Walkerton Independent, Volume 28, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 October 1902 — Page 2

JniicpcnDcnt. W. A. EAPLEY, l^ubllslier. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. SUMMARY OF NEWS. it ■ King Oscar of Sweden and Norway has decided against the United States and Great Britain and in favor of Germany in the Samoan controversy, of which he was the arbitrator. The landing of marines at Apia is held to have been unwarranted. By a unanimous viva voce vote the convention of United Mine Workers at Wilkesbarre, l’a., accepted President Roosevelt’s arbitration plan. The resolution as adopted carries with it a declaration that the strike is off and provides lor an immediate resumption of work. Corn crushing plant of the Glucose Sugar Refining Company in Chicago was burned, and in trying to escape the flames four men jumped to death and four others sustained fatal injuries. It is believed that ten persons were buried in the ruins. The pecuniary loss is placed at $400,000. Mrs. T. D. Merrill, who lost a pearl necklace and diamonds valued at $7,000 at Duluth, has recovered the jewels. The * police believe that some one was tempted and | took the jewel case under the itn- ■ — , the moment, later becoming con-Bcience-strielten turnip--he..prop-erty. Joseph H. Connors of Chicago was perhaps fatally wounded by Alfred W. Clark of the same city in the Ulnted States Hotel at Pittsfield. Mass. Both num are canvassers and had quarreled over a card game. Clark, who is under arrest, claims he shot in self-defense. The mail bag containing checks and money orders representing $50,000 which was stolen from a Cleveland and Pittsburg train en route from Pittsburg to Cleveland a few days ago was found the other afternoon on the river bank near the East Liverpool, Ohio, depot. The bag had been cut open and rilled. Plans for the Wabash station at Pittsburg are completed and the work of demolishing the old buildings on the site has started. A building nine stories in height, with a train shed of steel and glass covering three blocks, costing more than $1,000,000, will be erected. It is hoped to have the structure completed by June. A young Englishman jumped from the . top of a Santa Fo freight car while crossing the Salt Fork bridge, near Ponca City, Ok., saying the momentum would carry him to the bank, and making a bet to that effect. He fell short, however, , striking a rock in the river, and was instantly killed. In his pockets were found evidences that he was the nephew of the Earl of Lonsdale. Mark W. Woods and George J. Woods, representing minority stockholders in the Lincoln, Neb., Traction Company, have filed a petition praying that a receiver be appointed for the Lincoln Heat, Light and Power Company. The petitioners allege that moneys belonging to the traction company have been illegally used to promote the interests of the heat and power company. In a north gale the schooner John Miner, bound from Harbor Springs to Detroit with a cargo of hardwood lumber, stranded on Point an Barques reef. Captain Norman McDonald and his crew

me nie-savmg crrWT The Bchooner will be a total loss. The Miner was one of the oldest vessels of t^e sail ring fleet on the great lakes. having v been built in 1866. The lost boat was owned and commanded by Captain Norman McDonald of Detroit. She was 134 feet long and registered 25!) tons.

NEWS NUGGETS Edmund Janes James has been formally installed as president of Northwestern University with pomp and ceremony. Philip Nesdal, an American owning a mine at Navidad, canton of Mascota, State of Jalisco. Mexico, has been murdered, presumably by miners. William 11. Williams, known as “King” Williams, was shot and instantly killed at Thirteenth and Lincoln streets. St. Louis, by Charles, alias "Beef,” Williams. Mary Keck, aged 16. committed suicide with carbolic acid in O'Fallon Park, St. Louis. Her mother arrived on the scene just in time to hold her daughter in her arms as she died. It is announced that the proposed si wing machine company trust has practically fallen through, the small companies refusing to join the big ones and holding their plants at fabulous figures. Earthquake shocks lasting several seconds were reported from many points in Tennessee and Georgia. The seismic disturbances were accompanied by muffled rumblings, resembling distant thunder. The State Legislature has adopted a municipal code for Ohio which provides an entire new system of government for seventy-two, municipalities. The vote in the Senate was 21 to 12 and in the house 65 to 35. I he west-bound Sioux City passenger train on the Omaha road collided with the Des Moines passenger at Lake Crystal, Minn., injuring several passengers and wrecking the rear sleeper on the Des Moines train. . . . -i man was detected attempting to climb a wail of the Elysee Palace. It is believed that he intended to hide in the palace garden in tne hope of obtaining an opportunitv to assassinate President Koubet. Commandant Snyman. formerly of the Boer army, has arrived at Mexico Citv' accompanied by Marshall Bond and Ereeve Merritt of New York, to confer with the government officials regardin'' the establishment of Boer colonists

