Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 38, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 April 1904 — Page 2

1 v .uociit. / * W. A. l£3i I>L*l£V V 1 *ubl Inhor. WALKERTON. INDIANA. AROUND THE WORLD Both houses of the New York Legislature have passed a bill authorizing the payment by the State of a pension of $72 u month to Hiram Cronk, the last Anien•an survivor 01 the War of 1812. Both Republicans ami Democrats supported the bill. About to be evicted from the house where they have lived for seven years tn St. Louis, and with poverty already upon them, John IL Altman and wife. Julianna. took morphine and lay down to die. With the gas jets turned on, they were found <lead in bed. Race hatred near Silsbee. Texas, is bitter, and many citizens are under arms. A number of negi'oes fired on three white teen, wounding them. White people have oidered arnip from Saratoga. Kountze and other points, and a war of extermination of the blacks is threatened. Japanese cavalry and Cossacks met in a tierce land engagement near Chong Ju. Jind'the latter were rppulsed, alheld in who are preparing for anearT^m vance to the north. According to the London correspondent of the Paris Matin, a dispatch was received from Berlin from a high quarter, which says alarming news lias been received concemiift the health of Emperor William, owing to a recrudescence of the throat trouble for which the Emperor was operated upon last year. Muriatic acid was found in the stomach of John H. Coe by the San Francisco city chemist, who has reported the fact to the coroner. Coe was found dead, supposedly having fallen downstairs. However, as no fractures were found by the autopsy surgeon, the stomach and contents were sent to the chemist. As the result of an alleged attack by Charles Powers, a Milwaukee road brakeman, upon Inez Drake, aged It) years, at Lanesboro, Minn., a mob of 100 infuriated citizens storme'd the village jail in an attempt to drag forth and lynch the prisoner. The mob was repulsed by Marshal Galligan and a band of armed deputies. Struck unconscious by a missile hurled into the cab, Engineer James C. Lindberg, driving the "Meteor" fast passenger train on the 'Frisco system, fell backward, pulling open the throttle. The train dashed out ot thg Union station in • St. Louis and went eight blocks through the yards before the fireman could stop it. The engineer probably will die. Thomas R. Danforth, a McKeesport, Pa., business man, aftbr sitting in a poker game and losing S2OO went to Aiderman L. N. Morgan and asked the notary if he could administer an oath to swear off gambling. Squire Morgan replied that at the rate of $1 an oath he could administer a cast-iron obligation to stop anything. Danforth paid the money and took an oath not to play poker again for ninety-nine years. In a sweeping decision handed down by Judge Brooke of the Wayne Circuit Court in Detroit, the Riverside ( 'lub and the Plumbers' Exchange of Detroit, organizations of plumbers, against which z proceedings were brought by Prosecutor Hunt on the ground that they were organized to fix prices and stifle competition. were restrained from continuing their business, which the court holds to be “an unlawful enterprise inimical to the public welfare.” NEWS NUGGETS. It is announced in London that, the manuscript of Milton’s "Paradise Lost" has been sold to an American collector whose name has not been disclosed. John W. Gates, who owns 20,000 acres of rice land, plans to consolidate all the rice plantations and mills in Louisiana and Texas into a gigantic trust. “Leroy Carpenter. IS, and Albert Moore, 21, were drowned in the Auglaize river two miles south of Defiance, Ohio, while attempting to drive through tha water. Charles G. White, a clerk employed in the White House office at Was! ington. k’lled his wife and himself at Kensington, Md. He had shown evidence of despcndency. Nine leaders of the teamsters’ union, including Albert Young and others of Chicago, were indicted by St. Louis grand jury for violence attendant upon a strike in that city. Suicide of George Crossman of London. who killed himself when surprised by the police in the act of removing the body of his eighth wife in a trunk, brought to light a modern Bluebeard. Dynamite was used to stay the progress of a conflagration that threatened to wipe out the town of East Brady, Pa. Thirty buildings were burned: loss SIOO,000. The insurance may reach $50,000. Ten sets of Dickens’ works, costing $1,300,000 for the edition, is being prepared in Boston for J. P. Morgan and nine other wealthy subscribers. Eight years will be required to finish the work. । F, W_ Campbell, general superintendent of the Texas and Pacific Railroad, was killed at Dallas, Texas. He attempts ed to assist in coupling a train that had been broken apart and was crushed to death. Half of the asparagus crop of California was destroyed by the recent floods in the Sacramento Valley and the price of asparagus will be high this year. The canneries of the State will have no crop with which to work. After starving itself for almost two weeks because its mate had been taken away, a lion at the zoological headquarters in St. Louis died. From the time the mate was taken from the cage and sent to Canada the lion refused to touch food. On the McHorgue farm, about five miles southwest of Independence, the Anchor Oil Company of that city brought in another Kansas oil gusher with a capacity of over 300 barrels per day. A number of other wells will be in hi a few days and there is great excitement. A Frenchman who has just arrived at Vera Cruz, Mexico, from Havana has been arrested at the request of the Cuban consul on the charge of stealing $28,000 at Havana. Emil Panr. formerly conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Society, has been elected conductor of the Pittsburg Orchestra for three years. The prairie fires that have been raging in Holt County, Nebraska, have been extinguished after burning over about one-tenth of the county an destroying thousands of tons of hay numerous barns and sheds, and a few houses. The less is estimated at $50,000.

