Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 37, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 December 1902 — Page 2

Th S aantor Sanney ¢he Zgomey HANNCL LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. . Fourteen hunters, mistaken for deer, have been killed in the northwest this season, and the football fatalities number 13 Fun has its carnage no less l‘cn(n\‘x'xed than wars 7

American apple growing has become an international industry and those who are engaged in it prove themselves to be deeply versed in the science of horticulture when they hold a conYention: : - =

Mexico is soon to have a railway across the Sierras to the Pacific. It is said .that more obstacles have had to be overcome by the engineers than are afforded at any spot in the western continent.

Somebody in Germany has invented n device which, attached to one locomotive, will indicate, automatically and audibly, the approach of another on the same track, thus affording a safeguard against collision. A test made on a railroad mear Frankfort proved successful. e

Lngland has finally persuaded a man to become governor of Australia at a salary of $50,000 & year, but he would consent to serve only one’year. Lord Hopetdun resigned in May and no one has been found willing to try to live on that salary until now. The new man is Lord Tmfnyson. ; -

America is getting there in all directions. The czar of Russia, wanting a fast trotting horse, has bought one from a Maine man, and has placed him with 16 other American equites in the imperial stables at St. Petersburg. Thus the- Yankee horseski sets the pa(’en\vitvlf.

Gen, Chaftee has assumed his new command of the department of the east. with headquarters at Governor's iskand. New York, and will doubtless enjoy the rgst he has earned. IHe probably will remain in- New York the remainder of his term of service. He will be retired by the age limitation in April; 1906, 7

The annals of ocean adventure has geldom furnished a more.interesting story than that of the capture of an American steamer by icebergs in the North. Pacific and her helpless drifting 10 within 600 miles of the north pole. As this is nearer the pole than any other ship has ever got perhaps future experiments had better be made by drifting with the ice. :

One of the most remarkable cases known to medical science wasrevealed at Niagara Falls by the sudden death of a negro named Allen, aged 60 years. He dropped dead and the coroner ordered an autopsy. The doctors found Allen’s heart and left lung were connécted by a growth fully three and-a half inches long. The man’s heart was unusually large ‘and in fine condition, but his lungs were in bad shape.

The po¥®t oftice department of the United. States was considered a good deal of an institution before the civil

war. In 1852 its receipts were $6,900.000. In 1862 they were $8,200,000. Last vear they were $121,800,000. The recéipts of the department have trebled since 1882, They have increased $50,000.000 in ten years, and in the same time the annual deficit has fallen from $6,000.000 to $2,000,000. These are big figures, ' '

Septimus.Winner, composer of “The Mocking Bird” and hundreds of other popular songs, who died suddenly at his home in Philadelphia, at the age of 76 years, was the author of 200 technical books on musical instruments, and arranged over 2,000 compositions for the violin and piano. Mr. Winner sold the “Mocking Bird” for $35, but the publishers years later admitted having realized $3,000,000 from its sale. Sl

The vast gun and iron works in Germany of which the late Herr Krupp was the head started with a force of -two workmen. TFo-day its pdid employes number about 43,000 men. There have never been any serious labor troubles in the establishment. : The fact is due to the pleasdnt ' rélations between the XKrupps and their men, and to the agreement between them that differ- » ¢nces should be adjusted by arbitra{ion. S %

The .part of Secretary Hitchcock's report ~which deals with Indian affairs discredits that old pessimistic formula. “the only good Indian is a dead Indian.” He shows that there ‘are many good Indians. Our total Indian population is 269,306, of which the New York Indians and those known as the Five Civilized Tribes embrace 89,732. This leaves 179,5‘74 who occupy 156 reservations, having - 55,127,000 acres, outside of New York and the Indian territory. These people are certainly good enough to be ¢itizens of their native land. The recent race Dbetween five United States warships from Hampton Roads to San Juan, Porto Rico, was not a sporting event, but it was an unusual one. The accounts indicate that they all showed good- seagoing qualities and made good time, though the cruiser Cincinnati was an easy winner. As a race of warships under orders the contest was prob- " ably never equaled, though the long race against time by the Oregon from San Francisco to Key West, at the beginning of the war with Spain, was far more important. = Consul Mason, of Berlin, gives a paragraph of his last report to the state department to “goose fat,” which is used in Germany - by -the “working classes” in lieu of butter. Goose grease is used both at table and for cooking purposes. Vast numbers of geese are grown in Germany, but the local supply is deficient, and last year 6,431,277 live geese were imported from neighboring countries, besides large - quantities of goose grease from far ~ and near. The United States, it is sugeeted, Mg B S e irade

