Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1903 — Page 2

« im dm p. B. BABCOCK, Pubteher. RBNBBELABR, - - INDIANA,

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Mis* Stella Nitzke, a stenographer, was robbed and beaten by two highwaymen in the doorway of her lionie in Chicago. The robbery occurred about 11 o’clock, just a moment after the young woninn had parted with her escort at the door. A civil marriage took place in Florence between Miss Cornelia Scovel. daughter of Mrs. Roosevelt Kcoville. and Count Arturo Fubricotti. United Stntes Consul Cramer and Count ltustogi were the witnesses. The bride is a relative of President Rosevelt. Private advices from Peking say Cenernl Yuan Shi Kai, governor of Chi Li province, has informed the Emperor that he is prepared to declare war against the Russians in Manchuria. General Ma is said to he ready to march into Slian Uni Kwan at the head of 18.000 men. Thirteen miners were killed and great damage was done by nil accidental explosion of gas in a coal mine at Bonanza, Ark. There were about 175 men in the various shafts at the time. All escaped without injury except the thirteen who were employed in entry “K,” the scene of the explosion. Five firemen were injured in n $175,000 fire in the Donner Fur Company's building in Elizabeth, N. J. The men were buried under a falling wall. Their fellow firemen turned water on the wroeknge and cooled it sufficiently to dig the victims out. The worst injured is Captain James Halpiu, who received internal hurts. The shingle manufacturer* of Whatcom County, Washington, which produces over 25 per cent of the shingle output of the Fnited States, plan a combination of all, the mills in the State. Washington State produces over 50 per cent of the total output of the country. The plan is to raise the price of shingles 25 per cent all over the United States. General John C. Black, commander-in-chief* of the Grand Army of the Republic, has arranged details for next year's encampment with the local G. A. It. committee in Boston, It was agreed that tlie encampment '"•ill begin on Aug. 15 and that n parade not exceeding two miles in length will be held on Aug. Id. It was estimated that at least 75.000 veterans would be in line. Fire at Plnttsburg, Mo., destroyed much of the business part of the town, causing a loss of about SIOO,OOO. Aid was summoned from St. Joseph when it was feared the entire town was in danger of destruction, but an active bucket brigade succeeded in confining the flames to five of the principal blocks of the city. The fire originated in some unaccountable manner in the basement of Carmack’s drug store on Main street. The only fire engine iu town was rendered useless by water freezing and bursting the boiler the night before.. Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, o>o years old, were burned to death in a fire which consumed their home. The couple lived alone outside of the city limits of Grand Rapids, Mich. The fire was discovered by neighbors, but before any help Could be given the old people the building collapsed. There is a strong suspicion that the fire was preceded by a murder and suicide. The Smiths had not lived happily together, and only last Saturday Mrs, Smith told a neighbor that she was afraid of her husband; that he had threatened her, saying: “If it were not for the law I’d murder you.’’ Smith also had told this neighbor that lie intended to get rid of his wife.

BREVITIES.

The widow of Recorder Brown of Pittsburg, I*n., will begin an action against the recorder's stenographer to recover property. Clark Yurrick, a prominent railroad man, was electrocuted at San Francisco in a pool of water which had been charged by a live wire. The Bt. 'Louis police department is considering the idea of reviving the ducking stool for beggars who may be attracted to the city during the world's fair. Proceedings in involuntary bankruptcy have been begun at Cleveland against the Owen T. .Teaks Company, lumber dealers. The liabilities are placed at $40,000, ' 15. F. Keith, the vaudeville manager of Yew York, is to enter Cleveland. (J. E. Kohl of Chicago is said to be negotiating for the purchase of the, Star Theater. Fire destroyed the Summit tannery of the. Elk Tanning Company at Curwensville. Fa., entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. It is said the fire was caused by friction of the pulleys. Beulah Thomas,, a 10-year-old girl of Arborville, Neb., has been kidnaped by two men and no trace of her. can be found. She is the prosecuting witness in an assault case. . Fire at the works of the Delaware Hard Fiber Company. 'Wilmington, Del., destroyed the machine shop and storeroom, with machinery and stock. Loss $50,000, insured. Gustav Marx, slayer of Detective Qtdnn in Chicago, tins confessed that hewas implicated in the City Railway car barns murders as well as three other murders. Three alleged accomplices were named-to the police. Fire has laid waste half a block of the principal business portion of Danville, Ky. The loss will probably reach $30.000. partly insured. The heaviest losers are Rice Benge, livery stable, $10,000; Kentucky Supply Company, SO,OOO. Fnited States Senator Newlamls* resolution inviting Cuba to become a State of the Union upon terms of equality with the other States and providing that Porto Rico shall become a province of Cuba ha's been received with derision by the Porto Rican press aniF public. - The forest fires in the southeastern Texas pine lauds are still burning, with no prospects of stopping or being controlled. It is known that the iianies have crossed the Sabine river at several points and are burning large areas in Vernon and Calcasieu parishes of Louisiana.

