Fair play., 1906-01-20

and former American consul, who died |
there of yellow fever three years ago,
and will take them to Panama, whence
they will be shipped to New York.
The National League of Commission
Merchants, in session at Milwaukee,
pledged support to the president in his
efforts for the abatement OF transpor.
alton evils.
The Chinese commissioners, TuaD
Fang and Tai Hung Tzue, with their
suites. 62 persons in all, arrived in
San Francisco on board the steamer
Syria and were given cordial wei
come by representative of the presi.
dent, the military, commercial and pri.
vate interests and the Chinese colony
The tension between France and
Venezuela Is strained. Diplomatic re
relations have been severed, and 1t ap
pears m ore ahtlenllky ftheMfgbe
pears more than likely that some
punitive measures on behalf of France
| will be adopted.
The German authorities are taking
| every precaution to prevent any dis
| turbance occurring in Berlin on Sun
| day, the 21st, when so immense social
| list meetings are scheduled to be held
| in commemoration of Red" Sunday in
st. PcteI sburg. The military will be
| held in readiness to cooperate with
| The police If necessary.
| Fire destroyed the Norfolk (Va.I
Storage IL Peanut Co.'S three-story
cleaning plant adjoining the city Jail.
One fireman was killed under falling
wall. The prisoners were all marched
out of the Jail and several escaped;
loss, 100000
The works of the Carnegie Steel Co.
at Greenville Pa. were burned, en-
failing a loss of about half a million dol
lars. Four hundred men are thrown out
Of work.
George Ernest Sisling, wanted in Not.
tir CHAM, England, for forgery and en-
bezzlement. was arrested in Minneapo-
lis. Mimi. after a chase extending from
Quebec, Canada.
John A. Mccall, former president OF
the New York Life Insurance Co, has
been compelled to give a deed Of trust
on his palatial home in Long Branch,
N. j., to secure the $150,000 note given
in part payment for moneys advanced
to Andrew Hamilton.
The Tamarack, copper mine, near
Calumet, Mich, the deepest In lht
world, was reported on fire and three
men missing. Unless the fire can be
extinguished the company stands tc
lose a fabulous amount, as hundreds ol
millions of feet of timber Is in use In
the mine.
Moses Kimball Armstrong. formerly 6
prominent banker, died at his home II
Albert Lea, Mimi, aged "a years.
Upwards of 100 petitions, each repre-
senting about 1000 names. have beer
forwarded from Texas to Gov Higgins
of New York, asking for executive
clemency In the case of Albert r. Pat
rick, under sentence of death for th'
murder Of William Marsh Rice.
Pedro Pera, former delegate in con
Kress from New Mexico, died at hi
home in Bernalillo, N. M.
William Cunard, son of Samuel Gu
narG, one of the founders of the Gu
, nard steamship line, is dead in England
aged 81 years.
Mrs. S. Spiesberger of Chicago, ont
of the most seriously injured victims o
the West hotel fire in Minneapolis, diet
! Of her injuries.
The members of the Typothetae o
Washington, ID. c., express their deter
mination to stand by the 'open shop.
China is said to be in a ferment o
III tnI Ya1
against the government as against tn
foreigners.
DR.. William Rainey Harper, presiden
, of the University of Chicago, died a
his home on the university campus al
, ter long battle with the dread malad
cancer, which attacked his intestines
DR.. Harper was born in 1856, and wa
regarded as one of the foremost educa
tors of the country and one of the mos
, learned Hebrew scholars
Eight persons lost their lives and
: score of others were injured in fir
. which damaged the West hotel at Min
neapolis, MINI. Four of the victim
were suffocated and the others los
} their lives by falling or jumping fror
Windows
Arrangements are in progress on II
dictments for election frauds found b.
a special grand jury in New York cit,
I Attorney General Mayer says he ha
: nearly thousand cases to lay befor
} the grand jury.
Bishop John Lancaster Spalding c
Peoria, H., has gone to St, Augustine
. Fla, to remain until early in April.
The sixteenth annual reunion of tn
United Confederate Veterans will. be hel
in New Orleans April 26 and 81.
England has plunged into the whii
of the parliamentary election, and tn
I leaders. with the aid of motor cars, ar
here, there and everywhere addressin
: meetings and marshaling their hosts.
! Field Marshal Yamagata, president G
the japanese privy council and forme
chief of the general staff, has been ap
. pointed q member Of the military coun
q ell Of the empire.
Prof Theo De Mertens, the well
known Russian publicist, has been ap
J. pointed to lecture on the Carpente
4 foundation at Columbia university Ne,
: York, during the academic year 1906
H.
0 Leland w. Prior, one of the best
i known men In financial circles in Cleve
n land, o., committed suicide by firing tw