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THE RICE BELT JOURNAL WELSH P'T'G. CO, Ltd., Pub. WELS1, --- --- LA. "Company Manners. "Mother has five daughters, and threw of 'em have good homes, where yOu'd think she might content herself. But now she's paralyzed, and she boards, and is taken care of by a stranger. It seems wrong. and I sup pose there's more than one to blame; but I've often noticed in this world that In sickness or in health we save our bad templer's for our kin, and our politeness for other folks. They say blood's thicker than water, but the only sign l've ever se(-,n of it is that blood relations make free to be hate ful to one another." The little seams tress told a bitter truth which applies to thousands of families where, if the bond of affection exists, the evidence of it is sadly lacking. "1o be at home" means too often to be rude and selfish and lawless. -"You children must get c on your complany manners for Aunt tih Sophy's visit," sail a mother to her it: noisy brood. "Whyv' I thought aunts do. were home folks!" said a logical boy. al "No, indeed! Aunt Sophy would be its shocked if you tre'ated her like home I folks." "X\ell. I don't care if she is l] shocked. ('"ipiIany manners are all 511 nonsense, anyhow" S, seamstress knt and boy put the wicki, heresy in a. t nutshell. "Mlanners are all nonsense!" less "Free to he ha:(,ful to one another!" (ns The home wh(er that ugly creed is hon held, says Yourh's ('oralanion, is sure to produce a harvest of miseries, if not of heart-breaks. The one safe guard against the bickerings and ml. Illin understandings which always lurk ready to destroy domestic happiness ' is the simple rule that nothing is too nman good for home-manners, clothes, res, gifts, thoughts-the best of all for the folio nearest of kin. is ao is ag Law and Ethics. The integrity of no profession is so often or so wrongfully attacked as is the legal. An incident illustrates the common thought. At a banquet given in honor of a leading member of the bar the toast announced was "An hon est lawyer, the noblest work of God." Quick as a flash thereafter came from the lower end of the table the re sponse, "and the scarcest." I do not stop to answer these aspersions. And yet I cannot refrain from noticing the experiences of a San Francisco pub lishing firm. By last year's fire its entire plant, including its letters, let ter books and books of account, was destroyed. All evidences of claims in its favor were gone, and it had only its general recollection of its business. s It caused circulars to be prepared stating these facts and sent to the h various lawyers named in a legal di.- n rectory. Out of $175,000 believed to ii be the extent of outstanding claims, p $150,000 has been paid. Can any pro fession make a better showing? asks Justice Brewer, in International Jour- di nal of Ethics. How seldom you hear t of a lawyer betraying his client. In- sc deed, the chief criticism is that he is de too loyal to that client, and in dis- sti charging what he believes to be his th, duty, to him, forgets his obligations to the public. But I look forward and R( not backward. No man is so good that he cannot be better, and there is no profession whose thought and life can not be improved, and I may add, there dai is no profession which makes a da stronger appeal to its members to thi come up higber. fto A military band on board a battle. ship served the purpose of a' foghorn last month, and prevented the wreck pf a Norwegian collier. The collier, und for Boston, lost its reckoning the thick weather, and the captain ea steaming slowly, listening for sig nais that would indicate the proper course, when he was astounded to hear the zoof.Zoom-zoomity.zoom of a band coming out of the fog. He or. dered the engines stopped and the anchors dropped, and waited for clear weather. When the fdg lifted, he found himself In a narrow channel near rocky ledges, and saw the battle. ahip not far away. if he had gone a hundred feet either wayon he ould have been wrecked. he woul way.... A truck arrived at Desenzano, on the Largo di Garda, having brought coal from Venice. On this was a patch of corn about four inches high, which must have taken at least 20 days to grow. This may give some eas aof the delays on the Italian Itilways, which are causing factories -b close for lack of raw material and AM Besant says she rememben IPrvoi existences. Considering that m people would like to forget a -t of their present existence the respect of remembering far back into be dim centuries is not an