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Ex-Dictator Expelled From Mar
tinique by France,
France Has No Objection to His Return
to That Country, But He Must
: Live Peaceably.
Fort de France, Martinique.—~Clpri
ana Castro, ex-president of Veneczuela,
was ignominiously expelled from the
Island of Martinique by the French
government, He protested to the last
against his expulsion, but his protests
were. in vain, He is now on board
the French line steamship Versailles,
bound for St, Nazaire.
The removal of the former presi
dent of Venezuela from the hotel to
the steamer was not without its piti.
ful aspects, Immediately on the an
nouncement by the medical commis
sion, who made a lengthy physical ex
amination of Castro, that he was en
tirely capable of making the voyage,
the commissary of police, with an es-
Lcore of gendarmes, invgded the hotel
and proceedcd to his chamber, They
found the ex-president lying in bed,
and, although he still protested that
he could not move, they carried him
down stairs in a mattress, the pa
tient all the while moaning dismally,
and placed him on a stretcher, Offi
cers from the United States cruiser
North Carolina, in civilian dress, help
ed to make him as comfortable as
possible, and then the stretcher was
picked up by four negroes and taken
to the steamer dock. The ex-presi
dent was furiously indignant; and,
prior to being taken aboard the steam
er Versailles for deportation to
France, prepared a written protest
against the ac%ion of the French gov
ernment, which has been submitted
to the authorities here. .
It reads as follows: “I hereby pro
test against the action of the French
authorities of Martinique in having
me put by force on board an outgoing
vessel, First, because I was ill at
the time, and because the act imper
iled my life; second, because I have
committed no offense against the gov
ernment of France and the authori
ties of Martinique during the time
that I was permitted to remain on
that island, and, finally, because the
decree of expulsion which orders my
deportation out of French territory
compels me to take passage aboard
a vessel which will again land me on
French territory.
“Moreover, theze conditions aside,
the case constitutes a breach of inter
national laws and a denial of the
rights of individuals. That such a
thing should have come to pass in
the land which saw the birth of Jo
sephine, and from which came the
inspiration and presage of liberty,
and at the hands of a people who
shed their blood by torrents hardly
a century ago to maintain unimpaired
the rights and prerogatives of man,
is inconceivable.” :
Paris, France.—The return of Cas
tro is not regarded here as of great
importance, the principal object of the
French government being to prevent
the use of French territory as the
headquarters for a revolutionary
movement, and a campaign by Cas
tro to recapture his lost power in
Venezuela. There will be no oppo
sition made to his landing, or even
to his remainisg in France, provided
he lives peaceably. It is regarded,
however, as more likely that Castro
will disembark at Santander, where
he will try to charter a ship.
Copenhagen, Denmark.—The gov
ernment has instructed the governor
of the Danish West Indies, under no
circumstances to permit ex-President
Castro to land in that territory. These
instructions were issued in response
to a cablegram from the colonial of
ficials inquiring as to what measures
they should take in the event of Cas
tro’s attempting to take up his resi
dence at any of these ports.
SOUTHERN MEMBERS PLEASED.
Tariff Fight Was Won for the South
; by Representatives.
Washington, D. C.—Southern repre
sentatives in congress expressed un
bounded delight at the successful out
come of the fight to put on the free
list articles entering into the manu
facture of commercial fertilizers.
Since the southern cotton farmers
are the country’s largest users of fer
tilizers, they would have been harder
hit than any others by the original
provision in the Payne tariff bill put
ting a 20 per cent ad valorem duty
on imports of sulphate of potash and
muriate of potash,
But luckily for the south, this pro
vision was stricken from the bill, and
these commodities will continue to be
imported free of duty. The same thing
is true of kainit, This action of the
house will relieve the manufacturers
of fertilizers from any necessity or
reasonable excuse for an advance in
the cost of price of fertilizers.
PROMINENT MEN DECLINE PLACES.
President Taft Having Trouble To
Fill Positions,
‘Washington, D. C.—lt was stated
that the mission to China tendered by
President Taft to former Senator Ful
ton of Oregon had previously been of
fered to former Senator Hemenway,
of Indiana. Former Representative
Watson has declined four different
places Ta the federal service offered
to him by the president;. former Vice
President Fairbanks has announced
thdt he will not enter the federal ser
vice, and former Senator Hemenway
of Indiana has also declined 11‘1 office,
All three of these gentlemen have an
nounced they will continue in politic
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“MOONSHINE” MEN BUSY.
Big Increase in the lllicit Distillation of
Liquors Reported.
