Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 14, 1901, Page 2

The Herald--Review. By E, ©. KILEY, ND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, The Western Austratia Budget esti- mates that the revenue of the current year will be the highest on record— £3,417,000. ~ All association must be a compro- mise, and, what is worse, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and Perpetual serenity. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; so that, if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop, or weed up thyme, supply it with ome gender of herbs or dis- tract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry—why the power and corrigi- ble authority of this lies in our own wills. A new record has been established in distance traveling by electric car with- out recharging the accumulators. To Mr. Kreger, the well-known manufac- turer, belongs the credit of covering 90 miles with one charge of electricity, a feat he accomplished recently, when he drove a machine of his own construc- tion from Paris nearly to Chatellerault. The previous best record was 163 miles. Germany is making its first experi- ment with a state-subventioned peo- ple’s theater. The thickly populated ‘industrial district of Upper Silesia has been chosen for the purpose, and in Koenig-shutte, a hall capable of hold- tng 1,500 persons, has been hired. The theatrical company will, however, travel frequently through the province, and it is from this part of the scheme that most success is anticipated. A former employe’ of the Selby smelter confessed that he robbed the company’s vault at Vallejo of $283,- 000 in gold bars and bullion recently and revealed the hiding place of the gold in the bay and $141,000 was re- covered from the mud. High tide stopped the search for the remainder. it is claimed that Winters, the em- ploye, was promised immunity from punishment and a reward if he con- fessed. He led the search for the gold. Miss Sadie Benjamin of Toma Vista, Tex., is the heroine of perhaps the most remarkable elopement on record. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, she fell in love with a youth named Garland, and, visiting a circus, they mounted a huge Asiatic elephant and suborned the beast’s trainer to urge the elephant to tep speed. The long strides of their strange steed soon car- ried them beyond pursuit, and to the spot where a clergyman could be found. The death of J. Andrew Cullum of Ridge Spring, S. C., from a stroke of lightning, received two months ago, is remarkable. Mr. Cullum was struck by lightning the latter part of July. His shoes were torn off and there was a burned place on his left side. He was picked up unconscious, but soon rallied, and in a few days was out again. But the spot burned by light- ning would not heal. Carbuncles formed on the burns and sapped his strength and life. The acclimatizaton of the Scotch grouse in Silesia, on the East Prussian crown moors, and on the Biffel, has proved so successful that in the last- mentioned district a thousand birds are now seen, where thirteen months ago there was not a single one. The experiment is to 'be repeated in other Prussian provinces. By the emperor’s erders the moors near Schmolsin, in West Prussia, have just been stocked with fourteen brace, which have just errivei from Scotland. The beauty of procrastination and the advantage of the sluggard are not ethical phrases, but they appear as a sort of a subtitle to one comic episode ia a terrible tragedy. When the steamer Islander was going down in Alaskan waters last summer, hurried warning was sent to the staterooms. One man, half-awakened, laughed at what he thought a false alarm, and turned over for another map. An ‘in- stant later oecurred the explosion, which hurled tim into the air upon his mattress, which came down right side up upon the water. The disaster occurred near shore, the mattress was eventually hooked in, and the passen- ger was rescued unhurt. This tale may be believed only by those who have escaped marvelously the damgers of a tornado, but it is absolutely true. That the Russian government {s pro- viding for eventualities in regard to the building of railway carriages fer the Manchurian railway is shown by 2X the notification as to the manufacture “Nef twenty carriages for which an order hay been given. The earriages will differ from the present type in that the sides of the carriages will consist of two plates with a thick layer of compressed cork between the inner and outer plates, tbe latter being 3-4 inch thick. The Russian government evidently fear some spiping along the route, Washington Notes, Opposition to railroad legivlation is anticipated in the senate. The financial situation in the Thilip- pines causes censiderable alarm. Definite information has reavhed Washington that China is making pre- parations for another war. Congressman Hull complains that Americans in business in the Philip- pines are at a disadvantage. At the request of Gov.