Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. OEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. _ ■■ _ , RENSSELAER, - • INDIANA.

OUSTS THE SETTLERS

MINNESOTA FARMERS MUST BUY LANDS OR LEAVE. Supreme Court Awards 30,000 Acres of Kailroad Land to Kussell SageCold and Stormy Weather Has Bad Effect on Retail Trade. By a decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court Russell Sage comes into possession of about 30,000 acres of land in Stearns County, and settlers who have resided on the land from twenty to twen-ty-five years will have to vacate or buy the land, which has become very valuable. The suit was brought by Dave Crowley and other settlers against the claim of Russell Sage to title to the property as assignee in trust of the lands of the Hastings and Dakota Railway. The franchise of the railroad was forfeited by a judgment of the Supreme Court. The settlers understood and were advised that the forfeiture of franchise involved a forfeiture of the entire land grant, but from the ruling made by Justice Lewis it appears that so much of the land as the road. Ijad actually earned became its property, which was then transferred to Russell Sage, in trust for the stockholders of the road. Some, if not a majority of the settlers, are in comfortable circumstances and have brought their farms under a high state of cultivation. They have never paid for the land nor paid taxes. It is said that Mr. Sage will take steps to dispossess them, and the settlers claim they will carry the case to the Supreme Court of the United States on the contention that the completion of the, road was not a fultillmcnt of its pledgee: that it was a land-grab scheme, and thaf none but the original stockholders ever benefited. HOPE FOR SUNNI SKIES. Retail Traders Discouraged by Recent Unseasonable Weather. Bradstreet's says: Unseasonable weather has been the key of the general situation this week, discouraging as it has been to retail trade in the cities and country districts alike and retarding the growth of most crops, but particularly corn and oats in the northern half of the country and cotton at the South. Withal, however, there is a feeling prevalent that a few weeks of warm, sunny weather, a decided lack of which has so far been noted this spring, would do much to place matters, commercial and agricultural, in as good or better condition than a year ago. The week has been without much change, except that a rather better spirit has been visible in the industrial situation and that some progress has been made toward a settlement of existing labor troubles. PROGRESS OF THE RACE. Standing of League Clubs in Contest for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. New York... 16 9St. Louis.... 15 17 Philadelphia 18 13 Brooklyn ....14 16 Cincinnati ..17 13Boston 11 15 Pittsburg ...17 15Chicago 12 22 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....24 11 Boston 13 14 Washington. 16 11 Philadelphia. 15 V Detroit 20 14 Milwaukee ..12 20 Baltimore ...14 12Cleveland ... 8 23 Hall of Fame Is Dedicated. The Hall of Fame on University Heights, New York, for whose foundation Miss Helen Gould is credited with having contributed SIOO,OOO, was formally thrown open to the public, and its twenty-nine bronze commemorative tablets unveiled amid impressive ceremonies. Chauncey M. Depew was the orator. Fifteen Men Lost at Sea. Fifteen fishermen are supposed to have been drowned in a wild squall off Charleston, S. C., while the “mosquito fleet’’ of fishing boats was anchored off the “eastern patches.” The eight boats at the time were scattered to the four winds and all save three are accounted for.

Death on the Trolley Cars. Three heavily loaded trolley cars on the new People's Street Railway in Wilmington, Del., ran away while going down a steep hill, killing one man, fatally injuring another and hurting twen-ty-five others more or less seriously. French Explorers Killed. A telegram from Cuzco announces that the French explorers MM. Reveaux and Le Monier have been assassinated by an Italian named Gianone. in the Valley of Convencion, Peru. Ginnone was afterward killed by savage Indians. Double Murder t'nd« Fend. News has reached Weatherford, Ok., of a double killing at Berlin. Olan Chaffin shot and killed Dr. McGee, after which he committed suicide. McGee had charged Chaffin with killing some horse* and Chaffin was indicted. Jnmer A. Herne fa Dead. James A. Herne, the well-known actor and playwright, died at his home in New York of acute bronchitis and pneumonia after an illness of more than two months. Italv’a Queen n Mother. Queen Helena ot Italy has given birth to a daughter. The young princess will receive the names of Yolanda Margherita. . Nine Hurt in-a Collision. By a collision between a car on the United Traction Company's line and a train on the McKeesport aud Belle Vernon branch of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad at McKeesport, Pa., nine people were seriously injured, one perhips fatally. Fatal Explosion in n Mine. An explosion occurred at the Coryell mine at Newcastle, Colo., by which two men were instantly killed and eight others injured. It is believed the explosion was caused by an accumulation of gas.