alluring p.. A man n the wholesale grocery -e informs us that the only articles his line that have dropped in price tron and black pepper. Let us ful, therefore, for small blesq they take their Slht. i 4ýy L LOUISIANA NEWS. SLEPT ON THE RAIL. A. Boney's Head Was Crushed by a Pass ing Train. Lake ('harhs. La.: Itichard honey, a and !'ti'(( who lives on the south lake ere wilt neart the Lake ('ity nili. was self. " id dead on the Sonillher IPacific she llxlilrolad track arly SlInday mI}:r'Ininl:; ilhout t.O miles we' t .f \\'sI;k'e a;ind ip ou[ '"l( al' t's est )f It se tit l hius' no; . l1. hohe. spent the e(rly part tof ned the ecV tin attenidinI a dance ne t'l \\d i t!; k , ;allld fr illl hil c(tollliti l utI ve his hode I het f\l d. haild 1 '\Jcideiti )ii l I)et t l'(,ltta ie tv fat titl a ld veI:t to yI sh'p With his head rtestnl (11 a rail, he at ia.ssi tr;iin ('i'tihhiIIt his heiald to at ii,'c, ·s is- HALF DOZEN HOMICIDES. Io Calcasieu Parish Grand Jury Has e I Work Ahead of It. SLiake ('harle,,s. L.a.: The grand jnru h " ntl' :It It ci'lock IMo lnday mtorin h in at the instance of the distrit t 'Ol tt' for the plltpost of ilnvesti atini l t this ', (ast' s \\lic'h have o()Cculrred sillc r its umeeing in July. lJudge Miller t dliv'er, d a hrief ('charge alongx the ust al lines and the jury lpromptly hezan its de'liherations. ('aleasietn parish has been untusual lY lively during the latetr part of the summtter and the grand jury has six known cases of homicide to invest! :ate, some of them of a serious lla ture, besides a nlulbler of offenses of less gravity. While a nonrher of ae c('used have plealded guilty of)r given hond, the slate is well filled. - , if PARITY WITH GALVESTON afe mln. Illinois Central's General Manager urk Says That Is Imperative, New Orleans, La.: Frank II. Harri man, general manager of the Illinois SCentral, Monday summoned up the es, present disastrous levee strike in the the following significant statement: 1. It is agreed by both sides that it is cost ing more to handle stow cotton in New Orleans than in Galveston. so "2. New Orleans and Galveston are is rivals for the cotton business of a he large territory tributary to either point en and which will eventually move where It can be handled the cheapest and most expleditiously. )n "3. The shipowners have no particu- 4 i." lar preference for one port as against 'm the other except in so far as it is more t e- economical to operate through that I ot port. id "4. It is therefore essential that New a te Orleans be at least on a parity with h i> Galveston in all matters pertaining to a s the handling of cotton. L "5. The present issue with the S screwmen is only one of several which must be settled. "6. This issue should not he befog- i Srged with others which will take a con- cc siderable time to investigate. cz "7. The question as to the cost of hand-stowing cotton is one purely of mathematics and can be determined in five days by any committee of intelll ba gent men who will devote that much ba time to it. inl "8. The interests of the entire city to demand that this question which is t the most pressing shall hbe settled first regardless of the opinions of the f screwmen or the ship agents, and also demand that it shall cost no more to poi stow a bale of cotton in New Orleans sta than it does in Galveston. son *nn and ROOSEVELT LEAVES ROOSEVELT. hat no President Departs From His Latest an- Namesake--Bear Rugs. ere Stamboul, La.: At 10 o'clock Mon ere day President Roosevelt boarded his a special train and finally bade adieu to to this point, the nearest railroad station to the scene of his recent bear hunt ing exploits in the Louisiana cane le- brakes, and as if to emphasize the clos. Sinug of the historic incident, the name ck was changed with the departure of the C(hief Executive and it will be known ' henceforth as Roosevelt. All business g on iplantations and about the sawmills n was closd to permit the attendance at g- the President's reception of both em er Iloves and employers and practically to the entire community was on hand to a speed the parting guest." r- Fully nineteen-twentieths of those pe present were neighbors, residing in i the vicinity, among them being whites e and a small percentage of negroes. The President assured everybody that the last fortnight had afforded him as much sport as he had ever ex- I a perienced in that length of time. k Bd efore leaving Mr. Shields' resi- 8 dence the President sought out all the la men who had been with him in camp u and in bidding theli farewell thanked 8 t