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brief telegrams
Terry McGovcyn got the decision
over Jimmy Briggs of CelEea at the
Criterion academy at Boston Mass
in the fifteenth round
The sale of a seaj on the New York
stock exchange at 51000 was re
ported A year ago memberships
were held at over 800Q0
- A San Francisco firm has made a
bid for the entire issue of Hawaiian
bonds wllich Secretary of the Terri
t tory Carer is now engaged in floating
in the eastern states
X Last week Lord Roberts received
congratulations on his 71st birthday
f i It was in 1832 that the present com-
of the British army
was born in Cawnpore
The St Lpuis court of appeals hand-
ed down a decision that the insurance
company has not the right to repair
damage done to property by fire with
I out the consent of the insured
- -At Springfield 111 a telegram was
received announcing the death at Au-
burn Park 111 of Mother Stuart the
famous temperance advocate and one
of the founders of the W C T XL
William H Leavitt the artist who
married Ruth Bryan intends to take
up his residence in St Louis until
after the Worlds Fair as he expects
there will be remunerative work there
President Roospvelt authorized the
statement that there is no truth in
the rumors of uTZtorences of opinion
between himself or Secretary Shaw
or among other members of the
net
George Duncan a lawyer of New
York was accidentally shot and kill-
ed near RussHvilIe Ky while out
bating He is a nephew of George
B Edwards president of the Deposit
bak
A careful revision of the losses by
the fire 5t Aberdeen Wash shows
the aggregate to be 528000 with
L 183000 insurance Plans for rebuild
a ing with brick and stone are progress
ing rapidly
L J Hart secretary of the St
Paul Minn board of trade and a
prominent business man died as a re
sult of self inflicted bullet wounds in
the head President Durke thinks the
death was accidental
The National Spiritualists associa
tion of the United States and Canada
v met at Washington in its elventh an
nual convention with nearly 00 dele
gates present This is one of the
largest conventions ever held
M Pepin a socialist member of the
Belgium chamber of deputies was
stabbed at Mons while walking on the
street with some friends There are
slight hopes of his recovery The as
sassin struck M Pepin from behind
and succeeded in making his escape
One of the concluding acts of the
Union Veteran Legion which closed
its annual meeting at Dayton Ohio
was the adoption of a resolution bit
terly protesting against the plan of
placing a statue of General Robert E
Lee in the hall of fame
The death mask of President Wil
iam McKinley taken some few days
after his death by Prof William H
Holmes of the bureau of ethnology
has been placed on exhibition in the
National Museum occupying a con
spicuous case by itself near the main
entrance
A Rome dispatch published in the
Paris edition of the New York Herald
cays the marriage of Marquis Carlo
v Rudini son of the ex premier and
Dora daughter of Henry Labouckere
the English member of parliament
will take place at Florence towards
the end of the month
The Mrs Theodore Roosevelt is
the name of a new lily wliich has been
-hybridized by Joseph Tailby of
lesley and received a silver medal
ifrom the Massachusetts Horticultural
society as being the finest novelty in
tthe way of decorative plants ever hy
bridized in the United States
In the United States district court
at Pittsburg Pa I N Ross pleaded
guilty to an indictment for
-- cling moneys of the United States
- Ross is the former deputy surveyor
of- the port who on September 11
Vf toolc a package of money from the
- f -office of the collector of the port tc
e shipped to the sub treasury in Phil
adelphia The package contained 3-
i 000 and when received in Philadelphia
G00 was missing
V That 75 per cent of the 4000000 ir
- judgments against Chicago are based
- upon bogus and fraudulent persona
t injury claims is said to be the charge
iwhick City Attorney Smulski is pre
pared to make before the city hall
graft committee
William Dockery of Grand Rapida
Mich will live after falling six stories
tovthe pavement below He landed
- upon ar coil of rope which broke his
fall Dockery suffered a fracture of
the left wrist and right ankle but is
otherwise uninjured
CLERKS LET OUT
THREE IN THE POSTOFFICE
PARTMENT DISMISSED
DE-
MORE WILL BE DROPPED SOON
Awarded Contracts to Favored -Bidders
and Were Extravagant and
Wastefu One is Guilty of Petty
Smuggling
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WASHINGTON D Postmaster
General Payne oh Wednesday remov
ed from office Michael W Louis su
perintendent of supplies of the post
office department Louis Kcmpner
chief of the registry division of the
third assistant postmaster generals
office and C H Terry a 300 clerk in
the postoffice department and direct
ed the postmaster at New York to re
move Otfo Weis a clerk
hese removals are the Srsfc result
of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral isnstows report on tlie irregu
larities in the postoffice department
