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ONE KILLED.
Fell Eight Stories in n Burning Pitts
burg B~uiIding-The Losses.

PITTSBURG, April 2f-The three upper
floors of the nine-story building occupied
by Barker, Williams & Co.'S furniture
house were Quilted by fire this evening, and
the stock on the floors below is a complete
loss by reason of the immense amount of
water poured into the building. Edward
Hagenmeyer. a fireman, was carried from
the eighth floor TO the cellar by the COL
lapse of an elevator shaft. His body has
not been recovered. His companions were
saved by c~lingsng TO window stills anti res
cued. Barker, Williams & Co.'S loss is
about $4,000: insurance $4,000. Spear q.
Co, next door, lose $4,000 by water. ]. W.
Rowland, OF Chicago. owner of the build
ing, loses $40, 600.
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THE ARMY as 1T WILL BE.

A Washington dispatch says it has been
determined 10 increase the regular army
TO approximately 5000 men and TO leave it
at that number unless conditions in the
Philippines should make more troops nee
essary. This decision has. been reached
by the President and the secretary of war
after a careful canvass of the situation.
The army organization law of March 2,
1899. authorized an increase of the regular
army 20 $1,000 men and the recruiting of
5000 volunteers, all of whom, that is, the
increase Of the regular army and all of
the volunteers, were to be discharged not
later than July l.. 1901. 1t looks like a
short-sighted policy and savors Of make
shift legislation for Congress to fix a date
for a wholesale reduction of the army with
out regard to circumstances. thereby as
Stunning that an emergency or necessity for
an increase Of the army which did exist
will cease to exist on or before that time.
Congress found it necessary to reconsider
this patchwork legislation. In order TO
meet the situation which would have been
caused by the enforced reduction of the
army on July l. 1901, the last Congress
passed another law. Under the act of
March 2, 1899, the United States would
have been without an effective army after
next July /. In devising a plan to meet
this situation Secretary Root discarded
the idea of depending so largely on tenn
pOrary extensions of the volunteer system
and drafted a bill for a complete reor-
ganization of the army on modern military
lines, with a maximum force of 100, 900 men
and a minimum of about $1,000. The bill,
with some amendments, became a law.
The best military authorities of the cOun-
try were of opinion at the time that
the merit of the measure lay as much
in the complete reorganization of the
On the latter point, however. it is inter-
esting to remark that while the law pro-
vided for an organization that should en-
brace not less than $1,000 men nor more
than JOG, 900. the President and secretary
Of war have decided on 5000 as the limit,
and this number to be maintained only as
long as circumstances may require. This
is considerably below the maximum author
lied by Congress, and certainly not more
than present conditions and future POSSIBLE
tiles require. 1t is very far from being an
imperial army.
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FALCONIO MAY BE NAMED
CANADIAN PRELATE MAY suCcEED
MGR. MARTINELLI.
Delegate to the Dominion
Likely to BE Transferred to
the Washington Post.

PARIS. April PA dispatch to the
Figaro from Rome says: Mgr. FaIconio.
the papal delegate in Canada. will succeed
Cardinal Martinelli as papl delegate in the
United States. and Mgr. Zaleski. the papal
delegate in the West Indies. will succeed
Mgr. Falconio."
WASHINGTON, April 24.-The report
from Rome that Mgr. Diomede Falconio.
now apostolic delegate to Canada, has been
selected TO succeed Cardinal Martineli as
delegate TO the United States is believed
here. For some days his name has been
connected by rumor with the succession 20
that office. He was mentioned first in that
connection at the time Mgr. Satolli. Mar
tinelli's predecessor. was elevated TO the
cardinlate, and il was believed his appoints
ment would be made until Cardinal Mar
tinelli's appointment came as a complete
surprise from the Pope. Cardinal Marti-
nelli probably will remain as apostolic
delegate to this country until next Octo-
Der at least. When he was in
formed last October of his COM
ing elevation he also was made acquainted
officially with the Pope's wish that he re-
main here for a year longer. At that time
IL was expected that he would be raised 10
the cardinalate in November. but the con-
sistory scheduled for that time was post
poned. Whether the years retention of the
office proposed by the Pope was intended to
date from last October or from the actual
date of his elevation has not been made
known TO the cardinal, but IL II probable
his departure will occur early next autumn.
When he returns TO Rome IL is expected he
will be assigned to the high ecclesiastical
duties usual I'm such cases. Like his prede-
cessor, Cardinal Satolli. he will be appoint
ed 10 the College of Cardinals and assigned
TO the various congregations OF that body.
those two organizations corresponding. re-
SneCtiyelV in "A legislative sense. to the
Senate and its committees.
The propaganda at Rome has decided TO
propose to the Pope that he appoint the
Very Rev. John j. O'Conner, VICAR general.
and at present bishop of Newark. The re-
port is confirmed that Father O'Conneil,
president OF the American College in Rome.
has been selected as the bishop of Portland.
Me. His official nomination will be made
known through a papal brief.
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Views of p. ince Kropotkin and Those
of the Ants.

Kansas City Star.
Prince Kropotkin, the Russian exile and
social reformer, has been giving a series Of
addresses on sociological topics in Chicago
during the last few days. An ardent lover
of liberty, he has read with especial inter-
est the predictions of the anti-expansionists
that "militarism" and imperialism" were
destined to overthrow the Republic. AS an
exiled Russian he should be able to appre-
ciate such menaces at their full value. He
views the situation as an outsider and his
conclusion is that there is no danger to
democracy from without.
1T is only through consultations of gcv-
eminent" says the prince, loss of local
autonomy, such as is witnessed in the fol-
nation of Greater New York, or a vast
concentration OF capital, that the people
might lose their spirit and then the danger
of militarism would become real. Other
wise the people will rebel against the
usurpation Of power very soon." Prime
Kropotkin is not alarmed by the menaces
of democracy in the United States Will
triumph over its enemies and will survive
the tendency TO lose it's power through
neglect.
1t is evident that the Russian has been
using his opportunities for observation in
America to advantage. His conclusions
recall James Bryce's remark in the Amer
lean Commonwealth, that the Astounding
strength and vitality of the American peo-
pie gave him confidence in their future in
spite or the dangers to which he felt they
were exposed. In contrast with the clear
view of fair-minded foreigners who have
studied American Institutions, the distorted
vision of many native-bOrn citizens Is the
more remarkable. Their trouble is really
a lack of faith in democracy. While pro-
Tossing TO be followers Of Thomas Jefferson
they ~repudiate, without seeming to know il,
his cardinal principle of confidence In the
people. Their nearness to democratic in
stitutions has brought the faults OF the
system before their attention TO the ex-
olusion of its virtues. They fail to take d
comprehensive view of the situation. An
impartial foreigner is able to appreciate
10th the flaws and the admirable points
about democracy in America. He sees
things in their true proportions. That is
why Prime Kropotkin and Mr.. Bryce have
more confidence in the institutions OF the
United States than Edward Atkinson or
William Lloyd Garrison.
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REBUFF FOR THE STATE
EASTMAN HEARING AT CAMBRIDGE
TAKES A NEW TURN.
Court Refuses to Admit an Entire
Line Of the Prosecution Evil
~dence-The Days Witnesses.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. April 2.-The gov
eminent lost its first critical point in the
admission of evidence against Professor
Eastman, of Harvard College, who is on
trial in the Superior Court, charged with
the murder of his brother-in-law, Richard
Grogan. jr.. this afternoon. when Judge
Gaskill stated that certain evidence. in the
form of repetition of statements alleged TO
have been made by Grogan as he was dy-
ing, was not admissible in a certain form,
which tended to convey the opinion and not
the fact as to whether he (Grogan) had
been killed or murdered" The point,
raised by Mr.. Elder for the prisoner, appar-
emily was unexpected by the attorney gen.
eral.
Lottie Broughton, a witness, was asked
TO repeat what she had heard Grogan say,
her testimony having already gone beyond
the point where it had been shown that
Grogan was wounded. Mr.. Elder. interpos-
ing. said he anticipated the answer 10 be.
Charles, you've murdered me- and to it
he objected as incompetent evidence on
the plain ground that it was Grogan's
opinion, not a specific declaration of the
dying man. On the same ground he OBJ
jected to evidence already presented, which.
in effect, was opinion and not bare state
ment of fact.
Attorney General Knowlton took the op-
position ground, but the decision was
against the government in almost every
particular, the exception oeing tha1 the
Identical words objected 20 were allowed
to stand in the direct testimony of Mr..
Titus, a druggist, who saw the struggle
between Grogan and Eastman. ard hes ri
the former speak, Immediately after being
shot
Che entire day was full of sensat oral evil
dence, beginning with that of Walter. ID.
Titus, a druggist. He saw Eastman with
a revolver in his hand, and identified one
exhibited in court as the same. Several
persons who live in the neighborhood of the
Alvan Clark estate told Of excitement fol-
lowing the shooting and of hearing cries of
Help and Murder"
The concluding witness and the one
whose evidence is expected to be very i'm
portant was Belle Bryan. the housekeeper
for Mrs. Grogan. Her story had not pro-
ceeded far enough at the days adjourn
ment to disclose the governments strength
at this point in its chain of circumstances.
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EFFORTS TO APPEAsE STUDENTS.
Need of Reforms Made Clear by the
New Minister of Education.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 1.-THE stu
dents, save always the fanatical, irrecon-
cilable majority which seeks every oppor-
tunity to organize political agitation in the
higher educational institutions, regard the
appointment of General Vanovsky as minis
ter of education as the gracious rescript Of
the Car, in which the need of reforms AMI
improvements is emphatically admitted as
a great moral victory, and are inclined to
throw no difficulties in the way of the
new minister and the new policy.
1t is related at the Ministerial Council,
which preceded by twenty-four hours the
announcement of the appointment, his
or, rather, led the long and earnest dis
c~ussion. He is said TO have set forth the
existing defects in the educational scheme
and TO have declared that the fact that
sons of the best and most conservative
families were involved in the university
lamentations. and that the disturbance ex-
tended from one end of the empire TO the
other, made IT impossible to accept unre-
served the view held in some quarters that
the blame lay entirely on one side. His
Majesty then invited General Vanovsky to
speak. and the aged ex-minister of war ex-
planned the results of his inquiry two years
ago and during the last few weeks. His
Majesty then appealed to General Van
ovsky to come to his assistance.
II is understood that on May i Senator
Meshchanienoff will be named the assistant
TO the minister OF education. This gives
the students additional assurance that the
reactionary element, which Is still powerful
In the persons OF the procurator of the
Holy Synod, NJ. Pobedonostzeff. Minister
OF the Interior S~ipiaguine and others. will
not succeed in changing or perverting the
benevolent designs of the Emperor and
twisting the intended reformation into a
reformation.
Senator Meshchaninoff is regarded as a
shrewd and philanthropic man. Appointed
chief OF the prison administration toward
the close Of 1900. he took great pains to
tighten as much as possible the imprison-
ment of students and women students I'M
der arrest. He has been engaged hitherto
chiefly I'm the Ministry of Justice
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Those papers which talk about the oppres-
sive demands of the Platt amendment to the
Cuban constitution are careful not to pub
hsh the amendment itself or state it's sub
stance. The fact is no nation ever asked
as little return for a great and vital serv-
ice rendered another as this government Is
now asking from Cuba. If he'Cubans had
10 deal with the European powers which
are demanding big money indemnities from
China they would be in hard lines indeed.
They do not know when they are wkn off.
and they nave no sense of gratitude.
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TO SEEK ,HE NORTH POLE.
Captain Bernier VIII Start I'm N ves-
sci of His Own Design.

VANCOUVER. b. c., April 2i-Plans
have been completed for the construction
OF the vessel to be built here for Capt.
Joseph Bernier. who intends starting on a
north-pole expedition, TO be absent Ave
years. The vessel will cost $4,000. j. B.
Tyrrell, the Canadian explorer. will ac-
company Bernier. This new vessel VIII be
unique in some respects. II will have a per-
perpendicular double stern-post rud-
der, to permit OF unshipping the
rudder or propeller at any time.
She will also have "A flush deck. so
as 10 avoid frequent flooding OF the forward
deck. She will have three masts, with a
sail area OF seven thousand square feet. her
rig resembling that of "A three-masted top
sail schooner. The masts will be about one
hundred feet high. but the topmasts are
made to take down. reducing the length TO
sixty feet when needed. The vessel Will bs
provisioned for a hye-year voyage. with a
crew of four. including six scientific men.
consisting OF a surveyor. an astronomer.
geoiogist. biolographist. artist. photogra-
pher and doctor.
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USED MAILS TO DEFRAUD.
Henlers" Who Did nm
Enormous Business in Missouri.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, April 24.-In the
Federal Court here. Stephen A. Weltmer
and Joseph II. Kelly. president and secre-
tary. respectively. Of the Weltmer Institute
of Magnetic Healing. at Nevada. Mo.
Pleaded guilty to indictments charging them
with using the mails to defraud. They
threw themselves on the mercy of the court.
Sentence has been reserved. The institute
advertised TO heal ''all diseases known TO
man or woman giving "absent treatment.
and did such d tremendous mail order bust
ness that abe Nevada postofhce was raised
from a fourth 10 a frst-class office. The
Postofice Department at Washington or
dered their mail stopped on a fraud order.
n this was followed later by grand jury
Lndictments.
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The acquittal of Capt. Ripley by the
Frankfort Ry.) court is causing some COM
ment in the papers. The general opinion of
Republican and some independent papers is
that the Cantrill court is a tribunal for the
political persecution of prominent Repub-
leans. Among the opinions quoted is that
Of General Simon Il. Buckner, who has been
Governor of Kentucky. which is that. in his
belief, none of the accused would receive a
fair trial. TIC a reporter General Buckner
said a few days ago:
The whole thing is an Ubiquitous one. They
can convict anybody with a fund of 100000.
You know that any kind of evidence can be
bought for that sum. It is blood money, as
they used to call it in olden times, and Ii -
a bad condition of affairs for a civilized
State. They could convict you or me with
that amount of money.
There is reason to believe that the ex-
Confederate general has expressed the in
telligent sentiment OF the country, namely,
that the whole prosecution is an iniquitous
proceeding.
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In some localities in the city the asphalt
pavement is in a deplorable condition. This
is specially true of a portion of Massa-
chusetts avenue east of College avenue.
There are places so badly broken that it is
not safe to drive a horse at a brisk trot.
Was this work well done at the outset, or
does it prove that asphalt is not a lasting
pavement for a street having so much
heavy traffic as portions of Massachusetts
avenue? If the broken portions are to be
patched 1t will cost a large amount. Having
been once heavily taxed for the improve
ment. 1t would not be reasonable or fair to
impose another tax to resurface the street.
Is ii not possible that the best pavement
Tor the sides of streets alongside the street.
railway tracks is some kind of stone or
blocks where there is heavy traffic? 1T
might be we'll to inquire
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CHICAGO. April 2i.-The Chronicle to-
morrow VIII say that a big traffic CON.
pany has been formed among the railr0ads
west and southwest Of Chicago and all OF
the important lake steamship companies.
TO control summer tourist travel and main
tain common rates and arrangementS
While rates and arrangements OF the new
combination have not been announced. IL
mer tourist rates. Already IL Is announced
that the summer tourist fares from Buffalo
10 all points east and southeast OF that
city Will be raised from 81 10 s. per ticket.
II Is not known yet whether the rail and
boat lines I'm the agreement viii advance
rates from the Central and Western dis
trict.
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OBITUARY.
DR.. Henry Byron MckeIIops, an Ar-
thority on Dentistry.

