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: - i General Nebraska INews. a-:--x-x:-X"X":-xxx-X" THE STATE IN ORIEF. Willi im Johuston. v. had been working in a hotel M Lincoln, was -irroxted nf Wyn.ore by Marshal Ac ton. jharg, with stealing a rli"il for $!'. Business tiion of Ashland aro ur.itat Ing question of u Fourth of July celebration this e,ir. No celebration Ii ih b. n hcj-l in Ashland since !!'. Th larg Increase in nchool popula tion I.h overcrowding th: piiblic school of York ami tlio school lMard will be oiupeir. ,1 to I, mid I). sir:il).i and central locations an sriircc. e!ovu con.--, w.is twice struck by lightning during a l.ito storm. The flr.sf Kl,.nr. i;if:i:ii;o to tie ' hliiiney of one of the Mr.;.' board in:; Jial ! ; and sorioii.-ly shoi !.i I Frank Slde, th. cook. James Oppen!ieimT of Ashland h:is rci ivi-i word from tti" patent oiiic at a-li!ni;ton t it i f: ir that, lie ha Ix eli I'.ratltecl .it!lf upili im;nV- in. nts to :m adj'istaM tension brack, t for win ! w td:eyM. I'reia ,;,t coal iT'nl.'n .iy that po. !! are lnin; in their supply for next wii.dr already. They n me rubor the ilitlicilty to et find last winter and a;. d termifi.'d that the n. t fold -iea -on Ii .' 1 1 ted nd lln-m n'l.irejtaie 1. Tile Mierj.ll elections In Id ill l.o:;a.l :ir: I 1'iiley tnw n--liii ; :it which tlie pro;n is:t ion to v. .to bond in tho sum i $"." i oacli In ait oT tli" oten.-ion of tli" Mi .ioiiii Pacific railroad from Vir;:n:a to peat rice, resnltod in tins I- -f -;it of the I). u:ds in both townships. Tie- case i,f Prille Weed, charged vv i t i h r.-.e .sieaUn::. was I i rn is d in tlie ili.strict court of Seward cor.nt. II" is only fifteen years old and had li" boon fried ari l convicted could have -received only a reform school sen tence. fafayetfo Campbell of (Iran i Island, u l i I of nbont sixteen years, was t.Tiiht n a live electric wire and suspended fn tlie air about ten min utes, until notice could be sent to the Kleetric Licrht & Ice company's works o turn otT lie current. He was not lea Hy hurt. The Cnite I States civil service com ini.sioti announced that on June 2.i an 'xan.inat hn will bo held for tho posi tion of illustrator in n.rosio'oiry. Alsi lhaf on July 7. I'.":5. an '.xaminat i n will he held for the position of Chinese xv atchiriati. Also that on June 2 " an I'x.uiMna' ion will bo held for the posi ii hi of assistant steam enire-or. A in-v, hih school buibiin. at Fai. Iiury is now an assured fact, tho prop o iiion to bon.l the district for $2.".f"i) fiavins; carried at th special olertioii by a vote of for to sixty-nine aiinst. The apparent major! :y of .-:ii:nenf ir ps favor was responsible lor the hih vote cast. Mls.s llonni Star, n donieslie In Che family of J. S. Atherton at Dea ri.e. was found by Mr. Atherton In an nuthouse on the place writhing ia convulsions. The girl was uncon scious for several hours and may not recover. On the floor where sho was ! Arrested as a Deserter. found was a half ounce bottle labeled ' COLUMBUS Chief of Police C. M. oil of tan.sy. There was only a little '. Taylor arrested Em.il Hoeben on ad of tlie dru left in the bottle. , vice telegraphed from the navy de- The first annual metritis and ban-' nartment at Washington. Hoeben Is iuet of the operators and represents-; 19 years old and was raised in this lives of the Ilea? rice Creamery com- j city. Last fall he enlisted in the f ury, hold in McCook. was a success ; service at the Mare Island navy yard, fo the officers of the company and ! near San Francisco. He returned to the station operators as well. Pe-; home about a week aco. He is being .sides the entire official directorate of j held here awaiting the arrival of gov the company about fifty station oper- ernment officers, afors were present, and the whole I proceedings wore marked by deep in- ' terest and were pronounced decidedly interest ins; by all concerned. The Fremont Telephone company lia asked the city council to change the rates for service fixed in Its t franchise. At present the charges are ! $1 per month for residence 'phones j nn.i for those in hnsine im,K A valuable horse which was stolen from Joseph Lvnn at Uunion several of Postal accounts and illegally weeks ago has been located. It was j trafficing In the sale of postage stamps, found in the