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INVESTIGATION.
There was a simple citizen
Who read the news each day,
'And marveled much fhat living men
Their trusts could so betray.
*'Stoce all the world is steeped in sio,
t Were it not well," quoth lie,
"That some inquiries should begin,
At home, like charity?"
A ad so this very." simple nan
Put questions to himself.
Though surely 'twaa a worn-out plan,
Fit for a dusty shelf.
ITe a^xed if he had ,?ver bent
To custom's smu^ control.
And made?'twas so expedient?
6>maM rebates to his soul.
Then how before al!-searching ryes
Would show his kindliest act?
In what preservatives and dyes
Were half his motives packed ?
Honor like liw stood so secure
.-That none could tempt it?:<til!.
Had he, with specious, subtle lore,
Cribed never yet lus will?
Thus did the simple citizen
Probe in his private court;
The findings lie beyond our ken?
tie's published no report.
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La Piroche is a village I do not
kaow, but which must be built like
all villages. It is the year 1418, and
two men, one the father of the other,
are trotting briskly along the road.
"Shall we be in time?" asked the
son.
" Yes; it is not till two o'clock," replied
the father, "and it is only a
quarter-past twelve by the sun."
"I am curious to see it."
"I believe you."
"So he is to be hanged in the
armor he has stolen?"
"Ye1-."
"What put it into his head to steal
a suit of armor?"
'The idea wasn't the difficult thing
, to *3t hold of."
"No, it was the armor," interrupted
the son, who wished to have his
part in this sorry jest.
"Was the armor handsome?"
"Gorgeous, they say?all inlaid
with gold."
"And they caught him as he was
carrying it of;?"
"Yes; you understand that this
armor did not let itself be carried
oft without making a noise; it did
not wish to leave its legitimate owners.
The people in the chateau were
awakened, the man was arrested, and
the Lord of La Piroche has sentenced
him to be hanged clad in the armor."
"Why this clause in the sentence?"
"Because the Lord de la Piroche
is not only a brave captain, but a
man of sense and intellect, who
wisnes to extract irom tui? just bbutence
an example for others and a
profit for himself. You know whatever
has touched a man who has
been hanged becomes a talisman for
the possessor. The Lord de la Piroche
has, therefore, ordered that
the criminal shaN be clothed in the
armor, that he may take it back when
he Is dead, and thus have a talisman
in the approaching wars."
. "That's very curious."
"I believe you."
' "Let us make haste. I am eager
tif .see this poor fellow hanged."
"We have plenty o? time. Don't
let s tire our nags."
A great crowd witnessed the exe
cution, which came off punctually.
The thief was hanged in the armor
he had stolen, with the vizor of the
helmet down, and his hands tied behind
him.
The next morning, at daybreak,
two guards came out of the chateau
de la Piroche to take down the body
of the culprit, from which they were
to remove their lord's armor, but
they found something they were far
from expecting?the gallows and
rope were there, but the criminal was
gone.
The two guards rubbed their eyes,
thinking they must be dreaming.
But the fact was palpable enough.
No body, no armor. And what was
extraordinary was that the rope was
(neither broken nor cut, but just as
it was before the robber was suspended
by it. The two guards went
to tell the news to the Lord de la
Piroche. The Lord de la Piroche
t promised a reward of ten gold crowns
to him who should produce the culprit
clad as he was when he died.
Houses were searched, but nothing
was discovered. La Piroche was
about to accept the result and put up
with his loss, when, one morning on
waking, he heard a great noise in the
square where the execution had taken
place. He was getting ready to investigate
the cause of it when his
chaplain entered the room.
"My lord," he said, "do you know
what has happened?"
"No, but I'm going to inquire."
"I can'tell you."
"What is it?"
"A miracle."
"Really?"
"The man that was ha:ij 1 "
. "Well?"
"He is there."
"Where?"
"At the gallows."
"With his armor?"
"With his armor."
"That's right, for it helong3 to me.
And is he dead?"
"Quite dead?only "
"Only what?"
"Did he have spurs on when he
was hanged?"
"No."
