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WILLMAR. MINN.
BRIEF REVIEW OF
IIWEEK'S EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
IZED FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar
ters of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal of the
Busy Man.
Abraham Ruef, former political boss
of San Francisco, astounded that city
by pleading guilty to extortion. He
will be sent to prison. In a remarka
ble statement he bared his soul, tell
ing of the political ring he created
and how, unwillingly, he says, it drew
him into a maze of corruption.
The president plans criminal action
against E. H. Harriman for his railway
deals based on finding of special in
vestigators.
Clashes between counsel during ex
amination of jurors in Haywood trial
at Boise forced the court to interfere
and presages a bitter contest.
Storms and frost in various locali
ties caused damage, snowfall in the
northwest establishing a new record.
Judge Wood at St. Louis decided H.
Clay Pierce must be delivered to a
Texas sheriff, but he appealed and
was held in $40,000 bonds.
The Illinois senate passed a resolu
tion to adjourn to October 15 without
taking action on the deep waterway
bills, and it becomes known that the
interests of a big Joliet power com
pany block legislation.
Secretary Wilson says that Chicago
packers are heartily cooperating in
enforcing the pure food law and that
their plants are models of sanitary
conditions.
Twenty-one persons are placed in
the roll of heroes by the Carnegie hero
fund commission at Pittsburg, which
awards medals to those who risked
their lives for others, or to relatives
of those who died in performing heroic
deeds.
Bad river, south of Ashland, Wis.,
has overflowed its banks and is the
highest in years. The village of
Odanah is flooded and one-third of the
inhabitants have been forced from
their homes.
The village of Finch, Ont., has been
almost wiped out by fire. On Monday
night there was a $50,000 blaze, which
Btarted up again Tuesday night, caus
ing additional damage of $80,000.
Fire at McCann, N. D., destroyed the
St. Anthony and Dakota elevator, the
Imperial elevator, the Great Northern
depot, a house and barn and a box car.
Loss, $30,000.
The sheriff destroyed $5,000 worth
of liquor in the street at Independ
ence, Kan. The liquor was seized some
time ago from saloons in the county.
The destruction was witnessed by an
immense crowd of people.
Oliver Dalrymple says the wheat
acreage of North Dakota is greatly re
duced, owing to the backward season.
The total crop of the country will be
100,000,000 bushels short, he says.
Later returns from the Austrian
elections show enormous gains by the
socialists and anti-Semites.
The extensive forest fires which
have been raging in President and
Pine Grove townships, Venango coun
ty. Pa., covering an area of ten square
miles, are believed to be under con
trol. The timber loss is estimated at
$75,000.
President Roosevelt received Rear
Admiral Huet De Bacellar, command
ing the Brazilian fleet now at Hamp
ton roads, and the personal officers of
his fleet and his staff, who are the
guests of the United States govern
ment.
William Kenney, an employe of the
Walker distillery at Walkerville, Ont.,
Just across the Detroit river from De
troit, was drowned in a vat of whisky
mash.
Of five Italians who came to Cranes
"ville, near Amsterdam, N. Y., from
Schenectady to seek work on the con
struction of the barge canal, three
were drowned by the capsizing of a
boat in which they were rowing across
the Mohawk river.
On a plea of guilty to a charge of
murder in the second degree John
Stapp, 15 years of age, was sentenced
by Judge Williams in St. Louis to 99
years in the penitentiary.
Rusteian reactionists met and de
manded stringent laws for the guard
ing of public safety.
Witnesses at the senate investiga
tion of the Brownsville affray at
Washington testified to seeing the
negro troops firing their guns during
the riot.
The supreme court of Kansas grant
ed a writ to oust Peter Everhardy,
mayor of Leavenworth, from office
for failure to enforce the laws against
saloons and other resorts.
Thieves stole a searchlight weigh
ing 200 pounds from the top of a
building in Chicago.
Ellas Hartz. a famous "goosebone"
weather prophet, of Reading, Pa.,
whose predictions usually came true,
died at the age of 92 years.
Two masKed highwaymen held up a
station agent of the Chicago Metropol
itan elevated road and escaped with
1X2.
Abraham Hummel, the New York
lawyer who was convicted of conspir
acy in the Dodge-Morse divorce case,
^was sentenced to one year in state
prison and to pay a fine of $500.
Mrs. Michael Pendergast, of Sterl
ing, HI., stepped on a maten, set fire
to her clothing and burned, to death.
WlUiam Quinn, chief of police of
Greenville, Miss., Committed suicide!
,, Troops and engineers hate been
*ent to Stromboii to render assistance
to the islanded, to
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A soldier of the czar's guard reveals
plot to kill the emneror.
The Missouri supreme court af
firmed the death sentences imposed
on Convicts George Ryan, Harry
Vaughan and Edward Raymond, who
broke out of the penitentiary Novem
ber 24, 1905,, and killed guard John
Clay in resisting-recapture. The three
will be hanged on June 27.