Information on the contemplated dis
charges did not leak out at the depart
ment until after 4 oclock and at 430
the postmaster general made an offi
cial announcement of his action as
follows
Michael W Lewis has been remov
ed from the office of superintendent
of the division of supplies because
the recent investigation shows that he
influenced the awarding of contracts
for supplies to favored bidders that
he has been extravagant and waste
ful in the administration of his of
fice and that he has paid excessive
prices for supplies to favored contrac
tors
Louis Kempner superintendent of
the registry system has been removed
for incompetency for wasteful and
reckless extravagance in sending ex
pensive manifold registry books to a
large number of small fourth class
offices and for violating the revenue
laws by a system of petty smuggling
C B Terry a clerk in the division
of the supplies has been removed for
making false affidavits attempting to
obtain money from the clerks under
the guise that he could influence their
promotion and general inefficiency
The postmaster general also stated
that the postmaster at New York had
been directed to remove Otto Weis
clerk in the New York postoffice for
collecting money from clerks to influ
ence legislation and to secure promo
tion
In reply to questions Mr Payne said
the discharges were the result of dis
closures -made by the Bristow report
I have read the report he said
and am free to say that my action
waa the result of its perusal
CONTRACTOR STERN ON TRIAL
Preliminary Hearing Before Supreme
Court for Furnishing Satchels
WASHINGTON Leopold J Stern
the Baltimore contractor arrested in
Toronto under two warrants charging
false pretense in the supply to the
government of satchels for rural free
delivery carriers was given a pre
liminary hearing in the supreme court
Tuesday Stern pleaded not guilty
Postoffice Inspector Walter B Mayes
who worked up the case against Stern
was called to the witness stand but
before his examination was concluded
court adjourned for the day The
case will be continued Wednesday
Assistant District Attorney Taggart
reviewed the charges against Stern
who he said submitted a bill and re
ceived money for satchel straps
which he never furnished The bill
on its face said Mr Taggart was
a lie There were 1557 satchels sup
plied but they did not have the straps
stipulated in the contract
On cross examination of Inspector
Mayes the defense brought out the
admission that Stern had claimed
that he secured the permission of two
postal officials to furnish the satchels
without straps
Election Dont Affect Contract
WASHINGTON On a question
raised in the case of a representative
elect in congress who owns -property
leased to the Postoffice department
it has been decided that a contract
made by the proper officer with a per
son who during the existence of a
contract is elected a member of con
gress is not affected by such election
This is based on a decision of Attor
ney General Rodney rendered in 1809
a year after the passage of an act
of congress prohibiting any member
of congress from making a contract
with the government
Admiral Glass Sails Away
SAN FRANCISCO Cal Rear Ad
aJral Glass with his squadron left
this port Thursdaybound for Acap
alco It is supposed that the war
ships are going on a practice cruise
Job for Senator Quays Boy
WASHINGTON A G C Quay
son of Senator Quay of Pennsylvania
has just been appointed dep
uty naval officer at the port of
Philadelphia
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ALASKAN AWARD
Canada Is Not Reconciled to the
Award
LONDON1 The engrossed copy of
the Alaskan award was signed at 210
p m The Canadians declined to sign
the award
The Alaskan award relating to the
Portland canal gives the United
States two islands Kanaghunut and
Sitklan commanding the entrance of
the Portland channel and the ocean
passage to Port Simpson and destroy
ing the strategic value of Wales and
Pearse islands which ard given to
Canada
The mountain line adopted as the
boundary lies so far from the coast
as to give the United States substan
tially all the territory The line com
pletely clears all the bays and inlets
and means of access to the sea giving
the United States a complcto land
barrier between Canada and the sea
from the Portland canal to Mount St
Elias Around the head of the Lynn
canal the line follows the watershed
somewhat in accordance with the
present provisional boundary
In consequence cf the attitude
maintained by the Canadian commiS
sioners Lord Chief Justice Alverstone
decided this morning not to hold the
proposed public meeting of the Alas
kan boundary commission but to
hand its decision to Messrs Foster
and Sifton respectively agents of the
American and Canadian governments
The Canadian commissioners not
only declined to sign the award but
said they would publicly withdraw
from the commission
They as well as the Canadians
connected with the case arc very
bitter
Telegrams from Premier Laurier
and other prominent persons in Can
ada show that this sentiment is
