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RUSSIAN POLICE Chief SLAIN
Gen. Launitz, Project of St. Pet
ersburg, Assassinated.
Murderer Killed With a Sword by
Victims Aide-Dead Official an
Oppressor of Revolutionaires.

st. Petersburg, Russia. - General
ron der Launitz, project of police of
st. Petersburg, was assassinated at
loon. He was present in his official
capacity at the Inauguration of the
new hospital for skin diseases on
Lopuchinskaia street, which was
opened by the Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess Oldenburg.
After the service in the chapel of
the hospital General Launitz was es-
corting the Duke and Duchess to-
ward the door when a well dressed
young man fired two revolver shots,
both piercing the projects brain. He
died on the spot.
An officer seized the assassin's re-
volver and the Grand Dukes aide
drew his sword and ran the murderer
through the body, killing him. Two
bystanders were arrested.
General LaunitZ was formerly
Governor of Tambof, where he dealt
severely with the revolutionaires. 1t
is believed the assassin came from
Tamboff.
Won der Launitz as project of po-
lice. of St. Petersburg was practically
the absolute ruler of the Russian
capital. The dissolution of the ma
tional Duma left him with this high
authority, of which he made full use.
In the last days of last year a de-
tached squad of secret police arrested
nearly 600 persons charged with un.
due activity in revolutionary matters
and political agitation. T~hirty-three
of the prisoners were women, whose
language on certain occasions had
brought them to the notice of the po-
lice.
The murder of Won der Launitz,
project of police in st. Petersburg,
by a Terrorist shows how unreal is
the apparent quiet in Russia. The
Government has taken the severest
measures to suppress rebellion. A
state of siege prevails throughout
most of the provinces, drum-head
trials still rule, the administrative
processes of Imprisonment and exile
have suffered little interruption, but
the spirit of the Terrorist organiza-
ton never dies. Government absolu.
tism only fans it into fresh outbursts
of crime.
The assassination Of Won der Lau-
nitz has caused a powerful impress
sion, both in the press and among
the public.
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Governor Magoon has ordered an
appropriation of $4,000 to meet
claims for damages incurred in the
recent rebellion in Cuba.
F. A. Molitor, Government railroad
expert in the Philippines, has tend
cred his resignation. 1t is said that
he vas prompted to resign because
Governor Smith did not approve his
estimate of the cost of railway con-
struction in Cebu.
Cuban conditions reviewed revealed
, demand for a United States pro-
tectorate and feeling against negro
domination.
1t can be stated on-authority that
general court-martial at Zamboan-
ga, p. L., of Captain l.. M. Koehler,
Fourth Cavalry, for criticism of Gen
lral Woods, has resulted unfavorably
Tor the captain.
A few years back the Porto Rico
tugar crop was generally estimated
1t 100000 tons of sugar. The esti-
nate for the crop now beginning is
$4,000 long tons.
In the course of his address at the
opening of the new irrigation ditch
n Hawaii Secretary Atkinson quoted
| letter from President Roosevelt in
which the latter pledges his support
% efforts to secure immigrants who
Will settle the lands of Hawaii.
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Oriental English.

Recently a baboo lawyer offered a
delicious example in his defense of a
woman client.
She was accused of an assault, but
he endeavored to show that she her.
self had been assaulted, and had
suffered damage of the most con-
spicuous feature of her co%untenance.
my learned friend with mere wind
from a teapot thinks to browbeat me
from my legs" he asserted; he had
probably "a Tempest in a Teapot" in
mind. 81 only SEEK" he continued
earnestly, "to place my bone of con-
tention clearly in your honor's eye.
MY learned friend vainly runs
amuck upon the sheet-anchors of my
case. My poor client has been de-
prived of some of her valuable leath-
er (skin), the leather of her nose.
Until the witness explains what be-
came of my clients nose-leather he
cannot be believed; he cannot be al
lowed to raise a castle in the air by
beating upon a bush."-Youth's Com
panion.
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FATAL TYPHOID EPIDEMIC
RAGING At SCRANTON
Nearly a Thousand Cases Re-
ported in One Month.
TRACE INFECTION TO RESERVOIR
Bacilli i'll Water Supply-State Takes
Hold of SouPces-Other Cities
Are Drawn Upon For Nurses
Strain Tells on Physicians.

