oR =f LAST HOURS OF EX-SPEAKER REED.) DIED IN WASHINGTON. lliness Tock Sudden Fatal Turn. President Paid His Tribute—In- terment at Portland, Me. Thomas -Prackett Reed, former speaker of the House or Representa- tives, aied at the Arlington hotel at 12:10 o'clock Sunday morning, De- cember 7, of uraemia. At his bed- side when he passed away were Mrs. Reed, their daughter, Catherine, and Drs. Goodnow, MacDonald, Gardner and Bishop. Mr. Eeed became un- conscious about 5 o'clock in the even- ing, and although saline injections and oxygen were steadily administer- ed he never revived. His kidneys re- fused to operate early in the morning, and it was said that he had for some time been suffering from Brizht's dis- pase. His mind was active, and dur- Ing the early part of the day he con- Jersed rationally with persons in the yoom, frequently making some joke Ybout his condition. Later his men- tal faculties wandered, and he talked of scenes and events of his hoyhood, of his service in the navy during the civil war, and of the notable con- flicts he haa participated in in the House. While he was dying ibe firidiron club was holding a banquet in the hotel. Shortly before mid- night the fact that there was no hope for him was announced. First As- sistant Postmaster General Wynne, and Major president of the club, an M. Carson spoke a few words in praise of him, and while the diners were drinking a final toast to him he died. Mr. Reed reached Washington Sunday, October 30, having come to attend to some matters in the United States supreme court. He was at the capitol Monday visiting with friends and former associates in Congress, and witnessed the conven- { fing of the second session of the Fifty-seventh Congress. Apparently he was enjoying good health, but later in the day he called on Dr. F. A. Gardner and complained of gastric distress. The fcllowing day his phy- sician compeiled him to remain in bed, while a diagnosis was made of his condition. Mr. Reed was strongly averse to staying in bed, but a rise in temperature made it imperative that he remain quiet. Symptoms of, appendicitis appeared, though his] condition was _not considered as| a:irming. A trained nurse remained | with him throughout Tuesday night. | and the patient showed sicns of im | provenient. On Thursday the physi-| cians announced that the appendi- | ecital symptoms were abatirg, but] that kidney trouble had developed, | giving a more serious aspect to the case. The remains, accompanied by the family and friends, were removei to Portland, Me., for interment. Dur- ing the entire day there was a stream of sympathetic callers at the Ariing ton hotel, where the heody of Mr. Reed lay awaiting removal to the railroad] station. They included President] and Mrs. Roosevelt, members of the! cabinet and of the Senate and House of Representatives and of the diplo- matic corps. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Frince Henry of Pless has become a candidate for the German ambassa- dorship at Washington. Opponents of omnibus statehood bill, sceing themselves beaten, have appealed to the President to veto the measure. , | Secretary of the Navy Moody or- Jred Admiral Higginson not to use ailors in digging ditches in discase- $reeding swamps. Charles Henry Butler, an attorney it law of New York city, was appoint- ©d reporter of the decisions of the Jupreme court to the United States. Secretary Mcody crdered Paymas- ter John C. Sullivan before the retir- jng board for examination to deter- mine his capability for further active duty. Lieutenant De Faramond, naval at- tache of the French embassy, pre- sented to the President on behalf of President Loubet, of France, and as a personal gift from him a copy of the “Annual of the French Navy.’ Senate committee on military af- Airs tock favorable ection on bill providing for the reorganization of the National Cuard of the several Jtates. Instead of receiving $20,172, claim- od by the State of New York for aid- Ing to raise a volunteer army for the war with Spain, $5,875 has been al- lowed. Ceclonel Henry C. Hasbrouck, artil- lery corps, commanding the post at Fort Adesms, R. I, has been appoint- ed a brigadier general. He will be retired immediately. United States Minister Francia notified the state department that he concluded a convention with Greece providing for a consular service ir Greece and in the United States. President Roosevelt has promised to further movement for nine-font stage of water in