Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 December 1908 — Page 9

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT W. A. ENDLEY, Publisher WALKERTON. ■ I NDI AN A The surgeon general of the navy wants a dental corps. Is this to be on duty in the teeth of a gale? An Illinois man got a bride on an election bet, and will know in a few years whether he won or lost.. « Yale may build a stadium. There it will be more than ever a matter of Greek meeting Greek. That is an o'd saying about good digestion waiting upon appetite, but ever appropriate to the occasion. It is difficult to see how an expert can find enough work to keep him busy under the stringent game laws prevailing in Africa. Now a theorist insists that life can be prolonged forever. The idea opens up a terrible prospect in some cases for the world's welfare. People who used to denounce “Camille” as an improper play are too dazed to submit any comments on some of the stage performances now presented. An Arkansas editor disposes of the whole big subject by saying that Emperor “Bill” is “too devilish gabby,” ’'4£<l a 3&£jing possibly having other merthan its bi^^. BBjpSjifenent was started in Paris recently to tax tourists, but the scheme has fallen through, Frenchmen being satisfied to continue to soak them as before. A famous French chauffeur who has l just arrived in this country rejoices in the name of Szisz. When his employer wants to call him he will only have to make a noise like a soda fountain. Europe should never again make fun of American wealth. The respect for it has been too obvious in various mat- | rimonial negotiations to permit any as- I fectations of supercilious indifference. 1 Gypsy Smith has converted several Cleveland ministers, according to the ’ clergymen themselves. This gets us ' so mixed up in our minds that we ■ can’t think of anything to say about it. ! China’s ancient law compelling the new emperor always to be of the next j generation must have been put through some ages ago by a lobby of | would-be regents and kept in operation by similar interests. If the German invasion scare keeps up in England it will not be long before the Britons will be dreaming that | they see fleets of Zeppelin airships sailing out of the storm clouds when it’s raining over the North sea. A supreme court judge out in lowa has decided that the football season ends with Thanksgiving day. He says also - - “The remainder of the year of the university student may be devoted to the study of football, but the football season proper ends appropriately with a general thinksgiving.” That judge must have been sent to the bench —or to the sidelines —a long time ago. In France Mons. Dufour has succeeded in making thermometer tubes of pure quartz. Not only are these tubes exceedingly transparent, but their resistance to heat and other advantages make them superior to glass for thermometers intended to measure high temperatures. In such thermometers melted tin takes the place about 465 degrees Fahrenheit up to ovei 1,000 degrees. It could be run up to 1,800 degree, for quartz does not soften below that temperature. At a recent meeting of scientists in Dublin Prof. G. Elliott Smith, the Egyptologist, said that the earliest known human remains found in the Nile valley, when compared with those of later times, demonstrated the fact j that at a very remote period Egypt and Nubia were inhabited by the same race which had existed in Egypt with people, the average height of the men little or no change in physical characteristics throughout the intervening 6,000 years until the present day. They had been, and still were, a small of mercury, and the scale read) from being about five feet three inches at every period of their history. When the prince of Bulgaria, after declaring the independence of his principality, took the title of tsar rather than that of emperor, he used the word common in the Slavonic languages to describe the ruler of a country. The Bulgarian spelling of the word is “car,” "c” having the sound of “ts.” The word first came into the English language through the Slavonic spelling of “czar.” The form which gives the Russian pronunciation most | nearly is that which the Youth’s Com- . panion uses, namely, “tsar,” although : if a final “e” were added it would • more nearly indicate the sound of the term as spoken in St. Petersburg. It is estimated that over a thousand foreigners are enrolled in American UMV-ersities. For many years Americans had to go abroad to get the best education that was obtainable. So we owe other countries a great deal of education in return. Among the instructions issued to the people of Japan by the government during the visit of the American fleet were injunctions to refrain from staring at the foreigners, and to make no insulting remarks about the manners, costumes or conversation of the visitors. New York has a new club in which the servants are forbidden to take tips under pain of dismissal. But vain the struggle against this tipping servitude. It is too firmly intrenched to be uprooted without a prolonged struggle. It is the tippers, not the lipped, who must be appealed to. “Who vould be free themselves must st rile Every now and then some scientist says he has discovered that monke; have a language. But the sen mist variably monopolizes the line stead of letting the monkeys be inter viewed

