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VOL. XI.
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IT was just before the Christinas of
lSob i)i;11 four little Alabama trirl^
I were as busy as four little girls?
l.ilv Langhorne. Lucy Waller. Mattie
Ilurwooil and I.izzie Klla Manning
?could bo. They were to have a dolls*
party on the Monday after Christmas,
ami they could talk of nothing else.
Hal Stanley discovered that the girls
had a project on hand. The whispering
behind desk lids and around the
stove, and the long conferences during:
recess, (old the secret, although the
strictest silence about their plans was
maintained in the presence of the boys.
Lily often let slip an unguarded remark
about the coining festivity, and
then clapped her hands over her
inou'.h if -dm saw Hal Stanley near,
for i.*::vie Klla had said ovei and over
again. "Whatever you do, Lily Langlion
u . <1. n't you tell Hal Stanley. I
don't want him to know one word
allot.i it until it is all over'.""
"1 s;;\ s>>. too!" exclaimed MatHo
Harwoed. "Why, aren't yor, going to
let him come to the partyV" asked Lily,
hi a pa thet ':< voice.
"I.e. i ;u come!" said Lizzie Klla.
"I'm a nished at yon. Lily Langliorne.
i n't you know lial Stanley
well enough io know we don't want
lihn at c.u: party'.' \V!::?i are yott ihinklnjr
about"
"I thought maybe you'd lot hint
conic, after we had finished lixin' our
things'.-" said Idly.
"Well, you thought wron.tr he shan't
coine any time if 1 have anything to
do with it." asserted Lizzie Kiln.
"lie lets tue ride on his pony sometimes.
and leads hint all around the
front yard." said Idly, meekly.
"Y< s. and pitteb.es you when he takes
you olT the pony, doesn't lie':" retorted
l.i/.zie Klla.
"lie don't pinch me hard." Insisted
Idly.
"Well. Lily I.nnghortie. you are a
strange girl. I deelaro. 1 should think
you wouldn't want li'.m tit the party."
Answered Lizzie Klla, with a toss of
lier head.
"Oh. 1 don't want liitu. if you don't,
Lizzie Klht. Only he said he was
eoinin' anyhow." said Idly.
"Very well." said Lizzie Klla. still
provoked, "none of the hoys shall eonie
if ll.il Stnn'ey Is to come. If he comes
I shall not conic, and tny sister shall
not make the dolls' dresses, and I
won't lav my hand to a thing. 1 did
thin!- we could have some hoys and
have a dance, hut we'll have girls
enough lo make a set."
"It would he nlee to have some
bovs." said Mattie lint-wood. "Kd.
Waller can dance."
"Well, we cjin't have them. My
mother says we cannot invite tlie other
hoys ami not invite Hal Stanley, ami 1
- will not have?Hal Stanley at our
dolls' party. Now, you've trot it." said
Lizzie I'.l^i defiantly, ns site walked
away from the group of girls.
And s" it >vas settled that the dolls*
party should he enjoyed without the
presente of hoys, and the preparations
for the event began. The Saturday
hefere the eventful Monday the tattle
was already decorated with frosted
cakes ami fruits ami ramli-s. The
dolls in ail tit finery were in their
seats.
The table was beautiful. The bright
colored caudles and the gay dresses of
the dolls shone among bouquets and
garlands ami bowers. Kwrything had
been arranged 10 perfection, and the
dote of the v .1 in was closed. After
tin dance the girls were to enter the
room and stand around the table belli
ml the dolls. Kneh girl was to have
a mutch. and at a given signal each
was {?? liirht :l'c thrcc candles"in front
of the doll behind which she stood.
They had practiced the inarching and
standing until they could do it without
n mistake. All were to light the candles
at ouec, so that an illumination
should hurst over the talde like a Hash.
