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ANTI-JEw RIOTS.
Usual Excuses Offered for the Massacre
and Pillage.

and PiIlage.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, April ga cablegram from
Berlin says: Prominent Jews of this city
have received kilograms stating that anti
Semitic riots have occurred at Lompalanka,
In Bulgaria. A mob stormed the ghetto and
massacred six and wounded nineteen Jews.
Many Hebrew houses at Saul also have
been plundered.
The mobs gave as their excuse the usual
rumor that ritHalistic murders had been
committed for passover sacrifices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-05

ST. LOUIS. April b.-When the United
States district court convened today it was
expected that the hill OF exceptions to be
filed by the counsel for United States Hena-
tor ]. r. Burton of Kansas, in the pro-
ceedings to secure rehearing Of his case,
would be formally placed before the court.
but Senator Burton and his attorneys were
not present and the bill has not yet been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-05
Canal Commission Arrives at Colon.

COLON, April 5.-The Panama Railroad
Cempany's steamer Alliance has arrived
here with the United States Panama canal
cen mission on board. The commissioners
have established themselves in the DeLes-
seps quarters
The arrival Of the commission caused
much enthusiasm at the canal company's
HEADQUARTERS here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-05
PANAMA CANAL BONDS.
Proposed to Allow Their Use as Basis
of Circulation.

The Senate committee on finance today
authorized Senator Aldrich to report an
amendment to the bill for the government
of the Panama canal zone giving to the
canal construction bonds all the rights ana
privileges of the outstanding per cent
government bonds. The effect Is TO ailoW
nationaI banks to use the bonds as basis
for circulation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-05
! divorces Granted.

{ Justice Anderson. in Equity Court No. 4
today signed "a decree granting Alice ~
Kidwell divorce from Gsorgs O. Kidwsll
Ten the ground Of assertion.
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New York Cotton Market
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

At the meeting of the stock exchange To-
day the bid for the bonds of the Washing
tor Railway Company advanced from "a
to TAN, and 81. 600 bond was sold at that
figure. The bid then receded to "a. but
there was none for sale at that price and
none offered at less than IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-05
Now York Stock Market.

Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., bankers
and brokers' 1419 F St, members New York
stock exchange. Washington stock ex-
change and Chicago board of trade
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Sales.-Regular call, ~ O'Clock noofi-WashirVtoy
Street Rwy. As. $1,000 at 7sh.
Capital Traction. 20 at 119E, 20 at 119k.
Union Trust and Storage, at 10Jis
Washington Gas, l at IS, 4 at IS
After call-W ashington tias, 10 at IS.
Mergenthaler Linotype, 10 at IT7h-
Washington Gas, - at rs, rs at IS.
Washington Gas cert, 40 at ia.
Washington Loan and Trust, l at 30.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-05

Air: Stilson Hutchins has so far improves
that plans are made to have him go to AT
ian;ic City in the near future.
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Removal of Wood Pulp Tariff.

Mr. Morris took the view that the re-
moval of the tariff from wood pulp
amounting to S16T ton, would enable the
construction of independent mills within
six months which could compete with the
trust.
Mr. Seitz described the condition of the
newspaper publisher as one of peculiar
hardship. 1t was impossible under existing
conditions either to raise the price of the
paper TO the subscriber or the price of ad
Nertising. In New York, he said. the pub
Usher was being squeezed by the paper
nust on one side. by the labor combiratio
goods combination on another. The latter
was succeeding in reducing the price of ad-
vertising. Many of the great New York
dailes. he said. would face an actual
deficit in the next year or two unless re
lief was forthcoming.
The committee took no action on the reso-
luton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-05

