UNITED STATES HAS POWER 10 BUY CANAL TITLE VALID. Attorney General Gives Result of In- vestigation of the Panama Co. Objections Answered. Attorney Genetal Knox has decided that if the United States should ac- cept the offer of the new Panama Canal Company, submitted last spring, for the sale of the canal for $40,000,000, it would receive through the parties in interest a valid and un- incumbered title to the property. He has formally submitted the opinion to President Roosevelt. The opinion takes up the principal objections which have been made in this coun- try to the title proposed to be given to the United States as follows: 1-- That the new Panama Canal Com- pany has not power to sell the canal and railway property. 2—That the liquidator of the old Panama Canal Company has not power to consent to such sale. 3—That the French courts have not power to authorize the liquidator and the new company, or either of them, to enter into the sale. The history and nature of French companies of the kind in question are explained at length. His investigation shows that the new Panama (Canal Company is quite sol- vent, and there is no law forbidding it to sell. The liquidator of the old company, when he turned over the assets to the mew company, stipulat- ed for 60 per cent of the profits of the canal when finished. It is held that the new company has full power to dispose of the assets of the con- cern and consequently to consent to the sale of the 60 per cent which is a part of those assets. He holds that no French court or other au- thority has nower to declare any French statute void. As to the ob- jection that Congress has authorized a purchase from the new company only, the opinion says: “In view of the condition of the title the purchase will be from the new company, and the consent of the liquidator will be .at most a waiver of rights as to prop- erty transferred to the new company. What Congress wants is a good title from the owner of certain specified property, the owner being supposed to be, and being admittedly in part, the new company, and it is entirely justifiable to buy from the owner, al- though the principal ownership should be found not to be in the com- pany. Whether we believe it is in the new company or the old com- pany, so long as it is not one of both, seems to me altogether immaterial, since both join in the proposed sale.” The opinion closes as follows: “For the reasons I have given I am of opin- ion that the United States would re- ceive a good, valid and unencumber- ed title.” DIED IN HIS 107TH YEAR. Did Not Retire From Business Until He Was 100 Years Old. Simon Raphael, for many years a dry goods merchant in New York city, is dead, in nis 107th year. He was born in Russia in 1796 and came to this country when young. For 50 years he was a prominent business man and resided in Manhattan. He retired from business on his 100th birthday. He is said to have been the oldest man in the state. A son, six daughters, 45 grand-children and 28 great-grand children survive him. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Senor Don Emilio de Ojeda, the re- cently appointed Minister of Spain to the United States, has formally pre- sented his credentials to President Roosevelt. The annual report of Rear Admiral Kenney, paymaster general of the navy, devotes considerable space to showing that there is a shortage of officers for the work. President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to be present at the an- nual banquet of the Chamber of Com- merce of New York December 11. He will make an address. Acceptances were received by the President from all the members of the coal strike arbitration commis- sion. Each one indicated his inten- tion of being present at the session. The state department has no knowledge of the departure of any ex- pedition from this country for the Territory of Acre, and it is said that if any such has gone it has no official standing. Rear Admiral Merrill Miller, at present commandant of the Mare Island navy yard, is to be relieved at the end of his tour of she~t duty some time this winter by Cap!ain Bowman H. McCalla. Hiram B. Ware, fathei of Pension Commissioner Ware, died Tuesday of old age. The commissioner and Mrs. Ware left Washington, accompanying the body to Ft. Scott, Kan., where the funeral! will occur. Mrs. Ada Gilbert Dennis, the dress- maker who was brutally assaulted at her home December 9, is in a dying condition. From the effects of the blows on her head she had become paralyzed and her mind impaired. The Portuguese government has asked the privilege of sending a naval expert to this country to examine the mechanism of the submarine boats now in course of construction for the United States government. The reauest has been referred to the judge advocate general. President Roosevelt has begun the preparation of his second annual message to Congress. It is said on good authority that he is determined to force legislation upon the anti- trust question at the next session of Congress. Postmaster General Payne and Sec- retary to the President Ceorge B. Cortelyou, attended the meeting at Canton, O., of the trustees of the ‘William McKinley Memorial Associa- tion. The meeting was held for the purpose of sele¢ting a site for the memorial to President McKinley. TURN MINERS BACK. Operators Refuse to Discharge Com- petent Men to Reinstate