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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
ICNATIETF,S FUNERAL
Body of Assassinated Russian Count to
 Receive Honors.

~-'--S~Ne'DAAA+*ANO
 Receive Honors.
 St. Petersbury, Dec. 24.-The funeral or General Count Alexis P. Ignatieff. who was shot and killed at Tver on. De- cember 22, will take place on Decen- Der 2e. The body will be inferred in the Alexandernevsky monastery. one of those largest resting places in Russia Tor the country's most famous dead. Upon arriving in St. Petersburg the body will be met by Grand Duke Con- stantine Constantinovitch, Grand Duchess Elizabeth, widow of the lata Grand Duke sergius, and other memo bers of the royal family. The widow of count lgnatieff has received teegrans or coincidence from the emperor and empress of Russia and from several of ; the crowned heads of Europe.
 The murder of Count Ignatieff has caused consternation among a number Of ex-otficials of the Won Plehve and siptaguine regimes, who have retired from tne held or active administration. They now fear that their past records expose them to the same danger of be. lated retribution
 The Novoe Vremya furnishes the fol- lowing details of the murder: The assassin had an accomplice who has not yet been captured. Both men belonged to the group of terrorists with headquarters in Moscow, where the crime was planned. An unknown man attracted the attention of the count on December 21 by following his carriage from the railroad station, but Ignatiefr thought he was a police detective and dismissed the matter from his mind. lie felt so safe within the hall of no- bles that even while driving thither he left his revolver with his valet. It has been learned that the murderer stole up back stairway of the building and took advantage of the commotion in the dining room during the intermission to approach within arms length of his intended victim. The bullets fired from the mans revolver have been examined and found coated with a virulent poi- soE
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
FURIOUS HURRICAAE RAGING.
Newfoundland Region Being Swept
 Vessels Held in Port.

St. Johns, N. F., Dec 24.-Inspector oReilly telegraphed the fisheries de- partment from Bay of Islands to-day that furious hurricane, accompanied by rain, has ragged for the past seven ty-seven hours. The conditions of the herring fishing are unchanged; the ice in the inlets is partly broken but fish ing is impossible. Of total of sixty American vessels on the grounds only seventeen have sailed. Seventeen Can adian and local vessels also have left. The men employed on board these lat ter vessels for the fishing have return ed to their homes.
 The schooner Mendora, which was driven ashore by the storm, caught fire and was totally destroyed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
WRITES ARE SERIOUSLY
 THREATENED BY NEGROES
BATTERY AND MILITIA SENT TO WAHALAK, MISS, TO PRO-
 TECT FORMER.

Despatched by Special Train-TrOuhle
 Grows Out of the Killing of One Me- \ gro and WOunding of Another by a F Conductor While Attempting to QueII
 Disturbance on His Train--RepOrt of Clash Betweea the Races M Reaches Meridian.
 S Meridian, Miss, Dec. 24.-According Ito reports received here tonight, the negroes for miles around have congre- Agated in the town of Wahalak, forty Hmiles north of here, threatening ven fgeance to the whites because of the killing of one negro and the wounding Eof another by a conductor of a passen- Ager train of the Mobile and Ohio rail- iroad yesterday. The conductor was blttempting to quell disturbance Slboard his train. Only about twenty live white persons reside in Wahalak,
 md in response to a plea for protection |NOdlLClJ etiiu COIlpdlly 11J OL tllC 9betIO .Hnilitia stationed in this city, have been I0sent there by special train. The bat
 .ery carried a Calling gun, and all of
 ,he men are heavily armed.
 At S:30 o'clock 6 message from Scoo- lDa, the first station south of the scene
 If the trouble, stated that clash has occurred between the races, with the SHesult that two white men were killed. isThis report is not verified although
 Railroad officials admit receiving a mes ;age detailing some additional trouble.
 The trouble of yesterday morning Originated while the train was between HtWahalak and Scooba in a fight be- Eween two negroes. Conductor Cooper, NSvho was in charge of the train, at 8fempted to separate the combatants, 6ivhen he was attacked by a negro .stnown as Spencer. After receiving everal dangerous knife wounds, Coop g8r fired on his assailant, seriously 8,vounding him and killing an unknown lsegro. When Wahalak was reached
 spencer, though badly wounded, left M The train and when Constable O'Brien N Ef that place attempted to capture him ilhe negro shot and killed the officer.
 pencer then escaped to the woods With posse in pursuit. At last re-
 orts the negro had succeeded in evad-, aag his pursuers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
WAS KING OSCARS YORK.
He the Man That Prevented War Be-
 tween Neoway and Sweden.

