ss BS a RS i a THE DUTCH CAPTURE VENEZUELAN VESSEL Cruiser Gelderland Seizes Coast Guard Ship Alix Off Puerto _ Cabello. 2 OTHER SEIZURES TO FOLLOW Not an Act of War, Says One Dutch Official, but Merely a Reprisal. Th i aes Willemstad, Island of “Curacao.— The ' Dutch cruiser Gelderland came into this port Sunday ‘morning, (owing the ‘Venezuelan coast: gudrd ship Alix, with the: Dutch crew. on board. The Gelderland eaptured the Alix off Puerto Cabello on Saturday. At that time the Alix was Jying close in shore and notwithstanding thé” * threat which thé Venezuelan governmen: had made to fire upon any of the Dutch warshipg committing -a hostile act, the Gelderland steamed at speed towards the guardship and sent an of- ficer and guard in a launch to S€ize her. This they did without resis- tance, and no shots care from the forts on land. The crew of ‘the Alix was put ashore and the Dutch officer and ma- rines remained on board, the Gelder- land finally taking the Alix in tow and steaming away with her prize. The seizure of the. Alixwas in ac- cordance with the plans of the Hol- land government, when were issued to the three Putch war- ships now in these waters to make a demonstration off the Venezuelan and | to capture any Venezuelan ships of war or guard vessels that they might | find. The arrival of the Gelderland was greeted with uzsbounded ‘enthusi- | asm. . 2 Governor Explains Act. The Governor of Curacao, plaining the incident, had to say: “The capture by our warships of | coastguards and war vessels is not td be considered an unfriendly act against the Venezuelans. It Is merely a reprisal against Castro’s gov- ernment, which refuses to give satis- faction for his unfriendly acts to- ward Holland. vessels will make it impossible for the Venezuelan government to carry troops or ammunition to and from the various ports. “A communication to this effect has been forwarded by the Dutch govern- ment to the German minister ‘at Cura- cao.” It is learned from the officers ot the. Gelderland that the battleship Jacob Van Heemskerk and the criuser Friesland are now off La Guaira and that further captures may be expect- ed at any time. PAT CROWE, EVANGELIST Kidnaper and Outlaw Goe$ in for Prison Reform. Former Chicago.—Pdat Crowe, whose former lawless career came to a climax .in the kidnapping of Eddie Cudahy, made his debut as an evangelist in Evanston, under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. Prison Reform League. Crowe grew eloquent in a plea to citizens to aid in prison. reform and stop the manufacture of criminals in reform schodls and penitentiaries. As he spoke a baby’s voice in the rear frequently interrupted him. “That's my baby making that noise,” Crowe exclaimed. “I hope I can live to give it a good education and make it a good citizen.” Secretary Metcalf's Report. Secretary Metcalf of the Navy De- partment in his annual report dis- cusses, as the most notable naval event of the past year, the voyage of the battleship fleet, which “has prov- | The | en an epoch-making cruise.” secretary recommends that congress authorize at its approaching session the ‘construction of four battleships, | four scout. cruisers, 10 destroyers, four submarines, three colliers, repair ship, one ammunition ship, two mine-laying ships—these two ships | to be converted from cruisers now in | ‘the navy list. Japan as a. War Teacher. Paris.. — . General Pisquart, the French minister of war, has announc- ed his intention to send several of- ficers of the French army to Japan every year to study the organization of the Javanese army on ground. a+« Much of the progress of the Island Empire, the Minister as- serts, is due to the Japanese ‘assimila- tion of Western methods. He be- lieves, therefore, that French soldiers may in turn learn from the East. So he will assist each year a few French officers who know English well send them to Japan for two years: Railroad Orders. Orders for 1,500 steel freight cars | have been placed with the Pittsburg’ car-building companies by the Vir- ginia Railway, the Harriman lines have contracted” with the American Car and Foundry Company for 1,800 box cars with steel underframes and | the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad contracted with the American Loco- motive Works for five passenger €n- gines. The total cost of the new | equipment will be about $2,500,000. Contracts for Submaries. racts for Subma Washington.