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HIE OLD POLE STAR. Before the clepsydra had bound the days Man tethered Change to his fixed star. an<l sail: "The elder races;, that long since are dead. Marched by that livrht; if swprves not from its base. Though all the worlds about, it wax a:il fade." When Kgvpt saw it. fast in reeling spheres, Her Pyramids shaft-centred on its ray She reared and said: "Long as this star holds swav fn unrivaled ether, shall Ihe years Revere my monuments?" ami went her way. The Pyramids abide; but through the shaft That held the polar pivot, eye to eye. Look now?blank nothingness! As though Change laughed At man's presumption and his puny craft. The star lias slipped its leash and roams the sky. Yet could the immemorial piles be swung A skyey hair's breadth from their rooted base. Back to the central anchorage of space. Ah. then again, as when the race wa.-young. Should they behold the heat-on of the race' Of old men said: "The Truth is there, we rear Our faith full-centred on it. It- was known Thus of the elders who foreran us here. Mapped out its circuit in the shifting sphere. And found it, 'mid mutation. Fxed alone." Change laughs again, again the sky is cold. And down that fissure now no star-beam glides. Yet thev whose sweep of vision grows not old Still at the central poin' of space behol.i Another pole-star; for the 1 ruth abides. ?r,uirn n nai iuu, m miuuv ^ | THE WOMAN ENTERS, f ? By KATHARINE LYNCH. ? In the chaparral on the edge of the bluff Dick Matson lay flat on his stomach, his chin propped on one hand, while the other rested lightly on the shining barrel of a rifle. Below, on the further bank of the river, Escolante. the caitle-thief. strutted back and forth before the door of his cabin, his gun in his hands, his strident voice proclaiming to the air bis disdain for an gringos in general, and for the white-livered chingado Matson in particular. Matson, unseen, and his presence only dimly apprehended by the strange animal instinct of the halfDreed, could hear with sufficient plainness the gusts of wrath and objurgation which floated up from below; and when his own name was mingled with especially acrid vituperations, the rage to which he dared give no more audible vent expressed itself in tense and impotent mutterings. I'll get you yet. you old cattlethief. 0 Lord, O Lord, to have to lie aere and take such blasted impudence from a black-hearted Apache mongrel!" This wheu Escolante's remarks on the status and heredity )f the gringo became particularly personal and historic. "Wish I wasn't a white man and I'd take a Dot-shot at you for luck, just as you stand, you cattle-stealing, lyiug vhelp. Cursed nonsense anyway, waiting for proof, and taking a man o the law, when I know darn well you've a steer of mine stowed away '.n the bushes somewhere. Wait till I find your cache, or catch you redhanded; and I'll make you sweat for this." So each vocal volley from below, directed against the unseen foe that 1 5 1 4.^ KA :ne nau-oreea ;ip[ircueuucu ?.? lurking near, was answered by the hidden enemy with one no less heartCelt because of being, for strategic purposes, necessarily unheard. As the time passed Matson's limbs grew increasingly cramped and stiff. Decidedly, he reflected. Escolante had the best of the game. He warily stretched himself into a new position. The hours slipped by; and still the half-breed, warned by his subtle Instinct for danger, kept up his grotesque parade; and still the watching man was baffled of his clue. The shadows lengthened on the river. A few crows, loudly cawing, shook themselves out of the branches of a tree near the cabin and winged Ihemselves for the homeward flight. Dusk was all but falleu; and the watcher painfully stirred his limbs, preparing for a furtive retreat, when i new element entered the scene b?low. The girl who slipped to the door of the cabin was slim and lithe as a willow from the stream. Her black hair fell sleek and straight on either side of her face, hanging in thick braids nearly to her knees. She misprt finp hand to lier forehead shading her eyes for a loug look up the river, and the movement had the supple, untaught grace oi' a wild thing of the woods. Matson drew his breath iu somethins that came dangerously near to being a whistle. So this was Escolante's daughter?child of a Mexican mother and a half-breed father?who since her mother's deatli had been with the sisters at Santa Barbara. He vaguely recalled having heard of the girl's return. This could te none other than she; for what woman, young and beautiful, would foregather with that wicked old