b rank Tanke. under sentence of death for the murder of John Wellner, has been granted a new trial at Henderson. Minn Ihe case was a sensational one. Mrs.' lanke, who was formerly Mrs. Wellne-' confessing on the witness stand that she herself murdered her first husband. The Twin City, Minn.. Rapid Tl . ;lnsit <>ompany has acquired title to a twentv two-acre tract of land at University ami Snelling avenues. St. Paul. A bom' > - 009 was paid for the lam] and the company proposes to expend nearly $5(11) (Kjo norem bmldmgaml equipping a new ear building plant. r tr;^7 e m I i n "~ ered the business district of Albany. N. Y.. destroyed tlm Boston Store, owned by ’Power \ P i H md. A dance was in progr. ss , hp br’k 7 "hen the fire broke out, and a suorn v Jl "<' had a narrow esca^ Jl ' e " A traged.v was narrowlv , ... First Christian Church in Omaha/ 1 rh/ p ( J. ,, Ai | O " S 7'/ I,ad P^hered to hear lAre'lv^ V, ' s ’ ~n “f Irvington. Ind., at* Il escaped being thrown into thu Si w';, 1 '?"” 4 '" !'■“ however, and all escaped unhurt.

EASTERN. I The two hosiery mills of Henry Kra- ■ mer at Nazareth. Pa., were destroyed by fire. Loss SIOO,OOO. Miss Beatrice Blaine, niece of James G. Blaine, was married to Charles Francis Byrne in Washington. Hazing is virtually ended at West Point military academy, according to report of Col. A. L, Mills, superintendent. Fire destroyed the planing and molding mill of Schraft <& Co., Newark, N. J. J.oss $90,000, three-fourths covered by insurance. Charles R. Gager, 17 years old, who had his spine broken while playing football, died at St. Francis’ ho spital, HartI ford. Conn. Charles H. Ham, former appraiser at port of Chicago, and until recently president of board of United States general appraisers, died at Mont Clair, N. J. The five-story furniture factory of D. Wilfson & Sons in Baltimore was almost totally destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at $125,000, partly covered by insurance. M illiam Ziegler, New York, who backed Evelyn B. Baldwin arctic expedition, announced he has dropped Baldwin, but will send out another explorer to seek north pole. Michael Mosco, who, it is alleged, is wanted for a murder committed at Funes Run. near McDonald, Pa., a year ago, was arrested at Kings Mines, near Cambridge, Ohio. Adelaide Cawley, aged 7 years, died at a Pittsburg hospital, making the fifth •^•d as the result of the Homestead tragWly tor which .Charles Cawley, a young inventor, is now in jail. Miss Ida C. Craddock, priestess of Chicago “Church of the Yoga,” and author, committed suicide in New York. She was under conviction for sending improper literature by mail. The residence of Mrs. Nancy Sewell of Gospel Hill, near Erie, Pa., was struck and almost totally destroyed by lightn’ng. Mrs. Sewell was instantly killed and her daughter Josephine seriously injured. It is reported on the New York Stock Exchange that the Secretary of the Treasury had bought government bonds to the amount of $15,000,000. 1 The price is believed to have been about 137%. Paul Brigham, aged 7G years, alias Charles W. Bartlett, alias Arthur Keith, pleaded guilty at Pittsburg, Pa., to several swindle indictments/ and was sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary. Simpson Brothers, manufacturers of dress goods at Manayuuk, made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors to W. M. Longstreth of Sehili, Taylor & Longstreth, ^ arn merchants in Philadelphia. The Grand Hotel at Point Chautauqua, one of the largest and finest hotels around Chautauqua Lake, burned to the ground, togeiher with the amusement hall and a summer cottage owned by the hotel company. The loss will be fully $200,000. The plant of the American Glue Company at Springdale, sixteen miles east of Pittsburg, was destroyed by tire, causing a loss of $120,000, which is covered by insurance. This fire was the fourth in a month, and it is thought to have been the work of incendiaries. Baltimore customs officers seized a lot of jewelry and fancy goods conceal -d about the persons of Rev. L. Sternberg of Urbana, Ind., and Mrs. Charles Eggert of Wichita, Kan., who arrived on the Frankfurt from Bremerhaven. The articles were confiscated, though the minister wept and offered to pay the duly. William Rooney, a collector for the

*w~«4«Bisterdam Gas Company, was o i c c * >, ’, who b( him with a poker almost into insensil itv QTI/1 nAnw.. J .. 1- .111 . r »

