Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 21, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 February 1905 — Page 2

THE PLYMOIMI TRIBUNE

PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS Q CO.. - Pvblishcrs, 1905 FEBRUARY. 1905

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TU Q. T N. M. "TN F. M VS 26th. Zj 4th. V 12th. VSV 19th. PAST AND PBESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic .Information Gathered by tha Few for tha Enlightenment of the Many. Battle With Bandits. A battle between two men who robbed the Michigan Central depot at Kensington, III., and a posse of farmers who pursued them, 100k place on the sand dunes near the village. No one was shot, although an intermittant fire was kept up between farmers and bandits for over an hour until the latter ran out of amunition and surrendered. Their names are George Van Riper, aged 24, and Tony Duck, aged 18, both of Kensington. The men, it is alleged, robbed the station of considerable money and tickets after the agent had gone home. Torn to .Pieces by Hungry-llojrs. Jennie, the 15-year-old daughter of J. C. Cregland of Vivian, V. Va., was torn to pieces by hungry hogs in the pen into which she had fallen. The girl was standing on top of the fence when it gave-way and she fell headlong into the hog trough. Dozens of hogs in the pen rughed to the trough and began tearing at he body. Before her cries for help were heard by her father, who came" to her rescue, she was dead. When the body was recovered it had been badly mutilated, and her features were beyond recognition. 133 Miners Meet Awful Death. liy an explosion in the Virginia mines, about eighteen miles southwest of Birmingham, Ala., between 115 and 135 union miners are entombed, and it is believed that the entire number suffered an av. ful death. Scores of rescuers are at work. The explosion is believed to have been caused by the accumulation of dust, although the mine has hitherto been noted for being entirely free from dust. It is also believed that as the entire quota has probably been killed. The details of the cause of the disaster will never be known. Wreck on the C. II. & I). Twelve persons were injured in a wreck near Swanders, forty miles north of Dayton, Ohio, on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Road. The train wrecked was No. 8, an accommodation, northbound between Dayton and Toledo. Two coaches left the rails and were overturned. The speed of the train at the time of the accident, which is attributed to spreading rails, was about thirty-five miles an honr. Awful Drop Into a Mine. While men were being lowered into L.yttle colliery, near Minersville, Pa., trouble occurred with a projecting timber, which for a time held the cage and then let it drop the length of the unwound rope. The sudden jar caused the bottom of the cage to drop out, precipitating the eight men on it to the bottom, quite a distance, killing five. Fourteen men were injured by flying timbers, none, however, seriously. Bulgarians Slaughtered By Turks. A dispatch from Salonica says: In a fight between Bulgarians and Turks at the village of Kuklitch. near Strumitza, on February 16, the Bulgarians lost twenty killed or wounded. The Turks burned the village. A commission of inquiry sent to the spot discovered in the ruins of the village the charred remains of fourteen women and several children. Daring Hold-Up. Within two doors of their home, No. 722 East ISSth street, Xew York City, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Cornish were held up daring robber and Mrs. Cornish was robbed of a $5,000 brooch which she wore at her neck. In trying to defend his wife from the atack, Mr. Cornish, who is reputed to be a millionaire, was shot and narrowly escaped instant death. Five Burn to Death. Five people were burned to death in a dwelling house at Howebrook plantation, about fifty miles north of Islind Falls, M?ine. The bodies, burned be ond recognition, were all found in a heap inside the front door, through which an attempt evidently had been made to leave the house. The door was locked. Wrestling Match. All arrangements have been completed for a wrestling match between Charles Wittmer of Cincinnati and Frank Gtch, the world's champion. The men w 111 meet I: Cincinnati, Ohic, March 2. The match will take place at the auditorium. Boiler Explosion Results Fatally. By the explosion of ?.n old stationary boiler in temporary use at Mine No. 1 of the Providence Coal Company at St. Clairs, Ohio, twelve men were badly injured, two of whom have since died. Wreck on Kock Island. The Rock Island flyer, train No. 5, westbound, is reported ditched a .nile from Wiota, near Atlantic, Iowa, and six people killed. Wreck at McCool. A fast freight train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crashed into the r,ar another freight train standing in the depot at 3IcCool, Ind. Eight cars and the caboose were demolished and burned. The engineer and fireman were seriously injured. They were taken to Garrett, Ind. Former Slave Burned to Death. Mrs. Caroline Cole, colored, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed her home at Columbus, lnd. The womau, who was almost 100 years old, was born a slave. The fixe was caused by an overheated stove. Ends Life in Hot Springs. John O'J eil, sick in bed, under the custody of United States officers, charged with violating postal laws in connection with the Christy Syndicate Investment Company, which operated in St. Louis, committed suicide at Hoi Springs, Ark. lie blew the top of his head off with a revolver. Three Children Burn to Death. Three little children of Mrs. Amos Heffelfinger were burned to death in Akron, Ohio, while the mother was outsida warning her brother off dangerous ice. The brother rushed through the flames end saved the fourth child.

