Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 September 1908 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT W. A. ENDLEY, Publisher WALKERTON. - INDIANA I 2 - I Mrs. Jack Gardner might get even ! by writing a novel. Cincinnati man has outgrown coffin he bought two years ago. Bargain sale I purchases don't always pay. । Tennessee man and wife live together 20 years and never speak but twice. Do you envy him? It begins to look as if Castro's splendid isolation would be wantonly Tipped up the back before long. Says the Indianapolis News: “Suppose one of these sheath skirts should ! shrink?” W’ell, the wearer could call ; a cab. Between airships, balloons and aero- i planes the air is getting to be some- 1 thing of a highway in these progressive days. When an automobiiist “takes a flyer In the street” it generally means that pedestrians would be safer at home under the bed. Esperanto has been officially recognized again. It seems to need r«ln- j ■" 11 TlTJlhiiuub muiuUl as rr^TtrarftTy*"" as | poor relations. There is such a thing as genuine ! gratitude, after all. A Goldfield miner , has left his entire fortune to the girl ■ who jilted him four years ago. The mother of a Philadelphia heiress denies that her daughter Is engaged to an Englishman who possesses a title, but fails to explain why. Some scientist has found that , there are 5,200 ways in which death may come. We wonder whether he has included being mistaken for deer by reckless hunters? Efforts are made to encourage cattle raising in Scotland. Still, it is likely that a large proportion of the roast beef of “old England” will continue to come from the United States. N hen the Dutch have captured Cas- . tro wih they please hold him and no*ify the nations of the earth so that I there may be pulled off a chaste and orderly international spanking match? Fritzi Scheff is to become the wife of a literary man, and it is only reasonable to expect, therefore, that the stories sent out by her advance agent I will in the future be properly I edited. Judge Thompson of the United i States court has decided at Cincinnati I that imitation whisky must be so labeled as to show just what it is. A simpler way would te just to label it poison. It W'as from New York that Horace Greeley advised the young man to “Go West!” The advice now comes from 3,000 miles farther ea^tw r ard, and is addressed by Israel Zangwill to an audience of Jews in London. He told his fellow religionists the other day that they ought to migrate to the western states of America, where there is room for them. The most enduring memorial of Bishop Potter is the great, unfinished : cathedral of St. John the Divine on Morningside Heights, which will have cost, it is estimated, over $20,000,000 when it is comp, ted, well on in the present century. This was his own i conception, and it was his influence alone that secured the financial backing which made its commencement possible. Persons who wear orange-colored garments are supposed to be less susceptible to heat than those wearing . other colors. To test the theory, the j war department is having 5,000 suits I of underwear colored orange for the i use of soldiers in the Philippines. An : orange bat lining is also being pre- j pared, that the heads as well as bodies i of the men may receive whatever ben- ! efit there may be in the color. In a New York court a policeman arraigned a chauffeur who, the officer testified, was towing two “dead” automobiles and speeding at the rate of 20 miles an hour. “Three machines, each going 20 miles an hour?” said the magistrate. “I should figure that the prisoner was going 60 miles an hour. I’ll hold him for trial.” And nobody punished the magistrate for his unprovoked assault on physics and mathematics. The millionaire automobiiist who ; went crashing with a 120-horse power flyer through carriages in crowded ■ streets at Long Branch the other day will have his license revoked, and war- i rants were procured for his arrest. j The reckless speeder is as much the j enemy of the moderate autoist as of j the rest of the public, and all should combine him. It mLjlxt even justice to strap some of the merciless scorchers to their own ve- ' bides and set them going on a steam railroad track, where they would meet something of their size. And now the directoire gown is to be accompanied by a bracelet worn just below the knee. The necessary I number of rings for the fingers and bells for the toes will also be strictly in style. We can see how perfected flying I machines distributed all over the ; world, and so low in price as to be within reach of all, if not quite so low in flight, might cause the custom- | house officials along the frontiers of the various countries to accumulate a stock of steely, premature gray hair, j Shopkeepers in Paris with various i phases of high life for sale at ruin- ' ous prices will be pleased to learn i that King Leopold has sold the Congo Free State and has the money for It 1 ' in his inside pocket. Prof. Lichtenberg may be sincere I in his belief that he can drown the I flies of Vesuvius, but has he calculated the force of the superheated \ steam that he would generate? As a i first experiment he might try sweep- | Ing back the waves of the ocean with I a broom.

