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All others are being marked up ten per cent or thereabout. Even ff Ontario should harness Niagara, It would not be the first time that beauty has been commercialized. The cables say King Menelik hasn't one foot in the grave. It is therefor# unnecessary to say that Abyssinia is still unpartitioned by the powers. Acting on Mohammed's wisdom where the mountain wias concerned, an Iowa town has moved itself to a railway that would not come to the town. Fears are entertained in Persia that there will be a reaction when the crown prince becomes shah. What in v the world can they have to react from ' in Persia? With coal enough in the mines of the country to last 4,000 or 5,000 years ft does seem as if it ought to be easier to get enough in the cellar to last four or five months. Count Boni as a Paris newspaper writer, at a salary of $100 per, may not save much money, but he will have a glorious chance to get even with the flippant Journalists of Amer­ ica. m. The Chicago doctor who said in public the other day that a man ought to choose his wife just as he would a fine horse, probably heard from his wife when he got home, if he is mar- g»3,;/ A dispatch says eastern traveling men are going to break up the tipping practice. What's the matter, asks the • St. Louis Republic, with the western- v era helping along this emancipation from small graft? The average American family con­ sumes 1,084 pounds of meat annually, according to Secretary Wilson's esti­ mates. If that's true, says the Wash­ ington Times, the vegetarians have been stuffing the ballot in making up their returns. WK. A fashion writer announces that tiaras will be worn by ladies in the theaters next season. Well, even when general prosperity prevails, few ladies are likely to be able to afford tiaras that will seriously obstruct the view from behind them. A Denver woman recently succeed­ ed in raising $2,000 for a hospital by selling kisses and smiles. She might now be able to get another good slice of money for some charity by writing a testimonial in favor of somebody's cure for chapped Hps. '*)' 4 The Pennsylvania railway doubts whether it will ever be reasonably practical for its trains to use electric motors in Washington. "Reasonably practical" is a phrase that covers so many con agencies that it should be accorded a place among the classics of diplomacy. [.v<- Ifcv. Inconsistency, the paste jewel of human nature, has never been better Illustrated than by the barbarous con­ trast of bravery and cowardice which a medical journal points out in pro­ fessional motor-car drivers. They risk their lives in perilous runs for money, for excitement, for fame, from zest for the sport or whatever the motive may be. Yet some of them will not have the number 13 on their cars. Shrinking from the fictitious terrors of a medieval superstition they plunge boldly into dangers that*, are so obvi­ ous that every spectator of a race holds his breath. CuriouB illogical human nature! If the recommendations of a college baseball coach are adopted, the game will be more confusing to the unin­ itiated than it is at present. He sug­ gests that the batter be allowed to run the bases either way, going from the home plate to first base or to third, as he chooses, and continuing that way to the home plate again. When the first man in an inning has run to the left instead of to the right *11 the others will have to go that way. Whether there is any merit in the i>roiK)isal or not, it indicates that the baseball players are not going to allow the football players to have things all to themselves in amending rules. Tbomaa A. Edition claims that he OU make an automobile for $200 that will last IB years. Hut why, asks the Chicago Record-Herald, should any­ body want an automobile that will last as long as that? We will all be flying in less than 15 years from now. A Cincinnati drummer posing as Richard Harding Davis had the time of his life at the expense of Nash­ ville's "400." Annapolis, Md.