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ITHE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL I MESSAGE TO MESS f Washington, D. C.?When the present Congress reassembled for its last session the annual message of President Roosevelt was submitted and read in both branches. It is, in sub?< . .... *- stance, as iouows: ' To the Senate and House of Representatives : As a nation we still continue to enJoy a literally unprecedented prosperity, and it is probable that only reckless speculation and disregard of legitimate business methods on the part of the business world can materially mar this prosperity. No Congress in our time has done more good work of importance than the present Congress. There were several matters left unfinished at your last sdssion, however, which I most earnestly hope you will complete before your adjournment. I again recommend a law prohibiting all corporations from contribut-? ing to the campaign expenses of any party. Such, a bill has already passed one house of Congress. Let individuals contribute as they desire, but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making .contribu Irttio onir 1 numAon I _ iiuao ivi auj pviitivai put puoc, uirectly or indl rectiy. Another bill which has past one house of the Congress which it is urgently necessary should be enacted into law is that conferring upon the Government the right of appeal in criminal cases on questions of law. .The President says that the wheels of justice are sometimes blocked for lack of this power and that "failure to pass it will result in seriously hampering the Government in its ef ;V.\ fort to obtain justice, especially o , against wealthy individuals or cor[ ; porations wht> do wrong, and may also prevent the Government from & ;V obtainin^^ustice for wageworkers who aragpot themselves able effectively tbr contest a case where the judgment of an inferior court has been against them." After roforrlnc tn tho nhcnrriltv of permitting a district judge to declare a law passed by Congress "unconstitutional," the message states that the importance of enacting into law the particular bill in question is further Increased by the fact that the Government has now definitely begun a campaign in those trust and interstate commerce cases where? such a course offers a reasonable chance of success. The President believes it would be well to enact a law providing some; thing to the effect that: No judgment shall be set aside or new trial granted in any case, civil or criminal, on the ground of misdirection of the jury or the improper admission or rejection of evidence, * or. for error as to any matter of pleading or procedure unless, in the opinion of the court to which the application is made, after an examination of the entire cause, it shall affirmatively appear that the error complained of has resulted in a miscarriage of justice. On the subject of Injunctions Mr. Roosevelt says it is at least doubtful whether a law abolishing altogether their use in labor cases would stand the test of the courts. It is criminal to permit sympathy for criminals to weaken our hands in upholding the law, and if men seek to destroy llfp or property by mob violence there should be no impairment of the powi er of the courts to deal with them in the most summary and effective way possible. "But so far as possible," continues the President, "the abuse of the power should be provided against $y some such law as I advocated last year." The message then devotes considerable space to the prevalence of crime among us, and above all to the epidemic of lynching and mob violence that springs up, now in one part of our country, now in another. Each section, North, South, East or West, has its own faults; no section can with wisdom spend its time jeer Ing at the faults of another section; it should be busy trying to amend its own shortcomings. To deal with the crime of corruption it is necessary to have an awakened public conscience, &nd to supplement this by whatever legislation will add speed and certainty in the execution of the law. When we deal with lynching even . more is necessary. A great many -white men are lynched, but the crime Is peculiarly frequent in respect to "V~fel&ck men. The greatest existing camse of lynching is the perpetration, especially by black men, of the hideous crime of rape?the most abominable in all the category of crimes, even worse than murder. Mobs frequently avenge the commission of this crime by themselves torturing to death the man committing it, thus avenging in bestial fashion a bestial deed, and reducing themselves to a level with the criminal. T>to*o 1c hnt. rmp rnlfi In dealine with black men as with white men; : It is the same rule that must be applied in dealing with rich men and poor men; that is. to treat each man, whatever his color, his creed or his social position, with even handed justice on his real worth as a man. ! There is no question of "social equality" or "negro domination" involved; only the-question of relentlessly punishing bad men. Every colored man should realize that the worst enemy of his race is the negro criminal, and above all the negro criminal who commits the dreadful crime of rape, and it should be felt as in the highest degree an offence against the whole country, and against the colored race in particular, for a colored man to fail to help the officers of the law in hunting Denies Mutiny on Tennessee. Paymaster .Charles R. O'Leary, of the armored cruiser Tennessee, convoy for the Louisiana on its trip to Panama with President Roosevelt, ? denied that the stokers of the Tennessee mutinied. t .?