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CONTAGIOUS BLOOD POISON Til diseases of the blood uroroptly and thorough ly cured and ever> trace of the poison eradi cated from the system forever, restoring health and purity. PRIVATE DISEASES, SffiKKftfe, which, if neglected, or improperly treated, break down the system and. cause kidney I disease, etc, perma-neutly cured. WRITE J'°»r troubles, if living »way from IT HI 11. the city. Thousands cured at home. CONSULTATION FREE. Office Houra—Daily from 8 a. m. to 8 p m ■uudays 10 a. m. to 1C :30 p. m STfiTEELE'T^OMEDIGfILINSTirUTE PERnANENTLY LOCATED 301 Hennepin Ay., Cor. Third St., .linneapolis, Minn. TARVIN TO BRADLEY. Farmer Kentucky Jadge Derides the Fighting: Governor. CINCINNATI. 0., Dec. 9.—Judge Tar vin. of Cuvington, has written a long, Sarcastic reply to interviews with ex- Gov. Bradley published in newspapers. The following extracts give its spirit "Covington . Ky.. Dec. ©.-Hon. William O. Braaley, Frankfort, Ky.—My Dear Governor: I thought my telegram would bring you—and it did. I have read your statements concerning me in this morn ing s papers with the liveliest interest You have done well. You call me an Knot, a liar, coward, a squire, depraved and Jim' Tarvin. But. fortunately, I am unhardened. You remember the manner of attack indulged in by all of a certain class of newspapers on free silver an archists in 1896. and since then; and from them 1 have received my baptism "But it was unkind of you to mention that vice presidential matter. You and I ought to have a fellow feeling as to that. We have both been 'mentioned' as the probable tail of some man's kit* Bo far as I am concerned, I am trving and will continue to try to live it down and let it be forgotten. '•You -say you did not know of the dan ger UireaU-ning Coleman. But you are mistaken. You did know. It was een erally and commonly known, and was re peatedly mentioned in the papers. You •n?'n jf hi 3 dan?er an<3 its extent, and wilfully or negligently failed in your duty. I do not call you a liar—you' are only disin^enious. "You then say you did not act be cause I did not call on you to act You are again disingenious. You know that I had no authority or jurisdiction in the matter. If I had possessed any author ity, Coleman would never had gone to Maysvilie. "Governor, your statement has accom plished one thing at least for which I am thankful. The Washington Post and the Nashvme American have been denounc ing me for menths because I am 'obscure ' but. thank God. that can no longer be said. The governor of Kentucky, the general of its army and navy, has got me prominence. Must I apologize, criticising the criminal failure of the governor? You and I ought to know that the public will criticise officials. You cannot stop them it i must apologize. I can only say that I could not help a feeling of resentment at your treatment of that poor negro I do not criticise the r>eople of Mavsville lou are the one to blame. Respectfully ' —"James E. Tarvin/ 1 m Coal at Reduced Prices. Virginia smokeless screened egg or lump coal for domestic use at reduced prices. Call on Pioneer Fuel Co., 371 Rob ert street, before placing your order. Holiday Presents KODAKS CAMERAS SKATES MOCCASINS SKIS SLEDS CROKINOLE and other Gamsi. WHITELEY EXERCISERS Boxing Gloves, Striking Bags, Hockey and Polo Sticks, Golf Outfits, Pocket Knives, Razors, Poker Sets, Elcyclo*, Suns, Rifles, Revolvers. KENNEDY'S fer MORGUE OF LINERS EXTRANCE TO fUfOF OF ST. LAW HENCE GRAVEYARD OF NORTH ATLANTIC MANY PERILS LIE IN WAIT ; Every Water Snare That Entraps Lurkle.tit Sailors -to Be Found in This Section of the.S/e*. —Icebergs, Shoals und Crumbled Ledges Men. uce the Men Who j;o Dunn to the Sea in Shins. It one prong of a >>air $f~ compasses bo placed about the center o£4&e Gull of St. L.awrence, and the other describe a semi circle from Labrador to the southernmost point of Nova Scotia, the .area circum scribed might well be called the grave yard of the Atlantic. Not only is this part of the ocean subject to all the gales of the roaring forties, but every kind of water snare that entraps luckless sailors is found in this section of the North At lantic. The dirty brownish fogs that He across the horizon above Belle Isle are, of course, the most treacherpus enemy for the ocean liner. They conceal the other dangers, and the other dangers are neither few nor far apart. What with icebergs ranging in size from a few hun dred feet in circumference to monsters r.lne miles in length (the exact dimension of one measured by the Newfoundland superintendent of fisheries), with naked rock walls rising vertically seven hun dred feet out of the sea, with crumbled lodges whose saw-tooth edges stand up In pinnacles or slopes down to a white capped reef, and