Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 44, Number 6, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 October 1901 — Page 2

Weekly Courier.

C. 1om:, Piililiahrr. 1MU.WA. JAS1TK. The friends of Min Elle -"tone, the nnssiouary Leid cauüv by I lunarian bandits, have made an appeal for money with which to pay the $110,000 demanded to prevent her threatened execution ou the ith. Mr. Kootevelt hat appointed Min Belle Bagaer, daughter of Justice Manner, of the supreme court of the District of Colombia, her social secretary. Mitt Bagaer acted la the mum capacity for Mrs. McKinley. The first of the Set submarine boat of the Holland type, building I BarroeMa-Fornew for Um British pov t rn meat, was iauncbedi on the Id, without ceremony. The other four boats a ill bo read; for launching thit year. The monthly statement of the government receipts and expenditures ahowa that for September, MMM, the receipts amounted to 144,494,411, aud the expenditures to 33210,730, leafing u surplus for the mouth of $UThe monthly statement of the public debt, issued on the 1st. showed that ut the close of business September 30, 1901, the debt, less ca-h In the treasury, amounted to $1.031,I24,:6i. a decrease for the month of t4.fc-3.401. The receipts of the Herman imperial post and telegraph department for the first live months of the present year aggregated 167,134,031 marks. Or an increase of almost nine million marks, upon the receipts for the corresjionding jx-riod of last year. This is regarded as remarkable, in view of the reduction of railroad receipts. A report, issued on the 3d. by the United States geological survey. shows that the total value of minerals of til kinds produced in this country in 1900 was $1.07U.lo,sVJ. The total value of the metallic producta waa S332,HMtT; the son-metellic 1516,600,363, and estimated value of mineral products unspecified, $1,000,000. At lacrosse. Kas., K. J. Smiley, of Topeka. secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers' tteociation, was, on the 4th. lined $500 and aaatenred to three months in jail for violation of the ttate grain laws. He was charged vvith entering into combination with grain dealers in Ruah county to pool and ti prices and prevent comp, tit ion among grain buy ers. m The American Tin Plata Co. ha adopt d a policy of concilation tow ar d Us employes who were recently engaped in the ste 1 strike. While the terms of the settlement of the strike do not permit the recognition of the Amalgamate 1 association, not the tlightest discrimination, it is otliciallv ttated, will Ik- allowed agaiaal the old men when they return to work. Complying with an invitation to recommend tom eo Be for superintendent Of the live stock division of the Sr. Louis World's fair, President John V, Springer of the National LJVC Stock association, on the 3d, on behalf of bis organization, Indorsed Hon. c. ll. Thomas, secretary of the American Hereford Hreeders' association, Independence, Mo., for thit important position. The department of agriculture hat finally succeeded in securing the Jordan almond, "rportation of which has been rigorously prohibited by Spahl for tome years, and this government now will experiment with it to determine the best localities for growing it. This species o alnun 1 is regarded by the agricultural authorities at the finest in t he? world. In the ästest and most superb contest ever sailed by single stickers for the America's cup, the Columbia vanquithed in a piping breee, over a triangular course, on the 3d, the challenger, Shamrock II. The wind at times had a force of about eighteen knot. Shamrock was beaten over the 30-mile course by minutes and 33 aeeonds, actual time, and 3 miutet, 35 seconds, corrected time. Twelve hundred men and boys went on atrike at Natalie (Pa.) colliery, OS the 34, to force the BbamoJda Coal Co. to evict James Itateman, an exforeman, from a company house at Natalie. Üateman gained tl amity of a number of miners several month! ago, and they beaded strike for has discharge. They succeeded la having Bateinan dismissed, and they now demand that he be drifted from the vib Isge. The London Daily Fxprets, on the 4th, cabled Commodore Morgan and Sir Thomas Upton, suggesting that they arraags a race with the Gotase bia's crew on board the Shamrock, and the crew of the challenger on board the defender, with a view of asattaining definitely jaal how awea ot the credit for victory belonged to the kipper and crew and how much to the designer ami holder tie Columbia. The Columbia won the third and ' eeisi race from Shnmrmk II.,. Off Beidy Hook, on the 4th. but so elose wat the call that but for t In time allowance of , , Would have tx-eu comnellcd in Aa t m i.l Sl l'Ollc S K ill v '"ors to the plucky EnglirisSBan. The Shamrock II lit n .1 .. , I. . a , iut rar e a tCW aecono. faster than the olurabla but ewlna; to her hoo and .i, feet of exra aauTaa was handicapped by the v:u, BUIflWnill'R IB' lilfir, 1 . m " wiTcu me raeo Uli1 cue to America.