EASTERN. Miss Susan B. Anthony celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday in Rochester, N. Y., Wednesday. Fire in Edinboro, Pa., destroyed Gillespie Brothers' general store and adjoining structures, causing a loss of $50,000. A new cotton manufacturing company has been incorporated in Boston with a capital of $000,000, to be known as the Boott mills. Jay Cooke, famous as a financier, died after a brief illness at the home of his son-in-law, Charles D. Barney, at Ogontz, Fa. William Cullen Bryant, publisher of the Brooklyn Times, died at a sanitarium in Plainfield, N. J. lie suffered a stroke of apoplexy. The plant of the Kroll Furniture Manufacturing Company at Allentown, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Loss $115,000, Insurance $75,000. Six men were injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion of chemicals in the plant of the Brooklyn sulphur works in Brooklyn, N. Y. Tbe nation paid homage to Miss Frances E. Willard at the unveiling of the monument given by the State of Illinois In statuary hall in Washington. Mrs. Marie Good, wife of a New York drug salesman, will have a leg amputated as a result of wearing high-heeled shoes. She has been on crutches for four years. A loss of $100,000 was caused by a fire that originated in a factory building of the Winnepesaukee Lake Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company at Laconia, N. II. Right Rev. William Edward McLaren, Protestant Episcopal bishop of Chicago, died In New York City, and Bishop Coadjutor Charles P. Anderson succeeded to rule in the diocese. One "woman was burned to death and fifteen men and women narrowly escaped In a fire which damaged the Hotel Winton, at One Hundred and Tenth street ind Park avenue, New York. In Towanda, Pa., Bigler Johnson was convicted of first degree murder for the killing and burning of his wife in September last. . Judge Fanning immediately passed the death sentence. . The man who committed suicide in the Touraine Hotel in Boston, Mass., and ras soposed to be a former Northwestern fcjniversity student, has been identified as Hiram McCullom of Washington, D. C. S. B. Roath died in Norwich, Conn. He was years old and a native of that city. Mr. Roath amassed a fortune in Chicago and two years ago distributed 11,000,000 among his relatives. He was unmarried. John A. Hart, an enginer employed last summer on II. H. Rogers power boat the Viven, was murdered and robbed on the Joy Line steamer Larch mont While a passenger from New York to Providence, R. I.

