Indications of war between Bus*
sin and Japan have sent the price
of mules up over 10 per cent.
The battleship Missouri, built by
the Newport News Shipbuilding
Company, has been accepted by the
government, subject to the usual
period of probation.
Ex-Gov. John Young Brown of
Kentucky died at his home at Hen
derson on the 11th inst. at an ad
vanced age. He was prominent as
a statesman and soldier.
Hon. W. J. Bryan states that he
will issue the Commoner in St.
Louis as a daily during the dem
ocratic convention. The report that
lie intended to permanently enter
the newspaper tield in St. Louis
with Hearst is denied.
Chas. ICratz, the alleged St.
Iritis boodler, is said to have ac
quired and developed property in
Mexico during his two year's exile
in that country valued at over $1,
000,000. He owns a large quarry
and an orange plantation that will
yield over $100,000 net annually.
Immediately upon his arrival in
St, Louis Kratz gave bond in the
sum of $40,000.
It is alleged members of the St.
Louis house of delegates have form
ed a new combine to secure hoodie
from corporations and other inter
ests. A member of a pneumatic
tube company asserts that a repre
sentative of the combine demanded
$15,000 for a franchise; that the
company agreed on $10,000, hut
that after the passage of a bill
granting the concession the money
was not paid, and that therefore the
measure was reconsidered and is
still pending.
The three large interests repre
sented in the Hock Island railroad
system, which have not been in full
accord hitherto regarding policy of
management, have been harmonized
in a comprehensive plan of reorgan
ization and refinancing, with a view
of making the 18,000-mile system
the greatest in the west. It has
not been definitely settled what
kind of bonds shall be issued.
Of the entire amount $00,000,000
will be devoted to retiring the
bonds of the Hock Island system
proper as they come due for the
next twenty-five years. All the im
mediate issue necessary will be to
take care of the bonds which will
fall due within the next two or
three years, which aggregate be
tween $10,000,000 and $12,000,
000.
The donations of 1003 through
out the United State? by actual gift
and by request, to charity, religious
enterprises, educational institutions,
libraries, museums, galleries and
municipal betterments amount to
$76,934,918, as compared with $77,
397,107 in 1902, and $123,888,732
in 1901—the last being a record
breaking year. These sums do not
represent contributions to charity
in a general sense of church con
tributions, but only those individ
ual donations and bequests which
lhave been published as news an
nouncements. Of the total amount
stated above there has been given
to educational institutions $39,
950,692; to charity, $21,726,318;
for religious purposes, $3,906,912;
for museums, art galleries and mu
nicipal betterments, $2,297,500,
and for libraries, $7,583,556.
Ex-Gov. Bnshnell of Ohio died
at his home in Columbus on the
15th from a stroke of paralysis.
He was a native of New York state,
a veteran of the civil war and served
two terms as governor of Ohio, be
heing elected in 1895 and re-elected
in 1897.
i The First National Bank at Bel
cn, N. M., was robbed of $1,000 by
two masked men who held up the
cashier at. the window and raked the
;paoney into a sack.
»
It is declared England will object
to Russia sending a licet through
the Dardanelles.
The Cuban senate has approved
the permanent treaty provided for
under act of the United States sen
ate, known as the Platt law.
A crowd of employes, pressing
against the elevator gate on the
sixth lloor of the Brown Shoe Com
pany's building, in St. Louis,
caused the gate to give way and ten
persons were plunged down the
shaft. Six were taken out dead
and of the other four, two died at
the city hospital.
Senator Foraker’s bill providing
for the appropriate marking of the
graves of all Confederates who died
in northern prisons or hospitals has
been favorably reported from the
committee on military affairs. An
amendment is inserted increasing
the appropriation for this purpose
from .$100,000 to $200,000.
President Roosevelt has signed
the bill appropriating $250,000 to
be spent in the cotton states in an
effort to eradicate the boll weevil.
The department does not contem
plate a war of extermination of the
weevil. The plan is to establish
small farms here and there in Texas
and parts of Arkansas and Louis
iana. On these farms experiments
will be made with cotton, so fertil
izing it as to make it mature be
fore September, when the weevil
gets in its work.
Three officers of the armv recent
ly have declined to go on the re
tired list with increased rank. These
are Brig. (Ion. John F. Weston,
commissary general; Brig. Gen. A.
W. Greely, chief signal officer, and
Brig. Gen. G. M. liandall, com
manding the department of Luzon.
Mach was tendered a major general
ly on condition of his immediate
retirement and in each case the of
fer was declined on the ground
that the officer preferred active duty
to promotion under such conditions.
Janies L. Blair of St. Louis,
formerly general ''ounsel for the St.
Louis world's fair company, died
last week at Lust is, Fla. Last Oc
tober rumors were circulated con
necting Mr. Blair's name with al
leged fraudulent transactions in
conducting the affairs of the Blow
estate, of which he was a trustee.
The rumors finally became publish
ed as facts. Mr. Blair became ill
from worry over the rumors, and
upon their publication flatly denied
them, and threatened to sue for li
bel. The suit was never instituted,
but instead the grand jury began
an investigation. flis resignation
us general counsel for the world s
fair was tendered and accepted,
also that of Mrs. Jllair as president
of the board of lady managers. The
grand jury investigation resulted in
indictments being returned against
Blair on two charges of forgery,
and he was placed under $20,000
bond. As soon as bond had been
arranged on the indictments, Mr.
and Mrs. Blair left St. Louis in
December and went to Eustis, Fla.,
in the hope that his health might
be benefited by the change of cli
mate and environment.
The Philippine friar lands bonds,
bids for which were opened at the
state department on the 11th inst.
were disposed of at $101.77. The
total issue is for $1,000,000, the
amount to be paid by this govern
ment. The bands bear interest at
the rate of 4 per cent.
The Chicago livery drivers’
strike has been settled, the strikers
securing a ‘‘closed shop” agreement
and arbitration of the issue as to
an advance in wages.
WAS THIS MAN HONORABLE?
Tried to Beat Express Company, But
Lost by Transaction.
Now that tho Mary Ann prob
lem has boon disposed of lot me
tell you of an actual ease which
came within my knowledge sever
al years ago, says the Brooklyn
Eagle. These were the facts: A
wealthy and oloso-flsted banker in
a certain Illinois city was accus
tomed to sending currency by ex
press to his correspondent bank
in Chicago. Home how the express
agent got a suspicion that tin?
banker was saving expressage by
sending larger sums than he pre
tended, so one day when the bank
er brought in a package which Ik*
said ('ontained $3,000 the agent
gave him a receipt as usual for
that amount, and later in his pri
vate office opened the package and
found that it contained $10,000.
\\ it limit saying a word to anybody
the agent hid the package away in
his safe and awaited develop
ments. In a few days the banker
came in to say that the Chicago
bank had not received the pack
age.
“Very well,” said the agent. “I
will send out a tracer for it.”
A few days later he tokl the
banker that the package must
have been lost in transit, so In*
counted out $5,000 and handed it
over to him.
Now, the agent fully expected
the banker to object to a settle
ment on a $5,000 basis and was
prepared to tell him that when he
paid double expressage on all the
packages In* had sent in the past
the remainder of the$10,000 would
be returned to him. But tin* bank
er preferred to lose tin* money
rather than confess his dishonest
methods, so he accepted the$5,000
and signed the regular release be
lieving that nobody but himself
knew the lost package contained
double that amount.
I'p to this time the agent had
aeted faithfully in the interest of
his company, but now a question
arose in his mind as to who right
fully owns the remaining $5,000.
Never mind what he actually
did with it. The question is, dear
reader, what would you have done
with it, and why?
AFOOT AT THE HORSE SHOW.
What You Go to See and Hear Ac
cording to « Reporter.
At the very portico of the gar
den one catches the volatile spirit
of t he horse show, writes Emery
l’ottie, in Everybody's Magazine.
Hoys sire calling every where (they
know what wo like): “Get your
programmes containing a full list
of t he box holders. Buy it pro
gramme and find out who every
body is.” Line upon line of car
riages block the way, their bril
liant surfaces reflecting hundreds
of electric lamps. Superbly
gowned women alight and hurry
up the inclined passageway with
the air of worldly obliviousness
which is so much a part of the city
dweller.
\\ ith inward humility, conceal
ing as best 1 may the fact that I
am entering on a press ticket, 1
fall in behind a gay party. There
is a girl of that slender, appealing
delicacy of ligure and frank level
gaze of eyes which characterize
the American daughter. I sup
pose the handsomely constructed
lady with her is her mother, and
there, too, is her father, dispas
sionate, but with a whimsical ap
preciation of his position as a
father and a captain of industry,
which creeps into the lines about
his shrewd, sharply cut 1 ips. The
girl is the hist word of gracious,
well groomed, beautifully gowned,
unreservedly expensive woman
hood. All about her are hundreds
of her own splendid kind. One is
struck with the utter complete
ness and cocksureness of these,
his neighbors for a night, whom lie
knows vaguely and a little curi
ously as Society. It makes but
scant difference how they got
there—by way of wheat, or lauds,
or steel, or cotton, or steamboats
—the result is eminently pleasing
to behold.
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