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Execution of Two Ameicans By
Nicaragua Arouses Government.
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The United States Has Practically Rec
ognized Bolligerency of the Nica
raguan Revolutionists.
New Orleans, La.—Private advices
from Nicaragua say that a reign of
terror exists throughout a portion of
the country controlled by Zelaya, Gov
ernment troops are rounding up per
#ons suspected of sympathy with the
revolutionists and executing them
without trial, it is stated. More than
500 men suspected of revolutionary
gsympathies have been summarily shot
and the bloody work continues,
Residences are ransacked by Zela
ya's soldiers in search of incriminat
ing evidence and when resistance 13
offered the houses are destroyed, Wo.
men rélatives of revolutionary sympa
thizers have been subjected. to most
horrible indignities, Nicaraguan ref
ugees arriving at Panama and Costa
Rica declare it is time for civilized
powers to forcibly interveme and puc
an end to the barbarities.
The United States consul at Mana
gua reports that two American citi
zens, Leonard Grace and Leßoy Can
non, had been captured with the rev
olutionists and shot by order of Pres
ident Zelaya. The execution took
place at El Castrillo, near Greytown.
The American consul asked President
Zelaya to commute the sentences, bei
a reply was sharply made that the
gentence was final.
Managua, Nicaragua.—Messrs, Can
non and Grace, the Americans who
were executed for complicity in the
rebellion, were tried at a fair court
martial, ‘held under the direction of
the government. The men, it was
charged, were responsible for placing
dynamite mines which were intended
to blow up government steamers, la
den with troops which entered the riv
er at Greytown.
Washington, D. C.—Announcement
that this government is tired of the
high-handed actions of the small Cen.-
tral American republics was contained
in a dispatch sent to the Bluefields
Steamship Company, which sought the
protection of the state department
from interference by the insurgents
now operating against President Ze
laya. |
A peremptory note, couched in dip
lomatic language, but none the less
direct, was delivered to Senor Felipe
Rodriguez, charge d’affaires of the
Nicaraguan legation, demanding a full
and complete explanation of the exe
cution of the two Americans, Leon
ard Grace and Leroy Cannon, who
were executed by order of Zelaya,
when they were found in the insurgent
army.
pPending a satisfactory explanaticn
of the occurrence, President Taft has
refused to recognize Isidore Hazera,
the new Nicaraguan minister. Mr. Taft
is thoroughly aroused by the actiOns}
of the Zelayan government, and ap
parently is determined to make the
lives of United States citizens much
safer and considerably more respect
ed in Central America than they have
been hitherto.
Nicaragua has been one of the Cen
tral American republics that has giv
en this government more trouble in
the last few years than any other,
save perhaps Venezuela under the
. sway of Castro. The state depart
ment maintained a quiet and reserve
that was was described by one diplo
mat as “ominous.”
It was learned, however, that both
President Taft and Secretary Knox
praciically have determined on the ex
ertion of some forceful moral suasion,
if nothing more, with a view of bring
ing the Central American States to a
realization of theirr esponsibilities.
It is evident tkat the temper of the
administration has been thoroughly
aroused, and, if occasion warrants, teit
state department may advise some
drastic action.
Orders have been issued for the
cruiser Vicksburg to proceed in all
haste to Corinto, and the gunboat Des
~ Moines will proceed at once to Port
Limon to observe events there @nd re
port the situation at that point by
wireless.
Harrisburg, Pa.—Leroy Cannon, re
ported shot in Nicaragua as a revo
lutionist, was a native of this city,
and was 29 years of age. He had
been- living in Central America for
eight years, and in that time had been
heard' of half a dozen times as figur
ing in hazardous enterprises. Within
a year word was received that he had
been condemned to die for participa
tion in an uprising, but was saved by
fntervention of the United States.
An effort will be made by the pa.
rents to have the body brought here
for burial,
REPENTENT GAMBLER.
Race Track Man Desires to Pay Back
All Logers.
Kansas City, Mo.—One of the
gtrangest wills ever made here came
to light, when the last testament of
George ‘Brown, Jr.,, well known as a
gambler and race horse man, was fil
ed in the probate court.
