Attorney General Knox, in his
annual report, calls attention to
wholesale frauds practiced in secur
ing naturalization papers and rec
ommends that the law he so amend
ed as to severely punish such of
fenses.
Gen. MacArthur, who is alleged
to have stated at a military confer
ence in Honolulu that war between
the United States and Germany is
inevitable, will be called upon to ex
plain his utterances to the war de
partment.
The secretary of the treasury esti
mates that appropriations required
by the government for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1903, will ag
gregate $624,502,140, as against
$589,1S9,112 asked for the year
1904, and $605,276,900, the amount
of the appropriations for that year.
Frau Fischer, a veteran lion
tamer, was torn to pieces by a vi
cious brute in a cage during a per
formance at Dessau, Germany, The
cage contained three large beasts,
who fought viciously among them
selves for fragments of the woman's
ttesh before the horrified gaze of the
spectators.
Witnesses before the senate mili
tary committee testified that Gen.
Wood, while governor general of
Cuba, was the recipient of a silver
set, valued at $3,000. presented to
him by a company to whom he
granted a franchise to operate a
place of amusement where gam
bling was carried on.
In federal court at Baltimore,
former Postal Clerks Thomas Mc
Gregor and ('. E. Upton were con
victed of conspiracy to defraud the
government in connection with the
purchase of mail pouches for use in
the free delivery service. The man
who furnished the pouches was the
principal witness against the ac
cused.
Immediately upon the^ .assem
bling of the congrowT in regular ses
sion, President ltooscvolt sent to the
senate the nominations of Gen.
Wood to be a major general and
W. I). Crum, colored, to he collect
or of the port of Charleston. These
were among other presidential nom
inations that failed of confirmation
at the extra session.
When the Chicago street car
strike was settled a few weeks ago
the company retained some of the
men employed during the trouble.
Two of these non-union men were
attacked by a mob in the suburbs a
few days ago and their lives wrec
saved only by the prompt arrival of
the police, while the mob complete
ly demolished the ear.
The Independent stock yards
company, the first in the United
States to (mter tiie lists against the
so-called meat trust, has been or
ganized in St. Louis, and wilt be in
operBjon by the first of the year.
A lajje number of western cattle
raisers" are interested in the new
company, which {imposes to estab
lish packing houses throughout the
country.
United States Consul Davies,
stationed at Alexandria, Asiatic
Turkey, was recently compelled to
lower the American flag over the
consulate on account ot‘ a personal
insult by members of the local po
lice. Mr. Davies reported the af
fair to the state department at
Washington, and Minister Irish
man at Constantinople has demand
ed that proper reparation be made
at once.
One of the strong features of the
coming administration of Gov.
Taft as head of the war department
will be his advocacy ^of railroad ex
tension in the Philippins islands, as
a means of developing the islands
and bringing about improved con
ditions of trade. An expert engi
neer under the governor’s direction
has Recently completed a survey of
the island of Luzon and reported to
the governor on the details of cost
and the practical returns promised.i
Herbert Spencer, the famous En
glish author, is dead.
The case against Edward W.
Butler of St. Louis, under sentence
of three years for bribery, has been
reversed by the Missouri supreme
court, and the defendant dis
charged. Butler is to be tried on
another indictment, but as it is al
most identical to the one just dis
missed, it is not believed a convic
tion will be secured. Butler has
dominated local politics in St.
Louis for many years, is a million
aire, and interested in several cor
porations enjoying exclusive munic
ipal franchises.
At the sale of the effects of Sam
uel A. Marstellar at Manassas, Ya.,
recently a New York dealer paid
$500 for a pair of silver-mounted
dueling pistols formerly owned by
George Washington. Washington
gave the weapons to his secretary,
Bartholomew Dandridgc. On the
death of Dandridgc they passed
into the hands of Col. I\ G. Mar
steller, who was one of Washing
ton's pallbearers, and descended to
his son, Samuel A. Marsteller, who
died thirty years ago. The latter's
descendants live in Washington,
and the pistols were in their custo
dy until the sale.
i ne war department at v\ asning
ton announces that preparation hai
been made to dispatch troops to
the isthmus of Panama should Co
lombia make any effort to invadt*
the country. Several American
cruisers are now patrolling the east
ern end of the San Bias coast and
keeping an outlook for any attempt
on the part of Colombia to land
troops on the isthmus. Several
clashes have occurred between strik
ing miners and the militia in tha
(.'ripple Creek district since mar
tial law was declared. Three mi
ners were killed in a battle at Se
gundo and a number of others were
wounded.
The salient feature of Secretary
of the Treasury Shaw’s annual re
port to congress is the gradual re
duction of the surplus in the treas
ury. The surplus for the current
year is placed roughly at $54,000,
000. Estimated, the surplus in
1004 will be $14,000,000, and in
1005 there will be a deficit of $28.
000,000. Compared with the fiscal
year 1002, the receipts of 1003 in
creased $10,294,837.17. There was
an increase of $47,284,545.38 in ex
penditures. The estimated revenues
for 1004 are $G74,7G7,GG4 and ex
penditures $660,7G7,G64, leaving a
surplus of $14,000,000. The esti
mated revenues for 1005 arc $704,
472,000.72 and expenditures $727,
474,206.79, leaving a deficit of $23,
002,140.07.
1 lie republican national conven
tion will be held in Chicago, begin
ning at noon, June 21 next. The
republican national committee
reached this conclusion at a meeting
held in Washington last week, sub
ject to call. Pittsburg and St. Louis j
were rivals of Chicago for the con-;
vention. The work of the committee :
was harmonious throughout. Its
open session was attended by many
republican members of the house. I
Several minor questions were re
ferred to a special committee. In-;
eluded in this list was the representa- j
lion asked for by Porto Itico, Hawaii
and Luzon; the socialistic problem j
and the political rights of the negro, j
A committee headed by Senator
Scott of West Virginia was named j
to make all arrangements for the ;
convention.
John P. Proctor, president of the
civil service commission, died at his !
home in Washington on the 12th.
M r. Proctor was born in Mason coun
ty, Kentucky, March 1 (», 1844. He j
took a scientific course at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, but left to
serve in the Confederate army. Later
he was engaged in farming in Ken
tucky. From 1843 to 1880 he'was
assistant in the geological survey of
Kentucky, and from 18S0 to 18D3
was state geologist.
FOOLING WITH PISTOLS.
Odd Experienca That Gave One Man
a Very Bad Scare.
“The practice many young men
have of fooling with pistols is a
bad thing, and it is not at all sur
prising to me that so many per
sons are killed by the accidental
discharge of weapons,” said an
observant man to a New Orleans
Times 1 )emoerat reporter. “On
several occasions my life has come
near going out on account of this
very business. It was in instan
ces where the other fellow
‘did not know it was loaded.’ And
if I had died I don’t suppose the
men who would have been respon
sible for my death could have been
tried for murder. In my case no
doubt the jury of inquest would
simply have reported a case of
death from heart failure. I have
had some pretty bad frights.
Some time ago I was in one of the
Louisiana parishes where nearly
every male inhabitant of a cer
tain age is expected to have a pis
tol about his person. In some way
the boys found out that I <1 id not
take kindly to the practice of
young men carrying pistols, and
while I knew nothing about it at
the time, they made up their minds
to have some fun at my expense.
They had it all right. I walked
into a saloon one day and spoke
rather flippantly to the man be
hind the bar. It was all in good
nature, of course. He grabbed a
big pistol and slammed it down
on the counter. The barrel
seemed to lx* pointing directly at
my heart. He fumbled with the
trigger and the thing went off. If
the earth had been one huge tor
pedo, and exploded in my face it
would not have made a louder re
port. It was several minutes be
fore I could tell whether I was liv
ing or dead. The fellow had primed
the pistol with a blank for my es
pecial benefit. Sometime after
this, while talking to a friend, an
other member of the same crowd
of grim jesters concluded that he
would take a few shots at my feet.
He told me what he was goinjr^to
do and the pistol began to pop.
Ordinarily my feet do not seem to
be so very large. I wear a six
shoe. I>uf when that fellow was
shooting I glanced down at my
feet, and upon my word they
looked its large as freight cars.
But he never hit’em. A few days
later while I was in a saloon a fel
low walked up and shoved a pistol
right up against my breast. Bang:
Ba> *! Bang! He tired three times
in quick succession. I was dead.
I knew I was dead because 1 didn’t
feel any pain. Things began to
have a faraway look to me, and I
could just feel myself slipping
away to eternity. The fellows
around me were laughing. Even
the man who had shot me did not
seem to be angry the least bit.
Directly he pulled another pistol
our from under his coat, and then
tlx* truth of the matter dawned on
me. He had tired three shots into
the floor, and tlx* pistol jammed
up against my body had not ex
ploded at all. But I came so near
dying of heart disease that I con
cluded it would be wise to savno
more about tlx* pistol toting prac
tice, and I have kept faith with
this good judgment.
Smallest French Soldier.
The smallest French soldier at
present serving with (Me colors is
an artilleryman belonging to the
Third colonial company at Lori
ent. He is employed as a joiner,
under the directorate of the naval
artillery, and is orny four feet six
inches high. lie. 1ook,yoluutary
service for five .years, and could
only contract this engagement
with the assent of the minister of
war.
A Great Spanish Palace.
The magnitude of Escurial, the
great Spanish palace, may be in
ferred from Ae fact that it would
take four d-tys to go through all
the rooms toad apartments, the
length of t-h*' journey being reck
oned at li;’ Spanish leagues, equal
to about-2d English.milea.
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