ST. LOUIS. April 2-Dr. Henry Byron
McKellops. of this city. is dead. aged sew
enty-eight years. He had an international
reputation as an authority on all matters
pertaining to dentistry and dental surgery.
DR.. McKellops was born i'm Salena, near
Syracuse. n. Y. In 1856 the Ohio Dental
College conferred on him the degree of doc
tor of dental surgery. In 1868 he was chosen
president Of the American Dentists As
ISOLATION. DIR. McKellops was commended
for gallantry in the Mexican war, COM
handing MOrgan's rifemen in that strug-
gle between republics. He was quite
wealthy.
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Quite a controversy is going on among
the alumni of Harvard and others in Massa-
chusetts over the proposition to have the
degree of Ii. d. conferred upon President
Mckinley when he attends Harvard COM
mencement in June. For a time it was the
custom of Harvard to confer the degree of
Ii. D.. upon Presidents. Andrew Jackson,
II we mistake not, was thus decorated. The
ultra mugwumps and anti-imperialists OPP
pose the honoring of the President, the
chief reason given being that the last Presl-
dent to whom the honor was offered, Mr..
Cleveland, declined it. Because he declined
it the directors seem to assume that he
declined it for all future Presidents. 1t IS
not a matter of much consequence, but
there seems to be no reason why President
Mckinley should be refused the honor be-
cause ex-President Cleveland refused it.
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Were Tother Way"