possession of a farmer Postmaster Erb was arrested by Dep named Christian, residing near Ash- j ut' Marshal Walling and brought to land. Charles Elliott. mail carrier of rural route No. 2. in ntfempting to J district. Inspector Swift had the case drive across a bridge six miles south- so vve11 worked up that Erb saw there west of Beatrice, came near being I wa3 no wa' to avoid punishment or drowned. Mr. Elliott and the horse aQ'-" himself of the charge and when .and wagon were swept off the bridge ' brought before the commissioner he by the high water and the mail sacks admitted his guilt as charged in the .Tarried down stream more than half complaint. He was bound over to ap 4 mile l ef re they were recovered, j Pear before the next term of the Two farmers who happened to bo cm ; United States court at Omaha in the the opposite side when the accident j surn of 3"- "'hich bail he furnished occurred rescued Mr. Elliott with j anfi was released, much difficulty. i A story has been pubished at Fre- j Reports on Schools, mont and probably sent to other pa-1 LINCOLN. Suporintendent Fowler pers regarding a mythical case of a ' has begun to hear from a few of his child at Dodge, the son of Tade Sul- requests for statistics regarding the livan. who is reported to have died ( consolidation of school districts. The to all appearances anil then corn to j statistics were called for as a matter life a sain. The origin of the tale was 1 of encouragement for other districts in the effort of an imaginative writer that are contemplating consolidation, to let himsolf out easy after printing ' So far very few have responded with an Pem that the boy was dead and' reports. It is expected the consolida later finding that this was a mistake, j tion idea will result in much good all The one hundreth anniversary of over the state where the attendance of Emersoa's birth was appropriately ob served in the Doane college at Crete. The United Evangelical church has purchased th church building on the corner or Eighth street and Grant avenue, York, which Is being used I W. Menke and John T. Johnson, who for school purposes. They have no- j have been selling groceries to the tif.e 1 the school board to vacate at ! farmers of Seward county, were ar the end of this term of school. ( rested while delivering a car load of Ralph Taylor of Gibbon, 5 years j goods to their customers and taken old. living wih Mrs. Piorce. his grand-, before County Judge Leavens on the mother, dioj very suddenly from rup- luring a bl xd vessel In his reck, said ti have been injured by a ntck trouble which has been causing It it 3 of dis tress this spring. rv - : - - .A.!-'. "X-:k:-:-XtWkh--h;v BUSH AFTER STATISTICS. Lxbor Corr missioner Hoping to Be Helped Out. LINCOLN. Lalmr Commissioner Flush 1.4 hoping tlM'.j.- ilays that ho will r'f;iVM very shortly statistics he wants and that hav heretofore not hi'n fort In oining from Ihe farming sec tions or th sf ato. H in hoping that tho county ax.-4-MMirH will this ear help him out ly gathering in every fact connect el with i-vcry family fu th said assessor' ranv;e. Hush wants to know everything ami the requests that h ha been handing hodic of tho as-ni'-Hor3 almost ask for the family sKHi't :is and heirlooms. lucid, n tally Mr. Hush has plopped s-'v i il rirls fruit working overt ii.ie jn Omaha and warned t!n-ir employers that a r'i-t it i n ol tin? offense would in.t bo tolerated. On several occas ion he found the lys In t Ii r ton-pin ; 1 1 ! .4 . who Were too young to be In tin lii:siin-.s-t, and sent thorn homo and :ivi; the saiuo warning to tho proprietor.-!. As a result of thf constant ham nuring done ly frrmor C'ommissionor 'ason and which has boon kept up by Itiish. many firo escapes havo boon put up ami more are in course of construction. A rooont one ia Lincoln w:;s on tho Burr block. Prisoner Skips Out. BEATRICE. Ol is HoflVl finger, a prisoner at tho county jail awaiting trial for horso siealing. who had boon working in I lie jail yard and was al lowed considerable liberty, has dis appeared, in company with a prisoner named Charles Cain. Cain's time was Hourly out. Arrested for Passing Bad Money. ALHION. Deputy Marshal Waller came in Saturday evening with Dan Miimmoy, whom he had arrested at St. I'M ward for passing counterfeit money at that place. For