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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-26
coREANs FEAR EXTRACTION.
Feeling Of Unrest NJ Fate Of Their
Country IL the japanese ana
Russians Clash.

Seoul, Dec. 16.-More rioting has
taken place at Mokphe and Monday .
Japanese mob wounded II Coreans.
High Corean ofiicials are hurrying to
Mokphe to try and quell the disorders.
So far Russia has not interfered.
United States Minister Allen has de-
manded a definite answer from the
Corean government regarding the open
ing of the port of Wiju. Despite Amer
lean, British and Japanese pressure.
Russian influence over the Corean gov
eminent is apparently mistaken, and 1t
is expected that Corea will procras-
innate in dealing with the matter, and
possibly may refuse eventually to act
at all. A feeling of unrest is growing
among the Corean people. who fear that
whether 1t be peace or war between Rus
STA and Japan, the extinction of
the empire is imminent. 1t is believed
that the outbreak of hostilities or the
announcement of protectorate Of any
kind will precipitate trouble. Foreign
ers in Seoul expect disorders. and the
American residents desire q warship.
The Corean army, numbering 5000 men.
Is considered one of the most dangerous
factors In the situation. as an insubor-
dinate element is beyond official con-
troll. In case of trouble 1t Is feared that
the soldiers will be the first to lead the
rioting and begin looting.
Washington, Dec. 17.-At the request
of Minister Allen. at Seoul. who reports
considerable uneasiness and rioting in
Corea. the state department has sug-
gested to the navy department that q
warship be sent to Corean waters. 1t Is
probable the Wilmington will be de-
tailed for this purpose. ~
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-26
WINS HER SUIT.
ON CHARGE Of Libel, and Secures
Damages Of Half = Cent.

Birmingham. Eng. Dec. 17.-Marie
Corelli. the novelist, was awarded half
cent damages. each side to pay their
own costs. In . libel suit brought by her
against the proprietor Of the Stafford
on-Avon Herald. in connection with .
recent controversy in which Miss Corelli
opposed the erection of Carnegie II
brary on the ground that 1t involved .
dissertation Of Shakespeare's birthplace.
The alleged libel consisted in . state
ment that Miss Corelli desired to erect
q library at the same place. The case
attracted considerable attention and the
court was crowded. many fashionable
people being present. Mics Corelli testi-
fed In her own behalf for two hours and
emphatieally denied that she ever in
tended to erect library.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-26
ARREST IN BIG FRAUD.
Powerful Land Spectator Held On
Charge of Bribery Vast
Tracts Involved.

Washington, Dec. 19.-John A. Ben
SON. q wealthy real estate operator OF
the firm Of Benson & Hyde. was arrested
here Friday night, charged with bribery.
He will be held to the grand jury and
then evidence duplicating him in extern
sive land frauds will be produced. Ben
sons arrest Is Secretary Hitchcock 3 first
step in his campaign against rerpe-
traitors of land frauds. Many more ar
rests will follow at once. A number Of
interior department employees are in
volved. and will either be arrested or
dismissed. Benson has been under in
vestigation by secret service agents for
more than q year. It II asserted he has
defrauded the government out of at
least 100000 acres Of land by various
schemes since the passage Of the forest
reserve act In 1897. Thatact provides that
the owner of land which 10 wanted by
the government for forest reserve shall
be allowed to select In place of It other
public land.
1t Is alleged Benson obtained advance
information a. to the land that would be
wanted by the government for forest
reserves. and that by means Of fraudu-
lent entries or by purchase immense
tracts Of such lands were obtained and
afterward exchanged for valuable pub
lie lands. The information alleges that
frauds were perpetrated as to lands in
Washington. Oregon. California. Mon
tana. Idaho. Nevada. Utah, Wyoming.
Colorado. North Dakota. South Dakota.
Nebraska, Kansas. Minnesota. Arizona
and New Mexico.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-26
SCHOOL BURNS.


