Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • INDIANA

EVENTS OF THE WEEKS

The boiler at the Queen City Marine Railway Company, ('iin-iiuisiti, Ohio, exploded by reason of frozen pipes, and Frank McKinley \v;e probably fatally injured. Frank Woodward. Ihe engineer, and Joseph .McClelland, carpenter, were seriously injured. An entire family named FuHtrcu.ik, !*\ ing in the town of New Sweden, Minn., re-v>ri<b to hu at rich ii.n .with Ixkbiii'-f-tj'■ Two of them are already dead. '1 he diease is «#iid to have been eontraeted through the eating of smoked sausage whieh had not been cooked. Pat (Towo of (’Mongo, the notorious ex-couvicl, who is believed to )iave been tile principal eonsjtirnlor in the kidnap ing of tile l.Vyeiir-old son of Edward A. Cudahy, the millionaire packer of Omaha, was on inured near the a gene) of the Pine River reservation in South Dakota. Not I res of "tr ituluftinn in -wriges- tit a t will affect about 4.<kh> men have lieen posted at ail of the Idas! furnaces in t lie Mahoning and Shenandoah valleys. Whitt is known as the base price is SI.OO per day to bottom fillers and helpers and the notices state that after Feb. I the base price w ill lie $1.(15. The first suit »for damages glowing oil' of the riot of Aug. 22 last was filed in the courts at Akton. Ohio. John .M. Da vidson, whose 3-year-old daughter was killed iii her .mother's arms while the family were driving in a carriage through the crowd around the city building, sued the city for SS,(XK) damages. Attorney General Douglass lias rendered- an opinion holding that the .Miiiuesula law for the payment of a bounty tipon beet sugar produced within the Stale la invalid because the legislature exceeded its authority. The law.is not held to be unconstitutional and it is suill tlnre is nothing in the constitution repugnant to such a bounty law. Walter C. ('ash y, a druggist at Pueblo. Colo., was shot through the head and in stantly killed in bis store by a burglar. The body was found by a clerk in the employ of Casley when he entered the store the following morning. The cash register had been rifled and every pocket in the inn rdf red man's clothes had been turned inside out. The murderer escaped. By the operation of a new law nearly 1,000 green‘grocers, butchers and poultry dealers in New Orleans were forced to close their places of business permanently. The law in question prohibits the establishment of a private market within 3,200 feet of a public market, and was enacted in the interest of the public market lessees in order lo increase the revenue of the city. The public markets nowhave a monopoly.

BREVITIES.

Peter L. Ruhmnnn was killed at Norfolk. Neb.,’by the premature discharge of a mortar. Miss Helen Could is said to have gone Into the mining business- iti partnership with M. Mankuss of Colorado. Eugene (1. Smith, a well-known farmer, was found dead in lied at Linchburg, Tcun., with his,head split open by an ax. J. P. Sain, for the past seven years city editor of the Pittsburg Volksblatt, was almost instantly killed by being thrown from a street car. Cenerai Manager Mttdge of the Santa Fe road announced that his company would this year spend $350,000 in the construction of new shops tit Topeka, Kan. . The workers tit the plant of the National Steel Company at Sharon, Pa., signed the new scale for 1901, which provides for a reduction of Pi per cent. About 400 men were affected. The postofllee at Wither'* Mill, Mo., was burned. The office was kept in the store of S. T. Gregory, and ♦very thing in the building was consumed. The origin of the fire is unknow n. James \V. Priestly, founder of tlie James W. Priestly carpet mills, was asphyxiated by illuminating gas at the home of liis son, John W. Priestly, in Philadelphia, lie was.S3 years old. W. MaeKenzie, the Canadian railway magnate, now at Winnipeg. Man., an flounces that owing to failure to get eon trol of the Northern Pacific Portage branch, his company will probably build. Noah MeCinnis was hanged nt Butler, Mo., for the murder of Frederick M. Barchorling. MeCinnis made a confession, stating that he had no intention of shooting the man, but only shot to scare him. Tile extensive pattern plant of S. Jar vis, Admits & Co. in Pittsburg was almost completely destroyed by fire, to gether with a large number of patterns and molds. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Frank Daniels, the well-known actor, who is appearing with his company in “The Ameer,’’ in, North Dakota, was married the other day at Fargo to Miss Olive McDorman, who lias been on the stage for two years. Jacob Inman, who went from Chicago to visit his brother nt Nardin, Ok., sex era! months ago in the hope of recovering liis broken health, committed suicide by drinking carbolic add. lie was growing worse instead of better. While attempting to escape a quarantine which hail been laid upon a loggers’ camp three miles from Sparta, Minn., a lumberman shot and instantly killed one of the deputies engaged in guard duty. Smallpox had broken oti( in the camp. Tile gold production of Oregon for the year lissi amounted to $3,770,000. The lumber output of the State for the year amounted to HJKMOQJKX) feet. The Earl of Ifopetouu was sworn in at Sydney as the first governor of die federated Australian colonies amid scenes of pageantry stub as never before hud been attempted in the antipodes. In Burlington, lowa, fire destroyed two buildings on Main a Htreet, oenpled by Schramm &*Sehraeig and by the Connor Mercantile Company. Guest's music store was damaged slightly. The losses are estimated at $150,000, insurance $75,000.

