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\S $s: J'1. &*'1 Mi r..- L*"% i' ,* 4 fs feil w/s: c, llfppjf,. ss#pfi^"Ftl* mp,..., PEMBINA -r SQWTEMfrAKOTA. §£v|^ tl oug&tfal inotheraf a little Chicago boy sent fehefoi note withhlm tohis schatf-teacher "Miss Slmgeral^: Adolph swallowed a braSe padlock last night, «nd4f he has any pain In school this morning as\a revolt, will you please excuse him, and oblige his mother." A certain minister in Denver occa sionally playa havoc with his words. In closing a very. impressive sermon on "Death," he said: "Ere long wo will all be called upon to shuffle off this cortal. moil ir, I should say, muffle off this—that is cuiBe off this mortal—pardon me shuffle off this cort—(Ahem!) Let. us .rise and sing the doxology." There is a school district in Reno county, Kan., in which there is a school house and a teacher, but not a solitary pupil. Miss Alary Scroggins, the teacher, opens school every morn ing 'and holds herself in readiness to instruct any children who may come, but she is the sole occupant of the building. There are plenty of chil dren in the district, but they a parochial school. Mr. J. S. Moffat, who has been ac tively connected with the country Im mediately to the south of the Zambesi for over forty years, first as a mis sionary and latterly as an official, is about to return to Rhodesia after a holiday In Europe. He first went out under Dr. Livingstone. He was resi dent magistrate at Taungs when the Jameson raid took place. Mr. Moffat is now sixty-five, but he has work left in him yet. How quickly the huge herds of buff alo on the American plains were swept from the face of the earth! A recent careful count by a competent person places the whole number of animalE| of the kind living today at only 1,024. Dr. William T. Hornaday says in his book concerning the buffalo that it would have been as easy to count the number of leaves in a forest as to cal culate the number of buffaloes living at time during the History of the spe cies previous to 1870. X'' A large amount of American steel is being Imported Into Scotland. One {Scotch shipbuilding firm has received over 10,000 tons of ship plates from America at a price that is £4,000 cheaper than the same could be ob tained in Scotland. Another firm is taking over 50,000 tons, and altogether tt is calculated that about 100,000 tons will be imported. Some steel is also being sent from Germany, but not in such large quantities as from America. 1" The newest fashion in New Tork sky-scraper cbnstructidn is to begin at the top and build downward. It seems .dmpossible, yet that is what a con tractor is doing with a bank building at Wall and William streets. At pres ent the upper five floors, with granite walls, are practically finished. The ''lower ten are as yet mere skeleton of Ci&ders and trusses. The larger blocks of granite for these lower floors !$ere not ready on time, so the builder decided to go ahead on the ones above. It is perfectly safe, yet the appear ance of the structure is so unusual that it is a curiosity, even for Wall street. The Austrian government has re cently entrusted a particularly valua ble commission to Fraulein Erika Paulas, this being nothing less than the erection of a residence at Bls trltz for the official Forest Commis sioners. This is the twentieth com mission the government has given to Fraulein Paulas, who has not achieved her success without a struggle and much opposition from the building trade, which petitioned the minister -of public works to prohibit her from •entering for the examinations. Frau lein Paulyas gained her architect's diploma at Buda-Pesth, after passing the mason's examination at Klausen burg. In England,the only two mem bers, it is said, of the Royal Institute of British Architects are the Misses Charles. Stories about misers are sometimes exaggerated, but it has been verified that a beggarwoman, named Mtule Leret, who has died at Versailles, left Iwhind her in gold and bonds about £8,000. The money was found In