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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-06-05

The election of delegates to the trien-
NAL convention will also be an interest
ing feature of the convention. Several
of those heretofore thus honored will be
unavailable, so that nearly all of these
hcosen will be new men.
The convention opened at II this morn
ing with communion service conducted by
Bishop Whipple. st. Paul's church was
crowded. The delegates proceeded dix
rectly from the train to the church, and
the clergy in the robes of Office occupied
seats in front. At 1890 the council was
organized with Bishop Whipple in the
chair. AS the roll was called by Secre-
tary A. d. Stowe, credentials were pre-
sented. A d. Stowe and C. w Holmes
of ST. Paul, c. c. Camp of Faribault, were
named as a committee on credentials, and
adjournment was taken to 2:30, when
Bishop Whipple read his annual address.
The program for the evening has not
yet been arranged, but it will probably in
clude an address by G. sFloden, chaplain
of the Royal Guard, Sweden, who will
speak through an interpreter.
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determined whether the empress dowager
or Kwang Su, the emperor, is going to
rule hereafter is regarded by diplomats
In Washington as serious blunder.
The state department also is disposed
to view the future with considerable
alarm, for it is acknowledged that if the
empress dowager takes up the reins of
control she is likelyAto create conditions
that will sooner or later require the
Christian powers to send their armies
back to China. The fact that the British
alone are remaining In Peking in force
and decline to leave until they are as
sured that an attempt will be made to
create an orderly government is consid
cred by many as the saving feature of an
otherwise unfortunate situation. The
predominence of the authority of the en-
press would be little short of menace to
foreigners, for 1t was she who gave the
Boxers free rein last summer and per-
mitted them to attempt the murder of the
diplomatic residents Of Peking
Every bit OF news that has reached
Washington from China for several weeks
shows that the empress dowager is per-
forming the actual functions of the ruler
of China. Recent procIamations and
edicts have contained her signature in
stead of the signature of the emperor.
The state department does not relish the
idea of the empress dowager assuming
control and is hoping that in the final re-
adjustment of the affairs Of the Chinese
government the emperor will be permit
ted to rule.
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Morgan to End Railway War

New York, June 81. Pierpont Morgan
has been chosen arbitrator Of the Union
Pacific Northern Pacific feud. and he will
sail for hime to-day to begin the inn
portant task.
This announcement was made in Wall
street by news bureau, and was con-
hrmed by James Stillman president of the
National City bank. 1t was stated simply
that both sides of the greatest financial
quarrel Wall street has known in many
years have agreed upon Mr.. Morgan as the
one man who can Dacify the differences,
and that he had accepted the mission.
The statement given out to the press
this afternoon regarding Mr.. Morgan s
selection as arbitrator met the approval
of all parties concerned said President
Stillman, Il have nothing to add to it,
Mr.. Morgans selection for this great
work was regarded by Wall street men
as the final recognition of him as the
great power of the financial district. No
other living man, it was declared, would
have been intrusted with a position in
volving such tremendous issues. No
other man enjoys the confidence of all
factions in Wall street to the extent that
Mr.. Morgan does.
His selection was the result of re-
peated conferences between John D.
Rockefeller, George Gould. W. K Van
derbilt, James ]. HILL Jacob Schiff and
E. H.. Hartman The conferences were
held at the office of Mr.. Morgan and at the
Metropolitan Club
It was apparent from the first that an
agreement could not be reached by the
two factions fighting for control of the
Northern Pacific. In their eagerness to
obtain control a panic had been precipi-
tated in which many fortunes had gone to
smash and the bitterest feuds known in
the street in years had been engendered.
In the great crisis all eyes were turned
to Morgan. 1t was admitted by all who
attended the conference that he alone
could settle the great fight Mr.. Nor
gan was then appealed to by cable and
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asked to give his services. He was told
that no settlement could be arrived at by
the warning factions. Mr.. Morgan, readi-
ly agreed to cut short his European trip,
although he had been counting on longer
rest abroad and cabled that he would sail
for home to-day.
1t is not surprise to those on the in
side that Mr.. Morgan was chosen as the
peacemaker, although such a mark of es-
TEEN has rarely been shown to man.
According to the authentic stories in the
street yesterday, the Hartman Kuhn
Loeb syndicate informed James j. Hill
that they had entire confidence in Mr..
Morgan, and that they were entirely will
Ing to leave to him the selection of the
three representatives which they desired
to place in the Northern Pacific board.
This great compliment to Mr.. Morgan
was all the more marked in view of the
fact that Mr.. Morgan is allied with Mr..
Hill in opposition to the Hartman syn
dicate. But so great is the confidence in
him that the moneyed interest feels that
he will do what is right even where his
own great enterprises are SO largely in
volved.
As soon as he returns Mr. Morgan will
hear the history Of the whole fight from
the lips of the leaders of both sides. and
will then select the three directors of
the Union Pacific interests for the North
ern Pacific board 1t was to obtain proper
recognition in this board and thus protect
their transcontinental properties that the
Hartman Kuhn-Loeb interests made the
recent fight. The men selected by Mr..
Morgan will not be announced until Sep
tember.
James ]. Hill will remain in New York
until Mr.. Morgan returns and will be
party to the conference.
The feeling in Wall street is that Mr..
Morgan in his capacity of arbitrator will
settle the big fight His return is awaited
with confidence Shy both sides 1t is the
universal belief in the street that had he
been in the country the recent panic
would not have occurred.
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MRS. McKINLEY IS BETTER
DOCTORS REPORT IMPROVEMENT
But One Bulletin Day as to Her
Condition Is to BE Issued
Hereafter

