lEO'S millions TO PIUS & Remarkable Return of Riches to (be Vatican. 5 1 MOO. WO BY CARDINAL QOTTI. oa Teres II Over to Popt Plu, Stallai That foae Lee Just Be tore Death Confided tbe Maaer Hln Pendlof the Election ot Ssccettor, He to tie It at He Tbouttit Beat, Shoald l B Elected Pope. . Rome (By Cable). According to ttie Tribuna, the Vatican had sudden wealth poured into its coffers. l or some time "OTtain turns which were known to be possessed by Pope I-co were looked flor rllhout result, flic search toward tbt end becoming somewhat feverish, i Cardinal Cotti, prefect of the Propn ' panda, accompanied by Monsignor 'JJarzolini, one o( the late Pope's sec retaries, drove up to the Vatican and, Betting out hurriedly, began tugging 't a heavy object in the carriage. As sistance was offered, but it was refus ed, and Cardinal Gotti and Monsignor 3larzolint between them carried the iiysterious object to the apartment of -2Pcpc Pius. They wire immediately admitted, and remained for two hours. Intense curiosity was aroused hy t!ii rt, as it was believed to have some relation to the missing wealth, and the Wildest rumors were circulate;!. li f-oon became known, however, that the j tag contained 45,000,000 francs ($y,ooo,- j tni) in bank notes. i When Cardinal f jot t i entered the ; .presence of the Pope he sank to his j Jen res, and, pointing to his burden, aa-.d: "Your Holiness, the lamented I.eo '1st before his death confided to mc the money which I now lay at your lett, saying that if I succeeded him I was to use it as I thought best; that if another took his place 1 was to turn the money over to him alter a period cd four months had elapsed. This I now do in the presence of Monsignor Zvlarzolini, who lias been the only other jerson to share the secret." The Pope was much affected. The Tribuna goes on to relate that Just about the time this .sccncc was be ing enacted in the papal apartments an 'electrician, while removing the hang ings in the late Poppe Leo's chamber, 'In order to get at the electric light i wires, found in a hole in the wall sev eral bags which were carelessly tied. jThese bags, when opened, were found to contain 9,250,000 francs ($1,830,000). Aaolber Version 01 It. , Faris (By Cable). The Rome corre spondent to the Figaro says that Car dinal Gotti, prefect of the Propaganda nd one of the executors of the will of jLeo XIII., was received by the Pope fend informed His Holiness that he held B large sum of money confided to him fcy the late Pope, with the mission that he should hand it to the new pontiff four months after his election. The al leged reason for Pope Leo's course is that be wished his successor to learn hovt dicffilut it would be to rule the Church without money, thereby im pressing upon him the necessity for economy. The sum left by Pope Leo is aid to amount to $7,000,000. CO. RI VES IN NO l.b'RRY. Trying to Prevent Colombia From Milking a Warlike Move. Washington, D. C. (Special). Be cause of the determination of General Reyes to support all the contentions he makes in his brief, that this or that jliase of this government's isthmian j'olicy was against precedent by his torical references, as well as by high authorities of international law, the preparation of the paper is taking onger than was at first expected. It was said that it was not at all certain hen the note would be ready for trans mission to the State Department. In cieed. General Reyes is not in any haste to send it, for this may be taken by the Colombians as the termination of their envoy's mission here and the country might seize on the opportunity to make war, a contingency which Gen eral Reyes has 'thus far used his ut most endeavor to prevent. Control ol Powder Trade. Philadelphia (Special). It was an nounced at the office of the Marsdcn Company that the International Smoke less Powder and Chemical Company, . -which is controlled by the Marsdcn Com ! fany, has passed into the hands of the 'imPont International Powder Company. I This deal, it is said, gives the DuPont , Company control of 90 per cent, of the . jpowder business from the United States. ihe DuPont Company was organised 1 under the laws of Delaware last Tuesday. . It is capitalized at $10,000,000. The terms under which the Internationa! Smokeless Powder Company passes to tbe control of the DuPont Company was accomplished through an exchange of stock and cash payment of $400,000. Oat Her Husband AoJ Money. Albany. N. Y. (Special). A million iollars is said to be involved in the case of Ilerzog vs. the Title Guaranty Com Jinny, in which the Court of Appeals sus tained the judgment of Justice Truax, of the Supreme Court. The decision gives , J-nny McComb Herzog a epiarter inter est in the estate of her father, who died In New York city in March, lorn. One clause of the McComb will gives her this smarter interest, hut a codicil cut her in terest in the will in case she married Mr. Ileriog. Justice 1 max, at special term, ia Ins decision gave Mrs. llcrzog the Jtiartcr interest first provided for iii the A Military Scandal. New York ( Special). Charges of du plicating his pay accounts for the months f October and November were pre ferred against Capt. John W. L. Phillips, Twenty-seventh United States Infantry. j Col. Francis S. Dodge, chief paymas ter of the Department of the Fast Colonel Dodge lias forwarded the papers in Ihe case to the Paymaster General at Washington for further action. Captain Unllips it on leave of absence from his frgiinent, which is now stationed in the Xlulipvinet. facoad Torpedo Flotilla. Charleston, S. C. (Special). The tarcond torpedo boat flotilla, under command of Lieutenant Marbury John on, arrived ler from Norfolk, and probably will leave here for the south ward Salurady. The torpedo boat de etroycrs are the Lawrence, Stewart,' jTmaton, Worden and Whipple. They report having a very easy passage, av eraging 15 knots an hour the entire ,trip. The convoy, the battleship Texas, tarted will) them, but wat toon dis tanced. 