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Cbe Pioneer Press s. A. BCTwrogj. MILLER. SOUTH DAKOTA. A ragged coat often has a roll In It. but It a an exception. There In no longer any doubt that the King of Spain Is not a baby. It may be that Mr. Wu needs to go bark home to brush up his Chinese a little. The man who does not save monoy will always be poor, no matter how much he earns. Young Mr. Molllneux will neither go on the stage nor write a book. For this relief much thanks. “He Is not wise that scorns the thought of woman.” At any rate, he’d better not let her know It The Castellane debts will be paid off within five years. By that time they will have some more. There isn't much to tell that ma rine who has made $33,000 by lend ing money to his comrades. An American missionary Is a cap tive at Mequinez. It must be pleas ant to be bound in Morocco. There are all kinds of people In the world except the kind that live and move in the historical romance. A Texas old maid has adopted a little baby. This is the most cutting rebuke that man has ever received. Co-education is a failure in the Uni versity of Chicago. There Is too much coo and too little education about it. The crown prince of Slam was taken to the stock yards at Chicago and was delighted—when he got away. The salt trust appears to have lost its cavor, and It is now in order that the scriptures should be followed lit erally. John Bull Is making a brave but probably misguided attempt to meas ure Bwords with the Standard Oil company. It Is said that a member of the American embassy at Berlin is to wed a Boston girl. No cause is given for the rash act. It is rumored that King Leopold is mentally unbalanced. His friends apparently think there is no other ex cuse for him. A football player has been sent to the insane asylum. If they put him in the violent ward h* ought to (cel quite at home. Running a newspaper in Russia must be a hard Job; there are so few events that are fit to print under the •diet of the czar. A Butte, Mont., editor has fatally shot a physician. Perhaps the physi cian didn't take his paper. Now is the time to subscribe. « Even though the strike is end ed the news that a S4ms**avant has discovered a freezing cure for human ills ought to be cheering. Lieut Peary has reported for duty, but as he is still on crutches he will not be called upon to go aloft and furl the mlzzentopsail for a week or two. Funeral directors and embalmers of Chicago have formed a combination and prices will be raised. We can't die even without the octopus taking a go at us. A New York chauffeur has been sentenced to the penitentiary for hurting people with his automobile. The world is still a glorious place in some respects. The news that handwriting experts have cleared Emperor Maximilian’s record of the treachery charge would have been more impressive before the Molllneux trial. ’’The world’s greatest women—who were they?” asks the New York Amec lean. Mrs. Carrie Nation would prob ably says that the question should be Instead: “Who are they?" A New York dealer sadlv complains that the newspapers are to blame for the reduction In the prices of coal. It 1s no wonder that there are people In this country who think the press ought to be muzzled. Since Queen Alexandra has con sented to be godmother to the new son of the Duke of Manchester Grandpa Zimmerman of Cincinnati ought to be willing to feel he could afford a first class christening gift. Arrangements have been made to turn over to the creditors of the Count and Countess De Castellane all but $200,000 a year of their income. How can the poor things ever hope to pull through on feuch a niggardly allowance as that? \ report that Minister Wu had been seen upon the streets of Wash ' tngton in American attire was followed i by another equally outrageous to the effect that the Chinese statesman had been In conversation with a departed ancestor at a spiritualist seance. Cbe Hews From the Capital. The Judge advocate general says the volunteers who killed a Philippine priest by the water cure are not now amenable to any law. Naval recruits to