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Loup City Northwestern volume XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1900 NUMBER 20 Foreign. The strike movement in Paris is ■gaining strength and causing no end •of trouble. Special dispatches from Berlin state that the Lethal Anzeiger publishes the report that Count Forgach. the Austro Hungarian minister to Servia, has been assassinated. The powers will again impress on Servia the importance of coming to an amicable arrangement with Austria-Hungary and negotiations to this end are now going on. trance. Great Britain and Russia have united in presenting a joint note to Servia advising the Belgrade government to find a basis of negotia tions with Austria-Hnngarv. London importers of American meat have decided to test the legality of the regulations of the local govern ment board, which gives the local health officers absolute authority to condemn meat which in their opinion is unfit for food. Generai. An 8-year-old school boy was ‘kid naped and held for ranson a! Sharon. Pa. Memorial exercises for Grover Cleveland were held at Carnegie hall, at which President Taft spoke. Congressman Ollie James wants to know the position of President Taft on the income tax. Party lines will bs split when the tariff bill comes up in the house. Lieut. Semmes Reed. L'. S. X.. na val aide to President Taft, was prob ably fatally injured while riding with several other naval officers in Rock Creek park. His horse stumbled and fell upon him. Chief Engineer Herscheil Alain of the navy, retired, died in Washington, .aged t*3 years. Queen Helena of italy is still suf fering from the effects ot'-her accident at Messina, during the days imme diately following the earthquake. FOREIGN... It is understood in diplomatic cir cles that the Servian government is ready to accept the advice of the pow ers regarding the peaceful tenor of its reply to the last Austrian note which is to be made shortly. The naval scare in England has been revived by rumors that the Brit ish government is considering the purchase of three warships of the Dreadnought type now being built in England for Brazil. The government lias the option of taking over these vessels. The new American ambassador to Austria will be Richard C. Kerens of St. Louis. The estate of the late Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York foots up $381,503. according to the schedule filed. Samuel J. Tilden’s massive and handsomely carved bedstead brought only $10.50 at a New York auction. Pennsylvania’s new senator, Mr. Oliver, was born in Ireland. The senatorial deadlock in Illinois is still on. Roosevelt will have no more public functions. He declines all invitations. Russia has decided to send a consul to Harbin. Manchuria. Speaker Cannou rewarded the men who helped him out of a bad hole. The president sent a brief message to congress dealing with the tariff. The war between Austria and Ser via amounts to a probability. The telegraph strike at Paris has assumed serious proportions. The extraordinary session of the Porto Rican legislature came to an end without having accomplished the passage of the budget. To call a man a liar in the state of Georgia is a breach of the peace and means a fight, declares the state court, of appeals in a decision handed down recently. A bill to provide subventions for the ocean mail service will be intro duced in the senate in the near future by Senator Gallinger. The pope has sufficiently recovered from his recent indisposition to re ceive an American pilgrimage of thirty persons on their way to the holy land. Cannon of Illinois was re-elected speaker of the 61st congress. Mrs. Earl Gore, wife of a station agent at Glencoe, 111., was burned to death in vainly trying to save the life of her baby. Mr. Roosevelt in his British East Africa trip will follow very closely In the footsteps of .Sir William Winston Churchill whose trip in that land was ended by fever. Ambassador O'Brien at Tokio will remain at that post. Former Secre tary of Commerce and I^abor • Oscar Straus will be appointed to some other embassy. Cuban self-government, for a month at least, has been successful. One of the most important features of the Payne tariff bill is the numer ous changes in phraseology of the present law which it contains. The country’s safety requires the vast naval expenditures, was the dec laration in British commons. Charles L. Burpee of Denver, a pro