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INTEREST AT ROME.
Due to Predominant Position ItaIy
Will Assume.

foAlE January 6.-Interest here in the
conference on Moroccan reform is growing
Ihls Is due to the predominant position
that Italy will assume because of the i'm
portance of her delegate the MARQUIS Vis-
cont Fenosta, who, when he was Italian
minister of foreign affairs. concluded an
agreement with France by which Italy
abandoned her claims on Morocco In favor
or France. This agreement was completed
later by Foreign Minister Prinetti. who
pledged 1taly's help TO France In Morocco,
receiving in exchange the help OF France In
Tripoli.
AT that time Germany had shown no in
terest In Morocco while Italy considered
nerself free to SO act, Morocco not being
inciuoed in the agreement of the triple al
nance concerning the equilibrium of the
mediterranean. Now Germany II is said
maintains that any question even If ii were
not contemplated by the triple alliance
comes within the terms of the treaty and
mat IL Germany is attacked by another
power the other two members of the triple
alliance, Austria and Italy, are compelled
to assist her with arms
Thus the situation Of Italy in the confer
snce IS becoming more delicate, as the con-
ference may lead to war, though the PROS
poets at present point toward peace
The opinion is prevalent here that France
snouId represent the powers in the work of
eiviiizing Morocco and that they, should
intrust to her, or principally to her, the
execution of the program of reforms and
the safeguarding of the interests of Ger
many and Spain and the insuring Of the
complete liberty Of commerce for all time.
Up to the present time, it is asserted
Germany has refused to even discuss this
position, limiting herself to the recognition
Of the right of France to protect the AL
gerian frontier on the Moroccan side
Foreign Minister San Guiluiano has tele-
graphed to Signor Ponsa, the italian am
bassador at London, to come to Rome to
discuss with him Great Britains attitude
on the Algeciras conference
There is much speculation here as to the
attitude the United States will take. Sew
eral journalists have endeavored to inter-
view Ambassador White with regard to
this, but he has refused to be quer-'ied. Mr.
White will leave Naples January u on
board the steamer Princess Irene on his
way to Algeciras.
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MOROCCAN REFORMS
GERMANY DEMANDS THAT ALL
THE POWERS PARTICIPATE.

LONDON. January 6-According TO Of
hcial information received in London from
Berlin. Germany not only demands that all
the powers shall participate in the execution
or reforms in Morocco, but that the work of
watching the frontier shall be divided
among them. thus realizing the fears ex-
pressed by an official of the foreign Office
IN an interview with the Associated Press
last Thursday that the German delegates
might insist on regulations clashing with
what France considered her special privi-
ieses, Tor instance, the policing of the from
tier.
II Germany persists in this attitude in the
conference, IT is believed a most serious
SITUATION Will arise France is certain
70 resist and Great Britain will support
france The British government, while be-
nevlng the conference will finally reach a
satisfactory settlement, realizes that persis-
Aehce by Germany in her demands Will
cause irritation which will require all the
enorts OF the delegates to remove. and in
s@us @ IL expects the support OF the United
states, Spain and Italy.
The British public is busy with tho elec-
tions and is not taking much interest il,
the question. Members of the diplomat tic
corps believe Germany is putting forward
her demands before the meeting of the
conference i'll order to see how they are
received.
IN off1cial and unofficial circles the possi-
olnty OF war is considered the remotest.
even IL the conference fails particularly
as those who are inspiring the German
Pohcy 90 not belong to the war party, but
are powerful commercial men
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MYSTERIOUS DEATH,
Body of Victim Taken from Cumber-
land to Waynesburg, Pa.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Nd, January 6.-The
body of David H. Ralston, aged sixty-seven
years. who died under mysterious circum-
stances at the Western Maryland Hospital
here. was sent to Waynesburg, Pa, today.
His skull was fractured, but he was unable
to tell anything further than that he had
received the injury in fight He served
three years in the civil war as a member
of Company 1, 22d Pennsylvania Infantry.
He was appointed postmaster at Harveys,
Pa, by President Garfield He is survived
by his wife and seven children and at the
time he received the injury he was ON his
way east to visit his son. daughter Miss
Lydia Ralston, is leading teacher in the
Waynesburg schools.
j. t. Miller, the proprietor of the largest
store in Homecoming, several weeks ago re-
cefVed letter written in the hand of an
adult and postmarked Homecoming COM
manding him to place 81 600 on a nail on a
tree in a vacant lot at the Berewood a
suburb of Homecoming, or abide by the con-
sequences Mr.. Miller went to the spot and
found the nail In the tree. He looked upon
the matter lightly, however, but an attempt
yesterday to burn his warehouse has set
him to thinking. A large bundle of excel
sior was carried to the premises from some
distant point. The incendiaries IL is
thought, were frightened away.
Ii Is claimed yeggmen and crooks OF soma
notoriety are making headquarters at Lon
aconing. Several incendiary attempts have
been made In the past few months. The
plant of the Homecoming Star was destroyed
by incendiarieA
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WOOD SUCCEEDS CORBIN
TRANSFER OF COMMAND IN THE
PHILIPPINES.