—The contracts for the | submarine boats authorized at the last session of Congress were awarded by Secretary Newberry. go to the Electric Boat Company, to be delivered at the Mare Island navy yard; one to the American Laurenti Company, which will be built at the William Cramp & Sons establishment, and one to the Lake Torpe Boat Company, to be bull by the New instructions | in -ex- one | native | and | | crops puts the condition of Four of these | wheat at $5.3 or about 7 per cent less VAST TOBACCO POOL FORMED Assets of $3C,000,000 Represented New Society. Louisville, Ky.—The Union Tobacco society, interests in Kentucky, Tennessee and Wisconsin, with esti-| ganized “here. ’ organization The purpose ‘of-the was said to be to -pro- tect the tobacco. growers. from .a minimum price and the , consumer from -a ‘maximum ‘scald.: eA The interests of. the growers in the ‘States named will be ‘pooled and the tobadeo sold “through” ‘a “Bbard of di- ‘rectors. “joined ‘the new .society: The Burley Tobacco, society, - Hendeyson,” Ky.; Stemming District association, Bowl- ing Green, Ky. : District association, Green ‘Rivet "Pobacco association’ These: officers were elected: Presi- dent; -M. O. Hughes,. Bowling Green, ‘Ky.; secretary, J. F. Doss, Greenville, Ky. WORLD POWDER TRUST Every Company in America and Eu- rope Alleged to Be 'in It Cleveland.—Evidence of a world- wide agreement of all the powder companies in this country and Europe was presented at the Federal hearing. document was identified by ‘President Almon Lent of .the Austin © Powder Company. The agreement ‘was signed in 1897 | for ten years or until revived. ‘The | THE PRESIDENT DOES | NT FEAR BEBIAE The following dssociationse The agreement provided for a $60,000 | fine for any breach of the terms. This | ©0t to restrict his official utterances representing tobacco-growing | Indiana, Ohio, | | Intimates He Can Say Why Secret Service Walched mated assets of $30,000,000, was ‘or- | Sh 2 x . HE WiLL Not RETRACT Senate Meaiwhile Plans: 5 House Lead and’ "Aact on Rffend- “=% ding Remarks. . Washifigton. —Congress, Féontem. J i plating &@ rebuke to President Roose- velt for the language used: in his an- nual message concerning the opera- tion of the secret ‘service, is holding If congress’ carries into’ “execution its plosion that may blow into smither- eens the official existence of many members of both rouse and senate. President Roosevelt declared with | characteristic emphasis that if an at- | tempt is made to put him. in a false a special message to congress detail ing specific instances connection of certain members with “venal influences.” The President is content at pres relative to bad judgment of congress in cutting down. the appropriation for the secret service and legislating to | limit its operations, but if his attitude is brought into uestion he proposes | document sets forth that the Du Pont | tO show the country that what he said | | and nearly 100 other concerns in this country had signed it, and also all | the powder concerns in Europe. The | 100 in this country include every pow- der company in the United States, | the attorneys state. The ‘world “was | parcelled out into districts. kot NEW YORK OWES $672, i Its Taxable Real Estate. | limit at $672 | clared that the margin rcoisining for Edgar J. Levey, ‘a former deputy | comptroller, who was called as.an ex- pert, gross indebtedness was $800, 000, 000. He added that contract liabilities | | would bring it up to a billion ‘dollars. : FOR, LOCKS AND DAMS Representative Acheson Introduces Su Yor Ohio River Improvement. LRAT Washington.—The first formal pro- | great waterway improvements Pennsylvania, in for the construction'‘of 54 locks and | dams in the Ohio river so as to estab- lish 9-foof navigation from Pittsburg to Cairo. He proposed that $63,000,000 worth of bonds be issued for the purpose.” Offer Reward for Bandits. Spokane, Wash.