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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
GO TO GALLONS TODAY
CHICAGO CAR BARN BANDITS
 WILL BE EXECUTED.
Neidermeyer Weak From His At. tempt at Suicide, But Will be Able To Walk To the
 Gbbet.

Chicago, April 21.-For a crime never paralleled in Chicagos history for mur- derous ferocity and mercilessness. the penalty of the law will be exacted of the car barn bandits on the scaffold tomor- row. The exact hour of the execution has nos yet been decided upon, but 1t will take place some time between 10 a. m. and F noon. Neither has 1t been decided which of the three bandits will hang first. The intention tonight is to hang them separately.
 Neidermeyer is still in bed weak from injuries inflicted in his attempt at sui- eide Monday morning. but Dr. McNa- mara, jail physician, said tonight that Neidermeyer would be sufficiently strong to walk to the scaffold.
 With all hope of clemency gone, the three murderers tonight seemed resign ed to their fate and retired early.
 Governor Yates following the recom- mendation of the State Board of Par dons, declined to stay the execution of Van Dine.
 The execution of Neidermeyer was threatened with legal interference for a time today. when attorneys representing James Summons and John Lynch, who are under death penalty for the murder of Saloon Keeper Patrick Barrett. began proceedings of a habeas corpus nature. No judge could be found. however who would agree to grant the requests.
 The lawyers first sought the appoint .ment of a commission to take the evtN dence of Neidermeyer as to his knowl- edge of the murder of Barrett Neider- meyer some time ago made a statement that he and two companions had killed Barrett and that Sammons and Lynch were innocent. When the lawyers failed to have a commission appointed. they then filed an application for writs of habeas corpus for Neidermeyer.
 Judges Clifford. Gray and Brentano in turn refused to grant either of the de- mands of the lawyers. declaring that the wrlts asked for would not lie because the accused had already been sentenced and no trial was at this time pending.
 The lawyers for Lynch and sammons stated tonight that they were trying to have the execution of Neidermeyer stay ed tomorrow Any effort to delay the execution of the bandits will be opposed by the States attorney,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
Toao's CLAIM VERIFIED.
Alexieff Admits Battieships Struck q
 Mine.

aa5 NAluG.
 St. Petersburg. April z--AlI doubt al to the cause of the destruction of the oattleship Petropavlovsk and the damage to, the battleship Pobieda at Port Arthur Is dfssipated by the report submitted by telegraph to the Emperor April T.
 In it Viceroy Alexieff stated in a way that leaves the matter no longer an open question that mines were responsible for the disaster. The admission of the vr,es- ence of Japanese ships or Port Arthar on the night preceding the going out of the Russian ships. which were watched oy Admiral Makaroff. tends to establish Vicc Admiral Togo's claim that his ships laid mines on which the Russian battie- ships struck.
 The Viceroy's report was sent only af- ter thorough investigation ordered by the Emperor had been made. It was pub bshed this morning through the war commission. It explicitly states thai under the starboard side of the Petro- pavlovsk there was an explosion. and specifically declares that mine explod- ed under the Pobieda. That the Russian ships did not run on their own mines is shown by tn failure of the viceroy to mention anything of the kind and by the positive statement that Admiral Ma karoff was familiar with the location of the torpedoes defending the port
 The Russian officials also fail to under stand the surprising biunder of the Rus- sian torpedo boat destroyers in smistak- ing the Japanese torpedo boats for a Russian fiotilla which resulted in the loss of the Strashni
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
BELIEVE WERNER SAFE
TUSCALOOSA FRIENDS BELIEVE
 HE IS UNHARMED.
m an Inaccessible Portion of Africa, But he is Well Liked by the Natives of Dark
 Continent.

