REPULSE BRITISH FORGE
FOUR OFFICERS KILLED.
General Clements’ Force Tompelied to Re-
treat, Baltered and Beaten—Battie
Resumed at Krugersdorp.
Telegrams irom London, dated Fri-
day, say: Severe reverses have overtak-
"en the British troops in South Africa.
How bad was the defeat or
series of defeats, suffered in the
last 24 hours is not yet known. That
General Clements has been defeated,
and that badly, is not denied. Lord
Kitchener, in a cablegram, says four of-
ficers and some soldiers were killed in
a battle yesterday. How many soldiers
were killed he does not say.
Friday evening excitement was trebled
in England by a cablegram {rom
Johannesburg, sent at 3:25, saying
General Clements was engaged by the
Boers in the afternoon on the hills a
few miles from Krugersdorp. He had
asked Johannesburg for help. General
French had left hurriedly to assist
im. The cablegram said the attack-
ing Boers numbered not less than
2,800, and that already the casualties
were large on both sides.
The scenes at the war office recall
those witnessed in the early stages of
the war. A constant stream of excited
people filled the lobbies, all seeking de-
tails of the disaster. The absence of
the names of any of the officers of the
Northumberland Fusiliers in General
Kitchener's dispatch leads to the fore-
boding that the four companies of the
Fusiliers mentioned are in the hands of
the Boers.
The war office officials evidently ex-
pect a heavy casualty list, but they are
hopeful from the fact that the dispatch
does not mention the capture of the
Northumberlands that such a great ca-
tastrophe has been escaped
Orders were issued at Aldershot, Mal-
ta and other military centers to dispatch
all the available mounted infantry to
South Africa.
The angry English people are de-
manding that officers responsible for
the disaster at Magaliesburg be pun-
ished. The Boers captured 573 British.
Che disaster which on Friday over-
took the British troops in South Africa
on the Magaliesburg, only 22 miles
from Pretoria, has sent an unpleasant
thrill through the nation. It was made
rather worse Sunday night by the iol-
lowing dispatch from Aliwal, North,
Cape Colony: “A party of Brabant’s
Horse, consisting mainly of raw recruits
engaged a superior force of Boers on
December 13 near Zastron, Orange
River Colony, losing four killed, 16
wounded and 120 taken prisoners.”
HUGE BALANCE OF TRADE.
The Excess in Favor of the United States
Largest in History.
The commercial record of the United
States in 1900 will surpass that of any
preceding year both in exports and in
the excess of exports over imports, or
“favorable balance of trade.” The im-
ports will be slightly below those of
one or two preceding years, and when
considered in their relation to popula-
tion show a smaller importation for
each individual than at almost any
other period in many years. Basing the
estimate for the year upon the 11
months’ figures received by the Treas-
ury, it seems probable that the exports
will reach about $1,470,000,000. and the
imports $825,000,000, making the excess
of exports over imports $645,000,000. a
sum greater by $25,000,000 than that of
any preceding vear.
The exports will be double those of
1883, three times those of 1872, four
times those of 3560, and five times as
much as in 1
PANIC AT A FUNERAL.
Flgor Gave Way and Sixty Men Fell in
Cellar—Many Injured.
During the services over the remains
of ex-County Commissioner Wilmer
Worthington at Forest Grove, Pa., the
oor of an adjoining room gave way
and about 60 men, mostly members of
secret organizations, were precipitated
to the cellar. Everybody was hurt, a
dozen quite seriously. The accident was
followed by screams of terror and panic
among the women mourners who sui-
rounded the corpse.
The services were abruptly ended by
everybody rushing from the place. All
the mourners who were not hurt turned
in to rescue the injured. Many were
burned and scalded, a stove containing
a kettle of hot water having fallen con
the men.
Monument to Jennie Wade.
The Women’s Relief Corps of Towa
has arranged to erect a monument at
Gettysburg, Pa., in honor of Jennie
Wade, the only woman killed during the
battle of Gettysburg. The monumert
will be erected on July 3, 1901,the 38th
anniversary of the battle.
GOV. BECKHAM INAUGURATED.
Promises a Clean Administration — Hopes
Political. Strife Will Cease.
Gov. Beckham, of Kentucky, was in-
__2ugurated Tuesday, at Frankfort. In
his address he made no reference to the
killing of William Goebel nor to any of
e subsequent events. e promised a
¢Nean and honest administration in a
spiryt of fairness and tolerance, with no
g of partisan hate or malice, but
with ‘the sincere desire to remove, os
ossible, all friction and ill-feeling
He said that
thority and shall never be called into
active gervice except as a last resort in
carryitffg out the decrees of judicial
tribungls,
Marvels of Nature Discovered.
inadian Pacific railroad engineers
hav: returned to Winnipeg, Man., from
an (exploring expedition in the field re-
giagn of the Rockies and they report the
discovery of magnificent falls, one drop-
pi-ig from a height of 1,300 feet, also
several glaciers, one of which rivals the
great glacier of the Selkirks in area and
surpasses it.in the magnificence of its
surroundings of mountain lakes of un-
usual beauty and of lofty peaks, which
will offer great temptation to mountain
climbers. These hitherto hidden mar-
vels of nature can be made accessible
by the construction of trails and these
will be built early next spring.
The Czar Making Inquiries.
It is reported that the first act of the
czar since his recovery has been to send
to the war ministry for a report on the
alleged wholesale slaughter of women
and children by Russian troops in Mai:-
churia. The czarina was deeply touch-
ed by the reports in question and callzd
her husband’s attention to them as soon
as his condition permitted.
1t is believed that there will be a thor-
ough inquiry into the alleged massacres,
which, if true, exceed anything in Rus-
sian history since the age of Ivan the
Terrible.
Soldier's Death Penalty Commuted.
Privates Benjamin Stanley and Thomas
Fesler. oi Company G, Forty-eighth ia-
fantry, stationed in the Philippines, wzre
convicted recently by court-martial of
assault and desertion and each was sen-
tenced to be hanged. The President
has commuted the sentences of dishon-
orable discharge, iorfeiture of all pay
and allowances and confinement at hard
fabor at Leavenworth penitentiary for
20 years.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
The French report an army of 10,000
Boxers marching on Pekin
An earthquake shock at Santiago de
Cuba broke up two swell balls.
The Sisters of Mercy convent at Fort
Dodge, Ia., was destroyed by fire.
In a recent letter Andrew Carnegie
opposes the Hay-Paunceiote treaty.
