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GEN WH[ELER DEAD Here.c f Two Wars and Great Cava&: Leader LOST BRATTLE WITi FNEUIMONIA Fame-:s Confederate Cavalry Leader and 3rigadier General in United States Army Since Spanish War, WiTn Intervening Career in Con gress, Passes Away. New York. Special-General Joseph Wie ler, the famous Confederate 1te-r and brigadier gener:l of the United States Army. since the war wi. Spain. died at 5::;5 Thursdlay afternoon at the home of his sister, -Mrs. Sterling Smith. in Brooklyn. The veteran of two wars was (! years old. Out iln spite of his age. there was hope until Thursday of* ills recovering Iiiru the attack of pneuronia which caused his death. It has not yet been decided where he body will be buried, but probabiy it will be in Arlington Ceinetary, near Washington. General Wheeler was taken ill six ,davs ag-o at his sister's home. where he has been living recently. Ie con a severe cold, which develop ed into pleurisy and pneumnoiiia. From the first, his age told against him. but the family did not give up 1ope until the discease was found to have affpeted both lungs. Y neral Wheeler's immediate rela evis were all with bin. His daugh tr. Mrs. W. J. Harris. and the Miss -s Anne, Lucile and carrie Wheeler, had been sommoned from the South :Cd arrived early iii the 'week. His son. Major Joseph Wheeler. Jr.. U. S. A.. now stationed at West Point. was :I!so present, as well as General Wheeler's sister, Mrs. Sterling Smith, :mid her son. re family were suninoieit to the bedide of the patient at midnight when" the doctors in consultation con lhided that +'e end was but a matter .'f hours. The general was then a'ake :md conscious and his mind was airpearently active. He seemed to kamv that death was approaehing. .-4 Gn. Wheeler was never agaun more than semi-conscious. 41e lingered un ti eveningr and then passed away. To Be Buried at Arlington. Washingrton. Specia.--Geueral Jos eph Wheeler. whose death occurred in New York, wiUA be buried in the Nat ional Cenetary at Arliigiton with the full milatary honors due an ouieer of the U~nited1 States army. Fror Big Robbery 4Years Ago. New York. Special.-I entra! otfie <letectives of this city arrestedi a man o' r whom they declare the 1)(dice of lile world have been searching for or) maore than four years. The pris oner. who was pieked up onl thme st reet is declared to b~e James Manes. fo'reecrly an American book-miaker, wh~o is wvanted in connection with4 the famous Bank of Liverpool robbery of Nov. 22, 1901. in which the English insituItli, through forgtorv and con spirley. was defrauded of more thau $S0ti.000). Subsequently $380.0(00 of 1 his iimlounit was recoveredl from the counimators, the bank having sustain ed net loss of more t han $400t. tl(. Porter Kills College Boy. M-mtgomlery. Ala.. Sper~al.-Grady Miller, th~e IS-year-old son of Dr. R. L. Miller. was shot and killed by the negro porter of the Lakeview Hotel. There were no0 eye wamnesses to the shoing but &- pistot shiots were heard. A search was made and near hv was found the negro ini a dying conl(iti->n. He' liveil long~ enough to say that he and Miller had engaged in a pistol duel. There is no way to ascertain the cause of tile tregedy. Bill For Erection of Tablets at Ap pomattox. Washington. Special .-Representra live Flood, of Virginia. introduced a bi to provide for thle purchase of $ The McLean property andl adjacent land at Appomattox. Va.. and to erect inbiets there in commeinoration ot the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to General Grant. Jury Acquits of Libel. New York. Special.-An tunusnally sensational trial camae to an cnd when thin jury in the crimina1l brancht of I he Supreme Court reporte ~d that Nor man Hapgood. editor of Collier's Week!v. was not gutili v of criinal , ie. The ease hadl beeni on trial s''ral weeks. The chlar'&e against ?.- apg)ood was brlomrbit at the in segin of Justice Jei.ph M. Dehutl. o :he Court of Speciaul Sessi'ins, and w aased utpon an editorial in whiich *th editor criticised Junst iie IDeuel for i connect ion with To wnl Topis. Says Green Offered Bribe. avannah. Speciai.