Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1904 — Page 7

THE World's Fair at St. Louis will the greatest exposition ever held. The superlative adjective Describing this exposition i* used with authority. The acreage of the Loitisi.um . I Include the combined acreage of the World's (.’olunibian..Exposliion at ,Clii-, cago iu 1893, the Paris exposition in -1889 and the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo in 1900, with space enough left over to accommodate an exposition like that of Omaha of Atlanta or Charleston. Upon these 1,240 acres has been bujlt tin asr scmldage o.f edifices 'surpassing in architectural splendors "ihe grandeur that reas Greece and the glory that was Koine.“ Within these buildings is being installed a universal collection of the products of nature and man. more comprehensive, more diversified, more interesting to the. average human than ever tvas attempted before in* the. history of die iae*. -—The World's Fair at St. Lottis is far greater than was contemplated by its creators, it has been estimated that at least thirty per cent of the extent of this exposition has been added to file original conception, the promoters <d the enterprise merely promising at the outset 'that, they 'would build an exposition larger and more universally inclusive titan any predecessor. The enterprise lias grown by involuntary accretion. Like a snowball set rolling, it has gathered size and solidity, until it now is crystallized into a thing of such immensity that even the men who set rhe ball a-roliing marvel at its magnitude. Great Exposition Site. The exposition- sitwds-a mile and a quarter by a mile and thrre-qtnrrters- in extent. Six miles of fence enclose the grounds. The Intramural Railway, op-

GOLDENROD,” PALACE OF EDUCATION.

erntNl by eh*Hri<4fy. which has just boon completed, has fourteen miles of track; it runs around the exposition as a licit line, with loops to take passengers into the midst of the magnificence here ami there, ami there arc seventeen stations nt which the sightseer may got aboard or alight. The World's Eair has nineteen exhibit palaces. The outdoor exhibits include several features of striking novelty* and extent that never have been seen at any exposition. Among these may be men-

SOUTHERN FACADE, PALACE OF VARIED INDUSTRIES—COVERS FOURTEEN' ACRES.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

It costs $2,740 to kill n man In war. Jews jire barred froi'ti Siberia as'tiding undesirable settlers. There are 2.535 licensed automobiles in the State of New York. There are 230 glaciers In the Alps that are suW to lie over tlve miles In length. St. Petersburg Ims the highest death rate for any European capital, 51 P«T 1,000. * - ,

GREATNESS OF THE ST. LOUIS WORLD’S FAIR

Chicago, Paris and Buffalo Expositions Could Be Swallowed Up in It, with Room Left for Omaha, Atlanta or Charleston.

BY ROBERTUS LOVE.

Honed the Mining Gulch of eleven acres, situated in a natural ravine runningout frdm the edge of the main picture of the exposition, where ’the processes of mining and reducing the various metals of coinbe demonstruted daily..at. model mines and furnaces in actual operation: the physical culture section,

PALACE OF MACHINERY—THIS BUILDING COVERS TEN ACRES.

vlmrir iiichtdes a for gymnasium exhibitions and an outdoor stadium like tlrose of ancient Greece, where wHI-be-hehl the quadrennial Olympian games and many other notable athletic c ontests; the rose garden < f six acres; in which will he in bloom 50,0(10 roses of various hues; the Aerial Convojtrse, —firmi which greah- airships tr im various countries will start upon the contest for the grand prize of S2OO,(MM> ajal a number of lesser prizes; tire Sunken Garden between two of the grand exhibit palaces; the Gardens of the Nations, several foreign countries having reproduced, iqsin the liberal allotment of gr.ujnd surrounding their government I iijidings, some of the famous gardens of their chief cities or monarchical estates. Features of Enormous Magnitude. Another feature* of enormous magnitude 'which no other exposition has known, even on a small scale, is the Philippine island# Exposition—aptly termed an exposition within an exposition. This occupies forty acres and in- < hides a group of buildings having names familiar to those of the main exposition —Education, Agriculture. Ethnology, Government and the like. One thousand natives of the islands will live in this Filipino reservation during the World's Fair, carrying on the occupations in which they engage at home, so that the neneral visitor may observe here in St. Louis a considerable bit of the life and e nterprise* of the far off archipelago. A leprodpeticm of a part of the walled city of Manila is one of the interesting features of this enterprise, and there are huts and shacks ami large buildings constructed by the natives themselves, of native bamboo and nipa, and outfitted with native household utensils and furniture. There is more than a mile's length of pictpresque lagoons, upon which the "Venetian gondolier will push the Venetian gondola. Festival Hall, the central architectural feature of the has a dome larger than that of the cathedral

No Longer a Waste.

