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scHAEFER THE CH AMPION.
Wins the fhternntional Billiard Tour
 nament In New York.

New York, Dec. 10.-Jacob Schaefer of Chicago and George F. Slosson of this city met in the deciding game of the international IS inch balk line bil- Hard championship tournament at Mad ison Squa.e Garden concert hall to- night and the Chicago man won by a score of 400 to 355.
 Schaefer led at the end of the tenth inning by 16 points but four consecu- tive ciphers in his scored altered this arrangement and Slosson, playing an improved game, kept in the lead until he had turned his second century. In his thirtieth inning, Schaefer treated the audience to very pretty run of billiards and ran his score to 199 to Blossoms 210. At the end of the forty fifth inning the score stood 309 to 267 in favor of Slosson but Schaefer in his forty sixth inning made a. we'll earned 6S and won the worlds championship a few minutes later with successive high runs. Slosson and Barutel will play off tomorrow for second honors. Sutton of Chics 20 got fourth place and Morningstar and Howison divided fifth and sixth honors, each of them having lost four games To-night's result was:
 Schaefer: Total 400. High runs 6s, 54, 32, 2s. Average S-49.
 Sosson: Total 355. High runs 43, 3S, 32, 31. Average z 12-49.
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JAPANESE MINISTER TALKS
WELCOMES GROWTH OF AMERICAN "
 JN1ERESTS IN PACIFIC.
Recognized by His Country as of Vital Importance as ahe Surcst Means by Which Their Country Can Attain Its Full Measure of National Growth and Prosperity-Senato Hahna Speaks on the Ship Subsidy Bill.

1 Boston, Dec. 10.-In celebration of it's twenty-fifth anniversary the Boston Merchants association met at the Ven- dome this evening and were entertain ed by four men of national reputation with spirited addresses. chiefly along political lines. Postmaster General Emory Smith spoke on reciprocity; Hon. Kogaro Takahira, the Japanese minister upon the subject of commer- clal relations; Senator Marcus A. Han ma, on the ship subsidy bill, and Hon. Henry Watterson of Kentucky on Kentucky and Massachusetts" Mr. Takahira expressed his qualification at being in Boston, both as representa- tive of the Orient and because the mer- chants and ship owners of Boston and New England were the commercial ad- venturers of the republic from the ear Hest days and were among the first to carry the flag to Japan.
 Continuing, he said: "The notable SlOW LII Ol lIdQt DClW CCll tHC lWO COull- tries within the past few years must in- evitably tend to strengthening this friendship.
 Therefore, I wish you success and beg you to believe that the kindly sen timents which your people have so of ten manifested by word and deed to- ward Japan are echoed in the hearts of my countrymen
 "On that account, and for the added reason that it is pregnant of benefit to Japan, they gladly welcome the accel- erated development of your great in terests in the Pacific. Everything that makes for peace and for strengthening the ties of good neighborhood in that quarter of the world is of vital import ance to them as the surest means by which their country can attain its full measure of national growth and 
 Senator Hanna confined his remarks entirely to the question of ship subsidy and the latest bill for that purpose
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SON PLEADS WITH MOTHER.
Mrs. Mary E. Wright Smith StiM Rc-
 fuses to Pay JudQment.

1uses to ray Judgment.
 Bridgeport, Dec. 1o.--Mary E. Wright Smiths troubles are growing in mum. Der. and it is doubtful if the plan to ef- feet her release from jail by paying the Judgment held against her by Orrin F Daley, of New York, will be carried out. It had been arranged by some oi her friends in the W. c. T. U. and in the North Congregational church to raise the $500 necessary, but they have found that her release would be fol- lowed by the service of other sum- monses similar to that in the Daley case, and as she will not tell where her bonds are she would be committed again for contempt
 Mrs. Smiths son Daniel, who is a student at the works of the General Electric company at Syracuse, N. Y, came here yesterday afternoon and spent the afternoon and part of to-day with her. He begged her to make the payment and secure her release, but his pleadings were without avail.
 Mrs. Smith was last evening made de- fendant in suit for $500 and costs brought by the town of Easton to se- cure payment of back taxes on the farm which Mrs. Smith inherited from her grandmother. She recently deeded the farm to Miss Susan O'Neill, of Water bury, and Mrs:-I. N. Pettus, of New York, who were her attorneys, but be- fore doing so neglected to file an in ventory of the estate with the probate court, at which she should have done as administratrix of the estate This may prove to be a source of trouble in the future
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TeIegraphic Briefs.

