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TT. I. OKODIO.VD PublUaar.
BEAVEB
OKLAHOMA
CURRENT COMMENT.
Tax British Medical Journal make
tbe i223nwffit that the plagae
dying out la India aad will prwbaWy
disappear fretbeedof May.
It it reported that tie Japanese are i
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pexng eofJes u es iije4 s " -
tare peacratJoBS may wwots naore is-
josing physically than the present riee-
caters. . It is aid that the sxrrccae&t
is national asd patriotic
The cesaeil of the Ataerleas Geo- '
graphical society has approved a plan
of polar exploralioo wbautted by 
Lieut. Peary aad aTtcd to subscribe I
to h f aid to enable hi to sake a-
other trip in search of tie aorta pole. ;
Tns British gwemaeBt la dtsfided
to sismaliie the occasioa of her bs-Jestj-"s
jabilre hr th issac of a ae
coinage which wHI r pat ia drcwla-
tioa neat June. The desipa is said tc
Ik of a Tery bandM asd strfkia;
character.

rf-rer '
MtM Gcossia Exmjiiiw of
yonns woa forerrr of MiwoarL  Jf depar-eat of the east p tfce re-
who occupies the positioa of alerkJl tifeeat oa .prU 2. of K.-Gffl. T. 1L
the district cort i Arapahee caty. c-f 5J
CoL.tteiTTeJ salarrof SSTMr
A - mH .j fiVeBV1 aTsffaaaJa!
j jc w" j A frixxii frosn WaMactoa to the
WoiiM Wajcaoar. whose death ia New York HeraM ee the tth said that
Georaris was recestlT aasoaaeed. wxt rresWeat 3ieKlaT w-as eaapaatizia;
regarded as the sami iaSaes&ai srrc ! his az-et dewre ior the prompt rati-
pmerr in iie WBti. He was pastos t Seatioa "J tie reaeral arhitratioa
of tireetfecrebts. with aat ajrrrTttc treaty- by persoaal appeals to his
Elhip of M.4IM. WWa a serrc I frieads ia the seaate.
to iaciiaed 1 be ebfarcfwroas War- 3JBCacrr McKunxT held his first
rta was oftea seat fr. as4 he oaea- rt-ahkr eahiaet aatetia; at U o'eioeV
aiccaDj xxtc tie ofeader a ereire . oa tie rib. It U said he iateads to
lixniiir- after a yrnjw Soc Us narA. I asahea praetieeof holdia eoafereaeos
with Ms oStiat adrisers twice a week
Osxx rc a Gerrrn scieatisS. is hoc- eg Tadxraad Fridsr.
rifyir tie wcrtd with barriaie tale j Jm S. Dotm. ei-Caited States
cf tie xbiocits aaeroVs. This tisae 1 Mator. died ai PortUad. Ore oa tie
"t are taid that jafris Hs farorite f h.a?edt. Hislewasaapatatedia
kxssterwa raised writiar PPe- V- J ijke hot of sariar his Mfe. whieh wa
tnr iafesitd with xxrst. The bacteria
-wist& s-mcrsa is iots irkka pass f rwsa
--J to JrTd bare bees iesrd of ie-
Lxt bst zaow tirT bare aetaaUj bcea
oTssVii. talrasoc tbo.a XW ditesr-
crcd epeo a sisie pae of a eirealat-
isg fibrarj Tolaae.
Eiam receatly received by Aa-
ditor of State Osttbert from alt
tie cosatie ia Ohio sbow that
the state has 9.11$ mJooss. a decrease
of LIW since lavtJnly. The total rc-
ceired by the statas its share of the
tax for tic first year of the new law
incrcasiaj? tbe tax frees 54 to $J is
LC1 ttTL The state rccelTes S-l0hs
of the aasoast coUected. Tb Sjrere
how that ia spite of tie Increase of
the tax aad the cosseaerA decrease ia
the cnaber of saloons the state's rere-
sne has lacreascd ?4bTH cadcr the
aew law.
Geeat importance is attached in Kn
gland aad Germany to the announce-
ment of the discovery at Capetown by
Dr. Koch of a process by which cattle
can be rendered secure from rinder-
pest. Inoculation of a mixture of
scrum and of virulent rinderpest blood
produces immunity within a fortnight.
Dr. Koch declares that by these meth-
ods he will be able within a very short
time to eradicate the terrible plague
which oa its march from the northern
portion of the dark continent to the
cape has literally decimated alt the
cattle In Its track.
A Forn-TKAE-otJ infant prodigy was
exhibited recently before tie Berlin
Anthropological society. He is the
son of a butcher and at two years old
learned to read without asisistancc.
He knows tbf dates of tho birth and
death of all the German emporors and
many other noted persons and their
birthplaces the chief cities of the
world and all the great battles. He
can read anything in print anil can
talk Intelligently about it but finds it
hard to learn to write and draw dis-
likes music and hates pianos. The boy
.Is .physically well developed though
sot rob ait-
Ges. Haduit the head of the Episco-
pal Church army recently organized
says: "It now has S4 labor liousea
where the poor and broken-down man
may apply for help and shelter and
where the criminals and paupers may
go from whieh they may obtain a start
iji the world. The tramps and poor
men will work if you give them a
chance in the proper way. Thirty-one
bands hare been established for parish
work. We go into families and we
visit every house and stir the people
up and with good results. We now
hare SCO missions in the United States
all doing good work. .
