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Plattsburg Leader. AN IMPROVED MISSOURI NEWS BRIEFS. 1 BUFFALO EXPOSITION CLOSED. The Flnanoial Lobs Will Reach Nearly Three Million Dollars. Buffalo.

The Pan-American exposition ended at 12 o'clock Saturday night At midnight, President John Mi) burn pressed an electric button and the lights In the famous electric tower grew dim for the last time. Slowly one by one the lights on post and pinnacle and tower faded away. A corps of buglars standing in the tower sounded "taps and one 'of the greatest glories of the exposition, the electrical illum'nation, passed away and the exposition was ended. s'. The exposition has not been a finan cial success, but it is believed the benefits derived from It will be of great value to the commercial interests of the country.

The primary object of the exposition was to advance the friendly stations and commercial intercourse between the United States and the other countries of the two Americas. In this respect it has been a decided success. The financial loss will be In thp neighborhood of $3,000,000. The atate-mentUo be issued by the officers of the exposition setting forth the expenditures and receipts will be made public some time this month Until then tlie company will make no formal siicment The loss will fall upon the hoiders ot the common stock, the holders of recono THANKS6IVIM6 DAY. President Boone velt'e ProolameV tion Names Thursday, Nov.

2q Washington. President Roosevelt bat Ueued his proclamation fixing Thuiaday, November 28, as a day of national thanksgiving. It follows: A PROCLAMATION: "Ths season is nigh when, according to ths time-hallowed custom of our people, ths president appoints a day as the especial occasion for praise and thanksgiving to God. "This Thanksgiving finds the people still bowed, with sorrow for the dsath of a great and good president. We mourn President McKinley because we so loved and honored him; and tiie manner of his death should awaken in the breasts of our people a keen anxiety for the country, and at the same time a resolute purpose not to be driven by any calamity from the path of strong, orderly, popular liberty which as a nation wS have thus far safely trod.

"Yet, in spite of the great disaster, it is nevertheless true that no people on earth have such abundant came for thanksgiving as we have. The pas: year in particvular has been one of ana plenty. We have prospered in tilings material and have been able to work for our own uplifting in tnings intellectuai and spiritual. Let us -remember thai, as much has been given us, much will be expected from ue, and that true image comes from the heart as well as Urom the lips and shows itself in deeds. We can best prove our thankfulness to the Almighty by the way in which, on this earth, and at this time, each of us -oes 'his duty to his fellow men.

"Now, therfeore, Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United StaUs do hereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving, Thursday, the 28th this present November, and do reconnnend that throughout the land the people cease from their wonted occupations, and at their several homes and places of worship reverently thank the Giver of all good for the countless blessing of our national life. "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 2nd day of November, in the year A Our Lord one thousand nine hundrel and one, and of the independence of the United States, the one hundred and twenty-sixth. (Seal.) THEODORE ROOSEVELT "By the President. "JOHN HAY, Secretary of State." MAIL SERVICE.

several Recommendations Midi by Assist' lot Postmaster Beneral. Feet Hall Between the Pacific Coaat and th Orient Pneumatic Tuba Service In Large i Cities. Washington. The annual report of Second Assistant Postmaster General William S. Shaiknberger, urges regular, direct, fast mail service between the Pacific coast and the Orient, the re-establishment of pneumatic tube service generally and the closer separation of city mail by postal clerks of the mail ing division after its arrival in the gen eral poatoffice.

Under the last named proposition, the entire force engaged it. distributing the mail ready lor thv carriers would be under one management and congestion in a postoffico could be overcome by the temporary detail of railway mail clerks off duty. The city distribution in postal cars has been assumed entirely by the railway mail service, supplanting the former practice of having clerks from the city postoffice gj out some distance on the road to meet incoming trains. Constant dtmamls are. now being made for still closer separation by having the railway mail or superintendent in charge take the outgoing mail from the public and see that i' is expeditiously dispatched, and also deliver the incoming mail properly made up for the carriers.

Mr. ShallenliTger suggests for the present a test of the practical operation of this proposition at postoffices whose gross receipts are a half million dollars or more a year. The postoffice department has no contractor direct mail service- between the Pacific coast and the Philippines, mails being carried by government transports or by steamers to Hong Kong and thence by steamers of other countries te Manila. "It now seems probable," says the report, "that if this government should withdraw its transports, as may be done at any time, with the understanding that its passenger and fast freight traffic, together with the Increasing volumt of its mails, might go to the steamship company that would submit the most satisfactory proposal for quick and regular service, a favorable contract could be secured. The mail service and om-mercial Interests would be greatly advanced by fast mail steamers adhering strictly to schedule time between th Pa ciflc coast and Manila, and calling at other ports at regular Intervals, under contract with this government' The request for $500,000 appropriation for pneumatic service is renewed, as a basis for the beginning of the service, which, when fully established, it is stated, vwill Involve an annual expenditure of approximately $800,000.

