Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — Page 6

■JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. KcNSSELAER, - IKCIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

ih : . Dr. W. B. Swan of the Kansas Board ' Of Health reports 2(17 cases of smallpox F® the State. “’Hie type of the disease 'is more severe than it was last winter," Itho doctor says, “and I think there will ; roe a considerably larger number of fa- | realities.” ■' W. Horace Wright, journalist, lawyer {■nd leader among the forces of the Roylalist party in Hawaii, committed suicide [by taking carbolic acid, He was found ■Mead one morning in his editorial chair I an the office of the Independent, of which ■' the was associate editor. K At the first annual meeting of the New [York Zoological Society Director Horn* jftday stated that during his recent west tern trip to secure animals for the garden la specimen of the skin of what proved Ito be an entirely new species of moun|tain sheep was sent to him from Dawaou |City. I Five persons were seriously hurt in a |rjcbHisi<m at the junction of the Lehigh ■Valley and Long Branch railroads at ' (Perth Amboy, N. J., between an engine •of the I/thigh Valley, running light, and |a Long Branch train. The engineers of {both locomotives attempted to make the (crossing at the same time. ' The body of Charles A. Shedd, the 18-ijear-old son of William J. Shedd of Chi ;cago, general manager of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, was discovered in ta corner of the football green in Washington Park, A bullet bole was over his (right eye and his right hand was clutchdng a half-emptied revolver. No cause for the suicide is known. " The Paris Figaro in a special dispatch . describes a voyage of two hours in the “ .submarine boat Morse during the trials |«t Cherbourg. “In less than two minutes," says the correspondent, “the ves ~ eel reached a depth of eighteen ft-yr, ; when she performed her evolutions with ease and perfect safety. The problem of the supply of air has been solved •satisfactorily and the crew were able to Temaiu submerged for sixteen hours with out fatigue of the lungs." >' From Union Springs, Ala., it is learned that N. H. Frazer, tax collector of Bulloch County, has received a letter dated Memphis, from men claiming to have •kidnaped Frazer’s IR-ycar-obl soti, Bass, in Atlanta. They demand a ransom. The letter contained young Frazer’s alleged signature as proof of the claim. Frazer was a student in the Technological school at Atlanta and it is learned has not been seen there in several days. The kidnapers asserted they were on their way to Kansas City, whence further negotiations would be conducted. At Standing Rock Indian agency. near Yankton. S. D., an Indian found a tank of gasoline on the bank of the Missouri river ami. supposing it to be kerosene, I took It home for burning in lamps. There I being more of it than he needed for his own use, lie passed it around among bis | red friends. At the time the accident f occurred an Indian had called for some ond to ascertain how much there was in the tank a lighted match was held down Jnto it. The explosion which followed ; resulted in the death of eight of the nine persons who were in the house and the cremation of their bodies in the fire Which resulted ami entirely consumed [the building.

NEWS NUGGETS.