Orders were issued at the War Depart
ment yesterday afternoon making a num-
Der of important changes in the stations
and duties of high ranking officers of the
army
Major Gen Henry c. Corbin will be re-
heved from command of the Philippines
division February l by Mai. Gen. Leonard
Wood. and Will proceed to St. Louis. Mo,
TO assume command of the northern divi-
sion
Maj. Gen. John F. Weston will be re-
Heved from command of the northern divf-
sion February and proceed to the Philip
pines to assume command of the Depart
ment of LuZon with headquarters at Ma
Mia He will relieve Brig. Gen. Tasker II.
Bliss, who will assume command of the De-
partment of Mindanao with headquarters
at Zamboango.
Brig Gen Constant Williams, now COM
manding the Department of the Columbia
with headquarters at Vancouver barracks,
will be transferred to the command of the
Visayas with headquarters at Ioilo. which
command is now temporarily filed by
Col. j. w. Bubb. 18th Infantry.
Brig. Gen. James A Buchanan and Brig.
Gen. w. S. Edgerly, both of whom are in
the Philippines will be assigned to COM
mand the brigade posts to be established
at Fort William Mckinley and Camp
Stotsenberg. near Manila. No one has yet
been selected to succeed Gen. Williams in
command of the Department of Columbia.
Lieut.. Gen. y. R. Chaffee, chief of staff,
Will be placed on the retired list February
and be succeeded as lieutenant general
and as chief of staff by Maj. Gen. John c.
aBteS, assistant chief of staff. No announce
ments have yet been made as TO who shall
succeed Gen. Bates, successfully, as assist
ant chief of staff and as chief of staff, al
though it has been announced that Gen.
Corbin will become lieutenant general on
his retirement in April next. Gen. Wes-
tons transfer TO the Philippines removes
him from the field Of possible choice as
chief or assistant chief of staff for some
time to come Gen. William Crozier, chief of
ordnance and Brig. Gen. ]. F. Bell, presi-
dent of the Staff College at Fort Leaven-
worth, KAN are now mentioned as among
the most likely selections for one or the
other of those places.
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RUSSIAN LOAN REFUSED.
Cause Given for Weakness of Securi-
ties on Paris Bourse,

PARIS, January 6-The marked weak
ness of Russian government securities on
the Bourse today is attributed to the re-
fusal OF the French bankers to entertain
the proposals for another Russian loan of
approximately $180. 900. 600 The negotia-
tons for the loan have been pending for a
long time, being first deferred owing to the
Internal disorders in Russia. These having
calmed down, the Russian financiers con-
sidered the time opportune to reopen the
question and NJ. Kokovsoff, the former Rus
sian minister of finance, has been heer con-
ferring with Premier Rouvier and the local
bankers.
1t is understood that M. Rouvier inclined
against the loan on the ground that suffi-
clent French capital is already invested in
that quarter. The bankers took the posi-
ton that the present monetary conditions
and the disturbed situation over Morocco
made 1t unwise to attempt to float another
Russian loan at the present moment
However, they indicated their willingness
to give relief to Russian finances in another
form by advancing gold to the Russian
state bank against suitable guarantees in
order TO maintain the bullion reserve and
protec. the ruble against depreciation
Plans still under discussion for the
purpose of making short time advances
which would insure the continued stability
of Russian finances until a propitious mo-
ment arrives for the fiotation of loan.
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HELD FOR AssAULTING GIRL.
Negroes Given Hearing in Jail for
Precaution.

