stl some towns.”
Down in Georgia the other day, ip
the good city of Macon, they were
telling of experiences during the
earthquake disturbances of 1886. This
was given by an old town official:
“The council was in session that night,
and when the quake shook the city
tall from basement to attic the coun: |
cilmen ran out, thinking the house
would topple over.
the meeting, as can be seen by the
records, conclude with the following
“On motion of the city
sentence:
hall the council adjourned.’ ”
It is hard for Americans to believe
that only 40 years ago the use of bank
checks in England for sums less than
$25 was unknown.
to believe the statement made in Eng
lish papers that the late chancellol
of the exchequer supposed that it was
the rule still. “He was not alone ir
ois ignorance,” says The Spectator
“Atleast two Liberal statesmen of cabi
net rank shared his delusion. ‘Did
rou ever know a check drawn for less
than £5 was the question one of
these gentlemen put to a colleague
on the front opposition bench during
the course of the debate. It seems in:
credible to any one fcquainted with
modern business methods that such
ignorance should have prevailed in
high quarters.”
Prophecies, even when the prophets
are politicians, sometimes come true
Here is a notable Gladstone utterance
which we can now look back upon ar
quite prophetic, remarks the London
| may make use of her greatest ability
without impoverishing her strength or |
St. James Gazette. Speaking or writ
ing 25 years ago of the “menace which,
in the prospective development of her
resources, America offers to the com
mercial pre-eminence of England,” the
Grand Old Man predicted that Amer
ica, and America alone, “can, and
probably will, wrest from us that com:
mercial primacy. We have no title,
Il have no inclination, to murmur at
the prospect. If she acquires it, shs
will make the acquisition by the right
of the strongest; but, ia this instance.
the strongest means the best, She
will probably become what we are
now, tha head servant in the great
household of the world, the employer
cf all employed; because her serv.
ice will he the most aud
Venice, or Gemo2, or llolland has had
against us,”
The minutes eof
It is still harder
ablest. We
nave no more title against her than!
m-
) 1e hit
tity was not learned.
an hour and three quarters. At its con-
clusion he returned to the
House.
President Appeals to Mitchell.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—Pres- |
Mr. |
ident Roosevelt has requested
Mitchell, president of the Mine Work-
ers’ Union, to use his influence to in- |
duce the men to go to work with the |
promise of the appointment of a com-
mission to investigate their grievances |
and a further promise that the Presi- |
dent will urge unon Congress legisla- |
tion in accordance with a recommenda- |
tion of that commission.
No reply has yet been received from
Mr. Mitchell.
roll D. Wrioht, commissioner of labor,
to Philadelphia to meet Mr. Mitchell, |
and Mr. Wright has renorted that after !
had !
the proposition of the President
been submitted Mr. Mitchell said that
he wanted to take it under considera-
tion.
FARMERS NATIONAL CONGRESS.
President Flanders Says the,Time Has Come for |
Them to Organize.
Macon, Ga (Special).-——The twenty-
second annual session of the Farmers’ |
| National Congress was opened in this
city with an estimated attendance of |
' 1,500 delegates, representing every State
The meeting was called
to order by President George L. Flan- |
ders, who delivered his annual address. |
Mr. Flanders spoke in part as follows: |
“We have lived to see the demand |
in the Union.
for agricultural education which should
educate the Loys back toward the farm,
so that that calling might be dignified
o- |
day we stand upon a prominence down
which we can look into the years that |
have gone by and see the path made |
also with the title of ‘profession.’
by this steady progress. It is now the
recorded will of 43 States of this Union
that education shall be
among those who are pursuing agricul-
ture for a living, to the end that they
may unlock the secrets in the labora- |
tory of nature in such a way that they
injuring her future usefulness.”
Choked to Death at Breakfast.
Winston-Salem, N. C. (Special).—
While at breakfast Mr. E. A.-Nelson, 53 |
vears old, a printer, of Columbia, S. C., |
choked to death on a piece of rare
heefstealk.
vard. A physician was summoned, but
Nelson died before he reached him.
Nearly Killed by Mob.
Shamokin, Pa. (Special). — While
John Colson, of Mahoney City, a non- |
Reading Com- |
pany’s Henry Clay shaft, was walking |
io the colliery he was attacked by a |
inob, one of whom hit him on the head |
with a brick, while others clubbed him |
was |
union engineer at the
into a state of insensibility. He
rescued from d ath br a body of coal
znd iron police dispersing the mob.
[Local colliery superintendents asked
Sheriff Deitrick to have troops station- |
cd here.
man, whose iden- |
Ashland | 1 : : )
{ vanced the price of refined oil one- |
The President sent Car- |
provided for |
It was noticed that he was |
choking, and he was carried into the |
the World's
New York on the stear
IL.ondon, and William W. Ko¢
{ from
i from Antwerp.
