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r ' " v ' * mCOIE THE PRESIDENT Wa?hinffton Greets His Return With Enthusiasm. A REMARKABLE DEMON'S! RATION Crowds of Men, Women anil Children Line the Route From the Railroad Station to the White House, Cheerlus Lik? Mad aud Waviag Flags and Hundker chiefs?The President Deeply Touched Washington. D. C.?There never was an American President who. returning to the capital at the end of a summer's vacation,,received such a welcome home as Theodore Roosevelt has just received. Tradition has it that Washington crowds are not over-enttiusiastic. that they seldom cheer, but that was belied on -the beautiful autumn evening when the President in'his passage along Pennsylvania avenue to thf White House received an ovation such as has seldom been witnessed iu this city of pageants and ceremonies. From the time he left the train that carried him from Jersey City until the Executive Mansion was reached President Roosevelt found enthusiastic hundreds on every side, cheering like mad and waving flags and handkerchiefs with a vim and warmth that lie apprei / ^ ciated thoroughly. In his characteris tic way he entered into the spirit ol the occasion, and from the moment he left the station until the White House rwas reached he stood up iu his carriage ami waved his hat with an enjoyment that was apparent to everybody along the line. J It was as the peacemaker, and nol merely as the head of the nation, thai the President was received b.v the people of Washington. No other man .who has occupied the White House was paid such a tribute as was given to him. Official bound Washington. having its dinner at 5 o'clock p. m. aud confirmed in its habit of reading the evening paper after dinner was over, abandoned the habit of years and turned out in force to shout a greeting to a man whose face was familiar and who could be seen at almost any time. The cordiality of the reception and the size of the crowd were all the more remarkable from the fact that there were no spectacular or imposing features to the President's homecoming. No band3 were at hand, no uniformed military formed his escort. There were . only a line of conventional carriages and a few mounted policemen. But the route over which the President proceeded to his official residence was lined w'th men, women and children, ,who forgot their hastily eaten dinner and their hastily read evening paper in the sheer joy they felt of cheering and- waving and making the most dis' tinguished fellow townsman feel that he was one of them. The special train which brought the President and his party from Jersey City arrived in Washington at 6.18 o'clock p. m., about two minutes behind the schedule. A larger party than usual OI -.-VUIIUUISU uuuu uun-cio uicrc President at the station, among the number being Postmaster-General Cor.telyou. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. Secretary of Commerce Metcalf and 'Assistant Secretary of State Loomis. iMrs. Roosevelt's Manchester terrier, Jack, was there In charge of Charlie, the President's footman, and he rode up Pennsylvania avenue in the President's carriage. Mr. Roosevelt paused only a minute or so on the station platform to shake hands with the friends who came to meet him, but hurried to the carriage, which was in waiting near the place where the train stopped. The police arrangements had been made with almost as much care as if the occasion had been an inauguration. The whole length of Pennsylvania avenue from Sixth street to the White Hous^ had been roped off. and the crowd was kept back on the sidewalk. The President's carriage was driven slowly up the avenue, aud Mr. Roosevelt stood during the entire drive, lifting his hat and bowing in response to the cheers of the crowd. Four Secret Service men aud plain clothes men walked on either side of the carriage. and mounted policemen sur rounded tlie carriage at a distance of a few yards. In an open carriage, immediately following the President's, was Chief Wilkie of the Sccret Service . There was a big crowd around the gate at the entrance, to the White House grounds, and the carriage was stopped a moment while the President, with his hat in his hand, said: "Good night and good luck; and thank you very much for the reception you have given me upon my homecoming.'' Mr. Roosevelt seemed to be deeply touched by the oemonstration. so unusual for Washington. The carriage was then driven rapidly up the driveway to tb-? porte cochere on the north side of the mansion, where the President and /.Irs. Roosevelt entered the house. SfrikAhr*>nlcws Onsfpil The New York subway strikebreakers. imported by Farley, having served their purpose, will now be discharged by the Interborough Company. The Interborough has asked the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for thirty competent motormen, and the Farley aggregation will be disposed of as quietly and quickly as possible. A Victory For Arbitration. Arbitration is the keynote of the Norway-Sweden dissolution treaty*. Tested Eyes Before Fight. Surgeon-General S. Suzuki, of tbo Imperial Japanese Navy, addressing the convention of military surgeons, at Detroit, Mich., told how the Japanese surgeons before every eugagement carefully inspected the eyes of all gunners on the warships. Cigarette Law Upset. In a test case brought by au Omaha (Neb.) tobacco dealer. Judge Day declared unconstitutional the new anticigarette law in so far as it relates to giving away cigarette papers. Fair Autoist as Slayer. Mrs. Edith M. Bailey, wife of .