Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1897), 1909-04-11

              WEATHER Fair, warmer Sunday; Monday partly cloudy and warmer, increasing southeast to south winds. The REPAIR WORK columns on the Classified Page contain the names of the best repair establishments in the city. Ohio S Tatp I price, five cents. NINETY-NINTH YEAR. No. 101. COLUMBUS, OHIO, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 11, 1909. 1 1 D R A H Yt SENATORS 11EE0 WOWS KICK COLUMBUS. MEMBERS OF THE COLUMBUS RIDING CLUB OUT FOR A DELIGHTFUL SPRING RIDE "Mr f "8 , 3 J MAIN' SECTION IPIIIIIIWPMIII rniPscTDn naDDirn i-sriii i l . ii t i iiii j i n ii i p 1 1 M und u un ii ii ii u l5 mi 1 v"ir tit. kd I Will Recommend Continuance of Dingley Rates on Gloves and Hosiery. MORE ITEMS CUT Chairman Aldrich Says Bill Will Provide Bona Fide Revision Downward. f Special Telegram to mate Journal. 1 WASHINGTON, April 10. The sen ate finance committee, which Is work InK on a tariff bill, has yielded to the (leigfends of the women who, with the heVy importers, have made a vigorous protest' against the increase made in the Payne bill over the existing Dingley rates on gloves and hosiery and has agreed to recommend the continuance of the Dingley rates. The senate tariff bill, so far as rates are concerned, was completed tonight, but it was decided that In malting a report, Chairman Aldrich will announce a reservation on certain important schedules for future action. These reservations will include hides, steel rails, wood pulp and crude petroleum. Chairman Aldrich asserted tonight that the senate committee had made a more general revision of rates than was done by the house committee on ways and means, and that reductions in schedules had been made on a far greater number of articles. This did not mean that there would be a reduction of revenues, but that there would be recommended a bona flde revision downward of the tariff. The great number of changes which would be recommended are due to the Tact that while the Payne bill revised rates in certain basic articles, the revision did not extend to related article.5). For Instance, lead ore was re-duc'gJ in the Payne bill, and the several Iahufacture8 of lead ore remain tindfajiged. The senate committee made general reductions on these man- uiactures in narmony wun tne reduction on the unworked material. Similar changes) were made in many other schedules, wnicn wm account ror me : many awmdimlr4uMi-ii;Wjl,l,,,be presented in the senate. Hide Go on Free List. In the report, which will be made to the senate, hides will go on the free list as provided by the Payne bill, but the question of fixing a rate in accordance with the sentiment of the senate as expressed through a canvass taken by Western senators will be taken up In the near future. A similar condition will be reported on steel rails. The Payne rates are $3.92 per ton, which is one-half the existing rates. The committee was Impressed with the arguments made by the steel manufacturers that this rate should be increased, but it is known that considerable opposition to such action will be manifested in the senate. This item will be discussed later by the committee and the Indications are that It will be recommended for an increase o about $4.25 per ton. No decision has been reached on the subject of wood pulp and this fact will be announced by Senator Aldrich when, he reports the bill. The same is true WV crude petroleum, which the hourjut on the free list against the protest of leaders In that body. It is likely that the senate will be given an opportunity to vote up on this article. The duties on lumber also promise to occasion considerable debate in the senate, and while no change from the Payne bill will be recommended, it is predicted that a number of amendments will be offered on the floor of the senate. , Reduce Rate on Bituminous Coal. After a long discussion of the rate on bituminous coal the senate committee today decided to recommend a reduction from 67 cents to 40 cents per ton in view of the action of the committee yesterday in striking out the reciprocity clause. The Payne bill Includes slack or culm coal at the same rate as was fixed for bituminous coal, increasing the duty on this product from 15 cents to 67 cents. The senate committee has decided to re-Ktore the Dingley rate of 15 cents per ton. The existing rates on woolens, which were materially decreased by the Payne bill, will be recommended by the senate committee. Specific duties will be recommended throughout on silks of all kinds. The specific duty being a trifle above the combined ad valorem and specific duties now collected under the Dingley act This