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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-11
MAIL DELIVERY
BY COUNTIES NOW
Postofice Department Working
Up Rural Route Systems
inNorthwest. 49,.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Washington, March 11.-Plans are
being perfected at the postoffice depart.
ment to expend during the remainder Of
the current fiscal year the emergency
appropriation of 100000 made avail
able for rural free delivery. The sum
named will enable the department to es-
tablish little more than 1900 routes,
making the total for the year about
seven thousand four hundred. -
Announcement is made at the depart
ment that the amount set aside by con-
gress for extensions in the year begin
ming July l next, is not as large as that
allowed for the twelve months ending on
that date. While the appropriations for
the service are in excess Of $21,OOO,0O
only about two million dollars. can be
used in establishing additional routes.
On July l there will be in operation
about thirtytwo thousand routes.
While the funds to become available
on July l are not as large as for the
current year the demand for routes is
not now so great. There are about three
thousand petitions for routes now pend
ing, and nearly third Of these are from
the northwest, in which section the de-
mand for rural free delivery continues
to be strong. A great deal Of work now
being done in the northwest is in con-
nection with solid service, or county
systems, and several systems are now
under investigation in Minnesota, Wis.
consin, South Dakota and Iowa.
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HIS OWN BCnB
KILLS TERRORIST
Explosion in st. Petersburg Points
to Another Assassination
Plot.
WOMAN Is KILLED AND
SEVERAL ARE INJURED
Chief Victim of Affair Believed to
Have Been a Revolutionary
Agent.

St. Petersburg, March 1.-THE ex-
plosion Of bomb at the hotel Bristol,
adjoining the hotel d'Angleterre here,
just before daylight this morning blew
to atoms the owner Of thesbomb, man
with an English passport giving the
name of Alfred Henry Mccullough, and
wrecked the adjoining rooms, killing
the wife Of an officer and iniuring sew
eral other dodgers. The explosion was
heard blocks away and created q tire.
mendous sensation.
There is not the slightest doubt that
the man killed was connected with the
terrorist plots. The bomb was of the
same power as those which killed the
late minister Of the interior Won Plehve
and Grand Duke Sergius, creating the
same havoc as did the explosion at the
hotel du Nord last spring.
The preliminary investigation Of the
police leads them to believe that Nc
Cullough was engaged either in packing
his effects, as the hotel Bristol was to
be vacated to-day, or in preparing for
some desperate enterprise today, when
the bomb, which, like all the internal
with gravity tubes, fell and exploded as
the one at the hotel du Nord did.
The police Immediately surrounded
no one to come within fifty PAGES.
An independent stigation made
by the Associated Press seems to g.
tablish beyond question that the man
killed was terrorist leader. His pass
port. Of course was fictitious but the
man was foreigner, not Russian.
At the hotel de Paris, where he had
been staying from time to time since
the middle Of January, Mccullough was
described as an intelligent looking man
between thirty and forty years Of age,
resembling a Frenchman moro than an
Englishman, speaking French with the
| fuency of native. He also spoke
| English, which, however, he had little
occasion to use at the hotel, where he
| kept much to himself, going away on
frequent short trips.
just before Grand Duke Sergius was
iassassinated the man was absent for two
| days, which might connect him directly
with the grand duke g murder = 70
Mccullough protested to be engaged
in business, but in view Of what has
happened his movements are admitted
to have been mysterious.
Some of the police are inclined to
think Mccullough was direct ennis
sary Of the Paris revolutionary organ
! ization.
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Special to Tho journal.
s Newport News, Va, March 11.-Gen-
eral Manager Post Of the Newport
News Shipbuilding company is out Of
the city today, and could not be seen
as to christening the battleship Min
nesota with water instead of wine, but
Secretary Boggs said today that he
saw no reason for the company's de-
parting from it's usual custom Of using
wine. Mr.. Boggs also stated that it
would be impracticable to postpone the
launching Of the Minnesota. The mat
ter has been up before the company sew
eral times on request from others than
the governor, and it was decided that
the launching could not be postponed.
On April 8 the tide will be favorable.
Preparations are going forward rap
idly for the launching. The enormous
network Of staging surrounding the
few days the beauty and grace of the
lines Of the vessel will be seen.
b Under the great hull, the sliding
ways for the launching are being ar
ranged, and with the launching now
less than a month off, everything is
being rushed. The struts and propeller
shafts for the big fighter, are being
nespfa fhally goes overheard she will
be Farther advanced than any battle
shif ever built at the local yards, and
probably farther than any ever built
for the United States navy.
| The launching stand for the sponsor
is also building, and when ready for
use, will have been tested to insure its
safety. -. -:
F.. "A large naval contingent is expected
to he present at the launching and it
is quite probable that the secretary of
the navy will attend. 81
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GOTHAM STRIKERS
LOSE THEIR JOBS
Trains Are Running Almost on
Schedule and Old Men Will
Not Get Work.

