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VOL. X.
ARPHAS LOSTWira
lie Is Inclined Just At Present To Be
Fighting Mad.
WISHES BRANN WERE HERE NOW.
Ivoosrvelt-Waslilnctoo Dinner Mas
Arouccd tlio Anger of tha Uartow
Philosopher.
It looks now like my old friend,
Evan Howell has lost liis influence
with the new president, and 1 have lost
my faith. Hope and despair aro sometimes
not far apart. Last week I was
sanguine, which means hopeful, confident:
and now 1 am sanguinary, which
mean* fighting mad.
"This world is all a fleeting show.
For mam's delusion given;
And you can't always sometimes most
generally tell what is going t >
happen."
The smartest doctor can't diagn<Ve
every case, nor cure a disease^Lf-Tho
putient docs not want to be cured. My
idol is shattered. I wish that Brann
was alive with his Iconoclast. May he
he could do justice to the situation and
save me the use of language. B ib
Toombs said that the fanaticism of our
northern brethren about the negro fatigued
his indignation, and jest so now
our contempt is getting tired. The day
nrtrr I read about it I couldn't realize
it. nor did I beliovo it was as as
pictured. and so I waited for light?
morn light?1 had an Idea that Booker
Washington in some way happened in
about dinner time, and Mr. Roosevelt,
having more heart than head, thoughtlessly
asked him to sit down at his table.
I thought that maybe ho synii aihize
I with the man who had done so
much for his rare and was tabooed
everywhere by white people and hotels
and churches and white folks, cars and
opera houses, and so his heart got the
bettor of his head and ho did it in
,haste and would repeat at his leisure. 1
thought it was just one ease, for the
New York Press said it was unique.
Then 1 remember, d that Cleveland invital
the dusky queen of the Sandwich
islands to the white house, any maybe
Roosevelt looked upon Hooker
Washington as a kind of ambassador
or chief of a foreign race, and 1 kept
on thinking and hunting around for an
explanation or palliation until it was
discovered that the ease was n t
unique, for lie did a like thing before
?t. \lbany, while he was governor, and
that hp sent his children to school
with negro children at Oyster Bay.
Then 1 iravo it up. Ho has sadly disappointed
his fri?nds and dishonored the
t-fafe his mother came from and desecrated
the president's mansion, it is
11 o longer the white house, hut. 1 iV?
the rhaxnrleon. takes any color that
cotBff. Now I suppose that Mls3 Washington.
who is at Wellesicy collcg*.
will he a welcome visitoi at the mansion
during her vacation, and maybe
Roosevelt's son will fall In love with
her and marry her without having t >
elope. That is the tendency of this
new departure?this unique case. But a
hopeful man. an optimist, should wait
a few days and ruminate. Time is a
good doctor and I am not as mad this
morning as 1 was last weak. 1 think
n.avbe that it is not as bad a ras* as
I think it is. By nature I am a good
deal like my good old kind-hearted
mother, who gently took everybody's
part who was abused. One day my
father came home very mad with a
man who had mistreated him and
when he related his grievance to
mother she said; "Maybe the man
didn't mean it and will make it all
light after while." Father got irritated
a little with mother and said:
Caroline, I believe you would defend
the old devil if he was here on trial."
And she said: "Well, 1 have sometimes
thought that too much was laid on
him."
I still believe that Roosevelt Is naturally
a good, big-hearted man and ho
didn't think that his off e n 1 pes t>
limited his private and domestic r-ghts.
The white house was his home?h's
castle ond lie could ask in or shut our
whomsoever lie pleased. He wns l orn
and rearer! at the north, where a foalish
and fantatlcal sympathy with the
.southern negro is almost universal. !t
monopolized the press and the pu'.plt,
though they knew no more about the
negro and his racial instincts than we
lrnow about nulgarla and the Macedonian
bandits. What a strange folly is
that sympathy. Its tendency is t >
spoil the most contended and happiest
race on earth. Sometimes I envy the n
their merry nature. Hooker Washington
seems in earnest in his efforts t?
elevate and refine his people, but 1
doubt whether he is really doing tnein
any good. To labor is their nature ami
the higher education unfits them for it.