Scranton, Pa. Typhoid fever,
which was discovered in Scranton on
December Z, has already a death list
of seventy-three, out of go cases, in
a population of 10000.
knowledge that the water supply
was responsible for the epidemic
came. as a shock to the city. Scran-
ton had long prided itself on the pur-
ity of its water, but the prevalence
Of typhoid in sections supplied from
the Elmhurst dam soon attracted
suspicion, and this suspicion became
a certainty, when DR.. Dixon, Penn
svlvania's Health Commissioner, an
nounced that an analysis of water
taken from Roaring Brook gave evil
dence of typhoid bacilli.
Roaring Brook empties into the
Elmhurst dam. Water supplied from
other reservoirs owned by the Scran-
ton Gas and Water Company is free
from germs.
For a time the daily number of
new cases reported has averaged fifty.
1t is hoped the energetic and untiring
efforts of Mayor Dimmick and the
local and State health authorities are
beginning to show their effects
against the epidemic.
Owing to The rapidly increasing
number of cases in the last week, it
was decided to fit up the armory of
the Thirteenth Regiment as an emer-
gency hospital. Thus far the regular
hospitals have been able to accommo.
date the patients, but the Emergency
Hospital in the armory will be ready
for use at an hours notice.
Orders for boiling drinking water
and milk are strictly enforced, and
there is a regular distribution of dis
infectants through the settlements OF
foreign speaking residents. Nurses
under Miss Cholera, of Philadelphia,
are doing duty among the poor, and
Mrs. James P. Dickson, daughter-in.
law of the late Thomas Dickson.
president Of the Delaware and Hud.
son Railroad, has placed herself at
the head of a committee of women
who have volunteered for the relief
of the poor and the afflicted.
Four large public hospitals are
AllSu W tnelT capaclLy, ana at least
a dozen private sanitariums are
crowded with patients suffering from
the disease. Physicians and nurses
are working until they are utterly
exhausted, and several of them have
succumbed to the fever.
1t has remained for Wilkesbarre
to take he first strenuous measures
for self-Protection. A proclamation
was issued signed by the mayor and
chief of police warning the people
against entering Scranton, and Off
GERS were placed at the railroad sta
lions to prevent any passengers from
this place alighting there. All per-
sons who leave the trains are closely
questioned, and if they have come
from Scranton they are detained in
the stations and politely requested
to leave on the next train.
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FOREIGN.

British Indian authorities have es-
tablished a system of wireless tele-
graphy to keep in communication
with the visiting Ameer of Afghanis-
tan.
Much damage has been done in the
vicinity of Mount Vesuvius by a
great avalanche of mud starting from
the mountains summit and caused
by furious storms of rain.
England and Russia have come to
a thorough understanding favorable
to the new regime in Persia.
The Vatican announced that the
Holy See would decline responsibility
for the publication of documents
seized by the French Government at
the Paris Nunciature.
The new French church law was
signed by the President and promul-
gated.
Japan has adopted the rebate sys-
tenn, and in Manchuria foreign ship
pers are "stung" when using the JAP
anese section of the road.
The Duke of Orleans intends to
organize an expedition to explore the
northeast coast of Greenland next
summer.
The French naval authorities have
laid down twenty submarine boats
within the past year.
Over $4,000 persons viewed the
body of Baroness Burdett-Coutts
many of them waiting for hours for
an opportunity to do SO.
The German Foreign Office ad-
vised France that M. Cambon would
be acceptable as Ambassador.
All British insurance companies
have repudiated their Valparaiso liza.
bilities arising from earthquake dam.
ages.
Troops of the Moroccan Sultan
have attacked the forces of Raisuli
near Zina, and efforts are being made
to cut off his retreat.
The fire at Portsmouth, England,
among the camp and equipment
stores on Gun wharf caused s1,250.-
600 loss.
Famine relief work was started in
Russia at four of the centres where
the distress is the greatest.
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Feminine Notes

Housewives of the East Side. New
York City, gave a birthday party III
honor of Ella Marks, one hundred
and fourteen years, who smoked hel
pipe.
Princess Alexandra Victoria, Of
Schleswig : Holstein : Sonderburg
Glucksburg, has been bethrotheG tx
Prince August Wilhelm, fourth sor
of the German Emperor.
Mrs. Ogden Merrill, of New Yorl
City, walked through the new tun
mel from the Battery to Brooklyn
under the East River, the first o
her sex to try such a feat.
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COTTON EXCHANGE UNDER FIRE
Fraud Accusation Made by Represent
tatiye Livingstone.

Washington, D. C.-Appeal was
mad to the Postoffice Department
for a fraud order against the New
York Cotton Exchange. The applica-
ton was made by Representative l..
F. Livingstone, of Atlanta, and lar
vie Jordan, president of the Southern
Cotton Growers Association. They
allege that the rules of the New York
Cotton Exchange permit the filling of
contracts with unspinnnable and
worthless cotton, and that on this &C
count the price in New York is Kept
down and creates a bearish effect on
the price Of cottonin legitimate cotton
trade in the South, and thereby de-
prives the country of vast sums of
money it would otherwise gain from
the sale of the commodity in foreign
markets.
MI. Jordan was told that a Post
office inspector would be sent to New
York to investigate the matter COM
planned of. The department will pro-
coed slowly. with due regard to the
law.
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An AwfnI Awakening.

In a town of Switzerland a few
years ago some workingmen going
early to work, walking along the
street, saw a white figure on top of a
high house. What is it? A lady in
her night dress, and she was sitting,
looking down, quite happy, smiling
in perfect security. She was a SOM
nambulist. She had risen in her,
sleep without any one knowing It,
and had taken her station. and vas
pleasantly looking about, and no,
doubt misunderstanding pleasant
dreams. Well, they did not know
what they could do to save her from
her peril.
Just as they were talking together
the sun rose. A bright beam of sun
fell upon her eyes; she saw where
she was; gazed n moment aroune.
and then fell headlong-killed on the
spot. 1t was an awful awakening.
Fellow-sinner, if you are out of
Christ, and the Gay of His coming
overtakes you-oh, what if the first
beam of that bright day be the first
moment of your awakening, and it is
too lstei-Banor. :
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WANTS AMERICAN ORDERS.
Suggestion That Uncle Sam Reward
Service With Decorations.

Service With Decorations.
A plea for American orders of chiv-
airy is made by Captain Cassidy Cook
in Army and Navy Life.
During our Colonial period" says
Captain Cook, "our Government gave
emblematic recognition of deeds of
valor and patriotism. In the. pres
ent day, under a mistaken impression
that decorations are monarchial and
consequently undemocratic, we no
longer award such honors, but
even discourage the merited confer
ring of them by foreign Governments
on our distinguished men.
"The late Secretary of State, the
Hon. John Hay, shortly before his
death, expressed to the writer his
opinion that in addition to the medal
of honor and a few other medals
awarded for conspicuous bravery n
the service of our country, Congress
might create embleinatic orders to be
conferred upon citizens of the United
States and upon foreigners who had
attained distinction in art, science,
literature, the learned professions
and military and naval service.
Our Congress has awarded med
ais to foreigners for meritorious SER
vice to the United States. The first
recipient was Lieutenant-C Colonel
Fleury, a French army officer, who
entered u Revolutionary Army in
1777. For heroism at Stony Point,
July Is, 1879, Congress voted him a
silver medal.
John Paul Jones, though a for
eigner, served the Colonial Govern
ment. In 1887 Congress awarded
him a gold medal in commemoration
of his capture of the Scraps.
Congress authorized the diplo-
matte medal dedicated to Peace and
Commerce. ana intended for presen-
tation to foreign diplomats assigned
to u Government who marked their
stay with us by acts of good will.
The medal was issued twice, to the
Marquis de la Luzerne in 1891 for
contracting a large loan on his own
responsibility to relieve the distress
of the Continental Army in 1880, and
to Count de Monster, French Minis
ter to our country in 1887.
Medals in gold and silver were
presented to the officers and men OF
the French, British and Spanish ships
of war who aided in rescuing the
officers and men of the United States
brig Somers which was sunk in the
Gulf of Mexico in 1916. Gold medals
bearing the portrait of James Blu
chanan were given to the japanese
ENJOYS who came to the United States
in 1850.
again in 1882 Congress gave
medals to foreign notables who aided
out infant Republic. Benjamin
Franklin in the same year minted
and distributed in Europe a medal
in honor of the achievement of Amer
lean liberty. Eighty-six merit med
ais have been struck by the Govern
ment since it's foundation.
"The United States is perhaps the
only great country which does not
cherish the spirit of chivalry by Gov
ernmental emblematic recognition.
the virtues of great learning, states
maRship, religious distinction and ar
tistic genius. We revere the memory
of a few of our illustrious dead in the
Hall of Fame. Why may we not as
a Nation appropriately recognize the
great civic, military and religious
worth of our eminent living citi-
zens?"
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DOMESTIC.

