Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 43, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 23 December 1908 — Page 2

The Nappanee News t G. N. MURRAY, Publisher. NAPPANEE, INDIANA.

NEWS NOTES FOR THE Most Important Happenings of the World Told in Brief.

WASHINGTON NOTES. William H. Taft, president-elect of the United States, announced the appointment of United States Senator Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania as secretary of state in his cabinet. That the United States should have the right of appeal to the federal supreme court as a matter of right whenever a conviction is reversed on appeal by a defendant to a circuit court of appeals, is the opinion expressed by Atty, Gen. Bonaparte in his annual report, submitted to congress. He cites of the reversals of the fine of $29,240.000 against the Standard Oil Company, The house of representatives by unanimous vote adopted a resolution requesting the president to supply It with an evidence that may be in his possession that will justify the statement in his last annual message in relation to the attitude of members of congress toward appropriations for the secret service of the government. The senate adopted a resolution for an investigation of the inference in the president’s message that members of congress fear the probing of secret service officers. !t was authoritatively announced In New York that the offer of a cabinet position to Congressman Theodore Burton of Cleveland had been withdrawn by Mr. Taft and would not he renewed. President Roosevelt sent a message to congress denouncing Joseph Pulitzer for the Panama canal charges and saying it is the duty of the government to prosecute the publisher of the New York World for criminal libel. The World replied with an editorial of defiance. PERSONAL. Wilbur Wright, American aeroplanist, set two new records at Le Mans, France, by remaining in the air nearly two hours and then ascending 360 feet. • ' * • * Fred Lied, formerly member of the Columbus (O.) board of control, was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary for accepting a bribe. Leo F. McCullough, president of the common council of Boston, is charged with perjury and conspiracy to defraud the city out of S2OO on June 1 last. C. M. Buckles, cashier of the First State bank of Oklahoma City, Okla., was found guilty by a jury of embezzling $1,872 while he was treasurer of Canadian county three years a°go. He was sentenced to serve a year in the penitentiary and to pay* a fine of $3,485. Philander C. Knox, United States senator from Pennsylvania, has con--sented to be secretary of state in Mr. Taft’s cabinet. Gen. Anton Simon, leader of the revolution that ousted Nord Alexis, was unanimously elected president of Hayti. " Henry E. Agar, wanted in Princeton, Ind., for alleged forgeries amounting to $125,000 and supposed to have ibeen drowned in the Wabash river In January, 1907, wan arrested, at Harlingen, Tex. . . ~ ' Ralph H. Booth, the Detroit pub'llisher, purchased a controlling interest In both the Muskegon Chronicle and dhe Muskegon Morning News. Alice Neilson, an actress, long prominent on the comic opera stage, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy In New York. She gave her liabilities as $v,200 and her assets as $75.

GENERAL NEWB. Six robbers, after dynamiting the safes of the Farmers' State bank at Keene, Neb., and the Commercial bank Os Gibbon, Neb., engaged in a pitched battle here with a number of citizens and escaped in an automobile with *5,500.' The tramp steamer Catalone ran Into and sunk the freighter Daghestan of England just outside New York harbor. The members of the Daghestan's crew were picked up by the Catalone. Col.'Hy. B. Marchbank, a prominent stock broker of Joplin, Mo., committed suicide because of ill health. Ehner Hill, alleged murderer of Mamie Womack in Adair county, Kentucky, was taken from jail at Montlcel--1o by a mob and hanged. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.; it was reported in Thompsonville, Conn. 1 ; was slated for election to the next Connecticut general assembly. * • Tbs .entire Portuguese cabinet has resigned. A snowslide at Eureka, Col., destroyed a mine boarding-bouse and killed one man: Chu Cbin .Ching was found dead in Chicago, strangled with his pwn queue supposedly by highbinders.

