North Carolina Newspapers

ROBBERS GET $3,000. A Daring flofd-Up on Train Near Memphis. MASKED MEN USE DYNAMITE. Blow Open the Safe of the Express Car and Rifle It Messenger and Porter Seriously Hurt. Little Rack, Ark., Specials It is stated, 'ftaat over $3,000 was secured in the hold: up of the Choctaw, Oklahoma & . Gulf passenger train Tuesday mid night near Iron Mountain Crossing, four ad a half males west of Memphis. The train reached Little Rock half an J hour late, at 6 o'clock in the morning, Sidney drew the negro, was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital where Ms wouiirl was -dressed. His condition is serious U. T. Aieaaer. ex press messenger, was badly beaten over the head and shoulders with a pistol, but was able to continue hi3 run. The passengers were not molest ed. Six masked men boarded the train, which left Memphis at 11:40 at night. when It made the usual Bridge Junction, Ark., after the Mississippi river bridge. stop at crossing They es- caped observation. When a porttuon half a mile west of Iron Mountain Crossing had been reached 'Messenger Meader started to pass from the first car to the second where the express safes were, as he hadarrangod 22: safes were, as -he had fininshed arrang ing the baggage. As he opened the door he was confronted by four men In whose hands were two revolvers and shot guns. One of the gang grappled with Meader and secured the pistol he carried around hi3 waist. About this time the train began to slow up and soon came to full stop. Then the shooting began. The two men who had boaj-ded the rear of the second car captured Sidney Drew, the train por ter, and made him uncouple the cars Under orders from two of the men who had mounted the cab, Engineer John son pulled the two baggage and express cars about half a mile away from the balance of the train to a point in the midst of a cane brake and ten or fif teen miles from any habitation. When the engine stopped, George Ward, a boy who bad been riding the blind baggage car, sprang off and star ted into the woods. A shot from one of the robbers brought ; him back to the train. "Open the local safe or we will kill you ! ' shouted the leader of the gang to the messenger. The mes senger obeyed and one of the men placed the contents of the local safe in a sack. "Now you and the kid get Into the car ahead!" was the next or der. Meader did not ream to move f ast enough to suit the bandit who had him in charge and he fell upon Meader with the butt of a revolver with which the express messenger was severely beaten over Che head and back. The boy, frightened almost out of his sen ses, cowered in a corner of the oar and was not attacked. Meanwhile, four of the gang were at work on the through safe in the second car. About a pint of nitro-glycerine was poured into the door. When everything was ready a fuse was ligh ted and all left the car. A terrible explosion followed. The door of the safe was blown off and hurled through the side of the car, striking a tree twenty years away. The robbers then re-entered the car and it was the work of a few moments to transfer the con tents of the safe into a sack. E very twenty yards away. The robbers then jumped off and with a few parting shots disappeared into the cane brake. Engineer Johnson nan back to the rest of the trainband as soon as the coupling was made pulled away for Edmonson, the nearest telegraph sta tion, twelve miles distant. Here, ; the affair was reported to Superintendent Harris, who immediately secured a pack cl hounds and hurried to the scene. Mad Mullah's Army flasslng Aden, By Cable. The mad Mullah Is now at Lassidar, four days march He attacked the burglars singlehand- stofcd he has 4D.CO0 followers including 8.CO0 horsemen and quantities of am munition obtained from an unknown source. A British force shortly will be concentrated at Burao, preparatory to a general advance in conjunction with the Abysslnians. . Loomis In Washington. Washington, D. C, Special. Fran cis B. Loomis, United States minister to Venezula, has arrived in Washing ton and called upon Secretary Hay at the State Department. Mr. Loomis elaborated the statements contained In his reports as to his relations with the Venezuelan government and the political conditions of the country. The general tenor of his statements was that there has been no appreci able change in Venezuela since his last interview with President' Cas tro, when the wishes of the United States government respecting the is sues between