Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 23, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 September 1904 — Page 6

Che Zigonier Bannes Che Ligonier Bannes 4 LIGONMIER. « & e iNDIANA oR S e S Newport without Harry Lehr is like & cireus without a clown. Mrs. Maybrick’s presence on this side of the Atlantic removes all-doubts. She is really [ree. When the looked-for tidal wave hifs Galveston's new sea wall it ought to get an awful jar. it “Shanghai at last has something to talk about that does not come as.“‘a report from Chefoo.” : The Hague tribunal is still. shut down, but the Krupp gun works are going day and night. .

In the hands of the enterprising -hmks:er}.he measliest muskmelon becomes a_Aßocky Ford. :

Remember that when you throw off all the bedclothes and blame the weather, the corn, is feeling fine.

The «zarlette has been christened, Alexis Nicholaevitch. That name ought 10 hold the revelutionists for awhile. =

~The Port Arthur band continues to play. and will go down with the ship, or up with the fort, whichever it is:

It will keep Miss Alice Roosevelt busy if she undertakes to deny all the stories told of her by the imagimative correspondents. : N

An Ouio baby has been named Roosevelt Parker Brown. Sort of a peutral baby. but why ignore Tom Watson and Dr. Swallow?

" There are 67,000 more mr‘en than women in Michigan. Theré ought to be- considerable rejoicing when a girl baby arrives in that grand old state. A Chicapo man was fined $3.85 for hugging a fgir young damsel of that ¢ity until one of her ribs snapped. This should be a warning to over-enthusias-tic swains. : ; e e s \Wheat damage has been greatly over-estimated, according to the weather bureau. After ali, the Shanghai cqgrrespondent _may have started those reports about. the wheat crop. Four carloads of cigarettes were among the recent shipments to -the Russian troops. There is a broad field for Miss Lucy Page @aston, the Chicago anti-igarette worker, in the far east. ‘ : Schwab has restored $2,000,000 that he made on that shipbuilding deal to the victimns of his particulay brand of high finance, for which he is entitled to as much credit as should be #iven to the burglar who sends back part of the plunder out of sympathy for the family, : : : 5

King Edward s a famous diplomat and peacemaker among the nations, but no one must think for a moment that becaiise he is great in great affairs he is small in small affairs. It is a considerable descent from an arbitration treaty with Germany to a crease in a pair of trousers, yet the king has now introduced trousers with fouy creases in each leg, making it as square 2s a box. . . Over 1900000 voters absented themselves from the polls four years ago; another lillion or more have come upon the staze of action since then. There is thus an uncertainty f‘egarding'2.ooo;#OO and probably a much larger number of voters this year. In a total vote of probably 15,000,000 this year, the majoriiy vote of - these 2,000,000 mdy. and ‘probably will, decide -the contest. g g

None af the Japanese generals in the field could hardly be called young; their agess ranging between 46 and 62. This is =aid. in military circles, to be unusual, but it must be remembered that thuse men have grown up .with and made the army and have led it in battles in China. At this critical time it was the part of wisdom to leave them in command. Marquis Yamagate, field marshal. is said to he the greatest strategist of his generation. He is 6€ and is lot on the field, but is supposed to be directing affairs from his post in Tokio. :

It begins to look as if Texas were to take the mosquito challenge cup away from New Jersey, which has held it against all comers for years. It has just been necessary to shut down the branch railrcad between the two Texas towns of Sabine and Beaumont because the insects made it impossible for section hands and brakemen to do any work. The officials of the road doubted the statements of the men, and so they visited the scene fo make a test for themselves. The road was closed within an bour of the end of the imspection trip.

Because of a shortage of ° domestir servants in New York a . gloomy observer of the situation sees ‘“the destruction of family life and the end of domestic happiness.” The more optimistic will inquire, Why this despair? If domestic happiness were dependent entirely upon the “hired girl” the outicok might be conceded to be depressing. But we may console ourselves with the reflection that most of the housewives of the nation always have “done their own work” and will continue to do it. So long as this is the case we shall be all right. .

= If it were not improper to use the expression concerning so tragic an affair, it might be’said that the continu . .al carnage at Port Arthur, as reported by the Chefoo refugess, is becoming ridiculous. During the last month tens of thousands have daily been slain by rumors. The aggregate of _ these slaughtered armies would reach _into the hundreds of thousands, yet the fighting is still going on with undiminished vigor. The truth is that, while both Japanese and Russians have sustained heavy losses, yet they are notking like those reported. i SR e 7 i

The Important Happenings of a Week Briefly Told. 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 FROM WASHINGTON. Abundant rains have relieved the drought in parts of the central valleys, and corn has made good progress, desclares the weekly crop report.

