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WAUSAU PILOT. E. B. THAYER, Publisher. WAUSAU, - * WISCOIBIH. SAVED WOMAN’S LIFE. i ■ • OHIO VETERAN IS V-EFT A FOR TUNE THEREFOR. lavalid Soldier Natitied that Debt of Graiitade Will Pay Him Quarter of a Million—Bit; Steel Plant to Be Built by Frick and Others. Henry B. Hawthorn, one of the invalid soldiers in the soldiers’ home at Dayton, Ohio, has received notice that he has Jjeoti left an amount between $-00,000 ■and SOOO,OOO by a woman out of grati tude for having saved her life many years ago. The woman is Mrs. Josephine Fairfax, who recently died in the south of France. Hawthorn was born in Eng land and came to the United States when u ioy. Later he went to England on a visit. While at Keut bathing in the sea be saw a woman and her son in a boat which capsized. Hawthorn, being an ex pert swimmer, succeeded in rescuing the woman, bat the son was drowned. He returned to the United States and serv ed in the army during the Civil War. A few years ago he met Mrs. Fairfax in England aud refused a reward which she urged him to take. He heard nothing more from her until he was informed of the bequest left to him. IOWA CASHXBit WRECKS BANK. Absconding J'anaaer Confesses to Em bezzlement in a Letter. The Lemars. lowa, National Bunk did not open the other morning. Thomas F. "Ward. vice-president and manager of the -nstitution, is a self-confessed embezzler U)4in amount :>f from $25,000 to $3(1.000. He has also absconded. Cashier Frank Koob has received a letter from Ward beginning: “Dear Frank—-1 leave to-night for God Almighty knows where. This Board of Trade business has ruined me. Nave me from indictment if you can. 1 will pay back every eeiit 1 can.” The writer th<-n explained the funds from which he has been stealing to cover his losses. Ward was a member of the Dem ocratic State central committee from the Eleventh Congressional District. The sad feature of this case is that Mrs. Ward is dangerously sick at her home, having be come a mother but a week ago. News of ber husband's disgrace is kept from her. I!13 f-TKEL PLANT PROJECT. l rick and Others Paid to Have Pur chased the Site. It is stated on what appears to be good authority that an immense steel forging plant wiM'lav built at lillliugspdrij N.??.! on the Delaware river, llciiry C > Erick end his frien 1 - arc -si 1 t > be interested in’the ip w cut 5,/i rsv. According to the story IKK! acres of land lias been secured, with ample water front, thus insuring the i-jmstruction of wharves so that supplies from tlie mines of l’eunsylvania and else where could be laid down directly at the works by water at the least cost. The site selected fronts on the Delaware riv er between Bed Bank and Lincoln l’ark, about ten miles below I‘hiladclphia. DAWSON HAS A GLACIER. Great Mass of Ice Makes Part of City Uninhabitable. Dawson arrivals at Seattle on the steamship Humboldt say the Klondike is in the throes of a glacial pheno nctioti. Two mouths ago a glacier made its ap pearance on the hillside back of Dawson. -The ice of the glacier is from twelve t i bfteen feet thick in places and besides ivndering that section of Dawson unin habitable it threatens to make ilic trail hading to tip* cemeteries impassable dur ing the summer. v lowa Woman’s Double Crim?. in Mason Uity. lowa. Mrs. H. B. Tn ntjre arose from her bed and shot her liustmud twice through the head, and after making sure that her husband was dead she then killed herself. The six i-iiildren were awakened only in time to extinguish a fire which had caught in the clothing of their mother, but her body had already -Ix-eu badly burned. She was temporarily insane. Railway Train Kurneil Up. A south-bound freight train on the Ohio Kiver Railroad ran through a tem porary trestle in process of erection Dear Point Pleasant. \V. Va. The engine and live ears went through and tlie ears took fire and were destroyed. Engineer dohn Pmoock of Parkersburg remained on his engine and was killed. Cats III* Wile'* Throat. At Plainfield, Conn., Frank Matthew miu, aged 40, rut lws wife's throat aud attempted to kill himself. The woman is not ex pee ted to live, hut it is thought that Matthewson will recover. Matthew stui was under the infiuenee of liquor. Two Burned to Death. lauiis Miller's saloon and howling alley on State street. Batavia. X. Y„ were b timed and George Lawrence, the Bur trader. aged 114. and Fred Hack, a labor er. aged 51 years, who slept in the build ing, were burned to death. Collision on the Illinois Central. A bead-end collision occurred at Wood bine. lowa, on the Illinois Central forty utiles north of Omaha, between a through express and a local passenger. An engi neer was killed and four other persons badly injured. _ Great Paper* Merced. The Indianapolis Press has ceased pub lication. having been absorbed by the In d tana polls News. Bold Robbery in Toledo. A lone robber held up the Collinwood lbami,vy. in the heart of the fashiona ble residence section of Toledo, Ohio. Keeping the clerk at bay with a revolver for nearly two hours, he searched the store for cash, getting SUO. besides a quantity of the more expeusive drugs. Island Oct* Free Trade. Free trade between Porto Rico and the Fuited States will l*e established after July 1. the local assembly having passed a tax law to meet necessities of the gov ernment. Mrs. Nation Is Fine.l SSOO. Mrs. Carrie Nation, who was in Kan sas City arrested for obstructing the streets, was tilled SSOO and given eight hours to leave the city. Fifteen minutes later she boarded a street car for Kan sas City. Kau. Pending her absence from Missouri the collection of the fine will not be enforced. Fire in a Detroit Factory. In lletroit tire practically destroyed the plant of the L'nited States Wood Chemical Company and caused a loss of at least $40,000 to the company. The concern manufactured umbrella handles, -aaes and novelties from wood pulp by a secret process. Mob Attack* a Policeman. A mob of a dozen men and women at tacked Patrolman Wiilridge of Omaha with pitchforks and clubs when he at tempted to arrest two men for dumping gaHvtge inside the city limits. Woolridge drew his revolver and shot of the men. Charles Ross, in the leg. Bis Hosiery