Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1901 — Page 6

THE JOURNAL. LESLIE CLARE, Ed. and Pub. SSNBBELAEB, - INDIANA.

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. if t COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. *M»td of Happening* of Haoh or Little Importance from All Parts of the Clrlllzcd World—lncidents. Enterprises. Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars Slossou is badly defeated by Sutton in the international billiard tournament at New York. Western Jockey club takes St. Louis fair grounds and lielmar turf promoters into membership, and becomes the ruling turf body. Resignation of Appraiser of the Port iWakeman before Jan. 1 said to have been requested by secretary of the treasury. He will refuse to comply and will put up a fight. In an attempt to capture Be Wet Cblonel Wilson, with a force of English troops, came into contact with a superior force of Boers near Heilbrou and was nearly surrounded. Fifty thousand dollar prize ottered by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor, awarded 'to M. Armand Sully-Prud-homme of Paris. Reichstag to question the government regarding Chamberlain’s alleged insult to German soldiers in his speech at Edinburg. Plan of Charles T. Yerkes for electrification of ‘London transportation lines reported to have been adopted. Clerk who robbed Liverpool bank of nearly $1,000,000 lost it in racetrack gambling. Miss Stone now said to be concealed in the vicinity of Rilo in Bulgaria. Severe snowstorms have swept over Scotland and many parts of England. Railroad traffic in the highlands is much interfered with by the storm. King Edward left Sandringham for London in the midst of a blinding snowfall. American capitalists are examining the pyritiferbus lands in Iceland with the View of purchasing or leasing them from the government. These properties were formerly leased by an English syndicate, whose concession was revoked because the rent was not paid. Deadwood sheriff and his deputy killed a store robber, wounded another, and captured a third. Run on the City Savings Bank of Omaha checked by sight of piles of gold on the counters. Amalgamated Copper went up five points. Lawson predicts squeeze for the shorts. Albert T. Patrick, accused of the Rice murder, seeking to be released at New lork by habeas corpus proceedings. Frank A. Munsey of New York planning to establish a large number of grocery stores in New England. Friends of Barry Howard, leader of a Kentucky mountain feud, attempted to rescue him while on his way to prison to Frankfort to be tried for complicity in the Goebel murder. Aged and sick at the burning of a Milwaukee sanitarium saved from injury by Mrs. Ellyn Myers, the assistant matron.

Thomas W. Lawson defiant in the copper war. Will neither ask nor give quarter. Daly estate caused slump. Convention to be held at Cincinnati this week to organize national association of Catholic societies. Serious defects discovered in the machinery of the battleship Illinois and a board of naval engineers may investigate. Court at Wabash, Ind., compelled man to pay reward offered for saving his wife from drowning. The Rev. J. W. Bradford of Brookside, Ala., killed by former member of "»*li to- congregation. Thirty-nine prisoners in jail at Birmingham, Ala., escaped by digging through wall. Business section of Hoopestown, 111., destroyed by fire. Loss nearly 1100 - 000. Loss of the Omaha Loan and Trust company may run up into the millions. Platinum and copper in paying quantities found near Encampment, Wyo. New pneumatic dynamite gun successfully tested at Hilton Head, S. C. Manila merchants refuse to accept Mexican money in payment for goods. Philippine commission authorized insular purchasing agent to use gold in purchase of supplies. Reported death of Lieutenant Van Tets declared to be false. He has appendicitis. British coal exports declined 158,000 tons in the first ten months of 1901. John Braden, whose father left him 1500,000, died in lodging house at New .York. Town Marshal J. B. Smith of Chelsea, la., killed in a fight with three men caught in the act of robbing a bank. Posse pursuing the slayers. Botha, Steyn, De Wet and other Boer leaders held a conference twelve miles from Heilbron. Burghers want to know when intervention is to come. Fifteen hundred discharged soldiers returning from Manila riot on transport Sheridan, defy former officers, and for a time hold possession of the Locomotive and three freight cars on the Canadian Pacific fell into a gorge 300 feet deep. Two trainmen killed.

SHIPPING TROUBLED BY PEST.

