I General Nebraska News.
FIGURE3 ON TAX LEVY. I
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State Doard of Equalization Hold
Session.
LINCOLN The state hoard of
equalization has lecn In session mak
in; tentative figures to represent the
relative position of th counties for
the purMiKo of fixing the levy.
Several counties had representatives
before th board looking after their
interests.
The aMsesHrnent rolls show a total
4t 33.4'S,T7; acres of land returned
this J ar. an Increase over that of
last year cf acres. The aver-
ago anesud valuation of Improved
J:ind is 3.yi an pcre, a against $2.13
last year. Unimproved land la return
ed at an average of $1.14 this year and
51.05 lawt. The average value of Im
proved lofH has been Increased from
5I27.7; to $1-8.71.
The mimli' r of crttle returned this
year is 2.313.103. with an average
valtie of $(.; each; horses. 39,IS3.
with an avr:?c value of $7.71. and
asses 3,IM. with an average value of
$1M0 a ht ad.
The total assessment of the state is
$I8S.4:.S.37.. an Increase of JS.lSl.8ll
over that ,f last year.
Of the total valuation. Douglas coun
ty furnishes $25. C!3.; 10.32. about one
seventh of the total.
Those who have appeared before
the hoard have been Riven to under
stand that they cannot hope to pet
the assessment of last year reduced,
since the entire levy will be made
on a basis of 2 mills higher than last
year. The principal desire Is to Ret a
levy which will compare equitably
with the other counties of the state.
While the board is disposed to low
er the levy of those counties which
return a high assessed valuation, they
aim to make the levy as great as pos
sible, and there are several counties
which will get the limit of 92 mills.
Of taxable franchises. Nebraska has
but few. as shown by the assessment
roils. Th- returns show thirty-six of
what are known generally as public
service corporations that will pay
taxes on intangible property, com
monly known as franchises.
Dellwcod Bank Pays Dividend.
M. J. Holland, who has been receiv
er for the lie II wood bank, which was
wrecke d by A II. Could, the cashier,
has declared his first dividend of 5
per cent. The bank, which did a
large business with the farmers ?i
northern Butler county, failed in
January. l.t2. It Is said that there
are some assets remaining in the
bank, but they are of doubtful value.
The small size of the dividend dem
onstrates the skill of Could as a bank
wrecker.
Socialists File Ticket.
The pelitical party known as so
cialists the first to file the list
of nnmimcs for state officers. The
tiiket is composed of C. Christiansen,
Plattsnicuth, "no business address,"
for supreme judge; F. S. Wilher, Om
aha, and F. I. Lippincott, Blair, re
Cents of the state university. Wilher
has no business address. With the
names was the motto of the conven
tion, "Economic Equality."
A New Bridge.
The county supervisors have let the
contract for the erection cf a new
iron and ttecl bridge across the Loup
river at Ord.
EASY FOR IOWA FISHERS.
Fine Amounts to Much Less Than Li
cense Fee.
LINCOLN Came Warden McCon
r.ell has reported the cum? of a num
ber of Sioux City parties who were
arrested at Dakota City for fishing
without a license. They were taken
before a local justice, who fined them
$1 and costs, much to their own satis
faction and the discomfort of the
game warden, as they could afford to
be fined several times and then get
therr fishing cheaper than by paying
the license fee. The customary
amount of fines for these offenses is
the amount of the license with the
costs addci.
Chief IVputr Carter thinks the
poachers should have been fined at
least the amount f the license fee.
lie says Iowans especially should not
object to paying this fee. as the state
has a similar law costing Nebraska
hunters 510 per county to hunt quail
In Iowa.
Fees of Bank Examiners.
The state treasury has received its
first fee for bank examinations under
the new law. The last legislature en
acted a law fixing the salaries of bank
examiners at $1 S"n, and requires
them to turn all fees into the state
treasury. The fee was paid by the
Frenchman Vallc bank at Palisade.
Back examiners hivherto have been
allowed all fees up to $2,000 a year.
It i3 said that the fees rarel went
above that figure.
Reward is Increased.
