Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 44, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 November 1901 — Page 6

Weekly Courier.

t . IMUM:. I'nl.li.Scr. JASI'EH , ; : INIHXNA. i he Italian authorities took vigorous raet.sures to prevent contemplated anarchist demonstrations in celebration of the electrocution of Caolgean According 10 atatistftee of the lnu-r national soviet y of London the sug-.n production of Europe for 14ol is estimated ut 5,92..ö4 ton, which is an Incrctise of 21 .".4 1 ton ilpOO Inst year's output. Aa reported ly Hrt.dstreets. failure for the United States, fee the ' ended on the 1st atUMhered lit, M against 227 lust week. Canadian failures for the werk numbered 17, against 16 last week. Madame Wu Ting Fung, wife of the Chinese luisistcr to the United St.it. arrived at San Francisco, on the -"Jth. on the steamer tluelio. from China. She m accompanied by her daughter. Miss Wu Sn t hing. The hat and umbrella factory at Manila, employing 90O hands, which recently found it necessary to close, thus constituting the first labor problem growing out of the new tariff, has iecided to remove to Hong Kong The monthly statement of the pule lic debt, issued on the 1st, showed that at the cloae of business October SI, 1901. the debt. Im sank in the treasury, amounted to l,fltMM,ft a decrease from last month of MS, Referring to the plana of the duke af the Abruwi to visit American waters, the Koine Italic mivs he will usmme command of one of the fastest Italian eruisera next January for a royage of 14 months alone; the coaat f America. A dispatch from Constantinople ays that 30 officers of the Turkish navy recently mutinied oil account of rrears of pay. ami proceeded to the palace to make a demonstration. The WfHl sent an aide-dc camp with an instalment of the money due ihcm ind the officers thereupon desisted. Washburn college at Topeka, Kas., has received a gift of $."iO,o0 from a l!i ks ton man on condition that in name be absolutely withheld. Me specifies that the money shall be used for building an astronomical observatory. The trustees of the college have accepted the gift and its conditions. Cable advices from Colombia, revived in New York city, on the 30th, UUMWDCCd the discovers of a conpirney against the g eriunent in which the minister of war. tien. IVndro Nel Ospino. was implicated, t.en. Ospino has been deposed, and imprisoned in fne 1'anoptico military jail at Bogota. Gen. Hindus reported, on the 31st, the complete rar render of the insurgents in the island f ('elm, tinnslaf Ing of 4äO men and to officers, with 150 rifles and eight field pieces. The pouring of troops tut the island of Samnr is believed 10 have had a food effect on the Cebu insurgents, who had been wavering for some time. The T. P. A. World's Fair hot. I. projected as the ItrgMl hostelry in the world, will, if promise! are kept, soon be in course of erection on one of the eminences just south of the Louisiana Purc hase exposition site, o close to the fair sis to overlook the buildings within and to look at a distance like a special feature of the ex position. The estimates of the expenditures of Ike interior department dartag the fiscal year beginning next July aggtogate 1170,000,000, of which M2.PU.tüo j aaked for pensions and the administrativ i work of the pension bureau. $1.'.' I .70 1 'ing salaries of tic bureau per;-onnel and $.;5n,(.iin for the Invt-stint ions by special exam inert of pens uii cases. i i... i- a in. - Mrs. Elizabeth llandbury, who sa. born Jaaa 17'.:t, died in London on the list. She v. as a cousin of Sir I'hornas Sanderson, permanent under secretary of state for foreign nffaii-;, nd Sir Perry Sajnderson, british cntiml L'enernl at New York. Mrs. Handbury iM-eatne n(table, half a century ajfo. in prison reform and other phi lanthropic matters. The monthly statement of government receipts and exfendit ures, isencd on the 1st, shown that for the month of October, 1901, the total receipts were $4!.n;u,9.".:i. and the expenditures $40,(345,835, which leaves a urplus for the month of $9.186,117. Keceipts were nearly $2,000,tKM) leaa than for October, 19O0, and the expenditures nearly $7.300,000 leas. A dispatch from Constantinople, oi. the loth, said: "The negotiations for the ransom of Miss Kllen M. Stone, the ibdweted American missionary, are progressing satisfactorily, it is understood: but beyond this, those havIng them in hand maintain absolute Secrecy, as they are convinced that publicity would be detrimental to Miss Stone's interests and safety. " The municipal council of Havana tins rejected all bids for the sewer Ing and paving contracts, taking the position that it had previously expreuel dlaapprorsl f the specificaf.ons and conditions of the bidding; that the pres. nt bids involved grave erroiK, that the naatelpol B0Bttt1 docs not have at its disposal the necessary funds, despite its ereilt efforts to obtain them, mid that the eitj ear not make OOOtfXrta in the pen taa until the money is provided.