some time considerable bad money has been in circulation there, and It is supposed1 that Mummey has conferedates who have not yet boon apprehended. i Laborer Crushed Beneath Scaffold, j KANPOI.PH. Charlie Jones, a la i borer a'ed was instantly killed i near hero. Jnos was working near j town with a sans; of bridge buildtrs j and was stationed on a scaffold on : which a piledriver rested. The scaf fold gave way and Jones was crushed by the falling mass. ASHLAND. Neb Krwin Jenks. liv ing near this city, was quite badly l poisoned by a puff adder several clays ago. He had run across the snake in crossing a field and had killed it with a strap. He carried the strap back to the bam ami on the same day the poisonous effects began to appear. It Is thought that the ioison was con tracted from handling the strap. Both his face and hands are badly swollen. TROUBLE FOR A POSTMASTER Held to Federal Court on Charge of Trafficing in Stamps. SPENCER. Postoffice Inspector A. - Swift took into custotly M. L- Erb. postmaster at Slocurn. Neb., on the charge of making fraudulent returns thi3 place before Sanford Parker, United States commissioner for this schooU is small. Poisoned by Adder. For Non-Compliance. SEWARD. Charles E. Barnett. Geo. charge of not complying with the state law requiring such peddlers to have a Ilcens?. They failed to show a li censes and were fined tZO and costs each. ATORNADO SOUTH REPORTS THAT ONE HUNDRED WER KILLED. AS MANY MORE ARE INJURED Gainesville, Ga., Scene of the Disaster Great Cotton Mitts with Five Hun dred Errployes in Storm's Patn Buildings Demolished Upon Inmates. GAINESVILLE. tJa. Just aHer the roou tour Monday the I'y was Htr uc ny a terrific tornado, killing p-.i'mHy 10') portions. Injuring 1.V), unroofing the City hotel and other large build ings and destroying the Gainesville lotion mills. The greatest loss of life Is reported In the destruction of the cotton mills, where about eighty per sons are reported killod und scores in jiirei. Eighteen persons were Killed in the city between the center of the town and the railroad station, where four laro stores were blown down. Tho cotton mill was a throe-story building. Tho first story was left standing, but badly wrecked. The sec ond and third floors were completely demolished and the employes caught iindr tho wreckage and mangled. It is estimated that there are at least seventy-five bodies under the wreckage of the thud floor, and it is not Known how many persons on the second floor of the building were kill ed. The roof of the electric car barn was lifted and the building badly dam aged. The railroad depot suffered also. Nearly every employe in the Gainesville cotton mills was killed, in cluding a large number of childrer' The Southern depot was blown down. The Gainesville iron works were de molisned and several people perished, in the wreck. The Gainesville cotton' oil mills were blown down. The old1 Piedmont hotel, now used as a school! and apartment house, was razed and. half a dozen or more people were killed In it. The Richmond hotel was, wrecked and several perished along: with it. One hundred and twenty Hve cottages, a school house and a church were blown away in the negro section of the town. Five brick stores on the main street of Gainesville were swept away. In all 20 tnilldings are demolished here. The furious wind next struck the plant of the Paeolet cotton mills at'. New Holland, two miles from the Southern railway station, 'mis is one of the largest cotton mills in the south, employing more than GOO hands.' The storm spared the Paeolet factory, but entirely demolished 100 of its cot tages, standing nearby and tenanted by its operatives. Here the fatalities were greatest, upwards of thirty-five persons being buried in the ruins of the cottages. Bodies were blown hun dreds of yards and many of them when picked up bore no semblance te humanity. The trunk of one young boy was found with the head decapi tated as if by the guillotine. From New Holland the tornado swept onward to the east in the di rection of White Sulphur, a town of about 100 persons. Tne extent of its destruction there cannot be definitely ascertained, but reports so far re ceived indicate considerable loss of life. GOVERNMENT PROMPT TO ACT. Will Supply Subsistence and Tents Where Needed. WASHINGTON. D. C