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o o LUCILE'S | . TRAIN ROBBERY If Dy Sarah C. Weed. o o RT^lOW Lucile. it's your turn:" /K ?l\ "But I don't know any N ghost stories. Let somcbody else tell one!" /K "Oh. there needn't be anything like a real live ghost in it. Just anything that's thrilliug and mysterious'" "Well," replied Lucile, thoughtfully, "the most thrilling story I can tell is wmething that happened to me last summer." The listening group drew a little nearer the Are and turned expectant faces toward Lucile. who ieaned forward from her pile of cushions. s"You know that after college closed lasr .Tnn<* T shirffwl nn s trir> throusrh I he far West with a party of friends. iWe spent several weeks in traveling,, and had.a most delightful time. After reaching California the party broke up. and I planned to remain a few .weeks with a friend who was to come East with me and pay me a return .visit. "I* had been with my friend only a few days when I received a letter from my mother, saying that she had not been weil, but was now recover- lug. I was therefore utterly unprepared for the telegram that came three 1 I days later, summoning me home at once, as my mother was in a very critical condition. "I started at ouce and alone. You can imagine the apprehension with which I began the long journey. It unomeft ns if I could never cover the i .vast distance, and the train seemed to i crawl as we dragged through the iweary hours into the second day. "At last we reached a wide stretch of prairie country. I had slept little the night before, and the strain was l?egiuning to tell upon me. When bed- ' iime came I took a simple sleeping powder and went to my berth early. .The powder1 had an almost instantaneous effect.: and I was soon asleep. /Then began a series of haunting idreams. I seemed to pass through calamity after calamity, indefinite and ' awful. 'At last the dream took tangible form. I was on the swiftly rushing -train. A terrible collision was about to happen. In the distance I could hear shouting, followed by several 1 aharp - explosions. Another moment and the crash would come! Then with a struggle I awoke. "In trembling haste I drew on ray shoes, and throwing my dressing robe ' round me. I ran down the car to where , I saw people hurrying through the ( door. In the miugled confusion of ] dream and waking reality. I paid no (attention to the group, except to see 1 4hat they were in frantic haste, and ' it bat they were all crowding down the ] steps on one side of the car. ' For a moment they seemed to hesi- ] .tate, as if to make room for me. 'Don't wait for me!' I cried. 'I wili jump from this side.' and I made my . .way down the steps in eager haste. "By this time the train bad nearly . stopped, and I found no difficulty in J swinging off the lower step to the , #rround. By-the dim light that came j rrotn tne train 1 cou;a see mat i was , itbe only one who had alighted on my , side oi the track: the others had es- J eaped on the opposite side. A feeling , of great thankfulness came over me when I thought I bad been saved in what seemed a wonderful way. "But as I watched, a mighty wrench seemed to shake the train from end to j end. and instead of stopping, it seemed to gather motion. Car after car passed ' jne with increasing swiftness, and as , the last one whirled by, I looked about ~"--for those who, like myself, were left ' 6tan<ling by the tracks. I was alone! "With terrified eyes I peered into the flarkuess on all sides, but not a living thing could I see. , "It must be some awful dream. Purely I was on the train that was aivov tn nSrrhff I ninr<lio/l iui;>aih a n u,? iu iut ui(.ui.. * Tuyself; I cried aloud. Surely I could feel, and I could bear the sound of my .voice. With the feeling of horror still upon me, I rose and started along the track after the train. "Once I stumbled and nearly fell, nud for a moment the shock brought me to myself. As I lifted my head a familiar sound caught my ear, and away in the distance I could see couidng toward me a moving speck of light. My dream was merciful at last! The train that had whirled away in the night, leaving me In that terrible dark 3 loneliness, was returning, I should drearn that it stopped and took me fiboard, aud the horrible nightmare would be ended. "As I looked and listened the light became big and bright. and the sound grew until it became like the rushing of wind: I stepped aside just in timeto allow the Western Express to race J?r me. Again I was walking along the tracks, and it seem ?d that I had been walking thus for cycles upon 1 cyc-ies of time. , "Gradually I became aware that a change was taking place about me. I raised my eyes and saw along the eastern horizoi* a faint, unearthly light creeping into