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POLLOW tffw ' ' * F " r'-v *[ •- V PRIC§iv CHAROEO BY GALEN COMPANY NOT UNIFORM. HE TRAIL OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY 8TEAMER TARIFFS ON OIL* TO £ AFRICA NOT UNIFOR**;^ CONTRACT 13 PRODUCED Br WILLIAM T. ELLIS Tttt DbtfawofehMl Awrfe-- JcNmalbt Is Tr«velm» Around Um World for tlw Pur»o>a of hmMticBtfaw tl» American Fortin Miuiouir from a Purely DUintererted, Secular and Non-Sactariaa Standpoint. Illustrated with Drawing* and from Photographs. Missions and Massacres Are Related in China ftKv' Peking, China.--The most serious charge made against missionaries in China is that by their Interference with civil law they exasperate the natives to the point of uprisings and massacres. This subject deserves the fullest investigation and most careful treatment; for it is no light thing to Accuse ministers of the gospel with being responsible for riot and mur- -der. Yet I regret to write that I find ground for this widespread criticism. A look at the setting of the facts rfs first necessary. China has long been regarded as a htige, hulking, helpless incompetent among the na­ tions of the earth. She has never re­ ceived the consideration due to a igpreat country. Foreign powers have aaevcr trusted the lives of their sub­ jects in her keeping; wherever they <CO, there goes the law of extra-terrl- tsoriality. An alien in China is not subject to China; he knows no law but that of his own self-restraint or «»f his country's consulate. Every White Man a Nabob. A foreigner can do pretty much as tie pleases in China. Instead of being, as his friends at home imagine him to be, a terror-stricken mortal, momen­ tarily afraid that the Chinese ogre will demand his life, he is more near­ ly an ogre himself. Bitter experience with armies and navies from over seas, and with the loss of territory seized as a penalty for Injury to foreigners, has made -Chinese officials fearful of these ^strangers. Every magistrate knows 7 that he will lose his jub, if nut his bead, should aught befall a foreigner within his jurisdiction. Instead of be­ ing hooted down the street as a "for­ eign devil," the foreigner swaggers Along expecting all other pedestrians, Straightway an uprising followed in which an entirely unoffending British family was massaored, as well as the French priests, and all the foreigners in the place would have been slaught­ ered, had not a timely rain dispersed the mob. For all such crimes the French de­ mand exorbitant indemnities. The most trivial offense against a mem­ ber of one of the French churches must be heavily atoned for. This ap­ plies not only to the national land- grabbing of France and Germany on account of missionary troubles, but also to petty neighborhood squabbles. A convert of the French priest is im­ mune from the law of his own land. He may be a murderer, a thief, a ras­ cal of any kind or degree; his church membership is an asylumy and the law cannot touch him. The missionary alone is his judge. No outsider can have any redress against him. This has made the French churches ref­ uges for evil-doers, and it has also caused the French missionaries to be dreaded and hated by Chinese high and low. Matters are improving somewhat of late. The high-handedness of the French clergy has abated, since the troubles in France have deprived them of the privileges of instant ap­ peal to the French minister at Peking. A new and better policy will probably, perforce, be adopted. The noble sac­ rifice of the French priests and nuns, and their tireless, selfless labors, may then have their reward in the affection and esteem of the people. Wily John Chinaman's Ways. As a rule, the American and British missionaries have followed a directly contrary policy, as the utterances of the two ministers of these nations, "M" ,* -V ̂ i- ' - 'A 'Jst, *r- * i - - \ - r« x ' " ' • ' i ,'-"y - * Asbury Church, Peking, M. E. Mission. V' jinrickshas atad carriages as well, " to get out of' his way. The small wrchin, less discreet than,his elders, sometimes cries "foreign devil," only / ' at the risk of feeling the foreigner's |j|: stick. The race question in the southern ; 5- . stales is not half so serious as the race question in Asia. The white man's sense of superiority to the yel- g, " low expresses Itself in a harshness ||\ that would shock America were it p*;" widely known. If a ricksha man does f&y ' not go fast enough, beat him with If your stick. A secretary of the Amer- lean legation at Peking told me as a Joke that he broke his light cane on a -coolie's shoulders. If a Chinese gets to your way, shove him aside,. kick tiim or pull his queue. When I have j|L ' meen the way the Chinese are fre- 1?