The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 17, 1898, Image 2
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LOUIS J. BUISTOW,
F.ditor and Proprietor.
Russia has the most rapidly increasing
population of any country iu the
world. The growth during the last
hundred years has been a fraction le3s
than 1,000,000 annually.
Murder seems to be decreasing in
France, simply from the fact that it is
not a paying industry. Statistics from
Paris show that for twenty-one mur
ucio till; |ai[:v.uaiuxo vun
H $16 ea^ '
impression that women
is
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lifty the
place.
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after a
cured, by
played on an instrument
the approach and first or
slumber.
Rev. Charles A. Berry reports
his British friends that daring his
f^Recent visit to this' country he was
M most impressed by the frank, manly,
; reverent speech of American Christians
when discussing divine things,
their zeal for their own 2)articnlav
. church, minister, and denomination,
and the thorough efficiency of their
Sunday-school work. He is reported
to have said that, on the whole, it
was well that the Olney-Pauncefote
arbitration treaty failed, for it would I
not have been popular or had the
support of the masses. He believed
it better to wait for public sentiment
to gather force, so that it will resolutely
back r.p any treaty constructed
- - i*? aitpilajj, lines.
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Corn flour used in adulterating wheat
flonr is made like wheat flour, explains
Farm News. The corn is crushed between
rolls, and the flour is dusted
oat as the meal runs over a bolt. This
meal is crashed aud rebolted several
times,until nearly all the starchy part
of the grain is iJ the form of fine
flour. This corn flour is mixed with
and sold as wheat flour. Considering
that corn costs the miller about
one-fourth as much as wheat, there is
a wide margin of profit in mixing the
flours. H<Jw much mixed flour is now
put on the market is not known, but
' ttie evil has grown to magnificent proportions.
This matter recently came
up before the National Board of Trade,
at the meeting in Washington', in the
form of a resolution, urging Congress
to impose a tax upon the manufacturers
of mixed flours, and to reqnire
that such flonr shall be plainly branded
"mixed flour." The New York Prodace
Exchange has taken an important
step toward correction of the evil
of mixed flour, bv a very simple pro
cednre, which we believe, if adopted
by all the other inspection markets,
will be more effective as to resnlts desired
than the tax regulation plan.
The exchange at New York, through
its flour committee, has instructed the
inspector that flour containing any
foreign substance shall not be graded,
and that packages containing such
flour shall not receive the brand of
that exchange. It is to be hoped that
other exchanges will. act in the same
manner.
\
Result of the Publication of a Lettei
Attacking the President.
MINISTER ADMITS WRITING IT.
Cuban Junta Itsne* a Copy of the Communication
Which it Raid to Hart
Keen Stolen by a Patriot?McKlnley
Called a "Low Politician"?Letter
Addretted to a Spanitli Journalist.
Net*- York Citt (Special).?Horatio Si
Ruben9. Counsel to the Cuban Delegation,
or Junta, gave out for publication a copy
1 Attn !4iA. v.. 41.A LVon,W. Vin.'ofa.
| ui t? irttcr written uv tuo opnuisu .mui^vwt
at Washington, Senor de Lome, to Don
Jose Canalejas, of Havana.
Don Jose Canalejas visited this country
during the latter part of last year, and was
reputed to be a special envoy sent by the
Spanish Government to the United States
for the purpose ofsounding public opinion.
It was also said that he came provided with
a fund of money to be expended in the interest
of Spain.
The letter referred to is said to have
been written between December 25 and the
last day of last year. It reached its destl- i
nation, according to Mr. Rubens, but it is
now in the possession of the Junta. It was
captured, or, as Mr. Rubens puts it, "it was
stolen by a good patriot," and In due course
reached its present hands.
"After comparing the docum0*** with
those known to have been written by 8enoi
De Lome on the same kind of official note!
paper and experts employed by the Junta
had pronounced the authenticity of the
document unquestionable, it was translated
from Spanish into English. Here is
kthe translation given out by the Junta:
Ik "Spanish Legation, Washington.
