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YHE HOLLY CHIEFTAIN
No pratie 1z g 0 purposeless as that
of prayerless preaching.
The man who reflects deeply will
soon be a light instead of a reflector.
Common sense in an uncommon de
gree is what pas:es in the world for
wisdom,
The pleasures of dissipation are
like gaudy colors—they attract for a
moment, but afterwards they oppose
the senses,
Happiness is like & meteor. It
blazes and goes out and all is blacker
than before it came, People are often
deceived as to their true interests.
The wedding present of the emperor
and empress of Russla to the new
queen of Servia is a necklace and tiara
of diamonds and emeralds valued at
£20,000,
A New Jersey farmer read all the
campaign literature sent to him by the
opposing organizations and then com
mitted suicide, The warning contained
i this case fairly bulges out.
A Universalist minister in Middle
town, N. Y., in order to be allowed to
la¥ the cornerstone of his people's
new hons=e of worship, will have to
join the Mason's union. Rev. Mr,
Emery is no mason, but he will pay
sls for the privilege of holding a
trowel in his haad for fifteen minutes
or less Otherwise, there might fol
low a strike, or boycott.
It has frequently been stated that
Mrs. Louis Botha, the wife of the
Boer general, is a descendant of
Robert Emmet, the Irigsh patriot. This
18 a mistake. She is a descendant of
Emmet's elder brother, Thomas Ad
dis Emmet, who was one of the
United Irigh Directory in 1789, and was
punighed by the government by con
finement in Fort George for three
years,
Berlin last year for the first time
registered over 1,000,000 strangers who
had visited the city. Vienna, which
formerly had more visitors than Ber
lin, counted only a few over 500,000
in 1899, and was surpassed by Munich
with 600,000. Dresden had over half
a million visitors; Hamburg, Leipzig
and Zurica each about 400,000, and
Stuttgart, Basel and Dusseldorf each
over a quarter of a million.
The police of Cincinnati state that
there are two lovers in that city who
‘have been engaged to be married for
the last fifteen years, This postpone
ment of the fateful plunge, however,
ig mot due to the prospective bride
groom being a laggard in love; still
less is it due to the bride proving un
duly coy. The simple explanation is
that no time has occurred during the
above period when they were both out
of prison at the same time,
The reputation of the mosquito,
which was never of the best, is being
torn to shreds by the scientists these
days. The insect has been proved to
be one, if not the sole, means of spread
ing malaria; and now it has been dis
covered that elephantiasis, a hideously
deforming disease of the tropics, is due
to the action of a very minute worm
which enters the body through the
mosquito’s proboscis while the in
sect is sucking its victim’s blood.
Between Formosa and the coast of
China lies in a group of twenty-one is
lands, interspersed with innumerable
reefs and ledges, which are called the
Pescadores islands. According to the
investigations of a Japanese geologist,
these islands have suffered in a re
markable manner from the northwest
winds, which blow with savage vio
lence there during nine months of the
year. The original area of the i{slands
has been greatly reduced by erosion,
and their surfaces are barren and deso
late, so that the wind-whipped group
forms “‘a quasi-desert amidst the green
island world of northeastern Asia.”
The body of Lieut. Fred H. Beecher
of Gen. Forsyth’s scouts, which was
buried on Beecher Island in the Arik
are ricer, Colorado, 33 years ago, has
been recovered, and will be sent to
Brooklyn. Young Beecher, who was
a nephew of Henry Ward Beecher, fell
in a fight with the Cheyennes under
Roman Nose. Gen. Forsythe, Lieut.
Beecher and 47 men were surrounded
by nearly 1,000 Indians. Two men,
Charles Christy and Fletcher Vilotte,
got through the Indian lines and event
ually brought relief. Soon afterward
they were detailed on the squad to bury
Lieut. Beecher. Both men were at the
recent unvelling of a monument om
Beecher Island, and it was through
them that the long lost grave was lo
cated and the body recovered by the
relatives,
COLORA DO NOTES.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce is
preparing a directory of local manufac
turers,
The annual Pioneers’ Society ball will
be given in Kassler's hall, Denver, in
the first week in December.
Thieves broke into “Parzon” Uzzell's
new tabernacle building in Denver and
robber the carpenters’ shests of tools
worth s£7s.
On the evening of the 24th the shaft
houserecently built at the Eithoff tun
nel at Kokomo was burned, practically
destroying the plant of machinery.
Donacio Trujillo. a boy eighteen
years of agze, was run over by a coal
car and Killed at the Starkville coke
ovens, near Trinidad, October 25th.
