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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Root Boom is Already Started
 ih Virginia
BOIL WEErIL HARD ID KILL
MT. Hunter Says the Pest Will Never Be Extermlnated-Reeo That cottos Be Planted
 ..srly.

Washington. March 2o.-(Speelal)- Con- siderable political significance Is being given in some quarters to the visit of Vice President Fairbanks to North Car olna tomorrow. The lndianan goes there to address the Tar Heel club of Greens boro Wednesday night Internal Revenue Commissioner Yerkes of Kentucky, will also be a guest of the club. The Tar Heel club has among its members nearly all the republican North Carolina politicians of any standing. and with the club for Fairbanks, or perhaps Fairbanks and Yerl1es, in 1908 tle convention vote of ths state is assured.
 The club invited the Vice President to be present several months ago, but until now he has not had an opportunity to make the trip.
 An interesting report bearing upon the faraway Presidential nomination has been circulaed here within the past few days to the effect that John s. Wise has al-. ready started the work In Virginia for Elihu Root in MT. Roosevelt's language the greatest of secretaries of war. Three years before Mckinley was nominated Hanna had his men in Virginia and had promised the offices. The state was car ried and to the credit of Hanna and Mckinley the offices were delivered. MT. Root, according to the report. Is getting an early start.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
HORSE RAGING MAY
 END IN TENNESSEE
BILL WHICH PROHIBITS BETTING IS PASSED BY BOTH HOUSES AND IS NOW UP TO THE GOV ERNoR.

Nashville, Tenn, March 20.-Late this afternoon the lower house of the state legislature by a vote of 56 to 2S passed the Rice-Ligon bill which prohibits bet ting on horse races in Tennessee. The bill originated in the senate and now goes to the governor It is expected to reach the executive office Friday, a motion to reconsider an enrolment causing the de- lay. In the meantime, Governor Fra zier, to be elected United States sen ator tomorrow, will have retired, John l. Cox, speaker of the senate, succeeding to the governorship.
 MT. Cox voted for the bill in the senate and 1t is conceded he will sign the measure as soon as it reaches him. The bill goes into effect December l. 1905 and makes 1t a misdemeanor punishable by fine of s25 in each case to bet on a horse race in the state. It also repeals al. laws permitting betting on licensed tracks in Tennessee. In their fight against the bill, the race track interests have ad- vanced the argument that it's passage would kill horse racing in the state and 1t Is generally expected that the spring meetings at Nashville and Memphis will mark the close of racing in Tennessee.
 The fight over the question has been the most bitterly contested one known in a Tennessee legislature since that over the famous Peeler bill in 1901 Today action was take after a long and wig orous debate listened to by crowded gal leries. The announcement of the vote was received by prolonged applause both from the galleries and on the floor of the house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Cannot XII Boil WeevlI.


 W. D. Hunter, special agent of the de- pertinent of agriculture in charge of ths cotton boil weevil investigations. Las sub mitted to the secretary a bulletin on ,the control of the boil weevil. including results of recent investigations. in which the statement is reiterated that fthere is not even a remote possibility that the boil weevil will ever be exterminate ted
 Dr. Hunter devotes thirty-two pages of the pamphlet to the best method of lodging the weevil. Briefly summed up.
 is to plant early co;-on, and after the crop Is gathered blow in the old stalks. By this method the crop wi.. be har- vested before the pest has an opportu- nity to get in its work With the old stalks buried the infant weevils will have nothng to live on through the winter. Hunter suggest that planters get their early variety of seed from points as far north as possible and also advises fer tilizng the fields in order to hurry up the growth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Mt EdmORds Comments on Sta-
 tus of Southern Merger
HOADLEY SEEKS HARMONY
Confidence Is Expressed That He VIII Yet Be Able to Carry Through Project Which Means Much
 for the South.

