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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-02-01
The Fairy Gift.
BY WINIFRED FALEs-


The butterflies in cloth Of gold arrayea
We're once as white as snow.
By magic was the transformation made
Long centuries ago.
The fairy queen, whose jeweled cloak and
crown
Were dim beside her eyes.
One summers day her chariot car drove
down
Whose steeds were butterflies.
Some birds. her white-winged subjects to
devOuT,
Pursued in rapid fight.
Each butterfly repOsed upon a flower,
And thus escaped their sight
oh. blossoms pale, " inquired the CRATE
fuI queen.
What can / do for you2
Would you be like the rose on yonder
green
Or like the violet bIue?"
oh. make US like your yeHsw locks.
they said,
And blushed at speech so bold.
The fairy stopped and kissed them
where they sWayed.
And 10, they all were gold!
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Solution Of last weeks color puzzle.
Red, White, and Blue; Rose, Clnary,
CIaret, Orange, FawI, Lemon Pud
Cherry.
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- BURTON.s 81.

What bridge in Venice most resemble
the Brooklyn Bridge2
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Ito Be Continued
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KILLED IN RAILWAY WRECK.
Sunset Limited on Southern Pacific
Road COIIides with a Train
in Texas-Three, Dead.

San Antonio, Tex, March 2S.-The
Sunset limited of the Southern Pacific
and another passenger train collided
at Lacoste. Is miles west of here, at
9:55 o'clock Thursday night. Three
passengers, all MeXicans, were killed.
and nine injured. The bodies of the
dead were burned. The dead are:
Guadalupe Cantee, Monterey; Antonio
Arizpe, Sabinas, and Manuel Trevino
Santo. Sabinas.
The three dead Mexicans were rela-
tives of Gen. Geronimo Trevino, of
Monterey, who was on his way to San
Antonio, accompanied by his wife and
son. The Trevinos were not injured.
The dead men were in the COM
partment of the private car of Gen.
Trevino. The Pullman car in the rear
telescOped the private car, crushing
them 10 death. Their bodies were not
recovered until they had been burned
to d crisp in the fire. which destroyed
the entire train, including the engine
The fire originated from the oil in the
tender,
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WEST AND SOUTH.

In speech at Detroit, Mich, Senator
Tillman, of South Carolina, alluded to
Sherman's army as ''bummers, chicken
thieves and carpet-baggers" and was
violently Kissed.
Burglars raided Plainville, Ind, rob-
bling the post office, depots and three.
stores.
At the University of Michigan hazing
continues, and it is said at least 60
students have been shorn of their locks.
The seven packing concerns pur-
chased last summer by Armour-Swift-
Morris interests have been merged in
the National Packing company, with
$15.OOO,O 900 capital.
Judge Kohlsaat has issued temper
ary injunction in the federal court at
Chicago against Indiana coal men, to
restrain their combination.
The western railroads are engaged in
a bitter struggle FOR the government
mail carrying contract between Chica-
go and Kansas City.
Gen. Thomas Stewart, commander in
chief, in addressing grand army men
at New Orleans, Mo-, said prejudice
was rapidly dying out in both north
and south.
In Chicago 500 factories are closed
and 5000 men are made idle by strikes
for increased pay and better condi-
tions.
w. B. Byers, a Colorado pioneer and
founder of the Rocky Mountain News,
the first daily newspaper published in
IN ha4 nj PC
f. NJ. Steinhart. of Illinois. will sue
coed William A. Rublee, of Wisconsin,
as consul general at Havana.
Robbers broke into the safe in the
post office at Fairport, o., and secured
about $500 in stamps.
G. d. Haworth, who invented the
corn planter. wheat drills and other
agricultural implements, died in De-
catur. H., aged 20 years.
Margaret O'Day, of Chicago, was
killed by bullet from rife which
Miss Nellie O'Day, her niece, acciden-
tally fired.
Two young sons of J. Y. Johnson
died at Glenwood, Ia, as the result of
eating the roots of an unknown plant
growing in the yard.
In Madison, Ind, John V. Connolly,
noted horseman, was thrown to the
street by the horse he was riding and
killed.
At a meeting of the trustees of the
Drake university in Des Moines, Ia,
ex-Gov. Drake, the founder, an
nounced donations aggregating $780,
O0O
AT Bavia, I. T.. Francis Hare and wife
were assassinated, each being shot in
the breast. Hare was political lead
er among the Chickasaws.
Luther Owen, Walter Chism and
IlJennie George were drowned near
Caruthersville, No., by the upsettiRg
Of canoe.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In Paris Mai. Gen. Sir Hector Mac
donald, British military commander at
CeyIon and Boer war hero, committed
suicide in a hotel while en- route to
face court-martial for immoral con-
duct.
President Castro read his special
message TO the Venezuelan congress
and withdrew his resignation of the
presidency.
An Irish land bill introduced in the
British commons provides a loan of
$75O,O0O, 900 by the British government
to enable tenants to purchase their
holdings.
Fire destroyed the Toronto (Ont)
opera house, the estimated loss being
$1500OO.
The citizens of San Juan, Porto Rico,
gave Miss Alice Roosevelt grand re-
ception in the theater.
James Mcclellan. William Nicholl,
Hugh McCallum and H. Bolton were
drowned in Bass lake, near Owen
Sound, Ont, while fishing.
The richest religious order III
France, the Carthusian monks, have
been refused permission to remain in
the republic.
Dispatches say the revolution which
broke out in Nicaragua is rapidly be-
ing suppressed and the government is
confdeat OF restoring order soon.
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THROWN FROM HER HORSE.
Empress of Germany Meets with "a
Painful Accident-BOne in
Left Arm Broken.