There was no trading in either class OF
the Graphophone stocks For the common
was bid. and the asking price was q. while
for the preferred Sia was bid and SIS was
asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-05

twenty shares each of Capital Traction
brought 11eis ana i19h. At the close the
bid was 11e. and the asking price was
1lsIA. In the case OF Washington Railway
preferred there was no trading, the bid
price being 43 and the asking price 44ss
There has been speculation as to the effect
on the securities of the two street railroad
systems of the enactment by Congress OF
the bill reported by the Senate District COM
mittee TO give the Old Dominion company
the right to build cross-town line. Thus
far II Is believed that sufi1cient progress has
not been made to have an effect on the
market either ONE way or the other. al
though it is supposed that the trading In
them has been somewhat checked pending
further developments on Capitol Hill.
Granting that the legislation Is TO be Sc
cured. then the supposed effect varies az
cording to the point of view. as those VINO
favor the new road claim il will benefit the
existing systems. while directly the con-
trary opinion is held by those who are OPP
posed to the new company.
The dealings in gas stock were done after
the CALL when the bid of 5Is4 was renewed
There was. however. no stock onered
either during or after the call at less than
5s. and this price was maintained. so that
the purchaser of two lots paid 80 for them
1lii4 was hid for gas certificates. but there
was none for sale at that figure.
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Steamer is Purchased by q Russian .
Firm at Libau.

z HAMBURG. April a--The purchassr Of
the Furst Bismarck Is . Russian 1Rm at
Libau. CoarlAnA 4u1sta.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-05

At meeting of the stockholders of the
Corcoran Fire Insurance Company held yes
terday the following were reelected dfrec-
tors for the term of one year: Charles A.
James William f. Edmonston. Edward f.
Droop. Albert T. Counbe. Frank j. Lewis.
Albert L. Marsh. James ". Orme, Edward
II. Kaiser and John JOY Edison. Later the
directors held meeting and reelected the
following officers: Charles A. James, pres-
dent: William f. Edmonsion, vice presi-
DENT. and Louis Il. peAk SECRETARY
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TodaY,s Goxernment Receints

National bank notes received today for
redemption. S463 632 Government receipts:
from internal revenue. SAL. $40; customs.
Se39.024: miscellaneous, $s7,3G6 Expendi-
lures. 81 10000
Available cash balance, $223 SOS, 47931
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Dictation of the Trust.

Mr.. Norris stated that the trust even die
tated in one instance the size of the paper
a newspaper should use, thereby prescrib-
ing the kind of press that should be oper-
ated.
The reduction of the tariff on wood pulp
and paper was suggested by Representative
DeArmond a remedy.
Mr. Seitz answered that although himself
a democrat, he had understood that the
tariff was not to be disturbed at present
and he believed there enough evidence
of the illcgality of the combination to pro-
coed against it under the Sherman anti
tIust law.
Chairman Jenkins asked If any request
for such proceeding had been made of che
Attorney General, for investigation
by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor
The answer was in the negative. 1t was
believed that the proper way to proceed
was by resolution directing investiga
tion by the Department of Commerce and
Labor the result of which might be used
by the Attorney General in proceedings I'M
der the law
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PAPER TRUSTS POWERS
HEARING BY THE HOUSE JUDI
CIARY COMMITTEE.
Price of the Product Raised $14 Ton
in the Past Four Years
Remedies Suggested.

fhe resolution of Representative Lilley in
structing the Secretary of Commerce and
Labor to investigate the high price and
scarcity of news print paper and the causes
which have produced these conditions. was
the subject of discussion today before the
House committee on judiciary.
Don c. Seitz of the New York World and
John Norris, business manager of the New
York Times, were heard. Both covered
practically the same ground in statements
that the. International Paper Company and
the General Paper Company had divided
the United States between them in the con-
t-ol of news print paperss The International,
1t was claimed. controlled all that section
east of the Indiana line and the General
company the territory west of that line. This
combination, it was testified to. had raised
the price of news paper during the last
four years $14 a ton, and during the past
year as much as s. a ton; it was selling
paper in London. counting the freight and
insurance. at 80 per cent less than il did in
New York.
Mr. Seitz declared that when the paper
trust was formed 1t took. over nearly all of
the independent mills at prices not war
ranted by the condition of the property.
1t had SJ5OOO.OO0 invested in plants not
worth over S25.0O0.O00- and was charging
prices for paper to pay dividends on the
larger amount.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03
A CALL FOR THE DEATH PEN
Atty

