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Inte a R. Dnnn, PnMUher, 1.50 Per Year in. Advance. Few men really are well treated. know when they The more you talk about business being poor the worse you make it.

Public men learn in time that It la p. better not to talk when they have noth- to say: 'After all is said and done, a professional is often nothing more than an amateur run to seed. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts, but in the silent thoughts of the wayside as we walk. If a man is so proud that he will mot see his faults, he will only quarrel with you for pointing them out to him. 'After a woman is thirty-five she ceases to prevaricate about her age, end begins to tell how young her children are.

People who isolate themselves soon form wrong opinions of the present and the future and are also apt to unduly magnify the past. It is difficult to understand why relatives should have special claims on each other, beyond the right which all human beings have to fair treatment. The women do not possess full suffrage in Kansas, but they secured more public offices in the last election than did the women of Utah or Coloradotwenty county superintendences of public instruction, and all the offices, from mayor to chief of police, in two cities. A novel lawsuit has just terminated In the court of common pleas, in Cleveland. On November 5, 1894, Humphrey Johnson shot and killed his wife Nellie, at their home in Collinwood.

Then he committed suicide. Both had children by former marriages. The administrator for the wife's children sued the administrator for the husband's children for $10,000 damages for the killing of Mrs. Johnson. The jury brought in a verdict for $3,000.

In the heart of San Francisco is the city's principal cemetery, where are "buried the- bodies of her famous dead, and where loom up in the sky the grand mausoleums of her millionaire mining and railroad kings. A movement to bisect this cemetery with a new street has aroused much opposition, yet it is by no means certain that sooner or later the whole cemetery will not be moved to a quarter where the dead would cost less in real and taxes. Latest Tacoma mail advices from China "state that the Russian government has secured permission from China to extend the Siberian railroad through Northern Manchuria, and also in case of war, to have possession of a warm water post on Chinese territory These important concessions, it is set forth in the articles of agreement, are made in consideration of Russia's friendship to China in the settlement of the China-Japan war, in which settlement Russia prevented Japan from taking possession of Manchuria." Daniel Mayer, the English musical agent, says America is the only country besides England where "great money" is made by musicians. On the continent charges for admission are email, and there are not so many big halls, consequently artists have to be content with lesser receipts. A fee oi 50 is considered as something very lrigh indeed for a single performance "across the water." The musical life is a very uncertain one, it seems.

Only those who have made really big names make big incomes. A great many "big" vocalists and instrumentalists receive pupils, even while at the height of their popularity. Musical suns are atpt to set very suddenly. Singers go out of fashion quickly and do not get into fashion again. The Paris Journal des Transports publishes some interesting statistics showing the rapid development of elecItric tramways in Europe during the past year, "the number of lines in 'working order having increased from 70 to 111.

while the total length of lines itias gone up from miles to 564. heads the list with a total length of 255 miles and S57 auto-motor vehicles, France being second with miles and 223 vehicles, while is third with 67 miles and 168 vehicles, Switzerland coming fourth with miles and 86 vehicles. Bulgaria Denmark are the only countries jwhich have no line with electric Of the 111 lines now being Iworked 91 are driven by wires overhead, while 9 have a central rail, 8 accumulators, and 3 an underground current." Elizabeth Wood, the 8-year- of a prominent merchant of Va lost her life while trying rpto save her playmate from the flames. The child was playing before a fire with another little playmate, and, stepping out of the room for a moment, she returned in time to see her playfellow endeavoring to extinguish her burning skirt. The brave child rushed to the rescue and succeeded in saving her companion, but in the excitement she caught fire and received burns from which she died within a few THE NEWS RESUME.

DIGEST NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. A Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings otK.J the Past Week Culled From the Telegraph ReportsThe Notable Events at Home and Abroad Thut Have Attracted Attention, isMr The Nation's Capital." W-TiSasftiThe spanisu legation at "Washington has received no information regarding the proposed reforms in Cuba. Consul General Lee is highly indignant at statements which have been made by Congressman Money since his return to the United States from Cuba. The United States supreme court assigned the Laclede Gaslight company case 'for reargument on the second Mondoy of the next term. The controller of the currency has appointed C.

H. Springer receiver of the Merchants' National Bank of Devils Lake, N. D. A bill fixing the age for the retirement from the classified civil service was introduced by Representative Gillett of Massachusetts. The house committee on commerce voted to report favorably a bill authorizing the Sierra Madre Construction company to construct or acquire a bridge across the Rio Grande at El Paso, Tex.