KNOXTOBEPREMIER ACCEPTS STATE PORTFOLIO IN MR. TAFT'S CABINET. PRESIDENT-ELECT IS HAPPY Invites Senator to Augusta to Advise Him—Wickersham Not Yet Selected for Attorney General. Augusta, Ga.—William H. Taft, presi-dent-elect of the United States, Friday night announced the appointment of j United States Senator Philander C. । Knox of Pennsylvania as secretary of state in his cabinet. The announcement followed the re ceipt by Mr. Taft of a telegram which came late in the afternoon conveying the information from Mr. Knox that he would accept the premiership of the Taft cabinet. "I feel that I am to be congratulated in securing the services of Senator Knox in my cabinet,” said Judge Taft iin making the announcement. “In selecting a secretary of state I wanted S ^IVt ■ ■ 3 ^4TiOM® I -Ss| 1 '"1 ■ T s j X. I yW'J : Philander C. Knox. , first, a great lawyer, and second, a man who would fill the public eye, not onlj r here but abroad, as a man who stands out preeminently as a great American. “Mr. Knox was a great attorney general; he was a prominent candidate for the presidency, and he is recognized in the senate and elsewhere as one of the great lawyers of that body.” Judge Taft also feels that from a political viewpoint the selection of Mr. Knox is most happy. He explained that there was often a feeling that the state of Pennsylvania, with its assured Republican majorities, was slighted in the matter of recognition in the, high councils of the party. That this 4ill not be the case in the next administration was indicated by the announcement by Mr. Taft that he should invite Senator Knox to come to Augusta that he might consult him freely with reference to filling other places in his cabinet. Regarding the report that George W. Wickersham of New York would be attorney general in his cabinet, Mr. Taft said that he had not yet dei termined on anyone definitely for the attorney generalship. KILLS GIRL WHO REJECTS HIM. — Brutal Murder by Young Man in Somerville, Mass. i Somerville, Mass. —Enraged because his former sweetheart. Miss Maud Hartley, had rejected him, James B. Harmon, the 18-year-old son of Police ; Sergeant James M. Harmon, shot and I killed her on the street here Friday. I Miss Hartley w r as of the same age as her slayer, and was the daughter of Mrs. Agnes Hartley, a physician. When Miss Hartley fell, Harmon lifted the body and threw it on the steps of a near-by store with the remark: “There, | I’ve finished her.” He then fled, but half an hour later surrendered to the police. I Given Maximum Penalty for Fraud. Harrisburg, Pa. —John H. Sanderson, contractor for the furnishing of the new state capitol; ex-Auditor General W. P. Snyder, ex-State Treasurer W. L. Mathues and ex-Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings James 1 M. Shumaker, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the state in the cases growing out of the capitol scandal, w r ere • sentenced Friday to two years in the ’ penitentiary, SSOO fine and costs, the maximum punishment allowed by law, and were released on SIOO,OOO bail on supersedeas. Boston Official Is Accused. Boston. —Leo F. McCullough, president of the common council of Boston, Thursday night surrendered himself to > the police. He is charged with perjury j and conspiracy to defraud the city out ; of S2OO on June 1 last. Well Known Actor Found Dead. Los Angeles, Cal.—Harry Glazier, a prominent actor, member of the Belasco stock company, was found dead in bed in his room at the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena Thursday. Heart disease i was the cause of death. Men Weep Over Bank Failure. Toledo, O. —Men cried and women fainted in the streets of Napoleon, Henry county, when Wednesday morning they found a notice of assignment posted on the doors of the Citizens’ State bank. Alice Neilson Is Bankrupt. New York. —Alice Neilson, an actress 1 long prominent on the comic opera stage, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy Wednesday. She gave her liabilities as $7,200 and her assets as $75.