2bc bat iiot yet readied here. TI E LATEST MWS IN SHORT ORDER, Domestic. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Philadelphia, sus tained the District Court of New Jer sey in the case of Harry C. Spinks and other stockholders, who appealed against the payment of an assessment called by Receiver Henry C. Tatnall, of the Asphalt Company of America. Judge Martin, of Philadelphia, has given Dr. James Strickland, of Roan oke, Va., lite custody of his two chil dren, whom the mother was accused of abducting from a convent school in Baltimore. On account of ill.- refusal of skilled laborers of the New Haven Iron and Steel Company to accept a 10 per cent, reduction in wages the mill will close down, throwing 400 men out of work. The American Bible Society has ap proved the project of the British and Foreign Bible Society to observe March 7, 1004. as Bible Sunday. A committee meeting of the National Congress of Mothers was held in Phil adelphia to devise ways and means of oMiiiig Reed Smoot. A retrenchment movement has fol lowed the consolidation of the Ameri can Tinplate and the American Sheet Steel Companies. Anna Krciien, wife of Fred Krencn, drowned herself and her two children 111 a ostein at their home, in Lcseur, Minn. Mrs. Geneva Flaherty, of Duluth, Minn., died from starvation on a train while 011 her way to her brother's home. A jury of six women at in a case in the Juvenile Court in Chicago. The I'lutc 1 States grand jury at 0::::ha returned indiomcnts against 1 United S.:.;cs Senator Charles II. Dietrich, former Adjutant General Leonard W. Colby, of Nebra 'u; for mer State Sc.tator I'.Uiott Lor. il. M. Ailcu, ptes.d'.iit of the Standard Cs'.tle Company, tti.l other. Mayor Weiver vetoed the loan bill appropriating $;6 000.000 (or municipal ii!V:c.vcnic:-.ts in Pln.ad.-'jihia and City Co-ii:.l immediately pa ed the bill o.er the veto. The loan will no-.v be submitted to the votcts. The cruiser Olympia. flagship of the Cirribean Sea squarlron, sailed from Norfolk for Panama tilled with ammu nition, arms and other supplies for the marines on t he isthmus. Chief Paymaster Dodge, of the Dc- yartment of the Fast, accuses Capt. ohn V. L. Phillips, of the Twenty seventh Infantry, with duplicating pay accounts. Mrs. Harry L. Smith and her two children were cremated in a fire that burned their home at Gahlaiic, a su-. burb of Philadelphia. Rufus U. Councils, president of the defunct banks at lndiahoma, Sterling and Oluska, Ok., was found guilty of forgery. loieifn. The attitude of the Russians at Seoul indicates a possible determination to prevent Japan from gaining a foothold in Korea. Advices from Tokio state that the situation is more unfavorable. The Russian fleet now at Bizerta, Tu nis, will be reinforced by six torpedo boats and proceed to the Far East. The United Colombian Committee in Paris announces that should a request for the submission of the dispute with the United States over Panama to The Hague Court of Arbitration be refused Colombia will go to war and rely on the I.alin republics for aid. The appearance on the Venezuelan Alps of bombyrilla palliuac, small birds found only in the bar North, indicate the prevalence of very severe weather in the polar regions. General Dclarey made a speech to the Hoer prisoners at Admagtiagar and suc ceeded in persuading all but 10 of them to sign the oath of allegiance to Great Britain. The bill providing $130,000 to defray the expenses of Italy's participation in the St. Louis Imposition was approved by the Chamber of Deputies. A new Greek Cabinet has been formed, with M. Theotakis as president and min ister of the interior. King Edward and. Queen Alexandra will visit Ireland during the Punches town racing week. Miss von Rheimbaden, daughter of Baton von Rheimbaden, the finance minister of Germany, had a narrow es cape from death. She fell between two vlectr.c cars in Berlin, and in saving her Henry Davidson, an English r.avai constructor,, was killed. Joseph Chamberlain's commission cf experts to inquire into the condition of British trade, v hi: the object of drawing up a tariff reform measure, includes leading bankers and men prominent in industrial, mining and shipping interests. The Japanese ministers have deter mined to present a strong front to Rus sia, in view of the lattcr's unsatisfactory ren'y to the Japanese proposals. The P.ur.sian drr.ft of the proposed agreement is net acceptable in the present form. The French War Office has considered li e details of rrryfus' reinstatement in the r.rmy, end the regiment he will com mand, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, has bren chosen. An Italian warship is bombarding Dur bo, in Italian Komaliland, where Lieuten ant Gruban was killed, "merely for the purpose of impressing the natives." William J. Bryan arrived in St Petersburg and went to visit Count Tol stoi. 