Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1903 — Page 2

jm cw mi I 1 . j n P. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER. - • INDIANA.

CIRCLING THE GLOBE

In a collision between two north-bound South Side railroad trains at the Fifty-first Btreet station in Chicago one guard was fatally hurt nnd several of the passengers seriously injured. The fog and the frost on the rails were reaponuible for the accident. At a prison reform meeting at Wilmington, Del., Warden A. S. Moserve, of the county workhouse, declared the whipping post, which now exists only in Delaware, to be a bad institution. He said it forever wrecked the man .whipped and destroyed prison discipline. ' A letter received from the wife of Captain Hoelstnd of the ship Ben Sew*ll, wrecked in Formosa channel, partially confirms the report that a boat load, including Morris, the first mate, twelve men aud a woman, were killed on Botel Tobago, an island inhabited bysavages. The Beanmont Confederated Oil and Pipe Line Company has been placed in the hands of a receiver at Dallas, Texas. The company was capitalized for $2,000,000. Twenty-two thousand shares of its stock were held by 8. J. Vonkoenneritz of Austin, nnd it was on his application that the receiver was appointed. Announcement of the successful accomplishment of grafting the ear of one man to the head of another \\ us made by Dr. Andrew L. Nelden, of New York. The putient upon whom Dr. Nelden grafted the ear is overjoyed in the physical possession <ff an ear which another man wore little more thau two weeks ago. Ottawa University, in Ottawa, Out, was destroyed by fire, but only one person was seriously hurt. The loss is estimated at $250,000, partly covered by insurance. It will be two yegrs before the university can be rebuilt, nnd meantime it will be impossible to get a place suitable to carry on the work of the institution. Three hundred armed citizens of Hudson, Ohio, had a rifle fight with blackmailers who threatened to kidnap the only Sou of Mrs. Jacob Niebel, a wealthy widow, unless $1,500 was deposited in n spot indicated in a letter sent her. Early in the morning, ns the posse, which had waited all night, was preparing to abandon the search, four men drove up. When challenged they turned their horse and opened fire. The posse pursued on foot, firing at the men, one of whom was wounded but not captured.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Tlie cnnnl treaty lias been signed at Panama. Dr. Cyrus Edson, tlie famous germ specialist, died in New York after a brief illness. C. P. Butler, n prominent member of the Columbus, Ohio, bar, shot and killed himself in his room. Fire has destroyed the coal pocket at the big freight terminal in South Boston, entailing a loss of übout $325,0U0. Fifteen persons were injured, two fa tally, in it renr end collision between Whittier electric cars near Los Angeles in a dense fog. The defaulting and fugitive president of the failed Bnnk of the Chickasaw Nation has been indicted by n grand jury at Ardmore, I. T. Jacob Hinds shot and fatally wounded Jerry Arnold at Cadiz Junction, Ohio, because the latter defeated him in a sparring exhibition. The town of Greenwood, Del., was nearly wrecked by an explosion of dynamite. Two were killed and 100 injured. Many houses were burned. Forty-four killed and 185 injured is the record of the street cars, elevated roads and railroad trains within the city of Chicago for the month of November. Attorney James A. Fullenweider was shot and probably mortally wounded by three highwnymen, who nttncked him at 4‘2d street and Wabash avenue, Chicago, while on his way home. Fred Strube gave himself up at Macon. Mo., after evading arrest for two weeks and confessed thnt he murdered Alice Ilenninger at Topeka, 111., because she refused to marry him. T. B. Southgate, late of Croydon, Surrey, England, and now residing at Rosser, near Winnipeg, has just come by $250,000 by the death of A. L. Webbe, whose life he saved in 1805. Ruth Bryan Leavitt writes to n friend that her artist husband has decided to remain at Humunsville, Mo., where they have been spending their honeymoon, and run for Congress on the Republican ticket next year. The will of William Wyman of Baltimore devises the bulk of his $500,000 estate to trustees to pay Ids daughter SO,000 a year. After her death, without Issue, the property goes to the Johns Hopkins University. The battleship Libertad, now undergoing speed trials on tlie Clyde, and the battleship Constitution, now in course of construction in England, have been sold by the Chilian government to the British government for $9,000,000. Three negroes were lynched for the murder of a white man at Belcher, La., by a crowd of 1,200 persons, containing a number of their own race. Many of the blacks In the crowd had aided in hunting down the assassins. Three members of a crew of eleven men on the tug Idlewild were drowned, the remainder of the crew narrowly escaped death, and the tug was sunk one minute after a collision with the tug Hercules in New York harbor. Refusing to aid his wife out of tier financial difficulties, James B. Miller, a brother-in-law of Jay Gould, helped the receiver to post notices sdvertising the forced sale of Mrs. Isabel E. Miller’s Rye farm on the old Joseph Jefferson homestead in Hohokus, N. J. In Asheville, N. C., Dr. J. Y. Jay was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to thirty years at hard labor. ▲ few weeks ago Dr. Jay, who is one of the beet-known physicians In the Asheville country, murdered his three children. His mind was thought to ho affected.