CARACAS STIRRED BY RIOTS MOBS SWEEP THROUGH CITY, UNHINDERED BY POLICE. Crowds Burn Statues and Pictures of President and Pillage Property of His Friends. Caracas, Venezuela.—The people of Caracas arose against President Cas- I tro. An infuriated mob, unhindered by the police, swept through the city, wrecking the property of his henchmen and bis closest friends. The people rounded up all the statues and pictures of President Castro from the clubs nnd other semi-public buildings and burned them with rejoicing, on the Plaza Bolivar. Castro’s rule in Venezuela probably is ended. In spite of Holland’s warlike activity on the coast, there have been no demonstrations against the Netherlands; they all have been directed against President Castro and Acting President Gomez. The Venezuelan capital witnessed an outbreak of disorder, following the warlike activities of the Dutch warships along the coast, that made it necessary by nightfall to declare martial law in order to put an end to the rioting and pillaging There were several attacks on private property on the part of the mob before the authorities got the situation in hand, and several of the agitators were arrested. There was m actual conflict between the people an' the police. The pillaging was con 'ned to the properties -es-Venezuelans,; Emors Rivas and Thielen. Further dangerous demonstrations I are anticipated. No official act de- ] posing Castro from the presidency of , Venezuela yet has been taken, but c such a step is expected any moment. ! j Berlin.—President Castro of Vene- a zuela maintains his composure in the f face of alarming reports which have been ^published here regarding the dis- < turbance in Venezuela. When dis- J patches were shown to him Wednes- J day that the people o f Caracas had [ arisen against him, he laid quietly: ( “I don’t believe it. I had dispatches । from Caracas this morning, but they । mentioned nothing of the kind.” j TOTAL POPULAR VOTE GIVEN. ( j 14,853,059 Ballots Cast in the Last j Election. t 1 New York. — The total popular I ( vote of the various presidential ( candidates at the last national elec- ■ ( tion was made known Wednesday in , an official form by the filing of the last , of the official votes, that of Michigan. , The totals show the following votes cast: ’ ( Taft (Rep.), 7,637.676; Bryan (Dem.), 6,393,182; Debs (Soc.), 448,- i 453; Chafin (Pro.), 241,252; Hisgen , (Ind.), 83,186; Watson (Pop.), 33,871; . Gilhaus (Soc. Lab.), 15,421. Total for ( all candidates, 14,853,059. This grand total exceeds by 1,342,351 the total number of votes cast in ; the presidential election of 1904, when the grand total was 13,510,708. Compared with that election, the candidates of the Republican, Demo- j cartic and Socialist parties increased their vote this year. The reverse is true of the candidates of the Prohibition, Populist and Socialist Labor parties. The Independence party did not figure in the presidential election of four years ago. PLUNGE TO DEATH WITH AUTO. Milwaukee Man and Chauffeur Drown in the River. Milwaukee. —An automobile containing three men dashed into the open draw of the Oneida street bridge : at one o’clock Thqrsday morning and [ went to the bottom of the river, car- I rying two of the occupants to their death. The dead are Oscar Z. Bartlett, member of the board of trade, and Albert Kunz, chauffeur. A. F. Solliday of the Solliday Motor Company was rescued. The car approached the bridge from the east, coming down the Oneida street hill at a high rate of speed. The driver apparently did not notice that the bridge was open until the car was within 20 feet of it. Kunz then made a frantic effort to avoid the river, but only succeeded in turning the car as far as the curb, where it bounded into the air, turning a complete somersault between the dock and the center pier of the bridge. Two New Records for Wright. Le Mans, France. —Wilbur Wright, the American aeropianist of Dayton, 0., established a new world’s record ’ for heavier-than-air ' machines Friday while trying for the Michelin cup, remaining in the air 1 hour, 53 minutes and 59 seconds. The best previous record is 1 hour, 31 minutes and 51 seconds, made by Mr. Wright September 21. Mr. Wright closed a triumphant day by achieving another record, flying to a height of 360 feet in a strong wind and winning the Sarthe Aero club’s prize for height. Will Fight for Bleached Flour. Lincoln, Neb. —The entire milling in- I dustry of Nebraska will oppose the recent order of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson prohibiting the transportation and sale of bleached flour in interstate commerce. f < I Two Killed by an Explosion. Lebanon, O. —A terrible explosion in the plant of the Senior Powder Company, one mile north of Morrow, this county, Friday, instantly killed Clinton Ertle, 35 years old, and Will Urton, 23 years old. Officers of Cotton States League. Jackson, Miss. —At a meeting of the board of directors of the Cotton States league Thursday, P. S. Merrill of Jackson was elected president of the league and Walter Weaver of Columbus, Miss., secretary. Gets SI,OOO for Involuntary Flight. . j Kingston, N. Y. —For her involunI tary balloon ascension at the Ellenville ; fair on August 29, 1906, a jury in the [ supreme court Thursday rendered a I verdict in favor of Mrs. Mary S. Roper i for SI,OOO.

