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I THE DOG MARKET AT BAGUI ^ Th- .i^rb No More Mail on Floor. th A simple and yet convenient dej vice that will be found useful in w offices has been patented bv a Boston ^ ?in tl - : ' tr ; tl I.??J. _-?-- Tl Will Not Deface Door. man. This is a letter catcher tiist can be affixed to the office door and will catch the mail as it is dropped through the slot. The device Is a net fastened to a circular rim of me*al or wood. Two hooks, shaped eouething like the letter "S," hold the frame in place on the door, one end of the hooks holding the rim and the other end passing through the letter drop. With this receptacle in position the mail drops into it instead of on the floor, and is in no danger of being torn when the door is opened in the morning, as is sometimes the case where there is a large pile of letters lying in the way. Another advantage of the contrivance is that it can be put up or taken down in an | instant, and does not scratch or de- | face the door in any way. It need | not hang in position during the day, 1 if considered unsightly or in the way. | uuc cau ue uuuK.ea iuiu piate wueu the owner leaves the office at night. N< ?Philadelphia Record. Improvement in Scrcws. Everybody practically knows how difficult a screw is to drive. As many inventors have been striving for the solution of this vexatious m\ ci * I problem as are to-day striving for the g solution of aerial navigation. The Patent Office is deluged with screw- W drivers intended to grip the head of AMOUR ^ He?"Great Heavens! We have run She?"Well, don't make such a fas time you have ever been in a motor car.' Joint less Paper Box. rai The time was not long since when *te the purchase of all liquid or semi- t*1' liquid commodities was restricted to such persons as were willing to carry a a pitcher or bowl in which to put on them, but at the present time it is *or possible to transport almost anything Th of this nature in paper boxes. The ____ thi 5 i ms first innovation of this character was th< the box in which it was designed to Cu convey the masculine "peace offering" of a half a dozen fried oysters, 1 and from this origin the use of the pic paper box has extended until its th< 1 10, IN THE PHILIPPINES. [ntiest of food.?World To-day. le screw and hold it firm..quite ov ioking the fact that the fault 1 ith the screw head and slot, anadian inventor now brings < le final and greatest of all rec< aprovements in screws ? the sssed head. As shown in the ill ation it consists of a square hole ie head of the screw and a squ. >inted driver which fits tightly i: , allowing the operator to drive rew easily, safely and accurately ie most difficult places, or even te dark. It adds much to the < ?arance of the finished work and actically indestructible, as drivi )es not injure the screw in any w; is claimed that this screw can iven as rapidly as an ordinary n< urniture manufacturers, electricis id builders will find this screw iprovement over the common sere iminating the losses now suffer om the slipping of screwdrivers f ' their slots. HE NEW REFUSE RECEPTACL OF PARIS. sw Waste Baskets of Paris?Tj Used on the Boulevards. aste Receptacle in the Bois de Be logne. ?OPRE. f i over somebody!" s. People will think it's the fir '?Pele Mele. age of usefulness is almost unlit d. Even live fish are carried 2m, but in such capacities as th 3 life of the box is guaranteed f somewhat limited period of tin ly, which, however, is general lg enough to answer all pur post e weak point of these constru ns is at the joint, and to overcor is a box has been designed which t out of a solid sheet, creases in ti rdboard being made so that the b< shaped without any cuts or perfo ons in the material.?\Vashingt< ir. l*ater Powers Are Good to Own Attention to the value of wat wers is urged by the Geologic rvev. It is claimed that ^normoi .ter powers are being bought i extremely low valuations, ai ners of such powers should 1 ide aware of their value and ho 3m for better prices.?Americj ltivator. The railroads of this country er >y more telegraph operators tlu ? telegraph companies. v | A "GENTLEMAN FARMER." Preaching and Practicing Different Propositions. While it will be readily admitted ; that the farmer's life can be made one of drudgery if he inclines t.o let j it drift that way, it is equally true I that it can be made quite as enjoyJ able as the average business life, alj though perhaps not quite as desir| able a road to immediate wealth, ! The subject was brought to mind by ! a story related by one of a party, sit! ting together