--A mob numbering K or 30 men broke down the door of the Annapolis jail at an early hour Friday, took out Henry Davis, the ne­ gro who last Friday assaulted Mrs. John Reid (white), near Igleharts Station, an<f lynched him. Davis, who also was known by the ttame of Chambers, confessed his guilt before being put to death. Little or no resistance was offered to the mob by the officers at the jail and none whatever by the prisoner. The negro was dragged by the mob from the jail *to a vacant lot on Col­ lege creek, a quarter of a mile dis­ tant, where he was strung up to a limb qf a tree and half a dozen bul­ lets were fired into him. On the way to the place of execution members of the lynching party kicked And cuffed Davis whenever opportun­ ity was offered. His body was left lying under the tree which had served as the gallows. It was viewed by hun­ dreds of persons during the day. Later * coroner's Jury was empanelled and after heating the testimony of wit­ nesses,. returned a verdict of death at the hands of persons unknown to the Jury. The prison from which Davis was taken is a hundred years old. It is situated in Calvert street and is only about 500 yards from the state house and the executive mansion of the gov­ ernor. The lynching party used Senior hall of St. John's ^college for its as­ sembling place. This ract is ta*ken to indicate that most of the men connect­ ed with the affair were from Annapo­ lis and did not come from Igleharts Station, where Mrs. Reid lives. As early as 11 o'clock the mob be­ gan to collect on St. John's campus. Some time after 12 the crowd entered the lower floor of Senor hall. There Its members proceeded to blacken their faces and some of them donned masks. They were quiet in their movements, but some of the students were awakened. These came down and watched the proceedings, but did not interfere or give any alarm. The college authorities strongly denied Friday that any of the students were Implicated in the lynching. f RIVER PACKET BLQWS IWT - The thing that worries Walter Well- man is that he might pass the pole in bisi balloon and not be able to stop. When the first steamship bringing Immigrants to Charleston came across the ocean recently, 29 couples were married on the voyage. Each of them will face the problem of making home in America with new strength and new determination. It looks as if the man who claims -to produce vegetable life artificially were merely making more work for Prof. Wiley. < (Fourteen Persona Killed tr? Disaster on Mississippi River. Vlejcsburg, Miss. -- According to the latest news obtainable by long distance 'phone from places near Gold Dust landing, where the steamer W. L. Scovell blew up Wednesday, the list of dead and missing totals 14, and the injured include four white men and several negroes. Hie white dead are: Captain John A. Quackenboss, mas­ ter, Vicksburg; L. Wade Quackenboss, Vickaburg; Clerk Joseph Smith, Ya- too City; Leval Yerger, Jackson. The other ten dead and missing in­ clude some deck passengers and roustabouts. The accident occurred at Gold Dust landing, about 17 miles south of this city. The boat was at the landing taking on freight when an explosion came and the boat was blown to pieces. Many of the timbers were thrown hundreds of yards and the boat began to sink immediately. It is said the accident was caused bF a defective boiler plate. The cap­ tain was one of the oldest and best known residents of this city and was well known to every man on the river. The steamer Scovel was only recently purchased by him and others for the Vicksburg-Davis Bend trade. The boat was insured for $6,000. Wade Quackenboss was the son of Capt. Quackenboss. + Arkansas Bank Robbed. Texarkana, Ark. -- The bank of Horatio, Ark., a small town a&out 50 miles north of this place, was looted by two robbers Wednes­ day afternoon. They covered the cashier with pistols' and took about $4,000. ' Government Crop Bulletin. Washington.--A bulletin issued by the agricultural department Thurs­ day shows the total production in bushels in 1906 of corn to be 2,927,- 416,091; winter wheat, 492,888,004; bushels; spring Wheat, 242,372,966 bushels. Negro Shoots Capt. Macklin. El Reno, Okla.--Capt. Edgar B, Macklin, of company C, Twenty-Fifth United States Infantry, was shot twice and dangerously wounded Friday by a negro who is believed to be one of those discharged by President Roose­ velt. Real D. A. R. Dies, Aged fRi * New York.