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e-i-4-s-e . . linXTfI1 mAvaTriCI C UK REM TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. In order to facilitate the moving of pnal. and to relieve the blockade at the adaea, Ibc Penusy lvmiiu Kailrond (.'o.. on the 90th, decided to place oriaaa launediat l for l.i.ooo pressed fctcel ears. Warren ('. Hilieta, a proniineiit civil fiigineer. ami candidate on the republican ticket for county surveyor at the approach i n if election, died of heart disease on the street of Denver, Got on the .loth. He was 4s year of nee. t lajBja Ospina. the Colombian minist i r of war, who as recently arrested on the charge of conspiring to oust Acting President Marroquin from oflce, itublHunly denies that he has hail any connection with a conspiracy against tho govei nmeut. In tea federal court at Tecumseh, 0k la., on the ioth. (i. V. K tick pleaded guilty to having shipped 5o0 ipiail from Oklahoma to Chicago, and w.ilined a total of $200. It was rumored in SoBsl I n t inople, on tht -ist. that Madame Tallica, tho companion of Miss St , and V -r child (born sine her capture by the brigands) are dead. The American Sutrar Keftalng Co., on the .1st, reduced rennei sugar grades Nos. 1 to .'. ten points, and Nos. to ir. inclosire, II potato. Avhuckle l'.i thera and Howell a Bona reduced their prices on refined graON -ten paints. President Koosexeit and Secretary Cortelyou will leave WaahinfjtOB, on the 4th. to vote at home. The president will vote at Oyster Bay, L I., and Secretary 'ortelymi at BcaVB stead, L. I. Archbishops Ireland of St, Paul and Riordan of San Francisco paid their respects to tin president at the W'h to House on the Hat. It seems reasonably certain that Col. Zach Mulhall, of Mulhall, Okla.. will ic appointed !r' rotor of Ottlahoma by President ROOOI v, It. (",d. Mulhal is rery popular la the territory. The port bf Live f pool, England, has been declared infected with bvbonM plague, and France and Italy have declared qaaraatiae against all ri i gels hailing from that port. Despite the effort - of American officials and mtaslOnarlei tO convince 1be brigands holding Miss Stone captive that it is impossible to raise the rantom of $110.000. the latter have thus far declined to reduce their dOOMMtd by a single dollar. Wh. n the criminal court at Omaha. Neb., convened, on the ::lst, it arai discovered that a ton of silver bullion, brought into i-ourt us an exhibit in a junk-stealing ease, had Biysterionaly disappeared. The janitor snid four men, with n drav. earteo it away. The war department has decided to fend to Manila the Kleventh cavalry, including the f or troops now at .!!'- ferson HarrneKis. St. Ixuis, and Ik Twenty-eighth infantry, now in the itatea f Mabn and Waahiogtook Kllis II. Roberta, IreataarOt of the I'nited Stales, in his report of the transaclion of his office during the last fiscal year, aaya thai kao treasury was BOTOr Stronger than at MM close of that period. Karl IttiKscll anl Mollie Somerville were remarrieii in Loadon,da the Ilog, the enrl having served his tliye months' aOttteace for bigaau and ajia first wife having secured an absolute divorce, thus hearing the way clear. ('en. Masso Im. issued a manifesto to the count ry, saying that the unavoidable duties of patriotism ohllgv him to present himself as ,i eandit'i.t e for the presidenev of Uta "jlan republic. The federal grand jury M JoMdnaa, Tenn., has returned an ladtctlOO' B' a i list Census Knnmerator .lames Es Ciooch, containing I II COOBtO, ea-h count charging the putting of a fictitious name on the census returns of McXairy county. The jury, at Helena, Ark. in the case of Frank Cannon and William Kelly, tried for the niuidr - (f laaM Lane and his wife. Inst snminer, returned a verdict of murder in the first: degree, on the P. 1st. alter being out just four minutes. The monthly circulation statement issued on the 1st, by the comptroller of the currency showed that at lie Close of business October 31, 1901, the total circulation of national hank not-es was $359,91 Mft, an increase for the year of $Jm,-M8,270, and for the mouth of I i.osi.1.;:,. The monthly coin. ice statement. Ismied on the 1st, of the coinage executed ut the mints of the United States, shows that for the month of October, 1901, the total coinage was IfijL's.Hr.s. follow Gold, $5,750.000; silver, $2,701, 4ss; miner coins, $s7, 'Hi. It was announced at the Xcw York ubtreasury, at the close of businesa on the lat. that the total bond purchases by the government for the tie t day ummintcd to 1,'J72,170, par value, and with premiums, tl.lfslllt 13.