" N0ONaS ana sweden.
 Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 24.-While talking to-day of King Oscar of swed- den, 2, A. Smith, a wealthy lumber man of this city, made the statement that it was not England that prevent ed war between Norway and Sweden, but King Oscar himself.
 T saw King Oscar on my recent visit to Sweden" said MT. Smith, and he told me that he had set his foot down, saying, I will not have war That settled it. The world has generally given England credit for preventing war between the two coun- tries, but it was not England I know that to be fact"
 Mir. Smith is probably the only man in this country who bears the distinc- tion of having been decorated by King Oscar. He was made commander of the Order of Vasa" two years ago.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
counter oner to Rev. Nr. Asked.

London, Dec. 24-The Rev Charles F. Aked, who has under consideration the pastorate of the Fifth avenue Bap- tist church of New York, has received a definite invitation to become the col league of the Rev John Clifford, rec tor of the Praed street and Vest bourne church, ona of the greatest non-confornist churches in England. Dr. Aked has not yet replied to this sffer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
WOMEN MAKE COMPLAINT.
WiIIimantlc W. c. T. |. After sunday
 Moving Picture Show.

Willimantic, Dec. N.-Manager John Gray of the Loomer opera house has been summoned to appear in court Wednesday on the charge of disturb ing the peace on Sunday, Gray has been conducting maying picture show at the opera house and the local branch of the W. c. T. U. has com plained to the police. Mir Gray says that other shows have been given in the town with no interference.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
Same ns RrYan's.

Atlanta, Ga, Dec. PA. J. Nickel way, secretary of the National Child Labor commission, received to-day from William J. Bryan letter in which the latter expressed his thanks for a copy of the Beveridge bill, of which he says; The plan which Rev. eridge adopts for the prevention of child labor is Identical with the plan I have urged for the suppression of the trusts. I believe the control which con gress has over the interstate enables it to apply a very simple and effective remedy"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
CHRISTMAS AT sANDRIsGHAB.
British Royal Family Will Enjoy Enor-
 nous Christmas Tree Spectacle.


 London, Dec. 24.-King Edward Queen Alexandra and the Prince and Princess of Wales will pass Christmas at Sandringham. From an enormous Christmas tree occupying the center of the ball room the queen and the other members of the royal family will per- sonally distribute gifts to each mem Der of the household tomorrow after noon. The tenants and employees of the royal farms will all receive remem- brances, beef and coal being distrlbut- ed to the widows and poorer iaborers. The kings Christmas dinner, as usual, will include a boar's head, the gift of Emperor William; caviare and stur- geon from Emperor Nicholas and roasted peacock and young swan from Hampton court besides the traditional baron of beef and turkey. The king has also sent a number of specially fatted young swans to many members of European royal families.
 The general signs of prosperity are more plentiful here this Christmas than for many years. The stores have been packed for weeks and enjoyed an unprecedented flood of business, all ranks apparently sharing in the gen eral abundance of wealth. The crowds of poverty stricken unemployed so painfully obstructive in London streets year ago are absent this year, indi- eating that all branches of the trades are participating in the improved con ditions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
|AB1D DOG IN BOILER ROOM.
,dIy Tears Hand of One Man and
 Then Attacks Another.

