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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

E,-GoYERNoR CHARLES H. BELL, OF New
Hampshire, Is dead. "
RUpYARD KIpLING has applied for member
ship to the Society CT American Authors.
JUDGE RIcHARD PARKER, Of Virginia, who
presided at the trial Of Johh Brown In 1859,
Is dead.
GOVERNOR RUSSELL, OF Massachusetts,, says
he will resume the practice OF law when his
term expires.
BARON NKoEN1aswARrER, the Vienna banker,
Is dead. He was popular philonthropist
and leaves fortune Of $40 ,000, 900.
"MARK TWAIN" looks old. His fuzzy hair
Ia almost white and he stoops more than
ever. But he can crack joke with his usual
vim. p
DWIGHT L. MOODY, the evangelist, is to
conduct series Of revival meetings IN Wash
ington this winter at the invitation OF several
ministers Of that city,
SENATOR SHEEMAN's real estate holdings at
Washington are rated on this years tax list
, at S400, 600. He is the heaviest individual
taxpayer at the Capital. e..
WILLIAM D. HOWELL, the novelist, IS about
to come out as an advocate Of radical changes
in the social system. He is even accused OF
decided leanings toward Anarchy u ~.
: Mr.. GREENHALaE will be the first Governor
of Massachusetts, born British subject since
Governor jEustis, who was elected In 1923,
and served until his death, in 1926 <.' " d
The oldest officiating clergyman in the
city OF London, the Rev. James Jackson,
vicar OF st. Sepulchrs's, who took deacon's
orders in 1925, Is about to resign his living.
L. q. LETTER, the Chicago millionaire, has
notified the directors OF the Columbian Mu-
seumthat he will contribute $780, to the
fund, provided the museum Is built and re-
tanned in Jackson Park.
GERONIMO. the once powerful Indian chief
OF the West, who made great deal oftrouble
for the United States Army, Is now quiet
and peaceful prisoner at Mount Vernon Bar
racks, an army post on the Alaoams RiVer, @
short distance above Mobile. g.
The present Mayor of the town OF Molliens-
Vidame, in the Department OF Somme. In
France. has held the Office continuously since
1889. or for flty-four years. His name is M.
Trancort, and he Is ninety-two years old. He
possesses the vigor Of a well-preserved man
Of fifty.
The Will of the late historian, Francis
Parkman. gives all his printed books relat-
ing to history. voyages and travels, also MS
printed books in Greek and Latin and all his
maps, to Harvard College. His historical
manuscripts go to the Massachusetts His
torical Society.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL NoRIE, one OF the last OF
the once noted band OF whaling captains OF
New London, Conn, 1s dead. He circum-
navigated the globe many times in both New
London and New Bedford whale ships, and
accumulated handsome fortune in the seal
fishery in the latter part OF his seafarinS Gu
recr.
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LYNCHED IN COURT.
hn Iowa Mob Hangs the Assaulter
.s.- ~ of q LittIo Girl.

hn Iowa Mob Hangs the Assaulter
~, of LittIo, Girl.
An excited and angry mob hung Fred Gus
taveson to the stair railing Of Justice TRUTHS
court room at $50 p. m, at Ottumwa, Iowa.
Gustaveson assaulted; the four-year-old.
girl OF Jonas Sax about 10 o'clock the night
before. He was promptly arrested shortly
after committing the crlme and lodged in
jail. E&
Next morning he was taken to the sax
house and positively identified by the little
girl and a companion. = r @rfE - -
At z o'clock Gustaveson was taken quietly
to Justice TRUTHS Office for arratgnment.
The mother Of the little girl succeeded in
getting to the top OF the stairs, and from the
platform In front OF the courtroom swung o
rope, and, together withher aged father, ap-
pealed to the crowd below to hang Gustav
eson.
This precipitated fight with the court Of
ftcers. which was carried on with desperate
determination for several minutes. The
leader OF the mob seized the rope from the
hands OF Mrs. Sax and placed 1t about Gus
taYeson's neck In a twinkling.
With yell OF rage the rope was seized By
a hundred hands and the quaking wretch
was dragged from his chair across the floor
to the door, where he3. was lifted over the
railing until the rope had heen secured,
when he was let go. -. -
He hung suspended above the pavement
on the principal street OF the city for fully
ten minutes, the contortions OF his body be-
ing extremely revolving. Suddenly the rope
parted and the body dropped to the street
below, und concerted rush was made by
the spectators for its possession.
The police, however, were first to reach the
dead body, and hastily throwing It into !.
farmers wagon standing near by droya
rapidly to the jail, being followed BY ~:
mob.
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Foreign.

