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THE THAI CHECK E7lt j Suffering Workmen Appeal to Washinerton Authorities For Relief. | IT IS SPREADING EAST AND WEST ! j Tii? Trade Check, Cued Originally la Lumber Camp*, Is Now Being Adopted 1 by Business Men In All Parts of tbi Conntry?How Laboring People Ar? ; Affected by It?Bills in Congreas. I Washington, D. C. (Special).?Tho Secra j Service Bureau is beiDg bombarded dailj 1 with an ever-increasing flie of letters beg j King for official notion to abate the trade- j eheck evil, wliich i9 growing rapidly. Th# bureau Is alarmed at the state of things re vealM by these letters, but is powerle33 to remedy it. The trade check system, which origin ated in the lumber and mining camps o the Northwest, is spreading southward and eastward, and has; now got as far as In< diaoa, which is becoming honeycombed j with trade-check communities. Tbe vi<j i tims of it are unable to And any way ou* except to appeal to the Treasury Department, and the morning mail is full of sucb | appeals every day. ! One case which is a fair sample of these .ti ravaainri n latter received by th< ! Secret Service Bureau a few days "ago. The writer was a woman. Her husband ?as sick, and she had no provisions in the J bouse. For some reason she could not pet them at the company's stores, and she | eou'.l not buy trade checks whioh are ; >ot redeemable in money, and which i would not pass auywhere except at | the company stores. He bad all bis sav- j Ings, enough to support tiiem in comfort, In trade checks, and she could not buy pound of flour. These corporations issue trade checks tc their employes instead of money. The trade cheoks" are redeemable, not in money, ! but in goods, at the office of the company. The result of the system is that at the end l of a man's employment he has no savings: nothing to show tor his work but trade shecks, and is penniless. If he refuses tc take them and demauds money he is discharged. He can sue, of course, but it is eedless to say that that remedy is not often invoked. The Secret Service people say that the trade check system, originally confined to lomber and mining camps. Is spreading to all sorts of industries. In agricultural re gions in the Northwest tne country siurcs liave adopted trado checks in dealing with the farmers of the surrounding country. It work? well enough while the farmers confine themselves to exchanging checks for I goods at the stores, but the cheoks look ! Hko money, and it is impossible to make ; the more Ignorant farmers understand that Ihey are not money. The result is that trade checks are exchanged with other j monoy, and pass from hand to hand, and poor and Ignorant people are continually finding themselves heavy losers, Businessmen are also complaining to the Secret Service Bureau, declaring that in legions where the trade check has comc Into vogue it is impossible for any man tc continue doing business in competition with the company stores. Since the opeuing of Congress the West- l rn delegations have beon flooded with I petitions for relief from this system. Minnesota is a hotbed of It, aud Senator Nelson of that State, has Introduced a bill making It criminal to issue such checks. A similar MJ! has been introduced in the House. MRS. PALMER SAILS FOR PARIS. Gom to Attend to Her Duties a* a Com mlsaloner to the Exposition^ H*w Yobk Citt (Special).?Mrs. Pottej Palmer, of Chicago, who was appointed b} President McKiuley one of the CommlS' loners of the United States to the Pari J - Exposition, sailed for France to attend tc ! V5 f ' ' Mils. POTT EE PAL1IEB, vBhc will look after the interests of American women during the Paris Exposition.) lh? preliminary work of her position. Mrs. E'Bimur win iujk. anut iuo luioiuoio \ji ? Imerican women who may attend the Ex(raitlou. LIEUT. CILLMORE IN WASHINGTON. <So Calls on the President and Tells the Story of His Capture and Escape. 7' Washington, D. C. (Special).?Lieutenant Commander J. C. Glllmore, TJ. S. N. whose captivity iu the hands of the Filllfloos made bim an object of Intense Interest to the American people for eight months last year, arrived in Washlcgtor from San Francisco. He was accompanied across the conti-fcent by Mrs. Glllmore, who went to Sac Prancisco to meet him on hi9 arrival there on the transport Solace. Immediately after reporting to the Bureau of Navigation Glllmore paid his respects to Secretary Long, who gave htm a warm greet ing. At the Secretary's suggestion Mr. Oillmore accompanied him to the White House. Most of the ten or fifteen minutes that Mr. Gillmore spent In the President's efflco was given up to a recital of the story of his captare and escape. In Honor of General Guy V. Henry. An order has just been issued by the War Department at Washington designating the military poet at Cayey, Porto Rloo, is Henry Barracks, In honor of the late (Brigadier-General Guy V. Henry, who waa ailltary Governor of Porto Rloo from Dejember 5,1893, to May *8; 1899, and who died an October 9,1899? Vacancies in Lower Grades of the Array. There are no^'so many vacancies In the iower grades ofvt&e United States Army :hat it will be "Impossible to fill them alt without a larger-number of