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value of $10,000 tied at New York. Its name was Mynah, and it had boon for many yours the pet of Miss Emma Thursby, the singer. At a meeting of the directors of the Flint and Pcre Marquette Railroad in Boston the first dividend since 1S93 was declared. It is of 1 per cent on the preferred stock. The net earnings for 1S08 were about $140,000. A gang of twenty-six track repair men were working on the railroad at the western opening of the Gnllitzin tunnel, near Altoona. Pa., when they were struck by a train. One mnn was instantly killed, one died in the Altoona hospital ami sixteen were seriously ininred.

Thn ln r v;nl,l v T ; I respondent of the New York Trihnin

a steam whistle. It blew for the first time at 0 o'clock the other night, nine consecutive times. The curfew law was not observed. Hundreds of children who ordinarily would have been in bod at that hour thronged the streets to laugh at the whistle. They were not arrested.

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IN FROM ALL OF THE EARTH.

PARTS

Important Record of the Week

Aa Told by Ithe Telegraph Latet

from Foreign Shores 'Crimea Caa

Baltic, Firca, Etc

Gomez to Aid ia Reconstruction.

A dispatch frura Remedius, Province ot

Banta Clara, Cuba, via Havana, says:

Gen. Maximo Gomez. the Commander-ln

ohiel of the Cuban army, has placed him

self sonarelv in position as aa active ally

of the United States Government iu the Work of the reconstruction of Cuba. As a result of the conference which Robert P. Porter, the special commissioner oi President HeKinley, has had with Gen. Gomez, the latter cabled to President

MnKinlev assuring him of his co-opera

tion in disbanding the Cuban army and

distributing among the Cuban soldiers lite J3.00l.0M appropriated for the pur-

nose ot enabling them to return to their . . 1 . - ! . .1

homes, uen. uomez aiso leiegraiuwu to

Mat Gen. Brooke saying he would ac oept tneiatter's invitation to go to Harana. Bled with Hia Boots On.

Bob Marks, a noted sporting character and typical dead shot of Texas, was

killed m a acei wunjonn nr. uennetr.

oronrietor of the Texas oil vex .hung sa

loon and gambling house at Sau Antonio, Texas. Marks had been drinking, and announced aa he left his own saloon that

be was gome to die with his boots on.

He entered the Silver King saloon and

threatened to shoot out the lights. Guns were drawn. Harks emptied five chambers of bis revolver, shooting Bennett through the abdomen. Stretched on the

floor mortally wounded, Bennett fired three shots at Marks. The latter was not through the body and died with hi gun still in his hand. Bannet diad in a lew boors. Bis Colnmbna Blaze. Fire made a clean sweep of fine property bounded by High, Chestnut and Wall streets, Columbus, Ohio, unless possibly the Green & Joyce building may not be a total loss. The loss is estimated at tl, 100,000. The Green, Joyce A Co, building and stock were worth $750,000; the Dnnlap building, $75,000; Chicago bankrupt store, $100,000; the Soulier Bright building, $75,000; AlcCauley, milliners, $35,000; Jones building, $75,000, were the chief losses. Several firemen were injured by a falling waiL None seriously. Forty People Injured. A wreck occurred at Dyers ville, eighteen miles east of Manchester, Iowa, on the Illinois Central, which resulted in injuring about forty persons. The westbound passenger tram was lying at th station and was run into from the real by a heavily loaded freight train going ai almost full speed. Two Pullman car; were badly damaged, and one day coach, which was filled with passengers, wai completely demolished. It seems almost Kiracuious that no one was killed. Altter Bed-Headed. The interview with Miles, in which h ays he has affidavits and reports provinj the beef was embalmed, has stirred the War Department to its foundations. Secretary Alger, it Is said, will ask Uk President to take action immediately. Officials declare if what Miles says is ttne, be is guilty of neglect of dcty in not reporting it to the Secretary of War. Besides, there was a strict rule against airing such matters in newspapers. Alger is red-beaded over it Closer Customs Inspection. A New York dispatch says: The new Treasury regulation providing that American twists returning home shall make detailed declaration of all things purchased abroad has gone into effect; The cabin passengers by the Buffalo, Alter and Weaternland, aggregating seventy-two, shivered in the cold while th customs inspectors examined their smallest belongings. One small valise and bang bag took twenty minutes to examine. Two Killed in Powder Mill. The press mill of the Ohio Powdei Company, located five miles north ol Tonngstown, Ohio, was completely wrecked by an explosion of 400 pound; of powder. Two employes Evan Evans, aged 27 years, and Henry Dahlia, aged 80 were instantly killed. Dahns leaves a widow and two children. Evans was a ingle man. The cause of the explosion is unknown. Four Felt to Death. One man was instantly killed and three others fatally injured by falling a distance of fifty feet while working on a bridge on the extension ot the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad, neu Pnaxsntawney, Penn. Charles MotbJ. mer trf Hamburg, Penn., was killed and J. S. Tdtear and E igar Seigel of Seiln'i drove, Penn., were internally injured. Killed by Natural Gas.

Patrick Flinn, bis wife and their sot

were found dead In bed at Lafav.

ette, lad, They wore asphyxiated bj natural gas.

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In Honor of Dewey. The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs na3 decided to report lavorably Um joint resolution reviving the rank of ad

miral in uie mieref i oi near Aamira: Dewey. The resolution was so amended as to extend the time of bis retirement ten years. TJnknta Divorce lVaw. The North Dakota House has passed I bill requiring a residence of one year before a divorce can be secured. It previously passed the Senate and will ba approved by the Governor. ' EASTERN Charles McLean, who says he is the "healer" known as Schlatter alt over the West until his disappearance and reported death in New Mexico in 1S07, is now in Brooklyn, N. Y. Close .competition in business and inability to collect money due him from customers caused August Branding, a retail oil dealer of Carnegie, Pa., to commit suicide on his child's grave. Louis J. Snure, who stole $20,000 from bis employers in New York in order that he might surround his dying wife with luxuries, has been sentenced to seven years In Sing Sing prison. At Philadelphia, Robert T. Rink, Jr., aged 28 years, took his life in the same manner as that adopted by Mrs. Ayres at Penn Ya y-- hy closing bin self in a trunk end taking poison. Disabled by an accident to her steering gear during s trip np the sound, the steam ranalboat J. C. Austin of New York ran no the rocks off Norwalk, Conn., and sank, j Five persons lost their lives, jf Theodore Kirschner, aged GO years, shot Wd instantly killed his wife Paulina, aged 5 years. In their house at Newtonville, Y., by the careless handling of a gun, Wich was accidentally discharged. 4' parrot that hud more accomplishT

WESTERN.