I half cent a gallon, and it is said that |
‘another half cent will be added on be- |
| fore the week ends.
William R. Hearst, in accepting the
congressional nomination in New
| York, announced himself in favor of
government ownership of pubic fran-
i chises.
New York, to succeed Major Ebstein,
who becomes first deputy.
Ex-President Cleveland stated
phatically that he did not propose to
take part in the New York State cam- |
| paign.
| Riley, an interesting problem
commission at Boston Navy Yard.
I'he National Irrigation
{ was opened in Colorado Springs.
Foreign.
The Danish government submitted a
| bill to the Landsthing ratifying the ces-
sion of the Danish West Indies to the
| United States, and while the vote is
| expected to be close it will be favorable
to the treaty.
garian Parliament, Vice-President Ba-
ling to ruin Hungary.
John Kensit, the antiritualistic cru-
thrown at him.
A village schoolmaster at Droyssig,
Bohemia, became insane and shot some
of his scholars.
Fitzroy, eldest son of the seventh Duke
of Grafton, has been declared a bank-
rupt.
It is semiofficially announced that
Emperor William has abandoned the
idea of receiving the Boer generals.
The Swiss authorities at Geneva
have ordered out additional troops in
i view of the threatened general strike.
It is reported that a general insur-
rection has broken out in a dozen dis-
i tricts in Macedonia.
The national committee of the French
Miners’ Federation has ordered a gen-
eral strike.
i Five men were killed by the explo-
| sion of a shell in the naval arsenal at
Spezia, Italy.
The Manchurian territory south of
the Lian River was restored to the
Chinese.
Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenge for
another series of races for the Ameri.
ca’s Cup has been sioned by the Roval
| Ulster Yacht Club and has been posted.
{ , of Canada, in a|
| speech at the openine of the new Pro- |
dilated
Premier Laurier,
duce Exchange in Liverpool,
upon the expansion of the Canadian
produce trade.
The national committee of
ing the question of &rdering a general
strike involving 70,000 men.
The British royal commission to in-
i quire into the conduct of the South
i African War held its first session in
| London.
{ The Scotch coalmasters are arrang-
ing for the prompt shipment of 40,000
i tons to New York and Philadelphia.
President Mitchell's conference lasted | Ville was a passenger On the Vaderland |
The Standard Oil Cempany has ad- |
Col. Alexander Rose Pifer was made |
second deputy police commissioner of |
em- {
The war game was renewed at Fort |
being |
worked out and much powder burned. |
The gunboat Bancroft was placed in |
. | born or naturalized in the United States |
Congress |
Riotous scenes marked the reassem- |
bling of the lower house of the Hun- |
| rabas declaring that Austria was try- |
sader, died in Liverpool of injuries re- |
ceived at a meeting where a chisel was |
2h 1 Villagers lynched him. |
The Earl of Euston, Henry James |
States SUC Cao .
‘here without interference from the im-
I migration authorities, but is, the insular
| decisions notwithstanding, an alien
within the meaning of the law.
The matter came before Judge La-
{ combe on the application for a writ of
{ habeas corpus sworn out on behalf of
Isabella Gonzales, a native Porto Rican
{ woman, who arrived in New York
| August 24 last. She was detained by
the immigration authorities on the
| ground that, being an unmarried wom-
an, her condition was such that she
| was an undesirable alien. She was or-
dered deported, but a well-to-do aunt
and uncle, living on Staten Island, se-
| cured attorneys to get her released
through habeas corpus.
“The only question for discussion,”
reads the opinion, “is whether peti-
tioner is an alien. The Fourteenth
United States provides that all persons
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof
| are citizens of the United States.
| There is no suggestion that she was
| ever naturalized under the general laws
| regulating the admission of alien cit-
[ izens.
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Amendment to the Constitution of the |
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Vi v i ,
here if the Vatican would suddenly de-
cide to expedite settlement by accept-
ing a lump sum.
Determined to Crush the Boxers.
Minister Conger’s dispatches to the
State Department show that Yuan Shi
Kai, the viceroy of Chi Li, is really in
carnect in his expressed determination
to crush the Boxers in his section of
China. A proclamation issued by him
to the people declares that the heresy of
boxerdom has done great harm to the
land ; that from ancient times to the pre-
sent this heresy always meant ruin. The
boxing and incantations they practice
amount, after all, to not much more than
a kind of jugglery—the swallowing of
knives and fire without any skill. The
charms they pretend to possess are or nc
avail when they come in collision with
troops.
Russian Consuls Must Pay Duty.