WESTERN. Fire destroyed the chair department of the Abernathy Furniture Company in Kansas City. Loss $G3t000. T. J. Keating of Chicago was elected president at Pittsburg of the International Tile Decorators' Association Division No. 1 of the Missouri Supreme Court decided that osteopaths are neither physicians nor surgeons under the laws of Missouri. Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick is said tc have secreted, beyond the reach of creditors, fully $1.000,000 and jewels thought to be worth $50,000. J. P. Hampton, a stockman, and 0. P. Barrons, a restaurant man of Praymer, Mo., were asphyxiated by gas in a Kansas City rooming bouse. Charles Bieger, aged 57 years, of Kanias City, fatally stabbed his invalid wife, after which he severed his own jugular vein, dying instantly. Gen. Lew Wallace, author of "Ben Hur," former minister to Turkey and a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars, died at Crawfordsville, Ind. A drunken Indian went on the warpath thirty miles south of Tonopah, Nev. He killed three squaws and a fellow Indian, and then fled to the mountains. Five masked men held twelve teamsters and a cashier under guard while they robbed the safe of an oil company at 57 Clybourn place, Chicago. In Sprlngdale, Mich., three children of Frank Pearsons were burned to death and the father will probably die from Injuries received while fighting the fire. A baby boy was born to Mrs. Helena Snyder, 54 years old, while she was a passenger on an Illinois Central suburban train in Chicago, on her way to the hospital. The Symmes block, at Denver, was Jestroyed by fire, entailing a loss estimated at $300,000. The heaviest losers ire the Great Leader department store ind the Symmes estate. One man was killed and three persons injured, one dangerously, by the overturning of three passenger cars on the Missouri Pacific train No. 71, north bound, near Avoca, Neb. The Republican city convention in Chicago nominated John Maynard Harlan for Mayor, Moses E. Greenebaum for Treasurer, Francis I. Brady for Clerk and John F. Smulski for City Attorney.' Fire destroyed a block of eight build ings in Indianapolis' wholesale district with a loss of $1,500,000. Two firemen were injured and three guests were rescued unconscious from hotels destroyed. The will of Charles II. Hackley, the Muskegon millionaire philanthropist, filed In Grand Rapids, provides that one-half of the residuary estate is to go to public Institutions. Muskegon will get about $3,000,000. The McIIenry county court house at Towner, N. D., burned. The records of the superintendent, clerk of court, and county judge were destroyed. Origin of the fire is unknown. The building was fully insured. Four negro children were burned to death in Kansas City, Kan. The mothers of the children locked them in a cabin and went shopying. It is presumed that the children found some matches and started the fire. Apostle Green, in an address at the cluing session of the Ohio conference of the Latter Day Saints at Columbus, explained that the society was opposed to polygamy and regarded Brigham Young as an apostate from the faith. Arbor Lodge, the home of the late J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska City, was damaged by fire, the new part of the house being saved with difficulty. Mrs. Joy Morton is the only member of the family who is at the lodge now. Three little children of Mrs. Amos LHeffelnnger were burned to death in Akron, Ohio, while the mother was outside warning her brother off dangerous ice. The brother rushed through the flames and saved the fourth child. .v A mysterious attempt has been made to poison Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, of California, whose life was saved by the fact that the drug was given in large quantity and acted as an emetiq. Mrs. Stanford has started hurriedly for Japan. Robert C. Lingaf elter, of Newark, Ohio, was found guilty by a Jury of fcarCery in connection with the fall era of

