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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-12-06
Agriculture.

The departments of agriculture during
the past fifteen years has steadily broad
ened lis work on economic lines and
has accomplished results OF real value in
upbUilding domestic and foreign trade
Il has gone into new fields until it is now
IN touch with all sections OF our country
and with tw9 OF the island groups THAI
have lately come under our jurisdiction
whose people must look 10 agriculture As
a livelihood. II IS searching the world FOR
grains. grasses. fruits and vegetables spe-
c!allE dtjed for introduction into locaIi-
Ties II the several states and territories
whore they may add materially to our re-
sources. By scientific attention to soil sur
vey and possible new crops. 10 breeding Of
new varieties OF plants. 70 experimental
shipments. - animal Industry and applied
chemistry. very practical aid has been
given our farming and stock growing in
terestS The products Of the farm have
taken an unprecedented place in our ex-
port trade during the year Mat has just
closed.
Protection OF Forest Reserves
Public opinion throughout the United
States has moved steadily toward a just
appreciation OF the valu OF forests
whether planted or of natural growth
The great part played by them in the Gre
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-12-06

The natural line OF development for a
policy of reciprocity viii be in connection
with those of our productions which no
longer require all of the support once
needed TO establish them upon n SCUM :
basis. and with those others where either
because OF natural or of economic causes
We are beyond the reach of successful
competition.
/ ask the attention Of the senate Il the
reciprocity treaties laid before it by my
predecessor
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
Foreign Notes.

Berlin, April 23.-With reference to tho assertion cabled from the United States that Germany has adopted an uncompro- missing attitude in the matter of Chinese indemnity, the National Zeitung says: Ut should be borne in mind that Germany's $ whole bearing hitherto shows how much she desires to re-establish order in China as soon as possible"
 London, April 24.--In connection with the recent discovery of gold at Leith Scotland, by workmen who were preparing the foup. datoin for new hospital. it is announced that the crown authorities have notified the owners of the property of their intention to claim all the gold found.
 Pekin, April 2S--Sir Ernest Satow, Brit ish minister to China, today formally pre- sented the Red Cross to Miss Saville and Miss Chapin, American missionaries, for their conspicuous services during the siege of the legations last summer.
 London, April 23.-The chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, ip- formed deputation of brewers to-day that he could hold out no hope of revising the sugar and glucose duties.
 London, April 23.-A dispatch from Vieu- pa says that the czar has signed decree expeling Count Tolstoi from Russia and that the decree has been served.
 London April 24-A dispatch to the Daily Express from Rosario, Argentina, says thai a cyclone has swept over Paraguay, destroy ing one town.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
OCEAN LINER ASHORE.
Hamburg merican Steamer Drumelsia
 Aground OH the Maine Coast.

Portland.- Me-, April 24-The Ham
 burg American line steamer Drumelsia, bound from Hamburg to Portland, with sugar and hides, is ashore on Bibb rock, between Wells and Ogunquit, Me, ,sev- en miles below Cape Porpoise. Inves- tigation shows that the people on shore who saw the steamer in the fog off Cape Porpoise did not see the Drumel- sla but the steamer Mora from Louis burg. Captain Nicholson, of the latter steamer reported seeing steamer ashore near Cape Porpoise, but owing to the fog he appears to have mistaken the locality. The Mora anchored off Cape Porpoise all day and made this harbor tonight and when inquiry was made at Cape Porpoise regarding a steamer the supposition was that the Mora was the Drumelsi3, Very late to- night word came from Wells that a steamer was ashore there and she an- swers the description of the Hamburg liner. Captain Nicholson now says that the steamer he saw was some distance down the coast from where he hove to. No particulars have come from the Drumelsia.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
TWO FINE PLAYERS.
Secured Yesterday by Manager Canavan
 for the Local Team.

