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persons ana the serious injury of at least five others.
 Figures based on the enumeration of June 1. 1900, now made public, show that the total population Of the United States at the close of the nineteenth century was about S4 250, GOO. AS tho population of the United States nt the beginning of the century was about [, ,333, ,00O. the nation has grown nearly sixteenfold in 100 years.
 The trials of the cases arising from the Cuban postoffice embezzlements opened in the Audiencia court in Ha- vana on Saturday before five judges. One hundred and eighty-two witnesses have been called to testify. The de- fendants, Nicely, Rathbone, Reeves and Moya and Mascara, the Cuban stamp clerks, all pleaded not guilty.
 A comparative statement of the rec ceipts from the war revenue act of June 13, 1898, and the war revenue re- duction act of March 2, 1901, shows that the former act produced between July 1, 1900, and Nov. 30, 1900, $4e,- 6Z9, ,3OS. The revenue reduction act of the latter date produced in the corrs- spending period fin 1901 S29, ,429, ,642, a decrease of S17, ,199,6e6. Tuesday morning six masked men entered the National Stockyards bank, north of East St. Louis, H., and after capturing and gagging the two watch men and firemen at the plant and blow ing open the vaults with dynamite se- cured 5000 in coin and currency, with which they decamped. For nine hours they were at work on the vaults with out being interfered with.
 The total reduction of Great Brit aims military forces fin South Africa from the beginning of the war to the end of December. including deaths from diseases, men reported missing, etc, amounts to 24,290 men. Of this number I9,430 were actually killed or died. A total of 84,S30 men were in- valided home, the majority of whom recovered and rejoined their com | mands.
 General Wheaton's report from the island of Samar indicates that little has been accomplished there. The atti- tude of the natives is more unfriendiy than ever before. General Chaffec probably will visit the island in order to personally investigate the state of affairs prevailing there. On the other hand, in Batangas province the organ ized campaign against the insurgents is progressing favorably, and speedy results are expected.
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FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

King Edward has conferred the or der of Knight Grand Cross of the Bath upon Marquis Ito, the Japanese states man. @
 Nineteen men were drowned off Avei- TO, Portugal, by the sinking of two steamers which came into collision on Sunday.
 NJ. de Blowitz has resigned the Par is correspondence of the London Times. retires to private life and is succeeded by Mir. William Morton Full lerton, an American.
 The 'Boers ambushed a party of the Scots Grays last Saturday near Bronk- horst spruit, about forty miles east of Pretoria, on the railroad. The British casualties were six men killed and thirteen wounded.
 Emperor William at the New Years reception in Berlin requested United States Embassador White to ask Pres ident Roosevelt to allow his daughter, Miss Alice, to christen the kaiserN new yacht. now building In the United States.
 Princess Louise, the eccentric daugh- ter of King Leopold of Belgium, who was divorced from her husband, Prince Philip of -Coburg- Gotha and who has been held practically a prisoner in retreat near Dresden for the last two years, has been pronounced hope lessly insane.
 Lord Kitchener reports to the war of. flee under date of Johannesburg, Jan. 4. as follows; Bruce Hamilton, oper- ating to the eastward of Ermelo since Dec. 20, has captured 100 prisoners, in' cluding General Erasmus" The war office publishes an additional list of forty-five men wounded at Zeefontein, making the total ninety-four.
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Carnegie Institution Incorpornted.

Secretary Hay and a number of gen tlemen interested in the Carnegie prof ect of a national university met at the state department on Saturday and formed an incorporation known as the Carnegie Institution. It is understood that Mir. Carnegie has removed the ob- stacles that existed to the acceptance of his ten million dollar donation to the cause of education, and Saturdays ac- ton was the first step toward giving legal form and substance to the propo- sition. Besides Secretary Hay the in- corporators are Edwin D. White, jus tice of the supreme court; D. c. Gill man, late president of Johns Hopkins university; Charles D. Walcott, super intendent of the geological survey; John S. Billings, ex-surgeon general of the navy, and Carroll D. Wright, com missioner of labor.
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New York Legislature Meets.

