TWENTY-TWO DROWRED English and German Barks Col- lide in Dublin Bay. NOT ONE OF CREW WAS SAVED. | English Ship Lady Cairns Sinks After Crash With German Boat Off Dublin. The German bark Mona 20lided with the English ghip Lady Cairns off Dublin bay Sunday Thorning. The Lady Cairns sank in a few minutes. Her crew of 22 were drowned. The Mona, which was much damaged, was assisted into Dublin harbor. The Lady Cairns was a three-mast- ed iron ship of 1,186 tons. She was commanded by Captain T. Evans, and was bound from Liverpool for Timaru, New Zealand. The Lady Cairns was built in Belfast in 1869 and was owned by L. Fulloch, of Swansea. The Mona was commanded by Cap- tain Schwarting and was last ed at Ardressan. AMERICAN SHIP HAS MISHAPS. report | Grounded During Fog and Later col-| lides With British Troop Ship. The American line steamship New York, Captain Young, from New York, for Plymouth, Cherbourg ard Souvth- ampton, met with two mishaps Sun- day, grounding off Cape L.a Hague, France, in the early morniag and later coming into collision in the English channel with the peninsular and Ori- ental steamship Assaye, used as a troop ship bound for Bombay with 500 soldiers on board. The Nw York grounded while approaching Cher- bourgh at 2:30 o’clock this mornin, during a fog. The sea was smooth, however, and the tide was on the flood and within an hour and a half the ves- sel was floated without assistance. During the voyage up the channel a dense fog ascended. When off Hurst Castle, Eng. the Assaye suddenly ap- peared and it was found impossible to avoid a collision. The New York's bow crashed into the Assaye’'s star- board bow, tearing a great gap in thai vessel. The New York’s bowsprit and figurehead were carried away and the latter was smashed into fragments. There were great excitement but no | The beats of | panic on either vessel. the Assaye, were lowered and the | away. | north door. { the jail near the ceiling they placed a troops were mustered but the bulk- | head of the troopship saved her, Both | vessels were able to enter Southamp- ton and the New York was docked for | temporary repairs. WORK OF INCENDIARIES. Chicago Car Barn Burned and Five Men Almost Perished. Fire to-night destroyed the Union | Traction Company’s car barns, at Division street and Western avenue, | causing a loss of $150,000. Five of the company’s employes who were fight-| ing the flames before the firemen ar- rived were imprisoned in tlre burning structure by a falling roof and all were | painfully burned before they could be rescued. More than 50 street cars were burn- | ed. The building was 250 feet long and 200 feet wide. of the Unicon Traction Company’s barns to burn within a week, and both fires are believed to have been of | incendiary origin. AN OFFICIAL SECRET. No News of the Location of Vladivo- : stok Squadron. The whereabouts of the Vladivostok { This is the second | COURT HOUSE DYNAMITED. Attempt to Demolish Bui Iding to Have Much Effect. An attempt was made to wreck the Court House at St. Marys, W. Va, by dynamite. The last prisoner had been released and Jailer D. L. Stine moved into a dwelling several squares The dynamiters forced open the In the southeast corner of stick of dynamite and attached a fuse which led to the corridor. The ex- plosion occurred about 11 o’clock at night, and although Policeman Riggs was on the spot within five minutes he found no trace of the perpetrators. Windows were shattered, the ceiling torn loose and the floor of the court room raised in that corner a foot. Some think it was done by someone who had once been confined in the! jail. Others suggest that the deed | was committed by parties who are in favor of a new Court House. Two years ago the County Commissioners caused to be recorded in their minute book the fact tnat the building was un- safe, and also passed an order pro- viding for the erection of a new build- ing, going so far as to pay about $2,- 000 for an architect’s plans, but have since done nothing. WHOLE CREW DROWNED. Lieutenant and Ten Men Lose Lives in Collision, The British submarine boat No. Al was run down and sunk off The Nab lightship by a Donal Currie liner and | 11 persons were drowned, including | Lieut. Mansergh, the genior officer en-| gaged in submarine work. The liner | passed on and reported that she had | struck a torpedo. At the time she was struck the ves- sel