Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, . • INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Mr. and Mrs. Milton Gorton, «n aged eon pie, were burned to death nt their residence? four miles northeast of Litchfield, Minn. The hired man, Frank Addy, aged 18 years, escaped in his night attire, this being on fire when he got out of the house. The election returns indicate that Tomas Estrada Palma has been elected president of Cuba and that a light vote has been east throughout the island. In Havana and in most of the large cities the partisans of Gen. Bartoloine Maso did not vote. "According to'advice* rrora the Orient." n party of 105 coolies engaged in transporting camphor, was at lacked by Formosan insurgents and twenty of them were killed. Nineteen were decapitated. Japanese troops and police were sent against the rebels. Many of the largest flouring mills in Kansas will have to shut down soon If the price of \fhent does not drop from the recent heavy rise. The mills which stocked up heavily two months ago nt lower price are running to full capacity and are making big money on their flour. A shortage iu the funds of the State health department covering a period of two years has been discovered at Dallas, Texas. The amount will reach into the thousands. Dr. I. T. Jones, who was secretary to the late health officer, Dr. Blunt, left the city two weeks ago for Mexico. Twelve persona were injured, one urobably fatally, in a collision between an electric car and a freight train at the Forty-seventh street crossing of the Chicago Junction Railway switch tracks into the Chicago stock yards. .Another man', not a passenger, was hurt in the work of rescue. Twenty Japanese are missing from Steveston, B. C., and are supposed to have been killed or drowned in the destruction of a Japanese boarding house between Steveston and Point Roberts. The boarding house stood out on piles, and not a vestige of the structure now remains. Edward Kerns, a valet, is wanted in New York on the charge of being concerned in a SIOO,OOO jewelry robbery from Paul G. Thebaud, his employer. Among the articles taken are a single pearl-shaped diamond valued nt $20,000. a pearl worth $15,000, and a collection of 275 scarf pins. News has reached Bisboe, Ariz., of the killing of George Ashton and Cifiu Benningfield, well-known cattlemen, by Mexican woodchoppers in the Iluaehuca mountains. The trouble grew out of Benningfield's effort to stop the Mexicans, who were shooting holes into his tent. An attempt to wreck a ear on the Toledo, Bowling Green and Southern Electric Railroad w«us made near Bowling Green, Ohio. The car with twenty passengers ran into a pile of boards placed on the track, where it runs along a deep gully. By good fortune the cur did not leave the track, and a calamity was thus averted. As a result of drinking eight twoounce bottles of lemon extract William King, a farmer southeast of Paris, I ml., died. Coroner Roberts held an inquest and recommended that the grand jury investigate and prosecute merchants who sell extract for drinking, this being the fifth death of the kind iu that vicinity re< eutly. Burglars blew the safe in the postoflk-e and general store at Nottingham, a Cleveland suburb. The explosion awakened Postmaster Hoose, who with several citizens opened fire on the cracksmen, us the latter were leaving the building with their booty. The burglars returned the fire and fully two dozen shots were exchanged. After a long running fight, however, the robbers escaped. A bloody trail showed that at least one of their number had been badly wounded. At 2 o'clock Friday morning on the Iron Railway line, three miles back of Iroutou, Ohio, occurred an event that will end in a double tragedy. Frank Wilson, jealous of his stepbrother, at whose house Wilson's wife was staying, quarreled with his father-in-law, Frank Monning. Mooning shot Wilson's right arm off with a shotgun. Wilson with his left hand drew a revolver and shot Monning through the heart, killing him instantly. Wilson was some hours iu getting medical attention and will die.

BREVITIES.