"Well, he wears them now. And
instead of having his helmet on he
has deposited it at the- foot of the
gallows, and is bareheaded.
no crr\ <1 n rT eon of onnA ?-i
ogy uv wulc, ixiAO
chaplain."
The Lord ae la Piroche hastened
-s.to the square, which was full of curif
ous spectators. The neck of the
criminal had been replaced In the
slip noose, the body was at the end
of the rope, and the armor on the
body. The people declared it a miracle.
The body was taken down and
stripped, then hanged again, and the 1
crows went to work on it so busily
than in eight days it looked like a
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' rag, and at the end or a fortnight
looked like nothing at all. How hap|
pened it the culprit was saved? It
j was said that two peasants, returnj
ing at nightfall, and passing near the
| gibbet, heard something like moans
| and a prayer. They used the ladder
f the hangman had left, planted it,
climbed up and questioned the sufi
ferer.
"Are you alive?"
1 "Yes."
"Do you repent of your crime?"
"Yes."
Then the father and son took him
1 down. The rope instead of pressing
! the culprit's neck had passed round
the base of the helmet, so that he was
suspended, but not strangled, and
had recovered his breath when our
two friends came up. They took him
down and carried him home, where
he was confided to the care of the
peasant's wife and young daughter.
But he who has once stolen will
steal again. There were only two
things to steal at the peasant's.
These were his horse and his daughter;
the latter a fair-haired girl of
sixteen. The robber determined to
steal both, for he coveted the horse
and had fallen in love with the girl.
He succeeded in saddling the horse,
but the girl awoke, gave the alarm,
and told her father that the villain
had attempted to abduct her.
Tthe father and brother, finding no
genuine repentence could be expected
from such a man, tied him across the
horse, took him to the square of La
Piroche, and hung him in the old
place, putting his helmet on the
ground to make sure he did not es-'
cape again. Then they went quietly
home, satisfied that they had dona
their duty. As for the Lord de la
Piroche, now he had a sure protection
in the recovered armor. He
wf>nf frailv tn thp wr>r antl was tlio
very first man killed.
PLEA FOR BRIDE S FIRST KISS.
One Man "Who Has Been Si* Times a
"Best Man" Defends Custom.
The Vicar of Tintwistle, England,
hiving declared that the "foolish and
irreverent" custom of kissing the
bride after the ceremony should
be stopped, is thus answered by one
signing himself "Six Times Best
Man."
"As I have on six occasions filled
the invidious position of best man, I
trust you will grant me space to deliver
an emphatic protest against the
abolition of this good old English
custom, which is, apparently, wished
by some clergymen and many curates.
"Is there to be no reward for the
unfortunate 'best man' who has
borne for hours on his shoulders all
the worries and responsibilities of
the important ceremony; the rallying
of the trembling bridegroom, the supervision
of all the social arrangements,
ami the departure of the
happy pair from the church, to say
nothing of the lavish scattering of
largesse to every hanger-on within :
and without, for which, by the way,
he is very seldom reimbursed? I repeat,
is there no reward for all these
manifold difficulties successfully accomplished?
"To the bride and bridegroom it is
the solemnly joyous moment of their
lives. All the playfulness of eager
friends and even the ecclesiastical
chivalry of the minister should not
hft allnwed to rob the narties of a
kiss, the remembrance of which will
remain with the happy pair all their
lives."?Daily Mail.
Spanish Politeness.
It has been said that the French
are the most polite people in the
world, writes our lady correspondent
in San Sebastian, but I do not think
any one who really knows them will
agree. However, they have some
charming little ways, and when they
are rude it is because they are, deep
down, thoroughly selfish. My personal
opinion is that the Spaniard
is about the most delightfully polite
person one can possibly encounter.
If you ask your way in the street,
of some ordinary woman, she will
almost certainly go out of her way
to accompany you down the street
and to carefully put you on the right
road. They are very cheerful and
gay, out mey are never vuigar?as
we understand the word in England.
Even the men in the streets who
stand and frankly stare at a pretty
girl do it in a light hearted, pleasant
way which does not give offense. As
to the manners of Spanish men belonging
to the best society, they are
almost perfect.
Watch a Spaniard of distinction
address his mother or any elderly
lady and you will see a manner which
is tender and caressing, and at the
same time exquisitely protective.?
