DAY FOR THANKSGIVING
Proclamation
Is.socd Bj
Roosevelt.
President
LUC OF CLEANLINESS AND HONOR.
Il It Written Out of the tsual Style, and Calls
Attention to tht Dangere to Our Nation
I Lite That ft Must Pray to Be Delivered
From He Rehearses the Things That We
Should Be Grateful For.
Washington, D. C, ( Special). The
President issued his proclamation Haul
ing Thursday, November 30 next, as a
day fur thanksgiving.
The proclamation follow:
"By the President of the United States
of America.
"A PROCLAMATION.
"When, nearly three centuries ago, J lie
first settlers came to the country which
has now liccome tins great republic they
fronted nt only hardships and privation,
but frnhle risk to their lies. In those
grim years the custom grew of setting
apart one day in each year for a special
service of thanksgiving to the Almighty
for preserving the people through the
changing seasons. The custom lias now
become national and hallowed by imme
morial usage. We live in easier and more
plrntiinl times than our forefathers, the
wen who, with rugged strength, faced
the rugged days, and yet the dangers to
national life are as gre.it now as at any
previous time in our history.
It is eminently fitting that once a year
our pe. .pie should set apart a day for
praise and thanksgiving to the diver of
good, and at the same time, that they
express their thankfulness for the abun
dant mercies received, should manfully
aokimwhdge their shortcomings aid
pledge :iiem-eies solemnly and in good
faith to ;r:vc to overcome them. Dur
ing the past year wt have been blessed
with bountiful crops. Our business pros
perity has been great. Xo other people
lias ever stood on as high a level of ma
ter;.:! well being as ours now stand-..
We are not threatened by foe; from
without. The toes from whom we should
pray to be delivered ;ire our own pas
sions appetites and follies; ami against
llics0 there is always need that wc should
war
Therefore, I now set apart Thursday,
November ,?o. as a day of thanksgiving
for the past and of prayer for the future,
and 0:1 that day I ask that throughout
the land the people gather in their homes
nd places of worship, and in rendering
thanks imto the Most High for the mani
fold blessings of the past year, conse
crate themselves to a life of cleanliness,
honor anil wisdom, so that this nation
may do its allotted work 011 the earth in
a manner worthy of those who founded
it and those who preserved it.
In witness -whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the Ci'.y of Washington this
second day of November in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and live and of the independence of the
United Slates the one bundled and thir
tieth. (Seal)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. .
By the President :
ELIIIU ROOT, Secretary of State.
BOMB IN A TENEMENT.
Woman Found It Just In Time to Prevent
Terrible Explosion.
New York, (Special). Twenty-five
families in a tenement on Leroy street
were thrown into a panic when a dyna
mite bomb, with f;ie lighted and about
to explode, was found in a hallway on
the second floor. The discovery was
made by a woman who was passing
through the hall, and tit first when she
saw the fuse sputtering she thought that
somebody had fired the building. She
rpiickly alarmed the janitor, who divined
what it was and roused all the tenants,
who fled in terror to the street.
John Skclly, a watchman, prevented
an explosion by severing the fuse, which
hy that time was within an inch of the
bomb. A policeman carried the infernal
machine to the station house, where it
was immersed in a pail of water.
SUES SUICIDE'S ESTATE.
Landlady Saya Tragedy In Her House Ruined
Her Business.
Sioux Ci'y, la., (Special). Because a
murder and a suicide committed in her
boarding house spoiled her business Miss
Alice Slaughter, of Los Angeles, Cal.,
has btgun a suit in the District Court
against the estate of Albert J. liolke for
$5,000 damans.
in January, KXAl, Miss Slaughter says,
'.he Boike tragedy took place in the "best
room in the hou-e." u litre Bolke shot
and killed his wife and then took his
own life. Miss Slaughter was awakened
in the night hy the sound of gunshots,
:nd Iter heulili was greatly impaired by
the resulting fright. The newspapers
printed the news of the tragedy, and as
a result her house was given undesirable
advertising. The notoriety drove away
l)iisinrs.
Three Fell on Carriage.
Danviile, O., ( Special). Mrs. Mary R.
Mot, aged 70, wife of one of the most
prominent citizens of Knox county, was
instantly killed and her son Clifford was
fatally injured near here by a tree, which
was being cut down by axemen, falling
upon them. They were on their way
home in a buggy, and as they reached a
turn in the road the tree fell and crushed
the occupants beneath it.
Lngine Explode.
Dallas, Tex., ("Special). A passenger
train on the Houston and Texas Cen
tral, running at a moderate rate of 'peed,
was derailed near Knnis, Tex., by an
explosion of the engine. Seven coaches
1 left I lie track, and the violence of the
explosion was so great that the roadbed
was torn up for several hundred yards.
None ol the passengcri was serioujly in
jured, but Brakcman Glenn was killed
outright and Engineer Davenport and
Fireman Ttailcr were probably fatally
injured.
Job Far Corrcapeadcat.
Washington, (Special). Announce
ment was made at the White House of
the appointment of Lawrence Tl. Gra
Imm, of New York City, to be commis
sioner of the interior for Porto Rico,
vice John S. Elliot, resigned. Mr.