Tuscaloosa, April 2i 2i.-tSpecial. .)-An ar- ticle sent out from St, Louis stating that 1t was possible that Rev. Phillips ver- ner of this city had been killed in Al rica, by the savages, where he WIS sent by the anthropologfcal department of the Worlds Fair to secure several pigmy families. has caused much anxiety here. where Mir. Werner has resided nearly all of his life.
 From his early boyhood. MT. Werner has been much interested in colored evangelization and after his education. which was received here, he was sent to the Congo Free State, where he work cd among the natives for several years. and where it Is said. he won much favor among the natives. Some few years ago MT. Werner returned to Tuscaloosa with two African princes and entered them here at the Stillman Institute. where they were to receive an evangelical edu- cation and then return to their nativa country as missionaries
 MT. Werner for the past few years has been an instructor In the above named institute and left only when the cali came from St. Louis. He has written a number of interesting books of African travel with much success and has also delivered many illustrated lectures. which were interesting.
 MT. Verner's relatives here know just about where he Is located and believe that no harm has come to him as he ia well liked in that section. the probable reason that he has not been heard from being because he is in a section which is very inaccessible.
 Mrs. Werner. who was formerly Mise Bradshaw of Livingston. Is ir Columbia. s. C.. with her two little children await Ing the return of Mir. Werner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
s1b,ooo, ,ooo ISSUE.
Russia Puts Out Certificates Against
 Free Gold.

AuBSlA EuLS Out CeTtlucdCeS AkhhuSt
 Free Gold.
 St. Petersburg. April 21 Russia has made a new Issue of S15,000,e00 In paper currency against free gold in the State bank. At the Ministry of Finance it was explained that 1t was an ordinary issue and In no sense was forced. Under the law, paper Is issuable to double the amount of gold Up to $15,000,000, in excess of which paper issue must be covered rouble for rouble. In the state bank there are in round figures A0,OOo,OOO in gold, which would permit of an issue of $50, 00o.0o0 in paper, but the paper issue at present only amounts to $350.00O0,0.
 All sorts of figures of the cost of the dent of the Associated Press is authori- tatively informed that the daily expenses are averaging s75O.0o0. and 1t Is estimated a years expenditures for the war will total $250. 900. To meet this there ex- lsted free balance of S50,0000OO, which was increased to $115.0Oo0O0 by reductions of the ordinary budgets, leaving ostensi- bly $l3.0C0.050 to be found. But a portion of the latter Is made up by the increased earnings of the railroads owned by the government It being in reality a ques- ton of bookkeeping. how the balance is to be raised has not yet been determined. No foreign loan has been arranged, and none is desired, if 1t can be avoided, as practically the total of the war expen- ditures will be raised at home The Min istry of Finance believes it may be easy to float an internal loan later in the summer or fall.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
Selling sullH,s Cotton.

New York. April 21.-Judge Holt in the United States District Court today over ruled the demurrer proposed by Daniel J. Sully and Company, against the involun- tary petition in bankruptcy filed against the firm by Stephen s. Weld and Com paily. Gwathmy and Company and other creditors. giving the defendants leave to answer the amended petition within ten days on the payment of costs. The re- ceivers of the firm of Daniel J. Sully and Company today announced that they have sold all but one hundred bales of the spot cotton held in warehouses for the bankrupt firm. Two thousand bales were sold yesterday and 1.2OO bales today. About S23oOoo has been realized by the sale
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
Matter Will be Arbitrated.

Washington. April 2L-As the result of formal application for an arbitration of the controversy between the city of Memphls and the St Louis Southwestern Railroad Cotton Belt), the Interstate Commerce Commission today decided to give hearing in Memphis May Il next to inYestigate the question. P. H. Combs of New York City. General East ern Freight and Passenger agent, and H E. Farrell of St. Louis. freight traffic manager of the St Louis. Southwestern and T. S. Davant. commissioner of the Memphis Freight Bureau. appeared be- fore the commission today and asked that it arbitrate the dispute. The commission declined to act as board of arbitration. but consented to inquire into the general conditions and make the recommends tions that seemed proper
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
INSTRUCTED | FOR NR. OLNEY
 Old B2s State Repudiates Hearst. Z MT RULE IS ADOPTED A 3 to Vote Against Pro- posals of Williams.
 The Platform Contains But a Single, Plank, that Advocating Nomina- ton of the Favorite Son of Massachusetts.
Ir RULE IS ADOPTED

