Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 6, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 August 1903 — Page 2

Jn&cpendcnt. M . A. EAULKY, I’llUllwHor. WALKERTON. - . . INDIANA. CIRCLING THE GLOBE Nebraska Republicans in State convention commended the administration of I resident Roosevelt and favored his re nomination; declared for rhe protective tariff and suggested John 1,. Webster of Omaha as their candidate, for Vice-Presi-dent. Pennsylvania Railroad oiikials are said to be planning to oust the Western Union Telegraph Company from their lines west of Pittsburg on the first of next .year. The decision may mean a repetition of the destructive campaign waged by the railroad men in the East recently. As a result of the western wheat tieup and dullness in the traffic, notably iii* steel, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company laid off 1,990 of its shop men at Altoona. Pa. The men were not discharged. but were simply^dd to go honw u dW. .^P** demand poiv'er and cars. buggy cosfi&inS^Knd|^%s was wrecked by a streetcar on the Electric Parkline in Kansas City. Mollie Berens was perhaps fatally hurt, and Ida Cross. George Underwood and James Goodwin were seriously injured. The motorman and conductor were arrested, but later released. Fire destroyed th® three upper floors of the Masonic Temple, at the corner of Superior and ' Bond streets, Cleveland, and flooded the lower floors with water. The building was occupied by a number of Masonic lodges and commanderies on the three upper floors, while the lower floors were occupied by stores and offices. The., directors estimate the loss at $75 - 000. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .. .66 35 Brooklyn ... .49 51 New Y0rk...61 40 Boston 41 55 Chicago ....,61 41 St. Louis 36 70 Cincinnati ...54 46 Philadelphia. .31 61 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: ^W. L. W. L. Boston 64 36 Detroit 49 49 Philadelphia..sß 44 St. Louis 45 53 Cleveland .. .55 46 Chicago 46 55 New York.. .49 47 Washington.. .32 68 Ibrevitie^ Seven women were arrested and five were fined $lO and costs for smashing irp a joint at Derby. Kan. Deaths in the Texas oil fields are causing a scarcity of labor, and wages at some points are said to be $6 a day. Judge Henry L. Bidwell i f Clarks Forks, one of the most prominent men of central Idaho, was accidentally killed. Dr. James Brien, of Essex. Out., says he restored to life by electricity an infant Chat had beeiidead apparently for fifteen minutes. The explosion of a thrashing machine engine near Coshocton, Ohio resulted in the death of one and the serious injury of three others. Fred Vunderbill names the new mil-Jion-doi’ar dormUugy lie has given to Yale the "Uunieiius Vanderbilt” dormitory, in memory of his late brother.

Navesink National Bank of Red Bank, N. J.. is Closed by the Comptroller of the Currency, shortages and a false report having been disclosed. James S. Revelle, a prominent citizen and widely known horseman of Toledo, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting. No cause for the act is known. Os the twenty-four cases of bubonic plague at Paeasmayo, Peru, fifteen deatlis are reported. The situation is alarming, as the disease appears to be in virulent form. The grand jury at Memphis returned sixty-four indictments against hotel-keepers, saloon-keepers and grocers charged with operating slot machines for gambling purposes. Because they expressed the hope that Poland would be independent again, fifty Polish girls, three of them school teachers, have been arrested for treason at Gnesen, East Prussia. While a party of children—one boy and seven girls—ranging in age from 8 to 15 years, were boating at Lurich Station, Va., the boat capsized and live of the girls were drowned. A cablegram has been received at the State Department in Washington from Minister Beaupre at Bogota saying that the Panama Canal treaty has been rejected by the Colombian Senate. Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York World, has donated §2,000,000 to establish a school of journalism in connection with Columbia University. A building will be erected for'the work. Chicago Scandinavians have formed a company to mine diamonds in the Brazilian fields, long unworked. The South African supply is ’said to be failing, and the Chicago promoters may soon have a monopoly. Thomas R. Morgan, a millionaire lumberman of Oshkosh, Wis., was Giot and killed by Frederick ITampel, a drunken employe, who afterward committed suicide in his cell by hanging himself with suspenders. Mrs. Stephen Wyer was killed and her mother, Mrs. Philip Stateler, and her brother. Charles Stateler, were seriously and perhaps fatally injured in a runaway accident at Fostoria. Ohio. The horse dashed into a railway train. In St. Louis some party, whose identity is not known, entered the room of Flagislino Montesano, an Italian resident. and dangerously stabbed him four times with a stiletto. The assailant is supposed to belong to the Mafia. Grasshoppers are so thick near Red Lodge. Mont., that millions are crushed each day under locomotive wheels, and when the engines stop the hoppers make the wheels so slippery it is difficult to start trains again. The insects have eaten the range bare. At Toledo scrub women have formed a trust. Two month- ago hey raised their wages from SI to $1.25 a day; now they demand SI. 59 and two meals n day. Cleaners in public schools and office buildings, as well as in private houses, are included. Scarcity of help compels the granting of the demand. Fire starting in a shed in which stock drovers slept destroyed annex B of the Union Stock 5 ards in Cincinnati, causing a loss of §60,0W. A largo quantity of live stock narrowly escaped destruction and three num were severely injured. The strfbles of M. F. Brown and Robert West were also destroyed. From 9 o’clock Saturday night until 3 o’clock Sunday morning the st?<'e; s „f Benwood, W. Va.. were the scene of a wild riot. The striking machinists and the nonunion men who replaced them at the Riverside plant of the National Tube Company (dashed and many shots were exchanged. But two men were known to be wounded by the flying bullet®