EASTERN.

i The smallpox epidemic at Bhiladelphla , la alarming. Because of a cut of 7 cents on each ten yards of silk woven 250 girla struck in the Duplin silk mill, Hazleton, Pa. j Two hundred and fifty men in the Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Harris- j burg. Pa., suffered a reduction of 10 per . cent. 1 After a bitter debate the American [ Federation of Labor, in convention at Boston, defeated a resolution pledging it to socialism. Annie Eagan, 24 years old, formerly of Chicago, committed suicide and killed her 17-month-old child at Brooklyn by leaving open a gas fixture. The plant of the New Freedom Wire Cloth Company, a short distance from York, l*a., was destroyed by fire. The loss is $75,000, partly insured. Fire which started in the Clark block in Batavia, N. Y„ did $20,000 damage. A shirt factory, chemical cotnpany, drug store and jeweler’s shop were destroyed. Three persons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the power house of the sanitarium at Markleton, near Somerset, Pa. It is not known how the fire started. Abraham Custer was fatally injured during a fire at R. Herksher & Sons’ furnaces at Norristown, I’a. Joseph Van Dusky was badly burned. Tl.e loss is estimated at $50,000. William H. Young, an artilleryman at For£ Washington, was fined S2O nt Washington for cursing in the presence of Mrs. Roosevelt and he was sent to jail in default of payment of the fine. Train wreckers caused the wreck of the Doylestowu locul on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad near Gwynedd, a suburb of Philadelphia, in which two persons were killed and nearly twenty injured. William A anderbilt Kissnm, nephew of the late Mrs. William 11. Vanderbilt, was found dead in a chair iu a sitting room in the Planters’ Hotel, a cheap lodging in Newark, N. J. Death was dije to heart trouble. Two disasters are reported from Pennsylvania. At Dunbar eleven are known to have died in a mine explosion, and at Johnstown twenty-eight railroad men suffered cremation rather than sacrifice their hoarded savings. A silent organ in the lodgings occupied by Hart P. Danks, the musical composer, in Philadelphia, led to the discovery 1 lint lie was dead. He was 79 years of age and bad a national reputation ns a siuger and song writer. Charges of cruelty to insane patients in the Manhattan State hospital on Ward’s Island, in New York, are made by Miss Elizabeth Knanss of Waterloo, who has just returned after spending two weeks ns an attendant in that institution. Two persons were killed nnd fully a dozen injured by a collision of Brooklyn Rnpld Transit elevated trains. Fire destroyed the wrecked oars, and Ihe panicstricken passengers jumped anil clambered from the elevated structure to the ground. District Attorney Liehtenwnlnor, at Allentown, l*a,. caused the issuance of warrants charging Mrs. Catherine Bechtel, Myrthn, Charles nnd John Bechtel nnd Alois Eckstein with being accessories before the fact of the murder of Mabel Bechtel.

