Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1901 — Page 2

-JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. "* ’g""-" ■' —*■ 1 —— !■ .iNSSfUEB, • - - IKCKK*.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Tlx' Lemurs. lowa, National Bunk lias closed iIH (lours, and Thomas 1 • ard, viceqiresiden-i and nuutugor of the institution, has Hod, leaving a shortage estimated al from S3<MHA> to $50,000. Ward left a sick \\ if«• and a baby boy a week old. Harold Crowley''of Lookpovt, N. V, son of cx-Congressman Crowley and an employe of the postal department, who was recently arrested ou a charge of misappropriating postal funds, was formally arraigned al San .loan, l’ufto Kiev, and found not guilty. Fred (lay lias confessed at (lutlirie, O. T., to the killing,of Solomon Russell at Ardmore, I. 'l".. April 5. lie says Hus sell -was hoodooing" him and his family. (day put a cordon of bluestone, salt and red pepper around Russell's house after killing him. Sheriff Kd Beeler of Apache County, Arizona, well known throughout the Southwest, wnj ambushed and killed in a tight over a month ago. News of the bloody tight lias just reached l'hoenix. Beeler fell mortally wounded by a volley from behind a stone wall. County Judge Frank Clark was jerked from his buggy he was driving home from Owensboro. Ky., and robbed. Henry Johnson and William Early, two while men. were the robbers. They were caught by Deputy Sheriff Short, identified by Mr. Clark and are now in jail. The Havana constitutional .convention iff a secret session appointed a commit? tee of five delegates to go to Washington t (i see President McKinley rega f ding The Platt amendment. .The eomjnittee consists of Senors Portuondo, Idorente, Bt-i----riel, ('apote and I »i<*go Tuymayo. The New York (\nlrai ear simps at East Hoehester were totally destroyed by fire. The loss will reach over SIOO,OOO, which is offset by an insurance amounting to a little over half. ’The shops have been closed for a week or more on account of a strike of the employes. A lone robber held tip the Cpllinwood pharmacy, in the heart of the fashionable residence section of Toledo, Ohio. Keeping the clerk at bay with a revolver for nearly two hours, he searched the store fi' cash, getting SOO, besides a quantity of tiie more expensive drugs. A derrick ear and a gondola toppled over a bridge over Eighteen Mile creek, eighteen miles from Buffalo, N. Y., on the Nickel Plate Railroad. Six men went with them to the rocky bed eighty feet below. Two were so badly injured that they died within half an hour after the accident.

NEWS NUGGETS.

(iov. Ibickerv of Missouri lias vetoed the compulsory education hill, declaring it class legislation. The daughter of (!ov. Nash of Ohio lias been selected to name the battleship Ohio to he launched at the Union iron works, Ban Francisco, on May IS, Schooner Kwasind has brought to New York an iron chest full of silver and gold, dug np on an island off the west coast of Africa, where pirates had buried it. Theresa Vaughn, the talented actress, has been placed in an asylum for the in sane at Worcester. Mass. Grief over the death of her husband has unsettled her mind. Free trade between Porto ltico and the United HtHtes will lie established after July 1, the local assembly having passed a tax law to meet necessities of the gov t eminent. George, alias “Peg" Anderson, alleged to he a well-known crook, wanted by the Chicago police, was sentenced at St. Joseph, Mo., to five years in the penitentiary for highway robbery. A large four-story structure in Philadelphia, occupied by P. T. Hallahnn's ■hoe factory, the Franklin shoe store and S. Birschter's wall paper establishment, was destroyed li.v fire. Loss $90,000. Fire which started in James W. Connor’s dry goods store in Owatonna. Minn.. caused a loss of $75,000, (’oiiuor's loss is $40,000, with $30,00m insurance, and the First State Bank suffered a loss of $5,000. At Denver Carrie Scott, aged 8 years. Is dead, and her sister Edna, aged I years, is in a critical condition from poi son taken in eating candy eggs, which had been colored with dyes containing arsenic. A head-end collision occurred at Woodbine, lowa, on the Illinois Central forty miles north of Omaha, between a through express and a local passenger. An engineer was killed and four other persons badly injured. Announcement has been made at New York on authority that is not to lie dis Pitted that the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy deal lias been consummated at last, the Morgan-Hill syndicate having secured control. President McLean of the lowa State University lias announced the appointment of Associate Dean Charles Noble Gregory of the ( Diversity of Wisconsin to be (lean of the lowa College of law al h salary of $4,000 a year. Isoiis Millers saloon and bowling alley on State street. Batavia, N. Y.. were burned and George Lawrence, the bar tender, aged 21. and Fred Hack, a labor er. aged 51 years, who slept in tile build illg. were burned to death. Fire broke out in the Milwaukee Journui office on the top tlosr of the Montgomery building and caused n loss to that paper of about SIO,OOO and to other occupants of the building several thousand dollars more, the latter entirely by water. Advices from Chihuahua, Mexico, tell of a dynamite explosion at Minacu. Mexico. Three men were killed, one is dying and ten others were seriously Injured. George Johnson, aged 1!), employed on Peter Peterson's farm at Klmdale, Minn., killed Arthur Olson, aged 14, while they weft* out fishing. 'Johnson claims the .shoot iug was accidental, Al Plainfield. Conn., Frank Matthew, son, aged 40, rut his wife's throat and attempted to kill himself. The woman is not expected to live, hut it is thought that Mntthcwson will recover. Matthew son was under the influence of liquor.