" ity and poured a kettle of boiling water over him when he called at her house to c- collect a bill. Both were fatally hurt. ” C barges of wholesale robbery of manufactured silk by an organized gang have been investigated by the grand jury of Passaic County at Uaterson, N. J., and as a result indictments have been found f- against Jacob L. Simon, a justice of the i- peace, alleged to be the financier and head of the gang; John J. Kelly and Frederic Wilson. a I'rank J. Field, a prominent contractor l, o f Law Fence County, Pa., was placed in jail at Newcastle, charged with the murder of City Treasurer John Blevens, who ” was found dead in his office in January, t ^7s’ ’ s sa >d that his brother, Judson ~ Field, made a deathbed confession, implicating himself, his brother and other prominent officials. e WESTERN, r The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company - has voluntarily raised the wages of its - miners. Ten thousand men are affected. 3 Mayor William C. .Maybury of Detroit, ; Mich., has been nominated by the Democratic city convention for a fourth term. The Bank of Summit, S. D., was blown 1 up by robbers and the vault looted. The . loss is estimated at from SIO,OOO to S2O - . 000. St. Paul road officials have signed the Omaha gateway contract with Union Pacific, which gives line a through route , to coast. A dozen or more persons were injured b.v an electric car colliding with freight cars at a grade crossing in East Liverpool, Ohio. James Younger, the bandit, paroled from the Minnesota penitentiary, committed ruicide because of his inability to secure a complete pardon. . A well has been drilled on the farm of George Z, Wwi- rc = — uum—ui. Kan., the output of which is esti- , mated at 100 barrels a day. ihe engine of a west-bound Chic-rm and Alton freight train was derailed eigh? miles east of Kansas City, injuS three trainmen, one fatally. s The corning mill of the Miami Powder Company s plant at Xenia, Ohio, was testroyed by an explosion and Joseph Griffin was almost instantly killed. . l * a / containiu g $50,000 worth Iti?^ ”7 P °g tal Ordors is missing. < Fast ® u PP° s ed to have been lost between f La. t Liverpool and Smith’s Ferry Ohio | Henry Ges wine and Charles Davidson’ section men on the Norfolk and Western’ , Railway, were instantly killed and Frank ’ Geswme Seriously injured near Ironton,

1 he engine of west-bound Chicago and Alt™, fn-i-b, x „. s - .va.XS eight miles east of Kansas City, injuring fatMlv traiUlnen ’ Ellgiueer Lee Afachen Waiter Dideck of Forbes, Mo., and S. M. Hines and his daughter of Murray \7 ro l . seriousl y inirt in a collision on the Burlington Railroad near St loseph, Mo. Two persons were killed, one fatally and three slightly injured in an explosion which partially wrecked the tugboat City l W]- liS ° f St ' L ° uis ’ near -W”“iid Archbishop Ireland aud Bishops Cotter ami Irobec. assisted by twenty priests, dedicated the new church of St. Marvs at Eve ’ Ali " n ’ The edifice will cost $150,900. A burglar who had entered the "iris’ dormitory at Hanlin College. Me/mo, Mo„ byway of a fire escape and stolen money and jewelry from the rooms of various students was finally put to flight

by Miss Bertha Pattongill of Atlanta, 111., a Latin teacher. He escaped before an alarm could be given. George Hodges, colored, was found near Norfolk, Neb., with his throat cut. He was still alive. He charged two fellow workmen w^h assaulting him and robbing him of S2O. Fire at Urbana, Ohio, destroyed the Tucker wood rim factory. Loss $70,000. Charles Migret, Son of the watchman, was burned to death, and another son may die from his injuries. Drilling for oil for fuel purposes is solving the serious fuel question in the West. Two more strikes have been made at Spring Valley. Wyo.. and it is reported a third was made near Fossil. Illinois Federation of Labor convention. East St. Louis, voted to urge its 400.000 members not to support State militia, and to withdraw if in service; militia was called capital's tool. The large brick power house of the Helena. Mont., Light and Power Company, near the Great Northern passenger station, and its contents were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss o£ $50,000. The Big Four “twentieth century flyer” was wrecked tit Flint, Ohio, on the Cleveland division, by running into an open switch. The entire train left the traclj except the last two coaches. Ten persons were injured. Two hundred people wrecked the building in which Riseman’s “joint,” or illicit saloon, was conducted at Longford. Kan. They smashed twenty cases of beer, ten kegs of whisky and tarred and feathered a woman inmate. Seven thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds and precious stones were stolen from the counter in the First National Bank building in Duluth, Minn. The victim was Mrs. T. D. Merrill, a prominent society woman.