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... . . v . . ... CUBREXT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIET. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Tjarlt Kruger, a son of 'he former president of the Traaeeaal re public, who recently surrendered to t h" British, died, on the 1st, after a short Jlness. lb- Princess Charlotte Bonaparte, widow of Count Prlmoll, died in Boms an the 9th. She was horn in Is.;:.'. l.ieut.-toi. John B. McOinnaa, otd nance department, has been ordered 0 San P rand SCO for duty as chief ordnance o Ulcer of the department 5f California. The race between Shamrock II. ai d Cofflrohta, on the let, waa not taiahed, having been Called otT owing to inability t sail the course within the time limit. Shamrock was lending Reer-Admiral Evans ami Dept. BlgtDec were the principal witnesses hefore the Schley Start of Inquiry, OS the 1st. the former insisting that Commodore Schley furnished no plan f battle to hit officers. The Russian prince, akaehnle wno. wnn nis wire, as arrested m Kump n.s an anarchist, having entered Italy in defiance of the anti-anarchist regulations, was sentenced) on the 1st, to 20 days' imprisonment. The prince protested that he was Dot an anarchist, though he was a Rational I ist; adding that he was a legitimate pea tender to the Russian crown. The Greater Sew York democracy, of wbi h John ( . Bheehan is the b ad .r, held its city convention, on the 1st, and nominated the fusion ticVret headed by Beth Low for mayor. The . ecretnry of agriculture has appelated Dr. 1". II. King, now professor of agricultural physiology in the I'niversity of Wisconsin, to be chief of divi.Mou in the bureau of sella, department f agriculture. Herr Krupp, the gunmaker, has purchased a palatial raasdeaes la Berlin. The Cuban constitutional convention, on the 1st, addressed a letter to tiov.-tien. Wood, informing him that the changes which he suggested should be made in the election law had been made, and that the convention, deeming its work completed, a ready to dissolve. The resignation of J. M. Herbert, general manager of the Southern l'a.die. railroad, was announced on the 2d. It is stated that Mr. Herbert will BSSt as man.;:', r el one of the Liould lines. The triennial convention of the Episcopal Church of America wa formally organised at Ban Francisco, on the lid, by the election of Bishop Fowler, of Kentucky, as president. and Kev. S. Hart, of Kansas City, secre tary of the house of hi; hop ., and Br. John 8. Lindsay, of MaMachtieetta, chairman, and Rer. Chariot Butcblue, secretary of the house of deputies. The commercial treaty between Guatemala ami (iermany has been denounced by Guatemala, and will cease to le in affed June SB, li03. Prinoa Beary of psaaada started for Russia, on the 3d, to visit Kmperor Nicholas, having received lea! of absence for A" day-. Mr. George l!. Cortelyou, seer taiy to the president, returned to WashInglon, on the 3d, from Canton. ()., and resumed his duties at the White House. The steamer Cottage City arrived at Seattle, Wash., on the 3d, from Lyaa Canal with over two hundred passengers. On the trip downward Purser liree was custodian of over live hundred thousand dollars' worth of goi.i dust belonging to paaaengera on board. Gea. George w. Batty, oae of the heroai of the Mexican war and of the war of the rebellion, died, en the 3d, at the family residence at Poreal (ilen. Md. Ha was buried with full military honors at Arlington, a., on the 4th. John Campbell, chief Justice of Colorado, paased Uiroagh Berlin, oa the 3d, from Gastein, Austria, on his way to London. "it is estimated," says the London Daily Mail's corres dent, "that J4 were killed and hUBdredS injured dining the Hungarian election riots. In vurioiiH places voters were coerced bv threats of death or torture. At 1 durassa, a prominent politician, together nllt v. : ... : . mm. tin. nop und inree sons, was Murdered by his fanatical opponents." After an existence of two years in iep floes of the Arctic regions, Dr, Robert Stein, of the Baited Btatea geological survey, and Samuel Waran birth, of Beaton, have arrived at Svdv..- ..i- .... . r ney, 138 s, ,,i". of the Wiud aal route homc Bear Admiral Hetlaaer L Johnson took conunand of ( barleetown aaf .yard, rin Ml, in place of Admiral m T sl,.,..t . . . - ii omni, i M'veij on neconnt in i uv' ml vs i I II' , . ! A aaaaeager trata on the Montana Central waa wreaked about thirty miles w.-st of Qreal rails. Mont., o'u i i I. "" me engine, negrare ear and a daj . .,a. , left the track. I'm. y mith ami iMafgagemaa Mfu-rWi iMJre Oiobably fatally injured.