with . the submerged shoals of the Sable and Magdalene island districts, the pilot has as difficult a piece of water to navigate as could be found. To enumerate all the vessels lost In the North Atlantic during recent years would take up too much apace;, but the-reeord for the past few months has been suf ficiently striking to justify the chariness of underwriters towards northern risks. The wreck of the Scotsman in' the Straifs of Belle Isle is sttll fresh in peo ple's memories, and though the loss of life, considering .the long passenger list, was comparatively small, cargo, ship, and travelers' effects were total lo?s. Preced ing the Scotsman's wreck was the Por tia's among the reefs and shoals off Nova Scotia, another instance of miraculous escape for the passengers. The Canadian line has been, perhaps, the most un fortunate; for, while the Labrador was lost on the ea^t side of the Atlantic, on» •of the fine new steamships of the same line came to grief on a ledge a few hours' run from Halifax. The destruction of four large passenger steamers of first class rating in less than a year is a re markable record; and that does not in cfude accidents, the less of coasters, freighters, and schooners, and such ex periences as that of the Gaspesia, the trial steamer of the new Canadian fast winter line, which stuck in the ice-floes last spring and drifted helplessly about for two or threa months before she was freed and towsd ashore. EXCUSES SCOUTED. Usually, responsibility for these north ern wrecks is divided between the cap tain, who has received instructions -to make speed independent .of fogs an-1 weather, and the compass whose needle, somehow or other, has been deilectedby some mysterious magnetic current. These excuses may be accepted by the' public, but are scouted by navigators who know the North Atlantic. The danger, in the first place, lies in. the nature, of the course, and in, the secon 1, in attempting- speed *wHile on this caurse The perils" of Nova Sootian waters can ' be and have been lessened* Lighthouses now mark the most dangerous points, and long ago a stop was put to the nefarious work of the wreckers who pl!ed success ful depredations with Sable island as a basis. Time wa3, wkhirt the memory of navigators still Ifvlng, when false lights above the sands of Sable island lured passing ships to their ruin, aqti wli3n the government cruisers would come to tb/? ships' aid not a thing would be found but the stripped hull. Though passen gers might have waded ..ashore In some places, the dead used to be found stripped of all clothing and jewels; with the ring finger cut oft", and frequently the gasn of a wrecker's weapon across the forehead, signs plainly telling of a conflict between the passengers struggling ashore through the beating surf and the murderous men who awaited them. But all this is a thing of the past on Sable island. Not only were wreckers driven off, but live stock was placed on the long stretch of grass-grown sand, so that" castaways could have some means of subsistence until help came. Belle Isle strait is by far the most treacherous part of the North Atlantic route. The coast of Labrador projects into the ocean like a barrier against the flinging tides; and when the baffled cur rent finds resistance suddenly removed, when the narrow straits open between Newfoundland and Labrador, the wators toss in wfth the sidling motion that cre ates the beam sea so hateful to all lands men. The strength of this inbursting cur rent simply cannot be calculated or coun teracted by any mariner. In width, the straits vary from nine to forty miles; and when the brownish fog, never absent from the northern horizon, spreads south ward, obscuring every landmark, it is im possible for any captain to keep up speed and retain his bearings. He may refer to his chart as often as he pleases, and tell himself, "Thus and thus have we come, and here is the place we are.'" Tide and fog may have betrayed him in spite of his calculations, and he may be at least a hundred miles out of his course. PERIL IN FOG. There was a very striking example about a year ago. One of the fastest of the liners going by the strait route was caught in a heavy fog before she reached the entrance. So thick was the mist that the unusual precaution of lying-to was actually taken. The fog horns kept con tinually tooting, and the steamer lay, as the captain thought, prow forward, just at the opening of the straits, waiting for a dash through when the fog should lift. This is all of the story that the passen gers and public know; but there is an other and widely different version current in the bleak port of Battle harbor, forty miles up the rugged, rocky coast of Lab rador. Battle harbor is land-locked like all the hidden coves, or, in sailors' par