New York, March 11.-Altho nearly
two. days have passed since the. local
leaders of the unions involved in the
big street railway strike, were repudi-
ated by their national officers, and the
strikers ordered back to work, condi-
tions on the affected lines have not be-
come normal. Trains were running to-
day on every branch of the Inter
borough Rapid Transit company's sys-
tenn, but on reduced and in some cases
irregular schedules.
It seems probable now that many of
the former employees, of the company
who went out on strike, never will be
re-employed. It had been announced
that all Of those taken back would
have to return as individuals, that they
had forfeited their. rights of seniority
by their action in joining the strikers,
and that they would be obliged to ,ae7
Scept lower rate Of wages than they
had received.
Later it was said that the company
had decided not to take on any Of the
men over 40 years of age. If this
plan is carried out it will affect hun
dreds of men who had been employed
on the elevated for many years.
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. New York, March President
Anderson as internal revenue collector
in the district in which New York city
is included. will meet with no serious
objection, either from the party organ
iZation OF. from the community, and yet
Mr.. Anderson is colored man. In the
light tint Of his skin, in his physique
and in an attractive mannerism, Mr..
Anderson greatly resembles the late
Blanche K. Bruce, who was for one
term United States senator from Mis-
sissippi.e He has much Of the tact which,
with Senator Bruce, was sufficient at
last to command for him the respect
and even friendship Of senators who
represented the southern states. Mr..
Anderson knows exactly where to stop,
not presuming any more upon his ac-
quaintance and friendship with men Of
q color other than his own than did
Senator Bruce. Yet he has been able
to maintain in its best sense the color
line without any humiliation to himself
or any apprehension on the part Of his
white friends. '.s#.. :. + ...,.. -.
Mr.. Anderson has been an active re-
publican politician in New York for q
good many years He has gained the
|
is both shrewd and just. He knows, how
to be fair without being weak, and how
to be firm without being arbitrary
Successful in his own business, 50 that
he is looked upon as one of the wealth..
est colored men Of New York, he is
independent, Of politics, so far as 8
livelihood lis concerned. President
Roosevelt has long known him. When
a candidate for governor, Roosevelt re.
cei!ed some aid in the way Of organi.
cation of the colored voters Of New
York city which was substantial. More.
over, the president never knew MI. An.
derson to do anything in politics which
| was roprehensible. IA
In all probability the president has
been persuaded, not by any other than
himself, that the nomination. of Mr.
Anderson for collector of this interna
revenue district will be Of some advan
tage in proving to the people of the
south that he does not discriminate
in his appointments for or against any
section or for or against any color.
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announcing that all the armies were in
full retreat is the last definite word
from the battlefield. The city is filed
with the most pessimistic reports. The
public generally believes that the stu
alton is much worse than is officially
admitted.
While the military men do not at
the failure of Toxic to report officially
the exact situation affords glimmer
of hope that the position Of Kuropat-
kin g army is not SO black as painted.
Some Supplies Saved.
The fact that 1900 cars loaded with
artillery and carrying wounded men
passed northward from Mukden in the
last ten days gives ground for hope
that Oyama's plumber will not be so
great as reported. The dust storm and
the exhausted state Of the japanese
armies after the fourteen days battle
army good service.
Everything indicates. however, that
|Kuropatkin has suffered a catastrophe
|o11 the first magnitude.
NewsArmy Necessity.
While the air is full Of peace .rumors,
there is a necessity for massing new
army at Hardin If the war is to be
continued. Neither Emperor Nicholas
nor the government has taken a step
in the direction of peace. The report
that France has already been asked to
intervene is positively untrue.
The Associated Press is enabled to
make the following statement:
"Peace Lies With Japan
"The moment might prove opportune,
but the question of peace lies with ia
pan and not with Russia. Russia would
welcome peace and peace could be ar
ranged not thru third poweE but by
direct negotiations between the two
countries if Japan would propose mod
crate terms. As the victor, Japan is in
a position to take the first step.
"Russia cannot and will not sue for
peace. Neither could she accept terms
which did not recognize Russia as a
| power in the far east. It is idle to
speculate On the concrete terms. The
, only thing is that Russia IS position in
the far east must be recognized.
"Friends of peace thruout the world
should. use their influence with Japan.
The victor should show moderation.
Otherwise no end Of the war is yet in
sight,
Retreat Running Fight.
Kuropatkin g report to the czar last
night was as follows:
stLnst Thursday night began the re-
treat Of all our armies.
1 stOur retreat is being conducted with
the enemy harassing both our. tanks;
| "The second army under Bilderling
has suffered the heaviest both in killed,
wounded and prisoners.
''How many are surrounded Is I'M
HThe army is still in danger"
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ROUTED RUSSIANS FLOUNDERING IN JAP NET;
10000 MEN LOST; 10000 ARE MADE PRISONERS
FREE ISLANDS, IS
ROOSEVELT PLAN
President Hopes to Grant Com
plete Indepe dence for Fill
pinos ID -Four Years.
I BY w, Nv. Jernane..