EASTERN.

New York's committee of fifteen baa reported, severely censuring the police for protecting vice. Wife of a Boston tailor tried to kill herself “An English Woman’s Love Letters.” Mob at Bradford, Pa., burned n vacant school house that had been selected as a smallpox hospital. The Boston milk strike, after being on two weeks, was settled, the farmers winning almost a complete victory. Cutter yacht Scuta has arrived at Greenport, L. 1., after a long and fearfully stormy passage from England. Jury in New York returned a verdict for SI,OOO in favor of John Bradley and against Henry Ivisotl, who lost the money playing roulette. The main building of the extensive blower works of the 14. F. Sturtevunt Company in the Jamaica Plain district of Boston burned. The loss is $350,000, fully insured. Thomas lb Kahtuty, a Pittsburg grocer, waif shut and almost instantly killed by burglars who were looting his house. Kahney met death while trying to rescue liis wife from the robber*. Aldaee F. Walker, chairman of the board, of directors of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, died suddenly at his home in New York, liis death was due to heart disease. A party of four persons, while crossing the tracks of-the Lehigh Valley Railroad at South Wilkeslmrre, Pa., were run down by the Buffalo express going north. Three of the party were killed and one injured. John Alfred Skoog, an expert counterfeiter, who escaped front jail in Joliet in 1897, was captured in New York. Upon being discovered lie attempted suicide, hut will probably recover and be returned to Chicago. The Pennsylvania State Senate has adopted a Joint resolution appropriating $35,000 for a commission to the St. Louis Louisiana World's Fair. The commission will erect a building on the exposition grounds to cost $30,000. Bernard Frost, for a number of years a member of the New York Consolidated Stock Exchange, once worth $300,000. committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Soon after taking the acid ail announcement was made on the Hoot- of the exchange that Frost had failed.

WESTERN.

