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From Other Shores.

Drury Lane theater, of the most
famous in London, was completely de-
strpyed by fire. There was no loss Of
life.
1t is reported that the indisposition
from which King Leopold has been
suffering for some time has taken a
serious turn.
Ten members Of a pleasure party
we're drowned by the upsetting of a
motor f%erryboat on Lake Ratzezurger.
in Germany. Four other passengers
were saved.
Reports received at Moscow from
Yasnaya Polyana say hat the health
of Count Leo Tolstoi, who has been i'll
with the grip for several days. has
been restored and he is again at work
and taking daily exercise.
President Nord Alexis in an inter,
view at the palace at Port au Prince,
declared hat conditions in the repub
lie were absolutely tranquil. He said
that he did not question his ability t.
preserve order and protect foreign in
terests there.
The government powder houses a.
Batuco, thirty miles north of SaIti'@c
Chile. were blown up. Six treneadou
explosions followed each other il
quick succession. causing a panic in
the city, which was shaken to its very
foundation. The loss is very heavy.
The statement published in Ell Muir
do Of Madrid, that the wound inflicted
upon King Manuel of Portugal at the
time his father. King Carlos, and the
crown prince were assasinated, had
not healed and that amputation would
be necessary. has been officially de-
clared to be untrue.
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PRESIDENT PUTS
|TUP TO CONGRESS
Special Message Calls Attention
to Measures Which De.
mand Attention.
TAKES THE PART OF LABOR
New Employers Liability Act; Modif.
cation of Injunction Power;
Tariff Revision.

Washington, March 81. - A special
message from the president was read
in both houses of congress yesterday,
The president calls attention to GER
tain measures upon which he thinks
action should be taken by congress
before the close of The present SEES
sion. AS regards most if not all of
duced into one or the other of the
two houses. and the president thinks
it is not too much to hope that action
will be taken one way or the other on
these bills at the present session. The
president says that he has repeatedly
measures.
The message was closely followed
in the house. The declaration that
the time had come for a revision of
the tariff was %applauded by the Demo
Gratis. The Republicans confined their
applause to the message as a whole.
Briefly stated the measures upon
which action is urged are:
Prohibition of child labor through.
out the nation.
An immediate re-enactment of an
employers liability law conforming to
the recent decision of the United
States supreme court.
A law giving compensation to gov,
eminent employees for injury or death
incurred in it's service.
Action in regard to iniunctions in
labor disputes.
Amend the interstate commerce law
SO as to give the railroads the right
to make traffic agreements subject to
the approval of the interstate com.
merce commission.
Encouragement of trade agreements
between employer and employee.
Nothing should be done to legalize
either a blacklist or boycott that
would be illegal at common law.
Prompt action on financial legisla-
ton and postal savings bank.
The time has come when we should
prepare for a revision of the tariff
Provision should be made at this ses-
sion for collecting full material which
will enable the congress elected next
tall to act Immediately after it comes
into existence.
Our forests need protection and one
method of protecting them would be
to put upon the free list wood pulp,
with a corresponding reduction upon
paper made from wood pulp. The
president expresses the opinion that
this change in the tariff could be
made with advantage forthwith.
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MESSENGER BRUTALLY SLAIN.
Safes in Express Car Ransacked and
$1,000 Taken.

Newton, Kan, March SO. A. Bal
ley of Kansas City, an express mes
senger of the Wells-Fargo Express
company, was killed by an unknown
person on Santa Fee Train No. lis be-
tween Florence and Newton early yes
terday morning. The murder was a
very brutal one, with robbery as the
object. Both safes, the local and the
through safe, were ~ransacked, and at
least $1,000 in money and some jewel
ry we're taken. Whether this is the
full amount the robber secured is not
known.
The dead body of Messenger Bailey
was found at 4 o'clock yesterday
morning when the train reached
Newton. It was stretched on the floor
of the car, the head beaten to a pulp,
and lying In a pool Of blood. The
back of the skull was crushed and the
end OF the car in which 1t was lying
was spattered with blood. There was
no evidence Of any struggle, the indi-
cations pointing to the committing of
the murder while the messenger was
asleep, before he could offer resist
ance.
The officers we're notified as soon
as the murder and robbery were dis
covered, and within an hour posses
were securing the country. A reward
Of 1000 has been offered by the
Wells-Fargo Express company for the
apprehension Of the guilty parties.
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news OF THE WEEK IN tPNOMt
important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
Washington.