each individually for the part he had d taken in making the hunt a success. h He was also profuse in his expres- b sions of appreciation of the hospitali- g ties extended by Mr. and Mrs. Shields. b The same train that carried the President away also conveyed the skin of the big bear slain by him last Thursday and the skins of two smaller animals killed by other members of m the party, as well as the skin present- gi ed by the Osborne brothers. All have been properly treated and will be made into rugs. The President declined, however, to make storage room for a live youngco bear which Capt. Searles of Vicksburg co asked him to convey to Master Quen- th tin Roosevelt, with his compliments. tie The president was decided in the mat ter, saying that the bear would be too Ex much trouble to him on his return journey and would lose its attractive the qualities in transit. dec }nw READY. so U ss. Ii(, lid III K r4 °,a Rý~~e ~~h ! J ý Lýna 2\ " /" / V/ S f l to TO~AFV;Lj ON GUILTY OF REBATING anager COMMISSIONER LANE SECURES Hlarri- EVIDENCE IN CALIFORNIA. Illinois - 11 the ACCUSES THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC in the 1. it Investigation Disclosed that Largest s cost- and Most Important Manufactur. n New ing Firms Were Favored. )n are Washington, D. C .-That rebates of a on charges for shipments of freight point have been paid by at least one great where railroad system since the enact t and ment of the Hepburn rate act was ascertained definitely by Commission. rticu- er Franklin K. Lane of the interstate ainst commerce commission on his recent more trip to the Pacific coast. The offend that ing line is the Southern Pacific con trolled and practically owned by Ed New ward H. Harriman. The evidence of b with his violation of the law was adduced T ig to at a hearing before Commissioner a Lane, acting for the commission in f the San Francisco. Ii 'hich Commissioner Lane just returned c from California and has not yet sub efog- mitted his report to the interstate con- commerce commission, but he author ized the following statement bearing R t of upon his investigatin:o "f "I do not know what may have been Cc d in published in the east concerning re- pe elli- bating by western toads. The hear. a uch ings held in San Francisco were open vii to the public and the; information elic- di city ited was regarded Lev the California wil is papers as startling. We found in the sp( the Southern Pacific office a list of pre- citi theso ferred shippers, who' had but a pro to portion of the published rates upon state shipments. T is list included some of the largest find most impor- dro tant manufacturing ;rms. We also found twenty books 'which had ac- 6 o cumulated since the fire of last year, in ast showing special rebates. There were An several thousand entries in all, most Jeff of them for very small amounts. laur lis These refunds in all amounted to who about half a million dollars during only the past year. "It must not be understood, how l ever, that the great body of them, or I. any considerable percentage of them, P1 were refunds upon interstate ship- men ments. But a small per cent could in N be connected in any way with an in terstate shipment." tired a Believes Roads Will Obey Law. lillli t "I do not regard the revelations in monk California as indicative of a settled Chur y policy by the roads to evade the law. o On the contrary, I believe that the was western roads and the roads of the e country generally are making a very n serious effort to comply with the re- Pot B quirement of the law. Von "The hearing in California demon- died 7 states beyond all question the neces- of th sity for regulation, for the railroads husba will not, or can not, without the asthi help of prohibitory legislation make night and enforce uniform rates to all ship- appar pers. It is not true that all rebating fell upon interstate shipments has been fell d stopped. The old method of giving a direct return of a portion of the rate W. has been abandoned very gcnerally Red but the railroads themselves will of re grow in time to see the wisdom and the el bene8fit coming to them from the Woodi strictest enforcement of the law." for the Mr. Lane said that no facts were de. adjoini veloped at any of the hearings on the the Ai Pacific coast connecting Mr. Harri- a sani man with any knowledge of rebates membe given by his subordinates. tuberct Philippines to Regulate Utilities. Manila, . 