Walkerton Independent, Volume 27, Number 29, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 February 1902 — Page 2

The Independent. ] W. A. ENDLEY, Publisher. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. eA L .. e S AN 0 TSR T EVENTS OF THE WEEK The World's Fair at St. Louis will have a little rival at Osaka in Japan in 1903. The government of the Mikado has just issued invitations to foreign powers to participate in the imperial exposition, and a special building will be erected for this particular purpose. The young son and daughter of Cleve Smith and Joseph Calvin, a hired man, were drowned while skating near Alki, Wash. Smith found their caps frozen in the ice. He broke the ice and with poles got the bodies out. Calvin recently came from Carmi, Il Five hundred persons, many in scant attire, fled from fire in Lindell Hotel, St. Louis, with the thermometer near to zero. All escaped unhurt and the hotel proper was saved by heavy fire walls, An adjoining building was destroyed, with loss of $1,000,000. Nine persons dead, three probably fatally burned, three seriously hurt in jumping from windows and ten others more or less injured were the result of a fire in an Italian tenement house on Fleet street, Boston. Seven of the dead are adults, three of them women, and the eighth is a child. ¥ While veturning home from the cemetery, where an hour before she had buried TWA by eMt o, RS, i - beautiful young Polish mother, was instantly killed by a fast mail train on the Michigan Central Railroad in Chicago. Two men who were riding in the same ? carriage were fatally crushed. The ten men of the command of Captain David D. Porter of the United © States marine corps who failed to return from the expedition into the interior of Samar when Captain Porter and twentysix members of his party reached the coast of that island are still missing, and little hope of their safe return is entertained.. Grover F. Locke, aged 13, son of S. Locke, a stockman and broker of Huntington, Ore., was frozen to death in a blizzard. His horse refused to face the storm, and young Locke started to travel the remaining distance to”his father's ranch on foot. He had gone only a short " distance when he fell face downward in the snow. His body was found by a searching party. The census bureau has issued a preliminary report on flouring and grist mill products. It makes the follpwing showing for 1900, with increases and decreases since 1890: Number of establishmients, 25,258, increase 37 per cent; capital, $218,714,104, increase 5 per cent; wage earners, average number, 37,073, decrease 22 per cent. Miscellaneous expenses, $10,325,588, decrease 22 per cent; cost of materials, $475,826,345, increase 10 per cent; value of products, $560,719,. 063, increase 9 per cent. A semnsational attempt at murder and suicide occurred in the court house at Wheeler, 8. D. Clyde Pattison had just ; been discharged in a case brought against him by Miss A. Seidler, the State having failed to prove his guilt. As the man turned to leave the room the girl drew a revolver and began firing. The first shot took effect in Pattison’s back. Seyeral other shots were fired, causing a panic in the court room and corridors. Seeing her victim fall, the young woman \ turned the weapon against herself ani inflicted a serious wound. BREVITIES, The Norwegian steamer Daggery : stranded near Cape Henry, Va., and the crew of seventeen men were taken off. Secretary L.ong has received a telegram announcing that Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, United States navy, retired, died at West Newton, Mass. Calvin A. Black, a Chicago traveling man, fell over the banister of a hotel stairway at Wichita, Kan., and was killed. His home was at Somerville, Mass. William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., who is retiring from literary work at Colorado Springs, is not under the care of a physician, and alarming reports of his condition are denied. The Ohio Supreme Court has rendered a decision sustaining the Garfield corrupt practices act in a case brought by L. A. Russell, who claimed that it did not apply to candidates for Congress. The government of Holland is now negotiating with the British government to | devise means of ending the pl‘u[l‘;h'tr'-]} South African war on honorable terms for both the English and the Boers. Seven firemen were caught under a falling wall in a fire which destroyed three frame business blocks at Brookfield, Mass., Two or three are seriously injured. The loss is about $15,000. George Smith, a well-known colored horse trainer who was brought to Montreal by Cyril Laurin from the United States last vear and was shot in a stable row by Laurin's son Edward, is dead. The residents of the little towr. of Chesterfield, located in an isolated portion of Bannock County, Idaho, are greatly excited over the appearance in that vicinity of an eight-foot, hair-covered human monster. The Dominion government has approved an issue of $20,000,000 capital stock of ‘he Canadian Pacific Railway subject to the sanction of the company’s share~———hotters—ire- proceeds are to be applied to improvements. Fire at Rat Portage, Man., destroyed the Hilliard House, a 100-room hotel; the Queen’s Hotel, an old landmark; Wilson’s marine stores and IFrank Gardner’s butcher shop. The loss is estimated to be over SIOO,OOO. S. M. Kimball of Apalachicola, Fla., president of the Apalachicola Lumber Company, committed suicide, it is supposed, on account of business troubles. ‘ Engineer Dorsey Welch of Albany was | killed and Fireman Cahill injuied in a | collision between the New York Central | limited and a switch engine at Oneida, | Ny ‘ A 42-pound gold nugget worth upward | of SIO,OOO is reported to have been found | In California Gulch, one of the tributa : ries of the famous Alder Guleh in Madi- | son County, Mont., wh Il first ' digscovered in Montana in 1863 EASTERN. John D. Rockefeller has given SIOO,000 to the endowment fund of Syracuse {N. X.) University. Force of 125 physiciat aided HEast Boston and vaccinated ent population, 4 inoculating 15,000 pers m, Dr. Francis Clemens, J Paoli, Pa., B was drowned in attempting t )$S 4 | ‘i‘ pllen stream while returning from a | i _to a patient. | Eonr men were instantly killed on the ;z, pad of the Lackawanna Lumber @iy at Cross Fork, Pa. The men pading logs on a car when a runwiles |