IHUBLEOJI DEATH LIEUT. SELFRIDGE KILLED BY FALL OF AEROPLANE. ORVILLE WRIGHT INJURED Breaking of Propeller Blade Causes Tragic Accident at Fort Myer in the Presence of Thousands. Washington.—After having drawn the attention of the world to his aeroplane flights at Fort Myer and having established new world’s records for heavier-than-air flying machines, Ori ville Wright Thursday met with a I tragical mishap while making a twoman flight. The aeropianist was acj companied by Lieut. Thomas E. SelfI ridge of the signal corps of the army. Lieut. Selfridge was fatally injured and died at 8:10 o’clock at night. Mr. I Wright was seriously injured, but is expected to recover. While the machine was encircling the drill grpunds a propeller blade snapped off ‘ and, • hitting some other part of the intricate mechanism, . caused the machine to overturn in the | Air and fall to the groirmr'erTveluging-.. 1 ffie two occupanis in the debris. Wright Not Dangerously Hurt. ’ After a hurried surgical examination it was announced that Mr. Wright was not dangerously injured. He is suffering from a fracture of his left I i \ Orville Wright. । thigh and several ribs on the left side are broken. Both men received deep j cuts about the head. Mr. Wright re- । gained consciousness at the hospital and dictated a cablegram to his brother at Le Mans, France, and requested that ttte same message be sent to his sister and father at Dayton, 0., assuring them that he was all right. Mr. Wright Wednesday replaced the propellers which he had been using with another pair, the blades of which are six inches longer. They were used for the first time in Thursday’s disas- ; trious flight, and many who have witnessed Mr. Wright’s flights at Fort Myer believe the change of propellers caused the accident. An examination of the broken blade showed that it i had been snapped off at a point onej fourth of the distance from the hub. i A deep indentation of the broken piece indicated that it had struck some other part of the aeroplane. Fully 2,000 persons, including many army officers and scientists, were at i Fort Myer and witnessed the . tragedy. Selfridge an Enthusiast. Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge was one of the most enthusiastic believers in i aeronautics among the officers in the military service and through his own - efforts succeeded in securing a detail with the aeronautical division of the signal corps. He was born in San I Francisco 26 years ago and was appointed to the military academy at j West Point from that state. He was ! appointed a second lieutenant in the ; artillery corps in 1903 and commis- : sioned a first lieutenant four years later. Military Funeral for Selfridge. Lieut. Selfridge’s body was removed from the hospital to an undertaker’s, where it will remain until the arrival of the young officer’s father, who wired from San Francisco that he would like to have his son buried either at Arlington or West Point. Cause of Disaster Explained. Speaking for Mr. Wright, Mr. Taylor later said: “The accident was caused by an extraordinary vibration of one of the . wires running from the main planes to the upper steel fitting of the rudder, i This vibration was so great that the wire got in range of the propeller and was struck by the blade, cutting a deep gash in the edge of the propeller blade about four inches from the end. This caused the blade to break. The other blade of the propeller flew around and in turn struck the same wire, breaking it. This made Mr. Wrtgnt lower conrror ur~nrM rirucTer en- _ tirely, and the loss of both blades of the propeller and the breaking of the wire caused him to lose control of the planes.” Noted Entomologist Dies. Lawrence, Kan. —Dr. Frank Huntington Snow, former chancellor of the University of Kansas and an entomcgolist of world wide reputation, died at Bellfield, Wis., Sunday. He was a native of Fitchburg, Mass. Convicted of Embezzlement. Denver, Col. —Clint O. Heath, formerly a real-estate dealer and promoter of this city, was found guilty of embezzlement of $8,500, from Mrs. Mary Husted of New York, by a jury in the criminal court. International Thief Caught. Paris.—The police have arrested an alleged thief who went under the name of S. Pelisdorf of San Francisco. According to the police Pelisdorf is wanted in every capital in Europe. He made a specialty of stealing bank collectors' wallets President of Ecuador Recovers. Quito, Ecuador. —President Alfaro, who has suffered lately from heart trouble, has quite recovered and Thursday he assumed again the duties of chief executive.