Manager Canavan, of the New Haven baseball team went to Providence yes- terday and returned with the signed contract of James Kuhn. He also signed George Ramon, the well known Eastern league player. The former was recommended to Providence by Fred die" Parent, who says he is one of the fastest little short stops in the minor leagues. Bannon is a former Eastern leaguer, having played with Springfield and Montreal, and is an all-round play CT, being a fine pitcher and an cutfield- CT. The local team will be strengthen ed by the addition of Kuhn and Ban- non.
 Bernard, the swift second baseman, will report to-day, 1t is expected, and Cusick came yesterday. Fitzmaurice will be here in a few days and Morton, the dashing outfielder will be here on May 19, when his studies in New York cease.
 Manager Canavan said last night that his team would be made up as follows Ashe, Vollendorf and Deering, pitchers Luchia and Spiesman, catchers; Cana van, first base; Bernard and Decker, second base; Cusick, third base; Kuhn, short stop; Ramon, Bone, Fitzmaurice and Morton, outfielders.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
snchcm Head Woman Attempts Suicide
 Deaths of Prominent Men.

Lakeville, April 23-The search for the body of Otis Sawyer was resumed this afternoon and several fruitless de- ton to the prolonged trial of grappllng irons. Tonight large quantity of dynamite was ordered and as a last re- sort tomorrow charge will be fired under the water in the hope that the shock may bring the body to the sur face. New observations of the spot where the body went down were taken to-day, but without result.
 Bridgeport, April 2S-Frederick w. Tousey, assistant secretary of the Au- tomobile club Of America, and for sev- eral years past prominently identified with motor carriage interests, died last night after an illness of two months with pneumonia. He was thirty years of age and leaves wife and two chill dren.
 East Hartford, April 23-A freight car on the Highland division tracks was burned tonight destroying a car load of furniture valued at about $1,200. The cause is unknown.
 Guilford April 23-Mrs. G. B. Norton of Sachem's Head tonight. attempted suicide by cutting her throat with a razor, and the doctor says that she has no chance for life. Dependency caused by nervous prostra ton was the cause.
 Hartford, April 23.-Thomas Wright Russell, president of the Connecticut General Life Insurance company, died late this afternoon at his home. TIA Asylum avenue, this city, of diabetes. He was seventy-seven years old.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
THE JEFFERSON WILL.
Action to Oaat atAdministrator A Baldwin
 Yale University Interested.

New York April 23.-Aaron s. Bald win, executor of the will of the late Mrs. Edla J. McPherson, has been serv- ed by counsel for Mrs. Edla M. Muir, only surviving child of the testatrix, to show cause before Judge John A. Blair in the Hudson county (New Jersey) Or phans' court next Friday why a tenn porary administrator should not be put in his place and why he should not be restrained from exercising any power granted to him by the issuance of let ters by the executor of the will. This will be the preliminary fight in the con- test Mrs. Muir has begun against her mothers will. Mrs. Muir is the daugh- ter of the late United States Senator John R. McPherson. Her mother gave her only life interest in the estate, amounting to s500OO0, which, on her death and that of the executor, goes to Yale university
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
New York Lawyer Commits Suicide.

New York, April 23. = George H. Finck, a lawyer living at 127 West 122d street, committed suicide to-day in the Grand Union hotel by shooting himself in the right temple. He was found dead in bed, all dressed except as to coat and shoes. with revolver in one hand. The man registered at the hotel yesterday. He was very anxious all day yesterday about a telegram which appeared to be of great importance to him. He appeared to be well to do and had $91 in his pockets.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
NEW POLICEMEN APPOINTED
NINE NAMED BY THE POLICE CON-
 MISSfONERS LAST NIGHT.
All Placed in Grade E-PatrOlmen John J. Healy and Peter 10. Dargnn App pointed Truant Officers Officers or the Department Ordered to Wear White Duck Caps This Summer-New
Orders for Police Surgeons.