.By -l o'clock Monday afternoon the
girls had arrived in full dross. They
talked and played games, and every-)
thing was delightful. The moment arrived
when the procession was to
march to the table where the fine foreign
ladies in national costumes awaited
them. The music on the piano
struck up and the girls started. On
they went, keeping step to the march
until they reached the table and each
girl stood in her place. Not a mistake
had been made; the girls were radiant
with happiness. The signal was given
and smith nly the table was a blaze of
light. 1 lie pyramid of snowy enkes
and the sparkling candles end hrll'lant
fruits and rlny bowers and wreaths
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grzifeuss: COG lie
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made a fairy scene. A burst of ad- j
. miration went round the table. "Oh! ;
oh! oh! o'.i!" sounded from one to an- \
j other. They were too delighted to
1 speak, when suddenly a scream |
| brought everybody ha tit from fairy j
| land. It was Idly Lunghorne. "The ,
dolls! Oh. the dolls! where are the
dolls? Oh! oh! oh!"
i Then every girl asked the sain- qties*
tlou. except Lizzie 1311a, who shrieked,
' Who did It? who did it?"
And where were the dolls? There in
lite chair of each one sat a dirty rag
doll with a black face and a woolly !
head, wearing a red ealieo turban in- !
stcad of a wreath of roses.
"It's llal Stanley, hateful Hal Stan,
ley!" screamed Lizzie Kiln.
"Hal Stanley!" oelioed all the girls.
"We'll never speak to him again!"
During the excitement a servant j
opened a closet door in a corner of tin* I
room.
"i.ook nyaii, Misiis," called she to
Mrs. Langhornc, "hyah's do dolls. For
;rnslius sake, jos look!"
And sure enough there hung tho
dolls. The Parisian lady. with hor
hands tied behind lior hark, was hanging
from a peg; tho Spanish lady was
dangling hy hor foot; I ho Switzerland
lady was tiod and gagged so that sho
oottld not speak olio word: and. tho ladies
of ltussia and Holland, Iicumark j
and Sweden and Prussia wore hanging
in disgrace.
Mrs. Langhorne's scissors cut the |
gallows, and she handed to each girl
her treasure. Tho line spangles and
laces had suffered from tho execution,
hut the lady dolls were soon placed at
the table and the rag dolls were
thrown aside with contempt.
"Your dolls are not dead if they have
been hanged," said Mrs. I.anghorne.
"They arc us much alive as they ever
; were."
Sunshine followed the storm, and tlie
' girls did enjoy the remainder of the
evening. Nobody ever discovered who
lntngcd the dolls.?The Household.
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RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
rr HE true light geta
JVjT'' 1 'U cro()kvd
Gems are but
I /ly< Vyxjejf lobbies without tlie
A God ' withholds
'*,e ^ovver ,0 glve
1 faithful'
\\v T A vorker does nor
I fe<s--" * 1 aI^s ^ear the footsteps
,r, if the Master.
Humility is the
^ * ? * 'rclude to honor.
1 toasting is only begging for praise.
If I do my best He will do tho rest.
High pressure in society is not t.i t?f.
with low pressure i:i piety,
t Our sains depend not on what we |
can get but on what we can ? hc.
He who has no secret power with
God will have 110 public power with
man.
The plant of piety will not live by
being stuck in the soil of prayer about
once a \v<_ek.
The life wholly spent in the closet is
' as useless as the life without the closet
is powerless.
The religion that is put on is rosily
: put oft".
| Each man thinks his match as hit;
as the other man's torch.
God's pormises are His bonds for the
execution of our nravers.
j The search for singularity oft involves
the sacrifice of sincerity.
1 Civilization is not evangelization.
Faith is the fire of all true genius. ;
Men need scft hearts In hard times.
Mammon is the mother of misery.
That half the world are fools is only :
the opinion of the other hulf.
There is a good deal of difference j
between punishment and chastisement, j
When the roots of life reach the riv- j
er of God its fruits will be rich with
His glory.
New England Fi6h Harvest.
The total harvest of sea fish sold at !
Gloucester and Boston, which are the
i principal markets, during the past
! year, officially reported, amounted to
j 1(12.218,921 pounds, worth $4,385,102. [
! of which the Newfoundland banks pro- '
j duced more than 65.000,000 pounds,
I while the grounds off the New Eng- i
land coast yielded nearly 97,000,000 ;
pounds.
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FUNDSIOGURBTHETRUSTS
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The House Unexpectedly Votes $590,- !
000 to Enlorce the Law.
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THE LEGISLATIVE BILI AMENDED
Not a Mfmli'r or Flthor Putty Itn'up. nti j
Objection mill tlu> Attomey-tlnicral i*
Expected to Push Prosecution*?S I "ft,.