BASTERN.

Tsn buildings were burned at Brownsville, Pa., causing a loss of SBO,OOO. Tha lighting plant of ths Hackensack, N. J., Goa and Electric Light Company waa destroyed by ire. $50,000. One man was killed and two others Injured by the blowing tip of the separator bowl in an ice aud milk plant at Bridgeton, N. J. From dealing in hor*9» to mnnnging a $52,000,000 estate is the jump that J. C. Rtrickler of Philadelphia probably will make soon. Edward Lutz, a maniac, was nrrested at i’ottsville, Pn., for shooting at a Bending engineer who disregarded his order to stop a train. The Rockefeller-Gould combination is said to have gained actual control of the Pennsylvania lines, as well as other vast railway interests. Dr. Morgan Dix, in a sermon at Trinity Church, New York, declared the nation is threatened by class separation, insolence of wealth, and divorce. , Mrs. Arthur T. Kemp, Newport, K. 1., was divorced and married to Hollis P. Hunniwell within one hour. The judge who gave the decree officiated at the .Wedding. The safe at the passenger station of tho Pennsylvania Kuilroud in Phoeuixville, Pa., was blown open with dynamite nnd robbed of $l5O. There is no clew to the robbers. Former President Grover Cleveland, In a letter to Editor McKelway of the Brooklyn Eagle, announces unconditionally and irrevocably that he will not be a candidate for the presidency. Title to land worth $1,000,000,000 in the upper part of Manhattan has been claimed by 17,000 heirs of the members of the old corporation of New Harlem. A suit will be begun to secure possession. Hundreds of policemen and secret service men failed to prevent a crank from Intercepting the President at his uncle’s funertd in New York nnd from handing lihn a letter asking him to persuade the Kaiser to try a charcoal cancer cure. Four men who attempted to force an entrance to the residence of Mrs. Anna Ginter nt Blaine City, Pa., were shot at by her through the door. Albert Burger, one of the attacking party, was killed and Burger's companions were arrested. The Somerset Coal Company, the W. K. Niver Coal Company nnd the Merchants’ Coal Company, in the' Myersdale, Pa., region, have decided to reduce wages 10 cents a ton from Dec. 16. The three companies employ upward of 2,500 men.

Philadelphia police were notified by William Welsh Harrison thnt his country home, the Towers, at Glenside, a suburb, was robbed of jewelry valued nt $25,000. The thief is believed to be a mau servant employed by Mr. Harrison about two weeks ago. Hugh Scofield, a 13-yenr-old pupil in tlie Fishkill Landing, N. public school, was probably fntnlly injured in a football game between teams comprised of tlie school boys. A number of boys piled on him in a scrimmage and when picked up he was found to be completely paralyzed. News of n peculiar double fatality has come from the village of Lindle.v, N. Y. Itev. Levi Wilcox, pastor of the Free Methodist Church, was found dead in his barn, where lie had been at work. When Adam Lohrnan, a friend of the pastor, attempted to raise the body he fell dead. Heart disease caused both deaths. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, nt Ninety-sixth street and Central l'nrk west, New York, was dedicated Sundny. There were three services»in tlie new V ,188,000 structure. Among those present were representatives of Christian Science from nearly every State in the Union. A letter from Mrs. Eddy was read.