'Ihe national committee of the Pro hibition party met in Chicago and de cided that the national convention be held in Kansas City Wednesday, June 20, 1004. Fight cities were in the bid ding, including Baltimore. Mrs. Daniel Manning was elected president of the World's Fair Board of Lady Managers. I Insoclit. Sterling exchange has risen 2 cents in the pound in ten days. Copper shares Friday touched the highest point for many months. Evidently Philadelphia shareholders like Speyer's plan belter than Mof lly's plan. The principal bull tips ore still on Amalgamated Copper and Brooklyn Rapid 1 rausit. Egyptian cotton merchants who are now 111 this country jay that their home country it mil bulliUi on Amer ican cotton. After the Cuban bill was signed SugaY shares fell sliarply. The Western crowd attacked Penn sylvania and clipped off nearly 1 per cent, temporarily. Two-dollar oil in Pennsylvania seems to be the Sandard't aim. That is the highest price for years. Chicago hears that Vice-President Wilhard, of the Erie, will become vice-' president of the Burlington, An official of the St. Paul says that railroad could easily pay 10 per cent, dividends, instead of 7 per cent. During Ibis year the total shipments of Lake Superior ore by water were 2J. 500,000 tons, against 27,500,000 in 1002 I WOULD NOT LOWER FLAG American Lieutenant Refused to Com ply Wild Colombian Demand. TROOPS READY TO MOVE ON PANAMA. Cruiser Atfaati Discovers a Detachment of Colombian Troops on the Western Short of the Quit ol Dirlen At Lieutenant Perrlll Approaches the Shore Oeneril Novo, Calls Oul: "Whit Way Is This to Make War." Colon (By Cable). The United States cruiser Atlanta, Commander William II. Turner, returned here from the Gulf of Daricn. She discovered on December 15 a de tachment of Colombian troops, number ing apparently about 500 men, but, ac cording to their statements, 1,500 to 2,000, at Titumnti, on the western side of the gulf, just north of the mouth of the Attato river. The commander cf the Atlanta sent on shore an officer who talked with the Co lombian's commander. The latter pro tested energetically against the presence of American warshins in Colombian waters, insoitrich as war between Co lombia and the United States had not been declared, and requested the Atlanta to leave the gulf, because it belonged to Colombia. Commander Turner ignored the request and the Atlanta returned to Colon to report to Rear Admiral Cogh lan. T!:c Colombians arc clearly busy with protective and strengthening measures. Although they treated the Americans courteously, they decidedly resented the prcser.ee of the Atlanta's landing party. '1 he Colombian force was composed partly cf the men landed recently at the Atr.-.to river by the Colombian cruisers CartaRcna and General Pinzon. Early in the morning of December 15 the Atlanta sighted a small schooner in the center of the Guif of Daricn and fol lowed her to the western shore, where the schooner attempted to hide behind an ir.let. Lieut. Harlan P. Pcrrill, of the Atlanta, was ordered to board her, and thereupon a whaleboat was lowered and pulled toward the schooner. It was found that the schooner had on board a hundred armed Colombian soldiers, commanded by Gen. Rafael Novo, who said (Jen. Daniel Ortiz, commandcr-in-chitf of the Colombian forces of the At lantic and Pacific, had a large camp a mile away on the mainland. General Novo requested Lieutenant Pcrrill to land and confer with General Ortiz. After temporarily returning to to the Atlanta Lieutenant Pcrrill went bad: to the schooner, which in the mean time had taken up a position off a beach within a small bay. Great excitement prevailed among the Colombians on the whalebo.-it's approach. There were re peated cries of "Viva Colombia!" 1 here v.-a'i a sudden concentration of about ISO Colombian soldiers on the beach. For some moments the situation appeared dangerous and had the appear ance of an ambuscade. General Ortiz appeared on the beach when Lieutenant Perrill went ashore, the whaleboat in the meantime lying close to the beach. General Ortiz insisted that Lieutenant Perrill should fly the Colombian flag at the bov; of the whaleboat or lower the American flag at her stern, because she was in Colombian waters. Lieutenant Perrill replied that he did not have a Colombian Hag and refused to lower the Stars and Stripes. General Ortiz did not insist upon his so doi,-n, but he pro tested in writing agaiiv.t the presence of the Americans in Colombian waters. Lieutenant Perrill accepted the protest and conveyed it to Commander Turner, who handed it to Rear Admiral Coghlan on his arrival here. Lieutenant Pcrrill's boat's crew con sisted of 12 men. On the first trip they were unarmed, excepting four revolvers. When the . whaleboat approached the schooner 24 soldiers were seen seated on the side nearest to the direction from which the Americans came with rifles lying handily rcro'ss their knees and pointing toward the whaleboat. General Novo, who in a Venezuelan by birth, and .second in command of the Colom bian forces, stood on the deck of the schooner and