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PAGE FITT PRESBYTERIANS FICHT FOR CHURCH EARTH IS FLYING Oil PANAMA CANAL Report Shows Enough Has Been Removed to Cover Ten City Blocks. THROWN IN PRISON FOR USING "ABUSIVE LANGUAGE" ALL TOYS )HI19 IB0DM : and Xmmsis No veMes Knox County Members of That Religious Body Incensed At the Union. Go this week at from ONE-FOURTH to ,11 FF HAVE NO YELLOW FEVER. AN INJUNCTION WAS FILED. FOR PAST EIGHTEEN MONTHS THIS PEST HAS NOT APPEARED TO BOTHER THE WORK RAPIDLY PROCEEDING.

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PLAINTIFFS ALLEGE THAT PRESBYTERIANS HAVE CHARGE OF ALL TEMPOPRAL THINGS OF RELIGIOUS BODY. Local Presbyterians are watching

Very liberal reductions on all Christmas Goods in all departments.

Washington, Dec. 20. The excavation from the line of the Panama Canal last month, aggregating l,&'.S,48ft cubic yards would, have covered ten city blocks to a depth of forty feet. No such work has ever been done before as Col. Goethals has been doing on the Isthmus, according to statistics presented in the official canal record just received. For instance, it la shown that every fifty working days the commission is moving an amount of material equal to the pyramid of Cheops, which consumed the labor of 100,000 men for twenty years in the building and the services of the same number of men for ten years in constructing the road connecting the work with the Quarry. According to the latest health report from Panama, the isthmus has been free from yellow fever more than IS months, and there has been a steady and continued improvement in the health conditions. Comparing the death rate for the year up to December 1, with that for the corresponding period in 1W, there has been u 'A) per cent decrease, the figures being for this year 2tMH per thousand against .'lo.ill last year. The sick rate also showed a marked improvement, being Ho. 4 for November, against 2 ;.!, for October.

DID HOT LIKE Sheriff Meredith Came in Contact With Live Wire And Then Quit. JOS. COLVIN TALKS OF CASE MR. COLVIN WAS FORMER PLAYMATE OF SHERIFF IS NOW TRACTION MANAGER IN THE EAST. Joseph Colvin, a former well known resident of Williamsburg, now general manager of the Washington, Alexandria and Ml. Vernon traction company with headquarters at Washington, D. C, was at Williamsburg to spend Christmas with his parents. This morning Mr. Colvin called upon Sheriff Linus Meredith, who was his chum In boyhood days at Williamsburg. Mr. Colvin recal'ed to mind the time Meredith went to the effete, east to learn how to be a traction electrician. "Linus was sent to Philadelphia and put to work constructing a trolly line. One day he climbed a tree and in some fashion came in contact with a loose live wire. He jumped out of the tree, hit the road with a dull thud and then disappeared from view in u cloud of dust. He mado a rabbit look like a snail. The day after this incident took place I received at Washington a telegram which read like this: 'I am going back home. Have graduated from the electrical business. Linus.' " For some unknown reason, which the sheriff did not attempt to explain, Meredith after abandoning the electrical business because he regarded it as too dangerous, went into the dynamite blasting business. INFERNAL MACHINE SENT Was Discovered in Packnne in Mail. L'rie, Pa., Dec. 'JC Chief of Police "Wagner made a test today of the contents of the bottle ouud in the infernal machine mailed at the South Eric subpostoffice yesterday. He poured two drops of the white liquid on a piece of wood and touched a match to it. A sheet of flame four feet high shot into the air, proving the solution to be a dangerous out. The bottle will be examined by a chemist tomorrow. 'S HEART SEWED Organ

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pletely. TCetr York. Dec. Uj. A week ago the remarkable feat of sewing up a cut in a man's heart was successfully performed by Doctors Blake and Dwight at Roosevelt hospital. The patient. "William Johnson, a negro about 3." years old. Is still in the hospital, ill with pneumonia, but as far as his heart Is concerned, he is all right. It has healed completely.

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Mrs. T. J. Gobdin-Saderson, the British suffragist, and her daughter, Stella. Mrs. Sanderson recently was released from prison in England to which she was sentenced for "using abusive language." She says English women are advanced much farther than those of America in suffrago movement and declares our women have failed to win equal rights because the working woman, with whom the power lies, takes no interest in politics.

