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i i RECORD OF THE PAST YEAR ,A Review of the First Twelve Months of the Twentieth Century, /DDnnDCCQ nCTUF IINITF'nfvTATFR r I1UUI1LUU \/l Mil. wan i VI... r _____ <5ur Country Assumes a Leading Position Among the Great Industrial Nations ? Some of the Principal Events That Have Occurred In America and Elsewhere ? Notable Persona Who Hai.ve Died. Washington, D. C.?The first year of the twentieth century has closed with ' & remarkable record to Its credit. Vast changes have been wrought, politically and industrially, in all parts of the ,world. Every department of human -interest has felt the impulse of the ? iopening century, and the year has Ibeen one of losses and of gains, ofi ' fulfilments and of promises. The United States has enjoyed unprecedented .prosperity. This country has assumed a leading-position among the great nations. Its export traae has reached astounding figures, while 'foreign manufacturers have taken alarm at the Increasing proportions of .the so-called American invasion of Euxope. The general prosperity of the country is reflected in the unexampled condition of the National Treasury. "For the calendar year," said Secretary, Gage, "we show receipts in excess of the ordinary expenditures amounting roundly to $100,000,000. Such an excess might have resulted in serfous embarrassment had not the department been able by means of this surplus to reduce the public debt in large amounts. The available cash i on hand, therefore, is only about $80,000,000 larger than the amount held a year ago. There has been a very material Increase in the volume of money V in circulation as well as in the amount H per capita." The volume is now $2,~ 250,256,230, and the amount per capita, $28.78. The mill, the loom and the forge have been taxed to supply the domestic and foreign demands for their products. The excessive drought, of the summer disastrously affected' the corn crop, but this misfortune has been largely counteracted by the unusually high prices which have prevailed for agricultural commodities. The year has been marked by an unprecedented volume of business and enhancement of AVrt wnn 1 m /v# flnonno OTI/1 onDP. VttlUCS ill lUC ICUlUi Vi UUU4JVV UUU ?yvv ulatlon. The value of Industrial securities which have been authorized or ^created during the calendar year amount to nearly $3,000,000,000. The Wall street panic of last May, while it wiped out many speculative fortunes, <Md not destroy a single foot of railway or a dollar's worth of real property. Soon after a gigantic combination of the railroads of the Northwest, With a capitalization of $400,000,000 Was formed, and harmony was effected among the interests whose clash precipitated the panic. The railroads of the country have experienced an unusually prosperous fear. A serious shortage of cars has Impeded the delivery of freight, and has temporarily crippled many industries. Railroad building in the United States has been greater during 1001 than for any year ror eleven years previous tho total nnnrnxlmatlnff 5057 miles of line. The construction for the year, added to the total mileage previous, brings the total of the country to approximately 199,370 miles. Among the principal events of the year of interest to the American people are the taking of the oath of allegiance to the United States upon the part of 50,000 Filipinos in Iloilo Province, the inauguration of President McKinley and Vice-President Roosevelt, the capture of Aguinaldo by Brigadier-General Frederick Funston, the establishment of civil government in the Philippihes, the holding of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, the opening of the Indian reservations in Oklahoma for settlement, tiie assassination of President McKinley at Buffalo and the succession of Vice-President Roosevelt as President of the United States, the defeat by the yacht Columbia of Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Shamrock II. In the contest for the America's Cup, ihe successful test under water of the Holland submarine boat, which remained submerged for fifteen hours, the announcement of Signor Marconi that he had received wireless tele_graphy at Halifax, N. S., a message from Cornwall, England; Andrew Carnegie's offer of $10,000,?00 for the endowment of a National University at Washington; Mrs. Leland Stanford's gift of $30,000,000 to the Stanford University of California, the ratification of the Nicaragua Canal Treaty with Great Britain by the United States Senate, and the taking of the first practical on iefhmion nn no 1 onH a DtCpO IVTY C4X Vi OIX lOVUUiKUi mmv* ?Pacific cable. Important events have transpired in other portions of the world during the past year. Great Britain has been busy with the South African war, with Irish agitation and with grave fiscal problems; France has expelled the religious orders; Germany has experienced the greatest industrial