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METHO3ISTS MEET. General Conference Holding Its Ses sions in Dallas. BISHOPS READ TilEIR ADDRESS. They Deplore the Fact That There -lave Been So Few Accessions to the Church. Dallas, Tex., Special.-The first ses sion of the fourteenth Quadriennial Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was called to order by Bishop Wilson, of Baltimore, at ):20 Wednesday morning in the auditorium at the fair frounds. Distinguished churchmen and laymen were present from all parts of the South. All bish ops, with the excepti,n of Bishop Keener, of New Orleans, and Bishop Fitzgerald, of Memphis, are in attend ance. After the singing of a hymn, Bishop Hargrove, of Nashville, Tenn., prayed for "unity, moderation and 'conserva tism" in the Conference and hearty "amens" punctuated his words. 'Pas sages of Scripture were read by Bishop Hendrix, of Kansas, and W. A. Cand ler, of Georgia. Prayer by Dr. Anson West, of the North Alabama Confer ence, was followed by the addresses of welcome of Governor Sayers, Judge E. B. Perkin, and Rev. G. C. Rankin, all of which were enthusiastically receiv ed. The roll-call developed the absence of many delegates. By unanimous vote Dr. John J. Tigert, of Nashville, was elected secretary of the Conference. He nominated for his assistants, Rev. A. F. Watkins, of the Mississippi Conference, and J. M. Bacus, of the Northwest Texas Conference. Governor Sayers was presented to the Conference by Bishop Wilson to make the address of welcome and the delegates rose to welcome him. The Governor was listened to very atten tively. He devoted much of his speech to the history of Methodism. Bishop C. B. Galloway, of Jackson, Mississippi, replied to the address of welcome. He said all were glad to be here. He knew Texas was a great State and had a great people because the best people of all the old States had come here. The rules of the last General Con ference were adopted and the appoint ment of a committee of five to revise the rules were aathorized and a motion that sympathies of the Conference be wdred to Dr. B. M. Palmer, the cele brated divine of New Orleans, who was recently injured by a street car, was adopted. A motion to fix a committee of six on credentials was carried. The episcopal address, signed by the eolege of bishop, was read by Bishop W. W . Duncan, of Spartanburg, S. C., .The s- was a lengthy one and two z ourS . consumed in its reading. It relte only 38,085 additions to 4 :Ch ye been made since the -and says something is ing. The -bishops also ap Spat for better equipped ministry. ~> 7e bi say the office of deaconess will be ed for and they entreat the Conference to act wisely and well. An earnest pisi. was made for the better support of > superannuated preachers and widows and orphans of deceased ministers; 1;$at a plan be adopted whereby a fund of $100,000 be secured for this prpose. The matter of local preachers working as evangelists was mentioned. The work of the mission boards, Churchi extension, and Sunday schools and the literature of the Church was commented upon. Large space was devoted to the schools and colleges of the Church. It was shown that the Publishing House during the past four years transacted a business of $1.500,000, or an increase of $186, 000. The Publishing House "war claim" was reviewed, showing that the chur ches were free from any blame in the matter. A hope was expressed that this Conference would finally settle this mooted quesolon. The election of two new bishops -was asked for. Immediately after the reading of the address Bishop Candler read a letter from Senators A. 0. Bacon and A. S. Clay, which he had received in reply tc a letter relative to the course which should be pursued by the Mfethodist Church in regard to the money which was paid under an act of Congress in settlement of the war claim of the t@b lishing House. This letter was signed by eight Senators. The last clause reads as follows: "The report of the committee and the resolutions adopted by the Senate in explicit terms exoner ates the Church from all blame at ground for criticism, for anything which occurred in connection with the passage of the bill and Is a clear ex pression of opinion that there is no ob ligation on the part of the Church tC pay the money to the government oi make further offer to do so." Two Students Burned to Death. Richmond, Special.