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, r "am - " v v./-' \ \ ' F( i VOL. IX. . AltP AND CHILDREN. Bill Likes To See i he Little Ones at Play. ALL LOVE THEIR GRANDPA. Arp Sees a Great Many Beautiful Tilings in kite, and Does Not Sigli for Death. rnoso little chaps alarm me?alarm ino with tlieir innocence, their happiness, their love, for 1 have a foreboding: that it cannot last, 1/ifo is full of sorrow.: r.iul iliey will have their share. It is the common lot. One melancholy poet says: "Man was mud* to mourn." Another says: "I would not live always,'* but 1 like that one b* iter who wivto "The. world is very lovely. Oh. Aly Cod, 1 thank Theo that 1 live.'' From my window almost every day i see two little girls, only four end six years old. turning the corner and coming ur> through the grove to . tv grandma and grandpa and he p Ltcd and of course, lie feasted with biscuit and jelly and apples and to nurse tlie cat and play with their little cousin's line Paris doll. They always come hand in hand and with cle an -faces and ribboned hair and we moot them at the door, for they bring sunshine to our hearts and home. 1 love to have them climb into the back of my big chair and bother mo while j I write, and I have to stop and draw pictures lor tlum and to hear the little one rail iv.e her good old for noth j ing gran*pa. The other uay I mot them going another way and they sui;l they wero going to see their other grandma. "Yes," said I, "you have two grandma.-, but you havent got but one grandpa." The little one looked ,w.,iibi>- i?> in'' uuu saul: "Wo don t need any more." 1 bought a fine turkey for tho boy? who are coming and tli little girl surveyed him and said: "Clan'pa. he is running at the nose and it's bloody." It. was the o'der cue who said tho turkey is -i-k, I reckon, for lie keeps vomiting. Dent Swift was a cynic and had no line for children, lie said that an author who tali ed about, his own I boo: - was as silly as a mot tier who was ever telling something smart about Iter children. 1 re Icon lie would say that grand parents were more silly than mothers. I confers that it is a good part of my happiness now to mingle with and to pet tho little grand children and that is why 1 feel alarmed for fear something will ^ippen to them before 1 die or that 1 will din In fore they get ohl enough to love me with a love that will not forget, and 1 think of Tom Moore and his gazelle that died. I don't know where my pirit will he but it seems to ntc now that I would like to have these i.ttle ones bring (lowers o my grave sometiters and talk about me. What would the world he without children, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. .It: t imagine for a moment the desolation, the despair that would pervade tho koine and society and trade and commerce? not a day school in all the land nor a Sunday school; not a littie .-ho" or stocking, nor a little hat. nor a ioll or toy in any store; no castor:.! or soothing syrup or other infantile medicines; no fireworks, no Christmas nor Santa Clans; no nothing hardly, tor it is a fact that the world is working for children. The, cynics siy that marriage is a failure. Suppose It is in many c:iso.<. Children are not failures. Divorces may stifle the love of man and wife, out they still love the children and contend for the possession of them Cood schools lmild up towns and communities and the children make the schools. Country people move to town to educate them. What won. become of the l.'iOO teachers in the slate of Georgia? What would tho pub lisl'* r.