-Thle mos' in Greeae-Gmavnor trial was mn reierene to e charge made byX one' W. R. Curtis wh'o hadQ beeni ani inspector (in the work being done by Greene and G;ay ne.t, the effect that G reene nuinle au naetfmpt to bribe him. This was in JInr:e, 1889. Elks Drag River For Body. Bristol. Vai.. Special.-Over 100 men atn dragging the WVatauga river ir Jlohnson coutyt. Tenniessee. near he re. in search of t.he bo- of. George '. Luppert, a wvealthy yotmur lumber w n, who wvas dro wned( Wednesday r iht. The search is being coinducted ti' the Bristol lodge of Elks, of which vf'tnl Luppitert was a 'uembe~r. anid his ecntinued for ever 24 hours with tic CONGRSS AT WORK What Our National Law Makers Are Doing Day by Day. Want License Record. Mr. llumhireys li.; discussed a meaure he has plndin into make the 'oer~nmnt recordls o, Fedleral liquor axaers nd lice -e-ho!ders avaia !bl ;S ed-!l'Pe. InI prolhibition and loeal o1ptin s<-etionls of 1te.ty he sail. the present practiee of with holding this information really placed the Federal governnent in the posi tion of niding the violators of local laws. Persons operating,, "blind ti iers," said Ir. Humphrevs. obtain r ederal license and thus avoid pursuit by government agents. but the govern ment record.s were withheld by the rules of the Internal Revenue Bureau from being availablc by State officials in making prosecutions. The rule of the internal Revenue Bureau. he said, contravened the well-establihed rules of evidence of our jurisprudence. Rate Fixing Discussed. The question of regulating railroad rates occupied practically all of the time of the Senate, notwithstanding that no bill with that end in view has been reported from the inter State commerce committee. The Jis CuSSn011 of the subject was in conlinee tion with Mr. Clay's speech, Messrs. Aldrich. Foraker, Bailey and New lands being the principal participants in addition to Mr. Clay himself. Mr. Clay advocated the passage of a bill which would give the inter State commerce commission power to regulate rates when complained of, and said that if there was no legisla -ion along that line the counry might count upon an agitation of the ques tieu of government ownership. He re ferred to the large vote given Mr. Hearst in the late New York munici pal election as an indication of the popularity of municipal ownership of the public utilities. Statehood Bill Passed. The House passed lie statehood bill exactly according to schedule. The Re publican opposition to the measure spent its entire force and no effort was made to defeat the bill on its final passage. only 33 of the "instir zents' voting against the measure. The bill passed by a vote of 194 to 150. The debate which preceded the vote began at 11 o'clock and was practi cally featureless so far as any hopE was entertained of changing the meas ure in the slightest degree. The abvo eates of the measure placed in The Record through the medium of several speeches, tihe arguments upon which the joint statehood policy is founded. Likewise, the opponents of joining Arizona anid New Mexico, embracing the entire opposition to the bill, pro duced their reasons for The Record. Several of the "insurgents'' made plain the ground of their opposition. The bill as passed provides that Oklahoma and Indian Territory shall constitute one State under the namne of "'Oklahoma."' and that Arizona and New Mexico shall constitute one State under the name of "Arizona."' Should the terms of admission be rati fed by the residents of the Territories inl question. their respect ive State constitutions must contain cEauses prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors to Indians ar.d plural marriag es. There are many other stipulations governing schools, courts and politi cal sub-divisions of the proposed new States. Senate and Foreign Affairs. The foreign affairs of the United, States continued to hold the atten tion of the Senate, the Moroccan and Dominican matters being the ques tions immediately at issui. Mr. Money was the principal speaker and he talk ed for over two hours in opposition to the course of the administration with reference to both Santo Domin go and Morocco. He contended that there was danger of becoming involv ed unnecessarily in the affairs of other countries by participating in thle Algeiras' conference. and that this country