instantly called out in broken English: "What way is 'his to make war?" Lieutenant Perrill explained that it was not war, but a friendly visit. General Novo, how'evcr, refused to furnish him with any information. An interpreter who boarded the chooner discovered that she had 70 to 80 armed men, packed sardine-like in her hold. Fip'otloo Raised tbe Roof. Indianapolis, I ml. (Special). Three robbers stood guard in the office of the Star Elevator with drawn revolvers, while three of their companions work ed for an hour and exploded seven charges of dynamite. The heavy explo sions raised the root" of the building from its loundalioii. Terrified people in the neighborhood stood at a distance and watched the robbers, who finally became discouraged at their repeated failure to reach the inside of a burglar proof strong box inside the safe and lc(t a few minufes before the police arrived. Commits Suicide by Fire. Oxford, O. (Special). Miss Mary Kyger, aged 40 years, a member of one of the wealthiest families in this county, committed suicide. She saturated her clothing with gasoline and then ct her self 011 fire. No cause is known. Warlike W 1 From Japan. Tokio (By Cable). In consequence of Russia's reply, a special conference of the elder stafesmcn of Japan, includ ing 1 lie Marquis I to and the Cabinet Ministers, is proceeding here. It is understood that the statesmen arc con sidering the adoption of a firm stand against Russia. General Kodama, the War Minister, was present for the first time at the conference. There is re newed activity at the Admiralty, in view of a possible naval demonstration. . "Ualttd Calaabiaas" Formed. Paris (By Cable). The formal or ganization here of the "United Colom bian Committee," with a membership of Colombians throughout Europe, is announced for the purpose of inform ing the LTiropran publie of Colombia's rights in the Panma affair. The Com mittee's headquarters are at 61 Avenue Marccau. The report of Messrs. Contad and Bonaparte on the charges made by S. W. 1 ulloch against the administration ol the Washington Postoftict was sub NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Tbt Cubtn Bill Signed. The President signed the Cuban reci procity bill. If passed the Senate by a vote of 57 to 18. The bill was taken to the White House by Representative I'rank Wachtcr, chairman of the House Com mittee on Enrolled Bills. Mr. Wachter also took with him a gold pen with which the measure had been signed by Speaker Cannon and Senator Fryc, president pro tempore of the Senate. With the same pen, the President affix ed his signature to the bill, thus mak ing it a law. The pen was furnished by Minister Quesada of Cuba, and to him it will be returned. Present, besides the President', at the time of the signing of the measure, were Secretary Loch, William Barnes, Jr., editor of the Albany (New York) Journal; Representative Wachter and Justice James A. Fcchtig of Balti more. Now that the bill has become a law, a question ol great interest lias arisen namely, the effect of the reduction of the duty on Cuban sugar upon im portations ol sugar Irom other conn tries. J he British Government has served formal notice upon the State Department that under the favored na tion clause it expects that Brtish sugar from the British West Indies shall 'be admitted into the United States on equal terms with Cuban sugar, and it is not doubted that Germany, France. Austria and the otner great beet-sugar-producing countries will do likewise, An old holding of Attorney General uincy in President -Cleveland 3 Admsn istration was adverse to such demands, out 1 11c question promises to be reop ened with vigor. To Protect Publishers. In the Senate Mr. Mc Comas reported a bill from the Committee on Patents providing for the protection of foreign exhibitors of artistic, musical and lit erary works at the St. Louis World's Fair, and at his request the bill was given immediate consideration and passed. Protection is afforded foreign exhib itors by giving them the sole right of producing and vending their literary or art works for a term of two years un der the copyright law upon payment of a fee of Si. 50 for each title or descrip tion recorded at the Library of Con gress. The full term of copyright privi lege may be obtained by filing two copies of the original text of any book or copies of any work of art brought into this country for the purpose of ex hibition at St. Louis. Another bill favorably reported in creases the protection given to authors or proprietors of books in foreign lan guages in obtaining translations into the English language for sale hi this country. The Senate' also passed a bill au thorizing the purchase of 2000 acres of land near Columbus, Ohio, upon which to erect a military post. The bill appropriates $180,000. I.elshnnn Was Vigorous. Further advices from Minister LeUh man at Constantinople to the State De partment show that he has made a very energetic protest to the Porte against the action of the Turkish officials at Alcxandrctta in the case of United States Consul Davis. Mr. Leishman's last cable message sustains Consul Davis in hia action, and the State Department, consequently, is not disposed 10 regard favorably anv complaints from tin: Porte against his defense of naturalized American ci'i zens. flail Miy Succeed