the Homestead Building and Savings Company of Newark. He was accused of having forged a receipt for deposits. Gor. Hoch of Kansas has signed the bill -appropriating $200,000 for a State oil refinery to fight the Standard Oil Company, and the House passed a measure making the corporation's pipe. lines available for transporting the State product. Eddie Hanlon cf San Francisco and Tommy Mowatt of Chicago did not fight at Oshkosh, Wis., the other night, orders from Gov. La Follette preventing the battle. The hall was packed when it was announced that the battle would not take place. Gov. Hanly of Indiana has signed the Moore bill, which makes a remonstrance against an individual application for a liquor license or against all applications effective for two years when signed by a majority of the voters of a ward or township. Claude S. Sniveley, a prominent attorney in the office of Washburn, Mitchell & Bailey, pitched headong from a fifthstory winde w of the Lonsdale building in Duluth and was killed. No one was in the office at the time and the details are uot known. Four persons were found dead from suffocation at 502 Central avenue, Cleveland. It is supposed that fumes from a natural gas stove resulted in their asphyxiation. The dead were Mr. and Mrs. George Nolan and Mr. and Mrs. Charles II. Heller. John O'Neil, sick in bed, under the custody of United States officers, charged with violating postal laws in connection with the Christy Syndicate Investment Company, which operated in St. Louis, committed suicide at. Hot Springs, Ark. He blew the top of his head off with a revolver. Eli Dunn, one of the suspected Lebanon, Ore., bank robbers, has been identified bj a colored Pullman car porter as one of the men who held up ond robbed the passengers in the Pullman coach attached to. the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company train several weeks ago. . In Minneapolis fire destroyed the interior of a three-story brick' :building on Hennepin avenue, the first two floors of which were occupied by J. D. Vivian as a carriage and - harness store, and the third floor by the Bank Protection Company. The loss is estimated between $75,000 and $90.000. Three masked highwaymen lying in wait upon the front veranda of the residence of Dr. Philip Mueller, in Minneapolis, leveled their revolvers at the returning physician and his coachman, Emil Roggatz. shot the latter through the abdomen and robbed the doctor and his coachman of $50 in money. Robert Wood, 19-year-old son of Contractor R. II. Wood, died in Lima, Ohio, after an illness of six months' intense suffering caused by the sting of a bee, followed by blood poisoning. For the past two months the lips of the young man, which had swollen and curled up over his nasal organ and down upon the chin, but clasped in the center, had to be pried open to allow him to partake of food. Continued cold and snow which practically put .an end to business and tied up all trains entering Des Moines and traversing the State placed the entire city and State in peril of a fuel famine. Only one dealer in Des Moines had hard coal for sale the other day, and that at a

0rice almost above the reach of the con sumer, units between the city and the coal fields rendered teaming almost impossible, thereby cutting off the soft coal supply. In many sections of the State farmers are burning corn for fuel. Hundreds oi Iowa towns, isolated because of the stagnant condition of the railroad service, experienced actual suffering. Fuel advanced to a considerable extent. Des Moines charitable associations issued an appeal to the public for aid in the way of fuel and food. FOREIGN. Jeanne Charcot, granddaughter of Victor Hugo, has filed a petition for divorce in the Paris courts against Dr. Jean Charcot, son of the famous nerve specialist. A diamond weighing 334 carats has been discovered in the vicinity of the place where the largest ever unearthed was recently found, near Johannesburg, Transvaal. Gen. Grippenberg has arrived In St. Petersburg and charges Kuropatkin with having ordered a retreat in the recent battle of Ileikoutai when victory was in the hands of the Russians. Reports are curreat in St. Petersburg that Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia has carried peace proposals to the Czar. The latter has been discussing the end of the vror with his ministers. Although the Czar has announced himself in favor of a remsky sobor the court circles have induced him to delay action, arguing that the creation of a parliament might lead to an attack on the throne. Theodore M. Davis, an American Egyptologist, has discovered a royal tomb in the neighborhood of Luxor. The tomb is filled with valuable antiques, including intact sarcophagi, a beautifully preserved chariot, furniture and numerous other valuable relics of a past age. Tha Associated Press has received a dispatch from Moscow stating that Grand Duka Sergius, while driving in a carriage to the Kremlin at Moscow, was assassinated with a bomb which was thrown beneath his carriage. The carriage was blown to pieces. The assassins were ar rested. Four men were killed and fourteen were Injured In two explosions on the British submarine boat A5 in the harbor nt Qneenstown. The krJled included Engineer-Artificer Chaffee. Lieut. H. G. Good, commander of the vessel, was blinded. Only one man of the entire crew escaped injury. , IN GENERAL. As the re-rlt of an explosibn In a powder building at Northfleld, B. C, one Chinaman was killed. The weekly trade reviews report an improvement in general conditions following a change for the better in the weather. While constructing a water reservoir at Guanajuato, Mexico, an old well caved in, burying a large number of workmen. Ten workmen were killed outright and several others were seriously wounded. Twenty members of a band of Yaqui Indians, led by Chief Burning Water, have been killed in a battle with Mexican troops under Gen. Torres In the Mazatlan mountains, near Hermosillo, Mexico. President Roosevelt submitted the Dominican protocol to the Senate with a message declaring .relief of the island republic. Is the duty of the United States under the Monroe doctrine and giving warning that if action Is not taken some European nation w'll interfere. The Yaqui Indians who killed two Chicago men and recently attacked a mining party, near CobachI, are In custody. They were taken by Gen. Torres, and the American government will be advised of their capture. There are ten prisoners, an! ell will be hanged. Tw cf tLa cap--tires confessed.