One of the most terrible crimes In
the history of the state was committed
in Minneapolis on Tuesday night. A
young man out walking with the young
woman to whom he was engaged,
both of them being deaf mutes and
incapable of making cutlery, was
knocked down and held while the
young woman was assaulted by the
gang of six or eight young toughs
who committed the outrage. Those
who read the story can at least I'M
derstand the pitch of frenzy to which
communities are wrought where such
things are Of frequent occurrence.
To every rightly constituted mind
the conclusion instantly suggests it.
self that the legal penalty for this
crime should be death. Had the per-
son who suffered this awful fate died.
the men would be food for the scaffold.
Yet the consequences are worse than
death itself. A whole life wrecked, to
be lived out under the shadow of such
memories, admits of no compensation
or alienation. There can be absolutely
no excuse offered for the criminals.
They are unfit to live Imprisonment
does not fit the case. And this is what
the law should decree.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03

in more trouble to clear "a business or
a residence thoroughfare of poles after
permission to place them has once
been granted than it is to keep an poles
off I'm the first place. *
The size of st. Paul is now such
that every company can afford to put
its wires underground. within the city
limits. 1t is an economy to do so in
the long run, and the companies them--
selves know it. They simply follow a
bad old fashion because 1t Is cheap in
the first instance. No pleas and no
subterfuges should suffice. Let the rule
that poles to be set up hereafter must
go in alleyways and nowhere else be
enforced without an exception. 1t
would, in our judgment. be still better
and not unreasonable IL every over
head wire were ordered off the streets
within the city limits of st. Paul at
the earliest date at which such a
change could be made without unrea-
sonable inconvenience and loss to the
companies. The sooner every city as
sumes possession of its streets the
better.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03
IA TOILETTE Or The DEEP SEA.

1t will be the pleasing duty of the
Republican national convention to de-
termine which is the regular and which
the boiling section of the Republican
party in Wisconsin. President Roose-
welt, with acumen not to be expected
in one so strenuous, has declined to in.
dicate which group of malcontents.
stands for the real thing in Repub-
licanism. The president is quite salts
fed in the knowledge that both sets Of
delegates are instructed for him and he
made choice it lies in Wisconsin hu-
man nature TO start row that would
result in wiping him off the slate of
the losers according to his decision
The matter is now squarely up to the
Republican convention. That body will
have to decide between delegations
headed by the United States senators on
the one hand and an aggregation repre-
senting the Republican organization Of
the state on the other. 1t is possible
that the convention may take the same
position as that assumed by the presi-
dent and seat one-half of each delega-
tion-in which event it is quite possible
that both delegations will march out
of the convention hall and nominate,
each it's own candidate for the presi-
dency.
For it is patent to the man who runs
that the Wisconsin Republicans are not
going to get together. Neither group
cares anything at all about the presi-
dency-so long as the nomination is
going to Roosevelt. If Spooner had a
chance to successfully oppose President
Roosevelt he would most assuredly
take advantage of it. The La Toilette
men care for nothing on earth but to
elect their man governor.
The decision of the national conven-
ton on the contest will have no effect
whatever on the gubernatorial con-
test The supreme court of Wisconsin
will have to determine which is the
regular and which the boiling section
of the party. That which is confirmed in
the title will have the place at the head
Of the ticket. The other nominees will
have to run as independent Repub-
licans.
La Toilette has the whip hand just
now. Spooner may, but is not likely
to, put aside his ambitions and let La
Toilette have the governorship and
then a seat in the senate. And with
or without the consent of Spooner, La
Toilette is going to have that and
nothing else.
Altogether the situation in Wiscon-
sin is calculated to give cause for re-
joicing to those citizens who are not
committed to La Folletteism or the
other ism.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03
Isn't it about time for Kuropatkin to
commence to regret to report?
DOWN WITH THE POLES.

The assembly deserves praise for the
stand that it has taken with reference
to the erection of telegraph poles on
the streets of st. Paul. The city should
put its foot down firmly and not au-
thorize the placing Of another pole un-
der any circumstances in any part Of
the city, except along alleyways. Our
streets are already sufficiently badly
defaced by towering forests of poles.
We have found that they are difficult
to get rid of. Every telephone and tel
egraph company has an unreasoning
affection for its old posts, and would
leave one live wire on an otherwise
abandoned line indefinitely rather than
see the unsightly things cut down. It
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03
AIexieff the piscredited.