Second Case of Hnbonlc Plague Is Reported from Hawaii. Washington dispatch: The monthly health report of the marine hospl.al just issued contains a report from Dr. L. E. Cooper, chief quarantine officer of the Hawaiian islands, dated Honolulu, Nov. 14. saying that on account of a second case of plague having occurred there from a new focus within a week he had begun the certification of passengers, crews, vessels and freight bound for ports on the Pacific coast. Under date of Nov. 18 he confirms a death by plague reported by telegram, also two other deaths from plague off the island of Kauai. The case at Honolulu was that of a Chinaman who died'Nov. 13 and Dr. Cooper thinks the infection came from rats. In regard to the two cases on Kealia plantation on Kauai the deaths occurred on Nov. 5 and 7 respectively. The second case had nursed the first and neither of them was ill longer than twenty-four hours. The infection in these cases was not determined upon.

DRAGS FOR HIS OWN BODY.

Bystander Helping Officer, in Search Is Supposed Dead Man. Houghton, Mich., dispatch: John A. Carlson of Dollar Bay disappeared several days ago and his valise being found on Mineral Range wharf, suspicions of suicide were aroused. Mayor Scott of Hancock secured grappling irons to-day and repairing to the scene of the supposed drowning got a bystander to assist in the search, and after half an hour’s work the new man became sufficiently Interested to ask who was drowned. "Fellow named Carlson,” said the mayor. “What’s his first name?” was the query. “John A.,” was the answer. "I’m John A. Carlson,” said the assistant. “Just come back for my satchel when you hired me.” The search was stopped and the mayor handed Carlson |l for helping to search for his own body.

Must Let Inspectors In.

Columbus, Ohio, dispatch: The women inspectors appointed by the state commissioner of been dehied admittance to a number of factories and the commissioner appealed to the attorney general for an opinion as to the legal rights of such inspectors. The attorney general holds that a refusal on the part of the owners or managers of any industrial establishment named in the statute to permit the commissioner of labor statistics or any superintendent of a free employment bureau to enter his establishment even during working hours to gather such statistics is an infraction of the law and he may on conviction be fined in a sum from SSO to $100.”

Punjabs and Germans Fight.

A sentry belonging to an Indian regiment stationed at Tien-Tsln, China, ran amuck and killed two of his comrades. A company of Punjab infantry was at once ordered out to secure him. In the meantime the sentry had been shot by German troops, who then opened fire on the Punjabs. A free fight ensued, as a result of which three German privates were killed and a German officer mortally wounded, while three of the Indian troops were killed and several were wounded. The German troops have been confined to their barracks until further orders.

Boers Fall to Cross Railway.

Six Boers escaped from the Bloemfontein concentration camp on Sunday. They were captured on Tuesday by a detachment of the burgher police under Captain Malcolm of the imperial constabulary near Modder river. Lord Kitchener has been at Bloemfontein on a short visit, and returned to Pretoria yesterday. Over a hundred prisoners have arrived at Bloemfontein since Monday. Five unsuccessful attempts have been made to cross the railway line between here and the Orange river in the last three days.

Killed on the Way to Hunt.

Philadelphia, Pa., dispatch: E. J. 3i a president of the American District Telegraph company and a prominent broker, fell from his horse while riding near his home at Valley Forge and broke his neck, dying almost instantly. Mr. Matthews had been living in New York recently. He had received an invitation to attend the Radnor hunt and was on his way to the scene of the chase when the accident occurred. He was a member of the Union League and Philadelphia Country club and was 65 years of age.

Sheriff's Trust Justified.

Denver Colo., dispatch: N. C. Markham, accused of assault in Bowling Green, Ky., started for that city unaccompanied by an officer. Markham was arrested here on the telegraphic request of Sheriff Henry James. Markham telegraphed Sheriff James that he be allowed to return alone and the sheriff granted the request, trusting to his honor to appear for trial this week.

Justice Kills Clergyman.

Brookside, Ala., dispatch: The Rev. J. W. Bradford, Methodist minister at this place, was shot by R. D. Coffman, justice of the peace, at 5 o’clock p. m., and died two hours later. Coffman was standing in Bradford's doorway and fired two shots, both taking effect in the head. There were no witnesses to the tragedy. The Rev. Bradford had been returned here as the Methodist minister for another year. / Coffman was once a member of the Rev. Mr. Bradford’s church, but bad been expelled, \

OFFICERS HANG IN TAYTAY

Military Authorities Make Examples of Filipino Murderers, HIGH OFFICIALS EXECUTED. President »nd Chief of Police Among Those Who Pay the I xtreine Penalty —More Details of the Samar Disaster Are Given. Manila dispatch: The military authorities banged the presidente, the chief of police and the vice-sergeant of Taytay, who had been convicted of murdering seven natives by stabbing them and burying them alive while the town was under American occupation. The crime was committed at the instance of the insurgent leaders. A priest of the name of Leposoy, who was also convicted and sentenced to death because he had heard the confessions of the murdered men when they were- at the point of death, had hi 3 sentence commuted to twenty years’ imprisonment because of his calling. The hanging of the others took place in the presence of thousands of natives, including fifteen presidentes. Professor Worcester of the Philippine commission, Colonel Maus, insular health commissioner, and Chief Huth have sailed for Cayagan, in Jolo, where they will establish a permanent leper colony. Additional details of the loss of life in Company C, Ninth infantry, at Balingiga, Island of Samar, were brought here by the Shinano Maru. As an Instance of heroism is cited the case of a private wljo, having gone for his rifle, became separated from his fellows. in a rush his left arm was cut off below the elbow. He dropped to the ground, but kept hold of his rifle, and, rolling behind a log, kept up his fire on the enemy, working the magazine of his piece with the right hand alone. Later he was killed by bolomen who stole up behind him. Many plans had been made by insurgents to seize towns held by the Americans, but none of them had worked before with the precision of this. On the night before the attack the women of the town gathered in the church to pray for the success of their insurrectionist husbands and brothers on the morrow. At some time during this day a sealed coffin was brought to the church. This coffin contained several war bolos.’ The signal for the attack was given while the men were at breakfast by the native chief of police, who wrested a gun from a sentry. Immediately the church bells began to ring and the bolomen rushed upon the Americans and killed the officers in bed. From the time of the assault until the survivors embarked in baratos for Basey about forty-five minutes elapsed. Then followed the hardships of a trip to Basey, the unwounded men paddling the boats and doing their best to relieve the sufferings of the wounded, until, twenty hours later, the little band of survivors reached Basey and safety.

New Chief for Rock Island.

New York dispatch: Financial and railway circles are animated by reports current to-day that official announcements are about to be made of important developments along "Community of interest’’ lines. One of these, foreshadowing at least one new and big combination,' is that a new president is about to ,be elected by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad. W. B. Leeds is the selection.

To Bar Capital Punishment.

The odelsthing (one of the Norwegian houses of parliament), which has under consideration a new penal code, has decided to abolish capital punishment. Only a small minority voted for its retention. No execution has taken place in Norway for twenty-two years, and crime is steadily decreasing.

MORE APPURTENANT TERRlTOßY.—lndianapolis News.

Kentucky Schools Closed.

Newport, Ky., dispatch: The city schools here have been closed by the police for refusing to obey the regulations of the board of health in connection with the prevailing epidemic of measles and diphtheria.

Peru to Adopt Gold Standard.

Lima, Peru, disnatch (via Galveston, Tex.: The chamber of deputies yesterday sanctioned the gold-'standard law, which has already passed the senate.

CASHIER DECAMPS WITH FUNDS

I* HeUhnaan,#f Los Anfelei Disappears with •100.000. H. J. Fleishman, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants’ bank of Los Angeled, Cal., has disappeared with a sum of the bank’s money, which Vice President H. W. Heilman estimates at SIOO,000. Fleishman’s property in Los Angeles Is worth $50,000; his bond is $30,000. This leaves a shortage of $70,000 which the bank must make good. Fleishman had been cashier and assistant cashier of the bank for many years. He began work for the bank when a boy in 1875. Fleishman married the daughter of A. J. Harrell, a wealthy cattleman of Visalia, but was divorced some time ago. He is 42 years of age. He entertained lavishly all who brought letters of Introduction to him.

Chicago dispatch: Before nearly 4,000 people W. Bourke Cockran, at the Auditorium last night, declared that independence for the Boers surely was coming; but that peace might be restored and the suffering in the concentration camps ended, all the eloquence of the orator was directed to a plea for intervention by the United States. He asserted that the peace of America, the future of the Monroe doctrine and the constitution of England were endangered by the prolongation of the struggle. “Let the President of the United States but utter the word,” declared the speaker, "and the war will end oh the day his action is taken.” In response to his appeal for funds to aid the Boer prisoners in the South African military camps, cash and pledges aggregating $6,000 were secured.

John Schmidt of St. Louis, who was serving a life sentence in the state penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., for killing a Chicago artist of the name of Atwater at Webster Grove, near St. Louis, in 1897, has been pardoned by Governor Dockery. He had consumption and the prison physician recommended that he be released. He was first sentenced to be hanged with Cotton Smith and another man, who were executed in St. Louis for the murder. As Schmidt was considered only a tool Governor Stephens commuted his sentence to life imprisonment.

