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C. W. WOLFE . '
Editor and Proprietor.
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While there were GOOD murders in
the United States lust year, the total
was 1600 less than in 1808.
Cape Nome is no doubt wonderfully
rich, and the exodus from Dawson to
the new field is on a wholesale scale,
but it must not bo presumed that
Dawson is of the things that were.
When claims near that great cainp
yield gold at the rate of .<3^,000 per
day, it is sa'e to say that at least a
few Yankees will liuger on the Canadian
side.
A school-teacher iu England advertised
for boys "difficult to manage."
In response to this advertisement he
he got, among others, one boy who
subsequently set fire to the school
buildings, so great had become bis de /*
AOyftAWfcA f * A??\ tlm C S?lt <->/>]
on *3 iv 11 w in iue ovuwit a uv? v- i ^
upon the school-teacher sued the boy i ,
in the high court. The question at 1 s
issue seemed to bt: What risks does i t
the master assume, and at what roiut j ?
in the relations between teacher and f
pupil will the law interfere? This was | 1
a matter of great perplexity to Mr. M
Justice Ridley and also to the special f
jury. The justice decided that the ~
master assumed at least the risk of
"the wear and tear of school furniture i /
by knocking about an 1 kicking the (
doors," but uo more. The exact point j
as to kicking the doors does uot ap- f
pear. The jury brought in a verdict '
of $2250 in favor of the schoolmaster. s
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A supreme eoust jury has awarded 1
the sum of $23 )J to one Mary John- J
sou of Brooklyn, X. Y., as cornpensa- (
tioa due to her from the Nassau Rail- j (
road company for injuries sustained ' (
under circumstances which are a rneu- j
ace to all patrous of the road. As a
result o: the sudden stoppage of a car
the plaintiff was heavily sat upon by
a man unknown to k9r, but sutBcioat- 1
ly identified as beins"a very fatmau. " j
It is to be hope 1 that the award will i
stand. Obesity is not?in itself a punishable
offense, and the law does not
permit the traction company to exclude
the fat man from its cars or to
prevent his use of all 2>ublic means of
conveyance on the same terms as his
leftner fellow-citizen. The law, however,
does demand, and the demand
should be insisted on, that trolley
1 11 ll 1 11 1 _ ? L. 1
cars aua au oiuers snau i>e stoppe i
aud started with such control that
standing passengers, whether fat or ^
thin, shall not be hurle 1 about, to the t
discomfort and danger alike of themselves
and of the other occupants of
the car. The verdict in this case ought
to be a warning, thinks the New York 1
World.
A recent publication from the bu- t
reau of statistics of the treasury de- c
partmeat on 'The Grain Trade of the
United States" demonstrates that J
this country is now the world's grau- '
ary and source of food supply. We (
are easily tiie nrst wheat-producing (
country, our product amounting in (]
1899 to 672,000,000 bushels or 23.4 t
per cent, of that of the whole world, c
Our corn crop is now 2,000,000,000 a
bushels. Our exports of wheat ruu 1
up to 222,000,000 bushels, and of 1
corn to 177,000,000. Add to these
the minor cereals, the cotton, hay,
provisions and other natural products j
of our soil, and it is seen at a glance c
that no other country stands in the ^
same class with us as a producer. J
This supremacy is fairly earned. It^ j
represents the application of intelli- i
gence and industry to the improvement *
of natural conditions. It attests *
sound methods of agriculture, careful
management, efficient transportation,
low rates of freight, 'judicious selec- t
tiou of markets,seasons and methods. ^
Our mastery as a world-power lies in c
the fact that the people of the rest of s
the world depend on us so largely for t
their food and caunot get along with- r
out us. This position is as impreg
nable as it is admirable. Onr safety 8
li^s chiefly not in our military strength, 1
but in our peaceful and beneficent industries.
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lu ibe urimea the British left 00,000 c
corpses, which are interred in 130 i
Cemeteries.
