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Canada has 2260 miles of navigabla
waters. That! is, from the Atlantic
ocean to the had of Lake Superior, a
vessel may sail that many miles with-
in her own tephitory.
d butter state” is the way
will be known hereafter.
a name that she is rightly en-
o. Last year she ground out
26,630,500 barrels of flour and churned
60,000,000 pounds of butter.
“Bread :
Minnes
Thi
Before leaving for the Nofth Pole
in a balloppn two years ago Andree
“If You have no news of me
July, 1901, you may give
And it begins to
have to take his
said:
by the end o
me up for d
look like we
word for it/
Norway, which has
just beén compleled, gives it a popula-
tion Jt 2,200,000 \ against 2,110,000 in
189 This is an average of 16.80 in-
haljitants to the square mile, making
wrway the most thinly settled coun-
Sg “try in Europe.
A 999-year lease expired in London
the other day and the property revert-
ed to the origir % awner, the chapter
of Westminster p.fish. This demon-
strates that the church is more sta-
ble than man. The officials who signed
the lease long since passed away, but
the church still lives.
Reports of cases of hydrophobia a.
current. It is significant that among
them is one in which it is admitted that
the disease was purely imaginary, and
that the victim was simply frightened
and worried to death. If the truth
could be revealed, such would prob-
ably be found to be the fact in many
act is that only two
ent McKinley's cab-
niversity education.
} wealth. The secre-
sury began life as a
secretary of war as
he postmaster as a
e secretary of the navy
chore boy” on a farm, the secre-
of agriculture as a plowman,
the secretary of the interior as a
esman.
xperts who have looked into the
latter carefully say that the consump-
ion of oatmeal is falling off in Scot-
and in proportion to the population,
and that it is no longer the distinct-
ive national aish in the country of
Burns and Scott. But whatever our
Scoten friends may be eating in these
days, they are holding their own in
the world quite as well as their fore-
fathers held theirs. Brains will tell
with any diet.
The ease of locomotion and change
has probably been the principal cause
of the vast herding of human beings
in great cities. The human stream has
flowed resistlessly toward industrial
and distributing centres, and many
new varieties of experience have come
into being. The rapid social currents
set up in all parts of the world ‘are
becoming ever more complex and diffi-
cult to unravel, and the work of the
economist and social scientist is cor-
respondingly difficult, remarks the
Christian Register.
Cemeteries are choked with the
graves of men that brought them-
selves to premature death through
worry. And the abodes of the living
are densely habited by half wrecks
and whole failure that came to this
melancholy condition through the same
agonizing process. Human records
will never show the number and class
of the millions that came into the
world with goodly prospects and fair
opportunities, but that went down to
defeat und weight of woes that
were never ized, or through the
slaying suspeWe which was more po-
tent to blast afd intimidate than would
have been the actual happening of the
danger feared. There is very little
doubt among medical men and even
ypskilled laymen thattheemotioncom-
honly designated as worry has a pow-
ifr as devastating and much more per-
rwork, feflects a writer i
THE BOER FARMS
WILL BE SOLD.
Lord Kitchener Proceeds to Carry Out
Proclamation.
A LETTER FROM SCHALK-BURGER.
A Pamphlet Has Been Published im Pretoria
Under Lord Kitchener's Authority Con-
taining a Notice of the Permanent Ban-
ishment of Several Boer Leaders Captured
Since September 15.
Pretoria (By Cable).—A proclamation
has been issued providing for the sale
of the property of burghers still in the
field, in accordance with the terms of
Lord Kitchener's recent proclamation.