The German Reichstag was opened by En-
,eror William in person in his speech from
he throne the Kaiser returned thanks Tor
The passage OF the Army bill, and spoke OF
he financial and other measures to be intro
iuced.
TIE Gladstone Ministry was defeated IN
The British House OF Commons on McLarens
amendment to the Parish Councils bill, the
amendment being carried lat to 126.
S1R ROBERT B. .. MoR1ER, British Anbas-
,ador to Prussia, is dead.
MARsEiLLEs, France, was thrown into
state bordering son panic by an attempt to
blow up the house OF General Mathelin, Com
nander of the Fifteenth Army Corps, VINO
has his headquarters in Marseilles.
PRINCE ALEXANDER. Of Battenberg, formerly
Prince OF Bulgaria, ls dead.
GREAT gales are reported along the south
ern coasts OF England which have caused
many maritime disasters.
THE British miners strike was settled at
the conference of which Lord Roseberry was
Chairman the men return to work at the OF
wages a Board OF Cancellation Will be ap
pointed
An Indian uprising is imminent in British
Columbia.
MANY more vessels were reported lost IN
the storm off the British coast; great dam
age was done to shipping from the Baltic TO
the Mediterranean; the loss OF life was
heavy.
SEVERAL prominent young French Cana
dians were arrested while preparing to blow
Up with dynamite the Nelson monument IN
Montreal
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feet long by ninety in width, with center
court yard eighty by forty feet set out with
rare Chinese plants. In one end OF the
building is q Chinese theatre. On either side
OF the court yard are open booths for the
manufacture OF Chinese productions.
REPLICA OF THE NANK1N pAaoDA.
The crowning exterior feature OF this
building will be q Chinese psgoda seventy.
tower at Nankin. The roof will be of tiles,
with fantastcally twisted carved figures OF
the tabled dragon projecting from the angles
and with futtering dragon flags OF blue, red
and yellow.
Another concession that bas been granted
is tor a reproduction here OF the Prater OF
Vienna in a space Of $4,000 square leet ad.
joining the central court Of the exposition.
Entrance to the grounds will be through
q massive gateway, beyond which will be
various bits of architecture of pleasing and
striking character. All of these are now in
course OF construction. There is concert
hall seventy-flve feet square, theatre ot
Moorish design sixty by ninety feet, a Louvre
restaurant and score OF ornamental booths,
in which Austro-Hungarian wares are to be
manufactured and displayed.
Here also will be the Hungarian,
where Hungarian life will be represented
with gypsy girls in characteristic costumes.
The mattresses in the concert hall will be in
the Swiss National costume.
OTHER D1vERT1Na FEATURES.
A little way from the Vienna Prater work
Is being pushed forward on the concession to
oriental Nations, which Is to embody many
OF the features OF Midway plnisance. There
will be Turkish theatre, a Cairo street and
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THE MAxrzAcrunEs AID LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING.

RAILROAD companies, it is said, are pre-
pairing to annihilate unions throughout the
country.
CHICAGO unions ask that one Of thu Worlds
Fair buildings shall be preserved as home
for labor.
WITH machinery 100 men do the work for
nerly requiring 500 in manufacturing boots
and shoes.
THE Bishops and Members OF Parliament
met in Loadon 10 discuss the problem Of the
unemployed.
OLHEYvGLLE (R. ~ textile workers have
had their wages reduced thirty-eight per
cent. since September l.
TWENTY-FIVE window glass factories are
now in operation, and the iooked-for big
building season next year indicates busy
mills.
THE scale of the Finishers' Union. accord
iny TO Amnlgamatci men, allows cut in
wages ranging from twenty to twenty-five
per cent.
FREIdHr train passed Bakersfield. Cal.
with $50 unemployed workingmen on board.
They were looking for work, and proceeded
East, and many intend I q 20 to New Orleans.
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BIG RAILROAD STRIKE.
The Employees Of the Lehigh Quit
Work Suddenly ..R.