Special Dispatch to The Star
WILMINGTON, Del, January 6.-Joseph
Coppage and Herman Campbell, both col
ored, were given a hearing in the jail at
Dover, Del, today on the charge of COM
mitting felonIous assault on Lillian Boyles,
a little four-year-old girl of Smyrna. This
was the first time that this step has been
taken for many years, and it was deemed
best in order TO prevent a possible lynch
ing. The feeling against the accused Is
very bitter. Although the penalty for the
offense in Delaware is death, the negroes
were held in 5000 bail each for trial.
Neither secured bail.
The parents of the little victim attended
the hearing, accompanied by the child. Mr..
Boyles, who is superintendent of the e!ec-
trio light plant at Smyrna, was searched
before he entered the prison, he having
stated that he would kill the negroes on
sight. No weapon was found upon him.
DR.. Cobb testified that the child had been
assaulted and seriously injured. The little
one was not called witness. Coppage
entieed her into a clump of bushes while
Campbell walked down a road with the
young brother OF the girl.
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Petition From Former Home.
BELMoNT's FIRST STATEMENT.
Letter Sent Brooklyn Transit Reform
Leaoue on Subwavs

NEW YORK. January 6.-In a letter to
the Brooklyn Transit Reform League to-
day August Belmont made his first an
nouncement since the merger OF, the inter-
borough and Metropolitan lines concerning
his attitude on the question of subway
building in all parts OF New York city, and
particularly In Brooklyn.
He declared that the old policy OF the
Interborough company of competing for
all subways which are to be built, with q
view Of making complete system through
out the city, would be the policy of the
merger OF which he is now In control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07
THE PRINTERS STRIKE
CONFLICTING STATEMENTS AT
PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA. January 6.-Conflicting
statements are made by the Typothetae and
the leaders of the Typographical Union con-
cerning the printers strike. George Nc
Dade, representing the employers, said to-
day:
Every Typothetae firm has reafilrmed its
statement not to concede the eight-hour
day. Since the strike started thrty-five
firms have been involved. The full compile
ment of these thirty-fve firms is 737 men,
and they have 504 men working today
THE Typothetae has failed to keep it's
promise to supply Typothetae firms with a
man for every man striking for an eight
hour day." said President Calvert of the
printers union. They are not getting the
promised men. and complain about having
been misled by the Typothetae. Men have
been rushed to New York, where Typothe-
tae firms have stampeded, and Philadelphia
has been left high and dry. Three more
firms were added to the eight-hour day coll
umn today, and We are in conference with
others. The eight-hour day will be estab-
lisled,"
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DYN ANTE EXPLOSION
FIVE MEN INSTANTLY KILLED
AND FOUR FATALLY HURT.

CHICAGO, January 6.-Five men were in
stantly killed. four others fatally hurt and
seven seriously injured by the explosion of
Dolese & Shepard Company at Gary, H.,
today. All of the men killed and injured
We're foreigners, who were laboring in the
Quarries.
The cause of the explosion is not known,
but 1t is supposed that box containing
100 pounds of the explosive fell from the
top of another case while it was warming
prior to use for blasting purposes, and that
the explosion of this amount set off the
rest of the 2,O00 pounds.
The building in which the dynamite was
stored was at one end of quarry in which
ABOUT forty men were working.
Seven Men in the Building.
There were seven men in the building,
which was also the boiler room of the
plant
Three of the men who were instantly
killed were at work in trench about fifty
feet from the building in which the dyna-
mite was stored. Pieces of the wrecked
ing them to the EARTH The other two men
were killed by the air concussion, while
working in a blacksmith shop close by.
OF the forty men at work in the quarry
hardly one escaped injury of some kind
from the falling debris of the wrecked
so severely hurt as to require assistance.
The building in whibh the dynamite was
warming up was demolished and all OF the
other structures belonging to the plant We're
damageI l. The total loss to property is
$4,000. The force of the explosion was
felt for twenty miles around, and many
windows were broken in houses standi1g
three or four miles from the quarry.
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Columbia Wins at Hockey

NEW YORK, January 6.-Columbia Uni
versity defeated Princeton In the first game
OF the intercollegiate hockey series here to-
might by a score OF to 2 Summaries:
Goals for Columbia Miller, Armstronr
Knight. 2; for PrincetoR Chew. 2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07
MANY PLEAD FOR PATRICK.
Remarkable Interest in the Condemned
Murderer.