an old cupboard in the hovel wherein the •deceased had lived Tor ovdr half a cen tary. Marie Leret was eighty-three years old, and was one of the most successful mendicants of the day. She begged" persistently at church doors, 4* the streets, at the railway stations. «ad received, moreover, substantial jjptt* from charitably-disposed ptr mPMs* who had no Idea that they were -assisting a miser. Of thesujn found, pearly £3,000 in gold fell ont of a stocking, the. remainder being In securities, of which the dlvl warrants had not been ntlllasd eighteen years. to said tut Fonnossn savagw sws. panted by an extremely simple •rtthineticel problem. If two of then to share 1*9 articles of food, they Is by ftfctoxttrd, apices •ndt&reir mn+t Bntthatls bad, after all. It even shows that «aife painfe*'!*' mrltor the sCro^ of the two iwuld "!i Ifi mBsBmrnMU DONNELLY 13 DEAD MAW« ttSOSOHi '. COSOM SUDDENLY, .VtSV,5-^ HMrtT«ll«re Tnkea 0t Am Mla ..• meiota'a Bleat KDowa tUcnurrMui Priblle Hen-Wu Vlaltlac Wife's Parents 1m Mlnneapolia— Wm Apparently In Uw Beit Health a Few Honri Before Death —Taken 111 Shortly After Eating Dinner and Die*1a Few Honrs Liite*. Minneapolis, Jan. 3.—Ignatius Don nelly, one of the best known literary and public men in Minnesota, formerly lieutenant governor and thrice elected to congress, died shortly after midnight last night at the home of his father-' In-law, Martin Hanson, 3022 Twenty eighth avenue north, Minneapolis. At 6 o'clock, last evening Mr. Donnelly seemed to be in his usual good health. But soon after eating dinner he com plained of feeling ill. He grew rapidly worse and died of heart failure a few minutes after midnight. During re- IGWar/UjS DOMf/ELLf cent yeara Mr. Donnelly has spent much of his time in Minneapolis, where he edited the Representative. Although his home is at Nininger, he divided his time between his country place and the city. He went to Minneapolis yes terday morning with his wife and was visiting his wife's parents. Apparently In Good Health. During the afternoon, Mr. Donnelly was at his office in the Boston block engaged in writing for his publication. He left the office at 4:30 and was ap parently in the best of health. He ate dinner with his wife and her pa rents at 6 o'clock and then complained Of feeling sick. He retired and soon afterward was apparently much worse. Dr. Murphy was summoned at 9 o'clock. He found his patient uncon scious. Advancing age had weakened tha sick man's constitution and it was apparent that his recovery was hope less that medical science was of no avail. Without recovering? conscious ness lie died three hours later. Mr. Donnelly was born in Philadel phia in i.831. He graduated from the high school in that city and at the completion of a three-year course in law was admitted to the bar. Two years later he married. He Came to St. Pan! in 1&56 and divided his time between farming and literary pursuits. Mr. Donnelly had the honor of being the first lieutenant governor elected in the state by the Republican party. He was chosen to that position in 1859, and at the expiration of his term was re-elected. The following year, ir« 1861, he was elected to congress, and twice succeeded himself. When he ran for the office a fourth time a com bination was made against him and he was defeated. Mr Donnelly continued from that time to be an important and unique figure In politics. After his defeat for congress In:lSC5 he twice refused a nomination, but in lt.70 he ran inde-r pendently and lost -by a narrow mar gin. He stumped the state, together with Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan, in the interests of Greeley in 1872, and the following year was (Cho«cn State Senator ... from Dakota county. Later he was nominated for congress by the Anti-Monopolists and Demo crats, but was defeated by Washburn. In 1(84 he again ran for congress and was this time defeated by Maj. Strait. As a man Mr. Donnelly was very social in his nature, bubbling over with good humor and anecdote and an excellent