lance, "holes in the wall" of that north coast, and the dome-shaped rocks sur rounding the port slope down at the har bor entrance into two long, sharp ledges, locally known as "the ribs," which barely leave the breadth of a steamer open to wards the sea. The fishing schooners do not attempt the entrance during fair weather, and the government mail steam er frequently sends in only a four-oared boat, rather than run through the treach erous narrows. On the morning when the ocean liner thought she was lying at ease in the straits, a fisherman came sculling out of Battle harbor to examine his nets. Approaching cautiously through the thick fog, he was amazed to see a huge black shape loom up between the ribs. Nearer view revealed the nature of this strange visitant. Hailing the officers, he asked if they knew where they were, and the astonishment of the captain may be imagined when he learned his actual whereabouts and narrow escape. The fisherman was taken aboard, paid to keep quiet and pilot the ship back to her course. Meanwhile over two hundred passengers ate a hearty breakfast—for was not the sea calm?—in the happy be lief that they were poking through the Straits of Belle Isle. "It is perfectly absurd, as well as dan gerous, to attempt a fast line through the straits." said a navigator, who is captain of a government steamer, and who, therefore, does not hold a brief to defend any special route. "The only safety during fog or rough weather is to THE ST. PAUL OLOBE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1899. run for shelter and lie to." This man has had seventeen years' experience on New foundland and T^abrador coasts without a .-.ingle accident; and.he may be consid ered authority on northern routes. As for the captains of fishing schooners, men who have spent all their lives cruising the straits, they scoff at mention of using Belle Isle for mercantile purposes. LEDGES LIE IN WAIT. Besides the dinger from fog and tide at the entrance to the Gulf of St. Law rence, there Is peril of long, sharp ledges that furrow ali parts of the northern coast, and are only visible by the fretted line of surface spray. No lighthouses mark these hidden reefs, and many a schooner comes to grief upon them dur ing the night or in a fog. The old "rooms," or fishing harbors, of French and Jersey fishermen have long been deserted in the neighborhood of the straits. Occasionally a dismantled hut or a dilapidated chapel may be seen clinging to the base of the rock wall, but all Is lifeless and desolation. There are not a dozen settlements on either side of the narrow channel, and these are hidden away securely behind rock-guard ed harbors, no sign of life is visible to passing steamers. No aid to navigation exists on these bleak northern shores. False Cape runs out from Newfoundland in great. Jagged, towering rocks, torn by the driving tide, and White Island lies off the shore bare and lonely as a tomb stone. Afar, from other rocky islands, comesfthe dull booming of the surf, which Indian legend of Labrador describes as the shrieking of demons over their prey. Roofless huts used as wind-breaks by the sealers In the spring add to the in describable loneliness of the tenantless coast; and if some fisherman's dory comes bounding over the waves, its sud den disappearance behind some rocky eminence only accentuates the utter dreariness of the whole region. Of the countless fishing pchooners lost In the North Atlantic the world hears nothing. They do not carry insurance policies, though all carry crews number ing from eight to twelve men; and when the boat goes down, ordinarily the crew goes with it. Last year In a s'ngle gale, twelve schooners were overturned or foundered and all hands lost, oft the Labrador coast. The same storm invaded the rock-girt harbors and. catching schooners that had run for shelter and moored within, hurled them up like a house lifted by a cyclone and pounded them into kindling wood against the rock 3. This gale also proved the value of the northern fisherman's instincts. The government mail steamer Virginia Lake was heading for the straits* where the vsual brown fog line was visible against the horizon. Porpoises came floundering to the surface of the water, displaying all sorts of schoolboy antics, racing the ship, and in the most impudently human way imaginable began turning somersaults directly across the ship's prow. "I never see porps do that except agen a storm," said the mate, an old salt of forty years' seasoning; but "porps" were rot in the captain's chart, and he laughed at the mate's prophecy. Twelve hours later the fulfilment of the ominous "porp" prophecy was-driving the Virginia Lake with reckless haste to Red Bay, Labra dor, where, in the shelter of high rocks. in spite of full steam against the wind and with- two anchors out, she drifted a mile from her moorings. I — DUTY AS HE SAW IT. Kentucky- Election Commissioner Discusses Action of the Board. FRANKFORT, Ky., Dec. 9.