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DUTIES CUT 20 TO 40 PER CENT.
8enate Pane the Bill Adopted by the
House at the Extraordinary
8esslon.
Ry a voto of 67 to 18 tho Sonnto
pastt-d tho bill previously passed by
tho House to carry Into effort the rec
iprocity ttvn:y with Cuba. Tho treaty
provliles for a reduction of 20 per cent
from tho rati of duty under the Ding
ley law on all Cubnn articles lmiorte(l
Into the United State, and a varying
reduction of from 20 to 40 per cent
from the established Cuban duty on
articles imp:vrtid Into Cuba from the
United States. The Srnntc' ngrrrd to
the lloure tvsolniton for a holiday re
cess from lVivtnbor 1!) to January 4.
The vote on thn reciprocity bill was
aa fc.'lnw";
Yeas Aldrlrh, Alger, Alloc, Al!l
son, Aflkcny. Union, Hall, Bevel'ldgo,
Blackburn, Rurn-hnm, Burrows, Bur
ton, Cinpp. Clark (Wyoming), Clay,
Oovkrvll, Oullom, Ip:-w, Dillingham,
P.illlvcr. Drydrn, F.lklm,. Fairbanks,
Fomkrr, Foster ( Washington), Frye,
Fulton, Gnllingcr, Gormnn, Hale,
Hnnna. Hnnshmugh, Heyburn, Hoar,
Hopkins. Kean, Lodno, lxmg, Mc
Comas, MeCivary, McCtimber, Mitch
rll, Ni-l-'.on, Overman, Penrose, Per
kins. Piatt (Connecticut), Plntt (New
York), Proctor, Qunrlcs. Scott, Sim
mons, Smeot. Spooner, Stewart, Stono,
Wet more 57.
Noes Palley. Bard, Rate, Berry,
Can mark, Culberson. Panivl, Dubois,
Fo.'ter (La.), McKnory. McLaurln,
Mallory, Martin. Nrwlnnds. PHtm,
Taliaferro. Teller. Tillman IS.
Pairs worn announced as follows:
Hawley, with Clark, of Montana; Mil
lard, with Clark, of Arkansas;
Kearns, with Gibson; Warren, with
Money; Quay, with Morgan, and Kltt
redge. with Patterson.
The Denrorrnts who voted for the
bill were Rnron, Blackburn, Clay,
Cockrell, Gorman, Overman and Stone.
The only Republican who voted
against it was Hard, of California.
THREE BURNED TO DEATH.
Mother and Two Children Met Death
in Burning House.
Overcome by tho flames which were
destroying thvlr home In Johnstown,
Pa., Mrs. James Cronby and heir two
children, James and Grace, fell dlrect
Iv in the nath of tho Are. and were
burned to dv-ath. Totally unconscious j
Df the horrible end of his family, Jas. j
Crosby, the husband and father, was I
lonted calmly in St. Columbia's Oath
e'ir. church.
The flames were discovered about 6
oelork. Mrs. CroFby and hw oldest
laughter had arisen to prepare the
naming meal. It was while seated at
:ho breakfast table that they discov
red the interior of the kitchen was
blaze. The mother rushed to the
lecond floor of the house to awaken
3ie younger members of the family.
Jhe was not seen afterward. The
lames by that time were bursting
orlh from every side of the house.
There wore three bedrooms on the
lecond floor and the son, James Cros
by, occupied the middle one. Grace
ras In the rear room.
Although the spectators attempted
o rescue the mother and children,
tothlng could bo done. Members of
tie Cambria fire company found the
rurned and blackened bodies of the
infortunato woman and her children
io badly disfigured that recognition
ras Impossible-. People attracted to
lie fire probably saved the life of the
rtdest Crosby girl by refusing to al
ow her to re-enter- the house to
march for her mother.
RULINGS ON 8PANISH CLAIMS.
Senate Furnished with Those Made by
Treaty Board.
In response to the resolution of the
Senate of December 9, the Spanish
Treaty Claims Commission sent to the
Senate copies of the announcements
made on November 24, 1902, and April
28, 1903, of the principles governing
Its decisions, which were reaffirmed
on December 5, 1903, In connection
with the various opinions then filed.
The commission also transmitted
copies of the various opinions of the
commission. The main propositions
of the commission were that the Uni
ted States will now be held liable to
Ks own citizens only for acta for which
Spain would have been liable to those
citizens if the United States had not
released the claims and assumed the
obligations of Spain, and further, that
Spain, except In special cases, was not
liable for damages done by the Insur
gents or for damages done by Spanish
troops in their attempts to suppress
the insurrection..
LariLS of Friars Bought.