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

SAVES SHIP FROM BURNING. Steamer Hennepin Has a Narrow Escape from Destruction. The steamer Hennepin of the Soo line, bound from Buffalo to Gladstone with a cargo of general merchandise, was on fire in Lake Michigan for eight hours and was only saved from complete destruction by the assistance rendered by the steamer Cuba. The crew of the Cuba noticed a vessel on fire when off Seul Choix point, in Lake Michigan, and their steamer was at once headed toward it. They found the Hennepin burning around the engine room and the smoke. was so thick that the engineers had been ‘ driven from their posts. The Cuba took a line from the burning steamer and started to tow it toward the straits of ; Mackinaw. The Hennepin’s crew worked I manfully to save their boat, however, and when near Wapgoshance they succeeded in putting the fire out. The blaze had originated under the boilers and the deck beams of the boiler deck, four in number, with stringers and stanchions, were destroyed. After the crevV of the Hennepin had declayed that they needed no further help the Cuba was turned toward the straits again and the Hennepin started for Gladstone. KNIFE GIVES DUMB BOY SPEECH. Jacob Pulver Loses an Eye, bat Is Able to Talk. Surgeons are puzzled over the remarkable recovery of speech by Jacob Pulver, who had been dumb since birth, but through a knife flung by his sister’s hand recovered the power of speech. Pulver, who is 14 years old, resides near Fultonville, N. Y. His sister, in a fit of anger, threw a knife at him and her aim proved good, the blade penetrating the eyeball. Up to this time he had been afflicted with an impediment in his speech. Dr’. Knistern was called and decided that an operation would be necessary to save the boy’s eye and probably his life. He was placed under the influence of opiates on the operating table and the injured member removed. When he recovered consciousness were astonished to see him sit up and begin talking. The operation had removed the impedi meat which had caused his dumbness, and though he will be partially blind, he has been compensated by fully recovering his speech. SHOT TO DEATH BY TRAMPS. Policeman’s Son Killed While Helping Arrest the Vagrants. At Carrollton, Mo., Charles McKinney, a son of Policeman McKinney, was shot and killed at 2 o’clock the other morning while assisting his father to arrest a gang of tramps. Three of the gang were arrested and placed in jail. Half a dozen others escaped and were pursued by the sheriff and a posse to a point three miles south of Carrollton, where they were surrounded. Here a lively fight ensued, the tramps exchanging shots with the posse. Two more of the tramps were finally rounded up, but not before the sheriff’s horse was shot from under him. The others escaped to the woods. Prof. Herron and Mias Rani Marry. Announcement is made of the marriage of Prof. George D. Herron and Mias Carrie Rand, the ceremony having been performed in the apartments of Charles Brodie Patterson of New York. Rev. William T. Brown, pastor of Plymouth Church, Rochester, N. Y., performed the ceremony, which was extremely simple, there being no vows taken by either party. Crew Leaps from Burning Vessel. The American ship R. D. Rice, which arrived at Kobe from Philadelphia April 10, was totally destroyed by fire a few days later, together with 35,000 cases of kerosene. She had discharged 25,000 cases. The crew jumped overboard, swimming to the British ship Dumfrieshire, lying close by. Boat Is Blown to Atoms. The Laurine, a 14-ton freight boat plying between Booneville, Mo., and Rocheport on the Missouri liver for the new railroad, is a complete wreck, having been blown to atom* by explosives stored on board, and two laborers are believed to have been killed. Negro Burned at the Stake. Fred Rochelle, a negro, 35 years old, who murdered Mrs. Rena Taggart, a prominent white woman of Bartow, Fla.. was burned at the stake in the presence of a great throng. The burning was on the scene of the negro's crime. Fatal Boating Accident. A rowboat, containing a merry party of eight young persons, was swept over Flat Rock dam in the Schuylkill river and seven of them—five girls and two boys were drowned. The victims were all Philadelphians. Shoots Herself in Tul pit. Miss Agnes Long, at Sycamore, Ind., shot herself through the heart in the Methodist Church pulpit. She went to the church alone for organ practice. The l>oily was discovered by her brother For a Creed Summary. In adopting the majority report of the committee on creed revision the Presbyterian general assembly went on record formally ns favoring a new summary of the confession. Morocco Snbmitn to France. Morocco complied with all the demands of France in regard to the Algerian Morocco frontier dispute and the outrages Inflicted on Ftjpneh subjects. Population of Australasia. The new census returns give the population of Australasia at 4,550.651. This is an increase of 740,756 since the last enumeration. Train Wrecked by Dynamite. A Great Northern freight train collided Iwith a dynamite car at Tacoma, Wash. The engine and train were totally destroyed.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 'to $5.80; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.95; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.65; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; coin. No. 2,42 cto 43c; oats, No. 2,28 c to 29c; rye. No. 2,51 cto 52c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 11c; potatoes, 42c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattie, shipping, $3.00 to $5.60; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.80; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to" $4.00: wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.65: wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn. No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. / Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.80; sheep,' $3.00 to $4.15; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c corn, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; rye. No. 2,58 cto 59c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.80; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white. 30c to 31c; rye, 55c to 56c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye. No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $6.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 3,41 cto 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 1,53 c to 54c; barley, No. 2,54 cto 55c; pork, mess, $14.62. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.90; hogs, fair to prime. $3.00 to $6.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3“.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra,. $4.50 to $5.75. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $6.20; hogs, $3.00 to $6.20; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2, 49c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, western, 12c to 13c.

