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ECUADOR RAILROAD CASE.
President Roosevelt May Be Asked to
Arbitrate

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador. June 15.-The
government has ordered the public prosecu-
tor to start proceedings against Archer Har-
man. president of the Guayaquil and Quito
Railroad Company, for breach of contract.
This company is constructing the line from
Guayaquil to Quito. and according to its
contract it should have concluded the road
by June II. failing which all its property
was TO pass into the hands of the Ecuador
can government.
The date agreed upon has passed. and as
the end of the line is still one hundred
miles from Quito proceedings against the
contracting company have been ordered.
1t is said here that President Roosevelt
may be requested to arbitrate the matter
between the government and the company.
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MOTORMAN BADLY HURT. q,
Beaten by Frenzied Crowd After Car
Had Killed Child .......

NEW YORK, June 15.-Michael Broder-
lex. street car motorman. was set upon
and probably fatally injured by several
hundred frenzied men and women in the
Bronx tonight after he had run down and
Killed Lucy Delehante. ten years old. Be
fore squad of police succeeded in beating
back the crowd and rescuing the motor
man Frederick had been trampIed upon
and kicked into Inconsistencies One of
his eyes was put out. and his body was a
mass OF cuts and bruises He was removed
to d hospital.
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Voted to Uphold the Premier.

ST. JOHNS. N F., June 15-At a meet
ing of the colonial cabinet today it was
voted to uphold Premier Bond in protesting
against sacrifice of Newfoundland inter
ests by the imperial government In the
American fisheries negotiations. The situa-
ton is regarded as rather serious here
According to government advices Lord Ell
gin, secretary of state for the colonies. de-
sires the colony to make more concessions
to United States fishermen than Premier
Bond is willing to grant. The Newfound-
land cabinet holds that the interests of the
colony would suffer should Lord Elgins
suggestions be agreed to.
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Gov. Hughes Returned Bill.

ALBANY. n. Y, June 15.--Gov. Hughes
today returned to the assembly without his
approval the so-called full crew" bill.
This bill provides for three instead Of two
brakemen on all freight trains composed
of more than two cars. 1t was contended
at the hearing before the governor that IL
this measure became a law it would un-
necessarily burden some railroad companies
with an annual expense of several hundred
thousand dollars. Gov. Hughes in his veto
message holds that the bill is unconstitu-
tional. He also contends that while the
law would apply in some cases properly. it
would not in others.
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the empire. whose existence lapses stimuli
taneously with the lower body. Today
session was devoted to the discussion OF the
proposed reform Of the ruling senate, es-
tablished by Peter the Great In the year
III, whose functions are partly of delio-
erative and partly Of an executive char
acter The minister OF Justice, M Chtche.
glovtofT. declared that the government
was wholly opposed to the proposed re-
forms and would not permit the upper
house to interfere with the senate
A project introduced by fifty-one liberals
and members of the right party. taking the
senate out of the hands Of the minister
of Justice and creating the important OF
fee of senatorial premier. was rejected py
rs to II votes.
Breach Was Inevitable.
Apparently breach was inevitable.
The crisis was precipitated by an at
tempt on the part of the duma to counter
act an appeal to the peasants from the
crown by an appeal to stand by parlla-
ment on the question of the expropriauon
OF all church and state lands The con-
stltutionaI democrats saw too late the
peril of the step which they had oeeh leu
to take and dissolution followed
The dissolution of the first parliament
was followed by the conditions or repres-
sion, Wholesale arrests and reiiahce VI.
display of military force that obtained>De
fore the people had their hrst prle1 'as'e
of representative government.
After the dissolution a number OF mem
hers of the outlawed parliament ned to VI
borg Finland and continued the sessions
formally dissolved at St Petersburg. These
former deputies to the number OF 1876 issued
from Viborg an appeal to the Russian peo-
pie to refuse support to the system OF au-
tocracy. urging them to stand up Tor the
trampied rights of popular representation,
and advising them to give neither money
nor soldiers during the period OF the sus-
pension Of the duma M
A mutiny broke out at Sveaborg July 80.
but was soon suppressed. as was a prema-
ture rising at Kronstadt on August l. Inc
social democratic committee in St Peters
burg proclaimed a general strike. but II
soon collapsed. The condition of the coun-
try, however became worse than ever and
an attempt was made to murder the premier
by bomb explosion at his house August
% while he was holding a reception. Ter
rorism increased and the government start
er TO meet violence by violence. Drumhead
courts-martial were established. and the
crimes of the terrOrists were punished by
expeditions execution. The Stolypin govern
ment however. gradually strengthened Its
position, and the state of the country I'M
proved until the elections were held for the
second lower house last January and Febru-
ary
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KILLED IN RUNAWAY ACCIDENT.
Augustus C. Flack, a Wheaton Dis
trict Farmer, the Victim.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Nd. June 15.-Shortly be-
fore o o'clock tonight Augustus C.. Flack.
one of the best-known farmers of Wheaton
district. was instantly killed in a runaway
sccident while driving along the 9TH street
pike near Aspen. His horse took fright
from a cause not known and became I'M
manageable. The animal dashed along at a
furious pace and turned into q side road.
When near the residence of William c..
Dwyer Mr.. Flack was thrown out and
when found a few minutes later he was
dead. with a badly crushed head and other
wounds. He was sixty-eight years .of age,
and leaves three children. E. Bruce Flack
OF California, Lawrence Flack of Rockville
and Miss Valera Flack ~ . ".f'5-i-
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Summoned to Explain.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