Ex-Mayor R. R. Herrick of Cleveland :s dead, aged 73. In a snowslide, which occurred nt Apex, Colo., Mrs. W. H. Rudolph and her two children, aged 2 and 4 years, were killed. A valuable mahogany stock belonging to J. Rayner in Chicago was destroyed by fire. The damage will amount to $200,000. Six prisoners escaped from the county jail at Canton, Ohio. They were aided by a trusty, who left their cell doors unlocked. ' At Lima, Ohio, striking union printers have begun issuing a daily paper to fight the local dailies, which refused to sign the new scale. At Newark, Ohio, Charles Moore, indicted for murder, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to the reformatory. Henry William Sebastian, president of the St. Louis Bridge and Iron Company, has been appointed receiver of the Farmers' Elevator Company. At Canton, Ohio, Mrs. Charles Baiim went to the barn, leaving an 8-year-old girl in the house. When she returned the

child was burned to a crisp.

Jerome Cotton s. Co., stock dealers in Cincinnati, have brought suit for $73,000 damages against an association of stock

dealers of the city for an alleged boycott.

A south-bound freight on the Valley

Railroad was wrecked at Sandyville, O.

by the dropping of a brake beam. Grant

Slutz, a brakeman, was crushed to death. Cleveland waiter girls have formed a union and affiliated with the Knights of

Labor. The name of their organization is

the "Lady Waiters' Industrial Associa

tion."

In a quarrel at Ardmore, I. T over a

trivial matter, John Edwards shot and killed Richard McSwnin. McSwain had attempted to stab Edwards. Both men are prominent.

P. A. Torrey entered Kessler's saloon

in West Toledo and shot down Thomas Black, a well-known employe of the Michigan Central Railway. An old grudge

appears to have led to the crime.

Practically all the apples west of the

AUeghanies, it is announced, are cornered

in Indianapolis by J. L. Keach and his

SOUTHERN.

The Ninth Ohio Batallion, colored. Mai.

Young commanding, was mustered out at Summcrville, S. C, and left for home.

Five residences and the large store or

Babbington Brothers were destroyed In

ure nt New Orleans. Loss about $20,000,

little insurance.

At Uillsboro, Texas, the Windsor and

Commercial hotels were destroyed by lire. Two guests, Ross Lenry and John Griz-

rle, perished in the flames. Emit Messingscklager, 35, living at Morningview. Ky., while under the influence of liquor, shot and fatally wounded N. Baker at Kenton Station. The memory of Franklin Buchanan, who commanded the first iron-clad, the Merrimac, will be honored by the erection hi Norfolk, Va., or Baltimore of a magnificent monnment. The four eighty horse-power boilers of the Shreveport, La., oil mills exploded with a terrific report. A brick building 100 feet sqnare was torn to pieces and four men were killed. A lot of drunken negroes, belonging to the Tenth United States cavalry, tried to ran the town of Texarkana, Ark. Local officers interfered, but the guilty persons could not be identified, so no arrests were made. Word has been received that the deal combining sixty of the important distilleries in Kentucky into one great corporation has been about successfully concluded in New York City. The company is to be capitalized at $32,000,000.

FOREIGN.

Harry Bates, the British sculptor, died at London. Baron Ompteda, the novelist, died at Wiesbaden.

Fourteen persons were killed by an explosion of gas in the Palin mine nenr

Mazarron, twenty miles west of Carta gena, Spain.

Coi. Kitcheners column, wnicn mis

sent in pursuit of Khalifa Abdullah into Kordofan, has abandoned the attempt to

overtake him. A Constantinople correspondent says

"A Plot to assassinate the Sultan has

bees dftnouueed by a conspirator, but the

police, by too precipitately arresting fonr of the plotters, enabled several others to

escape. The German reiehstng, after n long &5bitto, adopted the navy estimates. M. llohne, director of Hie international postal bureau, is dead tit Heme, .Switzerland. P. .v M. Shields, bunkers of Belfast. Irelan.l, have failed. Their liabilities are $000,000.

Chita's dowager empress is said to have

selected n successor for the emperor whom

she deposed.

M;ixmio Gome, the l'ulan commanding

general, according to t Washington c

h

demanded nearly SiiO.OOO.OOO fnnn the

T'nitei States, and refuses ti disband

his "aimy" until t tit- money is paid. The Bulgarian cabinet has resigned

owing, it is believed, to the discontent aroused by the adherence of Stoiloff, the

premier, to the schemes for Maccdoi ian autonomy, which arc considered to be an

tagonistic to Bulgarian aspiration for

obtaining predominant iulliiciice iu Macedonia. Ambassador Porter gave a dinner in Paris in honor of the Venezuelan arbitration commission. Others present were Sir Edmund J. Munson, British ambassador: Prince Oiiroussoff, Russian ambassador; Count Torniolli-Rrusnti di Vorgano, Ital iim ambassador; M. Delcusso. Froni minister for foreign affairs: John Jr,cub Astor and George V.uulerbilt. The Norwegian berk Hanea. from Car

diff for Pernambuco, was towed into

Queenstown harbor disabled, after battling fifty-one days with storms in the Atlantic. Five different steamers had had her in tow, but in every case the hawser broke and the would-be rescuer was obliged to abandon the bark. The crrw was almost dead with exhaustion when finally succored. The movement betrnn recently in Chicago to secure the rtlense of Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the American woman convicted of poisoning her husband and nowserving n sentence i:i an English prison, will probably succeed. The prisoner is noaring the completion of her term under life sentence, which in England means twenty years, less nearly one-third, in the case of females, for good conduct. Alonzo C. Yates nf Syracuse, N. Y.. died suddenly nt Ni.-e, France, aped 27 years. He was left n large fortune by his father, who was one of the wealthiest men in Syracuse. Young Yates nuirkly scattered his fortune between Syracuse. New York, Newport and Europe. He married his cousin, I-iln Yates of Milwaukee, a few years ago. His wife left him a short time prior to his departure for Europe in December last.