A pamphlet has been published here
under Lord Kitchener's authority con-
taining a notice of the permanent ban-
ishment of several Boer leaders captured
since September 15, and also a long let-
ter from Lord Kitchener replying to a
communication frem Acting President
Schalk-Burger, of the Transvaal, receiv-
ed Sept. 5. Lord Kitchener promises
to send the Schalk-Burger letter to the
Imperial Government, which, he says,
reciprocates the Boer statesman’s de-
sire for peace. He then proceeds to
charge that the responsibility for the
war rests with the burghers, “whose in-
vasion of unprotected British territory
opened the saddest page in South Afri-
can history.” Lord Kitchener quotes a
letter from a member of the Volksraad
to a member of the Cape Colony As-
sembly declaring that ‘the time is ripe
to drive the English from South Af-
rica.”
In conclusion Lord Kitchener de-
clares that, having annexed the two re-
Publics to Great Britain, he ‘cannot
reak faith with the people who have
shown loyalty to the new regime.”
MR. McKINLEY'S WILL.
Estate of $225,000 Bequeathed to His Wife—
Annuity of $1,000 to His Sister.
Canton, O. (Special).—Secretary Cor-
telyou came here to assist Mrs. McKin-
ley in disposing of matters connected
with the late President's estate. After
. meeting Mrs. McKinley the question of
filing the will was taken up. The try-
ing task of reading it to her was under-
taken by the faithful secretary. Mrs.
McKinley made a heroic effort to bear
up, and succeeded in doing so, although
the ordeal was difficult for her. All
legal formalities necessary for her to
subscribe to were disposed of.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon Judge
Day and Secretary Cortelyou went to the
office of the probate judge and offered
bate. They carried with them the fol-
lowing :
the administration of hi» e#tate and rec-
Day and George B. Cottelyou as admin-
instrators with the will annexed.”
This ‘recommendation bears the date
of: September 27, 1901.
___Esllowing is the text of President Mc-
inley’s wil.
“Executive Mansion, W
C.—I publish the follow:
will and testament, hereb
former wills:
“To my beloved wife, Ida S. McKin-
ley, I bequeath all of my real estate,
wherever situated, and the income of
any personal property of which I may
be possessed at death, during her na-
tural life. I make the following charge
upon all of my property, both real and
personal. To pay my mother during her
life $1000 a year, and at her death said
sum to be paid to my sister, Helen Mc-
Kinley.
insufficient to keep my wife in great
comfort and pay the annuity above pro-
vided, then I direct that such of my prop-
erty be sold so as to make a sum ade-
quate for both purposes. Whatever
property remains at the death of my
wife I give to my brother and sisters,
share and share alike. My chief concern
is that my wife, from my estate, shall
have all she requires for her comfort
and pleasure, and that my mother shall
be provided with whatever money she
requires to make her old age comfortable
and happy.
“Witness my hand and seal, this 22d
cay of October, 1897, to my last will and
testament, made at the city of Wash-
ington, District of Columbia.
“WILLIAM McKINLEY.
(Seal)
“The foregoing will was witnessed by
~
request of the testator, and his name
signed hereto in our presence and our
signature hereto in his presence.
“GEORGE B. CORTELYOU,
“CHARLES LOEFFLER.”
It is given out on authority that the
McKinley estate will total $225,000 to
$250,000, including life insurance of
estate consists of real estate here and
contiguous to Canton and of deposits
in Washington banks. The will is in the
President's own handwriting, and is on
Eecutive Mansion letter paper.
THIRTEEN MEN DROWNED.
Prospectors Were Caught in Cloudburst in
Texas.
San Antonio, Texas (Special).—News
has just been received here of a terrible
Rio Grande river. Thirteen men who
were prospecting for cinnibar lost their
lives in floods caused by a waterspout
or cloudburst.
The men were in two parties camped
one mile apart in a dry ravine known
as Alaminto creek, in which there had
been no water for 15 months on account
of the drought.
o'clock. There was a cloudburst several
miles up the ravine. A volume of water
of the ravine and swept over the men in
the two camps before they were aware
of their danger. Al were drowned. and
only six bodies have been recovered.
Filipino Official Accused.