Hugh J. Bonner, former fire chief of New York, liar, been chosen to organize the fire departments in the Philippines. Germany will postpone a display of force in Venezuela pending the outcome of the revolution. In the event that Castro is overthrown the new head of government will probably come to satisfactory terms. YVreek and fire destroyed, near Glencoe, Pa., the through passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio road for .New York, causing the death of two persons and injury to seventeen others, five of whom are seriously hurt. Miner's Eighth avenue theater, in New York, was destroyed by fire. The audience had been out of the huildiug only übout fifteen minutes when the fire started. It was caused by a lighted cigarette. The loss will be *'.>oo.ooo. The Sacred Heart College, attached to St. Joseph's Church. Cohoes, N. Y., was totally destroyed, and St. Ann’s convent, which adjoins it, was badly damaged by tire. Mgr. lbigas of St. Joseph's Church estimates the total dutuage at S<K),OUO, Sybil Sanderson announces her engagement to Comte I>o Fit* James. The ceremony will take plaeo some time late in January. Crowds attending the New Year's reception at the White House broke nil records. President Roosevelt shaking the hands of 8,100 persons and showing i>o weariness when bis task waa over. G. 11. Mull, firemau on the Erie Railroad, leaped from the cab of an eugiuu near Lima, Ohio, and was killed. Ho thought a train on n siding was about to crashdnto bis engine. His home was in UaUvn

EASTERN.

A diamond chain worth $3,500 has disappeared in transit between New York and Washington. While earing for his horse Judge Samuel B. Nenl of Kittery, Me., was stamped to death by the animal. The Dayville Woolen Company of Danielson, Cann., has been declared bankrupt. The liabilities are $390,000. United States Senator William J. Sewell died at his home in Cumden, N. J., from diabetes, complicated with stomach and heart trouble. A. J. Ayers, a young messenger of the Union Bank of Brooklyn, who disappeared recently with $2,000 of the bank’s money, was arrested in Montreal. Walter and Gerald I)oble, aged 13 and 15 years, respectively, fell through an air hole in the ice on Conesus Lake at Livonia, N. Y., and were drowned. ( The one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Trenton was celebrated by a sham battle and reproduction of scenes of Washington's famous victory. llonry C. Seabrook, president of the Seabrook & Smith Carriage Company, was found dead in bed at his residence in New Haven, Conn. It is supposed that he died of heart disease. Four million dollars is involved in a real estate deal transferring lower Fifth avenue aud downtown property in New York, in which Henry Corn, the speculative builder, is intereste,d. An Ontario and Western train of fifty coal ears, drawn by n 100-tou en&iue, ran away on the hill between Preston Park ami Starlight, Pa., wrecking the wholo train and kilting four of the hands. Rushing downstairs nt the cry from her sister for help, Miss Florence Dobson, 22 years old, in Boston, Mass., shot her father, James R. Dobson, (50 years old, in the back, inflicting a dangerous wound. Mayor Diehl of Buffalo formally removed City Treasurer Philip Gerst after concluding the investigation into the charges against him of misconduct in office in misappropriating funds of the city. Captain Richard P. Leary, United States navy, died at Marine hospital, Chelsea, Mass. Captain Leary was the first Governor of Guam after that island came into the possession of the United States. Alfred G. Ginty, a Yale graduate, master of languages and a noted scholar, drank a vial of landnnum at Cambria, N. Y., and died a few hours later. The coroner believes he drank the poison by mistake. Winfield S. Arter, a well-known stock broker of Pittsburg, shot and killed himself at his home. Arter had been despondent for several weeks on account, it is said, of being on the wrong side of the copper market. One child was burned to death, its parents were seriously injured and two other young children were slightly injured ns a result of a fire nt the home of James 11. Connelly, 3970 Wyalusing avenue, Philadelphia. Three children of Mndary Grzela were burned to death in a fire that destroyed a two-story frame building in Buffalo. They were aged 10, 7 aud 3. The mother and a baby 2 days old were carried from the building on a mattress. Roy S. Hedges, sou of Col. Sidney M. Hedges of Boston, Mass., mysteriously disappeared from his sister’s home at Sewickley, Pa., Christmas day, while suffering from a temporary aberration of miud, and suicide is feared. Rev. James Cameron, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension. Jersey City, is dead as the result of blood poisoning following a cut on his right leg, which he made with a chisel while working about his home. An explosion in the barrel mill of the Moosie Powder Company at its Jerinyn, I’a., works injured several men, blew the mill and adjoining buildings to pieces and broke windows for miles around. The shock was (dainly felt fourteen miles away. The New Y'ork State forest, fish and game commission reports that express companies which operate in the Adirondack* carried 1,25(! deer during the last season. This is believed to indicate that <5,500 deer were killed in that sectiou during the year. A deed transferring the Pope Bicycle works of Hartford, Conn., from the American Bicycle Company to the American Cycle Manufacturing Company has been filed. Revenue stamps indicating a consideration of about $300,000 are attached to the deed. In Connellsville, Pa., almost an entire square was wiped out by fire. The loss is conservatively estimated nt $75,000. The square was owned by the Wilkey estate and the buildings were occupied by about thirty tenants, nearly all of whom were burned out.