appointments from the r-vnlcj and ctvll life. Death ftCji Trolley Wreck. A trolley car leaving Bradford, Peon., for Olean burned out Its motor on the steep oKava t??3F Rrvrtt nhftnt five miles ^rom Bradford. The brakes became useless and the car, fashing down grade at jerriflc speed, left tile traok, flying a hundred feet, completely wrecking itself. John Marsh, of Bradford, was killed, and levon others injured. Mora .Plans are proposed in Waablngton by which the number of naval offtoers may be Bcreased; one is to aborted tb? eMrse at innupolis, another to allow each Senator to appoint a cadet. jTHE NEWS EPITOMIZED Wniihlnaton Item*. The briefs on both sides iu the Clark investigation were submitted to the Senate Committee. The new Philippine Commission held its I Urst meeting iu Washington. Tbe President decided the controvarsy over po3se39lon of the Tortuous in favor of the Navy. Rear-Admiral Benjamin F. Day voluntarily applied for retirement from the active list of the Navy, and his name was placed on the retired list. The official correspondence in regard tc the "open door" in China, with copies o the replies made by the Powers to the invitation of the United State?, was sent tc Congress by Secretary Hay. | During the month of April seventy-three additional postofflces will inaugurate tha system of registering letters by carriers, i Opinion in official circles is that only by j strong naval demonstration in the Orient :an the United States maintain the ''open ! door" In China. Secretary Hay says he does not expec1 i the American-Canadian Commission to re! assemble soon. | Commander Edward Taussig is to b( i sent to Manila in April to take commani' I of the gunboat Yorktown, In place of Com aiander Sperry. ; The President ha3 :53ueJ exequaturs tc forty-four Consular officers representing foreign Governments in the United States, j Porto Rico and the Philippines. It was shewn in a House debate that the | mails are carrying "Sapho" at one cent 3 j pound, whereus Bibles pay eight cents. ! Secretary Root announced that all appli! cations for Cape Nome gold-dredging per nits would be granted. Our Adopted Island*. | The Senate Commission in Cuba sailed from Havana for the United 8tates. Filipinos planned in February, 1993, tc I flght the United States it independence ; was not granted. A further reduction of the army of occu pationin Cuba will be made shortly. The mother of Aguinaldo is still undeiJ guard in Manila. She is not permitted tc [ hold communication with the people ol , her race. Governor-General Wood is considering | the advisability ot taxing the idle estutes I of Cubans:living in Paris, London aud I Madrid, so as to make their owners brinj; ; them into cultivation or sell them to meii ; who will cultivate them. General Hughes reports the natives pf | Panay, P. I., to be restless and further^ campaigning against them will be neces?1 I sary. A complete financial statement of the : Cuban Treasury, showed a total balance on j February 28 of $2,044,754. Prominent New Yorkers are preparing to ! build two modern and palatial hotels hi j Havana for the accommodation of the many tourists who visit Cuba in the winter. Domestic. Twentj-four of the smaller corporations I operating franchises in Greater New Yorfc were valued at $17,000,000 by the .State i Tax Commission. I II 1ms boen practically settled that Phllj adelphia will give only $75,000, Instead of I the 1100,000 pledged, to the National ReI publican Committee for the convention. The Yandalia line in Indiana has issued | orders prohibiting the Union News Com; pany from selling "Sapho" on its trains or in the stations along its route. | The finding of a deep gash in the head of ! William Henderson, of Brooklyn, who died | in Florida, and whose death was ascribed I to heart disease, has aroused suspicion, | and an investigation is to be made. | The Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Kentucky is carrying out its threat to move ! its important interests from the State be| cause of the political war against the corj poration. . '. \ Ben Davis, Assistant Postmaster at Memj phis, Teun., quit his Government job in disgust. A few days ago he wad called to | the telephone. He left the safe open and a robber stole a large sum, including Davis's savings for a year or more and 950 of Government money, which Davis made good. Charles H. Knight, of Exeter, N. H., assignee of the Epplng Saviugs Bank, offers to pay fifty per cent, to all depositors who will take it in snch of the bank's securities as they may select, at their face value# with decimal interest. Three firemen were drowned while fighting the blaze whloh destroyed a large factory building In New York City. i Damapc? from an Ice gorge, just broken/ . in the Raisin River, at Monroe, Mich., is i estimated at $80,000. J. B. Schweitzer, a yonng artist at Reno, Nev., has fallen heir to $500,000, left by an j uncle In India. I Nearly two hundred Fins arrived in Philadelphia. They declared their people are fleeing from the cruelty of Russia's Czar. The transport Sumner sailed from Now York City for the Philippines, havlog on board more than a thousand cavalry, in- i funtry and artillery recruits, and a large number of civilians. . < A lady In Philadelphia hasglven $5000 to Booker T. Washington to add to the endowment fund of the Tuskagee Normal and Industrial Institute, at Tuskagee, Alii. The name of the donor has not been announaed. v' The Democratic Governor of Kentucky summoned troops to Fraukfort to preserve the peace during the trial of the prisoners accused of being implicated In the killing j of Goebel. Irish opposition to pro-British sentiment { Las resulted in the dropping of the Sag- | lish history from th?