Pursuant to an order from the Grievance
Committee in Philadelphia general strike
on the Lehigh Valley Road was begun at
Easton, Penn, and elsewhere at 10 O'Clock st
night few days ago.
There was no unusual demonstration.
The men simply quit work and stayed
away, They said all passenger trains
would be run through to destinations,
and 30 would the perlshable freight.
Other trains were side-tracked. A stock
train was abandoned in the South Plainfleld
IN. j. yards, and four coal trains were side.
tracked along the New Jersey division.
The employees asserted that the cole ques.
tion at issue was the right to join labor or.
gan1zstions and seek redress for grievances
through them. The order to strike was sent
out mysterlously and obeyed instantly.
The total number of men on strike was
estimated at not less than 5000. Those in.
cluded In the strike were the Brotherhood
Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Firemen. the Order OF Railroad
Conductors. the Brotherhood of Bail
road Trainmen, which includes the
brakemen, baggagemen, etc., and
the Order OF Railroad Telegraphers. Theor
der for the strike came from Philadelphia at
6 o'clock in the evening. The Grievance
Committee OF the men had been sitting there
for weeks. more complete temporary lock-
ing up was never before seen, The men In
the offices had not said a word to their su-
periors about the time the strike was to
come. They hadn't said definitely that
It was to take place at all. Ex.
actly on the stroke OF 10 o'clock one of the
operators In the Office Of the train despatch-
ers got up from his desk. walked over 70 the
door. took his hat and coat from the hook. and
walked out at the same moment the Other
operator, who wasn't prepared to 20 out, found
that he was pounding away with his key at q
dead wire. The wire had been grounded at
Pittston Junction and at the Cotton Yards.
The Instruments In the ofice 'stopped their
ticking. and from that moment f. WASN'T
known where any train on fine, road waa
and there n,ioht have. .beon a bnndrad IN
danger 5sSof collision without anv means.
OF notifying them of their danaer
little after the, operator mantioned want
out. and while the q other : onarators
was engaged in. discovering that the wires.
had been grounded 4 on The WynminoS
division, one of the Oldest conductors on the
road came In. His train had inst arrivad (.
He fold the Sunerintendent that a atriLa
had been ordered and he conIdn,t tata the
train any further : : :. = = 80 :
. ssYon mean that von will not taka.,t ont
of the stafiorp' asked tbe Sunerjnfend dent ) I.
, tsyee air - roa he ranIS, S.f . -, . protha-
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A Big MLDW[NTER FAIR.
BUILDINGS NOW GOING UP IN
SAN FRANCISCO.

Great Diversity in Architectural
Styles Expected to Produce n
Novel EfIect-The Main Buildings
Described - Special Features OF
the Fair--Oriental Exhibits.
The hve main buildings of the California
Midwinter International Exposition have
been planned. accepted and contracted for,
and building operations are now under way.
They are to be erected in Garden Gate Park,
San Francisco. They will be grouped around
parallelogram, in the center Of which there
will be an electric tower 270 feet in height
and number OF artistically ornamented
fountains. The largest building is that de-
signed for manufactures and liberal arts. A.
Page Brown, OF San Francisco, is the archi-
tect. Its dimensions are 462 by 237 feet.
covering 101, ,784 square feet of ground. This
building is Moorish IN design, with the pic
turesque effects to which that style Of archi-
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COMMISSIONER Lo2RIN A. THURSToE.
sion, and is graduate OF the class Of 81 Of
the Columbia Law. School He has
been identified with every T reform
movement In Hawaiian affairs and was
attorney general clerk and later adj
mitted to the supreme court bar: In 1884 he
began the publication Of the. Honolulu Daily
Bulletin, was elected to- the egislature In
1886, and was the leading spirit in the reform
movement Of 1887. Was Minister Of Interior,
Premier and President Of the Emmigration
Commission. In 1912 be was elected to the
House of Mobiles for a term of SIX years. he
Is largely interested In many industrial enter
.prises and was special commits sionerto Chicar
90 to arrange for the Hawaiian exhibit at the
Fair He was a fsyorite OF King Kalakau
and once held cabinet position under that
potentate. :.tss e - s
3 Lydia LiIiuokalani, the deposed Queen Of
the Sandwich Islands, was born In Honolulu,
on September 2, 1855. According to- the
custom Of that country, she was taken from
her mother soon after birth and entrusted TO-
the care Of relatives, Her early education
was obtained at the Royal school While
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The design is conspicuously Egyptian.
SphinZes are placed at tho base OF IL grass
terrace, mounted on high podestals. between
which pedcstals are broad steps forty feet in
length and eight in number, leading to the
level of the entrance TO tho front vas.ibulr.
This vestibue is sixty feet in length. thirty
four feet wide and forty-eight feet 10 the base
Of the pyramid. which is the crowning fed
!ure Of the entrance to the building. The
rooals tor n ntings, the statuary court an
the gallery .or wItpr coiorS are rectangular
in form aud perfectly lighted. Tho star-.
wains:otinS AMI ire::es show tho held7 o.
beasts and birds and the slcred ibis. The
rooms under the gallery arc united by q Sc
ries OF drapcd openings. The second story is
4 gallery, the RAJ! OF whica forms the finish
Of the grand interior court.
THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
III addition to the structures detailed above
there will he 2n Admins: ration Building,
Oriental in outline. representing Il co:nbiaG
ton OF Central Indian AMI Sinmcsc architc,:-
lure. This building. designed by A. Page
Brown, consists Of 4 large central square,
covered by dome, with four rIviions at
the angles. The principal feature Of the
building is tbs richly ornamantei dome. l?5
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ThE NEWS EPIIOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