1. - The Philippine commission has authorized the crea tion of a public utilities commission consisting of three members, with power to adjust, increase or reduce the rates to be charged for all utili ties. Express Company Increases Dividends New York, N. Y. - Directors of the United States Express Co. have declared a semi-annual dividend of $1 per share, as compared with $2 for the same period last year. LING SIX OF FAMILY SUFFOCATE. Mother and Two Boys Escape Fire CURES Which Burns Home. NIA. Gloversville, N. Y.--Six members of the family of Solomon Frank, ACIFIC a glove cutter, the father and five daughters, were suffocated by Largest smoke when their home was de stur. stroyed by fire early Sunday. The dead are: Solomon Frank, aged 40 years; Sarah, 21; Dora, 19; Rosa, 17; rebates Minnie, 12; Mary, 10. freight The father lost his life trying to great save his children, following the dis enact- covery of the flames by the mother, t was who, with two small sons, made her ission. escape. The bodies of the victims $ )rstate were found by the firemen. The old- t recent est daughter was to have become ar ffend- bride early in December, and Satur c con- day night there was a social gather- V ýy Ed- ing at the home of the family in cele- si ice of bration of the approaching nuptials. hi duced The gathering broke up at 12 o'clock it lioner and at 1:30, when all had retired, the at on in fire was discovered. The origin is be- Ju lieved to have been due to a defective urned chimney, m sub. of state Contract Closed for Coast Tour. H ithor- Omaha, Neb.-The Union Pacific He aring Railroad Company Thursday closed a e contract with the Fritzi Scheff Opera Nt been Co. to carry the troupe of eighty s re- people over its entire coast tour in sa hear- a special train and back to Chicago sl open via Minneapolis and Spokane, a total su elic- distance of 5,000 miles. The start co rnia will be made next week from here in cam the special and private cars, and nine thi pre- cities will be visited entour. and pro- and 1on Four Drown Near Hardin, III. ano ded Hardin, Ill.--Four men were san por- drowned in the Illinois river four mile T also south of Hardin, yesterday evening at to ac- 6 o'clock, when a steam launch sunk drer ear, in the middle of the river. Harvey 'ere Angel, G. D. Bizallion, John Lammy, TH s.t Jeff Hunt and Jeff Poor were in the Its, launch when it went down. Poor, Wo to who is an expert swimmer, was the ing only one to escape with his life. ýw- St. Rear Admiral Melville Weds, to t] S Philadelphia, Pa.--The announce. says ip ment was made here of the marriage umbe id in New York of Rear Admiral Georg ed in- W. Melville, United States navy, re- musg tired, of this city, to Miss Estella S. IHillis, also of Philadelphia. The er- when in mony was performed in the Little streI d Church Around the Corner. Rear Ad miral Melville is 66 years of age and Rasm e was a widower, ready Py General Von Buelow is Dead,. e, Potsdam, Germany-General Adolph Von Buelow, the imperial adjutant, died o theart failure. The wife of the general died October 9. Her s husband, who had been suffering from asthma, had a severe attack in the e night of Oct. 9, when she saw him apparently suffocating, she cried: "The general is dying; so am I," and fell dead at the general's bedside." e W. M. A. to Erect Sanitarium. Rock Island, Ill.-In the hope of reducing life insurance losses, the executive council of the Moder Woodmen of America closed a deal for the purchase of 1,000 acres of land adjoining Colorado Springs, known as the Ambler ranch, whereon to erect a sanitarium for the treatment of members of the society afflicted with tuberculosis. One Man Killed in Frisco Wreck. Birmingham, Ala.-In a collision between a Louisville & Nashville freight train and a Frisco pas. senger train at Pratt City, Ala., Con ductor J. C. Smith was killed and eight injured. E. T. Wilcox, general freight agent of the Frisco, is one of those hurt, Coal Mine Explosion Rumored. Plttsburg, Pa.-An indefinite rumor a has it that 20 lives have been u lost in a coal mine explosion at Ella. j ]t GIVEN HERO MEDALS CARNEGIE HERO COMMISSION AWARDS FOR BRAVERY. FIRST NEGRO TO GET AWARD John B. Hill of Atlanta, Who Saved Several Lives is First African I on List. Pittsbllur--Thi re'uilar fall nmee't- C Ing Of the1 ('aurnlý.ie h11ro (.ollili-- I sion was held Friday in the C'arnegie 1 buildling, this cityv. and ,'. .\. W Uilm ft, u the secretary, aouncedl that I per- it soils throughout tile ('o;lry had re cel ved awars\\' for br:taveryV IW The numnber is the large.<t in the at history of the cohulmis.io,1. With Fri- bl day nigihtrs awards 12#t persons have j t' been li'nefitd by the hero fund andl m 1,121 persons have been refused either I m nioney or medals. b, For the first time since the begin. cC Sning of the nero fund, a negro, John 1no 11. Hill, of Atlanta, (;a., received an thi award. Hill saved several lives by an stopping a runaway, although ill and thf weak at the time. The following are or, SOIme of the awards: tIe Leon Harris, 15 years oil, Pensa- rnot cola. Fla., bronze mnedal and $,oim for imu educational purploses; saved Yernard Nc Z. Johnson front drown :ng in Pensa- par cola bay. for Thomas F. Maher, 30 years old. los. ton, Mass., bronze medal and $1.500 RA to liquidate mortgage on his property. Saved W\illiam Fitzgerald, a boy, from Aft. drowning in Dorchester bay. Was Recovering from Operation, John I1. lill. 38 years old, a negro, Si Atlanta, Ga., bronze medal and $500 to Youi reimburse him account of the loss sus- the tamned by being injured. Hlill saved ing several persons during a runaway ac- den cident. He was recovering from an attlt operation and was injured again. Hen, Charles Weiss, 15 years old, Bath the d Beach, ;. Y., bronze medal and $2,000 tha for educational purposes, saved an the unknown woman from drowning in De e Gravesend bay. mont Frederick H. Hanker, 11 years old, 1904, Ellenville, N. Y., silver medal and and t $2,000 for educational purposes; saved tente Emmons T. Gray, a companion, from went drowning in Beerkill creek. vlle, Gabriel Farrell, Jr., 20 years old, He Somerville, Mass., bronze medal and treate $2,000 for educational purposes; saved he he two men from drowning in Charles river, Boston. FAIl Caroline Stanton, 35 years old, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., major Salvation Army, Farme silver medal and $500 to reimburse her for loss sustained on account of injuries; saved a child in a runaway Pott, accident and was herself seriously m- storm jured. 'ective The last and largest award to be made was a gold medal and the sum of $5,600, given to Andrew J. Hodger, 45 years old, of Santa Fe, Kas. Mr. rfic Hodger, who is county superintend. aciflc ent of schools, made a heroic rescue. sed a Two men, Joseph King and William hpera Nunn, were caught by a cave-in of 'ighty sand while at the bottom of a deep ur in well at Pierceville, Kas. Nunn was ticag suffocated and King slowly dieing. total Notwithstanding the fact that another start cave-in seemed sure within a short rin time, Mr. Hodger was lowered into nine the well and succeeded in saving King and recovering Nunn's body. The night following the rescue there was another fall of a ton or more of the were sand. mile The money awarded Mr. Heodger is g at to be used In educating his four chil- t sunk dren. rvey i imy, THOUGHT HE WAS A BURGLAR. the oor, Woman Kills North Dakota Editor the with Husband's Rifle, St. Paul, Minn.--A special dispatch E to the Dispatch from Minot, N. D., s e- says: J. T. Neal, editor of the Col umbus Reporter, was shot and killed t age Wednesday night by Mrs. R. C. Has. rge mussen, who mistook him for a bur e- glar. Neal was at work in his office, when he saw a house on fire in the is street. He started for the fire, but o0 tle on the way down stopped for r. q nd Rasmussen, who, however, had al. T ready gone. Neal attempted to enter pU the Rasmussen home and Mrs. Ras- wl mussen, thinking it was a burglar, cii procured her husband's rifle and fired Co: ph through the door, killing Neal in- foi t, stantly. ife Mrs. Rasmussen became a raving maniac when she learned who it was to m she had shot, to ti n Leaves Wealth to Clerk. th H: Humboldt, Kas.-Dr. Carl Voeg. a - id tel, a veteran of the German army bu, and of the civil war, died a few De drys ago and left his entire estate to Hei Henry Kuhn, a boy, who had lerked cou ie n his drug store for the last ten years. He had no relatives. Dl. Will Operate on Mitchell. t1 Springfield, Il. - John Mitchell, i d president of the United sMine x S Workers, entered the hospital Mt ine la t Salle, Ill., Saturday and it is under. at 'f stood that he will submit to an opera. con tion for appendicitis when his coCdl. tion becomes more favoratle. the mad Three Killed; Nineteen Injured. Greensboro, N. C. - At 10: Wor Thursday night northbound P 1enger N train No. 34 on the Souther railway G crashed into a freight train at Rudd, eral eight miles above Greensboro. Three people are reported killed and 19i, stea J rHag. Indian Chief Exhumed. dele Houston, Tex. - The skeleton of Gen. an Indian chief has Just been dug confe up on top of Twina moute. by u when Jim Byrd, a hunter, who hU _ei by when the vicinity for 50 years. lved in maS tion c LS POSTAL FRAUDS EXpa Heavy Losses Dscovered by SION System in Money Order 0 -in ' ' , n ca aved u 'r,,t . 