The New York state legislature con vened on Wednesday. The election of officers created little interest and was carried out in accordance with the pro- gramme fixed by the caucuses Aeld by the Republican and Democratic assem- blymen and senators. The assembly, officials were reelected, as follows: s. Fred Nixon, speaker; Colonel A. E. Baxter, clerk; Frank W. Johnson, ser geant-at-arms; principal doorkeeper, Jacob Kemplc, New York; first assist ant doorkeeper, Andrew Kehn, Albany; second assistant doorkeeper, Charles C. Gray. Livingston; stenographer, H. O. Lammert, Kings. The Democrats named for speaker Hon. George M. Palmer of Schoharie. which honor car ries with it the leadership of the mil nority on the floor. The legislature then adjourned to Monday, when the standing committees of the assembly were announced, practically the same as last year
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Arrival at the Temple.


 When the emperor and the dowager empress arrived at the temple, the pro- cession halted, and their majesties alighted from their chairs, which were covered with imperial yellow silk and lined with sable. The emperor pro- ceeded to the Temple of the God of War, on the west side of the plaza, with hundreds of foreigners peering down only forty feet above him, aud dozens of cameras were focused upon the son of heaven.
 Then the chair of the dowager en- press was brought to the doorway of the Temple of the Goddess of Mercy, on the east side of the plaza, and the dowager empress appeared. Amid a great scuffiing of attendants she pro- ceeded into the temple on the arms of two officials, followed by a company of Buddhist priests bearing offerings. The spectators then heard the booming of the temple bell.
 After an interval of five minutes the dowager empress reappeared. Stand ing in the doorway of the temple, she looked upward. Directly overhead were the German minister, Dr. Mumm von Schwartzenstein, and the secreta- ries of the German legation and the officers and ladies from the American garrison. The dowager empress saw the foreigners and bowed low. She advanced few steps and bowed again in acknowledgment of the salutations of the foreigners. She returned to her chair, looking upward to the semicircle of foreign faces and lowing repeat edly.
 Dowager's Appealing Expression.
 The expression of the dowager em- press seemed almost appealing as she faced those who had humbled her from her former arrogance and confirmed the impression that she is returning to Picking with anxiety for her safety.
 In the meantime the Chinese sol diers, Mantchoo bannermen and minor officials who had crowded the plaza were reverently kneeling. The two arches at the sides of the ancient gate way framed hundreds of faces of Chi nese coolies who. emboldened by the presence of foreigners, ventured to gaze upon their rulers. This incident constituted a most sharp contrast with the old regime, when neither diplomats nor natives were permitted to view the passage of royal personages along the streets.
 The streets from the Machiapo sta tion to the gateway of the Forbidden City, a distance of four miles, were l swept and garnished early in the morn ing. The great plaza between the tenn pies of Heaven and Agriculture were sprinkled with yellow sand. Residents were compelled to remain indoors. The soldiers and the police formed a close cordon along both sides of this entire l distance.
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Jan nary B.

107 B. C.-Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, born; assassinated 43 B. c. i7i0-Benedict Arnold born in Norwich, Conn; died 1901. Arnolds military career was glorious one up to the date of his treason at West Point. He aided Ethan Allen in the capture of nconderoga and led an expedition through the wilderness to Quebec, where he was wounded. He fought with great skill on Lake Champlain while in command of the 6o- tilla- At Bemis Heights he commanded the left wing Of the American army and a few days later performed heroic deeds at Stillwa- ter. where he again wounded. After his desertion to the British he engaged in a war fare of burning and pillage on the James riv- and in Virginia.
 f7a3-Lucretia Coffin Mott, reformer and abolition ist, born on Nantucket island; died 1880. l893-Mrs Martha Joan Resde Nash Lamb, dis tnguished historical author and editor, died in New York city; born Is2o ts96-Dr. George Marks, famous entomologist, died in Washington; born Is40.
 lSo6-EI Governor L. s. Ross of Texas, noted Con federate veteran. died at College Station, Tex; born 1888.
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JRnuArY l.

1616-Louis Xu., duke of Orleans, called the 'Fa- ther of His People," died; born 14e2. 172o-Edmund Burke, English statesman, born; died 17eT. l7s5-Paul Revere. patriot rider, born in Boston; died 1918. l767-Maria Edgeworth, one of the earliest Ameri- can novelists. born; died 1949. 1s30-Paul Hamilton Hayne, southern poet, born in Charleston; died 1ss6 1863-Ths edict of emancipation of the dawes of states adhering to the Confederacy went into effect. The proclamation was issued Sept 22, 1882. and applied only to the persons then held in bondage outside the Union lines Practically the edict was powerless until the conquest of territory containing slaves brought them within the protection of the Union army.
 ls7o-Resumption of specie payments in the Unit ed States lso4-The Manchester ship canal, connecting Man chester with the river Mersey, formally open ed 1so7-Rear Admiral Joseph & Skerrett, U. 8. N., retired. died in Washington; born 1880. ls96-Richard Cursor Poultney, noted American artist in London, died in that city, aged s8 l0M-lgnatius Donnelly, noted American scholar and orator, died at Minneapolis, Mnn.; born 1831
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SmaIlnnx In New LerAeY.

