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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-15
DYNAMITE CAPS EXPLODED
IN FOREMAN'S VEST POCKET
.fSncc,o1 Dispatcb to The Times. y

ISpeClnI UlspalCD He IHleS.T
GATE CITY. VA, Nov. ia serious
accident occurred this morning at the
rock quarry. of the Virginia Iron. Coal
and Coke Company at this place. caused
by an explosion Of dynamite caps in the
vest pocket of a young man named j..
A. Crawford, the foreman of the works.
Crawford had begun work with about
a half box OF caps in his pocket. and
falling against a bar Of iron. the caps
exploded. intiicting a wound in his side
from which he may not recover.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-15
NUMBER THIRTEEN DOES
NOT PHASE The WHEElMEN
Especial Dispatca i. n. Iime4.l

special DdspatcA b Ths Time4.l
TRENTON. N. J.. November 1A-New
Jersey bicyclists are not supersdnous
as to the number NJ The Aaresr county
ner5 had IS toasts and = courses.
Tho club W1s oFYAniaeA Novem1sT IL
1858: the menu had . h1gs Z s.. printed In
red on the Outside: the 1lnssB tsok thetr
SEATS &c preeassIy 7a1 y. n
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-15
oil. FRANCE
MAY VISIT AMERICA.

(special cablegram to The Times.)
PARIS, Nov. H.-It is semi-otTicially
announced to-day that it is not improb-
able that President Loubet Will make
an5of1icial visit to the ST. Louis exhibit
ton in 1904.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-15
PETERS DOES NOT
ENDORSE DIXON.
fsnacial8Dispatch ia The Tin, >

M Especial Dispatch to The Tines.)
BALTIMORE. ND, Nov. 4.-Rev.
Madison Peters. who brought Rev.
Thomas Dixon here to lecture. tells his
congregation he does not approve OF
DR. Dsxon.s denunciation OF negroes and
says nowhere Is the negro treated 50
well a. In the south.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-15
GEN. MOLlNUEX MAY BE
PARTIALLY REIMBURSED

tsr,e,al Dispatch to The Timeso
n MEM YORK. Nov. lit was rumored
Today that an attempt may be made in
the near future to introduce bill into
the .es slature with q view of partially
reinll.ars.rg General Molineux for the
enormous expense he has Incurred for
the Gefensc Of his son. Roland 3. Aol-s
muck.
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WEATHER FORECAST. RE

r,orecas. FOR Saturday and Sunday:
ysrrin,a and North Carolina--Fair Sat
,,,s.y and sunday; fresh southwest
wMs.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-15

The Sixth Virginia Club case viii be
heard next month.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
FRAUDS RENEWED
Civil Service Commission on
the Trail Of an Alleged
SWindler.
Hs,v YORK ssw, spseia1 6ervEos

Washington, April 4.-The civil service
the United States district attorney at
Cleveland, Ohio, enclosing a certificate
forwarded to him by James R. Garfield,
recently appointed to succeed Civil
Service Commissioner Rodenburg, which
shows that the extensive frauds recently
operated in New York under the name Of
the "board of civil service commissioners
New York branch have been renewed
and are now being operated from western
points.
When the first investigation was made
it was found that the fraudulent concern
was using letterhead purporting to be
that Of the civil service commission, which
bore facsimile of the official seal of the
United States government. Inspectors
found that daily receipts of the concern
averaged $4,000 and trap was set for the
promoter, E. O. Steffens, which was pre-
maturely sprung by the action of new
and Jealous wardman in arresting the
messenger boy who called for Stefens'
mail instead Of shadowing him to the
headquarters Of the swindlers.
In view of the magnitude of the scheme
as denoted by the daily receipts the civil
service commission has secured the
services Of Inspector Jacobs, who is said
to be one of the best criminal detectives
in the United States, and will endeavor to
find Steffens, who fed when the messen-
ger was arrested
One of the certificates sent out by the
agency called for applicants for positions
in Texas Arizona and California and an
other for positions in the Philippines and
Porto Rico. steffens, it is thought, is
now operating in the middle west, the
certificate sent to the commission by Mr..
Garfield having been mailed in Chicago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
TILL ALL FALL
Canadian Rifles Distinguish
Themselves in a Fight
With Beers.