minent banker and former acting mayor of Denver, dropped dead at the home of his sifter i:i Rockford. BL Prediction is made that Ex-Presi- I dent Roosevelt will not survive ihe malarial climate of Africa. Never lias a more brilliant official function been held at the While House than the diplomatic reception, the first given there since President and .Mrs. Taft have occupied the executive mansion. The democrats in the house will 1 oppose the establishment of a duty on coffee. The control of the Jauanese army has been transferred from the gem eral staff to the war office. "Mexico will intervene in the af fairs of Central America if such ac tion becomes necessary to preserve the peace of that nation. Andrew Carnegie was a caller at the White House, coming, he said, to nay his respects to Presidet Taft. President Taft said his would be an optimistic administration to an opti mistic country full of hope, cheerful ness and confidence. The Nevada senate killed the de posit guaranty clause of the banking bill. Every republican voted against the bill, as did three democrats. The two houses of the Pennsylvania legislature iu joint session formally declared George Tetter Oliver of Pitts burg elected to the United States sen ate to fill the imexpired term of Phil ander C. Knox. Washington. The department of agriculture has sent out notice of judgment for mis branding canned corn under the pure food law. The corn in question was shipped from the Audubon Canning company, Audubon, la., and was sent to a company at Ogden. Utah. It was foltnd by the department that the cans were short of weight, the cans being branded as holding two pounds, where as they contained iess than two pounds. ^ Secretary of the Treasury Mac Veagh expressed las satisfaction with the general features of the new tariff bill. He said: "Reserving the expres sion of an opinion as to the particular rates adopted by the ways and means committee, it is a pleasure to notey he manner in which the committee lias responded to the general expectations of tli • people as to a genuine revision cf the tariff and the way in w hich tliey have undertaken to fulfill the pledge and promises of the republican party." The Iowa delegation promises to he in the thick of the fight against free hides, as every member of the delega tion is expected to oppose free hides a provided for in the tariff bill. Chief lights over the bill promise to center around free hides, maximum .and min imum features of measure, lumber, coal and steel. What congress will do with~Chair mau Payne's tariff bill presented \es terday is topic of absorbing interest in the national capital. According to official announcement the six hundred foot tower which the government proposes to erect for wireless telegraph purposes may be located at Annapolis, Md. Chairman Payne of ways and means committee submits tariff bill to congress—generally sweeping reduc tions yet expected to produce 000.000 revenue. Taft's tariff message was conspicu ous for its brevity, the attention of congress being called to his inaugural as to his desires. The treasury department sent out au advertisement for bids to be opened April 1 for the construction of the public building at Kearney, Neb. The comptroller of the currency has approved the application of the Grand Island Banking company at Grand Isl and. Neb., to transfer into the Grand Island National bank, with a capital of $100,000. There is authority for the statement that there will be no more changes in the war department as a consequence of the advent of the new administra tion. General Oliver, as the assistant secretary of war, who was appointed to that position by President Roose velt in 1903, will remain as chief civil ian assistant to Secretary Dickinson and will continue to have charge of affairs relating to tile enlisted branch of the army, as well as the affairs of the organized militia. Personat. Dr. A. I>. Foster, surgeon in charge of the American marine hospital at Amoy, China, reports sporadic cases of bubonic plague in Amoy. Captain Peter C. Haines, Jr., U. S. A., will be put on trial April IS at the court in Flushing, N. Y., on the charge of murdering William E. An nis at the Bay side Yacht club in Au gust of last year. ChaTles Morton, the missing base ball manager, has been found at Chi cago. Assistant Secretary Coolidge nays there is marked improvement in the condition of the treasury. The Wisconsin assembly passed a bill