Hackettstown, N. J., Jan. S.-Small- pox, brought here by a young man re- gently returned from a visit to New York, is spreading rapidly through the town. Yesterday there were six new cases reported, making a total of thir- ty-five in all, one of which resulted fa- tally last Sunday. The town hall has been turned into a hospital. The cpl demic has caused a general alarm throughout the whole northwestern corner of New Jersey, especially as solitary cases have appeared at Free Union, Vienna and Newton.
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January ..

1715-Fenelon Francois de Salignac de la MothD, French writer, died; born 1851. 171S-General Israel Putnam born in Danvers, Mass; died 1T9o. Putnam won laurels a a gallant soldier before he became "Old Put'' of the Revolutionists. After ten years of service filled with adventures he returned home with the rank of colonel He joined the "Sons of Liberty" in Connecticut and was among the first to march against the in- vaderA. Connecticut gave him command of all her forces-
 176s-Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Nspo- leon, king of Naples and Spain, born at Corti, Corsica; died in England 1s44. Joseph's reign in Spain, from 1908 to 1873, was only a nom- inal one. After the battle of Waterloo he emigrated to the United States and resided at Bordentown, N. J., until the accession of Louis Philippe in 1880, when he returned to . Europe.
 Isoo-Aguinaldo issued a proclamation protesting against American occupation, denouncing the policy outlined in President McKinley's in- structions to General Otis and calling upon Filipinos to continue the struggle for liberty. 190o-Rsv. Dr. Edward McGlynn, noted Catholic priest and orator, died at Newburg, N. F., aged 62.
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January @.

1fSo-David Dale, pnilanthropist and maternal grandfather of Robert Dale Owen, born; died 1so6
 1gl1-Charles Sumner, Massachusetts senator and statesman, born in Boston; died in Washing ton 1874. Sumner was among the earliest and ablest opponents of slavery. He held a seat in the United States senate from 1850 to 1874, Aperiod covering the agitation of the fugitive slave law and Kansas Nebraska bill, the civil war and reconstruction He acted A conA- dential adviser of President Lincoln and from 1861 to 1870 served chairman of the com mittee on foreign relations- 1se4-Dr. Clinton Cavendish, English explorer, died at San Antonio, Tex; born 1s4l. 1so6-General Mortimer D. Leggett, a noted Fed eral veteran of the western armies, died in Cleveland; born 1915.
 1900-Main Boer attack the British lines at Ladysmith; heavy fighting and casualtiea
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January II.

1757-General Alexander Hamilton, American sol dier and statesman. secretary of the treasury under Washington, born in Nevis. West In- dies; killed by Aaron Burr In duel July I2, 1904 1so7-Ezra Cornell, promoter of education, etc., born at Westchester Landing, N. Y.; died 1874 1s15-Sir John Alexander Macdonald, Canadian statesman, born in Glasgow, Scotland; died 1891. 1s25-Bayard Taylor, American author and trav- eler. born at Kennett Square, Pa; died in Berlin 1878. 1s44-Francis Scott Key, author of ''The Star Spangled Banner" died in Baltimore; born 17SO. 1S94-Isabella Shave Thackeray, widow of the distinguished author, died at Leigh, England; born 1879. E96-Geueral Francis Charming Barlow. noted veteran of the Army of the Potomac and a prominent lawyer, died in New York city; born 1924.
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IessIer Defeats Perry Belmont

New York, Jan. S.-Perry Belmont was defeated in the hard fought cleo ton for a successor to Nicholas Muller In the Seventh congressional district. The vote was very close, and when the last few Staten Island districts had been heard from his defeat by few less than POO votes was conceded. Montague Lessler Rep), the success ful nominee, profited by the division in the Tammany camp. He has conduct ed a most active canvass, devoting most of his energy to the Staten Island end of the campaign.
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ButI.r President of CoIumbi.,

Professor Nicholas Murray Butler was elected president of Columbia uni versity to succeed Mayor Seth Low at the meeting of the board of trustees on Tuesday. Professor Butler has been act ing president since the resignation of MT. Low, which was given at the time of his nomination for the office of may or. It was also announced after the meeting of the board of trustees that gift of $100,000 had recently been made to the university. The name of the donor was not made public, and all information was refused on the sub
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Carter. Green and Gaynors Lose.