I1 suppose that Tuskcgee has turned out
2.000 or 3.000 graduates, hut where are
)h".v and what are they doing? We
never hear of one in th's region : n I
last ycaV a professor from Tuscaloosa
declared publicly in Atlanta that he
had been in Trskegee and investigrt^d
and could hear of only about a dozen
out of 1.200 who were at work. The
most of them room out mechanics or
farmers, but they have been transformed
into gentlemen and are living
off of their kinfollts. A few have keen
sent to Africa to start the cotton business,
and it is to be haped that the
others will go there r.nd stay. Education
is not what the negro stands mast
y? need of. It is a reform in mora'a. it
I
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Is tho unprejudiced opinion of the
most conservative observers that they
are the moat thievish, unchaste race
upon the face of the oarth, and they are
infinitely worse now than they were
when In slavery. In 1870 there were
but 200 negro convicts in our penitentiary.
and now there are 4.000 in Georgia.
and the number increases as the
years roll on In spite of schools, colleges
and millions of northern money.
The good negroes are on the farms aud
under the dominion of their landlords.
It is safe to say that 75 per cent of the
negroes al>out the towns and cities
will steal, and that 50 per cent of the
negro children are born out of lawful
wedlock. Two of our negro barbers
ucv.<?iupt'u utTdstuaiur iiu>i wceK one
has been keeping three wives and the
other two, but they left them and took
two new o&qs along with thorn. We
have got so accustomed to this stato
of negro morals that it excites no comment.
Some white men will rob banks
and abduct children and hold up trains
and embezzle money and cheat in trade
and run blind tirois and moonshine'
whiskey. But nc i iy all negro servants
will take little th . -*s?little money or
jewelry or a poir o' scissors or stampe 1
envelopes or a little rice or coffee or
sugar. They all do this, and we subnet
to it because they still make kind,
good-natured servants and we re d
them. And so the race problem goes
on. but I will prophesy some good to
come from Roosevelt. He is a crank
about some things, but he is fearless,
independent, self-relant and will do
just as ho dogon pleases. Mythology
tells us that King Augean had a herd
of .1.0(10 oxen, whose stables had not
been cleaned out for thirty years, and
Hercules came along ore day and rot
1 a whiff of the foul odors and turned
two rivers through them and cleaned
them out in a day. I believe that Roosevelt
is for clean, honest work in the
government departments and will
clean out the Augrnn stables. If he h. s
t:> turn the l'otoinac river through
them. For thirty years their st-n h
has nauseated us. lie lias just appointed
Mr. Foulke to the head of the tivil
service commission. Foulke has long
lc en the prosecutor of frauds, perjurip*t
n nrl *
? . Laciuun, me terror or pnstl
masters. the watchdog of public ofiicials.
but ho was handiappcd by politicians.
Ho will sweep the dock now, tor
ho and tho president are of one mind
on that law. Tho victors w ill n ? 1 npcr
get all the spoils. Hut wo want the
president to lot the negro aJone. The
rare problem belongs to lis and will be
settled on a wise and humane basis if
tho fool yankec editors and preachers
will Id i.s alone.
Rut we will wait rni watch and
sonic good people will pray for deliverance?"deliver
; a from evil." 1
haven't given up Mr. Roosevelt yet. If
vrc could only gel him down hero for
two or three years he would become so
disgusted with the negro and so exacting
that they wouldn't hire to him.
Our observation long has been that tho
northern people who come south to
live soon get thrir eyes opened nnd
understand the situation. Not long ago
the editor of a Baptist paper in New
York said that the south was not ready
for it now, but the time would soon
come v/hen miscegenation would tie
found the host solution of the race
problem. And only last week the editor
of a republican paper defended Mr.
