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i 'The Valentine Democrat Valentine , Neb. f. M. Rice. Publisher ii THEATRICAL TRUST GIGANTIC CO3ICIXE IS I1EIXG FORMED IX CHICAGO. Organizations No\v in Exist ence Will Become Parts oi' the Xe\v Syndicate , Which Control Property Valuetl In Excess of $30,000,000. The most gigantic theatrical combination - ' nation in the world , of which the hig- ' STest syndicate now in existence will be only a part , is in the process of formation in Chicago. The new combination is to include 350 of the most important theaters in the United States ; will be represented in every city from New York to San Francisco , and from Portland to New Orleans ; will dictate matters pf book ings , tours of all big companies , and , in a word , do the theatrical business of the United States , if not the world. Although the combination is still in the process of formation , the following interests are stated as those to go into ' it : fclaw & Erlanger , Daniel Frohman , Charles Frohman , Al Hayman , Nixon & Zimmerman , Rich & Harris and the Orpheum circuit. It is estimated by some of the man agers who expect to go into the ne\v combination that the properties con trolled by the corporation will value iar in excess of $50,000,000. Accord- ang to present plans a new corporation will be formed , probably under the Haws of Illinois. Its capital stock will Jbe placed somewhere between $50- 000,000 and $100,000,000. STABBED BY A WOMAN. Young Pcimsylvanian Dies as the Re sult of a Mysterious Attack. Thomas Dougherty , a prominent young man of Dunmore , Pa. , died in rt.he hospital at Scranton Sunday as the a-esult of being stabbed by an unknowj. woman Saturday night. His death is most mysterious. Dougherty died refusing to makb any statements as to the name of the person who caused the fatal injury , but intimated that it was a woman and that he was to blame. In the brief statement he made Dougherty declared that he was visiting - iting a woman and that she stuck a needle or a hatpin in him , after which he was taken ill. The postmortem re vealed that he had been stabbed with some fine instrument , such as a hat- ! > ln , and that it had entered the heart. The police were unable to get any trace of Dougherty's whereabouts up to the time the doctor was summoned. Coroner Etein Sunday night ordered the arrest of Mary Burke , a young Dunmore woman , on whom Dougher ty called on Saturday night. The woman has not yet been located. The- coroner's jury declares that it was a hatpin which penetrated Dougherty's heart , and that it passed through the fifth rib , indicatingUhat it had been jabbed with great force. ' STRANGE DISEASE IS FATAL. Texas Community in Panic Over Epi demic of Unknown Ailment. i , ! A state of panic exists in the town of Marfa and the vicinity in Pecsidio county , Texas. Within the last few days twelve deaths have occurred in the town of a few hundred population from , an unknown and malignant dis ease which recently made its appearance - ance in the southern border of the county on the Mexican border and spread rapidly to Marfa. Local phy sicians have been unable to diagnose or cope with the disease and appealed to the state health department , which detailed an expert , Dr. P. J. Shaver , the health officer at El Paso , to inves tigate. Dr. Shaver is now at Marfa , The people of Alpine , in Brewster county , near Marfa , held mass meet ings Sunday to take precautions to prevent the spread of the disease tc that town. Ilaakon Visits England. The royal yacht Victoria and Al bert , with King Haakon of Norway on board , anchored off Spithead , Eng land , at a late hour Sunday night. Russian Cruiser Lsumched. The cruiser Pallada , 7,900 tons , de signed to have speed of 23 knots , was launched at the New Admiralty works at St. Petersburg Saturday. Gen. Bnigcrc to Make Tour of World. Gen. Brugere , formerly commander in chief of the French army , will leave Paris soon for a tour of the world. Sioux City IJive Stock Market. Saturday's quotations on the Sioux ' City live stock market follow : Beeves , ) , $5.50@G.50. Top hogs , $0.10. A. Jj. Thomas Drops Dead. Ambrose L. Thomas , president ot the firm of Lord & Thomas , known to newspapers all over theUnited States , dropped dead Saturday in a dry goods store in Chicago. Heart disease was the cause. Anarchist is Arrested. Giovanni Bruno , a Sicilian , believed ito be one of the most dangerous and daring Italian anarchists , has been ar rested at Keen , Colo. , where he was as a section hand. KEGRO SHOOTS PRIEST Rev. John Pliela/i is Hurt , but not Seriously. A crowd of negro laborers on a south-bound Milwaukee train near Wolsey , S. D. , Friday morning quar reled over a game of cards. Rev. John Phelan , a Catholic priest of Sib- ley , la , who formerly lived in Sioux City , tried to quiet the trouble when one of the negroes drew a revolver and