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MONS JUNE 26.
OCEAN DISASTER
COLLISION OF TVO FRENCH PAS
SENGER STEAMERS.
ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST
Terrified Peopie Cling to Ship as it
Plunges to Ocean's Bottom Rescue
Work Rendered Difficult by Masts
Causing Eddy in Water.
M A RSEILl-KS
.on.i. pa.--imT.s
Miire than 1 per- i
and crew, u -re
lrowiid near Marseilles Sun. lay in a !
'tiHi.-don bwwrt'ii In.-u'aire ami Liban.
oasstMi.ter pteam'rs I t toiigi:t; to tin
Kraissirtei Steam-hip company of Mar- j
.-eilles Liban snnk. 11" passengers
:ind firemen being saved, while the re
niainiler perisheti.
The Kf earner l.iban left Marseilles
in the morning on its regular trip to
iiastia. Corsica, and was run down
iind sunk by Im-ulaire otf the Maire
islands.
The colli nun was witnessed from
the pilot boat Bt lchamp. which imme
diately steamed up to render aid.
The force of the collision had cut a
great hob- in Lilian's side and it was
already making water rapidly. The
ctint.iin saw that the only chance was
to run the steamer aground, and Liban
was headed full speed for the shore,
tint within seventeen minutes after
he collision, and while still in deep
water, the fore cart of the steamer
plunged beneath the waves and a few
minutes later it had disappeared.
In the meantime Belehamp. the
-steamer Balkan, also belonging to the
Kraisslnet company, and other vessels
tiad drawn near and were making des-
perate efforts to rescue those on board.
Belehamp rescued forty persons. Bal- j
kan rescued thirty-seven
passeneers i
and up to the present it is known that!
in addition seventeen of the crew were
also saved. j
Officers of Balkan describe the ;
eene just before Liban disappeared j
.-is a terrible one. As the vessel was
sinking it was inclined to such an !
angle that its ma.-ts struck the water.
c ausing an eddy which made the work j
of rescue most difficult. A mass of j
human beings was clinging to the!
foundering vessel anil uttering despair
ing cries as it went down. At the
same time the boilers exploded, inten
sifying the horrors. For a few mo
ments the victims were seen struggling
In the sea. then the waves closed over j
them and all was silent. Of about 200 i
passengers who were atoard Liban it t
is feared half were drowned.
Palkan launched three boats ami j
the other vessels did all possible to
save the victims In the short time j
that elapsed between the collision and,
the Finkin of IJban.
Artillery District of Manila.
WASHINGTON An order was is
sued here creating the artillery dis
tric of Manila to include all the coast
and field artillery about Manila.
Fifteen Hundred Need Help.
WASHINGTON General Chaffee
has sent to General Corbin a copy of
the following dispatch from Lieuten
ant K ar at Gainesville, Ga.: "Fiftctn
hundred people dependent upon char
ity. T'to seriously Injured."
Smallpox t Salt Lake.
SALT LAKE, Utah. Over fifty
cases of smallpox have been discov
ered in the southeastern part of this
city. The disease, on account of its
mild form was at first taken for
chicken pox and children attended
school and their parents attended
church and dance3 while suffering
from the disease. The health officers
believe nearly every family living in
that section of the city has been ex
posed and a quarantine will result.
NAMES OHIO TICKET.
Myron T. Herrick Nominated for Gov
ernor Without Opposition.
Kor governor MYKOX T. IIKKKICir
Kor Lieutenant Umcrniir
W'AKKKN . 1 1 A Kl HN'ir
Tor Auditor .. WALT Kit I. tJl'II-IJEFiT
I-or State Trp;i.suror..V. S. .McKIX.VON
Kor Attorney Central
WADK HAMPTON KLI.I.S
i Kor Supreme JudKe
j M'fil'STfS M. Sf.M.MKICS
Kor Si'liitol i 'ommissioner . . K. A. JONfc'ri
., .M-ii r of Itnanl of I'ul.Iie
Works r;KOU;K II. WATKIXS
COLUMBUS. O. The .cpubliean
state convention closed Thursday
after nominating the state ticket, en-
diir.-iti llanna for another term in tho
senate ami Roosevelt for another term
J I'n .-.u.enr
While Senator Koraker was presid
ing, the delegates formulated tho
: campaign cry of "llanna. Herrick.