Manila (By Cable).—Juan Cardona,
na, Province of Tarlac, and who was ap-
pointed secretary of the Tarlac provin-
cial government, has been arrested on the
them.
some saying they have even surrendered
title deeds to property.
natives holding pro-American views.
the will of President McKinley for pro-
ME Ida S. McKinley, widow of Wil-
liam McKinley, deceased, hereby decline |
ommend the appointment of William R. |
| and name
Loft
If the income from property be
us this 22d day of October, 1897, at the |
$67,000. Aside from this insurance, the |
disaster in Presidio county, near the |
They were asleep at g |
20 feet high washed down the channel |
who until recently wasPresideni of Gero- |
charge of accusing persons of crimes |
for the purpose of extorting money from ;
More than 50 persons declare they |
have been robbed by him in this way. !
: Cardona had |
been considered one of the most reliable |
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
Frederick W. Hartman, an old farm-
er, living near Hobart, Ind. fatally
wounded his wife and then committed
suicide.
A sensation was caused in Pittsburg
by the removal of 23 officers and em-
ployees of the Department of Public
Safety.
In a quarrel over a crap game Willie
Jordan shot Benjamin Walker through
the heart at Norfolk, Va., and escaped.
The jury in Newport News, Va., that
tried Russell Van Arsdale for the mur-
der of his uncle was unable to agree.
In a shooting affray in Callaway, Ky.,
Josiah Ely was killed and Joe Gay fatal-
ly wounded.
In a fight between strikers and po-
licemen in San Francisco seven men
were wounded, one probably fatally.
Four special policemen and a recently
discharged naval man were assaulted by
a mob.
verely that he died in Harrison county.
Texas.
into the house of another negro he shot
and killed one of them.
H. G. Westall, of Asheville, N. C,
was arrested at Knovxille, Tenn., charg-
ed with having used the United States
mails for carrying checks with the in-
tention to defraud.
Rev. Dr. Wm. C. Gray, editor for
many years of the Interior, a Presby-
terian publication, died at Oak Park,
Chicago, at the age of 70 years.
Capt. Fred. H. Smith and his crew of
30 men, of New Bedford, Mass., had a
terrible experience in a storm on the
whaling bark Kathleen. /
Jacob A. Blodt, a prominent citizen
of Cleveland, Ohio, out on bail on the
charge of embezzlement, committed sui-
cide. :
Edwin M. Clark, connected with/ the
Buffalo Exposition, shot his wif¢ and
committed suicide at a hotel in that City.
The guard detailed to watch the! grave
of President McKinley is prepaying for
a year's stay at the cemetery. /
A passenger train on the/ Wabash
Railroad was wrecked 11 miles south-
east of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Three
persons were fatally injnred, 16 seri-
ously hurt and a numbér of others
slightly injured.
Citizens of Chicago have started a_se-
cret organization knowyg as the “Re-
public,” which is to be#extended over
the country with the view to protecting
life and property from gnarchists.
James P. Thomakh.
{ roy C. Partridge Bank, of Ovid, N. Y,,
was indicted on the charge of embezzle-
| ment. J
{ Mrs. Lyon Pu
4 ;
llman secured a divorce
White men whipped a negro so se- |
When they attempted to break |
cashier of the Le- |
Manila (By Cable).—A disastrous
| fight between United States troops and
Filipino revelutionists took place at
Balangiga, on the Island of Samar. 4
A large body of Filipinos attacked
Company C of the Ninth Infantry, kill-
ing 48 and wounding 11. The company
was at breakfast when attacked and
made a determined resistance, but the
| natives were in overwhelming numbers.
The 24 survivors have arrived at Bassey.
They include the 11 wounded. The
strength of the company was 72.
The survivors included Capt. Thomas
W. Connell, First Lieut. Edward A.
| Bumpus. and Dr. R. S. Grisweld, sur-
geen.
Capt. Edwin V. Baokmiller, of the
Ninth Infantry, reports that General
Hughes is assembling a force to attack
the natives. The latter captured all the
[in Chicago frojm George M. Pullman, |
San Francsico.