--Mrs. Rachel Brook- field Day, an actual daughter of the revolution, is dead, in Newark, at the age of 96. She was a daughter of Capt Job Brookfleld, who served throughout the revolutionary war. • Cuba Free from Yellow Fever. Havana.--For the first time since last August Cuba is now free from yellow fever, the last case, which was in this city, having been discharged Friday. At this time last year there were 12 cases in the island. t 8heriff of Wabash County, III., Killed. Mount Carmel, 111.--Sheriff Alex Oompton, of Wabash county, was shot and killed at Keensburg Thursday afternoon while about to take a child from its father, David Kellum, and turn It over to the mother. BISHOP M'CJtBE IS DEAD NOTED METHODIST CLERGYMAN PASSES AWAY. * i Apoplectic Stroke Results Fatally--^ His Career as a War Chaplain and Missionary Society Secretary. New York. -- Bishop Charles C; McCabe of the Methodist Episcopal church, died in the New York hospital'1 at 6:20 a. m. Wednesday. Death was1 due to apoplexy, with which the bishop was stricken several days ago while passing through this city on his way to his home In Philadelphia. Mrs. McCabe and the bishop's niece, who havft b^en with him almost constantly since heWas stricken, were at the bed­ side when the noted clergyman passed, away. \ Bishop McCabe was born at Athens.- O.. Oct 11, 1836. He entered the Ohio conference of the Methodist church ln| Bishop C. C. McCabe. 1860 and two years later became chaplain of the one hundred and twen­ ty-second Ohio infantry. He was cap-; tured in the battle of Winchester and passed four months in Libby prison. His experiences as a prisoner of war were later recounted on the lecture platform. For more than 30 years he was popularly known as "Chaplain Mc­ Cabe," and the title clung to him even after the general conference of the Methodist church in 1896 made him a bishop. Following the war he became pastor of a church at Portsmouth. O., and later was associated as ass^gtant *sec- retary with the board of church ex­ tension. His success as a money-raiser was remarkable and later, as secretary of the Methodist Missionary society, to which post he was elected in 1884, he added half a million dollars to the an-, nual Income of the society. He was a singer and his songs were a feature of his pleas for funds. He was. chosen chancellor of the American university at Washington, Dec. 10, 1902. NEED NOT PAY BONI'S DEBTS. Mms* Gould Wins 8uits Brought by Castellane's Creditors. Paris. -- Madame Gould, the form­ er Countess Boni de Castellane, has been victorious in the suits brought by creditors and money lend­ ers against her with the object of making her jointly responsible with the count. Thirteen of the 15 cases were dismissed Wednesday by the court, with costs against the plaintiffs. Only in the cases of two art dealers did the court express the opinion that Madame Gould should be held respon­ sible, as the objects purchased in these instances for the most part were still in her possession. There are still three cases to be passed upon, and they Will be decided December 26. In dismissing the 13 suits the'court held that the plaintiffs had failed to proved that the debts were contracted for the common benefit of the count and countess. The latter, the court declared, had more than fulfilled the obligations under her marriage con­ tract. During her wedded life she had retained nothing for herself, her en­ tire revenue being collected by her husband, and employed, according to his own admission, either for the household expenses or for the pay­ ment of his personal debts. TRIES TO KILL CHICAGO JUDGE the Disappointed Litigant Attempts ^ Life of C. 8. Cutting. Chleago.--An attempt to murder Probate Judge Charles S. Cutting was made in a corridor of the criminal court building Friday, the bullet barely missing its mark and the would-be slayer being struck in the face by the jurist Immediately after it was fired. Frederick Elerbrock, a disappointed litigant, was the man w^o tried to kill Judge Cutting. A struggle to disarm Elerbrock followed the shooting, In which Judge Cutting took part. Within ttto hourB after the shot was Ared the matter had been brought to the attention of State's Attorney Healy, taken before the grand jury and an indictment returned against Elerbrock charging assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Cashier Shot by Robbers. St. Louis.