—At 9:45 this morning the election certificates of Will iam S. Taylor was signed by the election commissioners and he was declared to be governor-elect of Kentucky. The official figures of the vote filed with Secretary of State Finley are: Taylor, 193,714; Goebel, 191,331; Taylor's plurality, 2,383. The operation which ended for the time being at least the bitterly fought guber natorial contest was conducted in the simplest manner. Late last night, when the decision had gone forth to the public, Commissioner Ellis, upon whose shoulders the greatest part of the work of preparing the opinion has fallen, discussed the matter freely. '•This has been a hard thing for me," he said, his eyes Inflamed by loss of sleep, and the heavy lines in his face bearing eloquent witness to the truth of his state ment. "It has been a hard thing for all of us. I wish, however, that all of the people of the country should know how nobly Judge Pryor has acted in this matter, and how conscientiously he has done what he con sidered his duty. He is a great man, one of the greatest. In my opinion, that Ken tucky has ever produced, and I am sure his conduct In this case has been of a piece with his long and honorable career as a public officer. "Speaking for myself," continued Mr. Ellis, "I say frankly I did not like to do this thing, but under the law and the evi dence, there Is nothing else I can do and be an honest man. "Why, I was an original Goebel man, I was a Goebel man long before he re ceived the nomination and I am a Goebel man now and a Goebel partisan. I hatfe always been partisan in politics, a rank partisan, and It would give me greater pleasure than I can express to be able to declare for the Democrats in this thing, but I can't do it. The proceedings before the board were so overwhelmingly in favor of the Republicans, and they had so much the best of the arguments that it is almost idle to discuss the af fair. There was, to the minds of Judge Pryor and myself, only one thing to do, and that we have done." The statements made by Mr. Ellis have beep upheld by his conduct from first to last throughout the canvass. He did all of the questioning of the attorneys, and seemed at every stage to be most anxious to obtain the truth and be impartial to both sides. Mr. Goebel was apparently In the best of humor aftor being told that Mr. Tay lor's certificate had been signed. He laughed and shook his head when asked If he had anything to say. "Not a thing; I am not talking." "When will you make a contest?" "I have not decided yet, and I, of course, cannot discuss it when I do not know myself." The defeated candidate was game to the last, and if there was any ill-humor in him nobody knew it but himself. Mr. Taylor was modest and reticent as usual. "I expected It, of course," he said. "I knew that if the commissioners went by the law and the evidence they could do nothing else than decide the way they have done." Commissioner Poyntz declined to sign the Republican certificates of election, saying that he stood by the opinion he had rendered and could not consistently do so. He consented to sign the certif icates of the railroad commissioners, how ever. m GHASTLY RIFT. What Revelntions In Molineux Case May Cause. NEW YORK. Dec. 9.—A New York law yer who has seen somewhat into the In side of the Molineux case and has a con siderable knowledge of the weapon of the prosecution, says it is compelled to proceed very gingerly because liable at every step to touch prominent persons who stand high in society, and the Knick erbocker club, with which Molineux and Cornish were connected, and which has been known .to the police a long time as the center of most disreputable practices. Numerous photographs of a most out rageous kind, in which the members are represented, are In the hands of police officials. In one of these groups are Mol ineux, Barnet and Miss Chesebrough. If what is known to police circles was fully revealed, it is said, It would make a ghastly rift In the ranks of even the 400. ■ —— Died Suddenly. BOSTON. Dec. 9.-B. H. Briggs. presi dent of the Briggs Piano company, was taken 111 In a railway station and was taken to the city hospital, where he died. _^~ _ Christmas Near at Hand. A nice line of low-priced holiday pres ents at Pflster's Jewelry Store, 138 East Seventh street, Ryan block, PROFIT \l BOTTLES THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS SAVED A\NTALLY FROM THE REFUSE OF GREAT CITIES INDUSTRY OF MANHATTAN Fifty Million Dollar. tt lnvested in the Bottling Ind^uiffry, and De spite Every Care jhe .Annual Loss Is Something Ll^^oar .Million Dollars—The. Trutle.in Regintered Bottles a Crime iu.