Washington, Dec. 10.-E. l.. A. Pausch, the Buffalo sculptor, brought to the. White house to-day the death mask of the late most immediately after his demise. The mask has not yet been shown to the public. It Is expected it will be donated to the gov ernment and deposited in the Smithsonian Institution. It is said to be a remarkably faithful likeness of the late president.
 Boston, Dec 1O-Stockhoders of the Shoe and Leather National bank and the Nation al Bank of Redemption at special meetings to-day formally ratified an agreement for the liquidation of the former by the latter. Stockholders of the Bank of Redemption authorized an increase of capital from S1,- GOO, ,000 to S2,000000 and voted to allot new stock to Shoe and Leather stockholders of record at the close of business to-day.
 Philadelphia, Dec 10.-Colonel Carroll H. Potter, veteran of the civil and Spanish wars and widely known retired officer of the regular army, died yesterday at hos pital here of apoplexy. Colonel Potter had resided in this city since his retirement last year. He was born in Rhode Island in 1855 and was appointed to West Point military academy from Massachusetts, where he re- sided In his youth
 county seat of Wayne county, was almost wiped out by q fire which broke out shortly after midnight and ragged until after day light this morning. Ten buildings were de- StfOyeu. Ine JOSS IS S4o.UUU. mere was but little insurance and as the town has no fire department the inhabitants could do nothing but stand idly by and see their property go up in smoke.
 Newburgh, N. r., Dec 1O-The steam yacht Isis, built for W. S. and J. c. Spauld- ing, of Boston, was launched here to-day. The Isis will be added to the New York Yacht club fleet. She was designed by ]. Beaver Webb and is POO feet long and 24A feet beam. Her speed will be fourteen knots
 Mexico City. Dec. 10.-Jose Hyginie Du- art Pereira, delegate of Brazil to the Pan American conference, died this afternoon at APO from pneumonia, complicated with heart trouble.
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YOUNG GiRL,S HEROISM.
Plays March While 300 Children Escape
 from Burning school.

Chicago Dec. 10.-While clouds of smoke filled the railways from fierce fire which ragged in the basement of the Lincoln school to-day, Ethel Bar ker, thirteen years old, sat at a piano in the main corridor upstairs and play ed a lively two step for the 300 children to keep time by while marching out of the burning building. Miss Barker did not cease playing until the last child left the building, and when she tried to escape she was twice driven back by clouds of dense smoke, which by that time rolled through the corridors. She finally reached door and went to the first floor by groping along the walls and stair banister As a result of her coolness all the children were taken out safely
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Foreign Notes.

Yokohama, Dec. 1O.--The Emperor of Japan opened the imperial diet at Tokio to- day. He expressed his satisfaction with the growing friendships between the empire and the treaty powers and made a congrat- ulatory reference to the Japanese expedition to China. A former member of the diet, who returned to the chamber to-day, at tempted to present q petition of his griev- ances. He was arrested.
 London, Dec. 1.-The Rome correspond eht of the Daily ChronGle says that the appointment of Mgr. Sbarretti as apostolic delegate to the Philippine Islands is an act of deference to the American government and intended to counterbalance the nomina- tion of q Cuban archbishop to Havana.
 Melbourne, Dec. 10.-Rt. Hon. E. Barton. prime minister of Australia has cabled Sir Wilfred Laurler, the Canadian minister, ac- cepting the suggegstion of the latter that of the Dominion of Canada and the commonwealth of Australia meet and confer in London next June upon trade and other matters.
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MEDICAL DEPT. DEGRADED.
Statement of pr. Reed Regarding Treat.
 mont in the Army.