An agreement has been reached by
Gov. Taft and the friars for tho settle
ment of the friar land question. The
pope has given his approval and the
approval of the war department Is
awaited. The settlement provides for
the purchase of 4i3,000 acres, com
prising all the agricultural lands and
holdings of the friars, with the excep
tion of 12.000 acres. Including a farm
near Manila, which has been sold to a
railroad company, and one sugar plan
tation. The price agreed upon is $7.
250,000. The friars originally asked
$16,000,000. Gov. Taft offered them
$0,000,000.
Exploration In Southern Ice.
Tho steamer Scotia, which left tho
Clyde November 3, 1902, for tho Ant
arctic regions with members of the
Scottish Antarctic Association on
board, baa arrived tit Buenos Ay res,
Argentina, from the Antarctic regions.
Ehe will remain a week, after which
she will return to the Falkland Is
lands, whore six members of tfmj expe
dition will remain In charge of tho
metoorokilcal watlon. The. expedi
tion reached latitude 70.25 south. .
BUTLER APPEALS FOR AID.
Condition of Fever Stricken Town
Stated by Committee.
The general n?llef and executive
committees, of Butler, Pa., In joint
ssflon Issued tho following state
ment and appeal to tho American
public:
Wo wish to advise the people of
the United Stnt.es In regard to the
epidemic of typhoid fever In Butler.
Tho number of typhoid fever raws In
November. 1.123; the number of
deaths from other causes, 23; new
caws of typhoid fever up to Decem
ber 13, 114; total number of cases of
typhoid fever to December 13, 1.2"4;
tual nun:lor of deaths from typhoid
fever, 61; total number of deaths from
other causes. 41. Tho population of
Butler and Lyndors, adjoining. Is 18,
000. A conservative estimate of those
dependent upon dally wag.-a Is 14.000.
Wc have no means of ascertaining ex
pected rases of typhoid fever exempt
v ports by ward committees, which
for the past week have nvcragd 12
new cans a day. The nature of re
lief work thus far consists In furnish
ing nurse? and hospital supplies ami
providing for all temporal wants
where the hroad-wlnnnrs or any other
needy or deserving persons have bevn
strlrkvn with tho dlsense. Our town
has been prosperous and wo have a
fair number of well to-do citizens who
have contributed gernnously to the ro
ll"f fund. Tims far the recent addi
tion of largo manufacturing Interests
In tho town and the consequent Influx
of largo foreign population, represent
ing various nntlr.nalltlt-s. aud who are
only moderate wage earners, have
r..-. essarlly caused tho dralt tun do
upon the generosity of our citizens.
$100,000 FOR A PAUPER.
Former Expert Telegraph Operator
Wat In the Poor House.
Honry H. Cook, formerly of Plant
vllle, Conn,, then of Omaha, and now
an Inmate of the poor house at Col
vlllo, Wash., has JiiRt fallen heir to a
fortune of $100,000 and has been lo
cated through the efforts of the Union
Pacific olnclals.
Many years ago Cook was one of
the best lmivn telegraph operators In
the world, but was disabled by "oper
ator's paralysis," and finally drifted
Into the Washington poor house. Some
time since his uncle. Andrew Cook, of
Plantvllle, Conn., wrote to the Union
Pacific Railroad Company asking for
Information of Henry, saying he
wished to leave his fortune to him.
The Union Pa ific sent circulars to
every telegraph cflloe In the country
nnd located Cook In Colvllle (Wash.)
Poor house, where he has bevn for 10
years.
TRADES UNION FINED.
First Penalty Ever La'd Upon a Labor
Organization.
Judge Holdon, of Chicago, fined
Franklin union. No. 4, Press Feedois,
$1,000 for contempt of court In vio
lating an Injunction restraining the
union from Interfering with the busi
ness or emplr yes of 10 printing firms
members of the Chicago Typothetae.
This Is the first time that court has
fined a union as a corporation, and
an appeal was taken. The Judge. In
rendering his decision, said the union
had assaulted and terrorized women
and Intimidated families, and that
murders had resulted fiom its attacks
on Innocent persons seeking work
under contracts satisfactory to them
selves and their employers.
FEARED EXPOSURE.
Cashier Kills Himself Before Books
Were Examined.
After greeting a bank examiner who
had come unannounced to examine
his accounts, Asa C. Busnnell, cash
ier of the Yalo National bank, In
New Haven, Conn., went into the
basement of the bank and Bhot him
self, death ensuing soon after, at
Grace hospital. A statement given
out by Edwin S. Greeley, president of
the bank, and by John T. Manson,
the vice president, said that an Inves
tigation of the books Indicated that
the cashier was Indebted to the bank
for between $12,000 and $15,000.