PAPILLION The reward for th
arrest of Ed Snodgrass has been rais
ed from $30 to $1,000. Snodgrass Is
the man arrested for criminally as
saulting Miss Glassmann. lie was re
leased under $1,500 bond to appear
for trial on July 8, but he did not ap
pear. His bondsmen. Arthur Spear
man and John Snodgrass, paid the
bond, but a few minutes later with
drew it. Suit has been brought
to recover the amount
THK STATE AT LARGE.
August 5to Wahoo will hold a spe
cial electlofi to vote school bonds.
There is an epidemic of scarlet
fever In th neighborhood of Elmwood.
The locality is under quarantine.
A. A. Curtin. a brakeman on the
Hock Island, had his right hand
smashed Thlle coupling cars in the
yards at Beatrice.
There was a heavy thunder storm
at Greeley, during which the Catholic
church was struck by lightning, shat
tering the shingles and plastering on
one corner.
A telefjram was received at Seward
stating that Claudo Roberts had ac
cidentally shot and killed himself at
Ogden, Utah, lie resided In Seward
nearly all his life.
Governor Mickey honored the re
quisition papers of the governor of
Illinois for two divine healers, F. C.
Parker and W. F. Hall, who were ar
rested recently in Omaha.
Henry Ilrooks. a young man who
lives near Henderson, was arrested
and brought before Judge Taylor at
York. He is charged with committing
an assault upon Agnes Batztaff.
A large number of workers from
Austri'i have recently arrived in
Saunders county and are staying with
their Tel low countrymen until they
can find work or locations for farming.
Chief Surgeon Hummer of the Rock
Island has designated Dr. Heffcrlin's
hospital at Beatrice as the official hos
pital for crippled and injured em
ployes of the road between Belleville
and Horton, Kas.
At the special precinct election in
Valentine ten thousand dollars in
bonds were voted as a bonus for the
new normal school. The vote was
practically unanimous, there being
only fifteen against bonds.
The Iron columns for which officials
at the government building have so
long waited are at Norfolk at last.
Work will be immediately pushed and
within three weeks time, according
to Superintendent Williams, the sec
ond story will begin to rise.
William Purmont. a cook who de
serted his family at York about one
year ago and went to Dakota to live,
was brought back by Sheriff Brott. He
had his preliminary hearing and was
bound over to the district court.
F. S. Moose, charged with whipping
his wife, had his preliminary hearing
in the county court at Beatrice and
was bound over to the district court
in the sum of $200.. in default of
which he was sent to the county jail.
Ex-Treasurer George W. Maurer of
Gage county has filed In" the supreme
court a petition in error in the suit
brought against him in the county to
recover some $3,325 paid by him dur
ing two terms of office for clerk hire
in excess of the-fees of the office.
Just at the opening of the game of
ball at Wahoo between Wahoo and
"Stone's Strutters," the colored team
of Atchison, Kas Charles Rathburn,
manager of the latter team, dropped
dead. He was apparently in good
health and his death was from heart
failure.
A barn belonging to Bert Breed,
living one and a half miles northwest
of Tekamah, was struck by lightning.
1 wo horses were killed, and Breed,
who was in the barn, was knocked
down and rendered unconscious for
some time. The barn was set on fire,
but not burned.
The county superintendent of Stan
ton county is the first to send in his
annual report to the state superintend
ent. Male teachers have been paid on
an average of $50.82 a month, as
against $45.40 last year, while the
wages of female teachers have in
creased from $30.30 to $38.64 a year.
A band of twenty horses were stolen
out of a pasture of F. T. Bishop's
place, in the north part of Perkins
county, July 12. They were traced to
Wry, Colo., where they were shipped
to South Omaha. The billing was
changed en route and the car switched
off and sent to Neligh, Neb.
The ten-year-old son of Frank Tip
pen, living southwest of Fairbury, was
severely bitten by a rattlesnake. A
dog belonging to Mr. Tippen attacked
the snake and after he had torn it
into three pieces, the family supposing
it dead, went up" to look at it, when
the head of the reptile which was at
tached to only about three inches of
its body, raised up and sank its fangs
into the boy's bare foot. The boy will
recover.
