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FORT MILL TIMES.
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VOL. X. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH l<), 1!>02. NO. 52.
ARP ON MILLENNIUM
Bill Does Not Think Happy Time Near
At Hand
VERY SLOW WORK IN CONVERTING
If All tho World is to Come to Christ
Better Progress Will Have to lie
nadc By Us.
I believe the millennium craze 1ms
subsided for awhile. Within my recollection
it bobbed up three or four
times and excited Rood people all over
the country, for Rood people wish it to
come an 1 live in hope and expectation.
1 remember when William Miller, of
Massachusetts, had all New England
excited, for he was a very learned ipan
and a slncerer Christian and believed
all that l.e professed. For t> n years he
exhorted the people to be ready for the
coming of Christ in 1S-13 and even fixed
the day when they would see Him de- j
s ending from heaven in magnificent
glory and escorted by Moses and Elijah
and a retime of angels. He had over
50,000 devited converts and the night
before the promised day they arrayed
themselves in white raiment and sang
and shouted and prayed until morning
and then climbed the high hills and the
tree tops and the spires ( " the churches
to meet Hiia as He noarcd the earth.
Hut lie didei.t come and it nearly broke
their hearts and they liked to have perished
to death, for tin y had given away
all their earthly possessions.
Next came Dr. John ('uinmingsl a
very learned minister of Condon, who
wrote a book on it and fixed the millennial
year a 18011. We were lighting
over here about that time and the millennium
bad t<? be postponed. The mil
Ionium means 'he reign of Christ upon
Mm o'irfl) fnr ?% mion r> .1 ?r, ...l.
everybody will be good anil there shall
be no more death nor pain nor sorrow,
and there has not hern a century since
His crucifixion that the religious people
have not been looking for His coming, j
The Christians got their belief from |
the prophets of Daniel and from St. i
John and St. Peter and later on from 1
Irenaeus and Justin Martyr and they [
delighted themselves with dreams of
glory that was near at hand. Come of
them declared th>re would be no more
winters, no more nights and everlasting
wells would run with honey and
milk and wine. Jerusalem would be rebuilt
and the fruits of the earth would
be colossal and never dying. One notable
writer said that every grape vine
would have 10.000 branches and every
branch 10.000 shoots and every shoot
10,000 bunches and every bunch 10,000
grapes and every grape would make 25
gallons of wine. Good gracious! how
thirsty that fellow must have been. Hut
the millennium dldent eome and by and
by Origen. n very wise and good man.
came along in the third century and
declared that there would l>e no such
grapes, hut that Christ's coming would
he altogether spiritual.Still His coming
kept on being predicted and when the
reformation of Luther and Calvin came
about they said that the pope was the
anti-Christ and tho muionni..-,
near at hand. Next came Oliver Cromwell.
who excited his followers with a
prediction of the mlllenium?and so it
goes on and on and now it is about
tome for another just as soon as we
have done killing off the Phlllipines
nnd England has killed out all the
Boers.
Well, now all these ruminations
about the millennium were provoked
hy what I have been reading about the
recent discoveries of oil all over the
country. One thought brings on another
nnd if the coming of Christ is near at
hand and His reign is to be a spiritual j
one for a thousand years and there is
to be no winter or night or sickness or i
twin or sorrow we won't need all this t
oil. neither for fuel or light. And so 1 j
don't believe the millennium is very
near. If all the people are to be converted
and become good it will be a
long time ofT. for it is a slow process
and all the coal and oil that is in the
bowels of the earth will be needed. It 1
wasent put there for nothing. Missionary
work is going on more rapidly than
ever before, but it is like a drop in a
bucket of water. We have got 20.000
missionaries in heathen lands and they
are aided by RO.OOO native preachers
and teachers, but these 100,000 will
have to convert an average for each of
ten a year to make a million, and th*re
are over a thousand millions of heath
ens now and mom cominR on. Rut they
<lo not convert half a million a year
for the last report Rives only 4.000.000
all told. Last year we spent $20,000,000
on them and have now over 1.000.000
children Roinp to Christian schools and