TnK discovery of a substitute for rub-
ber which. It Is said can be produced
in large quantities at less than a quar
ter of the cost of genuine rubber. Is
announced uy a Sonoma county cat.
journal. The substance is the product
of a tree which grows abundantly in
the central part of California and was
discovered by accident. The tree is
tapped near the base and the sap.
which is quite dark colored is caught
inavcsseL This substance will vul-
canize like rubber and is a perfect sub-
stitute for the genuine article. Scientif-
ic men say it will take the place of rub
ber for almost any purpose.
A cowrAXT has been organized at
Lacon I1L to open a cat farm and
raise cat skins for the market- One of
the men connected with the enterprire
said: It is well known that cat furs
go much into the making of leather
goods nowadays. A eat breeds three
times a year and an average of tea live
kittens a year can be depended upon.
"With 109 breeders to sUrt we could
have close to 1999009 cats in four years'
time. The furs sell at ten and IS cents.
"While we will raise cats we will also
raise rats and feed the eats rats aad
the rats cats that Is. the rats will
thrive on the skinned bodies of the cats.
Public sentiment baeked''.p by 599
school-teachers and principal the Chi-
cago Times-Herald says has finally he-
cured legislation which it is believed
will practically cut off the sale of ciga-
rettes to the school children of Chicago.
The tobacco dealers are said to favor
tbe law for the reason that there it
little profit in the cigarette traffic It
is claimed that nearly every cigar
dealer would welcome a federal Ilw
prohibiting tbe manufacture of e.ga
rettes. Restrictive legislation of this
sort Is the only pract'eai way of meet-
ing the cigarette question and is j'isti
Sled by considerations of public morals.
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XEWS OF THE WEEK.
Glftar.ed 3y Telegraph asd ilaH.
rcB.o:ui. -c roimau.
A Wxivot.t dispatei said: That
; no wiae will be serTed at tie white (
hoase dartaz tie preheat adadaHtra-
tioa was iadieaiedbTtie reeeatdtaarr
teadered to her jroaar relatires bj
' l rs. MeKisler. The diaaer wa aa
elabrabe affair ?t tie oalj Hesids '
ser-rcd were aaiaeral waters.
Mxi.-it3. WrtrT Mouwrr. aow
coaamtniitr of tie departaaeat of Mis- '
soari. will aaeeeed to tie nwrnmial of
tae Aepartaseat o! tae east apoa te re- ;
Mb. Hevkt Wjibo BniWEy iiidon
of the aotdd diriae. died at Stanford
tireateaed by blood poboaia. aad the
shock was too gmt for Ma.
j Carr. IL D. Bxkbe for aaasr Tears a
?omtT ia Kansas politics died at
'Gathrie Ofc. on the 11 th. Deris g tic
Iadtaa bovtjliSlM of 14C-1S he
maaded a coaspaay of CoL Crawford's i
Niaeteeati Haas volaateer infantry
la 15; he removed to Oklahoma where '
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I3t
he served ia tie territorial roaacil. While Taylor Stivers and John
A mas meeting was held at New i Bailey were working in a mine at Alia-
York oa the 11th for the purpose of ( mooUKy.. on the 9th a large piece oi
Sadorsiag the arbitration treaty be- i slate fell upon them and their bodies
tweea this country and Great Britain. had to be mined oat.
bat the meeting was captared by the I
ant is. Jadge Lynn made a speech de- 1
aoancing Great Britain for her poller
in support of Turkey and against the
Cretans aad Armenians. The resolu-
tions favoring ratification wen; put to
the meeting by President Seta Lowe
and although only one-third voted in
favor of them they were declared car-
ried. Pandemonium reigned at the
meeting.
A Washinstos dispatch on the 11th
stated that it was practically cer-
tain that ex-Delegate Dennis Flynn
will bc named by President MeKinley
for governor of Oklahoma at the expira-
tion of Gov. HeBfrow's term.
H. Clat Kyan. of Tennessee has
been tendered the position of commis-
sioner of pensions and probably will
! accept as it is one of the most impor
tant in the tlepart -nental service ouuMe
of the cabinet.
CxrrTESiiES Mahkjott. the Chicago
Record's correspondent in Havana de-
clared on the Hth that Gen. Weyler
bad received positive orders from Mad-
rid to end the Cuban war at once even
going to the extent of selling the is-
land to the insurgents to accomplish
that object.
M i s l klivm;o us.
The federal grand jury at Louisville
Ky. on the 11th returned 9! separate
and distinct counts against J. M. Mc-
Knight. the late president of the de-
funct German national bank of that
city. The indictment specified viola-
tions of the national banking law s em-
bezzlement false entry and false re-
ports to the comptroller.
Tue Ryan elevator at Buffalo X. Y..
containing about C.900 bushels each of
wheat and oats was burned on the
Ilth. Loss probably $ee0. A float-
ing elevator valued at $18099 was
also destroyed.
