FR MUST STRIKE FIRST
Russia will Defend Korean Sov-
geignty at any Cost.
MD ©RANGE IN THE SITUATION.
Bwumy Hayashi Couples Japan's At-
fitede With That of The
: United States.
& Brow! correspondent cables an in-
Sprain with M. Pavioff, Russian min-
ler 3» Korea, who said:
M@wswia will refuse to agree to the
apesing of Wiju, and will protect Ko-
ween sovereignty at all costs. Rus-
mia wold regard the landing of Ja-
Pswmye troops in Korea as an un-
Avirmilty =ct and would defend the in-
wependeace of Korea against Pagan
Amweders. ‘The Russian fleet will be
wsegieyed, and Japan will defeat her-
=é¥ within a short period of being en
a awe footing.”
Weerat Tokio dispatches show no
wilssms= in the situation, Gens. Nozu,,
Wamski and Okun and Admiral Inouye
"Bese Been appointed additional mem-
ers wl the war council, of which Mar-
shel Tamagata is president, and, that
=n wrder has been given for another
AEMMton battleship to be built in
Radlaoad.
Beron Hayashi, the Japanese minis-
Ber. skid of the Czar's peaceful de-
wkavaliom to the diplomat Thursday:
*W these are his majesty’s views
sibews will be no war. The question
mestz with him. Japan has nothing
Huiker 40 say. It is practically cer-
fimém ts? any declaration of war will
mi emanate from Russia.
*“@wr conditions are practically
sgmrmmed up in the concluding portion
«off he State department’s announce-
mex, mezarding the Chinese-Ameri-
man %Trexty. For these principles, to
wwbinh Secretary Hay says the United
alg #8 irrevocably committed, we
sare willing to go to war unless Rus-
=m willl ecnsent to give us a definite
pledpe that she adheres to the open-
Wepre and Chinese- sovereignty in Man-
warn”
ASA S. BUSHNELL DEAD,
Farmer Gavernor of Ohio a Victim of
Paralysis.
Asa 5. Bushnell, former Governor
=! ©Okis, died in Grant Hospital, Co-
Hermie, from a stroke of paralysis
sa¥mimed while attending the inau-
spuralion of Governor Myron T. Her-
migk, sn Monday.
Br. Bushnell never rallied from the
heck and had been in a stupor ever
TIMOR. He died without regaining
somscionsness and surrounded by the
members of his family.
Asa Smith Bushnell, fortieth Gov-
arwer of Ohio, was born at Rome,
©=eida county, N. Y., September 16,
3828 His father was Daniel Bush-
=e, of Lisbon, Conn. son ,of Jason
Bustineil, a soldier of the Revolution-
ary War, who served first in Captain
harder Miel’s Company, of General
Waerbury’s brigade and afterward
Joined the army of Washington at Tar-
NY Daniel Bushnell and
His family moved to Ohio about 1845,
wollfing at Cincinnati, and there Asa
8. Busknell remained until 1851, when
he Became a member of the thriving
essmumanity of Springfield, O.
Baring the Civil War he raised a
wompany and served in 1864, under
®exneral David Hunter, as its Cap-
@gin in the One Hundred and Fifty-
second Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the
Shenandoah Valley. He was an en-
Shmsiasiic member of the Grand Army
of the Republic, being enrolled with
Piichell Post, Springfield; was also
wme of the founders and an officer of
= @hio Society, Sons of the Revolu-
ow.
Me refused several times to become
= Congressional candidate, and when
im Wiay, 1895, the Republicans, assem-
Bed in convention at Zanesville, nom-
fated Dim as their candidate for
&overnor, he had not sought the hon-
ar. He was elected in November,
#895, by a plurality of 92,662, a voc-
@ary greater than any ever achieved,
mp ¥ that time, by an Ohio Gover-
mur, save John Brough, who was a
wardimwe candidate, and who received
praciicaily the entire vote cast. On
November 2, 1897, he was re-elected,
seosiving a plurality of 28,105, the
greatest ever given in Ohio in a year
following a Presidential election.
¥YOUMG SQUAW DEVOURED.