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HEARST'S PUBLISIErIcCUsE s. s. CARVAHLO CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL |‘BEL. J. D. Rockefel ases Complaint cockade. New York. On « , uarge of criminal libel, made by Job n d. Rockefeller, Jr., S. S. Carvalho, president of the Star Company, publl shers of William R. Hearst s New Ybi k American, was arrested Thursday ; md arraigned in police court before D [agistrate Finn. At the solicitatit n of Clarence J. Shearn, attorney foi the Hearst publications, and withoi t any objection being raised on the part of Assistant District Attorney ( larvan, who had charge of the prosecution, Mr. Carval ho was paroled in 1 he custody of his lawyer until Decern 26, for examination. Mr. Rockefeller, a :companied by his counsel, Lawyer Mt rphy, appeared in District Attorney Je rome's office early in the day and ma le complaint that the article publishet^in the New York American of DecemlUer 17, under a Chicago date of DeMember 16. with the head line, “J. D. . Rockefeller, Jr., originated peonair* I stockade, it is said, tended to in, < s his good name, reputation and cred* a and to make him appear ridiculous.

He submitted at; Rewritten affidavit embodying these c harges to District Attorney Garvan, t whom the case was assigned. On he presentation of the affidavits to K agistrate Finn, he issued warrants foi the arrest of Mr. Carvalho, Bradford Merrill, treasurer, and Edward H. ( lark, secretary, of the Star Company. Mr. Carvalho wa s found in his office. Merrill and iplark were not in their offices. Mr. Carvalho took his arrest good nature ^y. Bradford Merrill treasurer of the Star Company, f lained Thursday night that the a at which Mr. Rockefeller ha<L< -offense had come from Chicago j t he regular routine way. that it ha> i fluot originated in New York, and tha I t in investigation would be started at I oice. "If we find that we have wron^ I ;ei i Mr Rockefeller,” said Mr. Mei I.Till, “we will, of course, do everythin |g in our power to atone for it.” I

tobacco comb Bine llegal. Federal Circuit Cou ■'•t Decree Orders Trust to D dissolve. New York. —Nine ■companies, with their subsidiaries, ant naned as constituting an illegal co Bmbination in the final decree, filed Tuesday in the United States circuit® court, putting into effect the judgment recently obtained by the govermßnent in its suit to dissolve the so-calkßd tobacco trust. The companies mßmed are the American Tobacco ■Company, the American Snuff Comptßny, the American Cigar Company, B the American Stogie Company, M.McAndrews & Forbes Company, P. LBorillard & Co., R. J. Reynolds Toba«B C o Company, Blackwell’s Durham Tolßacco Company and the Conley Foil Ccßmpany. Each of the first five of these ■companies the court declares is in its'tif a combination in violation of lawß The order enjoins th® se companies from continuing as parti ■ es in the combination and restrains t ■hem from engaging in interstate or ■foreign trade until “reasonable com ■petition" between them is restored. ■ Appeals by both the government anil the defendants will act as a temporary stay of the decree. Blizzard in Newfo- F attend. St. Johns, N. F. —The v ~ ors t blizzard experienced in News* Bndland for many years has been raßging for GO hours and heavy damns ■. h as been done to fishing vessels, a | number of , which have been blown f I shore. Stock Broker Kills h Bimself. Joplin. Mo. —Standing beßf ore a mirror in the bathroom of his ■apartments here Friday, Col. Hy B. MaB rc hbank, a prominent stock broker, se®^ a bullet through his brain. Marchtß a nk left a note to his sister ascribing® Hl health for his action. g Lad Killed in Boxing Bout. Philadelphia. —James Cußrren, 18 years old, was killed in a b«xing bout with Benjamin Barnet, 17 yefß rs of age. at the Broadway Athletic clvßb Friday, j Barnet was arrested. ■ Woman Accused of Mur®der. Charleston. W. Va. —Charged with the murder from ambush of I Grafton Starbuck, a leading prohibit« on ist of Fayette county, at Cawley, NB O vember 28, Mrs. E. V. Smith was Barrested Thursday and is now confine« in the Fayetteville jail. ■ Railway Man Dies Suddenß|y. San Francisco. —George W. Fwietcher, a district freight agent of the Southern Pacific railway, and a promineiKt memi her of the Bohemian club, died Suddenly Thirsday of heart disease. ■