Leather waste Is no longer wasted. Manufacturer use It in a compressed wheels.

The Empty Box.

• Miss Verisopht—“Why wasn't Mrs. Tlrirabump nt the Opel's Inst night, I wonder?” * Miss Verjuice—“She had such n cold thfit she couldn't siieiik uliove a whisper, so of course there was no use in bor aoiutg."—Judge.

of St. "Teter, and there is being .set up within this home of music the largest pipe organ ever constructed. The Cascade Gardens are new to expositions. Terraced hillsides leading down from Festival Hall jind the Colonnade of States to the Grand Basin, or lagoon, are fitted with stately stairways, whose bal-

uslrades' and landings support statues by the world's most famous sculptors; and down the slopes rush and.roar the wiiiers from splendid fountains, leaping and splashing over artificial cascade constructions.

Government Well Represented. 'The United States government is represented' aS neAT*rl>efoi‘e. Therh is a main Government building in which all the administrative and executive departments of the government will show exhibits, and the Smithsonian Institution and other governmental enterprises of general interest will have space. There Is a separate building devoted to fisheries, in which the United States Fish Commission is to make an exhibit of living fishes and other water foods and commercial products, from the minnow to the whale. There is an Indian exhibit wilii a separate building, wherein Will be

PALACE OF LIBERAL ARTS.

■ (Corner entrance. The doorway Is 90 feet high and the building covers nine acres.) ■ * — : --——- ————————— Indian Schools in open session, and alltribes of the red man will be represented elhnologieully and otherwise The Alaska exhibit will astonish -the world, in showing the marvelous agricultural resources of Uncle Sam's “farthest north” territory. The government also has extensive exhibits of the life-saving sert ice, the army and navy armament stnd Vessels, the Bureau of Plant Industry, tie Agricultural College, forestry and other branches of industry and enterprise. A, ground map of the United States, covering several acres and showing each State growing its most distinctive crops, is one special feature. Forty-seven States and territories of .the United States are participating in the fair. All but three or four of these have Hepiirute buildings. Some of tlie Slate buildings are as large ami elegant as exhibit palaces at an ordinary exposition. More than .SG,<MMi.I)OO is the aggregate of appropriation for State'and territory participation. Fifty foreign governments are taking part in tills World’s Fair. Most of them will have buildings of their own. ■♦limy of these foreign buildings are Completed ami others are going up rapidly. Germany, Great Britain, France. Japan, Russia, Brazil, Belgium and other nations have erected buildings larger and more ornate than*any foreign government structures ever seen at an exposition

ALL OVER THE WORLD.

An ostrich farm will be exhibited by Arizona at the next World's Fnlr. .A num in Manchester. England.,hns Invented an electric pickpocket alarm. The United Htutes uses alsmt u third more coffeST than ail the rest of the. world. ' Every rural school In Sweden jMisscsffes a garden. In which the student* receive practical Instruction tn hortl'-nlture. . <

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Ex-Sheriff and Stepson Fight Duel in House—Girl Driven from Homs Attempts Suicide—Little Gifts Killed by Cloudburst—Fire in Princeton.

Lancaster D. Baldwin, president of the Baldwin Oil and Gas Company, san exsheriff, had a desperate duel with his stepson, Burt- Ritter, at the Baldwin home in Marion. Baldwin used a re-, volver, while Ritter used a shotgun. Neither man was severely hurt, though several shots were fired. The duel took place in tlie library. ’ Baldwin is said to have fired the first shot, tlie bullet missing the head of Ritter only an inch. Ritter seized a shotgun and fired at Baldwin, the charge of shot tearing, a' threeinch ■ hole through a door within two inches of Baldwin's neck, some of the "shot rebounding and taking effect in Baldwin’s head. Baldwin shot .again, tlie bullet missing Ritter, and then rushed from the bouse. As he passed, out Bitter shot again. ,|>uß Baldwin slipped on tlie ice and fell ami the shot passed