shared generally throughout the do
minion
Messrs Aylesworth and Jette have
issued a long statement in the nature
of an argument explaining the con
tention of Canada and why it should
have prevailed
Messrs Aylesworth and Jette will
submit their contrary opinions to the
tribunal so as to go officially on
record and while they declined to sign
the award they signed the maps
agreed on by the majority
RECORD LOWERED
Cresceus Beats the Worlds Trotting
Figures
WICHITA Kan Cresceus broke
the worlds trotting record for a mile
Monday afternoon going the distance
in 159 beating the previous rec
ord held by Lou -Dillon and Major Del
mar by a quarter of a second
The day was ideal and the track
could not have been better Mr
Ketcham worked the horse out before
the final test in 215 and then sent
bun the record He broken when he
first scored for the record but on the
next attempt was sent off going to
the first quarter in 30 flat There
was a cheer when he reached the half
in 59 and when the three quarters
was passed in 130 the cheer became
an uproar
Just before he reached the wire
Cresceus broke and it is believed lost
fully three quarters of a second He
caught handily and flashed under the
wire in 159 No wind shield was
used Cresceus was paced by Mike
the Tramp
Such an ovation as was given Cres
ceus when he trotted a mile in 159
and made a new worlds record has
rarely been witnessed The stallion
was nearly smothered so eager were
the people to pat him or get near
enough to touch him
George H Ketcham who owns Cres
ceus and drove him said The condi
tions were perfect When I was here
week before last the track was wet
but I saw its advantages and rieter
mined to come back The result jus
tified my expectations I knew be
fore the race that the stallion would
beat his record but I did not antici
pate a triumph so complete I shall
go to Oklahoma City and Fort Scott
right away to keep engagements and
that will be the last time Cresceus
will appear in public
Steamer Loaded With Gold
PLYMOUTH Eng The sum ot
5000000 in gold was landed here Fri
day from Bombay This is the largest
shipment every brought to England
on one steamer
Electric Car Attains High Speed
BERLIN An electric car on Fri
day in the high speed experiments on
the Marlennelde Sososen line attained
the speed of 130 2 5 miles per hour
Annual Report of the Q
CHICAGO The annual report of
the Chicago Burlington Quincy
railroad for the year ending June 30
just issued shows an increase in
gross earnings of 8843134 and in
net earnings of 3983538 The sur
plus was increased by 3228149 The
report also calls attention to the fact
that the length of road operated
June 30 was 8324 miles as against
8124 mil at the end of the
ing fiscal year
NAVAL STRENGTH
SHIPS THAT ARE OWNED CY THE
NATION
NUMBER OVER TWO HUNDRED
The Chief of Bureau Makes His Re
port Rate of Progress on Vessels
Under Construction is Satisfactory
and Twenty Five Are Being Built
WASHINGTON Rear Admiral
Bowles chief of the bureau of con
struction and repair in his annual re
port to the secretary of the navy re
views at length the progress made by
this government in naval construction
during that period It is shown that
the following additions have been
made to the effective force of the
navy during the year
One battleship four monitors
twelve torpedo boat destroyers one
torpedo boat and seven submarine tor
pedo boats The list should have
been increased by two battleships and
five cruisers the report states but ow
ing to strikes and other causes their
completion was delayed The report
states that the rale of progress of
vessels under construction at the pres
ent time presents some very encour
aging indications for completions of
many of the most important contracts
but considered as a whole the pro
gress made during the last fiscal year
has been very unsatisfactory
Speaking of the battleship Connec
ticut which is being built at a gov
ernment yard and which is a sister
ship of the Louisiana being built by
a private company the report says
that although slightly behind the
Louisiana the progress made has been
well up to the present previous aver
age of contract
list of all the vessels in the navy with
elaborate data concerning them also
a summary which shows there are 252
vessels in the navy fit for service
forty five building and twenty three
unfit for sea service Vessels fit for
sevice including those under repair
are as follows
First class battleships ten second
class battleships one armored crui
sers two armored ram one single
turret harbor defense monitors four
double turret monitors six proteqted
cruisers fourteen unprotected crui
sers three gunboats twelve light
draft gunboats three composite gun
boats six training ship naval acad
emy one special class Dolphin Ve
suvius two gunboats under 500 tons
twenty one torpedo boat destroyers
sixteen steel torpedo boats twenty
nine submarine torpedo boats eight
wooden torpedo boats one iron cruis
ing vessels steam five wooden cruis
ing vessels steam six wooden sail
ing vessels four tugs thirty nine
auxiliary cruisers five converted
