Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 30, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 February 1904 — Page 2

.ucpcn^cnt. W. A. E.MIEEV, I'll bl l«hor» WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA, EVENTS OF THE WEEK Mayor Heintz of the town of Monroe, Wash., shot and killed an unknown burglar, whom he surprised in his general merchandise store. Hearing a noise in a rear room. Mayor Heintz fired through a thin partition, killing the burglar instantly. Chicago dealers in table glass have received a notification from the glass trust which practically amounts to a dissolution of the combination in table glass and Chicago dealers declare they see in the announcement the commencement, of the downfall of the trust idea. Jacob Allen, a wealthy farther of Wellington, Kan., was swindled in Wichita by gold brick men, who sold him a worthless combination of tin and copper for SIO,OOO. It had been recommended by a supposed government assayer who -gave the name of J. E. Stone of Philadelphia. A report from Cienfuegas, Cuba states that the American flag at the consulate there was covered with offal the other night. The outrage * supposed to have been due to an adverse report on the political situation made by Minister Squiers and based on information furnished by Consul Baehr. Kirby Lumber Company and Houston Oil Company, the two largest companies in Texas, have been placed in charge of temporary receivers because $700,000 interest is not paid to the Maryland Trust Company. A brief run on the Houston National Bank savings department followed the announcement. During a football game at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis, an altercation arose between Albert Ricksteiger and James Daly, players, and Ricksteiger was struck and felled to the ground by Daly. It was several hours before Ricksteiger regained consciousness and physicians say he probably will die. Melville Orr. a brass worker, was killed in Cincinnati by Edward Retting, a barber. Orr was standing on the curb with three others when Retting and his wife passed. Mrs. Retting slipped and would have fallen but for her husband catching her. The four bystanders laughed and the fatal encounter followed. The strike of the 900 book and job printers of Boston and vicinity has begun. The trouble is over a new scale of wages demanded by the men and refused by the employers. The demand of the employes is for an increase of 5 cents a thousand ems. $1 a week for hand compositors and $3 a week for machine operators. After a squad of a dozen soldiers for five hours had besieged a private house near Jefferson barracks. St. Ixmis, the police entered and arrested James R. Guerin, charged with being a deserter from Troop L, Fourth cavalry, stationed at the barracks. When found Guerip was hidden beneath a bed on which children were playing. BREVITIES, William C. Whitney, former Secretary of the Navy and a prominent financier, died at his home in New York. Fire in the heart of the wholesale distnet of Knoxville. Tenn.. cau^^^^Joss of $400,6vv ami cosf~vae men. Theodore Peteroff, the dog-faced man. known by the sobriquet of “Jo-Jo.” exhibited in most countries of the world, is dead in Salonika. Turkey. The house of Frank Bennett at Berlin. Pa., was destroyed by fire, and two’ehil- I dren, aged 9 and 12 years, were burned to death. A lamp explosion caused the fire. Frank Morris, paroled convict from the Joliet penitentiary, escaped Guard C. E. Church by jumping from a train running thirty-five miles an hour near Bradford, Ohio. Miss Leona Ireland, who was stricken with typhoid fever at the beginning of the epidemic at Ithaca. N. Y.. a year ago, is dead, after having been at death's door a hundred times. Chauncey Dewey, W. J. Mcßride and Clyde Wilson, charged with killing three members of the Berry family in the Kansas feud last June, have been placed on trial in Norton, Kan. A parrot owned by Mrs. Randolph Leier of Mount Vernon. N. Y.. aroused the tenants in a large flat building by its cry of “Fire!” and while the tenants escaped it was suffocated. Racing along at the rate of forty miles an hour, a "wild” switch engine smashed into a suburban train of the Chicago Terminal and Transfer Company in Chicago, killing two persons and injuring eight. R. L. Pittman, a white farmer of Madison County. Georgia, is held under $1,500 bond to the United States Court on charges of holding in peonage and mistreating six children of a negro whom he shot and killed. The Misses Leona, Kate and Frankie Lawrence, daughters of Bryan Lawrence, who is prominent in Augusta, Ga., in business and socially, were all operated on for appendicitis the other day and are now at a hospital doing well. The Traders’ National Bank of Clarksburg. W. Va.. has been closed by order of the Comptroller of the Currency and I Charles W. Robinson has been appointed temporary receiver. It is the largest bank in the city. The assets are $1,250.000. It is thought the bank will resume business. Mrs. Ketsey Durett, the first white ,-hild born in northern Indiana, is dead in Kokomo, at the ace of 92 years. When a very young child Mrs. Durett was airducted by Indians and held in captivity until 19 years old, when she was rescued by a militia company under command of Capt. James Durett. Over-exertion while playing football is believed to have been responsible for the death of John Lynch, a 17-year-old athlete. of Westchester-on-the-Sound, N. Y. After he returned from the game his nose bled. He had ruptured a blood vessel in his head. He bled so incessantly tiiat the doctors had to pull six of his front teeth to keep him from choking, his jaws having become locked from blood poisoning. As the result of an explosion following an attempt to hurey a fire with carbon oil. Mrs. A. F. Gray of North Sewickly, Pa., is dead: Ethel, a daughter, aged 12 years, is probably fatally burned, and five other members of the family are / - piously injured. The family recently came from Lovett, Ind. Daniel Mahaney of Springfield, Mass., noted baseball catcher, committed suicide by di inking carbolic acid. He had not been working regularly for some tima and had threatened to take bis life unless his affairs became brighter. H« played on many teams during the '9os, imiuding the Washingtons and Cincim natis.

