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iterates his opinion that Japan will not
press Russia for reply.
The admiralty insists that the move
ments of Russian ships in the neighbor-
hood of Port Arthur, are entirely with
out significance. A prominent admiral
said in an interview today:
THE admiralty believes in the peace
ful termination of the negotiations. Some
of our ships in the far east are still in
reserve. The steps now being taken should
be described as precautionary rather
than war-like preparations"
Some of the Russian newspapers are
again becoming bellicose. The Gazette
declares that Russia has reached the
parting of the ways and must choose the
position and maintain it. It discusses
seriously "the yellow peril" contending
it to be the duty of the powers to inter-
vene as they did after the Chinese-Japan
war; The Gazette concludes by saying
that if Japan persists in her war-like at
titude Russia is not going to be intimi-
dated
The Novoe Vremya says the conversion
of the reserve battalions into regiments
which was not carried out some months
ago for financial reasons Is now ex-
pected. because more military units are
needed in the east and because Germany
military increase of recent years de-
mands a second line of defense.
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CLOTHING
AROUSES DEEP SUSPICION
STEAMER ARRIVES
WITH CARGO AFIRE
CARRIED $4,000 BALES OF COTTON
AND THE LOSS BY THE FLAMES
CANNOT YET BE DETERMINED.

Charleston. January 27.-The British
Manhattan, from New Orleans to Bre-
men, came itno this port with her cargo
afire early today. She has a cargo of 2O.-
900 squares bales, 1000 round bales, many
hundred tons of cotton seed meal and a
large quantity of cypress logs. She draws
q feet and passed through the jettles
with ease. A board OF survey was held
under direction of Lloyd's agent. but 1t
will be several days before the extent OF
the fire and loss can be ascertained.
When the fire was discovered on the
vessel yesterday a number of bales of cot
ton on top of the deck were jettisoned.
but the removal of the cotton cargo was
not begun today because of the necessity
of first getting out the big logs on top of
the cotton. 1t is thought that the fire is
confined to the shelter cargo deck, but
this will not be known positively until an
examination shall have been made.
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CONSOLIDATION OF BIG BIRMINGHAM
COMPANIES MAY SOON BE REALIZED
EASTERN SITUATION
IS APPROACHING CLIMAX

London, January 2S.--The Times this
morning publishes the following dispatch
from its Toxic correspondent:
''The government has resolved to impose
war tax by doubling the land tax and
the income tax, thereby obtaining addi-
tional revenue of 100000 yen ts22, 900, 000).
Berlin January 27.-The Paris corre-
spondent of the Berliner Tagblatt claims
authority for the statement that the
forthcoming Russian note to Japan will
be Russia's last word in the matter. The
correspondent says also that Russia is
particularly opposed to the fertilization of
Ma-Sam- Pho.
st. Petersburg, January 2S, a. m.-The
council of statewill meet today under the
presidency of the czar to consider the
terms of the Russian response to Japans
last note.
st. Petersburg, January 2z-The ex-
change regarding the Russian response to
the Japanese note are still progressing,
and the foreign office announces today
that there is no change in the situation.
The Japanese legation does not consider
true the report from Toxic that Japan
has requested Russia to hasten her reply
NJ Kurno. the Japanese minister re-
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investigation Last Night.

