NEWSOFNORTHWEST
WASBINGTON, 10180, MONTANA
AND OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country—Numerous Acci
dents and Personal Events Take
pi ac e —Fall Trade Is Good.
IDAHO NEWS.
Mattle Dodson, who had the fingers
of her right hand horribly scalded and
mangled three weeks ago by having
them caught in the mangle at a Lew
iston laundry, has lost all four fin
gers of her right hand.
Word was received at the peni
tentiary recently that Tom Taylor,
released from prison there last Octo
ber. after serving a long term, is
again in custody at Seattle for the al
leged killing of a fellow waiter in a
dispute over the division of a $5 tip
given by the Chinese commissioners
during their recent visit in Seattle.
Arrangements are being made on
an elaborate scale for the dedication
on March 27 of the new and hand
some Masonic temple just completed
in Walla Walla city.
The demand for good medium sized
work horses is now greater through
out the Big Bend than it has ever
before been since the country was
transformed from a horse range into
a wheat country.
The contract for constructing the
extension of the Spokane & Inland
electric road from Palouse to Moscow,
a distance of 16 miles, is to be let
within a short time and the road com
pleted this year.
The celebrated divorce case of Ag
nes Loretta Day versus Millionaire
Rufus Day will take place in Wallace.
William Pannon, C. F. Buckey and
S. M. Mintborn have bought from Miss
Mary Kroh and Mrs. Eva K. Hanna a
fi4o acre ranch in the Tammany coun
try for $11,650.
The severest wind in years prevail
ed on Coeur d'Alene lake Saturday.
James Banister, a miner at Wallace,
recently stepped into an old stope hole,
covered by a rotten plank, in the
Standard mine, falling 30 feet. A leg
and several bones were broken and
the man hurt internally to such an ex
tent that death may ensue.
Weiser and vicinity were visited by
a remarkable snowstorm Sunday night.
At § o'clock 15 inches had fallen.
P. M. McClain of Clarks Fork says
that a strong effort has been made to
recover the body of Ed Schrieb, who
was drowned in the river at Clarks
Fork a few weeks ago. The water be
ing so cold the body has not risen
and all efforts to raise it have proved
futile.
The handsome east wing of the Ida
ho State Normal school has been com
pleted at a cost of v <i6,790, giving the
school the best training department of
any similar institution in the north
west, providing an auditorium with u
seating capacity of 450 and making
the main building a commodious
structure.
OREGON ITEMB.
Thomas Ferguson, a 75 year old vet
eran, who lived near rnoenix, in Jack
son county, Ore., about ten miles from
Jacksonville, was found lying dead in
his cabin, with a pistol wound through
the head.
Owing to disatisfaction with the
schedule of wool sale dates recently
announced for eastern Oregon, the ex
ecutive committee of the Oregon State
Woolgrowers' association has made
out a new one, as follows:
Pendleton, May 22-23, May 29-30.
Heppner, May 24-25, June 7-8, June
21-28.
Condon. May 31, June 1, June 27-28.
Shaniko, June 5-6, June 19-20, July
10-11.
Baker City, June 25-26, July 12-13.
Elgin, July 13.
The sale for the Wallowa county
*00l has been set for Elgin instead
of the town of Wallowa as previously
set.
William Rice was probably fatally
stabbed by William Hartley in a sa
wn brawl at Huntington late Sunday
afternoon. Rice is a married man, and
was employed in the lumber mills at
feasant Valley. Hartley hails from
»alt Lake City.
Colonel L. L. Hawkins, at one time
president of the Ainsworth National
ank of i»orti an( j g un( j a y 0 f heart
tailure. He was 58 years old. Colonel
*wkins was for several years in
structor in civil engineering and
mathematics at the University of Cali
fornia.
r e, caused, it is believed, from
''garottes in the hands of small boys,
destroyed a square of buildings in the
eart of St John, suburb of Portland,
ast Sunday, doing about $8000 dam
age.
