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The searchlight., 1910-04-01
COAL STRIKE IMMINENT.
Conference Adjourns Without Reaching
an Understsndina.

Cincinnati Chic. March 2a.-The
declaration of an industrial war of
great extent and severity seemed but
a few hours away to-day when the dele
gates of 100000 union miners of the
United States met this afternoon 10
outline their course as the result of
n Sine die adjournment without agree
ment Of the joint conference of miners
and operators Of Ohio. Indiana and
Western Pennsylvania.
Adjournment was taken following an
all morning discussion and just after
President II. L. Lewis of the United
States Mine Workers of North Ameri-
ca had declared: when the miners go
into this conflict it will be a fight 10
vfctors or this organization is COM
pletely routed. We win fight with
every resource that human ingenuity
can think of as our weapon"
St. Louis, March a9.-An Illinois Goa,
mines will shut down Thursday night
according to Alfred ]. Moorshead. pres
ident of the Illinois Coal operators
association. who said today that the
mines will be closed for an indefinite
period. The minimum time of inactiv-
ity is placed at thirty days by the head
of the operators. The contract of the
miners with the operators will expire
Thursday night and the miners havs
demanded an increase in wages. There
are $1,000 employed in Illinois.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
Fearful Tales Of Cruelty.

New Orleans, March 2s.-Unspeak-
able barharities are being perpetrated
in Granidi under the direction of the
Madriz government. according to Car
los chamorro. a brother of the lead
ing insurgent general. Emilio Chamor-
ro who arrived here yesterday. Cham
tion owner named Caronel was re-
Gently dragged from his home. whipped
to the point of laeeration. and finally
killed because of his refusal to con-
tribute money in support of the Madriz
faction. Both men and women. rela-
tives of the insurgent leaders have
been imprisoned Chamorro asserts.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
EIGHT KILLED ON CRUISE
eREEcH or GUN BLOWS OFF OUt
ING TARGET PRACTICE.
Seven Men Standing in Line Were Cut
Down by Flying Missiie-Many
Others Badly Injured.

Manila. March 2S.-Report that a
fatal accident had occurred on the
United States Cruiser Charleston was
confirmed today. Eight men were kill
ed and several slightly injured dur
ing practice at sea off Glongapo.
The breech lock Of a three inch gun
blew of and i'm fleeing across the
deck moved down the men. Seven of
the victims were instantly killed.
The eighth died as the Charleston was
hurrying to Cavite. Admiral Mason.
chief of the ordinance. is of the opin-
ion that the accident resulted from 4
bent or broken firing pin. When the
breech lock was swung heavily to
close the breech on the cartridge,
which Is of brass. the projecting pin
probably struck the primer. Admiral
Mason believed. and exploded the
charge before the block was locked in
place. The entire charge he thinks,
flew out backward tearing off the
block and hurting ii among the sailors.
who probably had gathered in the rear
to watch the gun practice. Such acci-
dents are rare but are not without
precedent
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
AGREE ON TARIFF.
Secretary Knox Issues Statement Fol-
LOWING Conference.

Washington, March 26.-An amicable
agreement of the Canadian tariff situa-
tion probably will be reached in the
next few days following a conference
between the Canadian representatives
and President Taft at the White House
today.
The conference lasted for more than
an hour and at its conclusion Secretary
Knox issued the following formal
statement: Negotiations between the
president and the Canadian represen-
tatives which were begun at Albany
some days ago were resumed at WASH
ington today and were concluded. They
have taken a form which gives assur-
ance that friendly understanding will
be reached Immediately. 1t is expected
that official announcement will be
made simultaneously at Washington
and at Ottawa on Wednesday. March
20
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wasnfnqton.

One hundred dollars per head was
paid at Fort Worth. Texas. for n
herd of 450 Oklahoma fed beef cattle.
This, is said to be the highest price
for this class of cattle ever paid In
the United States.
Satisfied that the present methods
of operating its smelters by the Ana.
conda Copper Mining company are not
only destructive in a widespread de.
gree to the surrounding natural for,
ests, but unnecessary, Attorney-Gen
eral Wickersham caused bill In
equity to be filed at Helena, Mont.
against the company. The bill asks
for a permanent injunction to compel
the company to operate its plant al
Anaconda in such a manner as tC
end the destruction complained of.
Continued denials that the American
meat packers association discussed oi
attempted to fix prices in any way
were made by George L. Mccarthy
publisher of the National Provisionel
and secretary of the association. In
concluding his testimony before the
senate high cost of living committee
today.
| "Squatters" on unsurveyed lands
within the national forests. who have
occupied their tracts continuously
since before the creation of the forest
reserves, and who have complied with
the homestead law. have had theil
| rights increased by an order which
has just been issued by the secretary
| of agriculture. Such settlers can now
acquire title. prior to survey. to l6t
acres a full homestead entry, where
ever possible.
The last chapter in the postofics
scandals of 1908 was written wheI
United States Attorney Baker nollt
pressed the remaining undisposed in
indictments. Baker told the cour
that George w. Beavers. former super
intendent of salaries and allowances
and August w. Machen. superintend
ent of rural free delivery. had serve,
sentences for similar offenses an,
that the government had no desire I,
further prosecute them.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
$50 BURN IN HOTEL.
Horrible Holocaust in Hungarian
Town-Burned in Flames