-> do with all :he!r . c'aoolbook - and picture books? Who would go tr, a picnic or a monkey show? What excuse would nv n fol .s hnve for jcoii g t ? the circus? Would, nt it be a lonesonw , no account world? Hut raar.i go is not a failure. It could not b \ for it was ordained by (Jod. One or two unhappy marriagein a community .? < all the dogs balking. I.'i\orecs are multiplying, bin only among the very rich or the drunken poor. Money or whiskey are the cause of most of them and in nine cases out of ten the man is to blame. There is b it one scriptural ground for divorce and nine men are guilty of thai (o one woman. Poor, long sinYe-ing woman. How sPently, s cretly and sadly you have t > endure what you know, hut cannot tell, and all you em do Is to hug you:- children all th closer to your boom and trust in Hod. 1 w; s ruminating about children because I am away od from mine and on my way here 1 p: : d a cointry s-h. <>I house just r.s the children v.? re pilling out for recess and they came like b ?:s /tfi+ of ~ t.t. ~ ? ? wUv ... a a :or>g s tne trUn stopped ut tl'Kt station I w t li 1 th m at tlirir merry .plays ami sports in ti e pretty prove near by niv.li 1 al.nost wished that 1 \va a boy a pa in so that I mipht join them. Good gra- .o s , how I could run and jump and climb and about; how long and hippy wn the day. "The sun. ne'er rose a wink too 300:1, Nor bro ght too long a (lay. Hut now 1 o.icn wish the n.gnt Had borne my breath away." Tom Hood wrote, that, poor fellow. 1 # h fi . , ^ FO do not say it. for I love* to live an 1 have .( 'v iv m ts to distress me. I am here in Okolona. a pretty town with a prrt.y nant:'. This good oil state. u daughter of C.e;> gia. is frll of Indian nanus cf towns and counties and rivers. There names are all that is lef* of the tribes--the Chi l;as uvs a d Chortuws ;ind C -epUs and Natchcs. Tiiey w ro prouvl at:d liappy peop'?\ but h:ui to vanish wh n the p ile fa. < s eaire and cov te>l ;h.< :r lands. Colonel Clordon. ;i eonfr?lerate veteran, lives here and int. r sted re givatly in the history of Missi.>ippi. for he and his lather before liini could say "magna pars ful"?"a good part of it. I was." He gave me the origin and meaning of many of these Indian names, seen as Pontotoc ami Tupelo and O dona, and also of Aberdeen, which his father. Who was a Si .. oilman, hail nnmai Dundee. 1 >nt not mad bemuse oar penp'e would < til it l).:ndy and ?> chnng d it to ;i nam" tliev could not mispronounce. llis father was very wealthy, owning thousands of acres of this rich prairie land that he had bought from the Chickasaws before tliev signed tno treatv that ceded their lands to the l'nllctl Stat?-? government. 1 raid that his father was a native of Scot 1 an I. Of course he was or he eonhl never ln\e bought those lands. The Indian tribes all liked the Scotchmen, for thoy treated them fairly and kindly in trading and taught them the use of the cross how and long bow. These Scotchmen frequently 'married Indian maidens. the daughters of the chiefs, and in course of time their half breed children became tlio chief-. Such was I toss and ltidgo and M< Intosh and Osceola. Major Colbert, another liarbreed whose Indian name was lttaavamha. ho. ame chief of the Chickasaws. He was a great favorite with j Mrs. Dolly Madison, Iho president's ; 1 wife, for lie was a splendid specimen , of Indi in and Scotch manhood and was j smart ami well educated. iMis. Madi- : | son gave him a pair of peafowls an ' ' j lie brought them home and from that < pair every peafowl in Mississippi lms I disc-ended. This pair was many year, i sur.rrwar.ls given to Colon*-! Cordon uncle. .Jo-ialt Walton, and by him to his fii-trr. Mrs. Ihiggctt, ami tin- nialo j liird lived to bo Rovon!y-two ye:is old. A pair of this same .-took has beet; r< r ntly pn ontcd to tlie fity of Memphis for their 700. I had 110 idea tha* peafowls 1 iv d to such great ago. h.