* Ends a 200 Years' War. Holland's 200 years' war in Sooth * Celebes has ended. A:.'ter a siege of many months the Hollanders captured the mountain fortress of Bai> rupu, where the rebels made their last stand. ! j Labor World. Labor is scarce in ::.ll German in- i dnstrles. Providence, R. I., has formed a union label league. Almost 15,000 women work about , the mines in the German Empire. Miners in Indian Territory had the 1SJU& scale resioreu aner a suinc. i United Textile Workers will con-! ene at Providence, R. I., next year, j Chicago sky-scrapers in the past year caused the death or severe in* Jury of 156 ironworkers out of a union membership of 135&. . ) down with all possible earnestness and zeal every such infamous offonHor Mnronror In m V 1lf<1grmAnt..' I the crime of rape should always be punished with death, as is the case with murder; assault with intent to commit rape should be made a capital crime, at least in the discretion of the court, and provision should be made by which the punishment may follow immediately upon the heete of the offense; while the trial should be so conducted that the victim need not be wantonly shamed while giving testimony, and that the least possible publicity shall be given to the details. , Next, President Roosevelt discusses capital and labor. On this subject he writes: "In dealing with both labor and capital, with the questions affecting both corporations and trades unions, there is one matter more important to remember than aught else, and that -io vho infinite harm dona bT preachers of mere discontent. These a^e men rfho seek to excite a violent class hatred against all men. of wealth. They seek to turn wise and proper movements-for the better control of corporations and for doing away with the abuses connected with | wealth, into a campaign of hysteri| cal excitement and falsehood in which | the aim is to inflame to madness the brutal passions of mankind. The sinister demagogs and foolish visionaries who are always eager to undertake such a campaign of destruction sometimes seek to associate themselves with those working for a genuine reform in governmental and social methods, and sometimes masquerade as the reformers. In reality they are the worst enemies of the cause they profess to advocate, just as the purveyors of sensational slander in newspapers or magazine are the worst enemies of all men who are engaged in an honest effort to better what is bad in our social and governmental conditions." To preach hatred of the rich man, as such, to carry on a campaign of slander and invective against him, to seek to mislead and inflame to madness honest men whose lives are hard and who have not the kind of i mental training which will permit them to appreciate the danger in the doctrines preached?all this is to commit a crime against the body politic and to be false to every worthy principle and tradition of American national life. Moreover, while such preaching and such agitation may give a livelihood and a certain notoriety to some of those -who take part in it, and may result in the temporary political success of others, in the long run every such movement will either fail or else will provoke a violent reaction, which will itself result not merely in undoing the mischief wrought by the demagog and the agitator, but also in undoing the good that the honest reformer, the true upholder of popular rights, has painfully and laboriously achieved. Corruption is never so rife as in communities where the demagog and the agitator bear full sway, because in such communities all. moral bands become loosened, and hysteria and sensationalism replace the spirit of sound judgment and fair dealing as between man and man. In sheer revolt against the squalid anarchy thus produced men are sure in the end to run toward any leader who can restore order, and then thei*> relief at being free from the intoler able burdens of class hatred, violence and demagogy is such that they can not for some time be aroused to indignation against misdeeds by men of wealth; so that they permit a new growth of the very abuses which were in part responsible for the original outbreak. The one hope for success for our people lies in a resolute and fearless, but sane and coolheaded, advance along the path marked out