Boston Goes Democratic.
Mayor Patrick Collins, Democrat,
was re-electe.1 by 26.565 plurality, the
largest ever given a mayoralty candi
date In the history of Boston. Tho
board of aldermen next year will be
solely Democratic and that party will
have a large majority In the Common
council. The city favored licensed liq
uor celling by a large majority. The
election was notable for Republican
apathy, the vote for the candidate for
mayor, George H. Swallow, falling off
more than 33 per cent from that given
the party candidate two years ago,
while it ran nearly 20 per cent behind
tho vote of Gov. Bates last month.
The vote was: Collins, 08, Sol; Swal
low, 22,286.
Double Murder Over 6 Cents.
A quarrel over the sum of 6 rents,
the charge for a pool and billiard
game, resulted In the murder of two
persons In tho Italian quaiiter of
Philadelphia. The dead are Mary
Matza, aged 40, and Antonio Lenta,
aged 23. The man who did the kill
ing is Nicholas Myo, aged 40 years.
He Is under arrest.
When Myo and Lesta became In
volved In a dispute over the payment
fjr a ganvo of pool, Mayo drew a re
volver and wiled Lesta. Mrs, Matza,
who owned the place, upbraided Myo,
whose only reply was two Ehots from
his revolver.
Many Made Homeless.
Between 75 and 100 people were
iiendeied homeless and driven out
Into tho cold, with nothing but their
night clothes, by a fir which destroy
ed the planing mill and lumber yard
of the Bennett Lumber and Manufac
turing Company at Mlllvale, Allegheny
county, Pa., and partially destroyed
a dozen houses adjoining the burned
mill property.
The Asiatic squadron, under com
runmt of Rear Admiral Evans, has ar
rived at Honolulu.
1 NORTHERN SECIIIIES IM.
ATTORNEY GENERAL FILES BRIEF.
Maintains That Consolidation Was In
1 tended to Defeat, and Hat De
stroyed All Competition.
The brief of tho government In tho
caso of tho Northern Securities Co,
and others vs. tho United States on
appeal from the decision of the Cir
cuit Court of the United States for the
District of Minnesota, was filed In the
United States Supremo Couit Mon
day. The document was prepared by
Attorney General Knox, and Assistant
Attorney General Day, and covers ISO
printed pages.
After showing how a majority of the
stocks of tho Great Northern & North
ern Pacific were acquired by the se
curities company, tho ntto;ney general
says:
"Tho final result of these transac
tions was that one and tho same set
of mrn Mr. Hill and Mr. Morgan and
their associates being the ruling spir
its among them acting together un
der a charter agreement and through
the ngency or a corporate organiza
tion, became vested with absolute
power of control over two parallel
and competing systems of Interstate
railway.
"In place of the two distinct sets of
stockholders with rival and compet
ing Interests, namely, the stockhold
ers of the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific, there has been substi
tuted (by means of Interchange of
stocks described) tho one set of
stockholders with common and non
competitive interests, namely the
stockholders of tho securities com
pany. "They have a common Interest In
both; thvy receive their dividends
from a fund created by pooling the
earnings of both. A more effective
method for combining competition be
tween rival and naturally competing
business corporations It would hard
ly be possible to conceive."
, Tho questions of law growing out
of tho statement of facts are present
ed as follows:
"First Has a combination been ac
complished by means of the Securi
ties Co. in violntion of Section 13 of
an act of Congress, approved July 2,
1890, entitled 'An act to protect trade
and commerce against unlawful re
straints and monopolies,' hereafter
called the anti-trust act?"
"Second Have the defendants mo
nopolized or attempted to monopolize
any part of the Interstate or foreign
commerce of the United States, in
violation of Section 2 of the anti-trust
act?"
"Third Was the relief granted by
the Circuit Court authorized by law?"
The government maintains that
each of these que. thins should be an
swered In the affirmative.
AGAINST REED 8MOOT.
Mass Meeting at the National Capital
Urges Action.
A public meeting, called by the In
terdenominational Congress of Wom
en of Washington for the purpose of
piotestlng against Heed Smoot re
tabling his seat In the 8nate, was
held here In the Metropolitan Metho
dist Episcopal Church. Bishop Sat
terlee of the Protestant Episcopal
church presided and addresses were
made by him and a number of women
prominently Identified with the move.
ment. The following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved, That tho congregation
hero assembled does most earnestly
protest against Apostle Smoot retain
ing his seat in our national Senate.
Resolved, That wo call upon all
loyal and patriotic men and women of
every State to send protests to the
Senators from their States and urge
upon such citizens immediate and
prompt action.