WESTERN.

Max Grossman, nu old German, was drowned in the Marais des Cygnea at Ottawa, Kan., while fishing. L. W. Lacey, superintendent of the Palm Fruit Company's ranch near Wasco, Cal., was shot and killed by nu employe. Robert E. Lee aud Samuel Garvin were convicted at Helena, Mont., of stealing TOO head of cattle from the luiliuus on the Crow reservation. The Minnesota Supreme Court rules that foreign corporations cannot enforce contracts in the State unless incorporation papers are filed there. Charles C. Lemert, executive clerk to Gov. Nash, and his entire family were poisoned by eating pork for diuaer at Columbus, Ohio. All will recover. 4*ix hundred trainmen of the Pittsburg. Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad have been notified of a voluntary increase Of 10 per cent in wages commencing Jan. 1. An Evanston detective, aided by a dog, has found the clothing discarded by Miss Florence Ely and her nephew, Frank Rogers, on the day of their disappearance. John E- Dempsey, n printer, while frightened by tire leaped from a fourthfloor window of the Washburn building in Bt. Paul and received injuries from which he died. Moses F. Solmson shot nnd killed George Stubblefield at Pine Bluff, Ark. The tragedy is a sequel to the killing of Carl Stubblefield by Myer Solmson aeverol months ago. The-body of Frank Dunaway, who disappeared three months ago at Newark, Ohio, was found under a gus tank in that

