Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 September 1897 — Page 2

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A Kentucky man left his family and stayed away five years, When he returned and found his wife married to another man he promptly shot him.

Klondike is much nearer the states now than was California in 1849 and 1850, when it took from four to five months of marching to reach the gold fields. "

The visit of Kmperor William to the czar is said to have resulted in an understanding that Russia and Germany will act together as obstructants to British expansion.

Paris has been making a test of horseless carriages for long runs and the best time made was 25 miles per hour. The leading carriage made 105 miles in four hours thirteen minutes.

One-fifth of a column is what the New York papers give now to an account of an execution by electricity. The current has a great mission if it is to cut down the supply of yellow rhetoric.

A Georgia editor writes after a visit to Rome, Italy: *“We were shocked to see a city in such a state of decay.” This must be the same editor who complained that Mammoth cave is notat all improved.

President McKinley receives an average of 60 begging letters a day. People in all parts of the country write soliciting his aid to get'them temporarily out of trouble. The other day the total amount requested was $25,000.

The two royal youngsters of Europe who recently tried to punch holes in each other succeeded. They demonstrated nothing by their bout, except the fact that an Italian and a Fremchman will stand up and fight until blood flows. .

The good heal‘nj.oyed throughout the land this summer is phenomenal. The doctors in Chicago find but little to do, and the hospitals have not half as many occupants as usual. New York city reports “the lowest death rate for the past 25 years.”

A cyelist i Portland, Me., took his wheel to pieces to clean it, putting the balls, bearings, ete.,, on the doorstep; where they were gobbled up by sorfe chickens. Instead of egg-bearing chickens he now has a flock) of ball bearing hens and the way they go through a flower bed is a marvel in mechanism to the neighbors.. .

A Pennsylvania husband came home drunk and tumbled into bed with his boots on. His patient wife sewed him up tight in the sheets and proceeded to give him a sound thrashing. Assoon as rcleased he had her arrested for ‘“assault,” and the judge proceeded to commend the wife and gave the husband ten days on bread and water in the workhouse. Some men have \no appreciation of the efforts of a good\wife.

Life has its romances, tragedies and comedies as sweet, as sad and as terrible as any which novelist, poet or playwright ever conceived. The original of “Evangelina” was probably no more romantic or truly poetic than the story of the two Scandinavians, Lena Olson and Christopher Bergstrom, who, parted as lovers in their youth, both died in the Dunning (Ill.) asylum, where they had lived for many years in their old age, not knowing each other.

- It may be interesting to know that the felt sombrero is regarded as more of a protection against heat than the straw hat in the hottest countries. The cowboy of the western plains, who is without the shade of trees, always uses the former. It keeps out the hot air, which the latter lets in. The principle is exactly that recognized by the Arabs of the desert and the Hindoo of India, who pile up fold after fold of linen turban over their heads and between their skulls-and the tropical sun.

The Klondike discoveries have caused a renewal of efforts upon the part of gold seekers in other sections. Thereis great excitement in California over new finds, and not in 30 years has prospecting been so generally indulged in Elsewhere and in almost every state in the union gold is being found. As a matter of fact it is to be found almost everywhere, but the trouble is that in most cases it is in such minute quantities that the men who rely upon their findings for support will assuredly starve to death.

A Minnesota farmer says corn makes a better and cheaper fuel than coal. He raised enough on ten acres to heat his house and feed two horses and a cow through the winter. Nevertheless, he is on the wrong track. Coal has but one use, while corn has many. Corn is bringing an increasing number of golden millions from other continents, and will soon take one of the highest places in our list of exports. To a patriot sitting by a corn fire the vision of good things vanishing up the chimney would be painful. Somebody will be proposing next to heat buildings by extracting the caloric in maple molasses.

The report of the United States commissioner of education, Dr. William T. HMarris, for the year ended July 1, 1896, has just been completed. It brings the educational progress of the country up tc that date and embraces the latest statistics the bureau had gathered. The report shows a total enrollment in that year, in the schoolsand colleges, Loth public and private, of 15,997,197 pupiis. This was an increase of 308,575. In addition there were 418,000 pupils in special schoo!s and institutions, business colleges, music conservatories, Indian and reform schools, making the total for the country 16,415,197,

~ It is proposed in the Pacific coast cities to send to the Yukon river soine of the great carth and mud-eating machines that are used to redeem tide lands. The dredger can 'handle as much gravel as 500 men, and properly equipped it is expected to devour sandbars at one end and turn out gold bricks at the other. All work shall be done in American territory. The ’49ers will be astonished by the new wrinkles to be applied in the Alaskadiggings. Inven- - mmmflgfly in the Iz ’f‘w years and the army of Amerigans in Alaska will shake-up that cotger of the earth

Epitome of the Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION,

FROM WASHINGTON.

