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I !' II IliUtMltMIMldW ' r iv FORCEDTOSllSPtlD Gorman National Bank of Now port, Ky., Sadly Wrecked. ASSISTANT CASHIER TKES $201,000 Shortage 1 More Thnu Doulili. tlip Capi tal Mock of llin llnnk DrfntilthiK OAlrlnl Hud llrrn f.cntllnic Fimt Life Other Nw. A Cincinnati, ()., dslputoh says: United Stntos Hank Examiner Tucker lias tnken possession of the German National bunk at Newport, Ky., und postcil a notice that the bank would remain closed pending an examination. Examiner Tucker also announced unoniuiaily that Frank M. Ilrowu, the individual bookkeeper and assistant cashier, w us missing, and that a par tial investigation showed a slit rtugc of about 8201,000. Ilrowu had Keen with the bank for eighteen yearn and wus one of its mo-t trusted employes. It is stated by the expei ts th.it his op orations extended baelc as far as ten years. The capitnl stock of the bank Is 8100,000. Hrown's alleged shortage Is double that amount and mote than the reserves and nil the assets Including their real estate. For two weeks there have been ru mors that Hrown was shoit and that some depositors would lose their ac counts. Three weeks ago cxuinlneis made a good statement for thu bank. It was learned that Ilrowu was sus pended Nov. 13. pending an investiga tion and that expeits have been at work all the past week, while thu officers and directors have been mak ing announcements that everything was all right. November Hi, the otllecis ami direct ors, over their own lMttics, published in the papers a statement that the bank had been found to bo nil right, and that the rumors about llrownwete false. They continued making these statements to the press us late as mid night, Satuiday, but the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune made exposure of the nllegjd shortage and caused a panic in Newport. The wildest scenes were witnessed and serious trouble is feared when the ollleers and directors will be confronted by people who have hunted them in vain. Hrown, it is alleged, was living a fast life, with wine, women and eards in his repertoire. His career was not cut short by any discovery at the bank till n jealous woman gave him away. Last summer Hrown visited Yellow stone park and a cirtain Cincinnati woman, It is said, wanted to accom pany him, but he denied her. When she ascertained some time afterward that another, woman wi's with Hrown on his western tr'p the Cincinnati woman gave the bank otllcluls infor mation thnt brought about a crisis. The ofllcers of the German National bank are all wealthy and responsible men and they will be able to make the losses good. Among the directors is Paris C. Ilrown, the father of the defaulter, who is known from Pittsburg to New OrlennB nt every river wharf as the head of the stores for boat supplies. WILL BE A TIGHT SQUEEZE Nobrunkm S!jr Not I.or h ConrrMiuutu I)oprii(l on llnnU. A Washington special says: A mat ter of much concern to Nebriuskans, as well as to the citizens of several other states, Is the apportionment for con gress to be made as the result of the new census. The director of the cen hub has figured out that the new basis of representation can be uiude ut 200, 000 with eighteen additional members. Under this ratio four states would each lose a congressman. These states arc Maine, Virginia. Kansas and Ar kansas. The basis would have to be very little larger than the figure men tioned to squeeze Nebraska out of one of her members, leaving the state with only five districts and the necessity of radical change in the existing district lines. FIGGITES CAUSE AN ARREST Trouble at flretnn llrrnl.ii Out In n Npw Place. Mrs. Louis Figg of Gretnn, Neb., has had Allen Woods nrrested on the charge of assi.ult with Intent to do bodily Injury. Young Woods Is the son of .1, R. WoodH, who recently obtained a judg ment of 85.10 against the FIggs, us damages growing out his arrest some time ago. The Flggs allege that Allen Woods was one of tho mob that paired and feathered them lust February, -and his arrest is bused on that. The cose will come up for hearing before County Judge Wilson nt t'apil ion, December 7. Mill Opcm. The billet mill and converter of the Illinois steel works ut Jollet, III,, bus resumed operations after a three weeks' shutdown. Altout 1,000 men were put to work. The outlook is good for a long run. Mr, Zlniuiermun'a