Berlin, March 2S.-While the Ger
man empress was galloping through
the Grunewald, a forest near Char
lottenburg. Friday afternoon, her
horse, startled by doe that ran
across the path, SHE'D and threw her
off. The empress broke the fall with
her left arm, and one of the bones
snapped just above the wrist. The
emperor, Prince Adelbert Gen. Won
Loewenfeld, Gen. Won Wedel and the
numerous following of adjutants and
aides de camp quickly gathered
around her. The emperor was the
first to lift her from the ground. She
screamed with pain at the first shock,
but after that showed much forti-
tude. DIR. Leuthold, the emperor's
physician, was summoned at once
from this city. Pending his arrival
Emperor William applied first aid to
the injured limb and made a sling out
of the emDreSS' veil
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4 WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings OF a
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
ALI the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

In the post office department at
Washington shake-up is promised,
the resignation of George w. Beavers
being described as a forerunner of sew
eral other designations or dismissals.
Gen. Leonard Wood has been relieved
from further duty in connection with
the government of Cuba.
BY a revision of the civil service
rules, to take effect April Is, the CLASH
fed service is extended to all positions
which are subject to classification I'M
der the civil service act.
The alleged post Office supply con-
tract conspiracy is now under investi-
CATION by six inspectors in Washing
ton. The ring apparently has existed
for years while certain officials have
grown rich off small salaries.
The adjustment of excess fares on
fast trains may be forced by the Elkins
law.
The secretary of the treasury an
nounces that he will resume the re-
funding Of old bonds with new two
per cents. This is expected to increase
the circulation $200,000,000.
James n. Tyner, assistant attorney
general for the post office department,
has resigned, to take effect on the APP
pointment of his successor.
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A COMBINE OF COMBINES.
big Steel Companies Merge Into n
Corporation known AS the Ma
tiOnaI Steel Company.

Trenton, n. j., March 27-Articles
of merger were filed in the Office of the
secretary of state Thursday, merging
the American Steel Hoop Co., National
Steel Co. and the Carnegie company.
The merged corporation is to be
known as the Carnegie Steel Co., with
a capitalization of 500, 100000. The
combined capital of the old companies
amounted to 1882, 900, 900.
By this merger the new corporation
will save over $1,000 each year in fees
paid to the state of New Jersey.
The directors of the new corpora
ton are w. E. Corey, c. NJ. Schwab, f.
H. Gary, w. w. Blackburn and Thorn
as Murray. The officers of the com
pany are: w. E. Corey, president;
w. w. Blackburn, secretary treasurer;
j. j. Campbell, assistant secretary and
auditor. All the new officers are from
Pittsburg.
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TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.
Gen. Macdonald, Commander OF the
British Forces in Ceylon, Conn
mits Suicide in Paris.