SOUTHERN. Two persons were killed and fifteen injured in a wreck at Lewis, Texas. The International and Great Northern branch passenger train was crossing the main line when a freight train ran into the chair car. cutting it in twain. Al G. Field, the widely known minstrel, was operated on at Mobile, Abt., for the removal of an abscess caused from an injury received in Jacksonville, Fla.. Oct. 3. Unless blood poisoning ensues the patient • will soon be well, his physicians say. The safe in the Illinois Central depot at Litchfield. Ky.. was blown open and robbed. The burglars forced the telegraph operator. Holmes Proctor, to surrender at the point of a pistol. Then they bound him and locked him in a box ear. After nearly a week of dodging mobs Jim Buchanan, colored, the alleged murderer of the Hicks family, has been safely lodged in the east Texas penitentiary. The Governor has directed two companies of militia to accompany the negro to Nacogdoches for trial. A bill which has been drawn up against John 1). White, former Congressman from the Tenth District of Kentucky, was dismissed by the grand jury. Mr. White was charged with shooting at Fred Giesla. an employe at the Louisville Homi' Telephone Company. Albert Brown, colored, was found guilty in the Circuit Court of killing Levi Brown in Evergreen, Ala., in 1871, and has been sentenced to prison for life. Although it is thirty-one years since he committed the crime, when he faced the court there were three eye witnesses to the killing prepared to swear that he inflicted the fatal knife wound. After a three days’ session -in Louisville the Kentucky State railroad com'cmi I nfissiorfers mrvo' cmblfrcrrTt* am.-mVI

ed to the interstate commerce commission at \\ ashington a formal complaint against the alleged consolidation of the Louisville and Nashville, Atlantic (’oast Line. Southern Railway, Monon and Cincinnati. New Orleans and Texas Pucitie railroads.

FOREIGN. Lord Kitchener has started for India to assume command of the British forces there. He goes byway of Paris and will visit Khartum. Absolute secrecy was maintained regarding all the arrangements for his departure, so he got away unnoticed. Ihe British Parliament opened with threats of armed revolt by Irish members; Balfour obtained suspension \>f all but government business over protests by Irish and radicals; John O’Donnell shook his fist in Balfour's face and was suspended. Residents of St. Vincent Island demanded recall of Gov. Sir Robert Lleweliyu by British government: he is accused of holding back supplies from volcanic sufferers to force emigration to Jamaica; American donations are said to be rotting in warehouses. The civil commission at Manila will probably increase the Philippine appropriation for the St. Louis exposition exhibit by SIOO,OOO. making the total $350.000. Fair Commissioner Barrett has addressed a meeting of Filipinos, which -was arranged by Gov. Taft, on the subject, and tne sentiment of the meeting was in favor of the increase. Residents of the Danish West Indios are rejoicing at the prospect of an early settlement of the sale question. They are all in favor of annexation. Col. Rambusch, the emissary of the anti-sale party in Denmark, sailed on the Fontabelle fur New York. His mission to the islands was a failure. He is reported to have said there had been a misrepresentation of the situation to tluv uxicc-sttm D-irtv”"oT uenmai-K. * m

IN GENERAL. An auction sale of some of the effects Ao r es Wescott, author of David Harum,” brought $75. The National Candy Company, composed of candy firms all over the country has been organized. St. Louis will be the headquarters of the combine. Weekly trade reviews say settlement of coal strike removes only serious obstacle to industrial progress, though some lines are handicapped by car shortage. Beef magnates have perfected their merger. In Trenton, N. J., on Fri<i was incorporated the United States Packing Company -with a capital stock of $1 . 000,900.

Louise .Montague sued John A David son, president of marble company f or SIOO 000 for failure to keep alleged prmm se that he would give her a home and his life insurance if she would quit stage The schooner Lillian was driven ashore at Grates Point, near St. John’s N F and is a total wreck. One woman'and two men lost their lives. The schooner Rosebud rescued the remainder o f the Two Mexicans were rim over by a train at Agna I’rieta. across the Interim, tmmil line from Douglass. Artz. One uis killed ami the other bajly injured. Tho trainmen were immediately arrested and placed in the Mexican jail. An unexpected question has arisen j r connection with the bids for the construe 1 lion of buildings for the permanent army post at Chickamauga Park. Each of the bids received for the work complete amounts to over $1,009,000. and the* an liropriation by the War Department is but half that amount.

BACK TO THE MINES. the great anthracite coal STRIKE CECLARED OFF. Miners’ Convention at Wilkesbarre Adopts President Roosevelt’s Arbitration Plan by Unanimous Vote — Commission Meets at Once. I Bj a unanimous viva voce vote the eenvention of United Mine Workers at Wilkesbarre, l’a., accepted President Roosevelt’s arbitration [dan shortly before noon Tuesday. Great cheers greeted the announcement of the result. The iesolution as adopted carries with it a declaration that the strike is off and provides for an immedi; ;e resumption of work in ; the coal mines ‘uroughout the anthracite | region. President M a. e ]| told the convention ! that President r oosevelt had informed I him that he w call a meeting of the j arbitration con ^sion immediately after I the convention ' acceptance of his pro- • posal, and Mr Mitchell gave it as his i opinion to the legates that the finding’ | ‘of the arbitrators would be annou’w'ed ' within a month. The end of Re convention n>-d of the ; great strike w|' r, i has lasted ‘>ve months | suddenly appclzkl close r- hand. President Mitchell,l flter t lc convention had ■ given itself ovl 'to 'eated debate for an ' hour and a his-arose and calmly told , the delegates tip >t must be apparent to all of them thatf H ’ r c was no doubt whatever that the sideut's proposal would be adopted. —tAeyn a renewal i f the serious o, ition of The steam mei and heated v is had passed betweer delegates. Vote fs Unanimous, Explanations- of the i’resident's pro posal had been made in four foreign lan guages. Then beemed to be more opp<>sition than ev< f to settlement, when sud dcnly there w •« a break in the clouds when a motio was put by a delegate down in front, ^lear the presiding officer. In a clear v< -e the strike leader called for a vote on yie all-important question and instantly t ^re was a roar of ayes. The next in ant messengers were living in all dire -Hons from the convention to give the n lavs to the world Hundreds ofLmiuers who were not delegates filled t | sidewalks and str-ets near the eutri nee to the Nesbitt Tb-a ter, where th iivcntion had met. ami the news quick spread among the men. and the faces c 1 men who had suffered hardships since llast May at once became brighter. , After the striike had been declared . ff there was soiml routine business, including the usual w.>tes of thanks, and then shortly before 1 o'clock the conventi >n adjourned sine । lie. It was eviden t when the delegates as scmbled that th ry were in a most Imp •- ful mood. Sonic said that the arbitration committee Wullk 1 be even of more benefit to future gonen ations in the coal fields than the pres<j"t; and anyhow it would

11 M —— ..... * ■ • ■ •■ • ■ ■ • 4 ' • - ’ «I I 1• " 1 1 ■1 J I MEN INSTRUMENTAL IN SETTLING THE GREAT COM STRIKE । A ii I J „ Jh.. >- f , \ ( Z'| x / PBESII BOOSEVELT. j. PIEBIOXT MOHOAS. JOUX MITCm LI.. =- = = — = = . -

— ~~Z ! put before the Public the whole situation in detail as be jween the miners and operators, in as: r and thorough way. Text i' ■ Resolutions. We, the Counn littee on Resolutions, beg leave to recoinnu - 'd that the following eonimunlcation be ■.""’ptid and forward.'! to Theodore Rooses ®h, President of the L nited States of Amer : Tiie Hon. Them - Roosevelt, Washington. IL C. Dear Sir—Wo, c representatives of tHe employes of the irlous coal companies engaged’in operrtlln mines in the Hnthrai-ite coal fields of linj r i.vlvania in convention assemlded huvffj, "nder consideration y. nr telegram of Oct. L* l -. addressed to John Mitehell, Presid * nt ,lie Foiled Mine Workers cf Am ric:! . which reads as follows: “I have apt jilted as Commissioners Brig. Gen. John' f - Wilson, E. W. Parker. Judge Georg: Gt I J'. E. E. Clark. Thomas E. Watkins, hishot J - I- Spalding, with Carroll D. Wright / P recorder. These names were accepted 1 'J the operators and 1 now earnestly ask and urge that the miners likewise’ accept thiK Commission, it is a matter of vital o-icern to all our people, and especially to t! in o'"' great cities who are least well i .-that the mining of coal should lie resnm u without a moment's unnecessary delav.' We have deci 1,1 t 0 accept the proposition therein emi and submit al! questions at issue tween the operators and mine workers at -V‘‘ anthracite coal region for adjustment v Ihe Commission which you have named

port work o) v uixlay morning. Oct. 23. In the posit!" and working place occupied b.v us pric to the inauguration of the strike. We havo nntt.o' rd John Mitchell, President or the Unite a Mine Workers of America, with such ass 'Lints as he may select, to 1 epresent us in u-uheariugs before the Commission. j a JOB n MITCHELL, ( Ihairman of Convention. W. }. WILSON, Secretary of Convention.

Statistic s of the Strike. Strike began May 12 1902 durat Bon 1 162 davs Miners and others thrown out of work 183,560 ; Number of women affected 105,000 Number of chlldn m affected.... 285,000 , Capital invested i a coal mines. .$511,500,0<:0 Loss to operators I n price of coal 55,100.000 Loss to strikers It । wages 28,700,000 Loss to employe * s other than strikers I 6,900,000 Loss to railroads 1 n earnings.... 13,400,000 Loss to business i pen in the regions 16,800,000 Loss to business n ien outside the regions 10,300.000 Cost of maintainin r C oal and iron police 2,300.000 Cost of maintain lug non-union men 650,000 Cost of maintainin - troops in the regions 850,600 Damage to mines and machinery 6,300,000 Total $142,500,000 BIG STOCK OF COAL LOST. Eleven Loaded Barges Sink in the Dh_ jo Kiver. One hundred and fifty thousand bushels of bituminous ; coal, a portion of the cargo of the adv ance guard of the coal fleet bound from Pittsburg to the South, ■were sunk in th' > Ohio river near Cattlettsburg, Ky., a s a result of a collision of the towboat F red Wilson with a dike. In addition to the”" “ coal lost, eleven barges were sunk, while a number which were cut loose and float red down the river were secured only aftet • a hard struggle.

A WELCOME EVENT. , r ■ll -Li' । mu । ——

Lncle Sam “1 am mighty glad you came, boys; 1 was clear down to the bottom of the bin. ”

SOFT COAL NEEDS CARE. Those NA ho Ise !>■ tuin inous Fuel Must Learn to Hatidle It. How many people understand how to ; burn soft coal? Os course, the problem [Uesents but little dillieulty when proper furnaces and specially prepared ..'rates i are installed for the purpose, but .vhen i one turns hurriedly from one to the other | fuel with the determination to make pres- i ent fixings do, something more than a will ; is required to find the way . <>f course, there is away and it is simple enough ■ in reality, but it is a very different way ft om that which must be employed with I anthracite. ’ i In the feed door of every furnace there is a slide damja r to admit air over the I fire. When anthracite is used this is opened only if it is desired to deaden the | tire and lower the' temperature of the' house. \\ Ith soft coal it must be left "pen all the time. The great volume of gases evolv >d i from it in the coking process, which is the I first stage in its combustion, calls for , iimre air than can be had through thelt ■ody of fuel, atid unless this is supplied I ibove tile fire the greatest value of the It ttel is lost np the chimney in unc.m-. , mmed gases. I (

Too much ai; lor goo 1 combustion can be admitted over the tire, but it is not | likely to be the case if the slide damper I in the feed door of a furnace built for I anthracite is left wide open all the time. The drafts opening in the ash pit. on the other hand, needs to be less widely and continuously open than for anthracite. With the same amount of bottom draft which it is customary to give hard coal, soft coal would sim ilate the combustion in a blast furnace and call for constant stoking. The konst bidder must also remember that the check draft in the smok - pipe, which with anthracite is nstally xZ. r 'Srt I I rttAH 5 ' 'r —o”®’

Heighi I /R orcs ft m. I 11 cratt (a wots. HOW TO MANIPULATE FURNACE DRAFTS, kept open in moderate weather, cannot be opened much if tiny with soft coal, or the house will fill with smoke. The best way is to leave it closed altogether. With the attention to these details, which reverse the customary practice with anthracite, a furnace may be run on bituminous coal so as to keep a house entirely comfortable. To the novice perhaps the most difficult problem will be in keeping the lire going all night, but even this is easy when one knows how to do it. In this case the first requisite is one or two big lumps of coal, big enough between them to cover completely the entire surface of the fire, then slack must be heaped high over this and beaten or pressed down into as solid a mass as possible. 'l’lie idea, it will be readily seen, is to shut off quick drafts, to force the lire to burn slowly and evenly as possible, and to cause combustion to last as long as | possible. This method of “banking a tire” is commonly resorted to in countries where milder winters and less abundant supplies of anthracite make hard coal furnaces rare ami costly. With soft coal it is a matter of a few minutes only to get the fire going and the kettle boiling for breakfast. It kindles nearly as easily as shavings and the coke of the previous fire does not have to be removed from the fire pot. All that is necessary is to shake down the fine ash and make th* new fire upon what remains.