*? wealthy manufacturer, of Cleveland Ohio, beneath whose automobile Jos eph Broestle was killed, was held 1\>: manslaughter. Safe Crackers' Successful Job. Burglars entered the private bank ol C. B. Burnett & Sous, at Eldorado, Illwrecked the vault and carried away between ?8000 and $10,000 in currency and gold. Many shots were exchanged between the burglars and citizens, but nobody was hurt. 'JV'v ? - : i - ? - j CLUB CANAL WORKMEN g I j Shiplcad From Martinique Frafer Deai.h to Panama's Terrors. * E: Baring Their Breasts, Ihe Meu Declare They Will Perish Before "Working pi Under Deadly Conditions. j i Sc t Colon, Panama ? Six hundred and s fifty laborers 1 m Martinique, brought here on the French steamship Ver, sailles under contract to work on the canal, refused to disembark or to sub" mit to vaccination, which is imperative r' ' under the American sanitary regula' ?nns tlc The men clamored to be taken back -7 J to Martinique, asserting that they had til been misinformed as to the conditions to here before they embarked, and that later they learned these condition* ' were intolerable aud deadly. However, 500 of them were with difficulty Ja persuaded to land, and these were sent m< , to points along the line of the canal. de One hundred and fifty remained on 1 board and declined to leave the ship i ' under any consideration. an These men were forcibly ejected ^ from the vessel by Panama and Canal Rtl Zoue policemen, but not until nearly j-0] every one of them had been clubbed WJ and several were bleeding from their wounds. jn. The French Consul at Colon, M. Bon- sa henry, appealed to the men to listen c!v to reason, explaining that they bad \ left Martinique uuder contract with m{ the canal zone emigration agent guar- re] anteeing the payment of their passage w, here, and that while working on the- T|, canal they would have in addition to pi( their wages the guarantee of free J quarters and free medical attendance. | sa t The men. however, were not amen- 'ea ' able to this reasoning. j Before noon, at the instance of M. a ' Raven, the agent of the company, and de of the French Consul, a squad of Pan1 aman police went ou board the vessel and told the men. that force would be . used if they persisted in their refusal j : to disembark. Seeing that the police jje were armed with bayonets and guns, , I the men again bared their breasts and rj^ : said they preferred death rather than au L be taken ashore. jn. The laborers at 2 o'clock were in- jla formed that they would be given two til] hours to reconsider their decision, and slj > at 4 o'clock three of them consented to ?0 disembark, the others still holding out. g_ Then the Panama police, armed with clubs, approached the laborers, ana on au their refusing to leave the ship began to club them right aud left The zone tli( poi: 'e, a few minutes later, assisted in the clubbing, but with better judgment cu and less indiscriminately. About fifty Tv of the laborers leaped into the sea, but x-n all of them were able to swim. The j? captain, however, lowered a boat, ? which picked them up. Nearly every j man had received blows and several Qr of them were bleeding from ugly J1( wounds. r0l Seeing that resistance was useless, ^ the men yielded, came ashore and began to eat the food which had been placed on the dock in sight of them for 1 several hour3. At 5 o'clock all the laborers, who were in a pitiable condition. were placed on board a train, which left for Corozal, where they will t be put to work. y? MOTHER KILLS HER 7 CHILDREN frC She Then Wounds Herself Mortally and Sets Fire to Her Home. Cambridge, 111.?Neighbors of Wiiliam Markuin discovered that the ( Markum house was on fire. Hastening j there to assist in subduing the flames, shl they saw the bodies of Mrs. Markum iu and her seven children lying inside on the burning building, covered with all blood. They succeeded in pulling the g bodies from the flames only to find far them all horribly gashed. All wi?re sei nnDarentlv dead, but signs of life were tuc discovered in the woman and she was restored to consciousness. She at first said a strange man had killed the children and then cet the house on fire. Later, just before she died, Mrs. Markum confessed that she had killed the children with a hatchet and had 1 attempted to kill herself with the same wc weapon, but failing, had set the house on fire. ^ After her death a letter was found ^ addressed to her husband, telling him ^ei she was going to kill herself and the pa children; that she loved him and the b0( children, but believed they would be better off and safer in the arms of the HELD FOR KIDNAPING FARMER. 