Kaulv on the morning of the 19th
the cannonball express train from Chi-
cago was wrecked on the Evansvllle Jfc
Terrc Haute railroad near Hazlcton
Ind.. and the engine baggage car and
smoker went into the White river and
even were known to be killed. The re-
cent rains had weakened the roadbed.
The northbound express train on the
Louisville & Nashville railroad was
held up by six masked men near Calera
Ala. and a number of money packages
were taken from the express car. The
I amount was said to be large.
The dam at Mount Mums. . i..
broke on the 10th and low-lying farm
Unds were flooded. All the factorle
In the village which used water power
were obliged to shut down.
A DEfcTBlcTlVE cyclone a mile la
width struck Ralston. I. T. and great
damage was done. Nearly every house
In the town and in the path of the cy
clone was either blown down or
wrecked. Many persons were injured
but no lives were iosL
The Western Baseball league mag-
nates adopted the schedule at a meet-
ing at Detroit Mich. on the 19th. The
season will be opened at Kansas City
bv a game on April 22 w ith the St. Paul
club.
A Mexican woman named Luz San-
to Roderiguezand her three daughters
were drowned in a lagoon aboat 24
mites from Brownsville. Tex. One of
the girls went in to bathe and got be
yond her depth and the others tried to
save her aad all were drowned.
While Orlando Howe of Little Rock
Ark. and his two sons were walking
along the traek to go to Stlllwrlt Ma
a train struck them and two of them
were instantly killed aad one ol the
boys fatally injured.
A BOLLlxe mill in the yard af tbe
Dupoat powder works at Wilmington.
Deb blew up on the 9th. The build-
ing was destroyed aad James Walker
y as killed.
The Palmer family consisting el
four brothers aged 16 21 27 and SI
years who lived eu a farm sear
Toloea 111. was wiped out recently by
nioaslos.
Financial distress U said to be mcl
acute throughout tuba. J-amine it
ravaging the small towns of the prov
Inces of Pinar del Rio Havana and
Matanzas and sma'i! pox is aiso in-
crcas.ng at on a ann.ng rate and mo
of the victims die
Mx. MAR15UU tbe papa oelecate
to the failed states. recently had to
leae New is a harried aaaa-
ner beeaaw he had stir-ed ap the Itattaa
Mafia aad they bow1 Jar hw. lita.
Tbe eaaiaeat Cataalic had
strtttares rm th Italia
who ff to this eoaatrr.
Prsfanr exaoBtakiar fta. who
Ice i in Miit t $B aad b per aa-
I anas hare beea ibtU-ia aot naar tlae
civil serriee rales.
Tar La Grantee lad.. eaaaty safe ia
the coartbaase was Wew ape at two
o'clock oa the aorais; of the IIU aad
5W was carried a way. Two taoaaaad
peaaies jatt received froaa the lata I
was a portioa of the plunder.
A tETxax wiad aad haibocm passed
erer Lela aad Morrtsoa. Ofc.. b the
i airhl of the aad haadredsof fraii
tree aad wheat field for asiles were
y
Catena eas aad sanal stosk were
killed Vr haUttones ulaaow lights
hro4tea oat aad
blowi dowa.
Ft tie Jalliac of a wtiaa of tie old
wall of tie old Ion of Fez ia Africa
la workaaea -were killed.
Tar aorthboaad Illiaois Ceatral 5c
Loais expreM eoUided with a freight
traia at East Cairo. Kt oa tie lati.
killiai tie oalortd reaaa aad iajar
iar tie te)craph operator who was ia
tie statioa. whieh was ksoeked over
lata the backwater br tie posseaer
eaciae watea le:i lae trajc
J. W. AB9APBht tie j'.wtcotiMia
wia killed Ms fatierdaUw. AMUIaat
Saaelaer. at Acbara. b- wis eom
rieted of aaarder aad fataeed to life
inprisoaateat.
Two freight trains collided at Tee-
(Tardea. lad oa the Mth aad bati ea-
rises were rained aad ST ears ditched.
Svoae was killed bat a traaip was
badly ia jared.
Tacsafe of tie Leziactoa ariass
a colored iasUtatioa at MHi-
Md.. was opeaed aad foaad to
eoataia S.V1. The act liabilities
were iid to be aboat SWMl Ererett
j J. Warria?. tic colored presiaeat aad
' co'Aier. was reported asiiiar.
RuKrr XisTEBf-aad a straaer were
1 driakia aad tirowiag dice at Lisee
caza. La- rrbett a qaarrel arose -rd
Masters shot the strar-;r and the
straaar killed Masters with a kaife
aad tbea stasrgered a litl.V war aad
dropped dead.
O.vs hasdred sad re bodies were re-
coTercd ap to the 9th froai the S
Kraaaisoo aaiae aar Soatbrerete. ilex..
aad i amiaers were said U be still
missing. Nearly all tie bodies reeor-
ered were so barned as to be
nUable.
