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RECORD OF THE PAST YEAR
,A Review of the First Twelve Months
of the Twentieth Century,
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<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
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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
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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.
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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
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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 '
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He Tells the Story of the Murder of
Peter A, Hallenbeck.
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'DEED DELIBERATELY PLANNED
frlie Confession Describes How Bruce and
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Old Man In an Atrocious Planner? ^
Foreclosure of Mortgage Held by Him r
the Motive For the Crime.
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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
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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.
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DEATH OF CAPTAIN LEARY.
His Administration as First Governor of
Guam Alade Him Farnoas. ec
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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- ^
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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
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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
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Cost of the Colombian Kphclllon.
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"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.
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' 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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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SHOT DOWN IN A TRAIN
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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, |
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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.