Washington, March il. Intimations
have come fromza source worthy Of con-
sideration that; Preside Roosevelt
granted the FiHpinos within the next
four years. It may turn out that the
talk along this line has nothing for its
basis except the declaration Of Secre-
tary of War Taft before the committee
on ways and meansst that the administra-
ton is in fayGr Ct giving the Islanders a
they are ready for it.
Whatever the0rigin Of the talk, there
is good deal Of it, and it is feeding on
the fact that the secretary Of war is
preparing 70 visit the r. philippines about
There is a good deal Of mystery about
the coming trip Of the secretary Of war
to the islands. The proposed visit did
not attract unusual attention until it
developed that the secretary was ex-
ceedingly anxious to have large num-
Der Of senators and representatives &C.
company him. go -'>~
shipload4 of Guests.
If all the invitations he has extended
| to members Of congress should be ac-
cepted, he would have transport load
Of guests. Speaker Cannon is disposed
to go, and it seems probable that sew
era1 influential members Of the house
and several senator's will accompany the
Ostensibly Secretary Taft desires to
order that they may be convinced Of the
Justice of the demand for a reduction in
| the duty on Philippine goods coming
into the United Safes, but some we'll
informed men believe That at the bot
tom of the. affair is the desire Of the
for movement that will eventually
give the Filipinos independence. :, Pub
lie men are unable to guess why the
secretary Of war should desire to spend
two or three months in the islands in
company with the leaders in congress
unless he has in mind plan to give the
natives greater measure Of independ:
ence within the next year or two, and
eventual -wlthin the Roosevelt adj
ministration-toi increase bhe measure
Of Independence. 800 = - y
i Definite Policy n Mind.
/ No one believes that either the presi
dent or hs see5sI q s plannihha
islands abrupt The opinion pre-
walls that. if theTe is 8 definite policy il
mind, it provides shat Islander
{ shall be advanced SA GteI
't by step, and iii themselves
worthy OF being trEssed With selfgov
[ernment, the United asfBStt&tes will. whe1
4 the proper tiraS unfes follow Inueh til.
same course tsFva foursuea IN ehlins
with Cuba. 4.q SssFA Il
IN Sno&Sevent, itamay be said authorita
lively, will the United States ever with
draw from the Philippines absolutely
Should the natives Id time prove thei
capability for Z. selfgovernment, tn
United States will, on handing over tn
u reins Of government, retain stron,
military foothold in the islands. Enor
nous sums of money have been investe,
in the naval base at Cavite, and it i
one spot war and navy department. off
all time to come as base for operation
in the far east. a
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: :
SLEEPING BOY FALLS
FIVE STORIES. UNHURI
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
New York, March 11.-Charley Ruff,
IL years old, went to sleep on his little
trundlebed on the fifth floor Of a TONE
ment house in Second avenue last night
and at midnight woke up to find him
self at the bottom Of the airsshaft, suf-
youngster, who walks in his sleep, had
got UP from his bed, walked to and thru
"a. low -silled window and fallen five
stories. Not bone was broken. The
Boy was discovered at the bottom of
the air shaft by Mrs. Steibe1, who lives
on the second floor.
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The army is still in danger. ,
WILL PUSH ON TO HARDIN
Oyama Will Make a Dash for Russia's
Eastern Military Base.

