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Ihriitmas bells, ring out t!v :? (
L beilj, foy bel.'s?the swzebtold.
[nutl the King hay come? T
[chiming belli, be y? not dut
bace on earth, good wii! to V
I it again, and yet again,
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k3(0(6K^HRISTMAS is .such a t
oughly established inst
^ $2 tion, so integral a pan
$ our yearly program th:
really don't think the ]
pyof dispensing with it ever
Kd' to me until A. H. J.'s li
L '-The False Calendar," cam(
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I ''Fell to thinking how 'twould be
| Ii such a thing were true/'
Christmas were wiped off the
kr. Surely, winter would seen
L cokl, cruel season without the
rsary that opens our hearth,
es and our purses, and possesses
the spirit of loving and givi
'kindly thought of others,
tr Christmas season is a curi<
mingling of Christian and pa?
monials. When Christianity v
ing slow headway agaiust pc
Isui. the early fathers of the chu;
'To? Owte
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uaj it expedient to engraft upon the
w faith some of tbe customs and
actices of the old. Thus, !ons before
e Christian era "the babe in the manr"
was a symbol of the birth of the
yr year, and was part of the Satur?ia,
or festival of Saturn, the inadSt.and
most riotlously merry of pan
feasts. The derc-'\iions of our
riftrtittft in h<? (f hricitinin ITr**
'Duguijj in *&,in
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AS BELLS
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). Christmas bells, rtng ot;: t>e Savtor s brrtn ?
Sweet bells, glad bells, this day to all the earth*
hat a!! to Him. their glorious Xing 0.
silver bells, may incense bring
k'ho welcome Him, with Him shall rej-v.i
Tel! it again and yet again.
). Christmas bells.
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bouses with ever^iCtns and mistletoes
comes from the rite.3 of tne ancient
Druids, who yearly cut the milky-berried
parasite from the trees with silver
knives aud much ceremonial. The Druids
were not pagans, as the Romans
were: they believed in God. in a future
life, in rewards and punishments for
good and evil doing, but their faith
was crude and cruel.
The giving of gifts, the feastings.
and the benefactions to the poor which
characterize the great Christian Iiolil,day
were features of the midwinter
'festival of the pagans, and were grafted
upon the new religion to make the j
transition from the one to the other
^nore easy. Later Christinas revels.
he wassail, the ''waits." traces of
rhich stiil survive in England, can
?e followed back 10 the Yule festival
' the ancients, Yule being tlie name of
caie winter month in which th? days
a ?gin to lengthen. Yu!e was derived
anom Huie. a wheel, the ancient s.vrnou?l
of the sun. Great logs were drawn
1115 the cavernous fireplaces of those
iiff.ys with great ceremony and merri?nt.
and were lighted as symbolicol
jus the return of the sun in the winter
ran ;tice. and in honor of the lengthenras
days.
>Iy- hie early Christians did not special;ch
J-elebrate the nativity, but regarded
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LDONNA .WITH THE 1
aphtiel (Italian: Bora 1483; Died 152(
as more sacrel the anniversary of
Christ's faptisu, as the date on which
His ministry >es;an. The institution
of the festival of Christmas is attributed
to the Enperor Commodus. and
it was not until A. D. 3S0 that Eastern
churches geierally adopted it.
"Christ's Mass'?fcom which "Christmas"
is derived was in earlier times
celebrated at the New Year (January
| G) by Eastern Christians. Julius I..
Bishop of ^ate w'" uou*
Christmai^% *therefore, the exact
atuiiveraSfy .ofithe nativity, that
date being It is a day set
apart to cew^tirfce event, much as
we set apijfi^Hfcj^sgivIng as a day
of stTtitud^jkB^gilying thanks for the
bountiful earth.
All Chris^||^Bfl Mii<i observe Christmas.
It i&'jP^jftflftigk universal holiday.
