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iwili . - @ i Ta ; -~ sas @Y - ‘ Gl Aganier Banne C ey . | = : 2% u. > 5 LIGONIER. - - - INDIANA m T T : Dr. Roux, of the Pasteur institute, in Paris, says radium Kkills mice: This discovery will be'a hard blow at the manufacturers of traps, for, of course, every housekeepér will now purchase a couple of pounds of radium. : ' F0r.30 years a s'tz;fiding debate l}ad been running between Gen. Gordon and Gen. Longstreet regarding the latter’s conduct -at the battle of Ge;t’ysburg. Death has stopped the dispute and laken. both debaters at once.

A young man has been arrested for robbing the Beston public library. His defense is that he only took very old books, and no nice new ones at all Some of the books he stole were musty things .300. years old—who wanted them, anyhow?_ ? 4

A ‘European scientist thinks that radium exists in large quantities in places where the earth, the sky and the water have a violet hue. He expects to make a large fortune by seeking out these places. ls there something in the ancient fable about a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, after all?

The appalling increase of railroXd accidents and loss of life from that cause have impressed .the interstate commerce. commission” with the necessity of more stringent legislation on the subject. It is difficult to see how mere legislation can make reckless managers less reckless or impart mcre intelligence to ipcompetent employes.

After a blind man who was struck by a street car in Homestead, Pa., recovered consciousness, he found that his sight had been restored by the jar. The embarrassing part is that not only will he probably fail in a suit for damages against the street car people, but the company will more than likely send him a bill for surgical services rendered. B ;

A novel experiment is being tried in a big London hotel, and the English newspapers are wondering whether it 7 will be a success. . Telephones are to be put in the various rooms, connected with a central exchahge. If London keeps'on at; har present rate # will not be many years before she catches up with- ! villages in this country in the matter“of conveniences. : gl

The cable takes the trouble to inform the world-that “great commotion”” has been caused at the Spanish court because Prince Louis Ferdinand, of Bavaria, dislocated “"his finger.” Of course if he had only one we can understand the excitement, but otherwise we cannot fancy what. words would be used to describe the effect on the court had the prince dislocated his neck. : ?

According to Secretary of Agriculture “Wilson, Sir Thomas Lipton buys horses and pigs in Chicago, shipping the horses to Ireland, where he trains them and gells them in England as “Irish jumpers,” while he selects the thin pigs and cans them 4as -“lrish bacon,” which he also sells in England at a big profit. 'lf Sir Thomas were no#an Irishman he would be a Yankee.

" In-the report of a hospital for insane Indians in South Dakota it is stated .that the noble red man is specially lias ble ‘to melancholy. This is attributed 1o the change in his manner of living, from barbarism to civilization. It is noticed also that numbers of Indians are developing domestic infelicities, for which they seek a remedy in the ‘divorce courts. Even civilization has its great drawbacks. ' ! e

The brain of “Citizen” George Francis Train was ‘found at a post mortem by Dr. Spetzka to be normal in quality and to weigh 53 4-5 ounces. The brain of the average man weighs 4814 ounces; Daniel Webster’s.-weighed 53%. Turgeneff’s brain weighed 71 ounces—one of the largest on record. These figures_are all Dr. Spetzka's, who has been keeping a record of the brains of famous men for many ‘years.

In New York there is a rather novel church structure. Ifis pcfrtab‘l'e and can be moved ahout from place to ‘ place. But it_has a pastor attached, and has been recognized by the denominational authorities as in good and regular standing—if a church constantly on the move can be said to have a standing. Perhaps we shall yet witness the spectacle of a church going after the members of the “congregativn who will not go to-church,

"It may be interesting to know that Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, will be €9 on September 15. - Grover Cleveland will be 67 on March 18. Alton B. Parker, of New York. will'be 52 on May 14." Arthur Pue Gorman, of Maryland, will be 65 on .March 11. David B. Ifiill,ot‘ New York, will be 61 on August 29. George Gray, of Delaware, will be 64 on May 4. William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, will be 44 on March 16. President Roosevelt, of New York, will be 46 on Qctober 27. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, of Ohio, will be 67 on September %4. - William H. Taft, of Ohio, will be 47 on September 15,