IN GENERAL, Trusts iu prunes, Derby hats and buggy whips are the latest. Five of the crew of the halibut fishing schooner St. Lawrence, which was wrecked off Piper Kay, Alaska, were brmiirlit to Victoria, B. C, o:i the Rosalie. The seven hien aboard the St. Lawrence got ashore and mnnnged to live for ten days, when they wore rescued by the sloop Nora. According to a dispatch from Port Arthur, the Russian post in the Liau-Tong peninsula ot China, bad water is causing

JUSTIFIES A CHANGE.

associates. The stock is in cold storage W terrible mortality among the Russian

and is being held for further adrnnce in

price.

A marvelous strike of almost pure gold

is reported in the Isabella mine nt Cripple Creek. The vein in sight is said to be six feet wide, twenty feet long and six inches thick, and the ore assays nearly $300,000 to the ton.

At Los Angeles, Cat., A. C. Bradley, the

old soldier who shot Gov. Smith, of the Soldiers' Home, nt Santa Monica, has been found guilty of assault with a deadly

weapon, but recommended to the mercy

of the court.

At San Francisco. Charles Schulte,

known there as a bartender and in Evansville, Ind., as the exiled son of a millionaire lumber dealer, was found dead in a lodging; house and his body was taken to the morgue.

Col. A. G. Patton filed a petition in

bankruptcy in the United States Court at

Columbus, Ohio. His indebtedness is placed nt $123,000. It is claimed thnt much of the indebtedness, perhaps threefifths, is secured.

Rev. Myron Winslow Reed, pastor of

the Broadway Temple, at Denver, and

at different times pastor at Milwaukee,

Indianapolis and other cities in the East

and South, died at St. Joseph's Hospital

Is Denver, after a protracted illness due to a general breaking down of the system.

Arthur Brown jumped from a sixth-

story window of the building at Ninth and

Washington avenue, St. Louis, after cut

ting his throat with a pocket knife, short

ly before noon the other day. He died at the city dispensary twenty minutes later. He was married only the previous day.

Willie Nagengast, 11 years old, of

Cleveland, died in great agony of lockjaw.

Several days ago he was vaccinated.

Three or four days before death the arm

swelled painfully and symptoms of lock

jaw set in. There is smallpox in thnt city and many people will now be afraid to lie

vaccinated. Dr. L. B. Tiiekerman says the death was caused by letting the boy get dirt and filth in the vaccination sore.

When John Conallin, a wealthy mer

chant of Fort Scjtt, Kan., died he left a

will declaring that Miss Mary Margaret

Conallin of Chicago was not his daughter, but the daughter of his divorced wife. In the will be expressed a desire that neither of the two should ever receive a cent of his property. Notwithstanding this, the young woman entered a claim for the entire estate as next of kin, and gets five-twelfths 'of the estate, city and

mining property.

iroops. j wo nuiiilruu and tiitcon men

died during the months of November and December, and the average mortality is now four deaths daily. On one of the Bass islands, in Lake Erie, has lived a family named Robson. A young child died. Preparations were made to convey the remains to the Canadian mainland. The entire family.

with the hired man, set out :n a small

boat. The boat has been found badly battered and ibis leads islanders to believe

that the little craft was jammed to pieces

by an ice floe and that the funeral party

went down to death in the lake.

Commissioner Kasson, one of the Amer

ican members of the joint high Canadian and American commission, was confronted with a map brought, from O-.tawa as a result of which the United Spates loses 800 square miles of territory n:ul 81,000,-

000 worth of pine lumber grpwing upon it. The possession of Hunter's island iu Lake

Superior was the matter determined by

he map, which was one made t illustrate

and authenticate the treaty of Ghent, de

termining the northern boundary of that port of the United States which is now

Minnesota. It bears the signature of

Daniel Webster and other men prominent in the affairs of the country at that time.

It was brought to Washington to disprove the contention of the American members

regarding the boundary line.

It. G. Dun & Co. s weekly review of

trade says: "The country is in a stronger position than a week ago. Remarkable strength in its industries is an important but not the chief element. Public confidence in the business of the e untry and in its securities hns been tested to an unusual extent by the sudden fall in stocks and the subsequent rise. Confidence in the value of wheat, corn and cotton has been shown by the markets, an l at rising prices the world buys because it has to buy. The vast supply of unemployed capital has been shown impressively and the new and startling independence of foreign money markets fixes attention. The lumber movement is unusually large for the season, with prices of low grade sharply advancing. Railroad earnings and tonnage bave shown surr rising gains. Wool grows weaker because forced by speculation a year ago to prices which the market for goods could not sustain and has lieen much embarrassed in trying to sustain ever since. The sales of wr, ai still small. Cotton is higher tjc and goods hnve lieen strong. Pig iron has risen at Chicago because higher freight from the

South and nt Pittsburg a shade for Bessemer mid gray forge because of growing

demand, but for the moment tbo rise of 2

per cent m pig is exceeded by the rise of

2 per cent in products. The demand is

heavy In all lines. Wheat has risen ! cents, with much buying based on extraordinary exports. Failures for the week have been 221 in the United States, against 1142 last year, and 33 in Canada,

against 34 last year. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime.

$3.00 to $0.25; hoes, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $.-i.OO

to 4.(.r; wheat, No. 2 red, 7c to TSc:

corn. No. 2, 38c to 3!c; oats. No. 2, 28c

to 29c; rye, No. 2, IHv to Wic; butter, choice creamery, 17c 10 10c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 37c per bushel. IndianapoliR Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to ,$4.0i; sheep, common to choice, f2.n0 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c In 74c; corn, No. 2 white, 3ic to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 30e to 31c. St. LouisCattle, $3.00 to $5.80; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.tJ; wheat, No. 2, 71)c to 80c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 37c; oats No. 2, 2Se to 2c; rye, No, 2, Btlc to 57c, Cincinnati Cattle. $2..r!) to $5.75: hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.30 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2, 70c to 77c: corn. No. 2 mixed, 37c to 88c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 30c; rye, No. 2, OS:- to 04 e. Detroit Ontrle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $2.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 75c to 70c; corn, N;. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; mils, No. 2 white. .'12.to 33c; rye. 50: to 00e. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 75c in 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 3'm: to 3Sc: oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 150c; rye. No. 2. 57c to 51c; clover seed, new, $3.00 to $3.03. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, 73c to 75c; com, No. 3, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31-; rye, No. 1, 58c to 50c; barley, No. 2, 45c .i 53c; pork, mess, $0.50 to $10.00. Buffalo Cattle, go. d shipping steers, $3.(H to $(1.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, tai- to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $.VA'.i. New YorkCattle, l?3.25 io $0.20: hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $3.00 to $4.35; wheat, No. 2 red. HI to 85c; corn. No. 2, 45c to 40c; mils. No. 2 white, 3ic to 37e; butter, creamery, 14c to 19c; eggs, West- . era, 18c to 19c.