Ianin an(, Harmony." It seemed to
be the policy to have "harmony" on
the ticket as well as in the declaration
of principles. While all conceded that
it was "Manna's year," jet he would
not use his influence except that for
the bead of the ticket he named his
neighbor. Myron T. Herrick, for gov
ernor. The senator's great friend.
George B. Cox. of Cincinnati, certainly
named Warreu G. Harding for lieuten
ant governor and Wade Hampton Ellis
for attorney general, as well as being
the most potential factor in nominat
ing Judge Summers.
ONE MILLION PEOPLE STARVING.
Women and Children Are Freely Offer
ed for Sale.
llO.Nd KONG The estimate of Gov
ernor Wong of Kwang SI province
that over one million natives are starv
ing in that province is pronounced here
to be approximately correct. The dis
tress in certain districts is more acute.
Children and women are freely offer-
i ed for sale. The rice harvest promises
well, but it will not be available for
from four to six weeks.
Kxtensive re-
lief operations will be difficult without
foreign supervision, which will be hard
to obtain in Kwang Si.
Assistance has been sent to that
province from Hong Kong and Canton,
but the funds available are becoming
exhausted.
H AR RIM AN-GOULD INTERESTS.
Said to Have Purchased the Erio
Railroad.
NEW YORK The Evening Tele
gram printed the following:
"According to stories current in im
portant financial circles Wednesday
the control of the Erie railroad has
been acquired by a combination oZ
Gould. Harriman and Rockefeller in
terests. and the road will be made
the eastern connection of the Burling-
ton. Union Pacific. St. Paul and Gould
systems. Tne Pennsylvania has been
crowded out. although Pennsylvania
interests have been heavy buyers of
trie shares."
Passes an Amnesty Bill.
J HAVANA The senate, by a vot
I of eight to three, raised a bill grant
ing amnesty to everybody arrested in
i connection with disturbances which
j arose out of the strike of the cigar
. makers last November. The bill as
; originally drawn up excluded ex-May-!
or O'Farrill and the other arrested
municipal officers from the amnesty,
but an amendment offered by the ra
tionalist senators was adopted, in
cluding all offenders.
Well Known Turfman Dies.
ST. LOUIS. J. D. Lucas, president
of the Kinloch Jockey club and one
of the best known turfmen in the
west, died at his country home Sun
day in Goodwood, St. Louis county.
Minnesota Forests Blaze.
SPARTA. Minn. A forest fire, has
been burning in Lie vicirfy of Ely
lake, doing great damage to standing
timber and destroying thousands of
dollars "worth of corlwood.
EMIGRATE TO UNITED STATES
Iron Workers Forced to Leave Aus
tria. VIENNA There is a wholesale
emigrat ion of miners ar.d wurLun-n hi
the iron districts of Austria to the
United Slates in consequence of the
unprecedented stagnation of t ho iron
industry. Hundreds of men have been
discharged since the beginning of th
year and the mines and iron works
are operating short time. Wages have
fallen and In many instances the men
are earning less than To rents a day
anil their families are suffeiing severe
ly. There is faint Nope of any imme
diate Improvement in the situation
and who:a colonies of workmen are
leaving the country.
RAILROADS HIT VERY HARD.
Leases rrom Flood and Fire Sevcrai
M illiona.
KANSAS CITY. Mo The extent of
the damage to the railroails operating
in and out of Kansas City caused by
the Hood can scarcely be estimated.
Outside of the very considerable item
involved in the loss to freight in cars
iind buildings, nearly all lines out of
Kansas City suffered severe losses in
freight Hooded, burned or last down
the river may amount to $2.km,mmi or
$::.oo,oio. By way of illustration, a
doen freight cars belonging to one
company and standing on tracks in the
west bottoms were washed down the
river. The Burlington lost seventeen
loaded cars by lire in Harlem and
nearly three times that number wire
burned in the west bottoms.
LONG STRIKE IS OVER.
Blacksmiths Sign an Agreement with
the Union Pacific Road.
OMAHA Upon these terms, corre
sponding with those regulating the
settlement with the boiler makers and
machinists, the blacksmiths on Mon
day concluded a settlement and sign
ed up an agreement with the Union
Pacific:
Strike declared off Monday; men to
return to work Tuesday.
All old men reinstated who apply
for work within thirty days.
Piecework left to the discretion of
the men.
An average of 10 per cent increase
iu pay.
