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Two Chicago men who bought a lake with a bottom of pure iron ore are now looking for their Wisconsin cousin who secured an option on the Masonic temple. : :

Another sign of spring is the periodical dispatch from our Pacific ports stating that the Nome boom is on again. There is gold in Alaska and on the Yukon, but no certain road to wealth by any means. The treasure so far has been produced at heavy cost.

. Rhode Island has set a good example in amending her statutes ‘so as to require two years’ residence as a preliminary te application for divorce. Her present laxity has degraded her territory intg a resort for the proflicacy of New York to get-rid of conjugal obligations.

TLeon Lewis, of Winsted, Conn., a writer of some considerable repute on scientific subjects, says a glacier at the south pole 3,000 miles in diameter and correspondingly thick will some day break and melt, deluging the earth, beginning with South Africa,.’ Just at present,: \hm_ve\:er, the glacier is growing anfl strengthening. ’ . ;

Viceroy Yuan, of the provinee of CheTee, China, has announced that he intends starting a newspaper at Tientsin for the purpose of introducing western civilization and enlightening the people. Yuan says the newspaper is the best way in which to reach the Chinese problem. Printer’sink has civilized many a country.

The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers’ association at its recent session in Chicago adopted a resolution strongly urging the preservation of forests by legislation. It wassaid that unless this were done the price of lumber will continue to rise each year on account of the searcity of pine.

Four of the oldest men in the senate sit side by side in seats 11, 12, 13 and 14 in the front row of the democratic side of the chamber—Mr. Pettus and Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, and Mr. Cockrell and Mr. Vest, of Missouri. Senator Pettus in point of years is the father of the upper house, having passed his eightieth birthday nearly a year ago.

The war department has received a full report of the capture in the prov: ince of Laguna of a famous woman general, Gen. Agueda Kahabagam by name, who has been in the field against the Spaniards and the Americans for gix years, and who has commanded as high as 500 and 600 holomen. Evident1y the Filipinos have their club women, 100, with the accent onrthe club.

Prince Henry is an enthusiastic photographer, and made a complete pictorial history of his recent visit. He had -in his suite an official photograplier who was kept busy taking snap-shots of everything of interest that was encountered. The photographer is Th. Jergensen, master at arms on the royal yacht Hohenzollern. He traveled about with the prince and_had a’ number of the finest photographic outfits. :

The state of Maine has evidently been watching the Jersey way of making corporations pay practically the entire expense of running the state government, and has decided to offer inducements to such corporations to make the Pine Tree state their birthplace. It costs only $5O to incorporate a million-dollar company in Maine, whereas the cost in New Jersey is $l,OOO. The cut rate should bring Maine lots 6f customers.

The Kansas Indians in Oklahoma are willing to abandon tribal organization for a consideration. They want a per capita division of the land reserve and the {tribal fund, which would give each man, woman and child about 445 acres of land and $B6O in money. In addition to this they ask for exemption from taxation for 20 years and special provisions for a publie ' school fund. They demand a pretty good price for adopting civilized habits. ;

On the 28th of July, 1865, Wendell Phiilips addressed the school children of Boston, the occasion being their seventy-second annualfestival. Among other things he said: “I expect, if I live 40 years, to see a telegraph that will send messages without wire, both ways at the same time”--a shrewd prediction lightly regarded at the time. The prophet’s 40 years have not yet passed, and the wireless telegramsare sent one way at one time, but the prophecy is likely to be literally fulfilled by 1905. Indeed by that time messages may be sent around the world.

The evictions of Irish tenants are reaching proportions which recall the old days when the Irish issue was the Jeading question in British politics. The same question promises to appear again in a menacing shape soon. The land purchase question is coming nup, and the recent evictions are sure 1o intensify the feeling in Ireland against the British government. Just as soon as the Boer war and reconstruction question’s are out of the way ghe Irish problem will once more have 10 be grappled. The Irish leaders are daying their plans for a “hot time.”