have 23,000 churches and over 1.000 secondary
Schools besides medical c.olleRes
and tralninp schools and hospitals and
asylums for orphans and the blind and
the insane and the lepers. They have
cot almost evervthinR that we have
Rot and now have protection in Constantinople
and Pekln and Reirut and
other great heathen centers. The work
they have done in the last ten years is
amazing and the abduction of ivliss
Stone has increased their zeal. Thirty
million dollars has been promised for
this year and they say th'.t if we cannot
convert them we can at least civilize
thorn and teach them the doctrine
of a clean shirt and a comfortable
home, and these are tlie first lessons in
rcliRion. The last official report tells
us that more than half the pupils are
Rlrls. For centuries women and girls
have been under the ban and were of
no mom consequence in the household
than doRs or beasts of burden, but now
they are beinR lifted up and treated
with humanity and respect. If the wc rk
of our missionaries accomplished no
other good but the rescuing of woman
from the degredation of ages it is
worth ten times its cost. Cost! what is 1
the cost but the surplus of our wealth,
and that surplus is not ours, but God's
Libraries and colleges are good things
to build up and foster, but how much
do the millionaires give to the cause of
missions? Most of this charity we are
told came from those who are not
worth one-tenth of a million. It is a lamentable
fact that the more a man has
the more he wants and the less he gives
away in proportion to his wealth. The
parable of Dives and Lazarus was in- I
tended to alarm the rich and selfish. ;
but most of them say give me a little
more money and I will take the risk of j
losing heaven. Paul said to Timothy:
"Gain is not godliness, but godliness
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....... .wnniuuciii 13 circui K'Jin. tVO
brought nothing into this world, and
it is certain wc can carry nothing out
and they who would bo rich rail into
temptation and into foolish and heartfitl
lrsts that east men into perdition.
The love of money is the root of ail
evil." There is a sermon to live by, hut
it is hard to do. Somehow I can't help
wishing 1 had a little more than I ha\o
got? not for myself, but my wife would
like a carriage and horses and ride
around and take the grand children,
snd she would like to have some money j
of her own to give away and buy tittle
presents without asking me every now
and then for a dollar or two. She does
hate to do that, and 1 don't let her
when I have any to spare.?Bill Arp in
Atlanta Constitution.
Iowit ilpjt'itn Woman Sortnttc.
The woman suffrage amendment was
given its death blow by the Iowa l-*'g- .
islature when the House, by a vote of
fifty-six to thirty-si;:, adopted the re- i
port of the committee recommending it
for indefinite postponement.
5" Troopa Liberate 7. o Slaves.
Portuguese troops recently attacked
twelve strongholds of the slave traders.
near IVmlia Bay. Portuguese Hast
Africa, and after a prolonged and desperate
tight, drove out the traders uud
liberated TOO slaves
Wnlnrlcy Cors ti? Soutli Africa.
Field Marshal I.onl Wolseley, former
Conunnnder-in-chlcf of tlie British
Army, has sailed for South Africa. The
Britisli War Department otfieinls have
denied that his trip is anything but a
private visit, but gossip lias connected
It with the military situation. The belief
prevails in London that Lord
Wolseley goes either as a peace emissary
or. on account of liis knowledge
iif South Africa gained as a tighter and
administrator there, as an advisor to
tleneral K?tebener.
Von Hollebru to Stay at Wunhtnctoii.
It having heeurumored that a change
itithe German Ambassador at Wasliingh
u Is possible, the Berlin authorities
uiKu\u im'u <i tit'ixitii i?i iin* rt'puri inil i
1). vou llollebcn will he either l'urlouthed
or recalled.
ltniioluna Kill 200 lliimlltH.
A fight has occurred between Russian
troops and DUO 'funguses raiders
and bandits, north of Ilubnndsy, Manchuria.
Two hundred Tunguses were
killeci, including their leader. Two
Russians were wounded.
Koosevelt's Flrat Veto.
President Roosevelt has sent to Congress
his llrst veto message. It announced
his disapproval of a bill to i
remove the charge of desertion from
the record of John Class, who after
serving about a month as llrst class
boy <>u the United States ship Moose
during the Civil War, desefied.
l'each Prospocla In MnrylnnU.
Reports from all points on the Maryland
1 >eh ware peninsula show that tlie i
prospects for a big peach crop tile
?-omni" season are promising.
Din Whf?t Crop Promised.
