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Scientists have discovered that there are 1,878 varieties of bees in this country. This does not include the husking bee. the presidential bee or the lynching bee.. : » ‘An exira se;sion of the Montana legislature has pessed a law whereby litiganis may hgve an opportunity of getting fair trials in the courts. The wonfer and the shame and the pity of it is that such a law should be necessary. Does ary other state need a similar law? “The condition of Armenian-American <itizens of the United States has no parall¢]l in history. It isunprecedented that persons born in one country who have voluntarily tecome naturalized citizens of another country should be required to pay annuzl poll tax to the government under which they were born as long as they live. : : b s o T T The cocmptroller of the currency reports that the enormous sum of $2,935,204845 is deposited in the savings banks of the country. This is an increase of $185,627.555 over a year ago. There was an increase in depositors also. If the deposits were divided per capita every man, werian and child in the country would get $417.21. Burglar-procf pay cars are to be put in service on the Pennsylvania railroad. The cars will be covered with steel sheeting which no bullet ean pen-. eirate. Another blow to the business of the picturesque train robber. If he is ‘o succced in this prosaic age he will find war balloons. and 16-inch £LDs necessary. e o - J. H. Ackerman, siate superintencent of public instruction in Oregon, urges that the eleiacnts of scientific farming 'bé taught in public schools. He does not contemplate thorough agricultural training, Dbut rather that pupils be tauzht such. facts and principles as should be understood by every one livinz im an agricultural country. —— . Switzeriand has long been a harbor for anarchists who find its easily accessible {rontiers a convenient escape from the consequences of their crimes. The republic has resolved to give the nefaricus tribe sanctuary no longer. To this course it is rorced by self-preser-vation, for the ingrates menace its law and order as seriously as the law and corder of every other country.

Again Prof. Langley has launched his t€hiy in air, only to have it flop into the Potomac river. He should have learned by this time that his machine is -an aquatic bird, and will not be satisfied in any other element. The professoris giving a very good imitation of a hen that has inadvertently hatched a duck egg, arnd is shocked inexpressibly when the cuckling persists in following its natural instincts. ol :

A Boston scientist says there is enough’ radium under the soil of the state of Connecticut to make or unmeke the United States. No man is likely to be satisfied, however, untit Connpecticut has proved that its supply is the genuine article, and not a cardboard imitation. The public remembers the shoe peg oats, the wooden nutmegs, the “Havana” cigars and the turnip horseradish. :

A New York problem in real life threalens to become as troublesome as the age of Ann. A man died of defirium tremens who, it was proved, mever took but two drinks a day—one in. the morning and one in the evening. Physicians, bartenders, whisky men and nurses are being interviewed as to the possibility of tnis phenomenon. The answer seems easy, however. it all depends on the size of those two drinks. 3

The number of recent immigrants to the United States who are transforminz themselves into emigrants will surprise the country. ' One steamer recentIy left New York with 1,500 steerage passengers for Liverpool, which is the largest number ever carried by any wvessel from any port of the United States. It is said that the number of recent arrivals who have left New York for their old homes in Europe in one wgek is about 9,000. Nothing like this heg.ra was ever seen in tne past, alwough some emigrants leave New York every day in the year. -

. Herbert Spencer, who died recently at Cheltenham, England, at the age of 83 years, was the last of a group of great Englishmen who made the Vietorian age noteworthy in literature and philosophy. He was a contemporary of Darwin, ‘Huxley, Tyndall, Tennyson, Carlyle, Ruskin, and BroWninge. - He was born in the same year as Tyndall, one year after Ruskin, five years before Huxley, 11 years after Darwin and Tennyscn, and , one -year later than Queen Victoria. He had outlived them ail. and he will be remembered as long As any. :

. Third Assistant Postmaster General Madden speaks encouragingly of his efforts to check the abuses of the secondclass mail privilege. In his reporttothe president he gives an extended list of beoks which have gone through the mails as periodicals, thus diverting from the department a large sum of money which should have come from third-class maiter. The greatest abuse of the sec-ond-class privilege, however, has been by so-called magazines and newspapers ‘which contain nothing but advertising. The congress should offer come wholegome “suggestions” ;n the matter.