Graham was formerly a newspaper man,
li-ing correspondent at Albany. N. Y.,
of the New Y'ork Evening Post, and
Viler ol the New Y'ork Commercial Ar
scrlicr. lie was tfie secretary of the
rf rmnent commission for the l.ouis
i u P-irchasc Exposition.
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMKS1IO
Relatives of .Mrs. Frank Tonscy.
daughter and heir 01 Mrs. Todd, stormed
the Von Huffman apartments in New
York, and ejected Ingersoll Lockwood.
the lawyer who chums a deed of trust of
the dead woman's properly. '
The coroner began the investigation
into the death of the student at Kciiyon
College who was killed in some way
while awaiting initiation into a fratern
ity. Charles and Stephen Stamper, sup
posed to be two of the gang that robbed
the Willard Bank, at Richmond, Ind.,
were arrested m Grayson, Ky.
The monument erected in Somerset,
()., to the memory of Cencral Phil Sher
idan was unveiled by Miss Mary Sheri
dan, the general's daughter.
Ihe battleship Rhode Island, on her
official trial trip over the measured mile
course off Owls Head, made a speed of
H)-27 knots an hour.
Legal proceedings were instituted by
the Interstate Commerce Commission in
Cincinnati to compel railroads to impose
lower ratc.
Two dwellings in Allegheny were
w recked by a natural gas explosion and
the occupants of one of the houses were
latally burned.
George P.cntlcy. of Huntington. L. I.,
was arrested in Boston 011 the charge of
tf-ing the mails for blackmail purposes.
The girls' dormitory of the South
Kentucky College, at Hopkinsvillc, was
destroyed hy lire. Loss, $30,000; insur
ance, $S.O.X.
Rev. Frederick Foolc Johnson was in
stalled as assistant to Missionary Bishop
llairc, of South Dakota.
Diamonds valued at $7,000 have been
stolen from Miss Elizabeth Liston Coch
ran, of Philadelphia.
The British steamer Chili arrived at
Lima, Peru, from Panama with five
yellow fever cases aboard.
Hazel and Eva Garfield, of Western
Springs HI were run down and killed
I by a fast train.
Charles .1. Devlin, the coal operator
; who recently underwent bankruptcy with
I liabilities of $4,000,000, died in Chicago
ot paralyse.
Seventeen danifgc suits have been filed
against the City of Chicago in connec
tion with the Iroquois Theater tire.
Further light on the murder of Jacob
H. Thompson, the New Y'ork editor, has
been obtained by the police.
James J. Hill, the railroad man, de
nied that he had any quarrel with E. II.
Iiarrimai!.
Senator William Warner has an
nounced himself in favor of freight-rate
regulation.
The sympathetic strike is attacked in
a suit for damages filed in Chicago.
The Russian cruiser Lena sailed from
San Francisco for Vladivostok.
A fire entailing a loss of $200,000 broke
out in Pensacola, Fla.
Five horsemen were injured in a fire
in Philadelphia.
James N. Abrel, who, by pretending
to be J. Ogden Goelet, worked his way
into the good graces of Miss Eleanor
Anderson, of New York, was committed
to the Elmira Reformatory.
After a sensational attempt to escape,
Clarence Jackson and his wife Alice, col
ored, who are wanted in Washington on
a charge of grand larceny, were arrested
in Philadelphia.
The police in New York stopped the
production of "Mrs. Warren's Profes
sion" and arrested Manager Gumperts,
of the Garrick Theater, on the charge
of offending public decency.
The Southbound Louisville and Nash
ville fast mail from Mobile for New
Orleans was derailed near Mobile and
five persons were injured.
Aaron J. Levy, a New Y'ork lawyer,
was among those arrested on the charge
of being involved in registration frauds.
Hall Caine sailed on the Caronia from
New Y'ork for Liverpool.
A dairy combine has been organized in
St. Louis.
J-OKEiUN
The American steamers Barracouta
and Centennial, the German steamers:
Kowloon, Hans Wagner and M. Struve
and the Norwegian steamer Arnfrid,
which were seized at various times by
the Japanese, have been released.
The Norwegian government has rec
ommended the people to vote for a mon
archal form of government based on the
British and Italian constitutions.
Turkey's continued refusal to accept
the powers' plan for the financial reform
of Macedonia is likely to result in a
joint naval demonstration.
The Pingyang branch of the Japanese
military railway to Wiju, Korea, was
opened to the public. The rates' of fare
and freight are high.
The King of Greece conferred with
Emperor William on the Macedonian
question and Greece's relation with Rou-
niania and Crete.
The former Russian cruiser Variag,
which was sunk by the Japanese and aft
r.vards rai-ed, has been repaired.
Emperor Francis Joseph has, it is said,
decided to gram universal suffrage to
Austria.
Lieutenant General von Trotha. com
manding in German Southwest Africa,
reports a naru ngni witli the natives, in
which he lost .3 officers and Ij men killed
and .1 officers and 31 men wounded.
Tokio is still feting the bluejackets of
the combined British and Japanese fleets.
The enthusiasm of the public is unabated.
General Tchertkoff, an aid-de-camp of
Emperor Nicholas and formerly gov
ernor general of Warsaw, died .suddenly
111 fans.
