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The Job department of the Pittsss Is complete ann .iff ird-. facilities fur eloing the best class of w >rlt. Pari rxi.ah attention paid to law Phinting. No paper will be discontinued until arrear- IK s are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid tcr in advance. Gen. Lloyd Wheaton is very pe>)-.u lar with his soldiers in the Philip pines, who speak of nim among them selves as "Old Dad." It is a favorite joke that he needs no staff, because ite ran make himself heard half a mile without straining himsell. Prussia has 200 meteorological sta tions fully equipped, 2,200 rain gage stations anel 1,400 stations that record storms and unusual phenomena. The results of their observations are re duced and published for each week, for each month and for each year. The longest brielge In the world is the Lion bridge, near Sangang, in Chi na. It extends live and one-quarter miles over an arm of the Yellow sea, anel is supported by 300 huge stono arches. The roadway is 70 feet above the water and is enclosed in an iron network. The Kansas agricultural college is sending out $1,300 worth of prairie dog poison a month, ant', is unable t > supply the demand, it appears that the compound it prepares is especially effective as an exterminator, two quarts being sufficient to clear an en tire quarter section in the most dense ly infested districts. Tlie only Hindoo writer of English fiction is said to be Saran Kumar Ghosh. lie is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical society, and he showed such aptitude for legal work that the late Lord Chief Justice earnestly ad vised him to practice at the English bar. He is young, unmarried, a tenor singer of Italian love songs anel Scotch ballads. He is to be presented to the king next' year. SotrJi Germany's oldest monastery, the Benedictine abbey of Wessobrun, founded in 735 and confiscated in 1803, has been restored to the Benedictine order by tlaron von Cramer-Klett, a protestant, and will soon be reoccu by monks. The baron bought all the lands antl remaining buildings of the old abbey from the Bavarian state for 900,000 marks and sold them to tho Benedictines for a nominal sum. In order to interest the public school children in the campaign against the browntail moth the board of trade of Lynn, Mass., has offered a prize to the grammar school in that city collecting the largest number of nests, and an other pri/.e to the room in the school with the highest average per pupil. The trees in Lynn are badly infested by the moths, and ten men are em ployee! all the year around in remov ing and burning the nests. There is no more interesting or cu rious sight than that of the crater Aso San, about 30 miles from the city of Kumamoto, in Japan. The crater has long since ceased to belch forth cinders and lava, anel is now inhabited by 20,000 people, who live and prosper within its vertical walls, 800 feet high. The inhabitants rarely make a journey into the outer world, but form, as it were, a little nation by themselves. Far away Japan has been penetrated by the women's club movement. The dainty little brown women who havo always been likened to butterflies have become conscious that a useful life is more te> be desired than an or namental one, antl they are going in for progress heart and soul. One of their "new woman" movements, called the Japan Society for the Culture of Women, already has a membership of 10,000 women in towns and villages throughout the country. In the vast tropical forests that clothe the banks of the Amazon river and its tributaries there are gathered every year 24,000 tons of rubber, and 120,000 laborers are engaged in get ting it out. This requires the tapping of some 24,000,000 trees, anel, as tho rubber trees are scattered through the weioels, with an average of two trees to the ae're, it may be taken that since the beginning of the sea son in last August 50,000,000 acres of Amazonian forest have been worked for rubber. Queen Wiihelmina of Holland, un like several other European sov -4 ereigns, e:an leave her dominions when she likes, and is at no time obliged to remain in her kingdom, in this re spect she is more fortunate than, for instance, tho yotftig ruler of Spain and his mother, who can not leave the peninsula without previously obtain ing a full-fledged permission from the national legislature. The only obli gation placed upon Queen Wiihelmina in this respect is that of spending a minimum of 10 days each year at Am sterdam, which is the real metropolis. PTRACE PARTY TO BLAME. Gni. FnnN|on'a Opinion of (IK* Amerl run Supporter* nf lli€* Phil ippine* While guest of the Marquette club, Chicago, a few days