Sonjfiffiwgiffi keep it in spirit;
there are few ^fho uot keep it iu the
letter. TIk <;af^2ries begin weeks
prior to its panoUjj5,v^ve plan the Christmas
surprifeg! jw^ittiee self-denial to
swell our (SflHBi fund, or sive our
time to tbf!jttajitinj? of sifts, that we
may fitly t eijtjxgj& its annual return.
There is about the season
that inclinjr' oHH enrt to generosity.
We want tgragfljHothers happy. We
begin prudBajpjjt - a limit to our expenditures
MhHHi are "thus far nud
iot a (Iolinw| But "the loving
uul *rinSmm> 5WS aPac(?- We are
empted; so many lovely
bings in so many expedients
to wilflH^^Eh. from our purses,
fiwt as lotfHplfiB^ keep our motives
>ure and d ou't let them deI.
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scend to th?> level of a "bargain counter
Christmas," our joy in Christmas
is real. But when we make gifts because
others have given to us; when
we measure values; when we let ourselves
feel a little envious because
others have received more richly oc
more abundantly than we. we very
soon find out that we have lowered the
high meaning of the day and drifted
far from its spirit.
A merry Christmas by no means requires
expensive gifts. A tree prettily
dressed with' strings of popcorn and
cranberries and bung with apples and
nr?inflpli?rhi-K fhilri ^ves as much as
if its adornments wore more costly.
Little things please if chosen with
thought of the desires of the recipient.
Have a sood dinner, and invite some
who would otherwise eat a scanty or
a lonely one to dine with you. E>on't
have a seltish Chris.'mas, but let yost
Christmas giving and your Christmas
cheer radiate from your home to bless
the poor, the lonely, the unfortunate.
Make up your mind to do something
toward making some outsider have a
merry Christmas, ami the act will
proved benison upon your own.
Last year a kind-hearted woman invited
to her Christmas table a man
who calied to see her husband on
Christmas morning. He was poor.
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shabby, lonely; he bad been down in
tbe depths of despair; be bad "eaten
busks with swine," and was trying to
work bis way back to respectability.
He ate as only a half famished man
can eat at a home table, and when he
went away,."wart^d*and fed, and. better
yet, cheered by tbe kindly welcome
and encouraged by being greeted
as a friend and an equal, tears ran
down his cheeks as be thanked lite
entertainers.
Did not that woman's act breathe
more of the true spirit of Christmas
than tlio entertaining of well-to-do
friends, or the bestowing of rich gifts
upon those who already have more
than they need? BEATRIX.
Tli? Merry Days.
Hang the holly berries?
Let the red flames glow;
Cheeks as red as cherries
Was born on Christmas Day.
'Neath the m'stletoe!
Outside voices on the air:
"Christmas comer* but once i year/'
Steeple belis .^-ringing
Over merry throngs.
And the fiddle singing
All the old-tune songs'
And outside voices on the air:
'''Christmas comes but once a year!"
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HAREMS ALONG THE ORONT
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I' 0110 has lived in Syria, it is
I eis of Hama that bold the gaze, not ever
of many that claim to guard the bones of
j and interesting above a!! is tbe Orontes,
through tbe great city, bringing to Ham
health. One sees few rivers in this land.
so fertile, Abana and Pharpar are hardly
! that parts of Lebanon fairly sweat with
coast as more than stony wad is that dry
south, the Leontes, emptying between Ty;
north?these complete the tale of Syrian
Eastern city that I have seen in which the
orama. Rising from the snow springs of
j through the Entering in of Kamath, da
Hittites, growing slowly as it passes thn
; Antioch it is almost deep enough for na
uiree ui me great tmej ui v?vnu.
It winds and twists through Hama
of the street. We crossed no less than fo
scene, yet always the scenery of Hama
I latticed windows mark the harems of th
little company of women are washing clc
press trees; yonder a weary train of mu
cool water, while a crowd of naked boys
with as much energy and zest as any tru
ner's Magazine.
i FAMOUS OLD PULPIT. for
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j First Used by Robert Strawbrldge tral
j , in a Maryland Farmhouse. the
j One of the newly-elected BiiUop3 or tne
the Methodist Episcopal Church of he
the United States recently preached ing
from a pulpit which is perhaps the Wli
most notable in America. Its length of laic
service comprises as many year3 a3 bui
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i PULPIT T73ED Br B03E?.T STR.VW3RIDGE
i the life of the Methodist Episcopal
| Church, for it was first occupied .
when this great religious organization
came into being in the State of Haryj
land. The one who first discoursed
I funni woe tlin f-imnna Rnhorf SffilW.