the sky. It slowly 1 strengthened, until above the horizon showed thf> slender crescent of the warning moon. "A few hours more and the strain ' upon my reason would doubtless have , i?r>pn fno creat. but before lomr morn- 1 ing began to approach. The air took J on a new freshness: the stars paled, ' then disappeared, and the watery moonlight lost itself in the light of ' the coming sun. "As the landscape grew in the morning light the unrealities of the nisht ' began to pass, and I began to comprehend what had happened. I stopped and looked at the tracks that stretched away to the vanishing point before and behind me. There was only one explanation possible. I had had some ' terrible dream, and under its spell I iiad in some miraculous manner got off the moving train. The group that i had seen hurrying through the carj . ?? I I aud dowu (be steps bad been only the , i shadows of a dream. "Gradually the difficulties of my po- j sition forced themselves upon rue. ' What was l to do': Here t was. alone ' upon iu0 greac prairie. wuu uu uuuiw j tion within mile*. My clothing. my ticket and my money were all on the | train that was fast making: its way to i \he East. Thefe was oniy one thing i I could do. In some way I must stop the next train. ' In the meantime I continued my j walk. The morning light was now j sufficient to give me a clear view, and j after a little, as I looked far ahead i down the narrow, glistening tracks, my j heart gave a great leap. Surely there j in the distauce was a building near i the tracks. ' It was still early morning when, footsore and exhausted. I reached a lit- j tie telegraph station, where I found J a sleepy night operator. He opened his eyes wide when a young woman, o dracclnff Vftho n VOUI12 aitucu IU a uiwvtu^ ? v/v? M - w woman whose liair was disheveled and shoes scratched, appeared before him. I told my story as coherently as possible, and was relieved to find that he acrreed with my explanation. "'Yes,' he said, when I had finished. 'you must have had the nightmare, and had it bad. But how you ever got off that,express train without breaking your neck is more than I can see!' "I never think of that night operator without a feeling of gratitude. He was a man of resource. In a few moments he had made and piaced before | me a cup of steaming coffee, clear and strong. " 'Now,' he said, 'we must plan what's to be done. In about an houi ^ your train will reach Hamlin, where it v makes a stop of twenty minutes. I v will telegraph there to have your things j 0 removed from the car and held for you I Then I will get orders to have the next : a express stop here and take you aboard. ' j It will not delay you many hours.' ! T "He seated himself at the insrru- | ^ meat, and then began the click! click' j p that seemed to me to continue many I v weary minutes. At last he turned to ^ me with a smile. j ^ " 'It's all right,' he said. 'They wil! v take your things from the train, and the next express, that goe3 through in about two hours, will stop for you. Doubtless your disappearance has not j*et been discovered, and won't be until the train reaches Hamlin.' "Another weary wait began, broken ! at last by the insistent click of the telegraph. As word after word of the message was spelled out by the instru ment, a'lobk of surprise and keen interest came into the face of the operator. At last he turned and looked at me curiously. " 'Well, young woman." he exclaimed, at last, 'you have 'had an experience, and no mistake! One that you won't I forget in a hurry, or I miss my guess!- 1 "Then he told me that message tU't had just come over the wires. My L?art TTnmlin .1 ml nT5 Li am uau uutucu , absence had not been discovered until I then. So far. nothing very startling, but listen to this! When the train _ from which I had made such a mys- I d terious exit reached Hamlin it had a ! c strange tale to tell. The night before, v :>n the open prairie, it had been board- g ?d by a large band of train robbers n There had been a brief struggle, iu e tvhich the robbers had been success- [, fully repulsed, and the train had gone f sn its way. ' j s, 4iA few weeks before there had been ( ,j 1 daring and successful robbery on one J 0 >f the roads in the Southwest. A large , mm of money had been taken from ! f the express car and the mail* rifled, j tj rhe detectives who worked on the case j h believed this robbery was one of a 1 n series that bad been carefully planned a md bad warned all the Western road? to be on tbe alert. When the train on which I had taken passage started foi the East, it had on board, all unkuown ji io tbe passengers, a strong guard. n "In the struggle that followed the ^ ittempt to hold up the train, the rob- i v bers soon saw they would be over 3 powered, and