Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 December 1897 — Page 2

- S » B 9 5 The Zigomier Lanmer ;N-.ey g ; K " LIGONI,ER. ¢ 1t INDIANA The British are.increasing the armament at Gibraltar and making that celebrated fortress stronger than ever. E AN T SRR EOR ST AT ' Ex-President Harrison pays taxesat Indianapolis on $105,000 worth of property, which is about $25,000 less than exPresident Cleveland’s tax valuation. ~ Two thousand tierces of Oregon horse ‘meat have been sold in Paris this year. . Translated into French the Oregon - Horse becomes a highly useful animal. |~ The National Geographical society of | Washington learns from trustworthy ' sources that the Yukon river freezes - over about November 1/and is open before June 10. The lowest frigidity is <67 degrees.' e 5 . T B The thrifty Frenchman is said to utilize the cores and parings of American apples to give his exported champagne -that four-dollar-a-bottle tang which the dude deems necessary-to his proper celebration. ~ About 30,000 bales of cotton are booked for shipment to Japan this win-. Atex; from the single port of Seattle. This is~said to be 50 per cent. more in value than the value of all American exports to Japan (luring the season of 1894-'95. — = 2 LA PR ST IR WIIYS S WOT YG2 - When American girlsread that young Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. is not permitted to ride a.avheel hecause the privy council of the kingdom considers bicyecling as inconsonant with royal dignity, they will thank their stars‘that they were not born to occupy a throne. ; | N T PTRRTRTRTLTEOY AN 5 " At the recent election in Salt Lake City, where women hatve the same rights of suffrage asmen,all the women candidates for office were defgez‘xted, and defeated badly. They were slaughtered -by the votes of their own sex, who, it . seems, were unwilling to lift any ‘of their number to official preeminence. ' Four men were killed in an attempt to settle an old feud in Louisiana the otlier day. That’s generally the way with feuds. Other things may be settled with good results all around. But the minute an attempt is made tosettle * a feud somebody is almost sure to get killed or hurt, and then, when the 'smoke clears away, it is found that the feud is still unsettied.; The best thing t{o do;tjvit‘hha feud is just to let it alone. " -The old goid-brick game has just been ‘played in Cleveland, only with variatiot.s adapted to the times. A saloon +keeper of that enterprising city was in- . duced to part with $12,000 of his good - money for 67 pounds of brass filings and sand, palmed off on the poor fellow: - as a bag of Klondike clean-up. A fel- " low saloon keeper who played the part of /decoy duck is in jail, but the old miners skipped. = .

The Thanksgiving proclamtion of the - governor of Alaska is a unique paper. i Here it is: *“On account of the wonderful discoveries of gold upon the Klon- .. dike we have been brought prominently - Dbefore the public, and many who have, decried Alaska as good for nothing now ' are admitting that it has wonderful. . possibilities. For this turn in the tide of opinion let us give thanks. While the cattle uponjthe hills are the Almighty’s, the gold, copper and coal in the mountains and the fish in the sea are His also.” : ¢t The utter failure to find any traces - of Prof. Andree and his ba]loonj.ycan occasion no rational surprise..” The path of arctic exploration by#land and water, orsnow and ice, rather, is some- " what definite, and a sedarching party -would know where to go, but searching - for a trayeler whose route was aerial is like trying to follow the sky - tracks made by the wings of a bird. The scien“tists who enconraged an expedition so in conflict, with common sense, and - there were some such, would do well to recognize the limitations of Bumanipos- - sibility. : | e e —— | No one who has kept track éfthe developments in. the'Krgndike region will _be surprised at the news that a famine is imminent at Dawson City. All through ‘the fall mgn continued to flock into that district, relying upon the transportation companies to:bring in supplies/of provisions for the winter. They were warned by experiended Alas-, kans against the danger that threat~ened them, but very few heeded the -warning. The resulf is that starvation threatens every mamin the Klondike region who failed'to bring with him six months’ supplies. . ' ‘Two hundred ahd seventy-fivé years - ago in November, in the year following the landing of the Pilgrims at- Plymouth, Gov. Bradford appointed the first Thanksgiving, ° It lasted three - days, for one day was not sufficient for the expression of gratitude and the con- ° sumption of wild turkeys brought in by the hunters. Such was the first - Thanksgiving, and from_that day to this it has gradually extended all over __the -country, and its national significance is. indelibly connected with the name of<Abraham Lincoln and the close of the civil war. It is a patriotic and Christian festival. . . The rapidity with which a wild ani- ~ mal may be exterminated can be judged + from the fact that the Smithsonian in: ' stitution. has recently tried in vain to obtain a living specimen of the wild, or nassenger, pigeon which was formerly - found in this ecountry in countless mil~*lions. Afterthe offer of aliberal reward -and much correspondence it has been ~ concluded that the American wild pigeon is extinct. Theseals are going just - as fast. This year’s catch in the North ‘Pacific is little more than half that of Jast season. Three or four years more will 'wipe eut the seals unless their - slaughtzis'stopped or regulated. . L, ———————————————— & “ ~ Venezuela (is certainly intent_upon - making ‘the most of its natural’ re- " sourees, Within the ldst few weeks'val‘uable concessions have been made to ~American capitalists to work mines, - if this sort of thing continues it will not, I 8 Anericane will yrtnally * control the country. Such a Yesult ~ thing that could possibly bappen to the - for them, not possessed of suificient ene e i ffi’iwfinfi&%fl »-,? it S fl ST

A WEEK'S HISTORY

The Important Happenings of a ' Week Briefly Told. »

I&LL/PARTS OF THE UNION AllL the Latest -Nev;'s of Interest from Washington, From the East, the West and the Souths ,

THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES

FRCM WASHINGTON.