EASTERN. Richard Canfield won $200,000 in Wall street on Reading. The Crucible Steel plant of Pittsburg will continue shut down until October. Employes expected to resume Work this week. C. D. Ellis of New York drove his automobile into a locomotive in Switzerland, injuring the big engine but leaving his machine unscathed. The battleship Massachusetts struck a rock near Bar Harbor, Me., and several P„/ es '"' e re cracked, two compartments filling with water quickly. I resident Roosevelt reviewed the North Atlantic squadron in Long Island sound. The destroyer Decatur was rammed by the Barry during the maneuvers, but neither was seriously damaged. Miss Sarah Jefferson, granddaughter ot Joseph Jefferson, submitted to an operatmn at Buzzard's Bay. Mass., to supply skin for a grafting operation on the wile of her grandfather’s coachman.

I he American fishing tug Silver Spray. was lired on and damaged in Dake Erie by the Canadian revenue cuter 1 etrel while in debatable water near ie boundary line. Complications may ensue. , 9/ a wealthy tobacco er or Nets Yvrk, has purchased twenty 'acres' ni’ext'?!.. which will by turntaL into a free sanitarium for poor The north elevatof on the Navy Department side of the State, War and Navy building at Washington fell from the second floor to,- the basement. Six, clerks were in the elevator at the time, but no one was injured. Edmund J. Smith, former discount clerk in the Merchants’ National Bank of Newark. N. J., who is sensed of having stolen $29,000 from the' bank and who disappeared about two weeks ago, has been arrested in Williamson, Va. Louisa Francesco, aged 6 years, died of injuries received by the explosion of an oil can at her home on Langtry street. Allegheny, Pa. Her mother and three sisters received dangerous burns also and are in a critical condition at the hospital. At York, Pa., while driving to church Mary Long was killed and James Moran seriously injured by being struck by a trolley car. Moran, who was driving, attempted to cross the track in front of a moving car. which could not be stopped. WESTERN. Fire destroyed the Barton salt plant in Hutchinson. Kan. The loss is $59,000. Milton Jeffries, 65, was instantly killed at Greenville, Ohio, in a runaway accident. I ire in the United Verde copper mines in Arizona has burned down to the 700foot level. For the want of harvesting hands much wheat in Kansas is still uncut and will soon go to waste. Fred J. Wardlow, who is serving ten years for manslaughter, escaped from the Nebraska penitentiary at Lincoln. Prof. M. J. McGee, ethnologist of the St. Louis exposition, has resigned his position in the Smithsonian Institution. A Denver and Rio Grande passenger train went through a bridge near Nathrop, Colo., causing the injury of fourteen passengers. It began snowing in Omaha at 10 o clock the other day and continued for several hours. The snow, howevvfeuueu.^ ed nearly as fast as it fell. ‘ ‘