the other evening, the j relator having been a party to the ini cident. It seems that a "professional" man, at the time well known to manj citizens, had conceived the idea ol establishing a model farm not over j a hundred miles from Hartford, had built an immense barn after the most approved style, erected a three hundred ton capacity silo, had become ? interested in fine stock, including er- high class poultry and the like--inies deed was starting at the top of a ladA der that others had been climbing jut with the cautious step of experience. ;nt Matters seemed to bo going swimre mingly and the "farmer" was branchus ing out in every direction. In time in he thought to add another line, that ire of breeding pigs. He communicated lto with the story-teller, who at the time i a uwiieu uau a muusauu ur muic uj in various ages and breeds, and he in dropped around at the model farmer's ip- place to negotiate a sale. Just here is is where the object lesson comes in, ng j The pig-owner met the intending ay. buyer in his study, attired in an elebe gant house jacket, his shapely feet iil. encased in patent leather slippers and ms his entire "get up" indicating the an gentleman of leisure. He desired tc >w, | start in with one hundred swine in a ed bunfih. Advised by the experienced >ut man that he had better take a less number until he had experience the visitor was gently informed that the buyer perhaps knew what he wanted. The deal being accomplished the two fell to talking about business in gen. eral and farming in particular, T I "There is no need of a man doing I I drudgery on the place; I prefer to be i 1 a gentleman farmer," remarked the | newly-fledged, and proceeded to ex' plain how easy it was to remain one. 3 rr>* J -J li- ?11.. i/ime wenaea us way. me sewer of the pigs bethought himself of the "gentleman farmer" who had started near the top of the ladder, and took a leisure hour to drop around and see him. No one being in sight about tba place, the visitor sauntered down tc I the barn. As he neared the entrance he heard an emphatic voice evidently addressing its owner. The ontire | dairy side of the beautiful barn j? seemed permeated with blue flame, I As he got closer, the pig-seller was surprised to recognize the usually model voice of the new farmer. Entering the cattle barn he was surprised to observe the owner (whose earlier acquaintance had been made Pe while he was attired in an elegant dressing gown), cocked up on amilking stool, coaxing the lacteal fluid from the container while he made the air blue with something akin to profanity. His effort at apology wae met with a hearty "Oh, don't mind me! If it is any relief to you, go ahead; I surely don't blame you." It seemed that the men immediately concerned in the milking had gone off "on a time," leaving the "gentleman farmer" at his wits' end to get out of the difficulty. Later on the whole system went wrong. The men tired of the domineering. of the man higher up and sought work elsewhere; the stock grew thin and unremunerative, while the pigs?who really inspired this object lesson?actually came to devouring each other to keep from 1 atnrvinc The moral is easily pointed. BetI ter start at the bottom of the ladder j and let experience govern the upi ward climb rather than feel that a fairly good bank account, along with absolute ignorance of the work to be undertaken, will help a newcomer to outstrip the mature farmer who ,u has given years to the study and practice of a profession that needs much besides real money to make satisfactory successful.?Hartford Cour* ant. Poetry in United States. It is a mistake to believe that there i is not just as good poetry turned out Sj in the United States now as in those [r, faroff days. Twenty years ago some publishing house, we do not recall the name, issued a volume entitled "The Humbler Poets" which was a j; collection of verse from persons un; known, much of it culled from the newspapers. Rarely will be found crowded into one small volume such a meritorious collection. One can scarcely pick up a newspaper to-day without finding at least one poem that is worthy of preservation. It is the peculiarity of the age that makes poetry so little appreciated. Sentiment exists the same today as it ever has and ever will. Love Is the same, nature is the same, and there are many, instead of few, who are able to stir the emotions with their verse. They who weep because this is not st an age of poetry are the ones whe are constantly wishing for the "good ? old days" that exist only in fancy. Tl" There are no days so good as these. in ?Pittsburg Post, lis or Proof That Dreams Come True, "j? '"Yes'm, I' goin' to move to-morrow," said Bertha, the colored wash'Sl erwoman. "Yes'm, I knowed it las' c | week. I dreamt it. Whenevah I ben.e ! gins to dream of packin* my trunk 1S | and gettin' ready to go somewheah. j file lanlawd, he comes the ve'y nex' 3X ! week fo* the rent. Yes'm, I'm goiii' ,r~ I to more to-morrow.w m | Heaven on Earth. Heaven consists of desiring, from ! the heart, good for others more than er j for one's self, and in serving them a' j with a view to their happiness, not lls | from any selfish aim of obtaining re? 