11 1 , Real Estate Dealer Accused of Crime 1 to Gain $17,000. Kaukauna. Wis.?Wenzel E. Cavot, a Lrr real estate dealer of Green Bay. was ot' arraigned before Justice Sell win on a Ly charge of kidnaping M. M. McCarty. a prominent farmer of Kaukauna, who lias been missing since September 14. j Not being able to furnish a bond for ^ $1200, Cavot was committed to jail. Iia McCarty lived alone. His real es- p'e tale and personal property is valued ij( at $17,000. When last seen he said he was going to Green Bay. After he S(-r had been missing about a week Cavot appeared on McCarty's farm with a bill of sale and began disposing of the , stock. The instrument is in McCar- ty's handwriting and is signed by him, ^ but contains the names of no wit- " 1 nesses. Proceedings against Cavot were started by McCarty's relatives. . * Asphalt Trust Aided Rebels, j Testimony was given duriug a salt i I . in New York that the Asphalt Trust | vei aided rebellion iu Venezuela. ha Witte Is Home a Hero. Witte, chief peace envoy of th? Czar. 1 was warmly welcomed home to St. ^ Petersburg by oflicials and people. r.e-< tin os I Af Boston to New Tort by Electricity. The New York, New Haven and j Hartford Railroad's order for twentylive electric locomotives, it was: said, i means electrical expresses between New York and Boston in the near fu Fa i ? Labor World. j Nearly all of the flint glass factories cr< ; ; of the country resumed operations re- , cently. t0\ { Work has been resumed at the Stam- , ; ford Merthyr Colliery, New South Wales. .The West Australian Government ^ has taken steps to reduce the amount ju, of labor carried on in the gold mines on Sunday. , Victorian Premier Bent says he is . going to spend ?10,000 in various pub- w? lie works to provide work for the un- trj employed. ? - - - ANDIT8 HOLD UP TRAII <press Car on the Great Norther Blown to Pieces. OSSE SURROUNDS THE THIEVE! one of the llobbery Only Ten Mile From Seattle?Professional Despern does Got One Tlioudanrt DOllari-Ti? Hoys Captured After Attempt to Ho FaRuengen? Expiens Safe Looted. Seattle, Wash.?The eastbound Groa H'thern passenger train'leaving Seal at S o'clock at uight was held u] a gang of bandits ten miles fron is city. The express car was blowi pieces by three charges of dyna ite. rhe train was flagged near a brick rd and as the engineer slowed up twi ?n in raincoats climbed over the ten r aud presented revolvers at hi; ad. When (he train stopped the baggage d express car was uncoupled by i ird robber and the eugineer was in ii^forl tr> null alipfld which lie (lit r several hundred yards, when hi is again commanded to stop. Tw< the robbers then jumped off. uiak I the eugineer and firemau do tin ate, and all marched to the baggagi r door. rhe express messenger was com inded to open the door, and on hii fusal to do so a charge of dynamiti is placed agaiust it and exploded le explosion torn the car almost t< ?ces. The safe was then blown open \.fter securing the coutents of th< fe the three men started off in ai sterly direction. S'ews of the hold-up reached here telephone message sent from a resi una of- finpinir RoopIi A trn plnm Ike io escaped from the scene declam it a number of persons had beei led and wounded iu the melee. Details of the hold-up were receim re. Meanwhile two boys who had beei ling on the blind baggage slipped of d went through the train, attempt f to hold up the passengers. Thej d no guns, but took advantage of thi nidity of the passengers while thi ooting, which injured uo one, wai ing on outside. They were capture< trainbands. The boys, who gav< ?ir names as Frank Alfred and Rol d Gibbs, are now in jail at Everett iey said they had no connection witl i other robbers and that the idei holding up the passengers only oc rred to them after the explosion vo of the bandits were on the blinc ggage when they got on, they cx lined, aud the third man boarded th< tin at Ballard. I reward of $5000 was offered by th< eat Northern Express Company foi ; capture and identification of thi )bers. rhe Sheriff and his deputies fount abandoned horse and wagon a mil< d a half north of the scene of tin Id-up. The horse showed evidence* having been driven hard. The offi s believe this is au outfit reported having been stolen near Kent, twen miles from Mile Post. )eputy Sheriff Scott said that, so fai known, only aoout 5>iuuu was iaK?i >m the safe. MORE AMERICANS LOST. owned With One Hundred and Nin< )thers in Typhoou in Philippines, ilanila, P. I.?The interisland steam ip Canlabeni, 1097 tons, was sunl the recent typhoon of Ticao Island e of the Visayan group. Apparent!] on board were lost. !he carried five Americans, one Span d and eleven native and Chinese pas lgers, and a crew of ninety-sevai (u aud officers. SIX PERISH IN FLAMES. 70 Women and Four Childrer Burned to Death in Home. Sdgington, W. Va.?Six persons?tw< men and four children?were burnec death in their home here at night e husbands of the women escaped, ["hose burned were Mrs. J. Algo am r three children and Mrs. .tosepl nielli and one chNd. Tlieir charret [lies were recovered from the ruins. NEW ?10 COUNTERFEIT. Appears in New York City?Longei Than the Genuine Note. Vasbinglou, D. C.?Chief Wilkie. 