A treasury department statement shows that individual deposits in national banks throughout the country are $102,000,000 greater than one year ago.

A bill has been prepared by the uniform law commission of the American Bar association providing for a divorce law which will be uniform throughout the various states. ,

Next spring a party will be sent out from the geological survey at Washington to make investigation of gold resources in Alaska.

THE EAST.

The Grand Army of the Republic nationalencampment began at Buffalo, N. Y., with a reception to Commander in Chief Clarkson and a parade of civic societies.

A final effort at Pittsburgh, Pa., to arrange a plan for ending the big coal strike proved a failure and the strike goes on.

More than 50,000 veterans were in attendance at the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Buffalo, N. Y., on the 24th, and President McKinley was the central figure in the proceedings of the day.

A cloudburst over the central and northern parts of New Jersey rendered hundreds of people homeless and destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth of property. More than 40,000 veterans, with the president of the United States at their head, made the triumphal march of the Grand Army of the Republic at the encampment in Buffalo, N. Y. The story writer and poetess, Mary Kyle Dallas, died at her home im New Yorlk of heart failure, aged 50 years. ~ln New York city 12,000 cloakmakers struck for higher wages. While leading a body of marchers past the Allison mine near McGovern Station, Pa., Patrick Dolan, one of the miners’ officigls, was arrested.

~ J. P. S. Gobin, of Lebanon, Pa., was elected commander in chief at the national encampment in Buffalo of the Grand Army of the Republic and Cincinnati was chosen as the place for meeting next year. The report of Adjt. Gen. Burmeister showed a membership on June 30 last of 319,456, against 327,412 on December 31, 1896. The relief fund was $516,020. '

Pennsylvania republicans met at Harrisburg and nominated James S. Beacon, of Westmoreland county, for state treasurer, and Levi G. McCauley, of Chester county, for auditor-general. The tailors’ strike in New York city was declared off, the increase of 25 per cent. in wages being conceded by the employers. '

A deal was closed in New York to combine the distillery interests of Kentucky with a capitalization of $15,000,000. g

Fire that started in Edmundson & Perrine’s furniture house in Pittsburgh caused a loss of $165,000 and Zeke Glover and Harry Holt (firemen) perished in the flames.

WEST AND SOUTH.

At Steubenville, 0., a celebration in commemoration of the centennial of the establishment of Jefferson county was held.

Fire wiped out the business portion of the town of Ina, 111. :

The governor of Illinois has designated September 6 as Labor day. A mob lynched Wiley Douglas (colored) at Kendall, Ark., for killing T. T. Johnson, a white man.

"Catherine Rice celebrated her one hundredth birthday at her home in Mount Morris, 111.

~ Reports as to the condition of the crops throughout the country show the need of warmer weather and more rain.

In Chicago window glass manufacturers met and organized a trust.

In Arkansas new discoveries of valuable deposits of pearls in lakes and rivers have been made.

The Wisconsin law requiring the labeling of convict-made goods brought into the state from other states has been declared unconstitutional.

- Rebecca McKeedied at Princeton, 111, aged 100 years and 2 months.

William R. Holy)way, of Indianapolis, has been appointed consul general at St. Petersburg, Russia. L - The American Bar association began its twentieth annual conventiom in Cleveland. :

A fire destroyed A. H. Holmes’ livery stable at Ann Arbor,Mich.,and 21 horses perished. :

Prof. Moore, of the weather bureau, will issue marine weather charts for the lake region a few days before the beginning of each month. - Officers shot the wife of Mike Hill (colored) and her two sons at Atolka, Tenn., for resisting a.levy on their household goods. : In Chicago Al Hankins, one of the best-known sporting men in the west, was killed by the closing of a folding bed.

Holland, Mich., celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its existence. Fire wiped out a large part of the plant of the Kansas City Car & Foundry company in Armourdale, Mo., ‘theloss being $150,000. ifl S A mob tock a young®negro named Bonner from jail at Belleville, Tex., and lynched- him for an assault upon an aged white woman. _ In the jail yard at Richmond, Va., Joseph Fife, a negro, was hanged for assaulting a widow named Marks.

'+ From Alaska new discoveries and tons of gold form the latest news. - Fire destroyed a boarding house at Welland, Cal., and Mrs. Craighead, wife of the proprietor, and two of her grandchildren, aged eight and ten years, perished in the flames.