MONTANA SQUIBBS.
eports from all over the state indi-
Th* 6 ° De fi ercest storms of
e winter raged last Sunday at Marys
hi C - Was below with the wind
th°** a a ' e and a f° ot °' snow on
round - the eastern part of
e state the thermometer was below
s^ r °* re Sistering 12 below at Living
,on" , At Havre, usually the coldest
-p^ ce * n state, it was six above,
e snow is general. Livestock men
not look for any losses of stock un-
the storm is of unusual duration.
' ann ouncement made a few
. T 9 at the celebration of Lee
thf> da y by the Daughters of
cha . onfederac y Winnie Davis
Per was considering a plan to
erect a memorial to the memory of
confederate soldiers buried in Mon
tana, has been fonowed by official ac
tion by the chapter. The plan contem
plates the erection of a fountain in a
park in Helena dedicated to the
"Southern Soldier."
The case against Daniel McMillan,
the Butte ma., carrier charged with
secreting a letter, has been concluded
and he entered a plea of guilty. It was
the last criminal case to be tried in
the federal court for the present. He
will serve a year at hard labor at Deer
Lodge.
The clerk of Deer Lodge county has
been ordered to advertise for bids for
tne construction of the Big Hole road
from a point near French gulch to Ral
ston, on the Big Hole river, by the
county commissioners.
The board of county commissioners
at Billings has granted a petition ask
ing for the calling of a special election
to vote on the proposition of adopting
the primary election law passed by the
last legislature as a local option meas
ure. The date of the election will be
May 1».
Thomas Nelson, forean of the
Northern Pacific roundhouse at Man
dan, N. D.. has been appointed master
mechanic at Livingston to succeed J.
H. Sally, wnose resignation took effect
the first of the month.
To the surprise of every one the
county commissioners, at the close of
the regular session at Livingston, an
nounced that the proposition to put in
operation the Waite primary election
law was deieated.
By order of the forest service a small
group o£ reserve south of Bozeman
have been merged into a larger reserve
under the name of the Gallatin forest
reserve, composed of a compact body
of land containing about 850 acres.
M. E. Miller, a Burlington locomotive
fireman, who lives at Sheridan, Wyo.,
was badly scalded by the bursting of a
steam injector pipe in the cab of an
engine recently while at work in the
Northern Pacific roundhouse.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Fourteen convicts were taken to
the penitentiary Saturday by Travel
ing guards Esterbrook and Chalott
and Deputy Sheriff Chet Belding of
Seattle. There are 819 convicts serv
ing sentences at the penitentiary and
24 out on parole.
Jay P. Graves of Spokane has pur
chased the tremendous falls in the Co
lumbia river above Kettle Falls,
Wash., 100 miles north of Spokane,
for $77,000. He expects to develop it
into one of the greatest electric prop
erties in America. Although the falls
are so immense that it is exceedingly
difficult to estimate the flow, there is
believed to be a minimum of 90,000
to 100,000 horse power at low water.
The supreme court, in a decision
handed down recently, sustained the
lower court in finding L. M. Poole of
Spokane guilty of living off the earn
ings of a fallen woman, and in sen
tencing him to five years' imprison
ment.
The North Coast road is not only an
assured fact but it has been definitely
stated by President Robert E. Stra
horn that North Yakima is to be the
main' division point between the two
terminals, Walla Walla and Seattle.
While lying flat on the floor of the
first story of the Merle Heany Manu
facturing company's building, with
their heads projecting over a freight
elevator shaft, directing streams of
water into the basement, where fire
broke out recently Lieutenant Charles
Kirk and Pipeman Herman Larson of
the Seattle fire department, were
caught under the elevator and receiv
ed serious injuries.
The Tacoma republican convention
has nominated for mayor, R. L. Mc-
Cormick; treasurer, Ray Freeland;
comptroller, John Mead.
In response to a request for an
opinion en the subject, Attorney Gen
eral Atkinson has advised the board
of control that the grain bags manu
factured at the Walla Walla peniten
tiary can be sold only to actual con
sumers who are residents of the
state.
