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o { rast < f\" 4 Che Zigonicr Bannel LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. Gen. Dotha’s secretary, Mr. PreJomer, anuounces that the Boer generals expect their tour of the United States to occupy six months. _ A firm of tobacco manufacturers in Bristol, England, has a letter from {.eorge Washington to the firm 150 xears ago, while the father of his country was a erower of tobacco. Hoods “Song of the Shirt might well be revised to-day to fit the case «f 3.354 children under 16, who, the last census reports, are employed in making this article of apparel in the imited States. : ————————————————————————— American farmers have raised a bhillion bushels more corn in 1902 then in 1901. That means $400,000,000 maore for the tillers of the soil, which is a meat consolation purse for the drought last year.

Something almost as good as intelligence is exhibited by plants. If, during a dry season, a bucket of water be placed near a growing pumpkin. in the-course of a few days the vegetable will turn from its course and get at least one of its leaves in Ihe water. v 2

Within a short time Uncle Sam’s representatives will begin taking the census of the Philippine islands. It will be the only accurate census of ‘the jslands in their history, the figures farnished by the Spanish government being notoriously unreliable and gen€rally mere estimates.

A coroner’s jury sitting in VineJand. N. J., decided that where a man in a racing automobile killed a bicy«le rider, smashed a buggy and injured its occupants, the accident was “unavoidable.” Of course it was. What blusiness had the bicyclist and the buggy in the public ‘highway?

Increased interest in trade with China and elsewhere in the orient is indicated by the anouncement that znother steamship company has been formed by strong financial and shipping interests in New York city, and will soon enter into active competitlion for commerce between that port and the far east. .

There is no proof that any horse ever suffered from the effécts of the sun's rays falling upon its head. says the Medical Press. Among the human race it is now a well-recognized fact that socalled “sunstroke” is due to a microbial invasion of the body. In <ther words it is a kind of specific Jever. and can be contracted in the shade. - : :

The construction of the press building at the world’'s fair in St. Houis has begun. This is the same building used‘for the headquarters for the Louisiana Purchase exposition at the Pan-American and the Charleston expositions, the materials having -been twice taken apart and iransported by rail, first to Charleston and thence to St. Lonuis.

The census bureau has issued a report on. the manufacture of locomo--lives which shows a eapital of $40,813;793 invested in the 28 locomotive works reporting for the United States. The wvalue of the products is returned as $35.205.048, to produce which involved an outlay of $10.899,614 for wages, $1.369.341 for miscellaneous expenses, and $20.174.395 for materials used.

' A Milwaukee paper has made a dis<covery. 1t has found proof that the imiguitous habit of promiscuous and indiscriminate spitting originated in England and not in America. The discovery comes late, but it is supposedly mever too late to right a wrong. Dickens first made the charge in his Amer3can mote book, and travelers since who have visited our shores have never failed to comment on the great American habit of expectoration.

The last official paper issued by Commander-in-Chief Torrence is a <ircular letter sent to all the grand army posts urging its meémbers to contribute to the building of homes for ex-confederates who are feeble and very poor. Col. .JJ. M. Falkner, United States district attorney in Alabama, has planne® a home of cottages in Chilton county. His plan é«mtemphies the construction of 40 eottages costing $1,500 each.

Mrs. K. A. Simpson, of Milburn; N. J.. a niece of John Brough, war governor of Ohio, has presented to the Ohio State library the Brough Bible which was brought to the United States from England more than a century ago by John Brough, the head of the family of this country. John Brough was the father of the war governor and of Col. Charles H. Brough, a civil war veteran. The gift has been accepted by the Ohio authorities and with the Brough family records will be placed in the State library.

' Eunropean experts figure that the cereal crop of 1902 throughout the world is the largest ever raised. In many of the producing countries of Europe, however, the crop will be «niy an average one, the big increase in the United States being responsible for the greater- part of the world’s gain. This will mean that while our crop will be great enough to furnish:cheap food to consumers in this country there will be a chance for our farmers to dispose of most of their surplus abroad. Certainly an encouraging outlook.