In St. Louis the new American party was launched by a convention of delegates representing nine states and one territory. Col. E. H. Sellers, of Detroit, was elected chairman of the natiomal committee and Detroit was selected as headquarters. The platform demands the demonetization of gold and silver and an unlimited paper currency. The Nebraska republicans in convention at Lincoln renominated A. M. Post, of Platte county, for associate justice of the supreme court. In a speech Senator Thurston said he would not again be a candidate for the United States senate. : ;

At the sessién in Denver Joshua A. Shaw, of New York, was elected supreme chief ranger of the Foresters of America. In Chicago the Fitzgerald Trunk company’s factory was partly burned, the loss being $lOO,OOO, , ,

Papers were read at the opening session in Cleveland of the American Bar association favoring international arbitration and more uniformity in state laws. i

In Chicago on the 26th wheat eclipsed the top-notch prices of the present bull campaign when it reached $1.03.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The death of Count Mutsu, former minister of foreign affairs of Japan, occurred in Yokohama. He molded the policy of the modern empire. It is said the question of the peace settlement of Greece and Turkey has passed out of the hands of the ambassadors of the powers and has become the subject of negotiations direct between the European cabinets. In Europe the wheat, rye and potato crops are said to be over one billion bushels less than the average. British forces in India were again defeated by the Afridis and Fort Ali-Mus-jid was captured and burned. In a typhoon the steamer Cheang-hy-Etong foundered off the Malay peninsula and 21 of the crew were drowned. Capt. Scott, as the vessel sunk, committed suicide by shooting himself.

Anarchists, it was said, had resolved to avenge the execution of Angiolillo, the assassin of Canovas del Castillo, by an attempt upon the life of thequeen regent of Spain.

It is said an English syndicate has been formed to complete the Panama canal. : ; -At a session in Madrid of the council of ministers it was decided to continue Weyler in his present command in Cuba.

Twenty women were drowned by an accident in the pumping works at Moneada, Spain. . .

LATER NEWS.

The Grand Army encampment at Buffalo, N. Y., came to an end after the election of the following officers: Senior vice commander, Alfred Lyth, of Buffalo; junior vice-commander, Francis B. Allen, of Hartford, Conn.; chaplain, Frank C. Bruner, of Chicago; surgeon general, Dr. David McKay, of Dallas, Tex. Mrs. S. J. Martin, of Missouri, was elected national president of the Woman’s Relief corps. : A dispatch says that rich strikes of gold have been made on the American side in the Yukon valley in Alaska.

The National Bar asscciation completed its convention at Cleveland after electing William Wirt Howe, of New Orleans, president. 7 ' Mrs. Floride E. Wilkinson, one of the best known newspaper women in Ohio, died suddenly in Toledo. Pending a decision as to whether it will go into liquidation the Bank of Minneapolis, Minn., closed its doors with deposits of $150,000. General business conditions throughout the country were said to be very ‘gratifying, with no signs of reaction. The C. H. Henschell factory at Sheboygan, Wis., that manufactured supplies for cigar factories, was burned, the loss being $200,000. By the breaking of a scaffold on a building at Rock Island, 111., W."H. Willis was killed and C. J. Schreiner, John Lowe and Joe Crudup were fatally injured. It is said that a definite treaty has been signed by France and Russia, the terms of which are a secret. There were 223 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 27th, against 223 the week previous and 288 in the corresponding period of 1896. : Coal operators of the Pittsburgh district decided to attempt to open their mines with nonunion help. At the tristate fair in Toledo, 0., two aeronauts, Walter Steele and Leroy Northeott, were fatally injured.

In Wisconsin Mrs. Cusick and Daniel O’Rourke were killed by the cars near Wilton and W. J. Bennett and Bryan Vant met a like fate at Reedsburg. Owing to the anarchistic threats of assasination a force of detectives has been detailed to protect the queen regent of Spain. ' Henry C. Dunker, a barber, fatally shot Mrs. Harriet Storey and her husband, Richard, in Chicago, and then shot himself, but not seriously. Dunker was in love with the woman, who repélled his advances.

Many coal miners and their families in Ohio and Indiana were said to be on the verge of starvation. The steamship Portland, the treasure ship of {he North American Trading and Transportation company, arrived at Seattle, Wash., from Alaska with $575,000 in gold dust on board. Iler passengers confirm the marvelous reports of gold discoveries, but warn people from making the trip until next spring.

Off the coast of Achentskdchen the British steamer Hegu was looted by pirates and some 30 persons were killed. Earthquake shocks and a tidal wave in Japan destroyed over 5,000 buildings and caused the death of more than 200 persons.

The entire south side of the square at Virginia, 111., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $200,000. Capt. Gen. Weyler left Havana with troops for the purpose of carrying on military operations in the province of Havana.

Eight persons were poisoned and seven died by eating a melon stolen from a neighbor’s patch in Galloway county, Ky, » President McKinley was given a reception in Cleveland by the Tippecanoe club. ; 2

A storm struck Laurelwood park near Patavia, 111., where a picnic was in progress, and Mrs. Kate Brown was killed and 17 other persons were injured. All were from Chicago. At Denver, C 01.,, A. L. Hachenberger rode 100 miles, unpaced, on a bicycle in 5 hours and 15 minutes, establishing a new world’s record. : While in a demented condition Mrs. William Z. Hitchin, of Flint, Mich., chloroformed her five-year-old daughter and shot her 15-year-old daughter, probably fatally. In a wreck qp the Chicago & Alton road near Alton, 111., Engineer Rafferty was fatally injured and many other persons were badly hurt.

Star Pointer went a’ mile in 1:591 at Readville, Mass., which is the fastest time ever made by a pacer in the world’s history. L Cracksmen blew open the vault of the Exchange bank at Elmdale, Kan,, and secured $l,BOO in cash. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 28th were: Baltimore, .686; Boston, .682; New York, .634; Cincinnati, .614; Cleveland, .524; Chicago, 458; Pittsburgh, .447; Louisville, .440; PHiladelphia, .435; Washington, .428; ka’%sf Louis, 262, SRt L e i e

G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT,

Battle-Scarred Veterans Invade the City of Buffalo.

President Attends and Speaks at a Banquet—Forty-Five Thousand ; 01a Soldiers Line Up .. in the Parade.

Buffalo, N. )Y., Aug. 25.—Another beautiful day ¥reeted the veterans of the G. A. R. Tuesday. The features of the day were the arrival of President McKinley at three o’clock in the afternoon, the banquet tendered him by the Columbia post of Chicago, and the parade of naval veterans and ex-prisoners of war in the evening. Shortly after five o’clock Columbia post, dressed in fatigue coats and white duck trousers, arrived at the hotel and acted as escort to the president to the Elliott building, where the post entertained the president at a banquet. When an elaborate menu had been discussed ‘to the satisfaction of Ithe guests the toastmaster called for Gov. Frank S. Black, who extended a welcome for Columbia post to President McKinley. The toastmaster announced the toast “The City of Buffalo Welcomes the Grand Army.” Mayor Jewett responded. When Mr. Jewett had finished his address, President McKinley was introduced and for fully five minutes it seemed as though the roof would have to fall or the side walls bulge with the roars of applause and greeting. Then the president said, very slowly and distinctly: i ‘

The President’s Remarks.

‘““Mr. Toastmaster and Comrades, and My Fellow Citizens: I wish I might frame fitting words to make suitable response to the more than gracious welcome which you have accorded me here to-night. I come with no set form of speech; I come with no studied phrases to present to you, but I come in the spirit of comradeship; to talk with you as we have often talked in the past, around the camp fires in war as well as at camp fires in peace. [Applause.] To me, I see by the programme, has been assigned the toast, ‘The Country and Its Defenders.” My fellow citizens, blessed is that country whose defenders are patriots. Blessed is that country whose soldiers fight for it and are willing to give the best they have, the best that any man has, thelr own lives, to preserve it because they love it. Such an army the United States has always commanded in every crisis of her history. [Applause.] : “From the war of the revolution to the late civil war the men followed that flag because they loved that flag and believed in what it represented. [Applause.] That was the stuff of which the volunteer army of 1861 was made. Every one of them not only fought, but they thought. [Applause.] And many of them did their own thinking, and did not always agree with their commander. [Laughter and applause.] That young soldier who in the late war, upon the battle line, ahead with the color guard, bearing the stars and stripes, way in front of the line, but the enemy still in front of him, when the general called out to the color bearer: ‘Bring those colors back to the iine,’ quicker than any bullet that young soldier answered back: ‘Bring the line up to the colors.” [Prolonged applause.] It was the voice of command; there was a man behind it, and there was patriotism in his heart. 3

'“ ‘So nigh to grandeur is our dust; So near to God is man. When duty whispers: Lo, thou must! the youth replies: YT can.” :

“And so more than 2,000,000 brave men responded and made up an army grander than any army that ever shook the earth with its tread. [Applause.] And engaged in holier cause than ever soldiers did before. What defenders, my countrymen, have we now? We have the remnant of this old, magnificent, matchless army of which I have been speaking, and then as allies in any future war we have the brave men who fought against us on southern battle fields. [Great applause.] The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. [Applause.] They are-one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose and in an invincible patriotism, and therefore the country is in no danger. [Applause.] In justice strong, in policy secure, and in devotion to the flag all one. [Great applause.] My fellow countrymen, I thank you and hid you good night.”” [Prolonged applause.]

Parade of Veterans.

Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 26. — Forty-five thousand men on Wednesday marched through streets glorious in flags and punting, receiving the ovation of a half million people. The president of the union they fought to save, himself their comrade, was at their head.- When the. line of the grand army procession moved at 10:30 Wednesday morning, the sky had not a cloud. Therainstorms of the night had left a clear, bracing air that was like a tonic to the marching men. The procession moved for five hours and 42 minutes. Along the route of march 100 girls, dressed in the colors of the flag, scattered flowersin the path of the soldiers. President McKinley rode in a carriage at the head of the procession and waved his hat at the cheering crowd.

Address of Commander Clarvrkson.

Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 27.—The first addresses delivered after the opening of the session Wednesday morning were those of Gov. Black, Mayor Jewett and Commander Shaw, welcoming the veterans respectively on behalf of the state, the city and the New York department of the G. A.R. Comrade Foster, of New York, then read an original poem. : Commander in Chief Thaddeus 8. Clarkson proceeded to deliver his annual address. After the usual compliments and felicitations he proceeded to touch upon a variety of subjects. In relation to the story of the war as taught to children in the books of the public schools, and which has recently come in for a large share of public attention, the commander in chief said: “It is’ certainly not the object of the Grand Army of the Republic to keep open the wounds of the war, but of this we are determined—that one side of that great struggle was right and the other side was wrong—and we were not the wrong side, and we don’t intend that our children shall be taught that we were.” Gobin Elected Commander in Chief, After reports of the other officers had been presented, the hall was cleared for the executive session, at which Cincinnati was chosefi®as the next place of meeting, and Gen. Gobin was elected commander in chief. Finish Business and Adjourn. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 28.—The grand army encampment Friday, after electing Alfred Lyth, of Buffalo, senior vice commander; Dr. David Mackey, of Dallas, Tex., surgeon general; Francis B. Allen, of Hartford, adjutant general, and Rev. Frank C. Bruner, of Chicago, chaplain in chief, adjourned to meet at Cincinnati next year. Alien Tax Law Veid. Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 27.—The alien tax law was decided unconstitutional by Judge Acheson, of the United States court. e i Wheat in Chieago Reaches $1.03 1-2. Chicago, Aug. 27.—Wheat eclipsed the top-notch prices of the preflen‘“b’iflé ‘campaign Thursday, when it reached R Fo e e e e e R

NO ARBITRATION, Uonference of Miners and Operators Comes to No Agreement. Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 25.—The final effort to arrange a plan for ending the big coal strike has proved a failure and the strike goes on. At noon the conference between a committee of coal miners and operators, national and district officials, closed and the conference adjourned without date. The miners’ representatives did not recede from their original proposition to settle the strike by arbitration and start the mines at the 69-cent rate. '

The operators offered to divide the difference between 54 and 69 cent rates, making the price at which the mines should start 611, cents per ton, but this. was rejected. Then additional propositions were made. One was to start the mines without fixing any price for 30 days and then to pay the rate agreed upon by the board of arbitration. This was also refused by the miners, who said they had been fooled too often to trust the operators again. They declinel to work for a month, giving the operators the output that length of time without knowing what wages would be paid. A proposition was then made to operate the mines for ten days without fixing the price, and allow a board of arbitration to fix the price for that time. i President Ratchford insisted that nothing but the 69 cent rate could be possibly accepted. ‘ The operators were firm, but the miners were equally determined, and every argument of the mine owners was met by the miners’ leaders. Neither side would concede another point, and it was decided to end the conference.

Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 26.—C0al operators of the Pittsburgh district made a decided change in front since Tuesday. Internal dissensions, mixed with fear on the part of some, caused a split in their forces and a change of base. Ow its face the move looked to many like a ‘temporary surrender to the United Mine Workers of America. This, however, is denied in most emphatic terms by the most prominent lake shippers, who say they are going to start their mines and supply the demand from the northwest and not stand idly by and let.a large volume of business go to operators of other states. They publicly state that they are willing to wait for a week or ten days before a decided move is made. They claim that this will give them ample time to get the lake trade. Some of the operators in the meeting were frank enough to state that the situation at the presenttime inall branches of labor i¢ eritical, and that they have no desire to make any move that would cast odium on the operators of the Pittsburgh district. )

- Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 28.—Coal operators of the Pittsburgh district have not becn asleep during the past few days. TLe impression in certain circles that there would be no attempt made to start the mines seems to have been established for a purpose and that purpose was to divert the attention of the miners’ officials. It has been definitely decided to start several mines along the Wheeling division of the Baltimore & Chio railroad. The preliminaries are 111 completed and a decisive move can be expected at most any time.

NEW AMERICAN PARTY.

KFavors the Demonetization of Both e Gold and Silver.