Japanese Marines Landed.
The state depaitment has received
the following cablegram from United
States Minister Allen, dated Seoul,
Korea, December 13: "Japanese
forces landed at Mokphe, a point on
the west coast of Korea, 200 miles
south of Chemulpo, to protect Japan
ese subject from Korean rioters. This
has no slgniflcnce, as trouble Is purely
local."
BUSINE8S BRIEFS.
The failure of the Gross ft Strauss
Co., dealers In ladles' garments and
furnishings, Boston, was announced.
Liabilities are estimated at $150,000.
United States steel earnings for the
current quarter are estimated as low
as $16,000,000. It is again reported
that a cut In steel rails frora $28 to
$26 will soon take place,
Panhandle directors have declared a
dividend of lVs per cent on the oom
man stock, payable February 15 to
stock of record on February 5, and a
dividend of 2 per cent on the preferred
stock, payable January 15 to stock of
record on January 5.
Total stocks of all kinds of gitiln In
I all positions in Chicago are now 12.
756.000 bushels, of which 5,354,iiOO
bushels are of wheat. 3.21)4.000 bush
I els are of corn, and 3,121,000 bushels
oats. The total Is 7,489,000 buauDls
1 more than shown In tho official visi
ble, nearly 150 per cent more.
Directors -of the General Electrlo
Company declared the regular quar
terly dividend of 2 per cent.
The Hocking Valley Railway Com
pany has declared thie regular semi
annual dividend of 2 por cent on its
preferred stock and V,i on the com
mon, payable January 18.
Postal Clerks 8ntenced. -
Columbus Ellsworth- Upton and
Charles W. McGregor, former clerks
In the postofflce department at Wash
ington, who were found guilty of pos
tal frauds, were sentenced by Judge
Morris to sorve two years in the
Maryland penitentiary and to pay a
.fine of $1,000 each. The counsel for
both defendants gave notice of appeal.
MILLIONS STOLEN.
Big Shortage Found In Chicago City
Accounts.
A shortage of $5,000,000 In the spec
ial assessment bureau of the munici
pal government of Chicago has been
uncovered by expert accountants who
audited tho books. Coupled with this
big deficit are charge of mlsappio
priatlon of funds and of criminal mis
management for 32 years. While it
Is known that much of this big sum
which should have gone to the tax
payers of Chicago In rebates for Im
provements has been Illegally trans
ferred during former years to the
credit of other tnunielpn! government
al departments which had exhausted
their appropriations, It Is also known
that a sum totaling up In the millions
nas been stolen.
Hundreds of thousands more went
to members of the city hall clique,
even after the rebate frauds had been
Illegally transferred to the credit de
partments. That was In the days
before civil service. Thoic is $1,000,
0U0 duo Clileng citizens In rebates
on sp'-clnl assessments made for lm-
provment8. It was found that $15,-
925 In rebates hnve been twice paid
out, doublo payments having been
made on rebate warrants calling for
this cum.
POSTAL FRAUDS
Prosecutions Are Barred by Statute
of Limitations.
Tho report of Charles J. Bonaparte
and Holmes Conrad cn the charges
made by S. W. Tulloch, former cash
ier of the Washington ipostofllce,
against the administration of the of
fice, says that as prosecutions' are
barred by the statute of limitations
they speak from a legal standpoint.
They say:
The tendency to evade answering
thosu charges evinced tiy those reply
ing to the Postmaster Generals re
quest for such answers Is Illustrated
very forcibly by the chargos against
Perry S. Heath, formvr First Assist
ant Postmaster General, which have
been made public and his answer to
them. We consider that answer al
together Insufficient, and no less un
satisfactory In substance than In
form."
The report says the revision of
Postmaster Wlllett's accounts la suf
ficient to show that Mr. Heath's offi
cial record Is not so clear as to defy
suspicion.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Tho Tuscarawas river at Coshocton,
O., Is frozen over for the first time In
years.
Rich gold fields are said to have
been discovered In the Congo Free
State.
Spain will not participate In the St.
I.ouls exposition, which was decided
at a Cabinet council.
Ixiretta McCani'on, aged 9. died at
East Liverpool, O., from burns re
ceived while playing about a bonfire.
The United States Steel Corpora
tion has seemed a large order for
rails for a railroad In Arabia at about
$23 a ton.
The women's board of managers of
the St. Louis exposition elected Mrs.
Daniel Manning, of Albany, N. Y.,
president.
The Warren (O.) Masonic lodge has
purchased the Graham-Nash block for
$2o,i)iii) and will remodel the structure
for lodge purposes.
