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c 4. THE DEMOCRAT. Pabllthixl lery I'rMmr Mornln. TILLMAN ti ritlt'i;, I'roprletori. veusaim.i:s. t MISSOURI. DlKhup Scarborough or the Kplscopal diocese of New Jersey ban gone 11 Ut ile farther than ;my yet In dealing with the divorce question. Ho declares that he folia to tee how there tan I nn Innocent party to a divorce. 4 Auk Kdward la reported to bo uslni, Georgia watermelons, Colorado eanta loupes nnd Now York state apples. Ha will not be eonidderoel fully American ized, however, until he begins to carry a nun and Installs a Missouri mule. Kansas Is fusfclrig with Colorado be eiuitc dhe takes all tho water out ol tho Arkansas river before It gets tc hannis. Now, If Colorado woilm do th mine thins by the headwaters of tin Kaw, In emergencies, it might he dif ferent. Another bull campaign In cotton, It Jh said, Is about to be waged In tlx crop now moving to market. The new clique Is said to have vn Us organizer! the old Hrown-IIayes pool of New Or-lis.-triK, and D. J. Sully, of New York city. Canada has one Pacific railroad, hat arranged to build another and project d a third. In Improved waterways the Canadians an: a long way ahead, 'flu Dominion, with only 5,000,000 people Is maktti; a great, record in providing transportation facilities. In Kansas colleges tho sophomore and frcshwomcn smash furniture, teai clothing and do rough and tumble fighting jiiHt as Hiphomores and fresh men do In colleges for males. Are tht college girls lilting themselves for th domestic wars in which they may en gage after mairlage'.' The new chief of (bo St. Loulu salv age corps has been with the organiza tion l.'i years and commenced work at KilO Merchant street. In his name John danvllle, there are 1.'! letters and be took charge of his new olIlc( on Friday. Now watch tho mporsti Hows liemble whenever theie Is a Jin alarm. The Japanese have a curious custom: l,'pon every warHhlp Is a lawyer, tr. whom In an emergency the eaptali) looks for advice upon the International law Involved. This learned gentleman II ho r.ay the word Justifying Japan be Jor the law, plunges his country lntc Hruggle. The lawyer expoundb, tbc captain fights. The Canadian,-Alaskan boundary dis pute Is mu'eh llko tin) northeastern boundary question. Mitt led In 1811 b Webster ami i.ord AHhhurlon; that is the maps are all made on lusulllf lent or erroneouslnformation and serve onl; U complicate the controversy. Pcrhap! the best way out Is to follow the north oast precedent and settle by fixing an rrbltrary line regardless of maps and evidence. From the register of the tn-asiiri corncti the gratifying statement, that "the amount of 1'nlte.d States bond! held by foreign Individuals Is so Insig nificant that It may be said that the na tional credit Is entirely upheld by do mestic, money." Tbls fact sIiowh how a port Ion of the balance of trade In fa vor of thl; country has been paid. For elgn holdings of government bonds hav In i n puiehuHcd by Americans unci re tin tied to this i ountry The automobile will have to lake f hac k nest In Die pre'enco of tbe electric ears in iienin mat iiae made a reeorcj ol' 12.1 l-r, miles an hour over a traeli 2S mllcn long. An American locomo tlve two years ago iau live miles at th' rate of ..'I miles an hour, but the llei lln electric car ha- now gone lo Hip top. Its builders It can work U, to a speed of 1 in mllci an hour, am. 4hey are preparing to make the prom in; good. St. I.oult. Is not alone In the mailer ol Improper and fraudulent uatiirallatlon. A lipcclal agent nf the dcpai tmonl ol JiiKtlie who litis been making an Inves tigation HiiiIh that 2.Vi,0oo foreigners iae bi-i-n admitted io c-1'l.cni-lilp n (he Mulo of Ohio by Judges not qualified tc administer the oath, and that In Chi cago J ,'' weie Improperly sworn In ui citizens by a Judge In one, evening despite the fact that the law require the administration of the oath to each individual heparately