Samuel Gompcrs has been re
elected president of the American
Federation of Labor.
Holland is passing through a
financial < *isis, owing to decline in
American railway stocks.
The Indiana National Bank at
Elkhart, lad., has been placed in
charge of a national bank examiner.
The Farmers’ National Bank at
Henrietta, Texas., has been closed
by order of the comptroller of the
currency.
Several prominent planters of
Bossier parish, La., have been in
dicted in federal court on the charge
of practicing peonage.
Theodore Hayes, aged 15. shot
and killed his 3-year-old brother at
St. Joseph, Mo., because the infant
was crying and he was left to attend
it by the mother.
An ordinary walking cane pre
sented to President Lincoln by an
admirer in 1800, was auctioned oil'
in New York City a few days ago
and brought $1.45.
Mrs. S. D. Bush is under arrest
at Lawson, Okla., on the charge of
complicity in her husband’s murder
two months ago. Kd Parks, on the
.tine charge, and l!ubc St. Clair,
who did tbe killing, are both held
without bond, the grand jury re
turning true bills. An attempt to
kill Parks was made by Bush on
the day before Parks’ death at the
hands of his brother-in-law, St.
Clair.
Two million dollars a day is a
snug sum for the total receipts
from the sale of a single agricul
tural product in a single country,
even such a country as the United
States. That is the figure shown
by the report of the department of
commerce and labor, through its
bureau of statistics, as the value of
the cotton exported from the Unit
ed States in the month of October.
l'J03.
The department of agriculture,
in its official Crop 1C porter for No
vember. announces that the indica
tions are that the world has enter
ed on a new era in the production
of cane sugar. The department
quotes estimates placing the total
sugar production of the world in
the year J003-OI at 10,-155,800 tons
of 5.510 pounds each, including 4,
342,800 tons of cane sugar and
083,000 tons of beat sugar, and
says as to cane sugar: “During the
.past five years the world's output of
this product has increased from 3,
000,000 to upward of 4,000,000
tons, qualitatively the greatest in
crease over made in any live-year
period in the history of this indus
try”
Five million dollars a day is a
snug sum for {he people of a single
country to realize as the salt' of the
products of their farms, factories,
forests, fisheries and mines. The
exports of domestic products of the
United States in the month of Oc
tober, 11)03, averaged more than
$5,000,000 for every day in the
month, and for every business day
in the month averaged practically
$6,000,000 a day. The total ex
ports of the months, as shown by
the figures of the department of
commerce and labor through its
bureau of statistics, amounted to
$100,370,059, which would average
more than $5,000,000 for every day
in the month, and practically $<>.
000,000 for each business day in the
month.
The papers in the ease of Kratz,
the St. Louis boodler, have been
forwarded to Mexico. It has not
been determined by the Mexican
government whether or not Kratz
will be delivered to United States
authorities. He will make a deter
mined legal fight, and as the Mexi
can courts are slow and act in
such matters, it may be some time
before a decision is reached. In the
meantime Kratz occupies a cell in
jail at Guadalajara.
Xo less than a dozen football
players have been fatally injured or#
the field since the season opened.
The American warships Kear
sarge and Massachusetts, two of the
most powerful vessels of tire navy,
have been ordered to the isthmus of
Panama.
As a result of boodle investiga
tion by the grand jury at Jefferson
City, Mo., over 100 indictments
have been returned at a cost to tax
payers of $8,439.95.
James L. Blair, former general
counsel for the Louisiana Exposi
tion Company, alleged to have de
frauded clients out of half a mil
lion, is said to have lost his mind.
William Austin, who gave away
a fortune of over a quarter of a
million dollars the past fifteen
years, died at Emporia, Ivan., last
week. At the time of his death he
was practically a pauper.
.Six members of the Louisville,
Kv., fire department have been ar
rested charged with looting during
a big fire. Officers found several
hundred dollars worth of goods hid
away at the various engine houses.
Gen. Keyes, special commisfion
er from Colombia to Washington,
stated to a representative of the As
sociated Press, that unless some
arrangements concerning the pres
ent situation on the isthmus satis
factory to Colombia are made, the
I'nited States will have to fight the
entire Colombian people.
Chfls. .McCormack, superintend
ent, and M. E. Buck, a miner,
were killed by an explosion in a
mine at Cripple Creek, Col. It is
claimed the dynamite wa> deliber
ately placed by some strikers so that
it would explode at the first attempt
to lower the cage into the mine.
The two victims were the only oc
cupants of the cage, at the time of
the explosion.
I). V. Mtiler and Joseph M.
Johns, charged with conspiracy
against the government, and in at
tempting to secure a bribe from
Joint J. Byan, of turf investment
fame, to insure hint the use of the
mails, wore acquitted in federal
court at Cincinnati. Johns is an
attorney of Bock port, 111., and Mil
ler was formerly an employe of the
p istolliee department.
Xew England cotton mill opera
tors regard the present trade situa
tion as bad from every standpoint,
citing the high prices of cotton and
fuel as one of the causes for reduc
ing wages of employes. At the pres
ent time operators claim they have
on hand less than a three months
supply of raw material, whereas in
normal years by the first of Decem
ber they have a six months’ supply.
While more than 100 Italian rail
road laborers were asleep in a shan
ty near Lilly. Pa., on the Pennsyl
vania railroad, the building caught
tire and before the foreigners could
escape at least twenty-seven were
burned to death and a score or more
were seriously in j ured. The
shanty was about 100 feet
long, one story in height. One end
was used for cooking and eating, at
the other end the men slept in
bunks, which were crowded. There
was only one door at each end, and
the windows were few and small.
The fire is supposed to have started
from an overheated stove. The
building burned like a tinder, and
the ilames were upon the men before
any of them were aroused.
The secret service has announced
the discovery of a new counterfeit
$5 national bank note. It is on the
Cape Cod national bank of Har
wich, Mass., check letter A. series
of 1882, Bruce, register; Wyman,
treasurer. The note is a well-exe
cuted photograph, on good quality
paper. A few red ink lines repre
sent the silk fiber; the panel con
taining the charter number on the
back of the note is black instead of
green.
QUEER CUSTOMS OF SIAM.
Boys Rise at Dawn to Take Bath
Fishing Favorite Sport.
Tito Siamese boy rises at early
dawn and goes to the river to
bathe, lie uses no soap, pours
the water over his head with a
bucket, then plunges in the
^stream and finally runs about to
dry himself if he is not the happy
possessor of a towel or its equiv
alent, says the Montreal Herald.
lie takes his breakfast of rice,
salt fish and fruit from brass or
earthenware vessels, sitting on
the floor as he does, and using his
fingers in lieu of spoons and forks.
After breakfast he has to spend
the day in play and sleep, for
school inspectors are unknown
and schools are both few and in
efficient.
Fishing is a favorite sport. A
bit of cane, some thread and a
worm on a pin will serve <]ui 1«*
well enough to capture a few fish
out of the thousands that abound
in 11n* canals and rivers. At low
tide, when the' canals that thread
the country with an infrieato net
ting of water passages are mere
valleys of slimy mud, they go
info the oozy dirt and catch
prawns with coarse sleeves.
These prawns are allowed to ri
pen in the sun, and when they are
sufficiently “high” and spicy they
are eaten with a mixture of very
strong vinegar and fiery pepper.
This is a diet 1 hat is said to be
stimulating to the appetite. As
a change from fishing, they in
dulge in “mud balling,’’ the Siam
ese equivalent for snowballing.
Neither children nor adults are
fond of active e^aueise for them
selves. but they are keenly excited
by tin* exhibition of physical en
ergy in others, especially if the ex
! hibition is in any way combative.
; Hence they delight in cock fights.
At night they search for crick
ets, and, having collected a num
ber, they place them, two and two,
in little jars of hard baked mud
and by skillful application of a
small piece of wood urge the little
creatures to engage in warfare.
They also catch “lighting fish.”
These they feed on mosquito lar
! vae, and then train them to fight,
i The fish become very pugnacious
' and are exceedingly skillful in
i their attempts to dispose of their
i enemies.
Everybody smokes, from baby
' to grandfather. The native to
i bacco is very strong, but Europe
! an tobacco rolled in lotus leaves
makes a cigarette with a flavor
that is by no means to bo despised.
Siamese girls marry when
about 14 and men at 20. When a
young man is in love he gets an old
woman to propost* for him. The
proposal is made to the girl’s par
ents, and not to herself. The
chances are she has never seen her
would-be husband. If the pro
posal is favorably entertained
there are many formalities to be
| gone through.
1 he astrologer must be consult
ed to see what the stars say, fora
man who was born in “the year of
the rat” would most likely lead a
very unhappy life with a woman
whose natal year had been presid
ed over by the “dog.” Asulfieient
ly large bribe to the astrologer
will generally be found to prove
that the stars are favorable.
Then there is the question of
dowry. The young man pays
to th»* bride's parents a certain
amount of money called “the price
of the mother’s milk.” This is re
turned to the bride on the bil l h of
the first child. All gifts and mes
sages between the two young peo
ple are conveyed by tin* parents.
They indulge in no courtship and
there is no demonstration of affec
tion tint il after the marriage. The
narriage ceremony partakes of t he
nature of a feast and is attended
by a priest, who sprinkles holy wa
der. scatters holy rice and pro
nounces a holy blessing. A man
can have as many wives as he can
afford to keep. The first wife,
however, is the chief one and the
head of the household. There is a
very elastic divorce law and mar
riages can be annulled by mutual
consent.
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COTTON BUYERS.
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