* Hut of books for supplementary reading in Chicago public schools. ' Foreign. The National Liberal Association of Great Britain at Its annual meeting protested igalnst destroying two free aud indepenlent nations, "the Orange Free State and :he 8outh African "Republic. Colonel Baden-Powell has armed the naives at Mafeking and seat them against :he Boer positions. The affairs of Chief Clarence, of the Mosjaito Territory, the pensioner of the Brit- i ah Government, who is belug sued for lebt, have'assumed such an acute stage chat he has appealed to the Government for Assistance. Mrs. Steyn, the wife of the President of :he Orange Free State, has been In Scotland since last summer. The German Reichstag has asked the j ' Bundesrath to araeud the constitution so as to permit members to receive a salary. Nicaragua is preparing for war with I Costa Rica. Salvador will side with Costa Rica in the event of hostilities. The Jamaican Legislative Council aDproprialed 63,500,000 to cover Government jxpeuses during the current year. Ttte people arejjreatly dissatisfied. Serious disturbances are repotted from the northern part of China; a Russian fleet has arrived at Chemulpo, and the English cruiser Terrible has left Durban for Chinese waters. A British punitive expedition against "head huuters" In the Pacific resulted ir the capture of a number of cannibals. It is reported from Lorenzo Marques j that Pretoria Is prepared to stand a siegt ot two years. j The Norwegian three-masted scUoonei Tritou has been wrecked In Dunkirk France, and ten o! her crew drowned. Tlio Transvaal Government has annulleu' the Bolgian Hallway concessions iu South j Africa. Grave complications are probable, j The Mexican Government lias abolished the practice ot allowing a portiou of tht fines collected In custom bouses to go tc the employes. The Danish Cabinet intimated to the King Us desire to reslgu because of the at tltude of the Folkething toward the Government's laxatlon proposals. War between Great Britain nnd Franc* may be very remote, but there Is good rea son to believe that the British cabinet thinks It enough ot a possibility to glv? considerable thought to the subject. The London Times correspondent a Bloemfontein cables: "Mr. Kruger has is sued a proclamation annexing the Fre< State to the Transvaal. Mr. 8teyn immediately issued a oounter proclamation BOERS ARE AGAIN ACTIVE Free Staters Seize a Farm Between Kimberley and Paardeberg. 3UARD ON DRAKENSBERG RANGE. - - - - - ?-- a At a Meeting o( me Airiitanuoi ?i/"? < Resolution Was Pasted Favoring Boer Independence?The Rainy Season Has Begun in South Africa?Forward Movement of Goneritl Roberl* DelayedLondon (By Cable).?A meeting of the Bond was held at Paarl and was attended oy several members o! the Cape Assembly, [t passed resolutions regretting that the Cape Government was not consulted before the war, and declaring that any set:lement which did not respect the independence of the republics would be detrimental to the highest interests of the British Empire. Mr. Hargrove, the chief speaker, prophesied another war within sis years unless Independence was granted, ind Assemblyman Marais characterized the war as a continuation of the Jameson raid. A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle from Kimberley pays: "Four hundred Free Stater3 have taken possession of the road between Kimberley and Paardeberg. They have seized a farm near Pandamsfontem. where a number ol army horses had been sent to rnsc and graze. It is rumored that their object Is to raid the railway by way of Jacobsdal." According to a dlspatoh from Maseru, Basutoland, a small British force com r :?? V* I VIEW"OF BLOEMFONTEIN*. CAPi: manded by Colonel Pllcher entered Lady brand after driving in ttie iioer outposts. A. considerable body of Boers then attacked the British, who retired after capturing the Landdrost. The British had three men wounded and the Boers had eight men wounded.' It is understood that the Boers are trying to check the British while their convoy of wagons pushes on to Seneka. A dispatch to the Dally Telegraph from Ladysmith says: "There are about 20,000 Boers guard ing the nine passes over the Drakensberg Range. They are led by Commandant Do ? Beer, of Harrlsmlth, and consist of Free Staters. "It Is reported that the Boers hare moved their big guns from Blggarsberg, as it is net intended to make a stand there." The Cape Town correspondent of the Daily News says: "It toi-lmprobable that the advance from Bloemfonteln will be made for another month. General Clements is moving to Bloemfonteln in four columns. When -Lord Roberts begins the march northward General Gatacre will be left in charge of Bloemfonteln. . "The Colonial