A WERKS HISTORY 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 DISPATCHES + . IN EXTRA SESSION. Congress Meets to Consider Tuban Reciprocity and Other Matters. The senate on the 15th continusd the debate on the Cuban bill, Senator Perkins (Cal.) speaking for the measure, as did Senator Simmons (N. C.), and Senator McCumber (N. D.) opposed it. In the house rural free delivery, reciprocity with Canada and the new republic of Panama were topics under discussion, " By a vote of 57 to 18 the senate on the 16th passed the bill carrying into effect the reciprocity treaty with Cuba. The house resolution providing for a holiday recess from December 19 to January 4 was agreed to. In the house Central American affairs were discusszd and also pensions, industrial and agricultural conditions ‘and labor. The senate on the 17th was the scene of a spirited debate on the isthmian canal question. Senators Hoar and Gorman criticised the president’s action in recognizing the independence of the republic of Papama, while Senatcer Foraker defended the executive’s action. In the house the pension apprepriatien bill, carrying $138,150,100, was passed. There was a general discussion on 'Panama, rural free delivery and tariff. Speaker Cannon signed the bill carrying into effect the Cuban reciproeity treaty.

FROM WASHINGTON. Before the United States . supreme court arguments in the Northera Securities case were completed. A decision is not expected until February. : * A settlement has been reached by Gov. Taft with the friars, by which the United States is to pay $7.250,000 for the lands of the crder in the Philippines. A full report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow in the poss office scandal has been made public in Washington. It charges many new irregularities on the part of high officials in the department. . The seeretary of war assumed all responsibility for Gen. Leonard Wond’s acts while governor general of Cuba in testimony before the senate committee on military affairs. President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a dinner in hon(‘r of the cabinet which marked the opening of the social season at the white house. - The president signed the Cuban réciprocity bill and issued a proclamation declaring it effective on December 27.

THE EAST. : W. 1. Buchanan, of Buffalo, N. Y., the first United States minister to the republic of Panama, sailed for Panama. For the murder of his wife Jesse Green (colored) was hanged at Chester, Pa: - ! * Mayor Patrick Collins (dem.) was reelected in Boston ley 27,000 plurality. A. C. Bushnell, a New Haven (Conn.) bank cashier, committed suicide because his accounts were $15,000 short. The last voyage of Capt. Dutton to New York on the steamer Umbria ended the worst trip of his career. The craft was three days late and seven persons were injured by heavy seas. A court in New York has been asked to decree that Charles M. Schwab owes $18,000,000 to the shipbuilding trust. By a fire at Millvale, Pa., 100 persons were made homeless. ~ In a speech in New York city Andrew Carnegie declared that the negroes were a blessing to this country and make it impregnable. In the Myersdale (Pa.) coal region 1,600 miners quit work owing to the proposed reduction of ten cents per ton for mining soft coal. ; ‘Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller are said:to have reached an agreement to oust J Pierpont Morgan and his friends from the steel trust. - : At Oklane, Pa, Mrs. Harry L. Smith and her two young children were burned to death by a fire which destroyed their home. !

WEST AND SOUTH. Burglars blew open the safe of the Citizens’ savings bank at Quimby, la., and Secured $3,000 in cash. Two of the robbers were captured. In St. Louis Mrs. Daniel Manning, of Albany, N. Y., was elected president of the board of lady managers of the exposition. : A brakemarn was burned to death and two others fatally hurt in a collision between freight. trains near Pawnee, Kan. In a fire three children of August Batteen, a farmer of Allamakee county, la., were burned to death. : Judge Tuthill selected 25 citizens to plan a crusade against crime in Chicago. : ‘ When being arrested at Berkeley W, A. McKowen, secretary of the University of California regents, confessed to embezzling $20,000. ‘ On June 29 the national convention of the prohibition party will be held in Kansas City. James Dunlap, known as the most desperate of cracksmen, was secretly paroled from the Joliet (Ill.) penitentiary, where he has served omnly three years of a 20-years’ sentence for bank rabbery. Jonas Hutchinson, judge of the Cook county superior court, died suddenly at his home in Chicago of heart failure, aged 63 years. ) An anarchist plot to dynamite the white house <is said to have been discovered through the arrest at Galveston, Tex., of Charles Pierzon, a socialistic la-~ bor agitator, | . : The lady managers of the Louisiana Purchase exposition will ask congress for $1060,000. . President Roosevelt has tendered the | pogition of civil service commissioner, made vacant by the death of John R. Procter, to Gen. Black, of Chicago. | At Ashland, Ky., Benjamin Benedict, his wife and their three-year-old daugh~ ter were burned to death in a fire wmch’»} destroyed their home,