“1t is my desire, as far as possible,”
the will reads, “to repay every per
son, man, woman Or child, any money
which I may have won from thein by
gambling during my life time, and I
rect my executors to make effort to
?elarn their names and reimburse
them to the full amount with inter
est from the day the money was
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The New York Ezchange Orders E Im
mediate Change.
New York City.~The meeting of the’
revision committee of the New York
Cotton Exchange was held, and differ
ences applying to the delivery of cot
ton in contract were fixed for the bal
ance of the trade
Widespread interest has been felt
in the action and after the result of
the committeé’s deliberations had
been made known more or less gene
ral satisfaction was expressed, as the
changes were compa:atively light,
amounting to a reduction of from 13
to 26 points in the penalties against
low grade cotton, of which there is
comparatively little in the local stock
at the present time and which s also
reported to be scarce in the south.
The committee also fixed differences
on the quarter grades of white cotton
which will be delivered on contract
after the first of March, The differ
ences fixed go into effect immediately.
The following table will show the new
differences compared with those fixed
last September:
Old New
Diffar- Differ- |
Grade. ences, ences,
B i s sk o B 3D R
Strict middling fair ~1.30 on 130 on |
Middling fair .. .. ..1.10 on 110 on
Strict good middling, .66 on .66 on
Fully goced middling ....... .56 on
Good middling .. .. .44000 n .44 on
Barely good middling ....... .33 on
Striect middling .. .. .22 on .22 on
Fully middling .. ........... .1 On
Middling .. ..., .. basis basis
Barely middling .. «...... .12 Off
Strict low middling, . 25 off .25 off
Fully low middling . ....... .45 off
Low middling .. .. .75 off .60 off |
Strict good ordinary 1.20 off 1.05 off
Good ordinary . ... 2.00 off 175 off
St. g. mid. tinged .. .35 on .35 on
Good mid. tinged....val. of middling
Strict mid, tinged . . .15 off .15 off
Middling tinged . . , .25 off .25 off
St. low d‘;nid. tinged . .75 off .60 off :
Low middling tinged 1.75 off 1.50 off
Middling stained . . .1.00 off .75 OE'
AN EXACTING HUSBAND.
His Ten Commandments Wife Refused
to Obey.
Ann Arbor, Mich, — Mrs. Minnie
Root, who is suing her husband,
Frank, for a divorce, says that after
their marriage he laid down ten com
mandments for her to obey. The com
mandments were:
1. Thou shalt love thy husband.
2. 'Thou shalt obey him. 3. Thou
shalt not find fault with thy husband.
4. Thou shalt beat upon the cymbals
and proclaim thy husband master. 5.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s
costly gowns. 6* Thou shalt not run
up bills. 7. Thou shalt not waste
kisses upon cats and dogs or keep
them as pets, 8. Thou shalt not take
any intoxicating liquors or smoke. 9.
Never neglect washdays. 10. Honor
thy husband so that thou shalt not
dishonor thyself.
CAN BRING DEAD TO LIFE
Woman Has Perfected a Wonderful
Electrical Apparatus.
New York City.—Louise G. Robino
vitch, the young Russia woman, has
startled medical men of this city with
her declaration that she had discov
ered a way to bring the dead to life.
She demonstrated to scientific and
critical men that she can perform
wonders with the electric apparatus
she has perfected,
In the presence of those who saw
the demonstration, Dr. Robinovitch
electrocuted a rabbit and brought it
to life again by ryhthmic_electric ex
citations that caul®d its heart and
respiratory organs to resume their
functions. She also showed the ad
vantages of electricity as an anaes
thetic.
WASHINGTON CALLS ON PRESIDENT.
Support of President Taft Asked for
Great Negro Exposition,
Washington, D. C.—Booker T. Wash.-
ington headed a committee which call
ed at the white house to solicit the
support of President Taft for a move
ment which has been started by col
ored people throughout ‘the country
looking toward the holding of an ex:
position in 1913 to celebrate the 50th
anniversary of the freedom of the ne
gro race in America.
The exposition idea s to show the
negro’s progress during the fifty years
of his freedom as compared with the
progress that he made during slavery
days. :
Newsy Paragraphs.
Silas Morgan, living on Whidbee Is
land, Washington, found several doz
en cans containing a substance re
gembling paint, and believing a case
of red paint had washed ashore,
painted his house with the material.