In honor of Mrs. Carr of Longmont,
tional President of the W, R. C., and
Mrs. Hardin of Denver, national sec
retary, the ladies of Nathaniel Lyon
Post, No. 27, ;. A. R., of Boulder, held
a reception and banquet October 23rd.
The net earnings of the Denver &
Rio Grande for the third week in Oc
tober were $244.400, an increase of
$27,000, The net earnings from July
16t were $3,601,600, an increase of
XSOO, T,
Ross Miller, the Denver & Rio
Grande brakeman who knocked a
would-be train robber off the car with
his lautern, has been taken care of by
the company and placed on a good run
near hone,
Willinm E. Pabor, the veteran Colo
rado colonist and newspaper man, who
Lidd become nearly blind from cata
racts in both eyes, underwent an opera
tion for the removal of the cataract in
one of his eyes October 23rd.
The school board of Distriet No. 1,
Denver, known as the East Denver
district, has arranged to have children
in certain remote parts of the district
taken from their homes to school in
the morning and back at night in om
nibuses,
Professor Walter H. Nichols has
been appointed to the chair of history
and political science in the University
of Colorado made vacant by the resig
nation of Dr. Mac Lean, who leaves to
accept the position of president of
Idaho University.
Captain John B. Bennet, Sixteenth
infantry, has been relieved from duty
as acting judge advocate of the Depart
ment of the Colorado, and from other
duties at headquarters in Denver, and
has been ordered to join his regiment,
now canmpaigning in the Philippines,
The much-ratfled-for big cow, that
earned so much money for the Old La
diex’ Home in Denver, has been pur
chased by the International Stock
Food Company and taken to Minne
apolis. Her welght before she started
for the city of big mills was 2,670
pounds,
It is expected that the government
will convey all Christinas boxes sent
to soldlers in the Philippines free of
charge from San , Francisco. Two
years ago several carloads of delica
cies and clothing were shipped from
Colorado to the Colorado First regi
ment in the Philippines.
The companies controlled by the Gug
genheim brothers at their various
plants in Pueblo, oOld Mexico, Perth
Amboy, New Jersey, and Chili, South
America, are said to employ about
twenty of the graduates of the Colorado
State School of Mines, many of them
in leading positions.
Thomas Holland, state superintend
ent of tish hatcheries, who has been in
the western part of the state where he
went in company with State Game
Warden Johnson, says the late move
ment of the game from the north alone
saved a most frightful slaughter from
the invading Indians.
A gallon jug full of corn whisky was
recently received at the revenue office
in Denver as proof that an illicit dis
tillery formerly existed in that section
of Elbert county, near the Arapahoe
line, known as *“The Breaks.” The
still, however, seems to have disap
peared.
An additional rural delivery route
has been established at Greeley, Weld
county, to go into effect November Ist,
The route is fifty miles long and
will supply a population of 1,155,
scattered over an area of seventy-four
‘square miles. J. F. Smith and C. B.
Kimball have been appointed carriers,
An important amendment to the con
‘ stitution of the state of Colorado is to
'be voted on this fall. This amend
ment to the constitution is to allow six
amendments to be made af once. At
present the constitution permits only
one amendment bienjally, 8o that the
‘\'()t(‘rfl may not be confused by any
multiplicity of issues.
Harold J. Bell, a civil and mechani
cal engineer, died at Denver, October
28th. Mr. Bell was of .an inventive
turn of mind and had taken out more
than 400 patents on various articles of
general or special use. He was a na
tive of Ireland, but had resided in
America since boyhood and had lived
in Colorado since the early 70's.
At the annual meeting of the intérde
nominational missionary societies of
Pueblo, a committee was appointed to
secure books to start a missionary de
partment in the McClellan public li
brary. It was also decided to raise
SIOO to educate a Turkish blind girl In
England to act as missionary among
her own people.
The much-talked-of fast: train over
the Missouri Pacific between Denver,
Kansas City and Bt. Louis may be put
in service early next spring. The road
has ordered twenty new passenger lo
comotives and new coaches, and it is
expected that the improvement of the
track and straightening of curves on
the Kansas line will be completed by
February Ist.
THE ANGLO-GERMAN
ARRANGEMENT
Washington. ('ct. 27.—1 n diplomatic
quarters there is felt to be some sig
nificance in the fact that France, Rus
sia and Japan. as well as the United
States, have not yvet accepted the invi
tation to approve the principles of the
Anglo-German alliance. It is under
stood that this non-action of the pow
ers is not due to any concerted move
ment among them, although each ap
pears to be halting on the third clause.