RICHMOND. Va, June 15.-James E
Clements, superintendent of public
schools for the county of Alexandria, has
been summoned to appear before the
state board of education here June "a. II
is reported that Mr.. Clements has been
tardy in forwarding his reports to the
department and is called upon to explain
Mr.. Clements was counsel for the con-
demned man Wright. alias Thomas
whose case has been twice before the
court of appeals. and his work in that
trial is believed to be responsible for his
apparent neglect He has filed the re-
ports since he was served with his notice
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ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING.
Eight Italians Charged With Designs
Upon Police Captain's. Son.

NEW ORLEANS. June 15.-Eight Italians
tonight made a daring but futile attempt
to kidnap the small son of Police Capt.
Capo. who last night was placed in COM
mand of the quarter where Italian disorders
are occurring. The men drove to Capo's
house in covered wagon and seized a
chld standing at CapOS gate. The child
belonged to neighbor. It's screams
brought rescue. and the Italians barely
escaped violence.
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TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

BERLIN June 15.-Ambassador and Mrs
Tower assembled a large company OF mem
bers of the diplomatic and court circles this
afternoon to hear an illustrated lecture by
Walter McClintock of Pittsburg. Pa. on
1.-The Blackfoot Indians" with whom Mr..
McClintock lived for several years.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 15.-G. III. Umb-
sen, Joseph T.. Green, w. |. Brobeck and
Abraham Ruef, were arraigned today be-
fore Judge Dunno on Indictments charging
them with the bribery OF supervisors. They
pleaded not guilty, and received a copy Of
the testimony given against them.
MADRID. June 15.-After long negoti-
atoms the commercial convention between
Germany and Spain OF February II. 1893.
has been renewed. The terms of the new
convention are identical of those of the old
one.
NANTES, June Is. Sentences were
handed down here today against two more
leaders of the revolutionary general con-
federation of labor, N. Marck and M.
Yvetet. who are to be imprisoned for one
and four years. respectively. They were
charged with melting to rebellion, etc. and
their trial was long and exciting. The pris-
oners were defended by Gustave Herve the
leader of the anti-military movement.
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Bubonic Plague at Trinidad.

CARACAS. Venezuela, June IL (via
Port of Spain. Island Of Trinidad, June 81
The Venezuelan government has been Of
ficially informed that bubonic plague has
broken out at Trinidad and all communi-
cation between Venezuela and that island
has been severed.
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Chattanooga Lynching Case.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. June 15.-Joseph
Franklin today continued on the witness
stand in the case of former Sheriff Ship
and others, charged with contempt of court
In allowing Edward Johnson. a federal
prisoner, to be lynched. Commissioner
sistency in talking about extraneous ques-
TONS Franklin, who was once a con-
stable. was much confused on cross-ex-
animation. Other witnesses today at
tempted to prove an alibi for Bart Johnson
tice, said to have helped hang Johnson
to a bridge.
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EXCHANGE OF, PROFESSORS
Germany Sends Paul Clemen to Har
ward University.

