tit eight
fie human figure. In execution it is
not surpassed by any of the objects
found in the Scioto Valley.
Jean Valjean, of Hugo’s masterpiece,
stepped from heights won under a new
name and proclaimed himself a felon
to save another man from suffering
in his stead. President R. F. Wolfe,
of the Shoe Trust, prosperous for
.-years in anew life in Ohlo, lays bar?
to the world, that he may th Wart a
gang of blackmailing scoundrels, a
page of his early manhood which in-
cludes a brief term in prison. Two
fine exhibits of courage these, one in
fiction, one in fact. Mr. Wolfe's con-
science made no coward of him. He
expiated his offense long ago. He did
not propose to endure an endless ex-
piation through persccution. His ex-
ample should go far among the my-
riad cases wherein blackmailers flour-
ish today. He is a winner through
his brave avowzal not only in peace of
mind and in pocket but in pub'ic con-
fidence and approval, observes the
New York World.
An illustration of what may be done
in the betterment of the conditions
for wage-earners, through the hearty
co-operation of employer and em:
aver, and the culiivation of a spirit
of amity rather than of hostility be-
tween them, is furnished in the record
of a large shoe manufactory in Bos-
ton. This establishment has voluntar-
ily reduced the hours of work for its
2000 employes to cight. The employes
are so well pleased with the new
conditions that the output is as great
as it was when the concern was work-
ing ten hours cvery day. The pay-rotl
is $1,000,000 annually, and the da'ly
cutput is 8000 finish~d pairs of shoes.
The change from ten to nine hours,
and from nine to eight hours, has seen
fected without reducing the daily
of the week hands, which com-
c-fifth of the total working
e the piece hands eg

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following conclusion :
The truth is that the death rate in the |
camps is comparatively worse than any-
thing Africa or Asia can show. There |
is nothing to match it even in the mor-
tality figures of the Indian famines, |
where cholera and other epidemics have |
to be contended with.
Statistics are produced in proof of this |
assertion.
The government's advertisement for |
teachers for the camp children, setting
forth that “the term of employment will |
be one year certain” is prominently dis-
played as evidence that the authorities |
have no intention of ending the ‘whole- |
sale destruction of human life.”
The Daily News urges all
men not to wait for official reports, but
to insist “on the camps being broken up
and the people distributed among their |
friends.”
humane
Preferred Death to Disgrace.
Louisville, Ky. (Special).—William |
Simpson, a salesman in the wholesale
grocery house of Zinsmeister Brothers, |
committed suicide by swallowing carbolic
acid when confronted with an alleged
shortage of $1,000. He said that two
friends living at New Albany, Ind., his |
home, would make good the shortage, |
and while a member of the firm was tele- |
phoning to New Albany, Simpson took |
the poison, dying in 15 minutes.
“McKinley Order of Nurses.”
Boston, Mass. (Special).—The nurses
of Boston will submit to Governor Crane,
chairman of the State Commission on
McKinley Memorial, a unique plan to |
devote the fund to establishing the “Mec-
Kinley Order of Nurses.” The idea is to
make the McKinley order in this country
what the Victoria Order of Nurses is in
England.
Killed the Girl He Loved.
Elizabethtown, Tenn. (Special). —
Frank Kidwell, aged 23 years, shot and |
killed his sweetheart, Ada Thomoson.
aged 16 years, and then committed sui-
cide. The cause for the tragedy is said!
to be the refusal of the girl's father to |
allow Kidwell to visit his daughter and |
her declination to marry him.
Bank Robbers Active. |
Chatham, Il., (Special). ~The Bank |
of Chatham was robbed of $1,500
burglars, who blew the safe. The rob-
bers escaped on a handcar, which they |
abandoned after going 10 miles, and alld
trace of them is lost. Congressg
F. Caldwell is 2lmost od
owner of t

| land Valley Telephone Company.
| no special language.
| bitration
i Hague November 20 to decide on the
{ South African war is not subject to the
i court's consideration.
tion Company rejected the claim of the
i mark, says that the Danish West Indies
| have not yet been sold to the United
by |,
Tele panies of Southern
Pennsylvania™®ave been united into a
corporation, fo be known as the Cumber-
Foreign.
General Uribe-Uribe, commanding the
Colombian rebels, says there is no inter-
national war between Venezuela and Co-
lombia, but a struggle between the Lib-
eral and the Conservative parties of
both countries. He is willing, he says,
to accept the protection of the United
States at the isthmus.
Sir Harry Johnston, in an address to
the Royal Geographical Society, in Lon-
don, upon his explorations in Uganda,
said that, as a result of his study of the
pigmies, he had concluded that they have

