CENSUS REPORT
ON NEW SOUTH
Population Increases There More Rap
idly Than in North.
FRONTIER NO LONGER A FACTOR
While There Has Been During the Past Dee
cade a Marked Decrease in the Percentage
of Increase of Population in the West and
a Decided Decrease in the East, the South
Shows a Slight lucrease.
Washington, D. C., (Special) ~ The
Director of the Census announced the
percentage of increase of population in
for the last decade a rapid decrease from
previous rate of growth of
in the West; a marked,
cided. decrease in the North and a slight
the South. For the
time in the history of this country the
population of the South has increased
somewhat more rapidly than that of the
North. The East, geographically, 1s mn-
cluded in the term North. The rate of
the growth in tne North, West and
South is far more nearly the same than
it ever has been. The official announce
ment divides the country as
West. from the Pacific to the eastern
boundary of Montana, Wyoming, Colo
rado and New Mexico: North and
South, the res id of a line
formed by the | Ohio riv
ers and the sout!
souri and Kansas.
increase from 186o to
the North; 484 in the
in the West, while 1
1880-1000. it was 48
in the South and
Prior to the Civ
States nearly doul
each 20
States
only al
Since
parts of
but while
North
South
1880 has
last 20 yea
tial difference in
the
crease
ing each of the last
follow 5 1880-00,
20.1; West, 184
South, 22.4; West, 31
less but de-
increase in first
mac
[he percentage of
i880 was 61.0 In
South, and 185.6
last 20 years,
the North, 48
Northern
HW
] War
:
led in populatic
mnerease
wi
1860 the r:
the
LK
ut third
two sect:
¢ 3
Of growth
“1.3;
NEGRO NEARLY KILLS WOMAN,
A Horrible Crime Committed in Lynchburg,
Virginie.
{ Spec
{of
Lynchburg, Va,
dastardly crime ever
city occtirred when
a young married |
street,
woundet
The i
his purpose,
choked he 1
head and witl
most from
in her attem
hands gas]
and the b;
right han
addition to
her rig!
rested
was outs
ber, although desp
gered to the next
occupied by Mrs
ed for help as
to reaci
i he F
red man an
CQ man ana
almost a
of medi
and well
PHONES FROM MOVING CARS
The Remarkable Invention of an Ohioan Is
Given a Test. :
(Special). —C. F
Muskego :
Ohi
Bidwell,
prac
father’
where
. gave the first
h
t
here o
vention a telephone system
by it 1s possible to call up and talk
from an clect car going sll sg
with anyone who is located in another
car on the same line running in any di-
rection and at 2 distance,
T applicable to either
ced
at ull sp
The systen
steam or electric roads. The overhead
trolley is used for one side of the cir
cuit, and for the other a se
strung parallel with the !
ley. The metal trolley pole of the car
1s attached to a second pole which oper
ates on the additonal wire by means of
a flanged wheel. A closed circuit is thus
obtained. Telephone wires are attached
to cach of the two trolley poles which
lead to the telephone in the car. The
heavy voltage required to operate the
electric cars is reduced to that used for
telephone service by a special invention.
Ordinary telephones were used.
Strikes Cost Half a Million.
Indianapolis, Ind. (Special).—The
auditing of the United Mine
Workers of America met in this city to
examine the annual report of Secretary-
Treasurer Wilson, which will be present
ed at the convention of mine workers
here. The finances of the order, the
report will show, are in good shape, not-
withstanding heavy drains made on the
treasury by strikes during the year in
West Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas and
Jdndiana. These strikes, it is said, have
cost the organization more than $500,000.
The secretary-treasurer handles funds
amounting annually to between $300,000
and $400,000,
5.
md wire is
stationary trol-
board
UA AS SAR
Dr. Anthony Released,
Washington, D. C., Special). —A
cable message received at the State De-
partment from United States Consul
General Bingham, at Cape Town, an-
nounces the acquittal and release of Dr,
Richard S. Anthony, who has been on
trial there on a charge of high treason
and aiding the enemy. Anthony is an
American citizen, but has lived for some
time in South Ameriea. Mrs. Anthony,
his wife, is at present in Chicago.