Washington, June doctors Sternberg
and Rixey were in consultation at the
White House about half an hour this
forenoon, after which the following bull
letin, timed IL o'clock was given out:
Mrs McKinleys physicians report that she
has had a very comfortable night, and that
her general condition is somewhat improved.
DIR. Rixey said last night:
There has been no important change in
Mrs McKinfeys condition since we gave ou.
cur bulletin this morning. She is resting
very comfortably On the other hand there
are fluctuations in her condition; at times she
is better and at times worse, but she is GER
tainly not losing any ground. In fact, she
is possibly gaining very slowly. There is
no more immediate danger now than there
has been for some time.
While DR.. Rixey was slightly more
hopeful in his talk last night, the pa
TENTS, condition could not be said to show
any material Improvement. 1t has been
decided not to hold conferences more than
once day unless a material change for
the worse should occur, and that the only
bulletin to be issued shall be one fol-
lowing the forenoon consultation.
The president will not be able to be at
the Pan American exposition at Buffalo
on June 13, which was designated as pres
ident's day.
The brightest bulletin issued by the at
tending physicians regarding Mrs. Nc
Kinleys condition since her return to
Washington, was given out to-day after
their consultation. 1t reported that her
general condition was somewhat i'm
proved, but it was remarked that it held
out nothing definite for the future Mrs
Mckinley has been unable as yet to take
solid food, although it has not been
necessary to resort to powerful heart
stimulants like nitroglycerin since her
return to Washington. Brandy is admin
istered. Raw egg and chicken broth are
her food. After the physicians had gone
this mornig the president, accompanied
by Representative Taylor of Ohio, who
represents Mr. McKinley's home district
in the lower house, went out for a stroll
DR.. Rixey was at the White House for
about twenty minutes shortly before 1
O'Clock this afternoon He said there
was no change in Mrs. McKinley's condi-
tion. The physicians will not hold an
other consultation until tomorrow morn
ing
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Washington Small Talk.