Factory Burns. Fire destroyed the new plant of the Barnesvilie, Ohio. Hosiery Company, causing a loss of SOO,OOO. Just k>w the tire originated is a mystery. More than iUO employes are thrown out of work. It is not likely that the factory will be re built. TRADE SHOWS LARGE GAINS. Government Report on Wheat an Indi cation of Continued Prosperitr. “The tone of general badness has been 1 better this week. Marked activity iu the distribution of merchandise is reflect ed in the gains of 45.0 per cent in bank clearings at New York, compared with 1900. Even the textile markets show pro nounced gain. Activity in the metals division has taken pig iron production to near record figures, aud some dealers do not see how production of partly finished forms this year is to lie made to meet the demand. The government report of the condition of wheat on April 1 is the sur est possible basis upon which expecta tion of continued commercial prosperity could be founded. Stringency of money is largely local in New York, and does not alter reports from most of the larger cities of favorable conditions in collec tions, ’’ according to It. G. Dun Co.’s review of trade. “Textile fabrics are in better position, although improvement is slight and confined to a few special lines. Failures for the week numbered 205 in the United States, against 195 last year, and 24 in Canada, against 41 last year.” FOUR INJURED BY EX PLUS. ON. St. Lonis Drue Store Is Wrecked in - Mysterious Manner. Four people were injured, a building almost wrecked, a drug store demolished and considerable excitement created by an explosion in the drug store of Dr. John L. Cassilly. at Broadway and Brooklyn street, St. Lonis. Dr. Cassilly was hurled through the glass door of the store into the street, a distance of thirty feet. Mrs. Emma Biekel, Mrs. Nettie Habrugger and Mrs. Margaret Kist were standing in front of the store, waiting for a street car, when the explosion came, and were slightly hurt. Dr. Cassilly c-c-uid not explain the explosion. He said he weLt into the rear room to poke up the fire in the stove. A spark fell into a box of matches and they ignited a pile of paper. He attempted to smother it and remembers nothing more, as he was knocked unconscious. HANGS IN SIGHT of women. Well-Dressed Man Commits Suicide in Kansas City Yard. A well-dressed man called at several residences in Kansas City aud tried to borrow a revolver, a ra:-or or a butcher knife. Failing to secure any of these weapons, he entered a back yard, tore down a clothesline, walked to a small tree near by and, knotting one er.d about his neck and another to a limb, drew up his knees and slowly strangled to death. A hundred people whose attention had been attracted by the man’s attempt to borrow a weapon saw the proceeding, but they were all women. They set up a gen eral screaming and their shouts brought George Dean from his work. He cut the rope and let the man to the ground. He was still alive, but died while Dean was trying to revive him. Nothing that would establish the man’s identity was found in his pockets. GIPSIES FIGHT WITH I OSSE. Oue Killed ami Three Wounded During Battle in Pennsylvania. In a tight on the mountains near Lilly, Pa., between a band of gypsies and a posse of officers, one gypsy man was kill ed outright, a gypsy woman shot through the shoulder. Division Foreman Titler of Gallitzin was wounded in the mouth, and Frank Coons, his assistant, was shot through the bowels. Coons is expected to die. The gypsies, accused of thefts, were followed by a constable, who secur ed assistance. On the approach of the posse the gypsies, seeing escape was im possible, made a stand and opened tire. TORN BY MAN-EATING TIGER. “Rajah” Finds a Third Victim at the Indianapolis Zao. Rajah, the Bengal tiger which killed Neiison at Bostoek’s zoo in Indianapolis a few weeks ago and soon afterward caused a panic by getting loose in the arena, has probably added another vic tim to his list iu the person of Frank Bostoek, the zoo proprietor. Even if Bostock’s injuries should not prove fatal he will be crippled for life as a result of a desperate encounter with the beast on Friday. ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS M IFF. Wealthy Farmer at Mason, Ohio, Is Held on Murder Charge. John ?.i Clung, a wealthy farmer of Masi , < Lio, is in custody, charged with the i rder of his wife, who was found dead m her bed with her head crashed. MeClurg aroused Mrs. Baysore, who oc cupies part of his house, and told her Mrs. MeClurg was murdered while he was attending to stock in the barn. At the inquest he said that if he killed his wife he did not know it. City Is Moved Six Inches. A portion of Butte, Mont., believed to embrace the larger part of the big Bill upon which some of the Anaconda mines are located, lias made a very perceptible movement sonthwestward. At the foot of the Anaconda hill the slide pushed the tracks of the street railway line about six inches for a distance of about 500 feet along the road. Fails aud Kills Himself. Bernard Frost, for a number of years a member of the New York Consolidated Stock Exchange, once worth $500,000. committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Soon after taking the acid an an nouncement was made on the floor of the exchange that Frost had failed. Will Build McKinley Hotel. Canton, Ohio, is to have anew $150,- 000 hotel. The site chosen is that on which the Saxton block stood, which was burned last December. President Mc- Kinley has given $5.C00 toward purchas ing the lot. It is proposed to name the hotel the McKinley. Wabash Train Is Wrecked. Wabash passenger train No. 24. south bound, was wrecked at Wilcox, Mo., by running into an open switch. The engine was overturned and the mail car thrown into the ditch. Beyond slight injuries to Engineer Rogerson aud tne fireman from jumping, no one was hurt. To Write an American Novel. Close personal friends of Gen. Lew Wallace are authority for the statement that he designs writing an American novel, and that he will begin the work Just as soon as he completes his "me moirs." upon which he is now engaged. Fire Destroy* a Court House. Anew chapter was added to the county scat war in Montgomery County, Mo., when