Angry Brooklynites jeered and
threatened the Rapid Transit Board
IT the bridge loop hearing, demand
ing immediate action.
Colonel Joel B. Erhardt, former
head of the Police Board, of New
York City, wrote to Commissioner
Bingham that one-third of the force
should be dismissed for incompetence
and corruption.
Testimony brought out at the In
terstate Commerce hearing shows E.
H. Hartman to be the most impor-
ant power in railway circles the
country has ever had.
Representatives of 100000 train.
men met in Chicago to consider a
movement for a universal eight-hour
cay and increase OF wages.
DR.. R. G. Flower, wanted in New
York for alleged swindling opera
lions, was arrested in Philadelphia.
A bill aimed at the Standard Oil
Company was introduced in the Mas
sachusetts Legislature.
Governor Hughes, of New York,
announced his intention of personally
examining all State departments to
acquaint himself with their workings.
Depressed by failure of reelection
to the Office of Register of Deeds,
which he had held for twenty-five
years, Thomas Temple killed himself
at Neponset, Mass.
Chicago now has an ordinance Ii
censing and regulating hotels intend
ed to do away with some of the i'm
morality of that city.
Hicks, the rescued miner, of Cali
fornia, has just signed a years con-
tract at $500 a week to lecture on
his recent experiences.
A petition in bankruptcy against
ex-Mayor Josiah Quincy, of Boston,
was filed by creditors in that city.
Mr.. Quincy admitted his inability to
meet claims against him.
Former Congressman B. F. Shiye-
~, OF Indiana, will be a candidate for
The Vice-Presidency on the Democra-
tic ticket.
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JAP CORNERS POTATO CROP.
California Paying Tribute to One O
the Little Yellow Brothers.

Los Angeles, Cal.-The people of
all California are paying tribute to a
shrewd little Japanese, Kinya Shima
OF Stockton.
He cornered the potato market and
holds the situation in hand. He will
be virtual dictator of prices until
next season.
He and the Japanese companies he
control stands to sell their crop for
$1,000,000, and Shima will himself
clean up $250,000.
This is the explanation of the high
figures paid for potatoes for three
months and why they continue going
higher. Shima, who is a potato
grower, tried last year to corner the
market, but failed. This year he
controls eighty per cent. of the crop.
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REPRIEVE 8 MINUTES LATE.
Negro Hanged Before News of Ac.
ton Reached Sheriff.

Vicksburg, Miss.-Will Harvey, a
negro, was hanged at Mayorsville.
Miss, three minutes before notice
that his sentence had been commuted
reached the sheriff of Issequena
County.
Harvey's attorney was notified by
Governor Vardaman that the negro's
sentence had been COMMITTED to i'm
prisonment for life. He hurriedly
called up the Issequena County sher-
iff, but the latter did not reach the
telephone until three minutes after
the drop fell.
Harvey was sentenced to be Hanged
for the murder of a negro named
Pete Bromo, in March last.
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Stub Ends of News.