to detach territory from the town of Roosevelt, Taylor county, and cre ate the town of Taft. Johnson, the colored pugilist, says he will fight Jeffries if challenged. Ex-President Roosevelt is getting all things ready for his start for South Africa. Edward Pavson Weston has started on his walk from New York to San Francisco. It has just been discovered that Dr. Lee De Forest, the inventor of the radio wireless telephone, was horn in Waterloo, Iowa. Queen Victoria's private journal fills 100 closely written books. Ex-Senator Foraker says he is going to retire from political life. Prof Gottheil, who was appointed head of the American School of Ori ental Research, will start for Pales tine next month. Edmund N. Morrell, former gover nor of Kansas, died recently in Texas. Senator Baiiey is again on the war path against newspaper men who re IS READY 10 SIAHI ROOSEVELT INSPECTS HIS DUN NAGE FOR SOUTH AFRICA. GOES TO STEAMER TUESDAY Members of His Family Gather at Sagamore Hill for Final Reunion. Oyster Bay, X. Y.—Happy in tlie prspect of his departure Tuesday morning for his long-planned African •‘safari,” or hunting trip, ex-President Roosevelt was the soul of good hu mor Sunday at his home at Saga more Hill, where the members of his family gathered for a final reunion before the long journey to the jungle. The ex-president was in high spirits and took a delight in looking after his personal belongings. VY. Emlin Roosevelt and his family, cousins of the ex-president, called in the after noon. Ex-Secretary of the Interior Garfield visited Mr. Roosevelt and ex tended his wishes for a safe journey, .Mr. Roosevelt was up with the sun, as he said, to make the most of the first day of spring. Nearing church time, the start was made on loot for Christ church, three miles away. Mr. Roosevelt walked with his wife and cousin, while Archie and Ethel pro ceeded on foot ahead. Rev. Henry Washburn, rector of the church, in corporated a special prayer for Mr. Roosevelt's safe return in the regular prayer. Several of the congregation pressed about Mr. Roosevelt at the close of the church service and wished him a fine journey and good luck. Mr. Roosevelt and his wife made the long trip back to Sagamore Hill • on foot and seemed not to mind the | clouds of dust rais- d by passing ve hicles; rather. Mr. Roosevelt took it as an experience that might likely be met on the dry veldt outside of Nairobi, where he will make his headquarters in British East Africa. After luncheon Mr. Roosevelt, with two officials of the steamship com pany. made a careful inspection of all t the baggage in order to see that everything was light and tight for the four-weeks trip 10 Mombassa. The baggage was checked for Naples and will be taken to the steamer at Ho boken. ' ‘T am going to New York in the morning.” said Mr. Roosevelt, “and will go to the steamer to inspect my quarters and see that my personal baggage is safely cared for. 1 shall take with me my wearing apparel, rifles, ammunition, one tent from here, books and some scientific in struments." New York.—Immediately upon the arrival of the steamer Hamburg at its pier, a score of carpenters and decorators were set to work remodel ing the suit of staterooms which Mr. Roosevelt is to occupy. The original imperial suite consisted of only three rooms. The alterations will make the suite one of five rooms. Under the supervision of an expert decorator, brought over from Ger many, the entire suite will lie rear ranged. The first room will be a drawing loom immediately off which will be Mr. Roosevelt's bedroom. Connecting with this will be a dress ing room, after which will come Her mit Roosevelt's room, and last of all the bathroom. SUDDEN SUMMONS FOR PRINCE. Man Who Operated Siberian Railway During the War Dies. St. Petersburg.—Prince Michael Hil koff, a member of the council of the empire and formerly minister of com munication. died suddenly. He was present at the inaugural meeting of the Russo-British Chamber of Com merce when he fainted. The prince was removed to his residence, but did not regain consciousness. Modjeska is No Better, Los Angeles.—The condition of Mme. Modjeska. who is lying very low at her country home near Santa Anita, remains practically unchanged It is not througiit she can live. THE COOPERS FOUND GUILTY. Jury Fixes Penalty at Twenty Years in Penitentiary. Nashville, Tepn.—After filing a bond totaling nearly $1,50*1,000, Colonel D. B. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper, convict ed of murder in the second degree and sentenced to twenty years in the peni tentiary for the killing of former United States Senator Carmack, re tired to the home of Judge J. C. Brad ford and discussed the next move in the case. Although Judge Hart fixed the bond at $25,000 for each defend ant, there was a rush to sign it on the part of the wealthy citizens of Nash ville, which fairly swamped the clerk in the criminal court. If a new trial is granted it will probably not take place before next winter. Debate Over Tariff. Washington.—The house of repre sentatives will this week begin the serious consideration of the business for which the extra session of con gress was called, the revision of the tariff. The Payne bill, which has only been read in the house, will on Mon day be laid before that body for dis cussion, and Chairman Payne of the committee on ways and means will make the first argument in support of it. This will be the beginning of the general debate on the bill, and it is 1 expected to pioceed several days. THE DOCTOR. BANK ROBBERS FIGHT CITIZENS I BOLD BANDITS IN RAID AT BALD KNOB. ARK. Part of Band Shoot Up Town While Cracksmen Make Vain Attempt. Raid Knob, Ark.---While some of their number rode about the streets discharging th; ir weapons and hold ing the populace in terror, others of a band of robbers worked for more titan an hour Friday in an unsuccess ful effort to dynamite tlieir wa; into the vaults of the Rank of Bald Knob. The first explosion was heard shortly before three o'clock. As citizens emerged front their houses they were greeted by the bullets of tlie outposts and quickly ran to shelter while the robbers held undisputed sway, keep ing up an almost continuous lire and taking chance shots at any who came within range. In the meanwhile those at work in the bank building contin ued to explode dynamite but. as it proved, with little success other than to partially wreck the building as well as an adjoining structure. Before beginning operations the rob bers destroyed telephone communica tion out of Bald Knob but overlooked a railroad telegraph wire. A message to Augusta over this wire brought a posse of citizens from that place who joined several other posses hastily formed here and immediately started in pursuit of the hand. Investigation showed that although the outer doors of the bank vault was blowm away, the inner doors were not openeil and the hank officials state the robbers did not secure any money. Both bank buildings were dynamited. VEGETABLES A LIQUOR CURE. Meat Causes Appetite for Rum De clares Washington Doctor. Washington.—"If you have a strong appetite for king alcohol and tobacco and want to be cured of the habit, just eat a vegetable diet for six months.” This was the advice given by Dr. D. H. Kress of this city in an address entitled “Dyspepsia and Its Relation to Inebriety" before the American So ciety for the Study of Alcohol and Other Drug Narcotics. He discussed the evil efrects of an excessive diet and declared that over-eating leads to drunkenness. “If you would not be come a drunkard,” said Dr. Kress, "then quit eating meat.” Other speakers were: W. P. Sprat ling of Baltimore on “Alcohol as a Cause of Epilepsy," and G. O. Webster of Chicago on “Alcohol and Public Health.” Insurance President Accused. Albany, N. Y. — The court of appeals Tuesday decided in effect that John R. Hegentan, president of the Metropolitan Rife Insurance Com pany, must stand trial on the charge of perjury in connection with alleged misstatements made in his annual re port of the Metropolitan Life, filed with the state superintendent of in surance on January 1, 1903. Chang* Yale Commencement Date. New Haven, Conn. — A change in the date of the Ya!e import mencement day was the most import ant business transacted at the meet ing of the Yale corporation, which was attended by President Taft, a member of the corporation. Commence ment day, which is held on the last Wednesday of June, has been changed to come on the next to the last Wednesday of that month. Climax to Insurance Scandals. New York.