NATIONS THANKSGIVING
Tie President's Proclamation Designates
November 27 as the Day.
ISO REFERENCE TO RECENT STRIKE.
President Roosevelt Says (he Yeir that His
Jnt Closed Has Bee. On o Peacs and of
Overflowing Plenty Rarely Has any Pco
fit Enjoyed Oreater Prosperity tbaa We
art Now Enjoying.
Washington, D. C. (Special.) Presi
dent Roosevelt issued his proclamation
designating Thursday, November 2", as
day of thanksgiving.
The proclamation is as follows :
"According to the yearly custom of
Mr people, it falls upn the President
at this season to appoint a day of fes
tival and thanksgiving to God.
"Over a century and a quarter has
passed since this country took its place
among the nations of the earth, and
during that time we have had on the
whole more to be thankful for than has
fallen to the lot of any other people,
feneration after generation has grown
to manhood and passed away. Each has
had to bear its peculiar burdens, each to
face its special crisis, and each has
known years of grim trial, when tne
country was menaced by malice domestic
or foreign levy, when the hand of th'j
Lord was heavy upon it in drought r
flood or pestilence, when in bodily d:s
tress and anguish of soul it paid the
penalty of folly and a froward heart.
"Nevertheless, decade by decade, we
have struggled onward and upward; we
now abundantly enjoy material well
being, and under the favor of the Most
High we are striving earnestly to
achieve moral and spiritual uplifting.
The year that has just closed has been
one of peace and of overflowing plenty.
Rarely has any people enjoyed greater
prosperity than we are now enjoying.
For this we render heartfelt and solemn
thanks to the Giver of good, and we
seek to praise Him not by words only,
but by deeds, by the way in which we
do our duty to ourselves and to our
fellow-men.
"Now, therefore. I. Theodore Roose
velt, President of the United States, do
hereby designate as a day of general
thanksgiving Thursday. the twenty
seventh oi the coming November, and
do recommend that throughout the
land the people cease from their ordin
ary occupations, and in their several
homes and places of worship render
thanks unto Almighty God for the man
ifold blessings of the past year.
"In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
"Done at the city of Washington this
twenty-ninth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and two and of the indepen
dence of the United States the one
hundred and twenty-seventh.
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
"Bv the President:
"JOHN HAY,
"Secretary of State."
EXPRESS CRASHED INTO FREIGHT.
Narrow Escape From Horrible Catastrophe
Near Lancaster.
Lancaster, Pa. (Special). Passengers
on the Harrisburg express leaving this
city at 7.15 p. m. had almost a miracu
lous escape from death. The express was
Tunning at the rate of 40 miles an hour
when it crashed into the rear of a freight
train which was standing on the track
at Dillcrville, one mile north of this city.
The engine of the express ploughed into
the last car of the freight train. From
some inexplicable cause none of the cars
were derailed.
The violence of the compact shattered
the windows of the passenger coaches
and hurled the passengers from their
seats, but aside from the jar no one was
hurt The escape of Engineer Thomas
and Fireman Downes, of the express
train, was remarkable. They were
knocked against their firebox, but man
aged to crawl out of the wreck, slightly
scalded and bruised. The express en
gine and three freight cars caught fire
and were consumed.
BANK ROBBERS INGENIOUS.
Tied Town Marshal 10 that If He Struggled to
Oct Free He Woald Hsn( Himself.
Gardner, 111. (Special). Six men
Wew open the vault of a bank here and
secured a large sum. They seized
Town Marshal Edmondson at the engine-house,
tied him with ropes, took
Sim to the bank and placed him in a
chair. The vault was blown open with
dynamite and the interior of the bank
wrecked.
The robbers are supposed to have se
cured between $.?ooo and $4000, al
though the exact amount is not known.
After leaving the bank they took the
Marshal to the r.choolhouse, placed a
rope around his neck and. tied him to
a chair. The chair was placed at the
head of a stairway, so that ii he strug
gled to release himself he would fall
downstair and hang himself. The rob
bers took a train which left at 440
o'clock for Chicago.
Scats Maria Still Violent.
Guatemala City (By Cable). -The
volcano of Santa Mr.ria is still in erup
tion. In addition, there arc serious
earthquake shocks throughout Guate
mala. There were detonations, like
heavy cannonading, on Tuesday morn
ing. All towns, villages and planta
tions near the volcano have been aban
doned, and the residents are fleeing to
places of safety. Details of the erup
tions are not obtainable, owing to the
Guatemalan Government taking pos
session of all telegraph lines in the in
terior and preventing the news fro:;i
spreading.
Famous Uto Chief Dead.
Price. Utah (Special). "Old Tabby,"
the aged chief of the Unintah Utes, is
dead uear White Rock Agency, aged 104
years. He was in the early days a friend
cf Brigham Young and did much in his
time to preserve peace between his peo
ple and the whites.
Commandant Cbrls Botha Dead.
Pretoria (By Catilc). Commandant
Chris Botha died at Kokstadt. He was
a near relative of the commander in chief
oi the Boer Army, Louis Botha.
Crossed Pacific In Ten Days.
