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OHIO GOVERNOR DIES.
PATTISON EXPIRES AFTER ILLNESS -
NESS OF MANY MONTHS.
g of Democratic Official and
Sit caring ; In o Lieutenant Gover-
jior Ilnrri * Turns Over Control of
to ItcnnMlcn.n.s.
Governor John M. Pattison , of Ohio , ,
died at his country home at Milford , a
short distance from Cincinnati , Monday
afternoon from an illness which set in
shortly after his election last Novem
ber. With the administration of the
oath of ofiice.as acting governor to
Lieutenant Governor Andrew L. Har
iris , the politics of the State underwent
ia revolution as great as that of last
fall , when Mr. Pattison was placed in
the executive chair by a large majori
ty , although the only Democrat on the
ticket to win an office. Governor Patti-
son's death puts the Republicans as
fully in control of Ohio as if they gain
I ed a complete victory at the polls last
November. Governor Pattison's illness
raised many complications in State af
fairs.
End irnsleneil by Cumpnigrn.
The death of Governor Pattison was
due to a complication of chronic inter
stitial nephritis , familiarly known as
Bright's dibease , and uremia , according
to the statement given out by his physi
cian. It is said that the nature of the
malady made his death only a matter
of time , but the excitement of the cam
paign and the duties of his position
-are believed to have hastened the end.
At the deathbed were gathered Mrs.
.Pattison , two daughters , Aletha and
JOIIX M. PATTISO .
Ernestine ; O. C. Williams , of Wye
uiing. a brother of Mrs. Pattison , an (
Prancis Paiti ou , a nephew. Gradual
ly the sick man became unconscious ,
and he expired . without recognizing
those about him.
On a beautiful hillside in Greeulawn.
cemetery , near his home , the Govern-
or's body was laid to rest at 2 o'clock
Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Pattisou , boy soldier , lawyer ,
State legislator , member of Congress
and Governor of Ohio , was a native of
Clermont County , Ohio , where he re
M tained his home during his entire life.
Born June 13 , 1847. he enlisted as a
volunteer in the United States army
when only 1C years old , in 1SG1 , and
entered college immediately after be
ing mustered out , graduating at the
Ohio Wesleyan Universty in 1SG9. He
was admitted to the bar in 1S72 and
elected to the lower house of the Ohio
legislature in 1S73. From 1874 to 1S7G
lie was the attorney for the committee
of safety at Cincinnati. He became a
member of the Ohio Senate in 1S90 , and
was elected to the Fifty-second Con
gress.
Andrew Linlner Harris , now acting
governor , was born in Butler County ,
Ohio. Nov. 17 , 1835. Although he took
up the study and practice of law after
an enviable war record , he has prefer
red the quiet of the farm and classes
himself as a farmer. He was graduat-
-cd at Miami University , Oxford , Ohio ,
with the class of 1SGO. and the follow
ing year entered the Union army , his
first enlistment being in April , ' 1SG1.
He was promoted through all the
grades to and including brigadier gen
eral by brevet He was admitted to
the bar in 1SG5 , and continued active
practice until 1875 , when he became
jprobate judge of Preble County , serv
ing until 1SS2. He served in both
Louses of the General Assembly. He
was elected Lieutenant Governor both
times that William McKinley was cho
sen Governor , and enjoyed the close
friendship and confidence of that chief.
Notes of Current Events , ,
By the capsizing of an overloaded excursion -
cursion - steamer at Riga , Russia , sixty-
five persons were drowned.
A Russian resident of Tokio has re
ceived a letter from Maxim Gorky stating
Gorky will shortly visit Japan.
Judge Eason at Coshoeton
, Ohio , over
ruled the motion for a new trial for Ben
Dickerson , sentenced to be e'cctrocuted
for murdering Mrs. Catherine Hughes.
Garrett A. Ilobart , only son of the late
Vice President , and Miss Caroline Frye
Briggs , granddaughter of Senator Wil
liam H. Frye , were married at Auburn ,
"Maine.
It is semi-ofScially announced that M.
k JTegnault , who was one of the French dele-
. .gates at the Algeciras conference , will
succeed St. Rene Taillandier as French
minister to Morocco and that M. Taillan-
.dier will be promoted to one of the Euro
pean legations.