EASTERN. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad has discharged 1,000 men to reduce expenses. Senator Hanna has sent a check for SI,OOO for the relief of sufferers by the Harwick mine explosion in Pennsylvania. William C. Whitney underwent an operation for appendicitis at Now York and is reported to be recovering satisfactorily from the shock. Lillian Nordica has obtained an absolute divorce from Zoltan Doeme after a secret trial in New York, in which, it is said, sensational testimony was heard. Calvin Rippenberg, aged 50, and Chas. McCabe, aged 45, were cremated in a fire in an alleged “speak easy” at Bradford, Pa. Carrie Carnes, the proprieress, was seriously burned. One fireman was killed and twenty-five firemen were overcome by smoke in a fire in a storehouse of the American Manufacturing Company in Brooklyn. The property loss amounts to about $25,000. An incendiary fire started shortly before midnight destroyed all the lumber in the yards of White, Rider & Frost, one of the largest along the North Tonawanda, N. Y., water front. The loss will reach $250,000. The Luther Place Memorial Church at Washington was damaged $25,000 by fire which broke out while a reception to the pastor, Rev. Dr. Butler, in honor of his birthday, was in progress. All present escaped safely. Miss Katie Katz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman Katz, and Victor 4K>sewater were married at noon at the home of the bride’s parents in Baltimore, Md. The groom is editor of the Omaha Bee. of which his father, Edward Rosewater, is proprietor. Miss Kate Moriarity fainted while dancing at the fair of the United Irish Societies in Springfield. Mass. She was removed from the ballroom and died a few minutes later. Pressure of corset stays, the attending physician said, restricted the action of the heart. Three men who are alleged to be members of a Mafia organization known ns the Red Cross Society were caught at Newark. N. J., in a trap which had been set for them. The trap was sprung when they went to a lawyer’s office for the purpose, it is charged, of collecting SI,OOO blackmail from Samuel Russo. Aubrey Pearre, president of the Lloyd L. Jackson Company, wholesale dry goods dealers at Baltimore, and chairman of the committee of creditors, announces that the company will go into liquidation and that all claims will be met by April 15, while preferred stockholders will receive from 50 to 60 cents on the dollar. The body of Alfred Sellgreen was found half buried in the snow in the road three miles from Hartford, Conn. At first it was thought death had resulted from exposure. Later six bullet holes were found in the man’s chest, making a circle around his heart. His. clothing was not burned and no weapon was found. In bright weather the Wilson line steamship Colorado. Captain Cox. from Hull, while proceeding up the lower bay at New York, collided with the outwardbound Bristol City line steamer Boston City. The Colorado tore n large hole in the port side of the Boston City. The Boston City began to fill rapidly and was run into shallow water to prevent its sinking. Five men were instantly killed in a powder explosion in the Maple Hill colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company otMuhanoy City, l’a. The victims men. 111 11 mwn in which ZVere being hoisted. The explosion ripped the cage apart and the mangled forms fell 300 feet to the bottom of the shaft. The Maple Hill is one of the best equipped mines in the hard coal regions. WESTERN. Because her husband wished to spend Sunday with friends. Mrs. William Allen of Cleveland drank poison and died. A branch of the Russo-Chinese Bank Association is to be established at San Francisco. The concern has a paid up capital of $7,500,000. President Harper in an address to University of Chicago seniors declared that institution is not Baptist, and that Jews of Chicago made it possible. Lake Michigan, for the first time since 1880. is frozen over from shore to shore, and the few winter boats are forced to buck their way through the ice. A jury in Judge Dunne’s court in Chicago found Janies G. Tilbury not guilty of charges of extortion and blackmail made by Mrs. Hollis M. Thurston. W. A. McKewan, ex-secretary of the University of California, pleaded guilty nt Oakland to the charge of embezzlement and will be sentenced Feb. 12. In a collision between a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern passenger train and a freight train near Cullom’s Station. Ohio, Engineer George Munser was killed. A threat to wreck every train running through the San Joaquin valley unless the Southern Pacific Company paid t/e sum of SIO,OOO has been made to the company through anonymous letters. Detectives are working on the case, but have found no clew to the writer. Forty members of Company G, Colorado National Guard, took possession of the armory building and contents in Pueblo, Colo., and are holding it for money due them for services in the Cripple Creek strike. What action will be taken by the authorities has not been determined. A panic broke out in Havlin’s Theater I in St. Louie, caused by a cry of fire which was started by the breaking u£ u balcony seat. Cool action on the part of the employes and members of the company and the prompt opening of the exits prevented anyone being killed or badly injured. Awakened by his pet dog, Paul W. Deichman ran into his drug store in St. Louis, fought a pistol duel with one burglar, and instantly killed another. The burglar whom Deichman first encountered fled, but it is believed that he. too, was wounded. Deichman’s drug store is the Cass branch of the postotfice. Thirty bodies of men who perished in the Nevada desert from thirst and hunger have been found by a body of surveyors who are an advance party of the new San Pedro. Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. They died while attempting to cross the waste area that stretches a distance of eighty miles from Las Vegas to the California line. Jeremiah G. Farwell, son of one of the most prominent capitalists of Detroit, died at Harper hospital from a bullet wound through his stomach, fired, it is supposed, with suicidal intent. He was found at the Woodward avenue car barns with blood flowing from the wound and a revolver beside him. No motive for suicide is known. Mr. Farwell was 36 years old. The prison sentence over Dr. Albert A. Ames, former Mayor of Minneapolis mil central figure in one of the most sensational stories of civic corruption ever recorded in the United States, has been removed. The verdict in the lower court which sent the ex-Mayor to Stillwater penitentiary was overthrown by the Su-