Controller of the Treasury Tracewen has
decided that Oar S. Hall is not entitled to
his official compensation of $40 day and So
a day for subsistence for two days spent in
travelling from the reservation to his home
at the conclusion Of his service last summer
Hall presented a claim for compensation
from July to 23, inclusive. July % and %
were spent in travelling home, and the con-
troller states that, under the law, that il
not performance of official duty for which
compensation is provided by the law creating
his Office.
= Postmagters appointed to-day: Minnesota
Conger, Freeborn county, P. f. Flesch Mon
tana-Highwood, Choteau county H. T.
Thatcher; Warwick, Choteau county, Die
drich Schulling.
Rural fre delivery has been ordered estab-
lished at Maple Plain, July l, and w. j.
Painter has been appointed carrier The
star route to Lyndale is to be discontinued
and that Office supplied by rural carrier.
The salary of the postmaster at Hope N
D., will be reduced from LOO to $1,000 from
July 1. At Shelby, Iowa, the postmaster's
salary will go up from s., 900 to 81, 100, and at
Racine, Wis, from $1,000 to SO, 70O
Secretary Hitchcock has ordered patented
to the Northern Pacific railroad company
a, 14S acres OF land in the limits Of its grant
in Montana
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proviso, with the understanding that it
means what the Washington commission
reported that Secretary Root said it
meant.
The conservatives say that the majority
report Of the committee on relations ac-
cepting the Platt amendment, including
Secretary Roots interpretations, was first
submitted to Secretary Root, who found it
satisfactory, but requested that the full
text of the amendment be Incorporated.
This, they say, was done, and Secretary
Root approved it.
Several delegates attribute the attitude
of the government to the decision of the
supreme court in the insular cases, and
suppose that the desire Of the Washing
ton government is to exercise a more di-
rect power over Cuba than the Platt
amendment contemplates
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TO KEEP OUT A question which is
giving the treasury
BAD department m C b
trouble since the de-
IMMIGRANTS. ciSion of the insular
cases by the supreme
court is how to keep undesirable immi
grants out of this country if they try to
come in through Porto Rico Congress
has not guarded this gate as carefully as
1t might It made a sweeping provision
that the statutory laws of the United
States not locally inapplicable shall be
operative in Porto Rico, and that includes
our general system Of immigration laws
but no increase was made in the appro-
priation for the immigration service, di-
rectly applicable to Porto Rico, and the
coast of that island is considerably ex-
posed if adventurous immigrants like the
Chinese are bound to get in there The
supreme courts decision has thrown
down all barriers between Porto Rico and
the United States except such as con-
gress in its omnipotence may have raised
by specific enactment; and, as congress
has adopted no legislation restricting the
immigration of persons from Porto Rico to
the United States. it will be necessary
only for the undesirable class of immi-
grants to get safely into the island in
order to come to this country at pleas
ure. To guard against this, an addition
has been made to the personnel of the i'm
migration service in Porto Rico, in order
to keep out the prescribed classes there
and also to watch carefully the departures
from Porto Rico to the United States and
notify our authorities here when suspi-
clous characters may be looked for.
1t Will be necessary to take some sim
liar precautions in Cuba. There we have
foreign territory to deal with, it is true;
but the distance is so short and the traffic
and travel are so constant between Cuba
and the United States that a great deal
SETTLING FOR Captain Mercer has
reported to the In
TIMBER dian Office that dead
and down contrac-
POACHlNG. tors have settled for
green timber cut in
Minnesota in all but three camps in the
White Earth reservation A rescale of
the cut in these camps is now being made.
and settlement will be effected at its
conclusion. The reports so far received
show that about 100000 has been recov-
cred for green timber illegally cut, and
the prospects are that the Indians will
benefit to the extent Of $1,000 as re-
ported by h e j nrnal' commmis-
sioners, who investigated Illegal cutting
In the latter part Of April. Indian Com
missioner Jones said to-day that he did
not see how any criminal action against
contractors could be begun, now that they
have settled for the green timber
The Indian Office has in contemplation
several changes in Indian school super
1ntendents in Minnesota and other north
western states which will be announced
in the next two or three weeks They
will include transfers of some superin-
tendents to schools in the southwest and
the bringing of southwestern men to the
northwest Officials refuse to diyulge the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-06-05
TORNADO
Swedish Church at Prentice,
Wis, Torn Into
Pieces.