Nine hours to constitute a day's
work.
The matter of the non-union men is
left to adjust itself. This statement
of the terms is officially given out
by both sides.
Belli the former strikers and the
company seem well pleased with the
outcome and happy over the thought
that the strike is ended and peace re
stored. MACHEN IS INDICTED.
Grand Jury Returns True Bill Against
Head of Rural Delivery.
WASHINGTON The grand jury on
Friday reported an indictment against
August W. Machen, former superin
tendent of the free delivery service
of the Postoffice department, who was
arrested several days ago, charged
with sharing profits on government
contracts for letter box fasteners. The
indictment was brongnt for violation of
section 5501 of the revised statutes,
the penalty for violation of which is a
fine of not more than three times the
amount asked or accepted or received,
and imprisonment for rot more than
three years. The amount which the
indictment states he received illegally
is 118,978.79. "
As an incidental result of the inves
tigation, Thomas Vv. McGregor, for
merly of Nebraska, in charge of the
matter of rural delivery supplies for
the Postoffice department in Washing
ton, and C. Ellsworth Upton, one of
his assistants, today were arrested
on warrants sworn out by postoffice
inspectors. The charge is conspiracy
to defraud the government the gov
ernment in the purchase of pouches
from C. E. Smith of Baltimore.
Mr. Machen was in court with his
attorneys when the grand jury report
ed in his case and immediately gave
bond in the sum of $20,000 for his ap
pearance. Pope Reported Well Again.
ROME The pope's health contin
ues favorable. Since the time his hol
iness was archbishop of Perugia he
has been occasionally troubled with
hemorrhoids, especially after a period
of fatigue. Fortunately the reappear
ance of the trouble was accompanied
by hemorrhage, thus avoiding the ne
cessity of an operation. The pope has
experienced much relief and may be
said to be entirely well again.
Conger Calls Count Cassini.
PEKING. United States Minister
Conger has cabled Secretary Hay sug
gesting an inquiry into the authenti
city of the published interview with
the Russian ambassador. Count Cassi
ni. The count was reported to have j
denied the correctness of Mr. Con
ger's statement of the Russian de
mand on China and to have ex
pressed surprise that Minister Conger
should have acted upon unreliable in
formation. More Silver for the Philippines.
WASHINGTON. D. C The director
of the mint has purchased 50.000
ounces of silver for Philippine coinage
at an average of 53.55 cents an ounce.
Rockefeller Gives $5,000.
NEW YORK Mayor Low received
a check for $ 5.0o0 trom John D. Rock
efeller for the fund for the relief of
the sufferers frcra the floods in the
west.
I I I I I I I I I 1 II 1 I I I I I I I I I I I '
; : THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. : :
I Latest Quotations Trom South ',
Omaha and Kansas City.
1 1 1 1 it 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 iT
Ml! Til OM III .
O.-ittle There wua a liberal Htipply
3f cattle, but tlie dem i lid was In k't-1
eliape anil the feeling wan If anything
a little better, trading waa uctlve. but
the late arrival of trains delayed the
market to quite an extent.
The bin end of the reoelpts wan
onaln mal ui of bfef wteers. bat all
the loral buyers and also Home from
other marketH were out In Rood Reason
and the cattle be?an inovinp toward
the scales at an early lioivr. The prices
paid were as a general thine a little
higher than those in force the day be
fore, but not much different from thoe
paid yesterday forenoon.
There were very few rows and
heifers included In the offerings nnd
buyers took bold freely and every
thing at aH desirable changed hands
readily at fteady to strong prices.
The choice cattle were of course in
the best demand and especially light
weight heifers of ood flesh and qual
ity. Hulls, veal calves and stags all
sold in just about yesterday's notches.
There were not enough Blockers and
feeders In the yards to make a mar
ket, but as is generally the case In
he latter part of the week, not many
cattle were wanted. The few desirable
grades that did arrive sold at prac
tically steady prices.
ITOflS There was a heavy run cf
hogs and as prices at all points con
tinued downward, values here also suf
fered a vlecline. The market could
best be described by calling it nrlivo
nnd generally a dime lower than yes
terday. The bulk of the sales went
from $."..72 i to J"..T7V;
with the long
string at $5.75. The light loads went
from $".70 down and the choicer grades
from r.77'i to 5. S.".. Owing to tho
activity the big bulk of the hogs were
out of first hands by the middle of
the forenoon.
