Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 21, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 August 1904 — Page 2

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The pubiic is the chief dufferer in a big strike. - Its sympathies are with its own plundered pockets..

Kuropatkin has about decided not to be stubborn in case he gets a chance to make peace before reaching Tokio. Train robbers operated “successfully within 25 miles of Chicago. Very few great cities can boadt of such industry almost within their limits.* : 5 ————————————————————————— . Now that a New England mob has tried to start a hanging bee no doubt several soguthern cities will feel called upon to do a little pertinent moralizing. e - 'Ard now the typewriting necord has been wrested from a Washington woman by a New York man. The talking record is still safein the hands of the fair sex, however. ' : L Loosa e The old politicians are already beginning to worry about the danger of being beaten by overconfidence. This scare never fails tod)ob up when thereisa pre_es-' ident to be elected. i § Fraternal insurance societies are reorganizing upon a scientific basis. The jdea seems to be that fratermalism will be none the worse tor a judicious admixture cof business. 1 American soda fountains are being introduced in England. Gradually that country is advancing. The time may even come when they will be eating corn on the cob in England. Accepting as true the estimate that 50 vears of .coal mining ‘will exhaust all the veins of anthracite it is easy to see how the time may be extended to twic2 that period by a strike every other year. Why Russia should hope for a change in the fartunes of war after Port Arthur's fall is not clear. When that event takes place the Russian armies may as well retire permanently from the field. It is now asserted that nothing serious is the matter with the Hon. George F. Hoar, he ‘‘has only lumbago.” No one who has ever had lumbago will lightly apply to it the word *“only.” : : ‘ New Jersey is about to abolish its toli roads, When this reform has been ac.eomplished and the mosquitoes exterminated New Jersey wil be considered eligible for admission into the union. : Political fights in Kentucky are still very unfigurative. It took 50 police to ‘convince a Lexington gathering that they could attain more harmony by bolding their conventions in two halls than in one. , . b e T Sy " Benjamin D. Brown, of Philadelphia and 72 years of age, married Mrs&s Elvina King, aged 65, because he “liked her cooking.” Now if he can keep her from desiring to be in fashion by hiring somebody else to do the cooking his declining years may be filled with real happiness. ; S e e © * The adage “Never too old to learn” is exemplified this year in the summer school at Harvard. One of the students is a preacher 83 years old; another is a Congregational minister 74 years old, while two others are past 60. We may all find out after awhile that it is high time for us (o go to college. 2

‘Existence: in Chicago at the risk of being starved to <death or clubbed to death is perilous enough, but approach to the cily is even becoming dangerous, With trains being held up only 25 miles ifrom the place, no wonder New Englanders fegard the western metropolis 28 a wild and woolly frontier. .

Recent revelations: respecting the spread of the cocaine habit in Chicago are alarming. Cocaine produces insanity of a hopeless type. The state insane asylums of the gulf states shelter a large proportion of negroes whose insanity is due to the use of the drug. The dangér of cocaine is not only in its inherent evil qualities, but in the fact that it is- what may ‘be called a poor man’s drug. It takes considerable money to satisfy the morphine habit or the chloral habit or the hasheesh habit, but very little to gratify the cocaine habit. -

The annual losses by fire in the United States which have averaged as high as §100.000,600 a year at certain periods, are attributed during a-single year to the following causes: Incendiarism, 1.927; defective flues. 1,309; sparks (not from locomotives), 715; matches, 636: explosions (of lamps, ete.), 430; stoves. 429; lightning, 369; spontaneous combustion, 326; prairie and forest fires, 280; lamp and lanterd acicdents (other than explosions). 238; locomotive sparks, 211; cigar stubs and pipes, 203; friction, 179; gas jets, 176; engines and bodilers, 150; furnaces, 135, and firecrackers, 105.

Probably it will be a good while before automatic vehicles will be employed for farm use, yet the trip of the 200 motor car enthusiasts from New York to St. Louis over. all sorts of roads indicates that the automobile is approaching a state of development in which it may be used for almost any vehicular purpose. -The breakdowns between New York and Chicago wefe hardly mcre than could have been looked for among an equal number of carriages drawn by -horses. There is Lo reason why automatic propulsion should not be used on farm wagons.

Revival of 'the discussion of the food value of alcohol comes at a time when Christian saloons are opened in New York. It is doubtful whether whisky can be made respectable even though - it has a food value and is sold over a religious bar. If aleohol is a food, there are many foods far superior to it and entailing no misery, want and suffering. -As for ecclesiastical dignitaries lending their countenance to the saloon business, it is merely a mat~ter of individual taste which does not at all affect the underlying fact:that the saloon is not a moral agent. =

A WEEK'S HISTORY

The Important Happenings of a Week Briefty Told.

IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION

All the Latest News of Interest from Washington, From the East, the / ~ West and the Scuth. [

THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES

i’IROM WASHINGTON. ® President Roosevelt asks federal officials not to mix in local factional fights. . A band of seven Filipinos from the world’s ;fair exhibit visited Washington and were warmly greeted by President Roosevelt,

The government of Hayti and the United States have signed a treaty of extradition. :

Less favorable crop conditions are reflected in the weekly government report, which says that in the central valleys and parts of the upper lake region the drought is serious. -August’s government report suggests a wheat crop of 586,000,000 bushels, corn 2,400,000,000, oats 789,000,000, compared with 639,000,000 wheat. 2,244,000,000 corn and 784.000.000 oats in 1903. .

Hon. William H. Taft, secretary of war, told the assembly at Chautauqua, N. Y., that the only hope of seif-gov-ernment for the Filipinos lies in ‘the carrying out of the policy of education. T It is announced that the American squadron sent to impress the sultan has reached Smyrna. THE EASE. . The New York state superintendent of elections, George W. Morgan, gave out a statement in which he says it is estimated that $600,000 has been made within the post year in the sale of fraudulent naturalization papers. "Robert Cauer, a New York sculptor, has been awarded a contract for a lifesize bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Franz Sigel, to be erected in St. Louis by the Sigel Monument association. - Elihu: F. Jackson, ex-governor of Maryland, Wwas nominated for congress by the democratic convention of the First Maryland distriet. His opponent will be his brother, William H. Jackson, the pf‘esent republican representative in congress from that district. Flames destroyed the great cold storage plant for which South Lima, N. Y., is celebrated, the general store and four r?idences and barns. The loss is $50,age - - : In a speech at Esopus Alton B. Parker accepted the democratic nomination for president. He pledged himself to a single term, favored a lower tariff, and warned the mnation against imperialism. The notification address was delivered by Congressman Champ Clark. A tank of varnish in the varnish works of the Travers Bailey company, in Brooklyn, boiled pver, and James W. Travers, of the firm, his sister, Annie, who was his bookkeeper, and William Slowey, the varnish maker, were fatally burned. f . New York is aroused because Sicilians of the “Black Hand” society have stolen a boy and demand $50.000 ransom on pain of torture to the child and murder of his parents. Dozens of similar crimes are charged to the society. - - WEST AND SOUTH. : Having on board $1.750,000 in gold the steamer Sierra sailed from Sydney, N. S. W., August 8, for San Francisco. In the northern suburbs of Chicago hundreds of English sparrows, huddled together to escape the terror of a storm, were electrocuted -by the lightning. which struck the trees in which they were roosting. T

In St. Louis Mrs. Victor Moore and her sister-in-law, Miss Cora A. Moore, both of Bellsé Station, La., were killed by being struck by a street car. : By a fall from a frightened horse.in Lake Forest, 111., Miss Grace Gregory, of Chicago, was killed. e Walter G. Kraft, justice of the-peace, of River Forest, 111., was drowned intwo feet of water in the Desplainesriver. He had been ill and delirious. Democrats and populists of Nebraska: failed to effect fusion on a national ticket, but united on a state ticket, and it is said -will make their principal campaign for the legisiature in the hope of sending W. J. Bryan to the senate. ; Constable D. O. Stanfil, B. F. Sherry" and M. M. Ransom were remanded to jail at Selma, Ala., without bail to await the action of the grand jury, charged with murder in the first degree, because ‘Edmund Bell, 2 negro, who was given into their charge, was taken from them by .2 mob and lynched. : The grain elevator of the Sheets Bros.’ chmpany, in the southern portion of Cleveland, 0., was burned, causing damage to the extent of from $§75,000 -to $lOO,OOO. The elevator contained almost 100,000 bushels of grain. The list of dead and missing, carefully revised, confirms the original estimate that not less than 100 lives were lost in the flood which wrecked the Missouri Pacific fast train on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, near Eden, Col. . ] At Michigan City, Ind., Abram R. Colburn, head of the wholesale lumber firm ‘ -‘bearing his name, died from paralysis. He had many retail establishments throughout the state. - He leaves an es: tate valued at several millions. . While at a ball in South Haven, Mich., J. E. Reinger, former president and treasurer of the Reinger Lumber company, of Kansas City, Mo., was arrested on a warrant charging him with embezzlement of $43,200. = - Water flooded the Barringer gold mine, located near Gold Hill, N. C., causing the instant death of eight men employed in the mine. s ‘Former ¥Japtain Eugene N. V. Bissell, of the United States army, committed suicide in his room in the Grand hotel, San Framncisco, by inhaling illuminating f"‘1%17";‘01' two hours all the municipal offices were closed in Bt. Louis and the flags _on city institutions were placed at half mast during the funeral of Former Senator George Graham Vest, whose remains were laid at rest/in Bellefontaine cemetery, St. Louis. ~ There s being organized in Chicago a company of Chinese militia to form 1&1“ of an army {o be offered to the

In Nebraska nearly 100 populists, headed by Thomas H. Tibbles, ecandidate for vice president, bolted the fusion ticket and held another convention. e ;

After shooting a deputy sheriff Isaac Gravelle, a Montana desperado, escaped from jail, was chased into the home of Gov. O’'Toole, and after a duel with his pursuers, blew out his brains. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. - An inquiry as to the truth of the report. that the American legation at Bogota had been stoned, brought to the state department a cablegram from Mr. Snyder, the American charge at the Colombian capital, declaring the story false. ! ’ The well-known British surgeqn, Sir William Banks, is dead in London. He was born in 1842, L In defending England’snaval expenditures, Lord Selborne declared it more important now than ever that the country should have the largest and best battleships. Kurds and Turks destroyed five villages in- Armenia and massacred many women and children. ; " M. Waldeck-Rousseau, former premier, died in France as a result of an operation for liver trouble. Dressmakers of Paris have formed a trust-to prevent imitation of models by foreign whoiesalers. Toronto, Can., was chosen by the International Typographicalunion convention at St. Louis as the place in which to hold the next annual convention. England’s demand to reconsider her definition of contraband has been refused by Russia, and she has asserted her right to sink neutral ships. Premier Balfour admits a crisis.

LATER NEWS.

The Japanese legation at Washington has received /a- revised list of casualties on the Japanese side from the battle of Chingjiu, March 28, up to and including the battle of Yangtzling, August 1, showing the total estimated casualties to be 12,055. ~The Connecticut supreme court of errors has rendered a decision adverse to William J. Bryan in his contest over the will of the late P. S. Bennett. By this decision Mr. Bryan ioses a $50,000 bequest. : ,

. Sixty one Hungarian deputies sailed from Fiume, Hungary, for New York to attend the international parliament congress at St. Louis. . * Chairman Cortelyou says that President Roosevelt will not make any political speeches this year. Beyond the speech' to the notification committee and the letter of acceptance, which is vet to be published, the president will not take any public part in the campaign. : . Samuel Putnam Avery, well known as an art dealer and connoisseur, died in New York at the age of 82. -In 1867 he acted as commissioner of the American art department at the universal exhibition in Paris.

Fred Thompson, aged 21, an attorney in the Hartford building, Chicago, and his cousin, Eli Thompson, aged five, were drowned in Eagle creek, Indianapolis, Ind. He was carrying the child on his back. and sank with cramps. . ; :

The state bank of Hazel, Minn., was looted by burglars and $2,000 in money taken. The vault and safe were blown to pieces. William Renshaw, the famous tennis player, is dead in London.

"~ The sultan of Morocco has cast into prison a British subject and ignores the protests of the English officials.

United States officials captured seven men in the act of makinlg spurious coin in a building in Chicago. A guard on a South Side “L” train in Chicago found a satchel containing $B,OOO. Hereturned it and wasrewarded with $lOO. @ Mrs. Maybrick -in an interview told of hardships suffered during her long confinement in British prisons, asserted her innocence and announced her purpose scon to return to America to reclaim a fortune. : . It is announced that Commander Booth-Tucker, of the Salvation Army, will be transferred to a foreign post.

MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

“ Robert Roosevelt, an uncle of the president, was censured by a New York judge in a decision for ‘“‘unauthorized and negligent acts,” by which stockholders of a building association lost $lOO,OOO. Mr. Roosevelt is held liable for the losses. . - Postmaster General Payne refused to name a post offiee after Gov. Vardaman, .of Mississippi, because of vile language said to have been used in the latter’s newspaper.

Northwest crop reports are quite contradictory. There is evidence that damage to the wheat crop from rust has been greatly exaggerated. A girl alleged to have been stolen in Denmark, in 1902 and held for $200,000 ransom, has been recovered in Chicago. -+ The alleged kidnapers Were arrested.