acti.on is .taken In order to meet probable severe competition with Japan silks, which every year are coming In In larger quantities at a constantly decreasing cost of manufacture. u2rotect Long Staple Cotton. The demand for protection for long staple cotton, which comes into competition with Egyptian cotton used in the manufacture of mercerized silk goods,- has been denied by the senate committee. This action was taken on the ground that the long staple cotton raised on the Sea Islands of South Carolina ana ioriaa now brings a high price in the American market, and for the further reason that it would be difficult not to give like protection to cotton raised In certain parts of Texas and Mississippi, which is of comparatively long staple. . Present Indications are that the committee will report the bill to the senate Tuesduy. The majority members of the committee will be in session all day tomorrow going over the amend ments agreed upon In order to guard against possible errors. A meeting la ..11 .nmmlfla. h n V.. Alt...l for jLf Monday and the portion of the tDUiv;airryiUB raico win uw presemea In the Democratic members at that time. ; The administrative leatures or the . bill in all probability will not be re ported ror anotner week or more. These features will be the subject of careful consideration by the entire committee and it is thought their adoption by the senate may be brought about without opposition. Plan for Tariff Bureau. Something of the proposed tariff Continued on Second Fax. - i HASKELL ESCAPES LID FRAUD TRIAL Judge Holds Indictments Not Properly Returned and Quashes Them. Declared T'.at All the Town Lot1 Fraud Proceedings Will Now Be Dropped. (By Associated Press to State Journal. TULSA, Okla., April 10. 3overnor Charles N. Haskell, Oklahoma's first chief executive, and the six other prominent Oklahomans indicted by the federal grand Jury, charged with fraud in Muskogee town lots, will not have to stand trial. The motion of the de fendants to quash the Indictments was upheld here today by Judge John A. Marshall of Utah in the United States circuit court. The court, in its decision, which was very lengthy, quashed the indictments qn the ground that they were returned by a grand Jury composed of 23 men under the federal law, instead of a Jury of 16, as provided for by the Arkansas law. which was held to be in force in old Indian terrltory-by-fed eral enactment at the time when the alleged frauds were committed. The indictment against the defend ants numbered 13, and they were returned at Muskogee after: a lengthy grand Jury investigation conducted by Mr. Rush. Witnesses were brought from Ohio, Michigan and other East ern stutes. The indictments charged conspiracy to defraud the federal gov ernment and the Creek Indian nation in connection with the scheduling of Muskogee town lots in 1902. Attorneys for the defense assert tnat the statute of limitation will intervene to prevent new indictments being returned. It is also stated that all town lot fraud proceedings will undoubtedly be dropped by the government. Aside from the town lot cases, eighteen persons Indicted for various offenses under similar circumstances will go free under today's ruling. Government attorneys hold that un der today's ruling not a single conviction can be ' secured for a crime committed prior to statehood, if the person accused was not indicted before statehood. The effect of this ruling is said to be the most sweeping ever given in this court district. EASTER TO BE PLEASANT Weather Map and Forecast Unite in Bringing Comfort. It is to be a pleasant Easter day. after all. Observation hour at the local weather station last night marked the passing o the center of the high pressure aea which during the last few days brought cold and snow to Columbus. Minimum temperature was reached early yesterday morning, at 22, and the day's maximum was only 36, but with the center of the high past, the mercury sagged little after nightfall, 31 being about the lowest. Today is to be fair and warmer, according to both the weather map and the Washington forecast, and tomorrow should be partly cloudy and warmer. With the high central in eastern Ohio and a strong low central in middle South Dakota and moving this way, the' wind, which had fallen very low, began, to -shift soon after, observation time. It had been northwest . many hours, then shifted . north, and during the night was expected to get around to southeast, where it should remain today. ' Notwithstanding; that yesterday's mean temperature, at 29, was 20 degrees below normal, the year Is still 226 degrees ' ahead on . heat, and the next few days Should' see additions to the total, as the entire Northwest is recording supernormal temperatures. CARS CRASH ; 30 ARE HURT Switch Failing to Work Causes Bad Collision at Kansas City. . IBy Associated Presato State'Journal. KANSAS CITY, April 10. Thirty persons were hurt, some of them seriously, when two crowded trolley car, collided at Sixth street and Qulndaro avenue in Kansas City, Kan., : tonight. ' The most seriously Injured are: Mrs. Mary Calpln, back wrenched., Mrs. William Stanley and9-monthu-old child, cut and bruised. .