--Two men entered the office of the J. B. Muss Milling com­ pany Friday", shot Cashier J. B. Muss in the cheBt and made a futile attempt to rob the safe. One was captured. Begins War on Ice Trust. Albany, N. Y.--Attorney General Julius Mayer Thursday began an ac­ tion against the American Ice com­ pany in the supreme court of New York county for the dissolution of the so-called "ice trust." • • • _ Patrick Saved from Dsatlfc|jB|w, -Albany, N. Y.--Gov. Higgins Thurs­ day commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of death under which Albert T. Patrick has remained five years for the murder of William Marsh Rite. -v Reformed football has been pro­ nounced O, K. Now reform the pro- teMfcmal player. "Had a Right to Kill His Wife.** Butler, Pa.--Max Kaftle, a Russian, killed Uis wife Thursday night by striking her on the head with an iron, and also injured a young daughter and a boarder. He told the police he had a right to Slay Wa wife. Pickpocket Gets $6,000. ^ ̂ Philadelphia.--Mrs. Ella V. Kober was robbed of $6,000 by a pickpocket in the holiday crowds in the shopping district here Wednesday. Mrs.. Kober bad the money in a secret pocket in Ml underskirt r , f-v • •VU . Hotel Man Accused of Middleton, O.--C. N. Powers,"pro­ prietor of the Rommel house, which was destroyed by fire Tuesday, was arrested on a charge of arson Wednps- day afternoon at his other hotel io \ ^ * - • - f/f <" A' £li "ITU MiNCi 1» GUILTY OF UNO FRAUD \ - >• • • . OFFICER8 OF A .NEBRASKA CAT* TLE COMPANY CONVICTE©, Of ;J . • • "• tofchards, Comstock and Others Ai# Proved to Have Had Fraudulent Homestead Entries Made. Omaha, Neb.--Th# trial la the fed­ eral district court of Bartlett Rich­ ards, president; Will G. Comstock, vice president, and C. C. Jameson, secretary-treasurer and general man­ ager of the Nebraska Land and Feed­ ing company, controlling the 400,- 000-acre "Spade" ranch, and Aquilla Triplett, their agent, ended Thursday evening in the conviction of the four defendants on 36 counts of an indict­ ment which charged conspiracy to de­ fraud the government of public lands and subornation of perjury. Tfce jury took but two hours to consider the evidence. This trial began November 19 .and the jury was complied ttfro days la­ ter. The entire time of the court since then was devoted to hearing testi­ mony for the government and the ar­ guments of the attorneys, no wit­ nesses being introduced for the de­ fense. The accusation against the-officers of the Nebraska Land and Feeding company was that they attempted to secure title to vast tracts of land within the "Spade" ranch enclosure in Cherry, Sheridan and Box Butte coun­ ties, Nebraska, by means of fraudu­ lent homestead entries under the Kinkaid law, which permitted the honfesteader to take up a section of land In the semi-arid distriots. Scores of witnesses were Introduced who swore that they filed on the lands at the solicitation of agents of the prin­ cipal defendants, with the under­ standing that the would be paid all the way from $300 to $1,000 tor their claims when title was secured, and that all necessary improvements would be made by the company. A year ago Richards and Comstock, who are counted in the millionaire class, were convicted' in the federal court of illegally fencing government land, and fined $300 each and sen­ tenced to six hours' imprisonment each. The latter part of the sentence was served at the Omaha club in the nominal custody of their attorney, who had been deputized for that duty by United States Marshal T. L. Matthews. VATICAN'S PROTEST GIVEN OUT Dignified Note Concerning the Expul­ sion of Mgr. Montagnlnl. Rome."--The Vatican has issued a note of protest against the course of the French government and forwarded it to all papal representatives abroad, including the apostolic delegates. The npte is calm and dignified in tone and protests primarily that the rights of religion have been outraged by the French government preventing the head of the church from communi­ cating with the French hierarchy by the expulsion from France of Mgr. Montagnlni, who was secretary nf papal nunciature at Paris. Date Set for Thaw TrlaK v * New York. -- Harry Kendall Thaw will be placed on trial on Mon­ day, January 21, in the criminal branch of the New York state su­ preme court, charged with the murder of Stanford White. This date was set Tuesday by Justice Newburger when a motion made by Thaw's coun­ sel for the dismissal of the- indict- hient agaftist him or for the fixing of a date for the trial was to have argued. QUIT8 FOR CHRI8TMA8 HOLIDAYS Congress Adjournt .to January 3--Sen­ ator Foraker Criticises President. Washington.