The historic Academy of Music, the largest theater in Brooklyn, was consumed by a fire believed to have been caused by an explosion in the building. For a time the Annies threatened adjoining property and when the roof fell part of it struck a saloou building, which was destroyed. The loss is estimuted at $300,000. Walking five miles over a rough mountain road, carrying a daughter 3 years old the entire distance, fearful that at any minute the child would die in her arms from poison, was tlie journey made by Mrs. Frederick England, of Livingston, N. J. The child had eaten biscuits covered with arsenic, which bud been scattered about the house to exterminate rats.

WESTERN.

The United States Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of the Kansas eight-hour law. The grand jury at St. Louis lias returned two indictments against Major Deuuis of get-rich-quick fume. The capture of two men suspected of robbing the bauk nt Agra, Kail., was effected by the citizens of Bloomington, Neb., after a lively fight. Francis J. McCarthy, a 15-year-old electrician of Sau Francisco, has invented a wireless telephone by which he has already transmitted messages u distance of four mijes. Thirteen persons were injured in a collision between an Ogden avenue and a Sangamon streetcar, in Chicago. Many pnsseugers were thrown from the platforms and one may die. Thirty-five hundred iron workers in tlie Calumet district, near Chicago, are made idle by strikes or shutdowns. Tha International Harvester Company plans •till further retrenchment.! Rev. William E. Hinshaw has been released on parole from the Indiana northern prison, where he had been serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife in 1895 at Belleville, Hendricks County. As the result of a sensational divorce auit pending in the Lawton, Okla., courts for several months Musey L. Vaughn was shot and fatally wounded by his father-in-law, William Ridley of Duncan, I. T. The Pnrtßche - Cantieny - Hanestein block in Lima, Ohio, was burned, entailing a loss of $50,000, divided among several occupants. A number of persons living in the upper rooms were carried down ladders by the firemen. Zion City’s industries and all of Jolia Alexander Dowie’s holdings passed under tbs control of Fred M. Blount and A. D. Currier, who were appointed by Judge Kohlsaal. of ths Federal Court,

la Chicago, as receiver* In bankruptcy. Claims of more than $70,000 are pending in court against Dowie, but ha says ha can pay all his creditors and have $25,000,000 left j Alderman John J. Brennan and two co-defendants have been found guilty of election frauds in the Eighteenth Ward, in Chicago. Under the verdict punishment may be a Jail sentence or a fine, or both, at the discretion of the court. A record-breaking initiation ceremony took place in Convention Hall, Kansas City, in that nearly 2,000 men took their first degree ns Knights of Pythias at one time. Of these 1,000 were from Kansas City nnd the others from neighboring towns. The Cireuit Court at Hamilton, Ohio, has granted the motion for a stay of execution of the sentence of death passed upon Alfred A. Knapp for the murder of his wife. The execution was set for Dec. 11, and a stay has been granted for thirty days. The annual report of Gov. Otero of New Mexico makes a plea for the admission of the territory to stntchoocL The report says that during'tlie pnst year the building of railroads continued with unabated vigor and capital made extensive investments. l’eter Niedermeier, Harvey Vjm Dine and Emil Roeski pleaded not guilty when urruigned before Judge Kersten in Chicago on murder indictments. Gustav Marx pleaded guilty and was the only one to show that he realizes the peril in his situation. H. S. Storrs, at present general superintendent of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, will Jan. 1 become general manager of the Michigan Central Railroad. It cannot be ascertained who will succeed Mr. Storrs on the Lake Shore. Alexander Garnett, who fatally shot Major J. W. McClurg at San Francisco, was booked for murder. Garnett says the shoouug was accidental. Mrs. Lillie 11. Coit, in whose apartments at the Palace Hotel the tragedy occurred, is seriously ill from heart failure. The greater part of the south side of Hall City, Kan., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss that will exceed SIOO,OOO. Among the losers are the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank, the Alliance store, C. A. Webster’s hardware store, the Masonic Hall and the Corder dry goods store.

