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DICE CASH ITEMS from Congress for Virginia, ( North, And South Carolina ' CAPE FEAR RIVER GETS $515,000 ' , Virginia Gets $490,000; North Caro lina, $810,000; South Carolina, $30,- 000—Congress Improving River and Waterway Projects—Badly Heeded. Washington, Special.—The report * ){ the Senate committee on commeree riving increases in the rivers and har bors appropriation bill oyer the amounts as carried in the bill as it passed the House has been present ed to the Senate. Virginia: Potomac ri»er at Alexan- Iria, 40,000; James river $150,000; Norfolk harbor and approaches $300,- >OO. North Carolina: Cape Fear river above Wilmingtbn $90,000; Cape Fear river below Wilmington $200,000. South Carolina., Waccamaw river $36,000. * ~ TTie increase in contract authoriza tions is as follows: North rarolina: Cape Fear river above Wilmington $515,000. Another Bribe Charge. Watertown, N. Y., Special.—Presi lent J. T. Carey of the International Brotherhood ofPulp and Paper mak -9TB in a lengthy statement, declares that it was a man giving the name »f William Pritcliard wlfb, in the in terest of the International Paper sompany, offered him $25,000 if he would call off the paper makers' itirke and use his influence to get the men to go back to work and ac cept a 25 per cent increase in wages. A. N. Burbank, president of the International company says: "This cliarge is unqualifiedly false." " fair Treatment for Shaw. * Washington, Special. Senator Simmons went to the White House Saturday to discuss some Stat* mat ters with the President, and the case af A. C. Shaw, the deposed lawyer of the Pinchot force, was incidentally brought up, and Mr. Taft assured him that after the BaJlinger-Pinchot in vestigation was at an end he would take up the matter of Shaw's admis lion t6 practice before the Depart ment of the Interior and that he would have absolutely fair treat rent. Political Party For Corporations. Idaeon, Ga., Special.—Maj. J. F. Hanson, president of the Central of 3eorgia Railway Company and for merly national committeeman of the Republican parly from Georgia, thinks that Ihc corporations of the (Jnited State* should organ ire a oolitical army of their owrt and tight for their rights. Punished For Smoking Cigarettes. Lynchburg, Va., Special.—The •aseball team of the Virginia Chris aan College. Saturday was dislmnd ;d and its schedule canceled because three of the players were detected imoking cigarettes. The team has won five games without a defeat, and lad fiove more to play. Beriotn Fire in Georgia Town. Douglas, Ga.. Special.—Nine busi less firms were burned out here with % loss of $75,000. Judge J. W. Juincy was slightly injured by fall ing from nn awning while trying to inter his office on the second story »f, a building. Founders Day Exercises Annulled. Charlottesville, Ya., Special.—Be »use of the inability of Andrew Car »egie and Senator Hoot of New York ;o attend the Founders Day erercises it the University of Virginia on April .'.l, Jefferson's birthday, the cere onies have been annulled. Appalachian Exposition Sept. 12. Knoxville, Tenn., Special.—About 75 representative newspaper men and a number of prominent railroad offi cials of the Appalachian region of the South, attended the first formal exercises incident to launching the Appalachian exposition, to be held in Knoxville, September 12 to October 12 next. * Wanted Lawyer For Congress. Washington, Special.—An successful effort to have Congress itself, instead of accused members, represented by counsel, an angry unrecorded attack on the Merchant Marine League by Representative McDermett of Illinois and a strenu ous denial of Representative Steen erson's charges against the league fea tured Saturday's meeting of the House committee to investigate charges reflecting on Congressmen in connection with ship subsidy legisla tion. Mr. Steenerson asked that time he allowed to permit "Con gress to be represented by counsel.V V. T. Election For Postmaster. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Special—At the suggestion of Congressman Ham ilton Fish, the voters of Fiahkill Landing held an election to select ballot their candidate for post anaster. The leaders could not agree on a name to present to Mr. Fish and the election followed. John Sweail, Jr % a prominent liveryman and wagon dealer, was elected, get-, ting 371 votes. There were three «ther candidates. ifc.; .1.... .&L. - - mmmtiL jmwwt Col Roosevelt Wft be Given an American Reception Pittsburg, Special.