Government has ordered the Cape^Volunteers to withdraw south of the Orange River for fear of accentuating rnol*I fueling." Advices from Cape Town says: "Rains are general throughout South Africa, anil rlyers whloh' have been dry for years are being flooded. Many camps are transformed Into swamps. This will still more militate against a British advance." The War Office has issued another table of British losses, showing an aggregate of 16,652, wliloh does not Include 4004 who ha7e been Invalided home. Troops Ainuse Themselves. London (By Cable).?A dispatch to the Dally Mall from Mafeklng describes the humorous side of the siege. It appears that the colonials set up bottles, inviting the Boers to shoot at them, and then chaff the enemy when the shots go wide. Auother trick of the colonials Is by persistent concertina playing to lure the Boers, excited by curiosity, to raise their heads from the trenohes, \5rhen they are promptly sniped. Brnye Sortie From ItlAtekinfi;. London (By Cable).?A dispatch from I Mafeklng says: "AH well. Our patrols are aotlve. We rushed one of the Boer intreiiohmants and effectively fusilladed an j other. We captured twenty-six li9ad of oattle and killed twelve Boers. Our loss was two killed aad three wounded." Colonies Against Boor Independence. i Stdmk, N. 8. W. (By Cable).?The Australian Premiers have joined In a cablegram to Ur. Chamberlain declaring that It Is undesirable to conclude peaoe In South Africa except on terms guaranteeing tbe absolute supremacy of B^tlsti rule. OTIS'S COMMAND DIVIDED. Four Military Department* Created in the Philippines to Lessen HU Labors. ? ' T* r\ /T! ?1 _ 1 \ WASHINGTON, 1/, \j? ^Opouioi^.?oouiowu) ' Boot lias taken a step long contemplated r in the administration of the Philippines by directing the creation of an entirely new military division to be known as the "Division of the Pacific,"embracing all of the Philippine arohlpelago. The division ia turn is to be divided into four military departments, as follow?: The Department of Korthern Luzon, commanded by Generfcl MucAjthur; the Department of Southern Luzon?1 commanded by Oeneral Bates; the D?partmeut of the Vlscayos, commanded by General Hughes, and the Departmerit'of Mladanab and Jo:o, commanded by General Cobbe. " , Mujor-General Otis will retain the supreme command over these departments as division commander, ocoupylng toward them a position corresjto&dlug closely co that held by General Miles toward the military departments in the United States. Starved on a Lonely Island. The sloop Dawn has returned to Santa Barbaru, Cal., from San Nicholas Island with ft story of suffering and death from starvation. The boat went over to bring back three Chinamen, who had been on the island for six months gathering and curing abaiones. Three months ago an unknown sloop from San Pedro called ut the island. Iu the absence of the Chinamen the visitors stole everything eatable lu the camp and put out to sea. One ol tbe Chinese died about a month ago and the other two, when the Dawn arrived, were too weak to move. Bnnr.Krltlah War Not??. The rainy season has begun in Natal. V General Roberts promised his men t<n lead them into Pretoria. India's subscriptions to the war ia&d have reached the sum of 4250,000. The Boers are building new court houses in Pretoria, in spite of the present war. Seven hundred and fifty men Jtfbo were besieged tn Ludysmlth are wrl^&htstqridl Millions of tons of maize ai$ffcl)6>T?r Arc being sent to South Africa frowtheArgoatine for the British cavalry. Rhodes says the Boer fofo# new ? oeeded 30,000, and was xigfferated.to Ml SHtll MFESSEP Testimony Adduced at the Trial or Reporters in Camden, N. J. !HE MADE AN EMPHATIC DENIALEva Wood, Ell Shaw* Former Sweetheart. Testified That lie Confessed Having; Murdered His Mother and j Grantfmother?.1 Detective and a Fo I liceman SaoDorted Her Story. Camdzn, N. J. (Special).?Sensational testimony was adduced at the trial of William H. Hay and Howard K. Sloan, rormorly reporters for a Philadelphia newspaper,on the charge of conspiring to injure thoj reputation of Eugend J. Darnell, of thisj city. The defendants caused to be pub-' llshed a confession alleged to have been! made to them by Eli Shaw, of Camden, in which he admitted killing his mother and grandmother. Shaw had been tried twjce and acquitted of the charge. The alleged confession Implicated Da>neil as an accessory after the fact. He was arrested on a warrant sworu to by 8Ican, but proved an alibi and was released. Shaw repudiated the story and Darnell caused tUe arre?t of the reporters on the charge of conspiracy. Hiss Eva Wood, the former Camden schoolteacher to whom. Shaw was engaged to be married, and who was with him In Philadelphia at the home of a friend on the night that the story of the confession was printed, testified that hb had admitted . to her on the morning the paper appeared that he had told the reporters what was k I rAL Of THE ORKUfQE^WS STATE. written, but that he die! not think they wo?ld publish it. , She said that early In the morning she saw Shaw with a paper and he read to her ,the story and asked what she thought of ana sue tesuiieu iaui sue luou up^oaicu lu him for her sake if not