaged in capturing Hon
duran ports. In part the letter reads:
“I have to acknowledge tho receipt
of your letter of March 25. in answer
to my communication of March 24. re
questing you to avoid the unnecessary
destruction of coast towns by- bom
bardment. It must be perfectly plain
that foreign interests could not possi
bly be secure if bombardments are
permitted. On the contrary, such In
terests would be subjected to the dan
ger of complete destruction in every
case. If bombardments of coast towns
are to bn resorted to during tho fre
quent wars and revolutions in Cen
tral American States, the mercantile
interests of nil foreigners would be
absolutely insecure in tho future.
‘From this it is plainly evident that
made the mighty- Amazon run back- ! assurances regarding the safety of
ward in its channel. Cries of “caram- i American and foreign interests would
ba!” rang from peak to peak and pro- be 110 value whatever unless bom-
tests piled up in Washington. j bardments of, these unfortified towns
Then negotiations took a sudden ! forbidden; and it is equally- plain
drop. Secretary Root shook off the | that -i ship of war ordered here to pro-
enervating effects of his southern trip j ' cct American interests could not bo
and intimated politely- and diplomatic- excused for subjecting these same in-
ally to Chile that, its requests, much as i ! ; ? res , ts 1° inevitable ruin by permitting
he regretted, scaicely could bo com- I : , destruction of these towns by fir©
plied with at this time. whereupon i an d bombardment.
Chile, who had withdrawn its minister, | p ully three-fourth s of the valuable
Scvnor Walker-Martinez. to take part mercantile and business houses in
in the Pan-American conference at Rio coast towns are owned by for-
Janeiro, showed its pique by failing «*«““*: 1 3 \ eithcr belligerents would be
either to permit him to return or to I \° " c 7 lpy ° r tako coyc , r ,n
appoint a successor: As a result of the i tnWes ” ^ C0UrSe
MISS ANNIE HUTCHINSON
DIES AT STATE NORMAL
ATHENS. Ga.. -April 8.—Miss Annie
Hutchinson, of Williamson, Ga.. died
this morning a: the State Normal
Soho©! from the effects of an attack of
measles. This was the first death to
occur at that institution during 'ts
EXTRADITED ON ONE CHARGE,
CONVICTED ON ANOTHER
WASHINGTON. April 8.—That a
fugitive from justice in the United
States who has been extradited from
Canada on one charge cannot be im
prisoned on another charge was de
cided today- by- the Supreme Court of
the United States in the case of
Charles C. Browne, an appraiser of
merchandise at New York, who three
years ago was indicted and convicted
in connection with frauds discovered
in connection with the importations of
Japanese silks. The decision of the
court was delivered by Justice Peck-
ham and affirmed the decision of
Judge Hough, sitting in the circuit of
tho southern district of New York,
who ordered Browne’s release on a
writ of habeas corpus.
MORE GAMBLING CASES
BEFORE SAVANNAH COURT
She w.
• Freshmen class. Presld;n_
| accompanied the remains to
j of the young lady’s parents.
imber of the j had determined should be his. He
Bran
ihe home
Hi
at
>un
l-ta rv-i-v
TT. \ NT A.
ifn Will Join Federation.
April S.—The Atlanta
-o.-isMon has determined
■ATHENS PEOPLE WROUGHT
j UP OVER "THE CLANSMAN.
ATHENS, Ga.. April S.—Tonight t
' petition signed by 440 white citizens ;
j ask’ng that council rescind its action j
;.prohibiting “The Clansman” from ap- i
I rearing here timorrow night was pre- j
! sen ted to the Mayor and Council, and i .
j after some debate was laid on the table * u P on U er _ <^ au Shte.
i by a vote of five to two. Th
! house manager has asked Judge Chas.
| H. Brar.d to enjoin the city from pro-
I hibiting the appearance of the play and
! the injunction is to be heard tomorrow
• at noon. There Is considerable feeling
. among the people over the whole af-
i fair.
quoted from scripture that "He who
afflicts a fatherless child shall perish.”
nnd declared that porvidence had sent
Thaw to avenge the wrong.
The attorney- declared that Thaw
was his wife’s only- portector—that he
came into her life when she was on
the downward path told her that no
matter what the world thought of her,
she was to him an angel. He took her
to be his wife, ready to share the bur
dens that a mother had helped to place
SAVANNAH, April 8.—More of the
gambling cases that resulted from tho
recent raid made by- the police upon
the Savannah joints came up before
the police court today.