The barn of Thos. Bryant, on a farm
about three miles east of Schuyler,
was struck by lightning and set on
fire. One horse and three head of
cattle and the entire building was
burned before sufficient help could ar
rive. Mr. Munster, a prominent young
farmer residing a few miles northeast
of Beatrice, finished threshing his
wheat crop last week. From forty
seven acres the yield was 1,000 bush
els, nearly twenty-two bushels per
acre.
The southwestern part of Burt coun
ty was visited with a heavy hailstorm
which totally destroyed hundreds of
acres of small grain and corn. Hail
stones one inch and a half in diameter
fell, breaking out windows and doing
other damage.
Mrs. Matt Haberer of North Bend,
who has been laboring under an hal
lucination for the past three months
that her neighbors wante to kill her,
attempted to commit suicide by cut
ting her throat with u razor, while her
husband was absent from the house.
WAR 13 SCENTED.
Fear that the Fear East Will Breed
Hostilities.
LONDON The DaU Mail s Tokio
correspondent sends a rather alarming
view of the situation in the far east.
Ho says Russia's rention of Manchu
ria, the Increase of its fleet, the dis
patch of reinforcements - to Manchu
ria, the southward movement of the
army occupying Manchuria and tho
defiant conduct on the Corean fron
tier, all alarmed the Japs, many of
whom are convinced that it would be
better to fight now than risk the
eventual loss of Corea and the rele
gation of Japan to a secondary place.
The Jans, be proceeds, are accumulat
ing stores and negotiating the pur
chase of ships and already have a
squadron off Vladlvostock, to which
port Russian vessels have been sent
as a precaution, and both fleets are
ready for action at any moment.
The Siberian press is declared to
reveal the aggressive spirit of the Rus
sian military party and to show that
the Russians believe they will lose
prestige If they give way now, as
their far eastern empire will be lost
and Japanese Influence will become
predominant.
The appointment of Marquis Ito as
president of the Privy council, the
correspondent says, is favorable to
.peace, but Russia must retreat or
there will be grave danger of war.
jThe Japanese believe France and Eng
Dang will join in the expected con
flict, which diplomatists at Tokio
Lhink, if once begun, will continue for
Wears, Involving disastrous results to
(Japan financially and the creation of
a sort of Balkan difficulty in Corea.
He adds that confidence is shown in
the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
TWO FIRMS GO UNDER.
W. I Stow &. Co. Sink First and
T. J. Taylor &. Co. Afterward.
NEW YORK. The announcement
on the stock exchange late Friday
.'afternoon of the suspension of T. J.
;Taylor & Co. and of W. L. Stowe &
Co. was the cause of a period of ex
cited selling of stocks and wide cuts
;in prices which has not been equaled
i.since the present movement to liqui
date set in. There is nothing in
either failure that can be traced to
'business or industrial conditions out
side the exchange, the case lying close
'to a diagnosis of speculative collapse.
'Both firms have been largely concern
ed in speculative stock market pools,
.formed for the purpose of taking on a
line of stocks, sustaining their price
by supporting orders real or manipu
lative, and seeking to realize profits
by selling out to outsiders at the high
prices. Such operations have resulted
in increasing difficulties wfth the
growth in the stringency of money, the
solicitude of bankers over loans em
ployed in such production, and the
Jaded appetite of the public for such
'securities. The operations of the
firm of W. L. Stowe & Co. were on
a large scale in Mexican Central, and
the difficulties accumulated by them
are added to the price of 11 touched
recently, compared with 344 last
year.
MAKE SERVICE ATTRACTIVE.
Government to Provide Amusements
at Navy Yards. '
WASHINGTON, D. C With a view
of making the naval service as at
tractive as possible to enlisted men
and lessening visits to dives and de
sertions, the navigation bureau is now
working on a scheme for the estab
lishment of recreation halls and
grounds in navy, yards and stations.
One of the most complete projects so
far unfolded within reasonable price
came from the Norfolk navy yard.
