La Crosse Republican from La Crosse, Kansas • 6

SULTAN GIVES UP. PROOF FOR TWO CENTS. PAYNE BILL HONEST La Crosse Republican A. W. ROBINSON.

Publisher. Latest Kansas Events. Boys to Raise Prize Corn. Chief Justice Kane of the Oklahoma supreme court has issued an order for a special term of court to convene at Ada for the purpose of impanelling a grand jury to investigate the lynching at Ada. Independent oil producers have appeared before President Taft and the senate finance committee in an effort to prevent oil and its products being placed on the free list in the tariff bill now before the senate.

The battleship Mississippi will proceed up the Mississippi river as far as Natchez to receive the silver service presented by the stateof that name. Judge Bryant of the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Texas has ordered that all of the property of the Waters-Pierce Oil company in Texas be turned over to the state receiver and held subject to all debts ef the company which will include the fine of $1,600,000 assessed against the company for violation of the Texas anti-trust laws. Despatches from the City of Mexico tell of an eruption of the volcano of Colima and a severe earthquake following that startled the inhabitants but caused no serious damage. The Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has issued an order releasing all parts of the country from quarantine on ac If You Suffer with Your Kidneys and Back, Write to This Man. G.

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Blakeslee was putting himself in readiness, clotheswise, to attend an afternoon tea with his wife, when his small daughter appeared on the scene. As he slipped into his frock coat, the child looked up and said: "Father, do you know, when you wear that coat you look just like a minister?" Then, noticing the hatbox on the stand near by, she added: "And when you put on that hat that goes with it, you look just like a hack driver." Delineator. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any. ase ot catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Satarrh Cure. F.

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Phelps. Constitutionalist Troops Capture Turkish Capital. Constantinople, Turkey. ihe Yildiz garrison surrendered Sunday to the constitutionalists. The commanders of these battalions began sending in their submission to Mahmoud Sehef-ket Pasha Saturday night and the whole of the troops protecting the palace gave their formal and unconditional surrender shortly after dawn.

Niaci Bey who is named the hero of the July revolution is now in command of the garrison. Sultan Abdul Hamid has been permitted to remain within the walls of the Yildiz Kiask where Saturday in company with his ministers he waited for the outcome of the struggle between his layal troops and the army of investment, each hour bringing to him word of a fresh disaster. It has been stated, since victory rested with the constitutionalists that the sultan himself gave orders to his men not to resist. Whether or not this is true, it can be safely said of the troops within the capital that they put up a stubborn resistance at all points, and the losses on both sides are exceedingly heavy for the length of the time the engagement was in progress. EVERYBODY ENJOINED.

A Sweeping Order in Missouri Passenger Rate Cases. Kansas City, Mo. The railroads of Missouri obtained still another federal court weapon Saturday for use in the controversy with the state ovei passenger rates. Judge John F. Philips, at the solicitation of Frank Hagerman, special counsel for 16 railroads in the rate litigation, issued a sweeping injunction Saturday that absolutely ties the hands of every official and every private citizen in the regulating of railroad rates.

Any such attempt will constitute contempt ol the federal court If the state decides to oppose it, Missouri may witness a federal and state court clash such as North Carolina underwent. The direct effect of the Philips order is tc dissolve the injunction against the railroads pending in the circuit court of St. Louis. Perishing by Thousands. Beirut, Turkey.

The situation in Asiatic Turkey is one of extreme gravity. How many thousands have been massacred cannot even be estimated, because the disturbances have been so widespread that it is impossible to secure details of the happenings during the past ten days. The latest estimates of the number killed in the vilayet of Adana reaches approximate ly 25,000 and thousands have been done to death in tte towns of other districts. Japanese Training Squadron Lands. Los Angeles, California.

For the first time in ten years warships ol Japan entered a Pacific coast port ol the United States, when the cruisers Soya and Aso, comprising the Japanese training squadron commanded by Rear Admiral H. Ijichi, steamed into San Pedro at noon Sunday. A Jefferson Davis Memorial. 7 Hopkinsville, Kentucky. It was announced Sunday that options have been closed for the purchase of If acres of the farm on which Jefferson Davis was born and which it is proposed to convert into a memorial park, The Jefferson Davis homestead is located at Fairview, 12 miles from here.

For Burial of Late Emperor. Peking, China. The ceremonies connected with the final interment oi the late emperor in his tomb began Sunday with the presentation of ere dentials by the special ambassadors of foreign powers. The United States was represented by Mr. Rockhill, its minister.

