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!• President McKinley has appointed John Walter Lowry postmaster at Knightstown, Ind.

United States Commissioner Goodell bt Jacksonville, Fla., has ordered six Chinamen deported to China under the fcxcluslon law.

The census bureau announces the ttopulation of Saginaw, Mich., at 42,-M5, as against 46,322 in 1890. This is a decrease of 3,977, or 8.59 per cent.

Samuel Morrill, third ' secretary ot the United States embassy, succeeding b. Percival Dodge, recently appointed Kecond secretary, has arrived in Berlin fend entered upon his duties.

A strong effort probably wiH be tnade to induce congress at its next Session to authorize the secretary ot

.the navy to contract for at least twelve small gunboats for service in (he Philippines.

Brig. Gen. 'Fitzhugh Lee Is uneasy hbout the future of Cuba. In an inter-View he clearly indicates that he fears brave disorders if an absolutely inde-|>endent government is established and all American troops ere withdrawn. !. Secretary Long has decided that the Wreck of the Maine is of no value to the navy, and Gen. Wood, governor general of Cuba, will have it removed. Gen. Wood says it occupies a central twsition in the harbor and is danger­ous to navigation.

The secretary of the Chilean lega­tion' says that the reports of war be­tween Chile and her neighbors' are groundless. The war rumors have gained considerable circulation of late, it being stated that an outbreak of 'tiostilities was imminent between Chile and the Argentine Republic, Peru and Bolivia, because of the unwillingness of Chile to conform to certain treaty delations.

Unfortunate Happenings. A cloudburst at Devils Lake, N. IX,

did much damage to grain. The business portion of Omer, Mich.,

Was destroyed by fire; loss, 150,000. Mrs. Osterfoos was burned to death

In a barn at Hedrick, Iowa. A deluge of rain did great damage

to grain near La Crosse, Wis. -. . A passenger train on the Fort Worth

A Bio Grande ran into a wash-out at Rock Creek; one man was killed. '

The business portion of Lidgerwood, K. D., was destroyed by fire; loss, <5,000.

Four men were drowned and others are missing as the result of a- heavy storm off Vancouver, B. C.

The highways were washed out and •rain is rotting in the stack, as a re­sult of heavy storms near New Rich­mond, Wis.

Levi B. Harmon of Clarinda, Iowa, was killed by failing from a rapidly tnoving passenger train. His skull was crushed and death was almost instant.

/ Criminal. John Norstrom was drowned at Bay-

peld. Wis. J. M. Rosenberg committed suicide at

Clarion, Iowa, by hanging.. , The Duluth firebug was convicted ot

fcrson in the second degree. Col. Paven, of the Cuban army, was

killed at Santiago in a cafe. t

Henry Chase, a Chippewa Falls In­dian, murdered a comrade while drunk.

Henry Fuller, an aged man at Clin­ton, Iowa, was beaten into insanity by a mob.

Dr. Hugh M. McCullough, coroner,, •hot and killed James Owen at Louis­ville, Ky.

A robber made an unsuccessful at­tempt to hold • up a Denver & Rio Grande passenger train at Santa Fe crossing.

Tom Donner was killed and Harry Coffeen was wounded by deputy sher­iffs, while being arrested for highway robbery.

Mrs. Claire Evangeline O'Neill was given her freedom at Chicago on a Writ of habeas corpus and placed un-•fler $1,000 bonds. ? The lawyers who are defending. Estes iS. Rathbone, the former director gen-ieral of Cuban posts, now-on bail, have asked the authorities for the indictment and extradition of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Joseph L. Bristow. He is charged with being technically jmore culpable than Rathbobne.

W. B. Dunton, whose disappearance Is said to have caused the suicide re­cently of George S. Forbes, a teller of the First National Bank of Chicago, who, put of friendship for Dunton, is •aid to have assisted the latter in mis­appropriating 120,000, from the funds of the Union National. bank, was Cap­tured at Old Point Comfort, Va.

Peuple Talked About,

Prof. F. K. Sanders of Tale has been elected president of Iowa college.

Dr. Alfred Stille, aged eighty-seven, professor of medicine in Pennsylvania university, is dead at Philadelphia-

Mrs. Elizabeth Van Lew, who great­ly aided Northern troops during the Civil war, is dead at Richmond, Va.

Ex-Secretary John W. Foster states that he doesr not expect to take part in "the international Chinese negotiations.

Dr. Lewis Albert Sayer, one of the famous surgeons of this country, died at his home in New York recently. He was eighty-one years old.

George F. Drew, the reconstruction governor of Florida, died at his home at Jacksonville, aged seventy-three years. Two hours before his death his wife passed away from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy.

Kemp G. Cooper of Denver, one ot the best newspaper men in the West,' died from Bright's disease. He was for eighteen years one of the owners' of the Denver Republican, and a few; weeks ago retired from the presidency, of the Republican Publishing company..

Gen, Stewart L. Woodford, former minister to Spain, was married to Miss'' Isabel Hanson in New York. The bride' was the private secretary of Gen. Woodford at Madrid at.the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. She is About thirty years old, and Gen. Wood­ford is sixty-five. This is his second' marriage, his first wife having died about two years ago.

Foreign. Paris municipal officers are at war

• With the government officials. Ex-President Kruger expects to con­

tinue a propaganda in Europe. . The belief is expressed that Germany fund China will, soon be at war.

Twetaty thousand mayors of France were banqueted by the government In Paris.

The rebels were defeated by the gov­ernment troops in an attack on Cartha-gena, Jamaica.

Attempts by Portugue&e soldiers, to ! disarm Boers entering Portuguese ter­ritory'resulted in severe fighting. .

The'Russians have annexed all the' country along the Amur river now held by them.

Cubans laugh at-the . request from' Porto Rico for repayment of w$2,5Q0,000v

loaned to Spain to carry on the Cuban war.

•.The International Socialist' congress Qt Paris bssdetffed to?cr«ete < nSLkjnal bureau In every country fn the

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The' Davenport, Rock Island & North­western road will be extended from Moline to Peoria.

The, attendance at the Wisconsin uni­versity is 2,400. the largest in the his­tory of the Institution.

The American Surety company paid the Sioux City school board $31,000 be­cause of the failure of a bank.

The subscriptions . to date in New York city for the relief , of the Galves­ton sufferers amount to $246,651.

The strike of journeymen tailors which 'was inaugurated in Cleveland has practically ended in favor of the strikers.

Judge Alen Endicoit of Mary's Land­ing, N. J., has ruled that the talk of a sleeping person" may be admitted a* evidence.

Mrs. Frank Pye. of Rochester, N. Y., a private detective, is very ill as a re­sult of eating powders sent through the mail.

The Grand Portal, the principal at­traction of pictured rocks of Lake Superior, fell as a result of severe storms.

Daniel B. Hatch, a surviving mem-per of the firm of Hatch & Foote of

'New York, has filed an individual as­signment.

The Iowa State Horticultural society has been furnished.with a collection of. Iowa flora by Prof. Pammel of the coN lege at Ames. ;

The international convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen adjourned to meet in 1902 at Chatta­nooga, Tenn.

Sal Corcoran of' Savannah, Ga., knocked out Tom Williams of Aus­tralia in the sixth round at Savannah." It was a fast and hard fight.

Mason City,. Iowa, has secured the national military academy, which is to be erected by. the Sons of Veterans, by offering a big cash and land bonus.

A British agent's report on American manufactories shows that the use of machine tools enables employers to pay higher wages and yet compete In for. elgn markets.

Commissioner of Labor Wright had a document prepared showing thai trusts employ more men at "higher wages than did individual companies' forming them.

The census bureau announces the fol­lowing populations: Fort1 Worth, Tex., 26.C88; increase 3,612; Wheeling, AY. Va., 38,878; increase, 4,356; Springfield, Ohio, 38,253; increase, 6,358.

The torpedo boat destroyer Decatur, one of the largest vessels of its class in the navy, was launched at Rich­mond, Va., in the presence of several thousand persons. • The California Cured Fruit associa­tion of San Jose is highly satisfied with the situation as it stands to-day. Prunes are coming into the warehouses at the rate of about 1,500,000 pounds a day.

Bartholomew Kost, who was extra? dited from Chicago in October of last year on charge of murdering and rob-' bing Marie Vodken, a cook whom'he had married, has been sentenced to death at Bremen.

The United States transport Grant arrived at San Francisco from the Philippines and China. The Grant brings home over, five hundred dis­charged soldiers, including nearly two hundred sick and wounded.

The £eath of Mrs. Maria Miller, pro­prietor of the Tremont hotel at (putney, 111., is announced by cable from Char-ton-8ur-(Jaon<B.r France. She was the widow of C61. LoSls Miller, and was bor^i in France sixty-five years ago.

The National; Prison association toe-gfln its annual congress in Cleveland, Ohio; vith 200 delegates present. These were majle up of penitentiary wardens and superintendents of prisons and re-forjnatories who enjoy a national repu­tation.

A secret circular addressed by Joan-nidus, the Metropolitan of Kleff, to all the Russian archbishops, virtually ex­communicates Tolstoi, the Russian novelist and social reformer. It de­clares that Tolstoi is an avowed enejny of the church.

The depot agent of the Adams Ex­press company at Keokuk. Iowa, was robbed of a thousand-dollar package consigned , by a local bank to* Salem. Iowa. It wa supposed to have .been put In the safe, but was missing vrheq the depot #cent ebacked vjt. >-•

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Vlicsnain H» Gcti a Cold Bail. Vn£> . expected!?. , j>

St Paul, Minn., Oct. 2. — Maxjtfa Ward of.' Boyd, Wis., fell tint* the river at J o'clock yesterday monflag and narrowiy escapei being flrown^^|ij£ has been in the city for a couple ot dfcya' and on his way home from North Da-kota. He -wandered'near the river about midnight and fell down the slip at the foot of Jackson street . .-5 -

After floundering about lii the river tor a Considerable t|pi&'he managed to crawl ashore near the Milwaukee freight house, Officer White found him wandering about the railroad tracks chilled through by {lis cold bath. Ward was sent to the'; central polloe station, where he was attended by the city physician.

HAD A HARD TING.

Patrolman Gntbomkl Encounters Trouble at a Dance.

St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 2. — Patrol­man Grabowskl of the Rondo sta­tion had a rough time of it Saturday night at a dance in Plebuch's hall, 438 Lafond street, several young, men of the neighborhood became boisterous and Offi­cer Grabowskl attempted, to take one of them from the hall. When the oTOcer reached the street.with the prisoner, he was knocked down. Two men, he says, sat on his face while the prisoner> made his escape. His assailants administered a few kicks and thumps and, after warning the officer not to pursue them If he did not want a sound thrashing, the young fellows escaped.

VACATION FOR A YEAR.

Dr. Adams Temporarily RetIre» Froni the WJsconaih University.

Madison, Wis., Oct. "2.—The board of regents of the state university yester­day issued a statement announcing the temporary retirement of Dr. Chas. Kendall Adams as president of the university. Dr. Adams is given a va­cation for a term of one year, and during his absence he will receive half pay. The action was taken owing to the poor condition of Dr. Adams' health. Dean E. A. Birge will be the acting : president - of the institution pending Dr. Adams' return.

Filipinos 1m the Cttjr of Manila Have

Been XsVc Qalrt of liate—BrUlt

Attacks at Laa Plnas and I'ara-naqae—Inanrarent Activity in S ua-

bolaa and Batangas Provinces Of­

ficially Repnrted—Inanrirenta Lost Ninety Killed In Various Districts

—Sklrmlal.es In Other Places.

Manila, Oct. 2.—The Filipinos in the city of Manila have -been more quiet of late, although' last Wednesday night there were' brisk attacks at Las PInas and Paranaque, south of Ma nila, as-well as outpost firing at Imus, Bacor and Mutin Lupa. The Ameri can officers are satisfied that the al­leged amigos living'in and around the towns In question participated in the attacks. Official reports have been re­ceived of insurgent activity in Zam-. bolas province and in Batangas prov­ince. Two skirmishes occurred dur ing the keew on the Bicol river, in the province of South Camarlnes. It is es­timated that. the insurgents lost 90 killed in the various districts. Two civilians, John McMahon and Ralph McCord'of San Franciso, who started on a business trip in Vigan and Ban gued, in Northern Luzon, have not been heard -from for three weeks. It is feared that they have been killed or captured' by the Insurgents.

BOBE&T& IS CHIEF.

TRIES TO ESCAPE.

Prisoner Breaks .Hole in .Floor at Margaret Station.

St. Paul, Minn., Oct 2. — Albert Mete nlade ah attempt to escape ffom the Margaret street police station last night. He had made a hole in the floor of his cell almost large enough' to get his body through when discovered by Officer Hoefer. There Is a cellar under the station and had Metz succeeded in getting into, the basement it would have been an easy thing to escape through a window.

HER NECK BROKWV BY HALTER.

Yonnar Wisconsin Woman Meet* With a Shocking Death.

Barron, Wis., Oct. 2.—A young wo­man, Mrs. Fred Grover,. living near Rldgeland, in the southern part of this county, met with a shocking death, from appearances she had gone to the yard to catch a horse, and after catch­ing him her hat was blown off, fright­ening him. When found the halter was around her neck, whioh was broken. Her husband was absent from home at the time and no one witnessed the affair.

BREAKS HIS ANKLE,

Albert Hart is Thrown From a Wagon and Injnred.

St. Paul, Minn., Oct, 2. — Albert Hurt, sixteen years of age, living with his parents at 420 Superior, street, was injured last evening by being thrown from a wagon at Victoria-and Armstrong streets. His -horse ran away and Hurt fell into the' street breaking his right ankle. He was attended by Dr. McCord and afterwards removed to St. Luke's hospital.

Ofllclal Announcement of His Ap­pointment as Head of the Army.

London, Oct. 2. — It is officially an­nounced that Lord Roberts has been appointed commander-in-chief of the British army. Yesterday was Lord Roberts' birthday. Although the fact that the appointment had been made was already known the .formal an­nouncement is hailed by the Unionist party as a welcome pledge that (army reorganization will be carried out in the most effective manner. It was be­ginning to be recognized that some thing was needed to give strength to tlie "Unionist, campaign; Accordingly semi-official announcements are out that Mr. <3eorge Wyndham, parlia­mentary under secretary of state for war, in his speech at Derby to-morrow evening will outline the government's scheme ot army reforms, and that the war office is arranging with Lord Roberts for the return of a large por­tion of the army, operating in South Africa.

Fatally Shot by * Doctor. Beatrice, Neb.,' Oct. 2.—W. J. Hum

was probably fatally shot by Dr. F. W. Lee, one of the most prominent phy-•lclans. in the state. The two men roomed in separate apartments in the Davis •block. As Hurn was passing Lee's door the physician mentioned a bill against Mum for services and a Quarrel enstfed. Hurn struck at Lee, but missed him. Lee drew a revolver and fired.. Hurn staggered- back .Into Ms wife's arms;, shot in the right breast. The bullet entered the lung and Hum is hot expected to live.' Lee gave hltriself up and was released on ball, but I? Hurn dies will probably be rearrested.

A Closed Year for Deer. Deadwood, S. D., Oct. 2.—This y&r

is a closed year for the hunting of any kind of deer. Every filfth year it is. against the law to hunt this kind of game. Notwithstanding this parties are being organized in this city and Lead for deer hunting. There is an unusual number of grouse and ducks around the foothills. Deer are very plentiful along''the Wyoming line next to the Limestone range.

Stage Held Vp. Boise, Idaho, Oct. 2. — The Ontario

and Burns stage was held up at 9 o'clock yesterday seven miles out ot Ontari6 by a lone highwayman. The robber stopped the stage by firing a qhot across the road. He demanded the mail, which was thrown out. The stage was not further molested. It is not thought much of - value was se­cured.

'•use. Uenklns Recovers His Sight. Milwaukee, Oct. 2.—A recent opera­

tion for cataract performed on the eyes of Judge James G. Jenkins of the United States circuit court has been a complete success, and the jurist's sight, so long' threatened, Is restored. He will be £ble to resume his seat on the bench < In about a week.

Got One Yeiar tor Swindling. La Crosse, Wis., Sept 2.—Tim Mur­

ray, the young man charged with vic­timizing several local politicians by rep­resenting himself as a collector for the national committees, pleaded guilty ber fore Judge Brlndley to obtaining money under false pretenses, and was sen­tenced to one year in state's prison.

Shortage Indicated. Aberdeen, 8. D., Ocf. 2.—J. F. Gees-

lln, the .James - Station grain buyer who disappeared a week ago, has not been heard from. An investigation of his accounts indicates a shortage of about $4,500.

Despondent and Killed Himaelf. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Oct. 2.—Will­

iam Fenska, a farmer residing miles from this city, committed: suicide by blowing tlie top ot his head oft with a shotgun because he was despondent over his wife's long lilness.

Thomas Pooler Convicted of Mnrder. Helena, Mont., Oct 2. —• Thomas

Pooley, tried in Butte on the charge of murdering Jii* son-in-law, Llttlejohn, and the lather's wife (Pooley's daugh­ter), was convicted of murder lrf tlM second degree.

Shot the Conductor. Philadelphia, Oct. Judas Wash­

ington of New York, a. .colored porter on the Florida express on the Penn­sylvania railroad, shot and seriously Wounded A. E. Hindle, the Pullman conductor of the train, whose home is jn this city. The shooting occurred

fust after the train ieft Chester. Pa., Or this city, and was the result of a

(luarred. Hindle will probably recover.

Ki-nger Blames Steyn. London, Oct. 2.—An Interesting re­

port comes from Komatlpoort to the effect that Mr. Kruger, in a letter to his wife announcing that he is going on a six months' holiday said in sub­stance that after the capture of Maca-dodorp he knew the struggle was hopeless and counseled moderation, but that Mr. Steyn's "arbitrary be­havior" overruled his counsels.

. Takes Hi« Oni Life. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 2, — Warner

W. Newbold, superintendent of the South, North arid Birmingham min­eral divisions of the Louisville A Nashville railroad, committed suicide at his residence in .this city yesterday by shooting himself In the mouth with a 38-caliber pistol. He lost his wife some months ago, and since that time has beetjL despondent.

L. E. Newport Imane, Hartford, Conn.,- Oct. 2. — Luthei

Edgerton Newport, aged thirty-five, a •on of Col. Newport, a wealthy banker and broker of St. Paul. M|nn., Was taken violently insane at Heublein's hotel last evening and had to be taken to the police station, where, her is con­fined in a cell under guard.

_ To Explain Filipino Canae. New York, Oct. ,2. — Sexto Lopes,

formerly secretary and confidant of Agulnaldo, arrived here yesterday on the Cunarder Campania. Lopez is said to have come here at the Invitation of Fiske Warren and he expects to explain to the people the Filipino's side of their fight ,with this country.

'' Vessels Driven Ashore. Ban Francisco, Oct 2.—The staamer

Chracoa brings news of a storm.which was raging alo&g the Mexican ooaht when she sailed for the north. Several vessels were driven ashore, . : among

them being the German bark Planet, Which will be a total loss.

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Many Passengera Injured. Wichita, Kan., Oct. -2. —' A heavliy

loaded street car dashed at top speed down College hfll yesterday and at the foot of the Incline jumped the track, plunging into Chisholm creek. Of the fifty passengers thirty were Injured.

- i Two Hen Killed *n Street Dncl.

Tampa, Fla., Oct 2.—Hope^Sarnett and Edward Standford were killed at Port Tampa Clty In a street duel grow-' liar out of a political quarrel. Charlsa Barnett a brother of Hope, was Shot «^d seriously Injured. i:JM%

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