I bridge, who has been credited with bej
lng the organizer of the church re|
ferred to, for when he preached the
I doctrine of John Wesley in the little
I Maryland farmhouse he used the pal- H
i pit which had been made l'or thi3 oc- jja
I casion. A narrow strip of board ||
| fastened to the pulpit pillars formed ?1
| the reading desk on which was spread
i the Bible, from which came his inspira- |?
i tion. The .memorable sermon was &
! preached to a little band of about m
j twenty people, but such was its ef- &
! feet that then and there was created
the nucleus of a religious body which ||
i was destined to become one of the ??!
1 most powerful in the world. ||
It is indeed a crude a Ha it?the ^
. Strawbridge pulpit, as it is termed? M
i bat it has had a most interesting liis- ||
j tory. For a quarter of a century It was p|
| utilized by many ministers and carried lg|
i from place to place in Maryland where Igj
| services were held. Among those who J
! occupied it was the famous Bisliop
j Ashbury, another pioneer of Ameri- /*dii
! can Methodism. T!ie little pulpit was
i taken to the dwelling of John Evans,
j where it was first utilized, and stored
I away to be forgotten for nearly a half
j century. A few years ago it was ac- tj
! cidentfilly discovered by a clergyman era{
s who was visiting Iij the Western part
of Maryland and who was familiar
, with its history. He carried it to Bal- Ti
i timore, where it was given tn* place of tow
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J191HT RAINIER, TIE HICdEST MOUNT
ALTITUDE ABOVE SEA U
I View From Spray Parte, oa the Head1
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ES BIVEH IN SYRIA.
not tlie twenty-four slender minari
the Great Mosque, which is one
John the Baptist; but beautiful
winding its slender cord of blue
a fertility and prosperity and
Although they make Damascus
more than noisy creeks. It Is true
springs, but few of these reach the
up in summer. The Jordan in the
:e and Sidon, and the Orontes in the
rivers; and Hama is the only great
? river fills a large part of the panLebanon.
then flowing northward
mmed up near Homs by the' old
3ugh the 4,Land of Hama" until at
vigation, the Orontes has made
so that you meet it at every turn
ur bridges, each with a different
. Along one bank a line of closely
e wealthier citizens; farther on, a
)thes under the shade of the cyIes
are standing knee-deep in the
are sporting in the shallow stream
ant brothers of the West.?Scriblor
among a number of other relics
the church, including the first porIt
ever made of Bishop Asbury and
saddle bags in which w(ere stored
Bishop's Bible and hi3 food when
went from place to place preachthe
doctrine of his denomination,
ten the great fire occurred which
I so much of Baltimore in ruins the
Iding containing these precious mentos
was destroyed. Two Methot
clergymen, however, endeavored
rescue them, and even while the
ucture was on fire, bravely entered
building and1 carried the relics to
lace of safety, trundling them, away
1 wheel-barrow. i
No Treacle-Moon la Oklahoma.
V'hen one of our young couples get
rried they do not spend a month
ley mooning, like it i3 the custom
the East, but they settle down to
routine of life with the one harnious
nurnose of buildine ud a
afortable and happy home. Instead
"spooning" around over the coun,
attracting the attention of every[y.
looking sickingly lovable and
ling each other all kinds of sweet
le "chestnuts," the newly married
y be found at work the next day
owing the nuptials. It may be the
le will put out a big washing, while
other half will be found plowing
a and carrying water simultaneous.
-Mutual (OklaJ Enterprise.
