Several Newspapers Called be
fore Federal Grand Jury.
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PANAMA CANAL CHARGES
Made in these Publications Will have
To Be Proved---Josoph Pulitzer of
New York World Chief Offender.
Washington, D, C.—Bix Washington
correspondents of out-of-town papers
and a local newsboy received subpoé
nas to appear before federal grand ju
ries and give tesumony, pruaumably,
in connection with statements ap
pearing in connection with utntemems'
appearing in their publications bear
ing on the Panama canal purchase, |
So far as it has been possible L 0 as- |
certain, these were tae only Ones
cited:
Otto Carmichael, Charles 8. Albert
and K. Jesse Conway, all of the New
York World stal; James Hornady, '
Indianapolis News; Jeremiah Mal-i
thews, New York Sun; Harris =M.
Crist, Brooklyn Kagle, and Willlam |
Smith, a newsboy ot Washington, en- |
gaged in selling New York papers. |
With . the exceptiom of Mr. Crist,'
who is commanded to go to New YOrk |
and present himself betore the grand
jury of the circuit court for the
southern district, the persons are di- |
rected to appear before the federal
grand jury ot the District of Colum
bia.
The World staff also were directed}
to bring with them tiles of the paper
for September, Octooer, November
and, December, 1903, “in the case of
United States vs. The Press Publish
ing Company,” publishers of the New |
York World, _ |
There is no doubt here that the
subpoenas all have to do with a suit
for libel, which, it is believed, has
been brought by the government in.
New York against The World. it |
was the publisher of The New York !
World in connection with the pub
lisher of the Indianapolis News }
Messrs. Laffan and Delavan Smitth, |
whom the president, in a letter datexl
December 1 last, to Willlam Foulke, |
in response to one from him, severe- |
ly denounced, and in his special mes-!
sage to congress of December 15, re-|
garding the charges of corruption by
or on behalf of the government in
the matter of the canal purchase, the
president announced that the attor
ney general had under considerationi
the form in which proceedings for li- |
bel against Mr. Pulitzer should bei
bropght. |
Nowhere in the annals of the gov
ernment has such action before becn'
taken as the United States govern
ment suing for criminal libel. The |
president, in his message, was most
emphatic in saying that it should not
be left to a private citizen to entcr
the suit, and he was particular to
state that he did not believe “we|
should concern ourselves with the
particular individuals who wrote the
lyirs and libelous editorials, artieles |
from correspondents or articles in!
the news columns. The real offender
is Joseph Pulitzer, editor and pro
prietor of The World.” llt, therefore,
is inferred that the correspondents
were summoned as witnesses and not
with the ultimate idea of making
them ~ co-defendants.
TWENTY KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK.
Passenger and Freight Trains Collide
on Denver and Rio Grande Road.
Glenwood Springs, Cot. — Twenty
persons were Kkilled and thirty injur
ed, many of them seriously, in a
head-on collision between a west
bound passenger train and an east
bound freight train on the Denver!
and Rio Grande railroad, between Dot- ‘
scro and Spruce creek, twenty-two.
miles from Glenwood Springs. {
While nothing official has been giv
en out as to the cause of the wreck,
it is said to have been due to a mis
understanding of orders on the part
of Engineer Gustaf Olson of the pas
senger train,
Olson, however, claims he under
stood his instructions perfectly, but
that he misread his watch, thus en
croaching on the time of the freight
train, which was being drawn by two
locomotives, the first of which was in
charge of his brother, Sig Olson,
348 AUTOMOBILES. BURNED.
Six Great Garages Are Destroyed in
Botson.
' Boston, Mass.—A puff of flame shot
up from the rear of the most exten
sive automobile storage and repair
plant in the city, located near Park
Square, and half an hour later over
348 automobiles, valued at $750,000,
were a mass of tangled steel and iron,
The fire spread to the old trainshed
of the Park Square railroad station
and destroyed the bicycle track aund
a large pavilion used for exhibition
purposes. The damage to the build
ing will bring the total loss to above
SBOO,OOO.
NO PROBING FOR TILLMAN.
Indications Are That Senate Will
Make No Investigation.
- Washington, D, C.—The indications
now are that there will be no official
investigation of Sexrator Tillman’s
connection with the Oregon “land
grab” case. This tempest has largely
subsided and the probability is that
t wiil not be revived.
enator Tillman, in his . speech,
ted a rigid investigation by a
ttee of his colleagues. But 1t
d on good authority that uo
teps will be taken. In a
would indicate that the
ves the charge of at
to otrivial to deserve
HOGSES JOR ITALIANS ‘
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To Be Built By the U, S, Government,
Bodies of Cheneys Found.