The 12-year-old son of Charles Daniels, a sawmill owner at Minerva, Ohio, was killed by falling on a revolving circular saw. The sa w mill of the Foley Bean Lumber Company at Milnea, Minn., burned. The lumber yard adjoining was saved. Loss $75,000. Apostle George (j. Cannon, for more than twenty years the betid of the Mormon Church, died in Monterey, Cal., of nervous prostration. After being closed for a decade, the famous silver mines of Tombstone, Ariz., will soon be reopened, because of the increased demand for silver. Will Black and llenry Wilson, negroes, convicted of the murder of Ivy Young near Buckner, Ark., were hanged in the jail yard at Magnolia, Ark. President McKinley has contributed $5,000 toward a fund to secure the erection of a new hotel in Canton, Ohio, and it may be named the McKinley. John P, Smith, former Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, died the victim of knockout drops administered by unknown persons in a saloon near the Union station. St. Louis. The Atlantic limited on tlie Denver and Rio Grande Railroad collided at Eden. Colo., with a south-bound train. Three trainmen were severely injured. No passengers were hurt. In an explosion at the Santa Cruz, Cal., powder works Chester Shepard, aged 20 years, was killed and Phil Curtis severely burned. Shepard was in a large tank and was burned to death. A deed has been filed in Hamilton, 0., conveying the Albert Fisher Manufacturing Company to the American Can Company, the new trust. The consideration is understood to be $300,000. Hunt Brothers' fruit canning plant at Haywards, Cal., was destroyed by fire. The company's boarding house and eighty five cottages were also burned. The loss will exceed $125,000. The New Orleans express was wrecked near Bradley, Cal. No one was injured. Eight ears were burned, including the mail ear, two baggage ears, two staudard sleepers and three tourist coaches. The Marion State Bank at Marion Junction, S. I)., was wrecked by robbers. Owing to an overcharge the money chest was wedged and the robbers secured nothing. The bauk was fully insured. An electric ear on the high line of the Cripple Creek, Colo.. District Railway jumped the track and completely turned over at the terminal station, injuring the motorman and ten of the twenty passengers. A huge mass of snow and rock swept down from the mountain near Adelaide, Colo., on the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad, burying a work train and killing three men and seriously injuring four others. Alexander Meßoberts, aged 7!) years, for years prominent in business circle* in northern Missouri, was found dead in the woods some distance from Graham, Mo., having been accidentally shot while quail hunting. The indictments against ten of the men who were charged with taking part in the Akron riots were dismissed. A number of the men have been convicted for other crimes and are now serving time in the penitent in ry. A new chapter was added to tlie county seat wan in Montgomery County, Mo., when tin' court house at Danville and a Part of the county records w'ere destroyed I'V lire. It is thought to lie the work of an iuceudinry. The Hammond Packing Company, with packing plants at Hammond, Ind.; kl Joseph, Mo., and South Omaha, hits decided to close its plant ah South Omaha and do nil its business from Hammond and St. Joseph, t rank B. Carroll, aged 35, committed suicide in Mansfield, Ohio, by shooting himself. A warrant had been issued for Ids nrreet for causing a disturbance at home, but when the officers arrived at the house he was dead. I>r. Fred S. Herman, his wife nod her sou, Clyde Sheeflau, by a former inar-

