Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 December 1902 — Page 6

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Venezuela Learns What Ports the Allies Have Determined to Put Out of Business. BHUTOP IS TO BE3IU TOMORROW Uncle San Has Some Very Dangerous Ships Close By. Shafroth and John Ball on the Guaranty Platform Together Germany Worried Over the Feeling Here. Caracas, Dec. 19. It has been learned from r.n official source that the allies yesterday notified the Venezuelan authorities at La Guayra of the blockade, to become effective tomorrow at 3 p. in., of the ports of a La Guayra, Fuorto Cabello, Coro, Maracaibo, Carupano and Barcelona. London. Dec. 19. The Brussels correspondent of The Daily Telegraph says that Germany is supporting the claims of Belgium against Venezuela, which amount to $1.230,000. Caracas, Dec. 19. President Castro has clothed Minister Bowen with full powen to effect a settlement with Great Britain, Germany and Italy. Bowen simpiy awaits the consent of the United States state department to assume this task. Shafroth Would Give u Guaranty. "Washington. Dec. 19. Shafroth of Colorado anpeared before the committee on foreign affairs of the house yesterday to urge action on a joint resolution which he has Introduced authorizing the president to propose to Great Britain and Germany to submit their claims against Venezuela to JOHN F. SnAFROTTI. arbitration, md to guarantee the payment of awards. Shafroth said that war in Venezuela would make a vio lence to the Monroe doctrine probable. He did not think the objection that this guaranty might establish a precedent should control, i s other cases could be met as they xrose. Oar Fleet It on "Watch. Washington. Dec. 19. According to the approved plans the principal fight Ing ships of Admiral Dewey's fleet will rendezvous at the Island of Trinidad, right off the coast of Venezuela, and at St. Thomas. Rear Admiral Higginson will have command of the battleship fleet at Trinidad, with Rear Admiral Sumner on his flagship Iowa as second in command. The fleet at St Thomas, which includes two battleships, will be under the command of Rear Admiral Crowinshield. The fleet of cruisers and smaller vessels will anchor at St. Kitts In command of Rear Admiral Coghlan. BOWEN HAS HIS CREDENTIALS Made Sol Representative of Venezuela with a Csrte Blanche. Caracas, Dec. 10. Lopez Baralt, Venezuelan minister of foreign affairs, has transmitted to .United States Minister Bowen a document signed by President Castro, as constitutional president of the republic, and countersigned by himself as minister of foreign affairs, in which Bowen is recognized as the only, representative of Venezuela In the matter of effecting h settlement of the present difficulty. According to the terms cf this document Bowen may act without restriction, and he is to use all means possible to protect the interests of Venezuela. The document was subjected to correction Wednesday night and again yesterday morning before delivery. The state department at Washington has been notified of the transmission of this instrument to Bowen. Events here are dependent upon the receipt through the state department of the answers of the governments of Great Britain, Germany and Italy to tbe proposal of arbitration advanced by Venezuela. Should they be favorable the Venezuelan government strongly desires that a conference of the ambassadors of Great I'ritain, Germany and Italy to the United States then be held in Washington and that Bowen leave La Guayra Dec. 23 for the United States on board a steamer due to reach New York Dec. 29. Bowen will meet the ambassadors in Washington: No meeting to c":scuss terms of settlement is to be held on Venezuelan soil. IN ENGLAND AND GERMANY Sohn Ball Wants a United Stete Guaranty Matter That Worries Germany. London, Dec. 19. The announcement that President Castro had entrusted United States Minister Bowen with full powers to arrange a settlement was received at the foreign office here with much Interest, accom panied by the remark, "So Mr. Bowen Is to.be the arbitrator?" The dis paten which contained this announcement was Immediately taken to Foreign Secretary Lansdowne; It appar ently conveyed to the foreign office of ficlals the first definite news that such action had been taken. It Is considered certain here that Great Britain Is making an earnest effort to get the United States to guarantee Venezuela's compliance with the finding of an arbitrator. . A Berlin dispatch says: "A fact rwhich Impresses the foreign observer here 13 the quiet Indifference of the newspapers and people to van! the