What Has Happened Throughout ~ the Civilized World. A WEEK’S NEWS CONDENSED A Complete Review of the Happenings of the Past Seven Days in This and All Foreign Lands. - GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, The second session of the Fiftyseventh congress began in Washington on the Ist. In the senate the death of Senator McMillan, of Michigan, was announced, and adjournment was taken. In the house the new members were sworn in. Mr. Cannon (111.) introduced a bill appropriating $50,000 to defray the expenses of the anthracite coal strike commission. Adjournment was voted out of respect to the memory of Representative Charles G. Russell, of Connecticut. ! :

In the United States senate on the 2d a bill was introduced to make a state of the District of Columbia to the extent of allowing it representatives in congress and in the electoral commission. A. bill was also introduced to amend the Sherman antitrust law. The president’s message was read. In the house a bill was introduced providing for the inaugu: ration of the general staff system in the United States army. The president’s message was read. I

Bills were introduced in the United States senate on the 3d for the admission of Indian and Oklahoma territories as one state under the name of Oklahoma; fixing the age for admission to the naval d@cademy between 17 and 20 years; to place the currency in the Philippines on a gold basis, and to preserve the public lands for actual settlers. The immigration bill was discussed. In the house the bill to appropriate $50,000 to ~defray the expenses of the anthracite coal strike commission -was passed. Adjourned to the sth. ;

The nomination of Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States was confirmed by the United States senate on the 4th. Resolutions were read of the. convention composed -of delegates from Oklahoma and Indian territory favoring the admission of both territoeries as ome state and opposing the house omnibus statehood bill. Adjourned to the Bth. ‘The -house was not in . session. .

FROM WASHINGTON.

- In his annual -report Secretary Shaw says the revenues of the government from all sources for the fiscal 'year ended June 30, 1902, were $684.326,280, and the expenditures $593,038,904; leaving a surplus of $91,DRT. 315, = :

In his annual report Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says remedies for pear blight and bitter rot in apples have been found; that expertments .with tea prove the crop wiil succeed here, and that the capital invested in agriculture in the United States is about' $20,000,000,000, or four times the amount invested in manufactures. : :

Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed is seriously ill in Washington with appendicitis. ; Leaders in the semate have decided that the United States should not construct the Panama canal under the French company’s concession and favor a treaty with Colombia. President Roosevelt has received assurances from former opponents of Cuban reciprocity in the senate that they will support the ratification of a treaty at the present session. j

The assistant commissioner of the general land office reports that 8.109,039 acres of land were disposed of by the government during the first quarter of the current fiscal vear.

The committee on appropriations in the house agreed upon the pension bill appropriating $139,847,600, which is $5,370 more than for the current year. -

THE EAST.

_The ‘Zmerica cup race will be sailed beginning August 20, 1903, and continuing on alternate days wuntil concluded.

In Philadelphia Barry Johnstone, a famous actor, shot and killed Kate Hassett, an actress, and then shot himself. Jealousy was the cause. _

B. N. Baker, of New York, former head of the Atlantic Transport company, will distribute $500,000 among former employes as reward for faithful service. :

At Scranton, Pa., the anthracite strike arbitration committee resumerl hearings. Lo

In Towell, Mass., the Pickering Manufacturing company, makers of knitted cotton underwear, announces its failure, with- liabilities over Sff)fi,g 00: : : -

In a plan to settle the coal strike issues independent of the commission Wayne MacVeagh is again the mover.

A New York financier says that of 80,000,000 silver dollars now in circulation it is likely that not less than 40,000,000 are counterfeit. :

The witnesses before the anthracite strike commission in Scranton were mostly practical miners, who told their story of conditions as they now exijat in the Hazleton or middle coal fields.

Robert M. McWade, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed consul general at Canton, China.

