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New York City.-Friedrich Hirth,
Professor of Chinese in Columbia
University, who as a lifelong student
of the Chinese people, their language
and literature, is considered one OF
the best authorities living on Chinese
topics, gave it as his opinion that the
death Of the Empress Dowager and
the Emperor meant the opening OF
an entirely new and better era which
would benefit not only China but the
other nations of the world. He
thought affairs in China would from
now on advance rapidly toward Euro
pean ideals, and though progress will
be less rapid than in Japan, China
would in thirty or even twenty years
be transformed into a nation on an
equal footing with the other great
nations of the world.
Professor Hirth had no belief in
the report that foul play had entered
into the death Of the Dowager or the
Emperor. In regard to the general
attitude of the influential parties and
individuals toward the new rule, he
said: ...- 49, vs.
81 think the events of the next few
weeks or days Will determine the
question of bloodshed or peace. I
think that both Liberals and Conser-
vatives are ready to wait quietly in
order to see what course the Govern
ment will take. Prince .Chun Is a
Liberal, and he has enough followers,
I think, among the really dangerous
party, the ~overardent Liberals, who
might be called the A~narchistic party,
to avert any trouble from them.
Prince Chun, I believe, is an able
man. He has visited Germany on a
diplomatic mission. He alone Of those
who have come into great power in
China has seen Europe; that single
fact should be enough to show in
what direction his rule will tend" !.
e Speaking in a general way Of the
death of Emperor and Dowager he
said:
1T appears to me a very beneficial
thing for China. The antagonistic
relations between the two and the
control by the Dowager Of the EN-
peror reused great dissatisfaction
among the Liberals, who had rested
their hopes on the Emperor.
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Chicago.-Peter Van Vlissingen,
supposedly wealthy real estate dealer,
philanthropist, automobile enthusiast
and member of many clubs, was dis
covered to be a criminal and within
four hours had confessed, been tried
and sentenced to fourteen years IN
prison.
The knowledge of Van Vlissingen's
wrongdoing, hitherto wholly unsus-
pected, came with startling sudden
ness. The celebrity with which his
punishment was fixed was due to his
own desire and to the aid he gave to
the District Attorney in ~uncovering
his felonies.
Van Vlissingen proves to be a
forger and embezzler to the extent of
nearly $%1,000,000. He has placed
the exact amount "wrongfully
handled" at $750,000. He asked
that he be taken to the penitentiary
at once, but as creditors have begun
legal actions against him, he may re-
main in the Cook County jail here for
some time.
: The arrest of Van Vlissingen was
made upon a charge that, on the sur
face, did not seem important or
reasonable in connection with one
who had, for a quarter Of a century
been regarded as one of Chicago's
most prosperous and reputable busi-
ness men. He was accused by T. j.
Lefers and William G. Seipp of SELL
ing to them mortgage notes amount
Ing to $4,000, to which the names of
! Joseph and Bertha Grossman had been
forged. He not only promptly con-
fessed to these forgeries, but tearfully
told a story of w%rongdoing from
youth, undecided until now, that as
founded Assistant States. Attorney
Barbour, who had the matter in
charge.
It appears, according to his con-
~fessor, that Van Vlissingen has, for
eighteen or twenty years, been pro-
curing large sums on forged deeds
and notes; that he had. been able
through the years Of deception, and
until recently, to buy back the spur
ious documents before any n OF
them was discovered to be forged.
Unable to find the small sum with
which to take up the Grossman notes,
the genuine originals of which he
had also disposed Of, detection fol-
lowed, with fraudulent, unredeemed
paper out against him amounting to
$75O,000 or more. This paper Is
held by about twenty-five individuals.
In leaving nothing untold, but add
Ing to the marvel Of his criminal
career, the prisoner told Of a unique
device for forgery that he had in
vented. It consists Of a plate glass
desk top, so arranged that by an
electric light thrown up from be-
meath he could readily trace from
original signatures and forge papers.
Van Vlissingen Is about ~forty-fve
years old. He was at one time rated
as a millionaire, for years figured
largely in the world Of finance and
was widely known and trusted. His
downfall has caused a tremendous
sensation. .
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Among the Workers.