The supreme court of the United States holds the franchise of the Frankfort (Ky.) lottery to be invalid. The secretary of the treasury estimates the treasury deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, at $20,000,000. - The statement of public debt issued on the Ist shows that the debt decreased $11,338,125 during the month of November. The cash balance in the treasury was $846,400,076.. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $1,009,226,466. Government receipts during November were/ $43,363,605 and the expenditures were $37,810,838. ° - - . The" retirement of Justice Field from the supreme court has taken place. o

An order ‘of Assistant PostmasterGeneral Heath makes it an offense punishable by.dismissal from the service for a letter carrier to work more than eight hours a day. . ! .~ Matilda Delilah Shijelds, a granddaughter of Richard Henry Potomax, an Indian chief, died in Washington, aged 113 years. : ke

President McKinley has appointed Blanche K. Bruce (colored), of Mississippi, to be register of the treasury. Imports of dutiable sugar during Octoler last amounted to 182,998,945 pounds, valued at $3,643,613, which is am increase over September imports of nearly 73,000,000 pounds. : : g THE *EAST. . - In Pittsburgh, George Douglass, who accidentally’ ‘killed Albert Grayer at Snowden, Pa., in attempting to murder another, was hanged. ) . Twenty-five thousand mill operativés at Qlneyville, R. 1., have received an advance of 20 per cent. in wages. hs . In the New York post office 2 dime-in-‘the-slot machine for registered letters is ‘being tested. . In a room in Lowell, Mass., Franlk A. ‘Keith and Maggie Godfrey committed suicide together by inhaling gas. They were penniless. . - : The New York state canals have been closed for the season. . . - ¢ Susan Wesson died in Roxbury, Mass., aged 100 years 4 months and 7 days. She was the oldest unmarried woman in Massachusetts. . ' Four men were ‘injured, two fatally, by .the explosion of an engine on a street ‘car line near Titusville, Pa, . kn I’fifladelphia Anna Niggl,a young married/ woman, murdered her two children and attempted suicide. No cauée was known for the deed. o ‘Annual reports of Indian schools ‘show progress at Carlisle, Ta., and Hampton, Va., the principal institutions, where 900 students are enrolled. _ At°the state prison at Wethersfield Guiseppe Fuda, convicted of the murder of his wite in East Norwalk, Conn., February 17 last, was-hanged. T

WEST AND SOUTH. Near Evergréen, Ala., William Ellis, a prominent farmer;, took Cook King (colored) and tied him to a tree and shot him té death. Intimacy with Ellis’ daughter is the alleged cause. At Tuskegee, Alal, the new agricultural building for coloréd-students was opened. : - L ! At Leadville, C 01.,, gambling paraphernalia valued 4t.55,000 was burned, by order of the court. ; Engineer James Luter and Fireman Frank B. Smith lost their lives in an accident on the Atlantic & Danville rail--1"011?11 at Gill's Station, Va. . ' In Detroit W..J. Bariay fired a revolver at his wife, but succeeded only in slightly wounding her, and then shot himself dead. Jealousy was'the cause. On January 1 Chief Justice L. G. Kinne will retire from the lowa supreme bench. et : - " Gov. O’Ferrall, in his message to the general assembly which convened at Richmond, Va., discussed the lynching question and proposed legislation to correct the evil. - Flames in the F. O. Sawyer & Co. paper factory in St. Louis caused a loss of $200,000. , Hiin < Christine Behrens, who murdered her husband, Claus Behrens, last July, by giving him paris greén, was sentenced in Davenport, la., to life imprisonment.. : o ~ln the last 60 days the deposits in state banks of North Dakota havemnearly doubled. : : In November the gold output of the Cripple Creek (Col.) district was $1,258,600,. the largest for one month in the history of the camp. : ... In Chicago Charles W: Spalding, late president of the defunct Globe savings bank ‘and former treasurer of the) state mniversity, was given an indeterminate sentence to the penitentiary. - About 7,000 men in the limestone and irom trades at Youngstown, 0., have ‘had their wages advances from ten to twenity per cent. - ‘As a result of a special election a suburban population of. fully ° 20,000 ‘will be added to Kansas City,Mo. - - At several points in Kansas light earthquake shocks were, felt, but no damage was reported. : William Phillips, ‘Seth Lowe and John Howard, farmers living near Huntsville, Ark., fought for the hand of Miss Irene Pruitt and all three were fatally wounded: : - - ‘At her home in Canton, 0., Mrs. Nancy A. McKinley, mother of President McKinley, was _ stricken with paralysis,-and there was but little hopes of her recovery. The president left Washington for Canton immed:atfllg.=!upoh receipt of the néws. ~ “Silent Hunter” or “Walking Cloud,” a “!-,imons Indian; died at Black River Palls, Wis,, aged 101 years. =~ = - A negro named Bill Scott killed John "Si;-fii%’gl;ey, a wealthy farmer, and his wife and child at Warrens, Ala,, ‘anfi stole $lOO and escaped. | _The doots of the Piedmont| state Dhnk at Morgantown, N. C, " were ot s e B e e