A Colorado and Southern train was eaught by a snowslide at the Alpine tunnel and snow-bound for several hours. Four lives were lost in n tire which broke out in the cellar of the fire-story tenement house, 57 East 113th street, New York. “Kid” McCoy and his divorced wife were remarried in Boston. They met vn a train from New York and a reconciliation was effected by friends. Gates Milla, Ohio, is cut off from communication from the outside wot Id feecause of an epidemic of small pox. | The number of cases is about forty. H* Captain George A. Converse has been Selected to command the new battleship Illinois, which is now undergoing its tin Sshing touches at the Newport News yards. Captain C. W. King. V. S. A., in charge of government work at Fort Mor yan, Ala., has been arrested on the charge of accepting a bribe from a coni'' Praetor. Harry K. Deer, messenger and assist- | a»i bookkeeper of the Farmers and Mechanics’ Bank of Sharpsburg, Pa., is missing. It is alleged that his accounts I are abort. Dozen- of trains are snowed up on the southern railways of Russia, ami some •re completely buried. Ten thousand lafeorcr* were dispatched to dear the ■ tracks. Several Russian steamers are | BBissi ng. K Caleb G. Jesse, convicted last Febru•ry of abooting and killing Frank Griffin, editor of Griffin's Marysville, Mo., Re- , view, and sentenced to two years in the I yenitentiary, ha* been pardoned by Got. Stephens. |L “I Bin going to shoot you, mnmmii." Slayfully said the G-year-ohl son of Mrs. ohn W. Pennington, residing near GraI Sam. Ga. The report of a pistol was | (heard and the mother fell to the floor Mortally wounded. ■ An engine running light struck a ' freight train on the Monongahela River ' division of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail iroad at Anderson, W. Vn.. and the co] 6 (Halon resul'cd In the death of six men _<mi. D*-. Serious injury of two others. A Frank Welch, the pugilist, died nt Eas ten. Pa., from the effects of his tight <nt - (Cedar Park, Phillipsburg, N. J„ with (Paddy Donovan. | Justices Paynter and Guffv of the ■Kentucky Court of Appeals drew lots to determine which should take the place (vacated by Chief Justice llnzelrigg. Jus ■ nice Paynter was snecessful. * Judge Butler of Denver, Colo., fined itbe members of the Board of County Mffewrmlasloin iH $250 each for violating n ; (court order by forbidding the sheriff to appoint deputies to guard the polls co Section day. ..

EASTERN.

British schooner Lillie was lost on the coast off Orleans, Mass., but the crew ear caped. The certificate of incorporation of the Von Wagner Company of Cleveland, O'., capital $750,000,, has been filed at Dover, Del. A trust has been formed to control nearly all of the slate output of the famous Pen Argyl and Bangor quarries in Pennsylvania. 2 ' At least a score of children are dead as the result of a fire that destroyed the hospital section of the Rochester, N. Y;, Orphan Asylum. Seventy-five per cent of the striking structural steel workers of Pittsburg will resume work, several firms having acceded to their demands. Wells-Fargo express, No. 14, on the Erie Railroad, struck a wagon at Meadville, Pa., killing the occupants, A. J. Holland and Charles Seeley, The residents of' the prohibition State of Maine last year legally consumed 11,955 gallons of liquor, according to the reptirUof the State Liquor CouHnissimier. Arthur Westbrook, 35 years old, a lawyer of Kingston, N. Y., died at the Roosevelt hospital, New York, from heart disease resulting from an overdose of trional. _£L_ A. . NotL faaudtJL .Xaill . E d gli r G. Gould, proprietors of the Butterfield House at Utica, N. Y., have filed petitions in bankruptcy, scheduling liabilities of $77,205. Edwin L. Horseman, wholesale and retail dealer in toys, kites, etc., of New York, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities reported at $1841,000 and assets $172,000. The Glasgow Manufacturing Company, which operates a cotton mill at South Hadley, Mass., has been placed in the hands of a receiver. The liabilities are about SIOO,OOO. An explosion of natural gas at Coffeyvill e, rn., th a idenio 11 sh cd Thc troine of A. M. George seriously injured George and his wife and fatally hurt -William Coons, an elderly man. Sylvanos Grace, living at Newport, N. J., in an angry mood picked Up his child and it il own on~if li of stVive, btirifing it in a horrible manner. Not satisfied with this, he bit a hole through the child’s In Buffalo .the Holland and Howard buildings, six story structures devoted to light manufaeturing~and mercantile business, with their contents, were damaged by tire and water to the extent of $130,OtMl. Because the Elk 14111 Coal and Iron Company, Scranton, I’a., refused to give a driver boy the rate of wages to which he claimed ho was entitled the SOO employes of the company went out on a strike. The big task of moving the United States mint from its present site at Juniper and Chestnut streets. Philadelphia, to the magnificent new building at Sixteenth and Spring Garden streets has been begun. Engineer E. McMaster was killed, Fire_man Patrick-Squire fatally injured and Superintendent John Miller quite seriously hurt by the explosion of a freight locomotive on the McGees and Newtonburg lumber road in Clearfield County, Pa. The failure ot the Dingley Woolen Mills Company was announced in Philadelphia. Its affairs were so mixed up w ith those of George Campbell of shoddy blanket notoriety that it waa found necessary to place the mills in the hands of a receiver.