817,000 Appropriuted For Pensions?A
Flare For Alj-or on :? Smiulr Committee
Washington. I>. C.?Charles T-. UartInt.
a (leurgia Democrat. during eon- '
sideration of the Legislative Appropriation
hill in the House, expressly
and without warning, sprang an amendment
for the sunt of ."?7.~?0,000 to en- |
foree the anti-Tinst law and 1 <? direet (
the Attorney-tleneral to proeoed to the
i muni <>i ;mi violators or tiic law. i
Although such a proposition was
plainly amenable to a point of order,
not a member on either side of the
House raised objection. ltotli sides
wheeled into line and all agreed that 1
some such action was advisable. Some i
of the Republicans, however, raised :
objection to tln? looseness of the bin- j
g tinge of the amendment, and Mr. Hep- j
burn tlowai offered as a substitute for i
it tlie language of the liill he intro- j
duced on the opening day of the ses- !
sion to appropriate .SoOo.ooit for the en- j
forcemeat of the law. The Hepburn i
amendment was adopted. It reads as |
follows:
"That for the enforcement of the pro- j
visions of the act of .Inly "J. 1S!H>. the >
sum of ?."?0().00!t is hereby appropriated
oiti of any money in the Treasury not
heretofore appropriated, to be expend
ed under .the direction of the AttorneytJencrnl
in the employment of special
counsel and agents of the Department
of .Tussice to conduct procci dings, suits
and prosecutions under said act in the
will i> ill nip I llillll Milll's; provided. [
tli.it no person shall bp prosecuted or !
l?e subjected to any penally or for "eiture
for or on account of any transnc 1
tion. matter or thing rone mint; which |
lie may testify or proiluee evidrn. c. |
iloenmentary or otherwise, in any pro
eoeding. suit or prosecution Utitler said j
acts, Provided, furtlier. thai no per- i
son so testifying shall lip p\ nip, fiann i
proseentien or pnnishmriu for perjury
committed in so testifying. This ap- I
propriation shall be immediatolv avail- |
alile."
The liiil to prohibit military and natal
bands from competing with civilian
hands was defeated for a third muling
?:tn to 4."..
The Senate passed the I'ension A'?.
propriation bill without di-euss'oti. It
carries An urg : tit ?!?-tioieney
liiil also was passed. Tinamount
carried by this bill is $1.1 la. too ]
and includes an ilem to stamp out lite
foot and mouth disease, which lias become
epidemic In the New England
States.
Mr. Harrows f.Mich.l tendered his resignation
as a member of the Committee
on Military Affairs in order that bis
colleague. Kussoll A. Alger, might he
appointed to Cue vacancy, which was
done.
THE VENEZUELAN SITUATION.
A llrpnrl That Arbitration ITnrt Horn l>prldcil
On.
A report from Caracas said that nr. |
Miration inui neon tieeideil on in the I
dispute between Venezuela and Eng
land and tlermany.
T!u? loading eitizons of Caracas addressed
a joint note to President Castro
recommending that Venezuela yield
to superior force and that full powers
he given to Cnited States Minister
Howen to effect a termination of the
difficulty with Croat Britain and tier- j
many.
The blockade of I.a Cttayra by war- j
ships of *he allies went into effect. The ;
order applies enly to Venezuelan ships. |
In the 1 loose of Commons Prime j
Minister Halfour said that a state of I
war existed hetw i 11 (Ircat P.ritain and
Venezuela, and there could lie no such
thing as a "paeilie blockade."
The Herman foreign Offieo denied
that Herman" contemplated seizing
Margarita Island or oeettpying any
Venezuelan territory whatever.
PASSED AS A MAN FOR 20 YEARS
Wonisiii WIiofc Se* W#? Dlnrovcrol Snyn
she man Voted Fop Seven Year*.
Buffalo, N. V.?The District At tor
ney's etliee will investigate the ease of
Harry Xnrmau. the woman who passed
as a man for twenty years, and whose
sex was not dis. -nverd until she broke
her leg. At the hospital the woman
boasted that she had voted In the
Third Ward for seven years and had
been a hustler at the polls for Alderman
Butler.