EASTERN.

I Actress Della Fox was married to John Levy, a New York diamond broker. Female prisoners in Brooklyn jail fiercely assaulted the matron and warden. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has given $250,000 for a school for the poor in New York. t Michael Maloney, a farmer of Lenox tow nship, Pa., is dead at the age of 107 years. Mrs. Carrie S. Huntoon of Concord, N. 12., has been arrested for conspiracy to have lier divorced husband killed. French swindler named Goffray, who lias been posing as the “cardinal bishop of Washington." has been sent to prison. A certificate of corporation was filed at Dover, Del., for the Midland Canal Company of Fargo, N. D. Capital, $ 1,000,uoo. Moses Colt Tyler, professor of American history in Cornell University, died at Ithaca, N. Y. He leaves a-widow, one daughter and a son. The residence of Mrs. Hnriiger, near Brookville. Pa., was destroyed by fire, and the mother and two daughters, aged 5 and 7 years, burned to death. Gov. Roosevelt of New York again lias refused lo honor a Texas requisition for tin- arrest of John I>. Rockefeller and other members Of tEe Standard (til CSBF -pattf; —— A locomotive running wild with no cars 'attached plunged into a crowd gathered about the Pennsylvania Railroad station at Woodbridge, N. J., killed Miss Lulu Marsh of-Railway aud injured many others. At Hackensack, N. J., one little girl is dead and another is'in a critical condition as tEe result, it Is alleged, of being thrown into bonfires by boys. Two boys, John Eckert and Frank Wenzell, both 10 years old, are locked up. William Westlake, the inventor and pioneer business-man--of- -Chicago as a partner in the xveli-known firm of Adams 6 Westlake, died tit.his home, 4 Spencer place, Brooklyn, N. Y. During his lifetime lie hud !liken out about 300 individual patents. A barge canal costing $02,000,0(H), fol lowing very closely the present lines' of the Erie canal, except that while touching the large cities it may not bisect them, is what State Engineer B ind will redout mend, to the New York Legislature on'or about Feb. 32. I)r. Ulysses Higgins Brown, an oculist of Syracuse, N. Y., was found dead in nu areaway nt 200 West, Forty-fifth street, New York. The police say death may have resulted from sandbagging or strangulation, and think it is a possible ease of murder and robbery. Gustave Wolf, who is supposed to have been the last member of the Bridgeport, Conn., suicide club, was found dead with a bullet in liis brain in the jewelry store of Isaac Brush. Wolf was employed there for years as chief clerk. He was 51 years old and a diamond expert. The threatened strike of the employes of the Wilkesbarro and Wyoming Va I ley Eleetrie Railway in Pennsylvania will uot take place. The company and the men, after several conferences, have succeeded in effecting an amicable arrangement, in whieh each side made concession*.

WESTERN.

