Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1903 — Page 2

JASPER CODNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - • INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

One man was killed and $ 12,000 damage done by a fire which partially destroyed the plant of the East Liverpool Bagger Company, manufacturers of potters' supplies at East Liverpool. Ohio. A telephone lineman named McAleer, who was asleep on the third floor,'was suffocated. The question of allowing women the right to vote came up In the Senate at Augusta, Me. A lengthy speech was made In favor of woman suffrage by Senator Staples, of Knox County. The vote stood 12 to 12 nnd President Virgin broke the tie by voting against the suffragists. A telegram from Carlsbad, X. M., says George 11. Hutchins, proprietor of the Hotel Schlitz, and one of the best-known newspaper correspondents in the Southwest, was shot and killed by Clabe Merchant of Illack River In a street duel. Merchant was wounded, but may recover. Tlie men quarreled over a trifling matter. The St. Clair Hotel, one of the largest hostelrles of Port Huron, Mich., was destroyed by fire. A man named Worthy, employed at the hotel ns a yardsmnn, Is missing and is believed to have been burned to death. Milton Campbell, n fireman, was fatally crushed under falling walls. All the hotel guests made their escape. Franklin Baer, alias Joseph Meyer, nlins Meier, who was arreeted in Baltimore on the charge of robbery, told Detective O’Dea that he had been concerned In a recent hold-up on the Northern Pacific, In which he secured the larger part of the sum of $11,(150, which, he says, is to his Credit in the Drovers' National Bank of Chicago. In X'ew Orleans Ella Atkins is dead and Folgcr Green in the hospital with threo wounds at the result of a compact they entered into to end their lives. The woman died of poisoning. The man stabbed himself twice Sn the neck and then slashed his wrists. The tragedy occurred in a hotel, where the couple passed as man and wife. Standing on the gallows at Jackson, Miss., with the death cap on, Joseph Campbell, a negro murderer, secured a reprieve for ten days by whispering to the Sheriff the name of his accomplice in crime. The Sheriff at once suspended operations, telegraphed Governor Longino and secured the respite that, more evidence might be secured from Campbell.

BREVITIES.

A cyclone visited Cadiz and did great damage. Many persons were injured. A schooner and several fishing boats were sunk. George C. Hall, private secretary to Perry Belmont, Is a prisoner In New York, charged with forging checks on his employer. Rev. F. \Y. Gunsaulua of Chicago was the orator at ’the thirty-fourth charter day celebration of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. King Edward, accompanied by Queen Alexandra and surrounded by the court and all the officers of state, opened Parliament Tuesday afternoon. Developments in New York insurance fraud indicate* losses of $1,000,000 by companies, and that a hundred substitute bodies were used by the baud of Italian swindlers. In Philadelphia John Weaver, Republican, the present district attorney, was elected Mayor by the usual large Republican majority over Francis E. Kane, the Democratic nominee. First Officer Adamson arrived at Washington and reported that the naval collier Alexander broke her shaft off the Bahamas and is adrift. Another collier win sent In search. Minister of Commerce Moeller of Germany says that ns America will he Germany’* chief commercial competitor in future, Germany must adopt trust method* to combat American trusts. The Opera House Block at Ashland, Ohio, wa* totally destroyed by fire originating under tlie stage, where natural ga* fixture* had just been put in. The public library also was destroyed. Tho Illinois Supreme Court sustained the anti trust law of 18D1 and amendments of 1803. Corporations are held liable for fine* In cose of failure to make yearly report on affiliation with combines. Joseph B. Davy, Instructor In botany at the University of California, has been appointed chief agriculturist and botanist of the Transvaal government at nn initial salary of $5,000 a year and expenses. Loui* Gnthinann, Chicago inventor, claims to have discovered a method of purifying water by removing all kinds of disease germs, nnd lias enlisted aid of enstern capitalists to put machine on the market. Secretary Hay for tho United States and Mr. Bowen for Venezuela have signed a protocol providing for the adjustment of United States claims against Venezuela by a commission to meet at Caracas. Samuel J. Keeler lins confessed to prosecuting Attorney Gard and Coroner Sharkey nt Hamilton, Ohio, that ho killed hia wife. Kwlet is still weak from loss of blood, caused by Ids slashing his throat with a razor. Employes of the Deluware, Lackawanna and Wheeling Company at Kingston disagreed with the management over new wage propositions and tho L’ettibone colliery was closed n« n result. This la the first tie-up since settlement of the strike. To qualify for membership in a sorority girl students at Missouri University are required to stop pnssersby on the streets and insist on polishing their shoes. Initiates must appear on the streets in convict garb, and climb trees When they meet. Members of the firm of Cassatt A Co., Philadelphia bankers and brokers, chnrgo that Howard T. Goodwin, confidential man of tho house, who recently committed suicide in his office, was a defaulter. The amount of Goodwin's stock dealings and investments is estimated at 11,000,000.

