The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-16

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 sges, Deaths. and Funerals, 60 cents ea'p
 Local Notices. 15 ceE.s per line. ..,
 fearlr advertisers are limited 70 theil
 own Immediate business (ali matter to o'
 Inob1ectionahle) and their contracts do no
 include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
 King Edward has established new
 decoration, the Conspicuous Service
 Silver Cross, for warrant officers and Subordinate officers in the navy
 France still holds the record for na-
 tional debt. She owes $151 per capita x Great Britain stands second and owes Y $91 per capita. Germany is third, with
 debt of $6O per capita. The United
 States has the smallest debt of all the
 great nations, and owes only BPS per < tapita.
 F Isn't Hove" queer? When Scott A.
 McKeown married Dorothy Studebaker
 of South Bend, Indiana, he gave her a ( $60,000 necklace and pearls and dia-
 monds valued at $1o0,OO0. He also threw < gold coins to the San Francisco street
 boys. That was a year ago last May.
 Now she is in the courts for a divorce.
 She says that he has been cruel, and
 that he has not provided for her
 Some people will be unpleasantly af-
 fected by the decision that the chief of To Iy,,or c,+o ;,, < New York, where much loss of life was
 caused by the explosion of chemicals
 last October, must stand trial for
 manslaughter. It was shown in the
 hearing before the grand jury that
 many thousand pounds of chlorate of
 potash and sulphur and many gallons Of infammable oils were kept in ex- < cess of the permit and without the 4 Knowledge of the fire department.
 Mrs. c. Newman, of Campbell park a Chicago suburb, was building a hand some white stone house, when some one discovered that the bay window extenG- ed four feet over the building line Neighbors attacked her in the courts and the house had to come down. She hungered for revenge. Engaging the services of an architect, she began to put up shanty on the site that will squat as a reproach and an eyesore. Campbell park is a beautiful place. The shanty stands with its back to the street. A man who never before had done any painting was hired to smear it yellow Then in a local paper ap- peared this advertisement: Wanted, a noisy family to occupy a new house; must be at least five boys; red-haired ones preferred"
 H The good roads movement is making encouraging progress in Kentucky, and the women are much interested in 1t. Fully one-half of the two thou at Hopkinsville to advocate road i'm provement the other day were women. And the fact that great many farm CTS, too were there in spite of this be- ing their most busy season was very encouraging to the projectors of the | assemblage. Fifteen counties were represented by storekeepers, manufac- turers, professional and public men, as well as the agrlculturists. Governor l Beckham spoke, and said he thought | much more of good roads than he did | of building political fences and that | he is more interested in building up | Kentucky industrlally than he is in | the making of any political slate.
 The Outlook calls attention to the | Important part railroads are destined ! to play in opening up the Dark Con- tinent of Africa, which Is notably f1f- ted for such development by reason of it's few harbors and the scarcity of waterways offering entrance to the interior. It points out that the pro- posed Cape to- Cairo line, the ambi- IlOuS plOJeCl Ol CcCll IbHOueS, IS only l three hundred miles short of being al- ready half completed, while two- thirds of this uncovered distance is traversa- ble by navigable rivers and large lakes which would form a temporary of the route. The length ening of lines already in existence and the projection Of others by both Ger mans and English goes on apace, it is pointed out, and from all sides the rail- road is feeling its way to the heart of Africa. If recent progress is continued, predicts the Outlook, Africa will witness wonderful deveopemnt not the least Of which will be the sup pression of slavery. MT. Rhodes" it l adds, 'whose energy lies back of all this, may be a materalist. but he is none the less an instrument in the hands of the Almighty to be used in ] the emancipation of down trodden ls