The German reichstag passed the
third reading of the commercial modus
Vivendi between the United States
and Germany. Tb.fr bill will now go to
the emperor for his signature.
Regarding the alleged shortage of
$12,000 in the accounts of Cashier
W. C. Wallace, of the Columbus, O.,
post office, who shot himself. Post
master Krum said: "We have found
nothing as yet to warrant a suspicion.
If there is a shortage it is in the
stocks and we are only now beginning
an investigation of that end."
Mrs. Minnie Mallow was taken to
the Springfield (O.) city hospital suf
fering from a bullet wound In the
breast which she declares was self
inflicted. Her husband, D. F. Malloy,
was locked up on suspicion.
The Western Association of Bottle
Manufacturers is in session at Pitts
burg, Pa., with a committee of the
Glass Bottle* Blowers' Association of
America for the purpose of readjust
ing the wage scale.
The annual state convention of the
Knights of Columbus was held at Ev
ansville, Ind., about 10 delegates being
present.
The Archer block at Rochester, N.
Y., was burned. The Steeful, Straus
& Connor company, wholesale cloth
iers, lost $125,000 the Wheeler-Green
Electric company, $50,000 and the
owner of the building $75,000.
An interesting feature of the next
Republican national convention will
be a reunion of the delegates to the
national convention in Chicago in
18S0, who, for 36 ballots, supported
Grant for the presidency for a third
term. The call for the reunion has
been issued by Col. A, M. Hughes, of
Columbia, Tenn., the only surviving
member of the Tennessee delegation
to the 18S0 convention.
It is rumored that Corey, president
of the United States Steel corporation,
had resigned and that A. C. Dinkey,
president of the Carnegie Steel com
pany, would succeed him.
Two hundred men, women and chil
dren, led by ministers with their
Bibles in hand, marched to the court
house at Mays Landing, N. J., where
the grand jury was about to be con
vened, and sang and prayed against
Sunday liquor selling.
Orrin W. Potter, retired steel mag
nate, who recently underwent an op
eration, is said to be critically ill at
his home in Chicago. His recovery is
doubtful, physicians say, because of
his advanced age. He is 70 years old.
M. von Radewltz, second secretary
of the German embassy, was fired
upon twice by Town Marshal Collins,
of Glen Echo, a small hamlet in Mary
land, while speeding through the place
in his automobile. The second secre
tary stopped his machine, alighted and
informed the'marshal he was immune
from arrest, and would make com
plaint to the secretary of state.
The militia took charge of the jail
at Brunswick, Ga., to protect a ne
gro, Lee Holmes, who is charged with
killing A. A. Sands at Darien Junction.
Sands was a prominent white man.
John W. Gates has resigned as a di
rector of the National Bank of North
America and has sold his holdings of
the stock of that bank. The interest
in his withdrawal from the directorate
of the bank lies in the fact it was the
only financial institution with which
he was connected as a director.
The large flour mills at Chihuahua,
Mexico, owned by Ambassador Creel,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,
000.
The anti-bucket shop bill passed the
Pennsylvania senate by a vote of 36
to 1.
The Presbyterian ministers of Pitts
burg have "resolved" that Gaston La
Touche's painting, "The Bath," which
was awarded first prize at the annual
international art exhibition of the Car
negie institute, won't do.
Thirty-one persons were killed and
more than a score injured in the
wreck of a special train on the South
ern Pacific at Honda, Cal., bearing
Shriners from Reading, Pa., and Buf
falo, N. Y., and their families. The
train was derailed by a defective
switch and the cars smashed.
Coroner's jury at Santa Barbara,
Cal., was unable to determine cause of
the wreck which killed 21 Shriners.
Four Kansas City ice companies
were fined an aggregate of $32,500
and one concern was ousted from the
state for violating the Missouri anti
trust law by Judge Walter A. Powell
in the circuit court at Independence,
Mo. Similar cases against four other
companies were dismissed.
W. E. Corey married Mabelle Gil
man, the dancer, a few minutes after
midnight Tuesday morning in a pri
vate chapel in the Hotel Gotham, New
York.
Fight for the Gould millions Is to be
the principal feature of Mrs. Howard
Gould's suit for legal separation.
Chicago experienced the .hottest day
of the year on Monday.
The distillery and grist mill of the
H. Corby company at Belleville, Ont,
were destroyed by fire, originating, it
is believed from'Spontaneous- combus
tion. The loss is placed sit $260^000.
Mrs. Mattie Connally, of Maysville,
Ala., killed her son-in-law, Frank Al
bright, because he went borne drunk
and drove out his family.'
The heads of the steamship compan
ies in New York incluled in the Inter
national Mercantile Marine company
served notice upon tie' striking' long
shoremen that unlestt the latter re
turned to work within a week their
places would be filled.