last year by this Congress. There must be a stern refusal to be misled into following either that base creature who appears and panders to the lowest instincts and passions in order to arouse one set of Americans against their fellows, or that other creature, equally base but no baser, who, in a spirit of greed, or to accumulate or add to an already huge fortune, seeks to exploit his fellow-Americans with callous disregard to their welfare of soul and body. The man who de* 1 -i.1 nKfnin o uaucues omens m uiua iu uuww ?, high office stands on an evil equality of corruption with the man who debauches others for financial profit; and when hatred is sown the crop which springs up tan only be .evil. Continuing, the message says: "I call your attention to the need of passing a bill limiting the num- , ber of hours of employment of railroad employes. The measnre is a , very mdderate one and I can conceive of no serious objection to it." The President, however, thinks thefe i are industries and districts in whicfi, it is not possible that the hours or labor should be reduced. On the Isthmus of Panama, for instance, the conditions are in every way so different from what they are ; hpre that an eieht-hour day would be absurd; just as it absurd, so far'as i the Isthmus ia concerned, where white labor can not be employed, to bother as to whether the necessary work is done by alien black men or by alien yellow men. But the wage- i workers of the United States are of ^ so high a grade that alike from the merely industrial standpoint and from the civic standpoint it should be our object to do what we can in the direction of securing the general observance of an eight-hour day. Among the excellent laws which the Congress past at the last session was an employers' liability law. It was a marked step in advance to get the recognition of employers' liability on the statute books; but the law did not go far enough. The commission appointed by the President, October 16, 1902, at the request of both the anthracite coal. CICERO'S TOMB DISCOVERED. Ruins on a Hill at Formiae Near the Place of His Assassination. Naples, Italy.?What would appear to be a most important archaeological discovery has been made at Formiae, near which place Cicero was assassinated nearly twenty centuries ago. This discovery consists of ruins which are thought to be the tomb of the great orator. They stand on a hill dominating both the Appianand Herculaneum ways. Negroes Kill Police Chief. Four negro raider3 shot to death Chief of Police James Dailey, of Spillertown, 111. They robbed and kicked the dying man in the presence of a crowd and then escaped. Chief Dailey was trying to arrest them single handed. Two negro women who were among the raiders were captured. ' vw Turbine Steamer Launched. The turbine steamship Yale was launched at Chester, Pa., and christened by the daughter of President Hadley, of Yale University. . "VC;iPp^" -'' , v'" VMk*' ' ' v ' operators and miners, to inquire Into, consider, and pass upon the questions in controversy in connection with the strike in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania and In the causes out of which the controversy arose'/ In their report, findings,- and award exprest the belief "that the State and Feder al governments should provide the machinery for what may be called the compulsory Investigation of controversies between employers and employes when they arise." r This expression of belief is deserving of the favorable consideration of the Congress and the enactment of its provisions into law. A bill has already befen Introduced to this end. . The message, after stating that all remaining coal lands have been withdrawn from sale urges that their ownership and control remain with the Government. The present Congress, observes tht President, has taken long strides" In the direction of securing proper supervision and control of the National Government over corporations encrrtotnri i r? {nforofofo VlltCli n OQQ??.JJTlH the enormous majority of corporations of any size are engaged in interstate business.' The passage of the railway rate bill, and only to a less degree the passage of the pure food bill, and the provision for increasing and rendering more effective national control over the beef-packing industry, mark an important advance in the proper direction. In the short session it will perhaps be difficult to do much further along this line; and it may be best to wait until the laws have been in operation for a number of months before endeavoring to increase their scope. On the subject of agriculture the message says, in part: - The only other persons whose welfare is as vital to the welfare of the whole country as is the welfare of the wageworkers are the tillers of the soil, the farmers. There must be open to farmers the chance for technical and scientific training, not theoretical merely but of the most severely practical type. Organization has become