EASTERN.

The foot and mouth disease has be come serious again in Massachusetts. Pire destroyed the large carriage, factory of William Bloom & Sons at Scranton, Pa. Loss about $60,000. At N. \\, Hoofer &. Co.'s wall paper factory was razed by fire. The loss is estimated ut $115,000. A Chicago union hoot nnd shoe maker homed Sanborn was sandbagged in Boston. He was not seriously injured. . Sheriff Dreger of Minneapolis has Leached New Hampshire and begun extradition 'proceedings* to secure removal of former Mayor A. A. Ames to Minnesota for trial. Employes of line Massachusetts Electric Companies, controlling car linos outside Boston, have been granted increases in wages averaging 12.18 per cent. The raise affects 2,522 men. Mrs. Osee M. Fitzgerald, mother of Bishop Fitzgerald of the Methodist Church, will celebrate her ninetieth birthday anniversary at Newark, N. J., by completing her ninetieth reading of the Bible. Miss Ora Montgomery, 25 years old. a school teayher in Western I’ort, Md., slipped and fell while running after a recalcitrant pupil. Her neck was broken by a fall down the stairway. She died almost Immediately. An armed negro uprising is predieted by John S. Wise of Virginia in address nt Lincoln day dinner, Boston; encouragement of blacks declared resixmsible; South must be told to let negroes vote, or have representation cut. Generul Nelson A. Miles reached New York from his five months’ trip around the world, lie declared that the Japanese army und navy are well equipped and disciplined; that the Siberian railroad's roadbed equals that of western American lines. In a wreck at Vienna station, on th Baltimore und Ohio Railroad, near Washington, I’a., three men were killed and the train to which they belonged was piled in u confused mass on the tracks, which were torn up for several hundred yards. The train struck a large bowlder that had fallen upon the track. In the United States Circuit Court in Boston Judge Colt decided that the entire fund in dispute between the federal government and the Emergency Loan and Trust Company, trustee, should go to the United States, tlie plaintiff. Tire amount—s(’>oo,ooo —is in the hands of the American Loan and Trust Company of Boston. A fire in the Hotel Lawrence in Washington threatened destruction of the building nnd tho lives of 125 guests. The guests were quietly notified, and vacated their rooms. Three descended the fire escape without stopping to dress, and several were carried out. Two -firemen were badly shaken up by a falling door. The property loss was small. * Dr. Irvine, the prison physician at Sing Sing, N. Y., examined William HooperYoung, who began his life sentence for the murder of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer. The doctor found, ns did tlie New York physicians, that Young was medically insane and legally sane. Young’s condition, the doctor said, was due to the excessive use of morphine and c-igarettes. Mrs. Iru Baker was shot dead on the street in Lebanon, I’a., in view of scores of persons and in resisting arrest the murderer killed Cyrus Shaffer, a policeman, before he was landed in jail. Mrs. Baker was standing on a street i-orner with her husband and several friends when Dnvid Bliaub stepped up nnd shot her in the head. Shaub was out on hail pending application for a new trial for robbing Mrs. Baker's stepfather. She was the principal witness against him.

WESTERN.