‘Robbers entered Miles & Higbee's bank at Milford, Ind., but secured no booty. Y o : ‘ 'ln Milwaukee Albert Xrueger, a butcher, shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. A quarrel was the cause. , : : The two orphan children of George Copeland were fatally burned in the house of their grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Copeland, at Sullivan, Ind. : FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. " In Berlin Emperor William opened the German reichstag. s In the Frankerholz coal mine near Homburg, Bavaria, la fire damp explosion killed 30 men and injured 45 other miners. : : : Gen. Pando, who wasplacedin charge of military cperations in Cuba by Gen. Blanco, was, it was reported, killed in an engagement with insurgents in Santa Clara province. = ' - China has, it is said, ceded to England a strip of territory near Hong Kong and all the surrounding islands. United States Minister Angell has renewed the demand for an' indemnity from ‘the Turkish government for the pillage of American missions. / The coffee crop in Salvador for this season will be a third larger than ever before. R

China’s emperor has declared that he would rather forfeit his crown than agree to the conditions demanded by Germany as redress for the murder of two German-missionaries. ‘

Near Margate, England, a lifeboat capsized and ten of her crew were drowned. ‘

The report that Gen. Pando had Peen killed in a fight with Cubari insurgents is said to be false.

LATER NEWS,

The worst srowstorm in years extended over Nebraska, Kaunsas, Missouri and lowa. »

Louis Kossuth Church, ex-governor of North Dakota, died at Junea¥, Alaska, of pneumonia. :

- A new counterfeit’ five-dollar silver certificate of the series of 1891 with 4 portrait of Grant is announced by the treasury secret service. gtk The Tennessee medical college was destroyed by fire at Knoxville. ,The French bark Bonne Josephine, from Bordeaux to Grarville, was stink in a collision and nine of her crew were lost. : -

Tt is'said that the position of attor-ney-general, to succeed Mr. McKenna, who will be nominated to the United States supréme bench to succeed Justice Field, has been offered to Gov. Griggs, of New Jersey. A sharp earthquake shock occurred at Galena, 111., and houses shook violently. There were 306 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 3d, against 236 the week previous and 379 in the corresponding period of 1896. -The clerk of the house of representatives has received notices of 20 contésts to be made in the next house. i Fire destroyed the-old “Brick” Pomeroy block and the McMillan Opera House block at La Crosse, \\7i§.,' the loss being $200,000. i : i Imn his annual report the commissioner of internal revenue estimates that the receipts from all sources for the current fiscal year will aggregate $155,000,000, an increase over 1897 of $B,200,000. During the year 2,241 illicit stills were destroyed jand 820 persons were arrested. Martin Thorn, convicted in New York of the murder of William Guldensuppe, has been sentenced to be electrocuted in the week beginning January 10 next. ‘ - a The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 3d aggregated $1,323,861,465, against $1,058.4582,298 the previous week.. The increase.compared with the corresponding week of 1896 was 5.4. i President McKinley left Canton, 0., for Washington, to be present at the opening- of congress. There was but slight change in the condition of his mo’the{, and she was said to be slowly sleeping her life away. ; ’ _ Thirty-six men started in a six days’ bicyele race at Madisqn Square garden in New York., . Cars on ‘an electric railway in the suburbs of Detroit, Mich., collided and three men were killed and 17 other persons were injured, some fatally. Americans in Havana asked Gen, Lee for warships to protect their families. The Italian cabinet resigned and Marquis di Rudini, the present prime minister, will form a new one, from which he will exclude all conservatives.

Mahaley Embry Anderson, 108 years of age, died at the home of her daughter, Mary Berkley, in Jeffersonville, Ind. - . It was officially announced that Gov. Griggs, of New Jersey, had accepted the office of attorney-general of the;United States. The definite treaty of peace between Turkey and Greece has been signed. Advices from the orient say that a tidal wave at Port Isabella destroyed many houses and killed over 2,000 persons. : ; ‘Fire originating in the merchandise store of Price & Gillette at Tulsa, Ind. T., destroyed over $lOO,OOO worth of property. , . At an election in the Chickasaw nation in Oklahoma the ratification of the Dawes-Choctaw treaty was overwhelmingly defeated. . The Montgomery county (N. Y.) board of supervisors discovered a shortage of $30,000 in the accounts of William Clark, the county treasurer. William Blake, the first white settler in Pomena county, Cal., is dead. - . Frank Novak was sentenced at Vinton, la., to life imprisonment in the penitentiary at Anamosa for the murder of Edward Murray. In the six days’ billiard tournament in New York Slosson was the winner, defeating Ives in the last game by only two points. x : At Jarucco, Cuba, 110 houses were destroyed by fire and hundreds of families’were homeless and destitute. Enormous. damage was done by a storm which swept over Italy. Seventeen vessels were wrecked in' the bay of Naples and their crews were lost. At the session in Austin, Tex., of the National Prison association the committee on criminal law reported that, the increase of crime throughout the country was frightful, o - The annual report/ of James H, Eckels, comptroller of the currency; favors amending the note-issuing law, says there are 3,617 national banks in operation with a capital of $630,230,295, and there was paid to creditors of insolvent banks during the year $13,108,780 o dicilends, . =

e - CARS COLLIDE.