Prairie fires are raging in the western part of Caddo County, Okla., south of the Washita River. Many homes are reported to have been burned between Fort Cobb and Anadarko. The fire swept a path from five to six miles wide, destroying everything, though so far bo lives are reported lost. Mrs. Mnry Sickles has sued the City of Enterprise, Kan., for SIO,OOO damages for tlie murder of her son, Clark Sickles, by Horace Plaisted, now iu the penitentiary. She alleges that Plaisted was drunk at the time and the city was responsible, as its officers had allowed the joints to run. During n farewell meeting for the Rt. Rev. J. J. Harty, recently appointed archbishop of Manila, at St. Leo’s Church in St. Louis, a section of the church floor sank into the cellar and over a score of persons went down. The floor sagged slowly and finally rested on the furnace. No one was injured. An attempt was made to blow up the home of Robert A. Valnet at Globevflle, Colo. He was a machinist at the Globe smelter who refused to quit work when ordered by the union. A large charge of dynamite was exploded under the front of the building. Considerable damage was done, but no oue was hurt. William 11. Myers was arrested in Hamilton, Ohio, and held in SI,OOO bail on a charge of embezzling $751 from Court Butler, No. 1380, Independent Order of Foresters, of which he was until recently financial secretary. Myers issued a statement saying that he holds receipts for every cent he has paid out. Cell No. 425 in the big federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., has been vacated. Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of .engineers, U. S. A., has puid the penalty for frauds in connection with the Savannah harbor work. Buoyant in spirits and still confident of his ultimate acquittal in the eyes of tlie people of felony, Curter started alone for Chicago. Frank J. Spencer, foreman of the elevator works for the Younglove-Bogges Company of Mason City, lowa, is missing. He had over $5(X> of the company’s money in his possession, and whether he has decamped or was foully dealt with greatly concerns his friends. He was superintending the construction of an elevator at Bombay, Minn., and was last seen at Zumbrota. Judge James A. Howe of tlie District Court iu lies Moines held that a decree granted under the Dakota divorce statutes is null and void if it is proved that tlie litigant resides there merely for the purpose of getting a divorce. The decision was rendered in the Fagan case, wherein a widow sued to recover her dower rights and was resisted on the ground that her husband had divorced her prior to his death. Harvey Van Dine and Peter Niederineier, companions of Gustav Marx in the Chicago cur barn murders, and Emil Roeski, associated with the trio in other crimes, were captured in Lake County, Indiana, after the most desperate man hunt in the history of Chicago. The outlaws mortally wounded Policeman Driscoll, wounded Detective Zimmer and a brakeman, and killed a second brakeman before being captured. Each of the outlaws was wounded. The authorities at Pulaski are still seeking to clear up the causes which led to the deaths of Jacob Miller, Frank Miller and John Johns, the father of Kate Miller. Jacob Miller some time ago made a will bequeathing his portion of certain farm land to his brother's children, and Mrs. Kate Miller had done likewise for her children, and this has given rise to rumors of foul play, but may not go far, as Jacob’s brother, Frank Miller, is among the victims. The theory of accidental poisouiug is the one given the most credence, as the Millers wera Roman Catholics, and on Friday hnd eaten from a can of mixed vinegar, mustard and sardines. Three of the Miller children rejected the sardines on account of a bitter taste. An examination of the can and contents shows the inside of the can to be rust eaten and tiny small, white, hard pointed specks similar to fine sand were found. The sardines appear to have been decayed before they were pat into the box. Greater than in any year in which records been kept have been the f&utt-