The old union flag came down from
the palates and public buildings in Swe
den and the separate flag reappeared.
The Cossacks and police treated very
roughly the rejoicing populace and dem
onstrative students in Odessa.
An expedition to the North Pole is
about to be organized under the patron
age of the Belgian government.
Five American missionaries are re
ported to have been murdered at Lien
chow, China.
"Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian novelist,
is reported to be very feeble.
The retiring British viceroy, Lord Cur
7011 of Kedleston, who has been making
a farewell tour of India, is prostrated
at Lahore, British India, with fever
brought on by exposure to the sua.
The. Swedish steamer Johar; (1724
ton) and the Russian bark AiiUres (340
Ions) both foundered recently in the
North Sea titer a collision. Twenty
six men cf the two crews were diown'd.
The execution of Ghirkis Vartamail,
who claims American citizenship, was
stopped at Stamboul, Turkey, upon the
receipt of a peremptory note from the
American Legation.
The United States, Russia, Great Brit
ain, Italy, Switzerland and Brazil have
declared their readiness to enter into of
ficial relations with the new government
of Norway.
The Japanese Foreign Office hat ac
cepted Emperor William's suggestion
that the powers withdraw theii troops
from Peking, excepting the legation
guards.
President J.ouhet returned to France
from Sptiin and Portugal.
ANARCHY IS RAMPANT
Wild Mobs Loot arid Terrorize Odessa
and Other Cities.
HUNDREDS KILLED IN STREET BATTLES
deneril kau bars Olvea free Relga to Bloody
Rioters-The Police Side Wlib Rough Who
Call Themselves -Loyalists" Attack On
and Massacres ol the Jews Are Incessant
Strike Called Oil.
The number of victim s of
the riots Wednesday and Thurs
day in Ru-sian eitivs were:
Odessa, !,(KK).
.-eba-lopol, 40.
Warsaw, 143.
Minsk, 100.
Rodoni, 1(10.
Nikolnieff, 120.
Many were killed or wounded
in other towns, but the actual
numbers are not given.
Massacres of '.lie Jews rival
ing the horrors of Kishinrf oc
curred in Odessa and other
places.
The whole of Finland is re
ported in open revolt. Prince
Obolensky, governor general of
Finland, has abdicated, and it
is reported that the Finnish flag
is flying from the public build
ings. An amnesty proclamation is
hourly expected, but it will ex
cept certain classes of political
prisoners.
The cabinet scheme is se
verely criticised because the
Premier has to take instruc
tions from the Czar upon all im
portant questions.
Odessa, (By Cable). Anarchy i3 ram
pant here.
I he population is panic-stricken.
Killing and plundering by bands
formed of hundreds oi "loyalists" con
tinues.
Attacks on the Jews arc incessant.
The troops wreaked terrible venge
ance on the residents of three houses,
from balconies of which shots were fired
bv unknown persons upon the soldiers;
The latter immediately stormed the
houses, and. with unheard-of barbarity,
massacred all the inhabitants.
It is persistently asserted that the un
known persons who fired on the troops
were disguised policemen, who purpose
ly provoked the troops.
The city is a dismal sight. The streets
are filled with Cossack patrols and flying
detachments of the Red Cross, which
follow the bands of murderous rioters.
Many hundreds have been killed or
wounded.
The Cossacks eagerly attack the stu
dent militia, which is outrageously try
ing to stem the bawds who are mas
sacring and pillaging, principally in the
Jewish quarter. The looters openly di
vide the goods, the Cossacks in many
cases participating in the proceeds of
the robberies.
The rector of the university has sent
a telegram to Count Witte, imploring him
to immediately dismiss Governor Rein
hardt, who is held responsible for the
outbreak, as otherwise a catastrophe is
unavoidable. Count Witte's answer has
not yet been received.
The city is in a dreadful state of panic,
Even the telegraph offices were closed
most of the day, for the first time since
they opened.
1 he night was made hideous, bodies
of "loyalists," with whom the police are
fraternizing, marching through the prin
cipal streets, bearing national flags, por
traits of the Emperor and ikons, singing
the national hymn, smashing everything
in their way and looting shops and
houses.
Hospital wagons passed through the
streets incessant)', carrying off the killed,
wounded and mutilated.
London, (By Cable). A dispatch to
a news agency from Odessa describes
that city as having experienced two
dreadful days, the defenseless populace
being at the mercy of a howling and
armed rabble of 50,000 men, "calling
themselves loyalists and led by disguised
policemen and their wretched dupes."
The dispatch says:
"The Jews made a stout resistance,
and their successful bravery entailed la
mentable sacrifices. It is impossible to
ascertain the casualties, but rumor puts
the number of killed and wounded as
high as 2,000, many by bombs, which the
mobs used wholesale. Not until late at
night, when the murderous work had
gone unchecked for hours, were the
troops brought, cordons placed around
the Jewish quarters and quiet somewhat
restored.
St. Petersburg Qulete Down.
St. Petersburg, (By Cable). The pros
pects of the country quieting down, for
the present at least, seem brighter. While
the revolutionary spirit is abroad the
masses of the "reds" seem to realize that
they have reached the end of their tether,
and they are afraid to push matters to
the point ol failure.
