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m EDWARD'S HUM Reports of His Condition Have Seriou? Effect on Trade. SUFFERS FROM CANCER, IT IS SAIC An Alarming Premonition in Conrt Circle! That the British Ruler May Not Lire to Do Crowned?A Well-Dcflned Belicl That the King is Thrcutcued With Some Organic Complaint. London.?The pertinacity with which society discusses the rumors regarding the health of King Edward has had a ? + 1<*rx nnn ilrnCCmnl.". StTlUUS eilt'Cl UU IX1C VUUI c ers, who expected before now to have been busily engaged on the coronation robes, etc. They are keeping large numbers of employes in almost ^complete idleness. Fashionable society has apparentljpHnade up its mind that they will nbt go to any expense until they feel sure that the coronation will really take place. There is a very clearly-defined impression in tlio diplomatic corps that the King is threatened with some organic complaint. Some go so far as .to say it is cancer or Brl.sht's dis ease, or evoii Dotn. rrooauiy zuc ian is that the cancer ruuior springs from the King's often expressed dread oi! cancer, which has made such ravages in his own family. It is likely that "Whatever ailment may threaten him it has not reached any definite or dangerous stage. If that were the case he would be unable to keep up his incessant round of public duties and ' private pastimes with the regularity and zest which he continues to display. In spite of these facts, th?re is undoubtedly a feeling in court circles, especially among the women, that the King will never live to be crowned. This is having a serious effect on trade. One story, in this connection, now current is that a palmist told Queen Alexandra not long ago that she would, never live to be crowned. HAS CANCER OF THE THROAT. London Weekly Says King Edward Has Undergone Three Operation*. London. ? Reynold's Weekly Newspaper Is the first British publication to . assert that King Edward actually is suffering from cancer of the throat. It declares that since His Majesty's accession three operations have been performed for the removal of papilloma on the left vocal chord, and that one was removed from the right vocal chord last week. "Assistance was hastily summoned." says this journal, "as His Majesty was breathing with difficulty, and an immediate operation was performed. But it was regarded as only a temporary relief, the injured epithelium now having become a cancerous growth, and serious developments are ex peticu. POWERS AGAIN CONVICTED. He is Sentenced to Lite Imprisonment For His Fart In tioebel Murder. Georgetown, Ky.?Caleb Powers, former Secretary of State, was again convicted of being accessory before tlie fact to the murder oi; Governor William Goebel in January, 1900, and for the second time has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. Powers sat pale and motionless when the verdict was announced by the foreman. B. S. Calvert, his old schoolmate. Opposite Powers, on the other side of the courtroom with the attorneys, sat Arthur Goebel. brother of the late Governor, with his eyes fixed on the prisoner. The attorneys of Powers shook his hand, expressing aloud their belief in HIS JUUUUt'LlUt*. ?? UiJicu I.IVS"UEU uiuitwv* Powers, embracing and kissing him, and tears were shed. A motion for a new trial was overruled. The case will be appealed. The sentence was rend and judgment suspended pending the decision of the higher tribunal. Powers was taken to Frankfort and committed to jail without bail. TOWN ALMOST WIPED OUT. A Destructive Fire in Pelroar, Del., Makew 250 Lives Homeless. ' ""Laurel, Del. ? Delmar, a town of about 1000 inhabitants, was almost wiped out by Are. Nearly 250 people are homeicss, and the property loss Is estimated at about $100,000. Owing to the poor facilities for fighting the flames, the fire was soon 1 :?yond control of the local Fire Department, and aid had to be asked of Salisbury, Md., a short disiance away. The postcffice was destroyed, but the mails were saved. About fifty families lost their entire possessions. Only two stores are left, aucl nearly half of the dwelling houses were burned. Air Test on Submarine Boat. A second submarine boat was tested at Barrow, England. Six men were sealed in the boat for twelve hours. The air remained fresh. Czo1ro.<7. Renounced Anarchy. Czoljrosz, the assassin of President AIcKinley, repented, renounced Anarchy and re-embraced the Catholic faitb. Indian Territory'* Coal Production. The coal and coke production of the Indian Territory is steadily increasing. ? All Kinds of tabor Scarce. In many sections of the country there is a scarcity of all kinds of labor. 