Germany has a treasury deficit of
a little less than $14,000,000.
London has at last decided to con-
meet it's police stations by telephones.
"Aeroplanes built to order reads
a sign outside a London motor fac
tory.
A bill has been introduced in the
Canadian Parliament to prevent
strikes in all public utilities.
A movement was started in the
South to appeal to the Postofice
Department for a fraud order against
the New York Cotton Exchange to
forbid It the use 81. the mails.
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TWO MERCHANTS CONVICTED.
Are Brand Brothers, Who Had Trcn-
toms Biggest Department Shop.

Trenton, N. david H. Brand
and John Brand, two brothers, were
found guilty in the Criminal Court
of trying to burn the stock in their
department store, the largest in the
city, at State and Montgomery
streets.
Ably defended, the trial of the
Brands lasted six weeks; the jury
was out five hours and a half. The
suspense was too much for John
Brand; he collapsed.
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Costly Kiss.

Senior Machaquito, who reccnlly
married Miss Angela C~lementson,
daughter of o wealthy American, is
considered the finest matador in
Spain. To celebrate his wedding he
distributed $4,000 among the poor of
.C~artagena, and announced his inten-
tioE OK founding two asylums for the
aged poor. He hrs. met the lady who
is now his wife three a ago, and
is said to havb give.l. 800 to a local
charity for tie privilege Of kissing.
her.-Skctch.
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NEW HAMPsHIRE's GOVERNOR.
Republican Legislature Elects Charles
Nj. Floyd to Office.

Concord, N. H.-Charles M. Floyd,
of Manchester, was elected Governor
of New Hampshire.
The Legislature made the choice
because of the failure of any candi-
date at the recent election to secure
a majority of the votes cast.
By the provisions of the State Con-
stitution but two candidates were eli
gible to be balloted for at the legis-
lative session, although there were
several candidates at the State cleo
ton. The result of the ballot was:
Charles M. Floyd (Rep.), 263; Ma,
than C. Jameson (Dem.), 144.
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The Business ontlook.

Bradstreet's review of the week
says: With an unparalleled volume
or business for 1906, crowned by q
record holiday trade, and a heavier
volume of future orders booked than
aver before, the commercial and in
dustrial interests of the country look
forward with confidence to the de-
velopme1ts of 1907"
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DIES WHILE SPEAKING.
Former Mayor Stricken at Dinner to
a Successor.

Boston.-While attending a BAN
quet to one of his successors at the
Quincy House, former Mayor Jo..l
B. Henderson, of Everett, was strick-
en- with apoplexy and died within a
few minutes.
At the dinner to Mayor Thomas J.
Boynton, who will begin a second
term, Mr.. Henderson was the first
to respond to a toast. AS he was re-
citing an original poem he was seen
to drop back in his chair. He was
carried to an anteroom, where he ex-
pired,
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Honduranian Revolt Suppressed.

A dispatch from Salvador said that
a revolt in Honduras last week was
promptly suppressed by Government
troops.
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Persia Has a Constitution.
The Persian National Assembly ac-
apted the revised constitution.
Nav Import New Zealand Rutto

The high prices of butter have
given rise to talk of importing the
New Zealand product, but it will not
probably go beyond the talk stage al
present, owing to the uncertainty as
to how long the high-price period will
last.
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Divorced, MIR. HeyI Gets 5000 mo

Judge Halsey, in the Circuit Court.
Milwaukee. Wis, granted a divorce
to Mrs. Clara S. Heyl from Jacob
Heyl. There was no contest, Mr..
Heyl having withdrawn his answer
to his wife's complaint. He gets
100000 of his wife's estate, which
Is valued at $4,000 OO0
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A sso.ooo.ooo Shin Combine.

The Consolidated Steamship Lines
Company, with an authorized capital
Of 100000, 900, vas organized at
Portland, Me-; it will control the
lines owned by Charles w. Morse.
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Belle Billion naad

Lady Clancarty, who was formerly
Belle Billion, a ~favorite at London
music halls, died at Carbally Park,
County Galway, Ireland.
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Negro Troops to Philippines,

All the negro troops of the regular
army have been ordered to the Phil
ippines, but not, it is said at the Wa
Department, on account of the
Brownsville affair.
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Suicide With Poison.

Me- ~sss ~ !, H Ess'1 marie. !! {, s9 ss ! :;
Ing noiaoI
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