A diplomatic official gaid to-day that
on mature consideration of this third
clause, it was seen to involve two
constructions: first. that if any power
took territory in China as a result of
the present trouble, then Germany and
Great Britain also would take terri
tory, or, second, if any country took
territory in China, Germany and Great
Britain would seek to prevent this ac
tion or otherwise jointly act agalnst
the country eceking to extend its do
mains.
Either constrnction, it was pointed
out, was such that the powers not par
ty to the agreement could not be ex
pected to bind themeselves to its accept
ance. Under these circumstances it
was eeen that the powers probably
would seek to learn Russia’s views on
tne third clause, as Russia’s approval
undoubtedly would remove the idea
that there is any possible menace in
tended. But it is recognized among
diplomatic officials that it would be ex
tremely difficult to secure an expres
sion from Russia on this point, as an
unfavorable rejoinder, which ghe might
be expected to give. would amount to
a declaration that she had some terri
torial designs on Manchuria and a re
fusal to answer would be similarly
open to such construction. The impres
sion is growing among the representa
tives of these powers that the present
non-action will continue for some time,
and that the agreement will be confined
to Great Britain and Germany, at least
until there is a fuller understanding of
the third clause than either of these
governments has given thus far.
The Chinese minister to-day handed
the secretary of state the following:
“A cablegram dated October 24th,
from Director General Sheng, states
‘hat an imperial decree has been is
sued directing Prince Ching and Earl
Li to fix and submit for approval the
several penalties to be inflicted on
those princes and ministers that ought
to be punished. He adds that Kang Y}
has died of sickness, and that Prince
Tuan and Prince Chwang have not
been allower to accompany the court
(to Shensi).
Kang Yi was one of the ringleaders
whose punishment was demanded by
the powers. He held the position of as
sistant grand secretary and president
of the civil board and also ome of the
statesmen making up the privy council
or cabinet which is the body nearest
the throne. Governor Yu's method of
suicide, by ewallowing gold leaf, is pe
culiar to China. It is a means by
which high personages take their lives,
the gold leaf being representative of
their high station. The leaf forms a
ball in the canuals of the body and
brings death from suffocation. |
Prince Tuan has been visited with
severe censure from the throne and
remains at Shensi, cut off from further
influence on the throne. It is expected
that he will be banished, which, to a
prince of the blood, is worse than de
capitation, and under his idea of pro
priety, suicide 18 likely to be his end.
ECHOES OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA STRIKE
Hazelton, Pa., Oct. 27.—According to
President Mitchell, work at the collier
fes operated by those companies which
have not yet posted notices will not be
resumed until they comply with the
demands of Scranton mine workers’
convention,
Scranton, Pa., Oct. 27.—President
Thorne of the Pennsylvania Coal Com
pany will come here to-day to confer
with the coal officials about putting up
the ten per cent. notices, and it is ex
pected the company will have fallen
into line before to-morrow night. This
will make all the miners in the Lacka
wanna region free to work Monday.
There is great rejoicing all through
Scranton and the Lackawanna valley
at the calling off of the anthracite min
ers’ strike.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 27.—The big
coal companies of the Wyoming val
ley are making preparations to resume
work Monday. The individual operators
are also getting things in shape for
work again, although as yet they have
not posted the notices of the ten per
cent. increase in wages.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company
will fall in line with the other com
panies on Monday.
The Susquehanna company, at Nan
ticoke, has made no move as yet, and
its 3,000 employes are more or less anx
fous as to the outcome.
Sherman a Moitl-Millionaire
Mansfield, Ohlo, Oct. 27.—The will of
John Sherman was filed for probate to
day. ‘The estate is valued at $3,000,000,
Mrs. Mary Sherman McCallum gets
SIOO,OOO, half in real estate of her
choice and the rest in bonds. After oth
er bequests are pald she, with five oth
ers, get the residue, making her share
$500,000, and possibly more. The heirs
of Charles Sherman get SIO,OOO divided
among them; Hoyt Bherman, a brother,
gets 100 shares preferred stock in the
Des Molnes street railroad, or, if they
are sold, SIO,OOO in cash. The heirs of
the late Gen. Willlam T. Bherman get
SIO,OOO, as do also the heirs of thelate
James Sherman, the children of sister
Susan Bartley, the children of Mrs.
Fanny Moulton, and Lampson Sher
‘man and Elizsabeth Reese. Manafiold
et $5,000 for park purposes;
AWFUL FIRE AND EXPLOSIONS
STARTLE NEW YORK CITY
New York. Oct. 30.—The long list of
fire horrors that have cccurred in and
around New York was added to yes
terday by a fire and explosion which
shook the lower end of Manhattan is
land like an earthquake, hurled a sev
en-story building into the air, and set
fire to two blocks of buildings, with a
loss of life that only the efforts of hun
dreds of men who were rushed to the
work of digging away the ruins as
soon as the fire wus extinguished, will
reveal.