depression in her history; Austria-Hungary has returned to the field of racial and lingual feud; Russia has finished her Siberian Railroad and fallen beneath the sway of an appallingfamine; Japan has given fresh proof of her astounding powers of progress; China has been forced into new relationships with the outer world; Crete has attained the desire of ages, the practical annexation to Greece; and the South American States have maintained their propensities for bickering and fighting. In Wki Insured For 81,000,000. Frank H. Peavey, the grain elevator king of Minneapolis, Minn., is dead. TTp rurried a Sl.000.000 nolicy in the Mutual Life Iusurauce Company. He had made only two annual payments of $48,390 each. Indicted For 860,000 Shortage. City Clerk A. W. Miller, at Sandusky, Ohio, was indicted on three charges of embezzlement aggregating $60,000. Miller, who had left Sandusky, was brought back from Havana, Cuba. i ~ Newsy Uleunmgs v For the first time in years New York City is importing Irish potatoes rrorn Ireland. The bulk of the coal lands in Raleigh County, W. Va., have been sold to a syndicate. Upwards of 1300 owners of automobiles have registered under the new law in New York State. Captain John Cobb, an American, who has lived in Morocco for more than thirty years, is going to present an Arabian saddle horse to President - Roosevelt. addition two new States have been added to the world's community of nations. Upon the first day of the year the Commonwealth of Australasia came into being, and upon the last day of the year was held the election which will call into existence the Government of the Republic of Cuba. The year's iist of the distinguished dead is remarkable for the many great names which are recorded on it. The roll includes President William McKinley, former President Benjamin Harrison, Queen Victoria, Francesco Crispi, former Premier of Italy; Empress Dowager of Germany, Li Ilung Chang, the great Chinese statesman; ADmu Kauman xvauu, rue Auieur ut i Afghanistan; Prince von Hohcnlohe, former Chancellor of Germany; President Errazuriz, of Chile: former King Milan, of Servla; Prince Henri de Orleans, Hazen S. Pingree, former Governor of Michigan; Baron Wilhelm von Rothschild, head of the famous banking house; Sir Walter Besant, the novelist; Guiseppe Verdi, the Italian composer; William Maxwell Evarts, former Secretary of State; Kate Greenaway, the child's illustrator; Rear-Admiral Francis M. Bunce, U. S. N., and Ignatius Donnelly, the politician and author. The great record of gifts and bequests made in 1899 to colleges, universities, libraries and art museums, which reached $79,749,950, must give way to 1901. The total of its gifts reaches $123,888,732. Of the total I amount there has been given to eduI ?ii ?(i? s^n tn | t'llllVUUl lliOltVUVtVUO yvw|wvfw*| charities $22,217,470, to churches $6,293,489, to museums and art galleries $11,183,112, and to libraries $15,3S8,73^ ' $3,607,539,200 IN TRUSTS. ' Ceniui* Report on the Condition of 188 Industrial Combination*. Washington, D. C.?Census statistics made public on industrial combinations show a total authorized capitalization on May 31, 1900, for the 183 corporations reported of $3,607,539,200, and capital stock Issued $3,085,200,868. The total value of all the products of the combinations reported is $1,661,-j 295,364, and subtracting the value of the products of the hand trades, or mechanical and neighborhood industries, which amount to $1,216,165,160, the products of the industrial combinations in 1900 are found equivalent to more than twenty per cent, of the total gross products of the manufacturing industries of the country as they existed in 1890. The 183 corporations reported employed an average of 399,192 wage earners, receiving $194,534,515 in wages. Employment also was granted to 24,585 salaried officials, clerks, etc., receiving a total of $32,653,628 in salaries. Miscellaneous expenses or tnese combinations aggregated $151,851,077: Total cost of material used was $1,085,083,828. The gross value of products, less the value of material purchased In partly manufactured form, gives the net or true value of products of these combinations as $1,051,981,568. The 183 corporations reported controj 2029 plants that were active in the census year and 174 reported as idle during that period. ROBBED OLD MAIDS OF FORTUNE. One Tried to Save Her S6000, Bat Was Given s Cold Bath. Barnett Junction, Ga. ? The Misses Battle, two elderly women, were robbed of $6000 in gold. When the robbers entered the house the women, hearing a noise, investigated, lighting a lamp. The robbers dashed a bucket' of cold" water on the one holding the lamp and overawed them. The women lived alone in the house. Several previous attempts have been made to rob them during the last few months. The women say the robbers were white men. and think they recognized one of them. Sharp Fight on Samar. Captain Schoeffel, with