BEAN VETERAN WHO LEADS TflE
IITH REGIMENT'WTO ACTION. : J
?Collier'a Woekly, 1
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le dogs of Constantinople, in sev- j
parts of the city, are now daily
ig fed by the Turkish Government
Lere are at present over 2000 1
Ins in Spain lighted bv electricity. (
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A1N IN THE UNITED STATES.
VEL, 14,509 FEET. i
sratars of tbo Pujallup River, (
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FATAL BATTLE IN STREET'
Two IV!en Killed and a Third Wound- |
ed at Carbondaie, Pa,
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CLIMAX OF WAR ON GANG j
(tetter Element in Italian Colony Organize
to Drlre Out Lawless Men?Shooting
Follows Arrost?Policeman Obliged
to Hold His Prisoners Between Himself
and Desperadoes For Self-Protection
Scranton. Pa.?As a resalt of the efforts
of the better class of Italians ia
ancl around Carbondaie to rid their
colony of the members of the lawless
gang who have been committing many
outrages, a street battle occurred at
that place which was attended with
the loss of one life and the serious injury
of a second man.
At 8 o'clock at night Santo Carressi,
one of the gang, was caught by a con
stable levying tribute on one of the
Italians of the colony. The constable
and three of the Law and Order men
itarted to take Carressi to jail.
Word was quickly passed to the
gang's headquarters in a nearby saloon,
and four of them rushed out and
opened fire on the constable and his
oosse. The latter returned the fire.
When the attacking party* emptied
their revolvers they fled, leaving all
chree of the constable's escort lying in
-trrihh hllllnft: in thPlT hf>dif>S.
The constable protected himself by
liolding his prisoners in front of him.
Joseph Tolerico "was shot through the
head and died in a few minutes. Frank _
Ferressi was taken to the Emergency
Hospital with a bullet In his 'breast,
near the heart, and another in the abdomen.
He died at 12 o'clock at
night. The third victim received a
bullet in the arm. and after recovering
from the shock was able to walk
home.
The movement of Italians of the better
class in and around Carbo??dale is
designed to rid their colonies of the
members of the lawless gang which
for the last year, and particularly for
the last month, have been levying
blackmail and punishing those who
refuse to pay.
The first practical step to the end
^,kn? o ortmmil-tuo of thA
U4.tv.iru iv ucu a w
new organization furnished the Edgerton
Coal Company officials with the
names of four members of the band,
and asked that they be discharged and
evicted. - This Wfts done. Two of the
four left the colony. The, others secured
quarters with persons who are
suspected of being fellow members of
the gang.
It is believed the gang is affiliated
with the Mafia or some similar organization,
as part of the tribute money
is sent to a headquarters in New
York, according to the statements
made by members of the gang when
levying tribute.
Among the outrages recently perpetrated
was the knifing of four men
who refused to pay the tribute. In
efloli instauce the victim was called
out of In's house late at night and
slashed across, the face. Arrests hare
been made from Jjme to time by the
Carbondale police, but in every case
the persons who privr.tely gave the in
formation wbicii iea to vue arrests
could not be Induced to testify in public.
WIDOW MURDERED IN ALBANY.
Old State Treasury Employe Accused
of Shooting Her.'
Albany. N. 1'.? Joseph F. White, for
ten years orderly in the Stare Treas-'
urer's office, is under arrest here
charged with killing Mrs. Josephine
Russell, a widow. Jealousy is said to
have been the cause.
White is sixty,-five years o?d. and a
widower. His home before he entered
the Treasury Department was
In BLughamton. where he'was at one
time a member of the police force.
He had just been released from the
hospital. Mrs. Russell was thirty-five
years old, and White formerly boarded
with her. Early in the morning he appeared
at a milk depot where Mrs.
Russell traded and spent the day until
4.30 o'clock, apparently waiting for
hex* to appear. When she came in the
police say Ik; shot her in the neck.
Three more shots were fired into her
body.
White made no atempt to escape,
and when arrested denied committing
the crime.
p? "r* - - ??ii WI.a rf.ip. nnAAiic/v!rt:icr
iur?. nu??;u. wuv ?.?*? uuv"i.?u?Uv,
was taken to the hospital, where- she
lied.