Trocter. The President has tendered the posi tion of Civil Service Commissioner, made vacant by the death of John R. Procter, to Gen. John C. Black, of Chi cago. General Back is commander in chief of the Grind Army. General Black has not indicated whether or not he will accept the ap pointment. He was Commissioner of Pensions during the second Adminis tration of President Cleveland. In Ihe Departments. The House passed a resolution au thorizing the Committee on Expendi tures in the Postollicc Department to request the Postmaster General to fur nish that committee the papers in con nection with the postoflice investiga tion. The Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds authorized a favorable report on the bill making an appropriation of $7,000,000 for a build ing for the Department of Stale, Jus lice and Labor. Arguments were made in the Crim inal Court on the demurrer to the in dictments against James V. Tyncr and Harrison J. Barrett, accused of con spiracy to defraud the government. The House Committee on Rivers and Harbors was asked to recommend an appropriation of If.t.Rto.ooo for deepen ing the Delaware river channel from Philadelphia 1o the sea. 'Hie Senate raliefid the Chinese Com mercial Treaty. Senators expressed resentment toward Russia for. intrigu ing to prevent more advantageous terms. Henry C. Hallcnbeek and. Norman C. Metcalf, of New York, involved in the postoflice scandal, gave bond for trial. In the Senate, Mr. Daniel, of Vir ginia, made an attack on the adminis tration's policy in Panama. The annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission was submitted to Congress. Charges of using his office to perse cute Col. V. A. Wilder, of Warwick, N. V., were filed against United Slates District Attorney Atkinson, of the Southern district of New York. Capt. Everett E. Benjamin, Twenty seventh Infantry, died in the hospital at Manila, of .malarial fever. He was ap pointed from New York. The Senate confirmed the nomination of William J. Buchanan to be minister to Panama. President Roosevelt has decided that the charges brought against Postmas ter McMichael, of Philadelphia, were not sustained. The Senate passed a bill authorizing the purchase of 2000 acres of land near Columbus, O., upon which to erect a military post. , The Senate committee t expected to confirm the appointment of General Wood as major general. Secretary of War Root wat a wit nest before the Senate Committee on Military Affair, which is investigating the protests against the confirmation ol General Wood. WILL RETIRNON WARSHIP Consul Davis to Oo Back (0 Alexan. dretla on Board a Cruiser. PROMPT ACTION IS TAKEN BY V. S, Tbt Turkish Government Is Willing to Com pensate Atlrlaa and Deport lllm-lt It Understood That the Main Olfenst It the Atstult Upon the United States Consul, a Matter ol dravlty In International Law. Washington, D. C. (Special). As a result of Miuiiter Leishman's advices respecting the Alcxandrctta affair the State Department has requested the Navy Dpartmcnt to place a warship at the disposal of Consul Davis, now at Beirut, upon which he might return to Alcxandrctta ot his pleasure. The Navy Department accordingly cabled instructions to Admiral Cotton, on board the flagship Brooklyn at Alexandria, Egypt, to place a vessel at the disposal of Mr. Davis. It is be lieved the Brooklyn will be selected. It is left to the consul to arrange the terms of his reception. Acting Sc'cretary of State Adcc has taken a firm stand in the matter of the assault upon Consul Davis by Turkish officials and police at Alcxan drctta. He has cabled Minister Irish man to present the facts to the Turk ish government and inform that gov ernment that the case is one seeming to invite an expression of regret and reparation. The State Department does not indi cate what measure of reparation is ex pected, but it is understood that the Turkish government certainly will, bv removal or otherwise, punish the of fending Turkish officials at Alcxandrct ta and compensate Attriau for tho losses and injuries he has sustained. The Turkish government is willing to compensate Attrian and deport him. It is understood that the main offense is the assault upon the Uruted Stales consul, a matter of gravitj' in interna tional law. The consul has found refuge for the time being at Beirut awaiting instruc tions from the State Department or from Minister Leishman as to whether or not he shall return to his post. The information that has reached the de partment is to the effect that Mr. Da vis was acting entirely within his rights and powers, and that while engaged in protecting, as was his duty, a natural ized American citizen, he was set upon by five Turkish policemen and dragged along the ground. It also appears in cidentally that upon recovering his footing the consul promptly 'and sound ly thrashed all five of the policemen. Mr. Leishman, our minister at Con stantinople, under the department's in structions, has made a quick inquiry Into the assault and, while the detailed mail report of the result of his inves tigation has not yet reached the Slate Department, Acting Secretary Adec felt that cable advices warranted him in taking positive action. MISSIONS OF THE WORLD. 3.613,391 Nstltes Form lbs Total Const!!