sought to make their es- j ^ ?ape. To create confusion and to make ! ti it more difficult for the guard*in the i v express car to shoot, they bad plunged j p through one or two of the other cars. ' j| and so off the train. My car had been I t; Dne through which tliey had rushed I a and it was this band of desperate men j i, that I bad followed in the affright of j D my awakening. j y "The train had been brought nearly j 0 to a standstill, and that is why I had . t no great difficulty in getting off. Of r nnnrco when tlio rrthhprs rOilChed the t ground tliey scattered in all directions. . t and hence I saw no one beside the i tracks when the train had passed. g "You can imacine the feelings witli which I heard the operator's.story. II ; was a relief to know that I had not j been the victim of a sleeping delusion* j t but when I thought of the night, the ; t lonely prairie, aud the desperate men, i 3 a new terror took hold of me. "The rest of my journey was without incident. The anxiety In regard to my 1 mother kept in check the nervous re , action that might have followed the terrible experiences of that uisht | When I reached home I found the critical point in my mother's illness* past and the danger over. It was then j that the reaction came, and for dny3 ! I was almost prostrated,- Even now , the terror and haunting unreality of that night on the lonely prairie will , - T r el.oU i seize 111*011 iue, auu i iuuikuic *. j nerer get beyond the spel! oC that experience."?Youth's Companion. A Wizard of tlie Orchard. If reward is to be measured by service, then Luther Burbank. of California, deserves more at the hands of his fellows than any martial hero or captain of industry. Mr. Burbank is a "wizard of horticulture." He experimented with potatoes with the result that the potato industry has been revolutionized. He turned his attention to plums, and produced a f?aer flavored and larger fruit than any yet grown in America. South Africa is dotted with arehards of "Burbank plums." Now he lias perfected a prune so large that it makes the average prune look like a dried raspberry, and so sweet tlm it needs 110 sugar when prepared for the table. He has grown a thornless raspberry. and now he has a thornless cactus that bids fair to restore the desert places and make them habitable for mau and beast. Luther Burbank lias added millions to the productive value of orchards and vineyards, and has done so without shedding of blood or doing viol'iuce to any man.?The Commoner. X First Coining: Press States Mint===Ov* ^ ^ ^ ' ' JUST CANNOT ENTER. Many a housewife and museum cura 4. A ? or lias good reason to regret iuul rawer* as a rule are neither dust nor errnin proof. To lmve yonr treasures, rhether the.v consist of linens, books, r unreplaceable specimens ruined hen the.v were apparently secure froui nything less than a fire is disheartenng to say the least. Two Swedish inentors of Providence, realizing the ield that exists for a dust and insect iroof drawer, put their ingenuity to rork and have evolved a very simple ut effective construction. The essenial feature of the construction is a rooden or metallic cover for each inL A ?5^^^ d^i Dl'ST-PRCOF DRAWEES. 1 vidua 1 drawer. Three edges of this over, the sides and thfc rear, are proided with a downward extending ange, adapted to close in the sides nd back end of the drawer. The front dge terminates under a flange form itf an integral part or tne supporting ramework. This cover is pivoted at oine nearly central point, and as a rawer is withdrawn beyond this pivtal point the cover drops down at the nek and raises correspondingly in the ront, allowing the drawer to be enirely withdrawn without displacing lie cover. The drawers and covers iay be made of wood, metal or any ultable materiai. Hiiw l'ort Arthur 06t -Food. The medium-sized northern Chinese mks make lirst-elnss * blockade runers. They are built very low in tlie rater, with the decks almost awash rhen loaded, so that only the bow nd stern rise noticeably above the rater line. They are strong, liat-botDtned. and of unpainted, dirty wood, ritb no bright colors about tliem. I'roolloH liv frrnri f-Aii tfi ttrontr nnrtimnn r the sails tail, they giide through he water with no uoi.se or smoke, and re very difficult of detection. I>odgrcg along the shore and among the numerous islets which extend from the ihan-tung peninsula across the moutii f Peehili llulf, they closely resemble he low. Urowu rocks, and during the ecent seige hundreds of them evaded he Japanese watchers and carried ons of fresh provisions and vegeables to the heleagued Port Arthur ;arrison.?London Times. The capital invested in the railroads n Argentina amounts to 000.000, hat of Brar.il to S43l.000.000, of Peru o $180,000,000 and that of Chile to 5130.000.000. * VERMONT MARBLE Q - ? m 1 I Used in the United tr 100 Years Old. \'V ;i c;r -.'j i." ' v H - bB :... v?p? -^?8V ?From Scientific American. New Coat of Artnn For the Pope. Tlie new coat of arms or Pope Pius X. has Just been erected over the house of the Papal Nuncio, in Munich. The arms are absolutely new in more re flSlj I i \J X ? ^ <4 44 + ? ? ? 