Hareeog-
FlKE started at the Belviderc apart-
meat hoase ut Chicago on
the after-
the third
noon of tie th aad gutted
and foarth goors and caused a total
loss of JSaw fully covered by in-
mranee. Many of the tenants had
narrow escapes.
The government of Sweden has noti
fied the Canadian government thet
Prof. Andrac will start from Stock
holm about the end of June in search
of the north pole and requests that in
structions be given to report the bal-
loon if sighted.
At a meeting of the Miners union at
Leadville CoL on the 9th it was de-
cided to declare the strike off. The
strike ha lasted nearly nine months
and has cost the camp fully StM.900.
Wsides the money contributed by sym-
pathizers. Two Swedes named Carl Nelson and
John Carson were driving on the rail-
road track at Altona I1L. In a buggy
when they were struck by a train and
fatally injured.
The annual convention of the Texas
Live Stock association met at San An-
tonio Tex. on the Sth. Fully 09
stoekmen were in attendance. A reso-
lution eivintr the Chicago stoek Yards
SO days in whieh to abolish the Si per
car terminal charges under a threat to
patronize Kansas City and other mar-
kets was adopted.
Six Mormon eldrs were recently
corralled by incensed woodmen near
MeClenay. Fix and tarred and feath-
ered. The elders were then marched
to the county line and told to go. Fif-
teen women converts were found ia
the elders' camp by the woodmen and
sent to their homes.
At the Mill Haven Co. 's works at Gar-
nett (in. about 30 of the employes
quarreled during a game of cards and
the whole party used their revolvers.
One man was killed and five others
were wounded.
Br the upsetting of a lamp the home
of Elihu Reed at Bivalve. N. J. with
its contents was completely destroyed
by fire and his four-year-old daughter
burned to death.
A aon.EK exploded at an oil well on
the Staples farm at Callery Junction.
Pil. and John Dunlap an oil driller
wai killed and another man injured.
The cnginc-houc derrick ana ma-
chinery were all demolished.
Lavhence Hcttos has presented to
the university at Princeton N. J. his
unique and valuable collection of
death masks of notable men and it has
been placed in Princeton's new library-
At the crossing of two roads at Bir-
mingham. Ala. two freight trains col-
lided on the Tth and an engineer and a
tramp were fatally injured and several
more trainmen badly hurt.
T. W. Ecxr.LKilBOEU died at Okla
homa City. Ok. on the sth of hiccoughs
having had them incessantly for IS
days. Though every known remedy
was. applied it was impossible to stop
them and they reduced the man's
weight from 369pound to less than 190.
F.l.l-A Pakkeb. aged :i. and her
brother Robert aged It. were struck
by a train and killed while they were
on a trestle near Terre Haute. lad.
watching the high water of the Wa-
bash river.
The Park theater the oldest plaj-
boase in Indianapolis Ind.. wa de-
stroyed by fire oa the night of the 7th.
Loss. Sian'ou. Several spectators w ere
serioasly iajnrwd.
Thhee negroes were recently taken
to Sturgis Ky. ia a dying condition
from tie eaTeets of being beaten and
shot by whiteeaps at Rack frpringx.
The negrees had beea waraad to leave
T eaaatry bat refased.
The chaperon of an Iowa skating
party ran away from th pond and
married the wildest young man in the
crowd.
Two miles from Milan Italy is the
most remarkable echo in the world. It
Is at the oastle of Slmoaetta and re-
peats the ahot of a pistol C9 times.
ileli Chatelaln the traveler in Africa
( says that among the 299000(109 people
in the Dark Continent e9000 are
slaves.
It is esLmated by naturalists that
there are not less than 100000 varie-
ties of plants already known and classified.
A CriiREXTY PLAN
PreoWemt ;.VcKiner Hoaei t Mre a
CesTUTwsUon Apaointed.
rDIDATS BElNTf WEEDED
Itair Dlfxt THKtc Masy 01c fW
i nn-0arstSn ( tb
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C
I Waacro5 March IS. The
' for tie oreatioa of a aaoaetarr oo
plaa
oa for tie Madr of the carreacj erils
of tie eoastrr wiH be taken ap ia
earaet Vr tie aew adasiaistratiea
proaipUT apa tie aveetiair of eoa t
cres. IV.-ddeat McKialer has cirea t
rarefal con-ideratiaB to the relatioas
of tariff and earrearr Verislatioa aad
he does sot aaeaa to hare theai www
iacoaaict. lie beliercs that the ae-
tioa of adeaaate rcTeaae to ateet ex
peases is of paraaMaat iaaportaaee
bat he has beea eoariaeed br tie rea
soala of Seoretarr Gare. Reprr-
seats tire Fowler. CoaiptroUer Eckel
aad other stadeats of aaaaee that re-
. risioa of the earreocT sjsteas sioaUl
follow oa tie heels of rerisioa of tic
tari?. He hopes to proaanse both
aesares witioat ls of tiate by pet'
 Utr tie camacj wsaaiissioa ta work '
while tie tariff is ia process of eaaet-
aseat. so that a well-diirested carreacy 
1 '.eheaie raay b ready fortheeoa&iderB- '
tioa of eoagress whea it aseeV. is rcr-!
