UNCLE SAI’S BIG PROFIT le U • Gainer Erery Time a Qreeaback to Destroyed. ULUONS IN THE ••UNKNOWN” FUND.

me? ts Destroyed sad Merer Redeemed la Each Decade—TIn Perccatafe at NaOaaai laak Carre act Merer Redeemed Is Was. Washington. D. C. (Special).—In the •anhs o( the L'nited States Treasury here is nearly $25,000,000 of gold and - ylver coin and bullion which represents

1 repre

t clear profit to the National Govern-

nent.

The amount can be figured only ■roximately. Thc?c is no way Uncle Sam or his most expert fit aers to estimate this paradoxical fund. Gut «t ts there nevertheless, a silent facer in the shrinkage of national moneys •nd cannot be touched because it is a van of the reserve or trust fund held

r ap-

t fund I

ency of the Government. This cnoruotts sum represents the gam of the government through the destruction of saper bills in a thousand ways. When, me mutilate paper money in such a dinner that it nevgr can be presented or redemption the Government enjoys he useful consequences. When another lemonst rates to a p\rty of friends that

v "onknor-”

•he aggregate than most persons Tm3~"“?''S/S,, b , ,0 K“iir h P0 l K

. » man of

trratic tendencies, destroyed^ s

lundred dollars’ worth of gold certifiates in his cell. He asked for a sandwich. then sprinkled the ham with jhreds and bits of bills which he had ,orn while temporarily deranged. While he policemen in attendance were trying :o subdue him he burned up more than (too before their eyes. This is only •sample of the manner in which mo yecomes unredeemable. Almost txperienced man may supply similar innances from his own personal knowlfn the United States Treasury is a

tneral ^trust fund. It

: United Stati

ash reserve, or general trust I •s intended to protect the credit of the

Government and the people. In the

rvent of a run on the Treasury this re-

serve would 6e used for-the redemption

y! paper currency. For each outstat

ng gold and silver certifical United States Treasury jiote the

tored in the

tand-

and

THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.

- .

At the meeting of the board of aldernen in New York a resolution was inanitnously adopted asking the board of estimates and proportionment to authorize hn issue of reserve bonds to the amount of $100,000 for the purpose of purchasing anthracite coal to be distributed free, under the supervision of-the department of public charities, among the needy poor of the city during the winter. In New York Hutch" Tobin, who Is 1 trial for the murder of Capt. James

on trial for

Craft, made a scene

to jump across

trict AM

he m court. He tried a table at Assistant Dis-

imcy Clarke, and it took six

men to keep the frenzied man from at-

tacking the prosecutor.

Mrs. Winifred Owens, aged 32. and her two-year-old baby were found dead from cold and starvation in a tenement at Williamsburg. N. Y. John Stellemvcrf was frozen to death on Staten Island. 1-ack of fuel continues to caurfc great snnering

in New York.

Mayor Low, of New York, addressed a letter to the board of aldermen in which he expressed his approval of the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel franchise. 9y an explosion of gas in the South Wilkesbarre Mine of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company fonr men were killed and several were injured. In New Orleans 17 street car strikers were indicted by the federal grand jury for interfering with the running of mail

Representative-

lican. of the Secoi at hisViome, at Washington. Ind.

The steamship Sierra, wliile on a voy-

:-elect Carnahan. Rcpub3nd Indiana district, died

Washington. Ind. .1 Sierra, while on a •

age from Australia to San Franci struck a whale and broke its hack. —-Pr. J- N. Rice, president of the Ri

intoi

[early a block of buildings in Atlanta,

■fhe damage^ is Bank at Irwin, Pa.,

by burglars.

.. .. I ...... I f/M«r

Nearly a blocl Ga.. was bur

$500,000.

The First National

was robbed of $1,000 by burgl Because of a scarcity of schools in Philadelphia closed.