SHIP CRUSHED; THREE DIE STEAMER COLON BATTERED BY FIERCE HURRICANE. Panama Craft Plying Between New York and Isthmus Arrives in Port, However. Colon.—The steamship Colon, halfmasted and showing other evidences of distress, came limping into port Friday. She had been badly battered by the hurricane encountered Sunday. Three members of her crew lost their lives while engaged in the hold in repairing a water tank. The Colon belongs to the Panama Railroad Company. She left New York September 10,and was due to arrived here Thursday. She encountered the hurricane at a point 40 miles north of Watling island. The wind blew 100 miles an hour, and tremendous seas were soon sweeping over the vessel. The staterooms and the dining saloon were flooded, one of her smoke ■ stacks was carried away, three boats i were washed overboard, and the wireless telegraph apparatus was dismantled. Orders were given that no passengers be allowed on deck, and the travelers had to spend Sunday and Sunday night in the dining saloon. The water got to the mail bags, and badly damaged. Sunday night passed with the ship laboring through the storm and the passengers huddled below in a state of panic. Early Monday it was discovered that salt water was making its way forward into the fresh water tanks. ' Fearing that the fresh water would give out the second assistant engi- ' neer, William Liley, and the ship’s carpenter, J. Olson, were sent down ; into the hold Monday afternoon to change the tank connections. The two men were below fcr an ) hour without giving any signs of returning. Anxious for their safety, R. Barthl, a water tender, and A. Sands, a junior engineer; volunteered to go below and learn what had happened when the disaster occurred. CONGRESSMAN LANING FREE. Ohioan Acquitted of Charge of Misapplying Funds. ? Fremont. O. — The jury in the Laning case returned a verdict of not guilty late Thursday afternoon after considering the case less than an hour all told. Following the return of the verdict there were congratulations on all sides between attorneys, jurors, judge, the defendant and others interested. Mr. Laning is interested in many business enterprises in Norwalk, his home. He was a director of the Ohio Trust Company, through which his various financial matters were negotiated, and president of the Laning Printing Company, the plant of which was recently burned. This company did much of the state printing. Together, with J. C. Gibbs, manager of the Ohio Trust Company, the congressman was indicted on the charge of misapplying funds of the latter company and embezzling stock of the Norwalk Savings Bank Company. They also were accused of loaning funds to fictitious real estate com panies. owned in part by officers of the bank, it was alleged, and used as a “blind” to cover personal loans. BLOODY FIGHT WITH POSSE. Murderer and Wife Have Fatal Battle with Sheriff. West Plains. Mo. —John Roberts and his wife Sunday resisted a sheriff's posse in a desperate battle near Prestonia, one mile south of the MissouriArkansas line, when the officers attempted to arrest Roberts for killing Obe Kessinger, a neighbor. Saturday night. As a result the woman and Sheriff Mooney of Baxter county. Ark., were mortally wounded, and Roberts and two members of the posse—Max Lowery and his son—were seriously hurt. Roberts may not survive. The murder of Kessinger was cold blooded. Roberts went to the house late in the evening and called his victim to the door. When Kessinger appeared Roberts fired and killed him. NURSE CARELESS: THREE BEAD. Serious Case of Poisoning in San Diego County Hospital. San Diego, Cal.—Three deaths have already resulted from the carelessness of Mary Arthur, a 19-year-old nurse at the county hospital, a fourth death is expected and four other persons are seriously ill. The dead are: J. Young, Charles Kemp and Henry C. Shuette. All were taken sick Thursday afternoon, and evidence of poison was so great that an investigation was started, ending finally in a confession by Miss Arthur that she had. neglected to throw’ out some water in which there —uf——urrrt I ha I ? her patients had got hold of it for < their medicine. Miss Arthur is in a , state of collapse, but is kept under 1 surveillance. — Georgia Convict Leasing Ends. . Atlanta, Ga.—Just at midnight Sat- i urday night Gov. Hoke Smith signed the convict lease bill, which prohibits the leasing of felons except by the con- ' sent of the governor and prison commission. The bill was passed by the I legislature Saturday after $35,000 had been spent in an extra session and nearly a month used in discussing the j legislation. With the signature of Gov. Smith on the bill as engrossed, Georgia has done away with a system which has been in existence ever since 1865. Fatal Explosion at Mare Island. Vallejo, Cal. —The explosion of 250 gallons of gasoline on board a barge moored abreast of the submarine boats Grampus and Pike at the Mitre Island navy yard Friday afternoon resulted in the death of Chief Machinist Teddy May and injuries to Lieut. J. S. Townsend. Chief Gunner’s Mate W. H. Leahy and Chief Gunner’s Mate Morrin. Both submarine boats were badly scorched. The tender Fortune and the tug Cnandilla were also injured, the latter catching fire. The men were forced to jump overboard.