—What is probably a final echo of the insurance scandal of three years ago was heard Thursday when District Attorney Jerome ap peared before Justice Blanchard in^he criminal branch of the supreme Court and requested that Indictments for forgery against George W. Perkins of the New York Life Insurance Com pany; Charles S. Fairchild, a director of the New York Life, and Robert A. Grannis, vice-president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, be dismissed. Justice Blanchard reserved decision. | ROOSEVELT LAUGHS AT DANGER. Says He Witl Come Out of Africa’s Jungles Alive. Oyster Bay. X. Y.—Former Presi dent Roosevelt, in a speech to the "Roosevelt Neighbors of Nassau Coun ; tv, N. Y..’* Thursday assured theih | that he intends to disprove the I gloomy forebodings of Prof. Starr, who declared that. Mr. Roosevelt will not j come out of Africa alive if he follows ; the itinerary h>: has mapped out. He promised those present, if he I proved he is right, that in a year and ! a quarter they would celebrate to | get her. From this remark it appears ! that Mr. Roosevelt will be absent from the 1'nited States no longer than 15 months. Wearing silk hat and dark rain coats, with a red carnation in the but tonhole, and carrying umbrellas rolled tightly, the delegation arrived on a special train from .Mineola and other towns near by. Mr. Roosevelt declared he was deep ly touched by their kind and thought ful courtesy. “I am now back with my friends and neighbors of Nassau county," he said, “and I feel deeply the way every body has greeted me. It is with the deepest pride that I feel you regard me as having not entirely unworthily represented you at the White House. I There is nothing very much out of the ordinary in being a decent public servant. There are certain rather commonplace qualities which all insist upon in any man who takes public office, and these he must have iu a j somewhat unusual degree." LOUISVILLE STATION BURNS. Fire Causes Loss of $400,000 to the Railroads. Louisville, Ky. — By the destruc tion Thursday night at a loss of $400, 000 of the Union depot, the local ter minal for five of the country's chief railroads, Louisville will probably benefit by a new Union station. This was decided by the Commercial club, half an hour after the building at Sev enth street and the Ohio river was a mass of smoking embers and debris. Crossed wires in the attic of the big structure which was erected by the Illinois Central in 1S90 are charged with the responsibility for the blaze. Chief Clerk W. G. Roach to Superin tendent Egan of the Illinois Central fell through a skylight in an effort to escape and was badly injured. All other occupants escaped unhurt. . DOWIE FOLLOWER A SUICIDE. New York Man Ends Life After Los ing His Savings. New York.—Despondent because he had lost all his life savings In invest ments in Zion City (111.) industries, the city started by the late John Alexander Dowie, Ludwig Auguszt, 71 years old, committed suicide by hang ing himself in his room on Second av enue Wednesday. Auguszt became a follower of Dowie when the self-styled Apostle of Zion visited here and held his famous meet ings in Madison Square garden sev eral years ago. The suicide Invested about $3,000 in the lace industry and bank stock In Zion City and was un able to get any return on his money after Zion City went Into the hands of a receiver. Bryan May Run for 8enator. Chicago. — William J. Bryan, in ac interview here Monday, im presed his auditors with the idea that he will be a receptive, if not an active, candidate for the United States sen ate from Nebraska in 1911 to succeed Elmer J. Burkett, Republican. ------ Pays $2,750 for Killing Man. .Birmingham, Ala. — A consent verdict for $2,750 against Gov. Comer of Alabama for the killing of J. D. Biles by the governor’s automo bile was awarded. The governor’s chauffeur was en route to the depot to meet the governor when the accident happened. Papke Whipped by Flynn. Los Angeles, Cal. — Jirn Flynn was given the decision over Bill Papke at the end of a ten-round fight Friday night CUBAN OFFICIALS SAY SURREN DER IS OFFERED. ONE OF LEADERS SLAIN Government Statement Asserts the Revolutionists Are Willing to Give Up If Their Lives Are Saved. Havana.