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tltion he would have accepted If tWrcwerc. jw othcr means of solving the question, he thinks it better to submit, tho case to The UzzzM' tribunal, especially' as all the powers concerned . -are. willing. .The President adds that as there Is no question of rational honor or cession of territory Involved, afler a-' thorough consideration, and In accord with all the powers concerned, who have shown an honorable spirit of mutual consideration and moderation, he la glad to be informed that they all have üsreed to submit the question to The Hague tribunal. LONDON. Dec. 27. The Foreign Office flicials say a note from Secretary Hay. idmilar to those presented at Home and Berlin, has been received here. Nothing has yet been, decided regarding the cessation of the blockade or the terms of the arbitration protocol. BOOSE VELT CONGRATULATED.

Duron De Constant Pleased at Selection of the Hague Trllmnal. PAUIS. Doc. 27. Baron D'Estuernelles De Cun.tant. the French deputy who was one of the delegates of France to the International peace conlerence, and wr is a member of The .Hague arbitration tribunal, has written a strong congratulatory letter to President Roosevelt on the submission of the' Venezuela "arbitration to The Hague court. The letter expresses the view widely prevailing In official and diplomatic circles here that the American course not only adjusts the Immediate isrue, but also saves The Hague tribunal from practical extinction. The baron says in part: "A great number. of Frenchmen and other Kuropeans are happy to join with me In expressing to you their gratitude for the generous, unyielding firmness you have displayed In support of international Justice. Ilurope is constantly speaking of American competition, whlh has its material advantages in stimulating our energies; but you have inaugurated a moral competition more effective than xthe other. . Twice you have reminded the governments of their duty,, pointing out amid the difficulties resulting from the transformation of the globe that the court o arbitration offered the governments its resources and the jurisdiction instituted by all and that it was always ready, This jurisdiction had- been boycotted. By a silent, senile understanding the governments thought to abandon The Hague tribunal. On the morrow of its oHJcial creation it was about to perish -through ill will, when you came to protest p.puinst the attempt which was threatening the liberties cf the world. To two republic of the new wnid the United States and Mexico belong a the honor of opening In the fac; of pissive Europe the gates of The Hague tribunal. This first lesson 'oupht to have been sufficient, but it was humiliating to rind recently that not a single authorized voice was raised to remind the powers of their duty, plainly assumed under Article 17 only three years as,'o.' The- initiative of the United States, compared with the paralysis of Europe, Is a sin of the times, which a European FAIR AHD WAEMER TO-DAY. Itulu or Snow Throughout Indiana I'rolmble on Monday. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Forecast for Sunday and Monday: Tor Indiana Fair and warmer on Sunclay; Monday,' rain or snow; variable winds, becoming east' and" fresh. '' For Illinois Cloudy and warmer Sunday; rafn or snow - at night or Monday; fresh southeast winds. For Ohio P'air on Sunday, and not quite -Eo cold; increasing cloudiness on Monday, probably snow or rain and warmer; vari- ' able winds. Local Observation on Saturday. Bar. Thcr. R.TI. Wind. W'ther. Pre. 7a.m.A.i) 12 W Wvst. Lt snow. 0.1 7 p. m..C0.U 22 83 West, ht snow. T Maximum temperature, 22; minimum temperature, 12. Comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation on Dec. 27: Temp. Pre. Normnl ... 27 0.01 Mean 17 0.01 Departure 10 0.09 Departure since Dec. 1 73 0.U3 Departure since Jan. 1..,...: 55 5.19 Plus. . W.' T. BLYTHE. c Section Director. Yesterday's Temperatures.

Stations. Min. Max. 7 p.m. Abilene, Tex C2 58 56 Amarillo, Tex 22 &1 . 34 Atlanta. Ga 14 SO 2ü Bismarck. N. D 2 18 14 .Buffalo. N.-Y 14 ' 16 " 16. Cuiro, 11 1 ... z , ........... 12 26 21 - Calg-irv, Alberta 22 28 - 2 Chattanooga, Tenn...... 16 SO . 2ü Chicago 10 24 20 Cincinnati, 0 14 22' 22 Cleveland, 0 10 20 20 Concordia. Ivan 12 26 26 Davenport, la 2 IS ' IS Denver. Col 28 5S. 44 Des Moine.' Ia 0 20 IS Dodft'c City, Kan II 32 2ti Dubuque, la 0 . IS 11 Duluth. Minn 20 14. 14 KI Paso, Tex..-. t 5S Fort Smith. Ark IS 34 CO Galveston, Tex 4S 54 '54 Grand Haven. Mich 15 2S 2 Grand Junction, Col.... 8 3S 34 Havre. Mont CS 22 Helena. Mont 31 34 -28 .Huron. S. O 1R 14 Jacksonville. Fla 24 4) 34 Kansas City, Mo 8 26 26 lender. Wyo 12 40 - 2S Little Rock. Ark IS 32- 2S Ixurisvllle. Ky. 11 26 26 Marquette. Mich.. 16 24. 24 Memphis, Tenn 14 30 2S -Modena, Vtah 2S 36 36 Montgomery, Ala IS 33 34 NVw Orleans; I,a 2S 41 40 New York city IS 28 22 Nashville, Tenn 12 2.8 26 Norfolk. Va... 2 34 30 North Platte, Neb 12 20 20 Oklahoma. O. T IS . 3S 31 Omaha, -Neb 4 ro Palestine, Tex 2S 4S 44 l'arkersburg, W. Va 12 20 20 Philadelphia 12 30 34 nttsburg. Pa J6 is 14 Pueblo. Col 22 4S 4S Qu' Appelle, Assin 8 10 10 Itapid City, S. I 8 55 34 Salt Lake City 3t; 38 30 St. Louis 1) 36 24 St. Paul, Minn 6 IQ jo - Santa Fe, N. M. 30 48 40 Hprlngtield. III 6 22 20 KpringfteM, Mo IS 26 ' 24 Vicksburg, Miss . 24 40 28 Washington, D. C 20 '2S 24