^"To His Excellency, Senor Don Jose
^mnaiej&s:
^H'.My Distinguished and Dear Fbiend:? |
Hi need not apologize for not having writ^Hto
me; I also ought to have written to
but have not done so, on account ot
weighed down with work and nous
HBes
^^Be situation here continues unchanged.
depends on tbe political and
success in Cuba. The prologue oi
method of warfare Will end the |
^^^H the Colonial Cabinet will be ap- 1
I^^^^Hand it relieves us in the eyes of
^H^^^ftry ot a part of tbo responsibility
happen there, aud tliev may i
^^H^^Hesponsibility upon the Cubans, I
^^H^^H believe so immaculate.
^^H^^Hen we will not be able to see
^^^^Hl I consider it to be a loss oi
Hi advance in the wrong road, the
^^^^^^Mmlssaries to the rebel field, tbe I
with tbe autonomists not yet
^^^H|^Kbe legally constltnted, and tbe
HJ^^^^Hthe Intentions and purposes ol .
^^^^^^^nent. The exiles will return
I a wnenmey return win cone
le sbeepfold, and the chief* '
return. Neither of these
:e to leave en masse, and
ave the courage to thus ree
has undeceived the insurected
something else, and
ihe action of Congress, but
id.
0 natural and inevitable
1 which he repeats all thai
>ublic opinion of Spain ha*
B.nu iu fieyier, it shows once more thai
McKinley is weak and catering to the rabble,
and, beside^, a low politician, who de
sires to leave a door open to me and tf
stand well with the jingoes of the party.
"Nevertheless, as a matter of fact it will
only depend on ourselves whether he wili
prove bad and adverse to us. I agree entirely
with you?without a military success
nothing will be accomplished there
and without military and political success
there is here always danger that the insurgents
will be encouraged, if not by th<
government, at least by part of the public
opinion.
"I do not believe you pay enough attention
to the role of England. Nearly all that
newspaper canaille which swarms in youx
hotel is English, and at the same time that
they are correspondents of the Journal
they are also correspondents of the best
newspapers and reviews of London. Thus
it has been since the beginning. To my
mind the only object of England is that the
Americans shouid occupy themselves wltt
us, and leave her in peace, and if there is &
war, so much the better. That would further
remove what is threatening her, although
that will never happen.
"It would be most important that you
should agitate the question of commercial
relations, even though it would be only fox
effect,and that vou should send here a mun
of importance in order that I might use
htm to make a propaganda among the 8en- '
ntors and others in opposition to the Junta
and to win-over exiles.
"There (roes Amblarad. I believe he
comes too deeply taken up with little political
matters, and there most ;be something
very great or we shall lose.
"Adela returns yonr salutation, and we
wish yon in the new year to he a messenger
of peace and take this new year's present
to poor Spain.
"Always your attentive friend and servant,
who kisses yonr hands.
"Eneiqce Dottrr De Lome."
SENSATION IN WASHINGTON.
De Lome Admit* the Authenticity of ih?
Canal aj as Letter.
Washikqtok, D. C. (Special).?The pnb-'
lioation of the letter bearing the signature
of the Spanish Minister, Dupuy De Lome,
addressed to Scnor Can&lejas, and making
severe strictures on President McKtnley,
created a profound Impression in official
circles.
Dupuy de Lome, when called on officially
to oxplain whether be had written the letter,
declined to deny its authenticity,'
which later he acknowledged. This is the |
official statement made by Assistant Sec re- '
tary of 8tate Day:
"Minister Dupuy de Lome does not deny
the letter. This department has communicated
with General Woodford on the subject.
Until that communication has
reached the Spanish Government it would
not be proper to more fully state the contents
of the message to Minister Woodford."
The latest information is that the Spanish
Government has recalled its Minister at
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vv&siuugiuu, ttuu Yf411 lyrwau/uiattvuw mo j
sentiments In the Canalejas letter.
Faal Krscgcr Ke-Elected.
Paul Krueger has been re-elected Presi-1
dent of the South African Republic. The 1
total number of votes cast was 19,433.
President Krudger received 13,764; Mr.
"chalk Burger, k3716, and General Joubert
1943.
Bc^!?n Smothered ia Sand.
Wiofleld S. McDowell, forty-live years
old, an electrician, of Flatbush, lost his
life by a cave-in of sand under a sidewalk
in New E?rk City. Who was to pay him
for the work upon which he was engaged I
when his death occurred, or what that I
work was no one ?ee-ns to know. The polioe
think he was trying to tap the telegraph
wires under Broadway for the benefit
of some pool-room or bucket-shop when
he met his death. I
A Tobacco Monopoly For Japan. !