Filled and Eaten by Her Own Family
in Manitoba.
An Indian arrived at Fort Francis,
Mam, from Nipigeon and brought ter-
gible tales of suffering among Indians
marth of Nipigeon lake.
#hast eme family was so hard pressed
%hat hey killed one of the squaws,
who was about 25 years of age, and
Fer Tamily ate her. This story is cor-
moborzted by several white traders
whe arrived late this afternoon.
A =elief dog train at once started
Sor The scene with food. Two con-
sizbles left to investigate the eating
of the woman. It has been known for
same {ime that the Indians were in
a dad way. It will take a relief train
dour €zys to get to the place,
Biseoveries of cil in the vicinity of
It is stated |
COLOMBIA MOBILIZING TROOPS.
Admiral Coghlan Keeping a Vigilant
Watch on Their Movements.
Not only is Colombia rushing
troops to the border of Panama and
maintaining there an ‘attitude of de-
termination to undertake to regain
the isthmus, but the savage tribes of
Indians in the wild region between
the canal strip and the Atrato river
have been allied with the Colombian
cause. The American naval force on
the isthmus is watching the situation
at every possible point. Even though
initiation of hostilities by Colombia
is not immediately retaliated by the
United States, Rear Admiral Cogh-
lan will not be caught napping by the
Colombian army.
“Joe” Howten, a chief of the San
Blas Indians arrived at Colon and
said that 4,000 Colombians are en-
camped beyond Acanti. The cruiser
Mayflower and the gunboats Bancroft
and Castine have left the harbor to
resume the patrol of the San Blas
coast as far as the Gulf of Darien.
Admiral Coghlan cables from Colon:
“Report from Cartagena now about to
transport troops to Gulf of Darien.
Troops are arriving at Barranquilla
quite rapidly. Four thousand men
now there. Castine, from Caledonia
harbor, reports Indians unfriendly.
Chief of Sasardi now wears uniform of
a colonel of Colombian force. No
large landing of Colombian force
made on the coast; merely parties of
two and three in canoes. No Colom-
bian forces were seen at any time or
place in Panama territory. No Ameri-
can vessels have been able to buy
stores from Indians, even before Co-
lombian forces went to Titumati.
Everything quiet and no excitement
at Boras del Toro; Nashville will re-
main there.”
It can be stated on authority that
the administration does not contem-
plate paying one dollar out of the
United States Treasury to Colombia
on account of the seccession of Pana-
ma, nor will it go before The Hague
tribunal as a party to any proceed-
ings growing out of that seccession.
It is again* announced that the United
States stands ready to do every-
thing in its power to bring about an
amicable understanding between Co-
lombia and Panama.
EIGHT MEN KILLED.
Mad Rush of Workmen to Get Out
of Building.
Eight men were killed and two
probably fatally hurt by falling down
an elevator shaft from the sixth
floor cof the Brown Shoe Company
building in Washington avenue, St.
Louis. They were members of a
crowd of employes that massed about
the elevator gate to catch the first
car down after 6 p. m.
The dead are Joseph Provaznik,
George Rothman, Frank Weinberger,
died in hospital; Antonio Giacoma,
died in hospita'; Lorenz Giacoma, a
son; three unidentified.
The employes had assembled at
the close of work in the corridors on
the different floors, waiting for the
‘elevator to take them to the street
rotunda. The elevator was at the
seventh floor and those on the sixth
floor in their eagerness to get upon
the car, began to push forward to
the gate.
ward into the shaft.
until 10 of the employes had disap-
shaft and started on a
shaft, they found the mangled broken
other and twisted about the machin-
ery.
Korean Ports Opened.
The Emperor of Korea has order-
ed the opening of Wiju, subject to the
acquiescence of Chima by telegraph.
The American, English, Russian, Ital-
ian and Japanese legations at Seoul
are under guard. It is stated that
sweeping changes will be made soon
in the personnel of the Korean Gov-
ernment favorable to Japan interests.
WARNING WAS NEGLECTED.
Building Commissioner Reported All
Chicago Theaters Defective.
Mayor Harrison was on the stand
in the Ircquois theatre fire inquest.