riage, mho were arrested Jau. 31 charged with using the mails to extort money, were found not guilty in the United States Court in Cincinnati. Disregard of orders caused a collision of two Burlington freight trains uear Omaha, in which 200 head of live stock were killed. Engineer Hoffman was severely injured and two engines and a dozen ears were demolished. Mrs. Margaret Ilossnek of ludkinola, lowa, wife of a wealthy farmer* was found guilty of the murder of her husband on tiie night of Dee. I, 1000, and sentence wrts fixed by the jury at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. St. Louis Christian Scientists, smarting under attacks from many quarters, have determined to erect a temple there in which to promulgate their doctrine. A lot has been purchase 1. It is expected to erect a building at a cost of SIOO,OOO. Fire destroyed the new plant of tiie Barnesville, Ohio, Hosiery Company, causing a loss of SOO,OOO. Just how the fire originated is a mystery. More than 100 employes are thrown out of work. It is not likely that the factory will be rebuilt. T. P. Johnson and Michael Gibbons of Cleveland, brakemen oil tile Cleveland Terminal an I Valley Railroad, received serious scalp wounds and Conductor Ed Myers and Brukcmnn William Simmons were slightly injured in a wreck at Sandy vilie, Ohio. In Detroit fire practically destroyed the plant of the United States Wood Chemical Company and caused a loss of at least $40,000 to the company. The concern manufactured umbrella handles, canes and novelties from wood pulp by a secret process. D. K. Brower, a wealthy farmer residing alone near Deshler, Ohio, was bound and tortured by three robbers and left for dead. His assailants secured only sl2. Brower is 05 years old and he may not survive the rough treatment to which he was subjected. Wabash passenger train No. 14, south bound, was wrecked at Wilcox. Mo., by running iuto-nn open switch. The engine was overturned and the mail ear thrown into the ditch. Beyond slight injuries to Engineer Rogerson and the fireman from jumping, no one was hurt. In Graham County. Kan., the dirt roof of the sod house occupied by S. Hostetter fell, killing Mrs. Ilostetter aud child and breaking Mr. Ilostetter's leg. Rain had poured down all over that section. sod houses had been soaked and all were in a dimgerons condition. Four counterfeiters were sentenced at Spokane, Wash. James Moriarity was given ten years and Mike Williams and MeC deary eight years each at hard labor in the United States penitentiary. Mrs. Ethel Wallace, the last member of the gang, was sentenced to one year. The mystery surrounding the theft of SIO,OOO in greenbacks from the Bank of Commerce of Sedalia, Mo., Aug. 1, 1898, lias beet) cleared by a convict named Freeman, now in Michigan City (Ind.) penitentiary. According to Freeman, the theft was committed by Irwin Gamble. W. B. ("arrow, a traveling representative of Bell A Co., chemists, of New York, committed suicide at the Stubbins Hotel in Indianapolis, with poison. A note found in his room read: “I go to seek the hereafter. Tell Carrie Nation that rum and cigarettes are a damnation.” While brooding over fancied injuries John Revenger, a farmer living near Steele, N. D., shot his neighbor, Nels Olsen, inflicting a serious wound. Later Revenger’s body, with the face shot away, was found on the prairie. He had committed suicide, firing a shotgun with his foe. Bert A. Cassidy, the well-known animal painter and newspaper illustrator, fatally shot himself at the editorial rooms of the Chicago Daily News. It had liecn known for some time that he was in domestic trouble, hut his attempt upon his life proved a great shock to his friends. Fri'fferiek Jordan, the pilot of thi steamship City of Rio Janeiro when that ship was sunk, was acquitted of all blame by the State board of harbor commissioners at San Francisco by a vote of 2to 1. They decided that the wreck was the result of misfortune rather than bad seamanship. Henry W. Scott, an attorney, formerly of New York City, went in a cab to the house of liis father-in-law, in Kansas City, Kan., and demanded to see his wife, who left him some time ago. Mrs. Scott refused to see her husband, who thereupon drew n revolver and fired five shots through the door, injuring no one. He was arrested. A portion of Butte, Mont., believed to embrace the larger part of the big hill upon which Nome of the Anaconda mines are located, has made a very perceptible movement soutbwestward. At the foot of the Anaconda hill the slide pushed the tracks of the street railway line about six inches for a distance of about 300 feet along the road. Rajah, the Bengal tiger which killed Neilson at Bust nek's zoo in Indianapolis a tew weeks ago and soon afterward ‘caused a panic by getting loose in the arena, lias probably added another victim to liis list in the person of Frank Rostock, Ihe zoo proprietor. Even if Bostock's injuries should not prove fatal he will be crippled for life as a result of a desperate encounter with the beast on Friday.

SOUTHERN.

\\. L. \V. I.ogg, a prominent citizen of Deohcrd, Tcun., 05 years of age, committed suicide. No cause is assigned. The dry goods store of Julius Meyer* Sous, Kiehninnd, Ya„ was destroyed by tire. The stock aud fixtures were insured for SIBO,OOO. Joseph Gentry, a botcher, was killed, and Roy Kenner, aged 10 years, fatally Injured at Chattanooga, Trim., by an electric car colliding with Gentry's wagon. Gen. Alexander ('. McClurg of Chicago, president of the firm of A. ('. McClurg A Co., hook publishers, died at St. Augustine. Fla. Death was caused by Bright’s disease. A head-end collision Is*tween n freight train aud a work trf|n on the Dmiaville Railroad near \Vost Plncville, Ky.. resulted iu the death of Will Sharp, engl neor, and Will Fret well, ynrdmaster A. C. Keebler. n real estnta man from Chicago,' wa* found dead in his room in a Memphis, Tenn., hotel. A bottle of morphine wa* found in the room and it la

believed Keebler committed suicide. No cause is known for the deed. Charters were filed at Austin, Texas, by nine new oil companies incorporated to develop the Beaumont field. They have an aggregate capital of $1,873,000. This makes a total of eighty-nine companies organized for the Beaumont field, with a capitalization in excess of $20,000,000.

FOREIGN.

It is stated in Paris on good authority that a secret treaty Inis been concluded between China aud Japan with regard to Manchuria. British war office lias ordered that any officer or soldier who displays Any token of surrender in presence of the enemy shall be court martialed. A special dispatch from Hongkong says two Chinese steamers came into collision between Canton and Wu-Choiv, and that seventy Chinese were drowned. Paris journal says the Chinese minister to Russia was thrown downstairs by Count Lamsdorff's lackeys and fatally injured, after insulting the count. "The police of this city/* says an Amsterdam correspondent, “recently learned of a contemplated attempt upon the life of Nlr. Kruger. One of the persons arrested is said to have made a confession.” Japan has issued an ultimatum to China that Russia must be ejected from Manchuria, the alternative being that occupation of that province shall become international instead of solely Muscovite. A-census Of population of the Sav moan group has been taken. The number of Samoans in Upolu -and other islands under the German government is 32,000, while the population of the six islands under the United States government is returned at 5,800.