Three Men Kiiled and Several Persons Hnurt Near Detroit.

Detroit,” Mich., Dec. 6.—Three men were killed and 17 persons ‘injured, 11 seriously, in a collision on the Detroit & Oakland electric - railroad at one o’clock Saturday afternoon. The colliding cars were running. at a speed of 25 miles an hour, and the crash was terrific, both cars being smashed to pieces. The killed are: : : : The following were killed: John Kelly, of Detroit, book agent; John Savage, superintendent of the road; Charles M. Whitehead, motorman. - - Following are the names of those seriously .injured: Mrs. John E. Doty, 'of Pontiac, two ribs broken and otherwi: - in- | jured; aged mother of Mrs. Doty, badly crushed and leg broken; Warner Goodale, of Lapeer, severely bruised; Mrs, Warner Goodale, face cut,” body badly bruised; Louis Harneck, seriously bruised and internally injured; Peter Hempel, of Detroit, hole cut in leg and face cut; I'rank Mc“Hugh, motorman, ieg\brohéen‘and internally injured; John F.-Madden, of Leonard, legs and arms badly bsuised; John Riegel, of Pontiac, compound fracture o- leg; A. E. . Robertson, of Walnut, Oakland county, leg badly cut; hand crushed and shoulder bruised; Mrs. E. H. Smith, of Detr/oit, legs and face badly bruised. The exact cause of the accident is in doubt. President Hendrie, of the Detroit& Oakland railway, said that the responsibility “had not been fixed. Aec; cording to the schedule a ecar leaves - each end, Detroit and'Ponti'a_c, e‘very ! hour, and there are three sidings along rrxthe road.. Saturday the cars were be* hind time. ‘ ’ ' . The one bound south from Detroit | had passed an outbound car at the switch two miles from Pontiae, the crew apparently being ignorant of the fact that another outbound car was approaching less than two' miles distant, although’it is claimed that they should have knowfi it trom orders sent from Birmingham. 7The weather was “foggy, and the rails slippery from the sleet which had been falling. The ccllision occurred near a grayel pit mid- | way between Pontiac and Birmingham, . at the foot of two steep grades, down: which the fated cars ran at full speed. The impact was terrific. The cars were | driven half through each other and | crushed to pieces. Superinténdent Sav‘age was in the motorman’s vestibule operating the outbound car, Both his legs were cut- off and his body was frightfully mangled. Motorman MeHugh, who stood behind Mr. Savage, parrowly escaped a similar fate. John Kelly was .evidently the only passenger who saw the northbound car !approaching. He rushed for the vestibule door, and he and Motorman White!head were struggling together to get out of the doer when the crash came. Both were killed. Mr.. Kelly’s head and shoulders were jammed out of the vestibule window, and his neck was broken. Mr. Whitehead’s head was cut open and his chest crushed. Had it not been for | the stout construction of the cars, both

of _which were new, it is. doubtful whether any of their occupants would | have escaped alive. As it was, nearly, all of the 14 passengers in the south | bound car suffered somie injury. Some ‘ of the injured were taken to féu‘m-‘ houses, others were brought to the city hospitals. A : 4 A BIG FORCE. 4 Germany Will Soon Have Nearly 5,000 Men in China, : 1 Berlin, Dec. 6.—When the German reinforcements, consisting of four companies of marines, numbering 23 officers and 1,200 men, and a eompany of naval artillery, numbering 200 men, arrive at K:ao-Chau bay, for which point, as already cabled, they will soon set out, they will bring the German force there up to 4,566 men, the largest body Germany has ever sent beyond European waters. It .is understood that the reserves had to be drawn upon. The admiralty denies that other European squadrons have entered the harbor at Kiao-Chau to watch Germany's proceed-. ings, and it is believed that Admiral Von Diederich would = protest vigorously against such an attempt. The Kolnische Zeitung regards the expedition as having a two-fold aim: first, toobtain missionary reparation, and, second, to obtain the cession of Kiao-Chau as payant for past services rendered China by Germany in connection with the conclusion of peace with Japan. It is believed unnecessary to take Great Britgin into account, as she is over-oc-cupied elsewhere, while Japan is not likely to resist the coalition of Germany, Russia and France. This is the contention ‘of the Klonische Zeitung. At the same time it says that Germany will not be led by allurments of France, Russia or England to deviate from a policy of moderation in China.

