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W. "W. BANDKK8, rubllilier.
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Not 'I'liln SiiritiR.
Secretary Hitchcock will not be
obliged to spend liny of IiIh $7,000,000
irrigation fund in tliu Mississippi val
ley. A Study In I'luuri-n.
Mr. Cortolyou thinks about $000,
000 will run IiIh olllee in nice shape.
Congress hail supposed $,'(0,000 would
do the job.
No .More Tluin I'niiiiI.
A Tojickii woman was asked if her
husband gave up. anything during
Lent. "Not a cent nioru than usual,"
nhu said.
I'roliitlil)- ii Iii-iik.
(Since Hie date of, IiIh coronation
King ICdward lias ordered four bar
rein of Kentucky whiHky. There must
be u leak somewhere.
Tim DlNlrlltutloii.
The circulation, per capita, of the
United States is $20.11, the highest on
record. But the distribution is slight
ly thicker in hoiiic spots than others.
No Doulil.
Attorney General Knox in having a
compilation made of the laws of the
-various states relating to trusts and
combines. This will add, no doubt,
to the general confusion on the sub
ject. The Hindoo ami tlu Dtirliitr.
Delhi's durbar cost $10,000,000 which
would support 20,000,000 starving Hin
doos a month; but possibly a Hindoo
would rather see the durbar uud
starve.
I.oiljr Tliu to AVnlt.
There, will probably be peace in
Venezuela some day. They used to
light just that way In England 800
years ago; but 800 years seems a long
time to wait.
KniiMcd to Control It Crlof.
A Pittsburg young woman was suf
focated by the crush In a street ear
Friday night. As the conductor had
already collected her fare, the com
pany has managed thus far to con
trol its grief.
"Bvory III mi IOi'inil Ilefori- tin- I.iiw.'
It cost the Moliueux family nearly
$100,000 to save Itolnnd B. Moliueux
from conviction. The presumption
is that if they hadn't raised the
money, Moliueux would have been
executed long ago, though dually
found not guilty. And thus is "every
man equal before the law" in this
free country.
From l.ukcM to 'I'ldt-wiitcr.
The legislature of New York has
under consideration a bill for canal
improvement calling for an expendi
ture of $101,000,000, and its passage
is probable. This measure proposes
the construction of a waterway con
necting the lakes with the seaboard
which will accommodate large ves
sels, or in other words a ship canal.
Caiii'cr Cured by MoIiihun.
Queensland, Australia, sends news
of two cases of enncer having been'
cured by tlte use of molasses. A Mr.
Urnun suffered with a growth at the
root1 of the tongue which nearly
choked him. He took molasses for
ten days, and the cancer completely
disappeared. A man named Crnbbe
also cured himself by the same
means.
Would Ilrceil Hurdler Cattle.
Henry C. Moore, of Sioux City, In.,
believes that it is possible to inter
breed the Arctic musk ox with cattle
of the temperate zone, and .that the
stock so produced would be able to
withstand thu severe winters of tho
United States. Ho lias been in com
munication on the subject with Peary,
the Arctic explorer, who is favorably
Impressed with tho idea.
S!c;11c,von It "Will Vnntvr I'utrlntlMiii.
One hundred and fifty busts of
Washington were put in tho public
schools of New York last year by a
citizen who believed that the patriot
ism of tho children would be fostered
by a daily reminder of the example
of the first president. A similar num
ber of busts of Lincoln are to be put
In the same schools this year, to show
the. youth that patriotism did not die
with Washington.
Chinook AVIndH Prevent Flood.
Investigations of the weather bu
reau indicate that the warm westerly
chinook winds, blowing over the east
ern faces of the lioeky mountains,
have a beneficent effect in the preven
tion of disastrous flood-producing
thaws. It is true that the chinook sud
denly melts the snow on tho higher
parts of tho mountains, but tho warm
wind fails to reach the bottom of the
gulches, and so tho snow-water is
frozen again during its descent, and
becomes caked in ice deep down the
jrravines.
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IGN011ED BY HOOT.
Rathbone's Charges Against Gen.
Leonard Wood Swept Aside
Bncrntnry of tt'nr Admit the Mllltnry tJor-
iirnor ltorelvod n (lift Hut Docl-trm- It
Would Mitre limn Illnonurteotm for
llllii to llnvo Itofiuctl.