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. . NEW YORK. Dec. 27. Arrived: Philadelphia, from Southampton; Anchoria, from Glasgow. Sailed: Ktruria. for Liverpool; Mongolian, for Glasgow: Minneapolis, for London; Bluecher, for Hamburg. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 27. Arrived: Lucanla, from New York; Devonian., from Boston. Sailed: Umbria, Georgic and Canadian, for New York. 'GLASGOW, Dec. 27. Sailed: Corean, for Portland; Furnessia, for New. York. CHERBOURG. Dec. 27. Sailed: St. Paul, from Southampton, for New York. - HAVRE. Dec. 27.-SaIled: La Torrainc, for New York., ANTWERP, Dec. 27.-SaIIed: Finland, for New York. Full Press.Wear The Manhattan Full Dress Shirt The Best Fitting Shirt Made. Fall Dress Neckwear Dress Protectors . SIK HATS TUXEDO HATS OPERA. HATS Danbury Mat Co, 3 East Washington SL

must have the? courage to recognize. Honor td your government, which has tinderstood that amidst the general abstention pome one had to awaken the others from theft- lethargy and lead them' rörWard" In the way of justice and progress." 2Vo . Sympathy lor .Venezuela. KINGSTON, Jamaica. Dec. 27. The British West Indian papers unanimously support the attitude of Great Britain In regard to Venezuela, It Is claimed that lately the neighboring republics have' been showing scant respect for the lives and property of British residents; Cases of almost unjustifiable imprisonment and flogging. of British subjects .In Nicaragua have recently been reported to the government here. Hence, the feeling that the present movement is opportune, and will prove , a salutary general lesson.

The . Marietta to Leave Lnj?unyrn. CARACAS. Dec. 27. In order to avoid any embarrassment through a wrong Interpretation being placed on her presence at La-' guayra the United States gunboat Marietta will leave to-morrow for Willemstad, Curacao, where she will remain, subject to a call from Minister Bowen. BENEFIT TOR MASCAGNL Statement by the Italian Composer in Regard to Ilia Trouble. CHICAGO. Dec. 27. Efforts are being made to provide a benefit at the Auditorium Theater for Pietro Mascagnl. The plans include a concert by the Theodore Thomas orchestra under the leadership of the Italian composer. Mascagnl to-night gave out a statement In which he says: "I am surprised that the newspapers continued to reiterate that I am in debt or that I am responsible, directly or indirectly, for the troubles that have come upon me. I am under obligations to no man in the United States or Europe. My enemies will insist that I am in debt to this country, into which I have come a stranger. I may be in debt to the people as a whole, but I am not In debt to any one man who has dealt with me in a busines way. That which worries me most Is the fact that my little children must hear that I am in trouble, that telegrams fröm this country must inform them that 1 have, been arrested, through no " conscious fault of my own. 1 have three children, the oldest, of whom is thirteen and the youngest a girl of six. 1 grieve that they should write to their mother, who is absent from them, and ask what has our papa done in a foreign country that he should be arrested like a common criminal." 110 MONEY UNEARTHED. Hut Two of Three Alleged Train Robber Were Identified. LINCOLN. Neb., Dec. 27. Police oflicers from Iowa and Omaha to-day. identified two of the three suspects held here for a month on the charge of holding up the Burlington train last October. One of the men, giving the name of Cramer, was declared to bo James Con roy, who served several years In the Anamosa, Iowa, penitentiary for train' robbery, and the other John Leo, who, the visiting officers say, has been in both the Nebraska penitentiary and the one at Sioux Falls, S. D. The third suspect, who says his name is Standish, was not identified. The story which has been circulated here for a number of days to the effect that $2,000 of the money stolen from the train had been located and dug up. was contradicted this evening by Chief of Police Hogland. He said no money had been found. . FUEL OIL HIGHER. ' Rennmont nntl Jennings Fields Secured by the Standard Company. CHICAGO. Dec. 27. A dispatch to the Record-Herald from New Orleans says : "The Standard Oil Company has at last secured control of the Beaumont field in Texas and tho Jennings oil region in Louisiana. There are only a few small companies remaining outside and they cut very little figure in the marketing of fuel oil. The price of fuel oil has been advanced to $1 a barrel and the indications are that the quotations will go still higher." Louses by Pire. SAX PEDRO, CaC .Dec. 27.-Fire in tho center, of the business district destroyed about $73.000 worth of prcperty: tö-day. Onehalf of the most prominent business, blocks in tho city was , burned out. B. Swift a laborer, ' and N. C. Andlinsen, a retired capitalist,, porished. SAN PEDRO. Cal.. Dec. 27.-An entire business block in the center of the city was wiped out by fire early this morning. The loss will be about $73,000, which is about one-half covered by Insurance. ATHENS, Tenn., Dec. 27.