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS
Domestic.
speculator, known as the “Corn King,”
was caught short of his margins yester
of his calls after
margins. He was given until this morn
ing to settle over $100,000 more.
secretary-treasurer of the
of Locomotive Firemen, shows that of
| the 50,000 locomotive firemen in the
{ United States and Canada 40,720 are
i members.
The “Cannon Ball” train of the Balti-
more and Ohio crashed into a trolley
| car at North Benwood, near Wheeling,
| W. Va., killing the motorman and slight
ily injuring five passengers.
{ Lottie Richards, an
| who 1s 3
i home, in St
Louis
man, of Morgantown, W. Va,
insane
Admiral Schley had a remarkable re
at the City Hall in Savannah
| He met and sh sk hands with thousands
{of people of The streets
were who cheered
| ception
pack
i
him with a
Richard
old California miner,
near Middle tow
ing street cu
$ + 1
sessed of considerable prog 3
From St. Paul, Minn., come
port of a progressive sche
consolidation
bringing
73 years, an
fatally suffo
cated
nto a tier
wh
together
preparing to ex-
$25.000000 to $3
3,000,000 In
able to fight the Northern
r the control
Ma
died at Fairlie,
smallpox scare In
a3 Yuu
fUch alErmae
y \ s
British colo
Joseph Chamberlain, the
nial secretary, in a speech at Birming
ham, replied to the criticisms of the Ges
mans by declaring tl withdrew
nothing, qualified
nothing
iat he
nothing, defended
The French Minister at Pekin has re
fused to present his credentials until
China fulfills demands of the French
| government. For this reason the joint
{audience of the foreign and Chinese
| ministers has been postponed
The revolution in Paraguay turns out
ito be more serious than first reported
{ President Acenal resigned. During a
| ight in the Chamber of Deputies, one
{official was killed and three others
{| wounded.
John E. Redmond
i chairman of the Irish
i party.
i demning the coercion methods of George
{ Wyndham, chief secretary for Ireland.
was re-elected
Parliamentary
{be made. The Boers will not reject
returns, Krupp is the richest man in
Germany, having an income of over $5,-
000,000 a year.
I
Financial
Ohio Coal Traffic Association roads
will advance rates on coal ten cents a
ton.
The proposed merger of the Western
stove companies is said to be progress.
ing slowly.
Khe Vane Title & Trust Company
has declared a dividend of 2 per cent,
payable this week
A Northern Pacific official says: “Our
traffic is certain to increase for years
to come. Immigration is ring into
our territory, thus increasing the ton-
nage.”
*
A BURNING HOUSE
| Father, Nother and Five Children Are
Burned to Death.
| BUILDING WRECKED BY EXPLOSION,
Joseph Supowski, Who Owned the Building,
| and Karl Bracki, His Brother-in-Law,
| Have Been Arrested Pending an lnvestiga-
| tion—Supowski Carried an Insurance of
| $9000 on the Building and Its Contents.
| Buffalo, N. Y.. (Special).—Henry
| Pearlstein, his wife and five children,
| ranging in age from 14 to 12 years,
were burned to death in a fire that de-
the
brother
who owned
Bracki, his
Joseph Supow ski.
building, and Karl
in-law, have been
investigation Supowski carried an mn
of $4.000 on
contents
The Pearl
lived in room
wien
$42 -
nice the building and
asleep
ki told the police
4
dropped
3
CAPTAIN AND SIX MEN DROWNED.
fcr Alaska, Wrecked
en Green island
The Stcamer Bristol,
YIELDING TO GEN, BELL
Filipino Lenders in Batangas
Uaconditionsl'y.
Surrcader
men a
ng the pas
ments occur daily
city, and had
h General Chaffee. He
Ign uring
a and that it is possible
that General Malvar, the insurgent lead
er. will surrender nest week,
The United States Commission has ap
propriated $2500000 for insular ex
penditures during the first quarter of the
year.
Cengage
sited the
thz present camp S0C
able results
Robbed Six Times in Six Years
New York (Special) For the sixth
time in as many years the postoffice at
| Short Hills, N. J.. was entered by rob-
use of dynamite, but got only $10.
time the postoffice has been robbed the
i burglars operated in the same way. This
time, as on the other occasions, they
broke open a tool box which stands by
| the side of the Lackawanna railroad
tracks and got a hammer and heavy iron
bar. They then knocked off the combi-
i nation of the safe and, inserting a charge
of dynamite, blew off the outside door
of the safe.
Murdered by a Helper.
Uniontown, Pa. (Special) —At the
new Sharon Steel Company mines, eight
miles west of this place, Henry Grant
almost instantly killed William Jenkins.
Jenkins was shift boss on the gang sink.
ing the shaft and Grant had been in
charge of the drilling machine. He
roved unsuitable, and was reduced to
Pe toer, while Jenkins put his brother in
place, Just as the men quit work
Grant s ipped up behind Jenkins, plung-
ed a big knife th his body and ran,
escaping in the confusion.
Grant's
NATI
Department of Commerce,
The Senate Committee on Commerce
authorized a favorable report on Sena
tor Nelson's bill for the creation of an
executive department of the Government
merce,
Besides providing for an additional
member of the Cabinet, known as a sec
retary of commerce, the hill provides
for an assistant secretary and a com-
plement of officers, Under the new de
partment shall be the following offices
and bureaus:
Life-Saving service, Lighthouse
Joard, Light-house service, Marine Hos-
pital service, Steamboat Inspection ser
of Bureau
Coast
Immigration,
United States and Geodetic
Patent Office, the
Department of Labor, Commissic of
and Fisheries, Bureau of Foreign
Commerce, now in the State Department,
to be consolidated with the Bureau
Statistics
1 here are
of
mines and mining. The
designed to promote
gather and furnish all
commerce and
other
mer
oO
also to be established 2
i
ana
of
new department
rean manuf; bureau
¢
information upon
It
departments 31
industries also
the
ww performed the
Three Months’ Work In Vaic.
irnment of th an-Ameri
which ha
Mexico
Quicker Special Delivery.
$908 hh efforts tl
yi the
11 be
of mt
Shaw and Mayne Coalirmed.
IN exeCulive session
Hon
y be Secretary of
of Hon
be Postmaster-General
con
Les
Treas
of lie
nination
the
Henry C. P
avne no
he confirmation of Mr. Shaw was ac
complished without comment, but there
Was Some controversy over the action of
the Committee on Postoffice in reporting
Mr. Payne's nomination without going
through the formality of a meeting
Fora Permanent Census Bureau.
The Senate Committee on
burean
by Director Merriam, who said
with a permanent establishment the
work of the bureau could be done bet-
ter and more economically.
$25,000 Salary for Ex.President.
Representative Lovering, of Massachu-
setts, introduced a bill providing a sale
ary for ex-Presidents of the United
States at the rate of $28000 annually
from the date of retirement from the
Presidency. The bill is to apply to any
ex- President living at the time the law
is enacted.
mis aon
Capita! News in General
Before the Senate Committee on Pen-
sions a protest was made inst the
confirming of Colonel Metcalf as pen-
sion agent, on the ground that he kuled
a pleading, defenseless prisoner in the
Philippines.
There was a tilt in executive session
between Senators Blackburn and Deboe
over the nomination of S, C. Sharp as
United States marshal, which was con.
ried.
A bill was introduced in Congress to
place cases where aliens have been
ynched under federal jurisdiction.
THE PENSION BILL
IN THE HOUSE
The Debate on the Measure Takes in
a Wide Range.
Proposition of Mr. Rixey, of Virg'nia, to
Furnish Federal Aid to State Confederate
Homes Meets With Cousiderable Opposi-
tion on the Democratic Side—Grosvenor
and Hepburn Denounce a Report.
D. C
Washington, (Special) ~The
pension appropriation bill, the first of the
The
Grosvenor,
took a
of Ohio,
Iowa, denounced
the last Grand
annual budget debate
Mr
Hepburn, of
presented
wide range
and Mr
a report
Army of the Republic encampment
ng the of i
other of Congress
bill,
LESKION
to
crit
themselves and
vet
which was defeat-
They explained
sition to the bill was due
in bill of
been indorsed
the Republic
wish War
Cis) course
members on the
eran preference ”
at the last
1 the
ause wi ot
1e Grand
ia, caused
Democrat
3
Domes 10
federa
WILL NOT BE A UNIVERSITY.