-Walter Barker, internal injuries. Grover Stearns, back bruised. All the Injured live in Kansas City. The accident was caused by a switch failing to work, allowing one car to turn into another car on a cross street. Passengers in both . cars, numbering 100, were thrown from their seats and msuy were trampiea in in rusn xor tm doors.. , i . .- . i. c II V i i mi (Ml, FORMER JUDGE INDICTED F. L, Sikes of Portsmouth Accused of Embezzlement. Soeclal Telegram to State Journa.1. . PORTSMOUTH, April 10. A sensation was created here today by the grand Jury's returning three indictments against former Probate Judge F. I Sikes. Among other charges he is alleged to have forged the name of former Sheriff Ketter to a receipt for fines amounting to $15, and' to have embezzled fines collected from saloonkeepers aggregating $158. Sikes recently paid back $160 fines. The accused man denies intentional wrongdoing and claims political enemies originated the charges. ANTI-SALOON DETECTIVES SAY THEY DRANK WHISKY Agents of League Testify They Played Poker and Broke Laws to Obtain Evidence. BELLE FONTAINE, April 10. A sensation was caused in Logan county temperance circles today when Detectives Drake and Brooker. of the Anti-Saloon league testified in court that they drank from, a quart bottle of whisky allegedt have been brought from Lima t Lakeview by Firm Wir-Ick, a'bfiHh'es-M,firiioTIc1la-tion. Judge Hover reserved his decision in the case against Wirlck until April 1. Wlrick, together with four other prominent citizens of Lakeview, were arrested by the Anti-Saloon detectives, charged with running "blind tigers." On the stand the detectives testified that they posed as Odd Fellows, gave Wlrick the "sign of distress" In an effort to obtain liquor, played poker and were "good fellows" generally. The detecitves testified that they bought black bass and ducks at Lakeview, which is in violation of the state game laws. Former State Senator W. S. Plum, who Is defending Wirick, denounced Purley A. Baker and the Columbus Anti-Saloon league headquarters In court for what he termed questionable methods to secure evidence. ORDERS INVESTIGATION OF FRENCH LICK GAMES Indiana Governor to Go After Tom Taggart's Resort, Where Gambling Has Resumed. INDIANAPOLIS, April 10. Gov ernor Marshall, before leaving here for a trip to New York City, Instructed the prosecuting attorney for Orange and Washington counties to Investigate the reports of gambling at French Lick, and if he finds them true to proceed against the proprietors of the games. Under the direction of Governor Hanly, the present governors Republican predecessor, the games at French Lick were raided. It is alleged they have been reopened in elaborate gambling rooms, which are crowded every evening by fashionably dressed men and women, who play roulette, faro and stud poker. The gambling rooms, it is reported to the governor, are in smaller hotels just outside the land limits described in the charters of the West Baden and French Lick hotels. Thomas Tagsart, former chairman of the national Democratic committee, Is owner of the latter resort. ) Governor Marshall. is a. Democrat. KILL DOG; CATCH MAN Hamilton : Police Finally Capture Drink-Crazed Fellow. By Associated Presi to State Journal. HAMILTON, April 10. Jacob Ying ling, . drink-crazed, ran amuck today. He threatened to kill his landlady, Mrs. Lena Kalzenwadle, but turned on August Schultheiss and in a desperate struggle, stabbed him a dozen times in tfie hands with a big knife, Ylngltng then barricaded himself in his home, but when three officers broke down the door, he turned a - vicious bulldog on them. The officers shot the dog and captured Yingling. Coal Men Enjoin Railroads. HUNTINGTON, W. Va.. Aprll lO. The injunction asked by the West Vir. ginia coal operators against the Nor folk and. "Western, the Chesapeakte and Ohio and Kanawha and Michigan rail roads to prevent the roads from filing with the-interstate commerce commis- son a new freight rate io ine laKes was granted by juage jveiier ui me federal court today. - lwdL": 6 1 FIGHT WITH " MAD Doctors, Nurses and Firemen Necessary to Prevent Her from Jumping. Dangles in C Air With Sheets . Around Her Fighting All Attempts at Rescue. TBy Associated Press to State Journal. NEW YORK, April 10. A thrilling struggle to save a mad woman from suicide occurred tonight on the ledge of the fifth-story window of the Hospital for Women at Eighteenth street and Second avenue. The woman, Mrs. Nora Hickey, 28 years old, was finally saved from jumping to the street by the pluck of a doctor and nurse and with the help of the fire department. Mrs, Hickey, who had been a patient for several weeks, became suddenly insane tonight, and in the temporary absence of the nurse, thust hei feet through the heavy plate glass window panes in her ward. Through the Jagged hole thus made she pushed het" body, cutting herself frightfully, and crept to the edtre of the sill, 60 feet above the sidewalk. She was about-, to .Jumji' when Dr. Cranston Conkrtng and Nufae McDonald, who had heard the crvh of glass, caught her by the arms. -The woman struggled, screamed and bit, but they held on. Other doctors and nurses came to their aid, and sheets were twisted about the woman, who was now dangling in the air, resisting rescue with Insane fury. The nurses and doctors, five in number, could do nothing but hold the woman, and some one in the crowd who had gathered In the street realized this, for an ularm was turned in and the fire apparatus came clattering 'O the scene. Ladders were run up and the woman was carried to safety by firemen. RAILROADS RAVE 3 DAYS TO Pennsylvania and Big Four Like ly to Start on Viaduct Buildings by Wednesday. Before Wednesday it is expected that active steps will be taken by the Pennsylvania and Big Four railroads to comply with the order of the Ohio supreme court for the erection of buildings on the High street viaduct. At that time the 60 days allowed to begin construction on the west side of the viaduct will have expired. There Is no indication of an effort to take the case to the United States supreme court, which Is the only alternative except to comply, or be in contempt of the court. W O. Henderson, one of the attorneys' for the railroads In the viaduct case, hase received no afdvices on the matter. All arrangements are In the hands of the officials in the general offices in Pittsburg. They will determine the character of the buildings ha erpntpd. The court's decision covers all the open space on each side of the viaduct from wagnten uireei 10 Spruce street. There is a possibility that a portion of the property may be leased to pri. vate Individuals. A hall for the exhibition of Columbus products, across from the Union station entrance and over the railroad tracks, has been suggested. GIVEN ANANIAS DEGREE Paris Correspondent Is Called a Falsifier by Roosevelt. By Associated Pre to State Journal-PARIS, April 10. Theodore Roosevelt, In a cablegram from- Port Said to a Paris newspaper, denies that he gave any interviews to Frenchcorrespondents,-at Naples. He said . he never ( saw the correspondent of Le Journal, whose "Interview" with Mr. Roosevelt was widely . published. Le Journal replies that its correspondent talked for half an hour with Mr. Roosevelt and declares the text of the "Interview" as published to be strictly accurate. ', t ' SUEZ, April ' 10. The steamer Admiral, with ex-President . Roosevelt aboard,, paused out of the canal at 10 tonight. The .'Admiral left the. Mediterranean end of the canal, about 6 in the morning, and therefore occupied sixteen hours in making the trip. Colonel Roosevelt was in the best of health and spirits-and was much Inter ested' in the canal.' 'He' regretted that nraa 4 wen unable to make tne wnoie ti(falt by aayiight, , I .i Vf A: f f -fcf - - rfc - . J ' ill" , Mi NEW PARKS FLOWER BEDS Tulips, Hyacinths, Pansies and Narcissus All in Full Bloom for Easter. Spring Flower Show to Last Until Price, of Beauty. . . Special Teleera.ni to State Journal , IKW YORK, April 10. The spring flower show in the city parks repre sents a lot of skill and care, watchful ness and money. Some 100,000 tulip bulbs were planted last fall and 50.000 hyacinth and narcissus bulbs. Perhaps the best display of tulips will be In Union square, City Hall park leading in hyacinths. Some of the most beautiful pansy beds will be found near the. Casino In Central park. Near the drive near Seventy-second street, and also In Central park, In Riverside near Clermont, in Morris park, Morningside park, in the Speedway near the club house, at the approach to the Museum. of Natural History, and in Madison square, there will be good displays oi red, yellow and variegated tulips. Battery park, Washington square, Stuyvesant park, east and west; bits of Park avenue from Thirty-fourth to Fortieth street, and