Flood in Kansas River and its tribu- s taries, caused by heavy rains, endangered temporary bridges at Kansas City. Abilene streets were inundated. Gilbert Grigg, an insane student, shot a score of persons at a band concert at Winfield. Kpn„ .’.nd ended his own life by shooting. Panic resulted, and others were hurt. Gov. Dockery commuted the death sentence of Newton J. Privitt of Milan. Mo., to life imprisonment. Privitt was under sentence to hang on Aug. 25 for killing Jol*i W. Wolf. A part of the British display at the world's fair in St. Louis will embrace an exhibit in low temperature investigation. demonstrating the properties of liquid hydrogen. Bank President F. W. Whitaker and Ben Strauss of Hamilton, Ohio, were seriously injured in a collision between a street car and an automobile. Others were slightly hurt. Fire destroyed Radcliffe & Co.'s fourstory warehouse at Grand Rapids. Mich., causing a loss of more than §IOO,OOO. The building was filled with furniture owned by local deniers. At Camden, Ark., fire destroyed the large compresses and warehouses of Ritchie & Co. and Reeves & Son, and two other business houses. The loss is §100,000; insurance small. Forty-seven citizens of Idaho Springs, Colo., including the acting Mayor, members of the Council and bankers, are under arrest charged with driving union miners out of the community. G. S. Brainerd, a prominent lumberman and banker of Minnesota, has disappeared under circumstances which lead to a suspicion of suicide. His bank at Montgomery. Minn., is closed. Bert Sheppard, son of W. N. Sheppard, one of the wealthiest coal operators in lowa, is under arrest at Muscatine charged with robbery and the murder of Arthur Meade of West Liberty, lowa. In Indianapolis, Kay Wood, colored. Shot James Sanders., while, ii» »»u argument over how much education a negro should have. Wood fled. He was pursued and finally shot. Both men will recover. By request the world’s fair management at St. Louis has fixed Oct. 7, 1904. for anti-cigarette day. An effort will be made to have smoking on the grounds that day made a nuisance punishable by arrest. Mrs. Lillie Maude Evans, a Kansas City woman, who gained a record for nerve by driving a truck through crowds of jeering strikers, was killed while asleep by her husband, who then slew himself. Otto Lockhart, secretary of the Free Methodist Sunday school at Pana, 111., committed suicide because Miss Daisy Hunter, a teacher, decided to go to Africa as a missionary instead of becoming his wife. Noah Brooks, once well-known writer and journalist, is dead at his home in Pasadena. Cal., aged GT. He was the author of several books, among them “A Life of Lincoln’’ and “First Across the Continent.’’ Miss Maud Espy, 25 years old. of St. Paul, died at her parents’ summer home at Mahtomedi from hemorrhage of the stomach, brought on by constant vomiting after eating toadstools, believing they were mushrooms. While crossing a trestle at Oak Point, a pleasure resort west of Cleveland, four women were struck by a Lake Shore electric car. One died soon after, while the others received injuries which in two cases may prove fatal. Fire that started in the stables of the Armour Packing Company in Kansas City threatened the entire plant for a thue. The flames were brought under

I control, having been confined to the sta- ■ bles. I’he loss is nominal. | Four hundred Snake Indians have just I concluded a prolonged conference a council of war in the Flint hills near Tucker Springs, I. 1.. where rebellion against the government was again advocated by Crazy Snake and other chiefs. I Groom s Texas Bready. l w ; U rer on ! < hild Labor, traveler ami former member ot Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, whose । home was in Austin. Texas, was drowned I wmle bathing in the Mississippi at the ; I iasa Chautauqua in Missouri. I he steamer R. B. Hayes, which went aground off Sandusky, Ohio, with nearly 600 passengers aboard, was released without aid. The passengers were compelled to remain awake all night, there being no cabin accommodations. Manvel, a mining town in the desert near San Bernardino, Cal., has been practicall.v destroyed by a cloudburst. One man was killed, most of the houses hi the place were washed away, and one was struck by lightning and burned. The postofflee building at Sherman, S. D., was entered by cracksmen, who blew open the safe and carried off the contents. The robbers escaped. Notes to the value of $1,590. $390 in cadi and $L>9 worth of stamps were obtained.

, FOREIGN. ..vcordmg , t | maica, the recent hurricane killed seventy people. King Edward has issued a public letter thanking the newspaper men who “covered” his Irish trip. A Leipsic court has ordered the destruction of all copies of Tolstoi's latest book, “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” . A court martial at Monastir condemned the gendarme Halim to death for the murder of M. Rostkovski. Russian consul at Monastir. The sentence was carried out immediately. Turkish troops are destroying villages and robbing and killing indiscriminately in Macedonia, under the guise of combating insurgents. General massacres of Christians are feared. A horrible disaster has occurred in the sulphur mine near Caltanissetta, Sicily. Gas in the mine became ignited and obstructed the exit of 190 miners. Three of the miners have died. Chinese imperial troops have been defeated by rebels at Hwei-Chou-Fu, in the southern province of Kwang-Tung. Imperial re-onforcerhents, consisting of 3,000 German-drilled troops, have arrived at Canton. Three slight earthquake shocks were felt at Athens, Greece. Three villages on the isle of Cythera were almost entirely destroyed. The earthquake was general throughout Greece. Two fatalities have been reported. According to the Paris Gaulojs Jules Verne is almost blind. An operation for? the removal of a cataract is necessary, but. the author declines to undergo thia, on the ground that it would be too dangerous at his age, 75 years. Conspirators who assassinated the former King and Queen of Servia, are said to have a letter from King Peter, written before the murders, promising immunity for all regicide^. It is said thia letter is being held over him now. A squadron of the Russian Black Sea fleet has been ordered to sail for Turkish i waters. Notification of this move has been telegraphed from Sebastopol to the ! s t a n t i n o p 1 e. t’oe ULs mtriffj o)^^ S< 1 tiadrun is intended Mg complete compUuLM 'T' ’ ■ mands as to satisfacuonTor the murder ; by a Turkish gendarme of her consul at : Monastir.