At (he meeting of the Pennsylvania conference of the National Reform Association in Harrisburg. Pn., Rev. Dr. Sylvester F. Scovel deplored the desecration of Thanksgiving day by frivolous sports and criticised institutions of learning that encouraged football games on that day. In a raid on alleged counterfeiters in the home of Salvatore Birindo, 2005 First avenue, New York, she officers found the formula for making the bogus metal written in a Bible. Four big sticks of dynamite, weighing six pounds, a coil of fuse and fulminating caps were also found. The alleged counterfeiters were held for trial. Edward«£Wynne of Philadelphia has been arrested on a complaint charging him with having deserted his wife nineteen years ago. Thinking the body of n soldier in the almshouse at Cleveland was that of her husband, .Mrs. Wynne burled it and collected the life insurance. She had supported herself for the last nineteen years. Somewhere in or near New Y’ork Henry Baxter Kingsley, of Rutland, Vt.. is either in hiding or imprisoned by kidnapers. For two days and nights the entire police force has been searching unnvailtngly for some clew as to his whereabouts. For three days before the police were called his family and friends had sought him. Carrie Nation Was forcibly ejected from the executive offices in Washington the oilier morning. She called there early and demanded to see the President. Secretary Loeb declined to allow her to see Mr. Roosevelt and she became so demonstrative that he called upon two officers to remove her. She continued to shout so loud that it was necessary to take her out of the grounds. As she left the building she shouted: “I am going to pray for a prohibitionist President. One who will represent the people and not the distillers and brewers," Mrs. Nation later appeared in the gallery of the Senate and shouted out something about saloons. She Was ejected by doorkeepers.

WESTERN.

The private bank at Ravia, I. T., was robbed of $5,000. Forty-three head of horses perished in a fire at Windsor. Mo., which caused a total damage of $20,000; Wllberforee University, a school for colored pupils at Springfield, Ohio, was damaged SIO,OOO by fire. Fire caused $50,000 damage in the pattern department of tie Kokou iron works in West St. Louis. John W. Duke was found guilty of embezzlement at Portsmouth. Ohio. He was secretary of the lloyal Building and Loan Association. Superintendent McCormack and M. 11. Beck were killed iu the Vindicator mine at Cripple Creek, Colo., by the explosion of an infernal machine. General Francis Marion Drake, former governor of lowa, died of diubetes after a brief illness at Centerville, lowa. He leaves a large estate. Young Corbett and Eddie Ilanlou have been matched to fight iu San Francisco Dec. 29. The men will meet at 129 pound* for the featherweight champion-

ship of the world, the battle to be twenty rounds. The Leonard Baulle Shoe Caae Company’s factory at MimifeapoHe, Minn., together with a warehouse and tour dwellings, were burned. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Thirty-ouo men are killed, fourteen injured aud three missing as the result of a collision between freight and work trains on the Big Four Railroad near Treniont. 111. The remains of M. M. Johnson, a prominent mining man. have been found in n deported cabin 7 near Maltese, Mont. A bullet hole in the breast indicates that he had been murdered. The Indiana National Bank of Elkhart hns been closed by the Comptroller of the Currency. National Bank Examiner C. 11. Boewortli hns been directed to take charge of the bunk. The steamer Mcotia arrived in Point Arenas, Cal., with five of the crew of the French bark Francois Koppe, which was wrecked near Point Reyes. Thirteen of the crew are unaccounted for. Under direction of United States Senator W. A. Clark, the directors of the Paul Clark home, established by a son of the Senator, have opened a free-soup house to the destitute of Butte. Robbers blew open the outer safe and partially wrecked the building of the Bank of Raymond, Neb., but were unable to gain access to the safe. They departed without getting any money. District Attorney W. 11. Bennett has started a graft investigation at Milwaukee aimed at members of the City Council, city officials and members of the Legislature nnd a grand jury is at work probing. / Mine- No. S, of the Sunday Creek Coal Compnny, near Corning, Ohio, has been set on fire, and it lias been sealed up to stny the flames. The tipple and adjoining buildings have been destroyed. The loss will exceed $50,000. Judges and lawyers of Chicago took part iu commemorating the fortieth anniversary of Judge Joseph E. Gary’s accession to the bench. Judge Gary presided at the trial of the anarchists and at the famous Leutgert case. The hotel conducted by Mrs. Georgia Lloyd at Glens Ferry, Iduho, wns destroyed by tire and it is feared one or more of the guests lost their lives. The building contained thirty rooms, which were nearly all occupied.