Mate Szalka, Hungary. March Is
Two hundred and fifty people were
killed and many others injured in the
village Of Oekoerite when a fire broke
out in a hotel where ball was being
held. last night.
A couch house connected with the
hotel had been fitted up as a ball room.
and last night was crowded with sew
eral hundred guests when the fire start
ed. The flames were first noticed when
a woman's dress was seen to be ablaZe.
moment later the gowns of several
other women were burning.
a panic followed. and i'm a mad rush
to the exits many persons fell. and
were trodden to death. As If to make
matters worse the roof caved In be-
fore the hall could be cleared. Many
injured persons and those who. be-
cause of the crush at the doors had
been prevented from escaping were
buried with the dead in the ruins.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
Think Misstnq Man Dead.

Jamestown.-workin on the sup
position that Ed r. Stern. the man
who disappeared here early in Febru-
ary, after cashing a check for over
s400. s dead. his family today entered
over his estate. The petition is signed
by his two brothers. s. A. and F. f,
Stern. who have spent over a month
trying TO get more clue as to his
whereabouts. Men have been sent
both to Moorhead and the twin cities
in the search. Stern left a large tract
of valuable farm land in the vicinity
of Cleveland
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
NO HEALTHY SKIN LEFT

My little son, a boy of five, broke
out with an itching rash. Three doc
tors prescribed for him, but he kept
getting worse until we could not dress
him any more. They finally advised
me to try a certain medical college,
but its treatment did no good. At
the time I was induced to try Cuti.
cura he was so bad that l had to cut
his hair off and put the Cuticura Oint-
ment on him on bandages, as it was
impossible to touch him with the bare
hand. There was not one square inch
of skin on his whole body that was
not affected. He was one mass of
sores. The bandages used to stick to
his skin and in removing them it used
to take the skin off with them, and
the screams from the poor child were
heartbreaking. began to think that
he would never get well, but after the
second application of Cuticura Oint.
ment l began to see signs of improve
ment. and with the third and fourth
applications the sores commenced to
dry up. His skin peeled of twenty
times. but 1t finally yielded to the
treatment. Now can say that he is
entirely cured. and stronger and
healthier boy you never saw than he
is to-day, twelve years or more since
the cure was effected. Robert Wattam,
114S Forty-eighth St.. Chicago, Ill.,,
Oct. 8, 1909"
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
news OF THE WEEK
CONVERSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
4 BOILING DOWN OF events
National. Political, Personal and Other
=. Matters In Brief Form for Al
Glasses of Readers.
fory1T

The Italian cabinet has resigned.
The retirement of the ministry
which was formed on December w.
1909, with Baron Sidney Sonnino as
premier. was due TO the realization
that the governments mercantile
marine subsidies measure was doomed
to defeat.
Preparations for the visit OF For
mer President Roosevelt, who Will De
in Paris throughout the week OF April
21-2s. continue. In addition to the set
functions already announced visits 10
the Pantheon and other great French
monuments have been planned ana
there will be. 1t is expected. automo-
bile trips to Versailles and Fontaine-
bleau and other interesting points.
A wireless dispatch from Operator
Baragher, who has been handing
press dispatches at Bluefields, Mica
ragua and who is now with the steam
er Antilles, says that General Juan
Estrada recently received large sup
ply of ammunition and has declared
that he can hold the Atlantic coast
against 10000 Madriz troops, should
they attempt to take Blueieids ana
the coast towns.
Crown Prince William opened the
American art exhibition at Berlin. He
came with large staff to the galleries
of the Royal academy. where several
hundred persons distinguished in the
official, artistic and social life OF Ber
lin awaited the prior view by royalty
before having their own enjoyment ol
the pictures. American Ambassador
Hill and all the other members OF the
American embassy, except Secrtary lr
win NJ. Laughlin, who has eben called
home by the death of a brother, were
present with their wives.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
JUR|ST STRICKEN
JUSTICE BREWER OF U. s. sU.
PREME COURT DIES VERY
SUDDENLY.
WAS VICTIM OF APOPLExY
His Sudden Death Causes Profound
Sorrow at Washington and
Throughout the Country
Many Cases Pending.