Fire at Ilimrod, 111., destroyed the larger part of the town, causing a loss of $ HM),(MX). Tlie Howard County Bunk of Nashville, Ark., has suspended, nnd the appointment of a receiver is asked. Joseph E. Cot nml Juan Gonzales, who killed nn old man and robbed the corpse, were hanged at Son Quentin, Cal. Seventeen letter carriers have been suspended from tlie San Francisco postoffice for alleged political activity during the November campaign. A new telegraph company is projected by leading St. Louis men, and seeks support in Chicago. System connecting principal western cities already seems assured. The fish, forestry and game committee of Colorado has decided for a closed season for four years on doer and for fix years on sheep, elk, antelope and other big game. John Henry McCracken, president of We tmlnster College, Fulton, Mo., has resigned to become assistant to his father, chancellor of the University of New York City. Ed Lincoln killed his brother-in lawß Robert Mitchell, on a farm near McCook, Neb., crushing his head with a piece of wagon tire. Lincoln is thought to be insane. The jury in the ghoul case at Indianapolis failed to agree and was discharged. Wives of two members are said to be responsible for heuted altercations and bitter feeling. John Mitchell, Clarence 8. Harrow and Henry D. Lloyd were given frlbute for anthracite coal strike und arbitration bearing by labor mass meeting nt Audi-* torinm iu Chicago. E. V. Smith bn* been placed under nr rest at Foss, Ok., at the request of the authorities of Waco, Texas, where, it i* charged, he Is under thirty-seven indictments for various crime*. ’Frisco local passenger traiu 157, north bound, was wrecked nt the Girard and Jopllu junction, east of Pittsburg, Kail. The entire train was derailed ami five passengers lujured, uoue, it is bolieved, fatally. Foreign lords and other noblemen, both real and genuine, now running at largo In Missouri are to be branded, taxed nnd licensed to protect young women, if a measure proposed In the State legislature becomes a law. Amos L. Maxwell, ngod 50 years, nn inmate of the Kansas asylum for the insane nt Topeka, died suddenly ns a result of a severe benting alleged to have been given him by Earl Neal sad M. W. Peterson, two guards. The commerce of the Duluth-Superior harbor, according to the report of United States engineers, during tl)« past year increased 35 per cent over the record of 1001 and 515 per cent in the last fifteen year*. This record exceeds that of Bos-

ton harbor and is close to that of New Y’ork. California Legislature's investigation of San Quentin and Folsom State prison abuses disclosed one convict killed and many permanently crippled by straitjackets; Spanisii windlass had been used to extract confessions. Miss Martin, teacher in the Thayer (Ill.) school, dropped her pupils from a second story window while the building was burning beneath her. The stairway was cut off and the children were terrorized. Many were badly hurt by the fall. A largo, meteor struck the earth in '.he vicinity of Bingham, Utuh. The collision with the earth caused windows to rattle and houses to tremble, while a sound like a mighty dap of thunder awakened the inf ir. hi tan ts. People thought there had been an earthquake. A blizzard has been raging over the entire Rocky Mountain region. The ranges aft} covered with two feet of snow and cattle and sheep, unable to find grazing, are dying by hundreds. Cattle are in poor condition owing to a series of severe storms and lack of hay. A receiver was appointed at Cleveland lor the National Computing Scale Company, capitalized at $275,000, and .-it Detroit Francis B. Beale, a furniture manufacturer of Northville, Mich., filed a petition in Bankruptcy, listing liabilities of 570,000 and assets ut $21,000. By an explosion in a magazine can factory at Fostoria, Ohio, eight people were killed. Fire destroyed the building. The dead: Joseph Burdge. John Iliizen, James Green, Flva Spencer, a boy named Purcell nnd two girls named Murphy and an unidentified man. William Carwile, foreman at the American Steel nnd Wire Company’s blast furnace, in Cleveland, Ohio, shot and probably fatally wounded Andrew Bedua, a discharged workman. Bedna, with several other former employes, attacked Carwile with knives and the latter shot in self-defense. When Superintendent Ogg of the Kokomo, Iml.. city schools ordered all the hoys in school searched for weapons about 500 22-caliber pistols were found. The hoys claimed they were toy guns for blank cartridges, but all had loaded cartridges iu them. Chief of Police Taylor pronounced the pistols deadly weapons. A large double sleigh containing a party of ten young people was struck by a Bio Grande Western passenger train at the intersection of Eighth South nnd Fifth West streets, Salt Lake City. The sled was hurled through the air a hundred feet and demolished. One of the party was killed and none escaped injury. George Cole, under arrest at Butte, Mont., has confessed that he was one of the men that held up a train at Homestake, on the Burlington. Napoleon Savoy has been arrested at Anaconda and identified as tlie man who, last October, held up a Northern Pacific train at Roarmouth. Mont., and killed Engineer O'Neill. Plans have been made for the opening in Kansas City, Mo., of Liberal University to teach Robert G. lugersoll's views, whic h some time ago purchased the Bepper buildiug for the purpose of moving the university from Siiverton, Ore. The college will be in charge of Thaddeus B. Wnkeman, formerly of New York and a personal friend of Col. R. G. Ingersoil. Professor Hill, principal of the high school at Hyauuis, Neb., shot and seriously injured Henry Beem, a pupil, and was later badly beaten during a fight with Beem and two companions. Hill had ordered Beem from the room nnd upon his refusal to go attempted foreibly to remove him. Two other boys came to Bee til's aid and attacked the principal. Tlie strike of the Elevator Starters and Conductors’ Union and the Office Building Janitors and Window Washers’ Union, which tied tip fifteen downtown sky scrapers recently, was settled by the Chicago board of arbitration. The elevator men’s and janitors’ unions were granted the recognition for which they have fought, nnd their wages were materially increased. J. J. Crowe of Council Bluffs. lowa lias received n letter from England stating that Pat Crowe, his brother, alleged to have been connected with the kidnaping of Edward Cudahy, Jr., is now in Liverpool. The letter states that Pat i s employed ns a solicitor for a wholesale house, and is receiving S2OO a month salary. He has been a soldier in the Boer war. *'lt is only a question of time,” Mays President Atigell of the University of Michigan, "when southern Europe will he thrown into war. Recent reports tell es Bulgaria wit It forces already in the field, and the trouble in Macedonia is only the cloud of the great war storm.” President Angell made this prophecy in lus address on the ‘‘Eastern Question” before the Collegiate Alumni in Milwaukee. Fred Geiger, arrested in Cincinnati nt suspicion of having murdered his wife, was before Acting Superintendent of Police Casey nml told the story that he found his wife dead on his return from a visib-to his mother. He says he found evidence of burglars iu the house. The woman was found lying on the kitchen sink with her head under the faucet. Her skull was crushed and her face had many jagged wounds. The 4-year-old son, who was the only witness, told his grandmother that his father struck his mother with the scissors. Bloody scissors were found hidden under the sink. Indianapolis postal officials are anxiously seeking u mail poueli which contains $50,000 in checks, drafts and cash. The pouch disappeared as completely ns if it hnd been ground to powder and scattered to the four winds. Robbery is suspected, but there is absolutely no clew. The pouch was consigned to the Indianapolis, the Chicago nnd to other offices iu the Northwest. The sending office was Louisville, although the letters originated in nine towns along the J., M. and 1. Railroad. The poueli is known to have been on the Pennsylvania train ns far north as Franklin, Ind., and it was taken either between Franklin nnd Indianapolis or at the Union station in Indianapolis.

