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NEWSOFAWEEK
TERSELYOUTLIHED
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST IM
PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AN ABROAD.
TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest from All Parts
of the Globe—The Latest Foreign
Information.
THE 'FRISCO DISASTER.
"Congress never intended that its
appropriation of $2,500,000 should be
expended by the city of San Francis
co," said Acting Secretary of War Oli
ver. The money, according to the res
olution of congress, he said, was to be
expended by the war department to re
imburse that, department for the ra
tions, tents, blankets, etc., belonging
to the army which were rushed to San
Francisco, and also to purchase other
relief stores.
An investigation demonstrated that
the fear that San Francisco will suf
fer a period of hard times as an after
math of the disastrous fire is unfound
ed. Careful estimate maae by authori
ties competent to speak, show that
within tne next year there will be
over $200,000,000 available for the re
habilitation of San Francisco.
Secretary Shaw has recommended to
congress an immediate appropriation
of $61,500, to replace land records
destroyed at San Francisco.
The total amount of money raised
by the American Red Cross up to date
for the relief of San Francisco suffer
ers is $1,738,000.
New York financiers agree to form
a syndicate and advance $100,000,000
for the rebuilding of San Francisco.
Chicago police gathered $43,969.63
lor the San Francisco sufferers by a
house-to-house canvass.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Free distribution of flower and gar
den seeds was provided for by a house
appropriation after a hot fight, the
members fearing the effect on the
next election if their gifts to their
constituents are cut off.
Agitation for an appropriation to
pay the traveling expenses of the
president when he goes about the
country has been begun by some
members of congress.
Senator Tillman, in a speech in the
senate, attacked the records of seven
federal judges and said these cases
are ample reason for curbing the pow
er of all inferior courts to interfere
with the orders of the interstate com
merce commission.
The solution of the rate bill problem
in the senate is found in a court re
view amendment by Senator Allison
which united the Republicans in sup
port of the measure and is expected
to hasten its passage.
Samuel Gompers, in a final appeal
for the passage of the eight-hour law
by congress, upholds the right of labor
to vote against congressmen who op
pose them.
President Roosevelt declined to rec
ommend that congress make a $200,
000,000 loan to rebuild San"Francisco.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Charges made against Assistant Sec
retary Peirce by former Consul Mc
»Wade at Canton, China, may result in
Investigation.
Angered by the action of President
Roosevelt in withdrawing his escort of
United States cavalry. Father Sherman
&as abandoned his trip over tbe route
taken by his father, Gen. W. T. Sher
man, when the latter marched through
Georgia to the sea, and has returned
to Chattanooga.
A. J. Hanna of Chicago is president
of the Northern Transportation com
pany, just organized to operate a line
of steamers between Chicago, Kenosha
and Racine.
Memorial exercises in honor of Fath
er Edward Sorin and Father Stephen
T. Badin, pioneer priests in America
and founders of the University of No
tre Dame, were held in Notre Dame,
Ind.
Wages of 8,000 copper miners In
Montana were raised by the Amalga
mated, North Butte and Butte Coali
tion Copper companies.
Supposed leaden in the plot to pre
cipitate a revolution in France were
arrested. "Troops took possession of
Paris in preparation for an uprising.
Owing to a surplus in the revenues
of Great Britain, the export duty on
coal is removed and the import tax on
tobacco and tea is materially reduced..
Norman E. Mack of New York and
L. B. Musgrove of Alabama are foster
ing the boom of Capt. Richmond P.
Hobson for the presidency.
The body of Walter W. Somers,
missing cashier of the International
bank of Hulls, 111., was found in the
cellar of a residence adjoining his
home. He disappeared April 14, leav
ing a deficit of $2,200 in his accounts.
Somers had shot himself in the tem
ple.
When called upon to pay for a 30
cent breakfast in a restaurant at Ot
tumwa, la., an unidentified man drew
a revolver and was killed after waging
a running fight with the police.
The bottle blowing plant of the' Ev
ansville, Ind, glass works burned, with
a loss of $110,000. Insurance, $100,000.
The long-dreaded May day failed to
bring actual revolution in-Paris but
il brought scenes of extreme violence.
There wa3 much fighting and many
persons were wounded. Dragoons, re
publican guards and cuirassiers
charged disorderly crowds, cavalry
charged with drawn swords and many
persons were wounded on both sides.
More than 1,000 arrests were made.
The main force of the labor move
ment as it affects the city and the
country appears to have spent itself,
although detached movements con
tinue to agitate various trades, requir
ing constant surveillance by the police
and the continued presence in Paris
of a considerable force of troops..
The Kentucky derby, 1% miles, was
won by Sir Huon by two lengths
Lady Navarre second James Reddick
third. Time, 2:0? 4-5.
Suit was begun at Peoria, 111., to
test the provision of the Illinois reve
nue law which exempts the capital
stock of manufacturing corporations
from taxation.
R. M. Snyder, of Kansas City, ac
cused of bribing St. Louis councilmen
in the Central Traction franchise mat
ter, was set free, the court dismissing
the case because of the absence of the
principal witness.
The grand jury returned indictments
against the brick manufacturers and
dealers who are members of the Akron
(O.) brick exchange, under the Valen
tine anti-trust law. Five companies
are involved in the charge.