Russian settlers near Ana moose, N. D., arc said to be starving. Six-year-old Roy Gillette, son of It. A. Gillette, accidentally shot liis 4-year-old sister at Nevada, Mo., with a target rifle. Six Japanese section laborers on the Great Northern Railway were struck and killed by a freight train near Citibank, Mont. Smallpox has broken out in the national soldiers’ home in Leavenworth, Knu. It is believed fully 1,000 of the 3,500 in the home have been directly exposed. Steve Holgate, a gambler well known in Chicago and on the Pacific coast, committed suicide at Grand Forks by taking morphine, lie had suffered recent reverses at the gutning table. An unknown highwayman held up the Hot Springs stage in the moiintnin near Holy Springs, Ari., and rifled the contents of a private express box. It is thought that the booty was light. Sydney Miller, the 7-year-old grandson of ex-l’nited States Attorney General Aliller, was kidnaped by his mother in Indianapolis, but was found at Lawrence, Ind., and taken buck to Indiuna polis. In Los Angeles, Cal., John W. Tinsley shot and killed his wife, Anna P, Tinsley, on the street and then fired a bullet into his own head, dying instantly. Trouble over money matters caused the double tragedy. In a fit of jealous rage Atnrtin Terpel, 48 years old, of Cleveland, fatally stablied his wife Caroline, aged 3S years, and his son Matthew, aged 1(5 years. Then he shot himself through the heart, dying instantly. Hnmma Divinity Hall, on the Wittenberg College grounds at Springfield, Ohio, burned to the ground. It wits occupied by the theological seminary. The loss on the building will be about $20,000, covered by insurance. In a runaway about three miles above Ouray, Colo., the Red Alountaiu stage was overturned and six passengers were thrown over a cliff about seventy feet iu height. Airs. R. 8. Hickey, a passenger, received perhaps fatal injuries. Stonewall J. Do France, a noted forger, who was sent to the State’s prison at Jackson, Alieh., from Kalamazoo County in 1891 for eleven years for defrauding a Kalamazoo bank of several thousand dollars, has been paroled by Gov. Filigree. J. O. Naylor has been appointed receiver for the American Marbles Company, which has been running übout two months in Steubenville, Ohio. It is the only factory of the kind in the United States, the product being glass marbles. 1 lie three children of L. Lnvery—n daughter aged J yours, a sou aged 2 and > (l-months-old infant—were burned to j dentil near Olympin, Wash. The parents were temporarily absent, leaving a hired man at work cutting wood about 200 yards from the house. IA franchise was granted by the county commissioners at Columbus, Ohio, to the Columbus, Winchester and I/nneaster Tractiou Company, which will build an eleetrie road from Columbus to I/tiucaster, paralleling the Columbus, Hocking Valley aud Toledo Railroad. I Fire at North Amherst, Ohio, caused