a strip of the Plaza at Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, are also included in the city's spring flower show, which usually lasts about four weeks, or until the middle of May, when the plots are cleared to make room for about 150,000 summer flowering plants, chiefly geraniums. Small boys and dogs are among the handicaps the gardeners employed by the city have to cope with. Eternal vigilance is the price of the beauty and symmetry of . the . flower beds. Watchmen are on duty, from the time the tips of . the first shoots appear above ground till the plant is past maturity. The dogs are more feared than the boys who would steal plants. . LAST THOUGHTS OF WORK Crawford's Last Act Was to Read : Manuscript of Romance. By Associated Press to State Journal. SORRENTO, April 10. The funeral of F., Marlon Crawford, the American novelist, who died here yesterday, will not be held until Monday, as the church does not permit the celebration of the funeral mass during Holy week. Mr. Crawford, who was deeply reT Ugious, received all the comforts of religion during his last days. The body will be placed, temporarily in the chapel of the little cemetery, until the will has been examined and It is learned , whether Mr. Crawford expressed in it any wishes regarding his last resting place. . - Mr. Crawford's physician said today that his 'patient died of sudden cardiac paralysis, following extreme weakness resulting from pleurisy. He suffered greatly from asthma, but seemed to find, relief in oxygen. Up' to the last moment Mr. Crawford wanted to put his papers In order and almost his last act was to read the manuscript of an unfinished romance, "The White Sister," td a member of his family. .He leaves forty completed works and he had gathered together material for his masterpiece, an exhaustive account of the medieval communes of Italy four volumes of which already have' been completed. , .. The family has received hundreds of telegrams of condolence from all parts of the world. , Taft and Wrights Same Time. DAYTON. April 10. In' expectation that President Taft will attend the Miami university exercises, Oxford, io-, "in lucai cunnuiiB flavin in charee the rMnllitn nnrt -mam,Pi.i ror tne w right brothers, will arrange tw the celebration about that date. STEALS TO KEEP GIRL Cleveland Youth Was Afraid Sweetheart Would Bounce Him. Special TeleKram tj State Journal CLEVELAND, April 10. A. F. Glover, aged 18, who loves a girl, gave her a chain and locket. "I gave her the locket," Glover explained very carefully In police court today, "because J was afraid she'd go back on me." The truth isi Glover had . been "pinched," charged, with stealing the locket. He told the judge, that he had no money to buy a present for the giyl and that -It had seemed to him very necessary that he should do something to stop !) frprn going back on him. Glover was sent u the workhouse to think It over. ' - . SAMPSON RELATES HER STORY OF MURDER Says She Was Upstairs When Shot Was Fired and Later Found Husband on Floor. By Associated Press to State Journal. LYONS, N. Y., April 10. Mrs. Georgia Allyn Sampson, whom a jury last night acquitted of the charge of murdering her husband, Harry : Sampson, made the following statement today: "I stood it for my father and mother. Dear, dear father, I never knew before what a father's love meant. I knew I Would be acquitted when the trial came, and I was contented to wait. "On the Saturday afternoon before Harry's death, I had been to Rochester all the afternoon. When I came home, I left my good clothes In the east room upstairs. I came down in the morning and Harry was still wrangling. I was excited and don't, remember what was said. Father told me to go upstairs and keep still. I was hurt and went away. . ' "I first went Into the east room upstairs and stood by the window. I saw father drive out of th yard. I put away the clothes I had worn to Rochester, and went Into the front room. - It was there I heard the outcry. I ran .down stairs as fast as I could and saw Harry lying on the floor. He could not speak to me. You know the rest. , Declares She Is Innocent. "I am. innocent of any wrong In connection with my. husband's death. I never wronged him In my life. I slaved for him, raised ' chickens to help him, raked hay with him to save expenses and I loved him more than my life. His memory is as dear to me today as anything I have left on earth. "It almost broke my heart to see my father and mother put to the grief of this trial. .My dear mother was too ill to stand it. She Is the dearest mother in the world. "I have not thought of any plans for the future. I. shall remain with my father and mother