Then Attacks Another.
 Greenwich, Conn, Dec. 24.-A rabid pg ran into the boiler room of q felt ctory in Genville to-day, tore badly 5e hand of John Pulling, and then lrned his attention to Thomas Stahl, ilo was also in the room. The latter truck at the dog with a club, beat him i, and. finally with the coming of a lowd of men and boys armed with lbs and sticks the dog was driven Ito corner in a barn where it was lot. Bulling's wounds were attended "A shrt time ago a dog went mad here Id bit several other dogs. It is sup 3sed that the terrier was one of the ',tims. The board of selectmen of feenwich some time since passed an Enhance that dogs unmuzzled 5ould be killed by the authorities. No law regarding the muzzling of lgs, 1t is said, has been in force in trtchester, which is just across the ate line, up to the present time. It is bought that some action similar to e4t taken in Greenwich will be consid- ed by the citizens of the New York wn.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
OMAN AND RUtF ARRAIGNED'
Charged With COnspiring to Conduct
 DisOrderly House.

San Francisco, Dec. 24-Chief of Po- lice Jeremiah F. Dinan and Abraham Ruef were arraigned before Superior Court Judge Dunne to-day on the charge of conspiring to conduct a dis orderly resort at 62O Jackson street in defiance of the law and to the menace of public morals. Judge Dunne set next Thunsday as the day on which Dinan and Ruef are to plead
 On Friday next Chief of Police Dinan will plead to the separate charge of perjury for false evidence relative to the case before the grand jury and up- on which he was also arraigned to- day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
Many Christmas Greetings to Pope.

Rome, Dec. 24.-Never before has a pope received so many telegrams and letters bringing Christmas greeting as have come to Plus X. this year. 4 large number of communications have been received from the United States expressing sympathy over the trouble with France. It is declared that some sovereign5 also have sent autograph letters of sympathy to the pontiff.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
NO Y. M. G A. GIFT THIS YEAR
J. c. PHELPS STOKES DECLINES
 TO MAKE ONE,

vocate of Municipal Ownership Gives
 as His Reason the Establishment of
 Classes in Real Estate and Stock In-
 vcstments-Unearned Incomes Con-
 trary to Teachings of Christ.
 New York, Dec. 24.-In declining to make his usual contribution to the West Side Young Mems Christian as- aociation, J. G. Phelps Stokes, the so- cialist and advocate of municipal own ership to-day wrote to the Y. M. c. A. that he regretted that it had estab- lished classes in real estate and stock investments.
 Such encouragement to young men who seek support from unearned in- comes is to my mind" he wrote, every distinctly contrary to the teachings of Jesus.
 Tt seems to be overlooked that in- dividuals who take such unearned profits are taking them only at the ex- pense of adding needless burdens to their fellows. Unearned profits do not grow like buds from planted seeds without the intervention of human la- bor, though there seems to be a wide spread notion that they do. Any one who takes wealth which he has not earned by service is depriving some other of wealth which that other has earned"
 w. M. Kingsley, the vice president of the United States Trust company and chairman of the managing board of the Westside Y. M. c. A., gave out a statement tonight in which he said the association's investment classes did not teach Wall street speculation.
 "These classes" he adds, "were formed primarily for the purpose of aiding young men who are employed in the banking and other Wall street houses. That the course has nothing to do with speculation was emphasiz- ed by John Moody, the instructor of the course on the opening night and both he and Frank A. Vanderlip, the vice president of the National City bank, who delivered the first lecture. laid stress on the need of such course for young men employed in such necessary ard legitimate bust nesses as are conducted by the bank ing houses and the trust companies"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
COLONEL J. r. PEPPER DEAD.
We'll Known Distiller and Horseman of
 Lexington, Ky.

New York, Dec. 24-Colonel James E. Pepper, the well-known distiller and horseman of Lexington, Ky, who with his wife left the south ten days ago to spend Christmas in New York, died at the Waldorf Astoria tonight. Death was due to heart and lung troubles, which were aggravated by the shock received last Thursday, when the colo nel slipped on the street and fractured one of his legs.
 Mrs. Pepper, who has been i'll for sev- eral days, was not told of her husbands S death tonight. Colonel Pepper was fifty-flve years old.
 When a physicians certificate was sent to the authorities stating that broken leg was one of the causes of death @ coroner was ordered to inves- tigate. The coroner declared there was nothing suspicious in the death
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
nridgeport Man Arre.tea In Nem YorI..