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pear to be astonished at the commotion in Great Britain and the United States over what is regarded here as a mere episode. Few of the Germans newspapers have correspondents in New York, but those who are there telegraph that Germany is seemirgly without one friend in the United States, and trace the cause to Germany's al leged attitude toward the United States during the Spanish-merlcan war. "The foreign office here Is extremely sensitive over the developments of pub lic feeling abroad, especially In the United States. The reason for delay In doing anything that would change the situation is because it is thought better to remain passive for a few days and see how far public feeling in the United States will go. Indications are not wanting that the German government is seeking an expedient to arrive at a solution of the difficulty witnout anything further happening to vex the people of the United States, whose good will Is considered to be more Important than the humiliation of Venezuela." POSITION OF TOE UNITED STATES To Ilecofnlae a Blockade of the Venezuelan Porta No Interference, Washington.' Dec. 19. As understood here the blockade to be declared by the allies against Venezuela on Saturday is to be a "war blockade" as contrasted with the fcpeace blockade' which has been In operation since the trouble with Venezuela assumed an acute stage. Ordinarily a legal blockade Is preceded by a declaration of war, but at times this formality Is dispensed" with and a blockade maintained just as though war had been formally declared. A formal declaration that a blockade haj been established will be sent to all the powers and it will be recognized by the United States govf rnment. Following the practice in such cases this government will maintain an attitude of neutrality toward the belligerents, which they practically become by the establishment of the blockade. Our government is fully Informed of the Intention of the allies in the movements they are making in the operations against Venezuela. The notice about the issue of the formal blockade of Venezuelan ports Is not understood here to mean that Minister Bowen's efforts to adjust the Venezuelan difficulties have tailed. It was conceived that the naval commanders of the powers were acting under explicit instructions which included the establishment of a blockade, and It was not expected that these instructions would be suspended until the negotiations through diplomatic channels had assumed a phase indicative of a final and satisfactory adjustment. It is to be expected that the threatened blockade will be duly published tomorrow unless in the meantime Minister Bowen is able to offer sufficient assurances that the Venezuelan government Is ready to meet the terms of the ultimatums. lit can be stated positively that these assurances will not include a direct guarantee by the United States of Venezuela's liabilities. Woman Sues Het Father-in-Law. Anderson. Ind., Dec. 19. Alta II11Mgoss, 22 years old, wife of Clifford Hllllgoss. has sued her father-in-law, J. B. Hllllgoss, for 81,000. In the complaint she alleges that she was approached by the defendant, and that he agreed to give her $1,000 if she would marry his son Clifford. She agreed to marry him, and the wedding occurred last June. The elder Illlllgoss has refused to carry out his contract, she alleges. President Gobln to Resign. Greencastl.?. Ind., Dec. 19. It is re ported that President Hilary Gobin, of Depauw university, has notified the board of trustees of his intention to resign, and that this. notice was given of a meeting a few days ago. when Chancellor Hickman tendered his resignation. A committee is preparing a plan of teaching which makes radical changes in the work of the institution. Iron Ron Into Iiis Lung. Greensburg. Ind., Dec. 19. Lon Wyley, about 25 years old, was perhaps fatally injured in the yards of the Big Four railroad here. A lever attached to a coupling pin ran into Wiley's lung the full length of the lever, and physicians say he can not recover. VILAS MEETS AN OLD FRIEND Wisconsin Statesman Bans Across Him In the Person of a State Capitol Janitor. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 19. W. F. Vilas, ex-United States senator and member of a president's cabinet, and a sootbegrimed janitor at the Nebraska state capltol were the parties to a dramatic Incident. The former Wisconsin senator came to Lincoln to argue a case before the Nebraska supreme court. While standing In the office of the clerk of the door, S. D. Eastman, one of . the janitors, a man grown white with years, entered the room, startling the party by breaking out in resounding tone: "Captain William F. Vilas, company A, Twenty-third Wisconsin, fall in." Vilas wheeled like a flash. The recognition was mutual,, and the two men threw themselves into each other's arms. Eastman was a member of Captain Vilas' company In the civil war. It was their first meeting In the thirty-eight years. - HUNDRED THOUSAND AT STAKE Which Is Why an Octogenarian Has Been Kidnaped from Ohio and Hidden in Another State. Marion, Ind., Dec. 20. John Decamps, 80 years old, who mysteriously disappeared from his home near Greenville, O., a year ago, has been located at Somerset, a village near here. Decamps and an older brother owned an estate valued at $100,000. The older brother died suddenly and the next day a sister, Mrs. Harriet Delaplane, iued a suit in partition. Another faction of the family also tried to get possession of the estate, and in the litigation Decamps, It Is Bald, was kidnaped by one faction and brought to the home of his niece, Mrs. Dr. Rogers, at Somerset The Greenville court has been notified and an effort will be made to take Decamps back home and restore his property to him. '