L. Conners, a merchant from Denver, is under arrest in Portland, Ore., charged with highway robbery. He has a bank book showing him to be wealthy. It is believed he hud three aliases, and is implicated in many holdups. The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company has announced that it Will present to all employes who have worked for it for five years stock in the International Harvester Company equal to 5 per cent of the total wages earned. About 15,000 miles of Missouri Pacific track in southeastern Kansas and southwestern Missouri are without a section laliorer except the foremen. The men quit work voluntarily upon receipt of the announcement of a cut in their wages. In Youngstown, Ohio, the casing in the Wilson avenue sewer gave way and buried six workmen under ten feet of sand and gravel. Martin Timlin and Raphael Cliillo were killed. John Massero's legs were broken and his condition is critical. A ear on the Missouri Pacific fast mail train front St. Louis caught fire en route and was consumed with its contents, twenty tons of second and third class mail. The ear was detached from the rest of the train and none of the other cars was damaged. Largely through the efforts of Senator DolUver of lowa, Nathan F. Haworth, sentenced to death in Salt Lake, Utah, for murder, was shown to be innocent anil will be pardoned. He was to be shot Dec. 12. Haworth was born near Des Moines, lowa. • Tom Horn, long renowned as a scout anil Indian fighter, friend of Gen. Miles and Buffalo Bill, and one of the most noted figures of the mountains and the plains, was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyo., for the murder of Willie Nickell, a 15-year-old sheep herder. Fifty per cent of the sheep of eastern Washington and eastern Oregon will perish this winter on account of lack of hay and feed on the ranges and the hard winter which stockmen believe is before them, says Charles McAlister, a sheep raiser of eastern Washington. The .Supreme Court of Nebraska has issued a w rit of mandamus against the teacher of district school No. 21, in Gage County, ordering her not to read the Bible to her pupils. The court decided that sectarian knowledge should not be imparted in the public schools. F.ffle Frankcnfield, 24 years old, died in Tiffin, Ohio, from poison, the symptoms of which wtYe that produced by morphine. Whether her death was the result of accident, suicide or murder is a matter of conjecture. She and her suitor, Rollo Kirchner, were found in a room at her hoarding house, overcome by the effects of the drug. John L. Jerome, a prominent capitalist and former treasurer of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, was found dead in bed at his summer home at Buffalo Park, forty miles from Denver, Colo. Death was caused by an overdose of triana). a drug which he had been in the habit of taking to induce sleep. Death was evidently accidental. Mrs. Caroline Quantrell died at the Ohio I. O. O. F. home iu Springfield, at the age of SO years. She had been at the home three years, coming from eastern Ohio. She was the mother of the notorious guerrilla leader, Col. Qdantrell, who with a band of border ruffians burned and pillaged Lawrence, Kan., Atig. 23, 1803, when 183 persons were killed. With the Chicago flyer due at that point in ten minutes the big Pere Marquette Railroad bridge spanning the river at Lee, Mich., was discovered on fire. Section men with the aid of a handcar stationed a danger signal just as the Chicago-bound train neared a curve leading to the bridge, which toppled into the river at this moment. Tme estimated loss is $50,000. Having disconnected n natural gas pipe, August Doeller rolled himself up iu a feather bed and lay down with bis nostrils close to the opening whence deadly fumes escaped into his mother’s home in Columbus, Ohio. He accomplished suicide by the double method of inhalation of gas and of cremation. Incidentally he caused the house to be blown up and his mother, aged SO years, to be fatally burned.