ago, Gen. Fred erick Funston, of Kansas, captor of Aguinaldo, spoke at some length on existing conditions in the Philippines. Among other things he said: "Had It not been for the so-called peace party In the states the insurrection would have been suppressed finally In January, WOO. Since that time 600 lives have been sacrificed and millions of dollars have been spent. Were it not for the hope of the few leaders still under arms that the United States is on the verge of a civil war in their behalf all resistance would be at an end. , "Two negro soldiers deserted our army and for a time served In the Insurgent army. They were caught ar.d hanged. It would have been more of an act of justice had we hanged some of the people who ilfiu d the recent petition to congn asking that we confer with the Filipino leaders In an ef fort to secure peace. "In the one case two Ignorant beings were executed, while in the other people more guilty than they and In possession of their senses were allowed togo free. "We are Informed that Maj. Waller, one of the bravest and best officers In the army, !s to be court-martialed because he shot some natives who stole the food from his starving men. If that is true, 1 say, 'bully for Waller.' 1 am glad he did it. "What I say to-night may not be dis creet, but it is the nak« d truth, and array officers who have served In the Islands will bear out my statements. There has been so much said here at home by the other side—so much bullying by the cop perheads—that 1 cannot remain silent. "No matter what the cost in men and money, the Insurrection must and will be suppressed, livery trace of resistance must be stamped out for all time. When that is done It will be time to decide what shall be done with the Philippines. It Is not a party question, it Is not a question of re ligion. or of race, it is a plain case of duty that must be done, and well done. (l« n. King and the other officers here to-night will bear me out In that statement also. "Through all this wretched business I have never known a wounded Filipino or a defenseless native to be maltreated or killed. So much for our critics. "I am for my country, right or wrong, but in this case It is right. There nev< rhas been a time when we could withdraw from the islands without a total disregard for our plain duty. The responsibility for the continuance of then sistance to our army should be place d wh« re it is due. From the lips of Agulr.aldo himself, and from other leaders of the insurrection. I know that for the last two years they have been encour aged to shoot down our men and continue their warfare by the copperhead sentiments of people here In the states. "The great mass of the natives do not know what Independence Is. Ninety-five per cent, want to be left alone, and prefer to be governed by others thun themselves. The case of Cuba has been held up to us as an example of what we could do in the far east. "I believe my experience In both countries has given me tin Insight Into the character of both peoples. There ire to Cuban leaders who are the superiors of any leader the Filipinos ever had. There is r.o compari son between tin- two. And lam not lying awake either, thinking of how I love the Cubans. "It Is a well known matter of history that when the city of Manila was surren dered to the army under Gen. Merritt and Admiral Dewey the United States was morally responsible for the welfare of some hundreds of Spanish families, some tens of thousands of Spanish soldiers, part of whom had fallen prisoners to Aguinaldo. If we had gone off and left those men to the mercy of an Irresponsible, turbulent and uncontrollable mob which constituted the army of Aguinaldo there would have been n massacre that would have been at least equal to the massacres of Bulgaria and Armenia, and would have been a standing blot and disgrace to the United States. So well for holding it when the city was first taken. When has there been a time since then when we could let go? Now. will some anti-imperialist member answer me that? When could we let go?" PERPLEXED DEMOCRATS. Leaders tppnrently Contemplating the Adoption nf Republican Policies. At tlif* recent democratic love feast in New York an attempt was matle to harmonize the Cleveland and Bryan factions by invoking memories e»f Til den. liourke Coekran spe>ke eloquent ly eif the leadership of the past when Samuel J. Tililen was a fe>ree in poli tics, forgetful of the fact that the pol icy urged by Tilden was repudiated by demeicrats and adopted by republicans, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. William C. Whitney, heiwever, who was closely associated with Tilden, and who advocateel a vigorous naval policy when Tiden was pleading