^jetr Yorlc. People to whom buying up old bottles and qve/hsuillng the con tents of ash cans and.jjarbAge cans on the sidewalks, are a,,spurce ralher of nuisance than of profit^ .-^lave doubtless often imagined _that bjjtt^ which are not taken by these men> dl^app^ar. for&yer Into that mysterious "gprn^where" which receives all sorts of city., refuse. To them, therefore, says the New Post, it will be a surprise to learn, th&,t the bot ties thrown away wlth^aijhes and gar bage are the subject'.pX a flourisUing trade, whose transactions in this city alone amount to many thousands of dol lars annually. This bottle trade depends for the most part upon the collection of bottles from the refuse gathered at the various dumps en the water front, some fifteen or twenty in number. Here the asheS and garbage are carefully overhauled by the "scow trimmers" before the material is towed down th 9 harbor, and bottles of every conceivable variety are collected for washing and distribution to the various dealers who sell them for further use. Dump bottlea are divided by the trade into "registered" bottles, which have the proprietor's name blown into the glass, and "mixed" botttes, which ara all those "Me dean boy, it> me ca.ndid opinion that we are both in it as howling swells." r without names..-.Betimjktesi furnished; by several dealers show th*t the weekly-Col lections of mixed bottles-'In iManfcattan alone amount to 500 Ma.g6n loads. At: $1.50 a lead, which fe {he usual price, this means about $59,000- a y«ar paid to the scow-trimmera, MILLIONS OF BOTTLES. Tho mixed bottles are put'together in Bugar barrels at the dump, and then sold to small dealers in the neighborhood, who sort and wash them, and turn them over to the wholesale dealers. The yard of one bottle shop exhibited a most bewildering variety. The cleansing is almost always done by hand, after which the bottlesnare sorted and stored. One dealer keeps in his warehouse the enormous number of 5,000,000 bottles, shipping his stock to and from various states In this country, and even across the Atlantic. Beer bottles and othor "registered" bottles were once handlad freely in the junk trade, and sold from the dumps to their original owners, or to any one else who cared to buy them. But through the agency of the Bottlers' and Manufactur ers' Association of New York and simi lar organizations elsewhere, laws have been passed making it a crime to deal in labeled and registered bottles. How im portant the bottling interest is may be seen from a recent report giving the cap ital Invested in it as about $50,000,000; while the annual loss in bottles, in spite of all efforts to prevent it, amounts to nearly $4,000,000. For some years the New York associa tion has had a contract with a member of the bottling trade for the recovery from the dumps of bottles belonging to Its members. He arranges with the les sees of each dump for the collection of registered bottles, for which he pays a small price, afterwards washing and sorting them, and finally delivering them at the exchange building of the associa tion, whence they are distributed to the members. The contractor receives a fixed price for all bottles accepted from him, the monthly cost to the association ris ing of late to nearly $1,000. The dump lessees get only a small part of this sum. REGISTERED BOTTLES. A portion of this money also Is paid for the recovery of bottles from the Brook lyn dumps, in addition to -the collections made there for the Brooklyn and Long Island association. More than 2,000,000 bottles" are annually collected for these two associations. These figures do not cover all the registered .bottles which the scow-trimmers are prohibited from selling. There are many bottlers, not members of any association, whese bot tles are lawfully registered, and who make Individual arrangements with, the association contractor foi^. the recovery of their property from the dumps. This contractor has in his establishment more than 200 compartments for holding the bottles of as many different bottlers of this class. The collections of this class of registered bottles are estimated by persons acquainted with the trade as amounting to at least 600,000 settles an nually. Besides the two chief associa tions named there are in New York an association of mineral water manufac turers, whose members recover some bot tles, and a federation of milk bottlers, whose annual recoveries of bottles from the dumps amount, according to a for mer contractor, to about'loo,ooo. About two-thirds of the registered bot tles recovered by the association con tractor are soda boLties; next come lager beer bottles, amounting to less than one quarter; while siphons, quarts and weiss beer bottles make up the remainder. Even the rubber stoppers on beer bottles are cleaned and used again, even when they come from the dumps. How thor oughly the dumps are searched will ap pear from the fact that even broken glass has Its market value. In the form of broken bottles and window gla^s more than 300 bags of this material are col lected each week, commanding a price of 10 cents a bag. or over $1,500 a year. CHEROKEE JEND. Canceled Certificates Are Discovered In Circulation. TAHLEQUAH. I. T., Doc. 9.—Fraud in Cherokee eertifk-a.t«\«i was unearthed u the senate by Senator *QjS£u presteniirg national certificates and a^kuu; ..hat^hey be referred to the committee on claims. Investigation found that tjiey had been canceled by the auditor, and, therefore, were refused, the certificates being held as a part of the records of the senate. Last Saturday night the auditor's office was looted of a number of certificates. A fraudulent credit of $4,0.W was also cut r ed on the auditor's books. It la thougnt that thousands of dollars' worth of stolen and fraudulent certilieatcs are afloat throughout the Cherokee nation. AN EDITOR'S OPINION. What .Indue Goodwin, of S*»lt Lake, Says of Roberts' Plea. i SALT LAKE, Utah, Lee. 9.—ln an tervk-.w Jmljre C. C. Gcodwln, of the Salt Lake Tribune, on the subject of the appeal of Brigham H. Roberts, said: . "The address of Roberts, and its pa thetic appeal, la a strange mixture of ig norance. Insolence and untruth. He com plains of the composition of the com mittee selected to hear hla case because no friend of his was included. He is not sure that he has any friends, and his complaint is an indirect accusation that congressmen, when they sit as Judges, cannot bs impartial. "From the fact that he was stopped on the threshold of congress and asked a. question which he refused to answer, he sets all rights of minorities trampled under foot. He thinks the representa tion to which a state Is entitled may be denied It. He forgets that congress has control of all of Its committees. He for gf ts, too. that his trial 1 Is an indirect trial of Utah itself, on a matter involving the good faith of her people. "His plea that political disabilities un der a federal law have been wiped out by a s-tate is altogether untenable. The enabling act, which authorized statehood, granted no such power. His denial of any lawful power in the house to prevent his taking the oath assumes that the house cannot take cognizance of any fact beyond the prima facie showing of his papers. Can Mr. Roberts imagine no case where congress would have to pro tect itself? "When he pteads immunity from arrest in Washington, even if guilty, he should again be reminded that in his case con gress is investigating him on a matter of character, and not with a view of turn lay him over to the courts. Moreover. tse Edmunds-Tucker law is in full force lit Washington, and uiider it the misde meanor which he discusses is a felony. "Again, when he asks, 'Why this ap peal?' and answers, 'Because the right of. the rule of the majority in one'of the sovereign states of the Union is being denied.' it is proper again to remind him that the state is likewise incidentally to be investigated. "His assertion that there is, just now, against the Mormons a wave of popular sentiment is untrue. If there is excite ment and distrust, it is due him and his friends. Judge King, and before him, Hon. John T. Cannon, were undisturbed in or out of congress. Hon. Frank Can non served his term out in the United States senate, altogether without re proach, and all three were Mormons." m BY DIRECT VOTE. Reform Party Will Nominate a Presidential Ticket. OOLUMBU3, 0., Dec. 9.-The Union Re form party will nominate by direct vote a presidential ticket in 1900, on the estab lished latform of the party, which con sists of a single plank, advocating the initiative and referendum method for all legislation, both state and national. This decision was reached today by the na tional executive committee of the party, at a conference in this city with the Ohio state executive committee. The represen tatives of the national committee present were: R. S. Thompson, chairman, Ohio; J. M. Dunlap, Franklin, Ind; A. a. Ei uhelberger, secretary, Baltimore; W. A. Nallle, Philadelphia, and W. J. Seelye, Wooster. A proposition to consider the advisabili ty of fusion with the Democratic party en presidential candidates was promptly defeated, as was also a suggestion to en large the platform of the party. It was decided to nominate state tickets in every state where an organization can be ef fected. Conventions for the nomination of candidates will be abolished, tho na tional committee recommending that hereafter all candidates, according to the principles of the party, be chosen by di rect vote of the party membership. This rule will apply to the national ticket, and to state and county tickets in Ohio at least. GERMANY ""iN SAMOA. Some Are Pleased, While Others Are Depressed. BERLIN, Dec. 9.