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I* I GEH. GASTBO MDIMTES I Dictator of Venezuela Turns Over Reins to Gomez. PLEADS ILL-HEALTH AS REASON Fall the Vice-President in Charge? Will I'rabably Take the Office Again After a 90-Day Vacation, Hut a ?n Cabinet Will Go in Meanwhile to Handle the Present Bicker With France New York City.?General Cipriano Castro has retired temporarily from the Presidency of Venezuela. General Juan Vicente Gomez. First Vice-President of the republic, is the present executive head. This information was contained in an official cable dispatch received from Caracas by Carlos Beuito Figueredo. Venezuelan Consul-General in this city. Those who are acquainted with the tenacity with which Castro has l:ept his office since 1S99, with the whole country, and other countries, too, against him, will be surprised to learn of his voluntary retirement, and several Venezuelans in this city see a string tied to it. There lias been not tie slightest intimation that he contemplated such a step. General Jose Manuel Harnandez, formerly Venezuelan Minister at Washington. who is now living in this city, said that he did not believe Castro was the kind of man to retire. He said: \ "My opinion is that the whole affair is a corned^. General Gomez will be President in name only." xne omciai auiiouuL-euueui gives Castro's reason for resigning that "he desires to retire to restful private life for some time owing to the stremious work his position exacts and which he has so successfully c-rried on for the several years." The change took place when Castro issued a proclamation, wherein appeared the following: "Should his temporary separation bring harmony and good will to the country, he would willingly make his retirement permanent?if necessary." The dispatch also says tnat peace is assured in Venezuela and t^at the in;r ternatlonal questions will be either "1 1- ?i- J JC amieaDjy arrangeu or arouraieu. u this latter promise is carried out it is probable that the Government's dispute with the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company will be adjusted. The company's property : t Guanoco was seized nearly two years ago by a Venezuelan court in obedience tc an order from Castro. Cipriano Cartro became President of Venezuela on October L'8. 1S99. having headed a revolution agains Presi: dent Ignacio Andrade. His father was an Indian cattle ranch owner and his mother a mulatto. He is about fifty years old. and is reputed to be wealthy. General Gomez, who Decomes President temporarily, is known as an able military man. He aided Castro in his revolution against President Andrade, and is commander of tha Venezuelan army. ite ? JESTING, BRIDE KILLS SELF. ; , Drains Vial of Poison as Her Husband ? and Two Friends Look On. f New Brighton. Pa.?Facing her hus band and his friends in her Oak Hill home with words so light they seemed almost a jest, beautiful Katharyne Anderson, barely seventeen years old, a Kfi/lo rtf fnnr mnnths drained a vial of poison as lie sprang to her side and. .without a word of explanation, died Within the hour. The suicide was so sudden that not one of the three men who witnessed it t had time to reach the young woman ' before she emptied the bottle, although she stood in the same room with them. She stepped a foot or two i - Inside the threshold when Joseph Anderson, her husband, was eutertaining j two of- his business associates. The f three looked up at her approach and started from their chairs at her words. "What do you think of this, Joe?" Blie asked gayly. "This" was a tiny flask of potent poison. A dancing ray of sunshine struck it like a sword as she held it up in plain view. It flashed wickedly?more brightly than the strange light in her eyes. "Kate!" cried Anderson. He was beside her in another instant. But in the second he spent in bounding forward she gulped the contents of the vial, and it was in writhing agony that ifi she sank into his arras. She dieu ,while two skilled medical men were striving to save her. Anderson is one of the richest young farmers in the Beaver Valley. ?. ! COST OF LIVING HIGHER. %/. : Greater Than For Twenty-two Years? On Crest of Prosperity. New York City.?Meats, milk, butter, eggs and vegetables are higher in price now than for twenty-two years, accord; Ing to a statement issued by Dun's 'Agency. Bread and breadstuff.