Washington, D, C.—An innovation
in international relief measures, 'so
far as Europe is concernad, is to be
undertaken by the American govern
ment, in expending the $500,000 in
money appropriated by congress for
the Italian earthquake sufferers, Pres
jdent Roosevelt has decided to send
to Italy material for the canstrucuoun
of 2,500 or 3,000 substantial, but nec
essarily very modest, frame houses,
suoplementing this by supplying ci
vilan carpenters to supervise con
struction, if this can be arranged.
«. since the appropriation Wwas
made by congress serious considera
tion has been given by the presideu.
and the state department as to the
best uses that could be made of it
in the way of relief,
Verbal instructions have beemn glv
en by President Roosevelt to Secre
tary Newberry whereby the machin
ery of the navy department was en
listed in the prosecutions of the plan.
The following statement was made
public at the secretary's office:
“The navy department has arrang
ed for the expenditure of approxi
mately $500,000 in the purchase of
building materials, including all ar
ticles necessary for the construction
of substantial frame houses for the
Italian sufferers, and the shipments
will begin by the sailing of two
steamers, probably on Monday. This
lumber is being delivered in New
York, and the sailing of the vessels
will proceed as fast as they can be
loaded. Each ship will carry all the
materials for the construction of
about five hundred houses, and it will
require not less than six steamers
for the entire amount purchased.
“1f possible the department intends
to send with each vessel several ci
vilian house carpenters, with plans
to assist in the erection of these
houses.”
Totai contributions received by the
American Red Cross for the Italiau
victims up to date amount to SBO7,
447.
Messina, Sicily—After lying buried
in the ruins of the consulate at Mes
sina for eighteen days, the bodies of
Arthur S. Cheney, the American ccn
sul, and his wife, were recovered by
a detachment of sailors from the bat
tleship Illinois.
The bodies were recovered in what
evidently had been the bed room of
the Cheneys. They were found lying
sid by side. There is reason to be
lieve that death overtook the unfor
tunate couple while they were asleep.
Reggio. Italy.—A child of five years
was taken from the ruins of a build
inug here entirely uninjured, having
lain beneath the debris for eighteen
days.
An officer in passing heard the low
moaning of the child and immediately
began a search, delving in the direc
tion from which the cries came. As
he worked a wall fell and he was se
riously injured, but even this did &zt
deter him in his heroic effort and he
continued his task until he had res
cued the imprisoned child.
TWOO NEY STATES.
Arizona and New Mexico May Come
~ in This Session of Congress.
Washington, D. C.—Arizona and
New Mexico are in a fair way to be
come full-ledged states during the
present session of congress. It was
learned that the house committee on
territories is to take up the state
hood measuers in the immediate fu
ture with the object of reporting them
to the house as early as possible.
Conferences between members of
the territories’ committee and lead
ers of the house have been held fre
quently within the past two weeks
and the advocates of statehood from
both territories have been active in
a quiet way, It is believed that there
will be no attack on the capital by
the statehood boomers, and they will
realize their ambitions without any
demonstration,
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Chinese Children sing Hymns.
New York City.—Christian hymns
sung by Chinese children dressed in
silkk native robes and their native cos
tumes was an unique incident at the
‘Madison Avenue Baptist ehurch.
Sixteen tiny celestial tots sang
«Onward Christian Soldiers,” and “I
Love to Tell the Story,” in lisping
pigin-English. A boy, T. M. Fung,
compared Christopher Columbus and
George Washington, while other chil
dren made speeches in English.
Admiral Evans Lectures.
Boston, Mass.—Rear Admiral Rob
ley D. Evans delivered a lecture on
the fleet’s cruise before an audience
composed largely of Boston society
women. The lecturer sat while talk
ing. He said the Japanese do not
want to fight the United States, be
cause they will have to figlst for their
lives when the “Russian Bear” comes
to be fought again.
Canary Birds Save Family.
Chicago, Ill.——Twenty-five canary
birds, chirruping and thrilling in the
glare of a blazing fire, spread an
alarm that saved fourteen families,
aglthough the little golden songsters
lost their own lives,
The fire destroyed a three-story
trick building and drove the fourteen
families into the cold.
