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rFO VOL. IX. |! BILL ARP'S LETTER. Tfta Sage Discourses On John Marshall. SAY# BE WAS A FEDERALIST r * Dut That Fact Does Not Detract From the Lustre of His Name or Dim tlii Judicial Reputation. Much ado has of late boon made over John Mat*-hall. That he wan A federalist has long since h-.en Well established, hut that takes f,o lustre from hi* name or fame. Nearly all cf the great patriots of tb.at day were f ^h'talist- ? ^ so was Washington, Hamilton, Madison, ar.d Charl-s Cote -worth P nekm ; . of oouili Carolina. Our most prudent statesmen feared to risk the people o( the States with the reins of government, but wanted a strong central power. Not until *efferson's day were their apprehensions modified and the people declared to he masters of the s iuation. John Marshall coul 1 hardly help bring a federalist, for history sa his father and all the Marshall f'm'iy were federalists, lie grew up with the Idea that no government was safe thn' did not have power and money and troops and a navy to defend nad prot?<: It. and it would not do to rely on the states separately when war or conflict came. No, there never was a great r jurist or u purer patriot than John Marshall, ami Lam proud that he we.- a Virginian. 1 was considering the list of the e who have already been chosen for j placets in the hall of fame. 1 think | those gentlenn n who got up this how I did pretty well considering the point of j viow. i p 10 date l believe thirty have been chosen ami our Robert R. !.< . stands eighteenth oil the list. Ho received sixty-nine votes and outrank ?1 eleven who received less. The list heKins with "Washington at ninety-sevi n votes. Then comes Lincoln, Webster, Franklin, Grant. Marshall. Jefferson, Rrnerson, Longfellow. Fulton, Irving, Jonathan Edwards, Morse, Farragut, Clay, Pealtody, Hawthorne, Robert R. j < I^eo. Peter Cooper. Horace Mann, Eli I Whitney, Henry Ward Beechor. James Kent, Henry Story, John Adams, Channing, Andtibon, Gilbert S;uart. and Asa Gray. The last named was a botanst of __ good repute and received 51 vote*. No solders of the civ il war are-In favo Lee and Grnnt and Farragut. Only five presidents are in. Malison, Monroe and Jackson are strangely left out. Henry Ward Boucher as strangely put In. I don't know what he ever did that was great or good. He is the man who said that "Sharp's rifle* were better than Bibles to send to Kansas and it was a sin against high heaven to shoot at a slave-holder and miss him." He is the man whose conjugal creed was what j McCauley said of I.ord Byron, "H it your neighbor and love your neighbor'-; wife." It will be observed that twelve of these men chosen are from Ma.-smchu-etts. five from New York, four from Virginia, two front Connecticut, two front Rhode Island, and the others scattered around. Well, if I had a vote T think I would strike out ten from that list and in their places 1 would insert Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Hewitt Clinton, Alex Hamilton. Patrick Henry Stonewall Jackson, Sain Houston Agasstz, Edison and Crawford I,ons. 1 don't know whether 1 would strike rjrant's name or not. He was a goodhearted sort of a man with a bulldog tenacity of purpose, but he was no general. Any man who took four years with nearly three millions of men ami billion, of money to subdue 26G.OOO ragged confederates is no general. Mat he behaved well after the surrendei and said: "l,et us have peace." 1 w:i! conversing not long since with a northern lady, a mature lady of culture and reflneinent, and when T remarked thai (Irnnt did not fight to free the slaves for lie was a slave-owner and lived ofl their hire, she was amazed and said "Well, what upon earth was he flgh'irp for? 1 thought the war was about slavery and nothing else." And so I had to explain, and 1 told her how Lincoln issued a proclamation setting the slaves free in January, 1862, but lie ex <ecp e<i M'ssouri and Kentucky, and sc fJrant. held his slaves until January 1SCJ. and kept on hiring them out an.' kept on fighting us to make 11-; let our? go. Tie didn't tote fair. "Can it b? 1 nthlaf" all A oa III "aitvnln ...... mb taken." The truth Is the history ol this war is just 'beginnng to leak out. Those yanks have abused us m> Ion;.' ih.'t some of our people have got. discourage 1 and bogn to confess judgment So mo of them are. even ?pot igri zi ?