4- > f-HK- > .t **"M NEW PAPAL ABMS. spects than one, for the i'ope, being of democratic origin, has never bad a family coat of arms, and on bis entering office as Pontiff was compelled to invent arms for bimijPlf. Tbe main feature of tbe new coat is tbe use of light colors. The shield is divided into throp narts. Tbe um>er part contains the J.ion of St. Mark ou a silver Held. I The central division is a blue' field. The lower division is a raging sea surmounted by an anchor. Above the anchor is a star with six points. Tlie crest is the usual papal tiara and the crossed keys of St. Peter. Dark Picture* of I)iie??e. A young girl, delicate and sensitive to cold, has been toid from her early childhood that she must exercise the greatest possible care, because she has surely inherited a consumptive tendency from her mother, who died of consumption. This black picture of consumption and its fearful ravages ou the system stamps indelibly upon the vounc life, and prevents healthful. buoyant growth or -prompt physical reaction. Dwelling upon these'-conditions ruins the appetite, disturbs digestion, cuts off the assimilation of food, and emaciation sets in, at length, as a. result, and, as If this were not enough to discourage and dishearten the victim, everybody has to tell her how bad she looks, and how she is growing thinner and thinner every day! Very often they say. "Now be careful, for you know your mother went by taking cold, or by exposure to draft." They give her cod-liver oil and tonics, but these are sorry compensations for the resisting power of the mind, of which they have cruelly-robbed her, and poor substitutes for the God-given power of selfprotection, granted to every human being. They have disturbed the child's beautiful natural feeling that it is protected by the Almighty Arm, that it i.? made in (Jod's image, and, hence, is God-detenticd, ana :u:ir uoiaing rau m- j jure its reality. Many a beautiful lil'?, lias been stiffed by such inculcated j fears and depressing influences.?Suo ! cess. (UARRY 200 FEET DEEP MM? 4. ^ tv y "" ^1 ?From Scientific American. % SOLD ROBBER CONFESSES Man Who Has Terrorized New York City For weens is Caueht. WISH; D TO EMULATE "RAFFLES.'1 C'hrUlopher Smith Tellft Acting Impector O'Brien at Police Head quart era That Money Was Not ine Cause of Hii Thefts? Laughed at HI* Many Vietiina ? Left Valuable. Jewelry liehind. New York City.?Following liis identification Christopher Smith, alias "Sand Rock." confessed in his cell to Acting Inspector O'Brien that he was the "hold-up man," who foe weeks has created terror on the upper east and west sides of the city. ' According to (Inspector O'Brien, iie not only admitted the hulk of the holdups with which he."^charged. but also confessed to a daring hold-up, which, although committed Inst November, has never been reported to the police. He denies, however, any knowledge either of the entry into General MeCook's borne or of a recent Fifth avenue stage robbery. He disclaimed any desire for plunder and asserted that a wish to emulate W. E. Hornung's "Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman," which he had seen played, largely inspired his acts. As proof that he was not "out for the dough." but mainly for the story, he cites instances in which he ignored diamonds lying in plain sight, and also the case of the unrecorded "hold-up," in which he says he returned to a woman a marquise ring worth several thousand dollars. Inspector O'Brien estimates that on Smith's confession the value of the articles he has stolen is ouly $120. Smith boasts that throughout his series of hold-ups he never once ran away. He derides the utility of certain policemen on post duty, declaring that on several occasions, after emerging from houses he had "held up," he stood or walked in plaiu view within a few feet of detectives. He boasts that his work was "easy" and that he could have held up banks had he so wished. It was at his own instance. Captain A?r?.. ....... 