Nashville. Tenn. Dec. 19.-Four per-
sons are known to have been killed and
perhaps 80 others injured. 10 Of them
fatally, in q IRE here Friday night.
which consumed the Central Tennessee
college for young negro women. de-
partment of Walden University. II N
possible that the ruins may contain the
bodies Of other victimA The property
loss IL estimated at $25, 000..
The known dead are: Stella Addison.
Port Gibson. Miss: Matte Lee Moore.
Huntsville, Ala; Sallie Dade. Hopkins
vile. KY: Mamie Johnson, Hatties-
burg. Miss.
Fire broke out about IL O'CLOCK in
the top Of the building. which was four
stories high and without fre escapes.
It was occupied by 60 students. who
were asleep whensthe alarm was given
The widest panic ensued. the women
and girls rushing screaming to tho
windows from which they jumped In
droves. the dead and injured lying In
heaps where they fell. to be fallen upon
BY those following them from the FAM
ing windows. Every ambulance in tho
city was soon on the scene and the In
jured were hurried to hospitals When
the flames were first discovered they
seemed to entirely enveIop the build
Ing. and II IL considered almost cer-
tain that some Of the terrorlzed occu-
pants were overcome by smoke before
reaching the windows.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-26

;,se~, -, - *1k - q M -
~ : ~,scr1v' rSS53sw a. 800 r;vr.
ssp,'rsrrc- 4. 6ec,6eapv he1fer ~fhcIS e
snv 1000 6,fe an6 ia imnrovo 80
- 80 ccSeScs a.. - e1u1{, A ho1i<nu
:soo1S slfno urh ~ Scof rcnorto co..
~, 49, Iinsa. coof]nued lover tem-
perntnre not onIv rfimuIntea. aalea. hut
iohherr Ar reosivine supplemenfs
ovIler1 for seononable' enoda. ana eol-
Iecfions are more nromipent Build
ing permita isnued during Noyember
erceeded the aame month last wear.
railway tonnaee n heavy. ana several
manufacturinr branches are starting
idIe machinerv. On the other hand.
there a no imnrovement az thu sltun-
lion IN the cotton industry. ana fuel
producerr Are rsstrictinr OUTPUT Com
f,dence a increasinr IN the INN and
steel indusfrv ana the FEELING q becom-
inr more general that prices Win not
n. v,.e<~rseIy~ lover swroy,t v.os.shpv IN,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-26
FATAL EXPLOSION.
italian Laborers Undertake TO Thaw
Out Frosen Dynamite and
Four Are Killed.

Dubois. Pa, Dec. 18.-Four Italians
were killed and two probably fatally
injured by dynamite explosion at
Cramer, ten miles from here. Thursday.
The men were laborers ON grading
work for the Buffalo, Rochester 4
Pittsburg road and were blasting.
Their dynamite was frozen and when
they attempted to thaw 1t the explo-
sion followed. shaking the ground and
buildings for nearly q mile. The bodies
of the four men were gathered mp in
baskets. The injured were frightfully
mangled and were taken to Adrian
hospital at Punxsutawney.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-26

johnson City. Tenn, Dec. 16.--Maj.
william H. Garland. aged ~ years. II
dead at the National Soldiers' home here.
he had shaken hands with every presi-
dent Of the United States except Wash
ington. He was on the naval cadet de-
tail that welcomed Lafayette on the Sec
ond visit to America In 1924. and he 1t
one time conversed with Napoleon on
the island Of st. Helena. Major Gar
lands wife and children were drowned
in the Evansville. Ind. food in 1884. He
was for many years . Baptist minister.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-26

IRST Christ m as
Message and Song.
What q picture
our text paints for
US! Simple shep-
herds keepin 8
watch DER their
hocks by night.
The gentle sheep
browsing here and
there on the Judean
hillside. The still
negs and quiet OF
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-26

Chicago. sunday. Dec. %, Ie'

chicago. SUNDAY, Dec. ~ IsV5
Text:--"And the angel said unto them.
Fear not: for. behold. bring you good
tidings Of great Joy. which shall be to all
people. For unto you Is born this day. In
the city Of David. Saviour. which Is
Christ the Lord. And suddenly there was
with the angel multitude OF the heavenly
host. praising God and saying. Glory 10
God in the highest, and on earth peace.
good will toward men"-Luke 2:i0. II. IL
and IA
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-26

Madrid. Dec. 17.--Mgr. Usi. the lat
spanish archbishop Of santiago. Cuba.
di<d "wednesday Il Janus. near Gan
sebastian. His body Wl11 be inferred
there BY the side Of the rtmains q 0oD.
Martinez Dc Campos.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-26
Haakes seraSus Chargs.