The report shows that on Juna 30 last there were 267,357 miles of tar route service, 183,358 of railroad routes. 45,7779 of railway postoffice car routes and almost 3,000 miles of electr" and cable car routes. The annual ratn of expenditure for all classes of domestic mail transportation service has increased $6,940,285 since last year. It is contemplated that the new contracts tor star mail service, beginning next July, shall provide for delivering mall into boxes along nearly all of the' ro ites The practice of granting to contractors general permission to sub- let their star route service' has been, discontinued. HIS PUNISHMENT DESERVED Washington.

"To be confined one year in such a place as the seer Ttary of the navy may direct; to do extra police duty during that to lose all pay except $2 a month for prison expenses, and the further mm of $20 to be paid him at the expiration of this confinement, and to be dishonorably discharged from the service of the United States," is the sentence imposed by court m-trtial upon ohn W. Stoll, a ihird-class electrician of the receiving ship Columbia, lying at the New York navy yard for foul abuse of the late President On the day of President McKin-ley's death, Stoll, in the company of a number of sailors, is charged wits having declared with an obscene oaih that the president should have been shct long ago, and to have added other fil and profane expressions of the same tenor. He was arrested promptly and tried by court-martial, with the result above announced, on two charges, first, conduct to the prejudice of good order ana discipline; scandalous cmduci tending to the destruction of good morals. Vv A square foot of the best Persian rag is worth about and it takes a single weaver twenty-three days to complete this portion. This allows the weaver about forty-four cents per day for ber wool and her labor, but three-fourth this amount goes to pay for the wool; only eleven cents per day is left for the weaver.

The retail price of meats in Chicago it higaer than it nas been for years. A. R. ALEXANDER, PROP. PLAT TSBURG, MISSOURI.

CONDENSED NEWS TELEGRAMS, Charles T. Terkea has purchased Tor aers celebrated painting, "Rocketa and Blae Lights," at ths record pries of 178.760. The flooding of the mountain streams aas caused widespread damage in Sicily. Eleven lives are already known to have keen lost The German police hare seized an edition of Count Tolstoi's brochure, "The Meaning of Life," at a Leipsic publishing house. Governor Taft has been sick in the hospital at Manila for ten days past He has undergone a successful operation and is now recovering.

The Italian authorities took vigorous measures to prevent contemplated anarchist demonstrations in celebration of the electrocution of Czolgosz. James McGarry, the original of P. Dunne's "Dooley," died in Chicago. Tuesday, at an advanced age. McGarry was formerly a saloonkeeper well known locally for his wit and the whimsical philosophy he brought to bear on pass-lug events.

The divorce proceedings by which Frederick M. Gebhard and Louise Morris Gebhard are legally separated, were concluded at Sioux Falls, S. by the order of the court that Mr. Gebhard pay former wife $185,000 and make over to her his New York residence. The largest sheep receipts since the establishment of the stock yards in Omaha were registered Tuesday.

There were seventy-three cars, containing head of sheep, the best previous record beifig October 10, 1900, when head were received In a single day. J. W. Brown, of East St Louis, 111., a special officer of tne Vandalia railroad, was shot and killed Tuesday at Forest 111., by a crowd of suspected brass thieves. One of the men who did the shooting was killed by Brown.

The body of the dead thief has act yet been identified. 5 Colonel George B. Rodney and Captains Yilliam H. Coffin and J. W.

Van-dusen, of the artillery corps, have been appointed a board to meet at Fort Riley, on the 1st for the purpose of considering and reporting upon the proper organization and equipment of batteries of siege artilleries. Telegraphic advices from Van Buren, say-that National World's Fair Commissioner P. D. Scott has received a telegram from Miss Helen Gould, in which she accepts the appointment of lady manager of the Louisiana purchase exposition. Miss Gpuld was named by Commissioner Scott at tne recent meeting of the federal commission in St Louis.

The local-government board has issued a statement that two persons died from the plague during the month of October at Liverpool, according to bac teriological tests made after the deaths. Three suspected cases and all who have teen in contact with the suspected persons have been placed under observation. The board says the plague was first thought to be influenza. The French cabinet has approved th till authorizing a loan of 265 million francs in 3 per cent perpetual rentes, to reimburse the treasury for its outlay ai result of the Chinese expedition an4 to pay indemnities to sufferers in con nection with the expedition. Simultan eously with the Issues of these rentes the minister of finance, M.

Caillaux. will cancel rentes to an equal amount deposited In the public deposit fund which will receive in exchange Chinese Annuities. Education. Commissioner Brumbavgt of San Juan Porto Rico, has sent a let ter to Andrew Carnegie accepting hii offer of $100,000 to 'build a free publii library in San Juan. Definite plans foi the erection of the building will formulated in November; when Mr Brumbaugh is.

in New York. Numerous new school houses, built with insula; funds, have been opened, including i normal and an agricultural school Heretofore there were no school build tugs on the island. Of the 110.000 American soldiers wh' participated in the Mexican war. about 5,000 are living. At a reuiio: field in Independence, recently there were present forty-seven of thes veterans, whose average age was years.

The Official Gaietie, Copenhiprrj publishes a denial of the statement Cii King Edward is snfTrring from care end declares untrue the report th? were In consultation rszzrl ing him during his recsnt visit to Hi-mark. Paymaster Oneral Bite3. ja hlr. seal report says that the pav -f ny for the year was tC3.2" 'increase over last year of Sl.ZCi.C It has been decided that all prisoners sentenced to the state penitentiary must be vaccinated before admittance. Callaway county Democrats will hold a primary for the purpose of deciding their preference for United States sen ator.

Among the first 1,000 students enroll ed at the state university are three Quakers, two members of the Salvation Army, one Mormon and one Christian Scientist The Sarah Bale mine on Beef branch is considered the best paying shallow diggings in the mining district near Neosho. The shaft is now only twenty-two feet deep but has been worked over a year, during which time an average of 15,000 pounds of lead ore a week has been mined. According to the statement made by a member of the Commercial club, Governor Dockery has decided to appoint W. A. Rule, of the National Bank of Commerce, to succeed Hugh Ward on the board of police coram issnoners of Kansas City.

The same authority has it that Robert A. Gregory is to remain on ths board. As a result of being treated with anti-toxine from the city physician's office in St. Louis, two children have died of lockjaw and another cannot live. The anti-toxine was made from serum taken from a horse that has since died of lockjaw.

Many bottles of the same serum have been distributed over the city and the greatest fears exist that ether cases of lockjaw will develop. Clyde Sims, aged 12 years, accident ally shot himself while out hunting south of Hamilton. He was carrying a rifle, and In attempting to pull it through the fence after him It was ac cidentally discharged, the ball entering his left arm above the elbow and ranging upward through the muscles and flesh, making a very painful wound. He is the son of J. W.

Sims, a traveling man living at Hamilton. Extensive strikes of lead have beer made in Moniteau county, near Tipton, and twenty acres of mining land was sold recently to Eastern capitalists for $150,000. Another deal is nearly closed for a small tract at $10,000 per acre Congressman D. W. Shackleford and J.

W. Marsteller of the state bureau of mines and mining, who have inspected the are Impressed with the prospect Charles Bellamy, aged 18, while re turning home from the Rosedale church in Davies county, northeast of Hamil ton, met with an accident while racing with some young friends that caused his Instant death. A horse ridden by a friend in front of him stumbled and fell. Young Bellamy's horse was following furiously after, and fell over the fallen horse, throwing Bellamy violently to the ground, breaking his neck. He lived with his father, John Bellamy, near Kidder.

This is the second child of Mr. Bellamy to meet with violent death recently, ri Governor Dockery has pardoned William Wade, who was sent to the penitentiary last year from St. Louis to serve sentence for murder in the secodQ degree. Wade was a railroad brake-man when he committed the crime, and the Brotherhood of Trainmen interceded in securing the pardon. Grand Master of the Order P.

H. Morrlssey, of Cleveland, went to Jefferson City, accompanied by C. C. Hardy, of, De Soto, and G. E.

Gons, of Kansas City. They called on Governor together with Railroad Commissioners Rice, Hennessey and McCulley, and secured Wade's It is announced by his' friends in St Joseph that Major John L. Bittinger, of St. Joseph, who is present States consul to Montreal, will in all probability succeed Ambassador Powell Clayton to Mexico. Ambassador' Clayton for several months has been anxious to be relieved from his duties there, and Richard Kerens, national committeeman from Missouri, had the promise of President McKinley that Major Bittinger would be given the Mexican ambassadorship when General Clayton stepped out.

Because of the precarious state of President Diaz' health, President McKinley insisted that General Clayton Should at least serve out his term, which lias now about expired. Major Bitting er will be home very The state board of railway and house commissioners notified. S. P. Broughtoa, chief deputy grain inspector St St Joseph, that his ssrvic-s would not be farther required.

This action is alleged to be due to the little grain now moving. Governor Dockery hss appointed H. L. Thrash: of Pin'vllle. McDonald to be county surveyor of that county, rice Dan Thrasher, deceased.

W. C. Flynn, letter carrier at St. Joseph has been promoted from $C00 to $800. The Missouri State Horticultural society will hold its forty-fourth annual meeting at St Joseph, December 3, and S.

The state fish commission has deposited fifteen cars, containing 1,500 rainbow trout, in the Bryant river, six miles south of Mansfield. Ten states and territories have made appropriations amounting to over 1 million dollars, to be expended for exhibits at the world's fair at St Louis in 1903. C. C. Cherry, an employe at the Burlington shops at St.

Joseph, was killed by a St Joseph Grand Island train near Elwood. He was walking on the track. i Downing, a graduate of William Jewell college, killed himself Monday night at Bucklin, where be was principal of the public schools. No reason is given for the rash act A successful revival meeting is now In the second week of its progress in the Evangelical church in Warrensburg. The Rev.

Thomas J. Cox of Kansas City is assisting the pastor and reports many converts. Marshal R. B. See of the state supreme court of Jefferson City Is trying to locate the time and place of the murder of two white girls by a colored man in Missouri several years ago.

He believes he has a clue to the murderer. The sociology class of the University of Missouri has completed a religious census of Columbia. The census shows that 51 per cent of the total population or nearly 80 per cent of the entire population of more than 20 years of age aw church members. More than one-third of the entire population of the town attend Sunday school. Since John Morton, a Ray couuty horse named in honor of State Senator of the Eighth district, started in twenty-five races at St Louis during the past season, and was inside the money twenty times, his backers be lieve that the horse is beginning to show the winning tendencies of his namesake Kansas City Star.

At the request of Adjutant General Dameron, Governor Dockery has-, commissioned the following officers of the Missouri state guard: G. B. Webster to be captain and judge advocate of the First regiment of infantry, with rank from October 24, 1901, and Floyd Clinton, to be quartermaster of the -tc-ond regiment infantry, with rank from October 23, 190L Considerable land along the river hank near the St. Joseph Grand Island bridge is being bought by a real estate man In St Joseph, and options are being obtained on lots in the same vicinity. It is intimated there thac the land is being bought for the Wa-j bash, the rumor gaining ground in con-' nection with the story that the St.

J0s-j eph Grand Island railroad is soon to be absorbed. -( The supreme court has transferred the Kansas City police judgeship case of Brumback against McAuley to the Kansas City court of appeals, for want of jurisdiction. The supreme court made no announcement as to why it has no Jurisdiction, but It is understood tha the court has decided not to burden itself with original proceedings like this, holding that they should first be tried in the lower courts and then come up through the regular channel; that Is, by appeal. Ths report of the expert accountant who examined the state books, has been filed with the state auditor, Mr. Allen, by C.

E. Morris, who had the ir charge. Mr. reached Jeffersot City Wednesday afternoon from Nev York, the headquarters of the firm, where the figures made here were verified. He will remain a few days and compare his work with the report made by the state auditor.

Then both reports will be filed with Governor Dockery and he will give them out to the press for publication, which probably will be next Saturday. The report of the experts is a voluminous one containing 7-000 words. The negroes of Columbia, who compose a fairly large per cent of the population, will have a newspaper exclusively for the benefit of the racs. It will be edited by Rufus Logan, of Jefferson City, a graduate of Lincoln Insatntion, who has had considerable experience at a teacher and writer. The paper will a unique publication, as nothing of tht kind has ever been published la that section.

mortgage bonds and the co tractors who erected the buildings. Two iinhdred and ten thousand shares of common stock were sold at $10 a share The stock was subscribed for by the citizens of Buffalo and Niagara Fromier, in small lots of from one share to 100, so that the loss will not be seriously felt by anyone. No complaint has been hea-d from the holders of common stock, vbo ap preciate the benefit the exposition has been to the city. There is also a feeling of satisfaction that the enterpriss was carried to a successful end by thn citi zens of this city without state or federal aid. The first mortgage bonds, amounting to $2,500,000, will be paid in full.

An issue of $500,000 second bond1? is unprovided for, but the revenjj from salvage on the buildings and from other sources will probably cover a part of this indebtedness. The balance due to con tractors i3 not definitely known, but i is said that it represents their profits for the work done, and no one will be seriously embarrassed by the less The total number of admissions for the six months was close to 8.300,000 Ai average of 2.000.000 a month had ben figured on by the officials. The great snow storm of last April was a severe blow to the exposition. An immense amount of work was undone and work on grounds and buildings was delayed for a week Strenuous efforts were made to make up for lost time, but on May 1 a vast amount of work remained undone and the formal opening of the extosition was postponed until May 20. The lamentable tragedy in the Temp'e of Music which robbed th? nation of a beloved president was another blow to the Pan-American.

The attendance hal been increasing steadily up to the date of the assassination of PresMent The gates were closed for two days and when they reopened there was a drop of 12 per cent in the attendance and no Improvement followed. The government exhibit, which Is a beautiful and instructive collection, will be at once shipped to Charleston. A large crowd attended the exposition Saturday. The exhibit buildings were jammed during the afternoon, and there was considerable petty thieving of ex hibits by souvenir fiends. The fruit and wine exhibits in the horticultural building suffered the' greatest loss from the depredations of the crowd and It finally became necessary to turn the people out of the huilding and lock the doors.

DOLD SUFFERS ANOTHER LOSS. Buffalo. The larger portion of Jacob Dold Co. '8 packing establishment was destroyed by fire Saturday night. The flames were discovered in one of the smaller buildings of the plane, where the barrels are prepared for packing.

The structure was of wood and burned like tinder. Sparks from the barrel house set fire to adjoining structures, and the flames got a foothold in several places at t)ie same time. The firemen's work had but little effect, and in two hours most of the plant was destroyed. Loss 009. 1 Statistics show that Britain is fore most among letter-writing nations.

France lagging far behind in this mat ter The farm products of the United States this year are worth abut more than last year's out! urn. HERBERT 6LADST0KE WEDS. London. The marriage of Herbert Gladstone to Dorothy Paget, daughter of Sir Richard Horner t'aget. Birl took place Saturday at St church.

The function, one of widespread 3oclal interest, was largely attended. At the reception at Lady Paget's house after the ceremony the guests viewed the unique and costly presents, which num- Iterrd over 609. WILL SETTLE. France's Warlike Demonstration Brought the Sultan to Time. Paris.

The dispatch of Admiril Cail-lard's squadron from ivoulon to Turkish waters has already had its effec. The trench foreign office received a telegram Saturday from M. Bapst, councilor of the French legation at Constantinople, announcing that the sul'au had sent him a message accepting all the French claims, including the Lorando claim. The poi-te also Telegraphed the French minister of foreign affairs, M. informing him that the Lorando claim had been settjed and that the sui An had signed an irade accepting the figure fixed by France for the payment of the claim.

M. Delcasse went to tin iJlysee palace and to the ministry of the nter-. lor, and consulted with Preside Lou-bet, the premier, M. and the minister of marine, M. Pe! He afterward had another conference with M.

Waldeck-Rousseau It is understood the French government also will demand an understanding that Turkey will not renew the recent Interference with the diplomatic bags. The claims which have caused the In-, tervention of the French government are three in number. Two concern sums due in reimbursement for money advanced for the construction of railways. One alone of these credits amoim-s, with unpaid interest, to nearly 9 million dolr The third claim Is that the company of the Constantinople docks and quays, of which both the personal and capital are French. This company, after having constructed important public works, finds itself so treated that it is unable to begin the operations for which it was organized.

The Ottoman government often manifested the intention of redeeming the concession, but has done nothing. The company can neither carry on its work nor get Its money returned. The example set by Adjutant General Corbln since his return from China and the Philippines of wearing his uniform while on duty at tha war department is being gradually followel by other army officers on duty at that depart meat SH0OTIN8 IN A MUNICH THEATER. Munich. There was a sensational affair at Odeon hall Saturday evening Just before the commencement of a concert there a man named Hoffman begac firing a revolver at the people in wounding two of them.

He then killed himself. Hoffman was a sculptor's assistant, came from Neu-stadt, Baden. Anarchist literature was found in his pockets..