A full-fledged opium den, with some
of the paraphernalia still in sight, was
discovered in Seattle recently in a
Chinese laundry.
The supreme court has declared
unconstitutional the so-called pedlers'
licene law of 1905, under the provi
sions of which pedlers were required
to pay a license fee of $200 in each
county in the state in which they car
ried on busines.
Judge Moore, mayor elect of Seat
tle, says he will close all forms of
gambling down tight in Seattle.
The supreme court has rendered a
decision knocking out as unconstitu
tional the plumbers' license law.
The Lewiston-Clarkston company is
employing 125 men laying the new
pipe line from Asotin creek to irrigate
Vineland. Five miles of the work is
finished.
Tumbleweeds and Chinese lettuce
which have been long a pest to far
mers of Harrington section, are re
ported to be worse than ever.
The state land commissioner's of
fice has made the regular monthly set
tlement with the state treasurer with
a total remittance of $137,459.37, the
principal items being the current
school fund collection, $29,381.70; the
permanent school fund, $60,408.71, and
the tide land fund, which goes into
the state's general fund, $45,097.40.
The contract for the construction
jof the new armory building at Spo
kane has been let. Price $55,000.
The supreme court has decided that
where a boundary line between two
tracts of land has been fixed by mu
tual consent between the owners and
remains the recognized dividing line
for a period of 20 years, in fact it
! becomes the actual boundary, not
| withstanding a subsequent govern
i ment survey finds it is wrongly locat
ed.
FEARS COAL STRIKE
OPERATORS REJECT ALL PROPO
SITIONS OF THE MINERS.
Coal Barons Claim If They Raise
Wages They Win Have to Raise
Price of Coal and They Claim the
People Cannct Afford the Raise at
Tnis Time.
The propositions of United Mine
workers ot America for a readjustment
of wages and conditions in the an
thracite coal fields, as a whole have
been rejected by the operators. As a
counter proposition the operators sug
gest that awards made by the an
thracite coal strike's commission, the
principles upon which they are estab
lished by the commission and the
methods established for carrying out
their findings and awards, shall be con
tinued for a further term of tnree years
from the Ist day of April, uuo. The
present agreement terminates March
31 of this year.
Announcement of the anthracite op
erators' decision and their counter
proposition was made in a long formal
statement which was given out for puo
lication. This statement, which in
cludes the correspondence on the sub
jects at issue between President John
Mitchell oi the United Mine workers,
acting ior the miners, and George F.
Baer, president of the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal & Iron company, for tne
operators, discusses the miners' propo
sitions in detail. In every instance tne
contention is made by the operators
either that conditions in the coalfields
do not warrant the change proposed
by the miners, or that the questions at
issue already have been passed upon
by the stride commission.
Cannot Increase Wages.
"We can not increase wages with
out advancing the price of coal and we
are not willing to advance the price
of coal," is the reply to the demand
for a general increase in wages.
In conclusion, the statement says:
"It has been our hope, and we trust
the public expectation as well, that
the effect of the exhaustive investiga
tion and findings of the distinguished
citizens who constituted the anthracite
strike commission would be to estab
lish a just and permanent adjustment
of the relations between tne operators
and their employes. Therefore, we re
ject the suggestion that an entirely
new and untried system should be
made which is only to last one year.
"It is not to aie interest of the em
ployers and employes, nor of the pub
lic, to have the mining business as
well as the general business and com
fort of the people seriously disturbed
by these yearly contentions.
"Neither the public nor the opera
tors can stand these progressive and
enormous increases in the cost of the
production of anthracite coal, followed
necessarily by corresponding increase
in the price.
"It is peculiarly fortunate, there
fore th,at existing conditions have all
been the result'of arbitration by third
persons; that neither pu.'.ty can say
that it has not had due consideration.
There can be no doubt that the good
of all concerned will be served best
by adhering to the results thus
reached."
GOOD SHOWS AT SPOKANE.
