Free press., 1906-04-21
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


Gently retired, as leader of the opera
at Leipzig, is considering an offer to
become leader of the Boston Symp-
hony orchestra.
subcommittee representing the an
thracite coal operators and the mine
workers to reach an agreement and
send the men back to work
Minister of the Interior Durnovo has
sent a circular to the governors of the
different provinces, telling them not
to send any more peasant delegations
to the emperor, as he is too busy to
see them.
A bumper crop of strawberries will
be gathered in the Southwest Mis-
few warm days this month have
brought out the buds, which are un-
usually numerous, and the danger to
the present crop is almost past.
The governors of the New York
Stock Exchange voted not to close the
exchange on Friday. This is the Sec
ond time in the history of the institu-
ton that it has failed to close on Good
Friday, the previous occasion being in
1898, during the Spanish-American
war.
Notices have been posted by the
Glen Easton Coal Company, ordering
the employees back to work under pen
atty of eviction from the company
houses and premises. The order has
aroused a storm in the mine workers
union, as it indicates a new course on
the part of the West Virginia opera
tors affected by the strike.
The board of directors of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company elected as
directors Albert ]. Earling, president
Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway Company; David Wilcox,
president of the Delaware & Hudson
Company, and Robert Goelet. They
fill the vacancies in the Union Pacific
directorate caused by the designations
of o. H. Kahn, Jacob H. Schif and
James H. Hyde.
A wreck caused by three cars of a
Santa Fe oyster train leaving the
track is blockading traffic again over
the Tehachapi mountains. All the
freight and passenger traffic is at a
standstill and the Southern Pacific
officials are unable to state when the
track will be cleared. The wrecker
sent out from Kern to clear the wreck
left the track before reaching the
scene of the difficulty.
Walter Wellman bade farewell to
his mother at Madison, Wis, prepara-
tory to his North Pole airship trip He
sails from New York April "a, and
from Norway June 20.
A rumor was current in Berlin that
in view of the increasing bitterness
between this country and England
and the possibility of war sooner or
later, the government had decided to
construct strongly fortified naval
base on the Island of Sylt At the
navy department it is said that this
rumor was unfounded and the minis
ter of marine was perfectly satisfied
with the present naval bases, both in
the Baltic and North sea.
The grand jury will begin in New
York investigation into the affairs of
the Washington Life Insurance Com
pany, which some time ago had a good
deal of internal dissension, which led
to it's reorganization. The district at
torney's Office has been engaged for
some time past in going over the old
is understood that the result may be
the preferring of charges against some
of the old officers of the company
In compliance with their promise of
April the majority of the stevedores
struck work in support of the en-
ployes of the Havana electric railroad,
who went on strike March 81 for high
er wages. The action OF the steve
dores induced many other wharf and
harbor employees to follow their ex-
ample.
Bellamy Storer, the American am
bassador to Vienna, win be received
in audience by Emperor Francis Jo-
seph, on which occasion he will pre-
sent his letters Of recall.
One of the sailors taken from the
steamship Burrsfeld. now in quaran-
tine at Reedy Island, died from what
is thought to be bubonic plague. This
makes the third death which has oc-
CURED on the Burrsfeld since the yes
sci sailed from Bombay, India.
Among the interesting opinions of
scientists on the eruption of Mount
Vesuvius is one froEI Professor Belar,
OF Laibach. an authority on seismic
disturbances. who. in Telegram to
the London Daily Mail. attributes the
eruption to the activity of a great sun
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