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PLAGUE m CHINA. Principal Events Gathered In the • Proceedings at the Minnesota State Capitol for the Old Scandinavian Countries • Past Week. •IS NORWAY. Baron Erland Nordenskjold, a Swedish St. Paul, March 30.—The women's out license to fish with hook and line scientist, who has been studying life suffrage bill was laid to rest in the when they come here in the summer. Former Premier Christian Mlchelsen and general conditions of the Indians senate by a vote of 32 to 30. - The measure has already passed the was 54 years old March 15. of South America, lectured a few Senator Sageng made the only speech house. It requires payment of a $1 Captain Otto Sverdrup has gone to nights ago in Kristiania. He was in­ of the day. No one seconded him. fee for license. Alaska, where he is to be engaged in terviewed by a reporter, and this gave No one argued against him. Without The senate, sitting as a committee ttoo whaling business. him a chance to make some interest­ a word of explanation, 32 senators of the whole, recommended for pas­ foreign Minister lrgens has been ap­ ing comparisons between different na­ cast, their ballots against allowing the sage, the measure giving negroes the pointed to represent Norway at the tions as to their way of treating sav­ people to decide on woman suffrage. right to be served in ice cream and ozonation of King George of England, ages and people enjoying a low type But the vote contained one dramatic soda water parlors and prescribing wfcich is to take place June 22. of civilization. The treatment of the incident. The vote stood 30 to 30, penalties for proprietors who discrim­ Crown Prince Olaf has been prac­ Eskimos of Greenland, he said, was with Glotzbach and McGrath still to inate against them. ticing on his skis nearly every day for an ideal one. The Eskimos live under vote. It takes 32 votes to pass a bill. DuOnths past. His ambition is to make better conditions than any other of Senator Wilson of Minneapolis arose St Paul, April 3.—The Minneapolis k standing leap from the Holmenkollen the lower races of the earth. Baron and informed the two senators that union depot bill was passed under a "fcump." Nordenskjold said that the government their votes would pass the bill. Sen­ suspension of the rules by a unanimous of Greenland does great honor to the ator McGrath was surrounded by vote. It passed the senate and is now Herbert Peirce. United States mln- suffragists. "Ladies," he said, "I inter to Norway, is taking great pains Danish people. up to the governor. don't believe in woman suffrage. I The measure authorizes the forma­ to learn pure Norwegian, which he have told Miss McFadden so since the thinks is much more beautiful than tion of a private company to build a SWEDEN. session started. But if Glotzbach votes depot within any city and to compel Danish-Norwegian. "aye" and my vote will pass the.bill, Risor went dry by a vote of 16 to 12. the railroads to run their trains into The National Bank of Sweden you can have it." the depot. The company is placed There was one saloon, and the license Senator Sageng, in his speech, quot­ was $540. After Jan. 1, 1912. there cleared about $1,700,000 In 1910. The under the regulation of the state rail­ assets of the bank aggregate about ed the words of Lincoln, Sumner, road and warehouse commission. will be no chance to sell whisky, beer Roosevelt and McKinley, and the ex­ or wine in the town. $18,500,000. The committee killed the Palmer The executive committee of the new ample and words of such women as bill, requiring railroads to pay for A large temperance meeting at street car company of Stockholm has Clara A. Barton of the Red Cross; Randefjord resolved to start a move­ local improvements along their city proposed the distribution of a divi­ Julia Ward Howe, author of the property. ment for taking a private vote in or­ dend of 18 per cent. Battle Hymn of the Republic, and Miss der to ascertain the numerical strength The finance committee decided not A C/?OUY£>£0. GAftSAGJT-jr/Zew* C/MVf\5Nordland, died at the age sold to a company for a little more house committees are packed, and ask­ CMCNT-0 into the village treasury. Part of the sands and tens of thousands before Nayes, Ahmann, Anderson, Carpen­ •I9LAK9 land was surveyed into 40-acre sec* the first scanty rice crop furnishes some parts of China there is scarcely of 88 years. He was born at Skroven, than half as much. The chamber col­ ing a thorough investigation, according and there he was the leading business lege Interfered to prevent the deal. ter, Clague, Coller, L. O. Cooke, Don­ tions and offered for rent at one dol* relief. From the relief committees of a family that has not been visited. aldson, Duea, Dunn, Dwinnell, Fos- to W. T. Stone of Park Rapids. He The unsanitary condition of the man for a great number of years. He declared the resolutions will be signed lar an acre per year. The leases were the interior comes word that one mil- ; Magistrate B. Larsson, of Hammarn, seen, Glotzbach, Gunn, Hackney, to run