Prci blent Roosevelt, In the courho oi tils address at the unveiling of tlx Sherman statue In Washington, said, not Inaptly: "We can as little afford to tolerates a dishonest man In the public service as a coward lu the army. Th murderer takes a klni;le life; tho cor rtlptloiilsl III public: life, whether ho be tribe giver or hribo taker, htrlkes at the heart of tho commonwealth In every public nervier, as In every i.rmy, then will ho wrongdoers, then will occur misdeeds. This can not bo avoided, hut vigllaut watch must ho kept, and at oon as discovered tho wrougdolug lAUKt ho mopped atid th. wrongdocri Vunlslu-d." CURRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IH BRIEF. pkimosai. Ann politic!,. With Inijiresslvo neremonls, preced ed by a military parade, an equestrian Btatue ot William Tecumseh Shormnn wan unveiled, at Washington, on the 15th, In the presence of official Wash ington, the president at Its head, and thousands of veterans, members of so cieties of tho nrmloH of tho Tennessee, tho Cumberland, tho Ohio and tho Po tomac: The acquittal, on tho Kith, at Lexing ton, S. C, of James II. Tillman, who was charged with tho murder of N. O. Oonzales, editor of the State, in Co lumbia, S. C on January IS last, brought to an end a trial that, Hincu September 28, had engrossed the atten tion of the public of South Carolina an no other trial has done In tho last quarter of u century. News of the removal from nllleo of United States Marshal Fred A. Field, of Kiitland, Vt., by President Roosevelt, surprised the- residents of that city, where Mr. MeJd ranked as a leading and hlgnly-respected citizen. He wmi appointed marshal by I'rcsldent Mc Kinley, and reappointed a year ago by I'resident Roosevelt. One cif the most. Important develop ment) cif the American visit ol tho Honourable Artillery Company of Jon don was Its announcement that a mon ument to the memory of the lato Queen Victoria Is to be erected lu Boston, Mass. Intelligence or thin plan was cabled lo King Kdward. Tho Jury, on the 10th, In Kansas City, Mo., In the case cif Dr. Louis Horn, a dentist, on trial for the murder of Albert Secbrlst, failed to agree ou a verdict and was discharged. On the K,th It was definitely learned that tho chaigcH on which Isrlg.-Oon. John Chase, of the Colorado national guard, was summoned before a mili tary court, at Denver, Col., were per jury and disobedience of orders. Albert. 1.. Herman, alleged defaulting clerk of the Third national bank, of Louluvllle, Ky., was adjudged Insane, on the Kith, by a Jury In the federal court. Herman was charged with a shortage In his accounts of between $20,000 to $:;i,000. William. Henry ICustls, of Minneap olis, Minn , wa offered tho position of auditor for the post olTce at Washing-j ton, recently vacated by Capt. II. A. Castle, and ho declined the same with thanks. On the Ulth Sam I'icl.elt, a traveling organizer o! theatrical comp'inles, wan ai rented In Denver, Col., and arraigned before I'nltr.l States Commissioner Capron on a charge of lining tbe malls to defraud. HIb bond was fixed at $500. Judge Hallett, of the United States court cif Colorado, ordered the removal to Philadelphia of Albert K. Hell, the alleged forger and mall robber, and a deputy marshal left, on tin: Pith, with the prisoner. On tho 10th Leopold J. Stem, the Haltlmore (Md.) contractor iccently Indicted lu connection with a piHtul contract, appeared In police court, In Washington, liond was fixed at $.',000, ind Sternwas committed to Jail. MIBl'KI.I.ANKOUa. "Railroads can not afford to grant any further Increase lu wages, and If they are forced to take such action, over 100,000 employes in the eastern half cif the country will be laid off In definitely." This ultimatum was Issued, In Chicago, on tin- Kith, to the heads of labor organizations that, were plan ning to demand higher pay. Five b-aders ol tho I'nlted States penitentiary mutineers, on trial at Leavenworth, Ka , for murder, weie