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Tendons President His Eesignation to
Take Effect October 1
IN ILLINOIS RACE FOR SENATOR
The Comptroller Frankly States that Ho
Wishes to Retire Only Because He Has
the Other Great Position Hi Desires
to Compass
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WASHINGTON July 6 Charles G
Dawes comptroller of the currency
has tendered his resignation to the
president to take effect October 1 next
In answer to an inquiry Mr Dawes
said
I have resigned because of my in
tention to be a candidate before the
people of Illinois for United States
senator It would not be possible for
me during the next year to make a
canvass for the senate and at the
same time administer to my own sat
isfaction the important and responsi
ble office I now hold I am influenced
solely in this action by what seems
to mc the plain proprieties of the sit
uation
Mr Dawes term of office would not
have expired until January 1903 His
letter to the president is as follows
WASHINGTON July 5 William
McKinley Executive Mansion Wash
ington Sir In view of the fact that
I will be a candidate for the United
States senate from Illinois I hereby
tender my resignation as comptroller
of the currency to take effect October
1 next Respectfully
CHARLES G DAWES
Mr Dawes entered the office of
comptroller of the currency January
1 1898 succeeding James H Eckels
and was immediately confronted by the
situation in the Chestnut Street Na
tional bank of Philadelphia which was
one of the most complicated ever con
fronting a comptroller
He found it necessary in the inter
est of the creditors of the bank to
oppose the general plan of a reorgani
zation committee organized by promi
nent citizens of Philadelphia and for
a time he was severely criticised there
for His plan was followed however
and it is recognized as having saved
to the creditors of the bank a lien
upon other property which was not
contemplated by the reorganization
committee from which they will prob
ably realize over 1000000
He frequently expressed himself as
in favor of prompt action when con
vinced that the public interest re
quired action at all and on this princi
ple he acted in the case of the Seventh
National bank of New York Early
in his term he made a rule levying
a second assessment upon stockholders
of insolvent banks where the first as
sessment had been less than the law
authorizes and he established the prac
tice of rebating to stockholders such
portions of the prior assessment as
was determined by further liquidation
to have been excessive under the law
This ruling changed the long estab
lished practice of the office and was
upheld by the courts practically with
out exception
Comptroller Dawes also organized a
system of consolidation of insolvent
hanks in the last stages of liquidation
in the interests of economy so that
at the present time thirty seven re
ceiverships are being administered by
two receivers with greatly reduced ex
penses He also has uniformly has
tened the liquidation of insolvent
hanks
Upon entering office the fag ends
largely of the national bank failures
of the 1S93 panic were still undisposed
of During the last four year he has
collected 25000000 cash from these
assets which covered every description
of property
Pension Report Ready Soon
WASHINGTON July 6 Hon H
CJay Evans commissioner of pensions
called on the president to bid him
farewell before his departure for Can
ton He told Mr McKinley that he
had been taking an inventory of all
pension claims on hand that he would
have his annual report ready soon and
asked the president if he had instruc
tions or orders to give The president
made no suggestions The report will
appear in a few days
Runaway Indian Arrested
COUNCIL BLUFFS July 6 Eddie
Powells a runaway Indian boy from
the Oneida reservation at Green Bay
Wis was arrested in the Northwest
ern railroad yards He will be held
until the agent at the reservation is
notified
Throne Around His Body
DETROIT July 6 All day and un
til 11 oclock the line of humanity
Which came to takea last look at the
body of Governor Pingree continued
unbroken At times it extended but
two blocks from the entrance to the
city hall but from 6 this evening un
til 11 the crowd was enormous Three
and four ahreast the line extended
from the Michigan avenue entrance of
the city hall five blocks distant
iWoridngmen were present largely
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THE PORTO RICANS AGREE
Assembly Fusses Frco Trade Resolution
After Protracted Debate
SAN JUAN P R July 5 In a
joint session lasting three hours the