away train came down the incline road and crashed into the car upon which the men were, It is announced that Henry C. Frick | purposes to erect in Pittsburg a hotel ‘ building to cost $5,000,000. The plans contemplate a structure to surpass anything of the kind in the country. | - lour national banks in Pittsburg, with ‘ an aggregate capital of $1,700,000 and a surplus of $435,000, are, according to re- | liable reports, to be merged iu‘tu one financial institution under a national charter. ~ After an investigation extending over ‘many weeks, Frank Saxton, supervising immigrant inspector at Ellis Island, New ‘ ' York, was dismissed for neglect of duty. He is a nephew of Mrs. McKinley and has been in office two years. - In the report of the harbor and land ~commissioners on the proposed canal between Boston harbor and Narragansett ‘Bay, byway of Weéymouth, Brockton and Taunton, just sent to the Legislature, the cost of the work is stated to be $57,5618,358 for a uniform depth of twenty-five feet and a width of 150 feet at the bottom. A railway mail robbery between Springfield, Mass., and Boston has been reported to the postal authorities at Washington by Postmaster Kinner of West Springfield, who has also notified the United States inspectors at Baston. Conductor A. B. Bartholomew of West Springfield while signaling near Rochdale, Mass., found hundreds of letters along the tracks. WESTERN. Man and wife in Montana mining eamp fought 1w ring 1077 possession O “THOT child, the woman wipning. Samuel Mather of Cleveland, who has given #housands to the Lakeside hospital of that city, has offered another donation of $40,000. = James Patterson, white, shot and killed John Patterson, ¢alored, in a quarrel at Mexico, Mo., and was acquitted by the coroner's jury. o Armour & Co. are going to San Francisco. They have bought a large site and will erect buildings and establish a big packing plant. One trainman was killed and six others injured in a freight wreck in the Buriington yards in Omaha. The accident was caused by fog. John E. Bush, colored, receiver of the United States land office at Little Rock, Ark., was assassittated at his home. The assassin escaped. Dust explosion in a mine at Lost Creek, lowa, killed twenty-nine men, seriously injured eight others and did property damage of SIO,OOO. Prof. F. L. Washburn of 'the Oregon State University has been elected to sueceed the late Otto Lugger as State ento‘mologist of Minnesota. | ~ James @niizi‘.,'acci(lont:\lly shot himself at Montpelier, Ohio. He was handling a revolver when the hammer struck a loaded shell that he thought was empty. E. A. Goodchild, a millman and nerchant of Thompson Falls, Mont., is lost in the mountains. A searching party of 30 failed to find any trace of him, William Strother, negro attendant at the Vista bathhouse, has confessed the murder of Millionaire Cooper of St. Louis, who was slain while asleep on a cot in the institution. A dozen families had a narrow escape from death and were driven from their beds into a severe blizzard by fire which | destroyed the Jackson block in Cleveland. The money loss is about $25.000. In Omaha the Douglas County grand jury returned an indictment against exState Treasurer John B. Meserve . . ™ ie embezziement of money belonging to the State school fund. A mixed train on the Chicago and Alton branch road was wrecked about four ‘miles from Mexico, Mo., presumably by a broken rail. Nearly all the passengers in the coach were injured, some seriously. Gen. Harrison C. Hobart died at the Soldiers’ Home at Milwaukee. He was the sole survivor of the band of men who tunneled out of Libby prison and escaped to the Union lines during the Civil War. | The body of W. C. Johnson was found l in the city water works vreservoir at | Douglas, Wyo. Johnson disappeared sev- [ eral days ago, and it is believed that he committed suicide while temporarily in-] sane. Henry Yawn, a 75-year-old farmer of Fairfield, Ohio, died while leaning against the bar in a saloon, and remained in that position three hours before his condition | was discovered. Heart disease caused | his death. ’ Two freight trains on the Iron Moun- ! tain road came together, head on, near Mill Springs, Mo. Fireman Moses Washburn and Brakeman 1.. S. Degonia were killed, and lEngineer Thomas Silver fatal- | ly injured. % Work on the construction of a monster packing plant, to be erected in I)«-nwri by local capitalists, will be begun swithin the next forty days. The company is to ’ be incorparated with a capital stock of | £1.000,000. ' Richard and John Spikes, cattle men, | were killed by fugitive robbers on Ihni Rock Island extension in New Mexico. The robbers were escaping from a posse ‘ which wanted them for burglary in Tecumecare, N. M. Frank Furtado, an 18-year-old boy, was gored to death by a vicious bull elk at Piedmont Springs Park, Oakland, Cal. Furtado and Lester Spencer, the jockey, had carried hay into the paddock to feed i five elks there.

