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A Homily on Drcoi.
The Lancet has a little homily on
the dress of tha profession. Here is
an extract: "It is right that a rnedl
cal man should always be careful and
quiet in the manner of his dress. He
must not allow fiashiness to play a
patt in his costume, and our younger
readers will do well to remember that
though a froeuom is theirs now whlcTl
war, denied to the*' fathers, still it
behoovea them to see that they dress
strictly as gentlemen should, Bet
ter tho inconvenient staid limitations
of a black frock coat than that a suit
only fitted for the race course should
be worn at the bedside.
WHAT JARRED THE BARBER.
Genera! W. H. L. Barnes contributes
the following mite to the many other
good jokes that the opera has given
us. On Saturday while being shaved,
he happened to ask his barber If he
had attended the Grau performances
at the Grand. The answer was in the
affirmative.
"How did you enjoy it?"
"Not at all, sir. From my place in
the gallery I could see your head be
low me and it mortified me to notice
that I had not parted your, hair
straight. —San Fraccisco Wave.
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FOR PANAMA ROUTE
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Commission Now Makes Unani
| moos Report to President.
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j COMPANY CAN GIVE CLEAR TITLE
Company’s Offer to Sell For $40,000,
000 Has Completely Changed
Canal Situation, Says.
Report.
A Washington special says: The
canal commission on the proposition
ot the Panama Canal Company to dis
pose of its property to the United
States for $40,000,000 was delivered
to President Roosevelt Saturday even
ing. The members of the commission
decline to discuss the nature of the re
port and like reticence is maintained
a t the white house, but it was stated
on excellent authority that the report
unanimously recommends that the of
fel . of the Panama company be ac
ceptod.
The report, it is stated, is very vo
luminous, going into all phases of
the question and attempting to meet
the objections that any legal compli
cations will arise out of the purchase
or that there will be any interna
tional difficulties should the deal be
consummated.
The report was completed about 6
o’clock Saturday evening, and after
being signed by the members of the
commission was carried by Admiral
Walker, chairman of the commission,
to Secretary Hay, who transmitted it
to the president. The latter will send
the report to congress immediately.
The report goes fully into the steps
which must be taken in order to in
sure a perfect title to the Unijed
States, for in addition to the present
Panama Canal Company, the old or
ganization and the Colombian govern
ment must be reckoned with. The
report finds, however, it is said, that
the new company can give a clear
title.
It is stated that the report says
that when the commission made its
recent report favoring the Nicaragua
route no offer to sell to this govern
ment had been made by the Panama
company. The offer cf $40,000,000
made in behalf of the company by M.
Lampre, it is said, changes the situa
tion completely.
It is further stated that the report
shows that a little over one thousand
shares of Panama railroad stock is
owned by individuals outside the
Panama Canal Company, and that
these can be purchased for a compara
tively small sum. Other obstacles to
the sale, the report says, have also
been removed.
May Delay Congressional Action.
The probability of the latest devel
opments, so complicating the situa
tion as to make impossible the passage
of any canal bill at this session of
congress, is being seriously advanced
in congressional circles in view of the
understood action of the isthmian ca
nal commission in giving its indorse
ment to the Panama purchase. Ex
treme reticence is being mantained at
the white house concerning the con
tents of this report, and members of
the commission decline to discuss it
in deference to the expressed wish of
the president.
There seems no question, however,
that this supplemental report is a
more or less strong indorsement of the
Panama project. While a great
many people here do not care particu
larly as between the different routes,
just so long as there is a canal, thej
feel that the negotiations over ths
Panama route are so backward, as
compared with those over the Nicara
gua route, that even ii' the former
does appear the better thing on its
face, it will be impossible to set the
work going by legislation at this ses
sion. There is no dsposition, except
on the part of a few people, to eharga
the Panama project is put forward
solely in the interest of delay.
Machinists Finally Give Up.
The Machinists’ union at Salisbury,
N. C.. has declared the strike in the
Southern shops, at Spencer, near
there, terminated.
FARO BANK HELD UP.
At Point of Pistols Two Men Success
fully Loot a Gambling Joint.
Two unmasked robbers held up a
dozen men in a gambling room over a
saloon in Omaha Saturday and secur
ed the cash box and $200 in money
from the owners of the place.
They were captured ten minutes
later, however, by the police and loek
ed up. They gave their names as
Frank Williams and Frank Jones.