/. ijuently abused by white men I no II*' longer marvel at the anti-foreign feel- gfifv1'. ing which resides in most native breasts. The wonder Is that the Chi­ nese have endured so much without reprisal. For it does seem as if the natives have no rights which the for­ eigners are bound to respect The present outcry against the white man fa China has manifold justification. Missionaries Above the Law. \ As an enlightened Chinese educator *ald to me, "Anybody can do what­ ever he wants to China at present" Thus It came to pass that the French treaty gave civil rank and authority to .French missionaries. There are ugly reports afloat concerning the means by which this provision was put into the document; but these do mot necessarily concern the present •discussion. The American and Brit­ ish missionaries, who would be en­ titled to the same rights by the "inost favored nation" clause, promptly dis­ avowed any intention of accepting them. Not so the French. They have been openly political agents, as have also, to some cases, the Germans. The French bishops travel in the full re-! galla of viceroys. W^en he goes out in his chair a ^bishop has outrunners, umbrellas, flags and all the other flum­ mery of a Chinese governor. He de­ mands to be received always in the state befitting his rank. Upon this point Chinese officials, high and low, have spoken to me with greatest bit­ terness; and so also have men in the consular and diplomatic service. "The Why of China's Latest Massacre. Regardless of public opinion, the French missionaries have pressed to the limit their prerogatives. Columns could be written of the manner in which they have abused their power. "Whole villages have been forcibly im­ pressed to work for them. In the in­ terior, a few weeks ago, I ran across m. case where they had imprisoned the bead men of a village. At Nanchang tjiey insisted on the punishment of two men whom the mayor had promised to protect; the latter, his "face" gone, wrought a dire Chinese revenge by ^jf^yplUiifr,.suicide in their church. W which I shall later quote, will show. Their general rule has heen non-in­ terference in civil matters. Times be­ yond counting they have been put in a predicament by the wily Chinese, who can see an advantage to them­ selves long before it is on an Anglo- Saxon's horizon. Thus many an ardent young mis­ sionary has found that a sudden ac­ cession of inquirers has been due to the fact that the professed converts wanted him to take up their side of a quarrel against members of the French church. To join the one church seemed to the Chinese the only recourse left to enable them to get justice from, or to get even with, the members of the other. If the American missionary would not help them, as the French missionary helped his people, then his was the loss of "face" and following. In these circumstances some mis­ sionaries have doubtlessly appealed to the native officials and to their own consuls on behalf of their people, in cases other than persecution; the treaties accord protection to the na­ tive Christians when persecuted on account of their religious faith, al­ though this Is a doubtful advantage. When the Gospel Goes to Law. The net result of all this has been only trouble for all concerned. The missionaries have been caused end­ less annoyance and at times serious difficulties. There is general agree­ ment among the Anglo-Saxons that they will not go to the yamens in be­ half of their Chinese members under any conditions. Some have expressed to me the wish that the boards would cases, so that they could make this answer when appealed to. Certainly it is the conclusion of all impartial observers that it is gravely unwise for missionaries to attempt to influence the course of Chinese civil' and crim­ inal administration, even when these are unjust. So strongly do most missionaries now feel upon the subject that they refuse under any condition to tough yamen cases. One young missionary, born and reared in China and on close terms with leading Chinese, was one day notified that a certain man under arrest had claimed exemption from punishment on the plea of belonging to this missionary church. "What shall I do? asked the magistrate. "Give him ten extra lashes for trying to deceive you and for attempting to drag the church into a civil case," promptly replied the young mission­ ary. The general practice of the American missionaries, with only rare exceptions, is to permit their mem­ bers to suffer