WESTERN.

The Olympian games of the olympiad year 1904 will be held in the city of Chicago. Stephen M. Hollos of-Greenville, Mo., committed suicide because of domestic troubles. Henry Dyres, aged 17, was shot and killed by Mrs. Sevose, a Frenchwoman, at Fleming, Kan. In the Colorado Legislature a bill was introduced providing for the restoration of capital punishment. Eight men were suffocated in a fire that broke ouj at night in the Harvard lodging house at Minneapolis, Minn. Philip D. Armour, the noted Chicago packer, died of a heart affection after Buffering several weeks with pneumonia. A rubber manufacturing company with a capital of $1,0*10,000 soon will be established in Chicago to tight the rubber trust. Announcement is made that Mrs. R. C. Kerens of St. Louis will build a charity hospital at Eureka Springs, Ark., to cost $50,000. A mail sack containing registered letters and valuable packages was stolen from the Valley Railroad depot at East Akron, Ohio. Peter Fossett (colored), who was the body servant of Thomas Jefferson, died in Cincinnati. He was born at Monticello, Va., in 1815, A train on the Nevada, California and Oregon Railway, north of Reno, Nev., was blown from the tracks. Several passengers were injured. Daughter of a Minneapolis merchant was married while ill with smallpox, the service being read through u window of the isolation hospital. The Armour Packing Company of Kansas City has purchased 25,000 tons of common salt in Portugal, the price being less than In this country. John Drinkcorn, a well-to-do ranchman. was killed ami his companion, named Toby Cross, fatally injured in a run away accident at Cody, Wyo. Charles Lee pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter in the killing of Grant Arnett, nt Seneca, Mo., and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. Thirty-five Scandinavian* have been brought from Castle Garden to "Gen." J. R. Covey's colony, north of Massillon, Ohio. They w ill be employed in Coxey’s quarries. The.steamer Inqtta went ashore on a reef near Han Francisco ami is a total loss. Fourteen of her crew and her one passenger were rescued, One sailor was drew tied. Walter A. Weinstock, aged 20 years, assaulted Miss Nellie Morris at Hackney, Ohio, and cut her with a razor. Rhe died a few hour* inter. Weinstock was seized •nd bound. To avenge bi* sister'* wrong. William Barry, a wealthy fanner not far from