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GEN. KUNDLE MARKING TIME. V
1e Found More Boers Than He Expected.
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London, by Cable.?All attention is
entered cn the interesting though
omplicated situation in the southeastern
portion in the Orange Free State,
rem which developments of the lit- ?
nost importance must ensue in the
lear future. General Rundle, it -would j|
ieem, has found the B-.ers eonfrontiug
lim at Dewet's dorp in stronger force
:han he cares to engage, and so he is
1-11 vVinrr tims nnnrliTie' the Prrfval of
upports. While General Rundle is ,
>repar:ng to strike Dewet's dorp, Gen- ' cj
>rals Brabant and Hart are pushing p
ilong the frontier of Basutolar.d, r0
vhere they will be able to frustrate ai
my attack on General Rundle's right j]
ind Generals French and Pole-Carew -e
ire hastening from Bloemfcntoin to ,
larthe, the Boer line of retreat north- ; 0j
irards. Meanwhile the Burghers' ; al
orces occupying Thaba X'Chua are in {
i position to fight a delaying action 1
jiving the Boers at Dewet's dorp and j Jc
iVepener time to retire in case of do- ; j?
'eat, and it seems as though General I J.
French must dispose cf this Thaba ; j>
s"Chu before he can reach the rear oi ti;
he Boer force? opposing Generals J(
Etunale and Brabanut. otherwise his ' ^
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lank will be open to assault. The Bo- i ^
>rs driven out of Leeuw kop will prob- j ibl.v
rally at Thaba N'Chu. where 3 ! t
stiff fight may be expected. Should m
he British fail in this attempt to bring
ibout another I'aardcberg, it must af- j 11
ect immensely the larger issues of the |
var, as it will undoubtedly lead to a ! ,r
>crsi?tent repetition of the guerilla y<
actios which have been largely respon- j n<
ible for the penning up of Lord Rob- vv
Tts at B'.oemfontein for so many j J'
veeks. During the course cf General j jy
Uderscn's advance cn Lecaw Icop. the ; -j
Canadians found themselves in a ! tl
ight corner Sunday, near Donkers- 'r
>oort. The Camtadian mounted in- ^
antry sent to reconnoitre the Boer po- ! y
ition approached within three hundred ti
ards of a farm, flying a hospital flag, i T
inder cover cf which the Boers opened j a:
such a hot fire on the Canadians that
.hey were unable to attempt to retire i jy
intil another force of the Canadians j
overed their retreat by threatening
he rear of the Boer position.
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Our 3 New Battbships.
Washington. D. C1., Special.?The I p
laval board of construction to-day te
inally approved the plans for th?
hree battleships authorized by th? tr
ast Congress. and gave instructions to
lave the specifications prepared at in
>nce, preliminary to calling for bids tc
"rom the ship-builders. The board has j tc
settled upon a design very similar to !
hat originally proposed. The ships I j^i
vill be enlarged Iowas -in type, with 11
he rectangular superstructure and the !
wo turrets, bow and stern on the si
nain deck. The turret guns will be j c(
12-inch calibre, like the Iowa's guns; j "
here will be a turret at each corner of j jji
he superstructure carrying two S-inch i pi
runs and twelve .-inch rapid-firers, j v>"
,v... be dispersed along the sides of jj,
he central citadel. T
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A Display of Nerve. "W
Richmond, Va., Special.?Mecklen- 1(
)urg county narrowly escaped having
i lynching Tuesday. A negro named ^
?teven Baptist was arrested by Consta)le
Talley, charged with the murder ec
n Sunday, odf Mr. Peter Jones, and Si
ralley was ordered by the county P(
udges to take him to Petersburg for
afe keeping. While the constable was {s
>n his way to the depot a mob demand- jj,
?d the prisoner, but Talley held the r<
:rowd at bay at the point of a pistol M
leclaring that he would defend Baptist al
o the last exteriaity and keep his oath ^
if office at any cost. Hi3 determination
iwed the mob, and he reached Peters- of
>urg with his prisoner late this even* ti
ng.