fired , one shot taking effect on the right side of- the priest's head. He was taken to a hospital in Mitch ell , S. D. The wound is not regarded as serious , v Eight of the negroes were taken into custody at "Wolsey and re moved to Huron where they were lodged in the county jail , j . The negroes had been engaged in a red hot poker game inthe smoking . car. As the train pulled into TVolsey i one of the players snatched up the ' stakes and jammed the "roll" down 'in ' his pocket. That started things , .The biggest "coon" in the bunch pul led a gun , as did several of the others , and shooting began , The car was I filled with men , who stepped lively in an effort to get out of danger. i In the day coach behind there were many women passengers , and they became - ' ; came much alarmed when the shoot- ling continued. Father Phelan , who , was in the day coach , stepped to the 'door ' of the smoker and admonished Ithe negroes to be quiet and stop j 1 shooting. The train had been stopped by that time. As the priest stepped back a big negro struck him with his ( fist. The priest stepped off onto the 'ground. ' The negro followed and fired his revolver full in the priest's face. Father Phelan fell , struck in the sldt of the head. He rose again , then fell again , collapsing twice more before he was able to get into the car again. FIRES CAUSE PANICS. /Five / Blazes in Xew York the "Work of Incendiaries. One woman is dead , one man is in a hospital suffering from severe burns , 2,000 perosns fled from their homes In a panic and thousands more passed a sleepless night as a result of a series of incendiary fires in two blocks bounded by Sixtieth and Sixty-first streets and Columbus and West End ! avenues , New York , early Friday. Scores of persons whose lives were en dangered by the conflagration were , rescued by firemen. In all there were "five fires , every one of them of incendiary origin , be tween midnight and 3 o'clock Friday morning. SCORE BURIED IX RUIXS. jXe\v Bixby Hotel Collapses at IJong Beach , Cal. The New Bixby hotel , being erected on the beach at Long Beach , Cal. , caved in Friday morning , supposedly from weak construction , with possibly a score of men buried in the ruins. The structure , which was of reln- i forced concrete , caved in without 1 warning from the basement to the fourth floor , leaving but- one wing ' standing. j Great confusion reigned , and It was impossible to obtain an accurate report of the number of workmen buried in the debris. It is estimated the num ber of dead ranges from ten to twenty- five. EX-JUDGE HIS OWX PRISONER. Unusual Complication Follows Killin& of Dr. Aldrich. An unusual legal situation has fol lowed the killing of Dr. Aldrich by Congressman-elect George K. Favrot in Baton Rouge , La. , and the result may be to keep Favrot in jail for sixty days without hope of bail. He was judge there of the district court , before which his case should legally come up for consideration. His resignation from this office Thursday left the court without a judge , and it will be sixty days after a notice of a new special election Is served before his successor can be chosen. The pris oner cannot secure bail before his case goes before the'court. . Xcw Office for Miij. Lacey. There is a strong belief in Wash ington , D. C. , that President Roosevelt will appoint Representative John F. Lacey , of Iowa , commissioner of the general land office to succeed William A. Richards , who will relinquish his place at the same time that Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock leaves office , March 4. Volcano in Colorado. Mount Culebra , located forty miles west of Trinidad , Colo. , was reported in a state of eruption Friday. Post master Adolph Storz , of Stonewall , who lives within twelve miles of tht peak , sent word to Trinidad that sinoke and vapor can be seen issuing from the mountain. Tx > rd Mayor Inaugurated. Sir William Treloar's term of office as lord mayor of London was inau gurated Friday witli the time honored pageant. King Edward is 65. King Edward Friday celebrated his 65th birthday quietly at Sandringham , surrounded by his family. Income Tax Approved. The council of ministers of Russia has approved the Income tax bill of the minister of finance , M. Kokovsoff , which is estimated to produce revenue amounting to from $12,500,000 to $20,000,000. To Present Big Bill. Corporation Council Lewis in Chicago cage Friday announced that he would in a short time begin proceedings to collect city taxes on the surplus of $25,000,000 of the Pullman company. I i UPHOLDS DEATHS IN OPTIONS. Federal Court Sustains the Board of Trade Contracts. The United States circuit court ot appeals handed down a decision Thursday upholding the validity of contracts for the purchase or sale ot grain for future delivery as it is prac ticed by the Chicago board of trade and the Merchants' exchange of St. Louis. The case is that of Thomas Cleage , Jr. , appellee , against W. H. Laidley and others. Cleage 'dealt in about 14,000,000 bushels of grain , and less than 2 per cent was delivered. He testified that he did not intend to deliver or receive any grain under his contracts unless forced to do so in order to keep his contracts from being closed out under teh rules of the board or the exchange. 