Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 45, Number 25, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 February 1903 — Page 2

Weeklu Courier.

C. UOANIC, Petollsaer.

9A8PEB.

Iltl INDIANA

CÜKRKNT topics.

THE SEWS IN BRIEF. FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

There were no dotl.s frotn tbs

plugu, at MH:itlan. .-u the lUk. Pop,- l.eo Mil. sslebrated ÜM twen-ty-uft h aanlveraarv of his eleentital ih r-.Mv.iv on the -Uth.

Judge lUn .in, i. author of a history of old Fort Massac, died at Metropolis. Ill on the Ittth of heart pa i a lysis. The White Star liner Cedrio. the largest rsssel ia the world, srrited at Kew York, on the ROth, "ti her muide. trip across the Atlantic. IOm Alice Ui'.- ;t occupied a hot n.-. i:.l!v decorated for her at tin- tall

of the Atlantena society, in ew Orkan, on the nigh of the 17th. At Columbia, i. C. on the l'.'th. the court refnscd tbs application for bafl made by farmer UenU-Gov. Tillman, charged with kUUnf Editor (ionales. The Kearsarge, Illinois, Iowa a d Massachusetts, of the North Atlas. i squadron, arrived at Calves: on. Tex., on the lath, ami will there be joined by the nrw Maine.

Fharle T. Russell, chairman of the Massachusetts civil service romnr.sion. ami brother of the late governor, died suddenly of apoplexy, at Boston, on the 17th. Andrew Carnegie, on the Wttb, added $125.000 to the endowment fund of the Carnegie laboratory of engineering at the Mfven institute of lenoology, in New York. The president sent to the senate, on the 17th. the name of James K. dar-

field, of Ohio, to be commissioner m corporations in the department of commerce and lalor. The West Virginia legislature, on the 17th. selected M m ' "1,;irine White, daughter of the governor, to christen the armored cruiser Weet Virginia, to be launched la April. e The Indiana legislature, on the 19th. decided on the selection of

George Bogere t lark lor me nonor o, the second Indiana statue in statuary Lall in the capitol at Washington. Aib.am jflhTTan was in Washingtor. on the Mtfc, and called on oW friends and acquaintances in the l. use of representatives, many of Whoaa he had served with .n congress. tk. -.irint. on the 10th. sent tc

the senate the nomination ol Judge William H DJ- 'lf 01 io-t0 he of the supreme COttrt ol the I Bites! States, ia place of Justice Stir, reigned. A meet inp of the employes of th Chicago City Bail way Co., on the 10th, .verted the threatened strike by votInp to submit the differences between the union and the company to ar. i-tration.

Associate Jwatice Shiras of the t'nited Btate supreme court tendered his resignation to the president, on the 1Mb. to takfl effect February .. Hn. illinm H Day, of Ohio, w ill be appointed his successor. Commander-in-Chief Stewart of the 1. A. B. wai given a public reeept n

in Chicapo. on UM 1TW, on ins .. . San Francisco to make arrangements for the annual encampment to i e held there this summer. Clarence ft, Darrow, of Chicapo elected to the Illinois legislature laat Ixovcmber, but who ha.l been engaged s counsel for UM miner before the etrike commission, took his seat at Springfield, on the Wh. The mnil pooch, with contents vnl-..-.i nt s.wnno. lost from a lVnnsyl-

Tania train l et ween Louisville and Chicapo a ihorl time BgO, was found n l im intuit L, on the 37th, hut BOW U pot there is pooling postal othcials. Fire destroyed the Tlifton hotel, at Cedar Rapids. Ia.. early on the morn Inp of the Mtls, cremated nine of the guests and caused injuries to U per on, who were either scorched by the flames or forced to jump to UM froaes street from toad Md third-story v Indowe,

The colored people of f- .b'eph. Mo., at a MMttag, on the 10th, called to prote-t igniaal tha 31m row iil row before the legislature, adopted resolution! asking the president and conpre to withdraw ti.e $:..ouo.t 00 Toted to the World's fair ia the eent the bill pa ' Letters hae bcCfl rer.-i.d hv the F Louis World' fair authorities tfcroogh Beereurj ol State Bay, from Morocco, statinp that the aultan would appoint a tOflllOBer at onee. Morocco has apppropriatcd $liM).(MK) for the evpoMtion. half 01 vhich is now available.