The students, Social Democrats and
strike leaders here in St. Petersburg,
finding that they will soon be in the
minority, have made a virtue of neces
sity and have declared the strike off.
Philippine Road Costly.
San Francisco, (Special). Major L.
W. V. Kennon, who has had charge of
the construction of a wagon road from
Manila to Bagulo, in Bcngtiel Province,
arrived on the transport Logan from the
Philippines. Thi6 road, it is reported, is
Ihe finest in the islands and has cost the
government a great sum, amounting to
between $1,500,000 and $J,ooo,ooo.
Major Kennon is authority for the
statement that the road cosi $75,000 a
mile for the last 20 of the 50 miles up
into the mountains.
Killed In the Philippines.
Washington, (Special). A dispatch
to the War Department from Manila an
nounced the following deaths: Drowned,
body recovered, Norman Gerhart, Troop
H, Seventh Cavalry, October 15;
drowned, body not recovered, Paul K.
Scoggin, Company E, Seventh Infantry,
October 15; dysentery, Carl O. Dexter,
Company P, Thirteenth Infantry, Octo
tier jo, and appendicitis, Frank R. Grov
er, Troop L, Seventh Cavalry, Octo
ber 17.
The "Mrs. Roosevelt."
Washington, (Special). The annual
chrysanthemum and carnation thow of
the Department of Agriculture is now
under way and thousands of persons are
visiting it daily. As soon as the pullic
has had a chance to view the new intense
yellow, incurved chrysanthemum, named
the ".Mrs, Roosevelt," is will be sent "by
Secretary Wilson to the White House as
a present to Mrs. Roosevelt. Tie new
"silvery pink" chrysanthemum, ) "Miss
Alice Roosevelt," will, in all probability,
be forwarded in a few days to the' While
House as a gift to the President (laugh
ter.
NEW YORK AS SEEN DAY BY DAY.
New Yonit 'itt. N. Y.
1 The rule recently put into effect for the
medical inspection of cabin as well as
of steerage passengers was enforced in
the case of the Kaiser Wilhelm IL, now
at her dock. The first to be questioned
was Adolphus linsch, of St. Louis, who
showed his surprise when asked: "Are
you an American citizen?'" Senator W.
A. Ciark took the questioning with a
smile. W. K. Vnndcrhilt and Mrs. Van
derbilt escaped the inspection for the
reason Ih.-it the line was formed after
they had been taken off the ship in quar
antine on the fug Samuel Calloway.
When the Kaiser Wilhvjm H. arrived 11.
A. Isenberg, imperial German consul in
the Hawaiian Islands, was in his room,
stricken with pneumonia. Mrs. William
H. Willis and Miss 1-itille Willis were
also under the physicians' care, suffer
ing from the ame disease. A. liaer, a
wealthy merchant of Atlanta, Ga., was
lying at the point of death, having been
seized with a violent recurrence of an
old liver trouble, and Sennr Theodore dc
Zaldo, of Havana, was convalescing from
an attack of appendicitis. Two deaths
from pneumonia occurred during the
voyage, both in the first cabin.
j? 7
White Horse, late of the senior class
in the Carlisle Indian School, got n job
in the New York Morgue to the disgust
of the other orderlies of various colors
and nationalities. He is a hnskv Co
manche brave, and is known as Richard
Saxc in civilization. He went through
the Carlisle school like greased lightning
until within a few months of graduation,
when several popular books of Bowery
fiction fell into his hands. He immedi
ately jumped his diploma to come to the
city. White Horse didn t strike the pros
perity he had read about, so he wound up
at the Bureau of Dependent Adults with
out a bit of W ampum 111 his belt. Super
intendent W eeks offered htm a job in the
Morgue, and he accepted it in a jiffy.
j&
Joseph R. Carpenter, a traveling sales
man for the Sticklev Furniture Company
of Grand Rapids, Mich., shot and killed
himself in the Rock Island Railroad
ticket office Fifth avenue and Thirty
fifth street. Such a crowd gathered that
six policemen were called. to disperse it.
He had asked T. II. Elliott, the porter,
for a time table, which he perused, and"
then said :
"I'm going away. Good-hy."
Without another word Carpenter
pulled out his revolver, placed it against
his right ear and shot himself. It was
not until Elliott cried out -when he saw
the revolver that the four other person
in the ticket office looked around. They
saw Carpenter shoot himself. One of
them, a woman," was so overcome that
she swooned.
&
A man and woman supposed to be
Michael Olivette and Margaret Lynch
were found asphyxiated hy gas in the
Eagle Hotel. The woman s mouth was
covered with blood, and it was found
that she had a broken jaw. The police
of the East One Hundred and Fourth
Street Station believe the couple had a
fight during the night, because the furni
ture was upset. The police believe that
either the man or woman got up during
the night and turned on the gas.
f J&
Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illi
nois Central Railroad Company, has sat
isfied a judgment tor $1,775, obtained
against him by A. Jaeckel & Co., furriers,
as the price of a Russian sable muff and
tippet ordered by Mrs. Fish more than
a year ago. She declined to pay for the
furs, insisting that they were not as rep
resented and the skins were inferior to
those selected by her.
