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1t left him no authority to call for re-
ports or power to make examinations or
to search for. the truth. 1t made him
nothing more than the custodian of a lot
of useless and innocent information and
practically created sinecure. y $50.
Somebody Guesses ,"Foraker."
This typewriter proposition was first
handed to Senator Nelson, a member of
the conference committee, by one of the
most prominent members of the United
States senate from one of the most
prominent states, and although Mr.. Nell
son declined to mention names, common
rumor says that he comes from Ohio.
Mr.. Nelson was advised that the pro-
posed substitute was great deal simpler
and less intricate than the amendment he
had added to the bill, and the senator who
offered it to him said that he was assured
that it would meet with no objection from
the White House, from the house of rep
resentatives, from the managers of the
trusts or from anybody; that the entire
universe was unanimous in it's support.
Senator Nelson replied frankly that he
was committed to his own amendment
and might be accused of Inconsistency and
insincerity if he offered a substitute for
his own proposition.
The senator in question next went to
Senator Hanna, who was also a member
of the committee of conference and he,
being an innocent and unsophisticated in
dividual, declined positively to receive or
even to read the proposed substitute,
which so disconnected his advisor that the
conversation was very brief.
Perhaps It Was the Speaker.
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RIB BROKEN ON A CAR
Suburban Trolley Pays Ira King
$1,000 for Personal Injuries.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
. Saltwater Mimi, Feb. 10.-Ira King
has settled with the suburban railway
company for injuries received by him
while passenger on one of the company's
cars. He was thrown against the back
of seat and had a rib fractured. The
company paid him $1,000.
Work will be started next week in the
South Saltwater boat yard, where George
Miller has the contracts to repair sew
eral lake craft in winter quarters here.
Judge Williston is holding a special
term of the district court to-day. Sew
eral matters are on the calendar for
hearing.
The funeral of Mrs. Emma Under
wood, who died of an abscess on the
brain, was held this afternoon, Rev. F.
Ebert of the: German Lutheran church
officiating.
The picked team of Saltwater bowlers
won from the Vici Kids of Dubuque last
night in series of five games. Still
1858. Will Begging made the high score
for Saltwater, 2O7, and Ralph Duel the
high total, 1913. Joseph OFT made the
high score, 226, and high total 1888, for
the Dubuquers.
The visitors will be entertained this
evening by George H. Atwood and will
play a series of games with the Atwoods
on Mr.. Atwood's private alleys. Many
citizens have been invited to be present
JIG. NethaWay. who has been confined
to his home for several weeks with in
flammato tory rheumatism. left last even
ing for Cramer, Ind, accompanied by
Sheriff Ostrom. He will remain at the
Cramer springs about two weeks.
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"NELSON AMENDMENT"
1t Is Opposed by Some OF the House
Democrats To-day.

Democrats To-day.
Washington, Feb. 1O.-Soon after the
opening. of, the session of the national
house, to-day Mr.. Hepburn, chairman of
the interstate commerce committee, called
up the conference report upon the depart
ment of commerce bill i
Mr. Richardson (Ala.), one of the con-
ferees. to whom Mr.. Hepburn yielded
thirty minutes, explained his reasons for
declining to support the Nelson amend
ment covering the bureau Of corpora
tions. He said he did not believe any
democrat could sustain himself by OPP
posing everything aimed at the trusts
because 1t was of republican origin. But
he did not believe the Nelson amendment
was aimed at the trusts.
He said it was a travesty upon what it
claimed to be. 1t was, he said, IAN ultra
dilutioned DOSE Its purpose, he declared.
was not to authorize the president to pro-
coed against the trusts, but simply to Sc
cure information upon which he could base
This he said was a
poor response to the bold threats heralded
abroad that an extra session would be
called unless effective legislation were en-
acted 1t was a "pretext and a subter-
fuge.''
Mr.. Ball (Texas) ridiculed the program
Of the administration regarding anti trust
Legislation. The administration, he said,
was represented as anxious to secure the
passage of the Nelson and Elkins bills
and it was pretended that the Standard
Oil company was sending kilograms to
prominent senators against their passage.
II do not believe" said he, "that John D.
Rockefeller. or any other trust magnate
has raised a protest against the homeo-
pathic doses in these bills"
Mr.. Mann Qllinois) declared that the
Nelson amendment would give to the bu-
reau Of corporations greater power to in
vestigate the affairs of trusts than was
sought to be conferred by any bill pre-
sented to congress-,
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THE BLAZE In
THE BALKANS
The Macedonian Leaders Accused
of Stirring Up the Trouble
That Has Occurred.
e-
Atrocities Are Said to Have Been
Provoked by Revolutionary
Bands for Purpose.
Mobilization Denied by Turkey, but
the Denial Is Not
Credited.