Priest Gets an Injunction. Wallace, Idaho. Dissention in St Alphonsus parish of the Catholic church reached a climax Saturday night when Judge W. W. Woods issued a temporary injunction restraining the recently appointed board oi trustees from interfering with Fathet F.

A. Becker the parish priest, In collecting pew rents and voluntary offer ings. Senator Stewart's Body Cremated. Washington, D. The body of William M.

Stewart former United States senator from Nevada, who died here Friday was cremated Sunday in accordance with a wish expressed Just before, his death. The ashes will be sealed in an urn and as soon as Mrs. Stewart recovers from an illness they will be taken to Nevada for interment Suffragists of the World. London, England. Women from nearly a score of lands were present when the meeting of the International Woman Suffrage association opened Monday.

A New Suicide Route. Meadville, Pa. Jack Cronin, in Jail awainting trial for the murder of Harry Winters last Christmas eve, died Sunday night from the effects of thrusting half a dozen needles into his abdomen. Only Two Bills. Washington, D.

The census appropriation bill introduced by Representative Tawney will be the only measure aside from the tariff bill which the house will consider during the special session. Start for Athl River. Nairobi, British East Africa, After a brief hunting expedition Saturday evening at Kapiti Plains, ex-President Roosevelt and his party broke camp and started for the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease, on the Athl river, Sunday. The Earthquake In Portugal. Lisbon.

The seismic disturbances have now ceased throughout Portugal. A number of villages have been wiped out. Salvaterra and San Stefano vera badly damaged. MEASURE INDORSED BY NEW YORK TRIBUNE. Chief Republican Organ in the East Asserts That It Carries Out the Pledges of the National Platform.

The Payne bill, as it goes to the senate, represents an honest effort to carry out the pledges of the Republican national platform. It effects a substantial downward revision of the Dlngley rates and attempts to apply the protective principle scientifically and rationally. In so doing it goes much too far to suit the "stand-patters," who consider their own interests paramount to the general good. On the other hand, it does not satisfy the extreme Cobdenites, te whom reasonable protection is more obnoxious than any other form of protection, because harder to discredit or, overthrow. It is only from such a perverted point of view that the Payne bill can be attacked as 'a triumph of reaction." A fair analysis will show that compared with the Dingley bill the Payne bill exhibits rational progress.

It introduces the maximum-minimum principle, which will be of undoubted value in dealing with foreign countries which have adopted that principle, and will furnish us a means of securing everywhere the most favored nation treatment which we are prepared to give. As our industries develop and we attain our natural place as one of the greatest of the manufacturing nd exporting nations, protective duties must decrease and revenues from tariffs must diminish. To those, therefore, who hope to see customs duties gradually lowered and finally removed the Payne bill should be especially welcome, since in imposing a permanent federal inheritance tax it at least points the way to a gradual shifting of basis of federal taxation. We have already expressed our view that the Payne bill was improved by the limited consideration allowed it in the house. The changes made were on the whole, highly beneficial.

It is to be regretted, therefore, that the house did not have enough confidence in itself to go on record on more questions than were included in the provisions of the special rule governing debate on the bill. There does not appear to be any good reason why the house should not have voted on the maximum-minimum sections, the paragraphs increasing the duties on gloves and hosiery, the inheritance tax section, the free coal provision and other paragraphs and sections on which there were divisions of opinion. The house of representatives is vested by the constitution with the exclusive right to originate revenue bills. It ought to exercise that right intelligently and deliberately, expressing its opinion on all points at issue and lay ing a firm foundation for any contest with the senate on changes in its plans for taxation. The consideration of the Payne bill was much more serious in character and more fruitful In results than was the consideration of the Dingley But it could well have been more serious and more fruitful.

New York Tribune. Problem in Revenue Law. The Republicans have, undoubtedly, a problem on their "hands. A seriously defective new tariff law might cost them dearly in November of next year. A deficit in the treasury at that time, or the receipts running neck and neck with the expenditures, with a bond issue looming up, would make their congressional campaign drag heavily.

The people want a comfortable balance in the treasury, and associate it with good times and a good tax law. On the other hand, a successful new law, bearing not too heavily upon either producer or consumer, yielding revenue enough easily to pay the government's way upon liberal lines of living, and while keeping up wages at home, opening up new markets abroad, should secure another house to the Republicans. The country does not like continuous tariff agitation. Business suffers, and most especially under a threat of deep cuts In the schedules leading toward an exclusively revenue basis. And as Mr.