Spinsters in China are conspicuous by their absence, the only. unmarried women being nuns who dedicate their virginity to Buddha. These Jadies have shaved heads like priests, and are thus deprived of the only Chimese mark of sex. Like the vestal virgins of ancient Rome, they are brought up from babyhood with regard to their future calling. Some of them compensate themselves for their loss of hirsute adornment by sllowing their nails to grow alarm.ingly long, and the longer they are R eiy S R G o s g

A WERK'S HISTORY

The Important Happenings of a

Week Briefly Told.

[N ALL PARTS OF THE UNION

All the Latest News of Interest from Washington, From the East, the West and the South.

THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES

FROM WASHINGTON.

Probable candidates for speaker of the next house are Congressmen Cannon (Il.), Sherman (N. Y.), Grosvenor (0.) and Littlefield (Me.). A call is issued by the comptroller of the curfency for the condition of national banks at the close of business Monday, September 15. The secretary of war, Elihu B. Root, is again at his desk in the war department, after an absence of several weeks, which he spent in Europe. Supreme court of the United States will reassemble October 13.

THE EAST.

Arrival in New York of Lord Charles Beresford, rear admiral of the British navy, is aanounced. President Roosevelt and Senators Allison, Aldrich, Hanna, Spooner and Lodge, in conference at Oyster Bay, outlined tha republican policy as favoring regulation of trusts, no tariff revision, and Cuban reciprocity by treaty. %

A detective named Thomas Sharkey and two women are held by the coroner in connection with the death of Nicholas Fish, the New York banker, as the result of a fight in a saloon. President Roosevelt declines to say anything whatever on the subject of the refusal of Speaker Henderson to accept the renomination for congress. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in a statement just issued takes a hopeful view of the strike situation. Democrats of Massachusetts nominated William A. Gaston, of Boston, for governor.

At Hartford Abram Chamberlain, of Meriden, the present state comptroller, was nominated by the Connecticut republican convention as a candidate for governor. ' . The Russian Grand Duke Boris sailed for France on the French liner La Lorraine. e

At Ford City, Pa., Carl Reichard, operator on the Allegheny Valley road, shot and killed a man who attempted to burglarize the station.

WEST AND SOUTH.

~ Congressional nomination was given to Myron H. Walker, of Grand Rapids, by the Fifth Michigan district democratic congressional convention. ~ The Eighth Michigan district democratic congressional convention nominated Henry B. Youmans, of Bridgeport, for congress. ‘The wife of Bishop J. M. Thoburn, of the Methodist Episcopal church, died in Portland, Ore., aged 46 years. Notice has been given by T M. Zink, the congressional nominee of the demoerats of the Eleventh lowa district, that he will not run. Press of business is given as the cause. The sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows at Iges Moines la., elected as deputy grand sire R."E. Wight, of Allentown, Pa.

: Cattle'receipts at Kansas City stock yvards Tuesday exceeded 30,000, breaking all r-ecordsl

Hon. Daniel B. Henderson refuses to reconsider his withdrawal from the congressional race in the Third district, in spite of urgent requests from many prominent men, among them President Roosevelt.

A young girl, Mabel Carroll, shot and instantly killed her aunt, Mrs. William Emerick, in Roanoke, W. Va. The tragedy was the result of careless handling of a loaded revolver. _ Two coal miners, Robert Jones, aged 24 and Andrew Gattens, aged 48, were killed in a mine at Shawnee, 0., by falling state. At Waverly, Mo., James N. Cassady, of Council Bluffs, la., has been arrested on a charge of embezzling $5,000 from the White River Savings bank. The governor of West Virginia determined to call in the troops still on duty in the New River coal field, and they have left for their homes.

With no opposition, William H. Froehlich. of Jackson, was nominated for congress by the Sixth Wisconsin distriet republican convention. Thomas O'Hara, of St. Joseph, excireuit judge, was nominated for congress by the Fourth Michigan district demoeratic convention.