London, Feb. 10.-The Sofia correspond
ent OF the Times sends an account Of
recent events in the disturbed parts of
Macedonia, collected by an investigator of
impartiality and accuracy, which claims
that the agitation of the Macedonian
leaders is largely responsible for the hor-
rors which have undoubtedly occurred
He asserts that the supreme revolutionary
committee at Sofia deliberately sent bands
into Macedonia to provoke atrocities, on
the strength of which they could appeal
to the powers. These provocations were
only too successful The bands delib-
erately murdered a number of Turks in
the Razelog district for the purpose of
drawing vengeance. This followed as a.
matter of course, and the Turks raided
the district, INDUCING in cruelty, lust and
avarice.
There is enough dry timber on the
slopes Of the Balkans for great blaze If
a match be thrown on the ground. This
is the conclusion reached by Fleet street,
where the Macedonian question is re-.
garded as serious menace to the peace
of Europe. An outbreak Of hostilities be-
tween the Macedonian insurgents and the.
turkish garrison is expected early in
March and a massacre Of Christians will;
be followed by a declaration of war from
Bulgaria under Russian instigation.
remarkable feature of the situation is
the openness with which the Pan Slavfst
agltators are planning military and
diplomatic campaign for expelling the
Turks from the Balkans. It Is assumed
In all Slav centers that Count Lamsdorf
has obtained guarantees of Austrian neu-
trality and that Russia is ready to stand
behind Bulgaria and Servia
Nobody in Fleet street or in the Balkans
seems to know whether the German EN- ;
peror is prepared to defend the sultan and
to incur the lasting enmity of Russia.
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TILDEN BANQUET
Mr.. Folk Of St. Louis Thinks the
Cities Are Corrupt.

3 New York, Feb. 1O.-A banquet in cele-
bration of the anniversary of the birth Of
Samuel J. Tilden was held at the Tilden
club last night. Robert D. Bowling, presi-
dent of the club, was POSTMASTER.
Among those at the guest table were
Joseph w. Folk, district attorney of St.
Louis; Charles S. Hamlin of Boston, as
sistant secretary of the treasury under
President Cleveland, and Attorney Cen
eral John Cunneen Of New York. The
three speakers were Messrs. Hamlin, Folk
and Shepard.
Mr. Felix discussed the question Of Of
fetal corruption and declared that if
Samuel J. Tilden were now alive he would
find situation vastly worse than that
he .contended against in the days of the
Tweed ring.
At that time. he said it was only the
city@of New York that was affected, but
since then corruption has spread like a
cancerous growth to all the great cities
Of thecountry and that st. Louis and
Minneapolis were types Of what other
cities would prove to be II the real state
of affairs were known.
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THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY
Opposition to the Treaty Is Disap-
pearing dior Good
Reasons.

From The Journal Buresu, Room 45, Post Build.
ing, Washington. i3s ss
Washington, Feb. 10. Opposition to the
Alaskan treaty is disappearing and it is
beginning to look as if it would be rati-
fed. The principal opposition has grown
out of the belief in this country that
there is nothing to arbitrate, but a semi
official statement given out to-day indi-
Gates that the treaty is all right from
an American point of view, and is mere
" intended to let Great Britain down
easy According to this statement, Great
Britain is willing to concede the Ameri-
can boundary demands but wants some
thing that will prevent the furious out
cry against London diplomacy in Canada
and England. The treaty would be such
a preventive. Under the terms of the
treaty, the commissioners will have no
power to fix the boundary lines. Their
duties are wholly judicial. They will
construe the Language of the treaty, and
that construction will make compliance
with the American demands necessary.
ID ~. ~ -
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MONEY FROM AMERICA
The Central Committee at Stock
holm Receives Only About
1880 to Date.