was not sufficently concerned with the conduct of affairs in Santo Domingo to justify our course in that island. He also took the position that the President had transcended his authority there. Mr. Money contended that the Pres ident had made one explanation and his frlinds another of our attitude to wards Santo Domingo. Mr. Money declared that lie felt no concern about Santo Doming-o. "As Senator of the Uted States. I don't care a conti nentaml about it,'' he said, emphat i cally. Mr. Money agreed with Mr. Lodge that the annexationi of Santo Dominzo was undesirable, and declar ed that ''if to-day the Unitedl States would relieve herself of every island of the sea the country would be im measurably stronger.'' He added that if we continue our olicy of taking inferior people the nation must sink of its owvn weight unless we changed our form of government. Mr. Hepburn followed Mir. Money. advocating the annexation of Santo Domingo, saying that the' present populat ion would soon '.ecome Ameri canized und~er the rule of the United States. Mr. Tillmnan suggestedl that as the President of Santo Domingo is at present within our islands we shouli proceed to negotiate with him, and th: very easily add to our colored population if "gluttonous for more of them.' Mr. Hepburn replied that if his ideas should prevail, the colored pee pe of the island would be supplanted by whites. "I wish." replied the South Caro lina Sena:or. "that the Senator would be mo'.re consistent with reference to the colored race and that lhe would not be so kind to those near us and so WYARSH1IP BLOWN UPI Hundreds of Lives Lost On a Barzi! Vessel 212 DIE, INCLU1ING 4 ADMIRALS Turret Ship Aquidaban is Sunk at a Port South of Rio Janeiro by an Expl.ion in Her Powder Magazine and Great Loss of Life Results. Rio Janeiro. Brazil. By Cable. Brazilian turret ship Aqjuidaban has >een sunk at Port ducarepagua, south )f Rio Janeiro. as the result of an ex >losion on hoard, and the dead num >er 212. The cruiser Baroso has ar rived here from Purt Jacarepagua with those injured, numbering- 3b. The Aquidaban blew up at 10.4-> Monday iibIt. Nearly all the officers were killed or injured. Four rear admirals perished on >oard the Aquidaban, which had been ised for the accomodation of a num ber of superaunierary officers and men attached to the flotilla escorting the eruiser Baroso. The Baroso had on board the Minister of Marine and his staff, who were inspecting the sites proposed for a new arsenal. The explosion on the Aquidaban oe eurred in the powder magazine. The vessel sank in three minutes. The following members of the com mission which left the arsenal on board the Aquidaban, accompanying the Minister of Marine, were drowned Rear Admiral Rodigo Jose Da Ro cha. Rear Admiral Francisco Calhei -os Da Graca, Rear Admiral Jono, captain Alves De Larrigo. Two commanders, two German pho tographers and one reporter also were Irowned. Later advices show that 98 >f those aboard were saved. The bodies will be brought to Rio Janei ro and given natural funeral. Death From Alleged Hazing. Natchez, Miss., Special.-Telegra phie advices received here from Greensburg, La., state that Joseph Sitman, a sub-freshman who left Jef Cerson Military Academy is dead at is home at that place and it is alleg 2d that his death was due to injuries received at the hands of a crowd of azers at the college. The boy's fath r. Dr. C. W. Sitman. will demand an invest iga tion. Lieutenant Gus Morris who was day officer at the college denies that there has been any hazing at the college and said that Sitman was suffering from a carbuncle and took Frer.ch leave of the institution. Assaulted Aged Negro. Winston-Salem. Special. --Lon Thacker. colored, was arrested Satur ay night and committed to jail on the charge of assaulting. with intent to rob, Jim Watlington. According to Watlington's story, Thacker came to his home on Chestnut street and borrowed a lantern for the alleged purpose of finding a quarter. The lantern syent out and Watiington was called ont to light it. While stooping down, Thacker grabbed the lantern and struck Watlington several blowrs. The old1 negro called for help and Thacker skipped out. In an hour or two thereafter he was arrested and locked