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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-20

Uutsiae neid on ana remained tena-
ciously clinging TO the railing until
their fingers were burned OF. Then
they fell TO the roof OF the mill dead.
Seven OF the victims were found dead
on the platform OF the cupola. They
were completely denuded OF clothes by
the flames and their bodies were burn
ed almost TO a crisp.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-20

Notice Everybody whObsas the
Morning Eagle should put bon on
their gate post or close by. ThfS> IL
done 10 keep the wind from blowing
IL away, or 10 keep dogs from tearing
II up. Please do this and II viii
save much trouble In every way.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-20
MIS-. Roo..,.lr. Cousin Arrives.

New York, Dec. 19-Mlss Emily
Carew. cousin OF Mrs. Theodore Roose-
welt. who has been living in Genoa,
Italy. for 10 years. has arrived In New
York on the Hohenzollern. She goes
TO Washington to be the guest OF the
president.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-20
Amman, re.,mn.,.r Arrs..sd

Bristol, Tenn. Dec. i9.-Herbert
Matmey. assistant postmaster at
Wytheville. Va. has been arrested by
a postofice detective charged with
opening the mails.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-20
Mutton. Mutton.

Fresh mutton; fat and fine, ey'
cry day at the City market. Ais,
have beef, pork, sausage and othel
market products.
Il John w. Hicks.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-20
City Secretary,

Ladies WHO WllNf ny Ali' AfAh
Bakery are invited 90 get out of
their vehicles and take look at the
display Of elegant Christmas cakes
i'm the show cases of the sales room.
dii
Stove for Sale-A good new down
draft coal stove for sale. Suitable
for parlor or oiilce-large enough for
small store. Apply at Eagle office. II
You can't beat the "Silver Crown
5-cent cigar. One smoke VIII con-
vince you. Try them. For sale by
Dunn 4 DAILY and Taylor Il Cox l-l-UZ
Don't send of for your fruit cakes
and don't worry trying 20 make them
yourself. You can get them any
size and price you want, pressed OF
Impressed, and guaranteed first class
M The Texas Bakery. dli
Our closing out sale will start to-
morrow. in dry goods and Christmas
toys. Big Bargain Store, next door
to the Bryan Grocery Co. do
Get your Xmas pictures framed at
Carter's studio. dl8
II you need a carpet this season,
you can get enc at n big reduction M
Levy Brothers this week. Ia
ROYAL Bonn and Dresden china
clocks at A. McKenzie's. dl6
200 copies SOC sheet music at Toe,
clearance. Emmel's drug store. ola
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-20
Notice TO Delinquent Tax Payers.

II your taxes have not been paid
please call and settle the same at
once and save further expense. /
have been instructed by the city
council to push these collections.
G. NJ. Spell,
i8 City Secretary.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-20
ID 81 "ATuDROP,

ior stare tanuiuates ana TOT united
States senator.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-20
MEMS JEWEI.RY

Gold Plated Cufl Buttons, 25c, SOC, Zoe,
81 and $3.50.
Gold Plated and Solid Gold Scarf Pins
from 25c to SO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
TONNAGE DUES
RECIPROCITY OBSERVED IN THEIR
CHARGE.
Navigation Commissioner Chamber
lain Contradicts the Complaint
of Discrimination.