George C. Schwarz was remanded
for leasing tho place to Frank Bibb
in which the latter operated his gam
bling joint.
Frank Bullock for keeping a gam
bling house in Drayton street was re
manded to the Superior Court.
Frank Fulton was about to get off
on a charge of being a gambler and a
vagrant, but Chief Austin asked
continuance until he eoul dget more
evidence.
The case against Joe B. Harris was
also continued.
TAFT REFUSED TO GIVE
CUBAN ELECTION DATE
HAVANA, April S.—The members of
the committee of insurgents had a confer
ence with Secretary Taft today. Secre
tary Tnft. in suite of the demand of the
committee, refused to give his visitors
the date of tho withdrawal of the Ameri
can forces from Cuba. Mr. Taft declared
that it was impossible to hold elections
in Cuba until a complete census of the
island had been taken, which will occupy
about four months. He added that the
municipal and provincial elections would
probably be held some time in September,
but he would not give any probable date
for the Presidential elections. stmDly say
ing that they would follow the others.
The Secretary- met the Conservatives
this afternoon and discussed the insular
situation. He said that owing to eco
nomic conditions, he thought a national
election at an early date to be unwise,
and recommended that such election be
postponed until the result of the municipal
and provincial elections be known. The
Conservatives' representatives expressed
Their willingness to leave all to tho good
judgment of the United States.
Secretary Taft told the bankers he un
derstood that they proferred permanent
American control in Cuba, but that this
could not be as "we have obligations to
the American people as well as to the i
Cubans, and the matter must be con
sidered in its political, as well as its eco
nomical ’aspects.”
disappointment Chile is maintaining
merely a hollow show of representa
tion, and Alberto Yoacham. secretary-
of the legation, is twiddling his thumbs
over a featureless job and wondering
how long the position will -last.
The disappointment, however, was
not entirely confined to Chile and its
representatives. It was believed in
diplomatic circles that the raising of
the Chilean legation to an embassy and
the sending of an ambassador to the
Chilean 'capital would mein a general
shake-up in the United States diplo
matic service, and consequently a-num
ber of promotions. It was generally-
conceded fhat the post of Chilean em
bassador would have gone to Herbert
G. Squiers, the present minister to
Panama, for his record practically en
titled him to the now berth, had it been
created.
Minister Squiers, who left the arniy
in 1S91 to enter the diplomatic service,
has had a stirring career. Ho first
served in the embassy at Berlin and
in 1898 was assigned to the legation at
Pekin. During the siege of that city
by the Boxers he was made chief of
staff to Sir Claude MacDonald, and for
his services in protecting the foreign
legations he was warmly thanked by
the British Government. From 1902 to
1905 he was minister to Cuba.
Bfit all this does not console those
who are disappointed by- the hoped-
for promotions In the diplomatic ser
vice. Chile is not the only- one that is
sulking.
Commander Fullam notified General
Quiroz, commanding the Honduran
forces near Celba. that it would he
necessary to defend the town from a
position outside the city-.
PUERTO CORTEZ SURRENDERED
WITHOUT MAKING ANY FIGHT.
EIGHTEEN MEN PICKED
-UP FROM STRANDED SHIP
EXILED NICARAGUAN
NEWSPAPER MAN TELLS STORY
NEW ORLEANS, La.. April 8—Fran
cisco O. Rojas, a Guatamalan, who
claims to have been exiled from his
country- because he printed a congres
sional message of President Estrada
Carbrera on the last page of a news
paper, which he edited, arrived here
today. He said that before being exil
ed, be was imprisoned for a month and
beaten with r rawhide whip.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT'S
MEET TO REORGANIZE
NORFOLK. Va„ April S.—The Brit
ish steamship Olive Moore, bound from
Mobile. Ala., for Bristol. England,
picked up at sea off the North Caro
lina coast yesterday fifteen of the
eighteen members of the crew of the
Norwegian bark Hereford, bound from
Pensacola, Fla.. March 16, for Buenos
Ayres, which was dismasted in the
fierce coast storm of April 1 and was
helpless at sea until sighted by the
Olive Moore. Three members of the
Hereford's crew were washed over
board and drowned. Capt. Jensen,
commanding the bark, was crippled by-
falling mast and rigging and the
first mate, whose name was not given,
is badly- injured.
So badly hurt were the captain and
mate that the Olive Moore discontin
ued her voyage to bring the seamen in
for hospital treatment. .
