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Omission* of History. . The architect of the colossus of ! I Rhodes was standing at a distance and j' looking with admfration. at the great | krass statue. "Poor Bartholdi.'" he muttered. "If I j the idea had occurrri to him to straddle New Yoru Harbor with a figure ' ' like thai, instead of the poor, neglect- j ;?d, ftrrsaken statue he stuck on that j litr.o island, its torch would never have i f teen allowed to go out!" But great artists and architects, like i great musicians, are proverbially jeal- j eus ci one another.?Chicago Tribune. |1 H? Hammered It Oat. Years ago a vessel was wrecked on : ?*?e of the South Sea Islands, and the j riprs .'nnlrt nn<- crof their insurance i because the account of the shipwreck j was written in the chirography of the | ; islanders, and could not bo translated, t The paper was even sent to the pro- i fessors of Harvard and Yale, but they | <could not read it. i The owners heard of a remarkable ( young blacksmith in the city of Wor- , coster, Mass.?Elihu Burritt?who was educating himself, who thought he ^ eould- translate the account of the shipwreck. lie did not know the dialect, 1 but he set himself to work in dead ear- i eest to do what the great college professors had failed to do. He did it, < and the ship owners got their insur- ' nee. j Here was a boy who had secured his j ( wiucarion irom dooks studied ac me , forge during his spare moments and in < feis half holidays who had succeeded ] in doing what the learned professors < thought impossfble. He succeeded be- I ciuse he had made every occasion a | treat occasion, as he could not tell | "when fate might be taking his measure for a larger place.?Success. ' _ I Woman's Blind Loyalty in India. i The present position of women cansot be better shown than by the fol' lowing extracts from a government prize book for the girls' schools in the Kornbay presidency: "If the husband or a virtuous woman be ugly, of good j or bad disposition, diseased, fiendish, irascible, a drunkard, old, stupid, dumb, blind, deaf, .hot-tempered, poor, j extremely covetous, a slanderer, cow- j ardly, perfidious, and immoral, never- 1 thpl^ss. shp nii!?ht tn worshin him as a god, with mind, speech and person. The wife who gives an angry answer to her husband will become a village pariah dog; she will also become a fe male jackal and live in an uninhabited desert. The woman who eats sweet* meats without sharing Them with he* husband will become a hen-owl, living in a hollow tree. The woman who walks alone without her husband will become a tilth eating village sow. Th# woman who speaks disrespectfully to her husband will be dumb in the next incarnation. The woman who hates ier husband's relatives will become from birth to birth a muskrat, living to lilth."? Church Gazette. - Cheerless English Houses. 1 A writer in Harper's Magazine says: "I douDt'if the English live longer than we for living less comfortably. The lower classes seem always to have j ,? colds; the middle classes, rheumatism, j and the upper, gout, by what one sees | or hears. Rheumatism one might al- j most say (or quite, if one did not mind j I *-hn+ rmn cnirli ic nnirsrs'il in I0n*?lnnri I i and all ranks of society have the fa- j c ilitics for it in the indoors cold in j c wbl-ch they otherwise often undeniably j ^ flourish." And a writer in Madame i j. tells of a friend's visiting book, in j r which against certain names she found | Ji a "substantial cross;" against others, j d two. What was the meaning? Not j t kisses, as you might infer from reading ! the humorous accounts of breach- of- j ^ promise cases, but curses. One cross I c against the country house that was ! cold in its passages and staircases; i <] tfwo crosses against the house with "no . I< fires in the guests' bedrooms." j 1< Fleet. | *] The pivot of the wbolo scheme may j ii She said to De tbe Atlantic fleet, based or, Gibraltar. That fleet will stretch 1' ?no hand to the Mediterranean fleet ' and one band to the Channel fleet. It ; ^ may also be the fleet on which both j s the Mediterranean and the Channel j Ceets will rally and concentrate for : '] some supreme effort. It thus makes j a Gibraltar one of the most important ! places in tlie whole empire. Fortunate- ; !y Gibraltar