A dipuih Itoiu Lord KHcUcu r, dattd Pretoria, and received i Lon don, on the 1st, said t li.it Col. Kikes wi. h. rinrinf nignt anrprlaa at Vni yi i s : ii. oortheaat ol guate burg (about sixty miles west of Pretoria), captmid 7s bm is i he n.ivv depart im-nt, on the 1st oi deicd the ciinboat M vrietta to Colt to relieve the gunboat Mathias, uhit h had boon vv atch i ng ov cr nlTaira at that point for some mouths past. The i ru u spart Kilpai rick sailed froto San Piani isco, on the 1st, for Manila, with 140 recraita and oaauaht and a !! Dumber of cabin paiaangan The statement of 'be treasury UOV anrea In the general fuml, aselnaiv of the IlihMMjQOO gold reserve in tht division of redemption, issued on the 1st. showed: Available cash balance, $i75,i.r.:." .7: gold, Kio.:i4f.i9;i. No adcUtiooa cases of tho plagua had been reported In Ulaagovi up ti the ist. Two hnadred employe t the Central Stat on hotel were eonlined to the hole 1 preci i icts ft.r ohatt at ion.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Halser Pace, his wife and two sons, living utur Massilhui, O., early on tha morning of the 9d, were tortured by bnrglara until the gnvo op over si,000 in ct rtiticatcs of depOSil antl $40 in niont v . I he burglars set fire to their victims' hair anil thieatened to roast tttCJU alive. One of Kac. 's sons may not recover. The burglars escaped in rigs stolen from Hace. Membera Of the New York board of trade and transportation have issued a call for a special meeting. November 7, 1901, to consider "Commercial reciprocity.'' The call is addressed to members of the board who arc engaged in manufactures, ami is signed by Win. Carroll, of the American Leather Co.. and many other prominent concerna. A dispatch from Constantinople, on the 3d, aaid: "Nothing is publiclv known here, beyond what has all ads been cabled to the press, regarding the Wherenbonta and fate of Mis Ellen M. Stone, the abducted American missionary , or the proirress of the t egotiatioua for her ransom. In the absence of news, there ia considerable disquietude." Li Bong ( hang, who had lx'en mrkraalj Ut, was deoUtred better on the 3d. Mis phjrakiiana diagnoaod the mnlady as ulceration of the stomach, ai d the bcnUTrhageo hatl been si vt re. Aa a rule, he is an int i act i ble pntient; but. having- been told that his life depended upon his adhering to a liquid diet, he complied vv 'th the nictlieal orders. Kniest H, Wntitls, news editor of the New York Tribune, has been nppointed World! fair eaonasiaoionor to I'eru. Beuador, Coioaabia and vcne ueia. Mr. vVoada has traveled over and writ ten a Isiok about South America. He speaks and writes the Spanish language with ease. The Bghl between Boen onoer Gen, Louis Hot ha ami Col. Itenson'a column Dear Braltentnngto, eastern Tranavaal, mi tirst reported as a Hritish defeat, proves in the and to nave bean a Boer rout, in which th.-v i si three times as many men as did the Britink. BOUao'a band received a memorable ovation, on the id, at the close of ita rngngentent at the Otnngow onkiht how. rhc erowd wanted to cany the eondnctor aa their shoulders." Mr. Eloona began i tour of the ptwvuaeeo, on the 4th. at Middleaborniitfb. The stennier Dtvlphin arrived nt Porv lOWnaend, Wash., on the 4th. from BkaoTway, brutgtng t9i aaanaaaaera, most of whom were, from Dnwaon, anl the last to come up the river before navigation cloned, laaaaiigc 1 1 reportetl that Ihivvson has prat t it-ally gWM into vvinter piartera, and active preparations have be-n BMdo for winter mining. Atl i t (. en. Corbin. on the 4th. received a verj beautiful gohl-litud silver punch bowl and silver stand for glasses from officers of his old regiment, the Twenty-fourth infantry, m which he served over twenty year-, tiro, before he was transferred to the adjutant general's department. This reni neat is now in the Philippinen, Kiiit' Kdward, at a meeting of his privy council, on the 4th. StgWOd MM jirtH lain.it ion giving him his new title, as follows: "Kdward the Seventh, by the grace of ;d of the United lUngdon of Qrent BritaJo and Ireland ami of the Hritish dotniniona brwnd the sea king, tiefender of the faith, and emperor of India." The New York clearing house, on the 4th, reinstated the Seventh na tionnl bank to full Masbornnip. The action was taken on a favorable report from a elenrinirhouse commitU which MVentftgatoi the plan for reorganüttng the bank. The late Z. S. Holbrook, of Kos ton, gave to Yale university a fund, the income from which shall Is- g rktod into prion) of $:0 and $2.1, to he awn riled for the lt. two essays by metnhcro of the Yale divinity school. Kire, on the 4th, practicalh destroyed the business part of Clifford. U miles southwest of Ma.wille. N. 1).; loss, fSO.(MS): insurance, f.'l.onn. fho I're probably was started by burglars In their attempt to blow h safe. frit Maer, a prominent democratic potttieion f Mnnehester, f)., was. on the 4th, shot and kille by Ike Hill, I deputy marshal. Cd Kvans. former depufv marshal, was slightly injured while acting as MuiecmakCTi Atinonnoemattl nl an increase ranging from gg.So to f 10 pir month in the wagCO of SOle.'iaph ox ratora 00 the BaxletOO r .Mahanoy division of the lebigb Vnlley railroad was made at Haleton, Ph., on the 4th. It is known hat the Hocrs got nwav with the two irons captured from Col. Itcnwon's column in the re it nt engnnjOHMnt near Brakenlaagte, eastern Transvaal.

NEWS FB0H IMHANA Laust wappenings Within the borders of Our Own State. roelnlaa tun lelre anae, None Pa am. lad Kov, 4.- ArchUahon t 1 ist ic. af Oragua, and Wahof tr.h. of VaatianHf vvho are 00 their way in Washing 1 on 10 at it mi tin annual convocation of MahOB aim aichbish-

Ops an- staying at ina anivrrsiij mr M tew uav s. 1 in arcn iiisnop a .ru . in kit ...... . a reception on his arrival there. 1 he EtetTC Dnnm band, under Prof. Hoche. aatrenaned him at the main l.uiliiing. At tlinner the large reftctorv was draped with if"'"' au I blue lace and palms. I he archhisln p. in roaponaotn an address of we'eonn. aajada a short apoaco to the ataatenta, in n Kleh ba paid 0 glowing tribute to tht im i v rs i I v . At the Washington convocation, MgV Conatv. rector of the t 'at Indie university, in to be raised to the dignity of a titular hiahop. Verj her. J. A. Znhnt, provincial af the Order of the Holy Cross, will rt present the l'niv rsity of Notre Maine at the ceremoniea of the cousi era t ion. Die mm I'rt-tlieted. Laporic. luti.. gov, . Lela May Bhippee, died Boudoj. night in strange folnllaaent of her propbeej ..f bev oa demise. Several dtj - ago Mi BblppeO lt held a vision in which tha PeaHtlea of the future life were vividU revealed. The vision brought great joy to her. and dl. predicted that within two daya she aronld die. At the t lose of (he v lalon Miss Shipper was ill. She at once rapidly grew worse, ar.tl until she passed into unconsciousness she could not be shaken la her belief that the had been called from life in the vision. Prehistoric tirav-srd Kosnd. llaget-s! ovv n. Ind.. Nov. 4. About a 'year ago the skeletons of several human beInga