University of South Carolina Libraries
I F( VOL. X. "OECURMIOM" HO WORE Text and Signatures on the Original Copy Have Faded Away. DUE TO EXPOSURE TO THE LIGHT Th? Historical Uwnaitnt Now Pr.i.nM In tlie State Department Mfcrary?Nothing More, Apparently. Than a Hlaak Nlifol of r?|i?r ?Jefhnnn'i Original Draft, However, te Still Kaally Rratl, Washington, 1). C. -The original copy ; of (lie Declaration of Independence is lid more. The stirring text ?ud the igtiatures of the members of the Conthieninl Congress have faded away. This precious document is preserved in :> cabinet in the State Department LI- , hrary, but it is now practically nothing more than a large sheet of parch- | men I. Part of the words, "Declarn- j lion of Independence," which were written in large letters with many or- , uautental tlourislies, are decipherable, but not a signature is visible to the naked eye. One hardly discernible stroke of .iolui Hancock's pen is all that remains of ids bold and vigorous autograph, which he purposely made large, so as to show the British (!ov- | oraim-nt that lie had no fear of being known. The Declaration is preserved in n narrow drawer, glass covered, which slides in a steel safe with heavy double doors, locked by a combination. \ftor its removal to the State Department from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where tli<? Continental Congress held its convention on July 1, l~"t>, the Declaration was placed in a glass case and exposed to the view of visitors. Owing to the strong light in win<*n it was subjected it began to fade, and it was then removed to the drawer in which it is now preserved. This was several years ago. The fading continued, however, until now the noted document is nothing more, apparently, than a mere blank sheet of paper. Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration, with Insertions in the hand-, writing of Franklin and John Adams, is slid exposed to view in the same case, where the formal document was formerly on exhibition. Strangely I enough, the ink on this draft lias not ! faded. The writing is still as elear :i< it was I Jo y< ars ago, when Jefferson and ihe other members of the Drafting Committee wrote the words that nnde defiance to the Rritish crown. The original of the Constitution of ilie I'nited States is preserved in the same ease with the Declaration. It h:is written on four large sheets of parehenient, each kept in a separate glass covered drawer. The ink sltows en sign of fading. The signatures of i.eorgo Washington and the oilier members of the Coustiiuiional Contention are as clear as if they had iieen just written. THE YUKON REPUBLIC SCHEME. Afiiriicatiii sni.1 to Hii\o firsts Helilml th# Plot li? tlic Northwest. Vancouver, 15. C.- The Yukon lu- I siirreeiion story is not nliogethor witiiotit foundation. Some hairI rained Americans drew up plans for forcibly deposing the (Sovernmenl and police in tiio Yukon, somewhat similar to the historical Jameson raid in the Transvaal. .Major Woods, North west Mounted I'oiice, discovered the' schemes and took prompt steps to suppress it, American officials at Skag- j way co-operating. The discovery of tlic scheme is sup- ! posed to Imve nipped it in the bud. It is said the scheme originated in Seatlie, and .sHoO.tHK) was available to aid ihe venture. The information has beeu obtained from former police officers of the Yukon force, and members of the gambling fraternity who have come to. the coast cities for the winter, and is j guardedly confirmed by the officials j wiio have just come down from the North. VAND^RBILT HEIRS TAXED. Thry Muat I'av tilfil 80S to th? United M?tc? (ioverBmnat. Washington. It. ('.