Washinglon, March St. Secretary
Root Monday took official action on
tlie charges made by Kstcs (1. Hnth
bone against Hrlg. (Sen. Leonard
Wood. He made an indorsement on
the papers saying that no answer to
the charges was required from Gen.
Wood and no action will be taken
thereon, that it was known to the sec
retary of war that the charges in
every respect were without just foun
dation. The secretary refers to the
part taken by the military governor
in the post olllee cases in which
llathbonc was a defendant saying
that (Jen. Wood at every step had the
approval of (he secretary of war and
exercised only such control as was
necessary as military governor. Jle
refers to the game of Jul Alai and
declares that the gift accepted by
Gen. Wood had no relation whatever
to any ollleial action of his, but was
part of the expression of gratitude
of the Cuban people toward the rep
resentative of the United States and
to have refused the gift would have
been discourteous and unjustifiable.
The action of the customs ofliclals
In reference to the gift, the secretary
says, was strictly in accordance- with
the law and ollleial propriety. The
indorsement closes as follows: "There
Is no foundation for the charges."
MRS. MAYBRICK TO BE FREE.
In 1KHII She Wim Convicted at I.lverpci.i)
of rolmiuliii; Hor lln-thnnd uud Son-
toncod for Life.
Loudon, March 2-1. Mrs. Florence
Maybrick, the American woman who
was convicted at Liverpool in 1880 on
the charge of poisoning her husband,
lames Maybrick, by arsenic and
whose sentence of death was com
muted to penal servitude for life, will
be released in 1001. The announce
ment comes from the home olllee,
which authorizes her Washington
lawyers to use the fact of her release
next year as a reason for securing
the postponement of the trial of the
lawsuits bearing on the prisoner's In
terest in land in Kentucky, Virginia
and West Virginia.
Mrs. Maybrick's alleged crime was
the talk of two continents 14 years
ago and many attempts have been
made to secure her release. She is
now .10 years old. Her father was
the late William C. Chandler, of Mo
bile, Ala. He was a nephew of the
late John A. Campbell, formerly of
the supreme court of the United
States, and was a member of JelYer
son Davis' cabinet from 1802 to the
close of the civil war. The mother
of Mrs. Maybrick is the Harmless
von lioques. The suit for land in
America. which brought out the
statement by the home olllee that
Mrs. Maybrick would be released, is
for possession of 2,252,1100 acres of
land and for $:t()0,()00. The baroness
alleges that 1). W. Armstrong, a
lawyer, deceived her as to the value
of the lands and tricked her into sell
ing them at very much lower prices
than could have been secured.
Uuvollliii; of Shoruiiiii Monument.
Cincinnati, March 21. Owing to a
change in the time for the unveiling
of the statue of den. William T. Sher
man from May next to October 1.1 be
cause of the inability of President
lloosevelt and cabinet to be present
in May, den. Groom ille M. Dodge,
president of the Society of the Army
of the Tennessee, has ordered a post
ponement of the meeting from May
till October 1.1 at Washington. Thu
orator will be Col. I). H. Henderson.
Memorial to ICx-dov. mount.
Warsaw. Intl., March. 21. Land
was broken Monday at Winona for
the $00,000 (low Mount memorial,
in the main college building of the
Winona agricultural and technical
institute, which last week acquired
the abandoned property known aa
the old arsenal grounds.
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(liven 87,0(10,000 for Iiidimtrliil School.
Hoston, Marcli 24. Hy the will of
Arioch Wentwortli, the Hoston real
estate millionaire, the estate esti
mated at $7,000,000, with the excep
tion of a few annuities, goes to
found an industrial RCnool to
called the Arioch Wentwortli
dustrial school.
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MllKt Count SCIOO.OOO.OOO CxkIi.
New York, March 21. Hamilton
Kisli was Monday installed as assist
ant United States treasurer. With
Mr. Fish came two expert money
counters who will count the !?.'t00,
000,000 of cash and securities now in
the vaults. This, It Is expected, will
take two months.
South HhiuI'h Now Wiiloh Fnotory.
South llend, Intl., Marcli 21. Clem
ent Studebakcr, Jr., president, of
the South Hend Watch company,
pressed the button that started the
new $1,000,000 watch factory, which
will employ 1,500 watchmakers and
manufacture 1,200 watches a day.
ENTIRE TOWN FOUGHT FIRE.
AtNliettnn, Neb., Mnti nnd Women Knllnted
to Iterdm tho Flume Which Worn
Fitniiud lijr it Stroll? Wind.