Irishmen In the United tSates aro
to be appealed to for funds for a mon
ument at Ennlscortley to tho memory
of the rebels of 1798.
The Norwegian Authors' Associa
tion has passed a resolution In favor
of concluding a copyright agreement
with the United States.
At Valley City, N. D., tho mill and
elevator of the Russell-Mlllor Milling
Company were burned, with a loss of
$75,000, partly Insured.
The transport Sherman arrived at
San Francisco frora Manila with the
Thirteenth Infantry and two com
panies of army engineers.
About 4.000 Jews at Klshlneff, Rus-
, 8. are asking for aid to emigrate to
Argentina or to Canada. They want
tracts of land to establish colonies.
A telegram from Varuoe reports
that the steamer Orion has been de
stroyed toy Are. and that three of the
crew and three passengers perished.
Hug.h Jones, of Sharon. Pa., who
was In the Youngstown (O.) hospital
with a broken neck, will be discharged
on Christmas day and pronounced
cured.
A conference at Manchester, Eng
land of Lancashire cotton pplnners
sent a messago to the cotton manu
facturers of the United States and
Europe suggesting short time in the
mills.
At Upper SandtiBky the jniy In the
trial of Phillip Nagel, charged with
the murder of his friend, William
Wade, returned a verdict of murder
In the firBt degree without recom
mending mercy.
Charles Rain. Sheriff of Cherokee
county, Kan., was held up and robbed
In the depot at Baxter Springs, Kan.,
by Clarence Cunningham, an escaped
prisoner from the Columbia (Mo.)
Jail after he had placed Cunningham
under arrest.
A call has been Issued for the an
rual meeting of the United Mine
Workers of tlw JlasBlIlon district to
be held In Trades and Labor assembly i
hall in Masslllon next Monday, at
which time officers will be elected for
the ensuing year.
Engineer Knox was killed when the
locomotive of the Chicago-Denver lim
ited train on the Burlington road
jumped the track near Malvern, Pa.
Passengers were thrown Into a panic,
but escaped with bruises.
The will of the late Cardinal Hor
pero y Esplnosa contains tho extra
ordinary bequoBt of $10,000 to the first
Spanish general landing In United
States territory with an army suffi
ciently strong to avenge the defeats
of Cuba and th Philippines," The
legacy Is to remain deposited In the
bank of Spain.
STUDENTS PLR1SH III FLAMES.
FRENCH COLLEGE BURNED.
Panlc-Strlcken Pupils Leap from Up
per Stories and Are 8erk
ously Injured.
Fonr p?rsons are known to have
been killed and perhaps 30 others in
jured, 12 of them fatally, In a fire
which consumed tho Central Tennes
see college f;r young negro women at
Nashxlllo, Tenn., a department of
Walden university. It Is possible that
the ruins may contain the bodies of
other victims. The property loss Is
estimated at $25,000.
The known dead are: Stella Addi
son, Port Gibson, Miss; Mattle Lee
Moore, Huntsvlllo, Ala.; Sal Me Dado,
Hopktnsvllle, Ky.; Nannie Johnson,
Hnttiesbnrg, Miss.
Fatally Injured: Eleanor Moore
(white), prereptross), Chicago; Iady
11. Knox, Greenville, Miss; Mlnnlo
Alston, Covington, Tenn.; Bertha
Monford, Chicago; Lula Terry, Mc
Mlnnvllle, Tenn.; Lula Mlllen, Cov
ington, Tenn.; Ernestine McClenry,
Fernnndla, Fla.; Leona Miller, St
Louis; Knnnlo Harris, Maysvlllt;, Ky.;
Nannlo Hcoze, Clnrksvlllo, Miss.; Vic
toria Miller, Anchorago, Ky.; One
Student, not Identified.
Fire broke out about 11 o'clock In
tho top of tho building, which was
four stories high, and without fire
escapes. It was occupied by about 60
students, who wero asleep when tho
alarm was given. The wildest panlo
ensuvd, tho women and girls rushing
screaming to tho windows, from which
they Jumped In droves, the dead and
Injured lying In heaps where they fell,
to be fallen upon by those following
them from the flaming windows. Every
ambulance In the city was soon on
the scene, and tho Injured were bur
rled to hospitals.
8IQNS OF
INVASION.
Colombian
Troops Found Encamped
Near the Isthmus.
Marines will be rushed to the Gulf
of Darien by Rear Admiral Coghlan
to thwart any attempted Invasion of
Panama by BOO Colombian troops
which Capt. Turner of the Atlanta
found encamped between Tomate and
Tar-ana island. A similar movement
will be made by Rear Admiral Glass
toward San Miguel bay, on the south
ern coast of the Isthmus, to prevent
possible attack from that direction by
a larger forco reported to be operat
ing In thnt direction.