will now be equal to so j ? groat a destiny, since1 the breakwater j d 'and dockyard works there are all but j n completed. Cromwell, when he sent j t] 6lake into the Mediterranean, is said , to have pointed out to him the supreme i P strategic importance of the Kock. Our J t( new naval scheme fully recognizes and ; a indorses the Protector's prescience. | Gibraltar becomes, from tbe standpoint ; of naval strategy, the bub of the cm- | pire.?Spectator - '? i J MIGHT HAVE SAVED IT. A Lot of Trouble. Frosn Too Much Starch j Food. | 1; A little boy of eight years 'whose v parents did not feed him on the right ; kind of food, was always nervous and j coffered from a weak condition of tbe t r stomach and bowels. Finally he was I i taken down with appendicitis aud after j r the operation the doctor, knowing that j * Ms intestinal digestion was very weak, j * put him on Grape-Nuts twice a day. j j lie rapidly recovered and about two ! ( months thereafter, his Father states, **IIe has grown to be strong, muscular, ?nd sleeps soundly, weighs G2 pounds, and his whole system is in a fine con- | j dition of health." Name given by t Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. It is plain that if he had been put on j Grape-Nuts at an earlier period in his , life, and kept from the use of fr>ods < that he could not digest, he never ] .would have bad appendicitis. That < disease is caused by undigested food 1 ' s- U I J llOCiiying ill lut* biuluiiwii ?iiiu uwci^i i causing irritaticn and making for the j growth of aH kinds of microbes, sotting up a diseased condition which is the , active cause of appendicitis, and this is more marked with people who do not properly digest white bread. Grape-Nuts is made of the selected parts cf wheat and barley r.nd by the peculiar processes of the cookiDg at the factory, all of the starch is turned into sugar ready for immediate digestion and the more perfect nourishment of all parts of the body, particularly the brain and nerve centres. t Read the little book, "The Road to Wollville," found in each Dkg. ?NEW YORK ROBBERY [F c irnest G. W. Woerz, His Daughter and Niece Accosted in Their Home, ? B 3NE MAN HOLDS UP HOUSEHOLD Thief With Face Concealed by Muffler Forces Entrance by Front Door, Follows Maid Up-Statrs and at Point of n Gun Kelleves Blcli Brewer of One S Hundred Dollars. P New York City?Wearing ft black C >ilk muffler as a mask and waving a i evolver of largo size, with which he threatened to shoot to kiil, a man en- ii :ered the residence of Ernest G. W. t Woerz. No. 1 East Sixty-third street. * :ho other evening and ' held up'' Mr. a Woerz and the women of his family, ii He demanded money, and left only when Mr. Woerz. convinced that the ? man was in deadly earnest, tossed $100 j, in bills to him. s This daring robbery occurred at 6 a > r_ o >'cl0ck in tne evening, .ur. nviciio residence is one door from Fifth ave- t ime. within a stone's throw of the P homes of George J. and Howard a Gfould, John Jacob Astor and other T men of wealth. Coming at a time * when the Police Department is under fire for failure to protect tlie homes of f citizens, strict orders were given by police officials to keep the robbery " luiet. Nothing was said about it uu- t til Mr. Woerz, finding that the detect- }' [ves had accomplished nothing, gave b Dut the story. . a Mr. Woerz is president otf the Bead[eston & Woerz Brewing Company. In r the house at the time of the robbery a were. Mr. Woerz. his daughter. Mrs. C. * M. Steele, and his niece. Miss Clara P Hoffman. All but Mr. Steele were in a their rooms on the second floor, dressing for dinner. He was on the third '! Boor, and knew nothing of the robbery. * rhree women servants were also in ^ the house, but oniy one of them, the 5' maid, who admitted the robber, knew 0 what was transpiring. The caller was well dressed, and as- e rended the front steps without attract- n insr attention. In the vestibule he ad- ^ justed a black silk muffler to conceal r the lower half of his face. When the * (ha id opened the door he stepped in- * ?iae. thrusting the barrel of 9 revolver * Into her face, and said in a low tone: ^ "I want money, and I want it quick. -*1 [f you scream or give an alarm I'll J! ihoot." *' "I have no money,", said the maid, *' "but I'll get pome." And