: SOON WIDOWED. Husband of Young Woman Married Thanksgiving Eve Suicides. New York, Dec. 6.—On Thanksgiving evening Samuel G. Parkhill, 74 years of age, of Brooklyn, married Miss Annie Kirkland, of Broeklyn, who was 50 years his junior. Sunday Parkhill committed suicide at his home in Brooklyn by shooting himself through the brain with a revolver. When the couple were married the families of both parties objected strongly to the tie, on account of the disparity in their ages. The couple were forced to separate and since that time Parkhill had appeared. somewhat depressed. He lived with his married daughter and son, and when the family were at church Sunday he shot himself in his room. He was found on the return of his relatives from church. - Storms ia Italy. Rome, - Dec. - 6.—Torrential storms have prevailed for three days over large parts of Italy. In the Bay of Naples 25 merchantmen have been wrecked, though there has been no loss of life, and several houses on the sea front have collapsed. Considerable damage has been done here, and in. the district around the city. Almost all parts of Italy have suffered im a measure, and railway communication has been seriously interrupted. The harbor of Portici, on the Bay of Naples, has been greatly damaged; and it is feared that there have been some fatalities there, Or«I—;rl»qn Inguiry. Paris, Dec. 6.—The military governor asf Paris, Gen. Saussier, has ordered a court-martial to. examine into the charges brought against Count Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, the retired major of the FFrench army, who is accused of writing the letter which brought about the sentencing of Alfred Dreyfus to imprisonment for life. Died While Buggy-Riding. Illiopolis, 111, Dec. 6.—While riding in a buggy with his aged wife, Jo%h Gasaway, aged 71 years, a pioneer cilizen of this place, died of heart dise‘&" v T ‘_j;‘ i “ 'V""f

'SLOSSON IS CHAMPION. Defeats Ives by Two Points and Wins . | the Billiard Tournament. New York, Dec. 6.—The final game of the Madison Square billiard tournament was the most exciting and brilliant of the series. It was won by Slosson, which also makes him the winger of the tournament. Ives was defel;k by only two points, Slosson running th ‘» gameout{rom 440 in one of the fipest exhibitions of billiard playing and coolness ever seen in a like contest. The | firal score was: Slosson, 500; Ives, 498. Ives had been ahead and was making a run’ when he reached his 498th point. The 499th shot was easy, but, whether | the champion was nervous or too confident matters net, he missed it. Slosson was in the 440th hole. He seemed not the least bit f@jsconcerted. He picked up his'cue without the least sign | of excitement and began to click off | the shots. Before he stopped he had | Tun out the game and won the battle | with Ives and the tournament. The ' highest run made during the night was | 93, also made'by Llosson. Had Ives won |_lhe game, he, Sloesson and Schaefer | would have been in a tie for first money. | As/ it is, Slosson® wins first place, | Schaefer second, Ives third amd Daly } fourth. . | |lves, smarting under his defe®t, has i issued a challenge to Slosson for a ' match game of billiards, according to | championship rules, which are ‘that | the game shall be played within 60 | days of the issue of the challenge, for | a stipulated amount and shall be of 600 }p’oints. In case Slesson should wish | a change in the rules, Ives-agrees to | play him a game of 3,000 points, 590 | points each night for six nights, -and | will wager $5,000 to $2,500 that he ean | defeat Slosson. Ives has placed a ' check for $250 in the hands of a bil- ' liard company as a forfeit.* Lol | RAPID TRANSIT. . ! Remarkable Time Made by Union Pai - cific Trains. . , | Omaha, Neb., Dec. 6.—Celebrating | its ' mew birth,” the Union Pacific has | taken two more fall§ out of Father | Tizne, and has set a pace for fast run- { n{gx;r that will likely stand in.the west | for some time. Three record-breaking ]1 spurts in one week is its record. Of the i‘first full particulars were furnished | last Tuesday. At that time a 520-mile { run was made at the rate of 621, ‘miles | an hour, with a hundred-mile dash at % the rate of 68.2 miles an hour. “Satur- . day the fast mail was again late in ' Wyoming, and was danced across the | Nebraska plains at a rate that makes | the Tuesday run look slow. It covered | 42 miles from Sidney to Julesburg in { 38 minutes; 81 miles from Julesburg | to- North Platte in 71 minutes; 60 % miles from North Platte to Lexington | in 60 minutes; 35 miles from Lexington | to Kearney in 33 minutes, and afinal § dash of 42 miles from Kearney to

Grand Island in 36. minutes, or 70 miles an hour. The 261 miles from Sidney to Grand Island was made in 238 minutes, an average of 65.6 miles an hour. From Grand Island to Omaha the run was ordinary, the lost time having been made up. Sunday the Union Pacific brought a theatrical company on a special train from Julesburg to Council Bluffs, 294 miles, in 286 minutes. From ' this must be deducted five minutes for changing engines at Grand Island, four minutes delay by a Missouri Pacific freight train on the crossing at Portal and the necessary slowing up through Omaha, a distance of five miles, and a slow run over the Missouri river bridge. The actual running time of the train was 275 minutes,; an average of 63.6 miles an hour.” ! .