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PLAGUE IN AZAR’S CAPITAL - tu y ASIATIC CHOIf ERA INCREASING IN ST. P iTERSBURG. । __ Threat of Mai Ua' L a w —Municipal Officials Fina Aroused to Action—A! arm General. — St. Petersburg —Petersburg is in the grasp of the\^ Biat * c cholera, which already has excf eded ln severity and ‘ numbers of vid iu,s the ''si’ation of 1593. The disea se is increasing daily I at an alarming rate and - unless the authorities show in the future a much greater degree t ability to cope with the situation tt au they have in the past there is evi Ty reason to fear that it will get out of band The governm ’ nt has threatened to apply the prov 810118 of martial law and this threat das driven the munici pality officials t 0 bend all their ener gies to the can ^Paign of clearing the ) city of the seo lr « e - The aldermanie council Sunday v °ted a preliminary, sum amounting $250,000 to enlarge the hospital sp to purchase and distribute disin ectants, the supply of which in St. F etersburg is well nigh exhausted, and to expedite the inter | ment of bodies’ * bl ch has been notori ously slow. Th } dead houses are overcrowded and u ian >’ corpses lie un buried. Advices fronA aH Parts of Russia show that the f F iarm is verv general and that there’S^ reason for it. At Moscow a quaj an l lne has been established at all j'-* lw ay depots and ■ as sengers are pl» under thv st*”' oßl surveillance” to the Present Moscow has be^kir nune. A death has occurred at ln * fors fron! the dis ease and ten, ^assian steamers have been denied ‘prance to Viborg harbor for evadinf Quarantine at Trang sund. a roadsw ea ^ eight mi,es froin that port. I Germanv has! becoino alarmed over the spread of W he dlaea se and the German authoritf bave taken P recau tions to preve nt lts crossing the frontier. Aust! ia has done the sanie thing; Sweden lnd other n °ar-by countries hhave d Glared a quarantine against Russia and France 1S ready to meet any ex| & encies that ma > arise - RHINELAN IN PERIL - Milwaukee Sen Js Hel P t 0 Cit > Threat ’ ened b r Forest Fires - Milwaukee.— rhe city of Rh ineland er nearly ‘>oo 1 niles north of here - is threatened "wiL* detraction by forest fires and Milw, lk ee was called upon to aid in savin,} city - A steam fire engine, half u mile of bo e and a truck were loX id on a s P ecial train and started ft the scene of the ftre at nine o'clock* IQ day night. Nn word mr t 3 secured from Rhine- ! lander as to fit extent of lhe fire ex ’ 'cept that thed, ty is surrounded by forest fires wieJ h threaten to sweep over the city.s.W Tabriz M.^y Be Bombarded. Tabriz, Per**. "~ A decisive struggle hPtwPPn thP 1 an an d the National- ! I StS tor '.’l O' Tabriz is immiinent. Ain ^t^'leh of the shah’s forces has sen* I an uhimatum to Satar Khan to lay * • An his arms and sur - I render the ci^ in 48 hours - threatening otherwise^ at be would b °mbard 1 the capital. S - w Khau tlatly^fus^ 7 to cornyny: —> ▼ are 111 ' "reat dan-er. Nationalists, thinking that theii ■ esence wlll interfere ' with the bom! J'dment. refuse to permit them to le^ ve the city. Tries t I—' e mate Herself. Mobile, Alilp®”- Margaret Brad ford, a widow-T suffering from mental । derangement, Jft'iday morning saturat-, ed her bed witjh °il» set site to it and lay down. S’n| e was horribly burned and physician! pronounce her recovery impossible Joliet Wor ,an Killed by Auto. Joliet. 111. —< ity Treasurer Martin B Schuster, t thile automobiling Friday ran over ai d killed Mrs. John Lye. ; The woman i ecame confused and stepped in fro, d of the machine. Gas Found Near Shawneetown. Shawneetc^ r- R1 - Natural gas was discovered |m ee mlles I!or,b of th is citv Thursday.] Drillers made the discovery whild c’dhns a well at Field's schoolhouse.) 1 rhere is a <»n^ant flow of gas from tl e well. — _ _ Galvesto 1 Streets Flooded. Galveston. 1 ? X ~ A six and pnel,a ? inch rainfall il » de ten hours caused { the streets in be business section of i this citv to be Po° ddd Thursday after- | noon. The wir d reached a velocity of | 62 miles an hor r - I