-t. 1 do know that we have been brooding them for over twenty years and lmvo given away :i great ninny and I never knew one to die a natural death. Hut ! sun tind travel worn, for r.o hours sire mine; they sire the railroad's by night as well as by day and my r si ! is broken up : nd I begin to realize that 1 cannot stand it much longer. It <i Franklin's definition of ni :ti was that ho is "a bundle of habits" and the older he grows the stronger bis habit hold him. The very word habit comes from the latin "liabeo," to hold, to bind.?Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitist Ion. The Daughters of the Confederacy are wide awake in this town and sire going to build a monument to th> <r heroic dead of whom about 1,200 are buried here. They called me here, to help them. B. A. NEWSY GLEANINGS. There is a eosil fatniiie In Xcnvnr, the priee having il en forty per cent. The New Foillh Wales legislative ("otiucil passed the old Ago I'esisioiis lull. The internal revenue enlb'otions for Cuba ibiring the- month < f August last wore .TV.I..-IV.). Canadian t yalty returns ind'.enfe that tin KieuniUe t.ulput for I'.KH) Was only StMkkMK'.t). i . < ? 1i iit - (uui nuniti ??i .M'W i: I Ufl IS imporliiiv: sixij modern railway <arJ ria-; s from the 1'nited Stairs. An V/.lee ahnr. win ! . thousands of prisoners of war were slain. lias hecn unearthed in the <' ly of Mexico. l.uoilln-i.'rnhnYounir. Hie dancer, wlnisi husband is an Anioriean. has given lo elinrily in I*< rlin. .Toluinnesli'ir ,' lias hceu feneeil round with unrb.nl wire In prevent the in habitants from sending food !< t!ie liners. Tin* siimi of l.'n.ofHi marks, heretofore annrnilv vnleil in tlermany for ilie support of Herman schools abroad, has been doubled. If expectations are realized. the nii? j.ui of copper for Ibnti will reneh ."."Jo OrtO.nen pounds. valued :tl !>* ill.I.OOO, tin largest on record. A model lodging h >11 so. suggested by Mayor Harrison, is to be erected by tin* Aid and lb-lie. Society at Ciii e.iiro at a cost of $in,0t)0. T'drmingiinui. Ala.. is making a sirons leg f.?r the lingers I.oeoinolive Works, of Palerser. N .1. lion us of a site is off red as an inducement. The Nansf n fund, which was raised in Norwav t>> r.roniof scientific >-\ 1 ?li?! :i t Ion, amounts to SJT.O.?>!>(?, and no ill! Ijoj* onlleeiions will lie made. Tin* Children's Aid Sweiety. at New Yotk Ciiy. reported that it h:nl given assist.illee to i!S "Jilt! poor persons *!nr k.iir ill" year, 'i je old oUlcers v'c.e roc.;civd. Anxious to I'-Mease. f lost ess What do you think of our fame pie. Mr. P.rigsonV We rattier pr de ourselves on it, you know. Hrigson (nervously anxious to please)?Oh, thank you, it's very nice indeed, what there is of it. What I mean to say is (after a pnusei. there'* plenty of it sueli as It is! Punch. There are only twenty one vessell over 100 tens 111 all the Siatnr *'avy. ' > VN ^r" MIL llT MILL, S. C., WLDN BOBBERS GROW Mm Moli! ?Jp Trains, Loot Brinks, and Attempi Murder in Many Sections. A LONE BANDIT'S GREAT NERVE lit* Moji- *h?? Cilini^o Limited uu III * Outskirl<i of* Now OiTojiik ? SlitMitn the CoiKltictor, KIowm l'p the Kx|h*?**h C:?r, Kitten tin* Nljiii rom-IicH, hii<1 KsoapeH on an kn^lne? A l?ii; lYold-I'p in T? \;ih. New Orleans. L.n. (Special*.- The south bound Illinois Central fast mail, due here as 7.1 "? p. in., was held up ami rohhed by a lone train rohher about one tulle outside the uity. His booty eonsisted oi" one registered tnail poueh front Duraut. Miss., and six other replstered letters from points between Cairo ami New Orleans. KinHebrew, the eomiuetor. was shot, and .1. Parker, a railway mail elerk. was burned by powder from a shot din-cud at his Itesid. After passitip Ken iter, n small station. the rohher elinihed to the en-pine, covered the engineer and llremati and brought the train tost standstill. Win n the eomlm-tor < situe forward he was shot by the rohher. It. K. (lohlshy. one of the railway tnall elerks, w.