The work on the battleships at the shipyard at New York has been temporarily suspended on account of an order requiring that all plates used must be first subjected to the longitudinal and transverse tests. Several hundied men have been laid off. The Behring sea commission will not meet in San Francisco as expected. has returned from Victoria, B. had been in attendance on the commission, reports that the commissioners will remain in Victoria.

People Talked About. John T. Dowdall of St. Louis, the oldest Odd Fellow in Missouri. the second oldest in the United States, is dead.

David J. Hcnnessy's will was filed at Dubuque. His estate, consisting largely of St. Paul real estate, is given to his brother, Archbishop Heunessy, except that he makes small bequests to his other brothers and sisters. David P.

Plumb, father of the late Senator B. Plumb, died of pneumonia at the home of his daughter, a few miles northwest of Emporia, Kan. He was born in Delaware county, Ohio, in 1812. He was among the early pioneeers to Kansas, going there in 1856. Dennis B.

Cashman, a co-laborer in the Irish cause with the late John Boyle O'Rielly, is dead in Boston. Cashman and O'Rielly together were sentenced to the British penal colony in Australia in the early '60s. Cashman made his escape about two years after O'Reilly had gained liis freedom. He came to Boston and was associated with Mr. O'Reilly on the latter's newspaper.

Accidental Happenings. John Gordon, aged 13, went skating on Lake Winnebago, near Fond du Lac, and was drowned. Mrs. Esther Poole, 60 years of age, and her son, Charles J. Poole, 34 years old, of Chicago, suffocated by coal gas from a stove.

George A. Abel, chief grain inspector their of the produce exchange of San Francisco, is dead, having been asphyxiated by gas. Crather Haverhill's heavy goods warehouses at Montreal were destroyed by fire. The stock carried was said to be worth fully $300,000 insured for about $200,000. In the Adit Mining company's tunnel, near Ward, John W.

Glover and Harry Glover, contractors, and T. A. Edgormo and John W. Schreiver, were killed by an explosion of giant powder. Crimes and Criminals.

Ex-Gov. Davis of Maine is thought to have committed suicide. A Janesville, man killed his wife, son and himself. A mail pouch robbery was committed at West Superior. F.

E. Williams, agent of the Omaha road at West Superior, has committed suicide. Patrick Donohue, who was married a week ago, has been arrested for the nr'rder of his wife. William Roe was hanged at Napa. for the crime of murdering Mrs.

John I. Greenwood in February, 1891. Col. Wright of Newark, N. was injured in a runaway at St.

Paul while driving with Thomas Cochran. The filibuster Shere Amie run out of the harbor at Jacksonville, and was chased in vain by the cutter Colfax. The grand jury at Jefferson, Iowa, has found an indictment Against Louis Thornburg, the alleged wholesale forger for amounts exceeding General Traffic Manager Hanley, of the Santa Fe, has been acquitted of the charge of violating the interstate law. A Elmer Sutton broke jail' at Spirit Lake, Iowa, cutting his way out with a fine saw. Other prisoners objected, but he kept them at bay with Louis Levy, the alleged Pittsburg perjurer, was ordered to be extradited at Montreal.

He has ten days in which to appeal. Martin Braasch. a middle-aged laborer, was found in the river at Milwaukee, having been murdered. When last seen ne had $200 on his person. disappeared on Nov.

27. The Rev. Dr. Kirkpatriek, pastor of the Second Universalist Church of Rochester, N. who was arrested -some day ago charged with impersonating an officer, has been unanimously acquitted by jury trial.

Ebenezer Morgan entered a plea of guilty at Fond du Lac, of improper relations with Mrs. Jane Adams, and was sentenced to two years at kf Itgfa Hughes Fawcett, agent country for Stuart foSon, manufacturers of linen thread at Lisburn, been arrestfed at New York on a-toene5 warrant, accusing him of and knowingly made a false declaration to the collector of the port. Julius Hirsch, a young man who claims to be the son of wealthy parents in New Orleans, is locked up in the prison at San Francisco for theft. He came here last June and has since posed as the scion of a wealthy and illustrious family. Henry Miller, a middle aged German, entered a gun store at San Francisco and asked to see some pistols.

While fitting a cartridge he deliberately shot himself. At one time he was worth $200,000. Subsequently he was left penniless. Francis Murphy, a student nf. the Baptist Theological seminary, was found dead in his room in that institution in Louisville, having committed suicide by taking morphine.

It is said his home was WashUigton, D. C. No cause for the suiside is known. The last official act 6f Gov. Morrill of Kansas was the pardoning cf Anderson Gray, the Sumner county farmer, sentenced to death for instigating the murder of Thomas Patten, a neighboring farmer, in May, murder murder was committed by Thomas E.

McDonald, Gray's farm hand, Gray having hypnotized McDonald and compelled him to do murder. OB trjjal McDonald was acquitted. Foreign Gossip. The Russian academy has elected as honorary members Lord Kelvin and Dr. Simon Newcomb of Washington The Dominion Savings Bank of Yarmouth has been closed by order of the government.

Gen. Medarto Alfaro has been elected constitutional president of the republic of Ecuador by 53 votes, The Lokal Anzeigher publishes a rumor to the effect that the czarina has suffered from a miscarriage. The disabled steamer Durham City has reached Halifax in tow of tugs. Her crank shaft is broken. A strong Healeyite meeting was held in Dublin yesterday, which was virtually a counter blast to John Dillon's convention held last September.

The impress Dowager Asako is dead. She was a daughter of the late Kudjo Nao Tada, and she was born at Tokio Jan. 23, 1834. It is estimated that the Russian budget for 1897 will a deficit of 91,795,936 roubles, due to railway construction. Directors of the American Cigarette company, the Canadian branch of the tobacco trust at Montreal, have been arrested for conspiracy.

The Queen-'s hotel at Wallaceburg, Ont, was burned to the ground. A man from Cleveland is supposed have perished in the flames. The lord mayor's Indian famine fund has now reached over $175,000, of which William Waldorf Astor gave $10,000. The Mexican government has just awarded the contract for the making of a harbor where ships may anchor at Mazatian. is calculated? that three years will' be required to complete the undertaking.

The viceroy of India presided at an influential meeting at Calcutta caUed to promote private relief measures. He begged the natives and Europeans to stand side by side in relieving the famine sufferers. The French newspapers comment hopefully upon the effects of the arbitration treaty concluded between the United States and Great Britain, but there is nothing new in the tenor of The United States minister at Constantinople, at the request of the missionaries at Biltis, has obtained telegraphic orders from the court to remove the Turkish guard which has protected the American college for the past year. Otherwise. The new Banigan rubber works at Olneyville, R.

have started up, giving employment to about 750 hands. A Big Four special made a run from St. Louis to Cincinnati, a distance of 584 miles, in 675 minutes. The actual running time was 604 minutes. At the annual meeting of the American Geographical society at New York, a gold medal was awarded Lieut.

Peary. An autopsy on the body of'William H. Sinclair, the railway promoter and contractor of New York and Galveston, who died suddenly at Rochester, N. shows that his death was caused by apoplexy. Col.

William A. Harris introduced a bill in the Kansas senate which, if it becomes a law, will cause a revolution in the manner of organizing and managing corporations in the of Kansas. Supt. Hall, of the United States Leather company, has arrived at Stanley, and held a conference with the striking beam hands. Part of the men returned to work and men will be brought in to fill the places of the others.

I The committee of the Academy of Fine Arts at Philadelphia, appointed to award the best figure painting by an American citizen in the annual exhibition, has decided that the prize should go to Albert Herter, for his picture entitled "Le Soir." A small copper box containing the ashes of Kate Field, the writer, was buried at Mount Auburn cemetery, at Cambridge. The box was placed in a grave beside the remains of her mother. There was no- ceremony. The only person present at the interment was a relative, George Riddle of Cambridge. The committee on judiciary of the constitutional convention of Delaware decided to recommend the abolishment of the whipping post as a mode of punishment of petty criminals, and the convention will take action in a few days.

The whipping post has been in use in Delaware for more than 100 years. The work oh battle ships at the shipyard at Newport News, has been temporarily suspended on account of an order that all plates used must first besubjjected to the longitudinal and transverse tests. Several hundred men have been laid off on account this order, and others will follow unless it is revoked by the navy departmpnt. WADENA I A HUSBAND KILLED BYip-VTHB WIFE'S PARAMOUR. i Youngr Man Becomes Infatuated With a Married -Woman and Makes Away "With the Husband- On Being Arrested He Confesses and Charges the Woman With Hiring Him to Do the IMi i AJ Jan.

20.A who was found dead Saturday on the railroad track between this city and Verndale was evidently murdered. His name is Daniel Pikkarainen and he resided at New York Mills. When he was found Saturday it was thought he had fractured his skull by a fall from a train on which he was sealing a ride. A young man named Lindross had been boarding at Pikkarainen's home for some time and had become infatuated with his wife. The affection was reciprocated.

Thursday the young fellow persuaded Pikkarainen to go with him to Staples in search of work. The two spent Friday in that village and then concluded to return to York Mills. That was the last seen of Pikkarainen. It was known that the young man purchased a ticket at this point for New York Mills. He said nothing about Pikkarainen's absence and his friends commenced to get suspicious when they heard the body of an unknown man had been found at Wadena.

They went to the home of the dead man and found Mrs. Pikkarinen and the young man together. The latter was arrested and said that on the way to Staples Pikkarainen fell off the train and killed himself. After being taken into custody Lindross coolly confessed to the murder, and says Mrs. Pikkarainen hired him to do it.

He says he and the other man were riding on the blind baggage, that he had purposly gotten Pikkarainen drunk, and that he pushed him off the train, but he denies having killed him. Wounds on the dead man's head, however, show plainly that he was dealt two severe blows on the head before he was thrown off. Mrs. Pikkarainen refuses to say anything. This is the first murder ever committed in this county.

ARCHBISHOP GRACE SICK. The Aged Prelate Dangerously 111 at St. Paul. St. Paul, Jan.

20.Most Rev. Thomas L. Grace, for many years archbishop of St. Paul, and at present archbishop of the titular see of Sinnia, is lying seriously ill at St. Joseph's hospital in this city.

Owing to the advanced years of the distinguished prelate the worst is feared. The archbishop contracted a cold a few weeks ago which soon threatened pneumonia, and it was deemed best to remove him to the hospital where he could have the closest attention in the hope that the tender nursing of the sisters would restore him to health. TREBLE GOLD OITPIT. Fifteen Thousand Gold Seekers Will Go Alaska This uTacomao Jan. 20.AlaskaSpring.

and Puget sound merchants and the steamship companies are preparing for an influx of 15,000 miners into Alaska this spring. Last year about 5,000 men went north in search of wealth. The success of many of these, coupled with strikes made on Cloudy creek', a tributary of the Yukon, late last season, and the systematic advertising now being done, is having the effect of attracting thither goldseekers from every part of the country. Attempt to Break Jail. St.

Cloud, Jan. 20. Sheriff McKelvy has discovered what is considered a desperate plan on the part of three prisoners to break jail. Two burglars and a third man confined in one cell sawed four or five bolts and bars of the iron work in their cell. The plan was to gain the corridor and then with iron pokers assault the turnkey when he brounght in their supper.

A St. Paul Bank Assigns. St. Paul, Jau. 20.More as a matter of policy than immediate financial necessity the Minnesota Savings bank assigned to William Bickel.

The capital stock of the bank was $25,000 paid in, and its assets, according to an affidavit of the president filed yesterday to procure bond, amount to about $250,000. The liabilities are estimated at about $230,000. Favors Closer Trade Relations. Washington, sJan. 20.

John Charlton, M. Liberal member of the Canadian house of commons, who is in the city, says the recent change of government had brought the question of reciprocity to the front in that country, as the Liberal party always favored more intimate trade relations with the United States. Stole a Wad. New York, Jan. 20.A bag containing $5,000 was stolen from in front of the Pacific State bank, Broadway, near Houston street.

It was the property of the Metropolitan Traction company and had been sent to the bank in charge of two men as part of the usual Loaders Are Happy." Tomahawk, Jan. loggers in this vicinity feel very jubilant over the fall of snow since Saturday evening, six or eight inches having fallen and still snowing. Logging has been almost at a standstill for the past three weeks for want of snow, except where ice roads were made, and these could be made only in certain locali- tiesLl Deed of an Insane Han. New York, Jan. 20.At Mamaroneck, Westchester county, Arthur Palmer, during a fit of insanity, shot his brother Leonard, and fatally wounded his mother and died almost instantly, meeting was1 held to reorganize the Canadian section of the London chamber of commerce.

Chairman Dobell suggested that the topics which, the section take up should be the tariffs, the Canadian insolvency Jftwa and the. Hudson Bay railroad. DEEP WATtoRWAYisS Report of the Commission is Transmitted to the House, Washington, Jan. 20.The president sent to the house the report of the deep waterways commission. The most important conclusions of the commission follow: That it is entirely feasible to construct such canals and develop such channels as will be adequate of any scale of navigation that may be desired between the great lakes and the seaboard, and to conduct through the same domestic and foreign commerce, and that it will be wise to provide for securing a channel of a navigable depth of not less than twenty-eight feet.

That, from" the heads of Lakes Michigan and Superior, the most eligible route is through the several great lakes and their intermediate channels and the proposed Niagara ship canal (Tonawanda to Olcott) to Lake Ontario and that the Canadian seaboard may be reached from Lake Ontario by way of the St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain and the Hudson river, or by way of the Oswego-OneidaMohawk valley and the Hudson river. That the policy should contemplate the ultimate attainment of the largest successful capacity and that all works should be planned on this basis and that the actual execution should conform thereto, in so far as the works may without prejudice be progressively developed with the actual demands of commerce. That the completion of the entire system as quickly as proper projects can be matured and economically executed is justified. That the Niagara ship canal should be first undertaken and incidentally the broadening and further deepening of the intermediate channels of the lakes, the same being in the logical order of development and also requiring the least time for consideration.

The commission reports that the Canadian commission appointed for the same purpose has furnished much important information The document gives many statistics relating to the traffic on the great lakes. It says that the agricultural competition this country has recently had to meet with India, and which is likely to be intensified, impel the government to take steps to cheapen freights that the limit of reduction in railroad rates has been reached and attention must be directed to waterways. In referring to wheat the commission expresses fear, of the consequences of the increasing competition from the Argentine Republic and Uruguay. The rapid development of the American iron ore business on the lakes indicate that, with access to the ocean by a practical waterway, we can control our domestic business and enter into competition in any market of the world. GUNBOAT BLOWN UP.

A Spanish Gunboat Meets With Diaster. Havana, Jan. 20. The gunboats Centinela and Relamago left Manzanillo on the night of Jan. 16 with tlw object of going up the River Cauto to Fort Guamo in compliance with the orders of Gen.

Rosch. At 10 o'clock on the morning of Jan. 17 both gunboats were near Mango landing when an explosion of a torpedo which had been placed in the river, sunk the Relampago. Thofiedof theecrew whoesurvived swam towar shor "bu wer fired on from the banks. At this critical moment a boat was launched from the Centinela and nearly all of the crew still in the water were rescued.

In view of the instructions and the fact that the commander of the Centinela and nearly all of the crews of both gunboats had been seriously wounded the expedition had to return to Manzanillo. Martinez, of the Relampago, was seriously wounded in the expedition as well as Assistant Jacobi Duis, gunner Francisco Martinez aud several seamen. Six of the officers and crew were killed outright, and all of the rest received wounds of more or less severity. On the gunboat Centinela the commander was seriously wounded, while of the crew one was killed and several wounded. SANITATION NEGLECTED.

Responsibility for Bombay's The Situation Growing Worse. Bombay, Jan. 20.The situation is growing rapidly worse, and the exodus from tht city on account of the bubonic plague continues. The Times of India complains that the sanitary conditions of Bomba5 have been allowed to deteriorate for ten years past. T- These Get Jobs.

Washington, Jan. 20.The president has sent the following nominations to the senate: Postmaster, John R. Lucas, at Rockwell, Iowa Col. Thomas C. Sullivan, assistant commissary general of subsistence Capt.

L. H. Bucker, Ninth cavalry, to be major First P. P. Powell, Ninth cavalry, to be captain First L.

M. Powell, Second cavalry, to be captain First Lieut. James B. Jackson, Seventh infantry, be captain. Will Prod Courier.

London, Jan. 20.A meeting of the bondholders and shareholders of the Chignecto Marine railway heard the report of the present position of the Canadian government in regard to the promised subsidy and a resolution was unanimously adopted to the effect that every possible step be taken to urge the Laurier government to carry out the Canadian promises. a A Suit Against the Hayemeyers. New York, Jan. 20.

A. motion by Henry Hentz to serve an amended complaint in bis suit against Theodore A. Havmeyer, Henry O. Havemeyer, Frederick C. Havemeyer and H.

Eenff to recover $155,000 for commission for services alleged to have been rendered has been denied by Judge Bach in the supreme court. An Important Deal. St. Joseph, Jan. 20.A duel has been consummated whereby Swift Co.

of Chicago purchased the St. Joseph stock yards with the adjacent town site of St. George and the entire plant of the Joseph Stock Yards company. The price is said to be ooo. A Sm "tor Anna.

Countess Castollane, formerly Miss Anna Gould, has) given birth to a son. Mother and child! are doinfi well. PILESOFBEAUTlFtJJ HEAVY SNOW STORMS THE NORTHWEST. TraiUc in the Northwest Completely Demoralized by the StormTralnjV- at Some Points Are Abandoned and Traffic of All Kinds 1m StoppedHeaviest Snow Fall jHf St. Paul, Jan.

19.All previous records for several seasons were lost sight of in the snow storm yesterdtfy. The demonstration by the was in the true sense 4, a corker strong wind was blowing and street car traffic was seriously impeded. The public showed a strong inclination to remain in doors and business was consequently at a standstill. Reports from all over the Northwest indicatethat the storm was quite general and" that railroad traffic was practically, suspended. Mitchell, S.

Jan. 19.The storm of two weeks ago was nearly repeated. It snowed nearly all day yesterday and Tast night a heavy wind came up, which has increased in velocity, blowing the loose snow in every direction. The Milwaukee road to Chamberlain isblocked and the passenger train was abandoned last night. The roads ars nearly in as bad condition as twoweeks ago.

Mankato, Jan. 18.The worst storm for several years is raging over Southern Minnesota. The temperaturedropped twenty degrees and a wind is driving the enow with blinding? fury. Yesterday's six-inch snowfall was so wet that a hard crust formed, and as there is little snow to drift the1 railroads are thus but little incouvenienced in this section. Detroit, Jan.

19.JThe worst storm of the season has been raginghere for several hours. The wind, with a velocity of forty miles an hour, is filling the cuts and piling the fresh snow so that all traffic is stopped. Aberdeen, S. Jan. 19.The vere storm of twenty-four hours' dura tion which temporarily blocked all railway lines and caused general' discqx fort, has terminated.

i SEAL PRESERVATION. No Fear of the Extinction Seal Industry. London, Jan. 19. Gerald Barrett Hamilton, one of the British commissioners appointed to investigate tho conditions of seal life in Bering sea, has recently been to London on 111- conclusion of his mission to Robbin island, near Saghahen, where there 19 a small rookery.

Prof. Thompson went independently) to the Pribyloff group After spending sir weeks on the Commander islands and Robbin island Mr. Hamilton joined Prof. Thompson on the Pribyloffs, where the commission remained until the end of October. The Canadian and United States commissioners, Messrs.

McCoun and Clark were also on the islands at the time. The British commissioners say they, received most friendly treatment from the Americans. Owing to tne except tional powers given to the Americans by their government they were able todo more than has been previously accomplished. Among other things a census of every seal on the island was taken which showed that there were 143,000 seals on the Pribyloffs. aud proved that the American estimates of previous years were much below the mark.

The results of the investigations on the spot have tended to prove to th minds of the commissioners that, although it has been said that the seal industry would collapse in two there is no fear of such an earijr extinction of the fur seal. No doubt is entertained that now the question has been approached in such an amicable way, some measures of preserving tb seal will be adopted. The large decrease in this year's catch of seals Is probably due in part to the bad weather prevalent during the early part of August. It does not necessarily indicate a decrease in the number ot seals. On this point opinion is divided, the Canadians saying that the seals on the Pribyloffs have increased in number, while the Americans claim they have decreased.

FREEDOM FOR VOTERS. Canadians Propose an Important Change. vgNew York, Jan. 19.A Montreal patch to the Evening Post says: It is now said in well informed circles that constitutional means will be taken "to place the popular branch of the legislature beyond any other influence ot control than that of a free expression of the popular will at the pops. A bill, it is said, is now being prepared by a private member for presentation to the next session of parliament which provides for the disfranchisement of voters who are affected by any threat of ecclesiastical censure carrying with it spiritual pains or punishment.

St Petersburg, Jan. 19.The Chinese Eastern Railway company, which has been formed by the Russo-Chinese bank under the terms of. the treaty to construct and work the railway from the western frontier Hei Lung Chaing to the eastern frontier of Kirin, will be permitted to import into China free of duty corn, food stuffs and railjyay materials. Old Timer Gone. 1 UtA 1 A Hastings, Jan.

19. Frank Ford, a pioneer resident of Dakota county, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. James Bolan, in Welch, at the age of 89 years. f-m Safe Blowers Arrested. New York, Jan.

19. Two worldfamed saf6 blowers are in the of the detective bureau on suspicion that they were contemplating a raid on some well stored safe in this or a neighboring city. The prisoners are "Fairly" McGuire and both of whom have served long terms In various prisons. It is absolutely denied that the plague has made its appearance atr Marseilles, and it is asserted that there te not even a suspected case in the city.).