eastern. The Pennsylvania Railroad freight station at West Philadelphia was destroyed by fire loss $35,000. Fire in New York destroyed the Adams Express and adjoining buildings, causing a total loss of $250,000. The Cuyamaca Mines Company, capitalized at $2.5110.000, has been incorporated at Dov >r, Del., by New York parties. Mrs. S. A. Irwin, great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, is dead at her home in Philadelphia. She was born on Nov. 14, 1815. The American Locomotive Company has discharged about half of its employes in the Scranton. Pa., shops, including ■several draughtsmen. "Professor Albert. Astrologer.” was arrested at Boston, charged with using the mails to defraud by sending identical horoscopes at $2 each. Three persons were run down and killed at Suter Station, four miles west of West Newton. Pa., by the Duquesne limited on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Jacob Tome Institute at Port Deposit, Md., has been closed owing to the prevalence of typhoid fever, which lias broken out among the boarding school scholars. Six structures iu the business section of Jermyn, Pa,, including thcMerriman and Thomas Bray buildings Assembly Hall, were burned, ci ^iess been instituted at New York by PnnHne Hall, the actress, against George B. McLellan, the theatrical manager, whom she married in 1892. Three big labor strikes will take place May 1 in New York unless the grievances shall have been settled before then. More than 30,000 men are involved in the threatened trouble. A dispatch to the New York World from Washington says: “Failing to defeat his confirmation by the Senate, opponents of Leonard Wood will request the War Department to court-martial him.” All the collieries of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company have shut down for a few days. This restriction in the product of anthracite coal is the result of the extremely light demand.

James Gordon, 70 years old. was found dead by farmers in a hut on the side of Burnt Mountain, near Rocksdale, FaGordon, who was known as the Burnt Mountain hermit, had not been seen for seme days?. WESTERN. Wind and floods in the middle West have caused a property loss of $3,000,000 and five lives have been lost. Judge Kersten has passed sentence of death on the Chicago car barn bandits, fixing April 22 as the day of execution. Nine negroes were lynched at St. Charles, Ark., during one week as result of race troubles; five were shot in one day. Thomas Baldorf, a farmer near Wooster, Ohio, his wife and son weie drowned while attempting to ford a swollen stream. A Pennsylvania passenger train struck a buggy containing John Foust and his daughter near Lima, Ohio. Both were instantly killed. H. T. Hayes, former cashier of the Orange Growers’ Bank of Riverside. Cal., has been arrested on a charge of felonious embezzlement. Engineer Edward Jones was burned to death under a locomotive pulling a Pennsylvania freight train that ran into a washout at Clare. Ohio. Mrs. Carlie Wynkoop, wife of Dr. David Wynkoop of New York, died iu S>>n Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Wynkoop were on their honeymoon trip. The Hewitt at^ue barn of the Cincinnati Traction^ -. ^mpany at Walnut Hills, with more than thirty cars, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $90.000.

Michigan floods are the worst since 1887. and loss will reach millions; fiftyfactories have been shut down at Grand Rapids and two bridges carried away at Lansing. Three persons were killed, many hurt and scores of buildings damaged in a wind and rain storm at Indiana Harbor. Other Chicago suburbs suffered severely in the gale. Two more negroes have been killed in the °lash between whites and blacks at St. Charles, Ark. This brings the tidal of deud negroes up to thirteen, all of them within a week. A plug blew out of a locomotive boiler at Dennison, Ohio, killing Richard Morgan. fatally scalding Engineer N. C. Smith and Engine Inspector George Rhoades, and badly injuring IL K. Shaffer. Charles Saxton of St. Joseph. Mo., has confessed that he made the oil can in which a revolver was smuggled into the county jail to Mark Dunn, preliminary to the latter’s sensational escape from jail. The estate of the late Fanny S. Wilder of St. Paul, with that of Mrs. E. V. Appleby, her daughter, amounting to about $2,000,000, is to be used for the poor of St, Paul, independently of any other charity. Grace Ethel, a 19-year-old Salvation Army girl in Zanesville, Ohio, who was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for forging the name of C. W Morrison to a check, has been taken to the State prison. Miss Anita Kelly of New York was awarded a verdict of $35,000 damages and costs against a Santa Barbara (Cal.) hotel company for the loss of a limb in an elevator accident in July, 1903. She sued for $50,000. Senator Burton of Kansas was found guilty by a jury in St. Louis of using his influence as a United States Senator to prevent the Postoffice Department from barring the mails to an alleged bucket shop in St. Louis. The Pittsburg express, east bound, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, “sideswiped” a locomotive in the yards at Crestline, Ohio. The engine was wrecked and the engineer and fireman slightly hurt. Walter Howe, a full-blood Chickasaw Indian and ex-member of the Indian Territory Legislature, is dead as the result of an attack made upon him by Monroe Littrell, a non-citizen, who has so far escaped arrest. John J. Lavin, a politician, and eight members of the police force, indicted on the charge of having intimidated voters, were discharged in the Criminal Court at St. Louis, on the grounds that the indictments were defective. Winn Davis, arrested on a charge of highway robbery, was taken from the jail in St. Clair, Mo., by an armed mob, the members of which whipped the prisoner until he was barely able to stand, and then turned him loose. Henry H. Reeves of Cleveland, Ohio, is revived after death apparently had set in by an injection of adrenal chloride. Although nearly lifeless the patient sat

