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. ft v I I It 1 4 ..I 0 If 5 r ) General Nebraska News. 1 THK STATE AT LARGE. A severe rain and hall storm visit ed Ciblon and vicinity. Chariest Meed, a young man, Is In Jill at How anl i barged with home stealing. Dakota City has doubled the license f for Halixms, the amount now being 31. 2() yearly. At Fremont three little girls on their way home from m hool (Uncovered a Irt of stolen goods hidden under a Hidewalk. Robbers entered the stores of II. L. Iti:shn II and II. It. Green at Iteming ford and took merchandise In each. Th y also broke Into tin- school lioj-tc W. .1. Itobinsoti of tewing was bnmd over to district ci;int in tin- su ::i of $.in f(,r li.iving in his hi . ssi ci. it N charged, in uiri" ebb -kens March 'j.2. i :'.:. The NelT-t.ka l.l.i;iir I .t!ms' -onent.i'i ui!l be h'-Id :it Fall t'ify .Fi:n to . Of!i ...s will !. fc i ;i:m f iirii.i.-r In.sf m-s is up for consider. it ion. N. V. Harlan and family of York b rt l.i-f v. i'.-k Tot Vi'l. '."7., Alaska. Where Mr. I I.ii la ii k.k-s to resume his !!iial duties as ro.r-i u'ing attorney fur tin- Third distiief. Chief Knttiin-i r tension of the Ilur liru'lon. with u force of engineers, is ;-aid t lie .sttln grade stakes be tween Oakland and Lyons for the A. Man I brum h of ike I ? n 1 1 i ri ;;t i m. At a nn-etitiic of citizens and old -?'!di-rs at 'aiii!iiiln the d'lte for lioidiai; t!i" next smith we. ;t Ncbra.-ka !isirict (J. A. It. rt-tmiim was set at the w k commencing Anu ;l .'I, i:'3, at Crtmlo id-;e. In.-tnu tiiifis have been tuailed to the varioiii superintendents of stte insti-t!jli-i.'is t. miide tl.eni in making out Ikeir semi annual statements. The f-tiiietinns are sent that a uniform re Jiol't v;II be made. At Campbell Holla I(ss a stone ma:-on. was siiot. but not seriously voutdei, by a section man nai.ed Haines. !;.-. was phot in t!ic left shoulder. The shooting is claimed to have been in m If defense. Fildy v ill" has a new bank, dolrg bu-ir.ess under tho name of the !yvil'e State bank, with these in con trol: Hiah Wool ruff. I.. I'. Branson and Ma-r-ie .1. Branson. The capital stock is $r.!no and the articles of in--orporatin were filed with the Rank ing board. The four cars of oil at Central City. Hastings, nine Hills and Old, which were rejected by Former Oil Inspec tor Hays, because they did not come up to the standard set by the new law raising the test from 100 to 112 de grees, have been finally passed by In spector Church. A young man seventeen years old. named John Heed, has just been taken to the asylum at Lincoln, he having hoen adjudged insane Ity Polk county's hoard of insanity. His people have ihe hope that with the treatment he can receive there that he will soon regain his mind. The secretaries to the board of health met in Lincoln and were kept fiusy granting licenses to newly grad uated doctors. There were seventy eight applications from regular phy sicians and five osteopaths. Fourteen of this number are graduates of the medical school at Lincoln, twenty-one from the two schools at Omaha and the rest from outside the state. The meeting of the Nebraska Art association was held In Lincoln and the following trusties" term3 have ex pired. Mias Sara Hayden. Dr. George O. V. Farnham, Charles Mayer and Samuel Hall. The trustees organized ami elec ted the following officers for the ensuing year: F. M. Hall, presi dent: T. M. H odsman. vice president; Sarah Hayden. secretary, and A. G. Greenlee, treasurer. The association voted to increase its membership from 10 to stockholders daring the roming year. Mrs. Elizabeth Stoker arrived in IJncoln from Ohio. Some time ago she inserted an advertisement In a matrimonial paper and a prompt re sponse was made her by Charles Sid lers of that place, who has been a widower since last August. Mrs. Stokers arrived In town and Immedi ately proceeded to the office of the reg ister of deeds, where she inquired into her respective husband's real estate record. She was satisfied that he was - the owner of a farm valued at $10,000. He is 72 years old. and the lady is about half that age. At the special election held In Nance county to vote $73,000 bonds of the county for the purpose of erecting over the Loup river steel bridges at Genoa. Fu!!erton and Palmer, the bonds were voted by a vote of 1.0C3 for to 333 again3t. The state printing board met for the purpose of considering the bid of "tin Sedgwick of York for printing he session laws. The bid. which Is for 5.0o0 copies of the laws at $2.75 a page, was accepted, and Sedgwick received the contract. A Union Tacific passenger train