Janaif proposes to raise money to pay for
her new $200,000,000 navy by creating a
tobacco monopoly.
III! III
The Treasury issued a statement
to tW> effect tnw^WaveragoReceipts
from all sources for t^Wflrst ten'days in
Februnry aggregated MB)67,890, or at the
rate of $336,130,585 afltr, which is $36,|
000,000 in excess of th^verage annual ex|
penditures for the lasJfnine years.
The German Ambassador has notified the
State Drpartment that no quarantine will
be imposed on American horses by Ger,
many in tbe absence o; proof of veterinary
| dangers.
The Sennte listened te speeches on the
Cuban qnestion bv Senators Cannon, Mason
and Hale. The first two advocated action
by the Government to terminate the war
in Cuba; Mr. Hale urged the Senate to support
the President's policy,
The House disposed of the election contest
from the Fourth Alabama District by
unseating Mr. Plowman. Democrat, and
seating tho contestant, Mr. Aldrich, Republican.
President McKinley announced that he
will attend the annual celebration at Pennsylvania
University on Washington's Birthj
day, and address the Faculty and students.
The Secretary of the Treasury issued a
warrant in favor of the Treasurer of tho
United States for $7,515,255.15, to be used
for the payment of the first mortgage on
the eastern and Middle Divisions of the
Kansas Pacific Railroad,
i The Cabinet decided to send four companies
of troops to Pyea and Skaguay,
I Alaska, to preserve order. Canada has de'
clined to permit United States troops under
arms to escort the Yukon relief expedition
across Canadian territory.
I One amendment and two resolutions, intended
to aid the rebels in Cuba, were introduced
in the Senate.
Negotiations for a reciprocity treaty
| with Spain and her colonies were begun in
Washington between Senor de Lome and
Mr. Kasson.
! Rear Admiral Sicard has been relieved
from'commandoftbe North Atlantic Squadron,
temporarily, on recount of sickness,
and the command has devolved upon Captain
William T. Sampson, commauding the
battleship Iowa, as the senior officer present.
Admiral Sicard has malarial fever.
The President sent to the Senate the nomination
of Edward B. Thomas to be United
States District Judge for the Eastern District
of New York.
Domestic.
At Wilkesbarre. Penn., Edward Hughes
I was killed and Thomas Anderson fatally
injurel by a fall of rock in the Baltimore
Mine.
I The employes of the Hillsboro Woolen
UilU ~ a tlllt.L. V -1.1 TT - 1.IJ
'Jims iu xiuisuuro r>riuge, n., were ium
of a five per cent, increase in wages, to
take effect at once.
C. H. Starkey. of Macedonia, Summit
County, Ohio, who had an inch taken from
his right jugular vein, died at the Cleveland
Hospital. Starkey lived Ave days
after his jugular was shortened.
The Assembly at Albany, N. Y., by a vote
of 79 to G3, passed a resolution censuring
United States Senator Murphy for supporting
the Teller silver resolution.
President Baldwin, of tho Long Island
Railroad, has made a tour of inspection
with a view to connecting Long Island villages
by means of trolley service with the
steam lines.
Eleven persons were killed by the explosions'
of ammoila and whisky in the
cold storage plant of the Chautauqua
Lake Ice Company, a six-story building In
Pittsburg, Penn. Twenty-seven persons
were reported to be missing, and were supposed
to be buried in the ruins, and nineteen
are seriously injured.
The good roads movement was discussed
at the National Assembly of the League of
American Wheelmen in St. Louis,
Charles R. Skinner was re-elected Stato
Superintendent of Public Instruction of
New York.
XTaSa. T? T>~? J_-i-J 1
ujvj. vumiCT a. n v uumiuainu uy
the Governor for Major-Goneral of the
National Guard of the Stale of New York,
and was promptly confirmed by the Senate.
A bill was introduced in the State Senate
nt Albany, N. Y., providing for the
purchase of 25,000 acres of forest land in
the Adirondacks, to be put under the control
of Cornell University.
The Buffalo (N. Y.) Board of Councilman
has decided to make department stores pay
license for "every branch of business excepting
their one legitimate business."
In one of the densest fogs that ever settled
on New York there were many accidents
on the water, and a series of collisions
on the "L" roads.