-is <>rdered to pel out of his ear. The rohlier led the enpineer. fireman and Holdshy towsird the express ear. and made one of them blow the sstfe ' open with si stiek of dyu.-indle wh eh i he supplied. No money was found j here. The robber then made for the mail ear. ssml ihere disenvered Parker, who hsul hidden i In- re-pi.-del ed pouelu-s He shot at Pstrker. sii d then one of the pom-lies was prod need, and he inside off wiih it. llo uncoupled the etmine from the train and ran it to t'strrolii uj avenue, v In re ii was sihaudoiied. otito's i'.ank k??i;i;i:ki i:s. Kigliili OiH'Oiciir. Within si l-'i<\v lVr?-i..? Thieve* ? Set s- toon. Columbus. Ohio (Sperialt. The fre<111 i' y ami daring of the hank robberies throughout tin* Slate of late lias a ll ranted the at lent ion <<i the Siate authorities to tiie starrest ion that the State should make an effort to apprehend the puijr. There is not the least doultt that all the recent robberies have been committed by a wellorganized puijr, the members of wiiieli would not have the slivthlest besiianey to eommit murder. There have been 110 less than eiirlit banks robbed and small towns terrorized. The method of operation lias been the -nine in every ease. The latest is the Slianesville robbery. Khanesville. Ohio iSpeeiali. Shane\ ille was \isiied by a j;un;j of burglars and the Kxehaiiire Hank, owned by .lolui Uoersiiuk. was robbed of abont S t(mMl in money. after wbieli the rolibers eseaped. Mr. Hoershnk lives in a hriek liouse, and his liank buihliim. :i frame structure, is built up against bis house. The robbers j;ot away in a hand-car. 1'. S. MAM. I.OUTKI> IN Tt:\ \s. I'iwIiiI Clerk Nearly Killed. iiikI ll.ililier^ Useiipe Wltli the Uootv. Texarkana. .\rk. (Sj iuli. A mail car on the north bound Cotton Kelt . III .ci Ilillll K!IS lOOTftl ill l^:iS setts, Tex.. thirty miles smith of Te\ :iri;;in:i. Postal Clerk John N'. I tennis was almost killed, and the mail pouches of his ear were rilled. The amount stolen is not known. l'pon the arrival of the train here the I'nited States transfer elerk went to the door of the mail ear and knocked. No response eame. (tllleials then forced an entrance and fottml Clerk I tennis siretehcd upon the tloor, apparently dead. There was an ugly wound in his head. The register" d ponehes had heeil looted. lie I'oncllt Miinkt'il l!nlilii>r>. Sioux t'ity. Iowa (Special). While a n : forinanee was going on atfheCrand ittpent House ttvo masked men eniered III" hox ofllee. a-s-inlti d. heat and shot, at Ilarley S. Hounds, the treasurer, and escaped without getting any cash. WEEPS SENTENCING A BOY. .XllitKi* llvi'iiks I low II ill Stottliiii; AlcXiiniler Ntcwjirt to siim Sini;. New York t'ity (Special!. Hoyishly detiant, yet with the eallmts IndllTcreuee of the eriniinal who knows not conscience. Alexander Stewart, nam sake and cousin of the famous New York merchant, A. T. Stewart, donned the garli of a convict/in Sim; Sum prison and began to s rve a sentence of twenty years for murder. In years a hoy, in appearance a mere 'child, yet. if experts ran he believed, a monster in crime, lie heard his sen'eiice with a sneer on his face. While lie .1 tulge, in tears and with unsteady voice, consigned him to prison, the hoy thought apparently of nothing hut the rnndj in his pocket. With the same cool indifference he entered the forbidding walls of Sing Sing, though the grown men shaekl.