WEST AND SOUTH

. Three men robbed the hank at Bridger, Mont., of $2,500. . - At the live stock show in Chicago Shamrock, bred by the ITowa Agricultural college, is declared grand champion steer. : ’ Malinda Lovell died at Bedford, Ind., aged 105 years. A new trial has been granted Caleo Powers, convicted in the Goebel murder conspiracy in Kentucky and sentenced to life imprisonment. . In a railway collision at Sunbright, Tenn., Fireman Frank Elliott and Express Messenger Richard Helm were killed, and nine other men injured. ~ Kavigation from the lakes to the ocean is practically closed.

By an oil tank explosion on the steamer Progress 12 workmen were killed and over 40 hurt at San Francisco. =

The president of Oberlin (0.) college announced a donation of $50,000 to the university. :

Fire partially destroyed the Lincoln hotel in Chicago and 14 men lost their lives.. The victims were. mostly nonresidents of Chicago. v

In the Caribbean sea the United States navy has begun a war game. In Saginaw, Mich., a girl aged six vears and an infant of two months, children of Mrs. Ainsley Bowers, were burned to death while their mother was absent from the house.

The final report of Thomas Thornton, receiver for the defunct Lemars national bank of Lemars, la., shows that creditors get 60 cents on the dollar. Three men who are supposed to have robbed the bank at Bridger, Mont., and escapéd with $3,738, were captured after a wild ride of 300 miles. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. In the French chamber Deputy Fournier introduced a bill for the abolition of titles of nobility. Owing to distrust shown him by the opposition, Premier Sagasta tendered his resignation to the king of Spain. Germany and Great Britain ordered ships to the Caribbean sea for joirt punitive expedition against Venezuelu to enforce payment of claims. Large crowds attended memorial services in the City Temple of London for the late Dr. Joseph Parker. While attending the imperial duck shoot in the suburbs of Tokio Alfred . Buck, United States minister to Japan, died suddenly. =

' LATER NEWS, The United States senate was not in session on the sth. In the house a bill was introduced forbidding newspapers to give any details in cases of suicide, and another providing for the repeal of the duty on wood and its manufactures; also on logs and unmanufactured products: of wood. The subcommittee of the judiciary committee reported favorably upon a bill to regulate trusts by publicity. Weekly. trade reviews say that business activity continues throughout the country in excess of previous yvears.

There were 185 business failures in the United Stafes 'during the week ended on the sth, against 237 the same week in 1901. _ Mont Pelee, on the Island of Martinique, has resumed its dangerous activity. !

A blizzard swept along the Atlantic coast, wrecking shipping and causing much suffering in the cities. Several lives were lost. ‘ L

Hegorle & Gothman’s bank safe at St. Bonifacius, Minn., was blown open Dy robbers, who secured $5OO in cash.

- John H. Hodder, publisher of the Aurora Beacon and the pioneer newspaper man of Aurora, 111., died suddenly. '

George Bear, an Indian, was hanged at Sioux Falls, S. D., for murder. A. B. Anderson, of Crawfordsville, Ind., will be appointed United States district judge to succeed John Baker, resigned. ’

Mrs. Carrie Nation is in jail at Topeka. Kan., on the charge of disturbing the peace. ; e

The schooner Wesley M, Olear was wrecked in a storm off Hatteras inlet and the crew of ten drowned. ~

. Chicago’s anthracite coal-supply is 1,000,000 tons short and. suffering is likely from cold weather.

The Masonic Temple at Laconia, N, H., was burned, the loss being $125,000. Injunction against Cleveland {labor unions to prevent boycotting ofia restaurant has been made permanent by Judge Ford. ‘ In the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania the snow is so heavy as to block many lines. ‘ The little town of Ward, S. D., was nearly wiped out by fire. : The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the seven days ended on the sth aggregated $2,530,244,998. The increase compared with the corresponding week of last vear was 1.8.

MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The democratic congressional campaign committee is to be made a permanent institution. :

Leroy- Pelletier, of New York, is making arrangements to start next summer in quest of the north pole. ‘Havana newspapers advise the Cuban government to accept the United States’ offer of 20 per cent. tariff reduction. : Congressman Cannon, of Illinois, arrived in Washington and said he had enough votes pledged to make him speaker. The commissioner general of immigration has postponed action as to the case of the Cuban children ordered deported. Prince Henry, head of the house of Pless, will succeed Baron von Holleben as the German ambassador to the United States.

A Panama paper lauds the services of Admiral Casey in the peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the revolutionists:

The killing of William Fitzgerald by Goedfrey Hunter, Jr., in Guatemala City, is said to have been the outcome of an old Kentucky feud.