conversationalist. As a speaker he was regarded as one of the best on account of his humor and con clusiveness, and in his writings be had an original way of arraying litis facts and hewing his way to conclusiveness. It was in the literary field, however, that he achieved a national reputation. His published works are: "Alantis," "Ragnarok, the Age of Fire and Gravel," "Caesar's Column" and "The Great Cryptogram," which latter at tempts to prove that Bacon was the author of Shakespeare's plays. Mr. Donnelly married for the second time on Feb. 22, 1897, his bride being Mif Hanson. TO SUCCEED HIMIBLTI Senator MeMiUan IHeklvaa Re. eelveathe Caaeaa Nomination. lAnslnr, Mich., Jan. t. Senator James McMillan was nominated by the -joint Republican caucus of the forty firstlegislature, which will convene to day, to aucceed himself. His election to a third term In the senate is as sured as the legislature overwhelm* tngly Republican. CWOOTBT COWViCTBO.j|^ Sentence* mat-te Slx- «, I*»rt»*nwi». Jan. Ir-The court martial In Hh* case of MaJ. ^lgne^ who, was acl ««pM of betraying gemy documents in ®«a»ecthw with th# Dreyfus oa#e, has foulad bim« guilty and imposed a wajr, vhad impoeed a Shal iuifieirti 'pii: .:bwrd an^i^ .psborn at 11:46 a. m, yesterAlf^srt The- ships tn tSie wiids: dressed, the ssa 'front was elataom&ly decorated with, bunttng, and MeiitUkn: masts with festoow aatrned t^iK|iite tei Osborne home at:thp, enttftiB^.^f Whieh 'waa erected a unique tri^te^bf the queen in appredatMn.of iw|::?il(eld' marshal's work, In the shape'^of^ an &rch of lant«fl. This was the fijt^Vttme such an arch had ever appear^ititereV in lionor'of any subject her w^ity The queen bestowed ati earldom on Lord Roberts,, with a speMal'rem^hsder for hfs daughters. He was atoo Made a Knight of the Garter. iii:''-':.:'. A large concourse of people awaited Lord Roberts' arrival "at Trinity .pier and landing. The field marshal iand* ed from the royal launeh at 3:30 p. m., which wae the signal for deafening shouts of welcome. Princess Beatrice, in her capacity as governor of the Isle of Wight, arid the duke of Conriaught, representing the queen, awaited Lord Roberts, whose •arm was' «U1 Ins Sllnir as a result Of being thrown from his horse in South Africa. He was warm ly greeted and the party started to royal carriages for Osborne house. The route was lined with troops and thronged with cheering sightseers.. Lorn Roberts stopped, on his way at the town hall of East Cowes, Where eulogistic addresses of welcome Were presented to him. He then resumed his drive and entered the grounds of Osborne house by the Prince of Wales entrance and proceeded up the noble, troop-lined avenue to her majesty's Isle of Wight residence. After a hearty reception In the council cham ber by a number of princes and princesses Lord Roberts was ushered into the presence of the -queen* His audience with her majesty was quite private. Replying to the addresses at the town hall Lord Roberts said he re gretted that his return was hot ac companied by immediate peace, but, he added, while he feared hostilities would continue for some time, he had implicit confidence in Lord Kitchener and had no fear regarding the out come. He concluded with a eulogy of the magnificent army of greater Brit ain, all the companents of which, he pointed out, pulled together splendidly. GALVESTON'S LOSS Figure* Relating: to Property De stroyed In September'* Storm. Galveston, Tex., Jan. 4.