Joliet. ILL.,. Dec. 17.-Joseph Messer-
smith, Of Braidwood. Ill, whose home
and place Of business were destroyed by
IRE Monday, In which his wife and
daughter and employe were cremated,
declares that the buildings were fred By
his business enemies for revenge. He
will ask for an of,cial investigation.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-26
The Joy Of Christmas
~ xaeralAed b. the Angels enA
Kaowa An en- Wos1a.

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-05
MARI IN ALABAMA.
A Large Deposit Recently Discovered
 In Clark County.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 "A large deposit of mari was recently discovered in Clark county, Alabama, said c. F. z. Caracristi at the St. Charles hotel yesterday. Tt is one of the largest and deepest deposits known. covering 800 acres and measuring 15O feet in depth. The tract was purchased by Hubbard Bros, the large Alabama lumbermen.
 'The mari deposit near Demopolis has been in operation some time and large quantities are now being shipped to New Orleans. These large mari deposits mean a great deal to the south, and they will undoubtedly prove of especial value when work on the Panama canal is commence ed. It is estimated that 16,0O0,000 barrels of cement will be needed in the canal work"
 Prof. Caracristi came in yesterday morning with Dr. J. D. Burroughs of Jackson, Ala. MT. Caracristi has been engaged in minealoglcal investigation in the vicinity of Jackson during the last seven months. Several small oil wells have been brought in and there Is hope  of bringing in larger wells in the near future pr. Caracristi and Dr. Bur roughs are bound for New Iberia, where they expect to spend week in examin- ing certain lands for clients.
 MT. Caracristi states that Lord Thur low, premier lord of Scotland, and mem Der of the Privy council, will arrive in New York in a few weeks and come south to look into southern oil lands with view to investing. Lord Thur low recently acquired the Bocas grants in Arizona, a comparatively new oil field, and he is much interested In the development of the oil industry "a America.
 Another evidence of the universal att tention that the southwestern oil fields are attracting is the visit of Dr. Paul Dvorkoirty, proprietor of the London Petroleum Review. Dr. Dvorkoirty is expected to arrive in about three weeks and is coming to make study of the American oil fields.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-05
Rule of the Majority.

Lieutenant Governor Cunningham practically holds that the senate can not under it's rules overturn refer ence of contested bill by the chair except by two-thirds vote.
 Is this a wise rule? Is it best to take away from the majority control of bill when there is no rush of bills, no crowded calendar? This is ques tion that cuts very deep, for commit tees determine as a rule the fate of bills, and if majority of the senate cannot control the reference of bills, power over a particular bill has de- parted from a majority and is lodged in the lieutenant governor or at any rate in a limited number.
 If majority vote can dictate the reference of a bill, no clique rule or unfair action or arbitrary disposition of bill would be possible, unless in deed the men on guard fall asleep.
 It is not easy to see why the senate has adopted a rule that at any point deprives a majority of the right to con trol business coming before the senate. Such a rule might be necessary if a flood of bills were pouring into the senate, but when under the operation of the new constitution there is a clear calendar and freedom from press. reason for the adoption of rule that denies to majority it's legitimate power under our principles of govern ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad company will soon build new depot at Calera.
 The sheriff of Baldwin county has re- signed and Governor Jelks has given the office to J. M Armstrong
 Maloneys 1903 directory, which will be issued by February 15. gives Mobile and suburbs population of 562SO.
 Wire-Grass Siftings Now let some mu- sic composer give us another. rag time piece entitled, grhe White House Cake Walk"
 The Morgan County Telephone Ex- change, the new telephone company that is putting in a telephone system at Deca- tur, will shortly be ready for business. Mobile Register: One of the largest mortgages ever filed in this county was filed yesterday with the judge of the Pro- bate court It was from the Mobile Jack son and Kansas City railroad and was to cover the issue of bonds to the amount of s4,OOO.vvv.
 The first strawberries of the season, raised in Mobile, says The Register. were picked by Mrs. George Rosson at her home on Henderson avenue She sent a sample of them to The Register office and they were large and as well favored as those raised later in the season.
  One of the students of the Marion Mill tary Institute was assaulted on Monday evening by three negro men whom they had engaged to play for them. The stu dents name was Griggs, and he lived in Meridian, Miss. The boy was knocked senselsss and remained so for several hours. The sheriff and deputies of Perry county are on the negroes trial.
 
 Gadsden Journal: Birmingham has de- termined that it will own it's water works. even at cost of millions. Let Gadsden own hers now, when it will cost only a few paltry thousands. The more people Gadsden has the more valuable will the water works become. Buy or put in now. and save thousands of dollars to the citi- zens of the town.
 Mobile Herald: Hundreds of men in Alabama have voluntarily disfranchised themselves by failing to pay their poll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-05

have worldwide concerns does not in the least impair the doctrine.
 Mir Seruggs chiefly aims to show how absurd it is to expect us to give up when strong. the American hegem- ony that we did not hesitate to set up when there were but 10000,000 of people in this country. Our line of assumption, says MT. Seruggs, meets the line Of the worlds acquiescence. He goes on to explain that the rest of the world will only acquiesce in what it thinks it must acquiesee in. Tt is our duty" he says, Ito run the line where our just interest, our rec ognized necessity, fortified by our power expressed and latent, keeps it. While that power remains, we are un- der no necessity of formally defining the doctrine. If that power should ever disappear, it would be of no use to define it. The definition would not be worth the paper on which it was written"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-05
Defining the Monroe Doctrine.

WilHam L. Scruggs, well-known citizen of Atlanta, once minister to Venezuela, defines and explains in the North American Review for February the Monroe Doctrine. He shows how the doctrine has been broadened and deepened since 1923, when it was first announced by President Monroe. Mon roe then said that "the American con tinents are henceforth not to be con sidered as subjects for future coloniza. tion by European powers" This dec laration was made by feeble little country at time when nearly all of Europe had entered into a formidable alliance. The Holy Alliance, as it was called, then dominated the world, but it had no occasion to challenge the doctrine when it was first announced, America being at that time so far away, and the acquiescence of those days has gone on growing and gather ing force. and the fact that we now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-05
CENTREvILLE.
s'ayers or Lee Rodgers Brought Back
 From Fort Worth, Tex.

centreville, February 4-(SpeciaI. )-Sher- III E. H. Crawford and Special Deputv Sheriff c. L. Cleveland arrived at this place at noon today from Fort Worth. Texas, bringing with them Tom Hollev and Will Holifeld two young white men. charged with assassinating Lee Rodgers at Blocton about two weeks ago
 Immediately after the killing the men charged with the deed fled, but were can tured in Fort Worth a few days ago. Ihe men admit killing Rodgers.
 At the present time there are eleven persons in jail here charged with murder. Tour white men and seven negroes. Two or the men, one white and one negro, were convicted of murder in the first degree about year ago and each was sentenced to imprisonment in the peniten- tiary for life, but each appealed to the Supreme court.
 Circuit court will convene here on the 23d of this month. By the time court convenes the beautiful new court room will be ready.
 The public roads in Bibb county are in deplorable condition. The road law for Bibb county has been changed so often and in such confused manner that at the present time there is really no road law for the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-05

tax and they have no one to blame for their inability to participate in the cleo tion of the year but themselves for every newspaper in the state warned them from time to time of their duty. Here in Mo- bile it is said that many of the rag-tag and bob-tail crowd or purchaseable ee- ment are shut out. If so-glory bel
 One of the most novel marriages ever heard of took place in Bay Minnette in the office of the probate judge on Sunday. Robert Cox. a young man between 20 and 21 years old, came to the office and ap- piled for a license to marry Rorda Min chew. The young man said his parents were dead and, therefore the judge told him no license could be issued. Young Cox applied to lawyer who fixed up guardian papers and had J. M Arm- strong. the sheriff. appointed guardian. The guardian then gave his written con sent to the marriage and they were married
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-05
NEW DECATUR.
Important Meeting of the City Council
 Is Held.


 New Decatur, February i-(Special.) )- At a meeting of the city council last night J. T. Grass and associates of Chat tanooga were granted ten days further time in which te accept the franchise for an electric street railway system. At the expiration of ten days, if MT. Grass should ask still more time. then he will be required to put mp a forfeit Of s1OOo. In the meantime the mayor was instructed to enter into correspondence with various partes who would be likely to build an electric street car line here. This fran chise was passed for MT. Grass some tune ago, and he has asked for and been granted an extension of time in which ID accept the Franchise, various times.
 The American Telephone and Teleera nh company presented a bill for $40 for q teiephone in the mayors office. The com pany was informed that it could either let the telephone remain free of cbarge or else take 1t out. . .
 Mayor Turner suggested that tbe o,,,, issue S2o,oOo worth of bonds for tbe nnr. pose or erecting city building to be useo as city hall mayors office m,rlrot house fire company's headauarters oIt,, an opera house on the second floor rrha matter was referred to the building oo,,,S mittee. ns eohl-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-05
DOM PAUL kRueER's ROUTINE.