the number of 30C have left the New York navy yard for Ban Francisco, in command of Lieut. Commander Doherty. They are to be distributed among the ships of the Pa cific and Atlantic stations. The United States civil service com mission has started to investigate into the actions of J. S. Keller, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, who worked to defeat the re election to congress of Eugene F. Loud of California, chairman of the house committee on postofflees and post roads. At the Instance of Harry New and Hugh J. McGowan of Indianapolis, who came to Washington to lay the matter before the state department. Secretary Hay has directed Powell Clayton, United States minister to Mexico, to Investigate the alleged seiz ure, by order of a Mexican court, of a valuable copper mine which Is owned by a syndicate of Indianapolis men. Personal Mention. News has been received at Dallas. Tex., of the death of J. C. Loving, sec retary of the Texas Cattle association, at Fort Worth, after a long illness. After an absence of thirty years, be ing long since thought to be dead, the first husband of Mrs. Martha Conrad of St. Joseph, Mich., arrived in the lat ter’s home recently. Ralph March, alleged leader of the antl-vacclnation students at the North western university. Chicago, has sub mitted to vaccination, together with some fifty of his followers. Dr. Fldyd Clendenin, a La Salle (111.) practitioner of thirty-five years’ ex perience, bus discovered a remedy, ap proved by the authorities of the med ical world for the cure of cancer. Daniel Harrison Perrlne, who was born In 1811, is dead at his home In New Brunswick, N. J. He boasted of having cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson, and of having voted the straight Democratic ticket at every election since 1832. Sin and Sinners. Ex-State Senator John Holbrook of Bay City, Mich., Is accused of attempt ed bribery. I Jesse Pratt, at one time mayor of Camden.N. J., committed suicide at his hotel there by shooting himself through the head. He was sixty-one years old. ! The grand Jury at Indianapolis has made Its final report. It returned for ty-one indictments, the majority of them being in the grave-robbing and • vote-selling cases. Thle-’es stole $14,000 worth of silks from the department store of Stein hardt & Strasbourger at 223 Grand street, rtew Turk, only Half a block , from the police, station. Eva Featherstone, of Sheboygan, of Sheboygan. Mich., sixteen years old, was shot in the back, probably fatally, by one of a party of five riotous fel lows who passed ner In a wagon. Prof. Otto Slemon, for twenty-three years a lecturer in Concordia German Lutheran college at Fort Wayne, Ind., hanged himself. Nervous prostration and Insomnia are given as the causes, j Charles Frederick Roth, a patient In the Brooklyn hospital, has confessed that he was Jack the Slasher, who. on the night of Nov. 13, cut and stabbed three men at the residence of William H. Gardner at Bath Beach. Smith Fee, watchman at the City Deposit Bank of Pittsburg, committed suicide in the bath room of the bank, shooting himself through the head. Falling health and extreme nervous ness Is assigned as the cause of the deed. W. B. Conkey, president of the W. B. Conkey company, book publishers and binders at Hammond, Ind., was Indict ed by the Lake county grand jury on the charge of importing armed guards Into Indiana. The charges were pre ferred by union printers who are on a strike at the Conkey plant, i Louis E. Ogle turned state’s evi dence In Chicago, and told, a story which Is expected to result in the con viction of his former partner, John H/ i Dalton. Dalton is charged with hav ing defrauded a number of newspaper publishers by Inducing them to accept advertisements of the Independent Ad vertising agency, for which they re ceived no pay. Dynamite with a fuse attached, was placed on the bar of the saloon of Christopher Portland at Mahoning City, Pa. . The front part of the sa loon was blown across the street. Mr. Portland and other ijaembers of his family were sleeping on the third floor, and escaped without serious