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Submarines at Cronstadt.
The two Lake submarine boats purchased
by Russia through a New York
shipping ho'use have arrived at Cronstadt.
and will be shipped to Vladivostok
by rail. 1
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Shot by Stranger.
Colonel J. Francesco Chaves. long !
leading citizen of New Mexico, was
thot dead by an unknown person as
lie sat by a window in his home in
Pinas Wells.
Kiiled by Auto. j
James Donohue. of Providence, R. I.. 1
ivas instantly killed by being thrown
from an automobile, his neck being i
>roken. A companion escaped uuiu' j
lured. . 1
Another Feud Started.
The Hatfields, of West Virginia feuu i
'ame. began war with the Dufys. One j
m each side has been' killed.
America to Be Represented. ]
The British and Russian govern- <
nents invited the United States to
ippoint a high ranking naval officer <
is a member of the court of inquiry ;
ivhioh is to investigate the attack on
British fishermen by the Russian Bal- ,
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Russia Accepts Our Term?.
Russia has accepted the invitation of
:he United Stales to conclude an arjitration
treaty on the lilies of the re*
:-ent American-Freuch agreement.
Eoorting Brevities.
Chicago wairts the airateur bilUard
tourney.
Lou Dillon fai.'ed to beat 2:01% at I
Memphis, Tenn. I 1
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JOCKPV A' unci" (liliu iiitmc wuiLuti
>.">000 for his release.
Harvard defeated Yale at football
jy a score of 12 to 0."
Mary Glenn, a 100 to 1 shot, rron the
jpening race at the Washington meetng.
The Yoseintte Club, of 'Frisco. Js
:rying to match Jimmy Britt and Billy
Sardaer for next month's <*hotv.
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War Department has accepts?
the resignation of Major falter 8.
Alexander. Artillery Ctorps, 'stationed
at San Francisco. j
Another arbitration treaty wasslgneiff
at the State Department, the high contracting
parties being the United
States and the Kingdom of Portugal. ,
The Merchant Marine Commission*
heard testimony from Secretary Mor<
ton and. a number of naval officers,who
spoke of the value of the merchant
marine as an auxiliary to th<*
navy in time of war.*
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- The teachers of Porto" Rico. whfl>
oyeui, some >veeh.s iu uiis couiiirj
summer studying .it Cornell Universi-^
ty, are now experiencing the benefits*
of their training. , ?
The troops pursuing <thtf cOnvicf*
"who, after killing three of their guards,
seized a launch at Malahi Island, Laguna
de Bay, and escaped across tlief
lake to the hiiis, have killed three of
them and captured fourteen, including
the leader of the ganj, who wa?
wounded in three places. The constab*
ulary have located nineteen others. | ? %
On account of laci of funds, due to *
decrease in the appropriation for eduOfwn
k?. *
ItlUUll, aUUUL IC41LUCIO Will UU
dropped from tie teaching staff la th?
Philippine Islands. -*-{
Hawaiians are muck exercised ove?
iwhat to do with Porto - Ricana who<
,were imported several years ago to
work on sugar plantations. The experiment
has resulted in complete failure.
The Porto Rtcan colony has developed'
criminals of the worst type. For soma
time these people simply murdered onei
another, \jut the wanton murder of thd .
banker, Damon, stirred up public feeling
against the race, and now Porto
Ricans are shunned, and no one .will
give them work. t . .
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DOMESTIC. '
'A woman was arrested in St LouJ*,
Mo., for persisting in an attempt to
see President Roosevelt to paint bis
portrait. . MfcJ
The fall of an electric light pole at a:
firp cut wires aad left a large part of
Jersey City, N. J., in darkness fat;
hours.
The little son and daughter of JosepM
Keller, a New York City department
store clerk, found their mother murdered
on returning from school. Th?
murderer took $200 and $400 in jew.elry.
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The New York Health Department
steamer Franklin Edson was drlvea
on the rocks off.Blackwell's Island. |
Owing to the illness of a juror who
was stricken with paralysis a new trial1
was ordered for Nan Patterson, thai 4
New York actress accused of killing!