-Fire which broke out to-night in the hardware house of Hayless & Moody caused loss to this Jirm and surrounding stores of $50,000. NEW YORK. Dec. 27-A fire in the factory of the Standard Rock Candy Company in Brooklyn to-day did damage to the amount of $100,000, Wealthy Man Frozen to Death. DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 27. Papers found among the effects of George Pleydell, who was frozen to death on Christmas eve almost within reach of his own doorway, indicate that he was the son of Maj. Thomas B. Pleydell, of Acton, Middlesex, England, formerly of the royal army, and a man of wealth. In early life Pleydell was at the head of a tea and cOiTee importing house In London, but reverses carried away all of his fortune. He came to America in an attempt to recuperate his reverses but met with no success and was finally compelled to eke out an . existence as a sailor on the lakes. A short time ago, the papers stated, his mother died in England, leaving Pleydell a share of an estate-in Rockhampton, Queensland said to be valued at over $200,000. The legacy , would have been paid next July. Funeral of Col. A. K. Iluck. TOKIO, Dec. 8. via Victoria, B. C, Dec. 27. Cold and rainy weather prevailed today, the time appointed for the funeral ceremonies over the remains of Col. A. E. Buck, United States minister to Japan, but the inclemency of the weather could not affect the impressiveness of tho !ast tribute paid to the memory of the departed minister. A worthy representation of Americans and officials of the Japanese and other nationalities attended the services in Tokio. The remains will be. taken to the United States. The funeral service took place at Trinity Cathedral, Tsukljl, Tokio, which was filled. Starved to Death in Ilollvla. SEATTLE, Dec. 27. News has just reached here that John H. Rouse starved ,to death in the wilds of central Bolivia In June, 1000, while on an exploring trip, .But one man out of a party of. thirty, escaped. Rouse was one .of the pioneer mining men of Washington. . coming first to this' section In. 1S78. On his last trip he was one of a 'party representing the Bolivian government. His friends will ask the Department of State, to Investigate his death. ... - Fight, for Control of Legislature. DENVER. Col.. Dec. 27. The Republican fight for control of the Legislature was opened up to-day;, when contests were filed with the secretaryof state by fifteen Republican candidates for. the House from Arapahoe county and four other districts. Contests were also filed by the three defeated candidates for the Senate. The contest papers .contain over 1,000 typewritten pages. . . ' . Eight Men Fell Thirty-Five Feet. ERIE, Fa.r Dec. 27. By the break of a scaffold on the big. Icehouse In course of construction to-day 'eight men were precipitated to the ground, a distance of thirty-five feet. Charles Hahn. Joseph Foght and Charles Neyland were seriously, if not fatally Injured. The Panther. Sails to Join Detrey. PHILADELPHIA. Dec.x 27. The United States cruiser Panther sailed to-day from the League Island navy yard to join Admiral Dewey's fleet at Culebra island. The Panther carries 250 seamen and marines for Dewey's fleet and also a supply of medicines. Three Victims of Fire. CUERO, Tex., Dec. 27. The residence of Walter Legalley -was destroyed by fire today and Mrs. Legalley and two small children were so badly burned they have since ditd.

SUED FOR SIX MILLIONS

STATK OF MICHIGAN ASKED TO lAY . DA3IAGLS TO A RAPI.WAY. Michigan Central Company Alleged to Hare Suffered by Revocation of Its Special Charter. DETROIT, Dec. 27. The Michigan Central Railroad this afternoon began suit by summons in the Wayne Circuit Court against the State of Michigan for $6,000,000 damages resulting , from the revocation f the railroad's special charter by the special session of the State Legislature just at the close of Governor Pingree's administration. The State, in revoking the charter, gave its consent to be sued. Under the charter the road could charge 3 cents a mile passenger fare, and paid a special tax on gross earnings in lieu of other taxes. Under the general law It can charge only 2 cents a mile fare, and is subject to an ad valorem tax on its property, .which is double Its annual taxes. With Henry Russell counsel for the road, are associated in this case Attorneys John G. Milburn, of Buffalo, and John G. Johnson, of Philadelphia. The damages of $6,000,000 are alleged to be for only one year. New System of Rating Employes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.' ELKHART, Ind., Dec. 27.