TWO NEBRASKA BANKS ROBBED. Bandits Dynamite Safes, Fight Citizens and Flee in Auto. Gibbon, Neb.—Six robbers, after dy. namiting the safes of the Farmers’ State bank of Keene, at Keene, 28 miles south of Gibbon, and the Commercial bank of Gibbon, engaged in a pitched battle here with a number of citizens early Friday and escaped in an automobile with $5,500. One of the robbers is believed to have been wounded and to have been carried off by his comrades. The Keene bank was first entered. Here two vault doors were opened by the force of an explosion. The robbers secured $3,000, climbed into an automobile and started north. A farmer, aroused by the explosion, saw the robbers as they sped out of town but made no attempt to interrupt them. An hour later the robbers reached Gibbon and while four of their number began work inside of the Commercial bank, two others kept guard outside. Here the explosion attracted a number of citizens to the scene, among them G. T. Holloway, president of the bank. Holloway, approaching the two men stationed outside the bank, accosted them, believing them to be acquaintances of his. For reply

two bullets whizzed by him, one piercing the banker's overcoat but doing no harm. While a posse was gathering the robbers inside the bank kept steadily at work, the guards meanwhile keeping up a steady fire on the I citizens. Finally the citizens partly surrounded the building and for 15 minutes a lively fusilade of shots was exchanged. Finally, at a given signal, all six robbers made their escape through a rear door and soon made off, again escaping in their machine. An investigation disclosed blood stains on the bank floor, indicating that one of the robbers had been shot. They had taken $2,500 from the bank’s vault. The posse started in pursuit but the robbers soon gained the lead and were lost to sight. FREEDOM DAWNS IN TURKEY. New Ottoman Parliament Is Opened by the Sultan. I Constantinople.—Turkey made her

bow as a full fledged constitutional monarchy Thursday, when the new Ottoman parliament held its first ses- , sion. Thursday was proclaimed a general holiday in honor of the parliament and the city did its best to observe the occasion fittingly. The decorations : were unprecedented and most of the population was in the streets eagerly discussing the prospects of the new regime. Practically every regiment in the Constantinople garrison lined the route under arms when the sultan ; drove to open the assembly, while school children stationed at vantage points along the way sang the hymn of liberty as the imperial cortege passed. Well-Known Author Dead. New Haven, Conn.—Donald Grant Mitchell, 84 years old, the wellknown author who wrote under the nom de plume “Ik Marvel,” died at his home, “Marvelwood,” in Edgewood, a suburb of this city, Tuesday night. At the bedside at the time of Mr. Mitchell’s death were his sons, Harold of New London and Walter of Newark, and his daughters, Mrs. Walter Hart of Rye, N. Y.; Mrs. Mason Hoppin and the Misses Elizabeth. Bessie and Harriet Mitchell, all of New Haven. Burton Not to Be in Cabinet. New York. —It was authoritatively announced Wednesday night that the offer of a cabinet position to Congressman Theodore Burton of Cleveland had been withdrawn by Mr. Taft and would not be renewed. Steamer Sunk in Collision. New York.—The British freight steamer Daghestan was sunk outside the harbor Friday night by the tramp steamer Catalone. There was no loss of life, the crew of the Britisher being picked up by the Catalone. Kansas Glassblowers Strike. Coffeyville, Kan. —The window glass blowers of the Kansas Window Glass Company went on a strike at noon Friday and at midnight the blowers of the Coffeyville Window Glass Company quit work. Convicted of Embezzlement. El Reno, Okla. —C. M. Buckles, cashier of the First State bank of Oklahoma City, was found guilty Thursday by a jury of embezzling $1,872 while he was treasurer ot Canadian county three years ago. He was sentenced to serve a year in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $3,485. Lucky Baldwin Seriously 111. Los Angeles, Cal. —E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin, the famous breeder and owner of race horses, is oriously ill at his Arcadia ranch.