San Francisco (Special). The Pa
cific Mail Company's pew steamer Ko
rea arrived at noon from Yokohama
breaking the record across the Pacific
The steamer made no stop between the
coast of Japan and her home port and
came flying through water at the av
erage rat; of nearly 500 miles a day.
From Yokohama by direct line to San
Francisco is 4,000 miles. The Korea
sailed Irorn the Japanese port on Octo
ber 18 and made the passage in 10 days
averaging 470 miles a day.
SUMMARY CF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
Mitchell Day was celebrated through
out the anthracite coal field. Mr.
Mitchell addressed the mineworkers at
Wilkesbarre. where the principal cele
bration was held.
The British barkentinc Fredcricka
was wrecked during the storm near
Cape Spencer light. N. B. The sea
men were saved after having ensured
severe hardships.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sionhas assigned dates for hearings of
cases involving alleged violation of the
Interstate Commerce Law.
Vice Chancellor Emery has granted
a preliminary injunction to the suit of
J. Aspinwall Hodge against the United
States Steel Corporation.
The loss of the Reading Railroad
since the beginning of the strike
amounts to $10,000,000, according to
the September statement.
William Baldwin and his son George,
of Portland. Ore, were convicted oi
causing the death of Frank Carlson in
a prize-fight.
The hearing of the case of the State
of Minnesota against the Northern Se
curities Company has been postponed
until November 13.
The International Machinists' Union
is preparing to make a demand on all
shops throughout the country for a
nine-hour day.
An express crashed into the rear of a
freight near Lancaster. Pa., while run
ling at 40 miles an hour. No one was
hurt.
C. W. Horper killed his wife, who
had secured a divorce decree, in Inde
pendence. Kan., and then shot himself.
Plans are in progress of formation
for the consolidation of a number of
Southern pine lumber companies.
The Glue Corporation of Jersey City
was organized with a capital of $0,000.
000. The coal operators are making prep
arations to sell direct to the consum
ers in New York through agencies, in
which capacity some of the retail deal
ers will be retained.
Dr. Daniel E. Hughes, chief physi
cian of the Philadelphia almshouse
died from tubercular peritonitis, the
germs of which were contracted iron: a
oaticnt.
Horn roooers ncm up inc nigni i
robbers held up the nigiit
watchman and then robbed the t rairic
City Bank of $4,000. I hey exchanged l
a uisiiauc 01 51101s wiui uic yumc iui
cscaned.
Preparations are being made for a
reception to General 'Chaffee upon his
arrival at San Francisco from the Phil-!
ippines. I
The missing Russian boundary mon
uments in the Porcupine district, Alas
ka, have been found by a prospector.
Miss Julia Marlowe, the actress, who
was taken ill in Jvew York, has gone to
Virginia for a rest of six weeks.
John Vincent, alias DundorfT, was ar
rested in New York, charged with
swindling by means of the fake wire
"tapping" game. The complainant is
Thomas Jordan, who says Vincent pro
cured $12,000 from him.
The five-year meeting of the Society
of Friends in Indianapolis issued a cir
cular to all Christian churches asking
them to appoint delegates to a conven
tion to find some way of overcoming
the drink evil.
Charles Mcinel, who shot and killed
John Volkman at Cold Springs Har
bor. N. Y while doing the William
Tell act, was held for the grand jury
on the charge of manslaughter.
Vice Grand Master Lee. of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen,
states that the demand of higher wages
affects only switchmen employed in the
Chicago district.
A thousand students of the Michigan
Agricultural College went on strike be
cause of the suspension of 17 students
for participating in a class rush.
A train on the Mississippi Valley
Road was ditched near Baton Rouge,
La., by running into a drove of cows,
and two men were killed.
Forclfn.
The Morgan "tube" railway scheme
received its quietus for the present ses
sion in the House of Commons, the
etforts to re-establish the parliamentary
status of the bill being withdrawn after
an hour's debate.
The French socialist " deputies have
notified Premier Combes that they pro
pose to interpellate the government on
the efforts made for arbitration. It is
understood the operators have refused
to arbitrate.
The sentence of two months' impris
onment on Hugh McIIugh, the Irish
member of Parliament from Sligo, was
affirmed on appeal.
The British Admiralty has ordered
the construction of two cruisers which
are to be the speediest and most pow
erful of their class.
'I he introduction of modern inven
tions in Morocco has stirred up a re
volt among the tribes in the interior.
Three persons were sentenced in
Grimmcn-Mecklenburg for ridiculing
Landrath von Maltzahn,
The German Reichstag adopted the
meat tariff was recommended by the
committee.
William C. Ballantrae won the Cam
bridgeshire Stakes at Newmarket, Eng
land. The musicians of the Paris theatres
voted to go on a general strike.
M. Declasse, the French foreign min
ister, announces that Germany, Great
Britain arid France have agreed with
Japan to submit to The Hague Arbitra
tion Court interpretation of treaties
dealing with the holding of perpetual
leases of property by foreigners in Ja
pan. Foreign Miniver Prinetti says Italy
will not intervene against the Mad Mul
lah of Somaliland unless he provokes a
disturbance in terrtiory under Italian
sovereignty.
The Colombian revolutionary gen
eral, Uribe-Uribe, with 10 cannon and
2.500 rifles, is reported to have surren
dered to General Majarres uear Santa
Marta.