-On Jan. 1 the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway will Inaugurate a system of rating all employes" in the operating department according to their perfection of vision and hearing, with especial attention to the vision. - In addition to the regularly appointed surgeon at the principal points,-an oculist and aurist will be appointed, and the latter's duty will be to critically examine the men as to sight and hearing, besides attending to the victims of accidents affecting the eye and ear. The employes Will be divided into eight different classes, and entrance to tha respective classes .will depend on the applicant's ability to stand the required examination. The greatest approach to perfection, naturally, will be required of engineers, conductors and telegraph operators. To properly establish the system, all present employes will be examined, but they will not be disturbed In their present positions unless It is found they are very defective. Missouri Pacific Promotions. ST. LOUIS Dec. 27. Offlclal announce ments, effective Jan. 1, were made to-day by the Missouri Pacific Railway Company of the promotion of W. II. Blissland, chief clerk of. the passenger department in St. Louis, to be assistant general ticket agent, with offices in St. Louis; H. D. Wilson, district passenger agent with headquarters at Memphis,- Tenn., to be assistant general passenger agent with offices at Memphis; J. D. Pannill, assistant passenger and ticket agent, to be traveling passenger agent with headquarters at Memphis, vice Ellis Farnsworth, transferred to Denver. Messrs. Blissland, Wilson and Pannill have been in the service of the Missouri Pacific for a number of years and have risen from minor offices to their present positions. - 1,000 Freight Cars Ordered. BALTIMORE, Dec. 27. The Seaboard Air-line has awarded a contract to the South Baltimore car works for the building of one thousand freight cars of 60,000 pounds capacity each. Deliveries on this contract are to begin in March and the whole order is to be finished and turned over to the railroad before the summer. The contract represents an outlay of $700.000.. " . 1 Superintendent Promoted. ' " ' BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 27. It was announced to-night by A. II. Smith, general superintendent of the New York Central that James IV Bradfield, superintendent of tho Buffalo division, had been appointed assistant general superintendent of the entire road. Mr. Bradfield will assume his new duties in New York on Jan. 1. Hock Island to Spend $2,000,000. CHICAGO. 111., Dec. 27. Tho Rock Island : Railroad Company has decided to expend $2,000,000 in permanent ' improvements along its. line in Iowa. Nebraska and on west to Denver in 1W3. These improvements are to be in the form of . the ballasting of tracks and Increasing depot facilities. S. E. Cranee Will Not Retire. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 27. Sv E. Cranee, for fourteen years general superintendent of the Burlington Railroad, has consented to reconsider his announced determination to retire from active railroad work on Jan. 1. He will continue In an advisory capacity for an Indefinite period. B0YC0TTERS MULCTED. Indiana Manufacturer ofr Bricks Awarded $22,000 by a Chicago Jury. CHICAGO, Dec. 27. A verdict having a significant bearing upon the rig-ht of labor organizations to maintain or assist in enforcing a boycott was rendered this morning in Judge Vail's court, wheVeby George Hinchllff was awarded $22,000 damages against the members of the Chicago Masons' and Builders' Association and the Brick Manufacturers' Association. Hinchllff asVed for $100,000 damages, which he alleged he had suffered owing to a boycott of the product of his brick yards at Hobart, Ind.; en the part of the associations mentioned, in 1S93. Another Strike Declared. PEORIA, 111., Dec. 27. Another strike has been declared by two hundred of the, employes of the J. N. Ward & Co. overall factory, in this city. President Larger arrived here to-day, and gave official sanction to the strike. SUICIDE OF A "MERRY WIDOW." Dolly Earle, Member of a Burlesque Company, Takes Carbolic Acid. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27. Dolly Earle, ä member of the "Merry Widows" company, playing at a burlesque house here, committed suicide to-night in her dressing roo'm - by- swallowing carbolic .acid... She left the following note, addressed to J. A. Fallingcr, Rochester, N. Y. : "Forgive all; can't stand trouble." Miss Earle was about thirty years old. Her home is said to be In Oklahoma. She formerly was a member of the "Runaway Girl" company, which stranded here about two ' weeks . ago, and Joined the "Merry Syidows" company in this city. . . MONT PELEE IN ERUPTION. Another .Violent Outbreak by the Martinique Volcano. - ST. THOMAS, D. W. I. Dec 27. The cableship Newlngton, which arrived. at St. Lucia; B. W. I., yesterday, reported having passed Mont Pelee at 10:30 o'clock Thursday tnornlns. The volcano was then in violent eruption. Dense clouds of gray smoke were pouring out of the crater and ascending to an enormous height. Other advices say that the cone was luminoua . during " the night.' Xeir Home-for Stock Brokers. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27. The old Merchants Exchange building, remodeled and modernized, at noon to-day became the permanent home of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. A portion of the building was formerly utilized by the exchange, but In 1S7C was vacated for more commodious quarters. To-day's event is regarded t... m. 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reconstruction more than. a year at a cost of $200,0u0. No business was transacted tn the exchange to-day. CARNATION LEAGUE PROJECT.