Orders to this end wore sent to tho
Isthmus from the war department and
are the nntnral complement of the re
cent landing trom tho Dixie of 400 ma
Vln8 now encamped at Empire and of
a battalion from tho Prairie now en
camped at Cargona.
The fleet in Isthmian waters will
soon be strengthened by the addition
of the cruiser Olympla which left Nor
folk for Colon to-day and will relieve
the Mayflower as flagship of Rear Ad
miral Coghlan.
The force of Colombians, which was
taken from Cartagena recently and
landed near the mouth of the Atrato
river, has been discovered. The Uni
ted States cruiser Atlanta discovered
a schooner In the gulf of Darlen and
on overhauling her. found that she
was carrying a battalion of Colomliln
soldiers to Join the others already
there. An officer of the Atlanta land
ed and had a talk with Gen. Ortiz, who
commands tho Colombians. Ortiz pro
tested In writing against the presence
of the Atlanta In Colombian waters
and demanded that she leave. The
cruiser came to Colon where Comman
der Turner made a report of the affair
to Admiral Coghlan.
8tole Charity Funds.
The Salvation army corps placed
kettles on tripods In the business
streets of Sharon, Pa., where money
was contributed by the generous pub
lic. The funds thus collected were to
be used In giving the il children of
the city a Christmas d
stole two of the kettle
Thieves
fd the mon-
ey they contained.
30,000 Men -V
AH the coke operators of the Con
nellsville and Lower, Connllsvllle re
gions are following , the epmple of
the H. C. Frkk Company, (and have
posted notices of a wage iredoctlun.
The scale Is the same as flat posted
by the Frlck Company. In 11 the re
duction will affect 30.000 mrn In tho
Connellsvllle and liwer Connellsvllle
regions and the Westmoreland coke
district
Used a Bottle on Suitor.
Walter KugenskI, of Wilkesbarre,
Pa., asked Anthony Balsork for per
mission to marry his daughter and
was so badly injured that he is in
a dangerous condition. He has been
In love for some time. To-day he
summoned courage to ask the old gen
tleman. Balsock promptly seized a
bottle and battered the suitor's head.
Balsock was arrested.
Bank Merger Falls.
The failure of the merger of the
Fnrinera netv-.slt N'.itlonal Hank and
! the Colonial Trust Company; of Pitts-
!)irrg, waj officially confirmed. The!
lomclals of the Farmers Donoslt Bank
prt to each of its stockholders a c'.r -
I rular letter In which they state that
the non-compliance of the Colr.n.lal
Trust Company with the agreement
renders It null and void and the agree
ment is ended by Its own conditions.
Thirteen Prisoners Escape.
A sensational Jail break occurred
at Tombstone, Ariz., and 13 prison
ers escaped by sawing the jail bars
and breaking through the Ja.. walls.
Two of the prisoners, Bert Alverd and
W. L. Stills, wero held as the prin
cipals In tho Cochese train hold-up
In this county a year ago. The form
er was under sentence of two years
In the penitentiary and the latter had
six Indictments hanging over him on
the samo charges. The other escaped
prisoners are Mexicans, hold for petty
REVIEW OF TRADE.
More Confident Feeling in Iron and
Steel Holiday Trade
Very Large.
R. O. Dun ft Co.'s "Weekly Review
of Trado" says: Business Is decided
ly better than at any recent date, and
tho Improvement is not confined to
activity In holiday goods. Continued
low temporatunj not only stimulates
retail solos, hut Joblers aro receiv
ing supplementary orders for season-
aiblo goods, and collections are more
prompt. Railway tonnage Is heavy,
and several manufacturing branches
are starting Idle machinery. Confl-
denre Is Increasing In the iron and
steel Industry, and the feeling Is be
coming more general that prices will
not bo materially lower, except possi
bly In some departments that have
not yet participated In the readjust
ment. It Is encouraging to find some
Improvement in demand for pig Iron,
although no extensive tonnage Is ex
pected to be taken until 1904. Tho
steel markets have been In a stuto of
uncertainly during tho past week, ow
ing to the numerous meetings In pro
gress for the settlement of price lists
and wage scales. Most producers In
sisted thnt new business would not
bo aoneleratod by further concessions,
yet outside mills were offering bet
ter terms, notably in tho case of bil
lets. Structural material Is gradually
reviving, contracts for new bridges
and buildings coming forwa-d, and
much construction work Is scheduled
(or early in the spring. Failures this
week numbered 329 In tho United
States, against 267 last year, and in
Canada 20, compared with 16 a year
ago.