injustice, rather than to incur the greater evil of bringing reproach upon the church's name, and of hindering the state from exercising its sovereign rights. Nevertheless, I have learned from consuls and from missionaries of some cases wherein American missionaries have appealed to the mandarins or to the .consuls on behalf of natives. Robbing Mandarins of "Face." The preeminent importance of "face" in China makes this sort of thing harder for a Chinese official to swallow than it would be for an Anglo- Saxon, although the endurance of It on the part of the latter is an Impos­ sible hypothesis. Magistrates are thereby shorn of prestige and power by the meddlesome foreigners. The procedures which pass for judicial processes in China are knocked sky high, Thus, although most officials with whom I have talked clearly dis­ tinguish between French and Ameri­ can missionaries, there is undoubtedly a widespread hostility against ali mis­ sionaries on the part of the official class. They associate, and not with­ out reason, the loss of much of their territory with the missionary's pres­ ence and activity in civil affairs. Em­ bodied in every missionary, to the Chinese mind, is the ever present pos­ sibility of complications with foreign powers. Small wonder the throne has recently been memorialized by the progressives for a retrocession of ex­ tra-territorial rights. Some courageous Chinese magis­ trates. It should be said, show their resentment against foreign interfer­ ence by deciding against the mis­ sionary's side, even though he be in the right. A spirited young mandarin told me how, when he was sitting at Mukden, a litigant brought in his card reading. "A member of the Christian church," (And, in passing, it may be mentioned that every missionary keeps his personal cards carefully locked up, for a Chinese can work wonders with the prestige of a for­ eigner's card.) I said to him, "Are you a Chinese subject or a British subject? If you are- a Chinese sub­ ject I do not care anything about your • religion." And before I was through with him that man learned that it does not pay to try to hide be­ hind the foreigner's church in some Chinese courts. In an endeavor to be perfectly fair I may have given undue prominence to the fact, frequently denied at home, that some American and Brit­ ish missionaries do occasionally inter­ fere with Chinese civil and criminal cases, although apparently, judging from the interviews which follow, they do so in minor ways which do not reach Peking. My pronounced conviction Is that they should not do so, under any circumstances, even to save their converts ̂ rom persecution. It Is only Just to add, however, that the entire missionary body is suffer­ ing from the odium of this sort of thing chiefly because of the monstrous behavior of the French and German priests. Minister Rockwell's Views. The American minister at Peking, William Rockwell has vigorous opin­ ions about missionaries. "What about the missionary question?" I casually remarked, at the end of a rather ex­ tended interview. "What missionary question? There is no missionary question that I know of/' he quickly and almost sharply rejoined. "I have been minister here for two years, and during that time there has been no missionary question befdre me, ex­ cept that unfortunate massacre last spring down in Lien Chow, which was purely a local matter, and might have happened anywhere. So far as I know, the American missionaries are living in delightful relations with the Chinese. Their work here in Peking is beyond praise; anyone who goes to it with an unbiased mind must ad­ mit that. I spent two years in in­ terior China, and I saw missionaries of all bodies; and I found them most delightful people, whose work for the Chinese is simply beyond estimate. The missionary is doing more for the cause of--I shall not say civilization, for that has become a cheap word; but for the cause of progress, of en­ lightenment, than any other person or agency. Not to speak of the purely preaching or doctrinal side of the missionary's activities, for that is be­ yond my province, his medical and school work are an unquestioned, an Inestimable good. I cannot imagine why the people In the treaty ports criticise the missionaries. I cannot see any real basis or reason for it They simply do not know mission­ aries. Nobody can look into the situ­ ation, except he has an'- 'a priori' con­ viction and prejudice, and sees only what he is determined to see, without praising the missionaries most highly." (Copyright, 1907, by Joseph B. Bowles.) A Tip to Smokers. "Do you