900,000 Chinese Famine Stricken. According to reliable reports 600,000 persons in the Province of Ngan-Whel and 300,000 in the Province of KiangSu, China, arc on the verge of starvation. and the famine Is spreading. The avuilable funds are insignificant. Three Brothers Killed in a Well. Three sous of Joseph Casper, a farrier living near Spring Valley, 111., were smothered in a well by gas. George was twenty-three, Eddie eleven and Clarence eight, years old. The parents were away at the time. Minor Mention. Kansas wants 2G0 acres of St. Louis Fair space for nn alfalfa exhibit. The Russian Government will spend $15,U00,000 on a new harbor at Cronstadt. An ordinance has teen adopted in Reading, Penn., to punish spitting oc sidewalks. The Philadelphia Councils have voted to send the Liberty Bell to the Charleston Exposition. Ancient gold mines of Egypt, an ex ploring engineer states, are capable ol being profitably reopened. *?3 > | STRENGTH OF THE ARMY ueneral Miles, in His Annual nepori, . Gives It as 84,51.? Recommends Fewer Bureaus in Waahington Dealing With tlie Management ) of tlie Organization. Washington, D. C.?Lieutenant-General Miles, in his annual report, gives the total strength of the Army as S4,513, of which 33,874 are in the United States, 43,239 in the Philippines, 4914 in Cuba and the remainder in small detachments In Porto Rico, Hawaii, China and Alaska. He says It is expected the force In Cuba will he reduced soon, and hopes the force in the Philippines also can be reduced. General Miles does not approve the present organization of the artillery corps, saying it establishes another bureau in Washington. He believes in the fftrmer regimental organization. <" nnnfcnti whiph CvpeitKIIIK V'l tuc <n in.. ?..>u.v.v.., Is abolished by the army reorganization law*, he says uo injury has resulted. and in the main the law has bnen beneficial. He states his objections to the management of military affairs in the War Department in the following language: "While Congress has made ample provision for the management of military affairs in the organization of the Army, whereby the companies, regiments. brigades, divisions and departments are made the units of adminstration, and by statutes lias clothed the officials not only wilh executive authority, but with judicial powers and responsibility, yet the tendency has been to absorb and usurp the entire corfduct of the military esablishinent in the city of Washington, and especially in the staff departments. "This has been found most injurious in other armies, and is one of the principal defects in our own system. Tho evil has been increasing during the activities of the wars of the last three years to an extent that, in my judgment, requires serious consideration, and I recommend that decentraliza tlon be effected as far as possible, ana that all proper and lawful authority be restored to subordinate commanders, "who are provided with an efficient organization, and who can be safely instrusted with responsibility for the efficient and faithful administration of military affairs commensurate with their important commands." WHITE HOUSE RECEPTIONS. fho Program For the Social Season of 1902 Announced. Washington. D. C.?The official social program for the White House was. announced by Secretary Cortelyou. Foi the first time the designation of the President's home is not the "Executive Mansion." In accordance with Mr. Roosevelt's wish the historic building will be known officially as well as colloquially during his term as "the White House." The season of 1902 is included in the month of January, and Is the shortest on record. The program follows: January J, New Year's reception; Ja?auary 2, Cabinet dinner; Jahuary 7, diplomatic reception; January 9, diplomatic dinner; January 14, judicial reception; January 16, Supreme ^ J! ???*%*** OO Pnn rryao. UOUrt GiUXiui , uauuaijr ml>, vuu^tvw sional reception, and January 30, reception to the army and navy. The usual Shrove Tuesday reception to the public is omitted, for the reason that Sirs. Roosevelt -will give throe public receptions ? December 14, 21 and 28. She -will also receive the public on Saturday afternoons during the Easter season. On Shrove Tuesday the official season will close with a grand cotillion in honor of Miss Alice Roosevelt, whose eighteenth birthday, occurs on Sunday, February 9. This will be the first ball given at the White House since the days of Miss Nellie Grant. DUR CLAIMS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Fifteen Aggrieved Persons to Get a TotaS of 830,000. London.?At the resumption of the sitting of the South African Compensation Commission Major-General Sir John C. Ardagh, on behalf of the Government, announced that all claims of foreign countries had been settled dip. iomatically with the exception of