-: are a Jittle lower than they were a year ago. Clothing and everything that the people use. including all the industrial inerals, are at the top :>rice since 1SS4. ? This means that the cost of living is greater now than for nearly a genera; . tion past, which is taken by political economists to indicate that the wave of prosperity in America is on the crest, with no sign, though, of an immediate break. The advance in clothing and metals has been more pronounced than in food. i' ' l jFarmers Ban Kid Gloves. I : Stafford County farmers, in their np- I 1 +v?? T'niicoc Ctato Fmnlnvment I JJCUi IU me iiuucuo >v , Bureau for 2500 harvesters for their 8,000.000 bushels of wheat, say they don't want college studeuts in white [waist coats and kid gloves. ? f' Mutiny on Portuguese Cruiser. ' Two hundred and fifty men of the Portuguese cruiser Don Carlos I. mutinied at Lisbon. The outbreak was quelled by Admiral Ferreira. who sent I the men on shore under arrest. Negro Race Will Die O/T. In a conference with President iRoOiCvelt, at Washington, Dr. Seale 'Harris, of the University of Alabama, expressed the opinion that the negro race is likely to become extinct in this country through the ravages of disease, especially consumption. Two Students Drowned, j'. ' George Eubanks, Jr., of Birmingham, and Tom Matthews, students at the university, Tuscaloosa. Ala., were drowned while fishing. Their canoe drifted too close to the whirlpool at the if)ot of the falls and was capsized. m * ' , {. . ' v ' !AT MERCY OF RAILWAY t , Price and Output of Bituminou Coal Arbitrarily Fixed. Existence of " Statistical Bureaus " 1 Pennsylvania Which 'Were Really Tool Clearing Houses, brought Out. Philadelphia.?That for ten years tb Pennsylvania Railroad, with the ai of several other lines -which combine with it, made railroad rates and arb trarily fixed the price of bitnminou coal "was the most important fact di? i closed at the session of the Interstat I Commerce Commission, Attorney William A. Glasgow, Jr also brought out the fact that thi condition prevails at the present tinii While the methods used to reach th desired end are slightly different, an while the moves of the railroad me are made more cautiously, the effec is the same to the consumer that i ? ao itrn jcaid Having for years concealed the es istence of the four "statistical bu reaus." which were really clearin houses for railroad pools conducted ii restraint of trade and, it is alleged in direct violation of the Sherman anti trust law, the railroads had no though that the commission had learned of th existence of the bureaus. Most of the testimony of importanc was obtained from J. C. Searles, gen eral coal sales agent of the Penusyl vania Railroad, as a witness. While examining the witness. Mi Glasgow held the minutes of the tw> pools in which Mr. Searles looked afte the interests of the Pennsylvania Rail road, and as the attorney asked ques tion after question which meant dan ger to the railroads, Mr..Searles coul< ouly reply: "If it is in the minutes i must be so." Agent Searles' testimony, his mem ory refreshed from the minutes of thi statistical bureaus, showed that th< railroads belonging to these bodies no only fixed rates in a manner to deter mine the price of coal, thus stiflini comnetition and creatine a monoDoh for themselves, but that when tin agreed percentage of tonnage was no gained by each road clearances wer* made through these bureaus. Road; which carried more tlion their allottee share had to pay a cash consideratioi to the other roads. Close connection was shown to exis: between the Pennsylvania and the Neu York Central in certain parts of Penn sylvania. where agreements were mad< whereby certain territory was allottee to one or other of these roads, th( roads being pledged not to carry coa from mines in the territory of th? other. DOWIE RETURNS TO FIGHT. Former Leader in Chicago. Broken ir Health. Old and Weak. Chicago.?Weak and sick almost untc death John Alexander Dowie arrived in Chicago. Instead of going on tc Zioa City he went to the Auditorium Annex and from that base conducts his tight through the courts. He re tained a leading law firm and for more than ten hours he was in consultation, It was decided that legal proceeding! should be begun to set aside the trans fer of the Zion property made by Vol iva. Voliva and his followers threaten tc meet this move by tiling a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The old man was John Alexander Dowie. And such was his re-entry intc Chicago, where first he acquired fame riches and power. It was Dowie, but not John Alexan der, erstwhile General Overseer of the Christian Catholic Church in Zion. Ii was far from being the man who bj the power of personal magnetism hac drawn tens of thousands to his creec and a score of millions to his purse had founded a city and spread his teachings to the euds of the earth. SURGERY MAKES BAD BOY GOOE Incorrigible, With Pressure Removed From Brain. Becomes Tractable. Toledo. Ohio.?From a boy who was +hof ^att'qc ilor.lnrorl innnvri. OU > IHUUO IJJill iiC Mtio 1H.V.IUIVU n?\.w. ffible and sentenced to the reformatory, Harold Hurley, twelve years old, lias been transformed by'surgery to a boj whose one object seems to be to do good and comfort his parents. Harold's parents could do nothing with him, and the probation officer haii him sentenced. Before he was taker away the officer noticed a scar on tin boy's forehead. The mother told bin that the boy, when five years old, hat fallen and fractured his skull. Ex amination revealed a swelling of th< bone, and a physician was consulted The result was an operation which re moved a bone about an inch long fron the boy's brain. His transformatioi was completeandalmost instantaneous Cut Oat Brain's Coverlnc. Los Angeles. Cal.?Dr. John B. Mur phy lias restored the reasoning power of Arthur Melton, since his fifth yea a victim of epilepsy. The surgeon chanced to visit a for mer patient at Esperanza wh^le visit ing at Pasadena, and. becoming inter csted. agreed to operate. Dr. Murphy' theory is that the membrane surround ing the back of the brain, known as tb< dura mater, is the seat of epileptic af fections, and he removed it. The pa tient is rid of his affliction. 