SAFE BLOWERS GET $4,000, Rob Bank at Bradner, Ohio, and Escape on Hand Car. The Bradner branch of the Mechanics Bank of Fostoria, Ohio, was wrecked by robbers about 1:30 on a recent morning and $4,000 stolen. Two charges of high explosives were used by. the robbers, the first blowing the outer door off the vault and the second opening the strong box. Night Watchman J. H. Denny discovered the men and fired two shots at them, which they returned. They then escaped on a Hocking Valley handcar. The building presents a shattered appearance, the entire glass front having been blown out and the doots being in the cellar. The walls also w?re cracked by the force of the explosion. It was the rule to keep but $2,000 in the branch bank, but owing to the illness of one of the clerical force the money had been allowed to accumulate. The loss is fully covered by insurance against burglars. Generous to Columbus, Ohio. It was announced at the annual commencement of the Columbus. Ohio, Art School that Emerson McMillen of New York had offered to give a site valued at $30,000 and a sum not to exceed SIOO,000 for the erection of an art museum, providing an equal amount was raised by the people of Columbus by popular subscription. Leaps to Death from Bridge. Ted Lorberg, 32 years old, a shoemaker, despondent because he was threatened with consumption, jumped from the east end of the Eads bridge, at St. Louis. He had not gone far enough out on the bridge to be over water, however, aud he fell on a box car on a track near the river bank eighty feet below. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. Fight Robbers) Saves “L” Cash. A Metropolitan ticket agent made a desperate fight against holdup men in Chicago and saved al! but $4 of the money in his office. The man is S. J. Powers. He was beaten almost into unconsciousness and his wrists and arms were cut by one of the robbers, but they were able to carry away but a small part of the SSO which was in the station.

Constitution Follows the Fing. In deciding the DeLima case against the federal government the United States Supreme Court held that the constitution followed the flag into Porto Rio, and that the island, at the time the duties were collected, was a territory of the United States, but not a part thereof within the revenue clause of the constitution. Nash Loses Use of Leg*. Gov. Nash of Ohio is suffering from nn accident which befell him near Denver. The physicians say that while in that high altitude a blood vessel burst either in his brain or spinal cord. The effect was to impair the use of his legs. The Governor is forbidden to leave his bed or make any exertion whatever. Strike of Miners Ends. A. Robertson & Co., operating the Corbin and Excelsior collieries at Shamokin, Pa., agreed to hereafter pay their employes semi-monthly, whereupon the strike of 1,000 men and boys was declared off. Quantity of Broomcorn Burne-I. Two hundred arid twenty-five carloads of broomcorn held for two years to frustrate a possible corner in that commodity were burned, together with a warehouse nt Eighty-first and Wallace streets, Chicago, entailing a loss of $220,000. Twenty-one Miners Kille'. At the Richland mine of the Dayton Coal and Iron Company, two miles from Dayton, Tenn., a terrific explosion of coal dust resulted In the death of twenty-one men, all white, and most of them married and with families.