1t is stated that the car has declin-
ed tosaccept the resignation of Admiral
Alexieff. He. could afford such action,
and 1t is to be attributed to his heart.
With Gen. Kuropatkin in charge on
land, Admiral Skrydloff on deck at
HladiVostok, and the Russian ships at
Port Arthur practically helpless. Ad-
miral Alexieff is already as good as
retired. The car probably wishes ITO
save something, if possible, of the. adj
miral's face. There is, however, Moth
ing else to be saved now. AS a conn
mander and executive. Alexieff is COM
pletety discredited. His advice prior
to the breaking out of the war was UNI
doubleday bad, and his unpreparedness
and rattiednesS when Japan struck
We're conspicuous. If Russia gets on
her feet and wins, no part of the credit
will belong to Alexieff.- Washington
Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03
Southern Governor Opposes Lynohins.

Newton S. Blanchard, the new gov
ernOr of Louisiana, deserves a2word of
commentator for the high tone of his
inaugural address, delivered in Baton
Rouge the other day. He made his
first speech as governor the vehicle
for a ringing declaration of his belief
in the supremacy of law under all cir
cumstances, 8and for an earnest prom
Use to use ali the power of his office
to prevent mob Yiolence.-
1t required real courage for Gov.
Blanchard to express himself so clear
ly and forcibly at time when some
of the leaders Of his party in the South
are attempting to raise the specter of
negro domination. He seems to be of
that type of Southern gentlemen who
ought to be in office.-Ohio State Jour-
nal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03

IF they have been inculcated With the
virus that has destroyed all republics
in their turn, our wisdom will not sup
ply an efficient santitoxin. If they
are determined to worship the bayo-
net and the battleship. we cannot save
them from false gods. But If these
things are to be done. let them be
done in the open, honestly, under their
own names and without any hypo-
critical pretenses. This country, Sc
cure in its isolation, separated by
thousands of miles of ocean from any
possible aggressor. so tremendously
powerful in men and in national spirit
and in financial resources. that any
power on earth would deem it madness
to attack us, is absolutely and alto
gether prepared for any enmity and
any outbreak. - sso@s%f-
That explanation of the enlargement
Of our~war- resources is a pitiful lie.
Those who are steadily and sedulously
pressing. forward the limits of the
army and navy do SO not because they
think we are unprepared or in any
danger, but because they wish to re-
make the United States after the i'm
age of contemporary monarchies. and
to graft upon the young trunk of this
republic the poison growths of the
Fast Let this at least be done under
lis own name.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03
Contemporary Comment


Mr.. Jerome probably intended to in
innate that the reports from the stock
exchange are legitimate news. while
those from the race tracks are not
Many people will not perceive as great
difference between the two forms of
gambling as he does. There is no
question that there are large bona
f1de transactions ON the stock exchange
made by men who are engaged in le-
Ultimate Investment, and it is because
of this fact that a sort of respectable
ity Is thrown around the vast volume
of stock exchange business that is
gambling pure and simple, There Is
not much difference between betting
that a certain horse will win and bet
ting that stock will go up or will go
down; and it is this latter sort of bet
ting in which thousands of spectators
are engaged today.-Spokane Spokes-
man-ReyieW
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03
TODAY'S WEATHER


WASHINGTON, d. c., June Fore.
cast:
Minnesota-Showers Friday. Saturday
partly cloudy; probably showers in east
portion; fresh Winds mostly northeast
North Dakota-Showers Friday. Sat
urday fair
South Dakota-Showers Friday: warmer
in extreme west portion Saturday fair.
Iowa-Showers Friday; cooler in central
and east portions Saturday partly
cloudy; showers in east portion.
Montana-Partly cloudy Friday and Sat
urday.
Upper Michigan and Wisconsin-Show
ers Friday and prob Saturday; fresh
winds, mostly east to IL beast.
ST. Paul - Yester lays observations,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul, w. y. Oliver. observer, for
the twenty -four hours ended at o'clock
last night-BaroIneter corrected for tenn
perature and3elevation. Highest tempera-
ture, 81; lowest temperature, SIS; average,
temperature, So; daily range. 6; barom-
eter, "A; humidity, SS; precipitation,
1.22; p. nj. temperature, co. p. m.
wind, northeast; weather, cloudy.
Yesterdays; TeFnperature-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03
THE GRAND JURY REPoRr.