Paris. March 26.-Maj. Gen. Hector
Macdonald, commanding the British
forces in Ceylon, and one of the fore
most officers in the British army,
against whom charges based on i'm
moral acts were filed some time ago,
committed suicide Wednesday at the
Hotel Regina here.
London, March 26.-The tragic end
of Fighting Mac" who, the son of a
highland cottar, rose from position
of a diapers assistant to be an honored
general in the British army, has caused
great surprise and deep sorrow in Lon
don.
Gen. Macdonald was regarded as one
of Britian's great soldiers. He rose
from the ranks in the Gordon highland
ers to his present position and the serv-
ice list shows no more honorable war
record than that of Macdonald, while
few officers possess more hard-won
decorations. He was extremely popu-
lar in the army and in civil life.
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THE EAST.

At Dannemora prison "Whitey" Sui
Ivan was electrocuted for the murder
of Matthew Wilson at Cobleskill, N. Y,
November 26, 1900.
Control of the New York Central
railway has, it is said, passed to the
Morgan ROckefeller-Pe nnsylvania COM
bination
The president has made application
for membership in the Oyster Bay IL.
~ board of trade.
The authorities at Buffalo do not be-
lieve Pennell killed Burdick, but that
a woman, who is alleged to have had a
strong motive, committed the crime.
The death of Uriah II. Crosby, a
pioneer Chicago resident and builder
of the Crosby opera house, occurred at
Brewster, Mass, aged 70 years.
Flames which broke out in the Hay
den building at Rochester, n. Y, result
ed in damage of 100000, which is di-
vided among several concerns.
In New York Isaac B. Price cele-
brated his one hundred and first birth
day. He has only been out of the
city once in his long life.
Officials of the New Jersey Traction
company, including A. j. Cassatt,
president, have been indicted in New
ark, n J., for railway accident in
which nine high school girls were
killed.
In Buffalo the Burdick inquest
closed without disclosing the identity
of the murderer. The verdict will be
withheld until finding of inquest on
Arthur r. Pencil and his wife is rem
dered.
1t was voted by the Lowell (Mass.)
Textile council to strike because ten
per cent. wage increase is refused.
Seven plants and $4,000 employees are
involved.
P. J. Cogan shot and killed his wife
and then himself at the Baltimore &
Ohio depot at Hynman, Pa.
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TO BE FREED NEXT YEAR.
Mrs. MaybricI<. the American Wom-
an, Will Be Released from Eng
1ish Prison in 1904.

London, March 24.-Mrs. Florence
Maybrick, the American woman who
was convicted at Liverpool in 1889 on
the charge of poisoning her husband,
James Maybrick, by arsenic, and
whose sentence of death was COM
muted to penal servitude for life, will
be released in 1904.
The announcement comes from the
home office, which now authorizes her
Washington lawyers to use the fact
of her release next year as reason
for securing the postponement of the
trial of the lawsuits bearing on the
prisoners interest in land in Ken
lucky, Virginia and West Virginia.
until she is able to personally tes-
t;fy.
Those who are in a, position to
know say that Home Secretary Akers-
Douglas has shown great courtesy in
connection with the suits now pend
ing in America, that the decision to
release Mrs. Maybrick was entirely
due to efforts on this side of the At
lantic, and that Ambassador Herbert
has never been called upon to act in
this matter.
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SIX MINERS ARE KILLED.
liery at Athens, Menard
County, III.

Springfield, Ill, March "a. A
terrible explosion of gas in a mine of
the Athens Coal company, at Athens,
Menard county, 20 miles north of
Springfield, Monday, resulted in the
death of six men and one being
seriously injured. The dead are:
John Rogers, Fred Impke, s. Corn
dorf, James Patrick, August Noel, Da
vid Myers.
Injured: Carl Joerjnich.
An entry in the mine has been for
some time stopped up on account of
gas, and Monday morning an attempt
was made to open it by drilling an
other entry, in order to allow air to
enter, and gas to escape. While en-
gagged in this work a miner fired
through the stopped-up chamber,
causing a terrific explosion of gas,
which accumulated in the chamber,
Nine men were in the mine at the
time, and as a result six were killed
outright, and Joerinich badly in
iured. Two men escaped. Some of
the men killed were 100 feet away
from where the explosion occurred
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IRISH LAND BILL.
Measure fer the Relief of Tenants
introduced in British House
of Commons.