American and other art collectors
have been notified to remove their
paintings and other treasures from the
south Kensington Museum, London
Capt. Erwin Schaefer has been ap
pointed naval attache, and First Lieu
tenant von Bredow military attache, of
Germany at Washington.
Premier Combes, of France, ex
plains that the government's offer of
arbitration to the mineowners is likely
to prove successful.
Macedonians report that the insur
pents inflicted severe losses on the
Turkish troops during the fighting in
Kresna Pass.
Financial.
The statement of the West Virginia
Central and the Western Maryland Kail
road show combined net earnings, oper
ated separately, sufficient to pay charges
on all underlying bonds, on the new $25,
000,000 of first mortgage bonds of the
properties as consolidated, and a surplus
of nearly $700,000.
The special convention of the Amalga
mated Association has adjourned and the
rebate in the tin plate trade amounting
to about 1,500,000 boxes annually, will
be captured. A number of tin mills will
be started at once. The result will keep
at home about $5,000,000 annually for
merly going to Wales.
BLOW TO TIIE REBELLION
Noted Colombian Rebel, General Uribe
Yields With His Army.
INSURGENTS WERE SURROUNDED.
Generals Uribe-Uribe and Castillo Surrender
With Tea Thousand Cannon, Over Two
Thousand Rifles and a Oreat Quantity of
Ammunition Uribe-Uribe the Acknowledged
Leader of the Revolution.
Panama (By Cable). The revolution
ary general, Uribe-Uribe. with his army,
10 cannon, 2.500 rifles and .loo.coo rounds
of ammunition, has surrendered to Gen
eral Marjarres at Rio Frio, near Santa
Marta.
The forces under General Uribe-Uribe,
numbering 1.300 men, having been de
feated October 14 at Lacienaga, retreated
to Rio Frio and took up positions there.
Genera! Majarrcs, with 2.000 men, pro
ceeded against the rebels from Lacienaga
and engaged them for two days. The
Government General succeeded in sur
rounding the rebels and forcing them to
surrender. General Castillo was with
General Uribe-Uribe.
The news of this victory was received
here by General Fcrdomo and Governor
Salazar in a telegram from General Mar
jarres. Details of the engagement arc
lacking, but heavy losses on both sides
are reported. The surrender of Uribe
Uribe is said to complete the pacification
of the departments of Magdalena and
Bolivar. The revolutionists now occupy
the Isthmus only.
Gen. Rafael Uribe-Uribe is the most
noted leader of the Colombian rebels.
He has been carrying on the war in the
interior of the country, while General
Herrera has been conducting the cam
paign on the Isthmus of Panama. The
revolution will not probably collapse un
til Herrera yields. He sent a peace pro
posal last week to the Goverment com
mander at Panama, but as he insisted on
concessions to the rebels it is not likely
to be granted.
General I ribe-L nbc s movements nave
taktn him into many parts of the interior
0f Colombia, his early operations being
, the Mate of Jolima. later 111 the Mate
of Santander and finally in the State of
Magdalena. In Santander at the head
of an army of over 10.000 men he seri
ously menaced the capital, Bogota, until
he was defeated by a superior Govern
ment force May 26, iqoo, when the losses
numbered about 5.000 men in all.
It has been repeatedly charged that
General Uribe-Uribe received substantial
aid from the Goverment of Venezuela, he
having visited Caracas and had frequent
interviews with President Castro. Last
year he visited the United States and for
a time was in correspondence with the of
ficials of the legation at Washington,
with a view to reaching honorable terms
of canitulation, but the efforts in that
direction were without substantial result.
Kills Brother In Bed. '
Manchester, Vt. (Special). Clifford
Johnson, 13 years, of Londonderry, was
shot and killed by his 16-year-old
brother Melvin. Both boys worked on
their father's farm. Mrs. Johnson
went upstairs to awaken them and
found Clifford on the bed with a ter
rible wound in his left breast. He died
in a few moments. Melvin could not
be found. Sheriff Giddings, of this
place, who has a celebrated blood
hound, captured the boy near Manches
ter depot. He had been on the moun
tains all night. He said the shooting
was accidental and he ran away owing
to fright.
Mr. Wu Ordered Home.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Wu
Ting-fang, who has been the Minister
of the Chinese Empire to the United
States since May I, 1897, has been re
called to China by an edict of the Em
peror cabled to Minister Wu by the
Chinese Foreign Office. The edict is
peremptory, Mr. Wu being directed to
return to China at as early a date as
possible, even the route by which he
is to make his voyage from this coun
try being indicated. Mr. Wu is in
formed that he has been appointed
Minister of Commerce, in association
with Chang Chitung. He takes (he po
sition just vacated by Sheng, whose
father died recently.
Bear Crushed Boyi Head.
Hot Springs, Ark. (Special). At
Happy Hollow, a resort near here
which, among other attractions, in
cludes a zoo, a black bear fatally injur
ed Robert Tatum, an 8-year-old boy.
The lad was passing near the animal
which was chained, but came too close,
and before the horrified spectators
could interfere the brute had the boy
hugged to his breast. Then the ani
mal closed its great jaws on his pris
oner's head. A keeper pried the bear's
mouth open and released the boy, but
he was unconscious and died from sev
eral fractures of the skull.