Theioe harvesters employed at five
houses on the Hudson struck for an increase
of wages, and obtained it. There
was considerable violence while the strike
lasted.
Chris Von der Ahe, the St. Louis baseball
magnate, has been taken to Pittsburg under
an order of arrest obtained by Pitcher
Mark Baldwin, who bos a judgment for
$2500 against him. The arrest was in the
nature of an abduction.
Democrats made slight gains in tho New
York township elections.
State 8enator James E. Hayes, of Charlestown,
Mass., who was taken to the City
Hospital, Boston, suffering from abdominal
trouble, caused by a wrench in falling on a
piece of ice, is dead. He was thirty-two
years of age.
Tho mutllnted body of a murdered man,
headless, legless and armless, was found
in the East River between Roosevelt and
James 6treet slips, New York City. Life
had been extinct apparently for a few
days only.
Salter D. Worden, who is held in Folsom
(Cal.) Prison under sentence of death for
wrecking the train whioh killed a United
States trooper named Clark during the
great railroad strike of 1894, made what he
says is a full confession. He says bo drove
the strikers who placed obstructions on
the tracks by direction of labor leaders.
Ex-Mayor Sutro, of San Francisco, has
been adjudged mentally Incompetent, and
Ms daughter has been appointed his guardian.
Joseph M. Noonan, former Assistant District
Attorney of Hudson County, New
Jersey, and Assemblyman Alexander Simpson
were placed on trial in Jersey City on
an indictment oharging them with accept
a vsuu Driue to aeieat tne enas or justice.
Henry G. Young, City Treasurer of Reading,
Penn., was removed by the City Council
after a shortage of $8000 was discovered
In his accounts. He made the amount
good.
Elizabeth Flanders and Fannie Eaglehorn,
Indian girls, who tried to burn the
girls' building at the Indian school, .Carlisle,
Penn.; ploaded guilty and were
sentenced to one year and six months.
They said they were homesick and wanted
Captain Pratt to send them home.
The dead body of Kate Drought, eighteen
years old, was found on the roof over
her aunt's fiat, in New York City. She bad
poisoned herself. 8ha had been missin?
from her home for two days.
A boy named Henry Smith was buried by
the tali of a snov house whtoji he hud dug
out of a bank .n the yard of his home In
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He was dead
when help arrived.
Foreign.
The Canadian Government Is not disposed
to let United States troops enter the
Klondike with the relief expedition.
England ha? bought up all the Welsh coal
in Chinese and Japanese ports for her fleet,
causing much excitement.
It is announced that Russia has abandoned
the candidacy of Prince George for
' Governor of Crete.
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(Spanish Minister to the United States who
a letter in which he crltici
BARRIOS ASSASSINATED.
Guatemala's President Murdered in
the Capital by Oscar Solinger.
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SUCCESSOR ASSUMES OFFICE.
A Brief Dispatch Announcing the Affair
Sajri Calm Prevails In Guatemala?Succeeded
by the First Vlce-Pr esldent
Manuel Estrada Cabrera?Barrios Succeeded
President Barrlllas in 1802.
Paxawa, Colombia (By Cable).?a despatch
from' Guatemala, Guatemala, confirms
the report of tho assassination of
Jose Marcia Reina Barrios, President of the
Guatemalan Ropublic. The despatoh says
the assassination took place at seven o'clock
p. m., within 150 yards of the President's
palace. Tho assassin is a German, namod
Oscar Solinger.
JOS* XABCIA SSIXA BAEBIOS.
A- I
First Vieo-President Manuel Estrada Cabrera
has assumed the Presidency. All is
quiet in the city, the despatoh says. The
new President, Mr. Cabrera, is a man of
prominence in Guatemala and is one of
two chosen by the Congress to All the presidency
in case of a vacancy.
Sketch of the Dead President.
General Jose M. Belna Barrios, President
of the Republic of Guatemala, was
born In San Marcos in 1859, thirty-nine
years ago. He \fas a nephew of the former
President Justo Ruflno Barrios, who was
killed in 1885. The General was educated
abroad, and After bis collegiate course he
made a trip around the world. In his ideas
he was always liberal, and when the Conservative
party was ousted he was a close
adherent to his uncle's principles.