From Nice Dispatch. Paul Kruger, ex-presldent of the Transvaal is reported in good health at Mentone.
 Krugers housekeeper wrote to a French deputy who asked for an inter- view:
 Tt is impossible to grant you a visit. Maybe you would like to know how the president spends his days. He rises at o'clock a. m.; no breakfast-never. Reaeds the Bible until o'clock and again goes to sleep until 1O:3O Sundays earlier because he visits church)
 At 1O:S0 he smokes his pipe for six minutes. Then people come to see him. At 12 sharp breakfast, lasting 20 min utes. Drinks nothing else but milk. Goes for drive between 1:9O and 3:3O. Sleeps from 2 until 4:30. Receives Boers and reads Bible.
 Dinner at 6 sharp; also 20 minutes His prayer before and after dinner is full of pety and confidence in God. The president goes to bed at S:30, and is awakened at II, when he takes cup of coffee, and again goes to sleep until 1. After 1 he eats some fruit. The doctor doesn't want him to have continuous sleep. Why, I do not know. Suppose 1t is for the presidents health"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-05
Prohibition in Vermont.

By popular vote Vermont has been taken out of the small list of prohibit tion states, and each city and township in Vermont will hereafter be left free to decide what it's liquor regulations shall be. The question of repeating the prohibition article in the state con stitution has long been before the peo- pie of Vermont, and the vote of Tues day repealed the article altogether.
 Maine adopted prohibition in 1850: Vermont followed in 1852, and New Hampshire in 1855. The other two prohibition states are Kansas and North Dakota. Kansas adopted it in 1881, and North Dakota in 1889.
 Every one of these states is endeav- bring to get out of the prohibition column, and now that Vermont has abandoned the policy the movement will doubtless be accelerated. The vote in Vermont was rather close, but it was sufficient to upset prohibition on state lines, and the remaining four states will probably follow suit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-05
GOSSIP OF A DIPLOMAT
 NOW IN THE PUBLIC EYE
From a New York Letter.

From a New York Letter.
 Herbert w Bowen, United States min ister to Venezuela. who arrived this week from the scene of the opera bouffe blockade by England and Germany, will be the real thing in New York when he comes here from Washington, where he is now representing President Castro in the settlement of his difficulties with the allied powers. MT. Bowen is well liked here and representative citizens will see to 1t that he is given a rousing reception.
 MT. Bowen Is one of that constantly increasing class in America which, not so many years ago. the pessimistic crit ics of republican government declared virtually non-existent in the new world MT. Bowen is a man who has helped to disprove the oft-repeated fallacy that only the self-made, that only the man who has to carve out his own career, can achieve distinction on this side of the water.
 Herbert w. Bowen's father was the publisher and first editor of the Inde- pendent which is printed in magazine form. Back in the sixties and seventies the Independent was a power in deed and in truth It was then of eight great blanket pages in form, it's character was semi-religious and it's editor for a long time was Henry Ward Beecher. He. was followed by Theodore Triton, then con- sidered 'the best and most accomplished editor living"
 The very name of Bowen, coupled with that of Henry c. Bowens newspaper. suggests the whole Beecher-Titon trag- edy, an episode that could not possibly come into the scheme of Twentieth-ccn- tury American life. No two men of the class in which Beecher, Bowen, Hilton and their like dominated and through their class eXerted a tremendous infu- ence on the entire country and so on the whole world could now become of any such importance as they achieved
 The decllnation of their star brought about the women-Victoria Woodruff and her sister, Tennessee Clafin-who gave the whole social moral and financial structure of the republic a mighty se we're jolt but when it was all over the atmosphere was nightly clarified. It is interesting to note that only one of the participants in the trouble-Theodore Til- ton-was entirely wiped out. MT. Beech CT recovered himself in marked degree after the close of his trial and the yer