London, March 26.-The Irish secre-
tary, Mr.. Wyndham, introduced the
governments long anticipated Irish
land bill in the house of commons
Wednesday afternoon. 1t proposes
free grant of $60,000,0 900 for the puf-
poses of She bill. Tenants are to pay
3H per cent. interest on loans from the
government. Mr.. Wyndham said he
thought the scheme would not involve
$500,000,000, but that $780, 900 could
safely be advanced on Irish land. The
advances to tenants are limited to ST.
500 in the congested districts and
$4,000 elsewhere The bill also pro-
vides that untenanted farms and graz
ing lands shall be sold to neighboring
tenants and that three commissioners,
to be known as estate commissioners,
shall supervise the sales. The names
of the three commissioners are Michael
F1nucane, secretary to the government
of Bengal revenue, general and statis-
teal department; Frederick S. Wrench,
now one of the Irish land commission
ers, and William T. Bagley, one of the
assistant commissioners on the Irish
land question. They will be under the
control of the lord lieutenant of Ire
land. The bill will become effective
November 12
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SIX MEN DROWN.
Four Comm erciaI Travellers and Two
Negroes Meet Death in Flood
in Arkansas.

Memphis, Tenn, March 25.-J. r.
Hood, an employe of an Arkansas saw
mill. returned from the flooded district
of Arkansas Tuesday morning and re-
ports that while at Gavin, a station on
the Frisco railroad Saturday after
noon, he saw a skiff containing four
drummers and two negro oarsmen
swept under the track of the railroad in
a stiff current. The boat was over
turned, all six of the occupants were
drowned. Mr.. Hood does not know the
names of the travelling men, but says
they had employed the negroes to row
them across the submerged territory
to Mound City, Ark, where they in
tended to take steamboat for Mem
phis.
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Look Out for 1t,

Washington, Marcn 25.-The secret
service division of the treasury de-
partment has received a new counter
felt two dollar silver certificate, series
1899, check letter &C." Lyons, regis
ter; Roberts, treasurer. The coun-
terfeit seems to have been printed
from photo-etched plates on two
pieces of stiff paper with silk threads
between. On the back of the note
the word certificate is spelled "cer-
tifiecate," public is spelled 'purlic,"
when WIDEN and may "mai." The
thickness of the paper should i'm
mediatelY attract attention.
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CJMMUNING WITH NATURE.
laura Was Not Saddened by the
Beautiful Scenery-It Was
Bug

Close beside the sparkling brook, whose
silvery waters danced merrily in the sun
light and rippled joyously over the golden
sands, they sat in silence-George and Laura
drinking in the glorious beauty of the rus
TIC scene and communing with nature in one
of her chosen shrines. Afar off in the west
the sun seemed to linger on the rim of the
horizon as If unwilling to shut out ftDm his
gaze the lovely landscape that glowsd with
softened and even melancholy radiance in
his departing beams, says Woman'B Home
Companion.
A thrilling cry burst from the lips of the
beautiful girl. George! George!" she all
most shrieked.
What is it, darling?" he asked placing
his arm tenderly around her waist. Has
thu romantic, yet oppressive, loneliness of
thA scenery saddened your spirit"
mo, George!' she screamed, waving her
small of her back 81 think it's some kind
of a bug!'
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WILL REFUND BONDS.
Secretary Shaw Announces Plan to
Avert Possible Money
Stringency.

Washington. March 27.-The secre-
tary of the treasury on Thursday pub
lished a circular announcing that, on
and after April ], 1903, he will receive
for refunding, under authority of sec
tion II of the act of March IA, 1900,
to an amount not exceeding 500, 000,
600, any of the bonds of the three per
cent loan of 190S-191S and the four
per cent. funded loan of 1907. They
may be surrendered at prices yielding
to the investor an income of PA per
cent. per annum, and the new bonds
will be issued in exchange at pre-
MUM OF two per cent. Accrued IN
terest on both old and new bonds will
be calculated to date of exchange.
There are now outstanding about
$97, 100000 three per cent. bonds and
$233,000,0 900 tours of 1907 which are
affected by the circular issued Wednes-
day. There are also outstanding
about $446,O0O.00O of the two per cent.
consols of 1880 issued under the act
Of March IA, 1900. These two per cent.
bonds were issued in 1900 at par under
provisions of the refunding act. If
the new bonds were to be issued now
at par there would be profit to the
owners of the bonds, taking the pres
ent market valuation as a basis, of
about four per cent. for the three per
cent. bonds surrendered and about 51h
per cent. for the tours of 1907. The
secretary desires to obtain an equita-
bic share of this profit for the gov
eminent, which is the reason for
charging a premium of two per cent.
upon the new bonds to be issued.
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Merged by Packers.