w re uncovered by workI aaea to gravel pit near Bogeratown. The hones indicat-d that the) wtre of ! a race of which nothing is. known in i history. Recently other skeletons I have been found mar the SOBSC spot, I and I tjuantity of beads and other ornamt nt. All the ornam-nts and implements uncovered are of atone arid are skillfully made. One of the skeleton i that of a man who probably ! was eight feet tall. najOrOOaj Fire t Knot. Kin.x. Inc. Nov t. fin j- d!ai covt red id C. H. Conrad's grocer J Sunday morning. A strong lrte una I blowing, and within M Bklnntt - the residence and book store of A. E. Ham. . the bowling alley am! billiard ha!' of Ro) Coup, the hardware store of . I. M. White, and the K. P. hall, the ground floor occupied by Short Hrrs." grocery. were also no fire, am the bnildinga wer- frame exct pt the K. P. bit ck. Winn the fhtnaoa were rxtlnguisbed the damage was found to be $'U.0o0. Hndlr Hsrt in the ! Ipa. Kokome, Ind.. Nov. 4. Word hns 1 reach d lo re that Miss June Heed. Kokonio's noted violinist e. wa -eri..iislv injured In the mountains of Switzerland last week. Miss Hud. who has i J been in Ilcrlin for a year receiving in- , ! struct ions, was with a party of stuI dents on a vacation. In the mountains I the coach upset, and all th passenger i I were hurltd some distance on the I rocks M'ss Heed's back and nip were badly crushed. Died Volga i i In the Philippine. o. Ind., Nu 4. Kelativei in Porter count v havi 1 1 veil word of t ht li-aifi . I St rt". Crank Stii.be ina noagHtol in the Philippiaea. BUhbo had a .plendii! record as a sohlier. He i enlisted froni Porter county, and his j parents resid. rjrar Chesterton. The j body has been shipp-d to San Francisco and will arrive here in a few ! weck. Stihbe's term of fOliataMffat expired a ft w days after In was taken ! sick. Prof, khnaaw baheea whBBh. t raw fortlsv llle. Ind., Nov. 4. - Prof. , William ). Kmery. of the d-partmetit ' of sbemKltry In Wabash college, has resigned and the rcntgnatiee ha bean I acceptetl. His siieccaacf is Dr. ,1. H. tiarner. of the Hradley institute, of : Penria, DL The rCagnatlofl of Prof, j Emery is due to business compliesI lions aris ng from the numerous enterpriaes wiih which the prefoooaf ia said to lie eontieeted. rrnahed Her Skafl. Klora, hui.. Nov. 4. Mrs. Sarah Milburn, a widow near this city, was faj tally injured. During an altercation with Nt vv ton fiarrion, a teaool roald ing on her farm. OOrTtoon strnek her I on the head with a pteea of ft -i.ee rail, ' fracturing her skull. The doctors .say she cannot live nanjnliiai. (Jreerr-hurg, Ind.. Nov. 4. The jury in the case of the State against VilII a SB fiard, "charging him with assault and bntterj wtte intent to morder ( in BOC l.inville, brought in a verdict of BCOntttnl. fiard provetl he did the cutting in aclfdefenao, 4ppnntment. Washington. Nov. i. -The president Mondoj appointed John H. Hontit II. of ( raw fordsvirio, I ml., co! lect or of i n t ernal revenue for the S venth Indiana district. Made Hla P.acape. Co'iiimbus, (., Nov 4. Charles hoeerv, a notorious Ohio bank robber and outlaw, was rescued from a prison guard who mis taking him to the pettitentinry. lied pepper was- thrown in the ofllcer'd eves by accomplices, who terrorised the pesseagers eo the train and assisted l.nwery to escape. Ovation to Snnaa. Condon. Nov. I Sousa's bantl rei v ! n memorable ovation Saturday night at the close of Us engagement at thi OtaOgOW exhibition. The erowd wanted to carry the conductor ou their ahouiiiera.

I DAY Of IDR.