a detach* ment of eighteen men of Company E, Ninth Infantry, at Dapdap, Island o 1 Samar, P. I., wa3 attacked by a large force of bolomen. A severe hand to hand fight ensu*ed, in which a sergeant, a corporal and five privates were killed. Captain Schoeffel was wounded, but not dangerously. Five privates were dangerously and one slightly wounded. No property was lost. Th enemy was finally repulsed witfc heavy loss. No Signs of Reaction. The business and industrial development of the year has been so great that some persons are expectant of ac early halt in the forward movement;, but there are no present signs of impending reaction, and the situation ap pears to be favorable for a prolonged continuance of the*prosperous business condition which Marked the closins of the year. One of the Hutflelds Killed. Robert H. Hatfield, one of the Ken [ tucky clan, has been killed at the Troj mining camp in the Pinal Mountains Ariz., by Deputy Sheriff Deviue, whc I went to arrest him for wife beating. Explorer Starts Round the World. Harry de Windt, the explorer, whc will try to reach New York City from Paris by an overland route, has started with his companions for the Berinc Straits. Clothing Trades' Busy Season. The usually busy season in the cloth ing trades of New York City during the last quarter induced 15,000 gar ment workers to join the unions. Trade In Cotton Goodc Quiet. Business in cotton goods lias beet seasonably quiet, but first hand stocks are under good control, and the pricf tendency is against buyers. American* Get the Work. The Manawatu Railway Companj of New Zealand, which recently asked for tenders for a steel viaduct, has ac cepted an American offer to do tht work at a price which is only a quartei as large as any of the English ten ders. The New Zealand Govermnenl will accordingly give future orders foi bridge work to the Americans. Kelisious Illets In the Hebridcv Religious rioters in the Island o. Lewis, in the Hebrides, attacked anc drove police from the island. Minor Mention. Eighteen Texas and Oklahoma cat Clemen have paid $3300 for violating the territorial quarantine laws. There are Si40 penny-in-the-slot ma chines in Cincinnati, Ohio, and ovei $3,000,000 drops into them every year Many Kansas farmers now marke; their grain without resorting to com mission men, at a gain of three cents per bushel. In the Philippines the ration for th? first quarter of 1902 has been fixed ai $2.10 Mexican silver to the American i gold dollar. HARVEY BRUCE CONFESSES ' I He Tells the Story of the Murder of Peter A, Hallenbeck. A 'DEED DELIBERATELY PLANNED frlie Confession Describes How Bruce and A oanoolnat?rl tllft IUC l urco iici/nc Old Man In an Atrocious Planner? ^ Foreclosure of Mortgage Held by Him r the Motive For the Crime. I Hudson, N. Y.?Harvey Bruce, aged c twenty-one, in the form of a statement T to his mother and aunt, witnessed by j, Mayor Charles S. Harvey and County j, Treasurer George M. Macy, confessed ? that the murder of Peter A. Hallen- f beck, the wealthy farmer of Green- * port, was committed by himself and -y Willis, Burton and Fred Van Wormer. t The Van Wormers are brothers, and are twenty, twenty-three and twenty- ^ six years old. They were nephews j of the murdered man. a The confession shows that the mur- It der was planned deliberately. It tells 'a how the prisoners, who all live in Kin- o derhook, eighteen miles from the Hal- b lenbeck home, rodq in the cool air of t Christmas Eve to the scene of the ii crime, tied their horse to the barn of ij the victim, walked to the rear of the- c house in the bright moonlight, rapped on the door, and when the old man j] opened It, shot him to death, firing c thirteen shots, eleven penetrating the t bodv. J The crime was witnessed by Hallen- a beck's wife and his old mother, the t other members of the family being at k church, leBS than a mile distant, at- c tending Christmas Eve services. i The Van Wormer family lived until f last fall In a house In Greenport, mort- v gaged to Hallenbeck. The boys, being indolent and troublesome, the mortgage a was foreclosed and the family evicted, s This caused their ill-will for the victim. The shots were heard by the neigh- g bore, who saw the fleeing men and v gave the alarm. Suspicion soon rested t on the Van Wormers. p Christmas Day, with Bruce, they c were arrested at Ivinderhook. Their n mother and friends tried hard by tes- q timony before the Coroner to establish an alibi, declaring the boys were at home by 9 o'clock on Christmas Eve. p The officials had strong evidence against them. The horse which they drove had a peculiar shoe with a short cork, the same Impression being in the d soft earth at the barn where the horse P was tied up. The wagon wheels meas- 81 ured the same as the tracks in the c snow leading from the Hallenbeck * house. One footprint was made by a foot ? wearing a "bulldog'' shoe, another by shoes having steel heel plates. The