those of the Netherlands and France. The final decision is as follows: The United States, $30,000; Austria, $45,000; Germany, $150,000; Russia, $20,500; Italy. $00,000; Spain, $750; Sweden and Norway, $5000; Switzerland, $1250; Belgium, $4000, and Denmark, $1250. Newton Crane, who represented the United States before the commission, regards the settlement as most favorable for the American claimants, of whom there are only fifteen. WILSON ASKS $1,000,000 MORE. estimates of the Department of Agriculture Keach 83,862,420. Washington, D. C.?The estimates for the Department of Agriculture for the next fiscal year uggregate $4,789,540, against $3,802,420 for the current fiscal year, showing an increase of almost $1,000,000 for next year. The total for the Weather Bureau, as submitted by Chief Moore, is $1,218,090, an increase of $100,770. There Is an increase of $113,^50 in salaries and of $58,000 for vegetable pathological work. The total estimates for forestry work are $200,180, an increase of $113,JOO, and for soil investigation, $173,000, an increase of $82,000. These in creases are to meet the expanding work along special lines. Hawaiian Drought Broken. The drought in Hamakua, which nas affected disastrously sugar plantations of Honakaa, Peauhau and Ookala, Hawaii, has been broken by the first good rainfall since last >April. The rain was general all over the district. Only Thirteen Killed In Race Riot. Reports from Balltown, La., thfe anono nf vaco riotimr. says that peace and quiet have been restored. The number of dead reported is thirteen, three white and ten colored. Chilean Array Mobolized. Chile is mobilizing its army and the Argentine fleet is being provisioned ind coaled in expectation of trouble jver the boundary. Twice Refused Knighthood. A. G. Jones, Governor of Nova Sco* i tia, has twice refused knighthood duri Ing the visit of the Duke of Cornwall, the last time to the Duke himself. Unusual .Supply of Dried Fruit. London speculators say the supply of dried fruit f*.r the coming season j will exceed all record. DZOLGOSZ POT TO DEATH" The As?assin of President McKinley Executed by Electricity. TRIED TO JUSTIFY HIS CRIME While In the Death Chair He Declared He Was Glad lie IIa<l Slain the President?Normal Brain Revealed by the Autopsy?Acid Used to Destroy the llody Quickly?Tl?c Warden's Statement. Auburn, N. Y.?Leon F. Ozolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, was put to death in the Auburn Prison at 7.12 a. m. Tuesday. The electric current, of 1700 volts, was turned on I three times before he was pronounced dead. No fear was shown by the assassin, and his last declaration was that he was not sorry for his crime. His watchers said that he slept well during his last night on earth, apparI ently unconcerned at the approach of | death. Half an hour before the exeI cution the assassin stated to Superinj intendent Collins and Warden Mead | that he wanted to make a statement i "when there are a lot of people to j hear me." Wheu told that he could ; not do that he said he would not talk at all. but he later chnngcd his mind. There was no unusual incident to mark the execution. The witnesses i gathered iu the otace of the warden at G.45 o'clock. Dr. Carlos P. McDonald, of New York City, and Dr. Gerin, nP Anhnrn wovo thp nlivsiclnns. I V.1. ? ^ Shortly before 7 the party was taken j to the death chamber, and its members, after being placed about the electric chair, were cautioned not to leave their seats under any circumstances. After a test of the apparatus Warden Mead gave the signal for the prisoner to be brought in. As he stepped over the threshold of the death chamber the assassin stumbled, but the guards held him up. He stumbled again on the little rubber-covered platform upon which the chair rests. He was very pale. As he was being seated be looked about at the witnesses with a steady stare and said: "I killed the President because he was an enemy of the good people?of the working people." His voice trembled slightly at first, but gained strength. "I am not sorry for my crime," he said loudly, as the guard pushed his . Vioo/i 'hooir nn tho mhhpr headrest and I umu uuvu. v. drew the strap across his forehead and chin. As the pressure on the straps tightened he mumbled: "I'm sorry I could not see my father." He had barely finished this utterance 'when the strapping was completed and the current was turned on. It was kept on full for forty-five seconds, cut off, turned on for a few seconds and then, after an examination of the body by physicians, again turned on for a few seconds. It was at 7.17 that Warden Mead, raising his hand, said: "Gentlemen, the prisoner is dead." When the body of the assassin had been removed to the autopsy