city. It is thought his death was accidental, although murder is hinted at. C. A. Young wag arrested at Poteas, I. T., on the charge of robbing a Texas postofflee last spring of SSOO in money and stamps. He paid $l4O in stamps for a diamond ring and this led to his arrest. D. 8. Ambler of Salem, Ohio, has been appointed a federal judge in the Philippine Islands. He will leave for the Islands the latter part of March, going first to Sebo, but later will be stationed at Manila. Three men were crushed to death and four others severely injured by the falling of an iron girder weighing twenty tons in the shipping department of the American Bridge Company’s plant iu Chicago. John Pipkin, a planter and merchant, shot aud killed his brother-in-law, John Manus, near Forest City, Ark. It is claimed that Manus had shot into Pipkin's store, wounding Pipkin and his two sons slightly. Miss Mary A. Anderson, city attorney of Palmyra, Mo., lost her first case the other day, when she surrendered her heart and ambitious aspirations to Otho F. Matthews, a young and handsome attorney of St. Louis. Andrew Carnegie has offered to. give Kalispell, Mont., SIO,OOO for a library provided the city furnishes a site and SI,OOO yearly for maintenance. The city already expends that amount each year for library support. Simon Owens, aged 102, was burned to death in his cabin in Guthrie, O. T. He was born n slave on Gen. Andrew Jackson's plantation, and was crippled for life at Vicksburg when the city was besieged by Gen. Graut. Thousands of bushels of grain were destroyed by the burning of the H. F. Mueller elevator at Fifty-fifth street aud tjje Fort Wayne tracks in Chicago. The loss to stock, machinery and the building is estimated at $200,000. Cass Lake, Minn., village council has appropriated S3OO to send a delegation to Washington to oppose the creation of a national park in northern Minnesota. The people want the Chippowa reservation opened to settlement. While fire truck No. 7 was responding to an alarm in Toledo. Ohio, it collided with a street car, resulting in the death of Captain J. B. Ward of the fire company and the injury of several other firemen, one of whom may die. Mrs. J. B. Itngar, wife of a farmer living near Philadelphia, Mo., locked herself in a bedroom, saturated the carpet with coal oil and set fire to it after cutting her throat. Emotional insanity is assigned as the cause for the act. Gov. J. R. Rogers, who had been critically ill with pneumonia for several days, died at Tacoma, Wash. The immediate result will be a revolution in the political complexion of the State government. Lieut. Gov. Mcßride is a Republican. The premature explosion of a small eaunon at the residence of William Gottner, five miles southeast of Gallon, Ohio, resulted in five young men being seriously injured. John Gyttner, one of the five, was badly burned end his eyes are injured. At Grand Island, Neb., Augustus Hessel, aged 78, committed suicide by hanging as the result of brooding over the death of his wife. The old man was missed by neighbors, wtm broke open the Hessel home and found him hanging to a stringer. James Hicks, a prominent iron manufacturer of Cincinnati, Ohio, died in the Waldorf-Astoria, New- York, of blood poisoning. A few days before he was licking an envelope, when the sharp edge of the paper cut his lip, and blood poisoning set in. A terrific sandstorm raged all over southern California, unrooting buildings, devastating orange groves, breaking windows, and in many cities bringing traffic almost to a standstill. The principal sufferers were Colton, Pomona, San Bernardino and Santa Ana. Fire destroyed the Deadwood, S. D., Opera House. Most of the contents burned, including a quantity of supplies belonging to the National Guard, consisting of tents, clothing and horse equipments. The firemen had a hard fight to save tho city hall adjoining. Loss $35,000. Three negroes were killed near Wilmot, Ark., as the result of a quarrel over a land sale. Martin Davis and Jeff Davis, cousins, engaged in a fatal duel. James Thompson, a friend of one of the men, was subsequently shot and killed by Arthur Davis, father of Martin Davis. Fire which started in the pharmaceutical department of the Cwdahy Packing Company's plant in Omaha did $40,000 damage. The department occupied a twostory brick building, 70x332 feet, which was destroyed. The gum and box factories were also located in the building. Rev. James A. Heath hau been deposed from the pastorate of the Calvary Baptist Church iu Kansas City and deprived of membership in toe congregation as the result of charges that he illegally seeded n divorce from his yife in Castile, N. Y., in order to marry n Kansas City woman, Levi Saunders, cor viet No. 2471 at the federal prison iu Lea /enworth, Kan., escaped. He was a teg Ulster and about 3 o’clock put his team in the corral at the prison and walked nwjy. Saunders was sent to prison from Arkansas for a violation of the postal ltnvs. He Lad four months left to serve.

The recent cold wnvj is said to have destroyed practically the entire peach crop of southwestern Michigan. A total of 15,000 acres, which i.reduced 300,000 bushels of peaches last year, is affected. Experts have gone through the orchards and report that the buds ire killed. The loss will represent $1,000,100. At Lima, Ohio, George llmith, n prominent young man, was anrosted charged with forgery by his broiler. Smith was an employe of Smith As Sherrick, contractors, his brother beiig the seuior member of the firm. H» is prominent socially and liefnre the Spanish war was a member of the Lima City Guards, Company C. Soda Fife, a Creek Indian, hag confessed at Viuita, I. T., to the murder of Louis Wilson, a prosperous farmer, near Tulsa in May, 1807. Wilson disappeared from home and his skeleton was found in the woods n year luter. The Indian says lie enticed Wilson iuto the woods nnd then shot him just because he desired to kill somebody. Fire starting in a show window of the department stiwe of Brandeis & Sous In Omaha caused a serious panic among 1,000 shop|ters, ami several women were injured. Prompt work by the store’* hose company and the turuing on of the