up within ten minutes after the administration of the drug and is recovering. Elmer Bowers, an employe at the Independent Powder Company's plant in Carthage. Mo., shot W. 1.. Wild rick, the superintendent, and Ernest CrawJord, another employe, as a result of a trivial quarrel. It is believed both will die.

An army of farmers ami townspeople along the Rocky river in Ohio joined in fighting filming oil that covered the stream. Petroleum escaped from a broken pipe line beneath the river bed at Liverpool. Property loss already is heavy. At Tiffin, Ohio, President Miller announced that the $150,000 fund for Heidelberg University had been raised, except a small balance, which is guaranteed. The money will be used for endowing the university and erecting a new building. Fire in Jones Bros.' mammoth retail dry goods store at Twelfth ami Main streets, Kansas City, caused a loss estimated at $130,000, fully insured. Os the loss $90,000 is on stock and $40,000 on building, which is owned by Oetavus Chanute' of Chicago. The fire was started by lightning in one of the lesser of seven buildings, a five-story structure at 1221 and 1223 Main street, that make up the Jones Bros.’ store. It burned out the wall paper anti paint department and the art and fancy goods and the clothing and staple dry goods departments were ' >C< I *"".xlystery is disappearance ui x who recently swore to a sensational statement in which it was alleged that Mormon elders had tried to induce her to embrace polygamy. Subsequently Mormons obtained from her a statement that she did not know the purport of her first affidavit. Now it develops that she has disappeared from Salt Lake City, and thee is no clew to her whereabouts. A newspaper organ of the church suggests that the young woman has been spirited away by non-Mormons in order that a complete refutation of the statements iu her first affidavit may not be made. A cyclone swept the country twenty miles north of Caruthersville. Mo., causing a great loss of life and destroying thousands of dollars’ worth of propelty. The wires have been down and authentic news has been hard to get. but as belated reports come in the loss of life and property increases. It is now known that six persons were killed. The Shuemaker family, four m number. near Portageville, arc dead ami their home is demolished. Wesley Miller and wife, living two miles north of Mount Pleasant were killed and their home swept away. Their bodies were blown 200 yards and badly mutilated. Miller was a wealthy mill owner ami planter. Clasping hands in a long line, twelve miners at Brazil. Ind., rescued from a flooded mine ten of their number held prisoners by a surging torrent. The breaking oi a dam at the Excelsior clay works caused the accident. The ten men were rescued in safety, although two were unconscious, .due to the foul air in the slope where they had sought refuge. There were twenty-five men in the slope, and titteen hud left it nt noon to ('at their dinners on the outside. When the dam broke it was feared the ten inside would be drowm'd, but as sooh as the torrent subsided somewhat the rescuers stemmed the current, which rose to their waists. They found their companions at the extreme end of the slope, ami two of them. William King and John Mooney, were unconscious, but soon re covered when carried outside, and nnnow out of danger. No one was hurt. SOUTHERN. Berea College of Kentucky is to bring suit to test the constitutionality of the recent legislation by that State pr-mibi ing co-education of the races. S. J. Spoils, former easier of tinFirst National Bank of Petty, Texas, pleaded guilty to the charge of embez.Je ment. Judge Bryant sentenced him to five years. All the employes of the ( amden In terstnte Street Railway struck. Two hundred men are out. The entire line fiom Guynmlottc. W. Va., to Hanging Rock, Ohn>. thirty miics. is idb*. Hypalite J. Oneillic. a barber, stopped shaving a man in Meridian. Miss., ami, stepping out to the back do, r of his shop, almost sex < red bi- ow n head from his body with his rumr. dying in a few minutes. Albert ('rot kin. a miner of Henr- W. Va.. has been rescued after s ' eu day s' starvation in a coal mine. He was entombed by an explosion in which three men were killed. Creukin was badly burned, but it is thought he will recover. In Louisville Alexander ('relit r. a bar tender. 47 year-, of age. < ut his wife's throat and then barricaded himself in the Louse ami killed himself with n pist d. Mrs. Ctelier was taken to the hospital, where her wounds were pronounced fatal. The sentence imposed on Rev. B. A. Cherry in Nashville. Tenn., was atlirmed by the. Supreme Court. He caused such p disturbance in court that it was necessary to handcuff him and remove him from the chamber. Cherry was convicted of subornation of perjury in proe uring false affidavits to support a claim of in demnity against a tire insurance company. FOREIGN.. The Flora variety theater 'n Berlin, which is being demolished, collapsed and thirteen workmen were killed. A. letter written from Labrador two months ago confirms the death of Leonidas Hubbard, explorer, from starvation, and tells of intense suffering of the pa rty. Survivors from the British bark Mary A. Troop, which was abandoned at sea en route from Pensacola to Rio Janeiro, arrived at Southampton and related thrilling stories of their experiences. Report comes from Vladivostok that the Russian squadron has returned with several prizes, including a Japanese war ship. The Mikado's land forces defeated the Cossacks in an engagement between Anju and Chong-Ju, after losing fifty killed. Port Arthur harbor is blocked by the Japanese, who sank seven mer aant steamers in the entrance on the night of March 22. The steamers were escorted by sixteen warships and 3.000 Japanese officers and sailors volunteered for the expedition. Marie Antoinette's famous jeweled necklace, valued at $160,000. has been stolen. It was the property of Princess Alice de Bourbon, who placed it with a well-known Paris jeweler for safe-keep-ing. A man subsequently called, represerting himself as a confidential messenger of the princess, and secured the necklace. Gen. Nicolas Arias, an insurgent leader who gave the firing order which resulted in the death of Machinist J. C. Johnson of the American gunboat Yankee, Feb. 1, has been captured by government troops, according to a dispatch from Santo Domingo. After a drumhead court-martial he was sentenced to death and shot.