The president has nominated James
Sanders of Montana to be agent for
the Indians of the Blackfeet agency in
Montana.
The U. S. S. Machias is to be fitted
cut for service as a tender or mother
ship" as 1t is destined to be called.
for the submarines. The work viii be
done at the Portsmouth On. H. navy
yard.
Mr.. Coudrey OF Missouri has intro.
duced a bill providing that all ex-
presidents of the United States shall
become honorary members of the Uni
ted States senate for life and as such
shall receive a compensation OF $685.
900 per annum
Capt. Clark D. Dudley. Fourteenth
cavalry. at Boise barracks. Idaho. has
been convicted by court-martial on the
charge of cruelty In having compelled
. young soldier to parade up and down
the porch Of the barracks for three
hours wearing on his back a placard
with the words bad Boy" Capt.
Dudley was sentenced to be confined
within the limits Of his post for four
months.
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DEATH list MAYtXCffD SEVENTY
Great Forces of Men at Work Removing
WreCkage Caused by Mine
Disaster.

Hanna, Wyo, April 31.-An Official
list of the known victims Of the mine
disaster here Saturday was given out
yesterday by the Union Pacific Coal
company. 1t contains sixty-two names
and it is believed that eight or ten
others also met death in the mine
The entrance of the mine. whore
the dead miners are entombed. has
been sealed, and until the fire is
smothered or some method is devised
for lifting the lethal gases which fill
10 go down the slope and fight the
flames IT close quarters. no effort to
enter the mine will be made. Great
forces Of men are labOring at both
slope entrances removing w~reckage
Awful Force Of Blasts.
SO powerful we're the blasts of buru-
ing gas that the Innings of the slopes
were Stripn" aud hurled forth, to fall
in fragments over a wide eXpanse OF
prairie. Timbers as large as tele-
graph roles w%re broken 1000 feet
from the pit. Yesterday the task OF
restoring On}e semblance of organi
z"tion to the permanent arrangements
were in progress for the opening OF
No. > mine. long idle. and for work
ing No. ., which produces an inferior
quality of cOal. With the fate Of
comrades SO fresh in their
minds the employees of No. 2 are
somewhat reluctant to return to their
perilous occupation.
Probe by Coroner.
Coroner Bennett has viewed the
three bodies recovered before the sec
ond explosion and the two blown out
by the second explosion. He will be
gin an inquest when it is known
whether Or not the remaining bodies
can be recovered and will tempt tn
get at the cause of the explosion.
Men who came from the mines a
few moments before the first exDlo-
sion say there was much gas present.
second explosion undoubtedly
was caused by gas.
The condition of the bodies cover
ed preclude the possibility that any
Of the men in the mine survived the
second explosion.
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STOLE $1,1o5,o 900 FROM BANK.
Pittsburg Bank Scandal Reaches AS
founding Proportions

Ne0'io'HS VToPoI IloHS.
Pittsburg. March 20. With the
populations from the Farmers Depos-
it National bank officially declared to
be 81, Jos, 900 and new infornations
filed against the self-confessed en-
bezzlers, it is insistently rumored
that within the next twenty-four
hours informations will be filed
against business men in other cities
as we'll as against citizens of Pitts
burg not yet mentioned in connection
with the affair.
Government officials are astounded
at the amount OF the thefts and de-
clare that never before has a national
bank been victimized to such an ex-
tent in such a manner. The accused
teller and auditor have confessed to
the most open and barefaced falsity in
their conduct of the banks affairs,
and more than half the amount taken
is declared to have been appropriated
within the last eight months.
A sensation was caused here yes
terday when Bank Examiner w. l..
Folds made a third information
against Henry Reiber, paying teller,
and John Young, auditor. of the Farm
ers' Deposit National bank, charging
them with misapplying funds OF the
bank amounting to s ,1O5, 900. The
previous amounts named were $85,-
600 and $4,000 600.
Reiber and Young are in the coun-
ty Jail, where they were placed fol-
lowing their arrest last Monday night.
They are held in $3.50, 900 bail.
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Police Connect SilverStein With
Reds, but Fail to lmpIicate
Any of Them.
EDITOR BERKMAN IS ARRESTED
But Police Are Unable to Connect Him
With 0Htrage-Assassin Is
Likely to Recover.