A wealthy New York society girl passed a 100 per cent. examination and has been enrolled as a member of the volunteer life-saving service of the United States. Vlademar Paulsen, a scientist of Copenhagen, has discovered an electric wave by means of which a typewriter in an adjoining room may be operated. - The Illinois Central railroad filed a trust deed covering 12 of its branch lines in Indian and Illinois to secure a loan of $20,000,000. : ~ The will of the late George H. Laflin, of Chicago, which disposes of an estate of $2,000,00, warns his heirs against speculation. t The National Civiec Federation has established a world’s fair bureau at the world’s fair to provide ways and means for wage earners to visit the show. Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cornell university, says trusts should Dbe let alone, believing that natural laws will regulate them. . ; . United -States Senator Cullom, in a speech at Plano, 111., declased that the 'Russian-Japanese war may change the great eastern map. : The purchase of New York trolley lines by the Vanderbilt interests means that the New York Central will adopt electricity as a motive power. A Minnesota supreme court upheld a decision fining two hunters $20,000 fuz killing game out of season. i

Railway postal cletks of Illinois, lowa, South Daliota, Nebraska and Wyoming held their annual conveation in Chicago,

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TRAIN PLUNGES | THROUGH BRIDGE

Three Cars Dropped Into Swollen Creek in Colorado—Fully 100 Lives Lost—SeventyNine Bodies Have Been Recovered.

Pueklo, Col., Aug. 11.—The wreck of the world’s fair flyer on the Denver & Rio CGrande railroad near Eden, seven miles north of Pueblo, Sunday evening, proves to have been one of the greatest railroad disasters in the history of the country. Two crowded passenger cars and a baggage car were engulfed in the torrent that tore out a trestle spanning Steeles Hollow, otherwise known as Dry creek, and, so far as known only three of the occupants of these cars escaped death. Forturately, two sleeping cars and a diner, completing the train, remained on the track at the edge of the abyss and none of their occupants were killed or injured. ! Seventy-Nine Bodies Recovered. Pueblo, Cdl‘., Aug. 12.—Careful revision of the‘lists of dead and missing confirms the original estimate that not ‘less than 100 lives were lost imn :tha flood which wrecked the Missouri Pacific fast train on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, near Eden, Sunday night. Seventy-nine bodies have been recovered, 19 passengers on the wrecked train are missing, and ten other persons are reported missing who are not positiively known to hava

THE BUTCHERS’ STRIKE.

No Signs of Peace Apparent at Chicago —New York Butchers Are . Called Out

New York, Aug. 11.—Following the ul-

timatum given the packers by the Amalgamated Beef Cutters and Butchers’ Workmen of America Tuesday that a general strike would go into effect Wednesday, the order became operative at the time set. The plants affected are those affiliated with the so-called “beef trust.” t .

Chicago, Aug. 12.—There is practically no hopé of a settlement of the strike through the intervention of the retail meat dealers. The packers expressed a willingness to confer with a committee of the dealers, but they broadly intimat>d that under no circumstances would they agree to another conference with the strikers’ representatives. As a matter of fact the packers have agreéd that there is no necessity for another conference with the leaders of the

strike. They say the strikers violated the first agreement, and that since that violation the packing plants have continued to do business with constantly increasing success.

St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 12.—One packer estimates that over a quarter of a million dollars has been lost to wage earners here since the strike was inaugurated a month ago. But the employes of the packing houses have not been the only losers. The railroads, the street railway company and stock growers have suffered heavily. If losses in all lines were computed the estimate would run beyond $1,000,000. Of the 5,000 men who struck about two-thirds have returned to work. 3

Killed by Lightning

. New York, Aug. I..—During a heavy thunder storm in this city and vicinity Wednesday, William Hagen, 27 years old, was killed by lightning while driving a truck in Brooklyn. The force of the stroke knocked him from his seat and his death is thought to have been instantaneous. An unidentified boy is also said to have been killed by the lightning in Brownsville. Strike Breaker Killed. Omaha, Neb.,: Aug. 12.—During the progress of a row between strikebreakers at the Cudahy plant Andrew Hanson was stabbed over the heart and killed by a man named Isaacs. Both are negroes and were strikebreakers. Isaacs immediately fled and has not been captured. Vote to Strike. Cleveland, 0., Aug. 12.—Two thousand cloakmakers, employed in 17 shops throughout the city, have voted to go on strike Monday to enforce a demand for an increase in wages and a closed shop. | Brothers Are Rivals. Ocean City, Md., Aug. 11.—Former Gov. Elihu E. Jackson was nominated for congress Wednesday by the democratic convention of the First Maryland district. Ex-Gov. Jackson's opponent will be his brother, William H. Jackson, the present republican representative in congress from this district, who has been renominated. A Brings Much Gold. Sydney, N. 8. W, Aug. 11.-—The steamer Sierra which sailed from this ‘port August Bth fof San Francisco, has on board $1,750,000 in gold. =

been on the train. One corpse is still classed as unidentified.