The attention of Mr.. Chamberlain, the
United States commissioner of navigation.
was called to London dispat ch giving the
statement of Sir Christopher Furness to
the effect that a tonnage tax is charged
against British vessels entering the ports of
the nited States. while Dutch and Danish
vessels enter free. Mr. Chamberlain said:
Reciprocity Observed
Sir Christopher Furness is mistaken. 1t
is not at all the fact that tonnage dues are
charged in the United States in the case of
British vessels while Dutch ami Danish YES
scls enter free. Under the laws of the
United States precisely the same tonnage
dues are imposed on American vess is
Dutch and Danish vessels as on British
vessels. The laws of the United States
however, have provided since 1854 that
where nations impose no tonnage or light
house dues or equivalent taxes on American
vessels in their ports vessels coming from
that country to the United States shall be
exempt from tonnage duties. Thus, the
Netherlands are understood to impose no
tonnage dues or equivalent taxes on Ameri-
can vessels entering Rotterdam and ether
Dutch ports, accordingly, vessels entering
the United States from Rotterdam or other
Dutch ports do not have to pay tonnage
taxes in the United States. This exemption
Is regardless of the nationality of the Nes-
sci.
ANY of Sir Christopher Furness' ships
that come to the United States from Rot
tordam are exempt from tonnage dues in
precisely the same manner that Dutch YES
seiS are exempt. When British ships enter
the United States from ports of the united
Kingdom they have to pay tonnage dues
Just as American ships entering British
ports have to pay light dues. Dutch and
Danish vessels entering the United States
from the united kingdom pay just the
same tonnage taxes that British vessels do
Our Charges Lower Than Foreign.
And right here it may be said that these
American charges are lower as rule than
those imposed abroad. For example, the
accounts OF the British light house fund
for 1850 show that the British cover ment
collected 2,J0,oO0 from taxes, correspond
ing to our tonnage taxes. while the MAIN
tenance of the British light house system
cost 81, 30o, ,000-the taxes showing a profit
of $2Up,00o. The United States on the
other hand, for the last fiscal year re-
ceived from tonnage taxes $3.50, 900 in round
numbers and spent s4OO0,OO0 on its light
house system. Under the existing law of
the United States any time that Great
Britain chooses to abolish her revenue Of
S5D,0O0 from light dues vessels of all
nations entering the United States
from the united kingdom will be entirely
exempt from our modest little tonnage
taxes.
There is an anomaly I'm our system, but
1t is not that to which Sir Christopher Fur
ness refers. The anomaly is in the law by
Wnlch Tor sixteen years We have been
trading dollars for cents, as is well under
stood -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
The Future of RepUblicanism in the
Snuth

Representative Grosvenor of Ohio, one OF
the leading members of the House, who is
in Washington today, in discussing Repre-
sentative Lvingstons statement in an in
terview in The Star yesterday that the re-
publican policies are gaining strength in
the south and that with the elimination Of
the negro question the southern people will
be more liberal in their politics, spoke hope
fully of the future of republicanism in the
south. Gen. Grosvenor says he believes
that as new issues arise the people of the
south will meet them in an intelligent and
practical way, looking to the best interest
of their section. "Bourbonism, call
it, is fast disappearing in the SOUTH" he
said. ''It may take some time. but intelli-
gence will get the better Of prejudice. 1t
will be the glory of the Mckinley admins
traton to have wiped out the vestiges Of
old-time war prejudices, and the Presi-
dents coming trip through the south will
give indications Of the goea feeling that
prevails there"
Representative GrosveEor said that the
southern democrats would have to be very
careful in dsfranchislng the colored man.
for they might get the white man divided
politically with a result disastrous to them
selves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
COUNT TOLSTOFS LETTER.
1t Appealed to the Gar for More
Liberalism.


BERLIN, April 26.-The National Eel
tung today prints Russian special corre-
spondence which contains another version
of the letter Count Leo Tolstoi April TO-
addressed to the czar and cabinet. The
letter protested against the system of
forcibly suppressing intellectual and politi-
cal progress, and counseled the liberation
of the peasants from despotic treatment,
the removal of all barriers Of enlighten-
ment and the freer profession of any faith.
The letter concludes:
This appeal have ], Leo TolstOi written.
not as q personal conviction, but as the
conviction of millions belonging to Russian
intelligence"
The correspondent asserts that the let
ter has made the deepest impression
throughout Russia.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung prints a ST.
petersburg special which says the univer-
sity situation has suddenly grown worse
From Moscow University word has been
given to persist in passive opposition until
all the sentenced students have been par
dOned.
The Vorwaerts published a Joint protest
from the proletariat to the world bearing
the signatures of the leaders Of the social
fst movement. including those of the United
States. dated Brussels, against the brutal
tiles of cZarism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
THE TREES OF WASHINGTON.
An Elaborate Work Being PreDared
by DendrOlOxist udYHarth