Stockholm. Feb 10.-Up to the present
moment the central committee for the re-
lief of the famine sufferers in northern
Sweden has received from America about
$4,000. Besides, this amount considerable
sums have been sent to individuals by
American sympathizers for distribution to
the needy. The American donations sent
to the central committee are under the
express proviso that they are not to be
distributed in the shape of loans or for the
payment of labor on the specially organ
lied relief works. About $1,000 of Amer
lean money has been expended in the pur-
chase of seed wheat which has been dis
tributed in six of the most needy prov
inces The rest has been spent on food
supplies and in feeding poor scholars in
the same districts.
The members of the central relief COM
mittee say the misery is more widespread
than was anticipated and they estimate
that $1,000,0o0 will be required to furnish
the relief which will be necessary until
matters improve in the spring.
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doned for measure that is very similar
to it, but whose provisions are less dras-
tic. He thinks his bill is sufficient to
meet the Situation. Influences are being
brought to bear upon Mr.. Littlefield to
cause him to change his mind, but at
present he is determined to make stand
in favor of his BILL which is the original
administration antitrust measure.
A White House Conference.
On the invitation of the president the
following members of the house Of repre-
sentatives had conference at the White
House last night on the subject Of anti
trust legislation: Payne, Dalzell, Gross
venor. Powers, Overstreet, Cannon and
Jenkins. Grosvenor and Dalzel repre-
scented the committee on rules which con-
trolls the legislation of the house, and
Mr.. Jenkins IS chairman Of the commit
tee on the judiciary Mr.. Payne Is the
floor leader while Mr.. Cannon holds the
purse strings of the government for the
house of representatives.
The conference lasted more than an
hour. and when it was over one of those
present frankly admitted that the gen
eral subject Of trust and antitrust legis-
lation had been under consideration. II
is believed that as result of this con-
ference the Elkins anti-rebate bill will
be put through the house and that this
legislation in addition to that already
enacted into law or in the final stages OF
legislation will constitute the party pro-
gram on this subject
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ELEYAIOR BOYS STRIKE
It Interferes With the U. S. Gov
eminent Some Merry Prop
: -. ositions Made.

Chicago, Feb. 10.-Interference with
government business is being urged to-
day as grounds for legal steps to break
the strike of elevator conductors so far as
the Manhattan building is concerned. The
United States customs offices are in the
fourth floor of that building and are with
out heat and light and but one elevator is
in operation. 1t is claimed that the bust
ness of the customs office is greatly
hampered in consequence and that prompt
action will be taken to secure an injunc-
ton against Interference by the strikers
with the operation of elevators and the de-
Livery of coal to the building.
The Building Managers association,
while announcing that it is willing to
submit the entire subject to arbitration,
desires to select its own arbitration board,
while the unions involved say they will
have the Chicago board of arbitration or
none at all.
Two conferences were held yesterday
between the managers and representa-
| tives of the unions involved The propos-
ition of the teamsters, when submitted,
took the breath away from the building
! managers It provided for the use Of coal
| exclusively for steam power and heating
purposes until May 1, 1907, and required
that all pipes for the transmission of fuel
gas to boilers be removed within ten days
from the signing of the agreement.
The managers refused to accept the
proposition, and then Albert Young, rep
resenting the coal teamsters, agreed to
submit the entire matter to the Chicago
board Of arbitration. To this the mana
gers also objected, claiming the right tc
name their own representatives on an
arbitration board.
! The indications are that general strike
in all the buildings controlled by the
Building Managers association will be or
Idered. The number of buildings under the
Jurisdiction of the association is variously
estimated from So to 1872 and nearly al
the principal office buildings in the city
are included.
| The call for a general strike will in
clude the elevators, starters, janitors
window washers and scrubwomen. It will
| also include the coal teamsters.
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is CANTRELL INSANE?
\ Coctor Testifes That He Is-De-
Tense in Grave Robbery
Cases.

Indianapolis, Feb. 10.-Win the mem
rers of the grave robbing gang. to be tried
sfter DR.. Alexander's trial is finished, es-
cape punishment because of Rufus Can
tsell's alleged insanity?
This question is causing comment
Gnong lawyers. Attorneys say the negro
can be set at liberty or confined in an in
game asylum. Experts on mental disord-
ars testified that Cantreu was insane. The
q her grave robbers might have good
Glance for freedom, as the only evidence
a sainst them would be Cantrell's testi-
r.sony.
To-day's session of the Alexander trial
e:,ened with the testimony of Jacob
x;olrtz, a, city detective, formerly the
:j.rnkey at the county Jail. He corrob-
v>Rted DR.. Anderson's testimony that
Gantrell telephoned Oct. Is from the jail
to DR.. Alexander office.
+. g. Groenwoldt, a brother in-law of
Alexander, testified that he drove to
N.oad Ripple with the defendant one
ltkht in August in a rig rented at the
Stable. This testimony was given to sup
I(rt evidence that DR.. Alexander and a
u I'm unknown to the liveryman had left
t:e stable late one night In August and
turned early In the morning.
Or. H. M Lash, a specialist in mental
ds9eases, asked as to Cantrell's sanity,
SD:
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A GROWING DANGER
The Eastern Situation Now Very serI.
siF ous One go


GUS One.
Sofia Feb. 10.-Having received official
information regarding Turkeys decision
to mobilize two army corps at Adrianople
and Monastir, the Bulgarian government
has addressed representa- tons to the pow.
ers invoking their good offices at Con-
stantinople to procure the cessation of the
Turkish military preparations.
It is felt here that while Turkeys rein
forcement of her troops in Macedonia
may be justified, in view. of the internal
situation and the Austro- Servian military
ople can be regarded only as a menace to
Bulgaria. It is stated that the govern
ment will refrain from any counter dem
onstration and only mobilize the Bulga-
rfan army in the case Of extreme neces-
sity, it being fully realized that even a
successful conflict with Turkey would
mean financial ruin to Bulgaria
Invasion of Turkey Planned.
Vienna, Feb 1O-It is asserted here that
Bulgaria is determined to invade Turkey
in the event Of an Instruction in Mace
donia, and that the Macedonian element
in Bulgaria is so strong that nothing can
prevail against it.
Preparations for great rising are pro-
ceeding quite openly. Four hundred Off
GERS in the Bulgarian army are asking
for prolonged leave, which will not be-
refused, in order to assist the rising in
Macedonia. It is reiterated that seven
bands, .aggregating 5000 men, already
have been formed. These will spread
throughout Macedonia. under daring lead
ers, and it is calculated that they soon
will be reinforced a. hundredfold.
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CARBoLlG ACID USED.
It Is Injected Into the Veins Of a
Patient Dying Of
81
Lockjaw.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal
st. Louis, Mo-, Feb. 1O.-By the Injection
of carbolic acid into the veins of a dying
man, a process new to medical science in
the United States, DR.. Neiltert of this
city has prolonged SO far for forty EIGHT
hours the life of William Wands, fire
man, with a severe case Of lockjaw. The
method employed is not unlike that Of the
injection of formalin
DIR. Neiltert, when the man was brought
to the hospital realizing that by the ordi-
nary methods of treatment his death was
only a few hours distant, secured the per-
mission of the patient and of his rela-
sives for the experiment, which consist
ed of injecting ten drops of a 10 per cent
solution every three hours. ~
Thus far it has proved successful, al
Enough it is not known whether it Will
carry the patient on to recovery.
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THE ELkINS BILL
Henderson Will Not Oppose It-confer-
ence at the White House.

Henderson Will Not Oppose It-conter-
ence at the White House.
New York Sun Special Service.
Washington, Feb. 1O.-Speaker Hen
derson will be requested to set aside
day for the consideration of the Elkins
bill under a special order to be framed
by the committee on rules. The speaker
however, is understood to be opposed to
the bill, at least until after the senate
shall have taken action with regard to the
Littlefield trust buster, but he is not
likely to oppose it against the advice of
the party leaders.
Some uneasiness has been caused in the
minds of the administration and the re-
publican leaders in the senate and house
who have framed the trust legislation
now in the course of enactment, by the
knowledge that Representative Littlefield
hats decided to oppose the conference re-
port on the department. of commerce
bill on the ground that theres,is no rea-
son why his trust buster should be aban-
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INCREASE 0F$l00,
The Chicago G. North Western Votes
to Increase Its Capital Stock
80. Materially.