Washingtdn authorities intend to extend the war on impure food imports, and will place chemists at the principal ports as an additional safeguard. German sausages are likely to' be excluded.

Three banks of Washington. D. C., have filed a petition asking that Thomas E. Waggaman, treasurer of the Catholic university, supposed to be a millionaire, be!declared a bankrupt. A decrease in number of names fis shown for the first time in history in the pension list for the year. according to the repdrt of Commissioner Ware, and over a million of appropriation was turned back. - Having reached the age of 62 years, Rear Admiral John C. Watson was placed. on the retired ilist of the navy. ‘He entered the service in September, 1856. i . | THE EAST. " Three persons, George Boyce, his wife Ida, and their six-months-old babe were found dead in a New York tenement ho'u?‘fi. The police believe that the man Killed his wife and child and then himself. : The indidted New York laboer leader, Philip. Weinseimer, will emulate Sam Parks by.Jeading the labor day parade. The Irishf leader of parliament. John Redmond, arrived in New York.

" An Italian boy of New York city who informed the police against a band of Italian bandits, was slain by an imported agent of the “Black Hand” society in revenge, Amob of Italians tried to kill the murderer, who was saved by the police. | . At the age of 76 years Mrs. Rosins Watlkins, a retired comedienne and a great favorfi‘te in the stock company days of a generation ago, is dead at Philadelphia.

A tornad() which swept through Chautauqua county, N. Y., killed three perSOns, injurei@ a number of othersiand destroyed property. i The New' York labor leader, Philip V\r’einseimeir, indicted on charge of extortion, pleaded not guilty and his motion to dismiss was overruled. » - WEST AND SOUTH. By unanimous vote of the trustees, Dr. Edmund J. James. head of Northwestern .university, was elected president of thel University of Illinois. Lime caused a fire resulting in $50.000 damage to Armour & Co.’s glue plant at Chicago. . Judge Fox, of Indiana, wants laws revised- so, that four years will be required to gbtain an absolutie divorce. Eleven persons were hurt and both engines demolished in a head-on colligion between two Frisco trains near Sarcoxie, Mo. . :

Leslie Shaw, secretary of the treasury. opened the republican western campaign with a speech: at Helena, Mont. B - :

A petition has been presented to President Roosevelt by men deported from Cripple Creek to intervene in their behalf and |charges of conspiracy filed against the mine owners and strike breakers. |

In special session the Chicago city counci]l guanted 60 days’ grace to the‘ater managers for the completion of alterations in their playhouses, making the limit November 1.

At Chicago a new system of pneumatic tubes was opened in the presence of federal representgtives and many business men. an Six men were buried in a cave-in which. ocqurred on the Knoxville & Augusta branch of the Southern railroad at a point where workmen were excavating for the foundation of a bridge pier at Little River, Tenn. Two were killed and four injured. : Bruce G. Warren, of Forest River, K. D.. aged 22. drew the first prize at the Devil's Lake Fort Totten land lottery. . =} \ga\'e Tields and Albert Davis, wife murderens, were hanged at Rolling Fork, Miss.. on the same scaffold.

In a rowboat accident in the drainage canal near Morris, 111., two Chicagoans were drowned.

In a reply to Grover Cleveland’s story of the Chicago strike of 1894, Eugene V. Debs declared the former president was the complaisant agent of the railroads. At Chibago a coroner’s jury called the Consolidated Traction company and the Terminal Transfer company responsible for race train wreck August 18, which cost five lives. . : -

A 19-year old girl, Gertrude Sawyer, steered a drifting rowboat with five passengers 30 miles_across Green Bay to safety. | o The packers at Chicago planned to ask aldermanic committee to visit yards and be shown that so far as operation of plants is concerned the strike is “ended.”

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis will not be opened Sunday, despite agitation. : : .

Disastrous cloudbursts and washouts have caused thousands to face starvation. | ]

Marshall Field is said to be the largest individual taxpayer in the United States. His Cook county assessment this year reaches a total of $40,000,000. * John Otto, aged 35, and Peter Holling, aged 23, of Clinton, la., fell off a skiff and were drowned in the Mississippi river. Frank Seary killed Michael Moynahan at Warford, la., with a piece of iron pipe, following a quarrel over an alleged in‘sult by Seary to a niece of Moynahan.