'The brokers to whom he became In debted filed a creditors' petition in bankruptcy , upon which Cleage was- adjudged to be a bankrupt. The bank ruptcy was assailed on the ground that Cleage was not lega > y indebted to any of the alleged creditors for the reason that their claims against him were grounded upon wager agree ments and were therefore void. The court holds that the evidence did nor. disclose a purpose to settle the ob ligation of his contract by paying to or receiving from the other parties thereto the difference between the contract prices and the market prices at the time of delivery and did not make lrv'e transactions wagers and void. BANK ROBBERS ESCAPE. Disappear After Engaging in Series of Battles with Farmers. The two robbers who secured $7,000 from the Farmers and Miners bank at Ladd , III. , made their escape Monday night after an exciting chase of over forty miles and after numerous battles with farmers who attempted to inter cept them. After holding up the Ladd bank the robbers drove to Peru and at the point of a revolver compelled the liveryman to furnish another rig. They passed through La Salle and then the pursuit began. The robbers drove through four county townships with the police , armed with rifles , in close pursuit. Farmers were compelled * to furnish the robbers with fresh horses. In Wal lace township a lively exchange of shots was exchanged , but the robbers took to the corn fields , secured a new team and escaped to Sheridan , where they abandoned horses , buggy and overcoats and caught a train , presum ably for Chicago. KILLED XEGRO'S WIFE. Black Who HelpedHicks to Escape Also is Dead. The wife of Hicks , the negro who killed John A. Akridge last Sunday , was found dead in her home at Pel- ham , Ga. , Thursday , having been kill ed by unknown parties. Some time during the night she was shot with over twenty bullets. On the same farm and not far away a negro who , it is claimed , helped Hicks to escape was found dead. He also had been shot several times. The coroner was notified. Hicks has not been captured. Liabilities Arc $2,350,000. At a meeting in London Thursday of the creditors of the firm of Mac- Fayden & Co. , bankers , the London house of Arbuthnot & Co. , bankers of Madras , which suspended payment the day its president committed suicide , the chairman announced the liabilities in London amounted to $2,350,000 , with assets of $100,000. The Indian liabilities exceeded $5,000,000. Count Wittc Sentenced. A report is in circulation in Mos cow that "the league to combat the revolution , " to which the murder of Deputy Herzenstein in Finland last summer has been ascribed , had sen tenced the former premier , Count , Witte , to death in the event of his re turn to Russia. Would-Bc Assassin Insane. Jerman Kehl , who in 1903 tried to gain admission to the White House , declaring his intention of killing Pres ident Roosevelt , arrived in Panama Wednesday from Chili and was put under arrest. Physicians declared him insane. i King Edward's Birthday Honors. A London dispatch says : King Ed ward's birthday honor list is without any features of particular interest. Henry Norman , M. P. , is raised to the knighthood. No peerages are extend ed. The regular list is to be left open for the new year. Seven Workmen Slain by Socialists i Seven nationalist workmen were shot at Lodz , Russian Poland , Thurs day by socialists. The local situation is most seripus. German Minister Resigns. The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says that the minister of agriculture , Herr von Podbielsky , resigned Friday. Consulate at Mukden. An American consulate general has been opened at "vdukden , Manchuria. Switchmen Xot to Strike. The switchmen at Chicago Thurs7 day accepted the offer of the managers of the western roads for an Increase of 3 cents an hour in wages. A fur ther increase of 3 cents an hour will be determined by arbitration. Ten Seamen Perished. Ten men perished in the wreck of the full rigged Russian ship Sovento , which struck on the ledges at Priests Pond , off Prince Edwards island , in the gale on Tuesday night. STATE OF NEBRASKA' OP THE WEEK IN A cox- DEXSED FORM. Fremont Girl Missing Miss Enuna Brooks , Fourteen Years Old , Believ- ) cd to Have Been Enticed Away. Sheriff in Pursuit Other Xcws. Emma Brooks , a 14-year-old girl , Is missing from the home of her pa rents , Mr. and Mrs. William F. Brooks , of Fremont , and it is believed she has been enticed away by a strange man , with