Fis evidence related to a report sub-
mitted to him by Commissioner Wil-
liams, which declared that none of the
theaters in Chicago fully complied
with the building ordinance. He de-
scribed the wanderings of this report
from him to the council, from this
council to a sub-committee, from
this committee back to the council
and then to tha printer. He said no
action had been taken upon it by the
council up to the time of the Iroquois
theater fire.
Rev. Johnston Myers, pastor of
Emanuel Baptist church, has received
from a friend in Prescott, Ariz., a fund
for the aid of chorus girls stranded
by the closing of Chicago theaters
since the Ircqucis borror.
1,200 Soldiers Home Again.
The transport Sheridan, which ar-
rived at San Francisco from the Phil-
| ippines, on the 14th brought 102 cabin
| passengers, 31 in the steerage and 1,-
195 men of the Twenty-eighth regi-
@ardenas have caused excitement
memang American settlers and inves-
Bers in Cuba.
Five Burned to Death,
Wire supposed to have been of in-
pendiary origin burned the Pratt city
§8Ia3 3zil. Judge Kelly, white and |
enitified negroes :
Twenty ot
ar: Of
The
a, two Repu
01
i Clichy.
1
Just as the elevator started in its | the art world -have to bestow, eight
descent the men threw the gate up | grand medals, the Grand Cross of the
and the first man was pushed for-| Legion of Honor and a catalogue of
One by one, |decoraticns too long to be cited here.
peared, the men dropped off into the liant and more successful than that
headlong |of any but the greatest masters of
plunge to death. The horrified fellow painting,
workmen were panic stricken and the | world as a sculptor.
agonized screams of the victims as | group, “The Gladiators,” at the Ex-
they hailed downward caused a mo- | position of 1878, and within a few
mentary panic on all the floors. When | years carried off the highest honors
rescuers reached the bottom of the in that walk of art,
bodies of the victims piled upon each | Exposition comprised four
ment, which went to ths Philippines
three years ago. The Sheridan will be
sent back to Manila on the first of
next month,
Hanna Re-Elected.
Senator Hanna was re-elected by the |
st majority ever given to a can-|
e for United State Senator from
House cast 86
ANGER GURE
Physician’s Reports on Cases in
which It was Tested.
IS CALLED LIQUID SUNSHINE.
Instrument Applied to Protect Healthy
Tissue from the Rays of
“Liquid Sunshine.”
A new method of treaung deep-
seated cancer has been successfully
tried in Chicago. The process em-
braces the idea of applying radium di-
rectly to the affected tissue by using
an instrument called a :ystoscope,
by means of which the radium can be
introduced into the throat or stomach
through the mouth. The instrument
consists of a piece of tubing supplied
with an eyepiece at one end and a tiny
screen covered with sulphide of zinc
at the other, a small quantity of
radium being placed in front of the
screen.
A number of lenses inside of the
tube enable the operating physician
to look through it into the stomach,
throat or other part of the anatomy
where a cancer may be found. When
the radium is applied to the affected
tissue the light from the radium is
increased in brilliancy by the action
of sulphide of zine, and thus the phy-
sician is enabled to examine closely
the condition of the affected tissue.
At the same time the treatment is in
progress.
“Liquid sunshine” is the universal
panacea let loose at a symposium on
radium in the rooms of Dr. William J.
Morton, of New Yory City. The
Technology club of New York fath-
ered the latest contribution to electro-
therapeutics.
This liquid sunshine is thas direct
result of the influence of radium on
medicines known to the physicians of
past and present times. When
charged with radium rays and then
taken internally, it will produce cures
that are marvelous. Even the dread
cancer has been spirited away by this
new sunshine internal bath. Dr.
Morton, who is the professor of elec-
tro-therapeutics in the New York Post
Graduate Medical School and Hos-
pital told his eager brethren that he
had effected three distinct cures of
cancer by these baths of liquid sun-
shine. All present applauded.
In the first instance these advanced
scientists employed the X-ray to lo-
cate the diseased tissue. Then with
a knowledge of the locality of the
cancer such medicines as will absorb
the rays emitted from radium are ap-
plied internally. The diseased matter
is thus discovered directly, and un-
der the influence of the radio action
the cancer is eaten up.