—Dispatches received here today from Apia, Samoa, under date of Nov. 27, say that the news of the final settlement of the Samoan ques tion has been hailed with keen satisfac tion by the German residents and a large majority of the Samoans. The dispatches add that Malietoa Tanu s people are de pressed over the matter, and that a n.a jority of the English residents begrudge Germany her success. MR. MATHIESON OUT. Will Not Accept Re-eleotlon as Sner nr Trns* Director. NEW YORK, Dec. 9-— V. O. Mathteson. who has been prominent in the manage ment of the American Sugar Refining company since its organization, refused to remain any longer on the board of di rectors. A letter has been addressed by Mr. Mathieson to the board of directors, in which he sayß his name must not be used at the coming annual meeting. FASTER EXPOSED. 1 hcil Compressed Food to Stave Oft Starvation. RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 9.—Sued, tho famous Italian faster, has been unmask ed here. Dr. Daniel Almeida has dlscov. ered that he uses ilbrous meat, compress ed into the smallest size, and this, witb a small quantity of mineral water was enouffh to prevent starvation. The best of food, warm, cosy rooms, good attendance, choice table servlve ana cafe all make the reasons of the popular ity of Hotel Metropolitan on either Eu ropean or American plan at favorite prices. .. i BUILDING SEVENTH & WABA3HA Sfc Paw/s /VeM/ Clothing Store. Jflnd fjflfinf- Hweities fop:&seful'F)ollfc dtop. (Sifts. Open. Evenings Until dbristmsis. BOLD BURGLARS. Robbed a Priest and Committed Oth er Indignities. CLINTON, Ind.. Dec. 9—Four masked men entered the residence of Rev. Father John F. Startton, early this morning, and, with drawn revolvers, forced the priest to deliver the valuables he had on his per son, afterwards searching the house. They then forced the priest to build a fire, over which they Rat until daylight, whon they- made their escape. There is no clua to the robbers. BOARD OF TRADE SENSATION. Prominent Member Expelled for Al lowed Bucketshopplng. CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—C. A. Whyland. se nior partner In the firm of C. A. Whyland <& Co., prominent In the Board of Trade and the Stock Exchange, was today ex pelled from the latter Institution. Ho is charged with violating the by-laws in re gard to "bucket shopping." As Mr. Why land was a member of long standing and of considerable Influence, the news was received with great surprise. POPE IS BETTER. Is Reported to Have Fall Recovered Health. ROME, Dec. 9.—The pope, who, it waa announced a few days ago was suffering from a heavy cold and experienced some difficulty in breathing, has completely re covered his usual health. ONE GIRL'S WORK. Remained at Her Work and Thereby Prevented a Tie-Up. ALTOONA, Pa., Dec. 9.—By remaining at her loom, in defiance of the threats of strikers, one girl prevented a tie-up at the Altoona silk mill. A general strike of 800 operatives had been planned, but • when the one girl continued at work, 700 employes returned lo their wcrk. The 100 operatives are still out. —*. _^> ■> - Powell Clayton's Proxy. LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Dec. 9—Judge McClure has been named as proxy for Gen. Powell Clayton, ambassador to Mex ico to represent the latter at the.meeting of the Republican national committee in Washington, Gen. Clayton'being the Ar kansas member of the committee. Judge McClure is instructed to lead the opposi tion to the proposition of Committeeman Payne, of Wisconsin, for.a reduction of representation from the South: •^ Sentenced to Death. EL RENOVOKTa:, t>ec. 9—The Jury has found Taylor Kirk guilty of murder in the first degree, and Judge McAtee has pronounced the death sentence. Kirk kill ed his sister in Washfta county, July 4 last. He coerced his brother and another sister to confirm hs .story that it waa a case of suicide. ! _^. Killed in a Saloon. CINCINNATI, 0., Dec. 9.—Charles Sheridan, a teamster, was shot and kill ed this afternoon by Dominick Podesta, In the latter's saloon at Fourth and Syc amore streets. Podesta accused Sheri dan of having entered his saloon for the purpose of robbery- Sheridan rushed at Podesta with a pitcher, and received a fatal shot. _^» i Sampson Again Remanded. LONDON. Dec. 9—Michael J. Samp son, the alleged forger, who was arrest ed Nov. 28 n.ear Limerick, at the request of the chief detective of Chicago, was again remanded today in the Bow street police court until Dec. 16; -•■■ ■ ■ Niagara Heard From. CHICAGO. Dec. 9.