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MOB RAIDS A CHURCH
Trouble Caused by Arrests for Dis
turbing Worship.

WICHITA Kan. Jan. I3.-Rose Ed
grocemb. Lillian Fillmore and Charles
; Showers. members OF Ripley. o. T.. fam
HES. and well known throughout The Ter
ritOry, we're arrested for disturbing the
service al the DunkaId Church Of that
place.
The trio were taken before justice Of
the peace and fined s. and costs each.
Their arrest so aroused the indieua-
tion OF their friends hat the latter raided
the church. breaking the windows. sula- h-
ing the doors and wrcckiuE the furni-
ture. Someone hen set the building q
frame structure on fire.
Cooler headed citizens. however. soon
extfnCu shed the blaze
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ATHENS. jan. Edwin Ernest Of
the New York Peace Society, is here or
eauiziDg a brunch Of the society Premier
Thtotokis has received the New yorker
with great cordiality- Mr. Ernest viii go
from here 90 Onstantiuoule and ST.
Petersburg as be hopes "a see both tho
sultan and the Gar tn behalf Of the peace
movement carried on by tho society he
rCDre6C uIs-
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CHAIRMAN JONES APPROX 6.
Well Pleased With Mr.. Nixon 49,
Tammauy Leader

Discussing the change in the leader
ship OF Tammany Hall. Senator james
X Jones. chairman of the Democratic
National Committee says
II know something OF Mr Nizou-s
character and methods and am most fay-
0rably impressed with his abiliti-5 as a
leader. OF course littlc is known 81 his
policies These remain 10 be developed
But I have strong hope that they viii be-
wise aud work to the benefit OF the whole
party The appearance Of such O. char
a6ter iu national politics is a good omen
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WEDDING SECRET TWO YEARS.
Now All Il Lovely aud Couple VIII
GO To Housekeeping.

NEW BRUNSWICK. n. j.. Jan l3.-Alr.
and Mrs Henry J. Austin. OF No. 80 Rob
inson Street were much surprised yes
JerdaE when their daughter. Lillian
twenty wears old. looked up from news
paper she was reading and said
Papa and mamma. 7 waur-to reI you
d secret ! have been Mrs John Kelly
jr-. since Jauua- 1900
Explanations IN detail followed The
Young woman ana John Kelly went 90
New York on New Year Day 1900 and
were married. On their. return they
went 10 theii respective homes and kept
their secret so well thar 40 DH, gu ssed
IT, Their parents thought thaw TOO young
10 wed. and that was thor only reason
TOT the clandosTine ma-riarc-s Vow they
VIII 90 70 housekeeping.
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FAMOUS BRIGAND TAKEN.
Luke BRbeanu. MuIti-HurdereI
Captured at Last.

Luke babTanu. Hulti-Mu I'd ere r,
Captured at Last
BUCHAREST. Jan. I3.-The police have
captured the celebrated brisaud Luke
Babeanu. who. during thirty years Of out
lawry has committed go murders and
5000 recorded rObberses-
Babeanu is the hero OF hundreds Of
tales Of encounters and escapes as well
as Of charitable deeds done He has
operated over the entire Balkan PENN
sula
He was suspected OF completely in the
abduction Of Miss Ellen NJ Stone. the
American missionary taken by brigands
on September ,. but this he denies
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STABBED FOR WRESTLING.
Connecticut SchooIboH Rr~rnts Re
ing Puni~h,-t for Mates Mi~behHsior

ing Punished for Mates NI~behHs Tor
SEW BRITAIN, Conn. Jan. la.-Ouo
Mckee. aged fourteen years I-- criu-
callr ID as the result OF "a staUaius en-
counter with his schooImare. Charles
BigRe-
Somebody whistlod iu school and as
the teacher was unable To end the Gull
priJ she kent the entire school after
regular nous.
After the school had been dismissed
Mckee accused Bigge OF doing the whist
ling He drew his knife and stabbed
Nike
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Believes Present Investments Should
Be Protected.
STOCKHOLDERS NOT DIRECTING.

HiEh-S"Iaried Officials Who Would
Lose Their Jobs the Only Ones
Who VIII Probably Fight the
ONement-PrOPOHed Extension Of
I'm the Country.