Special Dispatch The Star.
NEW YORK, January 6.-Since the plea
for clemency in the case of Albert T. Pat
rick was sent to Gov. Higgins many letters
have been received by Dr. Allan McLane
Hamilton, who started the petition. Rich
ard Watson Glider has written to the gov
ernor as follows:
May be counted among those who feel
that there are reasonable doubts as to the
sufflciency of the evidence in the case of
the lawyer, Patrick. condemned to death?"
Saturday w. Dexter, a lawyer, of II
Broadway wrote: II have read the opin-
ions in the Patrick case with considerable
care. and I cannot see how 1t is possible
for the court of appeals to have disre-
garded the fatal lack of confederation of
the accomplice's testimony, nor the serious
errors in the exclusion of evidence on be-
half of the defendant"
Petition From Former Home.
ALBANY, N. Y, January Gov. Hig-
gins received today from Navasota, Tex
petition, In addition to that received yes
terday, asking for the exercise of executive
clemency in the cast of Albert T. Patrick
the New York lawyer condemned to be
executed in Sing Sing week after next for
the murder of William Marsh Rice. The
petition comes from Patrick's former home
in Texas, and Is signed by more than 100
citizens of that place The main ground
stated in the petition Is that of reasonable
doubt of Patrick's guilt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07
Part Three.


SIR NIGEL. A COMPANION TO THE
WHITE COMPANY. BY SIR ARTHUR
CONAN DOYLE. ........................ 8
Clannishness .'It is Right that Men Should
Respect Hereditary Regulations, If Unsul-
lied" BY the Duke of Argyll, K. G....... 8
Man and His Follies. By Sarah Grand. 49,. o
The BOX on the Grand Tier: Wherein a
Great Russian Tenor Recovered the Lost
Happiness Of His Youth. By Zona Gale.
One Of the Jests OF Fate. By Tudor jerks
Cupid of the Chaparral: Story of Wool, a
Widow and the Woebegones. By Edgar
Welton Cooley. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 8
japanese Proverbs. BY Mary Ogden Vaughan II
Part Four.
Page
In Fashions Realm. Observation-Disclosures, q
Tending Toward the Graceful Figure - 2
Midwnter Paris Styles. .............. 2
Old time Effects In Modern Evening Gowns. 2
The Practical Housekeepers Own Page
Weights and Measures In the District ...
Quartet OF Prime Ministers. ers............
The Social Side OF Life in New York. -
Mastodons and Mammoths. s............
Worlds Biggest Monastery Filled with ex-
Milltonaires 9
The Sunday Stars Prize Photograph Contest.
The Story Of Sunday. ..............
Cnrly--A Tale of the Arizona Desert By
Roger Pocock. .....................
Cookery for the Sick Room. Observation-Disclosures.
Part Five.
Page.
The Western Turf War. Observation-Disclosures.
Tie in Chess League. ..............
Saengerbunds Make Gain
Racing at New Orleans. .............. i
De Orc Claims Pool Trophy phy.......... 2
Ted Sulliyan's Base Ball Chat. t.........
Base Ball News. ................
Finance and Trade of the World ... q
Society in the National Capital and Elsewhere
Part Six.
"Bub'-He's Always to Blame
Uncle George Washington Bings -
The Dippy Dudes: little Social Call
Little Abe couldn't Resist the Teuptation.. 8
Uncle Rastus and His Noiseless Chicken Gun
..wags -the Dog that Adopted Man,.
Willie Cute Gives Diana Lesson In Efi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07
Acceded to Strikers.

NEW YORK, N. Y, January 6-The de-
mands of the striking printers for an eight
hour day and a closed shop were conceded
today by Funk & Wagnall, an independent
printing firm. Twenty-Five printers We're
taken back by this office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07
Part Two.

The Well -groomed Woman. By Katherine
The Better Who Couldn't Lose. ............. l
Notes Of the Local National Guard. .........
EnglaHds immigration Problem ............. 2
In the Realm of Higher Things. ............... 8
HopefuIness (Sermon). )........................
Fifty Years Ago IN The Star. r................. 4
The Conference at Algercias. as.................
Answers to Correspondents. s..................
Among the Clubs. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
In the Stores. --..-.............. o
Around the City. ....-.................
The ,rheater ...................6-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07
THE STAR TODAY.