{ who is now in = :
d Brockway, wile of a
Mrs. Howa
i well-knawn mfisician of New York, and |
[a railroad trfain on the New Yo
i She had been
| with melanfcholia.
ccepted Gompers' challenge |
Shaffer :
Simon Burns as his member
against the presidents of the
n of Labor and the United |
fers. :
e inquiry into the
disaster, held in Victoria,
steamer
B.
1C., 1
[and pilot were drunk.
Smith Jones, 13 years old, was sen- i
nced to prison for life in Booneville, |
[ te
| Ind., for killing a lad of the same age.
Foreign.
Henry Vignaud, vice-president of the
| Americanists’ Society of Paris, who has
made a life study of the early history of
| America, claims that Columbus had
| positive information as to the existence
{of Jands to the westward.
The Paris police suppressed a satiri- |
{ cal paper containing scandalous car-
toons of Queen Victoria, King Edward,
Lord Kitchener and others,
| upon the war in South Africa.
>rince Chun,
| the Emperor of China.
Fighting has occurred between Chris- |
{ tians and Mussulmans at Beirut, Syria.
A force of 1500 Boers, commanded by
General Botha, attacked Poritalia, on
the border of Zululand. They were re-
pulsed, with the loss of Commandant
Opperman and 19 Burghers. The Brit
ish losses were 1 officer and 11 men
killed and 5 officers and 38 men wound-
ed.
British government officials deny that
any British protectorate over Koweyt,
the proposed terminus on the Persian
Gulf of the Bagdad Railroad, is con-
templated.
London newspapers continues to re-
port that Lord Kitchener will resign as
commander-in-chief in South Africa be-
cause, as one paper puts it, he desires
more serious penalties for rebellion and
wants better reinforcements. Major
Burnham, the American scout, who was
on the staff of Lord Roberts, has been
given the honor of a companionship of
the Distinguished Service Order.
General Gaselee, who was command-
er of the British forces in China, praises
the American military authorities for
their well-equipped hospitals and com-
missariat in China.
King Edward received Mr. Choate,
the United States Ambassador, at the
Marlborough House and renewed his
expressions of sorrow for Mr. McKin-
ley's assassination.
The Chinese Government is consider-
ing a Russian offer for the purchase of
the Pei Yang Squadron, consisting of
10 warships.
The Bulgarian bandits who kidnaped
Miss Helen H. Stone, the American
Missionary, demanded £235,000 for her
release.
The Cunard steamers Campania and
| Lucania communicated by the wireless
i telegraphy at sea a distance of 65 miles. |
| Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian dramat-
| ist and poet. is critically ill.
Financial
Standard Oil shares declined 30 points
last week.
Erie's net earnings in August increas-
ed $221,873 over the same month of last |
year.
During September the deposits at na-
383.000.
The loans of the Imperial Bank of
Germany which throughout the crisis
cate $225,000,000. as compared
1 $183.600,000 a year ago.
bearing |
head of the Chinese |
| Conzinigsion of Expiation, left Berlin |
[for China by command of his brother, |
tional banks were increased by Secre- | i
tary Gage from $96,373.000 to $100,- | her passengers was Consul McCook, of | of the burglars was fatally wounded. He
daughter of Ojtis B. Boise, recently ap- |
pointed to tHe chair of harmony and |
composition Jat the Peabody Conserve- |
| tory of Musifc, was killed by a fall from |
rk Cen- |
afflicted |
mmittee to decide upon his |
s testified that both the captain |
New York (Special).—In the closest
an
{ the old America’s Cup the white flyer |
| Columbia beat the British challenger
over a wire svard and leeward course of
30 nautice«r miles by the narrow, heart-
breaking®““/argin of 39 seconds. As Lip-
ton’s latest aspirant for cup honors must
| allow the defender 43 seconds on account
| of the extra 833 square feet of canvas in
sh
{ her sail area, the official record, under
the rules, gives Columbia the victory by
I minute 22 seconds.