Had Cuie. Sheriff A. C. Nuqulst bus returned to Osceola, Neb., from the asylum at Lincoln to which he had conveyed Mrs. Mngdelena Zimmerman. Mrs. Zimmer man had been an Inmate of the asylum before and wus out on purolc, und wns a resident of Custer county. The family hud started to visit friends east of Osceoln, but when thoy arrived at Osceola, she bocumo violently insane and her husband applied to the county commissioners for relief, which wus granted. BIENNIAL ESTIMATES. Some Whlt-li ll llrou Vlle.l Willi the Auditor of I'lilitle Arcountn. Estimates of the expenses of running the various departments of state for two years, beginning April I, have commenced to roll Into the otllee of Auditor Cornell where they are to be compiled for submission to the legisla ture. Not much more than half the state ollleers and Institutions are in. The estimates now on file aggregate 81,771,601. This does not include about 8100.000 for new buildings, one nt the Hastings asylum and another for the Lincoln hospital for thu Insane. It does not include Srtin.noo for the state university, about half of which Is paid by the government. Two years ngo the estimates Including deficien cies and new buildings, amounted to 8J,8'.M,,.MU and the legislates appro priated 8Vi',:i7.i. Fully Sioo.ooo of the appropriation granted was for new buildings and deficiencies. Four years ago the estimates amounted to 81,0,14, 1i3. The legislature appropriated 32,- The sttperlntcnpL'nt of the Hastings asylum wants 8."0,0()0 for a new wing for female patients. An appropriation for a new building for that institution was made two years ago, but the act requited the building to be fire proof and the state board found it Impossl to build such a building for the money and the matter was dropped. The superintendent of the hospital for the Insane ut Lincoln wants 818,- 000 for a new wing for male patient" and 8.1.000 for a brick burn. Kiiuimurv of Kfttliimtr. The following estimates are now on file: State treasurer 8 Adjutant general Land commissioner State superintendent Hanking board Fish commissioners deficiency Labor but eau Supreme court State library Houid of Irtlgntiou Attorney general Hoaid of transportation Secretary of state Soldiers1 home, (iranrt Island. Normal school Hastings asyl tin School for blind Home for friendless Soldiers' home. Mil ford Itidustrlul home. Milford.... Industrial school, Kearney. . Hospital insane, Lincoln ... Industrial school, Geneva. . . . School for deaf, Omaha Hoard of public lauds State tin i verslty i7,:too 48. 111)1) :i7,:ioo 18,000 7.800 1.022 IH.O 34,400 10,. Ill 11,(100 14. SOU 14,200 IH..1.10 100,800 00,14(1 30 1,40(1 .10,175 41.00(1 20,500 .11.2.10 07,000 14.-..400 ,1:1,00:. 02,7.10 23.200 oi:. .loo Total 81,771,803 The resources from which it is ex pected to secure the 8015.500 necessary for the state university arc: 1 mill tax for 1001 8173,000 1 mill tax for 1002 173,000 Rentals and interest on land.. 100,000 Interest on permanent fund In vestments 12,000 Miscellaneous receipts. .100 The Morrill fund, U. S .10,000 Agricultural experiment fund, U. S 30,000 Collection of fees und balance in hands state treasurer.... ... 7.1,000 Total .801.1,500 The manner in which this amount will brohably be expended is in this wise: Payable from tempoiary uni versity fund sulaiies and wages. S23S.OOO General current expenses 4J7,OM Permanent improvements, in cluding remodeling north wing of central building, Im provements at the university and college farm - . . . 817i,(n Payable fiom university cash fund: For services in dairy schools, graduate schools, and other schools, and special schools, etc 8 75,400 I'nyaiile from Morrill fund: Ser vices uud e tulpment In school and college and college of ag riculture and mechanic arts, as required by act of con gress. 