Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 19, 1902, Page 6

The Herald--Review. By E. C. KILEY. MINNESOTA. ASSERT Mise Sec GRAND RAPIDS, - Now that Prince Henry is at home the may safely uncork that bottle of Kentucky peach brandy. House hunting, bonnet hunting and ‘octopus hunting are a few of the oc- cupations of the present season. Another tunnel is to be built in New York. The island is destined to become a veritable gopher camp. Carnegie is making money so fast that he has now taken to giving away libraries in flocks instead of singly. Imsurance rates are climbing 50 high that any sudden descent will have to be made by way of the fire escape. Aguinaldo, Lukban and all of the «captured Filipino chieftains agree that the fat of the land is far preferable to the Jean. Every time Italy looks over at Tri- poli it thinks it ought to do a lit- tle expending just to keep it up with ‘the (procession. J. Pierpont Morgan does not burden his ‘mind with such a trifle as $10,000,- 000. In this respect there is a number of us just like him. Nineteen Italian newspapers have been suppressed in Austria for foment- ing disorder on 'the occasion of the re- cent riots at Triest. From \the way they are fighting the Chinese rebels must have stocd around and ‘watched the armies of the allies do things two years ago. London is a poor location for the coronation. There are not enough mansions in the city to accommodate the American millionaires. A Russian has invented a monorail electric road that he believes will transport passengers at the rate of 200 miles an hour. Don’t! Now that revolvers are being used in the noble art of self-defense against hazing, the college pastime will lose some of its zest for exuberant class- men. The automobile appears to have the peculiar faculty of running rich men ‘nto the police courts. The poor man’s chance won’t come till the machines are cheaper. Some of the New York restaurants now have “smoking rooms for ladies.” They should be more explicit and labe] them “smoking rooms for per- fect ladies.” ‘When Max O’Rell tells people to “re- main childish as long as you can,” he probably means childlike — which doesn’t sound very different to a Frenchman, The social climber who has wasted his substance in golfing outfits is now suffering from ping pongitis, a disease that is said to be prevalent among American ‘plutocrats, A long term in prison seems to destroy a man’s appreciation of lib- erty. Hardly had Jim Younger got out of the penitentiary when he be- gan to yearn for matrimony. ‘The new $5 national bank notes dear'the vignette of Benjamin Harri- ~son and the new $10’s that of William McKinley. To the acquisitive taste the*$10’s are the more attractive. Sultan Abdul Hamid has stopped the ensions' that had been allowed to sev- eral Turkish students in Paris. Nat- urally:the-sultan looks with suspicion on. any one who can read and write. ‘Yet another step in the disappear- sence of gold lace from British officers’ uniforms. Brigade orders of the Foot Guards announce that gold-striped ‘trousers and overalls must be worn no Jonger. You are led to believe from the va- rious :pronunciamentos of the great powers that henceforth it és going to ‘be so quiet in the far east that you «an hear a pin drap anywhere there- abouts. Miss Susan M. Hallowell, professor of botany for the last twenty-seven years at Wellesley eollege, has ten- dered her resignation. Her retirement withdraws from the faculty ranks the last member who served in the open- ing year in 1875, The viceroy of India has’ announced a detailed scheme for utilizing a quar- ter of a million sterling subscribed in India for the Queen Victoria. memorial in building a great hall of classical architecture of white Pentelicon mar- ble to be brought from Greece. The news that Andrew Carnegie has refused to become Achill II. of Araucana shows how really’ t is the American millionaire who prefers to invest in libraries instead of spénd- sos his fortune in coronation ceremo- es. A man who served a long term in the fowa penitentiary writes to his home paper that he if convinced crime does not pay, since le has lost $16,800 he might have made by working at his trade, while the property he stole prong cag only $67, TROL. PRICE OF PEACE) sancti tnrees oo ing and Sensational Period. New York,- April 17, — Wall street passed through one of its most excit- ing and sensational periods yesterday. The Louisville & Nashville situation, which had hung