PRESIDENT OF MORIV CHURCH . Jf EED SMOOT President Joseph^. Smi,h > appeared before the tar* l{ ™™' ee which was considering *4case o ena t “ a»d Smoot of

became the l ief — the Mormon in December, 190 I $ succession to loi Snow, who —he preceding Mr. Smith , ! I^aephew of the r t Smith who -sd the “Church f »sus Christ of , . I >Day Saints."

\ Jbtw JOSEPH F. SMITH.

' i x- ' 1838, and was Ho was born Nov. 1 , , ’ , baptized into the chu h 'J °i" , 12 years old. At the ^29 Brigham ji- > the twelve aposYoung made him one <yr ... .. dr of the constitles. He was a men: 'q

tutional convention of Utah, ami served I several terms in the (( Legislature. He has r large business inter /j ests. Senator Reed H Smoot was born inu I Provo, Utah, his pres- I ent home, in 1562. Hf f took an early intev^ in church matters a advanced steadily un

til he became an npo of H. S. . tie. His wife is a 7 A? jake tOWIN ARNC > IS DEAD. English Author Passes Away at His Home in Loudon. Sir Edwin Arnold,Ljie famous jour nalist and author, dW. at his London home Thursday, at the age of 72 years. His intense interest in the war between Japan and Russia and his concern over the welfare of the Mikado’s people, among whom his best "days were spent, are believed to have hastened the end. Sir Edwin’s Japanese wife, whom he married iu 1897, was at his bedside when he died, but none of the other members of his family w as present. He was totally blind, having lost his sight about three years ago.