in jury. Portland’s two sons are non union and worked during the strike. From Other Shores Odessa has been declared free from the plague, and export trade rom that port is again permitted. The Japanese government, in with drawing its garrison from Shanghai, notified China that Japan reserves the right to send the troops back again if any ether power hereafter sends its troops there under any pretext. The strikes at Buenos Ayres are threatening a general paralysis of busi ness, and are affecting the handling of the crops- The government i 3 thor oughly alive to the situation, and has secured the passage of an evclusion law- that will enable it to deal with the foreign agitators, who are blamed for the labor troubles. After a lengthy debate In the Brit ish house of commons a resolution was passed approving the action of the British government in signing the Brussels sugpr convention, by a vote of 21$ to 13C. :• • Of (be ttleek 1+ m Accidental Happenings. A fire in the umbrella manufactory at Baltimore did $200,000 damage. Roy Dudley of La Porte, Ind., choked to death on a chew of tobacco which lodged in his windpipe. The flood situation in Texas is still serious, althoug rain has ceased full ing. Passenger truffle is greatly in terfered with. Walter Brumeld was instantly killed near Guyan Falls, Va., during a pistol duel with Henry Tiller, the result of a twenty-year feud. The steamer Quito from Escancaba. Mich., was wrecked on the beach out side the harbor at Ixirain, Ohio, In a raging northeast gale, and three of her crew were abandoned. Mrs. Walter Knickerbocker, aged sixty-eight, living at Menacreek, elev en miles east of Hesperia, Mich., was burned to death, and her husband, aged eighty, was fatally burned. A train on the Southern road was wrecked at Spartanburg, S. C., the fire man killed and the engineer and sev eral passengers injured. The wreck occurred in the yard at that place. Gypsey, the big elephant belonging to a circus, and which injured its keep er in winter quarters in Chicago sev eral years ago, went crazy six miles from Valdosta, Ga., and killed her keeper, James O’Rourke. She was af terwards shot. The semi-annual interest on the $2,- 000.000 6 per cent Cuban government boudß was again defaulted. The ministerial alliance of Salt I>ake has adopted resolutions strongly op posing the proposed election to the United States senate of Reed Smoot. Steps are being taken in New York for the establishment of a Chinese hos pital, which, it is believed, will be the first regular .-Institution in this coun try. About fifty of the pupils of the Sir W’alter Scott school in Chicago, re cently went on a strike to secure a longer recess In the morning session. They were forced back. Proceedings have been Instituted at Rockford, 111., against forty-five gfo cera and fruit dealers, charging them with the sale of impure vinegar, spices and syrups. Meyer Kreeger, the seven-year-old son of Mrs. L. Kreeger of Chlcatro, who was operated upon by Prof. Lorenz for “wry neck,” has recovered the use of his neck. „ . Nightmare is believed by his friends to have been the cause of the death of Timothy Kelly, thirty-three years old, who was found dead in his bed in his boarding house in Philadelphia. Armour & Co. of Chicago are be lieved to be engineering a corner in the potato market, which,. If success ful, will send the price of the tubers up to 60 centH per bushel within the next few days. A girl baby wa3 born at Kokomo, rhd., to Capt. Oarrigus, aged seventy one. The mother is twenty-one. The father Is past commander of the G. A. R. The babe is the aunt of several grown people. C. Oliver Iselin, since his return from Euroi>e, ten days ago, has spent most of his time at Bristol studying the plans of the new cup defender and hustling the work of construction for ward. The Methodist conference of the M. E. church south, by special committee, exonerated Rev. G. W. Briggs of Pa ducah, Ky. It is alleged that Briggs stabbed and slightly wounded T. J. Garr, a hotel man of that city. The freight transport Dix has sailed from San Francisco for Puget Sound, where she will take on a cargo of 3.