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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
TONS OF UN|TEDSTATESF FLAGS
The Philippine Islands Will Be
 Flooded With Them.

They Will Fly From Every School
 House-Every Scholar Will Be Pro-
 vided With One-Fourth of July Is
 The Date on Which They Are To
 Be Flung Out.
 Chicago, March 29.-The Tribune says: American t1ags-nearly two tons of tlem-haVe been contracted for ila Chicago with rush orders" that on July f, the red, white and blue may tlutter from every school house ill Porto Rico, teaching the lesson of Independence day to young and old
 alike in the island. The plans of the government are that by the end of the year the flag will be as familiar q sight in the towns and villages of the
 Philippines. The order of the govern
 ment calls for flags of all siZes-small ones that the school children can wave from windows or carry through the streets and into their homes, and large ones to float from flag statlS and build ingS. roofs over the head of the march, ing troops and citizens on the day they are learning to celebrate. Each island prototype of the little red school house will have a complete outfit Of
 the national flag. There will he flags TOT tllc DupllS. sl to t'Lo'S
 the teachers desk and q flag to f1utter over the school house yard
 The purpose of the government in | Washington in giving the order is to secure sufficient flags to supply
 every point on the island devoted to educational purposes that patriotism may be inStilled in the minds of the pupils by sight as well as by teaching. The plan is simply carrying out one inaugurated in the United States seV-
 eral years ago of flying the American | flag from every school house through | out the land during class hours. Teachers From Porto Rico who visit ed Washington and the other eastern cities here last fall were all adVo- | cateS of the plan to make the flag q i familiar sight in the island. They as
 serted that the moral effect would be 1 helpful and arouse q patriotic en-
 thusiasm in the minds of the children. Similar arrangements, it is under | stood. are under way for the placing
 of Il large order of flags for the Philip | pines.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
AUTHORS CLUB.
Held Memorial for Members Who Died
 During the Year.


 New York, March 29-Each year it is customary for the Authors club to have on some designated evening q memorial meeting Tor such members of the club as have died during the year preceding. Last night tribute was paid to the memories Of Charles Dudley Warner Stephen Crane, Prof Moses Colt Tyler and eX-Postmaster- General William l.. Wilson.
 Among the members present were E. c. Stedman. Richard H. Stoddard, Moncure D. Conway. eN-Minister Os- car $. Straus. Prof Calvin Thomas, George Cary Eggleston. stephen H. Thayer. Prof E. H. Giddings. George Haven Putnam and Edward $. Van File. MT Putnam spoke of Moses Colt Tyler He said in the course of his remarks:
 Tyler won distinction as a man of letters. but to those of us who are privileged to know him as a friend, his memory recalls first the man. and only at the second step the man of let terS. His relation to literature indi- cates that with him also the man was the first thing to be considered.
 In his studies of the work done by the writers of by-gone generations the reader feels that Tylers chief thought was to discern and to present the man behind the book. He finds in these books that have come down to us not only the personality of the lit erary worker but the personality of the readers to whom they were ad- dreSSed.'
 In his eulogy upon Charles Dudley Warner Edward s. Van File said that the striking characteristic about his work was it's peculiarly American spirit. A eulogy prepared by Ripley Hitchcock was read by Rosster John son, the clubs secretary. It's subject was Stephen Crane. It quoted from a letter written by Crane to Mir Hitch cock. in which the writer referred to New York as having muddled him. It's admiration had made him q gibbering idiot. he said.
 EX-MiniSter Oscar $. Straus read an eulOgy upon William l.. Wilson. who was postmaster general under Cleve- land.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
SKIPPED ROPE TO DEATH.
Little Schoolgirl Jumped 4O6 Times
 and Then Became Paralyzed.