- The experience of a New York physician in advertising to pay $5,000 for a healthy right ear suggests some interesting poscibilities in surgery. It is his * purpose to graft the part on the head of a wealthy mine owner who lost an ear in an accident. Plenty of people are willing to help. So far he has bad 150 replies. In time a regular seale of prices may be ~ adopted—so much for a nose, an eye, a - tooth, afiinger. The only troubleisif he establishes a rate of $5,000 for an ear, then it is to be feared that a brand-new stomach or head will be out of reach df ~persons of only moderate means. .« There died in Washington. a few days ~ ago a woman who, though for a generation living quietly and almost unknown to the great majority of her contemporaries, had borne no small part as a benefactor of the whole civilized*worid. She was Mrs. Martha J. Coston, an«t she and her husband perfected what is konwn as the Coston < gignal light, which is used by mariners , and life sa\[rzers in all parts of the earth. Her husbapd was appointed a lieutenant in the navy in recognition of his _inventive abiiity, but died when she ‘was yet a.bride, o

A WERK'N HINTORY The Important Happenings of a - Week Briefly Told. i 2 _— ' IN 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 2o - y " FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Summary of Daily Procoeding"s in _ the Senate and House; I . On the 26th the senate further . discussed the Panama question and passed a bill providing for the constructien of a memorial bridge across the Potomac river from Washington to the Arlifig_ton estate, to cost $5,000,000. -In the ?muse Mr. Boutell (Ill.) spoke for; nearly two hours in reply to Mr. Williams’ (Miss.) “stand pat” speech of a few days ago.” Mr. Williams replied to Mr. Boutell. The speeches were made while the urgent deficiency bill was under consideration. s ; : - -Senate proceedings on the 27th included a speech by Senator Simmons (N. C.) in support of the Panama canal treaty and the passage of a bill.granting 50,000 acres of public land each in the states of Idaho -and Wyoming for the maintenance-of soldiers’ homes. In the house general debate on the urgent deficiency bill digressed to a discussion of political topics, the race question and aerial navigation. A bill was intro~duced allowing eight dollars to each sol-, dier who served 90 days and is now 62 years old, slo.a month if 66 years old and $l2 a month if 70 years old. . In the senate on the 28th the time was devoted to debaté on the attitude of the United States toward the Panama revolution, A bill to prevent the desecration of the American hag was favor“ablyreported. Inthehousetheurgentdefleiency bill was' futrther discussed. Bills were introduced appropriating 100,000 for a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the city of Washington; prohibiting the incorporation by states of corporations to engage in business outside of -the state; extending the thanks of congress to the people of Wisconsin for the statue of Mcrquette in statuary ball in the cap{tol. / N

S FROM WASHINGTON. President Rooseyelt has named members of the supreme court, other jurists and certain senators and representatives as delegates tg the universal congress of lawyers in St. Louis in September. ; i Ex-Gov. Taft of the Philippines was enthusiastically welcomed on ' his arrival at Washington' and Secretary Root. formally greeted his successor. . The president and ' Mrs. Roosevelt gave a dinner at the white house to the justices of the United States supreme court. . : Smokers are warned by Secretary Shawe¢not to try to.bring more than 300 cigarettes and 50 cigars into American ports without paying duty on them. - - " THE EAST. After serving a term of ten years William E. Brockway, aged 81, “king of counterfeiters,” was released® from state’s prison at Trenton, N. J. | More than 80 bodies have been recovered from the mine at Cheswick, Pa., where an explosion occurred. ; _ Annie Chambers Ketchum, author of the war song, ‘“The Bonnie Blue Flag,” died in New York, aged 80 years. Katherine Kendall Steele, cousin of President Franklin Pierce, died at her home in Lyndeboro, N. H., aged 103 years. = . , - Stephen W. Kellogg, a former congressman and a delegate to the republican aational convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln, died at Waterbury, Conn., aged 82 years. I Thus far the numberof bodies rescued from the Allegheny Coal cdmpany’s mines at Cheswick, Pa., total 103, and 80 are still in the mine. Flames destroyed three lumber yards at North Tonawanda, N. Y., causing a total loss of $225,000. - Three children of Louis Cohen were suffocated at New York in a firein a sixstory tenement. o : In a new air shaft of the Briar Hill Coal company near Brownsville, Pa., four-men were crushed to death. The health department of New York will supply. antitoxin to -other cities needing it, because of the “trust.”