was off the lightship engaged in maneuvers and was lying Jin seven fathoms of water waiting the approach of a battleship. The boat was one of the newest of the fleet of submarine vessels and was built from the latest models, but she had always been a bad diver. She was inspected recently by both King Edward and the prince of Wales. ROBBED BY MASKED MEN. Money Belt With $200 Taken and Tor- ture Is Threatened. Three masked men broke into the | farmhouse of James Pickenpaugh | near Morgantown, W, Va., cut a money | belt containing over $200 from the body and threatened to set him on fire over $1,000,000. if he did not hand over $500 which he | had received the day before in pay- | ment for a piece of property. By showing his assailants a deposit | slip Pickenpaugh convinced them that | he did not have the money. The $200 | which he had in his money belt the farmer had dug up only the day before | from a hiding place in the cellar, pre- paratory to placing it in a bank. SAW JAP SHIPS FIRST. Russian Fleet Put Back to Port Arthur for Safety. The report that the Port Arthur fleet had attempted a dash for Vladivostok after the engagement of March 11 is confirmed, but, after sighting the Jap- anese fleet reconnoitering, on tae 13th, it returned to port. Capt. Treoubridge, British naval at- | tache at Tokyo, witnessed the bom- bardment of Port Arthur of March 10 and praises Japanese marksmanship. Nearly every shell hit the forts or damaged houses in the town. The fire of the Russians shells was short. | Viceroy Alexieff reports the capture of squadron is a profound official secret, | but there are those who believe that! the Japanese may wake up some morning to find that the two .ivisions of Russia's Pacific squadron have ef- fected a juncture. Realizing that of- fensive naval operations are impossi- ble under present conditions, it is be- lieved that no opportunity would be neglected to repair this initial misfor- tune, even should it involve consider- able risk. Consequently that seven Russian warships were sighted the other day off Gensan cre- ates much speculation here as to whether they could be the vessels of the cruiser division under Capt. Reitzenstein. Vice Admiral Makaroff has reported the miraculous escape of four sailors from the torpedo boat destroying Stereguschtchi, which foundered dur- ing the naval battle off Port Arthur March 9. The men escaped by swim- ming when the boat sank and succeed- ed in keeping afloat until they were picked up. 6,908 MILES OF RAILROAD. But Outlook for Railway Building ls Not Promising, The Railway Age says: “The out- look for railway building in the Unit- ed States is not as promising as it was a year ago. There has not been com- plete recovery from the check in new work which followed the disturbance in the financial world last and while a large amount of building has been planned much of it is being held up until financial conditions are more favorable. There are 6,908 miles of new line under contract or under construction, and 1, 790 more on which it is expected to begin work during the year. “A year ago there were 8.500 miles reported under contract, a little over 68 per cent, of which, or 5,786 miles, were completed during the year.” Fires Swesp Grazing Lands. Destructive prairie fires have swept the range country in Nebraska. The ground being dry the fire burned the roots of the grass in the ground, de- stroying it for grazing. Ore strip burn- ed is six by 12 mile another is more than 20 miles long aad very wide, while another strip, still burning, north of the Niobrara ri , seems to have been more > Ranch sheds, barns, gro ; on and property al ong the ra been destroyed. the reporty { 500 summer,™ a Japanese detachment, Chapel Wrecked by Bomb. A loud explosion that startled the city of Vilna, Russia, was caused by the explosion of a bomb thrown into the Alexander Chapel. The interior was wrecked, but no one was killed. The authors of the act are unknown. Attacked By a Mob. The palaces of Emperor Francis Joserh and the archduchess Clothilde, at Budapest, were stoned by a mob, resulting in the windows being brok- en, because the buildings were not decorated in honor of the anniversary cf the revolution of 1848. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The famous pianist Paderewiski was expelled from Russia by the Czar. Information from Port Arthur by letter puts the number of Russian soldiers in the garrison there at 2,- men. Captain Ivkov, of the Manchurian Commissariat Service, has been sum- marily court-martialed and shot for acting as a spy ih the pay of the Japanese, The Russian torpedo boat destroyer Kori has been destroyed off Port Arthur by the explosion of a sub- marine mine, supposed to have been laid by the Japanese March 9. An effort will be made to secure an appropriation from Congress for the improvement of the Kansas river, so ag to guard against a recurrence of the floods that have caused such great damage at Kansas City. Assurances that Americans residing in Sczoul are in no danger is contained in a letter just received by the Chicago Woman’s Presbyterian Board of Missions, from Miss Eva H. Field a missionary, stationed in the Korean capital. Spring Elections Abolished in Ohio. Herrick signed the Chap- spring elections. mun Governor man bill abolishing The terms of ail elective i ers, April, have been eter aon the [ elections next Novemb stitutional amendment pr all State and county offi elected in the even ye . icipal elections.in the odd years, bmitted to the vote of the 1905. | loss falling upon this element in the | Penrose | sion fund. | United States | gold bullion from Japan. | baron. | park Announcement of Failure Brings Rush of Selling Orders. EXTENT OF LOSSES NOT KNOWN. Cotton Declined $13 a Bale and Prices of All Securities Fell in Sympathy. Daniel J. Sully, the cotton operator, who has for 15 months been the big- gest figure in the cotton markets of the world and who has “bulled” cotton irom seven cents a pound to over 17, announced his inability to make good his engagements on the New York Cotton exchange Friday. Within a few months cotton fell nearly $13 a bale from the highest figures of the day. All previous records of stock panics are eclipsed by the mad frenzy follow- ing the tidings of the failure. In the memory of many brokers corners in | spot and futures have been smashed, | but no scene has ever been witnessed in the history of the ‘change like the mad turmoil] accompanying the col- lapse of Daniel J. Sully & Co. For a few geconds after Superintend- ent King read the anncuncement, which was at 2:05 o'clock, there was an ominous quiet. Brokers stood as if stunned by the news that the king had fallen. Then as if by a single im- rulse, a mighty shout went up from the bears. They had fought Sully and his bull clique for months, and the tidings of surrender after he had shov- ed cotton from seven cents a pound to over 17 cents frenzied every man of | them, each of whom at cne time or another had béen under the mighty | lever. | Hatg filled the air, to fall where they would and be trampled to a shapeless pulp, in the mad stampede | from the pit. Coats were torn from brokers in their mad effort to unload their holdings and chairs were dashed | into the circle, to emphasize some wild broker's offer to sell. Soon the news reached the stock, produce and | coffee exchange, and declines followed in nearly all securities. In the 80 minutes of panic follow- | ing the announcement of the failure it is estimated that 750,000 bales of cot-| to were traded in. Of this, upward of | 500,000 bales represented forced liqui- | dation, or the selling out of a man | whose margins were wiped out. The | slump of 250 points alone amounts to PENSIONS FOR MAIL CLERKS. | Penrose’s Bill Aims to Protect Those Employed on Railroads. A plan for pensioning railway mail clerks has been advised by Senator and is embodied in a bill presented in the Senate. A fund will be accumulated by deducting 1 per cent a month from the salary of the clerks and from fines imposed on them | by the department for neglect of their | duties, infractions of discipline or for other reasons. This fund will be con- trolled by the postmaster general and will be disbursed under his direction. The bill provides that clerks who have served 20 years in the railway mail service and have been incapaci- tated by reason of such service, be- cause of ill-health or by accident, or who have attained the age of 65 years, shall be eligible to retirement at full pay. No clerk so retired shall re- ceive more than $1,000 a year, all salary payable to him ‘in excess of that amount being turned into the pen- One per cent of all pen- sions shall also be deducted for the benefit of the general fund. It is understood