for coast defenses, does ne>t see any ef ficacy in plat it tides about Tilden ideals, or about the leadership e>f the past. He is looking te> tlie future and hoping that the deroex-ratic party may find a McKinley or a Roosevelt to lead it in a fight for modern ideas. Another equally preiminent New York democrat is repeirteel te> maintain that if the democracy were te> goto the country tinder strong leadership ttpein the issues presented in 1 lie last address of William McKinley at Buffalo they would solve the problem eif democratic unity. The astonishing thing about all this is that the demeicrats who are look ing to the leadership and the tradi tions eif the past, anel tlieise who are looking te> new leadership in the fu ture, both contemplate the adoption of republican policies. The Tilden policy of ISSS was the use of the sur plus in the treasury to build coast de fenses, anel te> prepay? to support by force of arms, if need be, the Monroe doctrine. The policy was not adopted by the demeicrats. but was indue time taken up by the republicans, and we have now, neit only a line rtf e-eiast defenses, but a more powerful navy than even Mr. Whit ney contemplated. Moreover, the polie-y enunciated by President Mc- Kinley in his address at HttlTalo was the' same as declared by Mr. Reiosevelt in his address at Minfteapeilis. and it is lhe same policy for Which President Reiosevelt. now stands. The democrats whe» loeik forward, as well as those wliei have their eyes fixed on the past, have, then, nothing better te> eiffer in the way eif a national policy than that representee! by the present republican aelministration. There is hardly a parallel in party liisteiry to this situation. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1902 FOR PHILIPPINE KELIEF. Tlie> Democratic Ponltlun on tlx* Tnrifl llill (or llinl l*ari»one In tor Olmtruetlon, The Philippine tariff bill, as amend ed, passed the senate by a strict party vote. The republicans solidly sup ported it, the democrats with equal unanimity voting against it. The demo cratic attitude in the senate is practi cally the same as in the house, where the minority, with but few striking ex ceptions, also antagonized the bill at the time of its passage, says the Troy Times. The democratic position is neither logical nor pat riotic. The Philippines belong to the I'nited States under the terms of a treaty ratified by democrat ic as well as republican votes in the senate. The question what shall be done with them is not a-partisan one. .lust at present the most vital matter is that of providing them with an in come sufficient to meet the needs of government, and of relieving their in dustries and commerce from burden some exactions. The tariff bill is framed with the commendable purpose of meeting these needs. Vet the dem ocratic minority sturdily opposes the plan. But the bill will become a law. The house is yet to act on I he amendments made by the senate, though there is little likelihood of serious disagree ment, and the measure is pretty cer tain togo to the president and to re ceive his approval before many days have passed. As it stands now the bill requires articles imported into the Philippines to pay such duties as may be imposed by the Philippine commis sion, while articles imported into the I'nited States from the Philippines shall pay a duty of 7.1 percent, of the rates fixed by the Dingley law on im ports from other countries, less the export duty that may be levied at the shipping point. Relief from the navi gation laws of the United States is also gran/ed to commerce passing between the Philippines and this country, and the internal revenue laws of the I'nit ed States are suspended so far as con cerns articles manufactured in bonded 'manufacturing warehouses of import ed materials or of materials subject to such tax and shipped to the Philip pines. All the duties and taxes collected un der the law are to be paid into ihe treasury of the Philippine islands. In short, in order to help the islands the American government surrenders a considerable portion of the income it might otherwise receive. This is the same broad policy it has pursued to ward Porto I!ieo and is proof of its kindly spirit toward its far eastern possessions. BRYAN DEPRECATES HILL. Not in Sympathy with tin* Cloutl- Kn isi ii- Trumpeter of the Km pi re State. Mr. Bryan considers" the latest epoch-making appearance of Mr. ilill in The Commoner and indicates that he is not deeply impressed thereby, lie has, of course, reasons personal and peculiar for his lack of sympathy, but some of his opinions will be pretty gen erally shared by his countrymen, for Mr. llill has ceased to be a novelty as an epoch-maker. Ilis