Bryan and his friends are advocating a tariff for revenue only, and as they are the Democratic party, the country must turn to them if it turns away from the Republicans next year except under the most extreme provocation. Washington Star. Champ Clark Diplomatic. Hon. Champ Clark showed the usual brilliancy of the minority house leaders in so loading down his motion to recommit the Payne bill with instructions as to make its success an absolute impossibility.

Had he attempted less he might have accomplished something at least forced a test vote on the gloves and hosiery paragraphs. But Mr. Clark was probably satisfied to lose on any terms, so long as he didn't aggravate the dissensions among his alleged "followers." Free Raw Materials. A commendable feature of the Payne bill as originally drafted is its recognition of the fact that cheap and more easily available raw materials are as needful to the success of certain branches of American manufacturing industries as protection against foreign competition In the home market. Free iron ore means the buldlng up of American steel industries upon a basis that will mean the supplying of 70 per cent, of the steel demand of the entire world, and free hides means that this country will be put in position to dominate the shoe trade of the world.

Baltimore American. New Cry In American Politics. "Retrenchment and reform" is really going to be something better than a campaign cry or a congressional spasm. Economy is again becoming popular policy, as it has long been a national necessity. The outlook Is for a steady progress toward the adoption of a system under which Income and outgo may be adjusted to each other with some approach- to exactness.

This Is a promise altogether new to American politics. New York Mail LA CROSSE KANSAS HEWS OF THE WEEK Host Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered From all Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space tor the Benefit of Our Readers. Miscellaneous. After a bitter close and exciting Contest the Daughters of the American Revolution elected Mrs.

Scott of Illinois president general by a vote oi 436 while Mrs. Story received 428. The Nebraska state convention of the Traveler's Protective association) was held at Beatrice with a large attendance. The government receipts from internal revenue for March 1909 were greater than during March 1908. Gov.

Willson of Kentucky has grant ed pardons to all the persons charged with conspiracy connected with the murder of Goebel in 1900 except henry E. Youtsey now serving sentence in the state penitentiary. The largest herd of fur seal in years Is reported as passing Sitka Alaska. The natives are killing hundreds of them. President Gomez of Venezuela has Issued a decree granting freedom to all the men taken prisoners at the time of the overthrow of the Castro administration last December.

The appeal made by the board of foreign missions for relief of the American sufferers has resulted in 51,000 being forwarded. The armored cruisers Montana and Uorth Carolina have started for Asiatic Turkey with orders to make all speed possible. Secretary Coburn of the Kansas state board of Agrilculture has issued the first report on 1909 crop conditions in which he places the present wheat acreage at 6,092,000 and the condition 88.05. The Missouri house of representa tives defeated a measure taxing cor porations 25 cents for each $1,000 capitalization. The directors of the Alaska-Yukon Pacific voted unanimously to open the ates on Sunday.

The money with which to pay the big fine of the Waters-Pierce Oil com pany to the state of Texas amounting to $1,804,000 was sent from New York In currency. Many of the bins being ef $10,000 denomination. At the annual meeting of the Associated Press resolutions were adopted calling upon the senate to abolish the tariff on wood plup and reduce the tariff on newsprint paper as recommended by the special committee appointed a year ago by the house. The action desired has already been taken by the house. T'li a 1 1 rrrrl or ovn iHni Vino rfFatart Collector of the Port Loeb $260,000 to drop the investigation of the smuggling of sleeper trunks containing worth of Paris gowns.

Women prominent in society are likely to become involved. At the opening of the trial of Peter C. Hains for the murder of William E. Annis the attorney for the defense announced that insanity would be the cnly defense. The Newspaper Publishers' association held its annual meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria New York, 150 newspaper men attending.

The Dukes who control the American Tobacco company are reported to be planning to organize a giant cotton mill corporation in the south. Plans are being formed at St. Louis to establish a line of modern freight boats on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The Des Moines, bakers have reduced the size of loaves of bread from 16 to 13 ounces because of the high price of flour. An inspector sent to the Kansas wheat fields by a member of Chicago board of trade to report on the condition of the growing crop, states that the state will raise one of the largest crops in its history, if present conditions are maintained.

Fire destroyed the stock and building of the Gilliland Mercantile company at Mangum, causing a loss Of $100,000. The second biennial convention of the Young Women's Christian association was held at St. Paul, 1,000 delegates being present. A reciprocity conference to discuss trade relations with Canada was held at Detroit, at which delegates from 12 states and 30 commercial organizations were present. A Bill providing for the registration of trained nurses has passed the Missouri legislature.