WILLIAM q. BEERS, c1-President Of the
New York Life Insurance Company, died at
New York City. He died OF heart disease,
after An illness Of several weeks.
JENNIE Mcdonald, aged fifteen took poison
and died instantly at Pittsburg. Penn, ac-
cording to her promise to her dying friend,
who committed suicide because she was
scolded for truancy.
A CRANK named G. O. Roeth, stopped in
front OF Delmonicos. New YORK City, when
the dining rooms were we'll filled. and fired
five shots from revolver through the Fifth
avenue windows. He was captured and
locSedup.
THE steamship Yarmouth. of the Boston
and Yarmouth Steamship Co., has been sold
to Flint d Co.. OF New York, who are the
agents Of President Peixoto, Of Brazil. The
sum paid is $4,000
The Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems, pastor OF
the Church of the Strangers, died OF paralysis
in New York City. he was born in Balti-
more on December 4, 1920.
TaE Brazilian cruiser Nictheroy anchored
outside OF Sandy Hook, N. j., and fired sew
eral dummy shells from her dynamite gun.
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a cafe chantant where National dances OF
all Nations will be presented. A Japanese
exposition.
The Government OF Hawaii has two acres
where the progress in the Hawaiian Islands
and other islands Of the southern seas will
Ee exsmpiifsd in contrast with native life.
The central feature of the exposition
grounds will be an electric light tower 270
feet high, with an elevator running TO the
height OF 22O feet. The base OF the tower
will occupy space fifty feet square, and the
first gallery, eighty feet from the ground,
will have seating capacity Of 200. There
will be three other galleries above this, the
topmost within six feet OF the pinnacle. In
it will be powerful search-light.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

WE have 200 tailors' unions.
PORTUGAL has labor exchanges.
GERMANY has 2S8, 900 union men.
NEW YORK has 800, 600 workingwonen.
GENEVA. Switzerland, has watch school.
HELENA, Montana, has Chinese hucksters.
C1dARMAKEEs have had 142 strikes since
1891.
The United Typothetae favors compulsory
aroitrltion.
AMSTERDAM, Holland, has 10000 idle dia.
mond workers.
ORGANIZATION has raised wages $500, 900 a
year in Boston.
The International Boot and ShoeworKers'
Union has 1890 members.
CINCINNATI is furnishing WORK for the un.
employed in the city parks.
SToSEcUrrERs have made Washington, D.
c., their general headquarters.
New ZEALAND furnishes work and free
railroad passes to the unemployed.
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Senior Moret, Spanish Minister OF Foreign
Affairs, has received ut Madrid, from Brazil, a
telegram that Admiral Mello has proclaimed
Count deus eldest son Emperor of Brazil.
This son. is Prince Pierre d 'Alcantara Louis
Philippe. He was born at Petropois, near
Rio Jnneiro, on October Is. 1875. His mother
is the present Countess d'Eu and Princess
Isabella of Braganza, daughter OF tho lath
Dom Pedro.
This step on tine part OF Admiral Mrllo
bears out the assertion that he has been fur
nished with money blythe royaliststo to carry on
war against the Government Of Brazil.
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ANOTHER BIG GUN.
1t Makes the Fifth Completed at the
Washington Factory.

Another o: the big thirteen-inch guns has
just been completed at the Washington
Cd. c. gun factory, making the ilfth gun OF
that caliber now ready for naval purposes.
Twelve in all are to be assembled. which are
to be mounted on the buttlo ships Massa-
chusetts. Indiana, Iowa and Oregon. Five
OF the number arc finished and ready for
trial at the proving ground ut Indian Head.
The mounts for one are finished, ana as
soon as the gun and carriage can be trans
ported down tho Potomac the trial will be
held. This gun requires $50 pounds OF pow
der for II full charge. The projcctile it hurls
weighs 1150 pounds and can be thrown thlr-
teen miles. Tue projectiles for armor-picre-
ing cost $500 and the powder an1 fuses slI5
more, making each shot fired represent s675.
When it is taken into consideration that the
life OF this gun is not over 500 rounds and
that the gun and carriage cost S503, ,0OO 1t
will he appreciated that not many shots can
be wasted.
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OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
We Have 3SOi, With Fifty Books to
Each 100 OF Population.

Each 100 OF Population.
The Bureau OF Education has prepared
circular OF information, giving complete
list Of all the public libraries In the United
States containg 1000 volumes and upward.
The statement shows whel each library was
founded. how it is supported, whether 1t is
tree or subscription library, the number OF
volumes 1t contains, and the names OF the
librarians. comparison OF the report OF
1885 Is made with the statistics OF 1891.
The increase in tho number OF libraries
was from 29S7 10 1904. In 1885 the average
size of the libraries OF over 1000 volumes was
1891 volumes. and in 1891. Sl94. In 1885
there was one library to each 1892 OF the
population. while in 1891 there was
one TO every 1G,462. In 1885 ttare
were in the libraries OF the size
mentioned thirty-tour books to every
100 of the population, while in 1891 this
number had increased to fifty. New York
heads the lis: with 511 libraries. Massachu-
sets comes next with sos. then Pennsylvania
with $50, Illinois with 2ls, Ohio with 1913,
Michigan with 139, Connecticut with 13S,
California with Ill, Missouri with 1O5 and
New Jersey with nlnetY-six.
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feet 10 height by fifty feet in diameter, beau.
tifully decorated inside, which is intended ts'
be brilliantly illuminated at night. ThtS
building Is 10 contain the offices Of the e1-

position management, the department OF
publicity and promotion, the foreign depart.
ment, assembly-rooms for foreign commits.
sioners, press headquarters, the postof1ce,
bank and information bureau, and will un.
doubtedly be the center Of general interest In
the exposition.
One of the first special concessions made
was to the Chinese Six Companies Of San
Francisco, who are already building struc-
ture of their own, purely oriental affair 160
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South and West.

IHEnE was heavy frost at Brunswick,
Ga, and the end of the yellow fever cpl
demic is believed to be near.
THOMAS THAs, q Deadwood (South Dakota)
miner. killed his wife, who had left him, her
cousin and his wife, who had befriended her,
and then himself.
The Edgewood Female Seminary, Cath
olic institution at Madison, Wis, conducted
by the Dominican Sisters and valued at
about $4,000 was destroyed by fire, and
Marjorie Rice, OF Stevens Point, Wis, and
Maggie Stack, of Ulieago, perished.
JOHN SHoHAN's house, twelve miles from
Lafayette, Ga, Tas blown mp by dynamite.
Shohan and his wife, who were IN bed, were
hurled fifty yards, but landed safely without
serious injuries. Shohan is Deputy Mar
shall and has been raiding illicit distileries.
Don CARLOS DrAz, Spanish Consul at Bal
timore, Nd, committed suicide by jumping
from the third story window Of his home.
He was insane.
EDUCATION DAY was celebrated by 5000
school children at the Augusta (Ga.) E1-
position. Delegates were IN attendance
from the principal colleges ofGeorgia.
CRIME Is rampant in Chicago, and any one
found in the street between one and five
a. m. will have to give all account OF him
self. Crooks are being arrested by wagon
loads.
FIRES are lighted in the rolling mills OF the
Mahoning Valley, Of Ohio, and the men hav-
Ing agreed to the S4.75 rate of wages.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has ordered the re-
LEASE Of the Russian convicts under arrest OF
San Francisco, Cal.
MEXICAN reyolutionists have scattered cir.
.ulars all through the Rio Grande Valley OF
Texas, offering S75 per month for recruits
tor their cause. The circulars are signed by
Santa Ana Perez.
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FOOTBALL AT WEST POINT,

COIOneI FrnSC says 01e hS1'1NS HHe
Greater Than the Benefits.
Colonel Ernst, Superintendent OF West
poin. Military Acalemy, says in his report In
reference to the injuries received BY cadets
in the football field:
1T Is doubtful, in my opinion, il the bene-
fits derived from playing this game, which
am free to acknowledge are very eonsid-
era6!e in some directions, are commensurate
With the risks it entails to life and limb.
which. according to statistics, are much
greater than are commonly supposed.
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THEE has been sold 100 acres ofthe old
Webster homestead at Marshield. Mass, in.
Guiding the old observatory on Black Mount.
The deeds snow that Daniel Webster pu--
chased part Of the property in 1914. The
Boston woman who has bought tho land
coveted it on account Of its historical associ-
ations, which she wishes to see preserved.