For- mer Workmen. * Employes of the different collieries in the Shenandoah region whose places were filled by non-union men during the strike will not be rein- stated. This fact was made plain to the men when they reported at the collieries: for work. Superintendent Adam Boyd, of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, said that his company would take care of all men who helped them during the strike, and that anyone who molested the workers would be discharged at once. Under these conditions a par- tial resumption of activity was made Thursday. At all but two of the col- lieries steam was raised for the first time in six months. It will take at least two weeks before active mining can be commenced. It will be a month before 75 per cent of the pos- sible output is being mined. The most serious situation is the reten- tion of the non-union men who work- ed the pumps and assisted in saving heavy losses at the mines by flood- ing. It was for these men the engi- neers, firemen and pumpmen that a fight was made at the Wilkesbarre convention. Those who have re- ceived the edict of their employers, that their places are taken, are dis- gruntled. The local unions have been applied to, but they are powerless, unless they repudiate the advice of their president. Superintendent Boyd in discussing the matter said: “To all’ men who applied to us for work we told them that in the instances where the places had not been filled by competent men positions were waiting for them. We propose to take care of all the pumpmen, engi- neers and firemen who aided us dur- ing the strike regardless of circum- stances. To employes whose places are filled we have not refused em- ployment in the mines entirely, but have refused them the places that they formerly held. If they so de- sire they can go to work in other positions. When the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company’s miners re- ported for duty in the Panther Creek valley at Tamaqua they were met by the officials and told their services were not needed at present. At one of the collieries the men were stop- ped by the guards, who refused to al- low them to report at the colliery of- fice. The company posted the follow- ing notice: ‘‘Any person working for this company guilty of ill-treat- ment or molesting any man who has worked during the late strike, or of abusing any member of his family, will be immediately discharged.” All the individual operations in this sec- tion resumed full handed Thursday. At Wilkesbarre the resumption was not as general as was expected. Un- looked for difficulties were encoun- tered in the shape of water and ac- cumulated gas, and dangerous roofs, which threatened to fall and entomb the workers, were also discovered in many of the collieries. The mine su- perintendehts would take no chances, and the mining of coal was put off until all parts of the underground workings can be made safe. From reports received from the entire an- thracite region the number of mines in operation is given as a little less than two-thirds of the total number, but the output of coal was less than half the normal. The Delaware, T.ackawanna & Western Company took the lead in production. Its col- lieries are in better shape than the mines operated by the other large companies. About one-half of the mines of the Delaware & Hudson Company are working. The mines of the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nanticoke are in operation, but only the upper levels could be worked, as the lower levels contain considerable water. The Lehigh Valley Coal Com- pany operated about one-half of its mines with a full force of men. The J.ehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company mined coal in several big mines. The Kingston Coal Company started up two of its four collieries. Only two of the 28 collieries in the Hazleton district resumed operations. Those operating are the Hazle mines, break- er of the Lehigh Valley Coal Com- pany, and the Upper l.ehigh mine of the Upper Jehigh Coal Company. ENFORCE PROHIBITION LAW. Federal Court in lowa Endeavers to Reach an Express Company. The Federal grand jury at Keokuk, Ia., has indicted the Adams Express Company for violation of the internal revenue (aws. Persons at Birming- ham, Ia., received C. O. D. packages of whisky from consignors in Illinois and paid collections and charges to the express agent. The grand jury and District Attorney Miles held that the C. O. D. method constitutes a sale of goods by the express com- pany to the consignee and requires a retail liquor dealer’s license. The case grows out of efforts of people in Iowa communities to prevent the sale of liquor, and the efforts of dealers to circumvent the Iowa prohibitery law. The latter is badly crippled by a de- cision of the United States supreme court that interstate traffic in original packages cannot be stopped by a state law. Jarred by a Meteor. The village of Baptist Hill, a few miles from Canadaigua, N.Y., was prac- tically wrecked as the result of the explosion of what is believed to have been a meteor. While the sky was clear there was a sudden terrific ex- plosion, followed by darkness and a strong smell of sulphur. Windows were broken, trees and telegraph poles demolished and holes burned in clothing of many of the residents. Acquired a New Line. The Pennsylvania Company has