Sir Edwin Arnold, best known to the public as the author of "The Licht of Asia ’ and "The Light of the World.” was educated at University College. Oxford. being a prizeman there in 1553, He became master of King Edward’s school at Birmingham in 1854 and remained there until 1856. From the latter year until 1861 he was principal of the government Deccan college at I’oonn, Bombay. Returning to London in 1861 Sir Edwin became connected with the Daily Telegrspli, doing much editorial and literary writing. The winning of the Vardogate prize at Oxford in 1853, the subject of his poem being "The Feast of Belshazzar," marked Arnold ns a man of f;.r above the average ability. At the death of Sheraton Hunt, editor of the Telegraph, Arnold became the paper's editor and for many years was the most voluminous s u i nwtx auxoi n, writer <>f the London pn-x-. As long ago as JBS9 he said: "The hardest work of my life has been done on n daily news p.i| -r. 1 have written more than B.OUO editorials." "The Light of Asia" begun in s ■■ - in eight books was put iu the bands of tbe printer, published mid in the market by July. 1*79. U made a great stir and ran through many editions. S r Edwin was knighted by Queen V: or । in I s **. He was often honor- 1 with titles. He was fellow of Bein’ay univei' ty and of the Royal Asiatic Society. officer of the White Elephant of S ci,, ilso of the Cr w n of Siam and tlie R -ire Sun of Japan, second class of lmpcii.il MedjiJie, third class Os mnuich and commander of the Lion and Sun of Persia. Sir Edwin was three times married, bis first wife being Katherine Elizabeth Biddulph of London, who died in 1864. His second was Jennie Chan.ling of Boston. who died in 18S9. Iu ’S97 he mar-rie-1 Tama Kurokawa of Sendai, Japan. She survives him. Telegraphic Brevities. At an election Hays City. Kan., voted bonds to the amount of $25,000 to put in a water works system. Hamilton and Cleveland capitalists have closed a deal consolidating all Day ton, Ohio, brewer: if into a $2,500,000 company. A loss of $125.f1C atised bv a fire which destroys n? ' .he i"J<iin<” Ute NewAt-frife > Cut-Mu 7 ouT pany at Utica, N. | Davis Blanken, nv “7u of t,ie stock shipping firm of Biai- s Sagehorn of Deshler. Neb., was niL’J.’er by a Uni^n line street car in St. 7 eph. Mo., sustaining injuries from w^|h he died two hours later. Agnes French, the white maid who recently stole a quantity of jewelry from the apartments of Postmaster General Payne and who later was captured in Brooklyn, w as sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. At the election to vote on bonds for the building of a sewer system and an electric light plant in Anadarko, O. T., the proposition carried by a large majority. It called for the issuing of $30,000 worth of bonds. IL M. Dorr, while working as switchman in the Missouri Pacific railroad yards in Wichita, Kan., slipped and fell under a moving car. Both legs were horribly mangled, necessitating the amputation of one above and the other below the knee. George O’Neill, aged 19, a boilermaker, died on the operating table at St. Joseph's hospital at Omaha from injuries alleged to have been inflicted by Patrolman Moore while the latter was trying to arrest him. Moore claims it was necessary to club O’Neill into submission. Bishop Tierney of Hartford, Conn., has already disposed of the gift of $15,000 presented by the priests of his diocese on the tenth anniversary of his consecration. C-IC’-000 being given to St. Thomas Seminary anfl $5,000 to St Francis hospital, both Hartford institutions.

