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EARTHQUAKE IN VIRGINIA.

Winchester. Va, April 1.-TWO dis
tuct shocks Of earthquake We're felt
bore about $3.50 o'clock this morning.
While no reports OF damage have been
received many residents were awakened
and considerable alarm was felt. Re
ports from Charleston and Harpers
Ferry w Va, show that the quake
Was felt there
Charleston, w Va, April "A heavy
earthquake shock, followed by a light
one occurred early today. Houses were
shaken and pictures fell from the walls
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a. & O. EQUIPMENT.

Baltimore. April At b. understood
today that the management Of tho Bal-
tmore a Ohio railroad D. figuring on
buying an immense amount OF equip
ment. expenditures ON thIH account be-
ing estimated as hirh ns $1,000 900.
Tentative PLAINS have been prepared
which cnlI Con- 5000 t0 10000 stool freight
cars OF various types and "a largo num-
bcr of heavy locOmtiYea.
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Or. FREDERICK SEARS
GOES TO Pasadena

Columbia. Mo-. April 2--Dr Frederick
III Sears professor Of ostroumy In the
University Of Missouri, resigned az a
ting OF the executive board Of the
university held here today. lie will be-
c..
The observatory was established Eve
'.Ifs ago by the Carnegie institute Tor
q complete study OF the sun.
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REASSESSMENT OF
SUGAR DUTIES ORDERED

New York. April 2-Assessmeuts Of
duties amounting 10 a total increase OF
s. 5000 on sugar imported bv the Amer
team Sugar Refining company az the re-
hucrv OF HavcmCyer g. Elder between
December. 1901 and November 1907. have
been ordered By Collector Loeb OF tho
port OF New York.
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no INVESTIGATE LAND FRAUDS.

Washington. April special agents
Do The field service forces Of the gem
eral land office for the investigation OF
alleged land frauds in the west. were
today appointed by Secy. OF tho Interior
Balhngor as follows:
Wilson n. Bennett Of Pennsylvania,
a.-igned 20 san Francisco; George
HHvworth OF Texas. TO Phoenix. AH-
-.al; Clarence A Booth Of Indiana,
Goo Seattle Joseph G. HendriclS OF Kan
$50 20 Seattle, and Frank ID. Drown
Of New York, 10 Enid, Oklahoma.
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FAm IN pEArm rENALTY.

Helena. Mont, April IA special to
I." Record from kalispell saws that
''doric Lobcau the murderer OF young
lNtkum paid the death penalty shortly
1iirr z O'Clock this morning just prior
iH the execution he became very sick
tnI almost broke down. lie regaincd
ND. nerve however. and walked 90 tho
IoId Tie made statement Just be-
.... iho tran fcll 90 tho effect that he
$500. innocent
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REICHsTAG AnIoTRNs.

Berlin. April 2.-The entire BUDGET
passed its third reading in the reich
stag today after which the house add
journed until April 90 Throughout tho
past week the reichstag has set Tor II
hours a day.
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CONFIRM ELIoTs DECLINArIoN

Washington. April 2-Ofncial condrma-
ton was given al the state department
today of the announcement made yestcr-
day that Ur. Charles w. Eliot the re-
tired president OF Harvard university.
had definitely declined the ambassador
ship 90 Great Britain.
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W. A. HAYES EXECUTED.
Nock Not Broken and lie slowly stran-
Rled Ia Death.

Butte. Mont April 2-Wuliam A.
lItIr. accessory to the murder OF Guard
I"IN Robinson at tho state prison March
|N.. was executed nv che prison this
'inluE at B o'clock The hanRmun bun-
t'I mlHrfublN. HAYES NsCk was not
.hgn or Che fail ana he hung for eight
.Nllts' slowly suanglinH to death in
lIr presence 0f large crowd OF lnvitcd
rI0riE
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Ton sPARRING ENIImIrIoNs.

Springfield. Il., April "A bin was
introduced in the house today permit
ting the holding OF sparriug exhibitions
before athletic clubs for siX-r round
bouts with not less than siX-ouuce
gloves.
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". W. FOWLER RELEASED.

Augusta, Ga. April 2.-Officers from
Boston who arrived here this morning
declared that W. w. Fowler. who has
been under arrest here. was not w. ID.
owen. who Is wanted in Boston on
charges of fraud. Fowler was at once
released.
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WEsToN's WALK.