- ueocy. Boston (Special). The American Board of Commissioners for F'orcign Missions made public a summary of Protestant foreign missions. The in come of societies in the United States and Great Britain alone shows an in crease of over $-',000,000. The statistics arc as follows: Stations, 5771; out-stations, 22,364; total missionaries, 16,618: native work ers, 75,281; communicants in churches, 1,307,042; pupils under instruction, 1, 1 27,53. The total native constitu ency is 3.613,391. 1 he United Slates is represented bv 6991 stations and oiii-stations, 1617 men, jo )S women, 20.901 native labor ers, 506,000 communicants, 43.723 added last year, 259.537 under instruction; ill -income of the societies reported is $7;l6,H4.v 'Jhc missionary work of the Hawaiian Islands having been assumed by the churches U the islands, that mission disappears ibis year from the rolls.' But that to the Philippines has been added, so that the number of missions is .si ill twenty. In the Chinese missions of the Amer ican Board there are more 1 hurch mem bers by 885 than before the Boxer out break, while the native laborers have increased neat ly threefold. No oilier or ganization has such interests within the Turkish Empire. These interests the Turkish Government has (ailed to recognize as it should, The United Stales Government is seeking to secure the same privileges for American mis sionaries as have been granted to the subjects of other nations. Mrs. Dow!.- Llvlni Well. Cannes. France (By Cable).--Mrs. Dowie and her son. Gladstone Dowie, arc following the usual habits of tin visitors hero. They have line apart ments and they take their meals in a restaurant. They have a carriage anil enjoy every couu'oit. The hotel-keeper was anxious over the drst news of the financial trouble o( "Elijah III.." hut he seems to be satisfied now that bis patrons have plenty of money. Mrs, Manning it Chosen. St. Louis, Mo. (Special). Mrs. Dan iel Manning, of Albany, N. Y.r was elected president of the World's I'air board of lady managers, vice Mrs. Jas. L. Blair, resigned. She received 13 mil of 15 votes. Mrs. Manning had 110 opposition. She was nominated by Miss Helen Gould, who made a short speech reviewing her qualifications. Tblt Legacy Will Lapse. London (By Cable). The will of the late Cardinal llcrrcro y I-'spinosa con tains, according to a special dispatch from Madrid, the extraordinary bequest of $10,030 to "Ihe first Spanish general landing in United Stales territory with an army sufficiently strong to avenge tho the defeats of Cuba and the Philippines." Pending the happening of this event Ihe legacy is to remain deposited in the Bank of Spain. Idcalllied Stolea Dill. Augusta. Ca. (Special). Frank Mil ler, ulias Frank White, was arrested here and is charged with being one of the men who. cracked the safe. at Guytoii, Ga., and secured several hundred dol lars. On being searched at police bar racks, a number of pennies were found on him. Chief Norri became suspicious, and wired for the manager of the com. pany robbed to come to Augusta. A peculiarly torn $10 bill, which had lecn in the possession of the company for sev eral months, was identified by the irtan ager. ( . WORTH MILLIONS A POUND. Radium Is 6,000 Times More Cosily ThanOold. Baltimore, Md. (Special). The won derful properties of that almost unknown and inuch-discusscd substance which has been called the "modern miracle," but is known as radium, was the subject of an interesting lecture, illustrated with nu merous experiments, by Mr. William J. Hammer, of New York, before the Geo graphical Society of Baltimore at Tea body Hall. Mr. Hammer is probably as well vers ed in the properties of this newly dis covered substance as any person on this side of the ocean, and has for over two years been experimenting with it in this country and abroad. I le exhibited speci mens of the substance ranging from 40 Id 7000 units in strength, and explained the enormous possibilities of it for cither good or evil. In appearance radium resembles salt and could not be told from the while crystal by the uninitiated, but its power ful properties have startled the scien tific world and opened up possibilities hitherto undreamed of. In opening his lecture Mr. Hammer said he should first speak of phosphor escent substances, or those which could be made to give out a cold light, or light without beat, by being stimulated by electric currents, as it was in this field that radium nave promise of beiner of the greatest commercial value. 11c said that it was within the range of pos sibilities that buildings would be lighted by large globes painted with phosphores cent paint and .stimulated with radium, giving out constantly its immense store of light at a speed half that of the light of the sun, which is 186,000 miles a sec ond. He told of the wonderful properties of the radium in giving out these im mense rays constantly without dimin ishing its own weight and said that the assertion of a German scientist that radium did depreciate in weight had uecn acknowledged by the scientist him self to be incorrect. In speaking of radium and radio active substances, Mr. Hammer first ex plained from what radium was obtained. He said it was made from pitchblende, which was found in Bohemia, but was also found in a number of States in tliij country, lie said he had received a let ter from Professor Curie, who, with