The business section of Gibson,
Five- of the seven stores and two resi
dences were destroyed. £-, $ &* t
Harry Cole, suspected of being one
on the North Coast train robbers, was
killed by a Butte policeman as he was
trying to escape from custody, and a
mob tried to lynch another, officer Who
they thought shot Cole.
The Penn-Wyoniingc Copper
pany's snMtt«ft tramw
ciphers at Grand Encamoment^Wyo,
destroyed by a
|ve baea of incendtarjr" origin
Ambassador Bryce and Baron Kur
oki assisted in the celebration of the
three hundredth anniversary of the
founding of Jamestown.
William O. Douglass, the confessed
thief of $80,000 in bonds from the
Trust Company of America, in a fur
ther confession said he had intended,
on the advice of a lawyer, to steal
$1,000,000 and use it to force forgive
ness *of smaller thefts.
Radicals In the/duma again were
defeated by the constitutional demo
crats in a debate over the execution
of four men at Moscow, which is
called judicial" murder.
Recommendation of the passage of
the deep water way bill made to both
houses of the Illinois legislature by
the state commission.
King Alfonso opened the new Span
ish, parliament, reading a message
from the throne in which he promised
reforms in the state administration.
Wheat market soared above one dol
lar on Monday in the most sensational!
opening trade that the Chicago board
of trade has witnessed in many a year.
European grain markets were stirred
by sensational crop developments and
light shipments from exporting coun
tries.
Arkansas legislature further compli
cated the life insurance business in
the state by passing the Wingo law.
Constitutional lawyers at Spring
field, 111., believe that the public utili
ties article of the new Chicago charter
is invalid.
Speaker Cannon told Peoria people
he believed in a ship canal clear to the
gulf.
Russell Sage $10,000,000 Foundation
was formally organized by election of
officers, several well-known charity
workers joining in the project.
A conference between Hill and Har
riman interests at St. Paul failed to
settle the question of Spokane freight
rates.
Three watchmen failed to discover
fire in $700,000 steamer City of Cleve
land, at Detroit, till it was too late and
boat was entirely destroyed.
London audience hooted and jeered
Julia Marlowe and E. H. Sothern after
the performance of "When Knight
hood Was in Flower."
Commercial modus Vivendi with
United States' passed second reading
in German reichstag despite sharp at
tack.
Ambassador Reid gave a dinner, to
Sir Wilfrid Laurier which was attend
ed by representatives from all parts
of British empire.
Supreme court held eight-hour law
constitutional and dismissed Kansas
irrigation suit.
Postmaster General Meyer denied
United States would not consent to
delay the date for the taking effect of
the union postal convention.
Senator Dick calls off the proposed
"harmony" conference in Ohio.
Crazed by liquor, Italians in railway
yards near Hammond, Ind., engaged in
a bloody riot.
Tree fruit crops in the'"southwest
were reported to be practically des
troyed by the late frosts and other
fruit and berries badly damaged.
The city jailer of Newport, Ky., was
arrested in a raid on a crap game and
was locked up in his own jail.
Ninety Mexican miners lost their
lives in a fire in the Lenares copper
mine at Velardena, in the state of
Durango.
Queen Victoria, of Spain, gave birth
to a son and the entire country re
joiced. The baby was formally pre
sented to the court and diplomats by
the king, who also proclaimed a pub
lic holiday and pardoned thousands
of prisoners.
The newly-born Spanish prince was
named Alfonso Pio Christina Eduardo.
Senator Foraker issued a statement
saying that he was malting no deal
with anyone, but he would accept the
results of the Ohio Republican conven
tion.
Fire in Perry, la., destroyed four
business buildings, the loss being $25,
000.
State Senator Charles H. Hughes, of
Illinois, died at Excelsior Springs, Mo.
He was thrown from his horse recent
ly, and sustained the injury which
caused his death.
Services commemorating the twen
tieth anniversary of the inauguration
of the Salvation Army of S Louis
were conducted by Commander Eva
Booth.
Mrs. Agner Barlow Houser, wife of
Daniel M. Houser, of S Louis, presi
dent of the Globe Printing company,
publishing the Globe-Democrat, died
from the effect of a self-inflicted bullet
wound in the right temple.
Engineer N. B. McGinnis and Fire
man Sullivan were killed in a wreck
of a passenger train on the Southern
Pacific in New Mexico.
Rev. W. M. P. Richards, a colored
pastor of Carlisle, Ky., was shot and
killed and his alleged murderers, a
man and woman, were threatened
with lynching.
Unknown persons set off a charge
of some high explosive under the
house of Samuel Cook, a negro, at
Ruston, La., blowing the house to
pieces and killing Cook and four other
negroes.
Mo., was almost wiped out by fire. wounded his wife, from whom he had
been separated, in Wichita, Kan. Ful
ton way pursued by a crowd and sur
rounded In a, freight yard. After a
battle with revolvers he escaped, but
is believed, to have committed suicide.
Lieut Gov. Sherman,1 of Illinois,
was appointed by the president as a
member of the Spanish treaty claims
commission.
Edward Kemeys, noted sculptor of
wild animals, died at his home, in
Washington.
James R. Palmer, aged 97, who op
erated the first bus line in New York
city, was present at the laying of the
first rail of the first railway in the
United States and was once an inti
mate friend of Henry Clay, died in
Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Writs of ouster were issued by the
supreme court of Kansas against the
Western Union Telegraph company
and the Pullman company for not
complying with the Kansas corpora
tion laws.-
N v,
W. R. Fulton shot and dangerously
Capt A. Krech, of the Hamburg
American line steamer Graf Walter
see, one of the oldest commanders in
the transath^tiji service died on board
hie sWp^ While the steamer was in
brewer of Wlirono, titan
prominent'
died from
WALL STREET KING DENOUNCED
A3 RAILROAD WRECKER.
PROSECUTION IS AHEAD
Report of Special Attorneys Prepared
Per Interstate Commerce Com
mission Calls Huge Deals'
Illegal.
New York.—An extract of the inter
state commerce commission findings
on its investigation of the Harri
man railroad combination was made
public Wednesday, and it is said that
the report is by far the most sensa
tional ever put out by the commission.
It is stated that the commission has
found that railroad competition has
been choked off entirely in an area
equal to one-third of the United
States, and that in this area Harri
man is absolute master that Harri
man's contracts with the Rock Island,
Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe, the Il
linois Central and the San Pedro
roads are in violation of the anti-trust
acts and recommends that the attor
ney general proceed against them
that the purchase of the shares of one
railroad by another was a bad practice
that ought to be stopped by. law that
there should be new andv effective
laws to prevent inflation of securities
like that in the Alton organization
that the profits of the great railroads
of the far west are being used to buy
stock and control systems in the east,
instead of building more roads for the
development of the west.
Attorneys Frank B. Kellogg and
Charles A. Severance, who wrote the
report for the commission, find that
the Harriman reorganization of the Al
ton was "one of the most remarkable
cases of manipulation and stock wa
tering ever known," and they demand
that laws be passed which shall stop
such practices in future.
The report concludes that Harriman
aow has absolute control of the Illi
aois Central and that he is so power
ful in the Santa Fe that he has been
able to stop all competition between
it and his roads.
It is declared that the combination
of the Union and Southern Pacific sys
tem has been so powerful as not only
:o suppress all competition, but to pre
sent the building of the San Pedro
road from Salt Lake to Los Angeles
as an independent line. The independ
ent railroad, in the great empire dom
inated by Harriman, is found to be im
possible. The report of the com
mission will be sent to Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte in a few days.
In view of the well-known attitude
at the administration toward the Har
riman combination, no doubt is enter
tained that a series of great suits will
be Instituted in the immediate future
to dissolve the different agreements,
contracts, and stockholding arrange
ments by which the Union Pacific
holds control of many of its proper
ties.
ABE RUEF PLEADS GUILTY.
Ex-Frisco 'Bess" Admits
Extortion.
Charge' bf
San Francisco.—Abraham Ruef, bet
ter known as Abe Ruef, the acknowl
edged adviser of Mayor Schmitz and
once the recognized dictator of mu
nicipal affairs in San Francisco, plead
ed guilty to the charge of extortion
in Judge Dunne's court Wednesday.
Sentence will be pronounced upon him
two weeks hence.
After a private conference with his
four attorneys in Judge Dunne's pri
vate chambers Wednesday afternoon,
and after they had withdrawn from
his case because of the resolution he
had taken to change his plea ana
avoid trial, Ruef, to the utter aston
ishment of the prosecution, arose in
cpurt and announced in a dramatic
address that, after long and earnest
consideration, he had determined to
withdraw his plea of not guilty and
enter a plea of guilty. He asked that
the jury be dismissed and the trial
abandoned. He declared that his
sole motive in accusing himself in
open court was to save the lives of
those who are nearest and dearest to
him, his aged father and mother, his
maiden sister and a niece, who,. he
says could not stand the strain of a
long trial.
River Out of Banks.
Ashland, Wis.—Bad river, which
runs through the Chippewa river
basin, south of Ashland, has over
flowed its banks and is the highest
in years. The village of Odanah is
flooded and one-third of the inhabi
tants have been forced from their
homes. Many of them were taken
out in canoes.
Small Cyclone in Illinois.
Joliet, 111.—A storm resembling a
tornado swept through Grundy, Will
and Kendall counties and caused
heavy destruction of property. At
Caton a school building, in which 20
pupils were studying, was lifted from
the foundation and sWung bodily
around. None of the children was
hurt.
