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W'"""iil'i 'ilUIjipi tCH 17, 1005, The Commoner. 7 ondensed News of the Week Andrew Carnerrin arrived in rttnvAinmi lvrnrMi to appear as a witness in tho trial of Mrs. Chad Ick. The Jurv returned n. vm-cHnf-. nf tniflfv nni frs. Chadwick will doubtless serve a term in rison. Upon hearing of the death of her brother. iron Lambermont, the Belgian minister, his aeed Ister dropped dead at her homo in the country jar Brussels. The remains of Edward 0. Wolcott, who died Monte Carlo, March 1, were cremated at, Paris the presence of Ambassador Porter and a few Ltimate friends. His ashes will be brought to the fnited States. An Associated Press dispatch dated Pittsburg, a., March 5, says: "Train No. 5 on the Baltimore Ohio railroad, filled with passengers bound for tome from Washington, was saved from destruc tion tonight by the quick wit of Thomas Bain, a coal miner at Possum Hollow, twenty-four miles feast of here, tonight. Bain was on his way home en he discovered that a heavy landslide had fcovered the Crack. Rushing to a nearby, switch he Store the. lamp from it-'and succeeding in flagging Ithe train, which stopped within three feet of the obstruction. Tho passengers raised a purse of '$100 for bain. The train reached Pittsburg five thcurs late. A quaint old In:an, Klathla Harjo, of the Seminole tribe, died at Shawnee, O. T., March 5, at Ithe age of 110 years. He wa3 born in the Florida E" erglades, fought m the war of 1812 against tho United States and also served in the Seminole jwdrs. During the civil war he enlisted as a volun teer soldier of the United "States and his service ras marked with valor. Since then he has lived as a doctor among the Indians of his tribe. H,hrt Slim nf ifcKfl flfM r Violn rollniro lm nnnnal jdeficiency existing at the Harvard University, ina uvvu buuaunuuu ay oumuei mu oi oeatue, : asning'ton. R. C. Luther, executive head of all the Phila delphia & Reading company's coal interests, and a member of tho anthracite coal board of concilia- ' tion, created by the coal strike commission of 1902, is said to be dying at Pottsville, Pa. The will of Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford, whose death was caused by poisoning at Honolulu, was filed at San Francisco, March 4. By the terms of the will Stanford University receives the bulk of u the fortune, while her servants and two or three R charitable institutions receive the residue. Samuel Knox, a nrominent attorney of St. I; Louis, and a member of the Thirty-eighth con- r gress, died at his home in Blandford, Mass., at the age of 90 years. About 5,000 employes of the Interborough Rapid Transit company, operating the Subway and Manhattan elevated lines of New York city, went on a strike March 7. The ticket sellers, who are under bond, remained at their posts, but re fused to sell tickets and pasted up signs announc ing the strike. The agitation leading up, to this Btrike began( several months ago, when the subway was first put in operation. Hundreds of non-union men sought employment, but most of them were inexperienced and business Is" practically at a standstill. Chief of Police George O. Purdy, of East St Louis, 111., announced to the members of the police department a few days ago: "I will give $100 to any business man who kills a safe-blower in the act of blowing a safe in his place of business." The men were instructed to notify business men that this reward will be given, and Mayor Cook who 'discussed the situation with, the chief, approved of his action, in 'consideration of the number of safe robberies that have occurred lately. Tho largest oat meal plant m the world was destroyed by fire at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 8. Loss, $1,500,000. By a vote of 76 to 1 the legislature of Wiscon ein passed a bill prohibiting the sale or manufac ture of cigarette papers. Tho grand Jury of Sangamon county, 111., commenced an investigation of tho charges of brib ery and corruption made by Frank D. Comerford against several members of tho legislature of Illi nois, of which he was formerly a member. Ah Associated Press dispatch dated Jefferson City, Mo., March 7, says: "The senate today passed the maximum rate bill after having amended tho measure as it came from the house. The bill is considered tho most important railroad legislation passed by tho Missouri legislature in years. Tho measure reduces tho rate of live stock $4 per car and was amended by striking out the entire sec tion relating to coal and brick." Tho Bank of Yarmouth and the, firm of Red ding & Sons, boot and shoe manufacturers, at Yarmouth, N. S., went Into bankruptcy March G, with liabilities amounting to $1,000,000. A. M. Palmer, well known a3 a theatrical man ager, was stricken with apoplexy, March GJ and died on tho following day. He was G7 years of age. The Sons of S'aint Patrick, an Irish organiza tion in New York, have invited President Rooise velt to be their guest on St. Patrick's day, March 17, and he has accepted the Invitation. The dinner wil be given at Delmonico's, and addresses will bo made by Mr. Roosevelt, Burke Cochran, and other prominent men. Sir Henry Irving, who has been ill at Wolver hampton, England, is reported to bo convalescing rapidly. Mrs. L. C.Bohle, widow of former United States Marshall Bohle, lost a package containing $7,000 in currency on a St. Louis street, a few days ago. Mrs. Bohje was crossing the street, and in jump ing out of the road of an automobile, she dropped her package containing the money, but did not miss it immediately. Detectives are working on the case. Two young men received dangerous wounds in a hair-cutting hazing episode at Ann Arbor, Mich., a few days ago. One of them, L. A. War ren, was stabbed in the back and the knife