01 i Secret Service, announces the dis rery of a new counterfeit ten-dollai lited States ("Buffalo") uote. It is the series of 1901, check letter B ons, Register; Roberts, Treasurer. Fright Killed Patient. bright over an operation which h( is about to undergo is believed tc ve caused the death of Andrew ebles, flfty-seven years old, in Gracs )spital, in Chicago, 111. While th( ysicians were- preparing their iu uments the patient died suddenly. Russian Vice-Consul Fined. Prince Engalitcheff. Russian Vice nsul in Chicago, III., was Sued $1 d costs by Justice Caverly on t iirge of violating the city's automo e speed ordinance. The prints lived his right as a member of ? eign consulate. Baron Komura Sails. 5arou Komura sailed from Van.Mil c on the Empress of India for Yoi;o ma. Now African Troubles. Andrew Do Wet, a nephew of the *>r General, is said to have been ar sled at Windholt, charged with plot ig to aid the rebellious blacks and ablish a Boer republic in Southwesl rica. To Retain Army in Far East. Vd vices from St. Petersburg, Russia v that a Russian army of live t< jiu :ariny corns win uc neiu in i<k ir East. Newsy Gleanings. Kansas will have a $7j,000.000 con: )p this year. V money order convention with Now midland has been signed. Vn association of hay fever Tlctim; is formed at Jamaica, L. I. 'Auut Nell" Ryan, 105 years oid. ol est Hoboken, N. J., says she feels 3t as young as she used to feel whei. t thirty. V man named May, from Norman, ilahoma, traveling iu Western Texr>S, ilked five miles following a mirage ring to get water for his mules. - ?. ? ^ BANK THIEF CONFESSES 'j Young Leonard Says He Stole $350,n 000 to Give Financiers a Lesson. F Declare* He Meroly Defllrert to Show g Bov Em; It Wm to Commit Crime . ?Itnbber Stamp tlio Clew. :g New Torlc City.?With the arrest of Henry Ambrose Leonard, son of ex- I ? Sergt. John Leonard, of the Police Deb partment, tlie mystery surrounding the theft of $339,000 worth of securities from the National City Banl: i3 cleared up. The prisoner made :i complete confession to the police and P Pinkerton detectives, and said, with ? a n a considerable ahow of pride in his 11 achievement, that he had giveu Wall Street a good lesson in banking. ? All of the stolen securities have now :- been recovered. Within a few hours b 0 after young Leonard perpetrated his f audacious theft he mailed part of his j plunder to Dyer Pearl, senior member . s of the firm of Pearl & Company, the brokerage house whose name was v p forged to the check on which the thief I x obtained the stocks and bonds from u " the National City Bank. a 1 The securities disposed of in this e way by Leonard were valued ' at i 3 C269.000. This left a balance of some ^ * $90,000 to be accounted for. The h 8 prisoner informed Superintendent s Dougherty, of the Pinkerton Detective c Agency, and Capt. McAuley, of the j* Detective Bureau, where he had con- [< 3 cerled the $90,000 in securities. The a ? missing stocks and bonds were found c in a wardrobe at Leonard's home, tl 3 Capt. McAuley aua superintendent r, * Dougherty met the prisoner's father t< - by appointment at Twenty-third street tl 1 and Third avenue, and there he turned m over to them the securities. t * It was the man from whom Leonard brought the rubber stamp with which tl i" to Miake the certification on the check o 1 that gnve him away. He didn't know 1 who Leonard was, but he knew ^ enough to put the police and the Pink- a 1 ertons on his trail. After that it ti wasn't the hardest thing in the world c ! to get him. o E Young Leonard is a puzzle to the tl - police and the Pinkertons. He comes c J of a thoroughly respectable family and ti ? he had won the esteem of his employ- & ? ers by his ambition to get ahead. He ii * even went so far as to study law e 1 at a law school in addition to per- o i forming ms wort m tne Droicers p office. His family was absolutely acNaaed when he was accused-of the n i theft. r i Leonard told the police that he 1< robbed the bank to demonstrate the a careless manner in which banking l< 1 business is done and to show how easy c it was to cheat an institution like the fl i City Bank of some of the millions of u securities daily passed in and out of o i its loan department. That was all 1< i* he had in mind, he said. p ? A'.l through the neighborhood in "f; which he lived nobody could -be found n 1 who had heard anything bad about s< J the boy. He joined the Y. M. C. A. tl i on 125th street in order to get the n ? advantages of the gymnasium. His ii -5 family say that he dots not drink or tl L smoke, and he has always been a t< regular attendant at St. Jerome's Y Roman Catholic Church in the Bronx. t< r ? ti ) GRANTS HUSBAND ALIMONY. w Orders Divorced Wife to Pay Him ^ $1000 and $10 a Week. t( j Cincinnati, Ohio.?For the first time s; on record here a husband has been tl granted alimony. Judge Sam W. Smith |j gave