ac- quired that part of the Columbus, San. dusky & Hocking railroad lying north of Columbus. The latter road had been in the hands of a receiver for some time and was sold under fore- closure proceedings. UNANIMOUSLY VOTED FOR PEACE ACCEPT ARBITRATION. All Objections Overcome and the Mine Workers’ Convention Voted to Go to Work. With a shout that fairly shook the convention building the representa- tives of the 147,000 mine workers who have been on strike since last May officially declared off at noon at Wilkesbarre the greatest contest ever waged between capital and labor, and placed all the questions involved in the struggle in the hands of the arbi- tration commission appointed by the President of the United States. While the large army of mine workers and their families, numbering approxi- mately a half million perscns, are grateful that work is to be resumed, the strikers have still to learn what their reward will be. President Roose- velt has taken prompt action in call- ing the arbitrators together for their first meeting on Friday, the miners hope they will know by Thanksgiving day what practical gain they have made. The vote to resume coal min- ing was a unanimous one, and was reached only after a warm debate. The principal objection to accepting the arbitration proposition was that no provision was scheme to take care of those men who would fail to get back their old positions or would be unable to get any work at all. The engineers and pumpmen get better pay than other classes of mine workers, and they did nol wish to run the risk of losing alto- gether their old places and be com- pelled to dig coal for a living. This question came up and was argued right up to the time the vote was taken. No one had a definite plan to offer to overcome the objection, and the report of the committee on reso- lutions recommending that the strike be declared off and that all issues be placed in the hands of the arbitra- tion commission for decision was adopted without the question being set- tled. A few moments before adjourn- ment, however, a partial solution was reached when a delegate in the far- thest corner of the hall moved that the problem be placed in the hands of the three executive boards for solu- tion, and his suggestion was adopted. After Mr. Mitchell had notified Presi- dent Roosevelt of the action of the conventicn he sent out the official announcement that the strike was off. It was -as follows: You are hereby officially notified that it was unanimously decided Tuesday by the delegates attending the special convention that all mine workers should report for work Thursday morning, October 23, and that the issues which culminated in the sirike should be referrea for ad- justment to the commission appointed by the President of the United States. We are auhorized by the executive of- ficers of districts Nos. 1, 7 and 9 to caution all those who resume work to exercise more than usual care in or- der that accidents to life and limb may be avoided. Owing to the condi- tion of the mines after an idleness of five months there wil be great danger when work is resumed. We are prompted to offer this advice by the fact that at the close of the strike two years ago many more accidents and deaths occurred than take place when the mines are operating regu- larly. Headquarters here will be kept open at Wilkesbarre until after the award of the arbitration commission is announced. President Roosevelt soon as notified of the action of the convention immediately issued a call for the commission to meet Friday, October 24, at Washington. DOCTORS ACCUSED. Grand Jury Brings Crime of Body- Snatching Home to Physicians. The grand jury at Indianapolis, Ind., returned 25 indictments in the grave robbery cases. Five indict- ments have been returned against physicians who are charged with con- plicity in the ‘“body-snatching busie ness” for failure to keep record of bodies received, among whom is Jos. C. Alexander, demonstrator at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. From evidence given by Rufus Can- trill, the chief of the gang of ghouls, 160 bodies have been stolen from cemeteries during the last year. The ghouls say two of the physicians ac- companied them on several of their night trips. Ten bodies were found buried in the basement of one of the colleges; four bodies were found in sacks on the street, where the hard-pressed ghouls had dropped them; one body was concealed for two days in a saloon and 30 were found in cold storage in an ice-cream factory in Louisville. Wants to Prohinit the Bible. J. B. Billard ‘has brought suit against the board of education at Topeka, Kan., to compel removal of Bible reading from the public schools. Billard’s son ws expelled from school because he refused to give at- tention when the Bible was being read. Bonds Held at Home. The report of Judson W. Lyons, register of the treasury, for the year ended June 30 shows that of $782- 924,430 of United States bonds only $16,022,850 is held by foreigners, of which $12,578,000 are on deposit in this country as insurance company securities. High Bids for Fancy Stock. From 25,000 to 30,000 people attend- ed the American royal live stock show at Dorothea, Mo. A Galloway heifer, owner by C. N. Moody, of At- lanta, Mo., was sold to O. H. Swigert, of Champaign, Ill, for $1,115. The Berkshire, Poland, China and Duroc Jersey