Justice Gould at Washington granted
the motion of District Attorney Baker for
postponement of the trial of Congressman
Binger Hermann of Oregon , indicted for
destroying public records while commissioner -
-sioner of tihe general office , on til after
'tie trial of the Hyde , Diamond and Boa-
f
-sop cases.
Michael Davltt , the 1'rish patriot ,
died in Dublin of blood poisoning , fol
lowing two operations for necrosis of
the jawbone , due to
an attack of influ
enza. Mr. Davitt
was one of the
most prominent fig
ures in Irish poli
tics for over a
third of a century.
He was born in
184.G , but it was not
until 1SG3 that he
attained prominence
MICHAEL DAVITT. by his connection
< vith the Fenian brotherhood. In 1870
he was convicted of treason and fel
ony and sentenced to fifteen years' im
prisonment. He was released , however ,
on ticket-of-leave in 1877. Two years
later , with Charles Stewart Parnell ,
Davitt founded the Irish Land League
He began an extremely vigorous cam
paign for Irish independence , and in
that same year was arrested for sedi
tion. The case against him was not
pushed to trial and Davitt came to the
United States to organize the auxiliary
land league of the United States. On
his return he was again arrested , and
in 1881 was sentenced back to penal
servitude , from which he was not re
leased till May , 1882. His work for
the Irish Land League brought him into
trouble again , and in 1883 he was again
imprisoned for seditious language. Da
vitt was first elected to Parliament in
1882 while a prisoner in the Portland
convict prison , but was disqualified by
special vote of the House of Commons
for non-expiration of sentence for trea
son-felony , lie was again ejected and ,
unseated in 1892. He was returned the
same year , but resigned in 1893 , owing
to bankruptcy proceedings. In 1895 he
again took seat in the house. After the
outbreak of the Transvaal war in 1899
Davitt made a climax to the fruitless
opposition of the Irish members by
again tendering his resignation as a
protest against the government's policy.
Frank D. Millet , the well known war
correspondent and mural painter , is now
said to be designing a series of war med
als for the federal government.
Senator Joseph Ralph Burton , in
whose case the United States Supreme
Court rendered a decision upholding
the ruling of the
United States Cir
cuit Court at St.
Louis sentencing
Burton to fine and
imprisonment f o r
illegally represent
ing a St. Louis
concern before the
government depart
ments , has been the
senior senator from SEXATOB BURTON.
Kansas the last four years , and since
the campaign of 1S7G had been one of
the orators of the Republican party.
He is an Indianian by birth , 55 years of
age , and for three terms was a mem
ber of the Kansas legislature. Burton
made an aggressive fight against con
viction , the indictments having been
found faulty twice , and on technicali
ties a new trial was granted by the
Supreme Court after he Avas first con
victed in 1904. At that time , besides
the jail penalty , he was sentenced to
pay a fine of $2,500 , precisely the
amount he is said to have received
from the St. Louis concern involved in
his downfall.
J. Willie Pope , prominently connected
with the commercial growth of Atlanta ,
Ga. , is slated for the presidency of the
proposed exposition of 1910.
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Mrs. Mary H. Hunt , who was known
throughout the civilized world as the
originator of instruction in the public
schools on the evil
effects of stimulants
and narcotics on the
human system , died
recently at Boston.
Mrs. Hunt had been
ince 1880 world su
perintendent of sci
on t i fi c temperance
instruction for the
Woman's Christian
Temperance Union.
MRS. HUXT. She was a native
of Canaan , Conn. , and first became con
spicuous in temperance work in 1879.
As chairman of the W. C. T. U. com
mittee to put in practice her plan for
compulsory scientific temperance educa
tion , she carried the fight into every
state and territory , and achieved a not
able victory. Her work having attract
ed the attention of European investi
gators , Mrs. Hunt was , in 1903 , called
to the anti-alcoholic congress at Bre
men , and subsequently her course of
study -was introduced into the army and
navy schools of Great Britain by the
English war department She was the
widow of Leander B. Hunt , who had
been a prominent manufacturer at East
Douglas , Mass.