"Caesar" Young. .{
Fourteen hundred small children Iti
a Brooklyn (N. Y) school were marchedi
to the street on a fire call in one min
ute and three-quarters. ?(
The New York Municipal Art Socie-'
ty urged Mayor McClellan to appeal to
the courts to oust all advertising signa
from subway stations. '***$
'Accused of agreeing to accept ?
bribe of $1000 to influence his courser
as a jurqr jin the contest over the wills
of Hugh an-1 Neil O'Donnell, Leo Cohen
was held' in New York City for ex->
amlnatioii. 1 > ! ??!??The
Supreme Court of the United' i (
States decided the Fayerweather wllS
contest, involving about' $3,000,000, in
favor of. twenty-one colleges, among;
which the estate is to be divided. - (
The New York City bond issue Of
$25,000,000 was over subscribed eight
times, and the largest number of bid?
on record for city bonds were received.
Sheriff Erlanger, of New York County.
New York, has asked the Bar Associations
of the State and city to aidr
in abolishing imprisonment for debt. |
In its official trial *he armored cruiser
Pennsylvania won the record for
this class o'C; ships for the greatest
speed with the least fuel. ' *.
Ti;A Nord America, bound out front
New I'ork City with 1500 passengers
for Italy, was rammed by a float and
disabled. *j
An argument over a aeDt causea taw
killing of Frederick Saunders, a dairyman,
at Louisville, Ky.. by William*
H. Slaughter, Jr., a coal merchant. ,
The skull of J. H. Smith, a scorching
cyclist, was pierced when he blindly
ran into a carriage pole at Eockyille
Centre, L. I. j
Prince Fushimi, a cousin of the Mikado,
wbojis on a visit to this country,1 ^
was robbeti of jewels worth $5000 at
the Buckingham Club, in St. Louis;
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Three policemen in Newark. N.
charged with stealing turkeys, .wet?
stripped of their uniforms.
FOREIGN. 4
The Cuban House passed tue bill!
prohibiting religious processions in tho i!?;
streets. ' -i
An attempt to explode a mine by a'
countercharge in Portsmouth Harbor,
England, resulted in th?? sinking of ;
two British launches and the death of
two sailors. fc fJSfiaE
The Panaqtan contentions in matter? ...
the United States were laid j
bei'pre Secretary Taft at a conference- ]
in Panama. . ( a
Robert Cbnpman, a young American,
i eper'.al cable diopatcli stated, attempted
suicide at a London hotel by. i
leaping down a staircase well, sus- ^
taiuing serious injuries. _ t !
A special cable dispatch from Seoul ]
said Japan Las sont workmen to theisland
of Quelpart, a dependency of ;j
Korea, to make fortifications. ' |
Russia has agre?d in principle to I
Mr. Hay's proposal for an arbitration J
treaty between America and herself. |
A case supposed to be of yellow fe- J
rer was discovered on a French school- |
ship at Havana from Martinique. I |
The Mayor of Moscow, Prince Galit-*
ziu, intends to call a meeting of the* ;
Mayors of all Russian cities to discussi
reforms in municipal government. The
plan grew out of the zeaistov leaders'
meeting. * ' >*
Russia's Interior Minister forbade
the arrest of editors for articles in.
newspapers.
The Shah of Persia, a special chble
despatch from St. Petersburg stated,
is sending an important diplomatic
mission to Russia in view cf the Brit
1J1 commercial expeditions 10 rersia. as
James Wallace, confidential secre- jfi
tary of James Breitung, of Marquette, a
Micli., was arrested in Liverpool, Eng., S
charged with misappropriating stock S
certificates valued at about $30,000. I
Prince Mirsky presented the memor
ial of the Zemstvoa to Emperor Nicb- fig
Three fast yachts have met the Baltic
fleet at Port Said and are preceding; 91
Admiral Voeikersam to look out foh v 'jK
reefs iu the Gulf of Suez. ' SB
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