totiud guilty, on I he' loth, by a Jury in tlio feileial couit Tho Jury leeom-niond-d that the deatli penally bo not Inlllcted. On tin; lOUi tho mo:-.t destructive flro In the history of Aberdeen, Wash., wiped out ten Ihd-Iiicfh blocks and Hu morous lesidenn., causing four deaths and the serious Injury of fix pernios. Tho lobs was over 11,000,000. On tho Hith Allien Ifcckinanii, who killed Helen Kelly, a former sweet heart, at liutte, Mout., was captuicd al Melt one, Mont., by Sheriff Quliiu. A Frenchman named Clar'g was ar rested, on the Pith, at WolUloii, .Mo., iiii.ipccted of knowing something about tho murder of Mis. Kate Laiimau, wuo wan killed, on the lltb, within half a inlli) of tier home, near Normandy, Mo., lu St. Louis county. The president of tho Cotton States growers, at Nov Orleans, announced on the liitli, that tho crop would be short ut least l,i00,iiiHl hales, on ac count of tho boll weevil. The associa tion will ask congiess to make an ap propriation to stump out the Insect. Following tho rilusal of tho Pacific Express Co. directors to grata trie de maud for an Incieuso of ton per cent. In wages, 'i'iU rncsscngerm, clerks, drlv ers and inirtcrs of tho company went on strike In St. l-ouls and at various agunck-s between St. loulrf, Little Rock and Omaha, Neb., on the Kith. On the 10th a gang of thieves, who tried to run horses off the Fori 1'ecl; (Mout.) Indian rem-rvnllori were iim buthed and two or then killed. '111. Indians engaged lu a ruuulng ibibt wltb tbe outlawa, A strike In the bituminous coal fields of tho western states will be called, ac cording to President Mitchell, of tho Fnlted Mine Workers. Twenty-three thousand men will he called out In Colorado, Idaho and Wyoming. Tho reason for tho strike order Is that tho owners have refuu'd to treat with thj district unions. On the night or the Kith the first killing frost fen In Clay county, Kaa. Corn was out of clanger. CONDENSED TELEQIIAMS, Kxpcttflvn offlrlals of raHroadn enter Ing Chicago entered a denial, on the 17, of the statement, that recent reduc tions In the pay rolls of tho big sys tems were duo to a falling off In busi ness. So far ns can bo learned, the reduction In tho working force was a forerunner of Increased net revenue!!, rather than a cut. due to the decreased or decreasing Income, Acting Secretary Oliver, of tho war department, wan in conference in Washington. I). C, on tho 17th, with tho heads of the various military bu reaus with a view to the reduction of tho estimates for tho support of tho army during the next, fiscal year lo tho lowest possible limit consistent with efficiency. C.ov. Yates of Illnols, on the 17th, honored the requisition for the return to Madlion county, Ky., of Sam Wilson, who Is under Indictment, there for murder, and who was under arrest. In Hloomlugton, III. It was charged that Wilson, on April 8, 1!i0::, shot and killed Henry Litchio without any cause. In the United States court, at Atoka, I. T., on the 17th, Jack Reeves wan convicted of the murder of his wife, her mother, Daniel Craves and a mockman named Kucklcs, Tbe mur der was committed near Strlngtown, I. T., last spring. Reeves was given a life sentence. Thomas Thompson, aged i0 years old, was kitted, on tho 17th, In tho mines at Johnston City, III., by falling slate;. Ho fired a shot aiuj relumed to his room to note Its effect, when a largo quantity of slate fell, breaking his nock. He left a wife and several ci.iidreii. Tho plant of the Union Has Co., at Hloomlugton, 111., exploded wit n ter rific force, on the 18th, waking the en tire city. The largo iiulldlngg was completely wrecked, the debris being thrown many hundred feel. Tho loss was $25,000, No lives were lost On the 17th, the Jury lu the cato cif Daniel Voorhees Miller and Joseph M. Johns, on trial In the federal court, at Cincinnati, on tho charge of alleged frauds In the post office department, reported that It was unable to agree, and was discharged. I'rof. Charles