Enraged because his former sweetheart, Miss Maud Hartley, had rejected him, James B. Harmon, the 18-year-old son of Police Sergeant James M. Harmon, shot and killed her on the street ih Somerville, Mass. The four men convicted in the Pennsylvania capitol fraud case were sentenced to two years In the penitentiary, SSOO fine and costs, the maximum punishment allowed by law, and were released on SIOO,OOO bail on supersedeas. James Curren, 18 years old, was killed in a boxing bout with Benjamin Barnet, 17 years of age, at the Broadway Athletic club of Philadelphia. Frank Cain, city marshal of Higbee, Mo., was shot and probably fatally wounded and Elmer. Magruder was instantly killed in the city jail by three men whom Cain had arrested on. a charge of robbing a railway station at Salisbury, Mo. Eleven deaths have occurred and 13 men are seriously ill at Keithley camp, Mindanao island, as a result of the men of the Eighteenth infantry drinking calumblc acid, a vegetable compound extracted from the calumba root. Six hundred pupils calmly marched out of the high school at Altoona, Pa. which was on fire. Gov. Campbell of Texas announced that the law closing saloons on Sunday would be enforced throughout the state. Sir Max Waechter, who is touring the capitals of Europe advocating the abolition of emperors and kings and the formation of the United States of Europe, was received by M. Pichon, French minister of foreign affairs. Sir Max favors King" Edward as the first president of his proposed union. The Council of Jewish Women, through Dr. Cornelia H. Kahn, chairman of the committee on purity of the press, has issued an appeal to newspapers for the elimination of indecent details in evidence at murder and divorce trials. One inau was fatally injured and one seriously hurt in a head-on collision between two passenger trains on the Big Four railroad between Lilley and \Voodruff, 111. On a charge of criminal libel, made by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., S. S, Carvalho, president of the Star Company, publishers of William R. Hearst’s New York American, was arrested in New York. A considerable part of Rostov-on-the-Don, a busy Russian city of 120,000 population, was destroyed by fire. Frederick A. Storm, a real estate dealer, testified in the trial of Thornton J. Hajns, as a principal with his brother, Capt Peter C. Hains, in the killing of William E. Annis, that the defendant had inquired as to the whereabouts of Annis shortly before the latter sailed up to the dock where he was shot. Charles Birchfleld, a friend of Annis, declared that Thornton Hains drove him back with a drawn revolver when he sought to stop the shooting. Postmaster General Meyer announced that he would not renew his order, issued in December, 1907, permitting delivery to charitable organizations of. letters addressed to “Santa Claus.” Oregon Railroad & Navigation train No. 1, known as the Chicago-Portland special, was held up and the express car dynamited by four masked robbers nine miles east of Portland, Ore. Express Messenger O. H. HufT said the robbers secured little of value. Rev. Joseph L. Sullens of Springfield, Mo., was shot and killed accidentally while hunting. The tentative selection of Salt Lake City as the next meeting place of the Grand Army of the Republic was confirmed by the executive committee which has been investigating the accommodations afTorded by the city. The doors of the First National bank of Somersworth, N. H., were closed, following the discovery of a shortage, placed at $85,000, and Fred H. Varney,' the cashier of the bank, was arrested on a charge of being a defaulter. Nine companies, with their subsidiaries, are named I[b constituting an illegal combination in the final decree, filed lir tW United States Circuit court at New York, putting into effect the judgment recently obtained by the government In its suit to dissolve the so-called . tobacco trust. The Dutch battleship Jacob van Heemskerk captured the Venezuelan guardshlp 23 de Mayo and towed it to Curacao. In Berlin President Castrd called on the German chancellor and was examined by a physician. 1 On hearing of the seizure by the Dutch of the guardship Alix, Acting President Gomez declared Venezuela in a state of defense. President Castro arrived in Berlin and was given an ovation. That the latest battleships built by this country are vastly superior to England's Dreadnought, is emphatically stated by Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans in an article in the latest number of Hampton’s Broadway Magazine, wherein he strongly defends the American navy and " replies to criticisms of it made some time ago by Henry Reuterdahl and others. In an opinion by Justice Holmes, the supreme court of the United States held that E. H. Harriman and Otto Kahn, the latter a New York banker, should not be required to answer the interstate commerce commission’s questions cohcerning dealings in stocks between the Union Pacific and other roads. - * Abbes Bouysson and Bardon, who are conducting excavations at Cha-pelle-aux-Saints, intlje Correze department, have discovered what are believed to be the oldest human remains, dating back 170,000 years to the middie of the Pleistocene age.