necessary in the business world r and it has accomplished much for good in the world of labor. It is no less necessary for farmers. Such a movement as the grange movement is good in itself and is capable of a well-nigh infinite further extension for good so long as it is kept to its own legitimate business. The benefits to be derived by the association of farmers for mutual advantage are partly economic and partly sociological. The President states that in his Judgment the whole question of marriage and divorce should be relegated to the authority of the National Congress. At present the wide difference in the laws of Jthe different States on this subject result in scandals and abuses; and surely there is nothing so vitally essential to the welfare of the nation, nothing around wych the nation should so bend itself to throw every safeguard, as the home life of the average citizen. The4 change would be good from every standpoint. In particular it would be good be^ cause it would confer on the Congress the power at once to deal radically and efficiently with polygamy; and this should be done whether or not marriage and divorce are dealt with. There are regions in our land, and classes of our population, where the birth rate has sunk below the death rate. Surely, it should need no demonstration to show that wilful sterility is, from the standpoint' of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is zio atonement; a sin which is the more dreadful exactly in proportion as the men and women thereof are in other respects, in character, and bodily and mental powers, those whom for the sake of the State it would be well to see the fathers and mothers of many healthy children, well brought up In homes made happy by their presence. h Mr. Roosevelt says^-^-Jhe question of developing Amer -r1 \s>UppingI trust that a law eml. stance the views, or /.' the views, exprestrr this subject laid b? .' . ^ poop/: -.'x V./ S5 . .; - #2?g5H \ W . 4m \ . lati?- . j. . . neecy- - . ; . ; <. seascV> "" ' a rev A them v; bjlity In re ' It is u,V the care ' '$ W-v-W' ' 0;""' ; and that,** Ju3t basi:\ . * The mothe matte v-->; .. V army andVv v- - - . much gra*,A are makingj- . Common det?ja. rifle practiceihe i? . Our regular in onv errant rtrot? va * trust mainly to velqk such, event these volu^ already know how- t*;* Bhoujd establish shootiu _ ~ ': the large public and mill?;, should _ maintain aation\ ^ ranges in different parts of W try, antT.should in every way * age the formation of rifl<j: throughout all parts of the lai THEODORE ROOSEVt j. The White House. \ i Speyer Syndicate Oversubscrt, y; ! The syndicate planned by Si ' & Co., of New iTork; Speyer Brou V of London, and the Hongkong V ; Shanghai Bank, of London, for y J tViA ITnnilr, T>n<lW ' iCUUiiail uuliuu \jl ujuc luauua i Company and an extension of t lines, was completed. The capita $25,000,000, was* oversubscribed. \ j ' Vjfal Dr. Crapsey Resigns. ]} The Rev. Dr. A. S. Crapsey deliv-' . ered his last sermon to his flock at'' Rochester, N. Y., and many members of the congregation sobbed. Newsy Gleanings. William Rockefeller has paid $16,000 duty on four portraits under pro test. Arkansas Grand Lodge of Irfasons has decided not to sell the temple a: Little Rock. . Five students in St. Paul's College, near Montreal, were drowned by the breaking of the ice. Superior Court Judge Churclt, at Fresno, Cal., was :lned S3 for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. Erie engineers and firemen have come to a satisfactory agreement with the railroad company^ J~" " .'-v. v 4 - /.y- \ ;?#? * *"r " V" :: FEATURES OF PRESIDENT'S , MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. President Roosevelt in his message to Congress specifically recommends: The passage of a law prohibiting corporations from contributing to political camoaien exDenses. The passage of a law conferring upon the Government the right of appeal in criminal cases, on questions of law. A law modifying the use of the injunction in labor cases. That the crime of criminal assault should always be punished by death; that such assault, attempted, should also be made a capital crime, at the discretion of the court; that the trial and punishment of the^e cases should be swift, and that the victim should be shielded in the giving of testi, mony. A law limiting the number of hours of railroad employes. A drastic child-labor law for the District of Columbia and the Territories. An addition to the employers' liability law placing the entire "risk of a trade" on the employer?in other words, making the employer directly responsible for compensation in the case of death or accident, where this occurs in the legitimate line of duty. A law for a Federal strike investi- 1 gation commission. . A law providing for the withdrawal of coal lands from sale or from entry, save in special circumstances. An addition to the packing house Inspection law providing that a date shall