London, April 4.-There was severe
fighting all day March 81 in the neighbor-
hood of Harris river, in the southwestern
extremity of the TransvaaI, between part
of General Kitchener's force and the
forces of Generals Delarey and Kemp, re-
sulting in the repulse of the Beers after
heavy losses on both sides. Lord Kitch-
ener's official report dated from Pretoria
yesterday evening, says:
General kitchener (Lord Kitcheuer's broth
err sent Colonies Kerr and Coekson from
Vriekuil, Western Transvaal March 81 to
reconnoter towards Harris river. They soon
struck the track of guns and carried on a
running fight for eight miles, following the
track through the bush. Emerging on a.
plain, large Boer reinforcements advanced
against their TANKS, forcing the British troops
to take UP defensible position, which they
hastily entrenched. Fighting ensued at close
quarters till the Beers were repulsed on all
sides.
/ Delarey, Kemp and other leaders vainly at
tempted to persuade their men to renew the
action. Fifteen hundred Beers participated in
the engagement, but they had suffered too
heavily, aud cleared away to the northwest
and south. The British losses were also severe.
The Canadian Rifles especially DISTINGUISHED
| themselves, one party, commanded by Lieu
tenant Bruce Carruthers holding its post
til! every man was killed or wounded Others
of the forces showed great steadiness, allow
ing the Beers to advance within 200 yards of
them and repelling them with a steady rife
fire.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
THOSE EXECUTIONS
Official Version Of Murderous AUS
tralianS' Fate.

tralians' Fate
London, April 4.-The war Office this
afternoon issued this statement of the
facts In regard to the Australians. sent
enced for numbering Boer prisoners
The Bushveldt Carbineers. who were re-
cruited in South Africa, but included other
coonials, were employed in July and August
in the widest part of the Transqaal, eighty
miles northeast of Petersburg, and took a
certain number of prisoners Grave irregular
tiles on the part of certain officers of the
corps came to the knowledge of the military
authorities in October and an exhaustive in
vestlgauon was ordered by Lord Kitchener.
AS result, five officers were tried by court
martial at Petersburg in January 1902, and
were found guilty, as principals or accesso-
rles, or twelve murders. Leutenants Han
cock and Morant were sentenced to death
which was carried out. Three officers were
also charged with the murder of the Rev G.
Hesse. Although there was strong suspicion
that they committed the murder, the evidence
was not considered sufficient to justify their
conviction.
Lieutenant Wilson was found guilty of muir
der anc was sentenced to death. but there
were mitigating circumstances and the SEN
tence was committed to life Imprisonment at
penal servitude. Lieutenant Picton was found
guilty OF granddaughter and was cashered
Major Lenahan, commanding the carbineers
who became aware of the crimes subsequent
to their ccmmitta. was convicted of culpably
neglecting to report them, and was ordered
home to Australia, his dismissal being unnec-
essary, owing to the disbandment of the corps
No doubt exists as to the guilt of the ac-
cused whose plea in extenuation that a
number of their corps were i'll treated by the
Beers was not sustained by the evidence The
sentences were such as would have been in
flicted on any officers similarly guilty
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
DANGER FOR
BEEF TRUST
Crusade Started Against It
That May End in It's
Collapse.
Damaging Evidence Supplied
to the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Chicago, April War against the beef
trust that promises to smash the collu-
sion between the great packing firms in
the manipulation of prices and supply has
been precipitated by the discovery Of
documentary evidence that exposes the
secret operations of the combine.
Fragments Of letters addressed to the
Cudahy packing company by its repre-
sentatives which are now in the possess
sion Of the interstate commerce commits
sion at Washington indicate the existence
OF combination Of eastern agents that
has for Its purpose the arbitrary raising
of prices. the reduction of shipments in
order to put the market on paying basis
and the blacklisting of retailers who re-
fuse to patroni7e the members of the
trust.
Although the trust managers deny that
there is a combination among the large
firms and maintain that the price of meat
is regulated by the price of livestock, the
Cudahy correspondence is supposed to be
ammunition enough to start fight
against the combine that will begin in
the, east and will extend to the main
houses as fast as evidence is gained that
there is complete cooperation in the
west.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
LIKE CAESAR
Hanna to Be Coy and Roose-
welt Checkmates Him
Among Workingmen.
From The Journal Bureau, Room 40, Pos,
BniIdihg, Warrington. -