Roosevelt and said that in another g< neration
social equality between the races
would be universal at thp south
and it was well to start it at the wiiite
house, with such malignant fools wo
can do nothing, for they are too far
off. But they hail better shinny on
their own side.? Rill Arp in Atlanta
Const itnt it.
P. S.?I am gratified that Mrs. Park
and others have come to the rescue of ,
Nancy Hart and have established lier
as a fa-t and heroine in our history of
the revolution. Wo ought to have a
state historian to record an 1 preserve
these things. Fifty vasts from n.iw
somebody will b saying that Hill Arp
was a myth, and I wouldn't like it.
B. A. '
N. 11.? We read that the Anurian
Missionary Association at Chicago
have indorsed the president and commended
social equality between the races.
It is about time now f >r the bl o
and the gray to embrace again. Let
brotherly love continue. B. A.
Later from the front. The unique
las vanished and Roosevelt's capers
have neeome multifarious, ubiquitous
and ridiculous.
Hope for a season bids the south
, farewell! To your tents. Oh, Israe !
Call off the dogs. I'm going out to work
in my garden. B. A.
Prophecy of Seeress Fulfilled.
"'you are going to lose something and
rou will never get it back," said the
(Egyptian princess, as she finished read,ng
the ncrvou- lady's hand.
"I wonder what it can be," the lady
nuscd, as she moved off in the dirccion
of the "Loop-the-l.oop." An hour
later she missed her umbrella, and after
i minute's hard thinking recalled that
she had laid it on a catnp stool in the
tent
r" """
The Egyptian Princess had not seen
:he umbrella, and was sure that it had
not beer. 1< f: in her place.
"You told nie that I wa> going to lo-e
something and that 1 would never get
it hack," said the nervous lady. "I am
naif inclined to believe the other tilings
,<ou told me."?.Ww )'ork Moil and
; Ejpress.
.
Tn England opm fireplaces are almost
the only nirnns of heating houses, and
hotels, public buildings, and office build;
ings are heated in the same manner.
MIL
ORT MILL, S. C? WEI
^HLEVTEUSOrSfAHGHT
Gives the Court of Inquiry His Version
of tllP Ri^Hp r?f fs1nfiinr-?
WW ? VI VM V Ct ^ V/I
EXPLAINS THE BROOKLYN'S LOOP
I'll* Krar-Ailmlritl Drnlr* 111* Story Thi*t
Ho Shown! Fear? I>r*cril>?n Ilmr the
Ilrooklyn uml Orrcnu Uestroyed the
Spunlnli Ship*?llrrlurfn the llmlgMon
Colloquy it Fiction?Clark** Tcntliuony
Washington. I> C.?"And lhat ended
the battle of Santiago, on the third
day of July, 1N'.)S. I would like to
say that I was very much impressed
on that day with the fact that tin- officers
and the men who were rugateil
in that struggle fulfilled in tl>-.? very
highest and the very noblest degree
the traditions of the American Navy."'
With these words uttered slowly,
gravely and impressively, UearAdmiral
Schley concluded the most
absorbing and thrilling story of the
Santiago tight thai lias ever been told.
The story tiegan with the day Ik tore
the light, when Schley saw sustucmus
movements in the harbor, and sent
the Vixen to notify Sampson. Karlier
in the tie/ Lieutenant Harlow of the
Vixen hail tistiti d that he received
the order from Schley and that the
Vixen carried the message.
When the Spaniards came out
Schley determined to head for tip tu
and hold them until the slower battleships
could conic up. itui this plan
f.. O...I .....I . I. . ?- ?' - -
1U11VII, XIKI lill' .'||.II1|,IHI> ^ui away.
Schley instantly determined to try a
new plan, ami heme issued Ilie order
t<? "Close' up."' ami "Follow the l?;i;_r."
"Captain Clark," he said, "knew very
well thai it wasn't iutctuh d for him.
because he was foil twiug the ilag, and
to lie repeated it to the oilier ships."
