- THE BULLETIN. FLORIN, PA. J. E. SCHROLL, - Editor and Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION: Fifty Cents Per Annum, strictly in advance. Six Months, - . - 25 Cents. Single Copies, - - - 2 Cents. Sample Copies Free. Special Rates to Yearly Advertisers. Address all communications to— THE BULLETIN, = Florin, Pa. Entered at the Postoffice at Florin as second-class mail matter. It Seems that there is such a thing as making warships too speedy. Some of England’s new torpedo boat destroy- ers are so swift that their sterns run right through the bows, with discour- aging results. By moving his hives south every winter a Missouri apiarist fools his honey makers into working all the year round. This is how ae doth the little busy bee and lazy people will think it a mean trick. Irrigation has enabled Arizona to add olives and dates to her products. If the regions now within the rain belt do not look a little out the so- called arid regions, through irrigation, will leave them in the lurch. If irri- gation is good for one section, it is good for all, and there is no reason why even the most favored regions should not arrange for irrigation, if only to be held in reserve in the event of drought, reflects the St, Louis Star. It is a curious fact that two of what may be called the greatest gun inven- tors of England of the time are Amer- ican-born men. As is well-known, the United States claims Sir Hiram Max- im as its own; while the other cele- brity who was born under the Stars Stripes is Dr. Richard J. Gatling, pmpleted his eighty-third year It is hardly necessary to say ran is the inventor of the gun, which has been pd a quarter of B62. past summer Mr. W. irator of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical society, in the course of a tour of exploration te various parts of Ohio, excavated the noted Odena Mound. This mound, situated in sight of Chillicothe, was erhaps the largest in the Scioto Val- ey. It was twenty-six feet high and 45 feet in circumferance. It contained D00 cubic yards of earth, all of which as turned over and examined. hirty-two skeletons, with many im- Jlements and ornaments w§ § Pne specimen is a _yerv fi FRENCH FLAG AGAIN WAVES OVER EMBASSY Diplomatic Relations Formally Renewed Between France and Turkey. ADMIRAL GAILLARD’'S SQUADRON. The Ships Are Bound For the Island of Syra —Miss Stone, in Another Letter, Tells of the Hardships She and Her Companion Have to Bndure—Postal Tricks of the Brigands to Conceal Their Whereabouts. Constantinople, (By Cable).—The French flag waves above the French Embassy in Constantinople, for the first time since August 26. M. Bapst, councillor at the embassy, has called upon the Ottoman minister of foreign affairs, Tewfik Pasha, thus for- mally renewing the diplomatic relations between France and Turkey. The destination of the vessels of Ad- miral Caillard’s squadror, which left the Island of Mitylene is the Island of Syra. The battleships Charlemange and Gaulois and the armored cruiser Amiral Pothuan, however, will go first to Pho- caea (about 30 miles northwest of Smyrna) to coal, afterward rejoing the squadron, Letter From Miss Stone. Sofia, Bulgaria, (By Cable).—From another letter that hasbeenreceived from Miss Ellen M. Stone, the abducted Ameri- can missionary, it appears that she is endnriugthe trials of herhard experience with fortitude, forgetting herself in her anxiety for her companion, Mme. Tsilka. Miss Stone does not dare to complain of the treatment to which they are sub- jected, but she finds the confinement irksome and the weather extremely try- ing. The tone of the latest letter received | from her is hopeful. The brigands, by dating the letters in places in Macedonia and delaying their delivery, seek to create the appearance of being far dis- tant. The Bulgarian government continues to interfere in the negotiations, with the object of forcing the transference of them across the frontier. FIRST McKINLEY MONUMENT. Unveiled at Tower, Minnesota, pressive Ceremonies. Duluth, Minn.,, (Special).