-Gen. Wood of Cuba, the itinerary of the North At- lantic squadron has been changed so as he squadron at Havana during stmas holidays—from Dec. 17 to 26. The monthly coinage statement is- sued by the director of the mint shows the total coinage executed at the mints of the United States during November, 1901, to have been $7,484,000,as follows: minor Gold, $6,670,000; silver, $917,000; coins, $297,090. The state department has received ,a telegram from Spencer Eddy, United States charge d'affaires at Constanti- nople, reporting that Miss Stone and her companion, Mme. Tsilka, are held prisoners at a place called Gultepe, 97 the south side of the mountains. Gov. William H. Taft, of the Philip- pine islands, has been directed by the secretary of war to return to the United States. This action is taken be- cause it is evident, from information received from Manila that Gov. Taft must leave the Philippine islands to regain his health. Gen. Smith has cabled Quartermas- ter General Humphrey that he believes the United States army transport Wright (former-y called the Bay State), which struck an uncharted rock last week, at the entrance of San Jacinto harbor and sank in fifteen feet of wa- ter, may be saved with the aid of a powerful tug. Casualities. In a railroad collision near Kharbin, Russia, eighteen Chinese and seven Russians were killed. Two of the lat- ter were frozen to death. Lawrence Larsen, the young foot ball player, whose neck was broken in a foot ball game in New York, is dead. He was twenty years of age. King’s lime works, at New Brighton, Staten Island, said to be the largest plant of its kind in the country, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $100,000. The bark Highland Light of San Francisco, a well known coaster, has foundered eighty miles off Hesquett, cn the Vancouver island coast. Her crew was taken to Victoria on the steamer Queen City. The breaker of the Green Ridge Coal ecmpany, at Scranton, Pa., was de- stroyed by fire, with all its boiler and engine houses, blacksmith shops and ear sheds, entailing a loss of $110,000; partly insured. Jesse Dixon, a well known farmer’ and stockman of Platte Center, Neb., while watching the operation of a corn- sheller on his farm, waa drawn into the feeder and lost both his arms. He died from the shock and loss of blood. James Tate, an engineer, was kil'ed by the bursting of a fly wheel at the plant of the Central Paper company at Muskegon, Mich. The building was damaged $3,000, and 150 men will be thrown out of employment for some time. J. M. Bayard of Burleson, Texas, was killed by a train in Forth Worth. Mr. Bayard was one of the wealthiest and most distinguished men in the country. He was a native of New York, and was a cousin of the late Thomas F. Bayard, former secretary of state. Fire in Denver destroyed the entire stock of the Croke-Thome Carpet and Furniture company, at 1613 Welton street, causing a loss of $80,000 and gut- ting the building, the damage to which was about $20,000. The building is the property of S. N. Wood. A woman threw a lighted match in a can of gasoline in the Tabernacle at “Wellington, Kan, where 1,000 people were attending a religious revival, and the flames, that shot up to the auditori- um, started a panic. Several persons were bruised, but none were injured seriously. 3 Criminal. Henry L. McCauley of New York has ‘been arrested in connection with bro- kerage frauds, New York detectives claim to have ‘uncovered a remarkable series of frauds in the brokerage business. In a crowded down-town street in ‘Chicago, J. W. Rogge was shot by two highwaymen, and _ thrown bodily through a plate glass window. Rogge was not serfously injured. The rob- bers escaped. ‘Charles Evilser, the Dubois (Ill.) city ‘marshal, and Henry Cameron of Ash- ley, fought a pistol duel at a bail. The former received ‘three wounds and the latter four. The shooting resulted over a quarrei over a woman. John Krause, who kept a Httle cigar store at Trenton, N. J., was murdered in his apartments in ‘the rear of the store. ‘The police are looking for Frank