whom she was seen chatting1 in the city park at 9:30 Saturday night. Rooming houses of Fremont were searched by the authorities , and Sher iff Bauman went to Omaha in an ef fort to find the girl. At 8:30 o'clock Saturday night the Brooks girl , accompanied by Goldie Pollock and Mollie Schneider ? left the home of Mr. and Mrs. Schneider to walk to the residence of H. P. Tracy , where Miss Pollock is employed as a domestic , Miss Schneider returned in about half an hour , and some time later Miss Pollock reached the home of Mr. Tracy. Miss Brooks has not been seen since. According to Miss Schneider the trio were accosted by a young man near the Congregational church , who forc ibly detained her to talk to her , while the other girls walked on. She claims to have returned home alone a few minutes later. Miss Pollock says she and Miss Brooks were accosted by two strangers opposite the Methodist 'church , and that they were detained there a half hour or more. When she went on home , Miss Pollock says , Miss Brooks and one of the strangers were seated on one of the benches at the park. Late Monday night an officer pass ing through the Fremont park dis covered Burt Wright and the Brooks girl sitting on a bench , and arrested them. The man said that they were out so late Sunday night that Emma was afraid to go home , so they stayed over night with "a friend. " When first arrested he was anxious to fix things up by marrying the girl , fully realizing the predicament he was in. Wright was jailed. OLD SOLDIER FOUXD DEAD. Veteran \Vho Lived a Hermit's Life Dies in His Shack. David Eperle , an old * man , was found dead in a shanty on a small Island southwest of Fremont , whert , he had lived alone for six years , allowIng - Ing no one to enter his sh:4'k or even remain on the island if he could pre vent it. He served during the war in a Penn sylvania regiment and had received special mention in orders for gallant conduct. Twice every three months he came to Fremont to execute his pension voucher and draw his check. He would then buy a faw supplies and a generous amount of whisky and re turn to his shanty. He is thought to have relatives living ijj Pittsburg , Pa. His body was found by Carl Volstad. who lives on Hawthorne island , and Is about the only man to whom Eperle was disposed to be friendly. POLLARD REFUNDS SALARY. Nebraska Congressman Sends Uncle Slim $1,8(51.84. Congressman Ernest M. Pollard , of the First Nebraska district , Thursday night sent a draft for $1,861.84.to Ser geant at Arms Casnon , of the national house of representatives. The sum represents salary paid Mr. Pollard as a congressman from March ' 4 to January 18 , 1905. As he was first elected on the latter date at a special election to fill the unexpired term of Elmer J. Burkett his right to the sal ary for the period when he was technically - I nically not a member was questioned ' i and was made ftn issue In the campaign - I paign just closed. Mr. Pollard was ' re-elected. BRIDGE CONTRACTOR HELD. Will Have His Preliminary Examina tion at Beatrice. John Sparks , the bridge contractor from St. Joseph , charged with Issuing false bills with Intent to defraud Gage county , arrived in Beatrice Wednesday - j i day and voluntarily appeared at the j i sheriff's office , where he was placed i tinder arrest. He was arraigned in j the county court and pleaded not ! guilty. j His preliminary hearing was set for \ November 10 and he gave bond in the j sum of $4,000 for his appearance ai } that time. The alleged false claims j amount to about $1,000. j Xe\v Enterprise. Considerable interest was manifest j by the business men and a number of members f the York Commercial | club In the new manufacturing enter prise about to be located in York foe the purpose of manufacturing spring I automobile wheels that will take the [ place of the pneumatic rubber-tired j wheels now used on automobiles. j New Depot for Nebraska City. ; Nebraska City is to have a new j Burlington passenger station. Plans | and various sketches of the station as | ; it will appear when completed have i 'been ' sent by officials of the Burlins- j , ton to officers of the Commercial club , j 'The proposed passenger station involves - ' volves a cost of $40,000. j I r - - - II Newspaper Suspends. j The Norfolk Daily Press , a paper ! started about a year ago , announced j that it will suspend publication after j this week. Pack Train for Cuba. Orders have been received at the headquarters of the department of thb Missouri , in Omaha , to dispatch a j pack train of about fifty animals from Fort Riley to Cuba via Newport Newj , at once. Efforts are being made to secure a special train. Ball Player is Policeman. Ira Harmon , who pitched for Lin coln in the Western league , and subse quently for Fremont's Nebraska cham pion team , has Income a policeman 5n Fremont ' BURNS HERSELF TO DEATH. House Found In Flames