the two countries were set out. Woman's Christian Association. .Nashville, Tenn., Special. The Ycunv? Women's Christian Association. Con vention, held f three sessions Saturday. A number of addresses were delivered and considerable .. routine work ; dis posed of. 5 The delegates have accepted an invitation from the Hermitage As sedation to -visit the historic! home of Andrew Jackson on Monday. Th i principal address of the day was that of Rev. Charles R. Erdman, of; U-er montown, Pa., his subject being "A Si-ir n t of tfiA T.rnrl ; - GREAT LDUCATIONAL ASSEMBLAGE. Many Prominent Educators at Winston-Salem Last Week. Winston-Salem, Special. (More dis tinguished scholars were entertained here last week than have ever before been gathered in North Carolina. The Southern Conference embraced such men as Lyman Abbott, Bishop Doane, Dr. Parkhurst.JDr. Curry,' and wealthy philanthropists who are deeply in terested in education in the South. Most of them primarily became in terested in negro education, but latter ly they have broadened their interest and are interested in the betterment of all education of the South. A special train from New York, bringing fifty nine educators, leaders and philan thropists, reached here at 2:0 o'clock Thursday and were carried at once to the hospitable homes of leading citi zens where they are entertained. W. A. Blair, chairman. Major Eaton, Rev. R. B. Caldwell. Dr. H. T. Robin son and John W. Pries composed the committee that met the members of the Conference at Greensboro and accom panied them to the city. At 3 o'clock the first session of the conference held in Salem Female Col lege was called to order by Dr. Curry, who introduced Bishop Doane, of New York,- who made a hearty address in sympathy with the Southern problem, paying a high compliment to Salem Female College. President Ogden presented Governor Aycock, who made a happy and timely address of welcome. He was received with such continued applause that he said: "If this continues I shall think the campaign of 1SO0 is still in pro gress." He emphasized the events that have made North Carolina great in all history, a history that has not been adequately written. He opened the eyes of some by his allusion to great events, winning hearty cheers when he made a happy allusion to tha fact that after furnishing more troops for the Conference army than any other State, North Carolina cemented the love between the sections by giv ing the first blood in the war with Spain. Bishop Rondthaler also delivered a warm and fitting and able welcome for Salem. "We have labored with a double bur den in the South in education," he said, "because the whites have to pay most for the education of the blacks as well as for their own children." He then spoke as follows: "It giv(!s me pleasure in the name of the Winston-Salem community to , welcome you, the members of the Edu cational Oonterence to our Southern homes. I Have the additional satis faction, In behalf of the trustees and the president of the Salem Academy of asking you to use the facilities of, our college for the prosecution of your important educational labors. It seems especially appropriate that the chapel of a Moravian Institution, which for a hundred years has ueen educating the daughters of the South, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, should become at this time, the official home of a conference, destined under God, to stimulate the cause of educa tion over that same vast area o' States. '"For me, an occasion like this has a peculiar charm, in view of my own life experience. My earlier service was given in great cities, where I came into touch with the best Northern sentiment. Then in the Providence of God, I was transplanted into the South, where amid everwidening ac quaintance I have learned to- love the people as if I had been born among them. Having such intimate esteem for both sections of our great country, I have often said to myself: "What a pity that the best North and the best South do not know each other better." This national need is being met by Conferences like the one now assem bling, it is not amid the clash of poli tical ambitions on, an arena like that which the city of Washington furnish es; it Is not amid the speculative strain of a New York bourse, or a New Or leans cotton market; it Is on the broader field of a human interest in the fellow man that North and South may learn to know each other well enough to have the esteem which they really deserve froi one