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The age-herald., 1902-03-16
OFFICES ABOLISHED.
Positions Held By CuIp and Turk of
 Southern Cease to Exist.

Washington. March 15.-In the general order issued by the Southern Railway today regarding the appointment of the new officials named last night, it is an- nounced that the offices of traffic man ager and assistant passenger traffic man ager are abolished. These offices were held. respectively. by J. M. Culp. who becomes fourth vice president. and W. A. Turk, who becomes passenger traffic manager.
The age-herald., 1902-03-16

sion, was made last night. and the prison CT lodged In jail today is, however. hav- ing a quieting effect, as confidence in the officers ability to round up the whole gang Is felt.
 The body of McNamara had evidently been in the water from fifteen days to three weeks. A thousand people saw 1t taken from the water There Is talk of ex- ploding dynamite in the Neches river to bring to the surface any other bodies
 The arrest of Hood. which was effected at Silsbee last night. is regarded by Sher- if Landry as an important one. Matte" Bennett, the lf-confessed leader. charged him in her confession with being one of the gang. He admits knowing the woman, but declares his innocense of any connection with either the murders. or rObberies
The age-herald., 1902-03-16

Beaumont, Texas, March 15.-Another 1oater was found in the Neches river this morning, making six since the first of the year The body has been identified as that of V. R. McNamara. a painter and paperhanger, who came from Shreveport. There is evidence of foul play.
 Coroner Brown says the evidence Is plain that McNamara was murdered. The officers declare their conviction that he is the sixth victim of the "Mattie" Bennett gang of robbers and niurderers.
 Beaumont citizens are expressing angry threats. The fact that another arrest, that of John Hood, one of the white men inn plicated "Mattie' Bennett's confess
The age-herald., 1902-03-16
SITUATION UNCHANGED.
Striking Miners Are ouiet-Strike Will
 Probably Spread.

Bristol, Tenn, March 15.-Reports from the Virginia coal mines tonight state that the situation remains unchanged.
 The operators claim they still have non-union miners sufficient to do a con siderable business. The deputy marshals are watching their chances to arrest more of the ring leaders of the striking element. There are indications that the strike will extend into the Pocahontas mining region.
The age-herald., 1902-03-16
SHOOT CLOSE SCORE.
Elliott of Kansas City Won By Killing
 113 of 120 Birds.

Hot Springs, Ark, March 15.-Rollo Heiks of Dayton. O., gave J. A. Elliott of Kansas City one of the hardest and closest races of his life here this evening in their match at 100 live birds for pos- session of the sportsman trophy held by Elliott. At the end of the first round the score was: Heiks, 24; Elliott, 23. At the halfway post 1t stood: Heiks. 4s; El- liott, 46.
 At the end of the third string the score was tied, each having killed 70 of the "a. Each killed 24 of the last 25 and the score was tie. with 94 kills. The tie was immediately shot off, each shooting al 20 birds. Elliott killing 19 to Heiks' IS, and won the match.
The age-herald., 1902-03-16
HOSIERY AND KNIT GOODS.
Census Bureau Issues Interesting Sta.
 tisties on the Industry.

Washington. March 15-The preliminary report of the census bureau regarding the manufacture of hosiery and knit goods in the United States in 1900 with percentage of increase since 1895 shows:
 Establishments s2l. increase 1e per cent. Capital ss1. s60. GOA: increase 62 per cent Wage earners average number SSsS7 in- crease 40 per cent. Total wages Sz4.35S.- 627, increase 47 per cent.
 Cost of materials used $51.o51.S5s. in- crease 42 per cent uI
The age-herald., 1902-03-16
GIRL KILLED IN EXPLOSION.
An Accident In Powder Mixing Depart
 ment Causes Great Damage.

Cleveland, O., March 15.-An explosionl in the powder mixing department of the Fairmont Manufacturing Company at 2294 Euclid avenue early today resulted in the death of one girl empioye. while at least seven other persons were seriously injured.
 The dead: Ania Firth. 15 years of age.
 The cause of the explosion is not known The front of the two-story frame build ing was blown completely out and the plant gutted by fire which followed the explosion. The company manufactures railroad torpedoes. The pecuniary loss will not exceed S10000.
The age-herald., 1902-03-16
Case Against Austrian Dismissed.