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HIS LIFE RECORD FULL OF HARD
STRUGGLES AND GREAT
. ACHIEVEMENTS,
POPULAR IN HIS H0MG TOWN
HIS BEST FRIENDS THE MEN WHO
HAVE KNOWN HIM FROM
l. RoYHooD DAYS. -,

The following biographical sketch OF
neonard A. Rosing, Democratic candi.
date for governor of Minnesota, is
reproduced from the St. Paul Globe:
There is no truer guage Of a mans
worth than the life which he lives in
his home and the estimation in which
he Is held by the men and women who
have known him from childhood, as
playmate, neighbor and citizen.
/ No man has a more delightful home
life or is held closer in the regard Of
chose who know him we'll than Leon
ard A. Rosing, Democratic nominee for
governor of Minnesota. In the pic.
turesque little town, Cannon Falls,
every man is Leonard A. Rosing's
friend, every child knows his CHEEKY
smile, and his home, made brighter by
q charming wife and three beautiful
children, is the ideal American fireside.
Mr.. Rosing is in no sense revolu-
zionist, and in every sense touching the
affairs Of men an eyolutionist, con-
sistent and faithful in his belief. His
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went to cannon rails, only nve miles
from the home farm, and secured en-
pioyment as a clerk in general store.
Four years later he married. Six years
after or in 1888, he went into business
for himself, at the stand which he now
occupies as the senior member of the
firm of Rosing & Kraft, dealers in
boots, shoes and furnishings.
Debut as Politician.
In 1890 he for the first time appeared
on the political stage, as supporter
of 0. M. Hall. for congress. In 1894
he was cai: tsidate for the state senate
and made such remarkable campaign
that two years later he found himself
called upon to accomplish the seeming
ly impossible task-reorga" ize the
Democratic party as the chairman of
the state central committee. The work
was done. In 1898 John Lind was
elected governor. In 1902 Mr.. Rosing
is the unanimous choice of the Democ-
racy OF the state to- succeed Governor
Lind as the party standard bearer.
Mr.. Rosing's political career, re-
markable as it is, is marked at every
step by the man and the indomitable
courage to do what he believes is right,
regardless of the personal sacrifice the
exercise Of his conscience may involve.
He was reared Republican by faith
er who Is still a Republican and whose
just pride in his son is still slightly
tinged with regret that the son has
broken away from the fathers pol1ti-
cal faith.
It has been charged that Mr. Rosing
has never made a political sacrifice. It
is an unthinking and unjustified charge
brought by those:Who know neither the
man nor his career. His retirement
from the Republican party under the
existing conditions was sacrifice, at
that time considered suicidal and a
sacrifice made solely for principle.
In common with the Republicans of
Minnesota, Mr.. Rosing believed in tar
if reform and'fn common with the ma
jority of the Republicans who have
stifled principle for the sake of party,
believed that the tariff reform which
the Republican party promised, meant
tariff reduction. Instead of tariff re-
duction came the Mckinley bill and
true to principle Rosing left the party
and affiliated with the Democrats.
Leaves Republican Party.
He was delegate to the Goodhue
Republican county convention in 1890
and his last act as a Republican was
the Introduction and passage at that
contention of resolution indors1ng
SeI.,>o Davis bill putting binding
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for both Governor Lind and Chairman
Rosing was in many respects repeti-
ton of the campaign of 1898. The Re-
publican success was not of kind that
carries large credit with it and after
10000 improperly marked ballots,
through the grace of Tams Bixby and
his Social-Democrat candidate were
thrown out, Van SAINT was declared
elected by only a bare 1000.
When John Lind declined to again
Democracy of Minnesota, the party's
mously on his trusted friend and tried
lieutenant. Democrats know and like
all men who know him place the most
implicit trust in Leonard A. Rosing.
Without any 3of. the much Haunted
peace conferences of other states and
harmony meetings which have resulted
only in wider breaches, the Democracy
of Minnesota is united No man is re-
sponsible in so large degree as Leon.
ard A. Rosing ,and no man is more de-
serving Of the loyal party support
WHICH he will srscaes}Ye, than III he r x,x
No sacrifice sfof the party g good
has been too great for this leader. His
business, his home and all his personal
interests have. been relegated to Sec
ondary places when the party was
in need of his services or his money.
