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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-12-21
Rnrnlar Kills a Woman.

Miss Harriet G. Murphy, sister ol
Councilman John A. Murphy of Pitts
burg was shot at her home by mid
night burglar Monday night and dice
in few minutes. The murderer es
cappd.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-12-21

SAYS the Boston Herald. "The only
real pleasure TO he found in the pos
session of great riches Is In giving
them away, ms Mr.. Carnegie Is doing
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-12-21
WESTWARD

Train ei2 Sunday leaves DuBois 40 p. m.
Falls Creek Az RaynoldsVlle 40. Brook Vile
SEQ, Red Bank $50, Pittsbutg 80 p. m.
Trains marked run daily; daily, except
Sunday; flag station, where signals must be
shown.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-12-21
LABOR and CAPITAL IIARA0N|ZE
no NOPE sTnIKtc.
Pence Conference Between Leadcro OF
Capital and Workingmcn Appoints
Committee on Cancellation.

The conference between the leaders
Of labor and capital closed In New
York Tuesday with decision to give
the plan to hGrmuaiae thclr intcrcs s;f
a practical test. II was unanimously
agreed that the working details shall
be perfected by an executive com
mittee Of 80. chosen In equal numbers
from the ranks OF organized LABOR. the
great industrial and financial leaders
and the public not identified with
either of the other two interests. In
the afternoon Chairman Oscar :.
Straus and Secretary Ralph VI. Easley.
with Archbishop Ire Gland. Senator Han.
ma. Samuel Gompcrs. president Of the
Federation of Labor; President Mitch
ell of the United Mine Workers.
Frank y. Sargent of the Brotherhood
IF Locomotive Fircmcn, and others
who had taken part in the conference
met TO select the executive commit.
tee. The following names were an.
nounced
To Represent Employers and Capital.
United States Senator Mark A.
Hanna; James 4. Chambers,
American Glass Company; vii.
liam II. pfahler. National Asoscia.
ton of Stove Manufacturers; $. II.
Galloway. American Locomotive
Works; Lewis Nixon, Crescent ship
yard; Charles VI. Schwab. United
states Steel Corporation: II. II. Vree.
land, Metropolitan Street Railway
Company; Charles 4. Moore. Machine
Manufacturing Company; John ID.
Rockefeller. Jr.; 4. u. Ripley, Atchi.
son, Topeka e. Santa Fe railroad;
Marcus VI. Marks, National Associa
tion oi Clothing Manufacturers Julius
Kruttschnitt, Southern Pacific rail
road.
To Represent Organized Labor.
Samuel Gompers. American FEEDER
alton of Labor; John Mitchell. United
Mine Workers; Frank y. Sargent
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen;
Theodore j. Shaffer. Amalgamated AS
sociation. James Duncan Granite Cut
ters Union; Daniel !. Keefe lnterna
national Association Longshores
men, James O'Connell Interna
tional Association of Machinists;
Martin Fox. Iron Molders union;
James 4. Lynch. Typographical union;
Edward Il. Clarke. Brotherhood OF
hallway Conductors; Henry White.
, Garment Workers. Walter Macarthur.
San Francisco.
To Represent the Public.
EX-Presidcnt Grover Cleveland: 4:
Archbishop John ireland; Bishop Hen.
ry c. Potter. Charles Francis Adams.
Boston; Cornelius y. Bliss. Charles
w. Eliot. Harvard university: Frank.
lin McVeagh, Chicago; James II.
| Eckles. John j. McCook, John G. Mil
burn of Buffalo, Charles A. Bonaparte,
Baltimore.
Chairman of the conference. Oscar
5. Strauss and Secretary Ralph NJ.
Easley, are eX-ofilcio members of the
committee.
A subcommittee of threee to con.
slider plan, scope and procedure, was
appointed.
CARL r. FL ASHES
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-12-21

On November IL the University Of
Munich was rs years old
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-12-21

Copenhagen wants . worlds fair in
1904.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-12-21

Lord Brassey says the British navy
IN men and ships sxcels and other two
navies.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-12-21
l.. M. SNYDER,
Practical Horse.Shoer
and General Blacksmith,
Sc CLIPPING

Have just received a complete set Of ma
chine horse clippers OF latest style 'es pattern
possible manner at reasonable rates.
Jackson st. near Fifth. Reynoldsville, Pa.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06
ADMIRALs CHANGE PLACES.
Higginson to eommun the North At.
lantfc Squadron.

An important naval change was provided
for yesterday m orders directing the de-
tachment of Rear Admiral Farquahar
from the comm5nd of the North Atlantic
Station and naval force and assigning
Rear Admiral -Higginson to that duty.
Admiral Farquahar recently expressed a
wish to be detached unless there were an
immediate prospect for more important
duty for his small squadron. The orders
provide for his assignment as Chairman
Of the Lighthouse Board. in Washington,
the position now held by Admiral Higgin-
son. The change in command will take
place May !. at Hampton Roads.
1t is the purpose of the Navy Depart
ment TO arrange a programme of extend
ed exercises this summer for the North
Atlan.> Squadron. There are only three
ships in the squadron, but the number will
probably be increased and it is intended
to attach to it a fiotilla of torpedo boats,
now being put into condition for service
at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The squadron
is composed of the battleships Kearsarge
tha agship). Alabama. and Massachusetts.
1t is now at San Juan and will sail thence
for Kingston, Jamaica. and Fort Monroe.
On reaching the last named place the
Kearsarge and the Alabama will be de-
tached. the former proceeding to the New
York Navy Yard for repairs to one of
her 1S-inch guns, which was injured by
the premature explosion of shell. and the
Alabama to the Cramps shipyards at
Philadelphia, where she was built, to be
overhauled preliminary to her final in
spection to ascertain whether all the work
done by the contractors is satisfactory.
The squadron will probably not be ready
for sea again until late in June. when it
will go to Newport to participate in a
series of maneuvreS arranged by the
Naval War College These exercises will
be in continuation of the course in prac-
teal strategic problems which the class
at the War College have been studying
This will be Admiral Higginsons first
under his flag commission
Rear Admiral Evans applied for the
Chairmanship of the Lighthouse Board
but the department decided to retain him
as President of the Inspection Board.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06
IMPROVEMENTS AT MANILA.
Specifications for Work to he Done
in the Harbor.

The Division Of Insular Affairs, War
Department. has received copies of the
specifications and blue prints showing the
proposed improvement of the port of Ma
Mia, authorized by the. Philippine Com
mission. The work includes about 1870 900
cubic yards riprap. 2l.c0O cubic yards
concrete ana rubble masonry in break
waters about 100000 cubic yards dredg-
Ing, ana a pile bulkhead 400 feet long.
The dredging will in mud, sand, and
shells to a depth of thirty feet, the
dredgsd material 10 be used for reclaim
ing land
The conditions require that the bids he
accompanied by a bond for S1OOeo0 gold
One contract will he made for the whole
work, with contractors bond OF 10 per
cent Of the amount bid. Bids will be re-
ceivcd at the office Of the Chief Engineer.
Division Of the Philippines Manila, uutIl
II O'Clock n. m, August J. 1901, and the
Commission reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
The specifications and blue prints NAV
be examined by those interested at the
Division of insular Affairs, War Depart
ment. Printed specifications containing
blanks for proposals will be received bv
the division and will then be obtainabIe
by prospective bidders upon application
Specifications and blank forms will In
due time, be accessible for Inspection at
the offices OF the United States Engineers
at New York, Chicago, and San Fran
cisco.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06
THE ABBoTT-BoRALMA RACE.
Both Owners Agree to n Contest mt
Lexington, Ky.

NEW YORK, April Sit is now almost
Il certainty that there will be a meeting
between The Abbott, the champion trotter
of the world. and Boralma, at the fall
meeting of the Kentucky Trotting Horse
Breeders Association at Lexington under
conditions that should bring out a good
contest
Both the owners f-haye accepted and
nothing remains I'd 'be done except to
post the forfeit money. Mr. Lawson. in
his acceptance. states that should he win
he will give his share of both stake and
gate receipts to Lexington hospitals
The chance for a race was offered by
Secretary Wilson of the Kentucky asso-
citation in a telegram to John J. ScannelI.
the owner of The Abbott. under date of
April l. the sent reIey association asked
Mr.. Scannell if he would meet Boralma
with The Abbott in match race at its
fail meeting under these conditions:
The contest to be for so, 600, the associa-
tion to add one-half the gate money.
which it guarantees 10 be not less than
SlO,O a forfeit of 5000 to be posted by
each owner when the match is made, the
balance the night before the race: the
winner to take all.
In response to this communication Mr.
Scannell telegraphed an acceptance TO
Secretary Wilson.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06
CUTTING PHILIPPINE TIMBER.
Mr.. Root Decides the Hoar Amend
ment Does Not Prevent 1t.

| The Secretary of War has rendered a
! decision TO the effect that the Hoar
| amendment to the Army bill prohibiting
| the granting of concessions in the Philip
pines does not prevent the cutting of tim
Der upon public lands as regulated by a
general order issued last July by General
Macarthur. The decision of Secretary
Root is that Senator Hoar's amendment
does not interfere with existing forestry
laws and regulations in the Philippines.
These regulations do not permit DISPOSE
tion by the Government of public lands,
but do provide for the granting of licenses
to persons who desire to cut timber upon
State lands. The Taft Commission. in a
report to the Secretary of War on this
subject says:
1T seemed extremely important that an
order allowing the cutting of timber
should he put in force at the earliest pos
sible time, as there was practically
lumber famine at Manila and other i'm
portant points in the archipelago. while
the destruction of buildings incident to
the war, and the increased demand for
good dwelling houses. resulting from the
large influx OF Americans. made it imper-
atiye that provisions should be made so
that the telling Of trees and marketing
OF lumber might lawfully begin. The
regulations were therefore necessarily
somewhat hastily compiled by those hay,
ing the work in charge
The regulations referred to were pre-
pared by the Forestry Bureau, and be-
came effective July !, 1900.
They were based on those in force rn-
der Spanish sovereignty and divide forest
products INTO six groups. according to the
grade, quality, and value of the timber
II is prov Nided that the Government shall
charge Tor timber cut on public lands the
following prices per cubic foot: Supe-
r1or group, cents; first group, 5 cents:
second group, cents; third group ~
cents; fourth group, l cent: fifth group
= cent Omitted States currency.
There are giNen lists of the trees of the
several groups. with their common names
and their scient fic names. so far as the
latter have been ascertained. together
with rules governing the cutting and
measuring of timber and payment Of the
charges thereon, well as provisions as
to how the various gums shall be gath
cred.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06
A CANAL FOR WARsHIPs.
Ts Connect Puget Sound With Fresh
Water Lakes.

Secretary Long yesterday appointed a
board of officers, consisting of Captain
Perry, Of the Iowa; Captain Burwell,
commandant of the Puget Sound naval
station: lieutenant Commanders Peters
and Nilletts. and Naval Constructor
Hibbs, with Ensign Jensen as recorder.
to examine into the feasibility. deslra-
bility, and practicability of proposition
to use Lakes Union and Washington as
fresh water basins for naval vessels
This action OF the Secretary was the
outcome of representations made by the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce, which de-
sires the navy to become concerned in a
practical way in the project of connect
ing these two fresh water lakes with
Puget sound An appropriation of Sl70-
900 for starting work on a canal to form
the connection has been secured from
Congress. and If the board of naval Off
GERS thinks ii advisable the canal will be
made of sufficient depth and width to ac-
commodatc the biggest battleship. Lakes
Union and Washington are near the
Puget Sound naval station.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06
WANT HIGH STRUCTURES.
Georgetown Citizens Discuss Plans
for New Potomac Bridges,

The projected bridges across the Po-
tomac were the topics of discussion at
the meeting of the Georgetown Citizens
Association last night in the office of the
First cooperative Building Association.
The meeting was called to order by Presi-
dent B. T. Janney and the bridge ques-
tion Immediately forged to the front
The members of the association were
unanimous in the opinion that the new
bridges, both the passenger and railroad
structures. should he constructed high
enough above the water level to allow
the passage of the ships and tugs devoted
to the commerce of Georgetown. 1t was
stated that the girders should be at least
lwenty-seyen feet above the low-water
mark At the conclusion of the argu-
Inents offered, a committee, composed of
oATer L. Johnson, James II. Taylor John
1.eetch, George g. Boteler, and George
W. King, was appointed to present the
views OF the association to the commits
SION OF army enGfnesss having in charge
The work Of prepariS plans for the con-
strUctIon OF the passenger bridge. The
committee was empowered to draw up
any resolutions it saw fit in the name Of
the association.
VI hen the bridge matter had been dis
posed Of. William O'Donnell, j. F. Dar-
ccy. anu DR. w. ID. Briggs were elected
members of the organization and the
meeting was adjourned to meet again at
the call of the president.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06
| shot At BY GENERAL CLAY
A Sheriff and His Deputy Meet
With a Warm Reception.
officers of the Law Return the Fire
The Aged kentuckian Thought to
Have Ts~en Hit-Impossible to Gain
Access ~ the House mt Present.

| WHITEHALL, Ky, April 5.-Gen
Cassius NJ. Clay, who hus been brood
ing alone in his palatial home at White
hail, Madison County, aroused from
his lethargy today and started on the
warpath. An attempt was made to
serve n writ on the old man by Sheriff
| Colyer, aided by Deputy Terrill.
The men met with a hot reception, the
general standing in the doorway and
firing shot after shot at the officers of
the law, who concealed themselves be-
hind the large oak trees in the yard.
EXasperated at length, they returned
| the fire. and 1t is thought that General
Clay was struck. although it is impos-
sible to learn, as no one can approach
the house.
General Clay lived alone, except for
servants, for some time after he was
deserted by his twelveyear-old child
wife in 1895, but recently he sent for
his daughter-in-la law, Mrs. Mary b. Clay.
to come and live with him. She has
now been keeping house for him for
more than year.
General Clay some weeks ago in
structed her to go and see the other
members of the family and get them to
relinquish all claim to his property.
1t was his evident wish to will it to
his child wife, whom he still loves.
When Mrs. Clay returned her father
met her at the door with revolver in
his hand. He had all the appearances
of maniac, and to soothe him she
said: Father, 1t is all right"
You lie," he shrieked, and forced her
from the door. She returned to Rich
mond and had writ issued for her
furniture, which was at Whitehall.
This she put into the hands of Sheriff
Colyer who attempted to serve it, but
was driven away.
General Clay had two men with him
in the house, who assisted him in load
ing the weapons while he fired. They
were Bud Litrell and Jim Bolin. Bolin
was driven from the house during the
afternoon by Clay, as he feared he
would prove traitor He was captured
by the sheriff and declares that Clay is
crazy and that he and Litrell were
afraid not to do his bidding.
No attempt will be made to serve
the writ on Clay before Monday, as the
sheriff thinks that by that time he may
be in a more reasonable mood.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06
HOPING TO SHAKE JONES.
The Wallets Testimony Firm Under
Examination So Far.