New York, April I. Efforts of
the police to connect Selig Silverstein,
the Union square bomb thrower. with
the groups of anarchists have been
successful, but thus far they have
been unable to prove hat his sensa-
tional act OF Saturday was prompted
in any way by these associates. These
developments occurred yesterday,
after the arrest of Alexander Berk-
man. the anarchist leader and com
panion of Emma Goldman, who served
twelve and a half years in prison for
shooting Henry c. Frick. the Pitts
burg capitalist. The detectives show
ed, When Berkman was arraigned in
court that Silverstein held a card of
membership in the Anarchists Fed
Grated union. of which Berkman is
treasurer. and this card was signed
by Berkman. but their attempt to
show that Rerkman knew Silverstein
or that he and his friends in any di-
rect way melted the bomb throwing
was for the time futile.
Berkman Is Paroled.
The police asked Magistrate
Droege. before whom Berkman was
arraigned, to hold the anarchist for
forty-eight hours as a suspicious per
son, but in the absence of any def
mite charge the magistrate refused
thair rou,,nct Tho rayiSfr .Yn no
rolled Berkman on his own recogni-
ton. the latter promising to appear
whenever wanted.
Berkman was taken INTO custody
early yesterday on the strength of the
care M a couple of circular letters
found in Silyerstein's apartments, all
of which bore Berkman's signature.
The letters were written in Hebrew
and were requests for contributions
for the defense of two anarchists re-
Gently arrested In Philadelphia,
charged with rioting there.
Bomb Thrower May Recover.
The letters contained no state
ments of an incendiary character.
Berkman was arrested while in the
Office of Mother Earth. an anarchist
newspaper. Berkman declared that
he expected to be arrested and had
given up some lecturing appointments
In anticipation thereof. He willingly
accompanied the detectives to police
Headquarters. where he was closely
questioned by Inspector McCafferty.
Selig Silverstein, the bomb thrower,
though said to be a sufferer from or
ganic disease of the heart. is likely to
survive the terrible injuries he suf-
fered in the explosion. If Silverstein
he will be placed on trial for
murder in the first degree for killing
1gnatz Hid brand, who, it now APP
pears, was an innocent b~ystander, at
tracted to Union Square Park only by
curiosity.
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Explodes Prematurely as Red
Was About to HurI It at
Squad of Police.
Meeting in New York Is Broken Up;
Socialists Charge Police With
melting Riot.

New York, March 81. - A red flag
fiuttered in Union square Saturday; a
bomb fell; two men lay dying in the
peoples playground, and New York
awoke to the fact hat it harbOred
those prepared to give their lives in
armed resistance Of constituted au-
thority.
The bomb was intended for police
men, who, with rough firmness. had
broken up a meeting of 10000 unem-
ployed. 1t exploded prematurely in
the hands Of the assassin, horribly
wounding him. killing his companion
and slightly %injuring four policemen.
Hunter Intended to Speak.
Robert Hunter. the noted sociolo-
gist. last night declared that he was
not only present at Saturdays demon
stration. but that had opportunity Of
tered he would have addressed the
crowd in defiance of police prohibition
and so brought a test in the courts of
the right of free speech. Mr.. Hunters
position in the whole matter was set
forth in a statement over his sigma
ture given to the Associated Press.
The writer deplores the outrage of
the bomb and refers to its author as a
fanatic. who has injured the cause of
the unemployed.
Police Were Brutal.
Mr.. Hunter says until he arrived at
the square he was ignorant of the fact
that speechmaking had been forbid
den. He learned this Of the police
and then he determined to speak in
order that the right Of peaceful assem-
bly, and free speech might be tested
in the courts. He adds hat he had
no chance to be heard. for presently
the police charged the crowd with in
credible brutality" Mr.. Hunter de-
scribes his own escape from under a
eed by officers from the steps of a
building from which he had hoped to
speak, and how what was intended as
a peaceful assembly in furtherance of
aid for the unemployed was broker up
with a scene that he thought could
not be duplicated outside of Russia
Fanatic May Survive.
Selig Silverstein, the youth in
whose hands the bomb exploded as he
was about to hurl it at Capt. Miles
O'Reilly and his squad of twenty men.
was still alive last night. Though
the explosion tore off his right hand,
temporarily blinded him and caused
frightful bodily injuries, he may sur
vive.
Seven men arrested after the bomb
explosion were ~arraiened in court yes
terday and held for further examina-
ton. They are charged with taking
part in a riot.
The general committee of the local
socialist party claim that the meeting
was made up of law-abiding persons
and accuse the police of melting the
reople to riot. Many statements We're
issued by individuals, all deploring
the act OF violence and all taking the
notice to account.
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March Darlington, who registered
suicide at New Orleans by jumping
from a window in the Hotel Grune-
valid.
A daring attempt to burn the ]. w.
Arlington pop factory and jobbing
plant was frustrated at Webster City,
Iowa. No clue to the identity of the
perpetrator could be discovered.
While temporarily insane, August
Hudlebrink Of Genoa, Ohio, committed
suicide. He set fire to some straw in
his fathers barn and then shot him
self. His body was burned to a crisp.
Peter Ruff, a barber, has been ar
rested at Burlington, Iowa, by federal
authorities, charged with using the
mails for unlawful purposes. Ruff is
charged with dealing in lottery tick
cts.
During a quarrel at Calumet, Mich,
yer $3.50, the price of a load of wood,
Peter Karanen, a prominent Finn of
Calumet. shot and almost instantly
llIC JohlI AllSlEh, a
Swedish farmer. Ahlgren and Kara
men were slightly Intoxicated at the
time.
A. Balm, about fifty years old, was
found hanging by the neck dead in
his barn at woodstock, Iowa. His wife
had gone to Webster City and during
her absence he committed suicide;
stock market speculation is supposed
to have been the cause. Balm was a
man of considerable means.
Joseph Paolucci, an Italian, was
hanged in Washington for the murder
of his sweetheart, Elizabeth V.
Dodge, in September, 1906. The Ital-
ian ambassador interviewed in Paoluc-
CTS behalf on the claim that his trial
had not been an impartial one but
the president refused to commute the
sentence.
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Domestic.