preme Court of Minnesota on the ground j of lack of proof. / Standing on the porch of his sweet- | heart’s home in St. Louis, with the young ; woman watching him from a doorway, Frank Schmidt, aged 22 years, a driver for the St Louis Dressed Beef Company, sent a bullet through his brain, killing himself. No cause is assigned for Schmidt’s action, further than that he was despondent because of financial straits on the eve of his marriage. One person was perhaps fatally burned and several were burned more or less severely by an explosion in the rooms of the Cosmopolitan Light Company, on the sixth floor of the Cosmopolitan building, 41 to 45 State street, Chicago. The explosion was followed by a stubborn blaze, which the firemen succeeded in confining to the fifth and sixth floors of the structure. The property loss was estimated at $25,000. Arrangements have been practically completed for the consolidation under the name of the Ohio Union Traction Company of the following electric roads: Central Market Street Railway of Columbus; Columbus, London and Springfield 1 Railway: Springfield and Urbana Railway; Urbana, Bellefontaine and Northern Railway. The four companies operate about 200 miles of track and have a total capitalization of $5,000,000. j J A switchman was killed almost In-, stantly, Attorney P. C. Haley was perhaps fatally injured and Miss Margaret Haley and several .hers were severely cut and bruised in a head-on collision in the big train sttw4- vs -tli^ UnimiuiXatiun in Chicago. An incoming Chicago and Alton train from Joliet crashed into a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train about to leave. The use of one track for the accommodation of several trains and the failure of one engineer to see in | front of him because of a cloud of steam are the causes attributed. Hattie Pilcher, the young school teacher who has been under arrest at Miller, S. D.. charged with complicity in drugging Wilbur Quirk and attempting to rob Collin’s drug store Jan. 12, has been discharged from custody as a result of her preliminary hearing. There has been considerable mystery surrounding the case of the young woman, who on the night of the attempted robbery was wounded in the back. She had told several different stories as to how she received her wound, but the prosecution was unable to connect her with the Quirk case. With his own clothing aflame, Howard Ambrose, 12 years old, saved the life of his 4-year-old brother Perry from a fire that burned the Ambrose dwelling in Omaha. Howard Ambrose is seriously burned and his death is likely. The boys had been left at play by the mother. \\ hen the fire started Howard dragged his brother through the flames, and mistaking a cupboard door for an exit, got j caught in a little room. Neighbors rescued both. Two years ago in .April friends of Janies Pratt saw his coflii lowered into a grave at Bemidji, Minn. I’ratt arrived in that city the other day alive and well. He was supposed to have been drowned and a body which was recovered from i Lake Bemidji was identified ns bis. On , the morning of the accident it happened that Pratt left for the Pacific coast. He . did not write his friends and was thought to be dead until his appearance. Nothing concerning the identity of the man buried in his place can be learned. SOUTHERN. Fire at Hollandale, Tenn., destroyed j every building, except two dwellings, in the town and caused a loss of between | $150,009 and $200,000. Returns from the registration of Texas voters for the November election, indi j cate that out of some 790.000 voters in i the State only 550,000 have saved their I voting privilege by paying their poll tax. i The Indianola (Miss.) postoffice case has been settled by the appointment of ' W. B. Martin, a white man. as postmas- i ter. on the request of Mrs. Minnie Cox, I the negress whose appointment raised a i storm. News fins been received of the burning , of the prison at Dawson Springs. Ky. A man of the name of Egbert, who was confined on a minor charge, was burned | to death. Tile tire originated from a stove in the prison. The Dupont warehouse at Louisville was burned, the principal losers being : B. F. Avery A Co., plows; the Metal Ware Manufacturing Company and the; National Metal and Machine Company. : Total loss. SBO,OOO. W. B. Gerhart A Sons' department j store and the grocery and liquor stores of j Weaver A MeCaulej and W. S. Russell at Clarksville, Tenn., were destroyed by ; tire. The furniture house of J. S. Gants ' A Soti was partly burned and several adjoining buildings damaged. Loes. I $200,000; partly insured. John 11. Dickerson, a wealthy man ; from Battle Creek, Mich., who went to Pensacola, Fla., three years ago .and in- i vested heavily in timber and farming 1 lands, started to cross the bay there dur- I ing a time when the waters were bolster- i ous a few days ago and has not been seen since. FOREIGN. Forty persons were killed by an explosion of ten tons of gunpowder nt Fort Bhatinda in the Punjab, British India. A report from Madrid is that during Klug Alfonso's levee at the palace, the police discovered an internal machine tin- । derneath a bench near the doorway of the palace. Pope Pins’ health is declared to be poor, and already there is talk in church circles of summoning a conclave. The pontiff is declared to be suffering from i physical depression. Ex-Premier Ali Asghar Khan Atabeck Asam, who is reported to have fled from Persia upon losing office, has been called back from America by the Shah to resume the reins of power. Mrs. Florence E. May brick has been released from prison by order of King Edward, after having served fourteen and a half years of a life sentence for the alleged poisoning of her husband. The act for maintaining the parity of the currency has been passed in Manila. It provides for the purchase of Mexican silver coin as bullion and imposes a tax on all contracts made in debased currency after Oct. 1. 1904. Fire in the business portion of Progreso, Yucatan, caused damage amounting to $2,000,000. The district swept by fire is a half mile from the wharves and fronts on the Alameda, a beautiful plaza. The municipal building was among those burned. The Porte has notified the Austrian and Russian embassies that the Macedonian committees have arranged with the Albanians for liberal rewards if they kill every foreign officer sent into the provinces in connection with the reorganization of the gendarmerie under the reform scheme of the powers. News has reached Panama from Bogota that inasmuch as Gens. Reyes and Cavallero have assured Colombia that the United States will only object to her lauding forces in the canal zone, the Colombian government intends to organize anil send an expedition against Panama.

