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5*1 ? t-rc3 f-, THE INSULAR SUITS United States Supreme Court Affirms ftip flnnstitntifyial AiJUil UiV/ kUV VVUWk4?M?f WMM4 ity of tbe Foraker Law. CONGRESS HAS CONTROL I5nti/ It Passed the Act No Duties V Could Be Collected on Imports From Porto Rico. aL'' M-. The Constitution Does Not Extend Over Acquired Territory by Force of Its Own Provisions ? Porto Rico and the Philippines Tart of the United States, But Not Under the Taxing Clause? - ? ' ?v' -l J- -1 I. An|n. The Supreme vonn umucu >u ?!??loni ? Its Important Decisions Renf if * tiered by a Bare Majority, the Jus. tlces Standing Fire to Four. Washington, D. C.?The decision of the United States Supreme Court in the insular cases was announced on * Monday, Justice Brown rendering the prevailing opinion, in which Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Peckham, Harlan and Brewer concurred. The decision was against the Government In the first of the cases taken up? the De Lima case. Justice McKenna delivered a dissenting opinion. He was joined by Justices Shiras and White. Justice Gray also delivered a dissenting opinion. The decisions of the Supreme Court mean that the Constitutidn follows the flag by Congressional enactment only And not "ex nroprio vlgore," or of its own force; that territory acquired by treaties of cession thereby immediately ceases to be foreign to our laws and becomes appurtenant to the United States, but not a part of the United States within the revenue clause of the Constitution; that the people of territory so acquired can become citizens of the United States, subject to the prescribed restrictions of citizens of other territories, when Congress so provides; and that Congress has power to apply all or a part of, or to withhold entirely from all the territories, organized and unorganized, the revenue and tariff laws of the United States. Justice Brown first announced the Court's decision on point of jurisdiction, holding that the Court had jurisdiction. The ruling was concluded with the statement that at the time the duties were collected Porto Rico was not a foreign country, but a tert rltory of the United States. In the cases of Goetze vs. the United States and Crossman vs. the United States, brought here from the Circuit rllofripf nf \TOT\* \jUUll IUJL LUC auuiuciu uiouivi, v* ??... York to test in the Goetze case the validity of the levy of duty on an importation of tobacco from Porto Rico Into the United States after the ratification of the treaty and before the passage of the Porto Rican act and in the Crossmau case duty on liquors im? . ported from Hawaii after annexation, but before the taking effect of the act providing a government for Hawaii, the Court reversed the judgments of the lower courts for the reasons cited tn the De Lima case, holding the levy of duties was unconstitutional. Justice Brown said that whether the sugars imported from or into Porto Rico were dutiable depends on whether Porto Rico is a foreign country. He held that the right to acquire territory involves the right to govern and control it by Congress, but a country could not be both foreign and domestic. Justice Brown concluded as follows: "If an cct of Congress be necessary to convert a foreign country into domestic territory the question at once suggests Itself what is the character nt +ha locHclntlnn rlpm.mflori for this purpose. Will an act appropriating money for its purchase be sufficient? Apparently not. "Will an act appropriating the duties collected on imports to and from such country for the benefit of its country be sufficient? Apparently not. Will acts making appropriations for Its postal service, for the establishment of lighthouses, for the maintenance of quarantine stations, for erecting public buildings, have that effect? Will an act establishing a complete local government, but with the reservation of a right to collect duties on commerce, bo adequate for that purpose? None of these, nor all together, will be sufficient, if the contention of the Government be sound, since acts embracing all the provisions have been passed in connection with Porto Rico, and it is insisted it is still a foreign country within the meaning of the tariff laws. "We are unable to acquiesce in tLat assumption that a territory may be at the same time both foreign and domestic. We are, therefore, of opinion that at the time these duties were levied Porto Rico was not a foreign country within the meaning of the tariff laws, but a territory of the United States; that tht duties were illegally exacted, and that the plaintiffs are entitled to recover them. The judgment of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Xew York is, therefore, reversed and the case remanded to that court for further proOleoinargarlne Maker Fined 810,000. Having pleaded guilty to operating an illicit oleomargarine factory. Albert T. Dow, proprietor of a creamery company in Chicago, was fined $10,000 and sentenced to six months in jail bv Federal Judge Kohlsaat. General Georgo Austin Stone Dead. General George Austin Stone, a veteran of the Civil War and since 1SS-1 National Bank Examiner In Iowa, dii'd at ft hospital in Burlington. Iov.v., aged sixty-eight years. S181,S30 For Dewey's 3Ien. The Auditor of the Navy for the Treasury Department, at