There are signs of a revival in the
lead and slate industries of Wales.
A unson labor club was formed at
the last meeting Of the San Francisco,
Cal, laundry workers.
Typographical unions have been
formed in the colonies of Barbados,
British Guiana and Trinidad.
Printers unions have been started
in the sister colonies of Trinidad,
Barbados and British Guiana.
An Oklahoma farmer insists that
a man can live on nine cents a day,
provided he uses the products of bis
farm.
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w. E. ANINION KILLED.
Shot in p. r. r. Station in Jerse,
,...a City, n. j.

Jersey City. N. J.-Walter E. Am
mon, a we'll known business man OF
Jersey City and a brother of Colonel
Robert A. Ammon, was shot and in
stantly. killed in the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company's ferry house at
Jersey City. Andrew McGrath, a man
he had ~befriended, was arrested as
the slayer Of Ammon. p
Mr.. Ammon was about to have his
luncheon in the restaurant in the rail-
way station, on the second floor. He
has assembled the stairs and turned
toward the restaurant, when he was
confronted by McGrath, to whom he
made a CHEEKY remark. Without a
word in reply, McGrath drew a re-
volver, which he carried in his coat
pocket, and fired at him. The bullet
entered the left temple and plowed
into the brain. Two more bullets
were fred into his body after he fell.
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White House Creeds.

In the past generation, or sacefthe
time of Grant, the Methodistssan ind the
Presbyterians have been Tar more
represented than all the other de-
nominations put together in the;
White House,. and among Presiden-
tial candidates. Grant, Hayes and
Mckinley were credited to the Meth
odists, and Tilden, Blaine, Cleveland
Harrison and Bryan to the PresbyS
terians; Greeley was a UniyersaHst1,
although various kinds OF eccentric;
ethical and religious ideas were ct.
tributed to him; Garfield was OF the
Campbellites, and once had beenSa
preacher among them; Arthur had
Episcopalian affiliations, and Roose-
velt is Of the Dutch Reformed
Church.-Chicago Journal.
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HENEy, GRAFTPROsECuTOR,
SHOT DOWN IN COURT ROOM
AssaiIant a Saloon Keeper, Who
Was Kept Off Jury.
RUFF SENT BACK TO JAIL
Wound Not Likely to Be Mortal
Wild, Excitement in San Fran.
cisco, and Threats Of Lynching
Are Made by Angry Citizens.

San Francisco, Cal. - Francis J.
Heney, chief prosecutor in the graft
cases and Assistant District Attorney,
was shot in the head by Morris Haas,
a saloon keeper, during a fve-minute
adjournment of court in the Ruef
case. The bullet hit no vital organ
and he will recover The shooting
was the result of an exposure OF
Haas criminal record made by Heney
in the previous trial Of Abe Ruef
for the Parkside bribery case.
Heney had been in Judge Lawlor's
court all day prosecuting Ruef on the
charge of bribing Supervisor Furey.
When court adjourned James Foley,
his body guard, who usually sticks
very close to Heney to guard against
any attack, had walked to the rear OF
the room. Heney was seated at a
small table at the side of the court
room talking with former Supervisor
Gallagher.
Suddenly Morris Haas, who had
been a venire man in the Ruef Park
side bribery case, sauntered into the
court room, came up behind Heney
and pulling out a pistol shot him just
below the right ear. Heney fell out
of his chair, while Gallagher grappled
with Haas and prevented him from
firing a second shot. Heney was
rushed to the hospital and Haas was
taken to the city prison.
Haas, who Is an understood Ger
man, was wildly excited, but declared
that ne had shot Heney because He
ney in the Parkside bribery case a
first accepted him as a juror and then
had him rejected because he asserted
Haas was an ,ex-convict and therefore
unfit. g
81 shot him." he shouted, ito get
even for humiliating ne"
Immediately after the shooting
Judge Eawlor, against the protests OF
Ruef's attorneys, ordered Ruef into
custody regardless of the fact that ne
has been at liberty under the record
breaking bail of $1,500,000. ''
The feeling among the decent peo-
pie of the town is that the shooting
of Mr.. Heney is a triumph for the
graft element. =.
The report that Mr.. Heney would
recover, breaking in on a prevailing
certainty Of several hours duration
that he was mortality wounded, has
relieved the public tension in a small
degree. Yet there are citizens In the
streets discussing the ethics OF lynch
law.
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The Fall of Rome.