--Heirs of the late j Cornelius Ynnderbilt must pay , .so.'t.4i{ into the coffers of the United States. This is the total of the inheritance tax tixed by the Federal Government against the estate. The decision was reached by Solicitor Wishard. of the Internal Revenue l>cp:\rtment, and was concurred in by Commissioner Yerkeg. News of lite decision was sent to the Yaiiderbiit at- 1 lorncys in Now York City. The heirs have already been com- j polled to pay a State tax of $520,WIS. ; The Federal lax just fixed brings the total tip to $882,801. The legal exI>f uses of fighting the tax. which ims iaon carried into the highest courts of the State and Nation, will bring the ' grand total tip to $1,000,000. BANK EMPLOYE STEALS $850,003. ! fraud* l>y a Truoted lloukkorprr o( mm Knclioh Institution Discovered. Liverpool, Kngland.? Great excitement was caused here by the announcement that the Hank of Liverpool had been victimized by a trusted hookkeeper to the oxtitit of hundreds of thousands of dollars. What the loss amounts to exactly is not yet known, hut uu ufiiciul statement issued by the bajfk says that through the dishonest/ and betting transactions of a bookkeeper it may lose $850,000. The defaulter had not been arrested. Hhjrifgttt-. \ s I )RT FO KILLED IN ATHENS RIOTS An Attempt Made to Assassinate the Greek Premier. University Students Precipitate thn Trouble? Disorders l>uo to a Proposed (ionpel Translation. Athens. Greece.?A remarkable politico-religious agitation has kept this city for days past in a state of excitement which has resulted in serious rioting and loss of life. The ostensible cause of the trouble is the opposition of the university students and others to the proposal to translate the Gospels into modern Greek and authorize such new version for general use. There is. however, a considerable political element in the mov< ..icnt. involving popular hostility to Slav influences. In tlm .1 - - ?- it >> ?>i i iiiw u mi ii|i|KiM' rne translation Russia is working through tjtioen Olga a;-Inst (5rook national hloas niul tho ni. others of the royal family, as well a; tho Government, are objects of their Indignation. The governmental newspapers Akropolis and Asty, which support the translation proposal, also share in this hostility. i Tito demonstrations have been growing in violence daily, and in the course of rioting about twenty cavalrymen and a few civilians were wounded. The following day the students organized a meeting at tit" ruins of the Temple of Zeus and about 'JO.OOO persons attended. Tho Government had supplemented the police with a lurge force of troops. Disturbances soon began and revolvers were freely used. In the melee seven persons were killed and thirty wounded and many persons suffered minor injuries. Some of the rioters who recognized Premier Tlieotokis in the street tried to assassinate him. Several revolver shots were tired at M. Tlieotokis, but he escaped unharmed. Tlnj Prefect of Police and the Prefect of Athens were among the slightly injured. Strong guards have hern posted at the Palace and the residence of the Premier, and also at the offices of the Akropolis and Asty. The students hold the university as their headquarters and have adopted military discipline. FANCY PRICES FOR MEAT CATTLE Ilccf on th?? Hoof Srlln For 21 1-2 Outs ? l'nniKl lit I'ltl-burcPlttahnrff Tl... 4KI-.1 .... ....-I - n, a * iiU * UIT IUU \l tilillUtll and most successful fat stock show ever held in Pittsburg, closed with a banquet to the visiting shippers, breeders nnd dealers. At the auction sale of the prize winners and other cattle, all price records were broken for beef on the hoof. Charles Kscher's load of first prize winners, after spirited bidding finally sold for twenty one and one-half cents per pound, said to he the highest price ever paid for a car load of meat cattle. The big steer, weighing 211)0 pounds, raised by A. 1>. Bnssel. of l.ost Creek, W. Ya , was sold for $4280. LYNCH ELECTEO AN M. P. fdUKtii for ItotTA *iittl Will lti? Arrestcil if fie Appears In Cnaimoni. Dublin, Ireland. Colonel Lynch has been elected to Parliament in the voting in (ialtvay. Lynch formerly commanded a force in the Lot r arm.", and it is said thai if lie appears to take his seat 1m? will bo arrested and sent to South Africa to stand trial for treason. The result of the election was: Lynch. 