FAMOUS ARTIST DEAD.
Received Eight Grand Medals and
Cross of Legion of Honor.
The celebrated French painter and
sculptor, Jean Leon Gerome, died in
Paris in his hotel, 65 Boulevard De
Gerome received all the honors and
recompenses that the magnates of
After completing a career more bril-
Gerome came before the
He exhibited his
His contribution to the latest Paris
life-size
in bronze, repre-
These are
the
equestrian statues
senting “The Conquerors.”
Tamarlane, Caesar, Frederick
Great and Napoleon,
His Last Look.
the muzzle, when the gun discharged,
and the shot penetrated the head be-
tween the eyes,
TWO LYNCHINGS IN ONE DAY.
Negro Hanged by Colored Men After
He Had Been Acquitted.
A negro, named Mosely, was lynch-
ed in Sussex county, Va. by a mob
of colored men. He had been tried
and acquitted for the murder of an-
other negro. Friends of the murder-
ed man went to Mosely’s home, took
him out and hanged him.
“Jumbo” Clark, a negro, was lynch-
ed at High Springs, Fla, He had as-
saulted a white girl, about 14 years
of age, while she was on her way to
school. He was captured and brought
to High Springs and confronted with
his victim, who identified him. Of-
ficers left with the prisoner to bring
him to Gainesville, the county seat,
then riddled with bullets. The mob
and the negro was taken from them
and hanged to a tree. His body was
then riddled with bullits. The mob
consisted of 50 men, who wore no
masks, although the lynching occurred
in daytime.
The special committee of the Senate
which visited Alaska last summer re-
ported on the needs of that Terri-
tory.
Received a Bequest of $380,000.
A. Carothers, of Pon-
James
D BY RADIOM.
John, the 14-year-old son of Dany
jel Shirey, of Kraussdale, Pa. was eal’s military band, of Meyersdale,
killed by the discharge of a gun |Pa, accompanied by 400 strikers,
while hunting. He was looking into | women and children, went to the
== Joseph Stitz, aged 11 years, was in-
CONSIDERED FIREPROOF.
Chicago's : Building Commissioner
Gives Evidence.
Building Commissioner George
Williams was the chief witness Tues-
day, in the inquest over the victims
of the Iroquois theater fire. He said
that he personally knew nothing of
the construction of the building, save
what knowledge he had obtained from
an inspector,
When he visited the theater to con-
sult Architect Marshall regarding
some changes he wished to make, he
considered the theater to be the most
fireproof structure of its kind that he
had ever seen. Mr. Williams declared’
that last October he reported to
Mayor Harrison that not one of the
theaters . in Chicago was complying
with the ordinances. The mayor turn-
ed over his report to the council
which turned it over to a committee
and nothing was ever done.
William Curran, an inspector of the
building department, was called to
the stand. He declared on the night
of the fire that he had inspected the
theater just prior to the fire and
had found everything in good shape.
ELIMINATION OF NEGRO VOTE.
New Governor of Maryland Indorses
the Scheme.
Edwin Warfield was inaugurated
Governor of Maryland on the 13th. In
his address he declared that he would
be true to the promises made in the
Democratic platform, which include
further disfranchisement of the mne-
groes. Concerning this he said:
“The people demand that the
State shall be governed by those citi-
zens, who, because of their intelli-
gence and their interest in the mate-
rial welfare of the Commonwealth,
are best fitted to patriotically and
wisely exercise the high duties of
citizenship. This result can only be
attained by an amendment to the
constitution fixing a higher standard
of qualification for the exercise of the
elective franchise. I believe that an
amendment to the constitution upon
the lines which I have suggested, ex-
pressed in clear, definite, simple
terms, should be submitted to the
people of Maryland.”
MINERS TO INVEST MONEY.
Considering Erection of Skyscraper
and Co-Operative Store.
The meeting of the miners of dis-
trict No. 6, comprising Ohio and part
of West Virginia, was held in Colum-
bus. The old officers were re-elected
as follows: President, W. H. Hau-
kins; vice president, John W. Sulli-
van; secretary-treasurer, G.