Milton, N. D., kflied his hired man, Andrew Mellen, and then surrendered himself to the authorities. John Yates, aged 40 years, and his son, aged 18 years, miners, were burned to death in their cabin near McQueen’s run, in Ohio. The fire was caused by an explosion of a can of giant powder. Bishop W. X. Ninde, one of the oldest and most prominent bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church and president of the Epworth League, died suddenly at his home in Detroit, of heart disease. Three hold-up men killed Herman Seatin in his saloon at Snyder,.Neb,, because he refused to bold up his hands, and then escaped after a running tight, in which one of the robbers was wounded. Jessie E. Clarke, whose stage name was Violet Creegan, was found dead in her room nt a Chillicothe, Mo., hotel. Death resulted from the use of ether, be-lievcd-to have been taken to relieve headache. The Northern Ohio' - Electric Railroad Company has tiled articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State of Ohio. The company will build a line from Defiance to Bryan, Ohio. The capital stock is $25,000. The Stuttgart and Arkansas River Railroad, running from Stuttgart to Gillett, a distance of forty miles, was sold at public auction at Pine Bluff, Ark. The Cotton Belt road was the purchaser, giving $40,050. Over 300 employes of the New Eastern Ohio Window Glass Factory at Barnesville, Qhio, have gone on a strike. They complain of the quality of glass produced and refuse to work longer unless there is an improvement. Mrs. J. F. Jacobson, a resident of Kerkhoven township, Minn., hanged herself in the barn and was not found until life was extinct. Iler son died three months ago, since when she had mourned and wept continually. George Krupt, a clerk in the Portland, Ore., postoffice, was shot three times and killed by a footpad. Krupt was on his way home and it is supposed that when ordered to throw up his hands he resisted. The murderer escaped. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, has received -informal itm_-from- secret . .sources.. in the Philippines to the effect that Aguinaldo is dead, and that his death occurred no less than six weeks ago. Richard Novack. 15 years old, who was recently convicted of kitting hrs playmate, Albert Olson, in Chicago, was sentenced to one year in the Pontiac reform school. Novack is said to be the youngest person ever convicted of homicide in Illinois. A. Reinheimer, a millionaire merchant tailor of Cleveland, died in terrible agony, the result of the prick of a pin. Three of Cleveland’s most prominent physicians did everything in their power to save his life, but the merchant died of blood poisoning. Mrs. Rachel A. Moores, a wealthy woftian of Texarkana, has just found $2,BUO in gold which was buried by her husband, Col. David N. Moores, in 18(1(1, on his plantation near there. Mrs. Moores says she located the treasure through a dream. Gov. Stevens of Missouri has pardoned Maude Lewis, who was sent to the penitentiary for the murder of State Senator Pete Morrissey of St. Louis. There was a petition on tile in the Governor’s office contaiiring 10,000 names of people in St. Louis and- Chicago. Mrs. Mary E. Lease, of Wichita, Kan., has changed her mind about suing her husband, Charles Learfb, for divorce. Reconcilation was brought about by their children. Mrs. Lease will shortly return to Wichita, quit politics and settle down to domestic life. Omaha is to have a new auditorium, with a capacity of seating 10,000 people. The auditorium company has concluded a deal for the purchase of a block on Howard street, between 14th and 15th streets, for a consideration of $55,000. The structure will cost $200,000. The town of Syracuse, Ind., suffered loss by fire of an entire block of business buildings. The loss is estimated between $25,060 and $30,000, with but $5,000 insurance. Syracuse has no protection against fire. A bucket brigade worked six hours to keep the flames from spreading. A Chicago Great Western passenger train was wrecked near Sargent, Minn. Two engines were pulling eight cars thirty five miles an hour and the second engine struck a defective rail and was overturned/with the baggage car. The latter was burned. Three men were injured. President A. M. Fowler of the Ray County Bank of Richmond, Mo., announced that John W. Shotwell, cashier of the bank, has been missing for several days. He added that stockholders had subscribed $21,000 to meet any shortage that may be found in the accounts of the bank.

SOUTHERN.

A bill for a receiver for the American Building and Loan Association has been filed in the United State* Court at Atlanta, Ga. Frank J. Leland, a handle manufacturer of Tennessee and Alabama, filed a petition in bankruptcy at Knoxville with liabilities of $74,000, asset* $29,000. Two carloads of negroes left Montgomery, Ala., for the Hawaiian Islands via Hau Francisco. They go to take employ ment on the sugar plantations there. The government is making preparation* for rehabilitating the forest on the reservation embracing the ChickamaugaChattanooga National Military park. Ben Perry and Guy Smith, negro murderers, were hanged nt St. Joseph, La. William McCulloch, white, was hanged at Woodville, Miss., and Will Kirby, a negro, at Vicksburg, fur murder. , Dr. W. K. Clark was found guilty at Dixon. Ky., of causing the death of Miss Corn Waller, by malpractice, and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. At the time of the girl's death Thomas Holt, her fiance, killed himself. * The Galveston, Texas, factory of the National Biscuit Company and a grain conditioning eleyntor belonging to Joekitsch,' Davidson & Co. were destroyed by fire. The tire originated In the cracker factory. The loss is SOO,OOO, partly covered by insurance. After enduring great suffering from w ant, the 1.500 striking employes of the Ixiuisville stemmcry of the Continental Tobacco Company decided to go back to work. They will nnt ret the increased

wages asked for, but their other demands were granted by the management. George Reed, a negro charged with attempting to assault Mrs. J. M. Locklear of Rome, Ga. t was banged to a tree. His body was then riddled with bullets by a mob of 150 men. Reed protested his innocence. After his arrest the negro was taken before Mrs. Locklear, but she failed to identify him. He was freed, but was afterward taken by the mob.