the Obio river the whole year through, and Representa- tive Bromwell agreed to introduce resolutions providing for preliminary survays. In a recent order to the depart- ment the commanding general in the Philippines scores men and officers jndiscriminately for carelessness in their obscrvance of regulations and standing brders respecting dress, courtesies and discipline. President Roosevelt authorized the official announcement to be mada that he would nominate John Barrett, of Oregon, to be United States minis- ter to Japan to fill the vacancy caus- ed by the death of Minister Alfred E. Buck. Richard C. Parsons, of Cleveland, who for five years has been second secretary of the United States em- bassy at Rome, has tendered his res- ignation from the diplomatic service. The House committee on appro- priations has agreed upon the pen- gio ==propriation bill. CONGRESSIONAL NOTES. LVIl. CONGRESS. President's Message. Little was done in either branch of Congress Tuesday beyond the re- ception of the President's message. In the Senate ex-Secretary of War Russell A. Alger, of Michigan, was sworn in as successor of the late Senator McMillan. One hour and fifteen minutes were consumed in rcading the message. The resigna- tion of Rev. W. H. Milburn. the blind chaplain of the Senate, was read, but not acted upon. New Members. The House was in session an hour and 40 minutes Tuesday. The Presider:t’s message was listened to with attention by members without regard to party. Gordon Russell, elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of R. C. De Graffenreid, of Texas, and Edward Swann, elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Amos J. Cummings, of New York, took the oath. Statehcod Bill. In the Senate Wednesday Mr. Nel- son, Minnesota, reported a substi- tute for the bill passed by the House at the last session for the admission of Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico as States, which drops New Mexico and Arizona and provides for the admission of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory as a State un- der the rame of Oklahoma. Mr. Pen- rose, Pennsylvania, cailed up the bill restricting immigration, when an ad- journment was taken in respect to the memories of Representatives De Graffenred and Shepherd. $70,000 for Commission. The House Wednesday passed the hill appropriating $50,000 for the ex- pense of the anthracite coal strike commission. W. A. Smith. Michigan, offered a resolution requesting the Secretary of State to inform the House of the circumstances of the killing of W. A. Fitzgerald by God- frey Hunter, Jr., in Guatemala City. Executive Session. The Senate Thursday in executive session confirmed Hon. Oliver Wen- dell Holmes to succeed the late Chief Justice Gray as a member of the United (tates supreme cpurt, and Henry L. West to be commissioner of the District of Columbia. Routine Business, Routine business occupied the at- tention of ‘he House Thursday, con- fined principally to members looking after bills pertaining to their respec- tive districts. Pension Bill Passed. The House on Saturday passed the pension appropriation bill for the vear ending June 30, 1904, amounting tc $139.000,000. Mr. Payne, New York, introduced a resclution for a holiday adjournment from December 20 to January 5. Representative Acheson. introduced a bill to extend the free delivery mail service to towns of 5,000 population. RESERVED FOR THE MEN. Postmaster General Payne Does Not Approve of Women Carriers. 1t has recently been brought to the attention of Postmaster General Payne that about 25 women are hold- ing positions as carriers in the rural free delivery service, and a call has been made upan Superintendent Machen, of that branch, for informa- tion about them. An investigation will be made to learn whether they are performing their duties in a satis- factory manner. The appointments were made without knowiedge of the sex of the appointees. Mr. Payne is said to be opposed to the appointment of women to such service. Philadelphia “Jekyll and Hyde” Cets a 15-Year Sentence. Georze Dickinscn, alias Wescoit, the burglar who was arrested about 10 days ago in Philadelphia, and was discovered by detectives to be a rob- ber Ly night and a business man by day. was tried and convicted and sen- tenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. The police accused Dickinson of near- evidence in but 25 cases. 