Gen. DeWet again avoids a well laid
British trap and eludes his pursuers.
Parliament has adjourned. the queen's
speech being the shortest on record.
London newspapers protest i
the amendment of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty.
Lord Roberts, with his wife and
daughters, has sailed irom Cape Town
for England.
Friday violent wind and ran storm
visited the Pacific coast causing great
damage to property.
As a result oi special elections many
Massachusetts towns have been added to
the no-license column.
George Gould has sold his steam
yacht, the Atlanta, to the government of
Venezuela for $125,000. :
Two brutal negro murderers ol a
white barber were lynched in the jail
yard at Rockport, Ind.
The military government of Porto
Rico has ended and Governor Gener: al
Davis sailed for America.
The dock laborers at Callao, the port
of Lima, Peru, have gone on strike, and
all work has been stopped.
An Indianapolis gas company is being
forced into bankruptcy by Yee
stealing of gas by citizens.
It is alleged that the shortage of the
dead Cincinnati board of education oi-
ficial may reach a million.
Prince Gustavus Adolphus, eldest son
of the crown prince of Sweden and Nor-
way, is ill with diphtheria.
Since Paris exposition closed that
city has been the scene of an abnormal
number of hideous crimes
Corporal Herbert Chase, Twenty-
ninth infantry, was mistaken for a Fili-
pino and killed by a sentry.
In a lecture at Ann Arbor, Mich., ex-
President Harrison says Filipinos are
citizens of the United States.
Three children were cremated in a
Pumirg house at Golinza, Pa., Wednes-
day, during the mother’s absence.
A scheme is on foot to establish a
new government in the heart of South
America under French protection.
Kruger has been formally notified
by whi Holland government that it will
not interfere on behalf of the Boers.
Great Britain has objected to one fea-
ture of the China agreement, causing
further delay in Peking negotiations.
A iourteen-year-old boy of New York
city has been sentenced to 20 years im-
prisonment for murdering a playmate.
Queen Margaret of Italy has pui-
chased a palace, and will devote her
time and fortune to charities and art.
Senators who were turned down aut
the November election seem determined
to talk the ship subsidy bill to death.
Miss Mary McCready, a demented
woman near New Wilmington, Pa., was
burned to death at home when left alone.
Fire destroved the A. T. Stewart Dine
works at East Carnegie, Pa., causing
Joss estimated at $75.000, partially by
sured.
Citizens of Paterson, N. J., are en-
deavoring to raise $200,000 to prevent
the closing of the Rogers locomotive
works.
Rev. Dr. Dickie, pastor of the Amer-
ican church in Berlin, has arrived in
this country to solicit $150,000 for the
church building.
At an Anarchist meeting in New
York Tuesday evening Emma Gold-
man threatened the assassination of
Richard Croker.
The chateau in Belgium of the Prince
of Ligny, dating from 1146, was burned,
but the paintings and most of the art
works were saved.
A mine workman near Connellsville,
Pa., missed his footing and plunged 300
feet down a mine shaft. His body was
crushed to a pulp.
Diphtheria is epidemic at Claysburg,
Blair county, Pa., and the mortality is
heavy. Four deaths in one family have
occurred in 10 days.
A fatal collision on the Santa Fe rail-
road in Kansas is attributed to incapable
telegraph operators. One person killed
and several injured.
The Zschistche tannery at Sheboygan,
.. was destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of $180,000 and throwing 200 men
out of employment.
It is now asserted that Emperor
Kwang Hsu is a convert to Christianity
and that this is the cause of the empress
dowager’s hatred for him.
Dr. Matzen, professor of law at the
University of Copenhagen, has been ap-
pointed to represent Denmark in the in-
ternational court of arbitration at The
Hague.
In a tail-end collision on the Pennsyl-
vania road at Kittanning Point, Pa.
William Pritchard, of Gallitzin, was
killed, iq persons hurt and one reported
against
British soldiers heartily admire Gen.
Dewet, the Boer commander, whom
they are trying hard to capture.
It is proposed to connect all the larg-
er towns between Clarion and DuBois,
Pa., by an electric car line, over 50
miles in length.
The yellow fever situation at Havana
shows general improvement. Twenty-
eight cases are now under treatment,
including only one American.
Committees of the Cuban constitu-
tional convention are drafting an instru-
ment which will effect radical changes
in the government of the island.
Lappe Bros., of Allegheny, Pa, have
purchased the Gondola works at Jean-
nette and will remodel it PhaTiony 10
opening a patent leather tannery.
Waynesburg. Pa. is to have a busi-
ness college. to be under the manag
ment of Prof. Lewis Van Orden, of the
Business college of Washington, Pa
Because she quarreled when he came
home Annelo Barelga. in New York
threw his wife out of a window 30 i
high, but she was not seriously injured.
The stone canopy over Plymouth
Rock, at Plymouth, Mass.. has been
partly shattered by vandals and the
whole structure may Sn e to be rebuilt.
The French. probably shamed by
Gen. Chaffee, have stopped looting the
Peking observatory. Secretary Hay's
diplomatic victory is acknowledged “in
Berlin.
The semi-annual dividend of § 50 per
share on the preferred ai has
been declared by the directors of the
Chicago Great Western, payable Jan-
rary 31.
An explosion destroyed the fine tin-
ples at the J. W. Ellsworth shaft No.
1 mines near Monongahela, Pa.. 100
men who were inside escaping through
shalt No; 2.
The Taft commission has passed an
act authorizing Gereral MacArthur ro
establish police in Philippine cities and
towns and appropriating $130,000 for
their maintenance.
Philip Nordlund was beheaded at
Vesteras, Sweden, for the murder of
seven men on the steamer Prinz Car
in May. He chanted a psalm as he
laid his head on the block
The National Civil Service Reform
league elected President Daniel C. Gil-
man, of Johns Hopkins university, presi-
dent, in place of Carl Schurz. Grov
Cleveland was elected a vice presides
Joseph English
Colonial Se ry, has a scheme for
federating the British West Indies with
the capital at Kingsto
There are fears that Amer
Chamberlain, the
maica
mately acquire all these islands
MILITARY ACTIVITY AT PANAY ISLE.
CROWDING THE REBELS.
American Troops Have Lost Only Three Killed
and Five Wounded—Commission Work-
ing on Tariff Bill.