menacingly oyer the district for a week or more, was cleared by the undisputed statement that Johs. W. Gates and his associates had wrested control of the property from the Belmont party and were in absolute possession. Accompanying this statement which had been dis- counted the day before was one that the Gates faction had selected J. P. Morgan & Co, to settle the differences between the contending parties. While these events were happening a movement without parallel in the history of the stock exchange was on in Southern’ Railway. ‘Trading in Southern Railway common set in on @ tremendous scale, and at one time in- terest centered almost entirely in that stock. It became evident before the opening of the market that a settlement would be reached, At the office of J. P. Mor- gan & Co. a series of conferences be- gau before 10 o'clock. Gates Issues Statement. Shortly before noon the appended an- novrcement was given out by the brokerage firm of Harris, Gates & Co., in which John W. Gates is a special partner: “We have bought control of stock of the Louisville & Nashville road. We did not buy it for speculation, but for investment, believing absolutely in the present ang future value of the proper- ty. There will not be any ‘corner’ in th* stock. We have placed the entire matter in the hands of J. P. Morgan & Co. and requested them to act as ar- biters in the situation because of the prominence of the prcperty and desire not to disturb in any © the general market condition, and because we know that they (Morgan & Co.) have no in- terest whatever in the property or in recent purchases.” Throughout the day operations in Southern Railway shares continued on an enormous scale. The demand was extraordinary almost from the outset. The common stock advanced 35-8 and the preferred 31-2 points. In the first half-hour fully 200,000 shares of South- ern Railway common changed hands. By the end of the first hour transac- | tions OUTLINE OF PEACE PROPOSALS NOW UNDER DISCUSSION AT PRETORIA. BRITAIN RETAINS VETO, RIGHT BOERS ACCEPT BRITISH COMMIS- SIONER WITH BOER EX- ECUTIVE, WAR INDEMNITY TO BE PAID CHAMBERLAIN RECEIVES A DIs- PATCH GIVING PLANS FA- VORED BY BOERS. The Hague, April 16. — From those elose in touch with the Boer leaders here it appears that the latest secret dispatches from South Africa outline the peace proposals now under discus- sion &t Pretoria. They closely follew the summary given on Saturday last by the Evening News of Edinburgh, with the following additional details: The Boers accept a British lord com- missioner with a Boer executive, both to be residents of Pretoria. The country to be divided into dis- tricte, with British district officers and a Boer committee, chosen, by polling, by the burghers. The veto right to be reserved to the British government. The majority of the British officers must be conversant with the Dutch language. Johannesburg to be retroceded to the British with complete British ciyil government. A war indemnity of at least £10,000,- 000 to be distributed by mixed com- mittees. x Disarmament to occur when the first batch of Boer prisoners is sent back to South Africa. No war tat te be ievied. Both languages to be recognized tn the schools and courts and in official | documents, The expense of the garrisons in South | Africa to be borne by ‘Great Britain. The present Boer leaders to be re- | tained in office so far as possible. Chambertiain Receives Messsage. Lonéon, April 16.—In a dispatch from | Johannesburg, dated April 14, the cor- respordent of the Daily Mail says the leading Boer delegates conferred to- day with Lord Milner, the British high | commissioner in South Africa, at Pre- | toria, and that Lord Kitchener was | present at the conference. sie! urderstand,” says ‘the correspond- . “that Lords Milner and Kitchener Sa jointly conduct 'the negotiations and that Lord Milner will forward the | Boer proposals to Mr. ‘Chamberiain.” The Daily Mail asserts that Mr. Chamberlain, the colonial secretary, re- ceived an important dispatch from Lord Milner last (Monday) night. It ig understood this dispatch outlines the basts ef negotiations favored by the Boers. The Mail says it will be sub- mitted at the cabinet meeting to be held to-day. Z S@ONRIBLE MURDER. In This Stock Alone reached a total of over 350,000 shares. By noon considerably more than half a million shares had changed hands. Dealings fell off after that to some, ex- tent, but the recor is for the number of shares