THE PRESIDENT'S ARBOR DAY .ADVICE.
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ARBOR DAY PROCLAMATION. -
Tke President; Appeals to the School Children
to'Obserre It ThoughWy.
Washington, . D. C. President
Roosevelt .issued a kind of personal
proclamation to "The school children
of the United States." It contains an
appeal to them to observe Arbor Day
in a thoughtful spirit, with the pur
pose of preserving the forests for
future generations. This is the
President's appeal: .
To the School Children of the United
.. States:
Arbor Day (which means simply
"tree day") is now observed in every
State in our Union and mainly in the
schools. At various times from Janu
ary to December, tut chiefly in this
month of April, you give a day or
part of a day to special exercises and
perhaps to actual tree planting in
recognition of the importance of trees,
to us as a nation and of what "they
yield in adornment, comfort and use
ful products to the communities in
which you live. N
It is well that you should celebrate
your Arbor Day, thoughtfully, for
within your lifetime the nation's need
of trees will become serious. We of
an older generation can get along
with what we have, though with
growing hardship; but in your full
manhood and womanhood you will
want what nature once so bountifully
supplied and man so thoughtlessly
destroyed; and because cf thrt want
you will reproach us not for. what we
have used but for what we have
wasted. .-
Fox the nation, as for the man'or
woman and tie boy or girl, the road
to success is the right use of what we
have and the improvement of present
opportunity. If you neglect to pre
pare yourselves now for the duties
and responsibilities which will 'fall
upon you later, if you do not learn
the thing3 which you will need to
know when your school days are over,
you will suffer the consequences. So
any nation which in its youth lives
only for the. day reaps without sow
ing and consumes without husband
ing, must expect the penalty of the
prodigal whese labor could with diffi
culty find him the bare means of life.
A people without children would
face a hopeless future; a country
without trees is almost as hopeless;
forests which are so used that they
cannot renew themselves will soon
vanish and with them all their bene
fits. A true forest is not merely a
storehouse full of wood, but, as it
were, a factory of wood, and at the
same time a . reservoir of water.
When you help to preserve our for
ests or to plant new- ones you are
acting the part of good citizens. The
value of forestry deserves, therefore,
to be taught in the schools, which
aim to make good citizens of you. If
your Arbor Day exercises help you to
realize what benefits each one of you
receives from the forests and how by
your assistance these benefits may
cntinue, they will serve a good end.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
S3ic Object in Nature Should "
Ee Given Pupils to Study
Ithica, N. Y. Several weeks be
fore Arbor Day some Object in nature
should be given to each pupil, to
study, so that the results of personal
observations may be contributed to
the celebration of the day. The older
girls and boys may make a profitable
study of trees of the neighborhood.
Have each pupil select, a tree, meas
ure its lieTght and girth, examine its
bark and manner of branching, and
its leaves and their, arrangement.
Drawings of the trees before and
after the leaves appear may be made
and the grain of the wood, the com
mercial value of the, tree, its beauty
and strength described. Children cf
the primary grades may sow seeds In
little pots cr boxes in time to exhibit
the plants on Arbor Day.
Alfcrds an Opportunity For.
Improving School Grounds
Washington, D. C. Arbor Day af
fords an opportunity for Improving
the school grounds, and teachers
must be constant in their efforts to
carry out the suggestions in last
year's annual if the desired results
are to be accomplished.
Ice Trust Must Open Books.
Justice Greenbaum ordered the
American Ice Company to open all its
books for the inspection of Attorney
General Jackson, of New York, who
bas brought suit against the concern,
alleging violation of the Anti-Trust
law. .
Taft Congratulates Porto Ricans.
Secretary Taft urged Porto Ricans
to consider that they were free from
many of the, troubles of Cuba and
ine Philippines; and not to press the
Plea for citizenship. -. -
Cartoon by Berryman, in the Washington Evening Star.-
ARBOR DAY AKHUAL ISSUED.