Washington. March 15.-The civil ser vice commission has dismissed the com plaints recently filed against United States Marshal Austin of Tennessee alleg- ing violations of the civil service law in connection with the campaign for Con- gress in the second district The com mission decided that there were no facts stated sufficient to sustain the complaint.
The age-herald., 1902-03-16
Hartman In Mexico.

Mexico City, March 15.-E. H. Harri- man. the railroad magnate, and party have gone to Cuernavaca for a day or so. They are visiting all objects of inter- est to sightseers. and MT. Hartman re- fuses to talk business.
The age-herald., 1902-03-16
HOUSE BREAKS RECORD
 ON PASSING PRIVATE BILLS.

Washington, March 15.-The House de- voted today to private pension bills. pass- ing 229 bills and clearing the calendar-l This is the largest number of pension bills ever passed by the House at one session.
 Earlier in the day a resolution waa adopted calling upon the War Depart ment for information concerning the gov- ernment transport service between San Francisco and the Philippines.
 Late in the day Mir. Minor of Wiscon- sion, rising to question of personal priv- ilegc, denounced public statement res garding the Speaker and himself as false.
 Speaker Henderson also stated that there was not a shadow of truth in thd article.
 When the House met today, Mir. Parker of New Jersey reported back from tha committee on military affairs the resolu- tion introduced by MT. Richardson, thd ! Democratic leader a few days ago, calls ing upon the secretary of war for reports of certain army officers who examined into the transport service between San Francisco and Manila, with the recoms mendation that substitute be adopNd calling for facts relative 10 this service of transports.
The age-herald., 1902-03-16
ANOTHER BODY FOUND IN
 RIVER NEAR BEAUMONT

OFFICERS SIXTH BENNETT GANG OF MURoERERs-ARREsT WHITE MAN CHARGED WITH MEMBER GANG HAS PREVENTED AN OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE PEOPLE
The age-herald., 1902-03-16
Submits Reasons for Opposing
 the Shipping Bill
II IS CLASS LEGISLATION
Bill Provides to Tax the Whole People for the Benefit of One Single h. dustry-Does Not
 Need 1t.

Washington, March 15.-Senator Berry, representing the minority of the Senate committee on commerce, today presented the report in opposition to the pending ship subsidy bill. Most of the points have been covered in speeches in the Senate. The minority deny the accuracy of both the predictions and the facts in the majority report. They urge that the bill is wrong in principle and declare that 1t will utterly fail in the accomplishment of its professed objects. They also say that while it is not so complicated as the subsidy bill of the Fifty-sixth Congress, it Is in some respects even more objec- tionabie.
The age-herald., 1902-03-16

that while it is not so complicated as the subsidy bill of the Fifty-sixth Congress 1t Is in some respects even more objec- tionabe.
 Taxes the Whole People.
 The minority continue:
 "The bill provides to tax the whole peo- pie to the extent of several millions for the benefit of one single industry. Be- sides the statistics of the last two years prove that the ship building industry does not need such special assistance, but is rapidly increasing under natural conditions
 It criticizes the bill which carries the subsidy of foreign mails and says
 The highest rate of subsidy is given to twenty-knot vessels, while the fast ocean mails are really carried in twenty three and twenty-four-knot vessels. The mail compensation to the slow American vessels already too high, is made inn me nsely higher by the bill. We pay more for a weekly service than England pays for semi weekly service by faster ships than ours"
 They further urge that the bill makes no provision against shipping trust, and claim that 1t encourages a combination ledu1nB IO SuCn ii lTuSl 1nSy 1iSO say the lines might also merge with foreign lines to contro, freight and passenger rates. Thereby c1ir subsidy would be aid ing the foreign partners of our subsi- dized vessels.
 Give All Equal Chance. The report closes by saying:
 I've know that there are hundreds and thousands of industries in our country doing a losing business, but we deny that Congress for this reason can go into the public treasury and save them from bankruptcy. We sympathize with all men in the hard struggles of life, but 1t Is not the duty of our government to inter fere in the private business affairs of the citizens. We believe that all men should have an equal and fair chance in the race for wealth and happiness. Every citizen should bear his share of the bur dens of the government, one class should never be the recipient of benefits not given to others. Absolute equality of rights is a doctrine we should never aban- don. The bill is wrong in principle, un- just, vicious, pure class legislation"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-13
New Silk Skirts,