about $25,000 damage. The following are the losses: H. A. Plato, dry goods, $12,000; William Boarduiau, groceries and crockery, $4,000; H. Goardman, saloon, $2,000; John Brown, harness, sl,000; Methodist Church, $3,000. Ypsilanti Smith, an aged hermit, died a few days ago in.his. but six miles west of St. Paris, Ohio. It was supposed that he was poor. Later $45,000 in government bonds as found in an old chest in his cabin. The coupons had not beeu torn off these bonds'for thirty years. Gotlieb Stacker and liis family, moving from Stillwater, O. T.f to Roger Mills County, Kansas, were 'caught while asleep in their wagon in n prairie fire. A 17-months-old baby was roasted to death and a hoy, a young woman and the mother were so badly burned they will die. Two frightful elevator accidcuts occurred ju Cleveland within five minutes in buildings only a short distance from each other. Sydney Hamm of London, Ont., stepped into an open shaft and fell six stories and Ralph Spellman, aged 10, fell nine stories. Botli were instantly killed. Some unnamed millionaire has notified the Rev. John S. Rutledge, pastor of the Gleuviile, Ohio, Methodist Church, that he can have unlimited credit for the relief of the poor people of Gleuviile. The gift is free from conditions, except that the giver’s name shall not be allowed to become known. :x_ _ .(, _l_ Mystery shrojtds the shooting of William It. Smy t lie, secret ary of the Masonic grand lodge of the State of Indiana, which occurred in Mr. Smythe’s office in Masonic Temple in Indianapolis. Mr. Smythe’s story is thut a woman did the shooting, but the police have been unable to find any trace of her. Abraham Johnston and wife, both over 80 years old, were bound, tortured and robbed about .midnight at their home, a short distance below Marietta, Ohio, on the West Virginia side. Their assailant, a gigantic negro, gained entrance to the house stealthily. After securing all the valuables he left his victims still bound. Miss Mary Kennedy, 55 years old, was burned to death in a fire which attacked her boarding house at 224 West Monroe street, Chicago. Her body was burned to n crisp. Firemen who attempted to save her found the door leading into the rear bedroom which she occupied, locked. They broke it down, but too late to effect a rescue. A mail pouch containing SIOO,OOO in negotiable paper and an unknown amount of money was stolen from the Wyandotte, Mich., Michigan Central Railroad passenger station the other night. The last mail for Wyandotte arrives at 10:28 on the Michigan Central, and, owing to thp lateness of the hour, it is left in the station until morning. Three burglars subjected Mrs. Albert Kern of Blue Island, 111., to fearful torture before she would reveal the hiding place of SSO, of which they were in search. After she had finally submitted to the robbers the woman was bound and gagged and left senseless in her room, where she was found by her husband. The thieves Airs. Kern is the wife of a eigarmaker who Is reputed to have saved considerable money nnd secreted it about the house in which lie lives. In a letter written from the Philippines to his folks in West Superior, Wis., in November, Captain Harry W. Newton says that the encroachments of the natives were worse than they had been at aiiy time during the year previous. As one instance of their ferocity lie xvrites: "Just the other day they jumped a detachment of our Twenty-fourth, numbering twenty-two men, and captured sixteen of them. One was found terribly mutilated, showing signs of being skinned while yet alive.” A prominent railway official at, Alaningordo, N. M., received a box of fifty gems closely resembling and alleged to be diamonds, found near Capitan, the coal camp on the line of the El Paso nnd Northeastern Railway Company,' eighty miles north of there. The stones were found by J. J. Blow, formerly associated with the Doßeers Consolidated Company at Kimberley, South Africa, who has been secretly investigating the field for the last month, and a letter from him accompanying the shipment says they are either diamonds or something so closely resembling the gem that they deceive him. Mrs. Carrie Nation, president of the W. C. T. U. of Barber County, Kansas, wrecked the finest saloon in Wichita, and that night she occupied a cell in the county jail on charges of having maliciously destroyed property.' The attack on the saloon is said to be first of a proposed general outbreak of the prohibitionists of the Stnte against the illegal licensing of “joints.” When Gov. Stanley was appealed to to aid Mrs. Nation he refused to have anything to do with her ease. This has aroused great indignation among the church people, and a serious outcome from the episode is expected.

SOUTHERN.

George Fuller, n negro, accused of burning a barn, was lynched by a mob near Marion, Ga. News has been received of the death of A. H. Fierce, the famous millionaire stockman of Fierce, Texas, best known as “Shanghai” Pierce. At Buena Vista, N. C., Mrs. Jennie V. Burger seriously if uot fatally wounded her husband, filing five times at him with a revolver. A family quarrel is supposed to liuve been the cause. Train No. 44 on tho Henderson road was wrecked two miles east of Henderson, Ky., nnd five persons seriously injured. A coupling pin placed in a switch frog caused the wreck. As the result of a dynamite explosion at Baker camp, near Durbin, W. Vn., six men are dead and several others are not expected to live. Some dynamite hud been placed about the stove to thaw out. Frank Davis, Buck Chndwoll, Estepp Alorgan and Richard Davis fell out nt a dance nt Walnut Hill, near Aiiddlesboro, Ivy., nnd a pitched battle ensued. Fifty shots were fired. Frank Davis was killed, Alorgan and* Dick Diivis were mortully wounded and Chadwell wus slightly wounded.

FOREIGN.

I’opc h«s extended the jubilee year for six months, Home being excepted. . Twelve men were drowned by the sinking of n Japanese government dredge. W. D. Coleman, president of Liberia,