The police commissioners at their special meeting last night made the ap- pointments which have been expected for some time, appointing nine new pa trolmen and two truant officers. The newly appointed patrolmen are John F. Foley, Edward Fallon, James J. Deloughery Otto Peterson, George A. Spencer, Patrick D. Barry, William F. Carey, Fred A. Parks, and Thomas McNamara.
 Patrolmen John J. Healy of station No 3 ana Peter E. Dargan of station No. were appointed truant officers. Heretofore there has been only one truant officer and that position was made vacant some weeks ago by the death of Truant Officer James Sullivan.
 The patrolmen appointed last night were taken from the list of supernumer- aries and will start their regular po- lice work as members of grade E. They will be called in to see Superintendent Wrinn to-day and will probably be pldCGQ OH uuly dI OHCC. fiCuCliSh A. Parks, one of the appointees, is at pres ent drum major of the Second regiment. George A. Spencer, another of the ap- pointees, is conductor on the Win- chester avenue railroad.
 It was suggested at the meeting that the truant officers be placed in uniforms and the matter was referred to the ef- flciency committee to inquire into the practicability of adopting that sug gestion and to report back. The report of the efficiency committee recommend ing a change to summer headgear for the members of the force was accepted, and the recommendation adopted. The committee recommended that the pa trolmen wear light helmets and the of- flcers white duck caps.
 The board voted that hereafter when ever member of the department is in- jured while in the discharge of his duty the police surgeon attending the man shall be required to report to the board if the man is incapacltated for duty.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
Telegraph Briefs

Washington, April 23.--The president to- day pardoned Joseph N. Wolfson, who was convicted in 1896 in the United States dis trict court of Louisiana of being in collu- sion with the bookkeeper of the Union Na- tional bank of New Orleans in the embez- element of S640,000 of the funds of the bank, and who was sentenced to eight years imprisonment.
 Albany, April 23.-The Tefft-Weller con- pany, of New York city, was incorporated to-day, with q capital stock of $3,000000, to carry on general wholesale importing and jobbing dry goods business. The directors are George c. Clarke, John N. Beach, Will liam K: Tefft, Morton D. Boguee, Charles M: New York city.
 Camden, N. J., April 23.--The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Electric Company of America was held here to-day. The annual report shows; Net profits for the year 1900, S410,695; profit from opera tion of plants, $374,52S; other incomes, $36,- 156 The total assets of the company are $3, ,S1O, ,Sto. The old board of directors was reelected. tv
 Devel, Del, April o3.-Certificates of n- lows: The National Composotye company, of Baltimore, to manufacture and sell type setting and type-composng machines, capi: tai $3.000,000 the Old Mexico Mining com pany of Austin, Texas, to operate mines in Oxaca, Mexico, capital $1,250,O0O.
 Joplin, Mo-, April 23.-Policeman Sweeney was killed and Policeman Brannon was fa- tally wounded to-day while attempting to arrest five tramns in box car In the confusion following the shooting, which was done by one of the prisoners, four of the tramps escaped.
 New York, April 2S.-Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Red appeared before Judge Wallace to. day and was admitted to practice in the United States circuit court and the United States circuit court of appeals for the southern district of New York.
 Springfield, H., April 23.--A bill was passed today by the lower house of the legislature prohibiting the sale, giving away or bringing into the state of cigarettes, cig- arctte paper or any substitute therefor
 Pittsburg April 23.-The strike of the en- ployes of the McKeesport Connecting rail road, ordered for this morning, did not take place and the system was being operated as usual. --
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
SUCCESS OF BRITISH VAR LOAN.
Now Estimated That It Has Been Sub-
 scribed Seven Times Over.

London, April 23.-Applications for the new war loan continue to pour into the Bank of England. The subscribers to-day though numerous, were mostly small investors. It is estimated that the loan was subscribed for six or seven times over, and 1t is expected the list will be closed tomorrow, as it is not desired to lock up too much money.
 New York, April 23.-Fuily $75,oo0,00O, it is believed, of the new British war bonds will be subscribed in this coun- try. The large insurance companies are bidding for them.
 London, April 23.-In the House of Commons to-day various members sharply criticised the budget increase of the income tax, and the chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Michael Ticks Beach, replied that more money must be raised somehow. None of the objec- tors suggested better way. He hoped that the additional taxation might bring home to the country the virtues of econ omy The income tax resolution was adopted by 363 to SS votes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
HOWE & STETSON.
HILLHOUSE ANNUAL M MEETING.