I MRS. MAI WOK FREE - — HER PRISON ” V RS OPI - NED BY SPEC iF- ACT ' g Liberation Is F Gr '™ tc ‘l American Woman f Whon, Two Contlnents Have Pl rHed-Prcaent Abode Unknown. j Lloyd’s Week) Neyspaner of London. says that A “ 1 'V™ 10 Maybrick, the American wo )! n wh ° wa ? SPr '? u S “ life sentence so '‘‘“'"‘g \er husband, has I released from the Avlesbury fem: kT™ 1 on cial license af> ’ ,ea ^ 11 een - veara i mother. Baroness De imprisonment. I — , ’ . . , , Roques, the pa ' 7*’ v.sned her the previous I ' . , , nnortant news. Ihe was the bearer c o , „ n >h on Sunday comergovernor of tllP , , , ... .. , officials with a view red with the pi , . . . »reie departure of the , to arranging 1 , . . ■ iipjs earned out very prisoner, whic UCI quietly. a bon tn Unknown. Present 1 xxy. . , 4 remains a mystery Where she t Ohos shows jn . winch no one j esi . epO rts from various clmation to cl to confuse those l; sources conflic P^th. The London ' « agar ’ ear: gr dory that Mrs. MavDai y Mail P r ee9 erpool lind lhat . the brick is now V ej attach tp_W release followingc^t not appear from — or wr p e a b <>() )< O s her on the public sta; uiall in no way endeavor experiences and f ittention to herself. Qthto attract public i mounce Mrs. Maybrick’s er newspapers at — J! c al \? I w ' CXCE MAYBKK K. MUS. FLO RI ’esbury prison and exremoval from Av » t she will be released press the belief n ; ree months. Charles within two or der who defended Mrs. Russell, the barr Mrs. Maybrick has been Maybrick, said: ’ ','lesbury prison and has released from J etreat, but where I canbeen taken to a (1 soon bo restored to libnot say. She wi j e |j y OU [ low soon.” ; erty, but I canm ^ UKht for Yci , r9 I Relense : ?en years the friends of For nearly fii lnve sought her release. । Mrs. Maybrick fluence has boon brought Every possible ii nJ again. Influential to bear time n uaugurated many moveAmericaus had . pardon for the woman ments to secure .jd, had been unjustly who, they thot jj ended in f .ihire. condemned, but .^^l j n A pgSO. It wns_JnSL' rick was f< 1 guilty of that Mrs. Mat ‘^jnn condemned murdering hcfj, comum k> i to death. Th,. : was induced to 'Rh She Wn. Charged. i oumcuL a victim of the nr- [ Crime witK V * r ' ' '-d by a Mr. ; Mr. Maybe irfolk, Va., ;hat he used ; l senic habit j Hties, enough to prove j Greenwood of . . a not accustomed to its , 1 It in large qnni a ’'hmuie sufferer I fatal to a pers. muiculties m l nervous : use. Mr. Maybri " aa inken ill in July, I from stomach sastro-enteritis. and died | prostration. H<