the court house at lhtnville and n part of the county records were destroyed by fire. It is thought to be the work of au incendiary. Burlington Freights in Cotlisoin. Disregard of orders caused a collision of two Burlington freight trains near Omaha, in which 200 head of live stock were killed. Engineer Hoffman was se verely injured and two eugines and a dozen cars were demolished. General McClure Dead. Gen. Alexander C. McClurg of Chi cago. president of the firm of A. C. Mc- Clurg & Cos., book publishers, died at St. Augustine. Fla. Death was caused by Bright's disease. Bank Robber* Secure Nothin*. The Marion State Bank at Marion Junction. S. I).. was wrecked by robbers. Owing to an overcharge the money chest was wedged and the robbers seenred nothing. The bank was fully insured. Border Bandit Killed. “Red" Weaver, a well-known border character and a reputed member of the famous "Black Jack" gang of bauuits. has been killed at Alma, N. M. Prof. Herron to Wed Again. Mrs. E. 1). Rand aud Mi-< Carrie E. Baud have sold their property in Grin tiell, lows, end will return to New York at once. On good authority it is said that Miss Rand and Prof. George D. Herron will be matried in a few weeks. The judge who a few weeks ago granted Mrs. Herron a divorce from her husband re fused to sign the decree until the check for SOO,OOO aiimony was in his hands. TELLS OF BANK ROBBERY. Indiana Convict Clears Up a Mystery ' of SeJalia, Mo. The mystery surrounding the theft of SIO,OOO in greenbacks from the Bank of Commerce of Sedalia, Mo., Aug. 1, 189S. has been cleared by a convict named Freeman, now iD Michigan City, Ind., penitentiary. His story has been corrob orated by Chief of Police Love of Seda lia. According to Freeman, the theft was committed by Irwin Gamble, a pro fessional bank sneak, who entered the vault of the Bank of Commerce at the noon hour and got away with the money while Freeman watched outside. At Em poria, Kan., Gamble ran away with $9,- 000 of the money, and has not been seen since then. Freeman says his only rea son for confessing is that he has almost a life sentence before him to serve for nearly killing a fellow convict. MILO HUGHES PROVES A HERO. Eight-Year-Old Boy Prevents a Rail way Disaster. Milo Hughes, aged S years, who lives near the Monon Railroad, about four miles from Frankfort, Ind.. was walking along the creek near his home the other evening and when he neared the railroad bridge discovered that it was in flames. He knew the south-bound local freight was about due. and ran with all speed to meet it. He succeeded in stopping the train, which was running at a high rate of speed to keep ahead of a passenger train only a few moments behind. The trainmen took the little fellow in their arms and kissed and hugged him as they would a baby. Undoubtedly the boy's act not only saved the freight from a frightful wreck, but the passenger train as well. haul by bajnk swindler. ?traug4r Dupes Toronto Institutions by R iising Checks. A bank swindler made a heavy haul in Toronto. A stranger, claiming to live in Halifax, opened an account in the Im perial Bank, depositing SSO. Shortly af terward he presented a cheek for S2O, which was marked by the ledger keeper. Shortly before 1 o’clock during the rush preceding the close, this check, raised to $2,455, was presented to the teller and cashed. The same procedure was adopted at the Bank of Commerce, where a check raised from S2O to $2,900 was cashed. It is believed several other banks were vic timized. DEATH OF A YOUNG PREACHER. Killed by a Train as He Was Starting to Illinois to Marry. Ilev. Edwin J. Oliver, aged 28, pastor of the Evangelical Church at Peru, Ind., while returning from conference, jumped from a Wabash train in front of another and was crushed to death. The accident was due to his haste to catch another train at the croissiug. He had just been transferred to East Germantown by the conference. He was to have departed tlie same night for Aurora, 111., to marry Miss Selfrink, daughter of Rev. J. B. Selfrink. Lawyer Uses His Revolver. Henry \V. Scott, an attorney, formerly of New York City, went in a eab to the house of his father-in-law, in Kansas City, Ivan., and demanded to see his wife, who left him some time ago. Mrs. Scott refused to see her husband, who there upon drew a revolver and.fired five shots through the door, injuring no one. He was arrested. Woman Given a Life Term. Mrs. Margaret Hossack of Indianalo, lowa, wife of a wealthy farmer, was found guilty of the murder of her hus band on the night of Dec. 1, 1900, and sentence was fixed by the jury at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Three Killed at a Crossing. A party of four persons, while crossing tlie tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at South Wilkesbarre, Pa., were run down by the Buffalo express going north. Three of the party were killed and one injured. Mob Destroys a Pesthonse. At BradforJ, Pa., a mob composed of 300 men and women destroyed a large two-story school house which had been fitted up as a temporary pesthouse to ac commodate smallpox patients. Plot to Kill Kruger. “The police of this city,” says an Am sterdam correspondent, “recently learned of a contemplated attempt upon the life of Mr. Kruger. One of the persons ar rested is said to have made a confession.” Drops Dead in a Livery stable. Richard Hardy of Brooke County, W. Ya.. walked into a livery stable at Steu benville, Ohio, and said, “I'm not drunk,” and fell over dead. Will Reopen the Old Mines. After being closed for a decade, the famous silver mines of Tombstone, Ariz., will soon be reopened, because -of the in creased demand for silver. Col. John R. Mnsick Tea:!. Col. John It. Musick, prominent in Mis souri and the West ns a novelist, maga zine writer and politician, died suddenly in Omaha of heart disease. Seventy Chinese Drowned. A special dispatch from Hongkong says two Chinese steamers came into collision between Canton and Wu-Chow. and that seventy Chinese were drowned. Plan n New Campaien, Active negotiations are in progress be tween the United States and Great Brit ain relative to the Isthmian Canal treaty. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.00 to $5.90; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $0.20; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2. 42c to 43c; oats. No. 2,25 c to 20c; rye. No. 2. 4Sc to 49c; butter, choice creamery. 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, lie to 12c; potatoes, 34c to 37c per bushel. In lianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to ss.i t; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.95; sheep, common to prime. $3.00 to $4.00: wheat. No. 2. 09c to 70c: corn. No. 2 white. 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 white. 2Se to 20c. St. l.ouis—Cattle. $3.25 to SS.SO; hogs. $3.00 to $005; -sheep, $3.00 to $4;50; wheat. No. 2. GSc to 09c; eorn. No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats. No. 2. 20c to 27c; rye. No. 2,53 cto 54c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.15: hogs. $3.00 to $0.10: sheep. $3.00 to $4.35: wheat. No. 2. 75c to 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 44c to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 27c to 2Se: rye. No. 2. 53c to 54c. Detroit—Cattle. $2.50 to $4.75; hogs. $3.00 to $5.90: sheep. $2.50 to $4.00: wheat. No 2. 73c to 74c; eorn. No 2 yellow, 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 30c: rye. 54c to 55c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixed. 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 43c to 44c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 20c to 27c: rye. No. 2,49 c to 50c; clover seed, prime. $0.50 to SO.OO. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 northern. 71c to 72c. corn. No. 3,42 cto 43c; oats. No. 2 white. 2sc to 29c; rye. No. 1. 52c to 54c: barley. No. 2. 50c to 57c; pork. n:. <s, $14.25. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers. $3.00 to S*.so: hogs, fair to prime. $3.00 to $0.30; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $5.00: lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.75. New York—Cattle. $3.75 to $5.05; hog*. $3.00 to $0.40; sheep, S3OO to* $5.25; w heat. No. 2 mi, TOC to • 7c; corn. No. 2. 4V to 41 e: oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; . alter, creamery, 20c to 21c; t ggs west ern, 13c to 14c. BANKERS WARNED. TREASURY DEPARTMENT ASKS AID TO AVERT PANIC. Unless Speculative Craze Is Stopped financial Disaster Is Feared—Dan ger in the Withdrawal of Money from the Regular Channels of Trade. United States treasury officials are concerned about the result of the over speculation in Wall street. A Washing ton correspondent says that they have re ported the matter to the President, and the influence of the Treasury Depart ment is being exerted mor,e and more to induce the New York banks to act in a more conservative manner. Treasury people talked with say .that while there is no doubt iu regard to the general com mercial prosperity of the country, there is cause for alarm in the conditions mani fested iu Wall street. There has been, these officials say, a perfect mania for the organization of trusts, and the securities of These mam moth corporations have been dealt in with feverish activity on the Stock Ex change. The Treasury Department is not at ail concerned about ordinary stock jobbing schemes, so far as they affect the specu lating element only. The financial offi cers of the government have been preach ing conservatism for some time. They say there has been a large overcapitaliza tion in many of the industrial enterprises, ati.l a day of reckoning is ceitain when an effort is made to squeeze the water our. of these securities. The thing which is troubling the treas ury officials is not the fact that there has been frantic speculation in Wall street, but rather the fact that money which be longs to legitimate commercial enter prises has been diverted into the avenues of speculation. This money must get back into the ordinary channels some how, and a great fear is expressed by the treasury people that a possible panic on Wall street may have a serious ef fect upon general business. An official says: “The Treasury Depart- HEROINE OF PEKIN TO MARRY ARMY OFFICER. The engagement of Miss Mary Conger Tierce to Lieut. Harold Hammond of the Ninth United States infantry, is the result of a romance growing out of the memorable siege of Pekin. Miss Pierce is a niece of United States Minister E. H. Conger, and for a number of years has been a member of his household. She was with the Congers during the siege and the boys of the Ninth were the first to bring relief to the little party of foreigners. No wonder that they were looked upon with special favor and rightfully regarded as the saviors of the help less band. Miss Pierce is now on her way to this country with Minister Conger’s family, and will soon become the bride of her soldier lover. nient is exerting its influence to stop this pouring of good money into the Wall street rathole, blit it -is not accomplish ing much as yet. The safest tiling per haps is for the large Western banks not to remit quite so freely to New York, but rather to accumulate an unusual sur plus in anticipation of the crop moving time, when money will be in demand by their customers, but will be not so easy to get out of tiie vaults of the New Y ork banks.” FACTS ABOUT : : : : : : THE CENSUS. Over one-quarter of the entire popula tion of the country is found in the large cities. The population of Birmingham, Ala., has increased from 3,080 in 1880 to 38,- 415 in 1900. Not counting the national capital, there are 44 towns and cities bearing the name of Washington. * It is estimated that there are 84,400 persons in the service of tlie United States stationed abroad. In 1900 there were 78 cities of 50,000 inhabitants or more as compared with 5S in 1890 and 35 in 1880. New York city is growing in popu lation at the rate of 99,000 a year, ac cording to the latest municipal figures. The population of Greater New York is greater than that of all .Missouri, the fifth State of the Union, iu rank of popu lation. Only one State has over 7,000,000 in habitants—New Y'ork. Pennsylvania is alone in the class between 0,000,000 and 7,000,000. In ISSO there were but 20 cities which contained more than 100,000 inhabitants, but in 1890 this number had increased to 28, and iu 1900 to 