i alar session ia December. The effort
' probably wiU be asade to hare a Mil
j creatia a carreacy coanatssion re I
jportd to the seaate aad diseavxt
there while tie hoase aad the seaate
ieoaHaittee oa Saaace are dealiae with
jtietariSL It will ties s to tie hoase J
' after the bodr has disponed of tie ;
tar&atatime which will sot delay 
tarUT action ia tie seaate. The
$-41rer mea are not pleased with
I
i the idva of a
isioa. beeaase
carreacy eommur-
tier do aot be-
woald be made i
Here
tiat it
pof aee frieadlr to the free coiaajc M:;eVftv "e oeoole K?ln'- "
idea aad tier fear tie effect of a near- ??? .n .T Z ?T
t t - . . t  .utfcat the tntnlKD of the democrats ia
I 3d staadard. The exact aamber aad j
J HIiaiDVUS -TA. i
eharscter of th? commission hare aot I
! ret been dctermiaed. It is pmbable i
-u. ut p-i---eDiwU.n-n-ali--eaU.i
. -i u :i i ! I
it contfiin t: least three aembersof
each hoase. to be designated by the I
presiding o2c r or votes of the boase.
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taaitr to appoint representatives in
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the tnate and will leave the president i
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free to choose men in aeeord with his .
1
men -ic& hie nnr.tnTliret
Great care will bc exercised in making
the selections. In the hope of the presi-
dent and Secretary Gage that their ad-
ministration may be distinguished for
the inauguration of a scientific cur-
rency system.
tVeedlnc Out Of3ce Seekers.
Washisbtox. March 13. Reoeated
warnings um. sunr ucuimui miai
LC. .VC.utr. ... . ..0....K UMtWM .-v
also can be seen the results of the in
sistence of the president that these
delegations shall do their own weed-
ing out. Delegations are meeting and
acting unitedly. They are imitating
the frankness of the president and are
telling candidates who have no chance
that they cannot help them. Not in 30
years has there been such rapid sub-
sidence of the office-seeking craze.
Enough place hunters remain to make
things interesting but the crowds
have accepted the truth and are going
by every train. Mr. Treloar is the
only candidate who has anything like
general support from Missouri for of-
fice. He has been indorsed for fourth
assistant postmaster-general but the
indorsing has been done on paper.
The secretary of the treasury de-
clared himself yesterday upon the sub-
ject of appointments. He said to a
j congressman vho called In behalf of a
candidate thtt he intended to go slow
in making changes. He said this in
such a decided manner as to leave the
impression it would be useless to try
to hasten action. The treasnry and
the interior contain about all that is
left outside of civil service protection.
Ctaitlflcatlon of the New Concre.
Washixbtox. March IS. The classi-
fication of the new congress is nearly
completed. The clerk of the bouse of
representative has made up a list
showing democrats republicans popu-
lists and silverites upon the date con-
tained upon the election tickets.
These tickets showed that there were
IS fusionlsts. as follows: Jett and Ba-
ker. Illinois; Todd. Michigan; Max-
well. Stark Sutherland and Green.
Nebraska: Brenner. Marshall Meek-
ison and McDowell. Ohio: Lewis and
Jones W ashington. These fusionists
have been eargerly sought im-
mediately upon their arrival here
bv leaders of the democrats
a
populists each desiring to get thera
within their own camps to act in cau-
cus and especially have they beea
sought by the friends of the leading
candidates for the srjeakershin on the
urt of the democrats. Since eoznin.
' here Mr. Lewis of Washington: Mc-!
i - - -
Dowell. of Ohio and Mr. De Vries of
California have indicated their prefer-
ence to be classed as democrats. Green
aad Southerland." of Nebraska have
gone with the populists. With this
change the house stands on party votes
as follows: Republicans 29S; demo-
crats 122: populists 21: fcslonists C;
silverites S; vacancies"
STRICT NECTItALITY.
MrKtnley and llli Cabinet Have an t'nder-
taadlsc Resardlat; Cub.
Washington March 13. It is under-
stood that at the cabinet meeting to-
day the Cuban situation was discussed
and that the discussion ended with
the understanding that the policy
hitherto pursued of strict nMtrtlity
aad enforcement of our neutrality
laws would bc adhered to so long as the
conditions remained as at present.
Grerr Tnanl.a America" Create
Atmenn March IS. M. Skouzca
Greek minister of foreign affairs has
cabled the thanks of the Greek govern-
ment to the United States senate for
the resolution of sympathy recently
adooted bv that bodr.
XIM-TT-ONE COUNTS.
KankrrJi'Kalcht.of UuWtUr. It Areued
of BntroQi Criminal Art.
Locisville Ky. March IS. Tne
most Tolumlnous indictment ever re-
turned in a United States district eoart
in Kentucky was entered at noon yes-
terday bv the federal grand jury
against J.'M. McKnight the late presi-
dent of the defunct German national
bank. It embraced 29 pages of close-
ly typewritten matter and contained
91 separate and distinct oocnta. In
which there were specified violation
of the natonal banking laws includ-
ing embezzlement false entry and fase
report to the gomptroiler.