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IP I CONFESS The time of the Senate Thursday was devoted to debate on the attitude of the I nited States toward the l’anama revolution and the right of the President to withhold information called for by the Senate. The foundation of the controversy was the Democratic caucus resolution calling on the President to state whether he had yet supplied all the papers in the archives bearing on the Panama affair. Messrs. Culberson, Gorman and Bacon spoke on the Democratic side and Messrs. Cullom, Spooner and Lodge on the Republican. At the conclusion the Senate unanimously agreed to vote on the resolution before adjournment Friday. The House for an hour was entertained by the maiden speech of J. Adam ! Bede (Rep., Minn.). Mr. A’an Duzer (Nev.) was refused the consideration of a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information as to what articles manufactured for the department are made by convict labor. The House went into the committee of the whole and re- ' sumed consideration of the urgent deii- | cieney bill, the discussion running into the l’anama question am! the race problem. The Senate Friday adopted the resolution introduced by Mr. Uulberson tor the Democratic caucus, which calls on the President to state whether the Senate ) has been supplied all facts bearing on the controversy of Panama. The vote was unanimous, but there was a roll call on the amendment suggested by Mr. Cullom, calling for the information only in ease the President should consider it not ' incompatible with the public interest to ; supply it. This amendment was adopted । by <39 to 20. all the Republican Senators present voting for tlie amendment and all i the Democrats except Mr. M< Enery (who : voted with the Republicans) casting their | votes against it. The Bacon resolution looking to the adjustment of our differ- ' ences with Colombia by arbitration was considered, but not acted upon. The House considered whether members of Congress are entitled to two payments of mileage on account of the extra session, which merged into the regular session. An adjournment was taken before a conclusion was reached. Consideration of : the amendment increasing the appropria- ' tion for the expenses of the district laud | offices precipitated a discussion ou the i subject of alleged land frauds. The House Saturday passed the urgent deficiency bill. The clause providing ; double mileage for members of Congress was stricken out by a vote of 167 to 0. Representative Shafroth of Colorado introduced a resolution reciting the work that has been done by the commission on . International exchange and authorizing > the commission “to agree subject to the approval of Congress, with other nations ! upon uniform laws, which will tend to ; preserve ns much of the gold product of the world for eoinag ' ami monetary purpose as possible. A concurrent resoln- ■ tion accepting the statue, of Janies Mar- I quette, missionary ar. I explorer, ami pro- j vidiug that it remain in statuary hall in i the capitol, and extending the thanks of Congress to the people of Wisconsin, was ! passed. Senator Dietrich of Nebraska made r. ■—- ■ ' ’ ! the Senate granted the request, the presD i dent pro tern, appointing a committee ' ■ consisting of Senators Hoar. Platt of 'Connecticut, Spooner. C>ekreil and Pettus to make the inquiry. The remainder of the dry w. s devel. l to an argument by .Mr. Mnrg-tn in s > ; ort of tin- resolution introduced bype lt . ’ M ‘mo directing I the S.'iiate committ'<• —dations ' to make an investigation inr*.- ■- ma revolution. A ;i> n 1 tion giving' to the State of Wmo-.'i-;:! the thinks of '