RIIKKP Quotations for clipped
stock: Choice western lambs. $6.2rrt
0.7." ; fair to good lambs, $5.25 ft' 6.25 ;
choice western wooled lambs. $6.7". Of
7.00: fair to good wooled lambs, $5.50 d
6.50: choice lightweight yearlings.
$5.25 (ft 5.50; fair to good yearlings.
$4.755.25; choice wethers, $4.75(ft 5.00;
fair to good wethers. $4.25 4. C5;
choice ewes. $3.75 f 4.25 ; fair to good
ewes, $3.00 'O3.50; feeder lambs. $2.50 Hi
3.50; feeder yearlings. $2.50 i 3.50:
feeder wethers, $2.50(8 3.50; feeder
ewes, $2.002.75.
FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS.
And Heat So Intense that Flames Can
not Be Approached.
SARATOGA. N. Y. The sun is ob
scured by dense smoke and ashes from
Adirondack forest fires.
Reports from the Catlin lake region
are that the fires cover a territory fif
teen miles in width, and twenty miles
in length, and are still spreading des
pite the efforts of hundreds of fire
fighters.
The heat is so intense and the
smoke so dense that the fighters can
not approach within two miles of the
fires. Navigation on the Adirondack
lakes is practically suspended.
A steamer with a gang of fire fight
ers has been missing on Long lake
for three days. The fires in the Cold
River region cover twenty square
miles.
TRANSFER ORDER IS ISSUED.
Western Division Free Rural Delivery
Comes to Omaha.
WASHINGTON First Assistant
Postmaster General Wynn issued an
order to transfer the rural free deliv
ery headquarters of the western divi
sion from Denver to Omaha, change
to take effect July 1.
The organization of this division
comprises eleven special agents and
ten route inspectors, whose territory
includes Colorado, Wyoming, South
Dakota, Montana, North Dakota, Iowa,
Nebraska, Minnesota and New Mex
ico. Kieffer Gets New Trial.
STURGIS, S. D. The celebrated
case against Matt Kieffer has again
been reopened through the efforts of
his attorney, who received the follow
ing telegram from the clerk of the
supreme court at Pierre: "State
Kieffer reversed. New trial ordered.'
This means that Kieffer will be
brought back to this city for a rehear
ing, he having already served a long
time at Sioux Falls.
Plague of Locusts.
ST. PETERSBURG The Trans
Caspian territory is threatened with
serious famine in consequence of the
plague of locusts. The pests have ap
peared in such myriads that it is im
possible to protect the grain and fruit
crops from their ravages. Famine
already prevails in' Turkestan.
Bids for the New Ships.
WASHINGTON, D. C The board
of construction of the navy depart
ment has recommended to the secre
tary of the navy the'aeeeptance of the
bids of the Newport News Shipbuild
ing company, the New York Shipping
company and the Fore River Ship and
Engine company for the construction
of the three sixteen-ton battleships,
for which bids were opened on Wed
nesday. No action has been taken on
the recommendation.
Secretary Young Quits.
ALBANY. N. Y. Horace G. Young,
secretary, vice president and general
manager of the Delaware & Hudson
company, tendered his resignation of
the positions, to take effect July 1.
Hid $13,000 in Woodshed.
CAIRO, Mich William Bell, an ec
centric bachelor, wlio lives alone o
his farm a mile from Caro, was fount
dead In bed. -Nearly 113,000 In casfc
and government bonds was found hl
den In his woodshfd.
SCENE OF
glPiSsw-rg
Two thousand persons, comprising
the entire population of Molazgerd. a
town in Asiatic Turkey, eighty miles
southeast of Krzeruni, were killed by
an earthquake shock on April 2D. The
town is a mass of ruins, not a bouse
being left standing. In addition, 4i'l
houses in neighboring villages wero
wrecked by the same shock. Melaz
gerd is a fortified post, and the en
tire garrison was buried in the ruins.
The British foreign office received
some details from the British consul
at Erzeruni regarding the recent
earthquake at Melazgerd, according to
which a strong earth shock, lasting
thirty seconds, was felt in the morn
ing of April 29 throughout the entire
district between Lake Van and the
Russian frontier, and as far west as
Kharput. The town of Mela.gerd,
consisting of 500 houses, was de-
ITALY'3 KING A STUDENT.