Williams, who, according to the state- ment of Mrs. Williams, committed the crime. ‘Two Chinese are dead and two mor- tally wounded lie at the San Francisco recciving hospital, as the result of two muréerous attacks in Chinatown. Both affairs were culminations of long- stending feuds between rival highbind- er asscciations. Town Marshal Charles Painter of Wellshire, Ohio, and Bartender Charles Tagne were arrested, and pleaded guilty before Justice Priddy, of robbing stores in the vill-ge. The marshal was also night watchman. The goods were sold at Fort Wayne, Ind. At Great Bend, Kan., the jury in the ease of Mrs. Belle Hotchkiss, charged with the murder of James Duffey, her brother-in-law, returned a verdict of manelaughter/in the third degree. Duf- fey was a shoemaker and lived at El- linweod. Ths killing was provoked by ®& quarrel of jong standing. Foreign Gossip. Sousa ‘has been decorated for his ser- vice to music by King Edward. Gen. Buller's toast to the king was responded to with great demonstration. Trouble is. brewing for Venezuela, owing to the rash actions of Gen, Cas- tro. An investigation in London reveals a scandal in connection with a telephone company. English officials fear that sympathiz. ers with Gen. Buller will unite with the pro-DBoers. m Charles Willism Hylton fifth earl of Sefton, is dead. born in 1867. Deserters from the American army are said to be responsible for the mas- sacre on the island of Sumar. It is rumored in Madrid that United States Minister . Bellamy Storrer will shortly be transferred to another post in Europe. se The princess of the Asturias, sister of the king and wife of Prince Charles of Bourbon, has given birth to a son. ‘The princess was married Feb. 14 of this year. A rare printed edition of 1807 of By- ron’s ‘Poems on Various Occasions,” with three original verses in Byron’s handwriting, was sold at Sotheby's, London, for £12! The District railway of London has ordered that the use of American oil be discontiaue@ everywhere on the line, excepting for office and signal lights. American oil is retained for use in these lights because it does not smoke the lamps. Commenting on the falling off in population, which it declares deplora- ble, the Figaro says that France is gradually dwindling away owing to the ever-increasing number of divorces cases and to the lack of moral and re- ligicus principles. Two substitute editors of the Berlin Verwaerts were found guilty of pud- lishing defamatory articles on the con- duct of the German troops in China and pubiishing a series of letters on the same subject. They were sentenced to six and seven nonths’ imprisonment. Much amusement was caused at a recent meeting of the Paris Anti-Alco- holic league by the reading of a letter signed “Carrie Nation,” in which the writer offered to come to France to cerry on a campaign of destruction against the “handmaids of the devil in the form of drugs, tobacco, intoxicating liquors and nude art.” Molineux, He was Personal. Prof. A. Webber, the Orientalist, is dead in Berlin. Charles William Hylton Mollineux, fifth earl of Sefton, is dead. He was born in 1867. Edward John Eyre, who was govern- or of Jamaica and its dependencies in 1862-66, and who put down the mutiny of the negroes there, is dead. He was born in 1815. Paul Deschanel, former councillor of the French embassy at Washington, where he married a daughter of Gen.’ George B. McClellan, has been ap- pointed French minister to Haiti. James Cox, secretary of the St. Louis Business Men’s league, died, aged for- ty-nine years. Mr. Cox was, some years ago, a newspaper proprietor in Kansas, and later became identified with the press of St. Louis. George Herman Strecker, a sculptor and entomoligist of world-wide fame, died in Reading. Pa., aged sixty-five. He was fifty years in gathering his su- perb collection of butterflies, which con- tains 20,000 specimens. Clem Studebaker of South Bend, Ind., whose death occurred recently, carried abcut $250,000 life insurance. It was placed mainly with old-line Eastern companies. He was probably the heaviest-insured man in Indiana. Mrs. Louise Wordan, a pioneer of the Klondike and one of that region’s most famous women, died at Victoria. She owned vaiuable properties near Daw- son, and was one of the first women to enter the district. She was a native of California. Otherwise. Mr. Carnegie will give a large sum of money for the benefit of aged telegra- phers. The Western Intercollegiate confer- ence has adopted a rule looking to the elimiration of professionalism. The .appraisers of the estate .of ithe late Kirkland P. Armour of Kansas City have filed a report, fixing its value at $3,995,520. . Mayer-elect Seth Low has announced ithe appointment of Col. John N. Part- widge as police commissioner of Great -ér New York. Col. Partride is now state superintendent of public works. From a reliable authority in Denver itis learned that Perry Heath, former postmaster general, will publicly an- nounce himself as a candidate for sen- ator from Utah. The report of the athletic committee of Harvard for the past year shows that receipts from all branches of ath- letics amounts to $117,317, and expendi tures to $18,118. The receipts fram foot ball were $55,518, and the expenses $10,- $00. Representatives of the Armours of Chicago have closed deals for the pur- chase of more than 200 acres of land across the Missouri river west of St. Joseph, Mo. It is supposed the land will be used for packing house and yard purposes. Seven heads of families, whose chil- dren died of lockjaw following the ad- ministration of St. Louis (Mo.) anti- toxin for diphtheria, and four, whose ehildren were stricken with tetanus bu: recovered, have arnounced their inten- tion of suing the city for damages. The exportation of cotton to the Ori- ent via Puget sound durin gthe past few years has made a wonderful in- crease, According to the custom hous¢ records at Port Townsend, Wash., ship- ments during November amounted t 14,000 bales of cotton, valued at $20,000 breaking the record, DIFFERS RADICALLY FROM: THE BILLS OF THE LAST TWO ‘SESSIONS. IS MUCH SHORTER AND SIMPLER DOES NOT FROVIDE FOR AMERICAN RAGISTRY OF FOREIGN VESSELS. TO PROMOTE SHIPBUILDING ‘OBSOLETE WOODEN STEAMSHIPS ARE DROPPED OUT COM- PLETELY. Washington, Dec. 11.—Senator Frye yesterday introduced the new ship subsidy bill. It differs radically in form from the ship subsidy bill of the past two sessiors. It is much shorter and simpler, and is divided into four titles. It does not provide American registry for foreign ships owned by Americans It makes no distinction between fast and slow steamships, ex- cept as the former may obtain mail contracts under the act of 1891. It con- tains no specific requirement for ex- port cargo, on the ground that it would be a violation or attempted evasion of our treaties, and further is unnecessary because the subsidy rate 1s so low that ample cargo must be ‘carried in order to escape loss. The first title, “Ocean Mail Steam- ships,” is devoted to amendments to the ocean mail act of 1891. Under the bill the postmaster genera! is required to consider the national defense and The Muoritime Interests of the United States as well as postal interests in providing for the transpor- tation of American ocean mails. The purpose of this is to free the United States from dependence upon the Brit- ish, German and French auxiliary cruisers for its ocean mail service and to substitute a yurely American sys- tem. The bill drops the obsolete wood- en steamships of only twelve knots as no longer eligible for ocean mail ser- vice. The rates ‘fixed by the bill are maximum rates. Mail contracts are open to competition and ‘will be award- 2d at rates as much below the maximum as will secure an American mail ser- vice. The second title, “General Subsidy,” contains the general subsidy for all vessels, steam or sail, which are not under mail contracts. This general sub- sidy is uniform, 1 cent per gross ton per 100 nautical miles for not exceeding Sixteen Entries in One Year. This amount is sufficient, according to the latest figures, to equalize the dif- ference in American seamen’s wages and in the cost of building ocean steamships in the United States and Great Britain referred ‘to in President Roosevelt’s message and Secretary Gage’s report. To promote the building of new ocean vessels an additional al- lowance of one-fourth of a cent per gress ton is made for five years. Any vessel to receive this general subsidy must carry mails if required; must train in steamship or engineering! one American youtn ‘for each 1,000 tons. The owner must egree to hold the ves- sel at the service of the government if required for defense, the pay for such service to be appraised by a repre- sentative of the government. These requirements are ‘taken substantially from the ocean mail act of 1891. Any vessel To Receive Subsidy must be Class A-1 and at least one- fourth of the crew must be Americans. A vessel going to a foreign port less than 150 miles from the United States or making less than half its voyage on salt water