Hinejreant ago General Barrios was consul
in Hamburg, Germany. In 1893 General
Barrios succeeded Barrillas as President,
his term of office being six years, expiring
in March of this year. Last June he publiolv
declared himself dictator of Guatemala,
and from all reports he enjoyed the
fullest confidence of his party. His partisans
say that under his administration the
country prospered and developed extensively,
but on the other hand his enemies
claimed quite the contrary.
Barrios dealt savagely with a revolution
which broke out in Guatemala last sum
mer. Many of the rebels were captured
and were shot by order of the President.
Among those whom Barrios had' put to
death was Don Juan Aparicio, the most
prominent exporter and importer in Central
America, who was shot because he
refused to give moral and financial aid to
Barrios.
President Barrios's wife was an American
woman, Miss Algerle Benton, of New Orleans.
They were married In New York
eleven years ago.
New York's Population 3.438,309.
An official estimate of the population of
Greater New York was glTen out by the
Health Department, as follows: Number of
persons in all five boroughs, 3,438,899, of
which 1,911,755 are in the borough of Manhattan;
137,075 in the Bronx, 1,197,100 in
Brooklyn, 128,042 in Queens, and 62,927 in
Richmond.
Japan's New Move.
Japan has decided to hold Wei-Hai-Wei
permanently, and China has notified the
Powers accordingly that no foreign loan
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has resigned because of the publlcatio^H
sed President McKinley.)
STANDS OFF MOB OF KLONDIKERS.
United States Army Captain Protects
Food at )?Uk of life.
E. Hazard Wells, the special courier who
brought Captain Ray's dispatches from the
Yukon, has reachedVWashington. He did
not bring the full copy of the dispatches,
these having been expressed by General
MerriAm from Seattle.
Mr. Wells said: "I cannot properly say
anything as to Captain ltay's report, but I
can say that I left bim In a rather critical
position, and the sooner the Government
gets support in to him the better. Captain
Ray had only one man with him, Lieutenant
Rlohardaon. They reached Fort Yukon
somewhat ahead of a mob of between 80
and 100 of the toughest men that
could be picked out of Dawson,
and when I left the captain he
wns standing off this mob from the provision
caches, largely by virtae of a small
American flag and his own magniflcent
?nerve. When the food panic struck Dawson
this mob of toughs left fotBoiVYukon,
knowing that the Weare Company and *hs
Alaska Commercial Compai ly each had a
cache of provisions there. The Dawson
men intended to appropriate thesesupplles
and let the rest of the camp shift for Itself.
"Captain Ray learned of this and he
posted himself at one of the caches, while
Lieutenant Richardson gpayded the other.
They were in uniform, *nd~eaph of them
bad a smal' American flag. '-The mob
tackled the Captain flrst and ordered him'to
give up. He refused and for a time it
looked as though there would be shooting,
but between his uniform and the flag the
mob was overawed.
"Ray then established himself as a sort
of military dictator, superintended the
sale and distribution of provisions and will
make an accounting to the companies
when it is all over."
nunutn a tuNrtaaiuN,
He Says He Wm Only a Tool of Harry F.
Knox la Wrecking the Train,
Salter D. Worden, under sentence of
death in Folsom Prison for wrecking a
train, which cost six lives, daring the great
railroad strike in California in 1894, has
j ust made a confession to Governor Budd,
which is a remarkable document. It pur|
ports to give in minute detail the story of
the train wreck near Sacramento, and the
incidents which led up to it.
Worden asserts that he was used as a tool
by Harry F. Knox, leader of the Sacramento
Lodge of the American Bail way Union,who,
he says, was the real head of the conspiracy.
He tells of a message that was brought
him while at Stockton from Knox to go to
Sacramento, hire a team, and cake eight
men out on the line of the railroad. Worden
says he was not told of the plan to wreek
the train, so he made no effort to cover his
own movements in hlriug the team or going
out of town.
When he reaohed the railroad track Worden
says he refused to join with the others
in learing up the track, but they were all
armed and, by threats to kill him, forced
him to join them. He avers he did no
work and knew nothing mors of their
plans until the train approached and the
wreck resulted. Then be returned to Sacramento
with tho boy who drove the team,
He was convicted because he had hired
the team, though others were more guilty.
Warden Mil, of Folsom Prison, where
Worden is eonflnod, believes Worden tells
the truth. It is thought that Kuox and
several others will be arrested and tried
and that Worden's sentence will be commuted
to ten years or raaybe to a life term
THE CYCLISTS' CONVENTION. '
I. B. Potter Re-elected President of the
Jj. A. W. on First Ballot.