GODDARD FOUND GUILTY.

Murder Case at Kansas City, Mo Comes, to an End. .

Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 6.—Murder in the second degree was the verdict returned at a late hour Saturday night in ihe case of Dr. Jefferson D. Goddard, the druggist who shot and killed Fred J. Jackson, a laundryman, in the apartments of Jackson’s*%wife at the Woodland hotel: The case was given to the jury at one o’clock in'the morning. The verdict of the jury fixes the penalty at 16 years in the state penitentiary.

GERMANY'S MENACE TO HAYTI, If Indemnity DBe N_ot Paid Bombardments May Follow. Berlin, Déc. 6.—The semi-official Post says: Should Hayti refuse the German demands (for an indemnity on account of the alleged illegal/arrest and imprisonment of Herr Lueders, a German 'subject, at Port au Prince) sharp measures will follow. We shall first bombard the coast forts, and if they are petsistent, we shall bombard the city and the government buildings. Lake Steamer Burmned. Chicago, Dec. 6.—With deck, enginercom and mizzen mast in flames, her serew revolving furiously and the crew of ten huddled forward, the propeller George W. Morley was run aground off Lvauston at eight o’clock Sunday night. The sailors were taken from the burning vessel by the Evanston life-saving crew, the city fire department was notified, and the battle begun toisave the vraft from total destruction. Despite all the firemen could do the Morley burned to the water’s edge. Chief Engineer John Chapman was severely burned about the arms, but no one else was injured. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp in the engineroom when the steamer was about five miles from shore. Lost in the Great Storm. - ~ Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec.,6.—James Murray, a mail carrier on the route between Cheyenne and Horse Creek, has been missing since Thursday, when he started on his trip ‘in thie heavy storm of that day. It is believed he has perished in the storm. Searching parties have been sent out, but no trace of the missing man has been found. : Roads Consolidated. Cleveland, 0., Dec. 6.—The Cleveland, Berea & Elyria and the Elyria & Oberlin suburban railways were consolidated Saturday, with a joint capital stock of $1,000,000. : ; © In Ashes. o Charleston, S. C., Dec. 6.—Fire Sunday morning destroyed the acid chambers at the Reed phosphate warks, a few miles oul of this city, The mill building was saved by heroic worlk of employes. The ocpigin of the fire “is unknown: Loss, about $60,000, which is covered by insurance. - _ Life Sentence for Novak., Cedar Rapids, la., Dec. 6,—Judge Burnham on Saturday denied the motion for a new trial made in behalt ‘of Frank Novak, and sentenced him to life imprisonment in the penitentiary at