—Col. Theodore Roosevelt desires that, if a reception il tendered him in New York on his rsturn from abroad, it shall be na tional and not local. A. P- Moore, editor of The Pitts burg Leader, sent a cablegram to M». Roosevelt advising him thart there seems to be a deeire to ma We his re caption in New York local rather than national and suggesting that the demonstration be made one by all the people of the nation. The following reply was received by cable: "Roosevelt of course wants eele bration national if held at all. As you say special desirfc is to give the people at large a chance to greet him if they so wish. (Signed) 'HVLOUGHLIN." Killed and Robbed Two Years. Springfield, Mass.- Special. —Lay- ing his crimes to love of excitement and a mania for stealing, caused by an injury to his head in boyhood, Bertram Gage Spencer, broke down under twenty-four hours merciless grilling and confessed that he was the masked burglar who hud terror ized 'Springfield for two years and had reached the climax of his wild career by murdering Miss Martha B. Blackstone last Thursday evening. Tn his amazing confession, Spencer makes it clear that associated with hie everpowering desire to steal were an intense love of excitement and a high degree of personal vanity. This latter trait Spencer gratified by baf fling the police and reading the news paper accounts of his exploits. The police declare he is a morphine fiend. Woman Defrauds Bachelors, Pittsburg, Special. —Another in dictment was returned Friday on charges of graft, romantic instead of councilnianic. Alice Peterson, a pretty Johnstown woman, who has □tanners of refinement, is charged in a true bill returned by the Federal grand jury, with having used the United States mails to conduct a frau dulent matrimonial scheme in which she was the bait. The woman is al leged to have had a large correspon dence with men in Western cities, and when love affairs had ripened to a proper point, she would ask them to lend money for the fare to their 'own so that she might marry them. Meeting Catholic Mission Board. Baltimore, Special.—A meeting of the Catholic Boa?d of Mission Work among colored people wns held at the residence of Cardinal Gibbons Thurs day and afterwards the Cardinal en tertained his visitors at dinner and weijt with them to Washington to at« tend a meeting of the trustees of the Catholic University. Repudiated by Conservative Leaders. Rome, By Cable.—Before leaving Rome ex-President Roosevelt had ren lon to believe that a great triumph was his, because both the attitude of the Vatican towards him and the itatement of the Methodists, which he had condemned, were repudiated by the leading adherents of those two institutions. Department Will Investigate Combine Washington, Special.—Cognizance has been taken by the Department of Justice of the alleged methods of the »o-called butter combine in fixing the prices of that commodity as charged in the hearings before the Senate committee investigating the high cost of living. Fix a Limit for Cold Storage Washington, Special.—That a limit ihould be put on the use of cold stor age for the purpose of maintaining or advancing prices artificiality is the judgment of the Senate committee charged with the investigation of the cost of living. Chairman Lodge has introduced in the Senate a bill to meet this recommendation. Annual Educational Conference. Little Rook, Ark., Special.—Ap proximately 1,000 delegates, Southern educators and men prominent in the J cause of education, attended the open ing session of the thirteenth annual Conference for Education in the South. The opening session was de voted principally to the address of President Robert C. Ogden, of New York, who took rather a gloomy view of present social and political condi tions, urging the educating of the masnes as a logical remedy and an address by Dr. Wyckliffe Rose, of' Washington, who outlined the purpo ses and plans of the movement. Safe Robbers Captured. Chicago,. Special.