The administrative council of the ar-
tribunal will meet at The
Boers’ appeal against the ruling that the
The British South African Compensa-
Frenchman, Martin, who wanted #£2o0,-
ooo for alleged deportation from South
Africa.
Dr. Deuntzer, the premier of Den-
States, although negotiations are prog-
ressing.
Earthquake shocks continue in Arme-
nia, and the people are living in tents.
United States Consul General Dickin-
son, in reply to Miss Stone's letter, has
urged the brigands to still further re-
duce their demands and accept the |
amount subscribed, as the United States
government will not contribute to the
ransom.
The French government announces |
that the Sultan of Turkey has yielded |
to all demans, and it is expected that in |
two or three days Admiral Caillard will |
cease to occupy the ports of the island |
of Mitylene.
The Liberal forces have captured
the town of Tumaco, about 500 miles |
south of Panama. They took 400 sol-
diers prisoners and captured five or six |
cannon.
Yuan Shi Kai, the present viceroy of |
Shan Tung, has been appointed to suc- |
ceed Li Hung Chang as viceroy of Chi |
Li. |
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Financial.
Burlington has hauled 500.000
of wool out of South Dakota
11s season.
Bully 113,000 was |
of England |
ica. {
able Com-
stock from
The
orts for sea- |
5, as againct |
ar; corn, 37, |
inst 22,305,000
i overcharge of nitoglycerin.
i berger packing plant in
Cj]
field the place, but on the second day |
Major Waller renewed the attack, and
after a desperate engagement carried the |
position. Privates George Lynch and |
E. A. Klonan, of the attacking force and |
26 Filipinos were killed. Major Waller
destroyed 70 houses.
General Smith has issued orders for-
bidding the purchase of hemp in the
Island of Leyte. All the ports in Leyte
are closed and traffic is forbidden where
it cannot be supervised by the military.
BANK ROBBERS IN THE WEST.
In One Place They Miss $25,000, in Another
They Take $5,000.
Darien, Wis., (Special). — Robbers
made an attempt to loot the Farmers’
State Bank here, but were foiled by an
The vault was wrecked and the front
of the building blown out. In the vault
was $5,000 in cash and $20,000 in nego-
tiable securities, but the robbers were
frightened off without securing any
plunder and drove away in a buggy.
Scotland, S. D., (Special).—The Bank
of Scotland was robbed of $5,000. The
safe was blown and its contents carried
away. The explosion aroused residents,
who hurried to the building, just in time
to see the robbers making their escape
on ‘horses.
$5,000 for a Shorthorn Cow.
Chicago, Ill, (Special).—Cicely, a
shorthorn cow, recently of the Queen
Victoria herd in England, was sold here
for $5,000 to J. J. Robbins & Sons, of
Horace, Ind. The animal cost Queen
Victoria $4,000 a few years ago. Twenty
other cows and bulls realized an aver-
age price of $1,320. These are record |
figures for shorthorn cattle for the past
25 years. The sales were made by W. B.
Flatt, of Hamilton, Ont., who recently
imported the herd from England.
Steam Fitters’ Horrible Fate.
Kansas City, Mo., (Special).—Two
steamfitters were killed and two others
seriously injured by the blowing out
of a valve in the water pumping ap-
paratus at the Schwarzschild & Sulzer-
Armourdale,
Kan. Nothing could be done to rescue
the men until the flow of steam had ex-
hausted itself. The injured men are in
a serious condition.
Bigremn