| NEW YORK. April 5.-Whether or not
| the extraordinary tale of conspiracy and
| crime which Charles T. Jones, who was
| valet and secretary to the aged million
| aire, William Marsh Rice, and who says
| that he chloroformed his employer on
/ September % last. at the instigation of
Albert T. Patrick. has told on the witness
stand in the murder proceedings against
Patrick will be torn to pieces by cross
examination remains to be seen. After
day and a half of nagging cross-ques-
tioning by Robert NJ Moore. of counsel
for Patrick, Jones is still mistaken.
His latest story is. of course. discredited
in advance by the rule Of law that the
testimony of an accomplice. which Jones
says he is. is worthless unless corrobo-
rated. 1t is also discredited in advance
by yarns he spun for Captain McClusky
on October T. when he was arrested, Tor
Assistant District Attorney Osborne en-
October ". when he was a prisoner in
the Tombs, and for George G. Battle, his
lawyer, when he was a patient in Belle
vIIe Hospital on November s.
But so far Mr.. Moore has been able to
do nothing more with Jones testimony
on oath than to bring out the fact that
the valet is a self-confessed co-conspira-
tor. and to put him on record as saying
that all his other stories were, in whole
or in part. lies.
The upshot of the cross-examination has
been so far that Jones has heard himself
called liar by counsel for the defence,
has been told that his testimony renders
him liable to the death penalty, has heard
the court call him unfortunate, wicked,
and a self-confessed murderer, who is
entitled to public dislike. and all with
out fiinching. He falls back on the dec
laration that he cannot recall his lies
that he is telling the truth now because
MIR. Osborne told him that it was best to
tell the truth, that his conscience urges
him to this course and that he gathered
from his counsel and Mr.. Osborne that he
might escape the death penalty if he
stopped lying.
1t is conjectured that the defence, after
Jones has left the stand for good. will
have to rely on the legal necessity under
which the prosecution labors to corrobor-
ate the Wallets story, and that Patrick's
lawyers Will urge that the Wallets fourth
story is a lie like the first or the second
or the third. The hearing will probably
end next week.
The District Attorneys office this af-
ternoon received affidavit from Will
lam L. Jones. of Texas, brother of Charles
F. Jones, saying that in July and August,
1900, he sent bottles of chloroform to
William Marsh Rice's valet
The affidavit says that Valet Jones said
he wanted the drug for a friend who
wanted to make toothache drops. AS
sistaEt District Attorney Osborne de-
clared that he would produce the brother
from Texas in court If necessary to hold
Albert r. Patrick.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06
ABUSED THE POLICEMAN.
A Lawyer Arrested on Complaint of
NiEht-Lincr.

John w. Patterson, Il lawyer President
OF the Mutual Improvement Society, was
arrested shortly after o'clock this morn
ing, charged with refusing to pay hack
hire and with disorderly conduct. He
gave collateral in the sum of So and was
released by the Sixth precinct police, to
await hearing this morning i'm court
According to Policeman Vermillion, who
made the arrest, Patterson was engaged
in controversy at First Street and Penn
sylyania Avenue northwest with a hack
man, respecting the rates of cab fare.
The policeman attempted to settle the dis
pute, when Patterson is said to have be-
como very abusive in his language. di-
rectcd toward the patrolman. Vermillion
then took the lawyer to the station 50
that the matter might be finally settled
Because of the conduct of Patterson.
Nermillion made an additional charge
against him Of disOrdorly conduct, besides
that brought by the hackman Patter-
son lives II = + Street northwest
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06
BARRY's WORDS PROPHETIC.
Thought Funston Would Succeed In
Capturing AguinaIdo.

The following is an extract from a per-
sonal letter dated February 10, 1901 from
Gen. Thomas II. Barry, to Secretary
Root. and received yesterday from Manila
THE bottom has about dropped out of
the insurrection. The insurrectos seem
TO be falling over each other in surrender
ing themselves and arms. We have Agui-
naldo definitely located with good pros
poets of running him down in the near
future. He is now in the town of Palanan,
northeast coast of Luzon about 100 miles
north of Casiguran. Funston is going to
make try for him in few days. He is
going to take desperate chances, but L
helieNe he'll bag him.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06
LOOMS TO SAIL TOMORROW.
The Minister to Proceed without De
In, to Washington.

Minister Loomis at Caracas has tele-
graphed tire Navy Department that he
will sail on Sunday from La Guayra on
the United States gunboat Scorpion for
San Juan. Porto Rico. where he expects
to catch a steamer that will reach Hamp
ton Roads about April IS. He will start
from Hampton Roads for Washington
without delay in obedience to the orders
of Secretary Hay to come here for consul
tation about the serious conditions of the
relations of Venezuela and the United
States.
Mail advices received at the State De-
partment yesterday from Minister Loom
is tell of the presentation on March q of
the petition of the Warner Quinlan AS
phalt Company in the high court of Vene-
zuela praying thabhthe New York and
Bermudez Company be compelled to per-
NIT the petitioners to take possession OF
the Felicidad asphalt lake. The Minister
said that IL was expected that the court
would issue its citation within few days.