day was warm, the royal lady thirsty and she stopped to beg drink of the good wife within the open door. The woman looking up said the spring was some distance away and she could not spare the time from her ironing, which was to provide her husband with clean shirt that he might see the Queen s daughter, who was expected to pass through the neighboring town next day.
 Louise meekly offered to finish the shirt for her if she would fetch the coveted water. And when the woman returned to find a neatly ironed garment awaiting her her delft guest informed her who she was. Needless to say that shirt was preserved as a priceless treasure.
 The douchess wandered through foreign galleries and studios and bric- -brac shops in the same way. Her intense objection to being photogra phed is presumably traceabIe to her desire to escape too great familiarity to the public eye.
 Whole-Souled in Charities.
 In her charities the princess is whole souled. She has personally cared for the sick and wounded soldiers in her convalescent home at Clachan. She is the president of the CharingCross hospital and recently made a long tour of inspection through the different wards. She founded the Princess Louise homo for young girls in London to supply them with means to gain an honest livelihood and save them from the streets. She has also done much for the encouragement of artistic ideals among the people.
 As a sculptor and artist the princess has reached no small attainment. Among her teachers was the late Sir Edward Boehm. Her portrait of Pedercwski and a sketch of her father-in-law, the late Duke of Argyll, are among her best works.
 Mention of the old Duke recalls the famous feud with the dowager duchess of Argyll. which dated from her marriage with his grace when he had reached the ripe age of T and had already buried two wives The third incumbent was Miss McNeill. one of the Queens maids and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-13

A peculiar synagogue in the Caucasus looking something like Chinese pagoda was shown. The Jews in the Caucasu: have strange customs as to their form oi worship. The men go inside and attend to their devotions. but the women stay on the outside. At Bokara the women oi the Jews are remarkably beautiful. 4 description of some beautiful girls, robed in the gay colors of the Orient, was read by the lecturer.
 By the presentation of pictures of Jews serving in the armies of the different na' tions of the world. Rabbi Heller illus. trated how the physiognomy of the Jew is modified by his environment. He closed the lecture by showing pictures of Jew ish edifices in Jerusalem and of two Chi. nese Jews father and son, who belonged to a small community in China, which had preserved it's religion through 2.oOl years, losing all knowledge of Hebrew but retaining yet the scrolls of the law and certain customs of Judaism. This the lecturer thought. was most remark able instance of the constancy Of tht Jew.
 Rabbi Heller closed by saying that h' hoped he had impress I'd upon his audience the fact of the diversity of the character of the Jews. It was impossible to sa, what the future of the race would De but at the present time there seemed te be a purpose among all the Jews or the world to come closer together and to re- yive the old idea of a distinct nationality
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-13
EXCUSED FROM JURY DUTY.
Even the Austere Judge Would Not
 Insist Upon Exacting Service.