An investigation Is in progress in
Pittsburg which it is said will result
in the deportation OF thousands of un-
desirable foreigners from the Pitts
burg district within the next few
months.
Counsel for Miss Helen Mckinley
Of Cleveland, sister of the late presi-
dent, has elected to take, under the
appraisement, the Mckinley home,
stead at Canton, Ohio. at the apprais-
ed value Of $4,000,
Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje, the defend
ant in the recent Sensational divorce
suit in Pittsburg, has filed a petition
in court asking that Hartje be com.
PEELED to pay her 1902 additional
costs incurred in fighting the appeal
in the divorce case.
Meyer r. Bimberg. known widely as
BIN the Button Man." was found
dead n bed in New York. A week
ago Mr.. Bimberg contracted q cold
which developed into tonsilitis. An
hour or two before he was found dead
a physician had sprayed his throat
and Bimberg settled himself in bed for
a nap.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy has been fled in New York
against Pasquale and Salvador Patti.
the bankers who closed their bank,
giving as a reason that they were
bounded by the Black Hand. The pc.
and concealed funds from the
bank with the intention of defrauding
the depositors.
Walter Wycof. q Mesenna pioneer.
died Of fright while waiting his turn
on the operating table at the Creston.
Iowa, hospital. He lay In such a posi-
ton that he saw a number Of patients
go to the table and later be wheeled
away apparently ~lifeless. The sight 80
wrought upon his mind that he col
lapsed and died Of heart failure.
Agents for the Horse Prairie rail-
road are engaged In making contracts
for q right-of-way for the proposed
railroad into the Salmon river cOun-
try IN Montana. The project Is being
backed by Pittsburg hnanciers. It
will tap q rich mining country Of Ida
no heretofore reached only by stage.
John r. Schweitzer. aged forty-nine
Of Sioux Rapids, Iowa, always classed
as a woman hater, has succumbed to
the wiles Of leap year.. He surprised
every one by going to Storm Lake
With Miss Anna Anderson Of Sioux
Rapids and being married.
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Personal.

DR.. Truman Jay Backus, president
Of the Packer collegiate institute OF
Brooklyn and q well known educator,
is dead.
Rev. ]. B. O. Lowry, pastor Of the
First Baptist church and one Of the
leading ministers OF Atlantic City,
died after a long illness.
John Brill. son Of the founder OF
the J. B. Brill company. car builders.
and vice president Of the company, is
dead at his home in Chicago.
Mime. Rosa Olitska. a leading con-
tralto with the San Carlo Opera COM
pany. vas married at Chicago to
Louis J. Sinai, general agent for an
Insurance company.
Mother Mary Of Mount Carmel,
mother superior Of the Good Shep-
herd convent at Omaha. is dead Of
consumption. She had raised $780,
900 for the Good Shepherd home in
Omaha.
John Hitz. philanthropist, educator,
scientist and superintendent OF the
Volta bureau, founded in Washington
by Prof. Alexander M. Bell for the diff
fusion of knowledge regarding the
deaf, was stricken with heart disease
and died while being removed to the
hospital.
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IRISH HOME RULE ADVANCED.
House Of Commons Passes Resolution
Favoring Regulation by Irish.