Shelton, Neb., March 24. More
than 300 men, women and children
fought a flro all morning. Thu fire
originated Suadny afternoon in the
olllee of a newspaper. Three build
ings nnd contents were burned. The
smoldefing ruins were fanned into a
blaze again Monday morning and
Morris' drug store, Sutherland's drug
store, and .7. II. Hart's hardware
store got on fire. The wind was
blowing strong from the north and
many buildings on both sides of tho
street were burned to the ground. A
falling wall caught several flro fight
ers. LADRONES CAPTURE A TOWN.
At HurliiRo, Mlndnmio, tho Iinpectcir of
Coii-ituliuliiry anil Others Worn Killed
Ilurrylim Troop to tho Scone.
Manila, March 21. The town of
Surlago, in the northeastern part of
the island of Mindanao, was captured
Sunday by ladrones, who killed Con
stabulary Inspector Clarke and sev
eral others. A detachment of 30
men, belonging to the Tenth in
fantry, under tho command of
Lieuts. Patterson nnd Brown, is
hurrying from llognn, on tho north
west coast of Mindanao, to Suriago,
on the traiisport llcilly, with orders
to recapture the place.
Ovation to Kx-(lov Friinclft.
St. Louis, Mo. Marcli 24. Presi
dent David It. Francis, of the world's
fair, who returned Sunday night from
an extended European trip on wliich
he met with great success in securing
promises of representation by the
leading powers at the coming
world's fair, was to-day tendered at
reception on 'change, whore he re
ceived a veritable ovation. The vast
hall was crowded with several
thousand persons, among them rep
resentatives of every commercial
body in St. Louis.
Hit-cent Ainu 111 C'liti'iiL-o Demi.
Chicago, March 24. James H. Mah
ler, the biggest man in Chicago, if not
in the United States, is dead. He
weighed 480 pounds, although his
height was only .1 feet 10 inches. He
was so broad that ho could not use
the elevated railways because of his
inability to pass through the turn
stiles. Only surface cars having
double sliding doors could acommo
date him.
Four tho Amorlcmi Turin.
London, .March 24. The Daily Mail
understands that, much difliculty is
experienced in inducing Hritish firms
to consent to exhibit at the St. Louis
exposition. The reason apparently
is a belief that the American tariff
will render impossible the entrance
of Hritish
States.
goods into the United
l'ollco Chief Wiih Ani;ry.
Aurora, 111., March 21. The chief of
police, Frank Micliels, attacked Henry
W. Phillips, publisher of the Aurora
Daily Express. The trouble was the
result of a crusade Mr. Phillips has
been making in Aurora to secure the
enforcement of the Sunday closing
ordinance against saloons.
Itiot lit l'ort or Sp:iln,
Kingstown, St. Vincent, March 24.
A serious riot was in progress
yesterday' afternoon in Port, of
Spain, Trinidad. A mob attempted
to burn the government buildings
there and the police had to fire on
the rioters, killing or wounding sev
eral of them.
DeUhorutuly Drownod lllmnolf.
Wheeling, W. Va., March 24.
Charles Arnett, the 25-year-old son
of Col. Arnett, a well known criminal
lawyer, deliberately walked into the
river yesterday at the wharf and re
fusing aid from scores of people was
drowned. Ho was temporarily de
ranged. Muy Gut U'lirn Appointod iin J mice
Topekn, Kan., March 24. A rumor
became current in political circles
here to tho effect that the Kansas
politicians will try to induce the
president to appoint. Mugcnc V. Ware
to succeed Judge Caldwell on the
United States circuit court bench.
ClirlHt Inn Cnllogi) Ilurnod.
Canton, Mo., March 24. Christian
college, belonging to the Disciple
church, was destroyed by fire yes
terday. The loss Is $50,000. The col
lege was founded 55 years ago and
had 200 students.
Afoot from Arireiitlint to St. I.nuU.
Guayaquil, Ecuador, March 24.
Guillermo Koppel, the pedestrian
who left Argentina about a year ago
on his way to St. Louis, has arrived
here.
Kxnltomont Dethroned Keiinnn.
New York, March 21. One woman
was killed at a small fire caused by a
lamp explosion in West Sixty-fifth
street and one wonui'i will probably
lose her reason from excitement.
Choked on n 1'ruuo Hoed.
Festus, Mo., Marcli 24. Jessie
Maupin, aged 11, choked to death on
a prune seed which lodged In tho
trachea.