I love too well, 1 must confess,
The winsome countenance Of Bess
To ever give her up and say
I'll be forever and a day
Devoted TO the queenly Jess.
Yet Jess is one as like to bless
A fellows life. What sore distress,
Alas, 1 love not wisely, nay
l love too we'll.
What I shall do ] cannot guess.
I'll ne'er love either charmer less.
IT'S Jess tomorrow, Bess to-day
Who sways my heart. o! tell me. pray.
To which shall l my love confess?
1 love two we'll.
-CatholfC Standard
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The address of Mr.. Pierce. an army chap
lain and an Episcopal minister who has
been a great deal in the Philippines. is an
expression OF opinion from an impartial
witness. This address was delivered before
the American Academy Of Political and
Social Science at its annual meeting in
Philadelphia last week. his subject being
most strongly insisted upon By the clergy
man was the many races in the Philippines
and their influence as a determining factor
in the problem. He told his audience that
there are many races in the islands. and
that while the Taxais were possibly capable
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Too Eager for kindIing wood.

CHICAGO. April 2a-One man was killed
tonight and a number of people were in
iured by pulling down a house on them
selves. The house stood at No. 100 Max
we'll street and had been condemned. lit
Was a frail wooden affair, and when the re-
port was given out hat IL was TO be de-
stroyed a large number OF Polish Hebrews
living in the neighborhOod came to supply
Themselves with frew0od. In their eager
ness TO obtain the wood the crowd caused
the structure to collapse Joseph Pusalere.
ffty-seven years old was killed. The in
Charles Rocco. legs BADLY bruised; Michael
scola. leg broken. Several other people
were less seriously h4rt-
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BAKER CITY, Ore. April 24.-W. w.
Trip, an old resident OF this city, is dead
from neuralgia of the heart. He was a
noted Indian scout and was at the Little
Big Horn when Custer and his troops were
slain in 1876, taking an active part I'm that
memorable campaign. Some time previous
to the Custer massacre ne headed a scout
ing party that rescued Mrs. Morgan n
Miss White from the Sioux and Cheyennes.
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PITTSBURG, Pa, April 2L-Fire I'm Bar
ker. William a. Co.'S large furniture store
and warehouse, on Pennsylvania avenue,
near Ninth street. this afternoon, did s75.-
600 damage.
DANFILLE. Va, April 24.-Fire to-day
destroyed eleven business houses, with al
aggregate loss OF S67,500 The insurance is
1880
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An exchange moralizes on the suicide of
the two bankers who ruined a bank in the
State Of Washington. declaring that their
suicide did not restore a dollar or in any
way affect their offense. All that may be
true: but the fact that the bank officers.
when they robbed the bank in their charge.
assumed hat robbery by trusted men is
so helnous a crime as to be punished BY
death should so for something. They tried
and convicted themselves and fixed the
penalty.
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Grogan Professor Eastman was arrested
and discharged after a hearing by local
judge. His indictment after so long a time
is unusual, and indicates either that New
England justice is very persistent or that
some family feud has revived the charge.
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Really. there is no sincerity in the attack
in Southern States upon colored fliterates.
They ave not been doing much voting TO-
years in the States where they live in con-
siderable numbers. In Alabama the negroes
have not elected q colored man for years.
The real aninus of the movement to dis
franchise co!ored men is to destroy the
equality OF citizenship which the right 10
vote confers upon all who are allowed TO
exercise the right OF suffrage.
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Not SO Ignorant.

Philadelphia Press.
Miss Karpe-How do you like Mr.. Gushley?
Miss S~harpe-Fairly well. but he must think
I'm awfuIly stupid and unohservant.
Miss karpe-Why?
Miss ~Sharpe-Becaus he remarked last night
oh: Miss Sharpe, you have no idea how pretty
you are!'