—In the presence of several thousand people, as- sembled from the mining towns of north- | ern Minnesota, the first McKinley mon- ument in the United States was un- veiled and dedicated at Tower, seventy miles north of Duluth, Sunday. Gov. S. R. Van Sant and members of his staff, a number of State officials and other citizens from various parts of the State were present. Gov. Van Sant was among the speakers, and he paid a high compliment to the patriotism, rev- erence and sympathy of the sturdy min- ing people who subscribed the money. Men of all parties and creeds joined in te exercises. The singing of “Nearer, | My, God, to Thee” by the audience was one of the most impressive features of the day. The monument is a simple shaft, 18 feet high, standing on a pedestal of con- crete and iron ore, and cost $12,000. BOERS DYING BY HUNDREDS. English Newspaper Shows Unp_the Horaible Work of the gs f 4 SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic. Morgan Harrington and Robert Tay- lor were attacked near Fayette, Miss., by Walter Bailey, Frank Peoples and another man whose name is unknown. Knives were used. Ha:rington was killed and Taylor mortally wounded. The police of Atlanta, Ga., arrested J. H. Alexander, a colored employee of the United States Government, on the charge of stealing $4,700 from the satchel of Major Stevens, the army paymaster. Miss Kate Ness, after a hearing in York, Pa., was held in default of $1,500 bail on the charge of shooting Con- tractor Horace C. Eppley. Four girls and a man were injured by the explosion of a cylinder in the Lib- erty Chemical Company Building, in Philadelphia. Early Ferguson, colored, who escaped from the county jail at Salem, Va.. was brought back with a rope tied around his neck. Mrs. Mary Hearn, of Buena Vista, Va., was burned to death, fire being com- municated to her clothes from a lamp. The charred remains of Thomas Dab- ney, colored, were found in the ruins of the Habliston Building, in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Charles M. Smith, who belonged to a prominent family of Winchester, Va., died at his home, in Franklin, La. Columbia University authorities deny that a chair in that institution has been offered to Minister Wu. Three out of five of the convicts who escaped from the stockade near Leaven- worth, Kan., were killed and the other two wounded in a fight with a posse. The five men had taken refuge in a barn. A secret inquest into the deaths af Mrs. Mary E. Gibb and Mrs. Annie Gordon, alleged to have died of poison administered by Jane Toppan, was be- gun by the coroner at Buzzards Bay, Mass. ports that the sugar and coffee crops will be heavy Fifty thousand children are now attending the schools, and 200,~ { 000 are unable to obtain tuition. | James Cullahan was found not guilty | of perjury, thus being acquitted practi- cally the second time of complicity- in the Cudahy kidnapping. | - Mrs. Archibald S. White, wite of the | president of the National Salt Compa- ny, slipped on her bathroom floor and fractured her skull. Viola Bender, aged 15 years, while in a rage, took strychnine, near Martins- | | burg, W. Va., and died from its effects. | With Im- | to the Supreme Court of the United i States. | John D. Sarninghausen, a German ed- | itor, died at Fort Wayne, Ind. aged 82 | years. | Adolph F. Kraus, the sculptor, died at the Danvers (Mass.) Insane Hospital. The battle-ship Illinois will be sent to Algiers to test the new steel dry-dock. Admiral Schley has accepted an invi- tation to go to Nashville in January. Ambark Benhady, an acrobat, killed by a train at Chester, Pa. Qil has been found in Smyth county, Virginia. Fire in Bradford, Pa., caused a loss of $150,000. The police arrested in St. Louis Laura Bullion and a man named Longbaugh, who are believed to have participated in the express robbery on the Great North- ern Railroad near Wagner, Mont. Fifteen thousand acres of coal lands in Hancock county, West Virginia, and in Green township, Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, were sold to the United States Steel Corporation at $25 an acre. Melvin Weisentale, 15 years old, was she atally wounded in Hanover, am illo was wr) Governor Hunt, of Porto Rico, re-- T0 DISPROVE KOCH'S THEORY A Trained Nurse Becomes a Martyr to Science. GERMS WERE TAKEN FROM A COW. The Animal First Given Tuberculosis and Viss King is Inoculated With Infection From It —If Dr. Barney's Statements Are True, the Health Authorities Say He ls Liable to Criminal Prosecution. New York (Special). —Dr. George D. Barney, who has confirmed the report that he inoculated a young woman with