At Plattsburg, Mo., Mrs. Addie B. Richardson was acauitted of the charge ot having murdered Her WOEDANd, Frank B. Richardson, a wealthy merchant, who was slain as he entered his home Christmas eve, 1900. The Supreme Cour't’'s decision in the case of the Nickel Plate Railway versus Frank Shaffer in Ohio, on appeal from the Circuit Court of Huron® County, involving the “black list,” sustained the railroad company. Elmer Moore, aged 22, was accidentally shot on Grand river, near Locksprings, Mo., by his brother , Eugene, aged 20. They were hunting and became separated and a bullet intended for a rabbit hit the elder brother. John C. Hall, cashier and bookkeeper of Swift & Co.’s Butte, Mont., branch house, was arrested on a charge of grand larceny. Hall is short, $3,500. He admits his shortage and says he lost the money in copper stock speculations. After an extensive search of the academic field the board of trustees of Northwestern University at Evanston, Il have elected Prof. Edmund J. James, now of the University of Chicago, to the presidency of the institution. Robbers attacked Michael Sweeney, in charge of the target shanty on the Pittsburg and Western road between Niles and Girard, Ohio, and after binding him robbed him of his pay and then set fire to the shanty, cremating him. The executive committee of the Kansas G. A. R. ordered Martin Norton, the department commander, to vacate his office at once. The committee had been investigating charges preferred against Norton ~and sustained them in every particular. \ The investigation of the books of the

late 11. C. Tatum, secretary and treasurer of the Western Commercial Travelers’ Association, who recently committed suicide in St. Louis, has been concluded and shows a shortage of about $16,000. An advance in wages of locomotive engineers throughout the entire system of the lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway was granted at a conference between a committee of the engineers and officials of the road. About SOO men are benefited by the raise. Wiley Ellis, aged 50, was shot and killed and James Nichols, aged 20, was shot four times and dangerously wounded near Keaytesville, Mo., in a fight. Their quarrel, it is stated, grew out of Ellis seeking to prevent the reconciliation of Nichols” half-sister and her husband. After handing his wife his week’s earnings John Iredericks, a woodworker living in Chicago, turned his back and drank several ounces of carbolic acid. Fredeyicks died before a physician could be called. His wife, Mrs. Rosie Fredericks, could assign no, reason for his wishing to die.

Angered by a threatened separation from his sweetheart, May Connerty, and while she was seated at a piano in her home in Chicago, William Wittmacher fired two shots at the young woman with probably fatal results. Half an hour later he ended his own life with the same revolver. SOUTHERN. The Bank of Hartford, Ky., was robbed of $2,500 or $3,000 by four men, who blew open the safe with dynamite and escaped after a fight with the deputy sheriff and several citizens. In ¢ (‘nr-enfl ‘gollision between Jo tions of a stock train near Keller, Texas, W. T. Stillwell was instantly killed and his body burned in the wreck and J. G. Adkins was fatally injured. At Chattanooga, Tenn., the six-story Adams building was dastroyed by fire. The loss on the building is $40,000. The loss of Foster, Lesley & Co., wholesale grocers and produce, is SB,OOO. Mrs. Bula Abbey, wife of a young merchant near Sparta, Tenn., died as the result of pulling out one of her eyes in a fanatical and literal interpretation of the scriptural injunction, “If thine eye - ofend, pluck it out. Her mind became unbalanced over religion. Three men are dead and four wounded, one fatally, as the result of a gathering of hostile clans to attend a murder trial Lat Belleville, Texas. The man fatally wounded is the one who was to be ari raigned for faking human life, while two of the killed were relatives of his first vietime . During the hearing in New Orleans of the case against Klein and West, charged with robbing a man who claimed to be T. E. Manners, the last named took the stand and confessed that he was Edouard Kern, Jr., the valet who stole $50,000 worth of jewelry from the Thebaud mansion in New York. Fire in the wholesale business district of Mobile, Ala., destroyed property te the ‘ value of $300,000 and caused the death of Richard H. Vidmer, a leading society man, and Bat Thomas, a negro laborer from New Orleans. Mr. Vidmer and Thomas were assisting the firemen in | subduing the flames, and were caught by falling walls. FOREIGN. King Vietor Emmanuel has conferred ft’.he Orvder of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus upon Marconi. Alfonso XIII. will be crowned King of Spain at Madrid on May 17, on his sixteenth birthday. to accept the offer of the United States for the three West Indian Islands, the price being between $3,000,000 and $4,¢OO,OOO.

The Emperor of China g:'anted an audience to the ministers of foreign powers, and, for the first time in history, received them as representatives of monarchs equal in rank to himself. Two armed Armenian bands have appeared at Sandjak, in the Mush district of Asiatic Turkey. In an encounter between the Armenians and a detachment of Turkish troops the latter lost an officer and two men killed. News has been received that a riot broke out on the Pacific Steamm Navigation Company’s steamer Columbia at Panama, and that several members of the crew were perhaps fatally, or at least dangerously, wounded. Rev, I. W. Barns, rector of Episcopal churches in New Whatcom and Fairhaven, Wash., has gone to South Africa to arrange the final details of a gigantic colonization scheme, which the British government will shortly undertake tlere. The plan of the British government is to induce a number of British-born subjects now residing in the United States to emigrate to South Africa and mingling with the Boers to eradicate the feeling of hatred which dwells in their breasts. IN GENERAL. The Heotel Cecil was burned at Ottawa, Ont. The hotel was owned by ex-Mayor Davidson, who rebuilt it and had it newly furnished about three years ago. The loss is about $60,000. : Mrs. B. Morrill was married in Dawson, Aalska, to C. A. Morrison after a trip of 1,500 miles from Seattie. She traveled 500 miles in a sleigh over the perilous White Pass trail. The treaty of cession of the Danish West India Islands from Denmark to the United States was signed at the State Department at Washington by _Secretary Hay ana-constantine Brun, the Damish minister. YWord has been received of the eventful voyage of the ship James Drummond from Puget sound to Freemantle, Anstralia, during whieh Captain H. J. Nason was forced to shoot his first mate to save his own life and prevent mutiny on the craft. An enormous iandslide occurred in the basin above Juneau, Alaska. It is stated the slide was 1,700 feet in width. Thousands of tons of rock and dirt tumbled from the mountain above the IL.ast Chance Mining Company’s flume and completely demolished it for a long distance. Fortunately no people were injured. An order in council has been passed at Ottawa, Ont., extending for the year 1902 the modus vivendi between Canada and the United States regarding fishing vessels. Licenses will be issued in the usual terms for the purchase of bait, jce, seines, lines and all other supplies and outfits, as well as the transshipment of cateh and the shipping of crews. The fee s £1.50 per ton. } The steamer Amur, from Skaguay, brings news that rich pay has been found ! running from 4 to 7 cents to the pan on ' Good Pasture Creek. Good Pasture ig g % tribntary of the Chiloa, which flows into . the Tanana. Another rich strike has EBeen 'made on No. 27 claim, Eldorado, where | the second bedrock has been reached. | Pans ranging in value from $1 to $5 have ’ been taken out. Two prospectors have lurriw-d at Haines Mission with SIO,OOO ag a result of two weeks’ work on Mu creek. At Dawson great interest centefi in the Koyukuk, where rich finds had been made.