'I' j muneration, but out of love.?Swed? 1!* enborg. jo Cliincse Using Modern Umbrellas. in The Chinese are giving up the usa of their old oiled-paper umbrellas, and a great number of foreign made n" umbrellas are used, of which Ger> in many and Japan supply the bulk. Sinn OIL COMPANY ; HOT GUILTY OF REBflllNS Verdict of the Federal Court in Chicago. JUDGE INSTRUCTS THE JURY Government Defeated in the Famous Case in Which the Fine of $29,? 000,000 Was Imposed by Judge Landis. Chicago, III.?Judge Anderson decided to instruct the jury in the Standard Oil case to find the company not guilty. The decision was announced at tho , J close of an argument by Assistant District Attorney Wilkerson, and the jury was immediately summoned and instructed to return a verdict of not guilty. This means that all but two of the pending indictments against ' the 3tandard Oil Company of Indiana are void and will bo abandoned by the Sovernment. The two cases not affected by this action are cases involving the shipment of 1915 carloads of oil from Whiting to Evansville, Ind., via Dol;on Junction, over the Chicago and i Eastern Illinois Railroad. j The prosecution, which ended in failure after having once been tried | py Judge K. M. Landis, whose decis' ion was reversed by the Court of Aps' i peals, had its beginning August 27, : | 1906. I ' Ten indictments were returned by i i Federal Grand Jury, charging the i I Standard Oil Company of Indiana ! j jvith accepting rebates from railways i jn. shipments of oil from Whiting. ' Demurrers to two of these, involving shipments over the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad and connecting roads to Grand Junction, Tenn., were sustained afad the indictments were quashed. The remaining bills were demurred to, but the demurrers were overruled. Two of the eight indictments involved shipments over the Chicago and Alton Railroad from Whiting to East St. Louis, one containing 19011 ;ounts and the other 134 counts. It was the 1903 count indictment on which the oil company prosecution svas based. With 146 counts allowed to stand the case went to trial before Judge Landis March 4, 1907. The trial ! took six weeks, and resulted in a vejr1 Jict of guilty. ArtnimontR fnr ft npw trial wfirfi i heard, and a motion for a new trialwas denied. On August 3, 1907, i Judge Landis imposed his famous , $29,240,000 fine. On appeal, the case went to the C. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and was argued a year ago. The decision 3f the Court of Appeals reversing Judge Landis, and remanding the case for a new trial, was given July i 22, 1908. | BANK WRECKERS MADE USEFUL I They Find Big Errors in Pennsylvania Penitentiary Books, v Pittsburg.?Irregularities unearthed in Riverside Penitentiary were made public after a meeting of the prison inspectors. It is admitted that the prison books show a discrepancy Df $27,000. The inspectors sent out a call for Warden William McC. Johnston, who has been away from the prison some days, presumably in 1 Ohio, to return and try to fix matters up. A novel feature of the affair is that 1 it was a trio of the most notorious I bank wreckers in the history of Penn- 1 6>ivania, serving terms in the prison, I who discovered the -faults in the | bonks. > Some days ago Henry Reiber, whc stole at least $1,500,000 from the 1 Farmers' Deposit National Bank oi Pittsburg, was put on the books. He I found the breaks and called for help | to verify them. Billy Montgomery, 1 < who wrecked the Allegheny National Bank of Pittsburg, and Rhinehart, | Who put the Farmers' ana Drovers National of Waynesburg out of com- 1 mission, were put on the ,1ob. The < three "experts" decided that matters should be reported to the inspectors, which was done. CUTHBERT, GA., WRECKED. Attendance at Revival Meeting Saves ^ Lives of Many Citizens. i Cuthbert. Ga.?With the business ( district of this place a mass of ruins in the wake of a terrible cyclone, which killed six persons and injured 1 at least thirty