A WERKS HINTORY

The Important Happenings of a ~ Week Briefly Told. IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION All the Latest News of Interest from Washington, From the East, the West and the South. THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCIHES FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, Senator Hoarmade a vigorous speech in the United States senate on the 11th opposing the proposition for the election of senaters by direct vote of the people. The ship subsidy bill was further discussed. The house entered on the consideration of the post office appropriation bill. Senator Depew made the leading argument in favor of the ship subsidy bill in the debate on the measure in the United States senate on the 12th. The committee on isthmian canals decided in favor of the Hepburn bill, which provides for a canal through Nicaragua. In the house general debate on the post office appropriation bill was continued. ‘ ‘

The conference report on the diplomatie and consular appropriation bill was agreed to in the United States senate. on: the 13th, Senator Mor: gan reported the Hepburn Nicaragua canal bill, and the ship subsidy bill was further considered. In the house general debate on the post office appropriation bill was closed and consideration of 12 of the 27 pages of the bill were completed. Mr. Crumpacker (Ind.) introduced a resolution for the appointment of a committee to investigate the suffrage laws of the several states, and whethew the right of suffrage is abridged or denied in any way. : FROM WASHINGTON. : Officials of the war department; are opposed to the bill to give helrs of Gen. Fitzjohn Porter $230,000 Dback salary. : : In a note to the navy department Commandant Schroeder asked for the establishment of a permanent government at Guam. - : Steps have been taken to put into effect the new Philippine tavisf. President Roosevelt has signed a bill granting an increased pension to Hiram Kronk, aged 102, of Ava., N. Y, who is the last surviving pensioner of the war of 1812. . . President Roosevelt and Emperor William exchanged greetings over the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia. . THE EAST. < * On the steamer Deutschland Prince Henry sailed from New York for Hamburg. Crowds at the pier and along “the river cheered him on his departure. ' The Allan liner Huronian, New York for St. gchns, N. 8., is thought to have been lost, with more than 100slives. o Pneumonia caused the death of W. J. Glenn of CGuba, N. Y. aged 39 years, the doorkeeper of the house of representatives at Washington. As a result of President Roosevelt’s determination to enforce the Sherman anti-trust law the Trunk Line Freight association has dissolved. - - E Burglars got $B,OOO at the Farmers’ bank in Townville, Pa., and $5,000 at the bank in Newecastle, Ky. ; In Boston the National Civie Federation has brought about a settlement of the great strike whereby over 20,000 idle workmen have resumed their duties. - { In New York Andrew Carnegie announced the gift of 40 more public libraries. ~ ] WEST AND SOUTH. Jim Troublefield (colored) was ! hanged at Tunica, Miss., for a murder. committed several years ago. In Chicago I’Ambassadeur, a . bulldog worth $l,OOO, died at the Coliseum, where a dog show is in progress. Republicans of the First District iof Indiana have renominated J. A. | Hemenway*for congress. ' ’ Republicans have nominated J. M. [‘Miller for congress in the Fourth | Kansas district and R. E. Ward in %the Third Missiouri district. I Robert C. Clowry, of Chicago, has . been elected president and general i manager of the Western Union Tele- | graph company. v A squall capsized the steamer Providence at Lone Landing, Miss., and 21 of its passengers and crew drowned. : At Beaumont, Tex., a gang of negro women and white men is charged with murdering 12 persons. The democrats in the Seventh Missouri district have nominated C. W. Hamlin for congress. : Former Gov. John P. Altgeld, of Chicago, who was stricken with paralysis at Joliet, died after several hours of unconsciousness. He was 55 years old and leaves a widow.

In Texas a tornado-wrecked 20 houses at Houston, ten at Rosenburg, eight at Tyler and 30 at New Boston, and several persons were killed and many injured.

Near Winslow, Ariz., Indian Jim, a full-blooded Sioux Indian, killed his wife and two sisters. A limited train on the Illinois Central road ran into a ceyelone 135 miles from New Orleans and was badly damaged. 7 Alice Roosevelt arrived at Havana, Cuba, with a party of friends. In Copiah and Lincoln counties in Mississippi, a cyclone killed seven persons and destroyed property. At the age of nearly 103 years Mrs. Jane Smith died in Marshalltown, la. In Louisiana and Mississippi a tornado destroyed over 100 houses and killed 50 persons. : The health officer has prohibited the manufacture or sale of Limburger cheese in Louisville, Ky. : The United Mine Workers of Illinois agreed to a report of the joint scale committee, thus averting a strike. = - The lowa general assembly has killed a resolution for the submission of a .woman suffrage amend-

At Minoka, 111., six masked men blew the safe of the Exchange bank, got $3,000 and escaped on a hand car.

The Sheridan arrived in San Francisco from Manila with over 1,200 soldiers on board. 5 In a Missouri Pacific wreck due to a broken rail near Sedalia, Mo., 16 passengers were injured. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Terrible tidai waves on the Pacific coast of Central America killed scores of people. The British leader, Gen. Methuen, was wounded and captured, three officers and 38 men were killed and five officers and 72 men were wounded as a result of a night attack by Boers under Delarey upon a force of 1,200 British. ;

De Wet crossed the British line, and he is believed to plan a junction with Delarey in western Transyaal.

On the advice of his cabinet, King Edward canceled a proposed visit to Ireland. : A first installment of the Chinese indemnity has been paid to representatives of the powers. In East ‘Africa Portuguese forces attacked strongholds of slave traders and released 700 slaves.

Spain’s cabinet has resigned and Premier Sagasta refuses to form a new ministry. »

‘"The Boers liberated Gen. Methuen and he is now under the care of a surgeon at Klerksdorp. An earthquake destroyed the town of Kyankari, northeast of Angora, in Asia Minor, with 20,000 inhabitants.

A dispatch says that war between Japan and Russia is soon to come.

. "LATER NEWS, Senator Foraker spoke in the United States senate on the 14th in favorof the ship subsidy bill and Senators McLaurin and Harris opposed it. ' The Hague convention relative to the. conduct of war was ratified. Inthe house the post office appropriation bill was passed. The committee on territories decided upon an “omnibus™ bill providing statehood for Arizona, New Mexica and Oklahoma. :

The principal business houses of the town of Winslow, 111., have been destroved by fire. :

“Gen.” Washington, a negro convicted of conspiring to kill the wife of R. 1. Taylor, a white man, was hanged at Mansfield, La. John Lawson, “the Terrible Swede,” the well-known bicycle rider, died in a hospital in Milwaukee of pneumonia.

The old Lincoln farm at Lincoln City, Ind., is to be soldfor taxes. The mother of Abraham Lincoln is buried on the property.

A man arrested atSan Antonio. Tex., is charged with having nine wives. Seymour Swartz, of Chicago.who was ejected from a Kenosha (Wis.) hotel because he is a Jew, will sue for $lO,OOO damages. Field Marshal Wolseley left for South Africa and the object af his trip is catising comment in London.” Bankers from every state in the union met in New York and organized a national money order concern to compete with the express companies and the government. : King Edward held the first court of his reign in the ballroom of Buckingham palace in London. ‘ ‘ Eight hundred #oldiers were killed in a battle between Colombians and revolutionists at Agua Dulce. Mrs. Conger gave a reception in Peking for nine Chinese princesses, some of whom had never seen a foreigner.

. Passengers on the Nickel Plate road had a marrow escape at Knox, Ind., from a collision and fire which destroyed the train and seriously injured six trainmen.

Rupert Fritz, who supplied the luncheon at the launching of the Meteor, the emperor’s yacht, was ruined by the theft of ¢ilver as souvenirs. : Dun’s review of trade says the Boston strike retarded trade in Massachusetts, but the rest of _the country is prosperous. Enormous orders for spring goods in every line are being placed. ' '

MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The Austrian legation at Washington has been raised to the rank of an embassy. .

Gov. Mcßrige, of Washington, will discharge any state employe who accepts a railroad pass. There is a general movement in France to force reduction of compulsory military service to two years. Parisians are discussing a plan of erecting wireless telegraph systems in that city to take the place of telephones. : Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian aeronaut, is in London and expects to make ascensions during the coronation season. = ~

dJ. A. Alexander, a rich and respected merchant of Casa, Ark., turns out to be James Huddleston, an escaped convict frém Texas. The Erie Railroad company has granted an increase of wages to the conductors, trainmen and switchmen on the entire line. £

Capt. J. F. Merry, recently in command of the nwsal station at Honolulu, has been retired with the advanced rank of rear admiral.