Five lumbermen and bankers, repre
senting an aggregate wealth far in ex
cess of $1,000,000, were arrested at
Oshkosh, Wis., by federal authorities
on the charge of conspiracy to defraud
the general government by means of
alleged land frauds in the state of
Oregon.
Father Pedro Morales, a famous
Jesuit priest, was celebrating mass at
the high altar of the church of Santo
Domingo Murcia, Madrid, when Father
Martinez, who was assisting him, drew
a revolver from beneath his cassock,
shot Father Morales twice in the head,
instantly killing fiim. Father Martinez
then shot himself in the heart.
Gen. John C. Smith, commander-in
chief of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic, department of Illinois, has issued
a general order directing veterans and
their friends to observe Memorial day,
May 30.
John R. Walsh, the Chicago banker
waived examination on charges- of
making false reports and was held to
the federal grand jury under a $75,000
bond,
Mrs. Jane Dowie dramatically de
nounced her husband in a public meet
ing at Zion City tabernacle, charging
him with undue attentions to Miss
Ruth Hofer and other young women.
Chaotic conditions were discovered
in the affairs of the American Reserve
Bond company when a. force of ac
countants began an examination of the
concern's books and papers uader the
direction of the officials of the Western
Trust and Savings bank, of Chicago,
which is in charge as receiver for the
federal government.
Maj. W. T. Bowdre, a prominent cot
ton factor and director of the Commer
cial Appeal of Memphis, was shot and
instantly killed by an unknown party
while walking towards his home.
W. J. Wright, a merchant from
Hamilton, Oht, died suddenly on the
Black Diamond express on the Lehigh
Valley railroad.
Capt. Albert C. Sexton, of Montgom
ery, Ala., has been appointed adjutant
and chief of staff of Commander-in
Chief Thomas M. Owen, of the United
Son of Confederate Veterans.
The retirement of William Ashbridge
Baldwin, president of the Cleveland Jfc
Marinetta railroad, is announced. He
has been in the service of the Penn
sylvania company for 42 years.
The Lorain Coal and Dock company,
owning mines in eastern Ohio, which
employ about 2,000 miners, has reached
an agreement with its men and will
sign the 1903 scale.
The official announcement has been
made that Premier Witte's resigna
tion had been accepted, coupled with
the statement that former Minister of
the Interior Goremykin would succeed
him.
As the result of a powder explosion
in Gallagher's camp, west of Midway,
Manitoba, five Italians and one colored
man were instantly killed. A dozen
men were injured.
President Liginger, of the Central
Association, A. A. U., has called a spe
cial meeting of the board of managers,
to be held at Chicago Tuesday, May
15, at eight p. m.
Gov. B. W. Hoch was renominated
by the Kansas Republican state con
vention, practically by acclamation.
Judge Bethea In the federal court at
Chicago granted an application for the
appointment of a receiver for the
American Reserve Boinu company. The
Western Trust and Savings bank was
named and the bonds fixed at $20,000.
John Alexander Dowie, deposed lead
er of the Christian Catholic Apostolic
church, Is said to fee near death. In
his room at Shiloh house, Zion City,
he is surrounded by a few of "the
faithful."
At the Instance of the comptroller
of the currency, National Bank Exam
iner John B. Cunningham closed the
Delmont National bank at Delmont,
Westmoreland county, Pa.
Seventeen strikers were shot and
four mounted policemen injured by
stones in a battle between miners and
officers at Mount Carmel, Pa.
Dr. Hansteen, chief lecturer in the
agricultural school at Aas, Norway,
declared,his belief that moss is des
tined to become the great popular food
for the masses, owing to its cheapness
and nutritious value.
I. V. Holmes, of Beloit. Wis., who
superintended the construction of the
Monitor during the civil war, died at
the age of 75 years at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. George Siebert, at
Wheaton, 111.
For the murder of 30 women, Mes
fewi, a cobbler of Marrakosh, was sen
tenced by the Moorish courts to cruci
fixion. The butcher's victims were
found buried under his shop and in his
garden.
A letter received by the American
board of foreign missions says the boy
cott against American goods in China
has been declared off.
Soicalism, commercialism, suicide,
and divorce were denounced as four
greatest evils menacing society by Ro
man Catholic archbishops at imposing
ceremonies attending the jubilee of the
Ba|timorejCMd.) cathedral.
P.Brosseau, custodian *of Tif-
fany ft Co., of New^ork, was arrest
ed charged with the theft of $5,000
from the company's pay roll of the re
pair department.
Max Dittrich, a leather worker, who
was arrested at Dresden Saxony, re
cently on the suspicion of murder, has
confessed that he had killed eight
persons in the course of seven years.
A farewell reception and banquet
was given at Bluff ton, Ind., to Dr.
Walter Newcombe Fowler, ^rho sails
May 10 from New York for Chrisiana,
to join the Walter Wellman expedition
to search for the north pole.
The* electricians employed by the
Northwestern and Trl-State Telephone
companies at Minneapolis, have de
clared a strike for higher wages.
About 600 men are affected.
Every building of the .dynamite fac
tory, near Vinterviken, Sweden, be
longing to the Nitroglycerin company,
was destroyed, and four men were
killed by an explosion, the cause of
which is not known.