Miners formerly employed by Markle & Co., in the Hazleton region, astonished tbc Strike Commission by testifying-that the 10 per cent, increase in wages granted in igoo was not a straight out increase, but instead a 2 1-2 per cent, raise

owder price of 7 1-3

a reduction in powdc

Zero weather in Chicago and other points in the West and heavy snowstorms in Western New York state, together with the general shortage of coal, are causing much distress and' suffering. An c'der was entered in the Supreme

KTSSSi £

his millkm-dollar suit against Gen. Louis

sum stored in the Treasury

pr within cofnmand of the Government. Any person holding one of these notes

may present it at a Governir hory and receive the equivali According to the latest mot ' ' “ ' the

iber

tiese notes tnt depos-

■eceive the equi—'—* ; ~

to the latest 1

.he Treasurer <

Sates, there was. on November 29 last. $376^58,569 in gold certificates and $467,824,000 in silver certificates outstanding—the greatest sum in the history «f the nation. Like amounts of gold coin and silver dollars were held

for their redemption.

FURNITURE MADE OF STEEL Eatfrcly New E^alpant tor UnJtevf Stales

♦ Vessel.

New York (Special).-The new . cruiser Baltimore, which has been rebuilt at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during the past three years, will be equipped with steel furniture. The staterooms and the crewjs quarters will alike be furnished in a new kind of metal furniture which has been manufactured at the local'navy yard*, and which will within the course of five years be used exclusively on all of the warships

of the United States Navy. The Baltimore will be the

r from this <

"for-

of-war from this country or any eign country that has been made entirely fireproof- She will be the first ‘' > on the sea which has not carried

of inflammable fumi-

thin

: amount

ship

turc and numerous

v v The furniture is made o steel. ‘It is welded together manner that the scams do

Tfcet—

Mangis to furnish a b his million-dollar suit

C. Fitzgerald.

While trying to escape fn

the hom? of Max Manthey, Wis., Mr. Colgate and one child were and three others susained serious 1 He territorial senate of Hawaii adopted the report of the committee ifor the dismissal of Superintendent Boyd, of the Department of Public Works. The opening of the new railroad between Santiago and Havana, Cuba, was the. occasion tor an enthusiastic demon-

stration.

The thirtieth annual convention of the American Public Health Association was

ILTlBATDMSjrO CASTRO Earfand god Germany lo Take Measures lo Force Their Claims. LEGATIONS HAVE BEEN CLOSED. Preater Balfoar’s Anooaaceaeal to the Haase •I Ceamaas to Rt|ir*ed as Mealy tbc Obrleas CalaiaiUoa la tbs Sitaatioa Wbkb Deity Hu Beea Becaatog Mere Critical for Three Mm tbs. London (By Cable).—Great Briuin and Germany have presented ultimatums to Venezuela, which will be followed by the seizure of the custom houses unless a satisfactory settlement is forthcoming within a brief period. The ultimatums have a time limit, but the exact date cannot be ascertained here. A representative ol the Foreign Ofiicc sates, ‘with regard to the

time limit:

■’It is a reasonable time in which Venezuela can satisfy the injured Governments. Both notes are practically identical, although the amounts of tht claims differ. The notes merely rcil-

ircgard by the of all our rep

refentations. specify our claims and demand immediate action on the part of President Castro's Government in connection with them. "There is not the slightest desire coerce Venezuela, and if any ansv had been made to our repeated prote and demands no such action as now vonld have been proceeded with.

id insulting dis-

it was the persistent a

regard of all representations whi compelled us to move. Now it is too late for anything but purely diplomatic arrangements to be accepted in satisfaction for our injuries. When the fleets have assembled there is scarcely time to deal with bankers. A"financial settlement should have been suggested long ago and would have been welcomed by both Germany and ourselves. ■’However, any bona ftdc proposition ~ t " — teive careful attention. °

_ - • -t*-:

receive careful attent.

struction in commercial affairs is ways better than liquidation, and if reconstruction' of the Venezuela nances can be accomplished to thi

J the

fi-

. satisfaction of our diplomatic claims and individual losses, both Germany and Great Britain will have achieved their

A complicating _ risen in the Inabi

DOINGS AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL.

