The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-09-22

VIII hive III ulcdSuIc loSt It's poNeI
to restrain governmental encroach-
ments.
There Is a steady growth IN the min
eral wealth of the United States. The
record of last year shows that the
commercial value Of the minerals
mined in the country amounted to ST.
140,S90,321. In addition to this the re-
duction works of the country produced
$70,471, $40 from foreign ores and bull
lion, chiefly, of course, the mineral
products of Mexico and British Column
bia, which passed through American
smelters and refineries.
The Countess Louise Erdody, whose
death is reported from Vienna, was
more generally known rs the Latin
Lady" Her great aim in life was to
see Latin again the international me-
dunn of intercourse and correspond
ence. In her own writings she always
used this language, which she had
mastered to wonderful degree. Her
hobby brought her indeed to destitu-
ton, and she died in extreme poverty
in a miserable howell For its sake
she neglected the management of her
estates, and became involved In a law
suit which lasted thirty years, and
brought about her ruin.
The act of providing n civil govern
ment for the Territory Of Alaska is
said to be the most voluminous meas
ure ever passed by Congress. AS filed
in the State Department it makes 2S4
pages of printed parchment. For con.
venience in handling the sheets were
not fastened together in the customary
form, but were divided into six parts,
and each of the six parts was placed
in a thin wooden box. Five Of these
coverings were each fastened with the
traditional red tape, while the sixth,
which contained the concluding page
Of the measure, to which the President
affixed his signature, was provided
with a sliding top so that its contents
could be easily removed.
The loss of human life by lightning
in the United States in the year 1899
was greater. according to statistics
given in the Monthly Weather Review,
than in any preceding year for which
statistics have been collected. The
number of persons killed outright or
who suffered injuries from which
death resulted was $50, and the num-
Der Of others who received injuries Of
various degrees of severity was $40.
OF the fatalities. As per cent. occurred
in the open; "a per cent, in houses; IL
per cent, under trees, and 0 per cent
in barns. At least q dozen persons
were killed either in the act of strip
ping clothes from wire clothes-line,
or from coming in proximity thereto
during q thunder storm.
The two new battle ships Just au-
thorized are to be named the Virginia
and Rhode Island, the three armored
cruisers the Maryland, Colorado and
South Dakota, and the three 5000 ton
protected cruisers the st. Louis, Mil
waukee and Charleston. With our
eighteen battle ships, six first class
armored cruisers and four new moni-
tors we have already used up the
names of twenty-seven States, which
would have been twenty-eight y we
had not violated the rule In the case
of the Kearsarge. At our present rate
of building the remaining seventeen
States will be used up in three years,
and then we shall have either to admit
some more States or to change the law
that regulates the naming Of our ships.