she fled up u :he stairs. The man with the revolver followed. At the head of the stairs " :he maid tripped over her dress aud ? .'ell. 11 Miss Hoffman, who was with Mrs. ? Steele stepped into the hall and " ooked over the balustrade just as the naid reached the landing. ' Before I could realize what was the ^ natter the man had stepped over the naid and was pointing a big revolver a n my face," said Miss Hoffman. " 'I T] ,vant money quick," be said. I backed nto the room and he stood in the door- P vay. [j liMrs. Steele was in the room, and he 1 vnvA/l tin* nistol nhont. nointinc it irst at one of us and then the other. : was frightened and stood still. n " 'I've come to get seme money, and .. ! shan't go away without it. I am go- * ng to get it or kill some one. If any >ne tries to trap me I'll shoot every u >ne in the house,' he declared. " "Mrs. Steele asked how much he ?; ranted. 'All you've got,' said he. We mew that Mr. Woerz was in the front . oora. so we spoke louder to attract * lis attention. I started toward the j loor, but the intruder ordered me iack and got between me and the door. J* ust then Mr. Woerz came. The man ointed the revolver at him and racked over toward the wall, where he ould watch all of us. "The black handkerchief slipped !own from his face and I had a good >ok at him. He pushed it up with his f1' ?ft hand. " "Mr. Woerz asked what was wanted. . [ want money, and if you don't give ~ t to me I'll shoot you." said he. ... "Mr. Woerz took some bills out of 1 is pocket. They amounted to about 1 100. He rolled them up and tossed ?' hem at the burglar. The man picked p the money and backed toward the tairway. J " 'Don't one of you move,' he said, r ['11 kill any one who tries to give an . Iarm.' j* "He didn't stop to take a purse I had . i my hand, or to get any of the jew- . Iry 6n the dresser in the next room. . ut ran down the stairs, slamming the . oor and ran toward Central Park, re- ' loving the mask as he went out of 1 be house. "Mr. Woerz then went to the telehone and called up Police Headquarers. It was about half an fcnir before detective-arrived. ?By that time there ~as no trace'of the robber.'' THREE DEAD IX FIRE. 2] ol di Icn Trapped by Blaze Which De- C stroyed Four Houses. ? ui Pittsburg, Pa. ? Three men were ei turned to deatfo, lour rrame nouses iu v*ere destroyed and two others were .m laniaged in a fire at Harraarville late V( it night. At an early hour in ,the n( aoming the bodies of the victims were n the cellar, covered with smoldering uins. The.v were John Hido, Joseph vramer and a man of the name of <Yauk. They were in a bed in a sec- id >nd story front room, and were w lemraed in by the flames before they C mil <>? rtnnnrf-iinitv tftPSMhf T( KILLED IN DUEL IN ROOM. [iivals For a Woman Use Pistols a*id Oi Survivor in Wounded. Chicago. 111.?Thomas. Davis, a hotel keeper, and William MeManus. a waiter in a restaurant, fought with revoi- ^ i*era in a room in Davis* establishment. a Both men were wounded and Davis ilied on an operating table in the County Hospital a few hours after the shooting. _ The light grew out of a quarrel about ' a woman. TOWN RAISES LIQUOR LICENSE. v Waycross, Oa.. Doubles Yearly Tar of v $13,000 Tax on Its Saloons. V Waycross, Ga.?The City Council has * placed a license tax of $30,000 per an- ^ nttm on saloons. The tax was formerly $13,000. The city ha? only 0000 inhabitants. . r To Adopt the Teiautograph. The French Government, according , to a special cable dispatch, purposes to adopt the telautograph throughout J France. 1 V REPORT ON PH1LLIPINES onditions as Set Forth in Official Reports of Governor Taft. i [ope Even For the Moros?Reduction of j Tariff Here on Product* From the Inlands Urged Again. i Washington, D. C? Secretary Taft i as submitted to the President the an- j ual report of the Philippine Commis- j ion. together with the separate room to the commission of the civil lovernor of the islands, and of the icads of the four department?. The Secretary, in a letter accompanythem, summarizes and brings out j tie recommendations in the reports. | rliich. he says, show the great benefit j tiat lias been conferred upon the isl- j nds by a continued state of tranquil- ; y. Except in the wild, mountainous re- j ions of the unexplored Island of Sa- | uar. and