of a single stock sold in one hour, in two hours, and in one day’s trading were all shattered as a result of Southern Railway's performance yesterday. ‘The total sales for the day reached a total of 864.500 shares. The total outstanding stock of the company ‘Tis 1,200,000 shares. Louisville & Noshville shares ad- most as soon as the “bulge” in South- vanced at the opening but fell off al- ern Railway came. Transactions in Louisville & Nashville aggregated about 58,000 shares, the stock closing at 127, a net loss for the day of 1 point. No definite statement as to what dis- position Morgan & Co. may make of Louisville & Nashville is looked for un- til the pending legal entanglements growing out of the Great Northerm Northern Pacific merger are settled. “BONE-SETTER” ARRESTED. Minnesota Woman Accuses Him of Fraud, West Superior, Wis., April 17.—Chris- fine Ordell yesterday caused the arrest of Dr. W. ’‘C. Arons, known as the “Bone-Setter,”” who ‘has been practic- ing in this city at what is called the “Home for Cripple: for about a year. Miss Ordell complains to the district attorney that six months ago she came here from a small town in Minnesota and paid the doctor $85 on the strength of his statements that he would cure her of hip trouble. The doctor has been practicing on a large scale, prom- \fising ‘to cure cripples without the use of instruments, but simply by the use of his hands. Miss Ordell worked for her board at the home for some time, and avers she has had no relief. ‘When the ‘warrant was sworn out the “‘Bone-Set- ‘ter’ was out of town. ‘but he was ar- rested immediately upon his return at noon, He pleaded not guilty to the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Mad father Afraid the Children Would Carry Tales Saltisaw, Ind. T., April 16. —:One of the mcst brutal ders ever commit- ted in the Indian Territory took place a few miiles east of Stillwell. A white taan named Dudley killed his ie: Genes eld daughter, fatally wounded ‘two other children and seriously injured his wife. Dudley has ‘been brought ‘here to prevent his ibeing lynched. In jail he confessed the crime, He said he had been talking to this family about his_ neighbors, and fearing that ‘they would | repeat his statements and cause) trouble he determined to kill all four. He gaid he attempted to kill them on) Thursday night, when he secured an! axe and went first ‘to the ‘bed ef the’ children. They were asleep .and f Locked So Innocent that his heart failed ‘him. ‘The next | day, however, he carried ut ‘his desire, first braining ‘his ten-year-old daugh- | ter with a plew point, then attacking | his two other younger children, cand | finally his wife. After committing the | deed he went io the thhonse of his father, where he was arrested. Excitement was intense and there came near be- ing a lynching at Stillwell before the officers could get Dudley out of town. When Dudley was toki that only his oldest daughter was dead, he broke down and cried and said his only re- gret was that he had not dispatched all of the family. Mrs. Dudley will probably recover, but the two children cannot live. FORTY-FOURTH MEET. Minnesota State Sunday School As- sociation Holds Annunl Meeting in Winon ‘Winona. Minn., April 17.—The forty- fourth convention of the Minnesota State Sunday School association met in this city last evening. There were present-a lafge number of delegates, arrangements having been made for 300, and the majority of these have al- ready arrived. The address of welcome was made by Hon. Thomas Simpson of this city, and the response was made by J. Irish. The principal address was made by Marion Lawrence, upon the “Demands of the New Century Upon the Sunday School.” Tt was , shown that the Sunday school is becoming 4 prominent factor in the advancement of Christianity, and that it must be better fostered and encouraged in order to fill the larger field that is opening up for it. PRHLge PAS aa NORTHERN PACIFIC WRECK. END OF THE STRIKE. Conference Between Miners and Employers Likely to Have That Result, Dutois, Pa., April '46.—General Man- ager Robinson, of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron company, met President Mitchell and the district of- ficers of the United Mineworkers, to; gether with the delegates from the dit- ferent mines in this region at Punxsu- tawney yesterday in a conference last- ing five hours. As a result of the con- ference it is generally felt that within a few days the strike of the bituminous miners will be declared off. Neither President Mitchell, the district officers, delegates nor Mc. Robinson would give out the result of the conference further than #:at an agreement had been ar- rived at and that the conditions of the Indianapolis agreement are now thor- oughly understood by all parties. Eaxt-Bound Passenger Train Breaks bs Yhrongh Bridge. Glendive, Mont., April 17.