which left Beatrice the other morning I enroute for Omaha went into the ditch Just before arriving at Hanlon, a small station near IJncoln. The en tire train left the track, but fortun ately no one was tnjureJ. Holeomb Anderson, a Swedish farmer, fifty-five years old. living three miles northwest of Mead, huag him self in the barn on his farm. Life was extinct when the body was dis covered but the body, wp.3 yet warm. fio cause is is given for the act. V INCREASED CROP ACREAGE. Labor Bureau Issues Bulletin on Con dition of Grain and Fruits. The labor bureau has Issued a state mnt showing the condition of crjps and fruit. With the report Is a table showing the in . rare and decrease la the per cf-nt of acreage put In wheat, oats, rye, alfalfa and corn. The reports aiid that if March iiiid April had been . hanged a normal season would have i exulted, but as it was the warm weath er of .March caused an early planting c f crops and the cold weather in April Injured them to some extent. The it port follows: Tie average total precipitation for M-::h for Nebraska was 0.7 inch an I for April l.U.I inch. V!o : t prior to the cold weather of p:-il the tippcarancc of wheat present -d a '.'T, per cent condition. This ap- p!ie I to other crops of small grain. Ti;e prospects were for the largest per cent yi H in the history of the state The wet wcathf-r of l ist fall caused a decrease in the acreage that would have been sown had it not been for this wet weather. Corn For corn there will be an In crease r 10.su per cent in the state. The prospects are excellent over the entire stae and the only fear expressed is that the coll, wet condition of the ground may continue, which might prevent germination. Oats For the oat crop there Is re ported a 0.7 per c -nt increase and a O.'.'S per cent decrease, piving a net increase in the state of ;.1S per cent. This increase wiii occt:r mostly in the south central e antie.s. Hye There will be an increase in the acreage of rye of 3.2S per cent. The prespect is good and the condition of the stale crop is about 90. In the eastern part it is better than this. Alfalfa Alfalfa is gaining friends rapidly. It has been thoroughly dem onstrated in the west that alfalfa can be grown without irrigation and the r.-suit i a very great increase in acre age each year. This year it ranks first in increase of acreage, the increase be ing l'.K.) per cent. Creamery People Confer. KHAHNKY The first annual meet !ng of the operators and agents of the Heat rice Creamery company for the Kearney district convened at the city hall in this city. The gathering was on invitation of the managers of the company for interchange of opinions and discussion of creamery topics. An address of welcome was made by Mayor Roe, which was responded to by Art Gentzler, superintendent for the section north of the Platte river. A. M. Priest gave a talk on Our Mu tual Interests." The regular topics for the afternoon were as follows: "Regular Shippings Days," Art Gentz ler; "What Is Good Condition?" A. M. Priest, the company's manager at Lin coin; "Change in Test and Causes," A. P. Salgren; question box, George I.efieur, and a discussion led by A. E. Wilkinson. Damage Less than Feared. J. P. Hess, one of the large fniif growers, stated that the damage from the recent fr?eze and snow storm was much less than was feared. Apples, he says, have been damaged very little and he anticipates that they will make nearly a full crop. Cherries also, much to the surprise of fruit growers, appear to have been but little damaged except in certain localities. Y. M. C. A. Bids All High. YORK. Bids for the erection of the new Young Men's Christian associa ttion building were opened by the gen eral committee and the lowest bid was $3,000 more than the association expected to pay. Thi3 Is due to the advance in the price of material and the fact that York contractors have more work contracted ahead than they can take care of. Valuable Farm Changes Hand. CENTRAL CITY. Last week T. B. I lord bought the Anthony farm three miles west of town at $53 per acre. There are 430 acres, all seeded to alfalfa. Identifies York Suspect. YORK. Neb. Detective Malone of Lincoln reached here and identified one of the men arrested as suspects as Jame3 I.eo. Leo was held in the Lincoln jail for three months, accus ed of the recent Burlington train rob bery. During his incarceration coun try store robberies ceased. Insoecting National Guard. Ia a short time, probably ten days, the members of the National Guard will be inspected by an officer de tailed from the war department. To the end that the soldier boys will come up to