in the Moro region of the j lio Grande and Lake Lanao, in the I parseiy settled Island of Mindanao, j nd in the Island of Jolo. conditions s to tranquility and ladroni^m- coninue to imnrove, and except in the ilaces mentioned agriculture and the rts of peace are not at all interfered ritii by lawless bands or depredaions. He says*it is quite satisfactory to oberve the Rood effect of a settled polcy with respect to the civil service. :nder a stringent civil service law, on he personnel and efficiency of the serice. Many of the Filipinos are learnnir English. and applying for examintion as English clerks. The falling off in the Government evenues has reduced the funds avail- | ble for education. From the central. Joverr.ment last year the amount exended did not exceed $1,200,000. as gainst $1,600,000 the previous year. Regarding the new coinage of the slands the Secretary says that one of he most satisfactory results of the Sovernment's transactions during the ear in the islands is tlie establishment j n a firm basis of the new coinage. During the year the commission has j nacted an internal revenue law and j bolished the industrial taxes which j ad come down .from the Spanish , egitne. The industrial taxes subjectd all kinds of business, even th'e i mallest. to a license tax. and was | hought to work proportionately hardr on the smaller businesses than upon j irge enterprises. The present bill I mposes a tax on the production of quor and alcohol, upon the manufacnra r.P oi'Mva nnrl M'croroH-AU nml nlsfl I pon banking: and. corporations. The improvement of Manila Harbor as made good progress. The work of onstructing a temporary wharf at the mportant port of Cebu has been comleted. and the improvement of the arbor.atlloilo is iu progress. Regarding the tariff on the Philipine products in the United States the ecretary sa.V3: "The reports of Governor Wright nd of Commissioner Worcester show. hat has appeared in the reports from lie islands since the American oecuation, the necessity for reducing the iriff on Philippine products entering lie United States, in order that we lay give to the islands a market in .merica. leading to a revival of busi- ( ess in the islands.*' General Wood has a good word for ie Moros. "With all their faults." he j lys, "they are brave and resolute, and | , nder good laws and an honest governlent in time will give a good account f themselves. He says the standing j f the American people among the na- , ves of his province has. been ranch in- j ired by the presence of a large, touch \ ass of Americans, "whose energies I ave been principally expended in the < >nstruction, maintenance and patron- I e:e of rum shops, which outnumber : | tlier American business establishlents." Referring to the proposed bond issue l $">.000,000 for general improvements i le Secretary says that owing to a.de- I cit this year it is very- important that ] te section of the bill which has passed I le House and Senate already author ing the issue of the bonds be enacted. / he Secretary further says that it is i kely the customs refenues during the I ?xt six months will increase to their i >rmal amount, avoiding the poss-ibil- i y of a deficit. In regard to the regulation of tbe i )ium trade the Secretary says the I an of the ooium committee ought to 1 ? adopted with one variation, and that liisieuu ut a uuvviuiurui luunupvij' i i ir three years a very hi?b license he l stituted with sale of the drug only i officially registered smokers and a i >tal prohibition o"f the sale of opium 'ter three years, except for medical ; lrposes. - 1 NEW TRIAL FOR BURTON. . S. Supreme Court Reverses Action Against Kausas Senator. , Washington. D. C.?The case of Sen- i 1 :or J. R. Burton was decided by the ' jpreme Court of the United States i smissing the writ of certiorari to the I irouit Court of Appeals for the I ighth Circuit, and reversing the ver- 1 et of the District. Court for the East- 1 n District of Missouri on the ground ! lat the payments to Burton were ade in Washington. The District C?urt was therefore re?rsed and the case remanded for a ?w trial. Two Asphyxiated by Gas. Two men. one of whom has been , lentified as Alexander Robowski. ere asphyxiated at New Haven, onn.. a gas jet being left open in their >om. For Red Cross Hospital. William T. Wardwell offered a 5100.