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Of all the modern -writers , Sir Walter
Scott has the largest place in that gigan *
tic -work , the British museum catalogue
Scott has a larger number of entries un
der his name than any other author save
Shawspeare , who has two volumes de
voted exclusively to him.
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It is told of Herbert Spencer that when
out for a drive from time to time he would
have his carriage stopped , no matter if in
a crowded London street , till he had felt
his pulse. If it was regular the drive
continued ; if not , he went directly home.
LOCK CANAL WINS.
PRESIDENT IS UPHELD BY THE
SENATE'S VOTE.
Long ; Fij Iit on Type of Wutertvtiy
KmlN in Fjivor of Quickest Plan
"Work Xotv to IJe Ru.slied with 3n-
creu.seil Force.
Washington conespondence :
Every resource of the nation is now
to be directed toward making the dirt
fly on the Panama canal as a result of
the Senate's action in declaring for the
lock type , favored by the President and
the House of Representatives. The vote
was 3G to . ' { 1 , giving the lock type the
majority of five claimed for it by Pres
ident Roosevelt some time ago. The
action of the Sen
ate sets at rest all
uncertainty , and the
force in Panama is
expected to be dou
bled in a short
time. The entire
Panama commis
sion will soon leave
for the /one , and
Chief Engineer Ste
vens will accom-
TIIOS. r. SIXOXTS. pany them.
"Cut loose now and build the canal.
The American people want results on
the isthmus as soon as they can be ob
tained , and I.want them. Dig. dig.
Congress and the people are behind us
'ji our elforts. " '
Within forty-eight hours after the
completion of the Panaman canal legis
lation President Roosevelt issued in ef
fect the above order to Chairman
Shouts and Chief Engineer Stevens.
The President expressed his great grat
ification at the action of the Senate in
supporting his plan , and it is announced
DAM TO CO4TROL F1OOOS-
UPMlSH LIGHTANO > CWtTl
AND
PA CIFIC
OCZAN
ROUTE OF THE GREAT PANAMA WATERWAY LINKING9 THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS.
that before the summer is far ad
vanced as many men and as much ma
chinery as profitably can be employed
will be engaged in making the dirt
fiy on the canal rotue.
Promptly upon being advised of the
result of the vote in the Senate Mr.
Shouts called on Secretary Taft at the
War Department and began to discuss
the plans of the commission for the
prosecution of the great work of the
canal construction. It was decided that
the commission a-s a whole should start
for the isthmus at the earliest possible
moment and Chief Engineer Stevens
will accompany the
members of the
commission. It is
the purpose to
make a thorough
inspection of the
canal work , which
has reached a point
where experts must
determine the lines
on which it is to be
continued , and Mr.
Stevens desires that joux r. STE\JXS.
full approval shall be had of his own
plan before the work shall progress
further.
The majority of the Senators appear
to have thought that where the weight
of the opinion of government experts
and of the men who must bear the re
sponsibility for the success of the en-
erprise , including President Roosevelt ,
vas so decidedly in favor of a lock
FACTS ABOUT THE CANAL.
Estimated cost of the Panama canal ,
$200,000,000.
Amount paid French company for
title , $40t)00,000.
Amount paid Panama government for
perpetual lease of canal lands , $10,000-
000.
Length of canal , forty-six miles.
Canal width varies from 2oO to " 00
feet at the top , the bottom width being
130 feet.
There will be five twin locks of con
crete masonry , each 738 feet long and
eighty-two feet wide , with a lifting ca
pacity of thirty tb thirty-two feet.
Lake Bohio ( artificial ) covers thirty-
one square miles.
Alhajuela lake ( artificial ) covers .1,900
acres , about nine square miles , and will
furnish motive po\ver for operating the
locks and lighting the canal from ocean
to ocean.
Distance from New York to San Fran
cisco by old route , 13,71-1 miles ; by the
route through the canal , o,299 miles.
Distance from New York to Manila
by present route via San Francisco and
Yokohama , 195 : > 0 miles. Distance from
New York to Manila by Panama canal
via San Francisco and Yokohama , 11-
385 miles.