—The revolution which be gan in Santa Clara province Monday bids fair to be stamped out by the government at once. While official reports say the rebellion is incipient others take it more seriously. After withholding news of the trou ble, the palace officials have an I nounced that the father of two of the ! members of the baud headed by Sergt. Cortes of the rural guard had visited Gen. Monteagudo, chief of the guard at Camajuani, and told him that the insurgents implored the clemency of the government and were anxious to surrender on the promise that their lives would be spared. Gen. Monteagudo. accompanied by a strong escort, thereupon started for the insurgent camp. The general ex pected to receive their surrender Thursday. The insurgents are now completely surrounded by a cordon of more than one thousand rurales, drawn front the garrisons in various parts of the island, including Havana, but owing to the rugged character of the country it will be extremely difficult for the tloops to come to close quarters with the rebels. While the government still insists that the band consists of only eight men, it is alleged that the movement is far-reaching and includes quite a large number of those who have be come discontented with the way af fairs have been conducted. Lavastida. a former captain of the rurale guards, was shot and killed by the detachment of the guard sent out to arrest him. It is alleged that he resisted. Lavastida was reported of ficially as having been arrested at Placetas on the charge of complicity in ihe insurrectionary movement. It is rumored that the uprising is more serious than the authorities are will ing to admit. Secretary of Government Alberdi ! and Gen. Machado went to the palace at nine o'clock yesterday to confer with President Gomez. Later a cabi net meeting was called, and it was in timated that an offiial statement would be given out soon. President Gomez is in receipt of many telegrams from officials, veteran organizations and private citizens pledging loyalty and active support in the maintenance of the republic. Reports received here from various parts of the island show aa extraor dinary concentration of the rurale guards in the directions of Vueltas, Camaguey at id Placetas. apparently far in excess of the requirements to pursue and capture the eight men who started the movement and who are still at large. GOETHALS DEFENDS THE CANAL. Chief Engineer Answers Criticisms of Panama Work. Washington. — A strong defense of the present plan of building a lock canal at Panama, not only be cause it is deemed more desirable j than a canal built on sea level, but because of the saving in time and money, is contained in a special report of Lieut. Col. George W. Goethals, chairman and chief engineer of the isthmian canal commission, just made public. The report, which is an exhaustive one, deals with every phase of the canal's construction, and in it Col. Goethals handles without gloves those critics who he says are predicting nothing but disaster and failure to the enterprise. Col. Goethals reviews (he whole history of proposed canal construc tion and gives much attention to the subject of the Gatun dam. This, Col. Goethals says, is to consist of two piles of rock 1,200 feet apart, and carried up to 60 feet above mean tide. The space between them and up to the required height is to be filled by selected mate rial deposited in place by hydraulic process. He speaks of the slip which oc curred last November which, he says, amounted to practically nothing. "It was entirely local," he says, “and did not in any way interfere with the work. Angfy Women Invade Iowa Senate. Des Moines. Ia. — Hundreds of women joined as many men Thurs day afternoon and stormed the senate chamber, in which a hearing was be ing granted by a committee on consti tutional amendments to adherents of prohibition. Speeches were made violently de nouncing recent unfavorable action by the senate. Rev. D. Bverett Smith of Indianola led the demonstration. The committee announced it will grant a hearing to the liquor interests next Tuesday. Would Tax Deadly Weapons. Washington.—A novel way of rais ing revenue was proposed in the house by Mr. Sisson of Mississippi. It is provided in a bill he introduced that a tax of two dollars be levied on every pistol, dirk knife and brass knuckles made in the United States. Rock island Official Dies. St. Paul, Minn—D. W. Albright of Cedar Rapids, la., Special claim agent for the Rock Island railroad, was found dead in his room in the Mer chants’ hotel Friday. KIDNAP SSILUOKtiSE'S NEPHEW RANSOM OF $10,000 DEMANDED FOR RETURN OF SOY. 'Dead Boys Not Desirable,” Says Not* Instructing Mother to Advertise in Papers. Sharon, Pa.