thrust penetrated his lungs, while the other, Harold Cor son, had tho membrane sheathing the heart pene trated by a knife. No arrests have been made. An Associated Press dispatch dated Denver, Colo., March 6, says: "A plan for disposing of the contest over the governorship and retaining Adams in the chair was announced tonight by the Adams supporters. It is to be brought about by the aid of certain republicans, though they will not be required to vote directly to seat Adams. According to the claims Of the Adams people they have se cured the signatures of twenty-two republican members of the legislature to an agreement to vote down all three reports in the contest commit tee. With the thirty-one members, who, it Is re ported, will act with the republicans above men tioned, the result will be a majority of four. By 'defeating all three reports, 'the effect will be to allow Adams to retain his seat. On the other hand the Peabody republicans claim that they have forty-six pledged to stand together for Peabody and that this pledge was made at tonight's caucus. A steering committee was named and Instructed .to use every effort to keep before the joint as sembly the Alexander report in favor of seating Lieutenant Governor McDonald and ignoring the claims of both Adams and Peabody. They hope in this way to eventually win away enough of tho McDonald men to give a majority for Peabody." Admiral Ellwood Houston, U. S. N., retired, died at Lausanne, Switzerland, March 8, whither ho .had gone for his health. .He wa3 60 years old. Premier Balfour announced in the house of commons March 6, that Mr. Wyndham, chief sec retary for Ireland, had resigned. A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, under dato of Chanute, Kansas, March 7, says: "The oil pro ducers are not satisfied with the statement made by Commissioner Garfield as to the method to bo pursued in the investigation into the Standard Oil company. The Producers' association has writ ten Congressman Campbell to convey to the presi dent a request that the investigation take the form of a court of inquiry, that tho hearings ho advor tisod in the paporo, and that both sides appear and toll tho story. Tho producers say this la tho only way in which an impartial investigation can bo made." Seven men who were being hoisted 'in a car riage in tho Clear Springs colliery at West Pitts ton, Pa., wero hurled to tho bottom, a distance of 250 feet and all were killed. Reports from Calcutta say that tho pcoplo there aro dying at tho rate of 31,000 per week from bubonic plague. The Indian government Is seg gregating tho inhabitants and burning tho towns In tho hope of uprooting tho disease. Tho law committee of the National Board of Fire Underwriters has issued a call for a meeting in Now York next Wednesday, when a formal pro test will bo mado against the so-called anti-compact law recently passed by tho Arkansas legisla Sir Henry Irving has signed a contract for an American tour under the management of Charles Frohman and beginning In October. He will prob ably open in New York, between October 10 and October 15, and will make a farwell tour, lasting twenty weeks, of all the principal cities. Tho cabinet crisis In Norway has been settled by tho formation of a coalition ministry, of which M. Micholsen is the premier. Lovland, a former minister, will head the section of tho state council sitting at Stockholm. In Delaware the ballot for United States sena tor resulted: Addlcks, 13; Saulsbury, 13; Henry A. Dupont, 9; Richardson, 5; Hughes, 4 total vote, 44 necessary for a choice, 23. Emporor William, addressing tho naval, re cruits at Wilhelmshaven, held up' the Japanese soldiers as a luminous example of patriotism and soldierly fidelity. Andrew D. White, formerly American minister to Germany, delivered a lecture on the diplomatic service of tho United States, with some hlnt3 to ward its reform. Reports from Mombasa, British West Africa, say that 9,000 Somalis attacked the town of Merka and annihilated tho inhabitants. An Associated Press dispatch dated Meridian, Mias, March 10, says: "Mrs. Margaret H. Hayes, of Colorado Springs, Colo., daughter of Jefferson Davis, has written a letter urging the confederate veterans of Mississippi to use every endeavor to havo tho state of Mississippi recognized on tho Davis monument to be erected at Richmond, Va. Sho 3ays her father always regarded himself as a Mississippian, taught his children such, and that it will be a great disappointment to the family 'If tho best beloved state of Davis is Ignored on tho monument' Mrs. Hayes asks that Major General Lowry and other leading confederate veterans make efforts to have the inscription on the monument changed and says it would have been better had the widow of the dead chieftain written -the In scription, as she best knew what her husband would have wanted on the monument" The tax officials of New York assessed tho United States Steel corporation for $10,000,000. Tho capitalization of the company is $1,100,000,000. This $10,000,000 was in excess of its real estate and debts. Tho company yesterday made Ita for mal answer, or return, on the assessment and its attorney has sworn off all save $2,000,000 of the assessment. The coroner's jury of Honolulu, sitting in tho case of tho death of Mrs. Leland Stanford, returned a verdict that Mrs. Stanford came to her death by strychnine poison, the poison having been In troduced into a bottle of bicarbonate of soda, with felonious intent by some person or persons to tho jury unknown. This verdict was returned after "abflut two minutes' deliberation. An explosion in the wheel house of the Buck eye Powder company at Edwardsvllle, 111., wrecked the-building and caused a property loss of $25,000. The report could be heard five miles away. 3 '4 r jtOtu