1.1 l c? riU iAl,i iK ~ u Diieu says, mui oiuuu iuiu iue oiur,? of his crimes. He seemed particularly amused at the fears he had excited, but expressed sorrow that Miss Eva Shipman.had b*en unnerved a-nd made ill by his visit to her father's house. He said he had tried to emulate the exploits of Western bandits in addition to those of "Raffles." Captain O'Brien is having Smith watched day and night, as when he was. taken to Headquarters be said when asked if be wanted somethrnf? to eat that he v >uld prefer carbolic acid. Smith began by saying that be want* ed especially to clear up inaccuracies that bad appeared in the published accounts of his exploits. He boasted that he could bit a fifty-cent- piece at fifty yards ninety-nine times out of a hundred with a revolver. At the house of Mr. Woerz. he said, after he went into the house be had backed Miss Hoffman, Mr. Woerz's niece, upstairs into the room where the other women were, and had demanded money. i "They were ail so frightened." be continued, "that they had to sit dow:n. I sat down. too. I had to turn my face imr thnt thdvr would not: that I was laughing." Smith denied that Le had confederates. Besides the $83 that he got from Mr. Woerz. he netted All told SI at the Delta Phi Club and $35 from pawning Heighe's watch, which be got in the Delta Phi Club house. He told with great gusto of telephoning to an evening paper which had offered'$1000' reward for his capture. " 'Will you pay me the reward if T ro down to the office'-' I asked them. They wanted to.Jruow -who I was. and I said. 'I'm Raffles. I'm the man you want.' They said they -would pay the money if I went down to tha office, but X never went." MAX EXPLODES AFTEI. DRINK. Drank Bottle of Compound on Wager, Froze to Death and Blew Up. St. Paul. Minn.?Peter Eberhart is supposed to be the name of a farmhand who drank a small bottle of nitroglycerine on a wager,-, froze to death while walking home and exnloded when efforts were made to thaiv him out Peter worked near Wheatley. Minn, and while in the village got intoxi' cated. it is alleged, with the town mar shai. who showed him a bottle of ni tro-glycerine. saying it was taken from a hank robber. Peter bet that he could drink it and never feel injurious efforts. He drank it and started for home. lie failed ro get home, but the next morning was found by the roadside frozen to death and much distorted. He was picked up and hauled to the home of Claude Armonvale, his employer. where his late "boss" undertook to thaw him out. so that tlie body might be placed in a coffin and properly composed. While the body wns left in an outbuilding near a stove in which was 'a roariner fire, the nitroglycerine exploded. The building was nlmost as completely wrecked as was the body of Peier. F.berhart was a strange character and had often threatened suicide. To Pass City Bills. Former Governor Odell, of New York State, after a conference with Republican leaders, announced that the Legislature will pass all bills asked by New York City, and also a bill regulofino ?cianhnnp rnfos. if united cit? ." " H ....... , Z2US request if. Orders Out All Signs. Mayor MeClellan. of New York City, officially ordered that the advertising signs be taken out of the subway or they must be removed by force. Rubber Introduced Into Hawaii. After many years of trials the introduction of rubber in a commercial sense has been established in Hawaii. Six years a so a rubber plantation was started at Nahiku. but little had been heard of the venture until recently. Now the tree'; have been found in a condition to produce rubber, and the work of gathering sap probably wiP soon begin. For Wall Street Fostoffioe. Postmaster-General Wynne promised a branch psstoffice in Wall Street, New York City, as a practical certainty, V J ' VESSEL FOUNDERS AT SEA t The Furness Liner Damara Goes on Rocks Near Halifax, N. S. Sinks in Few Minutes. But Two Boatloads of Crew-and Passenger* Get CUT in Sifet; and Keacli the Shore. Halifax, N. S. ? The Furness Line, office liere was advised of the arrival at Point Pleasant of the missing boat from the steamer Damara. which ran on the rocks at Musquodobolt, thirty miles east of here, early the previous , morning. The boat contained Capt. Gorst and four passengers, and ten of the crew. They suffered little ill effects from their experience. The steamer carried thirty-four persons in all. The first officer and eighteen men landed at Pleasant Point the afternoon before'.after a terrific struggle with wind andisea. Word wa* received from Capt. Harri .Ron. marine superintendent of the Furness Line office, who left at midnight on a tug for the scene of the wreck, , .that the steamer-had sunk in ten fathoms of water. The first officer. H. J. Nuttall, who sent the first news to this city by telephone, said that it was 2.30 a. m. when the steamer struck on the ledges. The weather was thick, -with a heavy snowstorm in progress and a gale KlAn?5n? r\PP f h/\ TI?