Prays an Appeal.
Frankfort, Ky.. Special?Ex-Gov- ^
irnor W. O. Bradley, representing the
Republican- minor State officials Tues- pj
lay prayed an appeal to the Court of hi
Appeals froip the judgnynt of ouster ai
endered by Circuit Judge Cantrill, p;
ast wfeek. The appeal was prayed as hi
o all cases except that of Breckin. pi
idge against Pratt. Mr. Pratt, the tfc
Republican contestant for Attorney fc
Jeneral, did not ask an appeal.
Brought To Terms.
Washington, D. C., Special.?It cam
?e stated on authority that the nego- M
iations respecting the missionary P1
laims are progressing in the most m
atisfactory manner in the view of !n
ho cnvprmnont The department has
eceived from Mr. Griscolm, the Unit- ^
sd States charge d' affairs, a cable- at
rram announcing that the Porte has A
indertaken to meet all of the engage- '
nents made with the United States ^
uinister respecting the payment of f0
he claims set up on account of the bi
lestruction of the American mission tI(
iroperty in Turkey. 00
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till CONSOLIDATE.
ans for Ihe Combining of A!! Ih: ,
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Seabaard's Lines.
rOXMS AND FLOODS IN TEXAS.
fie City of Waco Swept by a Furious J
Tornado, Leaving Death and De- !
struciion in Its Wake.
Petersburg. Yu., Special.?A meeting
the stockholders of the Seaboard Air
inc railroad was held here Saturday
r the purpose of electing the officers
id directors for the ensuing year,
he Seaboard Air Line Railway reprents
the scnsolidation of about twenrailrcaJ
companies, seme 2,500 miles
' track l'rcm Washington to the gulf,
ul is now an accomplished fact.
The officers elected were:
Mr. John Sherwood Secretary, and
>hn H. Sharp Treasurer, with the foiiwing
board of directors: Messrs. S.
avies Warfield (President cf the Connental
Trust Company, Baltimore.)
obert C. Davidson (President of Balmore
Trust and Guarantee Company),
)hn Skelton Williams, Jas. H. Dooley,
ichmond, Va.; Wm. A. Marburg, Balmore.
Wm. F. Cochran New York. J.
\fj,i,i 1/i/I^rf rioHim-trp find f\
Idney Shepherd, New Haven, N. Y.
hose gentlemen also compose the J
anagirg committee *cf the Greater I
sabocrd Air Line organization nuder
le agreement of January 5th, 1&00,
id worked cut the details cf the cdldidation,
they are also the voting
nsteea of the stock for a period of ten
tars. There will be a meeting of the I
?w board during the coming week at
hich ether officers cf the company
ill lie elected. Judge E. J. D. Cross. |
I the fiim cf Cowan. Cress & Bond, |
altimore, the attorneys for the man- j
;!rg committee and cf counsel for !
ic new read, was present at the mectitr
tii.-v The mort- i
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tge to secure the issue of the $62,500,- j
'0 bonds cf the road was filed April
the Continent Trust Company, Balmore.
being trustee under the same,
he bonds are now being engraved as
*e also the certifieates for the $25.>0,000
preferred and the $37,500,000
immr/n stock cf the new corporation
'presented by voting trust certificates.
In the Flood's Grasp.
Galveston, Tex.. Special. ? Many
reets here are Hooded from curb to
lrb owing to the tremendous rains
riday night. A hail storm later shat
5 ? Anyl Tl'fOOtrn/l
Tea nuiuy nwuuns an-u mnnvu
-een'houses. The whole State is waT-scaked.
Three boys were caught
i Thursday night's storm, while rowig
ia Galveston bay and are believed
have been drowned. Another storm
> last two days is at noon predicted
r the government weather bureau,
he water at Sealey is now up to the
ighest point reported in the great
:od of last July.