(Second hVston.)

In the eiu.i. . on t. K ther debute on the statehood .11 The lu'lian appreartatkm t'lil m.a th Phlunplne currwiic) (.I., wr luuli i'.oni -'r caileJ aiti-c.l'pii t.i h p.'int ol order wnic hv made .ikmuhU ! of the pro lutons of the Indian appropriation Mil. on J grouad that u erae u leaUlaUun. M .tul th" - aale I. .id sis.,l the ' ,' " J.ltie K.-v-titnent bill B rider t UM ÜB) a i s itlon bill, and yet ruled oth.-r Hi'i'i-.'i'fi.itMua out. All rules wer i..:.ted. ' -o.i. h. a a awI-Ttty wu in favor of an) me isura Mr M . poke on a Question of personal privileise, and complained that there was a hetrayal -f the .uate In the matter oi what transpired at executive session. The house .lis; 'f.d f a number or hllU th.- meat lini-i taut m. isui e paused

belna th- senate bill to emvna tnt mi.way n.if. tv appliance law. A special oraer was adopted whi. -h practically win m.ike the J". I r eurrt r. y hill a conttnutnK orde- for the remainder of the ses

sion. . In the senate, on the 17th. the conference r. port on the army appropriation hill was agreed to. Discussion Ol the tat. h 1 hl. I resumed. Mr 1'epeW continuing his remarks In opposition to It Tow .ir.l the end of the session Mr. Teller declared th.it himself and the countrv h i 1 teen In-ulted by some of Mr. Denew'e referer... to the une.jii.il repre

sentation m the senate At ' 1' " Senate adjourned The house beajan

consldi Ii n or tne n.nai uppi . " hill under the operation of a rule whu-h made the new Uatslatloii relative to the. Increase of ihc .-t -i.nel of 'he navy aii.l for the Incw ie - f the nival academy m order The general debate on the bill was j without special feature. The pararapn j In the bill providing for KSA.0M for a . t . I stall II on the Kre.it lakes was , Strusen out on a point of order. Mr. Ltttlefteld and Mr. duller had unite a clash before the naval bill was taken up. the former eharains the Utter with hav Ihr- perverted the record

in the senate, on trie im. mrre " " -Hv.-iv debate ov.r S. -.at-r WUay r. -- lütton declaring It to b,- the sense of ne , enate thai there should be a vote on the stateho.nl bill b. !..re the adjournment ol congress. To this proposition Senator M. i om.i reoffered Mr l'l.ttt s cloture resolution. tntroducet two years ago. which was pendln when the senate w-nt Into executive session The debate was very ceneral. and brought out the f.o t that the senate was strongly opposed to clot'ir - in any form The house by a majority of 2 to 1. rej.-eted the conference report on the army appropriation 1,111 be, i us f its provisions for the retlrem. '.t ..f ivil w..r officers at an advaneed grade and permitting nlhcers to

det.osit money won me .v. Kill three per cent interest, and sent the hi Kick to confer. The remainder of the dav was devoted to the naval bill, on which but little progress was made. In the senate, on the l'.'th. only ar. hour and : minutes was .-nt In open session, a , this time was dev. .ted to routine business and J asslng tills of no general imiM.rtiu.... fcnator Bailey secured conaUteratlon of the Sabine ras port bill, which has been the subject of consider.!- . . . . a... ft n .its W.1.4 IK'V i

reached The house, after a pr-.tr C 1 session, passed the naval appropriation bill. A gr. it many amendments were offered tO the provlsl. - r. Ulna to the . -tr. a so -I th- ,.. : :.. I and the aul h. txati..n of new ships to be built, the most important am. r.dment ad.ted U ' to autia rixe the -.- r- -..ry of th- navy it his discretion to purchase wiracti rr submarine torpedo boats after nv. -tl gatl n of their merits, and approprUt .ig S -. for that purp, se As passe. I the bill provides for three new bat lesh ps and an armor. .! . -r tvo steel trig ships and one wooden brig for tra nInt' purposes, in addition to the submarine boats atoCreUoaally authorised. In the senate, on the Mh. the entire dav was spent in executive session Considering the Panama oanal treaty, end at h tu d m a re. --s was taken until tne nil at l o .! .. k. No vote was taken on any of th- (menu v tuet have blen prepared by Henator Morgan.... Th. ho ie passed the fortifications apnr.r atton hill, adopted the conference " ' . - . i- - kin f..w ti i.rotei'tion "r