Its Object Explained by Lewis G. Reynolds, Who Conceived the Idea. CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 27. Lewis G. Reynolds, of Dayton, O., who conceived the Idea of the formation of the Carnation League of America, tho object of which is to perpetuate the memory of William McKinley and the principles which he promulgated, to-day announced the projectors of the league hoped to be able to make a general promulgation of Its objects on Jan. 20, the anniversary of McKInley's birth. "The league will bo a permanent org-anization," said Reynolds, "with plans for enrolling all members, and the present plan is that no fee whatever be attached to the league. Funds for the promulgation of the movement and for its establishment have been provided." It was the lack of any general observance or decoration on the first anniversary ot the death of McKinley that suggested to Reynolds the Carnation League. Its name was "suggested by the fact that the tarnation was McKInley's favorite flower, and by the fact that it is a flower easily obtained anywhere in the country and at any time in the year. The proneness of people to forget the trouble of getting down a flag to drape, are supplanted by th league's simple plan of wearing a carnation in the coat lapel, at the throat or in the hair on the date of McKInley's death. . Women will be enrolled the same as men. DEATH OF MRS. FREMONT WIDOW OF THE GREAT PAT1Ir. ; FIADCIt" PASSES AWAY. Had Been 111 n.Feiv Days with Pneu monle Brief Sketch of Her Life Other Deaths. . LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Dec. 27. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of General Fremont, died to-night at her home in this city, after an illness of a- few days with pneumonia. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont was seventynine years old. As the widow of Gen. John C. Fremont, Mrs. Fremont had always occupied a' prominent position in the public eye. The Fremont" cottage is one of the points of interest In Los Angeles.. It was a gift from the ladies of Los Angeles. Mrs. Fremont was the daughter of the famous Senator Thomas H. Benton, and was secretly married to her husband at the age of sixteen, owing to her father's opposition to the match. From the time of her marriage until the death of General Fremont, she shared with him every trial, every success and every reverse of fortune. The match was one of love on both sides'. To the woman the man was always, even to this day, "my hero." The culminating period of Fremont's life was in his candidacy for the presidency in 1S36, and it was Mrs. Fremont who afterward declared that if he had been elected "there never would haw been a civil war." When the war 'came and Fremont distinguished himself by freeing his slaves in Missouri the applauded the act. When he refused to serve under General Pope she stood by his side. When the most wretched kind of poverty came to them she bore with him In silence their condition. In her relations with her husband and her ambitions for him she has often been compared with Kate Chase Sprague. Her personality was delightful. Her daughter, Miss Fremont, lived with her, and the two always had a host of callers from all parts of the United States. The home was filled with mementos and portraits of the "Pathfinder." . . . - r . Other Deaths. DENVER, Col.; Dec. 27. Prof. P. II. Van Diest is dead at San Luis Col., having fallen lifeless at the feet of his son, although apparently in the best of health, lie was one of the best known geologists in the world. He was born at Edam, Holland. Prof. Van Diest was given the appointment of chief of mines of Java when the government of Holland began its extensive mining operations in that island possession. ' His health : "became impaired and he was compelled to leave 'Java Just as he was about to be rewarded with the highest scientific appointment within tho gift of his native country. The government of Holland granted Prof. Van Diest a life pension. In 1872 he came to Colorado "and became chief of the land department in the surveyor-general's office, a position he held for several years. He also held the post of metallurgy at the State School of Mines of Colorado. Prof. Van Diest was an authority of worldwide importance on scientific subjects.' He was the discoverer of ä hew tellurium ore in Colorado which bears his name Dlestlte. " NEW YORK, Dec. 27. Benjamin II. Callen, an accountant, is dead in his home at East Orange, after a long Illness. lie was associated with Jay Gould and Gen. Grenvllle M. Podge, in Western railroad enterprises, had been special and private accountant of the, late George M. Pullman and Robert T. Lincoln, and ctvas an executor of the Pullman estate. He lived in Chicago until, he removed to East Orange, sixteen years, ago. 'His widow and three . children survive him. . -r ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27. Major James B. Dennis, aged sixty-four, a former citizen of Cape Girardeau, and well known in Missouri, died to-day at a sanitarium here from paralysis.- He served through the civil war on the Confederate side. Later be took a prominent part in Missouri politics and was for years a leader of southwestern Missouri Democrats. Ills widow, a daughter and three sons survive him. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Dec. 27.-Dr. Nokaloseknek, city physician of Chicago, has been found dead in bed at Belen, N, M. The doctor came to Belen two months ago suffering from tuberculosis, complicated with heart disease. He was gaining steadily. A physician reported death due to heart failure. The body was brought to Albuquerque, where lt Is being embalmed for shipment to Chicago. SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Dec. 27. Eben Hbwelson, secretary of the. Illinois State Mining Board, died at his home .in this city to-day after an illness of several weeks, aged fifty-three years. Mr. Howelson was well known in mining circles throughout the country. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27. John Ellison, of the firm of John Ellison & 3ons, cloth importers, " died to-day of tyx hold fever, lie was forty-three years of nge and for the past two years had resided In New York. Mr. Ellison was. a prorrinent club man. ... ." ". APPLETON, Wis.. Dec. 27.-Dr; Rush Winslow, a well-known . physician and politician,, .who served as mayor for three terms, died to-day as.a result of an opera tion ror appendicitis. r ..: . , ROME, Dec. 27. Former -United ; Stales Consul General W. F. Jones died here suddenly this morning of heart disease. ' Little GIrl Burned to Death. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Dec. 27. The five-year-old daughter of Gilbert Lewellyn, of Sullivan, burned to death to-day. The child was hugging a charred doll to its body when found. It Is supposed that the doll caught fire at the grate and the child perished trj'ing to put out-the flames. Doctor Accused of Threatening:. CEDAR RAPIDS. Ia.. Dec. 27. Dr. O. B. Beller, a prominent physician of Garrison, has been arrested on the charge of threatening to kill his former fiancee,. Miss Hall, of Vinton, . who married on Christmas Dr. Park, -of Fort Margon, Col. SSBSSSaSSSMSSBSMMBBSBiBBBBBB . . Will Dlabnrae Sino.OOO.OOO. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-The New York banks were engaged to-day in arranging the heaviest January disbursements ever financed in this country'. It is believed that about $000,000 will be paid out: Cynical. Atchison Globe. V - - Ask a married woman what she has done the most in her married life and she will feel like saying: "Cook, wash dishes and forgive." So-It Does. Atchison Globe.' V--When.a boy Is lonesome it helps a good deal If you feed him.