New York. March 2O.-(Special.l l--Mr. Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Man ufacturers Record, was seen tonight and said:
 ''Today's developments confirm the statements I have been giving to my own and other papers to the effect that sub stantial progress was being made in the combination of Alabama coal and iron interests"
 MT. Edmonds' attention was called to the following from the New York Even ing Sun: Tt Is said that the same old controlling interests in the Tennessee Coal and Iron company with which Wall street has identified that property for so long are the leading spirits in this mer- ger and that 1t will include at least the Sloss-Sheffield company and the southern properties of the Republic Iron and Steel company. It Is said further that the Hoadley holdings of the Tennessee Coal and Iron were taken over recently"
 Commenting on this, MT. Edmonds add ed, If 1t be true that MT. Hoadley has disposed of all his holding in the Ten nessee Coal. Iron and Railroad company to the Hanover bank people, am in a position to say that while his profits could not have been less than $30OO, 600, yet his chief motive in doing this. if it has been done, was to promote harmony and re- move a possible stumbling block to a devoutly wished for consummation, name ly, the harmonizing of all interests to such an extent as to make possible with oft friction a consolidation of inc Ala bama companies. I can also state that Mir. Hoadley Is today the largest stock holder of the Sloss- Sheffield company, the Republic Iron and Steel company, and also through the International Power company's interest, owns the control of the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron company. So that whatever he may have done, or may yet do he can be relied upon to promote the carrying out of this un- dertaking of such great importance not only to the south but to the business in- terest of the entire country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Young Boy Seriously IniuTss
 Governor MiaOrOdOf
GAINED ENTRANCE ID OFFICE
Shoots Three Tlmeo and Dashes Out Into the Street. But Is Quickly Captured By His
 Pursuers.

Viborg, European Russia, March 2O- Governor Miasorodoff was shot and seri- ously wounded today by boy whose identity has not been ascertained. The assassin, who is about 15 years of age, obtained an entrance to the governors s office and fired three times at him. one bullet infiicting a serious wound, and the others slightly wounding the governors legs. The governors clerks and secre- tary were unable to stop the would-be assassin, who reached the street, where. however, he was arrested without a strug- gle.
 The governors condition is critical
 The youth who shot the governor has been identified as Matti M1almar Rein ilxke who admits that he is a reyolu tionist. He halls from Kurikke parish. in the northwestern part of Finland but recently has been living in Stockholm, to avoid arrest on his known revolutionary ideas. He returned four days ago to Fin land by way of Tornea and spent three days in Viborg, but declines to reveal his stopping place. Governor Mfasoredoff has been most energetic in the Russit 1 cation of Finland and memorials have been sent to the estates petitioning for his removal on account of his alleged Illegal methods, and the general condi- lions in his province which were pro- nounced to be intolerable.
 At o'clock ia the afternoon Reiniltlxe gained access to the governors cabinet and fired shot from the threshold. Then advancing he fired twice more. after which Jumping behind and under the governors writing table, with his pistol he held up the clerks who were rushing in and managed to reach the street Sec retary Markoff, who followed him, sum moned assistance and the wou1d-be as- | sassin was captured.
 Reinikke. who had lost one or his arms recently in a railway accident, when ask ed if his name was Reinikke, replied
 The police of Hesinfors know me, my motives, and the governors record"
 The crime was committed with an auto matic pistol of the same type as the one with which Hohenthal assassnated Soin- inen. the procurator general of Finland on February 6.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
OPINION WAS VITAL
 TO THE COUNTRY
JUDGE STEER AT SAVANNAH CON- FINES HIS CHARGE ALMOST EN- TlRELY TO THE REGENT PEoN. AGE DECISION.

Savannah, Ga, March 2O.--Judge Elm ory Speer, in the United States court to- day. confined his charge almost exclu- sively to discussion of the peonage de- cision handed down last week by the su- preme court of the United States in the case of Clyatt from Florida. Judge Speer said it may be long before that court will have the opportunity to render an- other opinion so vital to the future of our country.
 Tt is salutary to the black man. but to the white man it IS infinitely more so. As to the labor and liberty of every citizen nullifies that vicious principle. let him take who has the power and let him keep who can It is true that it spares members of the negro race from slavery to the reckless and the lawless. to the degenerate and the interruptions; a slavery which compares with that of our fathers differs as widely as our concep- tions of paradise after and before the fall of our first parents. But its eman- cipation of the white man is no less sig nificant"
 Judge Speer concluded:
 ''For myself, l do not hesitate to de- clare that enforced labor on a local chain gang for any offense not asnounting to crime is involuntary servitude and peon- age in the light of the decision of the supreme court of the United States, no matter what the state law or municipal ordinance may be on the subject Should the Sultan of Morocco or Abdul Hamid at Constantinople consign to an oriental chain gang American citizens for such trivialities as are thus daily punished here before the sun goes down the steel clad battleships of the union would be speeding every ocean wave to demand redress for the injury or avenge the wrong But with peonage fastened on our system all may soon with Rienzi ex- claim: We are slaves; the bright sun rises to It's course and lights race of slaves; 1t sets and its last beam falls on Q slave p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
ANDREW CARNEGIE
 NOT MY FATHER"
MRS. ciiADWlc. SAYS SOME STARTLING THING3 MAY DE- vELoP WHEN SHE TEsTIFIEs IN THE BANKRUPTCY COURT.