Big Shipment of Naval Stores.
Pensacola, Fla.—What is said to pe
the largest delivery of naval stores
by one consumer has been made here.
The shipment consisted of 4,692 bar
rels of rosin with a valuation of $28,-
000 and is said to be the largest ship.
Taent 0N reeopdy oG LS T
Basis of Agreement has been
Reached at Last.
Warships will be Withdrawn and Diplo
matic Relalions Resumed as soon as
Agreement is Signed.
Washington, D, C.—After years of
patient waiting on the part of the
United States, there is the prospect
for the settlement by a method sai
isfactory to this co-ntry, of the dis
puted claims with Venezuela, the re
fusal of which government to arbi
trate them regulted last spring in the
breaking of friendly relations Dbe
tween the two countries,
The state department has announc
ed that W. I. Buchanan, the special
commissioner who has been in Ven
ezuela for several weeks negotiating
regarding these cases, had reported
that he had reached the basis of an
agreement for their settlement, aud
that a protocol to that effect was
now being drawn up for signature.
His work on the protocol is now
necessarily slow and tedious, and he
has been in communication with Lhe
state department frequently regard
ing certain of its features.
The signing of the protocol will re
sult in the formal resumption of dip
lomatic relations with Venezuela, and
W. W. Russell, who was American
minister there when the relations
were broken off, will, unless present
plans are changed, soon return to his
post,
With the completion of Mr. Buca
anan’s work the American war ves
sels in Venezuelan waters, sent there
for friendly purposes, will be with
drawn unless the Gomez government
desires one or more of them to re
main to suppress any disorders.
The claims over which the two
countries have been in dispute are
That of A. J. Jaurett, who was ex
pelled in 1904; the Orinoco corpora
tions, which claims large concessious,
covering iron mines, asphalt privi
leges and hardwood concessions; the
Orinoco Steamship Company, which
claims exclusive rights of navigation
on branches of the Orinoco river; the
‘New York and Bermudez Asphalt
Company, claims based on the right
of the company to take asphalt from
La Felicidad Lake, and the United
LStates and Venezuelan Company,
Iwhich declares it has been deprived
\of the right to mine asphalt and build
'a railroad.
ANSEL HANCLES BISPENSARIES.
Governor of South Carolina Makes
Suggestion on Liquor Guesticn,
Columbia, 8. C.—ln his annual mes
sage to the general assembly of South
Carolina, Governor Martin F. Ansel
recomanends, among other things, that
“wet” counties, except those contain
ing citles Of 25,060 population and
over, be allowed only one dispensary
each: that the dispensary law be
amended by making all the counties
dry, allowing these desiring dispen
sarles to vote them in; that wet
counties be denied the privilege® of
operating bottling, mixing er blend
ing plants, but be required to buy and
sell in original packages.
It is not believed that a state-wide
prohibition law will be passed at the
present session, but that the matter
will be referred to the peorle to vote
upon in a primary next summer.
PENSIGNS FOR MOTHERS.
Advocated By the Woman’s Club of
Evanston, |l
. Chicago, Ill.—The pensioning of
destitute mothers by the government
is advocated by Mrs. C. H. Zimmer
man of the Evanston Woman’s club.
In a plea Mrs. Zimmerman said:
“A mother’s time is worth as much
to the state as a man’s time and it is
a work that God has put into her
hands. Men are so busy making mon
ey that they have no time to think
of the feelings of others and cannot
isee the need of such a law.
- “Many men who are willing to let
‘women get down on their knees and
scrub their office floors cught to be
ashamed that there is no provision
in our laws for the pensioning of the
‘destitute mother as well as the old
soldiers.”
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INSULTED AN AMERICAN.
Honduran Clerk Uses Ugly Language
to Consular Agent.
New Orleans, La.—Correspondence
from San Pedre Sula, Spanish Hondu
ras, ahnounces that as the result of
a clagh there between American Con
sular Agent J. M. Mitchell, Jr,, and a
clerk of one of the Honduran courts,
the clerk has been removed by his
government. During a hearing of an
American citizen, in which Mr. Mitch
ell appeared as counsel, the court
clerk remarked that if he had his
way he would put all American con
suls in jail, where they helonged.
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’ FOR WAR ON WHISKEY.
Anti-Saloon League of America Has
‘ Been Incorporated.