The big building of Tarrant & Co.,
makers of medical specialties, stand
ing at the northwest corner of Green
wich and Warren street, and filled with
chemicals, took fire in some way that
may never be known, at about a quar
ter after 12 o'clock in the afternoon.
It was sixteen minutes after noon that
a citizen rushed into the house of a
fire engine on Chambers street, near
Greenwicl, and shouted that Tarrant’s
drug house was on fire. He had seen
a volume of black smoke coming from
the third story windows. An alarm
was turned in. Soon afterward a sec
ond and third alarms were turned in.
One fire company had just arrived
when a terrific explosion occurred and
threw the entire engine crew down the
stairway. The firemen, realizing the
danger of their position, rushed out of
the building to the street. The explo
sion had filled the street in front with
a shower of falling glass and small de
bris which scattered the crowd which
had gathered on the opposite sidewalk.
They were dragging the line to the
doorway for the second time when
came another explosion, more terrific
than the first., and the whole crew was
hurled across Greenwich street, Devan
ny being so badly injured that he was
sent to the hospital.
In the meantime, the other engines
that had responded to the alarm had
collected and the firemen were busy
rescuing people from surrounding
buildings. Firemen had already taken
many girls down the only Te escape
upon the building, and mor& persons
had been carried down the escape of
the Home-Made restaurant, next door,
and the buildings adjoining.
The second explosion occurred about
five minutes after the first. From the
accounts of witnesses, the building
seemed to leap into the air and in a
moment masses of brick wall. timbers
and stone were falling into the street.
The force of the explosion tore away
the walls of the big commission store
houses fronting on Washington street
and caused them to collapse, falling all
at once in a mass of timber, boxes and
barrels, from which the flames, which
burst out from the Tarrant building
like the belching of a caunnon, broke
forth. The force of the explosion be
low had thrown the firemen back
across the street, so that they were not
caught, but their escape from the rain
of debris across the street was almost
miraculous,
RURAL MAILDELIVERY
BENEFITS COLORADO
—— ¢
Denver, Colo., Oct. 30.—Since the |}
middle of last June, when petitions for |
rural free delivery routes in Colorado ||
were taken up for investigation and a |
special agent appointed for the work |
in the state, twenjy-three rural free ||
delivery routes have been established | s
in Colorado, serving a population of ]
nearly 13,000, over an aren of 850
miles, through which mail is carried |
over a total line of route of 550 miles, | 1
dally. There have been ncarly forty |1
investigations and petitions for estab- |1
lishment, extensions and inspections |1
since the middle of June, and the only | ¢
route remaining now to be inspected is
at Pueblo, to which point the special | {
agent in charge will go at once. 1
The points covered In Colorado by |i
rural free delivery extend from Eaton |1
and Loveland on the north, to Monte |1
Vista and Durango on the south, and (]
Las Animas, La Junta and Rocky Ford |}
on the east. Other points covered by |
one or more routes are Berthoud, ||
Boulder, Valmont, Broomfield, Long- |
ntont, Greeley, Edgewater and Platte- |
ville, «
Weld county has been peculiarly for- |t
tunate in the establishment of service |
for rural free delivery.. Bix routes have |
been laid out and are now either in
operation or will be in operation by |1
November Ist. Fort Collins and Love- ||
land each will have another route and |1
Lafayette probably will also be so ¢
favored. The routes noted are in addi- |+
tion to those laid out before the estab- ||
lishment of the Western division of |
rural free delivery, last May, and the
appointment of Special Agent L. A.
Thompson, editor of the Greeley Re
publican. ,
The route with the largest number of |
population is that at Edgewater, where |
1,060 are served by a route .over a|.
twenty-three-mile line. The smallest |.
number served is over the Las Animas |,
route, where, approximately, 350 re-|
celve the mail on a line twenty-six|:
miles long. The average of population |
served on rural free delivery routes In |
Colorado, as laid out, is 500, and the ||
‘average length of the routes twenty- |
five miles. ;
B Has Resumed Operations. )
Youngstown, 0., Oct. 30.—The Amer- |
lcanTube and Iron Oonpty. the local ||
plant of the National Tube Company, |
resumed operations in full yesterday, |
after a shutdown of many months. The |
works employ 400 hands. 1
. Brick walks have been put dcwn be- ]
tween the tracks at the Union depot in |
Denver. |
The wreckage was thrown &cross
through the windows of the building =
in which the Irving National Bank is,
on the northeast corner of the streets.