and Table Placed Against Door. Monday afternoon about 4iSO o'clock an alarm of fire was tu * ed In at Falls City and it was discovered that a residence occupied by a woman named Mrs. Ray and her five chil dren , was on fire. Before the arrival of the fire company the east door of the kitchen was broken in by Frank Dilts , who discovered that a table had been placed against the door so that it was almost impossible to open it from the outside. When Dilts finally got into the room , it was a mass of flames and as soon as he moved the table from the door so he could throw the door wideopenhesaw the body of Mrs. Ray lying on the floor near the place where the table stood. The fire was put out after the body of the woman had been removed. It was at first thought that Mrs. Ray had met her death from an ex plosion of the coal oil can while light ing the kitchen fire to get supper , but the coal oil can was found not dam aged , and when Diits broke into the room the kitchen stove had a big fire in it. Mrs. Roy had been in poor health , and it is thought she commit ted suicide while laboring under a fit of temporary-insanity. JAP KILLED OX JAP HOLIDAY. Railroad Employes on Handcar Are Rim Doxvn by Switch Engine. The national holiday of the Japan ese , in celebration of the mikado's birthday anniversary , was marred by a death in the Japanese colony at Grand Island Saturday through the running down by a switch train of a handcar of section men. The hand car Avas making its way to Alda , where thirty-two Japs are at work in reconstructing on the Union Pacific. Six Japs had come down to Grand Isl and to get supplies , part of which were for the celebration. When a mile west of the city , on their return , they were run into by a switch engine and a j string of cars and T. Kahu was instantly - | stantly killed and his body mangled , the five others escaping without in jury. jury.Aside Aside from those at Alda , forty-five Japs are engaged in the same line of work in Grand Island and thirty-five in the local yards east of the city. There are also a number of beet work ers. They had the Japanese flag hoisted from their construction cars , but the unfortunate accident caused a gloom in the circles of the colony. On the car were over $100 worth of goods , most of which were destroyed. FATHER AXD SOX SETTLE SUIT. Son Ivt'fcives . Fifty-Fire Thousand Dollars in Cash. j On the payment by William Otto to his son. Waldron Otto , of the sum of j S55.000 cash , settlement was made of i i what nromised to be the most hotly' ' j contested case and one involving the largest amount of money of any suit ever tried in York county. About t\vo years ago Wm.Otto deeded - ed and gave a bill of sale to all per- j stjnal and real estate owned by him in j York county , with , he claims , the un derstanding that when he wanted the property back the grantees were to j i j deed it back. All of the sons deeded back except Waldron. Otto brought suit for a division and an accounting , claiming that the transfer was made to him in good faith. William Otto is the largest land owner in York j i county and the richest man. Five thousand dollars was paid lawyers for i making the settlement. WAS HOSPITAL PATIENT. I Identity of Suicide in Omaha Is Fin- j ally Established. I A man who committed suicide in a | hotel at Omaha last Saturday night was later identified as a patient who escaned from a hospital in Council Bluffs a few days previously. It is said the man had been known as J. Haggerty , but that his real name was supposed to be Delaney , a Catho- lie priest , and that he was for thir- teen years in charge of a church at Green River , Wyo. He issaid to have formerly lived at Scranton , Pa. Train 3fen Exonerated. The Northwestern trainmen whose engine killed August Haase w re ex onerated by the coroner's jury at Norj j folk. The engineer testified that he saw an object lying on the track , but thought it a pumpkin until within a ' few feet of the man , whose head lay j ' on the track and feet under a cattle guard on the right-of-way. It was too late then to stop the train. Tliief Returns Checks but Keeps Cash Tom Adams , proprietor of the Brunswick restaurant at Fremont , re ceived by mail $ GOO Avorth of checks v.hichvere taken from his coat pocket - | et a few days ago. The checks had been placed in an envelope and mail ed at Lincoln. About $160 in cur- j rency , which was stolen with the ' checks , was not included in the return package. Xiljrzska Student is Fleeced. A disratch from Cambridge , Mass. , says : E. F. Myers , the Harvard law . Ftudent who chaiged John McCormick j [ in New York with lleoecing him out of $1.200 in a pool game at the Fifth Avenue hotel the other night , Is Ed win Fnncis Myers , A. ' B. , of Broken Bow. this state , a third 'year student in the lav.