another. Tha South has, during these recent years of new experience, been carrying a double educational toad. She has bean, obliged to divide her school money be tween white and black, although the latter a comparatively small element in the tax list, while they form a very large element of the population, cause of the needs of the other the white public- schools have especially in country districts, a Be race, had. very limited and struggling existence. '"It is right, while at the same time it is generous, that our Noc-hp-a brethren should In various' priva-Ce and unconstrained ways, assist us in our double task. And it is both wise and fair that they should come ' to visit us. in order to learn .the problem with which we have to deal, face lo face, and to hear what we, who live In daily struggle with them 'have learned about them, in the hard school of ac tual experience. "If some educational need were to arise, we will say, in the State of Massachusetts, and we in North Caro lina should, feel ourselves constrained to help solve the problem of our East ern brethren, it would be proper for us to go to the scene of that problem and hear what the best people have to say about it; otherwise our help might involve some very costly failures and misrht tend, in the end. to irritate rather than assist. And such is the ex act case of the southern educational problem. It needs to be learned on the spot, by friendly advice and contact with those who live amid these emer gencies of a new time. It is In this fair and kindly spirit that you have oome to see us and we have gathered to.-welcome you. ; "We are not met , on an occasion which calls merely for sweet words and soft .speeches. : A banquet might; make such courteous demands upon us, but not an earnest conference of national import. We do not want the paint pot, or the varnish brush to be here em ployed. We need Bather to have tb great educational problems of the south stand in their native wood as pect, showing all the knots of difSlcul ty just as they are. What we want from one another is the truth. If any one has a vital question .to ask, let him freely, ask it; if any one has an ascer tained fact to give, let him communi cate it without constraint. It is one of the most important occasions which can occur In a life-time, or strictly fol lowing the scripture injunction, to speak the truth in love.' The entire conference wa3 a pro aounced success. NORTH CAROLINA CROPS. The Week's Temperature Below the Normal General Review. tMuch improvement in crops and con fiaderable progress in farm work oc curred during the early portion of th9 week as a result of the dry, somewhat warmer and more favorable weather conditions which prevailed from the 15th to the 18th. During these few days the sky was generally clear to partly cloudy, the temperature slightly above normal, rising to 74 degrees at Raleigh on the 18th, and the soildried out nicely at least over the eastern part of the State where the rainfall had not been excessive. But the unnecessary rainfall on Friday and Saturday (19 th and 20th) and the subsequent very cold weather has almost obliterated the fa vorable effect of the preceding few days stopped farm work for some time, and prevented muchgrowth of young vege tation. Conditions were better in the eastern half of the State where the cloudy weather on Saturday and Sun day prevented the threatened frost. In the mountain region the rain turned to snow Friday night and on Saturday a fall of from 2 to 6 inches of snow oc curred over ten or twelve westerncoun ties, with temperatures considerably below freezing. The lowest tempera ture reported was 26 at Ashevdlle. The heaviest snowfall occurred in Madison county and extended across the Blue Ridge into Stokes county on the north, and Rutherford on the South. Sunday morning peach trees in full bloom in this section were covered with ice, and great damage to the entire fruit crop in the we3t is anticipated. The week oh the whole was about 4 degrees be low the daily normal in temperature, and was further rendered unfavorable by the heavy rainfall in the west, which has kept water courses full, and placed lowlands in very bad condition. In the south and east considerable progress was made in planting corn and cotton, and in gardening. Corn is coming up poorly, does not look thrifty and a bad stand is feared. Not more than 10 per cent, of the cotton crop has yet been put in the ground, and the bulk of the crop will be seeded late. Tobacco