DEATH OF|29 MINERS. . - y OF DES¥:ucTiON. Horrible futastr he at Lost Creek, TouN Iv'es M 3 Families of Entombed Worke B Caute a Panic at the Mouth of th Pit. oe e e i, o L:;.\‘t’ .Cx'(“('k- Tows jed in an explosion at the mine va;'e sori(,) axl)d ;hp wur]k'.lnj_'s 1“( . g o sly Gamaged by the tlll!;f‘) fi){i:hwi?-leloi‘:et the explosion. Over of ‘the accident. Bl e CO\]llel‘y at the time tion of the min’e we only those in one poroy ident. ol e cut off from (-s’n"upe‘. hmnjefl?lflc \(vas \(\:'h rl:ed just at the noon & e t7is known as a dust explosion. The Miners had just fired l thelr noon ehots, Gne ot which railed to | operate as desired. o burning powder ignited th(? gas anQ@ . axplosion followed. Debrig Jvas bßwn out of the shafc motth over 200 fel 11 (1o air. The top works were_so Sefl“)mly damaged that it was some time b.e ore the rescue partles could go so the aid/o¢ the entombed miners, , Families 4: Pit Mouth. It was just 12:45 when a dull roar, coupled with a g™, ,};{Rich could be felt | for miles arour “¥®some grave acci- | dent at the hin- five minutes the groun ng the pit mouth was thro 1e wives and the families s. Then as they stoou arouuu, not 'spilig tue fuitfmport- ,| of what had oedted, from out of the | | pit mouth burst g#haft of flame, setting . | the top works o and rendering the work of rescue infSsible. 7 A panic immedtely followed. Many . | of the women, widid not know in what | part of the mine |it husbands had been * | working, ran fr, ically through the groups of men w f Vere gathered togeth- l | er excitedly discjißg means of rescue, | . | some hunting vaff for a familiar face, | | only to be told affi®alf an hour’s search . | that the bread wi Tof the family and ‘ | the head of theif 'usehold was some- | where in those wWréidß from which vicious puffs of flgp, Were being spouted forth. Several en had to be restrained from leap'B into the mouth of ‘ the pit even besot the fire was under i Control' and the ) slcians who had been summoned from the near'by towns were busy immedi€l¥ upon their arrival in attending to theg¥vomen, who, frenzied by their grief, wer@D the verge of losing their senses. ' Rescue PartiefHlave Difficnity. It was 3 o'clock Efore the lescue par- ; ties were able tofnter the mine, fmd] when finally the were rigged, the | fire under contro] 4d they were lowered | into the ruined w¢kings they found at | every step charred {?lies of the men who | ‘had been killed hyvthe first shock and | over whose corpsda . the flau*s had | wrought havoe, b {ing some Os ”)t.‘lui 'so badly that ide lP{ation was barely | | possible. There v§® 110 men at work | [ in the mine at thefM€*of the explosion, | | but eighty manag €scape, compara- | | tively uninjured, Igh the various air | shafts. #th ¢ ! The total prope mage will not ex- | ceed SIO,OOO. Th rabe is owned by the | Lost Creek Fueifpaompany, of which | Charles E. Loflandsiank Lofland, H. L. ] Spencer and J. M. tmbre-l of Oskaloosa | are principal own v | The town of Losk -reek has a popula- | tion of ahout 600, §s€ ™UEin Which the | explosion occurred f¥-lOWD as shaft No. | 2 and was openedfi” """ ago. 'The mine sel, TR & s lowa Central Railws its output to 'the\ mine was quite rece ay Company. The State mine examiner Jtiy inspected by the shape. Dust explospnd declared in good bituminous mines, byjons are common 11 ! than a single room. § seldom affect more | i——e »

NEW SIGNAL § i STEM URGED. | Dispatchers Say : Sending Orders¢§esent Method ot Train dispatchers ¢§ s Antiquated. \ all possibility of coff the country want doing away with the§isions removed byl train orders, that car | present system of | and signals that may | be misinterpreted, | of these antiquated ; ‘e unseen. In;tendl | posed to substitute co nethods it is pro-| 1 in the engine ecab, s ored electric lightsi can be seen and neve; gnals that always l stood. - ecan be misunder- \

