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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
CUBAN CABINET RESIGNS.
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President Palma Deezines to Accept
 at Present lime.
 Havana. Feb z.-AII five members og the cabinet visited President Palms today and presented their resignatious. They said they desired since PFest- dant palma had announced his alle- glance to the moderate party 10 open the way for him to make whatever salacklons for cabinet officers he chose, under thet new eonditionA.
 prapldeflt Palma eoAgkeausaN Nut emphatlcally declined ko consider the reslgnafions and added Athnt hih join. ifaR khe moderate party was puFsiy a personaI act and did not riscessafily afr feet the cabinet. The cabinet members however. are well aware tthat there Will be changes after e0nauitaticn be- tween President Palma and the meeer. ara leadeFa
 The Associated Press fs authoritative Iy Informed that the resignatlona of Sir. MontSs, secretary of the treasury and Mir. Cancio secretary of puhllc in- struction will shortly be accepted and also that of Mr. Yero. secretary of tho Interior. who ts in poor health and nationalist iu sympatlies. Mir. pia7; secretary of public works and agucul- ture ie Ifke:y to continue in office and probable also Mr. ortiz. secretary oe state and justice. Neither of the latter has professed any political ad- leRianee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
AN OFFICIAL pxPLANAT1oN.
M. Witte Has Not Been Authorized {
 Frame a COnsffftfffOn.

M. Witte Has Not Been Authorized to
 Frame a Consultation.
 St. Petersburg, Feb. 2.--The report circulated by The London Daily Tele- graph this morning that Emperor Nich- olas has signed a ukase empowering M. Witte, the President of the Com mittee of Ministers to draw up a eon- stitution Is incorrect. The report prob ably originated in the following cir- cumstances:
 'The Committee of Ministers reject- ed a motion made by M. witte that the committee express an opinion regarding the events of January 22, and take steps to prevent a repetition of such inci- dents. The motion was rejected on the ground that such action was beyond the Jurisdiction of the Committee of the Ministers. M Witte, whose motion was placed upon the minutes, thereup- on submitted to the Emperor a mem orandum which his majesty approved, and the Commission of Ministers held an extraordinary meeting January 31 to consider this memorandum. The ques- tion of an inquiry to the incidents of January 22 was discussed and the Fi- nance Minister was empowered to draft a scheme for the reform of social leg islation particularly applying to the workmen's question"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
MOMOTOMBO
 IN ERUPTION Nicaragua Volcano Be- comes Active.
 - CITY OF LEON IN DANGER Villagers Residing Near Crater Fl:e in Terror.
 --s--- Mountains is Surrounded By valuasse coRee ntations~--ousbrsa Began ths sixteenth
 of Iast Month.
CITY OF LEON IN DANGER

San Francisco Feb. 2.--The steasm- ship City of sydney from Central American ports brings news of a vio- lent eruption of Momotombo volcano which Ia coco feet high. and whose base forms a promontory in Lake Me- aragua-
 Leon. Nicaraguan city of 5o,000 in- habitants. Is only eight miles from the volcano. Village people near the erupt- ing mountain fled and fears were ef- tertained for the safety of Leon.
 Three years ago Momotombo's suni- init began to steam and for while those living in the vicinity of the noun tain watched the vapor with alarm.
 There was no eruption. however. and until the morning Of January t6 of this year. the volcano appeared to be sleep ing serenely. Early that morning thick vapor was seen arising from the ccne- shaped top of the mountain. AS the day wore on the vapor increased in density and by noon the volcano was vomiting thick clouds of black and yel- low smoke.
 Suddenly flames burst forth and that night Motombo's summit was a blazing torch, lighting the land as far as the coast and casting the glare of it's fire far out to sea Momotombo was in act- i've eruption about fifteen years ago. It is surrounded by very valuable eof- fee plantations.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
DID Nor DnFEND PoLYeAMY.
'. c, KimbalI. Mormon OaaciaI, Ex-
 plaana F4is Reeant Remarks.

