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MITCHELL COMMERCIAL J. i'ierpont Morgan's gift to raCLK AITS BAD BOYS. Cooper Institute of Frenen: and Span CDBAHS1 WARNED ish textile a id ma HoooJomlam ni UwIMu illH terially In dereloping the lace and silk! Be Baaput limit Ow HttlMt ANNEXATION AGITATORS URGED MITCHELL, Indiana. PAST BlIDXIGHT TRAIN PLUNGES -INTO a washout; c. Industries.

In this country, In. Industrial progress of this kind the specimens deposited in a mu iiSIHiiiiilil iVfbr Ladies Have a Peculiar Exfwrieirce New liquor 7. i Question Locked. Horns With Uncle Sam Rapid In-, crease in Population State New Washington' special; The" aUentkm. the navy department has been formally called to what appears to be- an unsatisfactory condition of affairs iajQuam.

The seum are invaluable; TMrteea nsiu Killed and Forty-Five Omtllam tWBaeettoa Law rreatail A full-blooded Indian girl' is a pro-' Victims Mostly ItaUu Im to the CAaa ConstJtaUoMl Camnm incoming jnoil- has- brought a copy of aa fesskmal stenographer lh Boston, and migrant Track Undermined will enter Radeliffe College at the next by High Water. terih. order Issued by tha naval commandant of the island," Commandant Sea ton Schroeder, denouncing "hoodlumlsm and which, ho' says, are rampant at the station. The order refers to EoissiavUle special; While Mrs.v-Trout, 5 A retiring Harvard professor said at the farewell dinner in his honor, the other evening: "When. was 20 I thought' I was .40,.

when I was. 30. 1 thought I was '50, when 'I was" 40 I thought I-was 25, and when. I "was 60 I wondered if they were going to bring' in the high trhair at the table Only 38492 persons remain in Ire Havana cable: La Lochareferrlng ed Meter Snot: Ont 4tf: 'Wabash special: The city council Tuesday- terminated the negotiations which have been 4n progress with the Logans-port -and Wabash Valley Gas Company wife of tt BT J)irrranL Mrs.iW. land who speak the Irish language ex itorially to the annexation movement, A.

"Waddel Bertha Wright, ot-1 "rPeru -special: West-bound passenger train No. on jtheWapaBh. railroad ran Into a washout at nine miles "west of here, at 12:30 o'clock Wednesday morning, wrecking the engine afi Thirteen persons were killed, and forty- cluslvely, but there are 640,953 others this city, were driving along the- New who speak both Irish and English. saying premature action will prove harm- London pike Saturday knight, via a rain, they entered a bolt of electrically surcharged atmosphere which not- only lor.wn.-adjustment-.or the rates and tlie introduction of the meter; system toyae-elaring to a5- resolution that the city would not consent the Installation of and give me the bottle." terrorism at fort; gambling- "and whlcb" liave brought tha United States' force Into Tha order closes with Imposition of restrict tions on the liberties of the It is believed the navy department win be obliged to look into the denunciation of the marines. General Heywood, commandant -of marines." already has been A new word Incorporated in the iui wikhiwivo ua-Da ueir enrorts should be saved for that time In tha future the problem 4t annexation overcame them, "making Mrst; Trout and English language, especially In expo Another case jof abuse TDf jower In meters nor 'recognize any advance in tha Mrs.

Waddel but also nearly overcame the horses they were driving. sition literature, is "pergola," which is defined as "an arhored colonnade." cost of natural gas jto rThe company, last November announced that beginning in February all gas would be Africa- Is to, be tried, at Boma. Congo Free State. An agent of the State Is accused of murdering, his boy," as The two married women In a top buggy together-- and Miss tWright was supplied through meters, an placed 2,090 called on to -furnish such Information as he has, and it may be" that a court of Inquiry will be The mall brought driving behind Mrs. Trout, and the native servants are called.

-The meters at a cost of $20,000. The council protested and the company deferred the boy" is said to have climbed a When at home among their constituents Senator, Coekrell, of Missouri, Einokes a corncob pipe, and Senator Daniel, of Virginia, sits on a store box In front of a grocery, and whittles. innovation until August The -meter rater to catch and, nof -coming no report from-Major K. White, the ranking marine officer on the island, nor from any other source concerning tp reported troubles. He is very "much surprised at the extraordinary scope ef named in the franchise is 19 cents per 1,009 bur; the: conncilrhel; company had no right to enforce -consumption by cornea up.