Mrs. Robert P. Newlin a decree j? i of absolute divorce from her husband Ci and the custody of their three children jj r and ordered her to pay hiin $1000 and n $10 a week. Newlin relinquishes all n claim to any share in his wife's prop- ti erty. Divorce was obtained for non- e l supfltn-t, and the alimony terms were v arrange<l between the lawyers. ci Newlin is a dog fancier, and his wife y wealthy in her own right. She has d been supporting the family. They p l were married in 1894, and are promin- y ent socially. tl c j 19 YEARS FOR CARLTON. tl t< Judgo Aspinall Says Bigamist Ought I to Be Sent to Electric Chair. a > Brooklyn, N. Y.?Frederic E. Carl- ^ I ton, who was convicted a week ago on three charges of bigamy, and one ? of grand larceny, was sentenced to . nineteen years in Sing Sing by Judge . Aspinall. Wheu he left the pen he ^ was followed to the courtroom by a ' mob of men and boys, and again when c ? lie was led from the court to the train ^ . *for Sing Sing. ; In sentencing the man, the Judge ^ j characterized him as a murderer, a r villain, a swindler, and a thief, and ' umracworl VAcrrot thnf ha r?rmlH unfr ha seat to the electric chair. 2 k Girl Held Fast in Swamp Dies. ? > The body of Lena Gill, eight years t r old, wlio had been missing for five ]\ ? days, was fouud in a swamp near j< > Prescott, Ontario. She was sent by $ ! her mother on an errand. Armed men a searched the country on a theory that u tramps had kidnapetf her. The body b was found with the feet fast in the a mud, the indications being that the e ' child had fallen from exhaustion and c " died of exposure. v li k Brothers Drowned in the Potomac. o [ Two boys, Percy Dudley, aged ten years, uud George Dudley, sixteen f years old, brothers, were drowned in ? me Potomac River, at Washington. The younger boy fell from a boat an the brother leaped into the water to save him. Both went down before assistance could reach them. 9 Five Children Burned to Death. ! Five children were burned to death , In a fire whicli destroyed the home of * Frederick Adainson, Fort Dodge, Iowa. l The father had gone to work aua the : mother was visiting a neighbor, leav- T ing the gasoline stove burning. The t cjuuuren were piaying in tueir nigut- u gowns when the gasoline stove ex i ploded. * c | President Pushes Rate Question. 1 > President Roosevelt has already renewed bis campaign for railroad-rate legislation. * t The Mississippi Launched. Tlie new United States battleship i . Mississippi was launched at Cramp's , shipyard, Philadelphia. Pa., in the presence of a crowd estimated at over , 15,000. Miss Mabel Clare Money, 1 f daughter of ' lie United States Senator, ! christened the hull as it began to slide > down the greased ways to dip into the y i Delaware River. ' Miss Gould's Big Gift. , Miss Helen Miller Gould has agreed i to give $150,000 for a railroad Young Men's Christian Association building j at St. Louis, Mo^ - ? J ??? ? MP INSURANCE LOAN! 'resident McCall, of New York Life Makes Startling Statements. /IONEY SPENT FOR LOBBYING nvestlgator and Attorney Hughes of tin State Insurance Inquiry Commiftei Makes Home Remarkable Dlscoverlei Regarding Modern "High Flnance"How tbo McCalls Benefited. New York City.?Something ap roaching a definite explanation of the aysterious legislative activities ol Judge" Andrew Hamilton, legislative gent of the Mutual, Equitable and iew York Life companies, and of the itherto inexplicable "yellow dog' unds came, when John A. McCall 'resident of the New York Life, tes ified that three-quarters of the mea?i res proposed in Legislatures of the Jnited States were "strike" or black lailing bills, designed to "bleed" insur nee companies. Following this frank arraignment ol -egislatures Mr. McCall" outlined is de. ail the vast sums that have been andled by "Judge" Hamilton in fight ig hostile legislation at various State apitals in the last five years. Prom the few York Life alone "Judge" Hamil5n received $711,000 in this period, ic ddition to a single fee of $134,000 foi ounsel services. It will be recalled liat .testimony of Equitable officials evealed the fact that "Judge" Hamilan's expenses were divided between lie three great companies, and- if eceived equal sums from tho othei wo his expenditures for "legislative fork" against insurance legislation ic be last five years would aggregate ver $2,000,000. Mr. Hughes pressed home the prob ito this form of insurance activity ic merciless fashion. He not onlj umed a flood of light upon the pro eedings which permitted an official f the New York Life to swear thai lie company had made no campaigc ontributlons in a year wnen it naa ac ually contributed $50,000, but he gav< Ir. McCall a bad balf hour explain ig the circumlocutions by which Gov rnor Culberson and the Texas Stitt fficials -were hoodwinked about this erformance. Most striking, however, was the adlission he wrung from the witness egarding the uses to which the vast igiaiuuve iuuus wtrre yui. iu luluj, Ir. McCall continued his former deciration that so far as he knew not a ent had been used