It is deésired to ms i ! against wrecks as nea ke the S;fi(}gf)ards_ sible by not trusting vly perfect as DOS] Mechanical accuracy ¢ to a mans mMmiD i1 meet the requirements nly is believed to | Among others to urge of the age.. C " | Miller of Aurora, chier @ a change 13 = I’;,', Chicago, Burlington a d‘i"pf‘t,(‘h" of T"l: | way. He suggests t| nd Quincy I-{.f?la_ trous wrecks of late w lat severdl ,dlba‘blleged misundeystanding ere due to m,(i i { and insists that writ of written 01(?}:1: should be used. en orders DeY The placing of ‘bl 7the track at this day ek” S‘gna.ls . { run eighty miles an h when trains Oftin, | unsafe, as they canac OUT, is held to‘ "1 by the engineer when go always be 10&; “Automatic blocks or ing at such i:p' f;, gine cab,” said Mr, Mj lights in the ¢% two things—when they : jler, -means Jfiile the train should procees ire clear or W ;.‘ red the train should sto B; whien the{x al( be no written orders.” p. There shou This system of movabl light in engine cabs has been e blocks or 1S < ible. Such a system is ‘hown to be seas | the Chicgzo god Basterr €ing installed o e M m———— v Railer~

chiefly through the effot! g —— l who took the initiativel system to perfection. Miiler The engineer is held t s of )'n"“‘yr‘thé | on whom the safety ot in bringiis { depends. Mr. Miller ! o | man’s life and those of | be the O‘:anfors' | always at stake, and her the pits;‘a\t ?bis\ men with negligence or sists stamts 40 3 s assl § r unjust. el i o -e to brand S\]C:h News of Mino. carelessness 18 Toledo. Ohio. telephone

4 Vicuv, ViV, wTicpyuviac L | been consolidated and co e | | The Chilian congress fst have | the issue of bonds to s compi_lmeznded | £12,500,000. | A postoffice has been has flflt}:;:;zii . | Reach, Kan., with Willig, ____ #°%"¢ * p . | postmaster. 5 | Ex-Gov. and Mrs. Lev eSt?bh;}:-:gl ,:'; .| New York announce the G 2 3 .| their fourth daughter, M ¢ | | ton, to Winthrop Ruthe £7. Borion Ot\ | York City. | engagement ;H 3 Mayor Charles Green fiss Ahcfe Kow | ' | Kan., was shot in the ars go= - \ his store, who was “showi ’ ' ‘ would do if anyone tried t B Asgeaut ‘ || The wound was_only a sl n by a clerk ;]n | L1 Fraulein Kathe Brandt ng him ‘f'ha[ S | Richard Wagner, died in o Trold him up- | was 4 Hiedibir ottt BN one.

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| WIDOW IS SET FREE. Mrs. Richardson Acquitted of Charge of Killing Her Husband. At Plattsburg, Mo., Addie B. Richardson was acquitted of the charge of having murdered her husband, Frank B. Richardson, a wealthy merchant, who was slain as he entered his bome Christmas eve, 1900. The announcement of ihe verdict was received with frantic enthusiasm and joy, not only by Mrs. Richardson and her own and her husband’s relatives, but by all of the spectators. John D. Richardson, brother of the dead man. seized the widow around the waist and raised her i o 4‘:_‘_}:‘.’ 275 3 PR // // % ; &S“ s 72 /i // / ,} ) o 2 7 %Ax ///, ’{/,’// Z /.;?3 g\t{;/ ? M¥ 3 v},’,,/’, ‘/ .@l i "?:; - : s\u e‘,’gf} {1 N W | 8 Vs A s A 2 1, A " % f://l,;yf{,,‘ Ngg ) = & / / | I“/;‘ STEWART FIFE. MRS. RICHHARDSON. clear off her chair. Holding her in his arms, he kissed her again and again, while the crowd cheered. After she was released by her brother-in-law, her venerable father, Adam Lawrence, seized her in his arms, and their tears of joy mingled as they embraced each other. All of the relatives and the attorneys for the defense gathered around the father and daughtey, and with tears of joy embraced or congratulated the latter and the little Richardson ’Aboys were hugged and kissed by scores of people. + Notwithstanding the acquittal of Mrs. Addie B. Richardson, Stewart Fife, accused of complicity in the erime, must stand trial. This is the positive assertion of Prosecuting Attorney Charles F. Booher. “I want a jury to decide whether or not life was gailty,” said the prosecutor. Fife, who was arrested at North Yakima, Wash., is now in jail at Savannah. He is the son of a wealthy resident of St. Joseph. IHHis father bought for him an interest in a store with Richardson. The latter, however, frequently complained that I'ife did not attend properly to business, and he also rebuked his partner for spending too much time with Mrs. Richardson,

Mrs. Richardson is distinetly a South- | ern type, pretty and petite. Before she was charged with the murder of her husband Mrs. Richardson was vivacious, and was popular in society in Savannah and St. Joseph. Mrs. Richardson is a daughter of Alexander Lawrence of Texas, at one tinie a Christian minister. Frank W. Richardson became addicted to drink in the latter years of his life, and there was trouble. Mprs. Richardson was seen at times with Stewart Fife, a clerk in the store and a son of her husband’s business partner. Richardson abused her l when drinking, and made accusations aganst her, for which he invariably apologized when sober. ] ! DOLE AS¥ "D TO RESIGN. l 11l Health Unfits Him for Duties as Governor of Hawaii. ‘ President Roosevelt has asked Gov. { Dole of Hawaii to send in his resignation, and the friends of Col. Samuel Parker claim he is slated for the post. Sanford B. Dole has been Governor since the islands became United States territory in June, 1900, and was President of the Republic of Hawaii, It is said his continued ill health has made bhim unfit for the duties of the office and comfor the post. i« a native of Hawaii, a Col. Palkex. is te wealthiest mes Kanaka. He is one of t‘ o ;“W”' lante: in the islands, owning Lfl;('o{[;}sive real tions, cattle ranches and €3 e