Farmer Was Clubbed to Death.
Lebanon, Pa. (Special). Coroner
Shultz, assisted by Drs. Light and
Strohm, held an autopsy on the re
mains of William B. Shuey, the wealthy
farmer who was found dead in his or
chard on Sunday evening. The au
topsy revealed the fact that Shuey was
shot twice in the face. Neither bul
let, however, caused death, and he was
apparently clubbed to death. It has
developed 'that Shuey had large sums
of money in his possession when he
left Lebanon last week for his home,
but his pockets were empty when the
body was found.
Robbers Hoped to Oct $40,000.
Irwin, Pa. (Special). After binding
and gagging the night watchman at the
Westmoreland Coal Company's office,
in West Irwin, four masked men enter
ed the building and blew open the safe
in the big vault and secured all the
money that it contained. The robbery
was evidently timed, as it was just be
fore pay day, when about $40,000 is
disbursed for the regular two-week
pay. The money ii not kept there, and
the robbers secured only about $200
They escaped without leaving any clue
to tneir identity.
Cody's Son-in-law Ends Life.
Sheridan.- Wyo. (Special). H.
Boal, a son-in-law of "Buffalo Bill" and
a prominent and wealthy stockman, has
committed suicide at tne Sheridan Inn
He wrote a letter to the proprietor of
the hotel, in which he begged pardon
lor committing the deed in the inn
but gave no reason for tilling himself
Premature Blast la Tunnel.
Pittsburg (Special). One man kill
ed, one seriously and two others slight
ly hurt was the result ot a premature
blast in the Mount Washington end
ol the vv abash tunnel.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIR?.
Army Strength at Minimum.
A general order was issued announc
ing that the organization of the enlisted
strength of the army under the Reor
ganisation Act of February 2. loot,
shall be reduced to 56.0Rg, the minimum
authorized by law. Under this order the
various arms of the army will be reor
ganized as follows:
Infantry conmanies, 65: coast artillery
companies, loo; field artillery batteries,
120: two siege batteries, 160 each; caval
ry troops, 65 ; engineer companies, 104,
except that at the service schools at
Forts Leavenworth and Riley the cavalry
troops are allowed 85 enlisted men and
the infantry companies 130 men. An
other exception is made in the esse of
the legation guard of infantry at Pckin,
which is fixed at 85 men.
These reductions are to be effected by
casualties as they occur, through expira
tion of service, etc., or by transfers if
hereafter directed, so that recruiting, es
pecially for artillery and engineers, will
be confined to the re-enlistment of de
serving soldiers who apply withing three
months of date of discharce, or such
other enlistments as may be specially
authorized.
75,003 Stricken With Cholera.
The fearful ravages of plague and
cholera in the Old World are set forth
in mail advices received by the Marine
Hospital Service. From Manila Chiel
Quarantine Officer Perry makes a con
servative estimate that the cases ol
cholera in the Philippine islands since
March 20 last asercsatc 75.000. with a
mortality of 75 per cent.
He says, under date of September 10
that the disease has practically disap
peared from those provinces first in
fected, but those most recently infect
ed are suffering severely.
The Province of Iloilo and the adja
cent Island of Ncgros are badly infectec1
and the situation is alarming. Som
of the towns in those provinces hav
lost 10 per cent, of their population
and the epidemic continues severe.
Recommend More Warships.
The Naval Board on Construction has
made a report to Secretary Moody urg
ing that Congress this winter authorize
the building of the following men-of-war:
Two battle-ships of 16,000 tons trial
displacement. 18 knots speed, 4 12-inch,?
8-mch, 12 7-inch and 20 3-inch guns.
Two armored cruisers of 14.500 ton?
disilacement, 22 knots speed, 4 10-incb
16 6-inch and 22 3-inch guns.
In making these recommendations, the
Board has recorded its objection to tin
policy of the Congressional committei
that there shall be an increase of thi
material of the navy only once durinf
each Congress.
On Threshold of New Era.
The annual report of the Dawes com
mission appointed to treat with the Fivi
Civilized Trihcs says that if all pending
agreements should be ratified by the
tribes practically all necessary authority
will have been secured for the complete
administration of the five estates intrust
ed to the commission, an end diligently
sought for nearly ten years.
The report says it is impracticable at
this time to render final decisions in
cases involving the rieht to enrollment
of citiens by intermarriage of the Choc
tow and Chickasaw tribes. The conclu
sion is announced that the bitter anti
allotment sentiment of the Indians has
now largely yielded to reason and time
and the five tribes are fairly upon the
threshold of a new era.
McKlnley Memorial Fund.
Postmaster-Gemral Payne and Secre
tary to the President George B. Cortel
you left for Canton, Ohio, to attend a
meeting of the trustees of the, William
McKinley Memorial Association to select
a site for the memorial. Of the aggre
gate sum of $650,000 which the associa
tion desired to raise it has in hand, cash
and pledges.-about $550,000.