BOSTON, June 1a-The next professor to
be sent to Harvard under the ARRANGEMENT
with the German government for the an
nual exchange of instructors will be Prof.
Poul Clemen. widely known as a scholar in
art and art history. Prof. Clemen is a
member of the faculty of the University of
Bonn. Harvard this year will send to
Germany Prof. W. II. Scofield of the de-
partment OF comparative literature.
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McNulty also confessed to the killing OF
Kate McDermott in Yatesville because he
said she had persuaded his sister to go
to- q fortune teller. who predicted his
fathers death.
The prisoner also told OF the killing Of
Michael Muharin and Muharins brother
at Yatesville. McNulty said he knew the
guilty persons in this killing, although
he did not participate.
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'. q. Raise Correct, Says clowry.

W. q. Raise Correct, Says Clowry.
New YORK. June 15.-Col. R. c. Clowry.
president and general manager Of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company. said today:
"The report being circulated by certain
parties not in the employ Of this company
to the effect that the 10 per cent increase
made March / Is not being carried out in
good. faith is absolutely untrue"
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Eleventh Suspect Arrested.

NEW ORLEANS. June 15.-The eleventh
suspect in the Lamana kidnapping case was
arrested today. The finding of the missing
boy, however, appears no nearer than 1t
was several days ago. The vigilance COM
mittee and police started today on another
clue furnished by a letter.
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Alleged Bankrupt Firm Has Big Assets

ST. LOUIS. June 15.-Involuntary bank
ruptcy proceedings were begun today in
the United States court against the Balmer
& Weber Music House Company. The Pc
titions are from Chicago New York and
ST. Louis. Willis D. Shafer. president of
the company. said that the firm was tenn
porarily embarrassed. owing to time pay
ment business. The assets of the firm
amount to $40 900; liabilities, $4,000
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NOTED ENGINEER DEAD.
William LeBaron Jenny, Who Served
Union DURING Civil War

LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 15.-Wiliam
LeBaron Jenny, architect and engineer,
died al the home of his son today after an
illness of several months During the civil
war he was chief engineer of the 9Th Army
I Corps. During that time he was on the
staffs of Gems. Grant and Sherman In
| 1876 he was appointed professor of arcbi-
lecture in the University of Michigan which
position he held for four years.
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Rebels on Colombian Frontier.

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador June 15.-It is re-
ported here that bands of armed revolution
lists are maneuvering near the Colombian
frontier They carefully avoid encounters
with the government troops until such time
as their numbers shall have been Increased
by assertions from the government ranks
and recruits
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The Kaufman Murder Trial.

FLANDREAU. s. D.. June 15.-Expert
medical witnesses were examined today in
the trial of Mrs Emma Kaufman. accused
OF causing the death OF Agnes Polreis.
servant by inhuman treatment. The ques-
tons were mainly hypothetical and relat-
ed to the symptoms preceding death by rea-
son of blood ciots on the brain.
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DUKES SQUADRON BEIATED.
Vessels Leaving Jamestown for Bosto,
Tuesday Not Yet Sighted.

bQsIoN, Mass, June 1.-THE Duke Of
Aoruzzis squadron, which includes his
hagship the Farese and the Etruria, which
ieit jamestown last Tuesday for Boston
and was expected to arrive at Boston to-
aay at noon had not been sighted from
Highland Light at midnight. The cruiser
Des MONIES and the battleship Illinois
which started to convoy the visitors here.
have already arrived, the Des Moines com
ing in yesterday and the Illinois docking
at noon today.
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MURDERER IDENTIFIED.
Man Who Surrendered Confesses to a
Number of Murders.

