V
STORM IN ILLINOIS
Aged Pontiff E xpected
W hich Paid far T errito ry to Be
Shown at St.
Washington, J oly 22.— One of the
most
interesting bistroical exhibits to
NERBERÒ
be made at the St. Louis exposition
next year w ill be a collection of can
celled bonds used in payment for the
Louisiana Territory. These old papers
of
the Pent W eek, were reoantly found in the treasury de
partment by Chief Clerk H ills.
to
A history of the payment has been
compiled by R. A . Bayley, of the treas
Archbishop Katser of Milwaukee, is ury department, who statesgthat among
the national loans of the United States
dead.
one known as “ Louisiana 6 per
K ing Edward haa started on a (our
rent stock,” issued in 1804. M r. Bay
of Ireland.
ley says:
The war feeling against Russia it
“ This loan was contracted to pay
France for the province of Louisiana,
growing In Japan.
ceded to the United States by that
In the destruction of a Nome hotel
[power A p ril 80, 1803. According to
three people lost their lives.
I the construction of the United States,
A street oar collided with a wagon at the cession by Fiance included all the
Kansas C ity, seriously injuring six region between the 81st parallel and
the G o lf of Mexico, and between the
people.
A Conner creek mine, near Hunting- Mississippi river and the Perdido r i
ton, has been robbed of a large amount now the western boundary of the state
61 Florida. The United States had
of money and dust.
heavy demands on France for spolia
The heir to the British throne is to tions committed on American commerce
▼isit the United States and w ill be the during the' previous ten years. The
guest of President Roosevelt.
amount of these claims was estimated
In an explosion at the Minnequa at $5,000,000. The first propoeal of
steel works, Pueblo, five men were the French minister w a s 'th a t the
United States should pay for the pro
burned by hot metal, two fatally.
vince of Louisiana 100,000,000 francs,
A bloody battle occurred at Cindad and take upon themselves the payment
Bolivar, iu Venevuela, when that place of the claims for spoliation, but the
was captured by government forces.
amount wrfs finally fixed at $16,000,-
A severe wind, hail and rain storm 000, of which France was to receive
swept over a part of Southeastern Iowa, $11,260,000 in United States bonds,pay
destroying all crops in its path and lev* able in 15 years, and bearing interest
at the rate of 6 per cent. The remaind-
eling many buildings and trees.
amounting to $3,760,000. was to
Governor Tates, of Illin ois, has re
be devoted to reimbursing American
turned Horn a trip to Europe.
citizens for French depredations on
Xste next annual convention of their commerce. The treaty was con
Knights o f St. John w ill be held at firmed by the senate of the United
States, but was the occasion of an ex
Peoria, 111., on June 22, 1904.
John Lanberahim, of Los Angeles, tended debate in the house of represen
the Harvard student who stole an auto* tatives.'
The act fb issue the stock in payment
mobile as a "la r k ,0 has compensated
for the territory, which became known
the owner and been released.
as the Louisiana stock, was approved
A dog which b it a number oc chil November 10, 1803.
dren in Milwaukee proves to have had
rabies and the health board is trying to
THB POPE’ S FUNERAL.
WnH the children in order to apply an
tidotes.
Only Preflm lnary Arrangem ents Made,
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POPE
LEO
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it .
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HAS PASSED TO THE
CHEAT BEYOND.
Rome, Joly 20.— Tbs pope lies in
■tate of ooma, and there are grave
doobta in the mind* of his doctors
whether he w ill . ever completely
of W orld’ s M ost emerge.
H is immediate dissolution
Is
seems only to be diverted by the action
Old of hia heart. His poise, though week,
W as Over NJaety-Three Y<
ope a L ittle M ors oontinuee steady. Shortly before mid
Than Tw eoty-Ptve Yi
night, Dr. Lapponi aaid:
“ The pope at the present moment Is
in a state of ooma, wnich may be called
CHR0B0L0GY OF POTE LEO XDL
a condition preceding the last agony,
Born at Carol neto, March 7 , 1810.
the dnration~of whioh It is impossible
Entered colle*« at Boma, 1834.