germs taken from a tuberculous cow, expecting to prove by the development of positive symptoms in his subject the falsity of Professor Koch's theory that bovine tuberculosis is not communicable to human beings, denied that there was imminent danger to the patient in his experiment. Miss Emma H. King, a trained nurse, who offered herself for the demonstra- tion, has formally absolved him from all possible blame should the opposite prove to be the case. Had the subject not yielded herself voluntarily it is proba- ble that the Brooklyn department of the Board of Health would have proceeded against Dr. Barney, but it was declared today that the official’s hands are tied. “While, of course, there is no gainsay- ing the fact that a certain danger is at- tached to the subject,” said Dr. Barney at his residence, in Brooklyn, “it must be remembered that thc mere appear- ance of positive tuberculosis symptoms is all that is necessary to demonstrate the incorrectness of Prof. Koch's theory. “In other words, as soon as the indi- cations of a tuberculosis condition man- ifest themselves the subject will be put under treatment, and, as she is unusual- ly healthy and possessed of a splendid constitution, there is no reason to sup- pose she will not be restored to her nor- mal condition.” For several years Dr. Barney has limi- ted his practice to diseases of the chest. and has, he says, met with gratifying re- sults in the treatmesst of tuberculosis in its earlier stages. It is that fact, he says, which emboldened him to make the ex- periment. He is confident that his treat- ment will be efficacious in immediately curing Miss King, should the expected developments take place, but should her The Ellis Glenn case has been carried | case become aggravated he admits he would be as powerless to handle it as would any other physician who believes that well-advanced consumption 1s 1n- curable. Miss King is carefully following the physician’s orders, pending a result from the experiment. Beyond a general cau- tion regarding her diet and her outdoor exercise, however, she has not been re- stricted. Her condition is examined twice a day. Miss King is perhaps 28 years old, with a trim figure. She is well educated and vivacious in manner. She lives with her family in Manhattan Borough. WALLER WINS HARD FIGHT. Carries a Samar Stronghold After a Long truggle—Two Americans Killed. Manila, (By Cable).—Advices from Catalogan, capital of Samar Island, re- port that Major Littleton W. T. Waller attacked a force of natives occupying a strong position: at Sojton, two 3-inch guns being used to shell their strong- old. ghont the a NAVY'S GROWTH. Rear Admiral Bradford Presents Some Infer- esting Facts in His Report. Washington, D. C. (Special).—A striking illustration of the growth of the American Navy is presented in the single statement in the annual report of Rear- Admiral R. B. Bradford, Chief of the Equipmetit Bureau of the Navy, that he spent $2,273,111 last fiscal year for 324,- 108 tons of coal at an average of $7.01 per ton. : The report says that this was nearly 95,713 more tons of coal than were used during the preceding fiscal year. Ten years ago the coal consumption was 73,- 000 tons per annum. The domestic coal costs $6.20 per ton, and the foreign coal, of which there were used 105,066 tons, cost $8.50 per ton. Admiral Bradford has scattered Amer- ican coal all over the world wherever suitable storage could be found. He has placed 12,000 tons at Yokohama and 5,000 tons at Pichilinque, Mexico, and he has sent large quantities to Guam and to the Philippines. He carried 9,000 tons by water from the Atlantic coast to Mare Island, California, where it came into competition with English Cardiff coal. They have averaged the same in cost, viz., $0.29 per ton, but at present, owing to the scarcity of American freight vessels, the best Cardiff coal is considerably cheaper at Mare Island. It is recommended that two large steam 10,000-ton colliers be built to keep de- pots supplied in time of peace and to ac- company the fleets in time of war. Summarizing the work accomplished during the year the report takes up Ca- vite and says that the bureau is about to open bids for a 45,000-ton coaling station there. Efforts have been made to obtain a site for a coaling station at Cebu, buf thus far without success. Coaling sta tions have been located at Port Isabella Bassalin Island, and at Polloc, Minda- nao. A complete station has been estab- lished at Yokohama, Japan, and it is now fully stocked with coal. The same state- ment is true at Pichilinque, Mexico where, through the courtesy of the Mex- ican Government, coal and colliers of the | United States have been admitted to the station without port or customs of any kind. EARL LI ANGERED BY RUSSIA. A Violent Dispute Caused the Aged Vice: roy’s Death. Pekin, (By Cable).