At the tittle oi the loop the IbM iklyn
was so near the Spanish ship thai
Seliley saw, with the naked eye, Spanish
sailors running from the turret
to the stiperstruetur.', "ami," he raid,
"I euttld see ?lio daylight hetwoeii their
logs as th"y tan." t tilling the turn
he never saw the starboard side of
the Texas and never erossed her hows,
and never was nearer than tiO't yards.
She was so distant that the thought
of eollisiou never onP'rod his head.
The llod^son colloquy r.ever ocetiired.
"In the lirst plaee."saitl Schley, "he
was toi? good tin ottieer to transgress
one of the plainest duties of an oliieer
at such tittles, and. secondly, it he
hud undertaken it i would not have
permitted it '"or a second. It is lictiou.
There was no colloquy."
When they got out on the ocean and
were engaged by the four leading
Spaniards, Seliley believed that the
Urooklyn would have to conduct the
light aloue, because the battleships
could not catch up, and remarked to
Cook: "We tintsi stay wi* that
crowd." Then the Oregon came up,
and Schley said he never before realized
what rapid guutire meant. The
ships were a sheet of dailies. Smoke
cauie out of the h: tehes of the Spaniards
and streamed up in almost perpendicular
column. When the Colon
surrendered Schley sent Cook aboard
witli orders to give no terms but unconditional
surrender.
lie said that he was delighted to
have Sampson send him and the
Oregon after what was supposed <o bo
Cantata s licet, because after what
those two ships had done he tel. that
they could meet "anything that carried
the Spanish colors." 't he Oregon
went hack and Seliley went on alone.
11 got up to within is i.i yards of the
stranger hoi ire he found thai site
was an Austrian, ills starboard buttery
had been entirely disabled outing
the battle, and he was manoeuvring
to got her with his pari baitort.
!?'? ' ' ' '
?? at iusIIi .in.) uiirr 114 n ri?ii?
Schley denied l.icuicuant. l'till's s;<> y
that lie showed l'ear sil the affair of
May 111. "Mr. I'otts." lie said slowly
anil quietly, "is entirely in etrur tu
thinking that 1 took advantage >>f any
protection at llsat lime, ii is not a
fact.*' lie paused, and then added.
"We were going le ad on and there wuj
no protection ior anybody.
A notable Mtienviiee of Schick's b,:~iii'4
the day was. "Th fact inn: this
blockade, boih at Santiago and ?
l'uegos, was sufficient. is proved by
the faet that no vcr-ei entered the harbor
or escaped."
Captain Clark, who commanded .. >}
Oregon, testified on the previous day.
lie sahl when the Oregon joined the
IJrooklyn during the battle. Schley was
engaging four Spaniards at onee. lie
testitied that Sampson's plan of battle
was not followed, and the battle
was not fought iu aeeordanee wiiii any
squadron orders previously issued.
"It made a deep impression on nr\"
he said, "to tind the Mrooklyn there,
and I felt that we should tnute.ally
sustain and support each other." In
faet, nil ilie testimony of thai day
was to the effect that with s-onto
-light a?.-istanee from tlie Texas, the
whole battle was fought and won by
the Krooklyn and the Oregon.
When Major Murphy was recalled
to correct liis testimony, he added an
interesting story about the battle.
When it was over and Schley ha ! sent
Captain Conk aboard the Colon to re<
eive the surrender, lie nddres. d his
citlwuira i?*.>ii . iii* I <. * % I . ??- '
to cheer when the Spanish captain
came on hoard. Schley said ih Spaniard
had fought gallantly and made a
good tight, and must he treat ?d
any cheering. Later when the llrookchlvnlroualy
and not humiliated by
lyn came alongside the Iowa, when?
Cervera was. Henley repeated this.
Cervera heard it and appreciated it
very deeply.
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X 1
JNESDAY. OCTOCEE
MINOR EVEHTSOF THE WEEK
WASHINOTON ITFMH,
Pr. P. M. Pueenr. Department of
Acricnlturo export, coos to France at
once to study mushroom r:tisinjr.
President ItoosevcJt appointed Ceo.
P. Kocster. n Hold IVniorrnt. collector
of internal revenue for South Carolina.