1217: Pimikett. '7k. In the event of Colonel Lynch's election being quashed on the ground that he is a traitor, Mr. Plnnkelt says he will decline to take the seat tints reverting to him. Lynch's friends seem satisfied he will attempt to take his sea t. CA'i HV1ANN G'JN TEST ABANDONED Hoard Thinks It Not Worth While to Try Any More. New York City.?The Armv nnd Navy oflleers detailed to report on the performances of the Gatliinann sun hive concluded to abandon any further teat, nftor witnessing the effect of a regular service sla ll charged with twenty pounds of mnxitttUe. The latter was discharged front the regular twelve-inch rltlc with a' reduced charge of smokeless powder, at a distance representing four miles. The service shell, with a muzzle velocity of 1S00 feet a second, struck the target and shattered it to fragments. BOSTON B*NKS MERGED. The StiKirmut Absorbs tlie Commonwealth; Combined Citpiinl JH,(100,0:)0. Host on. ? 'the National Sliawmut Bank has purchased lwo-tliird-? of live stock of the National Bank of the Commonwealth and the two Institu tions will be consolidated at once. i no capital stool: of llip National Shnwmut Bank is $.1,000,000: that of the Commonwealth Bank Sl.OQO.O0O. The aggregate deposits are nearly $50,0< IO.OOO. It is understood that a consolidation of hanking Interests by which the Shnwmut will have a rival is contemplated. "'he new combination, j; is said. will i:u'.. 'e eleven national hanks. Itrookt.vn's Pnitinnitcr l?p*lsrn?. The resignation of Postmaster Wilson. of Brooklyn, was accepted by President Roosevelt, at Washington. lllenr Open 8*fr; Got SSOOO. Bobbers blew open the safe in the vault of the First National Bank at Mondovl, Wis., and secured over $5000. MIL BT M11,1,. S. C?, WELtN COS! OF LIVING GREAVES Increase in Pr'cns of Fo.id Products ThroUfchout the Country. HIGH MEAT RATES TO CONTINUE Farmrri Find It Morn Profitable to Srll milk and Corn Tlinn to Fovniali Vriaj and Pork ? P Ice of Meat Highest In Kino Yniri-The flrocfrjr Trmlc Situation?Kffect oT Corn Crop Failure. New York City.?Whatever may he the influences, natural or artificial, at uork. it can no longer he disputed that food products, not only in X -\v York City but throughout the country, are steadily rising in price. In groceries 1 this new and startling development is not so marked and it Is said by i many to be of only a temporary nature. In meats the situation is one 1 to concern not only the housekeeper ! but the meat trade Itself. One butcher said that the preseut 1 price of meats is the highest that he ' has known in nine years: that- is. the highest price to be maintained for any i length of time. During the winter of lS'Jo-Wtt prices were slightly higher for ft brief period. f One wholesale dealer of this trades- 1 man's acquaintance, who, during hi>/i forty years' experience in the whole!- ' sale meat trade has traveled all over the West, remarked to bint receutl/y that there would be no cheap beef f<t>r a year or two to come. At the preseAit time, the butcher added, all meafts, with the exception of veal, cost t'he consumer two cents more than in f.he summer. Veul itself is six ce-'uts J higher. i This increase came suddenly atoout ; the tirst week in September, the dealer 1 explained, and there was no Inullca- ' tion of a return to former prices.f lustead, he predicted that the prid-e of llliilllu u-ill 1,1. - .* lit IUV.1 V-4iOl- IIUIU il ceill to ii ceut and a half within the next /three weeks, and lie is of tliu opinion that ; these abnormal rates will coutiuXie for three or four years. ( Further, he said, the rise of six: cents a pound in veal was due to tlije good prices obtainable at present for milk. Farmers linu that they can g?~>t more protit out of milk than out of veal,.and are allowing their calves to c become cows. j ; I Alauy reasons are advancetV for the ' increase in cattle and liog products. Th?? principal one is the failuire of the corn crop. Farmers estimate that for each bushel of corn eight ipounds of merchantable pork sbouh.t accrue. With a price of six and tin-ee-quarter ceuts for pork, the fanner 'nus a total of tifty-four cenis as rct-urus from ltis bushel of corn, to set (tgninst ieveuty-tivc cents, which his com commands. This liue of agricultural reasoning also applies to cattle, ami during the year thousands of acres which were formerly devoted to p.raziug were plowed and planted for