Followit.g last year's record wheat
crop, the largest wheat acreage ever
sown there is now being plowed and
seeded in die wheat districts of Pastern
Washington and Oregon. Should
the season bo entirely favorable tintyear's
wliel.t crop will greatly exceed
that of last year.
More Kurtlnjuiiko SliockH nt Slimnnklin.
Severe earthquake shocks have recurred
at Shemakha, Trans-Caucasia.
About PJ.uou persons are still destl
tuto as a result of tiie previous dis
turbances.
RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
rr HERE are still a
few men who seat|
-A- tor alms and sound
^ ?v /TP'S f^\ their troumpets be\
/^_J forp them.
The hand of ofr
fleialdom cannot
/ _U *S^.| save the world.
The soundest
J$^3l N WcSi/ fruit will he on the
JWil \ \ 'Va tempest-torn tree.
1 " we Prayp(1 aa
u|nCs^--=- lone: as God would i
listen we would ,
' 1 ? never < ease.
The diamonds of truth are more
easily lost than the pebbles of error. |
It is not wise to sot the house on fire |
lo thaw the frozen water-pipes.
|
fireproof Cars. ?
If asbestos sheathing under the
floors of electric ears will secure
them against fire, let's have them.
Surely, if they can afford such things
In England we can pay for them here,
?Chicago News.
[HE STRIKE SETTLEMENT!
Mediation Favored by the Leaders ot
Boston's Labor Conflict.
INFLUENCE OF GOVERNOR CRANE
He I'reTBlled Upon tlie Strikers to Come
to Term*? About 40,000 Men, Directly
and Indirectly, Involved In tlie Strlko
?Teamster Who Shot Hoy la a Mob
Discharged In Court?llualness A fleeted
Boston, Mass.?Tlio representatives of
great mercantile bodies of the city, seconded
by the chief executives of the
city and State in conference "with the
recognized leaders of organized labor,
have endeavored to end the great i
6trlke of freight handlers and kindred
trades, represented in the Allied
Freight Transportation Council. About
40,000 men were directly or indirectly
involved in the strike.
Mediation was decided upon at a
conference in the office of Coventor
Crane. The decision was immediately
reported to the Allied Freight Transportation
Council at a special meeting
and unanimously indorsed.
The proposed sett lenient was the
outcome of an expressed determination
of Coventor Crane and those repre
seating tln? merchants of Iioston to
brine all possible pressure to bear upon
the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad Company to adopt the
rules in foree upon the Roston and
Maine Railroad, forbidding freight
handlers to unload teams except at
their own option and risk.
The 1 trine Transportation Company,
the loading and utiloadiiu; of whose
non-union teams precipitated the strike
of the New York. New Ilaven and
Ilartford freight handlers, did not
figure at all in the proposed settlement
of the present controversy, and as far
as that company Is concerned the sentiment
anailist it on the part of the labor
unions is as bitter as ever. Ui.der
the new arrangements, however, uni >n
men will not he required to load or unload
its teams.
It was found, however, that it was
one tiling for the Strikers' Committee
to declare the strike otT, hut quite another
thing to make the laboring men
believe that the matter had been settled
satisfactorily. The feeling that
they had been badly beaten was bitterly
emphasized when upon reporting
for work the men found that hardly
.seventy-live per cent, of the old men
could got their jobs back. This was
especially the case with the freight
iiiumii'i s, niTKS .inn Km^iiiii riuru. ?A i
the three big railroad yards an enormous
amount of freight was handled,
lmt on tlie docks practically nothing
was done.
As the day wore on things assumed
a bet tor look, and the longshoremen
voted to return to work. The freight
handlers formerly employed by the
New York, New Haven and Ilartford
and the Boston and Albany Roads
voted not to return to work unless
they were taken back in a body. The
wool handlers took similar action. The
Expressmen's Union voted to go back.
The freight handlers of the Eoston and
Maine Railroad voted to return, but
inasmuch as the company already had
a number of men at work in their
places, many of the old employes did
not succeed In regaining their former
positions. It is believed that eventually
they nil will regain their old positions.
The teamsters had little trouble lt>
getting their old places again and very
little grumbling was heard from that
quarter.
The first bloodshed of the strike occurred
when a Brine four-horse truck
was going 10 me iiosion :iMti .Maine
yards, in Cliarlestown. followed l?y a
crowd of loon. Nearing City Square
some boys threw stones at Driver (Jlaneey.