GREAT FIRES IN PARIS. Central Telephone Building. Post Office and Store Burned. Paris.—Fire broke out Sunday ! night in the Central Telephone , building and spread with such rapidity that the telephone employes were forced to flee hastily to the streets. The entire building was soon in flames, and this together with the post office, which is located close to the Place : des Victoires. was totally destroyed. The loss is estimated at $5,000,000. but a much greater loss is likely to be involved through the complete interruption of all telephonic communication , in the center of Paris, as well as com-municat-ion with the provinces and i abroad. The telephone building was I comparatively new and was fitted with the costly new central battery system. ; Sunday was a record day in the his- ' tory of the fire department, the men i being out all morning and afternoon I for a big fire in a department store in | the Fauborg St. Denis. Damage to the i extent of SBOO,OOO was done here. HARD BLOW AT FORAKER. Hearst Makes Sensational Statements About Him and Standard Oil. Columbus. O. — Thomas Hisgen, : candidate of the Independence party for president, and William R. Hearst addressed a meeting in Memorial hall Thursday night under the ; auspices of the local organization of the party. Mr. Hearst read letters which waid had been written by John D. Archbold or the Standard Oil Company, to Senator J. B. Foraker of Ohio, referring to legislation pending I in congress and mentioning two inclosures of checks, one for $15,000 and another for $14,500. Cincinnati. —That he had been an attorney for the Standard Oil Company several years ago, terminating such service before the federal prosecution of that concern, but such employment had nothing to do with matters pending in congress or in which the federal government was interested. is the substance of a brief i statement made Sunday by Senator Foraker in answer to charges made | by William R. Hearst in Columbus i i Thursday night. — BIG ST. LOUIS FIRM ATTACKED. — j Receiver Is Asked fcr the State Trust Company. St. Louis. —Minority stockholders Thursday afternoon filed a petition in the circuit court asking that a re- ■ ceiver be appointed for the State Trust ; Company, a St. Louis real estate firm capitalized at $1,000,000. The petition says that on May 20, i I 1907, the directors voted to increase i . the capital of the concern from SSOO,- j 1 000 to $1,000,000. representing that ' I $750,000 had already been paid in. At s another meeting, it is alleged, the di--1 rectors voted to pay back to the stockholders the $250,000 that they paid into the company to increase its capital to $1,000,000. but the money has not yet been paid back. It is also stated that the principal assets of the company are $499,500 in real estate. Rain Checks Forest Fires. Duluth. Minn. —A heavy’ rain fell at i Grand Marais extending westward 1 | from there 15 or 20 miles. While not ^extinguished, the forest fifes were ( and Grand Marais, Chicago Bay, and other north shore settlements that have thus far escaped the flames, are considered safe. R. J. Wallace. Milwaukee, Dead, Miuwaukee. —Robert J. Wallace, : ; aged 47 years, a well-known business ! I man of this city and for the past ' : three years president of the Wholesale : Saddlery Association of the United | States, is dead here of Bright's disease. — Mutilated Corpse Is Found. Janesville, Wis. —-The mutilated corpse of Frederick Balch, who had i ! been missing for five weeks, was found i near Janesville Sunday. The cause of death has not been determined. Slayer Acquitted as Insane Trinidad, Col. —Charles W. Moore, j who killed David Coher.. son of Rabbi Cohen of Detroit, August 11. in this ; city by blowing his head off with a [ shotgun, was acquitted Thursday of ! the charge of murder. His defense was insanity. Death for Negro Murderer. Springfield. 11l- Thursday evening i the jury in the Joseph James case re- j I turned a verdict of guilty and fixed : the penalty at death. Jaa.es took the j ; verdict unconcernedly.