want to know how to smoke and smdke, and yet keep the room clear of all the fumes and odors of tobacco? How to smoke in the din­ ing-room, the drawing-room, your fife's bedroom, without leaving a sin­ gle tobacco smell in the air? Well, I'll tell you." ^ , Here the salesman took dQiHI a small ring of platinum. "All you have to dol' he said, "Is to set this ring over a lamp and let it get red-hot. Red-hot, it will consume the smoke of a dozen cigars, keeping the air quite clear and sweet With one of these rings in use, there is no ground for forbidding a man to smoke anywhere. "It haB long been known that plat­ inum consumes fobacco smoke. I wonder that no one ever thought of the wonderful platinum s&oke-cbsorb- ing rings before." . \§f * iwt V** | 1 fnntp.*APo<./^ N f W S '*3 That Roosevelt Keokuk Hint Is Enough for Bonaparte. NEGRO MURDERER LYNCHED CITIZENS OF CUMBERLAND, MD., METE OUT SWIFT JUSTICE. Jail Door Battered In, and Colored Desperado Kicked to Death by Crowd. Cumberland, Md.--William Burns (colored), who fatally Bhot Policeman August Banter Thursday night, was taken from the jail early Sunday morning by a mob and shot and kicked to death. This was the first lynching in the history of Cumberland, and it is con­ demned by few of the citizens. The shooting of Policeman Banter by Burns, who was a desperado, while the latter was resisting arrest created a great deal of excitement, owing to the excellent reputation of the officer and his well-known kindly disposition. His death on Saturday morning was followed by threats against the negro, these coming as much from those of his own race as from the whites. Few, however, seem to have thought a lynching possible and the police paid no attention to the rumors that were afloat. Only Deputy Sheriff Adam Pendley was at the jail when, after midnight, a crowd of fewer than a hundred men, some of whom were disguised in one way or another, appeared and de­ manded the keys. These being re­ fused, a telegraph pole was used as a battering ram and entrance to the building was forced. Other negroes in neighboring cells *were careful to guide the lynchers to that of Burns, and here again the battering ram was used. ' The lynchers found their victim crouched behind his cot, and seizing him by the feet, they dragged him downstairs and into the street, where, within a few yards of the entrance to the jail Burns was kicked and shot to death. ASK CONGRESS FOR WATERWAY. Resolutions Adopted at Memphis-- Next Convention in Chicago. Memphis, Tenn.--After passing res­ olutions indorsing the ship channel project ^nd calling upon congress for an appropriation sufficient to secure a 14-foot canal from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico through the route al­ ready selected by army engineers, the deep waterway convention adjourned Saturday afternoon. The next meeting of the association will be held in Chicago. Representa­ tives of New Orleans, who have been conducting a vigorous campaign, with­ drew the name of that city in favor of Chicago, and the latter city was select­ ed by acclamation. It Is generally understood that an agreement was reached whereby New Orleans will have the convention in 1909. UNITE TO FIGHT LOW FARES. Railroads of Northwest Begin Action for Permanent Injunction. Sioux Falls, S. D.--All leading rail­ roads having lines in South Dakota Thursday afternoon commenced a united action in the United States court, this city, for a permanent in­ junction preventing the state board of railroad commissioners from put­ ting into effect October 15 an order re­ ducing passenger rates in the state from three tb two and one-half cents a mile. The commission was tem­ porarily restrained from putting the new rate into effect pending a hearing from Judge Carland October 29 on the application for a permanent in­ junction. SHOWERED WITH MOLTEN METAL 8UE8 PLATT FOR DIVORCE. Miss Catherine Wood Takes New Tack In Her Litigation. New York.--Mae Catherine Wood, the former government clerk who has been suing United States Senator Thomas C. Platt for several years, Monday brought action In the su­ preme court for absolute divorce from the senator, alleging that sho -had been married to him in the Fifth Ave­ nue hotel, New York, in, 1901. J. D. Lee, representng the plaintiff, announced the action as "Platt against Platt," and he said the motion was for the purpose of framing an Issue. He said he wanted the details to become generally known. John B. Stanchfleld, who appeared for Senator Platt, asked that the mat­ ter be heard in private by a referee. He said Senator Platt was never mar­ ried to Miss Wood, and therefore there was no ground for divorce. Jus­ tice Seabury reserved decision. Has Killed Fourteen Men. Chattanooga, Tenn. -- D. D. Ed* yards, on trial for the murder of Sam Brook, a negro, made a startling statement uhder cross-examination Thursday. He was asked by the at­ torney general if he had killed any one previous to the killing of Brooks. hfifV© shot and probably killed 14 men in my time," said Edwards. He said that a majority of the kill­ ings occurred in the Kentucky moun­ tains and during the labor strike in Chicago. Four Men Killed and Thirty Horribly Injured at Butler, Pa. Butler, Pa.