% I automatic sprinklers drenched the stock and extinguished the flumes, making the loss by fire less than $5,000. The first conviction under the kidnaping and intimidating law passed last winter by the State Legislature was secured in Lincoln, Neb., when C. S. Hunt was given a sentence of one year in the penitentiary. Hunt threatened a neighbor’s family and demauded that S2OO be buried in a vacant lot. A can of nails was buried instead and officers set to watch. Hunt's urrest and conviction followed. Martin Gleason. 50 years old, superintendent of the Wild Ilorse, Damon and Deadwood mines nt Cripple Creek, was found dead nt the bottom of the Kalamazoo shaft, 500 feet below the surface of the ground. The ground around the mouth of the shaft bore marks of a struggle and it is evident that Gleason was murdered, although no motive for the crime is known. Gleason disappeared the previous day. The register aud receiver of the Kalispel, Mont., land office has received a TeiferTrdm the Interlor Department in-" structing tho withdrawal of all lands from settlement iu Montana north aud west of the Kootenai river. The order will involve over 1,000,000 aeres of land, besides taking from the State of Idaho over 270,000 acres, which, when surveyed and completed, will bo made into a new forest reserve to be known as the Kootenai Forest reserve of Idaho and Montana. Fog caused a wreck ou the Cincinnati, Hamilton aud Dayton Railroad, in which four passengers and two trainmen on the south-bound Chicago express were injured. The engineer was unable to see ahead or the flagman's signal and his engine and part of the coaches tore a way through a freight train that was crossing the track at Hartwell, Ohio. While a wrecking train was ou the way to the scene the chain of a crane broke a«d, falling upon workmen, killed two and injured one cither.

SOUTHERN.

Hattiesburg, Miss., was practically destroyed by fire. Loss SIOO,OOO, probably one-third insured. Matthew Keith, postmaster and storekeeper at Fletcher, Miss., was called to his door and shot dead by an unknown man, who made his escape. The badly decomposed body of a man was found in the steeple of Mount Zion African • Methodist Episcopal Church near Birmingham, Ala., by hunters. The leading business men of Erin, Tenn,. organized a raid on the only saloon in the plaee, and, after destroying the stock and fixtures, warned the proprietor to leave. T. L. Wilson, a farmer, and his neighbor, Thomas Parlin, quarreled at Dwight, Va., over who was the greatest general of the Civil War, with the result that Parlin shot Wilson dead. The mystery in the disappearance of Miss Ella Cropsey was partly cleared up by the finding of her body in the river near her home at Elizabeth City, N. C. The coroner's jury decided she had been murdered. In a free-for-all fight at Middlesboro, Ivy., Sam Wells and Henry Bass were mortally wounded. At Four Mile Will Hendrickson was killed by his cousin, Nat Hendrickson. On Taggard’s creek Thomas Haynes was beaten to death by Henry Bowman. The yacht Onnaniehe, on which is a pleasure party headed by two sons of Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is safe in Beaufort, S. C. Iler trip from Norfolk was made without particular incident, despite the report sent out that she had been wrecked. Little Madelaine Turner of Richmond, Va., is the proud possessor of a pair of knit slippers made by Mrs. McKinley’s own hands. Some time ago she found a good picture of the late President in a periodical. She inclosed it in a handsome frame and sent it to Mrs. McKinley. John W. Taylor, chief engineer of the Terminal Railroad Association, and William Austin Kent, a prominent citizen of Louisville, Ivy., were ground to death beneath the wheels of a switch engine in North St. Louis in jumping, panicstricken, from swiftly moving gasoline motor egr which threatened to collide with the engine. In a general fight between white men •and negroes at Childersburg, Ala., a white man and his son were killed, while a white boy and one negro were wounded. With great difficulty a general outbreak was prevented. The negroes are now in jail at Talladega. The trouble grew out of a crap game, the negroes having quarreled over the winnings.

IN GENERAL.