38. Pennsylvania and Delaware are the only ones among the original States at the" present time holding the same rela tive rank in population as in 1790. There are three Springfields in the list of the 159 largest cities: Springfield, Mass., ranks GO, in that number: Spring field, Ohio, id: and Springfield, 111., 11G. Georgia has made the most notable leap among the original States in the matter of rank, being eleventh in 1790. and fourth now among the original States. The absolute increase in the population of the 159 largest cities from 1890 to 1900 was 4.839.130, or 82.420 less than the alt solute increase from 1880 to 1890, when it was 4.921,502. In 1790 there were only 6 cities of over 8.000 inhabitants; not even a village west of the Alleghenies had a place on the census roll, and even in the East there was no Jersey City, Newark or Wash ington. Auburn. N. Y.. comes within one of the population of Montgomery, Ala. Harris burg. l*a.. and Portland. Me., are not far from a tie in population, the former having but 22 more inhabitants than the latter. Texas in area is t> times larger than the State i.f New York. 7 times as large as Ohio aud 02,000 square miles larger than Germany. Its gross area amounts to 252.514 -quare miles, or 101.008,900 acres. Georgia's present population is 27 times what it was in 1790. The nearest ap proach t-i this am <ng the 13 States is in the ease of New York, whose population is about 21 times what it was when the first national census was taken. While New York State i- first it. point of population, it is seventh in miles of railroad, according to one authority. Illi- the third in population, is the great est raiiroad State, with nearly 11.000 miles of track. Pennsylvania is second, both in population and in railroad tracks. In Holland they deny the report that President Kruger will \tsit the l'nited States. NICARAGUA ROUTE FAVORED. Isthmian Canal Commission Is Unani mous in Its Report. The isthmian canal commission, which has been engaged for two years in in vestigating the several canal routes to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, has completed its report. The commis sion is unanimously and emphatically in favor of the Nicaragua route, though a canal by that route will cost $-10,000,000 or $50,000,000 more than to complete the Panama canal. The commission found many difficulties in the way of accepting the Panama canal, both in construction and in the concession. It would be impossible for the Panama Canal Company to dispose of its fran chise to any other government. It would also be impossible for Colombia to grant anew concession to the United States. The commission could find no way possi ble for this government’s taking up the Panama canal. It therefore recommends the construction of the Nicaragua canal, and gives the estimates for its cost. The estimated cost of the canal is $200,540,- 000. This is for a canal suitable for navigation by the largest ships now in ex istence. If a single lockage system only were provided the cost would be reduced by $10,078,000, and a further reduction of $10,049,000 could be made by narrow ing the bottom width one-third in all the excavated channels. These reductions would bring the estimated cost of the canal down to $103,913,000. IMPORTANT RLHJNG ON DIVORCE Supreme Court Decides Cases Involv ing Dakota and Other Decrees. Hundreds of divorces granted by the courts of the Dakotas and other States where there has been a similar laxness in judicial matters, many of the decrees having been obtained by residents of Chicago, have been declared invalid by the Supreme Court of the United States. One of the most notable cases of dis tress expected to result from the ruling is that of James G. Blaine, whose en gagement to Miss Iliehborn of Washing ton was announced recently. The Dakota decrees are not the only ones that are upset by any means, for in nearly every State in the Union de crees have been granted to plaintiffs whose legal places of residence were in other States. In hundreds of these cases, it is asserted, subsequent marriages are invalid. The court held practically that in cases in which the decree is granted in States where the husband and wife have made their legal residence it is valid in any part of the United States, but that in oth er cases in which there is no legal resi dence in the State in which the decree is granted they are invalid. Opinions were handed down by Justice Gray de claring invalid the divorces in the cases of Bell vs. Bell and Streilworf vs. Streii worf. In the eases of Bell vs. Bell, involving the validity of a decree granted to the husband in Pennsylvania, and in that of Streilworf vs. Streilworf concerning a de cree granted to the husband in North Dakota, the decrees were declared in valid because neither the husband nor the wife had domicile in the State in which the divorce was granted. In the case of Atherton vs. Atherton the court sustained a decree granted in Kentucky, where the parties had resided as husband and wife, after the wife had left the husband and gone to the home of her parents in New York. The case was brought up through the wife’s counter proceedings for divorce in the latter State. The decision of the lower court is overruled and the Kentucky decree is to be valid in New York. ONE OF THOSE PUZZLE PICTURES. Here is the man who sold the Easter hat, the Husband who got the bill and the Bachelor who pays no millinery bills. Can you pick the Husband? Odd* and F.ods. Capt. W. T. Hord of the navy is dead, Washington. London dispatch says Olga Xethersole has cancer. The property of the Catholic missions in Shanghai is rained at $2,000,000. A glass iamp combine is impending. The capital of the trust will >e $10,000,- 000. Australian elect ons resulted in the re turn of a Senate with a free trade ma jority and a House of Representatives that is largely protectionist. The peaceful Doukobbors are the Qua kers of Russia. They are opposed to all wars. It is in their belief that Tolstoi made his impassioned appeal. Many ox the Doukobbors are emigrating to Can ada. It is proposed to illuminate the Yo semite Falls, 2.000 feet in height, by use of twenty arc lights in connection with means for producing color effects. Some