for 50 years. cities and towns In China where the was a member of the well known El­ near Skofde, was treated to a cigar by by at least 25 members and will pre­ lion people will die before the first Handlan, Johnston, Klein, L'Herault, At various times other sections ol> crop is harvested. Even this will be dreadful pneumonic plague is raging lingsen family, which descended from a friend of his, and as soon as lit the sent arguments designed to show how Benkestok, a nobleman. The deceased McGrath, Marden, Murray, Pauly, the commons were opened to settle* scanty, because the people have not is responsible in large measure for cigar exploded, crushing two of Lars- Poehler, Pugh, Rockne, J. D. Sullivan, the organization was formed, how the the spread of the disease. The pres­ had many brothers, all of whom lived son's fingers. The cigar had been committees were packed and what ment on the lease system. One sec* the strength to till the soil and no G. H. Sullivan, Swanson, Van Hoven, tion became known as "ten-cent land,'' animals remain for plowing. ent pestilence Is pneumonic rather to a very old age. bought in Paris. . Wallace, Weis, Works. Total—32. members packed them. Dr. Stone will introduce a separate resolution mak­ because the board of five trustees in It is estimated that 2,000,000 people than bubonic, that Is, it almost invari­ A very interesting burial place has The executive committee of the The Day in the House. been excavated close to the city of ing his own charges. charge of the rents leased it at ten are without food. They are existing ably proves fatal. One of the terrify­ Metal and Iron Workers' Union has Knute Knuteson's bill providing a cents an acre per year. on roots, grasses or anything that af­ ing things about it is that it spreads Hamar. The bones of a woman and of prepared a "black list," containing the board of conciliation to settle labor F. L. Klemer, the gentleman from through the air. In the bubonic a horse were found close together, and Rice who threw a bombshell in the It was charged that the friends oi fords the slightest possibility of nour­ names of 7,796 members who have disputes was killed in the house. The the trustees profited by the nominal ishment. Those possessing grain plague the microbe is communicated a number of objects of silver and failed to pay the extra assessment due measure was a copy of the Canadian house a week ago by charging that EGAL confirmation of the princi­ by bites of fleas from infected rats. bronze, part of them being ornaments, the committees were packed many in­ price and that their opponents were guard it day and night. Missionaries to the great national strike in 1909. law. ple of community ownership of excluded from participation. who are distributing re2£«f tell of In the pulmonary form the patients part of them useful tools. Only once The house defeated the Kerry-Con- troduce a resolution calling for a re­ land, of which the philosophy of or twice have women been found The mail clerks and carriers in the organization of the house machinery. Then came the convulsion which many tragic occurances—a man on themselves tF&cssiit the disease by district of Gothenberg have petitioned ley bill forbidding lumber companies • Henry George is an extension, expectoration or fits of coughing, in buried together with horses in Nor­ He would cut the number of commit­ rent the peninsula from the main his way to meet them, dying on the the government for a law imposing a to offer lumber for sale which is not L has now been supplied in a deci­ land of Illinois and set the channel which they scatter germs with which way. Prof. Gustafsson says that the tees in two. He declares that the road; another falling by the wayside fine for sending cash money in ordi­ up to grade. It would require the sion of Judge George Crow of East St of the Mississippi to the east instead as he was returning to his family their lungs are filled. Several doctors find dates from the beginning of the' six-inch boards be six inches in width Minnesota house with 120 members Louis upholding a grant of land in com­ tenth century. nary letters. The men claim that it has 62 standing committees besides a of the west of Kaskaskia. The histop with a packet of rice. These relief have been infected in this way and is not fair to tempt the employes of instead of 5% inches. mon made 186 years ago to the resi­ ic site of the old village was almost have died. half dozen special committees and dents of Kaskaskia, 111., by his most committees describe the people as The aim of the language reform the postoffice department by sending The report of the special committee points out that the Wisconsin house completely engulfed by the lnvasior* horrible skeletons, some with their The Chinese cities offer a fertile movement is to replace the Norwegian- money in such a reckless manner. appointed to Investigate the hand­ Christian majesty, Louis XV. of of waters, and only one corner of th« with 100 members has only 25 stand­ Prance. limbs hideously swollen. They suf- ? field for the propagation of the