La Lncha says that as a natural outcome of the existing conditions, the United States ia determined to establish a republic inr Cuba wbose only limits shall be -the Piatt amendment. When Cuba is in possession of Its own administration and government the Cuban people will then be able to see whether it is to their advantage to continue as a republic or to be. annexed to the United States. La Lucha says the United States wfll make no move matter, and If Cuba takes no action concerning annexation until the country is free and independent, and decides on Its -own account to ask 'or-the solution of the problem, annexation will neither be hastened nor delayed thereby." The editorial in conclusion says the matter of annexation Is more a Cu five. Injured.

-Of" the thirteenf killed six are faurare women and' three are But one of these nas' been fully; WentlflecL All are Italian emigrants en route to the fourteen most; seriously injured who 'are at the Wabash Railway. Hospital, itwo a teas and a woman, -are expected to die. Both are of the emigrant Of the killed' and injured fifty-one were passengers and seven employes of the Wabash railroad. The train left Peru one. hour: late and; was running at a high rate" whenv at a point nine miles west, the engine plunged into a washout caused -by j-the recent-heavy rains.

The culvert which Washed out was a-stone box three feet square, under a twenty-five foot fill. water was about five feet above the opening of the Culvert'and about SCO" feet wide, causing the earth above to slide. water had -never been observed before at that point, Owing to the momentum of the trauv down as quickly as his master wished, the latter is alleged to have shot h'm down with his killing him in- meter. Th resoIutiqn- adopted, ends the controversy, and the only remedy the Commandant Schroeder's order, reflecr-ingasrit the integrity ev Mrs Waddel first noticed that their horse was reeling as if drank, and in a minute or two they were seized with shortness of breath. Before they could realise the nature of the trouble they "became unconscious.

They recovered "In a few minutes after their horse "had drawn them about ball a mile, but were still somewhat dazed and their bodies filled with tingling sensations. Miss Wright fared better. When she -noticed her horje staggering and felt the prickly sensation caused by the electricity, she turned and drove Into' the barn of a neighboring farmer, where she remained until -the storm was jover. stantly. company has lies in the courts.

i The Young Men's Christian Association, which has just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary "of its organiza-. tion, is established in 1,500 places and owns property valued at $20,000,000. ery officer and man of "marine -corps On duty In. the Island. V'T" Two years ago a Philadelphia lover of plants received from a traveling "BoimbW of a Goldea Crown.

The suit of HatticE. Byfield against agent at Manila what was called a Dr. Raymond E. Culver, dentist, for $200 MR. KRUGER'S FAITH bean, producing a beautiful tree, cov damages, has been venued franir-Justice Lockman's to; Justice White's court at Broad Ripple.

The plaintiff alleges that It-is mentioned as a remarkable circumstance that the Germans are learning to eat corn meal. If they are just making the acquaintance of corn cakes, muffins and pone, they will feel sorry over the time that has been lost ered with flowers. The precious was sent to a florist, at a cost of SI a month for care and As the growth at the end of two years was JOKiVINCKD- THAT GOD' Dr. Culver consented to put a gold crown on her tooth for $5. She avers that be SAVE HIS COUNTRY.

tho engine appeared to leap nearly across the. abyss, plunged into the soft earth on the Spposlte side, and fell back to the Mrs. Trout and Mrs. Waddel had not fully recovered on out were "a fair way to be all-right In a day or two. At the time -the women -were having this experience there was no lightning and' no thunder, but the atmosphere, In a belt at least half a mile wide, seemed to be thoroughly saturated with the fluid.

cause she did not have the money to pay only two inches a botanist was called when the tooth was crowned the dentist In and pronounced the "bean" an Or Hnthnalastle Welcome to the Fnnldeat of the Sontli ATrlcmn BepaHIest Bot- terdam Speech of Weleom by tb BnrroouMtor. dinary date seed. The amateur is out $24, to say Nothing of innumerable in asked her to allow him to again examine the tooth before 6he left the office and then removed the DT, Culver says he agreed to put a crown on the tooth on payments. He said she told bottom. Engineer Butler' and Fireman Adams were thrown from the but not seriously hurt.

The express car and-the 'first chair car-were telescoped. The emigrant' car, followed by two other cars, went down on the left side of the track." terviews with curious visitors. Canon Hobson, who founded the Policeman's Christian Association in a. Liverpool cellar, eighteen years ago, is visiting this country. The association started with three members, and now has 100,000 in Great Britain and the colonies.

New Light on the Liquor Question. South Bend special: The Rev. Dr. Enos M. Wood, one of the leading ministers Rotterdam cable: Kruger, President of the South African republic, -was him the day before last-Decoration Day ban than an American problem, as the United States would gain nothing by annexation and that Cubans probably will find many obstacles thrown In their way when the time comes to ask that Cuba be annexed to the United States.

The electoral commission appointed by the Cuban, constitutional convention to frame laws for the conduct of Cuban elections, has completed Its work. The electoral project provides for universal suffrage and the use of tne Australian ballot system- One article specifies that the ballots shall be divided into columns corresponding with the number -of political parties In the field, and that each column shall ba distinguished by the mark of a party, in order to prevent the deception of. voters, who can neither read nor write. The project- further provides that -the electoral boards shall be In the hands, of representatives elected by the political parties and presided over by judicial functionaries; it also prohibits the welcomed at the railroad station oil Bis that she had the money and would coma to the office the next morning and have in the conference greatly surprised theJ Ii In the Immense California wheat fields the modern steam traction engines, or "automobiles," as they are al here Wednesday by the burgo the tooth crowned. He said he did the work, and when Ft was finished the wom deputations from numerous so-, cieties and many.

ladies. -Two- bands: of music on a platform played- the Trans an told him she did not "have the money and that she would pay him as eoon as she got It. He then asked to look at the vaal anthem, and hundreds, of workmen tooth before she left the office and re with flags were drawn up on the streets leading' from the station to the town hall, to which Mr. Kruger. was driven, escorted by a guard of former Transvaal offi moved the crown.

Indianapolis Journal. called, have cheapened the cost of harvesting wheat on the Pacific coast so that the grain can be raised there at less actual cost than in the Argentine Republic, where farm labor costs only a fraction of a dollar per day. These large traction engines of the California wheat fields are of 50 horse-pjwer, and are provided with driving wheels Grace Methodist congregation Sunday night by his conservative treatment of the liquor question. Dr. Wood's church having been a hotbed for prohibition.

After referring to the -necessity of abolishing the of raising -the diverted revenue of $150,000,000 by taxing necessities, and to the great 'sums invested In the liquor business that must seek- other fields in case of 'suppression, he called attention to the millions engaged in and dependent on the saloons, breweries anil distilleries, and asked what they would do should the traffic "be suppressed. He declared the business was Intimately re Bis Muscle Saved Him. Fortville- special: While adjusting a belt about the machinery In his grain ele and the first sleeper pitched forward upon the mass of Its windows and trucks-were but none of. the occupants were Injured, i The remaining cars also left their trucks, but were not badly damaged It was in the emigrant and day coaches that most of the deaths and Injuries occurred. Wrecking trains and physicians were quickly dispatched to the scene of the wreck and by nearly- all the victims had been removed to this city, and the few remaining ones were removed Owing, to the fact that the.

Interpreter was either killed or badly" injured It was almost Impossible to communicate with the Italians who made uj the bulk of the emigrants, and beyond a few names of the almost nothing could be learned of them. Nearly all were route to Colorado as home seekers. The' work of building a temporary bridge over the chasm began as soon as the debris, was sufficiently cleared away. Strange Freaks of the Wreck. vator, Paul Hagan, eon of Andrew Ha-gan, secretary of the Home Brewing Company of Indianapolis; escaped being Tlie battle ship Illinois has again shown a speed of 460 land miles aday, and, on a straight course, could go round the globe in fifty-four days.

If the old circumnavigators could see the great mass of steel flying through the water at nearly eighteen knots an hour, they would be more than bewildered. There were 23,922 applicants for patents iu Great Britain during the year 1900, which works out about sixty-five a day. There was a large increase in patents relating to motor cars and electric traction. Flying machines, too, showed an upward tendency. Women inventors made a creditable show with 549 applications, relating mainly to articles of dress.

cials. An official' reception followed. Great enthusiasm was manifested everywhere. In a speech of welcome at the town hall the burgomaster-spoke of the similarity between the Transvaal and Dutch struggles" for liberty, and' said Rotterdam wished, through Mr. Kruger, 'to pay homage to the little Boer nation which had shown such -faith and confidence In its own strength.

Mr. Kruger, In a brief reply, deplored- the fact that his country, was cut off from supplies and ammunition, whereas, the Dutch had their own crushed to death Tuesday morning by exercising his great physical powers. His clothing was caught on a screw in a pulley in such" a manner as to slowly -wind governmental power from intruding In -the elections. Sailors and soldiers of the Cuban republic, as well as all men who by virtue of their' office bear arms, are prohibited from voting. Of the five members of the electoral committee Senors Silvela and Aleman are the only ones who have taken part In the drawing up of the projected electoral law.

As these members of the commission are of the radical element, it Is probable that the conservatives will attack many features of their project. lated to every phase of economic condl- tions. Its overthrow meant evolution and revolution, and he called for more thoughtful, dispassionate consideration of the temperance question, less censur- ing of legislative-bodies and a proper en 60 inches in diameter. They are made to do the plowing, planting and harvesting at the proper season. In the spring they drag across the.

immense wheat fields 16 ten-inch plows, four six-foot harrows and a press drill cr planting the seed wheat In this way one such traction engine performs" tha triple work of plowing, harvesting and planting all in one operation. him about the shafting "and crush him against the wall. By presence of mind forcement of existing laws. and the exerting of great physical strength he. so braced himself as to stop the motion of the engine.

The timely appearance of the engineer, who shut off the light head of steam, allowed him to escape with little worse than torn cloth supplies during their: He was fully convinced, the Lord would deliver his country in His own good time. A luncheon followed the delivery of the speeches. An Attorney Killed by a Tialn. Anderson special: Late "Wednesday afternoon D. W.

Wood, a leading attorney PHILIPi'IJiE COMMERCE. ing and severe strains and bruises. of. Anderson and a prominent politician, It Is Increasing Rapidly and This Coon-try's Share Is Growing. was instantly killed in the Big Four yards by the west-bound mail train due here at 4:55 o'clock.

The stories of the RTJTIIVEN ELECTROCUTED. One Italian woman who escapeefjStlie disaster with scarcely a bruise, found herself attired merely In her undershirt and stockings, all of her other clothing having" been torn from her In some unaccountable manner. Some of the rescuers helped her to the relief train, and wrapped her in coats until the train reached the little town of Waverly, where women brought clothing. One man reported that his trousers had been torn from although his other clothing was? scarcely injured. The clothes of the dead were for the most part in shreds when the bodies were dug out from the Loeked Horns With Uncle Sam.

Anderson special: Postmaster Small and the government have locked horns on the question of moving the postoffice rom its present location to new quarters. The postmaster is a devout Meth affair all agree that it was pure'y accidental. Attorney Wood had visited a client in the south part of the city, and Of the 953.243 population of Torto Rico only 75,000 live in cities. On the island but 100 miles long and 36 wide are 40,000 district farms and one-fifth of the island is under cultivation. The average size of a farm in Forto Rico is forty-five acres, of which twelve are Seventy-one per cent, of these Porto Itican farms are owned by whites.

in returning turned through the yards of A PLOW COMBINATION. A combination of plow manufacturers is the latest evolution of tlie trust principle. The combine is, of course, to be of a benevolent character. One of the manufacturers interested in the trust is quoted as saying: "There will be no rise in prices, but, if possible, a reduction. Through co-operation the cost of manufacturing plows will be greatly reduced." It Is undeniable, however, that while the cost of pro The Negro Desperado Who Killed a Cleveland Policeman Pays the Penalty.

Columbus, special: Edwin Ruthven, a negro, was electrocuted In the annex at the Ohio penitentiary Thursday. The electrocution was successful In every de the Big Four at Central avenue in the immediate vicinity of the Big Four sta- odist. The government has directed him to move the office on Sunday. This Small tion. A switch engine apparently attract- refuses to do.

Small was turned down ed his attention, coming from the west, by Congressman Cromer in favor of Rob-as it sounded its whistle. Mr. Wood ert P. Grimes, but the latter's commis-stepped from that track and across an- I slon has, oii-, i Washington special: A marked increase In the trade of the Philippine Islands during the calendar year of 1900 over tha Commerce of the previous year Is set out in a statement made public Sunday by the division of insular affairs of the war department. The value of imported merchandise, gold and silver for 1900 is set down at $27,765,100.

This, according to the war department's statement, was the greatest importation for any single yeap- in the history of the archipelago. In 1S99 the imports amounted to $20,440,074 In value, thus showing an increase of nearly 36 per cent. In favor of 1900. According to an estimate based on data collected by the British consul at Manila, the approximate wreckage. A REMARKABLE FUNERAL.

to obey orders will undoubtedly hasten the arrival of Grimes's commission. duction is diminshed by combinations, other on which the west-bound mail was bearing down upon him. He did not note the rapid approach of the train behind him. The engine passed him, but he was struck by the first car and hurled against a steep bank, and, rebounding, rol'ed under the train. One foot and leg were gTownd to a pulp, his left side was To.

Contest "Land King's" Will. Vincennes special: The will of the late Thomas Johnson, "the land king," has The Board of Health or" the city of Galveston is arranging for a large supply of oil from the Beaumont wells to be used in fighting mosquitoes. The oil will le distributed in all the stagnant pools in the city, sprinkled cn the surface of water in the gutters and distributed free to owners of open cisterns for use in destroying mosquitoes and' the fever-breeding germs which collect in the iools. the consumer rarely gets the benefit of the -reduction. The Steel Trust has not yet reduced the cost of its product to American consumers, although it is the greatest I tail.

But one shock was necessary. The crime for which Ruthven (or Ruth-eben, as the commitment papers read), was electrocuted was the murder of Police Officer in Cleveland, on the night of May 6, 1900. Shipp and another policeman who worked witn- him discovered that the residence of a man named Leuking was being burglarized and they closed in on the house. Shipp found the burglar in the pantry and demanded his surrender. He' responded by firing two shots through the window at the officer, and both took effect.

One entered the neck and the other his leg, the first proving fatal. Ruthven was originally sen--fenced to be electrocuted on March 13 last but was three times reprieved. He was SI years of age. Ruthven protested his in crushed and his death was instantaneous. The Thirteen Victims of the Wabash Wreck Sorted at One Service With Elaborate Catholic Ceremonies.

Peru special: The six men; four women and three infants who lost their lives in the Wabash wreck Wednesday were burled Thursday afternon from St. Charles's Catholic Church at one service. Everything was in charge of the Wabash Railroad Company, and the burials were carried out fn first-class style throughout. The bodies were taken from the wreck been filed for probate. He gave 750 acres to his wife and 200 acres to each of his children, In all about 2,000 acres.

The remainder is placed in the hands of W. A. as executory where it is to be beld Died to Save Others. Milford special: After having sounded untH Johnson's children die, when the the cry that saved the life of wife. property is eo to the irranflohiliTreri and in an endeavor to prevent a possible The heirs will contest the will and ask train wreck near this city, which he that the entire estate be divided.

Alto-feared scores of persons would perish, 1 gether there are 3.000 acres. nocence to the last, declaring that neither he nor his wife, who is now serving a sentence for receiving stolen goods, were guilty. and most efficient combination of industrial enterprises ever organized. The people in this country who buy i products are still taxed for the benefit of the foreign purchaser, who gets steel rails, it is alleged, at a figure nearly 25 per cent, less than the American purchaser. The price of anthracite coal has been steadily advanced by the trust which controls this necessary of life.

Both the steel cjmbine and the coal combine gave the public assurance of benevolent consideration. The Plow Trust may prove the exeepr tion to the rule, but it would not be wise for farmers to expect an early value of imports Into the Philippine islands for 1895 was for 1896, and for 1897, $9,120,000. During the five years 1887-si the average annual value of Imports from the United States amounted to during the five years 1892-96 the average annual imports amounted to in 1899 the imports were $1,373,343. and in 1900, The total imports from China and Hong Kong for 1900 amounted to $9,536,443, and for 1899 $9,081,675. It has been shown as regards the statistics of imports into the islands from the United States that they do' not include a large amount of merchandise that is imported including such staples as wheat.

Hour, meat products, cotton manufactures and many other articles. A large proportion of this trade is recorded as imports from Hong Kong, which are undoubtedly re-exported from that port to the islands. The imports from the United States direct for 1900 show an increase of over those of 1899, while train to J. H. Fetter's establishment, and Lenhart Simpson were to assist.

The bodies were ready for burial at noon and were then identified by the officials, aided by Angelo Peru, and S. A. Malato, an attorney of Chicago. The bodies of the adults were In black caskets of uniform pattern and the infants were in white. The ten large cof A man in North Carolina was selling standing timber walnut trees.

Th man who was buying came to on? very handsome tree. He told the owner lie would pay as much as for that tree. The owner did not sell, but sent for experts. He got $1,503 for the tree (curled walnut) as it stood. The man who cut it down realized $3,000 for it on the cars.

It was shipped to New York and veneered one-sixth to half an inch. The sales were watched. The tree brought JESSIE MORRISON GUILTY. Shot Through the Lang. Spencer special: James Greene, of Freedom, assaulted Dow Hickam, an employe of Alexander S.

McBride, ex-township trustee, and McBrlde ordered him off his premises. Saturday night Greene found McBride McBriae Courin's store at Freedom and advanced upon him. He was warned to stand back, fail Frederick Davies, for many years prominent as a civil engineer on line3 running out of Chicago, sustained injuries from which he died Monday night. Mr. Davies had for some time been acting asengineer for the B.

and'o. at this city, near which the grade of the road is being changed. His wife accompanied him to Milford, for an outing. They had gone on a handcar in the afternoon oh" a hunt for strawberries. The car" was propelled by Davies and one of his rod-men.

Returning in the evening the trio approached Gravelton, when they noticed a freight train with a caboose in which were a number of trainmen and laborers backing swiftly down on them. The three jumped to the ground in safety, but Davies, fearing that the handcar would throw the train down a high embankment, endeavored, with the aid of the rodman, to get it off the when the train struck them. The rodman escaped but Davies was fatally Injured. A brake-man on the caboose who had seen the peril warned the engineer, so that the train had slowed down when the crash came. Convicted of Manslaughter In Seeond Degree for Killing Mrs.

Castle. Eldorado, special: Jessie Morrison, who killed Mrs. Olin Castle, was found guilty Thursday of manslaughter in the second degree. The penalty is not more than five years' or less than three years In the penitentiary. Miss Morrison's lawyers filed notice of appeal.

The prisoner was taken to her old cell and locked up. There her father, who had been with her, left her. The jury wran reduction in the prices of agricultural implements. Trust performances seldom measure up to trust professions and pledges. fins extended the full length of the middle aisle, and the three small ones were in the sanctuary.

The Rev. Father Meiss-ner, the pastor, conducted the services and preached a sermon on the lessons of sudden deaths. He praised the Rev. James -Walsh, of Logansport, for his work in preparing the victims spiritually for death, though injured himself, and called attention to the fact that t-he presence of a priest who could speak Italian at such a time was clearly providential. The church was crowded with people.

The presence of several of the Injured ing in which McBride used his revolver, shooting Greene through the right lung, to his supposed mortal injury. A Bride Prostrated by Beat. Jeffersonville special: George Clark and Minnie Myers eloped from Kentucky here to be married. Tuesday. Shf: suffered from excitement and the heai.

At the altar she collapsed, fallinsr to the floor. A physician restored her to consciousness, and the- ceremony went on. She was taken to Louisville, a very sick bride. There were many prostrations Italians who were relatives of the dead was touching. A number of the injured There are in the United States acres of land devoted to tobacco, of which 11,000 acres are in New England.

The annual yield of all kinils in the country is about 50O.OGO.CO0 pouudsof which New England raise? about 19.000,000. Tlie average yield per acre throughout the country is 700 pounds, but in New England it is 1,700 It is interesting that all the tobacco raised in the country belongs to two or three botanical species, yet there are more than sixty varieties grown commercially all of them quite distinct in shape, color and quality of leaf. gled for nearly thirty hours over the verdict. It is said that one juror held out obstinately for acquittal. While -the Jury was deliberating the Eldorado band gave a concert in the city park, near the court house, and Olin Castle and Hayward Morrison, Jessie's brother, played instruments side by side.

have gone to their homes, but the Peru Railway Hospital still has twenty patients from the wreck. Four or five are here from heat, Tuesday. Rapid Increase in Population. the imports from Hong Kong in 1900 show a material decrease from the estimated figures of 1S39. This would indicate that, as the shipping, facilities in Manila harbor are being Improved, direct shipments to Manila are increasing, ano that there Is a corresponding decrease in the re-exportation of merchandise from Hong Kong to the Philippines.

The imports Into the Philippines from the United States direct. In 1900, show an Increase over 1S99 of 59 per -from the United Kingdom, 92 per from Germany, per cent. from 'France, 235 per cent. The imports from Spain iin 1800 show a decrease from those of 1899 of 26 per cent. The total value of merchandise, gold and silver exported from the.

Philippines during the calendar year 1900 amounted to $26,731,462, against for 1SC9, and an average from 1S80 to 1894 of $20,526,961. The exports to the Unitea decreased from $4,040,215 In 189 to $2,963,881 in 1000. in serious condition and one, an Italian, may die at any time. Ligonier special: Mrs. William Gard, living- three miles east of this city, Tues KILLED BV FILIPINOS.

FOR THE HARRISON MONUMENT day night gave birth to triplets, two girls I and one boy, the combined weight of the I Llent. Edward Downs and Two Private ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS NOT A NECESSITY. The theory has long been held by many good people that aleobolie bev-erges are necessary in many cases as a medicine at least, ana many medical authorities have also maintained that spirituous liquors were a fo of rare value if used with discretion even by people not in need of their supposed virtues as a remedy for tha various "ills which flesh is he'r to." The latter theory that liquors are a food necessity has been thoroughly exploded and is.no longer regarded as tenable even by practitioners who are themselves addicted to the "lioin bole." If a man drinks whisky nowadays he does it in "coVd blood," toio speak, "knowing well the consequeutvs. present and ultimate, that are to follow. And yet, strange as it may appear, in the light of recent scientific three being twenty-seven pounds.

People are coming for miles around to see the Soldiers Camp Captured. Manila cable: Lieut. Edward Downs, babies as they are the largest triplets. ever born In -this part of the State. With tlie increase of endurance and the perfection of motive power and of the First Infantry, and one private of that regiment have been killed In the southern part of the island of Samar.

To'Fight Vice at Anderson. Andersrtn special: The Rev. Sidney Ben Capt. Woodbury, of the Nineteenth In- The "Old Bay State" Responds to Appeals for Help to the Extent of The methods pursued by Ihe Benjamin Harrison Monument Association in soliciting funds outside of Indiana are bearing fruit. A vice-president was elected for each State.

He was asked to prepare a list of 100 in his State most likely to be Interested. Individually type-written letters to these persons were forwarded. The responses from Massachusetts alone aggregate thus far $4,255. T. Jefferson Coolldge Is the vice-president for that State.

nett. State organizer of the Anti-Saloon League, has organized a league here to i'antry. has captured Samson's camp in the island of Bohol. Private Kraus, of that regiment, was-killed, and four men secure rigid enforcement of the liquor Tried to Murder Ills Wife. Kokorao special: Tuesday Omar Miller, a painter and athlete, tried to murder his wife, Lizzie Miller, who, according to the story of the woman, says Miller stealthily came, to her couch where she was sleeping, with pillows and towels saturated with chloroform and sought to kill her by strangling -her With his own hands, and giving the chloroform.

Mrs. Miller was aroused from slumber, just in time and beat her assailant off. A warrant is out for Miller's arrest, but he has not yet been found. New M. E.

Church at Brazil. Brazil special: Tlie new Methodist church, completed at a cost of $10,000, was dedicated Sunday by Dr. Ames, of Auburn, N. Y. The building seats 1,600 and it was'filled at the morning ceremonies, when $7,400 of the remaining indebtedness was raised by subscription.

The remainder' was raised at the evening services. The building Is of red pressed brick, with Bedford stone trimmings. It contains a library and reading, room, lecture room, dining room and were wounded. laws and to suppress vice in all its forms. Lieut.

Mina McNir-has captured fifty- Anderson has heretofore been regarded four "insurgents in the northwestern part of the province of Tayabas, island of i'iuio, in: it llluuiUUlie nas grown popular. A crippled beggar in who formerly propelled himself by hand in a cart, recently bought a one-horse power machine, and is now making money by running errands. A public service is to be established in Honolulu. Routes are being laid out in Madagascar. The king of England is having a car de luxe built in Paris.

Socialists are to make a propagandist tour through Pennsylvania in a machine of their own. Emperar William has leen offering cups for contests. llii rairemeiy lmeraj town and a very decent one. The anti-crime league movement here, it may be remarked, lacks much of being a spontaneous movement of Anderson people. BOER FORCES DEFEATED.

Generous Mr. Morgan. Cambridge, special: John Pier- pont Morgan has given Harvard Univer Accused by a Dying Girl. investigations, there are lecturer bold enough to maintain that "total abstinence is sometimes worse than intemperance." Such a statement is an absurdity, on its face. Abstinence from alcoholic beverages Js the normal condition of man.

If he has an appetite for such things it must have sity more than $1,000,000 for the erection of three of the five buildings planned for Richmond special Joseph Seif ert was the Harvard medical school in Boston. Tuesday released on $2,500 bond, furnished by his father, to appear on Friday morning to answer to a charge of co npKcity In the death of Miss Letta Dwiggins, WASHINGTON NOTES. The bonds of Oliver K. Hawn. as poet-master at Leavenworth, Crawford county; George W.

Cart, at New Paris, Elkhart county; Sherman J. Shroyer. at Sel-ma. Delaware county, and F.elding A.Glenn, at Hatfield. Spencer county, were approved and their commissions issued Thursday.

Miss daughter of the late Senator Voorhees. left Thursday for Spokane, where she will make her permanent home with a biother. At the marriage of Mis. Mary Bertha Richardson and Wilbur Grant Neff, of Columbus, in this city Thursday night James Kerr, of Anderson. was an and Miss Josephine Neff.

of Alex- andrla. a bridesmaid. Additional rural free delivery will be established Aug." 1 next as fo lows: Boon-ville, Warrick county; length of routes, 4144 miles; area -covered. 46 square miles; population served. number of house on rovtes, carriefS.

F. N. Lawrence, Lewis Keller. Greenlleld. Hancock county; length of routes, 56 miles; area covered, 67 square miles; population served, number of houses on routes, F.

Harlan, M. Tice. The President and Mrs. McKinley, ac President Eliot made the announcement of the gift, Wednesday afternoon. The estimated cost of the buildings is kitchen.

There is also a gymnasium and .3 1.1 4 at 1 1 Repulsed by an Armored Train Crew With a Loss of Four Killed. London cable: Lord Kitchener, In a dispatch Pretoria, Saturday, says: Boers -attacked blockhouses on the Delagpa near Brugspruit Bight, June 26. An armored train arrived and scattered Boers, killing four. It is reported that twenty casualties were, carried off. "Field Cornet Depriez has surrendered at Pietersburg with forty-four men." 000.

been acquired. Thirst is a normal appetite, and is easily satisfied by drinking water. If he drinks it is training room. These are in the mon- ment. On the next floor is the' auditorl- day the resuU of criminal op-nm nH self-inflicted.

The. girl's dying statement implicated Seifcrt. He is a wellrknown young man, a m-rmb of a local musical club and an amateur actor. TOADS "COME TO TOWN." The white pine is distinctively a northern tree. Tlie native distribution of the tree was from Newfoundland on the east 16 Lake-Winnipeg on the west and thence to the southern boundaries of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut.

The white pine belt also followed the Appalachian range as far to the south as Georgia! The best growth of the tree was in Maine, and the British territory east of the State, along the BL Lawrence river lri New Hampshire, Vermont, northern New Yorkv Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and central to gratify a "thirst," or desire for stimulation, which he has been unfortunate enough to "catch" rrom his environments or his own propensities to do evil, or' perhaps from his desire to improve upon nature which never "sets 'em up" save In the inexhaustible supplies of "Adam's -ale," which have been on draught since the sun first his diurnal courses run. The by a spacious gallery. On tms floor there are twenty class rooms, pastor's ptudy, a parlor and a practice room for the choir, The pipe organ cost nearly $3,000. "7 Crashed Under a Train, Elkhart special: Charles Hoffman, aged 64 years, was run down and killed by a locomotive in the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern yards In this city Tuesday, He. was on his.

way to work McPherson, special: This city is suffering from a toad plague. The recent dry weither caused bogs and swamps to dry up and the toads, which are unusually numerous this year, invaded the town. Horses fear the toads and can hardly be driven along the A Vitriol Thrower at Coluinl Columbus special: As a result of an old feud Forrest Jones, aged 19, threw vitriol In the face of his uncle, J. M. Kaiaer, aged 50.

Monday Jones went to Kaiser's house and attacked him while on his porch. Kaiser wns badly Pearl Bryan's Father Dead. Greencastle special Alexander S. Bry-ap, father pf Pearl Bryan, for whose death Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling were hanged at Cincipnatt, died Thursday at his home in this county. He was 77 years old, was born In Kentucky and question Whether a person has a rlht to drink spirituous liquors is another matter altogether, and does not enter companied by Dr, Rlxey, went driving streets.

when overtaken and crushed to death burned on the face and neck and may lose under the wheels of the locomotive. Ha the sight of one eye. Jones, who claims eaves a family la poor circumstances, to bt a. hypnotist, is under- arreit, into the question as to whether spirit-nous liquors are necessity or not, again Thursday forenoon. Mrs.

McKln ey continues to improve, Pennsylvania. was a farmer, His death was due to can- I Hejeaves a nuinber ot cljijdren, I.