Washington. March 29!-The death
of Justice David Josiah Brewer of the
supreme court of the United States at
his home in this city last night caused
profound regret here and throughout
the country. Many calls were made at
the Brewer residence today by SYM
pathizing friends of the family. In
addition to messages of coincidence ar
lived in great numbers.
Justice Brewer, dying of apopleNy
was found in n bath room of his
house by Mrs. Brewer. She at once
,eIephoned for Justice Gould of the
supreme court of the district oil
Columbia who lives near at hand
Hurrying to the Brewer home Justice
Gould with the assistance OF TWO
servants carried the body TO bed
room. Justice Brewers pulse was
still family beating.
David Josiah Brewer was born II
Smyra. Asia Minor. June 20, 1885,
the son of Rev. Josiah and Amelia
| Field Brewer. He was graduated
from Yale university in 1856 and the
| Albany law school in 1858.
After his graduation from the Al
| bany, n. V. law school in 1858, FOL
lowing studying law in the office OF his
| uncle. David Dudley Field, In New
| York, he entered the practice OF law
| In Leavenworth. Kan. He was made
United States commissioner of the cir
cult court In 1861. judge of the probat,
and criminal courts of Leavenworti
county. 1S63-64. and of the First dis
, trict OF Kansas. 1s56-69: district at
torney for Leavenworth county 1s69-1'
and Judge of the supreme court o.
| Kansas 1ST0-S4.
| He was appointed by President Ar
thur. Judge of the United States cir
cult court for the Eighth circuit II
1884. and served five years and fol
lowing this service. President Harri
son appointed him associate justice o
the supreme court.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01

W. L. Parks of the Union Pacific
has been elected vice president Of the
Illinois Centra.
In a speech full of bitterness, Speak
er Cannon denounced the insurgents,
who caused his undoing.
General Bell was injured and Mrs.
H. ]. Slocum was killed in an auto
accident near Washington.
Fourteen hundred laymen sat down
to a banquet in Omaha in the interest
OF foreign missions.
The number of dipsomaniacs In the
Nebraska asylum for the past year
has been only half that of the year
before.
The firemen and managers commit
tee reached an agreement and VIII
arbitrate the question of an increase
in wages.
Not a single insurgent is Included
on the tentative group selected Tor
the house rules committee.
Clifford Pinchot has sailed for Eu-
rope to meet CNonel Roosevelt, 1t is
rumored at the latter's request.
Inc HtaIlu vi ho"
in the federal prison at Leavenworth,
has not improved since his incarcer'
alton.
Paul Morton has gone to Mexico
to inspect the Pan-American railroad
of which he was recently elected a
director.
The Transvaal government has de.
cided to give a first contribution OF
100000 for the establishment OF a
Transvaal agricultural university.
Giovanni Lamporti. the famous sing
ing teacher, died in Berlin. He was
10 years old and had trained many ia
nous singers, including Nine. Sem
brich.
A two days aviation meet will bt
held in Atlanta. Ga. May 2 and In
connection with the automobile races
Glenn Curtiss has been engaged fol
the trials.
Just as Frank II. Young o. Lincoln
Neb., was boarding a train for home
he was served with summons In
breach of promise suit for ten thou
sand dollars damages.
Robert +. Peary has announced
that he will turn over the proceed:
of his lecture before the Philadelphi;
Geographical society April Z as con
tribution to the south pole expedition
fund.
Following closely on the failure o.
the Kentucky legislature at its re
cent session to accede to his reques
that the Lincoln memorial farm be ex
empted from taxation came Governo
Wilson's veto of bill appropriatinI
$4,000 for improvements to be mad
in the birthplace of jefferson Davis Ii
Todd county, Kentucky.
The condition of United States Sen
ator Daniel of Virginia, who has beel
lingring between life and death 70
some days as the result Of strok
of paralyis. Is somewhat improved.
Judge Riner OF the United State
court of appeals has held that tn
twenty-eight hour food and water la
does not apply to terminal railroad
unless the latter delays shipment til
full time on its tracks.
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COMMITTEE WILL NOT ALLOW
eALllNcER TO De CALLED
eY PROSECUTION.
BALLINGfR IS DEFENDED
BY vertres Who Declares That Testi-
mony Of CLAWS Will be Shown TO
be False and that BalIinser's
Acts Are Right.