Booker T. Wnslilnrton. of TuskeCce.
Ala., dined avlth President Roosevelt.
The Corcrnment concluded a money
order convention with Bolivia.
F. W. TTnokott. Assistant Seerofnry
of the Navy. will resign and bo sueceedod
t?.v Judge Charles IT. Darling,
of Bennington. Vt.
President Roosevoll appointed Frank
Tl. Mower, of Ohio. l'nltod States
Consul at Client. Belgium.
nun Ar?orTi:i> isi.ands.
Cuba's imports for ten months, engine
April r.0. 1001. were ?r, 1.412.LT.2.
ngninsf $o0,0'25.o30 for the same period
In imx?.
Seeretary Boot will arm nee to send
additional troops to the Philippines.
Adjutant-Ceneral Corhin reported
i 1hat the total easualties a mom; Anierieim
troops in the Philippines were
| t!32I.
| Fiske Warren, anti-Imperialist. of
j Boston, was obliged to take the natii
of allegiance before he eould land at
Manila.
T)OM KSTIC.
The safe of the Farmers* Bank nt
i Fulda. Minn., wns blown open. The
i robbers escaped, and S.VitH) in easli
; was secured.
j The two keepers of the ligldhouse
nt the entranee to tho Straits of Maekinae
wore drowned while attempting
' to reach the mainland.
While playing in a railroad yard at
' Buffalo. N. Y.. John Samlherg. aged
thirteen, and Joseph Stack, aged si?:,
were killed liy an engine.
I The Covernmetit breakwaier at tlx*
Portage Ship Canal. Mich, was com
plotod at a cost of $.T2."?,0t 10.
| Mrs. Charlotte Nichols, wife of a
railway man. and l>r. Burnotto. a dentist.
took poison at a Chicago hotel.
The woman died, hut the dentist will
recover.
Many Ponea and O:oo Indian tnicks
In Oklahoma wore sent to jail for
, being bachelors.
| Thomas C. Fuller. Associate Justice
of the T'nlted States Court of Private
l.and Claims, dl.nl at Raleigh. N. C.
| Because his wife didn't hang curtains
on the kitchen windows <5u?tnve
Reck, of Buffalo. N. Y.. attempt
o.l to kill her. Then he committed
suicide.
i .lames R. Wood, who drew the capital
prize, worth $.10,000. In the Oklahoma
land lottery last August, died
after a brief Illness,
i A panic occurred In a theatre at
T.oulNville. Ky? In which more than a
tiw/.i-ii pt*i 7?uii? were nun. n was
caused by n cry of "Fire!" arising
from a slight accident to a polyseope
lictwcpn the acts of a piny.
Item- Admiral Kiiiiicik Marvin Hnnn'.
IT. S. N.. retired, <lio<l at bis homo In
Hartford. Conn. Admiral Hunce, when
lio was retired on Christmas Hay.
1SPS. bavins reached the ago limit of
sixty-two years, was tlu> ranking officer
of the Navy. His attainment to
the rank marked the climax of fortysix
years of active service.
Captain McCalla. IT. S. N., obtained
I the use of the Sea Cirt. N. .1.. range
for practice by men of warships, who.
' he said, were poor ritlc shots,
j Quartz was discovered on a farm
north of Moweaqua, 111., which nsj
snyed J?l"."? In silver anil per
ton in gold to the ton.
Professor Howard, of Columbus.
Ohio, a chemist, reported traces of
arsenic in the stomach of Mrs. Anna
l'ngh.
Ilurglars stole from the i\x*?oniee
at Haldwin, Mich., registered letters
and postage stamps valued at nearly
$100t>.
Snow to the depth of several inches
fell in the northern part of New York
and in the Southern Adlrondacks.
FOREIGN.
The new Ameer ordered the release
of selected prisoners iu various pasts
of Afghanistan.
In n municipal election light at I,in
gltizzeln, Corsica, three men were
killed and six fatally wounded with
daggers.
Several deserting Spanish dragoons
arrived tit l'erpiguan. France. They
deserted because of ill treatment, and
refuse to return.
There is renewed agitation In tier
many for n European customs union
against America.
The Dowager Empress of China Is
said to be considering the appointment
of a new hell- to tin* t'liino-.
The Marquis Itu's party initiated n
strong movement to overthrow the
Japanese Cabinet. Important political
developments are anticipated.
The London Daily Express learned
that (leneral Kitchener litis wired tut
urgent demand to the War Office for
more trained ununited men.
King Alexander opened the Servian
Sktipslitlna, pledging himself to uphold
the new Constitution.
A cartoon against Emperor William
in Simpliclssinms, a comic weekly of
I'.reslau, caused the confiscation of the
paper.
Twelve more Boer leaders, including
Commandant Scheepers, were
permanently banished from South
Africa.
King George of Greece reopened a
discussion among the Powers over the
independence of Crete
1ME
90,1901.
TERRIBLE FIRE DISASTER
Mar.v Persons Perish in a Fierce Conflagration
in Philadelphia.
HEARTRENDING SCENES OF DEATH
Prniicil In mi Klclil-Slnrr linllilint; Mm
n tnl Winiinn l?ln M'IiIIp Tliomnnilii I.onU
nil Viinl.1t* to Hplp Tlirtn?AVlioln llnitlP.locU
T'iriiilpiipil?Ciiuip of Tlr*
1'iikiiniTii? !.??? R.IOO.OdO.
TMtilniloipliin. TVnn. Twenty known
lloilll -111.1
. ii-ss amount in? to
U|>w:inl of is the result of a
tiro which oeeurred in tho business
see.ion of the eily. Over a score of
persons were injured. niid they were
treated in she hor-nitals. The buildings
destroyed were tile ci?:lit story strnefures
Nos. 121b and 122! Market street,
nreimied by Hunt, Wilkinson & Co..
npliols.erers and furniture dealers,
and tiiree ihree-slovy buildings oeeuuied
by strall nmivlsantmen. The hig
furniture hnihlini: extended back n
half block to ('oinniereo street, and
was owned by llcnrv l,ea.
Philadelphia never in her history experienced
a lire whieli snroad with
sueh jrrenl rapidity. At in.20 o'clock
a. in. the ldar.e started in the buildin?
occupied liy lltmt. Wilkinson ?V
Co.. and one hour later the sacrifice of
life had been made and Iho itntnense
loss of pronerty had been areotnnllsbed.
The ??riirin of the lire is unknown.
Men and women died n limreritiiT.
nconlKiii'; ileath in the tircsenee of
thousands of sneciriiors. who were unable
to lift a hand to their assistanee.
Tin* rear of Hunt. Wilkinson ?V Co.'s
building faces on Cotnnieree street, a
small thorouvnifaiv. <>n the tire eseapes
a; tins end of the linildim: two
men fiii-l "
wrc siowiy
roasted in d< a 'i. while the horrorstrieken
throng on il?e si root below
turned sii'i. hi jlu> sight. In I ho front
on Market sir.' M n woman, ilrlvon to
desperation. homed from n window
on the top tioor and was dashed to
death on the pavement. These are
only a f? w of the heartrending scenes
attending the eon narration.
Seventy-nine of tlie H?? persons in
Hi.uit^ Winkinson & Co.'s building
v'lnhi tile lire started were employes,
and th?' ?vst were customers and outside
wpAknien who were encased in
nut line the finishing touches on the
ii< eighth floor. More than half 'if
ftie firm's employes were on the nnpi r
five floors, and it was a 111 one these
that the greatest number were killed
and injured.
Hv noon the fire was under control,
and at 2 o'clock p. m. a force of men
ordered by the Tiepariineiit of I'ubiie
Safety began the work of clearing
away the debris for the purpose of
recovering the bodies of the victims
buried in the ruins.
