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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-19

Countess Cassini daughter of the Rus
/ sian Ambassador, entertained informally
/ at luncheon yesterday.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-19

Mrs. Comegys, wife of Major e. T.
ComeGys. L. $. A, is visiting her parents
General and Mrs G. p. Wilcox. at their
Washington residence
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Mr. and Mrs. William Eustls viii sail
Tor London next month. whore ar. Eustis
VIII begin his duties as third Secretary Of
the American Embassy 1T the Court of
ST James
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-19

Mrs Hitchcock. wife Of the Secretary
OF the Interior, ard her daughter, Miss
Margaret Hitchcock, viii leave today for
New York
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-19

Captain aud MIS-. Rcber Will take up
their residence in Washington the first
Of April Captain Reber having been as
signed 10 duty on General Miles staff
Mrs Reber is the only daughter of Gen
eral and Mrs Miles
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-10
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

Newport R. /, Nov. 9.-Torpedo boat
De Long, built by Lawley. Boston, sue
cassfuDy made her speed runs for stand
ardizinr her screws over the measured
mile here today before the naval inspec-
ton board The speed was about the
same as that Of her sister boat, the
BlakelY.
Boston. Nov 9.-The secretary Of the
Boston Merchants Association announced
today that the date for the annual ban
quet Of the association has been set as
Dec. 10. at the Hotel Vendome. The chief
speakers are to be Postmaster General
charles Emory Smith. senator Marcus
Hanna Of Ohio and Hon. Henry c. Water
son Of Louisville, Ky.
Rutland, VT. Nov O. - After having
served four years Of an Is year sentence
in state prison, Seamon l. Wtthereil or
Grafton. # is thought. VIII be released on
the ground that ne is an innocent man.
In 1897 he was sentenced 70 an is years
term on charge Of criminal assault upon
a girl. and after four years the alleged
victim has confessed that her evidence
against Witherell was false and that IL
was given under compulsiOn OF her
mother. who was in love with Witherell,
but who was not cared for by him.
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short time ago, suffering with stomach
trouble, is reported in a critical condt-
ton.
Oscar +. Lawrence, secretary OF
the Worcester County Society Of En-
gineers. has several group pictures Of
members Of the society. taken during
the recent inspection Of the Metropoli-
tan Water Basin. Those who wish to
order copies should communicate with
Mr.. Lawrence
Miss Sadie Jameson and Harry X.
Colby will be married Tuesday night
at the home Of the groom's mother, a
Lake Street, by Rev. Arthur 5 Bur
rows Of the South Baptist Church
The Woman's Progressive LUZ
will hold its monthly meeting al the
home of Mrs b. Hawkins. l9 congress
Street. tomorrow afternoon at O'CLOCK
"A social in the form Of an expert
ence meeting viii be held at the Home
FOR the Aged. 10 Liberty Street, Tues
dav night. StereOpticon views viii be
shown
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FOREIGN MINISTER'S AT
Ii HUNG CHANGES YAMEN

Pekin. Nov. 9.-The foreign ministers,
wearing plain mourning, went in a body
this afternoon to the late Ii Hung
Changs yamen, and presented their con-
dolences, according to Chinese custom.
Chinese soldiers lined the streets near the
yamen. and the great crowds which gath
cred in the streets and about the yamen
were perfectly orderly.
All the city officials received the min
listers in the outer court. The coffin was
in a spacious inner court. temporarily
rooted 1t rested on an altar behind a
screen. and had over it a royal pail. con-
ferred by the emperor's command, an
honor heretofore bestowed only on mem
bers Of the imperial family. Many Bud
dhist priests were in attendance
There were rows of tables bearing Of
ferings of food amounting to several
tons and piles Of paper money Candles
and incense were burned about the coffin.
Ii Hung Chang's two sons stood near the
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There is an association of Worcester
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-10