—The News publishes a statement of the property losses in Galveston' by the terrible storm of Sept. 8. The figures are the result of of a most thorough investiga tion and are accepted to be as accurate as is possible to compute then! under the circumstances. The property loss suffered on the fateful day aggregates $17,058,275, di vided as follows: Residence property and contents totally destroyed, $6,196, 000 damage to other residences, and contents, $2,250,000 church property, $500,000 municipal property, $336,000 .wharves and shipping facilities, /$65§,-_ 000 manufacturing plants, $579,175 county property, $242,500 public insti tutions, $158,000 mercantile buildings, $397,200 merchandise stock, $1,391,350 state property, $110,600 United States government property, $3,155,500 rail roads, telegraph, telephones, etc., $670, 000 goods in transit, $415,750. CUBA AS ATS ALLY. Willing to Assist the United State* In War. Havana, ^Tan. 4. The Cuban con stitutional convention is considering promulgations of the future relations between Cuba and the United States. One of these affirms, in the first place, an acceptance of the Monroe doctrine and the establishment_of friendly rela tions with all nations,"together with a, resolution to proceed in all cases in complete accordance with the United States. In the second place it pro poses to put at the disposal of the United Stdtes a portion of the shore of any bay ,on the north coast and of two bays on the south coast for naval stations, together with concessions sufficient: to extend for the purposes of defense and sanitation. In the third place it declares that Cuba will place herself on a war footing to help the United States in case sUch assistance should be needed." SMALLPOX IN CHICAGO. Health Anthorltlea Fear That There -Will Be an Epldemlo. Chicago Jan. 4.—Smallpox is slowly but surely gaining a foothold in Chi cago. There .are now seven cases at the Isolation hospital, three of which Were taken there yesterday.v The last cases, according to the health author ities, had their origin in Chicago, and vigorous -measures are being taken to stamp out:,the disease. The health of ficials-commenced vigorous measures yesterday :to stamp out the. disease in the lodging house district. They vac cinated about 300 inmates and fumi gated a number of places. The in-, spectors say that there is great-danger of an epidemic here, as smallpox is reported in all the towns in the vicin ity of Chicago. 1 ...j. ^TWENTY-FIVE LITB^ LOST|')'^ Three-Veosel* Said to Have Fonnd ered la the Bristol Channel. London, Jan. 4.—The captain of the bark Idunr which has arrived at Car diff, reports that during the gate Fri day hfe saw three vessels founder in the Bristol channel, and he believed that as many as twenty-five lives SAILORS HAVE THE GRIP. Xtyir New York, Jan, 4,—A grip epldi in^jhlp/und '"f S™8 ,W:: •'te' fi Is ra^ng in the Brooklyn navy yarS* Itr appeared fcbotit a weeje^ ago aboa battleship j^ban^. and ^ver fifty it-ill#,,crewf ^4^%i4 ttflK' saikiSm, MMMil 11,1 .... ...... omeevs tnrwtiiK Hoini$ Information Re garding the Invnri6n of Cape Vj Town la Seanty^Keomitlns Con-- '^vFlekshnihi^^^^S .^^ London, Jan.- Earl Roberts IsHtf ,ready immersed in his ^.arduous duties at the war office. He will take no hol iday. The war office yesterday issued "a1 list of casualties during the w.ar in South Africa which shows that the to tal deaths were 004 officers and 11,554 men.- In addition to this 4 officers afed 243 men died of wounds, or disease af ter returning home. There Is no further feews from Lord Kitchener, who,, according to a Cape town dispatch. Is calling for 5,000 men to guard the Rand mines. Enlisting in Cape Colony contiuues active and 50b men will leave Cape Town forthe north within the next few days. Information regarding the invasion is scanty. Col. Williams attacked the eastern Invaders near Mlddleburg but failed to dislodge them. He has since been joined by Lieut. Col. Grenfel and the Boers have, retired. Gen. Brabant has arrived at Graaf Reinet. Advices from Maseru say that three separate columns are still pur suing Gen. Dewet but with no success beyond taking 28 prisoners. Cannon firing is constantly heard. AH the English have deserted Ficksburg, tak ing their stocks, of grain across the border and the Boers have looted, the town. Defenae'df Cope Town. Jan. Cape Town, Jan.- 6.