Chicago, March 25.-Consolidation
of the seven packing companies
bought last summer by the Armour,
Swift and Morris interests as a pre-
liminary step to the general consol-
idation then contemplated has just
been effected. The National Packing
company, incorporated under the
laws of New Jersey March IS, with
$3.50 900 capital stock, has pur-
chased the properties and is now
operating them. The president of
the new National company is j. P.
LYMAN.
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Death of NIX. Enirbank.

Chicago, March 28.-Nathaniel K.
Fairbank, founder of the N. X. Fair
bank company and the Fairbank Can
ming company, and long one of Chica-
COS most prominent business men,
died at his home, 1901 Michigan avenue,
after a brief illness, aged 70 years. Mr..
Fairbank had been a resident of Chica-
go for nearly half century. His work
in charitable lines is as well known as
in business. He is survived by seven
children
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Judge Tyner Resigns.

Washington, March 27.-Judge James
N. Tyner, assistant attorney general
for the post office department, has re-
signed, to take effect on the appoint
ment of his successor, who has not yet
been chosen. Mr.. Tyner is in a serious
physical condition, and owing to that
fact and his advanced age he has not
been able to discharge the duties of his
office for a long time and he will not
again visit the post office department
OfficiaIly
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The old catalpa tree which is fea-
turc of Gray's Inn gardens, in the
heart of London. and which was taken
from Virginia by Sir Walter Raleigh
to be planted in it's present position
by Queen Elizabeth, is reported to be
dying. Queen Elizab beth was prevent
ed By illness from planting the tree
herself. and she ordered Sir Francis
Bacon to take her place. AS Raleigh
named Virginia after his sovereign in
1885 the tree which he transplanted
is we'll over three centuries old
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United States Consul Cunningham,
at Alden, Arabia, complained that the
post was too hot for him, and he has
been transferred to Bergen, Norway.
The state department says it did not
intend to be ironical when it trans
ferred Consul Cunningham from a
Turkish bath to a packing-house re-
frigerator, as it were, but that it gave
him the first vacant place of equal
rank. If the state department was
ever known to joke this explanation
might be questioned.
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Many Killed in Riot.

Port of Spain, Trinidad, March 25.-
Twelve natives were killed and 60
wounded, many of them noncombat
ants and women, during Mondays
rioting. The government building
was entirely destroyed by the rioters
and the police barracks was damaged
by fire and water. All the government
records in the colonial secretary's Of
flee, the courthouse, the crown lands
and other departments were de-
strOyed
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HIS "HoNEY" HAD VANISHED.
TIE Waiter Didn't Understand job NJ
sons Inquiry, But He Thought
He Did.

A young Philadelphia whom we may caK
johnson, because that is not his name, was
married several days ago, and it occurred 10
him that he would take his bride into an up
state town on their honeymoon, relates the
Philadelphia Ledger. He was particularly
DESTROYS of visiting this town, as he told his
bride, because at the hotel where he intend
ed staying they served such delicious honey
at every meal" That will be delightful"
said Mrs. johnson.
The couple arrived at the hotel in due
course, and they were just in time for tea.
Johnson escorted his bride proudly to a
table in the dining room and then, after an
admiring glance at her. looked quizzcallY
round the board. There was no honey on
the table and none in the room. johnson
was surprised and called a waiter See
here, said he, where's my honey" The
waiter seemed at loss as to what to say,
but finally leaned forward and in a stage
whisper said: "She don't work here no
mol"
One active virtue is worth ten abseHt vices.
Rams Horn
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Another loss to religion and TO liter

Another loss to religion and to liter
ature is incurred through the death in
london of Very Rev. Frederic William
Farrar. dean of Canterbury, England.
Dean Farrar was nearly ~ years old
and had filled a very high place in the
noted scholar, educator and preacher.
His writings were numerous, and he
nad been popular as a lecturer in This
country as we'll as,at home. His SER
mons were noted for simplicity and
power, and his whole life and char
acter were the expression of lofty
principle and worthy purpose.