The Star today consists of six parts. as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07

Continued on Second Page)
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seem as though some currency reform
legislation would go thru the House
kiting. 1t may yet. But strangely
enough, the statesmen in town this
week for the only assemblage that ever
brings 3S6 Members and 80 Senator'S
into one city at the same time, are
nearly all silent about currency legisla.
ton. 1t is giving them little concern.
They must be walked up on the ques-
ton if any legislation on currency is to
be enacted.
On the other hand, two topics that
made Congressman weary toward the
close of last session are now foremost
in interest-ship subsidy, or ship sub
vention,' as the friends of the bill prefer
to call 1t. because it is less offensive
term, and Philippine tariff. 1t seems
that the wires are already laid for both
those bills to become law at this ses-
sion. The President is behind them,
and the parleys for arranging the de-
tails will begin forthwith. The friends
of ship subvention are thronging the
hotel corridors. The Merchant Marine
Committee of the House is to meet be-
fore the week is over, and altho it was
said that the committee was evenly di-
vided over the bill last session, 1T is now
freely predicted that there will be a
majority for a favorable report to the
House.
Nevertheless, there will be lot of
pulling and hauling before the act is
written on red-bordered parchment
signed by Speaker Cannon and Vice
President Fairbanks. and passed on up
to the White House for the signature
of President Roosevelt Strong oppo-
nents are standing in the path; they
will fight. The Democrats are opposed
to 1t. almost to a man. So is Repre-
sentative Theodore Burton. of CIeve-
land, o., in some respects the strongest
personality in the Eouse. He stands
high as a Republican, and will prob
ably have many Republican followers
among the members from the Middle
Western States. 1t is not believed, how
ever. that his opposition will prevail
for the word has gone around that
Speaker Cannon acquiesces.
That is a struggle for the House. II
is the one thing that now enlivens that
body. Otherwise legislative interest al
that end of the Capitol is dormant No
other big measures are looming on the
horizon, altho there are many that look
mighty big to the localities they affect.
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dent, and therefore 1t would not be
proper to transact business.
Other important nominations follow:
Civil Service Commissioner-John
Avery McIlhenny, Louisiana.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Edgar E. Clark, Iowa; James S. Har-
Ian, Illinois.
Officials of the United States Court
for China-Judge, Lebleus r. Whitley
Missouri; District Attorney, Arthur
Bassett, Missouri; Marshal, Orvice r
Leonard, Michigan; Clerk, Frank E
Hinckley, California.
Minister to Panama-Herbert G.
Squiers, New York.
Secretaries of Embassies-Spencer
T. Eddy, Illinois, at Berlin; H. p
Dodge, Massachusetts, at Toxic.
Second Secretaries of Embassies
George Post Wheeler, Washington, al
Toxic; Paxton Hibben, Indiana. al
Mexico.
Third Secretary of Embassy-Basil
Miles, Pennsylvania. at st. Petersburg
Secretaries of Legations-Charles S
Wilson, Maine, at Havana; w. NJ
Norway; VIM. Heimke, New York, al
BOgota, Colombia.
Second Secretary of Legation-Fred
Morris Dearing, Missouri. at Havana.
Consul General-William p. Kent
Virginia, at Guatemala, Guatemala.
Consuls-GeOrge A. Bucklin, Jr.
Oklahoma, at Glauchan, Saxony: II. S
Brunot. Pennsylvania, at Puerto Cortes
Honduras; ]. G. Carter, Georgia, al
Tamatave, Madagascar; ]. D. Dreher
South Carolina, at Tahita, Society
Islands; w. H. Gale, Virginia, al
Puerta Plata, Dominican Republic; T.
L. Harris, Illinois, at Smyrna, Turkey;
w. II. Hunt, of New York, at st
Etienne, France; F. S. S. Johnson, New
Jersey, at Bergen. Norway; w. L.
Lewrie, Illinois, at Weimar. Germany;
r. B. Mosher. District of Columbia. al
Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope:
Thomas Fl. Norton, Ohio, at Chemnitz
Saxony; A. c. Seyfert, Pennsylvania, al
Collingwood, Ont; J. II. Shirley, Illi-
nois, at Charlottestown, Prince Edward
Island.
Circuit Judge for the Third judicial
District-Joseph Burlington, Pennsyl-
vania.
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Catholic element among the German
settlers of Maryland and his father
was newspaper man, Il politician and
a lawyer. That element sided strong
ly with the Southern Confederacy and
young Baughnan left Nit. ST. Mary's
College to enter the Confederate army.
After the war he went to New York to
practice law, but in few years re-
turned to Maryland. He was Presi-
dent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
and joint director with Senator Corr
man of the Washington branch of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He ran
for Congress, but was defeated by
Judge McComas. and at the death Of
Senator German was recognized as hii
successor in Maryland politics.
Mark Twain was rather surprised
when told of the fate of his book
Ewes Diary" at the hands of the Wor--
cester Public Library. but thought he
could bear up under the blow.