SOUTHERN.

The Alabama Senate has passed tlie bill regulating child Inbor as agreed to by advocates of the bill nml mill nion. Sledge A Wells-’ large paper nnd burlap bag factory nt Memphis was destroyed by tire. Loss $75,000; insurance $70,000. In a sermon at Louisville Rev. T. T. Eaton declared that be did not think a murderer could be convicted and seotenc-

ed to death In Kentucky even if the criminal himself deaked it. Fourteen thousand acres of coal land near Honaker Station, Vn., have been purchased by Chicago and Pittsburg capitalists. Several million dollars will be spent for development and the construction of a railroad. Train No. 333 L ou the Southern Railway was wrecked at RavenswortU, Va., by running into an open switch, which, it is thought, was misplaced purposely. The engineer and fireman are reported killed. One arrest has been made on a charge of train wrecking. Eighteen persons drowned and others rescued in a serious condition is the result of the passenger steamer Olive beiug struck by a cyclone and sent to the bottom of Chowan River, near Edenton, N. C. A majority of the passengers and crew were below at,the time, nnd had no chance to save themselves.

FOREIGN.

Part of the Navy Department building was destroyed by fire at Buenos Ayres. The loss is estimated at about SBOO,OOO. Former German Ambassador von Hollebeu is reported charged with usiug his office to advertise a brand of wine by securing its use at the christening of the Kaiser’s yacht Meteor. It is reported from Fez that the Sultan’s troops have suffered a repulse with great slaughter at the hands of the Hiaina Knblye tribe, which is friendly to the pretender, Bu Hainara. Official Russian reports represent that a serious deficiency in winter grain is highly probable in most of European Russia, crops beiug almost entirely destroyed in sixteen provinces and poor in others. Russian newspapers claim that a man in the hospital at Tomsk is 200 jears (Jd. They say this statement is supported by documents. The man has been a widower for 123 years. He is bedridden, but mentally sound. The Dominion Line steamer Vancouver, for Boston from Mediterranean ports, was run down and badly injured by the Spanish steamer Ixia, while leaving Ponta Del Gorda, principal port of the Azores. The extent of the damage is not stated. One hundred ladroncs attacked the town of Nanjan, island of Mindora, P. I. Constabulary repulsed them after a scattering fight of several hours, during which one ladrone was killed and one wounded. Twenty women and children in the town were injured. A carter’s wife named Engels, in Kardorf, Germany, has just given birth to her thirtieth child. All are alive except five. The eldest is 35. It is the biggest family in Germany, and Engels has had to enlarge his house throe times. He is 65 years old and his wife is 55.