Ad?ica Regarding Tree-Planting Sent to the
Schools.
New York City. The klbor Day
annual for Friday, May 3, has been
sent out to the schools of the State
by the Education Department at Al
bany. The pamphlet Is illustrated,
some of the cuts showing how tha
happy natural location of a country
schoolhouse may be improved by sys
tematic planting.
A letter from A. S. Draper, Com
missioner of Education, to the schools
is contained in the annual, and there
are chapters on trees and shrubs for
school grounds, the forests of New
York, and a description of the Fair
view Garden School at Yonkers. In
discussing tree-planting, the annual
says: - .
"During the past eleven years there
have been planted on the school
grounds of the State of New York
173,679 trees. From the, establish,
mentx of Arbor Day in 1889 until
1896 there were planted 1.45,241
trees, making a total in the past
eighteen years of 318,920. There are
over 10,000 school commission dis
tricts in the State. This would give
more than thirty trees' to every dis
trict if they were proportionately dls
tributed. :
"Since the establishment of Arbor
Day practically every district has at
one time or another reported the
planting of some trees. An inquiry
recently addressed to the school com
missionersrevealed the fact that
there are over 2000 districts in the
State with absolutely no trees or
shrubs on their school grounds, and
many others with only a few strag
gling trees. Further than tha.t, a
very small per cent, of the whole
number of districts give any sort of
attention to the care of their grounds.
"Apparently, there is more need
for the care of trees and shrubs than
there is for actual planting. It is
easy enough for an . enthusiastic
teacher to work up appropriate cere
monies for Arbor Day, but too often
the teacher finds no practical re
sponse from the patrons of the school,
"It ought to be understood by
school officers everywhere that mere
sentiment will not arouse the patrons
of a school district to beautify their
school grounds. The whole matter
must in some way be put before them
on a plain business basis. They must
see that it pays, as in the end it most
certainly does, to paint the school
house whenever it. needs it, to plant
and care for trees and shrubs about
the grounds, and give the whole place
an inviting air of cleanliness and re
spectability that commands the re
spect and admiration of the stranger
and teaches an invaluable' lesson to
the home community."
Value ol Arbor DayOver '
' 200,000 Trees Planted
, Albany, N. Y. Arbor Day has a
two-sided value. It teaches to chil
dren a love of nature and of nature's
handiwork, the tree, and In the ac
companying feature of the observance
of the day the planting of trees it
replenishes the stock of trees, which
for man's use or misuse, has been
sadly depleted. It has added to the
State over 200,000 trees. While this
is scarcely a corporal's guard to the
grand army of trees which has ruth
lessly been cut down, still it is some
thing an accomplishment that has a
distinct value.- ' :.
Regard Avoidable Hatilatioi "
' . . of a Tres as a Crime
Atlanta, Ga. It will be well on
Arbor Day to teach children to plant
trees, and equally it will be well to
teach them and adults, too to
care for them, to stop abusing them,
to regard avoidable mutilation of a
tree as a crime and to exercise a cer
tain vigilancein guarding them from
harm and in promoting their sym
metrical and sturdy growth. In the
most favorable circumstances, life in
city streets is a struggle for trees.
Tf tHir Hf thpr is to be prolonged
rand is to be made profitable as a
source of beauty, heaitn ana cuimuri,
they will need all the am ana protec
tion we can give mem. ; -
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$15 is Murder Price of Terrorists.
It was announced that in the
course of poliee investigations into
the recent murder of a physician at.
Warsaw, -Russian Poland, by a hired
terrorist it was! established that $15
each is.the price paid by the terrorists
of Warsaw for murder. . :-
1 1 -Woman
laved 109 Years.
Mrs. : Hannah" Armsworthy, aged
109 years, is dead at the home of her
son. near Queenport,1 Guy sboro Coun
ty, N. S. She was the oldest, person
in Nova Scotia.
NATIONAL PEACE GONGBESS
Opening Session of the Confer'
' cnc3 Held in New. York City.