Distance saved in a sailing trip around
the world by the ne\v route through the
Panama canal , 2,708 miles.
The Panama canal was practically be
gun in 1S > 3 by the French company.
They had completed about two-fifths of
the length , when because of fraudulent
management the company failed , .iiid the
'
work ceased in 1889. Woman's Home
Companion.
action toward the actual com
pletion of the canal. The claims made
in favor of a canal with locks are
strong. A waterway of this pattern can
be constructed in kss time than would
be required fooae at sea level. Sec
retary Taft estimates that it can be
made ready for operation by 1914. A
lock canal will be cheaper to construct
than one at sea level , while as re
gards safety and permanence it is as
serted that the danger ot landslides in
the great Culebra cut will be much les.-
in a canal of the lock pattern than in
one wherein the excavations would
have to be made much deeper.
Now that thi& imortant question has
been settled the administration will be
free to go ahead as rapidly as possi
ble with the actual digging operations.
It can proceed immediately with the
preparation of plans for the outlay of
the $20.000.000 whic'h the civil appro
priation bill provides to defray canal
expenditures. The time and occasion
for discussion have passed. The time
for the full elaboration of details' and
for actual work has come. If Secre
tary Taft's optimistic forecast is cor
rect , ten years hence the commerce of
the world will be parsing between the
Atlantic and the Pacific through the
canal.
Outline of the IVorlc.
The Isthmus of Panama is in shape
much like an elongated letter S laid on
its bide. Its general direction is east
and west. At the canal zone the isth
mus is forty wile * wide in a direct
line : but the canal can not be built on
a straight line , having several curves
to accommodate itself to mountain
spurs.
A popular error is that one ocean has
a higher level than the other. This is
wrong , but there is a difference of
PIER OF THE PANAMA RAILWAY.
canal , their opinion should be accepted
as conclusive.
The public generallj , while recogniz
ing the force of the arguments on ix > th
sides , has been content to leave the
question of the canal's type to the judg
ment of Congress. Now that that body
fi&3 spoken , its chief desire will bs for
eighteen feet in the height to which
the tides rise on the two sides of the
isthmus. Hence , even if the canal were
made at sea level , guard lodes would
have to be built at each end. It has
been proposed that there be five twin
leeks of concrete masonry along the
co.sal route. Beginning at Colon har
bor , the canal will be excavate , for
twenty-four miles through the anrshy
lowlands of the Chagres River to Bo
hio. So far it will be at sea level. At
Bohio a might } * dam will back cp the
waters of the river for twenty miles ,
forming a huge artificial lake , through
which vessels will pass as part of the
canal for thirteen miles. Vessels will
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Emperndor and Culebra cuts is esti
mated -13.000,000 cubic yards.
These cuts terminate at the south
eastern end of the summit level creat
ed by the Bohio dam , at Pedro Miguel ,
thirty-eight miles from Colon. At this
point , it is thought , there will be two
double locks , which will bring the level
of the canal down to about twenty-
eight feet above mean &ea level. A
mile and a half further on toward the
Pacific is Mirafiores , where there will
perhaps be another double lock , which
will lot vessels down to the level of
the Pacific.
Commercial Event of tlie Aje.
By dividing a hemisphere , man will
create a new commerce of the world ,
and bring ttye countries of both sides of
the globe into closer relationship. Next
to girdling the globe with submarine
cables , therefore , this work of cutting
through the Isthmus of Panama will
prove , it is hardly too much to say ,
the most important commercial event
ot the age.
The annual cost of operation will be
-ibou" $2,000.000 , but it is expected to
yield a revenue in tolls of nearly $10.
000.000. The revenue producing func
tions of the canal will be minor as com
pared with iti services in promoting
the industrial and commercial prog
ress and general welfare of the Unitw.
States. But while we speak of its com
mercial and political advantage to the
United States , we must also remember
its worth to the world and to the prog
ress of civilization.
Survived Awful Disaster.