Advices from Iloilo, island of Panay,
report that the American troops have
been moving northward and westward
for scveral days, and that detachments
of the Sixth, Eighteenth and Twen
sixth regiments have been active ne:
their stations. The insurgent losses
during the last 10 days there have been
five killed, several wounded and 40
taken prisoners. The Americans have
lost two killed and three wounded.
Large numbers of the natives are swear-
ing allegiance to the United States. In
recent attack and expeditions in South-
ern Luzon the insurgents have lost
eight killed, seven wounded and about
20 captured. The Americans have lost
one killed and two wounded. Gen.
Wheaton reports that 430 natives have
entered Calanao for registration.
Most of the time of the Philippine
commission i now devoted to the tariff
bill. Judge Tait says that the new
rates would be about 40 per cent. of the
existing rates. “It will be essentially
a tariff for revenue,” he remarked, “but
some industries that are already c¢s-
tablished will be given protection. The
commission is not considering the ques-
tion of the constitutionality of taxing
United States products. The precedents
ave been established in the case of
ith Rico and by the military govern-
ment of the Philippines. The bill re-
quires the washing of cotton goods so
as to eliminate the clay used by Euro-
pean manufacturers, which increases the
weight. This will incidentally favor
American goods. The rate on kerosene
will be reduced from 11 cents a gallon
to 4. Some American goods will be ad-
mitted free, and almost all will come
in at reduced figures.”
BRINGING VOLUNTEERS HOME.
General MacArthur Instructed to Begin the
Movement.
The war department has begun the
movement homeward of the volunteers
from ‘the Philippines, so that they may
be discharged in this country by June
30. Adjt. Gen. Corbin cabled the fol-
lowing i instructions to Gen. MacArthur:
“Send volunteers convalescent to the
capacity of the next transport return-
ing and a volunteer regiment by trans-
port following. As you report 69,000
now, the secretary of war directs that
vou start home the volunteer regiments
until the force is reduced to 60,000, the
number fixed before beginning rein-
forcement by regulars. Will send you
regular regiments to further relieve the
volunteers.”
Gen. MacArthur replied as follows:
“The Thirty-seventh infantry regiment
sails on transport Sheridan, January 1,
and the Eleventh regiment cavalry on
January 15. The movement will con-
tinue as directed until completed. The
Thirty-sixth regiment infantry is in the
field; cannot leave at present. Trans-
port Sherman left December 15 with
about 500 volunteers convalescents and
the transport Warren will leave Decem-
ber 22, with the same number. Any
remaining will go on transport Sheri-
dan, January 11.
The war department has taken this ac-
tion in anticipation of the authorization
by Congress of the enlistment of reguiar
regiments to replace the recalled troops.
Officers of volunteer regiments in the
Philippines have reported a general dis-
inclination on the part of the volunteers
to prolong their foreign service.
BOY’S TERRIBLE DEATH.
Companions Tied Him io a Horse Which Ran
Away Dragging Him to Death.
Dragging at the heels of a frightened
horse a boy named Hall was battered
to death at Mt. Liberal, Ind. Two older
companions, names Pittman and Copen-
haver, in a spirit of boyish recklessness,
tied young Hall on the horse's back,
telling him they would teach him to be-
come a circus rider. He was warned to
hold on the reins by his companions,
who released their hold on the bridle
and struck the horse. The animal im-
mediately took fright and ran away. The
rider lost his hold and fell under the
horse's hoofs. His horror-stricken com-
panions started in pursuit of the fleeing
animal, which was captured nearly a
mile away, but not until the rider was
kicked and battered beyond recogni-
tion.
Against American Shoes.
The influx of American-made shoes
into Germany has prompted a petition
from German boot and shoe manufac-
turers to the national legislature for a
raise in the import tariff on articles of
this description. Vice Consul General
Hanauer, at Frankfort, s that these
manufacturers claim the tariff as a ne-
cessity to protect their industry against
foreign encroachments.
MAIL TRAIN ROBBED.
Bandits Make a Heavy Haul After Beating the
Postal Clerk Insensible.
A bold robbery on the Cottonbelt
railway occurred Thursday at Bassetts,
Tex., in which Postal Clerk John TH.
Dennis was almost killed and the mail
pouches of his car rifled of their con-
tents.
Examination of the car showed that
the robbers gained entrance by crawling
through a small trap door in the floor
oi the vestibule. In the vestibule is a
crank with which a person can uncou-
ple the car from the other, and it is be-
lieved it was the intention of the rob-
bers to disconnect and get control of
both cars. Tt is impossible to tell what
the robbers secured. but it is believed
they made a good haul.
American University Plans.
At the meeting oi the trustees of the
American university Tuesday at Wash-
ington Bishop Hurst reported that
there was between $2,000,000 and $:
000.000 on hand, and urged that every
effort should be made to secure $1,000,-
ooo during the coming year, as a basis
for opening the institution for instruc-
tion. Everything was reported to be in
prosperous condition.
The report of the financial secretary
showed that $75,000 will soon be added
to the endowment fund. A subscrip-
tion of $10,000 was made by a member
oi the board whose name was not an-
nounced.
Bought by the Standard.
The Standard Oil Company has ac-
quired all of the interests of the Pacific
Coast Oil Company. The purchase
price is said to be in the neighborhood
of $1,000,000. The Pacific Coast Oil
Company has been doing business in
California for a quarter of a century.
Its interests include valuable oil prop-
erties in various sections. It owns a
steamer which is sed! in transporting oil
from the southern coast to its refinery
at Alameda, which has a monthly ca-
pacity of 23.000 barrels. The company's
entire are embraced in the
transfer.
Starting a New Revolution.
Dispatches from Hong Kong, dated
Thursday. say: The city was placarded
to-day with appeals to the people and
secret societies to unite and rise during
January and drive out all foreigners.
Crowds gathered around the plagards,
but no outbreak is reported. Reports
come from Canton that Yeung Sung
Po, the reformer, has been horribly tor-
tured. Though he was strung up (by the
thumbs and the toes, he would confess
nothing.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The Chief City of the Republic Celebrated
Its Centenary in a Fitting Manner
Wednesday.
With imposing ceremonies the Na-
tional capital Wednesday celebrated the
centennial anniversary of the founding
of the seat of the federal government mn
Washington. The exercises combined
a brilliant military parade, a review by
the President from the east front of the
Capitol and orations in the hall of the
house of representatives, where a bril-
liant audience was assembled. By act
of Congress the day was made a Na-
tional holiday in the District of Colum-
bia, the government departments being
closed.
