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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
ROBBED HIS EMPLOYER.
Young Man Is Said to Have Taken
 Property Valued at $1oo,ooo.

New York, April 2.--After a pursuit of four weeks by the police of three cities. central office detectives tonight arrested Thomas J. Wainwright. describing himself as a lawyer of Boston. who is charged with robbipg the residence of Dr. Nicho- lss !. Pinault of Minneapolis of jew elry. silverware. pictures and securities to the value of s10o.00o.
 The police say that Wainwright who is 2s years of age, and apparently a man of excellent education, Is known by 8 dozen aliases, and is one of the most accomplished criminals in the country. Wainwright secured a position of care taker just before Dr. Pinault started for the south last winter. and footed not only the mansion but the physician's safety vaults
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
asscret Service Sam"

.tsecret Service Sam" the melodrama in which Charles T. Aldrich the actor magician, began weeks engagement at inc Bitou theatre last night, is lifted above the plane of clap trap theatricals Inv number of tricks, some of them startling and others amusing. The play itself, although written by Theodore kre- mer, melodrama expert, is weaker than the average and its raison d'etre is not perfectly clear, but transformauons' uuiaue mechanical surprises, ventrilo. ouism and funny tricks performed by MT. Aldrich. make the performance unusually interesting.
 The play is necessary in order to prop erly exploit some of the tricks, nearly all of which are strikingly original The last act is characterized by great many de- vices which are used to terrify guilty persons into confession of their crime yentrfloouism is brought into use and makes a skeleton figure speak; the coins that the mlser was counting when Kiled by the william dance upon the table cloth and finally the old man himself appears in the person of MT. Aldrich.
 In addition to the inventions, mechani- cal and otherwise used during the play'' MT. Aldrich figures in number of quick changes and lightning disappearances that mystify the audience He doffs one char. acter and assumes another with such rapidty that one cannot follow his move. ments A series of droll specialties per formed by him in the role of tramp brought forth enthusiastic applause. These. specialties included some of the cleverest tricks used by MT. Aldrich in long vaudeville career.
 The play itself is not fair sample of melodrama, but it is made acceptaoie by the novel features introduced by Mr. Aldrich. His tricks are we'll worth seeing.
 A matinee will be given this afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
TEXAS WITNESSES ARRIVE.
Will Try By Testimony to Save Life
 of Albert T. Patrick.

New York, April 2.-Several witnesses who will try by their testimony to save tence of death for the murder of Wm Marsh Rice, arrived from Texas today and will go to Recorder Goffs court where the hearing on the motion for a new trial on the ground of newly dscov- cred evidence is to be continued.
 District Attorney Jerome 1t was an- nounced today will not only oppose the hearing of the new witnesses on the ground that their affidavits were not pre- scented at the time the original motion for new trial for Patrick was made, but he will also ask for an adjournment of the hearing for two weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
southwestern MIners IdIe.

Kansas City, Mo, April 2-All the coal mines of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, are idle, the miners having struck for payment of the scale of 1908. These mines employ 25. 900 men. It is expected that numerous operators will sign the scale soon' all though none has done so yet
 Operators who have mines in more than one district must sign in all the dis- tricts before opening any mine.
 The miners are in prosperous eondi- ton, having been employed steadily for a long time. and the best of feeling Is visible between them and the operators The celebration of the eight-hour anniver- sary was general throughout the south west today. and the miners turned out in large numbers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
BURNETT EXPLAINS
 ALABAMA LAND BILL
Lands Found to Contain But Little Minerals Will Be Opened for
 Homestead Settlement.

Washington. April 2.-(special) blowing to the misunderstanding which exists over the bill introduced by Representative Burnett reclassifylng the lands of the state of Alabama, MT. Burnett today made the subjoined statement The bill has been approved by the President.
 "The bill provides for an examina tion of the lands that have heretofore been classed as mineral and withdrawn from entry by the secretary of the interior, and those which are found not to con tain minerals in any great extent will then be opened up for homestead settle ment. The secretary will have to have the lands surveyed and examined by ex- pert mineralogists before this can be done and 1t will probably be October be- fore lands are opened for homestead entry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Claims Killing Was In seltpsfense.