Itm tad Steel I■ ports.

The import figures of the Treasury bureau of Statistics show that the im-

portations of iron and steel manufactures -n the 10 months ended with October. 1902, are double those of last year and three times as much as those of 1898. and are larger than it» any year since

*^The total value of iron and steel manu-

factures imported in the 10 months ended with October, 1902. is $37^873*J6, against

'6.3404*7 «n the same months of last ‘ “ *" the eorrespond-

practically every

|»G4. . year, and $10,531,090 in tl mg months of 1898. In pi clasa of articles the figur

just en« and valt

tically ei

of articles the figures of the year ended are larger, both in quantity

than those of last year, and in the figures are more than

"ig iron, for -39J36 tons .fif^ton* in

monttoi of 1902: bar iron

ised from 38.233.515 pounds in to itths of tgoi to 51,536^822 pounds in

to months of 1902: ingots, lets. etc., have incarased fro

pounds in to month 304.854 pounds in t<

year.

2 poun

blooms, bilm r4.791.617

last year to 497.' inths of the pres-

More AMipsHs Middles.

The House Committee on Naval Affairs has taken up the ouestion of an increase in the number of mids.lipmen at

the Naval Academy.

There seems to be a general sentiment among members of the committee that there should be such an incre ~ *

:rease, and it

al bill to be re-

ilthounh the

ported will so provide, although the exact augmentation to be made is not yet decided on. The committee at a meeting instructed the subcommittee on rank, pay and organization to report on the question. One proposition suggested, and which* seemingly meets with approval, provides for an increase of too per cent, in the present number of midshipmen. It is not certain, however, that this will be

adapted.

No Danger <rf a Mare Oortrtsk.

The War Department has received the following cablegaam from General Davis, commanding (he Department of

the Philippines, dated Manila:

••f'aftt trtlin T

ter in Ve^ —4 -

a fire at ' The foreign Office-is hourly awaiting -.at Colgate, important dispatches. While the Gov--:u _— emment is worried at its jnability to

get an answer from Minister Haggard, inquiries revealed the fact that the Venezuelan representatives are in a similar

situation. Prer--— 1

lean

Opened in New Orleans Earthquake shocks ~

-I*- - in the^F

Fareigm.

While it is reported in London that a me limit was^set by Great Briuin^and

: no

_ , . that e British and German officials would 4 have left Caracas had Castro shown

v disposition to yield.

The committee on steamship subsidise of the British "House of Commons made a report which is aaainst the principle of granting subsidies. Concerning the trans-

wai .

Germany in their ultimatums to Venezuela, it is stated in Berlin that no period was/set for the answer, but - " Irish —* r '— -

fer of British ships to foreign flags, the committee admits it tr' —'—*

t may cause serious

The French Cabinet deti

quest, in -the name of the go\ that the parties to the strike of tl and dockir— -• si-— -tn— — Special permits have been issued |0

inflammable iunii- a ]| 0 w a Cunard liner and a Ley-land liner "ecorative articles. f rur n New England ports to land cattle

:ermined to re-

ivemment,

to the strike of the sailors it Marseilles accept arhi-

meb a | Albert C. Barney, of Washington,

ams do not show.. D . C .. died sud&nly at Monte Carlo. He

The vwriting desks, cabinets and chif- 1 had been suffering for a long rime from ioniers are patterned from the wooden i heart trouble. • articles that are generally in use in pri , .Thirteen anarchists were arrested near

olltop desks are made : gpezia, Italy, m the act of aking an oath • strips of steel for the to ar—— 1 —— v: — ,r: —— —■

cles that : homes

by using narrow st

flexible portion of the top. It will cost $30x100 to fit •

at L> veroool and Ip^ert C .5

. had

ooden 1 hear

timore with Tbi* is abor - would have'

130x100 h a i >ut thi

. m the act of taking an oat e King Victor Emmanael. .-volution has been started in

1 to fit oat the Bal-1 Venezuela. President Castro has sent . kind qj furniture. ; f orce of 4,000 men against the rebels, times as much as it! Ttle troops of the Sultan of Morocco refit her with wood- j were defeated in a battle with pie rebel*

I and suffered serious losses.