EXPANSION POLICY SHOWN NOT TO BE INCONSISTENT. Vwo Nut , tlc Instances Serve to Prove that a tircnt Nolioti t'nn Alter the Purpose of n Wr After It Hun Keen ltcumi. Senator H":ir :inl smite of ib" oilier fiii(.i-i-.pansioni.-i.s ,!ee.-n-c llvnt. be cauM.- the Cuiigi i-.si.oial resolution do i-lnriup war against Spain disavowed the liiirjK'Sf ot i,!:il-:ii!g i! :i war of conquest, we camiet e.insisi, nt! uil;e ,'iini keep any of the territory 'hat lias been wrested from Spain. The mil: expansionists say we should stand by our lirst proposition. Till St. Ltlllis ilolle-l letlhlerat Inst.i lies the c i.-ingc in this nation's position by pointing to two former instances in which tin- purposes of the American people were changed after I hoy had begun war. tin tile (Itli of .Inly. 1775, the America n Congress, after the battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker J Fill had been fought, Tioonlenig;: and frown Point li.nl been captured, .'itni an army of 2H.iiO men raised, with Washington as coniniandcr in chief, formally disavowed any intent ion on the part of the colonists to separate from Great Britain. Yet n year later Congress reversed its :iciion and declared for ticparatiou from Great Brit

ain.

Again, In 1S01. when the war of the

rebellion had been In progress f.r Ihrt'o months, a lvsob'iion wa passed

by Congress, which President Lincoln signed, declaring it not to be the rur-

"I do not pretend th know much about

the tariff question, but wo lire Importing from Kt rope n great: deal of rail

way rails lipid paying gold for them. If we bv.y, say, lilty tons ot foreign rails at $2ii per ton. for a mile of iron rails wo pa1 the Kuro)e:in workmen

S2.5II0 of gold and get: the metal. That:

is the Demo T.-Hic plan. The Rcpiibli

can plan ii different. It is for those

rails to be made, say, in Pittsburg,

Then nor i-nrkiiicii get the gold and

we 'i i vc the rails besides and they 1KI.V

nut that in ev to other Americans for

foul, i '"tlr:ig and other necessaries

an l comforts f life. Which policy, g tit;, incti. ibi ym think is best for tin

rood ,.f this eoiuiirv. Hie Democratic or

'he Republic in: IVr my part, I prefer the l: -public iu policy."- l-'rccpoit (.111.)

.lolll'll.-ll. Here Is mi Tm foe Itryan.

All exchange suggests that If Bryntl

shall discover tli.it It! to 1 anil null expansion do not promise to bo profit

tilde issues tor the campaign of next

iyear. lie lake up Hie question whether

i tbo twentieth century begins ill 1000 or

jHHil. Surely the suggestion is 11 good

! inc. ami the forcing of that issui

would to- pile result in a division of

'tin- people on lines more distinctly

ii:iil,eil than those which divided them

1 -hi tin- silver issue in IS'.iti. The cam -i:iigii would be one of the most pxeit;ng ever waged in this country.

' Of course, itt-yaii would take the side

I of th;ise who believe that the next ecu

! tiny begins on Jan. 1, l!Mu). and wo have no doubt that the logic find olo-iiieii.-e of tin- Boy Orator would suffice

to convince the people thnt be was ! right. It would be as easy for lilm to

i coiiv nee Americans that ninety-nine

i years make a ccnttrvy as it was for him

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pose of the government to overthrow j or interfere with the rights or iiistiniHons of the seceded Slates, but simply ; to preserve the l iiion. Ncvcrthc.ess , the Kuiancipaiion Procl.-tniatk-u .vas ; subsequently isstn-d. and slavery, the j dearest institution of the seceded

States, was destroyed. These two instances serve to prove that a grout nation can change the purpose of a war after it has been begun without laying itself liable to the charge of being Inconsistent, njtd they relieve the expansion policy, whi.-h was adopted as an incident of the war. from the charge of lining 'immoral and n icked," as Senator Hoar fivtive'.y characterized it.

The Rise in Prices. The level of prices of staple articles of general use was higher tit the beginning of January than it had been nt any former period since the fall of JS3, more than five years ago. As compared with the period when Bryan's campaign for the Presidency was at its height, there has bi-en a rise of about

IS per ceut. in a little more than two j years. i In view of thi! fact that Improve-' inputs in machinery, the larger use of; capital and the changes from retail to j wholesale methods of production which i have been going on steadily in many j branches of industry, nil tend power- ; fully to keep prices from rising and j even to force them down, ibis advance j Is ri'iiiarkitlilc. It would be very note- ; worthy if there had been no frantic us- j sertions. believed apparently by more ; than li.oon.tiim voters, that there could ; b..- no rise in prices unless the money j standard of the country wore lowered j by silver inflation. That political : phase of the question makes the very j Important advance in the last two fears of double significance. When all 1 p'.iases of the subject are taken into ac- ; :-iint it: becomes evident that !b up- ! ward tendency in values, which Is still going on, is one of the most signlticant j mid hopeful sigiiH of the times.

The President's Policy. The expansion policy of the President is not the permanent occupation of Hurt cent Spanish possessions; it is not the nmiexingof them imothe United States. It is not an expansion which will make the natives citizens of the L'nltod States. II is simply tin- exorcise of the authority and good will of this country over peoples which have no government because of the driving out of Apnin, to continue until ii stab!.- government of the natives can be organized. It prevents the anarchy which the (.-motional Senator Mason mistakes for human liberty and assists the well-disposed unlives to establish local governments upon the basis of social order, which is the result of the liib lligenl exercise of freedom. Th" real expansion of those who advocate this policy is a broadening of the influ-ncc of the I'niteii States with the nations with which wo hold commerelnl relations. To ilia! end the l'lilted States may hold enough of the Philippines 1o afford am