[M> site for a Red Croas hospital in ew York City. The Indus Floated. Tli? steamship Indus, stranded tour ays on Fire Island bar. was floated nd towed to New York Harbor. To Tax Standard Oil. A bill has been introduced in the Kansas Legislature to tax Standard HI pipe lines, in that State. Minor Mention. The San Francisco (Cal.) police advocate the establishment of a public shipping post for footpads. A spring wagon that is 'sixty-five ears old and can stand a load of 1000 ounds, is owned by Robert Hill, near iarl. Mo. At Ilille, France, the other day. a oor gave way under fifty people. Two tersons were killed and many others everely wounded. The fastest train in Europe is said o run between Leeds and Edinburgh. distance of 230 miles, makics the rip in 259 minutes. \ ARMY ENTERS PORT ARTHUR One Regiment From Each Brigc.de of Japanese March In. CORRESPONDENTS INSPECT FORT Wild Lawlessness of Russian Soldiers Just Trior to the Official Surrender? Procession of Mikado's Army Five Miles Lone? Ge 11. Stoessel Blamed For the Surrender?Memorial Services Held Headquarters of the Third Japanese Army at Port Arthur, via Tientsin.? The victorious Japanese army formally entered Port Arthur. General Nogi with his staff entered first through the old town and took his stand in the public square of the new town. The army was represented by one regiment from each brigade. The procession, which was five mile3 long, was three hours passing the saluting base, after which the troops passed out of the city through the new town. The correspondents then vis!J-~J i-U ~ /.iff fr\T* frhu first* lieu uie luyiuicu vii.i time. The old towh buildings were badly smashed by shells, but iu the new town the damage was slight. All the shipping in the harbor was badly damaged by shell Are. the warships being practically useless, owing to the injuries they had sustained by shells. Proposals for the surrender of Port Arthur were first made December 29 at a council of war. General Stoessel was In favor of surrender, but some of his general officers -were bitterly opposed to it. The regimental officers and the troops were not consulted. The first news they' had of the surrender was January 1 after General Stoessel had communicated with the Japanese. The scenes which followed were disgraceful. Drunken soldiers filled the streets and refused to obey their officers. Many yf them destroyed the guns upon the positions they had defended and came into the city without permission. The infantry loudly protested that the fortress had been given away, threw their rifles and ammunition into the harbor and proceeded to break into warehouses and loot and drink vodka until in a helpless condition.It was evident that the surrender was not necessary, as there were 31,000 effective men in the fortress. The supply of ammunition was short but it was not exhausted. Food was' scarce, but private stores were not requisitioned by the military. There is no difficulty in getting good meals in the city even now from the stores in private possession. A portion of the fortress was capable of defense for months longer. It was the opinion of ti?e non-combatauts at Port Arthur that the surrender was unnecessary, as the troops were willing and able to fight to the bitter end. General Stoessel was much blamed for what was characterized as a disAAnAltioiAn C q cnlan/1 i r? rl KiaUCLUJ tuuuuoiuu VI. CL V?v fense, which ended with tlie death of Major-General Kondratenko, who was loved by the soldiers, and was the life of the defense. Memorial service? were held in honor of the spirits of the Japanese dead, upon the plain north of the village of ShuJshi, a short distance from Port Arthur. Regiments representing the entire Japanese army were present. A shrine was erected on the crest of a small hill, and the troops formed a rircle around it. General Nogi and his staff were present. Lunch was served ifterward in the open to all the officers -t-AnAnt' T f CT.fl?. O AnlnTuliJ [MC3UUI . XL ?7 ?C? U 0?JlC(tUiU 0|;tv.iuv?v, i BEN. STOESSEL SAILS FOR HOME | i Loaves Nagasaki With Staff and More Than 500 Officers and lien. Nagasaki, Japan. ? The French steamer Australian sailed jest before i o'clock in the evening for Marseilles. France, having on board General Stoessel and.his