At Knox, Ind., Orin Emich and Omer Poor were killed and Arthur Conner, Williami White, John Schultz and Clayton Hatter were seriously injured by a bolt of lightning which struck a shed under which a dozen farmers had sought refuge from a storm while working in a wheat field. The rest were shocked by the strdke. '

The republicans of Utah nominated John A. Cutler; of Salt Lake, for gov=ernor on the second ballot. By the capsizing of a boat in the Brazos river, near Acton, Hood county, Tei, four children were drowned. = FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. On August 30 Germany.-will send additional troops to South Africa. The fall of Port Arthur is expected within a few days, says a Tokio dispatch, .as Japanese are gathering for final assault on Russian fortresses; losses expected to be enormous. At Shanghai.the two Russian ships have been disarmed by order of the czar and flags hauled down. : Off Labrador the schooner Selina was lost. Four of the crew went down with the vessel. It is feared that there have been other disasters in,those watersasa heavy gale has been sweeping the coast, ; . All but three of Port Arthur’s forts have been captured by Japanese and Russians are making a last stand on Golden hill and White Marble and Liao mountains. Mine sinks one Russian destroyer and damages another at Port Arthur. . ; . American and British cruisers were sent in search of Russian cruisers off Cape Good Hope; England to deliver the czar's order recalling Black sea steamers; Balfour declared there will be no more seizures. - ;

Ireland’s leader, John Redmond, declared the defeat of the English government would bring home rule to Ireland. The largest turbine vessel yet built, the Victorian, was launched at Belfast. Ireland. o . : Terrific storms, accompanied by snow. swept over Italian peninsula. LATER NEWS, A decisive battle was believed to De on near Liaoyang. Fighting had been going on for three days, and the restlt was in doubt. The entire force of the Japanese is drawing in on Kuropatkin’s positions. ° : Tokio reports Japan’s war minister convinced Port Arthur cannot be, captured by assault, has ordered storming operations stopped. ‘ President James, of - Northwestern university, formally accepted the offer of the presidency of the University of Illinois. s “Eddie”* ‘Fay, “king of post office thieves,” escaped from the jail at Janesville, Wis. .

"A second indictment, charging extortion, has been found against Philip Weinseimer, the New York labor leader, ' The Edward Hines Lumber company, of Chicago, paid $1,000,000 for 50,000 acres of pine land in Mississippi. - Empetor William's gift to the United States, a statue of Frederick the Great, is sent to America. Death sentence has heen passed on the asggssin who murdered Von Plehve. Paraguayan rebels seized a train on which were government officials. Signs point te. a speedy ending of the packing house strike. President Donnelly summoned members of the butchers’ executive board and an audience will be asked with ‘the packers. the belief being that the butchers are prepared to make almost any concessions. : Fire visited huge oil tanks :in Belgium and destroyed iearly 200,000 barrels. ! Champion Jeffries defeated Jack Munroe in the second round before a big crowd at San Francisco. Secretary Taft, in an address in Montpelier, Vt., defended the personality of President Roosevelt as conservative, though energetic; a leader, but not a tyrant, and a high type of American manhood. - _ Four miners who were imprisoned in the Pine Hiil Colliery at Potisville, Pa., died from suffocation. = Three persons were drowned in the capsizing of their boat near Edinburg, in the Ad‘u;ondacks. Herbert /D. Hill and James C. Patterson were: drowned in the river at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Their boat was capsized by wind. . : MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Bishop McCabe, of the Methodist church, declares the time has arrived for the whole Christian world to compel Turkey to grant religious liberty to the Armenians, and says he would favor the use of war ships if necessary. Managers of the world’s fair are planning to open the exposition Sundays. A loophole is said to have been discovered in the congressional act, and the change in policy may take place soon. v The St. Louis Exposition company has forwarded to the United States treasury a check for $500,000, thaking $1,908,149 of the government loan of $4,600,000 refunded: gt

Many prominent men and ({rganizations indorse the proposal of the National Business league for a constitutionalamendment lengthening the presidential term to six years. ' The 650 Porto Rican school teachers who have spent several weeks in summer schools at Harvard and Cornell, sailed for home on the United States army transports Summer and Kilpatrick.

A merchant of Hayti was arrested in New York for being implicated in a conspiracy to naturalize residents of the black republic who have never been in America. : : Representatives of the St. ILouis world’s fair ice water concession turned over to the treasury of the exposition 165.000 pennies as the exposition’s share of the company’s receipts. Inquiries of the immigration officers in New York showed that places could be found for nearly 100,000 servant girls if theyv could be secured.