Glnucey whipped out a revolver
and fired point-blank into the crowd.
The bullet struck Patrick Keefe, eighteen
years old. in the fleshy part of the
arm. <Jlancey was arrested. Altogether
there was a much more vicious spirit
shown by the strikers and list lights
and stone throwing were a eommon
sight.
In court Judge P.rngg discharged
fllnncey, and said that people who participate
in mobs must abide by the
consequences. If a man is driven to
an extremity it is not rurprising if he
adopts the usual means of defense.
During the strike the attempt to
move freight of any kind was almost
fruitless. Tl'.o absence of coal deliveries
was ke: illy felt in many places,
especially by hotels, which depend on
daily deliveries.
Miners* Wbcc Sonic Mnlntninrst.
Philadelphia. Pa.?This notice has
boon posted in the collieries of the
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"Kates of \v;r,'ps now In offer-1 will bo
continued until April 1, 10O.'l, and thereafter
subject to sixty days' notice.
I*ocnl differences will bo adjusted as
borotoforo."
The rate of wages now paid to mine
workers in the anthracite region is the
Same as tliat granted them as the result
of the great strike in the fail of
1900. 1
Mr. AVi?I?Ii'm Title to Immortality.
Michael Walsh, the man who sold 1
the cow that kicked over Mrs. Leary's
lighted lamp and started the great Chicago
lire, died at Omaha, Neb.
Nino New snip. lor Itritisli Navy.
The Uritish Admiralty has contracted
for the eonstruetku of live firstclass
and two third-class cruisers and
two battleships.
CAPSIZED IN A SQUALL'
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S;eampr Providence Overturned on
the Mississippi River.
CRptnin and Twenty I'.-timengrrii nntl
Drrklinnilii Drowned-Sleeping When
(Stile Struck tlic ltout.
Vickslmrp, Miss.?Tlic steamer FrovJnlrintr
hi?fn*nnn *!.?.. 4 1
, ..vi.iivu (lull JIIMI
Lnko Pulmyrn, was overturned by n
sudden squall at lone Landing and
twenty-one of her passengers and crew
were drowned. Among the dead are
Captain William Cass id}*, master;
Charles Roup, chief engineer; Clyde
Seott, cottonseed buyer, all of Yicksburg.
and l>r. N. A. Lancaster, a
prominent physician, of l'almyra. Sever'teen
deckhands and roustabouts also
perished.
The ill-fated boat left here at noon
on her regular trip, carrying a large
miscellaneous cargo of freight and a
number of passengers. At - o'clock a.
in., just as the steamer was entering
Lalte Palmyra a sadden wind and
l*:i in slm-in r?r i......
eatne out of llio west. ei.teliing tlio
Providetiee broadside on. Tlio little
vessel was lifted almost entirely out
of the water, lies* upper works blown
away, ami tlio hull turned bottom tip
in forty feet of water.
Most of the crew and passengers
were asleep at the time and were
drowned like rats in a trap. Only nine
of the entire boat's company were
saved. The property loss will amount
to several thousand dollars.
Messrs. Casshly. Seott. Itoup and
Taineaster were all married men and
leave large families.
KAISER THANKS AMERICA.
Expresses Dirp lirntituclo For lii? Inception
of Ills
Washington, I>. C. The following
cablegrams hnvo been made public.:
"President of the I*u>toil Status of
Am .Tien, Washington:
"Now that my brother has left the
hospitable shores of the Foiled Stales,
homeward bound, I feel it a pleasing
duty to express to you how deeply
grateful I and the whole of the (Jer1111111
people are for the splendor of the
hospitality and the cordiality of the
reception which was accorded to
Prince Ilenry by all classes of the
American people.
"My outstretched hand lias been met
by you with a tirm, manly, and frieud!
ly grip. May Heaven bless our relations
with peace and good-will between
the two great nations. My best compliments
and wishes to Miss Alice.
"WII.I.IAM, I. It."