wife and 5fE> Rusjians, including Admirals Grigorovitch jnd Lockinsky, Generals Gorbatowsky md Reiss, and 245 other officers and their wives. The Australien was not illowed to leave the harbor before 3ark as a precaution against the Russians or others obtaining knowledge )f the defenses. The steamer was piloted out of Nagasaki by Japanese naral officers.During their stay here the Russian jfficers bought curios valued at more than $12,000, having ample suppiiesof Boney, but the soldiers had not received their pay for many months* General Fock remains a prisouer in lapan. I*AN OF PRISONERS WRECKED. i)ne Killed by Wagon Going Over High Einbankmenr* Philadelphia, Pa. ? While a prison ran filled with eight long tejrm prisoners for the House of Correction was jeing driven to the prison it went over ? ( n'oTit-r.fnftf oiiihnnkinflnt Om* ftf the prisoners died an hour later from the Injuries he received. The rest, including rhe guard, were placed in the new Municipal Hospital. The horse shied at a piece of paper. JAPS CAPTURE STEAMER. Dutch Coaler Heading For Vladivostok From Cardiff Stopped. Totio. Japan.?A Japanese torpedoboat destroyer captured the Dutch steamer Wilhelmina. which was carrying Cardiff coal to Vladivostok in the Tsushima Straits aud brought ljer to Sasebo. For New Prison. Prisons Superintendent Collins, in his annual report, made public at Al bnny. N. Y.. favored thr* abandonment sf Sing Sing and Auburn prison* aud the building of a big central Institution. Sentenced For Stealing $73,000. James M. A. Watson, convicted of embezzling $73,000 from the District government at Washington. D. U.. was sentenced to ten years in jail. An appeal was taken. Uncle Sam's Farm. Illinois farm lands are selling at higher prices. Three hundred and fifty-three pedigrees of Shetland ponies were registered last year with the Secretary of the American Shetland Pony Club. The yield of spring wheat is estimated by the Department of Agriculture at 12.7 bushels, and the average quality at 75.7. against S3.5 last year. Missouri is now credited with the greatest corn yield, estimated last year at 315,000,000 bushels. Iowa i3 a close second, with 300.000,000 bushels, am? Kansas and Nebraska follow, / \ i " RATE BILLS INTRODUCED j Administration's Plan For Regulating | Railroad Tariff One Kill Empowers the Interstate Commission to Fix Rates?Other Creates a Court to K?tI?w Rates Fixed. Washington. D. C.?The so-called Administration measures to increase the powers of th3 Interstate Commerce Commission were introduced in the House. There were two of them, oue from Representative Esch, of Wisconsin, and tin other from Representative Townsend, of Michigan. These bills are regarded as having the indorsement of President Roosevelt, because Iheir authors were told by the President that their ideas about dealing with the railway rate question accorded with his own. and at his suggestion they collaborated with Attorney-General Moody in drafting the proposed legislation. The Esch and Townsend bills are along the lines of most of the suggestions made by other Congressmen to give a greater degree of Federal supervision over railway freight rates. The Esch measure gives the Interstate Commerce Commission the right t? fix a rate, and the Townsend bill provides for the creation of a court of transportation, which shall have authority to say' whether that rate is' reasonable. In thus proposing; a special court to deal with rate adjudication the Tcwnsend bill adopts the suggestion of Secretary of the Navy Morton, and goes contrary to the idea of Representative Hepburn, Chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, and Senator Elkins, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, that provision should be made for an additional Judge in each Federal circuit to handle interstate commerce cs.ses. It is generally believed that the Esch and Townsend bills were read and approved by the President before they were introduced. The Esch bill provides that the Interstate Commerce Commission shall declare, when complaint is made, what shall be a just and reasonable rate, practice or regulation for the future with respect to any matter of transportation. The order shall become operative thirty days after notice to the persons affocted. At any time within sixty