MOBS LYNCH BLACKS. NINE COLORED MEN DIE IN ARKANSAS RACE WAR. bhot Dow n After Firing on OHiceru Detiance of Authorities (liven as Cause of Tragedy at St. Charles -Town Under Strong Guard. A race war has boon in progress at St. Charles, Ark., for several days. Five negroes who had been arrested as a result of the race troubles were taken from the guards by a crowd of men and shot to death. The five victims were James Smith, Charley Smith, Mac Baldwin, Abe Bailey, Garrett Flood. Two more negroes implicated have been captured and it is thought they will be lynched. With the lynching of these five the news, heretofore suppressed, became public that four other blacks have been lynched. The authorities apparently are powerless to uphold the law .A few days ago a difficulty occurred over a trivial matter at St. Charles between a white man named Searcy and two negroes named Henry and Walker Griffin. On Monday the two negroes met Searcy and his brother in a store in St. Charles, and the difficulty was renewed. One of the negroes without warning struck both of the Searcy brothers over them uuconscious and fracturing their skulls. One of them imiy die. Deputy Sheriff James Kirkpatrick attempted to arrest the negro, and he, too, was knocked down. The negroes then gathered and defied the officers, declaring that "no white man could arrest them.” Their demonstrations aroused the fears of the citizens of St. Charles, and they telephoned to De Witt for a posse to come ami protect the town. P. A. Douglass, deputy sheriff, went out with five men Wednesday morning. Constable L. C. McNeeley went forward with a posse to capture the Griffin negroes. The constable met three negroes —Randall Flood, Will Baldwin ami Will Madison—in the road. He inquired of them if they knew where the Griffins were, and one of them replied that they did but "would tell no white man.” The negroes then attempted to draw their pistols, but the posse tired, killing all three of them. Thursday sixteen men left De Witt for the scene of the trouble. Large crowds gathered in from Roe, Ethel and Clarendon. During the day. while the sheriff's ; posse was searching for the Griffin ne- I groes. they were fired upon by a negro named Aaron Sinton from ambu-h. Three of the posse wore hit. but the shot used were small and no serious damage resulted. The posse returned the tire and the negro was shot down. Several other shots were fired into him, killing him instantly. Five other negroes, Jim Smith. Charles i Smith. Mack Baldwin, Abe Bailey and I Garrett Flood, who were the negroes I that hud defied the officers, were arrested, and Thurslay night a crowd of men | took tlmm away from the guards and I shot them t i death. St. Charles is henv ily guarded. \ WORLD’S MODEL FARM. Wonder Uni Tru n«for mat ion of Fifteen Non-Productive Acre*. Thore is n recommendation before the Secretary of Agriculture that s2.<.*K> a I year bo paid to J. D. Dietrich, who: lives near Philndelpliia, to enable him to ! run his little farm as a sort of government show place. It is estimated by I offli inis that a full knowledge of his ■ inanagenwnt and methods would be wrth $4(».<XMUiUit to the dairy interests of the country. Under the plan of the Agricultural Department agents, Mr. Dietrich would have the profits of the place. a« usual, ami the extra money would cempon'ato him f >r the time required to explain everything to visiting farmers. This farm is the most wonderful agri- I cultural area in the country, it con.-dsts | of 1.5 acres ami when Dietrich came into I poss. —'.l:l oi it by inheritam e about 20 * years a_ > it was so unpro<luctive that I he had to buy hoy for his horse ahd two | c ws and garden stuff for the family. | Dietril eh exhausted all sources of in f- rmati-m about fertilizers and then applied I,is km wh- Ige in the best way to ! sui: his ■■.-!•. To-dsy then- is no richer tract in the < mntry. Three erops of । fodder are rai -ed every year and. there , being 1.0 pa'turnge. the cows are foil- | dt red in tl.e stalls ami barnyard. The i quality and condition of the cows would I make them conspicuous at any State: fair. 'Do re are 35 of them the year i round ami tle-ir milk is pure and rich, j bringing the highest price. Ail the agricultural papers are talk- i ing about him and he cannot supply the ; demand for him as a speaker at farmers’ । institutes. Dietrich is a clergyman and i is capable of giving intelligible explan::- i tion of his work. His place is overrun with visitors. Interesting News Items. A man thought to be a tramp was run over by a Missouri Pacific train at Leroy, Kan., and cut in two. Gem Daniel E. Sickles, who refused to support W. J. Bryan in 1896 and 1909. has declared for Judge Parker. R. P. Hobson has broken down in his gress and has canceled his engagements. The cold in northern Italy is so intense that the Tosa falls, near Simplon, probably the grandest among the Alps, are frozen. Andrew Carnegie is to succeed Senator Hanna as president of the National Civic Federation if he can be persuaded to accept the position, so it is said by the men working in the interests of the < rgauization. A bill has been introduced in the lowzr house of the Virginia Legislature to allow Grover Cleveland to hunt ducks when he pleases regardless of the game laws. The Carnegie library building in Kansas City. Kam. w r as opened with a public reception and entertainment. There are 5.000 volumes in the new library. The building cost $75,000. Mrs. Hanna Gibson, wife of Ned Gibson, committed suicide near Lang, eight miles northeast of Emporia, Kan. 11l health and domestic trouble are given as reasons for her suicide. Sheriff Anderson, at Indianola. Miss., arrested S. and Frank Davidson of Chicago for peddling photographs showing the President and Booker T. Washington sitting at the same table. Topeka millers have formed a trust to make Topeka people eat nothing but Topeka flour. Notice has been served on local grocers that they must iot handle QUtside flour under penalty of having nc Topeka flour to handle. Frank Rose, who on Christmas day shot and killed his wife, and left his 2-ycar-old boy for two days without food and alone in the room with his murdered mother, was sentenced in Salt I,ake City to be shot April 22.

9 -nd 'HEED SMOOT.