--Senator Foraker oc­ cupied the attention of the senate In Its last session before the holiday re­ cess Thursday in an extended criti-, cism of the basis of President Roosevelt's action in discharging the negro troops of the Twenty-fifth in­ fantry on account of the Brownsville raid. He was replied to briefly by Senator Lodge, while Senator Scott sustained the demand of the Ohio sen­ ator for a full investigation of the matter by the senate military commit­ tee. . A resolution directing such tan Investigation is before the senate lor action at its next meeting. <The sexiate adjourned until January 3, 1907. After being in session three-quar- ters of an hour, the house also ad­ journed until January 3. Empty desks greeted the speaker when the house convened and even among the mem­ bers who renlained the desire to get away for the holidays was superior to the inclination for business. Washington. --. President Roose­ velt Wednesday in a message to the senate replied to Jthe resolutions of Senators Penrose and Foraker call­ ing for information regarding the dis­ charge of negro soldiers at Browns­ ville, Tex. . The president condemns "the murderous conduct" of the troops in question, declaring that "a blacker crime never stained the annals of our army" and that the proper punishment for the Brownsville mutineers and murderers is death. He regrets that he cannot punish the ringleaders and their abettors. Washington.--President Roosevelt Tuesday sent to congress a message on the San Francisco Japanese trouble with a lengthy report on the whole situation by Secretary Metcalf, who investigated conditions on the spot. The president says that he authorized Secretary Metcalf to tell the San Francisco authorities that In case of their failure to protect the Japanese all the forces of the United States civil and military, which the president could lawfully employ to t$at end, would be so employed. • DF8ASTER TO A CROWDED T*A1N AT ENDERLIN, N. D. SMOKER WAS TELESCOPED Thirty-Seven Passengers Are 8erl- lliisly Injured--Cars Catch Fire and Rescuers Race with the Flames. ^ N. D.--Loaded til capacity with people going to their homes in the east to spend the Christ­ mas holidays, the south-bound train on the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie crashed into a switch engine in ttffe west end of the railroad yards at this place at 2:10 o'clock Sunday morning. Eight men were killed out­ right and one since has die'd of his injuries. Thlrt>seven were seriously injured and it is likely that the death list will be added to. All of the fatalities occurred In the smoking car, which was completely telescoped by the baggage car. Here also were most of those who were in­ jured, only two of the occupants of this car escaping unhurt. The car was crowded, and as the yrhistle had just sounded for Enderlin almost everyone was on his feet when the crash came, and the dead and wounded were piled into almost inextricable masses. Rescuers Race with Flafoes. As this point is a divisional head­ quarters of the road, a rescue party was soon formed and, assisted by citi­ zens, the work of taking out the dead and injured was begun at once, and continued throughout the night. The little hospital was soon crowded to its full capacity with those hurt and the hotels were converted into emergency hospitals where the other injured were cared for. There are but -four physicians in Enderlin and a special train with physicians and nurses was hastily made up at Valley City and rushed to the scene of the wreck. The wreckage took fire from the overturned stoves used in heating the 9ars and there was a race between the ruscuers and the flames. By ak most superhuman efforts the rescuing party managed to fight off the flames until all of the