Marion, Ohio, Dec 10.-Dr. Charles A. L. Reed, of Cincinnati, the retiring president of the American Medical as- sociation, was given banquet here to- night by the medical profession of northern Ohio. In the course of his re- marks on pending congressional topics, viewed from a medical standpoint, he said:
 Tt seems, from evidence that has re- gently come from within the army it. self, that the medical department has not only been degraded, but that 1t is practically without authority. This was strikingly, indeed tragically, illus trated during the recent war. A con- mandant in charge of a quarter of the entire army encamped at a health re- sort not only set aside regulations of his sanitary officers. but by personal example melted his men to violate the most fundamental sanitary laws The result was that of the more than 5O.000 men iii his command 12,o00 were tnval- sided, while nearly a thousand died from preventable causes.
 If in an active military operation the commandant had ignored the advice of his scouts, and had led his command into ambush with similarly disastrous results-12,00o wounded and 1000 killed he would have been. court-martialed and doubtless dismissed from the ser vice.
 "The congress at the present session is to be asked to intervene in this mat ter--a matter that appeals to every sol dier, to every home that furnishes a soldier, to every patriot that is proud of the army, to every citizen that Is actu- ated by the ordinary impulses of hu-
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KITCHENER,s PROGRESS.
Reports Coed Bag Hs Result of Last
 Weeks Operations.

London, Dec. 10.-Lord Kitchener. in a dispatch from Pretoria, dated Mon- day, December 9, reports that the re- suit of the weeks work is 31 Boers killed, IT wounded 352 made prisoners, 35 surrendered, and quantities of SUD- plies captured.
 By advancing the line of blockhouses in the eastern part of the Transvaal Lord Kitchener is now able, for the first time, to carry out systematic and continuous operations in the vicinity of Ermelo, Bethel and Carolina. Columns have cleared the southeastern districts of the Orange River Colony and are now operating northward of the Ina banchu line. The Boers are still in force in the extreme west of Cape Col ony. They are there commanded by Maritz, who recently attacked Tontell- boschkop. The Boers were driven off and Maritz was severely wounded.
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Southern Securities Company Formed.

New York. Dec. 10.-The announce ment is made of the filing at Trenton and Newark of the charter of corpo- ration styled the Southern Securities company. It is understood that the Southern Securities company has been formed to, hold the securities of certain minor transportation lines and companies owning terminal facilities at point on or near the Gulf of Mexico. The capital is nominally S100,0O0, but may be increased at will. The identity of interests behind the new company has not yet been announced.
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MINISTER'S INSANE ACT.
Kills His Wife and Two Children
 Brooded Over n Sons Death.

Calumet, Mich, Dec. 10.--Rev John Kinnunen, minister of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran church at Copper Falls, Keweenaw county, killed his wife and two children and committed suicide last night. Kinnunen was forty years old and was universally respected One son, deaf mute, was recently sent to the State School for the Deaf at Flint, Mich, and was killedon his arrival there by a passing train. Kinnunen brooded over his sons death, and last night became violently insane. He first cut his wife's throat with butcher knife and then killed his two young sons wit', the same weapon The oldest boy, aged thirteen years, escaped and alarmed the neighbors. After killing his wife and two sons Kinnunen fired the house and cut his own throat The flames were extinguished.
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BOSTON ELECTS COLLINS MAYOR.
Chosen by tho Largest Plurality in
 Twenty-fve Years.

Chosen by tho Largest Plurality in
 Twenty-Five Years.
 Boston. Dec. 1O.-The democrats con- pletely overwhelmed the republicans in the city election to-day General Pat rick A. Collins being elected over Mayor Thomas N. Hart by the largest plural ity in quarter of a century. The democrats also obtained control of both branches of the city government, elect ed their street commission and prac- tically all their candidates for school commit tee As usual the city voted strongly in favor of license.
 The result of the contest was fully as much a surprise to the democrats as to their opponents. The most eanguine democratic prophet last night only claimed 10000, yet this plurality was nearly tripled. Two years ago Mayor Hart defeated General Collins by 2,2S1 votes and poiied something over 10000. This year the total republican vote for mayor was trifle over 33,000, the smallest given a party candidate for mayor since 1893, despite a registration of almost 50 per cent. larger. Yet Gen eral Collins received over 52,000 votes the largest in the history of the city, and he carried eighteen of the twenty five wards.
 The republican leaders tonight were inclined to blame the weather, but this does not account for the tremendous gains made by the democrats in repub- lican wards. Naturally there was great excitement in the close wards and in South Boston two prominent republi- can politicians were arrested on sus-
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Mystic shrine Mobiles Lead.