At Birmingham, Ala., John Stringer (colored) was hanged for the murder of Wiiliam O’Neal. Three men robbed the bank at Garden City, la., of $l,OOO. Sarah Caswell Angell, wife of the president of the University of Michigan, died at Ann Arbor of pneumonia. In Chicago the livery and undertaking business is tied up by a strike of drivers for higher wages. John Rusk, Martin Olson anq Lars Anderson were suffocated in a fire in a saloon at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. '

. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. In the rcichstag Count von LimburgStirum - declared civil war would rend Germany unless the government took vigorous measures against the socialists. d United States warships will be sent to Cartagena, Coclombia, to bring Minister Béaupre to this country and to impress upon Colombia the strength of Panama's protector. i g The news.of the passage by the United States senate of the bill for reciprocity between the United States and Cuba caused rejoicing in Havana. From Manila the transport Sherman arrived in San Francisco, bringing the men of the Thirtieth -infant'ry. The cruiser Atlanta discovered the Colombian army on the Gulf of Darien and reported that the trcops were engaged in building a military road to facilitate invasion. It is said that Japan has rejected Russia’s reply to her demands and will not recede from, her original position. A dispatch says that M. Contesse, a member of the bundesrath from Neuchatel, has besn elected president of Switzerland:

LATER XEWS, The relationship of the United States to the new republic of Panama continued to be the leadidg theme in the senate on the 18th. The treaty “for the extension of the commercial relations” between the United States and China was ratified. In.the house memorials frem Porto Rico were introduced praying that the constitution of the United States be extended to Porto Rico and asking for aterritorial form of government. A constitutional amendment was introduced providing that the right to vote shall lot be denied on account of sex. War ‘between Russia and Japan in the far east is regarded in London as inevitable. . Cardinal Gotti called at the vatican and laid at the feet of Pope Pius $9,000,000 left to him in trust by the late ponSt : o There were 329 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 18th, against 267 the same week in 1902. A world-wide observance of March 7, 1904, as Bible Sunday, proposed by the British and Foreign Bible society, has been approved by the American Bible society. : ' The celebration of the centennial anniversary of the transfer of the Louisiana territory from France to the United States began in New Orleans. The American Baseball league meeting in Chicago ended with voting President Johnson’s salary of $lO,OOO. Funerals were interrupted and - delayed and many dead were left unburied as the result of the strike of livery drivers in Chicago. Fifty-six families were made homeless in Chicago when fire destroyed the Victoria apartment building. An earthquake has broken off the southeastern peak of Mount Ranier, lying 60 miles southwest of Tacoma, ‘Wash. . Weekly trade reviews report a heavy consumption of merchandise, growing ease of money and fewer commercial defaults.. ' A flying machine built by Orville and Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, 0., traversed three miles at Kitty Hawk, N. C., against a 21-mile wind. o . Four persons were killed and 30 injured by the burning of the Nashville (Tenn.) college for negro women. The interstate commerce commismission’s annual report shows net earnings of railroads for the past fiscal year were §641,630,196, an increase of $34,000,000 over the year 1902.