Passaic, N. J., March 29-Sadie Pur- cell, 3 years old. is dying in her home from the effects of too much rope skipping. She attended school and at recess yesterday skipped rope 4O6 times. She was fatigued by the eNer- else, but not excessively. as it then ap- peared. A few minutes later, when the children returned to the classroom, she complained of feeling dizzy and dropped from her seat unconscious. She was attended by q physician. but he failed to revive her. and she was taken to her home. She is now par alyzed, and the doctors who have been in consultation fear she will die.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
WILL NOT DISCUSS SPEECH.
Conservative Papers Silent on Will
 liams Talk to Alexander,

Berlin, March 20.-The conServa- tive papers this morning do not dis CuSS Emperor Williams speech to the Emperor Alexander Grenadier regi- ment at their new barracks, yesterday. But, the liberal papers, generally, com- ment on his majesty's utterance, en- phasizing the statement that the en- peror is ill-informed concerning the character of the March OS4S reyolu- tion in Berlin. The National Zeitung expresses it's inability to comprehend what current events induced the en- peror to refer to the revolution of 1S4S, and says it does not see any signs of his majesty needing body guard. The NosSische Zeitung is also unable to see any occasion for the emperor's words. since nobody in Der lin is thinking of a revolution and his majesty's predecessors repeatedly recognized the loyalty of Berlin's popu- latIon.
 The VOrwaerts cites number of previous speeches of the emperor, eX- horting the soldiers to fight for him when necessary and claims it has authentic information that his words were literally as follows:
 If the city of Berlin should again impudently and disobediently rise against the king. as in 1S4S, then, my grenadiers, it will be your duty, with the points of your bayonets, to annihil- ate the imDudent and disobedient." The Tageblatt is amazed and asks what has occurred to justify the en- peror's words. It points out that the revolution of 1S4S was not directed against the HohenZollern dynasty, and appeals 'from the ill-informed em peror to the emperor rightly inform
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
Well Educated Negroes to Be Used in
 Survey Work.

Washington, March 29.-The civil service commission has decided to re- quest the Philippine civil service board at Manila to hold regular classified ser vice examinations to secure about fifteen well educated Philippine men between the ages of IS and 2:i. for ser vice as aids in the coast and geode.ic survey, which plans to press it's work in that archipelago beginning about June 1. Ono of it's officials is already at Manila. The prospective Filipino appointces will receive S72O a year salary to begin with and must have qualifications that include the higher mathematics. astronomy. physics. sur veying. geography and two modern languages.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
WILL OPEN GRAVE.
Charged That Yale Medical Students
 Stole Aaron Potter'S Body.

Stole Aaron Potter's Body.
 New Haven, March 29.-Plans have been made by the North Haven town officials to open the grave of Aaron Potter. Potter was hanged in 1S49 for murdering his friend, Henry Stimp- son. in q quarrel over gold watch. After his body was cut down it was taken from this city. where the exe- cntion took place. to North Haven. his old home. It was believed until re-4 gently that his grave had been dis turbed. Now, however, the town officials have in their possession an alleged confession made by q Chicago physician, who says that he was q member of q party of Yale medical students who visited Potter's grave and took the body to the dissecting room, carefully covering the grave again and laying ill the coffin q heavy stone.
 The Chicago doctor says the skeleton of Potter now hangs in the office of q New York physician who also was in the party. A New Havener has been to Chicago and personally inter- viewed the Chicago physician. whd persists in the truth of his story.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
DEAD BODY FOUND.

Canton, Conn, March 29.-The body of James Allen, seventeen years of age, was found this morning with q bullet hole in the temple, near the home of Arthur Sweeton in North Canton. Close to the body was re- volver which young Allen obtained last evening by trading with a boy friend. Allen worked on Sweeton' $ farm and was sent out this morning to cut some wood. When Sweeton re- turned home after an absence of Sev- eral hours he found Aliens body lying beside the wood pile. Coroner Lewis of CollinSville is Investigating and can not decide as yet whether it was acci- dental of d case of suicide.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
WEATHER REPORT.

Washington. March %. - For Con- necticut: Generally fair tonight and Saturday; fresh to brisk northwest winds.
 Weather notes: Pleasant weather prevails generally in all sections. A small storm area appears to be devel- oping ill Texas. Thunderstorms were reported from Abilene and Oklahoma. Light frost was reported as far south as Atlanta. Ga. The temperatures at a. m. ranged from 72 at Key West to 24 below zero at White River.
 Observations taken after d. m.:
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
DEADLOCK BROKEN.