great speeches are found always to resolve themselves into reverberating sound. They are so vague and illusory as to suggest, the simile employed in a recent review of a work by Victor Hugo: "When it is all ended and one looks back it is as if one tried to recall the shapes and col ors of an avalanche of clouds seen by night over a wide and tossing sea." If Mr. Hill has not quite all of Hugo's eloquence he is a cloud raiser in his own way and more given to clangor and clamor than to sense, says the Chicago Uecord-Herald. The famous "1 am a democrat" never had any meaning. It was crude clap-trap. And Bryan is wholly justified in saying that Hill's po sition on the money question is that of an artful dodger. The speech at the Manhattan club at New York is a clear case of dodge itself, and it recalls the time w hen most of the politicians were dodging and llill was trying to be the most artful of them all. He then discovered the expression "free bimetallic coinage" and used it in one of the epoch-making addresses. It was considered a very pretty patent by the Hill claque of that day. but the people are not captivated by mere eva sion, and even the politicians have out lived evasion on the money question sfnee a straight issue was made of it. When the ex-senator speaks now of declaration "in favor of the general principle of bimetallism" he talks like a ghost suddenly sprung upon us out of the dead past. DRIFT OF OPINION. CCol. Tiryan now admits that he talked too much in 18!I0 and 1900. But the admission is not startlingly new. There once was a parrot which made the same confession.—Troy Times. democratic politicians who are trying to make political capital out of the visit of Prince Henry are likelt to discover that the (ierman-Ameri cans have votes. —Cftveland Leader. t headlines of a democratic pa per declare "t hat t lie greatest business ( revival now obtains in the states south of Mason and Dixon's line." This is doubtless true, but * came with re publican policies.—lndianapolis Jour nal. KTThere are a few jilver men left. Vvventy-five out of the 41 silver mem bers of the Colorado legislature have 1 asked the democratic state convention to name a free silver candidate for sen tator. Better liavo your fun now, foi Colorado will soon come into the re publican column and all silver men will then be sent to the extreme rear.— lowa State Register. PERI LOUS MARCH. Miij. Waller Tells About- His Journey Across Sninur. Starting ivltli jil lien. Eleven ol Tliem Hied troiu Fxliaimtlon -- Tile l'arty Suffered ton nt lean ■ lard nli I pK--Expedi tion a Failure. Washington, March 20.—The navy department has made public another report from Maj. Waller, recounting in detail the stirring events of his tragic effort to cross the island of Samar. Maj. Waller begins with a statement. that Lieut. Williams, Seventh infantry, who had returned from a 12 days' trip in a fruitless search for a trail, and ('apt. Picker ing urged him not to make the at tempt to cross Samar on account of the difficulties. But he decided to make the attempt in view of the commanding general's evident desire to find the trail and run a wire across, starting with 50 men on De cember 26 from Laming. The rivers were much swollen and it took a long i time to get the boat through the rapids. Trails were picked up only to be lost again and the rain came down in torrential bursts. The river j the men were following curved al most to a circle, and the banks held jno trails. The route crossed and re j crossed the river every few minutes, I and the men began to develop water i sores and chafes. The knowledge that tliey made four or five miles in i direction for each 12 miles of march I was depressing. On the 30th re ; dueed rations were issued. A raft was built, but sank with one man on it. Starting down the river, ' word came to Waller that many men ! could not keep up, so he decided to j forge ahead for relief with 13 of the j strongest men, leaving (apt. Porter iu command of the main body Word from the rear was that the men could make only three miles a j day. There was only enough bacon |to fry the potatoes. The natives j were reported to be threatening j Porter and altogether the expedition ! was in a bad way. Two natives were captured and pressed into service as j guides. Finally the Spanish trail ! was found, but simultaneously a large boat was discovered and the i start was made for Basey. The re i port says: "The men, realizing that all was 1 over and that they were safe, and | once more near home, gave up. Some I quietly wept, others laughed hvster i ically. Most of the men had no j shoes; cut, torn, bruised and dilapi dated, they had marched without murmur for 2!) days, and had accom plished what no white troops had ] done before." j \t Basey Waller was taken sick | with fever, and suffered also from j )iis injured ankle. He says that the expedition was of no value except to ■ show that the mountains can be pen- I etrated and that there are no in i surgents there. Waller says that he was the only one of his party able to move on i February 8. Ten of the men died of I exhaustion and one in the hospital. All of the others, except (apt. 1 Ben res, Lieut, llalford, Lieut. Lyles and .