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VOLUME 3, NUMBER bi;
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The Week ad Washington
Col. Henry L. Thomas, for thirty
four years translator In the state de
partment, died in Washington on De
cember 28 at the age of G8 years. Mr.
Thomas was a man o exceptional
ability. Ho 3poke and translated
French, Spanish, Italian, German,
Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Portu
guese, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek, be
sides having a general knowledge of
other tongues.
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Sonator Hale, chairman of the com
mitteo on naval atfairs, speaking to a
Washington correspondent for the
Associated press on December 28, said
that it Is proposed to make liberal
provision for additions to the navy
during the present session' of congress
and that when these additions are
completed, the United States will have
a more powerful navy than any other
nation xcept Great Brltaii.
At the instance of President Roose
velt, the state department is making
inquiries asto the exact situation of
the, Jews in Kishineff. It will be rc
membored that it was recently report
ed that theso unfortunate people fear
a repetition of the massacres in tlie
near future and that they had ap
pealed to this country and. England for
aid. Tho state department therefore
is. pushing-inquiries into the situa
tion through its consular officers in
the Kishineff district,
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Rear Admiral G. W. Sumner ro
il tired from tho navy on account of hav
ing reached the age limit on December
31. ., This retirement resulted in the
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promotion of Captain Charles O'Neal,
chief of the bureau of ordnance, to be
rear admiral, and Commanders John
A. Rodgers, A. V. Wadhams and John
D;. Adams will become captains.
Owing to the illness of Secretary of
Sate Hay, Secretary of War Root will
i? conduct the negotiations of this gov
's eminent with General Reyes and the
" Colombian government. Up to De
cember 29, no reply had, been made
' 'by thisgbvefnment to tlie note sub
mittedHy. Colombia, through General
Reyes Tit is Relieved, however, that
the United States will insist upon the
ratification of the treaty with the re--public
of Panama as the first step to
he taken in the matter.
is 250,000 more than were issued in
1902 and nearly 5u,000 more than were
issued in 1901. Mr. Ware expressed
the hope that the work of the bureau
will be brought up to date before the
close of tho ii3cal year.
It was recently announced from
Washington thot the Colombian lega
tion was making ready to close their
headquarters in that city and would
withdraw their representatives to this
country. Although this radical course
ha3 not yet been taken, It Is b no
means certain that all trouble be
tween this country and Colombia is at
an end, as is evidenced by the quiet
preparations going on in both quar
ters to make ready for a conflict If It
cannot be avoided. Ihe auxiliary
cruiser Dixie with GOO murines oh
board is reported 'ready to leave the
League Island navy ya-'d for Colon,
equipped to maintain 1,000 men lor a
period of five months. In the mean
time, the new republic of Panama has
been recognized by K'caragua and
Italy also has added her recognition.
Some comment has been caused by a
report from Colon to the effect that
Colombian troops had landed at Carti,
In Panama territory, and conferred
with the Indian chief Inanuuquina,
who afterwards was taken aboard a
vessel and it is thought conveyed to
Cartegena. It is said that thousands
of the Indians in the adjacent terri
tory to Panama favor the republic,
and so it is not believfed that they
will make any trouble. :
A dispatch froiri Canton, O., under
date of January 1, says:- Thetime
jiimu lor uue buuuuaaiou ojl aeaigiis iui
the McKinley memorial expired today.
Over 100 designs have been offered,
six of which are the worK of foreign
artists and sculptors.
system of Mexico has fcesn prepared by
a sub-committee of, tho national mone
tary commission. Tho new plan is
similar to the ono now in force in the
Philippine islands and it is recom
mended that the ratio of the new dol
lar to gold shall be established on the
basis of the average gold price of the
Mexican pesos in foreign markets dur
ing the past ten years, with an in
crease not exceeding 10 per cent.
New Year's day death list included
the names of former .Congresbman
James J. Belden of Syracuse, N4 l, at
the age of 78 years. Mr. Belden served
in congress from 1887 to 1895 He al
so served as mayor oi the city of
Syracuse for two terms; Judge John
P. Newton of Dayton, Ky., a promi
nent democratic leader, and -who was
to have taken his seat on tlie bench
at Newport, Ky., on January 4, died
at Cincinnati, O., on January 1. Gap
tain Frederick PabBt, president of tlie
Pabst Brewing company,: died at Tiis
home int Milwaukee; Wis-. xn January
1, at the; age of 67 years.
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tlie island of San Domingo, and much
excitement , prevailing, United States
.Minister Powell recently demanded
the presence of an additional warship,
and the state department has ordered
.Rear Admiral Lamberton. command
ing the South Atlantic squadron, to
s.ena one of nis vessels to san Do
mingo at full speed. Rear Admiral
Xamberton's- squadron is now atTrin-
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;AIt has just been made known to the
state department, through a dispatch
'from Minister T,yon at Monrovia, LI
b'eiia, that a white missionary named
Jfbhn G. Tate, with all of Ills follow
ing, eighteen in number, wore mas
sacred on March 15, 1001, by the na
tive Dqo tribesmen in Afrtca. The
hews of" tlie massacre has just coaie to
light after these years, and it Is l)e
liQved that the state department will
Remand the punishment of the perpe
trators of the deed.