-d to him grew pnle with fear of the dreary yea is to come. Thus Alexander Stewart, fourteen mil, iH'Ciinu1 a convict, flol'int; uilekorhoekers for tho stripes of :i ninnlorer. Tho condemned hoy lifts heou in arly every reformatory institution in his city. In tlie House of Ilefilgc lie <-'it the throat of his mate. ICdward IMoscl. <L T ESI) \Y, DECEMBER PERISH IN A SCHOOL FIRE Flames Destroy the Stalo Normal Institution in Fredonia. N. Y Vfir DimuI Aro Siv Noting Woinon Slu? drills "inl t!i?% l.tiiitor ? Muiiy Narrow rM>i|iopt Frodonia. N. V. (Steeiah. I'iiv. the nri.tiiu of which is unknown. ih siroyeil the State formal School building at '1 o'clock a. in. )iu> hundred younj; women students were asleep in Hie buildiiiir. anil si\ of llieni. as well as I'hiiieas .1. Morris, tiie :i\red janitor, perished in the ihmms. Many of the a iris had hairhreadtii escapes. The dead are: Miss Mah 1 '"i/zcU. of l>railford. IVuii.. formerly of Dunkirk. N. V.; Miss Kliza llathawav. of Delhi. Delaware County: Mis< In- r .tones, of litis ti. < 'hautatiipia County: I'hineas .1. Morris, the janitor: Mi s Cora Storms, in' 1'liiiturion. Chau:an<|ua County: M.-s Until Thomas. <I, i'ike. Wyoming ' oeiity. and Miss May Williams, of near Delhi. Chaniaiuiua County. ' "lie ynutiv: women oeeupied rooms on the third lie >r o1' the buildim.; in company with a matron. 'I'liose who succeeded ii: eseapiiit; did >o I?y de si?ndiiu: the tire escapes. I'o aeeount for the origin of the tire ^m/.i'.les ih local Hoard of Managers, ... there was no fnrnaei? in the build 11 r. the heat Ileitis; piped from a boiler .'wo blocks away. The tire started in I he private room of .tauitor Morris, .and was discovered by Charles Cibhs. ,ass|s?.int janitor. wln< not.tied Morris, and then ran io ;! iir alarm station, a block away. Mo ris evhb ntly lost 'his I'iV while 1 *._rhti11-_r the bla/.e. Miss 11 was seen on the lire escape, and turned hack into the humiiit; nildim; to save a diamond riti.r. fie 11> rs wl.o iii-rishcit w. r. vriiV.... n. .1 ,Ttiti;i 1 ?I? li> titul i!i" tic o onpos. 'rinoipal I'almor . <;itnnii * Hi prop ny lo>s :i! i: . witli it: Mtraiioo. Notions v? i - \? ?I from tlio I ?ii!?Tiiivr. vol own n | ' - toil i 1 or s of till' \OUIl!_ WO'll. ll .11' I l!i> ror?l?il< tl:o solionl. Sol too! litis 1?"imi t i ?I tin: iI .1'innary win ti oi:isv,?, will p t . i p> ; khulls mill oliurolios of :p> t i'.l.i/o. I'lnnx i'm* :i now ami laru r 'fin tnro n o a In inly iimloi* w.i I'lio l.oais'n. jiro w ill ho pi inriko :in approprint ion. CANAL TREATY AMENDED. Tilt' St'iialf In ('l?n n^f* 11m* 11 :i > ratim*.' fitlf \V shin^ton. p. <(Spooiali. - AoI'oi'ililivr In :t vri'i i * 111 o 111 i lio Son.Ho voinl mi tlio Davis nniotulinon' to tlio llnj I'niiiioofoto tfo.-ity 'I'lnirsihiy .11 :t o'oliK'k. ii wjix mloptoil. yon- r,r>. nnys 17. 'I'lio iiogniivo vm|i s won ax follmv>: 'Intnl. Hovoritl'-'o. Kryo. I'n or. 1 Innshrmiuli. I.iinl.-.iy. Mason. M.i'ninhor. Mi Kiiory. Moi'.ri lo. Morirnn, Monoy. Siownrt. TiUun n. \VoUiip;ion. j Wolootl ninl t.'nllinmr. Tlio ooiiintll too nniomlinoni wliioli wax niloiitoil is a provision to lio in sort oil nfto" Sootimi .'1 i.f Arii.-io ..f tlir treaty. :m<l is as follows: "If is ngr??t1. however. 111:11 none of the iniinnliatcly foregoing conilitions 1 ami stipulations in sections numhcivil . 1. :i. I anil o of 11?i- article slia'l ap pl.v to measures \\h:^h the Ini'iil Sialics may tiiul it riciessary to taki for securing l?y its own forms tln? ilcfense of tlir t'nitcii Stall's ami tin.* maintenance of pntilii' onliT.'' DEATH PENALTY NOT ENFORCED.' l'orty Mm in Not tt<* niusc Warrant* ilnvr Not Item Si^notl. t'hicngo t Special i. There aro in tlie Kansas Start* penitentiary at heavenworlli forty men untler si-nti'in of death who havt* not boon li:iritr?