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Dec. 10.-Pyramid Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, met in Sailors hall last evening and conferred the degree on thirty-nine candidates in the most approved fash ion. The meeting was attended by about $50 members of the order from Ill parts of the state.
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MARCoNI AT ST. JOHNS, N. F.
Establishing a Wireless Photography
 System There-A Balloon Used.

St. Johns, N. F., Dec. 10.-William Marconi, the inventor of wireless teleg- raphy, who is here conducting experi- ments with his system, succeeded this afternoon in floating a balloon 200 feet above the summit of Signal Hill, which is 500 feet high and overlooks the har- bor of St. Johns. This balloon is fas- tened by series of stays which render it almost motionless. It holds up the vertical steel wire which is used in the system of wireless telegraphy in com- municating with distant ships. The weather is favorble to wireless com munication and Marconi hopes to attain results superior to those gi ven by any previous experiments.
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IMPETUS TO RUBBER TRADE.
Weather Conditions Cause Big De-
 mond for Rubber Goods.

The heavy storms of rain and snow about the country have given consid- erable impetus to the rubber trade as evidenced by an order received at the l.. Candee company factory in this city to increase the daily output from IF, 900 pair to 15,000 pair of rubber footwear. A number of rush orders for goods want ed at once have also been received and the demand for these is attributed to the heavy snows and rains throughout the country. This bids fair to be very active season for the rubber trade if the weather, which has prevailed thus far this season, continues.
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More Troops for south Africa.

London, Dec. 11.-Additional drafts for the militia, yeomanry and the regu- lars are already being prepared for transportation to South Africa. The British government has decided to call out for the South African service all reservists who have not completed their twelve years of service. The federal government of Australia is also con- siderng the sending of further contin- gents to South Africa.
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Putnam Boy Killed.

Putnam, Dec. 10-William Reilly, aged sixteen, while returning to his home here from Mechanicsville was struck by the 3:S0 train, west bound, and died at the Day Kimball hospital fifteen minutes after his arrival there It wac not thought at first that the boy was seriously injured, as an examina- tion did not reveal any serious injuries and therefore the cause of his death is something of mystery. Reillys home Is in Sandy Hook.
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Threat Iind Good Results.

Vienna, Dec. 11--As a result of the threat that he would suspend the con- stitution if the house persisted in it's obstruction, made by Dr. Won Koeber, the Austrian premier, in the reichsrath December g, that body yesterday dis posed of all the remaining stages of the provisional budget.
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TRAFFIC IN SLAVES.
Alabama Negro Accused of Selling Othor
 Negroes Into Bondage.

New Decatur, Ala, Dec 1O.-Ben Milan, colored, an ex-slave of Lawrence county, is under arrest charged with kidnapping negroes and selling them as slaves to the white manager of Ten nessee river island plantation some miles below Decatur. It is alleged that Milan would induce negroes to accom- pany him to the island with the prom ise of securing positions for them on the plantation at good wages and that when they reached there he would sell them in bondage where they were con- fined within stockades.
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Reward for Cashter's Capture

San Francisco, Dec. 10.-T. w. He'll man, president of the Farmers and Merchants bank of Los Angeles, Cal. has authorized the offering of a reward of 2,5o0 for the arrest of Fl. J. Fleish- man, the absconding cashier of the bank, and an additional reward of S2, 800 for the return of the money taken by Fleishman, amounting, it is said, to $100,000.
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NY,

picion of obtaining repeaters. This, however, was the only unfortunate fea- ture of the day
 The unofficial vote for the city with a single precinct missing is Collins 5215S; Hart S2,S43; plurality of 19,315. In 1899 Collins 3S,377: Hart 40,597.
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SUBMARINE BOAT FULTON SINKS.
A Valve Left Open ny Workmcn Which
 Let in the Water.