Victor Emmanuel Has Knowledge of
Many Languages.
The most literary monarch in Eu
rope is without doubt the young Vic
tor Emmanuel of Italy. He knows
English, French and German equally
as well as his native language and ha.s
even a reading acquaintance with that
very difficult language, Russian. He
spends at least three hours every day
in his study busy with current liter
ature of every kind. He is said to
prefer the monthly reviews to daily
journals; but, however this may be,
it is quite certain that no monarch
alive keeps himself more thoroughly
posted in all questions of the day. He
has more than once astonished Eng
lish visitors by his intimate acquaint
ance with the intricacies of their par
ty politics and social questions, in
which he is better read than many
members of the British parliament.
ACTRESS TO CHRISTEN WAR
SHIP. Miss Florence Worden's Action Will
Establish Precedent.
Perhaps for the first time in the
history of the navy department, an
actress will christen a United States
war vessel when, next September,
Miss Florence Worden breaks a bot-
tie of champagne over the bow of
the torpedo boat destroyer Worden,
named after her uncle. Rear Admiral
John Larimer Worden. Miss Worden
was formerly a member of "The
Chinese Honeymoon" company and is
now playing in "The Runaway." Her
voice was trained in Europe, and she
has sung at Berlin and other Euro
pean centers.
Qualifications Are Vigorous.
President Hadley of Yale. President
Smith of Trinity college and President
Raymond of Wesleyan are to select
the holders of the Rhodes scholar
ships from Connecticut. The present
plan is not to make any appointment
until the fall of 1904. Two qualifica
tions will be demanded of the stu
dents who apply for the scholarship.
A candidate must have passed two
years at a college or university and
must be a good student. Besides this,
he must be of pleasing personality.
Choose Mayor of Humble Station.
James E. Burke, recently chosen
mayor of Burlingtop, Vt., Is a black
smith. When notified that the Su
preme court had decided his election
legal it had been contested by the
Republican ' candidate be was in his
thop shoeing a horse. He finished his
job before making any reply to the
congratulations of his friends.
Tulip Cultivation.
'One hundred and sixteen different
varieties of tulip are under cultivation
in a Lincolnshire bulb grower's gar
den. '
sza&5vczr wc&zE7v
THE EARTHQUAKE
THAT KILLED 2,000 PERSONS
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stroyed and much havoc was wrought
in the surrounding villages. Col.
Khalil Bey, commanding the garrison
of Melazgerd, with his whole family,
three officers and eighty soldiers per
ished in the ruins. Lieut. Col. Taylb
Bey, whose family perished, became
insane.
OWN MUCH PAYING STOCK.
Municipal Ownership Flourishing in
Many English Towns.
In a discussion of municipal social
ism the Liverpool Daily Post uses
some interesting facts from the ex
perience of English towns, which may
be tersely stated. Bath owns its hot
springs and has extended the grand
pump room at a cost of $150,000. Har
rogate draws large income as propri
etor of baths, gardens and theaters.
Leamington owns baths and a pump
room. Southport draws $17,500 a year
from pleasure boats, toboggan and
"aerial flights." Brighton owns a pa
vilion and an aquarium. Nottingham,
Bir: ingham and Wolverhampton
clear altogether $189,500 a year culti
vating sewage farms. Colchester owns
an oyster fishery'- Bradford operates
a hotel. Plymouth owns a theater and
a hotel. Birkenhead maintains lerry
steamers to Liverpool at a profit of
$50,000 a year. York owns the Foss
canal, and Manchester, with $25,000,
000 stock, is principal owner of its
ship canal. Bradford has wool-testing
machinery. Leicester, Liverpool and
Bradford manufacture stone from
clinker. Towns, 228 in number, net
$2,760,000 per annum from markets,
and Dancaster, Chester and Lincoln
own race courses.
HONORED BY HIS COUNTRYMEN,
T. P. O'Connor Re-elected President
of Irish National League.
Thomas Power O'Connor, who has
been re-elected president of the Irish
National League, is the noted Irish
statesman, journalist and author who
has sat in parliament for the Scot
land division of Liverpool since 1865.
Mr. O'Connor, who is so familiarly
and so affectionately known as "Tay
Pay," is 55. At 18 he was a B. A.
and senior scholar in history and
modern languages at Queens College,
Gal way. Mr. O'Connor went to Lon
don in 1870. He was the first editor
of the Ixmdon Star, the London Sun
and the London Weekly Sun.