be put on the label, and charging the cost of the inspection to the packers. A graduated income tax law and a graduated inheritance tax law. Says the man of great wealth owes State a peculiar obligation and should pay for protection he receives and as a means of reach.'ng private fortunes unduly or dangerously swollen. National legislation on the whole question of marriage and divorce. A ship subsidy bill. An amendment to the law which would enable the Secretary of the Treasury to treat funds derived from customs duty as he treats funds obtained under the international revenue laws. A law providing a lower tariff or absolute free trade in Philippine products. * A law enabling Porto Ricans to become American citizens. A law providing for the naturalization of Japanese; and an amendment to the present Federal statutes which will enable the President to enforce the rights of alfens under treaties. Revision and amendment of the laws for the protection of the seals within the jurisdiction of the United States. ' In addition to the specific recommendations mentioned above other interesting features of the message are: A discussion of the use of the legal Injunction in labor questions. A discussion on the subject of public criticism of judges. A discussion on the subject of lynching and race prejudice. A discussion of questions .affecting capital and labor, of the menace of demagogues, and of strikes. A suggestion that combinations of capital are necessary and that it is unfortunate that the present laws forbid, instead of sharply discriminating between those which do i,ood and those which do evil; a discussion of corporations. An emphatic approval of more technical and industrial training institutions throughout the country. Two paragraphs discussing the home in which are references to the question of race suicide. A brief presentation of the most prominent currency reform plans. A long discussion, under the head, "International Morality," of the Japanese question presented in California, in which the shutting out of Japanese from the public schools in San Francisco is characterized as "a wicked absurdity." > A brief review of recent history In Vuba, with the hope that the next iuban Government will run more fmoothly, that the "insurrectionary Aa^it" will not become so fixed as to to a second intervention by the % jted States. - review of the conditions in South "^Central America. * '--presentation of the fur seal sit... ?. drawing attention to the rapid ?. 1 of destruction of the seal and 'necessary preventive measures, ^scussion of the subject, "peace ^hteousness," in which the "r snt repeats nis previously ex\ ideas about "just wars." <"^ngthy review of Navy and ffairs; a request that the Navy ntained at Its present strength building of at least one first - ytleship each year; a recom/n of the principle of selec?'S ; Hr^romotion, and. of the estab"?\:of shooting galleries and throughout the country. ' " " ' .p-?> > iWORTH ENDS HIS LIFE. \ tfsburger Shoots Himself lysterious Manner. ^Pa.?One of the biggest . - . :nce the suicide of Thomas - <~?- jtSnes here developed when known that Linford L. >chelor member of one of /ad most weauny iamuies j ^taiiiia, had committed sui. *'Dilworth, who was a mem-j k Jo me of the most exclusive HlK Pittsburg as _well as New . Sot himself through the head jJannameu place in Allegheny ! s taken to the home of his 'i'-?ther, J. C. Dilworth, where he ,<ned later. He was fifty years old 'and worth a million. I Government Can't Interfere. ; Mr. Rayner introduced resolutions ^declaring that the Senate believed *the Federal Government had no right to interfere with the exclusion of Japanese from the San Francisco vschools. \ Porto Ricans Wish Citizenship. Governor Winthrop, of Porto Rico, "ftU#''rSenor Larrinago, Porto Rican delegate to Congress, said that the islanders want united States citizenship and a protective tariff on coffee. Minister Hangs, Pleading Innocence With a declaration that he had told the truth, and that his sons had nc connection with the crime, the Rev. J. G. Rawllngs, a former Baptist minister, was hanged at Valdosta Ga., for the murder of Willie and Carrie Carter in July, 1905. All Moore, a negro, whose confessiozj connected Rawlings with the cr'-ie, was executed with the same dvop. Fourteen Girls Marry. T1 crlrla m o in X1 UU1ACCU lauivi J UiHiiicu lb one day in Norwalk, Conn. The toxvt clerk says there is an "epidemic ol ' marriages" there., I j. -- V.V'i; . rv ' L i? . a* y\ ,*v; . -ar/ i / "* ' ' / . v ?* ' -'v [CONGRESS MEETS AGAIN t ??? 