Koosevel Ures International Arbi
tration Difforyjitiatesv Between'"
Peace and Kis'iteoasncss. .
New York City. The Teace Con
gress got down to veal business in the
great white-draped .interior of 'Car
negie Hali under 'ttie joint auspices
of city, state and nation, with "the
hand of Andrew Carnegie at the helm
to steer the movement, for universal
peace along a safe and harmonious
course. . . - -1 . ' ' .
I About two-thirds .of- the ;35Q0 who
crowded into the meeting were
women,' and with these w-ere about
1200 men delegates to the Congress
eacH wearing the white badge of the
movement.- r 1 "
Carnegie Hall was filled from, or
chestra to topmost gallery, the ma
jority of the audience being women
and elderly, men. The platform Was
occupied' by the delegates and their
friends, as' were the rows of boies.
Andrew Carnegie called the meeting
to order, and immediately introduced
Mayor McClellan; who made a brief
address of welcome:
'Andrew Carnegie, '-. the- little father
of the Peace Congress, came on the
stage promptly at 3 p. m., the hour
set for the' opening of -the congress
at the head of a tiny procession
made' up of Mayor McClellan, repre
senting the city; Gov. Hughes, the
State, and Secretary of State Elihu
Root, the national Government. These
three made speeches, and the national
Government was further represented'
by a long letter from President Roose
velt. A striking feature of. the congress
was the tremendous reception given
Gov. Hughes when lie rose to speak.
Though there had been inuch hearty
applause for the others it was brief;
but when the Governor stood up there
was not only hand-clapping but
cheers which lasted, for one minute
and thirty seconds. .
President Roosevelt's sentiments
toward international peace were not
altogether in accord with' those of
Andrew Carnegie. ' The President's
letter came out for peace, not 'at any
price, but with righteousness, and
later Mr. Carnegie, in his speech, said
the two things were inseparable, and
asked the audience to imagine the
state of mind of a man who held
otherwise. ' ., j
In his letter the President decried
disarmament as impractical, warned
against flamboyant utterances, re
viewed the many achievements of this
country in the interests of peaqe, de
clared that the second Hague Con
ference could not accomplish all. that
the peace advocates hoped for, though
it would be a step in the right di
rection, ..and suggested the limiting
of the size of warships as a most
practical means of -diminishing the
cost of naval armaments.,
At the . evening session ",Mr. Car
negie vas still belligerent. He took
issue with Professor Hugo Munster
berg, who csserted that Germany's
army was not a burden pn her people,
to the very apparent; embarrassment
of the professor. .- . , : . .
William J. Bryan spoke for a few
minutes in the evening. ....
Extra police "were again necesrary
to control the crowds that flocked to
the evening session. More thanhalf
otthe throng was made up .of. women .
many of them showing the white hair
of years. .. ,
TRAIN WRECKERS KILIj THREE.
Cars Catch Fire After Being Derailed
in Louisiana.
Alexandria, La. Threg: men killed
and one. probably fatally . injured, is 1
the 'result, of what is believed to be
the - work of train wreckers at Che-
neyville, thirty miles southeast of
here, on the Texas & Pacific Rail
road, when a westbound passenger
train plunged into an open switch at
a high rate of speed. N
The wreckage caught fire and the
mail car, baggage and express -car,
and two " passenger coaches -.were
burned The dead are Engineer John
J.Covington, of New Orleans; Fire-;
man Michael Kass, of New Orleans,
and an unidentified man. Express
Messenger William Kough, of New
Orleans, badly burned, was the man:
Injured. '
An investigation showed that the
switch' lock had been broken and the
switch turned and the signal lantern
thrown away. ' -
CHIEF OF POLICE A SUICIDE.
Dead Body of John II. Adams Found
' in Branch JSrook Park, Newark, N. J.
Newark, N. J. John H. Adams,
Chief of Police of Newark, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
head in Branch Brook. Park. The
bullet passed clean through his head,
having entered at the side. He had
been worried much of late over his
indictment for malfeasance in office.