-Two lives were lost in a fire which destroyed the Burns University Lyceum near Char lottesville, Va., early Wednesday. The dead, J. C. Knox and Agnew McNeal. of Albemarle, Va., both students. Their charred bodies were found in their rooms. The origin of the fire is un known, but It is supposed to have been incendiary, or the result of lightning striking the building. The hostler or the place discovered the frames and immediately gave the alarm. Some of the students escaped by jumping from the windows and one of the teachers. Mrs. Sheffield, was painfully in.jupred. Dr. Palmer Improving. New Orleans, Special.-The condition of Dr. Palmer, the Presbylerian min ister, who was injured by a trolley car, has shown such improvement that only his family physician, Dr. Holt, was ~" with him. Dr. Palmer passed a rest less night, but all unfavorable symnp toms have yielded readily to treat ment. The physicians are still hope ful of recovery, although it is doubtful if they patient will regain the use of his lmhs. CLEMiSON MATTER SETTLED Cadet Thornwell Reinstated By the Board of Trustees. Clemson College, Special.-The in vestigation of the recent trouble in the college has been concluded and the trustees have adjourned and gone home. The net results of the investiga tion are these: Cadet Thornwell has been reinstat-d. The sophomore class will be allowed Ic return and resume their studies, on the condition that they will be -.,ady tj stand their examination in Septemb'er for entrance to the junior class. The charges which were preferred by the committee of students against Presi dent Hartzog were withdrawn. Presi dent Hartzog has tendered his resigna tion, to take effect at the pleasure of the trustees. The resignation wil not be considered or acted on until the regu lar meeting of the board in June, at commencement. President Hartzog's resignation was placed in the hands of the board sev eral days ago. He said he tendered it so the trustees might not feel any em barrassment or hesitency on his ac count in making the most rigid and thorough investigation. When the trustees met Cadet Claude Douthit, chairman of the student :om mittee which preferrad the charges against the president, submitted the following signed statement: "Whereas. The students of Clemsor college have preferred charges against President Hartzog, and these chargef have developed sufficiently to show tc the board of trustees that there is s wide-spread disaffection against Presi dent Hartzog on the part of the stu dents, we are therefore willing to leave the further investigation of this mat ter in the hands of the trustees. Pend ing this investigation we will not press our charges.. (Signed) Claude Douthit, M. E. Zeigler, J. T. Roberts, Jr., S. M Ward, Jr., David Kohn, E. B. Bokyin. W E G Black, B. H. Gardner, Newton D. Walker." "Do I understand," asked Senator Tillman, "that the committee proposet to drop these charges and leave this whole matter now to the trustees, wil ling to accept and abide by our decis ion?" Douthit said that was the intention "Then," said Senator Tillman, "ther4 is nothing for the board to do but tc go into executive session and make uF its decision regarding young Thorn well and the sophomores. That is un less President Hartzog wants to gc on with the investigation of the charges. What do you say, Mr. Hart zog?" President Hartzog replied that he was ready and willing now, as he had been all along, to go into a full and complete investigation as to -his-on dct and azninistrationi of the colle. 'W'he comadttee has with'drawn thin charges on their own volition, not in any way at my suggestion," he -aid "and it is not a compromise on my part. I am willing to go on with at open investigation, or I am willing tc leave it all in the hands of the trus tees. I believe they will do justice anc that is all I want. The matter rests en tirely with them." S"I would like to say," said Cadet Douthit, "tha?. our committee has taken this step only after mutual con sideration and with the good of Clem 'son college the sole purpose in view." "Then," said Senator Tillman, -- move that the board now go into ex ecutive session. This was carried and Ithe board retired. They were in session 'over two hours. Finally when it was stated that the trustees were ready o announce their decision the faculcy and students reassembled in the chapel The decision were read by Senatox Tilman. He read them in a most im prsiemanner. The students cheered roundly the decisions in regard to Ca det Thornwell and to the sophomore class, but there was no disorder or un seemly demonstration. The decisions are as follows: The board after most searching in vestigation Into the causes which led jto the suspension of Cadet Thornwel: Iand the action of the faculty In ref us ing the pctition of the calss for rein statement. find as follows: First. That the offense was not