others, the authorities are making plans to restore order out of the chaos into which the town has [ been plunged. : All the dead are negroes, most of the dwelling houses being razed in 1 their quarter. That there were not many more victims is due to. the fact j that many of the residents were attending a great revival meeting now in nrogress here. Between seventy-five and one hundred dwellings and business house3 were demolished. Cuthbert is a town ! of about 3500 inhabitants and the county seat of Randolph County. Americans Released From Jail. H. P. Smith, F. W. Updegraf and Fred Wood, the American mine officers who killed one Mexican and wounded three others for stealing i ore, have been released on bond from ; the prison at Grauaditos, Mexico, by the efforts of the American consular agent. Kills Himself Abroad. Oliver Bray, an American student of medicine at Vienna, Austria, who went from Berlin to continue his , studies, committed suicide. He was suffering from a serious neryous affection. Bray's father is said to live in Pennsylvania. Samuel R. Elkins Dead. i Samuel R. Elkins. brother of Sen- } ator Stephen B. Elkins, of West Vir ginia, died in Columbia, Mo., aged 1 sixty-two. He was postmaster thc^e ' for sixteen years. ' Among the Workers. Postoflice clerks have chartered a new union at Atlanta, Ga. ; i Operative plasterers at Ottawa. J Canada, organized recently. The general lockout of tailors in Switzerland has been settled. A new union of blacksmiths has been formed at Sherman, Texas. i The workers' compensation act la ' to be reintroduced in the Manitoba ^ Legislature. The women operators of the trunk telephone department at the Leeds (England) general postoflice have i organized. 1 I SCORE KlUHJf TQRNAQ! Business Section of Brinkley, Ark Demolished by Storm and Fire. Physicians, Nurses and Fire Fighl ing Apparatus Rushed to Stricken District. Memphis, Tenn.?Thirty peopl were Kiuea in a disastrous lornau which swep.t Brinkley, Ark., a tow of 4000 inhabitants. The bodies o four white persons were recovered two more are said to be in the'ruin of the town, and the number of dea; negroes is variously estimated at be tween twenty and fifty. Fire adde to the horror caused by .the wind, an the entire town was destroyed. Th property loss, according to conserva tive business men of the town, wil reach above $1,000,000. The known dead are: Porte Foote, J. L. Starrett, Henry Stove all, Jr.. Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Belle Gar den, Charles Frenze, Mr. and Mrs Hood, Miss Clara Rose. ' A daughte of T. W. Bunch, one of .the wealthies citizens of the town, was reportei dead. With the first relief trains fron Helena, Forrest City and neighborinj towns went all the available fir fighting apparatus, but the destruc tion of the waterworks at Brinkle: practically rendered them useless an< the conflagration burned itself out. Among the buildings destroyei were the stations of the Rock Island Arkansas, Midland and Cotton Bel Railroads. In the latter building thi telegraph operator, T. N. Kinnell, aiu a lineman named Richards weri caught by the falling timbers, bu were not hurt to any extent. Whei they had crawled out from the ruin: they walked. to Wheatley, a towi about two miles from Brinkley, an< sent out the first word of the dis aster. Kinnell's message told that all thi railroad tracks passing througl Brinkley were blocked by the fallei walls of the stations and by smal outhouses and trees which wen blown across the rails by the storm. With the fire rapidly licking uj the piles of debris, there was ever; indication that Brinkley would bi nothing more than a smoking pile o ashes. r - . Forrest City, twenty miles east o Brinkley, was- the first town to sen< aid. A special train was made ui there, and loaded with all the doctor: in ..town, 100 nurses and helpers anc the fire companies with hose anc several engines, started for Brinkley Nearly the entire Sjtate 0f Arkansa: suffered to some degree from thi high wind. Fences and trees weri blown down, but the heart of th< storm seemed to concentrate 01 Brinkley and expended all its fur: there. The tornado crossed the Arkansa: River at Fourche Dam and raised i spout of water about 200 feet high It passed toward the northeast anc swept a path about sixty yards ^ide The tornado was followed by a vio lent hail and rainstorm, which lastcc throughout the night. The sami storm passed into Barcum and fron there to Kerr, in Lonoke County where several houses were demol ished. RELAXING RIGOR IN RUSSIA. Capita] Punishment and Courts Mar tial to Be Abated. St. Petersburg, Russia.?The Gov ernment has determined to abate the infliction of capital punishment ar.r the application of martial law hi or dinary crimes. The improvement ir the general condition of the count:-] renders this possible. The judicial department of the Min istry of War has sent, a circular tc the district courts "martial recoa? mending the transfer to the civi courts of all cases that can be set tied in these tribunals. The deatl penalty will be imposed only in th< most serious cases and after carefu consideration of all the evidence. The carrying out of this reforn was strongly urged upon Emperoi Nicholas by M. Khomyakoff, presi dent of the Duma, at a recent audi 9nce. RUTH BRYAN GETS DIVORCE. Tells Court W. H. Leavitt Did Noi Contribute Toward Her Support. Lincoln, Neb. ? After .testifyinf that her artist husband had failed to support her, Ruth Bryan, elde3i daughter of William J. Bryan, ob tained a divorce from W. H. Leavitt who married her against the wishes Df her father. Mrs. Leavitt came to court with hei mother. She was the first witness called, and after telling of her mar riage five years ago, she said hei husband had not contributed to hei support for more than a year. \ Mrs. Bryan gave similar testimony and no defense being offered, Judgt Cornish promptly signed the decree o divorce. MEAT WILL BE CHEAPER. So Says J. Ogden Armour, and H< Ought to Know. Atlanta, Ga.?"Meat will be cheap er this summer," said J. Ogden Ar mour, who passed through Atlants ill ins private tar. '"Meat is high, too high at present,' he continued, "but this is because oi the increased cost of feeding 3toct just now. It follows that when corr is high meat is high. This summer wo expect the price of corn to gc down." AN AERODROME .RECORD. flic Silver Dart Covers Eight Miles in 11 Minutes 15 Seconds. Baddeck, N. S.?Flying eight miles In eleven minutes and fifteen seconds Douglas McCurdy, in his big aerodrome, the Silver Dart, established ? new record in the work of the Aerial Experiment Association, which is conlucting a series of flights here under he general direction of Dr. Alexanler Graham Bell. Suicide's Daughter Ends Life. Miss Dot Thomas, of Booneville, Ark, committed suicide in a hotel at Nashville, Tenn. She was a daughter 3f E. W. Thomas, ot' Booneville, whe committed suicide three years ago. Castro and 'Wife Are Exiled. The Venezuelan envoy to France announced at, Paris that President jomez lias forbidden either Castro or his wife to leturn to Venezuela. Battleship Ivearsarge Returned. The battleship Kearsarge arrived it Philadelphia Navy Yard, after its trip around the world. ^ I I neSiFpFET , One Hundred of Massachusetts < Coast Artillerymen III. t? Washington Organization Which Man* ages Ceremonial Faces a Deficit This Year. e Washington, D. C.?.Out of 800 o members of the Massachusetts Coast n Artillery organization who came to if Washington and participated in the I, inaugural parade, no less than 100 s are now ill at their homes, in most d cases with pneumonia, as a direct res' suit of their experience in Washd ington. d The members of this organization e were especially unfortunate. They were quartered in Washington in the .1 National Rifle Armory, and there were not even cots provided for .them, r So they slept as best they could on t- the floor. On inauguration day they - were held two or three hours in line, i. waiting for the parade to form and r move! and finally they marched about t Ave hours, most of the distance in 3 snow and slush and a biting wind. It was a fearful experience. The a I Washington authorities had cleared S away tne snow irom rennsyjvauia e avenue, but on the other streets - which made up the parade's route the snow was in the main untouched. One member of this organization has already died, another is reported dying and several more are considered in the gravest danger. These are by no means all the fatalities the Inauguration fete has caused. It is estimated that a complete roll will show a score or more of lives sacrificed to the performance. Even this Is not so serious as were the results of the last Cleveland inlugural, wfcen about seventy-five lives were yielaed up to pay for the Inaugural jollification. The Washington organization which had "charge of the inaugural arrangements faces, in addition to other troubles, a deficit. A big fund was guaranteed, and the guarantors will have to pay considerable assessments in addition to their subscriptions. , The revenues are secured in the main from sale of inaugural ball tickets and tickets to the big concerts in the Pension Building for two or