130,000 Japs Starving. Red Cross cable reports state tha the number of persons in Japan wlv have to depend upon outside help i over 200,000. More than 130,000 ar without food. Mother Kills Child, Not Cat. Mrs. William Floyd, of Roanoke Va.. intending- to shoot a cat on th back fence, accidentally shot her ltftl three-year-old daughter in the neel from the effects of which the chil died. The mother is prostrated wit I grief. XrAfulionte Piter Clothing manufacturers and whole sale dry goods houses are especial] I busy, and forwarding of footwear froi I Hostou for the year thus far surpas ail previous records. The Gentler Sox. St. Andrew's University conferre the degree of Doctor of Laws on Mis Agnes Irwin, deau of lladcliffe Colleg< Cambridge. Mrs. Anna Gridley. although eiglkt years old. is a clerk in one of the d< partments in Washington. She is tli mother of Captain (Jridley, who w;i with Dewey at Manila. Mrs. Ella E. Tilton. Grand Chief < the llathhone Sisters, of New Hami shire, died at her home at Exeter. Sli was also prominently connected wit several other fraternal organization She was fifty-nine years of age. SM OFFERED MINERS is Include:! Limits io Arbitration and a Three-Year Agreement. in COMMISSION OF INVESTIGATION Operator* Submitted a Counter Proposal That lltn lioofcvelt Commission Deride ^ ir Its Award Shall lie Modlfle:) With . Keferetice to Wage* Either by Way of Increase or IIeduction. S 5- Now York City.?Rejecting tlie ane thracite miners' proposition io submit all questions in dispute to tbe Board of Conciliation for arbitration, but pres venting an abrupt termination of peace negotiations by making a counter proj posal that the question of wages and u the efficiency of the past methods of it the Board of Conciliation shall be sub* mitted to the Roosevelt Strike Com mission of 1902 for adjudication, tbe oper[. ators' sub-committee of seven in the g joint conference in the Jersey Central ti building, No. 143 Liberty street, re1, ceded from their "stand pat" determini ation not to agree to auy concessions t in excess of the terms of the working e agreement that expired on April 1. The demand for tbe recognition of the e union and all others relating thereto i- they declined to submit o tbe decision I- of disinterested persons. With the presentation of their substi'. tute proposition the operators with0 i drew their offer to renew the old workr ing agreement and-specified that they, - as well as the miners, shall have the - right to ask for concessions in the mat ters that they propose to have arbi1 trated. t In their counter proposition the oprvno /^AniaH nneiHvulv TTIflf tllPl'O | - was any new question of dispute beb tween the operators and mine workers j that vas worthy of arbitration, but t said they rere open to conviction and proposed that the members of the Anl thraeite Strike Commission, or such of 7 fliem as may be able and willing to act ? (not less than a majority of the whole t number), shall be requested to decide ; whether an;; changes in the conditions 5 of the anthracite industry have oc1 curred since the award of the Anthral cite Ooal Strike Commission, which requires that tne .-ward should be modit fied, as to the following subjects, and, r if so, what tKat modihcation shall be: "1. As to wages or rates of payi ment o'. the'employes, either by way I or increar.-> or reduction. > "2. As to adjustment of complaints I through the Conciliation Bjard or oth? erwise. "Any party so desiring shall present his claim n writing to the comnrssion, stating the same in detail. "Work shall be resumed at once. ! The award shall be effective from April 1.19^0. and the present award of the commission, with any modification , thus m^de, shal! continue '.v effect un[ til March 31. 