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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
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