g . WEST AND SOUTH. " Illinois republicans will hold their state convention at Springfield May 12. Rev. J,"H. Cally and wife and two of their children were killed by a Northwestern train near Crystal Lake, 111. The petition of Alderman John J. Brennan in Chieago for release on a writ of habeas corpu§ was denied and he was returned to the bridewell to serve one year. . In Louisville, Ky., Harry Behr was arrested charged with the murder of Miss Sarah C. Shafer, the Bedford (Ind.) school-teacher. Frank A. Gotch, of Humboldt, la., won the wrestling match at Bellingham, Wash,, for ‘the championship of the world with: Tom Jenkins, of Cleveland, O. = { - ‘ United States Senator John W. Daniel has been reelected by the Virginia legislature.’ - . In an address to University of Chicago seniors President Harper declared that the institution is not Baptist. In southern California thousands of cattle and sheep are dying as a result of a drought.’ > . In Havlin’s theater, St. Louis, a panic broke out caused by a cry of fire, but cool action on the part of the employes prevented anyone being badly injured. Collision of extra freights at Broken Bow, Neb., caused the death of three trainthen and a passenger. At Ormond, Fla.,, the automobile championship of America was won by Barney Oldfield, the time being '46-3-5. Mary Schaferdnski, 125 years old, died at her home near Menominee, Mich. | - Illinois will erect a circular temple costing $150,000 in Vicksburg (Miss.) military park in, memory of Illinois troops at the siege there. * 5 In Chicago six more }eaders of labor unions have been indicted on riot charges, S e s

For the first time since 1880 Lake Michigan is frozen over from shore to shore. - - : _ All records for cold were broken on: the night of the '27th in the history of the upper peninsula of Michigan, the thermometer registering 46 degrees be--low zero. Cattle were found frozen stiff in the barns, - - ¢ ' . In Milwaukee four supervisors and three other persons were arrested for alleged boodling. ! , v I"OREIGN INTELLIGENCE. . Japan has notified the Russian minister ‘at Tokio that an early answer to the latter’s redent note is desired. Flames that swept the town of Aalsund,”"Norway, making 14,000 people homeless, are said to have been the work of.incendiaries. ' - Representatives of the state department are in Europe seeking to effect an international agreement ‘on silver coinage. , . Denmark and Germany are safd to ‘have agreed in case of war between Russia and Japan to effectually blockade the Baltic.. : 7 T Throughout Germany ‘the forty-fifth birthday of Emperor William was c€lebrated. Flames at Progreso, Mexico, destroyed an entire square of business houses and bublie buildings, the loss being $2,000,000. ‘ According to evidence presented before the coroner Whitaker Wright deliberately planned to end his life if he was convicted by the London courts. The reply of Russia to Japan's note is declared to be a refusal in any way to consider the integrity of China, and both nations are making preparations for war.: / - LATER NEWS, A résolution was adopted in the senate on the 29th calling on the president to state whether the senate has beep supplied all facts pearing on the controversy of Panama and a resolution looking to the adjustment of our differences with Colombia by arbitration was considered. Adjourned to February 1. In the house a carnation adorned the lapel of the coat of nearly every member in commemoration of the late President McKinley's birthday. Bills were introduced for the distribution of $25,000,000 annually of the surplus in the treasury among the states and territories for the reconstructiop and maintenance of post roads; granting to each soldier who enlisted prior to July 22, 1861, and who served until the regiment was mustered out a bounty of $l5O. o Mrs. Julia Flynn died at her home in Chicago, agefi 100 years. : Another - world’s automobile record was smashed at Ormond, Fla., by w. K. Vanderkilt, who covered five miles in three minutes and 31 3-5 seconds. Trade reviews show the situation to be satisfactory and the prospects for the future to be unusually bright. Three men were scalded by the breaking of an iron elbow connecting the boiler and engine ‘in the basement of the Hotel Metropole in Detroit and died. : A loan of $4,500,000 is asked by the St. Louis exposition from the government. : z All the state offices in. Columbus, O, were closed on the birthday of William McKinley as a tribute to his memory. e Thirty-four per,_sons‘were killed by steam railroads or street cars in Chicago during January. . Harry D. Egbert, who murdered John C. ‘Saxton and John West last October, was hanged at Salem, Ore. Ex-Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis,”convicted of accepting bribes, has been freed from the penitentiary by the state supreme court, which held that ‘the offense was not proven. Secretary Root took formal leave of the cabinet and his successor, William H. Taft, was greeted. : - The will of Capt. D. G. Parr, of Louisville, Ky., provides $400,000 for a home for aged and indigent women. An expedition against Panama is planned by Colombia on assurance by Gens. Reyes and Cavallera ' that the United States will resist landing only in the canal zone.MINOR NEWS ITEMS. The University of Pennsylvania has 2,578 students enrolled, the largest number in its history. ' : In the city of New Yorkalone there are 150,000 people living to-day who would be dead if the mortality of 50 years ago. gtill prevailed. A steam motor devised by an English inventor may double the speed of railroad trains and Altantic steamers.