: •’<vi -r." < ’ r t' <‘ * ■■ <>f IVre Mar- , queue wM h lm^ 1- t con ribnted to | -Mnnry hall vi-ad ; 1. Tli-re was a j | spirited dis. a- : n of the I’miama ques- i tion in the lb;-. Mm-h District of! Columbia budm < was dU P “ ed of and I the diplom.'ti'- nml < o;. , ■■ ;lI oroprintion j I bill was pending wl. a t ,e H .use ad- I j journed. In the S -iat • Tin ini Jas. P. Clarke, ;

Aho I: •mocratie S from Arkansas, । who succeeded Jami s K. Jones, chairman iof the in-ai' "a:: ":;.":ial committee, i endorsed every । ition taken by the I President in conn, .: im with the l’anama revolt. Senator l'airh >n’;s of Indiana ! also spoke in favor of ii ■ treaty. The ! Senate witnessed the tin isiml spectacle । of a religious service eondm ted by a Protestant minister and a Jewish rabbi. | I Tlie daily prayer was delivered by Rabbi । ! David Philipson, a prof.- r in the Hebrew College at Cim iiit'.ai i. In tire House the resident commissioner to Congress i from Porto Ri< o was g‘. m additional an- ' i thority, equal in all essential respects to ! that of a delegate from a territory, the ! action not requiring tlie com urrence of I the Senate. Commissioner Degatau । thereupon introduced a bill to declare the | citizens of Porto Rico citizens of the I nited States, which was referred to tlie committee on instil r affairs. Notes of National Capital.

Representative Watson. Indiana, is determined to hatt Congress pass his bill requiring an educational test for all immigrants. According to the testimony of Captain Bronson, superintendent o f the tmvai acadamy, the United States will have naval officers enough in 1907 to man all naval vessels. Mr. Merou, the Argentine minister, called at the State Department to present to the Secretary the now minister from Uruguay, Den Eduardo Acevado Diaz. United States Consul Gowdy, at Pqj-is. has been notified by Secretary Hay to represent l’anama in ali consular matters.

Senator Beveridge enlightened President Roosevelt on tho situation in the far East. The President sent a special invitation to the Senator. Bills have been introduced in the House by Delegate Kalnninnole of Hawaii appropriating $150jM)() for a building at Hilo, $1,000,000 for a building at Honolulu. $225,000 for a revenue cutter and authorizing contests of election in Hawaii. Senator Gallinger introduced r. bill for the establishing and organization of a corps of trained nurses in the United States navy. Commander William 11. Southerland. United States navy, on Ms own request, iias been relieved from duty as hydrographer and assigned to command tb.e new cruiser Cleveland, now at (lie New York navy yard. The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs reported favorably on the bill to provide for the opening to settlement unuer the homestead law of the remaining portion of the Colville Indian reservation in the State of Washington.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS BEST. Supply Harvard with Its Most Suecessfal Stu tents. In his annual report President Eliot lof Harvard made several statements that are of interest not only to Harvard

men but also to the American people. During the last year President Eliot iiad some statistics gathercil as to the t relative merits of I the work and general efficiency of tho boy who prepares for college in the public high school and those who were prepared in private schools.

/• ’ ' b, WgSK I A X'RESIDENT ELIOT.