Joseph Tunison, the Roman sehol-
nr and translator of Virgil, always
maintained that the luxurious Roman
baths destroyed the Roman Empire.
He paid no attention to the encour-
agement of mendicancy by Cafus
Gracious. AS many as 100000 PEG
pie were fed at the public stores In
the time of Augustus, and it was Inn
possible to get men to- labor. Don't
encourage mendicancy, Chicago!
Feed the needy, but require the able
bodied to do a full days work.-New
Cork Press. t'
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LORD MAYOR IS INAUGURATED.
Banquet Closes Celebration of Kings
Birthday in London.

London.-The Prime Minister, Her.
bert H. Asquith, was the principal
speaker at the Guild Hall banquet,
which marked the Inauguration Of
the new Lord Mayor of London, Sir
George Wyatt Truscott, and brought
to a fitting close the celebration of the
Kings sixty-seventh birthday.
The Prime Minister devoted his
observations mainly to the European
situation. After congratulating Tur-
key, in the person Of the Turkish
Ambassador, Musurus Pasha, on the
success of the most amazing revclu-
ton in the annals of history, he de-
clared that, subject to the important
principle that international treaties
could not be altered except by the
consent of all the signatories, the
British Government had nc prejudice
against or preference in favor of any
particular settlement.
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Stub Ends of News.

1t was believed in Berlin that
France and Germany are nearer war
than they have been since 1870.
Washington dispatches reported
Frank H. Hitchcock would be Post
master-General in the Taft Cabinet
Charles F. Murphy asserted that
Tammany Hall did all it could for w.
J. Bryan, despite charges to the con-
trary.
It is now "All aboard for Guate-
mala" from any railway station in
the United States. All rail commu-
nication with Progressive City is now
open.
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The Field OF Sports.

P. T. Powers was elected president
of the Eastern Baseball League.
Thomas c.. Jefferson, n of the
best known owners Of trotting and
saddle horses in Kentucky, died at
his home in Lexington, KY, aged
fifty-seven years.
The ten-mile Marathon run to be
held in conjunction with the Brooklyn
Postofice games on Saturday, Janu-
airy 16, is going to be all interesting
affair. All the old-timers will start.
The feature will be the race of Gill
lespie, who wins a bride If he crosses
the tape first.
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SIX KILLED AS CAGE DROPS.
Mine Officials Fall 2S5 Feet in a
Pennsylvania Shaft.

Pittsburg.-Six mel were Instant
Iy killed, another critically injured
and three had narrow escapes in a
mine cage accident at Ellsworth Mine
No. 1, in Washington County.
Because Of a break in the machine
cry the cage occupied by ten men,
several of whom were mine officials,
plunged from near the outlet to the
bottom of the shaft, a distance of 2s5
feet.
The dead ire: M. J. Walsh, 2S.
Phillipsburg, Pa. mining engineer;
Eugene G. Smyth, 25, Alliance, Ohio.
mining engineer; ]. B. Newcomer, 20
Dawson, Pa, chief mining engineer
in charge of the four Ellsworth mines;
Osep Dnschek, 20, loader; James
Kelly, 20, loader; Tony Dovowsky,
26, loader.
Newcomer and Smyth were to be
married on Thanksgiving Day.
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Feminine Notes.

DR.. v. A. Latyam, of Chicago, and
Miss Mary A. Booth, of Springfield,
Mass, are said to be the only expert
women acknowledgement in this
country.
Miss Ruby Abrams, who was re-
Gently graduated at the head of the
art class in Cooper Institute, New
York City, is deaf, and until a few
years ago was also dumb. She has
been an art student ever since she
was graduated at the head of her
class six years ago at the Institute
for the Improved Instruction OF Deaf
Mutes. She has the record OF having
won four prizes during her art course.
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b O NOIed People.

Richard Croker decided to leave
Ireland for a visit to the United
States.
Seth Low succeeds James R. Morse
In the presidency of the American
Asiatic Association, now eleven years
old.
DR.. Sven Hedin, the Swedish ex-
plorer, says that he has discovered
the true sources of the Bramaputra
and Indus.
Delaney Nicoll, attorney, OF New
York City, said that Howard Gould's
income had been cut down 100000
and was now only 100000.
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NEW SURGEON-GENERAL.
Colonel Torney Jumped Over Nine
Seniors by President.

Washington, D. G. - President
Roosevelt, on the recommendation of
Secretary Wright and the General
Staff, has appointed Colonel George
H. Torney Surgeon-General of the
army, to succeed Robert M. O'Reil-
ley, who retires January ID. He is
tenth on the list of the medical corps
and his appointment will cause sore
ness among his seniors, but it is the
Roosevelt idea that the older men had
their chance for promotion when 9TH
er Surgeons-General were appointed.
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Presidents Promise to an Ohio
Veteran of the Civil War.