Countea; Boni de Castellane tvill sail for New York December 14. but the Count will rerhain in France to conduct

^

Pin MUSoa-DalUr Sutton.

Indianapolis, Ind. (Special).—It wat officially-announced that the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company^ will, within the next 48 hours, offer to' lease tbe_ Indianapolis Street Railway Company's linef for 30 years, the length ' of the franchise of both, and will.jf the proposition be accepted, issue $5.oooxx» stock and $5x100.000 -bonds. The Terminal Company has a franchise and a contract with all the interurban roads, and will* erect in a few months a sta-

tion costing irpoo/xfi. F«r StitK •( J E. B. Staart.

Richmond. Va.' (Special).—At a meeting ol the Staaiyklonument Association hgre $1700 was raised for an equestrian statue of Ggn. J. E. B. Stuart, ebe Confederate cavalry leader. The statue wiH be erected her< This sum is in nddirion to about $590 already in hand for 'the purpose. The Council will be asked for aid. and X general effort'will be made f oath with to add to tbc.f

inventor, .creator of men of wealth, who ten rears ago was worth laooxno and employed 1200 men. was up in Police Court here for 'theft of $50 worth of )**oods. with which to buy whisky. Clay- ' ton Mark, president of the Malleable Iron 'Works, said he once worked for

cycle, the .chain bicycle and link belt.-' said Mark. Whisky ha. tmen the rumation of my We.", said Patsoo. The HgHjMlSj-

Libera Banne:

C< V h-

e with boats borrowed ^rom the ! ros, visited Iligan, returning by same route. Met with friendly ret tion everywhere. Present passive | icy of armed strength executed by wise commanders should make further fight-

ing tfnnecessary.

"No danger of Moro war. Reports

Opeaiaf of St Loafs Fair.

ag4-Jol

Commission to th

Exposition, discussed with the President preliminary arrangements for the opening of the Exposition April

next.

The President desir

rnable hit

mmunicate with its Minisnicla. W. H. D. Haggard. ■fice-*is hourly awaitii—

tier Balfour announced the ultimatum in the House of Commons. When questioned on the situation by the t a.—1 1 -ader. sir Henry’ Camffbell-

!, he said:

last two-years we have had : for complaint on various

by the Venezuelan Government' with the liberty and property of British subjects. No efforts have been spared by •u. u.:.: s h Government to obtain an

settlement ol these cal of them have satisfacti

crossed the Mo-

the

as H. Car-

__ -John M. Thurston. of Nebraska,""of the Government the Louisiana Purchase

with the Presi

ter. of Montana, s

THOMAS B. REED DEAD ! NAST "■* »

Ex-Speaker of Hone Expires af Arilotion Hofei, Wasblattoa. WAS ILL LESS THAN FIVE DAYS. Author Of Tbt Rales WUch Bear His Maac And WUeh Ofre Autocratic Power To The Speaker—Fran Fanner's Son To A Mighty Power to Shtptog ol Our Legls-

Washington. \D. C (Special).—Exeaker of the National House of Rcpre-

Reed, of

Waal Speal

aenutives - Thomas Brackett

Maine, died at !*.io oclock Sunday morning at the Arlington Hotel, where

stricken suddenly on Tuesday

be acute

The Fiaous Cartooufst Vlctba o< the Oread

Yellow Fever.