Adams had been in the Police De
partment, for thirty-two years. ; He
was about fifty-eight years- of age.
He leaves a . widow and a married
daughter. He was born in Brooklyn,
N. Y., but come to this city when a
boy. v He was a veteran of- the Civil
War..; - ' '
, Excess of Eggs Stored.
., Storage houses are rapidly 'filling
up with eggs, and the quantities now
stored are greatly in excess of the.
same time last year. . ...
Publicity Organization's I reposals.
At a meeting of the Nat onal Pub
licity Bill Organization in New York
City ex-Senator W. B. Chandlerde
f ended President Roosevelt from the
sarcastic attack of Col. Aleiander.
Troupof Connecticut. W. J. Bryan
proposed drastic ' legislation to' pro
hibit the contribution of political
campaign funds by-trusts.-1
. Falling Tree Kills'-a Farmer. '
.Walter Rolfe, a farmer living at,
Enfield; Centre,. N.'.Y.V vvas instantly1
killed by a TalMns tree on nis farm. 1
THOIUKES -WRECK- I
: : : M iDoei tow
Great Dame sikJ Loss of Life
: in Southern Section.
SUBMERGED &Y: TIDAL . WAVES
Psrt" of Acapulco Under Watcr
' Twelve Dead at Tixtla Railroad
Communication, Mexico to-Vera
Cruz, Cut Off. I .
Mexico . City, Lierico. Thirty-eight
persons were killed and ninety-three
injured. in the earthquake shocks
near Chilpancingq'and along the west
coast in , southern Mexico. It, is al
most certain now that later reports
will largely increase the number of
fatalities, and that the property dam
age and the earthquake's extent were
even greater. f '
, Telegrams, delayed a day, show,
that besides Chilpancingo and Ghi
Japa, the towns of Ayutla, Ometepee
and Tixtla were partially "destroyed
and that Hapa was badly damaged.
A dispatch . from Chilpancingo
states that Acapulco was .partially
submerged by tidal waves, and that
the whole west coast, for 500 miles,
from Acapulco south to Salina Cruz,
the Pacific terminal of the Tehuante
pec National . Railway, , was badly
damaged. .
Long stretches of the roadbeds of
both the Mexican and Interocean
Railways have sunk, and , trafllc be
tween this city and Vera Cruz, on
the Gulf, is suspended.
. Twelve bodies have been taken
from the ruins at Tixtla, which is half
way, between Chilpancingo and Chi
lapa,,in the State of Guerrero. Twice
that-number of injured are being
cared for in temporary structures in'
the open country. -
. Ayulta. ah historic town, is. about
fifty miles south of Chilpancingo and
some twenty miles west of Acapulco.
Ometepee, with 4000 inhabitants,
Is further south than Aizutla, near
the border line 'of the State of Oax
aca. Tlopa is sixty miles west of
Chilpancingo. . - -
Although there "was no , wind at
Acapulco on the night of the first
shock when the earth began to trem
ble, the sea was lashed into a fury,
and as the shocks continued the har
bor looked like a typhoon-swept
ocean. Just how, much of the port
has been submerged is not known.
The houses as far as the church are
under water, but there- are many
churches in the place. Several ships
were in the harbor, but these put out
to sea and, it is said, -none of them
suffered. .
A dispatch to El Pais, the Morgan of
the Catholic Church in this city, from
the Bishop of Chilapa, confirms the
report of the widespread destruction
in that; vicinity. Fourteen persons
were killed in one house there; the
injured number thirty-nine.
The renewed shocks at Chilpancin
go levelled most of the important
public buildings. The new municipal
palace wa3 badly shattered. Its pre
decessor was levelled by an earth
quake four years ago. ' The hospitals,
schools and "the 3ail are in ruins.
The prisoners from the Jail are
guarded by the rural guards and are
now located1 in a temporary structure
erected in the open court. The Gen
eral commanding the troops was bad
ly Injured.
