A strike of coal miners in Color
ado, Now Mexico and Utah has
been ordered.
Mrs. Dwight L. Moody, widow of
the famous evangelist, died at her
home in East Xorthfield, Mass., on
the 10th inst.
Three members of the St. Louis
police force were found guilty by a
jury of shooting craps while on
duty and fined $100 each.
On the 9th inst. the heaviest rain
fall in the the history of New York
City flooded the streets and de
stroyed thousands of dollars in
property.
Over 2,000 non-union miners are
now employed in the Cripple Creek
district, and the strike which was
declared about three months ago has
been a failure.
Thomas F. Ward, vice president
of a bank at Siouv City, la., plead
ed guilty of embezzling $30,000,
and escaped with a jail sentence of
thirty days.
The last quarterly dividend de
clared by the United States steel
trust was only 1 3-1 per cent, just
half of that declared quarterly
heretofore.
George Formon and C. J. John
son, federal officials stationed on the
island of Mindanao, T. I., whose
acocunts are under investigation,
took $0,000 of the government
funds, seized a steamer and started
for Burnoo. A steamer has been
sent to intercept the daring fugi
tives.
During a fierce equal on the 5th
on Lake Michigan the steamer J.
II. Hacklny capsized and eleven
passengers were drowned.
Over 100 cases of yellow fever
have been reported at Laredo, Tex.,
since the disease made its appear
ance at that place about four weeks
ago.
As a result of a well organized
and partly successful attempt at
wholesale delivery of prisoners at
the L tali state penitentiary, one
prisonei was killed, one guard was
shot and wounded and another man
was beaten into insensibility and
three prisoners were wounded and
two others under death sentence es
caped.
A Fort Worth, Texas, fire com
pany recently lowered the world's
record in making connection for a
fire. The contest was to run 280
feet: lay 100 feet of hose, total run,
dSO feet, make plug connections
and got water. The time made was
22 4-5 seconds. Up to last year
Kansas City held the world’s cham
pionship. its time being 26 seconds,
making the run 200 feet, laying 100
feet hose.
The czar lias appointed a commis
sion to investigate the disappear
ance of a large share of the huge
treasure contained in the so-called
Russian war chest. Russia has been
always supposed to have an enor
mous store of gold ready for any
war emergency. A sensation lias
been created in St. Petersburg by
the discovery that fully one-half of
the treasure has disappeared. Neith
er theft nor embezzlement is sus
pected, but the czar is anxious to
discover what has become of the
treasure.
i ne trustees oi trie estate ot -Mrs.
Maybrick, the American woman
now in a British prison serving a
life sentence for the murder of her
husband, are staid to have failed to
account for about $75,000 of the
funds. * he original estate, com
posed of lands located in Virginia,
West Virginia, Illinois and Ken
tucky, is valued at several millions.
Mrs. Maybrick will be granted a
pardon next year and will at once
return to this country to claim her
property. This has been one of the
most noted cases in the criminal his
tory of the world. Her husband,
an Englishman, died from arsenic
poisoning and after a sensational
trial his young American wife was
convicted and given a life sentence.
Her friends have been untiring in
their elTorts to prove bar innocence
and secure her release, and have
been rewarded with the promise that
the shall go free next July.
An increase in the death rate of
the army front 13.91 per 1,000 in
1901 to 15.49 per 1,000 in 190? is
shown in the annual report of Sur
geon General It. M. O’Reilly for the
fiscal year ending June 30. This
increase is attributed to cholera,
which caused 3.54 deaths per 1,000.
A -light improvement appears in
the admission rate for disease and
injury, which declined from 1791.59
per 1,000 in 1901 to 1715.51 per
1,000 in 190*2. Gen. O'Reilly,
speaking of the abolishment of the
army canteen, says: “It is impos
sible not tojtttribule a large part
of the steadily increasing venereal
disease of the army to the loss of
the canteen, where the soldier, if
he so desired, could get his beer
throughout the month, hut "'as not
subjected to the temptations to in
temperance and vice now attendant
upon the expenditure of a full
month's pay at the low resorts in
festing the outskirts of our military
reservations.”
A gang of blackmailers recently
notified officials of the Northern
Pacific that unless a certain sum of
money was left for them at a desig
nated spot on a given date, that
their property would be destroyed
by dynamite. Notwithstanding
hundreds of detectives have been
at work on the case, the bandits
have attempted to carry out their
threat and several trains and
bridges over that road have bc»n
wrecked with dynamite.
The United States geological sur
vey will have parties next year in
vestigating the raining resources of
southeastern Alaska, the formation
in the Yukon country and the oil
deposits in Alaska. If the appro
priation is ample parties will con
tinue the study of the geologv of
tlie Nome district and will conduct
an investigation of the coal supply
of Nome. The Copper river coun
try is also demanding investigation,
hut it is not likely that any work
will he done in that district during
the coming year.
The monthly report of the chief
of the bureau of statistics of the de
partment of agriculture shows the
condition of corn on October 1 to
have been 80.8, as compared with
80.1 one month ago. 79.0 on Octo
ber 1, 1903; 52.1 at the correspond
ing date in 1901, and a ten-vear av
erage of 77.7. The preliminary es
timate of the average yield per acre
of spring wheat is 14.4 bushels, sub
ject to revision when the final wheat
estimate is made. The average
quality of spring wheat is 85.5, as
compared with 87.7 one year ago.
The preliminary returns indicate
an oat crop of about 787,000,000
bushels, or an average of 28.4 bu.-li
els per acre, as compared with 31 5
bushels a year ago; 25.1 in 1901 and
a ten-year average of 27.8. The
average for quality is 79.9, against
89.7 in 1902, and 83.7 in 1901.
The preliminary estimates of the
yield per acre of barley is 2G.4 bush
els, against 29.0 one year ago; 24.7
in 1901 and a ten-year average of
25.3. The average for quality is
85.1, against 81.3 last year and
89.G in 1901.
A call for a boll weevil conven
tion, to be held at Dallas, Texas
November 5, lias been issued. The
object is to discuss means of fight
ing the cotton boll weevil, which
has this year devastated whole coun
ties in Texas and is spreading
north and east. An invitation is
extended to all southern states to
have representatives present and it
is considered quite likely f;nat an
appeal for federal aid will, be made
COWBIRD’S STRANGE HABITS.
Builds No Nest and Does Not Real
Its Own Family.
The eowbird is black and a little
smaller than the red winged black
bird, says Country Life in Amer
ica. There are three species, two
of which—the common and red
eyed—migrate to our northern
states and are found associated
together. The male of tl\e common
eowbird has a head and neck of
deep wood brown, while the red
eyed is wholly black and very Ins
trous. The females are smaller
than the males and duller in color,
although the red eyed female is
quite black.
The bird receives its name from
its association with cows, beside
which it feeds, snatching up the
insects that are disturbed by their
heavy tread. About half a dozen
usually attend a single animal or
a bunch of cattle, part of which
may be of one species and part of
the other. Indeed, the two asso
eiate together as peacefully as
though they were of the same spe
ies.
The most serious indictment
against the eowbird is that it
builds no nests and does not rear
its own family. Its eggs are laid
in the nests of greenlets, wablers.
finches and other blackbirds, most
of which are smaller than itself.
Of the first five red winks’ nests
examined in 1002 four contained
the eggs of the cow bird. The sum
mer warbler was one day found
burying the detestable egg in the
bottom of her nest, together with
one of her own. Two orchard
orioles’ nests, not 50 feet apart,
each contained theeggof the para
site, probably of the same breed.
GERM THEORY.
No Microba Discoverable for Certain
Contagious Diseases.
The germ theory as an explana
tion of contagious diseases has
occasionally met with set-backs.
There have been communicable
diseases in which it was admitted
that no microbe could be found.
For instance, says an exchange, a
disease of the tobacco leaf. The
juice of the sick leaves could be
made to infect other leaves, and
the virulence of the juice remain
many months intact, yet no cul
ture could be made from this juice,
nor was any microbe visible.
Again, in a case of infectious dis
ease among horses, known as
horse sickness. While the blood
serum of an infected horse is ca
pable of transmitting this disease
to any other horse, no microbe
could be found. Neither could any
culture be made from the blood
serum.
The supposition that these mi
crobes are so small as to be invisi
ble under the microscope is one
way of accounting for this.
Another way is that the contagion
existed in soluble form in the fluid
(contagium vivium fluidium).
If we would lay aside all Latin
phrases and circumlocution, and
just be frank with each other a
few minutes, we would very soon
reach the conclusion that each one
of us knows a little less than the
other about the matter, and that
all of us put together do not know
enough to hurt us any.
Thief’s Kiss.
A magistrate’s clerk has been
known to have his tie-pin stolen
while in court, and one in Binning
ham a few years ago lost his coat
in this way; but a more remark
able example, perhaps, of a thief’s
cleverness under the very eyes of
the police was that of the burglar
at (’lerkenwell, who managed to
conceal two diamond rings while
the police were searching him, and
passed one of them to his wife in
the cells while the police were
looking on. The rings were under
his tongue, and one of them
passed from his mouth to his
wife’s when he was kissing her
good-by.
Don’t Overdo It.
“Know thyself," but don’t over
do the thing by being too exclu
| sive.—Chicago Daily News.
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