Boston, April H.--By an overwhelmins vote the Massachusetts Democratic Con- vention at Fremont Temple today in- structed four delegates at large and tweri- ty delegates from the various Congress sional districts of the State to support Richard olney of this city for the Presf- dental nomination at the Democratic convention at St. Louis next July.
 Four delegates at large pledged to the support of olney were elected and the supporters of William R. Hearst of New York as the Presidential nominee were defeated by vote of about 500 to 200. 4 resolution offered by Representative John A: Coulthurst of Boston, endorsing the candidacy of MT. Hearst was voted down by a very large majority.
 George Fred Sat Upon.
 George Fred Williams, the leader of that faction of the Massachusetts Democ- racy supporting the candidacy of Will Ham R. Hearst, made vigorous protest against the adoption of the unit rule, but the convention, by a vote of nearly to 1, refused to strike from the plat form the clause calling for unanimous action with reference to Presidential nom- inees and as adopting the resolutions pro- posed, by, the majority of it's committee, on motion of Josiah Quincy. voted that the unit rule govern not only the sup port of Mir. Olney, but all matters per- taining to the convention.
 The platform adopted consisted of a single plank-an endorsement of Mir Ol- ney's candidacy and instructions to the delegates to vote as a unit for him.
 Scenes of Turbulence.
 The proceedings of the convention were marked at times by scenes of the great est disturbance.
 After adjournment MT. Williams is- sued a statement in which he said that the action of the convention in adopting the unit rule was a rank absurdity from beginning to end and that the district delegates would pay no attention to to- days votes.
 If they are instructed" he said 'sby their own conventions, they will act ac- cordinsiy. If they are nninstructed. they wiil vote according to their own will. and the patfaIaal convention wIlt not for a moment give endorsement to today's convention.
 The deiegates-at-large chosen are: Colonel William A. Gaston, and Mayor Patrick A. Collins. of Boston, William L.. Douglas, of Brockton. and Congressman John R. Thayer, of Worcester.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
ro Proteot Monuments.

Washington. April a.-Representative Rixey of Virginia has introduced q bill appropriating $5o.OOo to protect the monu- ments that have been or may be erected ca the battle fields of Bull Run. Va. The bill requires the purchase for the United States by the Secretary of War of the ground on which the monuments are To- eated on which the first and second bat ties of Bull Run were fought: for a com mission of three to be appointed by the President one of whom shall have been a Union and one a Confederate soldier. To consider plans for additional monu- ments which societies representing mih- tary organizations may desire hereafter to erect at their own expense.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
D. A. R. CONVENTION.
Reports of Standing Committees Are
 Heard.

Washington. April 21.-Reports of stand ing committees occupied the afternoon session of the D. A R. congress. Mrs Fairbanks, the president general, made the report of the committee on the memo rial continental hall. and spoke in glow ing terms of the success of that project.
 Mrs ;. V. White of Brooklyn reported that New York State and New York city have appropriated s75.0O0 altogether for tke erection of a monument to the menI- ory of thosc who died on prison ships ip the revolutionary war and the daugh- ters have contributed s25,OOo to it.
 A committee was appointed to urge upon Congress the passage of the resolu- tion for brir ginG the remains of John Paul Jones to tho United States.
 Mrs. Fairbanks presented the report of the committee on the continental nall. rt citing tine work and accomplishments of those in charge of the matter. Con- trbutions for the hall fund were made by the various chapters. The local chap ter of Indiana, to which Mrs. Fairbanks belongs, gave 1000. Other large con- tributions were $2.32S from the chapters os Pennsylvania, $1.37O from the chapters of Illinois. and s1,s5o from the New Yorh chapters
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
EXECUTED AS SPIES.
Japanese oficers Fall Into Hands of
 Russians.