Washington, has received the decree of a judgment for $!Si,S30. rendered by the Court of Claims in favor of those officers and men under Admiral Dewey who rook part in the destruction of the Spanish forces in Manila Bay, May 1, 189S. Cabana Reject Minority Report. By a vote of 19 to 9, the Cuban Constitutional Convention, at Havana, voted down the minority report of the Relations Committee which advised rejection of the American terms. * .... . , * ; to Rico Justice Brown held that Congress has authority to control such territory. "Indeed it is." he said, "scarcely too much to say that there n eossinn nf flnncrpss liUt WSVU ** wvw?w? ~ O since the territory of Louisiana was purchased that that body has not enacted legislation based upon the assumed authority to govern and control the territory. It is an authority which arises, not necessarily from the territorial clauses of the Constitution, but from the necessities of the case and from the inability of the States ceedings in consonance with this opinion." In the course of his reasoning on the manner of the acquisition of Por to act upon the subject. "Under that power Congress may deal with territory acquired by treaty; may administer its government as it does that of the District of Columbia; it may organize a local territorial government; it may admit it as a State upon equality with other States; it may sell its public ownings to individual citizens or may donate them as homesteads to actual settlers. In short, when once acquired by treaty it belongs to the United States and is subject to the disposition of Congress. "Territory thus acquired can remain a foreign country under the tariff laws onlv on one of two theo ries?either that the word 'foreign' applies to such countries as were foreign at the time the statute was enacted, notwithstanding any subsequent change in their condition, or that they remain foreign under the tariff laws until Congress has formally embraced them within the customs' union of the States. "The first theory is obviously untenable. While a statute is presumed to speak from the time of its enactment, it embraces such persons or things as subsequently fall within its scope and ceases to apply to such as thereafter fall within its scope. "The theory that a country remains foreign with respect to the tariff laws until Corigress had acted by embracing it within the customs' union presupposes that a country may be domestic for one purpose and foreign for another. It may undoubtedly become necessary for the adequate administration of a domestic territory to pass a special act providing the proper machinery and officers, as the President would have no authority except under the war power to administer it himself; but no act is necessaary to make it domestic territory if once it has been ceded to the United States. We express no opinion as to whether Congress Is bound to appropriate the money to pay for It" Justice Brown also announced the opinion of the Court in the case of Dooley vs. the United States involving the validity of a duty levied on goods imported into Porto Rico from the United States between the date of military occupation and the taking effect of the Porto Rican tariff act. The Court held that there could be no doubt of the validity of the duties levied by virtue of General Miles's order prior to the ratification of the treaty of peace. It placed that right on the ground of military necessity. With reference to duties levied after the ratification of the peace treaty the Court said a different rule applied, and It held those duties Invalid. Justice McKenna delivered the dissenting opinion. He was joined in that by Justices Shiras. White and Gray. Justice McKenna's examination of the many precedents was exhaustive f and almost an hour was glvei to shofr^ig to what extent the circumstance of each case bore on the present conditions in Porto Rico. BEAR KILLS THREE CHILDREN. Search Party Finds "heir Mangled Remains and Kills th? Animal. Job, West Va.?To be crushed to death in the embrace of a monstrous black bear and their little bodies afterward mangled and partly devoured was the frightful fate that befell the three children of E. P. Porterfield, a mountaineer residing near here. The remains were found by a searching party, which included John Weldon. a Maryland hunter, who. within a few minutes after the discovery of the bodies shot and killed the bear in a neighboring thicket. The children were Mary, aged three years; Willie, aged five, and Henry, aged seven. A few days ago they left home to gather flowers in a clearing near. their home. Nothing more is known, but it is supposed that they wandered into the woods, and. becoming lost, continued on their way until they were overtaken by the bear in the dense forest three miles from their parents' home. The bear feasted off all three of the bodies. The party divided and began a search. Weldon discovered the bear in a thick clump of hemlock saplings near a small stream. A single shot ended its life. It was declared to be the largest bear ever seen In tnat neighborhood. BANK ROBBERS GET $30,000. ? First National at Mineral Point, tVla.