MINOR NEWS ITEMS. England’s whclesale and retail food trade is said to be falling into the hands of the American meat trust. Dr. H. F.. Swanback, .of Nebraska, wears the iron cross of Prussia, given him by Frederick IV. ' Edwin Warfield, governor-elect of Maryland, has been everything from a farmer’s hired man to a banker. He is rich. : ' The- Minnesota supreme court rules that it is permissible to defame candidates for public office if the charges are true. e The area of the lands held by the czar of Russia as an individual is greater than that of the republic of France. A plan to spend $27,220,000 on line between Chicago and New York has been decided on by stockhclders and directors of the Erie railroad. A Brooklyn (N. Y.) prison record shows that Edward Gaffney has spent 16 vears in prison for wife beating. He has been convicted ten separate times. Isadore Newman, of New Orleans, re-cently-gave $50,000 to charity to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival in the United States. ‘A tablet is to be erected in memory of John Adam Dazyr, the first shoemaker in Lynn, Mass., and the founder of that city’s great industry. The fastest locomotive in the world, the fastest automobile and the balloon that has reached thLe highest altitude will be part of the German exhibit at the St. Louis world’s fair, A “city beautiful” will be constructed at Dumfermline, Scotland, ‘with a gift of $2,500,000 and site from Andrew Carnegie.. Model homes for toilers will be included. : Dr. Frank Alpine Hill, secretary of the Massachusetts board of education, is dead. He wasone of the most prominent promoters of educational thought in the United States. e Mrs. Marie Pigrum Harrison, who died in Brooklyn the other day, aged 101, was a famous eircus performer in her time. She was the daughter of a bootmaker to George 111. : The big gorge bridge over the Cuyahoga river, near Cuyahoga falls, was crossed for the first time by the Northern Ohio company’s eiectric cars. The bridge is over, 400 feet long and 110 feet in height. =

NEW CUBAN TARIFF. President Roosevelt Issues a Proclamation Putting 'Reciprociti in Effeet December 27. : Washington, Dec. 17.—8 y the decisive vote of 57 to 18 the senate Wednesday passed the bill carrying into effect the reciprocity treaty with Cuba. The final vote came at the close of a day which was marked by a debate which, while at times animated, was never acrimonious. The principal speeches were made by Senator Spooner, for the bill, and by Senator Bailey, against it. The bill passed carries into execution the treaty between the United States and Cuba which was ratified last March. The treaty provides for a reduction of 20 per cent. from the rates of duty under the Dingley law on all Cuban articles imported into the United States, and a varying reduction of from 20 to 40 per cent. from the established Cuban duty on articles imported inte Cuba from the United States. : : : Washington, Dec. 18.—The president signed-the Cuban reciprocity bill a few minutes before one o'clock Thursday afternoon. Now that the bill has become a law a question of great interest has arisen, namely the effect of the reduction of the duty on Cuban_ sugar upon importations of sugar from other countries. The British government has served formal notice upon the state department that under the favored nation clause it expects that British sugar from the British West Indies shall be admitted into the United States on equal terms with Cuban sugar, and it is not doubted that Germany, France, Austria and the other great beet sugar producing countries will do likewise. An old holding of Attorney General Olney, in President Cleveland’s administration, was adverse to such demands, but the question promises to be reopened with vigor.

- WILL STAND FIRM. . Japan Decides to Present Stirong Front to Russia—Situation Very Grave, = Tokio, Dec. 18.—The conference of the elder statesmen of Japan, including Marquis Ito, and the cabinet ministers Wednesday resulted, according to a semiofficial statement, in a determination to oppose a strong front to Russia, in view of the latter’s unsatisfactory reply to the Japanese proposals. : Another report says it is understcod that, although the Russian reply was considered highly unsatisfactory, the conference decided to make another, and probably last, attempt to arrive at a friendly settlement. The situation is considered grave. Seoul, Dec. 19.—The attitude of the Russians here indicates a possible determination to prevent Japan from gaining a foothold in Corea. The radicals insist that Russia must reach the cea to insure protection in the future and argue that Japan in possession of Corea would be a constant menace. g The emperor still studiously avoids an answer to the questions of United States. Minister Allen in regard to Wiju. The latter is now pressing the matter and has asked for another audience. The Russians are inclined to resent American activity concerning Wiju and say that the Americans are playing thae Japanese game. The Russians do not object to Americans coming in and trading with Manchuria, but assert that the opening of Mukden and An Tung admitted Japanese, whose presence is constantly irritating, and that it might lead to a repetition of this if Yongampho and Wiju are opened. They say that Americans now enjoy a large trade with Manchuria which, except in the matter of flour, will largely increase in the future, and insist that the present attitude of America only injures a friend and customer and favors a manufacturing rival.