Escolante. He cautiously reached for his binoculars, with which he had so carefully scanned the landscape earlier in the day. The girl stood as if posed, straining her level gaze toward l!u sunset. The glass revealed her face, a warm brown oval, the curves :t. 30ft and perfect as a child's, yet with the fullness and richness of early womanhood. The heavy brows were arched. The thick lashes, fringing lids now wide-flung, over soft, lawnlike eyes, surely must shadow hei cheek when the lids were lowered The red, curving lips were slightly parted, disclosing white teeth, firmset and regular. The glass did its work well. The girl might have been standing closc hv: so close that if one renrhed nut a hand one might tone i the brown curve of the chock, or part the silky masses of her hair. The r. an catighi his breath sharply till it hissed between his teeth. The pain in his limbs was forgotten. The girl's facc held him like a spell. Suddenly the upraised hand fell to her side. Escolante's daughtei j turned. with a swift grace and en- ! tared tlie rude cabin. The sun's red | rim slipped below the horizon. Sooi: i a light shone in the cabin. The mar ! on the bluff lay watching it till fai j j into the night. But his head was ] J sunk on his arms and his gun was | j unheeded at his side. When a black j jfigure for an instant darkened the j ! doorway his heart leapec up. men j the old gleam of hate sprang anew j I in his eyes. It was the half-breed, i Tho man in the chaparral softlj , j raised himself. "I'll settle you yet,' j j he exulted. And in the dark he ( shook his clenched fist, at the cattle- ! thief. Then ho stealthily withdrew, j A month had passed and again il was the dark of the moon. The time had dragged heavily foi i old Escolante. for with the accursed ! griugos so closely watching, even a practiced hand must move warily, j and it was hard to go empty with fat cattle feeding at one's very door. To Dick Matson time had flown on golden wings. Love and hate wa* well together in a strong man's heart; and the red lips, of Dolores were sweet. To the girl the month had passed as a day. It is good to live when the ! blood is warm; and young love is ! daring and does not wait for the dark j of the moon. On this night Escolante ate his last ! meal of frijoles and tortillas without I cnllon ufnrn Hp PVf>n ventured a few coarse jests with Dolores. who was dear to him as the apple of his eye. A man may well jest whose knife is whetted for the killing, and who knows that oil the morrow he will feed fat. voiding his hate and filling his stomach at one j and the same time. Dolores met his j badinage with easy response and well| simulated affection. It is easy to I scatter careless affection from the lips wheu the heart is brimming over with love. Without, men gathered quietly in a certain lonely glade. The night ( was heavy about them. In the sij lence each man could hear his own i heart-beat and his straining breath, j The little voices of the night shrilled j loudly, and the sound of the cattle i cropping the rich grass was like a j thousand crunching engines in their ears. The waiting had lengthened to hours before a fat steer coughed and fell under the knife. Then something whirred in the gloom; and then a lantern flared out. Escolante was caught red-handed. His ludicrous dismay when the deft-flung riata . . ? j t_ : ? a . ? K tigmenea rouuu mm uie?? a umoi of rough mirth from the sheriff as he slipped on the half-breed's wrists the symbol of the law and its bondj age. But when Dick Matson stepped from the darkness and reclaimed his riata the cattle-thief broke into fierce vituperations, for this was the most hated, and therefore the most preyedupon of all the gringos. "Save your wind, old man," laughed Dick Matson. "You'll need it for the blessing, for to-morrow I marry your daughter." Escolante grew livid and his jaw dropped. Then hs opened a fresh volley of imprecations, hurling the lie in the gringo's teeth. Dick laughed a careless laugh. "Come here, Dolores," he said. Like a shadow the girl slipped out of the blackness and stood beside him. Dick slid an arm about her and bending kissed her full on the mouth. Then the half-breed went mad with rage, and spat and screamed out curses on the pair until it was horrid to hear him. The sheriff and his meu had trouble to hold him. Dolores trembled and shrank against her lover. But Dick Matson only laughed his easy laugh and tightened his arm around her. Then he turned and drew her with him into tne ioresi. No more cattle are stolen or killed within the range of the Cross Bar Y. The cattlemen sleep well of nights and Dick Matson grows rich off his profits. Several plump brown children play about hia door; and of those he is inordinately fond, as is ' -ils'j Dolores, who sees in them ador! able replicas of the man she wor* j ships. The two are very happy, for ! Dolores is still slim and beautiful; j and Matson wants no better life j than that of the range and his own ! fireside. There are moments; how] over, when the hair stiffens on the ! !