LOS ANGELES, June 15.-A man who
yesterday surrendered to the police, say
ing that he had committed murder in
Yatesville. Pa, today was identified as
James McNulty by George Martin, for
merly of Yatesville.
Several years ago. according to Mar
tin. q young man sitting with a woman
under a tree at Yatesville was shot in
the back and killed by q man who fed.
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No. Warrant for Any Action

PARIS. June l5.-The American embassy
has decided, at the conclusion OF an ex-
tensive investigation, that there is no war
rant for any action in behalf Of c. w.
Cannon Of Sacramento. Cal, who was ar
rested in Paris recently. charged with the
alleged Misrepresentation Of S20O.O00 of the
subscribed capital OF the American Expisra-
ton Company.
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Cracksmen Robbed Minnesota Bank.

ST. JAMES, Mimi. June 15.-The state
bank Of Bingham Lake was robbed last
night of $500 in cash. The cracksmen
exploded nitroglycerine. wrecking the bank
building. The robbers then boarded train.
The telegraph operator at Bingham Lake
Informed officers here to meet the train.
and two men, heavily armed. were lodged
in Jail. The booty was in a grip left on
the train. The grip was recovered at Lake
Crystal and sent to st. James.
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GRAPE GROWERS UGLY
SERIOUS SITUATION AMONG THE
FRENCH VINEYARDS.

PARIS. June 15.-The winegrowers' move
ment in the south of France was fully dis
cussed at today's cabinet meeting and
measures to deal with possible develop
ments were approved. Minister. of Justice
general of the district court Of Montpelier
to Paris in order to give him necessary
instructions in case of legal action being
necessary.
The colonel of the Tooth Regiment of In
fantry has been retired on account Of the
disorders at Narbonne, June o. and score
of mutinous privates will be tried by court
martial.
The reports received today from the south
indicate that the situation remains quiet.
The only recent development has been q
few additional designations of munich
palties.
May Wreck the Ministry.
There is much talk in political circles over
the possibility of the defeat of the ministry
economic interests of the northern depart
ments clash with those of the south in
the clause now being debated, and all at
tempts to reach a compromise have thus
far failed. Representatives and deputies
of both the north and south sections have
been in session trying to find way out Of
the difficulty, but they separated tonight
practically without any chance of recon-
CLING their difficulties.
The opinion was widely expressed in the
lobby of the. chamber of deputies today
that as the government had only a ma
Jority of forty-nine on the first clause Of
the bill, its ultimate defeat seems as
sured should the ITO deputies representing
the north persist in their threatened de-
sertion.
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Sutherland -Corroborated.

was preSent~When the bomb was unloaded,
corroborated Sutherland's testimony as to
the contents. Next came the man who
made the lead receptacle which afterward
formed the Peabody bomb. He was Charles
t. Roach a plumber OF Glenwood Springs.
Roach was in business in Denver in May.
1905 when he received the order for a
sheet-lead vessel. nine inches in diameter
and twelve inches high
asked the man what he wanted IL
for. said Roach. land he said he wanted to
plant a cactus in 1t. -
Roach was handed the bomb. and after
minute examination said 1t was the case
he made. The plumber said he could not
identify the man who ordered the vessel.
He was not crosS-examined.
- Miss Cora May Peabody. second daughter
of Gov. Peabody, was called to the stand
to testify as to the time Orchard said he
and an accomplish stole up behind Gov.
Peabody's carriage one night early in 1901
prepared to shoot the chief executive of
Colorado but party of women alighted
and Orchard ran away. Miss Peabody, who
is strikingly beautiful girl, said that she
and her mother and sister had been to the
theater that evening. On their return home
they alighted to find two men almost al tho
carriage zone was SO close 1 could have
touched him. said Miss Peabody. who
added that she and her sister and mother
watched the men as they ran away and
then -teiephoned to a detective agency.
= On cross-examination Miss Pea body was
asked If she had not been appointed a col
Onel In the National Guard of Colorado.
She said 1t was her sister. so we are not
addressing Col. Peabody" commented Hay
wood attorney. as he plunged into long
line of questioning. designed TO fix the date
OF the incident testified to. Miss Peabody
could not say what the date was, even APP
proximately. She did not recall what theater
the party attended
Former Gov. James H. Peabody next tes-
titled that Harry Orchard had been pointed
out to him on one occasion He saw Or
chard on the streets of Canon City after
the Peabody family went there to live. The
defense desired a consultation before cross
examining Mr.. Peabody, and the luncheon
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Charge Met With Disapproval.