As a spectacle the contest was superb.
{| From the time the two sky-scraping
| racers crossed the starting line until they
| fled across the finish line, four and a half
hours later, the result was in doubt, and
the excitement aboard the excursion
fleet increased until men became frenzied
and women almost hysterical.
So evenly matched were these two sci-
entific racing machines that never after
they started were the rival skippers out
of each other’s hail, and more than three-
quarters of the time they were so close
that Charlie Barr. who had the tiller
aboard the American, could have tossed
CZOLGOSZ SENTENCED
To Die In Electric Chair Week Beginaing
October 28.
Buffalo, N. Y. (Special).—Leon F.
Czolgosz, the assassin of President Mc-
Kinley, was sentenced to be electrocut-
ed in Auburn State prison in the week
beginning October 28, the earliest time
permissible under law.
Before sentence was passed the assas-
sin showed a desire to speak, but he
seemed unuable to get his voice above
a whisper and his words were repeated
to the court by his counsel.
“There was no one else but me,” he
said in a whisper. “No one else told
me to do it and no one paid me to do
it. I was not told anything about that
crime and I never thought anything
about the murder until a couple of days
before I committed the crime.”
Groans With Terror at Auburn.
Auburn, N. Y. (Special).—At 3.14
o'clock Friday morning the train from
Buffalo bearing Leon F. Czolgosz, as-
sassin of President McKinley, pulled into
the Central Station here.
| Czolgosz was taken to the main hall of
{ the prison and was seated on a long
| bench. He allowed his head to fall on
| the bench, his eyes closed, and he began
| More Gold Comes In.
{ Vancouver, B. C. (Special). — The
| steamer City of Seattle has arrived from
| Skagway with 314 passengers. Crowds
are now coming out from Dawson, and
| 200 were to have arrived in Skagway on
the day that the Seattle left. The steam-
er had $300,000 worth of gold. Among
| Dawson. who is on his way to Washing-
ton on Government business. He says
much excitement is reported at Atlin on
| district.
THE INSUBGENTS DE
Thirty-Seven American Sold
Wounded—Company
OLY BLOW.
led and Eleven
jreakfast. / |
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stores and ammunition of the comp¥.1y,
and all its rifles except 12. 4
Capt. Lawrence J. Hearn, 6. the
Twenty-first Infantry, reports 7 sharp
engagement with Filipinos near Cande-
laria, Luzon, the Americans long one
killed and two wounded. Tle Ameri-
cans captured 30,000 pounds of rice and
several hundred rounds of mmunitien.
Washington (Special).—The War De-
partment has received the ‘ollowing dis-
patch from. General Chaff:e, confirming
the news of she disaste. at Balangiga:
“Hughes reports following from Bas-
sey, Southern Samar? 24 men Ninth
Regiment, United States Infantry—ir
wounded—have just:arrived from Bal-
angiga; remainder company killed. In-
surgents secured all company supplies
and rifles except f2. Company was at-
tacked during breakfast morning Sep-
tember 28; company 72 strong; officers
Thomas W. Coanelly (captain), Ed-
ward A. Bumpus (first lieutenant) and
Dr.R. S Griowold (major surgeon) es-
caped.”
~ COLUMBIA WINS FIRST CUP RACE.
Challenger Led by 41 Seconds at the Outer Mark—
The Contest the ost Exciting in History.
5 agers |
If NAR T Zan TE
THE COLUMBIA.
la biscuit to Captain Sycamore on the |
d most soul-stiring race ever sailed for | Shamrock. For miles as they beat their P
way to the outer mark the black shadow |
of Shamrock’s huge club-topsail was
lumbia, for an hour on the run home, |
with the two yachts flying like scared
| deer before the following wind, they ran |
{ almost beam to beam, as if they had been |
| harnessed tbgether.
The memory of the races between the |
Genesta and the Puritan, in 1885, and
Lord Dunraven’s first Valkyrie and the
ured by yatchsmen up to this time, will
be forgotten after this magnificent duel.