New York contributed $150,000 of this
amount and Ohio a little more than
$100,000. The trustees will not be
cramped for funds in carrying out their
project. It is likely that the memorial
will be located on the most commanding
site in the Canton Cemetery, not far
from the present tomb of the dead Presi
dent. Roosevelt Is 44.
President Roosevelt was born ir.
New York City, October 27, 1858. Ht
celebrated the forty-fourth anniversary
of his birth Monday in an entirely in
formal manner at the temporary Whitt
House, lunching and dining with suet
members of his family as were in the
city, and with a few intimate friends
Unfortunately Mrs. Roosevelt was
absent from the family table, but sh
remembered the President with a birth
day gift, as has always been her custom
American Patents In Cuba.
LTnited States Minister Squiers re
ports to the State Department fron
Havana, under date ol September 30,
that he has been notified by the Cubat
Department of State that all United
States patents and trade marks regis
tered in Cuba during the period ol
United States military occupation will
be duly protected without the necessity
of further formalities.
Public Franchise In Manila.
The Bureau of Insular Affairs of the
War Department has received a dispatch
from Governor Taft stating that the
Phillipine Commission has passed an act
inviting bids for street railroad, electric
light and other franchises in Manila, the
proposals to be opened March 5, 1903.
The bids will be advertised in this coun
try. Philippine Customs Revenue,
The Bureau of Insular Affairs of
the War Department has prepared a
statement showing that the customs
revenues in the Philippine archipelago
for the seven months ended July 31,
1002, were $5,064,932, as compared with'
$4,940,258 for the same period of 1901,
$4,137,682 for 1900 and $2,556,539 for
Items ot Interest
The members ol the Anthracite Coal
Strike Commission left for Scranton;
the coaches of the train they are using
being adapted for the uses of the com
mission, one coach being arranged at
a court room.
Minister Wu is hopeful of inducing
the powers to arbitrate the questior
whether Chinese imd'imnities to b
paid them are to be paid on a gold or (
silver basis.
The United States will participate ir
any benefits that may be derived bj
Germany and Great Britain in regarc
to foreign holding of Japanese land.
President Roosevelt will make a tri
through a part of the South nex1
month. He expects to participate in 1
bear hunt in the canebrakes of Missis
sippi.
Minister Wu has not been advisee
of the appointment of Yuen Shi Kai a'
minister of commerce of the Chi'nesi
Empire.
A party of citizens of Alaska callei
upon President Roosevelt and present
ed him with a magnificent moosehead
A party of prominent scientists ar
rived at Washington and aftcrwardi
visited the President.
General Corbin said that Major Gen
era! S. B. M. iYoung will be the nex;
lieutenant general of the Army.
REASON CUBA OBJECTS
Thinks This Nation Wants too Much,
Offers too Little.
PALM A FAILS TO APPROVE TREATY.
The Return of the Draft of the Reciprocity
Treaty Has Not Shaken the Confidence of
the State Officials The Matter Is StlH Open
to Adjustment Objections of Cubs to the
Undue Concessions Demanded.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Xc w
obstacles have been placed in the way ol
favorable action at the next session of
Congress on a Cuban reciprocity treaty
The rejection by President Palma of
(he instrument drawn here last spring by
Secretarv Hay and Minister Oueda if
now said to be on its way to Washington
for suggested modifications which might
make it acceptable to the Cuban Govern
ment. The original treaty was drawn
hurriedly with the hope that it might be
submitted to Cuba and then to the United
States Senate and acted on before ad
journment of the last session of Con
gress. This failing, iKwas later more
rarefully considered and sent to Havana
for President Palma s inspection. The
Cuban Congress will reassemble in No
vember for a brief period and there may
yet be time for action on some treaty
satisfactory to both Governments before
adjournment, but this result is not re
garded as probable.
At the State Department nothing is
known officially of the nature of the ob
jections made by President Palma, but
from a general knowledge it is not be
lieved that they are so serious as to long
delay a reconstructed treaty being pre
sented to the two Senates for approval.
From the little information received
here it appears that Cuba contends that
the United States requires too liberal
concessions in the remission of duties on
United States products entering Cuban
ports ranging from 10 per cent, to 80 per
cent., in return for a level 20 per cent, cut
on Cuban tobacco and sugar exported to
this country. This question, in the opin
ion of State Department officials, may be
readilv settled, as it is said to be rather
one of figures than of principle.
The approval by President Palma of
some treaty drawn here- between Mr.
Hav and Xfinister Quesada is necessary
without much delay if Cuba has any ex
pectations of favorable action by the
United States Senate next session. Fail
ure to agree upon such a convention must
lead to a greater sacrifice by Cuba than
by the United States, and as financial
conditions in the island are in a wretched
state it is not believed Cuba would quib
ble over trifles.
ENTERTAINED THE BURGLAR.
Mrs. Spears Oive Him Supper and Then Sent
for Police.
Chicago "(Special). Mrs. Jessie
Spears has introduced something new
in the thief-trapping' line.. When con
fronted in her rooms by a burglar with
a revolver she extended him a hearty
welcome.
"Take a scat, my friend," said she
"I haven't much money, but if you
want anything to eat or drink I have
plenty."