Further shipment of bodies to points outside this state have been made as follows: George A. Beck, to Princeton, Ind.; Capt. Frank Bodenan, to Florence, Mass.; Miss Carrie O. Bishop, to, /Hartford, Conn.; Alfred E. Hoes, to Clinton, IIl.; Robert W. O’Bannon, to Lamont, Mo.; Elsie Roland, to Lindsborg, Kan.; Mrs. L. A. Stevens, to Northampton, Mass.; Miss Lottie Shoup, to Fort Wayne, Ind.; Mrs. Mary Welch, to Chicago, and Mrs. A. H. Yeagla to Lima, lIL Buried in Quicksand.

Developments indicate that the bodies of the missing victims have been sucked into the quicksands and will never be recovered. It was shown by the hoisting of the wrecked engine that an immense deposit of quicksand lay under the piers of the wreckel bridge, and it is also believed there is an underflow that has undoubtedly earried bodies deep down in the sand, entirely out of sight, where they can never be recovered. Further investigation reveals the fact that quicksand exists everywhere along the river, and this is taken to explain the failure to find a number of bodies. .

MINE FLOODED.

Filled with Water from Big Pond— Eight Men Lose Their 1 Lives. . :

Raleigh, N.'C., Aug. 12.—A special to the News and Observer from Salisbury, N. C., says: Information has been received here that the Barringer gold mine, located near Gold Hill, N. C.,, Rowan county, was suddenly flooded with water late Thursday afternoon, causing the instant death of eight men employed in the mine. The dead are: Will Canup, Will Stirewalt, Joseph Magrum, Bob Deberry, Sam Price, and three others whose names are unobtainable. Nine men were in the mine shaft when a large pond, located near the entrance to the mine, suddenly broke loose; the breakage being caused by excessive rains, the waters rushing in terrific and deadly force to a depth o"f ‘about 100 feet upon the men, who were powerless to save themselves. Mr. ‘Thomas Moyl, manager of the plant, ‘'was the only one to escape death. The ‘mine is filled with water and none of the bodies have been recovered.

TRAINS COLLIDE.

Disaster at Crossing in Chicago— Mother and Three Children Are Killed.

Chicago, Aug. 10.—Four persons were killed and 12 hurt in the wreck of a Baltimore & Ohio local passenger train Tuesday afternoon at five o’clock, when a string of heavily loaded freight cars on the Alton tracks crashed into it at the crossing at Archer and Western avenues. A mother and her three sons make up the list of dead. The father was taken to the Mercy hospital with both legs broken. The accident is said to have been due to carelessness on the part of the crossing tender and the members of the crew of the freight train.. The dead are Mrs. John Swartz, of Garrett, Ind., and her children, John, William 'and Earl. The latter was seven years old. The two former were twins, five years old. .John Swartz’s injuries are dangerous. His left thigh is broken and he is suffering from a compound fracture of the hip. : Extradition Treaty Signed. Washington, Aug. 10.—Secretary Hay and Mr. Leger, the Haytien minister here, Tuesday signed a treaty of extradition between the United States and Hayti. The convention is in accord with the latest ideas so far as it ‘specifies the extraditable crimes. Heavy Loss by Fire. St. Louis, Aug. 10.—The repair shops of the American Refrigerating Transit company, including 65 refrigerator cars, were totally burned Tuesday, entailing a loss .estimated at $300,000, fully covered by insurance. Three Perished. Owensboro, Ky., Aug. 9.—A fast freight on the Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis road went through an open bridge near here Monday night, the engine and nine cars running into Green river and three members of the train crew being drowned. : Mills Shut Down. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 9.—Pend‘ing a more certain outlook as to the flour demand and th!é price of cash wheat, all but five of the Minneapolis flour mills have shut down indefiHitely e L .

WANTS BUT ONE TERM.

Judge Parker So Declares in Speech Accepting Nomination—Formaily Notified. :

Esopus, N. Y., Aug. 11.—Judge Alton B. Parker on Wednesday received formal notification of his nomination for the presidency of the United States as the candidate of the democratic party and in accepting gave public expression for the first time of his views on the issues of the campaign. The notification was brought to him by Representative Champ Clark, of Missouri, as chairman of a committee representing every state and territory in the union. Mr. Clark in a brief speech informed the candidate of his nomination and presented to him a formal communication signed by the committee. Standing bare headed, during a brief lull in.the rain storm which had lasted gince soon after daylight, Judge Parker accepted the nomination and set forth his views in.a speech that evoked frequent and hearty applause. He spoke for a little more than half an hour._His pledge not to accept a second term if he was elected aroused instant interest, which increased to marked enthusiasm when the speaker went on to explain his position. : i