J0 JE J0
Samuel ll. Seifter, in his reply lo his
wife's petition in a separation suit for
alimony, which was argued before Su
preme Court Justice Stover, says the
facts that he is anything but rich and
that he is bald-headed have caused his
domestic trouble.
"My wile," he said, through his law
yer, Albert Gutman, "wa3 disappointed
that I had not a more distinguished ap
pearance. She cast it up that 1 am bald."
r
Rev. Dr. John Wesley Hill, of the
Janes Methodist Episcopal Church, one
of the most important of that denomina
tion in Brooklyn, has asked District At
torney Clarke to urge tc indictment for
criminal libel of Rev, Dr. S. C. Swallow,
of Harrisburg, Pa., and to have steps
taken to have him brought to Brooklyn
by requisition and tried there. Dr. Swal
low was prohibition candidate for Presi
dent in the campaign thatt resulted in the
re-election of President MeKinlcy. Ac
cording to the story Dr. Hill told Mr.
Clarke, Dr. Swallow has been attacking
him for several months, among other
things accusing him of falsehood, pe
culiar real estate speculations in Utah,
and finally with plagiarism in the prepa
ration of his sermons.
AGAIN PROVOKED bV CASTRO.
Venezuela Prcaldent, In Anger, Stops All
Cable Menaf.es.
Paris, (By Cable). Advices received
by the Foreign Office here say that the
Venezuelan government sy.pended the
dispatch of cable messages to the United
Slates, France and (.'eat Britain for a
day.
The American and British Ministers
at Caracas protested, and the American
Minister also voiced the protest of
France; The ground for the suspension
was that the Venezuelan government had
not received a reply to a cable message
sent to an agent abroad. President Cas
tro attributed the non-receipt of a reply
to foreign influences, hence the suspen
sion, which, it is understood, covered offi
cial dispatches. The authorities here say
the incident is an additional provocation.
FINANCIAL.
Tbj. hiuh nriee of cotton h.11 &tni)f,il
exports ot that article.
1 lie teeimg ot conservatism is on the
increase," says W. L. Bull.
Tli Pnrlf ffclnd't KenteniliAn r,nnri
shows a gain of $ J 1, 000 in net profits.
i.oiiid stocks are not only acting bad
ly, but his railroad, are not making fav
orable reports.
Again the report is circulated that
Great Northern preferred is to get a
cash dividend of 25 per cent, at the be
ginning of the year.
United States Steel's weakness, in vi-w
of the rosy reports about steel trade,
looks contradictory.
Jefferson Fire Insurance Comnanv
cbar holder fhi-tii K T Q,.,, ..).....
George H. Frazier, George McFadder
ana v,iemem u. iewioia.
tt tiaa hpprt fllrurH nut Out fit. ..-..
' - - ' - ------- 1 w ' jrdl .s
ago the per capita consumption of iron
in this country was 387 pounds annually!
This year it will reach 537 pounds.
Railroads report earnings for third
week of October as follows: Detroit
1t,,ifit fnrra& IttnC! Ivi,3,i In,Inn
al, increase i,ji Colorado Southern,
increase ?igwj,
MASSACRE MISSIONARIES
Chinese Said to Have Killed Five at
Licncftow.
MARYLAND WOMAN AMONG SLAIN.
Daring I lie Boxer Outbreak, Several Years Ago,
Dr. Machle Was Captured and Would Nave
Been Massacred Had II Not Been That a
Mandarin, Whose Life Had Been Saved By
Dr. Machle, Interceded lor Him.
Hongkong, (By Cable).--Fivc Ameri
can missionaries have, it is believed, been
murdered at Lienchow. Details of the
affair have not yet been received.
Reports trom I anion sav the out rage
was perpetrated October 28.
Dr. Eleanor Chestnut, Mrs. E. C.
Machle and child, and Mr. and Mrs.
Pearle arc the victims of ihe disturb
ance.
Cincinnati. (Snecian.--Mi-.'. V. C.
Machle was known here, two brothrr-.-in-!aw,
one sistrr-iii-lae and her mother-
in-law residing in this city. .
1 lie last letter received from Mrs.
Machle stated that she was on her wav
from Mount Kellet. near Hontrkoni:. to
the missionary station at Lb nchow. pre-
idedc over by her husband. Dr. Edward
C. Machle. Dr. Edward C. Machle was
not long ago in Cincinn-ati to visit his
brothers. The settlement at Lienchow Is
Presbyterian one. Mrs. Machle was
.to years of age and the child referred to j
is Amy, aged 8 years. Dr. Machle has
been in the field about l.H vears. The Dr.
Elc anor Chestnut referred to ns mur
dered is also known in Cincinnati, where
she has visited when home on furlough.
She is from the East.
During the Boxer outbreak, several
years ago, Dr. Machle was captured and
would have been massacred had it not
been that a mandarin, whose life had
been saved by Dr. Machle, interceded
for him and rescued him from the mob.
New York, (Special). Mrs. Machle
was the wife of Dr. Charles E. Machle,
of Ohio. She was Miss Ella M. Wood,
of Philadelphia. Doctor and Mrs. Machle
have been stationed at Lienchow since
John Rogers Pearle was a new mis
nonary who sailed from this country last
11cust. He was born at New Bloom-
field. Pa., in 1879. He was educated at
the Lafayette College and the Princeton
Theological Seminary. He married Miss
Gilespie, of Port Deposit, Md., last sum
mer before going to China in August.