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t Famous Austrian Surgeon Takes a W-trv Whack at the West ern Metropolis. APEOPOS OF HIS EEOENT VISIT Why Tbey Made Him an LL .D Gen. Chaffee Tells Bankers His Bank Experience. New York, Dec. 19. William Barrett Rldgely, comptroller of the currency; President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University; Rev. Dr. Robert S. MacArthur, Major General Adna R. Chaffee and John S. Wise were the principal speakers at the annual banquet of the New York State Bankers' DR. ADOLPH LOBN'Z. association given at the Waldorf-As-torLVlast night. Anotherwho came late and was not on the programme was Dr. Lorenz, the celebrated Austrian surgeon. He made a witty address In the course of which he said: No, We Won't Mind, Doctor. "I am very much embarrassed. I really do not know what to say to you. Still I think ou will not mind if I tell you what a great impression your country has made upon me. The strongest Impression I have received in this great and beautiful country has been through the works of charity, organized charity. Some Experiences He Has Had "I have had some curious experi ences in this country. Perhaps the most curious was in Chicago. The board of health there made me ifti d ergo a U examination in medicine although I think I know something of my branch of the profession. Curiously enough some weeks later they made me a doctor of laws, though I know noth ing of law. Taught by that experi ence I shall not talk more to you, gen tlemen, because I fear If I stay here longer you will make me a banker, because I know nothing of banking." Chaffee's Experience with Banks. " In the course of his address General Chaffee said the only two experiences he had of banking he had never been able to understand. One was when he loaned a blank check book to a friend when he only had a hundred dollars In the bank, and the check came back protested with $2.23 charges. His other experience was In China. The government deposited $10,000 to his credit and he notified the bank that he wanted $5,000. The bank sent him a dozen coolies with a safe full of silver dollars and told him to transfer it to any place he wanted. Requisites for Elastic Currency, Comptroller uidgeiy spoke on "Elasticity in the Currency," saying in part: "The one great objection which can be fairly made to the national banking system is the lack of elastic ity in the currency which is Issued, Any complete and satisfactory solution of our present currency problems should include some plan for the retirement of the legal tenders. The price requisite for an elastic currency is frequent redemption and freedom of retirement. To have proper and true elasticity contra ctibility is as neces sary as expansibility. I think the best plan which has been suggested for modifying our bank currency is to al low the banks to Issue more than the par value of the bonds deposited." Broken Shaft Wrecks an Engine. Dillsboro, Ind., Dec. 19. The shaft in the drive wheel of the large engine at the Karmire & Swain sawmill broke. The engine was torn to pieces, and no part of It can be used again. The loss was about $8,000. No one was hurt Hoosler State Short-Cuts. Arcadia An election was held here to decide the question of Incorporating the town, and those favoring the idea won by a majority of fifteen. Arcadia has a population of 1,400. Spencer County Commissioner W. R. Brown is dead, aged 08, of heart diease. Rushville The young men are discussing the -juestlon of a new Y. M. C. A. building. Newcastle Martin Bundy Is laid up by a number of bruises caused by a fall on the Ice. Mount Vernon The heavy rains have caused the Ohio and Wabash rivers to boom and corn hasvbeen considerably damaged. Bloody Murderer Gets Ills Deserts. Terre Haute, Ind., Dec, 20. Matthew Alexander, colored, on trial foi the murder of Thomas Burke and for committing a murderous assault upon' Mrs. Burke in the bed room occupied by the family on Sunday night, Sept 7, was sentenced yesterday to hang at Michigan City, April 1G. Alexander killed Bu -rke by cutting his throat from ear to -jar as Burke rushed to the protection of his wife, who was first assaulted. . Earthquake In Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, Dec 19. Two violent earthquake shocks were experienced here at 4 p. m. yesterday. The people of the city were greatly alarmed, but there were no casualties. Young Man Killed by m Train Kewanee, Ills., Dec. 19. Henry Fell, aged 21 years, son of D. K. Fell, vice president of the Kewakee National bank, was struck by a train and killed at a crossing near Toulon.