' H. CLAY EVANS HONORED
rbe TwartKf tin Hli- tnaaler l B
ttnuas of Tear'OW'ef. is oeeo tendtred
the po4tioa of com; ilw-mmt of pa-
ioasaad probab-T- .51 aecrpCastt
' aae of the aacrst mpnrtaat in the
i ii frtaaeatat sert - uoiLMde of the
'ssaiaet. Mr Evaas has toajr bea
ten.Bi as a leaJt r ajaonp wuthera
repaWieaas. H e represes ted the Cha t
ffei
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If CLAT EVAXa
taaypa district in congress for ser
eral years aad ia the Harrison admin-
istration was first assistant past-
ter-reaerai. lister be ran ;oi
j-oreraor of Teaaesee on the repab
Heaa ticket aad theresalt wasindosb
for many weeks. He was eofiviireO
for socae time not unlikely to be thr
soath's representative in Mr. MeKin
ley's cabinet.
Frank W. Palmer of Iowa who onet
likelr of all the candidates for tht
P1-1 " rcee-e I- appointment.
THE TARIFF BILL.
O-ao-nlle s-nalor. May Delay r"a?-bj
IlitenUf-il Debate.
Wacmix;to(. March li The tarif
t utjaatiwa i. e-ltrinr. flit. rntiliAti
" - .  - ...
ie concern. They feel sure that
lr WH cn P115- bBt il U oovr bc"
?2 oa. evel7 sf- - - hu--
exats as pood party polkrr. After
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c' "rTntra u iaic -rii itwuic riiiurtu
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crease ui iiaiifru in oruer io ukv au-
vantage of duties under the lower
effect there will be a suspension
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of imports for several months
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and a consequent falllngoff In receipts
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and the bill which was designed to in-
c
erease tne revenues tney say as a
matter of fact will sbow a decrease.
This view is taken by quite a number
of democrats who say that It is their
policy to have the bill parsed but not
until after it has been thoroughly dis-
iussed. Without an active majority in
the senate the republicans will not be
ible to hurrv the measure along. The
j rpabljcan
silverites have indicated
j that they will not prevent a tariff bill
from passing but
.(C UUl Upf-7! HI
the policy of delay
LONG
CRIMINAL RECORD.
A Man Who lla Operated In All tbe III;
Cllle or the World In tbe Tout.
New Yobk. March 12. The police
yei-terday arrested William Carroll
Woodward alias Musgrorc alias Haw-
ley and a woman who gave bur name
as Jennie Sankey. They were wanted
in Ihiladelphia on a eharge of robbing
a jeweler there of S3.U99 worth of
jewelry. They were arraigned and re-
manded baek to jail and Philadelphia
notified. Tbe police say that
Woodward U a professional swin-
dler a gold brick sebentvr. a
bunco man and a worker of confidence
games of every known variety; a man
who always goes in for big money and
is so clever that be has never been con-
victed. They assert that he has been
engaged in robbery in Ceylon India:
swindling in South Africa; assault and
swindling in England and that be is
known a? a criminal in all the big
cities of the Eastern and Western hem-
ispheres. TERRIBLE OCEAN VOYAGE.
steamer L.ke YVlnnlps t'ccomfortaMe
Ktperlence stock Thrown Overboard.
Lxvektool March 12. The Beaver
line steamer Lake Winnipeg 25 days
out from St. John. N. !.. arrived safely
yesterday. CapL Taylor reports bav-
ins: had a terrible voyage during
whieh the vessel had such a large
quantity of water in her engine room
that the passengers had to be called
upon to assist in clearing and righting
her cargo which had shifted during
the heavy weather. The fires of the
Lake Winnipeg were out for over a
fortnight and 997 head of cattle. 22
hordes and 71 sheep hail to be thrown
. overboard owing to the scarcity of
drinking wMer on board and the ina
bility of the engineers to work the con'
dessing apparatus.
STEEL RAILS TO JAPAN.
' The "T. Cars of tb Ainrrln rrodnrt
Will soon Leave Philadelphia.
PlIILADELTHIA March 12. The first
cargo of steel rails from this country
j for Japan is now being loaded on the
llntish steamer Fortuna. at the Phila-
delphia &. Reading coal wharves to-
gether with a large consignment of lo-
comotives built in the city and intend-
I ed for Japan. Three other steamers
have been chartered to carry engines
and raila from this port to Japan. The
tonnage consigned to the Fortuna con-
sists of 2009 tons of rails and 2.999 tons
of locomotives and equipments.
For Minuter to HawalL
Washington March 12. It is under-
stood that Mr. Irving B. Dudley of
San Diego Cab. is the choice of the
California delegation for minister to
Hawaii and that his appointment has
been practically agreed upon by Presi-
dent MeKinlcv.
CartUIe 1 Attorne for Monran.
New Yobk. March 12 Ex-SeereUrr
John 0- Carlisle now special counsel
for J. Pierpoat Morgan made his first
appearance In that capacity yesterday
in a Raleigh N. C court when be se-
cured an injanetion for the Southern
railway a Morgan line.
Drove Into a Klter.