three days after .the inauguration. This year both these occasions proved unfortunate because of the bad weather and the disgust of the people. It has been seriously proposed that tne people of Washington refuse, four years hence, if there is no legislation to charige the date of inauguration, to put up money for the inaugural festivities. It is by no means certain that this would deeply impress Con.gress, but it would relieve Washington of its apparent responsibility for the unfortunate results of the occasion. JOSIE MANSFIELD IN POVERTY. v/ l Woman For Sake of Whom Fisk Was Killed May Enter Convent. Sioux Falls, S. D.?Josie,Mansfield, the once famous New York beauty of the seventies, for the sake of whom EMronr/l RMlres killed f!olonel "Jim" | Fisk, Is a resident of Watertown, I S. D., and has been for the last seven I years, and is known as Mrs. Mary Lawler. She is now about seventy, years of * age, and is practically helpless as the result of a stroke of paralysis. She is penniless and is dependent upon * charity for support. A fund is being j raised to sand her to an old women's 1 home, but she has practically decided * to enter a convent to pass her remain1 ing years. ' Her brother, M. D. Flint, of Watertown, died suddenly about two -years - ago of heart disease. He had neg> lected to deed to her a little cottage - he had erected for her, and this has 1 now been sold to the highest bidder - with his other property. j FLORIDA'S KEEL IS LAID. j Rear- Admiral Goodrich's Daughter r Starts Work on Battleship. Brooklyn, N. Y.?The ceremonies " of laying the keel of the 21,000-ton battleship Florida were held in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Construction work on the newest of the great warships was started in a t drizzling rain by little Gladys Goodrich, daughter of Rear-Admiral Cas, par F. Goodrich, the Navy Yard ? . nmnianiiant. She fastened a silver h/*?o=>ine beneath the name plate with silver nails, and afterward put V - ".sc bolt in two thir.ty-foot keel ' plates. She was assisted in her work by several playmates, mostly children of officers attached to the yard. Many officials, including the Admiral, , ' cheered the youngsters as they hammered the silver nails into place. PIOXEER PULP MAKER DEAD. f A. D. Remington, 82 Years Old, Built the First Mill. Watertown, N. Y.?A. D. Remington, eighty-two, died in this city. He was tte pioneer of the wood pulp industry of Northern New York, and the Remington Paper Company was . the first to manufacture in this conn. try paper exclusively from wood, that i is, ground wood and sulphite, thereby greatly decreasing the cost of paper ' manufacture. I This was accomplished in 1SS7 in : the Remington Mill "B," now owned i by the International Paper Company. The method was at the time regarded > as impracticable by the majority of paper makers. BROKER SENTENCED. Sent to Auburn Prison For Theft of $72,000. 1 Buffalo. N. Y.?Harold G. Meadows, of the brokerage firm of Mead3 ows, Williams & Co., of this city, , which recently failed, was sentenced to Auburn prison for not less than ' 1 ~ 5 ^Vin n r>?? linf l tnree years uuu si.\ mumuo nui I more than six years and three . months. | Meadows was convicted of stealing . | $72,000 from William E. Silverspoon, of Buffalo, in a stock transaction. Cost of Old Age Pensions. The estimated expenditure of $43.; ."00.000 for old age pensions in the coming year in Great Britain has T caused an equal increase in the civil service figures. In 1908-09 these' were $26S,500,000, while in 1909-10 the sum of $312,000,000 will he res quired. ; Former Congressman Dies. Washington F. Willcox. formeily Congressman, and one of the l>e?t known public men of Connecticut, [ died at his home in Essex. Conn. Mr. i' Willcox was born in Killingsworth, August 22, 1S34. * :: . ; " m uji I Latest News. I ? BY WIRE. _ Bay State Kills Suffrage. / Boston, Mass.?A bill designed1 to grant equal suffrage to women was rejected by the, Legislative- Committee on Constitutional Amendments. The vote stood 8 to 4. i' ' "fiCourt Bars Salome. ' Kansas City, Mo.?Gertrude Hoff- / man, the actress, was enjoined by the Circuit Court here from presenting her "Salome" dance. * , -?v*. Jails "Joy Rider." New York City.?Calling him a \ "Joy rider," Judge Rosalsky sentenced Charle3 R. Terrell, of Mill! Jlotel No. 3, ,to six months in the penitentiary. Terrell stole a motoi> cycle from a friend and pawned it. Waddell Asks DIvqrce. St. Louis, Mo.?A petition for df? , vorce has been filed by George Ed^ ward "Rube" Waddell, the basebalf "> ,pitcher. - :V:V.? l'&$k Des Moines Wants