Kind Edward it safferiai freaa ai attack of lumbago at Balmoral, iht attack, hOWaear, it not sir . nis. Bar, t :1 K. p. Bancroft, tor 2 yearn the load f PhJUipa ndover, died at Andover, Mass., on the 4th. Ha w.,- ,i graduate of Dartmouth college

and d indOVrr 1 heolo'-uul 111 tilt. IV. He was principal id the Lookout Mountain (Tenn.l institute for live; raara, aad had been principal of Phillips ecedemj since ist. The sta'i'iiient of the treasury bal aneaa In the general fund, saxlaalva of the 1130,000,000 gold reserve iu th division of redemption. issu-d on the 4th. showed: Available cash balance, $171,0 1.704; geld, $10'-'.39,y35. B. Ii. Dun A: Co. reported on the 4th: "Failures for tii- week number 304 in the (Jutted Btatea, agaiaal 308 for the corresponding week las t year, and 37 in Canada, against 33 lasi year." , )r, Samuel J. Jones, for year pmfestor of ophthalmology an J otology at .Northwestern university, Chicago, died. OH the 4th, of stomach trouble, aged G3 yenrs. LATE NEWS ITEMS. A dlspntch from Tacoma, Wash., on the 3th, said: "The steamship Olenogle brings news of hum. in tb sh being freely sold la the famine d ist rid of Shan Si, China. It brings 1 cash per catty of one and one-third pounds, Baoea and young children arc being butchered, Xhfi empress dowaucr has commanded that the practice be etonped, but is able to enforce her J orders only around llsi an l'a.. I he money collected by the t hrtstien Heraid of New Yorlt has been diatributed, saving thousands from starvation." A gang of highway robbers, on the niiit of the 3th, successfully held up aad robbed the occupants of three! i arriagee, including- several JU'omineiit business men from Madison, 8. I., while presumably ea route to Lake Herman, three miles west of Madison. pitched battle was waged, but the' : - - u . i , . , , 1 tourists were relieved ot their vh1i:;v bles, about live hundred dollars in cash and all their jewelry. Four Panhandle traaamen met death near onward. Ind., on the 6th, in a reur-end collision of freight trains. The bodies of three were taken out badly mutilated, and the fourth was ..imost entirely consumed before the wrecking crew could subdue the dames Of the burning wreck sutlieicntly to pei nut work in that portion of the debris. Steamer ndvicee, recefred on the 0th. say that the coast of Kauza, northern Japan, had been visited by heavy galea, wrecking 108 fishing boats. Twelve boats vvith total crews of Tl were missing. Heavy rains caused an overflow of the rivers of j Hokkaido, washing away ' m i houses and submerging many villages. The court of appeals of Kentucky having' granted ex-Secretary of State ab b Towers and James Howard ueff triaN. the case of the former was called at Georgetown oa the -th. Towers was convicted over a year ago as eecessory to the murder of William QOebel In January , 1900, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The si ini annual conference of Mormon missionaries in London came to a clos... ,,n the ith. with three services in the Plnabury towa hall, which waa crowded at eaidi. A dispatch from Sian l'u. on the th. annouBced thai the Imperial I bio esc court had started for hai Feng l'u. "Imam A. ReMeeker, repreenfln!" hfurraj . Veraer, of Pittsburg! Pa has preei nted t th.