^^Matriculated at Gregorian nnlvarstty.
to forecast, although everything leads
En tarad collage of Noble Kaolaalasttaa,
to the belief that hie condition cannot
1832.
last.
Appointed domestic prelate by Greg
ory x v n , 18*7.
“ To*ba more exact, be is still in a
Order of priesthood conferred, Decem
state of torpor and stupor, from which,
ber 16, 1837.
i#Apoetolle delegate at Behevento, 18S7-
however, he aronses occasionally, when
be bears sharp sounds, as, for instance,
Governor o f Spoleto, 1841-ISM. ’ '
Papal nuncio at Brunei*, 1848.
—
insistent voice of one of his fam il
Created cardinal, Heea n be r 19, 1888.
iars calling loudly to him. L eft atone,
be relapses immediately Into a condi
tion of torpor. A t intervals he mur
“ EnevcUcel condemning communism,
murs in his sleep, continoing to have
socialism and nihilism, December S8,
forbodlnge that he is being abandoned
^Encyclical against hersy and social
by hie valet, Centra and myself.
ism, November 6,1883.
These are the symptoms of incipient
Recognised unity of Italy, October 7,
1888.
cerebral
anemia and general exhaus
Encyclical condemning liberalism,
tion. H e can no longer turn In his
November #. 188.V
Celebrated golden Jubilee, 1887.
bed without assistance, and is being
Celebrated grand Jubilee, 1888.
kept a l i v e ’ by artificial stimulants.
Encyclical on socialism and labor,
May 16, 1881.
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During the last 23 hoars he has had
Celebrated Kptscopal Jubilee, Febru
ary, 1898.
two injections of camphorated oil,
Issued appeal to Englan
reunion
three of caffeine and two o : hypoderm
of Christendom, April 14,1894.
Celebrated sixtieth anniversary of bis
ice of salt water, besides drinking stim
first mem, February 18,1898.
I
ulants.”
Declared 1900 e year of universal Jubi
EVENTS OF THE DAY
lee, May, 1899.
Held conalstory and created eleven
new cardinals, June 19, 1899.
Celebrated ninetieth birthday, March
2, ttw.
Stricken w ith pneumonia, July 8,1908.
Died, July 30,190».
g a e a e a e a e a e a e a c a e a ie a e a e a e i
Rome, July 20.— Pope Leo X I I I is
dead. The last flicker of life expired
at 4 minutes peat 4 o ’clock this after
noon and the pontiff now lies at rest.
Tonight the emaciated and lifeless
frame which held so brave a spirit lies
on the bed in the Vatican, beside which
almost a il the world haa prayed. The
red damask eoverlet rests ligh tly over
the body, tho cardinal's scarlet cape is
about the shoulders, while on his heed
has been placed the papal hood of vel
vet, bordered with ermine.
A white
silk handkerchief is bound about his
chin, and in the hands that have
blessed so many thousands has been
placed a crucifix. 8c Pope Leo w ill le-
main until tomorrow. watched by uni
formed officers of the Noble Guard and
rough clad Franciscan penitentiaries,
who w ill keep a ceaseless vigil until
the bural ceremonies.
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Tomorrow the zee red college of card
inals w ill assemble for the official doty
of pronouncing Pope Leo dead.
A fter
this sad function has been performed,
the body will be taken to the small
throneroom adjoining the deeth cham
ber, where it w ill be embalmed. The
faneral ceremonies w ill extend over
nine days, the body being removed to
the -cathedral of 8t. Peter’ s, where it
but W ill Be Elaborate.
The death by apendicitis of Mrs. F.
O. Matthiesen, widow of the former
Only the meat general funeral ar
president of the American sugar refining
company, leaves her nephew, Conrad rangements have thus tar been made,
as the shock of the pope’ s death for
H . Matthiesen, heir to $16,000,000.
the moment occupies a ll attention.
A xel Simonson, a sea captain,
sued for libel a magazine publishing Cardinal Oreglia, together with the
company for publishing a story rep re members of the sacred college, w ill de
senting him as having bean the first to termine the details of the elaborate fu
lia ve bis wrecked ship.