—A North- broke through a_ bridge west of this place. The mail, express car and three coaches were wrecked and burned. With the exception of the mail clerk, who sustained a scalp wound, no one was injured. Troffic will be delayed about twelve hours. x MILLION FROM CARNEGIE, BAD WEEK FOR BOERS, Some Heavy Fighting Goinz on While Pence Conferences Are Held. London, April 16. — News of severe fighting in the Transvaal at the end of last week has been sent by Lord Kitch- ener, who reports that about 200 Boers were killed, wounded or captured. There were about 100 Britisu casualties. The Columbia College to Get a Fortune as n Gift. New York, April 17. — Public an- nouncement will be made after the of- ficial installation ceremonies in Colum- bia college of a munificent money gift to that institution by Andrew Carne- gie. The eRe amount is known only to the president and to the of British also captured three guns and.a | trv jatecas’ but there is good Bs co quantity of supplies, ‘Commandant believe weet St. va not far short of, $1 000,-. Poteicter spa among ue Boers Met 000, t - ern Pacific east-bound passenger train |: IPPINES TO BE INVESTI- GATED. & COURT-MARTIAL FOR OFFICERS CHAFFEE IS ORDERED TO GIVE THE MATTER IMMEDIATE AT- TENTION. HE MUST SPARE NO EFFORT TO UNCOVER EVERY AND BRING THE OFFENDERS TO JUSTICE, CASE Washirgton, April 17. — Secretarv Root has cabled Gen. Chaffee at Ma- nila to investigate the newspaper re- ports of the Waller trial, and if they are correct, to court-martial Gen. Smith. Also, if the facts are estab- lished as testified to before the senate Philippine committee, to court-martial the officers who administered the “water-cure” to the presidente of Ig- barras. These officers are Maj. Glenn, Lieut. Conger and Assistant Surgeon Lyon. In his orders to Gen. tary Root says: “Press dispatches state that upon the trial of Maj. Waller, of the marine corps, testimony was given by Waller, corroborated by other witnesses, that Jacob H. Smith instructed him to kill and burn; that the more-he killed and burned, the better pleased Gen, Smith would be; that it was No Time to Take Prisoners, and that when Maj. Waller asked Gen. Smith to define the age limit for killing, he replied: ‘Everything over ten. “If such testimony was given, and the facts can be established, you will by court- Chaffee Secre- place Gen. Smith on trial martial. “Yesterday, before the senate com- mittee on Philippme affairs, Sergt. Charles Riley and Private William Lewis Smith of the Twenty-sixth vol- unteer infantry, testified that the form of torture known as the ‘water-cure’ was administered to the presidente of the town of Igbarras, Iloilo province, Island of Panay. by a detachment of the Eighteenth United States infantry under command of Lieut. Arthur L. Conger, under orders of Maj. Edwin F. Glenn, then captain Twenty-fifth in- fantry, and that Captain and Assistant Surgeon Palmer Lyon, at that time @ contract surgeon, was present to as- sist them. The officers named, or such of them as are Found to Be Responsible fo: the act, will be tried, therefore, by |court-artial. It is believed that the vi- olations of law and humanity, of which these cases, if true, are examples, “will prove to be few and occasional and not to characterize the conduct of the army generally in the Philippines; but the fact that any such acts of cruelty and barbarity appear to have been done ‘indicates the necessity of a most thorough, searching and exhaustive in- vestigation in the general charges pre- ferred by Gov. Gardner, and you will spare no effort in the investigation al- ready ordered under these charges to uncover every such case which may have occurred and bring the offenders to justice.” MITCH IN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. British Cabinet Refuses Armistice During Necotiations. Londen, April 17.—The Daily Mail in its issue of this morning says it under- stands a serious hitch has occurred in the peave negotiations in South Africa. The cabinet council has decided to re- fuse a strongly worded request from the Boer leaders at Pretoria for an armistice pending the negotiations. This alone is not liable to cause the Boers withdrawal from the negotia- tions, says the Daily Mail, although it is said the government declines to treat the Cape rebels upon the same footing as the burghers with respect to am- nesty, and is not inclined to withdraw the banishment proclamation. ‘These features are regarded by the Boers as ‘two, cardinal points as the irreducible minimum cf terms which Lord Milner went to Pretoria to ascertain, and in return for which the Boers agree to the ‘loss of independence and a general sur- vender. Their other demands, contin- ues the Daily Mail, are that Great Britain shall rebuild and restock farms, take over the legal claims and Tiabili- ‘ties of the two republics and grant a representative government within a shorter period than is now contem- plated. FOR FREE TEXT BOOKS. Better Educational Conditions. Fargo, N. D., April 17.—Fargo is te take a whirl at the free text book sys- tem. The advocates of that plan yes- terday won out at the school election. It was bitterly opposed by the taxpay- ers on account of the already high rate of taxation. Mrs. E. M. Darrow, who ran on the stickers, was the leading candidate. The other new members of the board of education are O. Shadland and J. F. Paul Gross. The election of Mrs. Darrow keeps two ladies on the board. Mrs, Roberts and Mrs. Delen- drecie had been on the board, but the latter refused to again become a candi- date. Mrs. Darrow has always been prominent in city club circles and edu- ational work. STOP TORTURE | “MURDERER IN DISGUISE. Woman Killed by a Man Dressed in Woman's Clothing. Springfield. Mass., April. 17, — Mrs. Lizzie Whitehouse, about twenty-eight years of age, cook in the Hightland hotel, last night was shot and killed by a man dressed in woman's clothing The murderer made his escape after a ‘struggle with the bartender, Henry | Kreibs, in which Kreibs was shot {| the hand. The police are looking for Whitehouse, “pace of the Sanne, ky >. >. CONGRESS RESUME OF THE WEEK’S PROCEEDINGS. Se See ees In the House. Washington, April 10.—The feature of the second day’s debate in the house on the Cuban reciprocity bill was an impassioned speech in opposition to the measure by William A. Smith, @ Michigan Republican. Senators Spoon- er and Quarles of Wisconsin, and Dolli- ver of lowa, and a group of Michigan beet sugar maiufacturers in the gal- lery, were in his audience and he was liberally applauded by his Republican supporters as he assailed the Republic- an leacers who were advocating the bill, boldly charging them with being false to the Republican doctrine of pro- tection. He announced that he was willing to vote to overrule the chair in order to support an amendment to take the differential off refined sugar. Mr. Morris of Minnesota, another Repub- lican who made a strong speech against the bill, also made a similar statement. The other speakers were Mr. Ball of Texas and Mr. Sparkman of Florida, both of whom opposed the bill, and Mr. Mondell of Wyoming, who advo- cated its passage. In the Senate. ‘Throughout yesterday's session of the senate the Chinese exclusion bill was under consideration. Mr. Hall of New Hampshire and Mr. Dillingham of Ver- mont opposed the oill and Mr. Turner of Washington supported it. Mr. Gal- linger urged that the pending bill was unnecessary, unjust and un-American, and was clearly in controvention of the treaty obligations with China. In the Senate. Washirgton, April 11.—An effort was mide late yesterday in the senate 10 obtain an agreement for a vote on the Chinese exclusion dill, but it was un- successful. The indications now are that the vote will be taken next Tues- day. ‘The measure was under discus- sion during the entire session yesterday except for about an_ bour, in whict time the postoffice appropriation bill was considered and passed. ‘Three speeches® were made against the Chi- nese bill in its present form, Mr. Dill- ingham of Vermont concluding his re- marks, and Mr. Stewart of Nevada and Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts stating their cbjections to the bill. In the House. The debate on the Cuban reciprocity bill in the house yesterday was devoid of enlivening features. The most'nota- ble speech of the day was made by Mr Grosvenor cf Ohio. He answered inconsistency by saying that reciproc- ity was sound: Republican doctrine and that tariff schedules. were not sacred. He predicted that the time would come, although it had not yet arrived, when there would be an inexorable demand for revision of the present rates. Mr. Prince of Illinois made a strong speech against the measure. In the Senate. Washington, April 12.