table the prisoners who had been kept locked in their cells were released and work was resumed. There was no excitement among the convicts and no unusual scenes about the prison. The autopsy was made by Dr. Edward Spitzka, under tue immediate supervision and direction of Dr. Carlos P. McDonald and Dr. John Gerin, the prison physician. The autopsy occupied over three hours and embraced a careful examination of all the organs of the body. The examination revealed a perfectly healthy statet of all 1 the organs, Including the brain.' After the autopsy the body ;was placed in a black stained pine coffin. Shortly afterward it was taken to the prison cemetery and an extraordinary precaution taken to completely destroy It. A carboy of acid was obtained and poured upon the body in the coffin after it had been lowered into the grave. Straw was used in the four corners of the grave as the earth was put in to give vent to such gases as might form. It was the belief of the physicians that the body would be entirely disintegrated within twelve hours. After the execution Warden Mead said: "I went to Czolgosz's cell at 5.30 and read the death warrant to him. The guards said he had slept like a baby. He half rose up as I read the warrant, said nothing, and dropped back when I I finished. A small breakfast was ---- * 1- XT r* I given lilm ana ne are spunu^!.*. uc l nsked for no priest, and that is why j there was no clergyman In attendi ance." I Czolgosz held his last two Interviews ! on Monday night, the first with Superintendent Collins, and the second with Waldeck Czolgosz, his brother, and Waldeck Bandowskl. his brotherin-law. Both the Interviews were brief, and the Interviewers did most of the talking, until the question of religion was mentioned, when Czolgosz broke from his seeming lethargy and violently denounced the church and * - ? -3 tvtnrlA KIcj ralntivpfl tne cierpy uuu iuuuc ?j?o ? promise that there should be no service for him, living or dead. It "was 7 o'clock -when Superintendent Collins went into the death house and tried to get the prisoner to talk to him. Although he stayed in the cell some time, he apparently was not successful iu getting anything material I from him. At 8 o'clock the brother and brotherin-law arrived and Superintendent Collins took them down to the condemned man's cell. There was no demonstration when they met. Czolgosz merely stepped to the front of his steel cage and said: V*Cotiatlon* With Bulgarian Brijjmnda The State Department, at Washington, is informed that negotiations with the Bulgarian brigands who abducted ftliss Storie have been opened, and the brigands demand the original ransom asked?$110,000. Time Honored Custom Discontinued. President Roosevelt has discontinued ! the time honored custom of giving an annual reception to the public. He does not lutend to give some miscreant the chance to shoot him -while pretending to shake his hand. Baron Accnaed of Kxtortlnn. Baron Walburg has been arrested in Budapest on a charge of attempting to practice extortion upon Emperor Francis Joseph. He is a morganatic son of the Austrian Archduke Ernest. In consequence of his debts he was compelled to leave the army, after which he sank Into poverty. Vew Gun Exp lodes; Six Noiawra nun Six members of the Twenty-eighth Battery were Injured at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., by an explosion of a new model automatic gun. The Injured men will all recover. ' I "Hello!" The brother venture;! to remnr':, "I wish you -would tell us, Leon, who got you Into this scrape?" The assassin answered in .a slow, hesitating way, "No one; nobody had anything to do with It except me." "That is not how you were brought up," said the brother, "and you ought to tell us everything now." "I haven't got anything to tell," he answered in a surly manner. ' "Do you want to see the priests again?" asked his brother. And he answered with more vehemence than he had previously shown: "No; don't sent tliem here again; I don't want them." The brother-in-law interjected here: "That's right. Leon." The brother looked rather disturbed by the answer. Then stepping up close to the bars the condemned man said: "And don't you have any praying over me when I'm dead. I don't want it. I don't want any of their religion." There was a painful pause of a few minutes, and then the relatives resumed casur.l conversation with him, to which he replied in monosyllnbles until the brother-in-law suggested, raoicli to Superintendent Collins's surprise, that he and the brother be permitted to witness the execution. Prtllrnc nnnl/1 UCIUIC OU|(UL IIIICXIUCUL VU11.UO vvuiu reply Leon Czolgosz said: "Yes, Mr. Superintendent, let them see me killed." v Superintendent"" Collins