.The Olympic games committee pub
lished a full list of the winners. The
Americans took 11 firsts, six seconds
and five thirds out of 29 events, in
many of which, however, the Ameri
cans did not compete.
The committee of the International
postal convention in session at Rome
has rejected the proposal for the estab
lishment of a universal two-cents post
age rate.
Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana, is
an authorized statement says he will
not be a candidate for reelection to
the senate.
After denouncing the government
crop reports, and especially the reports
of the department of agriculture, the
international cotton conference ad
journed.
Harvey M. Hutchinson, for eight
years mail clerk at the Peoria, 111.,
post office, confessed to a shortage of
$8,985.
Rev*. Thomas Sherman, son of the
famous Gen. William Tecumseh Sher
man, and a Roman Catholic priest, set
out from Ckickamauga to follow the
route of his father's famous march to
Atlanta. Announcement of his plan
aroused bitter memories among the
people of the south, and the complaints
caused President Roosevelt to call the
expedition to a bait.
Two thousand iron molders and
coremakers struck in Chicago and
many of the employers granted the
demand for more wages.
Lake commerce is at a standstill at
Chicago, no effort having been made
to fill places of strikers.
In a vain effort to rescue her baby
from drowning, Mrs. Jennie Scbeid
ner, of New York, plunged into the
East river and perished.
It is reported that Lyman J. Gage,
former secretary of the treasury, who
recently resigned a high-salaried po
sition as president of a New York
trust company, has not only bought
land near Point Loma, Cal., but has
decided to join forces with^ Mme.
Katherine Tingley in the cause of
theosophy.
Sir Henry Elzear Tascherau, chiel
justice of Canada, has tendered his
resignation from the supreme court
and it has been accepted by the gov
ernment.
At Woodbine, la., during a rain and
thunder storm lightning struck a hand
car ©A the Northwestern. Fred Ulmer
was iustantly killed and four others
were badly shocked.
Israel C. Russell, head of the geolog
ical department of the University of
Michigan, died in Ann Arbor after
three days' illness of pneumonia.
Mrs. Ann Hughes, who served in the
household of Queen Victoria for a
number of years, died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Cahill, in Mil
waukee.^ She was 94 years of age.
Samuel L. Bennett, a banker of Rob
inson, 111., was attacked by Mrs. Nora
Plunkett,. a domestic employed his
house, who inflicted two wounds with
a razor. Mrs. Plunkett accused Ben
nett of misconduct toward her.
Gov. Merrell, of Georgia, granted a
further respite to Rev. J. G. Rawlings
and his two sons to give time for a
final appeal to the state prison com
mission for clemency.
Miss Ethel Clark, the daughter of
ex-County Auditor William Clark, of
Marion county, Indiana, was awarded
$2,500 damages for breach of promise
against C. G. Johnson, of Richmond.
As a result of an investigation con
ducted under the' direction of State
Insurance Commissioner Charles C.
Gray, the American Reserve Bond
company of Kentucky has been de
barred from doing business in Rhode
Island.
"We're overstocked with Christian
missionaries, and 90 per cent of those
we have are senseless," said Marayan
Krishna, a Brahmin missionary to
America, in speaking at All Soui-to
Episcopal church, Kansas City.
Henry C. Rouse, chairman of th*
board of directors of the Missouri,
Kansas & Tex^s railways, died at
Cleveland of pneumonia. He repre
sented John D. Rockefeller in the latt
ter's railway interests.
A strike that will paralyze lake com
merce was begun when the union pi
lots, firemen, water tenders and oilers
went out in response to orders. The
struggle/which promises to be bitter.
IK eve* the question of recognition.
District Attorney Jerome blocked an
insurance investigation by the April
grand jury at New York. Recorder
Goff told the jury it had'failed in its
duty in allowing Mr. Jerome to per
suade it not to go into the insurance
investigation, and then administered a
severe reprimand to the district at
torney.
Former Assistant Cashier Henry G.
Goll of the First National bank of Mil
waukee was found guilty in the United
States district court on 19 counts of
making false entries in the institution's
books and of misapplication of its
funds.
Indiana will be one of the chief bat
tle-grounds of the fall campaign. Both
Republicans and Democrats are plan
ning for the hottest kind of a fight in
the Hoosier state.
Samuel B. Cully, 17 years old, a for
mer member of the- Central high
school iootball team, died at St. Louis
from injuries received in a game play
ed more than a year ago.
The Bayway Refining company's
plant at Elizabethport, N. J., was de
stroyed with a loss of $100,000. Six
oil tanks blew up. The burning oil
flowed into Staten Island sound and
for a time endangered shipping.
IDEM
OIL 8EBHTE EVILS
STRONG MESSAGE SENT TO CON
GRESS WIT REPORT OF COM
MISSIONER GARFIELD.
DECLARES POWER OF
MONOPOLY MUST END
Enlargement of Authority of Com
merce Body to Meet Needs of Sit
uation Urged Profit of Trust
Through Secret Tariffs.
Washington, May 5. President
Roosevelt Friday transmitted to con
gress'the report of James R. Garfield,
commisisoner of corporations, giving
the results of his investigation of the
subject of transportation and freight
rates in connection with the oil indus
try.