Kansas Sheriff Destroys "Liquor.
Independence, Kan.—The sheriff of
this county here Wednesday destroy
ed $5,000 worth of liquor in the street.
The liquor was seized some time ago
from saloons in the county. The'de
struction was witnessed by an im
mense crowd of people.
To Christen Spanish Heir Saturday.
Madrid.—The condition of Queen
Victoria and Prince Alfonso is satis
factory. It has now been decided that
the heir to the throne shall be chris
tened May 18.
Passenger Train Crash Is Fatal.
Redding, Cal.—North-bound Portland
passenger train No. 12 on the South
ern Pacific was run into by two-en
gines at Copley. Brakeman William
Jones, of Sacramento, was instantly
killed and the engines were wrecked.
Oil Pays $9,000,000 Profit:
New York.—The" directors of the
Standard Oil company Wednesday de
{ciared a quarterly dividend of nine
I dollars a share, a total of $9^oC,Oj$0.
.This compares with a dividend of $1*
esoFiwraii.
The State Fair,
Minneapolis—The heavy work un
der contemplation^, at the Minnesota
State Fair grounds was forwarded at
a special meeting of the board of
managers, held at the secretary's
once when preliminary plans for
new Poultry building and the Dairy
building were examined and the sew
erage system was outlined.
Mr. Alban of Thori, Alban Fish
er, the architects of the two new
buildings, explained the preliminary
plans and discussed details with the
board members. As a result of the
conference the plans -will be altered
in some respects and specifications
will be drawn at once. In a general
way the Dairy Building will be about
110 by 150 feet in size and the Poultry
Building 160 by 180. Both will be pf
brick and of simple though attractive
design.
A. R. Starkey, engineer in charge
of the St. Paul sewers, appeared be
fore the board and explained plans
for the sewerage of the grounds. He
recommended a project for pumping
the fair grounds sewage through a
special pipe line to the sewer at Prior
avenue and will prepare detailed plans
for this wor£ as well as for system
for the grounds proper. The depart
ment will do this for the fair grounds
at the bare cost of the draughtmen's
work. It is probable that specifica
tions will be ready for the sewer
work in ten days.
As the building plans will be ready
about the same time several large
contracts will be let shortly and the
grounds will be very busy with nu
merous gangs of men at work by June
1st.
After disposing of the office busi
ness the board inspected the work in
progress on the fair grounds—the
grading about the grand stand and
speed barns and the new Manufact
urers building.
Mannix is State Printer.
St. Paul.—Joseph Mannix, the
veteran Minneapolis newspaper man,
was elected state expert printer at a
meeting of the state printing commis
sion.
A. N. Dare of Elk River, who has
filled the position for the past four
years, presented his resignation, hav
ing deferred it at the request of the
commission till the legislative session
was over. He was asked to remain
until August 1, when the present con
tracts expire, and consented to do so.
Mr. Mannix was then unanimously
elected, and will assume his duties
August 1. The salary is $2,100 a year.
The commission will meet June 4,
to open bids and award contracts for
6tate printing for the next year.
$20,000 Fire at Rush City.
Rush City.—Fire originated in the
Johnson block and destroyed the en
tire block, together with one or two
buildings of less value. For a time it
was feared the town would be wiped
out. The estimate of the loss is
$20,000.
The Johnson block contained two
banks, the Rush City State bank and
the First National bank. It also con
tained the city electric light plant,
two telephone offices and the offices
of many professional men, besides
some stores. The block was the prin
cipal business structure of the village.
A Spectacular Suicide.
"Minneapolis.—While a hundred o*
more bewildered people stood by un
able to stop him from carrying out
his purpose, Joseph Montour, sixty
five years of age, leaped to his death
in the Mississippi river from the steel
arch bridge.
The old man was despondent over
the illness of his wife and his inabil
ity to secure employment. He had
been melancholy for some time be
fore he made up his mind to take his
life. Though he has never threatened
to kill himself, his daughters and sons
/ere fearful that he would do so.
NEWS NOTES.
Rush City.—Herbert J. Broom, man
ager of the electric light- plant was
taken to Minneapolis in a serious
condition from burns received in a
peculiar accident. While dozing in a
chair in the Grant hotel office Mr.
Broom slipped off the chair and fell
into the fireplace in which a brisk
coal fire was burning. In falling his
head struck one of the andirons, ren
dering him unconscious. When he
was found soon after he had received
numerous burns about the head and
shoulders.
Mankato.—To get drunk the sixth
time, officially, cost Lester Duffy, a
farmer living near this city, $100 and
forty days' confinement in the coun
ty jail.
St. Paul.—An unindentitled man
about sixty years of age was struck
by a train on the Soo road at Cardi
gan Junction, near New Brighton,
and instantly killed. The body was'
badly mangled.