--An explosion caused by the upsetting of the metal pot in a cupola of the Standard Steel company here late Sunday night caused the death of four m6n, fatally injured 20 and seriously injured ten others. Near­ ly all the men were foreigners. The large wheel plant was demolished causing a loss estimated at $100,000. The condition of the 30 men in­ jured is pitiable. Although still alive, the features of a majority are mutil- lated beyond recognition. Tho hot metal was showered over them caus­ ing horrible injuries. JUDGE FAINTS ON THE BENCH. Collapses When About to Sentence Minnesota Man to Death. Bemidji, Minn.--Peter Mathieson, on trial for killing John Johansen near Tenstrike last February, was found guilty of murder in the first de­ gree. Judge McClenahan fainted when about to pronounce sentence and was carried from the courtroom. He was revived and returned and sen­ tenced the convicted man to hang within 90 days. The Best Part of the City. After all, the best part of any city is the part that isn't in it--the coun­ try roundabout where they think in acres, not In square feet, and where the grass is green under the trwA. Or. and'Mrs. Rowland Acquitted. Raleigh, N. C --The jury in the Rowland murder trial Sunday morn­ ing returned a verdict of acquittal. Dr. and Mrs. David Rowland were charged with poisoning the woman's former husband, Charles R. Strange. Caid MacLean's Release Near. . Tangier.--The British government has accepted the bandit Raisuli'3 re­ duced terms for Caid Sir Harry Mac- Lean's release, the principal items be­ ing $150,000 ransom and British pro­ tection for Raisuli and his family. Wild Trip for Ballonlst. Coshocton, O.--Caught in a gale of wind, Frank Fuhf, a Coshocton aeronaut, was driven a distance of 40 miles, 5,000 feet above the earth and landed safely ten miles north of tills city at seven o'clock Thursday night. Fuhr had been showing the Coshocton airship at the Licking county fair and at 4:30 in the afternoon ascended for an exhibition flight. Id*, TarbelPs Brother Tells of His, troubles with Standard--Heai*» ing of Missouri' Ouster w A . . New York.--An omnibus contract, whereby the Standard OH com­ pany obtains from every steamship company operating between New York and all ports in Africa a rate for the shipment of lubricating oil that is about one-half what its competitor, the New York Lubricating company, pays, was produced Friday in the hearing of the federal suit againBt the alleged oil combine. This contract was placed in evi­ dence and Philip Harrison, a manager of the New York Lubricating Oil com­ pany, declared that his company was forced to pay double the Standard rate, notwithstanding his protest to the steamship companies. Mr. Harrison said that by reason of the freight discrimination the Standard could place its products in Africa at less than the cost price of the oils of his own company, and that to maintain African trade the New York Lubricating Oil company was forced to purchase from the Standard the cheaper grade of oils which it sold to its customers. The witness declared that he wrote a letter to the steamship agents demand­ ing equitable rates for the company, but no change was made. W. W. Tarbell, of Philadelphia, treasurer of the Pure Oil company and of the United States Pipe Line com­ pany, related the-difficulties his com­ panies had encountered in competition, with the Standard. Mr, Tarbell stated that the business of the Pure Oil com­ pany was placed in districts selected with a view to avoiding business rela­ tions with certain railroads whose rate discriminations, he said, were more feared by the company than the opposition of the Standard in open competition. Mr. Tarbell is a brother of Miss Ida Tarbell, who has written much about the Standard Oil company and John D. Rockefeller. Jefferson City, Mo.