IS PARDONED. “Jimmy” Dunlap, Notorions Cracksmean, Secretly Freed from Joliet Prison. Chicago, Dec. 18.—“ Jimmy” Dunlap, notorious in America and Europe as “the gentleman burglar,” and regarded as the most dangerous cracksman of the age, was secretly paroled from the Ilincis state penitentiary at Joliet December 7 by the state board of pardons. Dunlap was ordered to report to William A.' Pinkerton, in whose name the parole papers were executed. Dunlap, whose most desperate crime was participation in the $2,000,000 Northampton bank robbery more than 20 years ago, was sentenced to the Joliet penitentiary November 16, 1900, by Judge Hilscher at Watseka, the county seat of Iroquois county. The sentence was for 20 years, Dunlap having. been convicted of ‘‘cracking” Pate’s bank in Wellington, 111.,, on the night of March 18, 1900, when $2,300 was stolen. : Father and Sen Killed. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 18.—In a duel with three detectives Thursday night, Joseph Choisser, aged 50, and Louis Choisser, aged 25, father and son, were shot and instantly killed in a lodging house on West Fifth street. The Choissers were wanted at Equality, 111., on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. : ; : " Three Children Perish, Dubuque, la., Dec. 17.—Three children of August Batteen, a farmer of Alamakee county, were burned to death Tuesday night. Batteen and his wife had left their five children alone in the house. The residence was burned to the ground, and only two of the children escaped. Roller Mills Burned. Kenmare, N. D., Dec. 17.—The Kenmare roller mills, owned by McGlenn & Sons, burned Wednesday. The town. has no fire protection, and nothing could be done to save the property. Loss on building and' contents, $50,000; insurance, $25,000. . : ! Wages Increased, Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dec. 17.—The Wilkesbarre & Wyoming Valley Traction company has increased the wages of its employes five cents a day and the men will not strike. The employes demanded an increase of 25 cents a day, but after numerous conferences decided to compromise. : New Trial Gramted. Columbus, 0., Dec. 17.—Lewis Harmon, convicted and sentenced to be electrocuted cn January 9 for the murder of George Geyer, a farmer near Alton, has been granted a new trial by the circuit court. S

HONOR FOR GEN. BLACK. President.'l'ender- Vacant Civil Service Commissionship to Commander of G. A, R. Washington, Dec. 18.—The 'president has tendered the position of civil service commissioner, m.ade vacant by the death of John R. Procter, to Gen. John C.

L e : & Sl s S e R by N AR AR e B Ry ] (’ BE Y SR S R AT K- B N P RO BRI EA D s 8 R goe : RS R, e e v\,fig;&)&@fi, O PG o e R BSAR R R e G TR e R \\§,\gs\“ S QAR e o SR R . \%“ N GEN. JOHN . C. BLACK. . Black, of Chicago. Gen. Black is com-mander-in-chief of the grand army. , Gen. Black has not indicated whether or not he will accept the appointment.

SEE COLOMBIAN ARMY. Officers of the Warship Atlanta Dis- . cover Troops on the Gulf ! of Darien. Colon, Dec. 18.—The ' United - States cruiser Atlanta, Commander William H. Turner, has returned here from the Gulf of Darien. She discovered, December 15, a detachment of Colombian troops numbering visually about 500 men, but, according to their statements, totaling 1,500 or 2,000 men, at Titumati, on the western side of the gulf, just north of the mouth of the Atrato river. The commander of the Atlanta sent ashore an officer, who conversed with the Colombians’ commander. The latter protested energetically against the presence of American warships in Colombian ‘waters, inasmuch as war between Colombia and the United States had not been declared, and politely requested the Atlanta to leave the gulf, because it belonged to Colombia. Commander Turner ignored the request, and the Atlanta returned to Colon to report to Rear Admiral Coghlan. The Colombians are clearly. busy with protective and strengthening measures. Although they treated the Americans courteously, they decidedly resented the presence of the Atlanta’s landing party. The Colombian force was composed partly of the men landed recently at the Atrato river by the Colombian cruisers Cartagena and General Pinzon. ; Washington, Dec. 19.—After a conference Friday between Secretary Moody, ‘Rear Admiral Taylor, chief of the bureau of navigation, and Brig. Gen. George Elliott, commandant of the marine corps, it was decided that if present conditionson the isthmus of Panama continue, Gen. Elliott will sail for Colon on ‘the Dixie from Philadelphia when that vessel goes south with the new battalion of marines which has been ordered assembled at Philadelphia for dispatch to the isthmus. The Dixie is now on her way north for this purpose. Gen. Elliott has been anxious for some days to be given a field command, and it is the present intention of the officials to grant his request. :