New York, Dec. PA man giving the name of William Smith and his age as thirty years, and who, accord ing to the police, belongs in Bridgeport, Conn.,, was arrested at the Waldorf Astoria tonight after a lively fight with the cashier and other hotel em- ployes. The trouble grew out of an exchange of bills while Smith was set ting his account He was locked up on charge of petty larceny.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
Victim Brother of Admiral BeressOra.

Fl Paso, Texas, Dec. 24.-D. J. Be- resford of Medicine Hat, Canada. re- ported dead in the Enderlin, N. D.. wreck, is Delaval Beresford, younger brother of Admiral Lord Beresford of the British navy who has a ranch in the sierra Madre mountains of Mexi- co. south of Fl Paso, and another at Medicine Hat, Canada,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
Fatal shooting in Waterbury.

Waterbury, Dec 24-Guiseppe Val eria, an employe of the O'Brien Con- struetion company, engaged on the railroad improvements here, was fa- tally shot through the head tonight at 7:SO by Dominica Presutto. a fellow laborer, Presutto has disappeared. Yaleria is dying at the Waterbury hos pital,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
HIS OFFICE BATTERED.
New York Counsel fer King Leopold
 Says Pnpers Were Stolen.

New York, Dec. 24.-H. l. Kowalsky, an attorney, complained to the district attorneys office to-day that his office had been forcibly entered and copies of letters which he had written a client, King Leopold, of Belgium, removed. The matter was referred to Assistant District Attorney Miner, wso said that he would institute John Doe proceed ings Wednesday and subpoena any one alleged to have had anything to do with the publication of the letters.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
OIL TRUST VfRDICr UPstr
Ohio Judge Says Suit Was Filled in
 Wrong Court.

Findlay, O., Dec. 24.-Judge W, S. Duncan, of the common pleas court, to-day decided that the filing of in- formation in the probate court against the Standard Oil company on the charge of violating the Valentine anti trust law was not the proper proceed ure, and that the case should have been filed in the common pleas court He decided that the probate court had no jurisdiction in the suit, and threw out the recent verdict of guilty found against the company.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
SIX FIREMEN INJURED.
New York Patrol Wagon COIIides With
 Chr.

New York, Dec. 24-six fremen att tached to a fire patrol wagon in Great Jones street were seriously injured in a collision between their wagon and a Second avenue car tonight. The ap- paratus was responding to a small fire, when car struck the wagon and threw it against the stalled car. The wagon was partly overturned, the horses were thrown off their feet and the crew tossed into the street, Lieutenant Ward and his five men were picked up seri- ously hurt.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
'ris Celebrates Advent of Christmas.

Paris, Dec. 25.-The advent of Christ As was attended in Paris last night sth the usual characteristic festivi- $. Christmas eve brought out an 7ormous crowd Of people to the streets
 Id the gaieties were kept up to an rly hour this morning, in spite of the ippression of the midnight masses and 1renching downpour of rain.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
STRIKE TO RE ARBITRATED
rder Issued from Washington--Harri
 Man System Threatened.


 New Orleans, Dec. 24-General su- lsrintendent E. B. Cushing, of the .1uthern Pacific, said tonight that he { informed that request has been sued from Washington for the South Tn Pacific firemen to submit their fievances to arbitration. He did not sy who issued the request.
 MT Cushing said he understands lat the Washington request was is Jed as a result of General Manager avs appeal under the Erdman act to Tashin=ton.
 Houston, Texas, Dec. 24-The new tature of the strike of the Southern lacif1c firemen to-day was the asser- ton made by Second Vice Grand Mas Ter Shea of the Brotherhood that un- Iss an adjustment .of the difficulty ,ith the men now out on this division He order is to be made that the entire iarriman system of railroads will lose e services of the brotherhood fire- en and those of the engineers who lslong to the ffremen's organization, Is claiming S6 per cent. of the switch lgineers and a goodly number of the 'ad engineers, will be under the jur- .dietion of the brotherhood.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
NEBOGATOFF AND OTHERS
 ARE SENTENCED 10 DEATH
RESULT OF COURTMARTIAL OF OFFICERS WHO SURREND-
 FIRED TO JAPs.