ALL BVERTHE STATE ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE TO OUR INDIANA READERS. “DEAD MAN" IS ARRESTED Indianlan, Thought Drowned, Facts Big Fraud Charge—Policy on Hit Life Paid—Clever Deception • of Ex-Solon. Princeton. —Henry E. Agar, for nearly two years believed dead, was placed under arrest In Texas. He was thought to have been drowned In the Wabash river near Mount Carmel, 111., on the night of January 23, 1907. He was Gibson county’s representative in the legislature in 1906, and was a prominent business man. Soon after his disappearance evidence was obtained that he was a forger and embezzler to the extent of $125,000. Agar was captured by Capt. Ross of the Texas rangers, and, according to a message from Ross, confessed and came back to Indiana without requisition. He was fn custody at Harlington, Tex., 40 miles from the Mexican border. Officers returned with him, and he faces numerous charges. Agar's wife and family believed him dead and for months have been battling in court for the life insurance money he left to them, amounting to $27,400. One policy has been paid and two placed in trust pending developments. In every case tried the Agars have won, the court holding the proof of death sufficient, but several cases are pending appeal. Not since Agar’s disappearance has there been a time, when the insurance detectives were not on the watchout for him, and they have followed clew after clew in vain. It was not until Wednesday that real hope came with a message to Chief of Police Skelton: “Do you want Agfir? Wire instructions immediately.” It was from Ross and soon afterward, in reply to an affirmative answer, came the words: "Agar arrested. Come at once with papers.”

No Rehearing for Talbot. Laporte. The Indiana appellate court, which denied the petition of the prosecuting committee for a rehearing of the disbarment proceedings against Mayor Lemuel Darrow of Laporte and Attorney John W. Talbot of South Bend, who were found guilty of conspiracy and subornation of perjury, the decision being later reversed by the appellate court, Monday denied the petition of Attorney Talbot for a rehearing for “himself, separately and alone.” Plan Tipton County Show. Tipton.—The Tipton County Poultry and Pet Stock show will be held. The election of officers resulted In George Tranbarger being chosen president, Porter Booth, secretary and treasurer; C. F. Matthews, assistant superintendent; C. F. Matthews, assistant superintendent. The exhibit will be held the week of January 12, and will take the place of the old Interurban poultry show. Tribune Colony Cases Settled. Indianapolis.—With the payment of $40,000 into the superior court Monday by Philander H. Fitzgerald, in settlement of the cases involving the American Tribune New Colony Company and 60,000 acres of land in Texas, the suits which have been pending in the courts of Marion county for several years came to a close. Pay Small; Pastor Quits. Columbus.—Rev. Thomas Wallace, pastor of the “Central Christian church here, resigned his position to become effective as soon as a successor is engaged. Rev. Mr. Wallace gave out a statement to the effect that his resignation wa? tendered only because the church could not pay him a sufficient salary. Bpear le Fined for Libel. Princeton .—Charles Spear appeared In circuit court and pleaded guilty to criminal libel oh a charge filed hy J. A. Everltt of Indianapolis. Spear was fined five dollars and costs, which he paid. He is editor of the Fort Branch Herald. , Confessed Defrauder Free. Crawfordsville. Fred Server of Terre Haute, T who, last August, passed a spurious check on Fell & Lovf.tt and was captured at Waynetown the same day, was allowed to go free under a suspended sentence. City Will Improve Parks. Terre Haute.—At a special meeting of the various city officials plans for extensive improvements in the park system of Terre Haute and also the Improvement of a number of street were made. Pythian Meeting Arranged. South Bend. The .eighth annual district Pythian meeting for this district will be held In South Bend January 19. . c . Fort Wayne Priest Is Loser. Fort Wayne.—lt has developed that Joseph F. Delaney, pastor of St. Patrick’s Catholic church, owjied five shares of stock in the Fidelity Funding Company, and will among the 60 stockholders likely to ’be liable for the debts of the concern. "Eats Forty-Two’ Banana*. Wabash.—Homer Lewis, 20, of Lagro, this county,* has the championship In gastoronomical feats for this county. On a wager he ate 42 bananas. * ..... ... ....... ‘ '