Lincoln Neb. March 29.-After a deadlock of two and one-half months, the republicans of the Nebraska leg islature yesterday nominated J. H. Willard of Omaha and Governor Charles H. Dietrich of Hastings, for the long and short term. respectively. in the United States senate. A joint session of the legislature was held at noon to ratify the caucus nominations. MT Willard will assume the seat .of Senator ThurSton. while Governor Dietrich will take the seat of the late Senator Hayward.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
TREATY MAY BE SIGNED.

Believed in Russia That It Will Be
 Ratified Monday.
 St Petersburg, March 29.-1t is prob able that the Russo Chinese Manchur- ian treaty will not be signed before Monday or Tuesday. at the earliest. Iho delay is due to the dilatoriness of the Chinese government. or to the nat ural difficulties of communication be- tween tnc Chinese court. PcEin and St Petersburg.
 It is net believed that the indisposi- ton of Yang Yu. the Chinese minister at St Petersburg, will prevent him from going to the foreign office when invited to do so.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE
One to Be Established in the Philip
 pines in the Fall

pines in the Fall.
 New York, March 29.-Having been authorized to do so by the Church club at a meeting on Wednesday night, George MacCulloch Miller. the presi- dent of the club, announces the names of the members of committee which will seek to enlist support for a move ment to have a Protestant Episcopal diocese established in the Philippines. The personnel of the committee is: Beverly Chew, John Fl. Cole. George s. Bowdoin, Colonel William Jay, Silas McBee. Captain Alfred T. Mahan, Henry Lewis Morris. Charles Steele. Francis Lynde Stetson. J. Howard Van Amringe and George Zabriskie.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
F. OF A. DELEGATES CHOSEN.
Much Interest Being Taken In For
 ester Meetings Just Now.

Five courts of Foresters met last night and chose delegates to the state convention as follows: Court Acme, Daniel J. Murphy: alternate, T. w. Leland. Court Phelan. F. H. Me Kiernan and John r. Duggan; alter mates, Thomas Sullivan and Peter Quinn. Court Linden. James Eaters and D. J. Griffin: alternates, w. H. Lawlor and John Markey. Court He'll mann, T. A. Collins and NJ. T. Smith: alternates, E. H. Gagain and J. F.. Harrington. Court Oregon. J. H. Freney, J. F. Dolan and. George Me Donald: alternates, w. GuilfOile, ID. J. Delaney and E. IIoDDe.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
ENGLISH ATHLETES UNDECIDED

New Haven. March 29.-Sherman l.. Coy, president of the Yale Track Ath- letic association, has received q mes sage from the Oxford and Cambridge athletic managers acknowledging re- ceipt of the challenge of the Yale and Harvard teams for a meeting in this country. The message gives no infor- ation as to whether the challenge will be accepted. merely promising q letter later regarding the matter.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
RuBBER MAY LOWER

New York, March 29.-The Journal of Commerce says: The executive committee of the United States Rub- Der Co has held a meeting and de- cided on the price schedule for the new business year beginning April l. The schedule will be in the hands of the trade Monday morning next and it is expected that it will show a still further reduction in prices.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
SMILED AT MURDER VERDICT
John c. Best Found Guilty of Killing
 George E. Bailey Near Salem.

Salem, Mass. March 20.-With a sar- castle smile on his face John c. Best heard the foreman of the jury in the Essex county superior court last night pronounce him guilty of murder in the first degree for the death of George F. Bailey at Breakheart Hill farm in last October. As soon as the foreman had announced the verdict Bests lawyer announced his intention of preparing motion to have the yer dict set aside and to ask for new trial.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
PROCEEDINGS KEPT sEcRET.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, March 29.-It wH4 nearly noon before the executive hoaIt of the anthracite coal districts 1llz Workers association went 3d4J] executive session. The prOccedTHN $ were kept secret and 1t is satll President Mitchell will make .
 nent this afternoon. Sess
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29

London, March 29.-A dispatch from St Petersburg says the czar has ad- ministered severe reprimand to Prince Viasemski. q member of the council of the empire. for having interfered with the orders of the police on the occasion of the recent riots.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
MINIsTER OF WAR NANED.