Famous Wit of the Past.
J. Edward Addicka, who recently
withdrew from the senatorial fight in
Delaware, was born in Philadelphia
and is well versed In the history of
the Quaker city. One of the figures
of the past that he most admires was
the brilliant Judge Peters, who lived
at Belmont mansion and whose wit
made him famous. One of the stories
of Judge Peters that he sometimes
tells relates to the presentation to
the jurist by a lawyer of his only son.
"This is my all," the lawyer said, in
making the introduction. "Your awl?"
Peters returned. "He is your last,
too. no doubt, though I can't well call
him a strapping fellow."
Death of Mrs. Townsend.
Mrs. George Alfred Townsend, wife
of "Gath," the well-known newspaper
correspondent, died in Washington
last week. She was Miss Bessie Ev
ans Rhodes. Through her grandmoth
er she was an Evans of the' Welsh
stock of Marian Evans ("George
Eliot"). She was married to Mr.
Townsend Dec. 21, 1863, and accom
panied him to the Austro-Prussian
war of 1S66.
Ex-Bandits' Names Have Value.
Frank James and Cole Younger, the
ex-bandits, who have been touring
Kansas and Missouri with a wild west
snow of which they were supposed to
be the proprietors, were arrested the
other day for running a gambling
game In connection with the show. At
the hearing it developed that they
w.ere salaried employes of the real
owner of the enterprise bearing their
name.
Knox's Favorites.
Attorney General Knox has keen
appreciation of a fast horse, a game
of Kolf, good companions and a good
dear.
i
The telegraph operator who sent the
news of the catustrophe said be him
self was badly injured and I bat his
wife and sister had been killed.
The foreign ofiice has appealed for
subscriptions for the relief of the des
titute Mohammedans and Christiana
of the Melazgerd district.
SLEPT IN ROOM WITH CORPSE.
Negress Stabbed Kid Carson When
He Approached Her Bed.
A negro longshoreman. Known along
the East river front as "Kid Carson,"
was stabbed in the heart, in tho tene
ment at 142 Cherry street. New York,
by Grace Hasbrook, a negress, and
died almost instantly.
Ti.e woman told the police that Car
son had visited the home of Ernest
Bullen and his wife, with whom Kho
lived, but had gone from the houso
when she retired at 10 o'clock. As
she was falling asleep, she said, sho
saw the man approaching her bed,
and she reached to a nearby mantel
for an open clasp knife and jabbed
him with it. He fell to the floor with,
a groan and she went to sleep. When,
she awoke she saw his body on tho
floor. The knife blade had penetrated
his heart.
She told Bullen about it and the lat
ter called in Policeman Gibbons, who
arrested her. To Coroner Golden
kranz she declared that she did not
know at the time that the man had
died, and while thinking what she had
best do she fell asleep and slept until
morning.
FOR GOVERNOR OF OHIO.
Myron T. Herrick Named by Republi
can Convention.
The Republicans of Ohio in con
vention last week nominated Myron
Myron T. Herrick.
T. Herrick. for governor. Senate.
Hanna's great friend. George B. Cox,
of Cincinnati, named Warren G.
Harding for lieutenant governor and
Wade Hampton Ellis for attorney gen
eral as well as being the most poten
tial factor in nominating Judge Sum
mers. Auditor Guilbert and others,
especially McKlnnon for treasurer,
were strongly indorsed.
First Statue of "Hamlet."
Louis Hasselriia, the Danish sculp
tor, will make the statue which Is to
commemorate the three hundredth an
niversary of the first printed edition
of "Hamlet." Danish scholars and lit
erati took the lead in the movement
for a monument to Shakespeare,
which will be erected in or near Elul
nore. Queen Alexandra of England, a
Dane by birth, has taken a deep Inter
est In the project and other royalties.
Including her parents, are also giving
aid.
A. W. Machen's Successor.
Martin Fornes, who has succeeded
temporarily to the desk in the post
office department at Washington va
cated by Machen, is a Norwegian by.
birth. He came to this country thirty
six years ago, when he was 16 years
of age. Secretary Windora secured
him his first government place, whlcli
was in the pension bureau.
High-Priced Stamps.
Some of the postage stamps shown
at an international stamp exhibition
at Muehlhausen, Alsace, are priced at
$25,000 each.
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