PUZZLED BY STOLEN HOBPITAL. Authorities at Gary Unable to indue* Woman to Vacate. Gary.—The men who recently stole the isolation hospital at Gary and later sold it to Mrs. Lizzie Stromskl furnished the officials of the Indiana city with a problem which may require a special meeting of the council to solve. The principal question that puzzled the authorities was how to evict the woman from the building in which she installed herself in the southern part of the city. She refused either to sell the isolation hospital back to the city or to be intimidated by threats. Another question that " worried the authorities was whether Mrs. Stromskl might contract some contagious disease by living In the building and spread it among her neighbors. The men , who were accused of stealing the building are in jail at Crown Point.. They were committed for stealing junk. They gave their names as Peter Gardner and Frank Crook, and said they lived at Gary. . Come to Hammond to Hunt Bear. Hammond. —ln response to an Invitation, sent them by their friend, ten-year-old Joseph Costello, of this city, Joseph- Padula and Dan Manleo, both aged ten, arrived from New York here Wednesday, armed to the teeth, to hunt bear. Inside in a suit case which the lads brought with them were revolvers and dirks, the latter, as explained to Chief of Police Fred Rimbach, for the purpose of skinning the bears. The little Italians had come all the way from New York alone and were being sought by the New York police as runaways. Farmers to Hold Congress. Indianapolis. The sixth annual session of the State Farmers’ congress begad ’Puesday. It is the custom of the Farmers’ congress to meet every two years in advance of the legislative session for . the discussion of matters of legislation which the farmers of the state may be asking. The session gave attention to such subjects as highways, drainage, schools, games and fisheries, purification of streams, the railroad commission, improvement of waterways and other Jtopics in which the congress is interested. Injunction Cases Begun. Hammond. —Three injunction eases were begun in Porter circuit court at Valparaiso Monday in which the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Postal Telegraph Company and the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, all of whose telegraph lines parallel the Chicago Lake Shore & South Bend Interurban trolley system, ask for a perpetual restraining order against the Interurban company for the use of .its present system of voltage. Most Glass Workers Employed. Muncie. —Eighty-five per cent, of the members of the American Flint Glass Workers’ union, in the United Statep are now steadily employed at their trade, according to William P. Clarke of Muncie, national secretary of the organization, who prepared his annual report A deficit of about $5,000 in the treasury will be shown, this being due to the unusually heavy disbursements.

In Wild Street Qar Ride. Hammond.—A wild street car ride fell to the lot of three passengers, John Peto, Michael Karza and John Lavya, Tuesday, when a Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend interurban car, without either conductor or motorman, slipped awa'y from the sub-station and ran away. The car jumped the tracks and was overturned. By a miracle the passengers were taken out of the wreckage unhurt. Woman Die* at Divorce Hearing. Crawfordsville. The sensational divorce, case .in which Mrs. D. B. Duncan Is seeking legal separation from the pastor of the First Presbyterian church, which has been going on here for two weeks, proved too much for Mrs. Katherine B. Galey Wednesday afternoon, and While the courtroom was, crowded with spectators she died of heart failure. Winds Up Family Line. Madison. Grieved over the recent death of his mother, leaving him alone In the world, Edward Rea, the last surviving member of the family, committed suicide at his home in this city by taking carbolic acid. He had probably been dead two or three days when his body was discovered. Wants Franchise Annulled. Columbus. —At a meeting of the Consumers’ Protective Association of America here the association started the circulation of a petition to the city council praying the annulment of the Columbus Gas Company’s franchise. Dunn Is Held as Forger. Frankfort.-—Floyd Dunn, a son of a, business man and contractor, was put In jail here on charge of forgery. Mad Horae Route Employes. i Brazil. —A horse belonging to the J. N. Halstead Lumber Company of this city was seized with hydrophobia and tried to bite everybody thit approached it. The horse chased the employeg from the barn and no one was able to gel near the animal. . . , * Bob Younger at Columbus. Columbus. —Bob Younger, a nephew of the notorious Younger brothers, arrived In Columbus and will spend the Winter with friends here.