the highest standard. Ad jutant General Culver is preparing to do a little inspecting himself during the next few days and will call upon as many companies as he can be? tween now and the time of the com ing of the department officer. Nehawvka Man Insane. PLATTSMOUTH. Philip Burke of Nehawka was before the board of In sanity and pronounced a fit subject for the asylum for the -insane at Lin coln, where he was taken by Sheriff J. D. McBride. Fine Stock Sold. WAYNE. Fifty head of fine Here ford cattle were sold at public auc tion by W. N. Rogers of McCook, and otherj. averaging $100 per head. U. P. UNDER FIRE CALLED TO ACCOUNT REGARDING RATES. FAVORS TO A CRAW FIRM The Trans-Continental Line Uses Pea vey's Council Bluffs Elevators and is Alleged to Pay Unduly for Thii Privilege. WASHINGTON. The Interstate Commerce commission has begun an investigation to determine whether the payment or allowances made by the Union Pacific to Peavey & Co. of Kan fas City and Council Bluffs for grain elevator facilities and the grain rates made to that concern are in violation of the interstate commerce law. The Union Pacific is made respond ent in the' procee lings and has been ordered to file a full answer to the charges by May 23 and to satisfactorily explain the alleged rebates at a hear ing to be called hereafter. The commission in ordering the in vestigation says it appears that the I'tavey company is purchasing grain at western points of origin and ship ping over the Union Pacific to Council lUufTs and Kansas t ity and through those points to eastern destinations; that the Union Pacific uses the ele vators of Peavey & Co. for handling und transferring grain, for which fa cilities it pays certain stipulated rates, generally amounting to Wz cents per 100 pounds. These rates, it is charged, result in large payments or allowances by the Union Pacific to Peavey & Co. and aprprently are excess: veand gre. t e"r than charges generally imposed or allowed at Kansas City. Council Bluffs and other elevator points. The commi-ssion says it appears that the rebates are not only on the grain of Pavey & Co., but on grain of all other shippers passing through the Peavey elevators, and that the allow ances may subject other grain shippers to unjust discrimination and unjust transportation charges, and that they enable Peavey & Co. to obtain net rates less than the regular dra.fts. The International & Great Northern and the St. Louis Southwestern rail ways have filed with the Interstate Commerce commission answers to the order calling for information regard ing class and commodity rates from St. Louis to Texas common points. Both lines admit making certain ad vances but deny that the advances were material or that they were made to earn unreasonable revenue. The In ternational & Great Northern says that its cost of operation has been in creased; that to reconstruct the bridge equipment will cost upwards of $100, 000, and avers that its Bet earnings for the three months ending March 31, 1903 were largely decreased. The other road makes similar allegation. BULGARIA'S SLAPS AT PORTE. Returns Note Because It Is in "Of fensive Terms.' CONSTANTINOPLE. The Bul garian government has returned the porte's note on the subject of incur sion of Bulgarian bands into Mace donia and the importation of ex plosives into Turkey from Bulgaria, to the Ottoman commission at Sofia, in consequence of what the government of Bulgaria describes as its "offensive terms." The mustering of Turkish troops continues in Macedonia and Albania, where Soon 1C5 battalions will be distributed. FUNERAL OF BISHOP HURST. Sermon by Bishop Fowler and Ad dress by Bishop McCabe. WASHINGTON, D. C Funeral services over the remains of the late Bishop John Fletcher Hurst were held Thursday morning at the First Methodist church. The sermon was delivered by Charles H. Fowler of Buffalo and Bishop Charles C. McCabe of Omaha. who succeeded Bishop Hurst as chan celler of the American university, made an address. Rev. Dr. Henry A. Butz, president of the theological sem inary, offered the prayer. The inter ment wa3 at Rock Creek cemetery and was private. Forty-One Years on Same Farm.. SIOUX FALLS, S. D. Foster T. Wheeler, a pioneer settler of Charles Mix county, has made a remarkable record, residing on the same farm for forty-one years. He settled on the land in 1S62. Strike Becomes International. MONTREAL. The office.rs of the striking longshoremen announce that the Liverpool longshoremen have ca bled that they will refuse to handle any good 3 loaded here by non-union men. The Liverpool longshoremen, the strikers here claim, are affiliated