people which has reputation for high
ly successful work in the line of it's
endeavors, which does not intend to
fall into machine government l was
present when the members elected Of
fcers the other evening. There were
not less than four nominations for each
place, and in some cases eight or nine
nominations. As many as three ballots
had to be taken in several instances
before any candidate received a major
ty over his fellows. Yet these contests
were conducted in a spirit Of good
will, and the results were free from
traces of bitterness. The system is one
that might be followed with profit by
some Of the associations organized for
political purposes.
During the inspection of City Hos
pital yesterday a prominent member
of the board of trustees had consider
able fun at the expense of a rising
young Democrat. The trustee said he
had seen the gentleman of political in
clinations shaking hands with the
patients and had heard his making in
quiries as to when they would be dis
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specimen of it was brought to Wor-
cester by a man who went home to
vote. All kinds of campaign literature
were distributed on the streets of the
big city and this is where the adver-
Using man got in his fine work. He
prepared and distributed a leafiet
doubled in two, on the outside of
which was in large black type the le-
gend 1.-THE Inside History of the Platt-
Whitney-Rya Conspiracy against
Jerome. What Was Said" There was a
scramble for the leaflets and the vot-
ers eagerly opened them to read
Drink - Mineral Water. It's good
for the kidneys, liver and stomach"
One of my young woman friends who
is a school teacher in one of the subur-
ban towns told me the other night
about one Of the boys in her class whom
she saw chewing gum during recita-
ton. She Immediately told him TO
throw the gum into the waste basket
and he innocently replied, that he
couldn't because it did not belong to
him.
There is an association of Worcester
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PERSONALS

Charles e. Chamberlain eng identi-
fled with the retail shoe rade in
Worcester, will enter the employ of the
Boston Store tomorrow as manager OF
the shoe department. Mr.. Chamberlain
was for many years with Bemis & Co.
and more recently was with c. 7.
Sherer. He severed his connections
with the latter last night.
-Ivor Muskovin Of ] Jay Street who
was removed to the City Hospital a
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casket, attired in saekeioth. Before the
scene was a cushion, where the Chinese
callers made prostrations. The ministers,
however. stepped forward, singly, and
bowed low
The dean Of the diplomatic corps read
an address OF sympathy, to which the
older son Of the deceased replied in Chi
nese, the younger son interpreting his
words in English.
The scene about the yamen was anil
mated and picturesque Hundreds of Of
hcials were present In their robes of Of
flee. Mounted retainers are arriving daily
from all parts Of the province.
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charged. He presumed that the men
would be dragged out whether con-
valescent or not on election day
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Our Carpet Halls are now Entirely Remodeed and Reted under
the management of Mr. McCauand Nearly Double Their Former Sze
~ Not To Equaei SIZE efficiency service, light and
stretch of show space in New England. Come and see.
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New Patterns in HEAVY SCOTCH
DOUBLE DAMASK CLOTHS.
yards $3.50. $3.50, $500
yards 21z. $3.50, $3.50
yards $3.50 $3.50, $3.50
EXTRA
yards yards
quality on account of being what called INATCHED SETS
EVERY HIGHER PRICE
Dyies-Hemsitched
brodered
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OVERCOME BY THE DEBATE.
ME-. Clubman Tried a New Bluff ON
His Better Half, But 1t
Wouldn't Go.

"Scuse me for being SO late, m:.m:my
dear, but fact is we was having a dis-dis-
chussion on whether the cons.tooshun fol-
lows tn flag" relates the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, "or tn f.f-aag follows cons'too-
shun."
ooh, you were, were you? Well, what did
you decided"
"Thass it. What did we decide? Jim
S-S-Smith says that flag f-f-follow any
thing. He says that flag always leads.
Thass what Jim says. Joe Bangs says that
constooshun is morn hundred yearsh old
and when it goes anywhere it ought ito be
t-t-taken in a hack. Jim says it couldn't
by no possible means follow anysing. Good
crack. wasn't it? Joe's got a g-g-great
head"
"And what did you decide?!"
"Who? Me? Mean me, my dear? Why,
/ JUS said that the best way to solve per
oblem was to wrap cons-tooshun tightly
round flagstaff, an then let 'em 60 into it
togesser. Thass tn way. Watcher thing
of it?"
."Well, I think if you don't pull off your
shoes and follow them with the rest of
your garments, and then wrap the blankets
tightly around you, there'll be enough kinds
of trouble raised in this family to wreck
the best government that ever was formed"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-01-24
]! WEEKS HISTORY.
The Important Happenings Of a.
Week Briefly Told.
IN PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
NALL PARTS OF THE UNION
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FIFTY-sIxTH CONGRESS-,