NEW ORLEANS. La.. April 8.—That
Puerto Cortez was surrendered with
out fighting and that about 1500 Hon
duran soldiers abandoned the port two
days ago before tho Nicaraguan troops
appeared was the information brought,
here tonight by- the steamer Anselm
from Puerto Cortez.
The Hondurans did not desert their
post through cowardice, according to
these dispatches, but decided that the
war was over. • They- returnel to the
banana plantations where most of
them had been employed as laborers
before the war began.
United States marines closed all sa
loons in Ceiba after the abandonment
of the port by the Hondurans. Tho
following proclamation was issued by
Commander 'Fullam of the Marietta,
antj,Virgin C. Reynolds, United States
vice consul:
“To the people of Ceiba:
“The generals of the Honduran army-
having left Ceiba. tho civil authorities
will assume charge of the city govern
ment. All liquor saloons will be im
mediately closed and will remain so.
Sailors from the United States ship
Marietta will patrol the streets and
assist the civil authorities to preserve
order, and protcet all foreign and pri
vate property. The sailors are landed
as friends of Honduras. All persons
are warned that there must be no dis
order or violation of tho laws of Hon
duras. and all are advised to remain
in their homes for the present. In
ease Nicaraguan forces attack Ceiba
they will not interfere with law-abid
ing people and there need be no alarm
whatever.”
DUBLIN COUPLE GIVE
THEIR FRIENDS A SURPRISE
MRS. VONCLAUSSEN REFUSED
INTERVIEW BY PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON. April 8.—The Pres
ident has declined to grant an inter
view with Mrs. Ida VonClauss-'n, who
has complained to the State Depart
ment that United States Minister to
Sweden Chas. H. Graves refused to
present her to King Oscar. Mrs. Von-
Claussen arrived in Washington Sun
day night from Now York. Today she
ent a note to the White Houst seekini
DUBLIN, Ga., April 8.—Last night
at the Baptist parsonage Miss Sadie
Stewart and Mr. Sam Hawkins were
united in marriage. Rev. Mr. Allen Fort.
Jr., officiating. The marriage of this
couple, while not a runaway match,
was a great surprise to their many
friends. Just a few friends and rela
tives were present at the marriage.
Mr. John Bailey is lying dangerously
ill at hi= home in this city from in
juries received on the steamer South
land. He was pulling a log from the
water, when a log chain broke. A piece
of the chain struck him on the breast
rendering him unconscious. It is fear
ed that he has been injured internally.
Mr. Delmas accused Mrs. Nesbit of
onera j having lived upon the wages of her
He sought to picture
js- !
F-hibi
in \ la the- Sea-
slxt
years
Dea‘h of Mr. J. W. Stubs.
VALDOSTA. Ga.. April S.—News was
peeved here th ! s morning of the dearh
if Mr. J. W. Stubbs, of the Hahira dir
ect. last night about eight o’clock. He
or" age and was
entla! farmers in
irvived by a wife
His funeral was
oon at 4 o'clock
: -Shiloh cemetery. He came to this
‘ction from Jones County fifteen years
mot
was
one
that
and
cond
noted this
; daughter’s ruin.
! to the jury what he termed the sin-
' ister surroundings in which the girl
: had been reared and in doing so he
: mercilessly attacked the mother,
j Mr. Delmas rase to the highest point
of his address today when he told the
! Jury that the girl's mother was the
: one who had furnished District Attor-
1 ney Jerome with the arrows with
which to wound the daughter on cross
• examination—a cross examination
1 which he declared would live long in
the annals of cwrrinal hlstorv. but
, which left the girl’s story unshaken in
all its esential details. That Evelyn
; Ne : ; -'s s;nry wrs true 2nd was told
■ to Harry Thaw formed the subject of
j the argument for more than an hour.
(Continued on Page L)
CORN AND COTTON CROPS
DESTROYED BY HAIL STORM
•WAYNESBORO, Ga.. April 8.—A
severe hailstorm in the vicinity of Mc-
B=an last night ruined the growing
crops of corn and cotton stripped the
foliage and fruit from the trees, kill
ed young pigs and this morning after
an all night rain, was piled up In ten
bushel piles in the drifts. It was the
severest hail storm ever known in
Burke County. Its patch was about
three miles wide.