with the British labor congress. The Canadian Pacific will continue to load and unload its vessels at Three Rivers. Cleveland for Water Talk OGDEN, Utah. The executive com mittee of the National Irrigation con gress has received a letter from Gilbert McClurg. general representa tive of the irrigation congress, who had a recent interview with Grover Cleveland. The ex-president express ed a desire to attend the congress n Ogden next September and promised in the event of not being able to do so to send a paper on "Arid Land. Re clamation." ' ' ' mini i mi nun ii mi TCC LIYC STOCK MARKET. X latest Quotations from South T Omaha and Kansas City. I I 1 1 I 1 1 I I I I II I I I I II I 1 1 I II MOITTH OM4II t. CATTLR There was aliberal run of cattle arid In fact receipts were con siderably ahead of expectations. The beef steer market could be quoted steady to a shade lower. There was quite a little unevenness to the trade and It was very evident that packers were not very anxious for supplies, as the bl run all the wek has fllled them up in (fool shape. As a general thing the medium and handy weight cat tle sold at about steady prices, but the heavy cattle were slow. The cow market showed very little chung-e. The blsr bulk of the offerings consisted of beef steers, so the supply of cows and heifers was not excessive. The better grades in particular Bold freely "at steady prices. Hulls held Just about steady and veal calves sold irv yesterday's notches, but they are lower than they were a week aro. There were very few tockers and feeders on sale and the demand was very limited. The few cattle that did arrive in most cases had to sell a little lower. HGS There was quite a liberal run of hours, but the market held about steady. At the start packers took hold quite freely and a Kood many traders were callinu; the market steady to strong1. The hotrs, though, were a prood deal heavier than yesterday, which helped out the apeparance of the mar ket on paper to quite an extent. To ward the close, thoiiRh. the packers st-emcd to have their more urgent or ders filled, so that the last end of the market was slow and weak. The bulk rf the medium weights sold from $6. C2'. to $C.C.-.. SIIKKP Quotations for clipped stock: Choice western lan.bs. $f.00i) O.T.O: faj- to prood lambs, $.V00 t fi.OO : choice western wooled lambs, S.TiCii1 7.1i; fair to prood wooled lambs, JtVOC't1 G.r.0: choice lightweight ye;trliii?s. S.'.r.O (i.!; fair to prood yearlings. Jl.'iOff Xt.'lo: c hoice wethers, $.1.00 5 5.2" : fair to roimI wethers. $4.2." ?i 4.r,." ; choice ewes. $4..r.0'! 4. dr.; fair to tfood ewes. $: 4.23: feeder lamlis, $:..r.0i 4..'0; feeder yearllnprs. $.1.50'' 4.00; feeder wethers, $3,5014.00; feeder ewes. $3.23 Q 3.50. KANSAS C1TV. CATTLK Iieeves steady to strong; quarantine steady; cows and heifers steady to weak; stockers and feeders steady; choice export and dressed beef steers. $ I. (JO t, r..2.r. ; fair to prood. $S.r.0Ti' 4.C.r; stockers and feeders, $2. SO 'i 5.1 ; western-fed steers, $3. 50 4. 75; Texas and Indian steers, $2.50 it 4.75 ; Texas cows, $1.751 3.CI5; native cows, $1.50r' 4.40; native heifers, $2.S0 4.75; dinners. $1.10fi'2.r.O; bulls, J2.750.4.23; calves, $2.01j 6.73. H(;s Market steady to strong: top, $G.S0; bulk of sales. $G.60 n, c.72 's ; heavy. $t.7 V f C.S0; mixed packers, $G.55r?c C.72Vi; light, $0.35 1c .G0; yorkers, $0.55 6.G0; pigs, 53.83i 6.20. SHEEP AND LAMHS-Market active and strong; native lambs, 54.25(4 7.00; western lambs, 54.00 6.90; fed ewes, $3.7305.23; native wethers. $4.005.83; Texas clipped sheep, $4.00 6.00; stock ers and feeders, $3.70 5j) 4.30. JAPANESE ARMY PERFECT. Will Not Be in Background in Event of Trouble. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Mr. Shi mizu, the recently appointed Japan ese consul at Chicago, who arrived here on the Nippon Maru on the way to his new post, said regarding the Russian-Manchurian trouble: "The statement that the arsenals are working day and night and turn ing out vast amounts of military stores max be true. For the past four years the government has aimed at building np a standing army which I would oe ready and capable of enter ing the lists in case of international trouble." NEBRASKA GIRL IS SECOND. Result of the Interstate Oratorical Contest. SIOUX CITY, la. The Interstate oratorical contest, in which six states were represented, was won by Harry C. Culver of Cornell college, Mount Vernon, la., the subject being "A Po litical Problem." The prize was $50. Miss Florence Hope cl Grand Island college, Nebraska, yrzr 6econd; Irvin B. Wood of. Hamline university, St. Paul, third. Others