It is now estimated that the loss on the island of Jamaica by the recent hurricane will reach-§15JX)O,OOO. Efforts are now being made at Kingston to relieve the immediate wants of some localities, but the local efforts are totally inadequate. Unless immediate shipments of food come from America deaths by starvation are inevitable. The local hospitals in the windswept districts are crowded with the injured, and the death list is increasing. IN GENERAL. The Mexican Supreme Court has decided that Gen. Egan has no title to coal lands for which he paid §700,090, and the property passes into the hands of the Pacific Coast Coal Company. Dun's Review of Trade says the outlook is promising, the distribution of merchandise continues heavy and railway earnings increase. Preparations for fall business going ahead with much vigor. The Panama canal treaty was killed by Colombia and the Nicaragua route probably will be decided on by President Roosevelt; amendments by congressional committee will not be accepted by United States. The State Department has been informed by Amba:nader Choate that the first meeting of the Alaskan boundary commission will be held at 11 o'clock on Sept. 3 in the British foreign office in London. The Postoffice Department has practically decided on the appointment of William R. Spilman of Riley. Kan., as the successor to A. W. Machen, the deposed and indicted superintendent of free delivery. Sleeping car porters employed by the Pullman Company seek the abolition of tips and an increase in wages, saying that fees are decreasing and they are not making enough money. They plan to form a union. 1 United States Minister Conger has secured a written promise from Prince (thing to sign on Oct. 8 a treaty with the Uniteel States which will include a guaranty that Mukden and Tatung-Tao shall be open ports. The Rock Island has taken over the Seaboard Air line, thus securing outlet to tide water at six or seven important points. The official announcement of the long-expected deal was made by Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. George W. Beavers, formerly superintendent of the salaries and allowance division in the Postoffice Department and under indictment, is a fugitive from justice. The officials of the department reluctantly confess that the whereabouts of Beavers is unknown to them. What is believed to be a relic of the ill-!‘tarred Andree expedition in search of the north pole was brought to Vancouver by a returned mining prospector who has spent the last four years in-the wilds of the Mackenzie basin. It is thought to be a portion of the silk used in the construction of Andree's balloon. The steamer Princess May, from Skagtiay, brings word of a tribal war among the Chilkat Indians of the Klukwan tribe. For several days a reign of terror was in progress in rhe valley of the Chilkat. Witchcraft, wl^^^^nera 1ly prevails among these lieaid to have been at the bottom of the trouble. American, Canadian and French fishing vessels returning from the grand banks report that the fisheries there continue a complete failure. Owing to the scarcity of bait over 250 vessels are now in Newfoundland waters. It is estimated that the total catch of the cod fisheries of North America for the present season will be the smallest in twenty years.

FROM CABINET TO WILL RESIG^ aIasKAN COMMISSION. SITI — If IFw jgvW ELIHU HOOT, jt, who, it is given out, will Elihu Ro the secretaryship of war beresign from Is for London to sit on the fore he sai nmission, has been a member Alaskan coijnet since Aug. 1, 1899, when of the cabijMcKinley appointed him in President Ito Gen. Alger. Mr. Root by succession lihside*^ 011e of the greatest many Is c<w countr y an d thoroughly Tlnr the work he is to do In

A/Omton. From 1867 until he entered I becabinet he was practitioner of law in New 'York q^he Secretary was reappointed to his present cabinet position in March, 1941. Mrs. Root has been desirous for a year and a half that her husband should return to the practice of law, as he made a considerable sacrifice when he succeeded Secretary Alger in 1899. for he practically abandoned his law practice. Mrs. Root never was fond of Washington society, and she felt that her husband should follow his profession for a few years before retiring. That Gov. Taft will be Mr. Root's successor as Secretary of War, a Washington correspondent says, there can be little or no doubt. He is familiar with many of the problems which the Secretary of War will have to meet and solve; |ie is a warm personal friend of the President, who has an abiding confidence in bis ability anil patriotism, and it is understood that he would welcome the change Involved. Os course, his appointment as Secretary of War would necessitate the ap pointment of a new president of the Philippine commission. In all probability Gen. Luke Wright would succeed to the presidency of the commission, his work aa a member of that body having been eminently satisfactory to the administration. TO CHECK DIVORCE. Union />f Clergymen to Stem Onr Rapidly Growing Notional Evil. More than 500,900 divorces have l»een granted in the United States during the past twenty years, according to Rev. William O'Brien Pardow, formerly Jesuit provincial of New York and president of St. Francis Xavier College. He estimates thst I^oo.ooo American children have seen their home tics broken up. The number of persons divorced would populate the State of Nebraska, or the city of Philadelphia. It is greater than the population of each of twenty-five States and territories of the Union. To reit^dy, or to try to remedy, this nwful • of tilings, there is to be a union V clergy of all denominations ^wrlioms^’.'atholic. Episcopalian. Presbydorian, ^Gthodist and many bt'herr.”'AT ready /’Jib committee has been formed. It is « syndicate of churches of different tMhefs, working side by side.