Washington, d. c., March 26.-The
Ballinger-Pinchot investigating COM
mittee declined to grant the request Of
Attorney Branches. representing Louis
r. CLAWS and others, in the immediate
attendance of Ballinger as a witness.
vertres late today in opening his ad-
dress in Ballinger's behalf declared
that the testimony of CLAWS and others
would be shown o be grossly false"
There is no act of Mr.. Ballinger,"
asserted the attorney, "to which 1t Is
possible to ascribe an unworthy mo-
tive or improper purpose otherwise
than through the suspicion of per-
verted mind or The resentment of dis
charged public servant or the program
IF an INSCRIPTIONS political intrigue"
OF Mr.. Bailinger. the attorney said:
"Mr. Ballinger holds that conserva-
ton is not a thing of caprice, but OF
law"
True conservation has no sturdies
supporter than he.
Those who have already been born
and now breathe have rights as well
as others"
Not a site was lost"
The demands of Mr.. Brandeis, first
that Mr.. Ballinger appear as witness
to be examined as part Of the case
for the Prosecution" and later, that
he be required to appear as the first
witness for the defense" called out a
lively discussion. The first request
was unanimously denied. The second
request, made during the afternoon.
was considered in executive session
for forty minutes, at the end Of which
time 1t likewise was denied.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
Bankers, Day in Pittsbura.

Pittsburg. Pa. March IS. This
was Bankers Day. in Pittshurg. The
district attorney before night fall will
have questioned more than 100 officials
and employees of the six city deposit
tories in reference to money being
paid 10 the city couneilmen to obtain
the passage of the bank ordinance In
the city council during 1908.
Forty or more councilmen have con-
fessed that they received money fol
the passage of the ordinances. Two
bank presidents, one now serving q
term in the penitentiary for bribery
have admitted that money was pait
to have the ordinances passed. The
grand jury wants to know who wer,
the men higher up" in the bribery
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
Cannon May Lose Job.

Washington. d. c., March 26.-Many
of the 'Insurgent" republicans Of the
House. who last Saturday voted to re-
tain speaker Cannon In the chair. are
Hearing from home" according I'd re-
ports in circulation about the capitol
These advices are said to be not al
all reassuring.
Following close upon this informa-
tion, come statements from several
that the war against -Cannonism' Ii
to go in to the extent of ultimately
causing the dethronement of Cannon.
the election of his successor and the
complete reformation Of the rules OF
the house.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
Americans Greet Roosevelt.

Cairo. Egypt, March 26.-Colonel
Roosevelt shook hands today with up
wards of four hundred Americans at
a reception In the garden of Shep-
herds hotel many of whom were per-
sonal acquaintances of the former
president, who expressed himself as
feeling nearer home than for n year
past.
After a visit to Al1Azhar university
Colonel Roosevelt had luncheon with
the Khedive in the Abdin palace. Then
accompanied by the director general Of
Antiquities in the department of pub
lie works. he spent some time in the
museum of Arab art, In which no
showed the deepest interest.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01

There will be no strike OF firemen
on western railroads.
Past and present Pittsburg council
men were indicted by wholesale.
Memorial services to the late Judge
Gaslin were held at Lincoln. Nebr.
Strike troubles in Philadelphia ap-
pear far from settlement
Ex-President Roosevelt will not &c,
home until some time in June.
Speaker Cannon is quoted as saying
he prefers defeat to any compromise
with the insurgents.
Norris OF Nebraska called the re-
cent speech of Cannon the vaporings
of an angry old man.
In an address at Rochester Presi.
dent Taft said he had hope that con.
gress will yet do something.
President Taft declared he would
take no hand in the house fight
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
clapp's Bill Making PROGRESS.

washington, March 2s.-The com.
mittee on Indian affairs today author
lied Congressman Miller to make a
favorable report on Senator Clapp's
bin. which will permit certain rail-
roads operating through Minnesota
and North and South Dakota to pur-
chase lands from the Indians along
their right-of- way and substitute in
stead of fence a hedge of trees
which, in addition. TO serving the same
purposes as the fences, will greatly
increase the picturesqueness of it.
This bill has passed the senate and
with the favorable report ordered upon
it to-day will probably pass the house
at an early date.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
BLEAcHEo FLOUR MUST GO.
Secretary Wilson Issues Bulletin
Violates U. S. Food Law.