Savage; National committeeman,
William Morgan.
The district is considering the ad-
visability of erecting a modern sky-
scraper office building as an invest-
ment, they having over $200,000 in
the treasury. The union is also in-
vestigating the advisability of enter-
ing into the co-operative storekeeping
for benefit of miners in all the differ-
ent sections.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The strike at the Canonsburg (Pa.)
Steel & Iron works has been settled.
Frank Kiefer, 18 years old, of Loyal-
hanna, Pa. is dead of injuries receiv-
en in the Pandora mines.
The First English Lutheran church
of Butler, Pa., has elected Rev. Rob-
ert Roeder of Norristown, Pa. pas-
tor.
A number of distinguished men, at
a conference in Washington, adopted
resolutions favoring international ar-
bitration.
The introduction of the glass blow-
ing machine in Indiana resulted in the
closing down of 20 plants within the
last year.
The Chicago Health Department
has discovered that an average Chi-
cagoan of to-day lives twice as long
as his grandfather, and that the
ratio is steadily increasing.
The National Live Stock associa-
tion adopted a resolution to fight the
packers’ monopoly by establishing in-
dependent plants in the centers of
the packing industry.
Summit and Continental mines near
Meyersdale and induced the miners
to join the strike.
stantly killed at Justus, O., and two
companions had both legs broken by
their sled running into an electric
car.
The trouble at the Ohio plant, Car-
negie Steel Company, Youngstown,
has been adjusted by the management
agreeing to take back the men dis-
charged. last week.
Mrs. Ruth Brown Thompson, eldest
daughter of John Brown, of Harpers
Ferry fame, is at the point of death
at her home in Passadena, Cal. She
is suffering from an attach of la grippe
with complications. She is 75 years
of age.
At the dedicatory exercises of the
Clark University Library at Worces-
ter, Mass., Dr. G. Stanley Hall, Presi-
dent of the University, announced a
gift of $100,000 to the university from
Andrew Carnegie.
4
Japan impresses Ships.
The Japanese government had im-
CONSPIRATORS EXEGUTED
‘| eigners who took part in the conspir-
Five Men Put to Death for At-
tempting to Start Revolt.
ONE REVOLUTION IS SUBDUED.
Trocps of Dominican Government At-
tack and Capture Town of
Porto Plata.
Five persons connected with the con-
spiracy headed by General Monplaisir
to start a revolt against General Nord,
were condemned to death by a military
tribunal and were executed in the pres-
ence of a vast crowd. Several for-
acy probably will be deported.
The government troops which dis-
embarked recently at Sosua were or-
dered to march on Porto Plata. A
brisk attack, supported by the guns
of a Dominican war vessel began in
the evening.
Next morning cperations were re-
sumed and the government troops en-
tered Porto Plata, causing the flight of
General Des Champs, who took refuge
in the United States consulate. The
British cruiser Pallas landed marines
to protect the consulate. The United
States cruiser Hartford has arrived.
The revolutionary general, Navarro,
having seized cattle on an estate at
La Fe, which is an ‘American property,
the agent of the estate applied to
United States Minister Powell for pro-
tection. ‘The minister was compelled
to refuse the request as he has no
force at his command sufficient to
guard the estate.
Flywheel Bursts.
By the bursting of a large flywheel
at the Pittsburg Plate Glass company
plant at Charleroi one man was killed
and two others were injured. The
wheel burst with such force that large
pieces were thrown through the roof
and side of the building. One piece
weighing 300 pounds was hurled sev-
eral hundred feet away. The dead
man is Lorry Blackbury, an engineer,
whose home is at Millsboro, Pa. Gus
Bodson, a machinist, and Frederick
Kohl were painfully injured by flying
brick and debris. The dynamo had
been undergoing some repairs, and it
is thought was started too suddenly,
giving the large wheel great velocity.
St. Louis Gets Convention.
By a margin of six votes St. Louis
captured the next Democratic Nation-
al Convention when the National Com-
mittee met in Washington to decide
on the place of meeting. On motion
of Colonel J. M. Guffey of Pittsburg,
July 6 was decided upon as the date
for the convention,
CAPITAL CULLINGS.