The war de partment is exerting it3 full powers and going to the extreme warrant of the law in aiding the flood sufferers in the west. Putting aside all tech nical questions as to the power of; the department to move in the mat ter without violating the law prohib iting the expenditure of government supplies without direct order of con-i gress. Acting Secretary Sanger has assumed full responsibility for the ex-i tension of relief where it is necessary; to save human life, and if necessary; congress will be asked later to ap-' prove this exercise of authority. By direction of the department the' military officials in the distressed re-' gion will not only provide tents to shelter the . homeless, but will be al lowed to exercise their judgment as to the issue of such military supplies and rations as can be spared from! the military posts. Mrs. Tibbies Dead. BANCROFT, Neb. Mrs. T. H. Tib bies, well known as a correspondent and writer, under the name oC "Bright Eyes," died at her home neari this place Tuesday night. Her hus band, T. H. Tibbies, was formerly connected with the Nebraska Inde pendent. Against a Consolidation. LEXINGTON, Va. The Southern Presbyterian general assembly decid-? ed against, consolidating the offices of the general superintendent of Sunday schools and young people's societies. The report of the committee on the ological seminaries, which was adopt ed, showed that the character of the work of the student bodies of these institutions have been highly satisfac tory. This year there will be thirty nine graduates. Approves Chamberlain's Plans. LONDON Among the latest to ex press full approval of Colonial Secre tary Chamberlain's zolverein plan is Premier Sedden of New Zealand, who declares that Germany's attitude to ward Canada is a blessing in dis guise. Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man, the liberal leader, has decided to drop his amendment on the subject, as the second reading stage of the finance bill will afford opportunity far discussion of the matter. i n i m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1- ;: THE LIVC STOCK MARKET. ) ! Latest Quotations rrom South Omaha and Kansas City. I I I I I I I I I M I II I I I I 1 II I I I I ISO t III OVIll. CATTI.i:--There was utiollier libera! run of catll. an. I although tr;oliioc wa rut tier k1(,iv there was not nuo-h Change In tho price pall. Th lf ie-r market w;ih very slow . n o.en Itix and the maiket could best be de M rilel ly calling it Hte.idy to a hule lower. l:uyir did not take hold with a Kroat deal of life, and while they bought tii the more desirable grades at Just about steady price they were inclined to be bearish on the com moner kinds. The cow market was also a little Blow wUh prices rani?tiitf ule.idy to a little lower. There was considerable unevenncKS In the t,rlies paid, but us a general thins the med ium kinds Buffered more than the choice grades, while canners sold without much trouble at just about hteady prices. 1 lulls, veal calves and ft-.iK all sold In just about the Fame notches they did yesterday. The Mocker and feeder market was riot very well Kiipplied, and in fact there were scarcely enough thin cattle to make a test of the situation. 1K;S There was another very heavy run of hos, which makes tho supply for the four dnys of this week .".l.sr.l. against 27. K07 for the same days of last week and 27,'.US for the same -lays of last year. Other mar kets have also had very liberal runs, so the rapid break in price is not to be wondered at. At the start a few loads sold steady to a shade low er, but they were not enough loads sidd that way to make a market. After the first round packers were bidding liilOo lower and wanted to buy their droves at $T..70 and $.".72'i. S1IKKI Quotations for clipped stock: Choice western lambs. $.'ZT,'i) fi.7r; fair to Rood lambs, $T,.:.0'. ;.-" ; choice western wooled lambs. i.'rn 7.00: fair to r-ooiI wooled lambs. $.0) ij."i0; choice light weight yearlings, $",.ri() '.". 7." ; fair to good yearlings, J4.7Ti 0i T,.2, ; choice wethers. $."..00 li 4.ti." ; choice ewes. $4.r.O -it T..O0 : fair to good ewes, $:!..r0'-i 4.LTi; feeder lambs, $?,.r,0'-v 4 ai: feeder yearlings. IS. j0 fa 4.00 ; feeder wethers. $3.T.O di 4.00 ; feeder ewes, $2.23 3. ".0. K V:SAS I'lTV. T.ight beeves steady; heavy, lowest tf season; Texas steady; cows and heifers weak to lower; stockers and feeders steady to weak; bulls very c.uiet; choice export and dressed beef steers. $ 4.T.0 fi a. Of. : fair to good. $."