YOUNG HEIRESS IS IN PERIL. Bold Extortioners Threaten Mary Shaw at Davenport, lowa. Mary Shaw, granddaughter of the late George S. Shaw, millionaire lumberman of Cloquet, Wis./'seems to by extortioners who are determined to secure a.portion of her money. Her father, E. A. Shaw, recently removed to Davenport from Atlantic, lowa, and the daughter has been attending a boarding school. Soon after arriving she received a letter demahdng that she procure from her father a sum of money, giving-direc-tions for depositing it where the writer could get it. The penalty of failure was to be an attack upon her married sister, ■Mrs. G. W. Mullins of Atlantic, that would deprive her of her eyesight. The girl showed the letter to her father and of course no response was ma<e to it. A few nights ago, as she was walking near her home, a man stepped from a place of concealment near the walk andmade a fresh demand that she procure the money and meet him at a place he appointed. The police were notified. The girl kept her tryst, but the bushes were so full of citizens and policemen that the robber probably took warning and fled. BRANDED BY BRUTAL HAZERS. New York Hisrh School Graduates Waylay Member Of Lower Class. The town of Batavia, N. Y., is excited over a case of brutal hazing. Great rivalry has long existed between the high school graduates anil the class of 1902, and the class fights have been most bitter. Things were brought to a climax the other night when John Swartz, a member of the graduating class, was waylaid in a lonely section of town, securely bound to a tree and his face painted with a mixture of acid and iodine, the figures “ ’O2” being clearly drawn on his left cheek. Blinded with pain, he was released and secured medioal aid in removing the stinging acids. The chances are that his face will always bear marks of the hazers’ brush. Throws Babes from Train. Mrs. Leontine Martinez, wife of a tenant on the Belle Alliance sugar plantation, pitched her two little girls from the rapidly moving train on the Bayou Lafourche, La., branch of the Texas and Pacific and then hurled herself after them in the belief that the train would not stop at her station. The 'babies are uninjured, but the mother's left foot is crushed and amputation will be necessary. Man Murdered by Robbers. Christian Stahl, a farmer living near Navarre, Ohio, was brutally murdered by two masked burglars, who broke into his house and demanded his money. Upon being refused, the burglars bound all the members of the family with ropes. After beating Stahl until Ire was unconscious the men left. There is no clew to the murderers. Ends Her Forty-Day Fast, Mrs. Aimed a G.ordonier of Toledo, 0., weighed 250 pounds when she began a fast on April 17, amFa few days ago she tipped the scales at 170 pounds, and says she never felt better in her life. She claims to have lived without partaking of a mouthful of solid food during all the time. Duluth Pavilion Destroyed 1 . The Incline Pavilion, a summer theater located at the top of «the bluff back of Duluth. 600 feet above the city, burned. involving a loss of SBO,OOO, insured for ’517,500. The fire was beyond the reach of water, and the whole city witnessed the great frame structure go up in a most spectacular blaze. Old Railroad tn B- Effaced. It is announced that the consolidation on July 1 of the Kansas City, Fort Scott ami Memphis and the ’Frisco railways will mark the complete effacement of the former road. The name of the new property will, it is said, be styled the St. Louis and San Francisco. Fur Seals in Antarctic. The schooner Edwin Roy arrived at Halifax, N. S.. from Cape Horn after a successful sealing trip of eight months. The schooner brings 1,600 skins of fur seals, and reports seals numerous in the South seas and no other vessel engaged on the fishery.

Two Killed on Union Pacific. The second section of west-bound Union Pacific freight train No. 11 was wrecked three miles east of Sharon Springs, Kan. The engineer and brakeman were killed. The track for a distance of sixty feet had been washed out. and the engine and two cars went over an embankment. Killed in Celt nt Memphis. Alexander Peden, a well-known citizen of Pulaski. Tenn., was killed in a cell of detention nt the Memphis police station, and N. A. Gillis of Cumby, Texas, is under arrest charged with the crime. Both had been arrested for drunkenness. Against Fecret Society Members. United Presbyterian general assembly has adopted report of judiciary committee, declaring members of secret societies ineligible to membership in the church and expelling those already members. Finds Work for Convict*. At a conference attended by Wyoming and Nebraska Congressmen, Senator I Hetrick of Nebraska exploited a plan to employ State and federal convicts, in the construction of canals and reservoirs for arid lands. * ' Victim of Murder Found. The murdered body of an unknown man has been found in a sand-pit nerfi* Courtney, N. D., and the marshal and a constable are in pursuit of the suspected murderer. ’ Kill* Himself In Fiancee’* Presence. While calling oi/his fiancee. Miss Josephine Verrey. Ward Nelson Copp, a prominent young man of Viaeland. N. J., shot and killed himself. Miss Verrey say* that the shooting was accidental.

JAMES A. HERNE DEAD.