Truman.—The general store of Sen
ator W. A. Hinton was badly dam
aged by fire. The damage to the
building is about $2,000, and on the
stock about $10,000. The insurance
will nearly cover the loss.
St. Paul.—-The body of a woman,
badly decomposed, was found floating
in the river at St. Paul Park by Wil
liam Bowman. It was clad in ribbed
underwear, a heavy woolen skirt,
black stockings and high-heeled black
Shoes, considerably worn. So badly
had *he body suffered from the water
that it was impossible to discover any
marks of identification, the authori
ties being unable even to determine
the color of the hair:
Lnverue.—The council haw decided
to limit the number of saloons in this
city to four.
Spooner.—Orders have been re
ceived in Spooner and Brandell from
Sheriff Thomas Bailey of Bemidji th»
all gambling must cease. This order
applies to the entire county, and as a
result the professional gamblers have
packed up their outfits and decamped.
Even the slot machines have been
stored or sent away.
Bertha.—The house of Paul Dall
man, Whet residesAhree miles south
west of Bertha, was. struck by light
ning end burned to the.groand. Mr.
a and famjly escaped without
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It must be admitted that both Sweden
and Norway would like to control the
Islands of Spitzenbergen. Swenska
Dagbladet states that Foreign Minister
Isvolsky, of Russia, being questioned
by certain foreign ambassadors .as to
Russia's position on that matter, de
clared that Russia was willing to let
Norway establish jurisdiction over the
islands. In spite of the good authority
for this news it should be taken with
reservation. Still this is perhaps what
might be expected. It stands to reason
that Russia would rather see the is
lands under Norwegian than under
Swedish or international control, or
Was the whole story set in motion by
interested parties merely as a feeler?
DENMARK.
It is proposed to build sewers for
$1,300,000 in Amager, a part of Copen
hagen.
Princess Marie has gone from Paris
to Lisbon to see her cousin, the queen
of Portugal.
The Danish state railways seem to
have given a surplus of about $2,000
000 for the past year, but the exact
figures are not known at this writing.
It really looks as if the government
of Denmark is planning a military al
liance with Germany. Our authority
on this highly important subject is
Vort Land, a Conservative Danish
newspaper. The statements made by
the paper are sufficiently plain and
frank. The paper first points to the
probability of a war between Germany
and England. In such a war England
will blockade the German harbors, and
she may be expected to choose Den
mark as a basis for her operations. It
must be the aim of Denmark to pre
vent such an eventuality. A strong
naval station must be established some
where among the islands of Eastern
Denmark, and the number of the coast
defense cruisers must be increased
from 3 to 6. and that of the torpedo
boats from 30 to 40. The defenses of
Copenhagen must also be perfected on
the sea side. The expenses connected
with such improvements would be al
most $15,000,000. The Germans alone
would be apt to invade Denmark by
land. In return for the evident aid
which the above defenses would render
Germany, the second part of the great
plan will be that the Germans shall
leave Denmark alone so that the coun
try will need no defenses on the land
side. We would not have devoted so
much space to this sensational matter
if it had not been for the high stand
ing of our authority.
There is such an overwhelming su
perabundance of Sorensens, Jensens
and other "sens" that it often hard to
tell who is who. But there is a way
out of this. By paying one dollar and
getting the consent of the authorities,
a man may change his name. The
Swedish minister to Copenhagen com
plained the other day that many of the
names adopted by ordinary Danish
mortals are names which for centuries
past have been Illustrious in the his
tory of Sweden. The Danish minister
of justice immediately took notice, of
the complaint and instructed the Dan
ish authorities to be a little more dis
criminating- than before in bestowing
new names upon members of the "sen"
family.
SWEDEN.
A now distillery has been built at
Bosjobro, Skane.
A new church building is to be put
up at a cost of $30,000 at Valleberga,
Skane.
Trelleborg is going to have a new
public school house which will cost
about' $50,000.
A proposition has been made to have
the government subsidize a proposed
steamship line to Eastern Asia.
A company has been oi'ganized in
Malmo for the manufacture of heating
apparatus and enameled gas fixtures.
Freight will be carried by the Goth
enburg street cars as soon as the lines
have been extended to Langedrag and
Molndal.
The, city council of Goteborg has
revoked the license to sell strong drinks
in the Slottspark, and henceforth only
soft drinks can be had in that park.
The executive committee of the
Swedish rifle clubs declined the invita
tion to attend the rifle tournament
which is to take place in Kristiania
June 19-23.
The Swedish employers' union has
been wbrking hard during the past few
months, and the result is magnificent,
the members of the union employing
about 100,000 persons.
A factory at Malmstad is going to
turn out over 100,000 yards of gray
cloth for uniforms for the army. The
order is to be filled in the course of
two years, and it amounts almost $200,
000.