MISS CLARA BARTON, WHOM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HONORED. Miss CLARA BARTON, Mis Uhira Barton, who was given the extra ordinary honor of being escorted to her seat on the stage by President" Roosevelt at the public gathering in Detroit, in which the President addressed the veterans of the Spanish war. has been the president of the American National

Red Cross Association since its organization in 1881. She is one of the most honored philanthropists in the world. Miss Barton is a native of Massa Liusetts and is now 72 years old. EX-BANDIT ENDS HIS LIFE. James Younger Kills Himself in a Hot.l at St. Paul. James Younger, the famous ex-bandit, who wSs paroled a little over a year ago from the penitentiary at Stillwater, killed

himself in a room in the Reardon Hotel in St. L’anl, Minn. IL- was evidently m-ane. He was found with a revolver clinched in Ids right hand. He had used his left hand to steady the revolver when he held it to his temple. His

clothes were neatly folded and everything in the room showed he had made careful preparation to end bis life. The police found a package of letters ^that had passed beiw^^i Younger and a

wim wmmr he is said to have been in love. The woman, who is prominently connected, is said to have reciprocated his affection, and it was reported ' at one time that they were to be married. ! 1 Iler relatives raised objections, and a i further obstacle was the fact that it was ! ' pointed out that a paroled prisoner could I not legally contract a marriage. The i couple determined to disregard the objections of relatives and an effort was j made to overcome the other obstacle to j their marriage by securing from the State , board of pardons a full pardon and res- , toration to citizenship. This effort faih’d. and this, it is thought, had much to do with Younger's determination to end iiis HIS SECOND TRIAL. Kolancl Molinetix Putting Up Anol lie. Fight for His Life. The second trial of Roland B. Molineux for the murder of Mrs. Katherine .1. Adams was begun in New York before '

Justice John S. Lambert. The pr- - cecdings were mark- : ed by the unusual I rapidity with which j I 1 jurors were obiain- I ed. six talesmen ' having b"en accept- • ed and sworn bes-ire the court adjoured. Immediately after the prisoner had been brought into court Gen. Molincnx seated himself by

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the side of his son. The prisoner was represented by former Gov. Black, former District Attorney W. M. K. Olcott. Barlow S. Weeks and George Gordon I Battle.

REPORT ON CROPS OF WORLD. Government Figure, sh ow the Harvest Abroad Is Very Eate. The Department of Agriculture’s summary of the crops of the world shows that owmg to the remarkable cool and wet summer in a considerable part of Europe the harvest of 1902 is one of theIntest on n-cord. The promise of an ebundant yteld. therefore, has been only panly fulfilled m Europe, allowing fob'rain gatl.g-e, l ln a damaged condition case </I t spoiled. In tb» case of bread grams there will be a demand among millers in the countries so suffering for good, dry grain to mix with the home product. Considered by cmntries, the report savs: tbe h whX n ‘re'’'V l , K " ssi;,n estimate makes roe wheat, rye. barley and cats < ron of tb»» exl”'X J"n i:,r “' r ,ha " H bu" iso.- aVf ' r; >K<' for the five years r>- S i" f Tv t x>un,)K each; barley, 252,m’ we £ ’ >" f ZT 1 ' igbt P ,un<,s .v. 1,. .., htishus of thirty-two pound*

Throughout about fmn-fifths of the German Empire harvesting was delayed bv t-e---quent rams and there was still u.ueh graia In the he.ds in the middle of September the Austrian official reports for Sept 15 say are good, average ■non?' "h’.r, r '<‘ is only medium to go< <l as the lion , ‘taality of the g ra i D . so S fa “ Hk-e secured under anything tory f ’ ,e c ® n4Utl on». is mostly satisfacFrom Hungary the official report for Senam, received at the department here, showe iome rstFets^i S ’ l T’ >re " fr " ni an m.V 1 pla ? ts Producing no ears, e-r nJ, P ? he grala r'poned before the- ■ c aV.a^ed a normal development 4 Ine ** * ■*;* uiiu ...» I ’ IlViigT as k he ?' esr In n) any years. For I 1 e Production is estimated at 76.230.I ‘< ls bushels. Rye j s estimated at G. 058,468