has resigned,, G. W, Gibson succeeding him. Minister of War Andree accuses French nationalists of betraying awy secrets. a Pvoker has been summoned before the B.i'isa tax commission,' but has started for tiie continent. Martial law has been proclaimed in the Dutch district of Beaufort West nud Carnarvon, Cape Colony. Mail advices from Barbadoos report that incendiarism is rampant there. Thirteen cane fields and house premises were burned during one week. The steamer Rio Jun Marti brings news that the Japanese training ship Tsukishima Mailt has been lost with all hands, numbering 121, near Namadzu, Japan. Gen. Botha's forces have dealt the British another serious blow in the eastern Transvaal. An entire garrison has just been completely routed at Helvetia, with the loss of 50 killed and wounded and 250 taken prisoners. Olio of the most serious tires whieh have occurred in the east end of Loudon during the last ten years broke out- at the East India docks. Five immense sheds filled with goods, including a thousand bales of liemp and quantities of jute, were consumed. A panic occurred in the Grand Theater at Islington, London, England, in the midst of a matinee. In some manner the tinsel drapery of the scenery ignited and burst into flames and smoke. Instantly therc was a rush for the doors, and many persons were trampled and seriously hurt. Dreyfus lias written to the premier, AI. Waideck-Rousseau, classing as another falsehood the recent statement of AI. Henri Rochefort in the Intramjigeant that he (Dreyfus) had sent to Emperor William of Germany, in 1894, a letter stolen from the German embassy at Faris, aud asking for another official inquiry.

IN GENERAL.

Will of Andree, the missing explorer, has been opened. E. B. Baldwin has bought the whaling ship Esquimaux for his arctic exploratiomis. A team of fine conch itorses purchased for President McKinley by an agent have been shipped from Fairlawn, Ohio. They are perfectly matched bays, with black pohits, 1(5% hands high aud weighing 1,250 pounds each. The failure of the well-known banking firm of Francisco Martinez Negrete & Sons of Guadalajara has created a sensation in Mexico- City, where the firm has for many years been identified with its business developments. The liabilities are $2,300,000. A mild sensation has been caused in New Westminster, B. C., by the discovery of $12.50 in coarse gold as big as flaxseed in the crop of a wild goose, which was killed at Pitt Lake. Many prospectors have started for the scene of the supposed gold placers. With the dawning of the new century Canada saw’ an end put .to The lotteries which have disgraced the country for several years. By a Jaw passed at the last session of parliament these lotteries were made illegal, and the new law went in force on Jan. 1, 1901. A plan of recruiting sailors for the L T nited States navy from the farms and the country towns is now under consideration at the Navy Department. The recruiting now is carried on outside of the large cities, but it has not reached the interior sections remote from large centers. Bradstreet’s says: “A fitting close to* a year of exceptional and in some respects unprecedented activity is furnished by the very general report of large holiday business in the last week. Speculation in cereals has been light aud increases in supplies and large surplus reports from Argentina have still further depressed the long interest in wheat. The corn crop is the fourth largest in our history and oats is next to the largest ever know-n. Prices, as a rule, are steady and changes are few. Wheat, including flour, shipments-for the week aggregate 4,011,105 bushels, against 4,123,350 last week and 3,010,557 bushels iu the corresponding week of 1899. Corn exports aggregate 3,808,105 bushels, against 5,405,578 last week, and 3,220,259 in this week a year ago. Business failures in the United States for the week number only 213, as against 202 last week and 220 in this week a year ago. Canadian failures number 15, against 28 last week and 22 in this week a year ago.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.30; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.87; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2,35 cto 3<ic; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye. No. 2,40 cto 47c:; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 21c; potatoes, 43c to 48c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $4.95; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No, 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 80c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. St. Ijouis-Cattle, $3.25 to $5.45; hogs, $3.00 to $1.80; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,09 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 85c; oats, No. 2,22 cto 23c; rye, No 2,48 cto 49c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.90; hogs, $3.00 to $3.07; sheep, $3.00 to $3.45; wheat. No. 2. 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. Detroit-Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $1.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.73; wheat. No. 2,75 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 51c to 52c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 74c to 70c: ban, No. 2 mixed. 33c to 3(le; oats, No. 2 mixed. 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,30 c to 51c; clover seed, prime, SO.OO to $0.40. Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern, 70c to 71c; corn. No. 3. 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c td 20c; rye, No. 1,50 c to 51c; barley, No. 2,59 cto 00c; pork, mess. $10.50 to $11.15. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3 00 to $5.40; hogs, fair to prime, $3!00 to $5.10; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.30; lamlis, common to extra, $4.00 to $5.50 • New York- Cattle, $3.25 to $3.40; hogs, $3.00 to $5.40; sheep, $3.00 to $3.80; wheat, No. 2 led, 75c to 70c; corn, No. 2, 41c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; butter, creamery, 24c to 25c; eggs, western, 23c to 24c.