told the trio In emphatic terms that no such thine could he allowed and ordered them to say good-by. Czolgosz walked to the hark of his cell, sat down on the edge of his cot and did not answer the last farewell Czolgoss had been an inmate of the prison since early fln the morning ot Friday, September 27. having heen sentenced at Buffalo on the previous afternoon. Ilis trial had occupied h\it two days, having begun on Monday with a verdict of guilty on Tuesday morning, September 23, and ended with a verdict of guilty on Tuesday afternoon. He shot the President on September G, fifty-three days having transpired from that time until the day he was electrocuted. " BIG PROFIT IN BAD PENNIES. Gang: of Connterfeltero at Lant Ran Dowr. by Secret Service Men. Washington, D. C.?The Secret Service at last has found the gang of counterfeiters of cent pieces. The evidence in the possession of Chief Wllkle shows that William Weiner, the head of the band, oust have cleared about seventy-five cents on every dollar's worth of pennies put In circulation. As this is believed to have been going on for years the profits must have been considerable. Assosclated wkh Weiner are a step son, Israel Usher, in Boston', and the Lerner family?father and two daughters in Baltimore. The Lerners have also operated in New York City. Sev. eral months ago Fanny Lerner, a little girl, was arrested in New York charged with selling rolls Of 700 cent pieces, all counterfeits, to Chinese laundrymen, all of of whom need a great deal of small change. Weiner and Israel Usher were arrested in Boston and his plant seized. Up to two months ago his counterfeiting machine was operated In an attic in Pulton street, Brooklyn. Michael Lavlne was found In Brooklyn and held in $5000 bail. The Lerners were arrested In Baltimore. Chief Flynn, in investigating the Fanny Lerner case, found that since 1897 Connecticut manufacturers of sheet metal had been selling sheet bronze of sixteen gause, the requisite thickness for one cent coins, to Willlam Weiner. He bought 100 to 150 pounds at a. time. BOY KILLED AT PLAY. Was "Santa Clans" and Suffocated In ft Holo In the Celling. Philadelphia.?Nine-year-old Law- j renoe Fox played Santa Claus at the J cost of his life. Alone with his I brother, Elmer, aged three years, j Lawrence utilized a hole in the kitchen celling above the range as a chim- J n^y. He entered the hole, which was eight by six inches, from the second floor back bedroom, feet first and then slid downward. The aperture had been made for the purpose of running a heat register np to the second floor, but had not been completed, and was filled with dust and dirt. The boy slipped and became pinioned in the narrow hole, death by suffocation resulting after he had i mnrio frnntip strucreles to recover his I position on the edge of the opening. The child must have been held in the aperture for half an hour before the i arrival of relief. TO REPEOPLE BOER STATES. Lord Mliner Says the War May Never Be Over In a Formal Sense. Durban, South Africa.?The imperial authorities have reached the conclusion that the early repeopling of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonics is advisable, so that the normal industrial and agricultural life of the colonies may be resumed. , In the course of a speech, Lord Milner said it "was useless to wait until the war was over in a formal sense. It might never be over, he declared, but It was burning itself out, and in time "we ought to show ourselves masters in the house Ave have taken, by rebuilding it and beginning to live in it." Canada and the Monroe Doctrine. The Canadian Minister of Justice has written an article upon the Monroe Doctrine and Interoceanic canal conditions In which he demands that Great Britain shall not sacrifice the Dominion's interests by letting the United States hp.ve its own way with regard to fortifications. Three Oatlawi Escape From Jail. Three outlaws were helped to free dom from the jail at Wayne Court House, Va. Noted Moonshiner Caught at Last. Rhoda Hensley, one of the boldest moonshiners in the South, has been captured in Union County, Tenn. Safe Breakers Made a Good Haal. Safe-crackers secured $5000 in bonds and $100 cash from Lawrence Brightman's store at Berea, Ohio. Small Whale Caught Off Newport. A twenty-one-foot whale, known as a "bottle-nose whale," was captured off Newport, R. I., and towed into the harbor. The sea monster will be stripped of its flesh and the skeleton prepared for shipment to the Smithsonian Institution. American Horaeraen Unfairly Treated. Several owners and trainers now racing in England assert that they have been unfairly treated in the matter of handicapping, and have declared their horses out of the