Gen. J. Warren Keifer wants to go to congress from the Seventh district of Ohio. :

President Loubet, of France, attributes his good health to taking long walks every morning between six and eight o'clock. o 5

_ Dr. Matthew H. Bucklam, nearing 70 years of age, will soon retire from the presidency of the University of Vermont. Maj. Elijah W. Halford, U. S. A., once private secretary to President Harrison, is home from the Philippines on a furlough. H. H. Wibert, of New York, an ardent admirer of President Lincoln,’ owns a walking stick which was the martyr’s constant companion. - °: Seven thousand acres of land in Washington county, Alabama, have been purchased for colonization purposes, and will be subdivided into small farms and sold to alien farmers.

- J. T.Clary, chief master at arms on the United States battleship Nevada, with service stripes'on his arms denoting 28 years of naval service, recently completed 100 trips around the world. Therg are two national banks in Mount Pleasant, la., and it has just developed that a majority of stock in each is owned by a woman. The men who actually manage the enterprise own but a small fraction. . Schools for Chinese are maintained in Yokdhama and Kobe by Chinese merchants, and a school for higher education at Tokio. The pupils generally have Japanese mothers. ) : Sixty per cent. of the French wines and 80 per cent. of the champaigns are adulterated or imitations, according to the sensational report of Prof. Robert M. Allen, secretary of the National Pure Food association.

. A delegation from the Upper Mississippi River Improveément association told president Roosevelt that the Panaman canal would necessitate the river’s improvement,. e

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A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE IN iy - A PENNSTLVANIA COAL MINE

~ Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 29.—The number of bodies rescued from the Allegheny Coal company’s mines at noon Thursday totaled 103. About 30 more were at the bottom of the shaft ready to be brought up, and probably 50 still-in the mine, making the total number of dead 175. The work of the undertakers was stopped early Wednesday night and the men who had labored hard all day preparing the bodies for burial decided to rest until morning. Another reason for stopping the work was the dearth of caskets, but a new supply was received. All night long the work of cleaning up the mine itself was carried on. Not an instant did the inspectors and the experts cease in the slow but steady task of exploration. The left heading of the south main level has been thoroughly inspected. The bodies there have all been recovered and the work in- the right head is now ‘being pushed forward rapidly. SR : " A squad of men was put to work Thursday digging graves, for the victims in the.plot of ground adjoining the Lutheran cemetery, half way Ibet"ween here and Springdale. It is in this plot that those miners who have no friends able to bear the expense of a burial will be interred: - ; - Headless, naked, charred beyond recognition, disemboweled and horribly mangled, is déscriptive of the condition of the bodies found by searchers. There are six mine inspectors and 22 men at work, the inspectors penetrating into unexplored regions locating bodies while the main body of searchers came afterward to extricate and carry out the blackened bodies.

Rescuers. Hesitate. Chief Mine Inspector Roderick reached the Harwick mine in the afternoon and at once assumed charge. The finding of the dead body of Daniel Lysle, of Leechburg, and the report that another of the searchers is missing, is keeping down the number of volunteers, for they realize that there is still much danger in the mine, but it is believed that Mr. Roderick will get a sufficient number of men to prosecute the work vigéorously. » { /The Expiosion. The explosion occurred at 8:20 o’clock Monday morning and the first warning was ' the sudden rumble underground, and then a sheet of flame followed up the deep shaft. ‘Both mine cages were hurled. Zhrdugh the tipple, 20 feet above the landing stage and the three men on the tipple were hurled to thé ground. A mule was thrown high above the shaft and fell dead on the ground. - - <The general impression among old miners is that every man in the mine died with the flash of the explosion, excepting Gonia. M. McQuaide, foreman of the Freeport mine, located further up the river, said that there was no use risking more lives in sending rescuing parties. He was sure that no one was alive in the mine, and that until the mine had been thoroughly ventilated there would be danger to any rescuing parties who might enter. : : - James E. Roderick, chief of the state department of mines, says: ‘“The explosion was undoubtedly caused by the accumulation of fire damp. This is a +act and not’a theory.”