oi 'such magnitude and seriousness as tc warrant the sentence imposed, and thai *the punishment was entirely dispro portionate to the seriousness of the of fense. The evidence shows that the faculty was never in possession of al: 'the facts In the case, and while there 'was some,grounds for Its action, we feel that the trial was not conducted with that seriousness and thoroughnese which should obtain in any case whien invlves thle character and good name of a cadet. The meagerness of the minutes and inability of the faculty tc present to the board in written form a record of the proceedings is censurable and we shall expect it never to occui again. We can undestand how there might be a difference of opinion, as ap pears to have existed in the faculty on account of the Incomplete evidenec before it. The faculty divided evident lv on the question of Intent. On th< 4yi hand, there was a belief that the sudents understood their obligation inl regard to this property. On the other the contention of the cadets that cus tom had lead them to believe they hac the right to take 'these test tubes in fluenced the judgment of some mem bers of the faculty to the extent thai the vote for suspensIon was 15, while those who voted against such punish ment were 13, and the error was in not giving the benefit of the doubt to the It is also an extenuating circum stance as to the severity of punish rent that at the last meeting of the board it laid great stress, by resolution, upon the lax discipline and somewhat loose way in which the college was being run, and ordered a strenuous ef fort to remedy It. The action of the faculty upon this, the first serious case that had come before it, was possibly the result of its desire to comply with the expressed demands of the board. It is therefore ordered that Cadet Thorn well to reinstate to his rights and privileges a a cadet In this college. IN CONGRESS. Detailed Doings of Our Natioual Law makers. HOUSE. One hundred and sixth Day-Bott the desks of the late Representative Dtey, of Virginia, and Cummings, o1 Kew York, were draped in mourninn Monday. Dr. Couden. the chaplain in his invocation, dwelt upon the double affliction that had come upon the House and prayed for the family and friends of Mr. Otey. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, announced the death of Mr. Otey, and offered the customary resolutions of regret In accordance with the terms of the resolutions the Speaker appointed the following committee to attend the funeral: Messrs. Jones, Swan son, Rixey, Hay, Lamb and Flood, of Virginia; Hepburn, of Iowa; Meyer if Louisiana; Jenkins, of Wisconsin; Lanham, of Texas; Olmstead, of Pennsylvania; DeAimond, of Mis ;ouri, and McCall, of Massachusetts then, at 12:15, as a further mark o1 respect, the House adjourned. SENATE. Cne hundredth and sixth Day In vindication of the administration' policy in the Philippines, Mr. Lodge, o1 Massachusetts, chairman of the Philip pine committee, addressed the Senate Monday. Long before he began to speal the galleries were thronged with peo ple and the attendance on the floor of the Senate was unusually large. Mrs Cowles, the President's sister, was ar interested auditor. His review of the situation in the islands and the utter ances of the minority in criticism o the condotion there was notably inter esting, forceful and effective. He spokE with deep earnestness and at times be came eloquent. Mr. Lodge warmly re sented the imputations cast on thE President, the Secretary of War. ani the army, for the alleged cruelties and atrocities said to have been practiced n the Philippines. He said every effor1 had been employed by the officials it authority to prevent such cruelties a: had been referred to and measures had been taken to punish those guilty 01 them. Such things, however, were in cidents of every war and could not be prevented absolutely. He hid no de fense to make of any of the cases o1 torture which had been cited, but the men of the American army had beer provoked almost beyond human endur. ane. He recited scores of instances o cruelties and tortures practiced by th< Filipino insurgents on American- pris oners. Men had had their ears cut off; had been disembowled; had been driv en into streams, while drowning, shol to death; had been tied 4. trees and stoned to death by women and childrei and buried alive. Others had been shoi and boloedatreacherously whilp suc oring the wounded. in the face 01 these horrible atrocitieeu some of the Ameriacn troops had been guilty of ad. ministering the "water 4ure," but the n.tances of this kind we Isolated and so part of the gener( policy in the