Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-12-07

They were later arralgned OeIOre U. O.
 Commissioner Starks. Both pleaded
 guilty and waived the preliminary
 hearing, and bonds were fixed at ten
 thousand dollars in each case. They
 were bound over to the grand jury.
 That the Oberlin bank or President
 Beckwith really possessed the notes
 for two hundred and fifty thousand
 and five hundred thousand dollars
 respectively, with the name of Andrew
 Carnegie signed thereto, is now known
 to be shown. Whether these were
 forgeries or not is yet to be shown.
 District Attorney Sullivan declared
 he held in his possession a note for
 two hundred and fifty thousand dol
 lars with Carnegies signature and it
 was endorsed by c. L. Chadwick. The
 widely known banker said he had seen
 the five hundred thousand dollars note signed by "Andrew Carnegie.
 New York, Dec. 5-Mrs. Cassie l..
 Chadwick, whose financial difficulties
 have caused such widespread inter est, is at the Holland House tonight.
 At the hotel are at least three officers of the United States secret service and they have been particualrly alert in the past twenty four hours. A gentle
 man closely connected with the case cor fhara ic Cf YAcci hilifrr fhoE an arrest will be made in New York
 within a short time and that it will be of a person closely connected with the now famous case.
 Washington, Dec. 5-With the senate in session thirteen minutes and the house fifty three minutes, the last ses- sion of the fifty eighth congres as- sembled today. The time of both bodies was devoted entirely to the usual formalIties of the opening day. There were greetings between mem- bers, great floral display and hun dreds of visitors, with beautifully gowned women predominating. The corridors, committee rooms and cloak rooms were thronged. The hustle ex- tended even to the floors of the cham bers. The gavels of Senator Frye, the president pro tenn of the senate and Speaker Cannon of the house, fell ex- actly at F o'clock. The opening prayers were made by Chaplains pr. Ewdard Everet Hale in the senate and Rev. H. N. Couden in the house.
 In both the senate and house the committees were appointed to wait upon the president to inform him that was ready to receive any con- he had to send. Resolu- tions of respect to the memory of the late Senators Hoar, of Massachusetts,, and Quay, of Pennsylvania, were in both houses and adjourn ment was taken as a further tribute to their memory. Tie only business outside of the us- uaI first day routine was the adoption of a resolution in the house extending until January 5, 1905, the time in which the merchant marine commits sion may make Its report.
 New York, Dec. 5-Ten persons were injured and a quarter of million dollars worth of property was destroy ed as a result of an explosion caused by a spark ieaping from gasoline machine on which a chauffeur was working in an automobile garage on west 39 street today. Forty automo piles were destroyed. The flames spread so quickly that men working in the second story were cut off and had to leap out of the window. The sparks communicated with tank con- taining a hundred gallons of gasoline, which exploded. The garage was in the heart of the big hotel and theatre 1isrtict and it was thought for time that the Metropolitan opera house and several hotels were doomed, but the ] flames were finally controlled.
 St. Petersburg, Dec. 6-The sgita- i 5ion raised in newspapers on the ques- ] ion of sending the Black Sea fleet i through the Dardanelles to join Ad- niral Rojestvensky's squardon has i been inspired by a faction of the | which is anxious to see the second Pacific squardon reinforced to ! point which will insure victory, but
 here is not yet the slightest evidence
 hat Russia is seriously considering uch step. The subject is popular ,ne in Russia where there has always existed much irritation against the manner in which the Black Sea fleet s bottled up, but Russian diplomats ecognize the difficulties surrounding he vexed question of the Dardanelles md assurance is given that the present discussion is without any significance.
 Although the war office and the ad-