In View of Extenuating Circumstances
 and the Long and Otherwise Blame-
 less Careers of the Officers, the Court
 Will Petition the Emperor to Com
 mute the Sentences to Ten Years
 Imprisonment in FOrtress--LittIe
 Doubt the Czar Will Show Mercy.
 St. Petersburg, Dec. 24-The court martial which has been trying Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and seventy eight officers of his squadron for surrender ing to the Japanese. at the battle of the Sea of Japan on May 2S, 1905, handed in ith decisions at ten o'clock tonight Vice Admiral Nebogatoff; Commander Licllino of the coast defense, ironclad General Admiral Apraxino; Rear Ad- miral Gregorieff, of the coast defence ship Admiral seniavina. and Lieuten- ant Smirnof, who succeeded to the command of the battleship Nicolai [. were sentenced to death, but in view of extenuating circumstances and tn long and otherwise blameess careers of these officers, the court will petition the em- peror to commute their sentences to ten years Imprisonment in fortress. Four other officers are sentenced to short terms of imprisonment in a for tress, while the remainder are acquit- ted of the charges brought against them
 The trial of Rear Admiral Nebagatoff and the officers of his squadron began at St. Petersbury on December 5. The accused were divided into three catego- ries First, Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and the commanders of the battleships. Second, the officers who advocated the surrender. Third, the officers who did not endeavor to present the surrender.
 The first group of officers was tried under that paragraph of the navy reg ulations which provides for the pun ishment by death, of any commander of a squadron or ship who surrenders without a fight when he could save his crew or infict damage upon the enemy
 The sentences passed upon Rear-Ad- miral Nebogatoff and the three com manders are similar to those handed down in the cases of the naval officers who were condemned by court-martial for surrendering the torpedo boat de- stroyer Bedovi to the Japanese. These sentences were coupled with similar recommendation to the emperor for mercy, and such intercessions usually have proved successful The lawyers for the defense in the Nebogatoff trial, a majority of whom are active politi- clans, devoted most of their attention to the political aspects of the case.
 The government prosecutor in his closing address, declared that the in fiction of the death penalty under these was out of harmony with the spirit of the times, but he declared that the guilt of the officers in ques- tion found no example in history. Rear-Admiral Nehogatoff, he averred, could have transferred all his com mands to one battleship and then sunk the rest of his squadron The rear-ad- miral made an emotional reply in which he dwelt upon the ignorance of the prosecutor, who he said, has worn the uniform of the navy for only one year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
Dead at Great Age of 12s.

Madrid, Dec. 24.-MariaJ5se Fameto I'd here to-day at the very great age
 125 years.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-25
JEWISH PUPILS KEPT AWAY
ABSENT FROM CHRISTMAS CELE.
 BRATIONS IN N Y. SCHOOLS.
Climax of the Agitation of the Last Ten Days in Hebrew Circles in the MetrOpoIis-Exercises Abandoned in One of the Largest of the Eastslde Schools, Sixty Per Cent. of Scholars Being Absent.

New York, Dec. 24.-The agitation against Christmas celebrations in the public schools that has been gathering force for the last ten days in Hebrew circles found its climax to-day when parents guardians and other protec- tors of Jewish children strongly urged and supported by certain east side newspapers kept their charges from attending the pre-Christmas session to such an extent that schools on the east side reported a decrease in num- bers ranging from 3S Is per cent. to 60 per cent. of the pupils registered.
 One Hebrew principal of an east side school said that the school exercises were not at all of a religious nature but consisted of an entertainment in which the children took part and a distribution of small presents from the teachers and principals. In one of the largest of the east side schools 60 per cent. of the Hebrew pupils were ab- sent and the exercises were abandon ea
 This was the result of an opposition voiced by committee of twenty-five Jews representing the synagogues who went before the school board several days ago and protested against Christi mas celebration in the schools. The board took no action on it.