Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 24, 1903, Page 7

BOARD OF CONTROL FIRST BIENNIAL REPORT IS SUB- MITTED TO THE GOV- ERNOR. WANTS ITS POWER EXTENDED BELIEVES THAT CHILDREN ARE SENT TO TRAINING SCHOOL FOR TRIFLES. SAYS FREQUENT ABUSES OCCUR ‘THE BOARD MAKES MANY RECOM, MENDATIONS IN ITS REPORT. The first biennial report of the state board of control has just been issued and presented to Gov. Van Sant. Many recommendation are made in the report. The interesting para- graphs read as follows: “We recommend that the law relat- ing to the state agents of the .prison and reformatory be changed so as to Provide for the appointment by the board of control of such agents, and so as to include paroled prisoners as well and discharged prisoners among those under the supervision of the agents. “Investigation shows that children guilty of no crime and without crim- inal tendency have been committed to the state training school for some tri- fling offense that any child might have committed under the same circum- stances, and are thus legally separated from their natural parents during their minority. “We recommend that the law gov- erning commitments to this school be s0 amended that only children guilty of incorrigible and vicious conduct can be sent there. We are also of the opin- ion that authority to discharge in- mates from this school, when ‘it is thought desirable to do so, should be lodged with the board of control. Money of Inmates. “The inmates of the state institu- tions have moneys in the hands of the warden and the superintendent aggre- gating, on Aug.'1, 1902, to $45,534.47. We are not satisfied with the law that permits this large sum of money to re- main in the hands of the executive officers of the state institutions. “We believe there should be a law requiring ell these funds to be turned into the state treasury monthly, and providing for their disbursement only upon proper vouchers approved by this board. “Under the present law, contracts for the institutions must be executed by the superintendent. This often in- volves unnecessary trouble and delay. We think the law should vest the right to execute such contracts in this board. “We would recommend that all standing appropriations for current ex- penses of public institutions be abol- ished, and biennial appropriations made for the full amount required. Frequent Abuses Occur. “Under the present system, when a person is committed to any state insti- tution, one or more officers are sent to convey such person to the place desig- mated at the expense of either the state or county or per diem for mile- age or both. “Under this plan frequent abuses oc- cur, and we recommend that the law be so changed as to require that when a@ person has been sentenced to the prison or reformatory, the warden or superintendent be notified of the fact and it shall then be made is duty to send a guard of his institution to ac- company the person to the place of im- prisonment, and in case of the other institutions named, that the superin- tendent be notified of commitment to their institutions, respectively, and that they be required to send a nurse or attendant to get the person so com- mitted. “We recommend. that special and current expense appropriations (in addition to standing appropriations) for the state institutions, be as fol- lows: “Appropriations immediately avail- able, $145,000; buildings and better- ments® available, Aug. 1, 1903, $458,- 000; current expense available Aug. 1, 1908, $606,000; buildings and better- ments available Aug. 1, 1904, $306,400; current expense available Aug. 1, 1904, $698,500; state agency and manual training, Red Wing, available Aug. 1, 1903, $3,000; state agency, Owatonna, available Aug. 1, 1903, $5,400; state @gency and manual training, Red Wing, available Aug. 1, 1904, $4,000; state agency, Owatonna, available Aug. 1, 1904, $5,500. Total, $2,282,300.” The following is a list of the new buildings asked for by the board of control: §t. Peter, nurses’ dormitory, $75,000; Rochester, nurses’ dormitory, $75,000; Fergus Falls, nurses’ dormi- tory, $75,000; Faribault, school for fee- | ple-minded, nurses’ dormitory, $40,- 000; Anoka asylum, cottage, $35,000; Hastings, cottage, $35,000; St. Peter, reconstruction of main building, $40,- 000; Faribault, school for feeble- §ud- ed, two cottages for boys, $50,000; | Faribault, schcol for feeble-minded, hospital wing for tuberculosis patients, $20,000; St. Cloud reformatory, com- pletion of administration building, $20,000; new cell wing, $20,000; Still- water, state prison, enlarging the cell room, $30,000; enlarging the chapel and laundry, $25,000; building new ward for insane criminals, $20,000. T. C. Platt to Succeed Himself. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 21. — The joint Republican caucus last night named "Thomas C. Platt United States senator by a vote of 108 to 1 for Elihu Root. The vote for Root was cast by Assem- Denison. blyman W. A. News of the State. te a STATE SHOULD NOT BE STINGY. Farmers Urge Donation to Agricul- tural School. The Minnesota State Agricultural society at its recent meeting adopted resolutions favoring legislative pro- vision for more education along agri- cultural lines, indorsing the methods and policy of the state agricultural school authorities. The society favors a tax of one-fifth of a mill on the prop- erty within the state for four years to provide funds to enable the depart- ment of agriculture of the university to erect and equip its proposed main building, dormitories, live stock build- ing, machine building and seed grain building. Recommendation was also made that the state construct a live stock amphitheater at the state fair grounds. A resolution was also passed thanking the Commercial club for the | use of the club reoms for the meet- ings. 7 The reports of the secretary and treasurer were received and approved. The latters report shows that in spite of large expenditures during the past year the society had a balance on hand of moré than $55,000. The pres- ident’s address showed the great suc- cess that had attended the state fair last year and advocated further im- provements at the grounds. The state, he said, now had in these grounds a property worth more than $1,000,000 at a cost to the state itself of $150,000, the ground being given by Ramsey county and the various improvements made by the society and others. The committee on life memberships reported the following candidates and they were elected and enrolled: T. L. De Lancy, J. J. MeCardy, H. S. Fair- child, J. H. Letson, A. T. Stebbins, S. P. Childs, Frank Warner, J. J. Fur- long, George H. Partridge and Thomas Shevlin. C. N. Gosgrove was re-elected presi- dent, B. F. Nelson was elected first vice president; C. R. Smith, second vice president. J. N. Underwood was re-elected a member of the board of managers. When L. D. Bairi was nominated, however, a member from Lac qui Parle county rose and de- manded representation for the south- ern and western parts of the state and put in nomination J. F. Jacobson. Mr. Baird received 71 of the 86 ballots and the Lac qui Parle member sub- mitted gracefully with the remark that he will be on deck next year. A pioneer member was granted the floor to make a plea for the recogni- tion of the Angora goat at the state fair, which, despite the small encour- agement heretofore granted him, is rapidly butting his way into promi- nence. The president of the society assured the champion of the goat that its case will be attended to and then the annual meeting was adjourned. LOGS FOR DULUTH. Heavy Operations in Progress at Varl- ous Points in Northern Minnesota. The Red Cliff Lumber company is logging this winter, in the Duluth dis- trict, 60,000,000 feet of timber. Most of it comes down the Duluth & Iron Range road to the mill, but some of it is as far away as Grand Marias. Con- tractors Twohy & Killen, at Colby, are loading twenty cars per day for this company, and a train load per day is coming off-the Duluth & Northern Min- nesota road at Knife River. Tht Lesure Lumber company is log- ging more heavily than in past years, and has camps, either its own or by contract, at French River, on the Whiteface, at Rivers, at Breda, and near Tower. These are all on the Du- luth & Iron Range road. Alger, Smith & Co. are now shipping ninety cars of logs per day from.their road to this city, part of whieh go at once into their mill, and part into the old Mitchell & McClure mill for sum- mer sawing. L..R. Martin & Co. have commenced shipments of pulp wood to mills at Appleton, Wis., from camps near the Whiteface river. The Cloquet Tie and Pest company is shipping pulp wood and cedar from the line of the Duluth & Northeastern road to Cloquet and beyond. Fred Sobeling of Duluth is getting out ties, cedar and pulp wood near Norway, on the Duluth & Iron Range road, A great many small con- tractors all through the nor¢ieastern part of the state, along the railways and near the lake shore, are cutting cord wonad, the scarcity of other fuel making tt very profitable. Messrs. Brooks and Backus of Min- neapolis have lately been in the Koo- chiching country, where they are