is not entitled to subsidy. The third title, “Deep Sea Fisheries,” prevides an annual bounty of $2 a ton for deep sea fishing vessels and of $1 a month for American citizens when en- gaged in deep sea fisheries. The fourth title, “General Provis- fons,” provides that a vessel shall re- ceive only »ne form of subsidy, and taat a vessel which has received a sub- sidy shall not be sold to a foreigner ex- cept by consent of the secretary of the treacury. The president shall des:gnate heads o: departments to provide regulations to carry oui this bill. The biil was re- ferred to the committee on commerce. CARNEGIE’S LATEST DONATION. Offers the Government $10,000,000 ta Found a University for Higher Education. Washington, Dec. 11.—The Post says: President Roosevelt has received & letter from Andrew Carnegie in which the latter offers to make a donation of $10,000,000 to the United States. The letter will be referred to congress by the president in a special message. Mr. Carnegie’s gift is for the purpose of es- tablishing in Washington a university for higher education. As far as his idea has been developed, it proposes 2 gift after the manner of the bequest of James Smithson, the Englishman wh? gave $1,000,000 for the establishment and maintenance of what is now known as the Smithsonian institution. Mr. Carnegie proposes that the university which he is to endow shall be the great- est institution in the world for the de- velopment of higher education. He has consulted President Gilman of the Johns Hopkins university, President Hadley of Yale university, President Eliot of Harvard, President White of Cornell and all the leading educators of the country. They heartily indorse his plans. A NICE, NEW JOB. Seeretary of Agricultare Shakes Down a Plum. Washington, Dec. 11.—The secretary, of agriculture yesterday announced the establishment of a new division of soil management in the bureau of soils, with Prof. F. H. King, formerly pro- fessor of soil physics in the University of Wisconsin, in charge. The work of this division will consist of following up the svil surveys and investigating problems connected with the proper distributbn of crops and the best method of cultivation. | x THE MARKETS. | Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. ’ St. Paul, Dec. 12, — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 78 1-2@79¢; No. 2 Northern, 721-2@73e. Corn — No. 3 yellow, old, 63 1-2@64c; No. 3, 63@631-2c. Oats—No. 3 white, 45 1-2@46c; No. 3. 45@45 1-2 Minneapolis, Dec. 12.—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 787-8c; No, 1 Northern, 76 7-8c; No. 2 Northern, 75 3-Se. Corn — No. 3 yellow, 623-4c. Oats -- No. 3 white, 44 1-4c; low grades brought 48c. Duluth, Dec. 12.—Wheat-—Cash, No. 1 hard, 77c; No. 1 Northern, 74; No, 7 Northern, 711-2c; No. 3 spring, 69¢; to arrive, No. 1 hard, 77¢c; No. 1 Northern, 74c; December, 74c; May, 77 1-8¢; oats, 451-8c; rye, 59c; barley, malting, 49@ 5S8e: corn, 64c; flax, cash and to arrive, $1.41; December, $1.401-2; May, $1.45. Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 12. — Flour is dull. Wheat irregular; No. 1 Northern, 79@79 1-2c; No. 2 Northern, 76@79 1-4c; May, 833-4c. Rye lower; No, 1, 63c. Tarley steady; No. 2, Corn—-May, 65 5-8c. Chicago, Dee. 12. —- Cash Wheat—No. 2 red, 83@84c; No. 3 red, 81@83c; No. 2 hard winter, 77 3-4@79 3-4c; No. 3 hard winter, 771-2@79c; No. 1 Northern spring, 79@80c; No. 2.Northern spring, 77 1-2@78 1-2c; No. 3 spring, 76 @ 78e. Corn—No. 2, 66c; No, 3, 64@64 1-2c..Oats —No. 2, 47@47 1-2c; No. 2, 46 3-4@47c. Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. 12. — Cattle — Beeves, $4 @ 7; cows, bulls and mixed, $1.50 @ 4; stockers and feeders, $2.2503.85; yearlings and calves, $2.50@ 4. Hogs, $5.95@6.10; bulk, $6. Chicago, Dee. 12. — Cattle — Good to prime steers, $6.50@7.50; poor to medi- um, $4@6.25; stockers and _ feeders, $2.25@4.50; cows, $1.35@4. heifers, $2.50 @5.50; canners, $1.25@2.30; bulls, $2 @ 4.75; calves, $2.50@5.75; Texans, $5.15. Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $5.25@6.35: good to choice heavy, $5.95@6.40; rough heavy, $5.65@6; light, $5.40@5.90; bulk of sales, $5.80@6.20. Sheep, $2.75@4.15;" lambs, $2.50@5.25. South St. Paul, Dec. 12. — Cattle — Fancy butcher steers, $5.60@6; prime, $5@5,50; good to choice, $4.25@4.90; com- mon to fair, $3@4; fancy butcher cows and heifers, $4.25@4.75; prime, $3.90@ 4.15; good to choice, $3.25 @ 3. fair, $2.66@3.15; canners and cutters, $1.40@2 good to choice butcher bulls, $2.50@3 common and bologna bulls, $1.75@2.70: good to choice veals, $4.25@4.75; com- mon to fair, $3@4; good to choice feed- ing steers, $3.25@4; common to fair, $3 @3.20; good to choice stock steers, $2.65 @3.15; common to fair, $2@2.60; good to choice steer calves, $2.60@3; common to fair, $2@2.50; good to choice stock cows and heifers, $2.40@2.75; common to fair, $2@2.35; good to choice heifer calves, $2.40@2.75; common to fair, $2@ 2.35; stock and feeding bulls, $1.50 @ 2.50; good to choice milch cows and springers, $32@40; common to fair, $25 @30. Hogs — Light, $5.60@5.: mixed and butchers, $5.65@6.15M hea $5.65@6.20; rough packers, $5.50; buars, $2@3; stags, 34.50@4.75; pigs, $4.50@5. Sheep—Gvod to choice fat lambs, $3.75 @4.15; common to fair, $3.40@3.70; good to choice fat wethers, $3.25@3.50; com- mon to fair, $3@3.20; good to choice fat ewes, $2.90@3.15; common to fair, $2.75 @2.85; killing bucks, $1.75@2.25; good to choice stocic and feeding lambs, $3.65@ 4.10; common to fair, $3.25@3.60; buck lambs, $2@2.50; good to choice feeding wethers, $3.25@3.50; common to fair, $3 @2.20; good to choice feeding ewes, $2.50 @2.75; common to fair, $2.25@2.40; stock ewes, $2@2.50. Weekly Market Letter. The following market letter is fur- nished by Edwards, Wood & Co., Grain Cummission Brokers, 8 Chamber of Commerce, Minneapolis, 310 Board of Trade, Duluth: i Dec. 4.—Last week’s grain market was quiet and steady until on Friday, when an advance began, which has reached 4c per bushel for wheat; 4 3-8c per bushel for Chicago corn; 3 7-8¢ for Chicago oats. ‘The news for the week was the same as it has been: Large primary receipts of wheat with good cash demand, small receipts of coarse grains, with a large demand and advancing prices; continued dry weather in the South- west. The advance is based on large buying by the country, continued drought in the Southwest, and higher cables. There was a decrease in re ceipts on Monday and Tuesday of this week, with a decrease of nearly 3,000,000 bushels in the amount on ocean pass- age, and small deliveries on December contracts have also helped. An in- crease of 3,500,000 bushels in the world’s visible supply 4as been ignored. This week wheat has shown great strength, independent of corn, and has led the advance. Western primary receipts of wheat were about 7,000,000 bushels for the week. Exports were 5,117,000 bush- eis. According to Bradstreet. the world’s visible supply of wheat has increased 22,125,000 bushels in the last three weeks. Primary receipts from July 1 to Noy. 25, aggregated 144,000,000 bush- els, and exports for the same time were 128,000,000 bushels. Exports of corn since July 1 are but 19,250,000 bushels, compared with 74,333,000 bushels for the same period last year. Reccipts of corn are very small. The steady advance in price signally justifies all predictions made in these letters during the past month, Minneapolis May wheat is now quoted at 76 5-§c; May flax, $1.44 1-2; Chicago May corn and oats, 68 1-2 and 46c, respectively. We think wheat high enough for the present. Advise pur- chzses on any material decline. Write for our private telegraph ci- pher, explaining speculation, and our dafly market letter, mailed free. Thinks He Has Absconder. San Jose, -Cal., Dec. 12.—Sheriff Lang- ford arrested a man at Santa Clara last night whom he believes to bear a close resemblance? to Henry J. Fieish- man, the absconding Los Angeles bank cashier, and will hold him for further investigation. The man gives the name of B. F, Dudley and claims to be from Boston. ‘TWO STATES OR NONE. People of Oklahoma and Indian Ter- ritory Oppose Single Statchood. Muscogee, Ind. T., Dec. 12—Opponents of single statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory met here yesterday. The meeting, which was attended by about sixty delegates, does not repre- sent the opposition to single statehooa, It is merely the beginning of an organ- ization intended to fight the ‘union of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state; the delegates want two states or rone TLAYS THE PIANO WHILE TUPILS MARCH OUT OF RUNING SCHOOL, HER ESCAPE CUT OFF BY SMOKE BEFORE ov FORCED BACK TWICE REACHING A PEA SAPETY, ONLY PUPIL THAT KNEW OF FIRE AS A RESULT OF HER COOLN ALL CHILDREN WERE SAFELY TAKEN OUT. Chicago, Dec. 11. — While clouds of smoke filled the hallways a fierce fire which raged in the basement of the Lincoln school yesterday, Ethel Barker, thirteen years old, sat at a piano in the main corridor upstairs and played a lively two-step for the 300 children te keep time by while marching