It is to be a union of courtesy, not of law, civil or ecclesiastical. Briefly, when a clergyman of any church, whatever the denomination, refuses to marry a divorced person, clergymen in all other churches in the syndicate will by courtesj- respert his action nnd likewise refuse to perform the ceremony. Father Pardow makes a statement to the world, in the course of which he says:

"In these days of modern civilization, we glory in the horseless carriage, smokeless powder and wireless telegraphy; soon we will be coming to the motherless child and the childless mother. More than • 500,000 divorces have been granted in the United States during the last twenty years. Think of the homes broken up. the children whose parents are separated, the untold misery that such a state of affairs brings about! “There are to-day in this land probably as many as 1,500.000 children who have not what we call a real home—• not the home in which father and mother unite to bring up their children as God willed them to do. “In 1889, by authority of Congress, the United States commissioner of labor was ordered to report upon marriage and divorce in the United States for the twenty years from 1867 to 1886 inclusive. He found that in that time there had been granted 328,716 divorces —657,432 people had severed the marriage tie. “All we can say in estimating figures for the last twenty years is that the ratio is increasing every year, and that since those figures were compiled more than a round half million of divorces have been added to the number. This is no mere speculation. The figures, 328,716, were upon an estimated population of 50,000.000. With our present population of 80,000.000, the estimate of 500,000 divorces is little enough. “During the same period in Europe, with its population of 380,000,000, the number of divorces has been only 214,841. With a population five times greater than tw United Scales there have been less./than one-half the number of divorces.,T “The religions penalty seems not to have the power of restraining from divorce. There remains now the question of social ostracism. If people in high life frown upon divorce and make it a social reproach, those who fear such censure would be less liable to kick over the traces. Let society men and women subject the remarried divorced people to social ostracism, and an almost universal alleviation of this curse would be secured.” All Around the Gloue. John W. Gates is said to have been made rich some more by oil wells in Texas. The boiler of a threshing engine exploded at Brockton, 111., instantly killing two men. Thecsjis said to be a movement on foot to erect a statue of the late Queen Victoria in Washington. It is understood that Gov. Hunt of Porto Rico has indicated his intention of relinquishing the island governorship. His salary is §B.OOO a year and his terra of appointment is four years. While, continuing a debate begun in a .^countryl store near Reading, Pa., William Stimm, aged 48. and Alfred Richards, aged 25, were killed by a train on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad near Rickenbach station. Florence Westfall, aged 14 years, committed tjuicide at her home in Pittsburg, Kan., biy shooting herself in the right temple pith a 31-caliber revolver. Her mother |had reprimanded her only a few minutes! before and the girl stepped into another room and killed herself.

WOMAN IS ABDlCTtfih WIFE OF WEALTHY IOWA FARMER KIDNAPED. Ransom of $50,031) Is Demanded--Victim Is Imprisoned in Cellar of Deserted House, but Manages to Escape Made Insane by Fright. A most daring kidnaping took place near Sunbury. lowa, late Sunday night, when Mrs. John Hilsrow, the wife of a wealth farmer living near Bennett. lowa, was abducted, imprisoned in the cellar of a deserted farm house and a ransom of $53.0110 demand* I fol' her release. Sunday evening an unknown stranger called at the home and told Mr. and Mrs. Hilnrow that their son. living at Walcott. lowa, where he has been working on a farm, was very sick and that they were wanted at the bedside at once. They immediately drove off with the stranger. When they arrived within two miles of the village of Sunbury, lowa, seven miles from Bennet:, the husband was thrown out of the buggy and told that he should bring $50,000 to a secluded spot near Bennett. lie was also told that if he told any of the officers he would be killed. _ The man then drove on with Mrs. Hilsro>v' Top'-‘ irWrTir lh’Yr<-TmTtt- -W. rived opposite a corner school house. Here the kidnaper tied his horse and dragged the woman through a corn field to a deserted house, where she was imprisoned in the cellar. The man then left and has not yet been found. Some time during the night Mrs. Hilsrow escaped and was found in the morning in the farm yard of Henry Rueser, a farmer near Sunbury, insane and very ill. She was recognized by the wife of Mr. Rueser. ami the news of her discovery was at once telephoned to the Bennett police. The case was then investigated. and after considerable difficulty, so great was the old man’s‘fear of the kidnaper, the facts were brought out. Mr. Hilsrow offered the police’ SI,OOO re ward for the capture of tin*’ men. and the sheriff immediately collected u posse and started pursuit. Late in the afternoon a grip with men's clothing was found near the house and a little later a cane was found in the road. The eane was recognized as belonging to another well-known farmer named John Lee. When confronted wi.ii this evidence he stated that the cane had been stolen from him several days ago. He is not suspected of the crime. Mrs. Hilsrow has been under the care of a doctor, and at Jimes her life is despaired of. At no tune has her mind l>een clear, and until she is revived an accurate de s-ription of the man will not be secured, as Mr. Hilsnsw did not see the man in the light. CHINA WILL OPEN TWO PORTS Dcmandn Mado by the Unite.! States Are Complied With. Minister Conger, at Pekin, has secured a written promise from Prince Ching to sign on Oct. 8 a treaty with the United States which will include a guaranty that Mukden and Tatungtao shall be open ports. The arrangement for the signing of the treaty ends rhe stubborn resistance by the Chinese, which for ome time promised to be successful. Prince Ching made one defense after another im;il all were exhausted. lb first argued Russian opi>osition to the ^orr^— He Hum suid that he was nor Informed that Russia bad consented to the opening. Finally he refm«ed on the ground that China was unable to open towns which were held by another i>ower. When the present settlement was pro posts! with the explanation that China must presume that Russia intended t<> fulfill her evacuation agreement Prim c Ching reluctantly gave in. Mukden is an important port. Ta tungtno is a small port which does no! promise much business to attract foreigners in the near future. Its opening is mainly important as a victory for the open-door principle.