remainder of their engagements. ! Hf KILLED III MCE RIOT1 Negroes and Whites Clash at a Louisa ana Camp Meeting. THE MILITIA ORDERED OUT Posse Wont to Bald a Saloon Near Balltown. La., and Were Fired Upon?The Shots Returned and the Building Set ' on Fire?Governors of Mississippi and Louisiana Take Action, New Orleans, La. ? The bloodiest race war the South has known since the early eighties began at Balltown, Washington Parish, La. The hostilities were opened by the negroes, and in the first engagement three whites and eleven negroes were killed. The conflict raged on the following day, and the death roll was increased by the killing of twenty more negroes. rm- - of n rtncrvn nnrrm JLLie ULUULUU UCj^uu I?fc c? uv,s?v meeting in progress at Live Oak Church, three miles from Balltown. There a pitched battle took place between a posse of white men, gathered by the constable of the district to investigate the report that one Crea Lott was operating a restaurant at the church without a license. The battle was begun by the negrofs themselves. Lott, the negro who was suspected of violating tlie law, saw the posse coming from a window in his store. He opened fire on the constable and his men, and killed two of the posse at the first shut, Joe S:als and Charles Ellsworth. Lott had time to fire but once, for his fire was returned and he s-.mk to the ground, riddled wilh bullets. A begro preacher, Connolly by name, rushed out of the building with a double-barreled shotgun, which he levelled at the whites. Before he could pull the trigger he was killed. The battle had by this time become general. A number of negroes were concealed In Lott's place aud kept volleying at a body of men under the I leadership of an officer. Another white, man was killed. E. H. Thompson was also wounded. The whites fired the building. The negroes, as they came running out with all kinds of weapons, were shot down. The whites wen a complete victory, and the surviving negroes fled to the woods. When the end came and the restaurant had Leen, burned to ashes it was found rh.T- eleven negroes, all told, had been shot or burned to death. Three women who were In Lott's were cremated. Two of them were charred beyond identification. One of the women ha<J a child with her. The child perished in the flames, too. The conflict was continued on the next day. Later Governor W. W. Heard, of Louisiana received the following message by wire from Columbia, Miss.: "Terrible conflict Balltown Parish, between whites and blacks. Send troops at once via Poplarville, Miss. "H. N. SIMMONS, Sheriff." Upon receiving tne message uovernor Heard wired General Jorn Glynn, Jr., notifying him of the race war and directing him to order out a company of fifty men for immediate service. A few hours later the Governor received a telegram from Deputy Sheriff Branton, of Marion County, Miss., to the effect that Jie was just from the scene of the trouble, and that quiet had been restored and that troops would not be necessary. Governor Longino, of Mississippi, received his first notification of the riot [ from Governor Heard. Later he re[ celved a telegram frm the Slipriff of j Marlon County asking permission to dispatch the Columbia Guards to the | scene. The Sheriff was authorized to J do so. It was in Balltown that William Morris, a negro, was burned at the staKc me outer aay tor inmost mm- i clering the wife of a storekeeper. Since this affair the camp meeting at Live Oak began, and the negroes discussed it until they were ready for anything. It was in all probability the fate of Morris which inflamed them to tho step they took in ambushing and opening Are on the constable's posse. Morris's crime, however, had nothing to do with the organization of the posse, which was summoned legally for the suppression of the violation of law which was reported at the JJve j Oak Church. M'KINLEY PERISHED CM DUTY. Official Report by Dr. ISlxey to the Surgeon-General of tlie Navy. Washington. D. C.?"In the line of 3uty, while receiving the people, was shot by Leon F. Czolgosz," is the official statement filed with the Surgeon General of tha Navy by Dr. Presley M. Itixey, Medical Inspector. U. S. N., as the introduction for his report upon | the death of the late President McKini l~?. TM</? nnnon nf Honfh ia tillia stilt". ICJ. AUG v.i*ugC VI. V? W ed: Gangrene of both walls of stomach and pancreas, following gunshot wound." The report Is remarkable for its exhibition in the closcst detail of the state of the patient uuring Lis illness. It is in the shape of a ship's log almost, showing at intervals of a very few ininute3. sometimes a single minute, rarely more than an hour the patient's progress. Perhaps the most 1 valuable data from a medical point of view is the registering of the medication of the case?not a morsel of food uor a dose of medicine nor a bath is omitted. . Tex*.