It will live forever in the memory of
those who witnessed it. In the years to
come the yachtsmen of the two nations
will recount the thrilling story of the
celebrated first race between the Co-
lumbia and the Shamrock II., sailed off
New York harbor in the first year of the
nwe century.
Yacht Start. Finish.
Shamrock ...11.00.14 3.31.58
Columbia ....11.00.16 3.31.23 4.30.22
The next race will be over a triangu-
lar course ten miles to a leg.
Time.
to groan. While his handcuffs were be-
ing unlocked his muscles twitched and
his whole body quivered. .
The handcuffs unlocked, Czolgosz was
raised to a sitting posture, but he had
not strength to support himself. Prison
keepers raised him to his feet. but his
legs hung limp and he was half dragged,
half carried, moaning as if in agony,
into the office of Deputy Warden Tup-
per, a dozen yards away. Keepers be-
gan stripping him of his clothes, and he
groaned louder than ever.
Warden Meade feared total collapse
and summoned the prison physician, Dr.
Gerin, but by the time that officer ar-
rived Czolgosz was clad in the regula-
tion shoddy suit for condemned men
and after treatment was apparently bet-
ter. When he was assured that he was
not to be harmed he became calmer, and
45 minutes later he was taken to his cell.
Men Hurled in All Directions.
New York (Special).—Six men and
possibly seven were killed and seven in-
jured by the explosion of an oil tank of
the Essex and Hudson Gas Company,
at Newark, N. J. The tank which ex-
ploded was one of a number of im-
mense steel reservoirs which was un-
dergoing its periodical cleaning, it hav-
ing been emptied of its oil in the morn-
ing.
Burglars Were Defeated.
| Armada, Mich. (Special). — Three
burglars broke into the general store of
D. H. Barrows, where the postoffice is
i located, and dynamited the safe. The
| explosion awakened the town, and a
| number of citizens were soon on the
street. In the battle which followed one
gives his name as John Graham. The
burglars left the store and started for the
railroad track after several shots had
has been loaning money freely, aggre- | account of the discovery of what is be- | been fired into them by citizens. A run-
with | lieved to be the “mother lode” of the | ning fight ensued, in which Graham was
{ wounded.
Brevets for N
djutant General Corbin
urd of Brevets, recently af
«eet at the!War D mead
vote its attention solely e cases of
officers and enlisted men Mfho especially
distinguished themselve$ in the cam-
paigns in China and the Philippines. It
will have nothing to do with respect to
the case of officers who rendered special
service in the West Indian campaign.
The latter class of cases was disposed
of by a similar board, which concluded
its sessions over a year ago.
While the fact that a brevet had been
recommended to Congress for Colonel
Roosevelt was published at the time
the nominations were sent to the
Senate, it appears that the facts that
there were two separate recommenda-
tions, and the exact basis for the board
action were not made public. Therefore
the Adjutant General furnished these
transcripts from the proceedings of the
board:
“Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roose
velt, First United States Volunteer Cav-
alry, to be breveted colonel United
States Volunteers for gallantry in bat-
tle, Las Guasimas, Cuba, June 24, 1898.”
“For gallantry in battle, Santiago de
Cuba, July 1, 1898, Lieutenant Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt to be breveted
brigadier general.” :
Armor Will Not Delay.
Armor will no longer delay the com-
pletion of battleships and armored cruis-
ers under construction for the American
pited to
would de-
avy. ‘
Rear-Admiral O'Neill, Chief or Ord-
nance, has received written assurances
from the Carnegie Steel Company and
the Bethlehem Iron Company that they
will shortly begin supplying the Govern-
ment with $00 tons per month each, This
is almost double the quantity that is now
furnished. FE
In order to make these deliveries if
will be necessary for the companies ta
increase their plants. This will mean
a considerable expense, but in view of
the size of the contracts on hand and
the prospect that at the coming session
of Congress additional armored ships
will be anthorized the companies are
willing to incur it.