plants in beds grew fast du ring the few days of warm weather.and appear to be abundant. Gardens are gradually getting into better condition; cabbage and tomatoes have been trans planted, and other vegetables are doing fairly well. Many Irish potatoes are up nicely, but the Colorado beetle has appeared. The recent damp, cold weather has caused the rotting of po tatoes and many seeds which cannot germinate in the chilled soil, so that considerable replanting will have to be done. Fruit is safe In the eastern and central portions, strawberry shipments began on a small scale Friday, 19th. Wheat, rye and oats are doing well. Rainfall for the week at selected stations: Goldsboro, 0.20 inch; Greens boro,1.12; Lumberton, 0.14; Newbern, 0.58; Weldon ,036; Raleigh, 0.60; Char lotte, 2.80; Marion ,4.08. Tar Heel Notes. A -Morganfon special says: Plans for two railroads that will pass through Morganton are about complete. The right of way for the Trans-Appalachian railroad, which will run from Lincolnton to Morganton, within four miles of Blowing Rock, thence to But ler, Tenn., has been secured. Chief En gineer W. E. Walton says that a far better grade through the mountains has been secured than was expected If the building of the road depends upon this, Us completion is a certainty. Also the right of way for a narrow gauge railrud fiOm. Morganton toLin ville Mountain his been obtained. This road will be built by Pennsylvaina peo ple,who have purchased what is known as the Ciheener property a tract of land comprising about 3Q,C00 acres. They will put up a lumber plant at Morgan ton that will employ seme two hundred hands. A litis 7-year-o3d girl was drowned in a creek about ten miles frccn Albe marle Monday. She and her brother, aged nine years, were going to where their father was at work and when crossing a footlog fell in. The girl was drowned and the boy was rescued after he had sunk the first time. Mr. W. C. Newland has been nomi nated for mayor of Lenoir. Thomasville is soon to vote on the question of issuing bonds for estab FjshiEig a graded sehttol. The following North Carolina post masters were commissioned last week: Benj. J. Vincent, Jr., Vultare; George C Cox, Gui e, Columbus " county . The office a Sounsdde, Colnmibus county, has been discontinued. From all parts of the State there comes the news of the heaviest sales of fertilizers this season ever known. ; Says the Wilmington Star: The ef fect of the continued cool weather is to still further delay , the strawberry crop ilb such an extent that it is said to be provoking serious ; comment upon the part of the truckers. Conservative growers say that the season how can't possibly open before the first of May and it is likely that no shipmremits of consequence-can be made even so early as that date. THE MILL TRUST. Fall River People Declare It a Fake Story. THEY ARE GREATLY STIRRED UP. Reports of Pooling of New England and Southern Interests Said to be Without Foundation in Fact. Fall River, Mass., Special. No lit tle etir was made here by published statements that a further attempt to consolidate the print cloth mills of New England and' the Southern States was on foot and that J. P. Morgan & Company, cf New York, were behind the movement. An inquiry made quite generally among the men who are in control of many of the local mills, or who represent the big manufacturing properties, b. (ought ou't an almost unanimous sJtaternent that the reports have no foundation in fact. The cot ton mills here are ready for Consoli dation, hut net more so now than at any time during the past two years, in which time the subject -has receiv ed much attention. It was directly stated dn one publication that an op tion had been given for t'he American Printing Company and the Fall River Iron Works Mills, in pursuance cf the plain, but representatives of those in terests deny any knowledge of such a transaction and ridicule its probability under the present prosperous condi tion of the cloth market. Inquiry among the lairgest stock holders and the prominent bankers who were interacted in the previous oonso location movement, s blows that no one here having authority itio act for the oonitxolliing interests, has been interviewed on the matter. The men who were prominent in 'ilrying to effect a consolidation two years ami those who were trying to prevent it, agree that the -rumor at this time started in the South, because of a plan to bring the mills under a gene ral control. The mills spoken promi