1s $16,000 worth of Dickinscn’s loot was recovered by the police. CLIMAX IN VACCINATION. Gas City, Ind., School Officers Ex- clude 300 Children. The climax in the vaccination agi- tation was reached at Gas City, Ind. when over 300 children were exclud- ed from the schools for not present- ine cettificates of vaccination. Of this number nearly one-half had been vaccinated, but had neglected to ob- tain proof. The anti-vaccinationists declare they will attempt to send their children to school, and if they are not admitted legal proceedings will be brought. WILL GET MORE MONEY. Railroad Telegraphers Have Been Increased. The committee representing the telegraph operators employed on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg rail- read, in conferenve with the rail- road officials in regard to a new wage scale, has successfully accomplished Salaries of its purpose. It is stated that in- creases varying from 5 to 20 per cent, dating from November 1, will be made, bringing the salaries up to the standard paid by other railroads. Restrains Labor Union. Supreme Court Justice Wesley O. Howard, at Schenectady, N. Y., eranted an injunction restraining Painters’ Union No. 62, of that city, from in any way treating William Potter as not a member of the union. Potter was expelled from thie union because he is a member of the mili- tia, and as such served as"a private during the Hudson Valley strike. FOURTEEN PERSONS DIE BY SMOKE. HOTEL DEATH TRAP. Thirteen Victims in a Chicago Fire Found Suffocated in Beds After Blazz Is Extinguiched. Fourteen men met death by suffo- cation Thursday morning in a fire which occurred at 6 o’clock in the Lincoln hotei, 176 Madison street, Chicago, [ll. Thirteen were stifled while lying in their beds. One was taken from the building before life was extinct, but died in the ambu- lance on the way to the nearest hos- pital. The dead are I. C. Yocum, fire insurance agent, Davenport, Ia.; Samuel Yocum, son of I. C. Yocum: A. E. Coonfi lawyer, Marengo, Ill.; F. L. Ewing, mail clerk Marietta, O.; B. :F. Boswell, Chicago; T. V. Slo- cum machine dealer, Wauconda, Ill.; H. K. Woods, Lebanon, Ind.; Edward Toner, printer, Milwaukee; F. W. Corey, 29 years of age, railway postal clerk, Bucyrus, 0.; Ward Lowe, rail- way postal clerk, Sechlersville, Wis.; M. M. Hardy, traveling salesman, Janesvile, Wis.; C. P. Cowan, collec- tor cn the Wabash railroad, St. Louis; George B. Graves, printer, Chicazo;; unidentified man, 5 feet 8 incheg tall, weighing 165 pounds; 40 years of age; thin brown hair and mustache. The following were in- jured: J. S. Allison, Richland Cen- ter, Wis., cut about the hands; Ed- ward Davenport, Chicago, injured in- ternally ‘by jumping from fourth- story to rcof of adjoining building, W. G. Thomas, Cedar Rapids, Ia. badly cut and burned; William M. Snyder, Loom City, la., brused by falling downstairs; Mrs. June Shep- perd, Chicago, back strained, arms and hands cut and bruised; Robert C. Hamilton, Lebanon, Ind., hands cut: Cliff Ward, Battle Creek, Mich. cut about head and hands lacerated: Frederick G. Baker, Nashville, Mich., feet burned; Irwin Westerland, Chi- cago, feet burned; Olof Oldorf, Chi- cago, hands lacerated. Night Clerk Weher discovered the smoke pouring through the halls shortly bafore & o'clock and did his best to alarm the guests, but the smoke was so dense and increased in volume so rapidly that he was able to arouse only a small number and was then com- pelled to grope his way to the street to avoid suffocation. The - guests came pouring down the one stairway in all stages of undress and several leaped from the windows of the sec- ond-story to the sidewalk below, and escpped without serious injury. A number of men, turned back by the smoke in hallways, which prevented them from finding the stairs, swung dcewn on the ropes plaged in the front of the building by the werkmen erect- ing the fire escape. The firemen saved many lives by carrying people down the ladders from the windows. The smoke on the inside of the build- ing was so thick and so pungent that the firemen were unable to do more than take the people irom the win- dows. Those who were not able to reach the, windows in a Tew minutcs after the fire broke out were suffo- cated in torture. A portion of the third and second floors were burned and the blaze was extinguished with- in 40 minutes after the first alarm. All the dead had rooms cn the third and fourth floors. F. A. Smith, pro- prior of the hotel, said: Our 70 rooms were all filled and 1 should judge that we