For Rural Free Delivery.
The official estimates for the fiscal
year beginning July 1. 1902, which Post-
master-General Charles Emory Smith
i will submit to Congress at the opening
of the session, call for an aggregate of
$6,250,000 for rural free delivery service
painted on the big mainsail of the Co- |
Vigilant, in 1893, which have been treas- |
4.31.44 |
throughout the country. This is an in.
| crease of $2,750,000 over the expense of
i that rapidly growing service for the cur-
| rent year. ;
t The total for the free delivery service
| proper, which is that operated in cities,
is $18,745,000, an increase of 9 per cent.
{ The grand aggregate for the entire postal
! iree delivery service, inclusive of hoth
! the free delivery and rural free delivery,
1 ic $24,005,000.
Cotton Ginned in the United States.
i
}
' The Census Bureau report just issued
| on the cotton ginned in the United
| States shows the crop of 1900 to have
been 10,486,148 commercial bales (bales
! as marketed), equivalent to 10,123,027]
bales of the 500-pound standard, or t
{ 5:001,513,204 pounds. his 1s an ing
of 840,174 commercial bales, or
| than 8 per cent. in excess of th
crop.
| Presidential Appointments.
The President has made the fq
appointments: :
| State— (George N. Dale, ot
| United States consul at Coaticod
t bec, Canada. ,
War—Lucien Bre
ieutenant, artillery corp wt
Capital News in General.
Private Peter J. Devine, Troop H,
Eleventh Cavalry, was tried by court-
{ martial for expressing satisfaction over
the assassination of President McKin-
ley, and sentenced to be dishonorably
| discharged and to one year's imprison-
i ment at hard labor.
| The State subcommittee of the Com-
| mittee on Military Affairs began the in-
| vestigatjon of the charges preferred
| against - Lieutenant Colonel H. O. S.
| Heistand.
Capt. F. E. Chadwick, president of the
Naval War College, announced the close
of the summer course of instruction at
| that institution.
The Sultan of Turkey appointed Alex-
ander R. Webb honorary consul general
at New York and decorated him. :
Members of the Senate committee
| made arrangements to hear the charges
preferred against Lieut.-Col. H. O. S.
Heistand.
President Roosevelt has assured the
friends of Commissioner of Pensions
Evans that he will not be removed.
Some unknown person sent $6150
in cash to Secretary Gage, the amount
he had deirauded the government in
customs duties.
Assistant Secretary to the President
Barnes asked to be transferred to a po-
sition in one of the executive depart-
ments.
The Census Bureau issued a bul-
letin showing the paper and wood pulp
industry to be capitalized at $167,507,713.
The receipts during August from the
War Revenue Act were $6,000,000.
|
Qur New Possessions.
A secret society, including members
of the native constabulary, who were
recently armed, has been discovered at
Tarlac. in the Philippines, the object of
which is the slaughter of the whites.
The worst form of guerilla warfare also
prevails in Tabayas and Bantagas.
{ The investigation into the Poniatow-
iki concession in the Island of Pala-
wan. which the Washington govern-
ment referred to the Philippine Com-
mission, is nearly completed. The Sul-
tan oi Sulu has communicated with
Governor Taft and Secretary of War
Root. asserting his sovereignty over the
island and indicating his desire for its
early occupation by Prince Poniatow-
i
Slain by Her Brothers?
De Soto, Mo. (Special).—Evidence
was presented to Coroner Taylor that
John Meloy and Mrs. Sarah Uren were
murdered in the woman's house. Wil-
liam and Daniel Greenhill. brothers of
the woman, are under close guard. They
say that excitement led them to mutilate
with hatchet and axe what they believed
to be their sister's dead bedy and that
of Meloy. The testimony of three doc-
tors who examired the bodies, however,
was to the effec that the haichet wounds
in the headsWhad been inflicted before the
bullets were fired inte the brains of the
victims.