hogs sold for $160, $175 and $185. Aztec, a 2-year-old Angora goat, owned by D. C. Taylor, of Lake Valley, N. M.,, was sold to A. Kem- ble, of Muscatine, Ia. for $1,400, a world’s record price. contained in the} LATEST NEWS NOTES. Lone robber held up a Northern Pa cific train and killed the engineer. Eliz-beth Cady Stanton, the wom an’s suffragist, is dead in New York The King of Siam is soon to visit this country as the guest of the na- ticn. The Kentucky Home for Confeder- ate Veterans was dedicated at Pewee Valley, Ky. Striking molders at St. Catherines. Ont., have received concessions and returned to work. Two negroes are lynched by mob at Hempstead, La., after being legally tried and convicted. The National Spiritualists’ associa- tion, in session at Boston, decided to send out missionaries. Governor Nash, of Ohio, signed the manicipal code law passed by the extra session of Legislature. Earl Whitney and Claude O’Brien have been indicted at Lexington, Ky. for the murder of A. B. Chinn. The Iowa supreme court decided that the life of a child under 5 years of age cannot exceed $5,000 in value. The crown princes of Germany and Great Britain are expected to visii America during St. Louis exposition There has not been a case of yel low fever in Havana for a year, some thing unprecedented in the history of that city. Government employes in Washing ton have started a movement to se sure a 10 per cent increase in ail salaries. The Czar of Russia has pardoned all students who were guilty of partici pation in revolutionary street dis turbances. The Genera] Assembly ‘of the Knights of Labor meets in annual convention at Niagara Falls, N. Y., on November 11. Harvey Lilly was shot and fatally wounded at David City, Neb., by burg: lars, who had previously poisoned his blocdhounds. Jay Cooke, the aged financier, was again stricken: with congestion of the brain at his home on Gibraltar island, near Put-in-Bay, O. Fire at Buffalo destroyed the freight shed of the Union Steamboat Company on the marine slip. Loss estimated at $75,000. The charred body of Captain Laure nee Gollne was found in the ruins of the Union Steamboat Company's freight shed at Buffalo. Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati has ordered a recitation of a decade of the rosary after each mass for di vine guidance of strike arbitrators. J. M. McKnight, former president of the German National bank of Louisville, has been convicted for tHe third time of embezzling the bank funds. The Philippine commissioa is invit ing bids for street railway, electric lighting and other franchises in Ma- nila, the bids to be opened on March 5, 1903. The resignation of J. I. Tarte, min- ister of public works, of Canada, has been received and accepted by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the premier of the dominion. Mrs. Nettie Hall died suddenly at Lagrange, Ind., just after being told that she was under arrest, charged with the murder of her father, Geo. Nicholas. A burglar entered Hardin college, Mexico, Mo., and robbed several girls of money and jewelry before the T.atin teacher’s resistance forced him to flee. Santiago, Cuba, residents are alarmed over the propaganda of 2a league said to be sending children to this country to be converted tc Buddhism. Russell Sage, the New York finan- cier, makes two of his clerks trus- tees so that in case of his death col- lateral for loans may not be tied up in estate settlement. The McKinley Memorial Associa tion at a meeting in Canton, reported ahout $600,000 in subscriptions and located the projected monument in Westlawn cemetery. Chicago & Alton officials notified all shop employes of the system that the request for a general advance in wages had been granted, commencing November 1. President Lillian M. N. Stevens, of Portland, Me., and the other officers of the National Women’s Christian Temperance union, were re-elected by the National convention. One hundred and fifty bicyclists from Switzerland are now in Canada and have applied to the United States government for permission to bring in their wheels free of duty. Throughout the anthracite coal re gion the information that the Mine Workers’ convention at Wilkesbarre had declared off the strike at an end was received with rejoicing. State Labor Commissioner William Blackburn, of Washington, will rigid: ly enforce the female labor law of that State, forbidding the employ ment of women over 10 hours a day. Total exports of specie from the port of New York to all countries for the week were $817,844 silver and $207,500 gold. Total imports of specie were $13,717 silver and $235,641 gold When the case of Clarence Peale, convicted in a lower court of murder, and now a raving maniac, was called in state supreme court at Knoxville Tenn., the man supposed to have been murdered arose in court and declared he was still alive. General Snyman, formerly of the Boer army, who is investigating the possibility of Boer settlements in Mexico, has received much encour agement from the government and people. The Rev. Dr. Sheldon Munson Griswold, rector of Christ church; Hudson, N. Y. was elected mission. ary bishop of Salina, the western dis- trict of Kansas, by the house of bishops at Philadelphia. Coke production in the Connells: ville region last week was less than the vreceding week INDIAN WHO KILLED GEN. GUSTER TOMAHAWK WAS USED: Former