Wonderful Leap by a Horse.
Chicago, (Special.)—At the B
Show here in the Coliseum th
jumper Hetherbloom, a bay gelding;
years old and 16 hands high, owned by
Howard Willetts, of White Plains, N.|
Y., broke the world’s indoor record for
jumping horses. Hetherbloom cleared !
the bar at 7 feet 4% inches. The pre- |
vious record was made by Rosebery, !
who made a jump of 7 feet 314 inches
in competition with Filemaker in this
city several years ago.
assar and
y mn the instructions. The
Russian Minister strongly objected to
revealing the text of the treaty to the
| ministers of the other powers, and a
stormy interview ensued. Li Hung
Chang went home in a wiolent passion
and had a hemorrhage, which the doc-
tors attribute to the overexertion of a
weakened system.
GREAT YARDS FOR PITTSBURG.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, It Is Said,
Will Spend Millions.
Pittsburg, (Special).—The Pennsylva-
nia Railroad Company has in contempla-
tion new yards for freight handling,
which will be the largest in the country.
Agents of the company have been tak-
ing options on property from Thirteenth
to Twenty-third streets, between Liber-
ty and Penn avenues, for the purpose,
and it is now almost certain that the
10 blocks will soon be acquired and the
yards established. For real estate alone
the cost of this improvement will be be-
tween $4,000,000 and $35,000,000. This
amount, added to the cost of the other
improvemenas—a new union station, ele-
vated tracks, etc—made by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company in this city re-
cently, will make the total $10,000,000.
The Maccabees Defalcation.
Port Huron, Mich., (Special).—It de-
velops that if Charles D. Thompson, ex-
supreme finance keeper of the Supreme
Tent, Knights of the Maccabees, who
embezzled $60,000 from the order, is
prosecuted, the Maccabee officials will
have to take the initiative. By the
terms of Thompson’s bond with the Fi-
delity and Deposit Company, of Bal-
timore, which was in force when most
of the money was stolen, the organiza-
tion must apply for the warrant in the
event of a defalcation and prosecute,
with the assistance of the bonding com-
pany. Supreme Counsellor D. D. Ait-
kin has all the necessary papers in his
hands, and Thompson's arrest is expect-
ed soon.
Thieving Postal Employe.
St. Louis, Mo., (Special).—Samuel
Selig, foreman of the city distributing
department of the St. Louis postoffice,
was arrested, charged with stealing let-
ters. It is stated that 50 leters, some
i containing money orders, were found on
his person. ~~
ct at an End.
ople, (By Cable).-—M
Fcillor of the French Embas-
eceived a satisfactory commu-
from the Porte regarding the
er of the French demands. The
between France and Turkey
erefore, be regarded as ended.
To Prohibit Divorce.
ta, Ga., (Special).—A bill hag
b roduced in the lower house of
thé gislature prohibiting divorces ig
Georghg-

itors and 0
Charleston in largenumbers, and during
the last few days 100 carloads of exhib-
its have arrived here for the exposition.
Mr. S. C. Meade, president of the
New York State Commission, and four
other members and employes of the
commission reached Charleston Sunday
by the steamer Comanche, and Monday
12 members of the advisory board of
the architect- in-chief, Mr. itbert, will
arrive from New York.
The New York commission has come
to inspect the New York State Building,
and Mr. Gilbert’s board to advise with
the architect as to the last few finishing
touches on the work he has done.
Mr. Huston, architect of the Phila-
delphia Building, is here also to receive
the pajiding from the contractor. It is
ready for the Liberty Bell, which it will
shelter during the exposition. More
than 2,000 men are now employed on
the exposition grounds, and the Midway
city 1s going up as if by magic. The
housing committee of the woman's de-
partment has already secured more than
10,000 lodgings for exposition visitors
i private families and boarding houses,
INDIAN RELICS TO ORDER.
Missouri Farmer Indicted, Charged With
Misusing the Mails.
St. Louis, Mo., (Special).—The Fed-
eral grand jury indicted Daniel Lever-
ng, a Green county farmmer, on a charge
of using the mails to defraud.
Levering’s scheme was a novel one,
and his alleged victims were mostly pro-
fessors of colleges throughout the coun
try, and collectors. Bogus Indian relics
of every description—axes, pipes, images
and various other curiosities—were pro-
duced before the jury by witnesses, wha
said Levering had told them that he dug
them out of mounds thousands of year:
old, where they had been placed by In
dians. Levering’s alleged victims pur
chased large numbers of these “relics,”
paving large prices for them.
Fatally Hart in Football
Cincinnati, Ohio, (Special). — Two
football players were probably fatally
hurt in games here. In the game be-
tween the University of Cincinnati and
the Hanover (Ind.) Collge, James Kirk-
patrick, left halfback of the University
of Cincinnati, while making a tackle, had
his spine injured and is reported to be
In a very serious condition. Louis
Runck was also carried off the field dur-
in the game between the Newport Xav-
ier College and the Newport High
Sohod- Runck was left tackle of the
Xay team and was seriously injured
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