plains His Recent ReInnrI<s.
 Salt Lake City. Feb. 2.--J. O. Kim ball. General Secretary of the First Council of Seventy of the Mormon Church. who was credited in a special dispatch from Logan o1Ths salt Lake Tribune Sunday last with defending polygamy and declaring before the Cache Stake Conference that Congress would be unable to stop the practice, today issued . signed statement In which he declares that the report att tributings to him any defense of the practice of polygamy Is false.
 He asserts that he made no reference to the subject of poiygamy. either openly or covert1y. by inference or innuendo. What he did say. he aI- leKes. was to refer In the following language to resolutions recently adopt ed by body of women in the East; Women in the East want Congress to stop this thing (bringing children in poor families.l Congress will have quite q time in trying to prevent poor people having large numbers of chil- dren. These women want to put this practice down and iegalize race sui- eide
 Continuing Mir. Kimball says: 'T then bore my testimony that Mormon ism is true. that 1t had found it's way into. my bones and into my blood and that I felt 1t ia every fibre of my bee ing and that Mormonism cannot be destroyed and the more they try to de- stroy the more 1t will grow. believe in 1t and I will live in it."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
NONSENSE, SAYS HOCH
HE HAS HAD NO 20 OR 90 WIVES.
 HH DECLARES.
Miataten Identity, Thinks the AIIekea POisOner, and He win Make seme-
 body Very sorry of It All.

New York, Feb. s.-Johann Hoch was arraigned in Jefferson Market Court today and remanded until Sat- urday when requisition papers are ex. peeted to arrive from Chicago.
 This talk about my having twenty or thirty wives and nurdering few of them is all nonsense" he said while being taken back to police headQuar- ters.
 4"Just let them so on and pile 1t on me as much as they please. I'll make some of them very sorry when [ ges back to Chicago IE. Is q caae Df mta9 taken identity. There are moro Hochs in the West than one.
 According to the police Hoeh said he would plead guilty to blgafny upon his return to Chicago. He said he had married twice, the police alIege but that when he took a second wife he believed his former wife had secured a divorce from him.
 Concerning the charge of murder, Hoch said: as
 They are accusing me of crimes that are said to have occurred in this country long before I came here ten years ago. will prove by documen- taty evidence that was in Germany prior to the times these crimes were committed"
 John c. Graf of Gensingen. BIngen- on-the-Rhine, where Hooh was reared. was a caller at police headquarters to- day. He told the detectives that he was certain he haa known Hoch in Gensingen where he passed as Jacob Schmidt until he left there about ten years ago. and came to this country as a diamond agent. having lost a for tune. Graf declares that if Hoch Is the same as Jacob Schmidt he was mar ried in Germany. t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
FRAUD" IS EXPLAINED
MERELY A MATTER OF FOLDING
 OFFICIAL BALLOTS.
Many Were Not Placed in the BOxen Because There Was no Room for Them--FOPelgneEs Pick Out
 TheiF Tickets.

Denver, Col, Feb. 2.--one of the mysteries of the alleged ballot box stufling at the election last November was cleared away by a witness in the Peabody Adams gubernatorial contest before the joint legislative commission this afternoon. The experts in many precincts have declared a number of ballots probably illegal because they were not creased in such a manner as was necessary for them to be passed through the slot in the boxes. Alderman A. D. Mauh was called by the Democratic attorney simply to identify his ballot. He was success full in this and on cross-examination he was asked to show how he folded his ballot to put 1t through the slot.
 This brought out tho statement that many of the ballots ih that precinct have never been In the ballot box be- cause there was not room for them. Instead, with the consent of the eIec- ton officials and the Supreme Court officials, they were cast in the outside case of the ballot box and were not folded in the same manner as those which were put in the ballot box prop CT.
 Most of the witnesses examined this afternoon were foreign-born persons residing in Elyria, a suburb of this city, whose ballots had been declared by the Peabody experts to be fraudu- lent. They identified their ballots when they were shown them, but were unable to pick them out of number of ballots with any certainty. after the ballots were mixed up by the attor- neya.
 Each witness was asked to wEite the word Democratic" as he had written it on the ballot and in each case the handwriting was identical with that on the ballots.
 The unseaIers of the ballots reported on a number of ballots which the ex- perts had testified were written by tho same hand. Tn one of the punches Of ballots alleged to be in the same hand writing were found those voted by John c. .Twombly. formerly postmaster of Denver, and Milton Aufanger, Re- publican State Senator and two mem hers of his family.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
ONLY 4sO SOLDIERS FIRED.
No PromIscuOus vOIEeying in Quellins
 Riot January 22.