\..ij. Waller himself, either were or had been in the hospital at the date of the report. The length of his march was 250 miles. QUESTION OF TITLE. The Senate'* lotliinlan toimnlHKlon Argue* It. Washington, March 20. —Senator Morgan, from the committee on isth mian canals, has presented to the J senate the majority and minority re- ! ports of that committee on the ques tion of the validity of the title of the new* Panama Canal Co. and its right to transfer the Panama canal prop- j erty to the United States for $40,000,- j I 000. The objections of the majority to } ! the title held by that company are i based largely on the relations of the I canal company to the governments 1 j of France and Colombia, but the I 1 committee also discusses at length j ! many other phases of the question, j Among these is the relation of the ! j shareholders who subscribed $200,- 000.000 to the old Panama Co., whose | interests, the report holds, cannot be j lightly regarded. On this point the I report says: "The spectacle of the United States I congress authorizing the president, | as the agent of our government, to conduct a trade with such a corpor j ation (the new Panama Co.) without I consulting France as to the claim of i independence it (the new Panama j Co.) asserts, will be entirely new in j the history of nations and its conse ! quences cannot be lightly disre i garded. "Among these is the serious danger of the United States being drawn into disagreeable relations with a large and influential body of the peo ple of France whose friendship for us has been cherished during the en tire life of our republic, and had its origin in magnanimous sacrifices for our country when this government was in the travail of its birth. Un fortunately the report of the isth mian canal commission reveals the fact that the men who make us the | offer are chief among those who de frauded these 600,000 or 800,000 Frenchmen of $250,000,000." The minority report completely up holds the title of the New Panama Co. Found TV'O flew. Indianapolis, March 20. Adams Ex press Co. officials say, concerning the disappearance of L. S. McKee, of In dianapolis. their messenger running from Indianapolis to St. Louis, on March 3, that absolutely no clew has been found. The whole country has been covered with pictures and de scriptions of Melvce. Fertilizer Plant Oewtroyed. Columbus, ()., March 20.—The ware house of the Ohio Farmers' Fertilizer Co., covering about two acres, was burned last night. Loss $60,000; fullj insured. A FIGHT IN COURT. Mercer ofNow York's Street Hallway* In Involved—lllHtory ot tlie fattc. New York, March 22.—Argument was heard by Justice Oildersleeve in the supreme court Friday in the pro ceedings begun by 11. Contente and by I.and S. Wormser to restrain the proposed lease of the Metropolitan street railway to the Interurban Street Railway Co. Both actions are based on the claim that the action contemplated, which was ratified at a meeting of the stockholders on Thursday, is illegal and fraudulent in that it. involves the transfer of the earnings of the Metropolitan sys tem to persons other than the stock holders of the company. It. is also contended that the priv ilege given to the Metropolitan stock holders to subscribe for stock of the Metropolitan Securities Co., which it is proposed shall operale the system, was in effect a bribe to secure the ap proval of two-thirds of the stock holders, and is a violation of the rights of those who do not. approve the scheme. The argument was • opened for the plaintiffs by Tread well Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland recited t.lic principal points of the agreement between the Metropolitan Street Railway Co. and i the Interurban Railway Co. He said: "This little Interurban Co. with a | $">00,000 capital assures a 7 per lent. | dividend on $52,000,000 worth of Met ! ropolitan stock. The gist of the plan jis this: To this little railroad is to j be leased all the great property of the Metropolitan and what is it to pay? Twenty-three millions. What is it they receive? I assert that the Metropolitan has in its treasury to day $13,000,000 of unpledged secur ities. It also has $11,000,000 of bonds. "The Interurban