* Desperado Shot llead. Eugene Wall, one of the noted Wall brothers of San Augustine, Tex., and a participant in the bloody feuds of the Wall and Brook3 families for several years, was .shot from ambush and killed, six miles from San 'Augustine, Texas. Kecluae Slept Five Years in Coffin. Duncan T. Grandpre, a wealthy but tccentric recluse, died in his lonely imtrif> near Vestal. Susouehanna Coun iy, I'enu. For live years be liad slept iu a coffin. Pollccmsn Kill* a Boy. An unkuown white boy, about fifteen years of age, was shot aud killed by Policeman James Richardson, at Birmingham, Ala. The policeman says the boy and two companions were attempting to rob a store. Richardson is under arrest charged v.-ith manslaughter. Son Slaya His Father. Edward Collier, aged twenty-flve, was arrested at Madison, S. D., for killing his father. The two men quarrelled over the sale of a farm while riding home in a buggy and the bob cut his father's throat- ' Q t * ; ;, 7>-" jyr * * ' v(. i WEYLER UTTERS A THREAT 1 inonieVi Conarol Tnftmafoa That Hft I W ?/C* 11 lO 11 Uy?lV4M?. May Become a Dictator. i His Speech Creates a Sensation in tli? < Chamber of Deputies ? He Says 1 He is a Soldier Before All. ( i Madrid, Spain.?In a sensational sit- j ting of the Chamber of Deputies Senoi Romero y Robledo cleverly led the Minister of War, General Weyler, to i define his attitude and intentions. Geberal Weyler declared that while the war in Cuba lasted his views were totally distinct from those of the Lib- 1 eral party, but that when the war was , at an end the motive for separation j , disappeared, and he saw nothing to I prevent him attaching himself to a Liberal Government. ' "I have always faithfully observed i discipline," General Weyler continued, ' "and he who talks of dictatorship is the enemy of discipline. Our recent . manoeuvres have proved that .good feeling exists between the people and the army. As for dictatorship, no one thinks of such a thing. Dictators are | the offspring of circumstances. "For myself I may say this: I have j never thought of being a dictator, nor j do I now. Nevertheless, if my aid ' were asked at a moment of gravity I j do not know how I should decide between my political and military duties, but I should always incline toward the latter." . Loud and prolonged uproar interrupted the Minister of War, and several of his Ministerial colleagues were unable to restivain expressions of surprise at his words. "I am a politician and a Liberal," General Weyler resumed, "but before all I am a soldier, and, if it should become necessary, I -will defend our institutions and Parliament." General Weyler's speech largely occupies public attention, in view of the possibility that he may become Premier if Senor Sagasta. whose health is Indifferent, should find it necessary to retire. El Pais asserts that Senor Sagasta will snoruy resign me t-reujieisuip, owing to ill health. El Imparcial remarks that "a dark cloud enshrouds General Weyler since tne debate." TO RAISE NO WHEAT IN 1902. A Kansas Scheme to Raise the Price ol the Grain Next Year. Independence, Kan. ? A gigantic scheme is materializing in Southern Kansas to run the price of wheat up . next year. It is original with B. H. Giger and other wheat raisers here, and is to include all the farmers of the wheat belt of the country. Every farmer is to sign an agreement not to raise an acre of wheat In 1902. and thus force the price of wheat. Each township will be organized, then the counties and later the States. Each farmer will contribute $1 toward advancing the cause when he signs the agreement. There is said to be no politics in this proposed organization, which is spreading rapidly. SENATOR JONES A REPUBLICAN.! He Announced His Return to the Varty? Sa.vs Silver Issue is Dead. Reno, Nev. ? United States Senator John P. Jones, of Nfivada. has made the announcement to his friends that he has returned to the Republican party. "I hare suffered no change in any of the convictions I have entertained in the past," said the Senator. "I am as I sincere a believer in bimetallism as | when I left the Republican party. The | enormous output of gold has accom- | plished what bimetallism would have accomplished. The silver Issue is dead. I have always acted with the Republican party upon every question but silver." Minister Commits Suicide. The Rev. OttcP F. Lenk, aged twenty(ive. pastor of St. John's German Lutheran Church, at Cullman, Ala., tiled from a bullet wound just over his heart, inflicted by a pistol in his own hand. It is supposed the death jf Miss Minnie Hartung. to