A judge out in Missouri is noted for the strctness with which he holds those summoned for jury duty to the perform ance of the task. In a certain case re- gently he ordered the sheriff to call the roll of thirty-five good men and true" selected for jury duty. Only twenty-tw answered to their names and the sheriff but the latter was calmly wiping his glasses while he uttered the customary Any desiring to Se excused from ser vice on this jury will now come forward |" Twenty-two men made a movement for ward and the clerk stopped in his work of noting those who had failed to respond to the summons to look in wonder at the entire venire desiring to escape.
 Well, said the judge. speaking to a long, thin, nerVous-lookng young man, why do you wish to be excused?"
 If 1t please your honor" answered the aforesaid thin individual. ''Id like to be excused on account of illness. I'm suffer- ing from something that might prove em- barrassing to the other jurors and is certainly embarrassing to me,
 What is the nature of your iliness?' asked the judge.
 Well" said the young man. hesitating- ly. "Fd prefer to tell you in private. I'm somewhat delicate about speaking of it in public"
 sponded the judge impatiently. "If you want to be excused you must tell me here and now what is the matter with you"
 well, if must tell it here. have the itch"
 ''The itch?" echoed the judge and. turning to the clerk without marking how appropos his observation was. said: MT Jones' scratch the juror off
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-13

revolutionary war. There are also DOT tions of the tea and dinner sets used dur in9 the Presidency in New York and Phnadelphia, with a punch and salAd bowl in which five generations of Mrs. Washington's descendants have been christened. The parian marble figures. which were grouped around plate glass plateau. stimulating a lake, ana used ~ but the plateau was sold by Washington after his withdrawal from public life as unsuited to his altered situation. All were selected for him in Paris by Gouverneur which. having outlived their usefulness. are used for decorative purposes.
 Made by Mrs. Washington.
 Many spare moments were filled in by Mrs. Washington with netting. so beauti- fully done that her young friends were fond of trimming their gown with 1t and a specimen of this work is preserved at Tudor Place in the deep fringe Of counterpane There is also canvas-cov- cred stool done in crOss-stitch by herseif, and upon which is her monogram, with a chair cushion of similar design, one of nine extant. Three of these were given to her granddaughters, the one belonging to Nellie Custis having been presented by her to Lafayette in 1S24, ana being now in the American room at La Grange.
 Of peculiar interest, as illustrative or that period of his life when the immortal soldier and statesman, beating his sword into a pruning hook. followed the peacefui pursuit of agriculture. are blankets and towels made of the wool and flax grown upon the Potomac farm. Under the eye Of the mistress. too. they were spun and woven by swarthy artisans in the spin. ming room at Mount Vernon where all day long the whirring wheel sang songs to the accompaniment of loom and flax brake. Of distinctive value, also, Is quaint mahogany desk, with the stool be- longing to it. used by Mrs. Washington throughout her welded life. It was be- dueathed by her to Mrs. Peter. and con- tains the only two autograph letters ex- tant from Washington to herself, she hav- ing destroyed her letters short time before her death.
 Most sacred of all. however. are the andirons which supported the f1ickering fire in the solemn death chamber on that night, moro than century ago, when the curtain descended upon the closing act of the incomparable life drama, to rise upon far different scenes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-13
STIRS COURTS ENVY
PRINCESS LOUISE HOUSES ROY
 ATTY OF ENGLAND.
Excels in Honoring Memory of I'm perial Mother-Fashions by Her Own Hands Fine Statute
 of Late Queen.
London Cablegram.

London Cablegram.
 Princess Louise, who is the wife of the Duke of Argyll, formerly the Marquis of Lorne. provoked the envy of the court bv having done more for the perpetua- ton of the memory of her mother, Queen Victoria than all the pomp and ceremony of mourning of the King and court have achieved
 The statue of the gracious monarch, low ingly wrought in marble by this daughter. a sculptor of rare merit. who more than any other inherited Victoria's impetuous temperament. by years and grief so sadly disciplined, stands in it's niche in the Manchester Cathedral a blending of wo- manly sweetness and power. The pose the Princess has chosen shows the Queen in her robes of state. the crown upon her brow. the scepter and globe in each hand.
 The statue bears a close resemblance to the Canadians favorite figure of the sov- ereign found in their public parks. The face. that of maturity. still suggests the indomitable youth, which to the last was the Queens happiest gift.
 It was unveiled recently by the Prince and Princess of Wales and Is one of the citys most treasured possessions.
 The Duchess of Argyll is the third daughter of the Queen and admittedly the most beautiful and talented of that ex- ltIlSANP ldTllN, IT lne lcdSt lliCilHtu lO It- gard conventional restrictions. Since the time when as girl her love affair with Canon Duckworth, the tutor of her younger brother, Leopold. excited the anxiety of her mother, this one of the Guelphs has declined to be governed by the laws which her sisters obeyed.
 Where Art Was Imbibed.
 The artistic tendencies of the Princess doubtless were largely accountable for the democracy she manifested in the choice of her associates. Life was life to the Princess wherever she found it. With contempt for the love of display that dominated society she mingled a desire to test her ability to win others not by that which the accident of birth had made her, sut by her own unaided womans charms. Hence her many expeditions incOgnito. Her cleverness at disguise in dress amounts to veritable genius and her delight in it is that of a child At her favorite estate, Frencham, near Farnham in Hampshire, though so well known by the countryside. she can pass uuobserved when she wills. Once she succeeded in changing her appearance SO far that she passed her husband without being recoE- uized by him and EIcefully called him back to exult in such signal proof of her security.
 One of the prettiest stories of the priu- cess unannounced visits is that of her appearance at wayside cottage. The
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-13
WILLING TO ABIDE BY RULE.
Pennsylvania Dutchman's Complai- sance Saved His Neck from Halter