- wanlrlnal eounil of St. Petersburg a memorial offering to take Over the entire surface tractloa ayetem f that eaty, and to form a company, under gatrlaa law, with a eapttal of 100,000, iu roubles to epatate the same. The lines wilt be larwelv exteudad uaul electrified. The proepects of a favorable answer are excellent. Within titrht almost of the hnmc in Which she had grown to womanhood, the in dy of Miss Helen Long, daughter' of Secretary John L). Iong, was laid at rest, on the 7th, in the old Ringham (Mass.) cemetery. The crave was simply blanketed with flowers. The funeral was ery simple in its arrangement, and was attended by immediate relativen and personal Meads and a few men in public 1 i ft-. Die county courthouse at Alev.mdi ia. s. i., was burned, on the 0th, together with nearly all the county records. The loss on the building was about thirty thousand dollars. The lost ree-.rd.s can not Im- replaced, in many instances, und the damage will be irreparable. The supreme court of Colorado has cited the aaemhera of the state board of assessors, which was created by the new revenue law, to appear, on the lib, to answer to th- charge of contempt iu preceeding with the assess-' mem iu aharegard of the court's order. I lie annual report of Thomas! Pitchie, inspector of Immlgrattoa at ' Kew Ifork, has Isen transmitted to, the ireeeurj di partment The re l" H shows that the number of aliens ftrrired during the fiaca year inibd June 30, 1001, w as 4:, ' I EmaerOff William left r.oumentin, W tag ?th. having kiiie.i stags da j 'Zg the fortnight he BpCBl there. He, went to Rubertusstoek the iinue,uii j In. nting tofTffe near Kbemti'lde, to ' Contiaae deer stalkiiur tor hevend oaj s. The tinal .gt.'a as to the exports from ail Otirashfiy to the United Statea dwrfear tJhe third quarter of tii present yvr. shOfW a total of $a4,"t,"t -in liii rease o iv,!iii.', Th wexi Japanese budget, accord ing a dispatch from lukio, will prwlwbl) show a surplus of 31000,000 jsjfl, which will be applied to a reJuctiou of the debt.

WITHIN orii LIMITS.

News by Telegraph from Various Towns in Indiana. Conlr-t at IVruilt I ei Anderson, Ind.. K-t. 7. Tht prlaS irill coutst which tin- uuifOttn l ink. Knights of rytiu.is, wsa advertised to hold Su:i lay ca d tf. tien. Carsahaa, ladlaaapolis, who i at the head of the uniform rank In I he United State, informed the local bulge that the proposed contest on Bonds) was ibsolutely in violation of the organic law of Knights of Pythias sad must be abandoned. Subsequently 3 general irder from Breed Chancellor Book' alter was received to the same effect. A large number of the luembcrt here opposed the enterprise. Itov Arrent Trampa. RokomO, Intl.. (K-t. 7. Two boys, i u d seven and nine years, respect ively. sons of Jacob Goodwins, living near here, proved themselves heroes by capturing a gang of six tramps aad taviag a burning tehool-honss to wkleh I hi men had set fire. With buekctl the boys carried water from tkc pump, ami after saving the structure one mount" ed a horse without saddle or bridle and rode into town for ofl'u-irs. while the Other stood guard wtth an air gun over the gang. When ref nforcementS . came the tramni were locked UD. Nf HiKiilal. oath Denn. Ind., Oct. 7.-Soiith Bead's aeat Bpworth hotpltel, erected at a cost of about IPOvOOO, has Joal b. n opened. It is probably the Bnest hspitsl of its ie in America, being provided throughout with the latest etpiiptiHiit. it i. a red brtck, stone triahmed etrael arc of three stork and basement and la fireproof, it is alt uated at Main and Navarre streets, not far from the business center. The losoital ia ii chsree of M.