>acK 01 ins necK, una a cuui runs along his spine. These are the moments wlien he reflects on the lact that the utmost - that the courts could award to Esco '.ante was a life sentence; and that there is always the chance that a ' prisoner may escape, or that a too lenient governor may exercise the right of pardon.?San Francisco Argonaut. Falsi*. The story is (old of an actor, popular with the matinee girls, who is 1 lie.sH by the Tear ot' being thought older than he is. The last time this player was inter viewed il was by a young lady reporter for one of the dailies. She wished to get his views touching the condiliou of the drama, a subject the aclot was not particularly desirous of discussing. I'm not sure," said the young . woman, laughingly, whether I'm really finding out what you think, j You ought to be frank, for your eyes ! are gray and?" fifinaturely so. 1 assure you. my 1 (I'M: yo:ing lady," the player hastened to Interject. ? Harper's Weekly. Tl*f Power of the l'en. A physician out West was sent for . io attend a small boy who was ill lie 'eft a prescription ami went away. Hoturniug a few dayr; later, m found the boy better. "Yes. doctor," .said the boy's . mother, "the prescription did him a . world of good. L left it beside him, where he could hold it iu his hand most of the time, aud he can almost read it now. You didn't mean for him to swallow the paper, did you, doctor?"?Harper's Weekly. A. new invention provides for the delivery of milk through a hole ia the i door. MEMORIAL STATUE OF BOJI Shield On the Axe-Edge, j After his gun, the thing which the hunter in the woods has the most use for is an axe. It is the means of cutting his way where he could not otherwise pass; it is the means of providing him with his fire and often in a close conflict is the weapon by which his life is saved. For the hunter's use a specal axe I Is made, which hangs to his belt, but In this position he has to exercise Guard on the Axe Edge. great care for fear that hand or arm or those of his companions should not come in contact with its sharp edge. The device is of such propor! tions that when not in use it can be I readily carried in the pocket. It coni sists of two flat pocket-like sections I or clips, having open tops so that j they are adapted to fit over the edge I of the axe blade with a spring con necting the sections and causing them to automatically engage with i the blade. j This device will be equally appre| ciated by tlielumbermen of the Northj west camps, whose constant compan. ion is the axe with which the mon| archs of the forest are felled. The j tool made use of by these men have | razor edge at all times, and men are | often seriously cut by accidentally coming in contact with the keen edge. In the Line of Progress. j New York now requires a license ! to commit matrimony.?Atlanta Journal. THE ZEPPEL One of the Greatest Dirigible i Chinese Dinner Gong. The Chinese dinner gongs are very j unique and bid to be popular. The pipes are three clear tones and sound agreeably when struck with the ham i | 111 '9 * mer. This gong can either be bracket in hall or dining room, fitting snugly to the wall. A little holder to the I front makes a place for a bay berry ' candle, now so uonular mm GEORGE F. HO/.[I. ^ * * - JuSBhSEI^^^^m^S^h vjJBct S*^t^ . v- jraaSH^^MB Tasting I)iiuier3. An out-of-the-way profession for a woman is that of dinner taster. She is a product of Parisian refinement, and spends a portion of each day visiting houses and tasting dishes intended for dinner. She suggests improvements, and shows the cook new ways of preparing roods.?Reader. Nail Driver. The hitherto customary method of driving in nails frequently leads to in-} juries of the fingers by improver blows of the hammer. To obviate this drawback implements in the shape of tongs or pliers have become known. The device shown in the il-1 lustration below relates to improvements in such implements and specially aims at protecting the head o(! the nail against deformation through' hammer blows. The implement is formed of two pivoted shanks, having at each end a section for a nail holder. The upper section of the holder contains a groove for supporting the nail, the lower