FOREIGN.

Herr Krupp has given 1,500,000 marks to workingmen’s charities. London Daily News has been purchased by a syndicate of Radicals. Thirty-two Poles of Warsaw have been sent to Siberia on charges of treason. Manchuria has become a Russian protectorate under a new agreement with China. Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin has left Holland in anger over opposition to his marriage to Queen Wilhelmina. The reports of an outbreak of the plague at Vladivostok are confirmed. There have been nineteen cases, of which fifteen were fatal. It is reported that robbers recently attacked the customs station at Kumchuk, in the West River country of China, and obtained loot valued at SB,OOO. Gen. Viljoen is conducting a campaign of mine destruction in the north of Cape Colony. He has destroyed with dynamite British property valued at $250,000. In the course of a serious affray near Ishtib originating in an attempt to arrest a number of Bulgarians suspected of being emissaries of the Macedonian committee, eight Turkish soldiers were killed.

IN GENERAL.

The new battleship Wisconsin was formally turned over to the government at the Union iron works, San Francisco,* and went under the Stars and Stripes. The modus vivendi in respect to the United States fishing vessels on the Atlantic coast has been renewed for another year, that is, for 1901, by the Canadian government by order in council. The decision of the Canadian government not to. be represented at the PanAmerican exposition at Buffalo has been reconsidered and the cabinet has made a grant for a building and an exhibit. The name that will most interest Americans in the list of New Year's honors is that of Hiram S. Maxim, the machinegun inventor and shipbuilder, upon whom knighthood is bestowed by Queen Victoria. John F. Miller, who was retired Jan. 1, under pension regulations, as general superintendent of the Panhandle Railroad, has been elected vice-president of the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus Railway Company. The battleship Illinois, sister of the Alabama, just turned out by Cramps, will go out on her builders' trial trip Feb. 13, according to the present arrangement. The completion of the Illinois has been considerably delayed by the failure to receive armor. A new plan to prevent travelers from disposing of unused parts of tickets to scalpers has been adopted by a number of railroads. I'n all station buildings along the Burlington system notices have been posted stating that the companywill redeem at full face value any part of an unused ticket reading over any line of the road. President Albert J. Earling of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway has sold his 20,000 shares of stock in the road, thereby confirming beyond question the report that the St. Paul road had been acquired by the Great Northern interests. The line has passed into the control of J. J. Hill, J. Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller. It thus becomes part of a great transcontinental system. Bradstreet’s says: "Cereals and provisions have advanced, while stocks have declined, but the upward movement has been one of those familiar of late, a short swing with small fluctuations, limited by feverish desire to bag profits. Railway earnings hold up well for the season, and the greatest dividend payments on record were reflected in the largest day’s bank clearings ever reported at New York. Wheat, including flour, shipments aggregate 3,914,301 bushels, against 3,868,105 last week. Corn exports aggregate 4,470,021 bushels, against 4.011.105 last week. Business failures for the week number 268 in the United States, against 213 last week and 488 in " 1897.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.95; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.40; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 78c; corn. No. 2,30 cto 37c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 21c to 22c; potatoes, 44c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.05; sheep, common to prime. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 24e to 25c. Ht. Lottie—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.35; hog*, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.35; wheat. No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn. No. 2, 35c tp 30c; oats, No. 2,22 cto 24c; rye. No. 2,49 cto 50c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.90; bog*, $3.00 to $5.15; sheep, $3.00 to $3.55; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 81c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 2(lc; rye, No. 2,54 c<o 55c. Detroit— Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.(»0 to $5.05; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00: wheat, No. 2,81 cto 82c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 52c to 53c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 78c to 8Oc; corn, No. 2 mixed. 37c to 38c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, SO.OO to $<1.50. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern. 74c to 75c; corn. No. 3,35 cto 80c; ont*. No. 2 white, 20c to 27c; rye, No. 1,53 c to 54c; barley, No. 2. 50c to 00c; pork, mess, sl2-00 to $13.75. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $(l 25. New York —Cattle, $3.25 to $5.55; hogs, $3.00 to $5.05; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 79c to 80c; corn. No. 2, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; butter, creamery, 24c to 25c; eggs, western, 20c U> 27c.