Porto Rican assembly unanimously
passed the free trade resolution The
assembly hall was crowded with peo
ple and cheers greeted the announce
ment that Governor Allen had signed
the resolution
The free trade resolution begins with
a preamble in which reference is made
to section 3 of the Foraker bill The
resolution then proceeds
The Porto Rican assembly in extra
session and pursuant to the instruc
tions of congress does hereby notify
the president of the United States
that by virtue of the Hollander acts
and other acts it has put into opera
tion a system of local taxation to meet
the necessities of insular government
and it hereby directs that a copy of
this joint resolution be presented to
the president of the United States and
it requests that Governor Allen deliv
er the resolution in question to Presi
dent McKinley to the end that the
proclamation may be made by him
and if it shall seem wise and proper
to the president of the United States
the assembly requests that his proc
lamation be issued July 25 as that day
is being established a legal Porto
holiday to commemorate the anni
versary of the coming of the American
flag
Governor Allen personally read a
message before the assembly in which
he exhaustively reviewed the financial
situation of the island and showed
that Porto Rico possessed abundant
resources for its needs without draw
ing upon customs receipts Mr Hol
landers report on the islands re
sources was considered sufficiently
definite to warrant the joint resolu
tion in favor of free trade The reso
lution was introduced in the house by
Senor Morales Hr Hollander in a
long speech reviewed the workings of
the new tax law and explained the
new system of taxation He said
Present conditions make this joint
resolution possible and the insular as
sembly can henceforth dispense with
the revenue accruing from Porto
Rican customs
Several other lengthy speeches were
made The resolution passed at 1245
and was signed by Governor Allen
The action of the assembly is consid
ered the most important taken by it
since the inauguration of Governor
Allen
Jubilant Fourth in Paris
PARIS July 5 The United States
embassy and consulate and majority
of the American business houses and
stores here decorated yesterday witn
the stars and stripes and the French
tricolor hung together Most of the
American residents and visitors at
tended the open reception of the
Untied States embassador General
Horace Porter in the afternoon The
annual banquet of the American
Chamber of Commerce was in session
Is Celebrated at Pcltln
PEKIN July 5 The Fourth of July
was celebrated here by the United
States legation guard with athletic
games and fireworks The German
minister Dr Mumm von Sckwarzen
stein gave a dinner at the German
legation to the officers of the American
guard Messrs Squires and Rockhill
and the other members of the United
States legation celebrated the Fourth
at the summer legation in the hills
Banding Strike is Ended
READING Pa July 5 The Read
ing railway striking shop hands rati
fied the agreement between Chairman
Boscher and President Baer and it was
decided to return to work Friday
morning Over 1200 men were present
at the meeting
Gnropers Recovering Rapidly
WASHINGTON D C July 5
President Gompers of the Federation
of Labor who suffered concussion of
the brain as a result of a fall from a
street car last week is progressing
rapidly towards recovery He will go
to Deer Park Md
Wreck on Iowa Central
BURLINGTON la July 5 In
formation has reached here that a pas
senger train on the Iowa Central has
been wTecked near Hampton Iowa
and that two postal plerks have been
killed
First Time in Forty Years
JACKSON Miss July 5 For the
first time in forty years the Declara
tion of Independence was read in
Jackson at the Fourth of July celebra
tion The meeting was held in repre
sentative hall at the state capitol
Prof Fisk Is Dead
GLOUCESTER Mass July 5 Prof
John Fiske of Cambridge famous lec
turer and historian died at the HaV
thorne Inn East Gloucester He came
to this city yesterday and was taken
ill soon after arriving at the hotel
The cause of death was excessive beat
of which he bad complained two days
Mr Fiske was 59 years of age and was
for many years connected with Har
vard college in a professional ca
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SUMMEUS AWFUL BEAT
In the Great Cities of the East Are Many
Deaths and Prostrations
NO RELIEF AS YET IN SIGHT
Hundreds Drop and Die on Darning
Pavements Public Vehicles Inadequate
to Care Promptly for the Unfortunate
Victims
Deaths
New York 225
Philadelphia 52
Baltimore 23