President McKinley and the members
of his cabinet took prominent parts in
all the exercises, and with them were
the chief executives of a large number
of the States and Territories of the
union, including Gov. Stone, of Penn-
sylvania, the senators and representa-
tives in Congress, the ambassadors and
minister from foreign courts, the heads
of the army and navy and a great out-
pouring of the people. Early in the day
the President received the governors of
States and Territories at the White
House, and the model for a new and
enlarged White House, to commemorate
the day's exerci was unveiled with
suitable addresses
The ceremonies at the Capitol began
at 3:30 p. m. and included addresses bv
Senators Daniel, of Virginia, and Mec-
Comas, of Maryland; Representatives
Payne, of New York, and Richardson,
of Tennessee, and a notable historic ora-
tion by Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts.
A reception by the President to the
governors of States at the Corcoran art
gallery in the evening closed the fes-
tivities,
YEAR'S TRADE OF CUBA.
Merchandise Valued at $71,681,187 Im-
ported During Twelve Months.
The division of insular affairs, war de-
partment, makes public a statement of
the trade of Cuba for the fiscal year
ended June 30 last. Merchandise to the
value of $71,681,187 was imported dur-
ing the year, composed in the greater
part of food products and manufactur-
ed articles. Of the total importation,
$34.347.008 worth came from the United
States. The importations from Puerto
Rico amount to $1,611,337 and over $3,-
000,000 worth came from Central and
South America. The total importation,
including gold and silver, was $76,860,-
813. It 1s set forth that since the date
of American. occupation, Judy 17, 1808,
up to the end of the last fiscal year, im-
ports to the value of $113,846,603 have
entered the ports of Cuba.
The value of exports of merchandise
from Cuba, during the last fiscal year,
most of which were products of agrical-
ture, is set down at $4.522,346. The
total exportations of gold and silver
amounted to $4.253.206. The exports by
countries show: To the United States,
$36,012,629: to Puerto Rico. $81.580: to
the Hawaiian islands. $6,426. The total
exports from the island since it passed
into the possession of the United States
amounted to to $81.304.5 5
REBELS HoLD THER OWN.
Were Not Dispersed in the Recent Battle
in Colombia.
Advices received from Colon, Colom-
bia, regarding the recent fighting be-
tween the government troops and the
insurgents at Tumaco, the rebel strong-
hold, which lasted three days, the insur-
gents then evacuating the town, say
that the withdrawing insurgent forces
were not dispersed. On the contrary,
fears are entertained at Colon that this
body of rebels will effect a junction
with the force operating around Buena-
ventura.
Telegraphic communication with the
interior has been suspended by gov-
ernment order, and fighting is proceed
ing at various points. Both sides lost
heavily in the battle at Tumaco. When
the government forces destroyed the
rebel steamer Gaitan they also destroy-
ed a large supply of ammunition.
Noifolk Navy Yard Destroyed.
The building occupied by the cou-
struction department at the Norfolk
Navy Yard was completely destroyed
by fire Sunday evening. The building
contained all the important papers,
models and plans of the construction
department. Over 7,000 drawings an:l
$100,000 worth of live oak timber were
destroyed. The loss to the building anid
contents is over $200,000. The origin of
the fire is unknown.
Locusts Devastating Peru.
Locusts are devastating the depart-
ment of Ayacucho, Peru, which includ
several fertile valleys in the Cordilleras,
southeast of the capital. The department | §
has a large population, and the losses
due to the pest have been enormous. It
is probable - that public subscriptions
will be asked to aid the sufferers.
Hot Fighting in Panama.
Advices from the State of Panama say
that after a three days’ e engagement Tu-
maco, the former stronghold of the in-
surgent movement, has been re-occupiz=d
by the government troops.
Governor Alban has returned to the
city of Panama and will hand back un-
injured to her owners the British steara-
er Taboga, which was seized last month
by the Colombian government to trans-
port an armed expedition from Panama
to the port of Buena Ventura, and was
there used in the bombardment of Poinis
Bazan and Soldado.
Another Ohio Bank Looted.
Five masked and desperate outlaws in
the early hours of Thursday morning
wrecked and looted the iron vault in the
John Doerschuck private bank at Shanes-
ville, Ohio, drove back citizens with
leaden hail, fired bullets into every rais-
ed window within range and escaped on
a hand car into the night with currency
to the amount of almost $4.000. It is
the climax of all crimes in Tuscarawas
county's annals.
Currency Reform.
The New York board of trade and
transportation has adopted resolutions
asking Congress to ma the volume of
currency more responsive to the re-
quirements of trade and to insure the
perpetuity of the gold standard. The
board also took strong ground in favor
of the Ray bill snapping the National
bankruptcy act of 18g
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL
Preparations for the i Inauguration are
in progress.
Chairman Hull favors a National law
regulating marriage and divorce.
The President Tuesday nominated
George V. 1. Meyer, of Boston, to be
ambassador to Italy
General Isaac Khan, the new Persian
minister, was Tuesday presented to the
President by Secretary Hay.
Uncle Sam is likely to acquire a coal-
ing station, including a strip of terri-
tory clear across the isthmus of Panama.
The body of Colonel Emerson H. Lis-
cum was buried in Arlington cemetery
Tuesday with military honors and in
the presence oi the President.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina-
tion of William D. Bynum, formerly of
Indiana. to be a commissioner to revis
and codify the United States criminal
laws.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination of John W. Yerkes, re-
cent Republican candidate for gavernor
of Kentucky, to be commissionen of in-
ternal revenue. A
GIRL STUDENTS BURNED T0 DEATH
SEVEN LIVES LOST.
Fire Destroys the State Normal School at
Fredonia, New York—Fire Es-
capes Were Closed.
From the smoldering ruins of the
Fredonia, N. Y., State Normal and
Training School, which was destroyed
by fire at 6 o'clock Friday morning, one
charred body has been recovered, and
a revision of the list of missing makes
it certain that seven persons perished
in the fire, which also entailed a prop-
erty loss of $200,000. There were 75
young woman students in the building,
of whom six perished. The other victim
was the aged janitor.
A search for remains is being made
as rapidly as possible, but digging over
the acre of debris, which is still bura-
ing, is slow work. Principal Palmer es-
timates the loss at $200,000, with $93,000
insurance.
Nothing was saved from the magnifi-
cent building, not even the pérsonal ei-
fects of the girls in the dormitory.
Grief-stricken parents are arriving to
assist in the search for their dead.