Bookings at the Spokane Theater for
the Next Two Months.
The bookings at the Spokane the
ater for February and March are as
follows.
March 13 and 14, "Miss New York,
Jr."
March 18 and 19, "Way Down East."
March 20 and 21, Empire Buries
quers."
March 22 and 23, Paul Gilmore.
March 24, Madame Gadskl.
Out of town people can have seats
reserved for any show in any part
of the theater by sending remittance
to Joseph Petrich, manager.
Among other attractions booked are
the George H. Primrose minstrels,
"The Christian," Blanche Walsh, "Heir
to the Hoorah" and the Roscian Opera
company.
Frightens the Sultan.
Shiek Mahmoud Yohia, the power
ful Arabian rebel whose military alli
ance with a number of the great tribes
in Turkish Arabia, has frightened the
sultan into calling extraordinary meet
ings of his ministry to consider plans
to end the revolt headed by him.
Heavy Snows in Ohio.
Cleveland, Ohio, March 12. —Reports
from Springfield and other towns in
the state say that the Sunday snowfall
reached a depth oi 10 inches, being the
heaviest since the winter of 1893-94.
Cripple Creek Thugs Kill Him.
Cripple Creek, Col., March 13.—
Fred Poeschke, a cigar and confec
tionery dealer, was murdered by three
masked robbers who broke into his
store. The men escaped.
New York Port Collector.
President Roosevelt has announced
that he would reappoint Nevada Stran
ahan as collector of the port of New
York.
Soubrette —I hear the sweet singer
sang a lullaby last night. Was it
realistic?
Comedian —I should say so. Even
the audience went to sleep.—Chicago
News.
PRACTICED W® PHILOSOPHY.
lie Could Sw Misfortune* In Their
Humorous Anpect.
"Thank goodness for a clothes-line!"
exclaimed Eric Gordon, fervently, as he
and his wife were putting the finishing
touches on a week of packing, prepara
tory to moving out of their house.
"That's what the Thurstons would say.
I>id you know they call that room they
live in their 'one-room Hat?' When all
the chair and u\bles are full, they stack
things in a corner and say, "Thank
goodness for a floor!'"
"Mercy!"said the tired-lookijig young
woman who was resting for a minute
on a packing-box. "How do people live
so?"
"Adaptability to circumstances and
the knack of turning the humorous
light on things. They have a mighty
good time—all owing to their philoso
phy. Now isn't it better to rejoice over
your thouglitfulness in forgetting to
pack this clothes-line than it would be
to lament because we've lost that trunk
strap?" He tipped up a trunk, and pro
ceeded to rope it stoutly as he went on:
"If we can acquire the habit of being
amused by things which nag most peo
ple; if we can learn to enjoy lying
awake wheii we can't go to sleep; if
we can look on the noise which dis
turbs us as a kind of music "
"So easy to preach!" murmured his
wife. "Erie, do you know that it's go
ing on midnight? Mother will repent
having asked us to sleep there if we
don't come soon. O Eric, do you know
you've left out that vase on the trunk
behind you?"
"Yes; I couldn't flnd a place where
I dared pack it. I'm going to carry It
in my hands."
"The idea! You think more of that
vase than of everything else we own!"
"Maybe. It's our choicest possession,
I guess." He glanced admiringly over
his shoulder at the rare piece of glass.
Then he asked, abruptly, "How am I
going to cut this rope? I want to put
the rest of it round that box, and John
Blake has walked off with my knife."
"And everything in the house that
might cut is packed, und everybody in
the neighborhood is asleep!"
"Don't you suppose there's any sharp
edged thing lying around?"
"I'm afraid not," she answered, du
biously, and together they made a fruit
less tour of the rooms.
"I might gnaw it," hazarded Gordon,
humorously, picking up the rope and
trying to break it. As he did so his
foot slipped and one arm flew out,
striking the cherished vate behind'him.
With a lunge he reached for it, only
to give it a blow that sent it crashing
Into fragments on the hard tiling of
the hearth.