Dallas, Tex., Special.?The floods
low no signs of receding. On the
>ntrary, most of the Texas rivers are
sing. At Fort Worth telegram at 10
m. said the Trinitv river had overawed.
ding much damage. The peole
are alarmed for the safety cf the
ater works, which are seriously
ireatened. A nine-f:ot rise is sweepig
down from the head waters of tlio
rinity. This will cause a big overflow
1 the vicinity of Dallas and Fort
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rorm. a uuncuu uuui . t??
): 30 o'clock said the list of dead there
ould reach ten to fifteen persons,
he property damage in Waco will ex?ed
$150,000. The telegraph lines of
ath companies are g^ne south of Wa>,
Isolating more than one-half of the
Late. Railroad movements are sus?nded
south of Dallas on almost every
ne in the State. The loss by flood
ad hurricane since Friday morning
estimated to reach three to five milon
dollars, including damage to rail)ads
in immense in Hill, McLennan,
'illiamson, Bell. Colorado. Bastrop
id adjoining counties. The telegraph
impanies have large forces of linemen
it trying to make repairs. The few
'ports received for the southern and
rntral Texas state that great destrucon
has occurred.
Prisoners Dying Rapidly.
London, By Cable.?A dispatch to
ie Daily News from Pretoria dated
onday, says that forty-seven British
isoner have died in six weess. iwu i
andred of them are sick with fever [
id dysentery at Waterval. The dlsitches
add that Erasmus De Klerk
is been sentenced to two years' im isonment
at hard labor for guiding
le British at Petrusburg and Blocm ntein.
Naval Orders.
Washicgoon, D. C., Special.?Orders
ere sent Saturday by cable to the
achias at San Juan, Porto Rico, lo
oceed to Chiriqui Bay and Port Lion.
She is to take the place in carg
for American interest in that seeon
of the cruiser Detroit, which sailI
Thursday for Key West. The Phillelphia
on the west coast of Central
merica, has dropped down to Pirata
rena?, Costa Rica, close to the Combian
boundary so that on the whole
iere is now ample maval protection
r the American intcsests in Colum- i
a, so far as concerned the revolu- i
>nary movement In the north of that
untry.
IBROl'GIIOUT THE COUNTRY. I
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The South.
General .Toscwh Wheeler will run for .
Congress f.om Llie Eighth Alabama '
district.
Hon. Chas. M. Busbe?, past grana
sire, cf North Carolina, delivered the
anniversary address to the Odd Eellows
of Atlanta Thursday night. ,
What is supposed to be a very
strange suicide occurred near Lincoin
ton, N. C., Sunday. Tobe ICiser 1
a mill operative, got on the track facing
a swiftly moving train. The en.
gineer blew the whistle, supposing the
man would step off the track. Kiser
continued on the track and was struck
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uuu iwueu. rit' i K ikitii ivt u iu a iticitu
a few minutes before: "I ^'ill be deal
in twenty minutes."
The indictment against W. S Taylor,
Republican Governor of Kentucky,
will be held up until after the argument
before the Supreme Court of the
case involving the governorship.
The Roanoke, Va.. Board of Trade
has gone to work in dead earnest to
attempt to have a big carnival in the
Magic City during the week of June
18. Committees have been appointed
and they are actively at work raisiug
the necessary subscription.
P. A. Cummey, an old Confederate
soldier, of Macon, Ga., who planned to
kill Admiral Dewey, will be sent to
the State Insane Asylum.
The Supreme Court of the United
States refused to grant a writ of certiorari
in the case of Oberlin M. Carter,
convicted by court martial for
irregularities while in charge of engineer
works in Georgia.
The canning industry on the Mary- ,
laud Peninsula is constantly growing. '
Wallace Roberts, of Baltimore, who is *
prominently identified with the busi- *
ne=s reports that the output this year t
is likely to exceed 50,000.000 cans.