- 000.000 feet of lumber for Manila, part of a lot of 11,000,000 feet recently con thacted for by the government. It Is now generally understood that the proposed malleable Iron combine will be capitalized at $7,600,000, in stead of $20,000,000, which was men tioned before the National Malleable Iron company of Chicago declined to enter into the merger. A circular has been issued by the Amalgamated Society of Painters stat ing that it has planned a national as soeiation. to be known as the National Association of Amalgamated Pointers, Decorators and Paperhangers of Amer ica, with headquarters in New York. A lock-out has been declared by the Builders’ and Contractors’ association of New Rochelle, N. Y.. which forced all the building trades workmen in suburbs north of New York from Mt. Vernon, N. Y., to the Connecticut line, to quit work. The number of meft out Is about 1.500. The cruiser ‘Boston has arrived at Santa Barbara. Cal., from Southern waters. It is stated that the Boston will remain there two or three weeks, for target practice, and that the New York and Marblehead are under or ders to Join the Boston In Santa Bar bara channel as soon as possible. Upon exhuming the body of a man named Mitchell, who had died myste riously at Chihuahua, Mex.. after hav ing been held up by several men now in Jail at El Paso. Tex., charged with defrauding the New York Life Insur ance company, the discovery was made t»>at tb« man had been buried alive. Another story of hardship, hunger, sickness and death among the Indians of Alaska comes from the Copper riv er. Its authenticity Is vouched for by Rev. G. S. Clevenger of Skaguay. who recently returned frojp. Valdes. He re ports that the destitution among the Copper river tribesmen Is greater than In any other Alaskan tribe. fithel Barker, the fourteen year-old daughter of Aid. Barker of Evanston, 111., prove<f herself a heroine when, ny playing a lively march on a piano in the Lincoln school during a small fire in the basement, she averted a pantc among 400 scholars. Otherwise- FAMINE IN SWEDEN SEVENTY THOUBAND PEOPLE ARE ON THE VERGE OF STARVATION. hfavy rainfalis run fifids BIRCH BARK AND SEED GRAIN COMMON ARTICLE OF DIET. OUTLOOK IXCFf DING GLOOMY DISTRESSING CONDITIONS PRE VAIL IN NORTH PART OF SWEDEN. Stockholm, Dec. 1. —• Reports re ceived here yesterday state that the famine is spreading throughout the extreme north of the country. Seventy thousand people are on fhe verge of starvation. Heavy and protracted railfaMs have Inundated the fields aud meadows and flooded many houses. Much of the livestock has been isolated on the hills, which are barren oi pasture, and is likely to perish. In numerous localities the inhabitants are killing their flocks and herds and even their milch cows or selling them at ruin ous prices. Cows bring only $3 and sheep 50 cents. # Even in districts where the famine has been comparatively slight the savings of the peoples which are de rived chiefly from stock raising, are greatly exhausted. Birch bark and seed grain ground together is the common article of diet. It is almost impossible for the farmers to get work, and they Cannot Mortgage Their Farms, which the floods have temporarily ren dered worthless. In certain districts the outlook is exceedingly gloomy. The people will have to depend on very light crops—less than half the previous minimum—of extremely poor quality. These distressing conditions are to be found throughout the whole stretch of country between the 61st aiuj 67th degrees of north latitude, and from the Gulf of Bothnia and the Russian border far into the interior. Southern Sweden has contributed SIOO,OOO In money and 1,000 car loads of fodder and provisions. The municipalities in the starving area have been supplied with $75,000 five-year loans without interest. Nevertheless, it is feared that all resources of the famine-strick en district will be exhausted not later than the month of March. Summer in those regions, which are mostly above the arctic circle, does not begin until June (ir July. The winters are characterized by polar se verity and Egyptian darkness, re lieved only by the northern lights. GUESTS NARROWLY ESCAPE. Calumet Hotel Is Destroyed by Fire in the Early Morning. Calumet, Mich., Dec. 1. Several people barely escaped from the Cen tral house which was gutted by fire early yesterday morning. The started in the linen room, where, it is supposed, a lighted match was thrown, and spread rapidly. Forty gut'sts were sleeping in the building, and were awakened with difficulty. Doors wfere smashed in to reach ♦teem. Five were overcome with smoke, but revived in the (.pen air. Loss, $lO,- 000; partly insured. GAS TUBE DETACHED. Aged Couple Asphyxiated After Pre paring for Thanksgiving Dinner. Chicago, Dec. 1. Mr. and Mrs. William Mcllwee. an aged couifle, have been foiled dead from asphyxia tion at their home in Austin. A rub ber tube, which In some manner be came detached from a gas range, al lowed gas to escape. Many articles purchased in anticipation of a Thanks giving dinner leave little doubt, that the asphyxiation was an accident SUGAR HOUSE BURNED. A Loss of $130,000 Entailed by a Fire in Louisiana. New Orleans, Dec. 1. The mag nificent sugar house at. Ashton plan tation at Luting, La., formerly owned by John A. Morris and now the prop erty of Charles A. Farewell and oth ers, burned yesterday. The total loss on sugar hous(» and products is $130,- 000; insurance, $05,000. SULLIVAN HARD UP. Has Nothing But S6O Worth of Cloth ing. New York. Dec. 1. John L, Sul livan. former champion heavy-weight prizefighter of the has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the ITnltFd States district court. He said his la bilities were $2,658 and his assets S6O worth of wearing apparel. Actress Seriously 111. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 1. Mrs. Minnie Titell Brune, the well known actress who is starring in “Unora,” is at the Memphis city hospital in a critical condition with malignant ty phoid fever. Postoffice Robbed. Beaver Falls, Pa., Dec. 1. Robbdrs broke into the postofllce at NAw Brighton, Pa., some time last night, and it is estimated carried off between S6OO and S7OO in stamps and several hundred dollars in cash. Football Injuries Fatal. Marshall, Mo., Dec. 1. Bunce Farles of Boonville. the Kemper col lege student injured here two weeks ago in the football game between hfs college and the Wentworth academy, died here yesterday. TO AVOID A ONFLICT. Plan Proposed to Satisfy the Debtors of Venezuela. London, Dec.,l. lmportant steps were taken In Ixrndon yesterday with a view to satisfying all the financial and diplomatic claims by foreign pow ers and bondholders against Ven ezuela. It is maintained that if the contemplated action meets with ap proval, Germany and Great Britain will have no cause to take the vigor ous steps now contemplated. The de tails of the suggested settlement have not been communicated to the Euro pean governments as yet. Their f;4st first will be known to the United States government, probably to-day. The medium of such communication is one of the most important Anglo- American bankers. Venezuela's prop ositions were mentioned to Ambassa dor Choate yesterday, but pending the result of the direct representa tions at Washington no action will be taken by the embassy toward suggest ing that Venezuela be given time to submit her proposals. The new development in the crisis which is regarded as hourly growing more serious, is due to the arrival in Europe of a secret delegation from the Venezuelan government empow ered to deal with the outstanding lia bilities of that republic. Until a suit able plan could be arranged it was considered inadvisable to communi cate with the foreign ministers at Caracas, with whom relations have be come so straine 1. Such a plan has now, In the belief of the delegation, been arrrived at and unofficially, through the Anglo-American banker, the attitude of the United States will be ascertained. Besld s, the state de partment will be put in a position to be able to judge of the value of Vf» ezuela’s offer and her good faith In the matter. TORTURE THE CHRISTIANS. Revolting Barbarism in the Methods of Turks. Tendon. Dec. I.—Mail advices re ceived here front Constantinople un der date of Nov. 24 say: “In spite of all official denials the porte is adopting barbarous methods in crushing the Macedonian peasants. The winter has set in and the danger, front revolutionary bands is over, yet the Turkish authorities seem to think the time has come to act. In the fadb of promises of free pardon to those who returned to their homes, Chris tian villagers have been shockingly tortured to make them betray alleged concealed depots of arms or give in formation regarding the working ol the Macedonian committees. The bastinado has been frequently em ployed until the victims were crip pled for life, their feet being beaten to a pulp by Turkish soldiers. Peas ants were also hung by their heels to the ceiling and hot eggs were put in their arm-pits. Even priests were not spared, while the troops openly plun der the peasants, who are being driv en to despair." THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centi-*. St. Paul. Dec. 1. Wheat No. 1 Northern. 74fa75c; No. 2 Northern. 73 @74c; No. 3, 71 ©7sc; no grade, 61@ 70c. barley—Malting grades. 56<fv59c; feeding grades, 32<fr40c. Rye—No. 2, 47&48c. Flax—No. 1. $1.19& 1.20: re jected, $1,126(1.18. Oats —No. 3 white, 30<&31c; No. 4 white, 29 1-2&30 l-2c; No. 3, 28(£< 29c. Minneapolis, Dec. 1. Wheat —No. 1 hard, 74 l-2c; No. 1 Northern, 72c; No. 2 Northern, 70 l-2c. Duluth, Dec. 1. Wheat No. 1 hard, 74 3-4 c; No. 1 Northern. 73 l-4c; No. 2 Northern, 71 l-4c; No. 3 spring, 69 l-4c; macaroni, No. I, 69 1-4 c; oats, 321-2 c; rye, 51c; barley, 35#53c flax, sl,lßl-2. Chicago, Dec. 1. Wheat No. 2 i red, 75c; No. 3 red, 68® 73c; No. 2 hard winter, 72c; No. 3 hard winter, 68@70c; No. 1 Northern spring, 76 l-4c: No. 2 Northern spring, 72 ® 74c; No. 3 spring, 68® 72c. Corn Nos. 2 and 3, 53#53 1 L’c. Oats—No. 2, 30#301-Jc; No 3, 29 1 Milwaukee, Dec. 1, Wheat No 1 Northern, 76®'761-2c; No. 2 North ! ern, 74 1-2 @ 75c: May, 76 l-Bc. Rye' lower; No. 1, 51 l-2c. Barley steady; No. 2, 66 l-2c. Oats Arm; No. 3 white, 33 1-4® 34c. Corn—May, 42 7-Bc. Sioux City, lowa, Dec. 1. Cattle— Beeves, $4.50 #6; cows, bulls and , mixed. s2®)4; Stockers and feeders.! $2.50@4.50; yearlings and calves, $2.50 @4. Hogs, $5. 7 3®6.10; bulk, $5.90®)6.1 Chicago, Deo 1. Cattlo—Good to! prime steers. $6 # 7.25; stockers and feeders, $2 # 4.75; cows and heifers, 1 $1.40® 5; calves. $3.50 fa 7; Texas- 1 fed steers, $3 ®> 4; Western steers,! $3.50® 5. Hogs- Mixed and butchers, | $5.65 ®i *' 20; rough heavy, $5 66®6.0t. j Sheep good to choice wethers, $3.6(1 # 4.10; fair to choice mixed, $2.50 # , 3.60; Western sheep, $2.75 (a 3.80; ! native lambs, $3.50®5.50; Western lambs, $3.75®'5. South St. Paul, Dec. 1. Cattle Good to choice steers, ss (it, 6; good to choice cows and heifers, $2 £s#4;| veals, s2®; 5.50; good to choice West ern steers, $4.25® 5. Hogs—Light and light mixed, $5.90®6.20: mixed and butchers, $6®6.30; heavy. $5.80®6.30; boars. $2.50®?8.b0; siags, $5.50®6.75; underweights and rough, $5.50®5.75: pigs. $5.25® 5.76. Mon* PHee at It Again. St. Thomas, D. W. 1., Dec. 1. The royal mail steamer Vara, which ar rived here yesterday, passed Mont Pelee, Island of Martinique, during Wednesday morning and reports that the volcano was erupting violently. Summer Hotel Burned. Jackson, N. H.. Dec. 1. Gray’s Inn, one of the best known summer hotels in the White mountains, was burned to the ground lasi night, together with Woodbury hall and other outbuildings, including two cottages. Ixiss. sl7f>,wo! Died at the Age of 123. Newton, Kan., Dec. 1. Mrs. Kate Vance, a colored woman of this c sy, died here last night, aged 123 years Mrs. Vance had a daughter ninety years of age and her husband died af the age of 106. SI. LOUIS ROTTEN GRAND JURY’S REPORT IS $ En . BATIONAL IN THE EX- TREME. SFf.RFT INDICIMI NTS FOVKft ; ' GREATEST EXPOSURE OF COR. RUPTION THE COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN. FRAUDS *IN THE tit C LIONS CHANGE IN THE ELECTION LAW 18 STRONGLY ADVO CATED. St. Louis, Dec. 1. The October grand Jury submitted its final report last night and adjourned. The report is seusational in the extreme, advo cating a change In the election laws and severely criticising the city of ficials who have been connected with the boodling cases. Indictments charging fraudulent dealings ere n sued. A number of other indictments were found against persons whose names are kept secret because they are not yet in custody. The r< port In part says: “Citizens of St. I-ouis have learned with shame how they have merciless ly been robbed for years. We havs for the past nine months been regaled with The Greatest Exposure of corruption the country has ever seen. Wo believe the .people have awakened and the public conscience quickened, and wo feel gratified that the law is being enforced and due anß proper punishment is being meted out to these public plunderers. “We have spent some time in th* investigation of crimes against the borough. While* it Is clear many frauds have been perpetrated, the dif ficulty of procuring direct testimony is very great. Corrupt and incompe tent'men were appointed as judges and clerks of election in many pre cincts. and the bargains made by the ward and precinct bosses were car ried out by these pliant tools The Nesbitt election law should be amend ed.” Circuit Attorney Folk is congratu lated for the eminent services he had rendered in his bribery investigation cases. CROKER FIRED OUT. Fire Chief of New Ycrk Found Guilty of C fc >»'-ges. New York. Dec. 1. Edward F. Croker, chief of the Are department, who recently was tried on a series of charges, yesterday was declared guifiy by Commissioner Strugis and was dis missed from the service, the dis missal t<» take place Dec. 1. Chief Croker was found guilty on the charges of “failure to enforce the re quirements of law f for properly safe guarding the Park Avenue bote!,” of “the conversion of public property to his private use,” of “conduct prejudi cial to good order and discipline in persecuting and unjustly discriminat ing against certain members of the uniformed force,” and of “conduct un becoming an officer and a gentleman and prejudicial to good order and discipline.” FOUGHT PISTOL DUEL Rivals in Love Fight and Both Are Mo'-tally Wounded. Kansas City, Dec. 1. At Armour dale, Kau., near here, yesterday, Ern est Damns and Charles W. Tucker, packing house employes, fought a pistol duel over Mabel Randall, a waitress. Damns was mortrfUy wounded, but before lie died he shot Tucker Twice, fatally wounding him. Tucker is still alive. Tucker had tnet Damns and tho girl on the street, and, without warning, fired two shots at him, the wounded man returning the fire as he lay on the ground. UPHOLDS MR, SULLIVAN. President Roosevelt Settles a Long Dispute. Washington. Dec. 1. The presi dent yesterday settled the long pend ing case of Paymaster Clyde Sullivan of the navy by disapproving the find ings of the board which examined lura for promcMon. This officer recently was restored to the navy by an act of congress and when examined for pro motion was reported to he mentally, morally, physically and professionally unfit for such advancement. The president’s action leaves his present status in the navy unchanged. ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION. No Appointment Will Be Considered Until Colombian Negotiontions Are Completed. Washington, Dec. 1. The presi dent has given no consideration as to the personnel of the isthmian canal commission. He told Senator CuH n nt of Illinois that until the pending ne gotiations with Colombia were fin ished and the government ascertained exactly where it was at, he would not consider the matter of appointments on the commission. Three Children Die From Burns. Baltimore, Dec. 1. Three children of Morris Bressler died last night from burns received at their home during the day. The mother left then* at home alone and when she returned the house was In flames. ' Boiler Explosion Kills Two. Macon, Ga.. Dec. 1. By the explo sion of a boiler used with a stationary engine at Llsella, ten miles from heio yesterday, Paul Rogers and Walton Taylor we.e killed. Two others were seriously injured.