of the roads are also to be lighted with electricity. The mother of Gov. Beckham of Ken tucky has a remarkable record. She has the unprecedented distinction of having been the mother of a Governor, the daughter of a Governor, the sister of a Governor and the cousin of a Governor. It is represented that game in Maine is dying out. by reason of the long, cold winter. There have been heavier snows in the State this year than for a long time. CONDITION OF CROPS. WEATHER BUREAU'S WEEKLY AG RICULTURAL REPORT. Weather Abnormally Cool and Unfav orable for Germination and Growth- Farm Work KetarUeJ in Some Sec tions by Rains. The weekly crop report of the weather bureau shows that over the greater part of the country east of the Kooky Moun tains the week has been abnormally coo! and unfavorable for germination and growth. Excessive rains retarded farm work in the States of the middle Rocky Mountain slope aad lower Missouri val ley, while a large part of the lake region, southern Florida and California need rain. With the exception of portions of the lake region, Florida, Texas and California, there is generally ample mois ture in the soil, and the conditions now most needed, especially in the central valleys and middle Atlantic States, are sunshine and warmth. In Texas, where it has been very dry, good rains have fallen over the eastern and central por tions of the State. Slow progress has been made with corn planting, none having yet been planted north of the Ohio river or farther north than southerly Missouri to the westward. Poor stands are generally reported in the Southern States, where the bulk of the crop has been planted, and a portion is under cultivation. Nearly all reports from the winter wheat States show that winter wheat has made favorable progress, although its growth has not been rapid, owing to low temperatures. In Texas the crop has been materially improved where rains have fallen, but in that State, as well as in Oklahoma, the crop has been seriously damaged by insects. On the Pacific coast the condition of the crop continues promising, with the exception of the late sown in California, which is suffering for rain. Spring wheat seeding is well advanced over the southern portion of the spring wheat region, and some has been sown on the highlands in northern Minnesota. In South Dakota the early sown is germi nating web’. Oat seeding has been rapid ly pushed in portions of the central val leys, some having been sown as far north as southern Minnesota and Now York, but slow progress has been made ill Ken tucky and portions of Missouri. Although some cotton has been planted in the northern portion of the cotton belt, and planting is general in the central and southern districts, the cool weather has retarded this work, and that planted is germinating slowly. In Virginia, the Carolinas and Kentucky tobacco plants are very backward, but in Maryland they are in a more thrifty condition. While light frosts hecurred as far South as Tennessee and the Carolinas, no injury to fruit is, reported in the districts east of the Kockv .Mountains; the gen eral fruit outlook continues very promis ing. The effects of the frosts of the pre vious week to deciduous fruits in Cali fornia, while serious, were less damaging than first estimated. In southern Ore gon fruit has suffered considerably from frosts, but iu Washington frosts have done but little damage, the buds having been held in check by cool weather. ACID-THROWER’S VICTIM. Wv % MISS LILLIAN HAWKINS. Miss Lillian Hawkins lives in Ashta bula, Ohio, and attempts have been mys teriously made on her life on several oc casions. Recently she was i;a)led to the door and a cup of carboliceaTid dashed into her face, disfiguring her for life. GIVES TIPS ON HEIRESSES. Matrimonial Bureau Keeps English Noblemen Informed. Several English noblemen, unmarried, have received circulars from Paris ask ing them to subscribe to a matrimonial agency which appears to deal chiefly in American heiresses. For a subscription of a sovereign a month the subscriber is entitled to accurate information regard ing the personal characteristics and finan cial prospects of any American girl re garding whom lie may inquire. The agency also keeps him posted as to the names of heiresses who are still “in the market,” and for an extra fee will se cure an introduction to the desired one. In excepfftffial cases, where there is a fair prospect of getting the money hack with liberal interest, the agency will pro cure someone to "grub stake” the noble adventurer while he is engaged in his quest for a wealthy wife. It is rumored that a number of impecunious individu als, with handles to their names, wilT be "grub staked” to America this year to prospect for matrimonial pay ore. Notes of Current Events. Mexico buys all of its shears and sharp edged tools from the United States. Formosa now has a railway about twenty-eight miles long, connecting Tai nan. with Takao. High school has been established in Autoloma, Tatuila, Samoa, under Amer ican supervision. Among the women who registered for the spring election at Qttawn, Kan., ia "Aunty’’ Lewis, 116, colored. In boring for oil at Beaumont, Texas, it is reported that a vein of pure sulphur seventy feet thick was discovered. The Hungarian government has forbid den the practice of hypnotism, except by medical men and under special permis sion. To display a crest in stationery and plate in England costs each family a tax of a guinea a year. About 40.000 people pay it. Buttons and trimmings to the value of $1,083,800 were imported into the Unit ed States from Paris in a single quarter last year. In Atchison County. Kan., a farmer's wife sold SI,OOO worth of butter last year. Another one sold SSG4 worth of butter and eggs. Frank Trout. 17, Magnetic Springs. 0.. burned to death. Brother and' sister locked him in and went to town to do some shopping. Tampico is the big i-ort of Mexico. About . ne-fonrth of tin products that en ter th* republic find t&eir way tbrongb this fine harbor. Government experts who were sent to San Frgncisco report that there were twenty-two cases of plague there, all Chinese, last year. About $6,000 has been subscribed tc the fund to buy Admiral Schley a home, at Wasbingten. It's expected that $13.