Washington, March 11.-With Muk-
den as his new base, Marshal Oyama
has determined to push northward In
part of his army in the effort to fol-
low up his recent victory as rapidly
as possible and accomplish his one
great purpose of administering really
crushing defeat to General Kuropat-
kin. This information has reached
Washington from an authoritative
source and accurately sets forth the
present program Of the Toxic war
office.
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ZION CITY SHORT OF SUPPLIES.

Chicago, March 11.-A shortage Of sup
plies, especially of meat, is said to be
threatening Zion City. Several followers
of John Alexander Dowie visited Wauke-
gan yesterday and made purchases.
It was reported that Colonel Carl r.
Stern, former chief of staff. who died in
Florida a month ago, left an estate val
ued at s235.000.
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TWENTY-Slx KILLED IN MINE.
Cardiff, Wales, March lit is now an
nounced that twenty six lives have been
lost as a result of the explosion which
occurred yesterday in the Cambrian
collierv at Clydach Vale in the Rhondda
valley.
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RUSSIAN LOSSES 100000
Sixty Thousand Taken Prisoners-Three
Hundred Guns Also Lost.

st. Petersburg, March lit is re-
ported in the military clubs this even
ing that General Kuropatkin has lost
900 guns and about 10000 prisoners be-
sides about the same number of ki'ed
or wounded. -
The curtain which shrouds y..e ex-
tent Of the Russian disaster at Mukden
has not been pierced. Nothing positive
is known Of the situation, not even
Kuropatkin's own whereabouts.
The commander-in-chief's message
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RUSSIA READY FOR PEACE
Foreign Office Intimates to France tina
Gear Wants to Quit.

Gear Wants to Quit.
Now York Sun Special Service.
London, March 1.-THE Graphic
stWe have reason to believe that the
Russian foreign office has intimated to
the French government that the car
is ready to enter negotiations for the
immediate termination of the war, and
that communications on the subject OF
mediation are now passing between the
French and British cabinets.
"The Russian overtures will be COM
.municated to Japan by Great Britain at
an early date, if, indeed, this step has
not been taken already.
Loans Hard to Get.
"sThe action of the Russian govern
ment is understood to be not only due
to the hopelessness of the military. sit
uation, but also to the great difficult
ties experienced in the negotiations for
loan in Paris.
st. Petersburg, March 11.-Every one
is discussing peace, which many of the
stanchest advocates of the war, bu-
reaucrats and officials, now declare to
be inevitable. 1t is openly bruited
that Rojestvensky's feet has been re-
called and is now on the way home
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.JAPS RAIN SHELLS
ON I'll XZlNG RABBLE
They Make Grim Effort to Aanuihilate Kzt-
r0bntkin's Wrecked Army BY Bz0aps
From Sides and Rear.
Struggling Mass May Yet Find Itself Com {
bletey Emtrubbed BY Oy0,va,s Men
on the North.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SUMMARY.

norhward after
complete
Kuropatkin $4,000
that mw
crowded
pouring nannihi fire upon demoralzed
surrounded known
and the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-11
FAuNcETo VISIT MINNEAPOLIS.

Providence, r. l.. March 11-President
Faunce of Brown university has an
nounced his departure to visit the annual
gatherings of Brown men in cities thru
out the west, including Chicago, Cleve-
land and Minneapolis.
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STEPPED ON MATCH; Persisted.

Brooklyn, March 11.-Mary Kaso-
WITT. 35, was burned to death in the
kitchen of her home last night. She
stepped on a match which set fire to her
clothing. The unfortunate woman was
fairly roasted alive. =!
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HENRY NoRcRoss MUM DEAD.