—Kidnapers of William Whitla, the fight-year-old son of James H. Whitla, an attorney, who was taken front school Thursday morning have demanded $10,000 ran som for returning the boy to his parents. Detec ives in all parts of the country are searching for the vic tims of the bold, plot. Accompanying the demand for ran som is a covert, threat that the bey will be killed unless the money is produced. At one o’clock a letter directed to the mother was delivered at the house by a mail carrier. Mrs. Whitla at once recognized the handwriting on the en velope ,as that of her son. Opening it, she found the following communi cation written in a strange hand: "We have your boy and will return him for $10,000. Will see your ad vertisement. in the papers. Insert in Indianapolis News. Cleveland Pre>s, Pittsburg Dispatch, Youngstown Vin dicator, ‘A. A.—Will do as requested. J- P- W.’ Dead loys are nor desirable ’ The penmanship and spelling of the note indicated it had been written by a man of fair education. Mr Whitla decided to comply with the conditions of tlq? letter and sent for publication to each of the newspapers specified the note it directed him to insert. Hundreds of telegrams and tele phone messages have been sent to the police of various cities, asking their assistance in the sear--h for the boy and his abductors. The first fruit of these came when Chief of Police Crain of this city received word that the rig in which the lad was taken away had been recovered at War ren, O. Attorney and Mrs;. Whit la art; anion? the town's leading residents. The former is a brother-in-law of Frank H. Buhl, the multi-millionaire steel man. Chicago.—If Willie Whitla. the eight-year-old hoy who was kidnaped from school at Sharon. Pa.. Thursday is not found soon, Pat Crowe, the man who stole Edward Cudahy, son of the millionaire Omaha packer, may join the search tor the abductors. Crowe's wife has urged him to do so. Agents of the boy’s parents were communicated with by Mrs. Crowe in the belief that her husband can give material aid in running down the crim inals and restoring the child, \V hen Mrs. Crowe read of the Penn slyvania kidnaping she believed she saw there an opportunity for her hus band to act. TAFT PRAISES CLEVELAND.. Says Dead President Was as Com pletely American as Lincoln. New York.—Tributes tn poem, song and speech were rendered Thursday in honor of the seventy-second birthday anniversary of the late President (•rover Cleveland at memorial exet cises in which President Taft, do\. Hughes, Chief Justice Fuller and Mayor McClellan made addresses and several hundred of Xew York's most prominent citizens attended. Mis. Cleveland with a party of friends oc cupied a box in Carnegie hall, where the memorial was held. In the course of his remarks President Taft said Cleveland was as completely Ameri can as Abraham Lincoln. Former President Roosevelt sent a letter to Francis Lynde Stetson, chairman of the Cleveland memorial committee, in which the former pres ident told of his personal relations with Mr. Cleveland and praised the late chief magistrate as a man of earn est purpose and high courage in the face of opposition and attack. RIOTS FEARED IN PARIS. Troops in Readiness to Quell Disturb ances Over Wire Strike. Paris.—The letter carriers have joined the strike of the telegraphers, telephone operators and mall clerks employed by the post office depart ment. At a meeting Wednesday night they voted by a large majority to be gin a strike to-day after the first de livery. Eight hundred postmen em ployed in the delivery of newspapers and parcels went owt after .the last distribution. The strike movement has gained rapidly, Paris being practically Iso lated from the rest of France and France from the outside world. Eight thousand strikers passed a resolution to maintain the struggle to the bitter end. Troops were held in readiness at Versailles to reinforce the Paris troops in case any demonstration of a serious nature occurred Wednesday, which was a holiday. Minnesota Woman Killed In Mexico. Mexico City. — Mrs. E. A. Ever ett of Waseca, Minn., was killed Friday night in a. collision between a wild engine and the regular passenger train bound from Vera Cruz to Mexico City. Prominent Iowan Is Dead. Dubuque, la. — Maricus C. Wood* ruff of St. PeluI, right of way com missioner for the Chicago Great Western railroad, died Friday, aged 78 years. He was formerly editor and publisher of the Dubuque Times and Iowa state railroad commission. $100,000 Fire in Minneapolis. Minneapolis, Minn.—Fire starting from an explosion in the Minnesota Drug Company’s building Friday r^ suited iu damage of about $100, 000.