The robbery occurred in the heart of
the city. Then men drew revolvers
and ordered the men in the room to
hold up their hands.
TRAGEDY AT NEGRO DANCE.
Woman Demanded Ragtime Music and
Refusal Brought Death.
William Slaughter and Ralph John
sou. colored musicians, were shot and
instantly killed, and Powell Calloway,
white, mortally wounded at Morris
Creek, West Virginia. Saturday mid
night by Lillian Williams, who used
a revolver with deadly results, each of
the four bullets she fired taking effect,
save one.
meat fissures are yawing.
Further Earthquake Shocks Leave
Fearful Conditions In the Strick
en Mexican Cities.
A special of Sunday from Mexico
sajs ‘ Chllpancingo, the capital
city of the state of Guerrero, has had
two days’ indescribable panic and con-
6ternation, for on Friday there came
a repetition of the earthquake shock
of Thursday, razing to the ground
many houses spared in the first earth
quake. The people are camping out
on the Alameda and in the fields.
Hundreds of families are ruined.
The buildings destroyed include a
barracks, from which the soldiers were
marched, thus saving their lives. The
school buildings were wrecked, out
luckily the children were all saved,
their teachers having rare presence of
mind and giving the order for them to
march to the street when the first
trembling of the earth began on Tiiurs
day.
The parish church, which was being
repaired, having been injured in a re
cent earthquake, is destroyed. When
the shock began it was nearly filled
with worshipers, who fled in dismay,
women being knocked down by men,
but fortunately all had gained the
street when the heavy stone arches
fell in. It is believed that every one
escaped.
Great fissures run across the streets.
The church of San Mateo, in one of
the outer districts, was nearly de
stroyed.
Among the dead already found are
four young men and two young girls.
The list of gravely wounded is a long
one, including many prominent citi
zens. No official list of dead and
wounded has been given out as yet.
In the town of Chilapa many build
ings were badly wrecked and three
persons were killed outright, while
four were injured.
In the towns of Tixtla and Machit
lan many buildings were cracked.
At Inguala several arches fell in and
there was general wreckage in shops.
At Zumpango del Rio three persons
were badly injured and the prison,
town hall, schools and courts are
wrecked.
The whole region affected by the
earthquakes of Thursday and Friday
had been the scene of marked seismic
movements for several years.
SCHLEY BAGS DEER.
An Inviolate Custom Followed—Nim
roris Fear Game Wardens.
Admiral W. S. Schley and party re
turned to Savannah Sunday afternoon
from St. Catherines island, 30 miles
from the city, where a deer hunt was
had Saturday and the day before. The
party bagged twenty deer, one of
which fell as a trophy to the gun of
.^.dmiral It Schley. his first, deer, and the invio
was
late custom that is followed when a
huntsman kills his first was not over
looked. Other members of the party
placed their hands in the blood of the
slain buck and smeared it liberally
over the face of the admiral, who stood
the ordeal without flinching.
No member of the party would talk
about the trip, nor would they admit
that they had gone for deer. This re
luctance grew out of the knowledge
that they had violated the game laws
cf the state, which says that deer
shall hot be shot after January 1.
The members of the party claim,
with a wink, that they shot sheep and
calves cn St. Catherines, which is
owned by Jacob Rauers and used as a
game preserve. They fear that the
^ame wardens of Liberty county, of
which the island is a part, will prose
cute them for the violation cf the law.
BRIEF HOUSE SESSION.
Urgent Deficiency Bill Reported.
Charleston Given Money.
The house of representatives was in
session less than an hour Saturday.
Only routine business was transacted,
the most important of which was the
reporting by Mr. Cannon, chairman of
the committee on appropriations, of an
urgency deficiency bill.
The senate amendments to the
house bill appropriating $90,000 for
government exhibit and floor space at
the Charleston exposition were agreed
to and the bill passed.
ATTEMPT TO WRECK TDAIN.
Spike Caused Engine to Leave Rails,
But No One Was Hurt.
An attempt to wreck the eastbound
passenger train on the Southern rail
way near Watauga, Tenn., Saturday
afternoon, was almost successful.
Some one placed a spike in the joint
between the rains and the engine of
the train, carrying forty passengers,
left the track while running at a high
rate of speed. The engine, however
clung to the ties until it came to t
standstill, and no one on the train
was hurt.