—Recruiting for the colonial defense is proceeding satis factorily. Nearly 400 men enlisted, yes terday morning. A Boer prisoner who is on parole has published art appeal to the Burghers of the Transvaal to stop their Hopeless and useless struggle, and to throw themselves on England's justice and mercy. Two hundred Boers have recrossed the Orange river, going north. The Russian commandants, Petrowsk and Duplooy, were killed in the fighting at Utrecht Dec. 25. Governor of Transvaal. London, Jan. 6.—The following col onial office appointments were an-' nounced last evening: Sir Alfred Milner, governor of the Transvaal and British high commis sioner the Hon. Sir Walter Francis Hely-HStchinson (govqrnor of Natal and Zululand since 1893), governor of Cape Colony Lieut. Col. Sir Henry Edward McCallum (governor of New foundland since 1898 and aide-de-camp to the queen since 1900), governor of Natal MaJ.' Hamilton John, Goold Adams (resident commissioner of the Bnuchuanaland protectorates), lieuten ant governor of the Orange River col ony. AGMNAL.DO IS DEAD. The Xew» Kept a Secret From His Followers In the Philippine*. New Tork, Jan. 6. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, who is now staying at the Wa'dorf-Astoria hotel, has received information from secret sources in the Philippines to the effect that Aguinaldo is dead and that his death occurred 110 less than six weeks ago. The news has been kept secret by Aguinaldo's followers, it is said,, for the purpose of prolonging the rebellion, since it was believed that the hews of the chief's death would* cause sucty discourage ment and alarm that an utter capitu lation would result. President Wheeler obtained this news through several-Filipino children, who have been placed in his care by their parents. Two are the sons of Buencamino, a wealthy citizen of Ma nila, who, befor the advent of the Americans in the Philippines, had been an active leader of rebellion against the Spanish. BABY FROZEN TO DEATH.? Mother's Discovery oti Reaching Home After a Drive. Lawrence, Mass., Jan. 6.—The four month8-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward Beaulie was frozen to death in its mother's arms. The parents live on a farm in Methuen, .about three Smiles from this' city, thie father being manager of the farm. They brought the baby with them to Lawrence, to make New Year's calls and missed the late car for home, so they drove home1 in an open wagon. It was. supposed 'that the infant was warmly wrapped up, but .on reaching the house the mother was horrified to find her baby frozen to death. A-y HANY SHALL' CAPTURES. Americana ICeep the Fllipinoa Pretty —. Stirred Up. Manila, Jan. C. Generals Wheaton and Bates report- many- small^captures,-' the destruction of Insurgent camps' and the seizure of .supplies, animals and other necessities.: Adiong the cap tures in Smith's. district was CoL: Tchon, the insurgent' governor of Tar lac. Gen. Grant is^perspnally in com-, infand of a mounted expeditlon In* .the mountains of Southern P%pangas. which, he says, is the Only ''locality where the insurgents- are in force, in his district. Insurgent^ entered .Gapan: and' San Isadro. in Gen'. Funs^on's dU trict during the 9th Mid burned score of houses. The' firtnlg was Mn effective. st#»ek hy a JUiw*»tive^: -.•—"•v....— «",{*• .( Holland, Iowa, Jai.-#-^JohB Bmi|ks^^ sl^Aniika,'l|inn..--Jan. while .......... He tnring to atoWs ihe.i of chef Great W^^rn '.^ilroad, by the, engine and mvwr si 1 sUpp«d on s? turn* stock,a^-i Pieces In her attemp%t» 5riescneviier sielf from the mam!: HeV:"itegers were cut off and her wrists were cut, its weli as -her entire .rightarm ari^left..airaiv badlj disfigured. Her dress "was torn from her. in shreds and when people arrived site. was almost naked! ,Sjh^ died from the effects of her wounds shortly after the assault. She itfas the daughter of Benjamin Morris, a business man of this city. W'einstock Was grabbed1 by a crowd of men who bound him with ropes, hand and foot, and removed him to a building where more than 1,500 men watched over him. A telephone messagie was sent to Mc Connellsville for officers to come and take him. The people of Hackney are greatly excited and a mob is being or ganized to hang Weinstock. Welnstock recently returned from the reforma tory, where he served a term for at tempting to kill his father, a rich farmer of Morgan county. lilt TJHE BOOZ INdtiriY Congressional Committee Begins Its Investigation. Philadelphia, Jan. 6.