‘Henry C. Frick, former steel magnate, will give a site for a university, erect buildings and -furnish $2,500,000 endowment to the city of Pittsburg.

Kansas farmers are better off financially than ever before. Corn is held for higher prices, while poultry, butter and alfalfa furnish a living income. o

Investigation into the death of Mrs. Gertrude Young, of Minneapolis, who died from long fasting, revealed the fact that a number of persons had adopted the fad. ¢

Now that the footings have been made, the republicans will have 208 and the democrats 178 members in the next house, or 30 majority against 50 majority in the present house. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani is in Washington to attempt to secure from congress payment for the crown lan which were taken over by this_government at the time of annexation.

A rush of settlers from the United States is expected by Canadian officials, who estimate there will be 100,000 immigrants there in the spring. The prospect of losing -citizenship may deter mnapy, .

WINTER IN THE EAST.

Snow, Sleet and Wind Cause Great

Inconvenience. Telegraph Wires Down: . and Trafiic Delayed in New York and New England—Storm Causes Some . Loss of Life. New York, Dec. s.—The east and southeast were gripped Friday by a fierce blizzard, which caught the country unprepared. Gales swept the seashore, leaving wrecks in its path. In this city telegraph and telephone wires were torn down, railway systems crippled. Keports from the devastated districts show that there was some loss of life. In the suburban districts at least three lives were lost. - Two men were drowned from a sinking barge in the Hudson river and two others are missing. A child, blinded by the sleet, walked into the Rondout creek at Yonkers and was drowned.

Deep snow is reported throughout the New England states, New York, Pennsylvania and other states along the coast. . Railroad and street car traffic has been interfered with seriously, and rains are far behind time.

In the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania the snowis so heavy as to block many lines, making it impossible to continue operations at several plants. Thisis a bad phase of the situation, as with the present small supply of fuel any reduction in the output mearns grave trouble to eastern cities. - !

In this city the storm seriously interfered with all railroad and steamship traffic, as well as with business in general. Surface car lines, the elevated railroad, and all ferry boats were compelled to abandon their schedules and run as best they could. Part of the TQird Avenue Elevated line was tied up ('(M]ley, and the Sixth and-Ninth avenue trains were delaved.

Discomfort caused by sleet and crippled lines of travel was increased by a fierce northeast gale, which blew with a- maximum velocity of 54 miles an hour. Along the Hudson river from Yonkers to Dobbs Ferry both shores are littered with wreckage. Twenty barges and (‘;anul boats, some empty, some loaded, are washed upon the shore. e

Telegraph service was much hampered by the storm. Boththe Western Union and: Postal companies reported that their systems had been shaken up. The worst conditions for fhe telegraph companies were in New England and in the Hudson valley,| although business to the south was somewhat delaved. . ;

An unknown man, believed to be a fisherman, put off from Yonkers in a rowboat shortly before moon and sturdily rowed his craft to midstream, where it was swamped and its occupant sank from view after a brief struggle in the water. A deckhand was blown overboard frem a tug near the same place, but was rescued. * Several barges that were being towed up the river broke adrift near Yonkers, and one of them sank. Three brothers were on the barge that sank. One was drowned and the two others were found on the beach in an unconscious condition. L

At Albany the snowfall was heavy, and all trains are reported from one to five hours late. Blizzard conditions prevail at Schnectady, Newburg. Saratoga and other places in the east and north parts of the state. From Rochester to Buffalo the storm is mhuch milder: - ! .

In Pennsylvania

* Philadelphia, Dec. 6.—The snow and windstorm which swept over the eastern part of Pennsylvania during the morning alted late Friday afternoon. The fall of snow in this city and surrounding country amounted (to about four inches, but the greatest damage was done by the high wind, which at 11 o'clock attained a velocity of 54 miles an hour. Telegraph communication between this city and Pittsburg was practically paralyzed and suburban gtreet car and railroad traffic was badly erippled. One life was lost as the result of the blinding snow and a few minor accidents occurred. During the height of the storm George Chiverton drove an express wagon into trolley car and. was instantly killed and two persons received fractured limbs by the collision of two. trolley cars in West Philadelphia. In the anthracite coal region the fall of snow amounted to eight inches, but mining operations were not seriously interfered with. .