whom the minister was said to be engaged, was the cause of the suicide. Crownlnshteld's New Post. Secretary Long, at Washington, announced that Rear-Admiral A. S. Crowninshield. Chief of the Navigation Bureau at present, would be detached from that position and take command of the European squadron aext March, being relieved of his present duties by Rear-Admiral Henry C Taylor. Kill Tiventy-Flve Filipinos. The constabulary had a fight with Insurgents near Passi, Province of I tloilo. Island of Panay, P. I., in which | twenty-five insurgents were killed and | three captured, together witn a quantity of arms and ammunition. In Touch With Storm Kidnapers. ? The mislonaries who are operating from Samakov. Bulgaria, are reported from Constantinople to have put them! selves in touch with the brigands who abducted Miss Ellen M. Stone and her companion. Mme. Tsilka. Minister Killed by a Falling Tree. The Rev. Daniel Frank and wife, of Fairview, Kan., were killed and three others were injured at Cedarville Kan., under a falling tree. Manchuria Treaty Settled. It is officially announced in St. Petersburg that Russia and China have ?oncluded an agreement as to Manchuria. rivalry Troopers Run Riot. Several cavalry troopers, stationed near Holbrook, Ariz., indulged in a drunken riot in that town, which ended in an attack upon the house of John Blevins. Deputy Sheriff. Blevins was fatally wounded. Three of the soldiers were placed under arrest Kills Brother in Fight Over a Rabbit. In a fight following a quarrel over a rabbit which had been killed during a tiunt near Axtor, Va., George Preston stabbed his brother Alec to death with a nocket knife. ??______ .. 9 Pergonal Mention. Li Hung Chang is breaking down physically. Andrew Carnegie has accepted the i * * ?^?( I nomination to oe ioiu revtwt Andrew's University. Mrs. E. H. Conger has sailed from San Francisco, Cal., on her way to China to join her husband. Professor Virchow has been elected an honorary member of the Opthalmological Society, of Berlin. Emperor William has conferred upon Surgeon-General Koch, the noted physician, the rank of a major* sreueral ''1 ! '-jS . -?3 ... > ,<3j Hop Picking Big: Industry. A London correspondent writes that the railway officials who have been superintending the departure of hop pickers from the city state that the contingents departing by the night 1 service of trams nave Deen numerically stronger tbhn for many years past. It Is calculated that within the eight or nine days previous to the opening of the season some 50.000 hoppers of both sexes and of all ages have availed themselves of the rallway/ facilities provided by the railway sys-' tem tapping the Kentish hop districts. WlreleM Telegraphy on Motors. Mr. Marconi has perfected a wireless telegraphic apparatus inside his motor car by which he can quickly travel %? ? * /innntru nnrt POffl. LV CLLiy [/ait VL IUC V.VW1*V*J ? . municate to other cars and stations. The messages are taken successfully "jv with the funnel, which may be raised' or lowered. Messages can be transmitted while the motor Is traveling This motor was specially built for mill- i. tary purposes, and will take part In the next manoeuvers.?London Sphere. HlRhent Award on Cocoa and Chocolate. The Judges of the Pan-American Ex* position, Buffalo, have awarded three gold medals to Walter Baker &.Co., Limited, Dorchester, Mass., for the superiority of their Breakfast Cocoa'Snd all of their cocoa and chocolate prepa rations, and the excellence of their / exhibit. This is the thirty-seventfr;.^ highest award received by them from, the great expositions in Europe and America. ' :>'^S Barely Experienced. "So Floaters has at last got a job ';t with the corporation, eh?" "Yes, and a good salary he gets. too." "For doing nothing, of course?" "Yes, but you mustn't forget that he brings a lifetime of experience In that line."?Richmond Dispatch. Winter Tourist Kates?Season 1901-1903. The Southern Railway, the direct route to the winter resorts of Florida, Georgia, the , Carolinas and the South and Southwest, an- i nounce8 excursion tickets will be placed on sale October loth to April 30th, with final limit May 81, 1902. Perfect Dining andl*ullman Service on all through trains. For full particulars regarding rat?, descriptive matter call on or address New York Office, 271 ana 1185 Broadway, or Alex. S. Thweatt, Eastern Pass. Agent, 1185 Brondway. The electric light pole stands in its own light. . Bad Coughs . 411 had bad cough for six weeks and could And no relief until I tried Ayer's Cherry 'Pectoral. Only one-fourth of the bottle VVUWU 141V L. Htwn, Newington, Ont. ^ " Neglected colds always . lead to something serious. 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