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.———_.'——_—_..____—‘.,._h_.__.‘,,.__,,<._,_.____,_.___-__.._._.———.,__- 1 estate in Honolulu. He was prime min- 'A ister in the last cabinet of Queen Liliuo- 2‘ kalani, but upon the annexation of the | | islands by the United States strongly ad- | | vised the natives to submit, and, proba-\ , | bly more than any other, influenced them 1| in that direction. ; He was one of the delegates from Ha- .| waii to the Republican national convent| tion at Philadelphia and was a member e | of the committee appointed by that cone | vention to notify President MecKinley of d ! his nomination, making a brief speech on the latter occasion. He was the Republig | €an candidate for Congress from the terr itory, and was defeated by seventy votes m\by Wilcox, the native candidate, in 2 ’> | three-enrne™" = ke : e JEl—ra—— g uu&,‘l':l{lL’ Jiv

inee being Prince David, 2 nephew of | Liliuokalani. Col. Parker and Prince David have for years had close business and friendly Te” lations, which were further strengtbened : recently by 2 double wedding D San Francisco, when Parker married Mrs. Campbe‘d. q wealthy widow of Tonoluly, and Prince David married her daughter. The WO couples are now on a wedding I

1pNotes of Current Events. \ v Three murderers escaped from Bir- | si ninghani, Ala., jail \ P The 12-year-old son of Dan Taylor was | jrowned at Salina, Kan,, while playing | 1 on the bank of the Smoky river. |t Qenator Quay, Pennsylvania, denies the 11 report that he is t 0 resign his seat in the \l ¢ Senate, and says he intends 1o gerve out his teri. | Sheriff Purvis has arrested Charles iThompson at Modesto, Cal., wanted in | Hills County, Texas, on a charge of mur- | der connnitte«l in 1889. \ Azirs. D. B. Stamp celebrated her 10Sth ‘ pirthday near Finechville, N, Y. She is | jn full pr)ssfifisifm of her saculties and | spends much of her time in spinning. 1n ‘an address pefore the iansas stotkWS L ke KANSAE

T PR T men Prof. .1 yyeee vl University claimed that the carden of FEden was located near the North pole. . Horace folisha geudder, the author and litterateun’y, and a former editor of the Atlantic Monthly, died az his residence in Cambridse, Mass., in his G4th year. A freight wreck occurred about fiftee! miles east of Shawnee, © T Two e gines Wwere damaged and three DegT tramps were Kkilled. No others injured.

${ Congress. ' & &G PHOPVPVOLPLOOPBPEPE T A A " The House went into committee of the whole soon after opening on Wednesday £nd resumed the debate upon the general deficiency bill. Mr. Padgett of Tennessee, the first speaker, advocated the adoption of a declaration in favor of pledging the United States to give independence to the Philippines. After some further remarks by Mr. Chandler of Mississippi and Mr. Zenor of Indiana Mr. Watson of Indiana closed the general debate with an hour's speech in defense of the adinin istration’s Philippine policy. Stirring partisan debate, lightened by one shaft of pure oratory, marked the proceedings, when the item in the urgent deficiency bill appropriating $506.000 for a military post in Manila eame up for consideration Congressman Cannon offered an amendment to appropriate the same =i for “*shelter and protection” of the enlisted men in the Philippines. and the Democrats took this oceasion to state their objections to the Philippine policy of the administration. The amendment was adopted by a vote of 127 aves.to 100 nays. At the c(}nrzlusign of routine bhusi ness in the Senate Mr. Nelson called up the bill establishing a department of commerce. Mr. Quarles of Wisconsin offered an amendment providing that the Secretary of Commerce should have complete contro! of the work of gathering and distributing statistical information naturally relating to the subjects confided to his department. and to this end the Secretary of Commerce should have autlhiority to call upon all other departments of the government for statistical data to be published as he may deem wise. Senator Fanna was the central fizure in Senate debate Thursday when consideration of the Department of Commerce bill was resumed. The pending question was the amendment offered by Mr. Pettus of Alabama providing that the Department of Labor be not transferred to the proposed new department. Mr. DPettus made a brief argument in support of his amendment, and he was supported by Mr. Bacon. In reply Mr. Neison, in charge of the pending measnre. said he had heard no protest against the transfer until recently an official of a labor organization had objected to it. He maintained that it was a mistake to leave the labor department without the jurisdiction of an executive department. Mr. Hanna said the establishment of the new department was in the interest of both capital and labor. In the Honse the consideration of the urgent deficiency bill, which has been under debate since Monday, was completed, but owing to the lateness of the hour passage of the bill was postponed until Friday. A successful effort was made to increase the pay of rural free delivery carriers from SSOO to 3600 per annum. Mr. Hill of Connecticut made the motion to increase the appropriation for this pnrpose., It was resisted by Mr. Cannon, Mr. Loud, chairman of the postoffice committee. and Mr. Payne, the Republican floor leader. on the ground that the meth.d was irregular, but the members with raral con-

stituencies supported it and it was adopted by a vote of 109 to 7S. On Friday a vote was reached on the urgency deficiency bill. The item that had aroused Democratie opposition was ingeniously amended so as to appropriate $500.000 for “the protection andW&helter” of American troops serving in the Philippines, instead of specifically for barToacke— In its-original fernrthe itein had received the support of only one Demont"l’l'é ‘}éfe (':&:‘:l'g TtaKen " Gpha “t-‘-r")'g» ;’,.:;V:PP!\ form it received the supp;"r S Democrats in addition o :.19" LT 16,105 Jican strength. the vote be m,,r “ it