bis wife, has made the most expensive experiments. Mrs. Curie discovered the substance. Professor Curie said that he was tillable to obtain the pitchblende from Bohemia, except for experimental purposes, as sonic Germans had corner ed the supply, and would not allow him to obtain any for commercial purposes Mr. Hammer said it was known that some Germans had recently come to this country for the purpose of investigating the supply to be obtained here. From 5000 tons gf the pitchblende, Mr Hammer said about 2.2 pounds of radi um could be obtained. Its value had bei: about $2,750,000 a pound, but it had risen to four or five times that amount ami was probably worth about 6000 times a: much as pure gold. The difficulties ol separating it from I lie numerous ingredi ents of which pitchblende was composed he said, could hardly be appreciated and hunting for the proverbial needle in the hay stack was child's play to it. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. W. A. McKowen, secretary of th: board of regents of the California State University, has confessed that he is a defaulter to the amount of $20, 000. Most of the money was lost on the race tracks. . 'ihe application of the Mercantile Trust Company for the appointment ol an additional receiver for the United States Shipbuilding Company was de nied. Serious difficulty is being encounter ed in the construction of the new East River tunnel from the Battery to Brooklyn. Rear Admirals Evans and Cooper ar rived at Honolulu with the ships of the North Asiatic Squadron. A quarrel over six cents resulted in the murder of two persons in the Italian quarter of Philadelphia. Charles Cawley, 18 years old, was placed on trial for the murder ot five members of his family. Two men lost their lives and one was fatally hurt in a freight collision mar Pawnee, Kan. A feeling of uneasiness prevails in Meel structural quarters over the sub ject of prices. I'.t I. vi en 75 and loo people were ren dered homeless by a lire at Millvalc, Pa. Dr. Frank B. Mallory, of the Harvard Medical School, has made an mportant di.-covcry ;is to the origin of scarlet fever. New York police have begun an inves tigation hi ihe death of Adolphus I 'i inker, a former member of the Brit i.-li Parliament. W, S. Crosby, of the Chicago Boari' of Trade, declares that the campaigr. :i i 1 1 -t the bucket shops has been r failure. Major William 11. Garland, who haf shaken hands with every president sinct Washington, died at Johnson City Tctm. Testimony will lie taken of the charge: against Attorney Tleorge A. Lamb b; the Northern Pacific Railway Company A reduction of wages averaging 1; per cent, mid a Heeling 30,000 men it the Coiiucllsv illc coke regions has beet announced. The engineer of 11 Chcago-Dcnvc! Iqnilcd train was killed near Oiuah; by the locomotive jumping the track. The assets of the Consolidated Laki Superior Company were sold at auc lion in New- York to Speyer & Co.. A. C. Bushiicll. cashier of the Yah National Bank. New Haven, Ct., tho himsvlf at Ihe bank building. Willi the exception of France, al Ihe power interested in the Venezuela! arbitration have forwarded to the tri bunal a notification of the trrifkatior ' of their claims by the Caracas Com mission. Judgment will be deliterci1 early in February. The Jsea of Azof is disappearing and ihe waters have receded to such an ex tent 111 live days that the bed uf the sej is visible' lor a distance uf thousands of feet. France will make a favorably reply to the Austro Russian proposal for the establishment. of the Cretan system of administration for Macedonia. Italy and Great Britain arc aKo expected to accept it. ; In consequence of Ihe reduction 0 wages by Ihe United Slatet Steel Cor poration 1 lie Scotch tecl makers arc negotiating with the view of fixing tell ing prices and amending the wage stale. , , 'Ihe cruiter Dixie disembarked 330 marines ot Colon and thry left inime- , diately for Empire Station, near Pan ama, taking with them 16 machine guns and 0 automatic guns. I I ' ' ' ' THE KEYSTONE STATE Lalest Nes ot Pennsylvania Told In Shnrt Ordsr. Under the act of 1887. a charter was applied for at the Slate Department for the Warren Academy of Science, at Warren, Pa., the purpose of which was "educating the public by exhibiting ar tistic, mechanical, agricultural and hor ticultural products and providing in instruction in the arts and sciences." Govrrnor Pcnnypacker referred the matter to Attorney General Carson, who has decided against the charter. The act of 1887, he says, applies only to eutcprises that give national, in terstate or international exhibitions and not to private enterprises. The act confers the right of eminent domain. "I cannot conceive," says the Attorney General, "that it was ever intended by the Legislature to confer upon an acad emy of science, even though exhibiting artistic, mechanical, agricultural and horticultural products, power so sweep ing and dangerous. No other educa tional institution in the land has power to take public property or the property of a private citizen for its purpose. Our great universities and other educational and scientific institutions possess col lections of great value and magnitude, of the highest educational importance, and yet they do not possess the powei of eminent domain. I see no reason