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HEWS OF II WEEK CONDENSED

SUMMARY OF MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME A N D

ABROAD.

THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST

Fi ogress of Peace Negotiat ions Be­tween Russia and Japan—Foreign and Domestic I tems of Interest Told in Brief.

THE PEACE CONFERENCE. Russia's reply to the Japanese terms

of peace were delr ered by M. Witte to Baton Komura. Upon the two cru-na l points, indemnity and the cession ot the island of Sakhalin the reply is an absolute non-possimus. Other points are accepted as bases for dis­cussion, while still others are accepted conditionally.

The envoys have settled the first thiee peace conditions, giving the Japs P' eponderating influence in Corea, pro­dding the open door in Manchuria and < -c'mg the Chinese Eastern railroad in China *

A. break m the peace negotiations \»as nanowly averted when the Sak­halin issue was brought up. The dis­cussion was postponed. Diplomats l e h e v e the envoys will be able to ef-t tct a compromise, as both powers teem anxious to conciliate.

Russia's attitude- in the peace confer-f ' t e is attributed to pressuie brought on t -e czar by the kaiser who seeks to clock Japan and England in their plan foi controlling the far east by prevent­ing peace.

Japan has redeemed every pledge by 1 estonng Manchuria and the railroad to China, declares the Peking correspond­ent of the London Times.

YELLOW FEVER SITUATION. The New Orlean? yellow fever ree-

c t l to date is Oeaths, 176; total cases, 1146.

Eleven cases of yei»Lw fevei have been c »scovered at Mississippi City, Mitt., and it is said the presence of the fever There has been kept a secret since July >'o

Two cases suspected to be yellow feyer are reported m Indiana, at Crawfordsville and near Michigan City.

New Orleans quarantine threatens to delay the opening of oyster season. A famine is in prospect. The grain ex-rort business is affected. The scourge is spreading.

Dr Egan. secretary of the Illinois board of health, is apprehensive of con­ditions in the south, and believes ex­traordinary precautions will be neces­sary to keep yellow fever out of south­ern Illinois.

MISCELLANEOUS. Federal supervision of insurance was

the subject of a conference at Sagamore Hill between President Roosevrlt and a number of leading insurance officials. It is expected that in his next message to congress the president will recom­mend the enactment of legislation pro­viding for federal supervision.

A mass of limestone weighing thou­sands of tons, slid from a side of the quarry of mill A of the Lehigh Portland Cement company at Ormrod, Pa , bury­ing 27 men, of whom 12 were killed and feinjured.

Never before, it is said, has such ac-trt .ty been w ltnessed in the erection of steel mills, furnaces and shops as is now being done in Pittsburg and the Monon-gahela valley.

Three children of Enos Adkins, living on a small branch of Guyan river, near Ranger, W. V a , were drowned in a flood which swept thatse etion.

John Jebeles in a fit of jealousy fatal­ly shot Miss Lela McBride, aged 22, at Auston, A l a . / and then fired a bullet into his own brain, dving instantly.

An attempt was made on the life of the empress of China as she was passing through the northwest gate of the city to her summer palace. Her assailant was dressed as a soldier, and was bayo-netted by the guard.

Two men were killed, two fatally in­jured and eight others seriously injured in a collision of a Baltimore & Ohio Southeastern passenger train and a street car at Winton place, a suburb of Cincinnati.

An official account of the disturbances at Bielostok, Russian Poland, confirms the report that 40 persons were killed. Jews opened fire on the troops, who re­plied with volleys.

Thomas A Elliott, night city editor of the Free Press, died in Detroit of ty­phoid fever, ajjad 45 years.

The police a? Granmichele, Sicily, fired on strikers who were stoning them, killing seven aad woAnding a number of others.

Three children, each three vears old, met death in Chicago by falling from op*n windows in different parts of the city.

Mrs. Naomi Aldrich, of Grayling, Mich., is in jail charged with having poisoned her two boys, aged 10 and 12, to collect $50 life insurance on each.

Bishop Fallows, in a sermon at the Princeton, 111., Chautauqua, said that John D. Rockefeller is insane on mon­ey and sets an example for graftera. -

A negro who attempted to assault a white girl at Sulphur Springs. Tex., was burned at the stake by a mob of 500 men.

Twenty firemen were scalded by an explosion of grease in a burning soap factory in New York city.

Trade reports were less uniformly favorable, but adverse factors were of a temporary nature, and the net re­sults for the week were satisfactory, according to Dun's trade review.

Edward Drouin, formerly a wealthy and influential merchant of Philadel­phia, is dead at Peoria, 111.

The court of inquiry in the Benning­ton disaster has completed its investi­gation at San Diego, Cal , and the members will now prepare their re-Voti. « , f

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A score of persons were more or less seriously injured in St. Louis as the re­sult of a violent wind and rainstorm.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will ask congress to amend the law requir­ing the unloading and feeding of live stock each 2$ hours.

A census bulletin prepared by Prof. W. F. Wilcox, of Cornell, declares that the birth rate in the United States has been steadily declining since I860.

The United Verde copper mine of Jeiome, Ariz., for a controlling interest in which Senator Clark, of Montana, paid $26,800, now earns for its owners $600,000 a month.

Four persons were killed in one day while climbing the Alps.

Booker T. Washington, in a conven­tion of negroes in Washington, declared the south is the place for the black man.

Thousands of acres of Indian land i i Utah have been opened to homeseekers.

Vice President Fairbanks was orator of the day at the dedication of a monu­ment to Ethan Allen, at Burlington, Vt.

The stable attached to the summer home of Craig Biddle, at Radnor, Pa., was burned. All of the horses and car­riages were saved. The loss is $40,000.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson criticises the action of the Norwegian storthing and declares for a republic.

The coroner at Cleveland, O.. in his of­ficial decision, says the night telegraph operator at Mentor, O. threw the switch that caused the wreck of the Lake Shore Twentieth Century Limited, in which 19 persons lost their lives.

Delegates from all sections of the country talked at the first day's session of the big Chicago trade convention in favor of a plan for reciprocity as a cure for the evils of American commerce.

The annual report of the interstate commerce commission says 10,046 per­sons w ere killed and 84.155 injured in railway disasters in the United States during 1904.

President Roosevelt, m a letter to the convention of the National Negro Busi­ness league in New York, sa>s self-help is the hope of the black man and the so­lution of the race problem.

President Roosevelt, in an address at Chautauqua, N. Y., iavored enforcing the Monroe doctrine, but not aggran­dizement, and asked wise control of big corporations.

A fast east-bound passenger train on the Nickel Plate road collided with a west-bound freight train at Kishman, O., resulting in the death of 12 persons, while at least 25 others were injured, eight of whom will probably die. Blun­der of the freight crew is believed to have been the cause of the disaster.

Mrs. Harvey McPherson Null, charged with murder in the first de­gree in having, it is alleged, poisoned her husband, a well-to-do farmer, and H. C. Kelley, a farmhand, charged with aiding and abetting her in the crime, have been arrested at Pratt Kan.

Twenty thousand citizens of Quebec witnessed the unveiling of a monument to the Quebec soldiers who lost their lives in the South African war. Earl Grey unveiled the monument.

The ancient three-story and attic house at Elm and Prince streets, New York, in which President Monroe died on July 4, 1831, was partially destroyed by fire.

Dr. Austin Drake, of Springfield, 111., won a 20-year contest for a $8,000,000 estate in New York.

James Showley and Ernest Campbell, both young men, drove into a barn near Wynn station, Ind., to escape a storm. Lightning struck the barn, killing both men.

Dispatches received at the state de­partment from China show that Shang­hai is the only place where the boy­cott against American goods has as­sumed anything like a serious aspect. At Canton the movement has made some headway, but at other points it has not been successful.

Ambassador Tower has been asked to represent the United States at the International earthquake conference in Berlin

Five thousand idle workmen, armed with rifles, are roaming through parts of Spain. Many others seek jails to get food and shelter. Farmers and land owners ask the government for relief.

Wong Kai Kah, Chinese imperial trade commissioner, comes to the United States to discuss the boycott and proposed a new exclusion treaty.

By a modified order President Roosevelt makes about 85,000 more acres of public land subject to entry in the Uintah Indian reservation.

Marshall Field, the Chicago mer­chant, will pay taxes on $40,000,000 worth of property, $2,000,000 being in personal holdings in his residence.

John D. Rockefeller's gifts are re­ported to exceed his income, and he is mentioned as a rival of Andrew Car-gie in the race for poverty.

The war department may soon or­der arrests, as the result of an expose showing that the government has been defrauded of $150,000 on fur contracts at the Schuylkill arsenal.

The teamsters' convention at Phil­adelphia adjourned, after exposure of Chicago strike secrets. Chicago will be the next meeting plaace.

Secretary Taft told Filipinos who asked for a promise of independence that self-government is far distant and the United States will brook no interference with plans.

" The total commercial value of all the railroads in the United States is placed at over $11,000,000,000. •

A story told by a convict in the Joli-et (111.) penitentiary is believed to ex­plain the murder of Policemen Pennell and Devine, of Chicago, three years ago and led to the arrest of a man sus­pected of being implicated.

Minister Rockhill and consuls in China are instructed by the state de­partment to watch the progress of the boycott against American goods.

Earl Riser, the daring automobilist, lost a leg and was otherwise injured in an auto accident in Cleveland.

Harry Parker and Harry Johnson confessed to the murder o t Pawnbrok­er Joseph Moyer at Detroit.

Perry J. Luster, formerly manager" of the Cumberland Telephone company, of Guthrie, Ky., who disappeared from that place July 29, on which date his wife was found dead in her room with a bullet through her brain, is under ar­rest at Ogden. Utah.

Secretary Taft, in a banquet address at Manila, says Filipinos must learn the principles of democracy by educa­tion and that a representative assembly will be granted natives in 1907 if no insurrection mists . ^

Congress of the Russian Union of Peasants, held in Moscow, demands universal suffrage, broader power for the proposed assembly, and the divis­ion of the state domain and lands owned by religious organizations among the people.

Chief Collins, of Chicago, will send detectives to Brockton, Mass., where an attempt will be made to identify Chauffeur Marsh a s the slayer of Chauffeur William Bate, of "Dove" murder mystery.

The meeting of the National Bap­tist convention, which was to have been held in Chicago September 13-19, has been postponed until October 2.

Fire that broke out in the heart of the business sectiion of Bakersfleld, Cal., destroyed ten buildings.

Walter Sanger Pullman, son of the palace car magnate, died in California from wounds suffered in a runaway.

The interstate commerce commis­sion unexpectedly began an investiga­tion of relations between the refrig­erator lines and the railroads.

Maj. Taggart, on the witness stand, called a relative of his wife a cowardly cur and a free-for-all fight in the court­room was narrowly averted.

Albert Gunderson, of Racine, Wis., was found dead near Cheyenne Wells, Col. His head had been pounded into a pulp with a barrel stave. The body had been robbed of everything of value. v

Harry Lindsley, deputy police com­missioner of New York city, and Miss Evelyn Willing, of Chicago, were killed at Pike's crossing, near Benning­ton, Vt., when their automobile was struck by a train. /

American Jews appealed to M de Witte for their people in Russia

In a head-on collision two miles from Macon, Ga, between a north­bound Central of Georgia passenger train and a south-bound freight, two were killed and three injured.

William H. Klawitter, aged 50, and Albert Bergaus, aged 50, were drowned in the Mississippi river at La Crosse, W i s , while bathing.

News has been received from Port Arthur that over 70 vessels, including the battleships Peresviet, Poltava. Ret-vizan, Pobieda and Pallada and the cruiser Bayon have been raised by the Japanese.

C. L. Jenks, a pioneer Wisconsin lumberman, is dead at his home In La Crosse, Wis., aged 65. He has been one of the most extensive lumber oper­ators on the Mississippi and its trib­utaries in Wisconsin and Minnesota since 1850.

Pi e x t e n t Shea of the teamsters1

brotherhood forced through an in­dorsement by the Philadelphia con­vention of the Chicago strike by the use of the gavel.

Central Illinois farmers laugh at re­ports of corn "firing," stalled to in­fluence markets, and says one of the largest crops in the history of the state is now practically assured.

Referee Plumley of Vermont, allowed claims of the French government against Venezuela aggregating about $650,000.

Federal agents in Chicago recovered 268 diamonds declared to have been smuggled and seek evidence to catch a gang which is engaged in wholesale smuggling.

The storthing ha? been summoned to meet on Aug. 21, when the Question vt a republic may be referred to the peo­ple.

Former Statistician Hyde writes Secretary Wilson that he will return to America "as soon as possible."

Rose PKijnof, aged ten years, of Bos­ton, swam a mile in Dorchester bay in 33 minutes.

Federal secret service men in Chica­go keep track of witnesses in the beef trust inquiry who show a disposition to get out of the jurisdiction of the court.

Henry Sienkiewicz, the noted Polish author, was sentenced to confinement in his home in Warsaw for an indetermi­nate period because of attacks on Rus­sia u methods in the schools.

A fur scandal, involving $150,000 and sey eral inspectors of army supplies has been unearthed in Philadelphia.

A political revolution is pending in Cuba. The liberals threaten to resort to arms if defeated at the approaching electfon.

Thirty thousand teamsters plan to form a separate union after a confer­ence in Philadelphia convention. About 7,000 Chicago members are in the move­ment against Shea!

Chairman Shonts has returned from Panama, and says the first and most im­portant work of the commission is pro­viding for the care of 20,000 canal em­ployes. »

Henry Chandler Egan, of the Ex-moor Country club, Chicago, won the amateur golf championship for' the second time, defeating D. E. Sawyer on the links of the Chicago Golf club.

The steamship Eastland, of Chicago, bumped into a launcn at South Haven, Mich., and men and women on the smaller craft were hurled into the wa­ter as the little boat sank, but all were saved.

A lamp exploded at the home of Will Elliott in Paducah, Ky., and the family did not awaken until the house was in flames. Three children were burned to death and the parents badly injured.

The beef trust cases are set for trial early in October.

Cornelius Shea was again elected president of the International Brother­hood of Teamsters at the convention at Philadelphia.

Opposition of members of both houses may influence President Roosevelt to abandon plans for an extraordinaiy ses­sion of congress in November.

The battleship Kansas, the largest war vessel ever built in the east, was launched at the yard of the New York Shipbuilding company in Camden, N. J. Miss Anna Hoch, daughter of Gov. Hoch, of Kansas, acted as sponsor for the ship and christened the vessel with spring water.

The Norwegian people in a referen­dum decided almost unanimously in fa­vor of dissolving the union with Sweden. The people do not desire a republic.

George Fraundrider and Eddie Rock-lnger, each about 12 years of age, were drowned in the millpond at the Kala­mazoo river at Marshall, Mich. Both lads were playing upon the roof of a boathouse and slid off into the river.

Death is the penalty fixed by the governor of Newchwang, China, for joining in the boycott against America.

Lightning struck a street car in New York, causing a panic in which 14 per­sons were injured! „ * £ \ 1 ^ <, *

FEME SEEK ., TO BE LOST.

T H E P L E N I P O T E N T I A R I E S A R E

A P P A R E N T L Y I N ABSO­

L U T E DEAD-LOCK.

Outside Influenca the Only Power

that can Br ing the Conference to

Successful Conclusion. Roose ­

v e l t Takes Hand.

Portsmouth, Aug 10.—President Roosevelt does not intend to allow the peace conference to fail if i t is in his power to bring the neg6tiations to a successful end. Last night he sent a confidential man to Portsmouth with a message to M. Witte. The messen­ger will say to M. Witte that it is the president's earnest desire that he shall send Baron Rosen or somebody in the confidence of M. Witte and of equal powers to Oyster Bay at once to see the president. The president has made his message most urgent; He almost demands that M. Witte shall send a representative to Oyster Bay.

The president is determined that the peace conference shall not end in a break if he can bring about peace, and i t is understood here that he has a most pressing communication for M. Witte and the peace conference.

The president has been in constant receipt of reports of the press confer­ence. He knows that to-night, as mat­ters stand, there can be no peace He will urge on the Russians that they shall ask the czar to recede from the position they have taken on the four points in dispute and thus g.ve the mikado a way to make concessions al­so and end the war. A reply from M. Witte is expected early to-morrow, as soon as the messenger reaches Ports­mouth. I t is expected that M. Witte grant the request of the president and send either Baron Rosen or some other influential member of his suite.

Just after midnight President Roose­velt brought to a close a long and im­portant conversation by telegraph with Assistant Secretary ot State Pierce, who is at Portsmouth. Mr. Pierce declined to discuss the conver­sation.

Oyster Bay, N. Y., Aur 19.—Presi­dent Roosevelt's only visitor yesterday was Baron Kaneko, who studiously conceals his precise mission, but i t i s known to be a confidential representa­tive in this country of the Japanese government This was his fourth visit to the president in a few weeks, and the second within a week. Reasons developed yeseerday for the statement that Baron Kaneko's call had relation to the peaca proceedings at Ports­mouth, although it appears reasonably certain he did not corns as the repre­sentative of the Japanese envoys.

STRIKE CALLED OFF.

Break i n R a n k s of S t r i k n g Tele­graphers Causes a Complete

a Cal l ing Off.

Minneapolis, Aug. 19 —The strike of telegraphers on the Great Northern was called off by the president of the Order of Railway Telegraphers.

This action was taken as the result of a break in the ranks of the strikers Thursday. A vote was taken Thurs­day night and Friday morning by tele­graph, and a majority of'the men were in favor of ending the strike. As a re­sult, President Perham issued orders, yesterday afternoon, officially calling the strike off

According to the strikers, the Great Northern offered the men greately in­creased pay. President Perham states that it was this offer of the road which caused the men to break away and re­turn to work.

fie received telegrams stating that the railroad was c rculating the report that the strike was called off He im­mediately telegraphed the strike chair­man on the different divisions, tell ing them to take a vote by telegraph on their divisions, to determine whether or n o t the strike should continue.

I t is understrad that on the Great Northern the majority of the men were in favor of ending the trouble.

President Perham claims that the of­fer of the Great Northern to the men was better than the men had demanded and that the increased pay amounts not only to the original demands of the strikers, but in some cases is $10 a month more.

On the Northern Pacific it has not yet been determined whether or not the strike shall end. A vote is being taken, and i t is possible that the strike wil l be eontinued there.

D a m a g e B y Hai l . Aberdeen, 8 D., Aug. 19 —A section

of country forty miles long and ten miles wide was devastated by hail Thursday in Walworth, Campbell and McPherson counties.

The storm began in Walworth coun­ty, on the Missouri river, and extend­ed in a northeasterly direction for eleven miles to Eureka, McPherson county.

D e a t h o n Rai lroads . Washington, Aug. 19. The annual

leport of the interstate commerce committee, giving fhe railroad sta­tistics for the year 1904, shows that the total number of casualties to per­sons on the railways in the United s ta te s was 94,201, of which 10,04G represented the number of persons killed and 84,155 the number injured.

' Of the persons killed, 441 were pas­sengers, and the number wounded wa* 9,111, or one person killed- out of eyery 1,622,267 carried, and one in­jured out of every 78,523 carried.

Queer Suic de. Iowa. City, Iowa, ^-ug. 19.

terson, a carpenter,

basement and put the finishing touches on the casket. Then he at­tached a small rubber hose to a gas je t and turned on the gas. H e laid the casket on the floor, got into it and stuck the other end of the hose through a small hole in the lid. Ho -was asphyxiated in a few moments. His wife went to look for him and found him dead in the casket. ]

COHHER GOSSIP.

St. Paul.—Daniel Ferguson, s i t e a years old, Is killed by a street car.

St. Pau l .^Pat Ebbs, a former pu­gilist, shoots holes in barroom mir­rors.

Minneapolis.- -The outing of the state editorial association is ar­ranged.

Monticello.—The 12-year-old son of Mr. Mitchell ot SaJida died from sunstroke. ^

Minneapolis.—The s tate now has $3,000,000 loaned to school districts and municipalities.

Winona.—High water i s causing much trouble to the sanitation sew­age system of this city.

Brainerd.—It is estimated that 10,-000 to 12,000 harvest hands will be needed in tho Northwest.

Winona.—The Minnesota guards­men will send a rifle team t o the national contest a t Seagirt.

St. Paul.—Attorney General Young rules that Food Commissioner Slater may appoint volunteer inspectors.

Minneapolis.—Fifty thousand dol­lars will bring the Grand Army en­campment to Minneapolis s.t?xt year.

Moorhead.—Ole C. Lund of Tan-sem fell while stacking hay, breaking his back and dying from his injuries. He was 60.

Two Harbors.—The Duluth A Iron Range road has received about 2,000 steel t ies from the Carnegie s tee \ works for experimental purposes.

Elk River.—Lightning set Are to the barn of the Mississippi and Rum River Boom company, and i t was burned t o the ground. Loss $15,000.

St. Paul.—Gertrude Heck, the five-year-old daughter of Mathias Heck, 395 Daly street, was seriously burned while playing with fire near her home.

Stillwater.—Ambrose Lee, a St. Paul workhouse prisoner, was releas­ed from the Como institution on a pardon issued by the state pardon board.

Rochester.—Rochester is to experi­ment and have a home coming and free street carnival this year, the date being for one solid week, Aug. 20 to Sept. 2.

St. Paul.—Governor Johnson came to the aid of the Aitkin high water sufferers witb a check for $200. The money was sent to the general relief committee.

Hinckley.—Work on the new schoolhouse is being rapidly pushed and t h e building is expected to be ready for occupancy in t ime for the fall term.

Fort Snelling.—Private John Mastil, Company I, Twenty-eighth infantry, was accidentally drowned while row­ing on the Mississippi river with two other soldiers.

Hast ings—The Farmers' Co-opera­tive Elevator company has bought Elevator A in this city from the Miller Elevator company of Minne­apolis for $6,500.

Delano.—Seven old couples live within Delano's borders who can boast of having been married over fifty years and h a \ e lived together during that period.

Minneapolis.—A well dressed young man, thought by the police to be an expert diamond thief, snatched a dia­mond from the jewelry counter in the New Store and after an excit ing chase escaped.

Sauk Center.—George Truax, aged 31, w a s killed on the Great Northern tracks between here and Melrose. Truax had lived here nearly all h is life, and for several years w a s in"-

the livery business. Minneapolis.—Despondent over his

separation from his family, Xavier Traber, a weaver, shot himself while alone in his little shop at 1006 Main street northeast. His decomposed body was found b y a friend.

Osakis.—Way freight, west bound, Conductor R. E. Landis, ran over a laborer whose name is supposed to be Don Axelman, said to have a brother in Dayton, Ohio, who attempted to catch the train a t this station.

St. Paul.—Minnesota has furnished to i ts school districts," villages and otfier municipalities $3,000,000 in the la*t few years for the construction of new schoolhouses, drainage ditches, good roads and public build­ings.

Duluth.—Mrs. Augustus Bretzner, wife of a business man of Sparta, came to Duluth and registered at a hotel as "Miss Maloney of Two Har­bors," and in the night took a. dose of morphine which caused her death in a hospital.

Mankato.—County Auditor Weaver has prepared a statement o£ the cost of the third trial of Dr. George K^ch of New Ulm, showing an expense of $4,612, exclusive of attornevs' fees This i s the amount that Brown comi­t y will be obliged to pay.

St. Paul.—Elsie Mattson, 2 years old, 864 Maryland street, died as the result of drinking fly poison. Coro­ner A. W. Miller investigated the case and decided that death was due to accident. The child suffered great agony for several hours.

Minneapolis.—The first car of new-orop Minnesota wheat reached the city Aug. 8, coming from Hasota, con­signed to the Van Dusen-Harrington company. Being the first lot in and grading choice No. 1 northern, iV brought a high price, going a t $1.06.

Duluth.—Mrs. H. Hendrickson, 80 years of age, residing east of Lake George, in Hubbard county, was re­turning home from a neighbor's when she became lost. A searching party was organized and i t was not until the end of the s ixth day of her absence that she was found.

Minneapolis.—Frank M. Crane, for whom a warrant was issued some t ime ago on a charge of grand lar­ceny, has been arrested in Chicago and will be brought back.

Clotho.—The postoffice was entered by thieves, but only a small amount of change and stamps were secured. This i s the second robbery of post-offices in this vicinity recently.

Owatonna.—A northbound freight upon the Rock Island road struck and killed the 19-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick. The par­ents, who live between Medford and Clinton Falls, some seven miles north of this city, went into the field to work, taking the child with them.

St. Paul.—State Treasurer J. H.

state board of investment, using the Lars Pe- sale df the $2,145,000 of Virginia

committed sui- state bonds now held by different ~« -***"•-•^»—». * . . g u ™ . . , . j«, cide in a coflin which he made to state funds, in order t o give ready old, was run down and killed by order for himself, l i e went ii^to the m o n e v *° , 0 , m *n W{n««o«*« „„..-.u~- _..—* — _ t T»_S— — A TT_S

cities, villages, towns and school dis tricts that foave made applications

HEWS OF i i n . Crop Report.

Barley cutt ing is finished in all see-lions but the extreme north where it is progressing favorably. Spring wheat and oat cutting are nearly fin­ished in southern portions, and well advanced in central portious, while in the extreme north wheat harvest is ex­pected to begin on the 18th or 19th. A pood deal of stacking has been done in southern and central poitioas, and threshing from the shock has been progressing well, with spring and winter wheat yielding satisfactory, oats splendidly, and bar'cy hardly a& well as expected, and with the grain somewhat discolored, There are some reports of injary by black rust, smut and blight in the uncut wheat, but principally from late fields on low lands. Flax is generally a fine crop, and uiucn of it is cut. Corn has grown splendidly dui ing the warm weather, and many pars are in the roast n«r ear state The potato crop is generally a good one, though there complaints ol rot and blight. Timothy for seed is good. The second clover crop is also good. The rains of the 13th and morning of the 14th will delay work in the grain fields, but they will bene­fit pastuies, gardens, corn and late po­tatoes. The apple ciop in southeast­ern counties is pood

Mosquitoes St. Paul.—Residents of Minnesota

teed not worry over mosquitoes, ac-•ordtng to a communication received Jrom the United States bateau on pub­lic health received by Dr H M. Bracken, secretary of the Minnesota board of health.

Mosquitoes are in Minnesota, ac­cording to the Washington officials, solely by the sufferance of the resi­dents of the state The householder who is trouoled with these pes's needs only to einp..y f i e tubs, buc tets, cans, flower pots and vases about his house once in forty-eight hours and see that pools of stagnant, water are filled up or covered with coal o i l

"Mosquitoes treed only in water; ii the breeding places are destroyed, there will be no mosquitoes,' says the Washington officials.

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1 Gossip From I I Scandinavia, \

A 2 .000 -Mi l e Excursion. On Wednesday, Aug 23, 1905, the

Great Northern Railway will run a special train from St. Paul to Wash­ington, the Evergreen state. This train will be accompanied by experi­enced immigration agent s who will explain the country and points of in­terest enroute btop-overs will be made in North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington for the purpose of investigating the different sections. This is a grand opportunity to visit this wonderful region under the most favorab'e conditions. The excursion will stop at Spokane, Everett, Belling-ham, Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria and the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland, Oregon. For full particu­lars and other information apply to any agent of the Great Northern Rail­way.

R e d Letter Day . S t Paul —Sunday, Sept 10, will be

a red letter day lor Congregationists of St. Paul, for on that day they will entertain seventy of the most promi­nent ministers of denomination, who will stop over on the return from Seat­tle to the East. The ministers are the commissioners of the American board of foreign missions. They will come on a special train arriving early in the morning and departing late in the evening of the same day.

Drowned. Duluth —Gray Holston, twentv-three

years of age, the son of Mr and Mrs. D. E Holston of this city was diowned in Duluth harber. He was one of a sailboat and fell overboard during a sudden squall, which required the at­tention of ever3rone on board to man­age the craft.

The younif man could not swim, and, weighed down with heavy -cloth­ing, he was unable to save himself. He came to the surface but once.

Rebe l Money. Minneapolis —A man who is evident­

ly is unaware of the f ict that the war of the Rebellion is a thing cf the past has been busy for the last few days passing confederate currency on unsus­pecting Northeners. Two complaints have already reached police headquar­ters and i t is thought several more will be received as the man i s working with reckless abandon and seems to be determined to make the most of his op­portunities

N e w s Notes . Bemidji—An emery wheel in a ma­

chine shop burst, and fragments went flying through walls and calling, but fortunately without injuring any of the workmen, of whom a number were standing near.

Excelsior—Four Minneapolis people came within a ace of drowning in one of the most sudden and severe storms that have swept over Lake Minneton-ka in many years

Minneapolis — Harry Seamann, 23 years old, a patient at St. Barnaba-» hospital, committed suicide by hang­ing himself to the bedpost

Winona—John Fiedler, an old resi­dent of Fountain City who had been employed in the stone quarry, fell from a ledge to his death.

Crookston—Work on the construc­tion of a $15,000 building at the farm experimental station for a school of agriculture and domestic science will be begun soon.

"Washington—The monthly report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen-ernal Degraw shows that on Aug. 1 rural routes to the number of 1,218 were in operation in Minnesota and more than 190 petitions for the service awaited action.

Block has addressed" a Yetted t o the ^t^T?*?<^&t\ ^ I F S?' state board of investment, usinir « ,« e r a l h o

4l d s t h a t interchangeable mile-

age tickets are not transferable. S t Paul—Danial Ferguson, 7 years

"-™' *•»««»», iu wiucr w> give reauy »»>«» was run uowu unu Kilieu oy a money to loan t o Minnesota counties, street car at Prior and University

aveuues. The boy's body was badly mutilated and crushed, the trucks t\t

and have been refused onT account of n ? u w i a r e a B n ? c r u * n e ° ' * n e# ™ « ' «*

lack of funds. * V l the car severing the body at the aoao-men.

Indianapolis—A decision of the su

lack of funds. St. Paul.—The t icket brokers of St.

Paul and Minneapolis have agreed 7?—, "T r~~"~"~~ "* "*"* *""" not t o buy, sell or exchange tickets P**10® tribunal of the Pythian order, issued by the Great Northern, North- fft**n i n * o u r cases, appealed from • r n Pacific and Soo l ines on account Minnesota, declared that Minnesota __ _ _,„_ . „ Jft. P*nl Pvthlana * M t h s first week of next month.

of the state fair to be heW in St, Paul Pythlans are without a properly con-

O Principal Events That Have Oc- * * curred in the Old Countries • " Within a W * e k or So. : • • • • • * • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

The Swedish-Norwegian society in Copenhagen is not able to accomplish anything on account of the Norwegian declaration of independence, and it may have to be dissolved next fa l l The constitution provides that in case of dissolution the property of the so­ciety shall be divided equally "be­tween the ambassador and the consul general of the United Kingdom* at Copenhagen," in order that they may use the property for the benefit of the society. Now that both of theee func­tionaries are Swedes there is apt to be friction.

One of the demands of the Swedish riksdag with regard to the dissolution of the union is that the fortifications built by Norway along the »wcdish boundary line be abolished. The Nor­wegian Socialdemokraten makes the startling assertion that the Norwe­gians will raze the fortifications on the sole condition that general suf­frage be introduced in Sweden The explanation given by the papar for this statement is that the Norwegians trust the common people of bweden, and that there will be no danger when they are permitted to run the country; but that the Norwegians cannot trust the aristrcracy by which feweden is ruled at the present time.

At Malmberget, Sweden, a Norwe­gian-> wed ish Young People''. Chris­tian convention wired greetings to King O-car and the Norwegian gOT-ernment, the wording being the same in both cases, the addresses only being different The convention reso ved by a unanimous vote to continue the joint conventions as before.

N O R W A Y Sa>» a cablegram of a recent date;

The plan supported by Grcit Britain for Prince Charles of Denma-ik to ascend the Norwegian throne has failed, according to information from Copenhagen. The expectation is that Norway will establish a republic.

King Edward referred to the Norwe-ian movement of independence in his speech from the throne, using the fol­lowing language: "A dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway apparently is imminent I am confi­dent that, by the exercise of wise moderation on each s de, a settlement will be arrived at which will be ac­ceptable to both countries."

The exact vote on the question of d ssolving the union seems to have been 368,200 votes in favor of dissolu­tion and 184 against i t This was the most one-sided election in the history of the world.

A cablegram from tvristiania says: Premier Michelsen, upon returning to Kristiania from a tr p to Bergen, re­ceived a tremendous ovation. He said in part: "We intend to frame a com-mun c i t ion to S. \edjn in such, a way that if she desires a speedy settlement i t can be obtained. We hope that Sweden will not insist upon formali­ties which might prevent a friendly sett lement If she does, we can pro­ceed without Sweden's assistance.

When it was settled that a vote was to be taken on the question of the dissolution of the union Premier Michelsen left Kristiania to take a vacation at Bergen. Mr. LoUand, minister of foreign affairs, Avas at the head of the government during the premier's absence.

The soldiers of the infaiitrj and fort artillery were ordered home at the close of the regular t e im of military training.

The storthing has put a dutj of 3^4 cents a bn&hel on potatoes.

0 \ e r 4,000 totirists \ is lted the North Cape during June and J u l j . The weather •was fine, the sun shining twenty-four hours a day for several da^s in succession.

Miss Aagot Vangen, a j o u n g ladj who has attracted considerable at­tention as a sculptor, died after a short illness.

A telegram from London to Copen­hagen states that the Armstrong gun factorj has received «uch a large order for cannons from Norwaj that the factory must be kept running night and day.

The Catholics of Kristiania cele­brated St. Olaf's D a j , July 29. with imposing ceremonies, and fhe attend­ance w a s large.

Egede Nissen, a member of the storthing, proposed that the question of choosing a republican form of gov­ernment should be voted on at the election of Aug. 13, but his own vote was the only one cast for his motion.

S W E D E N Ronneby Springs celebrate! the

200th anniversary of its establishment Aug 30. An anonymous couple do­nated $11,001 to the watering place for the benefit of poor people. Major A von Heidenstam, the manager of the establishment, was created a knight of the order of the North Star.

E. Ringius, of Malmo, was elected by the tow ns of Skanor and Falsterbo to represent them in the landsting. or pro\ incial legislature. He declined to serve on the ground that he was a resident of Malmo, which is not a part of the domain of the landsting. His most striking argument was that if he had happened to be aldernian of Malmo he would ha>e been in a position to \ o t e for a member of the second chamber of the riksdag at two places, namely, in the city of Malmo and in the landsting of Malniohuslan. But in spite of his arguments the authorities' agree that he must serve.

Prof, rvar Tragardh is conducting zoological inquiries in South Africa.

A storm that deserved the name of cyclone did much damage at Kvar-raniala station on the railway be­tween Vexio and Ronneby. I t lasted only one minute, but it pulled up big trees by the roots, and a barn was torn to pieces and scattered for a distance of a quarter of a mile.

Kaiser Wilhelm's trip to Sweden was the direct cause of a great in­flux of German tourists to the coun­try. "Incidentally, the Norwegians chased their best customers to Swe­den in the year 1905.

A boy at Etntoholna. Ilingarum.swal-lowed an ear of rye the wrong way three year*, ago, and it caused him great annoyance A few days ago he finally coujjhed i t up, but this caused terrible tuffaring, and l»e died --hortly after he was taken to the hospital.

C. Arvidsson, a naval officer, Las in­vented a new hfe-savm^ apparatus, which he claims to be superior to the ordinary l ife-belt Exoeriments made in Stockholm were decidedly favorable to the new aparatus, as compared with the old one.

Ex-Empress Eugenie visited Prince Gustaf Adolf and Princess Margaret at Sofiro The city of Helsingborg wa>. riphly decorated on the occasion.

Prince Engen of Sweden celebrated his fortieth birthday anniversary on Aug. 1.

There was no gooseberry show a\ Stockholm Aug 5, because the crop is poor in all parts of Sweden this year.

L^ad and zinc ore deposits have been discovered at Asele, South Lapland. There is abundant water power close by, so that it will be easy to develop the property.

A. Bortzell resigned as president of the board of directors of the Malmo & Trelleborg railway, and in recog­nition of his services the company pre­sented him with a ticket made of pure gold, which entitles him to ride free of charge on the road the remainder of his life

Baron Barnekow. a member of the second chamber of the riksdag, paid the following tribute to the cabinet which resigned a few weeks ago: "Tied to my sic'c-bed I read with gnef and regret the assaults made on this government, to whom we cannot be grateful enough because it remained calm and cool in the m dst of the ex­citement between tho so called brother nations. Posterity- will praise the king for his peaceful admonition and self-sacrifice; but if he had been backed by a less calm and more passionate government than the Ramstedt cabi­net, no one can te'l where we would have been at this moment '

The railway department has made certain important concessions to ex­porters in order to insure a more rapid transportation of fresh fish and craw­fish to Germany during the warm sea­son.

S A Hedin stated the other day in the second chamber of the riissdag that he was perhaps speaking for the last time in that body

Prof. T. R. Tholen, formerly profes­sor at the university of Upsala, died at the age of 78 years. He made val­uable researches in the fields of mag­netism and spectral analysis.

It is generally assumed that former Premier Ramstedt and one or two other members of the cabinet that re­signed a f iw week>» ago are going to be appointed judges of the supreme court

Baron Bror Cederstrom has invented a bayonet which may be turned in three different directions from the tnuzz e of the gun.

Many Danish farmers have made trips through the richest farming communities in Skane this season. Thej generally trenel in groups of ten to h \ e n t j . and they invariably come to learn something

The widow of the late Ludvig Koc-kum of Bulltofta donated $13,500 to the Alnarp agricultural and dairy in­stitute.

The fruit crop of Sy^eden will not be as large as last jear.

The joint committee of the differ­ent temperance organizations of Sweden has issued a political circu­lar to the temperance people of the country. It i> admitted that the last l iksdag parsed some important laws, but m many instances the yMshes of the temperance people w ere thwarted, the mam objection being that the changes made seem to be based on the assumption that the liquor traffic is. to be perpetuated while the ain. of the temperance people is to s t o i it. the soonei the better. Great stress is laid on the demand that a majorit r of the people of anj community should ha\e a chance to prohibit t h s traffic \yithin it>> boiders. It is urge-i that the temperance people vote onLr for such candidates for the riksdag as haye expressly promised to vote for local option lay\s. The profits derived iroin the liquor traffic should not only be n^ed for palliating its evil results but also for educating the people along moral lines against the traffic. The circular also mentions the importance of having the work of the public schools g o squarely against the drink habit. The last demand made is that the temperance men in the riksdag formulate a definite platform representing the sentiments of the temperance people of Syveden.

Mr. Westerberg. a locomotive engi­neer at Kry lbo, has iny ented a mirror yyhich will enable the conductor to see the whole train and the tmek be­hind the train without turning around. The m i n o r i^ attached to the side of the locomoti\e.

Norwegian conductors are no lonsrcr allowed to run trains between Gothen­burg and Kristiania on the Swed sh portion of the line, the change of con­ductors taking place at Kornsjo, on the boundary line between the two countries.

Prince Gustaf Adolf and Priocacs Margaret are starting housekeeping at Sofiero on a scale of some magnitude. They keep one chambermaid, one steward, one cook, four lac'ceys, five servant girls, one expert horseman and three hostlers. There are nine horses and six carriages of different kinds. A special mail carrier is making two trips a day between Sofiero and Hel-siugborc.

The labor conflict in Stockholm is> gett ing more and more bitter, and it is also assuming larger proportions. Both parties seem to prepare for a fight to the finish. «.

While Emil Augustsson and bib 9-year-old son and a few others were out fishing near Varberg. the boy fel l mto the water. His father jumped down to save him, and succeeded in reach­ing him. The boy clung spasmodically to the neck of his father, and the lat­ter was so badly hampered .that he sank down into the deep with his bur­den. Attempts were made to reach them, but in vain. The water was so deep that their bodies were n o t recov­ered for several days.

Three persons from Malmo won first prizes foe pigeons at a pigeon •how in Hamburir, Germany,

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