ties resultant from the open deer haatfaW season for 1003. The statistics of other yean reveal, it is true, a larger number of deaths In some yean, bat particular care waa taken this year to includ# only those who met their deaths as a result of deer hunting. In addition several were either killed or wounded during the pe-. riod from Nov. 10 to 30 while huntlijp rabbits or other game besides deer. These, however, were excluded from the 1003 list. The casualties are summed up as follows: 1903. 1902. Number of dead..... 13 10 Number of wounded 20 16 Totals 83 20 The new Michigan law, making the hunter punishable by imprisonment for killing a man, seems to have had the opposite effect from that intended, as nimrods are said to have taken to their heels several times to avoid prosecution, instead of staying to succor men wounded. It is probable that several fatalities will be reported later from wounds received during the open season.

SOUTHERN.

Seventy marines and forty Bailors, fought a sharp battle on the government reservation at St. Helena, Va., in which many were hurt. The smallpox situation along the Norfolk and Western Railroad in West Virginia is growing steadily worse, except in the towns of Ceredo and Kenova, where extensive sanitary precautions have cheeked its progress. A family feud in Hart County, Kentucky, resulted in the murder of two men nnd the serious wounding of two others, and led to the arrest of the alleged assassin, Custer Gardner, a relative of the dead and injured. Four children were burned to death near Jackson, Miss. William Dlkis and wife went to a festival several miles from their home and locked the children in the cabin. The cabin caught fire and the children were burned to death. Miss Navo Matlock, daughter of Sheriff James Matlock of Hardeman County, Texas, has been appointed deputy sheriff by her father. She is an expert shot nnd good rider. Much of her time will be spent In the saddle running down horse thieves. Fire in the heart of the business and manufacturing district of New Orleans completely destroyed the plant of the National Biscuit Company and damaged considerably a number of surrounding warehouses and other property. The loss is about $225,000. Mrs. W. P. Warren and her sister, Miss Morris, were burned to death in Central City, Ky., by the overturning of a lamp, which set fire to their clothing. A G-year-old boy saved his baby sisters life by wrapping her in a shawl aud carrying her to a place of safety. While making an effort to save the life of his 2-year-old sister, whose clothes had ignited from an open fireplace, Ernest Pettit, 8 years old, was burned to death at the home of his parents in Asheville, N. C. The baby, although seriously injured, will live.

FOREIGN.

Crowft Prince Frederick William, on behalf of Emperor William, took part in the dedication of the New American Chnrch at Berlin. The Dreyfuss case has been reopened by Minister of Justice, who is said to hove discovered that false evidence was given at the previous Jriai. The Boersen-Courier of Berlin asserts that the reports of the flight of Princess Alice of Schoenburg-Waldeuburg with her coachman are absolutely accurate. An emigration office in connection with the steamship iines touching at Bremen has been opened at Belgrade. Those who have taken tickets for the United States include 200 Macedonian refugees. Russia lias sent a battleship and three torpedo boat destroyers to Chemulpo to enforce a demand on Japan for redress in connection with the recent affray between Russian and Japanese sailors. It is announced at Cape Town that the Germans have formally annexed the territory of the Bondelzwarts tribesmen iu German southwest Africa. The surrender of the Bondelzwarts is expected. Advices have been received from south China by the steamer Athenian of ths loss of thousands of lives as a result of the destruction of several hundred Chinese fishing junks in a typhoon off Swatow. Russia and Japan are said to have agreed to a tentative settlement of the Manchurian question, and now have only tlie Corean matter to dispose of. Some annoyance is caused in Russia by the alleged part played by the United States. The flood which has caused so much damage in St. Petersburg was the biggest since 1824. The intense cold is causing much distress among tlie homeless and the dwellers in cellars. In the factory quarter 20,000 persons have been driven into the streets, many of them losing their all. Details of a treaty said to have been arranged between Japan and Russia are published in Paris, though Tokio is still clamoring for the negotiations to be concluded. According to the French report Japan is secured in her claims on Korea and Russia gains assurances of rights in Manchuria. Britain and France are said to hare aided in tlie settlement.