section when swung into position preventing the nail from falling out. After placing the point of the nail at the required place the implement is held in one hand and struck in the usual manner with a hammer. The nail being securely I C ' held in the groove is prevented from bending, while the head is protected, nrVii/>Vi in r\f (front nduiintaffo with nsHla having fancy or decorative heads. The wall or like surface into which the nail is driven is also protected against injuries by improper blows. ?Washington Star. IN AIRSHIP. ' \ A :>i - j Flying Machines in Existence. A Nature-Study. I observed that the mother of pearl was acting differently, somehow. Sho seamed to me enormously busy. There remained little or nothing of the placid quiet which I was used to consider her character. A very civil niollusk, hard by, remarking my perplexity, laughed sardonically. "Pardon me," quoth r, taking the hint, "but will you courteously inform me what the mother of pearl is about?" ' "Why, she imagines she is created I for something better than a mere i mother's end. and she's going in far a career," he made answer. Now, if he was to bo believed, ahd truly I had no right to doubt him, here was a striking ethibition of human intelligence on the part of an animal of the lower order, so-called. Need I add that I mean no disrespect? I record only what falls in my way.?Ramsey Benson, in Puck. There are no newsboys in Spain; women sell newspapers in the street% PRIEST MURDERED BJ 1MIST IT MB Father Leo Heinrichs Shot at Denver hv Giuseone Guarnacoto. SLAYER HAD TAKEN SACRAMENT Had No Personal Enmity For Victim, But Killed Him Merely Because He Was a I'ricst?Glories in His Deed. Denver, ' Col.?Standing in his white communion robes at the altar of his church, Father Leo Heinrichs, of St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church, was shot and killed in front of several hundred worshipers who occupied all of the seats in the church. The murderer, after firing the shot, created a panic in the church by dashing down the aisle, flourishing the weapon and threatening to kill any one who interfered j with him. Not a person in the place dared stop the slayer, and he reached the street. Two policemen saw him coming out, however, chased him for several blocks and finally captured him. He said he was Giuseppe Guarnacoto. an Anarchist, and he asserted that his only sorrow was he had been unable to kill all the priests of the country. The shooting came as a tragic climax to the services. Father Heinrichs was administering the sacrament at the early mass, and before tfte altar ran mere Kneic a line 01 men and women. The assassin, with head bent in mock penitence, knelt betwen two women and calmly waited for the priest to reach him. He took the consecrated wafer which Father Heinrichs offered, and as he did so he pressed the muzzle of a pistol against the priest's breast. Father Heinrichs felt the weapon pressing against him, and was about to step back when the man fired. The bullet entered the priest's heart and he lurched forward. A? he did so the worshipers heard him exclaim: "My God! My God!" The sound of the pistol and thfi curl of the smoke that wound its wa? upward above the altar rail tolc those in the church what had happened. The men and women seemed stunned for several moments, and then oue of the women who had knelt nect to the murderer screamed. The cry seeded to recall some of those in the room to their senses, and several men started forward from their seats to the side of the fallen priest. Guarnacoto, who had risen after he fired, evidently thought the men intended to capture him. He sprang into the aisle, and, waving the pistol, shouted he would kill any one who laid hands on him. As he started down the aisle women shrieked and several of them fainted. The men ? i- - fVia nrioel' WHO Iiaa bL<HLt;u tuwaiu luc im^b stepped, hastily into pews and sat down. No one tried to prevent the murderer from leaving th? church, and when he reached the door he placed the pistol in his back pocket. Two policemen, however, saw hini coming out of the door and started after him. Patrolman Cronin overtook the fugitive, and as he was about to seize him he drew the pistol from his pocket and tried to shoot the policeman. There was a struggle, at the end of which the murderer was'overpowered. Cronin led the prisoner back to the church, and on the steps they were met by the worshipers, who were hastily leaving the building. Women were weeping hysterically and others knelt on the steps and prayed. A crowd of men who had been attracted by the struggle between the policeman and the