This mean3 that the Peninsula puts up j
more than one-twentieth of all the j
canned goods put up in the United
States. The value of the Maryland
canned goods is only a little short of A
$5,000,000 a year. Over 20.000 person? i
are employed in the industry. i
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The North. i 1
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Over half the job printing offices at ,
Detroit, Mien., are tied up by a press- ^
men's strike.
Because workmen from other towns
were employed. 150 men and women
struck at the Russell County Com- i
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panys buuc lociui-y, at >?wuu?u, ?.
The President has nominated Commander
James Haxton, United States t
navy, to be captain. (
Forest fires raging in Manitoba have j
entrapped, it is estimated, about 500 j
settlers and lumbermen, whose lives ^
are in danger.
Floods are abating in the South, but .
destruction of property continues.
Trying to avoid arrest young Fred J
Hedwick, of Union City, Ind., was shot 1
dead by Marshal Wait. J
Archbishop Keane announced that *
he had received $50,000 from Michael J
Cudahy as a gift to the Catholic Uni- ?
versity at Washington. t
St. John the Evanelist's Protestant '
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tpiscopai tnurcu. U1 Ol. 1 am, .maa., J
has extended a call to Rev. Dr. Sedg- j
wick, of Wllliamstown, Mass.
The City Council of De3 Moines,
Iowa has adopted a resolution of consent
for the reopening of the saloons *
in that city, and they will all be doing *
business aagin immediately. j I
The striking spinners at the James- ) 1
town (N. H.) \Vorst<*l Mills have been j (
joined by 75 men from the combing ' g
department, and the mills have shut ^
down, throwing 1,000 hands out cf employment.
A report filed with the State Audi- ^
tor by expert accountants charges J. a
S. Anderson, former secretary of the C
Union Life Insurance Company, of a
Indianapolis, Ind., with a shortage ot o
$25,116.31. I
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congressman rsuouau, ui vunusv, .
111. has announced that he will intro- i i
duce a resolution in the House calling e
for an investigation into the cause of j ('
the closing down of the mills of the j s
American Steel and Wire Company. ?
Twenty Croton Dam strikers were >,
held in $2,000 each at White Plains, N. t
Y., Sunday. t
The International Navigation Com- v
pany, at Duluth, Minn., will build foui
light-draught steamers for Atlantic
service.
The Biennial Conclave of the Phi
Kappa Phi Fraternity, at Columbus, ?
0., selected Pittsburg, Pa., for the
meeting in 1902.
The walls of the old Town House at t
Milford, Mass., fell Monday killing Q
George L. Browning and seriously in- ^
juring Dennis uurns. i c
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Forcrjo.
Several hundred more bolomen were
killed in fights at Luzon, with practically
no loss to the Americans. ^
Cubans have informed General Wood ^
that the whole country opposes the F
proposed divorce laws. e
Orangemen in Belfast are angry be- p
cause Queen Victoria confines her t
Irish visit to Dublin. t
Playwright David Belasco says he t
has no fear of the suppression of his Is
"Zaza" in London. ti
General Wood has offered the eecre- ^
taryship of agriculture, industry and e
commerce in Cuba to Senor Perfectc *
Lacoste. n
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SWEPT BY FIRE.
Vews of the Great Canadian Dis
aster.
1,800 BUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED.
\ Belt of Flames Fully Four Miles
in Length and Half a Mile Wide Affords
a Terrible Spectacle.
Toronto, Special.-Dispatches from Ottawa
summarize the situation at Ot
awa and Hull as follows: Ottawa,
milding3 destroyed, 2,000; Hull, buillings
destroyed, 1,800; total loss, both
:ities, $20,000,000; Uvea lost as far a8
cnown, four.
A special to the Montreal Star from
Htawa says: "The greatest fire in hisory
of Canada was that which visited
lull and the western district of Ottava
Thursday. The loss is roughly esimated
at from $16,000,000 to $17,000.i00.