One Killed. St. Louis,—Jan. 28.—Mandis Fahill is dead and ten other laborers who were overcome with gas while cleaning out a sewer Wednesday, are ill. It is believed none of the ten is.in a serious condition, but their escape from death was a narrow one, Arrested in Texas. San Antonio, Tggf, Jan. 28.—Herbert S. Robertson, accused of embezzling $lO,OOO from a New York publishing house, was arrested here Wednesday by an officer from New York. ' To Succeed Himself. Richmond, 'Va., Jan. 27.—The two houses of the general assembly on Tuesday, voting separately, chose John W. Daniel to succeed himself as TUnited States senator for the full term beginning March 4 next. The two houses will meet in join session to-day to ratify the action. e / Ex-Cengressman Dead. ‘Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan, 27.—Judge Robert Lowry, former member of congress from the Twelfth Indiana district and one of the best-known jurists in the state, died at 2 o’clock this morning at his home in this city, aged 80 years.

Inspector W..F. Cunningham, who is in charge'of the mine, now says: “Every man in themTngws killed by an explosion of fire dam -? hey died much as if shot through the\§eart with a bullet.” FIFTEEN FALL TO DEATH. Fatal Accident at lnde'pendence Mine ' at Victor, Col. W Victor, Col., Jan. 27.—As the result .of an accident that oceurred about three o’clock Tuesday morning in the Stratton Independence mine, “located near the center of this city, 15 men are dead and one other severely injured. The dead:'- W. R. Frazier, John Sebeck, Joe Setherum, Edward Twiggen, L. A. Wagoner, H. A. Yeoman, Edward Smith, Joe Ovary, H. F. Brown, W. B. Collins, J. L. Steward, Frank Cochrane, L. P. Jackson, Harry Cogane, C. C. Statten. Injured: James Bullbek, body bruised and scalp wounds. ' Hurled to Their Death. In the main shaft six men were being hoisted in a cage from the sixth, seventh -and eighth levels. When the cage reached the surface the engineer, for some unexplained reason, was unable to stop the engine and the ‘cage with its load of human freight was drawn up into the gallows’ frame, where it became lodged témporarily. The strain on the cable finally caused it to part, and the cage, released, shot down the shaft with terrific speed. Two of the occupants, L. P.- 'Johnson and James Bullbek, had become entangled in the.timber rods near the top of the gallows frame. Jackson was crushed to death by the sheave ‘wheel falling upon him, while Bullbek had a marvelous escape from death, but received painful injuries and was rescued from his perilous’ position. The other 14 men were hurled to death down the 1,500-foot shaft. S 8 Only Ome Identified. © Victor, Col., Jan. 28.—Fearfully mutilated and unrecognizable, the bodies of the 14 miners who fell with the cage 1,600 feet down the shaft of the Stratton Independence mine on Tuesday are lying on two rows of benches in a carpenter shop near the shafthouse. Ogly one of the victims, Edwin Twiggs, was recognizable from his features. There was not a particle of clothing on any of the bodies or dismembered limbs when recovered from the bottom of the shaft. :

Brownsville, :Pa., Jan. 29.—Four men, all foreigners, were crushed to death Thursday in a new air shaft of the Briar Hill Coal company near here. The shaft was 685 feet deep and the men were being lowered in a bucket when a 400-pound pilot weight" broke, precipitating the bucket and men to the bottom. The heavy weight falling on them crushed the men beyond recognition. z The men were in tne employ of Contractor Samuel Henry, of Connellsville, Pa., wno was sinking the shaft. The Briar Hill company is owned by the. Republic Iron & Steel company. It is claimed by the officials that the accid dent was due to the failure of the men to remove. the weight ‘from the lever before starting down. .