Cleveland, O., March 20.-"It has been said repeatedly that I had asserted that Andrew Carnegie was my father l deny that, and l deny it absolutely
 The foregoing statement was made in an emphatic manner by Mrs Cassie l.. Chad- wick today to a representative of the As sociated Press in the first authorized in- terview since her trial. Continuing. Mrs. Chadwick said:
 Tt has been reported that I had made the statement that Judge Tayler was prejudiced against me Now, l want that denied. l don't think that Judge Tayler was prejudiced. and 1 think that in every respect he did what he thought was fair. But l do think that from the beginning of my trouble. Prosecuting Att torney Sullivan and Marshal Chandler have been unfair, and that they have been bitterly preJudiced. Mir. Chandrel. however, did everything that he could to make me comfortable during the trial, and feel very grateful to him for his kindness It Is easy to see MT. Sullivan's attitude in the matter. for of ali the oth- CTS who were indicted. was the first one rushed to trial. Even the man indicted with me, MT. Spear. who everybody said should have been tried first has not yet been tried. l am not party to any con- spiracy, and if any such existed, 1t was without my knowledge. 1 negotiated great many loans with banks other than the Citizens bank of Oberlin, the notes being placed to my credit. or I was given New York drafts or certified checks in the same manner as was followed in the Oberln transactions. did business with the Oberlin bank just as, exactly as did business with the Cleveland banks.
 q expect to be called to testify fin the bankruptcy court and q great many start ling things may develop, which may throw different light on my affairs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
sun cIIna to Terrorism

St. Petersburg, March 21., 2:17 a. m.- Upon the quietude of the Manchurian situ- ation there has burst the news of the at tempted assassination of another high of ficial in Finland, where efforts for the Classification of the grand duchy have ex- posed him to the vengeance of the young Fennomans. The incident indicates that the revolutionists have not abandoned the policy of terrorism, but are determined to have more blood and presages further crimes of a like nature.
 The authorities here are drawing up programme of administrative reforms for Finland with a view to establishing order and diminishing racial antagonism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
VESSELS BRAVE
 TERRIFIC GALES
Three Passengers on Main Die
 of Heart Disease
WAVES WERE 100 Fl. HIGH
Child Born During the Worst of the Storm cn the Cedric Was Named Cedirc
 Whitney.

New York, March 20.--More than three and a half days behind her best record time for a voyage, the big White Star line steamer Cedric came into port to- day after the most turbulent voyage of her career. The force of the gales was terrific and at times assumed hurricane proportions with tremendous seas.
 At times the seas broke more than twenty feet higher than the Cedric's bridge and were estimated to be sixty feet from the hollow of the crest. Her officers say that althought the huge ship rolled and pitched violently she behaved splendidly. In the most violent period of the storm on March 12, Mrs. Whitney. a stecrage passenger, gave birth to a child He was named Cedric Whitney. Among the passengers on the Cedric was Jabez White. the British pugilist, and his man ager Charles Mitchell White. it is said will fight Jimmy Britt, of San Fran cisco.
 The Cedric had the hardest experience Of the voyage on Wednesday the 18th Just before dawn while she was going at fair speed, three tremendous seas, which passengers said seemed from eighty to a hundred feet high, struck her within a few moments. They first caught her on the port bow and rolled her heavily to starboard. She had scarcely come up on an even keel again. when another monstrous wave struck her forward on the port side. smashed fin part of the pert rail and shivered several of the port side lights.
 While her bow was sticking out of the side of the second wave a third equally as large caught under her bow bending several plates on her port side forward. The succession of waves knocked the ship about so violently that several of her passengers were thrown from their terths. The Cedric passed through fifty carcasses of beeves floating in the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Russian Rear Has Only Occa8- i0RaI SkifniSheS With Japs
CHINESE DESERT 10 JAPS
Parting Between Kuropatkin and His Men Was sad--Was Beloved By the Whole Russian
 Army.