While attempting to milk a cow Roy Gibbons, ten years old, son of William Gibbons, of Vincennes, Ind., ,was attacked and fatally gored by the animal. Dr. J. S. Coman, of Harlem, sacrified hig life at Navesink Highlands, N. Y., in attempting to save a woman from drowning. : ; ‘ First term convicts in New York state prison are to wear suits of dark gray of a military cut without stripes after October 1.

German educator teaches a horse to find the gquare root of numbers and solve arithmetical vproblgms?in the abgence of his master. | @ Reports from various states show that 1,382,167 tubs of butter and 2,681,987 ceses of eggs are in cold storage. _Mark Twain is made beneficiary of his wife's estate by her will.

DEATH AND DAMAGE WROUGHT BY MINNESOTA STORM. Property Loss Estimated at $2,555,000 — Fatal Hurricane in . South Dakota. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 23.—The dead: (Fourteen). At St. Paul: Viola Robinson, George Kwetson, Lorin F. Hokanson. At Minneapolis: Richard Hiigedick. At St. Louis Park: Albert Ohde, Anna Hayde, Hedger Child. At Waconia; Gustav Moye,” Mrs. Gustav Moye, Fred Moye, Hubert Lehmar. At Hutchinson: Fred Gross, Mrs. Gross.

At Dallas: Unidentified woman. Fatally fnjured (two): Charles Moye, Waconia; Fred Picha, Waconia. Property loss: $2,555,000. . St. Paul, $1,780,000; Minneapolis, $500,000; Stillwater, $100,000; Waconia, $75,000; country districts, $lOO,OOO. The above is the summaryofthe damage wroughtby Saturday’stornadoinvarious sections of Minnesota. In addition to the fatally injured, nearly 200 persons sustained injuries of a minor character. The city government Monday had a force of 300 men at work clearing the streets of the vast amount of debris with which they had been strewn; gangs of linemen were at work repairing damage to electric wires, and the wholesale houses had their employes busily engaged in removing damaged goods and making temporary repairs to their buildings. The municipality through the destruction of bridges, school buildings, parks and other public property, suffered the greatest loss, its damage closely approximating a million dollars.

Watertown, S. D., Aug. 23.—A hurricane of severe character swept over a region in the northeast part of the state Sunday night. Two persons are known to be dead, and two fatally injured:. Twenty-five unknown, of Willow Lakes, were injured, but not seriously hurt.

The greatest damage was done at Willow Lakes and Bryant. At Willow Lakes, a small town in Hamlin county, every building was wrecked. Three churches, a school house, all the elevators and livery harns are lying in heaps of ruins. The Great Northern depot is across the track and 17 box cars are bottom side up. The Methodist church is upside down on the parsonage. The loss to farmers by damage to their crops will be heavy. The storm killed many cattle throughout that section. : CZAR ISSUES MANIFESTO. Birth of Heir to Throne Causes Him to Abolish Corporal Punishment and Reduce Sentences. ‘St. Petersburg, T'Aug. 24 —Emperor Nicholas’ manifesto_on the birth of an heir ;to the throne, the text of which was publishzd to-day, abolishes corporal punishment among the rural classes ard for first offences among the sea and land forces; remits arrears owing ot the state for the purchases of land and other direct imposts; sets apart $1,500,000 from.the state funds for the purpose of forming an inalienable fund for the benefit of landless ‘people of Finland; grants amnesty to those Tinlanders who have emigrated without authorization; remits the fines imposed upon the rural and urban communes of Finland which refused to submit to military conscription in 1902 and 1903, and also remits the fines imposed upon the Jewish comunes in -the cases of Jews avoiding military service. .The manifesto provides for a general reduction in sentences for common law offenses, while a general amnesty is accorded in the case of all politicak- offences with the exceptioa of those in which murder has been done. . s RT T e —", MRS. MAYBRICK IN AMERICA Famous American Ex-Prisoner Arrives at New York Un}dz_a‘r an " * Assumed Name.

New York, Aug. 24—On board the Red Star line steamer Vaderland, Svhich arrived Tuesday from Antwerp, was Mrs. Florence Chanler Maybrick. recently released from prison in England. Mrs. Maybrick was entered on the : passenger list as Mrs. Rose Ingraham, a name which she took from her great-grandparents. This precaution was not designed to evade official inquiry, but merely to avoid annoying observation on the part of fellow passengers. While she made no secret of her presence on board and appeared frequently about the decks and saloon, very few were aware of Her identity. She is accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel V. Hayden. Mr. Hayden is her attorney. Ziegler Striker Jailed. Springfield, 111, Aug. 26.—John Van Gordon, a Ziegler striker, waslodged in jail here Thursday. He is charged with viclating an injunction of Federal Judge Humphrey restraining the strikers from interfering with the working of the Zeigler mine.