—Five masked bandits escaping with $7,000 stolen from the Bank of Coal City, at Coal City, 111., from here, ex changed shots with a posse Thursday, three of the robbers being wounded and captured. They blew up the bank building and shattered the safe with a great charge of nitrc-g|yeerine. » EVENTS TOLD- TERSELY. News From Everywhere Printed is Short Paragraphs. Several of the physicians of Los Angeles, Cal., assist ted at an opera tion for the removal of a table knife, aine inches long, from the stomaeh jf Mrs. Sarah Carlson, an insane woman. The knife had been in the ttomach of the woman for several tiours before the physicians could be induced to believe that the woman who told of having swallowed it, was aot joking about the matter. In the little parlor of the public house in Islington, London, called "The Hluecoht Boy," which he has made his headquarters for a number of years, Jem Mace, the former champion pugilist of the world, re seived the congratulations of a little circle of friends and cronies on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Confessing that sightly, with two exceptions, for over two Weeks he lias committed burglaries in Savan nah, William Blackburn Itunyan, aged 17, is prisoner at police head quarters. He declares he commits 'jurglary merely for the excitement he gets in the work and that he never carried a pistol in his life. Out in West Texas a gentleman of 77 advertised in the papers for a female correspondent with a view of matrimony. An innocent young thing 04 summers answered the ad, a eorrespondence followed, and finally Ihere wan a wedding. But in one short hour the bride discovered that ihe had made a mistake and filed uit for a divorce. Having crossed 'the Atlantic by scrubbing the docks on a tramp steamer, a Chicago steeplejack named Edwards has now won a $5,000 wager by traveling on foot through Europe without money or passport. He has just reached Antwerp after a four teen months' journey through France, Italy, Austria und Germany, The body of Ira Hamrick, aged aighteen, who had been missing since atf October, was found on the side of Mill Mountain near Roanoke. Two bullet holes in the skull told bow (luinrick met bis death. It is be lieved he committed suicide because of disappointment in love. By marrying his brother's wife's sister, Levi Litton, of Charleston, W. Va., has doubled his relationship with his wife's family and with bis broth er. His brother's wife is his sister in-law doubly, und he is his brotber er's brother-in-law, as well as his brother. One of the dreams of land owners in Florida and of statesmen from that State is the reclamation of the Everglades. Judging from the pro gress of legislation on the subject at the present session of Congress, the dream seems likely to come true. A wealthy Sicilian named Penitente fitted the front door of his villa with on elaborate mechanism ,of pistols loaded with dynamite cartridges for protection against robbers. Coming home late at night and forgetting the release device on opening the door, penitente was blown to pieces with bis own invention. ■i Thomas F. Walsh, the millionaire mine-owner, is dead. Death was due to a growth in the lungs, the result of an injury received years ago when Mr. Walsh >vas a miner in the West. A grave in the Greenwood Ceme tery in Brooklyn has been stripped of its monument because, the trustees do not think the nude figures of a man and a woman are proper orna ments for such a place. Mrs. Ida B, Wiclirtrdsoty a well known Southern philanthropist, died at New Orleans at the age of 80 years. It is denied On the highest au thority at the White House that Sec retary Knox is contemplating resign ing from the Tail Cabinet. The'young and beautiful semi- American girl, Miss Daisy Decases, on the occasion of her marriage to Prince Heau de Hroglie will have a trousseau and wedding gifts such as have not been seen in Paris since the days of the empire. Five of Mrs. Frederick 0. Bugher's diamonds were found near New York under a stone in a patch of Jersey woods, where they had nestled for a week. Attorney Rr.lph Sehoofiover, of Santa Barbara, has been summoned before the Supreme Court of Cali fornia for contempt of court. He will be asked to explain how he came to quote George Ade instead of Black stone. Pecause he baptized a woman who lacked a year of attaining her ma jority, the Rev. E. Jansson, a Bap tist missionary at Wasa, Finland, has been summoned to court by the police authorities. • The wealthy Chinese are fond of mechanical instruments and will fre quently be seen carrying two or more watches and wearing foreign glasses. The consumption of sugar in Great Britain is greater per capita than in the United States. The per capiti' consumption in the United States in 1907 waa 82.G1 pounds, while the per capita in the United Kincdom 'was 85.19 in 1900 and 80 in 1909. A convict's dream of Home Sweet Home, done in 17 verses, by Harry Schaffer, of Pittsburg, while at the Starke county, 0., work house, has won the recognition of the prison management that he be parol ed. ENQRIPS- PROfITS Pullman Co's. Dividends Over $51,000,000 in 11 Years - REDUCTION OF RATES ORDERED Lower Berth Most Be $1.60 and Up per sl.lo—ln 1898 a Oaah Dividend of $7,200,000 Was Paid.