TOWN IS BORNEO OP FOSTER CITY, MICH., DESTROYED AND SIX LIVES LOST. OTHER PLACES IN DANGER Flames in Woods Break Out Afresh and the Residents of Several Villages Take Refuge in Flight. Marinette, Wis.—A dispatch from Foster City, a village across the Michigan line of Marinette county, reports that place destroyed by flames driven in from the forest fires and that six lives w’ere lost. It is understood that the saw’mill owned by the Morgan interests of Oshkosh was destroyed. together with a large store and 30 dwellings. The forest fires have broken out afresh in this section and reports of burning farmhouses and timber cut and uncut are coming from all sides.

Menominee, Mich.—Never since 1871, when the forest fires swept Menominee and Marinette counties, causing a loss of 1,500 lives and millions of dollars’ worth of timber, has the danger of a ^widespread .ennflagra- j 'flon been as great as~aT"present? sta-L close are the fires to Niagara, on the Menominee river, Faithorn Junction and Ingalls that everything is- packed and trains ready to carry the people away as soon as a high wind arises. Calumet. Mich., reports forest fires assuming a threatening aspect all I over northern Michigan and several I towns in danger of destruction. Lac La Belle, north of Calumet, is in very’ grave danger, being surrounded, except on the water side, by flames. At Bete De Cris, north of Calumet, a large I force is battling to save the lighthouse and other buildings at the United States ship canal. It is estimated 800,000 feet of standing timber in the vicinity of Point Abbaye, owned i by Hebard & Son is burned. Escanaba, Mich. — Forest fires, | though checked by light rains Friday, broke out anew Sunday night and four villages north of Escanaba are now surrounded by flames. The vil- ' lages threatened are Niagara, Quinne- ■ sec. Foster City and Hermansville. I At all these places telephone and teleI graph communication is cut off and relief trains are carrying the people ! out of the territory. STEWART MAY BE RETIRED. ■ “Exiled” Colonel Ordered Before Board for Physical Examination. — \\ ashington.—Col. William F. Stew- 1 art of the coast artillery, whftse case, I because of his detail to the ungarrisoned post at Fort Grant. Ariz., has been before the public for some time, has been ordered to appear before a retiring board at Washington, where i he will be examined as to his disability. its nature and whether it was incurred in the line of duty. This action by Secretary Wright Monday is the outcome of the physical ' examination of Col. Stewart by a i board of officers at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., when he appeared recently at that post for the purpose of taking the ' test ride of 90 miles directed by President Roosevelt. REVOLT IMPENDS IN PORTUGAL. Both Republicans and Monarchical Extremists Said to Be Arming. Lisbon. —Insistent declarations that a revolutionary outbreak in Portugal is ‘ impending continue to make their appearance in the local newspapers, and a new feature of these reports is ; the statement that the monarchical ex- | tremists, realizing that the Republicans are arming for a revolt, are making ready for their defense by storing se- ) cretly large quantities of arms in the I convents of Lisbon. PRESIDENT'S VACATION ENDS. He Leaves Oyster Bay for Washington with His Family. , Oyster Bay, N. Y’. —President Roose- ) velt Tuesday morning ended his vai cation, and with his family and execI utive staff left for Washington. No formal farewell had been prepared by the residents of Oyster Bay, but practically every one in town was I at the railway station to see the presi- : dent depart and say farewell to him. Big Commission Company Fails. Quincy, 11l. —The Cassidy & Gray I Commission Company, with headquarters here and offices in Chicago, Peoria and 42 other cities in Illinois and lowa, made an assignment Monday afternoon to William H. Govert. The cap--1 ital stock is SIOO,OOO. — Aetru^b**?* FJ*es 91 Minutes. r.. i •

T^Tlans. France—Wilbur Wright, i the American aeropianist, flew in his : machine at the Auvours field here Monday for 1 hour, 31 minutes and 25 ! seconds. This is the world's record. — Eight "Black Hands" Sentenced. Winnipeg, Man. —Eight "Black . Hand” Italians, who came from Chi- ■ cago to Fernie, and there plied their nefarious calling for a few days until . arrested by the police, were sentenced ! Monday to from six months to seven years in jail. Engineers Threaten to Quit. Winnipeg, Man. —Canadian Pacific railway engineers have notified the ( company that they will not run engines longer than anothct week if the j strike is not settled. Killed by Gas Fumes in Well. Cincinnati. —Henry Rhymindsnider, a farmer near Montgomery, east of this city, and his son Henry were killed by gas fumes following an explosion of nitroglycerin tn a well they were digging Monday. Confesses to Firing a Town. Eureka. S D—Mrs. Fred Cringle < f Akaska has confessed ' > 'he county attorney that the town ot Akaska fired recently by herself and husband for the purpose of obtaining insu ante on their property.