On taking a sample to town he was
told that the sticky find was pure op
fum, and each can was worth about
S3OO. As he had used or spilled near
1y thirty cans of the opium, ke wasted
more than $9,000, 4
After a search lasting more than
twenty years, Edward Williams of
Vallejo, Cal., found his daughter, Mrs.
M. Jackson, at her home in Chicago.
Twenty-three years ago Mrs. Wil
liams and her one-year-old daughter
left Williams’ home and disappeared.
He searched for them for several
years, but failed to find any trace ot
his wife and daughter.
Laura Livandais of -an old Louisia
na family, was arrested in New Or
leans accused of smuggling hundreds
of Chinamen from a Mexican port to
New Orleans, The woman engineer
ed giant smuggling schemes, it is
charged, aided by Nick Stratokas and
Charley Chun, who were arrested
with her,, The smuggled Chinamen
were sent to New York, it is charged.
PANAMA CANAI. REPORT
Cost of Completed Canal Fixed
at $375,201,000.
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Annual Report of Commission Goes Into
Details Regarding Progress of the
Work on Isthmus,
Washington, D. C, — Satisfactory
progress in the construction of the
Panama canal is shown in the an
nual report of the Isthmlan canal com
mission for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1909, just made public by
the secretary of war.
The report deals with the organiza
tion of the work, construction and en
gineering problems which were solv
ed, the civil government of the canal
zone, the sanitary conditions, which
were greatly improved, and the esti
mated cost of the canal. The totai
cost of the canal Is placed at $375,
201,000, The report says in part:
“During the year the designs for
the upper locks at Gatun and the
locks at Pedro Miguel were finished.
The locks in pairs, separated by a
wall 60 feet thick, are 110 feet in
width, with 1,000 feet usable lengths.
“The work of excavating the Gatun
locks was continued during the year
by ‘steam shovels throughout the fore
bay and the greater part of the lock
chambers, and by one of the 20-inch
suction dredges in the lower part of
the lowest dock. Excavation was in
progress at the close of the year
trenching for the curtain walls, The
material excavated in the dry amount
ed to 933,546 cubic yards, and that re
moved in the wet amounted to 479,950
cubic yards. The plant for the con
struction of the lock is practically in
stalled and ready for operation.
The report says of the health con
ditions: “The health conditions on the
isthmus are reported by the chief san
itary officer as showing an improve
ment over the preceding year. The
total number of admissions of em
ployees to hospitals and sick camps,
including those sick in quarters,
amounted to 46,194, representing for
the year 23.49 as the number of men
sick daily out of every thousand
names on the pay rolls, as against
93.85 for the preceding year. The
number .of .deaths was 530.”
Regarding the cost of the canal the
report says: “Nearly 50 per cent more
work is necessary in order to com
plete the canal than was contemplat
ed by the original estimate, and that
the unit prices, due to labor condi
tions, cost of materials and gratuities
given the employees, have been in
creased about 20 per cent. The total
cost of engineering and construction
alone sums up to $297,766,000; to
which, if the purchase price and the
estimated cost cf construction and
civil government be added, there ' -
sults the sum of $375,201,000 as the to
tal ocst of the canal.”
100 U. S. EMPLOYEES FACE CHARGES.
Big Shake-Up in the Customs
Service.
New York City.—Collector of the
Port William Loeb caused one of the
biggest shake-ups that has ever Oc
curred in the customs department,
when he annotnced the discharge
from the service of James F. Vail,
deputy surveyor of the port, and 13
other customs officials.
The shake-up is the result of recent
investigations into grafting in the cus
toms service in connection with the
weighing of importations and a direct
outcome of the sugar scandal.
Washington, D. C.—OGfficial charges
of misconduct against nearly 100 em
ployees of the customs service, all lo
cated in New York, have been filed
with Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of
the treasury, following close upon Col
lector Loeb’s suspension of 22 delin
quent weighers, assistant weighers,
and at least one official of rank.
With few exceptions, it is semi
officially announced the accused are
to be decapitated by Secretary Mac-
Veagh,
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BABIES WILL BE RARE.
Will Be No More Births, §ays College
Professor.
Ithica, N. Y.—ls the present decline
in the birth rate should continue for
150 years there would be no more
births at that time, according to Pro
fessor Walter F. Wilcox, the statisti.
clah of Cornell University.