Prentice, Wis, June 5. y tornado
struck this place last night
The wind tore up fences and telegraph
poles and totally destroyed the Swedish
church and tore out the front of S. w.
Persons store
Many dwellings were damaged and the
property loss will be heavy.
The tornado came in the shape of a
funnel-shaped cloud from the southwest.
The clearinghouse of j. E. Huff was
moved from its foundation and the Jump
River house was badly damaged. Chin
neys and window glass throughout the
city were demolished
Van Dusen 4 Co.'s lumber yard suf-
fered heavy damage, some of the lumber
being carried half a mile away No lives
are reported lost. Communication with
surrounding villages is cut off.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-06-05
MAY LYNCH A WOMAN
She Is Accused of the Brutal Murder
of Her Daughter

Aurora, Mo-, June 5.-A woman and her
son. accused Of murder, will be lynched if
the plans of mob in Stone county are
not frustrated. The charge is that they
killed Alice Stallion, IS wears old the
woman's daughter. They lived near Cape
Fair and the girls body was found in the
river. The supposition was that she had
committed suicide on, account of a love
affair which her mother opposed. Last
night, however, a 7-year-old child of Mrs.
stallion confessed, claiming that while
Mrs Stallion held the girl her stepson
broke her neck with a poker. After
wards they wrapped the body in a COM
forter and threw it in the river.
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Canteen Must Be Restored


Washington June organized
the committee military
full department regarding
fen
in his
o he repeal of ecanteenl nlaw
OF
paolng OF saloons
weeks
department expect that the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-06-05
Iowa Heirs of the Murdered Rice
Special to The Journal.

o The
are
are
been
n he
20 trouble to prove
the will
New % press
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CUBANS ARE HEADY
May Not Again Accept the Platt
Amendment.
MIsTRUsT THE UNITED STATES
Think We Would Exercise More
Power Than the Amend
ment Warrants.

Havana, June 5.-There is strong i'm
preston here that it will be impossible to
effect the acceptance of the Platt amend
ment second time. secret session of
the constitutional convention has been
called for tomorrow to take action con-
corning the form of the resolution add
ing to the Cuban constitution the Platt
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-06-05
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
NOT FOR PHILIPPINES
Positive Statement That the President Has
Changed His Policy and Will Keep
the Army in Control.
BWttdi10, Washington.

hingt
is the plan
congr meets
the
wllbe
in
Thus calculated
establishment
nundert
all
be etuTnedt t shippers
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Very Critical for Spain

Madrid
tranquility
to the refusal
n
IN defiance
the crisis exceedingly addin
with d the Catalan
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French Chinese Trade Booms



Paris June SThe minister of foreign affairs that
in provin
may be
Of the
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names of officers who will change places
because they are not determined upon.
OF smuggling of unlawful immigrants must
be looked for through this channel. The
immigration service of the treasury de-
partment has no Jurisdiction over, or au-
thority In, Cuba, but one of the inspectors
will be detailed in few days to go
there under the law which permits us to
place inspectors of immigration in any
foreign districts from which we have rea-
son to look for an injurious invasion 1t
is not believed that either Cuba or Porto
Rico will be sought as a halfway house
by paupers and distressed persons from
southern Europe particularly as so many
South American places of refuge are open
to them at very little increased cost; for
the expense Of a trip to the West Indies
and OF residence there long enough to
warrant successful further trip to the
United States, will be practically pro-
hlblt1Ve as to these classes. But there
are certain criminals and ex-convicts who
are able to pay for rOund-about journey
If the circumlocution aids in covering their
tracks; and the Chinese will 90 anywhere.
endure any hardship, and pay almost any
price Tor the privilege of reaching this
land Of gold.
NOBLE SHIPS 1t is understood
that shortly after the
DEGRADED. return of Secretary
Long final DISPOSE
tion will be made of the old battleship
Minnesota. Possibly she will be con-
verted into a barge and used along the
coast to carry coal and refuse. This has
been the fate Of a number of old time yes-
sells of her class and if she continues to
be used at all, will probably be in the
same service as this. The Tennessee,
once the most formidable ship In the navy,
the Powhatan, Iroquois and Swatara, all
met this fate and are still being used as
coal and garbage barges.
W. w. Jermane
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-06-05
Wisconsin Cadet Is Highest


eN Sung g1eO Serves
graduating
of is
"nembe is or
of
3 =
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Measuring Heat of Distant Stars