A straw stack in which two young boys were playing at Franklin, Ind., took fire and both were cremated. President Roosevelt’s tour of the northwest will'include Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Towa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois. He will speak in 57 cities and towns. The trip will end at Washington October 7.

Speaker Henderson informed the Third Towa district congressional committee that his decision is final, and a candidate to fill the vacaney will be named at a convention called to meet in New Hampton, la., September 25. Dr. Guy Potter Benton, late president of the Upper university of Towa, was installed as president of Miami university at Oxford, O. A negro named Alonzo Tucker, who assaulted Mrs. Dennis, near Libby, Ore., was lynched by a mob composed mostly of coal miners. : : Congressional nominations: Sixth Michigan district, W, H. 8. Wood (dem.); Eighth Wisconsin, T. H. Patterson (dem.); Sixth Kentucky, L. T. Applegate (rep.); Fourth Madryland, Charles R. Scherin (rep., renominated). : : . At Crawfordsville, Tnd., George R. Parsons, traveling salesman for the Michigan Drug company, of Detroit, committed suicide by turning on the gas. :

Fierce fires are still sweeping bare timber sections of the Rocky mountains from the Wyoming line to central Colorado. 'The fires are spreading with terrible rapidity. A citizen of Toledo, 0., Elijah Woodrun, has just celebrated his one hundredth birthday. -

‘A young man, Bert Owen, shot ang killed himself in the woods near Me - rilan, Wis.

At Louisville, Ky., Judge Field has granted the injunction prayed for by State’s Attorney General Pratt, of of Kentucky, to prevent the contest between Terry McGovern and Young Corbett scheduled for Monday night.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Catholics in Peking understand that from 300 to 1,000 converts have been killed by Boxers in the province of Sze-Chuen. o o An unknown man entered a bank at Skagway, Alaska, tried to hold up the cashier for §20.000, and failing, drgpped a dynamite bomb on the floor. wrecking the building and killing himself.

It is announced that President Castro, of Venezuela, has retreated from Ocumare before the advance of the revolutionists. The Venezuelan government’s «itnation is critical.

An attack was made on Chen-Tu-Fu, capital of Sze-Chuen province, in which 50.000 Boxers made ineffectual attempts to take the city, began September 15. 1t is feare¢ China is on the verge of another Boxer uprising which may equal that of 1900. '

Dundonald, the new commander of the Canadian militia, has just issued a sweeping order, abolishing the sword as a cavalry weapon. :

After an absence of four years Lieut. Robert E. Peary arrived at North Sydney, Cape Breton, on the steamer Windward from the frozen north. He did not discover the north pole during his trip, but he says he feels certain that the pole can be reached:. A London Dispatch announces the apparent serious illness of Lord Salisbury. . /

LATER NEWS,

Marie Henriette, queen of the Belgians, died at Spa, Belgium, suddenly Friday night. She was attacked by syncope while eating a light dinner and expired before medical aid ceuld arrive. King Leopold has been summoned from DBagneres-de-Luchon, Frarnce. :

Seventy-eight persons were killed in a panic at a negro Baptist convention at Birminghar, Ala. A fight in the church where Booker T. Washington and others were speaking started a stampede. Over one hundred injured are reported. President Roosevelt began his western tour, leaving Oyster Bay at 9:30 a. m; Friday. = % : The dedication of the monument erectéd on the Gettysburg battlefield to the memory of Gen. Henry W. Slocum attracted a very large attendance of veterans. :

More than a score of candidates are being urged for the republican nomination for congress declined by Speaker Henderson. Speaker Henderson denies the story set afloat that he would attempt to dictate the nomination. The Kentucky court of appeals sustained the injunction secured to prevent the McGovern-Corbett fight in Louisville September 22, and the contest will not be held in that state. The decisionis, so lawyers say, so far-reach-ing that it will prevent all boxing contests in Kentucky in'the future. The Great Western Cereal company’s oat mills in Joliet, 111., suffered a loss estimated at more than $5,000 by a fire, which was followed by an explosion of mill dust. The explosion blew off the roof of the building and damaged the walls.