Bradstreet's annual review of trade says prosperity is rampant in the United States and commerce has made the most gigantic strides. J. Newton Nlnd of Chicago and C. 0. Loriug of Boston are visiting furnituro manufacturers of the United States, promoting a national organization for mutual protection. The Lake Shore road has ordered an increase in wages of conductors, engineers, firemen, brnkemen and yardmen, operating east of Chiuago, to take effect shortly after the first of the year. The local express aud a working train on the Canudlan Pacific Railway collided between Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and Webb wood while ruuning at full speed. Four men were killed aud several' were severely injured. . A new canal bid by the Panama company is forecasted in a private letter telling of a probable reduction of its sale price to $40,000,000. If such a tender is officially made the commission is likely to recommend acceptance and Nicaragua may lose. Grain shipping to Europe is at n standstill. Europe would tike corn, but America has uone to ship, because of the crop failure. Europe is drawing its wheat from other countries, and has so large au utnount on hand that 2 cents a buslud is the host freight rate that transatlantic lines cun get. China will be relieved of the payment of $18,000,000 of the $25,000,000 demanded by the United States of Chiua us indemnity for the outrages perpetrated upon American cltiaciis during the Hoxe> revolt of 1000. Thin action will be taken because the administration, after coustrttion of all the claims filed by Americans who suffered injury or whose property was damaged and the expenses incurred by the army and navy, has cetne to the conclusion thntffs7,ooo.ooo will certainly cover the American bill.

THE SKATING SEASON IS ON.

OPEN WAR ON MERGER.

Officials of Five Northwestern States Begin the Fight. Governors and Attorneys General of five Northwestern States met in conference at Helena, Mont., for the purpose

of planning ways and means to prevent the consolidation of the Northern Pacific and Burlington Railroads in the Northern Securities Company. News of the temporary injunction granted at Minneapolis restraining the Northern Pacific from retiring its preferred stock was received with acclaim. T hose present

gov. van sant. were: Gov. Van Sant and Attorney General Douglas of Minnesota, Gov. Herreid and Attorney General Pyle of South Dakota, Gov. Hunt and Attorney General Stratton of Washington, and Gov. Toole aud Attorney General Donovan of Montana. Gov. Toole delivered an address of welcome, after which the conference was organized with Gov. Van Sant ns chairman and Attorney General Martin as secretary. Gov. Van Sant made a short speech, in which he said: “The State of Minnesota has had on the statute books for more than twentyfive years laws prohibiting the consolidation in any way of parallel and competing lines of railway. It has been the settled policy of our State to maintain a free, open and unrestricted competition in freight and passenger rates. “The Great Northern aud Northern Pacific Railway companies operate parallel and competing lines of railway within the State. These are practically the only roads which furnish any transportation facilities to the northern half of the State, with the exception of the two known as the ‘lron Ore roads.’ “It has been recently announced that Mr. Hill and his assistants have obtained the control of the Northern Pacific Railway Company and intend to operate the same jointly with the Great Northern and in effect bring about a consolidation by removing all competition and all rivalry between these roads. “To this end the Northern Securities Company was organized in New Jersey to acquire a controlling amount of the stock of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway companies in exchange for its own stock and it is through this company that the unity of management and control is to be effected. “If there is such a consolidation contemplated, and that fact seems to be practically conceded, it is an open violation of the law as well as the declared public policy of the State of Minnesota, and I feel that I should be negligent of my duties as the official head of the State if I remained quiescent under such circumstances. “The people of the State of Minnesota, feeling certain that competition has beeu the chief fae or in its development and equally certain that its destruction would result in the greatest loss to both producer and consumer, have determined to oppose this consolidation. “This determination is not entered into with any spirit of hostility toward railroads. Our State has dealt liberally with them aud has deeded to the various railroads operating within the State more than 10,500,000 aer£s of land, or more land than is under cultivation by the people of .Minnesota, and by the State and national government at Washington some 20, (MM),(MM) acres, being double the cultivated acreage in the hands of the agricultural population. “In view of this and other privileges granted by the State, it is but just to say that railway companies owe reciprocal duties to the public, including cheerful obedience to our luws.”