dead and injured had been removed from the wrecked cars, which then were allowed to burn to get them out of the way. Only a few passengers in th# day coaches were injured and in the sleep­ ers, none of which left the track, there were no casualties. LummQo AW© SCIATICA" ST, JACOBS OIL to t!»e SjMf Right on the dot. Price 29c and Mr MNMMOOQ *y 8:4^ >' • c,4 Come to Congressman's Idea. Some years ago Lemuel Ely Quigg, than a congressman, expressed the opinion that the police commissioner of New York city should be "an to*/ telligent despot." The idea was ridi­ culed then, but Mr. Quigg derive* some satisfaction from the knowledge that the grand Jury of New York coun­ ty has made a recommendation ap­ proaching somewhat closely . to htr vtew. The commissioner, says the ry, should hold office for at least too ^ ears and should be removable only upon proof of charges which he hat had opportunity to meet ^ -\\i • f : V CONGRESSMEN TO SEE CANAT^ Party -of Eleven Sails for the Isthmus Of Panama. New York. -- Ten representatives and one senator sailed on- the steam­ ship Allianca Friday for Colon, for the purpose of making a five-day in­ spection of the Isthmus of Panama and learning for themselves the exist­ ing conditions relative to the digging of the canal. The party consisted of Senator Flint and Congressmen McKinlay and Knowland, of California; Congress­ men Fulkerson, of Missouri; Dickson, Rives, McKlnney and Smith, of Illi­ nois; Howell, of Utah; Kinkaid, of Nebraska, and Stenerson, of Minne­ sota. The party is visiting the canal zone at the invitation of Secretary Taft and the canal commissioners, and everything will be done to make their inspection as thorough as possible. Might Blow Up Mikado's Ships. Honolulu. -- The Japanese con­ sul here says that the visiting squadron, which will arrive in Hono­ lulu in February, will not proceed to San Francisco, as originally intended, because a repetition of the Maine dis­ aster is feared, owing to the alleged overwrought conditiou* Qt American feeling. • % Famous Child Educator Dead. New York.--Mrs. Blanche Horeon Boardman Lincoln, one of the best known child educators in the country, is dead at h^er home here. For a num­ ber of years she was a le$*urer of ,, child training. , Missouri Execution Bungled. 1 Houston, Mo.--The execution here Friday of Joda Hamilton for the mur­ der of five persons was Dadly bungled. The rope broke and Hamilton was. jprobably fatally hu^t Ml**- » , . « : • ' I " ; • ' ' m i l ' ' i f ; ; • ' - • Bandit Commits Murder. Leadville, Col.--A masked bandit here early Thursday morning after shooting and fatally wounding Joe Dale, ticket agent at the Denver & Rio Grande depot, robbed the cash drawer of its contents and escapsd. Postal Deficit Reduoed. Washington.--A reduction of more than $4,000,000 in^ the excess of ex­ penditures over receipts of the post office department is shown in the an­ nual report of Edwin C. Madden, third assistant postmaster general. ' > . • 1 Curtis Jett Is Found Guilt; Louisville, Ky.-^-Curtls Jett was Friday found guilty of the assassina­ tion of James Cockrell, town marshal, at Jackson, Ky., and sentenced to life imprisonment. Jett confessed, that he alone killed Cockrell. Mrs. Jacob Heyl Asks Divorce. Milwaukee.--Clara S. Heyl, daugh­ ter of the late Mrs. LIzette Schandein and wife of Jacob Heyl, began suit for divorce Friday. Jacob Heyl was the central figure in the 9elebrated Shan- deinr will case. * ^ ' H f Prison for Bank Robber. Great Beud, Kan.--Joseph S. Kerns, captured .here recently after holding up a local bank, WAS arraigned Wednesday, pleaded guilty and wa sentenced to the state tpenftentla; for a term of from ten to 21 years. FataP Accident to Faat Train. Canton, O.--The Pennsylvania Lim­ ited, eastbound, crashed into a freight train in the Canton yards Sunday night and Engineer John Ray and Fireman George Nichols, of the freight, were fatally injured. m ENTOMBED MINER SAVED. A* Bj. Hicks Rescued After Baling Buried Fifteen Day* Bakerafield, Cal.