Sioux Chief, Now a Minister, Telis the Story for the First Time. Rev. Philip Daloria, a former Sioux chief, now an Episcopalian rector of Flora, S. D., who is attending the council of the Protestant Episcopal church at Philadelphia, Pa., said: “It was only a year ago that I learned the true story of the death of General George A. Custer. I had been the means of cdnverting a stoical old warrior named Appearing Elk. Un- like most Indian braves, he was not much given to boasting of his ex- ploits, but he was one of the most valiant of the tribe, and I knew that he had taken many scalps. Appear- ing Elk became a fervent Christian, and one day, after he had been bap- tized and taken into the church I asked him to tell me of his exper- iences in the battle of the Little Big Horn. Every Sioux wants to know who killed Custer, and of course, that was one of my first questions. I was surprised when the old man replied: I did. We had surrounded the last cluster of soldiers, when my pony was shot from under me. When I got on my feet again I discovered that I was wounded. Suddenly a man in blue loomed up in front of me. I knew that he was a chief, but I did not know who he was. Fe was sway- ing like a drunken man from exhaus- tion and loss of blood from many bullet and arrow wounds. I felled bim with my tomahawk, and then sat on his body to be sure that I shouldn’t be robbed of my rights. In order to make double sure I took the revolver from the holster of the dead man and stuck it in my belt. I didn't scalp the man because his head was shaved and I was ashamed to. 1 know posi- tively,” continuued Mr. Daloria, “that the revolver taken by Appearing Elk was subsequently identified as Cus- ter’s, and, so far as I have been able to learn from my people and from what I have read in your books, he was the only man in the command who had his head shaved.” Appear- ing Elk died last spring. DOZEN LIVES LOST. Workmen in Chicago Refinery Caught in Disastrous Fire. Fire broke out shortly before mid- night Tuesday in a sugar refinery in Chicago, and before it was under control three big buildings; one a l4-story skyscraper, was destroyed and 12 or more persons lost their lives. The plant of the refining com- pany consisted of three buildings, the drying house, seven stories in height, the main refinery, 14 stories high, and another structure of four stories. The fire started in the drying house. The men employed in the three lower floors of the drying house ran for the doors and windows as soon as’ they had knowledge of the fire, and all of them succeeded in reaching the open air. The men on the seventh floor crawled along the window sills in an effort to reach a place of safety, but with the exception of two men all those who attempted to reach safety in this way AB made up their mind that it was certain death, and went back into the burning building. These two jumped and were Kilied. Four others jumped from the win- dows on the fourth floor and were horribly crushed, but living when taken to the hospital. A rigid inves- tigation for the cause of the fire has been instituted . CODE BILL ADCPTED. Extra Session of the Ohio Legisla- lature Adjourned. The Legislature, which was con- vened in extraordinary session to en- act a code of uniform laws for the government of Ohio municipalities, practically completed its work Tues- day by accepting the report of the conference committee and voted to adjourn sine die at 10 o’clock Wed- nesday morning. The final vote on the code was taken in both branches. the vote in the Senate being 21 to 12, and in the House, 65 to 35. The Sen- ate concurred in the House amend- ments to the bill, repealing the Royer law, which limited the jurisdiction of the supreme court. TEXAS OIL PRODUCTION. Large Yield Likely to Be Followed by Speedy Exhaustion. The United States geologic survey estimates the production of crude oil in the Spindle Top field of Beau- mont, Tex. from the beginning of 1901 to May 31, 1902, at 11,688,000 barrels, and places the value of wells and material at $7,640,000. The great porosity of the rock favors a large storage and a rapid yield of oil, but also an early exhaustion. The rock contains about one-fourth of its vol- ume of oil. The petroleum stored in the Trenton limestone is about 10 per cent of the rock and small por- tions of the best Pennsylvania fields have yielded 900,000 barrels per square mile. Pennsy Buys Farm. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany has closed the deal for the Dr. John Fay 100-acre farm, one-fourth of a mile west of Williamsburg, Pa. The company contemplates the erection of large repair shops, and will use Jun- iata river water power to run the electric dynamoes. Southern Pig Iron Prices. A meeting in New York of repre- sentatives of the Tennessee Coal and [ron Company, the Sloss Sheffield Company, the Virginia Iron and Ccke Company, the Allegheny Ore and Iron Company, and the Lowmcor furnace agreed to maintain the prices of Southern pig iron during the latter half of 1903 at the same rate as for the latter half of the present year. RESUMPTION INCREASES DAILY. Non-Union Miners Driven : From Work—Mahanoy City Miners to Strike Against Blacklisting. An increase in the working force at the qifforent collieries is notice- able each day singe the strike was declared settled. The different mines are being gotten in shape for