Chromes for Church Attendants.

Every woman nnd every man, too, who attended th>* First Congregational Church in Chicago the other night got n chromo. It was the first trial of Rev. W. A. Bartlett’s plan t«'» increase the attendance nnd to arouse mow* interest in biblical teachings. The idea of giving pictures away in church, the lictter to bring out tbo points in the sornuAj, is a new one

Passengers Have Narrow Escape.

An attempt to wre<4 a car ou the Toledo, Bowling Green And Southern Electric Railroad was mile near Bowling Green. Ohio. The cnrVvith twenty passengers ran into n pihftof hoards placed pn the track, where it Sms along a deep gully. By good furtnA the car did not leave the track, nnd a Alainity was thus averted. 800 Keis, aged Ift, killed by the accidental discharge of gun while on a hunting trip near Y«os, O. T. Hla jugular vein was seveta.

USED A CLOTHESPIN TO STOP WHISPERING IN SCHOOL.

The spring clothespin has been introduced in one of the Taunton. Mass., schools as a punishment for whispering. The 11-year-oid boy whose lips the clothespin was intended to seal removed this muzzle from his mouth and ran home. Next morning, it is said, he had no sooner taken his seat in the school room than he was again ordered to plaee the clothespiu on his lips. The boy refused to obey the command nnd a thrashing is alleged to have followed.

THE GREAT DEAD OF 1901,

Year Has Been Notable in Passing of Conspicuous People. The year 1001 lias been quite as notnany of its recent predecessors in the loss of those who have been conspicuous in their various departments of labor nnd hare made their names widely known. Th'e political wcarkl has lost William McKinley, murdeied during his presidency by the assassin Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition; Beujnmin Harrison, the eminent lawyer and oxPresident: William M. Evarts, also a great lawyer and ex-Secretary of State; Prince von Ilohenlohe, the German exchnncellor; Francesco Crispi, the ox-pre-m‘ r of Italy, nnd Li Ilmig Chang, the smartest and sanest man of his time in Chiua. Among the rulers of the world Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, has passed away, likewise the Dowager Empress Frederick, Abdur Rahman Kalin, the Ameer of Afghanistan, and Milan, the dissolute ex-King of Servia. The world of literature and the art* has suffered severely. Among the prominent writers who have passed away are; John Fiske, the historian; Charlotte M. Y’onge, and Sir Walter Besant, novelists; Robert W. Buchanan, the British poet; William Ellery Channing of the famous Concord group of writers; Maurice Thompson, the story writer and essayist; and Ignatius Donnelly, the romancer and Baconian cipher inventor. Music has. lost Verdi, the last of the old school Italian opera composers; Benoit, who was the chief representative of the Flemish school of composition; Sir John Stainer, the organist and author of the beat dictionary of terms yet produced; Franz Ktimntel. the pianist; Alfred Piatti, the ’cellist, and Audrnn, the French light opera composer. In art France loses Jean Cgztn, one of its greatest painters; England, Kate Greenaway, the delightful illustrator; nnd the United States, James McD. Hart and Edward Moruu. two of the best representatives of the old school of painting.

CUTS OFF $18,000,000.

Uncle Ham Reduces Ilia Bill Against China for Pekin Heige Expense. Chinn will he relieved of the pavmcnt of $18,000,000 of 'the $25,000,000 demanded by the United States as indemnity for the outrages perpetrated upon American citizens during the Boxer revolt of 100. The administration, after consideration of all the claims filed by Americans who suffered injury or whose property was damaged nnd the expenses incurred by the army and navy, has come to the conclusion that $7,000,000 will cover the American bill. Following are the amounts China agreed to pay the powers: Itlisslu 985.000.000 Germany France., rst.ooo.isiq Great Britain i .<2,000,000 United States 25,000,000 Japnn 24.010,000 Italy 20,000,0.50 Belgium 0,500,00,1 Total 9314,000,000 Bud Johnson's baby and little girl were scalded near Greenbrier, Ark. The baby died and the girl is probably fatally Injured.