50,000 Payable from agricultural ex periment station fund: For servicts, equipment und ex penses of investigations and the publishing of results as required by congress 30,000 Grand total 8015,500 Of the above grand total the state supplies the 1 mill tux only, aggregat ing for two years, upproxiinately,8148-, 000. The United States land endow ment, United States cash appropria tions, interest on permanent funds, und eusli collected 'it the university, supplies the remainder. S-2U7..100, mak ing the grand totul, 8015.500. Oeta Twenty Ytmra Hen fence. AChieugo, disputch says: .lames II. Dunlup. the lender of severul bauds of bank burglars, one of which robbed the Northampton, Mass., bank of 81, 100,000, confessed at Wutsoka, III., to looting Pnteq's bank at Wellington, III., on March 23 last. He has been in juil ip Watseka ever since last April, when he was captured in Chicago, but until recently denied his guilt. Fi nnlly. however, he pleaded guilty and Judge Hllscher sentenced hlin to twenty years' Imprisonment, the ex treme limit. riilllpplim ('umiHltlex. The following casualty list has been received from Manila ut the wur de partment: Killed Corporal Herbert II. Case, First Lieutenant M. Koontz, John Lambert. Wounded Charles MeColllster. se vere; Patrick Green, severe', John Hogt, serious; Cotporul Henry Kunkel, head slight. Lieutenant Koontz served during the Spanish-American war us first lieuten ant in the Twenty-second Kansas. WIDEWORLDNEWS COMPREHENSIVE AND CON DENSED. A COMPLETE SUMMARY Of THE WEEK Short Vnraitraph Contrjlnic n World of Information Happening of His I'ail Hvxra Huya Inter- eating to Alt 1'eopte. The three-mnMed schooner Myra A. Weaver was wteeked In Vineyard sound otT Hoston, and six lives lost. An explosion In the paint room started a lire which destroyed the Appletou Manufacturing company's agrlcultmul machinery plant at Ge neva, 111. Loss, 81,000,000. partially insured. The destruction of the plant threv; 150 men out of employment. It Is announced that the Knapp & Stout Lumber company will give up their yitr.U at Dubuque. In., uud con centrate their whole business in St. Louis. The company Is the largest and oldest lumber firm In the Misslsslp pi valley. Ithas been In business In Dubuque nearly fifty years. In a head-on collision near Dallas, Tex., on the Missouri, Kansas A. Texas, between Sherman und Deulson, Fire man Weaver was killed, C. A. Andrews, vice president of the Grayson County National bank of Sherman, probably fatally Injured and several others, In cluding four trainmen, more or less seriously hurt. Police ollleer Charles S. Scott shot and killed Thomas Smith a gambler nt St. Joseph, Mo. The shooting took place In the bar room at the Commer cial club. It Is alleged that Smith accused Scott of having an article published reflecting on him. Scott denied the charge when, It Is alleged, Smith undertook to assault the ollleer and the shooting followed. Paris. France dispatch says: F.ight persons were killed and fifteen wound ed In a collision between a suburban train uud nn express at Cholsey Lend. The suburban train wns entering the station to allow the express to pass uud the accident occurred then, the suburban train being telescoped. The wreckage was complete und the line wns blocked for hours. The twelve-year-old son of Chris Uud, of Lansing, Iowa, wus run down by a freight train anil his left leg was seveied below the knee. The lather, who is eccentric, became irre sponsible from grief and assaulted un ofllcer. who placed him In jail. Twenty minutes later jail and city hall build ing was discovered an fire. Rud was burned to 'death. The building -was destroyed. Mrs. Zeralda James, widow of Jesse James, the noted northwestern bandit, died at her home in Knnsits City Nov. 13. of a complication of discuses, after a llugcilng Ulncsfc. Mrs. James wus u Miss Mlinms. She wns born near KatiF.as City in 1S44. nn 1 was married to .tunics at Kearney, Mo., in 1874. They bad one son, Jesse, jr., who Is now In business in Kunsas City. Mrs. James v with her husband when he war. shot and billed by Hob Ford, one of thu Ifiudtt's furium pals, ucar St. Jo.ph, lit April, 1PS1. Tut people, wem injured In a col lision between a north-bound Lake Shore pussengor train uud u extra freight tiain, which met head on three miles south of Kalamazoo, Mich. Seven persons escaped with slight lnjuric. The firemen and engineers In tho two engine ulso escaped with slight Injuries. The ft eight was ordered onto a sid ing ut the Kalamazoo paper mill, but fulled to reach the point abend of the pusenger trnln. The engines met on a curve in n blinding snow storm and wews badly smashed, but not de railed. The property loss was small. A special from Poplar Itluffs, Mo., ys: A fire, accompanied by a terrible futility, occurred here Nov. 12, result ing in the total destruction of the Clifford house, large three-story frame building, and a heavy loss of life. The list of known dead is as follows: Heck Clark, Doniphan, Mo. Kebeeca Owens, Poplnr Illuffs, Mo. Shelby De Hart, Poplar Illuffs, Mo. Cur'ey Herry, Poplar Illuffs, Mo. . Fatally injured: Etta Hargrove, Poplar Illuffs, Mo. Wlnslow Stowe, Tennessee. Missing; Eugene Dalton, Hot Springs, Ark. After ithstanding the pressure of the sweatbox at the Denver jail for four duys John Porter, tho sixteen-year-old negro, who was arrested No vember 11, charged with the murder of eleven-year-old Louisu Frost, near Liinon, Colorado, broke down and con fessed every detail of the hideous crime. On November 7, while on her way home from school, the girl was waylaid, assaulted and murdered, the body showing no leas than fourteen knife wounds. The police department has sent two men to Liinon to verify some of Por ter's statements. They wish to be ab solutely sure of hln guilt before giving him up, owing to a strong belief that he will be lynched on his way to Limon. The coroner's jury returned n verdict exonerating Detective Carberry for killing Charles Alien, tho colored deputy In the election day riot ut Denver. Prof. W. W. Payne and II. C. Wil son at Goodsell observatory, with assisting students, noted und charted sixty leould meteors at Northficld, Minn, Some of them were of good magnitudp und brilliance, leaving long trulls of spurhs behind them. The maximum is expected soon.. It wns impossible to make uny wttlsfuctory photographs, At Indianapolis, I ml., Ellubcth and John Uulun, mother and son, were asphyxiated by stove gas. May T. .1. Schmidt shot und killed her hurbnud Peter, at their Chicago, home. She made no attempt to escape, and declared her husbntul's di Inking hadtltlven her to desperation. At Wllloughby, O., David Hurran, eighty years old, wos shot and killed by one of his tenants, Potter Michael, aged sixty, as the result of a quarrel. Michael is in jail. The Rockdale mills of the American Steel and Wire company nt Jollet, 111,, are closed, owing to a faulty eondltlou of the toilers. Several hundred men are ufTcctcd. The shut down, It Is said, will last but a few days. With a majority of one vote ami that the ote of a moderator the New York ptesbytery decided that the Westminister confession, with Its doc trine of pi edest Illation, was good enough to remain as the creed of the Presbyterian church. Three nrgitva who hud been arrest ed by Sheriff Haywood for waylaying and attempting to kill Mr. Stalleup, were taken from thu Jail at Jefferson Texas, by unknown persoiiHiind hanged to a ruilioutl bridge. The u'jgroes had confessed to the crime. Charles Prince, wanted In Litchfield, 111., on a charge of the murder of 11 miner named John O'llnra, was cap tured in Sonento, 111., by City Marshal Davis and Deputy Sheriff Trupper of Lttchtlehl. Prince's father Is In Jail at Litchfield. O'ilura wusshotnndhillcd dining n qtturicl with the Princes. The session of the seventh annual convention of the Daughters of the Confederacy wns culled to order at Montgomery. Aim, by Mrs. Kdwln (1. Weed, general president. The Hlble from which the scripture lesson was read wus the same upon which Jeffer son Davis took the oath of office as president of the confederacy. The worst marine disaster In the long list of steamers wreckeJ among the rocks and slvoals at the entrance to the Hay of Fundy, occurred when the sldewheelcr City of Monticello, bound from St. John for Yarmouth, was over whelmed by the mountainous seas only four miles from her destination and engulfed with thirty-four passen gers and crew, A Chicago, dispatch says: James It, Dunlnp, the leader of several bands of bank burglars, one of which robbed the Northampton, Mass., bunk of SI, 100,000, confessed at Watseka, III., to looting Patcq's bank nt Wellington, HI., on Mnrch 23 Inst. He has been In jail in Watseka ever since last April, when he was captured In Chicago, but until recently denied his guilt. Fi nally, however, he pleaded guilty und Judge Hllscher sentenced hlin tn twenty yours' Imprisonment,' the ex treme limit. Holland has expressed n willingness, says the llerlln correspondent of the London Dally Press, to buy on behalf of Mr. Krugcr, for the exiled Hoers, n portion of German southwest Africa. A llerlln dispatch of November 13 says the government has olllclnlly In formed the colonial council that it will gladly grant permission to 15,00(1 Trunsvual Hoers to trek through the Kulusurl desert to the territory In