London Tribune.
Problems of the Pygmies.
Richard Weinberg takes up once
more, in the Biologisches Centralblatt,
the question of the origin of
the various pygmy races of mankind,
and their relation to the earliest representatives
of the human species.
Because the dwarfs of Africa appear
to be superior in intelligence to sur-'(
rounding negro races of greater stat-?
ure, some have argued' that they represent
the primitive type of human
differentiation. Weinberg thinks it
more probable that the pygmies are
sipiply a variety, and that they no
more represent the original type of
man than do the taller races. Even
yet it is found that the human stature
is subject to notable variations,
and that these variations have an effect
upon hereditary.
Wisdom of a Persian Judge.
Professor Williams .Tackon tells in
his "Persia, Past and Present," some
stories illustrating character in the
land of Omar Khayyam. One is of
a man, who, suffering from inflamed
eyes, went to a horse doctor for
treatment. The veterinary gave him
some of the salve that he used on
animals and the man lost his eyesight.
He then brought suit in court
to recover damages. The Judge, after
weighing the evidence in the case,
handed down his decision as follows:
"There is no damage to be recovered;
1 the man would never have gone to
the veterinary if he had not been an
ass!"
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ACADEMY, i
Breath Drawings.
Some curious experiments may be
made with the breath. On a pane
of glass, or a mirror that has not
been polished just beforehand, trace
a figure, or a letter, or a name, with
your finger; nothing will be visible.
But breathe on the glass, and the
tracing will at once appear.
Now. on a freshly polished plate
of metal or glass, place a coin. After
a few moments remove the coin, and
nothing will be seen on the surface,
but breathe on it where the coin was
lying, and an image of it will appear.
If you polish the coin instead of the
metal or glass, the same effect will be
Traceries on the Glass.
produced "s-hen you breathe on the
surface.
If you have a plate of glass that
has been against an engraving for
several years, breathe on that side
of it, and the lines of the engraving
will become visible. This may fail
sometimes, but rarely.
Does all this sound like magic?
The explanation is a natural one. On
the surface of all solids a layer of
gas, vapor and fine dust gathers.
When you polish the object, the layer
is removed, or it is altered by the
contact of other soHds. If the object
is breathed upon, the breath
i condenses more casilv on some Darts
than it does on others, according to
the condition or state of this layer,
and therefore any marks made on it
will become visible.?New York Mail.
The percentage of improved land,
that is, land under crops and grass,
is in this Country twenty-two; in
England it is seventy-six; in Germany
about sixty.
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Subduing Flying Fowls.
When fowls are kept confined they
get uneasy and long for freedom;
this is particularly the case with the
smaller breeds. The common method
of prevention is to clip the wings
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fowls. A better plan-is to attach the
little arrangement here described.
Take a stout cord and tie around the
points of the feathers on the wings
mainly used in flying. Tie one wing
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ANNAPOLIS.
Ernest Flagg, Architect.
Foldable Milking Stool and Pail
Holder.
A very convenient device for the
farm has recently been invented by
a resident of Iowa. It consists of a
milking stool which can be folded
when not in use, and a pail holder attached
to the stool, which can be adjusted
to suit the convenience of the
user. The frame for the pall consists
of a spring clasp, which permits
the pail to be inclined toward the
cow, is desired, or moved to an up
right position to prevent spilling the
milk. The pail is held in the position
at which it is set by the frictional
contact of the clasp.?Scientific
American.
Puttees For Women.
Spiral puttees, shaped so as to
wind from ankle to knee without any
turns and twists, are an English novelty.
They are made in colors to match
ihhejbj
the costume. Worn with spats, '
are a valuable item in -a'wor
outing equipment.?NeV York
There are 17,000 daily pape
lished in the English langue
{ AMBULANCE IN ACTION.
in this manner, then pass the cord.
over the back and tie the other wing.
Be careful not to draw the cord too
tight, but leave it so that the fowl
can carry the wings in a natural position
and it will do no harm.?Indianapolis
News.
Earth's Piecrust Snrfacc.
How thick is the earth's crust?