These statistics show that the public School boy did better work on the entrance examinations and after he had । got into college than the private school j boy. Last June in the Harvard entrance examinations the public school boy both won more honors than the private school boy and lower public school boys failed In their examinations than the private school boy. Again, in the other test the public । school man came out victorious. In the ; entire graduating class at Harvard last June 172 men graduated with honors; of this number 84 came to college from public high schools, 44 from academies and endowed schools, 32 from private schools, and 12 from other colleges. I’resident Eliot says these 'fact's tare limited to the year under review, and ; are based on observation of about 700 persons. So far as they go, however, they loud no countenance whatever to the allegation that the public schools turn । out a less vigorous and conscientious class of young men than the other ; schools. On the contrary, po far as they go, i they tend to prove that the product of the public school has more character and ■ power of work than the product of the । other schools. ( oncerning athletics, the report says: “Gaines in which the public is most interested —football, baseball and rowing । —are serviceable to a comparatively small number of students, no one of these three sports serving more than one-sixth of the total number of students who reported the exercises they used. The game which has been conducted at Cambridge with the least intelligence and success is football, except i from a pecuniary point of view. “Breaking up of college work for in- । dividual students and frequent absences i to play games at a distance from CamI bridge are an evil which ought to be . checked. It is a greater evil than formerly, now that the intercollegiate games take place all the year round, in winter as well as in spring and autumn. OPENED BY THE KING. Edward Reads His Speech to Parliament in House of Lords. King Edward opened Parliament Tuesday with all the ceremonial that has been in vogue since his accession to the ! throne. None of the familiar outdoor i features was lacking. The weather con- ; ditions, however, were too depressing to , permit of much enthusiasm. Early in the day came the time-honored search of the vaults of the House of Parliament । for conspirators and later came the ’ crowds, under a forest of umbrellas, al- ; ways eager for anything in the way of pageantry, bat their were thin- — <—--'c' of the royal~pfoce'sßTnn along the troop-lined route from Buckingham palace to St. Stephens there was no novelty introduced and the effect was sadly marred by the drenched appear- । .nice of the cortege. On the arrival of the members of the Hou e of Commoris King Edward read the speech from the throne. Touching on the Alaska decision, the King s speech said that on some points ti e verdict was favorable to the British claims and on others it had been adverse. Much as this last circumstance was to be deplored, it must nevertheless be a matter for congratulation that the misunderstandings, in which ancient bound: ry treaties, made in ignorance of geographical facts, are so fertile, have in this case been finally removed from

i the field of controversy The crisis in the far East is touched I upon briefly in the King's speech as follows: “I have watched with concern the

course of the negotiations between the governments of Japan and Russia in reI gard to their respective interests in China and Korea and a disturbance of the peace in those regions could not but have deplorable consequences. Any assistance which my government can usei lully render toward the promotion of a ' pacific solution will be gladly afforded.” Another point of interest to the United States was a reference to cotton, as follows: “The insufficiency of the supply of raw material upon which the great cotton in- ! dustry of this country depends has inspired me with deep concern. I trust the i efforts being made in various parts of my ! empire to increase the area of cultivation may be attended with a large measure of success.”

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Barnard Shipp of Louisville, Ky., has given his librarv. wnrtli $100,009, to Lie University of Virginia. Dr. Matthew H. Buckham, nearing 70 years of age, will soon retire from the presidency of the University of Vermont. Prof. N. E. Jaffa of the agricultural department of the University of California has been chosen president of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. A school for the training of teachers at M estfield, Ind., is to be established, and Prof. Walter A. Jessup, a well-known

educator, will be its head. A. J. Eveland, a graduate of Johns Hopkins, has been appointed geologist to the mining bureau established by the United States government in the Philippines. Prof. Frederick Hirth, who holds the Dean Lung chair of Chinese at Columbia, says interest in the study of China’s language and literature is rapidly on the increase. Dr. Frank Alpine Hill, secretary of the Massachusetts board of education, is dead. He was one of the most prominent promoters of educational thought in the United States. A son of King Lewanica, monarch of •Basutoland, lias placed in a school at Winfield, Kan. Other sons are being educated in other United States schools andl in Europe. Lexvanica is progressive. Dr. Albert D. Mead, professor of comparative anatomy at Brown University, has returned to the United States after a thorough inspection of all the important laboratories and experiment stations in Europe.