T6e General Demand of the Well-Informed of the ‘World has always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physic ans could sanction for family use because its component parts are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. In supplying that demand with its excellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies on the merits ot the laxative for its remarkable success. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given the preference by the Well-Informed. To get its beneficial effects always buy , the genuine—manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale ,by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents , per bottle.

EGOISM. Mistress —Bridget, it always seems I to me that the crankiest mistresses get the best cooks. Cook—Ab, go on wid yer blarney! ONE KIDNEY GONE But Cured After Doctors Said There Was No Hope. Sylvanus O. VerriU, Milford, Me., says: “Five years ago a bad injury

paralyzed me and affected my kidneys. My back hurt me terribly, and the urine was badly discolored. Doctors said my right kidney was practically dead. They said I could never walk again. I read

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of Doan's Kidney Pills and began us- ’ ing them. One box made me stronger and freer from pain. I kept on using ' them and in three months was able to ! get out on crutches, and the kidneys were acting better. I improved rapi idly, discarded the crutches and to I the wonder of my friends was soon 1 completely cured.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A Doctor’s Disadvantage. “In one way,” said a collector, “it i Is easier to get money from a doctor than anybody else who is slow pay. It is more difficult for him to swear that he hasn’t been able to make any collections himself since the first of । the year. A doctor's reception room Is open to all possible patients A collector with a grain of ingenuity can find away to worm out of the men on the waiting list information as to the terms of payment. After an interview with three or four persons who have paid spot cash for treatment and who have told the collector they paid. It takes a mighty nerve on the part of the doctor to insist that he hasn t a dollar to his name.” Microscopic Writing. A remarkable machine made by a lately deceased member of the Royal Microscopical society for writing with a diamond seems to have been broken up by its inventor. A specimen of its works is the Lord’s prayer of 227 letters. written in the 1,237,000 of a square inch, which is at the. rate of 53.880,000 letters or 15 complete Bibles, to a single square inch. To decipher the writing it is necessary to use a 1-12-inch objective, which is the high power lens physicians employ for , studying the meat minute bacteria. Populous China. The population of the Chinese emi pire is largely a matter of estimate, jThere has never been such census of I the empire as that which is 1 taken every decade in this country, i But the estimate of the Almanach de j Gotha for 1900 may be taken as fairly I reliable. According to that estimate. । the population of the empire is. in i round numbers, about 400.000.000. It i is probably safe to say that if the । human beings on earth were stood up in line every fourth one would be a. Chinaman. AFRAID TO EAT. i Girl Starving on 111-Selected Food. “Several years ago I was actually । starving,' writes a Me. girl, “yet dared j «. . t he consequences.

"1 had suffered from indigestion from overwork, irregular meals and improper food, until at last my stem ach became so weak I could eat scarcely any food without great distress. "Many kinds of food were tried, all with the same discouraging effects. I steadily lost health and strength until I was but a wreck of my former self. “Having heard of Grape-Nuts and its great merits. I purchased a pack age. but with little hope that it would help me —I was so discouraged. "I found it not only appetizing but that I could eat it as 1 liked and that it satisfied the craving for food without causing distress, and if I may use the expression, ‘it filled the bill.’ “Fer months Grape-Nuts was my principal article of diet. I felt from the very first that 1 had found the right way to health and happiness and my anticipations were fully realized. “With its continued use I regained my usual h< *lth and strength. To-day I am w 11 and can eat anything I like, yet Grape-Nuts food forms a part of my bin of fare.” “There's a Reason ' Name given by Postum Co . Battle Creek. Mich. Read "The Road to Welb ville." in pkgs. Ever read the above letter'’ A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest.