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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
SECRET SERVICE MEN
WERE ON THE WATCH
Had a Struggle with "A Tramp on
the Presidents Train.

Had a Struggle With n Tramp on
the Presidents Train.
Gillette, Wyo., April 25.-The secret
service men on the Presidents train
had an exciting mix-up with a tramp
last night shortly after the train left
Livingston.
A man was discovered between the
baggage and club cars on the outside
of the vestibule. One of the officers
raised the window of the front of the
club car and started to grab the man,
when the latter aimed a blow at him
through the glass; shattering it.
The officer caught the mans leg and
succeeded in getting him into the car,
where he showed fight He was a
powerful man, and it took some time
before he was overpowered and hand
cuffed.
A card found on him shows his iden-
LITIGATION as Edward Russell, a sailor,
member of the Sailors Union of San
Francisco. When the train reached Bill
lings he was turned over to the police.
When asked why he was on the train,
Russell said he wanted to reach st.
Paul, where his mother lived.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
RUSSIA SAYS JAPAN
MISLEADS UNITED STATES.
Russian Foreign Office Oficials
Make Explanation.

Russian Foreign Office Officials
Make Explanation.
st. Petersburg, April 25.-The off,
Gals of the Foreign Office here ex-
pressed to the correspondent of the AS
ISOLATED Press to-day intense surprise
over the report that American public
opinion is disturbed by the news re-
garding Manchuria.
They declared the people of the
United States were being misled by
the Japanese, and said the improve
ments which were in progress in Man
churia certainly would benefit interna-
tional commerce. The Foreign Office
officials added that no new fundamen-
tai conditions were being imposed, de-
claring that what are now in progress
are pourparlers concerning the act of
evacuation itself, and the organization
of the Chinese administration to assure
order.
The Chinese administration, however,
is not ready. Russia desires an assur-
ance that China will maintain a suff1-
cient police force to repress local dis
orders, which are continuous through
out Manchuria, especially in the noun
tains. The detachments of Russian
troops remaining in the country have
no object but the maintenance of order
locally until China is able to guarantee
that order will be maintained
The Foreign Office adds that the
number of railroad guards will ulti-
mately not exceed 10000, unless under
exceptional circumstances.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
VISITED THE UNIVERSITY.
Conference For Education Enter
tanned by the Faculty.

Richmond, Va, April 25.-The MEM
bers of the conference for education
in the South went to Charlottesville
to-day and were entertained by the
faculty of the University of Virginia.
At 1890 O'Clock the final business ses-
sion of the conference was held in the
auditorium. DR.. P. B. Barringer,
chairman of the faculty made am ad-
dress of welcome, to which Robert G.
Ogden of New York, president of the
conference, responded.
Addresses followed on 1.-The Rela-
tion of the University to the Public
School, by DR.. c. w. Kent; "Univer-
sity of Virginia and jefferson, Its
Founder" by Francis G. Peabody of
Harvard; Thomas Jefferson in His
Relation to Education" by r. H. Dab
ney, The SoGSh's Relation to the
Movement Represented by the Confer
ence," by President c. w. Dabney of
the University of Tennessee.
At O'Clock luncheon was served
with the faculty of the university as
hosts, and at 4 O'Clock the train was
taken for Richmond, where the visitors
arrived this evening.
Tomorrow evening a service in
memory of DIR. j. l.. NJ. Curry will be
held in the Academy of Music here
and Monday the members of the con-
ference will make an excursion down
the James river to jamestown and Old
Point. The river trip will be the clos
ing incident of the present session of
the conference.
President Ogden to-day received a
communication from the co1ored people
of this city. expressing thanks for the
work the conference has undertaken
and is doing for the blacks, as well as
the whites. The letter says:
Recognizing the great good which
has already been done for us, and that
greater good which awaits us in the
future, we do not feel that God would
be pleased were we to fail to thank the
South for that great and magnanimous
feeling of self-sacrifice with which
they fostered and cared for the inter-
ests of the negro, and also the North,
which has on all occasions come SO
nobly to the support of the South in
the interest of popular education.
THE negroes of Richmond have al
ways been able to live in peace and
harmony with the white race. The
same kindly feeling which coursed in
the veins of the Nanny and body
servant of bygone days exists to-day
We have lived here and prospered and
thousands of us rejoice in the posses
sion of our own vine and fig tree with
none to make us afraid. There exists
no personal feeling of antagonism be-
tween the white citizen and the colored
citizen of Richmond who are to the
manner born ones trouble is the
others trouble, and what benefits one
benefits the other.
I'm view of the foregoing facts the
pastor of the First African Baptist
Church of Richmond extends to you
and all the members of the conference
who may so desire, an invitation to at
tend the morning services on Sunday.
A revival is in progress, and an OPP
portunity viii thus be given to wit
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
COLORADO LAUNCHED.
Powerful Cruiser Will Soon Sail the
Seas.

Powerful Cruiser VIII Soon Sail the
Seas.
Philadelphia, April 25.-The armored
cruiser Colorado was launched to-day
at Cramps shipyard in the presence of
a distinguished gathering from Wash
ington and the state of Colorado, in
Guiding the entire congressional dele
CATION. Miss Cora May Peabody,
daughter of Gov. Peabody of Colo
RADIO, broke the bottle of wine on the
Prov of the cruiser as she glided down
the ways at 1926, into the Delaware
river.
The cruiser Colorado is of a new class
of vessels added to the American navy.
She is an armored cruiser of the first
class, yet she bears the name of a
state, an honor formerly only accord
ed battleships. Coupled with tremen-
dous battery power, she has the speed
of an ocean liner. Her speed require
ment calls for twenty-five knots an
hour for four consecutive hours.
The fighting force of the Colorado
is centered principally in two batteries.
She will carry a main battery of four
up-to-date eight-inch and fourteen six
inch rapid-fire rifles; and a secondary
battery of eighteen Founders
and twelve three-pounders. The eight
inch guns are designed to fire once
every fifty seconds and the six-inch
guns are expected to fire three times
a minute.
The contract price of the Colorado
was $3.50, 900.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
FOUGHT THE SOMALIS.
Report That 1000 of the MuIIah's
Men Were Slain.

Report That 1000 of the Mullah's
Men Were Slain.
Alden, Arabia, April 25-Brig. Gen.
Manning, after an engagement with
the Mad Mullahs forces, has relieved
Col. Cobbe, near Gumburru, Somali-
land, forty-five miles westward of Ga
ladi About 1000 of the Mullah's men
were killed. The British loss is not
known.
The few details obtainable of the
disaster to Col. Plunkett's detachment
April II show the Mullahs forces con-
sisted of 1000 horsemen and 10000
spearmen. They surrounded Col. Plum
kett's force in the open, and the Som
ais, after a heavy fire, charged Ie-
peatedly with their hOrsemen and
spearmen on all sides.
The British detachment held out
until its ammunition was exhausted,
and then charged with the bayonet,
but it was ultimately overwhelmed by
weight of numbers. The British force
fought until all it's officers and 40
men were killed. Most of the handful
of men who reached the camp were
wounded. The SomaIis' losses are re-
ported to have been enormous.
The Mullahs forces are reported to
aggregate from 5000 to 1900 mounted
men and about $4,000 spearmen.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
sticks to It's Decision.

Boston, April 25.-The State Board
Of Arbitration has refused to revise
it's recent finding that the Lawrence
Manufacturing Company of Lowell
could afford to pay its operatives the
10 per cent. increase In wages which
the help demanded. The board reach
ed its decision after an investigation
into the Lowell labor trouble, which
involves seven cotton mills and $4,000
operatives, finding in favor of six cor
porations and excepting the Lawrence
mills.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
FOR PALMA TROPHY TEAM.

New York. April 25.-The Executive
Committee of the National Rife AS
ISOLATION has fixed May IS, 10 and 20
as the dates for the trial shoots TO
determine the personnel of the team
which is to represent this country in
competition for the Palma trophy.
These trials will take place at Sea
Girt, N. ].
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
LEAVE CLEARING HOUSE.
other Large Trust Companies in
New York VIII Get Out.

other Large Trust Companies in
New York VIII Get Out.
New York, April 25.-Although off,
cial confirmation is lacking, it is known
that several large trust companies, fol-
lowing the lead of the Union Trust
Company, have practically decided to
sever their clearing house connections.
These latter companies include the
Mercantile Trust Company and the
Trust Company of America. The Mer-
camille Trust, which is closely identi-
fed with Equitable Life interests,
clears through the Western National
Bank and the Trust Company of
America, comparatively new COM
pany, clears through the Hanover Ma
tional Bank.
The action Of the Mercantile Trust
Company in giving up its clearing priv
ilege is regarded as important, as the
company has more than $50, 0OO,0 900 on
deposit.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
IN THE ROOM. FROM
WHICH SHOT WAS FIRED.

frankfort, KY, April 25.-The testi-
mony in the trial of James Howard
was completed this afternoon and the
jury taken to the capital grounds,
where they viewed the scene of the
killing. The defendant, in the GUS
tody Of Sheriff letters, accompanied
the party, and for a few minutes was
in the room from which he is alleged
to have shot Goebel.
The argument will begin Monday and
will occupy the greater part of two
days. The case has been in progress
since April Z.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
FOR THE BARREL MURDER.
One of the italians Held as n Wit
ness Is Arrested.

New York, April 25.-Police Inspec-
tor McClusky announced to-day that
he would arrest Tomasco Petto, one of
the italians now in the house of de-
tention in connection with the barrel
murder on the charge of committing
the crime The necessary evidence,
the inspector said, had been secured, IN
that a pawn ticket, which had been
found on Petto, had been obtained on
a watch owned by the murdered man.
The watch, which is covered with en-
craving, was identified to-day by the
stepson OF the dead man.
Petto was arraigned tleis afternoon
before a coroner and committed to the
Tonnbs without bail until Monday for
further examination. He says he can
establish an alibi.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
CHALLENGE TO ROOT
EDITOR WELSH DARES HIM TO TRY
FUNSTON.
INSISTS UPON HIS CHARGE
THAT FUNSTON ORDERED THAT NO
QUARTER BE GIVEN.

Welsh Asserts That Verbal Instruc-
the Goth Kansas to ''Take no Pris-
OnerS" Mt CnIOOcan He Names
Witnesses-Invites a Court and a
Trial-One Man, Ordered to Shoot n
Prisoner, Begging ON His Knees,
Refused.
Philadelphia, April 25.-Herbert
Welsh, editor of City and State re-
form periodical of this city, has writ
ten an open letter to Secretary of War
Root, concerning the refusal by the
War Department of Brig. Gen. Funs-
tons request for a court of inquiry, TO
investigate his conduct in the Philip
pines.
Mr.. Welsh quotes from "a previous
letter to the President, STIMULATING the
charge against Gen. Funston, which
was that he had before the battle OF
Caloocan conveyed verbal instructions
to the officers of the Twentieth Kansas
ito take no prisoners in that battle"
Continuing, Mr.. Welsh says:
1.-THE President placed my letter in
your hands as the head of the War
Department for official consideration
How did your department treat it?
Did you undertake to disprove the
facts, which had already been stated IN
substance months before by Moorfield
Storey, counsel to the Adams-Schurz
Committee, in his Marked Seventies
pamphlet-a pamphlet which contained
a terrible arrangement of your official
management of this war, and of your
department, and one to which you
have given not a syllable of response
On the contrary, you contented your
self with the most shadowy of techni-
cal excuses"
Welsh Appealed to Funston.
Mr.. Welsh states that on March 10
he openly appealed to Gen. Funston to
demand an inquiry. He received no
answer other than the announcement
by the Secretary of War that the de-
partment is satisfied with previous in
quiries into the question at issue. Mr.
Welsh claims to have had testimony
which would have proved Gen. Fun
ston's gross military incompetency.
The letter proceeds:
81 will make a suggestion that will
give you a fair chance to show that
you are right. Summon a court in
Washington, the members of which
shall be named by the commanding
general, Nelson A. Miles. Then sum-
mon before that court any witnesses
whom you or Gen. Funston may desire,
but also summon Col. Edward C. Little
of Abilene, Kans., who organized the
Twentieth Kansas, and Lieut.. John F.
Hall of the Twentieth Kansas and
William Moore of Aliceville, Kans.,
who was ordered by Col. Metcalf to
shoot a prisoner at Caloocan on his
knees, begging piteously for mercy. and
who refused.
Such court as this should settle
the question"
Mr.. Welsh concludes by suggesting
that publication of Gen. Miles report
would throw light on the Philippine
question.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
MAY INDICT SIMS
ON eleven COUNTS.

ATLANTA, April 25.-G. H. Sims will
be indicted by the grand jury of the
United States Court on Monday. Elev-
en- bills have been prepared against
him, one charging enbezzlement of
something over $4,000. I'VE charging
him with making false entries m the
books OF the Capital City National
Bank and the others charging for
gerry. Sims Is still in jail, having
failed 70 give bond.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
ON THE CANAL TREATY.
Colombia May Not Take Action For
Some Time.

Washington, April 25.-William Mel
son Cromwell, the Panama Company's
attorney, called at the State Depart
ment to-day to talk with Secretary Hay
about the present status of the canal
treaty and the prospects of early ac-
ton upon it by the Colombian Con-
gress.
1t is learned that the congressional
elections are now over, but no date
has been set for the special session to
consider the treaty. Much difficulty
has been experienced in coming to an
understanding on this point as Presl-
dent Marroquin is, in fact, bound, on
account of the strength of the oppo-
sition, to await the psychologist moment
to assemble the members to insure fay
orable action.
1t is consequently possible that the
President will abandon entirely his in
tention of calling an extra session and
conclude to let the treaty take it's
chance at the regular session, which
convenes by the terms of the constitu-
ton, in July.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
BANK OF COMMERCE DEAL.
Stock of the Concern Now Sell as
High rs 1875.

New York, April 25.-In the financial
district it was reported to-day that
the National Bank of Commerce will
soon pay an extra dividend of SO per
cent. This is supposed to represent the
difference in surplus in the Bank of
Commerce and that of the Western
National Bank, which it is generally
understood will soon absorb the Bank
of Commerce. Bank of Commerce
shares sold as high as 1916 to-day, rep
resenting an increase of about SIS in
the past fortnight.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
SENATORS OF UTAH
APPEAL FOR MORMONS.
They Ask Hay to Take the Matter
Up With Berlin.

Up With Berlin.
Washington, April 25.-In response
to urgent kilograms from United States
Senators Smoot and Kearns of Utah,
Secretary Hay addressed to-day a COM
munication to Ambassador Tower at
Berlin, requesting him to investigate
a complaint which has been made that
the authorities in Prussia and Meek
lenburg have taken action looking to
the expulsion of a number of Mormon
missionaries.
1t was represented to Mr.. Hay that
these missionaries are, with few ex-
ceptions, American citizens, and that
they have violated no moral or Sc
ular law. Polygamy it is asserted,
has not been taught or practiced as
one of the tenets of the Mormon faith.
The Secretary's dispatch directs Am
bassador Tower to ascertain if any in
Justice or wrong has been done these
people.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
For Churoh Extenrion.

Louisville, KY, April 25.-The Board
Of Church Extension Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, completed its
work to-day and adjourned The day
was spent in considering applications
from churches for loans and donations.
The amounts voted were: For dona-
tons, sS4, 900; loans, $4,000.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
MAY PAY OUT 100000, 900.
Work of Refunding Goes MerriIy on
mt Washington.

operations Of the Treasury Department
to-day passed the $5O.OOO.OOO point, the
total amount of 8 and per cent. bonds
so far exchanged for 2 per cent. con-
soils being $50.0S7, $50. The rapidly
with which the old bonds have been
turned in since the secretary's offer
one month ago is surprise even to
the officials, who now express the be-
lief that the whole amount which the
secretary offered to take, 500, 900, 900,
will be refunded within the next few
weeks
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
TO ATTEND LOUISE.
Physician and Nurses Leave the
Court mt Dresden.

Court mt Dresden.
Berlin, April 25.-A Munich dispatch
says the accouchment of the former
Crown Princess Louise Of Saxony is
expected within a fortnight. and that
a court official, with a physician and
nurses, has already arrived at Lindau.
Lake Constance, from Dresden, having
royal orders TO bring the child 10 Dres-
den three weeks after its birth.
It is authoritatively stated that the
Grand Duke Of Tuscany, father Of
Princess Louise, recently became rec
onciled to her, but decided that Il was
best that she should not live at Salz-
burg, out of consideration for her
younger sisters
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
BAXTER RESIGNS.

Van BIarcom VIII Succeed Him on
the Tennessee Central.
Nashville, Tenn, April 25.-Jeremiah
Baxter has resigned the presidency of
the Tennessee Central Railroad, to take
effect May l. Mr.. Baxter will here
after devote his entire time to his pa
per, the Nashville Daily News. ]. A.
VanBlarcom of st. Louis will succeed
him as president of the railroad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
PROSECUTIONS OF JEWS.
Scores Were Shot or Beaten to Death
mt I<ishfneff.

st. Petersburg, April 25.-The No
vosu to-day, without giving the ex-
act figures, indicates that the Jews at
Kishineff, capital of Bessarabia, during
the antiSemitic riots there, April 20,
suffered even more severely than ad-
mitted officially. The paper says scores
of Jews were shot or beaten to death
and several hundred were wounded.
Their houses were wrecked and their
shops were sacked. Thousands of Jews
in the district are homeless and de-
stitute,
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-27
NO PERFECT sPENDTHRIFT.
He IL = Foreign Product and Has Not
Yet Fully Developed In
America.

Uneconomical and extravagant as
we are, we have not yet developed
the perfect spendthrift,' as he is TO
be found on the other side of the At
lantic. IL seems at times as if he
must be a product of an older, a
more "effete" civilization, says a
writer in Scribner's. The man, either
young or old, who runs through a
large fortune quickly is a rarity with
US. High as our standard of living
and of the ordinary expense of liy-
ing, our standard of what may bs
called profiigate extravaganza is by
no means so high. OF course, pretty
large sums are wasted in various
forms Of dissipation, here as else
where. But that is not the point
To take the single item of gambling.
how often do we hear of man be-
ing ruined by il here2 No doubt we
hear stories of tremdndods sums lost
and won; but such sums do not seem
either "to make or to break any
body. For men whose incomes are
reckoned by the hundreds of thou
sands or millions to play hundred
dollar poker is no great recklessness.
But how often do we see young men.
of the small-salaried sort, punting a
thousand or two thousand dollars at
a time at bacoarat, as you can any
day in France? We have not the in
stinct to save and scrape for IL
months in the year. and then shell
out all our savings in fortnight.
l once met in France young man
of old provincial family, legitimist
to the backbone. prord and very
poor; he was about 81, modest, thor
oughly correct" as good, innocent
a young fellow as one would care to
meet; the sort of young man who
seems to have been overlooked and
left out in the cold by French fiction,
though by no means great rarity
in French real life. / happened to
ask him one day if he ever played
cards. He said no, he did not care
for that sort of thing, and besides.
his means would not permit il. Il
never go into gambling saloon,"
said he, cor into the cardroom oy a
club; sometimes l may join in e%lit-
tie game of poker among friends just
to pass the time; but only very,
small game. never more than a louis
limit" A louis limit wonder wha.
clubman (oat Of the millionaire class)
in New York. Boston, Philadelphia.
or any Of our larger eastern cities,
would call four-dollar poker very
small" game