No PromiscuOus VOlIeying In QuelliAg
 Riot January 22.
 St. Petersburg, Feb. 3.--(1:s a. m.)-- Detailed reports filed at the headquart- CTS of the St. Petersburg military dis trict where minute records are kept. show that in breaking up the demon stration of January 22, of the thousands of troops on guard, only 4s0. actually fired. These troops represented eight different units from a squad of eight to a company of 120 and the total number of ball cartridges expended was l,O02. The authorities point out that this indicates that there was no reckless or general volleying. The number of wounded In the hospitals to- day is POS.
 The report of Maxim Gorky's release apparently either is incorrect or, if true, he was released on the promise to leave St. Petersburg without the slightest delay He had not returned home up to late hour last night. The friend with whom he lieves and whU was permitted to visit him yesterday afternoon for the first time since his arrest told the Associated Press that he found the author still in solitary confinement in the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress.
 The novelist, whose real name Is not Maxim Gorky, which is a psuedonym meaning Maxim the Bitter" but Alex Pyeshoff, did not expect release for some time. and did not know whether he would be brought before the court for trial or deported by administrative order. He philosophically proposed to devote his period of Imprisonment to learning the English language and remedying other deficiencies in his peasants education. He begged his friends to procure text books of Eng fish and German, natural sciences, etc. At present he speaks only Russian.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
CONTRACT LABoNERs.

Believed That Many Have Reached
 New YOrk on the slavonia.
 New York, Feb. 2 --of more than 1.s00 steerhge passengers who arrived at this port today Oh the Cunard Line tAsasaaaasa Essnunsss fkasa Ropae fha inamigration authorities suspect that < large per cent came to this country aa contract Iaberere.
 Five hundred of them have been held for examlhation before the board Of special inquiry the largest nntnber ever held from a single ship. or these i5O have already been examined and ordered deported. The authorities be- iieve that many of the new arrivals were destined for the coal mines of West Virginia and some railroad con- tractors in ohio. 1
 Attention was attraeted to the men by the fact that groups of ten or tif- teen would give their destination as some little town in Ohio or the mining region, and they all gave the same address.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
srrGr oRpERs IssUED.
People Are Forbidden to consregate
 in Warsaw.


 Warsaw. Feb. 2.-In pursuance of the zovernor-generars proclamation of a state of siege orders have been issued prohibiting assembling on tho atreets rmeeting in private houses and directing the police and military to disperse all street gatherings. Any = one found in possession or weapons or selling arms without permission IS liable to punishment
 In the event of disturbance. balconies and windows adjacent 10 the scene or the disorders must be vacated ana closed. The occupants of houses VIII be hold responsible should stones or leaflets be thrown therefrom as well as those actually guilty of throwing lheu. All contraventions of these or aers will be punished according to ad- mInistraAive process by imprisonment for terms not exceeding. three months pr by finess of not less than $25o. These orders will gbp enforced in the cities of Warsaw and Lodz and throughout The governments of Warsaw and Pet rokow.
 telegram from Czestochowa, Rus- sian Poland. says all the factories there are closed and serious disturbances are reported to have occurred
 The socialists are very strong there.
 The warsaw-Vienna railroad are clos ed
 At Pruszkow this morning. 1900 men struck. All the factories are closed at Kalisz.
 The strike at LodS continued with out disorder. A deputaIion of strik- CTS requested the auton1ties to close all the liquor stores as otherwise the workmen would not be responsible if disturbances occurred.
 The workmen themselves are watch ing the liquer stores to prevent the sale of liquor.
 The workmen in the coal manufac- turing districIs of Dombrown Bend gin and Sosnovice have held meetings and have decided to strike on Friday next.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
CONFERENCE OF MINISTER'S.
Outline of Plans For Carrying Out of
 Reforms.

Reforms.
 London, Feb. 2.--A dispatch to a news agency from St. Petersburg says the report of the committee of minis ters appointed to devise the best means of giving effect to the Emperor's re- form ukase of Dec. 25. makes many important recommendations especially in regard to increasing the powers of the Senate over the ministers and safeguarding it's independence. urges the right already belonging to the Senate of legislative initiative should be enlarged and favors the establish ment of lower administrative tribunals connected with the Senate.
 The committee of ministers distin- guished three fundamental points as basis for defense laws:
 First-Prevention of violation of the laws.
 Second--Investigatio of the powers and methods Of acts of those respon- sible for the administration of the laws.
 Third-Responsibilit of onicials.
 As regards the first point the com mittee decided that it was necessary to prevent ministers exceeding their legal powers by means of imperial or- dinances and that consequently all ex- captions to the ordinary course of laws must pc IOrDiuden, anu that In excep~ tional cases where the Emperor has or- dered ministers to deliberate concern ing changes, the decision of the com mittee must first be submittedl to the Senate. M The committee decided to ask the consent of the Emperor for the issue of an interpretation of existing laws and other points affecting the method ical carrying out of existing laws. The committee also agreed upon the neces- sity of independence of the Senate as opposed to all ministers and the in- ternal reorganization of the Senate. In order to accelaret the court of justice in administration of affairs, it was de- cided to be advisable to facilitate &C., count to the Senate by persons whe have suffered from the arbitrary acts of administrative bodies, and also to tween the Senate and the Emperor and the extension of the senate's existing right of legislative initiative.
 The committee decided that 1t was expedient to establish local courts of justice connected with the Senate and the institution in the Senate of the post of frst-president with the right of per- sonal relations with the Emperor.
 A number of other changes oIarify- ing the rights of plaintiffs under the civil code and in the general way of securing broader Interpretation and construction of the laws were decided by the committee. and all the proposals were sanctioned by the Emperor on January %.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
Inainna to ser the Rlr shorr

Washington. Feb. 2.-rhe inaugural Committee today appropriated $2,0oo or as much thereof as may be neces- sary, to pay the expenses of six noted Indians tn corning here to participate in President Rooseveit's inaugural pa& rade. The Indians. who, according to the present plan, are to be accompa- nied by $50 cadets and a band and six attepdapts or interpreters, are Geroni- mo. the old Apache Chief; ouanah Par- ker, a Comanche; Buokskin Charlie. Little Plum. Piggan or Blaclsfeet: American Horse, Q Cheyenne, and Hol- low Horn Bear, a Sioux. These Indian warriors will ride Indian ponies in the parade.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
THE PROMISE
 OF REFORMS Has Restored Order in
 Russia. POLAND ALONE EXCITED
 ----@- In Warsaw, However, the Situation is improved. Emperor Nicholas Sanctions Number of Proposals Looking to the Par- tiaI Curbins of the Burrau-
 cracy's Excesses.
 
POLAND ALONE EXCITED

Order appears to have been quite generally restored in Russia, the ex- ception being in Poland. Even in Warsaw, however, there has been a retarn to conditions approximating the normal.
 The committee of minister's slttlns at St. Petersburg. has formulated ana fine Emperor has sanctioned a number of proposals looking to the establish . raent of the Senate upon a basis or closer connection with the throne; oo- ing away with, the administrative or ders suspending certain laws, and in other ways checking the evils that have arisen through the arbitrary acts of ministers or officials. The. report that Maxim Gorky has been released IS djfleuIt of verification; if the rumor IS trie the author has probably been re- quested to leave St. Petersburg imme- diately,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
cAsUALT1Es NpMRnn 1s.0oa.
JaDs Lost 1000 men and Russiams 1Os- 600 at Battle of Hun River.

Jnps Lost 1000 men and RuSsiRmB 1Os-
 900 at Battle of Hun River.
 Washington, Feb. 2.--The Japanesd legation has received a report made by Field Marshal CyAma giving the details of the fierce fighting from the 25th to the 29th of January. when the Russians were driven to the right of the Hun river. The Marshal says that the enemy consisted of the first Siber- ian army corps, one mixed army corps. the second and fifth brigades of the sharpshOoters part of the sth army corps, the 6th and 1st Siberian re- serve divisions, one of which was a cavalry division. The Japanese cas- ualties were about 1000.
 Prisoners state that four regiments of Russian infantry were nearly an- initiated. Many of the companies of these regiments were reduced tS twenty to thirty men each. The field marshal expresses the opinion that the Russian casualties may have totalled at least 10000.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
Al AcRnnsrrNr N srdHT.
Senate Committee wilI Amcmd Arbi-
 tratson Treaties.