"O Eric!" gasped Mrs. Gordon, and
waited for him to say the rest.
There was a half-minute of silence.
Then, with a grim twinkle, he picked
up a Jagged bit of the beautiful rain
bow-hued glass.
"Thank goodness for something to
cut this rope with," he said, quietly, be
ginning to saw the clothes-line apart
"There's nothing more to pack now,
Dolly, and we can get right over to
your mother's and have a good night's
sleep."—Youth's Companion.
THE ISLAND OF PATMOS.
Where St. John, the Beloved, Wrote
Hl« Revelation*.
The isles of Greece, "where burning
Sappho loved and sung," are forever
reappearing in history. Just the other
day it was the ancient Lesbos, called
in modern times by the name of its
old-time capital, Mitylene, at which
the allied fleets of Christendom
planned to make a demonstration
against the Turk. Factional fights be
tween the sympathizers of the Sultan
and the Greek patriots in Crete every
few months threaten to make the
haunt of the Minotaur the scene of
International complications. Samos
has been in the limelight several times
since the Greek war for independence,
and the investigations of European
and American archeologists in Delos,
Aeglna and Euboea have kept these
islands In the public eye. Very few,
in fact, of the members of the Grecian
archipelago, barren and untenanted
though they are. have entirely drifted
out of notice.
Even the least known of them all
In antiquity, hardly mentioned by the
prehistoric writer, but made famous by
the visions of the best loved of the
apostles, Patmos, is frequently famil
iarly spoken of, though seldom visited.
For throughout the length and breadth
of the Christian world many edifices
stand in commemoration of St John.
Great and small, humble and grand,
cathedrals, churches and chapels, they
cover a period of history extending
from the day when the conversion of
Constantine made Christianity the offi
cial religion of civilization down to the
present time. At one end stands the
little chapel built by the piety of the
simple fishermen of Patmos above the
"cave where St John passed the long
days of his banishment from the main
land of Asia Minor. At the other are
the central arch and the columns of
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
now being erected at the cost of a
king's ransom and years of thought
and patient toil. The contrast betv.een
the capital of the new world and the
barren Island in the Grecian archipel
ago, between the wealth of the twenti
eth century and the provincial village
of the Roman empire, is typified by the
unllkeness of the two structures.
High up on the steep hillside of the
little Island of Patmos Is still to be
leen to-day the natural cave in which
St John lived for many years and
wrote his Revelations. The cave, rough
ly divided Into two compartments, la
cat deep Into the solid rock, the walls
ax» damp with the natural moisture
of the earth, and the only light come*
from a single candle burning before an
undent shrine.
There is still pointed out in ttie solid
rock a smooth, round hole, which
was used by St. John for a pillow, and
dim tlv above this, seen wlieu the light
is raised, is a long tissure running
diagonally across the ceiling. Through
this fissure the spirit descended and
inspired tlie Revelation.
"BEAUTY AND THE BEAST."
Hon n Pretty Old Story I* Misread
and Misinterpreted.
When a lovely woman weds a rich,
coarse, cruel man, the cynical modern
observer exclaims, "Beauty and the
Best I" The characterization is a wick
ed misreading of one of the loveliest of
myths, a story as fruitful of wisdom
to-day a 9 when it sprang out of the
early life of the world.
Beauty was a good daughter and a
brave woman. Her father lost his for
tune, and she set herself to serve him.
When prosperity promised to return to
him, she begg&d a gift of roses rather
than of Jewels or laces. When he
again fell into trial, was captured by
the Beast and forced to promise one
of his daughters as a ransom, Beauty
at once offered herself as the sacri
fice.
In the palace of the Beast, surround
ed by every luxury, but not knowing
what fate awaited her, she never for
got her old father, dreamed of him
nightly, and at last begged leave to go
to see him and return. Although she
was persuaded to stay a week beyond
her leave, she came back loyally to the
palace of the Beast The poor crea
ture was half-dead of grief for what
he believed to be her loss, and the
sight of his pain and his delight gave
her courage to avow her recognition of
his noble qualities, her love for him,
and her resolve to be his wife in spite
of his hideous exterior.