A dispatch from Washington under
date of January 1, and jarried by the
Associated press says: Colonel Clar
ence Edwards, chief of , the insular
bureau of the war bureiu, yesterday
made public circulars calling .for sub
scriptions for seven million dollar
Philippine land purchase bonds, the
proceeds of which are to be applied
to the purchase of the friars lands.
The bonds will be registered in de
nominations of from $l'00 to ?10,000
dated February 1, 1904, hearing 4 per
cent interest payable at the United
States treasury in United States sold
coin. The bonds will run from'te'rCo
thirty years, and be free from all
forms of taxation either in the Philip
pines or in tlie United States.' Sub-i
scriptions will be payable .at the New
York sub-treasury where the bonds
also will be delivered. The circular
recites that these bonds will he ac
cepted by the -secretary of tho treas
ury at par as" security tor the deposit
of public ' money, should further 'de
posits, be made; and niay be substi
tuted for United States gold bonds now
held as security for additional circu
lation whenever in tho judgment of
the secretary of the treasury it is1 desirable-
tp stimulate an increase in na
tional bank circulation. Bids will be
received until 3 p. m., January 11.
They must be accompanied by certified
checks for 2 per cent of 'he bid. They
will be delivered Februaiy 1. The bids
will be received at the insular bureau.
Brief News Items.
The full death list of '.hose who lost
their lives in .he fire in the Iroquois
theatre in Chicago is some over six
hundred, and some are still missing.
Twelve employes of the theatre nave
been arrested on tho charge of beiug
accessory to manslaughter, and they
will be hold pending the verdict of the
coroner's ijury. Expressions of sym
pathy have been received In Chicago
from all portions of Eurono ma
It is. hoped, .that ;th:q threatened
strike. Of cab.' aqd parrjage drivers in
St, Louis may he averted "as tlie 'board
of arbitration for the state! will con
vene, shortly; i,n ,the hope.' of 'settling
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A .cablegram, dated Lpndon, January
1, and carried by the Associated; prqss,
says: . General -Weyjer will, shortly
publish .n book. pitied r"My Miliary
and Political Campaign in CubaV'ae
cording.to a, speqialdispjitch.frpxn
Madrid. Two interesting chapters
will be headed,' ''My tPr;ofcct fopLand
ing in ynited. States. Territory," and
"Reasons. Why.. I Was-. ObUgedwto
Abandon the project." ..':,
form is to be adhered to, if nronprfv
rights are to be respected and if tin
government is to thwart the machina
tions of the plutocrat and reiect tvo
dreams of the socialist.
Information has reached Washing
ton that Germany Is making a quiet,
but determined effort to secure posses
sion of a coalinc station at St. Thomas, throughout thta country, the tern Mr
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one of the Danish west inuian lsiauus. airuster 3urnn me emotion of peo-
?On December 31. E. F. Ware, com
missioner of pensions, issued a New
Tear's greeting which shows that
130,828 pension certificates" were is
sued for tiio calendar year 1903, which
pic generally, -me strike of livery
drivers recently instituted In tho ritv
has been temporarily suspended out of
sympathy with tho dlsastor. .
" Welcome" Does Nbt Meatf -'
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promise to tho ear to' break it to the
hope;' it will not take- a backward
peep injte battle Xor the greatest good
to the greatest number; it will not do
thlswith the consent of the rank'and
file of the party who have not grown
so weary of 'the, husks of defeat' as to
be willing to turn to the husks of a
victory that could mean no more
progress to the democratic party than
did the victory of 1892.
"It must be plain tq intelligent men
that a crisis is coming on, . The. demo
cratic party has nothing tp gain by a
backward step. . It is today, just as it
was in 1896 and in 19Q0, the conserva
tive party. So far as public interests
are concerned, democratic principles
and policies, as set forth in the Chi
cago .platform and In tho Kansas City
platform, represent the real conser
vatism of the country.
"Call it 'Bryanism,' If you please,
and yet let it bo understood now, as
mu - yet bG 13arned by the doubting
Thomases of this country, by the
wiwaures wuo imagine that great
principles are crushed oy a singlo or
a dozen defea's, that the so-called
Bryanism' stands between he radi
calism of the republican partV on the
one hand and the radicalism of -the
BuuiuuBuc element on tho other hand;
that 'Bryanism' stands ior pure. and
simple democratic government, along
;wfmndati,ons laid y thG fathers;
that Bryanism,' hated and despised
as it is by the representatives of self
ish interests, ignored and misunder
stood by the icrnorftnf ar ,, i.
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X-tr uy inQ PePlQ of this Ameri
Writing by Telegraph.
Ernst Karl Gruhn, a young Ger
man electrician, has patented what he
calls the "telescheirograph," an in
strument that reproduces over a wire
a written message.
It differs from all other similar in
ventions in that the actual writing o
the message sets up electric currents
which reproduce it at the other end.
It has already been tried with success
over a line 200 miles long, and there
seems to be no limit to its action up
t6 the distance over which telephone
messages may be sent.
In fact, it is more nearly related in
ita action to the telephone than to the
telegfaph, and the electric current or
dinarily used in telephoning is em
ployed in this new device. It is in
tended to supplement the telephone
rather than to supplant the telegraph.
The. transmitting apparatus is con
tained in a case about as large as a
typewriter cover. To a pencil holder
are attached two wires, each being
part of a circuit. When not in use
the pencil lies in a rest that breaks
both circuits, much as a telephone re-
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