UNDERWATER WIRELEBB. New System of Communication by Means of Submarine Sound Waves. John Gardner, the English scientist, purposes accomplishing by means of submarine sound waves very much what is now possible through the agency of Hertzian waves, but he has it in his power easily to improve upon the latter by preventing the purpose of his sound waves being blocked or interfered with by other sound waves set up by someone else either accidentally or intentionally. In wireless telegraphy and in distant control by wireless impulses or waves, the rapid and continuous sending of a series of other waves will produce what is technically known as “Interference,” which has the same effect that two people speaking rapidly at the same time have upon a listener—there would be a confusion and but little proper understanding. It was to provide against this difficulty that Mr. Gardner discovered and developed his present system of sound control. Mr. Gardner has recourse to two simple elements In the get-up of his apparatus. One is a thin strip or tape of metal which he can tauten Just as one does the string on an Instrument so as to vary Its pitch, and the other is a small and very delicatelyadjusted microphone. Having tuned his metallic strip to the desired key, Mr. Gardner places upon this strip one of the two small carbons of his microphone. When the right sound waves reach the receiver then and only then, the intimacy of contact between the two carbons is broken, the electrical current Is interfered with, and the index hand swings to one side far enough to close or “make” a second and more powerful electrical circuit. This second circuit, says Technical World Magazine, is strong enough to set in motion certain mechanical functions—the order in which these functions or movements take place depending upon the number of times and the interval between the arrival of the proper disturbing note. Any instrument or any medium that will produce the required tone will answer to set the necessary operations in motion, first by disturbing the vibrator, second by varying the current flowing through the carbon pencils of the microphone, and thirdly by closing the more powerful current so that the necessary electrical energy can flow to the various points and cause the movement of the several mechanical features. Mr Gardner's laboratory apparatus —which in working principle is identical with that installed in his submarine boat—was made to go through the. various movements of revolving a small propeller, swinging a rudder from side to side, and in expelling a miniature dummy torpedo. Each and every one of these operations was proved to be unfailingly responsive to the utterance or sounding of thn proper note In the required order. Substitute for Skin. German surgeons made the discovery that the delicate membrane that lines the inside of the egg-shell will answer as well as bits of skin from a human being to start healing over by granulation In open wounds which will not otherwise heal. The discovery was used for the first time on a patient in the Seney hospital in Brooklyn, and it proved to be a successful trial. The patient left the hospital and resumed his customary work a healthy man. ’ Chaucer's House Is Sold. Hartford Manor, Farlngdon, Berkshire, England, formerly the home of the poet Chaucer, and the largest farm on the Pusey estate, has been sold to the leaseholder, George Baylls of Wyfield Manor, Newbury, the largest producer of barley in England. Pusey is said to have been granted to the family of that name by Canute by tenure of a horn, which Is still in. Bouviere Pusey’s possession and bears the inscription: "Kyng Knoude gave William Pewse ye horn to held bjrthy -• yrTvarf Londe.

THE MARKETB. New York, Dec. 21. LIVE STOCK—Steers $4 20 @ 7 60 Hogs 6 36 @7 30 Sheep 3 25 @615 FLOUR-Winter Straights.. 460 @4 80 WHEAT-December 1 08%@-l 08% May 1 09%@ 1 10% CORN-December 72%@ 72% RYE—No. 2 Western 83 @ 83% BUTTER—Creamery 18 @ 32 EGGS 29 @ 50 CHEESE ....................... 10%@ 15% CHICAGO. CATTLE-Fancy Steers $6 50 @ f 90 Medium to Good Steers.. 5 50 @ 6 50 Cows, Plain to Fancy — 3 60 @ 5 15 Native Yearlings ’..... 525@ 775 Calves 3 7(0 @8 50 HOGS—Heavy Packers 5 40 @ 5 75 Heavy Butchers 5 55 @ 5 80 Pigs 390 @485 BUTTER-Creamery , 20 @ 32 Dairy 20%@ 25 IJVE POULTRY 9 @ 14 EGGS 23%@ 26% POTATOES (per bu.) 66 @ 73 FLOUR-Spring Wheat, Sp’l 620 @ 6 30 WHEAT-May .-. 1 05%@ 1 06 July 97%@ 97% Corn, May 60%@ 60% Oats, May ...?. 51 @ 51% Rye, May 73 @ 76 MILWAUKEE. GRAlN—Wheat, No. 1 Nor’n $1 09 @ 1 10 . May 1 05%@ 1 06 Corn, May 60 @ '60% Oats, Standard 61 @ 51% Rye 75 @ 75% KANSAS CITY. GRAlN—Wheat, December.. $ 96 @ 96% May 99 @ 99% Corn. December 56 @ 56% Oats, No. 2 White 50 @ 61 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE-Beef Steers....... $3 75 @ 7 BQ Texas Steers 3 00 @ 640 HOGS-Paekers 5T.... 5 00 @ £166 . Butchers ..:.25 @5 85 SHEEP—Natives 3 00 @ 4 26 OMAHA. CATTLE-Native Steers..... $3 75 @ 700 Stockers and Feeders 3 00 @ 5 25 Cows and Heifers 2 50 © 4 '4O HOGS-Heavy 5 35 @5 60 SHEEP-Wethers ..'4 00 @ 4^o