Chicago, Feb Observation-Disclosures Of the
Chicago & North Western railway held
special meeting to-day and voted to
increase the capital stock Of the company
to 500, 900, 900. The directors were au-
thorized to issue common stock from time
to time in such amounts as they may
determine and for any purpose allowed by
law, whether authorized at this meeting
or previously. It was further determined
to lease the railroad franchises and prop
erty of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Mis-
sCuri Valley road and later to purchase
it's franchises and property of all kinds.
The latter road will hereafter be operated
as an integral part of the North Western
;cfn .
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He added that assurances had been
given him that the substitute was ap-
proved by the president, the republican
leaders of the senate and all whom it
might concern. Mr.. Hepburn said in
conclusion that he was not infavor Of the
notifications himself and could not vote
for the substitute, but out of respect for
the source from which it came, he felt
1t his duty to submit the matter to the
members Of the conference committee to
make such disposition Of it as they
thought proper. tfrs.
Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. Nelson then related
their experience with 1.-The little joker
and the subject was dropped
The question of Importance now is who
was responsible for the attempt tc
strange the infant Hercules in his cradle
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- TURKEYS DENIAL
1t Does Not Carry Much Weight Witt, the
French Government.


French Government.
Paris, Feb. 10.-The officials here are
not disposed to accept the porte's assur-
ance that Turkey has no intention of mob
ilizing a large force of troops. When the
Turkish denial was brought to the at
tention of the officials here who have
access to the governments sources of in
formation the following reply was made:
1--WE have received similar pacific as
surances from Turkish sources but our
own information is positive and specific
that orders for the mobilization have been
actually issued. This was three days ago
and we are unable to say whether the exc,
cutfon Of the orders is withheld in view
Of the effect they have produced among
the powers who are seeking to enforce REL
forms in the Balkans. Our advices fur.
Their show that the mobilization would eff
feet 100000 troops
The French governments policy ap-.
pears to be shaping on it's own advices,
without reference to the quieting Turkish
assurances.
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Hamilton, Bermuda, Feb. 10.-The Que
bee Steamship co1npany's steamer Madf-
ana, Captain Frazer, which sailed from
New York an Saturday last for a special
cruise among the Caribbean islands with
party Of excursionists, has gone ashore
on the reefs off this island and Is likely to
prove total loss.
Tugs have left here in endeavors to res
cue the passengers.
The Mariana is lying with a heavy list
and broadside to the wind on the reef
one and half miles northeast of North
Rock. The seas are breaking over her.
The tug Gladisfen only succeeded in
getting within a mile o fthe Mariana
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AFTER THE SCIENTISTS"
A Hearing Before a Pennsylvania
Legislative Committee.

Harrisburg Pa, Feb. 1O.-Christian
Science healers, osteopathists and others
are fighting the Ray house bill, which
would drive them out Of practice. The
case was argued before Chairman McCon-
nelIs judiciary committee last night. The
committees big room was crowded, most
of the assenlblage being opponents of the
bill. including the Women's Christian Sci
ence association. The State Medical So
ciety in fftvoring the bill emphasized a
declared need for general law requiring
that all claiming ito heal or treat the
critically ill, the trusting sick or the gull
lible ailing public be examined by the
medical council.
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HENDERSON is IN LINE
He Confers With the President and VIII

He Confers With the President and VIII
Not Oppose the EIl<ins Bill.
Washington, Feb. 10.-In order that the
administrations antitrust program of
legislation may be rendered entirely SYM
metrical it is known that President Roose-
welt desires that what is called the Elk
ms rebate bill should be enacted into law.
That measure was passed by the senate
last week and is pending now before the
interstate and foreign commerce commit
tee of the house, of which Representa- tive
Hepburn Of Iowa is chairman. During
several days the president has been con-
ferrng, as opportunity offered. with
prominent members of the house about
the rebate bill and the subject was consid-
cred last night at a conference at the
White House between the president and
several of the leaders of the house.