shoes of the prisoners when arrested had those characteristics and fitted the snow prints exactly. The bullets in the J* body were 32 and 38-calibre, which were the same as revolvers found in the prisoners' home. They purchased a masks from a notion dealer at Kinder- p hook the afternoon of the murder, and the men who did the shooting wore masks. Four revolvers were found in the J1 boys' home. The mother In her testl- *E mony, swore they spent the day of the *c murder cleaning them, that they tl - - ? , - m were good Doys, Dur never leu iioine without putting the revolvers in their c< pockets. Describing which revolver ^ belonged to each boy, she said the 38calibre one was Harvey Bruce's, the Ie smaller calibres were those of her w three sons. The physicians who held ?j the post-mortem say the 38-calibre Ul one produced the fatal wounds, the minor wounds being by the 32-calibres. . n DEATH OF CAPTAIN LEARY. His Administration as First Governor of Guam Alade Him Farnoas. ec S Washington, D. C.?The Navy Department has received a telegram ^ from Rear-Admiral Mortimer L. John- | son, commanding the Boston Navy ^ Yard, announcing that Captain Rich- ^ tt fllSkl CAPTAIN BICHARP P. LEABT. T d< ard P. Leary, U. S. N., died at the Ma- er rine Hospital, Chelsea. Pnrxfntn T.OOmr TCO O tllQ fircf" fi rtV- \f \japiaiu AJCWIJ ?? uo eruor of Guam after that island came in into the possession of the United er States, and his administration made pt for him a national reputation. Captain Leary was relieved of the command of the receiving ship Richmond last October on account of heart *h.' trouble and granted six months' leave tli of absence. vi at I/rnch Law In North Carolina While Governor Aycock, of North Carolina, was signing an order for a special court at Northampton to try Peter Mitchell, a negro, for assaulting If Mrs. Lucinda Hill, a white woman, ? the citizens took Mitchell from jail kc at Jackson and lynched him. c* Senator Depew W?mIr in France. , Senator Chauncev M. Depew ana ^ M iss May Palmer were married in a Nice, France, religious ceremonies 1)1 being celebrated in the Catholic and ai American churches there. il to Cost of the Colombian Kphclllon. . ... . , .. D' "ino rtMjcMiion in Loiomuia, wnicn Is now practically over, begap in October, ISO!)," said Colombian Charge u Horran at Washington, "and has cost \\ Vhe country the lives of 50,000 able- f bodied men, the sinews of her popula- fL Hon, and $230,000,000 In money, and has left the country in a state of ex- w liaustion." To Be Judge in the Philippines. el ' D. S. Ambler, of Salem, Ohio, ha& A lieen tendered and accepted a Federal jj Sulgeship in the Philippine Islands. iE He will be stationed at Manila. kit22?=-* iV :UviT / ' ILIPINOS ARE TORTURED nsurgents Visit Awful Vengeance Upon Natives in Our Service irmert Outlaws Seized Three Policemen. ! Hacked Them With Bolos, and Flans Them Alive Into a Well. Washington, D. C.?Many Filipinos rho accept service under American ale are visited with vengeance by lieir fellow-countrymen. The War )epartment has received records of a ase In which three native policemen, cho had been sent from Laoag to San Jicholas, Ilocos Norte, for duty at the itter point, were seized and bound by in armed band of outlaws, taken beore a priest to be confessed, and then lung alive into a well, after being lacked with bolos. One of the band. Venceslao Rosales, was sentenced to le hanged. Another native policeman met his leath at the hands of an outlaw band n the barrio of San Antonia, Laguna 'rovlpce. The outlaws -were lying in mbush, awaiting the passing of a parol of three policemen, upon whose nnrnnoh thev snrane out and caDtured ne of the three. A few days later his ody was found in a neighboring river, weighted with heavy rock and showag wounds through his heart and a his neck. Two of the outlaws were aught and sentenced to be hanged. Two Filipinos who took part in the lurder of an unknown native, acused of being a native spy, beheaded he body, and buried It In the city of lanila. These were also sentenced, inother band seized a native man and roman, for no apparent motive, and :illed them by striking them with lubs on the backs of their necks, larlano Zales, when brought to trial or the crime, gave the following ague explanation: "They were relatives, uncle and unt, of mine, and I had to do it to ave my life." The military commission found him ullty of murder, but the sentence ras confinement at hard labor for wenty years. General Chaffee aproved the sentence, but fully conurred in the remark of the Departlent Commander, that it was inadeuate. ASPHALT TRUST INSOLVENT. ledged to Pay 2,500,000 Annually Dpok 1,000,000 Income. New York City. ? Cumulative evience indicates that the so-called Ashalt Trust is seriously wrecked. Deplte the National Asphalt Company's apltalizatlon of $22,000,000 and the uthorized capitalization of $30,000,00 enjoyed by the Asphalt Company f