South McAIester. I. T., April 2.-Henry Crank, g years of age, was arrested here today. charged with killing Charles Isaac in Owsley county, Ky, in 1903. He admitted his identity but declared he killed Isaac while acting in self-defense. He displayed a shattered arm and stubs of three fingers, claiming they were the result of injuries received in the fight. Crank has resided here ever since the crime was committed, He will return to Kentucky without requisition papers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Investigate the Dawes Robbery

Mnskogee. I. T., April 2.-The depart ment of justice has been asked to desg nate what action shall be taken in the case of those who robbed the Dawes commission of Indian rolls. Should a charge of conspiracy or larceny be or dered, arrests will immediately follow. Enough crcumstantial evidence has been secured according to an official who has charge of the matter, to warrant the ar rest of several parties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Little Levity at Picnic.

South McAlester, I. T., April "A big union miners picnic was held here today. There was little levity about the throng and all conversed seriously about the strike.
 All is quiet about the mines as num- ber of engineers are still on duty. but in most cases non-uuion men or officials of the companies are operating the pumps to prevent flooding of the mines.
 The Ozark Coal and Railway company of Panama, l. T., which has the only non-union mine In the territory. it Is thought will continue operations without interference It has daily output ot about 100 tons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Investigate Jerome,s Campaign Fund.

Albany. April 2.-A report from the Jerome nominators' as to the sources of District Attorney Jeromes campaign fund in the last election in New York county is called for by a bill introduced in the assembly tonight. Under its pro- visions the Jerome party would have to file with the secretary of state on or be- fore June 1, 1906 sworn statement showing all receipts and expenditures in aid of Mir. Jerome's election. The bill is couched in general terms but the de scription is so explicit as to apply only to the Jerome nominatory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
General Resumption of Work.

Pittsburg, April 2.--There will be no strike of the bituminous miners in the Pittsburg district, and according to Fran cis L. Robbins of the Pittsburg Coal com- pany, there will be a general resump- ton of work tomorrow morning, following the holiday celebration of Mitchell day
 MT. Robbins officially announced to- night that he had signed the scale Of 1903 and among other signers were the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal company the Ellsworth Coal company, the Crescent Coal company. the Miflin Coal company. the Peoples Coal company, the Marine Coal company, the Steenial company the Dilworth Coal company. and the Mansfield Coal and Coke company.
 These companies represent 3OOOO,0o0 tons or over three-quarters of the coal mined in the Pittsburg district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
shepard's Moving Pictures.

An interesting and entertaining pro- gramme of moving pictures was gwen at the Jefferson theatre last night by Archie L. Shepard. MT. Shepard's plc- lures cover great variety of subjects and furnish an evening of refined amuse- ment. The performance last night was greatly enjoyed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Kills Negro in Daughters Room.

Fort Worth. Texas, April 2--Prof. Pru- it, a prominent local educator, tonight found a negro named Jess Jones in his daughters room and killed him. The young woman was asleep and the man had just entered her room. This Is be- lieved to be the third attempt made by Jones'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Mrs. Roosevelt Calls on Palma.

Havana. April 2.-Afrs. Roosevelt and her children called on President Palma today. President Palma sent a state coach to the wharf to receive Mrs Roose- welt and the children and an aide-de- camp escorted them to the palace. Min ister Morgan, Secretary Sleeper and Con sul General Steinhardt also accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt to the palace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Indanendents WIlI Shut pown.

The miles of the independent operators will be shut down tomorrow in the Pitts burg district. in conjunetion with those in Ohio Indiana and Illinois. The 1nde- pendent operators met in this city to- night and at 10 80 adjourned, after passing a resolution to support the operators of the four named states in refusing to sign the scale.
 The independent operators say that their mines would not be opened tomorrow un- der any consideration and that under no circumstances would the mines be run as non-union plants.
 In other districts throughout western Pennsylvania the situation was about as pacific as in the Plttsburg district, Beaver county operators signed the scale. The expressions from the Clearfeld district are that when the miners meet the oper- ators in joint conference tomorrow, the scale would be signed. while the West Virginia fields were less agitated over the movement than any other state in the soft coal regions, and the miners were apparently disinterested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03

Topic to Las Renas, the Pacific port at the mouth of the Amra river in the state of Jalisco. The line would traverse a rich section of the territory of Topic, partic- ularly suited to the cultivation of to- baeco and would place the Soutnern Pa cifc in control of all the principal pacinc ports north of Chemala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
ALL ANTHRACITE
 WORKERS IDLE
Continued on Second Pase)