This plan makes provision for a foot
ball ground, base ball diamond, grand
stand, cinder track, swimming pool a
recreation hall, costing $35,000, with
gymnasium and library, dance hall,
and smoking room. It is probable
lhat where sufficient ground can be se-i-ured
these Norfolk plans will be
Adopted as a type for other yards. An
Appropriation for the purpose will be
requested at the next session of con
gress. Dies Suddenly at Butte, Mont.
NEW YORK News of the sudden
death in Butte, Mont., of former Con
gressman John Clancy, one of the
most widely known politicians in
Brooklyn, reached his relatives Sun
day. Mr. Clancy went west recently
with Miss Annette Bacon, a njece.
He was in excellent health when he
left Brooklyn.
"Lord" Barrington III.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. The preliminary
trial of "Lord" F. Seymour Barring
ion, charged with the murder of
JJames P. McCann, which was set for
.Monday in Justice Campbell's court,
will probably be postponed. Barring
ton is ill in the Clayton jail, with a
threatened attack of typhoid fever.
Saturday his temperature was 103A
and on Sunday his condition was not
changed. It is thought he will be all
right soon.
A Reaction in Colombia.
PANAMA. A strong reaction In
favor of the ratification of the canal
treaty seems to be occurlng through
out Colombia. From all the principal
cities, and from Cauca, the largest de
partment of the republic, prominent
citizens have telegraphed congress re
questing that the treaty be ratified.
Communication with Pagota is only
possible by mail. The land lines are
in bad condition and the cable is
broken.
iMinmnniiimiino
I t::z live stcck kahxet.
I Latest Quotations from South T
Omaha and Kansas City.
til iiiii i inn ii nil 1 1 m
SOl'TII OMAI1A.
CATTLE There was u moderate run
of cattle, and as the demund wan In
pretty good ahape a very Matlafactory
market resulted. The cattle beg-an
moving toward the clime In good sea
son, so an early clearance was made,
lieef steers sold at Bteadr to stroii
prices as compared with yesterday. The
prices paid, though, showed considera
ble variation owing lara;ely to the rapid
fluctuations that have been going- on.
As compared with the clone of last week
It Is safe to Quote cattle generally irc
higher and in a Rood many Instances
the ImDrovement has been even more
than that. The bulk of the fair to
pood cattle sold from $4.60 to $.", with
choice golrvjf friyr. thht p tn f.VfS.
which Is the highest price paid In noma
time. The cow market held about
steady on desirable grades. There was
a good demand for anything decent In
the way of corn fed cows or heifers
and good grass stoclc sold without diffi
culty, but when It came to the canners
and cutters the market was very dull,
with the tendency of prices downward.
Bulls, veal calves and stags did not
sliow enough change from yesterday
worthy of mention.
HOGS There was a fairly liberal run
of hogs and the market was in Just
about the same condition It was yes
terday, that is rather unsatisfactory to
the selling Interests. Buyers started
out and bought a few of the best light
weights about a nickel lower than yes
terday. They sold largely from $5.20
to $5.30. After hey had picked out a
Jew of that class the situation grew
rapidly worse until at trtie close hogs
had to sell a big dime lower. Heavy
hogs sold largely around S5.15 and
5.17 Vi. and on the close even light hogs
had to sel around $5.15.
SHEEP Quotations for grass stock:
Good to choice lambs. $5.50 (U 5.75; fair
to good lambs. $5. 005.50; good to
choice yearlings. $3.752 4.00; fair to
good yearlings, $3.50ii 3.75; good to
choice wethers, $3.50 3.75; fair to good
wethers. $3.00 3.50; good to choice
ewes, $2.75 fe 3.50; fair to good ewes,
$2.502.75; feeder lambs, $3.50f?4.00;
feeder yarllngs,. $3.00 ffi 3.50; feeder
wethers, $2.7&3.25; feeder ewes, $1.50
It 2.50.
KANSAS CITV.