Mr.. George B. Sudworth, dendrologist Of
the Department Of Agriculture, is prepar-
ing an elaborate work the trees Of
Washington and vicinity. He has identified
nearly every variety of tree within the
District, having explored the outlying
woodlands, and having made an examina-
tion of all the public parks and spaces He
has also visited large number of the rri-
Vate gardens Of the city. His efforts thus
far show that there are within the city and
nearby country about four hundred species
and varieties. He has grouped the varie-
ties, and with each group will present
history of the species. 1t is thought that
the work will not be published by the de-
partment as whole. but that 1t will be is
sued by sections, each section being oe-
voted to species. Probably the first sec
tion to be issued will be that which treats
of the magnolia, of which there are said
to be in the city many domestic and foreign
varieties. Then will follow sections on the
con1fers, oaks, elms, naples. etc.
One of the objects Of the division Of for
estry and of the bureau of plant industry
of the Department Of Agriculture is to pre-
sent in the grounds of that department and
to encourage the planting in other public
grounds, great number of varieties of
native trees. Preference has heretofore
been shown in the presentation of foreign
trees. The woods of Maryland and Virginia
abound with different trees. northern yarie-
ties growing this far south and southern
varieties reaching this far north
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26

and the tariff laws of the United States
would work great hardship to the Cubans.
They recognize that in matters of state
hood they would have a great deal of in
dependence. but many things they most
want in other directions would be denied
them. Even the absolute free importation
of sugar that would follow annexation is
not sufficiently alIuring to induce any of
them to seriously consider annexation.
1t is not expected that the delegation
will again see the President unless. per-
haps. they may meet him to pay formal
goodbye call. General Wood expected to
leave for cuba tonight. but has delayed
his departure until tomorrow in order to
attend this afternoons conference. 1t is
understood the conferences with the dele
CATION will be brought to a close. this
fternoon though the time of the de-
parture of the delegates from Washington
has not been fixed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26

No Lapses From Discipline During tho
Ships Visits to American Cities.

The French ship Duguay Trouin. which
has been making visits to a number of
American cities sailed yesterday from New
York and will go first to the Azores. then
to Cadiz, and then return to the French
naval station at Toulon. Before sailing the
captain of the ship telegraphed to the ad-
miralty office at Paris concerning the many
courtesies received while in American Wa
ters, and In reply received a dispatch from
NJ. de Lanessan, minister of marine in the
French cabinet, expressing his personal
thanks and the appreciation of the French
navy for the many tokens OF consideration
shown to French officers and cadets at New
York, Washington, Baltimore and Annapo'
lis.
The visits have been productive of much
good feeling, and several international in
cidents, such as that in which the French
visitors placed a beautiful wreath wrapped
the grave of Washington. 1t has also given
opportunity to note the fine discipline MAIN
tained in the French naval service.
though the ships party numbered 400, Off
GERS, cadets and men. there was at no time
throughout the stay in American waters
any lapse of discipline on the part of any
person on board, nor absence beyond au-
thorized leaves, or any personal fmproprie-
ty on the part Of any member OF the ships
company. This fact has attracted atten-
ton as indicative of French discipline in
marked contrast with some of the criti-
cisms, coming through unfriendly European
channels, as to the discipline of the French
forces in China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
INJURIES To THE KAWLINS.
The Transport Can BE Repaired for
10000,

Gen. Bird of the quartermaster general s
office has just returned from New York
city, where he made thorough inspection
of the transport Rawlins, which was re-
Gently sunk to eXtinguish a fire in her hold
He says that the origin of the fire has not
yet been determined, beyond the fact that
it started. in the hay packed in a lower
compartment; The vessel was not Sc
riously damaged, he says, and can be re-
paired and renovated for less than $4,000
The expenditure of this money has not
been authorized by the War Department.
The matter is held up, pending the action
of the Secretary of War on the proposition
for the discontinuance of the West Indian
army transport service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
Sponsors for New Destroyers.