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GRAND DUKE 8ERGIUS ASSASSINATED AT MOSCOW. Two Men Throw a Bomb Under Ills Carriage, a Violent Explosion Follows and the Czar's Uncle la Picked Up Dead Assassins Arrested. Grand Duke Sergius, uncle of Czar Nicholas II., and branded as "Russia's evil genius," wa3 assassinated at Moscow on Friday. He was killed by a bomb which was hurled beneath his carriage as he was driving through the Nlcolskl gate of the Kremlia. The great Slav tyrant was literally blown to bits. His body was terribly mangled. The carriage was blown to fragments of shattered wood. The bomb was thrown by one of two men who were In cabs. The instrument of df ath was hurled Just as their vehicles came close to the Grand Duke's carriage. Both men were themselves Injured by the terrific explosion of the deadly bomb. Soldiers and police effected their arrest, the assassins dripping with blood from their wounds a? they were hurried away to prison. While soldiers, hurried from the Kremlin courts, formed a cordon 9 about the bloody spectacle throngs of citizens charged the troops again and again, shouting: "Down with the oppressor!" The whole city seemed on the brink of a bloody uprising. Sergius' assassination has loosed the spirit of anarchy which his oppression and brutal tactics as Governor General of Moscow aided so much to develop. He pain sentence of death to the Nihilists who long ago branded him, for assassination. Grand Duke Sergius, seated in his carriage, was driving from the historical museum to the Kremlin Palace. ST. PETERSBURG'S

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The above picture shows the massacre at Narva Gate and depicts the mauner iu which the Czar's troops tired upon a defenseless body of working people In the streets of St. Petersburg on January 22. The scene is similar to otherä witnessed In various parts of the city on the memorable red Sunday when the Czar refused to receive the petition of his subjects and permitted them to be massacred in the streets of the capital. The Czar Is said to have a cted on the advice of the Grand D uke Sergius.

The royal carriage bad just passed the law courts and was approaching the Nlcolskl gate, when two cabs, driven at top speed, suddenly whirled along- in the wake of the royal equipage. The cabs rapidly overtook the Duke's conveyance, attracting little attention, however. Just as the two cabs were abreast the Duke's carriage the bomb was thrown. The deadly missile fell just beneath the royal carriage, exploding almost the Instant it touched the ground. The roar was deafening. Police and soldiery reached the scene to And the two men who are charged with hurling the bomb wounded. A mass of twisted, shattered wreckage was all that remained of the Grand Duke's conveyance, splinters of wood and bits of steel having pierced his mangled, torn body. The Kremlin stands high above the remainder of the city, and the explosion of the bomb, spreading its death und destruction, seemed to rouse Moscow from end to end. Street crowds formed in an instant, as If by raagic. Strikers and workmen fought the police and, bearing that death had come to their "evil genius," snouted In glorification and made threats of attemptlftg the delivery of the assassins. Through street after street riot ran as the news of the assassination spread. Troops were deployed along evtry approach to beat back the mobs. Arrests were made wholesale from the lirst. Charges are made by the police that students were bohlnd the assassination conspiracy Four times within a few months Sergius' life has been attempted. lie was last shot at In the railway station at Moscow, being then in company with General Trepoff. Further oppression followed this last attempt on his life. This served to fan ths hotbed of anarchy that has formed at Moscow during Sergius regime there. An era of bomb throwing, having for its ultimate the extinction of the entire house of the royal Romanoffs and ending with the execution of the Czar, is the program which the terrcrists have outlined to follow the assassination of Grund Duke Sergius. "Grand Duke Vladimir is next to die!" according to the edict of the social revolutionists, "and then will follow in the order named: Governor General Trepoff, Grand Duke Alexis, the Dowager Empress Feodorovna, Minister of the Interior Bouligan, Procurator Pobyedonosteff and Nicholas II., Czar of all the Russias." The executive committee of the "organization of combat" has thus publicly announced through tbe Paris press that all of their plans to accomplish the removal of the hated autocrats hay been made

THE KREMLIN.