Four Drowned. St.. Johns, N. F., Aug. 25.—The schooner Selina has been lost off Labrador. Four of the crew went down with the vessel. It is feared that there have been other disasters in those waters, as a heavy gale has been sweeping the coast for the past week. Wins Rich Stake. Readville, Mass., Aug. 25.—The Massachusetts stake, the richest prize on the harness turf for 1904, valued at $15,000, was won by Consuela S., after five fierceiy contested heats. There were 12 starters. Best time, 2:0734. Death of a Newspaper. Man, Danville, Ky., Aug. 24.—Samuel M. Burdette, a member of the reportorial staff of the Chicago Chronicle, and a newspaper man widely known throughout the United States, died at the home of his cousin, Postmaster Henry Hankle, at Junction City, four miles from here, Tuesday. ; A : Celebrated Professor Dead. . Vienna, Aug. 24—Prof. Anton Drasche, a member of the Austrian sanitary council, celebrated for his investigations into the disease of cholera, is dead. :

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TWO RECENT ASSAULTS COST : THEM 13,000 MEN. . e f : Russian Destroyer Sunk by a Mine —Ships May Attexfipt Another Dash for Liberty. - Chefoo, Aug. 26.—Russian advices {'eceived here say that the Japanese assaults on Port Arthur August 21 and 22 were repulted with tremendous logses. It is added that the attempt of the Japanese to capture Fort No. 1 ‘cost them 10,000 men, and that their attack on Fort Etseshan resulted in their losing 3,000 men killed or wounded. Port Dalny is" said to be filled with wounded men. ‘ Russian Destroyer Sunk. Tokio, Aug. 26.—Five steamers and three torpedo boat destroyers emerged from Port Arthur Wednesday morning and began the work of clearing away floating mines. At 20 minutes past six in the evening 2 two-funnelled torpedo boat destroyer struck a mine two miles off Liaoti promonotory and sunk immediately. Five minutes later a second destroyer, with four funnels, ran against another floating mine which exploded. This second vessel was at once surrounded by other Russian ships and towed into Port Arthur, the entire flotilla ‘accompanying her. These occurrences were seen from various Japanese watch towers. The Japanese cruiser Hashidate also witnessed the explosions. The action of the Russians in attempting to clear the channel of mines indicates ithe intention of the fleet again to sally from Port Arthur. Only Three Forts Safe.

Chefoo, Aug. 26.—Golden Hill, White Marble mountain and Liaoti mountain, according to Chinese adyices dated the night of August 22, are now the only main forts securely held by the Russians at Port Arthur. Others are occupied by them, but they are subjected to an artillery fire, wlich renders their tenure uncertain. Fort Nb. 5, which has frequently been reported taken by the Japanese and retaken by the Russians, is again declared to be in the hands of the Japanese. . A rumor, having some points indicating authenticity, says that the new European section of Port Arthur is in flames. Owing to the mud and brick construction of the buildings, however, it is probable that the fire is not general. "It is said that the Japanese are using guns taken from the harbor defenses of Kobe, Nagaski, and Yokohama. These guns, numbering 300, are of heavy caliber. Japs Reported Exhausted. : St. Petersburg, Aug. 27.—The war office was elated Friday morning over the receipt of a dispatch from Lieut. Gen. Stoessel, dated at Port Arthur, August 22, reporting that the Japanese had been exhausted at last by their attacks and that the bombardment had been suspeqded. Full details regarding the dispatch are not available, but it probably refers to the Chefoo dispatch of Thursday announcing the repulse of the Japanese with heavylosses in their attacks upon Fort No. 1 and Fort Etseshan. t : & To Stop Interference. London, Aug. 26.—Prime Minister Balfour announced Thursday evening that the British government had ordered two cruisers from the squadron at the Cape of Good Hope without deley to locate the Russian volunteer fleet steamers Smolensk and Petersburg and to convey to them the orders of the Russian government that they must not further interfere with neutral shipping. The premier stated that this action was taken at the request of the Russian government. ' Japs Wasting Their Energy. St. Petersurg, Aug. 26.—The lates:

Two Chicago Men Drown. Morris, 111., Aug. 26.—Roscoe Costello and James Lenehan, of Chicago, were drowned in the Illinois river at this place Thursday morning while. working with the drainage board surveyors. In company with E. Kelly and John Noonan, of Chicago, the two men started “to cross the river in a rowboat and when about in the middle of the stream, where the current was strongest, the boat suddenly overturned. On account of heavy hip boots the men were made practically helpless.

More Men to Strike. New York, Aug. 25.—Nearly 25,000 will be added to the 30,000 strikers and locked out workmen in the Building Trades Alliance when the unions in that body supporting their leader, Philip Weinseimer, lay down their tools as they have just voted to do when called upon by the executive committee. . Riot in Cuba. Havana, Aug. 25.—1 n a collision on Wednesday between two groups of 300 wharf laborers one man was killed and three were wounded.

information from the front is summed up in Thur‘éday's dispatch from Chefoo, showing that the Japanese in the assaults'on Port Arthur August 21 and 22 were again repulsed with heavy losses. Despite the assertion made in Tokio that all the attacks so far op the fortress have.been merely preliminary 'to a grand infantry asasult, the feeling grows here that the ferocity &f the repeated attacks and the defeats must be gradually dissipating the energy of the besiegers and that the Japanese may find after all that “‘they have broken their teeth on the stones of Port Arthur.” The fact that the Port Arthur squadron ‘is already so crippled and scattered has greatly reduced its importance as a tactical factor in the eyes of the authorities here. Accounts of the misfortune to the battleship Sevastopol and .of the sinking of the cruiser Novik are allowed to be extensively printed, and it appears that the baiance of sea power in the east is thoroughly upset pending the arrival of the Baitic squadron in oriental waters, Recent Sortie Described.

- The emperor has received from Rear Admiral Prince Ouktomsky a telegram bearing a Fort Arthur date in which. after briefly describing the sortic of the Port Arthuv squadron on Auguct 10 and its engagement with Vice Admiral Togo's ¢hips. the admiral says: - “At T7:30 o'clock, when the Cuavrevitch left the line with damaged stecring gear and, sigxfaling admiral, transfered command, as I had two masts broken and ail means of signalinz by day or night damaged on the Peresviet, I displaved the signal ‘Follow me’ on the captain’s bridge, but I imagine that all the ships were not able to distinguish it. As my vessel lost many in killed or wounded. and as the armament, hull and electric apparatus were seriously damaged, I decided to return io Port Arthur. The ironclads Retvizan, -Pobedia, Poltava, Sevastopal and Czarevitch accompanied me, the Czarevitch being the last in line. We went at an average speed, but owing to the darkness and to repeated torpedo attacks, which obliged ns from time to time to change our course? our vessels dispersed and at dawn the Retvizan, Sevastopal, Peresviet, Pobedia, Poltava and Pallada, with thres torpedo boats, were at Port Arthur. Our casualties were two officers and 38 men killed and 21 officers ‘and 286 men wounded, 50 of them severely. Capt. Boyeman, despite severe wounds, remained for 20 hours on the bridge until the battleship entered port. Our vessels are being repaired by their own and the dockyard appliances. In the absence of Rear Admiral Withoft I have assumed command of the Port Arthur squadron.” : Cruisers Out of Commission.

Shanghai, Aug. 26.—The Russian cruiser Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi have gone out of commission, but the work of repairing them is being continued. There was no formal ceremony when the vessels went out of commission. Their flags were not. raised Thursday. A simple announcement was made by the commanders of the two warships that the vessels would remain in port until the war is over. The work of dismantling them will begin on Friday The Askold has been authorized to remain in dock until September 11 in order to complete her repairs. No Complications Expected. Pekin, Aug. 26.—With reference t» the report that Japan has cc&veyed an ultimatum to China with regard to the ‘situation at Shanghai, a high official of the ministry of foreign affairs Thursday declared emphatically that it was without truth. He said also that China would continue to preserve strict neutrality. and that she did not anticipate complications in connection with ‘the Shanghai and Chefoo incidents. 2

.+ @Given Life Imprisonment. ‘San Francisco, Aug. 23.—Mrs. Cordelia Botkin was sentenced Monday by Superior Judge Carroll Cook to life imprisonment in the state prison at San Quentin for the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunning, in Dover, Del., by means of poisoned candy mailed from this city. Wealthy Philadelphian Dead. Philadelphia, Aug. 24.—John Lowber. Welsh, one of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of Philadelphia, died Monday at his home here. : Cloudburst in Texas. - El Paso, Tex., Aug. 23.—Silver City, N. M., was swept by a flood Sunday night, after a severe cloudburst in the mountains above. No loss of life has' been reported, but it is believed that 50 homes were washed away. The Santa Fe railroad is washed out in many places and seven bridges between Silver City and White Water are out. Collieries Resume Work. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 22.—Afier a weelk's suspension all the collieries of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coai company resumed work Monday. - ¥