On account of t,he expected accouch
ment of the duchess of Skane, the fol
lowing was inserted in the public
prayer read from all pulpits of the
state church of Sweden: "Bless and
protect our beloved king, his whole
family and especially the duchess of
Skane."
A Japanese newspaper recently gave
an account pf the Xobel prize system
and expressed the hope that some prize
may soon land in Japan, where scien
tific studies are pursued with the en
ergy which characterizes the Japanese
of our day. The same paper says that
Sweden, tho a comparatively small
country, has produced a very large
number of scientists.
The Social Democratic -convention at
Stockholm declared that the govern
.ment franchise bill is "absolutely un
acceptable from a laborers' point of
view."
The mail sent from Sweden to Japan
from Jan. 27 to Feb. 5, was lost on Jim
Hill's steamer Dakota, which was
wrecked in Japan.
The Lingon exporting company of
Gothenburg has declared a dividend of
six per cent and has added $250,000 to
its capital stock.
N. Tornblad and J. Kopparberg of
/Malmo have invented a printing press
for printings-six colors at the same
time.
The Swedish residents of Lubeck,
Germany, have made arrangements for
having Swedish lectures delivered in
their church as a means of keeping up
the use of the Swedish language in that
city.
Some fishermen from Smogen made
an expedition to Iceland last summer,
and they caught so much fine fish that
they are fitting out a new expedition
on a much larger scale.'
King Oscar has appointed four men
to represent Sweden at The Hague
peace conference.
About 160' men are employed *at the
'automobile and "motor boat factory at
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The crown princess of Sweden left
Italy for Karsruhe April 29. Her health
has improved somewhat during hei
stay in Capri.
The society for promoting horticul
ture in the Prussian states celebrated
the 200th anniversary o/ the birth ol
Linne in the "hall of "honor" of the
reichstag building in Berlin.
Lars Nilsson of Hjularp, Frosto,
Skane, who is 85 years old, has been
a servant at the same place for 68
years. Many years ago he received
the gold medal of the Patriotic Society.
Kingsjo—Ring Lake—in Southern
Skane is- full of plaice this spring. Oc
casionally a single fisherman may get
3,000 fish on his nets in one night. At
the fishing grounds the price is only
about ten cents a dozen.
Rev. Edward Evers has prepared a
collection of hymns which it is pro
posed to add to the official hymnal of
1819. The consistory of Hernosand
does not want the new collection added
to the hymnal until it has been care
fully revised by a special committee.
The Social Democrats held a national
convention in Stockholm and decided
against the proposed national strike in
order to force the riksdag to pass a
general suffrage law. But something
was done to give the country the im
pression that such a strike may be
declared at some future date.
Dr. Avoir Baagoe, of Engelholm, a
surgeon who served in the ambulance
corps of the British army during the
Boer war, succumbed to malaria in
1902. shortly before he was to return
to Sweden. This spring the English
government sent to his" relatives at
Engelholm a silver medal awarded to
him on account of his services.
The franchise committee has finally
made a report on the new franchise
of the main characteristics of which is
proportional representation. Some
minor changes are recommended. The
vote of the committee was 14 to 9.
Another bill granting salaries to the
members of the first chamber was de
feated. It found that the rejection of
the latter will prevent the adoption of
a suffrage bill during the present ses
sion of the riksdag.
The Sverige-Kontirienten Steamship
Company carried the mails from Trel
leborg, Sweden, to Sassnitz, Germany,
during the first decade of that mail
route, and on April 30th, the last day of
the period, the Swedish postoffice de
partment sent a formal message of
thanks to the company for the faithful
performance of its duties. This route
was established to avoid sending the
mails thru Denmark. A new company
commenced to carry the mails of that
route May 1. The line is subsidized
by the Swedish government.
NORWAY.
Stenkjar, a town near Trondhjem,
has just celebrated its fifty-year jubilee
T^he visit of King Fredrik of Denmark
at the Norwegian coast came off ac
cording to the program.
A "young man" of 72 years was mar
ried the other day at Skedsmo. His
bride was only 45 years old.
The royal palace in Kristiania is
again in good shape after the comple
tion of comprehensive repairs.
During the years 1901-1906 the
ditches dug and the creeks cleared and
deepened on the government lands
would have a combined length of 200
(English) miles.
Rumors are floating thru the air to
the effect that all members of the cabi
net excepting Premier Mkhelsen are
going to resign and give their positions
to more radical men.
It is proposed to make new laws for
the largest cities of Norway. In Kris
tiania legislation of this kind is highly
needed, and the other cities are, or will
soon be, in a similar position.
The total expenses of the Gjoa ex
pedition were about $46,000. Captain
Amundson himself contributed about
$27,000, his entire inheritance. King
Oscar and King Haakon gave $2,700
each, and other private parties about
$3,000. The storting appropriated
enough to cover the deficit.