Gunshu Pass, March 2O.-(Mornlng)-The last two days have been utterly without incident, except for the removal of the censor to Kudzihu Pass. The Russian rear guard is retreating slowly and engaging in occasional skirmshes. It has now reached a position twenty-seven miles north of Tie Pars. The Japanese are slow ly advancing without pressing the Rus sians In the course of the retreat the Russians are destroying bridges, the rail- road road bed, snd highways. and carry Ing off stores and demollshing buildings and everything not portable. Reports of a wide turning movement by the Japanese are no longer being received.
 There is increasing difficulty in seeur- ing reliable information beyond the limits within which scouting partes are active, on account of the defection of many Chinese to the Japanese side. Many na- lives who have been employed as serv- ants by Russian officers have run away and other consequences of the evacuation of Mukden are noticeable in the attitude of the Chinese.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
OBJECTS TO BOMBS
 AND IS THROWN OUT
RIoUToUs SCENES ATTEND A MEETING OF iNTEDBoRoUGH STRIKERS AND ENGINEERS HELD IN NEW YORK CITY.

New York March s0.-A meeting in- clud.ng many socialists, which was an- nounced to be the "second joint meeting of the strikers of the Amalgamated As sociation of Street Railway and Electric Companies and the Engineers" ended in riotous scenes today.
 George E. Pepper, the strike leader and head of the barless lock branch of the Amalgamated, is crediteed with hav- ing broken up the meeting. Pepper de- ncunced the methods, he said which the use of bombs and dynamites as weapons of modern civilization. Order was restored by the police. Pepper leav- ing the city hall quietly, taking a large delegation with him.
 circular signed by w. E. Patrick. second vice president of the Amalgam- ated Association, and William Roselle, who represented the engineers on the executive boaord of the joint unions, called a meeting of the strikers to con- slider strike action. The circular stated that the old employees who had returned to work were disgusted with the con- ditions," and that concerted action would go far toward winning the strike for the defeated men.
 It was announced that the object of the meeting was to organize branch or the soclialis. trade and labor alli- ance of the striking men. Some fiery speeches were delivered. Things went we'll until Pepper said the meeting was unauthorized and not necessary; that methods which had all along been de- nounced by the strike leaders were be- ing instilled into the minds of few careless strikers, and that bombs and dynamite could not play a part in the fight against the Interborough company"
 Then someone in the hall shouted: Throw him out" The cry was taken up and there was rush for the platform, in which tables and chairs were over turned. The police were called, and Pep Ter and his followers left the meeting. which was then resumed.
 A man who said he was socialist stated that the socialist trade and labor alliance did not. would not. and could not If 1t chose. approve of the use of bombs or dynamite under any strike conditions or under any conditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Delayed sIxtx Hours.

New York. March 2O.-The Cunard Line steamer Lucania arrived today from Liverpool sixty hours behind her usual time. The delay was caused by damage sustained in a severe west northwest gale. an hour and half after passing Fastnet on March 12. An enormous sea struck the crown of the starboard stockless anchor violently and smashed the hawse pipe by the impact An hour after the accident Captain Watt turned the steamer about and returned to Queenstown where re- pairs were made and the steamer sailed again on March IA Stormy weather was encountered throughout the voyage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
KuropatkIn Going to Irkutsk.