Leval Capital of Busala and Offiicial Residence of the Czar. The Kremlin, within which Grand Duke Sergius was driving when the fatal bomb was thrown, is to Russia what the Vatican is to Rome, the Alhambra to Spain, Windsor Castle to England and tha Acropolis to Athens. Ranking as one of the most celebrated structures in the world, it has stood for ten centuries as a majestic symbol of the pomp and power of the Russian empire. The Kremlin is the legal capital of all the Russias, the location of the throne, iue official residence of the Czar and the headquarters of the Greek orGRAXD DUKE SEEQIUS. thodox church. It is an imposing collection of buildings, rich with the' beauty of Muscovite architecture, which stand upon an eminence like a city within a city, washed on all sides by the River Volga, and. inclosed by a wall nearly a mile and a half long. In the group of stately edifices are the ancient palace of the Czars, the palace of the holy syriod, the Church of the Assumption, in which every Czar must be crowned; the Church of the Annunciation, in which they. must

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be baptized and married; the Church of St Michael, in which most of them have been buried; two monasteries, t"o barracks housing 3.000 soldiers, a monument to the memory of Alexander II., the emancipator of the serfs; the great bell of Moscow, the tower of Ivan and the national treasury, in which all the relics of the Romanoff dynasty are stored. . Moscow is the official capital of the empire, although for reasons of convenience the court meets at St. Petersburg. The palace in the Kremlin is therefore always kept in readiness for the occupancy of the imperial family. The Czar spends a few weeks there every year v r W1 Sacred Gate KREMLIN MAP OF KEEMXJK XXD EITVIROXMKNTS. out of compliment to the citizens of the holy city. This palace is not as large as the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg, bet is richer and more majestic and in some ways excels any other royal or Imperial residence in Europe. Some of its rooms, notably the halls of St George, the Order of St. Alexander NevskI, and the orders of St. Andrew and St. Catherine, are the finest in the world, although seldom used except for a funeral or a coronation. The Kremlin is perhaps the richest treasure house ?n the world, and, if ever looted by a mob, the plunder carried away will be worth many timet a king's