Groenvlle. Pa. April Edward pay-
SON Weston arrived here al 1880 p. M
from Cambridge Springs lie viii rest
for two hours before starting Tor Sa8r-
on. where he stops for the night.
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MARRIED WOMEN GRADUATES.

New York, April 2--Six married wom-
en-. several OF whom are mothers. are
among the 20 graduates who received
diplomas last evening after completing
the law course In New York university.
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BP. BURKE TESTlFlES
AGAINST PEMBROKE

81 Ju.tuh Mo. Aprl 2-Bishon Maui
i.'c liuike Of tho 3d. Joseph diocese
IN the Roman Catholic church, was the
"'il Witness in The criminal court TO-
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Tie Quick aud Ready Hcsponso Given
To Advertisements In the News
a. Attributable Co a. HEpRESENT-
ALIVE rs We'll as EXTENSIVE
Clientele,
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quick-triggered little harp as to the tenn
per thing. came up just then.
Say, you. stop that, he said to the
coal miner. That's my grip you're kick
ing around
'The coal miner glanced contemptu-
him.
oh. 1t belongs to you. hey. you rat?'
the miner howled. and he raised his
calloused mitt as II to lay the palm Of It
across the kid Jockeys cheek The jockey
boy leaped back. picked up one OF the
long and heavy blue tent stakes. gave 1t
a couple Of whirls in the air, and
miner with all his strength. which was
considerable for a lad That one blow
stretched the miner dead upon the
ground.
THE jockey boy dropped the stake
and gaZed for half a minute at the pros
trate man. Then he turned to a bunch
of the baggage wagon hands.
Slash me!' was all he said to them.
Slash is circus patter for cover or con-
ceal. The hands grabbed the boy and
tossed him into an empty stake wagon
standing behind a big bunch of other
wagons and out Of view Of the miners.
They covered the kid over with tarpau-
youngster spent his Fourth OF July. He
never left the tarpaulin-covered wagon.
In fact until after the show had got out
Of town.
AFTER the valise-kicking miner had been
felled the other miners beat 1t away from
there and spread the hubbub among their
companions in the town. Then a gang
the dead man and loaded him into a cart
to be carried to his shack near the coal
mine. After a while all the miners in
the town were around the circus lot.
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c5T1bb LIZ MWR OozE
QPB fORElqN HARRoR!

give life to his story It was one Of the
bes: of the many good stories written at
that time. When I read 1t in print
laughed over 1t with Scovel chiefly be-
cause Of certain remarks attributed to
Anthony and relating pleasantly to my
self.
1t would hardly be just to others were
to allow the general inference that An
thongs conduct dominated that of all
others under my command that night yet
these coined dramatics are leading to that
end. fear.
There was other fine conduct and poise:
much more risk than Anthony, and some
were to face an immensely greater re-
sponsibility. Ofcers whose lives had been
critically imperiled willingly ran further
risk In visiting the burning mass amid
ships. where other explosions might be
expected at any moment-notably Lieut..
Commander Wainwright Lieut. Hood and
Naval Cadets Boyd and Cluverius.
Some Of the men were fine In their ef-
forts to save Others. and the wounded
men were heroic, even In the face of
death afterward.
In view Of Anthony's good conduct
did not like to have him remain reduced
from his previous position, 80 I succeeded
have medals bestowed on all survivors of
the Maine. but In that failed. Neverthe-
less. l think that In any other navy an
event of equal Importance and prestige to
the service would have resulted In some
permanent mark of approval for the sur
vivors.
Popular praise is not a matter of official
file. My own promotion came from Presi-
dent Mckinley. Poor Anthony! When
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not hesitate. and in considerable number,
to make pretense that he was an officer
OF the Maine, whereupon he was permit
ted by the sentry to proceed to the boats.
TO that sentry and to the officers to
whom he reported there was apparent
reason for the report in question.
Soon after we arrived on board the
City OF Washington, where a number of
the wounded had also been taken. a
delegation Of Spanish officials visited me
there to express formal sympathy. or
course, they saw the Names officers.
They may have inferred that the officers
were there at the time of the explosion,
Tor all were quite calm.
But 1t is rather difficult of belief. be-
cause we were dressed in various kinds
or d1sordered dress, impossible for a din
ner party. / myself was wearing an old
civilians sack coat and an old cap en-
broidered with the insignia of a second
mate.
Inc Names complement that night was
twenty-six officers and 32S men. Only
four people were out of the ship at the
time of the explosion-viz, an assistant
engineer, two naval cadets and the gun
ner. Two hundred and fifty-two were
killed outright and eight died in hospital
,ni W the crew ere only sixteen wholly escaped
injury. The members Of the crew had
not been given shore liberty at any time.
and for this forbearance the captain gen.
eral had thanked me.
1 am now putting into print for the
nrst time the complete story of my Or
derly, Private William Anthony, who
came to report that the ship was blown
Evening star., 1909-02-14