INDICTED AGAIN. Grand Jury Returns Another True Bill Against United States Senator Dietrich. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 18.—The United States grand jury on Thursday made its report to.the court, returning 19 true bills. These include indictments agaiust United States Senator Charles H. Dietrich for alleged illegal leasing of a building to the government to be used as a post office, former Adjt. Gen. Leonard W. Colby, for the alleged embezzlement of government funds; Daniel Gaines, of Bassett, Neb., for alleged perjury in swearing falsely to homestead entries; former State Senator Elliott Lowe, for alleged conspiracy to bribe a United States senator; Postmaster John 8. Mitchell, of Alma, Neb., charging him with illegal sale of postage stamps; William M. Irwin, on a charge of acting as agent for Mitchell, and against R. M. Allen, president of the Standard Cattle company, for the alleged illegal fencing of government lands. The other indictments Were similar to that against Allen, but do not involve extensive tracts of land. The statute under which the indictment against Senator Dietrich is drawn provides a penalty of $3,000 fine and requires the return of all money paid by the government under the contract in case of conviction. The penalty for bribery, with which Elliott Lowe is charged, provides a heavy fine and imprisonment not to exceed ten years. The penalty for embezzlement, which charge is placed against Gen. Colby, is either fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.

Given Ten Years’ Sentence, London, Dec. 18.—A. S. Rowe, the absconding secretary of the Great Fingal Consolidated company, who was arrested at Toronto, was sentenced Thursday to ten years’ penal servitude for embezzling over $500,000 of the company’s funds. v Insolvent for $6,000,000. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 18.—Hart Gwen, president of the Farmers’ Deposit bank of this city, has issued a printed statement, in which he charges that a local trust company is insolvent for $6,000,000. It is expected suits will result from the charges. New Bishop of Colusmbus, -Rome, Dec. 18.—Cardinal Gotti, prefect of the propfganda, was received in audience by the pope Thursday and submitted as the choice of the propaganda fo}‘”bishop of Columbus, 0., the name of the Rev. James J. Hartley, of the Holy Name, of Steubenville. His holiness ratified the selection. ' Cuban Elections. : Havana, Dec. 18.—The senate passed the general electoral bill, which covers all manner of electiong, methods of registration and other details. The date of the election for half of the members of congress is fixed for February 28.

- CHINESE TREATY RATIFIED. Senate Approves Commercial Agreement Opening Two New Ports to the Trade of World. ) Washington, Dec. 19.—The senale in executive session ratified the treaiy “for the extension of the commercial relations” between the United States and China, and then removed the inJjunction of secrecy. No opposition was manifested by any senator to the treaty, though Senator Nelson (rep. Minn.) made a long speech in which he criticised the convention as making insufficient provision for the trade of the United States. He said it indicated that the hand of Russia had been shown against this country, making it impossible for the United States to leceive the concessions needed in the way of open ports. He said that the ports of Mukdon and Antung, which are opened under the treaty provisions, are in fact inland ports, accessible only to vessels of light draft. He. blamed Russia for this condition of affairs and warned the.senate that we may yet have trouble with that country ovel the Manchurian question, which he said had been responsible for the inability of the United States plenipotentiaries to obtain the opening of other important ports under more favorable conditions.