Five trainmen were killed and two seriously injured as the result of a head-on collision between Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg and Pittsburg & Western passenger trains at Witmer station, Pa. e

Lord Salisbury has telegraphed that his indisposition is not sufficiently serious to warrant the members of his family going to Lucerne.

Failures for the week numbered 199 in the United States, against 157 last vear, and 25 in Canada, compared with 20 a year ago.

Secretary Shaw announces that he has authorized,the distribution in round numbers of $10,000,000 in public funds among banks throughout the country whieh have bords available for security.

MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Germany now has 140 socialist publications, of which 52 are dailies.

The estimates of the population of the Philippines vary from 7,500,000 to 10,000,000.

The Pennsylvania company has secured control of the Detroit and Southern and Pere Marquette railroads. - The Mindanao Moros have rejected offers of American friendship, according to the report of Capt. Pershing. The Paris press made the recent accident to President Roosevelt an occasion for unstinted praise of Americans.

Gen. Corbin, who witnessed the German military review, said the army was not befter than that of the United States.

- Emperor William told American generals that he longs to visit America, but he fears it is a dream that will never be realized.

Four negro boys, arrested at Kansas City, have confessed to starting 14 fires since last June from a desire to see the engines run. ,

The decision of a French court punishing an officer because he put his religion and conscience above orders created vigorous discussion. Arrest of the president of the Macedonian committee, with more arrests to follow, may clear the Stone kidnaping mystery. Reports of live stock receipts at Chicago and other packing centers show a falling off, compared with the corresponding period last year. Training of saleswomen is to be made part of the public school system in New York, being provided for in plans for a new girls’ trades school. John J. Girimondi, formerly United States consul at Santos, Brazil, from which post he was discharged for irregularities, has been arrested in Italy for fraud and other offenses. A statement prepared by the comptroller of the currency shows that from March 14, 1900, to August 31,1902, 1,111 national banks, with aggregate capital stock of $65,534,500, were organized.

- Philippines trades statistics show that imports for 1901 increased $ll,000,000 over 1899; exports, $9,500,000. The United States supplied seven per cent. of the imports in 1899 and 12 per centodn 100 k o e e

HUNDREDS IN PANIC.

Stampede Occurs in Crowded Church _ in Birmingham, Ala.

Immense Audience of Negroes Make Wild Rush for Exits—SeventyEight Killed and Over One Hundred Injured.

Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 20.—1 n an awful crush of humanity, caused by a stampede in the Shiloh Negro Baptist church, .at Avenue G and Eighteenth street, ZFriday night, 78 persons were - killed and over 100 seriously injured. . The catastrophe occurred at nine o’clock, just as Booker T. Washington had concluded his address to the national convention of Baptists, dnd for thrae hours the scenes around the church were indescribable. Dead bodies were strewn in every direction, and the ambulance service of the city was utterly incapacitated to move them until after one o’clock. Dozens of dead bodies were arranged in rows on the ground outside of the house of worship awaiting removal to the various undertaking establishments, while more than a score were laid out on the benches inside.

The church is the largest house of worship for negroes in Birmingham and the pastor says there were at least 2,000 persons in the edifice when the stampede began. Instructions had been issued to allow no more to enter, but the negroes forced their way inside the building and were standing in every aisle. Even the entrance to the church was literally packed. Just as Booker T. Washington concluded his address Judge Billou, a negro lawyer from Baltimore, engaged in' an altercation with the choir leader concerning an unoccupied seat, and it is said a blow was struck. Some one in the choir cried: “They're fighting.”

Stampede Begins.