SOQETY MEWS , To Reach the Society Editor, Call Home Phone 1121, or Bell Phone 21.

At a dinner given Wednesday noon by Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Swayne, North 1 eleventh street, the engagement of 1 their daughter. Miss Juliet, to Mr. Edson Cook of Chicago, was announced. Miss Swayne is an accomplished young lady and a leader in the younger so ciety set. The past fall she was a stu-; dent at. the Chicago Art Institute. Mr. ! Cook is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Cook of Chicago, who were formerly j well known residents of this,city. Mr. j Cook is engaged in the advertising business. The date of the wedding has not yet been announced. i George Manove and Meek Zimmerman, of Chicago, are spending a few ; days in the city with relatives. 4 Mrs. Frances Kelley and daughter Miss Elnora Kelley, Mrs. R. E. McWhinney and Miss Georgia McWhinney are at Indianapolis attending a house party this weeK at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holt. j ! Christmas day at high noon, took place the marriage of Mr. Ferdinand Driftneyer. son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-; liam Drifmeyer. of this city, to Miss Carrie McConnell, of Galveston. Ind. The wedding took place at the home of the bride. I j Announcement has been received ' here of the engagement of Miss Edna ; Warren, the beautiful daughter of Mr. ! and Mr3. Harry W. Warren, of Decatur, in., to Mr. Arthur E. Labesky, of Milwaukee. Wis. The Warren family formerly lived in this city and were prominently connected with social and ! business circles. The bride-elect at- j tended St. Mary's of the Woods, nd is '. quite accomplished. Mr. Labesky !s connected with a large company of! contractors. The date for the wedding , has been set for the middle of next J month. The Ladies' Aid society of the FirstChristian church are arranging to give a social next Monday evening at the ; church. Numbers of the program will be rendered by Miss Eikenberry. . violinist, Miss Lindsey, pianist. Miss' Karolyn Kail, contralto, and Miss Marie Kaufman, soprano. The Misses ; Eikenberry and Lindsey are students at Oberlia college. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Lyso. of Anderson, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Frank lanks. Mrs. Harry Castator of ;lll North Eighth street, charmingly entertained at six o'clock Christmas dinner. Covers were laid for ten. The table was attractively decorated with holly and evergreen. A Christmas tree constituted the center piece about which were candalabra. Mrs. Walter Wilsou HtUp Bon-.of rhatanoosa. Tenn., iiu r-yetiumii me v in i;uua t-e;t-son in Richmond, was the out of town guests. J "J" Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Saxton. of Chicago, are the gnets of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Ilibberd, of Norrh Ninth street. A Mrs. Emeline Iind. delightfully entertained at family dinner Christmas day at her home on North Thirteenth street. The members of the family present were. Mr. and Mrs. I rant Land. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Land. Mr.

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Ray Holton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoi ton, Walker Land, Horatio Land, Miss Dorothy Land and Master Robert Land. 4 J The Sunday school exercises of the First Baptist, church, will be held Friday evening, the program beginning at 7: 15 o'clock. Mr. Ervin H. Eliason and Miss Florence B. dull, were united in marriage at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening at the Fifth Street M. E. parsonage by the Rev. J. O. Camnbell. Both are well known young people and will reside in West Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. William N. Ilockett entertained Christmas day at six o'clock dinner. The rooms were prettily decorated with colors appropriate to the season. Covers were laid for ten. Those present were Messers. and Mesdames Jno. Townsend. Jno. Moffitt, Harley Messick, William Hockett, Miss Blanche Caine and R. C. Hallridge. "I Mrs. William Gaar will be hostess to a tea party in h?r apartments at the Westcott, Monday afternoon. Doc. 30. The affair will be in honor of Mrs. Ray Shiveley and Mrs. Juliet Landers, of Indianapolis. East Main Street Friends church will give its Sunday school entertainment Friday evening beginning at 7::o o'clock. The school of this church has planned and will carry out one of the most instructive and entertaining holiday programs that will be given in the city. A new and attractive feature of the program will be pictures that will be shown by means of the stereopticon. This will be in charge of experts. Prof. Edwin Morrison of the physics department of Earlham college and Rev. Alfred Ware. These gentlemen have had the rare opportunity of selecting the best slides out of a half thousand pictures appropriate for use on this occasion. Other features of the program are: Song by the school "Joy to 4he World." , Responsive reading. Luke I. Prayer Rev. Allen Jay. Music Mixed double quartet. Recitation -Clifford Barkdell. Recitation gT5es Kelley. Christmas exercises Primary department. Christmas exercises All nations by classes: Alien Jay. Frank Boone. Marjorie Mayhew. John Ellenian. Marie John. Harold Y eager. Ella Brown. Mildred Williams, Iuis Morrison. Gertrude Seaman. Eleanor Billiard. Jesse Parshall. Raymond Ware. Carletu Commons. Address Supt. W. S. lliser. i J Mrs. Joseph E. Brown, of North Twenfrh street, delightfully entertained a company of friends from Eaton. O., Christmas day. Those composing the company were. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Earhart, and Mr. and Mrs. Tor..; . : A very preay weddicg took place on Christmas day at the home of the bride's parents, on North G street, when Miss Blanche Belle Yv'ir.c was unite., in marriage to Mr. Herman Trotter. The ceremony took place at