Judge Pennypacker of the Keystone State is a good story teller. and though what is known as Pennsylvania Dutch man is not as obtuse to the sense of hu- nor as most people of that race. In re- spending to q toast at a banquet given by number of Pennsylvsnia Dutchmen recently he told a story which, he said, showed the readiness of ihe Pennsvlvania pHtchman to obey those in authority.
 In 1884 Sheridan, under orders. burned every barn from d valley above Staun- ton 10 d certain point below Winchester. 4 band of angry rebels followed this raid watching for a chance to pick up any stragglers. Among others who fell into their hands was little PennsvlvaniL Dutchman. who quietly turned to his cap tors and inquired:
 Vat you fellows going to do init me?'
 The reply came short and sharp:
 Hang VOL"
 Yell" he said meekly. ''vatever is de rule
 His good natured reply threw the Con federates into roar of laughter and saved his life,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-13
DO YOU WANT THE BEsTe
 Ross's Antiseptic Barber Shop is the place to go. Exchange Hotel,
VICTOR HUao's DAUGHTER.
Long a Wreck, But is Now in Posses
 sion of Faculties.

Chicago Chronicle.
 One of the greatest sorrows of Victor Hugo the eminent French writer, was the mental malady that afflicted his daughter Adele. For years she was thought to |" dead. and indeed she might as well have b.sn in her grave as in the retreat for the insane that was for a long time her abode. She has recently re- cove red her mental equilibrium however, and woman who recently saw her writes to a Paris journal that she found Adele Hugo alive. in good health and in the full posse ssion of all her faculties, The poet s Caughter is living comfortably in an es- tablishment on tht banks of the Seine near Paris. The place must be kept a secret owing to the wishes of the family Anyhow, Adele Hugo, now q fine, tall, gray haired old lady of seventy-two years, is there. atterded by d companion and d maid. She takes daily walks in the park of the establishment, occupies herself with scientific studies being especially interested Tn astronomy and occasionally goes to theatre, where she sits in a raised box uns en by the people. These periodical visits to the play house form Adele Hugo's ouly conee ssions to the present age. for she chiefly lives, We are told, in the past ard never reads a news paper.
 Another writer Octave Uzanne. notes that 1t was AdeI- who collected her fla ther's table t"lk between 1S52 and 1Sj6 the first years of his exile. The manu- script of this coll, Ctiou was seen bN NJ Czanne in the establishment of an auto graph dealer near the British Museum He was prevented by th, poets family from publishing any fragments of the talk ten years back, but now lie commu- nicates q few extracts to The Echo de Paris. LIk" Luther. C"lrrdge and Bis marck. Hugo discussou manN things at t#hl 2 and nearly vcrythjng that he said was interesting. Spmo of his conNcrsa- ti'n as M Czanne appropriately points out, revealed his Innate vanity and showed that hc was raucorous to those who failed to treat him with due consid- eration