ChicaTo, (Special). Dr. Chestnut is
well known in Chicago, having been sent
out as a missionary hy the western
branch of the Board of Foreign Missions
of the Presbyterian Church, which has
had quarters here. She received both
her medical education and her Bible
training in this city and spent most of
her time here vyhen 011 furlough. Dr.
Chestnut received her appointment as
head of the Woman's Hospital at Lien
chow in 1804. She also had supervision
of the medical work in stations at Sam
Kong, Kang Han, Lam Mo and Ka wo,
in the Province of Canton.
Lienchow is a town of 12,000 persons,
situated in the western portion of the
Province of Kwang Tung, at the head of
the Gulf of Tong King, not far from the
treaty port of Pakhoi.
In addition' to four church buildings
the Lienchow Mission, which has 207
native Christians on its roll, has three
Sunday schools and three establishments
for secular education, one of which is a
boarding school with 10 pupils. It also
supports a hospital and a dispensary.
LOUIS AT ANNAPOLIS.
Tbe British Priaco on American
Soil-
Navy'a Welcome.
Annapolis, (Special). Prince Louis
Alexander of Battcnberg became the
guest of the United States Wednesday
at 10.15 A. M., when his fleet of si.
armored cruisers anchored just inside
that of Rear Admirals Robley D. Evans
and Charles H. Davis, live miles off
Annapolis.
With the interchange of visits, as es
tablished by naval etiquette, the Prince
became acquainted with the officers of
the United States Navy who will be
his hosts, and in the afternoon the first
return calls were paid by those visited
earlier in the day.
A tall man, with well-set-tip shoulders,
a black beard just beginning 10 thin and
lo get a bit gray, with bits oi ribbons. at
the left shoulder of his plain littic coat
and with no more gold braid than any
other of the several hundred officers of
varying ranks who arc crowding the
town, ihe Prince is a democratic naval
officer. One would not know he was a
"really, truly" prince if one hadn't been
fold. He was as affable as a man with
a favor to ask.
On board the Drake, which is claimed
to be the fastest warship afloat and
which holds a speed record of 24.28 knots
in an eight-hour test, Prince Louis re
ceived a correspondent. He is sociable,
pleasant to a degree and decidedly unlike
many people's ideas of what a prince is,
In his cabin, or suite, astern, he is just
like an ordinary American or English
gentleman who receives a guest. His
mail and luncheon were waiting, and his
first remark was apropos of the corre
spondence. It was brief, but character
istic : "It can wait."
"You know, of course." said the
Prince, "that I am in Annapolis express
ly to go to Washington. Mv visit is to
carry the letter from the King to the
President. I will be the guest of the
British Embassy while in Washington.
Then I go to New York, and next to
Gibraltar."
Positively No Rebate.
Philadelphia, (Special). The Penn
sylvania Railroad has issued notice to its
freight agents and solicitors cautioning
them to observe strictly the spirit and
letter of the intcr-Statc Commerce Laws.
Information of secret late-cutting by va
rious companies has been coming to the
traffic officers of the Pennsylvania Rail
road. It has been determined to take
such action as will show that under no
circumstances will the management
of the company countenance any rebates
or other infringements of the law.
A W.lcome to Norway.
Christiania, (By Cable). The United
States, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, Swit
zerland and Brazil have already declared
their readiness to enter into official re
lations with Norway in reply to Foreign
Minister Locvlaitd's notification, sent
out to all Ihe powers after King Oscar's
abdication, that the Norwegian govern
ment desired to open the usual diplo
matic relations' with- iheni. The replies
are couched in courteous terms, and
some of them arc accompanied by a cor
dial welcome of Norway into the ranks
of the fi'lly independent nations.
PRINCE MEETS PRESIDCNT.
Beara Personal Menaage From Xing
.Edward.
Wu.sliiiiRlon, D. C, (Special). With
great eclat Rear Admiral Prince Louis
of Battenhurg was received by the Presi
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt. The Prince
was bearer of .1 personal message of
good will from King Edward to Presi
dent Roosevelt, and was presented to
the President by Sir Henry Mortimer
Dnrand, the British ambassador. The
presentation was made the occasion for
a brilliant Teceptioti. At night Ihe Brit
ish Ambassador and Lady Dnrand gave
a state dinner to their distinguished
house guest, followed by a large recep
tion and ball.
Not since Prince Henry of Prussia
was a guest ot the German Embassy at
Washington has 11 royal visiter been the
recipient of gna'er honors than those
with which I'.ritain's Admiral Prince
has been welcomed lo the national cap
ital. Save for the absence of military
honors the Prince's entry to the capital
has been invested with as much cere
mony a- that which made memorable
the greetinir to the Prussian Prince sev
eral ., . .11s ago.
WOMAN'S ODD WILL.
Bequests For Keeping in Condition Graven of
Four Husbands.
Reading, Pa., (Special). The most
unique will ever offered for pro
bate here vva., that of Mrs. Polly Fisher,
of I.eesporl. this county. Shi died of
apoplexy a few days ago, leaving an es
tate of $;,ooo.