From The Journal Bureau, Room 40, Pom
building, Warrington,
Washington. April 4.-Washington poll
ticians are laughing quietly over the news
from Cleveland that the republican friends
of Senator Hanna in Ohio are beginning
to take his presidential boom seriously
and to plan to put it under way in that
state. Hanna says he is not a candi-
date" say these Ohio friends, but
events are making him candidate, and in
spite Of himself he will be compelled to
enter the race" and they are governing
themselves accordingly.
There is ground for believing that it is
a part of the program of the strong
financial and industrial forces which are
backing Hanna to have his candidacy for
the presidency appear to be thrust upon
him. Twice or thrice If need be, like
Caesar, he will put the crown aside, but
in the end it is figured that moment
will come when it will be highly proper
for him to accept it.
AS an open and avoWed candidate Han
ma would not be worthy of consideration
Such policy would destroy his chances
utterly. But as an unwilling, resisting
candidate, to whom the great honor comes
unsought and undesired, as a reward for
labor we'll done, his friends figure that he
would sweep the states.
1t is we'll to remember, again. in this
connection, that the strong argument
which will be put forward in Hannas be-
half Is his attitude towards labor. This
is the disguise in which the financial in
terests of. the country, which oppose lr-
rigation, tariff revision, attacks on the
trusts and on the railways, will seek to
undo the sitting president. Roosevelt is
not safe man" in the financial and
trust meaning OF that term. He stands
too close to the great masses of the
people. He will not succeed himself if
Wall street can help 1t. And what an
opportunity the street has in the per-
sonality of such man as Hanna, with a
labor record as long as the moral law.
On the surface, there has been no break
between Hanna and Roosevelt, and there
probably will be none. But each Is
watching the other, and it Is said that
the president is perfecting plans to offset
the Hanna boom in the ranks of organ
lied labor The presidents strongest ap-
peal to labor will lie in a continuation of
his present effective policy against the
railways and the trusts.
w. w. Jermane.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
PROCEEDING
WITH CANAL
Senate May Adopt Spooner
Amendment Favoring
Panama Route.
Philippine Government Meas
ure Will Probably Be Dis
posed of First.

From The journal Bureau, Room -, Post
Building, Washin0ton.
Washington, April 4.-There will be a
meeting of the senate steering committee
in few days when an effort will be made
to agree upon program of legislation for
the remainder Of the session. Three or
four important measures are slated for
passage, but the order in which they
should be CONSIDERED has not been decided
upon.
One of these is the Nicaragua canal bill,
which the republican leaders of the SEN
ate are determined to have action upon
Notwithstanding reports to the contrary
1t has been the understanding for some
time that the canal bill should be taken up
in advance of the Philippines civil govern
ment bill. There are, however, reasons
why this latter measure should be passed
at once and an amicable arrangement may
be made to place it AHEAD of the canal bill
1t is possible that the outcome In the
senate will be the adoption of the Spoon
er amendment to the Hepburn bill pro-
yidtng for the selection of the Panama
route 1t clear tile can be obtained, and
il not the adoption of the Nicaragua route,
the president to be the one to decide.
Senator Allison, chairman Of the republic
can steering committee, is very sure the
canal bill will be provided for satisfac-
tOrily at this session.
w. W. Jermane
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
LESS FLOUR
Serious Falling Off Is Re
ported in the Oriental
Trade.

Portland Oregon, April 4.-The oriental
flour business has fallen away to very
small proportions and the steamship lines
operating between this coast and Hong
kong and way ports are sufferers In con-
sequence. If it continues some of the
vessels will be compelled to retire from
the field. Mail advices from Hongkong
under date of March II report stocks ag-
gregating 100000 quarters sacks. of
which 100000 were Oregon and Washing
ton and the remainder California brands.
- With this enormous stock hanging over
the market, prices were rapidly drifting
from bad to worse, and it was practically
to work any new business.
Many of the flour merchants were selling
below cost in order to unload before the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
Washington Small Talk.