^GELUIBEfI TRUST VIRGINIA AND RAINY LAKE COMPANY IS ORGANIZED. CAPITAL IS $20,000,000 Weyerhaeuser Back of Concern That Will Control Immense Tract in Northern Minnesota and Canada. Duluth, Minn.—The Virginia and Rainy Lake Lumber Company, the largest of its kind in the world, has just been formed here. Its president is Edward Hines of Chicago. It represents the pooling for the first time in one great co "oration of one part of the tremendous holdings of ■ timber land of Frederick Weyerhaeus- | er, said to be because of his fabulous i lumber possessions the richest man in tht' world. The capital stock of the new corpor- ; ation»is $20,000,000. It holds over : 2,000,000,000 feet of lumber, covering a ; vast tract in northern Minnesota and j extending into Canada. This is said

to be the last great tract of timber land in the forest region of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, once thought to be inexhaustible. It is thought the new company will take about ten years to cut the 3,000,000,000 feet of lumber. To aid in this colossal task sawmills will be built, a fleet of 20 lake steamers built or bought, and railroads constructed. The constituent companies that went to make up the new corporation are the Virginia Lumber Company, the Edward Hines Lumber Company, the Cook & O’Brien Lumber Company, and the Seine Lumber Company. Beside i these and entwined with them were : the "Weyerhaeuser interests.” The deal, the largest of its kind ever carried through, according to lumbermen, has been pending for over two months. The following officers were elected: President —Edward Hines of Chicago. Vice-President —W. W. O’Brien of Duluth. Treasurer —Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser of St. Paul. Secretary—H. D. Hornby of Cloquet, Minn. The company will not chop down trees, it will manufacture them into lumber. This will be done at five great sawmills. Two of these will be at Duluth, two at Virginia, Minn., and one at St. Francis, Canada. PRIEST DROWNS AT SEA.

Father Kelly of Paterson, N. J., Fails Overboard from Liner. Queenstown. —When the steamer ( Arabic arrived here Sunday from New York the officers reported that one of the passengers, who was registered under the name of Father Kelly of Paterson, N. J., was drowned during the voyage. He fell overboard, whether by accident or design is not known. Paterson, N. J.—Rev. James A. Kelly, whose loss overboard from the steamer Arabic was reported upon the steamer’s arrival in Queenstown, was J pastor of St. Agnes Roman Catholic j i church in this city. A week ago he j i took passage for Queenstown to visit ' relatives in Ireland. Father Kelly is believed to have been influenced in de- ! ciding to make the trip by the poor

state of his health. His condition was at no time, however, considered serious. His friends here are convinced that his death must have been accidental. HEIRS TO $80,000,000 ESTATE. Two St. Louis Brothers Informed of a Vast Windfall. St. Louis.—Arizone Lyle, a St. Louis carpenter, and his brother, William A. Lyle, a railway clerk, have been ! informed that they are part heirs to an estate in the heart .of Wilmington, Del., worth $80,000,000. The estate was originally owned by , a German baron named Christopher Springer, who came to America nearly a century ago. He leased the prop- ; erty to various persons and died without leaving a will. A sister of the baron was the grandmother of the Lyle brothers. The leases expired last January. Arizone Lyle is 40 years old and has a wife and three children. : His brother is 38 years old. Mrs. 5 George M. McCullom, who runs a candy store in Alton. 111., is also said to be an heir to the estate. President Simon Inaugurated. Port au Prnce.—Gen. Antoine Simon, the newly-elected president of Hayti, took the oath of office at ten o’clock Sunday morning at the palace, where a special sitting of the legislative bodies was held, and in the presence of the foreign diplomats, the officers of the American and Italian w ai. hips and the Haytian officials of state. He repeated the oath in a strong cleat voice. Senator Paulin offici red and demanded that the president respect ‘he constitution and the other laws of the republic. Serious Alarm at Canton. Hongkong.—lt is feared that the anti-foreign movement at Canton, originally caused by the death of a coolie on the steamer Falshan who is alleged to have been brutally kicked by a : Portuguese watchman on the vessel, will culminate in an outbreak against all foreigners. So serious is the situation regarded that the British torpe- । do boat destroyer Hart has been sent to Canton. The British steamers Moorhen and Canton, two of the ships which are being boycotted, have been recalled from Wuchow. Not Guilty of Murder. Hot Springs, S. D. — Early Sunday the jury in the case of William F. Stockton, charged with the murder of R. C. Cramer in this city last .May, brought in a verdict of not guilty. The defense pleaded self-defense and insanity. Two Children Burn to Death. Traverse City, Mich. —Two little children were cremated when the home of Edward Toner was burned in the village of Interlachen, 14 miles west of this city.

| VISITS WITH I Uncle Zed’s Dog. Richard Harding Davison, editor and proprietor of the Croix County