Bearing twenty-one stiletto wounds, the frozon body of Salvador Battalia was fonod lying in a pool of blood on tha Franklin avenae bridge in Minneapolis. There is no clew to tho murderer. That robbery was not the motive is clear from the fact that about SOS was found untouched in his pockets, while a loaded revolver in the hip pocket showed that he had been struck down from behind without a chance to defend himself. The pbstofflee and general Btore at Loweyville, Ohio, was entered and the store completely ransacked. Stamps, money and merchandise to tlie extent of near./ SI,OOO was taken. The office of the McComb Elevntor Company wns entered and the safe blown open with dynamite and a small amount- of money and some valuable papers were taken. The bandits then went to Belmore, where they broke into the saloon of Thomas Thirts aud ransacked the place. As Paymaster Sweethen of the Pennsylvania company was leaving the First Nutional Bank in Logansport, Ind., Sheriff Beckley took from him a valise containing $42,000 and carried it to the court house, where the money was poured out on a table and nearly $20,000 of it seized by the officer. The sheriff was collecting judgments in favor of Thomas Collins and George Liglrtheiser, who were injured on the Pennsylvania lines and were awarded damages in court. Surrounded by tables on which lay a score of human bodies, many of which had been disfigured by the student’s knife, firemen fought a stubborn blaze which damaged the Northwestern University building at Dearborn and Lake streets, Chicago, to the extent of $35,000. The south wing of the three top floors of the building, which was formerly. the Tremont House, was destroyed. Interior decorations and furnishings, which cost upwards of $150,000, .were marred and water-soaked. Rev. Felix M. Lepore, pastor of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church, and another Italian named Joe Sorici were fatally wounded in Denver in a fight supposed to have nrisen over a card game they were playing in the priest's apartments in the church building. Father Lepore was shot twice in the abdomen and once iu the face nnd Sorici was shot ouce in the abdomen. There seem to have been no eyewitnesses to the affair. Both men were taken to St. Joseph’s hospital, where it is said they cannot recover. The Indinna Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the lower court in the suit of the coroner to oust Sheriff John S. Dudley, of Sullivan County, for failure to protect the negro Dillard last winter. Suit was brought under a law declaring the office of sheriff vacated for such negligence. The lower court decided that the law was unconstitutional. The Supreme" Court did not pass on the question of unconstitutionality, holding that the coroner had no interest in the office of sheriff. Two of the five judges dissented.

FOREIGN.

Henry Seton Merriman (Hugh Stowcll Scott), the English novelist, is dead. He had been suffering from appendicitis for a week. The story comes from Skiernewice that the Czar’s niece died from poison and that an attempt was made to poison the whole Russian royal family. The visit of King Victor and Queen Helena of Italy to England ended with a banquet at Windsor Castle to eighty-’ six guests; friendship with England is believed strengthened. Troops under Gen. Leonard Wood have slain 300 Moros and wounded many others in a battle lasting five days, the Americans having been led into an ambush by treacherous natives. In Madrid an unknown man fired three times with a revolver at Senor Briestn, one of King Alfonso’s tutors. The tutor was slightly wounded. The attempt on the tutor’s life Is believed to have been the outcome of a private quarrel. A telegram has been received from the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, saying that, according to reports received at Madras, a flood in the Pnlar river destroyed half of the town of Vanizambadl, in the Salem district. Two hundred persons were drowned. Guieseppe Fratelif, head of the Mafia in Mexico, who was exiled from Italy and has participated in plots against many crowned heads in Europe, has left for England. The London authorities were warned of a plot against the life of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. Princess Alice, wife of Prince Frederick of Schoenberg-Waldenburg, has eloped with her eoachnvan. News of the elopement has just become public, although it occurred two weeks ago. The police are in pursuit, but have not learned the whereabouts of the couple. King Edward for the second time in his brief reign has been robbed by a clerk in the office of the paymaster of the household. On this occasion checks amounting to $2,500 were illegally drawn and cashed by Frank Lanham, who confessed and was committed for trial. The Lebaudy air ship, on descending at Meudon, France, struck a tree and blew up. The whole air ship was destroyed, but the occupants, a pilot and an engineer, were uninjured. M. Lebaudy was not on board. The air ship was the one that made the recent‘remarkable flight from Moisson to Paris. The Sultan of Turkey has a cancer on iiis intestines, but is in no immediate danger and can drag on a painful existence for two or three years. His aggravated condition recently brought on by extra exertions, caused him to call in a Munich doctor, who advised him to have an operation performed, but he refused.

IN GENERAL.