—The Niagara, sup posed to have foundered In Lake Erie, with a crew of sixteen men, was heard of today. Haines & Co., consignees of the Niagara's cargo of shingles, stated today that they had practically abandoned hope. The cargo was valued at $8,200. A stenographer for a large law firm in Boston had a rather common experience: "My work," she said, "is very nervous and ex acting, and I used to leave the office utterly exhausted. At night I would often have the most horrible dreams, and sometimes wake up in a cold sweat Once I found myself sitting bolt upright in bed clutch ing the bed clothes frantically with both hands. I became so dis heartened that I finally told my employer I must give up my position, but he laughed, and said he wanted me to stay, and then suggested that I try his remedy for such troubles. He gave me half a dozen Rtpans Tabules and told me to take one after dinner and another before going to bed. I did so, and rested better that very night Now, whenever I feel nervous, I take just one Tabule before retiring and I sleep right through till morning, and get up thoroughly rested and ready for business. For a sleep-producer and a quieter of the nerves, these Tabules are simply wonderful." 11 The vessel waa valued at $14,000 amMin insured. m r— New Torlc Church Call. NEW YORK. Dec. 9.—Tha Fifth Ave< nue Presbyterian church. commonly known as "Dr. Hall's church." has called, to Its pulpit Rev. George Pervers, pro fessor of Naw Testament exlgls la J, nceton university. It la believed ha will accent. He waa a former pastor or the First Presbyterian church, of Pitts burg. — » Imports for Weekv NEW YORK. Dec. 9.-The Imports of dry goods and merchandise at the port of New York for this week was valued at $11,100,332. -♦■ Come and see our display of flne jew elry. F. H. Harm, 111 East Seventh. ■ DAY'S NEWS IN BRIEF. Detroit—James Haslam and Alexander \vilkle, fraternal delegates from the Brit ish Trades' union congress to the Amer ican Federation of Labor, arrived today. Ponce, Porto Rico—The first failure oa account of the hurricane is that of Felici. Costa & Co, who have been declared bankrupts in the United States provi sional court. Washing-ton—Early today flro totally destroyed the Welling mansion at Four teenth street and Welling place, occupied by Dr. L. H. French. The loss on the residence was $60,(W0 and on the contents about $50,000. Washington—Gen. Brooke reports the death of Private William H. Harris.Troop D, Tenth cavalry, who was drowned : at Mayart, Santiago, Nov. 29. . Washing-ton—George W. Beavers, chief of the salary and allowance division of the postofflce, has been designated to take charge of the postal exhibit at the Paris exposition. Washington—United States Consul Ruf fin at Assumclon. Paraguay, has Inform ed tho state department that the Para guayan government solicits bids for printing $15,000,030 in paper money. Chicago—The executive committee of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers' association today decided to hold the next convention in Cleveland on the first Monday in December, 1900. ', ' i^^^^n__ : Deposits made now at The State Sav ings Bank, 4th and Minn. Su., will be en titled-to six months" Interest July 1, 180 ft. DEATHS OP A DAY. NEW HAVEN, Dec. 9.—Judge Elez^ar K. Foster, of Gainesville, Fla.. d^rt at the hospital In this city last night. Judge Foster came North for his health ab"Ut a week ago. He was a trustee of the University of the South, at Suwan^a, Term.. and held other prominent posi tions In the South. __. LATE SOCIAL NEWS. -The annual ball given by ■'University Lodge No. 94, A. O. U. W-, wa« ; a grind success, the hall belnff crowded. This lodge is pushing to the front rapfdTy, having now a membership ot ■ over 250 members, and expect to- have another large class of candidates In the near future. Members are requested to at tend the next meeting to wind up mat ters pertaining to the ball. Mrs. D. A. Anderson, of Marion street, gave a children's party Friday afternoon for her daughter Ruth and son Arthur. She was assisted by Miss B. Anderson, Those present were: Arthur Evans, Edith Anderson, Hazel and Myrtle Mor ton, Viola Eisenmenger. Jeanette Bon ham, Minnie Pottgieser. Mlr.nle Johnson, Addle Davis. Violet Bonham, Raymond and Alfred Eisenmenger. Eddie Ander son, Lillas Rich and others. The Nonpareil Social club will give its first grand prize masquerade ball of the season noxt Tuesday at Twin City hall. Prizes will be awarded to the b^st dressed lady and gentleman and two prizes for the most comical costumes. m "Nielt's" Farewell Dinner. Dominick De Long, who has left tha Pioneer Press to become foreman of the Dispatch composing room, was banqueted last night by a number of former asso ciates "in the tall building" at Mi<>s n's cafe. Open evenings. Diamonds, watches and jewelry. F. H. Harm. 11l East Seventh.