CATTLE Fat cattle steady: quaran
tine steers steady; quarantine cows
steady to 10c lower; stockers and
feeders, strong; calves, higher; choice
export and dressed beef steers. $4.70 rio
5.25; fair to good. $4.04.70; stockers
and feeders, $2.50 ir 4.33; western fed
steers. $3.0004.60; Texas and Indian
steers. $8.25 'j 4 60; Texas cows. $2.00'?
3.20; native cows, $2.00 4.40; native
heifers. $2.40 Tfl 5.40; canners. $1.25(fi 2.50;
bulls, $2.50(3.75; calves, $1,7515.00.
HOGS Market 60 10c lower; top.
$3.40; bulk of sales, $3.30 ff? 5.40 ; heavy,
$5.25(i5.40; heavy, $3.230j 5.40; mixed
packers. $5.25 5.40; light, $5.32 H i
5.45; yorkers, $5.40(t 5.45; pigs, $5.40
5.45.
SHEEP AND LAMBS Market firm;
native lambs, $3.1 5 'ft 5. S5; western
lamb. $3.00(5 5.50; fed ewes, $2.90
4.75; Texas clipped yearlings, $3.00 fw
4.96; Texas clipped sheep, $2.75 & 4.00;
steers and feeders, $2.75 13.65.
WILL RETURN INDICTMENTS.
Result of Inevstigation in the Post-
office Department.
WASHINGTON, D. C Four indict
ments resulting from the postal in
vestigations are likely to be returned
by the federal grand jury in this city
next Monday.
This is the fruit of the jury deliber
ations at which Postmaster General
Payne hinted just before his depart
ure on his tea days' cruise along the
coast. The jury has had the cases
under consideration for a long time.
They involve contract matters closely
related to transactions which have al
ready resulted in sweeping action on
the part of the investigation officials.
It is understood tiaat these postal offi
cials and a contractor are involved.
One of these parties is not a resident
of "Washington. Extreme reticence
has been observed regarding the cases.
Robert Fitzsimmons Marries.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Robert
Fitzsimmons, actor and pugilist, was
on Friday granted a license to marry
Julia May Gifford. the actress. The
ceremony will take place Saturday at
Miss G iff ord' s hotel. Fitzsimmons
gave his age at 41 and that of thf
prospective bride 23.
Buildings Ceded to tle Churches.
SAN JUAN, P. R. All the munici
pal rights in the church buildings at
Guayma, Arroyo and Oayamas have
been ceded by the provincial authori
ties of those places -to the Catholic
churches. The ownership of the
churches has been disputed ever since
the United States took over the
islands. Spain, during the old regime,
claiming the churches, which were
maintained out of the municipal funds.
Condemn Northern Press.
MEMPHIS. The fourth annual con
ference of the industrial and ex-slave
organization convened here on Friday
with representatives of thirty-four
states in attendance. Resolutions
were passed condemning the northern
press for its attitude in the negro
question and extending a vote of
thanks to the southern newspapers for
.their stand in regard to the recent
lynchings in some of the northern
states.
Danish West Indies Treaty Dies.
. WASHINGTON. The treaty provid
ing for the acquisition by the United
States of the Danish West Indies offi
cially died Friday. If Denmark should
conclude to sell the islands to the
United States it will be possible to re
vive the provisions of the treaty
which has just failed. In the mean
time the position of the state depart
ment is comfortable, having done
its part toward completing the bargain.
TUBE. WIPE'S LAST MOMENTS
Dr. Lapponi Describes the Scene as Leo XIII. Passed
Away Died with a Blessing for All the World
on His Lips.
The Chicago Examiner prints the
following from M. J. Conway, Its
special correspondent at 'Rome:
The personnel of the Vatican spent
yesterday in weeping " and sleeping
after the exhaustion of the past fort
night. The most pltable figure at the
Vatican is Centra, who constantly
kneels before the dead, weeping, his
head buried in his bands.
It is well known the Pontiff wore
a false set of teeth. They were taken
away by his nephew, Camille Pecci.
who will treasure them as family heir
looms. Cardinal Rampolla was leaving the
Vatican last evening when he met
Oreglia. The latter prevailed on him
to remain in the Vatican. Rampolla
dismissed his carriage and remained,
thereby giving a quietus to the re
ports of a quarrel with Oreglia.