Phippines. He ' -ended Gen affairs ik ~an&and paid a brl-~ iant tribute his heroism and patri otism. As he concluded his defense o1 the Amarican army and the adminis tration, drew applause from the gal leries. In a brief reply, Mr. Rawling, 0; Utah, declared the charges which had been made were not against Genera) Chaffee or the American army, bu against the Senator from Massachu setts, idfr. Lodge, and others who were responsible for the present PhilIppine policy. Both the sundry civil appropriatlo! bill and the bill for the purchase of the Rosebud Indiana reservation were >assed. Mr. Lodge, in his address, expressec the hope that the time would come when measures in regard to the Phil ippines would be discussed with a view to getting the best legislation possible One of the objects of the Philippine ill, he said, was to help the develop ment of the islands. The opponents 0: he biu had charged that It opened the way to exploiters, syndicates and car pet-baggers. He was aware, he said, of the gen eral hostility of the Democratic par y to any man who has made money, o1 who is making money, and was the only one of their principles that kra carried out with complete success d'u Ilng their last tenure of power. There was suppressed laughter in the galler ies when he said that few Americans al that time made money. Mr. Lodfe, referring to the charges 0: torture in the Philippines, said it was source of bitter regret to him that ny American officer or enlisted mar should have tortured any Filipino, or :hat any order had been issued that or its face seemed revolting. "But," he said, "there must be some reason foi these alleged cruelties." He then told of three American sol ie who were captured by the Fil ipinos. They were stripped naked and old that if they would cry "Long live the Filipino republic!" they might run iway into the bush as they were. One f the men stood there naked, in the idst of that hostile band, and cried: 'Long live America!" The Filipinos lied him to a tree and the women and hildren stoned him to death. The other two lost heart and cried, "Long live he Filipina republic!" but, notwith tanding this, they were cut to pieces with bolos. After that, said he, it is o0 wonder the comrades of those men went into battle with cries of yen "I am not here to excuse cruelty and rture, but I cannot condemn human xature in an American soldier under iuch circumstances." Senator Lodge declared that only tlf of the story of cruelty and torture nn the Philippines had been told and t desired to tell the other half be ause the honor of the American name gas deeply concerned. He then quoted rom the records many instances of the trocities committed by the Filipino nsurgents upon the American troops. Een had been captu-red as prisoners of war and had had their ears cut off, heir intestines cut out and their bodies terwise horribly mutilated. Othets ad been driven Into streams and while had been buried alive. Statistics show ed that the number of natives muti lated and assaulted for sympathizing with the Americans aggregated 44::. ilE pointed out that 67 municipal officers friendly to the Americans had been as sassinated, and 40 had been assaulted and mutilated. NEWSY GLEANINGS Th Newfoundland sealing season has closed. A $100,000 o3ster cminbne has been formed at Nor;olk, Va. Just twenty-one years ago was pro hibition introduced- iuto Kansas. The American Tobacco Company, it is said, will attempt to capture the trade of Scotland. A New York syndicate has bought two gold mines and a copper mine in Mexico for $500,000. The Ancient Order of 1-libernians has Started a movement to stop stage cari cature of the Irish race. An international congress for the amelioration of the condition of the blind will meet at Brussels in August. It will be under the patronage of King Leopold. The French Government has author ized the transfer of the seat of Mada gascar's Government from Antanan arivo, an interior town, to Tamatava, on the east coast. The Naval Board of Awards is ccn sidering the question of bectowing a medal on every officer and man who served in the West Indian naval cam paign of the Spanish-American War. An American company has pur chased the wrecks of the Spanish war ships Almirante, Oquendo and Vizcaya for $1 a ton; the vessels will be broken up for scrap iron and sent to Philadel phia. In the iron and steel trades in Scot :and and the north of England produc ticn has fallen off conciderably this year, .as compared with 1900, write, United States Consul Rufus Fleming, Edinburgh, Scotland. Enough money has been subscribed to cover the cost of removing nearly 300 of the distressed