Driven from lifer Home. ■ Della Muncie, 18 years, old, residing near Asherville, walked to Brazil, a distance of ten'miles, itnd was nearly frozen. She said her father quarreled with her and drove her from home into tlie snow, when tlie thermometer was hovering aromid zero.- Sin- went to the home of her uncle, Jacob Lance. in 'Brazil, where she took morphine with suicidal intent. ' When the physician was summoned,- she knocked tlie medicine from his hand. She was controlled by force and remedies were applied. Too Many" Rural Mail Routes. The citizens of Chesterville. Sparta, Crozier and Wilmington are aroused over an effort to abolish their postoilices and have rural route No. 4. from Aurora, substituted. A remonstrance is being prepared against the change. The remonstrators say that their present star route system is efficient. Farmers along the line admit that the rural routes are in most cases a good tiling, but they add that they are being overdone. Cloudburst Kills Two Girls, In a'cloudburst at Wheeling the cabin of Daniel Barrett, a farmer, was" wrecked. Barrett, carrying his baby in his arms, left the cabin followedl by lilswife, two daughters and one ..son. The two daughters, .aged 4 and 7 years,, became separated-from the parents and the next morning their bodies were found hanging on a barbed wire fence. The son, aged 9 years, was found on a stump unconscious. Loss tn Princeton Fire. Fire at Princeton completely destroyed the general store of Agar Brothers & Co., with .contents, and badly, damaged the Baber Hotel adjoining. The loss was $15,000, with SB,OOO insurance. All books and papers of the Hoosier Oil Company were destroyed. Low water pressure is -given as one cause for the progress .of the fire.

Drinks Laudanum and Dies. Thomas B. Scelyc, a farmer near Goodland, committed suicide in the Royal Hotel in Chicago, according to the police, by drinking laudanum. Financial reverses are said to be responsible. That he intended ending his life was made known in a letter sent to George Fox, a neighbor. State Items of Interest. Alta Stoddard is the new postmaster at TJutterville. Potatoes are selling for $2 a bushel in some parts of the State. Cass County schools will not make an exhibit at the world's fair. John J. Lowrey has been appointed postmaster at Montezuma. Columbus has had more of the beautiful this winter than in fifty years before.

Fire destroyed Tilden Stewart’s barn and several horses, near Brookston. J,os', $7,000. Ilerrod Bradfotf-1, 72, fell dead nt Columbus, while returning home from the funeral of a friend. The Panhandle is operating between Indianapolis and Columbus two of the Vandalia’s large Atlantic type locomotives. The engines are new and the Panhandle is testing the power. ‘ Julius Conitz, a Laporte banker who failed three years ago. for SIOO,OOO, is dead of hemorrhage at Blue Grass, N. I). His assets netted 50 per cent and he since paid nearly all his remaining indebtedness.

The recent storm caused sad dernngeinent of schedules on Indiana railroads. Buried in the deep drifts of snow, trains on nearly every road were objects of search. Armies of section men, accompanied by powerful snowplows, went to the aid of many h/ld prisoner. In several instances the trains had been held fast for several hours before assistance came, and there was much suffering among the passengers. Not for pmny yenrs had the traffic of the State been more completely at a standstill. With the theomometer registering four degrees below zero, passengers on a Lake Erie and Western train spent nine hours in a great drift near Miami. A blinding storm prevented any attempt to seek aid, and it was not until a patrol of section mc.n came on the scene that the presence of the snowbound train was known. Fifty section men and four engines released the train. Three passenger trains on the Vandalia ran into a deep drift near Cut ler. Five engines were sent to the rescue. but they could make no impression on the drift. After several hours a small army of section men succeeded in releasing the trains. Grover Eichner of Colorado, heavily interested in copper industries, off the Wabash limited train in Hammond while on route to N’eW York and win badly injured. William Young. GO years old. Nashville. hunter and trapper, accidentally wot.nded a few days ngo, having shot hili self in tlq; nukle wliik ofc one of his expeditions, is dead of his wound. Z.u inventor nt South Bern, snys he wilt sei»l President Rookcvelt a bulletpro«vf Vent, nnd the President any* ho nerar ordered such an appliance, does bo* want it and will not wear it If seui.

NEUTRALITY PROCLAMATION.

President Warns United States Citizens and Assures Diplomats. The neutrality proclamation issued by PresidedJtaosevelt...is about as 'complete a declaration as could be conceived. It reiterates general principles between nations, warns all citizens of.the United Stales not to aid either side, defines the rights of all neutrals on sea. and makes tlie usual declaration that ships of cither belligerent shall not remain in a port of ihj United States except in cases of great emergency for more than twentyfour hours.