dis- Danish book language by a consolida­ ling of livestock by the Northern Pa­ ing committees and 11 joint commit­ old state house, the first in Illinois, fer all the pangs of hunger until death '' ease. The people are crowded to­ tion of the main dialects used by the The mission institute of the Swedish cific railway was submitted to the The decision also recalls the ancient Mission Covenant, on Liding island, tees; the Vermont house with 247 was spared. • 4 brings relief. This endless relief is gether like herrings In & barrel and common people. In other words, house. It finds that livestock cars members, 24 standing committees, and renown of Kaskaskia, the oldest settle­ coming to thousands daily from starv­ once the disease has appeared in a "pure" Norwegian means the tongue was visited the other day by the crown h&ve been held up at the Minnesota ment of white men in the Mississippi The villagers had foreseen the prince and crown princess. The teach* the Illinois house with 153 members, catastrophe, and obtained permission ^ ation. house It is almost sure to contam­ used every day by the peasantry of transfer for five hours, causing the 62 committees. valley and the provincial, territorial inate all the inmates and to spread the country. It has been customary ers and students were assembled in cattle to lose weight, thereby reduc­ and state capital of Illinois. Kaskas- from the legislature to move the town The pitiful condition of these starv­ the auditorium when the royal visitors two miles further south. As a con­ ing wretches Is well shown by the quickly through the whole city. There to look upon the dialects as something ing the price received by the farmers. kia's capture by Virginian troops under i i- arrived, and a bouquet of roses was sequence, it is said that little proper* recent food riot at Sha-Yang, when 21 are many Chinese towns where pigs inferior to the finished and polished The committee recommended legisla­ St. Paul. April 4.— Gen. George Rogers Clark conveyed are the sole scavengers and where Norwegian-Danish. It was reserved handed to the crown princess. After tion which would compel the railroad A resolution of protest against the Illinois from Great Britain to the Uni­ ty and no lives were lost persons were trampled to death. The a hymn had been sung, P. P. Walden­ emaciated men and women fought sanitation is of the most primitive for the Rev. Alfred Erikson. D. D., companies to forward stock cars to vote of censure given F. L. Klemer ted States, and opened the way for the In the meantime, there grew up a kind. Contrary, too, to general belief, member of the storting, to turn the strom made a short address, and the the markets. probably will also be introduced into conquest of the northwest bitter antagonism between the tenants like demons for these few mouthfuls crown prince expressed his thanks for of food, and the peril to the relief which regards worship of ancestors whole theory upside down by demon­ The house by a unanimous rote de­ the house. It is said the resolution Judge Crow's finding repeals a law of the commons and the residents in as the main religion of China, there strating that it is the real aristocracy having an opportunity to visit the will be signed by about 40 members. the village of Kaskaskia, Governor workers who were distributing it was school. cided to pay to his widow the legis­ passed by the Illinois legislature au­ great. A considerable amount of food­ are many parts of the great empire of Norway that is talking the language lative salary of the late W. A. Fisher, This resolution will be introduced in thorizing the village to sell its com­ Vaudreull's grant expressly vested the stuffs had been received by the mis­ where the dead are not interred at all. reform movement. How does he prove As to furnishing interesting reading former member of the legislature. accordance with the provisions of Ar­ mons of about 6,000 acres. The law was ownership of the commons in all tha sionaries, who planned a systematic The coffins containing the dead are his point? The "aristocracy," the matter for the Swedish people, P. P. The bill was introduced by F. L. Palm­ ticle IV, Section 16 of the state consti­ enacted at the Instance of tenants of inhabitants of the Immaculate Com distribution. Their work was hardly placed on the ground in places spe­ "best" people of Norway, are really Waldenstrom, though fast approaching er. The appropriation is $750. tution, which reads: "Two or more the common land, who claimed that ceptlon parish, which included the en­ begun when thousands of desperate cially reserved for the purpose near the farmers. They are the backbone three score and ten, is beating every­ members of either house shall have the century's experiment in community tire island. men, women and children, who had towns and villages and are preyed of the nation, and they want to push body else all hollow. This time he is St. Paul, March 31.