The Most Rev. J. J. Harty, recently appointed archbishop of Manila, will b< ConsecratiM a Rome. Evangelist D. IV. Potter was re-elect-ed president of the board of trustees of the Desplaines Camp Meeting Association. About 300 Baptists in Los Angeles. Cal., have formed a new church. Many of the members come from the First Church. Prof. A. W. Berg, organist of "The Little Church Around the Corner." New York, and his wife celebrated their golden wedding recently. The Ret. Benjamin H. Davis of Weymouth, Mass., one of the oldest clergymen in rhe Univer-alist denomination in the country, is dead. A Christian Endeavor Society with thirty members has been organized at Salonika, the ancient Thessaloniea, where Paul taught the Thessalonians. The Rev. T. J. Bassett, president •of the Upper lowa University, has been honored with the degree of doctor of divinity by Cornell University. Dean S-in-nm of Gard'”' ( "' thedral. Hempstead, N. Y., narrowly escaped being killed recently while attempting to get on a train at Hollik. Elizabeth Lyons, the oldest nun in the diocese of Connecticut, died recently in St. Patrick's convent. New Haven. She was a nun for fifty -one years. Bishop Hartzell has been decorated a knight commander of the Order of the Redemption of Africa. The honor was Conferred by the republic of Liberia. The late Bishop Thomas A. Starkey bequeathed his library to the trustees of the episcopal fund of the diocese of New ark for the use of his successor and the clergy. The Young Men's Christian Assoeia tion of Salt Lake City. Utah, is in a fairway of getting a much-desired building for its use. Mrs. Mary Judge has given §IO,OOO for the building fund: others, among whom Mr. H. 11. Walker is prominent, have subscribed 825.000 additional, and only §15.000 more is needed to secure a gift of 825.000 prom ised when §50.000 has been raised. Vacancies in the episcopate in the dioceses of Newark and Quincy in the Epicopal Church will be tilled shortly, rhe bishoi>s-elect in each case having accept ed. The Rev. A. B. Shields, rector of the Church of the Redeemer. Bos on. is an artist as well as a priest. He earned enough money painting the last winter to afford a summer in the galleries of the old world. The Rev. Winfred Chesney Rhoades, pastor of the Eliot Congregational Church, Boston, and Dr. Melville S. Page of Mount Vernon. N. Y.. are making a tacr of England. Scotland. Ireland. Belgium and Holland.

MISPLACED COMMA SPILT NEBRASKA DEATH SENTENCE. The execution of William Rhea, which | took place at Omaha, is traceable almost directly to a chance want of punctuation ! in a criminal statute. When the Nebraska ■ laws were amended in 1893. the intention was to retain the former copy of the Ohio laws regarding first degree mur- ' j der. In drafting the statute a slight change was made, to leave to the diserej tion of the jury capital punishment or life imprisonment. After the engrossed j copy of the law had been signed by the Governor it was found that a comma I that appears both in the Ohio law and ’ i the earlier Nebraska statute had been 9 xk / I 1 I 1 ° 1 WILLIAM RHEA.