IN GENERAL.

The House passed the Elkins antirebate bill, completing program of party leaders for trust legislation. United States Minister Squiers, in Havana, has received a message from Washington, and it is believed the naval coaling station agreement will be signed witki in a few hours. The blockade of Venezuelan ports by war ships of the allies has been raised. There is rejoicing at La Gunria. Vessels at Willemstad with cargoes for Venezuela sailed at once. Former Secretary of State John W. Foster has been selected to take charge of the case of the United States in the presentation of the Alaskan boundary question to the commission. R. G. Dun & Co.’s review reports January railroad earnings 9.4 per cent greater than for 1902; traffic congestion relieved only in favored districts; coke supply increased; manual labor scarce in all industries. (iross earnings of 003 railroads for 1902 increased SO3B per mile over 1901, according to interstate commerce statistics; operating expenses, $392; ratio of latter to earnings was 64.02 per cent, slightly lower than for 1901. George B. Cortelyou has been nom inated and confirmed as Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor. William Loeb will succeed him as secretary to the President. Janies R. Garfield lias been select'd for Commissioner of Corporations iu the new department. Protocols immediately raising Venezuelan blockade and referring preference dispute to The Hague court were signed at midnight Friday in Washington. President Roosevelt will name umpire if mixed tribunals fail to settle other demands; captured warships must be returned. The American members of tho joint tribunal to arbitrate the Alaskan boundary issue under tlie terms of the treaty with Great Britain have been selected. They are Elihu Hoot, Secretary of War; Senator Henry Cubot Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Senator George Turner, of Washington. Stepheji Bonsnll, n newspaper and magazine writer and at one time connected with the Uuited States diplomatic sendee, was waylaid nnd attacked by a negro servant of the hotel at Caracas, Venezuela, whom Mr. Bonsall hnd chastised for insolence. His assailant was immediately arrested. Engineer Vance, of the Canadian Pacific exploration party on the new lino to Edmonton, was found frozen to denth near Lizard Lake, where he was exploring. He had sent his driver ahead with instructions to prepare a camp and was following on snowshoes. Tho thermometer registers 38 below zero. Andrew Carnegie’s latest effort to fulfill his wish that he may die poor involves the payment of debts for oppressed nations. It has become known that during tho Venezuelan negotiations, when Germany seemed about to force heavy cash payment, the millionaire Iron master made a definite nnd emphatic offer to pay the bill for the sake of peace. The incident which closed the tenure of office of John F. Stevens, general manager and chief engineer of tho Great Northern Railroad, became known the other day. It was a personal encounter between Mr. Stevens and Lewis W. Hill, son of James J. Hill and assistant to the president of the Grout Northern. The set-to took place in Lewis Hill’s office. The Spanish treaty claims commission has dismissed the 152 cases arising from the destruction of the United States battleship Maine in Havana harbor Feb. 15, 1898, on the ground that individual claims do not arise in favor of the officers and seamen of a ship of war for injuries received while in line of doty and for which a foreign government Is responsible.