Amarlrtn whlnli 1 a HAW morffA/l In a. auivi i\.u, m ui\,u aw mv tt wvaqvm ? ae common trust, both concerns ar? 1 the hands of receivers, forced Into lat position by inability to meet invest charges, due or about to fall ue, amounting to something like $1,30,000. From the papers . submitted in the pplication for a receivership It apears that the company is confronted t present with no better prospect than lat of an annual deficit of about $1,)0,000. It stands pledged to pay anually $2,500,000 in interest and sinkig fund charges, whereas it professes ) be able* to count upon receiving om the earnings, interest and other nyments of its subsidiary operating 3mpanies not more than $1,000,000 jarly. * The loss will undoubtedly fall heavst on Philadelphia stockholders, here, it is estimated, the stockholdrs -will be out of pocket at least $20,X),000. LAUNCH OF THE MISSOURI. !io Battleship Sent Into llio Water at Newport Newi, Ta. Newport News, Va. ? The United tates battleship Missouri was launch1 at the yards of the Newport News hipbuilding and Drydock Company, i [iss Marion Cockrell, daughter of the [issouri Senator, performed the chrismlng ceremony, and Secretary of tlie avy John D. Long delivered an ad ess, defending the appropriations for le navy. The Missouri is a sister ship of the hio, building at San Francisco, and the Maine, recently launched at liiladelpliia. Her contract price was 5,885,000. Her keel tvas laid on Febmry 7, 1900, and she is about half >mpleted. Her contract speed is gliteen knots an hour. A new feature introduced into the fensive power of this ship are two ibmerged torpedo tubes. The Mis>url and her class are the first battlelips of the United States Navy in hich water tube boilers are provided, ho collective indicated horse power is jout 16,000 when the vessel is making ghteen knots. WATERSPOUT DROWNS 200. iffoe, Morocco, Flooded by Cloudburst With Enormous Damage. * Tangier. ? A waterspout has burst ~er the town of Saffee, Morocco. It undated the lower part of the town ?r the space of twelve hours, sweepig everything into the sea. Two hun ed persons have been drowned, here are no Europeans among the ;ad. The damage to Saffee was lormous. Saffee is a fortified seaport town of oroceo. It has a population of 12.000, eluding about 3000 Hebrews. It is iclosed by massive walls and hn? ? tlace and a small fort. lhe Czar to Attend Coronation. It is said that the Czar of Russia is v accepted an invitation to attend ie coronation of King Edward, pro ded that the Czarina is in good he-0"-' the time the ceremony occurs. Jumped From the Brooklyn Bridge. For the purpose of gaining notoriety >lin Samuel Pinover jumped off the ' rooklyn Bridge. Not a bone was bro>11 by his perilous attempt, and hJs lances of recovery are good. John S. ' ?- i ? ? X* movers IIUUIL* is 111 iumuiciuuu, ? but all his family live in New York ity. His father, Samuel Pinover. is wealthy retired merchant. Thei idge jumper is twenty-one years old. ul for several years has conducted1 wholesale liquor business in Middloiwn. N. Y. ocided That They AVcre Too Old to Woo John F. F. Kellar, aged eighty, the ealthiest resident of Holland. 111., id Mrs. Sarah Cnniield, aged sixtyjree, were to have been married a >w days ago. When they came be>re the minister they decided tliey ere too old, and parted good friends. Six Killed In a Mine Shaft. While the cage was ascending with ight men at shaft No. 1, of the Molester Coal Company, at Hartshorn, idian Territory, it jumped its guidisrs about 100 feet from the bottom O'' IKINBR EVEHROf THEWEEK WASHINGTON ITEMS. Secretary Hay made an arrangement With the Mexican Government for ar-, bitration of the claims of the Catholk^ Church in California. ' / Rear-Admiral Francis Asbury Roe, U. S. N., retired, is dead. He ivas placed on / the retired list October 4, 1885. after thirty-four years of active service. Great interest "was excited in Washington by the gathering of warships In Venezuelan -waters, and the expected German naval demonstration. Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans, who commanded the battleship Iowa in the Spanish war, received his share of the Santiago bounty money, amounting to $2166. A man who killed himself in a hotel at Washington was identified as Geo. A. Klinger, of Schenectady, N. Y. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. General Chaffee and Acting Governor Wright denied that there is any friction between the military and civil authorities in the Philippines. Captain Frederick S. Foltz. Second Cavalry, was appointed Captain of the Port of Havana? Cuba. Generar Bartolome Maso, Democratic candidate for the Presidency of Cuba, gave up the campaign and returned to his home at Manzanillo. The military prison at Sublg Bay was re-established, and a large number of Filipinos captured in Laguna and Botangas Provinces were sent' there. Tbe Government plans to establish a fiduciary bank at Manila as soon as affairs are more settled, i ' DOMESTIC. While skating at Greenwich, Conn.. Leroy Mosher, eight years #ld, was drowned. The postoffice at Cold Water, Miss., was robbed of $500 in money and stamps. Theodore Duddleston, Jr., formerly bookkeeper for the Stock Yards Bank of East St. Louis, 111., was arrested on a warrant charging him with embezzling $11,054. Indictments for operating bucket shops at Denver, Col., were retucned against three firms. While skating at Livonia, N. Y., , Walter and Gerald Doble fell in an air hole and were drowned. Eight women prisoners in jail at Indianapolis, Ind., mutinied and had to be subdued by turning a stream of water on them. Three children were burned to death at Buffalo, N. Y., in a tenement house fire. In a train wreck at Malta, 111., several persons were killed and Injured. James Eads, a farmer, of Manbeim, N. Y., cut his throat with a razor while despondent over a court case which went against him. Kansas grist mills must close because of the shortage of wneat brought about by the Jump in price.The Cannon Ball express train on the Boston and Maine Railroad was wrecked at Nashua, N. H., and two men were killed. Because his wife left him, August Iceberg, a farmer, at Yates City, 111., killed her and himself, and shot their stepson. 3 A terrific gale swept the foothills of the Rocky Mountains from Cheyenne to Pike's Peak, doipg considerable damage to property. The revenue cutter Hamilton warned Spanish squatters off Acosta Island, a Government reservation near Charlotte Harbor, off the coast of Florida. Nathan Eckman, keeper of the Whale Rock light, was drowned by the upsetting of his boat while returning from Narragansett Pier, R. I., with his mail and supplies. j Freight Engineer McDivit waskilled In a collision with an express at'Thesealon, Mich. Nineteen-year-old Lottie L. Bucliinger, daughter of a farmer near Dalton, N. Y., committed suicide by shooting herself through the head. Nicaragua and Venezuela accepted Invltatious to participate in the I !t Louis World's Fair of 1903. C. C. Bangs, the partner of Kit Ci rson and a veteran of the Mexican war, died at Altona, Boulder County, Cpl. He was seventy-four years of age. ' Miss Lizzie Taylor was practicing with a gun at Burkes Station, Va., when a Southern Railway train passi d behind the target. Frederick Marsha I, a brakeman, was shot and killed. A detachment of 453 recruits le t the barracks at Columbus, Ohio. f<r tlia PVillinninoc FOREIGN. Japan has begun to erect wireiesstelegraph stations along the Korean coast. ( The Russian police said they harl discovered an anti-government plot at^ Odessa of the most dangerous chara^-i ter. 31 Belgian gambling houses proposed j to establish a Monte Carlo at Samoa; If the Sultan of Turkey -would consent) The Nicaraguan Congress organized for a sixty-days' session, with Senor Santiago Lopez as President. The Dominion Government appointed? veterinary inspectors for shipping I ports between the United States and. Canada. The Austrian Lord Chief Justice,1 Chevalier Holzinger, committed suicide at Vienna. He was driven to the act by the fear that he was going totally blind. An electric wire caused a loss of $250,000 in a Victoria (B. C.) department store. The violence of the snowstorms which have prevailed in Norway is almost unprecedented. Prnnor^flnnc ovn Krtinrr mo/In r\n thn Island of Martinique for a revolutionary expedition against President Castro. of Venezuela. Tiie British steamer Gotli, arriving at Island of Ascencion, from South Africa, surrendered a Boer prisoner, who was smuggled on board in a box at St. Helena. The Hebrew Zionist Congress of 1000 delegates from all parts of the world opened at Basle, Switzerland. Emperor William at the Gotlia celebration declared his great aim was to promote evangelical union in Germany. The River Arno overflowed its banks and caused (nueh damage at Florence and Pisa, Italy. A woman was killed, thirty-six per sons were Injured and many building.* were wrecked by a tornado at Naples, Italy. Tho Qnoniah Hnlnr nf fhft Hnlflpf Fleece was bestowed upon Duke Micli- I ael Alexandroviteh. or Russia. I 1 -c SHOT DOWN IN A TRAIN ? , ? ? " Rich Planter Led in the Killing of / - an Inoffensive Passenger. Assailants Held Up the Engineer and ti caped on the Locomotive?Captured Near Home of the Leader. Memphis, Tenn.?Three men, headed by Ashley Cocke, a wealthy planter from Cleveland, deliberately killed M. Rhea, a passenger on a north-bound Yazoo and Mississippi Valley 'train, just out of Leland, Miss., and then compelled the engine driver to uncouple the-locomotlve and carry them further up the road, where they hoped to escape. All were captured several hours later. Cocke was accompanied by A. M. Phipps, postmaster at Shelby, Miss.; Tom Lauderdale, a relative of Phipps, and another man named Blackman. Cocke had a revolver, Blackman and Lauderdale carried rifles and Phipps was unarmed. When they boarded the train at Leland to go to Shelby, J. M. Rhea, a railroad engine driver, of VIcksburg, was on his way to Tutwiler to take an engine.' He was asleep when Phipps stumbled over him, awaking him. After a discussion- the four men told Rhea that he would have to get out of the car. Rhea saw that the men were apparently intoxicated anu suirieu iu obey them. As he reached the door the three armed men fired on him and he fell, pierced by three bullets. The train then returned to Leland with Rhea's body. George McLoughlln, a conductor, went in search of policemen, who arrived in time to arrest Phipps. Meanwhile Cocke and the other two men went up to the engine driver, covered him with their weapons, made him uncouple his engine and carry them to Shelby. There the three men took another train and went to Cleveland, where they were all arrested. Indignation is intense, especially against Cocke, whose exploits have made him notorious. He killed a negro only a few days ago. . FATALITIES FROM FLOOOS. Men ion Tbelr Lives In Georjjl* ana Virginia?Fatal Train Wreck. Philadelphia, Penn. ? Reports from all parts of Eastern Pennsylvania showed that the rivers and creeks which, became greatly swollen as a result of two days' continuous rain haVe fallen. Although considerable damage has been done, the losses will not be great, most of the flooded areas being low lands along the Upper Schuylkill, Lehigh and Susquehanna rivers. In ' a' HloMnf a fpw nf IUC auiuiauic wat ?v., ? the mines were flooded, causing a suspension of work for the day. Atlanta, Ga.?Four deaths have been caused by violent rains in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee and portions of North Carolina, and much serious damage to all kinds of property has Tesulted. Three persons were drowned at West Point, Ga., while attempting to cross the turbulent Chattahoochee and Thomas Russell, an engineer, was killed in the freight wreck caused by a wash-out near Notasulga. Water in the streets of West Point was from one to five feet deep. Many of the people spent the night In Fort Tyler. Railroad traffic was considerably delayed. Parkersburg. W.Va.?Two men were | 'killed, one badly injured, an engine and four cars at the foot of an embankment, two other cars wrecked and 100 feet of track torn up as the result of the collision of a west-bound freijrht train against a massive rock at No. 3 Tunnel, near Long Run. The engine struck the rock just as the train | came out of the tunnel. The two men killed are Fireman A. R. Hile and Brakeman A. B. Putnam, both of Grafton. Heavy rains loosened the rock, which fell across the tracks from the hillside: MURDERERS LEFT TO DIE. Tied to Trees and Kept There All Nlghv in a Fierce Storm. Vancouver, B. C.?A brutal murder followed by quick vengeance took place at McNair's camp in the Outskirts of Vancouver. Buraji Karaburu, while talking with a friend, was seized by two Japanese, while another sank an axe into his skull, killing him instantly. The camp was aroused and the three murderers tied sectirely to trees and left in the mountains all night until the police could be sent for. A fierce storm sprang up and in the morning one had died of exposure and the others were dying when taken in charge by the po-' lice. The dead man, Ikabu Saburo, was the one who struck the fatal blow. OBSTINATE WIDOW OUT OF JAIL Her Imprisonment For Contempt of Conrt Comes to an End. Bridgeport. Conn. ? Mrs. Mary E. iI Smith, who was adjudged in of court and committed to weeks ago, having refused to lie whereabouts of $300,000 Government bonds owned by been released. irt proceedings through which th was declared in contempt Light by counsel for Orrin F. f New York City, who sought her Government bonds in ortach them to satisfy a judg300. The terms of her release lade public. nrftnces From Germany. y gave assurances that tht oe Doctrine shall not be vio ts attempt to collect claims > Sireepi Newfoundland. gales swept the coast 01 Hand and wrought much deft mong the shipping and fish ties at Bay of Islands, where SWnerloa" ,vesse's """ere seekEncounter With Filipinos. Company P, Twenty-first Infantry, has had a desperate hand-to-hand encounter in a gorge six miles south of San Jose. Batangas, I*. I. Two America;! soldiers were wounded and twenty-two of the insurgents were killed. Lrtbor World. Numerous labor controversies iiavo l>eeh -ettled lately, and the rate of wag-es is at "he highest point ever obtained. At Wilkc-sbarre, Penn..' the traction company inotouneii ana conductors have accepted an increase of five | cents a day. They had demanded ten cents. Uaited States Senator Mitchell has introduced a bill fixing ?2 a day as the aiinimuni rate of wages to be paid to women in the emnlov the Government. JfcNoUSEHotD Wood Green Furniture. Wood green oak furniture is much. favored Just now for living rooms. * Keeping llnoleam Clean. Linoleum should never be scrubbed, but may be washed with soap and water and then dried with a cloth. 