up. News Notes. Baron Boris Korff, who was ordered to Livonia, Russia, to help crush the uprising, commit ted suicide rather, he said, than kIl helpless persons. Because Saturday was the Mo hammedan Sunday there was no ses sion of the Moroccan conference. Governor Glenn. of North Carolina, visited the Virginia Legislature. The Senate committee investigating Panama Canal affairs decided not to puni;h Pouitney Biglow for not dis closing his sources of information. Phares May was sentenced to be hanged and BerI Lamb sent to the penitentiary for life for the murder of a Syrian peddcler in Pocahontas county, West Virginia. The Walter Wellman-Chicago Re cord-Herald North Pole Expedition was incorporated in Augusta, Maine. China proposes in the future to have a voice in the management of foreign settlements within her borders. Wecst Belfast. for. many years a Unionist stronghold. elected Joseph Devlin, Irish Nationalist, to the Brit ish Parlimient. In Santo Domingo it is said the ati tude of the United States during the 1:-te revolution has strengthened ihe proposed treaty. Speciker Cannon and the H~ouse leaders decided to bring the Joint Statehood bill to a test in the House early next week. Secretary Root anuounced that Gen. Luke E. Wright, of Tennessee, has been selected as Ambassador to Japan; Judge HIenry C. Ide to succeed him as Gevernor-General of the Phil ippines. President John Mitchell, of the Unied Mine Workers, in the course of a debate on1 the motion to accept transfer cards from the tihe Western Federation of Miners, accused that organization of trying to disrupt the United Mine Workers. Chairman Shonts Defends Canal Com mission. Cincinnati, Special.-Theodore P Shonts, chairman of the Isthmian Canal commission, was the guest of honor and sole speaker at tihe January meeting of the Commercial Club. Mr Shots defended theC work of the canal commission against "seandle mogers,'' his speech taking much the same turn as the recent writing~s ci President Roosevelt and Seciretar.1 WIN[ WORTH MILLIONS )iscovery of Very Valtable Deposits of Iron Ore Near Southcrn Town. Greenville. S. C.. Special.-Jion ore :as exhibited in the city whiiich wa; :ound in tie mountains above ireen ille, and analysis show that it e-il ains not lcs.s than 63 pr Cent. Tlhe >re was exhibited by i. E. Johnston )f this city who has options on the >rop-rty. Ie says the iron vein ex :2'nds nvross an entire ridge and is I nils in length. Mr. Johnston whilt verlooking a secti on ot orest notice he a1or. paid little attention tc t at firs,-t but, wen he found that ii was so extensive. h? selected a num. >er of samples from Cifferent part. > the ridge. Tise samples wer :eently analysed in- Philadelphia with the results mentioned. This i: said to be as high grade ore as ii to be found in the w.rld vith th< iingle exception of a pocket mine ir Spain. It has been hinted to Mr Johnston. by a steel comrpany in Penn sylvania. that $5.000.000 might not bi too much for the property. Brooklyn "L" Car Derailed. New York, Specia.-The middli !oaci of a three-car elevated train or he Cypress Hills branch of thei Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was derailed at an "uncontrolled' switch and plunged 30 feet from thi overhead structure to a vacant lot The forward end of the car struck : iavy boulder and was split from en Lo end, collapsing into a mass oj wreckage. Of the 12 passengers wli went down with the car, one was kill, ad and the others seriously injured A guard was standing on the fron platform was so badly injured by be ing hurled to the ground that lie is no nxpected to live. Fell in Whiskey Vat. Greenville, S. C.. Special.-Olli Smith. 12 years of age, fell into i teaming vat of mush at a governmen1 iistillery, seven miles from this citi Saturday afternoon and was literalli zooked. He cannot live through th< aight, physicians say. The boy wa; feeding cows from a cool vat and, a 4e watched them eat the boiled con meal, he leaned againet a post, sup posed to proteel the steaming vat. Th post gave way and he fell in, onli bis head and one shoulder being hel above the boiling mass of meal. fou feet deep. When pulled out he dash ed himself in a cool mountain strean in the hope of easing the pain. Wher bis clothing was removed most of th< skin came with it. 17 Washouts Near Roanoke. Roanoke, Va., Special.