"Emperor William, Wilhelmshaven:
"Your brother's visit to this country
has accomplished much in showing
the depth of kindly feeling which ex
ists between the two nations. It has
been most fortunate in every way, and
I trust you will permit me to congratulate
you on the admirable manner in
which he lias home himself, lie lias
won the ?cntiim? ntul in?'iriv tvnni'iiiiv
and regard of nil with whom he lias
been brought iti contact. We have
welcomed him for his own sake, and
we welcomed liim still more heartily
as tlie representative of yourself and
of the mighty (lermnn people.
"1 thank you in the name of the
American people for what you have
done, and I thank you personally in
addition for the gracious form which
your courtesy took.
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
t CWNS TO BEAUMONT MURDERS.
Nejjro Woinnn Confemies That Slie |{<-ik1c&
ik (inns Tiuit Killed Several Men.
Beaumont, Texas.? Mattie Bennett
has confessed to Sheriff Landry tlint
she was the head of a gang of negro
women and white men who have for
months been luring men into her house,
drugging them, then knocking them
in tiie head and then robbing them.
If they died, they were dragged to
the river and thrown in. If they were
only stunned they Wire dragged out
of the house to a remote pari of :ome
street and left there for pedestrians or
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Thi' woman was arrested oil suspicion
t?l* lining connected with the
murder of l.cnjnmin Pearson, < tie of
the lirst murdered men whose bodies
hud been found in the river. Sin* dc'
nies that she was guilty of this crime,
hut admits that some of her gang
discussed killing the man. On the
strength of her cotifession a white
man. Punch Prim, and a negro woman
known as "Mary .lane" have been arrested
and are In jail.
,V fear is taking possession of the
town that perhaps a dozen men anions
i those who have eotne to P. aumont and
were afterward reported as missing,
have beeu murdered and tliat their
bodies are yet at the bottom of the
I river.
I JAMES WILCOX MUST ANSWER.
Charge* of Murder Math* Again*! Him For
flit* Death of Nellio Cropney.
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Jury of l'asquotank County found a
true hill against .lames Wilcox, the
.\oung man in jail here, charged with
billing his sweetheart, Miss Nellie
? Topsey, last November. The indictmeiu
charges that Wilcox wilfully
murdered the young woman.
Wilcox was arraigned ami enterell
a plea of not guilty. The court then
drew a special venire of Hot) jurors
so that tiie trial could begin. While
in court Wilcox was solemn and quiet.
The large tour room was crowded a?d
excitement was high.
AITGELD'S SUDDEN Ml
' Stricken at the Conclusion of a ProBoer
Speech.
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: HAD BEEN AILING FOR SOME TIME
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I
II in I.rint WorilN ii IMea For Help For the
| Iloer l'liiii 11ioh in th? Concentrntloti
I H Ih Kecortl its (lurrrnor of 111InoiH
niul in Xittinnal l'olttio?? He
l'liriloiieil tho Chicago AnniTliU!<i.
Jolict, 111.?.lust after finishing an
address at the Opera House in behalf
1 ,?f the Boer women and children in the
South African concentration camps,
I former Clover nor John 1*. Alt geltl was
, taken suddenly ill, and at T.ot) o'clock
a. in. he died, having been unconscious
| for several hours.
j Mr. Alt geld had come to .Toilet to
' fulfill bis i ngagemont as the principal
I speaker at the pro-Boer meeting arranged
by tli" Chicago branch of the
Transvaal League, lie had complained
j : 'C sonic stomach trouble on bis arrival.
but did not think of giving up his engagement.
It was noted during the
j nddress that he threw an unusual
! amount of energy and fooling into his
j words, and the collapse, the physicians
think, resulted l'rnni ovi rstininn his
already weakened physical powers.
; .lust :H tin' < lose of his spe ? h a sud,
lion dizziness seized him. and he was
assisted from the stanc. The mooting j
, proceeded. tin* audience not realizing
what had happened. Mr. All geld was
taken to the door of the theatre, where ,
he had several vomiting spells. This
continued for nearly an hour, and
was so pronounced he could not he
removed to the hotel.
I'hysiciaus were hastily summoned
and later Mr. Alifteld was carried
to the hotel across the street. lie retained
consciousness and urjred the
| newspaper men to keep the affair quiet '
I for fear of alarininy: ins wife. Shortly
j before midnijrht he became unconscious.
lit* remained in this condition until,
I at 3.41 a. m.. it was tlioinrlit ho hnd
died, but lie revived, and from (bat
time until shortly before the end he '
tdiowpd wonderful vitality, although
lie made no move. The cause of death
ts given as cerebral hemorrhages, there
having been an apoplectic seizure of
the brain.