nently or as being in the combine In cluded the Goddards, of Rhode Is land, and M. C. Borden. On the Way to Washington. Jacksonville, Fla,, Special. The Cu ban assembly commission, en ioute to Washington to confer with Presicl.n: McKlnley on the relations of the United States and Cuba, arrived here at 7 o'clock Monday night over the Florida East Coast Railway, from Mi ami. They proceeded to Washington at 10:20 Tuesday in a special car on the Seaboard Air Line's metropolitan limited train, which will arrive iu Washington at 8:45 Wednesday morn ing. In the party were General Do mingo Mendez Capote, president of the commission; General Pegro E. Betan court, General Rafael .M. Portuondo, Mr. Dlergo Tamayo and Dr. Pedro Gonzales Liorento. These are the members of the commission. They were accompanied by Pedro M. Enten- za, interpreter. Col. M. M. Coronado, editor of La Discussion; M. Marquez Sterling, representative of the United States press of Cuba, and correspon dent of El Mundo. The party will stay at the Shbrham, in Washington. Wrecked by Natural Qas. St. Mary's, W. Va., Special. A ter rific natural gas explosion occurred in the Commercial Hotel, early Monday morning. The entire -bui Idling, a large frame structure, was a mass of fiasoaes when the sta-rtled citizens rushed from their homes at the report. The building was entirely destroyed, and the rutins are being saarcn&d for bodies. . Four are dead., as follows: Sam Cunningham, Of Rlxford, Pa.; John George, of Butler, Pa.; Harry Rohinson, of Corning, O. ; John Slater, fifteen years old, son of the proprietor of the hotel. Others may be dead. The report that Thos. Small y and his part ner were among the dead !is not true, they having turned up uninjured. Sev eral others are badly injured . Not In It. Washington, D. C, Special. Tha War Department has made public the translation of an order issued the lat ter part of January by Count VonWal dersee announcing the distribution of the war material captured in the forts Shan Hai Kwan. The United States do not appear in the distribution, du3 to the fact that the, American troops did not participate in the capture of the forts. Three fieri Drowned. Marietta, O., Special. Three persons were drowned in the river here Monday afternoon. A boat containing nine men was carried under a wharf by the swift current, and Jos. Everett, a ghus worker, was drowned. The others were rescued. Later two boys name! Hanley, aged 7 and 14 were drowned at the same place. Newsy Notes. A dispatch to the Standard from Shanghai says trouble is reported in the province of Chekaing in connec tion with the suspension of literary examinations. Threats have been made to burn the official yamen and tc expel the mandarin. The movement will probably spread. The , studeuts deny that they are responsible for the trouble. . P The report of Egyptian finances for the year 190D, adopted by Viscount Cromer, British 'agent and consul gen eral in Egypt, shows that the revenue was ll,C83,CdO pounds and the expendi tures 11.104.000 pounds. The estimated turphs for 190a la 64,000 pounds. THE SCHOOL LAW. County Boards of Education Chosen by Legislature. The new school law may be sum marized as follows: The State Ejaa-rd of Education, on the first Monday in August of each year shall apportion among the sev eral counties of the State all the school funds which may be in the treasury of the said board, said ap portilcnment to bo made on the basis of the school population; but no part of the permanent school fund shall be apportioned, enly the interest therefrom. The proceeds of all lands granted by the United States to this State, also all moneys and any other property now "belonging Uo any -State fund for, the purpose of education, also net pro coeds of swaimp lands and all Other graiis modo to this State, shall be pai".d in io the State Treasury, and to gether with as much laf the ordiinary revenue as may be set apart for that purpese, shall be approprvaitd for es tablishing and maintaining a system of fre3. public schools. All moneys belonging- to a county sch-cd'l fund, alio net proceeds from saleis cf estrays, also proceeds of pen alties and fines., also proceeds of tax imposed on liquor liccrsies and auc tioneers, sb all remuin in the several ocorntiew and be appropriated for es tahlishing end moin'taiining free public schools 'in th-cee ooomities, amount col lected in each county shall be reported annually to the State Superintendent of Publiic Instruction. If the .tax levied