 gramme for tomorrow as tentatively out lined by the operators. is to renew the counter proposition made to the miners early in March, that Is, the continuation for another term of three years of the award of the anthracite strike commis- sion. The employers, however do nont expect the miners representatives to ac cept the proposition or even consider it at tine present time, but rather expect the union leaders to renew their original demands. If this programme is followed out an adjournment will be taken for twenty-four or forty-eight hours.
 The concliatory spirit shown in the first meeting of the two committees Is not ex- pected 10 obtain in tomorrow's confer enee. The operators are indignant over the action of the miners union in fore ing a suspension of operations
 Retailers Raise Prices.
 The presidents of the anthracite coal carrying roads today devoted considerable in New York, Philadelphia and other cities in raising the price of domestic sizes of coal to the consumer. They have received reports that many retailers have advanced prices anywhere from 25 cents to $1 a ton. The operators some days ago warned the dealers that if they continue the practice their supply of coal would be
 
 dealers who rlgidly maintain the regular prices. The practice of advancing prices, how ever, became so widespread that the op- orators today deemed it necessary to issue a statement to the public showing their position.
 The statement was as follows:
 Statement Is Issued.
 ''Advices received this morning from the anthracite coal regions are to the effect that the Delaware, Lachawanna and Western railroad Is operating two wash cries. Erie five washeries. Ontario and Western two washeries, Delaware and Hudson one washery and the Peoples Coal company one breakery.
 "The Reading, the Lehigh Valley and the Temple Coal and Iron company are not attempting to run any of their plants, although some 2000 men reported to the Lehigh Valley Coal company for work this morning. "The price of freight has not been rais- ed. no charge whatever Is being made for the cost the operators have incurred for the shortage of coal, and the price f. .b. and along side is exactly the same today as it has been for months past. There is no excuse for raising the price of coal and the operators are doing every
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
RetaIIers Present TheIr sIde.

A statement Of the grounds on which the retail coal dealers of New York city raised the price of coal last week was made today by Alfred L. Barns, a mem ber of the Retail Coal Dealers assoeia- tion. He said:
 Ut is true that the operators have not raised the price of coal but neither wholesaler nor retailer can get any .eoal from them for a month and the reserve being exhausted to supply our customers so that they can run their plants we are compelled to get it from any possible source, and the middlemen and small deal CTS are making us pay an increased price for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03

thing in their power 10 prevent 1t. The operators have stored very large auan- 1ity of coal against just such an emer- gency as has arisen, and this coal will be distributed with as great regard as pos sible to the demands of legitimate con s1Imers."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Cannot Trade on Foreign Exchanae.

Chicago, April 2.-Members of the Clli- cago board of trade today adopted tlle rule prohibiting its members from trading on foreign exchanges. The vote on tbA proposition was 556 in favor of the propo- stion, and 147 against it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
Southern Pacific to Build Line.

Guadalajara, Mexico, April 2.-It is now reported that the Southern Pacific will construct line south from the city of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-03

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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-17
POWER FROM NIAGARA.
Sixty Per Cent. of Gross Energy
Available for Electric
Current.

Always room for one more power
plant at Niagara. The latest looks to
the lower Niagara river, which falls
30 feet in a length of two and a half
miles. with the whirlpool nearly at the
center of this length. This is about
half the descent of the great cataract
above and is made by the entire vol
ume of water that passes over both the
American and Horseshoe falls. Alton
D. Adams calculates that the unused
power of these rapids just above and
below the whirlpool could develop half
as much power as could be developed
by diverting the entire flow of Niagara
river at the falls. If the American
falls are to be saved. further conces-
sions must be limited to the gorge and
lower rapids. His idea is to build pipe
lines between the upper and lower
points on the rapids. Niagara river
has a normal discharge of 222 900 cubic
feet of water a second, and this water
falling 80 feet develops 100000 gross
horsepower, Making due allowance
for losses in the pipe line, water
wheels, tailrace and generators, it may
fairly be said that 60 per cent. of the
gross energy could be delivered as cleo
trio current If the entire discharge
Of the river were utilized. This net
power is twice as great as that of all
the electric plants now completed and
under construction at Niagara falls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-17
Wall of the Doomed.
Chicago Inter.Ocean lRep.i