The Federal Government Is helping
the peopte of Chilpancingo, but calm
cannot be restored there until the
shocks cease. . Only one wire is work
ing spasmodically' between this city
and Chilpancingo. At noon an op
erator there was . questioned about
the number of casualties. He. said
he knew only that he had seen about
a dozen dead and about thirty in
jured persons.
FIVE SHOCKS. TO KILT) HTM. "
Little Murderer Sexton Hardest Sul
jeet in Ten Years. "
Auburn, Ni Y. Edward Sexton,
who was convicted at Canandalgua on
Friday, April 29, 1904, of murder in
the .first degree for, killing Thomas
Mahaney, 1 was put to death by elec
tricity at Auburn Prison.
Sexton was of small stature and
flight, but It required five distinct
contacts before he was declared dead.
The contacts ranged from 1540 volts
at three amperes' to" 1740 volts at
eight amperes. State Electrician
Davis, who ofilciated at the electrocu
tion, said that Sexton was. one of the
hardest subjects that had been in the
chair in the last ten years.
FIVE DEAD IN WRECK.
Great Northern Fast Train Goes Over
Embankment and Bnrns.
Bartlett, N. D. Speeding at forty
miles an hour, on a straight track,
the Great Northern west-bound Ori
ental Limited .was derailed and
burned four miles from this village.
W. B. Jones, the mail clerk, and four
unidentified Greeks were killed. Of
ficials of the road believe that the
wreck was incendiary.
The wreck occurred on the line dir
-viding Nelson and Ramsey, counties,
the mail car completely jumping over -the
engine and. landing in, Ramsey
County, while the remainder of the
wrecked train burned 'in Nelson
County. .
Wall Street Failure.
W. L. Stow & Co., members of the
New York Stock . Exchange, sus
pended. " " ' r
Wife Kills Husband. '
Word-has-been received of the
Shooting and killing of William T.
Hooley, son of John Hooley, of Taun
ton, Mass., by his wife at Bingham
Canon, Utah. His wife had been
ill for some time and the deaths of
two of their four children probably
undermined her reason.
Longworth Favors Tafri
Congressman Longworth said at
Cincinnati that he was .in favor of the
nomination of Secretary Taft' for
President; i v..'; : ,; , -
EAR
HDED JUROR'S- VERDICT
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Tragedy in a Chicago Court After
Conviction. '
A
Xnrse J'ainfj and. Men Present Are
Moved to Tears Dnrir.s; the Poll-
1:15: of the Jurymen.
Ca1?zzo. . Without Interrurtlrig
four surgeons ia their work of stitch
ing a fate 1 gash in the throat of
Joseph 'Hoffman, a juror in the case
of John Lonagan, charged with rob
bery, Judge Ball held court and con
firmed a verdict of guilty. in the oper
ating room of St. Luke's Hospital
here. The jury returned a sealed ver
dict and Hoffman was attacked by a
negro when on his way to-the court
rooT for the formal apuroval of the
finding. - Judge Ball had just ordered
Hoffman's arrest for contempt of
court when the news of tbe assault
wpr received. Immediately the Judge
adjourned, his court to the operating
room, and there Hoffman, with his
fellow jurors in a ring around the
table, signified -his agreement to the
verdict by raising his right hand.
Hoffman was found unconscious on
the sidewalk. In an ambulance on
the way to the hosnital he regained
his senses and made a brief state
ment. - .
"I was attacked as the result of a
murder plot," be said. "I think my
throat was cut by a man who aimed
at annulling the verdict. He caught
me from behind, and before I could
make a move to defend myself drew a
razor across my throat." '
"The physicians have informed the
Court," said Judge Ball, "that Juror
Hoffman is unable to rerjort.on the
verdict by word of mouth. He will
Indicate to the Court that he knows
the nature of these proceedings by
raising his right hand."