11 is a good plan to polish It with equal parts of oil and vinegar applied with a flannel. This should be rubbed off carefully with a doth so that not the least stickiness remains. If Maaa. The most recent showings of fancy ' household linens are veritable dreams of beauty. Colored linen embroidered on a white ground is shown as~ a' change from the all white kinds. These pieces are in centres, doilies, bureap scarfs, etc., to match special color , o schemes. Exquisite table sets of cloth and napkins have the linen cut out in spaces and squares of filet and Yenica lace set in alternately. Bedroom Furniture. Heavy cumbrous furniture takes up the air space, and makes the doom dlf- , flcult to keep clean. Moreover, it encourages the storage of quantities of clothing in the room, which always produce a stuffy condition of the air. ! The bed is the most important article. It should have a strong iron frame, with a good woven wire or chain spring mattress.. On the bed- ' ' stead 'there should be a hair mattress. a bolster and a reamer piuowv xne bed clothes should consist of an nnder . blanket and one, two, or three upper blankets, according to the weather," a pair of cotton sheets, a cotton or linen v pillow-case, and a counterpane. ( A short cretonne valance not reaching to * the floor gives appearance and does no harm, unless it encourages that '*? dirty and unwholesome practice of . ?: hiding away all sorts, of old boxes and ./ rubbish under the bed. 'v: In addition to the bed,v.a combined dressing table and a chest of drawers,' > a washing-table and toilet-service, and \ some kind of wardrobe are necessary. ' The hanging wardrobe is an excellent Idea. It consists of a wooden top to which a row of pegs and a curtain rod are attached. The top is fastened to the wall, preferably in a recess, and . * nnwfolna /*# mnolin onH nrofnnna LU1 laiuo VI Uil u uu v* - nn--r ^ are suspended around it by the rod. <.'? -~'? It costs a mere nothing, and, beta? ^ airy, never contracts that stuffy odor so common in a closet filled with worn r ; clothing. A few ornaments and pic tures are, of course, permissible, bat decorations placed in the fire grate, ,3! must not be such as to obstruct the free passage of air up the chimney. Cleanliness is best secured by furnishing the room in such a way as to make it as easy as possible to keep clean. The walls, floors and windows should be treated as simply as possible, and .the other furniture should be limited to that which is really necessary for use in the bed room.?Amer-' , r ican Queen. XWirspr Nut Cake?One egg, three-fourthg cup of thick sour cream, one cup of sugar, one and one-half cups flour, one-half teaspoon soda, one cup chopped Eng- * lish walnuts. Bake nearly an hour in ? a well greased floured tin in a moderate oven. . y Hashed Brown Potatoes?For one and one-half pints of cold boiled potatoes, | ' *- * - J J ??? V? r? H* +AOnnAAtlfnl * 'J CUt 111 QlCe, UUU uue-uan ' icaopvvuAtM salt, one-sixth teaspocnful pepper, and about three-fourths of a cup of milk. Melt one tablespoonful of butter In a frying pan, pour In potatoes, mix well, dredge with one tablespoonful of floiir, and stir for five minutes. Then pour all in hot, well-buttered spider and < brown. Turn out like an omelet Banana Pudding?Four cups of w^ter, one cup of sugar, four tablespoonfuls of corn starch, whites of four eggs, three bananas, two oranges. Put sugar with water and let come' to a boil. Wet the corn starch and stir in. Add the well beaten egg whites by spoonfuls, beating well all the time. Do not let boil after this, as it burns < easily. Put in a dish o layer of this alternately with slices of banana and orange. Serve cold with whipped cream. Fricassee of Eggs?Set two ounces of butter into a stewpan, ana wuen uissolved add chopped parsley, a little tineiy minced onion, with pepper and salt to season. Stew this until the seasoning is cooked, then add a cupful of milk and a little flour to thicken the whole. Boil four eggs until hard, peel off the shells carefully, and cut into slices; each egg should make four or five slices. Set the eggs into the sauce, let all come to the boil, and set in an entree dish at once. If preferred, substitute gravy for milk. Lamb. Steaks with Oyster Sauce?Cut steaks from a loin of lamb, dip them into the well-beaten yolks of two eggs, season with a tablespoon of parsley, ahnniMd tine, the srr.ted neel of half a lemon. salt, pepper and a pinch of M nutmeg. Fry in butter until brown H on both sides. Thicken a large cup; ?U of rich gravy with a tablespoonful of! sM butter rubbed into a tablespoon ofl |H , flour, add three tablespoonfuls of oys-j jK I ter liquor and one dozen oysters.! S9 I When the gravy hns boiled a minutej put in the steaks and allow them to; get thoroughly hot. Serve with thegravy poured over them. Garnish with: lemon points and parsley.