Fargo. March 2S.-Copies OF the
proclamation of James Wilson. Secre-
tary of agricultur". regarding bleached
flour have reached this town. Prof
L.add's position is upheld and the North
Dakota state law as interpreted by
Judge Pollock. is sustained.
The main points brought out by
Secretary Wilson are that -four bleach
ed by the Alsop process contains add
ed poisonous and deleterious ingred.
tents and the strength and quality oi
the flour are affected. For this reason
flour so hleached is clearly in violation
of the L. s. Pure Food Law.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
State Riahts involved.

washington. March ga move-
ment for the transfer of water power
sites from the national government TO
several states and territories. took
concrete shape today when Senator
Smoot introduced a bin for that pur-
pose, Contrary to the general expect
alton the bill would provide for the
leasing of power sites by the states
and would not permit their sale un-
der my condition.
1t would provide for the transfer
to the state whenever it was shown to
the satisfaction Of the secretary of
interior that any tract of land was
chiefly valuable as a power site.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01

Pittsburg. Pa, March 26.-With un.
abiated fury forest fires in several Sec
tions of western Pennsylvania and
West Virginia continued today. Kins-
ley Courtney. aged 10. was injured
last night near Clifton while assisting
the city firemen who fought brush
blazes with lines of hose. The hose
reel crushed the lad and he died early
today. Timber losses are mostly con-
fined to the west Virginia Mountain
districts.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
General.

Weston, the pedestrian, Is now nix
ing through Kansas.
Car men at Philadelphia have voted
to continue the strike.
DIR. Cook is said to be broken in
health and pocketbook.
Work on the Panama canal Is going
forward at great rate.
President Taft was given an enthu.
siastic reception at r. R'cnester, New
York.
Indiana is preparing to give ex-Vice-
President fairbanks hearty welcome
home.
A slight improvement in the condi-
ton of Senator Daniel OF Virginia Is
reported.
Nebraska is the second state in the
union to call state conservation
congress.
The academy of science Of the Uni
versity of Nebraska will be divided
into sections this year for the first
time.
Chief Justice Fuller is to act as ar
bitrator in the Costa Rica-Panama
boundary dispute.
John c. Mabray and members OF
his gang were convicted at Council
Bluffs OF swindling.
The appointment of Sir Chen-Tung
Lao Sheng as minister at Berlin was
gazetted at Peking.
Joseph Fels. millionaire sack
maker. is spending s250,ooo yearly to
spread the single tax theory. Mr..
Fels does not believe in charity.
Hugh Brown, owner of the hotel at
Cheyenne and large land owner. fell
dead. overcome by heat while fighting
q prairie fire at his ranch three miles
from the city.
The house passed a bill providing
for raising the wreck of the battle
ship Maine.
ence Of the Philippine islanders was
presented to the senate by Senator
Crane.
A general strike of leather workers
on horse goods. involving 103 cities
and about 1000 men. was ordered in
Chicago.
Forty-seven are thus far dead from
the railroad wreck in Iowa. Some OF
the wounded cannot survive.
Governor Wilson of Kentucky
signed the bill providing for eectro
cution as the means of infiicting the
death penalty.
President Taft's cabinet ate cookies
made out of cottonseed -four. Secre
tary Dickinson provided the feast. i,
came to him from his nephew in En-
mis-. Tex.
There Is big demand for babies in
New Orleans. and another carload will
be shipped there from New York.
william A. Bonsack, Of st. Louis
millionaire president of the Bonsach
Lumber company. was drowned while
yachting in Lake Ponachartrain al
New Orleans.
House insurgents regret that they
did not, while they had the opportu
nifty, oust Cannon a. speaker.
An oficial call and program for the
Nebraska conservation and state de
yeiopment congress has been issued.
President Ciemmons Of Fremont
tNeb.) declares he has proof that Z
student started the fire which caused
. loss Of $4,000 70 . normal building
two years ago.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
Daniel Much Better.

Dayton, Fla. March 2s--After a
consultation this morning Senator
Daniels physicians announced that the
statcsman's condition was better than
- any time since he was stricken. His
recovery is not considered impossible.
The searchlight., 1910-04-01
Child Crushed to Death.

New Rockford. N. D., March &C.
Clinton. the 5-year-old son Of John F.
Goss, a prominent fuel dealer of this
city. was crushed to death beneath tha
hoofs of a passing team at noon today.
The youngster was playing in the road
and was unaware OF the approach Of
the horses. The father was a witness
to the distressing accident. but was
unable to prevent II. Death was in
stantaneous.