—A reward of $6, 000 in which the Great Northern com- pany and the United States Govern- ment share equal responsibility is of- | fered for the arrest and conviction of | the three bandits who held up Great Northern passenger train No. 4 near Hillyard. The men have been traced | back to Spokane by the sheriff's of- ficers and a dragnet has been laid all try. The ‘bandits robbed only the lis said that $16,600 was secured, but | the postoffice authorities will not ver- ify the report. | ee ce eee. ete Placed on "Retired List. Washington. _— ‘Announcement was made of thé retirément of Read Ad- | {miral J. ‘El "Pillsbury,#chief of the | bureau of navigation, and. of Rear Ad- | miral W. H. Emory, who recently re- | linquished command of the second di- | | vision of the Atlantic fleet. "Admiral | Pillsbury, at the President's request, | [ will continue in charge of thé: bureau | {of navigation until the end of the ad- | ministration. ay hn | | | | Two Arrested on Charge of Gambling. New Castle—Timothy Mitchell and | Fred Clarke were arrSeted here on | court processes, both: men having been | indicted.by. the grand jury on charges fe of keeping gambling houses. Mitchell | was committed to pail and Clarke | gave bail This will make four men | to be tried next week on charges o | keeping. gambling houses. The au- | thorities here are. . determiraed to | break up the gambling houses which have been established here for yedrs. To Welcome Fleet February 22. President Roosevelt will welcome the return of the battleship fleet at | the world about noon on February 22, | details for which ‘occasion are now being worked out at the Navy Depart- | ment. Winter ter Whoat Shortage. The Agricultural Department's re- fall-sown winter | port on the condition of | than the average for ten years past; | while the area sown is’ 5.6 per cent less. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations acted favorably on arbitra- saties with China and Peru and ralization treaties with B i and Hondura tion tre Company, the Austin Powder Conipany | City’s Débt Said to Be 10 Per Cent of | New York.—Placing the city’ Ss debt | | ,000,000, which is 10 per | The seizure of these | cent of the taxable real estate, Comp- | House troller Herman .-W. Metz i» a state- | ment to the legislative cou. iltee now | investigating this city’s ‘neces, de- | further borrowing is oly “538. 000,000. | said he believed New. York's |gent’s messa posal at this session. of Congress to | issue bonds for the construction of | Michigan; was | Williams, Mississippi and Libyd, Mis: made by Representative Acheson of | introducing a bill! mittee. wr | | ‘over this city and surrounding coun- | registered mail sacks from Seattle. It | |at 154 Franklin street, was fully justified. The action to be taken by the sen ate in asserting its displeasure be- | cause of Mr. Rosevelt’s message in re ! gard to the secret service has not been outlined with any definiteness. | It has been understood that a resolu | tion would be offered by some Demo: | cratic senator providing for an inves- | tigation by the committee on appro: | priations of the President’s language. It .is evident that the house does { not intend to.take any hasty action | in rebuking the President. | » DIGNITY OF CONGRESS. Resents Charges Made in President's Message. | | The House unanimously and with | out debate, adopted a resolution pro viding’ for the appointment of a com- mittee of five to consider the refer | ence to the Secret Service in the Pres: | ge and to suggest. what | action, if any, should be taken in the matter.” The resolution was intro | duced by Representative Perkins of | New York. | Mr. Perkins said that the state- | ments by the President could not be | lightly disregarded, as they might im- i pair the usefulness of the Congress; | that undue obtuseness. might argue a | lack of proper self- -respect, i Messrs. Perkins, New York; Denby, Weeks, - Massaehusetts; souri, were appointed the special com- | NEW COUNTERFEIT $5 BILL. | Printed on Genuine Paper, Obtained By Bleaching a Note of Smaller Denomination. Washington, D. C.