-The train on the Norfolk & Western Railwa, west of Roanoke are badly delaye< as the result of washouts along th< line. It was reported that ther< were 17 washouts between Roanok< and Bluefield. Of this number, li of them are said to be between Blue field and Lurich on the New rivel division, and two others are near Mar icn. Westbound passenger train No 3, which left Roanoke was caught i: an onrush near Lurich and stood fo: two hours in five feet of water. Hung to City Scales. Hopkinsville, Ky.. Special.-A mol f .300 men, early Sunday morning took Ei-nest Baker, a negro. from th< eounty jail and hianged him from: heam of the cite sen!as in the r-entei of the city. Baiker sittempted. Sal urday night, a criminal assault o: Miss Mary Gentry. aged 18, whor be knocked down and dragged by th< heels into an allev. Her screams at tracted neighbors anid the negro fie but later was captured by oflicers. Thi mob's work was so secretly do0ne tha the prosiners in the jail next to Bak er did not know of the lynching uin til morning. Mishaps in Fog at :Brunswick. Brunswick, Ga. Special-The steam er Hessie, plying betwecen Brunswiel a:2d Darlen, was sunk in five feet o: water off St. Simon pier. Fortunate ly the accident occurred in shallov water and the crew and passenger: were not in any great danger. Th< Ffessie was returning from Darnei anad in feeling her way through th< dense fog struck an obscure piling Train Kills Two. Greenville, S. C., Specia.-Carrol Hall, a negro boy, was killed by Southern train here The boy was o1 his way home from school and wa holding an umbrella, which probabl; prevented him from seeing the ap proaching train. Preston Crawford a mill opera tiv from Easley, was run over and kille, by the Southern's fast train fror Yew York to New Orleans. The ac( cident occurred a mile north of th station and his body was brought t t:2e city on the pilct of the locomo t:.ve to which he was fastened. 5 Years on th~e Roads Wadesboro. Special.-Hery Riel ardson, a negro who claimed to rep resent a New York Iirmt and who wa arrested some time ago on a warrma sworn ouit by three neroes living nea Wadeshoro, on the charge of .btain ing mronev tinder false pretence, wa secntenced by Judgre Moore to fiv years at hard labor on the count; roaus. Deep Water For Brunswick. Washington. Special -The Secre tary of War has transmitted to th House a letter from the chief of en gineers with reports of a prelimninar examination and survey of Brinswic Harbor, Ga. The board of engineer who reviewed the reports stated tha tne "improvement to a depth of 3 feet at mean high water throughou thbe harbor'' should be undertake: and recommends adoption of the pre jet as proposed by the district office; DEATH LI LARGER Practically All on Board the Valencia Went Down SCENES WERE lEARTBRLAKING Thrilling Stories of the Sea Tr.gedy On The Rocks Near Cape Beale On Monday. \'iltorila. B. C.. Speti al.-Tie fatil wreck of lie steamer Valencia. which :>urred( oi the rocks of Cape B'eale last week was one of the most tra-ie ror of a few years ago. A vague hope was entertained that some of the passengers and crew who were not taken ofJ may still be alive, but it is feared that the death list will reavu 110. Twenty-two sur rivors have been accounted for. A special dispatch received from Pachena telegraph hut reports the steamer Salvor and whaler Orion and another steamer. believed to he the Citv of Toneka. off the mouth of Darling river. A small boat from the Salvor tried to get through the surf to make a landingg and sucor the sur vivors there, but failed. The boat returned to the steamer. The surf will not be navigable for several days. I The survivors at Darling river are from boats No. 2 and No. 5 of the Valencia. They report that 15 men started from the steamer in boat No. 2. It capsized, and seven of its oc cupants were washed ashore. The other eight perished. All wore life preservers. Boat No. .