IN GENERAL.

Col. J. C. Coqk, United States consul for the Klondike, died of pneumonia at Dawson. Charles T. Yerkes has returned from London and warmly praises the English business men. NY. A. Eddy successfully tested his revolving windmill, sent aloft by. means of kites, for signaling and display. if : According to an order issued by Secretary Long. Rear Admiral Schley now ranks Rear Admiral Sampson. Active negotiations are in progress between the United States and Great Britain relative to the Isthmian Canal treaty. Cuban constitutional convention formally rejected the Platt amendment and then voted to send a commission to NVashingtou. A strike of rich quartz has been made iu Alaska near Kitzlass canyon. Quartz lias been struck there paying about sl,000 to the toil. Preparations are being made by the Pennsylvania to extend its lines to the Pacific coast, making a grand transcontinental system. Just what railroads will tie acquired is a secret known to but few of the higher officials of the company. Close personal friends of Gen. Lew Wallace are authority for the statement that be designs writing an American novel, aud that he will begin the work just as soon as he completes his “memoirs,” tipou which he is now engaged. The famous “hat trimmings” ease, involving about $20,000,000, which since 1884 has been the subject of a bitter legal buttle between the government and a number of importers, lias at last been settled. It is stated on high authority that a compromise lias been effected. Bradstreet’s says: “Wheat lias apparently discounted the good crop reports, and better export buying of both wheat and flour is reflected iu the change, from a bearish to a more cheerful tone in that cereal. The gain iu price, however, is a slight one. The slight decline in corn is a result of Chicago manipulation. The high price of late has tended to restrict the heretofore heavy shipments abroad. Wheat (including flour) shipments for the week aggregate 0,405.001 bushels, against 4,098,693 last week, 2,980,053 bushels in the corresponding week of 1900, 1,983,019 in 1899 and 4.425,302 in 1898. From July 1 to date this season wheat exports are 162,228,029 bushels, against 153,910,280 last season and 190,332,419 in 189899. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2.023,284 bushels, against 2,990,541 last week, 2,799,443 iu this week a year ago, 2,000,125 in 1899 and 4,001,194 in 1898! From July 1 to date this season corn exports are 151,102,587 bushels, against 103.012,049 last season aud 133,955,798 in 1898-99.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cuttle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.90; hog*, shipping grades, $15.00 to $0.20; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2,42 cto 43c; oats. No. 2,25 c to 2Uc; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, lie to 12c; potatoes, 34c to 37c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, SI.OO to $5.95; sheep, common to prime. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,09 cto 70c; corn. No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c. Bt. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.80; hog*, $3.00 to $0 05; sheep, $5.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,08 cto 09c; corn. No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats. No. 2,20 cto 27c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.15; hogs. $3.00 to $0.10; sheep, $3.00 to $4.35; wheat. No. 2,75 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 44c to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 27c to 2Sc; rye. No. 2. Me to 54c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.90; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No 2,73 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; -ye. 54c to 55c. Toledo—'Vheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 27c; rye, No. 2,49 c to OOc; clover seed, prime. $0.50 to SO.OO. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern.' 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3,42 eto 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c: rye, No. 1,52 c to 54c: Imrlcy, No. 2, Me to 57c; pork, mess, $14.25 Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime, $3 00 to $11.30; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to New Yirk—Cittle, $3.75 to $5.(15; hogs, $3.00 to -f0.40; sheep. $.3 00 to $5.25; wheat, No. II red, 7«e to 77cfenrii, Nd. 2., 48c to 49c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 82c; butter, creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, west ern, 13c to 14a.

AS A CHECKER-BOARD

WHOLE WORLD IS PLACED BEFORE THE PRESIDENT. Seated in liis Room at the White House, He Can Bean the Situation and Then Send Orders to the Furthest Corner of the Earth.