corruptly to "inuence legislation." In fact, he adlitted that the money was turned ver to "Judge*1 Hamilton to use in igislative halls in such a way as "to roduce results." "Producing results" rom the insurance point of view leant nothing more or less than the titling of inimical legislation, whether tie ordinary "strike" form of blacklail, or the recommendations of State lsurance departments. Following [lis line Sir. Hughes led the witness > the admission that while the New 'ork Life officially dealt only with at>rneys "Judge" Hamilton was free > employ any one who could do tb'e 'ork, whether an attorney or not Entire freedom" were the words with rhich he described "Judge" Hamilm's power. Then Mr: Hughes took a forward tep in the tracing of the methods of je great insurance lobby that has een so frequently described as exiting at Albany and at other State apitals. By close cross questioning e obtained from Mr. McCall the adlission that there were in many States len in a position to deal with legisla ive measures in such fashion as .to xercise pressure to the extent of preenting the re-election of men acting ounter to their wishes. Mr. McCali as not sure that those men could rive recalcitrant legislators out of olitics, but he admitted their position rould be "seriously strained." That tie system reached to the national lor.gress Mr. McCall admitted in tesifyiiig to the employment of an agent 3 fight a Federal bill solely "because B was a man of very large acquaintnee in Washington." -k.part from the legislative phases of is testimony, the most amazing sinle feature of Mr. McCall's examinaion was his admission regarding the itherto unexplained loan of $50.00C d Johu R. Hegeman, president of the letropolitan Life Insurance Company, t a nominal rate of interest. Mr. Mc !all, apparently nettled by Mr. lughes' questions regarding the reaon for the loau of this sum at a nomnal rate of interest, declared that be egarded tbe interest rate as all right, nd said with some feeling that he art obtained a similar loan from Mr legeman at a similar rate. This ap> arent "break" was seized on by Mr lughes at once, and the fact showr hat Mr. McCall. a- director in the fetropolitan, had obtained a personal jau from this company' of $75,000 50,000 of it nearly three years ago nd that tbe rate had not been raised mtil after the insurauce agitation had ecome pronounced. When Mr. Hughes ttempted to emphasize an impropri ty in this proceeding Mr. McCall de lared with evident sincerity that he rould have taken the money at a ower rate of interest if he could have btained it. * The yearly salary roll of the McCal amily drawn from the New York Lift ras shown to be $137,500. Collections Improve. Mercantile collections improve as th< eason ai7ances. STARVING IN CAUCASUS. Armenians. Fired Upon by Tartars Cannot Till Land. St. Petersburg, Russia.?Private dis >atches received liere from Tiflis saj bat conditions in the Caucasus ar< leplorable. The Armenians are starv ng and are abandoning-their property jecause it is impossible for them t< lultivate their land on account of th< nanner in which they are fired upor )y the Tartars, despite the efforts o he troops who bave been sent there t< u-otect theui. MANZANILLO SUFFERS. Hexican Port Badly Damaged bj Storm. Mexico City. ? Official advices re :eived here state that a furious storn ?isited Mauzanillo, dolus great damag( o that city and port. The new break vater was demolished and the terml lal railroad washed away. The liigl ;ea almost flooded the town. Another Cronstadt Strike. The dock laborers at Cronstadt havi 5truck for more wages and sliorte; 10UT3, ...... . ! BITS I NEWS , J WASHINGTON. President Roosevelt, it was said, found demoralization in nearly every executive department on his return to Washington. , Secretary Hitchcock has intimated i that the next alleged land conspiracy case to receive the attention of the Government probably will be that of W. N. Jones, a big lumberman, of Port > land, Or?. , Secretary Bonaparte has advised Brooklynites that he will not take up the matter of the sale of the frigate Constitution until Congress meets. He says the matter is one for Congress to decide. Secretary Shaw declared that the * ramoriv fr?r nnn-olacHiMHr in tlio E currency system-lies in the nuthoriza? tion of additional national bank circuit lation. ' s ; OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The losses in life and property caused by the recent typhoon in the Philip pines are heavy. The coast gtoard cut. ter Leyte was wrecked, eleven Amerk icans were drowned, and army posts in the Southern islands were destroyed. " The loss on hemp plantations is esti mated at $1,000,000. AJ1 Honolulu drunkards have been officially blacklisted, so that they may be refused drink in the saloons. A corL respondent states that "nearly all on " the list are steamship mer." ; Jap spies are studying the defenses of the Philippines, a Spanish correspond L ent at Manila cables. Felizardo, chief of the outlaws in tie I Province of Cavite, was surrounded ; nea& the Batangas border