The loss is estimated ni ?.100.OOP,
most of which will fall on Hunt. Wil
kinsou Co.. whose loss is estimated
a; ?.i if in. Henry <I.cn's loss on
tiie building is alioiu Sloft.OlMi- Will
hurt F. IVitis iV Son suffered a loss of
StttMNHi. while other occupants of the
l'olis buildings ;m?l surrounding prop
oriy owners suffered losses aggregat
lug S'Jo.OOO.
MURDER OF A FARMER'S WIFE.
I\i 11rit Willi*- ltrivlnc to Mrrt Il*r Ilntic'iIrr?14
A Trusty '' Convict Arrrstod.
Concord. N. I(. Mrs. Nancy Jane
j Folsoni was niordcrcd in the town of
ito sen wen, ; sparsely settled farming
eoiiimunity tifte m miles from Concord.
She was the wife of an industrious
farmer. While driving from her home
to the railroad station to meet her
daughter returning from a school in
this city she was waylaid, dragged
from her carriage, assaulted and murdered
and left among the roadside
hushes.
The road from the Folsnm home to
the station is almost as wild as any in
New 1 lainp.-liirc. Mrs. Fnlsmn was
waylaid about half way from her home
to the station. Her head was crushed
in with a conical stone, wh'.eh was
found near llr* scene, and was covered
witli lilo'?d.
(leorge < Sr n!i -aan inmate of the
county house of correction, was placed
under artv-i. One of his duties was to
drive the cows to pasture, taking a
route over the road where the murder
was comniiltcd Footprints were found
which the auihoriiics sav tally with
those of (>reeiilca f. (Hood was found
upon his slioes and clothing.
PAN-AMERICAN LOSSES.
Ktocklioliler* Will I.okp tlic 8'I,500,000 anil
\nr> * uiuniciuva .~%i>r?Ul 3J? i ,OIIU,UUU.
llulTalo. N. V. The decision of the
directors to close the Pan-American
exposition en the night of November
'J Iijjs enabled tiie accountants to make
a fairly aeetirate estimate of the loss
which the l'an-A merican will suffer.
It will exceed $!.(KM).(*()(). The stockholders
will receive back nothing for
the SJ.."0:t.0O'? which they put in. Con
traeiors who built the exposition will
lose 51.tl0ft.0tMt. and the issue of ST,00,unii
recond luoivgug bonds will be defaulted
a* well as twenty per cent, of
the iirst mortgage bonds.
The l.ritlsb 11 t?li l'nllr.Y.
Jos'ph < flirt rile .lain. Colonial Pecretary.
in a speech at Kdinburgh, ttnnouneed
the Intention of tin* Itritish
(?ove.nns"nt to propose new rules for
limiting Irish obstruction and to reduce
Ireland's representation.
l'hllinptiin Army Stan<l?.
Secretary Knot hits decided not to
send any more troops to the Philippines.
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TRAIN ROBBERS FOILED
AUack an Express Car With Dynamite,
But Are Driven Oft
llrtT* MfHrncor on the Sonllirrn rarifi*
MMkrk n Stand With a ???
uml Win* * f lsW.
Port In ml. On*. The north-bonnd
overland express train on the Southern
Pacific was liehl up by two masked
men tlfteen miles south of Eugene.
The robbers blew open the express
ear with dyr.amlte. but see;i '<-*'? .w
booty, having been driven ofT by the f
express messenger. The only booty /
secured was one pouch of registered (
mail.
Two men tionrded the train at Pottage
Prove, a short distance this side,
near Saginaw, put off the fireman and
his helper, uncoupled the express ear.
and made the engineer pull ahead n
short distance. Tlieir first net was to
blow open the door of the express
ear. which they did with dynamite,
tearing the door to pieces and badly (
damaging the ear.
Express Messenger P. Phnrlrs was *
ordered out. but lie refused to go.
and with his shotgun commanded the
situation inside the ear. The robbers
told lilni to emtio out or lie would be
blown up with the ear. but lie replied.
"Plow ahead." A fusllade of bullets
followed, riddling the car. toil tin*
mescnger. who was uninjured. kept
up a cotit iuuotis tin? from the inside,
which held the rohhers at hay.
