Six men were killed and ten in
jured by an explosion at the United
States naval yards on Ionia Island,
N. Y.
Leading steel and iron manufac
turers have agreed to reduce the
price of billets $4 a ton, making the
new price $23.
Edwin Warfield, democrat, was
elected governor of Maryland by 12,
300 plurality. The Maryland legis
lature is democratic by two-thirds
majority.
Fourteen persons have been in
dicted by the St. Claire county, Il
linois, grand jury, charged with
taking part in a lynching at
Belleville June G last.
Following a trivial family quar
rel, John Link, a well-to-do Michi
gan farmer, went into a field, seat
ed himself on two sticks of dyna
mite and lit the fuse. A searching
party gathered up his re-mains
in a basket.
Chas. Wcisman, one of the many
prominent St. Louis politicians in
dicted in federal court for fraudu
lently procuring naturalization pa
pers, plead guilty when arraignel
and it is supposed he has been
promised immunity, if he will tell
all he knows about the frauds per
petrated.
The jury at Jefferson City, Mo.,
in the case of State Senator Far
ris, charged with bribery in con
nection with baking powder legis
lation, failed to agree and was dis
charged. Ex-Lieut. Gov. Lee testi
fied that he gave Farris $7,000 to
distribute among his associates on
a certain committee, and Ferris on
oath denied Lee’s story in toto. Lee
says the money was paid to him by
Kelly, of the baking powder trust.
No less than a dozen miners are
known to have met a terrible death
in a burning mine located eight
miles from Virginia City, Mont.
The fire broke out at 7 o’clock a. m.
while the shifts were being changed.
Among the men who lost their
lives was Superintendent Turner
and a miner named Tobin, who en
tered the mine to rescue the impris
oned men. They succeeded in
dragging live men to the surface,
but. on the next trip were overcome
and perished.
Gen. H. 0. Jeffries, a graduate of
West Point, has been appointed na
val commander of the new republic
of Panama.
Hon. John S. Williams of Mis
sissippi has been chosen leader of
the democratic minority in the
lower house of congress.
Diplomatic relations between the
United States and Colombia have
been practically broken off by the
recall of Minister Beaupre to Wash
ington. The action of the adminis
tration in thus recalling our minis
ter is the first step in the direction
of letting the southern republic feci
our displeasure at the course which
it has taken in connection with the
isthmian canal treaty.
The United States government
has recognized the de facto govern
ment of Panama and Consul Gen
eral Gudger has assumed charge of
the American consulate at Colon.
The de facto government has ap
pointed Buener Villa agent of Pan
ama in the United States, and he
has arrived at Washington. All
Colombian troops have been with
drawn from Panama, and it is
doubtful if the new republic will
meet with any armed opposition on
the part of Colombia. Several Eu
ropean powers have requested the
state department to look after the
interests of their subjects which is
taken to mean that the United
States is to bo given full swing in
shaping affairs on the isthmus.
The report of the United States
commissioner of education for the
last' fiscal year places the total
number of pupils enrolled in the
common schools in this country
during the year at 15,925,887, over
20 per cent of the entire popula
tion. The school term for the first
time in the history of the United
States reached 145 days. The pri
vate schools are tabulated at 1,103,
901 for the elementary schools, and
1G8,63G for academies and other
secondary schools. The total enroll
ment for the year, including public
and private, elementary, secondary,
and higher education, was 17,460,
000 pupils, and to this there should
be an addition made for evening
schools, business schools, private
kindergartens, Indian schools, state
schools for defectives, orphans,
etc., of 620,840, making a grand
total of 18,080,840 in general and
special schools.
Judge Cleveland at New Haven,
Conn., in the Philo S. Bennett will
ease, wherein W. J. Bryan was
made a beneficiary to the amount
of $50,000, decided against Mr.
Bryan, owing to the fact that the
will proper did not contain a para
graph naming Mr. Bryan as a bene
ficiary. The will, however, referred
to the bequest, and stated that in a
sealed letter the beneficiary was
named. Judge Cleveland simply
denied the admission to probate of
this sealed letter as a part of the
will.
(Jen. Kobe, commanding the de
partment of Dakota, in a report to
the war department, claims that in
a recent battle in Wyoming between
Indians and a sheriff’s posse, in
which six of the former and two of
the latter were killed, the Indians
were fired upon without warning.
The sheriff’s posse went to arrest
the Indians for violating the game
laws, and it is claimed by Wyoming
officials the Indians refused to sur
render. (Jen. Kobe recommends
that the Indians captured and now
held in Wyoming be allowed to re
turn to the reservation, as they were
away on leave.
Postmaster (Jcnoral Payne, in his
estimates forwarded to the treasury
for transmission to congress for ap
propriations needed during the fis
cal year ending June 30, 190"
calls for an aggregate of $169,085,
870 for the postal service and $1.
511,050 for the postoffice depart
ment proper at Washington, in
cluding salaries of clerks, rents of
buildings here, etc. The deficit tor
the year ending June 30, 1905, i»
estimated at $8,613,709.
lhe overwhelming deloat of
Toni L. Johnson for governor
of Ohio in the election of
the 3d eliminates him from the list
of pos.>ible aspirants for the demo
cratic presidential nomination.
Johnson’s opponent received over
100,000 plurality and the legisla
ture will be republican by 100 ma
jority on joint ballot. Col. McClel
lan, the democratic nominee for
mayor of Greater.New York, de
feated lion. Seth Low by
a plurality of 70,000. The
election of McClellan means
the return of Tammany to power
in the first city of the Union. In
Maryland the democrats elected
their candidate for governor and
control the legislature but the vote
was very close. In Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, Iowa and New Jersey
the republicans polled their usual
heavy vote. Beckham was re-clectcd
governor of Kentucky by 15,000
plurality. In the latter state many
fights took place between partisans
and no less than half a dozen people
were killed, besides the injured.
Mauna Loa, a famous volcano in
Hawaii, has again broken out. The
spectacle by night or day is mag
nificent and awe-inspiring, but so
distant and inaccessible is the point
where the great forces of nature have
broken forth that as yet no one has
been there and returned. All that is
known, or can be known, of the out
break at the present time is what
can be seen of it from where the in
habited portions of the island begin,
or from the decks of the vessels
Slayer of Policeman Lynched.
For the first time in the history
of Brinkley, a lynching took place
in that town between the hours of
1 and 2 o'clock on the morning of
the 8th. The victim of the mob's
wrath was a white man by the
name of C. A. Cadle. The even
ing before the lynching Policeman
Cox went to Cadle and a man by
the name of Chas Simons, who
were drinking, and tried to per
suade them to get in their wagon
and go home. It seems that Cadle
became angered and a fight fol
lowed, during which Cadle stabbed
Cox several times, one wound in
the neck proving fatal. The local
officers did not anticipate that an
effort would be made to lynch the
murderer and were taken com
pletely by surprise. The mob was
not a large one, and had it not
done its work in haste it is pro
bable the lynching would have
been prevented.
Mrs. Mary E. Rightscll, wife of
Prof. Rightscll, superintendent of
the Little Rock public schools, died
on the 7th inst.
The two-year-old child of Tom
Doan, a section foreman, was run
over and killed by an Iron Moun
tain freight train at Swifton.
Henry Hollister, an old citizen
of Texarkana, died from a wound
received in the face by the dis
charge of a pistol he was examining.
The department of education has
published a pamphlet of fourteen
pages, giving the acts passed by the
last legislature relating to the com
mon schools.
Miss Flora Layton has been elect
ed cashier of the Bank of Yellville,
to succeed her father, the late A. S.
Layton. She is the only lady bank
cashier in the state.
Fourteen solid blocks of build
ings at Coney Island were totally
destroyed by fire, and two persons
lost their lives in the flames. The
fire was started by a gang of drunk
en men, who used the torch, as they
stated, “to liven up the place.*’
A Washington dispatch says that
the early partition of the Chinese
empire is foreshadowed. Two years
of diplomacy bv the United States
are about to be swept away and its
results nullified. China has ap
pealed to the United States for aid
and relief from the aggression of the
czar. Japan has appealed to the
United States for aid in thwarting
the Russian programme for the per
manent occupancy of Manchuria.
The United States hesitates. Every
day of hesitation brings the Jap
anese and Russians closer to a mu
tual understanding. That mutual
understanding brushes away for the
present the war cloud which hangs
over the Orient. It insures to Ja
pan undisturbed possession of Korea
and to Russia continued sovereignty
over Manchuria.
Tn his annual report Second As
sistant Postmaster General Wallen
burger points out that the present
facilities for handling mail are in
adequate. His report shows that
the annual rate of expenditure for
all classes of mail transportation
service in this country was $63,594,
542, and that the rate of cost per
mile traveled is $12.89. There are
1400 lines of traveling post offices,
railroad, steamboat and electric car,
covering 189,298 miles in length,
with 10,555 employes. It is esti
mated that the railway postal clerks
handled during the year 15,999,802,
630 pieces of mail matter, exclusive
of registered matter, and 1,387,664
errors were reported in their distri
bution, a ratio of one error to 11,
530 correct distributions. During
the year there were 373 casualties to
mail cars, in which 18 clerks and 4
other employes were killed, and 78
clerks serious and 398 slightly in
jured. There were 509,537,962
pounds of paid second-class matter
received from publishers, and 36,
305,884 pounds carried within the
county of publication free of charge,
making an aggregate of 272,921
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