reports on ihc tl, . pr.-ident ..nd on the legislative, exerutlve and audi ,al appropriation b h and then spt nt about three h-ji rs wranglir.c over the Kowler currency bill. WhVn th-- house was ready for ., . .... .. . the bill the democrats began t tlllbuster. Mr Bartlett Oa de.iarlng It waauaelVs to waste time on a measure which it was not intended should become a law The ho..r- nnaily got into committee of

t." Wno I" 1 onri..- - '. urn..! on a -urn of the latet.-ss of the hour.

Three lnl.lrcn of Mr. und Mi. A. J. gif iwta bo. aped tinea, and a lm stgaja '"' ai s. w.-re t.illli.d tO death in I tire which dottroyed their pareala' house, near the towii of S, i... I.. on the 20th. George Stone, who after ten years atoapa waa recently brwnghl buck from i:npland t I McJfef t answer a vhurpe of niunler. w.ih found puilt.V, on the -"th. and .-ntcnciil to .ii care in the iM-nitentiarv . Admiral Sclilev. hen. do. Wlu-c.cr and Col. A. U. M.t lute were pixcti a rcc. ilion by the New lit leans PWN arevsive union, on the -Utb. o a... i L.

'l be report of the " i on aeaaii n department, published on the '.'oth. etinaatee the popahitsaw of Oreataf New York nt 3,73308.

The New Mexico lepislature, on the 20th. passed the bills creatinp QWJ and K.M. scv.lt counties. Thirty states were represented in the good road, convention which n et in Chicago, on the WIsV Brig.-Ota, 0 NV- Baird wti placed

on the retired li-t. on the -Otn.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The pope's jubilee, or the twentyfifth anniversary of his election, was ushered in, on the 2'Hh. .y a high mass in the basilica. I 'l. rated by Cardinnl Unnipolln. I-nter the pontiff received the cardinals urn! other lifnitiirie . who presented him with a gold tiara, value I M IM ''

rh-.t. rraths rind llerti'lm inens'.rfments receivi-il at St. I." iK OH ÜSt

ttth, fron England, fatly eetabiisn the identity of "UstlMJed. f. eyinour llarrinirton" and l'.arton, sliSt Hur govne, the sBllgUsi crook When confronted with .he pr..f T.a rrington" Bo longer denied his identity.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. fi.,,.,1.. Tie Lorraine, chief engineer

if the Monitor when she fonght the ftff ' anil l.iv Mill

.llfl I I II lal o"M found dead froin stphyxiatkm at their home in DruohljB, on the iota. A railroad train crashed into a trolley car crowded with children on their wy to sehool s1 Newwrlt, S, on the lvth. kllUi g I eJrt of them and injurinp many more. The Fountain Square theater, at Springfield. 0.. was destroyed by tire, .n the 19th. nnd three men wen? killed by being buried under the falling wnlls. reorient Mitchell of the 1'nifed

- fV-r-mm on tue Ittth. CM II. 1 ed

Millie ws an engagement he had made to celiver 10 lectures in the Chantauqua

course at .-uo each. The body of an unknown man waa found frozen to death and standing upright BgalBSl n harb wire fence, n. ar Joli t. 111.. M the lth. By the esplosion of a magaine at Fort Lafayette, N.-vv York harbor, on the VJth. four men were killed and seven others seriously hurt. The strike in the Cocheco cotton mills at Dover. S. H , in which 2,-

500 operatives were involve,,, was stied, on the 19th. n entire block of buildings in

Marion. 111., was destroyed by lire, on the Btghl Of the lth, causing a loss

of Jou.(iOO. .la ire? Dignan. I ra'.'road contractor, was killed by falling down r. light shaft from the third StOTy window of a hotel in Spokane. Wash., on the 2(ith A. KL Fatek. a eonstnble, fatally hot one man and seriously wounded another in an auction house in Chicasa where he had SOM for the pur-

! poe, of making a seizure, on the JUth.

An Illinois Central passenger 'ram collided with a freight at t.al-na. III. on the 'dth. result log in the death of three persons. l)r II. II. llo,,d. who served through

the civil war as ttrgaofi of an Illinois

regiment, died at LitchfMM, liu, on IM KKb. Lafayette Hmns, N,,v Orieane negro, barricaded tdaoself to a room . , .. i i !.. on, I, 1,, . wia

' and aenen arre- i,.,n I smoked out. and in attempting to . . . I. ' -

cape v,.s 1 1 i T IUI Kineo oy n )iowUlllll. Mnj. lien. hurles C. DoOliHle, wh. Snllstsd i" a Miehipin reglno-nt at the beginning of thS war and rose to ti..- rank oi brigadier generali died at Toledo. .. on the JOth.

In the senate, on the 51st. nenrly the entire dav was spent in executive session, While the doors were opsn tome routine business was disposed of. Consisting Of tlM presentation of

ru.titionK mi, renorts. me iiuk-oo-

tion of lolls and the passage of unobjected bills on the calendar. Upon resuming the executive session the Colombian canal treaty was taken up. Senator Quay had a report read, and senator lVtt'us spoke at some length. Senator Piatt (CoMu) also discussed the treaty.... The .lay in the house was devoted to debate on the Fowls eurrencv bill. Mr. Fowler, the SttthOff

of the measure, spoke for over two hours. The other speakers were Messrs, Thayer (Mass,), Lowing (Mass.), Lewis . .u.i and Prince (111.), j The German gosernsasnt, Ihroogh ts representative in Washington, Pron Speck v.m Sternberg, has made a reqaesi for the imssediate payment .'f the 55,000 which it wng Stipulated should be paid by Veneruela within days. Mr. How en ha replied that it will be pnid March IS, Ga, San Miqucl, with a force of well armed ladn-nes. nunihering 300, M keeping the constabulary in the viI daity of Manila busy. N.mictous I skirmishes are rej irted. Inapector

Mcllv.aine, at the head Of ten conventured, but after-

srnrds sacsped. Mary Kohland, np.-d 11 years, while running down the hill above the coke ovens at Coanshwille, Pa, on the niirht of the r.'d, fell and rolled into

one of the ovens. Men OrolvC into me oven and secured the body, which had been burned almost t a cinder. Five bedding were burned at McLean. Wh Oh the nicht "f the J-'d, casing a loss of sfSOBOO. It MM feared for a time that the town was

doomed. The BtOOSningtoa tire department responded to a call for assistance. Three white children nnd a negri were drowned in the flats south of Tallahasvp, Fla., on the nicht of thfl 21sf. the team behind which they were riding h-inu' the road in the darkness and getting into deep water. In some places between Evansville, i fr.rl. nnd Padttcah. Kv.. the Ohio river

was. on the Sh fully 13 mile wide, resembling an inland sea. r.r. llovil Wheat on. wfcfl was re

ported as seriously ill at San Fmsj etsco, is ""w ":iiu tn on roa to complete recovery. Tn the senate, on the 2nd, Washington's farewell SddreSS sas read by Mr. Dubois, of Idaho. The omnibus public building bill was p issed andtho pott office appropriation bill was ctiSidered without final action. Mr. riiimstn inoka for nearly tarn hours.

principally in reply to Mr. Spoot.er on the Indianola post office case ihe boose passed the general deficiency appropriation bill, the hu1 Of ti.e regular supply bills. The only amendment, of importance was one ,n,nriiitiiH' f 1.100.000 to replace

the stores and storehouses at the in.,.1.- Island arseoaJ recently de

strove-! hv fire. The bill to amend

the railroad safety appliance act was sent to confer.-. and the conferees were instructed not to insist on that

portion of the house amendment giving ISM interstate commerce commission power to reduce below M per cent, the number of cars equipped with patent air brakes, The American banquet in honor of Washington! birthday, in London, on the night of the Bd "H nn elaborate affair, and a number of prominent Fiigiislirnen were among the guests. President lrancis of the Louisiana whaas sfixBoaitton -., the guest of

bottör, made a (.'-od impression ou his Bngtleh hearers.

resident Itoosevelt, on trie -eo.

vetoed I bill j.lacinp Francis S. Uavi-

son, late S Rrst lleuieaaoi oi mnmm v;t.,.w .sivalrv. on the retired list.