A charge of dynamite with a hurtling
fuse was then thrown into the
car, hut Charles grabbed it and extinguished
the fuse. Next the robbers
compelled the engineer to crawl up
to the opening inside " " *. *\ir. hoping
to ues him as a 1-2 {{ton from
the messenger's shots, jvert i'10 mcssenger
kept up a steady..^ |?ver the
engineer's lead and still . jyho rohhers
at hay. The robber1" n gave \
up their efforts to secure > Vxnresa
treasure, and went for the t? Jit. They
secured the registered mail. Jjen cut
the engine from the rest of V> train
and ordered Kngineer Lucas*o pull
ahead. They ran to Judkin's I'olnt. in
the outskirts ??f Kugcne, where they
stopped and ordered tlu? engineer to
return and get his train.
The train arrived here in the afternoon.
The express ear is badly shat
ten d, hut it was brought in with the
train.
C RL RESTORED TO PARENTf
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K l<ltm|tr<l hy Cvpslrs Nine Years Ago *
nml Cruelly Trrutcd, f
Rt. Marys. Ohio.- Nine years ago the
daughter of 1'eter Itell, who then was
ten years old, a miller living In St.
Marys failed to return homo fron*
school. The lieiief was general that
she had been drowned. A gypsy recently
told Itell that his child had
been abducted hy a gang of gypsies
nine years ago.
Hell at once made preparations to
go In search of the girl, and with
Mrs. Loll and their other daughter
started for Indianapolis by wagon.
They walked to Peoria, 111., from there
to Qulney. to Keokuk, Iowa, and
linally traced the hand of gypsies to
Cartilage. Mo.
When the gypsy lender was confronted
hy the father of the girl and
local otliccrs he drew a gun. hut the
nlil/inru 1 I.I -
,-it-ii mill ii 1111 ne gavi*
U]? the Kill- The young woman says
she liml be* n compelled to lies food
and clothing for the entire hand of <
gypsies, who treated her eruelly. Mr.
Hell intends to have the gypsies indieted
and extradited to Mercer County.
Ohio for trial.
FLORIDA'S ORANGE CROP GOOD.
Some I'rpitlrt 'Mint tlic Tiilitl Will Itn
1.500,000 lloii-M.
Jaeksoiiville, Fin.- Florida's orange
yield ihl; i will lie about 1,200,0(10
boxes, ae ). to the best estimates
made nowja J' fruit is tine, and some
say that ' yield will he 1,000,000
boxes.
Many people have eonie into South
Florida since "the freeze" from the
norihern part of the State, and the y
have acquired small groves, which
have been enlarged, so that the orange
growing acreage is increasing
each year.
A larger number of oranges will lie
sold on the trees this year than heretofore.
The crop in the Indian ltivcr
region is also said to he good.
SEVENTY AND SEVENTEEN WED.
Clit lit-llrlilr of n Veteran Itrroum* ? GreatGrandmother.
Vnlcmno, I ml. Milton Carrions,
commander of the Indiana <?. A. U.,
njft'd seventy years, ami Miss Mario
Thomn.-, who has seen but seventeen
summers, liavo been married. Hy
tin* alliance tho child-bride bcronieR
a {treat-grandmother.
The ceremony was performed at
N<-w Castle by the Itev. Mr. Wing,
pastor of the Christian Church of that
plaeo. Alien Carrions, a son of tlie
groom, was best man.
GMd DOooverr In Holland.
Hold lias been discovered in the
I'rovin e of Overyssel, Holland, whicli
borders on the Zuydcr Zee. The exact
location of the mine is kept secret.
It is said that the yield in gold is
three-quarters of an ounce to the English
ton.
HO CliinfRA Krhrlrt Kxcrntfil.
It is announced iu a dispateh re
v.v,11 cvi ii vjiii owuiuw, * iiina, 111a i it^i
rebels have been executed, and that
order has been restored in the Using
Xing district, where several missions
recently were destroyed.
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