The circus hands were holding of the
mob of miners when I traipsed along on
my way back from the laundry, only to
get myself grabbed by the pair of Zeb
constables. who reached the lot after the
jockey had killed the miner. I was the
one. you see. The miners howled that
as soon as they saw me. My way Of
dressing was pretty much like that of the
jockey. In addition to my physical re-
semblance to him. and their mistake was
natural enough. considering, too how het
up they were with Fourth of July grog.
Nov. as I say. I didn't know the first
thing of what I'd been pinched for until
nearly an hour after I was deposited in
the calaboose, and during that hour
great mob of miners had formed outside
the clink. all of them yelling for my
blood. They were out for the lynching
thing. there was no mistaking that.
But I wasn't worried. not for a minute
imagining that the roars outside meant
me. till the tailer came along to my cell
looking worried. He was a decent chap,
the jailer with a kindly eye; but he sure
did look bothered.
"'They want you right bad kid he
said to me- And I don't know whether
we can hold out against them or not il
they attack u.s.
1T took me quite a while to pick it out
OF him what 1t was all about. At first
when he told me ! was so stampeded that
could only wiring my hands and-being
merely a boy-blubber that didn't know
anything about 1t. Then. in a moment
OF calm between gasps. I suddenly re-
membered something. The laundry. The
laundry was my alibi.
When that man was killed was a
good two miles from the circus lot I
told the jailer.
"'say. son. don't you be lying when
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When this thing happened on the cir.
Gus lot I was talking to the laundryman
In his laundry said to the jailer. grab
bing at one OF his hands to detain him
prove that. amt you? You'll send for
him to look at me and clear me, won't
you?
well. the dead earnestness Of my kid
at me long and hard. and then he went
out without a word. I didn't know
whether he meant to send for the laun-
dryman or not. But he was fair. He did
send for him. The laundryman was in
my cell fifteen minutes later.
Why. say, this kid was sitting on the
counter In my laundry this morning. chew
ing the rag with me till few minutes
after o'clock, and he'd been waiting for
me to open up for more than half an
hour the laundryman said to the taller
the instant he caught sight OF me huddled
up on the bunk In my cell. The man was
killed between half-past and 8, and the
lot is more than two miles from my place.
and so Of course this youngSter COULDN'T
have done the killing
1.-The jailer listened attentively ana then
went out without word. He mounted
the steps In front of the jail, and hea I'd
the howls of the mob suddenly cease The
jailer, a man they respected. addressed
them. l couldn't hear what he said but
he convinced them that he had the wrong
youngster penned up. After he'd explain
ed this to them he summoned the laun-
dryman to the steps alongside of him, and
the laundryman had his say The iaun-
dryman's statement clinched 1t. The mob
dispersed. The jailer waited till they'd
all gone. and then he turned me loose by
the back way of the jail. I made about
four jumps of it to the railroad station
and grabbed the first train out for the
next town, where our show was booked.
There were no performances of the circus
on that Fourth Of July The 'stashed'
jockey got out Of town In the tarpaulin-
covered wagon and jumped for the east
as soon as he was pulled from beneath
the coverings. They never got him. But
the circus owners had to slip q piece Of
the square-up change to the dead miners
widow.
''All of which is why my skypiece comes
off to the laundries whenever and wher-
ever I happen to pass them II 1t hadn't
been for my laundry habit on that occfs-
sion I wouldn't be here now talking my
self and everybody else to death"
Evening star., 1909-02-14