—A new counter: | feit $5 silver certificate, Indian head, has been discovered by the secret service officials, who declare that it is a dangerous and deceptive counter- feit. It is said to be particularly de: | ceptive by reason of the fact that it | is printed on genuine paper, which has been obtained by bleaching a | note of smaller denomination, proba- | bly a $1 biH. In bleaching the note the color | has been taken out of some of the dis | tributed silk fiber laying close to the | surface, but the deeply embedded fiber is visible in the paper, though | the blue has been changed to a pur | ple and the red has been lightened. | The back of the note | the genuine. License in Enaland and Wales. Charles Roberts, M. P., in his. book on “The Time Limit and Local Op- | tion” brings out the fact, revealed by { the Home Office returns, that of the [12,995 civil parishes in rural districts in ngland and Wales there are 3,909 (more than 30 per cent) in which there is no license. In the-county of Lincolnshire 45 per cent are no li- cense parishes. Ruef Found Guilty. San Francisco.—Abraham Ruef, for- mer, political boss of San Francisco, | was convicted of bribery, having deliberated for 24 hours. The # trial’ “which has been in progress for 106 days, ented abruptly. Big Building, Destroyed. New York.—A seven-story building "used by the | Western Union Telegraph Company as | a storehouse, das destroyed by fire, | from Cuba. causing a loss of $150,000. The build- | ing was filled with tel Hes. | Hampton Roads from its cruise around | ing was Alle with telegraph supplies The National Sugar Refining Com- pany has declared the regular quar- terly dividend of 11%. per cent on its preferred stock, payable January 2. Troops in Cuba Until: Spring. A change has been made in the program “of the - Administratien for the withdrawal of the American troops Instead of the move- ment terminating January 28, when the new President is to be inaugurat ed, as heretofore announced by Sec- retary Wright the withdrawal will be more gradual and run into April, so American troops will be available for service during the transition from tl provisional to the regular gov: © nd for a reasonable time] s1 nt thereto. - a firebrand over a powder magazine’ present intention, it will start an ex- [| light before the country he will send: of improper. is deceptive," | bat is a blue-green and darker than the jury | Willing’ DEMANDS LARGER ARMY War Secretary’s Requirements $52, 000,000 in Excess of Last Year's. ‘Washington.—The*® total estimates of the war department for the next “fiscal year, as shown by the annual “report of the secretary of war, amount %o $189,755,039, an increase of about 2,000,000 over the appropriations for fie presént fiscal year. . This increase & largely for river and harbor ‘work, d other public works of a civil haracter, for which purpose about $24,000,000 is asked. Of the balance, “Shout $10,500,000 is an additional esti- ‘mate for the support of the.army, mil- ‘tary academy and. the militia. For iliary public works, s ch as fortifi- ations, arsenals, military, posts, efc., fe estimates call for fn increase of 17, 800,000. the army, to provide for whom there “will be added an annual cost of be- ‘tween $2,000,000 ana $3,000,000. The report shows that the army is Bow only 9,231 enlisted men short of the authorized strength, due to great improvement in recruiting. During the past year there has been an in- crease in the actual strength of the ‘army of 19,168, making the present strength 4,116 officers and 68,512 en- listed men, a total of 72,628. Of this number 53,102 are serving in the United States, 12,101 in the Philip- pines, 4,906 in Cuba, 1,102 in Alaska, 611 in Porto Rico, 256 in Hawaii, ‘with 1 troops en route and officers at ther foreign stations. ~The secretary recommends that the general scheme of National defense .shall provide a for ce of organized mil itia of approximately 350,000 men, 300,000 of these in combination, with’ the infantry, cavalry, and field artil- ery of the regular army to constitute a field army of 400,000. Great Businsse. Merger. New York. — Announcement was made of the coming liquidation of the old firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co. and of the incorporation of a new com- pany to be known as the Phelps, Dodge & Co., . incorporated, with a capital of $50, 1000, 000. The new com- pany will; take over , all of the old firm’s mining properties, and also its metal selling business. . In effect, the new company will.be a merger of the Copper Queen Consolidated, the orig- inal Phelps-Dcdge holding; the Mon- tezuma Copper Company, Detroit Cop- per Mining Company and the Stag Canon Fuel Company, with all. the other interests of the old firm. Seven Shot; Three Killed. ~ Memphis.