Congress.

When the House reassembled on Thursday after the holiday recess not more than Seventy-five men:bets were present. It had been arranged before the House met that the consideration of the reapportionment bill was to be entered upon at once, and the bill was taken up. As a matter ot privilege resolution was offered by Mr. Olmstead (Pa.) reciting the alleged abridgement of the right to vote in Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and North Carolina und instructing the committee on census to inquire into the subject and report the facts to the House. Motion to adjourn lost. Mr. Underwood (Ada.) raised question of consideration. On rising vote it stood yeas 69, nays 70. Yeas and nays ordered. The Speaker announced the vote 81 to consider the resolution, 83 against and 5 present but not voting— not a quorum. He directed call of the House, pending which Mr. Underwood again moved an adjournment, which was carried, 77 to 75. At the first session of the Senate in the twentieth century business was resumed without the appearance of a break in the continuity of the proceedings. The work was taken uj> just where it was off when Congress took a recess for the holidays. Notwithstanding the fact that the holidays had scarcely ended, the attendance at the opening session was notably large. President pro tempore Frye called the Senate to order. The time just before the session convened and just after was occupied by many Senators in the exchange of greetings. That was the only evidence that there had been a recess. The Senate without dissent displaced the shipping subsidy bill as "unfinished business” nnd substituted the army reorganization bill. The day was spent in discussion of the bill. On Friday the Senate passed the Lodge resolution declaring in favor ot prohibiting, hr treaty or otherwise, the sale of opium or intoxicants to uncivilized races or aboriginal tribes, und asking co operation of other nations in the movement. DevbtecTthe rdst of the day to debate on the army reorganization bill. The House, after prolonged debate on the Olmstead resolution to investigate abridgement of suffrage in certain Southern States, referred it to the census committee, which course was originally desired by its opponents. Discussion of the reapportionment bill was then taken up. The Senate devoted Saturday to the army reorganization bill, adopting all the committee amendments to which there was no objection. Mr. Pettigrew adopted filibustering tactics to delay legislation. In the House debate upon the reapportionment bill occupied the entire session. The Senate devoted Tuesday to debate on the army reorganization bill, killing by a vote of 43 to 5 the provision for a veterinary corps. In the House debate upon the rcapportionment bill occupied the day. In the Senate Tuesday was occupied by discussion of committee amendment restoring canteen provision in army reorganization bill. Araednment supported by Messrs. Sewell, Hawley, Money and Carter nnd opposed by Messrs. Gallinger and Hansbrougb. The arguments on each side were along the customary lines, opponents of the amendment asserting the conteen led to drunkenness, immorality and consequent lack of discipline, while its advocates declared the post exchange promoted discipline and good order in the army, as well ns reduced drunkenness to a minimum. The House by vote of 165 to 102 passed Burleigh rcapportionment bill, which increases House membership from 357 to 386. The Senate on Wednesday, by a vote of 34 to 15, concurred in House provision in army reorganization bill abolishing the army canteen. .Referred House reapportionment bill to committee on census. The House devoted the dny to consideration of river and harbor bill, but made little progress.

Not Too Many Women.