4 The Fifty-ninth Convenes For Its Short Session. The Question, of the Dismissal of the >Tt?gro Troops Immediately Brought to the Senate's Attention. Washington, D. C. ? The second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress convened. It had not got its machinery started before the predictions of those who have been expecting excitement were verified. Two of the stanchest Republican Senators, Foraker and Penrose, introduced resolutions demanding from the President information on his discharge of .a battalion of negro troons before the Senate had even notified the President that It was in session and ready to transact business. Within ten minutes after the Senate met the matter had been brought up by Senator Penrose. It was an ' absolutely unprecedented interrup tion of the regular procedure. The Senate opened with the usual round of cordial greetings and thr*' ' accompanying display of ermine and \ winter millinery in the galleries. There were no new faces at the sec-; ond session; no new Senators stalking into the Senate chamber to be piloted about by the pages or pointed \ out by the Capitol guides to visiting.' j sightseers who occupy their time i SDeculating aB to how many millions the new Senator may have. . One incident of the opening that created comment was the fact that \ the Empire State had full renresen- . tation for the first time in almost a year. Both Senators Piatt and Depew were present. 1 There were hundreds in the wait- ' ing line of the Senate galleries when the gavel of the Vice-President fell ' and the chaplain, the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, prayed thankfully to the Lord, who had "led the people ? through the temptations of prosper- ' ity." The first legislative act was the 1 swearine in of Senator-elect Henry j A. Du Pont, Ihe new Senator from Delaware, who was escorted to the ^ desk by his colleague. Senator Allee. : Senators Hale, of Maine, and Pettus. of Alabama, were annotated a committee to wait upon the Presi- I dent. It was rather a sombre convening of the House of Representatives. : The new rule forbidding the display of flowers upon the desks of members operated to maintain the monotonous color scheme. Just as the clock was on the stroke i of 12 Speaker Cannon appeared at his desk. His presence brought a i hearty outburst of applause. The uroceedings were begun with prayer ( by Chaplain Couden. A call of the roll developed the presence of 294 members. "A quorum," said Speaker Cannon, where- J upon the Representatives elected to fill vacancies were presented, and, ] after their credencials were read, 1 sworn in. ' Mr. Cushman (Rep., Wash.) an- 1 nounced the presence of Frank H. Waskey, the first delegate elected < from Alaska. His credentials were 1 read and the oath of office administered to him by the Speaker. < Messrs. Payne, of New York; Bou telle, of Illinois, and Williams, of } Mississippi, were appointed to join Senators Hale and Pettus in the duty , of notifying the President that Congress was ready to receive any communication he may have to make. Deaths of members that occurred In the recess of Congress were announced as follows: By Mr. Lowden, that of R. R. Hitt. By Mr. Payne, that of General J. H. Ketcham. By Mr. Nelson, that of H. C. Adams. By Mr. Gillette, that of Rockwood Hoar. The usual resolution of regret in each case was adopted, and at 12.55 3'clock, as a further mark of respect, the House adjourned. The Senate had already adjourned after having been in session forty-four minutes. ELIJAH DOWIE INSANE. > Founder of Zion Loses Senses While Delivering an Address. Chicago.?John Alexander Dowie, the founder of Zion City, went raving mad while delivering a sermon to a few faithful of his flock. Little Bope is entertained of his recovery, nless he improves he will be taken 1 lo an insane asylum, .where he will j probably spentl the remainder of his ] lays. While it was known that his mind bad been failing for some time, his seizure was most dramatic. "Elijah , III.," as Dowie is popularly known, preached in Shiloh House in the evening to about 200 of his followers. 1 He had not gone far before his auditors saw that something unusual was | the matter with the white-haired old J man. The audience was dismissed with; i out further ceremony and the news 3 quickly spread through Zion that the former autocrat of the city was hope- i lessly crazy. ] Orphans Not Returnable. 1 The Supreme Court of the United 1 States decided against the New York Foundling Hospital in its fight to get ] back forty orpnans snippea 10 ati- i zona in 1904 and taken from persons to whom they had been farmed out. Canada Coal Strike Ended. The long-standing coal strike at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, is over., Case of Cancer Cured. Dr. Clarence C. Rice, of the PostGraduate Hospital, New York City, reported that he had cured a case of cancer of tho larynx by trypsin, the new pancreatic extract. Standard Oil's Appeal. The Standard Oil Company sent out an appeal for public sympathy ' in the fight made by the Government to dissolve its corporate organization. _ Senator Tillman Interrupted. Senator Tillman made his anti- 3 negro speech in Chicago, as planned; i alt&ough constantly interrupted by disorder in the hall. Tennessee's Vote Announced. , Patterson, Democrat, 111,869; Evans, Republican, 92,812, was the j official vote for Governor in Tennes- , see. , "JJ Joline Elected President. Adrian H. Joline was elected pres- ] ident of the Missouri, Kansas and ! Texas Rajlroad^Company.,. "" I i . . + ' / .:'' /' ; v? '. >'. ^ *" < BITS I HEWS" WASHINGTON. President Roosevelt will send meslages to Congress on the Panama Calal and Porto Rican affairs. President Roosevelt announced :hat individual members of disgraced legro troops may be reinstated individually on clear proof of innocence. Desertion is increasing in the irmy. The Confederate army roster bens prepared by the Government con;ains 3,360,441 cards. The Spanish gunboat Alvarado, captured during the war with Spaic.. ias been transferred to the Louis* ana naval militia. The army finger-print system is expected to prevent any more uninown dead in battle. Representative Hull, of Iowa, :hairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs, said that there was 10 doubt about the legal authority of the President to discharge the men without honor from the negro troops. The Congressional Postal Commission has resumed its hearings on revision of the law3 governing second;lass mail. Methods of the Standard and other 011 companies in Missouri are being sLuuiea oy joan i-orter noms, 01. me Federal Bureau of Corporations. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The President directed the dismissal from office of Noah B. K. Pettingill, United States District Attorney from Porto Rico. Governor. Magoon has appointed Duque Estrada, a cousin of former President Palma, to be city engineer of Havana, vice Fernandez Castro, resigned. Dr. Barrows, General Superintendent of Education for the Philippines, arrived in San Francisco, and said the insular situation was politically excellent but economically poor. Members-elect of the Hawaiian Legislature will ask the United States to raise their pay to $1000 a. 3ession.. Great enthusiasm is manifested by the Filipinos to tender General Smith a, reception. The Hawaiian Promotion Committee will have a Pan-Pacific Exposition next year. DOMESTIC. Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, pardoned Mrs. Naramore, 6ent to an Insane asylum for life In 1901, after murdering her six children. The boat in which Miss Grace Brown went to her death in the Adi rondacks was placed in evidence at the trial of Chester Gillette at Herkimer, N. Y.; hair was still attached.to. ane of the cleats. Walter B. Finney, of New Tork City, confessed to the police that he set fire to an apartment house, and alienists believe that incessant cigarette fcmokfng is responsible. A French restaurant proprietor who gave evidence on which Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco; was Indicted, was charged with perjury by Grand Jury. Edwin L. Frizzel, formerly of Leyien, Mass., In charge of the bridge building for the Boston & Maine Railroad, has lived on a railroad :ar for twenty years. A fire which destroyed the hotel at Mabank, Tex., burned to death Abraham Dallas, a traveling salesman. S. Nicholson Kane', former Commoiore of the New York Yacht Club, lied at Hamilton, Va. Laughing at a man who held him up to rob him cost W. P. Dllworth his life, at Oklahoma City. The Grand Jury at Fremont, Ohio, Sias returned blackmailing indict meats against eight persons, George Lang, a wealthy farmer, being the iriGttm. Governor Davidson, of Wisconsin, tras re-elected by a plurality of almost 80,000, or 25,000 more than aver given a candidate in an off year. The peonage trouble in North Carolina, where two Italian laborers were killed in a riot last May, has been settled by the Italian Embassy, and Neapolitans will be'sent to that region again. While kneeling before an altar in New York City, seven-year-old Theresa Tardo was fatally burned by a candle failing on her. Family estrangement seems to have caused Edmund D. Fiske, of Lincoln, Neb.* to kill himself in a hotel at Providence, R. I. FOREIGN. fJT m Aaawma r\9 (\yc\r\nck tr?eU/ai? +)ia IliUg ucui5c vi uiwew liuibVM Pope in Rome. General Henry Clay Young was run over by an omnibus in Paris. Commander Peary and his Arctic 3hip, the Roosevelt, arrived at Sydney, C. B. Mgr. Seton, of Newark, N. J., was received in private -audience by the Pope at Rome. A meeting of Constitutional Demacrats in St. Petersburg was dispersed by the police. Professor Joseph J. Thomson, of Cambridge University, is to receive the Nobel prize for physics. The Australian Government will prosecute the American oil combine under the Anti-Trust law. King Edward's Christmas cards significantly depict British officers lancing with Japanese women. A charge of harboring revolutionists has been made at Juarez, Mexico, 1 ^ rl n frtniroloc! igiiliiSL ixirs. iiitii i(i ruuto uo u^u^ai^u. TarifE revision will be one of the J first matters taken up by the Cana- | iian House oH Commons at Ottawa. An investigation by the Chilean Sovernment has proven false the I 3tory