The personal controversy between
Admiral Sparre and Admiral Barresen
is causing much worry in government
circles. It is claimed that if war had
broken out in 1905 the Norwegian navy
would have been without a head just
on account of this quarrel. Two of the
leading dailies are fanning the flames,
one of them defending Sparre, the other
Barresen.
An arrangement has been made by
which graduates from the normal
schools may enter the university upon
passing an easy extra examination, and
ordinary students may serve as public
school teachers without having had a
normal school training. This change
is expected to cause much shifting
about in the corps of public school
teachers.
G. Knudsoh, the president of the
storting, and nine other members have
introduced a bill proposing more strin
gent rules for the mining industry. It
is proposed that when permission is
granted for mining ore the maximum
quantity shall be fixed. Norwegian
vessels are to be used for exporting the
ore if their rates are the same as those
of foreign vessels. A permission to
mine ore shall not be granted for a
longer period than thirty years, after
the expiration of which the state shall
have a right to buy the mines.
In proportion to her population.
Norway contributes to foreign missions
fifty per cent more than Holland, twice
as much as Sweden, three and a half
times as much as Denmark, and five
times as much as Finland.
A woman at Kvarndalen gave birth
to 6 children within one year and nine
months. Two of them are dead, but
four are living and doing well.
Sixty residents of Eidskog have con
tributed $13,50 each to a fund for giv
ing a bright but very poor boy a chance
to obtain a thoro education.
A course of English lectures about
Norway will be given at the University
of Norway in August.
The storting, by a vote of 61 to 31,
decided that the students who pass
examinations must write an easy com
position in dilect Norwegian or trans
late a story from Norwegian-Danish
into dialect Norwegian.
According to one version of the In
formation on the question of the juris
diction over Spitsbergen the Norwegian
government has made no request with
regard to the matter.
An exposition of goods produced by
the blind will be held in Bergen ir
the early pari of July.
The government has asked for an ap
propriation of $100,000 for the nurchas*
at waterfalls. *-„,
Pattern No. 5598.—This practical
apron is of generous size and well
adapted to the various household oc
cupations that require a complete cov
ering for the dress. The garment is
simply shaped by under-arm seams
and is fastened in the back by a but
ton and buttonhole. The cap is made
of the same material as the apron, but
will also serve as a pattern for a bath
ing cap to be made of oil silk. Hol
land, denim, gingham and linen are
all suitable fabrics for the making.
The medium size will require four and
one-quarter yards of 36-inch material
for the apron and three-quarters of
a yard for the cap. Sizes for small,
medium and large.
This pattern will be sent to yon on
receipt of 10 cents. Address all orders
to the Pattern Department of this paper.
Be sure to tfive size and number of pat
tern wanted. For convenience, write
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A LITTLE SCHOOL DRESS.
Pattern No. 5718.—The popularity
of the sailor suit seems to increase
rather than diminish. The model il
lustrated is of excellent style, and as
well adopted to the washable mate
rials as to the light weight woolens.
The full straight skirt is gathered and
attached to a body lining. The blouse
is becomingly full and the neck is
finished by a broad sailor collar,
trimmed with braid. A jaunty black
silk tie is a stylish addition that adds
greatly to the mode. Serge, mohair,
flannel, gingham and pique may all be
used with good effect. For a child of
eight years three and one-eighth yards
of material 36 inches wide will be re
quired. Sizes for 6, 8, 10 and 12 years.
This pattern will be sent to you on
receipt of 10 cents. Address all orders
to the Pattern Department of this paper.
Be sure to give size and number of pat
tern wanted. For convenience, write
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King's Suite at Windsor,
To many people the most interest
ing parts of Windsor castle are the
private apartments occupied by the
late queen, and also by King Edward
and Queen Alexandria. The suite Is
approached from a small circular hall,
hung round with the late queen's fa
vorite family pictures, especially rep
resentations of all her children's wed
dings, which she always had painted
as mementoes of the deepest interest*
ing event.
In this gallery she kept all her
most prized possessions, one of which/
was a crystal case containing Gen.
Gordon's Bible, open at his favorite
chapter. The late queen had airways
cherished the greatest admiration for
Gordon, and was known to b*B deeply,
grieved over his fate. This.'TBible had
been presented to her by Gordon's sis
ter in private audience.
Another possession m/ist dear to
her, which was always *ept In a sort
of oak shrine, and OZK*7 opened and
shown to her most intimate friends,
was the beautiful sb-tue in pure Car
rara marble of herself.
Second Half of His Task.
By careful sav-ng for the last year
and a half,1 a you*ff man In SomerYllle
has "just acQuli*e4ra suit, of evening
clothes.- Now la waiting for an ia
Tttation.—Some1^-"* Journai
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