In his message the president ex
presses the view that the report is of
capital importance because of the ef
fort now being made to secure such
enlargement of the powers of the in
terstate commerce commission as win
confer-upon the commission power in
some measure adequate to meet the
clearly demonstrated needs of the sit
uation. The facts set forth in the re
port, he declares, are for the most part
not disputed. That the Standard Oil
company has benefited enormously up
almost to the present moment by se
cret rates, many of which were clear
ly unlawful, the president says the.re
port clearly shows, the benefit thereby
secured amounting to at least three
quarters of a million a year.
Railroads Corrected Some Abuses.
On this subject the president says:
"j.This three-quarters of a million
represents the profit that the Standard
Oil company obtains at the expense of
the railroads but, of course, the ulti
mate result is that it obtains a much
larger profit at the expense 6f the
public. A very striking result of the
investigation has been that shortly
after the discovery of these secret
rates by the commissioner of corpora
tions the major portion of them was'
promptly corrected by the railroads, so
that most of them have now been done
away with. This immediate correc
tion, partial or complete, of the evil
of the secret rates is, of course, on the
one hand an acknowledgment that
they were wrong and yet were per
severed in until exposed and, on the
other hand, a proof Of the efficiency of
the work that has been done by the
bureau of corporations."
Urges Change in Immunity Law.
The statement is added that the de
partment of justice will take up the
question of instituting prosecutions in
at least certain cases, and the hope is
expressed that congress will enact
into law the bill of Senator Knox to
correct the interpretation of the im
munity provision rendered in Judge
Humphrey's decision in the Chicago
beef cases.
Continuing, the president says:
"But in addition to these secret
rates the Standard Oil profits im
mensely by open rates, which are so
arranged as to give it an overwhelm
ing advantage over its independent
competitors. This is a characteristic
example of the numerous evils which
are inevitable under a system in which
the big shipper and the railroad are
left free to crush out all individual
Initiative and all power of independ
ent action because of the absence of
adequate and thorough-going govern
mental control. Exactly similar con
ditions obtain in a large part of the
west and southwest."
It is not possible, he says, to put
into figures the exact amount by
which the Standard profits through
the gross favoritism showri1 it by the
railroads in connection with the open
rates. "The profit, of course, comes
not merely by the saving in the rate
itself as compared with its compet
itors, but by the higher prices it is
able to charge and by the complete
control of the market which it se
cures, thereby getting the profit on the
whole consumption."
The president calls attention to
that feature of the report regarding
the manner in which the law is evaded
by treating as state commerce what in
reality is merely a part of interstate
commerce. He says it is clearly
shown "that this device is employed
on the New York Central railroad, as
well as on many other railroads, in
such fashion as to amount to thwart
ing the purpose of the law, although
the forms of the law may be complied
with."
Sugar Trust Also Guilty.
It is unfortunately not true, he says,
that the Standard Oil company is the
only corporation which has benefited
and is benefiting in wholly improper
fashion by an elaborate series of rate
discriminations. The sugar trust, he
adds, according to the results of the
investigation now in progress, rarely
if ever pays the lawful rate for trans
portation. He declares that in the ef
fort to prevent the railroads from
uniting for improper purposes' "we
have very unwisely prohibited them
from uniting for proper purposes that
is, for purposes of protecting them
selves and the general public- as
against the power of the great cor
porations."
He favors as an element of compe
tition the passage of some such law
as that which has already passed the
house, putting alcohol used In the arts
and manufactures upon the free list
and of keeping the fee,to oil and coal
lands of the Indian tribes or on the
public domain in the government, the
lands to be leased only on such terms
Here is an artist's pretty description
of a tinselmaker in Delhi, India: "The
silken thread from a oall under the
worker's feet as he squats on the
ground runs over the hook and is
attached to the spindle. One rapid
sweep of the latter along the worker's
thigh sets it going, and both the slen
der, supple hands are free, one for
the thread, one for the tinsel, which
in a flash shoots upward to arm's
length coiled like snake about the
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DELHI TINSELMAKER.
and for such periods as will enable the
government to entirely control them/"'
REPORT OF GARFIELD.
Transportation an Important Factor
in Oil* Competition.
Washington, May 5.—In summariz
ing his report Commissioner Garfield
speaks of his personal visit to the oil
fields and of the great mass of data
obtained by him either personally or
through agents of the bureau of cor
porations. ,The preliminary study of
this material, he says, showed that
the most important subject was trans
portation, which enters so largely into
the cost of furnished product, and
hence a most important factor in com
petition.
"The Standard claims that tne lo
cation of its refineries and the use
of pipe lines are natural advantages
to which it is justly entitled by'reason
of the energy and foresight of its man
agers. While in a measure that is
true, it may not be forgotten that
these advantages were in part obtained
by means of unfair competitive meth
ods after years of industrial strife,
"The development of the pipe line
system by the Standard Oil company
was the result of special agreements
with railroad companies. Further
more, those so-called natural advanj
tages have been and are being greatly
increased by discriminations in freight
rates, both published and secret, inter
state and state, which give, the Stand
ard monopolistic control in the great
er portion df the country, and which
so limit competition as to practically
prevent the. extension of the business
of any independent to a point which
even remotely endangers the supre
macy of the Standard.