WHAT THE SPEAKER SAID. Illustrative Instance of the EverReady Wit of the Late . *“‘Czar’” Reed. - Thomas B. Reed's ‘wit and wisdom would fill a large volume, and a larger volume could be made of taings he did not say, but which have been credited to him. In one volune or the other, says Youth's Companion, belongs a story waich comes from California and which has probably not‘been'primed betore. : : = When Mr. Reed wasin Californiahe visited the Lick observatory on Mount Hamilton. It was“a wonderiul November day..full of fo’.d and. the bleom .of flowers. - Mr. Reed ooked down at the gorgeous landscape 4,000 feet below, and turned to one of his hosts, he said: i . “Colorel, this locks too much liKe a special display got up in lonor of the occasion. Tell me what a typical winter day ib California is really like.” . z The Californian thought at once of a day in February. so warm that alter a morning hath he had lain in a hammock outdoors smelled the roses on the trellis, and listened to the trill of the meadow-lark amoung Ihe almond blooms. 7 L o

He began to deseribe it eloquently: " Thir{;{pn vears ago, on lebruaiy 22, 1 took a ath-—=" 2 LT T .

He paused to arrange his account-of the roses and the meadow-lark. Mr. Reed broke the pause. e o AT “Well. colonel.” ke <aid. in admiration. “vou do know someihing about cleanliness out here, don't you?’ L s e M i—— - " Worrying the Landlord. . (Clarinda—Youy can’t keep a dog in your new flat? : - Florinda—No. we had t{o give Fido away, but Frederick had his dear little bark put in our, phonegraph.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. ‘ fe PN ) Fits stopped free and permanently cured. No fits after first day’s use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Free $2 trial hottle & treatise. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch :;'t@., Phila., Pa. S g Ay Radium has been found. in Colorado, but in all ‘probability it will have to get a military permit to stay there—€hicago Journal. e@ e g s Piso’s Cure cannot be too highly spokenot as a cough cure.—J. W. O'Brien; 322 Thaird Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. - e : The Fame of Nimrod. - Nimrod told how he made his reputation. I was the first ‘man who toought of*not shooting a guide for a deer,” he explained.— N. Y.Sun. - = - :

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Q PR T =\l s i %N URION s FOR L R\ $3.50 & $3 SHOES % ok L IS - $5.00 AND $4.00 CusTom BENCH WORK In ALL flo> \ ) THE HiGH GRADE LEATHERS. a 0 e\ $2.50 PoLicE, THREE SoLES. $2.80 anp ot ;%\q o S , $2.00 WORKINGMEN'S, BEST IN THE WORLD. SR : st $2.50, $2.00 anD_ $1.75 Bovs, fror e DRESS AND ScHooL WEAR. SE e NNy o 1 L W. L. Douglas makes and sells more mren's 8 L o fi‘l $3.50 and 83.00 shoes than any other manu- & Y/ ,\ AN b 2/ facturer in the world. The reason thcy ave QAR f AY: Ry the f:reatest sellers is, they are made of the Lest 1 iy TP N . : leathersg, hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, \D\\ & TSR and have more value than any other shoes. i A a4\ AN . W, L.:Douglas guarantees their value by stamp- \\" 1A RS . ing his name and price on the bottom. Look fur. \ ,H 5 ';A(-;‘;:-;i;'f D, it — take no substitute. Sold by shoe dezlers oV -\ 425 % (5D everywhere. Fast Color Eyelets used exctusizely. “ TN N N 4‘AS COOD AS $7.00 SHOES."’ i W 4 N\ O/ 777/ ‘‘Heretofore 1 have been wearing $7.00 £ SAN S A FERR -q‘// (2T 7255/ shoes. I purchased a pair of W. L. Dozglas ‘LY, J_.m;l% N 5% - $3.50 shoes, which I have worn every day for Ly '.c/"-"!;r‘lifi - ~ e four months. They are so satisfactory ¥do nct d 4 a‘i‘ufifi}_ intend to return to the more expensive shoes.”’ ?.( Smmem o= : - WM. GRAY KNOWLES, Asst. City Solicitor, Phila. B o TS Brockton Leads the Men’s Shoe Fashlons of the Woeld. LA ] ‘5"::‘;‘6"“ i W. L. Douglas uses Corona Coltskin in | Send for Catalog dqiw’ng fu:l in= NG /8y his 83.50 shoes, Corona Colt is conceded | structions how to order by mail. A ¢ to be thedinest Patent Leather made. |'W. L. Douglas, Brockton, Mass.