The ceremony was held on thelawn at Rosemont, under the trees at the north of the house and was attended by upward of 600 people, the larger number of whom came from New York city with the notification committee on the steamer Sagamore. Duringmostofthetimeoccupied by ChampClark’sspeech therain wasfalling in a steady drizzle, but it stopped entirely just as Judge Parker began his address, and held off until he finished. As soon as the little party reached *he stand, Representative Clark began his address. Afterdeclaringthatthedemocrats had been reunited, he continued: “The St. Louis convention carried out no cut-and-dried programme. Its delegates were not mere automatons or marionettes, waving and talking w’hen the strings were pulled by one man. Speech and action were absolutely free, and the great debates which took place there will constitute part of the permanent political literature of the country. No effort was made to gag or bridle anyone. If a delegate had a pet idea which he was anxious to exploit he was given an adejuate and respectful hearing before either the platform committee or the entire convention. Every man had his say. To none was opportunity denied. Out of it all grew such unity as encourages lovers of liberty and of pure government everywhere.”

He outlined the aims of democracy and concluded by handing Judge Parker the formal announcement of his nomination. !

EX-SENATOR VEST DEAD. Venerable Missouri Political Leader Passes Away After a Lin- ' - gering Illness.

Sweet Springs, Mo., Aug. 10.—After lingering for weeks between ' life and death, Former Senator G. G. Vest passed peacefully away Tuesday morning. He had been so near death for the past three days that the end came without a struggle. He was conscious until about two o’clock Sunday morning, when he sank

AT 757 B 3 ¢ | W 0] L G e il S PR e~ L 7 NA T % EX-SENATOR GEORGE G. VEST. into a state of coma from which he never aroused. George Graham Vest was born at Frankfort, Ky., December 6, 1830, and graduated from Center college, Kentucky, in 1848. He completed his law course at the Transylvania university in 1853, and moved to Missouri the same year. He was in the Missouri senate when the war broke out. He went with the south and became a confederate senator. He was elected to the United States senate in 1879, and served until December, 1903, when he retired. He was the most brilliant member of the famous “Big Four” that has been such a powerful political factor in Missouri for more than 30 years. The others are Senator F. M. Cockrell, United States @listrict Judge John F. Phillips, and exGov. Thomas T. Crittenden. St. Louis, Aug. 12.—A1l the municipal offices were closed for two hours Thursday and the flags on city institutions were placed at half mast during the funeral of Former Senator George Graham Vest,who died Tuesday at Sweet Springs, Mo., and whose remains were laid to rest in Bellefontaine cemetery in this city. The services, which were very simple, were performed by Rev. John C. Schaleford, of Sweet Springs, at the grave. Post Office Robbed. New York, Aug. 11.—Posses are searching the woods in the vicinity of Woodmere, L. 1., for three robbers who looted the post office in that village and carried away $9OO after exchanging shots with a citizen who detected them making away with their spoils. To Succeed M. von Plehve. St. Petersburg, Aug. 11.—There is a pergistent rumor that the emperor has gsigned the appointment of Minister of Justice Muravieff as minister of the interior in succession to the late M. von Plehve. ' : -Fatal Collision with a Car. New York, Aug. 11.—A carryall containing four persons was struck by a Coney Island trolley car near Brighton Beach race track early Wednesday. One of the occupants was killed and three were seriously hurt. The carriage was wrecked. ‘ v A Costly Fire, Rochester, N, Y., Aug. 11.—Fire at South Lima destroyed the -great cold storage plant for which that place is _celebrated, the general store and four residences and barns, The loss is about $60,000, . . o

THE CZAR IS HAPPY.

Rejoices in the RBirth of a Son and Heir to the Russian Throne. . > :

St. Petersburg, Aug. 13.—A son and heir to the Russian throne has been born. The empress and the child are doing well. The birth occurred at12:30 p. m.’ The child will be christened Alexis. The-birth so greatly wished for, that of an heir to the Russian erown, occurred, not in the great palace at Peterhoff, but in the Alexandra villa, one of a group of four small palaces in a secluded corner of the magnificent Peterhof park. In one of these buildings-the empress had been living for weeks. THhe other three are occupied by members of the imperial family gathered there in expectation of Friday’'s event. -~ - : In receiving the congratulations of his court, the emperor in a brief reply said: “I am happier at the Qirth of a son and heir than at a victory of imy troops, for now I face the future calmly and without alarm, knowing by this sign that the war will be brought to a happy conclusion.” e . s :

An jmperial manifesto is published announcing the birth of an heir. It invites all Russian subjects to offer their prayers for the prosperity of the heir to the throne. ) T