Trust Control Complete.
"An immediate result of this delim
itation of the competitive area is
shown by the prices of ordinary il
luminating oil throughout the counr
try. After deducting the freight rate
the price of such oil is usually from
two cents to five cents a gallon high
er in the non-competitive than in the
competitive fields. A reasonable profit.
upon refined oil is about one-lialf a
cent per gallon. It is clear that ex
orbitant profits are obtained *n the
non-competitive fields. This monopo
listic control extends from the well of
the producer to the doorstep of the
consumer."
Mr. Garfield cites the fact that the
New York Central Railroad company
was the only one which refused for
itself and affiliated lines to give ac
cess to records of state rates.
At the beginning of the investigar
tlori, he says, the Standard Oil comr
pany denied that it has obtained in
recent years or was now obtaining
any rebate or other transportation dis
crimination against its competitors,
and yet he says that a most careful re
view of the facts and the explanations
leads to the conclusion that the Stand
ard Oil company has habitually re
ceived from the railroads, and is now
receiving, secret rates and other un
just and illegal discriminations.
Sum Saved by Secret Rates.
In 1904 these secret rates saved the
Standard Oil company three-quarters
of a million dollars, representing the
difference between the open rates and
the rates actually paid. "These dis
criminations," he says, "have been, so
long continued, and so secret, so in
geniously applied to new conditions
of trade, and so large in amount as to
make it certain that they were due to
concerted action by the Standard and
the railroads." He says further that'
the Standard Oil company is receiving
unjust discriminations in the matter
of open rates, the published rates from
the leading Standard shipping points
being relatively much lower than rates
from the shipping points of its com
petitors.
Mr. Garfield then refers to seven
instances of important discriminations
in favor of the Standard Oil com
pany in various parts of the country,
and says that most of the secret rates
and some of the open discriminations
discovered by the bureau were abol
ished by the railroads shortly after
such discovery. After calling atten
tion to the good which already has re
sulted from the investigation, Mr. Gar
field says that the changes, effected
have put the independents upon a fair
er footing and make competition pos
sible in territories heretofore inacces
sible. The report concludes as fol
lows:
Independents at Disadvantage.
"Nevertheless, the widespread dis
criminations in open rates still in
force leave the independents at se
rious disadvantage. The investigation
has only incidentally touched state
shipments from distributing centers,
particularly in less than carloads. The
few instances examined suggest the
probability of discriminations on
such shipments, which, taken in con
nection with through traffic, may re
sult, in discriminations on interstate
business.
"This investigation has shown very
clearly one glaring defect in the inter
state commerce law, viz., the method
of filing and publishing tariffs. Al
though a tariff or a rate has been filed
with the commission in compliance
with the terms of the law, none but
the favored shipper may know of its
existence. Tariffs may be made and
rates may be combined in such a man
ner as to, make it practically impos
sible for the ordinary shipper to find
them. As long as the state rates are
not required to be made public, and
shippers use such rates in combina
tion with interstate rates, all manner
of devices to evade the purpose of the
law are possible. All state rates used
in connection with interstate ship
ments should be filed with the inter
state commerce commission, r.nd a
radical change should be made in the
direction of simplifying tariffs and in
methods of posting and filing them."
spinning thread the sunlight and the
gold tinsel together flash up the yel
low silken thread, seeming to set it
on fire."
Old Blankets.
When old blankets have holes too
large to darn, patch, then cover with
cheesecloth or silkalme, tack with col
ored yarn, buttonhole stitch the edges
with the yarn, and you will have a
most satisfactory bed covering.
NEWS 8 FH I N I S.
Driven Insane*
Duluth—Alfred Johnson, a home»
steader of the Little Fork country,,
went insane as a result of his long Iso
lation and he has had a terrible experi
ence.
A neighbor happened to visit the
Johnson homestead and he was sur
prised to find that the house had ap
parently not been inhabited for days.
The door was open and the interior in
disorder. The live stock were eager
for food and water, having been with
out either for some time.
Search was made for Johnson aiad
the first clue found was the bloody
footprints of some man who had been
wandering: barefooted through the
woods and swamps.
Johnson was found at last sitting on
a log near Gay Parker's homestead.
He was half naked. He had just set
fire to Parker's barn, though the flames
had not obtained much headway, and
the manifestly insane man was
stretching out his bare feet toward the
fire, saying: that nobody could worship
Jesus with wet feet-
Johnson was taken care of, and is
now at Grand Rapids, where his condi
tion will be inquired into by the pro
bate judge of Itasca county.
Isolation frequently drives home
steaders insane, and many who. are not
actually insane are considered queer.
Commerce of Great Lakes.
'Duluth'.—A good deal of the size of
the traffic on the Great Lakes during
the season of navigation may be gath
ered from the fact that, according to
statistics compiled by. government en
gineers in the Lake Superior district,
Duluth, a port more than 1,000 imiles'
from 'salt water, stands next TO New
York in respect to mean monthly
freight movement. Last year the
freight brought in and shipped out of
St..Louis bay amounted to 22,676,145
tons, valued at $196,751,583, and this is
exclusive of receipts of logs amounting
to 34,285,000 feet. The average month
ly value of this commerce was nearly
$25,000,000, so that if there were open
navigation all the year round and the
monthly record were maintained the
total would be about $300,000,000.