The Maryland Steel Company, which built
the torpedo boat destroyers Worden, Whip
pie and Truxtun, notified the Navy Depart
ment today that invitations to christen
those vessels have been sent to Miss Isa-
bella Truxtun OF Norfolk in the case of sho
Truxtun, Miss katherine Whipple Sibley
Of Detroit in the case of the Whipple, and
that Mrs. John l.. Worden, widow of
Admiral Worden, has been requested
to select a suitable person to christen the
Worden Misses Truxtun and Sibley are
descendants of the gallant officers after
whom the warships are named. 1t is ex-
pected that the three destroyers will be
launched at the shipyard on Sparrow's
Point. Baltimore. the latter part of next
month,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
EIGHTY BODIES RECOVERED.
There Are Still Many Missing in
Frankfort Disaster.

FRANKFORT, Germany, April 26-By IL
O'Clock this morning eighty bodies had been
recovered from the debris of the electro
chemical works near Griesheim, but there
are still many missing. About $50 persons
were injured, many of them seriously. The
work of fighting the flames proceeded
throughout the entire night. though the
danger of further explosions was regarded
as averted at midnight The search of the
ruins continued The scenes which occurred
throughout the night We're most distressing.
Villagers and survivors We're cropping about
the ruins in search of relatives and COM
rades and endeavoring to recognize in the
charred bodies or dismembered and mutt
lated corpSes the identity of missing
friends The flames Quilted Marx e
Muellers chemical factory and a part of
the Griesheim Color Works
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
Personal Mention.

Mr.. Mahlon Belts Stotsenburg, late Of
the pension office Is seriously i'll with pneu-
monia at his home, 1000 South Carolina
avenue southeast
DR.. Wiley of the Department Of Agrt-
culture has gone to Blacksburg, Va, to de-
liver an address this evening on the rela-
tion Of chemistry to the advancement of
the arts before the faculty and students
OF the Virginia Polytechnic Institute
j. j. Little, who has been confined to his
residence the past few weeks with !nf1am-
matory rheumatism, expects to be out by
Nav l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
REDUCING HER NATIONAL DERT.
Powell Transmits a Crafty.
Ing Report From Haiti.

United States Minister Powell at Port au
Prince has transmitted to the State De-
partment an official statement issued by
the National Bank Of Haiti. This bank is
the fiscal agent of the Haitian government,
and stands in the same relation to it as
the Treasury Department does to the
United States government The statement
shows, in brief, that Haiti is gradually re-
ducing her national debt; that the revenue
receipts have largely increased during the
past year; that the expenses Of the gov
ernment have been less and the rate of
the exchange has been lower than for
her leading exports of coffee, cacao, log
wood and cotton has greatly increased, and
consequently. the expectation Of these
products has been larger. On the whole,
Minister Powells report indicates a more
prosperous condition than the country has
experienced for many years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
REPRESENTATIVE CANNON HERE.
Other Members of His Committee to
Come T0m0rrnw

Representative Cannon, chairman of the
House committee on appropriations, was
here today to attend a meeting of a spe-
cial committee composed of himself and
Representatives Dalzell and Richardson, to
decide on the plan for ventilating the hall
of the House of Representatives and on
the style of furniture that will be used
there. and in the House lobby and new
committee rooms in the portion of the Cap
itol formerly occupied by the Congressional
Library. Messrs. DalZell and Richardson
are expected here tomorrow. Mr.. Cannon
had conference with Mr.. Woods of the
architects office, but no action was taken
TODAY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
LAURELs FOR SIXTH CAVALRY.
Troop l. Congratulated for the Cap
- ture of n Chineae Flag.

The War Department has made public an
order issued In China by Gen. Chaffee,
which contained letter from Secretary
Root This letter was an acknowledgment
Of receipt Of the flag of Chang Chun-fa,
commander of the province of Hupei, cap
tured by Troop L Of the 9Th Cavalry, COM
manded by First Lieut.. B. B. Hyer, at
Chang Ping Chow, on September 4, 1900.
In the letter Secretary Root said:
Il particularly congratulate Troop L
upon the gallant and effective service
through which, as a part Of the China relief
expedition, it has added to the laurels of
this famous regiment"
Gen. Chaffee directs that the original
copy Of the Secretary's letter be preserved
in the records Of the troop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
MIR. YEATMAN,s ACCOUNTS.
Investigating Committee Report That
They Were in Excellent Condition.

