The Newark journal., 1904-04-01

Japan has doubled the land tax
and the income tax, which will in
crease her war fund $22 100000
annually.
Over 100000 worth of prop
erty in the business center of Pro
gresso, Mex, was destroyed by fire
January %.
Miss Mamie Bryan, sister of Hon.
". j. Bryan, died at her home in
Lincoln, Neb., January 80. Her
death was due to consumption.
An epidemis of pneumonia pre-
walls in st. Louis, and the health
officer holds that lack of warmth in
street ears is indirectly responsible.
Fourteen miners were killed at
Victor, Colo, by the falling of the
cage in a shaft. The men fell
100 feet and their bodies were
terribly mangled
While eating breakfast at his
home in Norris City, H., Joseph
Edwards, Sc years Of age, was
choked to death by bread crumbs
lodging in his throat
The verdict of the ccroner's jury
in the Iroquois thcater disaster
makes the city of Chicago liable in
damage. Suits which will exceed
$4,000, 900 will be brought.
More than twenty people were
injured, some fatally, in a street
car collision at st. Louis. The
collision was due to a conductor
stopping his car to settle a dispute
with passenger when one follow
ing crashed into it. At the time of
the accident there was a dense fog
and motcrmen could not see beyond
half a block.
D. r. Francis, president of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition, de-
clares he is not candidate for pres
ident or any other Office at the pres
ent time. Mr.. Francis was former
" governor of Missouri and a mem
Der of the cabinet during Grover
Gleyeland's second term. He is a
member of the conservative wing
of the democratic party.
Dressed in a suit Of Eer brothers
clothes and with her long, brown
hair cut short and crammed into a
mans wig, May Bondcli. % years
old, Of Terre Haute, Ind, applied
to the recruiting sergeant at Fort
Sheridan to be mustered into COM
pany |, which is ordered TO join the
goth regiment in the Philippines as
soon as it is at full strength. The
girl broke down when informed that
she must undergo the regular physi-
cal examination, and confessed her
sex. The girls object was to be near
her sweetheart, who Is a member of
company ].
The United States again stands,
at the close of the calendar year
1908, at the head of the list of
worlds exporting nations, so far as
relates to the expectation of domes-
E. tic products. This fact is shown by
a series of tables just presented BY
the department of commerce and
labor through its bureau of Stats
ties. There are only three "billion-
dollar countries" considered from
the standpoint of expectation of do
nestle products, and they are, in
order of the magnitude of their ex-
ports, the United States, the United
Kingdom and Germany. In the
calendar year 1908 the exports OF
domestic products were: From the
United States, 81 ,457, 565,783 in
value; from the United Kingdom,
81 15,G17, 552; from Germany the
figures for the full year have not
been received, but an examination
of the figures of the year for which
statistics are available justifes an
estimate of $1,200,O0O,000.
\ dispatch from Terre Haute.
Ind, tells of the death by freezing
of several residents along the Eel
river bottoms. The river overfowed
its banks and the ice and large vol