~ left the wreck with six or seven on board. It was also capsized. and only two. Rich lev and Bunker. the former a fire man and the latter a passenger bound to Seattle made the land. The wife and two children of. F. F. Bunker went down before his eves. Bluejackets to the Rescue. The tui- Lorne. sent out by the Puget Sound Tugboat Company, reached the vicinity of the wreck soon after daylight. having on board a party of British bluejackets from Esquimalt. who went in surfboats to see if any possible survivors could be rescued and recover what they could reach. In an interview at Bamfield Creek Boatswain McCarthy told a story of the Valencia . wreek. He said the steamer had been going by dead reek -niig and overran her distance. Soundings had been made three and four times an hour. The steamer struck at 11 :45 P. M., Monday night. abour . amidships. the first officer, quartermaster and a seaman engaged in sounding having 10 minutes be fore got :30 fathoms. Shortly before the steamer struck she was going at half speed. Cap tain JIohnson immediately shouted, "Hard a-starboard!'' to the quarter master and gave orders to sound the bilges. which was done. The steam er did not seem to be making much water. The captain then called to the engineer and asked if the steam er wvas making much wvater. Before the officer's reply firemen began clam bering up from the fire room. telling the engineers on the companionway she was tiling up. Captain JIohnson rang. for full speed astern and made for the b)each. The propeller had madie only a few revolutions wvhen the vessel struck and listed to port. Captain .Johnson was on the bridge when the vessel struck, with the see oid ollicer. He ran down andl gave orders to have two of the seven boats lowered to the saloon (leek rail. In staitly the passengers crowded to the rail and overerowded the boats. Dur ing the excitement they cut whatever lies they could lay hands on. The davits broke about the same time the lines were cut. and both boats were smashed at the sides of the vessel, throwing out the passengers and crew in them. The crew threw lines out and succeeded in getting about six passengers thrown out of the boats on board again. The boats when lost were mostly filled with1 wo men and children. Life Raft Crushed. One very sad incident .was wit nessed. A lady and gentleman with a little tzirl tried to get into a boat. The father succeeded and the mother triedl to pass the child, but a wave struck her and washed the child from her arms. The ebild was lost before her eves. One lift raft was also loered. but it was dashed to pieces. After this four boats succeeded in ~getting away from the ship. all full of passengr1. This left one boat and two life rafts. The captain, af ter conullting~ with the mate. asked Botswvain Mc~arthy to take charge. whch lhe did. and called for volun ters andl the five sailors who reached shoe in safety resp~onded. The cap tan instructed them to pull along the beach and tind a place to gect ashore. They landed at 1 :10 P. M.. Tuesday and madle Cape Beale at 3 P. M. Before making Cape Beale they tried to get back to the vessel by the beach. but could not do so. During the excitemeiit Captain .Johni son was cool and calm and al the crew were at their stat ions. The res eued1 sailors cannot give the light ehouse keeper at eflale too much Scredit for the manner in which they were treated. 100 Miles in 75:40 2-5. Ormond-Daytona Beach. Fla., Spec i al.-With the tire of one rear wheel on the bare rim at top speed and Mcheered by thousands on thme beach side, Clifford Earp, in a 90-horse-pow. Ser English car, broke the world 's Srecord for 100 railes Saturday after Unoon, making the dlistance in one hour 15 minutes and 40 2-5 seconds. The Sformer world record, made by Fletch er last year on ,the same course, was one hour, 18 minutes and 24 seconds. BOMB THROWN IN H1OUS[ Deadly Missile is Hurled Through) Second-Story Window of House in Which 22 Persons Were Asleep, Creating Havoc and Rendering a I Sick Woman Insane. Mani t&w1)4y111) 1 32 iwi t h . 4ugf arl\ Sundlay minm_- ,exploded iind tore away the rear pai of the house. blow iug out the floors and the rear wall. Twentv-two persons were asleep in tl t 0 t~1 9 a p son Hotel, one ot the leading public houses in this city early Saturday morning. The fire started a few min utes before 2 o'clock and the flames rapidly communicated to various parts of the structure. A large num ber of guests were in the hotel and those who were in the upper part of the building had little chance to es cape by the stairways. The firemen at 2:30 o'clock found the dead bodies of six women in the top floor of the hotel. Crazy Ex-Policeman's Acts. Peoria, Ill.. Special.