H e says the neral ceremonies, which w ill last nine
story is false and by depicting him as a days. In the case of Pins I X , his per
ecward damages his reputation.
sonal friends among the Roman aristoc
Notice to vacate has been served on racy we-e permitted to see the em
58 squatters on a tract in the suburns balmed body before it was removed to
of New York city, which is to be con 8t. Peter’ s, where the general public
verted into lakes for additional water had a like privilege. I t lafoxpected that
supply, but some of them w ill resist. eim ilar plans w ill be carried ont in the
esant case. On the evening of the
Included are four churches, four schools,
eighth
day the corpse w ill be enclosed
six hotels, ten summer residences and
in two oofflns, the inner one of cypress
about 40 farms.
and the outer of lead, which w ill be de
A package containing six yards of posited within a stone scarcspbagus.
lace said to be valued at $600 has been It w ill not be im mediately committed
missing since A pril 6, when it was to its final resting place, but w ill beds
shipped by express from New York to posited high over the door near the
Washington. The lace is a part of a choir if a chapel in 8t. Peter’ s, where
set valued at $80,000 belonging to the it may be viewed by a ll visitors. The
w ife of General A. E . Bates, of Wash ultimate burial place w ill be the mag
ington, D C. I t was a fam ily heir nifioent basilica of 8t. John the Latoran.
loom.
Following Pope Leo’ s expressed wish,
Japan has now a gold reserve o f 178,' the niche in which it w ill lie w ill cor
respond to that which the pope desig
000 , 000 .
nated as the resting place of Innocent
The battleship Kearsarge has started I I I . The marble memorial w ill show
on her race across the ocaen.
a recumbent figure of the pontiff, sur
United States authorities have cap rounded by allgorical figures.
tured seven Italian counterfeiters in
Brooklyn.
Plenty o f Chance to Steal.
Washington. July 22 .— The special
A conspiracy has been discovered
among army officers of Portugal to over report of the treasury experts on their
throw the king.
examination of the affairs of Auditor
Fire destroyed the Sabin hotel and Petty, of the District of Clcumbia, fixes
natatorium at Port Arthur, Tex.
the shortage in that office, for which
$100,000, bartly insured.
James M. A . Watson, a clerk, is now
A paint and oil warehouse in Denver in jail, at $73,897. I b e experts criti
burned.
The loss is estimated at cise the system by which the money
f200,000, nearly oovered by insurance was handled and say that for a period
of more than four years Watsons’ work
A report is in circulation in London
was not revised, checked up or other
that France intends to transfer its pos*
wi e proved or tested by any other em-
seesions in the eastern Pacific to the
pleye of the office oir by the auditor.
United States.
The Russian war minister says Port
Cassini Gave Verbal Pledge.
Arthur is a fortress inaccessible to all
Washington. July 22.— In a conver
enemies no matter bow great their num-
sation at the Russian embassy cu the
*bers or whence they oome.
The prohibition of the importation of afternoon of Jane 28 with the Aseoci
arms and ammunition into Ohina ex a ted Press, Count Cassini referred to
pires in August. The ministers have the call of Secretary Hay on the day
decided that the prohibition is useless previous, and expressed hit gratifies
and ineffective and that the Chinese are tion at its results. I b e ambassador, in
capable ot regulating the importation reply to the question as to whether
Manchuria was under discussion daring
of war munitions.
the call, replied in the affirmative, and
Twelve Chinese were killed in an ex stated that be had a scarred Mr. Hay
plosion in a Nanaimo, B. O., mine.
that Russia would execote to the letter
Treaty ports of Manchuria w ill be her pledges in Manchuria and oonoode
opened by Ohina through Russian con certain port*.
sent.
Chinese Seek Revenge.
Chicago strikers threaten to shut off
Honolulu,
July 22.— It has been an
the city’ s light unless their d*
nounced
that
the Chinese here wll
are granted.
hold a mass meeting to make an em
The salmon fishermen on the Fraser phatic protest against their exclusion
river have given up their fight, and from the United States. They w ill ask
w ill aocept the terms of the canners
their government to enact tariff regu
lations against American goods as
Colonel Morris B. Belknap has
matter
of retalliation if the immigra
nominsted for governor of Kentucky by
tion restrictions are not removed.