Ger man southwest Africa. Arrangements, therefore, are now being made to wel come the vanquished Hoers us a now uud valuable clement for the colony. A Cincinnati, O., dslpatch says: United States Hank Examiner Tucker has taken possession of the German National bunk ut Newport, Ky., und posted a notice that the bank would remain closed pending un examination. Examiner Tucker nlwo announced unofficially that Frank M. Hrown, the individual bookkeeper und assistant cusliler, was missing, and that a par tial investigation showed a shortage of about 8201,000. Hrown had been with the bunk for eighteen years und wus one of Its most trusted employes. It is stated by the experts that his op erations extendetl back us far as ten years. A Hreslan, November 10, disputch says: Emperor Wi Ilium wus the ob ject of nu nttemptcd outrage, which, however, failed. As he was drivcti in an open carriage to the Cuirassier bar racks, accompanied by the hereditary prince of Suxe-Mclulngcr, a woman in the crowd hurled un axe ut the car riage. The rapidity with which the vehicle wus pusslng saved Its occu pants. The axe, or hatchet, fell just behind thu carriage The woman was immediately anested. The woman's name is Selmu Schnapke. She occupied u pluce in the front rank of the spectators, on the side furthest from thu emperor. The hutchet, it now nppeurs, struck the carriage. A crowd of people who wit nessed the outrage threw themselves On his mu jo sty's ussullant, but the prompt Intervention of tho police saved the woman from' injury! The missile, It developed later, was a short hand chopper. The woman Is believed to be insane. The assailant Is u trades woman of Ureslau. A provisional medical exam ination of the prisoner has been made and she has been pronounced to be insane. While Emperor William was return ing from the barracks to the ralLond station, he wns cheered by linmctibc crowds of people who were gathered uloug the route. In the Chlcugo city council Aldermun Walter nutler introduced a resolution which was referred, urging the next legislature of Illinois to pass u law for the establishment of a state commission to regulate the price of illuminating gas and electric light. The board is to be appointed by the governor. Tho comtulsston is to hear all complaints against gas and clectrla light compan ies, and Is empowered to demand regular statements of authorized capital, expenses and income from each of such corporations or companies. AFf AIRS OF STATE DEPARTMENTAL AND EXECU TIVE ACTIONS MOVEMENTS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY fraunnrtton anil llniH'nln of Mora limn Orillimrjr lntrret to tha Vaoptfi of Amerlin Ai'llona Whlrli Makii Hlttorjr. The censorship nt Manilla has been removed. General McArthur, how. ever, has Issued directions to the cable companies ordering them to furnish him with u copy of nil press dispatches. On Nov. 15 President MeKlnley te viewed tin nnnttnl parade of the police ami lire department men of the Dis trict of Columbia. About 800 men weio In line. The population of the state of Mich igan, as announced olllclnlly by the census bureau Is 2, 120,082, us against 2,0113,880 in iei'0. This is an 'itieieiise of 327,0113, or 1.1.1) per. cent. Ambassador Tower, at St. Peters burg, has informed the state depart ment at Washington that the czar is ill from typhoid fever, but thnt his condition is not regarded ns critical. The Kentucky state board of assess incut and valuation lias fixed the tax valuation of whlskv at 810 a barrel In stead of 87 a barrel, which bus been the assessment for severul years past. The New York police refused to al low the Italian anarchists of the city tt) give a piny entitled "A Mnn 'with out n Country" In the Germanic assem bly rooms on the llowerv because the Italians hud neglected to get a license. A number of persons claiming to be American eltlens have submitted to the state department at Washington, claims ngniust tho Hoers for the de struction of their property and injuries to their business in the late South African republic and Orange Free State. No decisions have been urilved at as to what disposition shall be made of the eases. Marcus Daly, one of the leading tnlnc-owuers of the world, sixty years old, died in his apartments In thu Ho tel Netherlands, New York, November 12. Dllltutlon of the heart and Hrlght's dUensuof the kidneys, with resultant complications, were the Immediate causes of the death, though Mr. Duty's Illness dated back several years. Ho had suffered severely the last two months, but the end wns painless. Information has been received at San Francisco that Hrlgadler General James F. Smith of tfiat city has been appointed collector of customs ut Ma nila. The ofllclal announcement of the appointment will not be mude, un til General Smith has been notified and given a chance to accept. Oenernl Smith, who went to the Philippines us colonel of the First California volun teers, Is now governor of the island of Negros, Tho comparative statement of esti mates and appropriations for tho navy for the fiscal years of 1001 and 1002 shows that the total approproprlatlous for 1001 were 80.1.120,01(1, and the total estlmutes for 1002 uro 887,172,031. The principal Items In the estlmntcs for 1002 ure as follows: Puy of navy. 815, 125,084; bureuu of ordnance, 82,(101,450; bureau of equipment. 84.4(14,802; public workH, yurds and docks. 812,302,540; public works at naval aendemy, 83,000, 000; supplies and accounts, $4,843,840; construction and repairs, 88,070,824; steum engineering. 8.1,772.000; marine corps, 82,108,020; armor and armainent, 84,000,000; equipment 9400,000; emergency-fund, 8500,000. An El Reno, Ok., disputch says: The emergency ration lest has Wen about completed und a report will be mnde upon the experiment tn the war de partment. Captain S. W. Fountain of the eighth cavalry in charge of the 1 1 oops that made the test, says: "The test will prove of great value in the future for army records. Wo started from El Reno two weeks ago und marched across the Indian reserva tions of the Klowas, Comnnches und Apaches to Fort Sill. During the mnrch the men lived wholly upon tho emergency ration. The food went hard with the men for the first few days, but after that time they seemed to enjoy it. I think my report will encourage tho war dopurtmen t, to adopt the emergency rations. The government of Morocco has again declined to meet the claims of the United States for the payment of an Indemnity on account of the killing by a mob of Marcus Essagin, n natur alized American citizen, The last re quest wus made by United States Con sul Oununer and the lutest declination of the government of Morocco was ac companied by an intimation of its free dom from liability under the terms of the convention between Morocco and Spain. The state department hns come to the conclusion that the consul's rep resentations will be more effective if he is supported morally by the pres ence in Morocco waters of a United States warship, and it is probable bo will make his visit to Fez. aguln to present the ease ns a passenger on a vessel to be selected by the navy de partment for that purpose. A Glasgow disputch says: The work of building Sir Thomas Llpton's new America's cup challenger Shamrock II. hah been started in Denny's yard nt Dumbarton within an enclosure. (1. L. Watson, the yacht designer, hns laid out tho lines of the frame work, which will bo constructed of nickel steel. Tho plutes probably will be of bronze. Robert J. Stcll, secretary-treasurer of the Monndnock Loan und Investment company of Chicago, has disappeared. It Is suld his books show u shortage of 85,000, The Kansas State Dairy association will hold Its annual convention in Topeka, January 7, 8 nnd 0. W. F. Jensen, the president, shortly will announce the program. Says u Washington dispatch, United States Vice Consul General Knight, at Capetown, has Informed thu state de partment that plague Is declared offi cially to exist In the Interior of the colony. The In formation was com municated at once to the marine hos pital service. Secretary Long has acted upon the findings of the court martial which convicted Lieut. Patrick llourlgnn for Intoxication nt Lisbon. The court sentenced hlin to dismissal, but recom mended clemency, to Secretary Long has commuted the sentcuce to reduc tion to the foot of thu list of lieuten ants In the navy, amounting to tho oss of about 2(Hi nutnliers. A Manila dispatch says: Two bun dled bolomeu, with fifty rifles, attack ed Hugnron, Island of I 'an ay, October 30. The Americans lost three men killed Lieut. II. M. Koontz, Sergeant Kitchen mid Corporal Hums, all of company F, forty-fourth Infinity. The enemy lost 100 killed, twenty-one wounded and twenty prlslotiers. The following bulletin on the