—lnterstate Commerce Commission Investigates. Washington, Speeial.—The Inter state Commerce 'Commission in a de cision Monday holds it to be "unjust and unreasonable for the Pullman Company to eharge equally for the upper and lower berths in the sleep ing cars. Differential charges are ordered in several instances and pull man rates from Chicago to the Pacific are ordered reduced. A short night'B journey, the com mission holds, should carry a rate of not more than $1.50 for a lower berth and sl.lO for an uppe/. The record shows the commission's investigation of the sleeping car p&ny's contracts, general system of charges and earnings revealed in the dividends of nearly $60,000,000 from 181)9 to 1908, inclusive. The investigation showed 'that the amount carried to surplus annually did not fall short of the annual div idends of 8 per cent; that in ISOB, a •ash dividend of $7,200,000 was paid out of accumulative surplus; in 18U8, a special stock dividend of ii'j jfcr eent, amounting- to $18,000,000 was declared and in 1907 another of 26 por cent amounting to s2ti,ol.">,;]s(i was divided. During a period of 11 years I*sl, 000,000 in special cash and stock div idends were paid in addition to ihe annual ones. v In 1808 the stock of the company was increased from $3f1,000X,/0 to $100,000,000, of which $20,000,000 is accounted for by the acquisition of the Wagner Palace Car Company. The remainder of the increase of $44,000,000 represents capitalization of surplus. The record shows that no additional capital was put in. Fifty Miles in 39 Minutes. Plays del Bey, Cal., Special.—The first accident of the motordrome meet occurred Sunday afternoon in the 50-mile race, when the Aoperson "Jack Rabbit" car overturne-d and rolled over several times. Harris Ilanshue, the driver, and Harry King, his mechanician, escaped with noth ing more serious tfen (bruises and a shuking-up. The accident, which was caused by a broken tire, was ono of the most spectacular ever seen on a* motor track. A new record was established in this race by the Isotta, which finish ed in .'10:20.00. The best previous mark by a car in this class was 43:02.98 mude at Atlanta by Robert son in a Fiat. In the record trials Oldfield in his Benz made the fastest mile, 30.90. Starch Will be Cheaper. New York, Special.—Standard Oil interests which control the Corn Products Refining Compare, an nounced that tifteen points hundred weight will be cut from the price of starch and 121-2 points a hundred weight from glucose. A new com pany, capitalized at $1.000,000 is be ing promoted to make stnrch from tapioca grown in Trinidad. New Line Passenger Vessels. Baltimore, Special.—With the sail ing Snunday of [the steamer D. N. Luekenbach was inauagurated a new line of Vessels between this port anil Galveston, Tex. It is intimated that the service may later be extended to take in Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans. In 28 Minutes $324,000 Raised. New York. Special.—ln 28 min utes the congregation of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church subscribed $324,000 Sunday to build a new edi fice. Of this sum John D. Rocke feller gave half, having promised to .duplicate dollar for dollars up to $250,000, when a $500,000 limit will have been reached.' Liquor Licenses Raited to $250. Hampton, Virginia, Special. — The Phoebus Town Council, 'near Hampton, has increased liquor licenses from S2OO to $250 per year, and granted licenses to twenty-six ap plicants. The Council decided to "break up the free lunch counters, /which have been an attraction among the saloons of the town for years, by imposing a license of S3OO per year upon any lunch counter run in connection with a saloon. Notorious Burglar Killed. Philadelphia, Special.—James, alias "Reddy" Gallagher, * notorious bur*- glar with a long prison record, was killed with a club after a desperate struggle, by. a householder whoae home he kad attempted to enter. ! 