Bismarck, N. D., dispatch: The supreme court has decided’ that the ordinance passed at Fargo in 1898 creating the seven improvement districts in that city was illegal for the reason that the vote on the passage of the ordinance was not taken by yeas and nays. This decision affects all improvements for paving and sewers in. Fargo. The court, however, does not pass on the question as to whether the invalidity of this ordinance will operate to .destroy the value of securities outstanding that arise from the work of construction

Las Cruces, Tex.,dispatch: Oil borers at Engle, N. M., have-struck an artesian well at a depth of 200 feet which swept 1,000 gallons per hour through a two-iuch hole. Engle is situated in the heart of the famous Journey of Death desert, which is one of the most arid regions known and the strike of water will prove more valuable than an oil gusher. During the Mexican war a column of 165 soldiers who attempted to cross the desert, all but fourteen perished. Great excitement has been created by the strike.

THOSE DANISH WEST INDIES.

Cockran for Free Boers.

Frees Murderer of Artist.

Decides City Law Is Void.

Strikes Water in Desert

Shot Down as He Preaches.

Rev. A. A. Johnson, negro pastor of the African Methodist church of Oskaloosa, lowa, was shot and seriously wounded while in his pulpit Sunday night by a negro girl, Anna Nelson, The girl claims to have been wronged by the minister.

Lynching of 25 Negroes Threatened.

The sheriff of Covington county, Ala., telegraphed to Governor Jenks that he fears the twenty-five negroes concerned in the Opp riot may be lynched. The governor notified company L, first regiment, at Greenville, to hold itself in readiness to proceed to Andalusia. All the negroes implicated in the rioting have been arrested. Marshal Atkinson, who was wounded, is in a serious condition, but William Fitzsimmons, who was shot through the knees, is recover’ng.

WAMTS TROOPS TO REMANIN

Annual Report of Gen. Chaffee Made to the Government. IMPROVEMENT IS GRADUAL. Natives Are Accused of Inhuman Methods In Treatment of Prisoners —Reign of Terror In Southern Luton —More Bu* bonlo Plague Expected. Washington dispatch: In his official report of the conditions of the past year in the Philippines, Major General Chaffee, military governor, expresses his gratification at the advancement made. His annual report has just been received at the war department. “If nothing more has been done by the military in the past three years,” he says, “it has laid an excellent foundation and a turbulent and hostile community has been brought to observe laws and to be individually orderly. The world will watch with keen interest the evolution of an American city from the Malay and Mongolian elements which now almost exclusively compose the population.” While General Chaffee reports that peace reigns in northern Luzon, the insurrections in the south and the reign of terror the brigands have inaugurated among the natives in many communities will for years to come, he believes, be a most difficult problem to successfully solve. He recommends that no further material reduction of troops be made before January 1, 1903. In this connection he says: “The return of troops would be greatly in the interests of the army and economy, but neither is of such vital importance, temporarily at least, as military contemplation or events and martial support of the civil governments during the period of time necessary for complete organization and for a further period during their trial; also for familiarization of the people with the new order of things.” The inhuman methods of the natives are touched upon in reports from the field. The insurgents bind strong men with their hands behind them, then, before the victims are buried alive in graves dug before their eyes, or drowned in deep water, they aje taunted and beaten with clubs. The native prisoners deported to Guam have no cause for complaint, judging from the report. They are so well fed and cared for that they gleefully declare that they have never been so well provided for. An epidemic of bubonic plague throughout Luzon is expected the ensuing year. year there were 452 cases and 372 deaths in Manila. It is estimated that in the coming year there will be at least 1,000 cases. Tuberculosis is prevalent in Manila. Last year there were over 5,000 cases. Reports from six regiments in the field show that the abolition of the sale of beer and wine in the army canteen has increased greatly the number of courtmartials.

LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.

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Prepare a New Bible.

New- York dispatch; A new bible, authorized by the recent general convention in San Francisco to be read in all Episcopal churches In the United States, has been in process of completion by the committee on marginal readings, which has sat at the Episcopal General seminary in this city since last Tuesday and will finish Its work to-morrow, says the Times. It was stated that an English firm has promised to undertake the publication of this bible without expense to the committee. This new bible is to consist of the text and renderings of the King James version, the renderings of the English revision and the renderings of the recent American revision.