R. J. Strutt,- son of Lord Rayleigh,
after a long series of experiments, estimates
it as forty-five miles. This
deduction coincides more or less
closely with that of Professor Milne,
the seismologist. Mr. Strutt believes
that at the depth of forty-five miles *
the internal heat of the earth reaches
2732 degrees Fahrenheit. The moon
it not "dead," according to the same
scientist, but continues to possess
volcanic energy. He believes, too,
that the internal heat of the moon is
greater that that of the earth.?Kansas
City Star.
An expert cigarette maker will
roll 2500 cig?rettes a day.
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Columbia Professor Tells German
Monroe Doctrine Not Needed.
EMPEROR WILUAM IS PRESEN
Text of Speech of Professor Bnrga
at the University of BerlinGreat
Comment Caused in Ei
rope on tho Statements Made.
Berlin.?The text of the speec
delivered by Professor Burgess, dea
of Columbia University, the first ii
cumbent of the Theodore Rooseve
professorship of American histoi
and instruction at the *University <
Berlin, has been printed by the un
versity press and widely distribute
in official and scholastic circle
There was some curiosity to see pri
cisely what Professor Burgess sal
regarding the Monroe Doctriae beir
out of date, upon the obsoleteness <
the high protective tariff and on tt
United States' interests being pr<
moted by the extensive German em
gration to South America. I
An tho adflrfiss was made in tt
presence of the Emperor find fr
quent references were made in ilv 1
President Roosevelt the impressic
appears to have been made that tl
President desired to send a messaji
to Germany on those subjects. Son
of the papers give prominence to Pr
feasor Burgess' remarks concernii
the Monroe Doctrine, seemingly a,
tributlng significance1 to it. A tran
lation of the-passage in question fo
lows:
"In my first meeting with tl
President after my appointment 1
this professorship it pleased him 1
address me as an ambassador <
peace, friendship and civilization. F
gave proof through this that he re
ognized and appreciated the gre:
idea which His Majesty, the high
gifted and magnanimous Germs
Emperor, gave to the world Januai
.1, 1905. It is the opinion of tl
President, it is the opinion of n
countrymen in general, that this id<
is the most pregnant that has con
forth in our time, and that it giv
evidence of the great sense of cultu
and extraordinary political wisdo
of its mighty author. The executit
of .this idea makes it possible to;su
ject questions of the highest Impo
tanco which can. scarcely be touch*
upon in a diplomatic way to the mo
fundamental examination and tl
most friendly consideration.
"There are, for example, two do
trines in the policy of the Unit*
States which are regarded almo
as holy doctrines, the discussion
which may not even be proposed 1
a foreign power without risk
awaking hostility in the Unit
States. These are the high prote<
ive tariff theory and the Monroe Do
trine. Our politicians do not appe
to have the least notion that both
these doctrines are most obsolete ai
that the reconstruction of Europe*
States and their constitutions ai
the acceptance by the United Stat
itself of its position as a world pow
have made them both nearly sens
legs."
Professor Burgess said he regar
ed the discussion of the protecti
tariff diplomatically between the Ui
ted States and any foreign Goyer
ment as futile, but the new ainbass
dors of peace and culture would 1
wholly free $*om limitations such i
bound the diplomatists. They wou
be able to tpeajt lrom their own co
victions without fear of being pu
ished or'r*c&Ue<Vor, what was sti
more imports' without fear of di
turbigg or ' in|ag friendships
' >the Unit<
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Planters Killed in Duel.
$ Bravsofc Ryan and L. A. Wrigfc
well-known planters at L'Arger
Missl, became involved in a duel wii
pistols, following a game of card
and both were killed. J. W. Brelan
in whose store the shooting occurre
was killed attsmpting to separa
the men.
Newfoundland Fisheries Agitatio
Winston Spencer Churchill furthi
explained In the House of Commoi
the attitude of the British Gover:
ment on the Newfoundland fisheri
question; newspapers at St. John
continue to attack the modus \
vendi with the United States).
Cuban Officials Dismissed.
Governor Magoon dismissed nin
ty-four Cuban officials in the effort
keep down the expenses of the islat
government.
Feminine News Notes.