Pittsburg and vicinity 51
NEW YORK July 4 The heat
which has worked such havoc on this
city recently was somewhat mitigated
late yesterday by a succession of thun
derstorms which sent the mercury
tumbling down ten degrees between
the hours of 430 and 8 p ra Never
did a downpour of rain receive such an
enthusiastic reception as did this cne
The thunder and lightning were heavy
and many houses were struck causing
fires but so far as known no person
was killed or injured During the
last downpour hail fell in quantities
It was after the hottest July 2 in
the history of the local weather bu
reau and a day that almost reached
the city record of September 7 1881
that this cant relief came
The morning opened with the tem
perature at 83 at 6 a m and in an
hour it had gone to 87 and in another
hour had climbed a point higher jump
ing all the way to 93 by 9 oclock
The wind was scarcely perceptible and
the humidity which was 59 per cent
aggravated the conditions Then the
mercury kept on climbing registering
95 at 11 oclock and going up to 98
between 12 and 1 and stayed there un-
til after 3 oclock The humidity had
fallen to 41 per cent The suffering
caused by the heat was unprecedent
ed All the ambulances in the city as
well as the patrol wagons and many
other vehicles were kept busy answer
ing calls At the rate of about one a
minute the calls came in over the po
lice wires all day breaking all records
for the amount of ambulance service
and providing patients enough to
crowd all the hospitals
The official temperature up in the
lofty weather bureau remained at 98
the temperatures on the street level
ranged from 100 to 106
The terrible fatality of the heat was
shown by the large percentage cf
deaths among those prostrated Out
of 328 cases of prostration reported up
to 1130 oclock last night 148 resulted
fatally
Among the most prominent victims
were the Rev Dr Newland Maynard
the Episcopal clergyman and lecturer
and Jacob Rogers the former locomo
tive builder
Between the hours of 2 a m Tues
day and 1245 a m yesterday Wed
nesday there were in the boroughs of
Manhattan and the Bronx 158 deaths
and 178 prostrations
The same weather conditions which
prevailed in this city were experienced
in Brooklyn It was estimated by the
police at midnight that during Tues
day there had been sixty deaths and
150 prostrations by the heat in Brook
lyn
PROCLAMATION IS READY
President Will Soon Tssue Statement
Opening Indian Reservation
WASHINGTON July 4 Secretary
Hitchcock informed the cabinet today
that the proclamation for the opening
of the Kiowa Comanche and Apache
Indian reservations in Oklahoma was
completed The secretary will go over
it with the president tomorrow and it
will be issued either tomorrow evening
or July 4 It will fix the day of open
ing and will prescribe the methods and
rules to be observed by prospective
homesteaders
Secretaries Hay and Long were the
absentees at todays meeting Little
business was transacted The most im
portant action decided upon was a
change in the civil service rules re
garding clerks and carriers in the pos
tal service The age limits within
which applicants could apply for posi
tions as carriers heretofore have been
21 years as the minimum and 40 as the
maximum The minimum for clerks
has been 18 years with no maximum
The civil service commission proposed
a uniform minimum of 18 and a maxi
mum of 40 years It was the opinion
of the postmaster general and the rest
of the cabinet however that this
maximum was too low and it was de
cided to fix 45 years as the maximum
for both classes of employes
Facts About June Weather
OMAHA July 4 Only twice in
thirty one years has the mean temper
ature of June been so high as in 1901
In 1871 average for the month ivas 7G
and In 1881 the average was 75 This
year the average was 75 three de
grees above normal for tie month
The highest temperature ever record
ed at Omaha in June was on the 28th
when the mercury reached 100 The
mean maximum temperature for the
month was 854
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GOMEZ TALKS KITH PALIWL
Conference Supposed to liars Destine
Upon Cuban Republic
NEW YORK July 2 General Max
imo Gomez has been spending much of
his time in conference with Tomas Es
trada Palma at the Waldorf Astoria
Neither would divulge the exact nature
of their talk It is thought General
Gomez is here to sound the head of the
Cuban junta on the question of his can
didacy for the presidency of Cuba Gen
eral Gomez who is himself a presiden
tial possibility declared recently in fa
vor of Senor Palma When this subject
was mentioned to Estrada Palma last