Chronicle, w a s pouring over a nst ot delinquent I subscribers and wondering if the ghost could possibly have spirit enough to walk Saturday night, when “Uncle” Zed I Hopkins came in. It was plain to be seen that “Uncle” Zed was mad. He seated himself in the spare sanctum chair, set his doughty elm cane ; upright between ’ his knees, built a . "meeting house” of his fingers and began deliber- ' ately: “Editor Davison, I’ve took th’ j Chronicle nigh onto ten year, an’ I ain’t ast many favors of ye, but I’ve come now to have ye w’allop those Higginses that killed my dog Shep!” At this juncture “Uncle” Zed wiped his eyes on a red bandana handker-

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j chief which he then wound round one I hand and continued: “I don’t allow to have no trouble | with m’ neighbors, but —” “Wait a minute,” said Editor Richard Harding Davison, reaching for his pencil and pad. "Wait a minute, ’Uncle’ Zed.” "Now I’ll read as I write and when you don't like it you say so.” “All right, Mr. Davison,” piously assented “Uncle” Zed with due appreciation and gratification in his modulated voice. j "Some low down miscreant,” read the editor, scribbling, “whose heart is about the size of a flea and whose head must be shaped like a tack, atro- ’ ciously, maliciously and with malice aforethought, shot that fine, big family dog—” “Uncle” Zed’s face fell and his lips ' quivered as he interrupted:

’ His name was ‘Shep,’ Mr. Davison.. ‘Shep’ was his name." “All right—‘that fine. big. family dog Shep, owned by “Uncle” Zed Hopkins, Saturday night. A man that would shoot a dog like Shep is the greenest scum of the earth and hanging is too good for him!’ “How's that, ‘Uncle’ Zed?" “Good, mighty good!" testified the patriarch, rubbing his hands gleefully and squirming in the creaking chair, “but^ ain’t ye goin’ to mention no names?” . “Why, yes, I might, Mr. Hopkins; that is if you desire it!” “Well. I ain’t insistin’ none, but I’ve took yer paper a long time, Mr. Davison, a long time!” “ ‘lt is our painful duty in this connection,’” resumed the editor, “‘to announce w r e have among us a family so lost to common decency and the mandates of society, as to kill an innocent and unassuming dog—’ ”

“By jingo, that’s great,” interposed “Uncle” Zed with joy in his voice; “that'll make ’em cringe some, I guess. Go ahead, editor, go ahead!’ “ ‘As to kill an innocent and unassuming dog, and, to make a long story short, the name is Higgins!’” “Uncle” Zed brought his cane to the floor with an enthusiastic clatter: “Hurrah! Say, editor, you're a. ■ trump. You’re a man with th' courage o’ his convictions. You’re a—what's that? Sign it! Sign it!!” “Uncle” Zed arose hastily from his ‘ chair, his surprise paramount. “Me sign it!!!” “You certainly don't want me to assume responsibility for it, Mr. Hopkins. My dog hasn't been killed.” expostulated the editor with a smile in i his eye that “Uncle” Zed did not see. “Thunder in the winter time! Great horn spoons and little fishes! Os all the fool editors I ever see you are the wust!” shouted “Uncle" Zed. waving I his cane, his bandana and his whiskers all at one and the same time, as he stumped away. And the next day Editor Richard. Harding Davison was notified by mail to stop “Uncle” Zed's paper. But he didn’t do it. A country editor knows a thing or two about human nature. “Uncle" Zed would have been reallj angry had the editor complied with the order. COO He Wdted. Wilt thou take her for thy “pard” for better or worse; to have, to hold, to fondly guard, till hauled off in the I hearse? Wilt thou let her have her way i consult her many wishes. make the fires up every day. ami ‘ tip her with the dishes? Wilt thou give her all the “stuff” her little purse will pack, buy her a monkey, boa and muff, a little seal skin saeque? Wilt thou comfort and support her father, mother. Aunt Je- ; mima, Uncle John, thirteen sisters and a brother? And his face grew pale ami blank, it was too late to jilt; as through the chapel floor he sank he sadly said । “I wilt.”—Anderson (Okla.) Globe. Young America. Six-year-old Ray's teacher was endeavoring to give some very simple instructions in fractions. She added: “If Jane has six eggs and uses hall of them to bake a caki what part wilt she have left'.’" Quick;’ came the answer: “The shells! "—The Delineator. Logical Conclusion. A Chicago professor discover, that the mound builders played Lasel ali We conclude that the bones found in ; the mounds are those of umpires. —- I Cleveland Leader.