She drrects in her will that her prop
erty he converted into cash, that $l.ooo
be paid to a man who worked for her
and the remaining $4,000 to be paid lo
four different church congregations,
$1,000 each, and each congregation to
agree to keep in condition the graves of
her four husbands, buried in the four
churchyards.
Her ane was 85 years, and she ,vas a
very active, wideawake woman up to the
day ot her death. Her last husband died
two years ago. The churches she names
are all within a few miles of each other
in this county, near where she lived. Her
husbands attended them.
A CHINESE PRODUCT.
Against Importing Egg Volks Mixed Wit),
Borax.
Washington, (Special). The govern
ment has. taken steps to prevent the
importation into this country of egg
yolks mixed with boras, a product com
ing from China and used, it is said, by
wholesale bakers when American eggs
are high. Samples of this product were
recently submitted to Dr. H. W. Wiley,
the chief of the Bureau of Chemistry,
of the Department of Agriculture, for
test. He found that such a product was
distinctly unwholesome and injurious to
health, and further importations will be
prohibited. The dried eggs, however,
arc harmless, and no steps vvil lie taken
to prevent their importation. It is said
that considerable of the dried product
reaches this country from China via
BeTguim and other European countries.
60,000 Moths For Smithsonian.
Washington, (Special). Wm. Schatis,
an entomologist of Twickenham, Eng
land, formerly of New York, has pre
sented to the National Museum a $100,
000 collection of over 03,000 specimens
of South and Central American moths,
gathered during a score of years. The
collection, which J-.as bet 11 received at the
Museum, will be kept in strong, light
proof cases, accessible tOiRludcnts.
10.000,000 Primers Exploded.
Alton, 111., (Special). An explosion
occurred in Ihe primer dryhouse of the
Union Cap and Chemical Company, caus
ing the death of Foreman Anthony
Bccchy. The explosion set off 10,000,000
gun and cartridge primers and blew the
stone dryhouse to pieces. The cause has
not developed.
Komura to tto lo Peking.
Tokio, (By Cable). It is reported that
Barou Komura, the Foreign Minister, ac
companied by II. W. Dciiison, the foreign
adviser of the Japanese government, will
go to Peking as special envoy of Japan.
There are reports of some important nt
gotiatious with China and Korea.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
State Senator George E: Greene, ol
Biughamton, N. Y., indicted with George
W, Beavers, in connection with postal
frauds, appeared in the Criminal Court
and gave $10,000 bail.
William W. Karr, formerly disbursing
clerk of the Smithsonian Institution, was
sentenced to live years in the penitentiary
for embezzlement.
The fruit steamer Esparta is said to be
to blame for the collision with the light
house tender Magnolia, which had the
President on board.
' The minimum of cars to be supplied
with airbrakes was discussed before the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
A committee of letter-carriers present
ed a petition to Postmaster General Cor
telyou, asking for more salary.
The President discussed the railroad
rate problem with Senators Cullom and
Dolliver.
President Roosevelt and the members
of the Cabinet have been invited to the
reception to be given to Mrs. McLean,
of the Daughters of the American Revo
lution. 'The Interstate Commerce Commission
decided the case of the City Gas Com
pany of Norfolk against the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad hi favor of ihe
former.
An inquiry into the operation of pri
vate refrigerator cars on transcontinental
railways was b'.'gun by the Interstate.
Commerce Commission.
President Roosevelt lias been presented
with a copy of the le.-ohition.s adopted
by the bishops of the Methodist Episco
pal Church.
The Farmers' National Bank of Kmg
fisher, Oklahoma Territory, has hern
closed hy the Comptroller of the Cur
rency.
Ambassador Jusseraud had a confer
ence with the President about Venezue
la:! matters.
Eleven whaling vessels from San
Francisco have bi.cn caught in the Arctic
Ocean.
T. H. Newberry took fhc oath of
office as assistant secretary of the navy.
1 wo men were killed in an explosion
in a powerhouse in Washington.
President Roosevelt returned from his
Southern trip and landed at the uavv
yard, where he wa.' icceived with official
honors, alter Which he drove to Ihe
While House with Mrs. Roosevelt.
The President has requested the Keen
Commission to invcsticale the method of
conducting business in the .bureau; of
the Interior Devilment.
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Th Latest Pennsylvania Newt Told la Short
Order.
Dennis Wall, one of n partv of six
Philadelphians who were hunting in thfc
Scootac trgion, Clinton tounty, met a
horrible death. Wal had "a double-barreled
shotgun and was standing on a
stump lighting his pipe with the weapon
between his legs. It slipped down and
Ihe hammers of both barrels struck the
stump. The weapon discharged, and the
double load lore him almost in two.
Wall was about ,,5 years of age, a steam
fitter by trade, nnd the sole support of
his father and mother.
A funeral shroud instead of a bridal
dress was ihe covering of Miss Elsie
Eaton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thos.
Eaton, of North Beaver Township. She
was H) years of age and was a member
of the English Lutheran Church,, of,
Petersburg. Her coming marriage with
Ellis Clark, of I'.non alley, had been
reported and the wedding day had been
set for the afternoon that her funeral
was held. Diaih was due to typhoid
fever.