- 000 will be raised. While Spain held Cuba and Porto Rier coffee raising was a prohibited industry. Now that these islands have passed from her. she Is encouraging coffee tret plant ing at non.*. SOUTH AMERICAN INGRATITUDE. Seems Plainly Illustrated in Our Dis pute with Venezuela. The relations of the United States and Venezuela have ceased’to be friendly and to emphasize its displeasure with the offensive attitude of the South American republic this government has recalled its minister, Frank B. Loomis. Various pre texts are assigned for this action, but the true reason undoubtedly is that Presi dent McKinley and his advisers desired to administer an open rebuke to the Ven ezuelans. The affair, a Washington cor respondent declares, will amount to noth ing more than a “tempest in a teapot,” but it is significant in that it shows the ingratitude of the Latin-American. Duly a few years ago this country nearly in volved itself in war with Great Brituin PRESIDENT CASTRO. in order to protect Venezuelan rights. At the first opportunity they slap us in the face. The rupture of friendship is due to a dispute over the ownership of certain asphalt property in the Laguayre region of Venezuela. One American syndicate, the New York and Bermudez Company, paid $40,000 for a claim. After the Ven ezuelan government had accepted this, there was a change of administration. Gen. Castro coining to the presidency, found the treasury depleted. He did not hesitate, for a consideration, to recognize the claim of the rival syndicate, the War ner-Quinlan-Sullivan Combination. Sub sequently the New York-Bermudez Com pany was informed that upon the pay ment of $400,000 it could have the claims for which it had previously paid $40,000 without deriving any benefit. The Amer ican government took no part in the con troversy, but notified Venezuela that the dispute should be settled in the / courts. Meanwhile sSGfr there were riots in | ,<}' the asphalt region . Y in which Americans l suffered personal -/HL injuries. Americans ri V K in the large cities fL \|rjY J were ill treated in various ways and /ft several warships were sent to Cara ministkki.oomis cas as a warning to the Venezuelans that our government was aware of what was going on and was not indifferent. The South Americans showed their resentment of this mne by refusing to admit consular supplies free of duty. I.ike action was taken by our government respecting the entrance of Venezuelan consular supplies into this country. There have been other manifes tations of an unfriendly spirit, and the recall of Minister Lootnis was the nat ural outcome. It is not to be supposed that there will he a permanent rupture of diplomatic relations, The United States government ennnot afford to go to war over this matter. It would he like a big mastiff attacking a mongrel cur. But Something has to be done to make the Venezuelans understand that they must maintain a more respectful attitude to ward the United States. MRS. J. A. LOGAN EXPLAINS INACCURACIES. Mrs. John A. Logan, speaking of the alleged anachronisms in the has-reliefs on the base of the Logan monument re cently dedicated in Washington, says: “No one supposes that it was not known to the sculptor, the statue com mission and myself that Vice-President Arthur did not administer the oath to Gen. Logan as Senator; that Senator Morton was dead and that Senator Thur- MBS. JOHN A. LOGAN. man was not in the Senate when Gen. Logan was sworn in for his second term. Of course we all know this, hut we dis regarded it because we wanted these panels to portray the most prominent men in the history of the country who were in the Senate during the sixteen years that my husband was a Senator. “It would have been absurd to have reproduced literally the gronp at the Vice-President’s desk when Gen. Logan took the oath of office. The selection of those who were to be represented on those panels was left to me and 1 tried to select men who served at some time with Gen. Logan and were representa tives of the country’s history.” FILIPINOS LOSE 60,000. Estimate of War Department Includes Deaths in Battle and bv Disease. The Philippine war has resulted in heavy losses of men, arms and supplies to the Filipinos. It is estimated by the War Department that at least 50.000 of the natives who have been fighting against American authority have been killed in battle or by disease. In his annual report for 1890 Maj. Gen. Otis, thgn in command of the archi pelago, said that “Aguinaldo’s concentrat ed army Was variously estimated at from 20,000 to 30.000 men. Officials of the War Department now adroit that while this estimate may have been true of the army proper, it is certainly not true of the strength of the Filipino forces throughout the insurrection, as disaffec tion resulting from Aguinaldo’s efforts and his impressment of natives caused large additions to his command. For the twenty-seven months ending Nov. 30 last the total number of Fili pinos captured or surrendered was 13.408 officers and men and the number of rifics turned in 4.933. Since Nov. 30 last (J.OOO officers and men have been captured or surrendered and 2,734 rifles have been delivered to or captured by American troops. NEERASKA’S NEW SENATORS. o #w CHAS. B. DIETKICIt JOS. H- XILI.A&S (Sion Tern,). {Lota Teno>. Army officers are criticising the Logan statue quitA severely. They say that his position in the saddle is altogether un military, that one leg is longer than the other, and that no officer ever carried a. sword in the way that Logan is repre sented to have carried his. Congress man Lnmlis of Indiana severely criti cises the pedestal of the statue. Re ferring to the tablet on the east side of the pedestal, which represents Logan be ing sworn in as a United States Senator,, the oath being administered by Vice- President Arthur, Mr. Landis says: “The scene it portrays is entirely fictitious. Mr.. Arthur was elected Vice-President in ISSO, taking his seat March 4. 