for his own that he return to Camden and deny the statement made. She said that Shaw admitted to her that "every statement made was true." * Cbaflea A. D. Miller, who says he is a det active, and who at the time the murders occurred was a saloonkeeper, also testified that Shuw had confessed to him that he murdered the woman. He admitted that Shaw owed him $35, and that it was during a dispute over the nonpayment of this sum that he accused Shaw of the crimes and that the admission was made. He recited to the Court a circumstantial oonjecture as to how Shaw committed th e crimes as he had pictured It to Shaw. "You killed your mother flr st," he testified he said, "the(i you choke dyour grandmother in the entryway. S he staggered through the door, crossed over to the bed, olutched the footboard and reeled over to a ch;tir by the window la which she fell, and died." To this' accusation witness said Shaw replied: "That Is true; who told you?" A Camden policeman, James Hartman, testified that he was present, but not visible to Shaw in the business place of Miller, when the above accusation ana'couression were made. Shaw was called in rebuttal. He admitted being in Mlller'tt place. When asked if be had made the statement credited to him be. replied: "Not to my knowledge." This reply oaused astir in the courtroom, for it was not a Sat denial. Shaw then denied in detail the testimony given by Miss Wood. The testimony of the four witnesses was listened to with great attention by the crowd In the courtroom. When the case was closed former Judge Carrow, associated with the prosHcutor, started to sum up. He scored Miss Wood in a bitter manner, and declared that when Shaw tired of her she became embittered ncrainst bim and gave the testimony she did out of a spirit of revenge. While Judge Carrow was speaking the Court took a recess, and just after Judge Armstrong left the beach Miss Wood ran up to former Judge Carrow end denouueed him.as being "no man" to speak of her a3 ha hurl .TufJce Onrrow told her to eo away. 8he raised her hand and tried to slap him ia the face, bat was prevented by the other lawyers. DEVELOPMENT IN KENTUCKY CASE. I'cwem Held For Grand Jury and Oth ei Defendant* Waive Kxau)Ination. Fbankfo rt, Ky. (Special).?The fourth day of the trial of Caleb Powers, the Re* publican Secretary of State, began with the courtroom cleared of all persons except the attorneys, newspaper representatives and officers of the court. Colonel Campbell said the commonwealth denied Governor Taylor's right to Issue a pardon at the time it was granted. Former Governor Brown then moved that the prisoner be dismissed upon theevideuce. The motion was overruled. Bail was asked for. Judge Moore said: "It is not my belief that Powers fired the shot which killed Governor Goehel, but from the evidence it is my opinion that he was connected with the oonsplraoy to kill bim. 1 suan ttiererore oruer cue imsuuoi be held over without ball to the Franklin county grand jury, that the case may be further Investigated." Culton's couusel announced that his client would waive I1I3 examlnating trial, and by agreement with tbe attorneys, Culton wilt remain at home with his sick wife, under private guard. , In the case of Captain John Davis, the defence stated tbat the defeudhnt would waive examination, and that An agreement bad been entered Into that ttftl should be fixed for Davis at $5000. Tlui*Court than entered an order admitting Davis to ball. i Parcels Poat Treaty With NIm^u. ^jOuIs F. Corea, Minister from Njfearagna and Postmaster-General Charles Emory Smith, at Washington, signed the parcels post convention, Into which this country and Nicaragua entered several months ago. The conditions are the same as tab?* of the German treaty. s Buiilsn Squadron la Korea. . A Russian squadron has arrived at Chemulpo, Korea. It !s believed this presages a demand for a concession of land at Masanpbo, a small harbor twenty miles > south of Cbe-nnlpo, and Is arousing ureasy comments in Japan. ' The Labor World. The WO employes of the Warrenville, 9. cotton: mill are on a strike for higher wages. The strike of the coal miners In Bohemia and Silesia, Austria, has collapsed owing to the lacfof funds. Twenty-five arlrls employed in the Wyomt??? at ilia Wilkenhnrrn log YttUCjr 4JBVU iuma, -- , i Penn., are on a strike. " The hardest-worked persons in Bavaria Are thf waiter-Rlrls. They are busy fourr tefen to sixteen hours a day, and never get ;* day off. The organized tight-work coopers of New GUAM TO BE FORTIFIED Island is Considered Not Less Strat epical Than Hawaii Naval Bane and a Coaling; Station Planne< j at a Cost of Several Million* For Our PacJtic Possession. WAsaixoroy, D. C. (Special),?Tlie aava authorities have decided that Guarr itrate;?lcally la of scarcely less value that Hawaii, aad have begun the preparatior of plana to make it one of the moat lm portant naval bases ou the Pacific. Tht projected improvements will involve an ex i Orrp M. 1 ' ^ ; *#*/ GOVEBNOS'S HOUSE AT AQANA, GUAM. penditure of several millions for a break water at Port San Lais ci'Apra, a coaling wharf and repair shops, and shore batteries for protection against assault. The Department has just received