and jumped over a cliff to his death. l The absence of a line of freight-car> ryhig. craft- between Sa'n Francisco, ' Cal.. Guam and-Manila throws all the > trade of the islands into the hands of i Japanese. i The commander of the Government forces at Guam urges the necessity of ' a system of water works in order that 1 bad sanitary conditions may be improved. The public school system is ' well established and attended with ^ gratifying, results. l The aggregate custom collections at Manila for the fiscal year ended Juue [ 30, 1905, were $6,814,910, and for the ; entire Philippine Islands the total collections were $8,263,444. > The Governor of Guam recommends \ the establishing of two lighthouses on the island. Commander O. L. Dyer, Naval'Gov-i eruor of Guam; in liis annual report,' : says the natives are well pleased with , the sovereignty of the United States - and that there is no sentiment among them for Independent government DOMESTIC. Secretary Shaw, addressing the Ohio | Bankers' Association, at Cleveland, ' urged that a more elastic currency , system be adopted. The second tube of the New Jersey tunnel under the Hudson River, at New York City, was finished. About 200 delegates, representing Massachusetts councils of the Royal Arcanum, at a meeting in Boston voted to take legal measures to prevent enforcement of the new rates of assess- . " ment. John D. Rockefeller gave $10,000,000 in cash to the GeneraL Education Board. A Coroner's jury found that Cornel ius a. jaciisuu, luweiwau, ituu iraui Kelly, motorinan, are criminally responsible for the wreck on the "L" traiu on September 11, in New York City. , President Roosevelt will visit New Orleans, La., October 20, returning to Washington on a warsliip to avoid quarantine. Judge Tayler, in the United States Circuit Court, Cleveland, Ohio, approved the report of a referee cutting * down the fees of lawyers who appeared in the Cassie L. Chadwick , bankruptcy proceedings. John D. Rockefeller has boosted the price of oil in Chanute, Kan., and Pittsburg. In Pittsburg'all grades were raised, with one exception, from two to five cents a barrel. Professor L. Eddy, the oldest teacher ? < +*) ?n TTAnfunlrn S/>1ir?nl ffiV ill IUC XVCU?,UV,UJ uiuib kjvuvv* avb mvmo, , Danville, Ky., dropped dead while iu the schoolroom. Professor Eddy was seventy-five years old. He was noted ' as an astronomer. , Bishop ?Potter frowned on the at, tempt of a clergyman in the Diocesan Convention, New York, to pass a' reso! lution condemning those blamed for insurance scandals. FOREIGN. s Germany and Frauce have come io , an agreement on the Morrocco. quesi tion. regulating police and financial re. forms, but affairs on the Algerian frou tier are to be uuder French control. A thoroughly modern electric light 1 and refrigerating plant was put into | use in Panama. It cost $250,000. The wreck of the Chatham in the. ' -Suez Caual was blown up. No harm j was done to the canal. I Fifteen persons were drowned, in > eluding two engineers, by the destruc. tion of a Chinese coasting vessel which . was blowu up by a floating mine in ; the Chiua Sea. i For insulting the President of Nicarf ngua, William S. Albers, representing a Chicago miuiug company, has been senI tenced to three years' imprisonment by the authorities of that company. Albers will appeal. Advices from St. Petersburg say that alarm is shown regarding the new treaty of alliance between japan auu ! Great Britain. There was more rioting at Budapest among university students, and tlie hostility of the Socialists to tbe coalition plans is expected to provoke further outbreaks. Walter Vaughan Morgan was elected to succeed J0I211 Pound as Lord Mayor of London, England. . Tlie failure of two leading operators ; in the French sugar market was announced at Taris. The Swedish Riksdag met in extraordinary session, and the Government I submitted a proposal to put into force the agreement made at Karlstad. A meeting of the Chamber of Com mere? of tne .Japanese umpire was ??gun in Tokio to consider the revival of trade aud industry now that the war 1 is over. Notwithstanding the silence of 1he Government, the fact is disclosed thai 1 Japan made peace at Portsmouth i from fear of a financial breakdown. The war proved more costly than had been calculated. Japanese Government officials said that plans had been completed to increase commercial facilities, but def tails will not he made public until the j treaty of oeace has been ratified. . 9 ^?hsllllff t i t ry __ x ^ ^ - _ p "* X' y . ;vi09sH / . v . ?i"S3 No Wo?$n in the Abu tract. P. Frankfort Moore says: "There i? no such a thing as woman In the abstract When you talk about woman enthusiastically, you are talking abont the woman you love; when you talk about woman cynically, you are talking about the woman who won't love you." unpin ui - Avrv* "Acre" comes from the Latin "ager," a field, and originally was applied witA- - out reference to its size, the term being: used in England indefinitely for a long period. SUFFERINGS UNTOLD. A Kansas City Woman'* Terrible Expedience With Kidney Sickneu. * Mrs. Mary Cogin, 20th St. and Cleveland Ave., Kansas City. Mo., says: -l years I W*8 raD dowD' /. weii^miuwuuu" sore" Tbe*id' uey secretion* vl?V were too frejLii ML quent. Then jfflBLg" Jj.