days any person feeling the rate to be unjust, unreasonable or discriminatory. may institute proceedings in the Court of Transportation, sitting as a court of equity, to have it reviewed. The Townsend bill creates a Court of Transportation with the powers of a Circuit Court, and is to have original exclusive jurisdiction of all cases grow- I ing out of such orders, regulations and j requirements that may be made and promulgated by the Interstate Comi merce Commission, either in law or in nniiifv tt- iei tr? he eomDosea of a Chief Justice, to whom a salary of $9000 a year is to be paid, and four Associate Justices at a salary of $8500 each. Appeal from this court Is to be had to the Supreme Court of the United States only. A rate bill representing the views of < the six Democratic members of the House Commerce Committee and also those of Representative John Sharp Williams, the Democratic floor leader, was introduced by Representative Davey. of Louisiana. It gives the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to fix a rate that is to remain in force until overruled by the United States Court having proper jurisdio i tion. SAT DEAD FACE TO FACE. Murder Followed by Suicide Over Investigation of a Treasurer's Books. Veedersburg, Ind.? John Brant, a 1 well-Uncwn Democratic politician, and Charles Eckburg, financial secretary of the Odd Fellows" lodge, of this city, were found at 4 o'clock in the afternoon sitting facing each other in a barber shop, each dead from a bullet in the braio. Brant was a member of a committee appointed by the lodge to investigate Eckburg's books, and a letter on Eck- . burg spoke of intended suicide and ! that he "would carry Brant with him." ' Until the letter was found it was supposed that the two men had quarreled and fought in the barber shop, which they entered early in the morning. Pistol shots- were heard, but the sound was muffled. Eckburg's letter, addressed to the public, shows that iie had planned to assassinate Brant and for that purpose invited him to the shop. A revolver was found in a cnspidor near Eckburg's body. The men leave families, j The Coroner begin investigating the case. DROPS DEAD- AFTER SERMON, : Rev. Dr. Harvey Hatcher, of Atlanta, Ga., Dies in a Hotel. Charleston. S- C.?Rev. Dr. Harvey ' Hatcher, of Atlanta, Ga.. representatlwQ n" ha A morifimn R'l nHsf PllbliCil- I tion Society, of Philadelphia, fell dead, in a hotel lobby in Beaufort. He had preached in the morning. i PALACE OF PEACE SITE. Netherlands Government Selects Piact j For Carnegie's Gift. The Hague.?The Government has .selected the military parade ground near the Bosch (the royal park) as the site for Carnegie's Palace of Peace.. The selection is made subject to the approval of the States-General. t'antner -aicaciis imu. A panther attacked a car of sheep | on the Erie road, near Mast Hope, when the train stopped to cool hot jour- J nals. J French Autoist Fined. Henri Fournier, well known French i automobilist. was lined for sprediug > iu Fifth avenue. New York City. (iniiKl Duchess Dead. Grand Duchess Caroline of Saxe- j Weimar is dead. Dropped For "Plagiarizing." Eight students, three of them girls. ; were dropped from the rolls at the i State University at Lincoln. Neb. Chancellor Andrews declined to give the reasons for their dismissal, but at chapel said: "The damnable practice of plagiarizing that has been going on ! +1*Jcj unirai?cihr rmicf cfrnn /??* T Will / maktt public examples of the guilty 1 ones.'' Two Killed in Wreck. The east-bound California limited j ou the Santa Fe Road was wrecked j near Raton. N. M.. killing two persons i uuT Laiuri^r a siCQra ' \ MANIAC FLOURISHED GUN Insane Man Enters House at Winsted, Conn., Threatening Inmates. After much Parlaying; He (. Permaded to Give Up His Wuapom, acid Com to Jail Peacefully. Winsted. Conn.?"Peace or war!" exclaimed an insane man as he darted Into the dining room of Mrs. Ellen M. Phelps, at No. 53 Park place, about 7 o'clock at night, and thrust a loaded revolver in the face of her son, William' H. Phelps, cashier of the Hurlbut National Bank, who was dining. Around the wrist of the man's left hand was wound a slunjshot: in a belt around his waist .was a knife with a twelveinch blade, keenly sharpened: in his pockets another sharp knife and straps