—After a brief argument with a crowd of negroes engaged in a- game of billiards at a saloon on De- Sbto street, near Beale, shortly after midnight, William ILatura, a white sa- loonkeeper of this city, shot and kill- ‘ed three of the negroes and wounded four others, one mortally and the others seriously. One of the wound- ed is a woman. : Davis Declared Not Guilty. Omaha, Neb.—After 13 hours’ de- liberation the jury in the case of Charles FE. Davis, 2 of Dr. Frederick T. Rustin, agreed ‘upon a verdict of not guilty. Two hours later Judge Sears received the verdict and ordered the discharge of th prisoner. General Worthington Stricken. . Washington.—General . Henry G. Worthington, former member of Con- gress from Nevada, who was a pall- bearer at the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, was stricken with apoplexy on the floor of the House shortly after noon. He is in a critical condition. $ Many Injured in Collision. Seattle.—Gus Olsen, motorman, was fatally injured and about 30 others more or less seriously injured, in a head-on collision between two heavily loaded trolley cars in a dense fog on University line. The front of both cars were smashed to splinters and the crews and passengers were piled up with debris. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. San Francisco.—According to figures obtained from the Southern . Pacific Railroad fruit growers of California shipped 12,917 carloads of fruit out of the State during the season which has just closed; an increase of nearly 100 per cent over the shipments for the season of 1907. Receivers Are Discharged. New. York.—Judge Cross .of the United States circuit court, discharged three ancillary receivers of the West- inghouse Electric & Manunfacturing Company, in New Jersey, the Pitts- burg receivers having been discharged a few days ago. Similar action was lnken at Chicago by Judge Kohlsaat. Want Mr. Bryan As Head. Minneapolis, Minn.—The Univers- ity Press club has started a campaign to offer W. J. Bryan the presidency of the University of Minesota in the 2vent that President Cyrus Northrop cannot be induced to withdraw his resignation. The resolution is sign- 2d by all members of the University Press club. » Claringda, Iowa.—George and Hen- ry Dyke, twins, 70 years of age, were burned to death-in a small shanty in the outskirts of Hepburn, a little town about eight miles north of this place. OFFER FROM BULGARIA to Pay Tnrkey $16,500,000 Damages for Independence. Sofia.—Bulgaria has notified the Powers of her willingness to indemn- ify Turkey $16,500,000 for damages laration of independence. Berlin.—The Turkish Government is negotiating for 875,000 worth of try ammunition pany. the purchase of $1, shrapnel and infan- with a German com- ‘Secretary Wright espa recom- mends an addition of (12 officers {0 tpressed Steal Car charged with the | murder on the morning of September | able Company. sustained through the Bulgarian deeé-* STEEL GAR WORKS TAKEN INTO. TRUST Steel Corporation Gets Standard and Pressed Car Plants. LARGEST CONCERN OF KIND Move Preceded by Plans to Secure Lage Output of Steel Wheels: The ‘United States Steel Corpora- tion in ‘New York City closed deals by which the Standard Steel Car, Compa- ny; with plants at Butler and New Cas- tle Pa’, and ‘Hammond, Ind., and the Company, with plants ‘at McKees Rocks and lower Northside, Pittsburg, wele taken over. These are the largest concerns of their kind in the world. Much of the raw material used by both concerns is made by the big cor- poration, and the deal is in line with its latest policy to control the manu- facture of iron and steel, from min- ing ore and coal to turning out finish- ed products of all kinds. Purchase of car wheel ' plants and organization of a subsidiary concern to make rolled steel wheels from an invention of a man connected with the steel corporation were prelimin- ary to the deal closed yesterday In recent years railroad copmanies gradually have been discarding the old wooden types of freight cars and have been