*il because for years no Covcrnnr lias been willing to sign tin* ilenth warrants required l?y law. In viow of these facts t Governor Stanley lias recently inst it nteil an investigation of the entire snhject of capital punishment ami its relation to mob law in the several State, of 1 l:e I'll ton. lie lets it it inpiti il t ha I if his investigation intlietifcs that fin* abolition of capital pnnishnient lias a tenilcne.v to Increase lynch law he will recommend the enactment of a lan' enforcing the ileath penalty in Kansas. with a provision requiring the Sheriffs to carry out the sentence wit lion t a ileath warrant signet? by tin* (Inventor. GOT SIO W-FK; STOLE S 18.000. Court* Allrr C'IitK V< Iio S\% imllrtl In 1 4*oilii* l?> I inlM /'lt iiH lil. Ww Y?>rk City ?Spt i.ili. .1 iKt!? * Uianchard, in ihc Supreme Court. mi ilio applicat ion of tlic W'ooliuwken Wharf Company. is- :i 1 an ail; liinent against .Mlerloti M? :tit;, in :: 11 action broujrht attains! him for tlic recovery of SIS.oo t. wliicli is allotted lie emhcz/.lcd front lite plaintiff corporation. for which ho was bookkeeper at a salary of SIO a week. POSTMASTER COMM'TS 5UIOIOE. A Injur A. i:?*in?M III. of I .iviriiHlir. IVnii., Found IF* nl in lli* OfTlcr. Lancaster, IVnn. (Special!. Major .\. (Kcinoeli), postma-.cr of this city ami a protnin tit nieinlt r of the I.an caster bar. was found dead in bis otUco. having comniittcil suicide. The jras jets were turned on full, ami the crack under the door was topped up by his cone while cushions did similar duty f.: the windows, financial troubles are ascribed as the | cause. \ W I ME 1i). A EEBilTS SAD DEATH General Ems, Who Fought Undei Lee, Expired in a SwaiD^ SEQUEL TO A TRAGIC ROMANCt !! W.i? :i r.rljjriilior-t.enrrnl in t!io toilfvili-ratc ,\rm>?'iravi's nl' I nvoii <$ Mai UimI (In* SI to tif lli-* 11 mticMotiil Al'trr Slu-rii?:?ii'H Marrli to tin* So:;? llt'dimo :i llorinit in Now .lorsoj. Mnrris'.owr, N. ,|? (Special). Tli? body found ;< I'ov days aim in Ulaolt Swamp, four titil. s from this oily. It-is In-cii idrntilhil a* tbai ?>r Hi . mail IF'ins. wlin was known as iho Ui-nnit of Wannny: Mountain, l-'or thirty live years lthis had livt-tl a soiiiary Jife on tin- nit It* of Suorasunnn Mountain. Il!n retreat was 'ar removed froni otlior luiMinn baldtni-ons. it was i'hiiikI in ashes. It'll : Iliad.' liis mum.-> < Hi' 51!: 11 ill 1 S<l!c tllOll W< IV il gray mi " "ii and mi it were ti c st:irs < :t lc raidier-general. Though ii young it':"ii lit it. lie seemed nrcinat utelv old. ?>. Iiimsi'l! ii ml his antecedents lie Wllld never S- >.ilv. illl< 1 111' 1 tild !K1 dealing willi uny one when it could lie avoided. Ilo hud sullicieiit money to live liis simple life on the niuuulaim-ide. Willi his dec lie limited, iind near his cabin lie had u small clearing where he raised produce for himself. Campers freipu inly heard liini playing :i violin. lie wore his uniform and straps for years When it was worn mil lie lire d in hunting doilies. Tell years nfler ue settled oil the u.muitilin Iiis life stm*;: eiiine out. wleni William Keeker. a veteran of the I lion sirniy. visiteil Atlanta in IST."?. Win n in a iiiiismiai lie saw the name ef 11 rniilli Hills ill eouiit elion with a war ivdr. lie iuv siigntrd and found t o II the Confederate 1'ouds 1ll.ll ; Herman Kins was entitled to his shmth i tier st raiis. Itins enlisted as a minor otiieer soon after Sumter, and ivse rapidly. At th e el< e of the war lie had won the [ rank of brigadier. lie had been a well-to-do planter in Middle tlemghi. While at I l.e front his two little ? hi!ilr? ii died. Then Shermaii inarelied to the sea and i'.ius's place was in il." track of desolation anil ash ; marked the site of his home. Mrs. Kins joined the refugees who tied before the onward sweep of the federals, and her death followed exposure and hardship. Itins returned to his plantation in find only the graves of his children, and near theirs that of his wife, whose body faithful slaves h.