Washington ,D, C.—Officials of the
internal revenue and treasury depart
ment are of the opinion that the tem
perance movement which has taken
such a strong hold of ceriain secuons
ot the couutry, particularly in the
south, has resuited in increasing the
numeer of violations of the internal
revenue laws in the distiliavon or Il
licit whiskey,
Recent reports indicate that in
many southern states, especially Ala
bama, Georgia and North Carolina,
there has been greater activity on the
part of the lawless mountain elewment,
who always have been troublesome
to the revenue agents, than 1n many
years, "These three states now have
laws prohibiting distilleries from op
erating within their borders.,
In Alabama the law went into ef
fect on July 1, 1908; in Georgia on
January 1, 1908, and in North Caro
lwina, January 1, 1909. Many legiti
mate distilleres nave moved to Flor
ida and other states where the inhi
bition does not exist, Whiskey Dbe
ing more difficult to obtain in a legit
imate way, has greatly increased the
profits ot illl]clt distilling, with the
result that the activities of the in
ternal revenue bureau at this time
is largely directed towards the moun
tain sections of these three tates,
In 1908 there were 1,130 illicit stills
destroyed; in 1907 there were 1,139,
and in 1906 there were 1,376, but the
returns for the nine months of the
present fiscal year show a decided
increase in the number destroyed, the
number so far reported this year being
1,017, with the probability that by
Juiy Ist, that the number will have
been increased approximately 1,300.
The section of the south where
there is the most activity among the
so-calleld “moonshiners” embraces
the Atlanta district, where it is re
ported 120 stillls were seized and de
stroyed in December last. T'he Ashe
ville, N. C., district is another sec
tion that has to be constantly looked
after, as do those of Columbia, S.
C., and Louisville, Ky,
At Atlanta the coliector has 17 dep
uties; at Asheville 15 and at Colum
bia 28, moest of them constantly em
ployed in raiding work.
In addition nearly eight hundred
possemen have been employed from
time to time in the last few months,
with a number of guides.
Elephant Killed Keeper.
Des Moines, lowa.—“Tom,” apv ele
phant in the winter quarters of the
“Yankee” Robinson circus here, sud
denly ran amuck and seizing his
keeper, Charles Bellew, hurled him
high into the air and then trampled
him to death. The infuriated beast
then ran through the animal park,
uprooting small trees, destroyed three
circus wagons and demolished a
bridge across a lagoon. Forty bullets
were fired into the beast before it
was subdued. Bellew was 44 years
elé,
Six Lives Lcst in Steamer Fire.
New Orleans, La.—Captain Frank
Hansen, of the United Fruit company
steamer Ellis, just in from British
Honduras, reported the loss of six
lives as a result of an explosion on
the Hamburg-American steamer Sa
rina, at Port Limon. Five negro la
borerez and a sailor on the Sarina
were burned to death in the hold. The
flames were subdued before a great
deal of damage had been done to the
steamer, but a large portion of the
cargo, principally cotton, was thrown
overboard and much of it lost.
Dug Up Treasure.
Lexington, Ky.—While making a
post hole in an abandoned lot, work
men discovered a brass Kkettle con
taining $8,500 in gold and silver that
apparently had been buried for half
a century.
The lot formerly belonged to J. C.
Dewitt, an aged pensioner, who died
several years ago, and it is the suppo
sition that he buried the money.
The lot was sold at a commis
sioner’s sale recently for sll6.
Emma Goldman’s Gitizenship Cancelled
Buffalo, N. Y.—Judge Hazel in the
United States circuit court, granted
an order cancelling the citizenship
papers of Jacob A. Kerner. Through
this order all rights of citizenship
also are taken from Kerner’'s wife,
who is Emma Goldman, the socialis
tic leader.
Crime to Kiss Child.
Boston, Mass.—“A mother who al
lows a stranger to kiss her child is
just as much a criminal as the wom
an who places her child in the. path
of a runaway animal in order that it
may be Kkilled,” declared Mrs. Mar
garet Grant, formerly an English hos
pital nurse. Allowing strangers to
kiss one’s child is even more repre
hensible than thoser who kiss and
fondle dogs.
Girl’s Joke Almost Fatal.
Winchester, Va. — W. F. Shippe, a
Frederick county school teacher, was
the victim of a joke that came near
ending his life, He accepted a drug
ged apple from a girl in his school
and was poisoned. 7The girl had drug
ged the apple 'with the intention of
making the teacher sleepy, but gave
him an overdose. . :
To End Kidnaping.
Albany, N. W.—The senate passed
a bill increasing the penalty. for
kidnapping to fifty years and anoth
er inereasing to twe"nyty_-fl,va years the
maximum _penalty §tfi ?’:““"‘"fli @
~ LATE NEWS NOTES.