Orders are more numerous in many branches of business, according to Dun’s review; railroad earnings 6.1 over 1902; trade stimulated by cold, according to Brndstreet’s. By reason of a trade agreement that has just been reached, there now exists* what is to oil purposes a world-wide electrical trust. The largest three electrical corporations in the world, the General Electric of America, and the leading two German concerns, have reduced competition to an impossibility. The latest mail steamer from the "Coast of Labrador brings no report of the party headed by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., of New York, which started from Rigolet, Labrador, Aug. 1, to explore the interior of Labrador. The coast is blocked with ice floes and snowstorms have covered the country with snow to m depth of fixfeet * „ „

CONGRESS

The Senate wan In session only twenty minutes, Tuesday, and the greater poxt, of that time was consumed In the intro ductiou of bills nnd presentation of peti tions. Most of the bills were for posi tions and the bulk of the petitions related to tlie case of Senator Smoot, of Utah The session of the House was devoted to consideration of tlie Cuban bill. Mr. Ste vena (Rep., Minn.) spoke In opposition to the measure. The other speakers were Mr. Knapp (Rep., N. Y.), Mr. Clark (Dcm., M.), Mr. McClellan (Dem„ N. Y.), Mr. Crumpacker (Rep., Ind.), Mr. Douglas (Rep. N. Y.), Mr. Morrell (RepPa.), Mr. Mason (Dem., Ark.), Mr. Thomas (Dem., N. C.), Mr. Hughes (Dem., N. J.), and Mr. McDermott (Deni., N. J.). In the Senate on Wednesday Mr. Gallinger presented a petition from “The Dames of 1846” for the increase to S3O a month of all pensions granted on accounl of the Mexican war. He said the pension'committee would give due consideration to the petition, but called attention to the fact that all survivors of the Mexican war now receive pensions of sl2. On motion of Mr. Spooner the Senate or dered printed additional copies of the treaty between the United States and New Grenada, which wns made in 1846, and proclaimed in 184 a The debate upon the Caban bill again occupied the entire session of the House, the speakers being Messrs. Grosvenor (Ohio), Clark (Mo.), Richardson (Ala.), Fordney (Mich.), Loud (Mich.), McMorran (Mich.), Bell (Cal.). Gardner (Mich.), Burgess (Texas), Gillet (Mass.), Shaforth (Colo.), and Jones (Wash.). The Senate transacted no business in open session Thursday beyond the receipt of bills and petitions. The only incident of unusual character was the appearance of Carrie Nation. An executive session was ordered at 12:25, and at 1 o’clock the Senate adjourned. The Hdßse, by a rising vote of 335 to 21, passed the bill to make effective the Cuban reciprocity treaty. The dissenting votes were about equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, but there was no record vote. Those oposing the bill in speeches were Mr. Williams of Mississippi and Mr. Broussard of Louisiana, while those making speeches in its behalf were Mr. Hepburn of lown, Mr. Watson of Indiana, Mr. DeArmond of Missouri, Mr. Sulzer of New York, Mr. Lacey of lowa and Mr. McCall of Massachusetts. The motion of Mr. Williams to recommit the bill was defeated by 193 to 165, a strict party vote. On the passage of the bill a futile attempt was made to secure a yea and nay vote.