-Charles Har wood, a former policeman, thought to be insane, entered police headquar ters and with a revolver held up Chief Kenney and seven officers for 15 min utes while he cursed them and thret cned to shoot the entire crowd. He snapped a cartridge, but it did not discharge. He then backed out of the station and escaped. An hour later Harwood entered the home of Mrs. Montgomer, whom he knocked down with the but of a revolver.. He then entered his own home, taking a shot gun and a revolver, and barricaded himself. Saturday night, Harwood compelled his wife to disrobe, and thea he drove her naked into the street. Later he attempted to take the life of his children. Alabama Nail Mill Burns. Birmingham, Special-The nail mill of the Southern Steel Company, form erly known as the Alabama Wire and Nail Company, controlled by the Messrs. Schuelers, was destroyed by fire at Ensley, entailing a loss be tween $70,000 and $90,000. Adjacent property valued at millions was jeop ardized but hard work on the part of firemen prevented its spread. Guilty of Poisoning Bride. Abbeville, Ala., Special.-The jury in case of Walter Nordan returlned a verdict of gilty and fixed his punish ment at life imprisonment. Nordan is a prominent young merchant of Abbeville. His bride of three weeks lied suddenly in September, 1902, and it was found that her death was due to strichnine poisoning. Decide for Lock Canal. Washington, Special.-The Isth mian Canal commission met Saturday and concluded its consideration of the report of the board of consulting engineers with respect to the type of canal that should be constructed. While no officeial announcement is made with reference to the commis sion's report, there is good reason to believe that they have recommended the construction of a lock canal wid ani S5-foot level, practically following the recommendations of the minority of the consulting engineers. Slocum's Captain Guilty. New York, Special.-Captain Wil liam H. Van Schaiek was found guil tv of criminal negligence in failing to hold fire drills on the steamer Gen eral Slocubm, which he commanded in June, 1904, when the steamer burned with the loss of over 1.000 lives. He was immediately sentenced to teun years' imprisonment by Judge Thomas. of the United States District 'ourt. Excited Over Report. Washington, Special.-The 'follow ing cablegram has been received by the Secretary of War from Gener:d Ide, at Manila: "Natives much dis turbed by cable stating Ambaseoi Wright has beeni authorized to n'oo tiate sale of islands to hJ:, Authentic denial from von in useful.'' Secretary Taftr "The cable statement referr your cablegram has not vestige of truth. It is not only true but absurdly so.'' ~GOOD R OA D S. Covernment and Wazon Utsada. @j m1': e:;ra hFo derail ermeth:! h(2 benmak uipon wvhich tis has been'1 perm1fiss~ile is that the improveent:or i::sportO zion llitis i.; a -atter o' vAia puis lie coem'. a'd that th1e wei l w get enalgh good therefriom to morc than warrant the expenditures. The acceptance of the soundness of this ntention must carry with it the en rsement of Government aid in the nstruction and improvement of agon roads. These highways afford ansportation facilities which, after .1, most directly affect and come clos st home to the greatest number of eople. The produce which forms so rge a part of the f;eight carried by he railroads must first be hauled by ragons from the farms.. This is a large em in the aggregate, very much larg r than is generally appreciated, be ause so widely distributed and be use each. individual haul, taken by -elf, is a small affair. Thl General 7overnment is. supposed to have an in erest in the welfare of all the people nd a willingness to improve and pro ote it whenever and wherever possi le. If this view:' obtains. the General overnment cannot long withhold its id to road improvement along the line f the Brownlow-Latimer bill now be ore Congress. for certain-I wagon oad conditions affect more people han any and all other