Lieut. Davison was dismissed from ÜM army 27 years ago, and the president sayi i would be. an injustice to officer with honorable records to rstire Davison. Bear-Admiral Taylor, who commanded the battleship Indiana at San- .. was made the recipient of a bandsosna Untlsnonlnl sword, the gift of the people of Indiana, at the Indiana stat.. capitol. on the KM, Oov.

Dim bin made the prcsentat ion.

Associate Justice Slnras, oi tue United states supreme, eonrt, stepped down from the bsttch, an the 13d, after a large batch of decisions in asset which he had participated in hearing bad been banded dtrsrn, sad departed the m DM smnlng for Florida. P ic.it Hoosevcit has promised, if possible, to attend the l.a.i.uet to be given to the Honourable Artillery Company Of London, at Host on, in October. H is intended to make it the most elaborate banquet ever held in the United States.

WITHIN OI'R LIMITS. News by Telegraph from Varioui Towns in Indiana. louih'B ünme itsaMestsssh M,-hawaka. I DU., Fi I.. KS ThS A aesChrlstlas asaoelntiosi building srni dedieated. d somplstlon nwrks H' rrystslisatloa of ysnrs nl stnti by manofactarers of M ihnwnks to provide for oung SMS a retreat winch

would remove hem from ine innnew es of Die saloon, the srsmtdlngden ml

other places of vi.. M . Hslger, president of the grestesl Independent rubber Indnatry la th i altsd üntes, is a sntroa of the new Institution, April ti. liMiS. he subsi-ribed Si,000 tOS building fund, his wife followed with a check for tlrOO snd st 1 1- sams meeting over IUMMM was raised for the purpose of putting into execution the plans of the phiiaiithropiat, Th new bttlldtng was . red. .. at a cost of n bout IHgsj. it eoataina s library, readings room, gv mnnsinm, bow ling all) . amiitoriuui. musical departments and baths. Lev . C. M. Smii. of Sv rSCUSO, N. Y.. was in charge ol the dedicatory aerclses, sssisted by local ami nntner mis v Isltlng eiergy s.

a Min am.

Washington's Birthday Dinner Given by the American Society in London.

MANY PROMINENT BRITISH GUESTS.

The I h.ef rSSstSWS W..S the W. i iiirni leraaeta I

!....., rurehatae spssrtttsii, sne gnsMsd K,r r.io,iuciiti .

Iter me Posset Hosiss, South Bend, Ind., Pen. S3. A mob I 1M men attempted to vv ri ck the p. wer house of the Indiana Kailvvav eompany.

Seven men were at the power hOUSS win n the attach was made. The wntch

man, BSmcd Del t rich, was thrown bod il through a window and seriously iniureil. .1. A. Kitt and M. U lat.rwcre

badly pommeled. The attack was

planned for an hour wncn it SSSS thought the police could not reach the scene In force. Several urrtst were made. Among those srrested sre two former employes who vv en t on a St rike. Tiny will be charged with conspiracy, riot anil assaoll with intent to kill. The fire under ihc boilers VrSS floodsd.

Considerable damage was done. CeWttStetS l)e-ler.il luvnlid. Blaffton, Ind., F. i. SS. An Isnpor taut ruling has been made by Jadge F.. C. Vaughn in in iu net ion suits brought by proper tj owners of three streets seeking lo enjoin the city conncil smi the Hoosier Construction con pa ay, af

Indianapolis, iron; carrying oui ins oontrai-t for the paving of over 30 u::re of struts with bitutttinoas saaesdasB. He orerrnled the demurrer

tileil by the defendants ;' the speelfications of the complaint. He held that the proceedings of the council in the mode of letting the contracts were Invalid, and that the plaintiffs had good) ranee ,f action t enjoin the im prose"

unnt. !(fir Was t "leide. Logansport, Ind., Feb. 13, - Coronet Bet beringt OB to-daj rendered a verdict that Marlin Mvers, a Weli-tO-do farmer, had Committed suicide. The evidence showed that in cut tir.jz dow u

a tree Mjers had arranged it so that it would fall across a slump. Then he knelt in prayer, with his head across the stump, and waited until a gust cd wind brought down the tree, crushing his skull to a pulp. His body II brought here to be prepared for burial, and a brother was to take charge of it. The br.-i her has disappeared and n other relative has claimed the remains. tin Paaaea.

Indianapolis, tnt!., Feb. S3.- Bj a rote of .17 to .1 the senate to-tisy passed the house bill making the use of votins; machines coinnulsorv in all counties

containing a tritj f i::.kk population or over. The law goes into effect at once and the machines will be used in the next election The COUntkfS that comes within the provisions of the bill are: Vigo. St. Joseph. Wavne. Floyd, Madison. Flkhart. Yandcrhurg. Allen. Marion, Tippecanoe, Orsst, slsiportsi snd Delaware I.ake, f'lark. Knox and Howard are eSCSUpt by amendment. Jail for taOOflan Man. Hnntlngtoa, Ind., Feb, IS. Fireman D. Smith. SB rJt-nstmber of the Indiana leglslstarc and a promlueal politician. was sent, rued to .'10 (lav in jail sind to aav a fine of ISS OB a cbarire f

SSsaull With intent to commit murder. Mct'oy Laseiter, whose wife Smith had rlslted freoueotry, my in unit for him one night las Mav and Smith MSed a gun in hi efforts to e' t away. A damage suit also is pending sgsinst smith.

who is an extensive lan.l mi ner. Coetlj lire. Longnotee, Ind.. Peb. 83. This tosm has siitT. red the most costly tire in its

history. It start. .1 from nn overheated natural gsjl StOSS OB the seem! floor of the ihre. -story brich building oa n. d bj If. J. CnraBhuB, and occupied by the K.J. Cs rashes compaaj . wholesale and retail dealers in BSTtcUrtHrUl implements and hardware. The flames qnicklj spread toother bulhttngs.canaing. on the most eonsersstlveestlsjate a loss of $ ,0.000. I nrgpr sent , Prison. Vincennec. Ind.. Feb. :.'.; .lohn Si lby . Wh.., fonreries scwresrale 115,000, has

been sentenced to Michii'sm t u i least. He was agent for a .vcv York life Insurance company. He forged notes on fanners and then sold the notes to brokers. He is an alumnus of the lnlversitv of Indiana. Kell t ntlep the Wheels. Liberty, Ind. F h, S3. John Postei agnd IS, an employs Of the transfer firm of Greed A Bond, was killed by

n west-bonnd train while preparing tn nssist with the transfer of baggage to the train. He lllppel from the load and fell and r the vv heels. Former It r i r ef m i 1 1 v r Convicted. Port Wayne, Ind.. Pen, S3, Ibrnsci Stui, Rep latin F l. smith, of Huntington, was found guilty at "o lumbti Itj of small and bat terj vv i t h Intent to kill Met nv asiter as the .mt-

growth of S". Ith i Bttentlona lo Lai siter's w ife.

London. Feb. M, TsM dinner gltsm, Monday night, by I ho Americas. I . ciety. in honor of Washing ton's birth

day, was the occasion for a brill. an!

assemblage, the chief reaturs oi w is the welcome girnn to P 1- ' ''"' els, formerly I'ldted States secretary o Ihc interior and president of the Foaisiana Purchase F.xpohitiou to. und the vrishea of success t., the ex .. :,; iwMud bv the speakers.

The duke of Devonshire and Lord Londonderry, members of the cnWnet, Officially voiced the good WlU M the' British government, v. bile sue i representative Englishmen as ths lord nayors of London .md Bristol, the lord t.rovost of Qlssgow, Lord B trnth COBB and Lord Rothschild. Lord Fairfax and the following members of tM house of commons: Sir Charles Wiks

j. II. Dalnel, Sir nioinas wewar, Joseph Lawrence, Ebcnxer Parkes Sir Ollbcrt Parker and Joseph Wal ton. all gave expression to theil heart v wish.-. Among the well-hnown American present were Ambassador I hoatc, COBSOl-Gsnernl Henry t lay Kvan . Stanford Nsmrell, minister to The Netherlands; .lohn Barrett, T. W. i rnll.-r Melville F. Stone. Mar-Hall

Halsten I. 1. Hunsicker, Halsey C. Ives, of the St. Louis exposition i i apt. riper, deputy police eosamU" sinner of New- York, all the I nitel BtStea rmbnsoy Staff and many foreign representatives of the St. I-oun exposition. Bignor Marconi was als. isiifiwl and received an attention

scsrcely second to that paid to 'he president of the St. L.uis exposition. The duke of Devonshire, in BTOpoairg the toast "The President of tl": l. nitod States." referred to Mr. BoosS veil us a man who bad made Iii mark us successful civil service reformer a great ddsnlnlstratOT, a gallant inili

tary leader and an emiBCni statesinai, in whom he snw an Intelligent and

enriio-t friend of F.ngland.