work- ing. A camp for the coal and iron po- licemen relieved of work has been established at East Mahanoy junc- tion. A large force of men were at work at mines in the Wilkesbarre section clearing up the mines for general resumption. It is said nearly all the collieries are now in shape for work, and that there will be a heavly output of coal. Fifteen hun- dred employes of I.entz & Co., who operate the Park Place colliery near Mahanoy City, voted to go out on strike again until the blacklisted hands are reinstated. When the col- liery resumed about 50 employes, prominent mebers of the mine work- ers’ organization, were told that there was no more work for them un- der the company. By consent of Fresident Baer, of the Reading rail- road, speaking for the coal cpera- tors, and President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, President Rcosevelt has appointed the seventh member of the strike arbitration commisidion. Mr. Wright will con- tinue to act as recorder of the com- mission. The board of seven cannot now be embarrassed by a tie vote on any proposition, as it might be were there but six members. The Mili Creek Coal Company, near Mahanoy City, which employs about 2,500 men, has withdrawn the objectionable pa- per which it had prepared for its em- ployes to sign and in consequence the resumption of mining will take place at its Buck Mountain and Vulcan col- lieries. Half a dozen non-unionists employed at the Oxford colliery of the Peoples Coal Company at Scranton were beaten and chased half a mile through a gangway by a crowd of union emplcyes of the Delaware, T.ackawanna & Western Company's Rellevue colliery, which it adjoins. The mines open one into the other in a number of places, and at one place the employes of both make use of the same gangway, or main road. The union men waylaid the non-unionists at a cross-cut, and after beating them, chased them until the fugi- tives reached the mule barn in the Oxford workings, where they sought refuge; 100 deputies on guard at col- lieries in the Shamokin region during the strike were sent home under or- ders to be ready to return to duty on a minute's notice. Strikers are quiet, but object strenuously to working un- der non-union fire bosses and engi- neers. @ CABLE FLASHES. The treaty for the purchase by the United States of the Danish West Indies is defeated by a tie vote in the landsthing of Denmark. The police at Petersburg, Russia, have captured an accomplice in the reported plot against Dowager Em- press Marie Dagmar, of Russia. Fire broke out in Guild Hill, Lon- don, England, where the luncheon of King Kdward and his party was given Saturday, just as the last guest was leaving. The blaze was in the roof of the building. The Second Bombay grenadiers, stationed at Mhow, Central India, have been ordered to Somaliland. Twelve officers and 400 men of the Twenty-third Bombay infantry will accompany the Second Grenadiers. In Old Bailey court, London, Eng- land, I.awrence Greig, clerk of the Carnegie Steel Company, was found guilty of defrauding the company out of $125,000 by forgery, and was sen- tenced to five years’ imprisonment. According to a Copenhagen corre- spondent the czar of Russia, after visiting Italy, will proceed to Monte- negro, Athens, and probably to Con- stantinople. While in Italy the czar will have an interview with the pope. Prof. Osbaldeston, the American masseur from Pittsburg, who killed two men at Oberstein, Germany, is making a desperate fight to escape execution at the hands of the Ger- man headsman. Osbaldeston is un- dergoing examination as to his sanity by experts from Bonn university. The dispatch reports that a Bul- garian, disguised as a palace official, tried to kill Abdul Hamid, sultan of Turkey, but that the guards were alert and overpowered the would-be assassin before he could harm the sultan. A man was detected at Paris, France, attempting to climb a wall of the Elysee palace. It is believed that he intended to hide in the palace garden in the hope of obtaining an opportunity to assassinate President Loubet. Premier Combes, of the French cabinet, had a conference with the national committee of the Miners’ Federation at Paris and agreed to submit the demands of the miners to arbitration, which, the committee de- clared, ought to include a minimum wage and regulation of the hours of work. King Oscar, of Sweden, has been summoned by the legatee of the late Helga de la Brache, daughter of the dethroned Xing Gustavus Adolphiis IV., to bring into court documents that belonged to her and were given by her father to King Oscar's father. : The papers are valuable for their his- torical character and for the court se- crets they contain. It has been decided to establish wireless telegraphy apparatus at all stations and on all passenger trains on Italian railroads. King Victor Emmanuel ‘has appointed William Marconi a chevalier of the Order of Industrial Merit, Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, of England, is going to South Africa at the end of November, and will re- main there till March. He will con- sult with the heads of all the poli- tical parties there and endeavor to decide the policy of the government toward the colonies conquered from the Boers. 265. 50 Genui B 1899 sal 1st @ mon Best Patent ( Colt, Na Cautio Shoes
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