Colonel w. 7. Ball, wife and daughter, OF
Fargo, are in Washington for a week on their
way home from the south.
Colonel Tom Lamb has returned from trip
to North Dakota. He found that in his abb
sence his wife had been in a hospital and
had two severe operations performed. She
is now nearly we'll.
Postmasters appointed to-day: Minnesota
anbrook Todd county M. L. Weber: North
cote, ikttson county, James Florence; Usage
Becker county, G. A. Mckinley. North Da-
Wisconsin-Tomahawk Lake, Oneida county
Martini Johnson.
Representative Marshall has received CON-
plants from residents of Barnes and ad-
joining counties in North Dakota about the
mail service between Litchville Griswod
Elmo, Marion, Svea and Hastings. They are
from seven to ten miles apart and it takes
from two to four days for letters to get from
one office to another. Postoffice department
officials will rearrange the service
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
NOT SO ROSY
Railroad Men and Many Min
ers Out of Work at
Butte.
Special to The Journal

Special to The Journal.
Butte, Mont, April 4.-Although steps
have been taken to rest ore normal condi-
tions, the temporary results OF the Ana
conda engineers strike continue to grow
more serious. The Butte, Anaconda G
Pacific railroad between Butte and Ana
conda, has ceased to operate because there
is no ore to haul and many railroad en-
ployes are out.
More shelters closed down last night
and from 500 to 1000 more men will be
out within two days.
The work of breaking in green engineers
was begun at the Parrot mine last night
and the same work will be commenced at
the other mines to-day and as soon as
men can be secured 1t will be ten days
to two weeks before the new men will
have mastered the engines and in the
meantime the miners, smeltermen and
railroad employees will be idle.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
STOCKS, CROPS
Wall Street Is Apparently
Banking Too Heavily
on the Latter.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
New York, April 4.-St. Paul and Nnion
Pacific were again features in the stock
market and reached new high points for
the present move. Less was heard OF al
legged deals between these and other COM
panies, ond more was said about the inn
proved outlook for crops.
Some credence was given on the stock
exchange to the theory that operators
who have started in to put up prices were
assuming several weeks In advance that
the weather conditions will be favorable
and were wiling to take great specula-
tive chances, believing that if the upward
movement is kept UP long enough the pub
lie would come in and buy, as it has FREE
quentQy done in the past. Advices received
from trustworthy correspondents Of Wall
street houses in Kansas, Oklahoma and
certain other sections were in the main
to the effect that the condition of winter
wheat Is considerably below that of
year ago, and that under the most favor
able circumstances the crop in those
states is not likely to be so large as last
year.
No satisfactory explanation of the squirt
in st. Paul preferred this morning was
given, outside of its right to share in In
creased dividends.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
FROM RHODES
Each Of Our States and Ter
ritories Receive Two
Scholarships.

London, April 4.-The will Of Cecil
Rhodes provides for the establishment of
colonial scholarships, as previously an
nounced, and two American scholarships
to each Of the present states and terri
tories of the United States.
The will also provides for five scholar
ships for students Of German birth at OK
ford to be nominated by Emperor Will
liam, and commenting upon the bequest
Mr.. Rhodes, in a codictl telegraphed from
South Africa. said:
good understanding between England,
Germany and the United States will secure
the peace of the world, and educational re-
lations form the strongest tie.
All the Rhodes scholarships, American,
colonial and German, are at Oxford.
Mr.. Rhodes will is remarkable docu-
ment Of more than $500 words. Even
this is not the entire will, as the ex-
ecutors gave out only the portions which
they consider to be of public interest. 1t
was executed in 1889. There is codicil
attached on the day of Mr.. Rhodes last
departure from England, and another,
cabled from Cape Town, leaves $4,000
yearly to keep up the spot in the Matoppo
hills where his remains are to be buried.
The will directs that railroad extension
be made into the Matoppo hills, so that
visitors may go there at the week end to
inspect the majesty and glory Of their
surroundings"
Mr.. Rhodes explicitly says he ls to be
buried in an aperture, cut in the solid
rock, surmounted by a brass tablet bear
ing, the words: Here lie the remains OF
Cecil John Rhodes"
No one else is to buried there who has
not deserved we'll Of his country.
Mr.. Rhodes bequeaths all his landed
property near Buluwayo and Salisbury,
both in MataIbeleland. to trustees whom
he directs to cultivate the land for the
instruction Of the people Of Rhodesia.
His celebrated country place at Groot
Schurr he leaves for a residence for the
prime minister Of the federal states OF
South Africa, with $1,000 a year for it's
maintenance.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
HALE LIKE TIMOLEON
President Roosevelt Pays Tribute to
the Boston Author.