\ dropsy puffed up my ankles 1 until they were / \ |}\1vt\ * to be[<J'scU\ \y\\V Hold. Doctors ? gave me up, ~ but I begaa using Doan's Sidney Pills, and the remedy cured me so that I liave been well ever since, and have -had a fine baby, the first J? five that was not prematurely born." >. Sold by all dealers. 50 ceuts a box. Foster-Milburn Co.; Buffalo, N, Y. Hiring Infanta. , , Female street beggars In London, If they do not possess children of their own, patronize a house where infants may be hired, at the rate of twelve cents a day. for each-child.^ Tlieyotmgsters-are intended to arouse the sympathy of tender-hearted pedestrians. RESTORED HIS HAIR Scalp Hauaor Cured br (jaUeats Soap m4 Ointment After All ICUe Failed. "i was troubled with a severe scalp b?mor and loss of hair thut gave me a great deal of anboycnce. /After uhsuccessful efforts with many remedies and. so-called hair tonics, a friend induced me to try (Jutieura Soap and Ointment. The humor was cured in a short time my hair was restored as healthy aa ever, and. i, can gladly say i bave siuce been entirely free iron any further a&noyaace. 1 shall'alwaytfule Cuticura Soap, and i keep the Ointment on hand to use as a.dressing/for the hair and scalp. (Signed) Frsd'k* BuSche, 21J East 57th St., fl. ?. City." A Filipino Fire Maker. H A curious contrivance is used, by^fl some of the natives of Northern *Lu-^H zon, Philippine Islands,! for the pur-^H pose of obtaining fire. This consists of a hardwood tube of^| about one centimetre internal diameter^f and six centimetres in length, and piston of slightly less diameter and^| length. The tube is closed at one end^^ by an air-tight plug, or, instead, the^H piece of wood of which it is made 1aH| not bored completely through its en-^fl tire length. The inside of the tube i^H smooth and highly polished. The pis^H ton has a handle and resembles thi^H piston of the small boy's "popgun." The end of the piston is made to the tube air-tight by a wrapping o^K waxed, thread, and.directly in the en^H a shallow cavity-is cut. Lint scrape^H from weather-beaten timber and wel^H dried is used for tindeh A small bi^H of this lint is placed in the cavity a^D the and of the piston, the latter la in^H serted a half inch in the open enfc the tube and then driven quickly hom^B with a smart stroke of the palm. UpoiS| withdrawing the piston the lint found ignited, the sudden compressioi^H of air generating the necessary heat.r-^H Capt. B. A. Dean, in Scientific Amer^H ? i Three Bervie Father*. A little performance, not on the usna^H programme, was euacted for Sunda:^H promenaders iu Riverside Park. Whil^H it lasted all else of a spectacular na^H ture was entirely out of the limelight Hi "Will j'ou look at that?" said thflH first woman who saw them, as thre^H men came across the driveway at On^H Hundred and Ninth street, each pusb^H ing a baby carriage?two babies to th^H When this unusual procession reacbe^H the path for pedestrians and turi>e<^H thre jreast, toward Grant's TomlHH the comments that were made were amusing as they were varied. "Don't they look cute?" "Tbey'r^H from Brooklyn." "Would that Roos^^h velt could see them," were some of th^H remarks which were overheard. At One Hundred and Twentiet^H street the curtain dropped on the ui^B| usual performance, for lb- *e the tbr^^P fond fathers of twins recrossed ti^^A driveway and disappeared in the dire^^H tion of Broadway.?New York Press. Still. It Pays to Aclvertlae. ASH When I start to read a poem in paper that I've bought and I find' ^^0 quite pathetic and with true heart i^Hj tcrest fraught, oh, I'm quick to De mitting that.it surely makes me ma^^f when I find that I've been bunco^^H into swallowing an "ad." NOTICED IT A Young Lady From New Jersey Fat Wits to Work. I^H| "Coffee gave me terrible spells of digestion which, coming on every we^^H or so, made my life wretched un^^H some one told me that the coffee drank was to blame. That seemfl^| nonsense, but I noticed these attac^^B used to come on shortly after eati^JH and were accompanied by such exci^^H dating pains in the pit of the stoma^^J that I could only find relief by loose^^B ing my clothing and lying down. "If circumstances made it impossil^HJ for me to lie down I spent hours great misery. IBH "I refused to really believe it the coffee until finally I thought a tr^^H would at least do uo barm, so I coffee in 1'JOl aud begau on Postu^^H My troubles left entirely aud convinc^HH me of the cause. "Postuin brought no discomfort, did indigestion follow its use. I ba^^H had no return of the trouble siuc^^H[ began to drink Postum. It has bi^^lfl me up, restored my health aud gi\^^H me a new interest in life. It certai^^H is a joy to be well again." Name gi\^^B by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Micl^^H Read the little book, "The Road^^H Wellvillo," in each pkg.