as long as they want me to. ,"I have no, malice toward any one. "The1 reports that I was disloyal to my husband are not true.", MEDAL COMES TOO LATE Prize Awarded Stark County Man 60 Years Ago Just Arrives. Special Teleiram to State Journal. CANTON, April '10. A medal won over sixty years ago by Louis Favler, now dead, has just been received by relatives of Favier. Back in the forties, Louis Favier was a merchant in Louisville, Stark county. He was a watchmaker and for a fine set of tools which he displayed at tne Franklin institute for the promotion of the mechanic arts at Philadelphia In 1846 Mr. Favier .was. given second prize. He was awarded a bronze medal and It lms Just arrived. . in if Wi GELEBRATES '5 Local Corps Joins With All the World on the General's 80th Anniversary. His Life and Life Work Sketched , , and His Character Carefully ' . iJr. Analyzed. - Appropriate exercises were held eel ebrating the 80th anniversary of General William Booth, founder and head of the Salvation Army, at the local headquarters of the army last night at Broad and Front streets. The story of General Booth's lite was told by Captain Harriet C. Lamb, who pointed out the good qualities of his character and the features of his evangelistic career. Other members of the corps gave reminiscences of the great evangelist. Captain Lamb attributes to Catherine Booth, the general's wife,. the credit of Influencing him to enter his life's work. It was she who urged him to carry on religious work outside the church. At first he worked in the slums entirely, then held tent meet ings and later established mission work. He never dreamed, she said, of getting to the head of as large an organization, but simply by doing good work In all he did the army grew until now there are 8000 corps and 21,000 officers scattered through all parts of the world, besides 900 corps and G000 officers In the United States. The Columbus branch was established in 1S86 and always has done effective work. Congratulated by All the World. General Booth was yesterday made the recipient of congratulations from all of his corps, this city included, and from all the leading men of affairs of the. world. He has never accepted financial support from the army, the international headquarters of which are in London, where he now is. Early in his work he had an annuity be stowed upon him by a wealthy friend and this has . been his source of in come. The millions of dollars of returns from his published works have been used in carrying on his organization. He is characterized as kind, gentle, of wonderful breadth of mind, and a doer of good deeds. The last visit of General Booth to this, city was in the fall of 1907. He came here unexpectedly from Chicago, where he had been taken 111, The meeting at the army headquarters last night was closed with the offering of prayers that General Booth may live for many more birthday anniversaries'. ' ' ' IN A CLOSET 20 HOURS Spring Lock Makes Prisoners of , , Three. Little, Girls. IBy Associated Press to State Journal BAY CITY. Mich., April 10. Agnes and . Helen Phillips, aged 11 and 10 year's respectively, and Guleth Carpenter, aged 11, had been missing from their homes here .since yesterday and as they had said they were going fishing, ' it - was feared they had been drowned, but this "afternoon the little girls were found in a closet in a nearby vacant house. There they had been for 20 hours. They had gone there to play and the door, which had a spring lock, blew closed, making . them prisoners. . ' Garfield Back in Cleveland. CLEVELAND, April 10. James R. Garfield, former secretary of the interior, returned here today after several years of public service under the Roosevelt administration. Mr. Garfield was tendered a reception by business and professional men. The former secretary will engage in the practice of law in this city. In late years he has ud his home at Mentor, near here. i mil i OT RTHDAY Former Venezuelan President Ex pelled by Force from Island of Martinique. IS VERY INDIGNANT Refused to Dress and Is Carried on Stretchers Doctors Say Life Not Endangered. fBr Associated Press to State Journal. FORT DE FRANCE, April 10. Cipriano Castro, ex-president of Venezuela, was Ignominously expelled tonight from the Island of Martlniqus by the French government. He protested to the last against his expulsion, but his protests were in vain. He is now on board the French line steamship Versailles bound for St. Nahalro. Official notice was served on Castro this morning of the decision of the French government that he must leave the island within nine hours from the " receipt of such notice and that the commissary of police at