Free press., 1905-04-29
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

In all recent at .achs on the police
and administrative officers in Poland
their assailants have used poisoned
bullets and daggcrs.
At Paris the Chamber of Deputies
has adjourned for the Easter recess
until May Is. The debate on the Sc
paration bill was not concluded. /
The Chamber of Deputies voted
$4,000 for the relief of the families of
those who were killed or injured dur
ing the recent rioting of strikers at
Limoges.
Narata Gotor, the Japanese consul
at Manila, has received a telegram
announcing that Admiral Togo's main
squadron will assemble south of For
mosa.
At Rome the pope received J. Pier
pont Morgan in private audience. Mr..
Morgan afterward visited the papaI
secretary of state, Cardinal Merry
Del Val
In the Chamber of Deputies Premier
Delyannis made a statement that the
government emphatically refused to
support the Cretan agitation for union
with Greece.
In Chicago bomb, supposed to con-
tain dynamite, was found in the rear
OF Montgomery, Ward & Company's
warehouse. 1t is thought an attempt
was made to blow up the building
John Foster of Evansville was nomi-
mated by acclamation for congress by
the Republicans of the First Indiana
district. He succeeds James A. Hem
enway, now United States senator.
Admiral Dewey, on the subject of
burial place for John Paul Jones, has
expressed himself as being in favor
of depositing the remains at Airing
ton cemetery instead of Annapolis.
In the Philippine Islands the walled
city of Jolo was attacked by Moros.
They fired into the officers club and
dispersed those present at a ball
which was in progress. On April 10
the secretary of Governor Scott was
ambushed and killed within range of
the sentries.
Announcement was made that w.
S. Kinnear, chief engineer of the
Michigan Central railway, has been
appointed assistant general manager
of the road. his new duties to begin
April %. Mr.. Kinnear will be in gen
eral charge of the construction of the
Michigan Central tunnel under the
Detroit river work, which will be be-
gun this year. Mr.. Kinnear is agradu-
ate Of the University of Kansas.
Chief of Police Carroll received a
letter from Edith Gould of Pennacook,
N. H., asking for full particulars of
the recent arrest of Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Drew in San Jose, Cal, on
charges of insanity. Miss Gould is
sister of Mrs. Drew. The couple are
improving. No trace of Clairvoyant
Weber, whom they alIege got $4,000
from them, has been found.
The Chicago & Alton is about to is
sue instruction that a maximum
monthly wage must prevail for engi-
neers and firemen. The maximum
for engineers will be $140 and for fire
men $50. The object is to give more
work to the extra engineers and fire
men during dull seasons.
At Milwaukee, Wis, all of the vast
estate of Mrs. Lizette NJ. Schandein,
widow of Emil Schandein, daughter of
Philip Best and sister of Mrs. Fred
erick Pabst, is left to immediate
members of her family by provisions
o. the will filed. There are no be-
quests to charity or to any pubic in
stitution. By persons familiar with
the extent of Mrs. Schandein's hold
ings, it is variously estimated that the
estate amounts to from $4,000, 900 to
$7,00O,00O.
At Limoges, France, the strike at
the porcelain works practically ended
today by the signing of an agreement
between the proprietors and the work
men adjusting their differences A
feature of the agreement is the re-
moval of the foreman of the Haviland
factory whose conduct was the main
cause of the trouble
Captain R. G. S. Hinkel. for 80
years secretary of the Pilots associa-
ton and well known river man. is
dead at Bellone, KY. He was promi-
nent in Kentucky politics as a Demo
crat.
The Panama commission had a gen
eraI conference at. which many minor
topics were discussed, but no con-
clusions OF importance reached. Judge
Magoon viii sail for Panama May 3,
and on arriving will at once take the
oath of Office and assume the duties
as governor of the canal zone. reliev-
ing General Davis.
The Japanese consul. Narata Cotor.
has, il is reported, received a cable
gram addressed to Vice Admiral
Kamimura. 1t is inferred from this