“It is not the decrease in the birth
rate that is disturbing,” said Profes
gor. Wilcox, “but rather the fact that
the rate decrease among the classes
that would inherit the capacity for
leadership. The figures from Har
vard college indicate that each 100
ira_duates produce in the next gener
tion only 73 sons. The native Ameri
can population loses more by deaths
than it gains by births.
228 KILLED IN 2 YEARS.
Mortality Reports of Mississippi Rail
road Accidents,
Jackson, Miss.—Secretary Maxwell
of the state railroad commission has
completed a tabulation of the num
ber of persons killed and injured in
railroad ace¢idents in Mississippi dur
ing the past two years to October 1,
this work having been delayed by
tardy reperts from some of the roads.
Thne report shows a total of 228
killed, of which 77 were employees, 10
were passengers and 141 neither pas
genger nor employees. The total num
ber of injured was 2,209, of which 1,-
:}é were employees, 578 passengers
212 neither employées nor pas
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* 20 MINERS SAVED.
92 Dead and 198 Are Still Missing at
’ Cherry, lilinois.
Cherry, 111, — BSunday, which had
promised to be Cherry's real day ot
thanksgiving, ended in a pight of
hope deferred, or despair,
All the long day the vigil was kept,
At the end of it no living man or boy
had been added to the list of the
twenty rescued, At nightfall the toll
stood 20 saved. 92 known dead and
198 missing,
All day long the tolling of churci
bplls resounded in Cherry and Spring
Valley, Eighteen bodies were interred
in a field south of the town, At the
mine coffins of a dozen victims await
ed removal, while a score of caskets
were piled nearby for those who are
to come,
“The men they brought up could
not have lived more than a few hours
longer,” said one despairing woman,
“If they don’t come up they will come
up dead.”
The rescuers worked as if this was
their belief, The fire in the second
level was forced back, and early in
the afternoon the workers could pass
it, but the black damp in the east
gallery was an obstacle that proved
insurmountable,
In the mine level the work of the
rescuers went on unceasingly. Re
lays of eager miners succeeded those
whoze etrength failed. Those who
staggered from the pit mouth were
surrounded instantly, and a babel cf
questions hurled at them,
“We can see the bodies. There are
piles of them, They are dead, bnys,
all dead,” was the reply of the first,
and those who followed gave no more
cheering answers,
Letters written in their urderground
prison by the twenty miners rescued
alive Saturday came to light in vari
ous quarters Sunday. The two Pigati
brothers, Joe and Salvatore, wrote
several short notes, but all of the
came tenor, save that in one a de
sire was expressed that their funeral
be embellished with a brass band.
George Semmerich’'s inexperienced
efforts to make the contents of his
lunch last as long as possible, threw
a light on the extremities to which
the prisoners were reduced. Sem
merich’s pail contained four slices of
bread, a piece of pie and a huge dili
pickle. Semmerich’s estimate of how
this foocd would last proved woefully’
wrong, for deducting what he gave to
others, it had all disappeared within
924 hours. Fortunately the prisoner
still had a practically unimpaired
plug of tobacco. From this he ex
tracted all the nourishment possible,
and then swallowed the quid. This
diet kent his stomach in so feverish
a condition that for three days that
the supply lasted he experienced
practicaly no pangs of hunger. The
leather band of his cap was next
pressed into service as a substitute
for the tobacco and as a destroyer of
appetite served quite as well as_ to
bacco. His gloves fololwed. “It wes
pot very sustaining,” said Semmerich,
“and I got pretty weak, but it was
better than Dbeing hungry all the
time.”
STANDARD OIL COMPANY ILLEGAL.
Federal Court Orders Combination of
Oil Companies to Dissolve.
st. Paul, Minn—ln an opinion writ
ten by Judge Walter N. Sanborn of
St. Paul, and concurred in by Judges
Vandeventer, Hook and Adams, with
a special cocurring opinion by Judge
Hook, the United States circuit court
for the eastern district of Missouri
handed dcwn an opinion declaring the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
an illegal combination, operating in
restraint of trade and ordered its dis
solution.
The opinion of the court was filed
simultaneously in St. Louis and in St.
Paul.
in this decision the government of
the Urited States wins a sweeping
victory, and, according to Frank B.
Kellogg, of this city, who was the
government’s special proseiuting of
ficer, the government has won every
point for which it contended.