—The state of liberty to dissent and protest against ownership had proved a failure. But for more than a century, the learned that there was a chance of upon by dogs and wild beasts. Now, their language, "Maalet," to the front. talking at the expense of the dignity Minnesota will turn itself into a vast any act or resolution which they may villagers excluded all but themselves think injurious to the public or any Kaskaskia, now a large island oppo­ from a voice in the government and their hunger being half satisfied, in the plague-infected regions the Being literally correct, this argument of some of the most dignified members employes' insurance company if a site Fort Gage, 111., was a peninsula swooped down upon the supply depot. dead are being burned. A wagon is. a powerful blow to the anti-Maal of the Swedish Augustana Synod, the constitutional amendment by Senator individual and have the reason of their the expenditure of the rents. The; dissent entered on the journal." when the settlement was founded in tenants were not permitted to vote An uncontrollable riot followed. Each driven by a man wearing a muffle* party. strongest Swedish church association Putnam, recommended for passage by 1700 by Jesuit priests. Fathers James fought for himself and the weaker sprayed with iodoform, goes through in America. Largely through the ef­ Two important railroad bills were for village trustees. Herbert Peirce, United States min­ the judiciary committee of the sen­ Gravier and Gabriel Marest. The Mis­ went down and were ruthlessly the streets and collects the bodies forts of Bishop von Scheele, of Got­ ate, is adopted. The amendment pro­ passed by the house under a suspen­ sissippi river dug a deep channel The settlers' resentment was the trampled. from the houses. They are then taken ister to Norway, has a dog which sud­ land, Sweden, a number of the most sion of the rules. One gives to the greater because they outnumbered the denly acquired international fame. He vides that employers and employes across the base of the peninsula <30 In some portions of the province to great pits outside the city or town, prominent men of said synod have re­ shall be taxed a specific amount of railroad and warehouse commission years ago, so that in the opinion of villagers three to one. At present the soaked with kerosene and burned, is a bulldog of the most aggressive ceived decorations of honor from the the right to make the railroads a party village has 50 voters and the rest of parents are offering their children for type, and he must be muzzled when­ the wages paid and received. many lawyers, Kaskaskia, the first cap­ king of Sweden. Waldenstrom is vir­ By a vote of 81 to 27 the house to the action to be brought against the ital of Illinois, is now a part of the the island about 150. ever he appears on the street. The tually the head of the Swedish Mission express companies to force them to re­ Judge Crow's decision, anticipating other day he tore his muzzle and went passed the Minnette-Schwartz bill state of Missouri. Covenant on both sides of the ocean. placing telephone companies under duce their rates. The other allows the the final determination of the Su­ for the nearest dog in sight. The vic­ railroad and warehouse commission to No record of the French king's grant preme court, is that title to the com* Someone in the Augustana Synod took the supervision and regulation of the has been preserved. It was confirmed, tim happened to belong to Brynjulf upon himself to tease Waldenstrom be­ state tax commission. Mutual rural initiate an investigation of rates with­ mons of Kaskaskia is vested forever Wangen, a lawyer, who joined the fight out a complaint from any shipper. however, by a patent issued in 1743 by in the inhabitants of the Immaculate cause he did not succeed in landing companies and companies doing only Gov. Pierre Vaudreuil of the province in behalf of his dog. The bulldog re- decorations for some of the most noted a city business are excepted. George A. Ralph's efficiency as a Conception parish. To this extent it fushed to let go of his hold, and Mr. of Louisiana, and by Edme Gatien Sal­ was gratifying to the insurgents, but men in the Covenant. But Walden­ The house passed the Forestry com­ drainage engineer was testified to by mon, commissary general. Wangen tried to give him the finishing John T. Stewart, chief of the division it disappointed their wish to purchase strom was not cut out for keeping mittee bill reorganizing the state for­ From the first, it is believed, a blow. Finally the bulldog realized the quiet on an occasion of this kind. He of agricultural engineering at the state the land outright instead of renting it. seriousness of the situation, dropped estry department to bring about great­ quasi-private ownership of land existed says in part: "I do not think this is er efficiency in the prevention of for­ university, and John A. Johnson, Jr., Some of the leaseholders, who had the lawyer's dog and ran to Mr. Peirce, a St. Paul civil engineer at the drain­ in that portion of the parish which was lived on their farms for 60 years and becoming to a preacher of the gospel, est fires by unanimous vote. The