H. Orcein;, dean of the department of engineering at the Uni versity of Michigan, and famous the world over as an engineer, died, at Ann Arbor, Mich., cm the 17th, of paralysla of tho heart, aged f!0 years. CURRENT NEWS ITEMS. Ho; cholera Is raging In Shawrie . and l)ou;ias lountloH, Kansas. Slot machines to sell tickets of admis sion to the- World's lair are being ex perimented with. Kradst reel's sayn that the country's business lacks tho spur cif Insistent de mand usually felt at this seai-on. The battleship Missouri is ready for her speed tilal. She lias sailed for Hus ton, whole tbe test wll be held. Ten St. l-ouls firemen were ovcrcciicfc by ammonia fumes In fighting a flro lu tho Anchor Cold Storage Co.'s plant. The duke of Devonshire has accepted the presldenly cif the llrltlsh Free Food league In the light against Chamberlain. King I'M wind seemed the appoint merit of a ciimmlrsion lo formulate rev olutionary changes In the llrltlsh war olllce. The Dominican congress lias killed tho tree ports bill because ol the pro test of Mr J'owell, the United Stale charge d'alfalroM. Tho Inside Inn, which Is to accommo date 0.0(10 guests dally at the St. Limit World's lair grounds. Is being on t.lructed as a model temporary hotel. In six ye ars Joseph Loiter, who oner attempted io corner wheat, has almost 1 cleared off a $:i,000,000 indebtedness In I curred when the eoirier collapsed. Dan I'alch paced a mile to wagon nl I.evlngton. Ky., In 1: fill 14, two second! below the world's re-cord, established ! by Little Hoy, at Memphis. Japan has 100,001 men concent rated at Hakadale, tho poii flour which an attack could be-st be mailo on Vladlvo Htock, one of ItiiSKla'ti slroughohls, Osey Austin, who stole packages ol tobacco tags from mall pouches, war- Fcntcnccd, at St. Louis, to tho peniten tiary ror oiio year, within f!0 hours ol his arrest. The federal grand Jury at SI. Iiult has indicted John J. MuOllllcuddy better known as "Cuddy Mack" on u charge of aiding Irr naturalization frauds. Ho gave bond for $10,000, C.ef of l)eteetlve-H Desmond of St. Louis says tnut tho Laiiman murder Is one of tho greatest mysteries tho St. loiils county officials have had lo deal with In ye-ars. The St l-ouls police board accepted tho resignations of Patrolmen (Jlynn, Tlmko and Campbell, convicted ol nhootlng c raps, and dismissed I'alrol man Morton, who furnished tbe con victing tvldeuce. Missouri State Gleanings. 6 -ttuiummttmmsmmummtmtmtttti TVIi .MUiuHirl Mlenie- In llrtlrr. In Ktono for the manufacture of ce ment, as well as In building stone, Mis souri excels all other states. Up to within the pant year It has been thought that Lehigh Valley cement manufacture had found the bottom in cost of cement manufacture, but now comes Pike county with figures and experience which show that greater possibilities are found there. Port land cement Is composed of silica, alumina nnd carbonate or lime. In Le high valley 72 per cent, or the total output of the United State;n has pre viously been scciireel. There a natural rock In which silica and alumina al ready combined In substantially correct proportion!!, with varying amount of carbonate of lime, Is found. All that la necessary Is to mid more corbonatc of lime, obtained from limestone These two rocks are simply ground nnd poured Into the rotaries for burning dry. In Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and other states, at great Increase cif cost of production, marl Is used Instead of rock, from which to obtain the neces sary silica and nltimina. The "wet" burning process is thus necessarily employed, lly that process the cost Is more, and production possibility di minished one-half. Tho Lehigh crop plngs are excelled by Missouri stone, lor the reason that there Is less dross In tho latter; and, In the second place, because the limestone, and the stone containing tho other elements em ployed, are there found widely apart. Aiong the blulfs or the Mississippi