--It was an­ nounced late Friday that the Stand­ ard Oil company ouster suit has been" set for hearing before the supreme court en blanc October 23. The case is to be argued on the report of the special commission which is alleged to have found an illegal' combination of the Standard Oil company, the Wa­ ters-Pierce company, and tho excep.- tion filed by the companies to the re­ port. ' Student Falls Heir to $20,000. Lincoln, NebC--Miss Katherine Rit- tenhouse, a student at NorthWestern university, in Chicago, has fallen heir to an estate worth $20,000 by the will of Col. Isaac Wing, who was re­ jected by her mother when a girl. "Hold-Up" Play Is Fatal. Oxford, Pa.--Edward Kauffman, aged nine years, was shot and instantly killed at Nottingham, near here, Fri­ day by his brother, Harry. The older boy recently won a revolver at the cov.nty fair. Armed with the weapon be went to meet his brother and pre­ tending to be a highwayman, he held the little fellow up at the point of the pistol. The weapon was discharged and the bullet penetrated young Kauff- man's brain. The brother was exon* «rated from blame at the inquest #-*4 ^ ' V ' Arrested, He Kills Himself, v ' Davenport, la.--James H. Farrand, superintendent of delivery in the Dav­ enport post qfilce, was arrested Fri­ day morning, charged with opening registered mall. Soon after he com­ mitted suicide. /Refund Over Maximum -- Penns , vania Road Bought Lubricating Oil at Less Than Cost. , f NeW York.--That tbe Galena Slgnfll Oil company, a subsidiary of tlfci. Standard Oil company, controls 97 per cent, of the lubricating oil business With the railroads of the United States *nd that the prices for it£ products Sire not uniform with all railroads was wr!tten in the record of Thursdays^ hearing of the federal suit against tll^ so-called oil trust " C. C. Steinbrenner, an accountant for the Galena company, told in detail how contracts were made with rail­ roads whereby they were guaranteed a maximum cost for the lubrication of the road, based on mileage for en­ gines' and cars, and when the maxi­ mum cost wxs found at the end of cer­ tain periods to fall short ci the' stand­ ard Invoice which all railroads paid when they received the oil, the Galena company made a refund of the di£fW> ence. From statements compiled from th» Galena company bocks, Mr. Kellogg was able to show that in some cases the amount of the refund was nearly? 50 per cent of the invoice price. Mr;. Steinbrenner testified that the libri- eating oil furnished to the PennsyllJi^ n i a r a i l w a y w a s s o l d a t a l o s s . . a y One of the railroads that the Galen* company did not supply with oil, Mr. Steinbrenner said, was the Tidewater rail\yay, owned by Hepry H. Rogers, vice president of the Standard Oil dompany. The witness said the Ga­ lena company had tried to obtain the contract-with the Tidewater railway, but failed. Mr. Kellogg suggested that perhaps Mr. Rogers thought he could get better oil elsewhere. TOWER WISHES TO RETIRE. Ambassador to Germany Wants to Re­ turn Next Spring. Berlin.--Ambassador Tower hair written Presldeht Roosevelt asking that he be permitted to retire from the diplomatic service next spring. Mr. Tower's reasons are understood LICENSE ORDERED SUSPENDED. Steamer Fred Hartweg Causes Trouble on President's Trip. 1 Evansville, Ind.--United States In­ spector of Hulls Williams for the lo­ cal port Friday afternoon received a telegram signed by President Roose­ velt directing that the license for the steamer Fred Hartweg, carrying the Pittsburg delegation in the present river trip, be immediately suspended. The telegram follows: - "Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 4.--On Board U. S. S. Mississippi.--Supervisor In- speotor of Vessels, Evansville, Ind.-- I direct that the license of f.he master or whoever is responsible Jfor the 'Fred Hartweg' during the present voyage be suspended at once for 90 days. I wish this done by telegraph, wherever the boat may be, If such pro­ cedure is possible. x Col. Sears can give you the details of the misconduct, which has been of serious nature and might have at any time caused an ac­ cident to this boat as well as to other boats.--Theodore Roosevelt." The steamer Fred Hartweg's home port is Cairo and it is inspected at Evansville. Omaha's New CaTfiedral Begun. Omaha, Neb.*-Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul made the principal ad­ dress at the laying of the cornerstone of the new St. Cecilia's cathedral Sun­ day, devoting his remarks to a discus­ sion of the present tendency to hu­ manize Christ and make of Him an ordinary man. The ceremony fd lowed a parade composed of nearly 9,000 people, representing all Catholic so­ cieties, In brilliant regalia, on foot and horseback. The new structure will be among the ten largest in the United States, and will cost upward of $250,000. 