under cultivation. But almost half of half dead. Mr. Peirce was shocked at especially in a country where no offi­ original bill was amended to allow the age hearing. They testified that they seen their children and grandchildren the sight, and announced through the had come in contact with his drainage the parish was a commons proper, part grow up about them, feel that the cials, not even the president himself, state forester a salary of $3,000 a year in grazing land upon which the settlers newspapers that he would pay a hand­ carry decorations of honor. I ask instead of $5,000 and the clerk of the work and found it entirely satisfactory. land already belongs to them "by vir­ some reward to any one that would Senator C. A. Johnson of St. Paul said pastured their cattle, and part in tim­ tue of'long occupancy." everyone to think of President Taft, forestry board a salary of $1,800 in­ ber land, where they hunted. furnish the name of the party that former President Roosevelt, and Dr. stead of $2,400. St Eeter said that Mr. Ralph's work In the meantime, the Mississippi AjfCA Arrscrso BY OUTBJ?CAM ofPiAGt/s had abused his pet dog. The lawyer The farm land, because of peril from Abrahamsson, seated side by side at The bill as it now stands provides in the vicinity of St Peter was very river is laboring to convert the entire rung up the minister and told him the good. Indian marauders, was divided on the a mouthful of rice. Many parents, after which a little loose earth is a banquet table, Abrahamsson with his for a state forestry board made up of French arpent system. Each settler's island into commons, by tearing away despairing of keeping the entire fam­ thrown upon them. whole story, and now Mr. Peirce ex­ tinsel on his breast, the North Star the dean of the state agricultural col­ The committee on appropriations soil from the upper shore, which I* pects the Norwegian authorities to en­ tract consisted of a ribbon of land 193 ily until the new crops appear, are The recrudescene of the plague in with Kommendorskraschan, the two lege, the director of the state forestry killed" a dozen bills carrying appro­ feet wide and three miles long. owned by individuals, and depositing deserting their offspring. able him to get even with the lawyer. it upon the south shore, which is com­ China began In Fuchlaten, in Man­ presidents, one on each side, without school, three members to be appointed priations for monuments for several By this means, although the farmer The lawlessness in the stricken ter­ churia, one of the filthiest towns in any ornaments at all on their coats. on the recommendation of the board Minnesota statesmen and for the G. A. mon land. Old inhabitants assert that ritory is growing each day. Made R. The principal bills turned down cultivated several acres of land, he was within the last 60 years two miles of all the east. Little attention was paid DENMARK. Facing such a sight, who could heln of regents of the state university, and not isolated from his neighbors, at desperate by hunger, bands of hun­ to it at first and it continued to smiling—and at whom? Or Bishop four members to be suggested by the were for a monument for the late soil have been added to the commons. dreds of starving refugees are roving spread with great rapidity. The dead state agricultural society, horticultur­ Alexander Ramsey and for a portrait whose elbows he almost literally This accretion was one of the sections It is proposed to build new sewers von Scheele, at a wedding, adorned worked. This system made possible a through the famine area plundering were thrown into the streets, where for $2,250,000 in Sundbyerne, Valby, with all his orders and ribbons, and al society, state forestration associa­ of the late Edwin A. Jaggard. recently opened to renters. and ft^ling, and a reign of terror pre­ they lay exposed, and often, accord­ tion and the state game and fish com­ common protection against savage at­ I and Bronshoi, suburbs of Copenhagen. our Lord Jesus on one side of him, Representative Rue introduced a bill tacks. The present Kaskaskia, venerable as vails. ing to correspondents, those afflicted The county commissioners of Fred- and St. John or St. Peter on the other. mission. The state forester must be providing for a single custodian of it is, is the daughter of a still older At Runsha*, a walled village 50 with the pestilence were placed in rlksborg resolved by a vote of six to Or let us take still another step: an expert in forestry. The bill al­ both the new and old capitol buildings. There is no record showing whether Kaskaskia, an Indian village on the miles from Shanghai, the villagers, the streets to die. Over 8,000 persons lows a corps of assistants to patrol the early settlers paid rent for their Illinois river near Utica, which waa four not to permit the use of automo­ Imagine that Jesus lived among us Representative Lydiard introduced a farm land to the community. That after a raid in which stores were have perished in the Chinese quarter biles on certain secondary roads in the now, appearing, for