grain. The < cornstalk disease" has also thinned lite ranks of the lteef producers, ami the heavy losses on rant 'lies in winter, due to inadequate housbag, have by no means decreased. All ljuese have combined to make costs higher to the consumer. While systematic eff orts *will doubtless be made to remedy this existing shortage and farmers outside the great cattle districts will pr mabiy turn their attention to the business to take advantage of the prese'nt high prices, it is generally conceded, thai those prices cannot tic materially altered for some time to come. Meanwhile, the cattlemen, with depleted herds, are forced to raise their | prices, the wholesalers are compelled |, 10 follow, and tiie vetnilers are In turn ' laid under the necessity of levying increased tribute upon tbo army of consumer*. In the grocery trade the situation is very different, i aud if uny vegetables or fruits haye advanced in price ihe increase has been directly tracea- !, ble to crop failures, as In apples and potatoes, h reshI lnlu eggs and butter are higher than} usual, but this was explained by onl- grocerynian as merely the annual winter Increase in price. 1 i'he marked rilse iu cold storage eggs was the work] of "a combination," which, he said, cornerei this section of the uiarken, as it had done last winter. CauiLed goods were higher, i owing to the Irlse in the price of tin, ] but with the I exception of oats, prac- I tlcally everything else was on a normal Imsis. I I YOUNG JfcKYLL-HYDE EXPOSED. Waa * t; ran/yard ltobber by *?lgl?t and ? (Suutiaotor by l>?y, Chicago, /111.?A graveyard robber by 1 night and a prosperous contractor by , day, such is the strange dual lite or J Charles Stark, now working out a line at the BfVidewell, vainly t-udeavi ring ; ,o conceal bis identity irom the yont.g ivuuiau wuo Uas pruiaiseu to become ' ais bride. Start was captured while despoiling i graves iu Grucentud Cemetery of their j ranted tlorai pieces. lie coufesscd 1 out iotf ten years ae had aystoma>k.1i .y robfted the difterem cemeteries, ucauiii; names ana selling them to siunll tionsts. lie says ue was trniMOd ay his lather and uegatt tooting ceuie icries wneu lie was eicveu years oai. s Until his exposure Clark was ae counted one 01 tue most prosperous ' and uouoraitie young contractors iu I f ibe community. ' ' ^ / l' \ '/ ' V: ' <: " .L 1 ESDAY, NOVEMBER REBELS CAPTURED COLON A Small 'Force Took the Colombian Town Atter Brief Fighting-. United Murine* Landed?The WaaliiUKtoii <loverniui-nt Warned l.lbrr*li Treaty M uat Bo Observed. Colon, Colombia. ? Liberals (rebels* have made an unexpected attack on Colon! The Government was not prepared, and there was little resistance. After brief lighting in front of the vuui? in \uurrsii'ikNi auu iu near-by streets for an hour ami a half the Liberals gained possession of all the public others ami ihe town of Colon. As a result of the right more than .wfdve nteu wore killed and about thirty were wounded. <)n receipt of the news that Cenoral tM.ban, tlie military commander o. Ir.e Istlumis. had started to aunt.; the Liberals at CUerrera. near Panama, line insurgents detached ltiO men tinier tJcneral l'atiuo to attack Colon, l itis force embarked on board a train bound trout Panama to Colon, previously tutting off telegraphic communication across the isthmus. On arriving at the outskirts of Colon, where tlie Covernment usually maintained a small guard, the Liberals left the train and in the fust skirmish L'atino was killed. The command of the Liberals then devolved on Colonel Frederico Hurrera. and they continued their inarch an Colon, arriving here a few miuut >s after the train, tints surprising ene whole town. The tJovernnient troops in Colon were outnumbered by the Liberals. Fighting immediately begun at the Cuartel, which soon was taken. There Senor Jaen, it Judge of the Criminal v uun. was Killed, and Seiior Muskus, the district representative of the Department of the Interior, was mortally wounded. The whole affair occupied less than three hours. The United States gunboat Maeliias landed a detachment of marines in the morning. Washington. Ti. ('.?The confirmntion of the reported eapture of Colon by the Colombian Liberals euuscd n decided commotion in the State an I Navy Departments. 1'rcsidcnt ltoosevelt resolved to take 110 ehanees of an infringement of the Ireiay rights of tne United States. Therefore Acting Secretary Ilill cabled Oonsul-Cenornl iludger a direction t > inform all parties who are engaged i 1 molesting or interfering with free transit across ihe isthmus that such interference must cease. He was also directed to consult l'recly with Captain Perry, Ihe commander of the t inted Stales battleship Iowa, now lying at Panama. Then Captain Perry was cabled by Secretary I.ong to laud marines if necessary for the free transit across j the isthmus in accordance with the i tnaty rights and obligations of the | United States. TUIOTV ^ |ti , I i nin i i UCAU IN A lYIINii. Kmnkc Overn "(M Men in u Tunnel | of Colorado Collier). L Telltiride, Vol I*y a lire i:i the hu!-/ li >n tunnel hfU.nv'lu^ to the Suntz I ijlcr-1 iiion Mintt.^ i'oiiii..iiy thirtyJ lives \vt 1 lost. The lit - which i I known to lnivc In en stecidcnial, s'str/ c<l in the Imlhlin-'s at the month J>t' the tunnel. At this poir.t is the typper terminal of the tramway to t/ne rimipauj' H new mill in I'nmlorn, :/nd it was in the In nk house nUaelied Ibnl the fire stnvtetl. From t.iif< it spread to the terminal station, w/iieli with its ore bins, machinery and/supplies. is a mass of ruins. / The day shift of "JUU men htyd entered the mine and reached / their stations when the tire was discmiered. The tunnel acted as a fine and f.\ ureal volume ot suioke poured i t mid tilled the slopes. About 17t> of tlie men Bf.eeeeded in reaching safely' hy aunt her exit. The tire rapidly burned itself out. hut the mine was so filled with smoke that it was six ,hours helore rescuing parties eould penetrate the slopes where the less fortunate were. / BRIDE AFTER FIFTY YEARS. Lydia Waited For Her William. and Now They Are Ode.. Moorestown, N. J. ? Wil'lam I>udd (toners, seventy-three, married Miss l.ydin Lippincott. sevenAy, on the latter's farm at Fellowship. Hoth are prominent inemhers of- the Society of Friends. j Mr. I toners and Misjs I.ippineott had tnown each other sixty years. When n hey were in their /teens everybody In ti'-'ht they would/ wed. Hut then U'illiai i met aroiiier^ it'.rl. whose name, c'ctiliarly eiioutth. was l.ydia Llppin nit itii? ?"? "/ * * ...... . i . i . y mail it'll HIIU II > I'll u li:iiijiiiK*- > for rimy yearn. The first [ .y 11' ri ron a in d si/i trie. Tu years Koirers died and Mr. Ito'.'t r.-. lonesome, wont t,? vs!de in ih<> Kriinds' Home on Main roe . near Toiv/i Hall. None nyamahi'/.i i! with hint/more deeply than ifjjlia I. .p 1 it ott. I Soon tltey illseovc'ivrt luii the love d' fifty years nso 'Ivne till burning, ri'hcn. l-'ordinK to'tlf untovn <>f thefFriends. iliey Diked the < > al if i lie meet nt; on their nu i> ials. They neceivtd it. Intertill llnruilf l>|iovt. The annual report of the C'onr.Tvis r of ltm.nnl Keveinte shows vt lat . total receipts for tin? year qrndec! f title 1901. were 8MOG,871,W or sI,.ail in excess of the esti mates tliotir the same amount In exifess oi he receipts for the year endr d Juu?' '.it. 19 Mt. and SiSii.OOO.OOO In ejlcesu of i :he receipts for 1899. ! V 3 I t\ 1MB 27 11)01. HAY Oil OUR DIPLOMACYI 1 he Secretary of State Enunciates thes Government's For* icn Policy. FRIENDSHIP OF POWERS SOUGHT I Our RnY? of Conduct. II e Snvo, l> th? Ttt.nroe l?octrlnr itixl the (iiilil.n Itulo?No Witntoimene of Strength, lie I>et>lar??> Will Imtmf I', to Drive n IIui'J Uarcalti With Another Nation. Now York City. Tho :mmi:il banquet of the Chamber of Coimnorm hot.