1901). Three years are > suggested because that ti.iie has been i four.d ratisfactory in the present case, j and al o because this would avoid in. troduciug into purely business ques> tions the political consid?ratious of a , Presidential campaign. ; "The members of th^ commission . shall be paid such compensation for . services and expenses as may be fixed by themseives. The operators shall > furnish one-half of the same and your - committee shall furnish the other half." This is signed by George F. Baer, W. H. Truesdale, J. B. Kerr, David > "Willcox, Morris Williams, E. B. Thomas and J. L. Cake. Mitchell asked the operators' com. mittee if there was reason to believe > that the old commission would be willt ing to serve. r I Mr. Baer replied that lie understood I there was. I "Does this proposition imply the , withdrawal of your original offer to exj tend the old agreement another three years?" asked Mitchell. "It does," replied Mr. Baer. "That offer is now formally withdrawn." "Does this counter proposition to submit the dispute over the question of arbitration to the Anthracite Strike Commission mean that the operators will have the privilege of asking for a reduction of the mine workers' wages under the new award?" asked Mitchell. I "That meaning may logically he inferred," replied Mr. Baer. ( The Presidential Strike Commission of 1903 was composed of United States . Judge George CJray. of Delaware, Presj ident; Carroll D. Wright, of Clark Unii versity, Worcester; General Wilson, United States Army; Bishop Spalding, , of Peoria; E. E. Clark, head of the OrI der of Itailway Conductors of Ameri. ca; Thomas H. Watkins, a bituminous : coal operator, and E. W. Parker, an | expert statistician. Only one of these is understood to be unable to take part , in the proposed hearing?Bishop Spald. ing. whose health is not good. He was in the commission the strongest advocate of concessions to the mine workers. Mitchell will probably suggest the name of some person to till his j place. r ' STP.IKE OVEi: AT PITTSBUKG. * j All the Miners In "Western Pennsylvania Retorn to Work. " Pittsburg.?The miners' strike in this * j district ended completely when every " J mine in the district but one resumed in ? I full. This mine, belonging to the Pitts" burg Coal Company, is not in condition for working. All the <30,000 men in the Pittsburg district are back at work at the highest scale they have ever en* joyed. * In the Irwin district the threatened 0 strike collapsed as completely as it s did here. When the whistles blew at e Edna mines Nos. 1 and 2 all of the men reported for work. Kills Wife, Rival and Himself. ?, Dr. A. W. Bnrton shot and killed his e wife at North Haven, near Birminge ham, Ala., fatally wounded Dr. T. T. i, Thaxton, a dentist, of PratbCity, Ala., (1 and cut his own throat, dying a few h | minutes later. Dr. Burton and his wife, Dr. Laura E. Burton, wuo was also a practicing physician, bad not been living together for some time. y Maxime Gorky Arrives. n Maxime Gorky and bis wife arrived " at New York from Russia and were cordially welcomed. Among the Toilers. 0 The tin plate mills are preparing to 9 consolidate. Five employes of a small bakery at Titlis, Caucasia, who went on strike j. have been deported to Siberia. j. The striking French coal miners ,e voted to submit the terms offered by lS the operators to a referendum. A strike of several thousand teamstors at Boston has been averted by > Wages being slightly increased, to The trade union movement's scope is b confined to the classes, which work for s. wages?generally speaking, daily or weekly wages. \-y >.. / CALAMITY VISITS NAPLES | Collapse of Big- Market BuildingCaused by Weight of Ashes. ' Crowd of 250 Caught in the Ruins and Many Killed?TTrelve Bodies i Taken Froui 31 mi to Olivete. Naples. Italy.?Borne down by tons 1 of ashes and cinders from Mount Vesu vius (he roof of the market Monte Olivete collapsed here on the heads of almost 1000 men, women and children The disaster threw the entire city into panic, and three regiments of infantry ( were required to keep au infuriated ' crowd from running riot in the streets, I intent on lynching the officials charged < with ueglect in failing to strengthen ( the roof when they knew it to be unsafe. 1 This disaster, coming at a moment ; when the people of Naples were rejoic- ( ing and giving thanks in the belief that i i f l*/\ rnlnann T*M1 Q nfiTV fit I UtlUgCL 11UU1 (11V IVKUIIW U. .. an end, lias plunged the city into dismay and terror. i The market is an old building, GOO j feet square, situated on the Fiazza di j Monte Olivete, near the Via Roma, the j "main" street of the old city. It was < filled in the early morning with market ] women and buyers, haggling over the ( greatly advanced prices of all food, due ? to the sudden overwhelming influx of ( refugees from the district surrounding j the volcano. < Suddenly, with a terrific crash, the j roof of the market fell in, and the i walls crumbled. , j Few of the animated crowd in the building had time to flee. A cloud of ] dust rose over the heap of ruins, from ] which the quickly gathered crowd in ( the streets could hear the shrieks and s groans of the imprisoned victims. i The crowd pushed toward the ruins, 1 maddened by the cries from within, < and the clamor of many persons who ] believed or feared that their friends were among the buried. With frantic { and misdirected zeal groups essayed to ; ? Ji-U 4-1* hn ni'p -fit A TYI<ICOivU , 11LL Willi lliCiL ud uuo iuc uj?owi?u j beams and girders beneath which living and conscious friends lay pinned. 