Guayaquil, Ecuador (By Cable).— Consul-General Tliomat Nast died here after three days’ illness of yellow fever. He was interred at 5 o'clock. The funeral was attended by the Governor, the Consular Corps, the American col-

iny friends. The coffin was the Stars and Stripes.' The Consul rccifed a prayer in the

cemetery.

The death of Mr Nast is deeply lamented by the natives, who held him in high esteem.^

ony and n Iritish C<

1 Nast me time

unique genius,

t one time was regarded as the 1st American cartoonirt. Though ,: “ic of his death he was Contul-

Thoi

ioremos

at the time of his death he was ConsulGeneral at Guayaquil, he will be remembered for the work of his pencil rather than for any official position he

Bavaria. September brought by hi* pa-

rents to America when a mere infant.

enly

night with what was believi

gastritis. '

Mr. Reed’s condition became worse Saturday morning, when signs of blood' poisoning reappeared. On Friday night he was attacked with nausea, which was 1 held,

taken as a *• ..ptom that Bright’s disease j n Xjtx had developed, and all of Saturday Ik 27. 1840. Nast was wa* in a condition which his physician* rem * to America 1

knew meant an early dissolution. At Writing of his boyhood, he said: times Mr. Reec spoks and seemed to be My natural inclination was toward in a cheerful frame of mind but it was , caricature. I was never fit for anything easily seen that deat.. was approaching else j n |hc o)d Kational Academy Art At midnight a consultation was held School in New York city in the fifties, participated in by Drs. Gardner. Me- when I was but a young boy .’'the sides Donald. Bishop and Goodnow. the lattei ! 0 , m y cri ,y 0n cd sheets u>« to be full tefi&T. “7 i Ma? H?„! h ; At the conclusion of the consul ration . f^ ve him now OM Wl in a m E. BurDr. Gardner announced th»t a complrte |on of the Ch aml(e rs Street Theatre.

, s .“ rjj

V ^efatwt complication. It was then and nthcr diminu(lvc j a pp, ied (o r a

nited Sates Supreme ;, a ' r , cd up " n 0 , ,5-. 'week."

day called 01 Dr. F. A. Gardner compmined of gastric distress.

peljed him to remain^in bed while a diag' nosis was made of his condition. Mr. " J - saying “

nosis was made c Reed was strongl; bed, but a rise in imperative that he n toms of appcndiciti his condition was alarming. A trained

him throughout Tuesda patient showed signs of

Mrs. Reed and daugt

at once develop

him the most powerful cartoon America, but from the first he cartoons and little else. They were humorous at the start, in 1864. but v

upon war subjects.

■rfu^ 1 cartooniu^ln

iperature made it | ^0 BY PRACTICAL JOKE, lis apprared. th^ , ' 8n’» Sto-sch Blew. Uy Wltfc Fatot

s plans to enat

ceremonies. He expects, about that

time, to make an extensive tour of the grave cause for complaint on various West and Northwest, and it is his presoccasiems of unjustifiable interference ^ em purpose to rime that tnp *0 that by the Venezuelan Government with he may 6e in St Louis when the Ex-

to *0 arrange o attend these

that

ihough 1 *

ition was not. considered as Kesgits.

A trained nurse remained with ] \- 1, H>m-Pint an

k^omwive

lr*. Reed and daugh»er."liss Kittie. son. N. ' died as a result of a practical arrived Wednesday and tomained with | joke played on him by five qf his fellow.Mr. Reed at the Arlington Hotel since. ! ^p^ye. They were arreited charged (r™ PhiUdelphia to «£f

When_ the men accused of having uit’s death were arraigned in

may he ii ition is o|

Balkt Narrawty MUscd.