Memphis, January 27.-Gvidence secured
by the police tonight tends to prove that
Harry Behr who was arrested today in
Louisville, was in Memphis on the night
that Miss Schaefer was murdered in Bed
ford, Ind, and that he received the
wounds upon his face in a fight in a
Chinaman's house In this city.
Behrs mother tonight presented to the
police an affidavit from Louis Vacaro, a
well known Beal street saloonkeeper in
which 1t is said Behr was In Vacaro' s
saloon during the early evening OF Jan
uary u, the night that Miss schaefer was
murdered.
"A chinaman has also been found who
states that Behr was at his place on
Main street near Talbot on Tuesday
night, January 10, smoking opium. and
that during the evening Behr became en-
gagged in fight with an unknown white
man. and was severely scratched. Behr
was bleeding profusely when he left the
Chinaman's place. according to the state
ment of the latter.
Bud Cotter. night ticket agent at the
union station. states that Behr bought
two tickets to Louisville on Wednesday
night of last week. Cotter, Vacaro and
the Chinaman claim that they have had
long acquaintance with Behr and could
not be mistaken in his Identity.
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AUTHOR OF BONNIE
BLUE FLAG" Is DEAD
MRS. ANNIE CHAMBERS KETcHAM
REFUSED TO TAKE lRONCLAD
OATH AND WAS BANISHED
FROM MEMPHIS.

New York, January 27.-Mrs Annie
Chambers Ketcham, author of the
Bonnie Blue Flag, one of the
most famous war songs of the Confeder-
acy, as well as of many other poems and
prize writings, died today at St. vinccnts S
hospital after less than a weeks illness
In her s0th year.
Mrs. Ketcham wrote "The Bonnie Blue
Flag" in Memphis in 1862. about the time
of the battle of Shiloh, when her hus-
band Leonidas Ketcham, then adjutant of
the Thirty-eighth Tennessee, received a
wound which later resulted in his death.
"A Battle Call" a song contemprora .
neous with "The Bonnie Blue Flag was
also written in Memphis at this time and
was another favorite among the soldiers
of the Confederacy.
When Memphis was occupied by the
federal troops, Mrs. Ketcham refused to
take the iron clad" oath of allegiance.
and was banished from the city by the
military authorities She returned to
New York from Rome about a year ago,
and about the time she was seized by her
final Illness. she was preparing book on
her lifelong friend, the actress, Charlotte
Cushman.
Mrs. Keteham came of a long line Of
distinguished Virginia and Kentucky an
cestors. Her nearest surviving relatives
are her daughter. Mrs. NJ w. Hart, and
three grandchildren of Louisville, KY,
and her only nephew, the Rev. DR.. b.
Stuart Chambers of this city.
The funeral will be held here Friday
morning
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CUACHMAN CLAIMS
HE GOT LETTERS
SAYS HIS EMPLOYERS WIFE
WROTE THEM TO HIM AND SHE
THEN OFFERED HIM $4,000 FOR
THEIR RETURN.

Chicago, January 27.-James Gordon
Tilbury, former coachman for Mrs. Hol-
lis M. Thurston, a prominent society
woman. was placed on trial today for at
tempting to blackmail his employer.
Tilbury claimes he had received letters
from Mrs. Thurston and threatened her
with publication unless he was given s12,-
O0O Mrs Thurston arranged to give him
the money, and officers placed him under
arrest at the very moment he was re-
ceiving 1t.
Mrs Thurston declared that she had
never written any letters to Tilbury, and
that the entire matter was a blackmail-
ing scheme. Tilbury. when placed on the
stand this afternoon, swore that he had
received the letters and that Mrs. Thurs
ton had offered him $4,000 for them, and
had promised to marry him after secur-
ing a divorce from Mr.. Thurston.
Although he claimed that he had re-
ceived $50 letters from Mrs Thurston he
failed to produce them when called upon
to do so by the state. After being pressed
on the matter Tilbury said the letters
were in a tin box in the barn at the
Thurston residence. Officers were at once
sent to search. but at a late hour tonight
had been unable to find anything.
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Strong Anti.RooseveIt Sentiment.