!.00'm 4..-.0; stockers and feeders. $.1.00 f 4. CO: western fed steers, Si.SOfi 4.00; Texas and Indian steers. $3.00 ri 4.2a ; Texas cows. Z.:',fa 3.2a: native cows. $1.90& 4.25; native heifers. $2.C". 'i 2.Sa ; can ners. $I.70f 2.2.".; calves. $2.0l 'a C.aO. H(iS Market opened weak, closed strong to "c higher; top. $t.10; bulk of sales. $."..7." "...". ; heavy, $T..Sa fj C.i 0 ; mixed packers. $."... ".r. f a. Ha ; light. $T..aa j.".7a; yorkers, $a.70$ C.7a; pigs, $4.75 l a.aO. SMi:i:P AND T.AJir.. Market steady to lT.e lower; grassers. 2afl3rc lower; native Vmls. $4.40 rn 7.30 ; west ern Iambs, $1.007.1.V, fed ewes. $3.50 tfi a.30; native wethers, $3.70'!i 5.4 a ; Texas clipped sheep. $.1.50?j 5.20; stock ers and feeders, $3.25 4.0.1. LIKE IN THE UNITED STATES. Sensation in the Legislature of Brit ish Columbia. ViCTCRIA. B. C Sensational scenes in the house following the dis missal of C. F. Wells, chief coaunis sioiifr of lands and works, and Attci r.y General Roberts Thursday cul minated in the defeat of the govern ment and the announcement that the lecislacure would be dissolved. A mo tion by Premier Prior was defeated by a vote of 16 to 13. Finance Minister Prentice made a sensational speech in which lie re ferred to Eberts as a blackguard and said the premier had for colleagues "men untrue and unfaithful cowards and liars." Later W. W. B. Mclni3, provincial secretary, tendered his resignation. Although the government was defeat ed, it was enabled with the support of Joseph Martin and his followers, who hold the balance of power, to secure an adjournment, during which ar rangements will be made for the pass age and non-contentious legislation be fore the legislature is dissolved, and an appeal made to the country. Pacific Ocean Rates Are Cut. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. The steam er Athol. the first of the fleet of ths China Commercial company to reach this port, sailed for Hong Kong and ports in Japan Thursday. She took away about 1,500 tons of freight and there were about 100 Chinese passen gers in her steerage. The agents of the company made a cut in freight rates to equal the reduction made by the Pacific Mail Steampship company in freight tariffs. Some people get credit for brokeu hearts when they have simply lost their nerve. The poor ye have always with you often so close that they touch you Sullivan Hit Too Low. ST. LOUIS, Mo Tommy Felts of Savannah received the decision over Tommy Sullivan of Brooklyn in the eleventh round before the West End club here Thursday. Sullivan struck Felts very low three times during the fight. Felt3 was given the decision in the fourth round, which was the second time that he had been hit low, but declined it, and the fight went on to the eleventh, when Sullivan again repeated the foul. Saved from Kansas Mob. WICHITA. Kan. J. M. Woods, the negro arrested ar Yates Center, charg ed with assaulting a farmer's wife, was brought here and placed in jail early to prevent being lynched. Actress Gets Divorce. LONDON Ellis Jeffries, the act ress, has been granted a divorce from Hon. F. G. Curzon on the grounds of rutal treatment and misconduct. He '3 a son of the late Lord Howe. TO TRAVEL FROM NEW CITY TO PARIS BY s Kmwiiin"tt'"t"ttt(ttt'""t"t,tttt"""""''' o French Map Showing Plan to Sh From New York to Paris by rail, without change of cars, sounds like a startling proposition. It means from Chicago to Berlin, from St. Louis to Vienna, from Philadelphia to Pekin and from San Francisco to Rome, for freight as well as passengers, by "the direct route, all rail." It means, in a word, the shifting of the world's com mercial axis from the Suez canal to Bearing strait, with the broad popula tions of America and Russia to re place the treacherous empty ocean. This is the promise of the Trans-Alaska-Siberian railway, whose Euro pean development at the present hour is so striking and so intimately connected with certain secret politi cal motives as to merit the attention of every American. With the names of the president of the French republic and the shah of Persia on their patronage committee, the