- school and a graduate of the University of Nebraska in 1904. Poison in the Pork. Frrrn e-ting diseased pork Mr. and Mrs. li nry Heine , and young son , Wil bur , regents cf the new town of Leshai-a. en the Sioux City-Ashland line cf the Burlington , are critically ill. Thry were brought to the Fre mont hopital. where Mrs. Heine is in a. precarious condition. ! : raricc Ice Plant. The ice plant of the Beatrice Poul try and Cold S.torage company is man ufacturing a fine quality of ice at present , which is being sold to local consumers for 40 cents per hundred. The plant has a daily capacity of twelve tons. Fatality at a Grade Crossing. > A Bohemian named Shalla , a son of . Frank Shalla. living three miles northeast - S east cf Ode ! ! , was struck by a Burling- tin train oariy Sunday morning and j e instant' } killed. 'I ' Taf t really 'Is secretary of peace. Pittsburg Gazette. of parading in- Morality does a Heap public. New York Tress. Whether denatured alcoliol means- simplified juleps is another question. New York Mail. One person can lead a .man up to reform ' make him can't thousand form , but a keep it. New STork Press. . Do yeur Christmas shopping now. Then you can pay for it with the moner . New York MaiL you get for presents. The raising of salaries at Yale puts- professors nearly on a par with foot ball coaches in income. New York : World. In a few years from now we will be- hearing of reunions of people who were- once incubator babies. Chicago Rec ord-Herald. Aaether serious defect has been dis covered ki the now football rules. The- spectators can see the game. New York World. If there were no birthiays , Christmases - mases and weddaags a man would have- a chance to get ahead a few dollars. New York Press. The consensus of feminine opinion- seems to be that so long as bridge whist Is fashionable it cannot be gambling. Philadelphia Inquirer. Most persons are not personally worried riod much about the President's efforts to curb the power of great wealth. Philadelphia Inquirer. Lo , the poor Indian , may have an un tutored mind , but the football score- shows that his muscles are trained all right. Philadelphia Piftss. A corn crop of 2,780,009 000 bushels- suggests that the internal revenue offi cers will have to be exceptionally vig ilant. Atlanta Constitution. According to tbe Berlin dispatches , . Kaiser Wilhelin said hurrah for Presi dent Roosevelt three times out loud. Philadelphia North American. There were fifty-eight arrests for drunkenness in one town of Prohibition * Maine last week. This is a great apple- year. Philadelphia Inquirer. There are a good many people in this world who think they are public-spirit ed not to kill a man after thty luive * robbed him. New York Press. The latest motor collision is said tcv have been due to a cigar. Some cigars1 are tad enough to make the explanation - tion credible. New York Tribune. If the United States would raise- more wits and less magazine reformers , . there would be less silly talk about our sad condition. New York Evening : Sun. Sun.A A man never seems to think he is = doing his duty to his country unless he- goes around before election yelling his- views into everybody's eaus. New York- Press. Bertha Krupp's husband Is a poor man. She thus disproves the assertion : that a poor young man has no chance- of rising in this world. Philadelphia. Record. Mr. Cortelyou wants $15,000,000 more * than last year for the Postal Depart ment But , perhaps , the postcard craze- will be only temporary. Philadelphia-- Ledger. If George Bernard Shaw would cease- from troubling and gfre two weary lands a rest , all would be forgiven tc > the man who stopped him. Philadel phia Press. Five hundred English school teachers are coming to study our schools antL wonder how the boys can smoke so- many cigarettes and keep up _ Vew York World. Besides the champion basehall play ers , Chicago now has the billiard cham pion. All kinds of champion things are- packed in Chicago. Charleston New ; and Courier. Why should Princeton be allowed : to > boast longer of having the only livin ax-President ? ' Can't Yale capture the Bon. Tomas Estrada Palma ? PhiladeK phia North American. . , Somehow , the American girls who marry foreign noblemen without refer ence to the paternal check book do not seem to have much trouble in keepin- their husbands.-Philadelphia Inqufrer ! The Joke seems to be on those gener. ous Kansas farmers who took their sm > pins peaches into Concordia to -ivel them to the poor rather than feed them to the hogs , but when they arrived iii Concordia they couldn't " find anv- "ppor.Kansas City star. ' The mob eruption in Atlanta was- nothing short of an outbreak of " far ± ? s of the same * atrocity as the Jewish m tassm ; it vill at least be so regard y the outside world , and the wretcW feature Of it all is that the entire : South , and to some extent the nation x I premiums. The circumstance th XZ ? S * * O Philadelphia Ledge ears to be tha t weld be