They Were in Excellent Condition.
The special committee appointed to in
vestigate the affairs of the Office Of dis
bursting clerk of the War Department, filled
for SO many years by the late William s.
Yeatman. submitted its report to Assistant
Secretary Sanger today The examination
Of the books and accounts Of the office oc-
cupied several days The committee. Of
which Col. Thorpe of the supply division
was chairman, reported in substance that
the accounts balanced to a penny, and
that the affairs of the Office were in excel
lent condition.
1t is expected that Mr.. Sydney E. Smith,
principal clerk in the Office, will be ap-
in the classified service governed by civil
service rules.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
Confidence I'm Governor Allen.

A statement has been received by the
President from the Federation Regional,
labor organization of Porto Rico. ex-
pressive of the confidence Of the labor ele-
ment in Governor Allen, thanking the Pres
ident for his return and repudiating any
person claiming to represent that element
in the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
SHAH HAS 4 BAD LIVER.
Persian Monarch in Poor Health and
GrONing WNrSc.

BERLIN, April 2i.-The Cologne Ga
zettes ST. Petersburg correspondent tele-
graphs that the condition of the Shah of
Persia is becoming worse. His liver and
kidney affections and difficulty of resplra-
ton are assuming more acute forms
me correspondent also says consider
able excitement exists among the popula-
tlon OF 1eheran because of the heavy taxes
recently imposed upon meat and other food
StuffS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
Claim Part Of Kansas City.

Argument in the case of the Mensing
heirs claimants to tract of land on which
a part of Kansas City is built, has been
concluded before Binger Hermann, COM
missioner of the general land office. A de-
cision will be rendered next week. The
Mensing heirs claim that part of Kansas
City which at one time was an island in
the Missouri river.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26

Advance copies OF the register Of the De-
partment of the Interior have been received
at the office of the chief clerk. The num-
Der Of employees in the department is shown
to be 7,450. The register shows the name
and position Of each employe, whence ap-
pointed and present legal residence, the
dates of original and present appointments
and salary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
GEN. LUDLOW IN BAD HEALTH.
His Appointment as Governor Re
XOked ON Tint Accauuf

MANILA, April 26-Owing to his illness
the appointment OF Brig. Gen. William
Ludlow to be military governor of the de-
partment of the Visayas has been revoked
A board of surgeons has made an examina-
tion and reports that General Ludlow suf-
fered from an attack of grip and local
lied congestion, which has developed into
a dangerous case of tuberculosis
General Ludlow will return to the United
States by the first transport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26

family, who became alarmed for their safe
ty. The general, interested in their preser-
vation, sent them to the patent office for
safe keeping, whence they were transferred
to their present place of deposit 1t does
not appear that the government ever took
any steps to divest the title of Mrs Lee
and her son to them. or ever claimed any
title of it's own. All the government did
was to accept the trust of their custody at
time when the owner could not protect
Them and they were consequently exposed
to the risk of destruction The need for
such protection having ceased, and the
trust voluntarily assumed having been dis
charged, it will afford me great satisfaction
to give direction for the rest Grafton to the
present head of a historic family of these
cherished heirlooms of the father of his
country.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
Hon. John W. Daniel,
tod tnto nfn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26

as "Kidnaper," threatened the destruction
OF the boys sight, and afterward with
death unless their conditions were COM
Piled with. The New York detectives. it is
paper in this city the best clew they have
Vet obtained
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
POLLOC BARRACKS DESTROYED.

Admiral kemp6 Reports Damage
Caused by Cyclone.
Admiral Kempff, at Cavite, P. l., cabled
the Navy Department today as follows:
"Cyclone struck Polloc 22d. Barracks
destroyed. Hospital unfit for use. No cas-
ualties. Government damage $1,000. Re
quest this amount Sbe made available.
Polloc is situated on the west coast of
Mindanao Island, In the Bay Of Illana.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26
Local Pensions Granted.

Pensions were granted to citizens of the
District today as follows: David NJ. Sells.
Sc; Amanda Caroline Swindells, IS; Charles
Evans, Soldiers Home, $16.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-26

The Customer worth having
is the head of the family. To
reach the head of the family ad-
vertise in The Evening Stat. It
goes into more households in
Washington than all the other
city papers added together.