—Some remarks which Mr. Depew of New York made Thursday concerning the proposed amendment to the constitution provid- ing for the election of senators by pop- ular vote, in the course of which he adverted to Southern election methods, yesterday precipitated a ney three- hour debate in the senate. . Money of Mississippi, to whose etite refer- ence had been made by the New “York senator, replied, partly to some of the statements of Mr. Depew, and defended the suffrage clauses in the Mississippi constitution. Mr. Depew made a warm reply and attacked the election methods not only of Mississippi, but of several other Southern states. His remarks drew a sharp fire from several senators. Mr. Money and his colleague, Mr. Laurin, explained Mississippi election methceés, and Mr. Simmons of North Carolina pointed out that Mr. Depey tad been entirely mistaken about the operation of the constitution of that state and that his statements were er- ronecus. Mr. Blackburn of Kentucky warmly arraigned the New York sen- ator for his comments on Kentucky electicns. When the Chinese exelusion bill was taken up an agreement was reached that a vote should be taken on it next Tuesday at 10 o'clock. In the House. Debate on the Cuban reciprocity bill continted in the house yesterday, the principal speeches being made by Mr. Long of Kansas, a member of the ways and means committee, who, from the first ardently supported the proposition for reciprocity and who originally fa- vored a reduction of 40 per cent, and by Mr. Shaforth of Colorado, who vig- orously opposed the bill on the ground that the sugar trust, which ke said was waging a war of extermination against the beet sugar industry, would be its chief beneficiary. In the Senate. Washington, April 15.—The Chinese exclusion bill occupied the attention of the serate throughout yesterday, Sen- ators Foraker and McLaurin making extenced speeches in epposition. Mr. Foraker contended that the pending measure was ~iolative of out treaty with China ard was calculated to pre- vent our commercial expansion in the Far East. While strongly supporting the policy of the .government to ex- clude Chinese labor, the Ohio senator maintained thai this could best be done by an extension of the present law, holding that the drastic provisions of the pending bill would cut off our cot- ton trade with China and thus wreck the cotton industry of the South, In the House. Interest in the Cuba reciprocity de- bate in the house seems to be waning, judging by the attendance on the floor yesterday, but the earnestness of the speeches on both sides of the question increase rather than decrease in in- tensity. That the Republican opponents of the bill are determined to prolong the struggle as much as possible was made manifest by their refusal to al- low speeches to be printed in the Rec- ord. Im the House. Washington, April 16. — With the close of the Cubén reciprocity debate in the house yesterday the leaders an- aowhced that all danger of the bill be- ing weighted down with undesi ver that shape in which it came from ey ac geen? en ce Chien ccc a se ces te te oe com- mittee. As the bill in its present form is sure to command three-fourths of the vote of each side of the house, its passage was certain if it successfully passed the staze when amendmenté could be offered. The only cause of anxiety heretofore has been the poss bility that enough Republicans would join with the Democrats to overrule the chair and tack onto the bill an amend- ment to abolish the differential on re- fined sugar. All the energies of the leaders have been directed, therefore, to bringing pressure to bear on the re- calcitrant Republicans to induce therm to refrain from aiding this plan, and last night at the close of the session of the house it was announced that the entire Republican delegations from Michigan and California, who consti- tute the head and front of the opposi- tion, had agreed not to vote to over- ride the ruling of the chair, An un- successful effort was made again ye terday _by Mr. Payne to secure agreement to limit the general debate When the house adjourned there 1¢- mained thirty-five members who desire to speak. In the Senate. The debate on the Chinese exclusion bill was practically concluded