ple naval stations, not for the intimida- j lion of the natives, but to be font holds j lot i- expanding trallic hi the Ktist.--Indianapolis Journal. i If Not t-iii1, Whv ' hips'? i In every laviO' bill (her.- has been a i fight over iron and steel. Protection ; built up our great iron and ;.:ci I mill-.; During the process; of development tin- j free-traders fold ns thai tin- ruilioads ; were being iclav-loil iH-ealHi1 ste-'i rails! i otihl be purchased cl caper in K ig'a.al. , For years this na H ue as regards tio-j price of rails, but bow inn- won!. I ii j have been bad there lx-eu no American j manufactories? All that would have; been necessary to tlx any de; ii' d in upon rails would have been a combiua thin of the Knglislt producers. j Hut who would think of buying rails in England to ilny ? Why, we are ,-n-tii- j ally selling II lor liiitish gold. - San Fram-isco Chronicle. A lira tin in i.i ucoIii'm l'r tcrcncc, j No one ever made a belter a rgiiiii-nt i

in favor of proitcllfii to American labor than was made by Abraham Macula flfty years ago. Said Mr. Liucolu:

to pr-e that sixteen ounces of sllvef wore worth as much ns one ounce of

gold in ISiiii, vbeii. as a matter of fact. It took alKuit thirty-two ounces of silver ti buy an ounce of gold ill the open market. The fixing ot a wrong and arbitrary time for the ending of the nineteenth wtitnry would not be a task at which the P.oy Orator would hesitate, for dbl i ot Hut French revolutionists, who made the same sort of appeals to the populace that he has made, change the calendar ami rename the months of the year? It is to be hoped that Bryan will consider ibis suggestion and feel the pulse of Ids party concerning Its availability for use in the closing year of the century, when it would certainly lie a timely subject of discussion. Cleveland Lender. Procrens. The free-traders arc insatiable In the mailer of ships. Not content with the two thirds fr,e trade provisions of tbo I'ayno-IInnna bill, wherein it Is proposed to admit to Ainericau register two foreign built for every one American b iilt ship, these greedy ColHlenltes want tin- whole thing their way. Aecordii;gly liop'-csctitative Handy of Delaware, a State having important shipbuilding Interests, lias Introduced In the House a bill providing for free ships absolutely. Thi- is what might lie called asking an ell for evc-y Inch offered. It is too much just now. Possibly the free-traders nviy some time get their wish for unrest rioted foreign competition in ships :is in everything which could and should be produced in our own country, but H e happy day is not yet. If they are wise they will be thankful for small favors, ami for tin- present rest content with the extraordinary concessions made in tb-dr behalf in the PaynoI ! . mil bill. To be permitted to have n restored American merchant navy two-thirds made up of foreign-built ships is surely something. It is quite a progress toward absolute free trade. Mormon ' A iiostle'a" Itravndo. 'Apostle" llebcr Grant, of the Mormon church, has assumed a Hoss Tweed posit it: ii in regard to the election of Mormon Itoherts as a member of Congress, and the "apostle'' asks: "What are the people, of the United States going to do about il?" Well, "the j cople of the Tutted States" tire g.i ng to il.-. :, e that matter under the following por ion of Section 5 of the C instil in ion: "Kacli House Sim 11 lie the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members." W- do not quote from . memory this time, but give the exact words liy wh'-eh the next House ran oust Three Wives Koherts iu spite of all the Mormon "apostles" outside of hades. Des Moines Hcgister. tlontl Kcituhlirnii Plinwintr. The Ti rntorics made a good Hepuli lie; ii -bowing hist fall that, has been soiHcwiuit in-. iioo; il. In N'cw Mexico, witch the Democrats carried by 'J,i iii) in 1m;, tlie U "publicans bad a majority of 2,iu in is:is; Oklahoma, which was c; rricd by the Democrats two y.-ars age by l,lun, was 8.001 1 Republican In IK'.?., and the Democratic b ad of I.'.khi in Arizona was cut down :o hal :' I hat size.

Tears, Idle Teru-t. All of the -.' --i piiig and wailing and gnashing of teeth by the faithful over the bissi ami disasters which the lijigb y bill was to bring to otir foreign commerce proved to be only an idle waste of words and useless briny tears. - Carmi -lii.i r:iM'"!. Yiiriiin;: in Hie Senate. The New York Herald warns the c'ciiale that "( very day it palters nboii iln- ratification of the Spanish treat) increases our iliriietill ies with the Filipinos. 1 ulortiiiiaiely, there are men in tin- Senate 'vim are intent on co npllcaiing affairs. ' lio-in:; la 1 11 I'nsl. Colonel lit van i lutgs to tin- past," Is the re nark of a gold 1 lemoeratie newspaper. Why n it cling to the past, when it is his only c iam c? .Mr. llryaii knows that lo ignore It. to t is to commit kIKicul hail km l.

The opposition to the army n-nrgunizn-lion bill on the l-epuhli an siile of ilnHouse bad Ifcc-ino so sti-.me thai on Friday Chairman Hull, alter Mr. Henderson of Iowa, one of the floor leaders of the majority, bail threatened to vote lo recommit the bill, decided it would lie wise, in order to secure iis passage, to abandon the idea of providing directly f.r regular army of KID.iltlil men. Spieches werc mnde by Congressmen Henderson - Iowa), Prince tlllitioisi. Cousins tiowal, Hull, and Itobinson Unti l. 'Phis etn'cd the general debate, and several amendments were considered. At 5 oVI-x-k the House recessed until S. the evening session being devoted to private pension legislation. Particular interest was manifested in the Senate in n brief six-ceh delivered by Senator T. C. I'latt of New York on tile general subject .,, expansion. Cude,- t lull rrtingcinent .included the previous evening consideration of the pension appropriation bill was resumed, Mr. Ionium of Mary hind submitting some remarks upon it. Mr. Perkins of California, iu charge of the measure, replied briefly to Mr. Gorman. The pens-., i, bill -,,-,is then parsed. The House on Saturday lout iniieil tliconsideration of the army reorganization bill until 'J o'clock, when the members paid their tributes to the memory of the late Ilepreseiiiative Simpkins of Massachusetts. Very little progress was made with the army bill. The lime before the eulogies began was chieily devoted to a continuation of the debate on the advisability of retaining the Philippines. A spirited debate was precipitated in the Senate while the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was under consideration. Tile Appropriations Committee was sharply criticised for not providing adequate salaries for some of the consular officers and secretaries of Ic, ions of this

Government iu foroian c-mut lies, and the

parsimony of the nation in this respect was denounced :1s a disgrace. The bill, which appropriates SI. 7111.5.'!;!. w as finally passed. A bill amending the "aw rehitinc

to the aptHirtioniiu'iit and election of rep

resentatives i u Congress so :s to permit the use of voting machines was passed. The House put in a hard day's work on

the army bill Monday, ami when it adjourned thirteen of the twenty pages had lieen completed. Much of the time was

occupied in short speeches on the general

projHisition lo increase the army and annex the Philippines, and there were scv-

ral lively personal cont roversics. At the

r-pciiing ot t!i,. ressi-n of th-' House Mr.

Hopkins lltep.. 1 It. I re .or led il,,. census

bill and gave notice that lie would call it up the next Monday. An effort on tinpart of Mr. Allison to ohlat-i consideration in the Senate for the Indian impro

priation hill precipitated a running debute, which occupied all the time until the Srnntc. at: 1! o'clock, went into executive session on the pone.- treaty. The President sent to the Senate correspondence on file in the State Department bearing upon the peace treaty, and it was read in the executive session.

The bill to reorganize and ii crease the

standing army to about KHi.iam men. but givinir the President authority to reduce the size of imantrv comiiaitich im.i ,..-

iilry troops to sixty men ,-.ich. thus fixing

a minimum or almut 5U.IHIO enlisted men. passed the House on Titesihiv bv a vote

of KiS to 1U5. Mr. liai ion i Kep., O.i, chairman of Hie Kiver and Harbor Com

mittee, called up tin- river ind harbor bill. The House went through the form of goitlg Into eoimuittoo in order to put the river and harbor bill under consideration.

The committee then rose and the House lit 4:35 p. m. adjourned. Ditrins almost

the entire morning hour (lit Senate iiad tinder discussion the policy of this coun

try to Ie pursued in the Philippine Islands. Mr. Berry t.Vrk.i. in a speech upon the resolution offered by Mr. Vest, discussed the policy of expansion. An attempt by Mi. liacoii Kia.i to secure a vole upon his resolution which, in brief, declares that the I nited States Government will not n-nk- war upon a people seeking for flieir freedom, precipitated a lively debate, which was participated in by Mr. I'latt iC.-iin.i ,! yr Teller Coli.l. No action m ihc resolutions was

aken. A bill was passed ai the opening

of flu- .-senate session granting extra oav

to the officers and men of the temporary force o!' the mtvy iwo moot Us exira oav

to those who served beyond the limits of the raited States and one month's pay to those who served within the (.'nited States.

The House entered upon tin- considera

tion of the river and harbor bill on Wednesday, and made rapid progress. Fifty of the eighty -eight pages of the Mil hail been eoiiipi-.-t.-d when the Hons,, adjourned. The bill appropriates directly about Sl.olMl.txii" and authorizes contracts to the extent of $1 si.iMtn.iNH additional. The general debate was unusually brief. Its

feature was a speech in opposition t,, n,,,

bill by Mr. Hepburn -f Iowa. Practb-ally Ihe only anicmhnotir adopted was one slrikitig out mi appropriation of Si.-O.H0il

for a channel from alvesion to Texas

City. Texas. i,. I'awlins il'tahi ad

dressed tht- Senate iiti:-n ibe Yost anti-

cxpansion resolution. Mr. I.ii-dsay t(y.l offer'-d a resolution declaring that territory not a part of Hi-- omit, em North

America shai not be admitted into tttc Fcderul I'niou as a State or Stales. Dur

ing Mr. Hawlins' speech a message was received from the House transmitting the

army reorganization bill. It was referred

to the Committee on Military Affairs. At

tlie conclusion of Mr. Hawlins' speech the Hacon resolution was laid before the Sen

ate. Mr. Sullivan (Miss.i ihen offered his own resolution as a subst'i-tte for the

Tlacon resolution. Senators To lor and

Honr were tie.- speakers in ihc eveeative session of the Senate. Mr. Teller made a set speech in support ul th- treaty, and

Mr. lloar replied.

Con tin hinli tics. A Kansas city couple gave as an or

e-use for marrying suddenly tha? both had the "blues."

Itaron Itolf Zoilerstrom. who is to mar

ry Madame Patti. is only :N years old. The diva is 55.

The "iiiiirryiiiu souire" of ,leffet'sonvie.

did., is dead and his books show thai he

had performed Il.iKTii n-a'rringe ceremonies.

Miss Pauline Asior, t it. only daughter

of William Waldorf As'.-r. is reported to he engaged to iiiiut; the yning duke of

Ftoxbiirgh, Miss Astor is l!i years old.

Tcleurupbic Ilreviticw. ,1'ihll Italy, the alleged dynamite plot

ter, has been tin.nniiKujsly elected Mayor

of Limerick. Ireland.

At Norristewn. P., a negro burglar was

tracked by corn which sifted through a hole in his coat pocket.

Twelve meiio.ers of the f ii.-.dy of John

Peterson of (Ihiewa. N'-.. -ver- jioisotit-il by eating dross--I leu: n.- ti-.

fin' output of ill- titii.cs ;it t'rippje

Creck, Colo., in lS'.is as :li;..".5i; tons of ore colC.aiutlig S15,To..757 in gold.

liosa li'iiili-ur's great picture. "The

Choice of the Fl" wit; s.,i, nt Ihe

Powers s:;ie iu New York lor St.no.

At Wooster. Ark.. Sim Kilo-ridge's little

boy aecideiiiaily shot and kiMed his titlte 5-year-obl sis'-r. He w:.s handling a toy gun.

The ciqiitol at llnrn'.od. Conn., is to be losed at Iriuht hcrea'er, to p ivrlil the lei ks from using tie- .-d'. .: a l- d chain

hers.

Ill i'hila Id). hiii. !! ': Vi.t:

burglar." pleiob-.l pn-i; - f

bouses ami e a : en: . :t. i t . . refuge.

It is reported fi-oia IV-ilin

Herbert Iti-man k is about

public service, probably iu i

capacity.

girl

e ol

ii. Mm ol.l.iug he l.'.ll-

M .-.I Prince to ru-elllel diplomatic

STATE LAW MAKERS.