Clarence Darrow, the Chicago law
partner of Mr. Altgeld. came to Joliet
iiml took charge of the body. The
body was embalmed and taken to Chicago.
Mrs. Altgeld, widow of the former
Coventor, was prostrated by the shock
of the news from Joliet. Crave apprehension
for her w Ifare is felt, as she
lias been in delicate health for two
years. Mr. Altgeld left no children.
John Peter Altgeld was born in (Jcrmany
in December. JS47, and was
brought to this country when an infant,
his parents settling near Mansticld.
Ohio. lie was educated in the public
schools, entered the Cnion Army as a
private at the age of sixteen and fought
ns sueli until the close of the war;
taught school and studied law in Mis- ,
souri. being admitted to the bar there j
In lS'i'J. lie was elected State's Attorney
of Andrew County In 1S74. an
ollice lie resigned in l.S7.r> and moved to
Chicago.
He was an unsuccessful candidate
for Congress from that city in 1SS4.
was made judge of the Superior Court
of Chicago in 1KX0. and was (Jovernor
Df Illinois in 1S;>"-P7. He rail as Independent
candidate for Mayor of Chicago
in 1N!?P, and was defeated. He
was the author of several hooks, among
them "Our I'enal Machinery and its
Victims" and "Live Questions."
Altgeld was a Democrat, but not
hound l?y parly ties. lie was a warm
supporter of Air. Bryan in l'.mO, and it
was said during tlie campaign tliat in
ase of Mr. Bryan"? elect ion Altgeld
was sure of a Cabinet position or a
place on tlie Tinted Slates Supreme
Court if a vacancy occurred 1 hereon.
His most notable act as (Jovernor.
and which fixed the attention of the
whole country, was his pardon of
Fielding, Schwab and Necbe. the Anarchists
whose sentence to death for
i.'ic 11:1 ymarsei square inunter <>i potlieemeu
liad been commuted l?v i!nvcrnor
(Iglrsby t<> imprisonment for life, j
Mr. A It geld was at one time very
wealthy, hut he lost most of his prop- ,
erty hy unfortunate investments.
BANK TELLER A DEFAULTER.
Granville IV. I.clglitnii, of 1'ortlnnil, l*r.,
ConTcHMrM h 043,000 Sliorfm;*'.
Portland, Me.?Urauville \V. Lcighton,
teller of tlie National Traders'
Hank of this city, is under arrest, a
self-confessed defaulter to the extent
of $ !!{,(itm. "'he h.ttik oliicials aunoutieed
that la* had made over to the
institution all his real estate and other J
property, and that this, with his bond, j
will make good tlio loss sustained by ,
tin* bank.
Tile deletion of the defalcation v.'r
through the discovery of an apparent
error in I.cig'nton's books. When
pressed for an exnlanat'on th teller
broke down anA - '.tie a complete con-1
j fesslon.
' He was immediately arrested. It is
' said that Lciglitoii's trouble is due to
an unsuccessful business venture.
Frclslitcr.1 strike Pi l'iintoii Sprrntlr.
Strike leaders in Huston determined
I1 to rail out all workers in the freight
transportation business in that eity.
About 30.U00 men are involved. Mayor
' Collins appealed to Senator llaiuia to
use his efforts to effect a settlement.
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INOR EVENTS OF THE WEER
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
The Civil Service Commission exasperated
Postmaster Roberts, of Brooklyn,
from charges of wilfully violating:
the Civil Service law.
Ambassador Tower forwarded to tbeState
Department an official statement
on the attitude of the Russian Government
during the Spanish-American
w-....
A Mil was reported by the Finance
Committee of the House, providing
radical chauges in the banking system.
I'henonteiial progress on flovernment
warships was reported from the Pai
ellie.
President Iloosevelt signed the bill
creating a perinanent Census Bureau.
President- Itoosevelt and Secretary
Hay expressed their inability to formulate
rules l'or the reception of Ambassadors
at official fiutetious given by
Congress.