It is stated that heavy wire screens
were firmly nailed acress the windows
leading to the fire escapes, and the only
way the lucky ones escaped was ny
crawling through windows adjacent to
the escapes and then creeping along
the gutter of the mansard roof. Law-
yers say there will be damage suits in-
stituted against the State because of the
fire escape screens.
A VICTORY FOR GERMANY.
The Note to China on Lines Laid Down by
Von Buelow.
The negotiations of the powers in re-
gard to the joint China note have been
concluded satisfactorily, all agreeing to
the conditions identically as outlined
by Count von Buelow, the imperial
chanceiior of Germany, with the excep-
tion of the introductory clause saying
the demands are irrevocable, which is
eliminated.
A committee of representatives of the
powers has been chosen to regulate the
conferences with the Chinese plenipo-
tentiaries.
Count von Buelow, on the occasion of
his first appearance in the reichstag as
imperial chancellor, aiter making a
statement defining Germany's policy (o-
ward China and outlining the Anglo-
German agreement, proceeded to give
the complete text of the demands which
the representatives of the powers in
Peking had at that time agreed to rec-
ommend to their representatives to em-
body in a collective note for presenta-
tion to the Chinese government.
AGAINST LANDLORDS.
Nalinpatict 6 Adopts Resolutions in
Dublin—Proposed by William O'Brien.
_ Ih the Nationalist convention at D
lin, after resolutions had been adopted
amending the constitution of the United
rish L eague and making the National-
ist convention an annual fixture, Will-
iam O’Brien moved a strongly worded
resolution in favor of the abolition of
landlordism in Ireland and the transfer
of the soil to the occupying proprietary.
Ireland's struggle, he declared, should
continue without ceasing until the land-
lords were forced to abandon their pres-
ent intolerable system of dual contre
One branch of the Irish League, con-
tinued Mr. O'Brien, will devote its time
to bringing to the doors of landlords,
land grabbers and their castle allies the
inconvenience of landlordism. The res-
olution was adopted amid the utmost
enthusiasm,
TRAMPS TURN BURGLARS.
Locked up Town Marshal and Then Dyna-
mited Several Safes.
Five men, posing as tramps, were per-
mitted to lodge in the lockup at Brigh-
ton, Ill., Saturday evening. During the
night they overpowered the town mar-
shal, locked in a cell, and broke into
the private bank of Blodett Brothers.
Several charges of dynamite were cx-
ploded but the vault, which contained
a large sum, was only partially wrecked,
and the men gave up trying to secure
it. The general store of Edward But-
ler was next visited. Here the safe was
blown open and several hundred dollars
secured. The men were entering an-
other store when an alarm of fire was
sounded from Butler's. Meantime the
robbers escaped. A posse with blood-
hounds is in pursuit.
One Hundred Cadets Drowned.
The German training frigate Gneise-
nau has foundered off Malaga, 65 miles
northeast of Gibraltar.
The captain and many of the cadets
have been drowned. It is believed that
40 who left in one of the ship's boats
iu have not been seen since are also
“Fhe total loss is now thought to he
no less than 100. Some dispatches say
140. Forty of those saved are badly
hurt. 2
MICHIGAN'S TAX RAISING.
Gov. Pingree Assembles State Legislature to
Increase Corporate Property Taxes.
The Michigan Legislature met in spe-
cial session Wednesday to consider tax-
ation of the railroads, telephone and
telegraph companies, express companies
and other forms of corporate property
on the cash value of their property, in-
stead of upon their earnings, as under
the present law. Gov. Pingree’s mes-
sage estimated that the proposed law
would increase the State's revenue irom
the railroads alone from $1,240,845 to
$2,250,000.
Representative Cheever will introduce
the tax bill. It provides that the State
tax commission shall constitute a board
of assessors, and that all franchises and
intangible property shall be taxed, as
well as physical property.
Preparing a Peace Protocol.
“Reports from Chinese sources,” says
a Shanghai correspondent, “point to the
probability that serious negotiations for
peace will begin forthwith. It is be-
lieved that a short preliminary protocol
is in progress of arrangement, leaving
many commercial questions to scpar ate
conventions to be drawn up later.”
Outlawry in Kwang-Si and Kwang-
Tunk is increasing. The officials appear
to be losing their hold of the situation
and are powerless to restore order. Pi-
rating on the west river is increasing.
Boers to Settle on German Territory.
According to Berlin dispatches 30
Cape Colony Boers, now in Amstehdam
with their families, have been granted
permission to settle in German Sourn-
west Africa, the German Government
having just assented to the purchase of
lands by them in Damaraland and Great
Namagquinland. The Boers will leave
Amsterdam January sth,
Big Westinghouse Scheme.
It is learned on good authority that
George Westinghouse, of Pittsburg, has
bought the entire Buena Vista grant, in
Arizona. comprising 7,000 acres of
land, and intends to erect, at some point
on the Santa Cruz river, colossal reduc-
tion works and smelter, and build a rail-
way connecting the mines, and redu:-
tion works and Nogales,
England Wants Indemnity.
Owing to the success of the United
States in pressing claims for compensa-
tion in connection with the Armenian
disorders Great Britain is now urgi
the Ottoman Government to pay similar
claims put forward by British: subjects.
It is expected that energetic means will
be taken to obtain a settlement.
ESTIMATED COST
House of Commons Votes $80,000,000—The
Conflict to be Prolonged Three Months.
Loans Are to be Asked For. .
In the house of commons
William St. John Broderick,
of war,
Tuesday,
secretary
introduced the supplementary
estimate of £16,000,000 for the army.
He anticipated that the expenditure to
arch 31 would be little short of the
outlay the government had been incur-
ring during the whole financial year.
The government's policy was to pursue
the war with the strongest possible force
and a continuous stream of supplies, so
that peace may the more quickly be
achieved. .
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Lib-
cral, said that the house had not heard
a more depressing confession. He
thought that now they should deal with
the brave burghers remaining, not by
perpetually increasing the expenditure,
but by a policy of reconciliation.
Timothy Healy remarked: “A war
begun in braggadocio and hypocrisy
has brought humiliation to England and
the culprit is in the colonial office.” The
supplementary estimates of £ 16,000,000
Sete adopted by a vote of 284 against
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor
of the exchequer, explained that his ex-
isting borrowing powers only amounted
to £5000000. He moved a resolution
authorizing him to borrow by war loan,
exchequer bonds or treasury bills £11,-
000,000. The resolution was agreed to.
a
TOOK $50, 000.