in the contest were Garland C. Greeve of Central college, Fayette, Mo.; James G. Get ty of Hedding college, Abingdon, 111.; Warren Barber of Ripon college, Wis consin. These six orators were the survivors of a contest in which forty four colleges took part. He May Abolish the Route. WASHINGTON, D. C The post office department on Friday sent to Inspector Connor of the rural free de livery service at Nashville. Tenn.. written instructions to investigate the matter of the rural carrier held up near Gallatin, Tenn. Postmaster General Payne said that he would probably abolish the route. Bills Were Settled for Him. KANSAS CITY, Mo. Lieutenant John F. McCarthy, Nineteenth Infan try, was arrested In this city Friday night by the police and was taken to Fort Leavenworth by Soldiers. Ha is at the post under arest, awaiting court martial. It was supposed by his fellow officers, when they paid the bills of. the local merchants who caused his arrest on criminal charges, that McCarthy's resignation would be accepted. King Honors W. C. Kohlsaat. STOCKHOLM King Oscara haa conferred knighthood of the Royal Or der of Vasa on Commissioner W. C. Kohlsaat in recognition of his work in connection with the St. Louis ex position. Subscriptions to Transvaal Loan. LONDON It is understood that the Transvaal loan has been subscrib ed for twenty, times. CHANCE TO REFORM HOW WORRIED FATHER COM. FORTED HIS HEART. Mis Scapegrace Son, by Enllatlng In the Marine Corps, Was at Least Safe from Misadventure for Four Years May Yet Make His Mark. ' He s regarded as the scapegrace 3f the family, and both parents long iince despaired of htm. Having de spaired of him, the mother clung all the closer to him, demanding suspen sion of Judgment. The father gave him till 33 to come to his normal senses and achieve fame, fortune and family. After doing the United States thoroughly, he spent two months in Cuba, half a year in Yuc atan, ti fort night in Panama, a month in Nica ragua, a week in Sombrero, three weeks In iAbrador, a year in Cape Nome and seven weeks with the army of Castro in Venezuela. In all these trials and tribulations he managed to keep out of jail. One cold day he surprised his par ents with the announcement that ho was to sail for Scotland on the follow ing morning to make his fortune. "Scotland?" gaspod both ia a breath. "Scotland," ho said solemnly. He named the ship he was to sail on, and the parental blessing was con ferred. No one thought or seeing him off. Two days later the father, looking over the list of arrivals of outgoing steamships, saw the name of the very one that the scapegrace had sailed on. It was cabled from Glasgow. "What! Glasgow in two days," he exclaimed, doing a war shuffle on the parlor carpet. "Something wrong. Surely that ship did not go by wireless telegraphy." The mother said: "Never mind; what my boy said will turn out all right. He may have taken one of the turbine steamers." The father did not disturb her fond imaginings. Next dav Cardinal Gibbons came on from Baltmore to attend some festivi ties at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and our doubting father, having known the grand old man from infancy, hastened to ioin him in the yard. In tow of the Admiral they went out to see the re view of sailors and marines. A com pany of the latter wheeled into posi- ion before the party, and tne cloubt ne father's heart stood still. There in the ranks stood the scapegrace, with a grin on his face a yard wide. "My son a private In the Marine Corps!" lie gurgitated. The Cardinal inquired if he was ill. "Yes, father. Look look there; my boy!" The Cardinal, who had been ac- ciuainted with the boy from the time when mother's little ray of sunshine wore swaddling clothes, remarked sotto voce: "Let him alone! Best place for him." Not lone afterward the boy went aboard ship with his company and was next heard from when the cruis er weathered the storm off the Azores. "Dear Papa," he wrote. "It has been the fearfullest time of my Ufa. We have been on our beam ends for three days, and during that period I have been doing stunts with God. Your affectionate son," etc. "Well, it nearly broke my heart at first," says the father, "but my boy is out of devilment for at least four years, the term of enlistment. Maybe he'll settle down after that and be a prop for my old age." The youth is six feet two and a quarter inches, straight as a pine and good looking. He may make his mark, and no doubt will. The best blood of old Virginia is in hi3 veins. New York Press. NOT WHAT THEY WANTED. How Mayor Low Incurred Enmity of Newspaper Men. On the dark and stormy election night there were a dozen newspaper men ordered to the house of the mayor-elect to inform him of his victory and get a few salutatory wise saws from his lips, says the New York Trib une. The elated mayor met them In the hallway, saw their bedraggled and drenched condition, and took pity on them. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am particularly beholden to you for com ing up here through the awful storm to inform me of the victory, and now that I have spoken my little say, al low me to invite you all" and here the thirst of the twelve men good and true waxed truly ponderous "to the dining room below" six men with chattering teeth and visions of rare bid Scotch bulging their eyea "where, if you are so inclined" no need to say that; they were all des perately inclined "we will have a lit tle" three men broke ranks in sheer avidity "ice cream!" "Ice cream!" shrieked out one of the Park Row gorillas, in an agony of despair. "Waow!" And forthwith vanished into the bleak and bitter night. The eleven followed sadly and filed to the nearest Dutch hostelry to predict direrful things for the new administra tion. A Yard of Silk. "In a Sixth avenue store the "other day," said the woman who shops, "my attention was attracted by the myste rious words 'Business of looking for samples,' and I whisked round just in time to see a customer dive down, lift her pretty silken skirts, insert her hand in a fetching silk stocking very nicely filled by the way and pro duce a full yard of silk, which she handed to the girl with orders to match it exactly. "Funny, isn't it?" said another salesgirl. "Yet almost all our patrons carry things there, from a purse to a cigarette case to a yard of silk. They do not seem to mind fishing for it, either. They all do it, whether it be my little errand girl or a haughty member of the Four Hundred." New York Press. World's Greatest Ranching Country. The greatest ranching country of the Canadian Northwest is Alberta. The Distance of the Sun. Our sun at the distance cf Arcturun would he invisible to us. - IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES AT WORLD'S FAIR. DEDICATION The extreme of pomp and ceremony marked tho dedication ceremonies at St. Ixiuls of the Ixiulslana I'urchaso exiMjsltlon. President Kooaevelt, for mer President Cleveland, President Francis of tho exouitioii company, President Carter of the world's fair commission, members of the cabinet, and the Supreme court had seats In tho center of the platform In the Lib eral Arts building. At tho president's right sat the visiting diplomatics, a distinguished looking contingent, which attracted much attention. In this sec tion, also, were other distinguished foreigners and representatives of the state department at Washington, head ed by Assistant Secretary of State PRINCIPALS IN DEDICATION CEREMONIE6. 4 -.t it mm 4. jjk. , pr u PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND AND DAVID R. FRANCIS, PRESIDENT OF THE FAIR ASSOCIATION. Loomis. To the left of the president sat the joint delegation of senators and representatives, representing con gress, the foreign commissioners to the fair, and Gen. Miles, Adjt. Gen. Corbin and Gen. John C. Bates, with many other scarcely less distin guished. The assembly was called to order by President Francis. He first Intro duced Cardinal Gibbons, who deliv ered the invocation. He was followed by Thomas H. Carter of the national commission, who acted as president of the day. The choir of 2.000 voices then sang "The Heavens Proclaiming." At the close David R. Francis, president of REMOVED STATUE OF KING. Few Formalities Attended Demolition of Edward's Counterpart. A feature of the Glasgow exhibition of the year before last was the colos sal statue of King Edward VII, which stood below the central dome. They are still removing the buildings, etc., of the exhibition and at the end of last week the statue was "dealt with." The ceremony lacked fastidiousness. A noose was drawn tightly round the neck of the king, half a dozen navvies hitched themselves to the ground end of the rope and the great statue lay in many fragments. The charitable explanation is advanced that this course was taken to remove any chance of hi3 majesty, when he goes to Glasgow in May, seeing himself as bo many thousands had been led to Imagine him. Falk Refuses Testimonial. Circuit Attorney Falk of St. Louis, through whose efforts not a few bood lers of that city have been convicted, declines to accept a testimonial from admiring citizens who wished to show their appreciation of his work. The testimonial tendered was a resi dence costing $15,000, and