Rradstreet's will say: Wheat, In
eluding flour, exports for the week
ending December 17 aggregate 3,363
035 bushels, against 4,599,330 last
week, and 3,256.037 this week last
year. For 24 weeks of the cereal year
they aggregate 80,882,804 bushels,
against 122.158(1535 In 1902. Corn ex
ports for the week aggregate 637,857
bushels, agalnrtt 659,025 last week,
and 1,326,141 a year ago. For 21
weeks they aggregate 26,899,368 bush
els, against 6,662344 in 1902.
BLOW AT RELIGIOUS ORDERS.
French Deputy Prepares a Bill to Stop
Church Schools.
Premier Combes has communicated
to the council of ministers the text of
a (bill forbidding all teaching by the
religious orders In France even those
now actually authorized. The bill pro
vides for the dissolution, accompanied
by the sequestration of property, of
such congregations as exist solely for
the purpose of teaching and tho par
tial sequestration of the property of
thoso congregations which, in audition
to teaching, also -conduct hospitals for
the indigent-
Five years are allowed for tho com
plete carrying out of the proposed law
the adoption of which will entail the
closing of 1.299 schools for boys. 2,195
school buildings where girls are taught
and all the schools conducted by the
Christian brothers. Tho bill also pro
vides for the enlargement of tho public
schools conducted by the state. It Is
estimated that the complete operation
of the premier's plan will xost tho
state $3,000,000.
WAGE REDUCTIONS.
Cut Will Affect 150,000 Employes of
Steel Corporation.
The Presidents of the subsidiary
companies of the strel corporation
have notified their employes of the
wage reductions to go into effect Jan
uary 1. . They will range frora 5 to
20 per cent, and will affoct all men
where union agreements are not nec
essary. In cases of unions, agree
ments are expected to be made which
will reduce wages uniformly. This
reduction will affect about 150.000
workmen In the various grades of the
subsidiary companies. The remaining
10 per cent of employes are members
of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel ft Tin Workers, whose
wage schedule runs to July 1, 1904.
BODIES OF CAPTIVES EATEN.
Mad Mullah's Followers Said to Have
Taken to Cannibalism.
Advices from Somallland, East Af
rica, say that the Mad Mullah's camp
followers have taken to cannibalism
owing to a shortage of supplies. The
body of a captivo recently executed
by the Mullah was Immediately car
ried off and eaten. The feast was
prtlclpated In by women, whom the
Mullah subsequently ordered execut
ed. These were In turn cooked and
eaten by their late comrades.
According to deserters, the Mullah
Is not suffering from an actual scar
city of food, but is husbanding his re
sources and restricting the distribu
tion of food strictly to the fighting
men, leaving the camp followers to
shift for themselves.
Lost on Race Track.
W, A. McKowan, secretary of the re
gents of the California State univer
sity, confessed to President Wheeler
that he was a defaulter to the amount
of $20,000 and possibly more. Most of
of the money was lost at the race
track.
Dr. Hale Chosen for Chaplain
The Republican Senators in caucus
! decided upon Rev. Edward Everett
' Hale. D. D.. of Boston, for chaplain
I of the Senate, beginning January 1,
He Is a Congregationallsf. and Is now
83 years old. For years he was pas
tor of the famous South chnrch, in
Boston
Cashier Kills Himself.
Harry W. Mayne, cashier of the
Farmers and Merchants bank at Linn
Grove, la., shot himself through tho
heart. It Is believed that Mayne had
been speculating on the Chicago
board of trade. Officials of the banl.
which la a private Institution, claim
that the deposits, amounting to $100
0i)d, were controlled by the First Na
tlonal bank of Storm Lake. The
doors of the bank were not opened,
Mayne left a widow and five children,
Diversion of Rottrnlree,
Only the other day I beard from one
of my boys of two ways In which men
have sought to save their reason when
long In the dark cells for punishment.
They are, I believe, much practiced
and well known In prison. One Is to
tnkc a pin Into the punishment cell
with you. Then yon divert tho weary
hours In thnt pitch darkness by throw
ing It up In the air nnd when It falls
you hunt for It on hands and knees,
and thus give yourself nn occupation.
Rut, alnsl tho officer niny know of
this hunt for the pin nnd take It from
you, so perhaps the other practice li
more sure to keep thn brain from mad
ness. That Is tho spelling of words
backward, t bnvo at the present time
In our Hope Jnll a man who ran spell
nythlng just ns quickly In that fashion
as In the ordinary way.snd when asked
why he taught himself vhat semeed to
bo such a useless accomplishment, he
answered: "I saved myself from In
sanity by It." The greatest blessing
to the man In prison Is work. I had
the opportunity of witnessing the'cvnel
evils of enforced Idleness at tho time
all work was tnken from the men In
State Trlson In New York through
labor ngltntlon. Mrs. Maud Booth, lu
Leslie's Monthly.
t'nltcfl Stated Alirnntt.