riv er, In this stale, the two stones are found adjacent, and can ho handled by gravity. One plant, with a capital of $1,500,000, Is now being erected at Lou isiana, and within the jioxt few years the full length of bluffs along the Mis sissippi will bo under tho hornesH of tho cement manufacturer. Ilnil WreeU In !volla (.11). Three men were killed and three others Injured, one seriously, In a col lision between Missouri I'acltit; and Frisco freight trains In the switch yards in Kancas City. The dead; A. L. Johnson, MlKMiurl I'aclflc switchman: John Murphy, Missouri I'acllle switch man; Oeorgo Klrkpalrlck, Magnum. In jured: Will Austin (negro), compound fraeture of leg, which will bo ampu tated; R. H. Ilraht, Missouri I'acllle engineer, rib broken; .1. H. Ward, se verely bruised The Frisco train was standing on the crossing whe-n the Mis souri I'acllle train ran 'uto it, turning over a freight car. Tills car fell over on a crowd of men on tho oilier side of the Frisco train who wore waiting for it tei pasii. The engineer of tho Missouri I'aclflc train says that he got a signal to proceed across tin cross ing, but It Is believed that ho momen tarily lost control eif bis engine. R. II. Ilraht, who was Injured, was tbr en gineer of another Missouri I'aclflc freight which was waiting for tho Frisco train to clear the crossing. He bail left his engine and Joined the oth er railroad men near the Frisco train when the car was pitched upon them. Sliurl trlke. A strike wan calleel on tho Mlsourl building at tho St. Iuls World's fair grounds, but after being out W hours, the men returned to work, a satisfac tory agreement having he-en effected. Tho trouble originated with the elec trical workers, who demanded $5 a day from oont rue-tors In charge! of that worlt. The demand was refused, and, upon the strike of these men, tho con tractors personally took tlmir places. A general strike was then called by the iabor confederation, and the 00 men at work on the building walked out. Con tractors announce that tho Missouri building In almost thrve-l'oiirtlm com pleted. Ili'iiiiirkcilile, Hut 'line. That tho cash prle-s offered In tho live sioclc. department or the Loulhianti Purchase! exposition aggregate almost ::o per cent, more than the total pre miums of 12 leading stale fairs and tho international and American royal shows combined, might icasonably be doubted by experts in Hitch matters, but stub is the ease. The cash prizes Irr Chief Cobtirn's department ol Hie World's ralr are $55,:;00 greater than those offered by the laige-sl II live stock shown of tho United States In I'M)?.. I'eila- teiei.iuel- C iir II I -.!. Tho criminal case against Cole Younger, In which ho was charged by tho Younger-James wild west show management with embezzling some 0, 000, was dismissed In the circuit court at Ni'vada, the stato'H attorney refusing to prosecute. The money In question was ordered paid Into court under a civil proceeding. IIiikh mt f IVr. MaHhers In Joplln must pay $16 a hug, according to tho decision Judge llurrett rendered when threo young men, A, J. Long, Pete U-o and O. J. Judd, were fined for hugging Mm May Williams on the street. Mrs. Williams, who is a pretty young woman, told her Ktory In court, and none of Ibu young manlier denied the churges. t::m:mnjm::tam::a:m:mt:u A IIIk TrnimiH-llein, A transaction which lnvolv-w a mil lion dollars and embraces not only tho sale of one of tho oldest lumber com panies lu the west and tho Incorpora tion of a now company for the. pur jiose of tho transfer, but the Introduc tion or a new force In the lumber trade of the north and Kouthwoat, has. Just been completed In St. LouIb Knapp, Stout & Co., which has been In existence lu St. Louis fpr tho last generation, has been purchased by the newly Incorporated Wilson Iron & Lumber Co., or Wisconsin. Thin com pany has Just been Incorporated under tho laws of the state or Wl&consln. I'etcr H. Wilson, who was tho treasur er of Knnpp, Stout fc Co., t: the president or the new organizat!oi and Philip D. Wilson, his brother, lr t,o vice-president. All tho remaining fctockbolders are In Wisconsin. Peter K. Wilson said: "All there Is to say about the purchase) is that tho now company has taken over the entire buslne.