1y.'fi ";?V 'Iyy iflfSiii .. •* Made Postal Agent at Shanghai. Washington. -- Postmaster General Meyer Thursday announced the ap­ pointment of John M. Darrah, for­ merly connected with the American consulate in Shanghai, China, to be United States postal agent at that plac«. Mere "Dry" Land Iti Kentucky. , Owensboro, Ky.--Another county has gone "dry," in local option elec- S tion. In McLean county temperance people were victorious Thursday by a majority of 1.065 votes. + .* i <• ' i, H J < Elopes With Mayor's Daughter. Des Moines, la. -- Mayor Bennett, of Fort Dodge, who recently gained fame by issuing a ukase that all bachelors within the city must wed within a year or pay a fine, was taken at his word Sunday by Nolan Snow, a chauffeur, who eloped with the mayor's daughter, Mabel. The elopers were wed in Fort Dodge and fled to Des Moines. Two Fatally Hurt In Fight. Pittsburg, Pa.--Levi Jones, 63 years old, and William Carpenter, aged 34, are dying from injuries received in a duel Sunday with a knife and an ice ^)ick as weapons. The fight, was prompted by jealousy. George E. Robinson, Detroit, Dief Detroit, Mich.--George E. Robinson, prosecuting attorney of Wayne coun­ ty and one of the most widely-kno*n attorneys in the state, died suddenly from heart disease at his home here Sunday afternoon. i - • Whole County in Meat Strike. Augusta, Me.--Nearly 1,200 of the people of Kenncbec county are „ In open revolt against tbe high pricea de­ manded for meat and have pledged themselves to abstain from *11 meat for ten days. Army Lieutenant Blown to Pieces. San Antonio, Tex.--Owen V. Ander­ son, recently appointed;!to a lieuten­ ancy In the United 3tatfes army, was blown to atoms Friday. ^.fcile handling a bottle of nitro-glycerlno. The house was. wrecked. Ambassador Tower. to be that, having been abroad for nearly 11 years, he desires again te live in his own country In order to have a home there for his sons, who are now nearly ready to go to Harvard college, and to give his personal at­ tention to his extensive financial, sain­ ing and railroad interests. V TRAMP DID NOT BUR* BOY. Story Told by Mrs. Hathaway Oquawka Is Proved False. of Burlington, la.--It is now believed that the story told by Mrs. John Hath­ away Wednesday that a tramp tied her sou to a fence post and burned him to death because she had refused to give the tramp food is untrue. The Hathaways liver near Oquawka, 111., and the woman's story had produced intense ' excitement in that neighbor­ hood. The coroner's investigation devel« oped that Mrs. Hathaway had left her children alone while she went to • neighbor's, and it is thought that dur­ ing her absence the boy. set fire to his clothing while playing with matches. The officials at Oquawka believe that Mrs. Hathaway invented the tramg story in order to placate her husband. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death. Daughters of America Adjourn. Cleveland, O.--The annual conven­ tion of the Daughters America closed Wednesday with the election of offi­ cers and the adoption of a resolution protesting against the indiscriminate immigration of paupers and criminals. Next year's convention will be held at Chattanooga, Tenn. Young Women Quit Germany. - Hamburg-- Several hundreds o( young German women left Hamburg Thursday, on board the steamer Fled- marschal, bound for German South­ west Africa, where they will fake positions with the families of the Ger­ man settlers and government officials. Odessa Jews Beaten, Again. Odessa.--Despite the precautionary measures taken by Governor General •X#sritski, the unionists Sunday, after the funeral of H. Dalfinsky, assistant chief of the secret police, who was killed in an attempt to break up an anarchistic meeting several days ago^ renewed their anti-semitic outraged Several Jewish tea rooms were raSf sacked a?d numerous Jews wer* brutally beaten, it being necessary to send 18 of them to hospitals. The lice dispersed the mob but made $$ arrests. f Yacht Cruise Around World. New York.--Fifteen friends of Rob­ ert M. Thompson, financier, retired naval officer and lawyer, are to be his guests on one of the most remarkable yacht cruises on record. The yacht upon which they will voyage around the world is the 8,000 ton steamer Mineola. The journey will occupy nine mcnths and the estimated ex­ pense of the entertainment is half i million dollars. Ampng those invited by Col. Thompson to be his guests art 1 .ord Brassy «nd Admiral Sir Charisa Beresford. * ' -