( Entered and the Safe Blown Open. Mineral Point. Wis.?The First National Bank at this place was entered by burglars and $30,000 was secured. The men blew open the safe with nitroglycerine and their work shows them to be experts. Entrance was effected through the roof of the building, which is only onestory high, thence to the vault by digging away the arched bricks. The vault door was blown open with nitroglycerine. The men then attacked the new "burglar proof safe," and opened the door with the explosive. They made their escape through the roof. The bank has offered 51000 reward for apprehension of the robbers. The Season'* Clean-Up at Dawson. The season's clean-up in the Klondike is estimated at 830,000,000. I Two Women Die of Hydrophobia. Mrs. John Pitts and Mrs. Henry Haney died at their homes in Morgan County, Ky., of hydrophobia. Two children in the same neighborhood were also bitten by a mad dog and are expected to develop hydrophobia. Several cattle and hogs in that region have died of the illness. A Lynching in Oklahoma. Four hundred persons broke into the jail at Pond Creek. Okla. Ter., and \ lynched Bill Campbell, colored, who i killed a deputy sheriff. Sporting Brevities. , "Major" Taylor has been defeated by Jacquelin in a bicycle match at Paris. Gunners are having great shore birui shooting all along the coast of New i Jersey. > Yale's freshman eight oared crew has beaten the Columbia freshmen at New Haven. "Nat" Butler has been reinstated by a mall vote by the American Riders' Cyclists' Union. i Princeton's athletes have defeated Columbia's representatives by a score of 64 points to 40. ' .V . ' * .. \ " * . 4;: I - n i V n - . ' ' ' ' ' Electric Cars Going Forty Miles ai Hour Come Together. ROTH WFRE RACING FOR ASWITCh At Least 120 Men, Women and Clilldrei Were Hurled Together In a Mass a Wreckage on the New Albany LineFive Killed Outrlffht and Over Fort; Severely Injured?A Fatlietlc Inclden Albany, N. Y.?Five persons wer< killed and over forty -were seriously In jured In a collision between two elec trie cars which were racing for : switch at forty miles an hour from op poslte directions. The dead are: Maud Kellogg, of Round Lake; David Mo honey, mate of the Dean Richmond William Nichols, motorman of Car No 17; Frank Smith, motorman of Car No 22, and Annie Roonie, of Stuyvesan Falls. The scene of the accident Is a poim about .two miles out of Greenbush, or the line of the Albany and Hudsor Railway. The point where the can met on the single track was at a sharj curve, and so fast were both running and so sudden was the collision thai the motormen had not time to put or the brakes before south-bound Car No 22 had gone almost clean througl north-bound Car No. 17 and hung or the edge of a high bluff, with its loac of shrieking, maimed humanity. One motorman was pinioned np against tn? smashed front of the sotith-bound cai with both legs severed and died ln< stantly, while the other one lived bul a few minutes. Fully 120 men, women and chlldrei formed a huge, struggling, shrieking pyramid, mixed with the wreckage ol the cars. Some of the les9 serlouslj Injured of the men extricated them selves, and began to pull people outol the rear ends of the two cars, and al most every one taken out in this waj was badly Injured. The scenes wert i heartrending. The few women anc children who had escaped injury anc j death were hysterical, and added theii cries to the shrieks of the dying anc J mutillated. Men with broken arms ; and bones, dislocated Joints and bloodj heads and faces tried to assist others who were more helpless. Help had been summoned from Easl Greenbush and vicinity, and in a llttl( time the bruised mass of humanitj with the mutilated dead were loaded on extra cars and taken to Albany | There ambulances had been suinmonec and the postoffice was turned Into t | morgue and hospital. As fast as th( i physicians could temporarily treat th( ! wounded they were taken to theii homes or to the hospitals In carriages . or uospuui iuxiuuiuuutra. | With both motormen killed It wat : bard to get at the real cause of the ac j cident, bat it Is practically determined that it was caused by an attempt ol i the south-bound car to reach a seconc ; switch, instead of waiting for th< : north-bound at the first siding. I The cars weigh fifteen tons each i and are the largest electric cars built but so frightful was tie crash thai I both cars were torn almost to splint ers. The cars on the line were running I at switch headway, that is, as a cai reached a siding switch it was sup posed to wait until another going ii the opposite direction passed. Th< motorman of the south-bound ca: reached one of the switches, but see ; ing no north-bound car decided to tak( j chances and go on to the nest. It wa: at the curve between that the two car: ! met. One of the pathetic incidents of th< disaster was the death of Maude Kel logg, of Round Lake. She was on th< south-bound car with her fiance George C. Barry, of Troy, and Mr Barry's father and sister. When th< crash came she was crushed to deatl almost instantly. Near her, pinned in by broken wreckage, lay her sweet heart. Frantically he tried to read her, his own agonies from internal in juries forgotten. Finding he coulc not move, he appealed to his father who was extricating himself, but th< girl was dead. On the way to the clt] in the car he pleaded with those at tending him to let him die and join bii sweetheart. He probably will obtaii his wish, for his Injuries were pro nounced fatal. The