Mr. Falk, while cordially thanking his fellow citizens, said he could not accept oth er remuneration than his salary for simply performing his duty. Urges Church to Discriminate. "The time has come, in my opin ion," says Bishop Burgess of Long Island, "when the church should be particular what money it receives. Money obtained by fostering the gambling instinct in young parish ioners is something which every rec tor should refuse, and, while at first the church may suffer in its funds, it will in the end gain in spiritual strength." Long Time on One Newspaper. Col. Stephen N. Winslow, oldest newspaper man in Philadelphia in ac tive continuous service, recently cele brated the sixty-first anniversary of his entrance into journalism. During those sixty-one years, without inter ruption, be has been a member of the staff of the Inquire-. Popular Kentuckian. J. Morgan China, a son of Col. "Jack" Chinn, the famous Kentuckian of sporting and belligerent proclivities, is a candidate for the office of clerk of the Court of Appeals of the state of Kentucky. He i3 one of the most popular men in the blue grass region. the fair aHHoclntlon. formally present ed the ralr building. Both President HooHcvclt and President Cleveland, who delivered addresses, were :lven out huslantln welcome by the cMiornioua crowd, which packed the biilldlnn. The ap plause which greeted both of tho dis tinguished orators was prolongud for almost twenty minutes. Tho services were made notablo by the military display, tho gathering of dignitaries, and the utterances of men of highest position marked this first of the three dedicatory duys of tho ex Ioslt Ion. To former President Cleveland was credited one of these, notable utter- HV, l--c . i v cb : : , A v -cj k t I -. mm. ances when he declared his belief that the Ixulsiana purchase tihowed this nation to be the "one favored of Ood." To President Roosevelt was credited another when he assorted that this country, first among republics, had learned to expand without breaking up, and to grow strong without losing liberty. The exercises were closed by a ben ediction delivered by Bldbop Potter of New York city. At the conclusion of tho speeches the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the treaty which tranferred the Louisiana purchase from Franco to the United States was marked with a salute of 100 aerial guns. HARD ON THE MODEL. Enthusiastic Painter Almost Causes Death of Soldier. Charlc?3 Schreyvogel, the "painter of the Western frontier," works even in cold weather on his roof in New York. Recently he had a soldier for a mod el. The trooper was told to assumo a recumbent posture, a3 if wounded. It was bitterly cold, but the painter became so absorbed in his work that he did not experience any discomfort. The soldier, accustomed to obedience, lay perfectly still. When Mr. Schrey vogel had finished he found this really model model so benumbed that ho had to half carry, half drag him down to the studio and revive him with an al cohol bath (external and internal) be fore the poor fellow could stand on hi3 legs again. Hugh McLaughlin an Optimist Hugh McLaughlin, for forty years leader of the Kings county (Brooklyn) democracy, has two fads outside of politics baseball and pinochle. The old gentleman is a good deal of a philosopher, too, with nothing of tho pessimist about him. He has no patience with the talk about "good old days." holding that things in general are better than ever before, "includ ing some of the politicians. I hope," he remarked the other day between deals at his favorite game. His Excuse No Good. The court has decided that A. J. Patterson, the defaulting city treasur er of Clyde. Kan., must go to the pen itentiary for three years. Mr. Patter son i3 the ingenious gentleman who advanced the plea that inasmuch as the city obtained it3 money Illegally, by licensing "joints." he had a rfght to appropriate it for his own use. The district court could not be induced to regard this plea as admissible, so the defaulter goes to jail. Last of Indian Tribe. In a farmhouse near Taunton live the last descendant of the Massasoit Indians, Princess TeweeJerna of tho Warn pan oags. She is called Mlsa Mitchell by her neighbors. Her face is of the pure Indian type that is rare ly seen in this part of the country and although C7 she is In full posses sion of her mental and physical vigor. Trustees Pick St. Louis Man. Rev. Alfred F. Smith, pastor of tho St. Louis Methodist Episcopal church, south, haa been chosen president of Centra! Female college at Lexington, Mo. He wilf accept the tender. i is 0 w - T V v " rr c: V . , v- . . .