The coiutuiHsion, composed of one Senator and two Itepresentatives, which, acting under a law passed by the last Legislature, visited all tlie State's penal, henevo cut and reformatory institutiojs just before the beginning of tins session, submitted its report to the legislature on Thursday. The commission takes the place of the junketing committees that have hitherto visited the institutions. The ronut, which will be tin guide of Hie Ways and Means Committee, will give the Slalc reformatory 3IM) additional cells, will provide for MOO additional inmates in the home for feeble-minded youth, will provide for J0O additional inmates in the central hospital ror the insane. 11S iu the eastern hospital for the insane, 1(K) in the northern hospital Tor the insane and 182 in llie southern hospital for the insane. Tile commission recouimciids that a hospital for the criminal insane he built. In the Mouse the bill to take the appointment of no tropolttan police commissioners out of th. hands of the Governor in all cities bet wi en 7,0110 and HO.OIKI was defeated. The II louse passed the bill establishing the convict labor system in tho State prison. Kach branch litis now passed its own bill on ll:e subject. Tlr- bill under which the State authorities had hoped to prevent lynching by making the county in w licli iynchings occurred liable for a penalty of $5,000 was indefinitely postponed in the House Friday afternoon by n vox- of 35 to M0. The House took the view that it would not be right to make inno-ent taxpayers siifTe- for the acts of mobs. In the Senate the Goodwine bill for the reorganization of the State Hoard of IMiieation wss substituted for tin- Holgate bill. The substitution was a lriiiuih for the State college faction. Thi- House alone held a session Saturday morning. The only iuiportant business transacted was the killing of a hill for a large executive nitvnsion for the Governor in Indianapolis. Th1 bil': introduced by Senator Shea and intended to regulate and tax express coini'iinies was deprived of its main feature on Tuesday when the Senate struck out the section providing for a tux of 2 cents on all packages and consignments received for transportation in this Stat'. A bill giving to the voters of an incorporaioii town tlie right, to demand a referendum in the acts of the board of trustees was passed to engrossnu nt. Senator 5 win of New Albany. Democrat, introduced n resolution calling for an investigation of the Indiana reformatory at Jeffcrsonville. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Benevolent Institutions. The House, under n suspension of th,- rule requiring a bill to be read on throe several days, passed a bill dividing the institution known ns the "Reform Sehoil for Girls and Woman's Prison." Two new institutions are created by the bill "The Indiana Industrial School for Girls" and "The Woman's Prison." Th'- Senate on Wednesday passed the bill prepared by the Senate commission providing for a uniform system of bookkeeping by the several couuties and autlmrhing the Auditor of State to make an examination of county affairs regularly, lly just enough votes to pnss the bill the house advanced to engrossment a bill under which it is hoped to bring out of hiding a good deal of property for taxation. The bill, by Mr. ilerrold, as presented, provides that on the 1st of April each yea, or as soon then-after :s p ssible, the Assessor in each township shall stamp all promissory notes, and that Interest on any uttstampt-d note shall not lit- collectable. The House atiii-ndcd the bill so as to include "all bonds, certificates of stock and other written obligations."

He Proved His Point. At a little uptown gathering not long ago the guests played some sinipl" games and told ghost stories, and managed to hnve n good tiu.e in the oldfashioned way. Pri It) sooti one of the gentlemen sahl: "1 don't believe we appreciate what a steady old slow coach the human brain is. Notwithstanding all our talk about quick wits and Hashes of intelligeiiiv, the brain is not so easily thrown from its accustomed nits. If. for instance. 1 ask a question which is -n-tiivly new to yon. but which your honcst old brain mistakes for a query quite

similar in construction, it xx-ill go right n head and telegraph the reply In it own liib-bouitd way." "That sounds Interesting," said one of tlie guests, "bur show ns an example." "I vill," said the first speaker, "with tlie proviso that you answer it promptly." He smiled and then without any haste quietly asked: "V'io oared th life of Pocahontas?'' ".lolni Smith!" roared twenty voices. Viii si o." said the questioner. Clevt la ml I 'lit i ndealer. A Day of 3.S52 Hours. At H.-rlin and London Mio longest day has sixteen hours and a half: at Slock holm, t he longest day eighteen bouts and a half: at Hamburg, the longest day litis seventeen hours and the shortest seven; atf St. Petersburg the longest day has nineteen and the sliOi't-t live hours: nt Torena. in Finland, the longest day has twenty-one hours and a half, and the shortest two hours anil a half; at Wavlerhiis. iu Norway, rite tray lasts from the "lst of May to the 221 of July, without interruption: ami at Spitsbergen the longest day is three months and a half.

A Very Costly Pipe. Four hundred tliottsand dollars is Hie estimated value of the pipe whlh the Shall of Persia smokes i l public on state occasions. It is called "Il Kalidltt," and Is entirely encrusted with diamonds, rubles, iw-tirls, and emeralds.

This and That. There Is a steady Increase In the number of divorces in slow-going Scotland. There were forty one deaths from starvation in Loudon diir.ng 1808, according to the ollelal returns. The populatirn of England hns increased from 4.f 00.000 in the Elizabethan era to 20.01 M ,0iM) to day. Sol Smith lttissell says the netirs whp Influenced lit in most wore John K. Owens, William Wnrreii and Joe Jefferson. In l Ik- United States 390.000 cubic feet ii r plno 18 used annually In making matches. Camilla lacks only 237.000 square miles to be as large as the whole continent nf Kurope; it Is nearly thirty times as largo as Great Britain and Ireland, and is 500,000 square miles larger than the F tilted States. Coffee, when properly roasted, will lose from I" to IS per cent, of its weight. A fcront part of this is due to the moisture which has boon driven off by the heat; but the constl'uonts of the berry bave also been modified On the day of ParneU's death his followers wear a sprig of Ivy. Jacobites sport o.ik leaves on Hoyal o.ik day. May 20, in d ever s-ifc the b:r:h dav oi" James III., in HISS, they have

vni'ii white roses on June Hi. Red carnations are also a Jacobite emblem. Nowadays null -Semites iu Algeria have taken the cornllowcr as their badge, but in Austria this party nl nays wi-ars a white cariiatiou. The ((initio wor was the favorite dower of Ihe old Kmperor William of Germany, and loyal Germans use-1 to wear bunches ot it iu hfc "aor.

hecobdoftheweek:

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD.