Congress will probably authorize the construction of three new battleships, two armored cruisers, six gunboats and 11 other naval vessels. The name of Marconi, the wireless telegraph man, has been used as the ‘basis of a new word, “marconigrams,” referring to wireless telegrams. : o ~ Louis C. Withaup,p;/Denver pension attorney, was sentenced to five years in the Leavenworth penitentiary for forging signatures to pension_checks. Negotiations are in progress in London for a treaty of arbitration between Great Britain and the United States over Canada’s claim to Alaskan territory. ; The census returns for 1901, presented to the Newfoundland legislature, shows a total population for the colony of 220,249, of which Newfoundland has 216,615 and Labrador 3,634. The census bureau has issued a preliminary report on bicycles and tricycles, exclusive of répair shops, which shows that the products of the between 1890 and 1900,

SUDDEN DEATH OF . EX-GOV. ALTGELD.

Former Executive of Illinois Suddenly Stricken with Apoplexy, at Joliet, After an Impassioned Pro- " Boer Address---Sketch of His Career.

Joliet, 111, March 13.—Former Gov. John P. Altgeld died here Wednesday morning at 7:09 o’clock. He had been unconscious since midnight. The cause of death is given as cerebral hemorrhage, there having been an apoplectic seizure of the brain. Mr. Altgeld came to Joliet Tuesday afternoon, having bzen widely advertised as the principal orator for the big Will county pro-Boer meeting in the evening. He confessed that . he was not in the best of hialth, having been troubled wiin some apparently simple stomach ailment. He was not willing to allow that to interfere with his speech, however, his great interest in the South African struggle having been heightened by .the announcement of the Boer success in the capture of Gen. Methuen. It was

,2‘ ;:;}/ %fi;}f{//% /{{r' I 7 ,%}/A‘,"u. fi i v ,/ /////,}’, L ¢ ;// = sy N . A ) M " 7/ ‘H{ \l\ 4/ |( b 1 / //“ / e :‘ i\“‘ o[ ITH / i A 7/ /) - ( //{ 91" ke : /8 / /,//// ! / : JOHN P. ALTGELD, : noted during the address that the ex-governor threw an unusual amount of energy and feeling into his words, and the collapse, the physicians think, resulted from overstraining his physical powers. Directly after he ‘had finished his address and was walking off the stagé, his hearers cheering, the exgovernor suddenly dropped over in a dead faint. Physicians were summoned, and, after he was restored to consciousness, he was carried to the Hotel Munroe, where at midnight he was pronounced to be apparently out of danger. : -At 1:15 o’clock Wednesday morning he suffered a sinking spell and relapsed into unconsciousness, from which he never rallied. The remains were taken to Chicago during the day. : . Ever since the failure of the Globe savings bank in 1896, in which he was involved, Mr. Altgeld has not been a well man, and for some months after the Spalding crash it was feared that his life was only a question of a short time. Even when serving his lagt year as governor his health was none too good. When it was learned that he was a vietim of

TEN LIVES LQOST.

Mother and Nine Children Burnel to Death in a Fire at Matane, : ! . Quebec, :

Matane, Que.,, March 10.—Mrs. Arthur Bouchard and her nine children were burned to death at an early hour Sunday morning. Mr. Bouchard, the ‘'only survivor of the family, jumped from a second-story window and escaped. The first floor of the building was occupied as a grocery store, while Bouchard and his tamily lived in the story above. The fire was discovered by a servant girl. Bouchard immediately jumped from an upper window and was about to be followed by his wife, but she was evidently overcome, as she failed in her attempt to escape and perished together with her six boys and three girls, the eldest being 14 years and the youngest two. Bouchard had lighted a fire in the kitchen stove and returned to bed. The flames were discovered an hour later. FAVORS HEPBURN BILL. Senate Committee Agrees on Nicaraguan Route for Construction of Isthmian Canal, Washington, March 13.—The senate committee on isthmian canals has decided by a vote of 7 to 4to report the Hepburn bill providing for the construction of an isthmian canal via the Nicaraguan route. i The Hepburn bill authorizes the president to acquire territory for.right of ‘way for a canal from Costa ißica and Nicaragua; directs the construction of a canal of sufficient capacity to accommodate the largest ships from Greytown on the Atlantic via Lake Nicaragua to Brito on the Pacific, under the supervision of the secretary of war; authorizes surveys of the harbors.at the two ends of the route; guarantees the use of the canal to vessels of Costa Rica and Nicaragua and appropriates $10,000,000 for beginning the work.