' I was in the Vatican last night,
passing the bronze doors, which are
closed for the first time in a quarter
of a century. The courts and cor
ridors were deserted. Only the pon
tificial policemen guarded the doors
of the Pontiff's apartments.
When Lapponi, assisted by five Vat
ican physicians, embalmed Ieo's body,
they found the Pope practically with
out a stomach. The body had been
absolutely outworn. All the organs
were sound.
Despite the reports to the contrary,
the Vatican has not and will not in
form the Quininal officially of the
Pope's death.
The Pope's grandniece, Anna Pecci,
daughter of Count Camillo, sketched
the dead Pontiff yesterday.
Cardinal Oreglia strongly resents
the visits of the Pope's relatives at
the Vatican. The Cardinal succeeded
in excluding the Pope's three nephews
but their wives visited the mortuary
twice yesterday despite Oreglia's or
ders. LTtalie last night said:
"The nummerous prelates at the
Vatrean cannot conceal their con
cern at the. approaching visit of Cardi
nal Gibbons. On his position will de
pend the politico-religious attitude the
next Pope will take regarding Italy
and other countries.
"Gibbons, as an American cardinal,
Is the living incarnation of the hu
man progress the church should fol
low to-day. He is an orator, per
suasive and enlightened, especially
regarding the trend of modern
thought. Hence his arrival is
anxiously awaited, and there is a
burning desire to ascertain how he
will use his influence in the conclave."
Dr. Lapponi dictated the following
description of the Pope's last moments
to me yesterday:
"Often during the last five hours
the Pope seemed to be dying. After
the benediction in articulo mortis the
pontiff rallied, hte eyes intelligently
followed the movement of the car
dinals. "He recognized his nephew and
made a desperate effort to rise in his
bed, which exhausted him so much
that he lay prostrate a few minutes
with eyes gazing, the pulse being so
rapid I could not count it. j
"Scon he opened his eyes, raised
Popular London Hostess.
The countess of Warwick, one of
the most beautiful women in England,
has been a queen of London society
this season in spite of the fact that
the king and queen ignored her splen
did entertainments. When the coun
tess was Lady Brooke she was a guest
at Tranby Croft at the time the cele
brated baccarat scandal developed.
The prince of Wales, now King Ed
ward, was also a guest and because
of his presence an effort was made to
hush ud the matter. But Lady Brooke
talked and the whole affair was soon
public property. Her ladyship there
upon became known as the babbling
Brooke,"
May Reject Addicks' Gift.
Managers of the new Women's club
at St. George's, Del., are in a quandary
whether they shall accept a piano as
a gift from J. Edwards Addicks. Some
of the women wish to receive the pi
ano, but others' are bitterly opposed
to taking any gift from the gas mag
nate. ' The club has just been started
and a lively time is expected if a vote
shall be taken on the matter.
bis right band and moved his lips In
benediction while we knelt.
"Another period of exhaustion fol
lowed, when he again opened his eyes
and said: 'This is the last,' In a voice
shaking from the spasmodic move
ments of the hands and foet. Then
he spoke, recommending all present
to work for the church.
"The pontiff looked inquiringly at
his secretary. Angeli. Monsignore
Angeli stooped to the pontiff and
asked his wishes. The patient vainly
essayed to answer.
"The Pope lay with his closed
eyes. His breathing was almost im
perceptible. An interval of lucidity
came, and feebly raising his right
hand, he said in a childlike voice.- 'I
bless this world: all my friends and
enemies.'
"He then quickly lapped Into un
consciousness. His breathing became
m x
l CARPMAI'S
superficial, the pulse imperceptible
and a rattle was heard in his throat.
Centra raised the pontiff's head and
tried to give him wine and water. The
patient could not swallow. Nothing
remained but to moisten the tongue
and Hps."
TAKE THE LAST FAREWELL.
Relatives of Pope Leo Visit the Death
Chamber.
There was a touching scene at the
Vatican when the nephews of Leo,
with their families, entered the death
chamber to take a last farewell of
their uncle, for whom they had an in
tense reverence.
A CAH3ltAX, ES XIXS
Behind the Times.
When a new edition of "The Pil
grim's Progress" was issued not long
since the publisher received in his
mail several letters addressed to "Mr.
John Bunyan," in one of which the
author was asked for his autograph.
A similar case has occurred at the
office of Harper & Brothers. They
have just published John Ruskin's
"Letters to M. G. and H. G." A few
days later they received a letter ad
dressed to "Mr. John Ruskin, care of
Harper & Brothers, New York city."
They opened the envelope, which con
tained a letter and some newspaper
reviews of the book. It was from a
clipping bureau and the writer urged
Mr. Ruskin to "try our service," as
after doing eo "you will wonder how
you could ever do without our press
clippings."
' A Strenuous Advertiser.
A funeral director, apparently of
Milesian extraction, has gone into
business in Bucklin. Kan., where he
advertises thus: "When you die, re
member that Bucklin has an undertaker."
. rtwi fit
As they entered the younger chil
dren, awo-struck and frightened, began
to cry, but the beauty of the scene
soon quieted tbcm and they ceased to
weep. The little party advanced on
tiptoe, and, circling around tho bed,
fell on their kne'o and joined in the
prayers of the penitentiaries.
Presently the visitors arono and
slowly filed past tho bed, kneeling to
kiss the dead hand as they panned.
Count Camlllo, one of tho nephews,
who knew him bcHt, accompanying him
ulways when be went into the gardens
cf the Vatican, was completely over
tome. The quiet of the evening on thn day
of the Pope's death was broken by a
c:iorus such as the world has seldom
heard. On the stroke of 8 all of
Rome's 400 churches commenced to
toll bells for the panning of tho soul of
Ih XIII. From the ncvcri hills and
from every quarter of the clly which
contained churches came the constant
clang until all was ono vattt reverbera
tion. The harfh jingle of the smaller
chapel bells striking quickly and mnro
often was not drowned by tho solemn
strokes that came In mourning meas
ure from the great dome of St. Peters.
It was as if a great fire raged and
every bell in Rome was vying with
every other in anxiety to warn tho
Itopulaco. Kxc.ept In Its common mo
tive and common sorrow it was an
amazing discord which continued an
hour and which will recur nightly uu
til the obsequies are over.
Cardinal Rampolla Intended to leave
the Vatican Immediately after the
death of the Pope, when, having offl-
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cially announced tho demise of tho
pontiff to the diplomatic body accred
ited to the Vatican and to 'the papal
nuncios, with instructions to have the
news communicated to tho various
foreign rulers, he considered bis du
ties as papal secretary of stato to have
been ended. Rampolla was on tbo
point of leaving when Cardinal Oreglia
Insistently begged him to remain in
tho apartment he had occupied for
over sixteen years, and tho secretary
of state acceded to the request.
According to a statement coming
from a high ecclesiastic, arrangements
at the Vatican are being pressed for
ward which will enable the conclave
of Cardinals to begin sitting Aug. 1.
. COKCLAVX CKlOr
Floating Hotel.
John Arbuckle, the Brooklyn coffee
merchant, has long cherished an idea
that a floating hotel, on which accom
modations and meals at a moderate
rate could be had, would prove an ex
cellent Investment. Last year the
plan was tried, with only moderate
success, but, nothing daunted, Mr. Ar
buckle will put hi3 floating hotel into
commission again this summer. The
full-rigged ship Jacob A. Stamler baa
been fitted up as a hotel. Before it la
opened for the reception of men who
want to spend the night on the water
Mr. Arbuckle will take out several
parties of mothers and children from
the tenement districts.
Whistler's Brilliancy.
An American woman who met
Whistler, the artist, a year or two ago
was amazed at the brilliancy of his
wit and the originality of his charac
ter, "Ho was like no other human be
ing I ever knew," she says, "a crea
ture of inoods and epigrams, but alto
gether delightful. After an hour's
chat with him I felt as If I had been
conversing with a flash of lightning."
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