The attitude taken by Senator Nelson was upheld in speeches by a number of other senators, although it was argued at the same time that this treaty is an entering wedge to our trade and that it was the best China was able to do under Russian duréss Senator Lodge (Mass.) urged the importance of having the treaty ratitied at once, and said that the state department considered immediate action essential. He declared that the ratification probably would have a bearing on the settlement of the far eastern question. Senators Morgan, Cullom, Spooner and a number of others agreed with Senator Lodge. It was stated by some of the speakers that it Russia had objection to the treaty it had not been apparent, and on the contrary it was said that she had openly expressed her approval of it. -

- STRIKE IS UNCANNY. Drivers of Hearses and Carriages in Chicago Quit Work and Funerals Suffer, .Chicago, Dec. 19.—Striking, which has touched directly almost every phase of life, on Friday stopped all funeral processions. Hearse and livery drivers, 1,600 in number, quit work at seven a. m. Owners of the teanms and vehicles are organized to a man, and every one of them is party to an agreement to shut up shop. So far the workers have been loyal tc the banner of unionism, and their employers, undertakers and livery stable owners, likewise true to their agreement. Sev-enty-five funerals were scheduled for the day, according to the report of .the burial permit clerk of the city health department. Sofne of these were postponed in the hope that the strike would be settled, for people affected by death in the family are unwilling to give up the customary funeral procession. Most of the funerals, however, took place, the bodies being carried to the cemeteries in undertakers’ embalming wagons. Mourners used the car lines to reach the graveside. . While pallbearers with uncovered heads were placing a coffin in a hearse waiting at the curb in front of a West Side cottage a mob formed and threatened to stop the funeral. A squad of police prevented violence and escorted the remains to the cemetery. The'ban of the strike was laid on the poor and the wealthy alike. The remains of Elias T. Watkins, capitalist and bank director, went to the grave in a wagon followed only by the family carriage, when 30 carriages had been expected to form the cortege. To-day the bodies of Judge Jonas Hutchinson and Frederick Raymoud Otis must go to their last resting place in the same humble way.

RICHES FOR POPE. Cardinal Gotti Delivers §9,000,000 Hidden by Leo Xlll.—Electriciazam i Finds $1,850,000. el Rome, Dec. 19.—chording to the Tribuna, the vatican had sudden wealth poured into ‘its coffers Friday. For some time certain sums which were known to be possessed by Pope Leo were looked for without result, the search toward the end becoming somewhat feverish. Cardinal Gotti, prefect of the propaganda, accompanied. by Mons. Marzolini, one of the late pope’s secretaries, drove up to the vatican Friday, and getting out hurriedly began tugging' at a heavy object in the carriage. Assistance was offered, but it was refused, and Cardinal Gotti and Mgr. Marzolini between them. carried the mysterious object to the apartment of Pope Pius. They were immediately admitted, and remained for two hours. Intense curiosity was aroused by this act, as it was believed to have some relation to the missing wealth, and the wildest rumors were circulated. It soon became known, however, that the bag contained 45,000,000 francs ($9,000,000) in bank notes. : Death of a Millionaire. Terre Haute, Ind., Dec. 19.—George W. Bement, aged 69 years, one of the oldest citizens and a member of the wholesale grocery firm of Bement-Real company, died Friday nigat after a long illness Mr. Bement’s fortune is estimated at about $1,000,000. ,

Commemorate Anniversary. Des Moines, la., Dec. 19.—One hundred years ago Friday occurred the formal transfer of lowa as a part of the Louisiana territory to the United States. ‘ln commemoration of that event 13,000 schools of the Hawkeye state held special services. Passed Away., L Hagerstown, Md., Dec. 19.—Cen. Henry Kyd Douglas, “Stonewall” Jackson’s chief of staff during the civil war, died at his home in this city Friday night. A general failing in health, including mental troubles, was the cause of his death, He was 63 years old. : Take Cath of Allegiance. Bombay, Dec. 19.—Gen. Delarey made a speech to the Boer prisoners at Admadnagar Friday and succeeded in persuading all but ten of them to sign the oath of allegiance to Great Britain. Gen. Delarey spoke for five hours

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