CONGREGATION * LISTS TO
HAVE PUBLISHING HOUSE
ATLANTA. April 8.—News has
reached Atlanta that the Congree-a-
t'or.s! Methodist Church has under
consideration the erection of a $50,000
publishing house to publish all the
literature of the church and conduct a
general publishing business, and that
in ail probability the building will be J delegates will be
located in Atlanta. . _ _
PIXEHURST. N. C.. April 8.--The
Aseciotion of State Superintendents
of Public Instruction of the Southern
States met here tonight to re-organ
ize and to outline plans for future ed
ucational work and for the betterment
of the public school system in the
South. The meeting was of an infor
mal character and adjourned until
Wednesday when reports will be re
ceived from the various State super
intendents and from the campaign
committee of the Southern educational
boar. The State sunerintend^nts
present were S. A. Mynders. of Ten
nessee. chairman; J. D. Doyle, of
Kansas; W. B. Merritt, of Georgia;
Parry Gunnell, of Alabama: O. B.
Martin, of South Carolina; J. Y. Joy
ner of North Carolina and "W. O.
Winfrey, of Kentucky.
Prof. J. Y. Joyner, of Raleigh. N. C.,
was elected president of the State Su
perintendent’s association to succeed
S. A. Mynder, of Nashville, the retir
ing State superintendent of Tennessee.
W. B. Merritt of Atlanta, Ga., was
chosen secretary.
A large number of promnient edu
cators arrived tonight for the tenth
annual conference for education in the
South, which will meet here tomor
row for a four days’ session. The
welcomed to the
Death of Mr. A. H. Lane.
VALDOSTA. Ga., April 8.—Mr. A'.
H. Lane, of this city, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. Y. Lane, died this morning
about three o’clapk, after an Illness of
six weeks of heJt.'t trouble, with other
complications. IKs funeral will occur
. . . „ . ,, . , 1 tomorow morning. Mr. Lane, at the
an appointment with the President Ini j Ume that he waa taken t0 ’ his bed ,
i was representing the Consolidated Na-
| tional Bank, of New York, in which
.. , ... „ __ .‘V? capacity he had done excellent service,
the branch of the Government with \ He ‘ was formerly a resi(J(?nt of Brung .
period of eight years and
order to make a verbal statement of i
the case. Secretary Loeb In reply re
ferred her to the State Department as
which properly to take up the matter. w j’ for
was
Hail Storm Strikes Cordele.
CORDELE, Ga., April 8.—The most
terrific hail storm that has fallen in
years in this section struck Cordele
vice president of the Merchants
and Miners Bank of that city.
After leaving the University of Geor-
j gia. where he was-educated, he repre-
j sented his father as agent of the G.
Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The j g : p road at this cltv, and was later
rain fell in floods and torrents for sev- j cashier of the Merchants 'Bank -of
era! minutes and almost entirely ceased ; t hj= city, of which his father was pres-
when the hail stones began to fall. ^ ident. He was a brother of Mr. M. B.
Some of the stones were as large as Lane, president of the Citizens Bank,
an egg. _ The streets were covered in of Savannah, and Mr. F. W! Lane, pres-
a few nvnutes. The hackmen began to ! ident of the. Atlantic National Bank, of
seek shelter for their’teams, some of Jacksonville.
; He was a man of great Intellectuality
the horses became frightened, ran away
and dashed wildly along the streets.
Fruit trees, vegetables and the growing
crops are badly damaged as a result
of the storm.
HARR1MAN UNABLE TO APPEAR
AGAINST FORMER SECRETARY
and was sociable and sympathetic al
most to a fault. His death is the first
that has occurred in Mr. Lane’s family
and it is a great shock to his aged
parents.
SPARK DROPPED IN POWDER
RESULTING IN THREE DEATHS
NEWCASTLE.
(State by Gov. R. B. Glenn.
N“EW YORK. April 8.—E. H. Harri-
man was unable to appear in police NEWCASTLE, Fa., April S.—Three
court today to testify against Frank 1 men were "instantly kill d at Hillsviile
W. Hill, his former secretary, who is’] today by an explosion of a ton of
und-r arrest charged with making ' powder at the plant of the Burton
public the now famous Harriman- ! Powder Company. A spark Is sup-
Webster letter, and the hearing, which posed to have dropped into the pow-
had been set for today, was .adjourn- I der. John King of I. •w 'lville. aged
1 ’ ed until next Saturday. Hill’s bail i 30 years, and two Italians were the
was reduced from $2,500 to $1,000. j victims.