>'iw >i:<- w ill KO DOCK TO IIOV
llsguise when she is released unless tlie
police prevent it. and that she is going
ir? give a heating to the surgeons at
the Emergency Hospital who exposed
her masquerade.
BLIND CORN POOL BROKEN.
Broker* Mn*|>?<ii<l Through Inability to
Murgln thn l>rcriuli(r Ileal.
Chicago, III.?W. W. McCleary & Co.,
a Board of Trade tlrni, representing
the St. Louis "Blind Pool,'* which atteiupted
to corner December corn, have
suspended.
Notice to close out all trades for their
account was posted in the Board at the
close of the day's business.
A drop of over live cents following
decline, called l'or more margins than
the pool could produce, and their holdings
were thrown on t lie market. The
original line of the pool is estimated to
have been between 5,000,000 and 10,OCO.OUt)
of bushels.
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SSDAY, DECEMBER 2
MAN INAMURDER FRENZY
r'aniaoRuns Amuck at Lapere. Mich.,
With Frightful Results.
lie r:stu a i;<aril r, YVouiuIk III* Motlior j
11 it?* - * I rr, un?l Tlicn Commits SuicuU<?Haul
ltfcn in mi AhvIuiii.
T.an? ;t. Jolni Hi st. twenty-!
< i^li' year* olil. :i mail <?l" disordered j
u'. imi. r:m a;;uii*u liirough the house.
I.. iT3!.laspa: Clegg. a boarder, dangernusly
wounding his own mot tier,
wouu ting bis s:-1and Finishing by
shooting himself dead
Rest was commith d to the in>=:?in% ;
asylum about a year ago. and six |
ii'oiwbs later was discharged as cnreil.
He lii si att.irked Clegg with a razor,
ne.t'ly severing: the head.
The iiiurdi rer then evidently returned
to bis own room and went to
bed. latter he arose and went to bis
mother's retail. He struck Mrs. Host
with the damag d razor. Her el?In was
nearly out olT. She sprung out of bed,
grappled with the erazed man and
made her way to the door and ran to a
neighbor's, where she telephoned for
the Sheriff.
When his mother tied from the house
Rest went to Ids sister's sleeping room,
slashed bar across the cheek, but desisted.
probably believing that he bad
killed her.
When Rest beard Sheriff livers entering
the house he appeared with a
revolver and began shooting wildly, j
lie aimed the hist shot at his own :
h ul Jtnd fell dead.
BANK R0B3"RS FNTRAPPED.
Our Klllrit, Our Mnrtith Injured ittul n |
TUIrtl C:ipt 11 rod.
Alvord. Tex.a Three men started
from Cliieo to roll the hank here, but j
tic Sheriff of Wise County heard of
II . idill. . ..o '
.... .....i - in iii-|i nu-> n' auarii 11!??
I emit.
Tin. otlirors woro seorefoil in the
bnihlin:* wl:. n tho wonld-lio voldiors
est. roil. A fusilhulr fnllnwod tlio do
i.i?ii.I for titonoy. <'Inn?1 * iSoldon. ono
i.;' (Iio handifs. who has oftoii lii'on nrrosioil.
v iir; !i rod wlion lie saw i lei t
ho iraino w.is up. John MoFall stnrto.l i
to siirriv.dor. hni was too slow, and n
Imllol wounded him so luiil'.v that ho
will dio.
Tho third to::n. who had horn loft to
hold thoir horses. wi killod hoforo ho i
ootihl s?ot away. His natno was Frank !
Martin. A trusted friond of tho trio j
bctrayod tlhir plans.
NEW WHIT ? HOUSE PAINTINC.
\V:itlH*? " I.nvi1 unit l.li;lit " llunc in 111*
iixecultvo Mansion.
Washington. I>. ? Sir Frotloriol; I
Watt's paint hue. ontitled "l.ovo and
I.ght." whioh ho exhibited at tho t'hi- !
casto H vltihit ion. and whiolt was nit-j
mot oifully oritieised tlion on moral
grounds, litis boon hung in tho White ;
1 tons'... Sir Froderiek at tho oloso of
tho Fhioago Fair gave tho painting to j
"Tho Ainorioan people."
It was tleolded to send the picture to |
tiio TTosidont of tho Fnited Statos. and
n \v;is placed In the Corcoran tSallery
by President Cleveland. \vln? did not
know what to do with it. In the gallery
it has been admired by thousands
of visitors from all parts of the country.