New York. March u.-Henry NorcrQss
Mum, editor Of the Scientific American,
Is dead at his home in this city. He was
that paper. ~ -, =. -. =. ...s.. ;. &, j.
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LIVE CONDOR FOR GOTHAM 200.
San Francisco, March ia magnificent
living specimen of the California condor
has been shipped from here for the Gem
trail Park zoo in New York. It measures
eleven feet from tip to tip.
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Loans Hard to Get.

Continued on I'd Page. 4th Column.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-16
FRANCHISE
HOLDS GOOD.
Actual Work Begun Yester-
day BY Jno. H.
Bell Jr.
NINE MONTHS TO FINISH
Work Will Be Pushed To
Completion Early In
The Spring.

Wright Southgate, "a Civil Engineer
from Nashville, arrived in the city
Thursday night and yesterday began
the work of surveying the route for
the street railway, under the fran
chise sold three months ago to- John
H. Bell, Jr.
Under the franchise it was neces-
sary to begin work by the 18th, which
is to-day, and the start was made
none too soon.
Mr.. Bell has encountered some IN
expected obstacles, the most serious
being the illness of the engineer of
the Chicago capitalists who are eX-
pected to finance the project. He
was to arrive a week ago, but his
continued illness made it necessary
to secure the services of a substitute.
Mr.. Bell is authorized to go ahead
with the survey and such other work
as can be done during the winter and
in the spring the work will be put
through to completion by the date
named in the franchise. Five miles
of road must be done by Sept. 10th,
one year from the time the franchise
was granted.
people are very much interest
ed in the projected railway system
and the announcement that the con-
ditions of the grant are being com
piled with will be received with much
pleasure.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-16
BAPTIsTs OF AMERICA.
Chattanooga Will Likely Be
Next Meeting Place.

DR.. J. N. Prestridge, secretary of
the General Baptist Convention of
North America, received a telegram
yesterday stating that the citizens of
Chattanooga, Tenn. had extended an
invitation for the body to meet in
that city on the two days succeeding
the convention of the Southern Bap-
fist Association, which will convene
there next May. An invitation has
been extended by the citizens of Gin
cinnati for the Northern Baptist
Societies to meet in that city on the
same date as the Chattanooga meet
ing. 1t is likely that the delegates to
the Cincinnati meeting will go to
Chattanooga and visit the Baptists
there in session. Courier Journal.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-16
Congressman Stanley and
Gaines Also Present
at Meeting,
ALL MADE SPEECHES.
System That Has Revolu-
tiOnized Western Tobacco
Business Explained.

Felix G. Ewing, president of the
Dark Tobacco District Growers Pro-
tective Association Of Kentucky and
Tennessee, was in attendance at a
meeting of the State Executive Com
mittee of the Dark Tobacco Crow
ers' Association of Virginia, at
Farmville, Tuesday and delivered
an address at night.
Congressman A. o. Stanley, Of this
district, and John Wesley Gaines, of
Tennessee, ware also at the meeting,
which lasted two days, and delivered
addressed Wednesday. Concerning
the meeting, a telegram says: These
gentlemen fully explained the sys-
tenn that has revolutionized the Wes-
tern tobacco business and protected
the growers of tobacco from loss
and ruin, and established fair prices
for their tobacco.
Arrangements to ineffect put the
association S plans for controlling and
marketing tobacco were made, and
farmers can commence delivering
their tobacco to the associations
managers in the different localities
on railroads, where the warehouses
are located. and convenient for the
farmers to reach by wagon.
Banking arrangements for nee
essary advances will be made, and
insurance provided, and tobacco will
be held as a merchantable commodi-
ty in safe keeping condition till a
reasonable and profitable price is
obtained.
by this means gluts will be
avoided and low prices that prevail
so often to the loss of tobacco grow
ers will be prevented. Country ware
house towns will be built up and
banking business greatly increased.
More money will be put in circula-
ton among the growers of tobacco
and the usual prevailing hard times
among these faithful tOilers will be
greatly improved, and this is to be
accomplished by applying common
sense business methods to this great
industry and nobody icallsin question
these methods but on all sides they
meet with approval.
"The country is alive with the dis
cussion of this work and farmers are
falling in line and pleding their crops
in every county in the dark tobacco
section"