Restrictions imposed by the new laws governing horse racing in New York has caused a large number of track men to transfer their operations to England. The Iowa Electrical association held Its Ninth annual convention at Des Moines. The bureau of insular affairs has asked for bids for the fourth and last 11,000,000 of the Manila improvement bonds. The Auditorium Annex at Chicago will have a wireless telegraph station erected on its roof, the first hotel to be so equipped. The speculative price ot wheat declined over nine cents in three days In Chicago and the "Wheat King" Fatten "took to the woods" of New Mexico to "rest." The Florida senate has passed the bill for submission of statewide prohibition to a vote of the people.

The Liberlan commission appointed by President Taft to study conditions In Liberia will make the voyage on the scout cruisers Birmingham and Chester. The cave-In of a coal mine near Jop-lin, killed two men and Injured ethers. Boys and Girls Classes at Paola. Miami county will have a corn contest for the boys of this county, which will consist of three' classes, namely, and a special class. Class will be for boys between the ages of 10 and 15 years.

Each boy will be given a quart of seed corn to plant Class A will be for boys between 15 and 21 years of age. Each boy is to secure 12 ears of corn, plant and take care of It himself. A special class is for boys who attended a state institute. They must plant and take care of 12 ears of corn. A free trip to the state institute at Manhattan for one week's stay with all expenses paid, will be prizes for classes A and special.

There will also be a girl's contest in baking, sewing and canning. This will include girls between 9 and 16 years of age. A free trip to Manhattan to attend a week's session in the domestic science school will be given as a prize in this contest. Both Died Natural Deaths. The death is reported at Concordia of two Civil war veterans, William L.

Hubbard, 71 years old, died after a brief illness and a post mortem examination showed that a musket ball with which he had been wounded in the Civil war had lain for all these years above and within half an inch of his heart. L. M. Trowbridge, an other veteran, 72 years old, amputated one of his legs below the knee with his pocket knife while caught in a railroad wreck on his way home from the war and in danger of burning to death. Lightning Struck a Corn Planter, Williamn Hughes, a farmer near Fort Scott, was the victim of a strange accident the other day.

While planting corn lightning struck the check wire and was conducted along the wire to the planter. The shock knock ed Hughes off the machine and the team ran away. Hughes was not dangerously injured. Attacked by Mad Steer. D.

C. Joslyn, an old gentleman of Kast Council Grove, was attacked by a mad steer while he was returning home from doing his morning shopping and was severely gored about he head and body before aid could be lent him. He is 86 years of age and may not recover from the shock of his injuries. To Rebuild Glass Plant at Coffeyville. The Coffeyville window glass plant has been sold to Kansas City parties.

The announcement has been made by the new management that the part of the factory that was recently destroyed by fire would be rebuilt at once and with all modern improvements. To Prospect for Oil at Eldorado. At a public meeting held at Eldorado it was decided to ask the city council to call an election to vote bonds for the purpose of prospecting for oil and gas in that city. Petitions calling for the eleciion. will be circulated at once.

The people are enthusiastic over the Question. Hutchinson Gets State Shoot in 1910. Hutchinson gets the big state shoot again next year. This wars the unanimous vote at meeting held in Larned. The gun club men from Hutchinson had not asked for it but the shooters all wanted to go there and.

the vote went unanimous on the first ballot. No Canning Factory for Abilene. The committee that went to Lawrence to investigate the canning factory proposition has reported that Abilene needs none. It says that it is a risky proposition, and advises the town to stay out. THree Native Sons in Congress.

Leavenworth has the distinction of having three of its native sons in congress at the same time. William P. Borland, who represents Jackson county, the Fifth Missouri district, was born at Leavenworth; Edward L. Taylor, representing the Second Colorado district, also spent his boyhood days at Leavenworth and was graduated from the high school. The other member, native born of that city, is the representative of the Second Kansas district Dan R.

Anthony. A Swedish Minister. Dr. J. E.

Floren has resigned as pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church in Salina. Dr. Floren went to Salina in 1887, founded the church and has been pastor of it ever since! He is widely known among Swedish residents of the state Topeka Man to China. George Lerrigo secretary of the Topeka Y. M.

C. since 1894, has resigned. He will go to Hong Kong, China, to become secretary of the Y. M. C.

A. in that city. To Gather Sugar Beet Crop. The sugar factory at Garden City has engaged 150 German families to help the farmers care for the sugar beet crop. R.