It now hangs in one of the pri- j
vale rooms of the Executive Mansion. I
A Slate Ktectrlcnl Lnhnriitory.
An imporlant meeting of the New i
York State Electrical Laboratory Com- \
mission was held at Schcnectmlv.
There were present Stale Knglneer
Roiul. Harold W. Ruck, ot' Niagara
Falls: I*. Ktoinmetz. of Schenectady,
and State Architect 1 linos. .Plans already
submitted to the commission
were approved, and Messrs. Ruck and
Stelimiet/. reported on the amount of '
ypnce needed for the electrical apparatus.
The cost of the proposed buildings
and e<iuipnient will be between
SlTio.con and s::nn.un<>. The buildings
alone will cost in the neighborhood
of 9100,000.
Iron Trade Condition* Qnlotsr*
Iron trade conditions are quieter ex-i
er j.t in rails, plates and structural material.
in which production for half of ;
J Pi*:: is already sold, and for which ad- j
ditional orders of fair volume have I
been booked during the week. The 1
price tendency in some directions is1
slightly downward, as the high e ?sr ,
has heguu to cause a holding hack of
contemplated consumptive enterprises, j
Ttcilni Mercedes nw Training slii|?An
order lias hcon issued at the j
Navy Department. Washington, that 1
in i.Miin-i ?->|>;iiiisii cruiser i'.ciIKI .Mel-- |
cedes, now at Portsmouth. N. II.. be
fitted out as a training ship.
Cut When Heftire JLootlnq; ttank.
Tlie hank at Clare nee. 111., was entered
by burglars and robbed of more
than $3T?00. The robbers eut telephone
and telegraph wires so that surrounding
towns might not lie not Hied.
Another Million From Itockofollcr.
Another contribution of $1,000,000
from John I). Rockefeller to the University
of Chicago has been announced
at the university convocation in Chicago.
4301 Student* Enrolled at Harvard.
This yenr's Harvard catalogue shows
a total of 4201 students in the university,
120 more than a year ago. and the
largest number in any American institution
of learning.
Fire Itavnge* a Nova Scotia Town.
Practically the entire town of Liverpool,
N. S., has been burned. Several
churches and business blocks, the
Hotel Thorudyke and several dwellings
were destroyed.
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!4, 11)02.
ALLIES AG REE TO ARBITRATE
Favorable Replies to President Castro's
Proposal Received.
BUT THEY WANT GUARANTEES
(itirimnr Iio.i?t? Vpoti nn Apology Kro-n
Vfiirzufln?The 1'nltcil States Will Not
l'ccomo j> (Inaraittoi- I'or tin* UppubHc
? MinUtpr llnven t<> Art a* a lVacemaucr?
A I'locUa.lp Drrlnii'il.
Washington, 1>. <\ Iler-ponses liavp
We:i rei eiveil from IVrlitt :ui<l London
to the propositi of President Pastro,
made through United Stotes Minister
llowi'it, to stvhUrnte tin* difl'oivnces
with Venezuela.
Secretary Hay has received partial
responses from t In* governments of
( rent Hritaiti, (lermany and Italy respecting
the proposal to arbitrate the
Venezuelan dltlleulties. Hreat llritain
is favorable to arbitration \yith proper
safeguards; Hertnnny accepts :?rl?itr:ition
in principle, hut funis a multitude
of small adjustments to he made hefore
entering into the agreement; Italy,
as the junior partner of the allies, declares
that she is favorable to arbitration,
hut will probably he hound by the
action of the senior partners.
To secure these results the American
embassies at I.nndon. Berlin and Koine
have been working energtically in carrying
out the instructions of Secretary
Hay to ascertain how the proposal
would be received. So far as England
is concerned, the safeguards referred
to are believed to relate to the question
of guarantees, which Is full of
dittlculticK.
The Herman position presents the j
greatest ditlieulties. for not only does j
it involve a demand for apologies. i
which are extremely repugnant to Yen- |
czuclnns. but also presents so many |
points requiring adjustment that it is
evident that many days, or perhaps ;
weeks, must elapse before the adjust- '
tuent can lie effected and the ease pre |
pared for arbitration. And the dangei
of delay in the face of a blockade
which seriously cripples neutral commerce
and invites hostile collisions
with the Venezuelans cannot lie overestimated.