com plete surveys of the hurbor aud port of the island with exhaustive soundings at the port, and is maklug on accurate chart to be used in laying down the public works. The projeot will be perfected by n board to sit in Washington, and an advisory board may be convened at Guam to fur- | nlsh additional Information. Rear-Ad- i mlrnla Pamflir n Ifain n(T \tr(11 nlar? vialf i Guam and make reports before contraction work begins. ? It is proposed to erect on one side of the harbor of Port San Luis d'Apru a coalslied aud wharf of twenty thousand tons capacity. with automatic loading machinery, duplicating the plant now belDg completed at Dry Tortugas. The immediate necessity for this is shown by the fact that all nava! vessels bound across the Pacific are com pelled to call for coal nt Guam, none ol them being able to make Manila or Hour ! Kong after leaving Honolulu with full j bunkers, except through the exercise ol ' extreme economy aud the maintenauce oi their lowest speed. The army trausport service has found that a whole day can be saved on the voyage to Manila by ruuning faster and recoaling at Guam, and those shlp3 will stop there regularly as soon as rapid coaling facilities are provided by the Navy. , General Joseph Wheeler, who visited Guam on his way home from the Philippines, reported v^frongly in favor of making the moscT of the outpost possession. It occupies the same position relative to the iSbina coast that Bermuda do63 tc the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. It1 (8yl506 miles from Manila, 1823 miles Xrom Hong Hong, 1700 miles from Shanghai and 1312 miles from Yokohama. It is much nearer Northern r*hlt\a ??**#} Tnnon tlion (a Mnnilfl with tllft advantage o&bein& la the direct route | from the East to Honolulu and San Francisco. c I DR. yiLLIS ACCUSED OF HERESY. ' Pastor of Plymouth Ohurcli Send* Hit Resignation to the Chicago Presbytery, t BNew York City (Special).?The Rev. Dr. Newell D wight Hlliis, of the Plymouth ! Church, Brooklyn, has sent his resignation to the Chicago Presbytery. This action was taken by him as a result | of the charges ot that body that he had been guilty of heresy and misrepresentation of the creed. illjla^il ll.l REV. DR. 2JSWEIX BWroaBw&3fc-> The heresy charges are Mr. HUlis's public repudljittOttj^gpMA^^^ j ifwij! 1 ,-iiijiii.^JI rhat he would not lack earne?t prow^fi^ :ors, in the event of a trial, is shown tojJaKg utterances of prominent BONDS FOR COUNTR%^ife f The Heavy Demand If or nLlXijr Cotf. j with all the convertible basis for additional clrotiMRp^vBhs Vice- pi Presicieut of a bank. MHralnindreds of out-of-town correspondMBtP^edioted that 11 interior institutional .iflHgpDfe^eard from with bond orderg fof^MSSootlis to comfel. j:| His bank is dvermHffi^fequests from country correapo.n'dflpPMd th?~work of figuring out proflfaBTioss In bond Wnj j furs for small b^tiKM^0li|t6rlfUly to the The AntI-FoT?l)tn Rebel* I both sides wer^lw^''~ ^ bu adred nuM^jjjfte engaged on each aide. .. Dr. Bl^d'8. Dewey* formerly head of % the Katj^peinsane Asylam, Is InMaeund j under iwtmlat In Chicago.' originated the cottage system, ondetf wUtoh lnsaae 7 patlenta were divided Into dfforent classes. I After ierfVlng-Kankakee, Dt -Dywey estab lished a priTate sanitarium la Wisconsin*' 1 Tnrkey Kara American Fork. ; ?' Following the example of Germany, the u Saltan of Turkey has decided to prohibit :he importation of Amerioan pork, aU 1 leging the danger of trlohina. The latest shipments of American sausages to T ur Key have been stopped. i Minor Mention. The United States reoruiting station at | Beading, Fenn., has been closed. Strikes have greatly delayetl tue com j pletion of the Czar's Trans-Siberian Ball i way. i : j The Astoria (Oregon) City Coanoll bar 1 put a bounty on rats us a precaution against j the plague. ! It Is probable that the Civil Servioa Ian will be extended to the dependencies of the ' United States. All zinc rolling mills In Germany have combined to sell their product through a oommon agency. Two Indians from the "Land of HlaWatha" hare visited Longfellow's home In I CwibjMga, Maas. j I t \ A BUI LOSES $145,009. The Merchants' National, of Rutland, Vt., Closes Its Doors. CASHIER CONFESSES HIS GUILT The Capital of the Bank Was Only 8100.000,. and the Cashier's Peculation! Lasted Six Years?He Was Arrested 1b Albany and Taken to Rutland to Fact Charges of Embezzlement. Rutland, Vt. (Special).?With its door9 closed and Its cashier, Charles W. Mussey, In jail after confessing a shortage of $145,300, the Merchants' National Bank of thii city, formerly one of the strongest institutions in the State, was Monday on the verge of ruin./ Unless the stockholders belp to pay off 1351,000 due its innocent depostors, It moat go Into Insolvency. Mussey confessed his Rullt in the early hours of the morning to the entire Board of Directors. He came.back from Albany at the earnest solicitation of a local detective, who traced him to the New York capital when hei&lled to appear before his employers late on Saturday. He remained in olose detention in the ? >- -It J? ( n A janK. ill! UB/, ^iouiiwmj wuwa. o&xpab IU o civil suit brought by the banlc for #50,000 but In the evening the .United States authorities, after an examination into the bank's affairs, formally arrested htm on a obarge of embezzlement and lodged aim in the County jail. ? . Coincident withUussey's confession cam* the closing of the music store of H. A McClure, Jr., the business 1# which, according to the confession offttbe oasbler has been supported wholly er In part; by the funds of the bank.' Mussey's story of his peoalatlons from the bank have a most familiar sound, beginning 09 they did nearly si* years age with a comparatively ?innlj. gum and gradually increasing until the amount was tjali as much again as the oatint itook of the bank?