CONGRESS

An immense crowd was attracted to the Senate Friday to hear the invocation of Gen. William Booth, founder and commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army. The resolution of Mr. Morgan calling for the correspondence of naval officers regarding the military occupation of the bays of Panama and Colon, was agreed to. When the statehood bill came up Mr. Depew resumed his remarks. He attacked the Mormon Church, because, he said, he believed its members still cling to the practice of polygamy. Mr. Rawlins replied, saying that if the Mormons were not interfered with they would work out their own destiny. The Elkins bill to prohibit rebates to shippers was passed by the House by a vote of 241 to 0, those voting in the negative being Democrats. Tlie remainder of the session was devoted to the sundry civil appropriation bill, which was practically completed. No effort was made to pass it, as there was no quorum present. The Senate listened to the reading of the Indian appropriation bill ou Saturday and spent some time in the consideration of that measure. It was not, however, finally disposed of. The greater part of the remainder of the day was given over to eulogies of late members of the House of Representatives, including Charles Q. Russell of Connecticut, Joshua S. Salmon of New Jersey, Amos J. Cummings of New York, and R. O. Crump of Michigan. The House passed the sundry civil bill, and then broke all records in the matter of private pension legislation. It was the last opportunity of passing pension bills at this session, and the calendar was cleared, not only of House but of Senate bills, 325 in all being passed. Three hundred nnd twelve is the highest previous record, made in the Fifty-first Congress. There was no debate on the statehood bill in the Senate Monday. The Indian appropriation bill nnd the Philippine currency bill both were passed. Mr. Vest, while the Indian bill was up, called attention to a point of order which had been made against one of its provisions on the ground that it was new legislation. The Senate, he said, had passed the Philippine government bill as a rider to the army appropriation bill, and yet ruled other provisions out. All rules, lie said, were violated when a majority was in favor of any measure. The House disposed of a number of bills under suspension of the rules, defeating two. The most Important measure passed was the Senate bill to amend the railroad safety appliance law. A special order was adopted which practically will make the Fowler currency bill a continuing order for the remainder of the session, not, however, to interfere with conference reports, appropriation bills, and other privileged matters. The Senate agree',’ to the conference report on the army appropriation bill Tuesday. Discussion of the statehood bill was resumed, and Mr. Depew continued his remarks in opposition to it. Toward the end of the session Mr. Teller declared that himself and the country had been Insulted by some of Mr. Depew’s references to the unequal representation in the Senate. Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported the Littlefield anti trust bill as amended. Mr. Platt (Conn.), of the committee, stated that it was not a unanimous report, and that he was opposed to the measure. The House began consideration of the naval appropriation bill under the operation of a rule which made the new legislation relative to the increase of the personnel of the navy and for the increase of the naval academy in order. The general debate on the bill was without special feature. The paragraph in the bill providing $250,000 for a naval station on the great lakes went out on a point of order. On completing thirty of the sixtyfive pages of the naval appropriation bill the committee rose. The Senate amendments to the Indian appropriation bill were disagreed to, and the bill sent to conference. There was a lively debate In the Senate on Wednesday over Senator Quay’s resolution declaring it to be the sense of the Senate that there should be a vote on the statehood bill br/ore the adjournment of Congress. 'To this proposition Senator McComas reoffered Senator Platt’s closure resolution introduced two years ago, and a motion was made to refer the whole proposition to the Committee on Rules. This was pending when the Senate went into executive session. The discussion of the subject brought out the fact that the Senate was strongly opposed to cloture In any form. The debate was very general, a dozen Senators expressing tlieir opinions on the subject. The House by a majority of 2 to 1 rejected the conference report on the army appropriation because of its provisions for the retirement of civil war officers at an advanced grade, nnd permitting officers to deposit money with the government at 3 per cent interest. The House emphatically voted against both propositions and sent the bill buck to conference. The proceedings on the conference report were enlivened by n sharp personal clash between Mr. Hull, of lowa, and Mr. Slayden, of Texna. The remainder of the day was devoted to the naval bill. Slow progress wag made, only twenty pages being covered.

In the National Capital.

Postofflce Department has awarded contracts for 3,500 star routes. Navy Department will send two more cutters to the military academy, Culver, Ind. A bill has been introduced In the House to increase the salary of President from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO annually. Maj. Gen. Arthur MncArthur has been assigned to department of California; Maj. Gen. John C. Bates will succeed him at Chicugo. Senate statehood tight may be compromised by admission of two States, one Oklahoma and the other New Mexico and Arizona combined under namo of latter. Philanthropy "trust,” with $10,000,000 capital, has been projected by A. O. Crosier, treasurer of National Corrections and Charities congress; Interest, if mlltSpnaires will donate capital, to atTord relef to victims of disasters.

Fishermen’s Patience.

Wie patience of fishermen who really love the sport is the theme of many ■tories. One is told by a man who, traveling on foot through part of England, came upon a solitary fisherman, who looked as if time and the world might pass away without disturbing his content "Have you fished long in this stream 1" asked the traveler. "Eighteen years,” wa* the calm response. “Get many bites?” was the next que*tion. The fisherman scarcely tamed hi* gaze from the rod in his hands. “Five years ago in this very *pot I had * fine bite,” he answered, hopefully.— Youth’s Companion.

New Cure for Lame Back.