CANAL W0KK SOON.
Uncle Sam Ready to Push the Great
Commercial Enterprise.
"Yankee Method" Arn to I'rovall, Even la
Hitnltntlon Two Iinnienno Knclnenrlng
Fonts Blunt Ho rorfonnrd-Machinery
on tho Ground.
Washington, March 23. All eyes
will soon be turned toward Colombia,
watching developments in that coun
try in connection with the ratifica
tion of the Panama cannl treaty. The
United States government is ready
with the cash, the men, the plans,
and all that is needful to commence
work on the canal when the diplomat
ic negotiations" are concluded and tho
title deeds passed.
All the work will be done under the
direction of the canal commission nnd
the president of the United States.
There will be no delay in commencing
actual work. The canal has been
commenced, nnd a portion of tho
work materially progressed. Machin
ery to the value of several million
dollars already is installed, and it will
himply be a question of putting new
men in epntrol.
Hut the very first tiling that Uncle
Sam will do in the way of actual work
will be to "clean up the isthmus," as
one official expressed it. That will
be an important task to improve the
sanitary condition aiulmiake the plncc
lit for northern men to live in and
work-in.
Government ownership of railroads
will be realized on the isthmus. Tho
United States will operate and own
the Panama railroad, as well as somo
steamships connecting therewith.
There will be largo signs nt appropri
ate intervals along the railway warn
ing the Central American revolution
ists to look out for the cars. The
habit of the Colombian dictators of
holding up trains will be promptly
discontinued. There will be no dally
ing with the switclt intho future.
Yankee ingenuity nnd determina
tion will be brought into full play in
the construction of the great work.
Two immense engineering fonts, are
to be performed. The most monstrous
"cut" known to engineering will be
made on the isthmus when the canal
will bo dug through a hill 320 feet
high nnd half a mile long. Another
great work will be the construction
of the Bahio dam. They will have
to go down 120 feet, for a foundation,
and the dam will be 220 feet from top
to bottom, and half a mile long. All
of those immense projects will re
quire men and machinery, and mate
rial, world without end. The men
will have to be fed and clothed' and
doctored, and all of that will make
business good for somebody.
A DUAL EXISTENCE.
An Indium Man In the I'nnt Flvo Yon.ru
Han Lived Mult tho Tlmo an An
other illiin.
Kokomo, Ind., March 23. David
Rnmsoycr, of Russinvillo, near here,
is a psychological puzzle, even to him
self. Jn the past five years he has
lived half the time as another man
and has two separate existences.
While he lives as one character he
is totally oblhious of the other.
Every year ho mysteriously disap
pears from home, leaving his wife
and four children. It is then that
David llamseyer is left behind. Yes
terday, after six months' absence, he
returned and resumed his place as
salesman in a Russinvillo store.
Women Mhv F.mploy Detectives.
St. Louis, March 22, According to
Miss Helen Hoicc Hunsicker, of Phil
adelphia, a member of the board of
lady managers of the world's fair, de
tectives may be employed during the
progress of the fair to spy out inde
cent performances on the midway
and elsewhere, and report them to
the fair authorities.
UnviI u Simile for tin Our.
Topekn, Kan., Marcli 23. Arthur
Bulllngton, an insane patient, escnped
from the state insane asylum west
of this city and tried to get away in a
row boat. He used a spade for an
oar and was rowing vigorously on his
way to Kansas City when ho ran
aground and wns captured.
Yoiiiik I'rciielier In IMhkmcm".
Fort Scott, Kan., Marcli 22. After
a session behind closed doors the
South Kansas conference of tho
Methodist Episcopal church suspend
ed llev. John II. Martin, the young
pastor of the church at Virgil, fo-
highly imprudent and un-Clinstlan
conduct.
Uiirrott Home Krom .10.000-31 lie Trip.
New Yorlc, March 22. John Bar
rctt, commissioner-general of the St.
Louis exposition, is home from a
40,000-mile trip in the interest of the
fair. He was absent a year, during
which time he made a circuit of the
world, visiting 15 countries.
Ineroimo .Milken SCI.OOliOOO lluok Vny.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 22. Rough
ly estimated the 10 per cent, increase
granted by the strike commission
will amount to nearly $3,000,000. The
miners have worked about 120 days
since November .1, which is the basis
for the above estimate.
NOW THE GRAND JURY.
The MlMnnrl I.Klnlnturo linn Adjourned!
nnd Judge Mnzel Will Try to J'robo
CliHrcei of Doodling.