; omitted. B.v this difference in punetua- ; tion it is not made obligatory upon the State to show that murder was intended , before robbery and murder were committed. The comma was . inserted in re I prints of the law, but upon an appeal of the Rhea case, the Supreme Court fixed the engrossed copy as official, and refused a new trial. Rhea shot and killed ! Henry Zahn at Snyder, Neb., while conducting a "hold-up” of the place with two companions. FINDS FEUDISTS GUILTY. Jett auil White Convicted by Jury of Murdering; Janies K. Marcum. The jury in the ease of Curtis Jett and Thomas White, charged with the assassination of James B. Marcum at Jackson, Ky.. returned a verdict of guilty, fixing the punishment on each at life imprisonment. I’he verdict was returned at a time when there were few persons in the court room. The only attorney present was County Attorney Webster. Jett received the verdict with comparative indifference and calmness. White, who-has been apparently under a severe strain during the trial, flushed up and | his eyes filled with tears. Attorney Gohlen for the defense stated that a motion for a new trial would be made as soon as possible. The general opinion seems to be that the motion will be overruled b.v the court and that it will then go to the Court of Appeals. The verdict on the whole is regarded as a victory for the defense, as the prosecution asked that no middle ground he tak- ; eu ami that the men either go acquitted j or be hanged. The case has been on trial almost three vecks. At the lirst trial nt Jackson the j jury dismrreed and it is believed, that the ; int«T verdict was a compromise with a juror opposed to capital punishment. rhere have been twenty-seven lives lost wit' ,ii | Ui , jwo i <ssi : n tk H.ir. is i'oi-kerill feud in Breathitt County and tins is the firs* conviction. No arrests or indictments had been made until last May when the troops were ordered to Jackson to protect the grand jury and afterward the trial jury and witnesses. Jett is still under indictment for firs; degree murder for killing Town Marshal Cockerill. Friends of the defendants t bowed such relief as to leave no doubt of their previous apprehension of the death penalty. PANAMA ROUTE IN PERIL. Amendments Adopted in Colombia May Cause Choice of Nicaragua. t The I’anama canal treaty has practioally been killed by Colombia and it is thought that President Roosevelt will select the Nicaragua route. Colombia struck a deathblow to the Panama route when the congressional committee having tlie treaty under consideration adopt- ' ed nine amendments, any one of which ■wiil be fatal to the treaty, owing to the impos'ibility of securing their adoption by the United States Senate, which must , accept or reject them. Officials of the r>epartinent of State and Senor Ilerran, tlie Colombian charge d'affaires in Washington, are in the dark as to the exact nature of these amendments. From meager am] mutilated official dispatches it is known that the two principal ones provide for a large increase in the bonus j demanded of the United States for the ! strip through which to construct the waterway. and prohibit the Colombian gov- : ennmnt giving the United States absolute control over this territory.

RLH4AL DELIVERY GROWING. Postmaster General Payne Kstablishes 3,003 New Mail Routes. Postmaster General Payne has had prepared a statement showing the status of the rural free delivery service throughout the country. He shows that during the month of July, the first month, of the present fiscal year, almost 3,000 new routes have been established. The nppronrietien for tbo -ou. for tiie year was §12,000,000. or a little less than §3.000,000 more than necessary to maintain the existing service. This is only sufficient to justify the establishment of about 6.000 new routes. There are now on file petitions for about 11,000 wore routes. Notes of Current Events. A binder twine factory is to be erected at the Missouri penitentiary as soon as the work can be done. Mar in Dooginger, aged 14 years, was drowned in the Kaw river while swimming at Topeka, Kan. Conductor Bort Clay was killed at Oklahoma City. O. T., while his train crew was switching cars <>n to a siding. A young man whose identity is nnknowrl jumped into the I’, tapseo river neat- Baltimore, Md., and drowned himself. An effort is to be made to secure the pa-sage of, a law providing for the . ination and licensing of music teach - in L.wa. In a quarrel among a number ( f inns at b’elix. Wyo., two m.e:i were kk ed and another is s<> bmb^ :,i i d :m:t b, 1 wid probably dh Former Congressman Drigg-. New York, pleaded not guilty to two i-nii.-t---ments. charging him with itig implicated in the postal scandals. George A. Williams, a newspaper Heitor, formerly of Lexington. Ky.. wan: zlemen , was arre ted at Troy. Ohio. An automobile in which Judge and Mrs. Lockwood Honore of Chicago were riding frightened « horse near Brewster. Mass., and the animal ran away, injuring two woiudb.

York. ' for August thus far show ' an average gain of 7.7 per cent over last year's figures and 16.3 per <ent compared with 1901. Distribution "I merchandise is very heavy, more interruption to traffic being reeordej. in staple lines prices are steady. Preparations for fall trade are vigorous, many manufacturer, working ovetime to till important orders. Colections are fully as prompt as usual for the season, although in some lines there is less inclination to discoun bills, according t > R. G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade. Continuing, the report says-. Crop news is reassuring. Foreign trade at this port for the last week showed a loss of $1,461,049 in exports, as compared with the same week last year, and im ports decreased $2,127,575. Hesitation in certain branches of the iron and steel industry, incident to the season and aggravated by labor controverries, is indicated with some degree of definiteness by the monthly statistics just published by the Iron Age. The feature this week has been the liberal purchasing of heavy shoes for next spring by local jobbers. Leather has at last shown the increase in activity promised by the vigorous operation of factories, and both sole and upper leather find a better market, although no large contracts have yet been placed. Hides continue weak, but the average does not exhibit the fall that has been the rule in recent preceding weeks, some lines slightly recovering. Failures this week numbered 174 in the United States, against 196 last year, and in Canada 22, compared with 21 a year ago. Bradstreet’s Trade Review. Bradstreet's says: Developments this week have lieen largely favorable. Prominent among these is the lessening of jiressure at the country's financial center, which has led to a more optimistic feeling in the country at large. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending the 13th aggregate 3.413.191 busthels, against 3.049,629 last week. 4.591.805 this week last year. 13)39.761 in 1901. and 3.113.641 in 19<)0. For six weeks of the cereal year they aggregate 18.460.444 bushels, against 25.385,008 in 1902. 41.546.906 in 1901. and 17,9.82.438 in 1900. Corn exports for the week aggregate 707.387’bushels, against 554.428 last week. 93,423 a year ago. 508.807 in 1901. and 3.017.051 in 1900. For six weeks of the present cereal year they aggregate 6.549.480 bushels, against 587.860 in 1902. 7.733.220 in 1901, and 21.266,820 in 1900. ~ The bulls in the stock imgo. ; market have now one great fear. The corn crop is very late, should the frosts catch it. great damage would likely result and this would probably mean an immediate revival of the bears and a new bear campaign wirii particular pressure upon the corn roads. With good we aHi er from now on the bulls have much in their favor. The West has trouble already over freight congestion. Merchandise is inov- » on the whole are very favorable. The iron business js brisk, and inquiry fall men-handise is reported heavy by eastern jobbers and manufacturers.