1 The mob about the scene hampered . rather than helped the won; of rescue, j and the first duty of th^ police aud car- \ bineers was to clear a space surround- j ing the market. Their efforts to do this j provoked riotous demonstrations, and . mad attacks upon the cordon. The car- 1 bineers were obliged to charge the ( mass from time to time, ant' not a few , persons were injured in this way. ( An army of firemen, municipal \ guards, police and arsenal employes was quickly organized for the work of \ rescue. By noon seven dead bodies , and seventy injured persons had been j I removed. I Among the dead was a large number f of little children, who had accompan- j ied their mothers to the market. Many j of the bodies were crushed so that they ] could be identified only by their cloth- | ing. , BURGLARS TORTURE AGED MAN. \ Bind Him and Burn His Feet in Wife's \ Presence Till He Faints. 1 Wilkesbarre, Pa.?Tortured by fire [ and with two of his ribs broken, Henry j B. Plumb, an aged attorney and his- , torian. of Warrior Run, a small village j near here, continued for an hour to A bear the pain inflicted by five burglars, j ! Ao n nacnlf Via io in n nrofiirimis nondi- ? tion, and his aged wife, who, bound, gagged and helpless, was compelled to ^ witness his suffering, is prostrated by j shock. . The old couple live some distance 1 from their neighbors. The burglars j smashed in a rear door. Plumb and t his -wife, awakened by the crash, j sprang from their beds and the old man seized a musket, prepared to defend himself. The musket had not been discharged in thirty-five years, and although he pulled the trigger ' twice as the men ran up the stairs toward him. there was no explosion. Two of the burglars held Plumb while the others, after binding and gagging Mrs. Plumb, searched the house and found a gold watch and $35. They J expected more, but Plumb assured them they had gotten all tbere was in j the house. The burglars then bound s him to a chair and with a lighted lamp ( burned the soles of both his feet and ( his legs, while his wife lay helpless only a few feet away, compelled to witness her husband's agony. Not 1111- : All ,-?nn fninfoH rl i H tllO hllPfflnrfi ' j (II IUC Viu UJUU U11UK.U WM.0.M.. . ! desist. ( It was two hours before Plumb, recovering consciousness, managed to ] free himself and cut his wife's bonds. 1 Plumb is seventy-seven years old and his wife is only a few years younger. j Action For .$100,000 Damages. 1 Papers have been filed at Sehenec- [ tady, N. Y., in an action for $100,000 j damages for alleged malicious libel, brought by the W. T. Hanson Com- j pany. manufacturers of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, against Collier's Weekly, for alleged false statements regarding the company and its preparation. The suit is the result of the attacks made by ( Collier's on the patent medicine busi- 1 ness and is similar in many respects ] to that of Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, j against the Ladies' Home Journal, in . which the doctor was awarded heavy damages. Professor Shaler Dead. 1 Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, dean of ] the Lawrence' Scientific School, and s for forty-two years a teacher in Har- i vard University, died at Cambridge, Mass., after two weeks' illness of appendicitis. His fame is wide as a soldier, geologist, teacher and author, and j he was known as the most versatile j man ever connected with Harvard. , *" Sun Spot Theory Advauced. "* Among the interesting opinions of , scientists ou the eruption of Mount Ve- ' suvius is one from Professor Belar, of | Laiboch, Germany, an authority on j seismic disturbances, wlio, in a telegram to the Daily Mail, Londofi, at- ' tributes the eruption to the activity of ! a great sun spot. Czar Grateful to Defender. The. Czar of Russia pardoned a soldier who killed a civilian for speaking slightingly of His Majesty. In the Limelight. Prince Bulow claims that he w,7n at Algeciras in every point. Senator B. R. Til man's secor.d -ierm in the Senate will close next March. Senator Knox has reached t^e conclusion that the Federal Government has power to regulate railway rates. Licensiado Cieto Gonzalez Vl-juez, formerly Minister of Finance, hat been elected President of the Repu^ic of Costa Rica. Colonel Henry Watterson predicts that 'illir.m Itandolph Hearst will control the next Democratic National ConvenJon. ^ . jis&'kiL-V , Of. ' rf.' >J' . >'' 'v-r; 11 lEAHHlES Present Conditions Promise a Record Crop of Fine Quality. i I0Y IN BIG GRAIN STATES Harked Improvement In Bloit I.ocatIt leu Over the Government Report | Sent Out Last December?Acreage i Lota Slight?Little Plowing Up ? 1 Only Michigan Frost Hurt. ] Chicago, 111.?Winter has lifted its embargo from the fields aud the winter ' ivheat crop stands forth a strong, like- ! y youngster, ready to try for records )f the past even if he should not reach , )r surpass them. Present conditions < foretoken a big yield aud unless there 3 ire disasters between this and the ger- ! Jening time the crop of 100C will be a J it mate for that of last year. i Indorsement of this prediction comes n dispatches from all the big wheat 1 iroducing States. Some of these States ( ire already boasting that this year's , field will exceed that of any previous 1 season. It is a bit early in the year to , educe forecasts to the denomination \P Kuf.Kftlp l\nt n?hni?u fha o pro. lge was decreased last fall on account )f unfavorable seeding conditions .there s hardly an official or unofficial observer all along the line who is willing to idrait that his State will not measure ivell up to :he best of past performmces. Kansas. Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Tenlessee, Kentucky, Nebraska. Oklahoma and Pennsylvania are enthusiastic )ver the outlook. Of these Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska in particular send information that there has seen a marked improvement in general conditions since the last Government eport in December. Oregon, Tesas ind Michigan see signs of retrogression during that period, but even they ire willing to admit that appearances my be deceptive. Of the acreage sown last fall there vill be little abandonment of wheat ind devoting of ground to other crops. Michigan presents the worst phase in :his particular. In that State it is expected a considerable area will be ilowed up on account of damage by Uternate freezing and thawing in Feb tiary and March. Tennessee will abanlon a very small percentage of her vheat acreage, and Oregon will give )ver tne uaaiy injured wmier wneai ields to the spring varieties of grain. J In the great surplus producing States ;liere are fields here and there where ivater and ice did irreparable damage, j )ut compared with the whole area the 1 icreage to be abandoned is inconsiderible. Indiana, Kentucky and Nebraska make positive report that there will le practically no giving up of fhe crop. ] :n other of the Western States?notary Kansas, and Missouri?a few days nore is necessary to determine whether t will be advisable to plow up fields f vhose appearance is dubious. t Ohio ha3 a smaller acreage than t lsual, hence that State does not expect 1 o come up to the production of some ] n-evious years, although the condition > s officially reported to be 101. e Indiana wheat emerges from the vinter bau with better j rospects than [ :or the corresponding period for many ( rears, the improvement over Decern- ( jer's outlook being one of the interest- f ng phenomena of the crop year. I Kentucky's acreage is a trifle smaller i than it was last year, and that of Ne- t jraska is said to have fallen off ten r )cr cent. Wheat entered into the winter period t ast December with no State making a J showing smaller than ninety in condi- e ion and nineteen of them showing t linety-flve or better. This was accounted a most favorable exhibit, com . sidering there was a great area of sickly looking wheat early in the fall >n account of dry weather. 1 Throughout the winter season weath?r conditions were favorable, considered in the large sense. Early in the ? ,'ear fairly cold weather and hare ( iclds, together with winds that swept j he ground from about the syears, c nade things squally for wheat, but subsequent developments showed that * conditions were not severe enough to ( lo much damage. j During March, when the dan/ers of 'reezing and thawing are usually at t lie maximum, there was a far reach- ^ ng blanket of snow that served the ? louble need of protection and inoisture. + Under this shield wheat emerged from winter into the spring conditions that j ire now so favorable. | ] uver mucu or me Tvueat Territory | j lie weather of the last few days has I ^ lad remarkably vitalizing effect on lie fields. Wheat that was sear ten ( lays ago is now taking on a healthy ;reen coior. even in xue uiguer liiu- | j :udes, ami the aspect is pleasing to tbe ( >ye as well as confirmatory of bigli jopes. Club to Boom W. J. Bryan. The Board of Governors of the Democratic Club, of New York City, decided to change the name to the National Democratic Club. A movement will je started to boom Bryan for Presideut igainst the Hearst movement. Insurance Trustees Scored. Charles E. Hughes and Seth. Low before a great crowd in Carnegie Hall, Kew York City, discussed the iusurmco investigation and scored the companies' delinquent trustees. Russian Loan Arranged. It was announced at St. Petersburg i that a loan had been arranged at Paris 1 for an amount between $200,000,000 1 and $350,000,000. i Chief Big Thunder is Dead. Chief Big Thunder, one of the Penobscot tribe of Indians, died at his home, ( on Indian Island, Oldtowu. Me., aged ( seventy-nine. Last fall his son was | killed in a quarrel with another Indian, 1 and the tragedy hastened the old chief's end. His American name was Frank T. Loring. Big Melon Crop Expected. Last year was a record breaker for i Southern melon growers and as a consequence a very large acreage will be put out this spring. : Newsy Gleanings. Washington is to be made a model city. An ice palace is planned for Chicago next year. Somerville, Mass., is to have a new co-operative bank. The spirit of unrest in Russia com tinned to foment. ' , The old Constitution ship of war is to bo repaired for $100,000. Magistrate Crane, of New York City, ruled that tenants must obey janitors of houses and conform to the rules laid down. - v / . v:; t ' ' ~ 'N.