Washington, D. C.-General H. c.
Corbin, retired, secured from Presi-
dent Roosevelt a promise to appoint
Gilbert Van Zandt, the drummer boy
of the Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry in the Civil War, to a place
in the Government service. General
Corbin brought Van Zandt, whose
home is at Wilmington, Ohio, with
him and told the President that ce
entered the military service at ten
years of age as a drummer boy in the
Seventy-ninth Ohio.
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QUICK SENTENCEFOR F0RGER
Gets IA Years Within 4 Hours
After His Arrest.
Peter Van Vlissingen, of Chicago.
Confesses to Frauds Extending
Over Twenty Years.
Four Unpleasant Hours For Van
Vlissingen.

100 p. m. Peter Van Vlissin-
gen confronted in his Office by a
detective and asked to go to the
States Attorneys office.
8 p. m. Arrives at States AT
torney's Office and, after being
told of charges, confesses.
3.15 p. m. Grand Jury, which
had been presented with evidence,
returns Indictment.
4.15 p. m. Prisoner brought
before Judge Windes and hearing
begun. 49,
5 D. m. Sentence pronounced.
< SIS D. m. Van ,V1issingen
locked up in the County Jail.
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METCALF RESIGNS.

His Assistant, Newberry, Will Be-
come Secretary of Navy.
Washington, D. C.-Victor H. Met
calf, of California, resigned as Secre-
a of the Navy. Truman H. New
berry. of Michigan, Assistant Secre-
tary, succeeds to the portfolio. The
change will take place December 1.
Lack of health and probably a
sense of isolation and estrangement
between himself and President Roose-
Welt prompted Mr.. Metcalf's resigna,
ion. He has been i'll for a year, and
during the last two months he has
scarcely been able to sit at his desk.
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SHOOTS JUDGE IN COURT.
Detected Litigant in Leipsic Wounds
Presiding Justice and Kills Clerk.

Leipsic, Germany.-A defeated llt-
igant in the Supreme Civil TrlDu.
nal, of ,Leipsic, drew a revolver ana
opened fire on Herr Maenner, the
Presiding Judge, and the Court CLERK.
The Clerk was shot dead and the
Judge dangerously wounded.
The assassin, a man named eros
ser, succeeded in firing ten shots be-
fore he was overpowered. Grosser
was plaintiff in a suit concerning the
validity of a will, and the decision OF
Judge Maenner vas in favor of the
defense. AS soon as Grosser heard
the ruling he drew a revolver and
began firing. CONSERVATION reigned
in the court oom until he was dis
armed. .
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Wax Matches.

Wax matches, SO, called, are made
by drawing strands of fine cotton
thread, twenty OF, thirty at q time
through melted ~stearine, with a small
admixture of parafin. The wax
hardens quickly upon the threads,
and the long tapers thus produced
are smoothed and rounded by pulling
them through iron plates perforated
with, holes of the desired size. FL
nally the tapers are cut into match
lengths and dipped.
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HAAS A SUICIDE SUICIDE IN PRISON.
Assailant OF Heney Shoots Himself
With Revolver in San Francisco.

g. a. .. " HH '
San Francisco, Cal.-Morris Haas,
who shot Francis J. Heney, COM
mitted suicide in the County Jail by
shooting himself through the head.
One report says that the pistol with
which Haas shot himself was con-
cealed in his shoe, where he hid it
before shooting Heney. 'sr
Another report says the pistol was
secretly passed to Haas by a friend
since his Incarceration.
Haas was in his cell with his night
guard. He retired to bed early, pull
ing the blankets over his-head. A
moment after*ard the guard was sur
prised to hear the muf1ed report Of
a pistol under the blankets. They
stripped off the covering and found
Haas dying with a bullet hole through
his head and blood flowing from the
wound. .a
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THE COOPERS INDICTED.
Ex-SherifH Also Charged With Murder
of Ex-senator Carmack.

Nashville, Tenn. - Indictments
we're returned by the Davidson Coun-
ty Grand Jury charging Colonel Dun
can B. Cooper, Robin Cooper and ex-
Sheriff John D. Sharpe Jointly with
the murder of ex-senator E. w. Car
mack. Sharpe is also indicted on a
charge of being accessory before the
fart
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JUSTIFIES A KILLING.