The opening of the rabbit season in
Lancaster county was marked with the
usual fatality with probably another
death to follow as the result of a guiii
ning accident. In company with three
fellow -employes of the traction company,
Frank Roland, a inotoriuan on the car
line, went gunning in West Earl Town
ship. Roland was getting', over a wire
fence when the hammer of his gun
caught on one of the barbs. The chargn
of shot passed through his body, tearing,
his heart to pieces.
Peter Yontz, of Kinderhook, was prob
ably fatally wounded by a companion
while gunning along Chiekies Creek.'
When the latter was aiming at a rabbit
Yontz stepped directly in the line of tire.
Twenty high school .students had a
narrow escape from death or injury in
Sh.-mirkin by a wheel on an omnibus
.lying off as the vehicle was descending
.1 sleep mountain road. The occupants
were pitched to the ground, but none
seriously injured.
That the United Mine Workers are
preparing to combat the attempt of the
coal operators to have the miners' cer
tificate law declared unconstitutional
was made certain wheii fifty witnesses
who will testify at Ihe trial of the fa
mous Shea case in Scranton this week
issembled and held a conference with
Attorney Jones and the three district
presidents, Detlrey, Fahy and Nichols.
The conference lasted all day, and some
important facts bearing on the mine ccr
ifieatc law were adduced.
A meeting of citizens was held in the
Martin Aii.Titorium, Lancaster, to dis
:uss the initiative and referendum in
general law-making. Speeches were
made by ..(ieorge 11. Shibley, of Wash
ington, D. C, president of the People's
Sovereignty League of America; J. L.
Rodier, of the International Typograph
ical Union; Jacob L. Prey, Jr., who in
troduced the measure recent!' into City
Councils, -and others.
Miss Nellie Roseustock, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Casper Roseustock, of
Weathcrly, sailed from New York city
on the Oceanic for Africa, where she
will enter the missionary field. In com
pany with seven other persons she will
go down the . Eastern coast of Africa
as far as Mombasa, where the party
will separate. Miss Roseustock goes
into the interior about 200 miles, where
she will meet her fiance, George Rhodes,
a missionary, to whom she will be mar
ried. During the absence from home of the
family of U. S. G. Rhoads, a prominent
Lancaster manufacturer, thieves looted
the house and got considerable plunder
in money and jewelry. While they were
engaged on the second floor two rings
at the doorbell interrupted them. One
of the men answered the bell, took mail
from the postman and informed a caller
lhat the family was not at home.
Recent awards by a jury to land own
ers along Church road, near Jenkintown,
for widening lhat highway have resulted
in the filing of -a score of appeals asking
the Montgomery county courts for a re
view, the property owners maintaining
that the awards are insufficient. Many
wealthy residents of Cheltenham, Spring
field and Whitemarsh Townships are
interested.-
Jones & Co., of Philadelphia, who pur
chased the Cnim Lynne Worsted Works,
in Chester, from Smith Longbottom,
have started the plant after it has been
idle for three months.
Thieves broke into the clothing fac
tory of Kirehbaum & Co., of Sellersville,
and stole a hundred pairs of trousers.
This is the second time within a few
months that the factory has been en
tered by thieves.
Because of the scarcity of labor a
great deal of corn in Northern Berks,
Lebanon and Southern Schuylkill coun
ties remains to be husked. Fortunately
Ihe weather is fine for this period of the
year, affording opportunity for a few
men to do much work.
While going down the sleep mountain
south of Mount Carmel, the harness on
a horse, driven by Michael Crane, broke
and the animal ran away. The carriage
was thrown over an embankment and
Crane and his wife hurled several feet
and painfully hurt.
While chopping down a big tree at
Dcturksvillc, William Miller, aged 23
years, was caught under the falling
trunk and killed.
Several hundred hunters in all sec
tions of the coal regions availed them
selves of the opening of the rabbit and
quail season, and spent the day on the
hills and in the forests. Both species
of game are reporter! as plentiful. Many
large bags were carried home.
Henry Boengle, John Rrior and Elmer
Walioir, of Easton, went gunning in the
vicinity of the Wind Gap. hrior became
separated from his companion and was
in a clump of bushes when Boengle and
Walton, taking him for a pheasant, fired
simultaneously in the bushes, Brior re
ceiving the two charges of shot in the
back of his heat.
The early passenger train on the Penn
sylvania Railroad at the tunnel between
St. Clair and Potlsville plowed through
a herd of cowl. Engineer "Jack" Rob
erts saw the cattle in time to avert strik
ing them at full speed. ,
The Pine Hill Coal Company, near
Potlsville, is building it new breaker with
a capacity of 3,000 tons per day. This
will replace the one destroyed by fire ,
last August. The colliery, one of the
largest fu the lower basin, is being
equipped with electrical machinery.
There are a dozen big breaker in the
Schuylkill legion in course of erection.
The Schuylkill County Homeopathic
; Medical Society held a regular quarterly
session in Shenandoah. , There was a
large attendance of physicians from all
fiarts of the county. Dr. Maurer, of Ash
and, presided. Interesting paper wera
read by Drs, Dreher, Tamaqua; Straub,