Welsh settlers In Patagonia to Canada, and arrange ments are being made for a steamer to call at Chubut to embark the first bateh of emigrants rea4y to sail. To Look Into Shipping Trust It is said that the British Govern nient has instructed the law officers of the crown to examine the agreements ard slocuments 'connected with the .1yjping combine. Owing to the deep interest. excited by this matter, the Government will give a day for the debate of the subject in Parliament. Beavy Snow in Northern France. Heavy snow has fallen at Abbeville and Amilens, and 'frost has been re ported from many places in Northeast ern France. Three Firemen Crushed to Death. Three firemen were crushed to death and another man was badly injured in a fire at the Iowa Iron Works, Du buque. Iowa. The men were playing en -the fire-near- wall,-when the latter fell and buried them. The financial loss is $15,000. Not te Raise the Bate of Interest. At the ninth annual convention of the Savings Bank Association of New -York State, at Syracuse, it was decided not to raise the rate of interest from 3% to 4 per cent. Charles A. Schieren, of Brooklyn, was elected President. Snow in the AdIrondacks. The weather has been unusually cold in Northern and Western New York. In Buffalo on May 9 there was a light fall of snow. In the Adiron dacks there was a heavy snow storm. In Wayne County a h'eavy rain and wind storm did $50,000 damage to fruit trees, which were In blossom. Masked Men Robbed a Safe. Three masked men took about $500 from the safe of the Lake Shore freight depot in Cleveland, Ohio. Fighting Bound Bale Trust. A four-cornered fight between the rcund cotton bale, the cotton gin, the oil mills and the compresses has broken out in Texas which threatens to revolu tionize the cotton-ginning business for next season and destroy the ginneries unless the Texas Farmers' Congress, which meets at College Station in July, can take some steps or suggest some legislat'on to prc?Pet the owners of gins. ________ Strike Ordered. The Executive Board o& the Miners' UTnion crdered a strike of the 147,000 miners in the anthracite district. WH ERE H E GOT OFF. Bad Omens Were Too Much for the Philadelphia Darkey. Detective George Fall of the city hal force was riding up town in a Thir teenth street trolley car last week when a colored man of his acquaint ance came in and sat down in the next seat. After a brief chat the de tective said: "Are you superstitious, Sam?" "No, suh," said Sam. "Well, it's a good thing you're not," said Fall. "There's a cross-eyed woman sitting epposite." "Ya-as, suh, dat's right," ehuckled Sam. "And up in the corner is a hunehback." "Yas, suh, I sees him." "See the number of the car up there? It's 313." "Yas, sah." "And this is Thirteenth street we're on, you know." "You go long, suh." "The cash register, as you may observe, shows the figures 1313." "Ya-as, suh." "And this Is Friday." "Ya-as." "Also it is the thirteenth day of the month." "Quit yo foolin', man." "It is now," said the detective, pulling out his watch, "just exactly thirteen minutes past--' The colored man had risen to his feet. "I ain't supahstitious, Mis tah Fall," he said, "but heah's where I gits off. You do make a man mighty oncomfable."--Philadelphia Record. Recent investigations enablo New York city to point to her asphalt pay. Ing as the costliest on earth. iE MUST APOLOGIZE Bill Arp on Roosevelt's Remarks About Davis. BILL SAYS THEY WERE WRONG. That Roosvelt Should Hasten to flake Ample Amends For the Mistake He Has Made. Once more unto the breach, good friends-once more," I would like to kr.o about what time President Roosevelt is going to retract what lie wrote about President Davis. It has now been proven by the official records at Jackson, Miss., that Mr. Davis never was governor, nor was he ever a mem ber of the legislature of that State, and in a public address made after the act of repudiation, he declared he was op posed to it and the debt ought to be paid, and this amateur historian de nounces him in his book as an arch traitor and repudiator. Mr. Davis fought in Mexico for the honor of the flag; won the victory at Buena Vista; was desperately wounded and for five years walked with crutches; married General Taylor's daughter for his first wife and didn't run away with her, either; was secretary of war under Franklin Pierce, remodeled the curri culum at West Point and it stands as he framed it; wag a member of the United States Senate when his tSate seceded and, like General Lee, he went with his pe'ople. He did not seek the presidency of the confederacy and in sisted that another be chosen. Now all this has