Rutledge, Minn., Feb. 10.—Mr. B. Q Getchell of this place relates a happy experience which will be read with Interest by all those who have a simllat trouble. It appears that last winter Mr. Getchell was seized with a lameness and soreness in his back which grow worse and worse till at last it became very bad and made It very difficult so» him to get about at all. After a time he heard of a new remedy for backache which some of hi* friends and neighbors said bad cur&d them and he determined to try it. 'ill* name of the remedy is Dodd’s Kidney Pills and Mr. Getchell has proven that it Is a sure cure. He says; “I used two boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills according to directions and ay lame back was entirely cured and I am all O. K. again. Dodd’s Kidney Pllla are as good as represented.” This remedy is very popular hera and has worked some remarkable cures of Backache nnd Kidney Trouble.

Not Himself at All.

Mrs. Parke—Your husband has been very ill, hasn’t he? Mrs. Lane—l never saw him so ill. Why, for two weeks he never spoke a cross word to me.—Brooklyn Life.

WESTERN CANADA AROUSING GREAT INTEREST.

Th* Wonderful Yeld* of Wheat Attracting Thousands. Until the last five or six years but little attention was given to that vast area of grain-producing land lying north of the 49th parallel, and imm*dlately adjoining the northern boundaries of Minnesota and Dakota. The Canadians themselves wera aware of the wealth that lay there, but being unable to fully occupy it, they have asked the Americans to assist them In converting the land from it* virgin state to one that will largely supplement the grain producing arek of the North American continent. And the response has been most liberal. During the year 1901, upwards of 20,000 from the United State* went over to Canada, being Induced to settle there by the reports that reached them of the success of those who had preceded them during the previou* years. This 20,000 was increased to 30,000 during the year 1902, and it is fully expected that there will be fully 60,000 during the present year. Tho work of the immigration branch of tho Canadian government is not now being directed towards giving Information ao to the advantages of settlement in it is to extending an invitation to the American to follow those who have gone. Those who have charge of the work point with considerable pride to the success of those who have been Induced to takfe advantage of the offer of 160 acres of land free In Canada, nnd have no cause to hesitate In continuing tho invitation. Many of those interested say there aro no more free homesteads to be had In Canada, but the writer has most positive assurance from the Canadian Government that there are thousands of such homesteads to be had. and In one of the districts now being opened up fully as good as the best, aud it is probably the best. The Canadian Government has established agencies at St. Paul, Minn., Omaha, Neb., Kansas City, Mo., Chicago, 111., Indianapolis, Ind., Milwaukee, Wis., Wausau, Wis., Detroit, Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette, Mich., Toledo, Ohio, Watertown, S. D., Grand Forks, N. D., nnd Great Falls, Mont., and the suggestion Is made that by addressing any of these, who are the authorized agents of the Government, It will be to the advantage of the reader, who will be given the fullest and most authentic Information regarding the results of mixed farming, dairying, ranching nnd grain raising, and also supply information as to freight and passenger rates, etc

All Depended.

Laily (to village jobber, who for days has been “working” In the bom*) —Can you tell me When you are likely to hava finished this job? Village Jobber—ls you can tell me, mum, where I’m likely to get another, —Punch. ELY’S LIQUID CREAM BALM Is prepared for sufferers from nasal catarrh who use an atomizer in spraying the diseased membrnnee. All tlie healing and soothing properties of Cream Balm are retained in the new preparation. It does pot dry up the secretions. Price, including spraying tube, 75 cents. At druggists or Ely Bros., 50 Warren street, New York, mail it.

To Ease Her Mind.

Anxious Patron—Where are you taking me, cabby? That's not the road. “All right, my friend. I’m just going 'round to tell my wife that I’m starting out.”

Many School Children Are Sickly.

Mother Grav’s Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children’s Home, New York, Break up Colds in 24 hours, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Hendache, Stomach Troubles, Teeth Ifig Disorders, move and regulate the bowels and Destroy Worms. Sold by all druggists or by mail, 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. The Slaby-Arco (German) wireless telegraph system can bo used only over distances comparatively short.

Bathing the Baby.

Young mothers naturally feel anxious fibout the baby’s bath. It is best to icgln at six weeks to put the little ens n the water, first folding a soft towel in the bottom of tha basin. Use only Ivory Soap, as many of the highly cofared and perfumed soaps are very injurious to th* tender ekln of an infant.

ELEANOR R. PARKER.