Kentucky Governor a Man
Who Was Trying to Protect a Girl.
Frankfort, KY. - That Governor
Wilson believes it the duty of a mar
to kill If necessary to save the honor
of a girl who has no protector is set
forth in his reasons given for pardon
ing Green B. Howard. of Harlan
County, for killing Jacob Noe while
in nursuit of Rena Noe who, it is al
legged, had stolen the girl from How
ards house to marry her 10 a man
whose character Howard did not thlnK
would stand I'D.
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Queer DIR. Gabrini Dead
in His Swiss Chateau.

Geneva.-The richest and most &C.
centric man in Switzerland, DR.. Ga
brini, is dead at Lugano, leaving a
fortune of s500,OO0, most of which
was made in America.
DR.. Gabrini was a man of the sim
plest. habits. He would wear the
shabbiest clothes, and many tourists
who visited his beautiful chateau at
Ciani accepted his services as a guide
under the impression. that he was
one of his gardeners. He used to
take their tips with glee.
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Shortage Made Good.

At the hearing in Newark of Chas.
Jones, cashier of the First National
Bank, of Seabright, N. j., it was n
nounced that Jones and members Of
his family had made good a $4,000
shortage,
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Large Transport Liner Launched.

Belfast, Ireland.-The steamship
Minnewauska, the largest vessel OF
the fleet Of the Atlantic Transport
Line, was successfully launched here.
She is of 14,500 tons, and will start
in the New York service early
in 1909,
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DOWAGER EMPRESS DEAD.
China's Ruler Passes Away Soon
After the Emperor's Death.

Pekin, China.-Tsu Hsi, Dowager
Empress of China, and it's real ruler
for more than a generation, is dead.
The announcement of the Dowager
Empress death was official and fol-
lowed closely the announcement that
Emperor Kwangsu died the day
previous. But it is believed that both
died some time ago.
An edict issued at s a. m. places
upon the throne Prince Pu vi, the not
quite three-year-old son of Prince
Chun, whom a previous edict had
made Regent of the Empire.
At the palace elaborate rites are
being observed, and a food of edicts
has been sent forth.
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T r LOSES CASE.
Supreme Court Dismisses His Appeal
Without Opinion.

Washington, D. C.-The Supreme
Court without an opinion dismissed
the appeal of Albert Patrick. VINO
sought to have the court reVleW n
decision of the Federal Court at New
York refusing on writ of habeas cor
pus to release him from Sing Sing.
He was sentenced'to fifty years, lm-
prisonment there for numbering Will
lam Marsh Rice, an aged millionaire,
in New York in 1900.
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Youpp Duc Gle Chaulnes Born.

The Duchessc de Chaulnes, former
" Miss Shonts, of New York, has CIV
en- birth to a posthumous son in Paris
France. Both are doing we'll. Mrs.
Shonts is at her daughters bedside.
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Cabin John Bridge Leap Fatal.

James Evans, the farmland ac-
cused of having assaulted eleven
year-old Maggie Collins, died at
Washington, D. c., as the result Of
his leap from Cabin John Bridge, a
span 125 feet high.
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finance TO Own Mines.

Franc 10 UWH NIIHcS'
The French Minister of Public
Works, M. Barthou, has obtained the
consent of the Cabinet to introduce a
hin for the eventual acquisition and
operation by the State of mining con-
cessions.
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"JIM CROW" SCHOOLS LEGAL.
q. S. Supreme Court So Decides-Jus-
tees Harlan and Day Dissent.


Washington, D. C.-In deciding
the case of Berea College VS.. the
State Of Kentucky the Supreme Court
held that the States may legislate to
prevent the co-education of the white
and black races. The case was
brought to test the validity of the
Kentucky law of 1894 prohibiting
white and black children from at
tending the same schools. The high
er State court took the position that
the white and black races are natur-
ally antagonistic, and that enforced
separation Of their children Is in the
line of the preservation of the peace.
The opinion Of the Supreme Court,
handed down by Justice Brewer, at
frmed the finding of both the Ken
lucky Circuit Court and the Court OF
APPEALS. Justices Harlan and Day
dissent. ~.
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s+oo, Tr,,st to spend SO, 900, 900.

Steel Trust to Spend
Arrangements for spending about
$40 100000 on new mills and i'm
nrovement of old mills in the Pitts
burg district we're completed Dy
officials of the United States Steel
CORPORATION at Pittsburg.