i with interest, the various develop- ! ments in the fight between the union

and nonunion Cumberland Presbyterians of Indiana in reference to the absorption of this branch of the church by the regular Presbyterians. As the next meeting of the Indiana synod 1b to be held in Richmond, the Interest is all the greater. Another chapter in the history of the conflict between the union and nonunion factions in Knox county was begun by filing injunction proceedings in the Knox circuit court. The plaintiffs allege in their complaint that they, because of the union of the Cumberland Presbyterian church and the Presbyterian church, being officials of the Herman Presbyterian church, have charge of all the temporal things of the church, as the Cumberland Presbyterian church, in ; uniting with the Presbyterian church, gavo over all its property to the unit;ed church to be used as the general assembly of the Presbyterian church might direct. They also allege taat the defendants claim they have a right to the building because they are still Cumberland Presbyterians, and that they have conspired to prevent the plaintiffs and the members of the church from holding services in it. Charge Trsspass. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants have wilfully and wrongfully trespassed upon the premises of the church, and in the church, blocking, on divers occasions, the entrances. They aver that on many occasions the defendants have nailed uu the doors, bored holes in them and in the door facings, fastened the doors with locks and chains, and that they have damaged the building in various ways. high noon, the Rev, J. O. Campbell, pastor of Ffth Street M. E. church, officiating. Immediately after the ceremony an elaborate dinner of four courses was served to about fifty guests. The bride was gowned in white snk anu carried a shower boquet of bride's roses. After a short visit with frienas and relatives in the northern part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Trotter will be at home to their friends on North Eleventh street after January 1. Mrs. Mary Rost and children, were very pleasantly surprised Christmas eve by a party of friends at their beautiful country home, north of the city. Music and games were the diversions of the evening. Rev. and Mrs. O. S. Harrison, were the guests of Mr. arid Mrs. II. L. Spink for Christmas dMiner. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Craig, residing south of the city, are entertaining their daughters, Mrs. J. C. Cat hell of Ft. Wayne, and Mrs. G. B. Fleming, of Elnora, Ind. 4 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mather, delightfully entertained at their beautiful Spring Grove home, all of the members of the Mather, Jay and Kelsey families, at Christmas dinner Wednesday. Covers were laid for more than 23 guests. It was a most enjoyable family reunion. DANCING SCHOOL. Mrs. Charles Kolp's usual dancing class tomorrow evening (Friday) at I. O. O. F. hall. Admission gram to dance. ."( cents. Kc. ProA JOURNALISTIC HOAX. Trick the Harvard Lampoon Played on the Crimson. Speaking of the Crimson, Harvard's daily newspaper, reminds every Harvard man of tbe Lampoon's master stroke or jnke played on that dignified and unsuspecting sheet on Memorial day. 1901. The Crimson had announced that it would not appear on that holiday, but inconspicuously, so few "were snrprised to find their Crimson at their door that morning as usual. Their surprise began, however, when they scanned its contents. This always serious sheet seemed to have become most frivolous and irresponsible during tbe eight, for in its columns all sorts of wird and fantastic statements appeared. The news, though clothed in the usual heavy, dignified Crimson style, was wildly revolutionary in character. .Aiming the items that appeared were: "A Plot to Blow Up Memorial Hall," "Strong Men to Get the Yarsity H," "Wellesley Crew to Be Guests of the University" and most important of all a notice. "Lampoon Celebration at 7 Tonight." Then the joke came out The Lampoon had published the famous "fake Crimson." the joke was known throughout the country, and that night Lampy's sanctum was the scene of bscchacali.in revelry. When the following year the Crimson editors sat up all night with injunctions against a repetition of the fake the joke wps again on them, for Laxnpy differs froc history in that he never vepeats himself. K. B, Townseud in Bohemian.