The party has been able to give him
no substantial compensation for his
years of toll. He stepped from his
country store to- the helm of the cam
paign. His business was neglected to
give his party and the state the bene-
fit of his trained mind as secretary to
the governor and when his services
were no longer required he stepped
back to the country store, a poorer
man, repaid only by the thought that
his services had been well rendered.
Faith Stronger Than Self Interest.
Now that the party again calls for
his leadership, this time as candi-
date for the executive head Of the
state, he again accepts the call and
again at a heavy personal sacrifice.
Again his home and his business must
be neglected. He responds cheerfully
Notwithstanding the fact that he can
ill afford it for Mr.. Rosing is not
rich man. Keen business man that
he is his devotion to his party and his
open handed generosity have kept him
poor, but his faith in conservative re-
form, his large views of life and his
loyalty to the Democracy are stronger
than self interest.
Mr. Rosing is not a great orator yet
there are few better campaign speak
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ness center of the town, which he
hopes will some not distant day be the
suburban home of many St. Paul and
Minneapolis men.
His home life shows the best side
of Mr., Rosing. In 1886 he was married
to Miss May B. Season. His bride was
native of Cannon Falls and a sue
cessful teacher in the public schools.
She brought to the modest little home
where they started, the graces of true
nobility and the accomplishments of q
cultured lady. They live in a larger
house now, and their unpretentious
home is the embodiment of modest
comfort and unmistakable refinement.
The first thought of the guest at the
Rosing home is the wonder that Mr..
Rosing, surrounded by his charming
wife and his three beautiful children.
could be induced to give up any part
Of his enjoyment of the home life in
which he takes such evident delight
to fight the battles of political party.
His Family and His HONEY
His children, George Leonard, aged
fourteen, quiet, studious boy; Mar.
guerita Bbba, twelve, spirituelle lit
tie miss, and Willis. Season, a lovable
little fellow Of six years just arrived
at the dignity of knickerbockers, rev.
erence their father not alone as par.
ent but as a friend and a companion.
With his wife and children about him
he is at his best and admits that then
his life is full.
An hours conversation with Mr..
Rosing leaves the, stranger in amaze
ment at the depth of his self-education.
A peep in his compact little library
and den explains It all and reveals the
man. Close in. his favorite corner Is
his private book case. It's shelves con-
tain only a, few dozen svolumes but
they furnish an~index to the curricu-
lum of his school, the school of men
and conditions. At the top in the
place of honor are the complete writ
ings of Thomas Jefferson. Then the
messages and papers Of the presidents
of the United States, Worlds Best
Orations, Encyclopedia Britannica, COM
plete bound sets of the Review of Re-
views, Kent's Commentaries and kin
dred text books on various phases of
the law. John Fisk, McCauley, Glib
bon, Washington Irving, Byron,
Shakespeare, Milton. It is the library
of busy man. It and the men in
every day life have furnished the text
books of an education as liberal az
practical. G. A. VAN SMITH.
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other impression. His success andAas-
tendency over men Is easily under
stood when the man himself is known,
but those successes mark innumerablee
battles against circumstances under
which a weaker man would succuinb.
|. Interesting as Mr.. Rosing's career
as politician in the broader accept
ance of the term politician is, his pri-
vate career has a deeper interest. He
is fine type of the self-made, self
educated American and American he
is always. Few men have reached the
pinnacle of political success attained
by Mr. Rosing with the handicaps he
has successfully carried. And fewer;
men have successfully withstood the
ravages of temptation practical poll
tics present in hundreds of forms, as
has the simple farmer boy, country
merchant and great but simple party
leader. He has come through all his
battles with reputation and con-
science unsullied. His disposition is
no less sunny than when he was only
the simple farmer boy and his faith
in man is unabridged.
Early Life Of Privation.
Only the older residents of Goodhue
county, or those similarly situated in
those strenuous frontier days can fully
realize the hardships endured by the
Rosing family. The father, a land
owner, a gentleman of the court of
Sweden. The sweetfaced mother, born
in the lap of luxury; lady in the
highest sense, and their children, trans
ferred from the highest social circles
and life of ease and pleasure to the
tiny log cabin among the Goodhue
grubs and fight for existence.