< To thai. malig: ant hook called "TJneb Tom's Cabin." 1 was delighted to rear1 John Temple Graves' reply to Ilei.., "'all'Toa, It was the truth, ever' word of it. and our good people thank him for It. Those Impudent rascals in north have had it drramatlzel an stuck under our no-^s for nearly twenty-five years and lets of our fool foikco to see it aud swallow it. down i w? ruminating about these slande'? and wondering what made tbe-e people hate us so; when 1 came across ar. exrdantation in an old book of mythology which said that when Jupiter fir*t rrontrd'man lie hung two bags on his neck, one hung before and eontain d all his faults and little sins; the other hung behind and contained all his neighbor's fiu'ts and shortro-nioes The man got very sick In a few davr and Jupiter couldn't tell what was :' < matter. He was afraid the man was' going to die. so he sent for Pluto, who FO was x head-devil and doctor to boot PlUto diagnosed the rase and said that the poor fellow was heart sick from havlnpr to look Into that base ^o much! that his sins wore ever before blm. and JK> he advised Jupiter to swap the l)-'^ around and r>n? the man's sins behind I and out of eight and his neighbors in *ront. This was done and the man go! Well and has been well over since. Thit we will not fuss about the hall oi fame as 'io?r as they leave out old .lo"*r Drown. When be is put in we want T.ee taken out. Speaking of John Marshall being a federalist reminds me :r say that 1-ee was not, for bo declared when lie resigned from the United Rta os army that his highest allegianc? was due to his state Many great men have differed over that question. Daniel Webster differed with himself and in b's last great speech at Capon Fprinsrs admitted that a state had a right to secede when there was sulll c'mnt cause and that the state must b, the judge of the cans'*. That was what Wh'Mi l lamrooned liiin about in tho;r malignant veses. 1 am reveli ng now in old things and holding i or.vcr e wDli some good old pontile. I veci-1 ved a letter to-'av fav" r.*i old gentleman of Atlanta who had wrlcett ion fourteen pay: s In a lir r lou.l handwriting, fur he knew 1 was deaf, lie say., he is in his ninetieth vcar alii! in.-- wanted tn wri.u about. the good old schoolboy days and about the. groat nn n we u->d ;o have. He \vt ni to school to (It rgc White, who p-.:1>l.she:l tin ? t ;t . .1 s and "Historical Collections of G org:::" ovc r fifty years ago. and Cliarh s Walla e Howell was Is s school mate. My friend is blind, biu writes his own letters?the lines are about an Inch apart and about four word.-, to the line - and y,t he writes in a 10 : cheerful vein and tells how good God has been to him all his long life. Ills name 13 A It. Wright, and he was born and reared in Savannah. His favorite at school was? "Lochoil. I.ocln il. beware of the day When the lowlands shall meet tliee in battle array." I expect there are a thousand living men who spoke thai speech, and the other one, "On Hiuden when the sun was low." My neighbor. Rev. George Yarborough, a men of memories, too He Is our Methodist Episcopal preacher now and it is a luxury to talk to him. Ho helps me abuse the yaukees and 5ays lie lovts his enemies, but cannot suppress a feeling of holy indignation at their conduct. He has a curious old biH>k printed in 1S25 called "The Wonders of Nature and Providence." That part devoted to Indians and their mounds and the Lost Tribes of Israel Js full of interesting data. It seems Vo me that tho older a mail grows the more he learns and atyout the time he gets full of knowledge and begins to run over he has to lie down and flio .. l./v ,WM,1,I ?wxt 1I.IA AM ui' . mill ii ii?* mj:iiu luit in i mi and on for the .siko of tin- children and grandchildren. But as Pope says, "Whatever is is right."?Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. I'. S.?I have received one answer to my Ohio man'.- letter, l?ut as no money came for the orphans I have not sent it. .Maybe lie will send the dollar, for it is worth it. "Atlanta, (Ja.?Sir: In answer to your letter lie* toil you what I ihink aio.it the moon, li ir.t your inters and unyuns in the dark of the moon tho they do very well planted in the groun*. I am a widow, under 4."i and hav got sum land tho I don't claim any credit for that cos I got hit from my Paw and he got hit from his Paw. The earth must move tourd the sun for wo got the news of the queen's death over here 2 hours before sue died. But if 1 ever marry agin I must have vittels and close a plenty or no land.. If you want your hog nun: to get more hig r in the frv'ng pin you must kill it before the new moon but if you want lots of gravy kill lilt afterwards..I have got 110 brother- or sisters and am powerful lonnsom. I don't thing the moon ir inhabited. It is tlat like a plate and on o a month turns up on its edge an 1 makes the new moon. I don't think :ii" moon effee s married life. Funks can make it happy or miserbp! just as tha plcc.-e. Hit is either as happy as heaven or as mis'rbpl nr. Dante's Inferno as thry call hit. I think the moon have got a lit of its own. Foaks toil rue hat northern men make the le st hc-1 ands, and I am sure that Southern women, especially willows, make tho I < s; w.vns. Address, d l? .vo. o. o, Anollifr illcli Cilomliltr Strike. James I.awrie, who arrived at Ker.tll?*. \\ .'-ti . tin a steamer from Kamport, r. ports a rich strike* on Ktiskokwin rivi'k. Tin* Alaska towns are greatly ? xcitcd and many are h aving l'or tin* scene of the strike. Prince (tommits Murder. rrinoe .Tohnnu lVdocky has been arrested for the. murder of an actress named I'auiinc Mitoroski at liudapest, llan.irv. 1 tie prince, who was pent..i mi lled ..is victim of jewels and valuables worth Sino.onn Cubu. KcpuUiatea Debt, of Spain. The Constitutional Convention at Havana. Cuba, adopted by a large majority the first article of section 2U. which provides that all debts con.racted prior to the promulgation of the constitution shall be repudiated except those contracted on behalf ol the revolution from and after February -4. Yiiiiul. Deleut Mesicau Troop.. Mcxicau itoons were ambushed by Yaqui luuiaus't'i Ute uiountaiu pass i..-, of v to atvl fulij a hundred were killed and wumidcd befoie they could extricate theutseh. . It's only natural for a bright man to reflect 1 MIL ?T MILL, S. WED1 THE REPORT ON B Congress Committee Submits Its Findings in the Booz Case. BILL TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS The Report S?y? That FIeIiI* Arranged it fff?t Point Are Mncli More VicIon* Than Tltoup Conducted Under Marquis of Qucrnitlirrrjr Rules?Drastic Mrnxurm to Stop Practice Creed. Washington. P. C.?The report of (lie special Congressional Committee which Investigated the hazing of Cadet Booz and the general subject of hazing at West Point was submitted to the House of Representatives l?y the Chairman of the Committee, Representative Dick, together with a bill providing stringent regulations against hazing. fighting and all brutal practices at the Mil'tarv Acatlemy. The report Is . n exhaustive review of the practice of basins in all its forms, and while moderate in tone, is nevertheless a stringent arraignment of tlie practices enumerated. It spoeities more than one hundred distinct methods of harnsslntr fourth-class men. and describes them in detail. One of the "funny formations" described is that practised on Philip Sheridan. Jr.. who was compelled to rWe a broomstick "in mockery of his illustrious father's achievement at Winchester." The report describes the system or fluid insr at West Point as shocking in Its character. Tim Committee declares i that the West Point code is more i vicious than the Qneensherry code. It I is held that tight in? is the worst form of hazing. that such fight in? as that at West Point Is a felony according to the statutes in many of the states, and that the time has come when Congress j must decide whether fights which arc i high crimes elsewhere shall continue ' at the academy. The Committee finds Hint Cadets MaeArthur. Broth and Burton were hazed into convulsions, that otlmrs , were hazed until they fainted, while others Were hazed until they were sick. The hazing of Cadets Booz syid Bretli are elaborately treated, but the j Committee does not attribute their deaths directly to hazing. The report j adds: ^ ?J "Rut wlillo we ennnot fix upon haz- 1 fng the responsibility for these two ' deaths, the possibility that it hastened | theni and the blot it throws on the | otherwise fair and glorious fame of the academy, its eon diets with proper . training and discipline and unfitness , In this century, urges the adoption of reasonable, yet. we believe, effective, measures for its eradication, and the promotion of discipline at the aead i cnty." The bill submitted contains eleven sections against hazing, and provides means for its detection and punish incnt. Dismissal is provided as the' penalty for taking part in a fight or challenge, directly or Indirectly, or for any form of annoying, harassing, m bracing cadets. Cadets dismissed are made ineligible to appointment to the army, navy or marine corps. Provision is made for courts of hupiiry. courtsmartial. closer association between officers anil cadets and other means for effectually stopping the practice. SHOOTS AM ALABAMA JUDGE. .Tense Urate Wounds Mnn Wlm Was I'r.iteetlng Ills Intended Victim. Montgomery, Ala. Thomas X. Me- l Clollan, Cnief .1 ust ice of tin* Supreme Court of Alabama, was shot linv l>\ Jesse llealo, a prominent citizen. | | Judge McCU'llau was struck hi (he right shaulder, the bullet shattering the shoulder Made. The shooting was the sequel to a! rather sensational affair. Judge lieClellan was trying to prevent Itcalo from shooting John McQueen. a solleltor of Jefferson County, who was in the] house. It had been reported to Iteale that his daughter, Caroline, had hoe;; out all night in a oab with McQueen. , I'pon hearing this iue enraged father, aeeotnpaiiit d l<y his son, I'heluu, armed I with pistols and shotguns, went in Mef'leilan's house after McQueen. it Inter developed that Miss Itoalo ' and Mi Qlteen had taken tea at a n s- ' taurant, and while on the way home 'decided to get married. About mid i niglit they drove to the residence of Judge of l'rohate Hasten and requested a marriage license. Judge J Huston refused, tinder the circumstances. and the couple spent the balance of the night searching for a Justice of the I'enctj to marry tin ai. failing in this. Miss Itenle staid at a girl friend's house and McQueen \\> it to McClellan's residence. Miss Heale and McQueen were married and left on a bridal trio to New ' 'Orleans. Tt?f Heals, father and son. an- hold to nwp.Jt ill" result of Judge Met "lei Inn's injuries. LANCASTCR'5 TARS IN A FICHT. ( liisli Itftwern Stailor* mid the Populace at La tiuarre. Venezuela. Washington. D. G.?Information lias been received of a elatb between sail ors of the United States naval vessel Lancaster, now at La Gtnyra, V. u*.zucla. and the people of ? !r city. it was the outcome of a i .vl between | sailors who had been njo; icg them selves on shore leave [ The Lancaster's men w> re forced to take their small boats and return to the ship. No fatalities are reported on 'either side. I I * * I __ * A ^ L T SESDAY, FEBRUARY THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WASniXOTON ITEMS. Robert W. Wilcox, DcU'Siite from Hn\vai\ answered charges filed against him. declaring lie was loyal to the Covernmont and fairly elected to Concress. Senators arc drafting a resolution to define the attitude Congress wishes the President to take toward Culm. Nominations of (lenernls Wood. Cram and P.oll to tie brigadier-generals. were held up in the Senate committee. The War Department ordered the discotflinnanee of the sale of beer, wine, and intoxicating liquors on nil military reservations and army transports. Spe.ial Committee of the House on the Si. T.ottis Exposition voted to re nort favorably the l>i 11 appropriating r"?.0i?!>.?? i0 for the T.oiiislaua Purchase Kxnosit ion. Tin* Armv Appropriation bill provides S1 ts.POO.noi for the next fiscal y enr. Secretary Hay was advised l?y Minister Hunter, stationed at Cuatonnila 'itv, Huntomnla. of the suicide of Sidney K. l'verett. of Massachusetts. Secretary of the American Legation. A colonization project is under way i'i Southern California. This is for ilie purpose of colonizing a portion of the Texas riee fields with Dunkards. of whom there are a considerable number in Southern California. The animal transport Unpack sailed frotn San Francisco for Manila with TC,r? lues s and mules on hoard t'm* <nny use. These are said to l?e the Unest attltuals ever shipped to the t tfieut. ot'i: tnorrrn ist.txns. A luinher yard, sawmill and fourteen houses in Havana. Cuha. near HI Cerro. were Imrned. Willi a total loss uf STtMt.Ptn). Highly persons were injured. most of them firemen. Srv. ml arrests were made in Manila. P. 1.. in connection with the alleged aiding of insurgents. Vive dist|ihuting clerks in the posti?il:?*c at ll-iC'Inlu. Hawaii, were disiT. urged f?.