New York, Dec 10.-The submarine boat Fulton accidentally filled with wa ter and sank yesterday at her moorings at New Suffolk, Long Island. Some re- pairs were being made to the craft and by an oversight valve was left open. Divers closed the valve and attached pumps to-day, and it was expected that the vessel would be f1oated undamaged. One of the officers of the company said the most serious result of the accident would be the delaying of the start for Washington. The boat, after being raised, would have to be overhauled. This. he said, would take week at least.
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IN MISS STONES BEHALF.

ResOlution Intr oduced to Expend Nee.
 essary Amount for Her Release.
 Washington, Dec. 10-Representative Ryan of New York to- day introduced a bill authorizing the state department to expend such amount as is necessary to secure the release of Miss Stone, the missionary held by Turkish brigands.
 About 1,50O bills and resolutions were introduced to-day most of them re- prints of measures postponed at former sessions. Among the new bills were those of MT Shattuc of Ohio for the exclusion and deportation of alien an- archists; and of Mr. Wilcox, the dele gate from Hawaii, for the retirement of the Hawaiian silver coinage.
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BRITISH STE4MSHIP COMBINE.
Amalgamation of Important Interests
 Being Seriously Considered.


 London, Dec. 1O.-The remarks of Sir Thomas Sutherland, chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship company, presiding at meeting of the stockholders of that concern to-day, are taken in some circles as foreshadowing amalgamation and other important de velopments in connection with the line
 He advised the shareholders that they might soon find 1t desirable to modify and modernize their constructions. Sir Thomas disclaimed cognizance of any definite scheme being now on foot, but he said that in view of the many changes in the shipping world and the tendency of all large concerns to be- come larger, they had best place them selves in position to successfully grap- pie with the requirements of the future.
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N. D. sperrx Rs-.ppot1sstl

Washington, Dec. 10.--Spealet| derson this afternoon anno1u6x house commit tees. There is unusual in the appointments. Sperry, of New Haven, Conn. placed on the postofice and po4 committee. 4z
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Trenton, N. J., Dec. 10.-The Trenton and New Brunswick Railway company, capital S1, 100000, was incorporated here to-day. It is understood that the new line will connect with the Trenton and Camden Railway company, which already has q trolley con pectlon between Camden and Jerssy City,
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New Senate Bills.

Washington, Dec. 10.--Senator Martin to-day introduced bill for memorial bridge across the Potomac river at Washington at a cost of $5,O00, ,00O.
 A bill to-day was introduced in the Senate by MT. Clay, providing for the repeal of the bankruptcy law.
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HOWE & sTETS
DIRECTORS, MEErixI
Of the Fair Haven q WcsfvlizS1|y| |y|
 Hold Yesterday. &5|

At regular meeting of the dl of the Fair Haven and Westvil road company held yesterday aS appropriate minutes regarding M E. Hayes Trowbridge were adon5 ordered entered upon the conip6a ords. *}2
 Hayes Quincy Trowbridge w2e ed to the board of directors t04 vacancy occasioned by the deatt Hayes Trowbrldge. ||S
 The usual quarterly div,dent ~. per cent was declared. S33
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Austin Rice i'm n Draw.

Manchester, N H., Dec. 10.--Before the Queen City Athletic club this even ing Patsey Haley of Dover and Austin Rice of New London, Conn, fought fif- teen rounds to draw.
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S2.98 Umbrellas

A small lot of 26 \ size, Union Taffeta sill < CTS, good quality, with
 les of silver and pearl and pearl, buck horn ivory and white ivory are real $2.oS umbrel1as Special to close $1.o8
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Senator Blackburn to M&e1x5@ Washington, Dec. 1O.--A nnaT5l
 cense was issued to-day to S&nS
 c. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky HI
 Mary E, Blackburn, of this cisj