BIG CONTRACTS CLOSED

AMERICA'S SHEET STEEL COMPA1VY TO SWELL ITS GROSS EARNINGS. Will Manufacture C,4PO,000 Worth of Slaterial for the Rooflng and Cor4. rugat I ii g Company.. PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec 27. The Gazette to-morrow will say; "The American Sheet Steel Company has just closed the most gigantic sales . contract of its history.. The material that will be made next year under its terms will swell the sheet company's gross earnings by $5,430,000. The agreement for this tremendous business was entered at the Pittsburg offices of the American Sheet Steel Company with representatives Of all the thirty-four constituent concerns of the National Roofing and Corrugating Company. The Roofing, and Corrugating Company agrees to take all of its requirements In sheets during' the year of 11(03 from the. sheet-producing constituents of the United States Steel Corporation. The roofing company next year will consume about 80,000 tons- of black .sheets, mainly in gauges Nos. 24, 2G, 27,. 23 and CO, the aggregate cost of which will be about $4,240.000. Other sheets required, under the terms of the contract, including the higher priced galvanized product, will amount to about J.000 tons, at a cost of approximately $2.230t000. ; ..... .Sold to the Steel Corporation.' . NEW YORIC;Dec.;27: William F. Ponovari; president of . the Troy Steel Production Company, -has announced the sale of the Breaker island plant to the United States Steel Corporation, according to a dispatch from Troy to the Times. Mr. Donovan added that while he could not speaK with authority,: he was quite confident that the new owners would operate the plant. Under the direction of the Supreme Court, the. plant wasr sold at auction Aug. 7, to satisfy, a " judgment. Mr. Donovan, representing a syndicate, secured the property for $525,000, and the incorporation of the Troy Steel Production Company followed. A force of men has since been engaged In placing the plant in readiness for a resumption. A Cincinnati Concern Incorporated. DOVER, Del., Dec. 27. Certificates of incorporation were, filed here to-day as follows: The American Public Utilities Company, Cincinnati, to build, own, operate and maintain electric light and gas works and heating apparatus. Capital, $2,000,000. CINCINNATI, Ö., Dec. 27. The Dover dispatch caused some stir here when it was presumed that a new company would enter the local field to furnish light, heat and power. The Incorporators, however, announce that the company will not operate in Cincinnati. D. M. PARRY CHALLENGED. Max Hayes, Prominent Socialist, Anxious for a Joint Debate. Max, Hayes, of Cleveland, O., a prominent Socialist and labor leader, has sent a long letter to D. M. Parry, president of the .National Manufacturers Association, challenging him to debate the relative rights of labor and capital.' Mr. Parry Is credited with the statement: "Unionized labor breeds socialism and is, therefore, a menace," Mr. Hayes also wishes to debate other statements that Mr. Parry is quoted as having made from time to time. The place of meeting . and date is the privilege of Mr. Parry. , . , . . . . . . ' 1 TATTOOING REMOVABLE. Secret of Destroying: Skin Blemishes Discovered. by a Japanese. Japan Times. . . ' A man named Seikichl Kayene, a native of Mito, who died a few years ago, is said to have invented a new method of removing stains or tattoo- marks on or .under the skin. The invention was the fruit of about. thirty years' experimenting carried out amid indescribable hardship and privations. . -How the man cam 3 to conceive his queer idea we are not iaformed. It is certain that it absorbed his whole energies and cost him whatever - property he had formerly possessed. And he.ülo not live to enjoy the fruit of his alleged invention, for when he died in 1898 he was not even enjoying the ordinary comforts oC life. The fact was he had no qualifications to undertake his self-assigned task. He had zeal and nothing more to assist him. The consequence was his experiments and researches ,were apparently devoid of system, much less of science. Ii'e appears to have gone upon . the idea of . simply trying one material after another at random. All his materials appear to have been such things as roots and bark of trees and shrubs." He even made use of animals much more offensive in character than his tree preparations. It is now reported that he did somehow succeed in hitting upon an efficacious compound which could entirely remove any spots in the. skin, either natural or artificial. .The explanation is that the compost possesses an extraordinary power of absorbing pigments and at the same time of. contracting the blood vessels of the part; treated. Stains, originating from the presence of .colored matter can thus be removed. It is reported, without leaving any trace. .A rose-colored spot produced by any swelling of blood vessels is harder to remove, but the contraction of the blood vessels considerably modifies the color. The compound when plastered over the part affected produces a sort of crust over the skin, and this crust assumes a dark bluish color. The crust comes off by Itself ia about two weeks and stains which had formerly existed under the skin are found to have disappeared, provided they have not been of au excessively obstinate character. The cases of successful removal of skin blemishes which have been reported are all effected through the agency of one Ohishi, who had obtained from the inventor a vial of his Compound on his deathbed. ThJ secret of the constituents of the-preparation was disclosed by the dying man, and Mr. Ohishl is now the sole possessor of the formula, and 'practices his strange urgery at his house in Futobocho, Honjo, Tokio.- : This note is taken from the Osaka MalnIchi, where a much longer account is given "of the circumstances of this strange invention. Had it-appeared in a less reliable Journal we should hardly have taken the trouble of noticing It here. - ' ' THE ENGLISH CATHEDRALS. Majestic Buildings of. York, Durham. -.,.