by the State shall be irrmffici.e-rii to maintain one or more schools in cuch echfcol district for the peci'cd of four months, then the Board of Commi'ssdioncrs Of each cou-nty stall levy, annualily a s-peci'al tax to supply the 'defDicieney. The saiid llix to be levied on all property, credos and polL.5 of the county. The General A'ssembly eiull ap point three men in each county, who thall c3n'titute a county boai-d of edu cation. In cae of vacancy, it shall be filled by the other nximhers of the board. The members shau hold of fice un'.'t'l the fir-st Miocifay in July, 1903. wfh.en the Board of County Com missi toners in each county sihiafll elect the board and every two years there after The county Board of Educa tion shall be a bedy corporate, capa'ole of purchasing and holding reall and personal eC3ie; cif building school house?, and of telling tand transferring the same for school purposes. They shall control aU matters relating to the public schools cf the county, with power to execuibe the school laws, pars upon the moral character of any teacher or a.pplicant for a teacher's certificate, with power to subpoena witnesses for all inresitigaittions they may deem neceasary. The efc-unity boaird, on the E-ooontd Monday in July, 1901, and hi-onnially thereafter, shaH elect a county euper imtendent of sc dels, who ehall be at the time or his election, a practical teccher, ot who shall .have had at leust two years experience in teaching school, and who E.aM be a man of liberal education and sfbuaill otherwise be qualifiedi to discharge the duties Of his office us required fby law, due re gard being given to experience in teaching. Said' supecuntendent must be of good moral character, and shall h-'oJd his office for a term ctf two years. Provided, tthat any p'crion who has filled the ofilce of county superinten dent for four years next preceding the passage of .this act shall be eligible to such office in Bertie and BJaden coun ties, (if the election cf such person meets the ripproval of the State Board of Education, The County Boaird of Education of a: rah county shall on the second Mon day in Jutly, 1901, and b'i-ennlaily thereafter, appoint in each township of the county three men as school com mitteemen, who shall serve for two years, to be piaiid -by the county board ou't of the reserve sthcic'l fund one dol Isir per day for not nicire than four days per annum. The county board may, if deemed best, instead of elect itig townc(b"p commititeemen, elect for each schcol of the several townships three school comimUtteeimren, who shall serve for two years, without cornpen-s-ationi. The school committee, not later than twenty days after their qualification, ;ha;ll el-eot a chairman and secretary, keep .record of their prtct'eedicisa and report name and address of chairman a.u'd secretary to the county superin tendent. AH1 i-(p.peals from the com mittee shall te first made to the coun ty superintendent, wticse decisions shall be final, unless reversed by the county board of educe fti-cn. The schcol eommuititee ehall be in trusted with the care end custody of allfichool houses, school house sites, grounds, bfooks apparatus, or ether public school property in the town ship. They are required to furnish to ths county superintendent a census re port of all the pupils of sehijiol age in their township or district, atlso -the num!ber of public schcol .houses and the value of all public sehlcol property for each race separae!y, and to the teacher a register of the names and ages of each pupil Of isohcol age in that district. They sh'aJl also by race und sex the numtber of all persons be twieen the ages cf twelve and twenty one who cannot read and write. No teacher stall bo employed by any committee except t a ros-dlar called meetling of such octmmiittee, of which due notice shall be given. The com miittee ehiaJl have powisr to purchase supplies E'egjbsary for conducting Edhools and ior Tepairs,- not 'bo exceed 25 in any-one year for each school; shall hiave authicsrity to employ and cHijSb teachers. No person' shall be enupLoyed as teacher who does not Produce a certificate from the county s-iperlntenidienrt or oIjop, parties au fchfcsfized by law, erod ;no certificate shall be Issued to any person r -under eighteen years of age. Teachers of the second grade ghall receive not more tJhan $25 per month, ami teachers of first rade such compensation aa Shall be agreed trrton. Teachers of thUrd g-nie mt more .lhan $20 per month, brt to thurd