log- ging on Crane lake for the mill they are to build at Koochinching the pres- ent year. A saw mill is to be built at the mouth of Nipigon river, north shore, in order to cut about 7,500,000 feet of tim- ber, to be logged at once by A. G. Sea- man of Port Arthur. The timber is for the newly-organiezd and Dominion- aided Nipigbn Railway company, which purposes to build a railroad into the pulp wood region along the river. ANOTHER MAN'S JOKE. Supreme Court Says -Saloonkeepers Must Pay for It. The state supreme court rendered an interesting decision in the case of Thomas Curran against Skaren & Oison. The defendants owned a sa- loon at Bast Grand Forks. Curran entered the saloon and fell asleep in the place. A third party poured alco- hol on Curran’s foot ‘and set fire to it. Curran sued the proprietors of the sa- loon and recovered a verdict of $100 in the Polk county district court. The defendants appealed, but the su- preme court upbolds the verdict. The court says that the defendants “were bound to use reasonable care to pro- tect the plaintiff, as their guest, from ‘injury at the hands of vicious and law- less persons whom they permitted to be in their saloon.” The court holds the evidence to sustain the verdict, in that it proves the defendants guilty of negligence, while the plaintiff is held ‘not to bave been negligent Che Pegisiature Proceedings of the om Week in the ..... State Law Mill... | In the House. St. Paul, Jan. 14.—Speaker Babcock yesterday announced the committees. “There is a gang of horse thieves systematically working in Minnesota, and something should be done to catch them,” said Representative C. von Wald of Nerstrand, in explaining conviction of horse thieves.» Mr. von Wald believes that not less than a hundred teams of horses have been stolen in Minnesota during the past year. A bill providing for a police pension fund in cities and villages, and a pen- sion of $40 a month for retired and dis- abled policemen, was introduced in the house by Ambrose Tight of St. Paul by request. The following bills were introduced: Repealing section of Laws of 1895 which assesses traction engines $50 for damage done to bridges; providing for an additional judge of the district court for the Fourteenth judicial dis- trice; amending the home rule charter law so as to provide for the amend- ment of city charters, and defining the powers of charter commissions; abolishing days of grace on rates and other evidence of indebtedness; per- mitting the incorporation of sub- ordinate lodges of the Masonic order; fixing the pay of county commission- ers at $5 per day and 10 cents per mile traveled in counties whose assejsed valuation is more than $4,000,000. In the Senate. The senate was in session a bare half-hour yesterday.” A resolution was adopted urging the Minnesota congressional delegation to support the immediate passage of an act repealing the present tariff on coal. A new constitution for Minnesoté is the object of Senate File No. 9, intro- duced by Senator F. H. Peterson of Moorhead. The bill provides for sub- maitting the question of a constitution- al convention at the general election of 1904. It was referred to the ju- diciary committee. The measure is advocated’ to secure reforms in the constitution, for which individual amendments have repeatedly been in- troduced. A provision allowing an elector to demand the ballot of the party which he intends to support is one of fhe modifications to the primary election law contemplated in Senate File No. 11, introduced by Senator John A. Alley of Buffalo. Under the present law if the voter is challenged he must declare what party he voted for at the last election and receive a bailot of that party. The following bills were introduced: For the suppression of bucket shops; to legalize the incorporation of certain villages under chapter 145 of the General Laws of 1885; to repeal section in chapter 277 of the General Laws of 1895, known as the corrupt practices act; to legalize defective deeds and the record thereof; to cre- ate an additional judge in the Four- teenth judicial district. In the Senate, St. Paul, Jan. 15.—A bill providing for an additional appropriation of $1,- 500,000 for the completion of the state capitol was introduced yesterday by Senator Hiler H. Horton of St. Paul. A resolution was adopted providing for an investigation of freight rates on lignite from North Dakota. The senate was in session less than an hour. The following bills were introduced: To diminish the bounty on wolves from $15 to $5, and to establish other bounties; to change the primary el&t- tion day from the middle of September to the first of July, and to render an elector voting at the primary election ineligible for signing a petition of an independent candidate; to increase the salary of the attorney general from $3,500 to $4.800. In the House. The house was in session scarcely an hour, and after transacting minor business, adjourned. The following bills were introduced: Requiring townships, villages and cities and counties to share the ex- pense of controlling infectious dis- eases; offering a state reward of $200 for the arrest and conviction of‘horse thieves; providing that inmates of the soldiers’ home shall retain their pen- sions, except when in excess of $4 per month, and the inmate has a wife or child dependent upon him for support; repealing the state law offering a bounty for the killing of wolves; giv- ing justice of peace jurisdiction over cases of forcible entry and unlawful retainer; providing for submission to the voters of a constitutional amend- ment authorizing the imposition of an, income tax by the state, a gross earn- ings or a property tax on franchises and a registry tax on mortgages (same as tax amendment submitted at the recent election). In the House. St. Paul, Jan. 16.—Ropresentative L. H. Johnson of Minneapolis introduced a bill to regulate the use of public roads and streets by automobiles, mo- tor cycles or motor vehicles of all kinds. The first house file passed that body under suspension of the rules. It changes the time of the general term of the district court in Red Lake county. The following bills were introduced: Fixing legal attorneys’ fees for ac- tions brought in justice courts; ¢re- stricting the speed of automobiles to eight miles an hour in thickly settled districts and to fifteen miles an hour on all other streets and roads; legal- izing the organization of municipal courts in cities of less than 5,000 in- habitants under the law of 1895; al lowing cities to sell surplus light, heat, steam, water or electricity produced by them to individuals; making claims of farm laborers a first lien on agri- cultural products owned or raised by their employers. ‘ t In the Senate. A permanent sanitarium for con- sumptives is provided for in Senate File No. 26, which was introduced by Senator ‘Ferris of Brainerd, The measure outlines a detailed plan for the construction and maintenance ot the institution. It was refierred to the committee on finance. { The prevention of boards of health of villages or townships from running up big accounts and compelling the county to pay them is the object of Senate File 25, introduced by Senator A. V. Rieke of Fairfax. -R. E. Thompson of Preston was honored by being selected president pro tem. of the senate. Both houses adjourned about 11 a. m. to accept the invitation of the state capitol commission to inspect the new capitol. In the House. St. Paul, Jan. 17. — It was a great day for railroad propositions in the house. ; Representative Anthony Yoerg of Ramsey county produced a sensation when he introduced a resolution, sum- marizing some of the statements of President C. S. Mellen of the North- ern Pacific Railway company with re- gard to passes issued to legislators, and calling for a special committee of nine to investigate the subject, with power to send for persons and papers and compel their attendance. i Representative Johnson of Hennepin handed up the next railroad proposi- tion, a new 4 per cent gross earnings bill. It is‘'in form much the same as the bill that was submitted to the voters last fall, except that the meth- od of calculating the gross earnings is different. Representative Morley’s bill amend- ing the board of control act eliminates from the law the normal schools and state university. The following bills were also intro- duced: Regulating interest on sale of state lands; amending law relating to mu- tual insurance companies; certificates of indebtedness by cities of 8,000 or less for water works; uniform negotia- ble instrument law. In the Senate. The senate was in’session just thir- teen minutes. Seven bills were introduced in the brief sitting, and after the vote for ad- journment three committee meetings were held, only one of which accom- plished anything. This was the com- mittee on municipal corporations, and it reported favorably on two bills. The following bills were among those introduced: Amend the laws relating to the pow- ers, duties and fees of the surveyor general of logs, timber and lumber; amend general laws relating to the distribution of penalties, costs and in: , terests on real estate taxes; ceding part of the town of La Crescent, Hous- ton county, to State of Wisconsin; to permit cities of 10,000 inhabitants, or less, to issue certificates of indebted- ness. Both houses adjourned until Tues- day. DISCUSS CUBAN TREATY. Senator Cullom Explains the Docu ment in Executive Session. Washington, Jan. 21. — The senate devoted two brief executive sessions yesterday to the Cuban reciprocity treaty. At the first session the treaty was read at length and at the secottd session Senator Cullom, who, as chair- man of the senate committee on for- eign relations, has charge of the treaty, made a statement of its pur- port and effect. Senator Bacon, also a member of the foreign relations com- mittee, gave notice that he would have some amendments to the treaty to offer, and asked the privilege of mak- ing them public, following the ex- ample of the senate in making the treaty itself public. This request was denied after considerable discussion on the ground that it would be im- politic and unwise. Senator Cullom’s statement was exhaustive. He pro- duced a mass of figures to show the extent of the commerce between the United States and Cuba, and gave reasons for a belief he expressed that the ratification of the treaty would cause a rapid increase in the trade be- tween the two countries. The senate adjourned with the understanding that the treaty would be taken up to- day during the morning hour. DIVORCE NO GOOD. South Dakota Article Will Not Stand the Test of Law. Washington, Jan. 21. — The United States supreme court yesterday again passed upon the validity of divorces granted in South Dakota to non-resi- dents. The case was that of Annie Andrews vs. Kate H. Andrews, and the question at issue is that as to which is entitled to administer upon the estate of Charles S. Andrews, whom both.claimed as husband. The record showed that Mrs. Kate An- drews was the first wife, and that her husband secured a divorce in Sotith Dakota after remaining there six months, the time required by the stat- ute of that state. The Massachusetts | courts held that the decree had been fraudulently secured, and refusing to recognize it, recognized the first wife as the legal widow of the deceased Mr. Andrews. That was the holding of the supreme judician court of Mas- sachusetts, and yesterday’s opinion, which was determined by Justice White, affirmed that ‘holding. FRY CR AS OE a HAS A PATCHED HEAD. Attempted Suicide Leads to Remarka- ble Operation. St. Louis, Jan. 21. — A remarkable surgical operation was performed at, the city hospital last night to save the life of Edward Spilker, aged nineteen, | who had attempted suivide by shoot-| Consress. Proceedings. in the Senate. Washington, Jan. 14.—The proceed- Ings of the senate yesterday were en- livened by several speeches affecting th reciprocity provision of the Ding- ley act. Senator Vest’s resolution di- recting the committee on finance to re- port @ bill removing the duty on coal was under discussion. Mr. Dolliver of Towa vigcrously attacked, those sena- tors responsible for the holding up of reciprocity treaties in the senate. He defended Secretary Shaw for issuing the order instructing collectors of customs to resolve differences regard- ing the grades of coal in favor of the importers. It is true, he declared, that Mr. Dingley had put the tariff rates high so that they could be reduced by ' reciprocity agreements. This state- ment caused Mr. Aldrich vehemently to denounce Mr. Dolliver and others for making it. The resolution went over until to-day. Mr. Nelson con- cluded his remarks in opposition to the statehood bill, and at 4:10 o'clock the senate went into executive ses- sion, adjourning soon afterward. 5 In the House. Washington, Jan. 15. — The bill to provide for a rebate of the duties on coal for a perior of one year was passed in short order by practically a unanimous vote—258 to 5, those voting against it being Messrs. Cushman and Jones of Washington, Gaines of West Virginia, Mondell of Wyoming and Patterson of Pennsylvania, all Repub- licans. The only opposition to the measure came from some of the mem- bers representing coal states, who ex- pressed the fear that the admission of Chinese-mined coal in Canada would injure the coal industry of their states. The bill came back from the senate with a provision which virtually placed anthracite coal on the free list. The senate amendment was adopted without division. Rapid progress was made on the army appropriation bill after the coal bill was passed. In the Senate. The senate acted yesterday prompt- ly on the house bill providing rebates of the duty on coal and passed it unanimously without debate. The militia bill also ‘was ed, with an amendment striking out of the pill the section providing for a re- serve force of trained men, thus re- moving the objjections made against it. The statehood bill was up for a short time, during which Mr. McCum- ber spoke in favor of the granting of statehood to Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. In the Senate. Washington, Jan. 16.—In the senate yesterday Mr. Tillman continued his arraignment of trusts and monopolies and again charged that the attorney general was responsible primarily for Jack of action against trusts. The statehood bill was under discussion for a short time. Mr. McLaurin of Mississippi called attention to the charges that the peo ple of Indianola, Miss., had been guilty of threats and intimidation of the postmaster, and declared them to be untrue. The senate at 5 o'clock ad- journed until Monday. In the House. The house yesterday passed the army appropriation bill and began con- sideration of the department of com- meree bill under a special rule making it a continuing order until disposed of. The opposition to the measure came entirely from the Democratic side and was based chiefly on the ground that the transfer of the bureau of labor to the new department would subordi-. nate that bureau toa department which would represent capitalistic in- terests. The friends of the bill de- nied the’assumption that the head of the new department would be hostile +o labor. In the House. Washington, Jan..17.—The house dé- yoted the day to private war claims, passing about twenty. The two fea- tures of the day were the defeat of a claim of B. F. Moody & Co. of Keokuk, Iowa, for the payment of the amount deducted from the contract for furnish- ing equipment to the Third Iowa cav- alry by the famous commission which ‘unearthed the army contract frauds in St. Louis in 1863, and the fight of Mr. \Payne, the floor leader of the majority, against an omnibus resolution to refer ninety Southern claims, aggregating $400,000 for stores and supplies taken by the Union army during the Civil war to the court of claims for finding of facts under the Tucker act. The former bill led to a lively controversy ‘between Iowa members, Messrs. Smith and Hedge. The combination in favor of the omnibus claims resolution was too strong for Mr. Payne, but on the final vote the quorum failed. As the previous question had been ordered the vote on the adoption of the resolu- ‘tion will be the first thing in order on the next claims day. The senate was not in session. in the House. Washington, Jan. 19.—At the end of a struggle which prolonged the day’s session until after 6 o’clock the house Saturday passed the substitute for the senate hill -to establish a department of commerce and labor. The vote stood 137 to 40. All the Republicans and 29 Democrats voted for the bill. -In committee of the whole the Democrats and a sprinkling of Republicans, led by Mr. Corliss of Michigan, struck out the portion of the | bill providing for a bureau of insur ance. The Democrats then attempted to re- | eommit the bill with instructions to report back a separate bill for the cre- ‘ation of a department of labor, but tie ing himself in the breast. apertufe; motion was lost. The only other sub- was made at the wound and between pulsations the wound in the heart was closed with three stitches. The bullet had also perforated the apex of the left lung. A portion, an inch and a half square, was cut away, a heavy silk ligature tied about the lung. drain- ing tubes being established and the chest cavity closed. The patient speed- fly rallied, and it is believed he mill recover. stantial amendment was one to au-’ thorize the president to transfer the interstate commefce commission to the new department. In the Senate. + Washington, Jan. 20.—Mr. Bailey of Texas objected to consideration by unanimous consent of all bills from the Republican side on the ground that the senators from New York had ‘interfered with a mittter purely local to the State of Texas. A discussion arose which was terminated by Mir. Cullom moving an executive session‘to © consider the Cuban reciprocity treaty. After half an hour in executive the doors were re-opened and Mr. Foraxer continued his remarks favoring state- hood for Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. In the House. The house transacted considerable business yesterday. Several miscel- laneous measures were passed, among them) the senate Hawaiian fire claim pill. The consular and diplomatic ap- propriation