assassin, when they heard' what had happened, threatened to lynch the prisoner. He was hurried to Jail anJ placed in solitary confinement. HEARST'S PARTY ACTIVE. Declaration of Principles Set Forth at Chicago Meeting. Chicago, III.?Steps for the formation of a new National political party were taken at a conference of the Inpendence League here. The action followed a short speech by William Randolph Hearst enunciating the principles of the league, some of which are: Direct nominations by the peopie of ull candidates fnr office. An income tax and the referendum. The right of the people to recall public officials from public service. The immediate Government owner shin of railroad and telegrapn nues. An eight-hour day for v/orkingmen. A law making blacklisting illegal. An interstate commerce court to enforce the rulings of the Interstate Commerce Commission. A ship subsidy for the development of commerce. National postal savings banks. The platform also declares that trusts are beneficial whenever the people participate in their advantages. Otherwise the trusts should be crushed as monopolies restraining trade. Check For Tuberculosis'. A campaign to check tuberculosis among the colored people of Chicago has been inaugurated by the City Health Commissioner. Boy, Scolded, Hangs Himself. . ^ m D.. u;,A,y^l At 1 aill(ll{ liu, JTU., Italics aged seventeen, hanged himself because he had been reprimanded. Famous Gorman Artist I)oad. Peter Jaussen, dirsctor of the iJuesseldorf Academy of Art and the distinguished German painter of ?.he picture, "They All Follow the Si;:.-," died in Berlin, aged sixly-thr . :>f icute influenza. Sailors May lie Harrcd. The Rhode Island Supreme C-.iurf" decided that dancing pavilious could refuse admission to sailori, in the United States Navy wearing uniforms. Stub Kuds of News. Japan will have an Oriental Etposition in 191 Natural children of Spanish royally demand pensions. iiii?iH2 -iuur iiuuuis luuuu-o win hold IocaI option electiotio in llio sprius. Stiiyvesant Fish blamed K. II. 1 riman for any harm done to the Illinois Central's credit. Signer Luzzatti, former Italian Minister of Finance, urged the establishment of an American national bank, which, he believed, would remove the evils of the present system.. HEW MKJSTATE NEWS! [ Consumption Costs ?70,000,000. According to the annual report of State Health Commissioner Eugene H. Porter, the cities of the State showed an increase of births over deaths last year and the rural communities a decrease. The average city birth rate per 1000 population was 16.3 as against 13.8 for the rural ^ regions. The latter's average death ^ rate was 15.9. During the year there w were 195,735 births, 147,442 deaths and 94,456 marriages in the entire State. The birth rate per 1000 pop- j* ulation was 23.3, while that for 1906 ^ was 22.2. Dunkirk again has the ? highest birth rate?34.2. Greater " New York has a birth rate of 28.4, and Schenectady 28.3, these being r the highest of the State. During the a year deaths from cancer showed a large increase, and deaths from pneu- c monia dropped several thousand. Deaths from violence were 9625, as against S874 last year. This includes b 1207 suicides. There are probably a not less than 50,000 cases of tubercu- o Iosis in the State, with nearly 15,000 li deaths annually. Tuberculosis costs the State of New York $70,000,000 g annually. The chief cause of its 0 spread is undoubtedly promiscuous ? spitting. Education is the watchword i of the campaign against it. Concerning the pollution of streams, which t the report says is annually resulting in 20,000 cases of typhoid fever and a pecuniary loss to the State of $7,000,000, the department expresses its belief that with a continuation of its present policy this pollution will be entirely stopped in a comparatively short time. State Hard Up For Cash. It developed in the Finance Committee, Albany, that the State is confronted with a serious financial problem. Senator White told the committee the State fair was being hampered by t.he policy of withholding necessary appropriations. Senator s Armstrong retorted that unless the 1 greatest economy was practiced, the t State would find it necessary to im- ^ pose a direct tax, which might be t prejudicial to the Republican party. Country legislators are particularly ? perturbed and are inclined to place t the responsibility upon the Public J Service Commission, which will require nearly $2,000,000 this year, j It is estimated the State will run be- c hind about $2,500,000, necessitating f a levy upon the surplus, which is i about $13,000,000. "I am examining ( the