/\ ofrtflm av I UIVMWU& uu i?c ouvic, 4UC oicauici passed entirely over the ledges, and tore a large hole in her bottom. As soon as she cleared the reefs the pumps were sounded, and it was found that she was making water fast. The pumps were kept going, and it was hoped that the ship would make some point of land where the crew could beach her with safety. This was found impossible, however, as the ' water gained so fast that the pumps could not keep the steamer free. The water rose rapidly, and the fires were extinguished, so orders were at once given to launch the lifeboats. Nuttall. with eighteen of the crew, went ofE in the first boat, and soon afterwards the second boat was put over the side. The captain, four pass engera and the remainder of the crew (ten men), entered the boat and pulled off a short distance from the Damara. When they left the steamer there was fourteen feet of water fn the hold, -and she was dipped heavily by the bow. Nuttall said that it.was daylight when they started for the land, and a short time afterward, a snow squall, thicker tlian.atiy of the preceding ones/shut out their view of the captain's boat. After that they did not catch a glimpse of the liner, which was then on the yerge of foundering. When the weath er "cleared slightly, the steamer was not ill sight. - " Nuttall 'said that the men in his boat were so exhausted from cold and hunger that they never would have been able to make the land had not the people of Pleasant Point come to their assistance and dragged their boat ashore. They were cared for by residents of the settlement, who showed them every attention. Two of the engineers were in the boat which made the land. KING OSCAR UNABLE TO GOVERN Again Turns Over Authority to Crown Prince, on Account of Illness. Stockholm, Sweden. ? King Oscar, who is seventy-six years old. is indisposed and unable to transact State business. At a session of the Council of State he handed over the reins of government to Crown Prince Gustaf until further notice. This is not the first time that King Oscar has entrusted tlie Crown Prince of Swedeu and Norway with the government. He was compelled by HI KJXG OSCAR OF SWEDEW. health to do so in January. 1899, and it was reported at the tima that the people of Norway and Sweden wished uiin to abdicate. The King reaasumed power in January, 1901, after visiting England and France. King Oscar was born January 21, 1829. Crown. Prince Gustaf was boru .Tune 10. 1858, and was married in 1881 to Princess Victoria of Baden. They have three sons. Navy Refuses Armor Contract. The Navy Department refused a contract for eight thousand tons of armor plate to the Midvale Steel Company, nnd gave it to the Carnegie and Beth leiiem companies. Boy Kills Little Sister. Piayiup with a rifle, twelve-yearnld Alfred Burk. of Tawas City, Mich:, killed his ten-year-old sister and seri- ' ously wounded a four-year-old playmate. Heavy Damages For Collarbone. John J. Harkins. of Montclair, N. J., has sued John H-.'K&nt for .?20,000, al- I iegiug that Kent built a scaffolding 'roiu which Harkins fell and broke hi? .'ollarboue. Woman Dead-'at the Age oC 107. Henrietta Johnson died in London, England, at the age of 107. She was . T?..ii.: Afr! Tf C A tinrl mini tn DniKiiiiHc, .uu., i cvns in the service of an American family named Cator. New.jy Cleanings. Over SI,000.000 worth of diamonds | are stolen every year from the South Africa diamor ! mines. In Mexico the Department of War is studying a project to establish night schools A)r the soldiers. In Prussia the price of medicine is regulated by the State, a new price list being published every year. The Government ot' Venezuela has decided to give no titles to coal mines in the future, but to exploit all such mines under its own supervision and ownershin * 1IN0B ErtNTSOFTHEWEEit ~ TVASHINGTOX. , ; President Roosevelt signed the bill providing for construction of railroads in (he Philippines. It was officially announced at theWhite House that Frederick I. Allen, the Commissioner of Patents, 'would be retained in his present office during the new Administration. The House Committee on the Judiciary by a rote of eight to five ordered c favorable report on the Clayton bill repealing the Bankruptcy law. A mi nority report will be made to the House by Mr. Powers, of Massachusetts^ Senator Piatt's bill relieving automobile owner* of tiie necessity of drawing gasolene tires before boarding ferryboats passed ibe Senate. Display of force, it is feared in Washington. may be the only means of bringing the Venezuelan Government to listen to claims of American citizens. The State Department has amended the protocol under which it is proposed to administer fiscal affairs: in. Santo Domingo. Speaker Cannon declined to attend President Roosevelt' - dinner to, the Supreme Court Justices because Ire wa* " ''J unwilling to concede social precedence to tiie Justices. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. ^ovp'-nor Wrieht had a conference . with the municipal presidentes of 'the Province of Cavite. He is arranging for the co-operation of all the Insular forces against the ladrones. An ttddi- ? 7 tional force of constabulary liias been placed in the field and the Iadronetr are now outnumbered and are scattering. Somf of the native officiate say that they have been obliged to feed the ladrones and furnish information to "them on penalty of having their property destroyed and being ruin6d. The production of rubber has prbved commercially successful in Hawaii'. iMuwu iviu^iiuuu wiusuius rauvu from Luzon, P. I.# southward to maintain neutrality in the archipelagic' General Corbin. commanding the Philippine Division, announces the death from acute septicaemia at Camp Bumpus of First Lieutenant Hoctoa L. Avery, Philippine Scouts, who was I wounded in action at Dolores Riyer, on January 10. A force of constabulary commanded by Lieutenant Mohler has killed five sub-loader3 of the ladrones in the Island of Necros and beheaded Papa Islo, theirieader. Papa Isio was called the scourge of the island. For ten years he w*s engaged in pillaging haciendas and kidnaping farmers for ransom. A reward of ?2000 was on his head. DOMESTIC. v. ?> President TilTt, of the New York City Board of Education was reelected. .Tudge Lucien L. Shedden, of Clinton County. N. Y.. was chosen to succeed Dr. Albert Vanderveer. of Albany, N. Y., as a member of the State Board of Regents at a joint Republican legislative caucus at Albany. Christopher Smith, the boy burehr, of New York City, was held in $8000 onii rorvtue lirana jury. Chancellor McCracken. of the New York Utiversity, decrying the military trend of the times, forbade his students to join in parade at President Rooseveit's inauguratior. For the first time in sixty-five years an application was made to challenge the members of the New York County Grand Jury, the move being made in the Morse-Dodge tangle. Two more alleged wives of JohannHoch were discovered by the police, and a Chicago. 111., chemist found that his last wife died from arsenical poisoning. The Jordan-Marsh Company, of Boston. Mass.. was alleged to have been robbed of about $100,000 by a band of ronspirators in the last five years. Eisrht men were arrested in Harlem, New York City, and $10,000 loot found, which, the police believe, solves the mystery of burglaries there and in the Bronx. Eight men. the crew of the schooner Amanda, lost at sea. wpre lauded iu New York City from the steamship Mesaba. which had rescued them. The New York Legislature, at Albany. N. Y.. voted to investi?:at< charges made against Supreme Courl Justice Hooker. More than a million fish ecrgs and n terse consignment of game for bre?ding purposes will be seut to New Zealand. Ten elk. given by President Roosevelt, are among the animals. Caught robbing the Brooklyn Navy Yard. James' Sebrey was shot and instantly killed by Private L. T. Jlilton, a sentry. '/..-fifi Arrested for arson, sixteen-year-old Raymond Bowman confessed settiug fiiv to eight places at Charleston. S. C. 'Within ninety minutes an ;ssue of S7.>,QOi?.(>00 four per cent, refunding bonds of the Southern Pacific Railroad were aJld in New York City. FOREIGN. German mine owners refused to meet ' rlflj tli*- operatives to discuss differences. nml Hip Crtvernment has introduced :l bill reducing the time of a working day in heated galleries. The British Automobile Club, a special cable dispatch stated, has received to withdraw from both the International Cup and the Grand Prix races / ' unless they are run separately. . ^ Prince Louis of Battenbe'rg. in command of a British crniseV squadron. will visit American ports-in the course of ;i forthcoming cruise. ? According to advices from Curacoa revolutionary agents are collecting ) arais for a movement, asaiust President Castro. Gapou, the revolutionary priest, a special cable dispatch said, was ou his way to London through Paris. Th1 .strike in the Caucasus continued aud the .railroad line has heeu dam aspu. A report that reserves at reterhof. near S-*. Petersburg. Russia, bad mutinied was ilenied, but it was admitted, that tli*?r?? was dissatisfaction amoajc tlie troops-. [t wa> reported from Loudon that Russia lii.'d completed nceotiatious ac Paris fo;- a loan of $200,000,000. Washington (D. C.i postal officials have completed arrangements at London and Paris for the sorting of inaii* 01/ th-? transatlantic passage and theestablishment of an international parcels post. Arbitrators in the suit o? the Rei.l Company against the Newfoundland tioveniaieut grouted an award of over ?1,500.000 to the company lor the loss of telegraph rights. Grippenherg asked the Czar to retire him of command of the second army iu. Mauchuria