night he said
I would rather not discuss the mat
ter It is too early anyway and the Cu
bans have not yet made up their minds
whom they desire for president
General Gomez will leave the city
this morning with Senor Palma for the
latters home at Central Valley N Y
He expects to go to Washington tomor
row and call upon President McKinley
Before going to the capital it is possi
ble he will issue a statement covering
the object of his trip north and setting
forth his views on Cuban affairs
AMERICA INVADING CANADA
Capital from the United States Is Buying
Up the Dominion
LONDON July 2 J Henry Bour
assi member of the Dominion parlia
ment and some years director of La
Review Canadienne has arrived in
London for a holiday Interviewed by
a reporter for the Daily News he re
fered among others matters to the way
American capital is invading Canada
American capital he said is
spreading around the lakes up the riv
ers and along the railroad systems It
is breaking down the barrier between
Canada and the United States The
Americans are not conquering us but
they are buying us When this is ac
complished it will only need a slight
political difference with the home gov
ernment and the annexation move
ment now dead will revive
Then you will have to look not to
the half Americanized business men of
Canada but to us French Canadians
who have sayed Canada for you more
than once and may have to save it
again unless you hopelessly alienate
us
Spanish Claims Considered
WASHINGTON D C July 3
The Spanish treaty claims commission
held a session today and heard argu
ment on the question of taking testi
many in Cuba or other foreign terri
tories Several attorneys presented
arguments on the subject but no de
cision was reached
The motion filed by the attorney for
the government to dismiss the case
growing out of the sinking of the
Maine for want of jurisdiction was
called up but in the absence of Mr
Fuller who prepared the motion on
behalf of the government the case
went over subject to call
Kcylnfj Missouri Head Fields
NEW YORK July 3 The Herald
says With the passage of a check
for almost 1000000 from the Morton
Trust company of this city to the
Union Trust company of St Louis
the first definite step on the part of
the Union Lead and Oil company to
ward the acquirement of title of all
purchaseable Missouri lead fields has
been taken More changes of titles
for large amounts are expected soon
Damage at Fort Crook
FORT CROOK Neb July 3 A
windstorm verging close upon a cy
clone passed over this section yester
day about 4 oclock doing consider
able damage The depot building was
unroofed a section of which was car
ried fully 300 feet distant It was
scattered in fragments for an entire
block Lightning struck a telegraph
pole near which a soldier was pass
ing riddling the pole into splinters
The soldier was not hurt
Wrecked nt Rock Sprlf s
SALT LAKE CITY Utah July 3
A special to the News from Chey
enne Wyo says Eastbound Atlantic
express No 6 on the Union Pacific ran
into the rear end of a freight train
at Rock Springs last night Between
fifteen and twenty persons all but
two of the passengers on the east
bound train were slightly injured
Traffic was delayed for nearly fourteen
hours
New Revenue District
WASHINGTON D C July 3 The
new revenue collection district em
bracing North and South Dakota was
established with Herman Ellermand
as collector The office is located at
Aberdeen S D
Fight on Plan of Settlement
GUTHRIE O T July 3 The gov
ernments proposed lottery plan of
settlement of the Kiowa and Com
manche country is to he contested
by settlers who expect to take claims
when the country is opened The
plan of contest is the legality oi the
drawing scheme Among those who
will be leading plaintiffs is Lewis N
Hornbeck of Minco L T who has
been a government surveyor He has
retained counsel to make his case -
BECOME M JET 1
Some of the -flew Statutes Which Ko
braskans Must Sow Obey
THESE ARE NOW IN f ILL Ef f ECT
Laws Herewith Glvnn Were Without the
Emergency Clause and TVere There
fore Not in Operation as Soon as the
Legislature Adjourned
LINCOLN Neb July 3 Following
is a partial list of laws passed by
the recent legislature which went into
effect July 1 all other laws passed hav
ing had an emergency clause and were
therefore effective as soon as the legis
lature adjourned
H R 38 by Fuller Providing for
mowing or otherwise destroying the
weeds along public roads
H R 56 by Miskell Providing that
in counties under township organiza
tion the township road tax and the
county road tax shall be paid in cash
H R 55 by Fowler To exempt can