No legislative business of Importance
was transacted by the United States
senate on the 18th, the session being de-
voted to services held in memory of the
late Senator Cushman X. Davis, of Min
nesota. In the house the time was DC
cupied in discussing the river and har-
Dor bill.
In the United States senate on the
14th the time was devoted to consider
alton of the army reorganization bill,
but no progress was made, Senators
Teller and Pettigrew resorting to fill
clustering tactics. In the house good
progress was made on the river and
harbor bill, SO of the 81 pages being
completed. Many amendments were
offered, but all failed.
On the 18th the United States senate
further considered the army reorgani-
zation14 A bill was passed granting
a pension of $50 a month to Horatio n.
Davis, father of the late Senator Davis,
of Minnesota. In the house the time
was spent on the river and harbor bill
without completing it. The naval ap-
preparation bill ($77, DOC, ooO) was ia
vorably reported.
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TOWN TALK.

More than half the area of Washing
ton is o devoted to the public use.
Alexandria,, Va, where Washington
attended church, was founded in 174s
and was once a prosperous port.
In Washington the numbered streets
run north and south, the lettered
streets east and west, and the system
of house numbering is the simplest
and most complete of any in the coun-
try.
In New York the board of aldermen
has passed an ordinance declaring ita
misdemeanor for anyone to throw pa
per or rubbish OF the streets. Viola
ton of this law will be punished by a
fine of not less than one dollar and i'm
prisonment for not more than five
days.
A fresh impression of the immensity
of London-the little world by itself
is gained from the statement that in
1899 the killed and wounded in the
London streets numbered. 1891, of
whom 207 were killed outright. No
battle in the South African war can
show SO large a total of losses as this
list of casualties in the streets of peace.
full London.
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Notes.

The Cass County Bar Association
passed resolutions of coincidence on the
death of Attorney Ingwaldson.
c. H. Montney, of Jamestown, has
made settlement with the Northern Pa
cific for the death of his wife in the rail-
road disaster at Dehart, Mont. Mr.. Mont
ney accepted the offer of $1,000 made by
the company and has received the money.
Postmasters have been appointed for
North Dakota as follows: Joshua w.
Murphy at Shields. Morton county, vice
Mary E. Fleming, resigned, and Mrs.
Mary L. Clark at Wade, Morton county,
vice William V. Wade, resigned,
Large quantities of valuable seeds were
destroyed in the fire which burned the A.
{. barr at Fargo. The management had
samples in small quantities stored else
where. but it will take two years to pro-
duce from these quantities sufficient for
experimenting on a large scale.
The annual meeting of the North Da-
kota Wool Growers Association will be
held In Bismarck on February Sth. This
association represents one of the great
industries Of the state and its annual
meetings are becoming more and more
interesting each year.
The baseball squad of the Grafton high
school presented a handsome and COM
Portable easy chair to Supt, as
a Christmas gift.
Llzzle Brown, a woman who attempted
suicide In Fargo some time ago. is now
IN Jail on a charge of vagrancy.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

1t has been decided by the United
States supreme court that c. F. W.
Nicely, accused of embezzlement of pos
tai funds in Cuba, is subject to extra
dition. The court held that Cuba is
foreign territory, our only purpose in
the war with Spain being to free the
Cubans from Spanish domination.
The balance of trade in favor of the
United States in 1900 was $64s, 99s, 1888.
Increase over 1899, $172, 49s, Ut.
In the supreme court Solicitor Gen
eral Richards declared that it was the
intention of congress to treat Hawaii
as part of the United States for legis-
laive purposes.
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Columbia university has appealed to
its friends for $500, 900.
The school children of Mississippi
have voted in favor of the magnolia as
the states flower.
Alfred Vanderbilt has given SO ,7O0,-
900 to his fance, Elsie French, as her
marriage portion.
Postmaster General Smith recon-
mends an appropriation of $500, 900 for
pneumatic tube service.
American, Canadian and English
iron interests have practically united
to push trade in Europe.
Consular reports say British mer-
chants and manufacturers continue to
worry over commercial invasion by
Americans.
State Horticultural Director Scott.
OF Georgia, reports that 2.OOO, 900 new
fruit trees will be planted in that
state by March /.
The taking of the Canadian census
will begin Monday, April /. All per-
sons living at midnight Sunday, March
81, will be counted.
The commercial bodies of Memphis
have decided to invite President Nc
Kinley to visit that city during the
confederate reunion next May.
Mrs. John c. Heenan, widow of the
once-famous pugilist, is still acting on
the stage, being known as Miss Sarah
Stevens, which was her maiden name.
A Montreal paper warns England to
cease insulting French-Canadians, de-
claring the British government holds
Canada through the people of Quebec
province. .
Abraham Oppenheimer, a Philadel-
phla citizen of so years, astonished all
observers by doing some wonderfully
fancy skating on the pond in Fair
mont park.
A syndicate controls every theater
in Broadway, New York. William
Winter, the veteran dramatic critic,
protests against placing art on a COM
mercial basis.
According to Gov. Crane 40 per cent.
OF the population of the state of Mas
sachusetts is included within a circle
including ten miles i'm every direction
from the statehouse.N
Official statistics Of the foreign
trade of the port of Newi,York for the
calendar year of 1900 SNOWMAN increase
in the aggregate movement Of mer-
chandise to the extent of aver $67.-
900. 900.
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THE EAST.

By the death of Lyman Saperstone,
aged four years, the number of VIC
tins of the Rochester (N. W orphan
asylum fire is 81.
At Dorchester, Mass, Edward Brock
us, chief editorial writer of the Boston
Herald for 20 years, was killed by the
cars.
At the age of SO. years Commodore
Alexander Henderson, a chief engineer
in the United States navy, retired,
died at Yonkers. N. Y.
At Albany. N. Y, Lous Currier,
painter, killed his wife and son and
himself.
The wife of William Lake dropped
dead in Newark, N. j., from excessive
laughing.
At Newport, R. l., Miss Elsie French
and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt were
married.
In Sing Sing prison William Neu-
field, who murdered Mrs. Annie Kron-
man in New York August 7, 1899, was
put to death in the electric chair.
The men accused of killing Jennie
dt TdteTSOn, N. j., were
placed on trial.
At the age of 70 years Townsend Sax
ton, inventor of the first bicycle and
first folding bed, died in Babylon, L. 1.
Discovery was made of g, counterfeit
ten-dollar note of the Tompkins coun-
ty national bank of Ithaca, N. Y.
The following United States sena-
tors have been elected: Pennsylvania,
Matthew S. Quay (rep.); Massachu-
sets, George F. Hoar (rep.); Maine,
w. P. Frye (rep.); New Hampshire,
Henry E. Durham (rep.); Michigan,
James Mcmillan (rep.); Colorado,
Thomas NJ. Patterson %(fusionist);
Idaho, Fred T. Dubois (fusionist).
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P OF

Finland loses $500 worth of cattle
q year by wolves.
There are about 3O,oOO,o 900 acres of
unoecupied public land yet remaining
in Montana.
The amir of Afghanistan has issued
an order that all the young men
throughout the country who are not
permanently employed at some occu-
patton are to join the army.
DR.. Gallus Ritter o Hochberg, of
Carlsbad, is probably the Oldest prac-
ticing physician in the world. He is
81 years of age, looks after the poor of
the town and goes to the theater reg
ularly. He is an Austrian imperial
court councillor.
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WEST AND IT