had about 125 to 150 guests. Chief Musham, of the fire ‘department, said that in some ways it was the worst fire that he had ever attended. The building was one of the worst firetraps I have ever seen. The coroner’s jury, after view- ing the ruins, adjourned until De- cember 12. BARS ON PENNSY STOCK. Covernor Yates, of Illinois, Issued Quarantine. Goverror Yates, of Illinois, has is- sued a proclamation preohibiting the importation into the state of cattle and sheen from the states of mont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island; also from adjoin- ing states of New York, New Hamp- shire, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Cattle from the first four states are helicved to be infected with the “foot and mouth disease.” TRAIN’'S FEARFUL PLUNGE. Freight Goes Down a Mountain Side While Rounding a Curve. A frightful freight wreck cccurred on the West Virginia Central rail- road at Big Run, a small place cn the Blackwater grade near Thomas, W. Va. resulting in the death of the engineer, John Jankey, and the ser- ious injury of a hrakeman, A. Wolf. The locomotive and 24 loaded cars jumped the track and plunged over the steep mountain side while round- ing a sharp curve. The halance of the crew miraculously escaped being seriously injured. No Coal in Freezing Omaha. The cold wave caused intense suf- fering among the poorer and even the fairly well to do classes at Omaha, Necb., on account of the lack of coal. The coal firms were swamped with or- ders. There was no anthracite to be Ver. | into a rock ition, Col., killing Fireman C. WwW. Beedle and injuring Engineer John Cummings and Mail Clerk Benson, { York, had. Two Omaha schools and a large number of schools throughout the state were compelled to close. The wooden sidewalks and ferces are dis- appearing at a wholesale rate. Lead Merger Completed. The merger of the lead manufae- turing concerns of the United States: Under tke! is practically completed. new plan the National Jl.ead Com- pany, which has a capital of $30,000, 000, will become the holding and operating company. Its capital is to be increased to $60,000,000. The merger puts the National Lead Com- pany in absolute control of aii the manufacturers of lead in the <~M»n- try. LATEST NEWS NOTES. The entire country was swept by a blizzard December 4 ond 5. The bank at’ Bridger, Mont., was robbed by (three masked men of $2,000. United States Minister Buck died suddenly while duck hunting in Japan. Twelve men are missing as result of explosion on tank steamer at San Francisco, : Captain Evan P. Howell was elect- ed mayor of Atlanta, Ga., without oppositicn. Commissioner Durham, of Pennsyl- vania, will start crusade against child insurance. The Ohio Valley stove manufactur- ers decided to increase the price of stoves 5 per cent. Snow, sleet and rain fell in Ne- braska, Wisconsin, Michigan and Texas December 3. The yacht Shamrock III, the American cup challenger, had a nar- row escape from fire, Pennsyivania railroad has improv- ed Boston ocean terminal by large purchase of real estate, ) The Ohio miners will demand an Increase of 20 cents a ton in the scale for pick-mined coal. The Pickering Manufacturing Com- pany of l.owell, Mass., has failed, with liabilities of $300,000. Germany and Great Britain sent warships in haste to Venezuela to demand payment of claims. The grand jury in New York in- dicted former Police Captain Daniel C. Moynahan for bribery. Miners testified before the strike commission that it is impossible to save money from their wages. Naval war game in the Caribbean between two fleets of the United States navy began December 4. James Sullivan and Mr. De Kibbs were killed in a snowslide at the Cor- nucopia mine at Baker City, Ore. _ Thomas Nast, the famous cartoon- ist, United States consul general at Guayaquil, Ecuador, died of yellow fever. Frank C. Andrews, the Detroit bank wrecker, has donned prison garb and is making shirts in Jackson peniten- tiary. The Williams knitting mills, one of the largest in Western North Caro- lina, located at Shelby, was destroy- ed by fire. Sir Liang Chen, new Chinese min- ister to the United States, will marry Mlle. Yu, daughter of China’s minis- ter to France, The call for the National conven-| tion at of United Mine Workers to] meet at Indianapolis, Ind., ¢n Janu- | ary 19, hag been issued. James Rochelle Tyler, 64 years old, a grandson of President Tyler, dicd at the Confederate Soldiers’ home at Richmond, Va. Ex-Senator