Russians.
 St. Petersburg, April 2i-The Emperor has received the following telegram from General kuropatkin under today's date: Al was quiet on the Yalu the 18th and 20th. and there has been no change
 "On the night of the 18th opposite Cape Tower Hill. west of Kai Chju, a steamer was observed sending of boats, evidently for the purpose of taking soundings. The boats soon returned"
 IT. other telegrams to the Emperor. Gen erai KuropatkIn says:
 T respectfully report to your majesxS that two Japanese officers named St. Cevo Yuxola and Girla Oki were arrested near the station of Fur Chi Kht. In their possession were found three cases of Bickfordfus, a French wrench, dynamite cartridges tools for railway wrecking, cylinders containing one and a half pounds of pyroxyiin, good maps of Mon gclia. Manchur4a and Northern Korea. and number of notes.
 A courtmartfal held at Harbin April 20 found them guilty while belonging to the Japanese army of operating against Russia, and in order to gain success for their army, of destroying or damaging telegraph and railway contamination by means of pyroxylIn and with other things provided for that purpose and of making their way secretly into Man ckuria. where they were arrested by Rus stan patrols thirty versts southwest Of the station of Tnr chi Kha on the east legfi .causeway. The officers Epre AfRn- goiian dress to disguise their nation alIty
 'sThe otiicers were condemned 10 be de- prived of their civil rights and to be exc cuted by hanging.
 1T confirmed the sentence, but in view ot the officers rank, consented that they be shot Instead of hanged. with the same loss of civil rights
 T refused their prayer to spare their lives, and they were executed at o'clock on the evening of April 21.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
RUssIA's LATEST FIT.
Imagines Americans and Britons
 Aided Japs.


 Berlin. April H.-A correspondent of The Frankfurter Zeitung. writing from Harbin. Manchuria, under date of March l6 says:
 Great bitterness has been aroused throughout Manchuria against Ameri- cans ard British because It is believed American and British vessels took part in the bombardment of Port Arthur un- der the Japanese flag. This belief ap- parently is due to the fact that the Jap snese fleet was larger than the Russians anticipated and include unknown types of vessels. The feeling is SO strong that Americans and British are not safe any where in Manchuria One Rally an American, and several others, including Davidson. a Canadian. have disappeared. The authorities are looking for them. It Is reported that an Englishman was ar rested in Port Arthur as a spy and was taken to Mukden and hanged.
 The plying of the so-called flour boats on the Liao river, mostly under the American flag and carrying American goods. has been prohibited.
 Southern Mapchuria has been secured for several months for supplies of flour destined for Port Arthur which Is sup posed to be provisioned for two years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
YOUTH AND MAFRIMONY
WHEELER SAYS MEN SHOULDN'T
 MARRY roo YOUNG.
AAIabama Warriors Parry to the sug- gestion That He Was Going To Take a Bride to
 Europe.
Advertiser Bureau, Colorado Building,

Washington, April 21.
 General Wheeler has been dashinE about the Capitol all this week. run ming up and down the steps of the huge house and along the corridors with the same unparalleled agility with which he used to serve constituents when he represented the Eighth Ala hama district. He took in the White House on his run to-day. There he was asked whether he was interesting him. self to any extent In politics this year.
 No" he said, I'm not botherinE much in politics now. have always gone into any business with my whole soul. When was in politics l made it my business. When I went into the army made that my business. So have laid politics aside. 1 am fixing to go to Europe for rest"
 And, if you don't mind, General, some one will be reviving that story about your going to be married, so that 1t can be fitted to your taking bride with you to Europe.
 T don't suppose anybody will try to spring that about me now. I long ago told some of these people that I did not believe a man should marry when he was so young. It isn't good to mar ry too young" and General Wheeler laughed to a fellow army officer who eomplimented him on the agility and youth he exhibited in his movements and manner.
 Then the two army offlcers fell to commenting about certain army men who had given up good assignments to marry, when if they had postponed their marriages for short times they would have been at the head and fore front of events that made other men famous and advanced them in the army.
 This was the case of men who gain ed brides and lost opportunities to se- cure fame and advancement" said General Wheeler.
 The names they used were not in- tended for publication.
 R. H Watkins
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
TO STRIKE FINAL BLOW.
Irish Will Defeat the Unionist Gov
 s.s,f