—A violent dis- pute with M. Paul Lesar, Russian min ister to China, over the Manchurian Treaty appears to have been the immedi- ate cause of the death of Li Hung Chang. The diplomatic events preceding this tragic climax have enabled Japan for a moment to frustrate the designs of Rus [ sia. A fortnight ago the Japanese Lega- | tion secured a reliable outline of the [terms of the treaty, and thereupon de: | manded that the Chinese plenipotentia- | ries officially lay before them the text, basing the demand upon the allegation that Japanese interests were involved in any change of the status of Manchuria The Chinese plenipotentiaries refused to comply with this demand. Thereupon the Japanese government from Tokic comunicated with the Southern viceroys and induced them to use their influence with the Empress Dowager against the treaty. In the meantime the Empress Dowager instructed Li Hung Chang tc comunicate the treaty, after certain mod- ifications, to the ministers of the pow- ers, and if they did not object to sign the same. Li Hung Chang visited M. explained g e incg USED THE SHERIFF AS A SHIELD Escaped Convicts in Kansas Capture Their Pursuer. POSSE WERE FINALLY ELUDED. Arms Seized by Men Trying to Gain Liberty— Farmer Wooster Wounded—Fruitiess Effort to Regain Custody of Two Prisoners Who Had Been Confined at Fort Leavenworth— Mrs. Wooster Fainted During Excitement. Topeka, Kan. (Special). — Sheriff Cook and Deputy Sheriff Williams, of Shawnee county, were captured at Pau- line, five miles from Topeka, by two e¢s- saped eonvicts from the Fort Leaven- worth Military Prison and held prisen- ers for several hours in the farmhouse of a man named Wooster. ; The convicts escaped through a line of police sent from Topeka to reinforce the Sheriff. Both were slightly wounded. Wooster was badly wounded by one of the convicts when he tried to fire on them. Mrs. Wooster and Sheriff Cools were held before the convicts as a shiel# | to make their: escape. At 2.30 o'clock in the afternoon severe farm boys living near Pauline learned that the convicts were in the neighbor- hood. Hastily forming a posse armed with target rifles, pistols and clubs they went in search. Neither of the convicts was armed, and they were unable to make a stand. Later Sheriff Cook and Deputy Williams arrived. Coming upon the convicts both officers fired, wound- ing the men, but not disabling them. The convicts then fled through a small opening in the timber and ran into the house of Farmer Wooster. Sheriff Cook telephoned to Topeka for assistanee and then took up the chase. Thinking the convicts had run around the house, Cook darted through the open door, intending to surprise them at the rear door. But instead of this the eonviets had gone into the house and the officer almost fell into their arms. Sheriff Cook was ordered to give up his gun, which he did. Deputy Williams by this time had reached the house and entered without knowing what had hap- pened inside, and he, too, was made eap- tive by the convicts. One of the convicts told Sheriff Cook that he would be killed if he made the slightest move looking toward their eap- ture. In the meantime the policemen on the outside had surrounded the building, but were afraid to make the move lest Cook and Williams would suffer. Then after exacting a promise from the Sheriff that he would not permit any of the officers outside to fire on them they started for the open. As they left the house the frightened farmer, his wife and the submissive Sheriff before them, the convicts passed between a cor- don of police who easily could have cap- tured them and started for the railroad track. The Sheriff in turn had exacted a promise from the police that they would not molest the eonviets, and they did not. 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