- refusing to work overtime. Tliey claim that they have ivorked ovcrMinc without compensation Surrenders :uk1 minor skiruiishos ontiwie in Southern Inr/on. I*. I. A row insurgents have been killed. There were no American casualties. Sfiiors Roriln :nnl P.nlha. representing Porto Iticnn planters, will present to Congress tlie protest ngai; st the riollander revenue hill. DOM liSTIC. Tin ml reds of teachers in the United States are applying for positions in the Philippines. In the Supreme Court nt Rallston Spa, X. V.. it was decided that a signalman should precede an automobile a furlong. Yale issued a circular warning Iter alumni and friends that the prnjeet to erect a statue to Nathan Hale was not authorised. C. P.. Murtin. of Ann Arbor. Mlcli. a student it P.raden's National Preparatory Seliooi for West Point. N. A'., dropjt 1 dead while he and other students w re engaged in snowballing. 1 tenth was due to heart disease. The l.ouisiana sugar planters have finished their planting nearly eighty lays ah ad of lime, taking for granted that there would he 110 more cold weather this year. Otto Selntman. an eccentric hermit, who made his home in an old cottage I. M |Jl'. Ill I til It t 71 ill -2 IHHII' I I .* *.."I'?l? 1 . for 111:11*v years, was frozen l > iealli. Two hundred ami fifty Chicago saloon keepers were arrested for keeping >>]x 11 (.11 Sunday. A Spot) shortage eaused the arrest of Joseph Fitzgerald. employed in the Seaboard National 11ank. of New York t'Mty. I Standard Oil shareholders ou Marelt 1.~? will get a twenty per rent, quarterly dividend, the eompany distributing SJ0.OOO.O0O. l-'ire destroyed the Masonic Temple at Toledo, Ohio. Loss. SiriO.OOO, ftilly in4 tired. I The Virginia Military Academy at Richmond. Va.. refused to reinstate Bradley T. .bditison, Jr.. and four others dismissed for hazing. Starving and unusually tieree wolves have appeared on the'streets of New I i'.uffalo, Mich., and the town is lerI rorized. J The Countess Boni lie Castellano sold to her brother. Kdwiu Could, her interest in six pieces of real estate in New York City for >00. Miss Sarah Small, of Nashville, (la., was so seriously hurned l?y her dress catching tire that she died. ! KOKKIGN. Governor Gullet t was recalled to France. Ilis .successor is Ednuard | Petit. I The incident caused by the- withInnviil of tin* exequatur of tbe Imtcli Consul at Lorenzo Marques, 11 err Potts. is closed, and the Dutch Minister will shortly return to Lisbon. Sartor Snracco, the l'ritne Minister, resigned on account of the defeat of lie Italian Ministry. An "Italian, out of work, committed suicide iu St. Paul's Cathedral. Loudon. General Julian Acosra chief of the Venezuelan insurgents in the Carupano d!?tii?y. is a prisoner iu the nands 01 the Government forces. The Count of t a sort a met with a hostile public reception on arriving in | Madrid. Spain, to attend the wedding of iiis son, I'rinee Charles of llourbou, to the Princess of the A*tui'iufc. i \ IMES ' 13, 1001 St steel cokbinb] President Gary, of the Federal Company, Issues a Statement. WILL NOT ANTAGONIZE THE LAW Til- I'mmitUT. of tii? Itlllioii-nolhtr 1 ru<t Do Not Frnr it 1*o,iulnr Outory ?Tin* l'iiuinriiil l'roblcin I* ?li<? nn? 01>At;iclt? Encountorml?Object l? Only t?? Secure Verinnnfut Harmony. NVw York <'it?It i? now beyond |/Iisputo that the nit'n engaged in formI 'ng tIn* ureal Steel Trust. for whieh the holdings of Andrew t'arncgie in the i stock of the Carnegie Company are to form the basis, are not only seriously considering the idea of a single giant I torpor at ion. under the presidency of Charles M. Schwab, but are proceeding I without letting the thought of popular hostility to trusts weigh in their plans at all. I lToininent banking tirms of the city I have been tentatively sounded as to their willingness to share in the under j writing necessary to form sueli a big i corporation, it is thoroughly possible j Mint the giant corporation project may i be al unbuil d for that of a working agreement which would be in effect a giant trust of several corporations. I tint if tin- former project is abandoned !t will lie not because of the fear of popular opinion, but because of the j practical dillienlties in financing a j company of such large size. Enough has been learned to justify the statement that tli" bogie of outcry against Irusts is being disregarded. The pttbI lie is thought to have taken the whole j luattor calmly. | A member of a banking house ou I hiendly relations with J. I*. Morgan ' K: Co.. when aske ' about this matter, j laid: I "What can the public do nhout it. my way ? Hostile legislation, do you ; fa.vV Nonsense. The Government ] cannot tax one industry at the expense of auotlu-r. The men who have it- ?- - ' - it:rs [ini.in-i oil ii:lm 1 IU1VC HO II'IIM OIJ | (lint score. in inv opinion." j "Wi ll, what about the financial difBuiltvV" was asked. | "The wliole scheme would not ro! quire an enormous amouut of actual | rash," said he. "There are no insuperable obstacles. There are the usual 'abstaclcs of {jetting each concern to Calue its. stock at no more than its ftroper proportionate worth. You meet Hint difficulty in every consolidation." The first statement in regard to the purchase of control of the Carnegie Steel Company to have an ofiicinl j stamp was made by Judge E. H. (Jnry, President of ihe Federal Steel Company. President Mary said that the announcement was made on bis own csponsibility, but it is taken for granted that lti? speaks with authority. The text of the statement is as follows : j "Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. are tinI Jotibtcdiy considering plans f<?r the ac quisition of tlie properties of some of tlie largest iron and steel companies of ,his country. Presumably they will .ltd make ?>r authorize any official statement until after the plans are per footed. It is probable there will ln? >icli ownership or control :is t?> secure /lorfeet nnil permanent litirmony In tin* larger linos ??I' litis indqstrv. It is not Intended.however. to obtain rontrol of my lino of business or 1<> oroato any monopoly or trust, or in any antnconIze any principle or policy of the law. I "Tito method to !>< adopted In tiequiring properties will not permit any minority stock interest to interfere, if tut eh stockholder were so disposed, which is not probable, as Ids pecuniary I Interest will influence him otherwise, lie will be fully protected in any event. The success of the enterprise will result in cront hem tit to the investor lit securities, the consumers and ' the workincnuMi or employes, tattle. If any. new cash will lie required and therefore the present financial condl lion will mo la- disturbed. | "This statement is made solely on my own responsibility." i The paragraph in regard to minority i Mockhnldcrs is regarded as significant. | 'I'lie statement tout they will uot be allowed to interfere is supposed to lie for the heiieiit of Mr. Friek and his friends, who are minority holders in j the Carnegie Company. IiON DON PA I'M Its' tOMMKNTS. rhr 11.illy Cli roti icte Sii.i ? PropaMOl Trn?t Ik n Mrnnrn to Commerce. London.- All the morning papers comment upon the Steel Trust in the Fnited States. "It is a little less than a menace to the commerce of the civilized world." says the loiily Chronicle, "and before it all previous trusts fade into insignificanee. it sets the seal to the triumph of the millionaire." The Times, in Its tiiiancial article, which refers to the combination as the "biggest of even American financial deals." says: "The magnitude of the Stork Exchange operations in Americans and (the gigantic deals upon which they are 'in part based are making experienced I people ratlur more cautious in entering into commitments, for. although j they still believe business to be sound in the United States, the magnitude of the operations recently effected, eej penally in the Steel Trust, is greater than any we heretofore have experienced " Fatal Piptostoii to rpwitsr Will*. Part of the Oriental Powder Mills at Newhall. Me., was demolished by an explosion. Two employes were blown to atoms. The cause of the explosion Is unknown. The financial loss to the company Is estimated at $8000. ?^ NO. 48. ROB'BERS MAKE RICH HAUL Steal Express Safe With $40,000 From a Railway Platform. Authorities or lutru Town Where dim* Occurred Sny They Ilnvo Two Men IVlio Committed It. Sioux City. Iowa.?Prompt and active Work 1?y the authorities at ManfJn. Iowa, result til In the arrest ol' three men who are supposed to have been Implicated in the tlu.ri ,.r ., -? .... . . **? <i ? iiittrii States Express Company safe which contained about S-t0.000. The Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Pan! train in wliieh the safe was taken front Sionx City arrived at Manila at 8.0."