Flinn, of Pennsylvania, ! and ‘other capitalists reached agree-! ment with Cape May councils con-| cerning proposed improvements. | Prof. H. V. Hilprecht was present- | ed by the University of Pennsyl- vania with the Lucy Wharton Drexel medal for excavations at Nippur. Employes of the Shamokin divis-| ior of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company have been notified | of an increase in wages of about i4| per cent. Horace E. Killig, 45 years old, su-! perintendent of the Germantown (Pa.) crematory, was. blown to! atoms by an explosion of dynamite he was carrying. The Minnesota supreme court de-! cided in favor of Russell Sage in the] suit of George C. Glover to force Sage to surrender a quarter section of land in Swift county. George W. Streeter, who made a fight for filledin land on the lake front at Chicago, Ill, was found guilty of manslaughter and sent to the penitentiary. The Pacific Coast limited on Rio Grande Western slide tha railroad ran naar Grand June- but no passengers. The Indiana Company, capital $1,- 000,000, with 35G0,000 paid in, filed papers of corporation in New Jersey to construct railways and electrie light plants in Indiana. teneral Deschamps sailed from San Juan de Porto Rico for New where he expects to foment ancther rebellion agninst the gov- ernment of Santo Domingo. Revenue stamps to the value of $29,000, ranging in denominations from $1 to $1000 are missing from the internal revenue office of the Eighth district, Danville, Ky. The appellate court at Frankfort. Ky. awarded a new trial to Caleb Pcwerg, who was convicted in the Goebel murder conspiracy and sen- tenced to life imprisonment. Richard Cole, the ndgro suspected of murdering Mrs. Ada Gilbert Den- nis in Washington, was released, the prosecution @abandcning the attempt to connect him with the crime. A jury in the United States district court at Chicago convicted W. W. Bristol, manager of the Surety Guar- antee and Trust Company, of fraud in sales of the company’s stock. The street car strike at Houston, Tex., has been settled. The men get 18 cents an hour the first year, 19 cents per hour the second and 20 cents an hour the third wear. The union was partially recognized. Theodore C. Graves, a member of the furniture manufacturing firm of Graves & Phelps, and G. K. Pratt, an employe, were burned to death in a fire that destroyed the Boston, Mass., plant. The forces oi the sultan of Mor- acco have, after heavy fighting, finally defeated the rebels in the Zenmohr territory. The sultan narrowly ecs- caped capture and his troops sus- tained heavy losses. The pretender to the throne remains at Tazza. "mond, Va., Dr, W. B. Ware, practis- GOLD IN INDIANAPOLIS STREETS: UNTOLD TREASURE.. Western Man Discovers Wealth in Sand From Sewer Trench—It Pays at Surface. Throughout the city of Indianapolis, Ind.. Friday there were 100 men wash- ing gold out of gravel taken from the streets. The greatest excitement pre- vailed in some sections of the city, owing to the discovery of gold de- posits in gravel pits and in sand thrown from various street excava- tions. The whole excitement was due to the statement made public in the merning by R. L. Royce, a western gold prospector. Royce came to the city to visit relatives, and his atter- tion was aitracted to the character of he sand and gravel being hrown from a sewer excavation. He secured some of it and found bright yellow fiour-like flakes, which the state geo- logist pronounced to be gold. “Young men will live to see Indiana the greatest gold placer mining state in the union,” Royce declared, “the greatest not in the largest wealth in dollars in each cubic ward of dirt, hut the greatest productive area and in the total! amcunt of gold produc- tion. I have just panned the finest gold in the world out of the dirt of an Indianapolis street.” Royce further asserts that the men throwing the dir? out of the ditch where he made his first washing are throwing out gold in every cubic yard of sand excavat- ed. The “color” he washed, he said. would indicate that the dirt will run from 15 cents a cubic yard on the sur- face to 50 cents a cubic vard further down. His announcement created a sensation in various scctions of the city, and laboring men could be seen at various points panning the dirt in search of the flourlike gold which Royce declared to be found in deposit that will run 90914 per cent pure. AGAINST EIGHT-HOUR LAW. Supreme Court of Ohio Decides That It Is Unconstitutional. The