Slowly Hoffman raised his arm i
the elbow until it was almost perpen
dicular on the operating -table. : A
nurse who had been looking in atthe
door fell in a faint from emotion, and
two doctors carried her away. The
verdict then was opened and read by
the clerk. The eleven jurors were
polled, and answered in the affirma
tive. The Court instructed Hoffman
to raise one hand for affirmative and
two for negative, and slower than be
fore the man brought "his hand up
from his side. The sight was so af
fecting that most of the men in the
room were in tears.
Judge Ball left the, operating room
sobbing, and Lonagan himself was
almost overcome. Twelve stitches .
in all were taken in Hoffman's throat.
The windpipe was almost severed.
The doctors held out little or no hope
of recovery. "
GUILTY OF LAND FRAUDS.
Three Men Convicted in United States
Court at Omaha.
Omaha, Neb. Thomas' M. Hunt
ington, A. E. Todd and Fred Hoyt
were convicted in the United States
Court on charges of conspiracy to
defraud the Government of about
half a million acres of public lands
in Nebraska.
These men were Indicted jointly
with Richards and Comstock, of the
Nebraska Land and Cattle Company,
who were convicted last fall. Hunt
ington is a banker at Gordon, Neb.,
and Hoyt is his partner. Todd Is
from Denver and procured old sol
diers of Iowa and Nebraska and Il
linois to place the filings on the home
steads. 20,000 BURXED OUT, IX 1LODLO.
Town on the Island of Panny is the
Capital of the Visayas.
Manila, P. I. The town of Iloilo,
Island of Panay.was totally destroyed
by fire, with the result that 20,000
persons are homeless.
Iloilo is the capital of the province
of that name in the Island of .Panay,
of the Visayas group. It was an
open port and commercially im
portant under the Spaniards, export
ing sugar, rice, tobacco, coffee and
hides, and manufacturing fabrics,
hats and carriages. It has a cathedral,
a seminary, a court house and other
public buildings. The population in
1903 was about 1Q,000.
OKLAHOMA HAS A CONSTITUTION
Encrrossed Copy of New Document
Sisr.ed by Delegates at Guthrie.
Guthrie, Okla. President William
H. Murray signed the engrossed copy
of the Oklahoma constitution, using
the alfalfa pen furnished by Cus
todian Campbell, of the Oklahoma
Historical Society, and also the pen
furnished by-W. J.. Bryan.,
All of the seventy-five .delegates
present also signed it.. Delegate
Cloud, of Wellston, the only Repub
lican present, voted for the constitu
tion' on final passage, so that it re
ceived every vote cast. -
Gimbel Cuts Jlis Throat.
Benedict Gimbel, the wealthy Phil
adslphian arrf sted in New York City
on the "complaint to the District At
torney of Mrs. William Hudson Clark,
mother of Ivor Clark, a crippled lad,
.'with Thonr he associated, attempted
tdvkill himself in a hotel in Hoboken
by cutting his throat. He was under
?CO0O bail.
Missouri Crop Best Since 1901.
The. condition of the Missouri
wheat crop is ninety-four per cent.,
the highest that has been reported
Mine ; 1901. , -?
No Serious Crop Damage.
There were reports of insect dam
age to the crops in the Southwest and
of dry weather from Teras north to
Nebraska; but impairment from the
high degree of condition shown at
the beginning of the month In winter
wheat is probably not serious.
'Greater Volume of Business.
: In retail trade cold weather and
bad country roads are a bar to fullest
activity, but the volume ' of business
as a whole exceeds the corresponding
period in Potheryears. . "t
WOO
IB i 1 1IBI
lives and Property Lost In a
- Railway Accident
TWO DEAD; SEVERAL INJURED
Fcsi pascEr.er Crashes Into Freight
Train With Dead Engine cn Hear,' .
Siasiins Both 'and Demolishing '
Several Cars Wrecker Strikes
Them and Practically Whole Train
Piled Into Ditch.