this bill has the approval of the postoffice department and was in part prepared by the de- partment. Coining Gold For Japan, The San Fremcisco mint is making coin for the Japanese | government, gold being sent here for ccinage into money which will be | used in the purchase of food and other supplies for the army and navy. The last two steamers from the Orient have each hrought $2,000,000 worth of C. & P. Stock Doubled. At a grecial meeting of the directors | of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad | | Company, in New York, it was voted | to increase the stock of the company | from $11,000,000 to $22,002,000 to pay | for the large improvements under way between Rochester, Pa.,, and Cleveland, and between Bellaire and Yellow Creek, O. The stock is to be taken by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which has had the Cleve- land & Pittsburg road in lease and an interest in the:stock for some years. The action taken by the directors of the company, if approved by the stock- holders, places the control of the C. & P. with the Pennsylvania. | | Prince agd Barom Arrive. The Kronprinz Wilhelm brought in- to port at New York, a prince and a The prince, Gelasio Gaetani | THANG I COTTON MARKET of Rome, comes to this country to look | into some mining properties. Xe is a graduate of Columbia mining school. Baron Wulff von Plessen also comes from Rome and is here in search of | big game, being a Nimred of European reputation. He goes to Manitoba. Pennsylvania Monument, The Vicksburg military park com- missioners from A Pennsylvania have finished labors and decided to 1 monument at a of the Tork their point w The posi vania troops ern line of Gen. Gran the big Black er rival of Jourston, ails | voted, and of these | the scale and 46,500 votsd against it {and in favor of a strike. AGAINST THE STRIKE. Returns Show Coal Diggers Are Fa- vorable to Reduction. At the national headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America they are positive the scale has been accept- ed and there will be no strike. Of the 190,000 miners in the states voting it is estimated that 135,000 88,500 voted for Maryland did not vote, not being sure it was en- titled to vote. West Virginia reports are meager, and no estimate is made. Indiana cast 10,000 votes, a majority of 2 to 1 for the scale; Illinois cast 30,000 votes with a majority of 2 to 1 against the scale and in favor of a strike. Pennsylvania cast 50,000 votes with a majority of 2 to 1 for the scale. { Kentucky had a small vote, with 3 to 1 for the scale. Iowa cast 10,000 votes, with a majority for a strike. Michigan cast a small vote for the scale. Ohio cast 35,000 votes, with four to one for the scale. INDIANS SICK AND DYING. War Department Takes Measures To Relieve Native Alaskans. Representations have been made | to the Wash.ngton authorities that the Copper River Indians in Alaska are sick and dying from lack of nourish- ment. Assistant Secretary Oliver, of the War Department telegraphed to Gen- era] Funston, commanding the Depart- ment of the Colombia, tc do anything he can for the Indians in the interests of humanity. The only military post in the Copper River region is a small post at Copper Center used by men of the Signal Corps, who have supplies sufficient only for their own subsist- ence, REFUSED SAFETY. Government's Offer to Remcve Miss- ionarie’s Families Rejected. The state department was informed by Minister Allen at Seoul that the missionaries in the neighborhood of Pingyang have refused to send their women and children aboard the Cincin- nati, where they could be taken to places of safety. The state department has felt there- fore obliged to impress upon the mis- sionary representatives in this coun- try that in case cof actual hosilities it cannot undertake to employ the United States army and navy in ex- peditiong into the interior of the coun- try which is the scene of war, Although missionaries continue to pay no attention to the warning given by the United States government they will have to take their chances with other civilians. Japanese Story Contradicted. From the highest official quarter the Associated Press has received infor- mation that there is absolutely no foundation for the rumors persistent- ly sent out from Tokyo that the Rus- sians are abandoning Port Arthur. “It is the veriest nonsense,” said the official. “Nothing