c.ar's condition was issued from St. Peters burg, Nov. 1(1. "Ills majesty bus passed a satis factory day. Last evening his tempera ture was 102.4, pulse 72. Ills majesty slept fairly well during the night. Temperature this morning, 100.0, pulse, OH. General condition very satis factory." One hundred thousand dollars' worth of city witter ImuiiIs, hearing 5 per cent Interest, were sold at a special session of the city council of Mnscn- tine, In., to a Cleveland firm, After January I Miiscutlno will own nn op erate the waterworks. The hoisting engineers of mining districts No. Band 11, who had Wen on a strike ut Ilruzll, Intl.. for un Increase of wages and shortening of the day's work, deelaretl the strike off and will return to work at thu old price. The Topeka Cotnnierelnl club has de cided to give the members of the new legislature a banquetc urly in January. The object of the feed Ih to jolly the members Into the proper humor for making nn appropriation of 8250,000 for the 1804 exposition to bo hold at Topeka. Tho United States surveying corps found ovet 100 bodies in a swamp just west of Galveston, Tex., on the Island where they had licen deposited by the storm of September 8: The unburled tlead were In an out-of-the-way place near the country road and had not been foundry the burying parties sent out nfter the storm. American trapshootcrs are the latest to propose an invnslon of Europe A team of representative crack shota of this country will probably sail from New York early next spring for a lonr of England nnd the continent. Four teen men will go, ten of them foralng the team, and the others being substi tutes. J. A. R. Elliott of Kansas City,' John S. Fanning of Chicago, Thomas Marshall of Kelthsburg, HI., Frank S. Parmalcu of Omaha, Neb., Richard Merrell of Milwaukee, William It Crosby of Ilatavlii, N. V Rollo O. HeikoH of Dayton, O,, Chauncey Pow ers of Decatur, III., and Charles W. Iltiild of Des Moines, la., arc the ones for the trip. It Is the intention of the( party to challenge any team in Europe nnd after contests in England 11 trip mny be mude to Germany, France and Austria. A Chicago dispatch nt November 14 says: Resolutions were passed by tha executive committee of the BUooal. business men's league, asking PrepX dent MuKinlcy to. urge in his next ines.( sage to congress early legislation fa vorable to pending bills establishing the department of commerce anil in dustries and the reorganization of the consular service, Luvcrne Noyes and Elliott Durand wero appointed to rep resent tho league at the convention of the league of the national association in St. Louis, November SO. The following casualty list lias bee a received from Manila at the war de partment: Killed Corporal Herbert II. Case, First Lloutcuaut M. Koontz, J oh a LumberU Wounded Charles MeColllster, ae vere; Patrick Green, severe; John Hogt, serious; Corporal Henry Kunkel, head slight. Lieutenant Koontz served during the Spunlsh-Amcrlcun wur us first llcutetv unt in the Twenty-second Kansas. A dozen brawny men" with pick uxes, crowburs and shovels appeared at Madison Square, New York at raid night Filday to begin the work of removing the Dewey arch. In a few minutes tho workmen pulled, away; the heaving casting of jit&tt around the base of the podcstal situated oa tlw park side near Twenty-fifth street. A crowd collected ttround the men. Relle hunters by the score appeared and each sought to obtain some section of the sculptured figure "Victory" whick ornaments the front of all columns. The skeleton of the column wus laid, bare in a few minutes and the wood work was torn apurt and laid on 'the sidewalk. Tho work was done under the direction of a foreman of the de partment of streets and highways. At the closing day of the tourna ment of the Illinois gun club held at Sprlngfled, Q. T. Hall of Losml, de feated W. (Trump) Irwn, the celebrat ed wing shot of Chicago, at fifty live I'iKVUiin uy II BCOrC OI 17 tO 40, MlffM wind prevented hotter scores. Contracts for ovor 8200,000 tons of steel and iron have boon taken durlur tho past week by Pittsburg concerns. Thoy are for every kind of finished material, und they muke the htMt week's business that tb in -j steel firms have doue since weeks of the yea the early M. "(4 1?J, ? lA y, faimgmmm ,.r J .. ...hijintf fj,. BHSBffgBBiBnS&afflML .H, . gMgj a&Wtt.raa SfKRgpjjBSiSM .lmiiJ.rttr!iSZ?tT7?mt'l--IH