In New England.

Boston. Dec. 6.—After an unusually long period of calm, mild weather a spirited storm from the gulf brought grim winter to’New England Friday with great suddenness, and for the first. time this season covered the entire region with snow to the depth of eight inches. The storm apparently was severe in southwestern New England, where there was considerable wire prostration and delay in railroad traffic. New England received the full benefit of a northeast gale, which in some places attained a vels ocity of 40 miles an hour.

Convicted.

St. Louis, Dec. 6.—After two days-of trial, Charles J. Denny, the millionaire brewer and director in the Suburban Street Railway company, formerly a member of the house of delegates, charged. with perjury in connection with the suburban bill boodle deal, was found guilty and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

Appointed Judge in Indiana.

Washington, Dec. 6.—The president has decided to appoint A. B. Anderson, of Crawfordsville, Ind., United States district judge to succeed John Baker, who recently resigned.

Found Guilty.

Appleton, Wis., Dec. B.—At Shawnee a jury found John G. Holmes, charged with an attempt to kill George and Martin Walter, his stepsons, on the night of D‘ebruary 15, 1902, guilty, and he was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment at Waupun.

Big Schooner \yrecked.

‘ Gloucester, Mass., Dec. 6.—ln a heavy northeast gale Friday the twomasted schooner Flo F. Mader struck on the unfinished breakwater and will be a total loss. The captain and srew of six men’ were saved by the life-saving crew.,

THE BLACK LIST.

Miners Give Evidence of Its Exiatence Before the Conl Strike - Commission.

Bcranton, Pa., Dec. 6.—The lawyers for the mine workers continued to call witnesses Friday before the strike commission to testify to the alleged black listing methods pursued by several coal companies in refusing to re-employ strikers who took a more or less prominent part in the affairs of the mine workers’ union during the recent suspension. All of them said they had been employed before the strike, but were refused their old places after the strike was ended. In most cases, according to the testimony, no satisfactory reason was-given why they were not taken back. Two blind men who were also otherwise badly injured by underground explosions, were presented as living evidence of the danger in the mines.

Nothing could be learned here with reference to the reported efforts at a settlement outside the commission. None f the attorneys for either side professed to know anything about any contemplated move in that direction. Wayne MacVeagh, who is representing the Erie railroad coal properties, was the only attorney in a position to know who would talk about the matter. He left here accompanied by Commission= er Parkerat 4:35 o’clock Friday afternoon over the Lackawanna railroad for New York, as the lestim;fin_v now being presented to the commiission does mnot concern Mr. MacVeagh's clients to an extent which makes his presence necessary. Mr.MacVeagh, before leaving, stated that a majority of the operators thought it better to:adjourn all effortstoreach by amicable cgnferences a basis for the award of the commission until both sides had presented all the testimony they wishéd to offer.

New York., Dec. 6.—Waane MacVeagh arrived from Scrant®n Friday night and went to the Waldorf-Astoria. When asked whethér thére was any possibility of a settlementof the strike by an agreement outside: of the comrmission Mr. MacVeagh said emphatically: “There is no such possibility, and there will be no further conferences outside the commiksion, except such as may occur between counsel for the. clearing up of minor details. The commission will ga on with its work to the end.” Mr. MacVeagh will go to Washington to-day. His visit, he'said. was on private business, and in no way connected with the coal controversy. | i

MAY SOON BE SIGNED.

President Palma Looking Closely After the Interests nf the Cuban Reciprocity 'l‘rg'eflty. - EEE | Havana, Dec. 6.—-Pre§sident Palma had two interviews Fri(zuy with Secretary. Zaldo and Secretary Montez reggrding the proposed treaty with the United States. President Palma says that the secretaries will sign the treaty early next week as his representatives. He will then sena it to Washingtontobesigned there by Senoz Quesada, the Cuban minister, and Secretary of State Hay. When the treaty is confirmed by the American senate the president will send it to the Cuban senate for ratification. He will not send it to the house of representatives, as he does not consider a change has been made in the tariff, it being merely a special arrangement with the United States for American articles. Afterward he will ask congress to revise tiie Cuban tariffs for purposes of revenue, when the special arrangement with the United States will continue the same reduction in the new tariffs. :

SENT TO PRISON.

Philadelphia Business Man Conviected of Burglary—Accused of Nearly Sixty Robberies.