For the express benefit of the Russians special attention is called bo the treaty between the United States and the Czfir's government signed. fifty years ago, in which it is declared free -hips .-li'.ill make free goods and that the property ot’ neutrals,, even if on an enemy's ship, shall pot be subject “to ermtiscati.m ti ll less the same siiall-be contraband of war. Unusual stress has been 1 i;d .in. the proclamation upon the; section warning citizens nf the. United States that they must not enlist or aid personally either one of the nations ;i t. w:u\ Neutrality is not violated- by the seiliiil- of mills pr munitions of war cithir to Japan or to Russia, but neutrality is violated by any. attempt to enlist for -yeiwicc in the armies of either country or rot t'ftrf Wen in the. United States who are. to light in the army or navy either i-.i'.J.ip'au or "Ku-sin; Persons .who do this ;m'. likely' to be punished by the United Stales govern-, ineiit, and persons who carry munitions' .of war on high seas dp so at their peril, for such articles are contraband <ii' war,' and if seized at sen. even if carried by* a neutral ship, wiil he confiscated, and the government of'th e United States will not make tlie slightest effort lo'lecover damages for the owner.

Hay’s Ncgotntions. Secretary Huy in his negotiations, first of all sent individual diplomatic feelers to France, Germany and Great Britain, suggesting that the Chinese empire proper, by which; of course, he meant territory exclusive of tlie scat of wmy which 4SvM»nehiirhi and Koren, should, not be considered as tlie subject hr dispute, but that it should be preserved intact by joint action of neutral powers, and for this purpb.se its absolute neutrality should be guaranteed to them. A favorable reply to ibis was received from all three great powers which took an important part in the restoration of order and the- rescue of diplomats at Pekin in 1900. Having secured this informal assurance of moral support, the Secretary next forwarded an identical note to Russia and Japan suggesting they should join with "neutral imlitimr not in"the "agreement, but in tlie general understanding that hostilities in Manchuria and Korea should not lie considered as preliminary to the partitifllF of tlie Chinese empire itself. Still the third step was taken when the governments of France, Germany and Great Britain sent the same kind of a note to Russia and Japan. Thereupon Secretary Hay immediately -enlarged the. sphere of his diplomatic activity, and- sent his notes regarding the neutrality and integrity of China to Italy, Austria-Hungary, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands. <

Subsequently the idea of localization of hostilities was submitted directly to Russia and Japan, and it seems that in St. Petersburg and Paris there has been constant confusion between an attempt to limit hostilities to the natural sphere of action and concurrent action by neutral nations to keep Chino out of the fight and therefore out of the danger tof dismemberment. Japan has agreed to accept everything suggested by Mr. Hay. It is Russia which is holding back. France, an ally of Russia, is quite willing to take action to secure .the neutrality of China, but .is not yet quite ready to admit that the Chinese empire itself may not be made a proper subject of a treaty of peace between Russia ami Japan. The representatives of Japan and Russia were assured it was not the purpose of ihe State Department to interfere i 4 any way with actual military operations. The sole suggestion made by Mr. Hay was that the armies should confine their attention to the things in dispute, and should hot go wandering nil over Asia, devastating neutral countries while ostensibly running away from or pursuing the enemy. The readiness with which Mr. Hay’s views have been taken up by European nations, even including France, seems to show that they are suspicious of both Japan and Russia, and are anxious to have some guarantee that they will not, under the guise of a treaty of peace between each other, Swallow up both Korea and Manchuria and leave the great neutral nations to hold the bag. ,

THE RAILROADS

A surveying party is now engaged in defining the smite of the second Siberian railroad. The. Western Passenger Association has re-elected the outgoing executive committee without change. The Union Pacific has met nt junction points the recent Nebraska grain rate reduction made by tlie Chicago and Northwestern. President L. ,F. I.oree of the Rock Island lias decoded to remove the executive headquarters of the Rock Island system to Chicago. The Great Northern Express Company has taken out n policy with nn indemnity company for SIOO,OOO to protect it ngainst train robberies. The current issue of the book of the Royal Blue states that the home 01 transportation exhibits at the Ixiuisiani Purchase Exposition has just been completed by the contractors, having dimensions 559x1.300 feet, nnd covering an area of 15.5 acres', having been erected at a cost of $002,000. Tlie Southern Pacific; through its agents of the land and immigration department in Texas, Louisiana, Indiana, Illinois, lowa and other Staten in the North and East, sold over 1,500,000 scree aland in Texgs and Ixiuisiafia during e‘ fear 1902.