Instantly the Beast was transformed
into a handsome young price, freed
from an evil charm by the devotion of
the brave woman, and Beauty and the
prince came into their just inheritance
of Joy and peace.
The symbolism of the myth has a
profound truth. The Beauty who would
work a charm upon the Beast in man
to-day must also possess the simplicity
which prefers the rose to the dia
mond, the industry which does not fear
poverty, the filial loyalty which will
not flinch from dangerous duty, the in
tuition which sees the great heart with
the ugly form, and the courage which
dares all for love.
When the woman of to-day and to
morrow has all these powers at her
call, we shall see, not the hideous mod
ern parody of Beauty and the Beast,
but the perennial repetition of the love
ly old story in which, led through trials
by a brave and virtuous woman, "they
all" live happy ever after. —Youth's
Companion.
A Historic Ley.
There resides, in Washington an old
man who saw service in the Civil
War as a colonel, although in after
years he came to call himself general,
hose only wound in action was a slight
scratch on his leg. Nevertheless, this
wound has always been a matter of
great glory and pride to him, and he
has nursed it ever since, and has
grown lamer every year that the mem
ory of his bravery might ever be with
him.
One afternoon, when he sat at his
club, nursing the injured leg, a fel
low clubman of recent acquaintance
sympathetically asked:
"Lame, general?"
"Yes, sir," was the reply, after an
inexpressibly solemn pause, "I am
lame."
"Been riding, sir?"
"No," this time with rebuking
sternness. "I have not been riding."
"Ah, I trust it was not due to a fall
on the ice, general?"
"No" came in tones of ferocity.
"Perhaps, then, you have sprained
your ankle?"
With painful slowness the old fel
low lifted his pet leg in both hands,
set it carefully on the floor, rose de
liberately from his chair, and looking
down upon the unfortunate questioner
with mingled pity and wrath, burst
forth in almost sublime rage:
"Go, sir, and read the * history of
your country, sir!"
An Odd Race.
An exciting form of winter sport In
which Canadian boys excel, Is barrel
racing, and it is great fun I can tell
you.
These races are on ice.
Ordinary barrels, with their heads
removed, are placed in regular inter
vals along the race course, for about
a quarter of a mile. I
Then, at a given signal, all the boys I
skate for the first barrel. Many reach
it together, and, as each skater must
pass through all the barrels In ordei
to win, there is quite a scramble for
first turn.
Sometimes a barrel wheels complete
ly around while a boy Is working his
way through it, and when he comes
out, he is so confused that he skates off
in the wrong direction. Usually the
laugh of the spectators makes him
realize his blunder, and he quickly
turns about and tries to make np for
lost time. It is quite an exciting sport
and an amusing one also for the spec
tator, as the boys and barrels bob
about In the most ludicrous fashion. |
The men will go on till the end of
time giving their girls novels and "Ln
dlles" during their engagements, and
then wonder after marriage why they,
don't own a cook book. |
When a girl flirts with a man she
makes a fool of herself and trie* to
make a fool of him I
THCWuXLY
1327—Edward 1,1. of England compelled
to resign the crown.
1504—Pope confirmed by a bull the de
crees of the Council of Trent.
1579—Hutch Republic proclaimed.
Ifi4l—Union of Catalonia with France.
1738—First stone laid of Westminstej
bridge, over the Thames river.
1777—Americans under (Jen. Maxwell
capture Elizabeth town, N. J.
1788—First settlement in Australia.
1790 —James Mcllenry became Secretaire
of War of the United States
Prince of Wales attacked in his car
riage by the populace of London.
1807—Pall Mall lighted by gas; first citji
street to be thus lighted.
1814—Rattle of Rnotocbopoco Creek.