up and sinking. Since I wrote my for
mer narrative as history. and not as a
"varrbshed tale" l supplement 1t here in
the same spirit Of fairness to all.
Anthony: now popularity known as
the army and the Marine Corps many
years. and was one of the olden kind
who on receiving message. knew 1t was
better form to respond AYE, aye, SIR"
than Very good. sir"
He was tall, soldierly, intelligent and
wore his cap very much over one eye. ac-
cording to former custom. When 1 got
north from the Maine l was put on tenn
porary duty in the ONCE Of the Secretary
Of the Navy that I might have conven-
fences to meet the many burdens grow
ing out of the situation. Anthony had
once been q Corporal. Desiring to restore
him to a higher rating, I wrote to the
Secretary of the Navy recommending
that Anthony be made sergeant. His
advancement followed promptly. l quote
from my letter:
At the time Of the explosion I was in
vessel were instantly obscured and the
apartments were filled with smoke; there
was immediate and intense darkness On
leaving my cabin. through the usual
passage forward. feeling my way along.
was met near the outer door Of the
superstructure by Private Anthony. who
was coming into the cabin to fulfill on
of his position by notifying me of the
explosion.
He ran against me in the darkness,
apoloSized hastily and reported to me that
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The Death Mill.

DIRECTOR WILLIAM T. HORNADAY
- of the Bronx 90 was discussing bit
terly the ruthless slaughter of the Rocky
mountain sheep of Southern California.
They will soon become extinct" said
he Such wanton cruelty makes my
blood boil. 1t brings back to me nv
visit to an alkali works.
There, indeed, life is cruel. The foul
gases that belch forth night and dav rot
the teeth. the clothes and in the end the
bodies of the workers, and they kill every
green thing for miles around.
I'm one mill bleaching powder was DE-
ing made. Chlorine gas was being poured
over Stacked lime. This chlorine gas, a.
green vapor. was SO poisonous that the
men wore thick goggles over their ewes
and twenty thicknesses of flannel over
their mouths.
las 1 entered that awful mill, I said to
one of the laborers:
And what are you making here?"
His grim voice came dull and muff1ed
from under folds of flannel:
Corpses he said, and l, YOU see,
am only half DONE"
Evening star., 1909-02-14

The Boy and the Girls.

DABBI JOSEPH KRAUsKOPF. our
~ eloquent preacher" said a Philadel-
phian. "sees good rather than evil in the
frequency Of American divorce. He sees
In it a sign that American wives will not
endure the treatment that European
wives put up with. He sees in it a prom
ise that the married men, OF the future
will live better.
Discussing the divorce question the
other day he told me that they who per-
ceived only evil in 1t reminded him, In
their illogical and confused viewpoint of
a little boy with whom he once took
stroll.
LAS they strolled they passed the young
girls of a neighboring boarding school
out on their daily walk. The girls moved
in military formation, two by two. In
front were the youngest in skirts to their
knees: next came the older ones, in
the order Of their ages. their skirts
lengthening with their years. And in the
rear came the oldest of all, the young
ladies whose skirts hid even their boots.
The little boy locked at the girls.
Then he frowned and said:
why is 1t that their legs grow short
er as they grow biggerr"
Evening star., 1909-02-14

terms with laundries once saved me from
being lynched by a bowling mob Of coal
miners. That's going back some 1t
was when I was sixteen years old. doing
flip-iaps and things in the sawdust and
on the payroll OF circus. One Fourth
of July morning, when the show crept into
a little coal mining town in Missouri, my
first move, after hitting up the Java in
the cook tent, was to trudge to the town
laundry with little bundle Of soiled linen
under my arm. The boss of the laundry
and / had quite a chat. When he found
out that 1 was with the circus he wanted
to know a lot of things. and 1t was past 3
in the morning before I hit the pike for
the two-mile trudge back to the circus lot.
AS soon as / reached the outskirts of the
lot 1 saw that something had come OF.
The big top hadn't yet been tossed up, and
the tentmen and hard-eyed scramblers Of
the show We're mooching around with
stakes in their hands, ready to give the
Hey. Rube" yowl If they should be at
tackled by the big ugly gang Of coal min
erS who had formed Gordon about the
circus lot. I trudged through the crowd
Of coal miners on my way to the dressing
tent, when the sudden howl went up,
There the little murderer now! l didn't
know that the yell meant me till couple
of yap constables with the chin alfalfa
jumped out of the mob and grabbed me.
They hustled me into a buggy and drove
me into the town, where I was stuffed into
the calaboose.
And there was I, on bench in
a Zeke cooler. a kid of sixteen, with nix
idea of what 1t was all about. That's
why I've got to get ahead of the story a
little bit to unspool the meaning of the
business. I had been away from the
circus lot on my way to the laundry for
only a few minutes when mob of coal
miners, pie-eyed already with Fourth Of
July booze. cantered up to the circus
grounds and announced that there wasn't
going to be any circus that day. That
kind of talk. in ordinary circumstances,
would have been the signal for the rails
ing of the Hey. Rube" cry by the circus
folks and the beginning of the battle.
But the proprietors didn't want to have
the certain chance of big gate receipts on
the national holiday messed up. and so
they prevailed upon the hands to be pa
tient with the soused miners. Finally,
however. the ugliest of the sudsed min
ers crept up to the rear of the baggage
wagon. pu led down q va.ise from the
top OF the heap. and began to kick II all
over the place. foot ball style I va
lise belonged to siXteen-year-old jockey
attached to the show, boy of about my
own size and looks. This jockey boy. .
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The Bishops Reception.
Copyright. 1909. BY Estelle Klauder