g:rad3 certificates shall bo renewed amd no 'hol-dOT thereof shall be employed except as assistant. ; Twenty school days of rfct less than six houtrs nor more than seven hours shall be a mornth. School term shall be continued as far as practicable. Whn a mfonthly report of any school where the district does not hundred amd fiftv chi.'cjrea- ifcows an, average dally alt-tend'an-c of less than on-e-flfith, the ccmmWee ehall cirdter sohool closed, and the money due ehaft remndn to the creddt xf edhosl. THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY The South. Severe storms are reported at maas points in the Siouth. . Jockey Cochran, one' of the best known riders in Memphis, was acci dentally killed at the race track. vainest . j.vmui&icu. - . - uug was the guest of the Alanuf acturers Cluli of Charlotte, N. C., last Thursday. He spoke upon the cotton -trade with China. : A very interesting educational con vention closed at Winston-Salem, N. C., last Saturday. Many prominent educators frccn all sections of tht country were in attendance and the speeches were notably strong. At a reception given Minister Wu by manufacturers of Charlotte, N. C, Sen ator McLaurin made a speech advocat ing breaking away from old political principles of the South. The president has appointed Wm. M. Jenkins of Oklahoma territory to b governor of that .territory and James W. Raynolds- of New Mexico to be secretary of the territory of New MsxU The North. Revision bill. The "Greater New York Democracy' was formed at a mass-meeting of Tam many opponents. The Kansas Wholesale Egg Dealers Association has taken a contract to ship 100 carloads of eggs to Cuba. Bull fights will be a feature of a street fair to be held by the Commer cial Club at South Omaha, Neb., in July. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at Crook's (Mills, MdL, and a tramp was killed. : ;i :"':;. .: In a jealous rage John H. Gorman, foreman of a copper mine, shot and Cal.. and then blew himself to pieces with giant powder. at McKeesport, Pa., was ended by an agreement to restore things as before the trouble. Attorney George W. Shields, of Omaha, Neb., says" H. C. Henderson; the self-confessed kidnaper of Edward Cudahy, Jr., says the man is an im- The calf skin tannery of the A.Plata Company at Racine wavj destroyed bV fire early Sunday morning. The losa was $100,000. The dining hall and three of the bar racks at the national military home at Dayton, O., were , destroyed by fire. Loss not definitely known, but sup posed to be about $50 000. Origin of tha fire was froraV a furnace in the dining hall. There was no los of life. Foreign. The House of Commons adopted the British War Loan bill. Boers have ambushed a party of the Ninth Lancers in South Africa. Count von Waldersee had a narrow, escape from the burning palace of tha Empress in Pekln. Archduke Francis was criticised In the Relchsrath at Vienna for accepting the patronage of Catholic schools. The British budget was presented to the House of Commons and the govern ment ask 2d authority to borrow $30D, 000,000. The Chinese Emperor has ordered his trcops to withdraw from Huad-Lu, against which place the allies had started an expedition. M. Elm He 'Faquet, the dramatic critic, was installed as a member of the French Academy at Paris last week. It Is officially announced in St. Petersburg that there are to be Imme diate reforms in the Russian educa tional system. A cablegram from General Mac Arthur says reports of alleged com- l . ' 4. n .4 K, misaxy Bcauo-id are e.-sswuicu, vlii. -dmits that three offioers and a num ber of enlisted men and civilians are being tried. The Won3ion House fund . for th Victoria memorial now amounts to 71,000 pounds. me aay s 6UDscripuoua Include 1,000 pounds from J. Pierpont Morgan and 1,000 pounds from J. S. M organ. The popular observaoice of Prlmrosa Day shows no signs of waning. Tha Beaconsneld monument, opposite Par liaraent House, was elaborately decor- a-ted and attracted the usual crowd of ight-seers. . "vVhile employed In removing a bank! of crushed ore at the Guadaloupe hacienda, a cavein occurred burying nino cf the workmen. - The dead, bodies of six of the men have been re-W moved. The other three were serious- . ly, but not fatally injured. '' Mr. Henry Burn explained to the In dustrial Commission why the wall pa per combination had failed. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of Capt. Ripley, who has been on trial for conspiracy la the Goebel assassination.