New Hamiuhire Centenarian Dead.‘ New York, Jad. 28.—Mrs. Katherine Kendall Steele, the oldest woman in New Hampshire and cousin of President Franklin Pierce, is dead at her home. Lyndeboro, N. H. She was 103 years old. One of the events of Mrs. Steele’s life was her meeting with Lafayette at Concord in 1824. ( Taft Reaches Washington. . Washington, Jan. 28.—Gov. Taft, who is to assume the duties of secretary of war next week, arrived here at 5:15 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. .+ Slain with an Ax, Alfred, Ont., Jan: 26.—C. Goyette, of Montreal, in a quarrel over wages with Daniel Corrigan and his son, farmers living near here, killed them both with an ax. He then forced Mrs. Corrigan to give him all the money she had and fled, but later was captured," T Fire in Chicago. i Chicago, Jan. 26.—The large department store of Johnson Bros., 1640-1650 Milwaukee avenue, was totally destroy=d by fire shortly after six o’clock last evening, causing a loss of from $40,000 to $50,000. ) b

HIS FAVORITE FLOWER. Thou-finda “Wear Red Carnation in .. - Observance of Anniversary of | McKinley's Birth. i Chicago, .Jan. 30.—Red .carnations were worn on thousands of lapels in Chifi:ago yesterday in observance of William McKinley’s birthday. CereEnonlgs at the Hamilton club, during the noon hour.were the formal recogwnition- of: the sixtieth anniversary of the martyred president’s birth. . Washington, Jan. 30.—Carnations, President McKinley’s favorite flower, were worn Friday by all members of the house of representatives, democrats and republicans alike. Never before has the homage been so uniform. St. Louis, Jan. 30.—Pink carnations, the favorite flower of President McKinley, were generally worn in St. Louis Friday in honor of the anniversary of the birthday of the deceased president. Hundreds of carnations were sold and given away and Were used as decorations in public schools, hotels, theaters and other public places. - Omaha, Neb.,, Jan. 30.—The Omaha McKinley club on Friday night celebrated the birth of Willlam McKinley with a banquet, at which Gov. Vau Sant, of Minnesota; Gov. Mickey, of Nebraska: Lieut. ‘Gov. McGilton, of Lincoln; Edward Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee; Murat Halsted, of Cincinnati; Hon. John L. Webster, and Gen. Cowin, of Omaha, were honored guests. Two hundred and fifty guests were présent, each wearing a red carnation as an emblem of remembrance of the dead president. - . Canton, 0., Jan. 30.—Canton people. informally but generally observed MeKinley’s birthday. Special patriotic programmes were held in most of the schools, and the pink carnation was everywhere in evidence. Mrs. McKinley was driven to the cemetery in the afternoon with a large bunch of carnations for the tomb of the late president. A beautiful floral piece, bearing the ' card of Secretary of Commerce and Labor George B. Cortélyou, was placed upon the casket. Other floral offerings from out of town were also received. ; 4

TRADE REVIEW. Business Generally Quiet., and Evi- {‘ dences of Increased Activity i Are Hopefully Awaited. New York, Jan. 30.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “Business conditions would be most satisfactory if present high prices for the leading staples were the result of wholesale demand, but the prominence .of spring are hopefully awaited. Regratifying conclusions.! Aside from the lines temporarily stimulated by severe weather, trade is quiet, and evidences of increased activity with’'the apprcach of spring are hopefully awaited. Reports of the building outlook have been prepared by branch offices of R. G. Dun & Co. at the leading cities and indicate that high cost of materials ‘and labor “have curtailed operations, although the ‘year 1903 showed ‘a good gain over 11902. Demand for lumber is gradually improving, stocks in the yards are light as a rule and attractive prices promise a large cut. Weather conditions are favorable for winter wheat. Transportation has suffered some interruptions by storms, but railway earnings thus far reported for January are 3.8 “per, cent. larger than in 1903. Optimistic reports are not numerous regarding the iron and steel industry. Anticipations of rapid recovery with the advent of a new year are not yet realized, although it is stil hoped that new business cannot be much longer deferred. " “Failures this week numbered 302 in ‘the United States against 243 last year, and 28 in Canada compared with 30 a year ago.” ) .

EX-MAYOR AMES FREE.