-—T^ie Booz con gressional committee which was re cently appointed by Speaker Hender son for. the? purpose of making inquiry into the cause of death of Oscar Booz at West Point and to investigate haz ing in a general way. at the academy, began taking testimony yeteferday. Three sessions were held, covering a period of time from 9 o'clock In the morning ufltil niidhight. The com mittee, which consists of Charles Dick of Ohio, chairman E. H. Driggs, New York Irving P. Wagner Pennsyl vania B. T. Clayton,. New.- York and W. I. Smith of Iowa, .went to /Bristol, Pa., th© home of tfe Booz family, and heard the testimody of four members of that family. In' the afternoon four physicians who attended Oscar Booz were heard and in ..the evening in Phil adelphia two more physicians and two other witneraes" were' given an oppor tunity to, tell what they knew of the case. Most of the evidence adduced has already been brought out by the military board of inquiry. ^GIRL~^TKI|NAPPE0||||S 1 New Y«rk Real Estate Han Thinks His Qanghtcr, Is Stolen. New York, Jan. 6.—William L.Jftad fo'rd, a real estate dealer, reported at the bureau of information that he had reason to believe his sixteen-year-old daughter Mary, was kidnaped. The girl was slightly 111 and was to have met her father at noon at the Sixth avenue elevated railroad. She did not keep the appointment. He waited for three hours and then went home. There he was told that Mary'left the house In time tp mm Is her and ,trew K^'t^.tfie"i»iMind.': "ilie screamed and ting to her .feeti^^einsttwkjX^wv'ft' razor. across. the .. 'nie^k, TseyerliMi muscles .and •. l'^fc^{bajPjB'."L_.. »vein. Miss Morris grabbed the rafc4r with her hands arid ^heV: weiie^': cutZib. r-' DERELICT CONSUL. He Sfakea No Aceonntinir for Money Officially: Kxpendcd. Washlngtm^ Jaiiu 6.—7?he' audittlng officers of the: treiiiSiif^ n&ve been en gaged for some time in an effort to secure from United States Consul Rad cMffe H. Ford at Yarmouth, N. S., a satisfactory explanation of certain dis bursements.made by him .'on Account of the relief-of distressed- American, sail-, ors, but so far without result. The' office has been investigated by the nearest consul general, and unless some accounting is rendered, for the Items referred to the case will be re ported to the state department as one requiring drastic action. Consul Ford is a natlve of Maine. keep the appoint ment, and that nothing more was known of her. SON OF THE I'llETEvVDEli. Llent. Don Jaime Ill in Hospital at Nacaaakt. Madrid, Jan. 6.-r-The Spanish minis ter at Tokio informs the Madrid gov ernment that Don Jaime de Bourbon, son of Don. Carlos. the pretender to the Spanish throne, is In a hospital at Nagasaki with typhoid fever., Don Jaime Is a lieutenant In the Russian hussars and went to China, where he" made a brilliant record.' DomiM! New Charge Agalnat tbe Bellevne .Hospital. New York, "Jan. The'latest charge, against the: Beilevue hospital administration' Is -'that" o| delivering bodies to the colleges for dissecting purposes without the' knowledge or consent of relatives of "the deceased." It is said that about 800 bodies have thus been disposed^of in thr^e' years. Si. 1:'' X'-'j1 PLAQIHD AT VLADIVOSTOCK Fifteen of Nin4f4j^n Caaea Are Fatal London, Jan.^ 6»—The reports of an outbreak Of the "plague at Vladivostok,, are conflrmedt' T^ere have' b^en n1—- teen case^, pf whiA flf teen were ,, Owiag to, recrudescence 0$ plague at Smyrna, ,a quarantine' beefl. ^Unposed, by -Turkey. on aWjyni[¥ *ffom that poi ^lumbermen* of thelrXemWoyes toi «ach one with profits for Qbne'.i«|.«he {Cdmqtoittal time since me jmSmrn pnd 'T. jr 'a nniong^ii^ .. Jtii Pekiii'lifie, American government has found iu^l necessary to appeal" direct!