1t is idle to deny that the present po-
litical situation in congress is a cause
for grave anxiety to the republicans of
the country. The fact that the admins
tration is represented in the most inn
portant legislation before congress by
aggressive democrats like Tillman of
South Carolina and Bailey of Texas is
Ominous-more ominous than has yet
appeared
The recording of this fact does not
imply, necessarily, censure of White
house or capitol. 1t is the fact itself
that is disturbing republicans. The
differences between the administration
and congress have produced crisis in
political circles by crisis in Wall
street.
However Wall street panic may be
explained as a mere collapse in stocks,
it ramifies throughout the whole coun-
try, to the disturbance of business and
to the embarrassment of industrial
enterprise. So this unusual situation at
Washington, though in way technical
politics, ramifies throughout the whole
country and demoralizes the spirit of
the party in power.
The Washington events cnronicled
day by day in the newspapers tend
clearly toward the decentralization of
the republican party and the confusion
of the party leaders. This tendency is
particularly ominOus at time when the
democratic party seems hopelessly COM
mitted to make William Jennings Bryan
its presidential candidate on a Populis-
tic or Socialistic platform in 1908.
The political situation is analogous to
that which prevailed during the Cleve-
land administration from 1898 to 1897.
We are not discussing here the issues
then at stake. We are stating the po-
litical fact The warfare between a
democratic presidentin the White house
and the democrats in congress was dis
astrous to the democratic party. There
in is the lesson for a Republican adj
ministration and republican congress.
Cannot the administration and the
republicans in congress get together on
the platforms of the last three presi-
Dental campaigns and present united
front once more?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-17
CHANGES IN BIRTH RATES.
tons Rise and Fall with
Prices.

At a meeting Of the Royal Stats
teal society, held recently in London
at the society's rooms, paper was
read on ''The Changes in the Mar
riage and Birth Rates in England and
Wales During the Last Half Century,
with an Inquiry as to Their Causes"
by G. Udny Yule.
A careful examination IN the fiuc,
tuations In the birth rate showed, de-
clared Mr.. Yule, that II appeared 10
respond, like the marriage rate, to the
cycle Of trade and industry, though
the movement is curiously irregular
as compared with that of the latter
rate. The fall of the birth rate, or d
marked increase In the rate Of fall,
commenced in many European coun-
tries Just about 1S75-76, that is, when
the effect of the fall in prices from
1878 was just beginning to made itself
felt.
The turning point was too well
marked not to be due to some very
definite cause, and too widespread to
be ascribed to any cause Of at all
q local character. The greatest inter
censal increase rates in England and
Wales occurred, 1t was pointed out,
after periods Of high prices.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-17
TRUST PROSPERITY!
Omaha World Herald.l

The United States Steel
Friday
capitalized tariff be
than had been expected.
Reducing all round numbers the trusts
the
The earnings gain of 100000.
The surplus dductng additions improvements
making hand
uiofF of
Byron w Holt industrial coroboratd by John Moody his
S3ONO The
of iond capitalization is protection
PROFITS ON
WATER Water another the POWER TO EXTORT TRIBUTE
investment
In SINGLE YEAR them the has taken itself through
UNEARNED PROFITS ENORMOUS SUM OF
This STOLEN the under the
by boodie and greediest
despot in the worlds history This is of
which enforced
Of all the making socialism today that pushing
socialism will be
American SOIL what single force potent than the steel ru
seeking
robber
free competition actually MAINTAINING AT ENOR
NOUS EXPENSE PROTECTIVE TARIFF TO FOSTER AND STRENGTH
EN-
h Observing thinking Mortified grinding
inevitable byproduc of the
hundred inability
unwiingne
remedy?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-17
New States.
jefferson Bannerl

THE esteemed Chicago Tribune says:
Democratic senators wish to have Ari-
IONA and New Mexico remain terri
tories until they can be admitted as
separate states" Possibly 50, and
President Roosevelt and the Republi-
can senators who take their orders
from the White House wanted to force
the two territor into an unwilling
union because it is feared that if ad
mitted as two states, both would send
democratic senators to Washington.
With President Roosevelt the wishes of
the people count for nothing when
they run counter to the interests of the
Cop. The people of Arizona protest
ed vigorously against union with New
Mexico and demanded that the question
of joint statehood be submitted to a
vote of the people. This right was
denied them by the president, who of
late has assumed to run the Legislative
rs well as the executive branch
of the government. In the house the
will of the president prevailed but in
the senate sufficient manhood devel-
oped to block his little game The
proposition to admit Arizona and New
Mexico was stricken from the bill and
both territories will perhaps have to
wait years before they are granted
statehood, but when that time comes
they will be admitted as separate states
and not joined together against their
will.
1t is remarkable, by the way, that
proposed amendment to submit the
question of joint statehood to referen-
DUN of the people of the territories re-
ceived the support of Senator Spooner,
a close and confidential friend of the
President, while the great champion of
the peoples rights, Robert La Toilette,
voted against it, denying the people of
the territories voice in a question
which is of vital Importance to them.
President Roosevelt and Mr.. La Toilette
are both that class of partisans who
show respect only for the rights of the
people when they are willing to blow
into the same horn with them. No
referendum is wanted by either Roose-
welt or La Toilette when there is danger
that the people may express an opinion
contrary to their wishes.