lasi Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. ; §3.00 to §5.30; .hogs, shipping grades, j §4.50 to §5.50; sheep, fair to choice, 83.(mi i to §3.50; wheat. No. 2 red. Sie to 82e; I corn. No. 2. 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2. 33c ‘ to 35c: rye. No. 2. 51c to 52c; hay. bm--1 othy, §8.50 to §15.00; prairie, §6.00 to I §10.50; butter, choice creamery. 17c to I 19c; eggs, fresh. 12c to 15c; potatoes, i new. 55c to 63c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. §3.00 to ■ §5.35; hogs, choice light, §4.00 to §6.00; sheep, common to prime. §2.50 to §3.25; ; wheat. No. 2. 79c to 80c; corn. No. 2 j white. 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white. 33c | to 34e. St. Louis —Cattle. §4.50 to §5.50; hogs. I §4.50 to 85.70: sheep. §3.00 ■ > §3.70; I wheat. No. 2. SOe to 81c: corn. No. 2, i 46c io 47c: oaks. No. 2,32 cto 33c; rye. I No. 2. 53c to 54c. Cincinnati —Cattle. 54.25 to 85.00; i hogs. §4.00 to §5.80; sheep. §3.R» to §3.50: wheat. No. 2. 79c to Sue , ra. No. 2 mixed. 52c to 53c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 33c to 34c: rye. No. 2. 56c to 57c. Detroit—Cattlefi §3.50 to §sd«>: hogs. §4.00 to §5.70: sheep. §2.50 to 8;;,25: wheat. No. 2. 83e to 84c; com. No. 3 yellow. 55c to 56c; oats, No. 3 white. 36c to 37c; rye. No. 2. 53c to 54 •. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 ie-rrher.i. 95c to 96c: corn. No. 3, 54e to 7>sc: oats. No. 2 white. 36c to 37c; rye. N >. 1.52 c to 54c; barley. No. 2. 59c to G” -: pork, mess. §12.75. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 79c t' sv.•: corn. No. 2 mixed. 52c to 53c; oats. i No. 2 mixed. 35c to 36c; rye. No. 2, 5?-' < lover •- —p.'uH-, Buffaloi—Cattle, choice shipping steers, i §4.50 to §5.40: hogs, fair to prime. §4.<m> i to §5.75; sheep, fair to choice. 83.25 toj §4.00: lambs common to choice §4.00 to 56.00. New York —Cattle. §4.00 to §5.50: I hogs. 84.00 to Bi;.(Xi; sheep, §t>.oo to ; 53.75: whe-at. Nl 2 red. sj.- Sy,,-; urn. No. 2. 5Se t<> , _ »9<-: oats. No. 2 white, •lb t.f42(-: butter, creamery. D- lb . : eges. western IS.- to 2Oc. Short News Notes. John Burke. Chicago, said he was tired of life and killed himself. Eire in the Enterprise boiler work- at Y'-nngstown. Ohio, did §59.0;M) damage. One-half of the business ecri-m of Biggs. Cal., burned, a loss < f S4o.<i io result itig. A Kbfoot shark was k llc.l off <: - eo.-!®t of Main,-. I had in it- -t >m.:. h a- M weighing 300 pound®. It is reported that the presidency of Trinity College has been tend-r d to Ans.ui Phelps. Jr., secretary of Y .1-. Almon D. Smith, sailor, died in Kings <’ imy hospital. New York. It is ’'.lougbr yellow fev t killed him.. His home has been quarantined. A Ragpickers' Un; n has been ■ rganized in Neu York City. An increase of wages from 57 and S 8 per week to Sl2 and 815 a ill lie asked. Tim <'oinpt roli-r of rhe Cnrreney has authorized the NwGesiia National Bank of Neodesha. Kan., to begin '• -siuoa with a capital of 850.000. Nebraska Prohibitionists in their State convention named George J. Wright for associate justice of the Supreme Cour; and C. A. Barker and H V. Muir fot- । university regents.