The census recently completed shows that the feminine population Is increasing at a rapid rate in the large cities and It is predicted that this country will presently be confronted by a problem that has worried foreign statisticians for some time—the preponderance of women. It is admitted that the women here have the advantage over their foreign sisters In that many fields of work are opened to them and they can also hold and dispose of property to an extent unknown on the other side. So that the American woman Is In a great measure economically independent of man, and thus does she escape some of the serious consequences that afflict the foreign woman. It seems a pity that anyone at this late day should fall to worrying about the superfluous woman myth. It is such an old, old story, and one that has times without number proven to be needlessly disturbing. As to the bogey of so many women, did it ever occur to the alarmist to attempt to figure bow many of these feminine over plus were widows who persist Imoutliving their husbands ten, twenty or even thirty years and spinsters of uncertain age? Statistics published about? ten years ago-showed that In London, where the woman population Is greatly In excess of the male, between the ages of 18 and 45 the men were In excess. The trouble appears lo be mainly with the women of 50 and over, who are ranch more persistent about holding on to life than are their contemporaries among men

Making Bacon.

It takes about fifteen bushels of grain and meal to fatten a large bacon pig.

Rice and Tobacco Consumption.

Japan is the largest consumer of rice In the world, the average being 300 pounds a person a year. The Americium use but four pounds per capita. Belgium uses more tobacco, in proportion. than nny other country, about 110 ounce* per capita yearly, while Italy u*<-* only twenty-two ounces.

Corinth Canal.

Thirteen million cubic yards of earth were removed In making the canal across the Isthmus of Corinth.

WHY MRS. PNIKHAM

b Able to Help Sick Women When Doctors Fail. How gladly would men fly to woman's aid did they but understand a' woman's feelings, trials, sensibilities, and peculiar organic disturbances. Those things are known only to women, and the aid a man would give is not at his command. To treat a case properly it is necessary to know all about it, and full information, many times, cannot be given by a woman to her family phy-

MRS. G. H. CHAPPELL.

sician. She cannot bring herself to tell everything, and the physician is at a constant disadvantage. This is why, for the past twenty-flve years, thousands of women have been confiding their troubles to Mrs. Pinkham, and whose advice has brought happiness and health to countless women in the United States. Mrs. Chappell, of Grant Park, IIL, whose portrait we publish, advises all Buffering Women to seek Mrs. Pinkham's advice and use Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, as they cured her of inflammation of the ovaries and womb ; she, therefore, speaks from knowledge, and her experience ought to give others confidence. Mrs. Pinkham's address is Lynn, Mass., and her advice is absolutely free.

Too Much.

Gusher—My wife has promised to wait for me at the gate of heaven, if she Is the first to go. Flasher—Tut, tut! You shouldn’t be bo revengeful as to make her wait through eternity simply because she made you wait while she fixed up sometimes.—Life. Drying preparations simply develop dry catarrh; they dry up the secretions which adhere to the membrane and decompose, causing a far more serious trouble than the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all drying inhalants, fumes, smokes and snuffs and use that which cleanses, soothes and heals. Ely’s Cream Balm is such a remedy and will curs catarrh or cold in the head easily and pleasantly. A trial size will be mailed for 10 cents. All druggists sell the 50c. size. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., N.Y. Ths Balm cures without pain, does not irritate or cause sneezing. It spreads itself over an irritated and angry surface, relieving immediately the painful inflammation. With Ely’s Cream Balm you are armed against Nasal Catarrh and Hay Fever.

Sufficient Reason.

Tess—Oh! She'll never marry him. * Jess—Why? Tess—Oh! It’s a case of extreme shyness. Jess—What? Nobody could ever consider her shy. Tess—No, but he’s extremely shy of money.—Philadelphia Press.

One Way to Settle It.

"I see that Mrs. Blifkins has negro help now.” "Has she?” “Yes; she got so tired of having people ask her if her hired girls were related to'the family.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Btatk or Ohio, City of Tolrdo. I Lucas County. f Frank J. Chknky makes oath that he ts the senior partnerof the firm of F. J.Chknky ACo., doing business In the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will t«y the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each •nd every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh C’Frk. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this 6tli day of December, A. D., 1886. L,. t I A. W. GLEASON. ] f Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O, IWSold by Druggists. 75c.

Cutting It Short.

"You can bet if I were nominated for President I wouldn't fool away my time writing a long letter of acceptance that nobody reads." "What would you say?” “Thanks; I'll run!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

BEST FOR THE BOWELS.

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