Confidence Game Played by Two Smooth In-
dividua's—Took Money From Safe in
the Presence of Their Victim.
Two men called on Father Grosso,
superior of a Jesuit institute at Turin,
Italy, and told him they were trustees
of a rich orphan boy whose father had
been killed in the Boer war. They said
they wished to place the boy in the
priest's care, and that they were cus-
todians of $200,000 belonging to the
boy, which they desired to leave in Fa-
ther Grosso's hands.
The priest consented to assume charge
of the boy and the funds. THe men
produced several bundles of what pur-
ported to be bank notes, which they
suggested should be placed in the safe.
Father Grosso opened the safe and the
men placed therein the bundles. They
then departed, stating they would re-
turn with the boy shortly. Father
Grosso waited several days, and when
neither the men nor the boy appeared
he went to the safe. He found that
bank notes aggregating $50,000 were
gone and that the bundles left by the
men were waste paper. The men are
supposed to be on their way to this
country, and the New York police are
on the watch for them
PLEADING. FoR THE BOERS.
Liberal Members ot the Mousse of Commons
Appeal for Clemency.
In the house of commons Sir Robert
T. Reid and James Bryce, Liberals, sug-
gested general amnesty for the Boers
now in arms. Reid said that after 14
months of war, costing £35,000.000 a
month, anarchy was prevalent and fam-
ine threatened, and may be followed
by a native rising. An attempt to place
the colonies under military rule, he said,
would imperil the very existence of the
empire. All ideas of uncenditional sur-
render should be discarded.
Mr. Bryce ed Sir Alired Milner,
governor of Cape Colony, who, he said,
was generally distrusted.
Mr. Broderich, secretary for war, <
fended Milner, and said the government
was willing to offer terms for surrender,
so long as it could not be interpreted as
proof of weakness and thereby causes a
prolongation of the guerilla warfare.
le.
COST OF THE GOVERNMENT.
Estimated Cost for the Next Fiscal Year
Reaches $743,374.804.
The statement of the relative amounts
of treasury estimates for the next fiscal
year, compared with the estimates for
the last fiscal year, and for the next
year, compared with the actual ap-
propriations of last year, shows esti-
mates for appropriations for 1902
amounting to $743.374.804, compared
wb actual appropriations for 1901, less
ellaneous and deficiency appropria-
Ha of $690,600,230. The estimate by
bills for the netx year is: Agriculture,
$4.660,050; army, $113.010,044; diplo-
matic and consular, $1.807,638; District
of Columbia, $9,080.703: fortifications,
$12,461,103; Indian, $9,250,571; legisla-
tive, etc., $25,399,500; military academy,
$1,045,750; navy, $87.172,430; pensions,
$145, 230; postoffice, $121,267,349:
river and harbor, $25,130,000; sundry civ-
il. $63,378,113. Patna annual ap-
propriation, $124,338,220.
GOING AFTER THE POLE.
Three Well-Equipped Expeditions Preparing
for the Trip Next Year.
Telegrams from London say: Evelyn
B. Baldwin, of the United States weath-
er bureau, who is preparing an expedi-
tion in search of the north pole, has ar-
rived here to consult with scientists
and inspect ships. He will go to the
continent at the end of the week. Mr.
Baldwin has definitely decided to adopt
the Franz Josef land route and hopes
to get away next summer
The famous Russian ice crusher Er-
mack, which is to attempt to reach the
north pole in 1901 under the command
of Vice Admiral Makaroff, of the im-
perial Russian navy, is now being rit-
ted out at New Castle for the expedition
and Capt. Bernier, the Canadian ex-
plorer, is busy in London fitting out the
Scottish King. What with these expe-
ditions and the German expedition the
year JQOI promises to be eventful in the
history of searches for the north pole.
To Control Angry Utes.
A troop of cavalry has leit Fort Du-
chesne, Col, in response to an arbitrary
call from the Indian agent at the White
Rocks agency of the Ute tribe. The
Indians are in an ugly mood and are
resisting the order for children to
main at school during the holidays.
parents objected and insisted on having
them at home. There are 1.200 In-
dians camped at and around White
Rocks. Hot-headed bucks threaten to
burn the school and agency buildi ings.
CABLE FLASHES.
The leg etsture of Victor
passed a Sl suffrage bill.
The Irish party in the British house
of commons re-elected John Redmond
chairman.
Ernest Brenner, vice president of the
Federal council. has been elected presi-
dent of Switzerland.
Australia,
The czar is recovering fast and is ox-
pected to return from Livadia to St.
Petersburg early in January.
The Irish party convention at Dublin
expresses sympathy for Boers and ex-
cludes Timothy Healy from the organ-
ization.
The Italian chamber of deputies, by
an overwhelming vote, rejected a reso-
lution to recall the Italian troops now
in China.
The attempt to introduce Chinese
laundrymen into London has resulted
in failure, with the result that 40 C hi na-
men are wandering destitute and home-
less.
0. THES SURRY SERHON
AN E'.OQUENT DISCOURSE.
Snbject : Our Nation’s Needs—We Should
Show More Gratitude to God For His
Blessings — Our Lack cf Appreciation
of the Lord's Bounty.
Copyright 1900.1
WASHINGTO >. C.— Dr. Talmage
irse of Christian patriot
ism, and shows the resources of our coun-
try, and predicts the time when all the
world will have the same blessings.
two texts are, Revelations
the south three gates; salm cxly
“He hath not dealt so ‘with any nation.”
Among the greatest ne eds of our coun-
try is more gratitude to God for the un-
parelleled prosperity bestowed upon us.
One of my texts calls us to international
comparison. What nation on all the plan-
et has of late had such enlargement o
commercial opportunity as is now opening
before this nation? Cuba and Porto Rico
and the Philippine Islands brought into
close contact with us, and through steam-
ship subsidy and Nicaragua canal, which
will surely be afforded by Congress. all the
republics of South America will be brought
into most active trade with the United
States. “On the south three gates.
While our next-door neighbors. the south-
ern republics and neighboring colonies,
imported from Zuropean countries 3000
miles BNEY, 5.000,000 worth of goods in
a year, 96,000.000 worth went from
the United ten £126.,000,000 out of $675.-
000,000, only one-fifth of the trade ours,
European nations taking the four fingers
and leaving us the poor thumb. Now all
this is to be change »d. There is nothing
but a comparative ferry between the isl-
ands which have recently come under our
protection, and only a ferry between us
and Bolivia. Peru, Paraguay Truguay.
Venezuela, Salvador, Nicaragua, Colom-
bia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Brazil, while
there are raging seas and Jong voyages be-
tween them and Kurope. By “the mandate
of the United States all that will be
changed through new facilities of transpor-
tation. The Hispano-American congress,
just closed at Madrid. will fail in its at-
tempt to divert all the trade of South
America from us to Europe.
In anticipation of what is sure to come
I nail on the fr ont door of this nation an
advertisement
Wanted—One hundred thousand men
to build railroads through South America
and Hie islands of the sea under our pro-
teotio!
w ld thousand telegraph opera-
w
ors.
Rr anted—One hundred million dollars
worth of dry goods from the great cities
of the United States.
Wanted—All the clocks you ean make at
New Haven, and all the brains you can
spare from Boston, and all the bells you
can mold at Troy, and all the McCormick
reapers you fashion at Chicago, and all the
hams you can turn out at Cincinnati, and
all the railroad iron yon can send from
Pittsburg, and all the statesmen that you
can spare from Washington.
Wanted cht away, wanted by new
and swifter steamers, wanted by rail train,
lawvers to plead our causes.
Wanted—Doctors to cure our sick.
anted—Ministers to evangelize our
population.
Wanted — Professors to establish our
universities.
“On the three south gates!” Yea, a
thousand gates! South America and all
the islands of the sea approximate are
rightfully our commercial domain. and
the Congress of the United States will see
to it that we get what belongs to us.
And then tides of travel will be some-
what diverted from Europe to our islands
at the south and to the land of the Az-
tees. TNluch of the $125,000.000 yearly ex-
pended by Americans in Europe will be
expended in southern exploration, in look-
ing at some of the ruins of the forty-seven
cities which Stephens found only a little
way apart, and in walking through the
great doorways and over the miracles o
mosaic and along by the monumental glo-
ries of another civilization, and ancient
a will with cold lips of stone kiss
arm lips of modern America, and to
have seen the Andes and Popocatepetl
will be deemed as important as to have
geen the Alpine and Balkan ranges. And
there will be fewer people spoiled by for-
eign travel and in our midst less of the
poor and nauseating imitation of theFrench
shrug and the intentional hesitancy of a
brainless foreign swe The fact is that
many are made vain by European travel,
and, though sensible when they embarked,
they return with a collar and a cravat and
a shoe and a coat and a pronunciation and
a contempt for American institutions and
the bend of the elbow that make one be-
lieve in evolution backward from man to
ape. Of the many thousands who now cross
the sea annually thousands willon pleasure
and business visit southern lands. and so
tourists and merchants and scientists and
capitalists will on help in this national de-
velopment. “On the south three gates.”
And what other nation has such openings
for commercial enlargement as ours?
gain. in this international comparison
notice the happy condition of our country
as compared with most countries. Rus-
sin under the shadow of the dreadful ill-
ness of her great and good empersr, who
now mote than any man in all the world
represents ‘‘peace on earth, good will to
men,” and whose empress, near the most
solemn hour that ever comes to a wom-
an’s soul, is anxious for him to whom she
has given hand and heart. not for political
reasons, but through old-fashioned love
such as bless our humbler dwellings;
India. under the agonies of a famine which
though somewhat liited has filled hun-
dreds of thousands ol graves and thrown
millions into orphanage: Austria only
waiting for her genial Francis .Joseph to
ie so as to let Hungary rise in rebellion
and make the palace of Vienna quake with
insurrection; Spain in Carlist revolution
and pauperized as seldom any nation has
been paupetized taly under the horrors
of fer king ssination; China shud-
dering with a ih of dismemberment. her
capital in pos ssession of foreign nations.
After a review of the conditions in other
lands can you {ind a more appropriate ut-
terance in regard to our country than the
exclamation of the text. “He hath not
dealt so with any nation?”
Compare the autummal 1
vests in America this © and the har-
vests abroad. Last summer I crossed the
continent of Europe twice. and 1 saw no
| such harvests as are spoken of in this
statement. Hear it, all you men and
women who want everybody to have
enough to eat and wear. I have to tell
you that the corn crop of our country
this year is one of the four largest
crops on récord. 2,105.000,000 bushels. The
cotton crop, though smaller than at
some times, will on that account bring
N1gger pric and so cotton planters ol
the South are presperous. "The wheat
fields have provided Liead enough and to
spare. The potato crop one of the five
largest crops on” record, 211,000,000 bush-
els. Twenty-two million two hundred
thousand swine slain, and vet so many
hogs left? :
Jut now 1 give you the comparative =x
ports and imports, which tell the story of
national prosperity as notning else can
Excess of exports over imports, $344.400,-
8. Now, let all pessimists hide them-
Ives in the dens and caves of the earth.
sh all grateful souls fill the churches
with doxology. Notice also J a: hile
other countries are. at
to the £
lend. “Germany, we are glad to see you
in Wall street. i vou must borrow money
we have it all ready. How much will you
have? o welcome you into
our money market Give us good collat-
eral. Meanwhile, Denmark, will you please
»f $3,000,000 for the island
My hearers, there is no
nation on SH with such healthy condi-
tion of finances. We wickedly waste an
awful amount of money in this country,
but some one has said it is easier to man-
age a surplus than a deficit.
Besides all this. not a disturbance from
St. Lawrence River to Key West or from
Highlands of New Jersey to Cfolden Horn
of the Pacific. Sectional Cat
ended. The North and South broug
into complete accord bv the Spanish war,
which put the Lees and the Grants on the
same side, Vermonters and Georgians in
the same brigade. And since our Civil
War we are all mixed up. Southern men
have married Northern wives, and North-
ern men have married Southern es.
and your children are half Mississippian
and half New Englander, and to make an-
other division between the North and the
South possible you would have to do with
your child as Solomon proposed with the
child brought before him for judgment —
divide it with the sword. giving half to
the North and half to the South. No:
there is nothing so hard to split as a cra-
dle. In other lands there is compu
marri of royal families, some I
princ compelled to marry some disa
greeable foreign dignitary in order to keep
ori of har
tHe balance of political power in Europe.
the ill-matched pair fighting out on a
smeil scald that which would have een
an international contest, sometimes t! i
husband having the balance of power an
s imes the wi
oe is anything that stirs my ad-
miration it is 2 man without any educa-
tion himself sending his sons to college,
and without any opportunity for fiaury
himself resolved that though he shall have
it hard all the days of his life his children
shall have a good start.