Over 3,000 families have been reulered
homeless. The major part of
3ull, with its immense industrial esablishments
and the home of their optratives,
waa swept clean, as well as
Victoria and Dalhousie wards, in Ottawa.
The loss on lumber alone cau
lot be less than $3,000,000. The fire
>roke out in the center of Hull, early
n the forenoon. That is a common
>ccurrence there, and attracted little
ittention. Before noon it had devasated
a great part of Hull, and spread
.owards the river, fanned by a strong
vind; ultimately destroying five mills.
"Nothing more grand could be imagned
as a spectacle. Considered as to
ts consequences no greater calamity
las visited Canada in years. There
vas a belt of flame fully four
niles in length and at least half a
nile wide. Dark clouds of smoke
.treamed southwestward from the burling
district all day, while beneath it
vas a long line of flame, fierce and irAll
n i rrV? f 1 rvri rr fha
[up: tr^aiuii-. *\u u;0ub v?v
vas lit up by the glare. The Dominion
jovernment is among the heavy losers,
?e Chaudiere bridge having toppled
nto the river from the warping effects
)f the heat
Fireman John Watkins, of No. 1 sta- '
ion, was smothered in a house in' ?" ..
Jueen street, west; Mrs. Bessie Oook,
in invalid, was suffocated in her bed
jefore help arrived; a man unknown
vas found dead on the Canadian Pa;iflc
railroad track in Rochesterville;
rohn Navan a builder, was taken, to
5t. Luke's Hospital, badly burned arid
lurt; an unknown man was fouc"a
3road street, charred beyond recogni
ion; John Matthews is reported dead;
fames Merryfleld was seriously in jur;d
by a falling building; Daoust, a
vatchman, is reported dead; John
Temple, a fireman of Hull, Is missing, # :
md Engineer Peter Hamilton, of
dull, is also missing.
The Export Lumber Company had
ill its big stock destroyed and it is esimated
that their loss will foot up
tearly $1,000,000, covered by insurance,
t is estimated that 250,000,000 feet of
umber has been burned in Hull and
)ttawa. Half a dozen churches and
chools have been burned; the Eddy
Company's paper and pulp mills and
natch factory, and E. 13. Eddy's resiini?o
Vioi-o hoon Rrrmznns
.nd Weston's mill, the Hull Lumber
Company's Mill, one of Booth's mills,
nd the McKay Company's premises,
-ne of the power houses of the Ottawa
Electric Company, the Hull water
vorks and the Hull court house and
ail, the postoffice, the convent, almost
very business place, and about 1,000
[welllngs and shops have been detroyed.
Indeed, practically nothing
if Hull is left but a church and a few
touscs beyond it. The steel suspension
ridge which connected the city of Otawa
with Hull was also destroyed. On
he Ottawa side many fine residences
rere destroyed.
Men Thrown Out of Work.
Oolumbus, Ohio, Special.?The local
dant of the National Steel Company
as Deen ciuseu uuuer oxutjro iruui iuo
eneral offices, the reason assigned beag
"to make extensive repairs." Beween
300 and 400 men are thrown oat *
>f work. Two weeks is given as the
uration of the shut down. The local
officials deny that Che chut down is
ue to the rendition of markets.
Another War Cloud.
Constantinople, By Cable.?The
imerican note, handed to the Turkish
linister of Foreign Affairs, Tewfik
asha, on Tuesday, is couched in permptorv
terms, demanding immediate
ayment of the indemnity several
imes promised to Minister Strata by
he Sultan. The note does not fix a
Ime limit for an answer, but its tenor
i not far from the character of an ulimatum.
It has produced a great imrcssion
upon the Porte, which, howver,
shows po disposition to modify |
he attitude hitherto maintained, I
amely, repudiating the responsibill- . |
y and seeking to diminish the im- I
ortance of. the matter. J
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