The grand jury that has just ad-
journed was unable to find. any proof
of the allegations of graft" that have
been loosely made, just as its prede-
cessor was unable to substantiate
much more specific charges made by a
member of the assembly. Undoubt-
eddy immortality exists in ST. Paul. as
in every other large city. The moral
sense of the community will not per-
NIT the formal licensing of certain
evils, neither is it strong enough to
wipe those evils out of existence as
practical facts. Therefore ST. Paul
deals with them in the customary
way; not. very creditable to civiliza-
ton calling itself Christian, perhaps,
but still the only way available.
But graft is a different matter. BY
this is meant measure of police pro-
lection for tolerated vice, in return for
a cash payment of some part of the
proceeds; not to the city, in the shape
whom protection is extended. This is
infamous, and calls for the most
searching inquiry and the severest
punishment everywhere. Even the adj.
mirable police administration which
st. Paul enjoys is less matter for
pride than its freedom from faint of
this iniquity. That this is we'll earned
the grand jury has made clear.
Every one who had information to
offer, including those who had talked
most freely and publicly about local
conditions during the campaign, had
an opportunity to be heard. The re-
suit, as is nearly always the case, was
mass of gossip, of hearsay evidence,
of generalities. But there was nothing
as to lawbreakers on which an indict-
ment could be based, while the vindi-
cation from any suspicion of graft" is
complete. With this, we may hope, closes
an episode that has done no good to
any one concerned, and drew it's origin
from shrewd political influences work.
ing on men who did not understand
the purposes for which they were be-
ing used.
To one suggestion of the report in
particular we give most hearty com
mendation. The Globe has repeat
eddy urged that the owners of prop
erty used for illegal or immoral pur-
poses should be held to a strict ac-
countability. A real crusade along
these lines could not be other than eff
fective. The birds of passage are diff
cult to catch, and ever ready to fit to
new fields and return when censorship
is relaxed. But property is fixed and
stable. Property fears confscation or
fine. And the owners of property
mostly have regulations that they are
anxious to maintain. If the patrons of
morality We're to organize for securing
and publishing in all possible ways a
list of property owners whose prem
ises are def1led by forbidden practices.
we fancy that they would do more for
| reform in a twelvemonth than they
could by public Nominations until
doomsday. If action shall be directed
specifically along these lines, the work
Of the grand jury will have been as
effective as it is in clearing the admin
istration of st, Paul from any cloud
cast upon it by utterances more or less
irresponsible and now shown to have
been without basis in fact.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03
Cities Built on Borrowed Capital.

Even Iowa must know that it is on
borrowed capital that our cities are
built up, great undertakings financed,
lands developed. The efficient man is
he who can get rich by employing
money so wisely as to make it earn
profits for himself as well as for the
man who lends it to him. The day
when the American people cease to
borrow money and use it as they do
now, and are content to sit down and
draw interest on capital some more
vigorous people are making effective,
will not be day to which the Repub-
lcan party or any other will point with
pride.-Portland Oregonian.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-03
Among the Merrymakers
RussIa,s National severance.

eyes, madam said the magazine editor
as he turned the leaves of the manuscript
that the tall woman with the uncombed
grant that the time is ripe for a Russian
novel. / will admit, too, that the public
presumably knows as little about the
Russians as the authoreSS-I should say
author-doeS"
Sir cried the gifted lady.
But the editor was unmoved
For instance he continued ''here on
page II you say that Gen. Sassykoff Seiz-
ed his vodka and placed it about his
rugged neck. That will scarcely do,
madam
Isn't it right?' cried the indignant
lady.
1T is quite right madam the editor
replied, save in one respect. The vodka
goes on the inside"
And he handed her the MS.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer,