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fl fl 'i Jystjpw ''-IF Jpum- nrVBDAYB AJtD Mrvn SXAXBJkBD Pea OO. Satecriptton Price C-50 per year. FKIDA.Y. FEBKCAKY 13.190S- BUI to Control Combines. Jbast Saturday the lower bouse of congress passed by a unami Poet Check Syvtem.

Hie postoffice committee of the lower tense of congress has now under con- the tnuch discussed post cheek MIL It is to be hoped that out of will evolve, if uot ttite fiurtk-uar bl.il. A measure enibraciiiji sulwiuthiiii same piwisiciis. 1 before it sulKcrauat- tee of the above uutned i Third Assistant Madden the other an as to the and ing of the postal ehetk luj; It indorsement, lie The theory of Use check is ATOJMOO'S Scarlet Ferer Some notable advances Are of late being made iu the science medicine and. surgery, which, thoujrh titey" tirty not furnish fer itJl uli flesh is liflr to. or.

t-Kiokaid a longer tenure of 10:52: Dr. Loreoz bore gavi Mr-l faculty of sit-Ii icstructttKj iu iLc treatment of It-' children. While L.N u.vtL'j absolute 1 ww faujlL.tr our of a nutn money There will be noUunsj UK i- rt sajaM Tfce orders for TOOUS VOte the Lrtttlenelu pUOUCl- i oif Ma woukS probably be ty bill in relation to trusts or, or business combines. The Demo-; crats offered several amendments i ht to iranstn.t. AH the a-outy of those wocJd be in form Straggle For Mberty.

to make the bill more effective i TM the direction of curbing trusts, bnt all were voted down by the Republican majority. The bill in cur eh' isotws ant! would as inont'V converted IMO by Indorsemtnt Kocd or.Sy to the post notes cor.s£»tiit*t 5u and out be no app: Xo wh.it will arise Sri actual pratuce. with retire smoothness and without the Baafcratptcy Law. Tbe -changes made In the national bankruptcy lav fa the passage by congress of toe bill for amoDdjE' ut in tiie liae ameliorating the -wmli- tfce bankrupt. tLey aot apparently in any nui easier for dishonest Uebtyrs ta 1 their creditors.

5 fees the amended, iav ass? reducwl make bankruptcy u- pensive. and provision is bankruptcy indexes ant! Jock-is, shall be open to public eiamiiiatioy without charge- A wise ame-'Ir-ieut is otse aay person irettiiijr rid ct tl ttteiit of aliiLJiiv or aay that kind under tb" t-aukrupicy act. In the old law the fed- 1-ad foaud for severe between the revoiu- eral supreme court held that a creditor In view of tbe unrest In tbe threatened uprising in the early spring, there is timely interest in an article in the Xorrii Amerieais Ee- Tietv for February by Charies -Johnson on "Macedonia's For What Six. Johnson calls "tht? Turk's administrative impotence" lies at the bottom of the Macedonian problem, and ths-re seenus little of orderly conditions in this portion of the Balkans so as it is ruled by the Mussulman. While the- Macedonian List i i autumn as suppressed all the trt-atiutMU of sudden and tremendous latvut a JQ empire, there has uee iii been much disorder, and ivitJaiu ite last no claim couid U- put rorwarii that i there have been reports of cessful wris.

wsth the ass to ex- tiouLsts and comin i ui.akie to t-otiirne with fhp wh the 1 eheck would not work ized must nle returns witn tne Commerce ComOiiSSlOn phcauons. Thtrre is nowhere near as much complication In working the Corporations failing tO file ord sj-steni. The additional work that lie reoorts will be restrained wouia be de- xw, icpviw rtrtm partment la not. to my mir.d. a strsous or from engaging in interstate com-, objec uon.

merce. From this succinct and compreben- Penalties are prescribed for sive syilopsis tbe workableness of the false rerarns. post check system seems apparent. It The Interstate Commerce Com-1 ls admitted on all hauds tba the pres- mission may demand an account- ent postoffirt money order system Ls ing from corporations now in ex- complicated. Cumbersome and incon- istence.

veuient for both sender and receiver, MI- huve Berlin of tbe conclusioss coming of spnwg. tbe appointed time Dr. or Balkan uprisings, is with fever serum, hicb U-lieved to a uj.it-t% which is reflected Jii the ru- in the of this mors RuaRian and Austrian naval disease, which luis been well descnte! activity in tbe Mediterranean. he- treasure, and thvre wouSd as -ij le scourge of the I If in the promised revolt nezt Ur. is well and favorably spring, which is presjiged by present known as a bacteriologist of good disorders, the Macedonians are left to pute and high capacity.

If he author- re bel alone, they will be quickly put izes the announcement of such a dis- down. If the Bulgarians, to whom covery. what he says will receive re- look for aid by reason of race af- spectful attention. Professor Bagiusky of the Emperor and Empress Frederick the Turkish trooi)s. The i could not claim if he re- RAVAGED BY FLAMES.

Business Section of Brenjen, a Thriving Ohio Ttwn, In Ruins. TWO FATALITIES AND KU2T. Attempting: to lii a Hotel-- at filiations, should give them overt assistance, the struggle would be longer. vcuieut for both sender and Corporations that Offer rebates is and oubtediv more expea eager impatience. will be denied the sive to OVerninent than the pro- i The Talue of Dr ties Of interstate commerce.

noscd STStem wonW lw Oue of ery. if It shall be found upon further i experiments to do bat is claimed for Children's boqital of Berlin stands at I ut reS ult the same; the "sick man or near the head of German spe- of Europe" is probably a match for all cialists in children's diseases, and if. as Balkan states combined- If. how- the cable reports, he has announced ever he great powers intervene to Dr. Aronson's discovery and made him- compel the release of this province self responsible for its therapeutic rom Ottoman rule, war would undoubt- value.

the profession everywbere will gjjv follow. tbe map of southern i dispute. Tbe necessity of a federal await full information concerning it Europe would be materially changed. bankruptcy code, operative in all the i A free Macedonia would mean a re- ceived a payment oa any debt against the debtor, provided the debtor's property was not equal to his debts. The payment might have been received innocently and in ignorance of tbe debtor's insolvency.

That made no difference. It must be surrendered or the creditor could not an undisputed claim. Tbt act as amended makes any payment made four mouths before the filing of the petition a preference, if the debtor was insolvent at the time. If the creditor had any reason to believe that it was intended as a preference he must surrender the property or its value. Altogether tbe amendments will improve and strengthen the law and set- tie questions of long and troublesome Refusal to testify before the) lic I ema of expeiw of le present discov- i grouping of the Balkan states and a perilous shift of the balance of power hi the Levant- It would mean practi- states of the Union, was long ago apparent, and thus amplified and perfected it should meet the conditions of business it is intended to cover with Bremen.

Feb. ii Tjje e-tlre business section of is ruins, one man is dead ana three others are under tfce care of physicians, as the resuit of a Sre started Grifita iicCurdy's general merchandise store. Harvey Grove, and gle. was burned to death attempting to save books, papers, in Posuaaster H. Shelhamn-er 3.

place. The postmaster himseu was probably fatally burned. W. and Professor E. M.

Osborne also ware severely burned. After consuming Griffith McCurdy's store the fire spread to the adjoining buildings, ana these, including the posto-Sce, and the establishments of G. A- Stacker, J. S. Wright, E.

R. Hansough, the ofice of Dr. F. D. Storer, the Hopkins hotel and other buildings, about 20 in all.

were destroyed. Total loss, 000. The lire evidently was of incendiary origin, to hide a robbery. Griffith McCurdy's safe blown and some of the conlents -were found outside of town. The Lancaster fire department came to the relief of Bremen- Miners Imprisoned.

Duluth. Feb. dispatch, from Eveleth, on the Meseba range, says: ''Fire broke oat in No. 3 staft ibe -ccountin rv iulre the comwission is punishable $5,000 fine. Testimony shall not Trllieb rv iuire tue employment a be used against witnesses.

arge force. As a matter of Carriers are prohibited rom; fact tL rament Ioses money by transporting articles made the as be f'o not nearly lation of the Sherman act. i pay thfr wst tiinc of postmasters Corporations must disclose the and i erks CODSUme iu the issuance, names of constituent companies. pavmen a nd final accounting of the United States Circuit Courts are invested with jurisdiction to prevent violations of the act. in 1 wil1 be of lue to the ca the witbdrawal of the Turk to Individuals damaged by violations of the bill are authorized to file suits.

Tbe demaiia for suc ij a convenient and popu i ar me diom of currency ex- as embodied in the pend- post bm unequ irocai and Insistent, and the wonder is that so simple a reform in our postal facilities was not long ago adopted. The grand master of the Ohio O. O. P. and his assistants have completed canvassing the! i The Rhodes Scholarships.

rotes cast at the election in De- attenHfrt of of the ceniber for the grand officers of, conntjy just now directed toward the State for the ensuing year. devising plans for the selection of ben- The following officers have been eficiaries of the Oxford scholarships elected: Grandmaster. C. C. Pav-' Provided for by the munificent bequest of the late Cecil Rhodes.

doubt the ey, Columbus; deputy grand conferenccs now progress adopt master, E. C. Boyce, Cincinnati: a scheme or different schemes that will grand warden. I. N.

Jordan, be fairly acceptable. It is not plain ChilllCOthe: srand C. 1 whether it is required that only one H. Lvman. Columbus, re-elected: i la or whether different methods of may be employed grand treasurer, C.

Fin-! in different sections It mav that a method that will -work well in the east need 5ficaii0n lay. Senator bill" introduc- and north may adapt it to conditions in the southern ed in congress, to pension the states or on the coasL slaves freed by the emancipation president Eliot of Harvard makes a proclamation, some three or four I recommendation in favor of sending millions in number, was never intended to be passed. It is sim- boys direct from preparatory schools. The unucrsity presidents of JNew Jer, sey. Pennsylvania and Maryland do not ply part of a plan to gull agree with bim and suggest a humbug the black voters who in the southern states have great power over the election of delegates to the Republican national convention.

world To rob scarlet fever of its ter- As a for Ma'-edonia contains half the i solvent debtor. rors as completely as diphtheria 1-as territory and three-fourths of the popu- been robbed of its dread lation of Turkey in Europe Were it to by the serum treatment would be a break away from the sultan his Adri- service to humanity with which the atic provinces would be cut oS. and tiie justice alike to the creditor and the in- i ac the Spruce ine at the United Steel i corporation. Eleven miners are im- greatest man in the medical profession on i vestiges of his European realm might be proud to link his name. would be tbe city of Constantinople and tiie province tributary to it In this country there is little sympa- How They Lox-e "Doc" Monroe.

The 'late protestations of loyalty to the tliy with the me thods of the Macedo- Mouroe doctrine corning from Berlin raan revolutionary committee, which is and London are ery touching, particu- i bere regarded as little better than an Baltimore's New Primary The city of Baltimore has a new primary election law. the operation of which may be of interest to other communities seeking reforms in election methods. It will receiv its first practical test the municipal elections this spring, and some defects may be developed by this test, though the general plan of tbe law seems to be admirable. prisoned in the shaft below tiie mine and cannot get out until the fire is ex- ungiiished or burns itself out It caught oa the second level on the oil house, and the shanties and timber construction of tbe interior of toe mine at that point are burning, fiercely. Dense smoke is rolling out of the shaft, and there are grave fears that the entrapped men may be suffocated before the fire can be subdued.

Blocks Consumed. Salt Lake. Feb. that started in the Atlas block, a large, five- Monroe doctrine upon his arrival our shores, on the ground that Germany is already and repeatedly committed to that article of tbe American faith- Loyalty to the doctrine, the Berlin organ has become so commonplace a merit that "neither the German government nor the German people are interested" in the matter. In England they wear their Monroe doctrine with a difference and more cheerfully.

There the doctrine appears to be regarded as friendship's g.irland between the United States acd the rest of the orid, and if we belies the outgivings of certain British statesmen it is even dearer to them than to us. In one of the happiest of hands across the seas speeches tbe other day at Birmingham Mr. J. Austen Chamberlain providing that candidates must be. at insisted that "no nation more loyally Col.

W. A. Taylor, the veteran Democratic newspaper man of Ohio, in an address before the Democratic editorial association in Columbus, made this telling remark: "The day for oratory has passed. The power of the press exists instead. The emotional age went out with the advent of the traction car and the least nineteen years old and not more than twenty-six and must have completed at least the second year of study in an American college.

These conditions, they think, will secure a reasonable degree of maturity and such an experience of American education as will prevent a thorough weaning of tbe scholar from native Influences. He have been long enough in college to enable it to be known whether be meets the requirements- of athletic prowess and popular personal traits on which i Mr Rhodes laid emphasis. The letter carriers of Berlin, who are government employees accepted the Monroe doctrine than Great Britain." How very sweet! However, it would "butter no parsnips" if there were not behind the Monroe doctrine ships and guns and men to use them. An interesting case is before the courts of Topeka. in which the entire police force of the city Is plaintiff and tbe pastor of one of tbe local churches is defendant.

The force accuses the pastor of slander, alleged to have been uttered by him in a sermon recently delivered from his pulpit, in which sweeping accusations of iaeffi- Americans and apparently went to further revolutionary schemes Despite this we should be glad to see the classic land of Philip and Alexander relieved from Turkish thraldom and restored to peace and tranquillity. larly in view of the apparent fact that orsr ed banditti, mainly responsible The principal features are these: the Sandringhain conference which led i for the abduction of Miss Stoue. the primaries of both parties are to the Anrrlo-German-Italian alliance i mo nev for whose ransom was paid by hel on tbe sarae: a ari1 In tlie same story oSee building, located on. Sec was primarily for the purpose of bowl- Ame ri cans an a apparently tiD 00 ond aad South streets, in the heart leg over that doctrine. It is especially refreshing to observe the semiofficial Vossische Zeitung taking Ambassador von Sternbursr to'task for his assurances of loyalty tb the Sentiment Against Child Ijabor.

It is gratifying to note tbe growth of- public sentiment throughout the country in favor of the restriction or scientious citizens are kept from vot- of the business section, completely gutted that building, spread to the Central block, leaving that structure a wreck, and did other damage that will bring the total loss close to $300.000, with about insurance. The fire consumed the destroyed buildings wth remarkable Sevefal lodgers on the top floor of the Atlas abuses by which con- block had miraculous escapes from ballot used Is prepared by public officials, contains the names of ail condidates alphabetically arranged aad voted in secret. citizen has a right to vote in the primaries of the party -with he prefers to be affiliated, the law expressly "that the statement of snch party aSKation does not bind him to vote for the candidates of snch party at any given election." Apparently these provisions would do away death. prohibition of child labor. The evil seems to be uo worse nor more widespread in tne south than in tbe north, and agitation against the employment of child labor is equally active in both sections of tLe country.

The legislatures of North Carolina. South Carolina. Virginia and Alabama are considering bills to do away with the abuse, and legislation has been recommended by the governors of New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Illinois to the legislatures of those states Such legislation has been thwarted by the mill owners at various times and in various states in the past, but the demand for it Is now apparently too strong to be resisted. James Smithson, whose bequest brought into existence the Smithsonian institution in Washington.

led a lonely life and died among strangers and was buried at Genoa. Italy. The authorities of that city are going to use the ground where he was buried for another purpose and have called for the removal of his remains. The regents of the Smithsonian institution arranged for reinterment in another part of Genoa. I but there is a general feeling in "Wash- ing in the primaries and corrupt ones are permitted to vote in them.

The "floaters." as they are called, have still one vote, but they have no longer two or more, as the primaries of both parties are held together under tbe same safeguards as a regular election, aad tbe citizen who is unwilling ro do the bidding of party bosses can uo longer be kept away from the primaries by a requirement that he must pledge himself to vote for all its nominees, however obnoxious to bis moral sense- Besides these provisions the new Baltimore law has another introducing the principle of direct primaries for the most important officer to be chosen at any election. If delegates to conventions are chosen, tbe name of tbe candidate they are pledged to support is printed above each list of delegates. ciency and corruption were made. The I A few days ago seven coal has graciously ordered that they shall dealers in Delaware. Ohio, were' be prorided shoulder straps.

What charged with conspiracy in t-rvins do wa cs amount to comparpd with to make coal scarce and high" uch bouors? priced, so indictments were returned charging them wsth violating tbe anti-trut law. were arraigned before Judge Covner of tbe common pleas court. last week, and Sued and costs, each. the in Germany. more pay.

To pacify them tbe emperor tor's criticis.ms in the lirrht of a rect- have been asking for police officers naturally regard the pas- br nght Wasu Sto and Thocaas E. Steele. the Columbus attorney who left the city after his conviction of ill eg al nse of the United States mails, has been located. He is in Mon- i After this exhibition of rojal favor letter carriers would iPiletd be uacratefui t- coaapSain. in of desperate cases of Hooil which w.is em- 5-5 No-cr Use forr.jniin trcat- tr.ci wis If the trpat- rate only one- fc.iJi l)r PKirrowh still riade a notable have him bring forward his proofs if be has any.

which really seems to be reasonable. the Smithsonian grounds. The sugges- be followed. bills before tV- of Mn and Vircu a LjU tavnis: batlulors and spinet in- in tlu New York liou.p rep- awl a nilin? by Vew York that is nMo as diiordo ihe lot of tlie would t.ot appear to be a altogether happy 01 e. la view of the fact that there was no necessity for the blustering naval dem- by Great Britain.

Germany and Italy, it would appear that tbe pov. ers which proceeded decently toward tbe collection of their claims acninst should have an equal. If not preferential, standing as creditors. The traditional ground hog, when he came out the olher day to disport himself in the open, could or could not have sees bis shadow, according to the time and location of his observations- All of which indicates that we have before -the robins nest again more or less weather of various kinds, just as always have between Candlemas day and corn planting time. Within the limits of our far flung mometer line an American winter can put up a great variety of atmospheric conditions, over which neither the weather bureau nor the goosebone aad woodchuck prophets have any considerable influence.

Flarnes In a Hotel. Coshocton. Feb. 11. Igniting; Irom an.

imperfect electric insulation. the Park hotel took fire, resulting ia a less of S35.000. The fire started Irt the notion store of J. P. Seerbe, under the hotel, and aad gained headway before discovered.

Forty guests had narrow and all got out In night clothes. Louis Reichle of Detroit and T. B. Cook of Cleveland were seriously but not fatally hurt in going down improvised ladders of bed clothing. Fireworks Plant Damaged.

Fostoria. Feb. 11. The explosion of a firecracker on a crimping machine at toe Columbia Firecracker works set fire to others throughout the main building. Everything inflammable, including the street clothes of the em- ployes, was burned.

The stock and warerooms, powder house and filling room vere saved. The insuranca 13 filed at with loss of To Rebuild the Mill. Hamiltca, Feb. -The Harding Paper company of Franklin. O-, bought the site of the big Franklin paper mill, which was burned by Mark Well- horn.

the boy incendiary, and will at once erect one of the largest paper West Virginia Miners to Meet. A Cleveland man was run over and badly injured the other day hy two car- nages In a treddinc As a rule weddings to no one bes'des tbe persons married- As the suits of Suia has announced h.s intention to the Si Louis ex- poMtion oefore dyuu permanently, it st that he is very -a -11 i a to the contrary not- treal, Canada, and will engage in withstanding. the practice of his profession. As the crime of Steele is not covered by the extradition treaty he is safe. Hon.

Joe Chamberlain appears to be making a decided hit with the Boers in South Africa. This is doubtless because Secretary Root There hg has him and tact- I SffjttKl TO man fnl American The biggest trust on earth is the newspaper trust. It trusts everybody, gets cussed for trusting, mistrusted for cussing, and if it busts for trusting gets cuss- Mi for busting. Accord in 5 to are in the United States IO.333.3iW men available for military duty. The chances are.

however, that not more than 10.000.000 of them can hit the side of a barn with a shotgun. It is stated that Albert i Borrajre of Boston owes the start of Jus fortune of Km uaiDtHl in years, to tbe reading or item in his local i paper Now is mre to subscribe! It may does not fiiii on part i to trj to -n-1- it) tier )- iVrtrine re- Chicago jurists seem to regard tne eastern rate of for a stolen kin as insufficient Justice Doyle of that city having assessed young man $50 for browsing on a yonng lady's lipa a permit. In any event the revolutionists can DO doubt be depended on to prevent Venezuela from relapsins Into state of complete monotony. A Kokomo (Ind.) woman has had her husband arrested because he blackened her eyes wuen she refused to pray. Here is muscular Christianity for you with a vengeance.

Sir Henry Maxim's declaration that the bank at Monte Carlo cannot be beaten is a maxim that some venturesome people would do Well to accept question. It -would appear that some of the big gambling houses in New York get enough free advertising oat of an occasional raid to fully offset its inconvenience. As an answer to Governor Pennypacker's Inaugural address Mr. Carnegie lias just given $5.000,000 more for scientific research by Scotchmen. After the smoke clears away and the financial disputes are settled Germany might do well to engage a few Venezuelan gunners to Instruct its navy.

ference of the operators and miners of the Fifth Ohio sub-district, which is to be held in this city the first week In March. Tares West Virginia counties are in tae Ohio sab-district, and if there is any serious trouble over the scale it will come from them. Operators object to being bound down to the same scale as is enforced in Ohio, because of the discrimination in freight rates on the part of tae railroads after crossing tbe river. Famous Scout. Albuquerque.

X. Feb. J. L. Morris, one of the most famous of the and Indian fighters, is dead here after a long illness.

In 1S70 Morris, with 15 Chief Juaneka and 30 Apache warriors, who had been terrorizing the community. Norris was wounded In the neck, one of his men killed and 10 were wounded. The leader, after being shot, killed Juaneke with his last bullet. Congress awarded Morris a medal for bravery. President Castro will doubtless expect Germany to pay for the broken glass wben the final settlement to made.

Kaiser Wilhelm is forty-four years old. but he is a good deal younjrer in some respects than tie years would indicate. Salesman Suicides. New Orleans, Feb. L.

Fried- joaii. traveling salesman for a New York jewelry firm, committed suicide Twenty thousand dollars' wortli o' on Ins person has been charge of by tne autl.