The efforts of the I'nited
States, therefore. must bo directed toward
hastening Germany's art Ion on
the arbitration proposal.
Tito Italian position is, of course, of
less concern than that of tlio ??tlior alios
The Italian Ambassador here
tas been extremely moderate ami considerate.
giving Secretary Hay the ini ;
tression that lie is disposed to second [
my eiTort of tlte 1'nitcd States to tor- ,
ruinate the present dangerous situa- !
lion.
Secretary Hay laitl before the Cabinet
meeting lite latest phases of lite j
Venezuelan situation as shown by the
orrespondenee lie has had with ambassadors
and the Foreign Offices at
London. Berlin and Home, and also acquainted
the members with the substance
of the verbal exchanges wliieli
tad taken place with the ambassadors
Tom those capitals in Washington.
After a thorough dismission of tlte
question the Cabinet gave its unqiialilled
approval to everything done by
Secretary Hay and to his plans for the
future so far as they were outlined.
Mr. Boweti. tlte United States Minister
at Caracas! was clothed by Frcslileitt
Castro of Venezuela with full
power to effect a settlement wltiti
Great Britain. Germany and Italy.
The allies gave notice of a war bloekido
of the ports of La Gtinynt, Porto
hollo. Corn. Maiaeaibo, Carupan and !
Barcelona.
It is announced that the United '
States will not guarantee payment of
laiins by Venezuela.
A scini-oMieial annoniieenient now
places the Italian claims against Venezuela
at $2,000,000.
WORTH S 100,000, BUT BECCED.
riotfilnir of Sinn Who IMimI ii CliHrity
t'atii-ut Contained Weal III.
Toronto, (tut. Kli Ilyntan. who
begged for admission to the General
Hospital here a few davs ago, is dead.
V n : ? i.t ' ? - >
11. <ii hi* emitting roswicd
in finding in an old handkerchief
scrip worth In the lining n
his pocket oilier scrip lo the value ?>)'
?1-1.(Win was revealed. Oilier pnpe
showed Ilynian's income from i
Block and other transactions to ha
heen Mill ihe last year. In all tin
late, it is expected, will ajjcrreci
$100,000.
For twenty years ITyinati had
ill sheds and stithies. |Jp sold 1 .*
and l.edited money and food. !' ' as i
a wife and a daughter, who live, it is i
thought, in San Francisco.
40C.0C0 FINS ARE STARVINC.
Torr?V.1r Ifootltution I'nllnwi tlio I uilurn !
of 1t?o Crops.
Sr. Petersburg. Ilussin.? Four hundred
thousand persons arc reported to
he destitute anil starving as a result of
tlie crop failure in Finland.
The Anglo-American Church here
lias undertaken to feed ami clot lie the
school children of four Finnish parishes,
and Pastor Francis has Issued
an appeal for assistance in this work.
Pastor Francis say the conditions today
are worse than those of 1SG7, when
100,<X)0 persons died.
A nlr|h?l?y Present of -1ISO Pennies.
Squire Herbert celebrated ids eightieth
birthday at Hiawatha. Kan., and
received from llfty-six relatives eighty
pennies each. There were coppers
enough to fill a coal basket. To lie certain
of tlie amount, Mr. Ht rhc-t counted
them, consuming four hours in tlie
work. He found t'je total to he 41 SO.
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NO. 40.
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WASHINGTON ITEMS.
The Interstate Commerce Oomnils*
Finn hoard areunionts by railroad managers
iu support of increases in freight
rates.
Ueprosenlativo U. f. Rlnekbnrn. of
North Carolina, was married in Washington.
to Miss Louise I.evaun Parker.
The President and Mrs. ltoosevelt
gave a state dinner at lite While House
in honor of the Cabinet.
The Navy l>epartnu?nl approved Admiral
Deivy's orders for the disposition
of his lloet. so as to avoid an undue
concentration of warships off the
Venezuelan ooast.
The House passed lulls providing for
Hie erection of a union railroad station
to cost !?t.uiui.uoii in Washington, an'l
appropriating IG.OOO to light the cattle
disease in New England.