~ Columbus, Ohio.—The Anti-Saloon
League of America, with headquar
‘ters at Westerville, Ohio, was incor
porated by Wayne B. Wheeler, F. L.
‘Dustman, J. J. Jackson, J. A. Wright
and L. B. Cherrington. ;
' The purposes of the organization as
set forth in the artjcles of incorpora
tion, are “in eduttating, organizing
and utilizing publi¢ sentiment against
the saloon and beverage liquor traf
fic, and to this end to pwn and oper
ate a printing plant ne jessary to car
ry out said purposes ahd to maintain
offices in the different parts of the
JTpited. Sbaten il it oAk
PROBIDITION IN TENNESSEE,
House and Senate Pass Bill Prohibiting
the Sale of Whiskey.
Nashville, Tean,~The Dbill to pro
hibit the sale of intoxicating liquor
in Ténnessee passed the lower house
of the general assembly by a vote
of 62 to 36, Fifty votes is a majority,
Twenty-two republicans voted for and
one against the measure,
The measure passed is the one
passed in the senate by a vote of 20
to 18, and now goes to Governor Pat
terson, He Is expected to veto It,
but, under the constitution, his veto
only acts as a suggestion, not as a
stay, and a bare majority may pass
a bill over the executive's untavoras:
ble action,
The governor is allowed to hold a
bill five days. If at the expiration of
this time it bas not been rcturned to
the assembly, it becomes A law with
out his signature, State-widers main
tain that the governor's action is mot
material, as his veto will not be sus
tained. The bill provides that prohi
bition becomes effective July 1, 1909,
The battle attending the passage ot
the prohibition bill was probably tho
fiercest ever known in the Tennessee
house of representatives. For almost
five hours it was waged, the local op
tion or administration forces contest
ing every inch of the ground.
‘ Amendment after ameniment was
‘presented and promptly voted down
by about the same majority as that
given the bill on final passage. A
great outpour of oratory came from
both sides.
Throughout the discussion the gal
leries were packed and several times
the speaker, at the request of local
optionists, asked the sergeant-at-arms
to exclude visitors from the floor of
the house,
When the final vote was announc
ed the cheers from the galleries were
deafening, the demonstration on the
floor and in the galleries lasting sev
eral minutes. The state-widers are
jubilantly asserting that the bill will
be passed over the governor's veto by
about the same vote firigiually receiv
ed in the house.
PROHIBITION LAW IN ALABAMA.
Federal Judge Jones Refuscs to Block
It by Injunction,
Montgomery, Ala.—Judge Thomas
G. Jones of the United States district
court for the middle distizct of Ala
bama has denied the injunction ask
ed for against the Carmichael pro
hibition law. Contrary to the expec
tations of the petitioners, Judge Jones
did not pass upon the constitutionality
of the act, holding that this was a
proper question for the courts of the
state.
In explaining his opinion, the judge
stated that the matter was a proper
one for the supreme court of the
state, and that, in the event of a re
versal of the law on his part, the
same matter in a state court might
hold good, the state court’s holdings
taking precedence.
The decision of Judge Jones refrain
ed from passing on the validity of the
general prohibition act. The effect of
the decision is to deny for the pres
epnt the injunction asked, and leave
the constitutionality of the law to
the state courts.
JAPANESE IMMIGRATION.
Interesting Figures as to the “Yellow
Peril” in Past Year.
Washington, D. C.—Some remarka
ble figures have just been made pub
lic at the department of commerce
and labor relating to Japanese immi
gration and emigration. They indi
cate that during the twelve months
ended November 1, last, the total
number of Japanese admitted to the
United States was 6,071, and the to
tal number which left the TUnited
States was 5,832, an increase in the
Japanese population of 185. The net
increase of Japanese non-laborers was
653 during this period and the net
decrease of Japanese laborers during
the same period was 468. The total
number of Japanese admitted to the
United States and Hawaii during the
period was 12,093 and 7,084 departed,
the increase in Japanese population
on the mainland of the United States
and in Hawaii being 5,009.
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
Rev. Charles E, Stowe, in an ad
dress at Hartford, Conn. declared
that his mother, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, conceived “Uncle Tom'’s Cab
{n” from a vision she had in a church.
She wrote the book from back to
front, starting with “Uncle Tom'’s”
death scene.
~ Otis Bddy Wood, who had the dis
tinction of being the first man who
‘ever received a telepraph message
by sound, is dead at his home in
Etna, N. Y. He was 77 years old.