1it o(Ist Io n ng ut t .. "" rrtnent i hiri It ,r I ,;aud , rinPt- COO i i i-,- in "\Jlgre", g Ili; - l o s ta ,l ll ,rt;,;,.+ ' U rin g .gie to dricii 1. i . t •i • eofar In, t, 10t'Ce..' y" l 1, reformd " " . . '. o f the t . re- The p.rt,f:,. f h r "r - without the . the aiees lro ta4 ba ae tkli. toe c , : , '' e step8s 11 I master In a w, oit.., a . oa her might Issue a r .., .. or t be paid in N. v I r,. 1 ie 1In. celve the $1o'l ,, i oe W uld r1a d hn notify the lr, . o , , i cant an the usual , n i ':t" ," ` Yorkd by an order for $:,, , had la. . nd the dlf'artrn t , ortingt , - i a e t hat thet ire order issue i s~ y , $1 .. tit tool was uch t,:t . raud T " s a.- not be de(l ete., fi, r 1t 0i - or lls ter's (ord r to ' t ' pot. .': " straster 1 rd New York and h r,.;,:t to the dte a- p;rtmenit wfr. .,ot hr ht tohe de for comparson hlýh. toget s. )0 RANCH WAS TOO DULL FOR WIpg 2 After Long Silence, Mrs. Dean Let and Sued for a Divorce. >St. Louis. Mo. T, Story of th Syoung wife's silint i,'ontnt ith . the loneliness of a ratch, her grow. j ing longing for s(ci'-ty and :he cud. den realization by her husband of he 1 attitude, is outlined in the reply t Henry W. Dean of Purcell, I. Ty to the divorce petition of his wife, eg. I tha E. Dean. The reply was fled i the circuit court Thursday. Dean, in the answer, says for hto months after their marriage In Ju, 1904., he and his wife never dlsagre , and that he thought her perfectly co. tented until she left him Aug. 23. 8Sh went to her former home in Ki.rb ville, Mo., but is now in St. Ljous He denies the allegations that hb treated her like a servant, and says he helped her with the houseworL FAINTED UNDER FIERY BOLT, Farmer Came to Just in Time to Save e Himself and Others. Pottsville, Penn. - In a thunder. storm in Wayne township, th county, lightning struck a large barr, felling senseless Justice of the Peace I. D. Reed, who sought shelter in the building. The barn was set on fire, and by the time Mr. Reed came out of his swoon the structure was all ablase above and around him. He had a thrilling escape, and then aroused the farm hands. The building was destroyed, but the livestock was saved. The season's crops Were destroyed in the fire. 1 into MINISTERS BECOMING SCARCE. King The Greed for Money Is Given as One of e was the Reasons. )f the Cleveland, Ohio. -The allurements ;eris of commercial life and fear of chil- the "ministerial dead line" are as signed as the reasons for the alarm. ing decrease in the number of young AR. men entering the ministry by the Con gregational National council, which ditor held Its final meeting here Thursday. The report of Prof. C. S. Nash of Call. fornia on "Ministerial Training and atch Equipmet" aroused the discussion. A D. score of delegates engaged in the Col- argument. Increased pay for minis tas ters was the only solution suggested. bur- Government Feels Coal Shortage. 'flce, Washington - The conditions ex the isting in the coal trade are but operating materially to reduce the Mr. Quantity available for naval uses, al. Therefore the navy department made iter public an order directing all offices tas- which control the use of coal to exez lar, cise the most rigid economy in the red consumption of coal and other fuel in. for naval" uses. Ambushed by Yaquis. San Antonio, Texas. - A special to the Express from El Paso Wednesday says: Four men and three women, one of the former being eg. a government mail carrier, were am* my bushed and killed between San Jose ew De Hila and La Colorado, east of to Hermosillo, in the Lower Sonoro ed country by Yaquis. en Dispatcher's Blunder Cost 26 Lives. Manchester, N. H., Oct. 14.-The mistake as a result of which twenty. six lives were lost in a head-on col. Slision on the Boston & Maine railroad at Canaan, N. H., Sept. 15, originated r- in the office of the train dispatcher at a" Concord, according to the report of dthe bord of railroad commlssioners, made public. Work at Hague Practically Completed. r New York, N. Y.-Brlgadier-General y, George B. Davis. Judge advocate gen. , eral of the United States army, re e turned Monday from Europe on the it steamer Zealand, having been at The Hague as a member of the American delegation of the peace conference. O Gen. Davis stated that the work of the Sconference was practically completed r when he left The Hague, all that re. Smalned to be done being the compiles tlon of the report of the confereao