- M.ircaret Trennan M luperifl tendent. Tu Have Trtil a. Fort Wayne. Ind., Oct. 7. The red ribbon race meeting opns in thit city Tuesday. The meet continues fuir days and promise to be a very in tereating one. The big stables at the track are comfortably fill-d and will be Crowded by the opening day. In add it ion to the harness races four running events are booked, and about 3f runners are already on the grounds. The big free-for-all pace on Wednesday promises to be a great race. Beat Ks iii.nl iiini. Columbus. Ind., Oct. 7. T. K. Orto, druiririst and secretary of the state board of pharmacy, of t hiscity. arriv 1 Si HemphU, Tenn. and readily Identk tied the body of the Btranger who beefed hims,:f ir, Wuatera kotelj tfemphla, a thai Of his father. Frank K. Otto, who made Iiis home here vvith h.s son, but who my steriously dis;ppeered one week ago. The body will be breaghl hr for burial. Iln i, i tuug I nil. Reai Albany, Ind.. Oct. 7. An at. temp: was made to wrick a too tabooed train b-aring tlov. Durb'n at a tunnel between Marengo and Bagllah, As the train came out of the luntl I the engineer saw a pile of cross ties on the track. He hastily rev TSed his ,-n-glne and put on all brake., gnick as he waa, the engineer struck the obstruction and the pilot was broken. Hone In Her Ihrnnl. Anderson. Ind.. Oct. 7. After being Mid out for dead at the county iriHrtnary. Mrs. Sarah Stanley suddenly gasped, raised up and began OOUfrh Inf viol-ntly. She succeeded in dislodging a BSaatl bone fro:n lier throat, which she swallowed while eating meat, aial was soon out of daiiL't r. tVeaeea i nrm- atttett, Nw at!., Ind.. Oct. 7. S mnn T. Powell died here. He was horn at Cambridge City in lltl and Waa a close friend of iov. Morton, serving as his agent during th" civil war in looking after the comfort of the Indiana soli! ers without recompense. He lesvea a large estate. 'St Monnmenl l unil. Fvansvilh. Ind.. Oct. 7. Kx-Seere-tary Of State John W. Foster held a meeting her- with several prominent citizens to raise funds for the Harrison Monument SSSOCistbm, He has been promise! sevrral thousand dol'ars in t)ii city. A I iiml I nil. Colemhla City, tadn Oct 7. Irving Ni lb r. of Washington township, this county, while a.-lsting in thrashing oat -. fei into the separator. His right arm and inoillder wer" torn ofT posing his lungs. He died lOOS Si ward. a rhnt h im Beetee.. Lyoas, Ind., Oct. T. The Ire-yesr-oaa ton of .1. t. R redlth, of thi plaoe, was playing with a rCTelTer Inn the weapon was dUchnrged. the bullet striking hi. t w o-year-i''1 brother in he side, killing him instantly. tie1 Wn tnleldet. Branarnie, lad Ost, 7. If( ary Hum nr-rb in. Bged ( 3 committed oiielcV i,v beaglagi He was the oldest lutiai of the peace in the state and owned 1,000 acres nf land. Ran Over. Vorth MiinehTer. Ind.. tVt. 7. Ilrnkemftn TVllünm Sohooley, ag- C, WCBl to sleep when s,.nt hack to flag a train near here and was run over and killed. F.lert untrer". Lsporte, Ind., Oeti 7. The ntmunl

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Arrest of Mrs. J. A. Witwer, at Dayton, 0., at the Instigation of the Coroner. 0 CONCEIVABLE MOTIVE DISCLOSED. Tu I UI lu ludet. Four lluahaiida, r'lv i hlldrra. Out Nlaler aad Four Member" f DIHrrral Familie lu W bleb Sbr M u Kuiulot-U aa llouavkrruer. Dayton, ()., Oct. s. Mrs. J. A. Witwer, a widow nsuling in this city, has 1,.., .. . . o,-en -ii i i' i Dj i ue police, :n ui instigation of the coroner, und is held prisoner at Central station, pond mg an investigation into very serious charges. Mrs. Witwer, the police say, is suspected el M murders, the list including four busbends, Bra children, ane sister and four iiiembers of dif- ! l i t families iu which Shfl vvas eiunloyed as hou .t ke p-r. The last sujpoeed va tim was her sister, Mrs. Anna Pugh, who (lied a week ago under mystcrioui