Noted Actor Passe* Away After Two Months’ 11l nets. James A. Herne, the actor and playwright, died Sunday afternoon at his New York home. The cause of death was pneumonia. He had been ill about two months, and was thought to be on the way toward recovery when a relapse came. It was while playing in “Sag Harbor” in Chicago that Mr. Herne was taken ill. His physicians said he had an attack of grip and they advised complete rest, and his return to his home in New York. When he arrived there pneumonia developed and a few weeks ago his friends thought the end was near. He rallied, however, and it was hoped that his vigorous constitution would pull him through. But when the relapse came it found him weak and he sank rapidly. Mr. Herne had a beautiful home in New York City, and was accounted wealthy. The body will be cremated. James A. Herne was born at West Troy, N. Y., in 1840. He received little education in early life, being largely self-

JAMES A. HERNE.

taught. He early started out to earn his own living. He was a clerk in a grocery store when an actor of the day, Joe Webb, supported by a small company and two St. Bernard dogs, came to West Troy‘to play “The Dog of Montargis." The actor who should have played the part of Macaire failed to appear. Herne learned of the need of the manager for an actor and volunteered. He not only did not break down, but went through the small role so creditably that he was engaged to continue in it. That was his beginning. Herne was in San Francisco in the late ’7o’s and wanted a play for himself, but could not get one. David Belasco suggested that he write it himself. With Belasco's aid “Hearts of Oak” was written. Herne’s next play was “Shore Acres.” It was written in 1891 and became remarkably successful. Other successful plays by him were “Sag Harbor” and “Griffith Davenport.”

SAYS HE IS ELIJAH.

Dowie Proclaims Himself a Reincarnation of the Prophet. It is now “Elijah III.” and no longer “Dr.” Dowie, the banker and real estate promoter. Sunday in Chicago, surrounded by thousands of his followers and curiosity seekers, he publicly proclaimed himself to be the reincarnation of Elijah. “I am Elijah, the prophet, who appeared first as Elijah himself, second as John the Baptist, and who now comes in me, the restorer of all things,” he declared to an audinece in the big Auditorium. “Elijah was a prophet and John was a preacher, but 1 combine in myself the attributes of prophet, priest an 1 ruler over men. Gaze on me, then; I say it without fear. Make the most of it, you wretches in ecclesiastical garb, and you agents and vipers of the press. lam he that is the living physical and spiritual embodiment of Elijah, and my coming on earth a third time has been prophesied by Malachi, by God, by His Son, Jesus, by Peter and, 3,000 years ago, by Moses. You who believe me in the very truth of this and accept me for what I say I am, stand up.” Then two-thirds of the audience which had crowded into the auditorium and had sat still for almost three hours waiting for this climax to the volley of vituperation and rantings of the “healer” stood up. All who stood did not sit down again, however. Hundreds when they got on to their feet and over their amazement walked out into the air. Everybody and everything- that Dowie is against, from the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and his American dignitaries to the devotees of medical science, the Alasonic order, the bankers, the laws and the press, came in for the denunciation, or “spanking,” as the "healer” choses to call his remarks. Next he gave an imitation of a goat, supposed to lie the one the Masons ride. "Before L forget it,” he shouted, “we must take np*’a collection for God.” “I am the only man on earth who is preaching the true covenant,” he continued while the contribution boxes were circulating. “Where else do you hear it preached?” “Nowhere,” came the answering emhorus of his followers. "Then take me as Elijah,” he proclaimed. "Those who scoff at me scoff at God. Ah! you miserable hounds of the press thought I would say I was Christ, but I am not. lam Elijah, the restorer of all things.” Many persons left the audience, according to a Chicago paper, saying thut Dowie was insane.

Brief News Items.

Floods rendered 500 persons destitute at Elizabeth and Watauga, Tenn. i Nearly 400 oil well companies have been 1 chartered in Texas the past three months. Since the departure of Gen. Alger for Carlsbad,. Germany, it has been reported that he is suffering with Bright s disease. Texas has nearly exhausted her supply of mules and horses, in an effort to furpish animals to the home and English governments. An effort will lie made to secure a par-, don for Ben Ali. known ns “Frenchy,” who was convicted of the murder of a woman called “Old Shakspearej in a New York hotel, ten years ago. There has been a slight falling off in the enlistments for the regular army since the withdrawal of that portion of the advertisement saying that recruits and new regiments were being enlisted for the Philippipes.

SEEK THE PRESIDENCY.