1881. Gen. Logan was then a Senator, having taken his seat iu 1879, when, of course, he wr sworn iu, Mr. Wheeler of New York be ing Vice-President. Unless Logan for some mysterious reason took the oath a second time Mr. Arthur could not have administered it to him. Besides Arthur ami Logan the tablet bears the figures of Mr. Culiom, William M. Evnrts and lioscoe Conkliug of New York; Oliver P Morton and Daniel Voorhees of Indiana; John F. Miller of California, and Allen G. Thurman of Ohio. They are repre sented as Senators looking on at Arthur swearing in Logan. Of course this must have been in 1881, as he presided over the Senate only at its special session in the spring of that year. Culiom was not then a Senator, but Governor of Illinois. Evarts was not a Senator till several years later. Morton had been dead more than three years; Thurman retired with the end of legislative day, March 3. The persons represented as being present at this fictitious scene who bad a right to be there as Senators, if it had really occur red, were Conkliug, Voorhees, who suc ceeded Morton, and Miller.” Old soldiers who wish to fake up home steads upon the opening of the Indian reservation in Oklahoma will do well, in the opinion of the land office officials, to file their own claims nud attend to all the business themselves rather than trust their interests to agents. It is reported in Washington that agents are going about making contracts with veterans to represent them and file their claims, and are charging a fee in advance and a sec ond to he paid after tiling the claim; but an ageiit can serve only one client prop erly, unless he calls into service a large force of assistants, which they are not likely to do and cannot afford to do for the small fees charged. There is no ob jection to an agent making entries for any number of veterans, hut he will bo compelled to stand in line with other op plicauts and will not be allowed to file more than two claims at a time. When these have been filed he must step out and take his place at the end of the line again. It is reported that some agents have already accepted fees from several hundred old soldiers and no man can do justice to so many, it will be seen, there fore, that it would be much better for everybody to look out for himself. The Secretary of War has called for bids from private steamship companies for furnishing transportation for the gov ernment between New York, Cuba and Porto Rico. The idea is to see whether it is more economical to patronize them than to continue the present transport service, which is expensive. The dock charges alone amount to $400,000 a year. During tlu; last three months 1,270 pas sengers and 5.720 tons of cargo were car ried by the transports, and the quarter master’s department knows the exact cost, which has been very large, a singlcr voyage costing from $12,000 to $15,000. Bids are invited for the next three months upon the basis of the passenger* and freight carried during the last three months, and if a large saving cen be ef fected the transport service will he aban doned and the private steamships will be patronized. For some reason our commerce with Cuba is falling off. During the last nine months the imports of Cuba amounted to $53,108,702, while for the corresponding months of the previous year,they were valued at $54.(130,747. .Last year the share of the United States was $28,094,- 030, or about 50 per cent, while this year it waif only $24,525,009, or about 40 per cent. The exports to Porto Rico and tw the Philippine Islands, however, are in creasing in a rapid manner. The follow ing !ittl,e table will show the exports front the I nited States to Culm, Porto Rico and the Philippines during the eight months eliding Feb. 28 for the last six years: Cuba. I’orto Itlco. Philippines. 18JK! $ 5,4211,18!) 51,454,417 $ 82,83* 18!l7 5,404.777 1.389.287 KB,dll 1808 7,080,323 1,200,067 00.235 1880 10,142,040 1.820,003 117,021 1000 17.172.472 2.210,721 1,701,403 11)01 17,280,752 4,205,053 2,707,881 Marconi. Ilie inventor of wireless teb>g rnphy, is in Washington for the purpose of selling his apparatus to the govern incut. He called on the Secretary of the Navy and offered to place an outfit upon the ships in the fleet for $12,000 each. No such arrangement can be made with out the consent of Congress, and by thc time Congress meets it is expected that the electrician of the weather bureau will have developed a method of wireless tele graphy quite as good as Marconi’s. The* electricians of the signal service are also at work in the same line, utid the Seere tnry <*f the Navy is now getting ready for a series of experiments at Newport. It is probable that a bill will be intro duced into the next Congress giving a pension of $5,000 to the widow of Gen Ha rrison. It is understood here that she is left with about SIOO,OOO aad her home at Indianapolis, which is ample for her support in that city, hut Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Garfield both receive pension* of $5,000, and Mrs. Harrison may feel that she is equally entitled to one. When Congressman Sullowny of New Hampshire, Patrick Henry of Missouri and Berry of Kentucky met in the House restaurant a few days ago, someone re marked that there was "nearly twenty one feet of Congressmen there.” Each of the men named is over six feet in height, Mr. Sulloway being 6 feet S inches. Brief Sewn Items. Daniel Willard has become general manager of the B. & O. There is tea grown and gathered ii* Japan that sells for as much as $lO a pound. It is estimated that the 133,000 Ameri cans who visited Europe last year spent there $60,000,000. Minnesota farm lands have advanced more than 100 per cent in value during the last seven years. A tract of brush land thirty miles long and ten miles wide' was burned n.*ar Melbourne, Australia. An agricujtural settlement near New York supplies the Chinese of the Eastern States with their diet. King Edward has visited Ireland sever* times. On the occasion of his first visit he was in his eighth year. * The Province of Asturias. Spain, ha* no fewer than twenty-eight centenarians it* n total population of 6OO.o'#>. Bishop Bovd Vincent has admitte- ——s. Sarah Cook Brad well as a deaconess ia St. Paul's Church, Chillicotbe. Ohio. John Pollard, a hell ringer in Lanca shire, bora, in the same year with Vic toria. rang his bells for her coronation and for each of her birthdays and tolled U<em at her death.