foi stretching the terms of the statute so as to cover the present application." Several hundred striking female weavers of the Dti Plan Silk Company and their sympathizers gathered at the mill in Hazlcton and attacked the forty or fifty girls who had been in the milf all day when they tried to go to theil homes. Four constables tried to stem the rush for the workers, but they wen swept aside and Constable John Dusct was knocked down and trampled upon, Andrew Leingang, who attempted ta go to the rescue of his daughter, win also felled by a blow from one of the male sympathizers of the strikers. Thr girls from the mill were roughly han dled. Then finally retreated to the building and remained there until 10.3c o'clock. At this hour Sheriff Albcr Jacobs, who had been in Philadelphia, arrived on the scene and afforded th girls safe escort to their homes. Tin sheriff and a number of officers guard' cd the grounds and drove back a crowe of one hundred strikers who gathered The presence of pickets, however, de terred the operators from going to t lie mill and the plant could not be started) The part pi Montgomery county be- I ll'PPtl f Pill.- Ill IriM-ll -i.trl A .i.KIn- .a i . fested with thieves and the residcnlj suffer much from their depredations '1 In: scene of operations was transfer red to Fort Washington where foul houses were enlere-l. At ex-Postmaster HufTnagL,-s home the burglars en tered by u rear window. They ran sacked the house from cellar to gar ret. Mr. and Mrs. riurTnaglc heard them at work in the dining-room and attempted to go down, but found theit room door guarded bv a burglar. Otf the third floor the thieves secured a number of old coins. From a. vest pocket beside the bed of George Scheffer, who was visiting the Huff iiaglcs. the thieves took his gold watch ' They leisurely went about their work, although Mr. HurTnaglc was calling out a window for help, as they knew his calls could not be heard by the near est neighbor. They next entered th house of Dr. G. H. Ewing, but sccun ed no booty. Except as to eatable; they , were likewise unrewarded afte breaking into the home of Mrs. Sam uel Maust. In attempting to enter the home of John II. Morris thev were scared off by a dog. ' jsernvilic will he lighted with clec tricity. - j A case of smallpox has developed in Doylestown. A Iodize of the ladies of the Golden Eagles has been organized in Picas- antville. Charles Muruliv. of Wilkp.shnrrp. -n frozen to death in Manor in the water of Brush creek. ihe cold weather has increased the demand for coal to such tin extent that the supply in the storage yards in rott'vuic i rapiniy Ijcmjr depleted. illiain A.. Snyder, of Barto, shot I'lO rabbits, 32 irav suuirrels. 8 Hood- chuck, 6 pheasants ami other small game during the hunting .season just closed. Louis Long, of Ha;:lc(on, in hurrying to summon a doctrr to attend his wife. fell and three f.ngers of his right hand were fractured. Loim was later arrest ed, charged witll beating his wife. By order of court, Edward Ricker, of Easton, who killed his wife last Sep tember with an ax, was acquitted in court on the ground of insanity. Ricker will be sent to the Norristowti Asylum. A grand juror was Uncharged from duty at court at Lebanc.ii on an alle gation that smallpox exis'.-i in his home. The juror persisted thtit the dis-ease in merely chicken pox, and refused l" leave the courtroom until 'threatened with arrest. While Vi'illi.ini Grim, a farm hand, near RothrocUi.ville. was watering mules, one of the a:.ir.ials kicked him, tearim; off his face and part of his head. It is feared he will die. Mrs. Clara A. Franklin, widow of Colonel Fnfyn 1'iaiiklin, of the One Hundred and T.vcnty-second Pennsyl vania Volunteers, died nt Lancaster, aged 70 years. 'ihe Young ?.ft:i's Christian Associa tion of West Chc-tcr. lieid a special ser vice Sunday to signalize the fact that sufficient subscriptions have been secur ed to iiisuie Ine permanency of the in- sti'.tiliou. . An overturned oil stove caused a fire at. the residence of Patrick Reilly, ii Norristown. Reilly's mother, who is 8o years old, is an invalid and the flame ignited the bed on which she was r.slecp. The woman was enveloped iit (lames when Reilly went to her assist- unci r,ii(..t:eucu iii vm lying iivr iv a place of safety. The tire department . extinguished the blaze. Gottlieb Waltz, aged 45 .years, a Lan caster peddler, commuted suicide in hi cell at tl:e police station 111. that city. He was arrested for drunkenness and idiom 10 o'clock was found hanging by his suspenders from a steam pipe. v Intelligent Dog Diet. After an absence of a week, Re, a French poodle bolonglng to Fields Rboadb, a newspaper dealer of Chea ter, Pa,, wu found dead lirV ditch by lta owner. Tbe dog always accom panied bla master on hit newapa,pr rounds and served many; of tb Cus tomers, taking the papers in' his' mouth and leaving them on the door atepa or carrying thorn Into th yard, as Instructed. Mr. Rboads avers that the poodla would often take papers front tb store to cuHtotnera and would never mako a mlotake,- going unerringly to the bouse of tbe pernon to which tui was directed. "Celled!, Rei!" meant tbat be wis to bring book penny, and tbe C . 1 would wait until tbe peony hat) t.,a given to him. '
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