"Never in nny prsrrionfl time--." he daks of Devonshire, "have AngloAmerican relations been more cordial Both peoples are in fairly good hOBSOl with themselves, and so it is unlikely that they should be in a had bttM r with each other. "I welcome the tendency on the part of the United States tO take a Wgmr and keener Interest in affain uitsi.le the America continent." Embassador Choote, following '.n the same Strain, declared that any kind Of vvnr on any kind of subject between lireat Britain and America would be not only a gn at calamity, lait an unspeakable crime. . a

Mr. Francis eloipicntly uesCTiaeo the motive nnd SCOpS of the St. aua IXpoaitioa. He gave detailed tigures. showing the care with which the money was expended to make ever paaas of tsM exposition perfsel and useful to European exhibitors and

visitors, in short "a golden milestone In the highway of human progress sru' a colon:, tion of civilisation. He referred to the Irst great in

ternational exhibition in London since then. Mr. Francis continued England has always been fully represented at every universal exposition He urged that the country sin old not he behindhand at st. Loans, where, h sekf, no guest would be more welcome. "1 feel sonn- delicacy in referring to our consanguinity us a motive which should impel you to be an active part icipant at the feast of which your kin-mien are the host. ..or would it be becoming in the president of ihis universal exposition to designate ss the seat of honor Hie plnCSJ at the table te be occupied by ton mother country. Yn Seed no as

surance, however, from the exposition amnagessent, from the load f our government or from the American people t bat no DSM could honor UH more nor any one be given preecd-em-e over you. We f,,,l justitiell in predicting that the attendance at the exhibition will not only be universal from within the limits of our coun

try, extensive ami popUIOUl as ir is, bnt that the dtiaeni of every civilised country in the globe will visit lis in representative numbers, attracted as they will be not only by the merit of the exhibition, but by the ib-sire to SBSJ in their own abode a people who. within the past half decade, have started out upon u new policy, taken up new problems and assumed new responsibilities; Sj people whose exmnl, and Influence command and

merit . disc ITS nee Olid study. 0 people

whose reputation for hospitality is win le sou led and proverbial."

.lohn Barrett proposed the heath of the "British exhibitor." and in the

tonrSS of hi- remnrks urged the Unit

ed Kingdom to make of 1 lie laum

rxnosition another dm bar.

i.oni Londonderry sim Bir Kiiwarn John Po v liter, president of the Ib-val .,, ol.inv- renlied. nromidng their ik-

iatance in making the British exhiost

a auceess.

GERMANY IS INSISTENT.

The .erM.a f-lss HeMsa

llwld of Soswe of Vriiesuriae Mpwre l ols. Washington. Feb. sUHlIf tailed la the effort In obtain from Mr Bowen the immediate payment In aaah of Use IM wbish it was provided in the protocol ..f February 13, should be paid to tiermany .1 .lays from .late, tiermany baa rc.pi.sted Mr How en to give a draft for the amount payable in Caracas on the latter data. Thi request xvas made on behalf of the b-r-K...V bv Herr Faita.-

oui ii . 1 .- - - . . . .i ...,.... tv cbare-e ii allaiii i at t ara-

CoV but who has since collie to Wash

ington and has n assisting the embassy in the pending negot uil ions. Mr. Bossen W:,H nffnln fnwed tn decline thi reipiest, which he did olltely, Si the same time rcmindilif: Berr Haltai that he was bound bv the terms of the protoc I, n bo h orovided thst the 508 sboald be ik. -.,!. Amm nt

panl at v aracas on . March to ÜM diplomat. - ic,ie optative of tiermany. Just what reason was given by the lierina rcpr. sent.v f..r mskiae the rWOVMSt is not

known. Such a draft, however, it is presumed, WOnld be negotiable and the result would be that the t.ermaiu could in. mediately obtain the money it called fur.