Condolence of an Empress. Washington, Dec. 19. Through the. Japanese minister the sympathy of the empress of Japan for the Grant family In Its affliction was expressed yesteiday through a cablegram from Japan. Dog's Leng Trip to 111 Old Home. Madison. Ind., Dec. IS. A bird dog. Carlo, belonging In this county, was taken on June 15 to Iowa, 700 miles

away. In two weeks it disappeared from its new home, nothing being heard of it until Thursday morning Inst, when It suddenly reappeared at its old home, having found its way overland alone. A Cold Wave. They forecast of sudden change in the weather serves notice that a hoaree voice SLid a heavy cough may icvade the eanctity of health in your own horn. Cautious people have s bottle of One Minute Cough Cure always at hand. E. II. Wiee, M&dison, Ga.. writes: 'I am indebted to One Minute Cough Cure for my present good health, and probably my life." It cures Coughs, Colds, LaGrippe. Bronchitis, Pneumonia and all Threat and Lucg troubles. One Minute Cough Cure cuts the phlegm, draws out the inflammation, heals and -"Düthes the mucous membranes ahd strengthens the lungs. J. W. Hess. How to Prevent Croup. It will be good news to the mothers of small children to learn that croup can be prevented. The first sign of croup ie hoarseness. A day or two before the attack the child becomes hoaree. This is soon followed by a peculiar rough cough. Give Chamberlain's! Cough Remedy freely ad soon as the child becomes hoaree or even after the rough cough appears, and it will dispel all symptoms of croup. In this way all danger and anxiety may be avoided. Thi6 remedy is used by many thousands of mothers and has never b?en known to fail. It is, in fact, the only remeav that can always be depended upon and that is pleasant and safe to take. For rale by J. W. Hess. HOLIDAY TRIPS Excursion tickets will be sold De cember 24th, 25th and 31st, 1902, and January 1st. 1903, via Pennsylvania Lines account Christmas and New Year Holidays. Tickets will be good returning until January 2d, 1903. Special rate tickets will also be sold for students and teachers Of colleges, seminaries and universities going home to spend the Holidays. For details about fares, time of trains, etc., call on or address J. E. Hakes, Plymouth, Ind. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests ail classes of food, tones and strengthens the stomach and digestive organs. Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Stomach Troubles, and makes rich red blood, health and strength, Kodol rebuilds wornout Issues, purifies, strengthens and sweetens the stomach. Gov. G. W. Atkinson, of W, Ve., eays: I have used a number of bottles of Kodol and have found it to be a very effective and indeed, a powerful remedy for stomach ailments, I recommend it to my friends. J. W. Ueea. Long Sufferer From Constipation. smith D. Hinman, president of the Mercantile Fire Ins. Co., Chicago, says, "I have been a sufferer from constipation for a!mo6t a life time. Bailey's Laxative Tablets, I have found to be the best articles for the purpose I have ever tried, within my life of 80 years I'hey produce good, healthy, natural evacuations of the bowels, and for the j.ike of suffering humanity I hope all will soon know of them." Thousands of e'milar testimonials on file. 20 tablets in 10 ct. package?; 00 in 25 ct. packages A tablbt or two at night makes you fee. fine in the morning. Chocolate coated The best that can be made. Made by Lake Side Mod. Co,, Chicago. Sold by L. Tanner, Homeseekers' Cheap Excursions to the West and Northwest via Chicago & Northwestern R'y from Chicago, Novemoer 4, 18, December 2 and 16, Exceptionally low rates to a large number of points in Northern Wisconsin, Michigan, Northwestern Iowa, Western Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming. Better own a farm. Start now. Send 2-cent stamp to W. B. Kniskeru, 32 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, for copy of the "Northwestern Homeseeker." Apply to your nearest ticket agent Tor particulars, or address, A. M. Waggener, 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, 111. Homeseckers' Excursion to the West and Northwest. Settlers and homeseekers are moving westward in large numbers. Special low rates to all points west and northwest this fall via the Chicago & North-Western R'y, the only double track road to the Missouri river. Ask any ticket agent for particulars. Maps and Interesting printed matter free. KMM4 5o YEARS Vl r EXPERIENCE D Trade Marks Designs Copyrights Ac Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an inrention Is probably patentable. Commonlc. ttonaatrictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for ecurtngpatent. Patents taken through Mann & Co. receive peeial motte, without charge. In the Scfentffic jMca A handsomely Ilhistrated weekly. Lanrest circulation of any scientific Journal. Terms, $3 a year ; four months, f L Bold by ail newsdealers. but Co .- L'CTTcrii Branch Offloa. 63 F 8U Washington. IXC