Boston, April 4-In a letter sent to
Senator George F. Hoar expressing regret
that he could not be present at the public
celebration Of the S0th birthday of the
Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale in this city
last evening, President Roosevelt said:
[ suppose all of US who have read the SIM
pier classical books think of Timoleon in his
last days at Syracuse, loved and honored in
his old age by his fellow citizens In whose
service he had spent the strength of his best
years, as one of the noblest and most attrac-
tive figures in all history. Dr. Hale is just
such figure now. We love him and we
revere him We are prouder of our citizen
ship because he is our fellow citizen and we
feel that his life and his writings both alike
spur us steadily to fresh effort toward high
thinking and right living. To have written
1.-THE Man Without Country by itself
would be quite enough to make all the ma
ton its debtor. l belong in the innumerable
army Of these who owe him much, and
through you wish him God speed now. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
sTRATT0N ON THE GROUND

Attorney General Ready to Proceed
Against the Merger.
From The Journal bureau, Room IS. Post
Building, WashistDtoss.
Washington, April Attorney Cen
eral Stratton of Washington state, arrived
here last night and will file an applica-
ton to begin suit to dissolve the railroad
merger in the supreme court Monday. He
says he has had no notice from the other
side of an intention to oppose suit.
but believes some representative of the
Securities company, Northern Pacific or
Great Northern, or of all three, will be
in court when the papers are filed.
w w Jermana
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
TREATY. AS A RIDER

Red Lake Instrument Grated UDon
Indian Appropriation Bill.
From, The Journal Bureau, Room A5, Post
Bmildisag, Washington.
Washington, April 4.-Secretary Hitch
cock to-day sent to congress the treaty
negotiated by INSPECTOR Mclaughlin for
the cession of portion of the Red Lake
reservation. He makes an earnest recon-
mendation for it's approval. An effort
will be made to have the treaty put as
rider on the Indian appropriation bill,
new pending in the senate.
w. w. Jermana. "a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
DRYING UP

Waters of Lake Mckenzie Are Fall
ing Steadily.
Special to The Journal.
jamestown, N. D., April 4.-Lake Nc
Kenzie is rapidly drying UP to-day. At
the deepest point Of the submerged North
ern Pacific track there are only six inches
of water above the rails. 1t now takes
less than half an hour to get a train
across. The engines are not changed,
which also saves some time. The Dis
lance across the lake is also great deal
less than at first. Traffic on the Dakota
division is getting back to its normal con-
dition.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
Elgin Butter Men Aggrieved.

Special to The Journal.
Elgin, ILL.,, April 4.-Elgin butter men
are highly incensed at the local grocers'
association on account of the telegram
which the grocers sent to Senator Hanna
in which he was urged to stand firm
against the butter trust in his attitude
on the oleomargarin bill. President
sturm of the grocers association said that
more than half the families in Elgin used
oleomargarin, and that aas it was the
poor mans butter, it had the same rights
to protection as the farmer, whose cause
the butter men are advocating.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
ANOTHER BIG
REALTY SALE
Bank of Commerce Building
to Change Hands Again
To-day.

Negotiations will probably be completed
to-day for the purchase of the Bank of
Commerce building from ]. T. McHugh by
the National Bank of Commerce.
Mr.. McHugh bought the building last
Wednesday from the Equitable ecurities
company Of New York for. $3.50 900,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-04
Protest Against Louisiana Cam

Washington, April 1.-THE time of the cabi-
net to-day was taken up almost entirely with
communication which the president has re-
ceived from the governor Of Louisiana pro-
testing against the camp maintained in that
state by British agents for the purpose of
supplying mules and teams to the army in
South Africa The president has directed an
investigation into the facts and the law bear
ing upon the question -.