Dublin. April ef. The annual national convention. at the Mansion House here today. was well attended and excited much enthusiasm.
 John Redmond, who presided at the opening proceedings. said the Unionist Government and party was in condemn ed cell waiting for the execution of the sentence which had been pronounced on them, and in all human probability 1t was reserved for the representatives of Ire land to give. the final blow, which would end their existence.
 They had denied Ireland home rule. had broken their pledges and introduced a budget which would impose an additional burden of s2. .5oo,ooo yearly on Ireland. The question of home rule was again beeom- ing decided factor in English elections. and when the dissolution of parliament came. 1t would be found "a deciding factor as 10 what government should rule the empire. ss9
 The convention passed a resolution In favor of home rAile and expressing con- fidence fin the Irish members of parlia- ment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22

works. ore shipped on long time con.
 tracts and ore sold in the market in
 iy04 must be subject to one and the same rule Fms would require the purchase of
 some ore in the market by the steel cor. poration and would give firms well sup piled with long time contracts little or no ore to sell in the marAet this year
 but the contention of the merchant ore interests Is that any other basis of agree. ment would be easily evaded and would make any prices that might, be fixed merely nominal So far as prices are concerned. the views of the different in- terests were only 20 cents apart, and compromise on that point alone would be easy. f, { The renewal of overtures for the trans- fer of Eresponsibiiity for the Clarion Steel Company from the Crucibie Steel Company of America to the United St ates Steel Corporation is interesting, coming in the same week with the final ore meeting and the decision of the steel corporation not to take May iron from the Beasemer Furnaces of the Mahoninr and Shenandoah valleys.
 The corporation does not need the Clairtou furnace and steel plant, but their acquisition would mean the re- movai of < competitor in steel and pre- vent the selling of Clairton pig iron on the market. At the same time. 1t would mean tie end. for many months. of any pig Iron buying by the steel corporation In the open market.
 The meeting of Bessemer furnace com panies In Cleveland Saturday was acc companied bS the statement that all ne- gotiations en May ron with the steel corporation were on An extension of the option until April % had been talked of. but this was not done. The prospect of further btlniness for the merchant fur- naces from the steel corporation Is con- sidered so remote that the valley steel works projeet. long talked of as neces- sary some daysfo give furnaces in that district an outlet, is again up for dis- cussion. The Hessemer pig iron market has not been affected as yet by the &C., ton of the corporation. Sales of sls.5o are reported In the past week.
 The quietness in pig iron extends to finished material, and the feeling Is not quite so hopcful though no we'll defined ground for change In sentiment Is found. The structural outlook Is slightly better.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
RUSSIANS IN. FULL FLIGHT Said to Be Re-crOSSing
 the Yalu. PORT ARTHUR IS DOOMED Events Fastening the Fall of
 the F0rtresses. Japansse ohicers Discovered With Materials for Destruction of Rail road and Telegraph Lines
 Shot as Spies.
PORT ARTHUR IS DOOMED
Japanese oficers Discovered With
 Materials for Destruction of Rail-

London, April 22.-A correspondent of The Times cables from New Chwang says that messenger has arrived there from the Yslu River with the information that the Russians are fleeing north across the river in overcrowded boats and are losing hundreds by drowning.
 The Tokio correspondent of The Teie- graps says that Port Arthur Is un- doubtedly effectually blockaded and that events are culmineting around the doom- ed fortress.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
BANK CLERKS sTEAL1NGs.
By Simple Scheme He Got Away
 With $32, ,0oO.

New York, April 21.-Clerks in the Chemical National Bank have solved the mysterious process by which the institu- ton was robbed recently of more than $S2,0O0.
 The money was taken by check clerk who never handled any funds, but who was at the head of the check depart ment After drawing on the bank for nearly a year he became alarmed and fed. but the bank officials were much mystifed as to the process by which he stole their money.
 After a lengthy investigation 1t has been learned that the clerk opened check account with another bank. clear ing through the Chemical. When the checks came fin from the clearing house the clerk abstracted those he had drawn and charged the amount to the ''unceru- fled check account" which was in his care. By this simple method the short age was completely covered.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22
Naval Officer A Suicide

San Francisco, April A.-Robert NichoI- son. chief boatswain mate of the United States gunboat Petrel after twenty-two years or honoraoie service in the United States navy, has shot and killed himself here, rather than face a charge of having brought liquor on board the ship. Niohol- son was born in the Shetland islands forty-four years ago, had a good record since his enlistment in 1880. and served through the Spanish war with credit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-22

this government reserves the right to take any action which may be necessary If the Interests of American citizens are affected. Secretary Hay and Count Cas- sini today briefly discussed the wireless teleghaphy question and 1t Is believed here that when the war Is over Russia and the United States may take the lead in the ealing of a worlds congress to define for always the use of wireless and the law of nations.