A day marked by the display of flags, the firing of salutes, the holding of religious services, and the extending of official congratulations was followed by a night of brilliant illumination. GarJlands and lamps were strung to-night across almost every house front, while from many of the Jarger buildings flashed the Russian arms, the imperial monogram and other-devices picked out in electric globes. Early tens of thousands of tapers glimmered before the altars of St. Petersburg’s many shrines. In chapels and cathedrals everywhere there were solemn choruses of thanksgiving from the imperial chapel to.the Peterhof palace to the humble lamp-lit shrines of the sfreets, where the hurrying pedestrzins, laborers and- drosky drivers. waited to cross themselves. The street crowds were, however,/much quieter than usual on a holiday for the popular rejoicing over the event at the Alexander villa could not dispell the anxiety which prevailed regarding the fate of the squadron on which so much jepends. & ~ o The emperor and empress of Russia (formerly Princess Alix of Hesse), who were married November 14, 1894, had, previous to the birth of the child born Friday, four daughters, Olga, born November 3, 1895; Tatania, born May 29, 1897; Marie, born June 14, 1899, and Anistasia, born June 5, 1961. The people throughout Russia, notably the clergy, lave been praying for an heir to the ‘hrone. ‘ ) o BUSINESS CONDITIONS. Indications Give Encouragement for the Future in Spite of Labor Troubles. New York, Aug. 13.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: -““Moderate improvement -in midsummer means more than an equivalent increase at any other season, and the better trade reported during the past week is consequently most encouraging. ° Dispatches from all parts of the country are by no means uniform, in some cases the outlook showing no change, while at a few points there have been setbacks; but cn the whole the progress is unmistakable. Two labor controversies are particularly harmful, but.others have been sttled. The Fall River strike is partially broken and several threatened difficulties have been averted. Despite some injury to spring wheat the:agricul_tural prospect is ver§ bright. while higher prices promise to neutralize the effect of such loss in quantity as occurred. Interior buyers have placed liberal fall orders in the leading dry goods markets, and confidence in a large spring trade.is becoming general. ~The approaching presidential election is viewed with more equanimity than any other contest of recent years, both in finanéial and industrial circles. R : : “Failures this week were 222 in.the United States, against 174 last year and 33 in Canada, compared with 22. a year ago.” 1 ' it Bradstreet’s says: .“I@Nrade expards but slowly, conservatism based apparently upon crop disappointments or uncertainties and labor troubles ruling most lines of distribution. Jobbing trade the country over, while perhaps up to expectations. is not equal to the last lears. Bank clearings continue to run behind, but railway earnings promise rather better than earlier expected, as indicated by a decrease.of only 1.4 per cent. in gross. for’ roads reporting for July. Industrial conditions are not altogether promising, in view of the continuance of .the meat strike, the Fall River difficulty .and the calling out of large numbers of Luilding hands at the metropolis. To the influence of the meat strike is directly traceable the demoralized markets for live stock, which are reported too freely supplied with live animals, and in the advanced quotations for hides, and consequently for tanned leather. growing out of the scarcity of domestic supplies of the raw materiai. The scarcity of hides is reported causing a number of tanneries to suspend operations,” ; 5 Aged Chief Dead. 2 El Paso. Tex., Aug. 13.—Victorioano Piarote, chief of the Pueblos Tiguis Indians at Yaleta died Friday, aged 85 years. Chief Piarote was a noted warrior and his tribe was once considered the wealthiest and most advanced in the entire west. S ; Death of a Well-Known Art Dealer. New York, Aug. 13.—Samuel Putnam Avery, well known as an art dealer and connoisseur, is dead here at the age of 82. In 1867 he acted as a commissioner of the ‘American art department at the Universal exhibition in Paris. ; - No Assets. L Springfield, 111, Aug. 13.—A petition in bankruptcy was filed in the office of the clerk of the United States colrt by L. S. Baldwin & Bro., live stock dealers of Whitehall, Green county, 111. They schedule liabilities $75,977, and no assets. SR e : : Commits Suicide. < - Kansas City, Mo., August 13.—Mnu: W. W. Tinker, mother of ‘Joe"” Tinker;. shortstop for the Chicago National league baseball team, commiited suicide 2t her home here Friday. She wasinille BRI S AokSts e B N