out of the burning building. Miss Baker did net cease playing until the last child had left the building, and when she tried to escape she was twice driven back by clouds of dense smoke which, by the time she started to escape, rolled through the corridors. She finally reached a door and went to the first floor by groping along the walls and along the stair banisters. When the girl volunteered to play the march she was the only pupil who knew the building was on fire, for she had heard the whispered announce- ment that preceded the ringing of the fire drill gong. When the gong sound- ed she ran from the eighth grade room and began to play. As a result of her coclness all the children were taken out safely, although a panic was narrowly averted when they reached the lower SOLD TO SLAVERY. Ex-Slave Kidnaps Negroes and Sells Them Into Bondage. New Decatur, Ala., Dec. 12. — Ben Milam, colored, an ex-slave of Law- rence county, is under arrest charged with an unusual crime. it is alleged that Milam has for some time been en- gaged in kidnapping negroes and seli- ing them as slaves to the white man- ager of a Tennessee river island some miles below*Decatur. It is said Milam would induce the negroes to accompany him to the island with the promise of securing positions for them on the plantation at good wages, and, when they reached there he would sell them in bondage, and, being confined within the stockade, escape was impossibie and their relatives could never ascer- tain their whereabouts. It is said that @ young negro who recently escaped from the island told the story and caused the arrest of Milam. He reports that 2 kidnapped negro has been con- fi.ed on this island as a slave for se- eral years. NOS ROUTED. Americans Are Saccessful in Several Recent Battles. Manila, Dec. 12.—Thousands of people are leaving Batangas province for places of safety. Gen. James H. Bell reports an en- gagement between a force of insurgents at Labo and a detachment of the Twentieth infantry. Three Americans were killed. The loss of the enemy is not known, but it is believed to have been heavy. Gen. Bell anticipates a speedy extermination of the irreconcil- ables. A large force of insurgents recently attacked the town of Lipa, Province of Batangas, killing one soldier and several friendly natives. Troop F. First cavalry, killed ten of the enemy before thé remainder of the insurgent force escaped. The Filipinos evidently expected a victory, for they had cut the wires and carried off a hundred yards of the line. The natives are stirred by the closing of the ports and bitterly object to reconcentration. A Filipino force consisting of 200 riffe- men and 400 bolomen recently attacked Nagjartian, Province of North Ilocos. Company M, Eighth infantry, acting on the defensive, drove the enemy, killing eleven of them, with no less to themselves. fi NO GREAT UNIVERSITY. Carnegie’s Plan Is to Create a Fand for Higher Eduention. Washington, Dec. 12.—The propose? gift of $10,000,000 by Andrew Carnegie for ecucational purposes was dis- cussed at yesterday’s meeting of the cabinet. It was stated that the presi- dent had received a communication from Mr. Carnegie on the subject of the creation of a fund for the purpose of higher education. It is said that his proposition does not involve the estab- lishment of university buildings in Washington, but rather the placing of a fund in the hands of the govern- ment, from which deserving students may »e paid in the line of original in- vestigation at home and abroad. The proposition, it is understood, has not reached a concise form except in gen- eral terms except as to the amount. The president will confer with members of congress in regard to the proposed gif: before making its terms public. ile Defamed an Officer. Paris, Dec. 12. — The Aurore is the latest victim of the condemnations for libe: on the army. The manager of the paper was sentenced to two months” imprisonment and a fine of $600 for de- f. ming an army officer. Orators of Prominence. Feston, Dec, 12. — The Boston Mer- chants’ asxociation met at the Ven- dome last evening m celebration of its twenty-fifth anniversary and was en- tertained by four men of national repu- tation who made spirited addresses, chiefly along political lines. Postmas- ter General Charles Emory Smith spoke on reciprocity; Kogario Taka- hira, the Japanese minister, upon the subject of “Commercial Relations;” Senator Marcus A. Hanna, on the “Ship Subsidy Bill,” and Col. Henry Watter- son of Kentucky, on “Kentucky and Massachusetts.”