Girls. . Des Moines, Iowa.?Members of the Greater Des Moines Committee * "' have determined to import 500 girls from New York and put them at work In the local factories. This action was taken at a meeting of the committee when several factory owners declared that they have not enough girls available to conduct their industries. i ' Son and Daughter Heirs. Chicago.?The will of the lata Mrs. Abby;I7. Eddy, which disposes of an estate valued at S5QO.OOO, has ' been probated here. With the exception of $8500, the entire estate la ' given to Spencer F. Eddy* her son, and her daughter, Catherine E. Beveridge, wife of Senator Beverldge. ' Mrs. Beverldge also receives the residence in Michigan avenue.-. Delia S. Field, a sister, is appointed executrix. Colonel Tucker Retired. ? "Washington, D. C.?Secretary of War Wright, as a last act In his ad- ' ministration, disposed of the case of Colonel William F. Tucker, who was examined by an army board at Chicago for retirement. The announcement was made on bahalf of the Pres- ' Ident that the Colonel was unfit for active service on account ot cirrhosis of the liver. T ? ' * . i * Old Will Probated. Boston, Mass.?A will which has been pending in the- Probate Cotfrt since 1863 was allowed by Jndge Mclntyre by ordering the bequest of John Ashton., of Newton, amounting > to $22,000. to be paid to the Soldiers' Home in Chelsea. The delay of fortysit years was over the question of what State Institution should receive the beauest. which was made to the' ' ^ Massachusetts Hospital for Diseased. . , and Wounded Soldiers. ; Forger Hawfey Arrested. Boston, Mass.?Robert C. Watson^ who, the police say, has^nade $1,000,000 by forefries In twenty-five years and Is known under .more than 400 different names, has been arrested in Chicago on complaint of the Boston authorities. Chief William B. Watts says that Watson's real name is Robert Alexander Hawley, that he has operated in nearly every large city In the United States, and has served numerous prison Sentences.' He is said to be a native of Virginia* but makes his home in Philadelphia. Prize Beauty. Wants a Divorce. St. Louis, Mo.?Mrs. Lily Schubert Schlange has filed suit here for a di- sMB vorce from Eugene M. Schlange. The plaintiff alleges desertion and humili- 'v- * . ation and neglect of their little daughter. The plaintiff, who Is a ; niece of the wife of Augustus Busch, , A was prominent in society and won the ~ - 7 v second flrize in a beauty contest here two years ago. ?< II ' [ BY CABLE, |[ '? Find Mrs. Sargent's Wards. Paris.?The police have discovered the whereabouts of the three children who were adopted some time ago by Mr. and Mrs. Sargent, now-under arrest charged with cruelty. One of these, Jean Ducasse, who was born at Versailles in 1902, is being cared for in Brooklyn, N. T., and the two others in London, at the expense of the Sargents. The Magistrate before whom the case came, appointed three doctors to examine into the mental condition of Mrs. Sargent. U. S. Cavalrymen Believed Slain. Manila, P. I.?It is reported that Lieutenant Harry L. King, First Cavalry, U. S. A., and a detachment were slain, while mapping Luzon, by head hunters. Servia Looks to Powers. Paris.?The Foreign Office haa > been advised that Servia, regarding a spfiiement of her controversy with Austria-Hungary, expresses her willingness to leave the protection of her interests to the Powers. ' v Was Missing, Sails For X. Y. Naples. Italy.?Edward P. Fitch, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, who disappeared last October and was foun<t here recently by the American Consulate, sailed for New York. Loisy Gets Professorship. Paris.?The Academy of Moral Sciences has reversed its selection, mad? February 27, of a professor to fill the Chair of Religious History in the College of France. At that time George Foucart was elected over the Abbe Loisy. The Academy, by 19 votes to 17, elected the Abbs to the chair. English Bondholders Accept. London.?At a meeting held here of the debenture holders of the PillslMim^WoohKiipn T?1nnr TYfiliQ PnmnaTiv. o? Minneapolis, the plan of reorganization waa approved. Peruvian Minister Coming. Lima.?Felipe Pardo, the Feruviaa Minister at Washington, D. C., accompanied by his wife, prepared to leave here for his post of duty. "a Manila Railway Employes Strike \ Manila, P. I.?The employes of .Jie Manila street railway system have struck for higher wages and shortes hours. Enron Guenzburg Dead. St. Petersburg, Russia.^-Baron Guenzburg, president of the Central Committee of the Jewish Colonization Company, died of cancer, *