St. Louis, Aug. 27.—The new American party was launched Thursday by a convention of between 40 and 50 delegates, who have been in session in this city for the last few'days. They represent nine states and territories, and are said to have backing in a large number of other states. A national comm#ttee was elected of ten members, with Col. E. H. Sellers, of Detroit, as chairman. A platform was adopted, and Detroit was selected for the committee beadquarters for the ensuing year: On the financial question the platform has this to say:

““Stnce nearly or quite 99 per cent. of all business transactions of the country are accomplished without the use of specie, we favor the demonetization of both gold and silver, the prohibition of contracts for payment in coin of either metal and the substitution of metallic tokens for our present minor coins. ‘“We believe that all currency should be in the ferm of treasury notes of unlimited legal tender quality, and in such quantities as shall facilitate the freest commercial exchange, and that every form of currency notes should be withdrawn from circulation.”’

STOLE A MARCH.

President McKinley Makes a Quiet llntree Into Cleveland.

Cleveland, 0., Aug-RB.—President MecKinley surprised the people of Cleveland by his early arrival from Buffalo I'riday morning. He becaime the guest of the people of this city and will remain such until next week Wednesday. R ' President McKinley was unusually pleasant in his demeanor. He talked volubly of his trip from Buffalo, of the G. A. R. encampment, which he pronounced to be the greatest in history, and spoke in the highest terms of the manner in which the people of Buffalo had handled the encampment: Pennsylvania Republicans. Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 27.—The state republican convention met in the opera house Thursday to nominate candidates for state treasurer and auditor general. The platform adopted reaffirms the doctrines enunciated in the national platform adopted at St. Louis in 1896, congratulates the country on the enactment of the Dingley tariff bill, rejoices over ‘““dollar wheat,” and heartily indorses the administration of President McKinley. James S. Beacon, of Westmoreland county, was nominated for state treasurer and Levi G. McCauley, of Chester county, for auditor-gen-eral. Mount Saint Elias 18,120 Feet High. Victoria, B. C., Aug. 27.—The expedition of Prince Luigi, of Savoy, to the summit of Mount Saint Elias has determined two facts of prime importance to the scientific world. It has fixed once for all the altitude of Mount Saint Elias at 18,120 feet. Big Combine of Distillers. Lexington, Ky., Aug. 27.—1 t is reported here that a deal to combine thedistillery interests of Kentucky with ’ a capitalization of $15,000,000 has been closed in New York. ‘\ Bank -G!o~ues Its Doors. - Minneapolis, Minn,, Aug. 28.—Pend[ing a decision as to whether it will gointo liquidation, the Bank of Minneapolis closed its doors I'riday. .

A RULER SLAIN. President Borda of Uruguay Killed by an Assassin. 3 Buenos Ayres, Aug. 26.—Telegraphic advices from the Herald’s correspondent in Montevideo, Uruguay, stgte that Idiarte Borda, president of the:republic, was assassinated Wednesday afternoon. The ecrime was committed just a few minutes after the president left the cathedral, where he had listened to the Te Deum sung en the occasion of the anniversary of the independence of Uruguay. Following the assassination, and while the immediate members of the president’s official family were still bending over him where he had fallen, there was a forward movement of the crowd which had gathered, and in order to protect the dying president his military escort attacked the crowd and succeeded in driving it back, only after many persons had been wounded and several killed. The assassin is Avelino Arredondo, an officer in the Uruguay army. He is a Uruguayan and only 27 years oid. - 3 Arredondo, who is now in prison under close guard, declares that his crime was not inspired by anything more than a personal hatred for the president. He had, he said, no accomplices and is willing to take upon himself all the consequences of the deed. Montevideo was in gala attire in celebration -of the independence of Uruguay, which was proclaimed on August 25, 1825. The day, according to the programme which had been mapped out, was one replete with festivities and feasts. Of the official ceremonies, the singing of the Te Deum was the most impressive. President Borda had gone to the cathedral, attended by a military escort, the members of his cabinet .and diplomatic representatives from other countries.

- THE WAR IN INDIA. ’ Situation on the Frontier Is Growing Worse. Bombay, Aug. 26.—The latest dispatches received from the front indicate that the situation on the frontier is getting worse. It is evident that the Indian government must face a grave crisis, involving heavy expenditure and probably great loss of life. The government is confronted with the following state of affairs: Khybar pass has fallen into the hands of the Afridis; the posts in Kurram valley are threatened by the powerful tribe of the Orakzai; the Mohand tribesmen are meditating a renewal of hostilities around Fort Shabkdar, while thousands of troops are engaged in crushing the revolt in the Swat valley and two large brigades are holding the Tochi valley, where the Mahsud-Maziris are again restless. ‘ The authorities are convinced that Fort Ali-Musjid could only have fallen after desperate fighting, as the native garrison of Khybar rifles was made up of men who rendered valuable assistance in the’ Black mountain expedition of 1888. The fall of the fort is a very serious blow, for it isolates Fort LundiKotal, which is at the extreme end of Khybar pass, garrisoned by 300 Khybar rifles, and necessitates the prompt reconquest of the pass.