figures carefully," said Governor Hughes. "I do not wish to deprive the people of any needed improve- j ment. I think we can run the gov- ? ernment economically and still not b? , niggardly." Lighting Merger Approved. The Public Service Commission in \ the Second District formally approved I the action of the former State Com- ' mission of Gas and Electricity on I June 28 last in approving the merger by the Utica Gas and Electric Com- , pany of the Herkimer County Light , and Power Company, Glens Falls Gas and Electric Company, Consolidated Light and Power Company of Whitehall and fifty-one per cent, of the United Gas, Electric Light and Fuel 1 Company of Sandy Hill and-Fort Edward. Under the original order a bond issue of $2,000,000 was arranged, to be dated July 1. The or- | der of the Public Service Commission was made necessary by request of Den a purcnasers, wno quesuuueu uc i validity of the issue because the mort- | gage was not recorded until July 1, the day when the State Comm'"s?:on of Gas and Electricity went out of office. Train Fell From a Trestle. A freight train on the Crawford branch of the Erie Railroad at Pine Bush dropped from a trestle and plunged through the 3ide of John Decker's coal and feed store. The tender of the locomotive dropped twenty feet to the ground. The engine was tipped up on end with its pilot in the air on the edge of the trestle. Fireman Abram Scott jumped from the engine into a pond. Engineer DuiTy remained on the cngin? and escaped injury. William T. Lnmont Dead. William T. Lamont, former Assemblyman from Schoharie County, died suddenly at his home, at Richmond; ville, in his seveuty-?ighth year. He j was for many years in the mercantile : business and filled many offices of | public trust. Mr. Lamont leaves two I | sons, Dr. Wilbur F. Lamont, of CatsI kill, and Professor Stanley Lamont, j of the Boys' Academy, Newark, N. J. Wires Kill Two Roys. I Two boys have besn killed iu the same block and within a month by electric lisht wires owned by tho Rochester Railway and Light Ccm; pany, at Rochester. Charles Gaudiso J stumbled into a live wire, and Charles I Trotta tried to crawl over the limb i of a tree in the street when his hand i touched a live wire. IJank Superintendent I'icks Aids. Superintendent Clark Williams, o? the ssiate canning ujpriuisin, appointed George H. Martin, of Brookiyn; William A. MacCallum, of Rochester. and Charles E. Johnson, of Kingston, additional bank examiners. The salaries are :i day and expenses. Killed by His Horse. Henry Bovec. of Groveland, was found dead in the stall of his favorite horse with his head mangled He had lieen kicked to death by the animal, which .=>tood quietly over him. All Around the Stair. Millionaire racing men dominated th:j hearing at Albany 011 the Antif>ppr..'iv>o(-u Gambling bills, which 1 churchmen and reformers favored. Charles M. Turner, of Binghamton, founder of the Security Mutual Life Insurance Company, resigned its pres- ; ideiiry on account of ill health. ! Daniel Reach. of Wat kins, was re- ] elected by both houses of the Eegislalure. at Albany, as Regent of the U:ii- j versily of the State of Nev/ York tor j the full term of eleven years. I Eight women .-chool teachers of Now VorSc jailed < :i Governor Hushes , al. Albany and endeavored to demonstrate to him the merits of the new 'iNiual pay" bill which tney have had i it < rodut'cd. The law of 1 ? 0 creating I ho for-' mot* Slate Commission of Gas ami Kk-eii icilv was declared unconstitutional by Court of Appeals. bc'rausi il fail* to provide for appeal. The lyphoid epidemic at I'eehskill has killed eleven so far. Governor Hughes warned Senate Republicans that failure to remove Keisey would be fatal '.o party interests. Late N8W$i BY WIRE ^ ' WAS HIXGTO Protesting agaiist locating an army arracks th?iv, a delegation of North lastle (N. H.) citizens conferred rith the Preside?:. T. Miyaoka, counsellor of the Japnese Embassy at Washington, has een recalled to Tokio, and his sucessor will be K. Matsui, who has eld the same post at Paris. Rear Admiral Converse, in a long eport made public at Washington, nswered the recently published crltlisms of the American navy, his conlusion being that the ships are not iferior to those in foreign service. Secretary Taft says that "it is noody's business where the battleships re going, provided they keep to tha cean and do not invade anybody's ind." On motion of Senator Cullom the ienate appointed Charles F. Choate, f Massachusetts, a member of the "f Daernntt nt fho Sm 11 ll Sntl 1 ail >uai U UK iwcgguw Vi. vuv nstitution. President Roosevelt asked the Inerstate Commerce Commission to investigate railroad conditions to learn whether roads would be justified in educing wages. President Roosevelt accepted the esignation of Frank H. Hitchcock, iMrst Assistant Postmaster General, fho is to assume management of Secetary Taft's campaign. An arbitration treaty between the Jnited States and France was signed ?y Secretary Root and Ambassador usserand at the State Department. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Havana newspapers would like to ee the Cuban Republic established inder solid guarantees, and expect he attention of the authorities at Washington will be called to the mater. * In order to return to the United States, Major General Wood will turn he army in the Philippines over to > rtajor General John F. Weston. An indirect recognition of Porto *ico as a Territory of the United 5tates was determined upon by the -louse Committee on Insular Affairs, Washington, by an amendment to a avorable report of the Cooper "bill. The complete exposure of the disjraceful conditions long prevailing in he Manila Custom House is assured )y the Court ordering the pro$ecu.ion of Colonel McCoy, Deputy Colector, on the charge of falsification )f a public document. The Diario Espanol, of Havana, rerives the charge that the Maine was jlown up by order of the American War Department to justify intervention in Cuba. Frank Westerberg, a seaman, was Irowned at San Juan. Porto Rico. He was a native of New York City. DOMESTIC. Following the recent semi-anuual examinations at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.. twenty-six midshipmen, it is understood, will be given the alternative of resigning or being dropped from the rolls, oue will be placed in a lower class and sixty-foui will be warned of deficiencies in one or more studies. Charged with falsely reporting and with misapplying bank funds, Charles N. Schmick and his son. Harry, were indicted by the Federal Grand Jury at Leetonia. Ohio. Mayor Hibbard, of Boston, announced that city employe.? must work the hours for which they are paid. The bloody raids conducted by gangs of "night riders" brought the tobaccor war in Kentucky to an acute stage. At Phoenix. Ariz., the world's rec* " : Ktr moohinoi'V ora ior saeanug succti uj ma^i.uv.j was broken by a mau named F. Him, who sheared 325 sheep in nine hours. The shearing plant employs thirty shearers, and also made a world's record by shearing 6572 sheep in nine hours. Judge Lindsay, of the Juvenile Court, of Denver, in an address before the Free Synagogue, New Yorit City, made a plea for more 4,fair play" in dealing with wayward boys. At Dallas, Texas, diamonds and other jewelry worth $10,000 were stolen from the home of J. S. Armstrong, banker and meat packer. Nc clue has been obtained by detectives The burglars left no trace of how they entered the house. Congressman Theodore E. Burton was renominated in Cleveland. The bank at West Poit'!, Jo." ha? losed. FOREIGN'. The gunners of Lh; crjif.:;* Maryland established a new world's racoid at battery fire at Magdalena Bay. Lower California. Arthur H>ne, alias George H. Witzhofx, etc., was convicted of bigamy and fraud in England and sentenced io prison for seven years. Nicholas Gerhard, Covernor-Genoral of Finland, was removed and - . 1?.. tn tienerai you dv?i-&uihu v. th? post. . . A dispatch from St. Petersburg said that preliminary ordei'3 had been issued for the expedition 01 60,000 troops to the Persian frontier. The Japanese Government has sent to Ambassador O'Brien its reply to America 011 tiie question of emigration; further restrictions are conceded. The Finnish Diet met at Jlelsingfors; the president, replying to th? Kmperor's address, denounced the efforts of Russian reactionists to injure the social and political progress of the grand duchy. A wireless message from Admiral Evans, thanking the Peruvian government. for its courtesy, wis received at Lima. There will bo 110 public C" nation in Portugal for some months. 11 ever. AT. lSdmond Bianc has obtained a fen-year concession for the Blank^nhorghe Casino, in Belgium, paying 1 lo.OOOf. yearly th?r?*for. The fourth centennial of the birth of John Calvin will b? observed at Geneva in 190V. Further financial trouble in ^nmark has been averted by the government and leading banks of Copenhagen uniting to guarantee obligations. The International Cotton Federation lias decided to hold its next congress .it Paris, beginning June 1 The British shipbuilding syndicate of Sir James Laing & Sons, employing 5000 men, has suspended. Igtiaz Edler von Plener, the Austrian statesman, died in Vienna; he was niuety-eight years old.