internal im royement projects. The main argu ent in favor of river and harbor im rovements is that they promot6 the general welfare, and that the improve ments entail an expense too heavy to be borne by the people of the localities most directly interested, and hence wonld never be made if the Govern ment refused to foot the bills. The same arguments apply with equal force to the improvement of the public highways; It is equally certain that his great work will remain undone, as it has through a century of our his tory. if the whole burden of the ex pense is left to be carried by the farm ing classes of the States. The farmers are the producers of the wealth of the country. preserving ,the balance of trade in our favor year by year. Sec retary Wilson has just given us some astounding figures as the result of agriculture for the year 1905. The people who .create this vast national wealth are certainly entitled to the nation's consideration. The enormous cost of bad roads to the farmers is not only destructive of the profits that should be saved to them, but is sick ening to agricultural ambition and dis heartening to increased effort. Bad roads form the greatest menace to farm life, and by their hurtful influ ence are driving young men from rural communities to the cities. Nothing can be more harmful to the, national welfare. The farm home is the bul wark of the republic. Everything pos sible should be done to encourage the farmers of the land. Nothing that this great Government can do would be so profitable at this time as to extend its aid to highway improvement, and nothing that .the people can do for themselves is more important than to demand of Congress the enactment into law of what is known as the BrownlowLatimer Good Roads bill. This paper urges the measure as one most essential to the national well-be ing, and we hope our readers will in stantly take the matter up by personal letters and petitions to our Senators and Representatives in Congress. Hon. W. P. Brownlow will be pleased to send a copy of the bill to any oge who writes for it.-Brooklyn~ Uptowr Weekly. Hard Roads Across Jersey. 'he final completion of the New BrunswickFranklin Park macadam road and the Kingston extension road closes two important gaps in what is now an almost continuous strip of macadam from Newark to Camden, via Elizabeth, Rahlway. New Bruns wick, Franklin Park, Princeton and Trenton. It gives the automobilist a stone road direct to Princeton, through an interesting and pretty country, and shortens materially the distance be tween New York and Philadelphia,. The two strips of macadam lately com pleted will obviate the necessity of going to Trenton by way of the Cran bury turnpike, a roundabout route, which has been the popular one, how ever because of the good road. The Franklin Par"' road and the Kingston strip were line' roads between Somer set and Middlesex counties, and it was difficult to get concentrated action looking to their improvement. Free holder .Tames DeHart. of North Bruns wick Township, Middlesex County. whose constituency included residents along the Franklin Park road, has been working for years to secure the improvement which was cons'ummated when, at a joint meeting of the Free holders of Middlesex and Somerset counties. the roads were accepted. Temptations of a Valet. "'Us valets has our temptations. ir," he said. "Only yesterday, when I was to pay Mr. Henny.'s tailor bill, you'd ought to have heard w-hat the manr ager said-to me. -He says, says he, handing me a five-dollar note: .'Why,' he says, 'this here bill ain't iarf big enough for a man of Mr. Hen ny's position,' he says. 'Look a here. my man.' he says. 'the truth is that you don't brush your marster's clothes hard enough .' "'No'?' says I. "-No.' says he. 'And now.' he says. 'i'll put you up in a wrinkle that'll put .9 a year in your pocket if you use it rigt.' Then he brought from his office a stick all roughened on the end. -- erub this here rough stiek,' he ays. 'over the elbows of your marster's. 'oats.' he says. 'and now and then to'h up his trousers about the knees a bit.. Itl do wondcers. vsed right. It on:zht to double hie a: nal i1-.1 and if it does there's $.30 a y'ar' in It for "I tool: the M->k" alid,