The United States supreme court on Monday announced its refusal to interfere in the case of Captain Ober- lin NJ. Carter. The decision was rem dered in the proceedings instituted by ex-Captain Carter for the purpose of securing a writ of habeas corpus that would release him from prison at Leav- enworth. Kan. The supreme court has affirmed the decision of the circuit court for the southern district of New York in the case of Benjamin Green, W. T. Gaynor, Edward H. Gaynor and John F. Gaynor, who are charged with having been in complicity with ex-Cap- tain Carter. Green and the Gaynors sought by habeas corpus proceedings in New York to avoid being sent te Georgia for trial. ...-
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Double Tragedy In Camden, N. J.


 Philadelphia, Jan. S.-The bodies of Joseph Caskey, ST., aged sixty years, and Joseph Caskey, Jr., aged thirty, were found last night lying in the yard of their home near their stable at Ninth and Walnut streets, Camden, N. J. The bodies were about five feet apart. The young man had been shot in the right temple, and the elder had re- ceived a fatal bullet in his mouth. A revolver was found by the side of the elder man. There were no witnesses to the shooting. The dead men were Polanders, and there had been frequent quarrels between them over property. The generally accepted theory of the tragedy is that the father shot the son dead and then, placing the revolver in his mouth, ended his life.
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December 20.

40-Titus, Roman emperor, born; died S1. 1504-Queen Isabella of Spain, patron of Colum- bus died; born 1451. 17s7-otto won Kotzebue, explorer of the coast of Russian America, born in Reyel, Russia; died there 1S46.
 ls6l-Lajos Qouis) Kossuth Hungarian patriot and exile. visited Washington invitation of congresA He died at Turin, where he had passed many years in exile, in 1894, aged 92. ls6l-The banks in New York, Philadelphia and Boston suspended specie payment; laws were passed in the various states to protect the banks from penalties; specie payment was re- sumed early in 1879. l803-Sir Samuel White Baker, the noted African explorer, died at Newton Abbot, Devonshire; born 1921.
 1sos-Matios Romero, Mexican ambassador to the United States. died in Washington; born 1886,
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January IF.

1b1S-Marimilian l., emperor of Germany, died. 16S2-Alva, duke of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo), noted and notorious Spanish general under Charles V. and Philip H., died; born l5os Alva was the scourge of the Netherlands and boasted having brought 1s,ooo persons to the scaffold.
 TS7-John Hancock, statesman and 'signer," born in Quincy, Mass; died 1793. 18o1-John 0. Lavater, writer physiognomy, died at Zurich. ls74-Surrender of Cartagena, Spain; the Carlist war assumed serious proportions. The Carlist was set on foot by Carlos Maria Juan Isi- dor, pretender to the claims of his father, de- scendant of King Charles ". The war lasted five yeara
 1s76-Thomas E. Bramlette, war governor of Ken lucky, died; born 1877. 1S91-Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann, famous engineer, died in Paris ls9s-Mary Cowden Clarke, author of the Shake speare Concordance, died in Genoa: born 1909.
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THE RETURN TO PEKING
Emperor and Empress Dowager
 Again In Their Capital
FOREIGNERS VIEW THE PROCESSION

A BewilderinK and Barbaric E1hibi-
 ton of TinseIed Oriental SplendOr.
 Cameras Snapped on the "sOn of
 Heaven"
 Picking, Jan. S.-The re-entrance of the Chinese emperor into Peking was the most remarkable episode in the an- nals of the dynasty save the flight of the Chinese court when Picking was bombarded by the allied forces.
 The spectacular phases of the return of the court exceeded the expectations. The cortege was a sort of glorified lord mayors show and was a bewildering and harbaric exhibition of oriental tin seled splendor.
 It's chief significance was the com plete effacement of the traditional de- ification of Chinese royalty. Foreign CTS were given greater facilities to wit ness the ceremonial than would have been afforded them at most European courts.
 The scene at the Chien gate when the emperor and dowager empress en- tered, the temple to offer thanks for
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OVEE TWOSCORELOST
PACIFIC STEAMER GOES DOWN IN /
 COLLISION.
WnI1a Wn1la Run Into by French Bark Max-Nine Killed by the Ac- cident nnd ThIrty-three Probably Drowned.