Thirty-eight women principals
public schools of Manhattan and tl
Bronx are suing New York City f
alleged unpaid salaries. *
Miss Clara Clemens, the talenti
daughter of Mark Twain, made h
debut as a concert singer before
fashionable audience in Norfol
Conn.
Mary J. Holmes, author of abo
half a hundred novels which ha
been widely read, resides in Broc
port, N. Y., where she has lived flf
years. Her first novel was publish
In 1854.
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E1 Four Matrons of East Sandy, Pa.
Humiliate Her.
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Pour Molasses on' Her, Lead Her
Through Mining Camp and Tic
Her in the Woods.
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Franklin, Pa.?Four married wo38
men of the village of East Sandy,
? four miles from here, treated a
a- neighbor to a coat of stove polish,
molasses and feathers.
k They were arrested, pleaded guilty
n and paid fines of $10 each.
' The four women are respected
members of the community. They
are$irs."-Verda Lowry, Mrs. Bertha
'y Bi*ro?tean,Mrs. Nellie Glaze and Mrs.
)f Hilda Pherson.
i_ Their victim was Mrs. Hattie Low.
ry, a sister-in-law of Mrs. Verda
Lowry, their husbands being broths'
ers.
b- The four women called at the
[(j home of Mrs. Lowry and told her
they intended to humiliate her he's
fore th^ community. Two of the
:>f women seized her while the other
10 two laubed stove polish on her face.
5- Then molasses was poured over her
i- head and feathers were applied.
Thus adorned, the woman was
ie marched from her home to a rail0
road camp, where 200 men are emto
ployed. There was a suspension of
work until the self-appointed vigi10
lance committee took their victim to
>0 the outskirts of the town, where they
10 tied her to a tree and reft her. A
man came along half an hour later
ig and released the captive.
t- ' Mrs. Lowry came to Franklin and
9- ha!d warrants issued for the women.
1-. >Sherifjf McElKtaUBy went to East
Sandy and arrested all but Mrs. Pher10
son, who was riot at home,
to When the three were arraigned
to before Alderman Henderson they
of pleaded guilty.
Ie Mm. Glaze said they had no regrets
c- for what they had done. She said
at the woman's actions were intolerly
able.
m Mrs. Lowry, the victim, said there
ry was no justification for such treatie
ment and that she will continue to
iy live at East Sandy.
^a The discipline was not inflicted
1ft OTithniih wnrninc the four wnmpn
es said. It was asserted by one of them
re that they had told Mrs. Lowry if she
m did not mend her ways they would re>n
venge themselves upon her for the
b-? 7dl3g?a,'ce'Hhey said she had brought
r- on the community. Men who critiJd
cised their conduct were the more seat
vere because one ot the four women
ie was the victim's sister-in-law, Mrs.
Verda Lowry.
c- They said the sister at least should
Jd not have mixed in such an affair,
st whatever the other women might
of have felt called on to do. Mo3t of
by the persons questioned about Mrs.
of Hattie Lowry said they had only reed
spect for her and were sorry she had
:t- had such an experience.
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ar $25,406,258 ASKED FOR CANAL
Of
id .Estimates For Fiscal Year Ending
June 30, 1908, Are Made Public.
gg Washington, D. C.?The Isthmian
_ Canal Comission desires an approe_
priation of $25,406,258.73 to continue
its work on the Panama Canal
j during the fiscal year ending June
~ 30, 1908. The estimates calling fox
. this amount of money were made
~ public by the commission. The
aj. amount appropriated for the canal
r, work for tne flscaii year wnicn wm
end June 30, 1907, was $25,456,f!
415.08.
The estimates for the next fiscal
__ year are surprisingly close to the
j,? appropriations for the' Current year,
a fact explained by the statement at
the commission headquarters that in
the absence of exact knowledge of
' what will be required It was thought
best to be guided by the experience
^ gathered before.
FOUND MISER'S $50,000 HOARD.
of
ll" Notes, Mortgages and Certificates ol
Deposit Buried on Farm.
Winona, Minn.?Notes, mortgages,
certificates of deposit and other per'
sonal property, worth thousands of
' dollars, have been dug up on the
farm of Lemuel Hill, an aged hermit
o? Pleasant Hill. It was . supposed
the miser "had left valuable^bUt the
? searching party was amazed by the
value of the documents unearthed.