bushels; barley, 24,€71,040 bushels, and ■ ata 31..4.,A0.’, bushels. The Bulgarian cereal crops are fairly satlsfa< tory. The wheat is particular.y good in yield, though a little deficient in quadt.v. The French ministry of agriculture lias issued a preliminary report giving the wheat production of France as, g. 00,. <no | ’;>!•<.;<_ a n increase of over 13 P< : unt over i;a I. Ihe crops in Beluum are stated to be comparatively satisla^ t< ry. in Great Britain the area und°r wheat cultivation is 25,5(18 acres greater than in J"” 1 - ‘he recent weather through Great Britain has gieatly heqied its farmers in conqdi ting their belati d harvests. Jlarvi sting is progressing favorably in Henmark. Rye and wheat are <f normal y ield and good quality. The wheat < r p f Italy, according to [Hi -ent indications will be ajq.r. Ximately 13u.<jm).<XiO bushel-. The recent rains in .Argentine entirely saved the ere.[,s. and it is expect-d that the yields wi.l exceed last year by over 40 per cent. Wheat areas in Australia have been helped i n \'. v GeutraLy favorable reports of eoimug cn ; s have been received from all piovunes of India. Ibe rice crop of Japan, hurt by the wet summer, probably win be below the average. ’J lie offi. ial estimate cf Spain Is that that country wi.l have the largest wheat cron for many ywirs. mid will have a considerable suridus for exj. rtation. Ike Nile food inis year is the lowest is tin- last twenty-live years, although the scarcity of water will partly be compensated for by the new work- executed by the British government, the crops in upper Egypt are likely to suffer. Whatever water’ is available in Egypt will be principally applied to the cotton crop, leaving beans, maize, lentils, etc., to Lear the chief effect of the scarcity. V/. c. T. U. MEETING BEGINS. Opening of Twenly-nintli Annual Convention at Portland, Me.

The twenty-ninth annual convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperanee Union opened at Portland. Me.. Fri-

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LADY SOMERSET.

C. T. U.. and the Rev. Henry S. Saunders of London, England, were among the distinguished workers present. The convention was called to order by President Stevens, who delivered her anI mini address. Mrs. Susanna M. D. Fry I of Illinois made her report as corrcspondj ing secretary. The report stated that the I Manila organizer had reported that some- ! ill-will had been engendered by the *‘cani teen" victory. Encouraging reports have ■ been received from the Bermudas. Cuba I and Mexico. The national treasurer. Mrs. Helen Morton Barker, reported that the National M'. C. T. U. had made a net a in of $7,097 and receipts from the Frances E. I Willord memorial fund, $4,417 (more ! than in any previous year). Pledges amounting to $1,132. for Manila missionary work, had been received, the treasurer said. Responses to several addresses of wel- । '“ome were made by Mrs. Margaret Dye i Ellis, New Jersey, national supcrinteni dent ' f legislation, and Miss Belle KenrI ney of Missouri, national lecturer. Lady j Henry Somerset was the last speaker. Indiana’s Pi-.orce Record. The Indiana State statistician has c< mI piled tables showing the relation between ; marriage and divorce in Indiana for the ' year ending June 30 last and finds that i for every seven marriage licenses iss . d. there is one divorce, or that 13 per c< at i of the marriages are followed by legal ' separations. The totals of the tables comj piled by the statistician are as follows: i Marriage licenses. 26,914; divorces grant- ' ed, 3,553. j : AGRICULTURAL NEWS. It is reported that one-half of the potato crop of New York State will be ruined by blight, caused by -wet weather. The disease known as "little peach.” which appeared in the rich Michigan fruit belt, is spreading rapidly in spite of all. efforts to arrest it. No remedy is known. Consul General Mason at Berlin reports that the wet weather has made an impending calamity to the cereal harvest of the year. Especial injury has been done to the beet crop. An estimate of this year’s grain yield, in the United States gives the totals in bushels as follows: Wheat. 778.1 HKIJKG,. Minnesota leading; corn. 2.50(>.<HK).()(i0, b wa leadir.v. and oats, Nss.<><ni.<hjo. with Illinois in ihe lead, and two States. Missouri and South Dakota, not yet counted in. Tables recently published show that Loui-mimi is now the chief lice State in the Union, raising more of this staple t'l.-in al! the other States put Lig-'ticT. S > i:h ( ar".i i ami Georgia ha'- tahen off one-third in their ric prodm ti n since the Civil W.ir. Artificial irriga'i m by scientific • chod.s is the reason of Louisiana’- mcri'Jse. Ihe I nited Stat-"- now imports about as much rice as it grows at home. An lowa company is to invest 51.000.i i'i in s-sing out a A 1 appl“ cr-.-unr 1 i'l Missouri. The ’Frisco railroad will run a track through it. ami 'b'pots mid wartlmns's will be built hr the storage of the product. An evap-nating plant, vim .nr and cider plant and a canning establishment will be cri cted to lake care of cmtv part of the prodwt. Daring the six years < f waiting fur the first crop corn, peaches, berries and other crops wui be planted for quicker returns.

/O? JIM YOUNGER.

day night. Every State and territory in the Union was represented. Mrs. L. ' W. c. T. U. r"^r-

V <1 •• large of the World's W. C. T. U., presided. Lady Henry Somerset, president of the World's W.