"I am hungry and thirsty, too." said
the burglar, as he put away his weapon
and took a seat. Mrs. Spears spread
before him cold turkey and angel cake
She kept up a fire of conversation ol
the "glad-you-callcd" order until the
man forgot the object of his visit.
"I will have to go out for somt
beer," she said. She went to a drug
store, telephoned the police and re
turned with the beer. Larry Keenan
ior that was the burglar's name, was
raptured as he was stowing away the
last of the turkey and blowing the foam
off the beer.
Georgia Engineers May Strike.
Augusta, Ga. (Special). Georgia
railroad engineers who are members
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers made a demand for increased
wages and for the reinstatement of 9
committee of the Brotherhood, whe
called on the general manager and whe
are now out of the service of the road
The 10 days' time agreed upon at tht
expiration of which the road was to
give final reply is ended.
Gets the Boston Journal.
Boston (Special). Frank A. Iun
sey, of New York, has bought from
Stephen O'Meara and his associates all
the stock of the Journal Newspape.
Company, which owns and publishes
the Boston Morning. Evening and
Sunday Journal. Mr. Munsey will de
velop the property extensively. A new
building for the paper is almost rc.dy
for occupancy.
Sixty Bulgarians Killed.
Belgrade, Scrvia (By Cable). Severe
fighting has taken place between Turks
and- Bulgarians, chiefly on the Uskub
frontier. The most serious encounter
occurred October 18, when a Turkish
battalion from Salonica and the strong
est Bulgarian force in the country were
engaged, with the result that 60 Bul
garians were killed and 30 were cap
tured. The chief of the Bulgarian band
Danow was severely wounded.
, Tbe Cuban Railroad.
Havana (Special). The railroad
:ommission has granted to the Cuban
Company the right to register, in the
name of the Cuba Railway Company,
20,000,000 of capital stock. It is ex
pected that the construction of the rail
road through Cuba will be completed
before next December.
Fire In Oregon's Bunkers.
San Francisco (Special). The Bul
letin says that a fire has been burning
in the coal bunkers of the battleship
Oregon for three days and that, the
officers ol the vessel would not say
that the flames had been extinguished.
A board of survey has been summon
ed to examine the vessel and it will be
some time before she will be able to
depart for Manila. Repairs will have
to be made and a new supply of coal
put on board before the battleship can
sail.
A Drunken Man's Crime.
Faycttevillc, N. C. (Special). At I
o'clock in the morning Edward A,
Utlcy, a guest of the Hotel Lafayette,
while intoxicated, shot and instantly
killed T. B. liollingsworth, night clerk
at the hotel. Utlcy was arrested and
locked up.
Japs Barred Iron Citizenship.
Olympia, Wash. (Special). The State
Supreme Court decided that a Japanese
cannot become a citizen of the United
States. The decision was 011 the ad
mission of a young Japanese lawyer to
the bar of this State, the' law making
citizenship a requirement for admis
sion. ,
CANAL TITLE GOOD.
United Slates Attorney General Knos Sub.
irlls His Opinion.
Washington. D. C. (Special). Attor-ney-Gencral
Knox has decided that if the
United Stales should accept the offer of
the new Panama Canal Company sub
mitted last spring for the sale ol the
canal for $40,000,000 it wouid receive
through the parties in interest a valid and
unincumbered title to the property. This
decision was arrived at after a thorough
and exhaustive investigation of the situa
tion in Paris first by Special Attorney
Charles W. Russell and later by the Attorney-General
himself. The Attorney
General formally submitted he opinion to
President Roosevelt. It makes about yx
pages.
The opinion opens with a history of the
concessions made by Colombia in 1878,
8go,,ete.. the formation of the De Les
eps Panama Canal Company of France,
the failure of this company in 1888, the
transfer in i8"4 of all its rights to the
present Panama Canal Cnmnanv ol
France by the liquidator appointed by the
French court to wind up the affairs of
old company, and of the laws passed by
France con. fining the liquidation of the
old company.
1 he opinion then takes up the principal
objections which have been made in this
country to the title proposed to be given
to the United States. These objections,
it says, resolve themselves into reasons in
nipport of the following propositions:
The Questions Considered.
1. That the new Panama Canal Com
pany has not the power to sell the canal
and railway property.
2. That the liquidator of the old Pan
ama Canal Company has not power tc
consent to such sale.
3. That the French courts have not
power to authorize the liquidator and the
new company, or either of them, to entei
into the sale.
4. That, at all events, the United State?
would take the property as a trust fund
subject to the total obligations to the
stockholders, the bondholders and the
other creditors of, both companies.
The history and nature of the French
companies of the kind in question are
explained at length. They are said tc
be altogether different from our corpora
tions, but to be easily understood if
looked upon as private partnerships,
which is their essential character.
The opinion says that they are in some
respects rcgu'ated by law, but that these
regulations do not change the essential
character of the concerns as partner
ships, do not establish any tie between
them and the government, or any obliga
tions from them to the government, and
do not forbid the exercise of the liberty
to dispose of their property as freely as
an individual disposes of his if no special
law forbids, and if he is solvent and not
under some particular contractual ot
other like obligation to retain the prop
erty. The new Panama Company is
quite solvent, and there is no law for
bidding it to sell.