company has been operating lti line for about a year. It is the longes stretch of third-rail system in the Uni ted States, extending from Albany t< Hudson. The motive power is ob tained from Stuyvesant Falls, and ii sufficiently strong to run the cars at i high rate of speed, as has been demon ctrntpri frenuentlv. BRAVE BOY SAVES THREE LIVES. Rescues Hla Companions In an Over turned Rowboat One by One. Hancock, Md.?William Ditto, .age< sixteen years, accompanied by Johl Potts and his two sons, John, Jr., an< Webster Potts, attempted to cross tb Potomac River in a rowboat. The boa struck a partly submerged tree whicJ had lodged in the swift current an< was swamped, the occupants beini tossed into the river. Young Dltt< was the only one who could swim and risking his own life, plunged into th( swift current and rescued his compan ions, one at a time, placing them 01 the tree. He then righted the boa and rowed safely ashore. Big Swiss Order For the Krupps. Switzerland has awarded to Her Krupp, the German gunmaker, a cod tract for equipping the entire Swis field artillery with Krupp guns, an< the Krupp works are again \Forkinj full time. Kills Actress and Himself. A tragedy occurred at the cottag occupied by the D'Ormond Fulle Opera Company, at Key West, Fla. as a result of which Miss Inez Leon ard and Edgar Beaucligh, two mem bers of the company are dead. Tb latter had been drinking. He shot th woman and then killed himself. New minister to Persia. ITerbert W. Bowen, of New Tort has been appointed United States M1e ister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Es traordinary to Persia. Labor World. Coal can be transported 1?"!0 mile on the American lakes for twent; cents a ton. Six thousand striking cigarmaker in Tampa, Fla., resumed work on galr ing their point. Nine hundred emigrants have salle from Porto Rico to Hawaii, and 40 more will follow. The minimum pay of a public-scho( teacher In Chicago Is $000 a year, an In St. Louis $400. About 1000 Arms have granted th demands of the machinists for th nine-hour work day. *.%TV'T,\ >c W$r.-> ! THE NEWS EPITOMIZED TTASHINGTON ITEMS. Captain Newton T. Hall, of the Ma^ rine Corps, accused of cowardice at the siege of Pekin, was acquitted by the court of inquiry, which traced the charges to feminine influence. Reports received at the Interior De| partment through official sources in I ? 1 - -i? x?:_ rtf orronf rlpeiti AlUSKil cuuiujji niuiivro tution and suffering among the natives In the valley of the Kushokim River. 1 Colonel Merritt Barber informed the 1 War Department thnt he will make - application to retire, after thirty years' r service, June 30: t It is feared that the proposed PanAmerican Congress will not be held a on account of the differences of opinj. ion among South American countries on the question of arbitration. , Secretary Root issued a general order for the completion of the organiH zation of the five additional infantry I regiments authorized by the Army re. organization law. ' OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The prosecution of merchants in Manlla accused of trading with the insur1 gents was abandoned as inexpedient. The Provost-Marshal, at Manila, c signed the findings in the case of Cap1 tain Read, charged with participation 1 in the commissary rrauus. | President Taft. of the Philippine , Commission, cabled Secretary of War ! Root for 500 of the appointed schoolteachers, one-fifth of whom will be women. [ Brijradier-General Hughes will pert sonally direct the operations against [ the insurgents still in arms in the , Philippines. i DOMESTIC. Chief of Police Matt Willard, of Flo1 villa, Ga? was shot and dangerously wounded by Josh Walton, colored, 1 whom he was trying to arrest. 5 Lieutenant-Governor M. F. Allen, J: Vice-President of the Farmers' National al Bank, of Vergennes, Vt., and J. W. Ketchum, a representative to the Leg; islature, were arrested charged with "r complicity with Cashier Lewis' in k wrecking the bank. \ The Presbyterian General Assembly, onooinn of TJhnorJo1nhi?_ nnnnlmous I IU OCTOOJWU U b A UIIUUV<I<M<V., _ ly favored a revision of the creed, i Governor McSweeney, of South Cari ollna, Is one of nine candidates for the ' seats of Tillman and MeLaurln in the i United States Senate. Vice-President Roosevelt, at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N. i Y., named an Indian baby born on the grounds. , The Coroner's Jury decided that Willie McCormick, of New York City, ' missing so long, was accidentally | drowned, and not murdered. , Mrs. Elizabeth A. Naramore. who killed her six children in Coldbrook | Springs, Mass.. was committed to an asylum for life. i The Michigan House passed a bill . taxing the Pullman Palace Car Coml pany three per cent on gross earnings f in the State. Tli/v lo+/? fnrmop fnn rrroeemn n Umi 4 x uu 1(1 IC 4VlUiVl VVM|5?VW? ? i telle was given a big funeral at Bangor, Me. The New England Woman Suffrage Association held Its thirty-fifth annual meeting at Boston. Mass. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was elected president. [ The killing of the Wall Dispensary ' bill In the Florida Senate caused genj ?ral dissatisfaction in Jacksonville. ? The First National Bank of Vanf couver. Wis., whose president and . ;ashier committed suicide, shows lia> bilities of $232,471.57 and good asj jets of $137,247.52. j The Cramps, shlp-bullders, at Philadelphia, received a cable message i from the Czar of Russia, stating that - he was pleased with the cruiser Var? lag, which the company built . . William T. Woodyard, a well-known . attorney of Beverley, W. Va? died J after drinking extract of vanilla, j Thomas Edison, the inventor, per1 fected a light storage battery which " experts said Is destined to revolution1 ize traction by electricity. Incendiaries hnrnpd thp homestead * on the Elkhorn Plantation, at New '? Orleans, La., which was bought for a J leper home. [ Captain Henry B. Seely. aged sixty" one years, a retired naval officer, dropped dead in the street at Philadelphia. He formerly lived at Delhi, " N. Y. ^ FOREIGN. The Sultan of Morocco yielded in the > main to the French demands. A fire in a Prussian mine caused the 3 death of twenty-one miners. 1 The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York reaciied Sydney, N. S. W., on the Ophir. Thousands of people welcomed the Duke and Duchess on their landing. The Venezuelan Supreme Court refused to allow exceptions taken by * the New York and Bermudez Asphalt * Company in the lawsuit pending In 1 that country. ^ Inhere were violent earthquakes In 3 several parts of Italy. i The Porte requested the authorities 5 ai .Kocieruum, ceigium, iu urreat .em 3 Nourie Bey, the Turkish Consul there, , who is connected with the Young 2 Turks' party. The Consul, however, - has fled. i In the British House of Commons * Sir Alfred Hickman protested against further purchases of. American locomotives. r Charles Boysset, Republican Doyen . of the French Chamber of Deputies, 5 is dead. i Foxhall Iveene's chestnut colt Olymz pian, a probable runner in the English Derby, broke a small blood vessel. The Czar ordered the construction of a new railway, 700 miles long, from e St. Petersburg to Viata, Eastern Rusr sia. Venezuela rejected the French prol" tocol providing for a renewal of diplo* matlc relations. 0 e Celestino Peraza and his followers were taken prisoners by Government troops, near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela. The Austrian Chancellor said that ^ in view of tlie conditions in tne uniu.. aus, it is impossible to say how long peace will be maintained in Europe. Great Britain proposed t'aat an international board collect a.ad 'iistribs ute the Chinese indemnity. Y Republican agitation is rife in Servia under the leadership of a peasant s named Tajsics. i- Marthinus Pretorious, first President of the South African Republic, died (J at Potchefstroom, Transvaal. 0 Emperor William issued stringent orders to exclude newspaper report>1 ers from all functions at which he lnd tends to speak. In the Bankruptcy Court in London e a receiving order was made against e Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, M. P., ' whose liabilities amount to $250,000. ' CUBANS ACCEPT TERMS Piatt Amendment Adopted by the Constitutional Convention. Radicals, After a Hard Fight, Are Beater by a Vote of 15 to 14?Senor Gomez's Speech. Havana, Cuba.?The Piatt Amendment was accepted by the Cuban Constitutional Convention by a vote of 15 to 14. The actual vote was on accepting the majority report o" the Committee on Relations, which embodied the Amendment with explana tions or certain clauses. The Radicals made a hard fight at the last moment, and Senores Portuondo, Gomez, and Tamayo bitterly arraigned the Conservatives. Senor Tamayo was particularly vindictive, and declared that everybody who voted In favor of the Piatt Amendment was a traitor to his country. The Convention compelled him to retract this statement. On several occasions personal encounters seemed imminent. Senor Gomez spoke for more than an hour, and his speech undoubtedly won over Senores Castro, Robau and Manduley. He appealed to the patriotism of delegates and rehearsed the long fight for Independence, denouncing as perjurers all who favored the Piatt Amendment, on the ground that they had sworn to draw up a Constitution for an independent republic. Several Conservatives rose and asked Senor Gomez to retract, but he absolutely refused. The following delegates voted against the majority report: Gomez, Gener, Portuondo, Lacret, Manduley, CIsneros, Ferrer, Fortun, Robau, E. Tamayo, Sllva, Castro, Zayas, and Aleman. Senores Rivera and Bravo were absent. The Convention will continue Its sessions, which will be devoted to drawing up the election law. La Discusion exclaims. "Now will come immediate independence!" KILLED TRAIN ROBBERS SUMMARILY Mexican soldiers suoot uown jaancuts Caught in the Act of Plundering?. El Paso, Tex.?Swift punishment Is being meted out to train robbers in the States of Coahuila and Durango, Mexico. In those States the highwaymen became so bold that they would stop Mexican Central freight trains, break open cars and load into their wagons whatever freight they wanted and drive away to the mountains. Recently the railroad officials appealed to President Diaz for relief and he ordered soldiers to exterminate the robbers. The soldiers were empowered to act as sheriff, judge, jury and executioner. A few days ago, near Yermo, four out of a band of eight robbers were captured while in the act of robbing a freight train. The soldiers, who had been concealed in a freight car to trap the