* at Delnionieo's. Covers for ' 50 wore laid. At the lable < honor were Ambassador Joseph 11. t.'hoaie, Johu Hay, Secretary of Stale; Wliltehiw R'iu. Senator t'hauncey M. 1> new, Andrew t'nruegie, .Mayor-Kloet Setii Low, Icmuit-tJeueral NeHeii A. Mill's, J. I'icrponl Morgan. Carl Sciiur/. and Governor Odell. In introducing Soci o lain '.lay, Prosident Jrstip proposed a toast to "Our liiplentacy." Secretary llay was warmly welcomed l>y the guest?, and liis speech at various points met with great euiiiusiasm, especially when he ineniioned the natne of William MeKinley :tt the end the applause was deafening. Alter paying a special tribute to the late President, Secretary Hay took tin the subject of diplomacy, to which he was assigned, and said In part: "There was a time whe t diplomacy was u seienee of intrigue and false- j hood, of traps and mines and couutcv- j mines. It may he another instance of j that credulity with which I have often : bet n charged ly European critics win j 1 say that 1 really believe vlie wori/l has moved onward in diplomacy i in other matters. In my experience^! j diplomatic life, whleti hum.* . .v?rn more years tl an 1 like to look l/.ck upon. and in ilie tar greater r< ord ' 01 American diplomacy, wlii-h I i uve , rend a ad studied, 1 can say wiuout hesitation that we have geueriwlj told ! squarely what we wanted, announced eariy in negotiation what wo were willing to R'vo, and allowed the other j side to accept or reject our tornn. llut ' if we are not permitted to bmst of i what we have done we can t least say a word about what we lij^e tried to do, and the principles whjcli have guided our action. The br'.-fest expression rf our rule of condr.'t is, perhaps, the Monroe doctrine< and the golden rule. With that sit pie chart we can hardly go far wrou". "We have striven, on tin lines laid down by Washington. t< cultivate friendly relations with all jiwers. liut not to take purl iu the fouiatioti of groups or con hlnutions ai oug tliem. A position of eomplete independence is not/ incompatible with re la ions involving not friendship alone, hut eoneurre/it action as well in Irupftaut emergencies. We have kei always in \ii w the fact that vc ar pre-eminent1A a peace loving people that otir norli.al activities are in tie rttroetion of /undo and 'orauicrce; tint the vast defvelopnient of our jncUBtries imperatively demands that w sua.I not only retain and e< ndrui e?r hoid on our pre-eni markets, hut seek constantly, by all honorable met is. tj exieu ! our eommereial lute j* 1a every practicable direction. , ' "We consider /-ur interests in the Pacific Uecan 4?,reat now us ihosr of any otlu . pv'// und destined t > indefinite devel??. cut. We have opened our doors to people of Hawaii, we have accepted ae responsibility oi the Philippines vo eli l'rovldeiiee imp tsed upon us; Wi ll avu put an cud to the embnrrassln condominium i 1 which \vc were ln\d'. ed in Samoa, : n 1, while abandoning u one of our commercial rights iu V*- group, we have established curbing ami our authority in 'iutuila, w ilcli gives us lite finest harbor i:i the Sou.h Seas. Next in order, will coiue a Pacific: cable and an Isthmian cnn?l for the use of all well-disposed peoples, but under exclusive American ownership and America p coutrei. The v will be no more surrender of our rights than there wi.l 'oe violation of the rights of others. "IV" fraukly confess we seek the frier lsliip of all the powers; we want to t.ade wild all peoples; we are conscious of resources thai will i.inkei our eonrnen.'e a source of advantage to l lictii and of pro tit lo ourselves. But no wantonness of strength will ever induce us to driv? a hard barguiri with another nation because it is weak, nor w 11 ??Aiy fear c.f ignoble criticisi. tempt "s to insult or defy a grcn power because it is strong, pr even ijpcjkuso it is friendly." i .l/js ph 11. Clioate, Ambassador to tYtJ' Iliitirt of St .1! 11111?v 1VI14! n'nvf disced. Ho spoke with his usual ? !? (jdienco, dwelling mostly on ,iao ret en. ,/lslt of the delegates of tlic New York lia.nhor of t'? .nmorce to lmndcn. In nlargt\l upon The sympathy that hm! > ?een shown by the lhitiMj pcoi lo a. the time of President McKlnl.y's iei'th. and said that not only had the sympathy been manifested almost cv iy hour for days after the overt, Ly yalty, but that a.I '.lasses were t.uit s sorrc wfvl. In view of these acts ".r. Chonte thought t!lis Governi.iei ? ;,iiMtitlo<l in thinking that Fnglar.iTs ;rlef was uu expression of nu.i.ial \ i pntliy. Fnrrlcn Dpuiund For Our H heat. Not wit listandiug the fat i. that c . oris so l'iir