Mistaking the word “fighting” for “fire,” the congregation rose en masse and started for the door. Men and women crawled 'over benches, fought their way into the aisles, and those who had failed were trampled upon like cattle. The ministers tried again and again to stop the stampede, but no power on earth could stay the struggling, fighting mass of humanity. The screams of women and children added to the horror of the scene, and through mere fright many persons fainted, and as they fell to the floor were crushed to death. The level of the floor is about 15 feet from the ground and long steps lead to the sidewalk from the lobby just outside the main auditorium. Brick walls extend on each side of these steps for six or seven feet, and this proved a veritable death trap. Negroes who had reached the top of the steps were pushed violently forward and many fell. Before they could move others fell upon them and in 15 minutes persons were piled upon each other to a height of ten feet.

This wall of struggling humanity blocked the entrance and the weight of 1,500 persons was pushed against it. More than 20 persons lying on the steps underneath the heap of bodies died from suffocation. The fire department and police were soon on the scene, and finally succeeded in releasing the negroes from their pinioned positions in the entrance. The dead bodies were quickly removed and the crowd inside finding an outlet came pouring out. Scores of them lost their footing and rolled down the long steps to the pavement, sustaining broken limbs and internal injuries.

A Terrible Sight,

In an hour the church had been practically cleared and the sight which greeted the eyes of those who had come to aid the injured was sickening. Down the aisles and along the outside of the pews the dead bodies of men and women were strewn and the cries of the maimed and crippled were heartrending. In a few minutes the work of removing the bodies was begun. As many of the suffering negroes as could be moved by the ambulances were taken to the hospitals and the rest were laid out on the ground, and there the physicians attended them. At least 15 of those brought out injured died before they could be moved from the ground. Most of the dead are women, and the physicians say in many cases they fainted and died from suffocation. A remarkable feature of the calamity ig' that no blood was seen on any of the victims. They were either crushed or died from: suffocation. During the stampede Booker T. Washington and several other prominent negroes were on the stage and were unwilling witnesses to the frightful catastrophe. None of those in the choir or in the pulpit were injured in the least. For a few minutes they attempted to restore order, but seeing their efforts were futile waited until the struggling crowd had advanced far enough fo them to pick up the dead and inJjured. ]

_Stea_ls !rgm Carnegl} Company,

London, Sept. 20.—L. H. Greig, a bookkeeper in the London offices of the Carnegie Steel company, was arraigned in police court Friday on the charge of forging checks, amounting to $9,500, purporting to have been signed by Col. Millard Hunsicker, chairman of the Nickel corporation. The prisoner was remanded. - ]

i Hanged. Camden, N. J.,, Sept. 20.—Lafayette Gruff, of Gloucester, was hanged in the county jail Friday for the murder of his wife, Mary Ann Gruff. -

Receptl-gni to Boer Lénder:.

Antwerp, Belgium, Sept. 20.—Gens. Botha, Delarey and Dewet arrived here Friday and were received with great enthusiasm by crowds of people estimated to have numbered 300,000, The demonstration was not marred by a single anti-British cry.

Santos-Dumont Outdone,

London, Sept. 20.--Stanley Spencer steered an airship built by himself from Crystal palace over St. Paul’s cathedral, around Ealing suburb, and against the wind toward Harrow. The trip was 30 miles long and is believed to show a ship can be steered at will.

SORROW IN BELGIUM.

Queen Marie Henriette Dies Suddenly—Attacked While Eating Light Dinner.

Spa, Belgium, Sept. 20.—Marie Henriette, queen of the Belgians, died here suddenly Friday night at ten minutes before eight o’clock. Neither her husband, members of her family nor her majesty's doctors were present at the time of her death. She was seated at a table eating a light dinner, when she was seized with an attack of syncope. Dr. Guillaume, who, in the course of the day, had remarked upon certain disquieting symptoms in the queen’s condition, was summoned immediately, but her majesty was dead before he arrived. Two members of her suite were with the queen during her last moments. As soon as the news of the queen’s death became known, a large crowd gathered outside the palace. King