Fort de France had been charged with the execution of the order. The ex-president was furiously indignant and strove throughout the day to find some ex cuse that would be satisfactory to tho colonial government whereby he would not be compelled to obey the order, ani to this end, late today he summoned a lawyer and physician to verify that he was unable to leave the country. The governor of Martinique and the public prosecutor, however, refused an extension of time and at about 5 o'clock the commissary of police, accompanied by a large force of gendarmes, pro- ceeded to the hotel where Castro was staying to remove him, forcibly, if necessary, to the steamer. The Common Enemy of Peace. The affair created a great sensation and long before the police made their appearance at the hotel crowds had gathered, which later were joined bv the consuls representing the various foreign powers, who showed greatinterest-in the expulsion of what one of them termed "the common enemy of peace." . i. Castro, who, during his few days at Fort de France hag had very . little ' communication with anybody, locko.l himself in his room In company wjth his brother Carmelio and his secretary-and for a time refused to reply to the summons of the police official. - The police hesitated to break in the door and finally decided to submit the mat ter again to Governor Foureau, but the governor absolutely refused to permit any delay, and he ordered that Castro be removed by force of arms. He also gave orders that the Versa II les remain in port until Castro could be put aboard. It became necessary for the police and gendarmes to take rigid measure-to hold in check the crowds that hurt by this time become riotJus outside the hotel. The ex-president railed against the French government and the local authorities, denouncing them for foroi ing upon him the alternative of deportation or imprisonment for six months. He declared he would not budge and that it would be necessary to take him on board the steamer on a stretcher. Life Not in Danger. This the commissary of police, who finally entered Castro's room with an escort of gendarmes, prepared to do, but Castro's lawyer took steps to find the chief justice, and at the very last moment the governor an j public prosecutor decided to have another medical examination made. Accordingly, a medical commission composed of Doctors Bouvler, Costet and Barbe proceeded with the examination, in order to establish definitely if Castro's health was such that he could make, the voyage. The consultation of the physicians continued for more than half an hour, and they agreed that the life of the ex-president would not be Jeopardized by his removal to the steamer and the return voyage across the ocean. Prof. Ricci, however, who was a passenger with Castro on, the Guadeloupa on the trip from Bordeau to this port, was the original authority for the statement that during the voyage the wound resulting from the operation on Castro in Germany, had shown signs of suppuration, but the final examination of the physicians this evening seemed to indicate that the former president is in quite as healthy a condition as when he left France on March 26 last. Carried on a Stretcher. At 8:30 a force of gendarmes went to Castro's room and he was placed on a mattress, he refusing to put on Ills clothes, and carried on a stretcher to the steamer, a distance of more than a mile. A thousand or more of the population had assembled by this tlina and a great deal of sympathy was expressed for the former president. The latter complained of great suffering and every movement of the stretcher seemed to give him further pain. He has prepared a protest, which will ba sent to . the French government tomorrow. . . The Versailles left here at 9 o'clock and measures have been taken to keep a careful watch on Castro during th voyage. The colonial government Intends to put down any sympathetla demonstration that . may be made on shore. Ca.stro's brother will remain here for the present, but it is thought he will Join Senora Castro at 1m Guaira, If she is permitted, to. land at that port. ' The United States cruiser North Carolina arrived here at 4 this afternoon and is still in the roadstead. f MAINE AT ST. THOMAS. ST. THOMAS. X. W. T., April JO. The battleship,: Maine came into port today. She will remain about five duya to give the crew shore liberty. Girls Form Weston Club. CANTON, April. 10. Girls at Zoaf have, formed a Weston club and announce tluit during the week they will walk to Canton and 'oack. The partv recently walked from Zoar to Canal Dover and buck the smne day. 'Ilia club la RSaded by MIshmh Li la Ruuf, Kdna Belter and Jla liKp-er. ,