IN GENERAL.

Trade has been stimulated by cold weather, according to Dun’s Weekly Review; November railroad earnings gained 5.2 per cent; better tone iu iron is reported by Bradstreet’s. Heads of governments have arranged an international exchange of detectivea to guard against anarchy, and police from other nations will come to protect the President of the United States. Charles T v Yerkes rapped “high finance,” as exemplified by the United States Shipbuilding trust, saying the recent exposures have caused English capitalists to throw overboard American securities. Perry Heath is declared seriously involved in the postal scandals in the report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow, just made public. The Department and the public are shown to have been swindled ont of large sums through the aid of trusted men, who secured only a small proportion of the profits. President Roosevelt says til eases will be prosecuted with thorougfc-

CONGRESS

After a brief session the adjourned Friday until the next Tuesday. The business was confined almost exclusively to the introduction of relief bills. Senator Daniel introduced a bill appropriating $5,000,000 for the erection of a patent office east of the capital, the site to cost $600,000. The Cuban reciprocity bill was laid before the Senate, but as no one expressed a desire to speak upon it Mr. Cullorn at 12:42 p. m. moved an executive session, nnd three minutes afterward the Senate adjourned. When the House convened a message from the President transmitting correspondence relative to Panama additional to that forwarded to the House in response to a resolution was received. Mr. Payne (N. Y.), the Republican floor teader, then moved that when the House adjourn it be until the next Tuesday. Thereupon Mr. Williams (Miss.), the minority leader, and Mr. De Armond (Dem., Mo.) twitted the majority upon dilatory tactics and asked for a definite statement of party policy. In the course of hit reply Mr. Payne said the Republicans would hardly care to take up the question of tariff revision and disturb conditions on the eve of a presidential campaign. He also said the time was not opportune to consider reciprocity with Canada. There was a party alignment on the vote adopting the motion to adjourn over, the Democrats voting against it, the vote being 81 to 63. Mr. Bartholdt (Rep., Mo.) by unanimous consent spoke briefly of the progress upon the St. Louis exposition. Mr. Patterson (Dem., Tenn.) introduced a bill to abolish slavery in the Philippine archipelago and to abrogate tho treaty with the Sultan of Sulu. Mr. Hepburn (Rep., Iowa) introduced the pure food bill which was reported to the last Congress by the committee on interstate and foreign commerce. Mr. Parker (Rep., N. J.) introduced a bill providing for a national military park commission to consist of five Civil War veterans and two from the Confederate army and a bill restoring the army canteen. Mr. Tawney (Rep., Minn.) Introduced a bill providing a special copyright procedure for the protection of foreign art and literary exhibits and musical works at the St. Louis exposition.

The Senate was in open session thirty minutes Tuesday. After receiving a number of bills, resolutions and petitions and after spending some time in executive session, the Senate adjourned over until Friday. A majority of the bills offered were for private pensions and most of the petitions for the expulsion of Mr. Smoot (Rep., Utah). As usual, Mr. Cullom (Rep., Hi.) called up the Cuban reciprocity bill, but ns no one manifested a desire to address the Senate on it, the bill went' over. The time in the House was chiefly consumed iu a tariff debate. When Mr. Payne had offered a motion to adjourn over until Friday, Mr. Williams, the minority leader, suggested that they would like about thirty minutes on a Ride for debate, whereupon Mr. Payne asked the consent of the House. The Speaker, announcing the request said: “The gentleman from New York, at the suggestion of the gentleman from Mississippi asks unanimous consent that there be thirty minutes talk on a side.” Mr. DeArmond (Dem., Mo.) in a humorous vein criticised the majority, while Mr. Williams (Miss.) and Mr. Gaines (Tenn.) dwelt on the tariff policy of the Republicans. On the Republican side Mr. Hepburn (Iowa), Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) and Mr. Hemenway (Ind.) replied, defending tlie policy of their party, the latter two responding to charges of dereliction made by the minority against the majority. Representative Robinson, of Indiana, introduced a bill making the Chinese expulsion law applicable to the Japanese.