The Treasury Department has decid-
ed that .hereafter official supplies sent
from the Government of Russia to its
consular offices in the United States
are subject to duty the same as goods
“The treaty of Paris, unlike earlier | imported by private parties. This ac-
treaties which dealt with Louisiana, | tion is taken upon official advices from
States. It is expressly provided that
the civil rights and political status of
the native inhabitants of the territories
Florida, California and Alaska, did not | the
t undertake to make native-born citizens | goods sent from the United States and
of Porto Rico citizens of the United | other foreign nations to its consular of-
|
celed to the United States should be |
| determined by Congress.”
NO BREAK IN MINERS RANKS.
| Such the Sentiment of the Strikers—Lega
Action Against Operators.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. ( Special).—The
|striking miners here have recovered
{from the first bitterness of disappoint-
ment. Their chagrin at the failure of
{the conference called by President
{Roosevelt between the representatives
{of the opposing forces in the greatest
{industrial battle the world has ever wit-
inessed has been succeeded by a spirit
(of grim determination to fight it out
funtil they obtain recognition of their
{grievances, either through compromise
or arbitration, or go down together in
defeat, conquered, but not subdued.
| The operators have explained their in-
{ability to get certificated miners be-
thind the stockades proceeded from two
causes—intimidation on the part of the
{strikers that made a man hesitate be-
{fore submitting himself to loss af life |
lor limb or his family to insult, and the
isettlement rumors circulated from time
ito time which prevented many from de-
Iserting the union who would otherwise
{have long since returned to work.
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Invited to Hunt Moose.
Minneapolis, Minn. (Special). —Frank
|
[ H. Kratka, Mayor of TlLief River Falls,
vitation to hunt moose in Northern Min-
| 12. The invitation was burnt on birch
bark and was accompanied by a special
| hunter's license, also on bark, for which
| the President, if he acc:ot, must pay |
| its autho
| $25 like any other non-resident hunter.
The party is to include Senators Clapp |
and |
| and Nelson, Governor Van Sant
i Congr ssman Fletcher and Morris,

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| nesota for ten days, beginning November |
| tleship
Russian Government that suck
ficers in that country are subject tc
duty.
Gunner Connelly’s Promotion.
Gunner Louis J. Connelly, attached tc
the receiving ship Constellation, at New-
port, having passed a satisfactory ex-
amination, will be commissioned an en-
sign in the Navy under the provision of
a special act of Congress authorizing
such advancement of a limited numbet
of qualified warrant officers.
An Inland Water Route.
Secretary Root has approved a pro-
ject for a survey between Norfolk, Va,
and Beaufort, N. C, to determine the
most advantageous route for the estab-
| lishment by the government of an inland
water route between the places named.
Newsy Items of Interest.
General Bragg, consul general at Ha-
vana, who made himself persona non
grata with the Cubans, will change
places with Consul General William A.
Rublee at Hongkong.
The President has decided
point Henry White, secretary of
United States Embassv at London, as
ambassador to Rome. The appointment
probably will not be made tntil next
to ap-
| sping.
The President appointed Col. Wil-
liamp Quinton a brigadier in the regular
Ar
re pry
Sé
thre { Minn., sent President Roosevelt an in-|V
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French Miners’ Federation is consider- |
| Shipbu
$3.090,01
The N
effort ma
interests
American

i lihy.
the |
ernment gunbc
when the insu
Salazar's mess
losses to the
WEST VIRGINIA CO?
Seventeen Kanawha and
Mines to Start Ag
Zlontgomery, W. Va. (9
enteen mines which have |
June 7, because cf the sti
up this week and 4.000 mi
been idle that length of ti
work.
Such an agreement wasg
convention of miners |
a delegate convention o
Workers of subdistrict
17, and was held to cons
tion made by the Kanawh!
Valley Coal © mnany, thd
interest in this immediate
terms provide for nine hot
every two weeks and give t
right to organize. They wi
the weight of 2,0co pouads
will have the right to emplo
check-weighman, ond will nd
peiled to deal in company st
is a compromise.
Mob Lynches a Negro,
Columbus, Miss. (Sp
Duncan, a negro, was take
county jail here by a mob
hundred men and hanged tc
telephone pole. Late at nig
entered the telephone office
Lake, where Miss Lena Ha
operator, was on duty, and {
himself improperly. Duncan
rested and brought fre
Lake for safekeeping, but a m{
succeeded in forcing their way
jail and removing Duncan.
1
here
Fatal Elevator Accident.
Lvnn, Mass. (Special).—In ;
tor accident at the shoe fact
E. Little & Co., here, two persc
killed and 11 others more or Id
ously injured. A cable parted.
only did the car, which conta
persons, fall four stories, but
pound weight descended wit
{ force on the top of it, breaking
and crushing to death DBenj$
Crane, foreman in the facto
causing injuries to Miss Franc
an assistant forewoman
which she died within a short 4
Death of a Noted Violinige %
Chicago (Special).—Prof. !
son, a well-known viol
! after a short §
son was 0
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