0SoI''S ne9uidtioh Oy IT!Sn-
London, April /. - The house of
commons last night. after a lengthy
debate on the question of home rule
for Ireland. adopted by q vote Of 3l3
to 1877 a motion moved by John f.
Redmond. the Nationalist leader, that
lin the opinion of this house a soki-
ton of this problem can only be at
tanned by giving the people Legislative
and executive control of all purely
Irish affairs" after the resolution had
been amended by adding the words
AL subject to the supreme authority
of the imperial parliament"
: 1t was known before hand that the
debate could have but an academic
interest because the government had
already pledged that there would be
no delay in the matter of home rule
until it had been given a mandate at
the general election. But the debate
was made notable by the strong dec
laration Of Chancellor Asquith, which
was all the weightier because it was
made at the moment Mr.. Asquith is
actually assuming the premiership.
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BOY IS SHOT DEAD
Believed Bullet Was Intended for
Army Officer Who Sat Beside Him.

Wilmington, Del, April /. - John
sitting in a cigar store near Fort Du-
pont last night, was shot and instant
ly killed by some n who fired
through the window from the street.
Cook sat next to Sergeant Blackburn
1t is reported that Blackburn had had
some trouble with some of the sol
diers under him at Fort Dupont and
that the bullet which killed Cook was
intended for Blackburn.
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Guards At Black Hand TriaI.

Baltimore April I. - With plain
clothes men and detectives guarding
every entrance to the criminal court
the alleged Black Hand cases we're
called yesterday. Nine Italians faced
the court. charged with completely in
the attempt to blow up the residence
of Joseph Die Giorgio. at Walbpook,
Dec. 10.
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SHE HAS SLEPT TWO MONTHS.
California Woman Begins Fifty-eighth
Day Of Mysterious Slumber.

Los Angeles, April Mrs. Beu-
lah Hawkins, who has puzzled the
medical and psychological professors
by her long, unbroken sleep at the
county hospital. yesterday began the
~fifty-eighth day of her mysterious
slumber. Unless her sleep is soon
broken, the physicians declare, Mrs.
Hawkins will not survive the effects
Of it, granting that she does not die
while still sleeping.
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Barracks Burned.

Panama, March "a dispatch re-
ceived here yesterday from San Sal
vador reports that a fire has occurred
in the soldiers barracks Of Zapote
and in the polytechnic school, but
that all the arms and ammunition
were saved.
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Michigan Pioneer Drops Dead

Calumet, Mich. April I. = Frank
Anthony, aged eighty. n OF the first
pioneers of the copper country region,
dropped dead last evening. He had
been a resident Of Hancock sixty
years and was a retired farmer Of
wealth. He leaves a large family of
grown children.
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POSSE cHAsEs FEUDisTs.

Two italians Fatally Wounded az Re-
suit Of imported Vendetta.
South Bend, Ind. March 29.-As a
result Of a feud which had its incep-
ton at Mirano, Italy. Anthony Com
porti and Selementa Montelani we're
shot and probably fatally wounded
here last night. Their would-be MUIR
derers have been traced to a wood
I'VE miles northeast OF Niles, Mich.
Armed officers are in pursuit.
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Falling Walls Kill Two,

Provincetown, Mass, April 1. -
While inside the shaky walls OF the
adjourned Centenary Methodist Epis-
copal church late yesterday, in search
OF firewood. two boys we're killed by
the collapse of a portion of the ruins.
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ship Blows Up; Thirteen Lives Lost.
Mandal. Norway, March 81. The
Norwegian bark Inglewood, recently
from New York for Stockholm, caught
fire Yesterday. She was loaded with
naphtha and subsequently blew up,
sinking In forty feet OF water. Thir-
teen Of the crew were drowned.
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$4,000 in Rewards.

Telluride. Colo, April l. Re-
wards offered for the capture of the
person or persons who dynamited
Gen. Bulkeley Wells house Saturday
in an effort to kill him aggregate So.
600.
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Widow Il Robbed Of 50. 1000.

Moorhead, Mimi, March 90. =
Charged with robbing an aged widow
of $4,000, John Olson was arrested
here yesterday and will be taken back
to Harvey, N. D.. to be tried.