bandits, lined up the prisoners and riddled them with bullets. BURGLAR KILLS A BOY. San Francisco Startled by a Crime Com< minted in Absence of Parents. San Francisco, Cal.?Since the murder of two young girls by Theodore Durant six years ago, San Francisco has not been startled by a crime so foul as that of the murder of thirteenyear-old Robert Hislop, a high school boy, who was brutally killed at his home, while his parents and his older brother were away. The crime was committed by a burglar, who escaped,, hut Richard Lutchard. a butcher and former lodger In the house, was arrested on suspicion. The police theory is that the burglar awakened the boy, was recognized, and then killed him. Lutchard is a sullen young fellow with a police record. The police believe he committed the crime. WOMAN SUFFRACISTS' EMBLEM. Leader Says They Should Cease to Be Hens and Become Eagle Mothers. Chicago.?The eagle will hereafter be the model and emblem of the American Woman Suffragists. Alice Stone Blackwell, of Boston, daughter of the woman's rights leader, Lucy Stone, in an address to her associates here during a reception to delegates cn route to Minneapolis, said: "Hereafter the American woman must cease to be a hen, which can do no better than cackle and scratch. She must cease to be a mere nightingale, that can only feed ner young ana warble. She must be the eagle mother, and her slogan must be 'woe betide the male chicken hawks which swoop upon her offspring.'" MATCH FELL IN LYDDITE SHELL. Exploded In Coramandanl Schoeman' House and Killed Three Persons. Pretoria, South Africa.?A lyddite shell exploded in the house occupied by Boer Commandant Schoeman. Schoeman and his daughter and thcj father of Commandant Ben Viljoen were killed, and Mrs. Schoeman and another were Injured. Thi? shell had been kept as a curio, the cap having been screwed off. Schoeman after lighting his pipe threw the match away. It fell in the shell and a terrific explosion followed. The house was completely wrecked and windows in other houses for a considerable distance were broken. Millions Lost In Flood. Governor Aycock. of North Carolina, says all the lowland crops of the State Penitentiary farm, known as Caledo nia, are destroyed by the raging Roanoke River. includins200acres of wheat. He says the flood damage in the State amounts to millions of dollars. Burglars Murder a Farmer. Christian Stahl. a farmer, living near Navarre, Ohio, was murdered by two masked burglars, who broke into the house and demanded his money. Upon being refused the burglars bound Stahl and the other members of the family with ropes. After beating Stahl to death the men left. Boers Appeal For Arbitration. Representatives of the South African republics have appealed for arbitration with Great Britain to the Peace Court at The Hague. Holland. Prominent People. John D. Rockefeller is becoming an enthusiast in the cultivation of rare trees. Emperor William is said to receive more than GOO letters a day on an average. Cornelius Vanderbilt has bought land at Newport, R. I., for a costly cottage. Sir John Edmund Commerell, retired Admiral of the British fleet from 1892 to 1899, is dead. Antonio De La Corte y Castaneira has been appointed Spanish Consul at New Orleans. La. FIGHT IN SOUTH CAROLINA Both Tillman and McLaurin Resigi From the Senate. Action Is the Outcome of a TV arm Join Debate In Which Charges and Countercharges Were Made. Columbia, S. C.?As the outcome o a spirited debate between Unite* States Senators B. R. Tillman am John L. McLaurin at Gaffney both o them have put their resignations t the hands of Governor McSweenej to take effect September 15. The; have resigned with the understand^ that they are to go before the peopl of the State In a joint canvass and th sentiment of the people Is to be ei pressed In the vote in a Democratl primary to be held in November. The meeting at Gaffney was ai ranged for McLaurin by some of hi friends and others who wished t hear his views on the great Nations questions. Senator Tillman was late Invited by the County Executive Com mittee to speak. He had been "hanfc ering" he said to get at MeLaurln, an< It was through his Individual effort that the Joint debate was arranged Tillman excused his participation ii the meeting when he was not a can didate by saying that he was recog nized as a leader in this State, and h considered it his duty to appear be fore the people and warn them whei traitors and hypocrites appeared he fore them. If MeLaurln was a Democrat, h said, he was not, and the only decen thing for MeLaurln to do when h could not stand on the platform c: which he was elected was to resigr The Senator said MeLaurln had stole: the sermon of the Rev. Dr. Van Dyk of New York City. He attacked M< Laurin's political record ever sine he had been in the Senate. MeLaurln came' back. at Tillmai with unexpected fire. He had wished he said, to keep the campaign on i high plane, but It was evident h would not be allowed to do so. Till man accused him of stealing a sei mon. If there was truth in the man; charges floating around South Care llna, he added, Tillman had stole] much more valuable things. Tillmar he said, was a nllly; but he had sizei him up years ago and knew how t meet him. Tillman's conduct wau brutal and his manner of forcing hiir self on this meeting was indecent. The