These shipments and receipts repre
sented an increase of 6,059,1^8 tons, or
36.46 per cent, over the total of 1904,
and an increase in cash value amount
ing to $39,518,374.
Deer Beats Train.
Hidding.—There was an exciting race
between a Great Northern ore train and
a deer, and a number of wagers were
laid by the train crew on the- result.
The deer popped out of the woods
about midway between here and Swan
river, took the edge of the track and
trotted along ahead of the train. The
engineer opened the throttle a ^trifle
wider, but the deer put a little more
ginger into his legs and kept ahead.
Then the throttle was thrown wide
open and the train shot forward with
greatly increased speed. Still the deer
managed'to keep ahead for about 200
yards further. Finally, just as the re
sult of the race was getting in doubt,
and the iron horse was sIoAvly creeping
upon its forest rival, the animal turned
off into the woods. It had won a race
of riearly two miles.
Much Money.
St. Paul.—The state closed April with
a cash balance of $533,936.76 in the rev
enue fund, a decrease since a month
ago of about $100,000, but more than
$300,000 better than the condition a
year ago. On March 31, ,1906, the rev
enue fund totaled $636,127.32. On
April 30, 1905, it was down to $176,256.
From now on for several months the
expenses of the state government will
be larger than the income. The ex
penses of the government during April
were $287,000 and the income some
thing like $185,000. \Vith that much
income during the n^sxt three months
the state ought to close the fiscal year
without an overdraft. Last July the
fiscal year closed with a shortage of
nearly $450,000.
Inheritance Tax.
St. Paul.—The first eight months of
the operation of the Somerville inheri
tance tax has yielded $58,181.13 for the
state.
Eighteen estates have paid the in
heritance tax since the law went into
effect Sept. 12, 1905. This is a graded
tax according to the size of the estate
involved. Inheritances, bequests and
gifts up to $10,000 are exempt. From
$10,000 to $50,000 the tax is 1%
cent $50,000 to $100,00, 3 per cent
$100,000 or over, 5 per cent.
News Notes.
St Paul—Prof. Winchell says Min
nesota is safe from earthquakes.
St. Paul—A Minneapolis man la held
up and robbed on Como avenue.
Ft.^ Snelling—New regulations pro
vide for athletic meets for regular
soldiers.
Minneapolis—Minnesota grain in
spection law riot affected by Wiscon
sin decision.
St. Paul—A. J. Smith will retire as
superintendent of schools.
St. Paul—Two cases involving the
constitutionality of Ramsey county's
salary law were argued before the su
preme court.
St. Peter—Seniors of the St. Peter
high school gave their class play, "Mr.
Bob," in. the opera house. The presen
tation drew a crowded house.
Cass Lake—C. E. Leeman of Cass
Lake, president of the Northern Min
nesota Firemen's Tournament associa
tion, and the secretary have formu^
lated plans for the twelfth annual
tournament, which will be held at Cass
Lake, June 20, 21, 22 and 23,
Eveleth—The first brush and forest
fires of the season were discernable
from the heights of the Mesaba range.
They appear to be along the railway
lines which radiate to the mining
towns.
Minneapolis—Despondent because of
^11 health, Mrs. Arthur S. Tenney at
tempted suicide by taking carbolic acid
in her rooms at 34% Eleventh street S.
Ada—Congressman Steenerson has
appointed President Weld or the Moor
head Normal school, Supt. Mclntyre
of Crookston and Supt. Butler of Ada
as an examining board to pass upon
the merits of candidates for a naval
cadetship at Annapolis.
Duluth—Fire in some manner orig
inated under the Wisconsin draw of
the Northern Pacific railroad bridge
between Rice's point, Duluth, and
Superior. The tugs Medina and Su
perior arrived before the fire had got
much headway and tiuickly put it out.
There is no delay to traffic over the
bridge or to vessels passing through
it.
Jasper—The stone crusher just in
stalled at the Jasper quarries by J.
J, Gehler of Sioux City made its first
xun. It has a capacity of two tons
an hour and it handles the hardest
Jasper stone with perfect case. Fully
five hundred cars are now broken up
ready for the crusher.
I Gossip From
Scandinavia,
A_
Principal Events That Have Oc
curred in the Old Countries
Within a Week or So.
Dr. Sigurd Ibsen, former Norwegian
minister of state in" Stockholm, has
written a magazine article on the disso
lution of the Swedish-Norwegian union
which is very interesting to the general
reader, but which is unpleasant read
ing for certain parties way up in soci
ety, and which has heaped any amount
of criticism upon Dr. Ibsen as a man
who does not know when it is time for
a gentleman to keep a secret. He tells
among other things., that he once asked
King Oscar whether the crown prince
could sanction the bill passed by the
Norwegian storting for the establish
ment of a separate consular service for
Norway. To this the king answered
"with ail desirable frankness" as fol
lows: 'The crown prince cannot af
ford to pick a quarrel with Sweden.