long since been established and if Mr. Roosevelt did not know it he could have known it. He certainly knows it now, and if he is a gentleman he-will retract it and apologize to Mrs. Davis and the family and to the saint ed shade of Miss Winnie and to the people of the South. He called him an arch traitor and arch repudiator and compared him to Benedict Arnold and that slanderous libel is in print in a book of so-called history and has pois oned the minds of all the fools, fana tics and idiots who have read it. When Is he going to retract? The International Cyclopedia, edit ed by distinguished professors of Co lumbia university and Dartmouth col lege, says of Mr. Davis, "He was a ripe scholar, a vigorous writer, a splen lid orator, a brave soldier, a true gen tleman, a sturdy champion, a proud, true patriot, a lover of liberty, a Chris tian hero-this is the Jefferson Davis that history will cherish." General ee was his bosom friend and confi dent and yet this so-called historian. this rough rider and bear hunter, praises Lee while he defames his friend, a man infinitely his superior in everay moral attitude and every noble emotion. But maybe he will retract and apologize, though Tom Moore says: "But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood hugs It to the last." He had better rectract, for some of our old soldiers are very mad about it. They are talking about suing him for lander and garnisheeing the govern ment for his salary. Killing bears in the wilderness won't save him nor will that little brush we had in Cuba. That is perhaps the biggest little war we have ever had and every small politi can and stump orator who wants an office jumps up and says we are all brethren now. We fit and fout and bled together at San Jauan and Santiago and then we crossed the wide ocean to whip out some niggers and we will soon all be on the pension roll. An old veteran said to me, "That little Spanish war remind. me of the fellow who was drowned at Johnston, and when he knocked at the gate St. Peter didn't recognize him and refused to let him in. 'Why, my dear sir,' said he, 'I am one of the Johnstown sufferers. I was drowned in that flood.' So the good saint relented and let him In. He wandered about heaven, looking at the beautiful thin'g and after a while came across an old man and said, 'Good morning, old gentleman; glad to see you. Been here a long time, I ree ken?' The old man said nothing. 'I am one of the Johnstown sufferers. I was drowned in that great flood.' Th? old man did not reply, but turned and walked slowly away. So the fellow went to St. Peter and asked wYI' that old man was. 'He would not speak to me' said he, 'though I told him I was in the great flood at Johnston.' And St. Peter replied, 'That old man, sir, is Noah and he had a flood of his own to think about.' " And now we read that all the hor rors of our civil war are being repeat ed in the Philippines. In our war it was the white yankees who mnade war hell for us, but now they are making It hell for the negroes in the Philip pines. We were trying to smother what our people auffered, but they won't let us and now boast that Gen eral Sherman found it the best way to shorten the war. No, we old men and women can't forget and I hope that our children and grand-children will learn it all In some Southern hIstory. The civilized world has not forgotten Heror1 nor Nero nor the duke of Alva nor the massacre of St. Bartholemew, where 9000 Protestants were but'chered in a night. But when w-i11 Teddy repent. retract and apologize? He has got it to do sooner or later or go down in history as a malicious defamer of one whose shoes he was not worthy to un loose. He and Miles will get together some time and some where. Now, why does not Teddy consider the feelings of our people in his appointments to Southern offices? Why did he not give Savannah a white man for a collector? Appointments of negroes to be post masters and revenue collectors are an insult to us. and he knows It. If he has such affectionate regard for those hatroe w-hy not cgive theTm a place at Washington or Albany or Bostok or a cnsulship at Hayti or San Dominga? These offices are the nearest of all to our people. The postoffice is our try sting place, a kind of Mecca, and the postmaster our confident. That officer should above all others be acceptable to the majority of the people. The col lector has the commerce of a city in his hands and under his control, and that commerce is all white-none o It comes from the negro race. What*ex cuse can he give for such appoint- _ ments? None, and when is he going to retract and apologize for that sland er of Mr. Davis? Ecno answerers when?-Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitu tion. Snow in New England. At Enosburg Falls, Vt., snow fell fot ten hours on May 9, and caused cont siderable damage to newly planted crops. During the high westerly gale on the same date snow fell for several hours and the five mountain peaks 19 the vicinity of Littleton, N. H., were covered with snow at sundown. Eleven Soldiers Dead in Wreck. A train bound from Pretoria to Pleto trsburg, Northern Transvaal, was de" railed at a curve and an officer and ten men were killed. The National Game. Hartford has rele"t~ed Outfielder Rob. inson and Pitchers Miran and Droban. Cooley, the Philadelphia and Pitts burg cast-off, is playing a star game for Boston. Doncvan will doubtless be the main. Utay of Brookiyn's pitching staff again this seasoa. Up t) date the St. Louis team has made more errors than any two teams in the National League. Gfoerer is the name of Louisville's right fielder. "Go-for-er" is the way the name is pronounced. The stars of the National League of 1001 have been replaced by fifty-foul minor leaguers, eight collegians and nine amateurs. Smith has been playing a better sec ond base than anybody who has filled that position in a New York team In a number of years. Lajoie is twenty-seven years old, and is the smallest of five brothers. He Is a French-Canadian, and was born at Woonsocket, R. I. John M. Ward says that the decls" ion in the Lajoie dase was just righti and was what was needed for the sal, ation of the game. Police Commissioner Partridge has decided that baseball cannot be played in Greater New York on Sundays. The Southern League opened its championship season April 27. The at tendance was large at all points and the enthusiasm marked. Nearly every club in the American ieague has made extensive and ex pensive park improvements, particu, larly in the matter of Increased seating tacilities. American League players claim that the pitchers' box in the St. Louis d Clhicago AnericaL League parks' bv been raised several Inches to give th__ home pitchers an undue advantage. .j Newsy Gieal=ags The American Tobacco Company, iI is said, will attempt to capture thd trade of Scotland. A New Yqrk syndicate has bought two gold mines and a copper mine IN Mexico for $500,000. The Ancient Order of Hibernians has itarted a movement to stop stage carl. cature of the Irish race. An international congress for the amelioration of the condition of the blind will meet at Brussels In August. It will be under the patronage of King Leopold. The French Government has authors ized the transfer of the seat of Mada-q gasear's Government from .Antanan, arivo, an interior town, to Tamatavag on the east coast. The Naval Board of Awards is con' sidering the question of bestowing g medal on every officer and man who served In the West Indian naval cam.. paign of the Spanish-American War. An American company hac pur,~ chased the wrecks of the Spanish war ships Almirante, Oquando and Vizcayg for $1 a ton; the vessels will be broken up tor scrap iron and sent to Philadel, A $100,000 oyster combine has. beeu formed at Norfolk, Va. Just twenty-one years ago .was pro. hibition introduced into Kansas. In the Iron and steel trades in Scot, land and the north of England produc. tion has fallen off considerably this year, as compared with 1900, wrItes United States Consul Rufus Fleming, Edinburgh, Scotland. Enough money has been subscribed to cover the cost of removing nearly, 300 of the distressed Welsh settlers In Patagonia to Canada, and arrange. ments are being made for a steamec to call at Chubut to embark the first batch of emigrants ready to sail. Wife Murderer a Sulelae. While awaiting trial for murdering his eighteen-year-old wife, William Ra bel, of Fort Wayne, Ind., hanged tim self In his cell. A Taluable Ben stolen. A valuable bell, cast in St. Peters burg, and shown at the World's Fair, has been stolen from a Russian church in Chicago, Ill. Bank Burglars Get 84000. Burglars blew open the bauk safe at Waco, Neb., took $4000 and es caped. . L0,000 Persone at a Chinamaun's Funeral One hundred thousand people attend ed the funeral of taim Moy, late ''KnI . of Chinatown," at Chicago. The fun eral was one of great pomp and cere mony, and was one of the most fantas tic scenes ever witnessed in the city. Deputations of Chinamen frC m New York, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and Boston were present. Xnprovement in Meadow Conditions. A decided improl cment in the condi tion of meado . s has occurred th:-cugh cut the Central V-illeys, Middle Atlan tic State and New England.-_