NININGER SAGE DEAD

THE HON. IGNATIUS DONNELLY PASSES AWAY. Author of Bhakejpeare Cryptogram, Populist Candidate for Vice President, Prominent in Minnesota for Years, Expires Suddenly. Ignatius Donnelly, politician, author, sage, aged 70, died early' Wednesday morning. The eminent Alinneapolitan

was taken suddenly ill the p r e v i o u s night while visiting at tjja home of his, father-ip-law. Barton llmisrouvTn that city. From the first Air. .Donnelly sank steadily and soon 1) e c a ui e unconscious. Dr. Alurphy was summoned, mid when an

IGNATIUS DONNELLY.

rived the sick man was still unconscious. The doctor pronounced it heart failure and stated early in the evening that there was little chance of the patient’s recovery. Air. Donnelly passed away surrounded by a number of his relatives, who from the first had understood that he could not live. He died without regaining consciousness. Ignatius Donnelly, known as “the sage of Nininger,” was conspicuous in the political and literary field for many years. He came to Alinnesota thirty-five years ago and since thut time had been a member of both houses of the State Legislature and represented his district in Congress. He had pronounced ideas, and during his political career had been a member of nearly every political party known in the State. For the last few years he had been bitterly opposed to the policy of the Democratic party and at the last general election he was a candidate for Vice-President on the middleroad Populist ticket. Iu 189(5 lie was candidate for Vice-President on the Populist ticket. Ignatius- Donnelly was l>oi;n Nov. 4. 1831, in Philadelphia. He was educated for a lawyer, blit changed from law to polities and from polities to literature, and then combined politics and literature. Formerly a Republican, he drifted into the Democratic ranks, and, having certain bucolic tastes, became a eonvert to the Farmers’ Alliance doctrines. During the war he was Governor of Alinnesota, aud was later Lieutenant Governor for four years, and afterward represented his district of Minnesota in the House of Representatives for six years. It was in 1882 Air. Donnelly began unraveling the mystery of the Baconian cipher in the dramas of Shakspeare. He owned a photographic copy of the earliest folio edition of Shakspeare’s plays, and in his charming home near Hastings, Minn., he pored over the leaves and discovered that William Shakspeare was “a fraud.” Air. Donnelly’s home was built while Minnesota was yet a territory, and in it Mr. Donnelly surrounded himself with books. His first wife died about 1894, three sons nud two daughters surviving her. In 1898 Air. Donnelly married Alarion Olive Hanson, his typewriter, who was born *-’eb. 9. 1877, in Eidwold, near Christiana. Norway. — Air. Donnelly was a quiet, unassuming man and splendidly educated. His first literary work was “Atlantis,” considered one of the boldest and most original works that had ever appeared.

BIRTH OF FEDERATION.

Last Step in Union of British Australian Colonies. The Earl of Hopetoun was sworn in at Sydney, N. S. W., as first governor of the federated Australian colonies amidst scenes of pageantry such as never before had been attempted iu the antipodes. Scores of thousands of people participated iu the demonstration and general joy marked the occasion. The rejoicing pf the commonwealth was intensified by a message, which Queen Victoria sent through the colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, and which was read by the Earl of Hopetoun, as follows: “The queen commands me to express through you to the people of Australia her majesty’s heartfelt interest in the inauguration of the commonwealth and her earnest wish that under divine providence it mny insure increased prosperity and well-being to her loyal and beloved subjects in Australia.” After his commission had been read the Earl of Hopetoun took the oath of office and signed it at a table which had been presented by the queen. A salute of twenty-one guns, the playing of the national anthem liy the massed bands and rousing cheers re-echoing among the hills accompanied this act. The signature and swearing in of the first federal ministers followed.

Sparks from the Wires.

Frank Koutch, 7, Delphos, 0., drowned while skating. Spain’s bill for increasing the navy was defeated in the chamber. Gov. Beckham's pluiVlity, as officially announced at Frankfort, Ky., is 3,089. Canadian royalty returns indicate the Kloifdike output this year was only $9,000,000. Jail prisoners in Oswego County, N. Y„ are to be employed iu the improvement of county highways. In ninety years the Spanish-speaking people of the world have increased from 20,190,000 to 42,800,000. A launch used by Napoleon and other historical relics were destroyed by a fire in the Cherbourg arsenal. Henry Segob New York, wrapped his 10-months-old babe iu rags, dropped it in a vacaut lot and started to run away. Arrested. President McKinley sent S3O to the fund for the victims of the Saxton block fire at Canton. Mrs. McKinley wus interested ns an heir in the block. Frank Smith, the Brooklyn district messenger who carried the greeting of American school boys to President Kru ger, was arrested for throwing a stone through a show ettse. Out in Kansas they are still paying claims for damages sustained iu the celebrated Qnautrell raid. Up to the present time $391,045.'45 has been paid. The unpaid outstanding claims amount t« $75,042.35.