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How It Is Proposed to Solve It for the Medical Scools of Indiana. LE3ISLATUEE TO BE CALLED UPON For a Law That May Work President Gobin, of DePauw,to Resign Miscellaneous News. Indianapolis, Dec. 19. Something like the demonstrators' "pool" that exists at Louisville for the distribution of bodies among the local medical colleges is expected to result in Indianapolis, through the efforts of Harry Tutewiler, coroner-elect The object of the "pool" is to obtain bodies in a legitimate manner, and thus put a stop to the wholesale grave robbing that has been carried on about the city for years. It is said there are enough unclaimed bodies of paupers In the state yearly to more than supply the medical colleges of Indianapolis and the one In Fort Wayne. Flsld Will tt tlw Whole Stat. The coming legislature, it is expected, will be asked to pass a law making It mandatory upon superintendents of county asylums and other institutions to furnish the colleges with the bodies of paupers. With the view of getting the work under way, Tutewiler sent circular letters to all the undertakers in the state, requesting them to embalm unclaimed bodies and ship them to him with bills for expense. Tutewiler said he was much encouraged by the answers he had received to his circulars. One body was shipped, here and others are promised. Tutewiler said his object was to supply the colleges with bodies and thus put a stop to grave robbing. Mot Evidence Enough to Indict, Indianapolis, Dec. 19. The grand jury made Its final report yesterday, but did not reflect on the Indianapolis coal exchange. The grand jury said: "We have made a thorough Investigation of the alleged coal combination and examined every possible witness and every source of testimony, and do not find evidence sufficient to Indict, but will turn that secured over to the next grand Wv." PATI1ETIC SCENE AT A PRISON Mother of Two Convicts Calls to Say GoodBye Sons Seem To lie Incorrigible. Anderson, Ind., Dec. 19. There was a pathetic scene at the county jail last evening, when the mother of Miles and Matthew Barnes called to bid them good-bye before they were taken to the penitentiary. She also called for their watches and other little articles which they had promised to her. Mrs. Barnes lives at Uaysville, near Knlghtstown. The mother said It was a terrible story, but a fact that this term will be the fourth for Matthew Barnes for burglary and the second term for her other son, Miles Barnes. The prisoners did not appear to be much affected. but their mother wept bitterly when she left them at the Jail and returned to her home on th same train that took her sons to prison. Vandalia Line Excursions. Terre Haute and return $4.78 on account of Commercial Travelers Association. Selling date Dec. 26th and 2"th, good returning and including Dec. 29th. Indianapolis and return $4.75 on account of annual meeting of Indiana State Teachers Association. Selling dates Dec, 28, 29 and 30. Limit re turning and including Jan. 2nd. Christmas and New Year Holidav rates one and one-third fares for round trip to all points. Selling dates Dec. 24, 25, and 31, and Jan. 1st., final limit Jan. 2nd. Lafayette and return $3.20 on account of Indiana State Dairy Association. Selling date Jan. 20th and 21st, limit good leave destination to and including Jan. 24th. Kansas City, Mo., and return $18.60 on account of Annual Convention National Live Stock Association. Selling dates Jan. 11, 12 and 13. Limit returning good to leave destination not later than Jan, 16tb, an extension will be given by despoiitlng 50c, additional charge. What's in a Name? Everything is in the name whon it comes to Witch Hazel Salve. E. u. De Witts & Co,, of Chicago, discovered some years ago, bow to make a salve from Witch Hazel that is a specific for Piles. For Blind, bleeding, itching and protruding Piles, eczema, cuts, burns, bruises and all skin diseases DeWitt's Salve has no equal. This has given rise to numerous worthlese . counterfeits. Ask for DeWitt's the genuine. J. W. Uees. To the Canadian Northwest Low Rate Excursions on December 18, December 2 and 16, via Chicano & Northwestern Ry., from Chicago, one fare plus $2.00 round trip, with liberal return limits and stop-over privileges. Four fast trains drily; 9:00 a. m., 6:30 p. m., 6:00 p. m., and 10:00 p. m., making direct connections with all lines at St Faul and Minneapolis. For full particulars apply to your nearest ticket agent or address. A. W. Waggoner, 22 Fifth Avenne, Chicago 111. State Teachers' Association. On account of above meeting the L. E. &'W. wili sell tickets to Indianapolis, and return ot Dec. 28, 29 and 30, 1902, good returning up to and including Jan. 2, 1902, at one and one third fare.