Odds and Ends.

The strike at Snowshoe, Pa., in the soft coal district, has been settled. President Cotton of Paducah, Ky., shot Charles Bowden iu a quarrel over a girl. A resolution favoring woman suffrage was adopted by the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, in session at Rochester, N. Y. Col. Robert M. Bands f one of the most prominent surviving officers of tlie confederacy, died after two weeks’ illness, aged 78, at Mobile, Ala. The decision of ex-Crown Princess Louise of Saxony to reside at Ventuor, England, indicates a partial reconciliation with the Crown Frince. Ernest Gregg, 19 years old, of Circleville, Ohio, who claims he was “shanghaied” at San Francisco three years ago, has returned to his home. The stoneware manufacturers east of the Mississippi river, meeting at Zanesville, Ohio, have formed a combination with a capitalization of $1,000,000. It is reported at Rome that Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) is working on three new books. One of these is entitled “How an American Discovered Italy.” “A corps of 400 able, trained workers and a fund of $1,000,000 a year is the goal toward which the Anti-Saloon League of this country is working,” sjrid State Superintendent P. A. Baker of the Ohio League. R. E. McCandlcss and George E. Price fought a duel at Edmonton, Ky., both using pistols at close range. Price died instantly and McCandless was mortally wounded. The cause of the tragedy is not known. New York is to be the home of the most costly clubhouse for workingmen in the United States. The clubhouse is to be five stories high, 100x102 feet iu area and is to cost $200,000. Facilities for mental and physical culture are to be the best obtainable. The bottom of a vat in the soap factory of Joseph Stern & Sons, in New York, was blown out by the steam pressure and five men were scalded by boiling fat John S. Pineover, who jumped from the Brooklyn bridge in December, 1901, has been pronounced Insane at Middletown, N. Y., and will be sent to the hospital. The Rev. David R. Huber, pastor of Trialty Lutheran Church at Findlay, 0., has resigned because members of his congregation criticised him foe spending several days banting quail.

Power Used in Bleyling.

A French selentUt has recently mute some experiment* which show tho amount of force developed by some bicycle riders during a hard race. Two celebrated cyclists hare maintained for two minutes a speed to continue which required the expenditure of energy representing two-thirds of one horse power. For six seconds they were able to exert the astonishing force of one and one-fourth horse power. This Is equivalent to raising a weight of 188 pounds one yard high, and In one second. This Is a conservative estimate owing to the Insufficiency of‘the co-efficients of power used in making the calculations. One oC the discoveries made during the calculation of the force exerted by bicyclists is that at high speed the work of a bicyclist In covering a specified distance Is as great as that of a man running the same distance. At a moderate speed a runner undergoes three times the labor of a bicyclist, but the higher the speed the nearer are the exertions equalised.

Reads Like a Miracle.

Frlarspolnt, Miss., Nov. 80.—The Butler case still continues to be the talk of the town. Mr. G. L. Butler, the father of the little boy, says: “The doctor said Sty boy had disease of the spinal chord, and treated him for two months, during which he got worse all the time. Finally, the doctor told me he did not know what was the trouble. The boy would wake up during the night and say that he was dying. He would be nervous and trembling and would want to run from the house, saying he saw ugly things which frightened him. After we had tried everything else, I read an advertisement of Dodd's Kidney Fills as a cure for Nervous Troubles. I purchased some and used them until be had taken altogether eight boxes, when he was sound and well with “not a single symptom of the old trouble. This was some months ago, and I feel sure that he is permanently cured. We owe to Dodd’s Kidney Pills all the credit for his restoration t« good health.”

Lost Opportunity.

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