One Note Within Reach.

“Speaking of singing,” exclaimed the nightingale sneeringly, “of what earthly use are you? You couldn’t touch a high note in a thousand years.” “Oh, I don’t know,” replied the bird Bf paradise, “I’m likely to be embalmed on a bonnet some day and then I’ll make a SSO note book like 30 cents.”— Standard and Times.

MR. AYERS NOT DEAD.

Very Mnch Alive and Ont with a Letter Tel In x How He Was Saved,} Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 31, 1900. (Special.)—Few who knew how ill Mr. A. E. Ayers of this city had been with Bright's Disease and Diabetes ever expected he could live. Four doctors gave him but three or four days to live. He recovered through the prompt and continued use of a well-known remedy and has given the following letter for publication. It Is dated at Bath, N. Y,, where Mr. Ayers now resides; Soldiers aud Sailors' Home, Bath. N. Y. Dodds Aledicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Dear Sirs:— I wish to tell yop what Dodd’s Kidney Pills have done for me. As far aa I am concerned they are the best In the world, for they not only saved my life, but they have given me new life and hope. I lived In Alinneapolis for fortynine years, and am well known there by many people. I suffered severely with Bright’s Disease and Diabetes. Four well-known physicians gave mo up to die. In fact, they gave me only three or four days at the longest to live. I had spent nearly everything I had In the effort to save my life, bnt seeing an advertisement of Dodd’s Kidney Pills, I scraped what was nearly my last half dollar, sent to the drug store and bought a box. I bad very little hope of anything ever doing me any good, as from what the four doctors had told me, it was now a matter of hours with me. I commenced to take the Pilte, and from the very first they helped me. I took in all about forty boxes. I doubtless did not need 60 many, but I wanted to make sure, and after all, $20.00 is a small amount of money to remove tW sentence of death and save one’s life. I have since recommended Dodd's Kidney Pills to hundreds of people, and I have yet to bear of the first one that did not find them all that you claim for them. I can remember of two people to whom I had recommended Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and who afterwards said to me that they received no benefit. I asked to see their Pill boxes, and behold. Instead of Dodd’s Kidney Pills, It was 's Kidney Pills, an Imitation of the genuine Dodd's, and not the real thing at all that they had been using. I gave each of them an empty pill box that Dodd’s Kidney Pills had been put up iu, so that they could make no more mistakes, nndl they afterwards came to me aud told me that they had bought and used the genuine Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and were cured. I still continue to use the Pills off and on, and would not be without them If they were $50.00 a box, I think that every old gentleman in the world would be healthier and better if he would take one after each meal. I wish I could think of words strong enough to express to you my gratitude for what your Medicine has done for me. It is uot often, I suppose, that a man who Is staring death right In the face, is permitted to live aud tell of the means whieh saved him, %nd ae that is my position, my heart is overwhelmed with thankfulness to God for His mercy to me in permitting me to see the advertisement of Dodd’s Kidney Pills, when it seemed that I was beyond all earthly power to save, that I cannot express my real feelings. If anyone doubts the statement I have made, they may write to me, and I will try and prove to them that all I have said In this letter Is true, gnd more than true. There are hundreds of people in Minneapolis who know all about my case and the way Dodd's /Kidney Pills pulled me through, when I had been given up by the four doctors, of Bright’s Disease nnd Diabetes, and had practically lost all hope. You are at liberty to publish this testimonial which I give you from the bottom of my heart, and I sincerely wish that ,1 could find the right words to express my feelings of gratitude to you and to Dodd’s Kidney Pills, for my restoration to life and health. (Signed) A. E. AYERS, Late of Minneapolis, now at Soldiers and Sailors’ Home, Bath, N. Y. Mr. Ayers Is only one of thousands of aged gentlemen who say that their lives have been prolonged and their declining years made worth living by tha use of Dodd’s Kidney Pills.

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