President Roosevelt Issues His First Proclamation Appointing a Day of Thanksgiving. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER TWENTY-EI6HT. -roe entsannt fhst, ia spit oi the Hreenl stlossl Sorrow, S) leople on l.srlh Have Such AhMMdast tsuM for ThaakaalvIna mm We. Washington. Nov. 4. President Roosevelt has appointed Thuraduy. November -S, as a day of national thanksgiving to, pi m -lamat ion as follow a: rrurlamnlluni The season is nigh when, according to the time-hallowed custom of our people, the president uppoinis a day us the especial occasion forpri.isc and tbaiiksuiving to Qod. This thanksgiving fimls the sople still bowed with sorrow for the death of a great and good presitlent. We mourn Präsident McKinley, at so loved anil honored him; and the manner of hia tenth should awaken n the breasts of our jieople a keen anxiety for the country, and at tht same time a rerolute purpose not to be driven by any calamity from the path of strong, orderly, popular liberty which, as a nation, wu have thus far safely trod. Yet. in spite of this great disaster, it is nt vert helem true that no M-ople on earth have such abundant cause for thanksgiving as WO have. The past year in particular has been one of peace and plenty. We have prospered in tiling:- material, and have been a'.le to work for our own upliftii g in things intellectual and spiritual. Let us remember tliat. as much has lieen given us, much will be expected from us; and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips and shows itself in (Veils. We can b.st prove our thankfulness to the Almighty by the way In which, on this earth and at this time, each of us docs his duty to his fellow snen. Sow. therefore, I, Theodore Booaevett, president of the United States, tlo nereby designate as a any of general thanksgiv inr, Thursday, the Mta of thin present November, and do recommend that throughout the land the people cease from their wonted occupations, and that at their several homes and places of worship reverently thank the diver of nil good for th countless blessings of our national life. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the ("niieil State? to he aflixed. Done at the City of Washington this second t'ny of November in the year of our Lord line thousand nine numlred and one. ami of the imb pt-nilt nee of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth. I BlgM tl I "THBODORK Hot is R v i : LT. Hy the President: John Hay. Secretary of BtetOSV SMALLPOX AMONG INDIANS Reports of Kafallllea Asoag Hlnin liHiciir Said to he Ksnaaersted. ht Omaha. Neb., Nov. 5. The report that maligna at aunllpoi is aahleaa. c and causing scores of deaths among the Indians on the Winnebago reservation appears to be exaggerated. Deputy United States Marshal Allan, who returned from the Yinnelngo reservation last Saturday, says tht' the deaths to that date rOaalting from smallpox onsnlasrod M It hail been ten days since an Indian had died, and it is the opinion of the agency doctor that the disease is now under control. Ahont one hundred Indians are now afflicted with smalhpix, but every precaution is being taken to prevent its spreading. LIVES LÖST ON LAKE CLEAR. Two Travellna Men Go Flahlsa aad Were I'rnhrMy Drosvaed la a saall. Mason City, Ia., Nov. 5. i. f Montgomery and N. 8. Bird, traveling men of thin city, have probably lost their Uvea on f lear lake. I.ast Haturday the two men went duck hunting on the lake, using a small boat. At six o'clock in the evening a squall came up. and neither men nor boat baa been seen since. Hoata pat rollet! the lake all day yesterday in search of the missing men, but no trace of them could lie found. Montgomery represented a manufacturing concern of Piano. 111., and Itird traveled for a Bt. Louis hardware firm. Iloth were well known. laereaae of Waeea Aaaoaaeed. Haleton, Fa., Nov. 5. Announcement of an increase ranging from gjjfl to $10 per month in the wages of telegraph operators on the llnzleton & Mahanoy division of the Lehigh Valley railroad was made haf S jOOtOt Jav Katal quarrel Over a Tana Lot. titithrie, Okla.. Nov. 5. At Mountain Park. town in the ne country, Frank limes and Martin W .sch quarreled ov er a tow n lot. I tines shot Welsch dead, in self -defense, it ia ab j teg ed.

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m trvldMt r the Wssau' SO. limn l tiwHtlllr uf hew lurk lnlerll. New x'ork, Nov, .".-The nonacll New York unlvaroite, in onnu aten yooterclay, ei-'ted Mi.s ii. Miller 0 ti preeidonl of Una an' atlvisoi v eomnsltteo. t hau Met ret hen. in his icport. n . ed that s sowualttaa ba sppuiutt consider plans for a oe Is brat l'.io., ,t tin- savantj tifth annit of tin- nntvomitjf. The oxpedienej o nader eoi tion tf nndertnkiag go seeare bj one or both of two additional namely a million dollars for gru and bvJIdlngo, ami OCOOd, M tive endow ineiit fund of one B dollars. At the mttntldy meeting of trusties of Columbia nnivernity, l'i Untier nnnownood a gift of a va onOecttoa nl tventna wunn nrosented to the aoiveraitj i.v p ber of Porsees in India, also from Kdward Delaven Perry, win. just retnrnad from Athens. tf .s. hundred impressions of Qreek script ions. AWARDED THE BIG PRIZE The KMMNS Irin Offered fur Utrlaihle Hu 1 loon Awsrded n M. SNlS-lHMUBt. Paris. Nov . .V -The commlttei of the Aero elul, by a vote of . yesterday pro-laiincl M. .ii ' sent, the Draiiian aeronaut, !. winner of the prize of lOO.UOO fra offered by M. DoVtOCkO for a ble balloon. The vote w as preceded by a a discussion. Count Dion, who pn ed, while eulogizing the com., M. Santos-Duinont, contended that had not won the prize owing to time limit. Prince Holaml Honaparte, on t of the special committee who wat the contests, declared that M Dumont had materially ami inwon the prize, bceauee the new ri latititi as to the time limit ofllciallv indorsed bl the Aero clu NEW LIQUID AIR COMPANY A Jtrw Corpairstlon that I'nu tu Maaafactare Kverrthlaa, taster the San. Allmny. N. Y., Nov. 5. The Cot dato! Menkl Air Co., with cipal oflices in New York city, Incorporated, yesterday, with a i ital of fl.OtSl.OOO. The compai v poses to manufacture litpiid air refrigeration, power, navigation, ical applications; the QiBOOfni tim steels and acids, -anil for other -ehanical and scientific purposes. I I company will also manufacture to locomotives, tt utomoliiles, statioi enginis, elevators and 'vther mov vehicles, and plants in which hgH lir may be applied. GEN. PUNST0N MAY COM E HOMt The- Dnaihlr Ksasaa Soldier Hill Shortly Apply fur Leave of Abaeaee. Kansas City, Mo.. Nov. .. I i tated that (ien. Fretleriek Fun I will shortly apply for lenv.- of nanOS from th Philippines and re1 to th I'nited States on a visit. It aaid that he ia recovering i from the opertation for api ti recently umlergone nt a Manila hof tab tien. Fred D. irant will, stated, likely succeed ien. Cut command of the San Fernand trict. THRI'.E CONFIDENCE MEN. Arrested at ew Orleaaa Helle. til to he the Waaaser iKoat.i Train Robben. New Orleans, Nov. 5. Kid V. Cterlee Holmes. Frank Smilev Wm. E. MeKernon were put arres here, Saturday night, el. . nith lieing confidence nun. V day the police received inforn that the men ore the Wagner i M train robbers, who lire known tfl come south after emmitti:.g sensational crime. Affidavits I been made against the men. will be held, awaiting further ad from Montana. Some of the tie stolen in the robbery, it is thought has been put in circulation here. COMPELLED TO DECLINE. Coartealea that Woo Id Have " Very Anreeahle I ader tuber Ctrcaasataaeea. Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. '. In declining an invitation to visit EsbOS! Admiral Schley assigns this as 1 -reason : "The fatigue incident to tin- pro longed sessions of the enli investigation has necessitated my tak Ing a iong rest, and 1 feel, there! that I am eorOpelleJ to decline roorte eies that would have been very Sgl nble to me to accept under ottvr cum stances. THE NETHERLANDS ACCEPTS (real Britain' Terms lor Settlement at Dutch ( lalai for F.saalülon From Africa Accepted. London, Nov. 5.--At Monday's -oion of the South African compel tion com mission, Mnj.-tien. Sir Ardngh, the representative of government, announced that I Netherlands had accepted Ureat Ut ' ain'a terms for the settlement of Ike claims of Ihjteh subjects for dimages aa the result of their esouldon from South Africa.

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