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Don't forget the old man with the fish' on his back. - For nearly thirty years he has been traveling around the world, and is still traveling, bringing health and comfort wherever he goes. To the consumptive he brings the strength and flesh he so much needs. To all weak and sickly children he, gives rich and strengthening food. To thin and pale persons he gives new firm flesh and rich red blood. Children who first saw the old man with the fish are now grown up and have children of their own. He stands for Scott's Emulsion of pure cod liver oil a delightful food and a natural tonic for children, for old folks and for all who need flesh and strength. SCOTT & BOWNE. Chemists. 409-415 Pearl Street, NewYork. 50c. and $1.00; all druggists. Couies un fndiaua lioinicide. Covinjrton. 1ml.. inc. IS. A Columbus, O., telesirnm says: "Frank rw-at-ty. arrested a few days aj:o fcr drunkenness, has? confessed to the police that he is a fugitive from justice, having escaped from Tail at Covington. Ind., while under indictment for murder twenty-eight years ago. Hearty says a man named .la cob fcialvin was shot and killed, and that he was accused for the crime. lie says, however, that the shooting was accidental." Monsters and Microbes. HoTf the Microbe Would Appear If Magnified in Size to Correspond With Its Power. The world hat always believed la monsters great dragons of the land, laid huge serpents of the sea. As a rule these monsters have been fairly peaceable, and beyond frightening people occasionally, they have done little recorded harm. The real calamities of humanity have come from the smaller! forms of life. The minute microbe has slain its millions upon millions. If this microscopic form of life were depicted in size and form equal to its danger and deadlines w should see a monster which would dwarf into insignificance all the monsters ever begotten by human imagination. The microbe has this in common with the fabled monster, its food is human flesh and its drink human blood. It battens on slaughter. For centuries medical science fought this microbic foe in darkness. The presence of the foe was recognized, its deadliness conceded. But it was ever an invisible foe, ' unknown and unnamed. To-day science -with eye-power increased a million foil finds this lurking foe, knows it and names it. FINDING THB FOB is the first step, fighting it intelligently is the next. We know this minute organism lurks in the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink. We know the object of attack is the blood. We know that as the microbe is bred from foulness it must be fed on foulness. Hence, we know that the microbe finds no lodgment in the body when the blood is pure. Keep the blood pure and you shut out the microbe. When the blood is impure nature at once begins to show the red danger signals. Boils, blotches, pimples, eruptions begin to work upon the skin surface, as signs and symptoms of the corruption of the blood. When these or any signs of blood impurity appear, the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is confidently recommended fts a most powerful and perfect blood -purifying medicine. I consider your 'Golden Medical Discover; ' one of the best medicines on the face of the earth," writes Wm. Floeter, Esq., of Redoak, Montgomery Co., Iowa. While in the south-west, three vears ago, I got poisoned with poison ivy. The poison settled in my blood and the horrors I suffered cannot be told in words. ' I thought I would go crazv. I could do nothing but scratch. I would ' Si to sleep scratching, would wake tip in e morning and find myself scratching. I scratched for eight months. Had it

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Pennsylvania Company Men Sent to New Positions on the Line. GAS CITY ENGINEEE 111 DA1TGER Pulls the Whistle Wide Open and Itescue Comes in TimeState News Items. Indianapolis, Dec. IS. A dispatch to The News from General Superintendent Ralph Peters, of the Pennsylvania lines, says that Lewis Ohligcr, superintendent of the Richmond dii vision, will succeed W. C. Loree as su perintendent of the Indianapolis division. Otto Schroll, superintendent of terminals at Wheeling, will succeed Ohliger at Richmond, and A. L. Morgan, engineer of maintenance of way on the Pittsburg division, will go to Wheeling as superintendent of terminals. A superintendent of terminals at Columbus. O., will e appointed, but his name has not been made public. ome More Change Noted. John H. Louy has resigned as chief train dispatcher of the Toledo and Lima division of the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton, and Gecrge Reed has been promoted In his place. C. M. Overly, superintendent of buildings and bridges, has also resigned, and the company has accepted the resignation of James Collins, for twenty-two years a passenger conductor. HUwajr CliaugM Iu auie. Indianapolis. Dec. IS. Indianapolis. Lebanon and Frankfort Traction company has tiled notice with the secretary of state chansiu Its name to the Indianapolis and Northwestern Traction company, and Increasing its capital from J'J.'