has occurred there to warrant such reports. ese fleet has not been seen for 48 hours. The motive of the government at Tokyo in spreading this story is probably to influence public feeling in Japan for the purpose of creating enthusiasm while a war loan is being floated.” Fatal Canadian Wreck. A collision between Canadian Paci- fic and Boston & Maine freight trains occurred near Lenoxville. The dead are Engineer Folsom, Fireman Berard and Brakeman Cousins. NEWS NOTES. Japanese officers in Korea say they expect the great land battles to cccur in Manchuria and not in Korea. The Japan-| Minister Powell cables the State de-| partment from San Domingo Samara has again fallen into hands of the insurgents. The Westinghouse interests have se- cured the most ever let for the “electrication” of British docks. The work will involve an expenditure of $350,000, that | the | important contract! | would be the giving Judge Littlejohn, at Americus, Ga. | ordered soldiers to Preston, Ga., to protect Henry Morgan and Sidney Har- rell, both whites, from lynching, They island. A NEW PENSION RULING Bureau Fixes the Age Limit ol Civil War Veterans. { A NEW SCHEDULE IS ORDERED. | er of shells Men of Service Who Are 62 Years Old Are Considered One-Half | Disabled. PRCGRESS OF THE WAR. Repeated Attacks on Port Arthur. Skirmish in Korea. More attacks on Port Arthur are reported from Yingkow. In telling of | one he says occurred on Saturday the correspondent declares the Japanese ships got the exact range of the for- tifications and poured in such a show- that 300 Russians were killed or wounded. He says the forts | made a feeble response, Another report of an engagement on Sunday says a Russian cruiser was | nit. Commissioner of Pensions Ware, with the approval of Secretary Hiteh- cock has promulgated the most import- ant pension ruling that has been is- sued in a long time. Tne order fol- lows: Ordered, in the adjudication of pen- sion claims under said act of June 27, 1890, as arnended, it shall be taken and considered as an ‘evidential fact if the contrary loes not appear, and if all other legal regnirements are prop- erly met, that when a claimant has racsed the age of 62 years he is dis- abied one-half in ability to perform manual labor and is entitled to be rated at $6 per month; after 65 years, at $8 per month; after 6S years, at $10 per month; and after 70 years, $12 per month. | Allowance at higher rates, not .ex-| ceeding $1 per month, will continue to be made as heretofore, where disa- bilities other than age show a condi-| tion of inability to perform manual labor. This order shall take effect April 13, 1964, and shall not be deemed retro-! active. The former rules of the of- fice fixing the minimum and maximum at €5 years and 75 years respectively are hereby modified ag above. The order itself is prefaced by a preamble which, after citing the laws, says the pension bureau has establish- ed with reasonable certainty the aver- age nature and extent of the infirmity of old age; that 39 years after the Mexican war, congress, in 1887, placed | on the pension roll all Mexican war soldiers who were over 62 years old. Commissioner Ware, just before leaving for a trip south for his health, £poke as fcllows regarding the order, which he said, would save both the old soldiers and the government a great deal of money and time. | There has long been in the bureau a rule fixing a maximum age limit at $12 for 75 years. This was made dur- ing Mr. Cleveland’s administration by Commissioner Lochren. | GERMANS WANT SANTO DOMINGO | Efforts to Secure Control of That Revolutionary Island. Advices from Santo Domingo indi- | cate Germany jis at work to gain a preponderant influence in that repub-! lic as will give her a reasonable excuse to exercise a protectorate over the country if not to make it a German | colony. The recent arrival there of the nephew of the late President Heureaux | whose assassination preceded the rev- | olutions, is connected with Germany's cause of his exile is the suspicion that he is really acting in the interest of | Germany. a report that ine Russian Meanwhile Tokyo is disturbed over ships have got away from Port Arthur and have started to join the Vladivpstok squad- ron. The Japanese believe that if the Russian admiral had made such a move Admiral Togo will cach him and force a decisive action at se There has been