The case will be appealed direct to
the United Statées supreme court,
Ban on Big Hats.
Columbia, S§. C.—Calling for co-Op
eration on the part of the women of
other churches, the South Carolinh
Baptist Women's Missionary Union
has launched a movement designed to
put a stop to the woaring of big hats
in church. The resolution denounc
ing the peach basket and Merry Wid
ow styles of headgear for Sunday
wear was passed amid great enthus:-
asm,
Editor of Century Dead.
New York City.—Richard Watson
Gilder, editor-in-chief of the Century
Magazine, since its foundation in 1881,
and widely known as an author and
lecturer, died unexpectedly of angina
pectoris at the house of his sister,
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, He
was 65 years old.
Cario Sheriii Removed.
Springfield, Ill.—Governor Charles
S. Deneen declared the office of sher
iff of Alexander county vacant, be
cause Sheriff Frank E. Davis allowed
William James, a negro, and Henry
Salzner, white, uxorgides, to be takeu
from his care and lynched at €airo
by a mob on Nvember 11.
To Conserve Fuel.
Washington, D, C.—ln view of the
rapidly diminishing fuel supply of the
United States, the great railway sys
tems of the country are to be urged
to adopt measures for economy of/
fuel, thus assisting in the great worlt
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Only three' bidders attended the
auction sale of the Walt Whitman
home. »
A fast mail schedule between New
Vork City and Los Angeles, Cal., was
announced at Washington, D. C.
\Miss Margaret Illington, formerly
the wife of Daniel Frohman, was mar
ried to E. J. Bowes, of Tacoma.
Canada’s winter social season was
opened by a hrilliant drawing room
.in the Senate chamber at Ottawa.
A homb burst close to Viceroy
Minto's carriaze as he and the
Countess were driving in Ahmedabad,
Indiz.
A national movement has started
to raise $2.500,000 for a great
memorial building to George Wash
ington,
Women and children were sen‘
down the Skeena River in canoes to
Prines Rupert, owing to the threaten
ing attitude of the Indians.
A granddaughter of Henry Ward
Beecher, who was one of Mrs. Stet
son's pupils in Christian Science, said
that Mrs. Stetson’s students were in
structed to regard her as Christ.
A member of the Czar's suite, at
St. Petersburg, said that General
Count Spiridovitch has no standing
in the Russian Court, altiough he is
a nobleman of Lithunian descent.
Members of the athletic association
of the Greene Avenue Presbyterian
Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., left the
church because the pastor ordered
them to discontinue the blackball sys
tem in passing on would-be mem
bers.
The United States Supreme Court,
at Washington, D. C., sentenced Sher
iff Shipp, of Chattanocoga, and two
others, to ninety days, and three men
to sixty days’-imprisonment because
of the lynching of a negro while his
case was pending before the Court.
It is the first time the Court ever
punished contempt by imprisonment.
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.
Mrs. Grace Van Studdiford received
a decree of absolute divorce in St.
Louis. :
Mrs. C. C. Kenelly has been ap
pointed probation officer of the New
Orleans Juvenile Court by Judge Wil
son.
Miss Winfred S. Gibbs, of New
York City, has taken up the work of
teaching the orphans of that city how
to cook.
The Wesleyan Conference of Eng
land recently passed by a large major
ity a motion to admit women as lay
delegates.
Prominent women of St. Louis en
tertained a Russian laborer upon the
occasion of his naturalization; he had
challenged their patriotism in a let
ter. :
Alice Paul, an American, and
Amelia Brown were sent to prison in
London for smashing windows in
Guildhall in the cause for woman
suffrage.
Women suffragists were jeered by
men and boys when they tried to sell
copies of the American Suffragette at
Brooklyn Bridge. The police did not
protect the women.
Gertrude Gaynor, eldest daughter
of the Mayor-elect of New York City,
is reported to be engaged to A. 8.
Wetherel, a wealthy member of the
summer colony at St. James.
Miss Susanne Henning, daughter of
a New York millionaire, married
Marquis Antoine de Charette, of
France, at a brilliant wedding in St.
Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Chicago’'s
new SIO,OOO a year Superintendent of
Schools, believes heartily in indus
trial education. *“I think all children
should be taught to do something
with their hands,” says Mrs. Young.
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who live across the road from you
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