-ul carried to the plantation ami Imried. It was mo until Mr. Keeker inform al 1 litem that the friends of (ietieral Kins knew* what had heroine of him. 11'.' torts were made to recall him to Heorgin. hut lie refused lo leave his lint in I lie mmitiiniiis. No one knows how he came to hi* death, lie was ti long way from the mountain home. The cahin had im..n in ashes fully :i month <>r more. It Is believed it hunted down :n i<!? 111:tIIy i.'iiul tin' owner wandered away dos? .poiidcnt to die in the swamp. STANDARD OIL WINS IN OHIO. Tin- Sn premc Court to I'mit-tli II ! l or <* ?iit?*ixi |?t. Cnluml?us. Ohio (Speeialt.- The Supreme Court dismissed the proceed in us hroiiuht hy former Attorney t!en er.il Moutlett, charuin.u the Slandut Oil Company w:is in eoutenii?l for h:i\ ilijr faile I to comply with :i:i ortler i sued in iv.?2 directing tlissolution o the Standard t til Trust. The court wits divided evenly, hut under :i rule of the t'ourt. the failur of :i majority to sustain the inform tioii in contempt is. in effect, :t u. tnissal of the proofed ill us. Tht* litigation avaiies the Standard Oil ('ompatiy. which is thus closed. I? ur.n in May. lSlMt. when Attorney tietoral l?. K. Wat on lunuuhi suit hi 11> Supreme Court to have the S ntidurd t>il Trust tlissolved. Aliont two year later tlie allegations in the petition were sustained. Then :i meeting of stockholders was called mill a liquidating hoard. co:i sisting of .lolin I >. Hock. f.-U r. II. M Flagler niul others. appointed to wind up tin* affairs of the company. The company ncxi set up tin* claim that i: was impossible to close up the business of so great a concern in the time il lotted. Tin* Judges of the Supremo Cottn declined to exleiul the lime A limit, live ami one half years Inter, on No vetnlicr !?. |sp7, p. s. Monnctt. then Attorney tloticral. tiled iuforniation in the Supreme Court. alleging that the Sintidard tiil Company had not com p.led willi the decree of the Court ami asked that its odieers lie eiied for eon tempt. The decision iusl handed down is the result of Monnelt's motion. I'orto Itini'n AgricnP mt?l Kohoiirpos. The 1'resident transmitted to Con grexs extended reports oil t lie agrietll t urn I resources of I'orto ICieo, with special referonep to the estaidislMneir there of an nrricultural cxpcrjuicn: station. Professor Kliapp. who eon diietcn the it:?j hy for the Agriettlmrul I opart ment. urges that immediate at tent ion If given to promoting the pro dnetioii of larger ami better crops o' coffee, sugar and tobacco, and of foe;' products forhomceonsmnption. hater, be odvises taking up horticulture, forestry. animal industry and dairying. y . y k3t NO in THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WASHINGTON ITKMS. .Tttdsnn C. Cleinorts. of Ceorgln, was reappointed :m Interstate I'oiJinerco Commissioner. Tin* l;i\v oliieer of tlf Postotllee l)o* partinent ?11 ? !?I???l that so culled bond Investment schemes. as at present run. aro inimical to the postal laws. Sonalor Manna, in a speech of moro than two hours in the Sonata. defend?'il 1 ho Ship Subsidy bill. Cetieral Isaao Khan, tin* now Ministor of f'orsia to tho Iniied States, was formally received by 1'resideut MeKinloy at tlio White House. The botl.\ of Colonel K'tnorson 11. 