HAVOC BY STORM AND FLOOD. Wind and Rain Cause Great Damage and Death. Twenty-five lives are known to have been lost, while fears are entertained that more than twice that number perished in a tornado that swept the country twenty miles north of Carruthersville, Mo., Sunday night. The property less is estimated at $75,000. The body of Wesley Miller, a wealthy planter, was found 200 yards from his house, which was demolished by the storm. Fifteen hundred dollars in bills was found scattered about near the body. Eight other bodies were found near wrecked homes. The tornado swept clear a path 300 yards wide, destroying everything in its course. While the sudden drop in temperature relieved the flood situation in the vicinity of Chicago and northern Illinois, reports from adjacent States indicate that there has been little or no abatement in the severity of the inundation. Nearly half of Indiana was practically submerged Sunday and hundreds of families forced to abandon their homes. In Michigan the severity of the unprecedented floods is most acutely felt in the vicinity of Grand Rapids and the towns along the Grand river, whicti for three days has been flowing in a stream several hundred yards wider than its customary channel. At Indianapolis Sunday night large areas of the resident district were covered with water. Hundreds of families were driven from their homes, street car service paralyzed, and all the suburban irtSWitf 'ffiWi'iil.''’ th* hite river, which subsided somewm^ta^^* Monday morning, rising at night at the rate of two inches an hour. Fall creek, which runs through the northern section of the city, broke its banks, and poured a stream five feet high out upon a thickly settled district. The police force were guarding the various bridges, piloting the people over, and warning them in various ways, and the resident companies of the State National Guard were called out to assist the police. One of the large and substantial bridges over the river broke loose and was swept away. It is estimated that at least half of the State of Indiana is under water, while nearly all of it is suffering from the,effei ts. Anderson and Marion are the other points of most desperate emergency. At Anderson 300 families have been housed in the old armory, after being driven from their homes, and at Marion the same number of families have been cared for by more fortunate residents. Portland and Vincennes rqperrt losses of SIOO,OOO each for the towns and their contiguous territories, and at the former place two men were drowned. Thirty bridges were carried away in Knox County. The Noblesville water works plant is six feet under water, and a railroad bridge has been carried away with a loss of four lives. Fort Wayne. Torre Haute. Wabash, Logansport. Lafayette, Richmond—in fact, nearly all the principal cities and towns of the State—report flood situations equal to or exceeding the worst previously recorded, with the situation hourly growing worse. Several cities are in darkness, water having quenched the fires of the electric light and power plants, and many industries have been forced to shut down. The loss to farmers, especially in the bottoms, is very heavy. The Wabash, White and other smaller streams are devastating thousands of acres in southern Indiana, and at many points are live to ten miles wide. The Ohio rose fifteen feet Sunday night and inundated Lawrenceburg ami other portions of Dearborn County. At Wabash City, miles of bottom land are flooded and hundreds of homes depopulated.

BURTON IS CONVICTED. Kansas Senator Found Guilty of Accepting Fees for His Influence. Senator Burton, of Kansas, was found guilty by a jury of using his influence as a United States Senator for a money

consideration to prevci.t the Post Office 1 »epartrnent fr o m barring the mails to an alleged bucketshop keeper in St. Louis. The federal grand jury relumed an indhtm.'nt against Burton on January 23. He was <4iurged in nine counts with

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accepting five checks of ssoi» each from the Rialto Grain and Securities Comp.'iny between November 22. 1902. and March 16. 1903, while a Unite! States Senator, for his alleged services of intercoding witii the Postmaster General, chief post office inspector ami other high post office officials, to induce them to render a favorable decision in matters affecting the permission of the R’-ilto Company to use the mails. Senator Burton’s conviction is the first tinder this section of the statute, which was enacted by Congress in 1864. Senator Joseph Ralph Burton is 49 years old and a native of Southern Indiana. He began life as a farm hoy, such as was pictured by Edward Eggleston in "A Hoosier Schoolmaster.” By giving lessons in elocution he paid his expenses at college. Later he practiced law at Princeton. Ind., where he married Miss Carrie Webster, a cousin of Congressman S. S. Cox. of New York. For the last twenty-two years Mr. Burton has been a citizen of Kansas. He gained national distinction bv his debates S T*<«*ff«Hr TTr'-rsnn Tie secured the caucus nomination for the Senate over John J. Ingalls. A Populist was elected that year, but Burton won in 1901. Senator Burton is an eloquent orator, and during every campaign since 1870 ho has devoted from two to four months to stump speaking. He has served three terms in the Kansas Legislature. and during the World's Fair he xx as commissioner from Kansas. He once had a fortune, but the collapse of the Western boom wiped it out. Money Flows Into New York by Mail. Last year 4.600. i4l domestic money oiders were paid at the New York postoffice. an average of 12.600 a day, including Sundays and holidays. In the same time only 121.114 were issued, showing that New Yorkers send money by some source other than that adopted by thousands of persons xvho reside outside of New York and have money transactions with New Yorkers. The orders paid at the Nexv York office amounted to $27,668,220.82. or more than $2,000,000 a month. In the whole year but $1,574,231.34 was sent away. Good Winter for Rubber Goods. The winter just closing—if it really is closing-—has been the best ever known for the makers and handlers of rubber sloes and boots. The United States Rubber Company has sold $30,000,000 worth of rubber boots and shoes since the opening of winter—s3.ooo,ooo more than last year ami $3,000,000 more than in 1901. Means What It Says. "Japan lauds between a hundred and a hundred and fifty thousand troops.” says the cable report. And that means exactly xvhat it says—between 100 and 150,000. Take your choice.”