Peshawur, Aug. 27.—TFort LundiKotal, situated at the extreme end of the Khyber pass and garrisoned by 300 men of the Khyber rifles, was attacked and burned by the Afridis on Tuesday. The famous Khyber pass, leading from Afghanistan into India, has now fallen completely into the hands of the insurgent tribesmen. -

STILL ENCOURAGING.

General Trade Situation Continues to : Make Improvement. New York, Aug. 28.—Bradstreet’s in his weekly review of trade, says:

““The general trade situation continues to Improve, and aside from the unnecessarily prolonged strike of the sofe coal miners, there is little in sight to cloud the outlook. The feature of the week is the advance in prices of almost all leading staples, beginning with an upward movement all along the line in iron and steel. Stell billets are now $1.50 above lowest figures, bars, $1.50; rods, three dollars, and plates, one dollar. Bessemer pig iron is up 25 cents, and foundry a like amount. Southern irons are very strong on a continued active export movement. ILead, too, and soft coal are higher, as is wheat, notwithstanding one or two reactions. Bradstreet’s points out that the statistics position of wheat is the strongest known since the United States became a considerable exporter, and that its price, as well as that of bread, is likely to materially exceed the present week’s advances. ‘“Following that for wheat, prices are higher for flour, corn, oats, lard, potatoes, butter, eggs, beans, cheese, leaf tobacco, wool and live stock. Advances for leather, hides, lumber and linseed oil are also reported. Cotton, which is up three-six-teenths cent reports the smallest world’s stock for seven years past at .this period an improved tone and higher prices for the manufactured product. In spite of crop damage, the tendency of estixhates is toward the largest total yield on record, but with probabilities favoring much better prices than those obtained for the crop of 1894-5.. Advances are being asked for reorders of woolen goods at mills, but print cloths, petroleum and sugar are unchanged for the week, while pork is reported slightly lower than a week ago. No such general or pronounced upward movement of prices of nearly all leading staples has been witnessed within a week for many years.” Tk e -

Woman’s Relief Corps.

Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 27.—The fifteenth annual convention of the Woman’s Relief Corps of the United States was called to order Thursday morning by the national president, Agnes Hitt, of Indianapolis. After the usual exercises in accordance with the ritual the president proceeded to deliver her annual address, which was largely made up of recommendations concerning changes in the rules and regulations, ritual and other details of the order. The annual. report of Ida S. Meßride, national secretary, showed that there were now 33 departments and 55 detached corps, with a total membership in good standing of 111,633. The amount in the general fund June 30, 1897, was $104,401 and in the relief fund $54,967. : Thousands Want Food. Columbus, 0., Aug. 27.—Mine officials are waiting with some impatience for the St. Louis conference of labor leaders. General Master Workman Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor, has removed his headquarters from Fort Wayne to this city temporarily. There is a remote fear of a bread riot in several of the Ohio districts, and State Miner Haseltine was in consultation with President Ratchford quite awhile Thursday. Mr. Haseltine has received letters which show an aggregate of 17,500 persons in want of food. Many of thési arechildren under 14. The stores | in the mining towns have trusted the idle miners to the extreme limit, and|

CURING HICCOUGHS.

More Remedies Than One Suggested st in the Story. “Why don’t you stop that hiccoughinfi?" said one business man to another as they met at the corner of Fourth and Vine streets at the noon hour. The man addressed was all but in convulsions, : - “Stop nothing!”” said he. “I’ve been trying every old remedy I ever heard of and every new one that everf' fool friend was kind enough to suggest. I've held my arms over my head for 15 minutes and extended them like a si%n board until they ached. I held my breath until I was all but ready to drop from ‘apoplexy. I've drunk nine swallows of water nine times over, I guess, and two'or three chumps have tried to scare me, and did it, too, but to no good. Then another enthusiastic amateur physician hit me in the middle of the back when I wasn’t looking and escaped before I could land on him. T would not have done a thing to him if T had caught him. But the hiccoughs are here, and to atay, I fear.” . -“Set ’em up if T cure you?”’ “Will I? I'll set ’em up for a month and ghm)y in a big cold ‘bot’ besides if you cure em.