and fully a pint of red pepper and salt. \frc Phptns fled out of doors. Her daughter, Miss Judith, went up-stairs to her brother's room, obtained his two revolvers and, returning down stairs, waited in the hallway for an opportunity to pass the weapons to her brother. Failing in this she finally followed her mother to the street. Several hundred people who gathered outside could see Phelps and the dining room win*\ dows. Before the arrival of the police* George Taylor, David King and Fred Woodbeck entered the house. As they passed into the dining room the madman moved back a short distance from Phelps and pointed the revolver' first at one and then the other, remarking as he did so, "Is it peace or war?" The three citizens passed out. "Where is your sister?" the Insane man ^sked of young Phelps, .who replied:'"! will go and find'her," and started to leave the room. The visitor commanded him to remain and pushed the revolver in his face. "Phelps tried to humor the man by offering him a cigar and supper, but he accepted neither. After fifteen minutes Phelps remarked that he would go outside and see what was doing. The stranger offered no objection and the cashier walked leisurely out of the house. The stranger snapped the lock behind Phelps and passed from the dining room to the front hallway, stepping j Into an alcove, where the crowd out- | Bide could not see him. Ohief of Police S. C. Wheeler, who had learned that the stranger was Frederick Baker, a stone cutter, who came here with his wife and three children from Kent, N. Y., last May. stationed a policeman at the front door, while he went Inside through a reat door. As he opened the door to the dining room Baker came In from the hallway. ' Peace or war?" he cried. Both men were pointing revolvers at each other. "Why, peace, of course. Baker," answered the Chief, and dropped his weapon by his side. Baker dropped his pistol also. Then Wheeler advanced slowly to Baker and took ilia weapons away. Then the Chief led him to the police station, -where he was searched. When the Chief put his hand into the pocket containing the pepper and salt Baker said: "Be careful and not get that in your eyes; it will be the end of you." It is supposed Baker thought Miss Phelps had something to do with his losing a position at the marble works of O. H. Ripley recently. PENS HIS NAME! IN HER BLOOD. \ _ Act of Infatuated' Woman After Attempting to Kill Herself. Syracuse, N. Y.?Lottie Burner, alias Hamilton, infatuated with another woman's husband, slashed her own throat witb scissors wtoen tne object of her affection, Morton Parrot, refused to accompany her,. The deed was committed in the presence of Parrot's wife, who tried vainly to prevent it. Rushing to a nearby physician's office, the woman then with a pen wrote in her blood a letter in which she- told the name of the man for whom she-tried to end her life. She rushed through the' streets, resisting for a time all efforts to capture her. Finally she was overpowered and locked up. Parrot has been arrested. His wife was prostrated. The trouble began years ago. The Parrots were married in Utica. There the Hamilton woman appeared' soon after the wedding, it was said, and almost caused a separation, of the newly married couple. SLAIN BY MEXICAN BANDITS. Ira A. Sanger, Relative of Xfrs. .George M. Pullman, the Victim. >*??- ? Til T4? *i?oa U'UICHJJU, ill,?J.4. >? <J--j Ira A. Sanger, a relative of Mrs. Geo. M. Pullman, of Chicago, ha^been slain by Mexican half-breed bandits in the mountain wilds of Sipalca, Mexico. Robbery was the purpose of the murder. Mr. Sanger, who was well known in Chicago, although for the greater part of his life a resident of Colorado, had been in> the northern section of Mexico, along the Texas- border, Cor three year*, interested in mining aud ranches. His- companion was George L. Stewart, of /Chicago,, who has just reached El Paso, Texas, with news of the murder.. The victim probably was ambushed, Mr. Stewart reported. Mr. Sanger was well to do. having property and investments worth, by the El Paso estimate, between $40,000 and $80,000. Usually he had a large sum of money with him. but Mr. Stewart sajra he had only a small amount at the time of the attack. Crop Report. 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