WN/WlaC [fey York Business conditions would I • most satisfactory if present high prices for the leading staples were the result of wholesale demand, but the premineiiee of manipulation prevents any such gratifying conclusions. Aside from the lines temporarily stimulated by severe weather, trade is quiet, and increased activity with the approach of spring is hopefully awaited. Reports of the building outlook have been prepared by branch offices of R. G. Dun A Co. at the leading cities, and indicate that high cost of materials and i labor have curtailed operations, although the year 1903 showed a good gain over 1902. Demand for lumber is gradually improying. Weather conditions are favorable for winter wheat. Transportation has suffered some interruption by storms, but railway earnings thus far reported for January are 3.8 per cent greater than in 1903. Buyers of cotton goods have at last begun to exhibit anxiety regarding the situation, and they find it increasingly difficult to secure prompt deliveries, while prices are steadily appreciating. Orders tire constantly rejected either because (of inadequate stock or insufficient bids. Jobbing and retail trade in this line is steadily improving. Eastern shoe manufacturers are receiving liberal fall orders from wholesalers at the West and South. Leathef markets are strong. Comparatively quiet conditions in hides have not depressed the tone. Failures this week numbered 362 in the United States, against 243 last year, and 28 in Canada, compared with 30 a year ago. TK ~l Mercantile collecumcaso. ti' ns generally show imJ provement and defaults are fewer in number and liabilities. Other favorable developments have imparted strength in various branches of trade and augur well for. the near future. The protracted cold weather forced unusual consumption of actual necessities. January clearing sales have made a gratifying reduction in stocks carried, manufacturing lines disclose additional resumption, and prospects are better for early activity in new building and improvements. East bound shipments are heavier than for both the previous week and year ago, flour and grain showing best, while there is also moderate gain in hog products. Farm products are marketed more freely nt profitable prices, promising a liberal buying of supplies for use throughout the interior. Advices indicate that country stocks of merchandise are in a depleted state, suggesting immediate replenishment. Wholesale dealers received large orders for spring delivery, the demand being well distributed. Grain shipments, including 1,505,496 bushels of corn, aggregate 3,144,592 bushels, a gain of 38 per cent over correspending week of 1903. Cash buying has | shown best in the coarse grains, bu: there was also improvement in the demand for wheat from the millers. Compared with am,ago. advaicent."openr Iwithsrandlhg largely augmented hog packing, the buying of provisions has remained good and values closed higher in lard 10 cents and in pork 5 cents. Ribs were in fair offering and declined 2% cents. Receipts of live stock, 319,433 head, are 4 per cent under a year ago. Receipts compared with corresponding week of 1903' increased in wool 2 per cent, barley 6 per cent, cattle 9 per cent, dressed beef 13 per cent, butter 14 per cent, cheese IS per cent, wheat 19 per cent, rye 40 per cent, flour 68 per cent and lard 80 per cent, and decreased in hogs 3 per cent, sheep 14 per cent, corn 26 per cent and oats 45 per cent.

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Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.00: hogs, shipping grades, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2 25 to $4.40; wheat, No. 2 red. 89c to 93c; corn, No. 2. 45c to 4Gc; oats, standard, 40c to 41c; rye. No. 2,57 cto 59c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $12.50; prairie, SO.OO to $11.90; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 25c to 28c; potatoes, 85c to 92c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.15; hogs, choice light, s4.'iO to $4.90; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to 83.50; wheat, No. 2,92 cto 93c; corn, No. 2 white, 43c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 39c to 41c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to 85.25: hogs,

$4.00 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,00 cto 91c; corn, No. 2, 42c to 43c, oats, No. 2,39 cto 40c: rye, No. 2. 48c to 49c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.00 to $4.90; hogs. SI.OO to $5.97; sheep, $2.03 to $3.90; wheat, No. 2,96 cto 98c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 45c to 46c; ■ , ?>■ 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; rye, No. 2. 65.■ to 64c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; logs, $4.00 to $4.40: sheep. $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,93 cto 94c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 44c to 45c: oats. No. 3 white, 41c to 42c; rye. No. 2,61 cto 62c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, SGe to 88c; corn. No. 3,41 cto 43c; oats. No. 2 white, 41c to 42c; rye, No. to 66c; barley, No. 2,65 cto 64■; pork, mess, $12.75. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 90c to 92c: coi’ii. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46-; oats No. 2 mix,d. ,39c to 41c: rye. Nr 2, 5S< to 60c: clover seed, prime, $6.75. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping ste> rs $4.59 to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime, $4.00 to $5.59; shoe]), fair to choke. $."..25 to $4.25; lambs, common to choice. $4.75 to $6.40. New York—Catle. $3.50 to $5.15; hogs. 54.00 to $5.15; sheep, $3.60 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 90c to 93 •; corn. No. 2,52 cto 53c; oats. No. 2 white, 47c to 48e; butter, creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, western, 30c to 32c. Notes of Current Events. J. M. Hagaman, the founder of Concordia, Kan., is dead there, aged 74 years. The gunboat Machins has left Aden for Jibuti to await the arrival of the Skinner expedition. Last year the total value of all mineral products of Kansas, according io the university geological survey, aggregated $23,619,532.90. Land has been secured and arrangements nearly completed for the establishment of a large Boer colony in Montana. The movement of the settlers will begin in the spring.