^ to the powers to- heip the ministers over a diplomatic: .bar ^lgh" they. Were .J t^ ^^ei^The '^t^starice'1(if•, this character waS when, the ministers were considering the pnhishn^ents/sec {tlons of the- demands to be~.made of China. Th6 second case Involves the ,questlon of indemnity. According t» 'advices to' the state department from Minister Conger the outlook Is hope less for an agreeinent an(tong the diplo miotic representatives'as tf the amount Yvh and ^afcacter of the indemnity to be •. insisted' upon by the powers. Actingr %.•: on Mr. Conger's advice the state de partment "has asked Japan- and the several powers of Europe to begin the consideration at once through regular diplomatic channels of the indemnity question. As the other ministers at Pekln are supposed to have advised their roapective governments of the hopelessness of reaching a conclusion it appears to be assured that Will Be No DlMent from the suggestion of the United* States. The Russian government sug gested early in the negotiations be tween the powers that the matter of in demnities be left to the adjudication if^,7 y„ of the pennanent tribunal of arbitra tloa appointed at the outgrowth of" The Hague disarmament conference. This idea was indorsed by President McKinley. No conclusion in the mat ter wss reached,, however, and the' ministers at Pekin were left to wrestle with the task of bringing Into accord the divers views of their governments. p% As some of the ministers were bound' Kv by instructions which gave themNlittle-* if any freedom of action the present deadlock was Inevitable. I:| The question, of making '.new com- '$l mercial treaties to which China has assented presents another diplomatic tangle. It is probable that the minis ters will be unable to agree on the terms of a general treaty of .commerce with China which will' be acceptable HI! RULED BY J. J. HILL. Great JTorttiern Magnate nge Five Big Rctilroi New York, Jan, 6.-^einl'authentie reports a^ to t'J» tifect that Jap^fesfcX Hill is to become "Chairman: df the,dP* rectors of the Erie railroad and is to have most intimate relations with the directors of the Northern Pacific and: Baltimore & Ohio:' It is -generally^be lieved in Wall street that- Mr. Hill and' his friends, are nowf the owners of a controlling interest in Milwaukee. Some of the strongest influences in the Milwaukee management doubt the report that Mr. Hill proposes to lease that road to the Northern Pacific or to the Great Northern,, but they are of the opinion that he, with Mr.' Morgan. who is practically in control of the Northern Pacific, proposes some kind of a combination that will bring the Milwaukee property ultimately in con nection with the Erie and Baltimore & Ohio, or both, into the Atlantfc and Pecific system controlled through the modern. arrangeipent known as com munity of interest and ownership. Probably. this cbmbination-'yitfli .'be fected through plaoihg the direct management^pf the great-properties in volved in it Ihto the handa of Mr. H11U ji"'-.1*- Large Jncreaae Last Year Over the IrfMMea. In 1S05K New York, Jan. 6.—Fire underwriters suffered terribly during 1899, says the Journal of Commerce. The aggregate fire loss of the United. States and Can ada during the year just closed was $163,862,250. The total' losses for 189& were $119,650,500, and for 1899, $136,773,- 2°04SfS8§ Wett Virginia ^awiik. i&M y$jk y^M: Wayne, W. Va., municipal publican^ wurch, mm S-iSriV" i5Sv: 4 to their governments, and the course suggested by the United States in re- -jv\. gard to indemnity is likely to' be fol lowed.'pg' 7^ mm. 1 iiif 'of- 1 SSfel# HEAVY FIRE LOSS. .Xs'' EARTHftUAKE IN MISSODR1. m4s It la Severe Rnongh to Brealc Win V,:VV!•- Panea. St^ Louis, Jan. 6.—^Telegrams to the Posit-Dispatch from Neyada," Eldord-do .Springs and Ajppleton City,'Mo.,'say a.' distinct earth'qualte shfek jrWaa felt at. 9:12 p. m. yesterdayjt At ''ETdoiFado Springs wjndo^ir panes were broken and other slight damage occurred. '$0. CLEH^YaiAir is HA.VOR. 11 The /iift'L mwtf woi to an e* ut* Of: mmm -T$T-