Remember that Sweden is the greater
country, and that the dynasty came
there before it came to Norway." On
the same occasion one of the Swedish
princes made the remark, that "per
sonally it must be more pleasant by far
to be king of only one of the two coun
tries and another prince declared
still more emphatically: 'One cannot
intend to be both Norwegian and Swed
ish without losing his character." The
author continues: "When 1 last talked
with the king in March, 1905. he had
come to the conclusion that the disso
lution of the union was a question of
time, and I believe that he felt it as a
benefit when ,he was relieved of the
burden of being compelled to choose be
tween the two." As to the future of the
Scandinavian countries, Dr. Ibsen gives
the following advice: "We must look
squarely at the conditions as they are.
An alliance with a great power, no
matter which, cannot be contemplated
by the Scandinavian kingdoms. A real
alliance can exist only between equals.
Where one party is far more powerful
than the other the relation will be a
more or less masked protectorate.
Therefore the three kingdoms of the
North are naturally thrown back upon
themselves. Joint action will be of
benefit to them not only in exceptional
cases of cosmopolitan scope, but also
in the every-day affairs of internation
al life. Let us hope that we may dis
cern these infinitely'simple truths that
ten million people weigh more than five
or two, and that great results are at
tained by unity not by discord."
The "Social Democrats of Sweden and
Norway are drawing more and more
closely together. Four leading Swedish
Socialists attended the national conven
tion of the Norwegian Socialists, and
the latter went so far in their anti
military demonstrations as to pass a
resolution against the use of arms for
war purposes in any shape or form.
It was admitted that the Social Demo
crats of Sweden deserved great credit
for checking the Swedish war party
last summer.
DENMARK.
When the fresh recruits were called
to the barracks in Copenhagen they
were met by a swarm of young So
cialists at the entrance. The latter
were members of the "Socialist young
peoples association," which had elected
sixty agitators, who carried a liberal
supply of "Ny Tid" (New Era). While
the distribution of these papers was
going on the police stepped up and
arrested thirteen of,the agitators, two
of whom were women, and took them
to the police station. Ny Tid had been
printed in 50,000 copies by a Social
istic publishing company in Sweden
because several Copenhagen concerns
had refused to print it.
Steamers from Iceland report that
Mount Hekla has been in eruption,
ashes being scattered over a wide erea.
The disturbances, however, were not
serious.
Ditler Voss, a manufacturer at
Fredericia, has donated a magnificent
brass chandelier to the cathedral at
TrOndhjem, Norway. It is a copy of
a chandelier which has been used in
the cathedral for a great length of
time. The chandelier bears the fol
lowing inscription: "In memory of the
coronation of King Haakon VII and
Queen Maud, 1906." The gift is a
very valuable one.
The I. Moresco Company, of Copen
hagen, celebrated the 50th anniversary'
of the establishment of the firm by
distributing $110,000 as gifts.
The Social Democratic national con
vention, by a vote of 214 to 49, resolved
to support the candidates of the Radi
cal Leptists in the districts where the
Social Democrats put up no candidates
for members of the Folketing. At the
same time the convention resolved to
put up candidates in 62 districts,
which were named in a resolution so
that there could be no mistake about
it.
NORWAY.
Mayor Selmer of Hamrnerfest lost
his life as a result of an accident which
occurred while he was taking a walk in
the mountains near the city. He was
the oldest son of former Premier Sel
mer.
A nursery at Sandnas, Jaderen, has
received orders for a lot of fruit trees
and rose bushes to be sent to the
island of Anticosti, Canada, and 20,000
evergreen trees may be sent to Buenos
Ayres, South America.
The snowfall was enormous in west
ern Norway last winter, and one of the
results will be an abundance of salmon
in the rivers next summer.
The coronation gift to the king and
queen from the city of Trondhjem will
be a combined silver coffee and tea
set.
The proprietors of the Aalgaard
woolen mills, Stavanger, have decided
to set aside $270 a year for a pension
fund for the employes at the factory.
Foreigners own 306 parcels of real
estate in Norway the exclusive
privilege of hunting and fishing on 56
tracts of land has been acquired by
foreigners and 160 mineral claims are
in the possession of foreigners. Of the
whole number of foreigners interested,
290 are Englishmen, and 43 are Ger
mans.
Dr. Sigurd Ibsen's article on Scan
dinavian politics, which is treated else
where in thesa columns, has given out
so many secrets from the imthor's po
litical .life that his political future is
in great peril.- The present cabinet
offered him an impoitant position as
ambassador to a foreign court, but he
answered that he could no*- accept the
offer "for the time being" Now his
lack of tact has put this "time being"
into the dim, distant future.
Four men who were wrecked on a
small island called Auvar1 had to stay
there 'two weeks before they were
taken away. They lived en two birds
which they killed and on fish-heads
which they found on the beach.
Edin Holme, traveling secretary of
the Norwegian Lutheran Inner Mission
Society, has published a collection of
hymns which he calls "The Son of
Man," the life of Jesus being the cen
ter of every hymn. The hymns are
highly spoken of by those who ought to
be good judges of such matters.
A fishing and hunting vessel belong
ing to Feddersen & Nissen, of Hamrner
fest, was found upside down in the
Arctic ocean. It is supposed that its
crew of ten men perished at once.