Still another phase of Judge Beatty's
charge met with the disapproval of counsel
for Pettibone, and they again took excep-
ton. when he said: ''They Che defendants)
had no right to drive out by force threats
and intimidation the . employees of the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining Company,
and If they did do that, even II they did not
know of the temporary restraining order Of
the circuit court. they violated the law
Testimony of the fights at Gem and
Frisco may be considered IN connection
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Unloading the Bomb.

Sutherland was the next witness. He
told of unloading the bomb. which was
packed with twenty-five pounds of giant
powder. The lead casing Of the bomb
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which has been in evidence since the first
days of the trial. was identified by both
Sehulenburg and Sutherland.
Not the least interested of those who
gazed7 upon the murderouS-looking mis-
siles was Gov. Peabody. for whom the
bomb was intended. The governors wife
and daughter also looked on wideeyed.
sutherland told OF taking the bomb to the
Pinkertons in Denver and then returning
with 1t to Idaho.
The defense moved to strike out all testi-
mony as to the bomb as immaterial and
not connecting the defendant Haywood
with the matter in any way. The motion
was denied.
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CHILD LABOR LAW FAVORED.
Few Exceptions Applied for Under
Georgia Statute

ATLANTA, Ca. January 3O-The asser-
tions of Senator Beveridge before the Sen
ate on Monday on the child labor law were
the cause of some Geographic correspond
ence yesterday between Senator Bacon and
Judge Wilkinson of Atlanta Senator Bacon
telegraphed:
1T was asserted yesterday in the Senate
that 5000 applications had been made in
Fulton county for exception certificates un-
der the child labor law, and all had been
granted. Please telegraph me if the state
ment is correct and, if not, give number of
certificates that have been granted"
To this message Judge Wilkinson replied:
Assertion in the Senate as to applicat .ons
for exception certificates under the law is
incorrect. Only ten applications have been
granted IN Fulton county and the officers
Of the mills and factories affected by the
law are DESTROYS of having it enforced"
Under the provisions of the child labor
law, adopted by the last legislature and
effective the first of the present year, no
child under twelve years is to be employed
in any mill or factory, unless such child
is an orphan and has no other means of
support, or unless it has widowed mother
or aged and disabled father dependent upon
1t for support.
Before such child can be employed its
parent or guardian is required to establish
the facts under oath.
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CALIFORNIA SENATE PROTESTS
Says Government is Trying to Inter-
fere With PEOPLES RIGHTS.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, January 3O.-The
senate yesterday adopted the majority res.
Olution on the Japanese school question
without debate. 1t "strenuously protests
against the unwarranted interference with
the constitutional rights of the state. {"
and requests the governor and attorney
general to do all things necessary to pro-
tect and save the rights of the state of
California"
The minority report, which was voted
down, read: Whereas the President Of
the United States is attempting to inter-
fere.' while the resolution adopted sub
st1tutes federal government for the
President
The resolution adopted declares
THE federal government is attemptinr
to interfere with the mana cement and con-
troll of the public schools of the state Of
California by demanding the admission of
japanese children in the schools attended
by white children in violation of the order
of the board of education Of the city and
county of San Francisco, made in pursu-
ance of the laws of the state of California
Notwithstanding that equal opportunities
fer education enjoyed by other children
are open to the children of Japanese resi-
dcats in this state, at public expense
In our judgment such interference is
without warrant of law and in violation of
our constitutional rights as a sovereign
state.
We. on behalf of the whole people Of
the state of California, do most strenuous
ly protests against this unWarranted inter-
ference with our constitutional rights and
we respectfully request the governor and
attorney general to do all things necessary
to protect and save the rights of the state
of California in this most important mat
action already taken by the governor and
attorney general to that end