The offices of the Irving Bank and
those of Mecklem Bros. bankers and
brokers, were nearly wrecked. 3
Vice President Charles H. Matilage
and John W. Castree], Cashier James
A. Dennison, Assistant Cashier Benja
min F. Werner, Paying Teller Willi:un
Dunlap and Adjuster Van Zeldt were in
the bank. gt
At the first explosion. an attempt
was made to gather all the moaey and
paper that was lying on the counters
together and throw them into the safes.
and it was supposed that this had béen'
done, when the second explosion
brought fiying glass and plastering
from the skylight cellings down about
the heads of everybody and ciaused
them to escape in a hurry.
Captain McClusky of the detective
bureau, who hurried every avaiiable
man of his staff to the fire, was ap
pealed to to protect the funds of the
bank, he being told that they were in
the vault, the door of which was sup
posed to be unlocked. When the cap
tain and his men went In, however,
they found about SIO,OOO scattered in
confusion over the counters and floors.
This was hastily thrown into the vault
and the door was locked. 1
In Mecklem Bros.” office in the base
ment, there were H. H. Mecklem and
his brother, William, with Frank Heck
enberry, a boy; Thomas Hackett, a
clerk; another man named Bruce, and
some girls, among them Ellen Van
Deen and May Dunklemann. When the
fire broke out SOO,OOO in money lay up
on the counter. Heckenberry was sta
tioned at the door while this was gatii
ered together for putting in the vault,
The explosion tore down the bulld
ings to the west, the walls of those on
the Washington street side being
hurled outward to thie streets as if an
explosion had taken place locally in
stead of away at the Greenwich sireet
end of the block. 1t was thought, in
deed, that explosions had followed In
these buildings, but no cause for them
could be found. The immense building
of J. H. Mohlmann & Co., fronting on
Washington street, simply. collapsed, a
deluge of barrels and boxes, filled with
fruit, rolling out and forming a pile,
that stretched half way across the
street.
At the time of the explosion blazing
barrels were hurled clear across Wiush
ington street and set fire to the build
ings to the west, threatening an exten
sion of the conflagration in that direc
tion, but the firemen deluged these
buildings and saved them.
The loss of life is not known, but
from all sources of information it is
gathered that there are perhaps’the
bodies of thirty persons in the ruinx,
though because of the hot debris and
the slowness of the moving of it, no
‘body had been removed up to midnight.
London's Patriotic Orgles.
London, Oct. 30.—The celebration
yesterday in honor of the Imperial
City troops eclipsed anything of the
kind in the history of London. \When
night fell the streets of London would
have done credit to the commune. It
was a scepe of unchecked saturnalia
that met the eye. Fighting and swear
ing throngs fought vainly among them
selves for the right of way. Half an
hour was needed to make a hundred
yards' progress along the Strand, and
the feat could only be accomplished at
the risk of life or limb. The few igso
lated policemen were borne helpless
upon the tide of patriotic enthusiasm,
whose invariable characteristic was
drunkenness, partial or complete.
Women were insulted, kissed or
thrown down with impunity in street
fights. Pursued at the sweet will of
inebriate brawlers from the sidewalks,
they streamed along historic thorough
fares, shouting, sobbing, brandishing
peacock feathers with insane deprav
ity. Many of them offered no excep
tion to the rule of drunkenness. Babes
in arms could frequently be seen.
Countless different uniforms of soldiers
of the empire, regular, volunteers and
colonials, added vivid color to an ex
traordinary spectacle, the like of which
was never witnessed in any American
city.
Four persons were killed and more
than a thousand persons were treated
by the ambulance corps, although in
‘most cases the Injuries were not seri
ous. There were, however, many cases
where the injuries were gserious, and it
is not unlikely that there will be other
deaths.
Coal Miners Resume Work. ¥
Philadelphia, Oct. 30.—Yesterdsy
witnessed an almost general resump
tion of the work in the anthracite ret
glon, where for six weeks the mine
workers have been on strike fof ad
vance {n wages, a reduction jn the price
of powder and in several districts the
abolition of the sliding scale of wages.
In a few instances collieries operated
by individuals and small eompanies
have failed to resume, but in the main
it can be safely sald that hard coal s
once more being mined.
The Philadelphia & Reading Oesal and
Iron Company, which controls over
twenty per cent. of the ontput of' the
anthracite realon. and w‘:leh is the
m"n’“ ng company in the havd
fiefll 8 pe; tendm Luther : at
npexin! ent, . T at
Pottaville that thirty-seven of the thir
ty-nine collieries operated bLM com
w were working. This s the num
that was in operation on lay;.
nmflko.bu 17th, the first day of the