The Navy will test a French tele- \
phone which dispenses with the use of
an ear receiver. 1
i n-Mir.'iu iuiii?.'vci( asxeii (iovrntor \
Dole to rotao to Washington to discuss.
on: AIXtPTKI) ! St.AN PS.
Advocates of Cuban reciprocity. at. y"v"^
\\*:isliinicton, declared tlu-y had turned
tlii- tide and would w u the light tor *1$
tariff concessions.
All tlip evidence tvas presented ami
the arguments closed in the postoflicer Jk,
fraud eases at Havana, Cuba. Ttn?
eottrt had six da\ > iu which to rcud??ia
decision.
DOJlllSTIf.
Prince II. try visit d Philadelphia
and en his return to New York City i ** *
gave a haii<|i; i on the Potitsehlatidl
and attend'd a gala performance at
the Irving Place Theatre.
Wanted for forgery in Ilorhester,.
N. Y.. .lana s I >. Campbell killed liiuiself
at a hotel in New York City.
After a single year of married life,
during whieh time poverty separated
liim from ltis girl bride. \Y. 15. (!ostlett?
aged twenty ynrs, at Iliehtnond. Yu.,
ended his life hy taking an overdose
of morphine.
Pisliop Spattlding, of the Protestant
Episcopal Chureh, of Denver, Col...
(lied at tlie home of his .-.on In Kr'e.
l'a.. of pueuiuouin, aged eighty-liveyears.
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(lovrnor Odell removed Sheriff fluIon,
of Kings County, X. Y.. from ofllce
und appointed Norman S. Dike.
Women of the liaggage Inspection
Reform Committee started a na.i.io?ut&
movement for organization.
I*. i>. fircone and .1. F. (laynor ru-loT
to appear for trial in Savanna It,
utnl their bonds of $10,000 e:ieh wcte
forfeited.
Seeretary Shaw paid his first visit to-.
Wall Street. 'Sw
An unknown negro murdered Johnr
Tinker, a farmer, at Hamilton's l'.ltdf.
Ma. r?*
Five men were drowned by lite upsetting
of a small boat in the Saerauieato
Itlver, ?'al.
The centennial of the incorporation
of Cineinnati. Ohio, was celebrated by
the mnuicipal authorities.
While trying to force sleep with chloroform
F>r. Richard Ferguson. Jr., fell v
forward into a saturated handkerchief W
at Columbia, S. and was suffocated. ?
Foe murder done last April Inikc jr
Sanders was banged tit Marion, Ala zh
y
The resignation of l?r. William fX
Lyman, President of the University of ^
Alabama, was tendered because of od I
Bgl'.
A .<1().00O.(mio flour combination, to
control the Oriental trade, was being
formed on the Pacific Const.
FORKIflN.
I.ord Itoscbory. in ti speech at fllasgow.
again denounced Homo Rule and
the <Jovennuent's lethargy.
Colombia n insurgents near Rarauquillii
i'ti|?tured a steamer and several prominent
(lovcrnmcnt ollieiitls.
Serious antagonism developed between
the lbitish and Hermans ici
China ovt r tlie proposition to return
iiic pivi'i'iiniem < i t icn i sm to tin.Cltiucse,
tin* Germans opposing it.
The first Colouiitl exhibition Avast
opened in London; i: consisted largely
of Canadian exhibits lrom the recent
Clasgow lair.
'J'lie Pope received in audience
Bignor Sliarretli and urged upon Itiru
(lie advisability <>i working with the
Americans in the Philippines'.
Tlie cancellation of King Edward's
visit to Ireland was believed to tiicati
that many arrests for political oflettac^
will lie made.
A great fire occurred at I he Goveru
Dicnt nrs nal at Loricnt, France. I>oeuincnts,
plans ami reports of great importance
were destroyed.
Shun appointed a eonimission to bo
present at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
A river steamer plying on tLo
Canton Klver ran down a native passenger
boat and lot J persons were
drowned.
Ainericaii activity in extending banking
facilities in Mexico was attracting
attention in that lountry.
The American legation at Constantinople
presented a second note to the
Porte pointing out Turkey's responsibility
for 1114* capture of Miss Stono ? v.
by brigands.
Mr. Choate, United States Ambassador
tit London, received a deputation
seeking the aid of the United UteX-aa
Government against the piracy of cessideal
public*lions.
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