REVOLUTION . SWEEPS *!
" OUT OF OFFICE AND Pti
,k.
> been named m regent. The Rus
n ministry, charged with corruption
i Incompetence, has been swept wrt
offices. One minister, Alexander
Jtapopoff, head of the interior de
rtjaent, is reported to hove been
ted, and die other minister#, ae ireU
the president of. the imperial coo*
emergency clause of tSe naval appro
priation bill, construction will be hur
ried to the limit, the government foot
ing the bill for additional ooat.
The battle cruisers, the fixed limit;
of cost of which is $19,000,000 per
ship, exclusive of speeding up expense
were placed as follows :
Newport News Shipbuilding ?pgN
>dock~<!o.,,tW? ships. ? .;rS'r- i
Fore River Shipbuilding Corpora
tion, one ship; New York Shipbuild
ing Company, one ship. :
With the exception of r the New
York Company each privcte builder
wqi ^tave to . Install new ways and
machinery for the huge craft. The
Government will bear its fair -share
of this expense. } s ''["?t-' ' * :'N ' ?
Pear of the scout cruisers will be
bunt on the Pacific Coast, and the
other. two will be built hy- William
Cramp ft Sons, ghOadelphla. ";r .
ALEXANDER RIBOT ?8
NEWTRBNCH PREMIER.
if:
Announces Formation of New Cannot
*2 ? Painieve la Minister , of War.
| Paris:? Alexandre Ribot haa formed
the following Cabinet:
Premier and Minister of Foreign
-Affairs? Alexandre IUbot/'~,rj.
?Jtfinlater of Jastice? Rene Vivian. &
Minister of W*r? Paul Painlere.
Minister of Marines-Rear Admiral
Laease.'
^Minisl^ of ..Munitions Albert
Tbomas. v
Minister of Flnapce ? Joseph Thi
**&. SPpiP
Minister of the interior? Louis J.
Malvy.
Minister of Public Instruction?
Jules Steeg.
Minister ofPublic \Vorks? Gaorges
Desplas.
Minister of Coam^-Btienno
m EPOCHAL
I COURT# 01
mere? Channel* Open. Flxee
Hour Day u Baals For Wa
holding congress to be clothed
any and all. power necessary to
open the channel* of Interstate
ato f&ur, . sustained the Adamso:
as cjonstitutional:-*aad enforceab
every reature. . . sw?
| The Immediate effect of the de
will be t o fix a permanent elgh
basic day in-computing.wage sea
lnteratatt'oailrcads, for which
tionwide strike twice ha* been t
ened $Cd to give, effective. from
ary 1 this fear, increases in way
trainmih -of kfcout 25 per-' cent,
coirt to the rafirOada estimated al
$40,000,000 to l50.000.000 a year
' The court, through Chief J
WWW, declared both carrier,
their employes, engaged In a
nese charged with a public lnl
subject to the right of congm
compulsorlly arbitrate a dlsiw
fectlng the operating of that baj
"Whatever would he the right
employe enq^ffrjpvate b?
r
\i
ft
of every patrio
ts of sort
peace of the whole world makes ac
commodation abcolutely imperative
The President's message was sent to
Blaha Lee, chairman of the confer
ence commltee of railroad managers;
L. E. Sheppard, acting head of the
conductors; W. G. Lee, head of the
trainmen; W. 8. Stone, grand chief
of the engineers, and W. S. Carter,
president of the fl&men and engine
men.
. Tb. PrMldmt I. confident there
?"> Howerer, be ?!?
? FtfNES.
ondcn.? The sinking of the Ameri
steamem City o? Memphis, Illinois
Vlgilanda was announced. Four
i mi? from the Vigilancla are miss
as aro sonw of the men from the
Memphis. The crew of the
ols waa landed Bafelv"
a City of . Memphis, In ballast
i Cardiff to New York, was sunk
gunfire; The second officer- and
en- men of the craw have been
led. A patrol-boat has gone In
ch of the other members of the
iC" The Illinois, from London for
: Arthur, Texas, in ballast, was
. - . ? .... 1 LJ__
agreement.
Early Monday ^?ornl?0
Order for Four Hundred
t Trainmen to Walk Out.
New York. ? An officii! of the coa.
ference committee of railroad mana
gers announced at 12:4$ o'clock Mon
day morning that the railroad strike
1M Off.
A few minute* after the ianaounce
sora went from the (Hand Central Ter
minal to the Conferences hotel "and
were Joined immediately by the medi
ator?. They refused to make any atata
meat on the way to the meeting room.
It was presumed the -announcement
would Be made throotV Secretary
believed to be awaiting the arrive)^
the brotherhood chiefs, who had re
tired. before making the announce
ment that the strike tud been Averted.
B The brotherhood men arrived at the
hotel at 1:20 o'clock and immediate
ly went to the conference room.
- The managers left the ' conference
room at 3o' clock, but the brotherhood
chiefs remained in^onfen&nce with the
mediator!; St -was learned that Daniel
Willard, one of the mediators had in
formed the hotel management that ha
would give up his roojfis.
Statement by Lane. . r j
The managers, headed by ? Wisha
as follows