ACHED IN EVERY BONE. . Lo , Chicago Society Woman Who Was So Sick - She Could Not Sleep or Eat, Cured by Doan’s Kidney Pills. Marion Knight, of 33 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, HOrator of the > D -West Side ] PV Wednesday . ',&" sl S Club, says: ’7:‘ 9 o “This win- . ‘ ter when I 3 started to use R Doan’s Kidney oy Pills I ached .;:')—3 e = 3ys-.J/ in every bone G - &7/ and had in-'fgj‘..fiz}g,gr_fiaff-f:;{" tense pains in . RIL the kidneys : '“‘3’ " and pelvie organs. The urine was thick and cloudy and I could barely eat enough food to live. I feltm change for the better within a week.’ The second week I began eating heartily. I'began to improve generally and hefore seven weeks had passed I was well. 1 had spent hundreds of dollars for medicine that did not help me. but &6 worth of Doan’s Kidney Pillsrestored me to perfect health.” - ’ A TRIAL FREE—Address FosterMilburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Priee, 50 cents. it ot e e e A B S St SR T " ON MEDICAL AUTHORITY. & z nis - Shelifish were responsible for nine cases of typhoid fever in London last year. ; Moscquitces, as carriers of the germs of malaria, cause 15,000 deaths every vear in Italy. The Institute of German Physicians issues a warning te young men against taking up the study of medicine, there being at present a glut of young doctors. _ Norwegian experts believe that by the establishment of sanatoriums containing each about 20 persons it will be possible to exterminate tuberculosis in time, just as leprosy, once so prevalent in their country, was practically exterminated. ; - - Dr. Dryslwyn Griffiths, presicert of the British Mecical association, says: “There is ample evidence of: physical deferioration in thiscountry and of igTnorance on matters of hygiere, and as medical men we feel it to be our duty to use our best efforts to stem the tide which threatens to undermine the yery foundations of the British empire.” . A strange medicine of the far east is “silajit,” long reputed to ¢lre most diseases. Mr. David Hooper finds that the name is given to an alumi.num suiphate exuding from the rocks in certain parts of the Himalayas; to a black substance —probably true silajit—said to form an exudation on rocks in Nepal, and consisting mainly of alkalies combined with an organic acid; and to a third, or white silajit, that seems to be of animal origin.

- FROM SCIENTIFIC SOURCES. Variations in magnitude have been detected in several of the asteroids or minor planets. : : - Before the Paris Academy of Sciences, ‘M. Bouchard stated that mice exposed to emdnations from radium died in six hours. < - The secretary of the Aeronautical sociey of Great Britain expects the kite to be the base of the future instrument of aerial navigation, the aeroplane. It is claimed by Herr Cloud, a Harburg (Germany) engineer, that he has invented means by which photographic apparatusin capt’ive:balloons can be controlled and focused from terra firma. What he calls “emanium” is supposed by Gigel to be a new element existing in a strongly radio-active earth consisting chiefly of lanthanum. On a zinc blende screen this earth gives flashes brighter than radium.

The French savant, M. Benard, is convinced that Nansen took the only route by which the North pole can possibly be reached. He favors an expedition with

two ships connected bx wireless telegraphy. The time is estimated at three years, and it is hoped that the prince of Monaco, who is greatly interested, will contribute the necessary $300,000.

JUST ONE DAY » Free from the Slugger Brought Out a Fact. 3 “During the time I was a coffee drinker,” says an lowa woman, ‘I was nervous, had spells with my heart, smothering - spells, headache, stomach trouble, liver and kidney trouble. I did not know for years what made me have those spells. 1 would frequently sink away as though my #ast hour had come. - : “For -27 years I suffered thus and used bottles of medicines enough to set up a drug store—capsules and pills and everything I heard of. Spent lots of money but I was sick nearly all the time. Sometimes I was so nervous 1 could not hold a plate in my hands; and other times I thought I would surely die sitting at the table. : “This went on until about two yéass ago when one day I did not use any coffee and 1 noticed I was not so nervous and toid my husband about it. He had been telling me that o might be the coffee but I said: °‘No, I have been drinking coffee all my life and it cannot be.” But after this I thought I would try and do without it and drink hot water. I did this for several days but got tired of the hot water and went to drinking coffee and as soon as I begdn coffee again I was nervous again. This proved that it was the coffee that caused my troubles. > “We had tried Postum#@ut had no: made it right and did not like it, but now I decided to give it another trial s 0 I read the directions on the package carefully and made it after these directions and it was simply delicious, gO, we quit coffee for good and the results are wonderful. Before, I could not sleep, but now I go to bed and sleep sound, am not a bit nervous now but work hard and can walk miles. Nervous headaches are gone, my heart does not bother me any more like it did and I don’t have any of the smothering spells and would you believe it® I am getting fat. We drink Postum now and nothing else, and even my husband’s headaches- have disugs peared; we both sleep sound aad ‘healthy now and that’s a blessing.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, m@ sf‘ L : m:gr“mmfl ‘Wellville,” in each pkg.