, Birmingham, Ala., Special. As a
result of a double wreck on the
Southern Railway 'a short distance
cast ujl it ouuiawu, a sauaru 01 Bir
mingham, early Sunday, two men are
dead and a number injured.
: The dead:. . . . ;"
Cal. B. Harris, fireman on the
Tom Beverly, brakeman on wrecker
The injured are James Wages, At
lanta, engineer, skull fractured, head
hurt and face scratched ; S. H. Hill,
engineer, internal injuries; Thomas
Powell, engineer, bruises on . body ;
white flagman, shoulder , dislocated ;
two postal clerks, slightly, injured;
white passenger, knee cut. ,
The unusual character of the wreck
makes it surprising that" the casual
ties' were hot more. A freight train
with 4 a dead engine on tWrear, was
coming toward Birmingham. , The
operator, it is said, allowed No. 37, .
the fast passenger, to enter the block
anci it crashed into the dead engine,
samsKing them both and demolishing
several cars. Three cars of the
freight train were thrown across the
eastbound track, almost at the instant
that the Southern wrecker en route
r xxemn, ivia., passed, me wtcckui
struck them and practically the whole
train piled into the ditch. Two men
were caught under the engine. -
The baggage and mail cars of the
passenger train were torn up and the .
three demolished engines . with the .
debris strewn about Presented a crue-
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some picture. : ..
J Great Fire in Manila.
Manila, By Cable. Fire destroyed
1400 (houses and parts of the Dis
tricts of Singalong, Paco and x Bam
bang, inManila. The American set
tlements at Ermita and Malate es- ,
caped through the hard work of the
firemen, assisted by soldiers arid cit
izens.. The flames, fanned by a heavy
gale, swept an area of 100 acres
clean, within two hours? and destroy
ed the homes of 160 residents and 1,
000 natives. The native refugees are
now sheltered in the schools and
other public buildings many are camp
ing in open spaces. The damage la
conservatively estimated at. $200,000
in gold. No causalties are reported.
The officials of the health depart
ment do not agree with the estimate
of the damage given above, which was
made, by policemen and firemen.
They assert that 269 houses were de
stroyed and 1 1,500 natives rendered
homeless. Their estimate of the fin
ancial loss is the same as that of the
other municipal department. .'It is
thought that the figures given by the
health officers are nearer correct. ;
The districts ' of Singalong, Paco
andJBanbang, lie to the .east, of the
walled city of Manila, and just, behind
the residential distinction of. Malate
and Emrita, which face the hay. Near
ly all, of the native houses in the fire
swept district are nopa huts of, com
paratively small value.
Founder ofVW. C. T. U. Dead.
' Dunkirk, N. Y., Special. Mrs Esth
er McNeil, the founder Of the Wo
man's Christian Temperance" Union,
and. first president of-the organiza
tion, died at her home ia Tiedonia.
She was bom at Carlisle, 'N. Y., 94
years ago, and was Svidely known
throughout the United Stales as a
temperance worker. , -
Three Injured at Carpet Plant.
Philadelphia, Special. Three per
sons two women end a man, were ser
iously injured as the result cf an ex
plosion of a gas retort at the plant
of John and James Dobson, carpet
manufacturers, in the south western
part of the city. The explosion fol
lowed - a slight fire and threw 4,000
employes at work in the mills into a
panic. Many young women . faintedr
but all the employes, were gotten out
safely with the exception of the three
who . wer e . badly . burned. They are
Mary Cavanaugh, Annie MeKirk and
George bhaw. , 1 .
Eody of . Miss Pedlcton Recovered
Staunton, Va., Special. The - body
.of Misg Mabel Pendleton was found
half a mile ..below , the ; bridge " over
Jackson", river, at Clifton Forge from
.which. she and her lover, Stuart Gay,
jumped to their, death on - Thursday
last after being, turned back at Staun
ton .while en route to Washington 10
be married. , The body :-pl Gray has
not yet b'een recovered. ,
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