$15.00 to Texas and Back ) A POINTS ON San Antonio @ Aransas Pass Railway. Be<t Farm and Truck Land in ARTESIAN WATER belt now on market $7.50 to $15.00 per acre. Equaltoany Californialand. Qut-door farming all Fear. No long winters. Something to sell everymonth. Fine Climate, Health, Schoolsznd Churches. Come and see for yourself. Seénd 2¢ stamp for S. A. &A. P. folder. E. J. MARTIN, G. P. A.. San Antonio, Texas. E. 0. BURTON, Immigration Agt, Beals Building, Kansas €ity, Mo.

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WET WEATHER WISDOM! Nk , THE ORIGINAL 4, Fp WER" &P 4 i\ SBR -y > T - 2 R e > | ?ls E*’ i Q‘ Usy gpi® % SLICKER Qa WIL KEEP YOU DRY YA NOTHING ELSE WILLS TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES \4 CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL L!N; OF CARMENTS AND HATS. A. J. TOWER CO., BOSTON; MASS., U.S.A," TOWER CANADIAN CO,, LTD., TORONTO, CANADA, The Pgsenner Department of the Ilinois Central Railrond Company have recenily issued a publicaa:)en known as Uirculn.rvlio. 12, ia which is described best territory in this country for the growing of early strawberries and early vegctabies. Every dealer in such produets shounld address a postaleard to the undersigned at hUBUQUE, IOW4, requesting a :‘% of ‘‘Cireular No. 12 - J. K. ium %’. Asst. Gen’l Ituss'r Agent,

e S S e et~ THE BIBLE WAS MUCH USED There Was, No Baby Chair in the : House and It Served a : Good Purpose. “A minister of one of the leading congregations qf this city was recently making a call on- one of the prominent members of his flock and was greeted at the door by the fivesyear-old daughter of the house, who was ‘doing the honors as hostess in the absence of her mother, relates the Philadelphia Press. Spyving a well-worn family Bible near at hand, the minister commented o the fact that there must be a good father in Ine house. which contained proof of having used the Bible to so great an extent. . O, ves,” said the child, “papa has us on the Bible three times a day.” “Indeed " replied the parson. “How edifring. * And. pray, what times does your good father call upon this grand volumne?” “Always at meal times,” answered the radrant (im:%l;ler. “You know{ “we never had a baby chair in the house, so pa just sits ‘the Bible on a dining-room chair and that ‘makes it just high enough for us children My baby hrother .Jim sat on it this morning. We all bad our turn at jt.”. g v —_—— Going East This Summer? ‘Get the vacation habit. Drop your work and take a trip 1o some of the Famous Kast-. ern Summer f{esorts so easily and quickly ‘reached by the Nickel Plate Road. Stop overs allowed at Niagara Falls ‘and lLake Chautauqua on all tiiets. Three elegantly equipped trains made up of modern Day Coaches. Dining and Sleeping Cars, running thru from Chicago to I't. g\’a'ne, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, New York flfi(}ston and intermediate- points. The Dining Car service of tlie-Nickel Plate Road is up-to-date, inexpensive and as good as the beszt. Individual Club-Meals are served at prices ranging from 35 cents to $l.OO. Meals’are also served “a:la carte.”” Passengers using the Day Coachés of the Nickel }%ate Road, regardless of the class of ticket held, may be assured of the most courteous treatment by our Colored Porters in Uniform, who are instructed _to.give every attention to the welfare of our patrons. Tickets via the Nickel Plate Road are from 50 cents to £3.00 lower than tickets of the same clats between the fame points via other lines. All trains-arrive at and depart from the New La Salle Street Station, Chicazn. For full _information regarding ticke:s, rates, routes, -sleeping car reservations, etc., call on or address J. Y. Calahan, General Agent, No. 111 Adams St., Chicago, 111. . —_—— e Thé wicked generally get what they deserye -in this world, but not always wiat thar contemperariés think they deserve. - Beston Globe. Sl

GASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Buughi Bears the L Signature &}‘\\ | of ‘&/ n ; Use For Over - Thirty Year‘ CASTORIA

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