Awakens Only to Meet llentti Father and Brother Guard n Girt with Shotguns Murderer Gets a Lona Sentence -Tndtffttry for New Albany. Miss l-'rinui-s Lclll-r, the 10-year-old daughter of George Let'ler. u well-to-do fanner live mil -s northwest of Hartford City, met death in a peculiar manner. The sirl. with her escort, Charles Hauler, attcmbtd a revival meeting. They returned home late, cold and tiled. Sitting before t lie warm stove they soon fell asleep. Shortly afterwards the occupants of the house were aroused by f rat tie screams. Ranter awoke in time lo see his sweetheart: dashing out of (lie door all ablaze. She was taken back to the house, and, after suffering three hours, died. She said that they had been sitting in front of the Kiove and fallen asleep. The wind had blown the gas ilium- against her dress and ignited it, and that she was enveloped in names before she was thoroughly awakened.

Shotguns Prevent o Wedding. I'M ward Yoncoin sccuri-d a license to mnrry .Miss Nancy Goodwin, the 14-year-(dd daughter of John Goodwin, an influential farmer, living three miles south of! Ira7.il. The license was obtained on an alli.lavil that the girl was of age. The wedding was net for a certain night. The girl's father mid brother were warned of the intended wedding and each secured a shotgun and vowed they would kill the. first one who attempted lo take Nancy from the house. One of the prospective groom's friends a I templet', to conciliate the father, hut was ordcr.,-(l to leave the premises at the point of a gun. Hnycr In Ordered to Prison. Fred Gillespy, better known as Fred Green, at Spencer, was sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two years nor more than twenty-one years for the killing of Alonzo Stout, the divorced hnsbaiid of his sweetheart. Green and Stout mid the woman all lived at ISIoomington.

' For a nig Plant at New Albany. Chicago capitalists art- contemplating the establishment at New Alhany of the most extensive marine ways and structural iron works in tin- Ohio valley, and one among the largest plants of the kind in the world. The proposed plant is to t ost $I,000,tKH- and will employ 2,000 men.

Within Onr Bor dcra. Kokomo now litis a curfew law. A water works plant will be built at Frankton. At: Goshen, George P. Howell, aged 86, died of croup. August Pillmaii, aged 50 years, dropped dead at Chesterton. At Slielb.wiile, Cyrus Lambert, aged 50, was killed by a falling tree. At Waterloo, Douglas Kelly was almost instantly killed by n falling tree. A rescue home for girls and women has been established in Torre Haute. Rev. John Grogan. I.afi yetti- priest, is dead of asthma and heart, trouble. An electric light plant to cost t5,000 will he built by the city of Kvansville. An electric railway will be built from Orlaud to Fort Wayne, via Waterloo. William Uybolt and his two sons of Marion arc the victims of poisoned canned meat. Contractor William Ivlink, aged 48, was thrown from a broken ladder and killed at Klkbart. Edward C. Renrdsley, vice-president of the Miles Medical Con-puny, died at Klkhart of heart disease. The Kokomo Council has passed a curfew law, placing the age lin it at 18 years and the hour 8 o'clock. Three 13-ycar-ohl girls who ran away from the Children's Iloir.e at Madison were found at Vevtiy and taken back. Mrs. Nora Piper, wife of a farmer south of Terre Haute, attempted suicide with morphine because of the death of her child. The large plate glass factory in Elwood, after a shut-down of three weeks, has resinned operations. This plant gives employment to about 2,0011 hands.

The Torre Haute wheelmen are incensed over the passage of an ordinance by the Council fixing the amount of the license tor wheels the same as for one-horse vehicles, $1. Uev. V. K. Dfthsou. who has been pastor of the Presbyterian churches at Cambridge City anil Hagerstown for the past year, has accepted a call from the congregation at College Corner, Ohio, and will take immediate charge. Vigo County bonds, calling for $73,000, drawing SY per ceut interest, have been sold to Farson, Leach & Co. of Chicago at a premium of $450. The same firm recently ptirchusi $29,009 gravel road bonds in that county, paying $593 premium. Five prisoners broke jail at Jeffersonville. They were George Gnen. charged with murdering his wife; William Cate, charged with bigamy: William Gardner, charged with larceny, and John Brown and Charles Kiley, who were serving short sentences for trivial offenses. George Johnson, aged 30, an employe of the Vandalia shops at Terre Haute, attetnpted suicide by cutting bis throat with a pocket knile. He whs despondent liecause he thought he would not recover from "walking typhoid" fever, with which he had been t:filicted for several weeks. Etta Fisher was granted a divorce in the Circuit Court of Madison Comity at T:10 the other evening and proceeded to immediately establish a new lightning marriage record for Indiana. The decree was handed to her at 5:13. She immediately left the room. Four minutes later she had secured a license trid at 5:23 she and W. U. Knapp were husband and wife. Rev. James Coleman. prftssor in the preparatory department of Notre Dame Cniversity, is dead. Father Coleman was 33 years of age. A gray eagle measuring three feet from head to tail and seven feet one inch from tip to tip of its wings was shot by Lee Hall at Green, astlc. The I" nited Rrethren publishing house, now located lit Mount Morris. III., has sent investigating committer to lOlkbart, South Ib-tiil and Goshen, with a view to removing the brethren head piarters from the Illinois town to the citv offering the best inducements for location. While Mr, mid Mis. ISode Howell at Argos were wailing in the oce of Dr. Surlier for ineiicine their litt'e- baby, unnoticed, drank medicine from s mie bottles on the doctor' prescription esse. Superintendent of Public Instruction Gooting has completed the semi-annue.l apportionment of tin- common school revenue f the State to the different counties. Il shows thnt. then- was coll-ctcd from all the counties SOiil.l'.Sti.iN! ,md from all other sources ftJ'J. 11 1.IO, making a total in the treasury of S!K"i!.SCH ibi. Of this amount there was apportioned $!WI,4"!S.50, leaving a balance o ' s;.i.402.3(i iu the tn usury. The per capiva est therefore is SI. 30. The Rosen ba titer ;iw -.nu,- to n close at Princeton when Judge YVelhorn of (he Circuit Court foatnl tin- defendant, Rebecca A. Hoscnbargcr. guilty of poisoning hot- 18-year-old son with intent to kill,

and fixed her punishment, u s.-ren years in the State prison for women at Indianapolis. In the Circuit Court at Kvansville, Judge linker, "ii imn'oii of ! nited States District Attorney Widiard. quashed the ease against Cashier I 'nscnki-auz of the wrecked First National H;i ik of Mount Veition. The district attorney declared his belief that Uosciikians! was not guilty, but that Albert Wade, twho was acquitted by a jury, wracked the ban!:. i