substituting steel cars. Lately passenger cars and trolley cars have been made of steel also, first ex- periments having been with mail cars. They gave entire satisfaction. Heretofore the only objection to steel cars has been that during wrecks they bId¢k “*lines for considerably longer periods than do wooden cars, being harder to handle afetr a smash- up. That difficulty has been over- come by changes and improvements in wrecking apparatus. Steel cars are used now considera- bly in coal mines, especially where mules have been superseded by elec- tric power. The Pressed Steel Car Company has plants on the Northside and at McKees Rocks employing thousands of men. The authorized capital stock of the concern was $25,000,000. It was regarded as one of the most suc- cessful industries in the country. The capacity of the two plants on the Northside and McKees Rocks is 150 freight cars per day, and its pas- senger shops have a capacity of 750 steam or street railway cars a year. The plants cover 130 acres. The Western Steel Car and Foundry Company, which the Pressed Steel Car Company controlled and which now becomes a part of the gigantic trust, has plants at Hegewisch, Ill, near Chicago and Anniston, Ala. The Canada Car Company, Limited, also controlled, has a plant at Montreal with a capacity of 250,000 car wheels per annum. Other companies con- trolle dare the Central Car Wheel Company and the Pennsylvania Malle- GARY DENIES PURCHASE Story of Absorption of Steel Plants 4s Canard. New York.—“The story of the pur- chase of the Standard and Pressed Stee] Car companies’ plants by the United States Steel -Corporation is a canard without the slightest founda- tion,” declared Elbert H. Gary, chair- man of the board of directors of the United States Steel Corporation, here, Car William Bierman, secretary of the Standard Steel Car Company, said: “The statement is false and I do not know how the story originiated.” Of- ficials of the Pressed Steel Car Com- pany in Pittsburg also denied their plants had been absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation. Nobel Prizes Given. Stockholm.—King Gustave distrib- uted the Nobel prizes, diplomas and gold medals in accordance with the official announcement made. The re- cipients, Prof. Rudolph FEuchen, of Jena university; Prof. Gabriel Lipp- man, of the University of Paris: Prof. Ernest Rutherford, of Manchester, England; Dr. Paul Ehrlish, of Berlin, and Prof. Metchnikoff, of Paris, ap- peared before him in person. Each prize this year amounted to $38,565. Age Limit for Professors. Minneapolis, Minn.—Sixty-five years was the age limit set for members of the University of Minnesota faculty at a meeting of the board of regents. All members of the faculty who are now 65 years old or older will be re- quired to sever their active connec- tions with the university at the end of the present college year. At least six university professors have attain- ed the age of 65. . Feud Renewed in. Breathitt County. Lexington, Ky.—Feud troubles have been revived in Breathitt county. Ac- cording to a dispatch received here five or six men rode to the home of ex-Sheriff Ed. Callahan, chief lieuten- ant of Judge James Hargis during the former feud troubles and began firing. Callahan returned the fire, badly wounding Rand Sebastian and killing a mule ridden by William Deaton. FOUR MORE MARIANNA DEAD Claim Is Made That Explosion Victims Number 151. Washington, Pa.—Four more bodies were taken from Agnes No. 2 shaft of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal Company at Marianna Sunday. Seven more bodies are said to be at the bottom of the shaft awaiting extrication from debris. This increases the list to 151 who lost their lives in the explosion November 28. LEAVES $5,000 FOR PRAYERS Albany Man Provides in Will for Mass Which Shall Continue While Church Stands. -— Albany, N. Y.