European directors of the Trans-Alaska-Siberian company went to Russia last September. In St. Peters burg they were received by the czar, whose government on the spot wel comed the work in principle, and de manded a report on the concessions that would be asked in return for constructing the Siberian end of the line. On May 1 this report was final ly submitted to the Russian govern ment. In the United States the well known Alaskan pioneer, Capt. J. J. Healy of the North American Trans portation and Trading company, has several companies formed for the pur pose (according to information). acts ally at work on the South Alaskan terminal cuttings. About this end of the work I have been requested to say nothing; but I learn that, when the conditions of the Russian conces sions are finally agreed on, those of several American companies will be thrown with them into one great en terprise. The day after I heard that $10,000. 000 had already been subscribed in France I called on M. Loicq de Lobel, the envoy of the Paris Geographical society, who originated the project and who has formed the European company. . "Will the Trans-Alaska-Siberian find local traffic throughout its length to justify its building?" I asked. "It is a cold country up there." "Of the 30,000 persons who were at Dawson in the Klondyke in 1S90-1900 there remain now scarcely 5,000," an- Yale Students Were Coached. Yale and Princeton students held a joint debate last week, the subject being whether a closure resolution should be adopted in the United States senate, and what effect such action would have on the business of that body. Yale had the negative side and won, but it is learned that previous to the debate Senator Or ville H. Piatt of Connecticut had the Yale boys in his house for two hours and supplied them with a series of valuable arguments. The fact that he had done so seems to have been concealed until after the debate. Famous Preacher Coming. Rev. R. J. Campbell, who is to suc ceed the late Dr. Joseph Parker in the City Temple. London, will sail for this country In a couple of weeks and will remain to take part in the stu dents conference at Northfield the last of June and first of July. Power of Small Magnet. A magnet has been made weighing only three and one-half grains which couJd lift 1,560 grains, or 445 times its own w?iht. ft the Commercial Axis of the World. Railway. swrred M. de Lobel. "Where are (ho rest? A great mass of them have al ready passed into Alaska; and their discoveries of tin (Yakutat bay to Valdes), copper (Tanar.a river), coal, iron and petroleum have already drawn many of them from the gold which they originally sought. Others are following the gold belt all the way round to Siberia. They are the pioneers. Agriculture and industries follow the gold miner. "Agriculture?" I exclaimed. "Emphatically," answered the French, geographer. "Alaska is not a uniquely mountainous country, as is commonly "imagined. 'Behind tho mountains bordering the Yukon there are vast plains capable of rivaling the wheat fields of western America." Here M. de Lobel showed me a lot of photographs of experimental wheat, oats, bailey and hay growing in which the stalks are so high that a man standing upright can hide in them. There were photographs of cabbages, potatoes, turnips, etc., that recalled the triumphs of California farming. "The strength, the quantity and quality of these growths astonish us in France," he said. "The Alaskan soil by reason of the thickness of its humus (decayed vegetable matter) will produce rich harvests for a cen tury without artificial fertilizers. Be ginning in the month of April flow ers bloom, vegetation starts up and the snow disappears everywhere but on the mountain summits. The months of May, June, July and August are as warm as in France. Besides, Alaska possesses a unique agricultural super iority." "What is that?" "In summer there is no night; you can read a book at midnight in the open air. So grain, vegetables and plants of all sets grown in perpetual sunlight durir.g five consecutive months whica represents in reality ten months of growth. Now, note this: The constant humidity which the sun maintains at the roots of all Alaskan plants by means of the progressive thawing of the ground, deeper and deeper, pushes their growth. That is the