Congressman J

tan J. M. Mood- representli district of North Carolina, w escape from being shot at

Some person fired at the passenger train with m 38-caliber revolver. The bullet crashed through the double windows of the sleeping'car in which Mr. Moody was traveling, ranged upward in

upward in ve his bead

line less than two mch — . - . _. and strut!: the woodwork of the opposite and in the same souare is the site of berth, which haonened to be empty. IS first building erected in Maine, the dwelled and fell to the floor, where if ling of George Oeeve. the fi'st white

the British Govern!

amicable set: in none of

planations been _ . the reumenutions of the British Minister have been practically unnoticed. There are also cases in which British subjects and" companies have large "We have been acting in conjunction with the German Government, which also has large claims against Venezuela. A final communication has been made to the Venezuelan Government by the British Minister and the German charge d’affaires. If no satisfactory reply is received the Governments have decided to take such measures as may be. necessary to enforce their claims/’

Castro Qetttoi Bald.

Caracas, Venezuela (By Cable).—AH

German and British subjects in Caracas list, who has made extensive experiments

jn regard to the infection of fruit with

bacteria.

Currants come next, every half pound, and

8,003.000. An account of these experi meats has been transmitted to the.BUti

Department by United S

Herk Mur 1

Twelve million bacteria inhabit the skm* of a half pound of i cherries,; acceding to Dr. Ehrlich. German scien-

were arrested Tuesday.

There are comparatively few white British subjects in Caracas, probably feweT*4ban 50. ‘The Caracas La-Guayra Railroad is a British concern, and -its general manager and other high officials are Englishmen. There pre some English engineers on the line. Other Englishmen in Caracas have been ployed in commercial and industrial suits and Englishmen were ' among the clerical forces of 0

the campaign for hi* rcclection.

A new German political organization has been started, to be known as the Kaiser party, the efforts of which will '

directed against socialism.

The seconds of Deputy Syveton and M. VaHe, the French minister of justice, favor arbitrating the differences instead

of resorting U> a duel.

The seventieth anniversary of the birth of Biomstjerae Bjornson. the Norwegian poet and novelist, was celebrated

throughout Norway.

It is reported that the pretender to the throoe of Morocco has asanmed sovereign rights and taken possession of the

treasury.

Prince Oscar, the fifth son of Emperor William, fractured his collar bone by-

falling from a horizontal bar.

At the Delaware Breakwater the schooner Virginia Rulon was blown on the rocks and sunk. The crew of six men w*« taken off and landed by the

Lewes (Dd.) life-savers..

Morgan has been absorbing steel

stocks.

American Snuff has gone upon a to per cent, basis. Hard work for Baltimore & Ohio to keep above par. , 'There are above ground and unsold 135x190 ton* of copper. Sku York banks are losing about $511^000 daily .through Subtrcasuxy transactions. Fj Standard ““ Peunsylvani $145 > ban

cial houses. There are a large number oi natives of th6 British West Indian Islands In Venezuela and a number of these are in Caracas. The islanders are negroes, with few exceptions. A census of 1894 gives 6.154 British subjects in Venezuela. This number includes

many of the islanders, as weU British population in tne terrib cently a wan’ * ‘ "

bitration.

as the

, territory repeat Britain by ar-

Defiaat aa4 bdllfcrtaL

Sl Vincent (By Cabl< cruiser Indefatigable,

here from La

Kingstow-n, St- Vincent (By Cable).Thc British cruiser Indeiatigabli which has arrived | Guayra, Venezuela, brings reports that President Castro is > defiant and indifferent to the threatened blockade. It is said that Castro is prepared even to expel the German and British residents of La Guayra and to dose

that port.

The Indefatigable left the British ruisCr Retribution and the German cruisers VineU and Gazelle, at La Guayra. There are at »present five British men-of-war at Port of Spain, Trinidad; ready to leave on short no-

tice. '

Accused *1 Sixty R<

Philadelphia (Special).—Geo. Dkkinton, alias Westcott. -the burglar, who was arrested about 10 days ago after a desperate fight with a policeman a4l who was discovered by detectives to be a robber by night and business man by

a robber by night day, whs tried and convicted

fenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. dence in bus *5 cases. It is said nearly $10,000 worth of Dickinson’s loot

was recovered by the oohee.

rebounded and fell to I was found and picked later by the porter.