The Hague. March 29-Lieutenant- General Kool has been appointed min ister of war in succession to Lieuten- ant-General Bland. whose resignation was announced March 1G. in conse- quence of an antagonistic vote ill the chamber.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
OPPONENTS OF STEEL TRUST.
One of the Largest Mills in the Coun
 try to Be Built.

One of the Largest Mills in the Coun-
 try to Be Built.
 Findlay, Ohio, March 2o.-A deal that promises large results was prac- tically conSummatcd here last night when F. C. ChallinOr, E. F.. Erickson and Charles T. Torsell of pittsburg, and Colonel Newton Adams. of this city. purchased the tube plant of the Heckert- BaltZlcy Billet company. The new company will transform the plant for the manufacture of crucible steel and will be ready to operate within ninety days. It is said the new com pany represents millions of capital and will be operated in opposition to the steel trust Mr Torsell said the mill will be one of the largest independent mills in the country.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
ANOTHER COUNTERFEIT BILL

Washington, March 20.-Chief Will kie, of the secret service, has an nounced that new and improved is- sue of the counterfeit S5 silver certifi- cate. series of 1899. portrait of the In dian chief Onepapa, discovered on Oc- tober B. 1900. has appeared in circu- lation. The check letter and plate number have been changed from B 20 to A g.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
QUARANTINE IS ENFORCED.

Bremerhaven, March 29.-The en- forcement of quarantine regulations has been notified to all arrivals from Australian ports. owing to the exist ence of the bubonic plague at those places.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
\ AMENDED CHARTER RILL

Albany, March %. - The amended charter revision bill for New York city was reported to the senate to-day and by unauimous consent was ordered to A third readiux.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
INNOCENT STAMP BOOKS.
The Government Finds That They Art
 Meeting With Ready Sale.

Washington. March 23.-RepOrts re- ceivcd by Third Assistant Postmaster General Madden show that the books of 2-cent postage stamps issued by the government arc averaging sale of 1S.3OO books a day throughout the United States. The fraction of q cent which the government earns on the sale of the books has amounted to a net profit of S33,G72 in the eleven months during which they have been on sale at all postoffices.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
HARTFORD STABBING AFFRAY.
One Italian Stabs Another Over a
 Game of Cards.

CIlme or Cards.
 Hartford, Conn. March 29.-The case of Frank Frola, who, it is alleged seri- ously stabbed Alfonso PcnSullo on Union Place last night. was continued in the police court to-day for one week, under bonds of $G,OOO. which he was unable to furnish. and he went to jail. He was charged with assault with intent to kill.
 The stabbing was the result of a quarrel over q game of cards. Pensul- To was stabbed in the abdomen, the wound being a dangerous one. An operation was performed on the wounded man early this morning. The hospital physicians say the chances are against his recovery.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
RATES SAME AS LAST YEAR.

Pittsburg, Pa, March 29.-The coal operators of the Edwin field posted notices at all the mines to-day, that the rate of wages for the ensuing year from April I, will be the same
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
YOUNG PRINCE BORN.

Berlin, March 20. Princess Bis
 marck was accouched of son here to-day.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29

James Stephens was the head of the Fenian organization which in 1867 att tempted to free Ireland. John J. Hall of Nau@atuck referred to him as fol- lows in his Emmet day speech in this city on March 4: James Stephens proclaimed on every platform from which he spoke in this country that the long looked for opportunity was at hand. and pledged himself to inaugu- rate the revolution in Ireland before the first of January of the ensuing year. His rash and indiscreet state mentS raised false hopes in the breasts Of his countrymen and put the enemy on guard against his publicly expressed plans. Stephens failed to Nlltill his pledges and was. accordingly, deposed
 by the organization. Two of his most
 trustworthy advisers. Colonel Kelly and Captain Daisy, were then in Ire land and had arrangements nearly
 completed for the rising. The failure
 of Stephens to begin hostlities as
 agreed upon placed those leaders in 8
 most hazardous position: besides. they felt themselves outraged and humili-s ated by his conduct and believed it
 due to their honor. and to their coun-
 try. to take up the sword which they believed Stephens had, through cow ardice, let fall from his hands. Kelly was accordingly elected to succeed Stephens as central organizer of the Fenian Brotherhood. and it was de clded to begin the conflict on the 5th of March fOllowing'
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-29
HEAD CENTER DEAD
James Stephens Who Cut Such
 a Figure 35 Years Ago.
FAILED TO CARRY OUT PLANS