circuinstniiccs-. An autopsy performed at the request T kfra Wit wero another, who came her trees, Detroit, is :;aid to have disclosed the presence of arsenic and copperas in the stomach. Follow iug closely upon the death of her first husband, Fred Schwager, came, according to police department data, the death of two children. The second husband died suddenly several years after the wedding, and three children of this marriage died in ra jid succession. Her last husband, A J. Witwer, died last April, In each Instance dentli was somewhat sudden. and ail were strangely alike. The prisoner is 47 yean of age, und formerly lived la liiddletown, this .state. She has two sons in the Philippines, und a sister, it is stated, in a .New York asylum. No conceivable motive for the BBapetted crimes has Ih-cii disclosed. Unigsi, which weie ft. Ilinl in the IjniK. ..I I,,- VI .... ' Witmer, are m posse tsi on of the police, and will be examined. AN ANARCHISTIC SPEECH. Weii' DraesMtatitMi or MeBUaler Iteadea nus. shera ' uuunu in BaarHth aewapaawea. Londou, Oct. 7. The speech of IL Kelly, of New York, at the anarchist met ting held Sunday in a hull la the Tottenham Court road, London, in whieh he denounced the lute 1're.si-d.-ut McKinley t political career, bat led to B revival of the demand for the extirpation of anarchists. J he Fall Mail (iazctte compares anarchism wdh Fenianisiu, maintains that the only dillerenee between the aatttiaaaatta of anarchists and the war of outrage advocatod by each men as feiaall Congressman Fincrty Is merely one of diverse mi ans to the same end, ergee that the police of the two Aagleaaixea nations be smaewetad to take eoacerted action to hunt down the social enemy whether anarchist or Fenian, and that both governmenta refuse them to right of a.syli!ii). Ify a coincidence, the Times prints a long article from Washington, protesting against the license allowed the Irish in America against Qreat Britain Commenting on this, the St. JemOS .aette thinks Hrilish hands are not tied altogether, and that no law would be strained if Kelly end other foreigners whose cult is murder, received immediate notice to epiit. APPOINTED A DEMOCRAT. rreaUlent Rooarvrlt SJtOe inolhrr ETldrarr nf I nrrjlim Out III. I'rrdrrrxnr'i l'ulle. Washington, Oct. s. Preaidcnt ttooeereltyesterdey appelates1 es Oov, Ihomsa Uoode Jones, ,,f A labs ma, to b. United Mates: tlistiirf judge of the Middle and northera district of Alai ama, to till the raeancy eenaed by tha b ath of afntlfe John Hruee. KX-OOT. Jones always has been a democrat and was twice executive of his slate, lie was (Jon. (iordon'a adjutant general during the etfl war. In I- '., a a gold democrat, he upPOrted Palmer and P.in kne-. It is aa derstood that Booker r. Vfaahlagtosh me well-known negro educator, waa , PCS 01 W-Jor, Jones' supporters, Tht , ihiter not only has aided Mr. Washington in his ejrs to elevate fho negro, but he opposed the neßio r,uf- I .. .... - I frage amendment incorporated iu the Mnbnma constitution. Kepresentative Tbtmtson. of Ala'bama, a democrat, who learned of ox(iov. Joajea aRpulelmiiat from the presider.t htust..f, upon leaving tre White WVir expressed satisfaction .Over hfi aaejsfsjatlt's action. I VAv. dfines," he snid, "in ndf only eaty ot the ablest lawy er in Alabama, but one of the most prominent und highly esteemed citirerr of the state. This act of PreeMssal anseeesett vviii place him in the aaSSSj ht1! aetei in in the south in whice the fate President McKinley vvnn heM.'" Leading men Of 'bHli parties express themsMtetj ! "fdeuied.

SCHEME FOR A MODEL CITY.