—While the world lasts and the Roman Catholic chu¥ch is in existence a prayer will be si id daily for the soul of the late Peter Cagger, of Albany. Mr. Cagger left $5,000 to Bishop. I. M. A. Burke of the diocese of Albany, in consideration for which a prayer is to be said during mass at least once each day forever for the repose of Peter Cagger’s soul. The prayer is to be called the Elizabethan, in memory of his mother. This donation wihch, in a case’, “Se another bequest. for masses, was ze- cent declared - valid by the court: Jot appeals, ‘became public in the surro- gate court. . TO BUILD NEGRO COLLEGE: _ New School Similar to Tuskegee will Be Erected: Fourteen Miles from Loulsville. Louisville —Options have Yeon take en on tracts of land near Orell, Jef- ferson county, 14 miles from Louis- ville, for the establishing of a negro school similar to" those at Tuskegee and Hampton. The new college Will take the place of: Berea college ag a The deci- school for negro, students. sion of the supreme court, uphold ing the State law forbidding the co-educa- tion of white and- blacks, made the contemplated college necessary. or The trustees of Berea, Andrew car- negie and Mrs. ‘Russell _Sage, it:is said, will contribute the necessary funds. VACCINATE FOR TYPHOID | : Army Special Medical Board Intro- duces New Preventive System. ‘Washington, D. C.—Thespecial med- ical board called by the War Depart- ment to consider immunizinz the reg- ulars against typhoid fever, announe- ed it was convinced of the usefulness and harmlessness of antityphoid vac- cination. The board has adopted a recommin- dation that the practice of voluntary vaccination be introduced in the army as a practicable basis of dimin- ishing typhoid fever. UNCLE SAM’S FINANCES Over $58,000,000 Mcre Disbursed Than Received in Year. Washington.——The annual report of Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou shows a reversal of conditions for the fiscal year 1908, as compared with 1907. For the latter year the, re- ceipts were $34,236,586 the disbursements. For 1908 the dis- bursements were $58,070,201 in excess of the receipts, due to business deprés- sion and = increased appropriations. Fortunately, the report says, the avail- able cash balance at the beginning of the fiscal year was $272,061,445. Panama Records Open. Senator Beveridge introduced to the President Harry Heisenberg, an In- dianapolis business man who some. time ago went to the Isthmus of Pan- ama for the Commercial club: of In- dianapolis. Mr. President that he found all the books and papers relating to the canal at his command, and he said he felt cer- tain that there was nothing to con- ceal as to the work cn the canal nor to the history of its purchase. Hobson Files Damage Suit. Boston.—Action for alleged slander, in which $20,000 damages are claim- ed. has been brought by Congressman Richmond P. Hobson, of Alabama, against Congressman John A. Keli- her of Massachusetts. The alleged remarks which caused the action to be brought were made during the Sau paien immediately following a isit to this city of Captain Hobson, a. spoke in the interests of Joseph A. Conry for Congress. Robs Bank of $120,000. San Francisco.—E. S. Rowland, cashier of the Bank of Healdsburg, Sonoma county, confessed he had tak- en $120,000 from the bank and spent it in stock speculation. This little bank has paid-up capital of only $100,- 000 and reserve of $73,000. Rowlands is a member of the town council and prominent churchman. Fatal Riot. Kansas City, Mo.—In. the shadow of the city hall a riot in which reli- gious fanatics and policemen were participants and during which 100 shots were fired resulted in the death of Policeman A. O. Dalbow, and Lola Pratt, aged. 13, probably fatal inju- ries to three persons and’ slight in- juries to two other persons. Famous Sioux Chief Dead. Pierre, S., D.—Chief Hump, the Si- oux leader who was at the head of the band which caused the trouble ending in the battle of Wounded Knee, the last important Indian fight in the northwest, died at his Cap at Cherry Creek. Richmond, Va.—The case of Mrs. Florence Maybrick and her mother, Baroness von Roque, of New York, involving title to land said to be worth about $2,500,000, was decided in that favor in the Chancery court here December 7. Over Five Hundred Men Drowned. Halifax, N. S.—More than 500 sea- men have lost their lives off the up- per north Atlantic coast during the past few days as the result of a storm of unprecedented severity, and it is possible that the turbulent sca has de- manded even a greater toll of lives. 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