St. Petersburg, March 2O.-(6:59 p. m.)- The story that General Kuropatkin re- mains at the front in command of Gen eral Linevitchs old First army Is un- true. He is proceeding to Irkutsk, where he may stop a short time to recuperate before returning to St. Petersburg. Ills nerves are said to be badly shattered. It is again being positively affirmed that Kuropatkin requested the Emperor to re- lieve him.
 Emperor Nicholas Is almost in daily conference with General Dragomiron, minister of war Sakharoff and others on the situation, and the general stan is en- ergetically at work planning the reor- ganization of the army and considering the ways and means. Preparations con. tinue irrespective of the possibilities or peace for demonstration Of Russia ability to prosecute the war which IS regarded as vital whether peace negotia- tons begin or not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
BICYCLE RACE STARTS.
Rider Going Greatest Number of Miles
 In Fifteen Hours Gets Purse

Richmond. Va, March D.-At the horse show building tonight six-day bicycle riding contest began. the starters in the race being Eddie Root. the long distance champion; Nat Butler. Gus Lawson. "the Terrible Swede:" pr. Frank Caldwell. the five-mile champion; Walter Bardgett. the Frenchman; Frank Calvin. the Irish champion, and Ben Munroe.
 The rider making the greatest number of miles in fifteen hours-two and hours each night-will get the large end of a purse of at least s1o0o. the others to share in the order in which they finish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
ORDERED TO APPEAR.
oreene's and Gaynor's Claim Must Be
 Stated In Person.

Washington, March 20.-The suit Of Greene and Gaynor in the name of the Atlantic Contracting company to recover about s710,00O from the government for work done, and breach of contract in con- nection with their work in improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia, was brought to a standstill today by an order of the court of claims. directing them to appear here and give testimony in the case, and that its prosecution be stayed until the order Is complied with.
 Proceedings for the extradition of Greene and Gaynor for alleged fraud in connection with their contract for the improvement of the harbor of Savannah is now pending before the Canadian courts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Retreat Is UneventfuI.

St. Petersburg, March 21.-2:17 a. m.- The latest dispatches from Manehuria in- dicate that the retreat of the Russian army is being conducted uneventfully The last few days were unmarked by any fighting of serious nature. Both the Russians and the Japanese at this stage are probably o&lsidering that marching is more impoi&lnt than fight Ing. The Russians, however, are neg lecting no precautions to impede pursuit and hamper the constructions of perma- nent lines of supply.
 A dispatch received yesterday announce ing that cannonade had been heard south of Tie Pass is apparently an err TOT. either as to direction or location.
 M. Tuluzakoff, an Associated Press cor respondent, who had been accompanying General Rennenkampff corps of the eastern army and whose dispatches sud denly ceased with the beginning of the retreat, has arrived at Gunshu Pass. hav- ing been wounded In the early stage of the retirement and incapacitated from continuing his work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Japanese Occupy kaIiyuan.

Tolio, March 20.-11 a. m.-The follow ing official announcement has been made:
 "Our detachment entered and occupied Kaiiyuan Sunday morning at o'clock On the same day at 10:30 o'clock the en- emys cavalry. about sixty strong, with three companies of infantry attempted a counter attack. but was completely re- pulsed. Toward the northeast the bridges on the main road south of Kaiiyuan have been burned by the enemy. The railroad bridges have been partly destroyed.
 '"rhe number of guns captured near Mukden is increasing owing to discover ies of those buried by the enemy before rctreating."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
VIII Be Made Captain.

Springfield. H.. March 20.-Word was received in this city today that Lieuten- ant Charles E. Hay. son of former Mayor Charles E. Hay of this city. and a neph- ew of Secretary of State Hay, who has just been appointed acting judge advo- cate of the department of Texas. will be appointed a captain of cavalry. to take effect in June. He will be the youngest captain in the army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
sIoss Items Correct.

The controller of the treasury affrms the decision of the auditor n holding that J. H. sloss. United States commits sion in the northern district O. Alabama. had properly certified certain items of fees in a case recently before the com missioner. The Attorney General had re-
 uesetd revision of the accounts, but the controller holds that it ia unneces- sary to make it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-21
Novoe vremya Suggests Peace.

St. Petersburg, March 2O-(6:55 p. m.l- The Novoe Vremya, editorialiy TOT tne first time, today admits the possibility or peace. It says:
 After all, the war is like all others it must end some time by peace. Re membering how dearly we paid for the lack of foresight of our diplomacy during the negotiations preceding the war which