instance, with the the forest regions during the dry bill to some extent reorganizing the discovered in 1673 by Father Mar­ of Fuchlaten. It was not until the seasons of the year. they were merely tenants, however, 'A looted and many killed, meted out j county. order of the North Star on his breast. fee system in the state Insurance de­ was recognized when a petition to per­ quette. There he established a mis* punishment peculiarly Chinese in its black death had spread over a large A great lockout was expected in the What sort of an impression would it The senate, as a committee of the partment. It provides that all fees for sion, the first in the Mississippi va*» section of Manchuria that the nations mit the purchase of the land was pre­ callousness to the raiding refugees. iron industries of Denmark; but as no make? Deeply disgusted, everyone whole, recommended for passage the examinations of insurance companies* sented by them to the United States ley. A band of more than 500 are reported of the world were aroused to the news has been cabled on that subject would turn away and say, 'This cannot bill introduced at the request of the books must be paid to the state treas­ Twenty-seven years later, the Kas­ menace. And now the plague, unless government, soon after Illinois became to have been surrounded in a com­ it may have been averted at the criti- be the Jesus that came to save sin* game and fish commissions, requiring urer and then issued to the department a territory. kaskia Indians, who were on the peril* pound and burned to death. almost superhuman efforts are put i cal moment. ners'." all non-residents of Minnesota to take for expenses on warrants. . ous frontier between the warring Relief has been coming in, but It forth, promises to spread beyond con­ I A large tract of waste land has been The petition was granted and the tribes of Illinois and Iroquois, deter­ trol. At isrikho, 40 miles east of The General Exporters' Union of cultivated land passed from common has proved inadequate. The Ameri­ bought near Silkeborg by a benevolent Sweden argues strongly against the mined upon an exodus to a safer situ­ can Red Cross society has sent over Harbin, in Manchuria, there are 400 society, which is going to put about SIX DEAD IN TORNADO. WOMEN TEACHERS WIN FIGHT. Into individual ownership. The le­ ation. Let by priests, they settled up* to 500 deaths a day. The same num­ proposed Baltic exposition at Malmo, gality of the proceeding sis doubted about $25,000, while the Chinese of one hundred persons to work clearing in 1914. And if such an exposition is on the fertile site of the present Kas­ San Francisco have forwarded $20,- ber is perishing daily at Mukden. ! and cultivating the land. The aim of Forty Others Injured and Town In Ala­ Will Receive Same Pay as Men In New by lawyers, but it has stood almost a kaskia. Chefoo reports 250 deaths daily. At bound to come anyway, the union says century, too long to be reversed. 000. It costs but a cent a day to the society is to get work for persons some safeguard ought to be provided bama Wiped Out. York Schools. In 1763 the Illinois territory was keep one of these starving Celestials, Chang-Chun 800 bodies were burned who would otherwise be idle. New York, N. Y. — Men teachers To differentiate the farm land from ceded by the French to Great Britain, against permitting foreign exhibitors, the commons, the government sur­ yet the United States and Japan have in a week and at Heulan 1,400 vic­ Mobile, Ala. — A death list of six, in the elementary schools of New York which took possession of Kaskaskia in tims were cremated in an equal period The mails are distributed teven with their greater resources, from veyed a line between them as a boun­ been the only nations to give aJd. times a day in the central portions of eclipsing the Swedish exhibitors. The and forty injured, sums up the result city appointed hereafter will receive 1765 and appointed as governor the China is sending its plea over the of time. Cordons of soldiers are post­ the same pay as women. This will dary, known today as the Grand Line. Chevalier de Rocheblave. In 1778 it Copenhagen, and five or six times a chambers of commerce of several of a tornado that wiped out the town, The commons was regarded as of lit­ entire civilized world for help. ed around many of the infected vil­ of Gainesville, Monroe county. More mean that the present salaries paid to was wrested from Great Britain by lages. day In the rest of the city. It is now large cities have also expressed them­ tle value, because the expense of The famine situation has recently proposed to make a horizontal reduc­ selves to the effect that it would not than 100 buildings were torn down and men in those positions will be cut al­ General Clark, commanding an expedi­ \S3 Doctors who- have studied the most one-third in the cases of future clearing it of timber to make farming tion of Virginian troops, called "Long somewhat overshadowed the plagne tion of two deliveries a day in all parts pay to have such an exposition. This trees and