didates for township precinct school
board and village offices from the cor
rupt practices act provisions
S F 255 by Currie Providing that
graduates of other educational
tutions of the state besides the State
university who have completed cours
es which place them on a parity with
the University of Nebraska graduates
shall be entitled to first grade teach
ers certificates
H R 58 by Miskell Provides that
in counties not under township organ
ization the road tax shall be paid in
cash
H R 51 by Meaa Making it a
crime to threaten to accuse any per
son of a crime or offense or to do in
jury to the person or property of an
other with the intent to extort money
for pecuniary advantage or to compel
the person threatened to do any act
against his will
H R 14 by Crockett Providing
that all damages caused by the lay
ing out altering opening or discon
tinuing of any county road may be
paid by warrant on the general fund
of the county
S F 115 by Arends Provides that
hereafter the license tax for peddlers
plying their vocation outside the lim
its of a city or town and of peddlers
selling by sample outside the limits of
a city or town within any county in
the state shall be 25 for use of one
county 50 for those with a vehicle
drawn by one animal 75 for those
with two and less than four animals
and 100 for those with more than four
animals
H R 215 by Hall Authorizing the
governor to appoint a joint commis
sion to determine the boundary line
between Nebraska and luwa
H R 29 hy McCarthy Provides
that when any person shall die pos
sessed of any personal -estate not law
fully disposed of by a will The sur
viving husband or wife if any and if
there be no surviving husband or wife
then the heir or heirs at law of the
deceased shall be allowed all arties
of wearing apparel ornaments anu
household furniture
H R 208 by McCarthy Authoriz
ing the governor to appoint a joint
commission to determine the boundary
line between Nebraska and South Da
kota
S F 103 by Currie To amend the
reform school laws changing the age
under which boys and girls may be
sentenced to the industrials schools
from 18 to 16 years
S F 193 by Young To provide that
no judgment heretofore rendered or
which may hereafter be rendered on
which execution shall have been taken
out and levied hefore the expiration of
five years next at tht rendition shall
operate as a lien on the estate of any
debtor to the preference of any bona
fide judgment creditor or purchaser
H R 20 hy Brown Providing for a
system of traveling libraries and au
thorizing the governor to appoint a
state library commission
S F 134 by Ziegler To restrain
male animals from running at large
Authorizes the sheriff to sell any male
animal running at large and not re
deemed by the owner
S F 134 by Martin Providing that
whoever from the time any ballots
are cast until the time has expired for
using them as evidence in any contest
shall destroy attempt to destroy in
sight or request another to destroy
any ballot box or poll book shall br
imprisoned in the penitentiary on con
viction thereof not less than one year
nor more than five years
S F 121 by McCargar Authorizing
city councils to levy a 2 mill tax for
the support of public libraries
B F 231 by McCargar Providing
for compulsory education of children
between the ages of 7 and 14 years
by requiring parents to have such chil
dren attend school at least two thirds
of the number oj weeks school is held
in the district
S F 44 by Van Baskirk For the
protection of cattle owners and requir
ing registration and exhibition of
hides It provides that every person
engaged in the butcher business shall
keep a record of all branded beef
aaals he may slaughter
FATHERS ARE RESPONSIBLE
Should Help tha Mothers to Train the
Children
The Influence of a good manly up
right man is great on his young daugh
ters who look up to him with rever
ence in leading them to noble aims
and teaching them to avoid petty
scandal mongering and uncharitable
ness May I suggest that the father
should take their share in the writing
of letters to their children at school
Fathers have no right to complain bit
terly that their grown up daughters
only come to talk to them when they
want money if they have taken no in
terest and active part in their upbring
ing Love creates love and the par
ents must show their love if they wish
to invoke response on the part of the
children says Ethellnda Hadwen in
Chambers Journal The parents
must also curb their tempers in their
intercourse with each other for ds
peace in the home plays havoc with
childrens nerve3 and tempers If yon