insinuation that he (McLaurii was handling any of Mark Hanna' money, he continued, was a falsehood and unworthy of a Senator and a ger tleman. Mr. McLaurin asked: "Wh does not Tillman offer to resign if I'i elected? He says if I'm elected, th people will repudiate him. No! You', not find Benjamin resigning. He i not that sort." Tillman, who was sitting neai sprang up and said: "I'll resign rigfc now, if you will, and we will go be fore the people together." Senate McLaurin said he was willing. Senator Tillman said, "Draw up th papers and we will sign right now. "Agreed," shouted McLaurin. The Senators almost immediately r< tired from the stand. Tillman wer tr> a lawyer's office and drew up a res ignation In joint form, and asking th Governor not to appoint their succesi ors until the people could vote in primary and recommend the men t fill the office. He signed this and sec It by a friend and half a dozen corn spondents to Senator McLaurln' house. The junior Senator amende It by adding, "The campaign is to b between B. R. Tillman find John I McLaurin for the long term of offic which the former resigns and to b held during the months of October an November." Mr. Tillman rejected this because 1 was dictating to the committee, an there were no conditions in the agref ment at the meeting. There was coui ter correspondence, Mr. Tillman fina! ly writing that he had called Mr. M< Laurin's bluff, and that now the junic Senator wanted to back out "Will you or will you not stand b the pledge you made on the stand?" h wrote. Mr. McLaurln gave as his reason fo wishing that the campaign should tak place in the fall that his health woul not permit a summer canvass of th State. It was finally agreed that bot should resign, to take effect Septen ber 15. Tillman was last summer re-electe to the United States Senate for si years, and McLaurin has yet two year to serve. Should Tillman be sustaine McLaurin's seat will be vacant; If M< Laurin Is successful he will succee to Tillman's long term. LAKE STEAMER FOUNDERS. Twelve Lives Lost on tlie Freight Carrh Baltimore In Lake Huron. East Tawas, Mfth.?The woode steamer Baltimore foundered in Lak Huron, near Au Sable, and twelv of her crew of fourteen were drownet The rescued men were tossed abov In the lake for several hours, lashe to a piece of wreckage and finall were picked up by the tug Columbi and brought here. John McGinnls, deck hand, one of the rescued, becam insane from his experience. The otl er survivor, Thomas Murphy, of Mi waukee, second engineer, was able t tell the story of the disaster. The Baltimore came out in 188] and was then known as the Escauata She was 201 feet long, thirty-five fee wide and carried about 2000 tons o freight. The steamer was rated a $40,000 by the underwriters and wa insured for nearly that amount Spring Wheat Prospects. Spring wheat is coming up well, am the early sown has made good growti Three Drowned In a Kentucky Flood. In a heavy downpour of rain nea Elkton, Ky., which caused a quid rise in all streams, a buggy contain ing Mrs. R. A. Morey, her seven-year old daughter, and Miss Jennie Craig was over-turned. All three occupantwere drowned. Fourteen Sailors Lost. The Wilson liner Ohio, Captali Hadaway, on arriving at Bostca re ported sinking the Norwegian bar] Filse. south of Cape Sable. Fourtt-oJ men pyished. The National Game. TQe iJOueiiJiiui imcuer, oiropec, i doing great work for Comiskey' champions. Harper, the young St. Louis pitcher is considered one of the best of th new crop of twirlers. "The way to stop kicking," says i veteran ball player, "is for the mag nates to Instruct their players not ti kick." Parent and Ferris, of Boston, forn a pair of clever youngsters. BoU cover lots of ground and can bit tin ball Jiard. I ' ' - * * jOD'S message to man. 3 arecnant thouchts from the * world's greatest prophets. j Christ's Call to the Sonl ? Teach Us to Pray?The Secret of Winsoineness?A Prayer ? Do Your Work ? As Gold I? Tried by Fire ? Are Like Chestnuts. Fair soul, created in the primal hour, f Once pure and grand, 3 A.nd for whose suke I left my throne and power 3 At God's right hand; f By this sad heart pierced through because I love thee; Let love and mercy and contrition move thee. 7 ~ ... . Cast off the sins thy holy beauty veiling, Spirit divine! 0 Vain ncrnin?t thr>f> thp hosts of hell as sailing; My strength is thine! 0 Drink from my side the cup of life immortal, % And love shall lead the path to heaven's s portal. 0 j I for thy sake was pierced with many j sorrows. I, And bore the cross, ret heeded not the galliog of the ar3 rows, The shame and loss. 1 So faint not then whate'er the burden be, Q But bear it bravely even to Calvary. ?From the Latin of Girolamo Savonr* arola. e * Teach V* to Pray. Q j, It is natural enough that we should recognize the need that we be inspired to begin and persist In prayer. For prayer * Involves the expenditure of the very en1 ergy of the soul. But why should we e ask that we be taught how to pray? Q Prayer is the spirit's utterance to God. It is the whole process of communion beQ tween our spirits and our Father in e heaven; and therefore there must be a language of prayer, which we cannot e learn from each other. It is very much like learning to talk when we learn to ! pray. One baby cannot teach another I baby to talk. This