Former Congressman c. p Dorr OF
West Virginia was at the capitol for a
few hourse today talking with his former
colleagues.
Mr. Dorr says the sentiment among
the republicans of his state is almost
unanimous for the nomination of Senator
Hanna of Ohio for the Presidency.
II doubt very much IL Hanna would
have any opposition at all In West Vir-
ginia If he were to announce for the
Presidency" said Mr. Dorr II think his
poor health is the only thing preventing
his nomination and election"
A prominent democratic member from
one of the southern states said today:
II was a firm believer in free silver
and an enthusiastic supporter Of Mr.
Bryan in the campaign Of &c. but 1t is
worse than suicide for the party to affirm
that platform 1t means certain defeat
and that means another term for Roose-
welt.
with threatened social equality and
threatened reduction in our electoral
vote with Roosevelt in the white house
for another term, / would vote for the
democratic nominee If the platform en-
dorsed the gold standard. Every demo-
cratic in the south will do the same and
Mr. Bryan ought to understand that the
main issue with us is Roosevelt"
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RADIUM CAN BE PUT
TO MANY GOOD USES
Prince Tarkhanov Cures Cancers and
Prevents Hydrophobia-May
RevoIutionize Warfare.

st. Petersburg, January H-Professor
Prince Tarkhanov, the well known scien-
fist. lecturing recently before the military
association. made some interesting state
ments in regard to the possibilities of RAJ
dum. He presented to his audience two
cancer patients who had been cured of
malignant growths on the face by the use
of radium. and expressed the opinion that
the problem of determining the sex of
children, which Professor Schenek failed
TO solve, will shortly be settled by the aid
of radium.
The prince added that he had prevented
the development of hydrophobia in dogs
inoculated with rabid virus by using ra-
dunn.
When large quantities of radium were
available, the prince contended. the whole
system of modern warfare would be rev.
olutionized. as powder magazines,
whether In forts or in the holds of ves-
sells, would be at the mercy of radium
rays, which could explode them at long
distances.
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NAME OF HEROIC
GIRL Is LEARNED
SHE SAVED THE LIVES OF AT
LEAST FIFTY PERSONS AT THE
IRooUoIs THEATRE FIRE IN
CHICAGO.

Chicago, January T.--At the Samaritan
hospital her head and left side swathed
in bandages, lies Carrie Anderson, the
child whose deed of heroism at the Iro-
cuois fire was recounted in brief during
the coroners inquest, but whose name
has never been learned until today.
Through the steadfast bravery Of this
fourteen year old girl at least fifty lives
were saved on the fatal afternoon. She
It was who despite the fact that her en-
ire left side was being Tapped by flame,
caught the end OF the ladder thrown
across the alley from the Northwestern
university building and guided 1t to a
firm resting place On the fire escape on
The se.ond balcony. Across this ladder,
many men, women and children scram-
bled to safety. She was in the balcony
with her mother who was employed as a
cleaner at the theatre and while she es-
caned her mother perished. The child
does not know yet that her mother is
dead.
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DEFENDANT FAINTS
IN THE COURT ROOM
On Trial for Murder, She Is Overcome
BY Fer Mothers Testl-
mony.

Kansas city. January 27-Mrs. Lulu
Prince Kennedy. on trial a second time
for killing, three years ago her husband.
Phillip H. Kennedy. local contracting
agent of the Merchants Dispatch Trans
portation company, collapsed In court to-
day when her mother, on the witness
stand, admitted that the defendant had
been secretly married to John Kramer, a
local lawyer, since her conviction for the
murder of her husband. The defendant
tainted and it was necessary to carry
her from the room.
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NOn-PartsaR Boards Will Be
Appointed to Agree on
Valuation
OUTCOME WILL DEPEND
ON REPORTS OF EXPERTS
Presidents and Directors of the Ten
nessee, sIoss and Republic Com
panies Apparently Want
to Get Together.