In early life Wood was an associate
of Samuel F. B. Morse and others
}in the promotion of the telegraph.
The Oklahoma house of represei
tatives has decided to eliminate the
words “honorable” and: ‘“representa
tive” when referring in the house
journal to members of the legislature.
The radical, dominant element in this
new state is opposed to thie free use
of titles, especially of ‘*‘honorable”
by lawyers and politicians in general.
Chief Rocky Boy, of the Chippewa
Indians, appeared before Judge Hunt,
of the United States district court, at
Helena, Mont., and said his tribe was
guffering from the cold and from hun
ger, He declared that if the cold
weather continued many of his tribe
might perish. He said they were en
?flmdu? land, but it had not ye: been
allott lam | w'!Wémrd the,sfim-:
ment t .up the shibject.
Notable Gathering Welcomed
President-Elect to “Gate City.”
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In Speech He Extended Congratulations
to the People of the South for the
Remarkable Progress Made.
Atlanta, Ga.~Willlam Howard Taft,
president-elect of the United States,
arrived in Atlanta from Augusta Fri
day afternoon, and was the city's
guest for two days.
From Augusta Mr., Taft was accom
panied by a committee from the
chamber of commerce consisting of
F. J. Paxon, John E, Murphy and R.
1.. Foreman, On arriving at the
Union depot he was escorted by this
rommittee in an automobile direct to
the state capitol, He was welcomed
first by Governor Smith and then
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by a reception committee made up
of prominent Atlantans. =
After a brief handshaking in the
governor’s office ‘Mr. Taft was es
corted to the stairway landing in
the northern end of the capitol. There
he was introduced by Governor Smith
and made a short address.
“l expect to spare no effort to
find out the facts in respect to the
character of the proposed appointees,
and so far as in me lies to select those
whose character and reputation and
standing in the community commend
them to their fellow-citizens as per
sons qualified and able to discharge
their duties well, and whose presence
in important position will remove, if
any such thing exists, the sense of
alienism in the gsvernment which
they represent.”
Declaring that the real attitude of
a federal administration toward the
south depends upon the character of
the men it appoints to office, Presi
dent-elect Taft in the foregoing words
at the banquet given by the Atlanta
chamber of commerce gave a volun
tary pledge to tha south which is sure
to greatly endear him to people in
every community of this section.
Frankly admitting that in many in
stances federal administrations have
acted toward the south as to an alien
country or dependent territory, he de
clared that the keynote of his policy
toward the south would be to treat
it as an integral part of the country
and to extend to it equal and exact
justice in all matters.
Referring to criticisms that have
been made of his visit to the south
and to prophecies that his alleged ef
fort to win the south to the republi
can party is doomed to failure, Judge
Taft declared:
“] may not succeed in winning the
south, but the south has already won
me-n
Saturday morning Judge Taft spoke
to the students of the Georgia Tech
nological School and to the negroes
at Big Bethel A. M. E. Church. At
noon he went to Athens, where he ad
dressed the students of the Unlversity
of Georgia, after which the party re
turned to Atlanta in time to attend a
banquet given by the Capital City
Club. At midnight Saturday Judge
Taft left Atlanta for Augusta.
30 HURT IN HOTEL FIRE.
Kansas Legislators Have a Close
Call.
Topeka, Kan. — Thirty were hurt
and A. W. Smith, once a candidate for
governor, may die from injuries suf
fered in a fire which destroyed the
Copeland Hotel here.
There were many narrow escapes
for the hotel, long a battle ground
for politicians, was crowded with leg
islators, their wives and visitors here
for the opening of the legislature.
Many had to jump for their lives.
Some of the guests are still miss
ing. Many persons were hurt =by
jumping from upper windows. Mrs.
'W. Y. Morgan, wife of the editor of
'the Hutchinson News, is one of these,
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’ *. F. KING SENTENCED.
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Boston Promoter Given 10 to 14 Years
| - For Larceny.
Boston, Mass. — Cardinio Flavius
King, former financial agent and bro
ker, who maintained palatial offices
in Boston and New York, and who for
a short time was publisher of a daily
paper here, has been sentepced .by
‘Judge Schofield, in the superior crim
inal court, to serve a term of not less
than ten and not more than fourteen
years at hard labor in the state prison
at Charlestown.
King was convicted on twenty-seve:
counts of an indictment charging hi
with larceny and ‘embezziement, and
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