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PARCELS POST LAW IS Members of Congress First Favoring It Have Turned Against the Measure. SAVINGS BANK NOT LIKED. NOTHING LIKE A UNANIMOUS APPROVAL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE LOWER HOUSE SINCE THE CHANGE. Washington, D. C, Dec. 26. Unless conditions change to an extraordinary degree congress will not make any serious attempt to establish a parcels post or postal savings bank system at this session. Both these reforms have behind them authority of the postmaster general and of the president of the United States, but sufficient opposition has developed in each case to cause the leaders of congress, both republicans and democrats, to fight shy of all such legislation. An entire change of sentiment has come over congress as to the advisability of passing either of these proposed laws. It is possible a majority of the house might be in favor of tnem both but it is more and more evident that nothing like unanimous approval can be expected from the couutry at large. Mississippi Oratory. Jasper county has been noted for the high grade of eloquence produced by the public men of that part of Mississippi. An appeal to the "mighty men of Jasper" made by one of that county's great men when a candidate to the voters who -elected him is as follows: "Mighty men of Jasper. If I can be Instrumental in the hands of my peopl in adding a few jewels to those tfcat now shine In imperishable luster on the queenly brow of our proud commonwealth, whose associated radiance, like the lambent beauty of the star, is to guide the footsteps of her children along the paths of peace and prosperity, security and happiness. I shall then have accomplished the ambition cf my life. Mobile Register. Superlative Beauty. A. Swedish newspaper recently Invited its readers to state in a few words what they considered the most beautiful thing in the world. The first prif was carried off by an anonymous Cswr, "The eyes of my mother." j More imaginative was the reader who won the next prize by suggesting. "The dream of that which we know to be Impossible." ! The most amusing answer was that wMch read. "The most beautiful thing in th world is to see a man carrying his mother-in-law across a dangerous river without making any attempt to, drop her in." Proved Useless. "Vhen you was little, was you spr.aked like I am to make you good, papa?" "I was, my son. and spanked hard too." "Yen you can't fool me no more, catme if it didn't make you good it won't make me good." San Francisce Call. An Escape. Maid No. mum; Mrs. Dodge is out. Yisltor How fortunate! When I saw her peeping through the curtain as I cam? op the path I was so afraid she would be in. London Opinion. Every one ocght to measure himself by his own proper font and standard. Horace. i SHOCK DESTROYS SIGHT Greenfield. Ind.. Dec. 20. Woodard i Farley, a young man of this city, is blind as the result of an electrical shock. F2.rley was employed at the j 'l . H., I & E. substation at Cumberland and received a severe shock, but it was thought at the time no serious results would follow. Now be is unable to see at all and it i3 feared that