- Exeter and Canterbury.' - J . London Standard. ' " ' '" - - A tour oi tne..t,ngiisn catnearais is one of the most -fascinating of home holidays. It Is. gratifylng.to observe the increased interest .which is' being taken of late years, in bur .episcopal cities. Each one is distinct from the others, yet all possess a subtle similarity the same aroma of the storied past the same hint of the dignified leisure, the familiar suggestion of a little universe whose people are shielded from the rougher storms of llfe-protected. it would seem, in purse and person by the venerable towers that the- eye never loses. The differences in the cathedrals, as in the cities they beautify, are those of detail. They may be massive and grandiose, like York; consummately majestic, . like Dur ham; richly and maturely lovely, like Lichfield or Exeter: or splendid, like Canterbury. Size, no doubt, counts for something In. the impression made by a great church and many of our English cathedrals are of imposing dimensions. When they were built they served dioceses' that were of enormous size, "and our ancestors had noble ideas of space. The pocket bishoprics of recent creation, confined to a county or two, would have seemed very small affairs to men accustomed to see their spiritual fathers ride through shire after shire, all within their ghostly. Jurisdiction. .They set up - their thrones in cathedrals which would have held a' considerable proportion of their people and they were never tired of enlarging, rebuilding and beautifying what previous "pious founders" had bequeathed, to them We have really two classes of cathedrals in England those deliberately created bf the great church builders, the men who have enshrined . their imperishable memory in tower and roof, in screen and chapel, and those formerly monastic churches which were converted into cathedrals by Henrv VIII. Of these were 8t. Albans and Chester, Ely and Westminster, although it i3 oftca Xosattcn that tfca czzzt Esdi

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foundation on the banks of the Thames was once a bishopric It is fortunate that these beautiful buildings were utilized in so practical a. manner. Had they not lain conveniently as the seats of .new bishop-stools they would almost certainly have gone the way -of fountains-and ' a score of other monastic foundations of the first lmportancc. Westminster and Canterbury must always stand first among our religious buildings, for between them they are a Bummary, hallowed by time and consecrated by supreme associations, of the history of England. To attempt to range the others would be invidious, if, indeed, it were not impossible. Who, for instance, shall decide between Winchester, with its Saxon memoirs, and Durham, that church set upon a hill, that nursery of Christianity to which the British Church owes so much? If the one holds the bones of the Saxon makers of England the other is enriched by the dust of the venerable Bede, the father of our history. There is, indeed, hardly a cathedral which lacks at least one outstanding feature that fixes the thoughts and illuminates the Imagination. Wells shares with Lichfield the noble distinction of gem-like beauty the western city, itself, indeed, is a. little f airland; Exeter has Its "Great Peter," a bell; : Canterbury, its shrine of Beckett; Westminster, its - coronation memories; York, its chapter house; Salisbury, its lovely spire, while perpendicular, architecture was born in Gloucester Choir. Art and sentiment, literature and devotion all owe the heaviest of debts to the men who made cathedral-building almost a religion. Tenderness for posterity is largely a modern virtue, and, although our ancestors sometimes built badly as witness the troubles in our own time at Peterborough and Salisbury they did better than they knew.. - A ' SODA COUXTER COUUTSIIIP. One Young Man Who Won a Wife While nooming a Drug' Store. New York Sun. "How did I win my wife?" said a young man who- had been asked if he would mind telling what had prospered him most in his suit for the life parner with whom hq Is now blessed. "Well, I. won her in the queerest way in the world, and at a tlms when I was about the poorest I had ever been in my life, and when also I was out of work. "There was a nice young fellow in our town, clerk In a drug store, who started a drug store of his own with an exceptionally elaborate and excellent soda fountain; he knew the profits of the soda water business, and he set out to get his share of that. - - "But it dld:it come in. Day after day the grand new soda fountain stood there lonesome as could be with nobody in front of it, the white jacketed soda clerk standing back of it with his arras folded. "You' know how it Is about these things. It gets to be the fashion to go to one place, and it's hard to get that trade. But there was my friend with the best outfit in the bunch, and as good goods as anybody, doing nothing; ice cream melting every liay and renewed every day, but nobody coming In to buy. And one day my friend says to me: -."-Dave, why don't you come In? "I, had mighty little money to spend, but you see what little I did have I had been blowing in thoughtlessly at the other fountain, where the crowd went, quite forgetting, my friend. But that little remark of his set us both athinking. and the upshot was that he asked me to come in often and order what I wanted without cost, to make 'em look as though they, were doing something, to give 'em an air of business; the emptiness was getting monotonous. "Well, I wasn't the foolishest looking man in town at that time, nor did I wear the worst clothes, though Just at that time, as I before intimated, I had very little in my pockets; but I suppose my friend might have found a worse looking man to come in and stand up in front of the counter and order soda and then dawdle over it in pleased slpplngs. And one day I took there for an ice cream soda the young lady who Is now my wife. "She was very fond of Ice cream soda. Court was being paid to her at that time by a. young man, a solid young man he was, too. worth more by a long shot than I was, and. I must say . that I thought then. . with better , prospects, and he was a pretty strong: suitor. But he was.'a little stingy, or,- as - you " might say, close about his money; he never wasted any... " -"Now,. here. was a. .young lady very fond of her ice . cream soda and with a Suitor well able to.buy It