Ca : sy (" I R (> - g @‘F 7\ 21 ~'.':- ‘\N - /" : If'f"::':': / 22 2\ // s =2 | [ N 5 “‘P o / ! »e .':.",{," R I e MARIE HENRIETTE, QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS. Leopold has left Bagneres-de-Luchon, France, for Spa, and other members of the royal family have been telegraphed for. M. de Smet de Nayer, the Belgian premier, will arrive here to-day. . Queen Marie Henriette was a daughter of the late Archduke Joseph of Austria. She was born August 23, 1836, and was married August 22, 1833, to Prince Leopold of Belgium, son of King Leopold 1., who ascended the throne at the death of his father as Leopold 11., December 10, 1865. The queen was noted for her piety and charity, and, in recognition of her devotion to the church, the pope sent her about nine years ago a notable token of his high esteem in the form of the “Golden Rose of Virtue.” She was also a noted and brilliant horsewoman. The queen had been ill for about three years past of a malady of the heart and of recent months her condition had been so serious that little hope of her recovery was entertained. ;

Brussels, Sept. 20.—The news of the death of the queen of the Belgians came as a great surprise, especially in view of the reassuring reports which were circulated Friday morning, and which made the announncement of the evening still more of a shock. At the royal opera house, where ‘“Hamlet” was being played, the “Ghost” was just about to make his entrance when the manager of the theater read to the audience a telegram announcing the death of her majesty. The performance was discontinued. People crowded the city streets, where extra editions of the newspapers containing long obituary notices of the queen were bought eagerly.

END OF THE STRIKE.

Harrisburg Newspaper Says It Has ! Information That It Will

Come at Once.

Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 20.—The Telegraph prints the following: “Information has reached the Telegraph through a private source that the end of the coal strike was in sight. The report was to the effect that one of the largést firms, whose representatives in New York have been discussing the situation for some time, had decided upon a settlement, and an official announcement would be made either to-day or early next week.” Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 20.—1 n order to set all rumors about a settlement of the miners’ strike at rest, President Mitchell stated Thursday evening that if any overtures were received from the operators they would first be submitted to a convention of the miners and the acceptance or rejection of any proposition made by the coal companies would rest with the men themselves.

Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 20.—Bishop Fallows, of Chicago, issued a statement Friday, after conferring with President Mitchell, in which he says that arbitration is the miners’ and operators’ only hope of bringing about a settlement.

Horse Makes High Jump.

Des Moines, Ta., Sept. 20.—Pearl, owned by George Pepper, of Toronto, Canada, made a new record, seven feet six and three-quarter inches in the high jump at the Des Moines horse show. The former record was seven feet four and one-half inches, made by Howard Willetts Heatherbloom, at the last Chicago horse show.

{gg-(_l Physician Dead.

Springfield, 111., Sept. 20.—Dr. James H. Thomas is dead at his home in Chenoa, aged 86 years. He lived in McLean county 60 years, and was the oldest practitioner in the county. During the civil war he was captain of ‘infantry in the Forty-sixth Indiana volunteers. :

Fought with Dewey.

New York, Sept. 20.—Patrick J. Hyland, 36 years old, a yeoman on the cruiser Brooklyn, is dead at his home in this city. He served on Dewey’s ship at battle of Manila Bay.

Farmers Lose Heavily.

Huron, S. D., Sept. 20.—The most destructive prairie fire in the history of Beadle county is reported from the northwest. Not a grain or hay stack is left standing in an area 12 miles long by five wide, and many farmers lost their entire grain erops, the damage aggregating many thousands.

Coal at $l4 a Ton,

- Philadelphia, Sept. 20. — Anthracite coal brought $l4 a ton in the open market Friday when the Hoard.of inspectdrs of the county prison contracted for 75 tons of the ordinary stove size at that figure.

TRADE REVIEW.

General Activity Is Apparently Unchecked by High Rates Demanded for Money.