Footpad Kills Kentucky Man.

J. N. Hawkins was shot and robbed by a footpad at midnight Saturday night at Louisville, Ky. He was not found until 3:30 o’clock Sunday morning and died Sunday afternoon. Hawkins was treasurer and deacon of the 'Broadway Christian church and had remained at his store to complete some work on the church books.

Governors Not to Confer.

Now that Governor Van Sant of Minnesota has heard from all the governors of northwestern states on the question of the railway merger some are expecting him' to call a conference at once. The governor is not going to Indulge in any side issues at present. He has set the machinery going and within the week Attorney General Douglas will force the, railroad interests to appear in court. Hfc will correspond further with the governors, but will hot call any conferences at present.

TAKE BOGUS COUNT OFF SHIP.

UftMtlTM roll Flu of “De Toulnoao Eoutree” at Mew York. The "Count De Toulouse” Lautree, a noted swindler with a record of crime committed 4n this country and in Europe, was > taken off the French line steamship Gascogne Thursday as it was about to Bail. The bogus count had walked aboard the ship and seated himself in the women’s cabin, with only |3B in his pocket and no ticket or baggage. Detectives who seized him are in doubt whether he went there to “turn a trick” or to try to get passage for Europe as a stowaway. The socalled count when interviewed a year ago said he was born of French parents In Foland, his family having fled during the French revolution and acquired large estates in Russia. He was educated in Vienna, where he took a degree of civil engineer. He served as captain of the horse guards in the Russian army for three years, then came to the United States. He returned to France and married. He said that his wife was the daughter of the Countess De Ingreville. In April, 1900, De Toulouse Lautree was arrested in Chicago

COUNT LAUTREC.

on a telegram from Toronto, which charged him with having passed forged bonds on the bank of Montreal. He was turned over to the United States authorities, and after a hard fight was extradited to Canada. He was once mixed up in a movement that had for its object his crowning as king of Bulgaria.

Death Scourges One Family.

The funeral of Samuel Johnson, a printer, was held Sunday afternoon at Denver. His sister’s body lay in an adjoining room and in the same house the mother was dying. Johnston died of pneumonia after a long sickness. Mary Johnston died of a broken heart, and Mrs. Elizabeth . Johnston," the mother, died Monday evening from exhaustion and heart trouble aggravated by her prolonged watching and care of her son. Mother and daughter were buried Monday. The father and another son are in the mountains and cannot be reached, so they are in ignorance of the deaths.

Nell Cropsey Is Not Found.

There is no truth in the report that the body pf a woman supposed to be Nell Cropsey was washed ashore at Sand Hills, N. C. No trace of Miss Cropsey has yet been found. Madame Newman, a Norfolk, Va.. clairvoyant, has gone to Elizabeth City to attempt to read the mind of the missing girl’s admirer, James Wilcox, for the purpose of discovering what he knows of the girl’s whereabouts.

Betrayed by French Heel.

Mount Vernon, N. Y. dispatch':' Mary Elizabeth Thompson, thought- to- tie the leader of a gang of burglars'that has been robbing villas along the northern shore of Long Island Sound during the last six months, was arrested here. She is only 17 years old and is a southern creole girl; The prints of a woman's shoe witip,a high French heel, found near the Hettinger house, led to her arrest.

Boy Slayer Is Exonerated.

Newport, Ky., dispatch:Coronergins has rendered a decision in the,, case of Joseph Creelman, the child who was killed in a schoolboys’ quarrel by Eddie Armineo. He found that death was caused by a knife wound inflicted by Edward Armineo and added that the killing was unintentional and under > circumstances of great provocation.

Drowned While Skating.

Court and fashionable circles at Ottawa, Ont., were overwhelmed with grief by the sad intelligence that Miss Bessie Blair, aged nineteen, third daughter of Hon. Mr. Blair, minister of railways and canalß, and H. A. Harper, assistant editor of the Labor Gazette, had been drowned while out skating with a party from the government house on the Ottawa river.

Astes Damages for a Kick.

Ottumwa, lowa, dispatch: T. J. Phillips, Democratic condidate for governor In the last campaign, is defendant in a suit brought by R. H. Moore, editor of the Saturday Herald. Moore asks for $3,000 damages because of a kicking administered by Phillips on the public street late in November.

Low Rental of Grazing Land.