Lenox Mich. March 12. An un-
known young man and a middie-aged
woman who it is supposed were driv-
ing from Romeo to Port Huron drove
Into Belle river near a bridge on the
turnpike four mile northeast of here
last night and were drowned. Th
bodies have not yet been recovered.
Saw Lafayette In I Sit.
New Yobk. March 12. - Mrs. John
Day colored aged 104 years died yes-
terday at MaiLson. N J. She bad
.ived in Madron fur iO years and saw
Lafayette when he pasteu through that
place in 1S2L
vjS.
Sr VMaaafef
TSfi&EtimF '
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my :
SNOWBOUND.
RaM
iy Dim Are OresMr nerooraltieJ
aiHi a IMc flood I rrarrd.
9r. Vxvu Miaa.. March it -It
iaww icrioasly all day yesterday in
SU Paal Teral ioehcA bciag added to
the tcMaeadoas pile already on the
frroaad. The -srs of the atreet rail-
wbjt companies are aaoria; with rreat
diffiaalty aad the steam railway lines
are la a state of demoraliaatioa. At
sereral poiats aorth aad west of St.
Paal traias are wholly abaadoaed
aad little eort is beia? made
ta more roUiaR- stock on braaeh
liaes. So eertaia is it that there
will be a big' flood whea
tie !Mw disappears that resi-
dents on the Jowlaads are beinalnfr to
prepare for it. The storm preralled
throaphoat Sooth Dakota. Mianesota
Iowa aad Wlseoatia. many places re-
porting a fnll-Sedped blizxard. and all
telling of heary saow the lightest fall
beiiip three or four laches.
ORDER REVOKED.
Pejxion llumlnluc -Saixeon Not Coder the
iU sr it Itnle.
Washixotos. March li The eiril
scrriec protection has been remored
from pension examining' sartreoas
whose fees amoant to S90d and less per
iBBiffl. Mr. Francis issued the amend-
ing order yast before he went oat of
the interior department bat this is the
first publication of it. The corre-
spondence of congressmen shows the
impression is universal among the
doctors that these appointments are
now protected by eiril service. The
original order issued seven or eight
weeks before the end of the Cleveland
administration put allot the thousa mis
of examining surgeons under the civil
service law. The civil service commis-
sion called the attention of the secre-
tary to the matter and insisted that the
order went too far.
WILL REACH THE OCEAN.
That I V hat rreIilent KlpJer Say. of
the
santa Kc.
Los Axbble. Cat. March 10. Presi-
dent Ripley and other officials of the
Santa Fe system are in Los Angeles.
The object of their visit is a general
inspection of the company's line- In
speaking of the sale of the Atlantic &
Pacific road next month and ltd acqui-
sition by the Santa Fe. Mr. Ripley
saifl: "I will stcte that negotiations
have been made for the purchase from
the Southern Pacific of the road from
Iinrstow to the Needles and this trans-
fer will be shortly effected. In this
way the Santa Fe will have an un-
broken line of its own road from the
Pacific ocean to Chicago."'
A FRUITLESS SESSION.
Arkama I.ecUlator Adjourn After Doln?
Little Kxrrpt Draxrlnr; salaries.
LinxE Rock. Ark. March ii The
Thirty-First general assembly came to
a close by limitation yesterday after a
00 days' eession. The legislature was
inharmonious from the beginning and
the result was that little legislation
was effected. None of the appropria-
tions except one to pay the salaries of
the lawmakers was passed and on
this account Gov. Jones will be com-
pelled to call an extra session whieh
will probably begin April 1.
NEBRASKA BRIBERY CHARGES.
A Llt of lioodlero Offered to the state seo-
ate Inretljratlon Yotetl Donn.
Lixcolx. Neb. March 12. Tuesday
evening D. V Thomson president of
the Lincoln Gas Co. wrote a letter to
the senate offering to give a list
of names of bribe seekers who
were connected with the senate and
who had approached him. The letter
caused a sensation yesterday and a
motion to have an investigating com-
mittee appointed resulted In a tie vote.
LieuL-Gov. Harris defeating it by vot-
ing in the negative.
NINETY-ONE COUNTS.
llanl.tr MeKnlcht.of LooLvllle! Arcued
of Ncmeiwli Criminal Act.
Lockville. Ky . March 12. The
most voluminous indictment ever re-
turned in a United htatesaistrict court
in Kentucky was entered at noon yes-
terday by the federal grand jury
against J. M. McKnight. the late presi-
dent of the defunct German national
bank. It embraced 210 pages of close-
ly typewritten matter Bnd contained
91 separate and distinct counts in
which there were specified violations
of the national banking laws includ-
ing embezzlement false entry and falss
reports Jo the comptroller.
Too 3luch for Her to Hear.
Kaxsas City Mo.. March 12. Mrs.
Nancy A. Stuart. 4 years old widow
of Dave Stuart a laborer swallowed
two ounces of carbolic acid in room IS
on the second floor of the building at
1900 West Ninth street last night. J
Two hours later she died. The cause of I
the suicide was poverty and a niisun- I
derstandiug with her son. Charles 1
Muart in regard to a young woman he
w as keeping company with.