wish children to be good tempered see
that their nerves are not overstrained
and over excited Children especially
little children should live very calm
and uneventful days and the persons
who surround them should be of quiet
sunshiny dispositions The childrens
pleasures should be simple and inex
pensive no matter how wealthy the
parents may be They should be kept
in the background when visitors are
present and in no way brought for
ward and shown off else they become
filled with self importance They
should be encouraged to make their
own amusements and should by no
means be given everything for which
they ask whether reasonable or un
reasonable If the request be unrea
sonable the reason for the refusal
should be given and if the request be
such as may be granted it is not always
well to give the coveted article at
once as in later life we cannot have
all we want even though our wants
seem very reasonable The discipline
of drudgery should not be forgotten
The modern tendency is to do away
with drudgery almost entirely but I
think that a mistake Certainly let
the parents guide help and direct their
children but do not make life too easy
for them let them take their fair share
of trouble and responsibility
How a Truit Leader TVorks
There is a mistaken idea that the
men who direct the great corporations
are continually engaged in a vast
amount of detail business That is
not the case Modern business has
made the position of the trust leader
one requiring not only brains but
brains of the highest order It may
be that the president of a trust does
not perform an official act once a day
It may be that his work is confined
to initiating the papers that his sub
ordinate heads of departments submit
to him but the fact remains that he is
the brains of the concern and that if
he signs papers without knowing their
contents he does so because he knows
thoroughly the men who submit them
It has been said with truth that the
most successful men in these business
es are those who do nothing when
things are going smoothly and who
do everything when they are going ill
Instead of taking away from the free
dom of action of the men who direct
these concernsmodern conditions have
added to their responsibility The
whole system of trust organization de
pends upon making each man respon
sible for the work which he directs
So long as he achieves satisfactory re
sults he is not interfered with It is
said for example that the president
of the Standard Oil company never is
sued a positive order to his subordi
nates Whether it is a matter of giv
ing employment to
a workman or car
rying out a deal with a government he
merely suggests If the subordinate
prefers to substitute his own judgment
in the matter he is permitted to do
so but he is held strictly responsible
for the consequences Leslies
A Setting Hens Journey
Buckout Co of Tarrytown re-
ceived a carload of hay recently from
Michigan When Station Agent John
H See broke the seal en the car he
was surprised to hear the cackling of
a hen inside and on investigation a
large white Leghorn hen was found
strutting up and down on the top of
the hay and in one corner of the car
was a nest containing six eggs The
car was sealed up in Michigan twenty i
days before its arrival and the hen
lived in it all that time without any
food or water How the hen got in
the car is a mystery for it is Ioadd
with heavy bales of hay The hen
was in a healthy condition after its
LOOO mile trip and ilr See turned it
over to one of his men who will now
care for it The eggs were disposed of
without an inquest
Xlfe Near the Equator
Rev Father Grison of Stanley Falls
Africa writes that Europeans have a
very inaccurate idea of tropical tem
peratures He passed Pfixhf ow of
the equator on the Pacific coast be
says and never saw the mercury
above 85 degrees while at Stanley
Falls the maximum is 90 degrees and
the nights are deliriously cooL On
the other hand there are frequent
tempests of indescribable violence and
Father Grison has counted 66 light
ning flashes in one minute the thunder
being continuous and has seen ten
thunderbolts strike Tvithin a radius of
a few hundred meters in the sspace of
two hours Youths Companion
A Brilliant Comet
The brilliant comet visible in South
Africa is an object of great interest
to the soldiers A private in the Buffs
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writing from Balmoral says When V
I first saw it I thought it
was a veldt
fire with a rocket
ascending from it
A star of exceptional
brilliancy was
close to it
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