Department by United States Cbnsular Clerk Murphy at FrankfortL pr. Ehrlich urges that all fruit be cleansed by either peeling or washing before it "

Aafl-Trust Legtolatlaa.

Represcnrative Charfes ield’s subcommittee ol thi

_ Littl. te Judiciary

f the House, which has charged with the consideration of ised anti-trust legislation, held

dng and there was .a

field s subcommittee of Committee of the Hot

beea cb all prop its first

meeting and there

era! discussion of the subjec All bills which may be . while the question is before

mittee will be referred to this subcommittee, as well as all pending bflU.

introd

Barrett

At the White .

President Roosevelt

"larrett, of Oregoi

'apan.

HU, Be e Hous

John Bar ter to Jar

ise it was said tha will nonunate Mi m. to 'be Minii

the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Alfred E Buck, which suddenly of paralysis of the heart while huating ducks with the Emperor of J»P*n on the ' pertal preserves, near Tokyo.

WeuU This Check SalcMcs?

A bill introduced by Representative

John J. Jenkinx. of Wii

quest, makes newspapers c

odicals unmailable which contain any. 'pictures of suicides or deailt relating to suicides beyond a simple sUtetrent of death by suicide, and imposing a penalty.

WttlbtLawMkaM.

President Roosevelt has ordered the release of Gideon W. Marsh, of Philadelphia, convicted of violation of the National Banking Laws. The release takes

effect' December 24.

Arthur Ferguson, secretary of the Philippine Commission, stated that Judge Taft is beloved by the Filipinos. llie Senate considered the bill to amend the Militia Laws of the United The Senate committee heard srgo-

Crtatsr of Reed Rales.

as B. Reed

nal Hi

-caused Rui

1 homas B. Reed was conspicuous in toxin in Pi the National House of Representatives durine four Congresses, in three of which—the Fifty-first the Fifty-fourth and the Fifty-fifth—he was Speaker. Nature made him conspicuous by reason of his ample proportions, and his service as presiding officer gave him a place in history as the creator of the so-called Reed rules, which even to-day guide the deliberations jof the House, and which

won for hip* *6** «i»l« nf

"Autocrat”

He was born on October 18, 1839, in Portland, Me., m a l.ous- which yet re-

one of the “show places" of

were 9 _

‘aterson the dead boy’s fathei rushed at one of them, named Dt>ni knocked him down and started to kick him. The father was restrained, by thi

— Vs. The accused men werr it bail on a charge of man

Atteayt ts -Caraer" TxAey*.

Kansas City, Mo. (Special).—An

turke;

mams as one of t

that city. In the corner of the right angle formed by Hancock and Middle streets *re the houses in which Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Thomas Brackett Reed first saw the light of day, .. .. • - i the

seven gen Speaker.

e grandfather 1 01 tbc late

Dr. Cuttes, Coapsser, Dead.

unpscott. Mass. (Special).—Dr. f S. Cutler, composer and musical

St

Hesry S. Cutler, composer and musi conductor, credited w^th introducing vested male choirs in this c^kfBtry, died here. Dr. Cutler formerly was organist and choirmaster of Trinity Church, in New York city. When the Prii

ew x

Wales,

this

this county in i86o^Dr. Cutler conceived the idea of having a vested choir in Trinity, similar to those in the English churches, because the Prince of Wales had decided to attend the service there. The idea was at once aalfen up in this country and became general. Dr. Cutler's setting to the hymn. “The Son of God Goes Forth to War,” is the best known of his compositions. * All the Dead Were iaaured. SL 'Louis, Mo. (Special).—Deputy Coroner Boogher. itr an official sutement made, declared that the result of the inquest held over the body of Mrs. Kate Smith, whose death was the sixth oecurin* during the last n months of per-’ sons nearly related revealed the fact that all of the deqd, extent a baby, had been insured. NeXrlv all of the six persons died snddenly. The fact that they were insured and that they all exhibited similar symptoms caused the inquest to be