MISS STONE IS WELL.
Once Again Report Comes That Her
Liberation Is Near.
Reliable news has been received in
Constantinople that Miss Ellen M.
Stone, the captive American mission
ary, Madame Tsilka. her companion.
and the latter's baby, are well. Nego
tiations, which it is expected will re
suit in the early and safe return of
the captives, ar ein progress.
A FIEND INCARNATE
Drunken Alien Sot Proceeds to
Exterminate Bis Family.
BUTCHERED RIGHT AND LEFT
Mother Made Heroic and Desperate
Fight to Save Bauies, In Which
She Received a Fatal
Blow.
A ghastly discovery was made at
Pittsburg, Pa., Wednesday when some
neighbors hearing cries coming from
the residence of Vincent Venzelsick,
a Pole, at 209 Spring alley, broke open
the door and found the bed room of
the house saturated with blood. Mrs.
Venzelsick lay beside the bed, her
face and head almost crushed befond
recognition, dead. Three little chil
dren, their heads and bodies covered
with cats and gashes, and the hus
band, Vemzelslck, almost dead.
From what could be learned, it ap
pears that Venzelsick came home in
toxicated Tuesday night and assaulted
his wife with a rail cutter. The first
blow inflicted an ugly gash on her
shoulder and knocked her down, but
she was on her feet again in an in
stant and with such weapons as she
could find in the room she defended
herself.
The three children were asleep in
one of the beds, and tho brutal father,
coming so angry at his wife, rushed
to the bed and rained blow after
blow on the sleeping little ones. The
sharp edge of the cutter hacked the
children in a frightful manner, and
the hospital physicians say that there
is little hope of their recovery.
The attack on the children infuria
ted the wife, and with a knife in each
hand she sprang at her husband and
stabbed him a number of times. He
managed to get in a number of blows
during the close battle, and seeing
that she was getting weak, he gave
her a shove and as she staggered
back brought the cutter down on her
skull with all his force, crushing her
skull, and she fell to the floor dead.
By the time he had killed his wife,
Venzelsick was exhausted. He sank
cn the floor and lay there throughout
the night unable to move. The moans
of the children Wednesday morning
and one of them crying was what at
tracted the neighbors.
Venzelsick, it is said, was not mar
ried to the woman, whose name, it de
veloped later, was Rosa Lick.
A strange man who was found in
the house by the police was locked
up. He refused to talk.
Developments Wednesday night
add mystery to the tragedy. Three
Poles who were boarders at Venzel
sick’s house are under arrest, and the
police are scouring the city for John
Okenski, who was also a boarder, but
who has not been seen since the mur
der. It is learned that the woman had
$1,200 on her person and this is miss
ing. Okenski is accused of having set
fire to a mattress in the house a week
ago, and later Venzelsick tried to have
him arrested because he had threaten
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v\hen found the woman was lying
across a couch which belonged to
Okenski, with her face and head bat
tered almost to a jelly. Venzelsick’s
head was beaten in and his skull frac
tured. The children’s heads were also
crushed, and physicians at the hos
pital say that none of the injured can
recover.
PAYNE TAKES OATH.
New Postmaster General Sworn Into
Office at the White House.
In the presence of the cabinet, the
entire Wisconsin delegation in con
gress, Governor Burbin, of Indiana;
Senator Hanna, retiring Postmaster
General Charles Emory Smith, and a
number of other friends, Henry C.
Payne, of Wisconsin, was sworn in as
postmaster general at 10:05 o’clock
Wednesday morning in the cabinet
room cf the white house.
The oath of office was administered
by Chief Justice Fuller.
PEACE NEAR, SAYS EDWARD.
England’s Ruler Utters Significant
Words In Addressing Soldiers.
A London special says: King Ed
ward has given the royal indorsement
to the belief current among the pub
lic that an early declaration of peace
in South Africa may be anticipated.
“The war might now be regarded
as approaching its conclusion,” were
the words used by his majesty Wed
nesday in addressing the officers of the
guards after reviewing a draft of 1,200
of the Grenadiers, Coldstreams and
Scots guards who were starting for
South Africa.
Judge Stretches Color Line.
Chief Justice Burford, of Oklahoma,
has issued an order that if there be
only one colored child of school age in
the district, the authorities must pro
vide a separate school house and teach
er. This order takes in the entire ter
ritory.