is to pay $25,000,- 000 on the installment plan, when it can. In return the Metropolitan turns over to the Interurban $24,000,- 000. The Interurban is to guarantee the stockholders of the Metropolitan 7 per cent, dividends. The Metropol itan, according to shrewd men, is a good stock. In ten years it will lie vastly more valuable. I'lie stockhold ers will thus be juggled out of their earnings on the long years of pros perity before this concern. This is a Ity before this concern. This is a j bold, a remarkable plan by which a | small band of Wall and I'ine street j gentlemen hope to get hold of an ; enormously wealthy property." , Mr. Cleveland contended that the j Interurban Co. was merely a blind to enable the Metropolitan Securities ! Co. to get hold of the Metropolitan | road. Mr. Outline in reply declared that ! many of the statements made by Mr. Cleveland were without foundation, "livery step in tilts matter has been < taken at the advice of eminent eoun | set," he said. "There may have been I mistakes of judgment, but these were | not the fault of the stockholders." Mr. Cwthrie said that at present there were 'BO miles of New York j streets on which were run horse cars. I Under the new system the motive | power in these streets would be j changed to electricity. Mr. (luthrie j declared that last year the Metropol- I itan system had been operated at a J deficit of $31,000. He contended that | the directors had the interest of the I small stockholders at heart when | they came to consider the financial i situation. Mr. Guthrie then went i into the history of the lease of the Metropolitan system to the Inter urban. He saifl tlvftt the whole mat ter had for its singleness of purpose the protection of the Metropolitan Street Railway Co. stockholders. There was no community of interest between the Metropolitan Railway Co. and tin 1 Interurban. They had en tirely different directors and officers. Judge Oildersleeve reserved his de cision. FINANCE AND TRADE. Evidence* of Improvement arc Nit* ■lieroiiM In All Hraiirlien of Industry. New York, March 22. — It.(i. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: ICvidences of further improvement are numerous. Labor controversies are less threatening, many settlements having been effected, while others are momentarily anticipated; wages have been advanced, not only through strikes, but in some cases voluntar ily; Iratlic congestion has subsided until it is possible to deliver goods according to specifications. Aside from some idle footwear shops, the leading lines of manufacture are very fully engaged, while jobbing trade is of exceptional magnitude. Retail dealings are also very large, the Raster stimulus being felt in all lines of wearing apparel. With domestic demands so vigorous, it is especially encouraging to notice a gain from the last week on foreign trade at the principal ports. Pressure for iron ami steel has not diminished perceptibly, yet the im pression is growing that after July 1 the situation will become approxi mately normal and it will be possible to secure deliveries with some de gree of promptness. This is the more probable as there has been a further stiffening of quotations and additional importations. and I'lve .lien Liwt. Boston, March 22.—'('apt. Keane, of the tug lid ward Lukenbach, which ar rived here Friday from Newport News, reports the loss of the barge Hamilton, which his tug had in tow, off Highland light on Wednesday. It is feared that the barge has found ered and that ('apt. Shoemaker and his crew of four men were drowned. A Close <'onte*t. Ann Arbor, Mich., March 22. — (icorge W. Maxey, of Forest City, I'a., won the Cniversity of Michigan ora torical contest last night, and re ceived the Chicago alumni bronze medal and $75 in gold. Sylvester J. Kolin, of Cleveland, took second and the SSO prize. Stuart Wells I t ley, of Detroit, got third. The contest was an extremely close one, and in the case of Kolin and L'tley, there was a tie on total marks. Maxey will rep,v. sent Michigan in the inter-collegia to seiue3t, and h'.ohn will go as alter nate. A GRAVE CHARGE. Publishing' Firm Accused of Defrauding Through Mail. Po«t Oflice Dclortlvi* Take Action in tlx- l ate mid (lit- Arrest of Olllcerai ofllie Philadelphia Concern Sunn Follow--Victim* Itudly Fooled. Philadelphia, March 21. —'Charles R, Graham, president of the People's Publishing Co.; William L. Ilolloway, former manager of the company, and George Y. Clements, former assist ant manager, were yesterday held »i $2,000 bail each for trial on the charge of using the mails to cheat and de fraud. The charge was preferred by Post Office Inspector llolden, who testified at the hearing that the People's Co. had for a long time past been making a practice of securing agents for thy sale of alleged worthless books. 1I<; said they employed canvassers and general agents to dispose of their publications. It is alleged that the. sum of $!»oo is asked from the agents, with the understanding that, it is to be used as a deposit as an expression of good faith for one year's time. .At. the expiration of the year, if the agreement is found to be unsatisfac tory, the deposit money is to be re turned. According to letters received by the post office authorities from Prof. L. 11. Thomas, of Wilkinsburg, Pa.; 1". I). Owings, of Knoxville, Tenn.; George Spiney, of I'ntsburg, and many others, this agreement has not been adhered to. The alleged victims assert that when they receive the books they find them valueless for canvassing. William L. Ilalloway and (Jeorge Y. Clements recently went out of the People's Publishing Co. and started a concern of their own called the "Do minion Company." The books of the People's Publish ing Co. are allowed to be valueless and the business of the general agents of the defendants in securing other sub-agents, is said to have netted them $25,000, as far as is at present known by the post office au t liorit ies. Cincinnati, March 21. —Lewis Ti. Ilolloway was arrested Thursday, charged with using the mails to de fraud. The complaint was made by J. W. Fulton, of Columbus, ()., who says Ilolloway obtained from him S.BOO in payment for an out tit as salesman for the People's Publishing Co. Fulton was to sell books at a salary of $1,500 a year, lie alleges that he has been defrauded by rep resentations sent him through the mail by Ilolloway. The post office in spectors who had charge of the ease, say that complaints have come from other persons, of experiences similar to that of Fulton, llollowav gave bail. WILL BE WOUND UP. A "Tontine Association" Is Ordered to Crane Hiikliicmn Man a Gold 711 tie for Its .11 aiiau,em. Minneapolis, Minn., March 21. — I Judge McCihee in an order filed Thursday dissolved the Tontine Sav ings association. The charter and articles of incorporation arc declared forfeited. George P. Flannery, at torney. has been appointed receiver and directed to take charge of the company's elfects and convert them into cash. According to the memorandum, when the present company was re-or ganized, May 4. 1 N'.lS. there was prac tically a deficit of $23,520 from its predecessor. It has done a tremend ous business since then, but upwards of {to per cent has been outside of the state. Owing to the "endless chain'* features of the company's plan, the liability grew each year. I'p to De cember 7, 1901, Ihe memorandum says, the deficit had increased in three years, seven months and three days from $23,520, to $1,292,200. From Judge Mcfihee's memoran dum it appears that the five directors of the association, on a paid up cap ital of only $2,750, received in 1001 the sum of SBO,OOO in dividends and $25,000 in the same way in the first 32 days of 1002. ON A HERESY CHARGE. r\ Prominent HetliodlM I*readier I». < Ited to Appear for Trial. Mel'herson, Kan., March 21. —Rev. Granville I.outlier, pastor of a local church, was served with papers at a Methodist Episcopal conference here yesterday charging him wilh heresy and setting forth that he would be tried at Arkansas City, Kan., March 26. Kev. Louther is charged with being guilty "of disseminating doc trines contrary to and subversive of the doctrines of the Methodist Kpis copal church," and it is alleged that he is "Atheistic and evolutionistic." Mr. Louther has been identified fur years with the Kansas State Holiness association as its president. He be lieves that in religion, as well as in world building, good is proceeding front lower to higher forms and that this process must continue in the future as it has in the past. He con tends that creeds are valuable only as landmarks. JoK<> And rado ihcn. New York, March 21.—Jose An drade, for six years Venezuelan min ister at Washington, died Thursday at his home in tins city, aged 04. lie had occupied nearly every high polit ical office in Venezuela. A Pythian Conclave. Chicago, March 21.—Knighthood flowered in Chicago yesterday. It was the day that had been set apart as one of jubilee for all Knights of Pythias in the supreme domain and 50,000 members of the order were in attendance. They poured into the city till dusk, thronged the corridors of every appointed rendezvous, marched through the streets behind a score of bands and finally assem bled at the Coliseum in such numbers, that thousands were turned a way.; Those that were barred from the hall of conclave gathered elsewhere. '
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