1 WHAT HE WANTED. § Something Was Needed to ,'s:u’:pl.e-*‘ ment His Wife’s Present. “You have scarcely spoken to me at.all. this evening,” she said, in tones- of Teproach. ) . 52 ? “I—l beg your pardon,” her husband returned, apologetically. “I was just trying to think of something to say.” o ‘“ls there anything on your mind?”’ “Yes, to tell you tne truth, thereis.” " “Can’t I help you in some way?’ .- | “You might, if I could suggest it without your *commg angry.” - 0 “Tell me all about it. It is my duty to symgathize with you, you know.” . “On_my birthday anniversary you gave me a fountain pen.” ' . “Yes. And now you are going to say that it makes a horrid muss and that you don’t want to write with it.” Lk “I'm not going to say anything.of -the kind,” he repliedg, stoutly. '“I am going to write with that pen every day of my fife. But there is one little favor that I would like to ask.” . A s * “What is-it?” 4 “Please make me a suit of overalls to go with it.”—Washington Star. - s . THE WORM TURNS. - Suffering Humanity Will Not Alway'%l .~ Tamely Submit to ‘Affability. | The affable passenger had been searchin for a vietim. for a long time. He had ‘mad_g exclamations when reading his paper, in the hopes 'that it would attract tge attentio: of some one and give him the opportunitg to show his power as a conversationalist, but all his little ruses failed. The people who sat near him seemed to be wholly centered on themselves, but still he was not completely discouraged. He looked about him, and, selecting one man to whom he thought he might be able to impart much interesting information,- he began operations by re‘marking: S | ‘“Pardon me, but you look very minch like a man I know.” , oS Theman whowasaddressed looked over the affable passenger gloomily, and, recognizing the type, he replied, in tores that would cause the thermometer to sink, even in the Klondike: .. s N RIS . “Yes, that, is possibly so; but at the same time you.must excuse me, for you look exact]{ like a man I don’t want to know.”--Puck. . i, e Reniinded of the Auld Sod. | A Cleveland landlord has one of his houses tenanted by a family that is out of all praPortion to the size of the dwelling, In fgct:.. he strongly suspects that there areat least two distinct families in the house, and he is quite anxious to get rid of them. ' ITe doesn’t want to turn them out, and he has been hoping they would take frequent hints he gives them and seek some other location. Lately they have complained of a leaky roof, but the landlord has determined to make no repairs until they leave. - A few days ago the head of the household waited on him. R “Well, sor,” he said, “that roof has been leakin’ agin.” fin e “Has it?” said the landlord. : E “Yis, sor. It leaks right over me sister’3 bed. Dra{:s right down ‘en her, sor. 'Thi? marnin’ she came out o’ the room a-cryini sor. It had been raining on her all night, Yis, sor, eryin’.” - ST i “Well, w}bl_v‘in Tophet,” inquired the land+ lord, “didn’t she move the bed ?” | . “““Twasn’t that, sor,” hastily remarked the tenant. ‘’Twasn’t that.” “What ailed her, then?”” < A “Why, you see, sor, she were just a-cryin’ because it reminded her so much of home.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. = - 2 _————— ! Hadn’'t Thought of That, - | - - “Some time ago,” says an insurance man, “a man asked me to accompany him-home, as’ he had some things there to be insured. When we arrived at his home he showed me 100 boxes of cigars, which he wanted insured. There were 100 cigars in each box, making 10,000 in all, and were valued at ten| cents each, so I insured the lot for $l,OOO. A few days ago the man came to ine and' asked for the insurance money. ‘You’ve had no fire at your house,” I replied. ‘No, but I’ve smoked them,’ said he, ‘and according tor the paper, I am entitled to the money, as it reads distinctly that if the goods are consumed by fire money lis paid on application.” As far. as technicalities were concerned he was all-right, but I knocked him cold’ about a minute later by saying, in a very stern manner: °‘All right, sir; you'll .get ghe money; but, according to your own confession, I will proceed at once to make a charge against :-you for incendiarism.” ‘Well, I'll be hanged!” was all he said, and the room .shook violently after he banged the door!”—Philadelphia Record. . . b -The Pursuit of Happiness. When the Declaration of Independence asserted man’s right to this, it enunciated an immortal truth.- The bilious sufferer is on the road to happiness when he begins to take Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the most -eflicacious regulator of the liver in existence. Equally reliant is it in chills and fever, constipation, dyspepsia, rheumatism; kidney trouble and neryvousness. Use it regularly, and not at odd intervals. : = ettt i A Man’s Idea.—“Do you believe it is true that George Washington never told a lie?”’ “I don’t know. But if he didn’t, Martha must have been an ideal wife.”—Clevelani l.eader. . MceVicker’s, Chicago. McVicker’s theater always plays the leading attractions. Dec. 6, for two weeks, the Bostonians in “The Serenade.” : | When a popular society gives an amateur entertainment there is one-thing sure—you must take part-or buy a ticket.—Atchison Globe. .. g Sonih b — e i, . Star Tobacco. e If you care for pleasure, health and economy, chew Star tobacco, the leading brand of the world. Nothing takes as well as advice that coincides with our views.—Washington Democrat. : 2 Fits stopped free and permanently cured. No fits after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. Free $2 trial bottle & treatise. Dr. Kline, 933 Arch st., Phila., Pa. Lt e Ty N It is better to say a little Worst#han you mean than to mean a little worse than you say.—N. Y. Independent. ~— - - =~ :

We believe some congregations give their pastors a vacation se they can go and hear other preachers.—Washington Democrat.

A NECKLACE OF PEARLS e Is a beautiful possession. If a woman owns [ (SRS AR one, and if a single pearl drops off the string, & Q: : she makes Haste to find and restote it. ,"\ ~" 4 Geod health is a more valuable possession § 5 ks than a necklace of the most beautiful pearls, il \ B 2 1 yet one by one the jewels of health slipaway, [ Ia \g &f/ and women seem indifferent until itis almost ' \‘. ~=—¢ _ too late, and they cannot be restored. To die before you are really old is to suffer : premature death, and thatisa sin. Itisasin | because it is the result of repeated violations e § A of nature’s laws. : Ly AT N 4 : Pain, lassitude and weariness, inability to e | sleep, dreadful dreams, starting violently from : ' sleep, are all symptoms of nerve trouble. N T ‘ You cannot have nérve trouble and keep Z : Yo your health. In ninety-nine cases out of a. g / i hundred the womb, the ovaries and the bladder Z :' are affected. They are not vital organs, hence = they give out soonest. : ' : e Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- ~ . . ' _ - : pound, by building up the nerves and restoring woman's | (;‘"'iul organism to its natural state; relieves -all - these. troublei & some uterine symptoms. In confirmation .of this we, by ; il . permission, refer to the following women, all of o 9 whom speak from experience: ~Miss CELIA VAN ©iy _Horx, 1912 Bharswood St., Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss i é GRACE CoLLORD, 1434 Eastern Ave., Cincinnati, O.; £ P3O \ps. NEWELL, 50 Ryerson St., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mgs. & "\‘j IsABEL OBERG, 220 Chestnut St., Woburn, Mass., S<Y | ©9! Mgrs. A, H. CoLE, New Rochelle. N. Y., and many \peigrom ' others '~ : s , : ; e ? For special symptoms Mrs. Pinkham has prepared a B e ‘3 Sanative Wash, which will cure local troubles. Give these - : Write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., if you are not quite * ~ satisfied ;. you can address private Wh&'m}