yachts twenty three colliers seven
supply ships and hospital ships four
teen
The following are under construc
tion or authorized tirst class battle
ships fourteen armored cruisers
eight protected cruisers nine gun
boat for Great Lakes not begun
one composite gunboats two steel
torpedo boats six training ships
two training brig one tugs two
DROPS CHIEF OF DIVISION
William H Landvoight of Postal De
partment Resigns Upon Request
WASHINGTON William H Land
voight chief of the classification di
vision of the Postoffice department
on Thursday presented his resigna
tion to Postmaster General Payne
The resignation was requested by
Mr Payne as a result of the investiga
tion by the inspectors of the charges
growing out of the employment of
Mr Landvoights son in the General
Manifolding company of Franklin
Pa which had a contract for supply
ing patented registry books to the
department
Mr Landvoight was chief of the
registry division of the department
prior to his comparatively recent
transfer to take charge of the classi
fication work of the department
Cullom Calls on President
WASHINGTON Senator Cullom
chairman of the senate foreign rela
tions committee had a conference
with the president He discussed
with him the Cuban reciprocity legis
lation to be taken up at the extra
ordinary session of congress next
president on the award of the Alas
kan boundary commission
River and Harbcr Defenses
WASHINGTON D C The annual
report of General George L Gillespie
chief of engineers of the United
state army for the year ended June
30 1903 dealing with fortifications
and river and harbor work has been
made public At present there are
provided for the defense of the United
States 105 twelve inch guns 133 ten
inch guns 96 eight inch guns 567 rap
Id fire guns and 376 twelve inch
Itars
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FOR ANNEXATION
Gome Canadians Favor Dolning the
United States
VANCOUVER B C Local feeling
is very bitter over the award of the
Alaskan Boundary Commission There
is much talk of annexation and of
Canada becoming independent Busi
ness men are generally much dissatis
fied at what they pronounce British
disregard of Canadian interests to
please the United States It is a mat
ter of comment that the loudest
amongst the discontented are En
glishmen residing hero Many of
these cay that Canada will never
achieve its greatest possibilities un
til it becomes a part of the United
States
Rev Elliot S Rowe the leading
Methodist minister of British Colum
bia and who with Chief Justice Hun
ter constituted the Labor commis
sion which sat this summer in an in
terview here said
I am a Britisher and I have al
ways been a Britisher but if Great
Britain is to hand Canada over piece
meal to the United States I sny let
us join the American republic also
By doing so now we are large enough
populous enough and important
enough to have something to say re
ading the terms of such annexation
and also would be potent enough to
have something to say in the affairs
of the republic of which we would
form a part But it wo wait until our
best and richest territory is given
away wo shall simply be absorbed
It looks to me as if Canada had won
the case and lost the territory
Mayor Needlands of Vancouver
thinks that the Alaskan award may
lead to the establishment of Canada
as an independent nation
Congratulates American Members
WASHINGTON On receipt of of
ficial advices concerning the award of
Appended to the report is a complete j the Alaskan Boundary Commission
President Roosevelt sent the follow
ing cablegram to Messrs Lodge Tur
ner and Root the American members
of the commission
Congratulate you heartily in the
name of the people of the United
States
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
FORGERIES OF C3000
The Bank Cashier Makes Confession
of His Transgression
PRINCETON Wis J E Liemer
cashier of the Princeton bank has
been arrested and taken to Dartford
where he is in jail
State Bank Examiner Bergh stated
Monday night that Liemer had con
fessed that the forgeries amount to
the sum of 09000
The Princeton State bank is closed
and the Monticello State bank of
which Leimer is vice president has
been ordered by the state officials not
to open its doors for business for a
few days
Speculation in grain Leimer says
was the cause Leimer came here as
cashier of the Princeton bank eight
years ago and the examiners believe
that the forgeries have covered a pe
riod of six years
BOMBARD THE MAD MULLAH
Italian Cruiser Has a Brush in So
maliland
ROME The government has re
ceived the following information con
cerning the engagment between the
Italian cruiser Lombardia and forces
of the Mad Mullah near Illig in Ital
ian Somaaliland
Owing to the close watch kept on
the Somalliland coast by British and
Italian ships the Mad Mullah was
unable to get arms and ammunition
by sea as previously He decided to
make a desperate attempt to take
possession of a point on the coast
with 000 men who on- October 14
attacked the Italian boat and killed
several men The following day the