Senate Committee Will Amend Arbi-
 tratton Treaties.
 Washington, Feb. 2.--After dis cussion of more than an hour the Sem ate Committee on Foreign Relations today adjourned without reporting the arbitration treaties between the Uni- ted States and several European gov ernrnents, but with prospects for m early agreement.
 Senator Bacon again urged the adop~ tion of amendments that were made to the Senate on the ney-Pouncefote treaty. in order to guard the interests of States, but these were opposed by the Republican members of the Com mittee. It is said that the committee will finally agree to an amendment re- quiring that every claim to be arbi- trated under the treaties must first be submitted to the Senate.
 Senators from Southern States who have opposed the treaties because of the effect they might possibly have on repudiated State bonds held abroad have agreed to accept an amendment of this character.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03

United states was at Glendive, Mont, where 53 degrees below was reported.
 Other low temperatures reported du- ring the day were: Havrs. Mont. sA below: Winnipeg, s4 below; Battel- ford. 20: Medicine Hat 2s: Bismarck. 90. and Devils Lake. s4. The center of the cold wave is stiIl in North Da- kota but Is moving slowly southward and 1t is not expected that it's full force win be spent in the Middle West for several days.
 At g o'clock tonight the weather bu- reau thermometer registered degrees below and steadily going lower with the indications that IS below win be reached before morning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
COUNTER ATTACK or JAPs.
Nothing Is Known at St. Petersburg
 RegartlinE Report.

Nothing Is Known at St. Petersburg
 RegarainH Report.
 St. Petersburg, Feb. 2.--The war of- flee today had not received any fur ther offioiaI dispatches from Manchuria and nothing was known of the coun- er-attack of the Japanese at Sandepas.
 According to the latest official infor- nation the bombardment Is continuing. The general stan was reluctant to eK- press an opinion, but 1t was not consid- cred improbable that the Japanese may ind themselves compelled to abandon sandepas, for, as pointed out in dispatches from Mukden, the posi- ton of the defenders must be well nigh untenable on account of the burning down of the houses surrounding the central stronghold, which Is still held by the Japaneae. Being their citadel. it is completely covered with earth and pierced only with loophoies and embrasures for guns and therefore the smoke from the and powder gases makes it most difficult for the defenders to breathe. In addition, under the pound ing of mortars and heavy artillery any fortihcation. however strong, must gradually crumble.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
Co41o. 1. .,,. so.d.n

Paris, Feb. 2.--American progress in the cotton industry was brought to the attention of Colonial Minister Cle- mentel during the debate today in the Chamber of Deputies on the budget for the colonies, Deputy F1ayells pointed out that America threatened to dominate the worlds market and argued that France should develop cotton production in the Soudan and Dahomey and thus be in a position to defy competition. M. C1ementel promised to assist projects Of develop ment when they should be brought be- fore him,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
To PRoTRcT TME PunLIc.
BiII to sHInInise Ineonvenianee gro1a Strikes.

BIII to Minimize IneonveniaRee From
 Strikes.
 Hartford. Conn. Feb. 2.--A bill pre- pared by Prof. George D. Watrous oG the, Yale law school and designed to prevent Interruption of public service by labor troubles was presented in the state senate today.
 The biil provides that the employee nf no corporation of public nature shaii strike for higher wages or a reduce ton in hours of labor without giving three days notice and compels corpora lions before reducing wages or increas- ing hours of labor to give thrac daya notice to employees.
 In case of request by either side the dispute may be referred tQba committee consisting of two employees two di. rectors of each corporation and the at- torney general of the state. This cofn- mittee is called upon to renort it's findings within one week to the eov- ernor. Until the report shall have been made. no strike or changes of wages or hours shall take place
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-03
Rubber Treer In HawaIi.

Honolulu, Jan. 27. via San Francisco, Feb. 2.--After many years of trial, the introduction of rubber in a commercial sense has been established in Hawaii. Six years ago a rubber plantation was started at Nahiku, but Iittle has been heard of the matter until recently. Now the trees have been found in a condl- tion to produce rubber and the work of gathering 1t probably will soon be- gin. Those interested are among the wealthiest citizens. More than 2,O00 sappling have been planted.