Isaac B. Potter, of New York, was reelected
President of the League of Ameri
can Wheelman, at the National Assemby at
St. Louis; Mo,, on the first ballot, by a vote
of 212 to 107.
The following ticket was elected: First
Vice-President, Thomas Keeaan, Pennsylvania;
Second Viee-President, E. N. Bines,
Michigan; Treasurer, James C. Tattezsali,
New Jersey.
Providence, It. I., was selected as the
place to hold the next annual meeting ol
the League.
During the post year 54,79S new members
have Joined the league, and 48,017 of the
old members have renewed. But as in
former years, the percentage of renewals is
by no means satisfactory.
An Alabama College KulldlngJJunietl.
Seay Hall, one of the handsomest buildings
of the Agricultural and Mechanics'
College, at Normal, Ala., has been destroyed
by Are. Twenty-flve students who were
asleep in the building narrowly escaped
with their lives.
Half a Million Dollar Fire in Fort Worth.
Fire that started ia the dry goods store
of E. Dreyfus & Co., at Fort Worth, Texas,
destroyed half a million dollars' worth ofproperty.
The M. C. Hurley building,
seven stories high, was destroyed; loss
5250,000.
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final success of the efforts to clear Dreyfns,
whose Innocence, in my eyes, is as dear aa
the light of the son."
CRIMES OF A STEPMOTHER.
Mrs. Fines Kills Her Haibsad't Child '
sad Hacks Hits.
Mrs. Martha Place is a prisoner at 8t.
Mary's Hospital, Brooklyn, charged with
murdering her stepdaughter Ida .seventeen
years old, and with murderous assault upon
her husband, William V. Plaee, who is employed
by the London and Lancashire Insurance
Company at 67 William street, New
York City. The Places lived at 596 Hancock
street, Williamsburg. Mrs. Plaee is
believed to have killed her stepdaughter
daring the afternoon by striking her on
the head with an axe, fogeipg acid down
her throat, and then smothering her with
.bed-elothing.
t She assailed her husband with an ax as
j he entered the house on returning from his
) place of business. She out deep gashee in
the side of his hpsd, and endangered hie
ilife to such an extent that Coroner Delap
considered it neeeasary to take his anteI
jmortem statement. After her husband had
escaped from the house Mrs. Plaee went
inpstairs to her own bedroom and inhaled '
rtimbuMag gas. It is believed by the- '
police that the attempt mm nottuada with
a desire to kill h rselt+s*-^'
i ' Ammunition Worthies*.
Tests of shrapnel shots furnished for the
1 United States army have been made by
. Lieutenant Babbitt, of the Benieia (Cal.)
Arsenal. Twenty-six shells were fired and
: fifty per eent. of the ammunition was
! found to be wholly worthless. The flimsy
shrapnel was furnished by an ordnanee
company of Washington. All shells fused
by electricity were excluded from the
twenty-six rounds selected by Lieutenant
Babbitt. '
Bridegroom Kills Himself.
James & Yarn, a bridegroom of twelve
days, committed suicide at Yaldosta, Ga.,
br blowing off the top of his head with a
shotgun. He had just returned from his
honeymoon. Ton minutes before his suicide
he mailed a letter to his wife assuring
her of his love, but saying that he felt insanity
creeping on him.
nu|? vnicKer tonwm.
Ia Chicago the National Biscuit Company
was formed. It Includes ninety per
?'cd the larger blscnit and cracker
oak lug plants of the country, and has a ,
capital stock of $55,000,000. It Is organised ,
-under the laws of New Jersey. ; '
Calhoun Tot Commissioner.
William J. Calhoun, of Chicago, accepted ,
the President's, offer of appointment as In;
terstate Commerce Commissioner to suceoed
William B. Morrison,
Educational Event.
Elaborate preparations are being
completed at Chattanooga, Tenn., for jjH
the reoeption and entertainment of the
department of superintendence of the
I National Educational Association, to
[ meet in that city Feb. 22, 23 and 24. fl
, . ' M
To Protect Renters. I
The Bell Telephone Company has
filed with the Nofth Carolina railroad
commission a $5,000 bond to protect the flfl
telephone renters in case the lower rate
ordered by the commission holda fl^B