The bill passed by the House Friday to carry into effect the Cuban reciprocity treaty was laid before the Senate, and, on motion of Mr. Cullom, was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, after considerable debate, in which those opposing the motion were Mr. Bailey and Mr. Teller nud those favoring it were Mr. Lodge, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Allison. The measure was referred without division and the Seuate adjourned till Monday. The House was in session but five minutes. After the oath was administered to Claude Kitehin (North Carolina) the House adjourned until Tuesday. Panama and Cuba engaged the attention of the Senate Monday. Mr. Hale moved to reconsider the vote by which the Newland joint resolution for the annexation of Cuba was referred to a committee, and several speeches were made on the motion without disposing of it. Messrs. Hale, Lodge and Platt (Conn.) disavowed any desire on the pnrt of the United States to acquire Cuba and expressed regret that the resolution had been introduced. Mr. Newlands defended the measure as presenting a neutral solution of the problem of the relationship between the two countries. The Panama question came up in connection with the announcement of reorganization of the Senate committees, Mr. Morgan (Dem., Ala.) being relieved from the chairmanship of the committee on interoceanic canals. Before the order went into effect Mr. Morgan discussed the entire canal question, with liberal criticism of the President for his course. He had not concluded when the Senate adjourned. In executive session several appointments of postmasters, consuls at minor points and promotions in the army were confirmed. On motion of Mr. Allison, Rev. J. F. Prettymnn was appointed chaplain of the Senate for the present session. Mr.. Cullom presented the report of the committee on foreign relations on the put into effect the Cuban reciprocity treaty and it,went to the calendar. Mr. Cullom also presented an agreement that the Cuban reciprocity bill shall be taken up on the convening of the regular session of Congress, Dec. 7, and remain the order of business each day after the routine morning business until the 16th, on which date a vote shall be taken, the time on the 15th nnd 16th to be equally divided between the friends and opponents of the bill. The agreement was accepted without dissent.

Odds and Ends.

Manchuria is primarily a grain-produc-ing country. The Dayton, Ohio, chief of police has been removed by the Mayor. The Antomobile Club of America has elected Winthrop E. Scarett, New York, president. Friction between Japanese emigrants and Coreans is growing in southern Corea, owing to the number of.the Mikado’s subjects who are settling in the country. Dr. George E. Ladd, director of the school of mines at Rolla, has been elected by the Missouri world’s fair commission to be superintendent of the department of mines and metallurgy, to succeed Col. H. H. Gregg of Joplin. The federal court at San ?uan, Porto Rico, quashed the indictments for smuggling in the «ascs of Alonzo Cruzen, the collector of customs; Captain Andrew Dunlap, U. S. N., commandant of the naval station, and Robert Giles, a former contractor in Porto Rico, on the ground that the fines had bees paid and the offenses expiated.

His Prediction..

“What do yon think of tha books askad tha publisher. “Poor, poor,” replied tha manuscript reader. "Then yon think wo ought not to publish It 7” “On the contrary, publish it by lO means. It’s so poor that it can hardly fail to be a financial aucceso.”

Another Brute.

Wife—l’d Jhst like to know where these contemptible jokers get their ideas of mothers-in-law. Husband —Urn —I don’t know. Perhaps they used to be divorce court reporters.

A Remarkable Woman.

Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 23.—Mrs. Anna M. Willis, of this place, a charming old lady of 74 years, has given for publication a very Interesting letter. Mrs. Willis Is widely known and highly respected, and the recommendation she gives la well worth the consideration of any one who may be interested. Mrs. Willis’ address is B. R. No. 8, Kokomo. Her letter reads as follows: “I have been troubled with Kidney trouble for 20 years. It was so bad that It affected my heart and my back. It hurt so that I could not get up when down, and I began to think that; I would be past doing anything. I was recommended to get Dodd’s Kidney Pills and purchased some at the drug store of Mr. G. E. Meek. After using several boxes, I was completely; restored. I feel twenty years younger, and I am able to do all the usual work In the house and garden which a person who lives on the farm has to do, although I am 74 years of age.

He Wasn’t Prepared.

The Invalid —Don’t you think I ought to take an ocean voyage for my health, doctor? The Doctor —No, Indeed. I think a series of mud baths would prove more beneficial. The Invalid —But, really, doctor: I can’t afford to enter politics and run tor office.

Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by sn Inflamed condition of- the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube Is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it Is entirely closed, Deafness Is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Us normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which Is nothing but an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. <X Bold by Druggists, TSc. Hall’s Family Pills are the best.

Man’s Inhumanity.

"Oh, you needn’t talk,” said the indignant wife. “What would you be to-day If it were not for my money? Answer that, will you?” “That’s an easy one.” replied tho heartless wretch. “I’d be a bachelor.” If you cannot obtain KNIGHT’S RHEUMATIC CURE from your druggist, because It CURES so QUICKLY that lie thinks it is not to his interest to handle it, address A. P. Knight, Chemist. 3300 State street, Chicago. The root of all discontent is self-love. —J. F. Clarke.

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