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SERGIUS, GRAND DUKE Feb. 17, 1903; killed Instantly by a bomb hurled beneath his carriage while driving within the Kremlin In Moscow; assassins arrested. SOISALON SONINEN, procurator general of Finland Feb. 6, 1903; shot and killed in his home In Helslngfors by a young man, who was afterward slain by the procurator's eon. VON PLEHVE, Minister of the InteriorJuly 28, 1904; killed instantly in St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown beneath his carriage while on his way to Peterhof to make a report to Czar; assassin captured. COUNT BOBRIKOFF, Governor of Finland June 16, 1904; fatally shot while entering the Finnish Senate in Ilelsingsfors by a lawyer named Schaumann, who at once committed Rulclde. CZAU ALEXANDER II. March 13, 18S1; blown to pieces by a bomb hurled under his carriage, it being generally claimed that the police had some connivance In the plot. CZAR PAUL I. March 23, 1801; aroused from his bed at the Michaeloff Palace by the murder of the nentry at his door, be sprang up to meet a body of conspirators; they demanded that he abdicate, and on his refusal Paul was strangled to death. CZAR IVAN VI. 17G4; after being sent Into exile Ivan was irurdered in prison. CZAR PETER III. 17C2; poisoned by drugs placed in his wine. t'e act said to have been instigated bv his wife, Catherine II., who succeeded him. CZAR FEODOR I. 159S; murdered; with his death there came an end to the great family of the liuriks. who had held the throne of Russia for 700 years. SERGIUS HATED AND DESPISED. Career of Oppression Named Him aa "Russia's Evil Genius.' No member of the royal family of Russia was more hated and feared than Grand Duke Sergius, who met his fate at the hands of an assassin. The hatred was not confined to the middle and lower classes. It extended to the nobility, and even found its way to the Czar's household. He was called "Russia's evil genius" and wa9 charged by the Czar's friends and foes alike with being the present cause of Russia's political woes and troubles. Of all the grand ducal party Sergius was the most hated, feared and loathed by the Russian people. As Governor General of Moscow, his ruthless tyranny and harshness were equaled only by his inordinate capacity for grafting. For many years his arm has been in the publie treasury up to his arm pit and he died the richest of the grand dukes, just as he had lived the most vicious. Many a peasant had his cow sold for taxes, had lost his chief means of life, so that Sergius and his infamous associates might the more gorgeously gild their halls of debauchery. The cruel, bliud, inaptitude of Sergius, the Governor, was obscured in the minds of Russian people by the abysmal depravity of Sergius, the man. "That Ileliogabalus" was the common nickname of the dead grand duke. The Grand Duchess Serglas was respected throughout the empire, and especially in the province of Moscow, where she lived. During the last three months she has received through the mails a number of typewritten circulars warning her not to appear in public with the Grand Duke, as he was to be assassinated. Fortunately, for herself, it ippears that the duchess heeded the earning, for she was not driving with her husband when he was killed. Much as Russia feels relieved at the suppression of the unspeakable Sergius, a correspondent says, it is doubtful whether the empire has as great cause for rejoicing as the wife of the dead monster. She was fully aware of his character, and for years the imperial couple had not lived, together, although occupying the same palace. Baron Gautsch, Austria's new premier. began his career as usher in a school. Arthur de Ferraris, a noted Austrian artist, is touring the Unit! States. The famous house at'Highgate, Lon don, where Coleridge lived, is to be torn down. Russia has lost, in the death of Dr. Kliforousky. its most distinguished sur geon. All of the writings of the late Laf cadio Ilearn are to be translated into German. One hundred and ninety-four memorials to Bismarck have been erected in Germany. Emperor William has over 150 military and naval uniforms. No other monarch has so many. Jose Echegaray, the celebrated Span ish writer, has published more than twenty dramas. Kaiser Wilhelm pays his own private railway expenses, and they amount to some ?25,000, a year. The city of Berlin has offered three prizes fcr the best plans for a nionu njcut to the late Prof. Virchow. Ibsen is one of the few authors who have enjoyed the doubtful privilege of seeins their own private letters in print. Th9 residence of Samuel Taylor Cole ridge in London will be torn down shortly to. make way for a modern structure. The children, grandchildren, great crandchildren and great-great-grandchil dren of the dowager duchess of Abercorn number 12S. Prince Fushimi has learned one sen tence In English, "I offer a toast the President of the United States," and il always makes a hit.