Begin Fight on Merger.

St. Paul, Minn., March 11.—The attorney general of the Udited States, as directed by President Roosevelt. Monday afternoon at five o’clock filed in the federal circuit court a bill in equity intended to nullify the recent -merger of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Burlington. Railway companies. The action is brought under the Sherman or anti-trust law of 1890, and supported by the decision of the United States supreme court of March, 1896. : Work of an Earthquake, Baku, Russian Transcaucasia, March 10.—The official report of the committee which has been investigating the recent earthquake at Shamaka shows that 126 villages with a total of 9,084 houses were included in the area of the disturbance; that 3,496 houses were destroyed and 3,943 damaged. Besides the dwellings, 4,163 | farm buildings, 11 churches, 41 . mosques, 11 factories and three schoolhouses were seriously dam-

locomotor ataxia his friends gave him up. But he rallied and for a few years seemed to be his own old vigorous self. Lately, however, the disease marked him strongly, and quite recently his appearance caused grave forebodings and anxiety. His mind was just as clear and active as of old, but though the spirit was willing the flesh was weak. e ~ His Carze?, On December 20, 1847, Tyhn Peter Altgeld was born in Feltas, near Cologne, Germany. When he was eight years old his parents moved to this country to a farm in Richland county, O. The elementary education of Mr. Altgeld was limited., The war made & break in the monotony of his life. He enlisted in 1564; he was only 16 years old at the time. He was a soldiger in what is known as the James River campaign. After the war he started out for himself. He taught school for awhile, although he had had no opportunities of adding much to his own education. In 1869 he started west on foot. He walked from Ohio to St. Louis. He obtained work in St. Louls and saved enough to help him on to southern Kansas. He finally settled at Savannah, in northwest | Missouri, where he taught school, =tudled law, and sobon after was elected city attorney and later on the prosecuting attorney of the county. Mr. Altgeld came to Chicago In 1875, a stranger. In less than a year he had a practice which enabled him to be comparatively independent. ‘ln 1884 he ran for congress on the democratic ticket, but was defeated.- In 1886 he wag nominated for the office of judge of the superior court and was elected. He served until July 2, 1891, when he resigned. s

v Judge Altgeld was nominated for governcr by the democratic state convention of 1892. He made a vigorous campaign and was elected as a result, being the first and only democratic chief executive of Illinois since ante-bellum days. The distinguishing acts of his governorship were the anarchist pardons and the trouble with President Cleveland over the presence of federal troops here during the railroad riots. In 1895 he was renominated, but was defeated. Since then Gov. Altgeld emerged only once from political retirement, ahd that was when his opposition to Mayor Harrison took him into the mayoralty campaign of 1889. Although he .made a magnificent independent campaign he was defeated. His time since then has been occupied in practicing law. Proclamation Issued,

Springfield, 111, March 13.—Lieut. Gov. Northecott Wednesday issued the following proclamation officially announcing the death of Former Governor Altgeld:

‘“‘Executive Office, State of Illinois, ‘Wednesday, March 12, 1902, It becomes my painful duty to announce to the people of Illincis the death of John P. Altgeld, twentieth governor of the state, who filled the executive office from January 10, i 893, until January 11, 1897. ““Born in Prussia, in 1848, he came to this country when a child, and as soon as he was old enough enlisted in the service for the defense of his adopted country, and bore the part of a true soldier in the closing days of the civil war. 7 ‘““He was an able lawyer, a distinguished judge, a man of strong convictions, and always courageous in giving them utterance. ““In respect to his memory I request that flags on all state buildings be displayed at half-mast ‘until after his funeral, and that business in the various state departments be suspended during the hours of the funeral. : ] “In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand; and caused to be attached thne great seal of state, this twelfth day of March, A. D. 1902.”’ §

FUNSTON IS BITTER.