for her. but who didn't and then here Just at the moment I come along, presentable enough to her in my appearance, and with, a whole soda fountain at my back. JS,?giKe -ft? esuILJI took: her into my friend s beautiful new drug store often, and it would have been hard to set up In front or It a more attractive figure. You've seen her. and you know-how she looks now: sbe was. if possible, more attractive then. , . - -People used to look at her from the street and admire her; and there we used to sit and eat and drink, whichever it Is. or both, ice cream soda, taking plenty of time over it. and I not neglecting the chance; I may say that most of my courting I did sitting in front of the soda fountain 'T"MiaiLThne 1 was not ldle in other ways! No doubt, as a matter of cold truth, she and I helped to draw people in: Just the siht of anybody there would do for that; but I brought in my men friends, and pretty soon she began to bring In her younir women friends: and then things began to look up decidedly. . uThsf nw PpP1. la turn, brought in their friends, and so on. you know, a sort ?fi a? tndiess rham business. And friend the druggist put. up the proper goods and the trick was done. "ous "t,tt nd of ll?e year she and I. that Is to say. the young lady now my wife, and I who twelve months .before had had the whole counter all to ourselves were roVS pelled often to .wait to get a chines tan of if r., I . cance to , - Ti. j . wce m nanny tlm for, the drusgist-I had wooed and w

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a $18 and rt range oi j N received of cur cele ?LfV:,y.; and to wish one tPl r HAPPY AND friend the druggist for best man. ho more pleased than he could put in words for what I had done for the fountain, and I more please dthan I could possibly iell over what the fountain had done for me' STORY TOLD BY A (il'IDE. Grover Cleveland a Careless Hunter Cocked Gnn Aimed nt Breast. Watertown (N. Y.) Special. A desire to view the statue erected to the memory of Roswell P. Flower, whom ho had guided through the wilderness and whose homespun character he greatly admired, led "Chick" Bruce, a well-known guide of the upper Ilaquette country, to tramp over the blazed trails of the divide between Massoweipie and Cranberry lakes and make a Journey on the "Huckleberry" train from Benson's Mines to this city. He spent two days viewing the fights. In the evenings he related Incidents of his adventurous career as a woodsman to the many friends he made here during his brUt stay. "Chick" was for several years one of thci guides who piloted Grover Cleveland" through the Adlrondacks when the statesman, then President, laid aside the cares of ofllce for diversion with rod and gun. Herelates the following experience with the chief magistrate:. One day, while hunting on Saranac lake, "Chick" says, he placed "Grove," as he familiarly calls the sage ot Greycourt, on a small Island in the lake, and in company with another guide put the hounds out upon a near-by mountain, where they soon started a fine buck. Tho dogs drove the game, into the lake, and with a boat "Chick" steered the buck up to a point near the Island, where the President shot the deer. While skinning, the buck on the island shore "Chick" noticed the Prerident sitting with the muzzle of his double-barreled shotgun resting against his ample breast, pointing Just above the heart. Forgetting in the anxiety of the moment the re?pect due to the chief magistrate of the Nation. "Chick" shouted: "Is that gun loaded?" Mr. . Cleveland replied that it was. and found both barrels at full cock. "Chick" says that had a fatal accident occurred he would undoubtedly have been hung, as there was no one around for a witness and he and the President were of opposite political parties. He says that ho felt after that whenever he guided "Grove" that the fate of the Nation as well as his own depended upon his vigilance, and usd to take his boy along to do the guiding work, while he kept his eye on the presidential gun. Asked if Cleveland was a good man to guide. "Chick" replied that "he was good enough, but that like everybody else who camo into the woods, he asked a lot of foolish questions." CAUSES OP INDIGESTION, Horr Certain Ills Which Affect the Stomach Become Chronic. Youth's Companion. The causes of chronic Indigestion are manifold, but usually, and almost always in the beginning, even when the stomach finally becomes actually diseased, the condition is due to improper eating. It may not be that the sufferer eats too much although very many people who are not gluttons do that but he eats improperly. One who suffers from dyspepsia, or who wishes tO avoid Klirh KilfTorfncr .hnuM wtmnniKo, 'that the stomach cannot do all the work or aigestion. Before it enters the stomach the food must be finely divided and mixed with the saliva, which is as certainly a digestive fluid as is the gastric Juice. Gladstone, it is said, used to chew every mouthful of food thirty-two times, one for each tooth, before he swallowed it. Long mastication of the food is useful in many ways. In the first place, it should appeal to all who delight In the pleasures of the table, for if the food ia savorv it is tasted longer and better when well chewed. Again, long mastication mixes the food well with the Eallva and begins Its digestion, and this sweetens the starchv food .and improves its taste. Finally, if one cats slowly he will have less time to eat much and hunger Is appeased and a feeling of satiety is attained before the stomath can become overloaded. -While one is chewing, the food should be. moved from side to side of the mouth that the admixture with the saliva may be more thorough. Too much fluid should not be taken with the meal, but it Is not a wise plan to take none, as is sometimes recommended. The gastric Juice should not be too much diluted, but if the food is well moistened the Juice acts better and more rapidly. One glass of water with a meal is about the right amount. Cool water, moreover, in moderate quantity stimulates the secretion of gastric Juice and a wineglassful of ice water taken before the meal gives a fillip to the appetite without any of the drawbacks of liquor. 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