New York, Sept. 20—R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “Domestic trade continues active, high rates for money having thus far failed to check industrial operations or unsettle confidence. Stringency is considered only temporary, chiefly of importance to speculators while large imports of gold promise relief. Crops are making encouraging progress, despite some injury from frost. Labor disputes are few, the anthracite coal strike being the only one that retards progress, and each week shows some increase in output. Fall distribution of merchandise has begun unusually early, while ‘the volume of orders already placed indicates much the heaviest aggregate on record. At the south and west conditions are especially favorable, shipping departments working vigorously, and payments are promptly made. Traffic congestion causes complaint, yet railway earnings thus far available for September show a gain of 4.9 per cent. over last year's returns and 15.7 per cent. over 1900. Failures for the week numbered 199 in the United States, against 157 last year and 25 in Canada, compared with 20 a year ago.” Bradstreet’s says: “Jobbing distribution continues very active and retailbusiness isimproving. At thesouth the tone is notably cheerful, largely owing to higher cotton prices because crop accounts are mnot so favorable as a week ago. Collections are on the whole good, and the consensus of reports as to this and as to money conditions point to good supplies of the circulating medium in the country at large. Whatever stringency is noted, a condition usual at this time, is limited largely to the employment of money in speculation. The coal situation deserves mnotice. The delay in the ending of the anthracite coal strike throws increased pressure on the bituminous product, and prices for that article are now at least onequarter higher than the low point before the strike began. Amnthracite production is slowly but surely increasing as more mines and wminers go (to work, but the necessities of some retail buyers make fancy prices for what is left. A long season at full time will be necessary to restore stocks of anthracite to old dimensions.”

MONUMENT TO SLOCUM.

Dedicatory Services Held on Gettysburg Battlefield, Largely Attended by Veterans,

Gettysburg, Pa., Sept. 20.—The dedication Friday of the monument erected on the Gettysburg battlefield to the memory of Gen. Henry W. Slocum attracted a very large at-

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tendance of veterans. Special trains brought Govs. Odell, of New York; Murphy, of New Jersey; Stone, of Pennsylvania, and other - distinguished men, including Gen. Daniel F. Sickles, former Pension Commissioner Dudley, who lost a leg in the battle of Gettysburg while in command of the Nineteenth Indiana regiment. The Fourth battery of field artillery, U. S. A, fired a salute in honor of the governors and they reviewed the evolutions of the Second cavalry, U. S. A,

THE ROUMANIAN NOTE.

Indications That United Stafes’ Protest Against Treatment of Jews Is Well Received,

Washington, Sept. 20.—50 far only one answer to the state department’s note concerning the Roumanian Jews has come to hand. This was from Great Britain, and consisted of a brief acknewledgment and a promise to look into the subject matter, which promise appears to have been kept by the prompt issue of an invitation by Great Britain to Germany to open negotiations on the subject. It is presumed that the other nations addressed will return their acknowledgments shortly. If they are all of the same mind as England it may be thata conference will be called of representatives of the powers signatory of the treaty of Berlin with the purpose of bringing pressure to bear on Roumania to live up to her ‘obligations under that treaty.

British Seize Island of Patos.

New York, Sept. 20.—Officials here have been told that the British government has raised the British flag on the island of Patos, whichisnearTrinidad, notwithstanding the protest of the Venezuelan government, says a dispatch to the Herald from Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Dynamite Post Office Safe, _ Jefferson, 0., Sept. 20.—Three masked robbers dynamited the post office safe here, securing $250 in cash and $BOO in stamps and escaped by train. Night Watchman Jones was bound and gagged. ?

Italian Murderer Arrested.

Vienna, Sept. 20.—1 t is = reported that Tullio Murri, the well-known socialist and lawyer of Bologna, Italy, who is accused of the murder of Count Bon Martini, recently found issassinated, in his house at Bologna, las been arrested at the frontier jown of Aala, Austrian Tyrol. :

Heavy Loss by Fire,

Helena, Mont., Sept. 20.—The stamp mill and cyanide plant of the Columbian Gold Mining company, at York, was burned Thursday night. Theloss s $50,000. The plant was owmned by Michigan people. - ' :

WAS MASSACHUSETTS KIND.