In a Speech at Chicago He Scores Roundly American Sympa- : thizers with Filipinos.

Chicago, March 12.—DBrig. Gen. Frederick Funston, the swimming warrior and captor of Aguinaldo, isnow a guest of Chicago and the Marquette club, of this city. He arrived shortly before three o’clock Tuesday over the Penng sylvania railroad. There was a large crowd at the station to greet the general, but the reception there was brief and informal. A reception open only to members of the Marquette club and their guests was held at the home of that club, Maple street and Dearborn avenue, at 5:30 o'clock, followed an hour later by a dinner in the banquet hall. President W. L. Bush presided and ex-Con-gressman George E. Adams acted as toastmaster. Gen. John C. Black, Col. Henry L. Turner, W. T. Gurley, Myron T. Herrick, of Cleveland, and Gen.

Funston responded to the toasts. The latter was heartily cheered.

DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Urnited States Supreme Court Decides Against Illinois Anti-Trust - Statute,

Washington, March 11.—The United States supreme court Monday decided the Illinois anti-trust statute to be uneconstitutional because of the provision of the law exempting agricultural products and live stock from the operations of the law. The decision was rendered in the case of Thomas Connelly and others against the Union Sewer Pipe company of Ohio and was delivered by Justice Harlan. i : dontesses fi) Many Crimes, Beaumont, Tex., March 13.—Mattie Bennett confessed Wednesday to Sheriff Lindley that she was at the head of a gang of negro women and white men who had for months been luring men into her house and drugging them, beating them and robbing them. If they died the victims were dragged to the river and thrown in. If they were only stunned they were taken out of the house to a remote part of some street and left for pedestrians or policemen to find, A fear is felt that more than 12 men, among those who have come to Beaumont, and were afterward reported as “missing” have been murdered, and that their bodies are now #t the bottom of the river. Holding Their Wheat. Topeka, Kan. March 13.— “Only about one-third of the Kansas wheat crop of last year has been marketed,” said B. J. Northrup, state grain inspector. ‘“The farmers have fed some of the remaining two-thirds to their stock and they are holding the rest for a better price than has yet been ‘offered. This month will tell the story whether we:are to raise:a crop this year and the old Wheat will begin to move next month, If progpects for a good crop continue as favorable as they are now the movement of wheat next month will be large”

A SERIOUS HITCH.

Failare to Give Work to ATI Causes a Break in Settlement of the Boston Strike.

Boston, March 15.—The labor situation in Boston is extremely perplexing. To give weight to statements of labor men who spoke without authority that harmony is not restored is to make the outlook far more critical than at any time since the allied freight transportation council began its fight against the R. S. Brine Transportation "company. On the other hand, Gov. Crane and the state board of arbitration believe that the

problem is being solved quite rapidly, considering the immensity of the strike, and only ask for time and patience from both laboring and busi- | ness wen to remove all obstacles ful‘; a resumption of freight traffic under ordinary condition. As a matter of fact, the strike was completely broken Friday, although troubles ! cropped out in many quarters, some of which were arranged without delay and others dragged along in uncertain state, so that they came in for consideration by the various labor bodies Friday night. . | The special side of the strike breaking Friday presented an army of workingmen rushing helter skelter to get their old positions. There had been more than 20,000 places vacated, but fully ten per cent. of the men found their places filled. This was the reason for friction all day, affecting only the men themselves, for concerns: were too busy raising the embargo on goods in their keeping to give heed to talk of unfairness. Freight began to move at " docks, freight sheds, from and to wholesale houses and factories and upon the streets, and by night great inroads had been made on the four days’ accumulation of goods. With the breaking of the strike, employers ~of freight handlers, team drivers or lumpers rushed into print with calls for more help. Even concerns which heretofore have been bound teo unionism seem to have grasped the opportunity of hiring whom they liked. It is on this point of all others that the critical phase of the situation hangs. The real battle Friday was between the men who control the strike and the representatives of greatinterests who had been prevailed upon to consider certain propositions as a way to a settlement of the trouble. As for three days past, it was Gov. Crane at his office in the statehouse who stood between the parties at issue. The governor received many delegations during the afternoon, and by great exertion got together President John M. Hall, of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad; President Tuttle, of the Boston & Maine, and Samuel