8S CONGRESS cS The Question of what the doIict of the srovernment should be with resnect to the upbuilding of the navy was again thrashed out in the House Wednesdnv during the consideration of the naval appronriation bill, the debate develonln much opposition to the proposed addition ot two battleships to the naval establishment. The defense of the Philippines played an important part In the discussion, while the events of the war in the far Last from a naval point of view were given prominence by the advocates of an increased navy. The House met an hour earlier than usual, and with the exception of a brief period the entire day was consumed by the naval bill. The "senate continued, but did not conclude, consideration of the bill making appropriations for the support of the government of the District of Columbia. While the bill was before the Senate Mr. Elkins took exception to an item for the construction of a local bridge as in tbe interest of speculators, and made a general plea for economy i?i the matter of appropriations. The Swayne impeachment trial held the attention of the Senate for two hours. . . Aside from. two hours spent is routine business the Senate Thursdav cave iti entire attention to the Swayne impeachment trial Two hours and a half of the time given to that case was spent behind closed doors considering the admissibil ity of a statement made . by "Judge Swayne before a committee of the Ilousa of Representatives. The point was argued at length. The House adopted a resolution declaring the Senate amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill; which abolishes the drawback clause in the Dingley bill on wheat im ported and afterward exported as flour. an infringement of the privileges of .the Ilouse. inasmuch as the IIousp has th sole right to initiate revenue legislation. and ordering the bill returned to the Sen ate. The vote on the resolution was 2G1 to 5. The naval appropriation bill was then taken up for the discussion of amendments. Bills were passed to provide a government for the canal zone and making applicable to the canal zone all laws affecting imports and the entry of persons. The Senate on J-'-iday passed the bill appropriating $9,!)4'MX'0 for the District of Columbia and the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, carrying $2,150,000. One witness was heard in the Swayne impeachment trial, and an hour was spent in secret session in a further effort to. determine the admissibility aa evidence of Judge Swayne's statement before a Ilouse committee. The Senate receded from its amendment to the agri cultural appropriation bil, construing the provision in the Dingley law relative to the drawback on imported wheat. Senator Morgan offered an amendment to the Panama canal bill to prohibit the filing of vacancies on the Panama canal commission during the recess of Congress. A special feature was the ceremonies ac cepting the statue of Miss Frances E. Willard placed in Statuary Hall by the State of Illinois, at the conclusion of which the Senate as a further mark of respect to Miss Willard's memory ad journed. The Ilouse adopted a resolu tion shutting off all debate on the statehood bill and sending the measure di rectly to conference, in order to facilitate action at this session. Several hours were devoted to discussing the naval appropriation bill, after which the House held exercises appropriate to the acceptance of the statue of Miss f ranees E. Willard. Addresses were made by Messrs. Foss, Graff, Littlefield of Maine and Itainey, and at the conclusion of the ceremonies the House adjourned. The Senate on Saturday decided not to admit as testimony in the Swayne impeachment trial the statement made by Judge Swayne before a Ilouse committee and then adjourned the court. A request of the Ilouse for a conference on the statehood bill was received and a sharp debate ensued over an effort to have the conference committee appointed Immediately. The opponents of joint statehood succeeded in securing a postponement until Monday. Senator Penrose, from the committee on postofflces and post roads, reported the postofnee appropriation bill, and then the special order of the day, eulogies upon the character of the late Senator M. S. Quaz of Pennsylvania, was taken up. The Ilouse received notice that the Senate had withdrawn its wheat drawback amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill, and ininiliately voted to reject all the Senate amendments and send the measure to conference. The Senai:e amendments to the diplomatic and consular bill were also disagreed to and a conference requested. Similar action was taken on the District of Columbia appropriation bill. Several private bills were passed and the Ilouse then went into committee of the whole to consider the pension appropriation bill, which was finally passed without amendment. -: :- Sitting , in special session, the Hucse of Representatives Sunday conducted services to the memory of the late Senator Mathew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dalzell presided. In the National Capital. The Supreme Court of the United States has taken a recess for three weeks. The Ilouse committee on judiciary authorized a favorable report on a bill requiring ali corporations engaged in interstate commerce to make annual reports to the commissioner of corporations of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Secretary Shaw has sent a letter to both houses of Congress recommending the refund of the duties paid on imported wheat when used for seed. Representative Connell of Pennsylvania introduced a bill granting thirty days' annual leave, with full pay, to clerks and employes of first and 6econd-clasg postoffices. Senator Alger introduced a bill appropriating $3.000 for the erection of a monument to the memory of Captain C V. Gridley, who commanded Admiral Dewey's flagship Olympia at the battle of Manila Bay. The river and harbor appropriation bill, carrying a total of $31,057,491, has been reported to the House. Of this amouit $14,903,033 represents cash appropriations, and the balance expenditures authorized, for which the War Department may make contracts. There were 52,1-13 applications for patents, an increase of nearly 2,000 over 1903, and 20,429 patents expired. There were S0.S24 patents and designs issued. 110 patents reissued, 2,158 trade marks, 1,114 labels, and 297 prints registered. More patents were issued to citizens of Connecticut in proportion to population than to any other State, one to every 1,097 persons.

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