some ES mishing in Northern Korea. Chinese revive the report that a Japanese force is at Fengwangcheng in Manchuria, 50 miles north of the Yalu, and that an engagement has occurred there. Japan has recalled the newspaper cerrespondent from Northern Korea, indicating that some secret move is to be undertaken. The Chinese Board of Foreign Af- fairs has received a Chinese official telegram, reporting an encounter be- tween the Russians and Japanese at Fenghuang-Cheng, Manchuria, last Thursday, resulting in favor of the Japanese. The story is discredited by military experts. RUSSIANS NEED BIG ARMY. Reports That They Will Fall Until Well Reinforced. The best Russian information ob- tainable admits the government’s in- tention to fall back indefinitely until it can complete the mobilization of 300,000 troops for the purpose of as- saulting and opposing the Japanese and probably 200,000 to oppose the Chinese. The same opinion asserts that Vice Admiral Makaroff will fight hard. He is determined to weaken the enemy at any cost and make the oper- ation of the Baltic sea fleet in the Far East feasible, though it may be neces- sary to fight without the Pallada, Czarevitch and Retvizan, which, it is admitted, cannot be fully repaired within six months, Back KUBELIK MOBBED. Cnocert Broken Up By a Race Riot in Austria. The ferocity of the race hatred be- | tween Germany and the Czechs was | manifested at Linz, when an infuriat- ed mob of Germans in revenge for the ill-treatment of Teutons in Prague stormed the hall where Kubelik was | playing and compelled the violinist to seek safety in flight. His manager was warned to cancel the concert, but refused. A mob of thousands gathered outside the hall | and jeered the auditors entering. Fin- | ally the mob broke the police cordon, stormed the hall, smashed the decora- tions and threw missiles at Kubelik, { who pluckily continued playing until his manager called for him to stop. The mayor's efforts to restore order failed and Kubelik escaped to his ho- | tel, designs. M. Heureaux, it is stated has | been exiled and the hint comes the One of the plans attributed to Ger- | many is the purchase from Spain, of | a debt of over $21,000,000. This debt was contracted after the war of in- dependence in 1863 when a treaty was | signed in which Spain recognized the independence of Santo Domingo and | | { | the latter recognized the above in- | debtedness which hag never been paid. | It is asserted at a much later date Spain freed the island from this lia-| | bility with the condition that the debt | should be paid in the event of its an-| nexation to some foreign power. If Spain should transfer this debt to Germany and the latter power should insist on its validity, it would make Germany the heaviest creditor of the Should she try to collect the debt the only settlement possible to Germany of Santo Domingo territory. It is believed in Santo Domingo, cording to the advices received here, | that unless the United States soon are under arrest on a charge of at- tempting ‘to burn the town. Archie Waterfall, who broke jail at Toledo, O., was captured in Detroit. Pittsburg and the surrounding towns | are undergcing an epidemic of pink eye. It is said that there are fully 1,000 caseg in the city, and more are showing up at the physicians’ offices each day. undertakes the pacification of the re- public, Germany will step in and un- | dertake the task. The trouble is well known. | The eyes become inflamed and burn | painfully, and may even swell shut. Miss Bessie David, aged 18 years, | saw | ing died at Walker, Ohio, of injuries re-| ceived Sunday evening while walking | on the railroad track on the way to church. She was struck by a train and had both legs broken. er, aged 16 years, who was injured at the same time, may not recover. The car barn of the Chicago Union Traction Co. at Blue Island avenue and Leavitt street was destroyed by fire. About 600 summer cars stored in the Her broth- | Japanese Cruiser Damaged. Two Russian passengers of the steamer Argun, captured by the Jap- anese off the ccast of Korea, Feb- ruary 7 and taken to Sasebo, have re- turned to Port Arthur. They say that while at Sasebo, February 17, they the Japanese cruiser Asuma be- towed into that port without smokestacks, masts or bridge and her decks had been ploughed up by pro- jectiles. The German steamer Stol- berg, which