Foraker and Fairbanks Booms Ar* Launched by Their Friends. Washington special: The decision of the United States Supreme Coj*rt upholding the position of the administration in its treatment of the islands acquired in the war with Spain, has caused two presidential booms to be launched. Republican leaders regard the platform of their party for 19G4 as practically settled by the action of the Supreme Court. As arosqit Senator Foraker, author of the Borto Rico bill, is announced as a candidate. To offset this, Col. New of Indianapolis springs Senator Fairbanks! Theodore Roosevelt, in New York, is watching with jealous eye the preparations of his rivals to wrest from him the honor which he was given cause last year to regard as practically certain. Friends of Ohio’s senior Senator have taken immediate advantage of .the prominence into which his name has been brought by the formal opinions of the justices of the highest tribunal in the land. Before there has been time to digest the judicial opinions in the insular cases some of the practical politicians point out that the Presidents have been .made in the past by the circumstances of a fiame identified with some public measure. McKinley is cited as the most recent instance. The McKinley tar,ff act, they declare, installed McKinley in the White House. The Foraker tariff act, they say, may do as much for another man. Harry S. New, Republican National Committeeman from Indiana, and a power in Republican politics in thjat State, is authority for the statement that Indiana will stand solidly -behind its favorite son, Senator Fairbanks, for the Republican nomination as President in 1904. “The whole State of Indiana will be back of Senator Fairbanks at the next national convention,” he said. “With his nomination Indiana would be assured to the Republican party. At present, at least, he is the logical candidate for the party.” Theodore Roosevelt realizes that unless his campaign for the honor he covets is pushed along with vigor the advantage hie gained over his rivals in the glory he acquired as a Rough Rider will be lost. His preparations are being made, therefore, to fight during the three years intervening before 'the next convention with characteristic vigor to keep his name before the public. He will also begin at once to organize his forces to work quietly in his interest among the leaders of the party.

THE BOER WAR.

Has Degenerated from Earlier Stages of the Campaign. The war in South Africa between Briton and Boer still draws its weary length along, with widespread ruin and death its accompaniments.. The “parade to Pretoria” has proven a costly venture, and though the Transvaal capital was long ago entered by the British, the struggle shows little sign of ending. The guerilla tactics employed by the burghers, the matchless ability of Gen. De Wet and the grim resolve of the inhabitants to fight to the death for their independence have prolonged the struggle beyond all preconceived ideas. And with the prolongation has come deterioration in the spirit of warfare. The British have applied the reconeentrado policy of Weyler, of infamous Cuban memory, but in milder and more humane form. Nevertheless the face of the land has suffered. Buildings ,have been burned, crops destroyed, and recently the telegraphic wires carried the announcement of Gen. Kitchener’s intention of firing the grass of the veldt so the Boers might be deprived of the means of grazing their horses and cattle. The Boers’ tactics consist chiefly in swooping down upon isolated British posts, wrecking supply trains, whence the burghers add to their stock of arms, ammunition and clothing, and in looting stores kept by pro-British sympathizers. The stand-up-and-fight features of the earlier portion of the war are wanting.

The Comic Side of The news

Tillman’s pitchfork has a busy summer before it. General Dicker now has charge of that Chinese indemnity matter. The dry goods box constitutional lawyers can now tackle some new problem. Money and husbands are two things the Princess Chimay does not seem to know the value of. King Edward is the latest monarch to find that he cannot command the winds and the waves. Every day or so the Boers kindly go out and shoot an obscure British officer up into the peerage. Many of the delegates to the mothers’ congress, it appears, could prove an alibi if they were hard pressed. West Point students appear to think they are being shamefully treated if they are not allowed to run the place. Reports from Albany show that the most dangerous part one enn take during a riot is that of an innocent spectator. Wherever you See the flag planted, therefore, it is safe to conclude that the constitution is following not far behind. Poets, according to Prof. Starr, are degenerates. The poets should now be heard as to what the college professors are. Ragtime music may be all wrong, but do the musicians think the Spanish war could have been won without the aid of the tune concerning the hot time that was to come off in the old town that same evening? Susan B. Anthony says the woman suffrage movement is growing. She sees quite a difference since the time the organization consisted of herself and Lucy Stone. The political pull of the man who waited thirty-nine years to have the government allow a claim of must have been too small to be located with a microscope. The selling by the sheriff of an old bicycle plant in Indiana calls to mind the 1 fact that the bicycle was a machine in ' quite general use before the automobile 1 was invented.