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HT will interest A m eric a n s to know how President McKinley keeps in touch y with events of im- * port an ce to lii:r country tliroughL out the world. A f wonderful system L of wires and cable roaches out from WSfi the White House By like human nerves over land and undev sea to the farjFsA thest corner of tiie ! earth. It passes * through jungle and mnrali np to

the very firing line in the Philippines, and it stretches through the allied, armies up to tiie walls of Pekin. Jt radiates through Europe to the great American embassies, and it touches -the most obscure consular agency .on the African const. ' The whole world is brought into instant touch with the White House. Ceaselessly, day aud night, messages come pouring in to tell the President what is happening wherever Old Glory flies. .Should n skirmish be fought with the insurgents in I.ttzon, should tariff troubles with Russia arise, should there be muttcriugs of discontent in China — the news is flashed under the ocean and in a moment the President is informed of the facts. But this great network of nerves is employed in two different ways. Not only does it. tell the head of the republic what is going on throughout the earth, but these nerves also carryback the orders that set the forces of the nation to work. From the White House the President issues otders to tho army and the navy in the most distant parts of earth almost as quickly as if ho were personally at hand. He gives instructions in the most minute detail to his diplomatic officers engaged in dealing with foreign powers. The whole world is his checker-board. The office through which all these tilings are done is officially known as the telegraph and cipher bureau, hut it is popularly called the war room. It adjoins the President's private office, and he can step to it at any moment of the day or night., During tiie Spauish war, indeed, lie spent many a night sitting on a big leather couch in the war room, as he waited with Secretary Long or Gen. Corbin for dispatches from the front. Great maps showing the entire world cover the walls of the room. They are dotted with little flags, each indicating a regiment or a ship. Whenever a message is received bearing news of any ehange in the position of vessels or of troops the corresponding flag is moved. Thus at any moment, by looking oil the maps, the President can tell where the American army and navy are scattered. Service Started in 1877. The telegraph office at the White House was organized in 1877, and was planned originally as a means of putting the President in quick communication with the various government departments that are distributed over the city. Early in President Hayes' administration, however, the Pittsburg riots arose, and federal troops were sent to check the mobs. It was necessary to keep in close touch with tiie soldiers, aud arrangements were made with the telegraph companies for private wires that extended from the White House to the scene of the trouble. That was the Iteginuiiig of the present system, and it hits Wen developing ever since. When the Spanish-Anerican war broke out it was foreseen that special facilities would be needed to keep the President informed of military movements. The war room probably did its most brilliant work (luring the hostilities with Spain. The signal corps, which is allied with the telegraph and cipher bureau, had a force of its bravest men with Shatter when he landed near Santiago. They ruptured the cable that links Santiago with the United States by way of Santo Domingo, and they connected it with a flying telegraph wire of their own. As often ns the troops advanced, the daring telegraphers would follow them up with a temporary wire strung on bushes. The courage of (he signal corps men was the admiration of the army. Seated right at the firing line, with temporary outfits on their knees, they kept coolly at work while n deadly hail of lead rained ull around them. It is interesting to note that, while signal corps men are usually classed ns nou-eonihatauts, they lost a larger percentage of men from wounds during the Spauish war than any other branch of the army. It was by their daring, however, that they managed to establish their magnificent telegraph service. Tlirj sent dispatches Horn the field nroiind Man tin go that reached the White House in five minutes after being filed. It was common for the President to receive iu?*suges from liis commanders in fifteen or twenty minutes. Iu this way Mr. McKinley was constantly advised of how the campaign was progressing, and by the aid of tlx* war maps and the moving flags, he had always before him an immense panorama of the Santiago campaign that gave him a more accurate view of the situation than was enjoyed by many of the generals who were personally on the ground. During the troubles in the Philippine* the same system of rapid communication is preserved, hut the transmission of messages is somewhat slower, ns many relays ure necessary iu the long cubic route. King Edward, who, after the injury to his knee, was obliged to stop bicycle riding, has resumed that pastime, aud has taken up fencing as being the liest of antidotes to the increase of sedentary work necessitated by his new state duties. Italy's preseut national debt amounts to $2,572,093.191, with a yearly interest of $115,971,015. Tip yearly revenue of tk* kingdom is entiflrty absorbed by the current expenditure and in furnishing the interest of the debt, without leaving any margin for a sinking fund.

WOMEN MUST SLEEP.