supreme court at Columbus, 0., handed down a decision in the case of the city of Cleveland vs. Clement Bros., in which it declared the contested eight-hour labor law unconstitutional. The case was car- ried up to the supreme court by the city. It had let sewer contracts to Clement Bros. and stipulated that the eight-hour law should be respect- ed under penalty of $10 for each violation. The city attempted to hol.il out $300 in fines in s:ttling with the contracters. The latter sued and se-| cured judgment in the lower The city contested the decisi has now lost in ‘the high The court followed a decision. pre- viously made. VIRGINIA LEGISLATOR’'S IDEA. =f 3 A Pian to Take the Snice Out of Courting. > In the House of Delegates at Rich ing physician, introduced a bill to} make promiscuous kissing a misde-! meancr. Practically © all Dr. Ware will say of his bill is that while it ought to pass, he has no idea that it will be adopted. The act reads as follows: “It shall be unlawful for any person to kiss another unless. lie can prove by his family physician that he has not any contagious or in- fectious diseases. Any person violat- ing the provisions shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than $1 nor more than $5 for cach offense.” MUNCIE GLASS PLANT CLOSES. Transfer 400 Employes to Its Fac- torics at Other Places. The American Window Glass Com- pany’s plant at Muncie. Ind. has! shut down indefinitely and -400 work men will be transferred to concer owned by the company in other | cities. The local officers of the com-| pany make no simtement except that! for the present it has been found impracticable to cperate the Muncie factory. Beer Combine Outlawed. The court of appeals at Kansas City, Mo., decided that the combina-' tion of brewers in that city is a trust, such as is expressly forbidden ! hy the statutes of Missouri, and that! any man who owes a brewer in the! combine need not pay his bill, and | the brewer cannct collect the debt, even in the courts. Mail Lost or Stolen. A mall sack, containing $14,000 in drafts and checks from the internal réventue otlice, and $9,000 in bank checks and drafts, besides registered | letters, was stolen or lost between the Dranville, Ky., postoifice and the depot, or on the Cincinnati mail train. Maryland Tax Law Upheld. Justice White, of the United States supreme court, affirmed the right of the state of Maryland to tax the gross receipts of the Northern Cen- tral Railway Company, which claim- ed exemption under old charters, Gusher in Canada. Canada has one of the largest nat- ural oil wells in America. The bor- ing has been completed and 40 bhar- rels an hour are yielded by the new i vention between France, OFFICIALS MUST EXPLAIN. Interstate Commerce Commission Will Look Into Recent Increase in Freight Tariff. The increases in freight rates, which are shorily to be applied on the roads running from the Missis. sippi river and points beyond to ths East and South, will be investigated by the inter-state commerce commis- sion, which has fixed December 16, next, as the date for a hearing to be held at the offices of the commission in Washington, D. C. The commis- sion has issued an order requiring the attendance of the chief traffic of- ficials or other representatives qual- ified to give information of the fol- lowing: Michigan Central Railroad Company, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, Erie Railrcad Company, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, the Pennsylvania Company. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi- cago & St. Louis Railway Company, Wabash Railrcad Company, Balti- more & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company, New York Central & Hud- son River Railroad Company. Dela- ware, Lackawanna & Western Rail- road Company, Lehigh Valley Rail- road Ccmpany, Pennsylvania Rail- road Company, Southern Railway Company, Norfolk & Western Rail- way Company and Chesapeake & Ohio. Railway Ccmpany. The com- mission has adopted the following order: “Whereas, It appears from schedule cn file with the commission that rates upon grain and grain pro- ducts, dressed meats and provisions from the Mississippi river to New York and points gcverned by the New York rate are to be materially ad- vanced in the near {uture; and, whereas, it appears probable that other advances are to be made whic will materially increase the general cost of transportation; therefore, it is ordered that a proceeding