secret of tne phenomenal vege tables I brought from Alaska to our National Society oi Acclimation. "So much for agriculture," contin ued M. de Lobel. "As for minerals, I prophesy as an explorer and expert that in twenty years Alaska will be recognized as the richest country in Head of Virginia University. It was Thomas Jefferson's idea that the University of Virginia should be and remain forever a thoroughly dem ocratic institution the instructors equal, free and independent, the stu dents under co rules except the uni versal ones regulating the behavior of men in civilized society. Up to now the university has had no president only a chairman of the faculty. Last winter the general assembly of Vir ginia overhauled the charter and the trustees are now at liberty to elect a president whenever they see fit. It is prdicted that they will choose either Prof. John Bassett Moore of Columbia university or President Charles W. Dabney of the University of Tennessee. Tolstoi Condemns Persecution. Count Tolstoi's contribution of $7, 500 in aid of the persecuted Jews of Kishineff is one of the largest made In Russia. Thoujh not a Jew and a harsh critic at times of the Jewish theology, Tolstoi has not hesitated to denounce in unmeasured terms the treatment of the race by the Russian government and people. YORK RAILROAD - The Whole Line of the Proposed (he world, excepting perhaps, thi neighborhood part of Siberia, which has the same geological formation. You know that liehring strait has ex isted only a few hundred years." "How much Russian capital shall you get?" "At least 50,000,000 francs," replied M. de Ibcl; "but I oui;lit not to speak of such matters at present. Tho Americans Interested," and here M. do Ixibel mentioned the name of Rocke feller, "reserve the oiUou to subscribe first." "When shall you begin the Siberian cuttings?" "As soon as the Russian concessions are agreed on. "You will not wait for the merging of the European and American com panies?" "Not necessarily. Work already ac complished can be thrown In along with the concessions when the tim comes to make the merger. It Is something I am not competent to speak of, as it depends ou American financiers." "Can you give me their names?" "No. Perhaps I did wrong to di vulge the name of Rockefeller. All thi3 is premature. The public is not being asked for any subscriptions." The aspect of tho map with the whole world circled by a continuous line of railway fascinated me. Thero lies the North Pole in the center. It looked strangi to see it there. "How long shall it be?" I asked. "When school children shall be study ing fetich a map, with the commercial axis of the world so shifted?" "In less time than you think' re plied the French geographer. "Behr ing's strait itself is providentially ar ranged for the crossing of the radlway cars." "Ferryboats?" I inquired, as I took my departure. "I have never spoken of a ferry boat," he answered. "One might be used temporarily during the first sum mer, but the one thing is the Bearing tunnel. As if to invito it, the two Diomede islands stand there in the strait. The entire distance acrosB from Alaska to Siberia i3 thirty-seven miles. There will be two tunnels of less than eighteen miles each." "Or two sixteen miles each and one of four m:le- " I suggested. "Exactly," said the French geog rapher. Sterling Heilig In New York Press. Duchess Shuns Americans. London is stirred jy a report that the duke and duchess of Marlborougfi will close their town house and move to Blenheim, their country home. The news Is causing still more of a sensa tion in New York, however, for it ii hinted that the young American duch ess takes this method of balking the social ambition of numerous Ameri cans whom she met in Newport last summer. These might look for favors in the British capital tbls season and as some of them are said to be impos sible the duchess will now be able to avoid them. The Germ of Lockjaw. It was a Japanese scientist. Prof. Kitasto, famous as a microscopist, who discovered that the long, narrow lockjaw germ lives in the earth and can only work at its dangerous trade when buried deep ia a wound where no air can reach it. Pope Leo's Many Gifts. Leo XIII. has had mors money left to him than any of his jfedecessors. It is sa:i that the total sum is JG. 000,000. i