HILLHOUSE ANNUAL M MEETING. Tho Alumni Gather Tonight at 1rusic
 Hall.
 An event of unusual interest during the year is the annual meeting of the Hllhouse High School Alumni associa- tion, which is to take place this even-s ing at Music hall.
 The following programme has been arranged and is to be followed by a dance of fourteen numbers: Call to order-George J. Bassett. Reading of minutes-W William S. Barnes. Treasurer's report-William R. White. secretary's report-William A. Barnes. Address by the principal, John F. Cush-
 ing.
 Selected arias-Kneiselet quartets Selection-Apollo Banjo club. Selection-Apollo Glee club. Ventriloquist-W. H. Clemart.
 An innovation to be introduced this year is the serving of refreshments. Interest is being shown this year by the alumni in the affairs of the asso- citation by the fact that new high school is son to be erected.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
DEATH OF MARGUERITE WELLS.
Daughter of w. s. Wells Passed Away
 Last Evening.

Last evening at o'clock at the resi- dence of her father, 65 Dwight street, Marguerite, the youngest child of w. S. Wells passed quietly and gently away For nearly four weeks past she had been battling with the disease which at last proved fatal. It did not seem pos- sible that a life SO full of promise and about whom so many deep and tender affections had built themselves should come to it's close so soon. On Easter day last she had but reached her twen- ty-lrst birthday. Full of keen and vivid interest in the life which lay be- fore her. she was building wide and deep upon the future years.
 The story of her life was all too brief and seemed as 1t was, but the begin ming of things. What she was to her young friends they only can properly tell, and the mere outlines of her life were similar to those of her many com- panions She passed through the pulp lie school and graduated from the high school in the class of 1899. Since then her interests have been widening and her application more direct and fuller Ol plOiIloS. Il0I ldSLC lOl iuuolC Wdo carefully cultivated and was to her and her friends a source of constant and increasing pleasure. She did not re- gard the end of her school days as a release from the finer interests and more intellectual resources of life, but was growing broader and more solid in her tastes and ambitions as her life de-. veloped. Her father has been for many years a vestryman of St. Johns church, where he and his daughters were com municants. It is a matter not without pathos as one looks at it now that Mar guerite Wells was the first person who was confirmed in the new St. Johns church. The class, too was the last confirmed in that parish by the vener- able Bishop Williams. He has gone to his we'll earned rest after a long and useful life. She is the first one of that little group upon whom his hands were laid to go to the full frllition of that conservation. They are together now. No more for her the doubts, uncertain ties, struggles and temptations which surround the path of those she has left behind.
 Peace, perfect peace, with loved ones
 far away,
 In Jesus, keeping we are safe, and
 they"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
MUST HAVE INDEPENDENCE.
Cubans Desire Military Occupation to
 End at Once.

Jacksonville, Fla, April 23.-The members of the Cuban constitutional convention which arrived here last night from Havana left at 10:3O a. m. for Washington. General Rafael Por- tuondo, one of the committee, defined Cuba's position as follows:
 Ninety per cent. of the Cuban peo- pie desire absolute independence. It is their wish that military occupation by the United States come to an end at once. It may be said that small ele- ment of Spaniards from a purely con- mercial motive favor annexation, but the wish for independence is felt by many Cubans and Spaniards alike. These Spaniards who favor annexation are not impe1led by any love for the United States They hate Americans, but they seem to wish some sort of guaranty as to their property and busi- ness interests.
 Peace with the Americans without the independence of Cuba is impossi- ble-I mean moral peace. I do not mean to say that in the event independ- ence is not granted, war or revolution would follow, but there would be no sympathy, nor friendliness between the peoples"
 New York, April 2S.-Major General Leonard Wood, governor general of Cuba, and Mrs. Wood were passengers on the Ward line steamer Moro Cas- tie, which arrived this evening from Havana. General Wood, upon landing here, will go direct to Washington. His mission in Washington is said to be in connection with the committee from the Cuban constitutional convention.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
ANOTHER HUG GER NCANGHT.

Sergeant Connolly Made a Good Catch
 Last Evening.
 Sergeant Connolly, of the Grand ave- nue police station, made a good capture last night. He arrested Michael Gull, of 221 Franklin street on complaint of three women. They said that they had been assaulted on the street by cer- tain man and they gave a description of him to Patrolmen Roach and Meige of that station. They in turn told the sergeant and about 10:30 the arrest was made. Gull had attacked the women on different streets and had attempted to hug them and knock them down. On one occasion he attempted robbery. One of the young ladies who made a complaint was badly scratched in her efforts to get away. Gull has long po- lice record and the officers consider him a dangerous young man.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
Trial of Alleged Kidnapper.