A New England Maid Who Had an Aversion for Split Infinitives and Freshness,

He overtook her on the roadside while wandering for his health in the Berkshires. ““At last,” he said, ‘I have found a typical milkmaid of old New England. See her big sunbonnet, her dress up to her shoe tops her plain but neat calico, and the very pal_i itself. It is a morning for adventure and I will speak to her.” |

He cfluickened his walk and was soon near her, relates the New York Times.

“Fine morning this morning,” he said. “I would like to help you carry the pail.” There was no reply, but he felt the roguish smile that he knew was hid under the sunbonnet. So he kept on doing all the talking until they reached the lane into which she was about to turn. ¢ ; “Can I go with you?" he asked. She. turned and faced him. *No, sir, you may not, nor do I desire your attentions. It is bad enough to have a grownman splitting his infinitives, but when he shows his ignorance of the proper use of should and would and then caps the climax by using can for may, I think it is only my duty to tell him that the summer school is in session about ten miles from here.” e . Low Rates to the Northwest. Commencing September 1 and continuing until October 31, 1902, second-class oneway colonist tickets will be sold by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y from Chicago to all points in Montana, Idaho, Utah, California, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and intermediate points at greatly reduced rates. Choice of routes. to St. Paul or via Omaha, : The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y is the route of the United States Government fast mail trains between Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis, and of the Pioneer Limited, the famous train of the world. All coupon ticket agents sell tickets via Chicago fiilwaukee & St. Paul R’y, or address F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. : E o Courtship may indicate diamonds, but marriage indicates a hard strugile to get a winter’s supply of the plain black carbon.— Chicago Daily News.

One of nature's remedies; cannot harm the weakest constitution; never fails to cure_summer complaints of young or old. Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry. 5 S gl temee Embarrassed, “Was the count embarrassed when he proposed ?”’ ) s “I believe he was—financially,” replied the millionaire’s daughter.—Town Topies. — e 2 To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. Goadoang s O Every man is a fortune hunter, otherwise Ve wouldn’t be in business.—Chicago Daily News. - ——— e z It’s folly to suffer from that horrible plague of the might, itching piles. Doan’s Ointment cures, quickly and permanently. At any drug store, 5t cents. -_—— | A Great System, A peddler entered one of the skyscrapers and proceeded to the thirteenth story. There ill luck overtook him. and he was kicked down the stairway. The noise attracted the attention of tenants on the twelfth floor, who appeared on the scene in time to accelerate the motion of the unfortunate as ‘he passed down to the eleventh floor. Successively and numerous additions to the propelling force as he passed each floor finally landed him in the street in a state of intense excitement. As soon as he could regain his feet and breath and behold the magnificent building and the height from which he had descended with such uniform and rapid progress, he remarked: ‘“Mein Gott! Vat a sysdem. Vat sysdem der is in dot puilting. No elevator is needed!”—N. Y. Press.

HAD CRAZY SPELLS.

West Pembroke, Me., Sept. 22.—Thae thirteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. A. L. Smith suffered with a peculiar affliction which her mother describes as follows:,

“Jt is two years now since she was first taken with crazy spells. “They kept on coming at intervals and I could get nothing to do her any good. “The doctors gave me no encouragement. They all said they could not help her. 2 “The crazy spell would last about nine days, then she would be well about nine days, but would eat very little and was very yellow. Even the whites of her eyes were yellow. ~ “T heard that Dodd’s Kidney Pills were a great remedy for young girls and decided to try them. “After taking one box she was completely restored and she has not had one bad spell since. Of course we continued to use the pills and she used altogether five boxes last fall. “In March I thought I saw symptoms of the spells again and I got six boxes of which she has taken four and is in splendid health. “Her case was certainly a remarkable one and we are very thankful to Dodd’s Kidney Pills for the great good they have done my daughter.” l

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