Then they adjourned to a moistening establishment, and the good Samaritan said to Dan: “Dan, give this gentleman a lump of white sugar.” He took it and dissolved it in his mouth, and the hiccoughs went as if by magic, firobably because their stay was over anyow, and not on account of the remedy, but it cost the cold bottle just the same and some drinks besides. Still, he thinks he got out of it cheap enough.—Cincinnati Tribune.

Do We Needinig Muscles?

By no means. Persons of herculean build frequently possess a minimum of genuine vigor, and exhibit less endurance than very small people. Real vigor means the ability to digest and sleep well, and to perform a reasonable amount of daily physical and mental labor without unnatural fatigue. It is because a course of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters enables the enfeebled dyspeptic to resume the allottedactivity of everyday life, as well as to participate without discomfort in its enjoyments, that it is such a preeminently useful medicine. ,

Not Worth a D.

Chief Justice Peters, of Maine, has a reputation for telling witty stories, At the recent commencement of the University of Maine he told this one:

“I knew a young man who was seven years getting: through another college. Then he went into the ministry, because he didn’t have sense enough to practice law. He went into the Episcopal ministry because he didn’t have to make prayers and could steal his sermons. Then he went out and got the degree of D. D. from a university. Onewould have done just as well, and such a degree isn’t worth much.”—N. Y. Herald.

‘There Is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has {)een placed in all the gocery stores a new preparation called RAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over las much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per package. Tryit. Ask for GRAIN-O.

—_———— ———— Made Free with Them.

“Whar’d yo’ git dat load er lumber, Br'er Black?” B “Down ter de Healin” Ba’m church.” “Sho 'nough? Has dey tord de buildin’ down ?” )

“No, sah. - Hit's dar yit, but I hearn Parson- Blowhard sav dat de pews wuz free, an’ so I riz up arly dis mornin’ an” went down dar an’ ripped up a pa’r ob em an’ fotch ’em erlong.”’—Boston Courier.

Shake Into Ycur Shoes.

Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It eures painful, swollen, smarting feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen’s Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes feel easy. 1t isa certain cure for sweating, callous, hot, tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package, FREE. Write to Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.

Afraid to Risk It. § Farmer’s Wife (to tramp)—l will give you a -good. meal if you will work at my - woodpile first. Tramp (solemnly)—Madam, I am sorry - to disoblige, but I was brought up not to work on Sunday, and I read the other day that some mistake had been made in the calendar, and se*any day may be Sunday for all I know, and until the thing is cleared up I must decline to labor.—N. %7 Journal.

McVicker’s Theater, Chicago.

Thos. _\V.'Keene, the eminent tragedian, will begin an engagement Sept. sth, appearing in a number of Shakespearean plays. \ '

Wheén a woman has more than she can hold in her hand she puts it in her mouth. —Washington Democrat.

How to Get Well.

Send for free pamphlet. Garfield Park Sanitarium, 1776 Washington boulv’d, Chicago.

llf it were not for funerals a great many men would never hear a’ sermon.—Washington Democrat.

For Whooping Cough, Piso’s Cure is a’ successful remedy.—M. P. Dieter, 67 Throop Ave., Brocklyn, N. Y., Nov. 14, "94.

The busy little bootblack never fails to impr?lve each little shining hour.—Chicago Record. .

—_— Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price 75¢c.

| - KIDNEY TROUBLES Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham'’'s Vegetable Compound, ' : Also Backache. : : I cannot speak too highly of Mrs. Pinkham’s Medicine, for it has done so much for me. I have been a great sufferer from Kidney trouble, pains in muscles, joints, back and shoulders; feet would swell. I also had womb troubles and leucorrhcea. After using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and‘ Blood Purifier and Liver Pills, I felt like a new woman. My kidneys are now in perfect condition, and all my other troubles are cured.— MRs. MagGIE Porrs, 324 Kauffman St., Philadelphia, Pa. : Backache. : My system was entirely run down, and I suffered with terrible backache in the small of my back and could hardly stand upright. I was more tired in the morning than on retiring at night. I had no appetite. Since ‘taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, I havegained fifteen pounds, and I look better than I ever looked before. I shall recommend it to all my friends, as it certainly is a wonderful medicine.—Mßs. E. F. McRTCN, 1043 Hopkins St., Cincinnati, Ohio. e Kidney Trouble. . ' Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, I had sutiered ‘many years with kidney trouble. The pains in my back and shoulders were terrible. My menstruation became irregular, and I was troubled with leucorrheea. I was growing very weak. I had been to many physicians but received no benefit. I began the use of Mrs. Pinkham’s medicine, and the first bottle relieved the pain in my back and regulated the mfifi:& E‘y*!sthe ‘best kind of medicine that I have ever SRR e Sl gl g SRR e S