is the joyous task of ^ motherhood itself. Little by little the words grow familiar asf time passes. , Communion between the two becomes more perfect as language becomes more completely the possession of the child, y And so it is God alone who can teach us N how to pray. We must learn the lana guage of prayer in the life that is closely I. bound with His. But there is also a , 3 form of prayer which is deeper than all 0 words. Just as sometimes the deepest 9' communion of the spirit is realized when L. a child looks into its mother's eyes, nestles closely to her, and simply loves her in silence, so there are moods of the s spirit in which no language of prayer is 1 necessary. We are sure that God loves ' us; we lay our hearts very close to His, and it is enough. Many of our deepest ' prayers are mute. But even for this we ? need to be taught by God. II a The Secret of Winiomoneai. What is it in Jesus that so draws men, r, that wins their allegiance away from it every other master, that makes them u ready to leave all for His sake and to "r follow Him through peril and sacrifice even to death? Is it His wonderful e teaching? "Never man spake like tbis ft man." Is it His power as revealed in His miracles? Is it His sinlessness? The most malignant scrutiny could find no ** fault in Him. Is it the perfect beauty 't of His character? None nor all of these 5- .vill account for the wonderful attraction e of Jesus. Love is the secret. He came 3* into the world to reveal the love of God a ?He was the love of God in human o flesh. His life was all love. In most ?- ~11 TTI*. it#A A\A [t wonaenut WUJS Iiunuj; uu uun luc uiu >. He reveal love. Men saw it in His face, g and felt it in His touch, awl heard it in J His voice. This was the great fact e which Hia disciples felt in His life. His friendship was unlike any friendship J' they had ever seen before or even e dreamed of. It was this that drew them 6 to Him and made them love Him so d deeply and tenderly. Nothing but love will kindle love. Power will not do it. It Holiness will not do it. Gifts will not d do it?men will take your gifts and then ! repay with hatred. But love begets love; l. heart responds to heart. Jesus loved.? I. Dolan. A Prayer. , Heavenly Father, from our hearts we 7 thank Thee for gracious memories of e our beloved whom Thou in loving wisdom hast taken to Thyself. Against the ,p darkness of that mystery Thy promise e burns. In silence which may never more d be broken tipon earth, we remember love ingly their words of faith and cheer. Ij Thou, 0 God, hast strengthened and comforted our hearts through faith and labor, lest -we should sink in idle, hopeless grief to an ignoble weakness. Let " us not think so meanly of Thy care or x of their generous love as to believe we '9 honor them by aimless sorrow more than d by a cheerful hope and service. Let Thy : strength abide in us that we may overd come and be found worthy of eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So prepare our hearts for the unclouded vision nad communion of Thy saints in light. Amen. si Do Yoar TVork. n Blessed is he who has found his work; e let him ask no other blessedness. He e has a work, a life purpose; he has found 1. it, let him follow it. Labor is life. From it the inmost heart of the worker wells up (j :he Holy Spirit imparting force, the sav :red, celestial, life essence?breathed i Into him by the Holy Ghost. Don't hurry uor worry. Do a work and then leave it alone, do it earnestly and with e enthusiasm, do it as unto the Lord, do |* it in faith, and do it well, and when done drop it without regret. Your doA ' ?Knf flior o no nnf" nn v IIips are ?Ui LUitraa, i/uw vulj u.w uvi. fruitful; they ennoble you. and make L, you wiser, holier, better.?King's Mest. senger. t f As Gold Is Tried by Fire. * It was in the chariot of fire Elijah was s taken to heaven. Is it not in a similar chariot, in a figurative sense, God takes many of His people still? He brings them, as He did Elijah, to the brink of 3 Jordan: keeps them for years hovering t. amid the rough, rugged glens and gorges of trial: seats them in a flaming equipage; reins in the fiery horses until, in r the fire, they are refined and-purified as . gold, and fitted for their radiant crowns. ... It is the chariot of fire. As God's loved ones enter it, He whispers in their ear, "Through much tribulation ye shall ' enter into the kingdom."?J. R. Macduff, ? O. D. Many Christians are like chestnutsvery pleasant nuts, but inclosed in very a prickly b'.rrs. which need various deal ' ings of nature and her grip of frost '> ?? fore the kernel is disclosed.?H. w. a Beechcr. Aa Antidote For Mosquito Bites. A report from Consul-General Guenther, 9 at Frankfort, says that, according to the g German papers Professor Voges, the director of the National Board of Health at a frmnH a remedy for , CUUO & WO, *w%?? ? mosquito bites. He discovered it by accie dent during his trip to Paraguay to studv the pest. He had been supplied with all X sorts of remedies, among them "naphtha. lene," an article of no value -whatever ~ against the pest, but on using it for mosquito bites ne found it of surprising effect. It neutralizes the poison, even when 3 the spot bitten is greatly inflamed. If il fresh bites are rubbed with naphthalene a no sweHiag follows. t. ^ * .V jjjj