1815—Congress purchased Thomas .Jef
ferson's library for $25,000
Thanksgiving in New Orleans over
Gen. Jackson's victory.
1830—Robert llaynes' great speech in de
fense of the Foote resolution.
1833 —First Reformed Parliament of the
United Kingdom opened.
IS37—Michigan admitted into the Amnion
1841—First conviction of a woman Id
Philadelphia for murder.
1843—Edward Drummond assassinated in
London.
1847—Battle of Canada.
1850—Henry Clay introduced resolution
for compromise on slavery question.
1854—Many perished in burning of
steamer Georgia at New Orleans.
1855—Rutledge College, South Carolina,
destroyed by fire., ..First train from
ocean to ocean passed over Panama
railroad.
1856—Steamship Pacific lost lietween
Liverpool and New, York; 150 liven
lost.
1861 —Kansas admitted to the Union....
U. S. arsenal at Augusta, Ga., seised
by Georgia State troops .Louis
iana adopted the ordinance of seces
sion.
1863—Maj. Gen. Burnside relieved by
Maj. Gen. Hooker.
1866—Freedman Bureau bill pasncd the
United States Senate.
1867 —The President vetoed the Colorado
admission bill....East l-iver bridged
by ice. Thousands of persons cross
on foot.
1870 —Massacre of the Piogau Indians
by Col. Baker's force.
1871 —Paris capitulated to the Gtrmanst.
1874—Olympic* theater, Phil.tiK ipbia, de
stroyed by fire.
1882—•Guiteau convicted of the mnrdef
of President Garfield.
1885—Parliament buildings and London
Tower damaged by dynamite explo
sions. .. .Fall of Khartoum and as
sassination of Gen. Charles Gordon.
1886—Senator Sherman introduced a bill
to suspend silver coinage.
1887— U. S. Senate passed Canada retali
ation bill.
1889—Pensacola, Fla., had second snow
fall in twenty-two years.... Riot in
New York City over street car strike.
1893—Eighty miners killed in fire-damp
explosion at Dux, Bohemia.
1894—James J. Corbett defeated Charley
Mitchell in fight at Jacksonville, Fla.
1895 —Steamer City of Macon wrecked
in Delaware bay.
1896—Large loss by fire at Lnviston, Me.
1901—Mrs. Agnes Soffel arrested at Con
nellsville, Pa., for aiding the release
of the Riddle brothers from the Pitts
brrg jail... .Mrs. Florence Mpybrick
released from prison.... Col. Lynch,
leader of the Irish brigade in the
Boer war, released from English
prison.
1906—Largest diamond ever hnown tn
history found in the Transvaal....
Great blizzard along the Atlantic
coast of North America.
Political Notex.
Gen. Theodore Alfred Binghain, New
York's new police commissioner, is a
West Point graduate, 47 years of age,
and as brisk as a dynnmo.
Henry Labouchere, who is about to re
tire from Parliament, has spent more
than $1,000,000 in defending libel suit!
I brought against him as editor of Truth.
I The remark attributed 'to Jacob Kin,
that the President would accept another
term if he should not have been success
ful in his contest with the money power,
appears to have been incorrectly rfjvorted.
What he did say was that the Pcesident
would continue his fight, not in the White
House, perhaps, but in Congress.
A bill has been introduced in the New
Jersey Senate asking for legal proceed
ings against the Standard Oil Company
and its subsidiary corporations, for the
purpose of forfeiting their charters, upon
grounds of violating the common law as
to monopolies and the Elkins law as to
interstate commerce.
Representatives Huff of Pennsylvania,
Haskins of Vermont and Connor of New
York so closely resemble one another
I that only their most intimate friends dis
tinguish them apart.
When asked about the report thai the
President had issued an ultimatum u> the
Senate Republican leaders on the sub
ject of railway rate legislation. Senator
lAldrich replied that the President and the
leaders in Congress were "in perfect ac
cord so far as the general principles In
volved -are concerned," and that the ouly
. differences which remain to be settled are
of comparatively minor imDorfoix*.