Republicans.
THREE TOWNS FEEL DISASTROUS.
EFFECTS OF TORNADO.
W as
Accompanied
by
Heavy
W ind—
Streator and Mendota Re«
Ite
Full Force and Oardner Haa
So That It Has No M eaos of
Streator, 111., July 20.— Five persons-
were killed and 19 fatally Injured and
property loee estimated at $2,000,000
was caused by a tornado, here this even
ing. /
The first building struck was the
W ester d vulcan works, whien were en
tirely destroyed, causing a lose of
$160,000. The 60 employee had left
the place. Only one man, the night
watchman, was in the factory, and be-
m killed.
A quarter of a m ile northeast, Adolph
8tanber’s clothing factory was razed.
About 100, persons
were employed
there, but a ll had left an hour before.
N ext tne tornado oanght a number of
small booses, wrecking some, turning:
others half way around, twisting huge
trees and breaking them off at the hase.
The base ball park, the street railway
park and the driving park were next in
the storm’ s peth. A ll the buildings,,
fences and grandstands at these three
places, including a $16,000 amphithea
tre in course of construction, were des
troyed. A t the driving perk about 60-
car pen tors had just stopped work.
There were four persons killed outright
and about 15 injured.
RUIN BY W IND AND RAIN.
The Indiana, Illin ois A Iowa bridge,,
.¿ c o s t in g
$1,000,000, was
partially
Central States Suffer Qreat
y 'wrecked, and the hoisting works and
Storm.
buildings at Springs H ill shaft w ere-
M ilijatikee., July 21.— Reports of rained. Many buildings at Kang le y ,
damage from yesterday's storm are four miles west of Btreator, were blown
ooming In from many parts o f the down, and several persons were injored
there.
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state, and are to the effect that the
A t Emington several houses were ut
crops ««ere bettered down flat.
In terly demolished and four persona were
many instances it w ill be Impossible to serlonaly if not fatally injured.
harvest the grain crops, and the only - A t Cympus one man was killed while
recourse left to the farmers w ill be to two others sustained injuries which
may prove fatal. The tornado waa ac
tarn J b e ir livestock into the fields for
companied by a terrible rain storm „
pasture.
,
which washed ont bridges, culverts and
The storms are particularly severe on thousands of feet of railroed track.
Lake Michigan. Thousands of dollars’ The loes to crops is very heavy.
worth of damage was wrought to the
government { pier which protects M il
Swath C ot Through Mendota.
waukee harbor
It is stated ¿hat great
Mendota, 111., July 20.— Poor per
piles were uprooted and tossed about sona were killed and 10 others serious
like feathers. Contractor M iller says ly injured by a tornado that struck the
that massive «tones weighing as much northern pert of this city tonight. The
as 13 tons were displaced and tossed peth of - the storm eras about eight
across the breakwater as though they miles in length. Everything in th e
weighed but a few pounds.
storm’ s path was leveled to the ground.
8bade treee were uprooted in many
sections of Milwaukee and hundreds of
Another Town Stricken.
cellars were flooded because e f the in
Chicago, July 20.— There were un
adequacy of the «ewers to carry off the
flood. Two inches of rain fell in M il confirmed reports that the town o f
waukee. Madison reports 3.04 inches. Gardner, in Grnndy county, has been
Janesville, Broadhead and Chippewa destroyed and many people killed.
Kali* report severe storms and minor A ll wires leading to the town are down
and no definite information can be se
railroad waahouts.
cured.
PALM A SENDS THANKS.
SILVBR CONFERENCE ON.
Cuban President Rejoices That Treaties
ATs Completed.
POPE LEO X I I I .
w ill lie in state. The ultimate resting
plase of the dead pontiff w ill be In the
magnificent basilica of 8t. John the
Lateran.
Pope Leo’ s final moments were
marked by that name serenity and de
votion, and, when be was conscious,
that calm intelligence, whioh is asso
ciated with hia 26 years’ pontificate.
Hie was no easy death. An hoar be
fore he died, turning to Dr. Lapponi
and his devoted valet, (P io Centra, he
murmured:
“ The pain I suffer is most terrible.”