On His aeatnoea mil toia a iriena
, ota man who knew where his vain*
were secreted. It developed,
UI however, that this man had only a
Fr vague knowledge of the hiding place.
! A party was organized and much time
was spent in digging before the hoard
g" waa uncovered.
*7 No will was left, and the property,
*" which will be worth at least $50,000,
7 will be divided among Hill's two
brothers and a sister.
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WEST VIRGINIA'S BIG REVIVAL,
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<- * More Than 2000 Accessions to
S( Church Membership Already.
or Wheeling, W. Va.?A simultaneous
le revival occurred in all the West Virs
ginia churches of the Christian denomination,
and an unusual increase
in accessions to church membership
is being scored, the accessions reaching
more than 2000.
it. The revival reached its climax at'?
it, Wheeling with a great mass meeting
th in the Court Theatre. Two thousand
!s, people were in attendance, more
d, than forty churches, located in Parti,
kersburg, Wheeling, Huntington, Siste
tersville and Clarksburg, held the revivals.
n Colorado Teacher Victim of Cold.
er Miss Laura Scott, a school teacher,
as 19 years old, was found dead near
q- Parker, Col., of exposure. She had
es lost her way while returning from
:'s making a call, and had frozen to
ri- death.
Nine Persons Executed.
Nine persons charged with ate
tempting to blow up the Cronstadt
to court martial, and eight of the men
id arrested for the recent robbery in St.
Petersburg, Russia, were executed.
Labor World.
in In a conflict between merchant ponnlnn
mrmlrlprn at Milwau
Lie HL.O ttuu - ? -
or kee, John Feeley, a union man, was
! killed.
2d 1 A new teamsters' union, to be
er 1 known as the United Teamsters o?
a j America, was formally launched at
k, Chicago, as the rival of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters,
ut | The Trades Union Congress in sesve
sion at Liverpool, England, has dak
cided to ask Parliament to pension
ty all workmen over cixty years old, the
or* fnrific for Davine oensions to be
, raised by land tax.
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WASHINGTON.
Secretary Wilson left Washington r|s
for Iowa to do some political work.
' The Director of the Mint has pur- ,
chased 100,000 ounces of silver at
70.61 cents, for delivery at New Orj
leans. t
The Navy Department has ordered . /
the cruiser Minneapolis put out of
commission at League Island.
Fearing serious friction with
Japan, President Roosevelt hue sent
Secretary Metcalf to San Francisco
to investigate segregation in public
schools!
Mr. R. de Marees Van Swinderen. ^
Minister of the Netherlands to the
United States, arrived.
Secretary Loeb, who has been en- jj
Joying a vacation in Montana, re- S
sumed his duties at the White House.
F. H. Stickney, in the Government
service since 1857, and for thirty-two
years disbursing clerk of the Navy <
Department, died aged seventy-six.
Secretary Shaw in a conference
with the President said he was in?
clined to think that aid to the market
from the Treasury was unnecessary.
The President has decided to stop %
at San Juan, Porto Rico, on his way ?
back from the canal zone.
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. ^
American troops have been disA .!?,
patched to a number of towns ta
I Santa Clara, Cuba, to relieve the ru-t
ral guard garrisons, which will bd
sent out to scatter armed bands.
Big shipments of raw sugar from
the Hawaiian Islands continue.. .,j|
Ten cases of yellow fever are. un- I
der treatment in Havana^ Dr.'Pinlay
expressed the beUjfJt that the epi- ; 3
demic could be stay$a.
George Cabot Ward, Auditor for :.! $
Porto Rico, is trying to float a $i>
000,000 bond issue for the building .
of roads. ' '{'Z ' - Sffli
First Lieutenant Robert B. Cal- Jg
vert, of the Twenty-fourth Infantsy, 3$
Tf. S. A., was killed by Sergeant Tay- ; i
lor, of the Twenty-fourth Infantry,
at Albera, Province of Leyte.
DOMESTIC.
In a hotel Are at Fourche, Ark., J.
B. Calvert, a prominent lumber man, V(
of Ada, I. T.# lost his life.