The American Institute of Architects,
in session at Washington, re-elected its
officers and adjourned.
Navy officers and administration officials
look upon the Venezuelan situation
as showing the need of a larger
United States Navy.
Secretary Hoot made an argument
for lits general stall' plan before the
House Committee on Military Affairs.
Argument on the so-called lottery
cases, the decision in which may havo
an important bcarinsr on iii.> < ?
question, wns begun in the United
States Supreme Court.
OITIt ADOl'TKD ISLANDS.
Tlie Hawaiian voleano. which was
active recently, seemed to have completely
subsided.
The industrial condition of Porto
liieo was never better.
A relentless warfare is being waged
against lndrouism in the Philippines.
Coventor Taft received the Coventors
of three-fourths of the provinces who
visited Manila to study the census system.
lie demanded the immediate suppression
of ludronism.
DOMESTIC.
Highly eoal barge.-: at Cincinnati,
Ohio, were swept from their moorings
and most of them sunk.
Tile bank at Clarence. Hi., was entered
and $.">000 taken by burglars.
llosen M. Knowlton. a former Attorney-Ceneral
of Massachusetts, who
was stricken with apoplexy recently
at his summer home at Marion, Mass.,
Is dead.
The postofliees at Coleman, Kcstler
and Dowuy, (la., were destroyed by
lire.
Senn Hall, the new building for the
medical department, of Chicago University,
was dedicated.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals
granted .Tauies Howard a new trial.
Howard is under scnu nee of life Imprisonment
for the Coehel murder.
The United State-; ?t?>?i ?<?
?- ?? * a }IU1?111UU
Announced tin* purchase of the Union
and Sharon plants, involving n bond
issue of $40,000,000.
Suit was begun in Trenton. N. J.,
against the Asphalt Trust for a sale of
its property and securities, the proceeds
to apply to the payment of Its gold
certificates and the defaulted interest
thereon, amounting all told to more
than $:i2,ooo,oti(i.
The cabinet of the exposition at St.
Louis, Mo. was completed by the appointment
of William i. ltuchaunu as
Director of Kxplo 'ation.
The Kev. S. A. Archer, a Baptist minister,
was killed at Decatur, Ala., by
t'asey Ilolhird, in a quarrel over a load
of wood.
flermau societies in New York City
nre trying to obtain a National pension
of $21)00 a year for Mrs. Kllsc Slgel,
widow of .Major-Ccnernl Franz Sigel.
A largo the in the Sewall Block, in
Boston. Mass., was disastrously aided
by the snow, which impeded the lirelnen
its their work.
Catile in New York State are still
free of the hoof and mouth disease.
lit avy r tins in the Mississippi Valley
caused many streams to overflow their
l a\with much damage to railroad
;.iu| oilier property.
\Vv York hank* rs formed a pool
, , sr.*i.initi.iii 10 to props i Wall Street
i . . in ii mini'., M nii^ciicy.
l!??i Wc.iji'i.i!. charged with rob1
11liis ;nitr i (| employer, < I
1 I ".vli. iij Xi'w York City, was dis?
ii : ,*< ?l from cm-tody.
\r.ny engineers are planning new
fuiiiii alinii- l'or New York iiarlior.
n :i "t-^sa-y Ity the improvement of
A morose ' 'lianii'.'l.
t'OR KKiN.
Russia is pro iiin; China 1o assent
t'> i establishment of customs ant!
I < .11 services under Russian superv!: ;??
f a: the principal stations of the
Main huriiiu Railroad,
t.'iffli A ho a intra neteil ;i? cnilinfttlmp
at the christening of the infant, son of
l!io Diikp ami Duchess of Manchester
at the Chapel Itciyal, St. James, London.
The Madrid Ifcrnldo said that Don ,
Carlos purposes to retn?uuee his claim
to the Spanish throne in favor of ids
son, Don Jaime.
The Herman Dundesrnth approved
the tariff hill in the form in which it
passed its tliitd reading in the ReichStag.
tleneral Xord. having been proclaimed
'resident of Haiti by the
Army. too!, possession of the National
palace. .
r.'eueh authorities dropped the case
against M. Jean de Kydzevvskl, a friend
of Mrs. Kllen <'ore, being convinced
that her death w?m