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THE CITY IN BRIEF Buttorlck's patterns. Morris & Co's. G. R. Gause for moss wreaths. tf Polo. Elwood vs. Richmond, Friday night. L'5-St Two games Polo Friday night. -- I Polo. Kibbeys vs. High School; Elwood vs. Richmond, Friday night. O ill i o L Mrs. J. D. Van Allen, of Cincinnati, formerly Miss Rose Green, is visiting friends and relatives here for a few weeks. Special Ladies Matinee Friday at The New Phillips to hear Miss Ray. It Miss Isabella Bass and Mr. Wood will make their debut in vaudeville at The New Phillips, Friday night. It DRIVEN AfiTa. The Way These Ferocious Little In sects Defy the Freshets. There are certain ants that show wonderful intelligence, and the "driver ants" not only build boats, but launch them too. Only these boats are formed of their own bodies. They are called "drivers" because of their ferocity. Nothing can stand before the attacks of these little creatures. Large pythons have been killed by them in a single night, while chickens, lizards and other animals in western Africa flee from them in terror. To protect themselves from the heat they erect arches, under which numerous armies of them pass in safety. Sometimes the arch is made of grass and earth and is gummed. together by some secretion, and again it is formed by the bodies of the larger ants, which hold themselves together by their strong nippers while the workers pass under them. At certain times of the year freshets overflow the country inhabited by the "drivers," and it is then that these ants go to sea. The rain comes suddenly, and the walls of their houses are broken In by the flood; but. Instead of coming to the surface in scattered hundreds and being swept off to destruction, out of the ruins rises a black ball that rides safely on the water and drifts away. At the first warning of danger the little creatures run together and form a solid body of ants, the weaker in the center. Often this ball is larger than a common cricket ball, and in this way they float about until they lodge against some tree, upon the branches of which they are soon safe and sound. Pearson's Weekly. GOVERNMENT ANIMALS. Branding Them la Provided For by Army Regulations. Whenever you see the letters "U. S." branded on the left fore shoulder of an animal, make up your mind at once that that beast is or was at one time the property of our rich old Uncle Sam. Then again if you knew the key to the system of branding utilized by the quartermaster's department. United States army, you would in a moment be able to tell the organization of the army to which that animal was assigned immediately after purchase by the government. Branding public animals is not a matter of choice, but 1 provided for by the army regulations, which direct that"Publlc animals shall upon the day received be branded with the letters U. S.' on tbe left fore shoulder. Horses assigned to organisations will also be branded on the hoof of one fore foot on" and one-half inches below the coronet with the designation of tbe company. Branding irons of uniform size and design will be fcupplied by tb" quartermaster's department, letters U. S.' to be two inches in height, letters and numbers cf hoof bra cas on the same line to be three-fourths of an inch high, the letter to precede tbe number and blocked xo as to penetrate the hoof one-sixteenth of an inch. For e.vamp. the hoof brands on hordes assiga-d to band, Ninth cavalry, would be CB9; to Troop A, Fifth cavalry, would be A5; to Company A, battalion of engineers, would be BEA-" Cincinnati Enquirer. "Talk is cheap,- said the man who sneers. "It is at the outset when you are giving away samples." answered Senator Sorghum. "Bat in the course of time you can command a pretty good price for lecture tickets." Washington Star.

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HJULT REAPPOINTS FRANK L. WATT He Will Serve as Democratic Member of Board of Police Commissioners. SUCCEEDED C. W. MERRILL. THE APPOINTMENT MEETS WITH GENERAL FAVOR IN RICHMOND HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE BOARD BUT A FEW MONTHS. Frank L. Watt has been re-appointi democratic, member of the local (board of metropolitan police commissioners. This appointment was made by Governor llauly. Watt was first appointed to this office a few months ago to succeed C. W. Merrill, who re. signed as commissioner nearly a year , previous, to accept a position on the board of public works. The polico board is now composed of Edgar Hlatt, E. K. Shera and Frank U Watt. The appointment meets with favor. HOMECOMING FOR MANY Many Young Men Former Res idents Here. There were a large number of former well known Richmond young men in the city Christmas. Among them were Gaar Williams, assistant cartoonist of the Chicago News, Fred Johnson, head of the Indiana University school of journalism, Clem Thistlethwaite of Pittsburg, Burt Marshall of Maeedon. N. Y., John G. Starr of Cincinnati. Charles Jameson oi Indianapolis, Griffith Ellis of Chicago, Edson Cook of Chicago, Roscoe Cook of Indianapolis, Clifford Bradbury ot Chicago, Ed Dickinson of Jacksonville. 111. JANUARY TERM BEGINS NEXT WEEK January 15 Has Been Set as Date. TRIAL DATES ARE SET. The circuit court was In session this morning, but there was but little business transacted. A week from today the court will formally convene for the January term. The first two weeks there will be but Utile work other than calling the docket and setting dates for trials. THE DAY WAS QUIET No Arrests Made Christmas Day. , POLICE COURT VAS QUIET. I There were no arrests made Christmas by the police and as a result everything was as quiet at tbe police headqnarters this morning as a June !day in the country. BANKER jS ARRESTED i Depositor Complained Against Him. Duranso. Colo.. Dec. 25. Cfcprles E. .McConnell. presided of the Smelter City bank, which closed Its doors Dec. 17, was placed under arrest tonight upon complaint ot a depositor.