- Weak Stomach . Feels Perfectly Well Since Taking ; Hood’s Sarsaparilla. ; - “I have been troubled for over two years with a weak stomach. I concluded to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla. . After taking a few bottles I felt perfectly well, and I cannot’ speak too highly of Hood’s.” Mrs. M. H. WRIGHT, Akron, Ohio. — Hood’sSarsar 3 = = WL O parilla Is the best—in fact- the One True Blood Purifier. - Hood’s Pilis are the favorite cathartic. 25¢. ) % N%\ == /%) > g 2C 9 -Hl7 i 5 f _ . (I Go to your grocer to-day ? and get a 15c. package of - . e , - TR It takes the place of coffee at } the cost. - o) Made from pure grains it G is nourishing and health--9l ful. \// : . - W\( Insist that your grecer gives yon GRAIN-O, . Accept no imitation. . IV Nt P w ‘ -New Route to California. A striking confirmation of the truth of the saying: “It is an ill-wind that blows no one .good™ is feund in the new routing of the ““Sunset Limited.” Heretofore it has started from New Orleans westward. This ‘season, on actount of the prevalencé of yellow fever in some parts of the south, Chica--2o has been decided upon as the terminus,. the route being over Chicago & Alton, Chicago to St. Louis; St. Louis, Iron Mountain- & Southern, St. Louis to Texarkana; Texas & Pacific, Texarkana to El Paso; Southern Pacific Company, El Paso to California destination. The train runs twice a ,'}Veek, leaving Chicago 1:30 p. m. every ¢ Tuesday and Saturday; and St. Louis 10:20 - p. m. same days/ Kastbound the same trains leve San Francisco 5:30 p. m. Mondays and Thursdays, and Los Angeles 10:30 a, m. Tuesdays and Fridays. “‘Sunset ‘Limited” is'a magnificent train, eompletely vestibuled and running through solid, comprising a librayy and smoking car for gentlemen with barbershop and bathroom; ‘a combination ladies’ parlor: and compartment car, with well-stocked library, and ladies’ maid in attendance; two of the finest sleeping-cars; and a- dining-car, in }\'hach_nerfect meals are perfectly served. The dining-car service is a la carte—pay for what. you order—and prices are reasonable. “A trip across the continent in this train eould not but be a «deli%ht at any time, but during the winter months there will be special satisfaction in the certainty of a semitropical climate, - picturesque and novel: scenery, fast time, and no-snow blockades. And best of all, no extra fare is charged for transportation on “Sunset Limited,” only the ‘regular Pullman rates prevailing for sleeping-eay accommodations. " f —_—y . Advantages of Wealth. First Fraveler—l envy the .millionaires who can-travel around the country in private cars. _ 8 Second Traveler—Yes; they have lots of comfort. .- - . ~“Just think of being able to stop the car long enough' to get a siuare.m'eal at a rail-way-restaurant!”’—Puck. . o GRS ; HOLlp;i¥ EXCURSIOXS, . ’S_outhm East, . On December 7 and 21 the Big Four Route ind Chesapeake & Ohio railway will sell excursion tickets from all points northwest, both one way and round trip, at ggeatly reduced rates to points in Virginia, Northand South Carolina and other southern states. Round trip tickets will be good twenty-one ‘days returning. Write for particulars and pamphlet descriptive of Virginia farm lands. U. L. Truitt, Northwestern Passenger - Agent, 234-Clark St., Chicago. i Infantile Wisdom. i “Mamma, I dess you'll have to turn the hose on me.” ; ) - “Why; -dear?” : - ““’Tause I dot my tockings on wrong side out.”—Chicago Tribune. .~ 5 L e ; : The Hot Springs, Picturesquely situated in the heart of the Black ‘Hills of South Dakota, are renowned for the marvelous cures of rheumatism, . ‘neuralgia and kindred diseases, which have been effected by the use of its waters. Firstclass hotel accommodations and baths. Tourist tickets on sale daily and especially low rates on the first and third Tuesdays of this month. For full information app]_v to agents Chicago & North-Western Railway. o ————— _ A Welcome Announcement. ~Actor—Now the plot thickens. " Voice from the A_ud-i‘ence-—Th_at’sAgood; it has been pretty thin so far.—Tit-Bits. Cheap Rates to Ark_n'nsas and Texas. On - October 19, November 2 and 16, December 7 and 21, the Cotton Belt Route will - sell round trip tickets from St. Louis, Cairo and Memphis,. to all points in Arkansas, Lonisiana and Texas, at one fare for the round trip plus $2.00. This is an excellent opportunity .for home seekers to secure a good location: For full particulars as to rates, ete., and for free copies of handsomely - illustrated pamphlets about the Great Southwest, write to E. W. La Beaume, G. P. & T. A.. St. Louis. Mo. - - Persistency without principle is a mighty revolving wheel to which is attached neither belt nor shaft.—N. Y. Independent. - For Homeseeker’s Excursion dates via the " Missouri, Kansas and Texas Ry. and infor~mation of their tourist sleeper arrangement, address H. A. Cherrier, N. Pass. Agt,, 316 | Marquette Bldg., Chicago.