that the island of Juan Fernandez was destroyed by earthquake last ' August. In an encounter between Dutch j troops and natives in New Guinea I 3even soldiers were killed and an offi- | :er and six men were wounded. Protection was asked for the mission at Lien-Chou, China, where five missionaries were killed last year. French residents of Tangier hav? asked the Foreign Office to enforce respect for existing treaties and to J guarantee their personal safety. j The enemies of Count Witte apDealed to the Emperor to have the i count, who is gaining ground in Rus- I sia, expelled from the empire. | M. Stolypin was quoted as saying ! that he expected the new Douma to, do good work, and that he felt the j Russian. prODiema were niipiuatmu6 solution. According to a special St. Petersburg dispatch the revenue receipts of Russia exceed the budget estimate toy 125 000,000 roublea. ' "* j V- v".- . 'i~*' Mason and Dixon's Line Gone. ^ A Democrat Btoofl watenuis mw publican parade in Sedalia. "You never hear the band play 'Dixiti' ior a Republican meeting!; do you?" he remarked. "Why, the band is likely to strike up 'Dixie* before they reach the Court House," said a Republican brother. "I'll vote. the Republican ticket if they do," said the follower of Jefferson. "I've got that bet," said the Republican. Then he pur- . J sued the band leader. Before they . reached the Court House the band played "Dixie."?Kansas City Star. TEN XUAKS ur \ ;y Usable to Do Even Housework Bo cause of Kidney Troubles. Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, of Clinton St., Napoleon, O., says: "For fifteen years 1 was a great sufferer from kidney troubles. Lly back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp, s h oo ting' pains. My oyeslght was pcotv dark spots - ? appeared before me, and I had dizzy ^ spells. For ten years I could not *do housework, and for two years did ncft get o.:t of the house. The kidney secretions were Irregular, and doctors wero not helping me. Doan's Kidney Pills brought me quick relief,, and finally cored meThey saved ray life." Sold by all dealers. 5 0 cents a box. JToster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Quarterrmry Bears. The excavations for the under* fyround rail* ays of Paris harf yielded f /^3 * goodly array of additions to . / % French archaeology, historic and Scientific. Within the past few days *.he workmen came upon a mass of* \>ones, evidently once forming the skeleton of some huge creature, and, in an excellent state of preservation. Experts from the National Museum of Natural History carefully collected all the fragments, and have been able to reconstruct from them the almost complete skeletoh of the bear of the quarternary epoch, the direct ancestor of the bear of our own. time, but of at least twice the stature of the brown bears of to-day. The Collection Habit "Why are you here?" asked the kindly visitor. "For debt," replied the sad-eyed, prisoner. ' For debt? Inhuman! Impossible! And this the twentieth'century! I'll get you out." "But this is a complicated case," rejoined the prisoner. , "It is not for a debt of mine. Tou see, the world owes every man a living and I waa trying to collect Much obliged for the tracts." However, the visitor bad passed ' 911.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Stats of Ohio, Citt or Toledo,) . l17cas Counts:. x Frank J. Cheney makes bath that he is senior partner of tie- firm- of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County ana State aforesaid, ana , that said firm will pay the sum of oxb hundred dollars.for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured'!# the use of Hall's (Jatabbh Cube. ' :~'x Frank j. Che net. Sworn to before me and subscribed in t ^ my presence, this Oth day 01 December, A; D. 1888. A. W. gleaflok. (Seal.) Notary Public. r, Hall's Catarrh Core is taken internally. and acts directly on the blood am*, mucosa V eurfacea of the system. Send for testimoniaia free. ' - . ' F. J. Chzxky & Co.. Toledo, Q. Sold by t.11 Druggists, ?5c. ' -X~ Hall's Family .rills are the best. ? A A trolley company in Vermont M whose cai? fall to come to a full * stop and display a signal at a grade ' crossing is subject to a fine of $25 $ for each omission. LIMB RAW AS PIECE OF BEEF. :? Suffered For Three Tears With Itch is g Ham or?Cruiser Newark; IT. 8. 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In Massachusetts a dog three months old or over must be licensed. ? J H. H. Gbeex's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga., are the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the world. See their liberal offer in advertisement in another column of this $aper. More than 100 Jewish families move into Jerusalem eveiy week. I ^ MUSCULAR ? AILMENTS The Oid-Monk-Cure will straighten out a contracted ~ ? mii.. M 111 ill/# H H ST. I * JACOBS OIL | Don't piay possum with pain, . d but 'tends strictly to business. i > . i-. tHji V &,SSSH