Bark Max-Nine Killed by the Ac-
 cident nnd ThIrty-three Probably
 Drowned.
 A collision at sea between the steam ship Walla Walla, Captain Hall, and the French bark Max resulted in the sinking of the steamship and the prob, able loss of forty-two lives. The Walla Walla, owned by the Pacific Coast Steamship company, sailed from San Francisco Jan. for Puget sound ports, She carried thirty-six first class pas sengers, twenty eight second class and crew of eighty men. When off Cape Mendocina, on the California coast, at 4:10 o'clock Thursday morning, an iron bark loomed up in the haze and crash. ed in the Walla Walla's bow. Then the sailing vessel slid off into the darkness and was seen no more.
 All the passengers and crew of the Walla Walla except the few on watch were asleep, but were aroused by the crash. The steerage quarters were in the bow, and it is believed that some Of the steerage passengers and crew were crushed to death. A big hole was made in the steamers bow, and she sank in thirty-fiv minutes. The officers and crew maintained strict discipline, and boats and life rafts were low cred.
 All who were not killed in the colll- sion got off except Captain Hall, who went down with his ship. He was pick ed up later by one of the boats unin- jured, with the exception of a few bruises.
 A choppy sea was running, and the small boats could not make a landing on the shore, a few miles distant. They drifted about all day, and finally sixty five people were picked up by the steamer Dispatch.
 The latest estimate of the number of lost stands at forty-two, classed as fol lows: Known dead, g.; missing, passen- gers, 13; crew, 20.
 One life raft is unaccounted for, and it is feared that all the missing are lost
 The French bark Max was on Sun. day lowed into San Francisco in bad ly disabled condition by the steamer Acme and the United States revenue cutter McCulloch. The Max's bowsprit was carried away, and her bow was stove in both above and below the wa ter line. Her water tight compart- ments alone were keeping her afioat.
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1s26-John R. Broadhead, diplomat and author of history of New York, born in Philadelphia; died 1873. 1s61-Frederick William ". of Prussia died. Ac- cession of William l.. the great Kaiser Will helm. 1s7o-Caleb Cushing, iTist and statesman, died in Newburyport, Mass. born 1900. lS8S-Joel Parker, governor of New Jersey, died at Trenton; born 1907. 1s9l-Alexander William Kinglake, author of "History of the Crimean War;" died in Lon- don; born 1902. Kinglake practiced law and made literature his diversion. He accompa- nied the army to the Crimea in order to gath CT data for his history. lso4-Colonel Floyd Clarkson. prominent c. A. R. veteran, died in New York city; born ls81
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and Switzerland. His
 duct at Jena superb; also In the Spanish campaigns He commanded the center at Borodino and covered the retreat from Russia, receiving from Napoleon the sppellation ''bravest of the brave" 1s6S-Lyman Beecher. father of the famous fam fly, died in Brooklyn; born Oct 12, l775. 1s76-General Gordon Granger, a distinguished Union commander in the west, died at Santa Fe; born 1928. 1so3-General Benjamin Franklin Butler. civilian general. lawyer and statesman. died in Wash ington; born 1878. 1so4-Rear Admiral Donald McNeil Fairfax. U. & N., retired. died at Hagerstown. Md; born 1924.
 1900-General Dabney Herndon Maury, noted Con- federate veteran, died at Peoria, H., aged 7a
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Charged With Killing Babies.

Fincennes, Ind, Jan. S.-Mary and Ruth Putnam, unmarried daughters of Ebel Putnam, prominent farmer liv- ing just across the Indiana line in Illinois, have been arrested charged with the murder of twin babies born to Mary Putnam Dec. 21. The babies disappeared Christmas day, and the authorities searched the premises and found the little bodies buried in a pasteboard box in the orchard.
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Ro.ton Colored Churches.

colored churches in Boston, where thir- ty years ago 1t was difficult to support one," says the Boston Transcript. "The colored people are not crowded out of the white churches, although very few attend them now, but they prefer to worship by themselves. One reason for this is that education has fitted more colored people to be leaders of their own people and pastors of their own churches"