New York, January 27-(Special)-- is
apparently a consolidation of the Tennes-
see, sloss and Republic iron companies
The presidents. directors and attorneys Of
these companies met this afternoon and
agreed to consolidate into one company
provided non partisan board could agree
upon valuation.
This non partisan board is to be ap-
pointed, one by each company. In other
words three boards of three men each are
to be appointed. One member of each
board is to be named by each company.
One board is to value the ore properties
of each company, one board is to value
the coal properties of each company and
one board Is to value the machinery or
furnace and mechanical productive ca
pacity so to speak, of each company
Boards to Report at Once.
The full board. consisting of three sepa-
rate sub-boards, are to report at the ear
liest possible moment and then the presi-
dents and executive committees are to get
together to ascertain whether or not an
agreement can be reached.
The entire consolidation depends upon
the reports of the examining committees.
The agreement between the companies is
not binding. None of them have agreed
to accept or to be bound by the report of
the committees.
There has been certain rivalry between
the companies as to their respective prop
critics and profits. They have simply
agreed to leave the matter of value to ex-
perts said values to be reported to the
respective companies to be passed upon
before any final agreement is made Thus
no one can tell what the result will be.
Desire to Consolidate.
There Is desire to consolidate, but
there is much detail. When such is the
case not even those most interested can
tell what the final result will be.
If this consolidation is accomplished I
am informed that the other iron compa-
nies of the Birmingham district will be
taken in upon equitable values with the
three companies most interested 1t is
probable that the presidents of the Ten
nessee, Sloss and Republic companies
will meet in Birmingham next Monday
to name their representatives on the
different committees.
E. w. B.
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New Postmaster for Indlanola.

The president today appointed William
b. Martin postmaster of Indianola, Miss
Nearly a year ago the negro postmaster,
Minnie V. Cox. suddenly left the office
and did not return The people of the
town asked the President to appoint an
other postmaster but he declined to do so
on the ground that the Cox woman had
been intimidated. The case caused wide
spread interest at the time and in spite
of the protests of Senator McLaurin thu
President declined to give the town
postmaster.
McLaurin made a speech In the senate
against the Presidents action and was
followed by Senator Spooner in defense
of the President. In the mean time Min
ME Cox continued to draw the salary Of
$1,000 per anuum, although she settled in
Atlanta, Ga.
The office being one of the third class
the postmasters time is limited to four
years and in the Cox case expired last
week.
II was. therefore, necessary to appoint
a new postmaster The President Is re-
ported to have been in favor of reappoint-
ing Minnie Cox. but finally concluded to
send In the name of William B. Martin.
who is democrat and a former state
senator. no competent republicans being
obtanable
The President was further guided in
this course by the fact that the people
of the town were getting along just as
well without a postmaster as they had
made full arrangements to bring their
mail from the nearest town. Finding that
the failure to name the postmaster was
working no particular hardship on the
people Martin was appointed after the
President was assured that he was not
in sympathy with the mob which IL is al
legged was called to intimidate Minnie Cox.
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EIGHTEEN BODIES
ARE IDETTIFIED
MANY DAYS WILL ELAPsE BE-
FORE THE FULL DETAILS OF
HARDWick MINE DISASTER CAN
BE KNOWN.

Pittsburg, January 2z-Three days have
the Hardwick mine of the Allegheny Coal
company, and tonight at midnight II
bodies have been recovered and brought
to the surface. Only is Of these have been
identified.
The day has been one of horror in the
little village, and while the blackened
bodies were brought from the top of the
shaft and then on sleds taken to the
school house, where the undertakers were
ready to receive them, there seemed to
prevail in the community a clutch that
repressed their natural feelings of pas
sionate anxiety and sorrow. the grim real
ization that there is still much work to
be done before the full extent of the
catastrophe has been realized.
The Allegheny Coal company tonight
in an official statement positively admit
ted that all the men who were in the
mine when the explosion occurred, are
dead. There are III names on the list
which does not include Selwyn M. Tay-
lor, or of the two men who were on the
tipple above the mine shaft when the ex-
plosion came. Nor does the list include
the name of Daniel Lysle of Castle Shan
non. one of the rescuers whose body was
found this morning. His body was found
sitting with his back to the wall of one
of the rooms. He had evidently been
overcome by after damp.
The list of III names was made public
today by C. L. Tarry. secretary of the
company Mr.. Tarry says that it is pos
sible that one or more of those included
may have escaped death but this is hard
ly probable. The only man included in
the list who is known to be living is
Chris Gunia, who Is not yet out of dan
ger He is the man who was found at
the bottom of the shaft by the rescue
party headed by Selwyn M. Taylor.
This brings the official number Of
known dead up to ia. but the list may
still be incomplete as 1t is possible that
some boys may have gone into the pit
to work under their fathers whose names
have not yet been ascertained
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LUMBER YARDS BURN.
The Damage Up to an Early Hour This
Morning Is $1500o0.