this sea3cn have been it.oui twice as large :ts the s i.pn.ent >r the corresponding period last year, here has been a steady, fair Ce.i.ani t r wheat and dcur from foreign ouyers. f . < / received by tin* Treasury Departmeltt from Memphis. Tenn. General A. It. ltutllnKton, Chief of Ordnnnee of the Army, was placetl on /, ; the retired list. Puke P'Arcos. Spanish Minister. Iiltt * ^ farewell to the President before start- , lnsr on a long leave of absence. '' MftflSBfe ' Ambassador von llollehen nssnrefl President lloosevelt tlmt Clermany ho* no Intention whatever of nequlrimc sovereignty over any part of the Western Hemisphere. Members of the Jsfhntinn Canal Commission have signed their report, wh'eh favors the Nienrngnn route as preferable to the Panama canal. ?" orn aDoi'TF.a isi A>*ns. Tin* municipal authorities decided to enlarge the eliy of Manila, and to In-* ' eornorate within Its limits the subtit'b of Santa Ana. Cotunanv K. Ninth Tnited States Tnfantry. routed a foree of Sainar lsiaml rs who attacked them near TarHifi* nan. P. I. , The latest statement of the romtiifr of the Philippines showed that the PniN'd States does not furnish niore than eight per rent, of the imppfts of toe Philippine archipelago. ' \ , ' "* ,v ,sl DOMKSTIC. Aectised of seven ntttrtlors. Tack Sully. a noted Soutlt Unkotn sa^inw man. is under arrest at Sioux Cl*.v. Iown. lust as the transport Vloade was leaving San Franeiseo. Cr?h. for Ma niln. .Tames P. nice wn tJ arrested, charged with :i diamond/ robbery In Six Sintes were invited l\v Minnesota to Join in tlu> contest' against the Northern Hallway TrustNew Hampshire's far'"1* and iniplenn^'ils In 1000 were vnl?ed at SS5.4S2.ojP ; farm products, J2"4.b2b.bSS. A bead-on eollision -of freight trains at Hughes Siding, A*n., caused threo deatlis. An accidental explosion of dynamite at Charleston, W. killed two and injured three men. Postmaster 1?\ IT.' Wilson, of F5rooklyn. N. Y? lias resigned. For obtaining fraudulent naturalismtlou papers at KiAoxvllle. Iowa, John Itenvers and Joh/tl Stcubenraueh were titled $400 each. The National 11 range elected Aaron ..4> I. ll -.O no VT.?4U?1..1 1. ? uinirp, 01 1I1UU1I'*U? iiri ^"uuiiiii uui'lUJ Blaster. An English Syndicate paid ?S00,00<> for -JC.S'jr. ucres of eonl land, in Logan County, W. V4i. In ith seeouil test at Sandy Hook the ' Gnthuiann gi^n failed to fullil the predictions made for it. An exploring lamp sot lire to the steamer El ft u mere at (Jr^on Hay, Wis., burning it ?.? the water's edge. ' For bruvally killing Mrs. Louise ^^B Huddle, aii aged woman, of liurnl lie- ^ BP J treat, Va .. Henry Itatellffe, her son- I in low, w.us arrested. i Comintjbsloner (! neral l'owderly's M annual Report showed that more than B h: If a ''million aliens arrived in the fl I nited States ddriug the last year. ^B Oklahoma citizens will seek a Presidentin) pardon for men who kidnaped. and 1)runeil two Seininoie Indians at Monii'i, O. T.. in 1SDS. Jo ^H9| Shortage of water in Northern NIIk- J^mH souri alarmed railway and stoek raen. FOREIGN. fifty Chinese soldiers surprised if'i bandits close to PeUin, kil ed twelve ^B^fl oi uiem and captured sixteen. Tito flHBSj pi isoners were taken io l'ekln for d# B capitation. ' The German Colonial Council decided that while the emancipstlon ot the SB 'Children of slaves might be prae'dca- HflHB[ bla in Togo land and the Came;^an?, B B the time bad not "arrived to declare them free in German linst A frier,. Buys caMored fl B after attaeking patrol of ldd railroad pioneers on the Van I Bivcr, near Vil- ^HDH llersdorp, Soutl Africa. | The case of Uerr Sehlling, tlr? United States Consul at Zittnu, who was arrested by Inadvertence, wag UclC^HiflB^^^^n amicably, tlx* German Korean ()ihee expressing occur B The foreign eonituandetvt refuse to at Tien-Tsln to the authorities, the of miii-^^HH^BH j ^^hbbh| Wilhelmina's xva^^^fl^EBS^H the tine to co.t. disoosition. 'l ite vouns the orange obstinacy together a note mi nn(i-^HH|^HH^^H ^HQH Colombian Government tlie United States it ist < HHMH them HnnB i South Africa, the n u tlicy nipped in Ilowager ( the dignities on his ^flH^R^HH JH J