Hoar, general counsel for the Boston & Albany, at the statehouse at 4:30 o'clock. W. E. Chambrlain, general manager of the eastern division of the New Haven road, was also admitted into the executive chamber. These gentlemen were with the governor for an hour and a half. In the meantime a number of the labor leaders who had been holding conference with the state board of arbitration and at the labor headquarters arrived and were taken into the council chamber. Foran hour the governor had alternate interviews between employer and employe. A The governor granted an interview with the newspaper men. He said:

*“The situation looks very much more encouraging than last night. The railroads have all agreed to take back as many men as possible, without disecrimination. Asfar as the steamship lines are concerned, I understand that the men have returned, on practically all of them. The railroad companies will not consent to discharge men whom they have hired in place of the strikers, but they are well disposed to the men and are very anxious to take back as many as possiblé. The question of the loading arnd unloading of teams, while it came up incidentally to-day, was not very much discussed. It will be taken up next week.” The governor further said that both President Tuttle and the Bostan & Albany officials had used every effort to get the men back. At East Boston, where 90 of the Boston & Maine men went out, all had been taken back. At the same place, where 120 of the Boston & Albany men went out, 108 had been given places by the railroad company. In the case of the New Haven road, he said the company would be willing to take back as many as possible, but the question of requiring the men to sign an agreement has not yet been arranged. In cases where men are taken back, seniority in service will have the preference. The governor said that in his talk with the men some of them wanted the railroads and steamship companies to take back everyone who went out, but there were other of the labor leaders who said they would be sat-’ jefied if ‘a majority of them were given their old places at once, provided the company made every effort to find places for the others. He had advised the men to go back to work, even though some were unable, as yet, to find positions. On the whole he considered the situation encouraging.

Ruined by Souvenir Thieving Guests,

New York, March - 15.—Rupert Fritz, a chef, who served the luncheon at Shooter’s island for the 2,000 persons who witnessed the launching of Emperor William’s yacht, Meteor, has assigned. Fritz says he borrowed a large amount of silverware from friends for use at the luncheon. In the rush for souvenirs nearly all the silverware disappeared before Fritz and his assistants were aware of the raid. Finding it impossible to make good his losses, Fritz decided upon an assignment.

Rodenberg Resigns,

Washington, March 15.—William A. Rodenberg, of East St. Louis, 111., Friday submitted to President Roosevelt his resignation as a member of the United States civil service commission, to take effect Aprill. Richard Dana, of Boston, has been mentioned as a probable successor, but President Roosevelt has not yet announced his intention. : Bodies Recovered. : Vicksburg, Miss., March 15.—The bodies of six of the 20 victims of the steamer Providence disaster have been recovered. ; ‘'To Be Sold for Taxes, ° Indianapolis, Ind., March 15.—The old Lingoln farm, in the heart of Lin- | coln City, Spencer county, is to be sold for delinquent taxes. Attempts have been made to turnthe farminto a park, ; and ask congress to make an appropriation for its purchase, and this may be done after the farm passes into other hands.” The mother of Lincoln is buried on the farm. : Confederate General Dead, = Little Rock, Ark., March 15.—Gen. D. H. Reynolds, who was a brigadier general in the confederate army, died Friluy Morning at Luke Village, Ark.

MISS VIRGINIA GRANES

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P ' SEORTSMEN SAY THEY HAD NO i IDEA GAME COULD BE KILLED AT : SO GREAT A DISTANCE AS THEY * HAVE BROUGHT IT DOWN WITH HAZARD SMOKELESS WHEN LOADED AS DIRECTED ON CANISTER.” The Devils Lake Reservation:opens up for homestead filings this spring. 100,00:acres of unexcelled crop land, No stumps, no stones, no drawbacks, nopests, pienty of water; sufficient.rains. The only authentic cut of the memuont, everfianllable quarter indicated, with excerpts: from homestead laws, and e'vergtmng you should know relative tothe coum,r( and filing thereon, will be mailed gon u’ron moefi of 852.00, rent to F. €. RISING. innewaukan, North. Dakota,. LAND. DEALER.