of in- quiry and investigation be instituted as to the occasion for and propriety of such advances. Following a simi- lar action by the Michigan Central, the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louis- ville railroad has filed with the com- mission the required advance notice of an increase of 5 cents to be im- posed on dressed meats shipped from Chicazo to New York, making this rate 45 cents per 100 pounds, and abolishing the export rate of 25 cents on provisions, making a flat rate of 30 cents on provisions. The commis- sion also has been given official no- tice that the proportional rates on wheat and flour frem Kansas City, St. Joseph, Atchison, Leavenworth, and other lower Missouri river points, which rates apply on business from points beyond, have been advanced. 2 cents to Chicago. From Ohio river | pointe such .as Cincinnati, Louisville, Evansville, New Albany and Cairo, to . Charleston, Atlanta, Brunsiwick and the ‘South Atlantic coast general- ly an increase is to Be made of % cents on grain and - ‘flour, when shipped in sacks, and of 7 cents a barrel or 3% cents per 100 pounds when shipped in barrels. CABLE FLASHES. -: The majority group in stag, Germany, have determined to pass the tariff bill before Christmas. Ten persons were burned to death at Bochum, Prussia, as the result of a fire which brake out in a bakery. The British eruiser Good Hope, having on board Colonial Secretary Chamberlain and party, bound for ‘Scuth Africa, arrived at Port Said, Egypt. First Secretary Dodge has been garetted as charge d'affaires of the United States embassy at Berlin, Germany, and had his first interview with the foreign office officials. Announceent was made at Philadel- phia of the proposed formation of a large combination in the rubber in- dustry to be known as the Interna- tional Rubber Company, with a capi- tal stock of $25.000.000. The chamber of deputies of France ratified an additional monetary con- Italy, Bel- gium and Switzerland, authorizing each country to issue addition sil ver coins to the value of $2,500,000. The short line for the new cable to Honolulu and the Philippines was laid at San Francisco by the cable ship Silverton. On December 12 the Silverton will bezin laying the cable to Honolnlu, and it is expected that the Hawaiian capital will exchauge greetings with Washington on Christ- mas day. After an embittered political and personal debate the reichstag at Berlin, Germany, declared by 198 to 45 votes that Baron von Kardorif's motion to vote on the tariff bill as a whcle was admissible under the rule. The Socialists abstained from voting. The Russian Grand Duke Paul Alexandevitch, an uncle of the Czar, has been dismissed by Emperor Wil- liam of Germany from the honorary colenelecy of a cuirassier regiment stationed at Lrandenburg because of his recent marriage to the Baroness Pistclkofi, The decline in the price of gold at I.ondon, England, has been viewed with considerable satisfaction = in financial circles, as it indicates a slackening in the demand from various quarters of the world, mili- tating against the likelihood of. gold exports or a rise in the bank rate. Thet severe weather throughout Austria-Hungary has curtailed the supply of milk and vegetables to Vienna owing to the roads being im- passable from snow. Many accidents have occurred. t is reported from gushcr, which is situated in Raleigh | Bucharest that the Danube is frozen from Combine in Screws. Developments at Providence, R, I indicate that the township, ten miles Chatham, * 1 available independent screw manu- facturing concerns in New England. is et Martha Washington Stamps. The postoffice department has be- over for a congiderable distance. Premier Sprigg met with a very hostile reception from his consti- tuents at East London, Kast Africa. I 1 American Screw | His speech Was constantly interrupt- Company is seeking to absorb all the: ed by hisses and cries of “Judas.” The disapproval of the premier’s at- titude was so marked that no vote of confidence in his policy was pro- posed. gun to issue the stamps bearing the Martha Washington portrait. Emperor William, addressing a dep- utation of workingmen at Breslau, made a bitter anti-socialistic speech, the reich- mot toric rank coals the sme] neys Inn . Seen . whe; of @ ‘stea sides ceed tabie facu shov . geth sam: ent foun obta cess wert ot No 0S | am IE pict et 1 ~1N ™M MO 256. 5 Gent D! cases Fre
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