bill, the third of the regu- lar budgets, was passed and fair progress was made with the District of Columbia bill. OPERATORS ON THE STAND. Say Influence of Union Restricts Coal Production. Philadelphia, Jan. 17. — More mine officials yesterday informed the coal strike commissioners that under the influence of the union the minework- ers restricted the production of an- thracite coal and interfered with the discipline of the employes. The Erie company closed its case early in the day after calling a physician, who tes- tified to the good health of the mine workers. The Scranton Coal com- pany, which operates, besides its own collieries, the Elk Hill Coal and Iron company’s mines, then toek up the at- tack on the demands of the miners. The Scranton and the Elk Hill compa- nies turn their coal over to the New York, Ontario & Western railroad, which virtually controls them. The witnesses called yesterday testified generally that no blacklist existed; that the contract miners worked on an average of from six to seven hours @ day; that the local unions compelled the men to load an equal number of \ cars, thus restricting the output; that the men were careless in obeying or- ders, and that frequent petty strikes occurred whenever a union man was dismissed for insubordination. WRECKED BY COLLISION. Forty Cars Roll Down an Embank ment and Some Are Destroyed. Litehfield, tl., Jan. 17. — An east- bound fast freight and a west-bound local freight train on the Big Four railread collided at the bottom of a hill thirty miles east of here last night. The engine crews of both trains jumped, but Engineer Krapf of Mat- toon, and Fireman Green of St. Louis and Brakeman Myers of Mattoon, all of the local freight, were seriously injured, Engineer Krapf probably fa- tally. The “battle engines” exploded and rolled down the embankment, and forty cars, many of them loaded with flour, cotton and iron, were ‘de- stroyed. The cause of the wreck is supposed to be due to conductors not reading orders carefully. | NEW SUBSIDY BILL. Rebate Plan for American Vessels Is | Proposed. Washington, Jan. 17. — Representa tive Fitzgerald of New York has in- troduced a bill “to encourage, pro- mote and to develop,” as the title says, “the merchant marine of the United States.” It provides that there shall be allowed a rebate of 10 per cent of the duty imposed by law on all goods imported intu the United States from any foreign country or any territory the property of the United States be- tween which territory and the United States vessels of other than American registry: are permitted to engage in carrying trade, whenever such goods Me carried in vessels of American reg- try. ! OLDEST HEBREW BIBLE. Written in Samaritan Characters in the Mosiem Era. London, Jan. 17. — In a dispatch from Cairo the correspondent of the Daily Mail reports the discovery in Syria of one of the oldest Hebrew manuscript Bibles. It consists of the five books of Pentateuch, written in Samaritan characters on Gazelle parchment in the year 116 of the Mos- lem era. It shows important differ- ences from the existing text. FRENCH INTERFERENCE. A Threat Is Made to the Morocco Gov- ernment. Madrid, Jan. 17—A dispatch to the Imparcial from Tangier says that the French minister has warned the sul- tan’s deputy that if the fighting in the neighborhood of Tangier is continued it will justify European intervention, as it will be an indication of a condi- tion of anarchy that Europe cannot tolerate. 5 Victory for Negro. New Orleans, Jan. 17.—The mayor of New Orleans has recommended and secured the postmastership of Bay St. Louis, Miss., for a negro over two white women candidates. Fire at Alice. Fargo, N. D., Jan. 21.—The general store of Wellentine & Guilford at Alice, south of Casselton, was. de- stroyed by fire. The entire stock was destroyed. The loss was about $7,000, with $4,000 insurance. Tree Kills Woman. Cumberland, Wis., Jan. 21—Mrs. Jo- seph Jacksche yesterday was instant ly killed by a falling tree near. her home south of here. She was the wife of a prominent farmer and leaves three small children. Victim Is Not Dead. Sturgis, S. D., Jan. 21.—The report that James Bullis, who was badly cut up with a butcher knife in the hands of E. E. Brown of White Owl some time ago, had died, is not true. Bullis is up and around and getting along nicely. Find Aged Couple Dead. Oakland, Iowa, Jan. 21. — Witlam Hanna and wife, an aged couple, were found dead in bed yesterday with their jugular veins cut at the home of their son east of here. It is believed to be a case of double suicide, tennant -on