Philadelphia, Dec. 6.—George Dickinson, alias Wescott, the burglar who was arrested about ten days ago after a desperate fight with a policeman, and who was discovered by detectives to be a robber by night and a business man by day, was tried an:l convicted Friday and sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary.. The polica accused Dickinson of nearly 60-rob-beries, but could secure legal evidence in ‘but 25 cases. It is said nearly $lO,OOO worth of Dickinson’s loot was recovered by the police.

SCHOONER LOST.

Wrecked During a Storm Off Hatteras, N. C.—Her Crew Is Undoubtedly Drowned.

Hatteras, N. C., Deec. 6.—The observer of the weather bureau reports that the four-masted schooner. Wesley M. Qler went ashore at Hatteras Inlet life-saving station early Priday morning during the storm. She was pounding in the surf about a mile off shore, until 8:20 a. m., when the foremast went over, carrying probably the last man. Almost immediately the vessel went to pieces. The life-saving erew could donothing to save the érew. No bodies have been washed ashore vet. )

: Coal Shortage in Chicago. Chicago, Dec. B.—The anthracite coal supply in this city is 1,000,000 tons short and suffering is likely from cold weather. Only 1,000 tons are now on hand . and an increase is improbable. The price isnine dollars a ton, but sales are limited to five tons. To Visit Egypt. London, Dec. 6.—Ambassador Choate, accompanied by his wife and daughter, and his secretary William Woodward, left Friday night for a holiday in Egypt. He will travel by way of Brin'disi, Athens, and Constantinople, and thence up the Nile. ; King May Visit Ireland. } London, Dec. 6.—The lord mayor of Belfast announced on Friday that the earl of Dudley had inforfhed him that King Edward would probably pay a visit to Ireland in 1903. This intimation; coming through the lord lieutenant of Ireland, is regarded as practically an official announcement of his majesty’s decision. = Troops Kill Workmen. London, Dec. 6.—A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the Daily Express, says that in the riots which occurred recently at Rostoff the troops fired on the workmen, killing 20 of them.

A FIRE TRAP BURNED

Flames Break Out in a Cheap Hotel in Chicago.

Escape of the Inmates Cut Of—Four=teen Persons Lose Their Lives and a Number Are Injured— : Young Boy's Bravery. 2

~ Chicago, Dec. s.—Roused from their sleep just as dawn was breaking Thursday morning, 14 guests in the Lincoln hotel, 176 Madison street, an institution recently opened and not yet provided with devices to insure the safety of its occupants, were suffocated by smoke from a fire thas broke out in the kitchen on the third flgbr. Of the hundred-odd other patrg of the place, most of them farmers and stockmen visiting in Chicago to attend the fat stock show, all had a perilous time before they reached the ground. some jumping to the roofs of adjoining buildings or ev-n to the street; others descending by means of ropes and the iron window shutters oun the burning building. -

Wild Scene in the Hall

Mad scenes were enacted inthe dark. narrow hall of the top floor of the four-storyéstrueture, and when the first detachments of firemen and police arrived they found the smokewreathed windows framing the faces of terrified men and women. The passe‘ngef' elevator would not work, and but one fire escape was in place. The platforms to this were not completed, and few of the frantic tenants of the establishment gave any thought to its whereabouts, hidden away as it was on one of the side walls. Instead they groped about in the unlighted passageways or helplessly beat out the glass in their windows. to gaze down to the street. 50 feet below, and shrink back from the leap that seemed to promise no better fate than that behind them. .

- Revised List of the Dead. ~ Following is a list of the vietiffis of the fire. . : M. M. Fardy. Janesville. Wis.; 3$ years old; employed by Kirkhofft & Neubarth. wholesale liquor dealers at. 55 Lake street, as city agent. H. K. Woods. Lebanon, Ind.; 43 years old; identified by R. C. Hamilton, of Lebanon. : A. B. Coon, Marengo. 111.; lawyer, 40 years old; married; here assisting T. H. Raymond in Dalton mail swindling case; identified by, Raymond.

I C.. Yocum. Davenport, JTowa, 52 years old; visitor to stoek show; apparently well-to-do.

Samuel Yocum. Davenport, Towa. 23 years old; here with I. C. Yocum, his father. : T. V. Slocum, machine dealer. Wauconda. 111.; 45 vears old: married; wife now with herfather at Libertyville. 111.