brought from Vladivostok the survivers of the Japanese steamer Nakonoura, sunk by the Russians, was | still at Nagasaki. building were burned. The loss is es-| timated at $150,000. At a meeting of the congregation and rian was new $20,000. They also ary of their pastor, Church, of Washington, Pa. unanimously decided to build a increased the sal- the Rev. BH. OC. | Little, $200. Although discharged only four | months from the Western penitentiary after Valley Camp, William Forsythe of Ar- noid, Pa., was put in jail, charged by William Gilby with having stolen e Lithographer’s Strike. Ten thousand lithographers through- out the country will be out of work to-morrow as a result of the failure to agree on the acceptance of a plan of arbitration to be operative for one year. Crossed electric | | wires caused the blaze. | 000,000. it | s | soli £ k. church edifice at a cost of about! Solifatod stoen | hausted. serving a sentence for arson at | ing receive | whole of | utter confu Russia Floats Big Loan. The Cologne “Gazette” dispaich from St. Petersburg stating | immense hole in her | water ae- | publishes a | that the Russian government had suc-! ceeded in floating a war lcan of $200,- | International financiers, the | | names of whom are kept a secret, have | trustees of the Third Presbyte- | agreed to advance the money to Rus- sia, to be repaid when the war ends. | The loan will take the form of con- The money will be given to the Russian government when the present resources become ex- The funds Russia has at hand will last a considerable time. Russian Outrages in Korea. WARSHIP BADLY DAMAGED. | Serious Nature of Accident to Illinois Not Divulged at First. But for the watertight compart- { ment of the battleship Illinois it would be resting at the bottom of the sea off Culebra. The Illionois, which is now ready to go into dry dock in the brooklyn navy yard, was run into by the United States steamship Missouri two weeks ago, but her serious condi- tion was kept secret. Capt. Bradford, the commander of he Illinois, says that one of her pro- peliers was disabled and there is an cide below the line. The collision occurred while the vessels were maneuvering off Culebra and the blame is said to rest on the Missouri. Balfour Defeated. Premier Balfour's Government was defeated in the House of Commons by the combined Liberal and National vote. This reverse was due to the prohibition by Mr. Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, cn the teaching of Gaelic in the junior grades of the Irish National schools. Boston Wool Market, The feature of tHe wool market the past week has been the strong demand for medium and low wools. Prices on all grades, with the exception of me- dium, are noticeably firm. Current quotations are as follows: Qhio and Pennsylvania XX and above, 34¢ and Slc: No. 1; 33¢;: No. 2, 32@33c; fine unwashed, 23@24c; one-half blood, un- washed, 25% @26¢; three-eighths blood, unwashed, 251%, @26c; one- fourth blood, unwashed, 25 3, @26¢; fine washed delaine, 35@36ec. Michi- gan X and above nominal; No. 1, 28 @30c; No. 2, 28@29¢; fine unwashed, 21@22c; one-fourth blood, unwashed, 25@25%ec. Statehood Bill Completed. The statehood problem was taken up by the sub-committee of the house committee on territories, recently ap- pointed to draft statehood bills for Arizona and New Mexico, and OXkla- homa and the Indian territory. The bill making a state of the first two named was practically completed. The di monity of adjusting the taxation and other questions with regard to the ad- mission of Oklahoma and the Indian territory as a state are next to be | taken up. Private Chinese reports that are be- at Pekin state that the nchuria is in a state of owing to the Bas a Me | having sel all food sug other necessities are streamin and are suffer late i com! mitted Y to.TElieT ye stop the R ships. The Kirin ha his inab tress Or tions. Reward for Indians. A A deed of heroic proportions will receive Government recognition if Senator Quay can induce the Senate to ‘insert an i of $3,400 in the In- bill. This sum he , 11 equal shares, to 17 Sioux who, 2, rescued Mrs. Jia Wri Emma Deely : r children from a band of e Lodge Sioux hich had made of them during the Indian i AEM ION AAO000YAAH DAO WM ud ln ~~ -, wh A au MN i a ll a ~~ PN PR ed ped ped PR Rh Dn dn hl a ea aie
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