W. X. Goodrich of Menominee. Mi h. ,
Is one of the few survivors of the great
disaster of April 27. 18G5 , when more than
1.400 exchanged prisoners returning to the
North on board the steamer Sultana were
killed by the explosion of the vessel's boil
ers in the Mississippi river near Memphis ,
Tenn. A bomb , it is supposed , had been
placed in the coal. When the explosion
came. Goodrich was thrown into the rhx-r.
lie clung to a piece of wreckage and float-
< H ! for some miles , finally drifting into an
eddy which carried him beneath an over
hanging tree. Seizing the drooping
branches he was enabled to draw himself-
to safety. Although it is nearly half a
century since the explosion took place ,
Goodrich has never been able to forget the
awful horror of those fatal momenta.
iJOOO Telephones in Store.
Within the new Wanamaker store at
Philadelphia , which is only one-fourth
completed , 2.000 Bell telephones have al
ready been installed , and 1,000 more are
soon to follow. It will be , when com
pleted , the largest store phone system in
the world. Twelve operators will'operate
a switchboard , from which will radiate
within the store 10,000 miles of wire. Ev
ery instrument has an automatic coin box
attached , so as to minimize the custom
er's trouble. It is estimated that 0,000- '
000messages will pass between Wana-
maker's and the Bell central ofikes In one
year.
IVENS IS HANGED.
CoiifcKseil Slayer of Mr.i. HollJlMer
Executed in Chicago.
Hlichard G. Ivens was hanged Friday
in Chicago. His life paid the law's pen
alty for the thrice-confessed murder of
Mrs. Bessie M. Ilollister , Jan. 12. Trem
bling in every limb , the youth marched
WEST END OF CULEBRA CUT.
pass through two great locks each lift
ing a ship aboui" forty-five feet. From
Obispo the canal route runs through
the mountainous backbone of the isth
mus , and for nearly seven miles a vast
cut has to be made through this back
bone of rock.
For the first five miles this is called
the "Emperador" cut. Then comes a
mile and a half of the "Culebra" cut.
The greatest depth of this cut , from
the hill summit to the bottom of the
canal , is about250 feet. The amount
of rock and earth to be removed in the
seven miles of excavation through the
to the gallows. The rope was adjust
ed , the trap sprung , and his n'iclc was ,
broken by the fall. There were few-
witnesses to the execution. Physicians ,
necessary officials and newspaper re
porters were the only spectators in the
jail gallery. The parents and imme
diate friends of the youth were even ,
denied the privilege of speaking to him
tfefore he walked to his fate.
Mrs. Bessie M. Ilollister was mur
dered on the evening of Jan. 12 near
the carpenter shop owned by William
Ivens , father of the murderer , 3GS Bel-
den avenue. The body was found next
on a refuse pile outside : i
stable adjoining the shop. Richard
Ivens was arrested a few hours after
and under cross-examination by Assist
ant Chief of Police Schuettler and Inspector
specter Lavin he broke down and con-
fes'-cd , giving all the details of the
crime.
Mrs. Ilollister was the fourth woman
murdered within a period of five
months , the first having been Mrs. Eliz-
RICIIARD G. IVEXS.
abeth Mize , who was killed near Del
Prado Hotel. Aug. 22 , 1903. and whose
murderer is still at large.
The details of the crime committed
by Ivens were so revolting that the
whole city was aroused to action. Mass
meetings were called in every section ,
anti-crime associations were formed
and a campaign for an increased police
force started. In order to make the
increased police force possible a cra-
sade to raise saloon licenses to . $1,000
was started and after a bitter struggle
was carried.
Loss to Meat I'aekers 915OOOOOC.
Reports from various meat-packing cen
ters indicate this industry has suffered
a loss of $150,000.000 on account of the
crusade against doctored meats. Chicago
packers have had a full-page advertise
ment in the lofal papers inviting the people
ple of the United States to inspect their
plants. Nevertheless , improvements or
dered by the city authorities will cost the
packers $1,000,000.
Shli > Trust Slioiv.s a Profit.
The report of the International Mer
cantile Marine Company shows an in
crease in gross'and net earnings , leaving
a surplus of $2,02JOS9. ( The company
carried one-quarter of all the passengers
between this country and Europe an < J
half of the first-class passengers.
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