HUGE LUBER TRUST VIRGINIA AND RAINY LAKE COMPANY 18 ORGANIZED. CAPITAL IS $20,000,000 Weyerhaeuser Back of Concern That Will Control Immense Tract in Northern Minnesota and Canada. Duluth, Minn—The Virginia and Rainy Lake Lumber . Company, the largest of Its kind in the world, has just been formed here. Its president is Edward Hines of Chicago. It represents the pooling for the first time in one great corporation of one part of the tremendous holdings of timber land of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, said to be because of his fabulous lumber possessions the richest man in the world. The capital stock of the new corporation Is $20,000,000. It holds over 3,000,000,000 feet of lumber, covering a vast tract in northern Minnesota and extending Into Canada. This is said to be the last great tract of timber land In the forest region of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, once thought to be inexhaustible. It Is thought the new company will take about ten years to cut the 3,000,000,000 feet of lumber. To aid in this colossal task sawmills will be built, a fleet of 20 lake steamers built or bought, and railroads constructed. The constituent companies that went to make up the new corporation are the Virginia Lumber Company, the Edward Hines Lumber Company, the Cook & O’Brien Lumber Company, and the Seine Lumber Company. Beside these and entwined with them were the “Weyerhaeuser interests.” The deal, the largest of its kind ever carried through, *tlcording to lumbermen,, has been pending for over two months. The following officers were elected: President —Edward Hines of Chicago. Vice-President —W. W. O’Brien of Duluth. Treasurer—Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser of St. Paul. Secretary—H. D. Hornby of Cloquet, Minn. The company will not chop down trees. It will manufacture them into lumber. This will be done at five great sawmills. Two of these will be at Duluth, two at Virginia. Minn., and one at St. Francis, Canada.

PRIEST DROWNS AT SEA. Father Kelly of Paterson, N. J., Falla Overboard from Liner. Queenstown. —When the steamer Arabic arrived here Sunday from New York the officers reported that one of the passengers, who was registered under the name of Father Kelly of Paterson, N. J., was drowned during the voyage. He fell overboard, whether by accident or design is not known. Paterson, N. J. —Rev. James A. Kelly, whose loss overboard from the steamer Arabic was reported upon the steamer’s arrival in Queenstown, was pastor of St. Agnes Roman Catholic church in this city. A week ago he took passage for Queenstown to visit relatives in Ireland. Father Kelly is believed to have been influenced in de-“ ciding to make the trip by the poor state of his health. His condition was at no time, however, considered serious. His friends here are convinced that his death must have been accidental. HEIRS TO $80,000,000 ESTATE. Two St. Louis Brothers Informed of a Vast Windfall. St. Louis. —Arizone Lyle, a St. Louis carpenter, and his brother, William A. Lyle, a railway clerk, have been informed that they are part heirs to an estate in the heart of Wilmington,Del., worth $80,000,000. . The estate was originally owned by a German baron -named Christopher Springer, who came to Atoerica nearly .a century ago. He leased the property to various persons and died without leaving a will. A sister of the baron was the grandmother of the Lyle brothers. The leases expired last January. Arizone Lyle is 40 years old and has a wife and three children. His brother is 38 years old. Mrs. George M. McCullom, who runs a candy -store in Alton, 111., is also said to be an heir to the estate. President Simon Inaugurated. Port au Prnce. —Gen. Antoine Simon, the newly-elected president of Hfiytl, took the oath of office at ten o’clock Sunday morning at the palace, where a special sitting of the legislative bodies was held, and in the presence of the foreign diplomats, the officers of the American and Italian warships and the Haytian officials of state. He ■repeated the oath in a strong clear voice. Senator Paulin officiated and demanded that the president respect, the constitution and the othdr laws of the republic. . Serious Alarm at Canton. Hongkong.—lt is, feared that the anti-foreign movement at Canton, originally caused by the deatl\ of a coolie on the steamer Falshan wlio is alleged to have been brutally -kicked by" a Portuguese watchman on the vessel, will culminate in an outbreak against all . foreigners. So serious is 'the situation regarded that the British torpedo boat destroyer Hart has been sent t to Canton. The British steamers Moorhen and Canton, two’of the ships which are being boycotted, have been recalled from Wuchow.