1 iisoutn was buried in Arlington Cemetery with military honors. Captain 1 ?yer. of tho oruiser Baltimore. is to retire. I Usaiiowanoos uniine: to $72,031 were mode by the audit im; division of the War Peparti.ient in the accounts of expeditures by K. <1. Untilbone, former Mireetor of l'osts in Cuba. The Taft Coiniuission passed an ao$ nuthorizhnr tJetteral MaeArtlntr to establish tiotiee m lite cities atld towns in tiie Philippines, and appropriating .-m.ki.uixi iur isu'ir m:itnteuance. Tli?' Mayor. Assistant Mayor, Supervisor ami Chief of IV.liee of I'ntnhano, Cuba. were indicted for complicity ill lite reeent tlireatoning demonstration against tli?* Collector of Customs for not hauling down tlto customs flatx oil the anniversary of the massacre of the students. From lloilo. I*. I., it is ttnoHicially reported that the insurgents in that part of the island of Fa nay are swearing all. i.tuee at the rate of UMNl a day. lit !l MHM'TI'.ll ts! WIIS. <Jovernor<ienernl l)a\is. of I'orto ltico. ha- gone t<> St. Thomas, 1 >. \V. I. \\ h ie tlie capture of supplies and the occupation of new points in the Philippines are numerous, those Involving actual lighting comparatively are few. Five o" (lie smallest gunboats in the Na\y ;!>e \ntiatvdis, the Yickshnrg, the Frolic, the Wompatuek and the IMsea Miu.-i were ofdi red to the Philippines to do patrol duly. IM1M r.STIC. I'., e.attse thirty Indian eliildrett with in -a-d s are c|ii:ir:intiiicd in a school at White IJoek. Flali. the Indians threaten to hurn tlie school, and troops are guarding it. . > The total gold yield of the Far Northwest is estimated at SJ.VPJ-I.T.W.NI. divided as follows; Klondike. JfJI .'{."is,IT: Nome. .< t tn.N'.t t.tij. Theodore Wailert. who murdered ids wife and four stepehihlivu, near Arlington. Minn., was sentenced to lie hanged. The present Miiliiunu T.epislature will not amend tax laws so that corporations shall ho taxed oil their actual cash value, as recommended by Covornor Pinprcc. The Haltiiuoro Presbytery favors a revision of the Confession of Faith by a vole of IT to "J 1. The main hiiildiup of the Iowa Apr!euliuril ?dlleurc. at Ames, was destroyed by tire with inosi of its eonleiits The h.-s was S11m>.ot1.1. with no insurance A convention in the interest of State' ood for Oklahoma and the Indian Territory met at South McAllister, I. T. Four men were killed by n pas explosion in the new railroad tunnel at A >peti. W.vo. F.dward Krown. a well known horse owner, was killed by a railroad train at I.abulia. Ky. .1 udixe Sac.-d. of Knoxville, decided i Unit Pie anil clparctto law in Tonnes- J see is mieoiistitutionnl ami voiil lie- ? eatise of a leelmieal defect. ; Mrs. Nancy Clark, who was a slsh r ' of Andrew Curt in. Coventor of Pennsylvania durinp the Civil War. was .1 killed by a railroad train at Torresdale, Peiiti. Site was seven!y-threc years ohl. Mrs. Amrelino Calipian, t.pod 1015 years, probably the oldest woman in Ma saehnsci ts, died at the home of her daughter in Northampton. The battleship I own and the cruiser Pli ladelphia sailed Ironi San Dicpo, Cjtl , for South American ports. tletieral Arthur P. Marsh, eonvieteii of ootiiTdieitv In it"' Mich lean Stale III i I i I ;l l-.v I Minis, f i: i ill lilt' first $l(JOO oC liis JS."?iH)ii line. I?u:I:W;.N. Tlio Ifalmu Chamber of I>opution reJoi'ioil :i i-osohilion < :il!iii;? on the <iovoriimoiit fo ivciill (roups from China. in tlie French (Miamtier of Dcputieii J m Bi 'I in i noun <l former Ministers \ of War ami " M?Tuu\ former Premier, for vi;11* liiinjc justice from Iireyfu*. M. ,\I * line dollied Hie chni'KC. In ilr- <;mi.m Koiehstag 1 >r. Steelier, former ('our. Chaplain, said the I'.i ii ror of i Min:: had emhraced Christianity. A in u Ifultrnriaa Cabinet has been M. i\ :iofi as Premier. file Netlierlands i he l/Ol'enzo Mj l lie Net herlnS^H98HHp9Bfl H I *ut d from that p (' a iovi'oa^s^EMCTHHHKBi m Sultan to t