1 k Man Kills Woman and Girl. West Palm Beach, Fla., Specials- Louise Weybrecht, .12 years old, wio with her mother, Mrs. O. Weybrecht, waa shot and probably fatally wound* ed by Frank V. Pierce here Ja dead. Pierce committed suicide after wound ing the woman. She refused to en* dorse a check for him. CAPffAt FACTS. Interesting News Gathered in the District of Columbia. THE AMERICAN CONGRESS. v ► Personal Incidents and Important Happenings of .National Import Published for the Pleasure and In formation of Newspaper Readers. Negro Conference Closes. Washington district conference of A. M. E. Zion Church has closed its last day'a work, Rev. M. L Blalock presiding. Florence B. Wye was ap pointed District president of Varick C. E. Society by Bishop J. W. Smith. B. F. Grant was re-elected District superintendent of Sunday schools. A Sunday school eohvention was held with District Superintendent B. F. Grant presiding. The great need of more earnest Sunday school work was emphasized by Gertrude Brooks, Drs. Logan Johnson, S. L. Corrotbers, C. C. Alieyne, H. W. Smith and others. Bishop J. W. Smith, D. D., address ed the conference on appointments and work of pastors and presiding elders. He urged that churches should be true to their pastors and pastors to presiding elders. Job Too Bif For One Man. After having worked for year* to develop the system of one-man con trol of the great fl ee t ß 0 f the navy, Secretary Meyer has come to the con clusion that the abilities of the in dividual have reached the breaking point, and that it will he necessary to subdivide the responsibility. "Oh, Ton Comet I" The tail of the comet through which the earth probably will pass will be noticeable only ae« an absolutely harmless luminous gas or dust. It may produce electrical and magnetic effects that can be detected only by self-recording instruments. Automobile Expenses Anyhow. Speaker Canndto has not been de prived of the appropriation for the "care, maintenance and driving" of his automobile, after all. The action of the conferees of the two Houses of Congress in striking out of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill the item carrying the appropriation of $2,500 ior the object was but formal, for the appropriation has reappeared un der the heard of miscellaneous ex penses of the House of Representa tives, and in that disguise was not recognized even by its 'friends until an otlieial-explanation* was made. Ex-Congressman and Land Frauds. Former Representative Binger Her man, of Oregon, may be prosecuted by the United States government for alleged land frauds committeed years ago. Herman was tried once. The jury stood eleven to one for convic tion, and he was discharged. His trial created a sensation in Washington, where he was well known QS a member of Congress and as Com missioner of the General Land Of fice, and throughout the West be cause of the fact tb|t the case in volved many well-known men, such as the late United States Senator Mitchell, of Oregon. President Will Not Interfere. State elections are not to be in fluenced by political appointments made from the White House, if Pres ident Taft can prevent it. The following statement was is sued : "The President has concluded not to decide the issue between' the Sen ators from West Virginia and Con gressman Hubbard, in respect to the postmasters at Fairmont and Clarks burg, until after the senatorial con troversy has been settled, in order to avoid seeming to take part in the controversy." Appointments for Memorial Day. ' Lincoln Camp No. 2, Sons of Vet erans, have appointed E. F. Warner and G. R. Scott a eommitttee to ar range for the services at Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day. J. B. Northcott and E. K. De Puy were ap pointed to the general committee for the District for the observance of the day. Plans were discussed for the celebration of Grant's birthday oi. April 27. Members D. A. R. Get Excited. A persisted effort to indorse the administration of Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, president general of the Di A. R., was made at the district confer ence. : ■»' It was a three-cornered parliamen tary battle from the moment Mrs. Mary E E. Brown, regent of the liv ingston Manor Chapter, introduced a resolution indorsing the regime of Mrs. Scott. The conservatives, the regulara, and the "mixed" were on their feet simultaneously. Mrs. H. P. Gerald, the regent whose daugh ter waa dismissed 'by Mru Scott, took part ■in the debate. Straw Criticism of Vaccination. Vaccination and its advocates'have been severely criticised by Harry B. Bradford, president of the District Anti-Compolsory Vaccination Society who declared the theory was conceiv ed in lunacy, and "that the whole thing is nothing but a professional graft, which allows the physicians to fill their pockets by innoculating the pure and whiolSsome blood of chil dren with the baccili of diseased cat tit. SID SIM Of HI. —f " - ' "All Alive at?P. M." Last Message From Miners. CARRIED LARGE SUMS MONEY. Thirty-One More Bodies Taken From Cherry Mine—All it 300 Accounted For—Mi*# Will Be Opened and Work Commenced. Cherry, 11L, Special.