--Out of the valley of the shadow A. B. Hicks, the miner who was buried 15 days In the Edison mine at this place, was rescued at 11:45 o'clock Saturday night. Surrounded by hundreds, who have literally camped at the head of the mine shaft waiting for the outcome of the desperate battle being waged foi a human life, the freed captive was carried, lying on a stretcher, on the bhoulders of triumphant men who reached him, to the hospital. Hicks is plainly weakened r by hit long confinement and lack of exercise, but he is virtually uninjured and hit general condition betokens quick re­ covery to full strength. His spirit ia a marvel to all. 8TEAMER 8TRATHCONA BURNS. Vessel Beached and 380 Passengers 8aved--Heroism of Crew. i Halifax, N. S.--Word was received here Sunday from Port Dufferin, a small coast town some 60 miles east of this city, of the destruction by fire of the passenger steamer Strathcona, owned by the Halifax & Canso Steamship company, and bound from this port for Canso ahd Guysbor ough. That no lives were lost is due prin­ cipally to the heroism of the engineers and firemen, who stuck to their posts until the steamer was beached and every one of the 380 passengers land­ ed. In less than one hour after the beaching of the steamer she waa burned to the water's edge. Strike on Southern Pacific. Houston, Tex.--A strike ojM&como tlve firemen went into effect Sunday afternoon at five o'clock on the linea of the Southern Pacific company in Texas and Louisiana. About 300 or 400 men are, involved. ' / , „ A QrMt Outside Remedy.* > , Most pains are of local origin--*. "crick" in the back, a twinge of rhevr Jff. matism, a soreness all over arising; |^i from a cold--are all cured by outside \ "! applications. The quickest, safest and t % most certain method ia AUcock'a Plaster, known the world over as a | universal remedy for pain. They never > fail, they act promptly, they are clean ' ' and cheap. You can go right ahead jb- with your work while the healing M cess goes on. Sixty years' use ha§-'; ^ ? c given them a great reputation. t • Writer on South America. / Mrs. Marie Robinson Wright, wl|^ '* has traveled more in South America#, republics and written more about theaa than any other woman in the world,, has sailed for London, whence she-. sails to Rio Janeiro, Brazil. She goes under an engagement by the Brazilian* government to continue her work on fc history o? the Brazilian republic. ShUr has written histories of the Boliviais , republic, Chile a.nd Peru and is also* preparing a book upon Argentina. < " New Metal of Much Valtf*. Alsen is the name given to a metal which is composed of two par of aluminum and one part' of zind/ writes Consul General Guenther frojfr Frankfort. £ It Is sail to equal cast iron In strength, but is much more elastifc.. Alzen is superior because ft does not. rust as easily as doe*> iron, and It takes a high polish. Besides belnjF very strong, this new metal is capable*- of filling out the most delicate line* and figures of forms in casting. 1 m til m Hotel in Bay City Burns. Bay City, Mich.--The Fraser house, the oldest and largest hotel in thia city, was completely destroyed by fire early Sunday. John O'Neil, the hotel fireman, was fatally injured. Sisters Fight Fatal Dual. Havana.--Maria and Carme&vH!&al- guez, sisters who lived on a ranch near Las Lajas, fought a duel with pistols over a man, and Maria was killed. « Mrs. J. G. Blaine Divorced. Yankton, S. D.--Mrs. James O. Blaine, Jr., who is a daughter of Rear Admiral Hichborn, retired; obtained a decree of divorce from her husband here Saturday night on the grounds of desertion and non-support. Fatal Natural Gas Explosion. . Pittsburg, Pa.--Four persons were burned, three fatally, early Sunday as the result of a natural gas explosion in the home of JWm Carvel, at Wash­ ington, Pa. The fatally buraed .are John Carvel and his two son#. , Asks Aid for Starving C|iin«ii- Washington.--President Roosevelt Sunday issued a proclamation calling on the people nf the United States to contribute fupds for the relief of mil­ lions of famine sufferers in China, who are on the verge of starvation. , Count IgnatlefV AsMssinattNL Tver, Russia.--Count Alexis Iiiga- tieff, a member of the council qf the empire and ex-govemor genera' of Kiev, Volhynla and Podolia, was shot and killed by an unknown man here io tfca ban of the noMes* assembly FARMS THAT "NO. I HARD "WHEAT (Sixty-three Pounds tat the Bushel). 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