Omaha, Neb., April 23.-James Calla- han, arrested in connection with the kidnapping, on December IS last, of Edward Cudahy, |r., was to-day brought before Judge Baker in the criminal branch of the district court for trial on the charge of robbery of $25,OO0, which is the amount of ransom paid by MT. Cudahy for the return of his boy. A jury was secured after some delay and the prosecution will be- gn offering testimony tomorrow. Near ly one hundred witnesses probably will testify in the case.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
Rockefeiler-stilIman.

New York. April 23.-Isabel Goodrich Stillman, daughter of James Stillman, and Percy A. Rockefeller. son of MT. and Mrs. William Rockefeller, were mar ried at St. Bartholomew church at 3;30 this afternoon. The church service and the reception at the Stillman home. ' East 10th street, were attended by a large and fashionable throng. The church was handsomely decorated with flowers and ferns, Easter lilies predon,- mating.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
Died in Clinton.

Clinton, April 23.-Nathan H. Ev- arts, aged seventy-four, of Killing worth, farmer, died to-day after a sickness of three months with soften ing of the brain. He had held various town offices and in 1899 represented his town in the state assembly. His wife and six sons survive him. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon in the Congregational church, of which he was a member. .-r
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
A Patient Shoots Him self.

New York, April 23.-John Shaltze, forty-fve years old, an outdoor patient in the New York University and Bele- vue hospital college dispensary, shot himself in the head this afternoon as he sat in line among fifty other patients waiting for treatment. He was taken to Bellevue hospital prison ward, where it is said he will die
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
CHINESE TROOPS WITHDRAW
NO DANGER OF CONFLICT WITH
 GEN. LUIS FORCE.
Lii Hung Chang Notifies Count Won Waldersee of the Retirement-Foreign Troops Arrive at Boundary of Shan Si Province Without Opposition Im- periaI Decree Issued Appointing Conn mission to Inquire Into Question Reforms.

Berlin, April 2S-The German war office has received the following ad- vices from Count von Waldersee, dated Pekin, April 2S:
 Patrols sent out for the Kalgan dls- trict found no gathering of Chinese troops there. Ii Hung Chang informs me that General Liu's troops retired into the province of Shan Si last We'd neSday
 'The execution of the murderer sA,f Captain Bartsch (of the Second Gernia n infantry) will take place at the scene of the crine.'
 In the second despatch, Count Won Waldersee says: "The columns under General Bailloud and General Kettler have arrived at the Great Wall, the boundary of the province. of ShanSi, without opposition"
 Shanghai. April 23.--An imperial sde- cree has been issued appointing a board consisting of Prince Ching and Prince Lii Hung Chang, the Chinese plenipo- tentiaries, Yung-Lu, Kun Tang, Wang Wen Shao and Lu Chuan Lin, with Lui Kun Vi and Chang Tsi Tung as coadjutors to enquire fully into the question of reforms, to select those most feasible and important for the safety and welfare of the empire and report the matter to the emperor, who after returning to Pekin and obtaining the approval of the dowager empress to the suggested reforms, will issue re- scripts in accordance herewith. An other decree orders Yu Yin Lin to resign the governorship of the province of Kwang Si, and that Iii Ching Si, treas- urer of Yum Nan province, be appointed to succeed him.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
LYNCHING IN TENNESSEE.
A Mob of One Hundred Men Hang n
 Negro at Springfield.

Nashville, Tenn, April 23.--To-nisht at o'clock a mob of one hundred men forcibly entered the court house at Springfield, Tenn, took Wyatt Mallory. a negro, from the officers guarding him and hanged him from the nearest ye- randa, and each member of tha mob fired a shot into the body. Then the leader of the mob warned the sheriff not to interfere with the corpse until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning Yesterday at Adams Mallory fatally wounded a farmer, white man. and was brought here for safe keeping.