crops were uprooted by the possible was considered prohibitive. ravages, but not because the latter plague and who are now working In of the city. This will reduce the ex­ Is an unexpected setback to the pro­ furious winds that cut a swath 200 appointees. The controversy over this Knives" by the Indians. Virginia has shown any signs of a let up. It the affected regions say thai the 11 question has been bitterly waged for Forty acres of it was devoted to a ceded Illinois to the United States In penses of the postoffice department moters of the exposition, who figured feet wide across the county. The vic­ once famous race track, which had is still sweeping over the northeast­ plague is of intense virulence. Dteath very materially. on a magnificent show. tims were killed in collapsing houses. several years. 1874 and six years later, when Illinois usually ensues in 24 hours and some­ stalls for 500 horses and a mile ern territory, scattering death right During the debate in the Landsthing Admiral Bitbeder, representing the was erected into a territory of the and left. Th* plague conditions have times sooner and nearly every case Insane Man Shoots Down Three. course. The settlers hunted through United States, a governor was sta­ on a renewal of the Anglo-Danish arbi­ navy of Argentina, has visited Sweden. ARBITRATION WINS ENTHUSIASM. the forests and looked with disfavor become a menace to the world. The proves fatal. The disease is conveyed tration treaty, Count Ahlefeldt-Laurvig, He said that the Rofors iron works are Burlington, Washington. — William tioned at the capital, Kaskaskia, whole northeastern corner of the em­ by fleas from rats and other small Weegin, a rancher of South Prairie, upon the, swamps at the tongue of the As has been related, but few of the. the minister of foreign affairs, stated up-to-date in every particular. The British Show Interest in 900 Meetings peninsula. pire and of Manchuria are in the grip animals and may be contracted by that he had endeavored to renew the gentleman proved that he meant what Throughout Kingdom. became violently insane and taking a ruins of the old Kaskaskia remain to­ of a fresh outbreak, of the black breathing the germ-laden air. The rifle went out on a country road and But about the middle of the last day. The destruction wrought by the compact upon a broader basis, but that he said by ordering ammunition for century the timber business became death and the civilized nations of the ease with which it may be communi­ the British government had declined $800,000 for the navy of Argentina. London, Eng. — The attitude of shot and killed the first three passers* flood of 1844 was completed by the In­ world are rushing physicians and med­ cated is one of its great dangers. by, who were John Ranke, William profitable, and soon numbers of saw vasion of the Mississippi river. the proposition on the ground that a The Swedes expect more orders from the imperial German chancellor Dr. mills were busy cutting down the ical supplies to the east in an effort Through disease-bearing fleas of rats treaty with the United States must the same quarters. German and Von Bethman-Hollweg has not cooled Ranke and John Ware, all of Burling­ Even before that time the house In to prevent the spread of the pestilence ships may carry It to London. New ton. woods. The river continually depos­ which General Lafayette slept in precede all other general arbitration French competitors were beaten by the British zeal for arbitration. The pro­ ited soil at the end of the point, build­ to other lands. York, San Francisco or other civil, treaties which Great Britain might Swedes. jected demonstration to be held in Al­ 1825 had been carried away piecemeal ized centers. • That is the deadly Destructive Flames In Danville. ing it up at the rate of about a mile in by souvenir hunters. There still re­ ' Never before In the history of China conclude. Some Swedish riflemen have issued bert Hall was abandoned in favor of 25 years. The swamps disappeared { lias there come a plague that has menace of China's great pestilence. Krlstlan Jonson, the new premier of * wider national movement. It took Danville, Illinois. — Fire in the mains, however, the ancient pariah a call for the organization of a union Stahl-Urban overall factory destroyed and turned Into land of the highest betL which was founded In Rochelle, brought such dumb terror to the Iceland, is a lawyer, and is said to be for representing Sweden in an inter­ the form of 900 meetings Saturday and Monday in all the cities of the king­ the factory, entailing a loss of $}?&> fertility. Franee, and whose peal was the first hearts of the people as has this most Actions speak louder than words, but a cool-headed and very able man. In national riflemen's association, includ In 1851, at the request of the resi­ recent outbreak. Swift in its fatal* dom. 000. heard between the Alleghentes words backed by actions speak loudest politics he Is a moderate. lug most of the countries- of Europe. dents of the parish, the legislature the IfisslsslBpe river.