Kallwar Traek Damaged.
Greensbubo Ind.. March 12. Steady
rains have been falling for the last two
days and the rivers south of here are
again on the rampage. Six miles of
the Baltimore A. Ohio railroad were
washed out two large bridges going
down. There has not been a train In
Ripley county since last Thursday.
The bass in the county will aggregate
S1S6009 and In Decatur county about
S100.&M. It will take $19900 to repair
the pikes.
Sntrt Damage by HaiL
Peebt. Ok. March 12. A severe
wind and hailstorm pa&sed over Lela
and Morrison east of here last night
and hundreds of fruit trees and wheat
fields for miles were mined. Chickens
and. In some instances small stock
were killed by hailstones window
lights broken out and some few houses
were blown down.
Madagascar Cjueen Killed.
Poet Loci. Mauritius March 12.
Ranarolana III. queen of Madagascar
has been exited to the island of Re-
union a Freneh possession near here.
Ca.hPrr and 83.0OO MUtlng-.
I'uiLADELPllIA March 12. John F.
IHcree chief accountant and cashier of
the Reading Railroad Co.' business at
the Port of Richmond coal wharves is
missing and $5000 intrusted to him to
pay the employes is not in the com-
pany's safe Pierce was looked upon
as an upright man and has been in the
company" employ for IS years. Dc
tectlvea are hunting for him.
Many tt'oikmen Killed.
Tanciek March 12. By the falling
of a section of the old wall of tne old
town of Fez IS? workmen hare been
killed.
THE NORTHWEST
THE WORK-A-DAY VORLD.
There arc la tb' cotiatr" nearly 30.-000J-9Q
a'p'e who Ih e on v aj-es. tad of
te aeorir 3JW0M are omen.
The propoaal to abolish barraaM
after the car ! w defeated in the
(Sooth A astral ran leaktiTe eanncil by
aiae toles.
I'reskJeat Mshoa. of the .Vatoat
! Street Railway hJa)pKea aociaon.
'it aatiority tor tie statement that
j street railway men recel'.c linker vrajjes
Ja cities where three-cent lares prevail
than in tbor manieipalities whvre far
entit is the ruIiHjr price.
For the firrt timr In several year
eey departmesit of the Lackawanna
Iron asd Steel company. Scranton. Pa
steel mills. fornace and rolling ibUIs
are nolta-H-oriy in operation. In
all. etrr IjOOO men baTc found worl:
kiaee the works beaa to mum-.
A RIPE OLDA3Z.
Mrs. Charles Howard of Baltimore.
M years old. is the only surviving child
of Francis Scott KeyjThe author of The
Star Spangled Banner."
Theodore Sedgwick Fay; who was as-
sociated viitb N. P. Willis and George
P. Morris in editing the New York Mir-
ror more than $0 years ago. is still liv-
ing in Berlin at the age of 90.
The matrimonial statistics for Ber-
lin for left attest that in that year 21
Brliners were married who had paMitO
the ripe age of 74 years.
One of tbe jofltest of the old men
present at tbe old folks dance given
recently at Barre. Mas vrzs Dr. Wil-
liam L. Russell who is now the oldest
living graduate of Harvard college. Dr.
Russell is 97.
209 rscs. oats. 173 urs. harlet.
M. M. Luther East Troy. Pa. grew
if bushels Salzer's Kilter Mine Oats
snd John Breider. Misbicoit. Wis. 173
buhel Silver King Barley per acre
Don't you believe it? Write them!
Fodder plants as rape leiwinte.
tetch spurry clovers trrassj's. e!c in
endless varieties potatoes at SI JOB a bar-
rel. Salzer's feeds are bred to big
tields. America's greatest erd cata-
logue and 12 farm seed sample arc Kent
you by John A -Salrr Seed Co-La Crosse.
Wis- upon receipt of 10 cent and this
notice worth $10 to get a start k
"iVhen the Lord h.on oat a woman her
harp w will not feei as proud as whea the
minister asked for a second piece of her pie
at a (.burrs dinner.
Don't snap in two. Limber up.
ccb Oil will cute htrabsgo tere.
St-Ja
Our idea of u bnr" fool is a man who
bv a nS neck from "ookisg np far air
ships.
It will be heaven to the women beesae
the anefe don't near corsets or tight
shoes. Atchison Globe.
We think Pise Cure for CoBtarnption
i the uly medicine for Coejh. Jeanie
Pinckard Sprmgbeid Ills. Oct. I 1S81.
A man's importance cannot be deter-
mined by the number of initials before his
name. Atchison Globe.
Time counts health game. A quick sare
cure St. Jacobs Oil for prains.
The man who mind his own buine3 al-
ways has somethms to do. Ram's Horn.
Is llx2 i sMrpxris as prcveJ by (u wen
fierfu. crcs c scrcta. h.p C.sease. &ad aU
t zcrrucf uxpure t.DoJ Et.iia5r
Sarsaparilla i
the Best
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Perfect bearings Ere of vital
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Waverley beanng'i are true
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The
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regardless of cost.
For those who want a good blcvcle at a
low pnee.sie continue raaklnc"e5 War.
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