? o'flncl; p. ni. The Omaha train was late, and -Tames Stnrfevant, of Sionx City, the express messenger. dM not hurry in uiiloadhti; tlie goods and packages from his car. The exmvvs safe, with other articles, was unloaded and placed on a truck on the station platform, and then Sturtevaut and the ltnjrgnjreman went to the other end of the platform to get another truck load. When Slurt-vant returned lie noticed that the articles on the truck were disarranged, and a glance showed that the Iron Pox was gone. There was great excitement, and no time was lost in spreading the alarm. City Marshal I-Vrrill hastily assent Pled a posse and vigorous work was begun. Snow lay thick upon the ground, and it did not take long to dis cover the tracks of two persons, who evidently had been carrying some heavy object, directly from tlie* truck as il stood upon the depot plat form They carried the safe a distance of a Pout two Plocks. and then loaded ft Into a wagon, which had been left there in waiting. The wagon was driven a mile and a half into the country and there Unsafe was forced open and the contents were abstracted. The men th^-reahnii tinned the safe ami went their way on a new track. It was not ditliciilt to trace them, however, ami three ar rests were made. Tln-ir names are John .Tncksoii. John Stovnlt and Chax Hayes. All are men who live at Mm nila and arc well known. Their reputations heretofore have not been bad. They stonily protest their innocence, hut the authorities believe the evidence against at least two of them will prove conclusive. The three prisoners are in j.,il i...'.... ......1.1.. r..?.t-i. bonds of S 12.0(10 e::cli. The authorities sny tho shoes of two of the men exactly Ii( tho tracks in fho snow at tho station where tho safe was carried off. Tho stolon safe contained In tho neighborhood of S-IO.Ooo. Twelve thousand dollars was in cash and the remainder in drafts, checks, and various valuables. None of tho money or valuables has been recovered. DEATH OF CCNCRF.SSMAN SHAW. Former fnnimniKlrr-iit-Chli-f of the (1. A. It. t'oiinit Head Li T?e?l. Washington. I>. ('. Representative Albert It. Shaw, of the Twenty fourth District, and past Commander in Chief of tho (1 rath I Army of the Re public, was found dead in his room at l the ltiggs (louse. lie attended ji ' bati<|Uel the previous evening at the lihhitt House in honor of Cotuinanderiu Chief Rossleur, of the <7. A. R., and complained to friends nearby of suffering from indigestion. liis death was due to apoplexy, and he probably died Sooll alter net r-li in.? l.i_ The hotly was taken to Watortown, N. V., Air. Shaw's liouit', where the funeral was held. Mrs. Shaw died t>n February !>. IS'.!'.'. Mr. Shaw leaves a soil. Dr. Henry L. K. Shaw, of Alhauy, and two married daughters. Albert Dtiatie Shaw was horn in Lyme, N. V., Deeemher 1!7, 1X11. lie enlisted as a private in Company A. Thirty fifth New York Volunteers, in .lime, 18151. and served two years. lie served one term in the State Assembly of Now York and then entered the tonsillar service. lie was Command er-in-Chief of the Cratid Army of the ItepuMic of New \ ork in 1N!>'? aml of the National Hneampuienl in IMl'J. He was elected to t'oiijfi'ess last N'oveinher to 1:11 the Unexpired term of Kepresentative C. A. Chiekerin?r, who t-omuiilied sulfide while temporarily insane, and was also elected to the Fifty seventh t oipjTt ss. r-rniiic I'a'iiHldii Kill. The ('elision Appropriation liill, oar rying $lir>,2 wjis? passed by the United Slates Senate. (Maims allowed on aeeount of the Spanish war repre sent only S'27<Uii)0 of this year's total. IIIIiioIk Mwy ,\?!????t Klcrlrir Ctalr. A hill was introdueed in the Illinois Legislature providing f>>r capital pun Ishment hereafter in the oloeirie chair instead of hy haiitMiig. riO.OOO Troop* For South Africn. The British War Oiliec la> d? ided to senu IHMhhi more moitmed nu n to the aid of (Jenernl Kit lienor in South Africa. OaiTKnl a AVomari l'o>4nci*tcr. Burglars hound and gag. d the u >11 an posamtser of i;os?.fcrd. <?iiL . and Stole $1.10 in stamps and $1 in ea.h The claim is made for South Dn;ota that it has for tlm third consecutive year produce l more wealth pov capita than any other state in the I uion, the total for the year just ended having been .$10f,,."?00,(HiO. Of this sun :>27.(KKi.dfio eomes from live stock. SIS.- j opu.oiKi from corn. $ir>.<iuo,(?io from wheat and $1*,<XK),OUO from minerals. I