If you could only know what the
United States Is called abroad you
might Join a society for the preserva
tion of geographical names In theli
original purity. There 1 neither ren
son nor excuse for calling us "Statl
Unltl." In Italian; "Estados Cnldo."
In Spanish; "Etnts Unls," In French)
"Verelnigte Rtaaten." In Germnn, etc
The whole world should cnll us the
United States In plain Amorlcnnese.
But wc are guilty of Anglicising thl
names of foreign countries. Why
should wc say "Spnln," when thl
nnme of the country Is "Espanar
Why "Sweden," when It Is "Scverlge?"
Why "Hungnry," when It Is correctly
"Mngyararszag?" Why "Italy," In.
stead of "Italia?" Why "Prussia," In
stead of "Preussen?" Why "Tus
cany," rather than "Toscano?" Why
"Turkey," Instead of "Osmanll Vllale
tl?" Why "Japan," Instead of "Nip
pon?" nnd so forth. New York Press.
Ort Poinlhllltlns of tho ratnre.
Egypt Is not as large ns New Mexico,
It Is even more arid, and yet, along ltt
only river, the Nile, 5,000.000 acres ar
under cultivation, and this area Is be
lng greatly augmented by the complo
tlon of the great dam at Assouan, built
bv the British Government. Along tbf
Rio Grande, the Nile of New Mexico,
only 250,000 acres arc under cnltlva'
tlon, counting In the Irrlgnted land
along the tributary to the Rio Grande,
or only one-twenty-llfth of the ares
under cultivation along the Nile. Thil
will give an Idea of the magnitude of
the possible deve lopment of New Mexl
co by tho building of storage reser
voirs. There Is no reason In the world
why New Mexico should not eventual
ly support a population of 10,000,000
people. Santa Fc New Mexlctin.
Animals anil Second Bight.
It Is a common belief that many an
imals see ghosts and future events.
Kerner declares thnt they are endowed
with second sight. This faculty ll
thought to be especially strong In dogf
and horses. Storks are known tc
have foreseen the burning of houses
on which they have been wont to
build their nests nnd to have aban
doned them, taking up their abode on
other buildings or on trees In the vi
cinity. No sooner had tho anticipated
conflagration taken place and a new
house been erected on the same slti
than they returned and built their
nests as before.
Slate Kdneatlnn.
The great State universities make thl
acquiring of an education possible tc
any boy or girl who has sufficient am
bltlon to apply It. They meet the de
mands of the co-operative socialists.
Excluding the charges for technical
and professional departments, Indiana
and Kansas universities require no
fees. In Missouri there is an "en
trance, laboratory nnd Incidental fe
of $3." Michigan, besides matricula
tion and diploma fees. Imposes an In
cidental fee of $30 a year; Wisconsia
an Incidental fee of $20; Illinois, $24.
and Iowa, $23.
A New Saccharine Plant.
A report from Germany Is to tbe eft
feet tbat plant has recently been
found In South America with containi
considerable quantity of saccharin
matter, is not fermentable and pos
sesses an unusually strong saccharin
taste. Tbe celebrated chemist, Ber
tonl, considers this plant of great val
ue from an Industrial point of view on
account of Its natural sugar proper
ties, which are of high percentage, and
the sugar obtained from the plant ll
said to be from twenty to thirty timet
ai sweet as ordinary cane or beet su
gar. Dogs In England.
Every dog In England has to pay an
annual tax, which amounts to seven
shillings and six pence a year. Free
from this tax are, however, all dogs
of less than six months of age, as well
as shepherd aud butcher's dogs. Ac
cording to olliclal returns, there were
last year 1,871,019 dogs lu Euglund
paying this tax, which means a total
revenue for tho Government of about
$3,300,000. The city of London aloue
bad 153.307 tax-paying dogs.
The Hygiene of Perfumes.
Perfumes are iiot selected for their
hygienic value, but such they huve.
Doctors tell us that a handkerchief
may 'je mado antiseptic by the use of
perfume. The action of the spirit of
the scent and the essential oils can de
stroy the gonna. Lavender Is sup.
posed to soothe the nerves, that Is why
the bed linen Is lavender scented. Jus.
mine Induces nerve exhaustion and de
pression. Don't use strong scent; use
delicate, clean perfumes only. .. ..