FAST MAIL WRECKED. Tli Krisen Weteor Jomi Hi Trees, at ArllnuJon. M,. Tl- Kill ami Injured. riixon. Mo , Feb. 14, The Frisec fast westbound passenger, the 'Meteor," wns wrecked. Sunday night, one quarter mile west of the (iaseonnde river crossing at Arlington. William tiifford. aged 5. Welle Fargo express mes, enger, of St. Louis was killed. Engineer Decker, married, of ReerPure: sustained broken ribs and seri

ou- internal injuries, w u . a prove fatal. The seriously injured are: Julius .lohnson, engineer, springft. ld. Mo., severely scalded. Harvey John: on. bollerBUBker, Ncwbnrg. M.. scalds and bruises, l.ouia Fiel.-y. lir.niai.. N.wburg, out and scalded. W. M. Hesieg.l, New burg, fireman, cut and bruised. None of the passenger- was injured, except slightly. The recke 1 train had two engine und wns under full headway, making a run for Dixon Hill. The lirst engine jumped the track and the second engine turned cjmp'.etcly over in the ditch. The express and mail cars

plowed Into the trat eng.' S -na were spUatered like kindling. FATAL BIG FOUR WRECK. rwii Mnll lerks llnriU llatn nd a PWaaemree Ktill Hart Near ll-rn. lllilo.

.eveland. O.. Feb .'4 In B head-on collision at ten o'clo. k Monday night, between a westbound passenger train nnd an east-bound freight on the Mg Fo'ie mils east of F.erea, two mail clerks are reported to have l.rn burned to death in their car and a pass. inger was so badly hurt th t he did shortly after being remov-d from a passenger car. ne of the mail d.-rks was named Walworth, and lived at Wellington. O. Both trains caught tire. According to the lirst report no one was injured, but later advices are to the

effect that eight or on .as.-uK, are serionslj, injur.. I.

Oes. CoetSlaHl Father.

astasia O.Feb. 'Jt. The funeral of

hadrach Corbin. aged t-T. an I fat hot

Of Ml. j.-' .en. Henry COTWn, OC

Ourted here Monday.

A PRESIDENTIAL VETO. Th President W ill ol l ,.nt to nn Act UhM Wnnld STSSjH Jnatle to Olhrrs. Washinirton. Feb. ?4. The president. Monday, sent to the senate a rcto of the bill srhkh places Francia F. Davison, late a firM lieutenaut of tee Fluted States ...valry. on the retired list. He points out that the officer wa dismissed. ears ago, unl has rendered no service the Sjreernmenf since, and says it would he an injustice to other oflcers with honorable reeords to retire Davison. FOUND DEAD IN HER ROOM.

Saw fish nl slea, Bttsasieth nr. wife

f u Proml nnl BJoSlOSSS Mmn uf M. .Iua,-iti. HOa St Joveph. Mo.. Feb. Mr. Eliz

abeth Harr, wife of tieorge W. llarr. a prominent bnslBCSS inan. was found

dead in her room at tne lamuv reiilneL ItiS South Ninth strict, Mon

day night, with her throat ut. A

lien knife covered with hloml was IT'

her right hand, lira, Harr had bc-ri

in 111 health for SOBSe time, BBS era the mother of Ony I . Harr. M attor

ney residing in ( blingn.

Keaes sates iirou i. . Hartford. ( ..nn.. Feb. 2. Three

reservoirs broke loose at Shelton. Sunday, nnd the rush of water ihronch the town placed mnnv lives in

jeopardy for a time. The profsnrtj

loss i e' liimited at M"o."

Th "Mre-l ly" lrnlll. Iiavennort, In.. Feb. 14. ' Hie fire

llv." a focal passe nger train on the

southwestern division oi iae v n.eago, akssk Island Fncille railroad, ran into nn extra freight tram Monday near Falrport Several aonches srnre derailed and damaged, but the passengers es aped with a few IjroJsnO, all Wevlean I roen tn IteatBu (ioliad. Tev.. Feb. 13, - The bo. lies Of Six Mexican-, three women and three children, who had f ien to death, were f mnd on the ri . to-lay, eight miles above here.

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