Supreme Court of Minnesota Holds Evidence Was Not of the Kind - to Warrant His Conviction, St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 30.—The suprenge ‘coux_;'t Friday quashed the indictment against. former Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis, and the entire.court held that the indictment was good, but that the evidence was faulty. Judges Start, Collins and Lewissconcurred in the majority opinion that the offense was not proven, while Judges Lovely and ‘Brown disagree with that part of the opinion of the majority. Dr. Ames was charged and convicted .in the district court of Hennepin county of.receiving money illegally as mayor of Minneapolis from women. - He was indicted for that offense February 4, 1903, and after a trial of several weeksowas found guilty May 7 and sentenced to a term in prison of six years on May 16. An appeal was taken to the supreme court in December on the ground that the indictment was not properly drawn, in that it was omnibus in character, charging in fact more than one crime. This contention was sustained by the supreme court Friday. Dr. Ames was mayor of Minneapolis four times. . The majority opinion of the court, written by Justice Lewis and concurred in by Chief Justice Start and Justice Collins; was a surprise’'to the defense as well as to the state. . o

Top of Head Blown Off. East St. Louis, 111.,, Jan. 30.—Charles Berghaus, a machinist, shot at his sweetheart, Miss Retta Remlot, at her home! Thursday night when she chided him about drinking, but missed her. He then killed himself; holding his revolver s 0 close to his head that the third shot carried away the tap of his skull. Amerlé;n—néte:ted. Paris, Jan. 30.—8 y the narrow margin of four points, Vignaux, the French player, defeated Sutton, the American, in the billiard contest played here Friday night, and consequently retains the championship- of the world. o ¥ Will Not Reduce Wages. . Fayetteville, W. Va., Jan. 30.—At a meeting of more than 20 coal operators on New River, employing in the aggregate 9,000 miners, it was unanimously voted not to reduce the wages of mihers this year. This means no strike in New River territory. 3 Ottawa, 111., Jan. 30.—Harry West, an actor from Chicago, who shot and killed John C. Walsh in this city, on the night of Decembér 13 last, was on Friday sentenced by Judge Bishop, in the circuit court, to serve 20 years in the penitentiary. : ~ S

. A Late Business Call. “Curious what men do when theyre drinking.” said Representative “I'im” Sullivan. *“When I was in New York 1 heard a story about a man I know who had been out mnearly all night, and was considerably the worse for. wear. i “He came along a street and saw an undertaker’s sign, with .a_ night bell, just over a°speaking tube. He rang the bell fiercely. : : . “‘What "is it? yelled . the undertaker down the tube. ‘What do you want? “ ‘Nothing in particular,” the chap replied; ‘only I want to say'to you that vou're the last nmtl I'll do business with.” ” —Philadelphia Telegraph. ) - She—“ And you don’t think there is a chance in the world of our living through our lives without a quafrel?”’ He—" There is always a fighting chance, dear.’—(Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. . ' > : . —_— e— - — ;, FRAUDS IN A BALE OF HAY. = Frauds in Watch Casés. , According to an articlé in the Cincinnati Commercial, a fifty-one pound- stone was recently found in that city secreted in_a bale of hay of eighty pounds: This is not as bad as fiiding a lump of lead of nearly one-half the weight of the solid gold watch case secreted in fhe center of the case. e Gold watch cases are sold by weight, and no one can see where ‘this ledd is secreted until’ the springs of the case are taken out and the Jead will be found secreted behind them. = ! These cases are made by: companies who profess to. be honest but furnish -the means to. the dishonest to rob the. public. It'is not pleasant for anyone to tind that he has lugged a lump of lead im his watch case. s : o Another trick the ‘makers of spurious solid gold watch cases is to stamp the case “U. S. Assay.” The United States does not stamp any’ article made out of fiold and silver except coin, and the-fakir, vy using this stamp., wants te ! make the public believe that the governinent had something: to do with the stamping or guaranteeing the fineness of watch cases!. Another trick of the watch fakir is to advertise a watch described as-a solid gold filled watch with a twenty or twenty-five-year -guarantee. - These watches -are generally sent C. O. D., and if the. purchaser has paid for.the watch, he finals that the Company which guaranteed the watch to wear is not in ‘existence. The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company of Canton, Ohio, who are constantly ex posing these frauds, will furnish the names of the manufacturers who are in this questionable business. . - ok . . — . . ‘ Proof Positive. ) Husband (reading)—l'm ~ surprised to learn that a married man writes the fashion notes for the woman's page in this paper. 3 LT Wife—But, dear, how do you know that such is the case? . = + “Listen to this item: ‘There will be.no change in pocketbooks this season.” Now, only a married man conld ' have penned that.”"—Cincinnati E.nquirer. ) ' Salzer’s, Earliest Cane. . - Another new thing. Can be cut six times during a season and sprouts again with lightning rapidity. =Next to Salzer’s Teosinte it -will make more green fodder than anything else, cheap as dirt and grows everywhere. 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