T)nV>knwi ViIaw AnAn tVin a 1 ffl ftf a 'to
liUIJUCr?3 Uicn v|iva vuu ont.w v* vuv 'V/M
bank at Jamestown, Mo., and-escaped . "J
with $2700.
The $200,000 Illinois memorial
marble temple to the aead of tha^t -yM
'State was dedicated on Vicksbnrg .-J
(Miss.) battlefield.
Charles W. Morse has purchased
the Mallory steamship line, forging 7;|
another link in his chain of coastwise
vessels.
Five robbers blew open the safe of
the bank at Vergennes, III., secured - ."'-M
$100, mortally1' wbunded Abraham
Kimbel and escaped.
After killing J. A. Hllley, a guard,1
with an axe, William Fain, a colored
trusty, committed suicide by taking
acid at the Flat Top mines in Western
Alabama.
A burglar is declared to have killed gj|
Mrs. Lou Fuller at Goshen, Ind.,
while she was in bed, this being the
story told by her husband. vjf
The bodies of three miners who
had died from gas were found in the '.>#
James Mullen miqe, at New Philadelphia,
Ohio, when the day shift went ^
on" \
A grand jury found Indictments '*<
against thirty coal dealers, members re
of the Omaha Coal Exchange, on
charges of violating the anti-trust ,
laws.
By inserting a tube hi her mouth f|j|
and turning on the gas, Mrs. James
B. Pollock, wife of the instructor of botany
in the University of Michigan,
killed herself at Ann Arbor.
Charged with impersonating a itni- ^
ted States recruiting officer, R. C.
Smith has been arrested at Mobile, '
Ala.
An heroic statue of General Will- ;
iam Henry Gibson, a famous Colonel :'
of the Forty-ninth Ohio Volunteers,
was unveiled at Tiffin, Ohio. jjg
Not having repented of his wrongs,
the Illinois Supreme Court had re- ??
fused to reinstate Charles H. Paysoa
as a member of the bar.
Ralph N. Newton, a New York City \;
broker, dropped dead at his summer i
? -i riv. J
UOJUltJ ttl OUtlllUU, 1UMO.
Brigadier-General William Hemphill
Bell, U. S. A., retired, died at bis ?
home, near Denver, Col.
Samuel Dalton, for many years
Adjutant-General of Massachufetts,
died at<?Auburndale Sanatorium.
The cornerstone of the new Colt
Memorial High School at Bristol, R.
L, given by Colonel S. P. Colt In
memory of his mother, waa laid with
Masonic ceremonies.
FOREIGN.
The French Cabinet decided to enforce
the Separation law, If the clergy
maintain their present attitude, by
seizing the property and revenues.of
the churches.
The German and American Ministers
remain at Fez, Morocco. France
has decided to send a warship'to Tangier.
Adherents of the Naundorf family,
alleged descendants of Louis XVI.,
greeted their "King" at St. Denis, ' *
France, recently.
H"* V? too a a raonnfiAn n f fhft . , 4!
lUCio IT oo a giauu uw
palace in Madrid, Spain, followed by,
a state dinner, in honor of the birthday
of Queen Victoria.
An epidemic of typhoid fever ha?
broken out in Paris, due to the polluted
water.
Dispatches from Santo Domingo
say that the revolt has been crushedThree
of the insurgent leaders have
been exiled. ~j
Japan is negotiating with Russia
for the establishment of an overland
mail service which will bring Tokic
within seventeen days of London.
Beniaros tribesmen have seized the
town of Arzilla, twenty-five miles
south of Tangier, Morocco, and assumed
the governorship.
A telegram from Tokio says that
reports of Japanese hostility to Amer<
ica, owing to the scnooi question in
California, have been exaggerated. ,
A defalcation to the amount ol
$200,000 has been discovered in the
accounts of the Moscow Foundling
Hospital. . -yM
With great pomp, Dr. Rosen, head
of the German mission to Morocco,
entered Fez, creating a deep impression
on the natives.
The signing of the modus vivendi
j between the United States and Great
I Britain in regard to the NewfoundI
land fisheries has caused indignatior
J In the colonv