MELBA. describing Australia. in an
AvA interview said:
my fellow countrymen are like your
westerners of the '7Os. They have a de-
ncious humor and a mocking skepticism
THE Bishop of Ballarat rode one night
into little township Of his diocese that
he had never visited before. 1t was late
and rainy. The only building with
light in it was the Office of the local paper
and the bishop knocked On the door with
his crop stick.
Hello. below" cried voice, and
head popped out Of the window above.
I am the Bishop of Balarat. said the
prelate mildly. VIII you be SO good as
to direct me to q hotel?
From the roomful Of compositcrs came
a loud burst of laughter. and another
man stuck out his head and said to the
bishop in tone of kindly reproof:
LOCK here, old man, you've had about
enough hotel for one night, Go on home
and go to bed or you'll get run in as
sure as shootin.'"
Evening star., 1909-02-14
c5KTY: :MREEB BouE5 WRE, LERr IN HE WE&

the ship had been blown up and was
sinking.
We then proceeded together to the
quarterback. The special feature in the
case Of this service performed by Pri-
vate Anthony Is that when a mans in
stinct would lead him to seek safety
outside the ship he started into the super
structure and toward the cabin, ire
spective of danger
had already eroped my way fifty or
sixty feet and did not happen to need
help. Anthony got about ten feet in
side the superstructure. Our meeting was
violently informal. Anthony did not salute
the honor to report nor did he make
dramatic display Of any kind.
l told him to precede me to the quar-
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IL GIVE ME CHANCE TO PROVE THAT, WON'T your"

you're so close to a possible finish.' the
jailer came back at me. You killed that
man. and you know you did,
But waltz implored him as he start
ed to pass out Of my cell. If I brought
one Of your own townsmen here, Il busi-
ness man that you and every body else
here knows, and he told you that I was
with him. at his place Of business. when
that man. was killed on the circus lot more
than two miles away-wouldn't you be-
lieve him?' was talking to the jailer for
my life and l knew it, kid that I was.
The jailer came to halt in his stride
when said that
Sounds good, but you can't do it, he
said to me. Who was this business
man?
II remembered, luckily the name of the
and gave it to the taller.
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terdeck. and 1 followed him. There l stood
still for a few seconds. trying to meas
ure the situation. 1t was very dark.
especially to me. for had been sitting in
the glare of electric lights.
Then I asked Anthony for the exact
time. The clock was no longer visible.
so he replied: THE explosion took place
at 9:4O. SIR Afterward he kept near
me zealously, but said nothing.
Mr.. friend. Mr.. Sylvester Scovel. a
clever, indefatigable and irrepressfble
wrote up the incident
after talking to Anthony and without
consulting me In the matter. Mr.. Scovel
worked in some dramatic expressions to
Evening star., 1909-02-14
By Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee,
U. S. N.

FEBRUARY Is. 1909,
Is the eleventh an
niversary of the de-
struction Of the
Maine in the har-
Dor of Havana.
Since popular and
sympathetic inter-
est In the momen-
tous event con-
tinues, a t e w
words from one of
the survivors may
Evening star., 1909-02-14

AID the middle
aged ground man"
of an acrobatic
team in vaudeville !:
"Some fellows al
ways take off their
hats when they see
a load of barrels,
but I do my lid
domng when 1 pass
by a laundry. The
fact that even as a
youngster l was on
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s BEoT on nEe 5cv1cnEon

r HE STORY DIFFERS IN INTERESTING DE-
TAILS FROM ANY TOLD PREVIOUSLY-AN-
THONY'S STORY-MANY BRAVE MEN HAD A
SHARE IN THE GLORY ATTENDANT ON THE
TERRIBLE DISASTER