The Cabinet decided that the work-
ing hours of Government employes
shall be from 9 A. M,, to 4:30 P. M,,
with a half hour for luncheon.
Gen, Adna R. Chaffee was nominat-
ed to succeed Gen. S. B. M, Young as
Lieutenant-General and Chief of the
Army Staff, who has retired.
A resolution directing the President
to negotiate a treaty with Colombia
to settle compensation for alleged in-
terference, introduced. by Mr. Bacon
(Dem., Ga.) caused a lively debate in
the Senate.
United States Senator Charles H.
Dietrich was acquitted in the United
States Circuit Court at Omaha, Neb.
of bribery, on the ground that the al-
leged offense was committed before he
was sworn in as Senator.
The State Department transmitted
to the House a supplemental estimate
for third secretaries of embassies at
Vienna, Rome and St. Petersburg at
$1,200 each. These offices are made
necessary by the increased work of
the ‘embassies,
The Senate confirmed the nomina-
tion of William H. Taft to be Secre-
tary of War; Gen, Luke E. Wright to
succeed Mr. Taft as Governor of the
Philippines, and Henry C. Ide’to be
vice Governor of the Philippines.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Yerkes has decided that it is per-
missible for State prisons to manu-
facture tobacco or cigars for its own
inmates without paying license. If
found outside the institution the to-
bacco is liable to seizure.
The House passed the bill making
available $250,000 to meet the emer-
gency growing out of the ravages of
the Mexican boll weevil.
After a lively debate lasting three
hours, the House in committee of the
whole by a vote of 78 to 65 struck out
of the legislative, executive and judic-
ial appropriation bill the paragraph
providing for the salaries and ex-
penses of the civil service commission
and clerks employed under the com-
mission.
DYNAMITED THE SAFE DOOR.
Bank Entered and $30 Taken—Door
Was Not Locked.
The foreign bank of Louis Amsell,
at George street and Munson ave-
nue, McKees Rocks, Pa. was enter-
ed by robbers and $30 in money was
taken. The men entered the build-
ing by breaking the lock from the
front door and then broke the knob
ressed into transport service three
Dp
Company. The vessels are the Nip-
pon
11., received by express a legacy
her
being
died in Paris three years
share of the | . 5 :
| donian reform scheme and of its con-
of the Mace-
amnesty
te of an uncle, H. O. Matthiesen, |
ago, |
| sent to the repatriati
donian
ex
steamships of the Oriental Steamship | mited the door, which had not been
Maru, Hongkong Maru and the
norte
porte
it of
lon the safe door. They then dyna-
{locked. In their haste the robbers
| overlooked a great number of stamps
i demands for millions from the Stand-
COLLEGE DEBATES.
WwW. & J., Wooster and Western Re
serve to Discuss Grave Questions.
Arrangements have been completed
for a triangular inter-collegiate de-
bate to be participated in by Wash-
ington & Jefferson College, Wooster
University of Wooster, O., and the
Western Reserve University of Cleve
land, O.
The first debate will be held in
March between Washington & Jef-
ferson and Wooster. The subject
chosen is “Resolved, That the Immi-
gration Laws of the United States
Government Should Be Uniform with
Respect to All Foreign Nationalities.
Washington & Jefferson will be repre-
sented by R. J. Lane, Edward Robb
and Herman Hackett.
The debate with Western Reserves
will take place \u Cleveland later, the
subject, “Resolved, That the United
States Government Should Ally Itself
With Great Britain or Some Adequate
Power for the Purpose of Preserving
the Integrity of the Chinese Empire.”
Washington & Jefferson will be rep-
resented in this debate by Ira Greaves,
W. S. Walsh and George L, Coyle.
DRIGGS GETS THE LIMIT.
Must Pay $10,000 and Spend a Day
in Jail for Postal Frauds.