held

Praia Washtogtox to ttoary. Boston (Special).—A letter . irom George Washington to his friend. Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia, written. October 29. 1785. was sold at a collector’s sale by auction for $580 to a New York man acting as agent The letter is given in full in Sparks' Life oi Washington and is of some length. Its subject matter relates to * -*

Shah has OalyM Left Vienna (By Cable).—The Tagblatt sates that Shah Muzzaffar ed Din ol Persia has caused great agitation in Persian court circles by reducing his harem irom i.iqd to 6a The act is regarded as the most astounding reform ever accomphsbed in Persia and has provoked a formidable agiution .Se Shah. It to been com s Western revotm ary ideas by his European travels.

tempt to corner the turkey 1

the chief subject of gossip in the loci

produce district. Aaron said to have contracted lor

_._:rict. _ __ have contracted ior about 500. tnds, which comprises the bulk »•-—oon, Kansas anc

keys are coming dressing and pack-

istmas trade.

Nebraska. These in, and the,firm is di mg them for the Chi

Eagtoecr Frozen to Death. Big timber, Mont (Special).—Om

taltty

totality has been reported as 9

which has swept ove-

taolity

nf the cold

this section of t

was an engineer n . frozen body was found near the Cowle-

camp. where he had bee

mining c

ployed,

nf the St

e Sate. The victin lamed English. Hi: mnd near the Cowle-

where he had been em t* from various aeiction

rapidly falling tem

Three Cremate* to DwelOag.

Menominc Falls, Wit. (Special).—Map Manthey and two of his children an dead and Mrs. Manthey and five othei children were injured as a result of a fin it Colgate, five miles from here, in whicl the general store and dwelling of Ma> Manthey were destroyed. An infan * * ' • . . 0 f Jjj,

daughter was family unhurt.'

the only member t

LIVE NEWSY NOTES

The Canadian Pacific fast express •hicb left Halifax for St. John am

‘ td on th *

Belmont killed at

Montreal, was wrecked on the Inter

ir Belmont Sutigo e killed and sevei c brakeman injured

was

colonial Railway nei Four persons wren

passengers and one brakeman inju Swift & Armour have acquired stock of the Union Depot. Bril'

Terminal ^Company, wl

... Depot, Bridge an>

Terminal ^.Company, which owns vain able tenninitto and hundreds of acre ol land on the Missouri River at Kan

sas Chy, Mo.

The reckless running of a racing an tomobilc it responsible for probabj; tool injuries to a park policeman ii Chicago and the death of two boms. The Fort Payne Bank, of For Payne, the oldest bank in DeF‘ n county, Ala., capiulized at $50,000, been placed in the hands of a rece Fred A. Smith, proprietor of th* burned Lindqln Hotel, in Chicago, n which 14 lost Jfceir lives, and Night Qfcrt Weber Irerc arraigned on a charge os

Investigation hat shown that the ex plosion on the steamer Progreso at Sai Francisco, which cost 14 lives, was dm to the poor quality of oil furnished. George Shervertnn. a driver of an ex press wagon in Philadelphia, becominj confused by the snow, drove his lean into a trolley car anfl sras killed. -Qie- schooner ’Wesley M. Okr w«n ashore at Ocracoke, N. f., daring lb storm and went to piece« Her crew i believed to. have been lost. Dr. Henry S. Caller, composer am musical conductor, who introduced ves ted male choirs in this country, died a

Swampscott, Mass.

The two-master Flo A Madder wa wrecked off Gloucester, Mass., and th captain and crew were saved by the life

saving crew.

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