1t is to the good blood of his for
bears and the culture of his parents
that Mr.. Rosing owes in the largest
degree his success. Strong in the
strength of good birth and clean hearts
the parents never faltered in the long,
weary struggle for competency and
children never enjoyed better precept.
They were taught to labor and pray.
Their home, humble as it was, was
made the dearest place in the world
and they were never allowed to forget
that principle and clean hearts carry
the highest honors and are synbolical
of the truest nobility.
Leonard, the youngest of four chill
dren and least schooled in the mother
country, received only the education
of the country school, probably only
typical of the backwoods school of
thirty years ago, and the instruction
given by his mother. He worked as
| only the sons of settlers have worked.
but he was thinker and at the age
of fourteen had commanded the at
tention of several of the professional
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Irvine on the free list. From that con.
vention he walked out Democrat to
what seemed inevitable political OBJ
llviOn but held cheap at the price of
personal freedom.
Mr.. Rosing took the stump for O. M.
Hall, the Democratic congressional
candidate, who was reelected. Again
In 1892 he stumped the county for Hall
who was reelected and in 1894 he &C.
cepted the Democratic nomination for
the state senate to assist Hall. Out
of 1000 votes in ,Goodhue county only
1000 we're Democratic, yet Mr.. Rosing
polled 1855, which was, little short OF
remarkable considering the discomfort
among Democrats. over the, Cleveland
administration. = -~-,%
His services on the congressional
committee in 1882 and 1894 and his
stirring, logical tariff speeches in the
latter campaign made him a marked
man in the Democracy of the state,
He was invited to address the Jeffer-
son banquet and left profound i'm
preston,
Early in August, 1896, the Democrat
lc state ticket was nominated. Two
weeks later the young Goodhue county
leader was elected chairman of the
state committee and confronted with
the task of organizing a party popular
ly supposed to be disrupted beyond re-
pair. There was, absolutely no state
party organization. What little there
had been in the preceding years had
disappeared like dew before the sun in
the strife of honest differences which.
divided the party between gold and
silver. =. =.
The election was only ten weeks dis
tant. There was no money. Rosing
was unknown in many counties and
in fully as many knew no one in whom
he could trust or to whom he could
look for advice. With the most popu-
lar candidate ever nominated at the
head of a Minnesota ticket and his
own indomitahle pluck. he began the
work of organization. =: The organiza-
tion could be only superficial but the
results achieved startled the Repub-
licans not alone of Minnesota but of
the United States.
First Great Work.
Democrats in every county in Min.
nesota responded loyalty to the call
of the magnetic leader at the helm.
They we're loaded with responsibility
and worked as they had never before
dreamed of working in the apathetic
days Of the conceded Republican sue.
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men of the country, who were attracted
to the humble Rosing home by the
culture of the parents.
The boy was a deep reader OF all
the good literature that came in his
way. Naturally enough his largest op-
portunities for study were offered by
the newspapers and they were few in
those days. His interest in current
events touching policies of government
and vital questions of society was es.
pecially deep.
Broad and Deep Thinker.
He first attracted the attention of
the men who have since watched his
career with the pArdonable pride of
personal interest, by the discovery that
the boy of thirteen was thoroughly
conversant with vigorous war of
rhetoric being waged by a prominent
newspaper man and leading divine
of the Swedish church over q question
of canonical practice which involved
the funeral rites.
AS boy he was always able to bring
other boys around to his way of think
ing. He went to the bottom of Ques.
ton, probed every side of problem
and summed it up concisely, logically.
When he was twenty years old he jeff
the farm to enter the business world
as clerk in a general store. His par.
ents were able to give him nothing
but health and clean morals. He at
once attracted the attention of the
leading citizens of Cannon Falls how
ever, by his gentlemanly manners and
clean personal life and by the time he
had attained his majority he was estab..
Nished as one of the recognized leaders
of thought and promoters of civic in,
'terest in the little town.
His early manhood and business ca
reer we're marked by the dominant
characteristics that have made him
power in politics. A careful student
Of the young man divided his promi-
nent character marks under three
heads. That was twenty years ago.
Today he has not changed his estimate
IN the slightest particular. His chart
of Rosing's character is: S'*>
First-Tenacity of purpose; sell re-
lance. - s":
Second-Large faith in men, high
ideals and unbounded good nature.
Third-Indomitable courage and 10y
atty to the point that knows no turn
ing back from friend '.!'> -
The young clerk rose rapidly" INT
few years he embarked In business
for himself and as. business. man In
the same degree a. an emDloXs he has
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own career, leading from the station
Of the humble emigrant boy on an
isolated frontier farm to the leader
ship of great political party and
managerial successes unprecedented
warrant his faith in the evolutionary
political tenets to which he clings most
&enaciously.
He is strong man. In his veins
flows the blood of strong nations. He
thinks as German; he acts as a
6wede. The German conservatism is
nicely balanced with the Swedish &C.
tivity and coupled with an entire lack
of policy for policy's sake make him
character clean, interesting, and &C.
counts in large degrees for his sue
eesses that accomplished by another
would be as surprising as they are
complete.
Born in Air of Politics.
Leonard August Rosing was born at
Malmo, Sweden, Aug. 20, 1861. He is
the son of August George Rosing, an
attache Of the Swedish civil govern
ment and the grandson of a German
citizen of Sweden. His mother was
the daughter of the colonel command
Ing one of the regiments of the impe-
rial Swedish troops, beautiful and
accomplished lady. Leonard is tho
youngest of four children.
Until he arrived at the age of nine
years, the life of the Rosing family
under the sunshine of government and
family connections foreshadowed none
OF the hardships it's members were
soon to undergo, poor and alone in
strange land. Then came reverses.
The sturdy, self-re}iant father and the
proud mother gathered their little fam
lily and what was left them from the
wreck and set their faces toward free
America, to build anew a home and to
struggle on the strange frontier for an
independent, If sadly circumscribed
life.
They came directly to Minnesota,
settling on rented farm in Bell creek,
Eoodhue county. Five years later they
removed to the little forty-acre patch
OF grubs which has since been trans
formed into typical Minnesota farm
and which is still the home of Rosing
senior. The Rosing children were in
the dame schools in the fatherland and
In their new home no privation was
permitted to prevent them from receiv-
Ing the meager tutoring of the district
schools.
Leonard stayed on the farm until
he was twenty years of age. In 1882 he
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enjoyed the fullest confidence Of the
entire community. In his business his
remarkable abilities as a judge OF hui
man nature Is wildly shown.
Loved as Nei9hbor.
Mr.. Rosing is perhaps best known In
Cannon Falls as neighbor. Scores OF
stories are told of his open handed
generosity always carefully guarded
from the public and kindly thought
fulness almost womanly in it's depth
Of feeling and delicacy. This little
story told by one of Cannon Falls lead.
ing citizens is fully indicative Of that
side Of his character.
A few years ago the little town was
visited by an diphtheria epidemic. This
gentleman saw two of his children car.
ried away to the little city of the dead
on the hillside, without benefit OF
clergy or attendance Of Borrowing
friends. The attendance of the public
at the funeral was forbidden by the
health authorities nearby, frantic in
their efforts to stop the epidemic.
And then his little son, the apple
of his eye, died. Friends were shut
out. He was alone with his wife in
their sorrow, deepened by the chill Of
winter. -, When the gentleman alone
with. the body Of his child arrived at
the burial place, he: found that some
one, unable to express his sympathy
in another manner, had covered the
frozen: walls of the little grave with
pure white cloth. The mounds of ugly
.cfods were similarly hidden and knots
of evergreen held the lining in place.
It was. an attention that the grief
stricken father will never forget but
it was not until long after, when one
who saw the grave draped and dis
closed the identity of the samaritan,
that he knew his comforter was Mr..
~Rosing.
A Glimpse Of the True Man.
That is only one of many incidents
which the citizens of Cannon Falls de.
light to tell of their friend and neigh
Dor but it illustrates the depth of his
feeling and his keen appreciation OF
the sensibilities of the human heart.
His civic pride is intense and the
pretty little town where he has lived
half of his forty years and which was
his boyhood's metropolis and its wei
fare are among his chief concerns and
delights. He has never sought or held
any local Office, but he is leader in
every public movement. And he is new
or so deep in private or party business
that he cannot lay it all aside to lend
helping hand for Cannon Falls. Now
he is deep in a scheme to secure public
title to a beautiful, natural park site
within three minutes walk of the bus1'