yester- day and voting on the bill and arend- ments will begin at 1 o'clock to-day. By general consent a vote was taken yesterday on two important amend- ments offered by Mr. Fairbanks of Indiana, striking out the definition as to Chinese students and teachers, and they were agreed to without division These changes were made with a view to conciliate some of the opposition tc the bill, which had been directed to the rigic exclusion of students and teach-~ ers and the unnecessary inconvenience this would impose on the educated Chinese classes coming to this country The debate was participated in by Sen ators Heitfeld of Idaho, Penrose of Pennsylvania and Turner of Washinz- ton. in favor of the bill, and Senators Pritchard of North Carolina and Spooner of Wisconsin in opposition. © HOMECOML Man Shoots His Friend and Then 4¢- tempts Suicide. Newark, N. J. April 16. — John Droughton, a machinist, returned t¢ his home here yesterday after a lone- trip in the West. He went into saloon last night and a dozen men wh« were in the place shouted a welcome te him. Among the men was James by, who had for years been an intimate ¢ friend of Droughton. Shelby extended his hand in greeting when Droughton exclaimed: “I'll teach you to insult my wife,” and, drawing a revolver, shot Shelby through the right eye. Drough- ton then ran home, passed his wife on the stoop, and, going upstairs, shot himself in the head. Both men are in the same hospital and the physicians think they will die. Mrs, Droughton wil} not talk of the case, except to say her husband had been drinking. * G. TRIBUTES TO MR. TALMAGE. He Is Called the Prince of the Pulpit by Dr. Hamlin. Washington, April 17. — Funeral ser- vices were held at the Church of the, Covenant yesterday afternoon over the body of Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage. The large church was crowded to the doors The funeral services begah at 5 o'clock, and occupied over an hour. The Rev. Dr. Tunis S$. Hamlin, pastor of the church, and the Reverend Doctors ' Thomas Chalmers Eason of this city, S. J. Nichols of St. Louis and James Demerest of Brooklyn officiated. Dr. Hamlin in his address pictured Dr. Tal- mage as one of the greatest clergymen of the country. He said that Beecher, Spurgeon and ‘Talmage were the thre greatest preachers of the century, but that the last named was the prince of the pulpit. STRAY SHOT HITS HER. Unseen Hunter's Bullet Near Spinal Colam Pasadena, Cal., April 17.—Mrs. Henry T. Vilas of Pittsburg was seriously wounded in the neck late yesterday by | a stray bullet fired by a boy who wa* hunting. Mrs. Vilas, who is the widow of the Jate Henry T. Vilas, a son of Former Postmaster General William F-. Vilas of Wisconsin, was out driving in a covered carriage with her mother. Mrs. E. A. Ford, also of Pittsburg, wife of the general passenger agent of the Fort Wayne division of the Pennsy}- vania. railroad, when the accident oc~ curred. SCHEME OF CHIN SE REBELS. nt Government Set Up an Indepe in Ss he China, Hongkong, April 17. — A report has reached here that the rebels in Kwang- Si province intend to seize three prov~ incestin Southern China, namely, Yung Nan, Kwank-Si and Kwang Tang, an establish an independent goverment. The rebels announce, however, tha they will endeavor not to interfere neil: foreign trade and that they will not attack Canton antil the provinces men~ tioned have been thoroughly reduced By this course of action they hope tc avoid ccllision with troops of foreign powers. a FIVE ME} \ KILLED. Falls 200 Feet Down a Mine Shatt. Chibuahua, Mex., April 17.—A dis- ‘patch received, in this city says that while a cage was being lowered into the Concheno mine shaft the cable, broke and the nin> occupants fell more than 200 feet. Five of the men were killed outright and tne other four are believed to be fatally injured. All were Mexicans. Cage , Killed Her Husbena. Ottumwa, Iowa, April 17.—Nora Con- way, colored, aged twenty-five, is a prisoner at the Albia county jail on a charge of murdering her husband. Frank Conway. whom she claims she shot in self-defense. Her story is that she was in the back yard at her broth- er’s home when two men came along, one of them proving to be Conway. She say: he rushed at her with a razor and she shot in self-deferse, ! x Central Dakota Presbytery. Madison, 8. D., April 17.—The Centra? Dakota presbytery,met here last even- ing. Rev. R. A. the petior of Huron preacked the opei attending the Missionary | | | teens