icongress! In the Senate Friday Mr. H n<biough charged that the movement to secure the repeal of the desert land and the timber and stone laws ami the commutation clause of the homestead act were due to tlge efforts of a lobby compose I mainly of the holders of lands bought in large tracts from railroad companies. He held that their desire was to increase the demand for their property. Senator Dubois intimated that the pressure for repeal was due to the large holdings of forest lands by the railroads. Mr. Newlands favored modifications of the law. The Semite took up the private pension calendar, passing a large number of bills. The House passed the postcflice appropriation bill, after a prolonged debate on the paragraph affecting rural letter carriers. This was stricken out Thursday. but restored under a special order of the committee on rules. It increases salaries to $720 a year and prohibits the soliciting of business or the reception of orders by carriers from any person, firm or corporation, but permits the carriers, under certain restrictions, to carry merchandise for hire for and upon the request of patrons residing on the routes. The paragraph appropriating $5,009 for the salary of a purchasing agent for the passed. The fortifications appropriation bill was sent to conference. The Senate Saturday continued consideration of the District of Columbia appropriations bill. Senators Hoar and McComas spoke in favor of a high-pres-sure water system for Washington. Mr. Foraker gave notice that the services in memory of the late Senator Hanna would be held April 7 instead of March 31. After passing pension bills the Senate went into executive session and adjourned to Monday. The House began consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. Chairman Hemenway of ihe appropriations committee estimated the expenditures for 1905 at $594,802,324. to which must be added the interest on the public debt, estimated at $84,971,^20. The revenues for the year are estimated at $704,472,060. Several minor bills were passed by unanimous consent, and special orders were made for the consideration of pension bills. It was decided that after the sundry civil bill shall have been disposed of the omnibus claims bill will follow as a special order. Mr. Pou of North Carolina attacked the Republican party. Mr. Baker of New York spoke in opposition to ship subsidies. «

The Senate Monday for three hours discussed the recent order of the pension bureau making old age an evidence of disability. The discussion xvas based on the resolution by Mr. Carmack directing the judiciary committee to investigate the authority of the executive branch of the government to make such an order. Mr. Carmack held that no such order exists, but several Republicans argued that the order is in line xvith the regulation issued by Judge Lochren. pension commissioner under President ('leveland, xvho fixed 65 years as evidence of disability. The District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed. The sundry civil ’nil! was before the House, but the debate took a wic ; range. Mr. Gillett (Mass.) devoted considerable time to answering some of tlie statements recently made on the floor by Mr. Spight (Miss.) regarding the race question. Mr. Clark tMu.l made a speech on the tariff and declared in favor of the tariff program for the Democratic party as outlined recently by Mr. Williams, the leader of the minority. A strong plea for the tobacco growers xvas made by Mr. Trimble (Ky.l. xvho urged tiie removal of the tax of 6 cents a pound on raw tobacco in order that the producer might sell directly to the consumer. The bill authorizing the erection of an additional executive department building in Washington was the subject of 1 spirited debate in the Senate Tuesday, but no action was taken on it. There xvas renewed eflort to pass the bill prohibiting the- niishrtinding of salmon, but to the opposition of Senators xvho held that the measure is calculated to interfere with the rights of individual States under the guise of an effort to control ititerstate commerce a vote was 1 >1 reached. The bill authorizing an investigation into payment of the claim of the Indiana State board of iigricnitiii e against the United States on aeeoimt ot the occupancy of its buildings by troops during the xvar xvith Spain xvas ]>: <<eil. F< r the want of speakers general debate on tlie sundry civil appropriation bill in the House was closed several hours before the time agreed on and the bill was read for amendment. The only important amendment adopted provided for an initial appropriation of $500,000 for the completion of the capitol building according to t’.ie original design. MrCampbell (Kan.) in a speech defended the protective tariff policy of the Republican part), ami Mr. Williams «!!!.» denounced the Republicans for failing to inxestigate the Postoffice Department. He said the scandals m the department xvill become an important issue in the < omuaign. and arraigned — .Ure"Roosevelt and Attorney General K:mx. In the National Capital. House committee on judiciary voted to impeach Charles Swayne. United States judge for the district of Florida, and charges xvill go to the Senate. Bill increasing postal clerks’ salaries has been introduced by Congressman Mann of Illinois, xvho threatens to oppose similar advance for rural carriers if Lis measure is rejected. Attorney General Knox advises the President that he is authorized at any time now to make payment for Panama canal property. The title is held to be satisfactory. The investigation of the affairs of the division of correspondence of the Postoffice Department has been concluded and it is understood that nothing irregular has been found there by the inspectors. This office xvas included in the general order issued months ago by the First Assistant Postmaster General for a thorough investigation of all the offices under his jurisdiction. Members of Senate committee believe Smoot case xvill not be settled at this session of ('ongress owing to great amount of testimony .vet to be heard. Attorney General Knox informed members of the Semite that there xvill be no hitch in perfecting the title of the I iiited Slates to the l’anama eana'.. The President lias directed the transfer of John Barrett, present minister to the Argentine Republic, to be minister to Panama. W. W. Russell, at present charge at l’anama. lias been made minister to Colombia, and .\rthur W. 8.-an-pre. I.ow miu.ster to < o.ombia. lias been made minister to .Argentina to .succeed Mr. Barrett.