-m of Knapp, Stout & Co., for which wu have organized and Incor porated the- now company. "Wo paid In round numbers $1,000,000 for the; equipment of the; old linn, which In cluded Its yards at Salisbury nnd Hall streets, comprising from thirty to for ty acres of ground and 25,000,000 foot or lumber. Tho now company will be one of tho largest In tho country, and will, we; think, bo ablo to materially Improve; on tho past records of the lumber trade;." The headquarters ol Knapp, Stout & Co. woro In Menomi nee, Wis. While; tho now' company Is also Incorporated in Wisconsin, Its of fleers are residents or St. Louis, and Its main offices will bo In that city. Snbvii Hiiiliialfin In t. I.etnla. A series of gas explosions occurred In a high tension subway for several bloc ks along Thirteenth street, between Chestnut and St. Charles, In St. Louis Three persons were severely burned and there was a hasty exodus of resi dents Irom the locality. One woman was so startled by the explosion that she Jumped rrom a street car and wtu badly hurt. The first explosion oc curred In a manhole In which William Ryan, a cable splicer, was drilling lntc a four-Inch gas main, and probably re sulted from a spark from Ills drill. Ryan was renelereel unconscious, and lay on the floor of the pit for several minutes, In danger ejf being suffocated, until rescued by John L, Fay. He wat seriously burned about the face, arm! and liinly, and alno Inhaled much gas. Ho may die Fay was also badly hurt, being Ke'voroly burned by flames that shot up from the pit, and his rescue ol Ryan was nothing lens than heroic Mrs, Annie Oreenberg, who was walk ing with Fay, was also badly burned her race being one complete blister She went homo Immediately, without, wait ing tor the ambulance- which was sum moned, anil did not receive medical at tention until her address was discov ered by the police, as sovernl doctors who were called lu by her refused tc treat her unless given their pay In ad vance. i:iullllllll)l Wtlllieil, nernuse he reiferred to tho United Slate-s Hag as a "dirty rag, represent Inp. a ellrty e lass or pe-oplo," II. K. Dover, an Knglisbmari, wan. soundly thrashed, in Joplln, by a miner named Harry Flynn Dozens or people witnessed tho occur rence, and cheered Flynn while) ho wii! punishing the Kngllshman. Tho trou ble started on Main street, between Fourth and Fifth, where the Salvation army was holding service. Wlill. lliirri-l Ki!i-lc. Leslie Hickman, ot Slater, wan In Jured In a strange way the) other day He had bought an empty whisky barrel from a drug store and took It homo tc fill It with elder. While bo was liorlm; a hole In the empty barrel with n red hot poker It exploded with a report that was heard a mile. Tho top of the house was partly blown ilT, and Hick man wan wounded In tho laco anC breast, but not fatally. Ziirn .lier) ItlKiiKre-eil. The Jury lu the case of Dr. Louis Zorn. on trial lu Kansas City for the murder or Albert Seclirlsl, his temant. railed to agree on a verdict and wa) discharged. The men quurrclcd over rent, and In his dying ulatoment So chrlHt tald that Zom had t'liot him without provocation. This wan Horn's second trial. Knrirr llrtm Tim Venrn, Frank Uupcnthal, the forger, whe was arrested In St. Louis and taken to Steolvlllo by Sheriff W. R. TafT, was arraigned In court there, and entered a plea of guilty, and was sentenced by Judge Woodsldo to two years In the penitentiary. Khrllirra' Tpiiiplr llintll utril. Anou lieu Adhem temple of the Mys tic Shrine, tho fourth temple lu Mis souri, was Instituted at Springfield with elaborate ceremonies, Including a street parade and drill, A cIimi of 100 novices woh Initiated