General,
With seven hundred men aboard,
the wansport Thomas has salled from
San [raucisco tfor the Philippines,
The men are from the twelfth calvary
gud came from kort Oglethorpe, Geor.
gia, They were commanded by Col
onel Dodd, .
Massachusetts has one hundred
thousand spinsters and widows, and
this 13 alarming some people, even
in the slale wuere spinsters are quite
common, The Woman's Homestead
assoclation of Boston 18 concerning
steels with their future, '
“Being tired is foolish,” This is
the latest enunciation of Dr, Sheldon
Leavitt, in charge of the lmmanuel
Baptist Psycotherapy class of Chicago.
“When I am tired I tell myself that
1 am rested,” the instructor says,
“and then I am, The universal energy
reservoir we live in is always full,
We have a feed pipe where we pay
it out, but theres a bigger supply
pipe where it will enter taster, If we
only think it along. You whl find
some patients who don’t seem to be
able to walk alone, The ‘only Way
to do with them is to get them up on
the edge of the nest and then push
‘eml over, just as the old bird does,
Force them to try it alone.”
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pack, wha
live in Polk county, North Carolina,
are rejoicing over the birth of trip
lets—three bouncing boys—the arris
val of whom has created a deal of in.
terest in the surrounding country.
The day after the arrival of the boys
there were no less than sixty-five vis
itors at the home of the Packs, many
of whom were ladies. The mother
requested them to select names for
her sons. One was named William,
the sgecond Jennings and the third
Bryan. .
In the will of Dr. Daniel Young of
Toronto, Ontario, who died February
22, there has been found this peculiar
clause: “I will that, upon my death,
and before my burial, my heart and
arteries shall be filled with a compo
sition made of rosin and olive oil,
heated together, or some combination
that becomes solid on cooling, and
used warm enough to remain liquid
sufficiently long to fill the heart and
arteries, as well as possible, and then
pass from the liquid to the solid stage,
and a regular physician shall perform
the said task, or undertaking.” Phy
sicians are of the opinion that Young
feared burial alive and, knowing that
such an operation as he requested
would necessitate opening the heart,
believed that this would ensure death.
Washington.
A new “Old Glory” is proposed in a
bill recently introduced by Represen
tative Ansberry of Ohio to amend the
section of the revised statutes, which
relates to the design of the American
flaz. A new formation of the stars
is suggested. They would be ar
ranged in five arcs to be the apices
of a regular pentagon, the radius of
the ares to be equal to one side of
the pentagon. As to the size of the
stars the Dbill prescribes that their
radius shall be equal to ‘“one-fourth
the distance of the stars from center
to center.” Provision for adding new
stars for new states might be made
by extending the ares.
News received from the Springfield
arsenal is that President Roosevelt
was furnizked¢ with two rifles which
carry electric lights on either side of
the sight, the electricity being pro
vided by a battery under the stock
Army officers do not profess to know
much about the guns, but it is stated
the best place for a test of night
shooting would be darkest Africa,
where the president is going, and
where he may have to protect him
self from night raids by lions. If
the rifles can do what they are expect
ed to do, and it is admitted they will
be effective only against big objects,
many more of them will be manufac
tured for the army.
A toy horse, worth perhaps §l, im
ported to the country, will be taxed
S3O, just the same as a living thor
oughbred racer, if the Payne tariff
bill becomes a law. Doll’s clothing
and ornaments will be taxed at the
same rate as those of women. Ex
perts in the foreign buying depart
men of a local store say that toy an
imals, retailing at present for a few
cents, will become as. expensive to
import into this country as the living
animals which they represent in min
iature.
Accusing the large department
stores of having instigated the oppo
sition of many women and ‘“hysteri
cal men” against the increased duties
provided by the Payne tariff bill on
women’'s gloves and hosiery, Repre
gsentative Sereno Payne, chairman of
the house ways and means commit
tee, in a wstatement which will be
printed in the Congressional Record,
asserted that the importers who op
pose the duties were interested in
firms abroad which make gloves and
hosiery.
President Diaz of Mexico although
he stated a year ago that -he would
never again be a candidate, has de.
cided to make the race for president.
He says he is willing to sacrifice per
sonal desires to serve his country.
At the urgent request of the state
department at Washington, communi
cated to the London foreign office,
the British government has decided
not to permit Cipriano Castro, form
er president of Venezuela, to land at
Trinidad,
The navy is completing at the tor
pedo station a turbine torpedo, .which
will be ready for tests in Narragan
gett bay some time during the sum
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g‘rrs?h*?zfll. WI 3 r"‘i‘i"'fi“ v tlmvn.a to_the
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