Jefferson City, Mo., Marcli 21. A t
ten o'clock last night the Forty-second
general assembly of the stoto
adjourned, sine die. Col. Crisp had.
passed the county sidewalk bill which,
reappeared from the senate.
During the proceedings a specinL
message from the governor was read,,
calling attention of the legislature-
to the profligate manner in which.
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11 Was llirowillg uuv jihjiii-j nun uiu-
indifferent manner in which it was.
providing for an income to meet thi
proposed appropriations.
The report of the house commit
tee appointed to probe boodle
charges was submitted yesterday. It
finds no direct evidence of bribery
in connection with school book legis
lation. The testimony obtained, the
committee says, shows nothing that.,
would sustain tiie charge of bribery.
Before the legislature adjourned',
sine die at noon Judge Ilazell, of the
Cole county circuit court, convened!,
the grand jury in special session to
investigate tho charges of boodling
whieh have been openly made against.
the legislature.
The legislature was in session Sun
day closing up its business prepara
tory to adjourning sine die. In thm
course of that part of the charge re
lating to Sabbath desecration, tlie
judge said: "So take into considera
tion whether the legislature, doing its.
work on Sunday, is compelled to per
form such labor as a work of necessi
ty or charity and it is very essential',
as wo will emphasize in this charge
to the jury that the Sabbath in n.
Christian land like this should be ob
served nnd that bad examples in higli
quarters are detrimental to good gov
ernment, and beget ideas and notions-.
that are at variance with our ideass
of liberty and good government."
HICKOX AND PAGE FREE.
Mlmuiurl Hnpromo Court Ito'iiscd to Hold
Aloii Who Iliindlod Sl.HOO Hills
anil Jtoftixod to Toll.
Jefferson City, Mo., March 24. I..
L. Page, newspaper correspondent
and Cole Hickox, senate clerk, who
were committed to jail last Satur
day for contempt of the house oi"
representatives in refusing to an
swer questions put by that body as
to where and for what purpose they
camc into possession of $1,000 bills,,
were released by the supreme court
on a writ of habeas corpus. The in
vestigation in the house grew out of
charges of bribery in connection
with the enactment of certain legis
lation. Pago and Hickox, who re
fused to answer questions put by the
investigating committee, were sent
to jail. A writ of habeas corpus
was ajipliod for and after brief argu
ments, Chief Justice Hobinson and
Justice Citintt ordered the release
of the prisoners without retiring
for consultation.
Not Kuotiuli to liny III ill
Washington, Marcli 21. It is re
ported that a hitch has occurred im
tlie engagement between Miss Thnw
and the earl of Yarmouth. It is said
that trustees having control of Miss
Thaw's property refuse to make her
allowance more than $2.",000 a year.
We (Id I n IT Sitved Him SO, 500.
Abilene, Kan., March 24. Kobert;.
Kenney, the wealthy young fanner
against whom Alice Uiery obtained!
judgment for $0,500 recently, for
breach of promise, has married the
plaintiff and all the cases are dis
missed. To llldo Her Shiinio.
Berlin, March 24. The arrest im
Fulda of the 20-year-old Baroness von,
Seckendorf for the murder of her in
fant has caused a great sensation'i
here. She evidently committed the
;rime to hide her shame.
KolioU Til It o it Fort.
San Diego, Santo Domingo, March'
24, The revolutionists have attacked!
mil captured one of the forts de
fending tltis city. Many men wore,
killed on both sides. The fighting'
continues.
Colleen doled llec-mno of Meitide.
Hamilton. ()., March 24. Oxfordi
college, attended by 125 young wo
men, was closed yesterday because of
the outbreak of German measles.
All the young women were sent home
yesterday.
The Wny Tlllnmn View It.
Washington, March 21. Senator
Tillman has no patience with demo
cratic political talk that does not in
clude Brynn. He says Bryan will dic
tate tlie democratic presidential nom
inee. IMiyidoliin Killed hy ills Own IMoillelne.
Truer, la., March 24. H. M. Bar
sons, aged 55, one of the best-known
physicians in central Iowa, is dead
here as the result of an overdose of"
chloroform taken to induce sleep.
Chliu. Will lluvo fS'47r.()00 Kxhltilt.
Pekln, Marcli 21. The dowager em
press has ordered an appropriation of
500,000 taels (about $275,000) to be
made for the Chinese representation
at the St. Louis exposition.
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