.OOO to S2.o00.UH. The capital may be increased to SS.uh'MXO by issuing S.VXU'OO of prefernd stx-k. The road is built to Lebanon r.r.d is building to Frankfort and Lafayette. - Hooairr Stale Short-Cuta. Delphi Mrs. Lucimla Kendall, of Hock Creek township, has celebrated her 03rd birthday. Matthews The county commissioners have declared Matthews an incorporated town. Shelby ville Samuel Peck, of Rush county, caught a house snake that measured a foot in length and had two well-developed heads. Delphi X. W. Rrown. .lohn A. Cartwright and John Wilson have bought the property of the Delphi Lime company. Sot been for your Golden Medical Di covery I would be scratching yet. I tried different kinds of medicine, tried different doctors, but all the relief they could give me was to make my pocketbook lighter. I then began taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Took four battles without relief. Kept taking it. I took in all ten bottles and got entirely cured. I can say that if people would take your medicine instead of fooling with some of the quacks that infest both the small and large towns, disease would flee like chafl before the wind." The use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will absolutely drive out and eliminate the poisons which corrupt the blood. BA.D BLOOD AND GOOD HEALTH cannot go together. But when the blood is purified and enriched by w Golden Medical Discovery," the result is recorded in sound health. Boils, blotches, pimples and other eruptions disap- . pear as the impurities which caused tnem are removed. The skin is healthy, the flesh is tirm. The dull and sluggish feeling is a thing of the past The appetite is good, sleep is sound and refreshing and labor an enjoyment instead of a burden. " It gives, me much pleasure to testify to the merits of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discover, n writes Miss Annie Wells, of Fergussons Wharf, Isle of Wight Co., Va. "I can say honestly and candidly that it is the grandest medicine ever compounded for purifying the blood. I suffered terribly with rheumatism, and pimples on the skin and swelling in my knees and feet so that I could not walk. I spent about twenty dollars paying doctors bills but received no benefit. A year or two ago I was reading one of your Memorandum Books, and I decided to try Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discorery and Favorite Prescription, and am entirely cured." Of all prevalent forms of blood disease, scrofula is the most intractable. Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery has a remarkable record of cures of scrofulous diseases ; remarkable both in the number of cures arzd their variety as well as in the fact that these cures were effected many times in cases where all other treatment had proved utterly ineffectual. nl cured my little girl's scrofula with your 'Golden Medical Discovery and 4 Pleasant Pellets, " writes Mr. Eli Ashford of Raney, Hunt Co., Texas. It has been four years since then, and there has not been any return of the disease." There is no alcohol in w Golden Medical Discovery," and it is entirely free from opium, cocaine and all other narcotics. Why does a dealer sometimes trv to sell a substitute for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, claiming it is "just as good ? n Is it for the customer's benefit? It can't be. If the two medicines are equal in merit there's no advantage to the purchaser in an even exchange. The medicines are not equal in merit, and the reason for selling a substitute is only because the less meritorious medicine puts a little more profit into the dealer's pocket. His gain is the customer's loss. DON'T THINK OF BUYING a work on household medicine when you can get a good one free. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser contains 1008 large pages and over 700 illustrations. It is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expensa of mailing only. Send 31 one -cent stamps for the cloth -bound volume or only ax stamps for the book in paper-covers. Addresj XX. H. V Pierce, Buffalo, If. Y.