. F. L. Ewing. railway mail clerk. Marietta, O.; 45 years old; worked on the Pennsyvania system. s Ed Toner. printer, Milwaukee, Wis.; 40 years old. i Ward Lowe, railway mail clerk; Sechlerville,” Wis, ' F. H. Corey. railway mail -clerk;. Bucyrus. 0.5 36 years old. B. F. Boswell. paper box factory employe; lived at Lincoln hotel; worked on west side. John A: Cline. Duluth, Minn.

C. P. Cowan, St. Louis, collector for Wabash railwav. z

George Graves, compositor, roomed with Ed. Toner, also dead.

Boy Suaves His Mother. One of the first occupants of the hotel to be awakened was ten-year-old Fred Shephard. - He and his mother had a room on the fourth floor near where the fire is believed to -have started, and he awoke before the smoke had overpowered him. The darkness in the room was dense, but the little fellow groped to his mother’s bed and aroused her: Together they ventured out into the hallway, blacker than night. At no time was there any flame visible, and the smoke seemed to pour from an unseen source below. As they faltered for a moment at the door Mrs. Shephard fainted and sank unconscious at the boy's feet. Helthen found a window, cpened it and dragged her to the air. As Mrs. Shepherd revived she tried to throw herself from the '\\'in'dow. "But the heroic .youngster clenched his arms about her and restrained her while he called for help. Hook and ladder company. No. 3, under command of Capt. Conners, heard his shouts and started to the rescue. They reared a ladder from the roof of Vogelsang’s restaurant, and-n a few minutes a truckman was standing beside Mrs, Shephard and her son. The woman was hysterical, but the boy was cool, and made suggestions to the firemen as to the way she should be earried down. Just as the truckman was getting ready to descend, the ladder swayed. All three were on the top rung, and in endeavoring to clutch the window <ill the fireman lost his hold on Mrs. Shephard and she fell. The boy pushed past his rescuer and clambered down the ladder to ‘where his mother ‘lay unconscious. He was dressed only in his night clothing, but he refused to leave his mother, and went with her in an dmbulance to the hospital. :

A New Comet.

Washington, Dec. s.—The United States naval observatory reports that W. W. Dinwiddie, one of its staff, on Wednesday night dbserved the comet discovered by Giacobini at Nice Tuesday. The observation was made here at mean time, 12 hours 32 minutes, night ascension seven hours 17 minutes 95 seconds; southern declination, one degree 50 minutes. The comet is very nearly on a straight line joining ‘Troeyon and Sirius and is about onethird of the distance from Trocyon to Sirius, The comet is moving northwest. ;

Ready to Take Up His \\‘og-k.

: Boston,j Deec. s.—Associate Justice Holmes will leave for Washington today, reéldy.to take up his work on the supreme court bench next week. Judge Holmes has been arranging his affairs so that he could go to Washington immediately upon receiving news of his confirmation.

Fat Pension Bill.

Washington, Dec. s.—The house committee on appropriations has agreed upon the pension appropriation bill. It appropriates $139,847,600, which is $5,370 more than for the current year. :

SHOWS IMPROVEMENT. Condition of Ex-Speaker Reed Ene couraging — Recovery, How= ever, Will Be Slow. - . . Washington, Dec. 6.—The improvement in the condition of former Speaker Thomas -B. Reed, continuead during the day, although his physicians say it is still eritical. Friday, after their visit.to the patient, which lasted more than an hour, they issued the following bulletin: - “10:30 p. m.—At the present time Mr. Reed is resting comfortably. -Owing to unavoidable excitement this afternoon there was slight elevation of temperature. - This has subsided, and his temperature is now normal. 98 6-19, respirations 36, pulse 88.. Retains nourishment, mind clear, and appendical'symptoms continually abating. - “F. A. GARDENER. “S. L. MeDONALD.” The physicians say that Mr. Reed’s recovery. at best, will be slow. For precautionary reasons the physicians have on hand a quantity of saline solution and a tank of oxygen.-but the use of neither has been resorted to. The oxygen may be used if this is found necessyry, said Dr. Gardener, before leaving the Arlington hotel. Tts purpose. he said. was to oxydize the blood £0 as to eliminate the pofson, which may have developed as a result of the uraemic disorders. . Its application, the physicians declare, does not necessarily indicate a dangerous condition:

THE CANAL TREATY.