Secretary of Carpegie lastitution lacorpora:
tors Talks of Plass
CHICAGO BURGLAR HAD NCRVE
Tells Sick Woman He is 2 Phys'cian and
Writes a Prescription.
While Mes W
{
FEE
"Doctor
and requested me
% .
he gently
and felt
Ah!" he
trace of fever
Then
Inquiring whether she had rested well,
he her appetite, wrote
what purported to be a prescription and
left Five hundred dollars’ worth of
jewels were missing. The prescription
read: “I am sorry 1 had to steal like
this.’
.
1004 notes OF
The Danish West Indices.
Copenhagen, (By Cable) —A depu-
tation representing 34.000 signers of an
address protesting against the sale of
the Danish West Indies without the
question being previously referred to a
plebiscite was received by King Chris-
tian. His majesty replied to the address
of the deputation as follows: “We
thank vou for the interest you have dis-
played in this matter, but we are unable
while diplomatic negotiations are pend-
ing to express our views on the question.
We beg you will have, as we have our-
selves, full confidence that our ministry
will know how to safeguard the welfare
of the islands and their people”
A HAAS SAI.
Zelaya Seizes Vasques.
Managua, Nicaragua, (By Cable).
Government of Nicaragua has arrested
General Vasquez,the former President of
Honduras, on board the South Americ
can Steamship Company's steamer Tu.
capel. The General is charged with at
tempting to incite a revolution in Central
America against President Zelaya, of
Nica
from tl
18ca for the same
ka HAASE CA BAA ARS RB A
Cer —
UNH ED STATES AT THE TOP.
Least lod:biedness.
D. C. (Special). ~The
United States with her
fly with those of
Washington,
of the
neighbors, and especially
illustrated by some statements
the Daily Mail Year
Book for 1902, a copy of which has just
made by London
reached the Treasury Bureau of Statis-
In its various chapters it discusses
in the
United States, Under the head of wealth
United at the head
he figures
£16 »
£11. Kob,-
France, £0.600,000000 ;
£8.0% 2,000,000
While
list of countries in
smallest national
features of conditions
: :
it places the State
United States,
Kingdom,
wealth beine:
United
{ser
and Russia, HH
United States
its wealth
DOC O06 |
the
ara
fe whys
indebted
Under the head of commercial mpe
it says that of the
the
The trade of
four
showed 1
and
g Sw ws wg A
period of 1800 2nd
Under the
ade it «¢
NORDICA HURT IN WRECK
The Famous Singer Injured in a Ocorgia
Collision.
Woman Reasted 10 Desth.
Wis. (Special ).—Mrs. Lena
inette
literally roasted to
Through Flames to Safety.
ich (Special)
eheaded
blocks through 3
xplosion 0
lamp was
are
Fastcd Thirty Daye
Col,
New
D.
at the
For thirty
Choate has eaten absolutely
Boulder.
of
{Special ) J
York
City, 1s
Mr
sothing.
and
which
reatment.
Hie fast has been self-impos-
because of stomach trouble,
would not wield to medical
His mental and physical
body due to his protracted fast, has not
suffered in the least.
Onc Woman Shoots Another,
Manchester. N. H., (Special) Annie
Beaudry shot Jennie Gagnon in one of
the Amosksag Corporation mills here
and then committed suicide. Miss Gag-
aon is alive. but in a critical condition.
It is believed that Miss Beaudry was not
in her right mind. It was reported that
she accused Miss Gagnon of having
rsecuted her, and for that reason she
ad given up her situation in the mill.
Miss Beaudry was about 25 years of age.
ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS.
A SA
Rev. Lyman Abbott delivered an ad-
dress to the Reform Club, in New York
city, on he & Question of the State law
and the Sunday opening of saloons.
oe the Central
ries Caleb Cre
was killed by eas in Ph