Ex-Congressman Edmund H. Driggs,
of Brooklyn, was sentenced in the
United States court to one day’s im-
‘| prisonment in jail and to pay a fine
of $10,000. He was convicted last
week of having, between the time he
was elected to Congress and sworn in,
secured for the Brandt-Dent company
a contract whereby that concern sold
to the Postofiice department 250 of its
automatic cashiers. The Company re-
ceived $150 for each machine, and
Drigg’s share was $50 for each ma-
chine, or $12,500 in all. Driggs tes-
tified that this $12,500 was paid to
him by the Brandt-Dent company not
only for selling machines to the
Postoffice department, but to the trade
generally. He said that he never sold
the machines as a member of Con-
gress, but thought the company em-
ployed him because he was an ener-
getic salesman. The defense set up
that Driggs did not know he was
violating any law.
COULDN'T STAND CRITICISM.
College Professor Gives It as Reason
for Ending His Life.
Prof. Lyman E. Smith, aged 35
years, committed suicide at the Glen-
wood hotel in Kenova, W. Va. by
shooting. He left a note giving as a
reason for his act that he had been
severely criticised by certain newspa-
pers and that after spending years
fitting himself for literary work he
could not stand the comment directed
to him. From papers found on the
man’s person, it is inferred that he
had taught in various Pennsylvania
institutions. He had just returned
from-a trip through France and Ger-
many,
Chinese Tortured.
Missionaries of the American Board
of Foreign Missions complained strong-
ly recently to United States Minister
Conger that their converts in the dis-
trict of Pao Ting Fu were being
looted by bandits, who claimed to be
Catholics and that a reign of terror
prevailed in the district. The Chi-
nese officials feared to act, and several
Christians who refused to pay black-
mail were tortured: Their legs were
broken and some died from their in-
juries. Secretary Williams effected
an arrangement with the officials of
the district, who promised to protect
the people.
Henry Herbert Pigott Caught.
Henry Herbert Pigott, who achieved
notriety in 1901 by eloping from Phil-
adelphia to Denver with Mrs. Char-
lotte Garsed, his wife’s niece, and
disappearing with funds estimated at
more than $500,000, has been arrested
with the woman in British Columbia.
The capture was effected only after
a long hard chase on dogsleds,
through a wild, mountaincus country.
Maryland Treasurer Re-Elected.
State Treasurer Murray Vandiver
was re-elected by the legislature of
Maryland for the ensuing two years.
He received all the Democratic votes.
Republican members voted for Thomas
J. Shryock, who was state treasurer
in 1898-99. :
BUSINESS ERIEFS.
It is estimated that municipal bond
issues in the United States during
1903 aggregated ~~ $151,000,000, the
largest on record.
The arnual report of the Western
New York & Pacific railroad chows
gross earnings increased $352,012, and
net earnings decreased $671,642,
The Columbus Gas Light & Heat-
ing Company directors have declared
a dividend of 4 per cent on the com-
mon stock, payable February 5 to
stockholders of record January 20,
The report of the H. B. Claflin Com-
pany for the six months ended Decem-
ber’ 31 last, shows net earnings of
$315,852, an increase of $3,667. For
the year 1903 the net earnings were
$619,847, a decrease of $9,716.
The directors of the Northern Se-
curities Company have declared the
regular 14 per cent quarterly divi-
dend, payable February 2. The com-
pany paid 1 per cent per quarter dur-
ing 1902, its first year of existence.
The Electric Company of America
America Maru. They are fast boats, } - ivi
Neri ! y si i > . has declared a dividend of 3 per cent
built in 1898, and have been rader| 200 ~ About $1,500 in foreign paper (30 cents a share), payable January
Japanese subsidy. Ce ZF 30, to stock of record January 20.
Porte Promises Amesty, Rockefeller’'s Guard Retired. a )
. Chinese Treaty Ratified.
The porte has notified the Austro- George Archer, John D. Rockefel- RET 4 Y fia
: IY i To 3 Tv § C re American-
Hungarian and Russian ambassadors |ler’s giant body guard, who warded Chinese commereial treaty mn
of its full acceptance of the Mace- | off cranks with dynamite bombs and changed at the State Department on
the 13th by Secretary and Sir
hen Tung Liang-Cheng, the Chinese
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