—"All alive 2 p. m., November 14." This th* latest message from the fatal St Paul coal mine Are was brought to light with the recovery of 31 miners' bodies which had been entombed since the disaster of last November. The bodies were taken from the lowest level, T.OO feet below ground. The men had retreated to a spare 20 feet square and had constructed a rude fan of board to keek the air circulating. (Hi the fan in big let ters were chalked the words quoted above, indicating that the men had lived at least until the day after the fire started. Evidently the men had taken turns at the crank of the fan, for one of the bodies had fallen oyer the handles as though he had died while struggling to maintain anair current. That the miners were in the habit of keeping their savin?!? oil their pel sons was shown by the large amounts of money fowYid on the bodies. One miner had in his belt $1,400. In thp_ belt of another miner was found $l9O and another had $172. It was declared by the mine com pany's officers that all the nearly 300 miners killed by the disasters hnd been accounted for. A'few bodies are still in the mine but within a few days, the mine will be cleared ami ready "for work. GOT. Hughes Insists on Investigation. Albany, N. Y., Special.—Declaring that the revelations in the recent Allds-i'onger bribery inquiry and the facts brought out in the --insurance investigation by Superintendent of Insurance Hotchkiss vlyne caused every honest citizen to tingle with shame ' and indignation ami have made irresistible the demand that every proper means should be em ployed to purge and purify, Governor Hughes sent a special message to the Legislature recommehdiug "an im mediate, impartial, thorough and un sparing investigation into legislative practices and procedure and into the use of corrupt or improper means for the promotion or defeat of legis lation." • Grafters Severely Scored. Pittsburg. Pa., Special.—A true hill charging Max G. Leslie, collector of delinquent taxes in Allegheny coun ty, with bribery, was returned by the grand jury and at the same time a sweeping presentment was handed down with general charges that many of the 1*25 witnesses, whom the grand jury has had before it during thfc graft investigations, thus far have wilfully withheld knowledge of graft, secrets and that a certain few have practically bpii guilty of perjury. Directors and officials of some of the six big banks which profited by the corrupt depositary ordinance are severely scored by the probers. Boy, 14' Years, to Hang. Deland, Fla., Special.—lrwin llan chett, the 14-year-qld Connecticut boy, was found guilty in the criminal court here "the murder of Clevie Tedder, 13 years old, and sentenced to be hanged. He met the little girl while she was on her way to school and stabbed her to death. Her body was a mass of knife wounds, one physician tes tifying at the trial that he counted seventy-five wounds. Hanchett is a former inmate of the Connecticut State Mform school. Prominent Doctor's Wicked Deed, Pittsburg, Special. Dr. Mark W. Blackburn, a member of a promi nent and wealthy family, is dead and Mrs. Violet Getty,-who rejected his alleged advances, is severely wound ed from shots which Blackburn fired in a rooming house. She said that Dr. Blackburn had called at the house, wjiere she roomed, and made a proposal that they elope. - Pftrtofice Business Getting Better. Washington, Special.—Basing conclusions on the auditors' retnrns of postal receipts and 6xp*n«Utnres for the first half of the current fiscal year and oh preliminary mums for the third quarter of the year, which closed March 31, Postmaster General Hitchcock predicted that the first year of the present administration would shoW a decrease of over $10,000,000 in the deficit of $17,480,000 handed down from the preceding y«ar. The deficit for the first half v of the cur rent year was $4,072,000 as against $10,285,000 for the- first half of last year. Doctor and Mrs. Sayler Guilty. Watscka, 111., Special.—Dr. W. R. Miller and Mrs. J. B. Sayler were found guilty of manslaughter for the slaying last J\ily of J. Byron Sadler, a banker of Crescent City. John Grunden, a medicine render from Oklahoma, father of Mrs. Sayler, waa acquitted ,by the jury. -j? Punishment was by the jury at 12 years imprisonment for Dr." Miller and 3 years for Mrs: Sayler.
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