It is announced at Omaha that the Union Pacific will lease to a ccftnbination of sheepmen its land on either side of its right of way in Sweetwater county, Wyoming, for a distance of twenty miles. The tract Includes a total of 448,-000 acres. It embraces each alternate section, the remaining sections belonging to the government. The sheepmen expect to control the latter by means pf the Union Pacific lease, making the total under control 896(000. The rental. is to be 1 cent per acis.

PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS

Record of Legislative Work in Senate and House. MANY BILLS INTRODUCED. The Home Committees u Announce.l by Speaker Henderaoa —Cannon of Illinois Heads the Appropriations Committee —Hay Pauncefote Treaty. Friday, December 8. Speaker Henderson in the house announced the appointment of the following committees: Ways and Means —Payne (N. Y.), Dalzell (Pa.), Hopkins (Ill.), .Grosvenor (O.), Russell (Conn.), Steele (lad.), Tawhey <Mlnn.). McCall (Mass.), Long (Kas.), Babcock (Wis.), Metcalfe (Cal.), Republicans. Richardson (Tenn.), Robertson (La.), Swanson (Va.), McClellan (N. Y.), Newlands (Nev.), and Cooper (Tex.), Democrats. Appropriations—Cannon (Ill.), Bingham (Pa.), Hemenway (Ind.), Barney (Wis.), Moody (Mass.), Van Voorhis (0.), McCleary (Minn.), Littauer (N. Y.), Brownlow (Tenn.), Gardner (Mich.), Burkett (Neb.), Republicans. Livingston (Ga.), Mcßae (Ark.), Bell (Colo.), Pierce (Tenn.). Benton (Mo.), and Taylor (Ala.), Democrats. Enrolled Bills—Wachter (Md.), Ball (Del.), Burk (Pa.), Currier (N. H.), Republicans. Lloyd (Mo.), and Edwards (Mont.), Democrats.' Leaders in congress insist a radical law must be passed at the present session to squelch anarchists. Abraham Isaak's utterances commending McKinley’s assassination aroused anger. Senator Hoar's plan approved. Rumor revived that Secretary Hay is to retire after the confirmation of the Nicarauguan Canal treaty by the senate. Secretary Root thought to be most likely to succeed him in that event. Congressman Crumpacker again in-

JOSEPH G. CANNON.

troduced his bill to reduce southern representation in congress. Senate foreign committee made favorable report on Hay-Pauncefote treaty, which insures its ratification. President sent to the senate names of 2,479 nominees for office. Saturday, December 7. New subsidy bill prepared by Senator Frye will be introduced in both houses of congress to-day. Objectionable features of the former bill left out of the measure. Willis L. Moore, head of the weather department, made annual report in -which he predicted Increased use of wireless telegraphy. White House ball of Jan. 3 will be the first of many brilliant dances in which Washington society will take part this winter. According to the annual report of Director of the Mint Roberts, the coinage for 1901 amounted to $136,340,781. Monday, December 9. Senator Tillman defied his colleague in a senate discussion of their troubles, and challenged him Tcf resign. Their seats may be declared vacantPresident Roosevelt sent several, hundred nominations to office to the senate, including that of Cprnelius Van Cott, postmaster of New Y<jrk. Congress to act on Andrew Carnegie’s propositon to give $10,000,000 to the city of Washington for a national university. New subsidy bill read in the senate. Principal items which aroused antagonism in the last congress left out. Hay-Pauncefote treaty will probably be ratified this week. Only two or three Democrats opposed to it. Senator Hoar introduced bill to punish as murderers all who participate in a lynching.

Find Gold In ■ D««m-t. The new Tonopah district of Nevada is one of the most remarkable mining camps of the west. The entire Pacific slope is awakening to its extraordinary richness. Although not yet “proved ’ as to the extent and depth, mining men familiar with the district assert that it far exceeds in mineral wealth all of Alaska combined, and that It bids fair to surpass the famous Cripple Creek district in the amount of gold and silver which It will soon produce. English Ilotal Is Destroyed. The Queen’s hotel at Southsea, England, was burned Sunday. Forty of the guests escaped in their night clothing only. Two chambermaids were suffqcated .and several firemen injured. The Queen’s hotel was a fashionable resort. Among those rescued from the building were the Rev. Thomas Teignniouth Shore, canon of Worcester and chaplain in ordinary to King Edward, and his wife; Major General Francis William Collis and Colonel and Mrs. Charles E., Stewart, retired, and Colonel and Mrs. Ruxton.