$100,000. . When Musse^iras called before the board and asked for the bank's assets be pat" on a bold face andiDffered to go across the 3treet to the safe deposit for the securities. The direotors waited an hour for him. The cashier went from the bank to bis house, whetfe he tooka few hundred dollars and then left tye cltjy Tfie detectives caught him*ffi^lbanjgaad persuadeS him to return wlttibnt AXHgdttlou papers. Mussey's statemeit-oLgp extent of hli3toa!iup was rece!ve?K^m&jonstematlon. President A. J. Mead ^wKominent business man, and also IstRNflui pf the State, Trust Company, which Jjflfelfcr ;ls n6t affected. He ndmltto^^HKiWOkhbldejrsmight have to be asrtdjBMjf: WA.8Hl>-OTOX,D.C.(Sp?iiaI).?PoUowlnK If the synopsis of the ve^$t^?jr:the conditio* of the Merchants' of Rat' land. Vt.. made to. tnji.- jCoqfroller of tb< Currency under the caJjUgJ^abruary 19 Liabilities?Capital, tlOOM^sarplas And' profits, $3383; due to depositor*, banks and bankers, $351,549; circulation, $21,870. Resources?Loan3 aDd dfcC01U<?,$361.363; other assets, Including^oa?S;/?l'15,480 Assignees Asked For Keeni^f .H.'} Banks Skene, N. H. (SpecIaO.-^HjeBank Com ml93loners have petitlonlKtdr assignee! for the Eeene Guaranty 8?yftfRS Bonk and ilio Keene Five Cent9 ?fcrlnes' Bank [either bank has received deposits of lat< owing to a belief that tboy. had spstalned losses through Western laveatmenta. The Keene Five Cents Savinga '9fWk .owes $1, 149.058, and the Ke*ne OuajMtjr BaTWgi; Bank owes $713,873, ' RABB1 DEAD' He Wan the jp5*forraed Jadalsv Here atfHKnkl ft College. CrNciNSA.Ti.:OMo'j??^)IaO.?Babbf Ifcaas Mayer Wtifc ( ?ekd. He had, nearly reached bfa, oltfhty-flrst birthday, and preparations wo&belng made by the students of the.col&ij.^r which he was the founder and to celebrate the Kubbl Wise vtt-UhWGq Ad?r al tfl3 iifl. brew Uujgp College aria"' from- tbla institji' tI6n .t9taMtes. bave been graduated <vho can now^OS found in every part of tlite years lie was also at I'lc:'? > a- .1 as a.^ lecturer Io3aeruri4,u?oart'B ooase, Jqfy' - Til#. ijtill'tana, lafffe delegation i np'old-fa?hloned covered r^fton's, aodmijrveliv caravans across tb? bv'nbfa ta get away from th? C4rin tfte fl/st 'wfeafc In Jalyv and can take jut W^gior'.ttfewlirbe without Int^nd'toapend tb?.$ek In camp In the .';iVU"?af4-|bl^t^Jeast 600 wagons wil' oonaeirofli-ibe oonntry near Wichita, and M^inaoy.jBore^re expected from other ftfff^OOOotd Outpal la .1900. , Ih r*epon?e to an inquiry made toy BepresenUtl?ea Cashman and Tongue as tc :he probable gold proJuot of Alaska and :be' Klondike daring the nreeent year, Jnlted'8tat'ea Treasurer Boberta at Washington said that It probably would react >30,000,00^, * material increase over List rw.- ', ' ' ' Ht?d Severed by Train. Annie Voiknde, a beautiful 8wls3 girl employed as a governess, quarreled with her iweetbeart and plaoed her head ou a railroad track near Paterson, N. J., calmly waiting until she wns decapitated. Famous Bank Thief Caught. ' James Dnnlap, looked up oa suspicion o! )urgl?ry In Chicago, went to that city sood ifter his release from the penitentiary in Charleston, Mass., where he had been serving a term for Ills participation In the Northampton Bank robbery, in which he tod his confederates secured nearly $1,100,000. When arrested Dunlap had with iimtl23 and a satchel containing safe jlowlng tools. He will be prosecuted fot laving burglars' tools, If no actual robber* tan be charged against him. Mormou Inruloa of Mexico. More than 5000 Mormon Immigrants from Jtah have settled intheStateof Ohlhuaba, klexlco. during the past two months. x * \ .."V L_ GENERAL JOUBERT DEAD. 'iransvaal Commandor-in-Chisf Succumbs to Disease at Pretoria. He Organized the Army of the -South African Republic and Inflicted Many Defeats on the British. Pap-roar*.. Via Lorenzo Marques (By Cable).?Pist Joubert, Vlco-Progident of tUQ<xrausvaai ana ijuuimuuu?uvucu<?ai of the Republic's military forces, died at the age of sixty-eight years and sixty days. He succumbed to an attack of acuta inflammation of the kidneys after a short illness. The whole country is thrown into the deepest gloom by his death. HIS loss is believed to bo irretrievable. The body was takou to the Wakkerstroom district, where It was interred in the family cemetery on u farm he owaed there. Londox (By Cable).?In connection with the announcement of the death of General Joubert it is interesting to note that Sir George White, the British General who commanded.1the garrison which defended Ladysmlth, in a speech at Cape Town declared that Joubert was a soldier