Explosion Causes Death.
Two men were killed and three bad
ly injured in an explosion Wednesday
near the town of Mackay, Idaho.
CIURLES70N GETS THE MONEY.
House Votes $90,000 For Government
Exhibit —Muchly Discussed Pen.
sion Bill Is Passed.
A Washington special says: The
house Wednesday passed the pension
appropriation bill which has been un
der discussion for three days and then
adjourned until Saturday. The reso
lution prepared by the special commit
tee on the McKinley memorial exer
clscs providing an address by Secre
tary of State John Hay in the hall of
representatives February 27 was
adopted.
Mr. Moody, of Massachusetts, pro
sented a joint resolution to appropri
ate $90,000 to pay the expenses incur
red by the West Indian and South Car
olina interstate exposition at Charles
ton, S. C., in connection with the gav
ernment exhibit at Charleston.
Mr. Elliott, of South Carolina, made
a strong plea for the passage of the
resolution.
Mr. Payne, of New York, declared
that the management when the govern
ment exhibit was secured agreed that
the United States would not be asked
for one cent.
Mr. Elliott, in reply, took issue with
Mr. Payne as to the facts. He said he
was much more anxious that the man
agement of the exposition should not
be placed in a false attitude than that
the resolution should bo adopted.
Mr. Moody pledged himself that on
the adoption of the pending resolution,
the government’s expense in connec
tion with the Charleston exposition
would cease. The resolution was
passed.
Mr. Payne called tip a bill to allow
the redemption of war revenue stamps
any time within two years after the
passage of the act. The bl.i was
passed.
A resolution upon the same subject
to authorize the secretary of the treas
ury to return upon demand within one
year bank checks and drafts with war
revenue stamps imprinted thereon af
ter the cancellation of such stamps
was also presented by Mr. Payne. He
explained that there were now mil
lions of such stamped checks in the
treasury department. The resolution
was passed.
The house then went into commit
tee of the whole and resumed consiu
eration of the pension appropriation
bills. Without adopting and ainend
ment the committee rose and the bill
was passed.
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APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT,
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Several Florida Nominations Are Sent
to the Senate.
The president has sent the following
nominations to the senate:
Collector of customs, Matthew B.
McFarlane, district of Tampa, Fla.
United States attorney for western
district of Virginia, Thomas Lee
Moore.
United States marshal, John F.
Horr, southern district of Florida.
United States attorney, James R.
Stripling, southern district of Florida;
John Eagan, northern district of Flor
ida.
Register of land office, Walter C.
Robinaoni at Gainesville, Fla.
Receiver of public moneys, Henry S.
Chubbj Gainesv il,e. Fla.
Surveyor general of Florida, Edmund
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Collector of customs: Tip Warren,
district of Apalachicola, Florida; John
F. Stillman, district of Pensacola, Flor
ida.
MYSTERY SURROUNDS TRAGEDY.
Fate of Victims of Murderous Assaults
In Pittsburg Uncertain.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch of Thurs
day -says: The victims of the mvste
rious murder and assaults of Wednes
day in the Polish colony are si?.l in a
precarious condition, and their turn for
life or death is yet uncertain,
Vincenzo Vizolek, the father, whr
was frightfully cut in the supposed
struggle with his reputed wife, Rosa
Lak, is still unconscious.
Two of the children will probably re
cover, but very little hope Is enter
tained for the recovery cf Della, the
oldest girl.
The police investigation has not as
yet resulted in any new developments.
POSTMASTER GOES WRONG.
Colored Physician In Charge of Sub
Station Placed In Jail.
An Atlanta, Ga., dispatch says: Dr.
James E. Asbury, a well-known negro
physician, who has had charge of the
sub-postoffice at 182 West Mitchell
street, was arrested Thursday morning
by United States inspectors on the
charge of embezzlement.
It is alleged that Asbury is some
$500 or $600 short in his accounts, the
money having been received by him
for stamps and money orders, which
he failed to turn over to the postoffice
department.
SIXTEEN ROADS DEFAULT.
Comptroller General Will Go After
Them for Unpaid Taxes.
Sixteen railroads in Georgia have
not yet paid their taxes to the state,
and Comptroller General Wright is pre
paring a notice to the officials of the
companies which will in ail probability
cause the general managers to draw
out their check books at once, and en
close checks to-the comptroller’s office.