Bishop Wexelsen told King Haakon
that it is customary for the king and
queen to walk from the government
building to the cathedral, where they
are to be crowned. But the king said
•he did not enjoy parades, and so the
royal couple will ride through the city
of Trondhjem in a carriage The queen
also had something to do with this part
of the program.
The people of Trondhjem are so
strongly in favor of altering parts
of the government building into a royal
residence that they may raise the nec
essary funds without government aid.
A snowslide struck a house at Spir
vik, Ersfjord, near Tromso, in the
nigjit. Five persons who were in the
house saved their lives, but three chil
djpen were dead when they were dug
out of the snow.
The Norwegians came out as num
ber two at the international rifle con
test at he Olympic games, and G. G.
Skattebo, a Norwegian, won the world's
individual championship.
Active preparations are being made
for the coronation of King Haakon.
June 23, at the Trondjherr. cathedral.
The day has been selected because
twenty-two is the king's "lucky" num
ber. He has resolved that there shall
be no procession, though energetic ef
forts have been made to remove his
objection, which is of a religious char
acter. The bishop of Trondhjem will
ur the sacred oil on the king's un
covered breast, after which Premier
Michelsen, assisted by a clergyman,
will set the crown on the monarcn's
head. The prince and princess of
Wales, Princess Victoria of Wales and
a Danish prince, probably the crown
prince, with the whole diplomatic
corps, are expected to be present.
SWEDEN.
In the great event at the Olympic
games was the Marathon race. Fifty
two men took part in this race, and
Svanberg. a Swede, was number two,
running from Marathon to Athens, a
distance of about twenty (English)
miles, in two hours 5S minutes and 20
seconds. The winner was about seven
minutes ahead of Svanberg.
In an address which Premier Staaff
made before 300 distinguished men at
a banquet in Gothenburg he main
tained that the great political issue
before the Swedish people at the pres
ent time is the general suffrage ques
tion, and the only proper way to dis
pose of this is to adopt the govern
ment bill which gives every man of
the age of twenty-five years the right
to vote for members of the second
chamber of the riksdag. He roasted,
though in a refined manner, those who
are trying to block the passage of the
government bill.
Many new buildings, espe?ially barns
and granaries, are going to be put up
next summer on what is known as
'/South Plain," Skane. This activity in
the building trade shows that the
farmers of the plain have been do
ing well.
The weather was very warm for the
season in southern Sweden during the
middle of April, the temperature be
ing as high as 65 degrees to 70 de
grees Fahrenheit in the shade. The
spring work was at its height about
the middle of the month. Rain was
badly needed.
Replying to a question in the Riks
dag with regard to the suffering of the
Lapland population in the north, the
minister of the interior explained that
the starvation of the reindeer herds
which was causing famine among the
Lapps, was due more to immediate
climate conditions in the districts
where -the reindeer were pastured than
to the effects of the Karlstad conven
tion, limiting the pasture rights of
these nomads. A hard frost following
a partial thaw had covered the snow
with a thick ice crust through which
the reindeer were unable to feach the
mosses they feed on. To save the rein
deer herds from starvation they had
been driven across the frontier into
Finland and Norway long before the
period fixed by treaty for these migra
tions, and had been consequently driv
en back, under penalty of immediate
confiscation. Legally,' this proceeding
on the part of the local authorities is
perfectly justified, but it has called
forth articles in the Swedish press,
showing that the very existence of the
nomadic Laplanders is threatened un
less a better regulation of their pas
toral conditions can be devised. As
the minister said in concluding his
statement, their existence is absolute
ly dependent on the generosity of the
three nations within whose frontiers
their pasture lands lie.
The program of the Olympic games
at Athens for the forenoon of April 29
was given up to a remarkable aquatic
display at Phalerum, where the work
of the Swedish athletes in a series of
events, including diving, life saving
and water polo, excited the keenest
admiration of the Greeks, who never
before had seen such a clever dis
play. All Athens, headed by King
George and Queen Olga and the mem
bers of the royal family wa« present.
"The people's house," that is, the
building of the labor unions of Malmo,
gave a surplus of $1,600 fop the past
year.
Some of the leading boat clubs of
Sweden have united .themselves into
a national association.
A Swedish mining company backed
by a capital of $750,000, has opened
iron mines at Bogen, Evenes, Norway.
The company has acquired permission
to explore 90 (English) square miles
of territory. About 65,000 has been
voted for a plant for reducing the ore.
A number of Upsala students have
spent nine days making geological re
searches in Skane.
Four hundred partridges and 200
pheasants from Austria and Germany
have been set free this spring in
Skane.
A petition in favor of woman's suf
frage has been signed by 40,000 wo
men before the first of April.
A peaceful sailor on board the Skane
was attacked by a gang of toughs
while making a short trip ashore in a
Sicilian town, and he was* so badly
cut with a knife that his life could
barely be saved. The men who carried
him to the hospital, the doctor that
treated him, and the druggist that fur
nished medicine charged such exorbi
tant prices that the Swedish govern
ment may have to attend to the mat
ter.
Forest fires raged in the Herrestad
mountain, near Uddevalla, for about
six hours in the afternoon and -when
they were checked by the fire depart
ment of Uddevalla they had swept over
an area of 2,000 acres.