-.7vPASTOR SAVES HIS FLOCK Gels Them Out of Church Just Befora Tornado Hit It. Cit zen* of St. Jacob, III., Marvel Tliat They Kucapeil TVhpn the Storm W?i So Destructive. / CoJIiusville, 111.?A cyclone passed icross the southwest corner of Madison County, and in its erratic moves struck the centre of the town of St. Jacobs, [II., tearing to pieces a church in which * services were being held. It was only by a miracle that lives were not lost imong the worshipers gathered there. St. Jacob is a town of 500 persons 3n the Vandalia Railroad, twenty-eight miles from St. Louis. A funnel-shaped :loud appeared in the north toward Marine township. It grew in size rapidly and moved toward the town with ?reat bounds. In the German Lutheran Church Palm Sunday services ivere being held. The pastor, the Rev. P. Meyer, was in the midst of his sercice, when a glance through an open window revealed to him the storm. Grasping its import, he closed the Bible with a bang and told the congregation to flee for their lives. There were a hundred nersons in the brick church md they poured out in a body. Hardly bad they cleared the yard when, with i roar, the cyclone struck the church md tore it to pieces. It was literally iissolved in a whirl of brick and timaers, but none of the panic-stricken congregation was touched, although many women were prostrated from fright. Twice more the cyclone struck in the little town. At the place of George Giger the big barn was picked up aud carried away, the dead horses' bodies inside being found at some distance iway. Perhaps the strongest manifestation, iowever, was in the Vandalia Railroad rards. An eastbound freight, in charge )f Conductor Martin, was on a siding iwaiting the arrival of a passenger train. The cyclone pounced on the freight, picked two loaded freight cars jut of the centre of the train and carried them across several tracks, dumpng them in Canteen Creek. The rest )f the train was not hit, and the main ine, which they traversed in their passage, was left clear. The wreck :rain was ordered out of East St. Louis :o recover the cars. St. Jacob was cut )ff from communication witn tne out>id? world except by telegraph. The Bell Telephone Company?lost all its ines. The people of the town cannot realize low they had such a visitation and lone be injured. The storm moved from north to south. FIGHT FIVE MILE FLAMES. Populations of Three Towns Vainly Battle Against a Forest Blaze. Egg Harbor, N. J.?Fire starting in a swamp near the home of Representa:ive in Congress John J. Gardner damiged his vast cedar forests and, driven )y a high wind toward Weymouth and ?gg Harbor, encircled them and the :illage of Carmentown, burning several buildings. The entire populations of all these daces fought the flames, but were powerless, as the wind made it extremely langerous work and burning brands lew miles, starting fresh blazes. A >ath over a mWe wide and four to five niles long was covered by the flames, be roaring of which could be heard uany miles away. Twenty-five thousand acres of vallable timber, which the State of New rersey was about to purchase as a forist preserve, in the township of Hamilon, was destroyed. LODGE'S SECRETARY ARRESTED. Robert G. Proctor Accused of Larceny nf Pnmnniom 'B'linfi Boston.?Robert G. Proctor, private :ecretary to Senator Lodge, of Massaihusetts, was arrested for the alleged arceny of $225 from John C. Bostgen in October 17, 3904. Proctor was released under $300 >onds, Surveyor of the Port J. J. McInrthv nnrt Stonntor rtnti T.nne beeom ng sureties. Proctor is alleged to hare received I lie money from Bostgen as a contribn- i ion to the Republican campaign fund, jromising to use his influence to secure 1 .he donor a consulship. Mr. Bostgen did not get the appointnent, and after the election he visited Stepubb an headquarters, but was uuible to fiud his name among the con;ributors. 3 A N'T RECOGNIZE ANY RELIGION. 3onaparte Orders Seventh-Day Advcn- i tist to Work Saturdays. Washington, D. C.?Shall the Govirument compel its employes who are )f the Seventh-Day Adventist faith to 1 ;vork on Saturday? was the question 1 Secretary Bonaparte was called upon < :o decide in the case of a charwoman ivlio observes Saturday as the day of est and asked to be excused from ivork. Secretary Bonaparte directed that a eply be sent stating that the Government cannot take religious belief into iccount in arranging its work, and is inable to excuse auy employe from working on a day when his or her services are required. Enjoiued From Shouting "Scab!" Judge Kooser, at Somerset, Md.f granted a temporary injunction \o present the strikers at Windber from uttering the word "scab" to a non-union miner. Philippines Not to Be Transferred. James F. Smith, Vice-Governor-Gen?ral