Hanover H. June 5PrOssOr college,
which viii the heat of candle
heats
bodies to the earth has long
q
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Conhagration in Peking|

Berlin ga cnaagra
all
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Over a Hundred Fishermen Lost

Saint Beux
pshed
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PreIiminary NIeetings.

fitted for the arduous work of presiding
over the convention.
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MAGAZINE ExPL0DES

Hundreds of Tons of smoke1ess
Powder Spoiled.
Vallejo, Cal. June 5.-A large maga-
zine at the island navy yard, containing
200 tons OF smokeless and brown powder,
exploded at a. m. to-day. No lives were
lost. The property loss is estimated at
$3.50, 900.
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B0OTH RIDES THE GOAT


New York. June General Ballington
Both Of the Volunteers of America has been
initiated into the mysteries Of Masonry in
the lodge at Montclair. N J.
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Belgium to AnnexCongo

Now York un SsrvEo
has
State within p.tsen date -
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BAD BLUNDER
IN CHINA
Diplomats and State Depart
ment Say So, at Least.
UGLY QUEEN DOWAGER
If She Takes Control the Armies
May Have to Return.
THERE'S ONE SAVING FEATURE
1T Is England's Determination to Re-
main TIL Orderly Govern
ment Is Assured.
Now York SUN SOscfaE Service
Washington, June 5.-The evacuation of
China by the allies without having first
UGLY QUEEN DOWAGER
If She Takes Control the Armies
May Have to Return.
THERE'S ONE SAVING FEATURE
1t Is EngIand's Determination to Re-
main TIL Orderly Govern
ment Is Assured.

Now York SUN S0ecfaE Service
Washington, June 5.-The evacuation of
China by the allies without having first
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-06-01
SUCCESSFUL ELECTRICAL TEST
Oakland street Cars Run by Power
Generated 40 Miles
Away.

Electric power generated on the
Yuba river, - miles away, was used
in the operation of street cars in
Oakland, Cal, the other day. This is
said to be the longest transmission
of electric power in the world. The
power is generated by turbine wheels.
The cable, 140 miles in length, is six
tenths of an inch in diameter, and is
of copper, with aluminium alloy,
which will prevent oXidization. 1t is
this cable that is suspended across
the Carquinez straits by a span of
4,40O feet and 300 feet in the air.
The test is considered one of the
most successful in the history of
electricity, a current of 10000 volts
having Been transmitted the entire
distance with loss not to exceed
five per cent. Under that showing
experts said the voltage could be in
creased until there would be prac-
tically no loss of current. The cur
rent used was an alternating current,
transmitted through motor at a
power station.
As the voltage of 10000 was great
ly in excess of the power needed, this
power will be transmitted over the
company's lines to san dose, a dis
tance of 100 miles from the generat-
ing plant.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-06-01
SEEKING AMERICAN IDEAS.
English Woman studying Hygiene
and Domestic Economy az Taught
in schools in This Country.

Miss Alice Ravenhill, of England,
who is making an official tour for edu-
cational study in this country, and
who has been visiting the various
schools and colleges of New York city,
has left for visit to other cities. Miss
Ravenhill holds a unique pedagogic
position in England, being inspector
of hygiene and domestic economy
classes under the technical instruc-
tion committee of the county council
of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Her
work is to train teachers who can car
ry their hygienic and economic dis
cipline into the elementary and other
schools of the kingdom. AS result
of Miss Ravenhills work interest in
the subject is rapidly increasing. The
board of education for England and
VARIES and the sanitary institute OF
London united with the committee by
which she is regularly employed to
send her to this country. While here
she will prepare reports on certain
aspects of the teaching of domestic
science and hygiene in schools and col
leges of various types in the United
States. Upon her return these will be
published for the guidance of educa
tional authorities. teachers and par
ents. Among the cities which she viii
visit are Boston, Philadelphia, Wash
ington and Chicago.