Lombardia bembared the Mullahs po
sition and obliged his followers to re
tire
San Antonio Quarantined
AUSTIN Tex Governor Lanham
on Saturday quarantines all Texas
again San Antonio en account of the
yellow fever there The order is
mandatory upon all railroads to oper
ate no trains in or out of San An
tonio
Marking the Battlefields
VICKSBURG Miss The Vicks
burg battle park commissioners of
Iowa are here engaged in marking the
positions occupied b Iowa troops
during the siege
More Mines to Ee Closed
GALENA Kas The mill and mine
owners and operators cf the Galena
Joplin district consummated plans on
Friday for a total shut down of the
mines and mills to force the price of
ore above the prices now offered by
the smelting combine Extensive
operators here consider this to be the
most practical and effective way of
raising the- price of ore and holding
the price on a par with the price
of pig lead
AT THE CAPITAL
POSTMASTER GENERAL BARS
DlcTED ATTORNEY
IN-
TURNING THEBA8CAL8 OUT
Estimates of Departmental Expense
Interior Department Will Require
Less Money but War Department
Asks far a Little More
WASHINGTON Postmaster Gen
eral Payne on Friday signed an order
debarring H J Barrett of Baltimore
War Department Estimates
The estimates for the war depart
ment for the fiscal year ending Juno
30 1903 show a net increase over
the estimates of the previous year of
about 130000 This including 10
000000 for river and harbor improve
ments for which no estimates were
submitted last year The estimate
for the military which includes the
payequipment and supplies for the
army is about 78000000 200000
less than last year The estimates
for public works of a military char
acter which includes arsenals forts
barracks buildings and grounds ag
gregate 24O0O0GU which is about
10000000 less than last year
Bristows Report Ready
Fridays meeting of the cabinet was
brief Only four members Secretaiy y
Hay and Cortelyou Postmaster Gen- v
eral Payne and Attorney General
Knox were present Postmaster Gen-
eral Payne announced that the report
of Mr Bristow on the postoffice in
vestigation would be placed in the
hands of the president either Satur
day or on Monday It has not been
decided when the report will be giveu
to the public
HUNTING FOR MORE FRAUDS
Money Made by Selling Cans and
Empty Barrels
NEW YORK The War depart
ment is investigating charges of
wholesale fraud in the quartermas
ters department on Governors
Island
James R Seville wno resigned his
clerkship in the quevtermasters de
partment of construction at Gov
ernors Island and F H Ewald chief
clerk of the quartermasters depart
ment at that post have been for
years selling the empty oil cans and
oil barrels that accumulate in large
quantities at that post and that no
accounting has been made to the gov
ernment of the proceeds The bar
rels have a market value of 115
each
Creditors Lose 40000
ST PAUL Minn A special from
Mankato Minn says that the losses
of the creditors of Alfred H Buck
missing cashier of the Mapleton State
bank are now estimated at 400ull
Plot to Kill Russian Consul
CONSTANTINOPLE In
quence of the discovery of a military
plot to kill M Belaieff the Russian
consul at Uskub the government has
rushed si battalions of troops thith
er from Koprulu and Perlepe
Cabinet in Norway Resigns
CHRISTIANIA NORWAY The
cabinet presided over by Otto Biehr
has resigned in consequence of a
parliamentary committees decision
over the opposition in a disputed elec
tion in the Nedenaes district whereby
the opposition gained four seats A
coalition cabinet made
of
up con
servative and moderate liberals will
be formed at once King Oscar has
entrusted ProfHagerup to form the
new cabinet
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nephew of former Attorney General U
Tyner and for- some years law cicrK t
v ikrM
and acting assistant attorney
for the department from practice be- V
fore the department Barrett was in
dicted by the grand jury In connec
tion with the Investment cases I
The postmaster accepted the
nation of William H Landvoight chief
of the division of classification or
mails of the postoffice to take effect
at the close of busfness Saturday
Estimates for Interior Department
The secretary of the interior has
completed and forwarded to the secre
tary of the treasury his estimate of
the appropriations necessary to con
duct the affairs of the interior depart
ment for the fiscal year ending June
30 1905 The estimate pJaces the
total requirement for the department
at 150000000 which is about 3-
000000 less than the appropriation for
the current year The proposed re
duction will be made in the pension
bureau and the Indian office The es
timate for pensions is 130800000 or
1700000 less than the appropriation
made for this year There also Is a
cut of 1300000 in the estimate for
the Indian bureau The estimate for
the expenses of conducting the affairs
of the five civilized tribes of Indiana
is 52S655 The reduction in the pen
sion estimate is due to the calculation
of deaths of pensioners made by the
commissioner of pensions