P. Davie, of the Garden City sugar mill, said that the prospects were bright for a big sugar beet crop this season. Site for Abilene's Federal Building The deeds have been recorded for the site of the federal building for Abilene. It will be built at the corner of Third and Buckeye streets and the site cost $7,500. Will Manage Bonner Springs Hotel.

George H. Lawrence, manager of the Coseland hotel until Its' destruction by lire last winter, will manage the new resort hotel at Bonner Springs. He signed the contract the other day. This means an end to his scheme to rebuild the Copeland. Abilene Lets Sewer Contract.

Contracts have been let for the construction of a sewer on the west side of Abilene, completing the sewering ot the entire city. Johnson Johnson of Kansas City received the award. The boys corn contest for the year 1909 is attracting much attention in Harvey county, there being 176 boys and one girl entered this year as against 39 in last year's contest Boys between the ages of 10 and 15 are entered in class B. They are furnished seed free and the prizes offered are merchandise ranging in value from $6 down to $1. All boys between 15 and 21 are in class the prizes for the winners being free trips to the corn and live stock judging contests at Manhattan next winter.

Already not less than a dozen trips are guaranteed for an equal number of winners. The boys in this class are furnished seed 12 ears of pure bred corn at actual cost. The Newton Commercial club and the Farmers' institute are forster-ing the undertaking. A Burrton young lady has entered the contest, stating that she has to assist with the farm work and though she might as well raise some corn on her own account Kansas Has Champion Jersey Cow. Kansas was known to lead on almost everything else, but until F.

D. Coburn received a letter from Charles F. Mills, editor of the Farm and Home the other day. it was not known that Kansas is the home of the cow which broke the world's record for producing butter fat. This remarkable cow belongs to Fred Zimmerman of Moray.

None of the details are given in the letter. It is simply a copy of a letter sent to Mr. Zimmerman, informing him that his cow was the champion butter fat producer in a seven-day test. The cow is a Jersey. Old K.

S. A. C. Professor Dead. A telegram has been received at Leavenworth announcing the death of Prof.

Alexander B. Brown, formerly a resident of that city, in Boston. Prof. Brown was a veteran ot the Civil war. He was a Congregational preacher there in pioneer days and was the nrst chaplain of the Kansas penitentiary.

Prof. Brown established the Kansas Conservatory of Music there and conducted it until a few years ago, when his health failed. He also was professor of music at the Kansas Agricultural college in Manhattan many years. Nine Cows With Hydrophobia. So far S.

John has been the heaviest loser by rabbies, or hydrophobia in Brown county. Nine of his cows have suffered from it and have all been killed; also one bull for which he paid $100. Some of the cows were good animals, worth $80 each. It is probable that he has lost $700 worth in all. Whether or not a dog bit the first one to suffer is not known.

It is supposed that a mad dog got into his herd of cows and bit them. His steers and calves in a feed lot were unharmed. Need More Nurses. Mercy Hospital, the new charity hospital for children in Kansas City, will open up its new building containing 100 beds May 8. The finish and furnishings of the new building are exceptionally fine, the wood work being furnished free by lumber dealers and the furnishings by Kansas City firms.

The only thing lacking in this noble charity is a sufficient corps of trained nurses. Applications from those disiring to become nurses will be gladly received. This Hen Lays Two Eggs a Day. Last month there were two hens in the poultry plant that laid two eggs in one day. These hens were trapnested, so this statement is based on facts.

Two hens on the plant laid 27 eggs during the month of March. One was a White Leghorn and the other a White Plymouth Rock. One pen of 12 Plymouth Rocks laid an average of 21 eggs per hen in March. Garden City Gets Free Mail Delivery. Garden City will have free delivery of mail on June 15.

It will have two letter carriers and one substitute to begin the work. The postoffice department has received the report of Inspector Grogan, considered it and accepted it. The order was made putting in the service on June 15. Herington Has an Automobile Club. A number of the local owners of automobiles have organized an auto club at Herington, with C.

N. Tuffts as president. The club starts out with a membership of 30, and there remain several owners of cars yet to be enrolled. Roads about Herington are well kept' Boost in Bricklayers' Wages. The bricklayers of Wichita have returned to work, having come to an understanding with the contractors.

The bricklayers are to get 75 cents an hour after June 1. Until that time they will work for 70 cents an hour. The contractors gave the carpenters the increase they asked for. Those Busy Kansas Hens. A firm dealing in general merchandise, at Downs offered a prize to the farmer who brought in the most eggs in one day.