and a gentleman, auda brave and honorable opponent. CAREER OF GENERAL JOCBERT. HU Military OenltM Mxde PwiiIW# th? Bo?r Victories Over the Brltl?h. Petrus Jacobus Joubert, bettor known as General Plet Joubert, was born in Cape Colony and was of Huguenot and Dutch descent. When he was seven years old hi? parents moved to the Orange Free State, Where he received his irainlug as a h(unter ana nt3 experience la Kguiioi? (ua asuvtn, which fitted him for his work as commander of the Boer army. It Is said that he never saw a newspaper until he was nineteen years old, but he obtained a lew boolts on history and languages, which he atudled diligently and to great advantage. He was sometimes sailed "Slim Piet," or Shrewd Peter. The crowning feat o! General Joubert's career WQ3.Jffajubu Hill, wtilch resulted ia the practical independence of the Boers, tliDugh the suzerainty ot Great Britain was still maintained. At^ in 1884, tli? taandifdrce exhibited the uncompromising honesty of Wflcharacter by threatening . to reaiga unless|tbe burghers abandoned their plan to raid British territory. He ' said: W JK ul Dositlretr refuse to bold office under a Government tbat deliberately breaks Its covenents, and we bare made covenants frith England." ?Joubert-fought In the native wars when : Paul Kroger was Commander, and these two became bosom friends. Joubert several, i times came within a few votes of beating Oom Paul for the Presidency. He held different views from Kruger. He believed that if the frauchlse were given to the Ultlanders in a reasonable time they would become good citizens, and tbat this w w the way to solve the problem. Atthasame time he did not sactlon any sort of a revolt, and when the Jameson raiders were 'anded safely in Pretoria jail he was one who favored shooting them. Kruger I argued with him on this point ncd finally won lilin over. Joubect, la tarn, made a speech to the burghers which persuaded them to turn the prisoners over to the British. Joubert was a prudent and far-3lghted general. The begianinz of the present war found the South African republics fortified with immense stores of provisions and munitions. The army was organized on Joubert's plan in a manner that required the sending of only seventeen dispatches to put the whole nation under arms fa forty-eight hours. He divided the . ountry Into seventeen military departments, and each ot these into smaller divisions with commandants, field cornets ind lieutenants In charge. Every farmor had his equipment always ready aud became a trained soldier without leaving his home. 4iuiiuu?u uuuuort vvi?~ ijui ivru^oc a cnum I ia diplomacy or in political strength, bis right to command the Boer army wti3 nuyei disputed, and he was credited with the sue3esaos of the Boers iu the present war. Ot latethere had been 3ome rumors of dissatisfaction, with his plims, but they were probably due to his retirement from the fl'sld Which, it i<t now plain, was due to sickness. He was wounded once In the reoeut fighting la Natal, and hud several time; oeea reported dead. FARMERS Mqyg^ WESTWARD. Special Train* Carry Hundred# Through Chicago to the Dakota*. t' , | UBKJIOO ^opeoyuj. ?^uuruo/iug iruu rented farms in Illinois and the 8tates eas or here to laads (a the wheat belt of the Da kotos, 1600 Americans, farmers, farmers .wires, and facmers*. sons and daughters haT0 passed through Chicago a tow days ago: They came In on special trains Iron /N Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, 111- / lnols and!, Jtfichigau, and went, northwest ' ward> over; the Wisconsin Central in tin same trains. From that road they wen 'transferred to the Great Northern to St Pad!, and over that many went to thi Devil's Lake, Turtle Mountain and Mous? River districts of North Dakota. Fifty tourists' sleeping oars were ro quired for their conveyance, and eighty. .Carloads of household fnrnltnre accompanied them. This is the largest "moving p*rty" ever engineered by the Great Northern Railway, and Is said to be the greatest conducted by .any road In the country. \ Doctor Fell and Broke Hit Neck. Dr. Paul A. 8tackpole, the oldest medloal practitioner la New Hampshire, was found-dead at Dover at the foot of a flight of stairs, down wbioh he had falieu nod broken his neck. Dr. Htackpole occupied aa apartment alone. He was elghty-stx . yean o( age, and bad been practicing A medicine slnoe 1842. 1 ; 1 t ' ' Thirty Sailors Drowned. The coasting Steamer Glenelge foundered during a gale off the Qippsland coast In Australian waters. Out of a ship's company of thirty-three only tliree were saved Automobile Baftd to the White Mountain! A project is on foot to construct an nuto< mobile road from New York City to th? mountain region of New Hampshire. Th? highway would go from New York Cltj through the northern part of Conneotioui into the Berkshire region in Massnchusetti and pass from Vermont to New Hampshiri at Bennington. In New Hampshire 11 would touch tae lake region at 8unape? and Winnlplseogee, go up the west side oi the mountains as far as Lancaster and thei east down mrougu luxvuiq ftotu to tn? seaooast. Liberia'! Entire Navy Lost. Two Ltberlaa gunboats, comprising tht reoubllo'a navy. Uave been toat. ji % yd