Yet his porting words were not of
the physical anguish that be suffered,
but were whispered Pbenedictions upon
the cardinals and bis nephews, who
knelt at the bedside, and the last look
of his almost sightless eyes was toward
the great ivory crucifix hanging in the
death chamber.
Practically »11 the cardinals now in
Rome kneeling at the bedside, watched
the passage of his soul. Earlier in the
day Cardinal Beraflno Vannntelli had
impreesively announced the absolution
in articulo mortis.
The condition of his holiness varied
from agony to coma.
Wishing to re
lieve him, Dr. Mazzoni suggested that
morphine should be administered.
Are
W illing, b it
Hopeful.
Not
Yury
Havana, July 21.— President Palma
Berlin, Joly 20.— The American and
has sent a letter to President Roosevelt,
Mexican International Silver Exchange
expressing his personal gratitude for
Commissions met the representatives
the consideration shown by the United of the German government for th eir
Statee throughout the negotiation of the first conference today. Germany waa
treaties, and also his pleasure over the represented by President Koch and Di
satisfactory conclusions regarding naval rector Lamm, of the Relchsbenk;
P rivy Councillor Dombois, of the Im
stations and the Isle of Pinee question. pel ial treasury; Count von Roe born, o f
The Cuban administration is great- the Pruscian finance m inistry; Pro
ly pleased over the action on the treat fessor Helffrich, of the Colonial borean;
ies, which it believes relieves what Rolando Locke, of the Deutsche bank;
might have developed into an embar Arthur Selomoneohn, of the Disoonto-
rassing situation, both to the United Gesellschaft bank, and Franz Ur big, o f
Statee and Cuba.
The authorities theGerman-Asiatic bank.
learn that the amount of government
The conference lasted an hour and
land within the area of the naval sta then adjourned. The Associated Pre e
tion at Goatanamo is much greater correspondent learns that Germany’»
than was supposed. The expense of ae representatives recognise the desirabil
qoiring the private holdings w ill not be ity of fixing the ratio of exenange be
greet.
tween silver and gold countries, bat re
The gunboat Nashville w ill proceed gard a scheme in that directoin merely
at once to Bahia Honda, where she w ill as a pious wish. From a trustworthy
be joined by the On ben engineers. Gerngan source the correspondent is in-
Tbs area of the station at Bahia Honda^formed that the British and French
has been delimitated, and includes land governments flatly refused to obligato
themselves to the purchase of a fixed
on both sides of the harbor.
•mount of silver yearly for Indian and
Colonial coinage. This is one of the
Turkey M ust Explain.
New Y ork, Jnly 21.— A report has commission’ s proposals, intended tc
been recived by Rev. Dr. J. I. Barton, stabteize the ratio between silver and
of the American ooard of foreign mis gold.
sions, regarding the seixnre gnd im \ For many years delegates have recog-
prisonment by Turks of Professor Tene- nired that absolutely nothing is possi
kijian, of Euphrates college, Harpool, ble without the co-operation of Great
a graduate of an American college in Britain and France, and It is not be
Tnrkey. The professor is charged with lieved here that the commission’ s work
conspiracy against the saltan and with w ill lead to the calling of an interna
fomenting revolution. The report as tional conference.
serts that be haa been subjected to cru
el treatment. Representations are be
F irst Step for Big Reservoir.
ing made to the state department at
Phoenix, A riz., Joly 20.— The first
Washington.
important step in the movement to se
Six Regim ents Coming Home.
Washington, July 20.— In carrying
ont the program for the reduc tion o
the force in the Philippines tbs secret
tary of war has directed that three reg
iments oNcavalry and three regiments
of infantry be returned to the United
States as soon as transportation is
available. The regiments having the
longest service in the islands w ill be
selected.
cure the building of Tonto storage res
ervoir under the provisions of the
Hansbroogh-Newlands irrigation act
was cop misted today.
This act con
sisted in executing liens to the Salt
river valley water nsers association on
every acre of land to be irrigated.
Each acre w ill represent one share of
stock in the association, which, in tarn,
w ill contract to par beck to the govern
ment within ten yeers the cost of the
construction of the reservoir.
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