An animated and prolonged discussion was precipitated in the Senate on Monday over the right of army officers to eriticise utterances made in the Senate or elsewhere on the conduct of affairs in the Philippines. At times it became somewnat acrimonious, officers in the Philippines being taken sharply to task EEEE L i shated so theln D dis-

fOF STHLEIMERLY Sa e 0 e o patches from Manila. The House adopted a resolution calling for documents re- ‘ lating to the old training ship Vermout, 1‘ which was placed out of commission last | summer, and alsoc passed a bill to pro‘vide for the compulsory atiendance of { witnesses before registers and receivers T ST R 2 131ty an-

of the general land 0B CE. 5 = . propriate £IOO.OOO for establishing homes ] for the teaching of articulate speech “o ! deaf children was defeated. The House ‘ adjourned antil Wednesday. | Philippine debate grew so bitter in the Senate on Tuesday that prsonal encounters were narrowly averted. The storm raged for three hours., and the chairinan was kept busy maintaining order. After l years of patient effort commercial organizations and business men were rewar led ‘ by the Senate passing the bill for the creation of a department of commeree \ and labor. The measute xoes to the | Houee in <ubstantially the form in wiiich | it was introduaced. The most imporiant \changc is in the name of the depart- ‘ ment. As originally sngeested it was 10 Y 1. Aspartment of €omMMErcos and inTR . a

PR TR R !o < e | dustry. No material GppUs ¢ion In ihe | House is anticipated. Its gquick passaz i e r§ - - = % e :‘\°" —_— . |is confidently expected. ARI o Oattle, oo " { the extension for tw S s 23.50 to 26.79: LS, S y '1 1 xtension for tWweniy yvears of ihe g 39: hogs, ML B¢ e e- i B - &t =0- sheep, fair t { charters of nationai hanks was favor Ibly 84 25 to S6.OU; shECP, - ir to choice, 35.U0 is by : : I}, €165: wheat, No. 2 red 2. to & | reported Dby the Senate comm tte S Ito 9300, WL ). Z red, Ok X 4 -).S e : : - | finance. Just | fore the adjournment _ | corn. No. 3 S6e to o ts No. = o > : e adjournment of f : gl i | the Semate Sen tor Spooner introduced | BIEE £yey 0. e e : 3\ a <ubstitute tor the Nicaragua Canat kil otiyy. <9 00 to £13.00; praine, 3504 to a | e-- = T & =iy a 2 ’ S | The new biil is a practical 0t # - ' : 2 1 oge; egES, cresh, 20c 1O 29 potscy — : ear t) ylated Siates L ! 2.0 .An-x to the President 4 iil v nhca b A S ."“ "':’h. to SOe per busnel. T e oty P anßing and the = - . 5 R [ndianapoiis Cattle, shipPißZ, 90 : . g QL 00 ¢ Myt *

choose belwees v o Nicaragud yontes. e e Washington Notes. \ Residence of the Chinese minister has lboen transfm'mwd into ao ideal oriental { home b¥ Mme. Wi Governme»m will prn\mmf: enaet laws _ providinZ for the conirol of wireiess tel- | egraph¥ in time of Wwar. \ The Senate committee as reported fa--0 o eanasition 1O crant a pem ) e T

orably on S pPrvy o o et ion of £5.000 2 year to the widow OL >resident MeKinley. \! The Senate has confirmed the follow- ' ng pominations: Thompson B. Ferguson, tg be governor of Oklahoma. and F. V. Martin of Indiana. to be commissioner of jmmigration at San Joan. Porto Rico. Subeommittees of the House panking and currency committee pave been 3ap pointfd to consider what Gnancial legisiation is necessary Aat this session of Congress. Asset banking currency is not likely t© be favored. Invos:if:::zinn of attempt £0 ceetire CONtrol of mineral jands in he Uintab In- \ dian ros(-vv:\:ifm may rosult 1D retirement { of <ome gn\'(-rnmvnt officials. s o sl eept ATIRD harmon i RN

Dairymen Le o Sl sit ! gqeiion on an n'uus'r.'.:::’:..:':::- Ll but de--3 sections frod their ranks have throwid them into 2 state of confusion 1 11(11:'«*591‘.(:1!'1'.'0 Crumpacker of landizna o has intrcdncvd a bill for the p:‘.x;is':.::‘(»:‘,z ‘ ‘etof persons taking part in the jynching | of an alien. Those who econspire in <ueh a lynching are made subject to death or 1 | Jife imprisonment. while meeting 10 07 - | ganize such Iynching i« made a felony. ro | The federal courts are given jurisdi:tic;n T such offenses.