▲▼old Nervous Prostration. If you are dangerously sick what is the first duty of your physician ? Hs quiets the nervous system, he deadens the pain, and you sleep well. Friends ask, “what is the cause?* and the answer comes in pitying tones, nervous prostration. It came upon you so quietly in the beginning, that you were not'alarmed, and when aleep deserted you night after night until your eyes fairly burned in the darkness, then you tossed in nervous agony praying for sleep.

MRS. A. HARTLEY.

Ton ought to have known that when you ceased to be regular In your courses, and you grew irritable without cause, that there was serious trouble somewhere. You ought to know that indigestion, exhaustion, womb displacements, fainting, dizziness, headache, and backache send the nerves wild with affright, and yon cannot sleep. Mrs. Hartley, of 221 W. Congress St., Chicago. 111., whose portrait we publish, suffered all these agonies, and was entirely cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; her case should be a warning to others, and her cure carry conviction to the minds of every suffering woman of the unfailing efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham't Vegetable Compound.

The Czar.

Oh, the Czar has left his palace, and, -without undue delay. Is proceeding o’er the landscape, throwing fits along the way: Bombs are flying through the air, And exploding here and there. And a minister or two are blown to pieces every day. Oh, how nice to be a monarch with a throne above a mine 1 And, for fear of getting poisoned, hesitate to drink or dine; Oh, how nice to lie and tremble on an armor-plated bed. Fearing that the guards on duty may but wait to strike you dead; Oh, how nice to have a person that i» sacred and sublime And be forced to skulk and quake and shake and shiver overtime. Oh, the Czar of all the Russias, with a weight upon his mind And a pallor on his features and his coat tails in the wind, Passes through his realm to-day— Having spasms on the way— Looking for a cyclone cellar that he never seems to tiud. —Chicago Times-Herald.

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.

The Wife and Mother-In-Law of Mr. Cbarlea Keys. Clarissa, Minn., April 15.—(Special.) —No family in this vicinity Is better known or more universally respected, than Mr. Charles Keys, the local school teacher, and his estimable wife, and mother-indaw. Fns a long time Mrs. Keys has been in ill health. Recently, however, she has found a cure for her ailments In Dodd's Kidney Pills. “I cannot speak too highly of Dodd’* Kidney Pills, or of what they have done for me,” said Mrs. Keys. “My life was miserable, my back always ached, also my head. I was troubled with Neuralgia In the head and face and suffered extreme pain, but thanks to Dodd’s Kidney Pills, all those aches and pains have vanished like the morning dew, and It now seems that life la worth living. I consider Dodd’s Kidney Pills a God send to suffering humanity. They may rightly be named the Elixir of Youth. “While speaking of my own case and: t*he wonderful benefit I have received, I might also add that my mother, who Is now an old lady of 74 years and who lives with me, has been troubled more or le» with aches and pains, as Is natural with one of her advanced age. When she .saw what Dodd’s Kidney Pills had done for me she commenced to use them herself, and she says that they have done her more good than any other medicine she has ever tried. “This testimony is given in the hope that others who may be afflicted as we were may see and read it, and be benefited by it.” .What Mrs. Keys states in her letter can be verified by reference to any of her many friends In this neighborhood. Dodd's Wdney Pills have already a wonderful reputation in Todd County, Nothing has ever cured Bright's Disease. Diabetes or Dropsy but Dodd’s Kidney Pills.

Cruel Suspicion.

"You miserable vagabond!” said the indignant woman with the shawl %ver her head. “You ought to be ashamed to go around asking for charity with u nose like that!” “That’s where I was vaccinated, ma’am,” replied Tuffold Knutt, stiffly,— Chicago Tribune.

If Coffee Poisons You.

ruins your digestion, mokes you nervous and sallow eoniplexioncd, keep* you awake nights and acts nguinstryour system generally, try Grniu-0, the new food drink. It Is made of pure selected grain and is healthful, nourishing and appetising. It ha* none of the bad effects of coffee, yet it is just ns pleasant to the taste, and when properly prepared can’t be told from the finest coffees. Costs about V 4 as much, ft Is a honlthfui table drink for the children and adults. Ask your grocer for Grain-O. 15 and 25c.

Artful.

He—l've never met more than two lovely women in my life. She —Who waa the other?—Ally Sloper.