SENATOR HANNA DEAD

HE EXPIRES IN WASHINGTON OF TYPHOID FEVER. After Combatting Disease for Ten Days, the Ohio Senator and Leading Republican Politician. I’aaae* Away at His Hotel in Waahicgton.

Senator Marcus A. Hanna is dead, having .iariu'iHe.l to lypr.oid fever after a gallant light against the disttttso. Senator Hanna's death occurred in Washington after an of ten days.—When first .taken with the fever the physicians thought the outlook favorable for his recovery,, although it was that tlie Senator’s advanced age and liis rheumatic -conditions made the case, a m<q-e serious one than ill a younger man.. Mr. Hanna himself felt hopeful of recovery, and iiis indomitable will power of itself seemed for a lime to tliwiu-t death. The faipily and friemlu on Sunday practically gave up hope and awaited the end. He had made a gallant fight, but he had a severe.- sinking spell during the morning, from which he oiily partly rallied. Again early in the afternoon Mr. Hanna suffered another collapse, which the attending-physicinns were - unable to cothbat sm-ecs<fiilly. Oxygen and the .strongest, stimulants were resorted to, but with unsatisfactory results. Practically 'all <lay tlie Hanna family and its

SENATOR M. A. HANNA.

intimate friends , were gathered around the sick led anxiously watching Ute patient's progress. The corridors and lobby of lho Arlington hotel were crowded with people ■ discussing Senator.. Hanna’s illness. A c-bnsTant stream of callers camo to inquire regarding the Senator's condition. President Roosevelt was one of these, and upon Lis arrival nt the hotel \vas immediately shown into the family apartment, where he conversed for ten minutes witii Mrs. Hanna and. received from her the latest information as to Mr. IL tuna’s condition.

Sunday night it was felt that the Senator's condition had reached an acute stage ami the family made pit partitions for the worst. Becoming exhausted through ceaseless watching and waiting, they retired late in the night, but at 4 o’clock in the morning, following a sinking spell, which made it apparent that the distinguished patient was nearing his end, the family were roused and entered she sick chamber, in the meantime messages were sent to Gov. Herrick, Gen. Dick, Senators Scott and Kittredge, William Nelson Grom well and others, advising them of Mr. Hanna's critical condition ami shortly thereafter they had (assembled in a room adjacent to that in which the Senator lay. President Roosevelt was notified. Through the early morning hours and during the forenoon they watched the spark of life go out.

OUR AUXILIARY ARMY.

ICxtensivc Measures Being Taken to Whip the Militia Fnt > Shape. Twenty new'military attaches have just been appointed by the President to serve at the.capitals of as many States and Territories. Their business will be to instruct our new auxiliary army, which has been created by act of Con-”' gress, and to see that it is brought up to a maximum degree of idliciency for war. This army will number about 125,000, and will prove a powerful auxiliary force in case of trouble with a foreign power. Congress Ims decreed that within four years from the present date the entire force must be organized, disciplined and equipped in all respects exactly like our regular troops, ami $2,000,<100 has been made at once available for the purchase and manufacture of a first installment of the requisite ritles ami other material. By the same legislative enactment the great body of fighting men thus brought under direct Federal supervision, though it will continue to be known as the "militia” of the States and Territories, is transformed actually into a provisional branch of the regular unity of the United States.

It is a wholly novel departure. The militia of the country is no longer to l>e heterogeneous congeries of more or less defectively trained bodies of citizen soldiery, but a thoroughly drilled and well instructed army, provided with the best obtainable weapons ami equipments, and in readiness at any time hvtnke the field at a day’s notice, in response to a summons by the President. In time of peace the organizations composing this army are controlled by "the States ami Territories. but in case of war they will be immediately available us part of the Federal forces. The new army which Congress thus places nt the service of the country consists of 107.422 enlisted men and 9,120 commissioned officers. With a view to transformin'* tMj great mass of troops into a complete aud efficient whole, the militin of all the Stales nnd Territories has been placed under the direct supervision and general management of the War Department. Authority over the citizen soldiery has not been taken away from the Governors of the States, but it is to be trained under the Federal ey4, provided with arms and equipments, by the government, and kept continually under watch in order to be sure that every regiment and com* pany is in condition at any minnte to take ths field «