GIFTS TO MITCHELL
A Diamond Studded Badgi and a
Gold
Watch Presented By the Miners.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. (Special). Presi
dent Mitchell was in conference with
the district presidents Nicholls, Duffy
and Fahy for several hours Sunday.
He outlined his case as he will pre
sent it to the board of arbitration in
behalf of the miners, and the same re
ceived the approval of the district pres
idents. President Mitchell was pre
sented with a gold badge and gold
watch by the Polish, Lithuanian and
Slavish members of the united mine
workers. The badge bears his mono
gram (J. M.) in diamonds just beneath
the bar containing the pin. by which it
is fastened to the '-coat lapel. Below
this is the button of the United Mine
workers' of America, from which hangs
a pendant a tiny pick and shovel, with
miner's lamp in the center,undcrneath
of which is a medallion. The seal ol
he organization, in the center, is in
the form of a breaker boy standing in
the midst of a bank of coal. The pre
sentation took place at President
Mitchell's headquarters, and a large
crowd listened to the speeches of pre
sentation and acceptance.
ENDED IN A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
Policeman Sued for Divorce Shoots His Wife
aud Himself.
Augusta. Ga. (Special). Despondent
over divorce proceedings instituted
against him, Charles H. Walker, a po
liceman, shot and killed his wife at the
home of her mother-in-law and then sent
a bullet into his own brain, dying in
stantly. After filing the application,
Mrs. Walker returned to her husband's
mother's home. Walker's beat led by
the home, and and while on duty he
passed by the bouse and called for his
wife. She met him at the door, and
they ta'ked for a few moments, when
suddenly Walker drew his revolver and
fired four shots at his wife, all taking
effect. Walker then placed the gun to
his head, the bullet entering his brain.
When witnesses reached them both were
dead.
Trnln Robbery In Northwest.
, St. Paul, Minn. (Special). Word
was received here of the robbery of a
Northern Pacific mail train between
Bermount and Drummond, Mont.,
about midnight. The engineer was
killed, and the mail car was broken
into and robbed of all registered mail,
but no other car was touched.
Cur jlars Shoot a Broker.
David City, Neb. (Special). Har
vey Lillie, a well-known grain broker,
was shot and fatally wounded by bur
glars. Two of three bloodhounds own
ed by Mr. Lillie were poisoned Wed
nesday night, evidently in preparation
by the burglars for entering the house.
I'he intruders secured $350.
ODDS AND ENDS OP THB LATEST NEWS.
The United States Steel Corporation
so far as its interests arc concerned,
has fixed tlie'p-ice for furnace coke at
f3 per ton.
There was a riot in Chicago follow
ing the attempt of nonunion men to
oost bills for the Ainericari Posting
service.
.Henry Clay Frick bought for $2,
joo.ooo the Schenley real estate hold-
ngn at Pittsburg, which, itis believed,
will be turned over to the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company as a site for big
storage houses.
Injunctions were granted by the
Chancery Court at Birmingham, Ala.,
against the striking mnchii ists and
Mulders enjoining them against inter
icring with the nonunion workers.
The difference between the. engi
neers ol the Georgia Railway and the
company li3e been settled by the com
pany agreeing to adopt ihe mileage
system of pay. '
John D. Rockefeller and James Still
man, president of the National City
Bank of New York, will, it is said,
finance the $500,000,000 Beef Trust.
Reports that the Prince and Princess
of Wales would visit the United States
in 1904 have created much interest iu
Loedau.
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
Nc-wi Happenings ot Interest Gathered
From All Sources.
Pensions granted. John G. Mimrot,.
Putncyvillc, $6; John McGuickcn, Sol
diers' Home, Erie. $8; Henry C. Kline.
Conshohocon, $6; Alvurtis O'Dcll,
Tyronvilic, 12; David Hilty, Bradford,
$10; Nathaniel Boughton, Springfield,
$12; Thomas G. Livingston, Hopewell,
$24; George J. Cornelius, Port Math
ilda, $17; Thomas J. Rouse, Platea,
$10; William D. Abbott. Sutberville,
$8; George Wcrtz. Lewisburg, $14:
Hannah Snvdcr. Bolivar. $8: Francis
F. Davis, Oil City, $10; Zephnniah
Waid. Titusville, $24: Huston McKin
ney, Ulster, $12; Charles J. Smith,
Quincy, $12: Frederick Mcrtz, McVcy
town. $24: John W. Young, Romola,
$12: Ephraim S. Walker, Saltillo. $12;
Thomas Haddon, Hone Church. $10;
Hannah M. Myers, Allegheny, $8; Lu
cinda R. Packard. Covington, $12.
Harry L. Dubcrs. Soldiers' Home.
Erie. $6; John A. Martin, Altoona, $8;
Redman Flaherty, Pittsburg, $10: Sol
omon Conrath. Cookport, $50; John
Miller. Linesvillc. $12: Jacob Krebs,
Spindle. $10: Joseph Tritschler. Pitts
burg. $12: Frederick Haines, Dayton.
$12; Emciine Elliott. Mahonington, $12;
Mary A. Hamm, Beryl. $8: Lucinda
Kennedy. Brookville. $8; Louisa J.
Richie. Marion Center. $12; May N.
Edwards. Westficld. $8: minors of Ig
natz Fogcl, New Brighton, $12; Sarah
J. ILuntcr. Beaver, $8; Pamclia R.
Wood. Alliens, $3.
Upon the recommendation of Major
General Miller, Colonel Rutledgc pro
moted Arthur Wadsworth from a pri
vate to sergeant. Wadsworth shot and
killed William Durham on the night
of October 8 while on guard duty,
Durham not heeding the order to halt
given by Wadsworth. The major gen
eral says he deplores the killing ol
Durham, but the promotion of Wads,
vorth is a reward for the faithful per
formance of duty.-
On the charge of stabbing a fellow
workman, Joscpo Martinque was taken
to West Chester from the Catanach
quarries, in the Chester Valley. The
victim, another Italian, was severely
cut in the lungs and physicians say he
cannot live. When the officers appear
ed at the boarding house to arrest Mar
tinque he was found hiding under a
bed.
Deeds were recorded in Pittsburg
conveying to II. C. Frick $2,000,000
worth of property at the "Point,
where the Wabash proposes to have its
terminal and where Pennsylvania Rail
road interests have projected huge
warehouses. Mr. Flick bought the
property February 12. 1002. It was
purchased from Mrs. Mary Schenley,
of London, who lias vast realty hold
ings in Pittsburg aud other Amcncai)
cities.
Philadelphia. Pottstown and Norris.
town will soon be linked with Souder
ton by a trollcv road which is to con
nect with the 'Schuylkill Valley Trac
tion Company at Trooper. The capita!
stock ol the new company is $ 100,00c
and the stockholders arc mostly resi
dents along the line of the proposed
road,
Benjamin Ungcr, of St. Davids. 9
lineman, employed by the Delaware
and Atlantic Telephone Company, fell
from a pole in Wayne, a distance o'
thirty feet, and was taken to the Bryii
Mawr Hospital with a broken arm and
two badly injured lower limbs.
Ralph Nattress. who fell fifty-iout
feet down Girard slope, Mahanoy city,
died at the Miners' Hospital.
Fire in the engine room of the Wil
kinson Stoker Works in Bridgeport
for a time threatened the entire plant
.Valuable machinery was destroyed.
S. J. Shinier & Sons, of Milton, have
purchsed the Ettingcr machine' shops
of Chester, and will continue the busi
ness in conjunction with their plant at
Milton.
Regarding the rumor that the
Philadelphia and Reading Company
would open large retail yards for the
sale of coal in Reading. President Bacr
declares tbe report is incorrect.
Arrangements are already being made
for the meeting of the Grand Lodge
of the Knights of Friendship to be
held in Reading in 1004. Over 700 del
egates will be present.
Solomon E. Stout, of Reading, for
merly foreman of the Philadelphia and
Reading Company's round house al
Twentieth street, Philadelphia, has
been appointed foreman of the round
house at Clearfield.
Clarence Frost, aged 13. ol Edison
was hunting when his gun was acci
dentally discharged. The shot man
gled his left wrist and lodged in his
breast. He is not expected to live.
Berks county is considering the pro
ject of building another bridge across
the Schuylkill river at Reading. - The
Pennsylvania Railroad Company lias
filed exceptions to the plan, claiming it
would be a serious interference with
the railroad.
The citizens of Nether Providence
'ownship have organized a free library.
:o be known as the Horace Howard
Furness Free Library, and the school,
joard of the township have donated th'.v
.ise of a room in the new school bv.ild
ng. About five hundred books have
tlrcady been purchased.
Charles Cawley, of Homestead, wllo
is in prison under suspicion of having
killed his mother, three sisters and two
Drothcrs, has obtained a patent on s
street car brake he invented just before
'.he tragedy.
Edward E. Long, a member of .the
law firm- of Rogers & Long, and solic
itor of the Directors of the Poor of
Montgomery county, died suddenly at
(lis home in Norristown.
The reunion of the Forty-ninth Regi
ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, was held
it Huntington. After the business meet
ng a rousing campfire was held in the
court house at which several hundred
citizens attended.
A gang of house-breakers made a suc
ressful raid at Normalville and Indian
Head. The general store and postofrice
conducted by G, W. Campbell, in Nor
malville, was robbed of several hundred
dollars in cash, besides a grea. amount
of merchandise. The same gang drove
1 double team to Indian Head, where
they raided the general store and postr
pfficc conducted by II. L, Sparks & Sons
of over $200 of postoftice funds and $500
in merchandise. Thesafes in botli the
postotfices were totally wrecked. The
robbers have been tracked north into th
mountains, and officers believe they wil
be apprehended.
Henry Dunmire, an eccentric old man,
died near Sharon some time ago. He
was repor'.fd to be wealthy, and although
he left a wjll, the document cannot be
found. While searching through the
house for the will one of the relatives
found an iron pot containing gold anJ
silver coins amounting to almost $1,500.
No disposition will be made of the money
until the will is found. .
Washington county farmurs have
formed an association to protect their
farms from being overrun by hunters.
Fire at Wahlville, Butler county.' de
stroyed the store and residence of Mrs.
Sarah Green and the residence of J. rt
Pettigrew.