RCAERCIAL (5 T F.{ 5‘ ‘ I I -?"‘ TF R B T e 9 : 7 }.% AND {7l )22 ” ‘,{-.e_g‘ S §s— 4-1 ‘d‘g ) “RINANCIAL r”I—" ~ | The steadiness of busi- ' hp,w Ygrk‘ ‘!](‘>< was not marre:! Dy any . —untoward developments during the last week. The =statistics which best indicate the coursze of trade hold true to the early promise of improv3“‘.’ conditions. l":x\'u;' hle report COoLle from, ail sections of the West, and while prices are easier for some prodiets, manufactnring establishments are gonerally well supplied. with orders. at the business world is without special incident of disaster in thiz time when people are still asking whether great prosperity will abide longer in this country is a zoo} SIZN. It is of the highest importanc. that all features of the iron and steel trade roniin bright as regards present and futare trade. The heavy demands of railrcads for steel rails tax the facilities of the mills to such a point that the total output for 1902 is almost entirely sold in advance. Under these circumstances it will *be strange if more independent plants are not built. One large road is reported to have placed a rail order with foreign manufacturers, and others may be compelled to do the same. The bridge and structural company of the United States Steel Corporation is planning the. CONSTIUCction ol mMore plinis, 50 heavy has its business become. The coke situation improves steadily and is much better in the Chicago district. Wire and wire nails are firmn at the advanced prices, and there is some talk of another meeting, which suggests the possibility of another raise. Western bar iron manufacturers have added $2 a ton to the price of bar iron. Eastern manufacturers have made an advance of $1 a ton on the same product, and as the Western has been lower than the Eastern price quotations now are alike in hoth sections. The ore association has fixed the price of Bessemer old range as a base of $4.25 a ton, unchanged 7rom last year'az quotation. Spring jobbing trade will be enormous. in volume, buyers showing more confidence in making purchases. The London sales of wool gave firmness to the prices here, but holders hope for higher quotations. Yarns are steady but without material change. Print cloths are firm and are held closely. Staple cottons are firm, but buyers purchase slowly. The raw material has not improved on its previous uncertain position. The leather trade generally is in a satisfactory situation. Shoe manufacturers are busy and tha stock of leather is low. Hides continue weak. Sheet copper has been lowered from 18 cents to 16 cents a pound and now cozresponds more nearly to the price of the raw product. The latter remains unchanged, so far as official quotations go, but purchases are freer for foreign consumption. Domestic consumers are still buying in small quantities to meet immediate needs.

CLicagQ. | i tne constraction of down _ s bt uction of downBk it e e ildings in Chicago refusal of eI setback in the ‘ i the Council to permit strue th:;: Uclover 300 b 1l sfated ‘th‘.c_ t.nim?xfa. PONE B somslnetion. of cightogf. 5 e v‘ggdvmfi"',‘)' in the bnsinecs Fooeriit prises are contingent on the Coun<il’s attitude. Builders would like to see this money invested. Evidences multiply of the steadily improving position of real estate. Inquiries for north shore dwellings for summer oCcupation are already being ma le. The suburbs are attracting each year a jarger proportion of Chicago's population. Iz f manufacturing ;ar:-;n:r:i-'s an active mar | ket is reported. G A e

BTR . i oy Ao Grains and provisions were lower, JMay vheat losing Z% cents on the week's novement and May cori 314 cents. Liasidation in wheat was caused by snow in the Western belt and a reduced cash demand. Enormous receipts ot cofiee made the market weaker and prices are easier. Mopey shows increasing ease. The Bank of England reduced its discounnt rate from 4 to 315 per cent, but there is oe R S

& ADIION kREs AR i being pre]-m'wl for a mew loan. Czall rates in New York are practically poa jnal, and while eommercial funds the counfry over are in good demand rates are gradually easing. Country banks are increasing their ety balances and are buying eommercial paper freely. They have seen advised by the ¢ity banks to e eautioas in their pnrchases, !:-:4'_"'2-".'.‘.;1."‘,' of city paper. and to make Do such purchases without ¢olls Ating their ciiy COF respondents. 30 Y | AEARET | (1l e e

£6.30; hogs. CRINCE: ol T o sheep. common 10 prime £SO o bSO wheat, No. 5 Nic to ]SB¢; €OTH. Xe 2 white, new, 62¢ to G3¢; oats, No. 2 white, 48¢ to 49¢. St Ixn!:;:ir(':'ztl‘w. £4.50 1o $6.20; hogs, §3.00 1o £6.25¢ <heep. e250 to <1 503 swheat, No- 2 Btc to |s¢:; €or. No. 2 7&e to P9l oats. No- 2. 13¢ to Hic; 136 No. 2, Gle to e (’:incinnmi’(f;m‘w. £3.00 to & .00 heos, ti—Cattle, 39 es a5 10 $3.850: st

bye AP $3.00 to SHIN. N N wheat, No. 9 89¢c to Gy coTT, No. & mixed, g3e to GICS oats, No. 2 mixed, 48¢ to 19¢; Y& No. 2. bbc to Hicpetroit—C attle, $2.950 to &5.00; hozs, $3.00 to £6.20; sheep. $230 to SIOO2 wheat, No. 2 £sc to |Ge; COrE. Xo. 3 yellow. = to 60C; oatls. Mo 2 white, 4Ce to Yic: 136 G3c to Gle. Tolmhw\vhsu{. No. 2 mixed. e 1D ; Q7 e; corn, No. 2 mixed, ¢to 9DC; gats, No. 2 mixed. Sde to 1oc: T 36, Ng 2 ¢ | to 3¢5 clover seed, prime, $5.79. - .\lih\‘:\nkm*——\\'itv:sr. Ko =& poriher, i 7?!{_' 1o 74(". coTh, .\\—". e Sow o Sie: vats Np. 2 white, 15¢ 10 sl-- TVE No. 1. Bk 'S to ‘H», haries. No. bl sl te Gler pOrs . €l6O

TR o Baffalo—Castie, € Vice S eEs S £3.00 to % v bogs, 1T £y prime. So b to 56.60; sheel- fair to choier, $2.90 1 §4.501 {ambs. comEl a1 to choice T $5.50. New \'nfl;———(’:‘.::‘n, 23 75 ta S 0 UL { :300 1o 600 een, B 0 v £1 2 . “'ht’:li. :\’n, Z I‘*‘-1. Soe 1o QG- covi N _ R Gbe o Gic; oats, No. 2 walie. 1% to ;-{ 3 | butter. ereamery. .1o 2oLt crrS, W «rn., 26c to ISc.