Dispatches say that in the grip belt,
which extends across the United States
from New York to the Rocky noun
tains, 100000 persons are suffering
with the disease.
With the bodies of 60 soldiers the
steamer Californian arrived in San
Francisco from Taku. China.
In Chicago Frank Brill won the ma
tional contest for individual bowlers.
In Chicago o. n. Ellefson, who tasted
"a days at the command of a "~voice"
supposed by him to be supernatural,
broke his fast on a command from the
same source.
Conductor Wing and Brakeman Ring
were killed in a freight wreck at Belle
vile. III.
S. R. Cockrell, chief justice of the
Arkansas supreme court from 1884 to
1893, died in Little Rock, aged SO years.
The last chief of the Omaha Indian
tribe, No Knife, died at the home of his
son, Mathew Tyndale, near Pender,
Neb., at the age of us years.
Elijah w. Blaisdell, one of the
founders of the republican party, and
the first to mention Lincoln for presi-
dent, died at his home in Rockford, Ill.
At the capitals of the several states
the national electors met and cast
their votes for president and vice presi-
dent. The returns show that 20 states
cast 292 votes for Mckinley and Roose-
welt, while II states cast 1855 votes for
Bryan and Stevenson.
Mary PRICE died at Fountain City,
Ind, aged nearly 1O1 years.
The following governors were inau-
gurated: Richard Yates, Illinois;
| William T. Durbin, Indiana; A. M.
Dockery, Missouri, and w. E. Stanley,
Nebraska.
Burglars entered the Peoples bank
at Livingston, Tenn, and carried off
$4,000.
In Leavenworth, Kan, Fred Alexan.
der, a young negro who attacked Eva
May Roth, was taken from Jail and
burned at the stake in the presence OF
5000 people.
At Austin, Tex, Gov. Sayers and
Lieut.. Gov. Browning were inaugural
ed for their second terms.
The death of Scott Wike, a former
Illinois congressman from the Six.
tenth district, occurred at his home
near Barry, aged sc years.
Near Elko, S. c., Charles Lang, a ne
gro, was strung up to the limb of a
tree and shot to death by a mob for
J assaulting the wife of a farmer.
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While frequent appeals are being
made in the United States for the
preservation of forest lands other
countries are giving the timber ques-
ton serious attention. M. Melard,
chief of the French forestry bureau,
points out in a report that the con-
sumption of timber in the world is
greater than the production of the
accessible forests, with the obvious
result that the governments must
soon take measures to preserve their
timber lands. Sweden, Norway, Rus
STA, the United States and Canada are
beginning to feel the scarcity.
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Atthe beginning of the century sta
ff~sticians'are predicting the population
of the United States when the next
century shall begin, as if population
were the real measure of the nations
greatness. China has population, and
little else. Some of our cities have so
much of the worst kinds of population
That they hold up cars full of people
and demand their money. which the
latter hand over without protest. The
character of the country's population
Is Of greater Importance than the
acounting of a few additional millions
which contribute nothing but crime.
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1t is the rule of the war department
to grant honorable discharges from
the army to soldiers who desire to get
into business in the Philippines. A
large number of officers and men in
the volunteer regiments have already
done SO, and many others whose COM
missions or terms of enlistment ex-
pire in July next have made applica-
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The best place for reyolvers is in the

The best place for %revolvers is in the
hardware store. The six-year-old son
sof Mrs. John v. Pennington, of Ora
ham, Ga, was given a revolver to
lplay with the other day, and as his
1otber thought it was empty she
pughed when he pointed it at her play
nlly and said he was going to shoot
He pulled the hammer, a ball
shed through his mothers head
in q few minutes she was dead.
e clIld went into spasms as a result
sg2Shock. If you'have any revolvers
house sell them to the junk man.
are poor playthings for children.
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FOREIGN 1NTEII1GENcE.

During a storm off the vast coast of
Yokohama, Japan, 400 fishermen per-
ished.
With the arrival of the United States
cruiser Philadelphia at Panama quiet
was restored.
On the Corsican coast the Italian
steamer Lerne was wrecked and Is
lives were lost.
Boer raiders were within so miles of
Cape Town.
A dispatch from Gen. Macarthur an
nounces the surrender of Delgado, the
insurgent commander in Iloido.
The sale of the Danish West Indies to
the United States will, it is said, soon
be completed.
In the province of Shensi, China,
there is a famine and 5000, 900 people
are facing starvation.
Beers captured a convoy of ~ wag-
ons, killing two British officers and
%wounding II. The British war office,
alarmed for Africa, decided to enlist
5000 men for Kitchener.
Advices were sent to the state de-
partment of the seizure of two Amer
lean boats by the Venezuelan govern
ment.
At the age of 81 years Johann Faber,
founder of 1he Faber lead pencil fac
tory, died at Euremburg.
Over 80 Filipino leaders were deport-
ed from Manila to Guam.
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Shipping in Seed Wheat.

The more able farmers are shipping in
seed wheat from Southern Minnesota and
South Dakota to be ready for spring
seeding. This is done on account of the
poor condition of the grain in this state
on account of the rains. Many of the
smaller farmers will unite and nave a
car load shipped to them. Some are with
out the necessary cash and will have to
wait till Spripp
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When the New York school children
were asked to give a penny each for
5he Galveston sufferers the school di-
rectors did not realize what a task
they would have on their hands. The
collection netted 26,750 pennies and
weighed several hundred pounds. A
check was sent to Galveston and then
the officials wondered how they would
ever get rid of the coppers. A de-
partment store has finally come to
1.-THE rescue and bought them.