Tonawonda, N. Y. January 27-Fire
which started shortly before midnight de-
stroyed all the lumber yards of White,
Rider & Frost, one of the largest con-
Germs along North Tonawonda water
front.
visited by the flames. 1t is surrounded
on three sides by water and the fire and
the firemen by working along the strip
adjoining the mainland succeeded in check
ing the progress Of the flames in that d.
rection. The loss at o'clock this morn
ing was estimated at $15Q00o.
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Carnegie is EuIoaized.

The Hague. January 27.-Andrew Car
negie's gift of $1,5O00O0 to defray the cost
of erecting a palace of peace for the arbi-
tration tribunal was the subject of many
eulogies ON the part of the members of
the first chamber of parliament during
today's debate on the estimates of the
foreign office which subsequently were
passed
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Pueblo, Colo, January Glover forty
members of Company G. Colorado nat
ional guard. took possession of the arm
ory building and contents here today and
are holding II for money amounting to
over $1,000 due them for service In the
Cripple Crek strike. What action will be
taken by the authorities has not yet been
determined.
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RECOMMENDS ADDITION
TO PRESENT STRUCTURE
VIII Not Be Possible to Secure Appro-
priatlon for the Work This Year.
Other Gossip in Wash
inaton.
BY wATTERsoN sTEALEY.

Washington, January 27-(Special.)-
The supervising architect, treasury de-
partment. today received from Inspector
Holmes his report on the proposition to
improve the Birmingham public building
The Inspector reports that the present
building Is not sufficient in size to satis-
factorily transact public business in Bir-
mingham and that larger building will
become necessary sooner or later to ac-
commodate the growing needs of the
town.
The inspector does not endorse schemes
of improvements in the present building
which have been suggested. To make the
fourth floor suitable" says Mr.. Holmes,
will cost about $4,000 and this would
give only twelve additional rooms, includ-
ing two toilets and would not give the
space desired on the first floor" Mr..
Holmes does not consider the scheme of
fitting up the fourth floor as being prac-
tcable.
"The next step" he says. would be to
construct a one-story building IS feet
wide, 80 feet long and 16 feet high on
the rear of the present building. This
addition TO the building to harmonize
with the present building would cost
about S25 O0O Even then it would afford
but temporary relief"
In discussing the report d Mr. Holmes.
4 lay Representative Underwood said ne
did not know wnat course ne would per-
sue in regard to the matter AS there
viii be no public buildings and grounds
bill at this session of congress, an appli
cation for Improvement on the building
or a lump sum for a new building would
be impossible to obtain.
During the next few months he Will
talk the matter over with citizens Of Bir-
mlngham and next winter be in a position
to place before congress the desire of
the citizens of the city.
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Accused of Stealing Mileage Books.

Atlanta, January N.-Samuel McClurk-
en-. a clerk in the office Of the Atlanta.
and West Point railroad. was arrested
here today on the charge of larceny OF
forty 1000 mile interchangeable mileage
books. A number of scalpers and their
agents are said to be involved In the pur-
chase OF the books. The arrest was the
result of a long investigation. and Is con-
,sidered of great Importance In railroad
circles.
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Memphis. January 27.--T1arry Behr who
was arrested in Louisville today suspected
Of completely in the murder of Miss
Schaefer, resides at 102 North Main street