of the Philippines, at Manila, P. I., ilenied a rumor that the islands would be transferred to Japan, and said that the natives were strongly opposed to Japanese ownership. President Pleads With Democrats. President Roosevelt called Democratic Senators to the White House, Washington, D. C.. and urged them to support the Administration review amendment to the railroad rate bill. Feminine News Notes. Miss Lizzie Johnson, the "shut-in," who lives in Casey, 111., is reported to have earned over $11,000 for missions by the sale of bookmarks which she has made. Dr. Annie Shaw has gone to Oregon, where she will be busy until the middle of June conducting a campaign for women suffrage. Dr. Shaw is MissAnthony's successor. Ituth. Bryan Leavitt, daughter of William Jennings Bryau, lias written a one-act play that is now being rehearsed in Denver. , . . < 1 a ' ' " c . . . -.'j *,. EX-MAYOR CRUMBO RECOMMENDS PE-RU-NA !"My Endorsement of Pe-m-na is ; Based cn Its Merit 3.' ?Ed. Crambo. S~crljm?OT^^^ bany, lnd., writes from 511 E. Oak street: "My endorsement of Fernna is based on its merits. "If a man is sick he looks anxiously for something which 'will cure him and Peruna will do the work. "I know that it will cure catarrh of g' the head or the stomach, indigestion, headache and any weary or sick feeling. "It is bound to help anyone, if used, according to directions. "1 also know dozens of men who speak in the highest terms of Peruna and have yet to hear of any one being disappointed in it." Mr. Crambo, in a later letter, dated Auz. 25. 1904. says: "My health is good, at present, but if I should have to take any more medicine i will fall back on Peruna." ;{3j Jn?t For - Fan. "When a man runs foh office," said Uncle Eben, "be giuerally finishes, by feelin' a Leap bigger or a h?ip smaller dan de 'casion really calls for."?Washington Star. _ Vral "Tir~ Kni*n/u1 T?a*?*7 lifflo Prtnl thlft will yy c uuiucu iti j nmv ww* v??~ ?. ? ter." "Have you saved all that ectil money?" "Yes." "Lucky man! You may be able oe? ' casionally to take ice next summer."? Philadelphia Bulletin. ^ "Say, dad?" "Well, son?" ' "What's a pedestrian?" "A pedestrian, sou, Is one who doesn't have time to get out of tbe way of an auto."?Milwaukee SentineL > ujjS Nell?"She always used to say she would never marry a man unless he / had done something heroic. Why, her husband looks like a perfect noodle." feelle?'"Yes, but lie must have been heroic to marry her."?Philadelphia Record. ) Bacon?"Wliat do you suppose the companies will do when they have eighty-cent gas in New York?" Egbert?"Grease the meters, probably."?Yonkers Statesman. Crimes by "VejiRmen." From September 1, 1904 to March 1, 1906, 165 banks were attacked by 'yCSg' burglars. Thirty-two of these banks were members of the American Bankers' Association. Their losses were $12,464.60. One hundred and thirty-three non-member banks were attacked in the same period by this class of depredators, and ^hese sus- > tafned losses,- aggregating $173,065.71. y Twenty burglars who attacked members of tlie association were captured, eight were convicted and sentenced and seven are still awaiting trial. What They Called tlio Donkey. On the da^ -"hen the late Duke of Westminster was promoted to his iukedom he visited his children's quarters to communicate the news to (hem. "What do you think they have made now?" he said. "They have made me a duke." "Why, father," ex-,-i?n,n cmollop rtoni7Pna ciamieu unc wi mc ciuu..u of the nursery, "that's wb?t we call our donkey!" DECAYED STARCH. A Food l'roblein. An Asheville man tells how right food did that which medicines had failed to accomplish: "For more than 15 years," he says, "I was afflicted with stomach trouble and intestinal indigestion, gas forming in stomach and bowels and giving me great distress. These conditions were undoubtedly due to the starchy food I ate. white bread, potatoes, etc., and didn't digest. I grew worse Avith time, till, 2 years ago, I had an attack wliich the doctor diagnosed as appendicitis. When the surgeon operated on me, however, it was found that my trouble was ulcer of the pancreas, instead of appendicitis. "Since that time I have had severar J such attacks, suffering death, almost. The last attack was about 3 months ago, and I endured untold agonies. "The doctor then said that I would have to eat less starchy stuff, so I began the use of Grape-Nuts food for 1 knew it to be pro-digested, and hove continued same with most gratifying results. It has built mo up wonderfully. I gained 10 pounds in tbe lirst 8 weeks that I used Grape-Nuts, my \ general health is better than ever befnvo mv hmin is c!r>:iror and lliv nerves stronger. "For breakfast and dinner, each, I take 4 teaspoonfuls of Grape-Nuts with1 cream, a small slice of dry toast, an egg, soft boiled and a cup o? Postum; and I make the evening meal on Grape-Nut?? and cream alone?tliis gives me a good night's rest and I am well again." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellvllle," in pkgs. ?ii&i & iiii