Idrw of the Municipal Art Stielet) rv lurk For m IVntarr ui , I nula World' V'mtr. New York, Ott 4 (la the Ball efl Charles K. Lamb, chairniun of the art aeasaalttee of the Maaldnal An ci-ty of New Voik, a meeting of , swiety litis just been held at the Na tional Arts club to discuna WajTI Slid Uieaus of definitely formulating m Mheaaa tof a model city to le treci ed in the eenlnee of the st. Uala World's fair. An the xposition must have certain buildings to carry on ,ta work, such ns the service hVtldinir post efaoe, Imapltal, poUea, Bre ami """"".i e j ui i tiiMiiis, iney 'oul( j OOnstrUOted as the nucleus of the ( ity i Ufa ii t i f ul. John 1). Witt Warner, president of the Municipal Art society, presided, The object of the society is t,, shovy the people of the Halted States .n, of the world how a eitv ihould bo built. It is proposed to show, f,,r eX ample, by means of a miniature city, how roads aad streets atsould be labl OUt, bow sewers should be built, I 1 how the tu ners of streets should n properly treated as regards igh . ami numbering, it is elao propo i to show how a city can b- matle beau, t if ill and how to Utilise toward that end the public buildings of every large and small. A letter sent to iGot. Francis, president of the S. Lottie World's Fair Co., outlinins scheine, has elicited a favorabM re i spouse. The following- committee was appointed by President Wernes; j to draft a definite ache me to present . to tli' authorities at Bt, Louia: Charles C. llaight, cliairman .- Charles Ii. Lamb, Cb.lrles K. Cmndall, Charles R. Robinson, Mrs. k. Hege man Hall and Albert KekfCy, FOR A FRATERNAL BUILDING The 1. I nula World's I'nlr IValernal iiniidinjr taaoeletlen win i llnvf n S-oo.inio Mruclurr. i St. Louis, Oct. 7. Treasurer tVilUaai H. Thompson, the Louisiana Parch ia Fxposition COm has been announced as treasurer of the World's Fair Fraternal Buildhag association, uu ncot paraUoe organized for the erectioq of a building at the Worbl's fair foS the use of fraternal organiat ions. The office was formally tendered Mr. Thompson at a Meeting of the exectM , Uvc committee of the association. The ammbera of the board present were judL'e Given, W, R. Ed son, w. n. Miller and O F. Hatfield. The selection ' of Mr. Thompson, Who has accepted the position, will be followed by tit appoint aaCtat of a strong finance, tstfinmittee, made up of men sropr id business ami Wfirld's fair circles. These s'eps are preliminary to beg-in-Bing the collection of a fund of $g00,. ft 0, whteh it la proposed to expand on the buildhag, a Dumber f fratrrnali orirani.ations have already made ap propria! ions for the fund. Mr, Thompaon, aa g'nind treasurer of the Odd Fellows of Missouri, will be i: strong factor la last Movement. The fraternal building is now being de abjned, it is to be es adaptation ol the Greek Parthenon, sad will be 80 ' 300 feet. The grounds surrounding itj are to be BeOaSag feet. All organia tions which contribute toward iti eonetractJon era to have special guar ten assigned to them during the. World's fair. TO RANSOM ELLEN M. STONE. Nearly Half I he Necdnl A mini n I Had Hern lUUrd li Sul,erlil Ion i p tu eSaias a. ltoston, Oct. 3, Nearly half thft money necil to ransom Miss Fllen M, stone, the atiaaioaary, from the But garian brigands has been placed iu the hands of Kidder, IVabody &, Co., The enact figures ut Midnight were f4.'i,D4:t.40 cash and $7, .'.no in pledges, Of this amount the firm yesterday afternoon sent $ri5,000 to the state de partment to be forwarded to its consular agent at the place where it 033) be used most expeditiously. MemlK-rs of the firm, when laforasedJ from London to the effect that tha Vienna advices indicated there would be a month's extension ,,f time in Which to pay the ransom, said the for Warding id money would not be delayed in the least. Daring the after noon tin- officials of the American board in charge of Congregational missions nut informally. Nothing was talked of except Miss Stone and the matter of the ransom. The offl" ciais personally contributed to the ransom, but as ofl'u ials they took tin position they have taken till along, that it would be inadvisable for tliein, lis a mission board, to pay a ransom -this for the reason that it would bo putting a premium on luiganduira that must in the end make snissfottere. work in wild and rough count ne pivrc dlfheutt und possibly rmpractice blc. :ffer thi- bueting it was oAciallfj tdven out that the state department " .... tit Wnhtngton has agreed tO take ful chartfe of the delivery of the ransom tO the brigands, Prealdem Low neala. New York. Oct.. 8. President -thj Low deliveretl his farewell address to, the ofAoera aad stadenti f plumbis university, yesterday . on the OCCSaioa of tin- opeaing of the one bumired aaai farty-eighth academic year of that la tltUtiOa. the opening cm rOlaSS were hehl, for the 'irst, time, in the ii" university hull. Mr. Low definitely anaasjaead, la his speech, iwst he bad forwardetl his resigna'ion to the trustee of the university. During the nftrrnoo'i the trustees, accepted Mr. Low's sesignutn.