Was Finally Deposed from the Head of the Fenian OrganiZation-The Movement Was an Utter Failure Was Appointed Leader in Place of Stephens.
 Dublin, March 29.-James Stephens, the well known fenian leader of the 1866 movement, died here this morn. ing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-24
CROMWELL THE LITTLE.

The wheel of fortune has strange turnings but it has not often turned so completely round as In the spring of 1859. In April Richard Cromwell sat on the throne of England, king in all but name, master of two palaces, wit h an allowance of ten thousand pounds q year In May he wandered homeless in a strange land, a fugitive not from jus tice, but from the law. In his trunks were the congratulations he had re- ceived month or two before from the crowned heads of Europe. A dozen years before his fathers name had made the world tremble; now it was a name to which his son dared not an swer His wife waited fifteen years for his return, and died at last without seeing him again; his favorite daugh- ter, Dorothy war married and buried in few months. She was the only Cromwell somebody has said, born in the purple
 Cromwell came home at last, to live in lodgings at ten shillings week. Nobody guessed that the MT. Clarke who lived simply and quietly at Ches- hunt was the man who had been Pro- tector of the Commonwealth Mrs.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-24

Pengelly, his landlady, kept his ac-
 counts in great detail, and Sir Richard
 Tangye has unearthed many of them,
 which give us strange glimpses of the
 later life of Cromwell's son. He
 smoked a good deal, paying 2shillings eightpence per gross for his "pypes; and he was generous even in his pov- erty. On one occasion he borrowed two pounds from his landlady, who en- tered it down for the day when you had your feast" When his daughters came to see him from Hursley, his home in better days Richard would treat them to comfortable dinner In Westminster, borrowing the money from good Mrs. Pengelly, who seems to have done something to soften the hard fate to which an ungrateful country had doomed the son of Cromwell.
 More than once Richard came to his last shilling. Once, when visiting his daughters at Hursley, he had to put off his return for want Of a shirt. But generally he seems to have been tol- erably happy man. blessing everybody in spite of circumstance, and blaming none. When Queen Mary died he spent half a crown, we are told, on pair of gloves. His last days were made unhappy by a painful quarrel with his daughters concerning the at Hursley. The daughters did their utmost to deprive their father of his rights, as though his life had not been hard enough, and in his old age Richard, who had left Whitehall pal ace freely years before, was driven
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-24

lies in the fire escape which is to beA found in the chief room upon every landing. At Visnes I spent happy night answering the questions of ner- vous travellers who came from hour toS hour to see if the fire escape in fiy room was working properly. Angry as4 surances were. powerless to convince t1mid, if ancient ladies. Did I really think the rope would work? Was tllere any danger? Had I tried the contriv-f ance myself? Excellent souls! As if the printed notice were not enough!
 An, that printed noticei l have copy of 1t by me as I write. It is the complete instruction, in English, tosths traveller threatened by fire in q wooden hotel in Norway. Let me give it tc yol as ] found it:
 Fire escape to throw out the witl-8 dow.
 "rhe plaited snotter shall be found \ in every room.
 ITO increase the hurry, let down theN body one by one until all shall be left
 IN. B.-The cord shall be put out the ground from the shoulder hereunder" London Mail.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-24
PRODUCING GREAT MEN.

This Matter About hTvich Little Is
 Known but Much has Been Writ
 ten.
 The most interesting aspect Of the subject of producing supremely great men is what may be called the super stitious aspect of 1t. There is no sub- ject that we know so little about. few written. The weariest weights of dull others about which so much has been nonsense on the book shelves of the world are the endless volumes whose authors pretend to give logical &C., count Of supremely great men. Why Shakespeare was Shakespeare, why he came when he did, why he did what he