And I tell you that though some of our
people may have great commercial strug-
gles there is going to be a great opening
for tneir sons and daughters as they come
on to take their places in the world.
Continuing this international comparison
I have to sav to you that we have a bet-
ter ciimate than is to be found in any
other nation. ’e do not suffer from any
thing like the Scotch mists or the English
fogs or the Russian ice blasts or the ty-
phus of Southern Europe or the Asiatic
cholera. Epidemics in America are ex-
ceptional, very exceptional. * Plenty of
wood and coal to make a roaring fire mid-
Easy access to seabeach or mount-
winter.
ain top when tle ardors of summer come
down, Michigan wheat for the bread,
Long Island corn for the meal, Carolina
Tice for the quec . of puddings Phi
sugar to sweeten our beverages, Georgia
cotton to keep us warm, in our hand all
products and on climates. Are your nerves
we eak? Go north. Is your throat delicate”
Yo south. Do you feel crowded and want
more room? Go west.
1 declare it. this is the best country in
all the world to live mm. low do 1 know
it? TI have 639,000 new reasons for saying
it; 650,000 people in one year came from
the other side oi the Atlantic to live in
America, and they came because it is the
very best country to live in.
While making this international com-
parison let us 5 forward to the time
which will surely come when all nations
will have as great advantages as our own.
As surely as the Bible is true the whole
earth is to be gardenized and set free.
Even the climates will change and the
Reats be cooled and the frigidity warmed.
Many years ago in this city I ‘gazed upon
a seene which for calamity and grandeur
gne seldom sees equalled. I mean the
burning of the Smithsonian Institution.
It was the pride of our country. In it art
had gathered rarest specimens from all
lands and countries. :
It was one of those buildings which
seize you with enchantment as you enter
and all the rest of y.ur life holds you
with a charm. I happened to see the first
glow of the fires which on that cold day
looked out from the windows of the costly
pile. I saw the angry elements roar and
rave. The shout of affrighted workman
and the assault of fire engines only seemed
to madden the rage of the monsters that
rose up to devour all that came within
reach of their chain.
Up along the walis and through the
doors were pushed hands that snatched
down all they could reach and hurled it
into the abyss of flame beneath. The win-
dows of the tower would light up for a
minute with a wild giare and then darken,
as though fiends with streaming locks of
fire had come out to gaze on in laughing
mockery of all human attempts and then
sunk again into their native darkness.
The roofs began here and there to blos-
som in wreaths and vines of flame. Up
and down the pillars ran serpents of fire.
Out from the windows great arms and
fingers of flames were extended, as though
destroyed spirits were begging for deliver-
ance. The tower put on a coronet of flame
and staggered and fell, the sparks flying,
the firemen escaping, the terror accumulat-
ing.
Books, maps, rare correspouier auto-
graphs of kings, costly diagrams burled to
zinder or scattered tor many a rood upon
the wild wind to be picked up by the ex-
cited multitude. Oh, it seemed like some
great funcral pile in which the wealth and
zlory of our land had leaped to burn with
its consuming treasures.” The heavens
were blackened with whirlwinds of smoke,
through which shot the long red shafts of
calamity.’
Destruction waved its fiery banner from
the remaining towers, and in the thunder
of falling beams and in the roaring surge
of billowing fire I heard the spirits of ruin
and desolation and woe clapping their
hands and shouting, “Aba! aha!”
I turned and looked upon the white
dome of yonder capitol, which rose
through the frosty air as imposing as
though all the white marble of the earth
had come to resurrection and stood be-
fore us, reminding one of the great white
throne of heaven. There it stood, un-
moved by the terrors which thy day had
been kindled before it. No tremor in its
majest umiis, no tiush of excitement
= its veins of marble. Column and capital
and dome built to endure until the world
itself shatters in the convulsions of the
last earthquake. Oh, what a contrast be-
tween the smoking ruin on the one hand
and that gorgeous white dream of
tecture on the other! Well. the
on when the grandest achievement of man
will be consumed and the world will blaze.
Down will go galleries of art and thrones
of royalty “and the hurricane of God's
power will scatter even the ashes of con-
sumed greatness and glory. Not one tower
left, not one city unconsumed, not one
scene of grandeur to relieve the desola-
tion. Forests dismasted, seas licked up,
sunk, hemishhieres annihilated.
and thundering crash of that
last conflagration! But irom that ruin
of a blazing earth we shall look up to see
the temple of liberty and justice rising
through the ages, white and pure and
grand, unscarred and unshaken. Founded
on the eternal rock and swelling into
domes of infinitude and glory in which the
balleluliahs of heaven have their reverber-
ation. No flame of human hate shall
blacken its walls. No thunder of infernal
wrath shall rock its foundatidns. By the
upheld torches of burning worlds we shall
read it on column and architrave and
throne of eternal dominion. “Heaven and
earth shall wth and lib-
erty and j way.”
SPORTING BREVITIES.
The roads are aw and level in Kan-
sas, and as a result every farmhouse
has its bicycle. :
By the decisive score of 23 to 0, Wat-
ertown won the northern New York
football championship from Ogdens-
burg.
James J. Jeffries and Gus Ruhlin
have signed articles for a fight at
Cincinnati, Ohio,
and 14.
Extensive improveme nts will be
made during the winter to the goif
course at the Essex County Country
Club, at Orange, N. | : :
The board of aldermen of Denver,
Col., has passed a bill licensing prize
fighting to the extent of $250 for e: ach
performance.
It is believed in r
Paris, that Tod Sloan. who has been
debarred from riding in England, will
have no difficulty in getting a license
to ride in France,
The Connecticut division of the 1..
W. will introduce in the coming Leg
lature bills amending the lantern law.
and providing for side paths, and for
free carriage of bicycles on railroads.
T shooting has advanced so far
within the lines of public favor during
the past few years that it to-day
knows no special season nor is it re-
stricted to any particular class of
Si
he New Jersey Hockey League has
fe en formed. composed of teams from
the Casino Club. of Short Hills, South
Orange Field Club, Montclair A. C..
and a team from Orange to be known
as the Crystal Lake, and a schedule
has been arranged.
Right End John
Dartmouth football
elected captain
is a member of the junior ¢
a native of Haverhill, Ma
twenty-one vears old, five
inches tall and wes
There are
mitories and ¢ n
United States devoted to edu
they are valved at 4.08.2
between February 1
ng circles in
A
O'Connor, of the
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The area of the U
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4.218.401, of which
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