It was won by a man, who brought 111 dozen. Many others brought from 80 dozen to 50 dozen. The total number of eggs received by this firm that day was 1,620 dozen. They paid 17 cents a dozen for them. Oil Inspector for Neosho County.

State Oil Inspector Longshore has appointed I. A. Mills of Erie as deputy oil inspector for Neosho county. To Let Big Book Contracts. It is estimated by E.

T. Fairchild, state superintendent of public institution, that the school book contracts, which will be let by the state text book commission May 3, will be worth $200,000 to the bidders. The contracts will run for five years. He Lived in Kansas 55 Years. Welcome Nance, who settled on a farm near Atchison in 1854 and served three years with the Thirteenth Kansas regiment in the Civil war, died there at the age of 81.

count of foot and mouth disease as the disease has been completely eradicated. Further investigation of the systa-matic smuggling of Paris gowns into New York has caused the custom house officials to declare -tuat probably worth of goods has been smuggled into that port each year for the past ten years. Four men accused of having killed a deputy marshal were taken from the jail at Ada, by 200 men and hanged. The owners and operators of threshing machines is Iowa met in regular annu meeting at Des Moines with 2,000 persons in attendance. Nine members of the lower house of the Japanese diet have been arrested following an investigation by the government.

Appropriation of $25,000 to pay the traveling expenses of the president for the year 1910 is proposed in an amendment to the census bill. When the new Orpheum theater at San Francisco was opened a line formed in front of the bax office 37 hours before the sale of tickets began. Canadian fishermen are asking that American fishermen be excluded from Heckate Straits on the west coast of Canada on the ground that waters are the exclusive property of Canada, it is estimated that there was pounds of halibut taken in those straits last year. In accordance with the proclamation of Gov. Deneen Illinois observed April 23 as Arbor day.

The New York Produce exchange has passed resolutions calling upon congress to remove the tariff on wheat. An application for a charter for the Kansas Democratic League has been tiled at Topeka. The purpose of the organization is to start a movement by which a Democratic newspaper may be established in every county in Kansas. A settlement has been reached by the governments of Iplland and Venezuela by the terms of which Venezuela is to accord Holland the same fiscal rights given the West Indian islands and Holland pays $4,000 damages and returns the captured Venezuelan coa3t Guard vessels. Judge Trieber of the federal court at Little Rock has ordered the interstate freight rates in Arkansas increased one-third over the rates fixed by the state railroad commission.

More than 1,000,000 acres of government land has been restored to the public domain by Secretary Ballinger of the interior department. The senate committee on finance will present an amendment to. the tariff bill providing for the appointment of a customs court to hear cases appealed from the boards of appraisers. Senator Cummins of Iowa has offered an amendment to the tariff bill in the senate providing for a graduated income tax commencing with a two per cent assessment on incomes of $5,000 and increasing to six per cent on $100,000 and over. A bill legalizing Sunday base ball has passed both branches of the Minnesota legislature.

Eight vessels will participate in the cruise of the naval Militia on the Ureat Lakes August 9 to 19. Personal. James H. Boyle and his wife have been indicted on the charge of kidnaping by the grand jury at Mercer, Pa. Wiliiam M.

Stewart ex-senator of Nevada died at a hospital in Washington following an operation. Peter F. Collier, founder and publisher of Collier's Weekly is dead. Uov. Lilley of Connecticut died at the executive mansion in Hartford after four week's illness.

Jacob Schiff of New York has donated $100,000 for the establishment of normal schools for the training of Jewish Sabbath school teachers. Donald Boyd convicted of kidnaping a wealthy Seattle lumberman has been sentenced to state's prison in California. Dr. W. S.

Woods has relinquished control of the National Bank of Commerce at Kansas City to J. Wilson Ferry of St. Louis and the latter has been elected president to succeed David T. Beals. Secretary of War Dickinson has sailed for Colon to inspect the Isthmian canal.

Kdward McNamara, charged with having killed his. father, was found guilty by a jury at Mason City, la. James H. Boyle, the kidnaper of Willie Whitla, tried to commit suicide in the Mercer, jail and a ladder found against the window of his cell leads to the opinion that friends tried to help him escape. E.

H. Harriman has decided to take a trip to Europe to be gone an indefinite time. Harvey W. Scott editor of the Portland Oregonian has declined the ambassadorship to Mexico. Gov.

Gen. Smith of the Philippines strongly urges the passage of the Payne tariff bill as being to the best Interests ot the islands..