It Cannot Be Ratified by the Colom=bian Congress Before June 1, 1903. S )

Washington, Dec.. 6.—lf Minister Hart at Bogota, is correctly informed no treaty providing for the construetion of the Panama canal (:flmrati: fied by the Colombian congress before about June 1 next. -He has reported that the congressional elections-have been called for the middlé of.next March, and Colombians here say that a period of at least 60 days is required te assemble a newly elected congress, and then some time must elapse before it is in working order. Secretary, Hay, therefore, has -decided to-allow the treaty to bé ratified in Washings ton first, presuming that he suceeeds. in negotiating one, \mflms the senate interposes an objection. which is not anticipated. It is expected that-early next week Dr. Herron, the Colombian charge here, will be given all the powers necessary for him to sign a treaty. DEATH WAS TRAGIC. .-~ . Details of the Sudden Demise of United States Minister :’ ’ : Buck. ) :

Yokohama, De¢. 6.—Paralysis of the heart caused the death of United States Minister Albert -E. DBuck, which occurred Thursday. . The end was tragically sudden. .- AR Mr. Buck was the guest of the emperor in a duck hunt.on .the Shinhama preserves. - A bird had ‘been netted and the minister, with a joeylar remark, started to reset the net. /S‘N(ienl_v he fell, and without a word or proan expired instantaneously. Heé had suffered from a weak heart for some time. » : : A Mrs. Buck was not with the party. Minister Buck was held in high esteem in Japan and the flags on government buildings. have .been placed at half mast. The funeral has been set for Monday next. . = - Secretary J. M. Ferguson is ib charge of the legation. - 7 | PASSED AWAY. - Deaath of Dr. Henry S. Cutler, \\‘hflosei Fame as a Composer and Con- : ductor Is Widespread. v Swamp Scett, Mass.,, Dec. 6.—Dr. “Henry S. Cutler, composer and musiecal conductor credited yith introducing vested male choirs in this country, died here Friday. Dr. Cutler formerIy was organist and choirmaster of Trinity church in .NeWw York city. “When the prince of \Wales, now King Edward VIIJ., visited this country in 1860 Dr. Cutler conceived the idea of ‘having a vested choir in ‘Triuit_\,j simeilar to tnose in the English churches, because the prince of Wales had decided to attend the service -there. The idea was at once taken up in this country’ and became ' general, Dr. Cutler’s setting to the hymn “The Son of God Goes Forth to War™ is the best known of his compositions. s Contractors Fail, . Boston, Dec. 6.—Serious delay to municipal and ‘government work is lisible to occur by . the failure here of the contracting firm of F. G. €oburn & Co., one2of the largest firms of its kind in the east. The liabilities are estimated at $150,000, one-half _of which is due to the Central national pank. The assets are ‘about $62.000, The company is. building ‘two = hospitals for the city of Boston, and twa great shops at the Charlestown navy yard for the United .States government. The failure is attributed to the closing of the Central. national bank, which tied up Mr. Coburn’s afFATPS T e . d Big Fire at Stillwater, Minn. Stillwater, Minn., Dec, .6.—Fire that broke cut under the stage inthe grand’ opera house from an unknown cause at three o'clock Friday morning cansed a loss of $175,000. The opera house block, owned by a local syndicate. was totally destroyed, with a loss-of $75,000; insurance, $21.000, and adjoiring property was damaged. . . : Found Guilty of Murder. = Springfield, 11k, Dec. 6.—Wesley Huwley, charged with -the murder of City Marshal Martin, of Moweaqua, was today found guilty and sentenced to serve 20 years in the penitentiary: - Frokabls Snaseasorio Miniitse Btk - Washington, Dec..6.—When the presi‘dent comes to take up the question of the succession to the vacancy ‘eaused by the death of Minister Buck at Tokio, it is understood that Jhe will name John Barrett, of Oregon, at present commissiofier general of the -St. Louis expositiun“to Asia. and Australpsia, to be minister. S e

Former Presicdent of Brazil Dead. New York, Dec. 6.—Dr. Prudente Jose de Moraes, former president of Brazil, died on Wednesday in Pindamonhangaha, state of Sao Pablo, says a Herald dispatch from Rio Janeifo,

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