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ngranHHKi pack* nHraSHRHMT one BBHHHhmq^i's HNfflnnK,yrt, beauti panels, gfiHnSgnBKtl colors, one TwenGirl calendar, all for 5c. A Kemarkiiblo Well. ^The deepest well in England is found at Hamilton, in Hampshire. It Btretches three hundred and fifty feet below the surface of the earth. About Ualf way down this well shaft is a subway, three miles in length, which leads to the sea coast. tteanty is usooa oecD. Clean blood means a clean skin. Na beauty without it. Cascarsts, Candy Cathartic clean your blood and keep it clean,'by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to bnniah pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Caacarets,?beauty for ten cents. All druggists. satisfaction guaranteed. 10c, 25c, 50c. The State of Washington furnished over 500,000 tons of coal to California in 1899. New Orleans anil Return, $27.30? Ulardi Graw. The Southern Railway will sell round trip tiokets Washington to Orleans at one fare, $27.50. Tickets on salt* Feb. 20th to li>th with j -final limit returning March 15th. Only route | from New York offering double daily "trains. I perfect Dining and Sleeping Car service New I York to New Orleans. Time 39 honrs. Full .particulars of Alex. S. Thwoatt. Eastern Pass. Agent, 271 Broadway, New York. The Import of Irish linen into Germany has diminished very much. Educate Yonr Bowels With Cascareta. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. lOo, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. An evening newspaper in Philadelphia refuses to sell papers to newsgirls. !"A Thread Every Day Makes a Skein in a Year." One small disease germ carried, by the Hood through the system 'will convert a healthy human body to a condition of in- \ validism. Do not 'wait until you are bed- i ridden. Keep your blood pure and life-giv- j tng all the time. Hoocf s Sarsaparilla accomplishes this as nothing else car.. i ? t Try Grain-?! | Try Grain-?! I Ask your Grocer to-day to show ^you a package of GRAIN-O, the new I food drink that takes the place of | coffee. < I The children may drink it without [ injury as well as the adult. All who f try it, like it. GRAIN-0 has that | rich seal brown of Moch;: or Java, p but it is mado from pure grains, and g the most delicate stomach receives it P without distress. {the price of coffca. n 15 cents au*l 25 cents per package. Hj Sold by all grocers. 8 Tastes like Cofifeo 8 Looks like Coffee te Insist that your procer gives ?on GRAIN-0 ? Accept no imitation. . lPnti<1*rfnl Ppnrl R-mkn. Pearls will be more plenty, bat possibly 110 cheaper, if the British syndicate in New Caledonia accom - plishes what it expects. Some twelve banks of large extent have been discovered plong the eastern coast of New Caledonia and adjacent islands J by the aid of a submarine apparatus which ^an descend 600 feet below the surface. By this machine large banks of hitherto unreachable banks of shells have been reached. One of these banks is four miles long and 100 yards wide at a depth of 150 feet. Pearls one pound in weight and upward are being found. Large numbers of pearls are sometimes found in a single shell. Some of these pearls are valued at $100 to $600 each. Expert divers from Tahiti are to be brought to these beds and the industry energetically developed.?Philadelphia Record. M Million Women have been relieved of female troubles by Mrsm Plnkham's advice and medicine. The letters of a few are printed regularly In this paperw If any one doubts the efficiency and saoredly confidential character of Mrs Plnkham's methods, write for a book she has recently published whloh contains Betters from the mayor of Lynn, the postmaster, and others of her 4tlty who have made oaroful Investigation, and who yerlfy all of Mrs Pinkham's statements and olalmsm The Pinkham olalms are sweeping Investigate them, THIRTY YEARS OF CURES HWHHHHHpffmsville WSg&m<COURTS DECIDE. Kjj^Pobllcan Governor or Keatackr Recalled the Legislature to Fraukfort and Ordered the Troops to Return to Their Home* ? Alter a Conference layior nnnounceu uia uctmuu. Vkaxkfoet, Ky. (Special).?governor W. 8. Taylor has declined to 9ign any peace agreement with the Democrats. He has, however, declared his intention of leaving the Governorship contest to the courts. Troops chat have been guarding the State House have bedn ordered home. Governor Taylor and Adjutant-General Collier declared that only a small guard will be kept here to guard Governor Taylor and his family. ' t. C. W. BECKHAU. (Democratic Governor of Kentackj.) TBe proclamation of Insurrection which adjourned the sessln* of the Legislature to London, has been rescinded and the Assembly was ordered to meet in Frankfort on Monday. This action was taken as the result of a eonference which Governor Taylor had with Republican leaders from all parts of the State. At the corclusion of thl3 he finally announced his determination to re, pudiate the Louisville agreement, i 1 he pressure brought to bear upon him came from practical politicians, who warned him that it he signed tho Louisville agreement he would place the party 1Q position 01 uamuciQ^ umuiii uoiuio it had been established. They declared there must bo no surrender until the matter had been fought out In the courts. The action of Governor Taylor returns the Gubernatorial flffht to the exact position it occupied ou the day followiug the Goebel assassination, with the additional complication that there was only one Legislature and one Governor in fact, whereas thero are now two claimants for the posltiou, and two separate bodies, each claiming to be the lawmaking power of Kentucky. I DEMOCRATS MEET IN LOUISVILLE. They Decide to Hold Their Legislative Session In That City. Locisville, Ky. (Special).?The collapse of the peace negotiations through Governor Taylor's rejection of the Louisville agreement and the latter's action In calling [ off tho London meeting of the Legislature and partly withdrawing the troops have left tho flglit over State officers divested of many of its warlike features, but in a worse logai tangle than over. ! ' The receipt of tlie newn from Frankfort was followed immediately by a gathering: of the Deraocractic leadora at the Willard Hotol. At this conference were Senator Blackburn, J. C. W. Beckham. General Castleman, President Carter, of the Senate; Speaker Trimble and otlier3. At its conclusion Mr. Beckham sent to ! the Legislature a message reciting the ; iauure 01 me peace ue^ocuuioas uua iu? conditions existing at Frar.ktort as seea by j him, and recommending that the legislaj tors continue tiielr sessions in Louisville, I as ho could not guarantee their personal | security or protect them from unwarrantj ed Interference at Frankfort. Acting on. j this suggestion the members of the LegisI lature decided to remain in Louisville for ^ the present. * A bill was introduoed in the State Senate here by Senator Fergerson providing for an appropriation of $100,000 to be expended in the capture and prosecution ot the murderer of William Goebel. This sum Is to be expende'd under the direction of John K. Hendrlck, G. W. Bradburn and Joseph K. Lewis, three of Goebel's strongest supporters in bis last days. CUERILLA WAR IN LUZON. ! Bushwhacking Tactics of tlie Scattered Insurcent Bands. Manila. (By Cable).?Of late the losur| gents in Albay Province, Luzon, have [ uuupiou uuruasiug lauuua a^uiu^i iuo towns which the Americans have garrisoned. They camp in the bille and maintain a const a at tire upon the American oatposts. When the troops sally against them they scatter, returning when the Americana retire. They shoot burning arrows, and have thus burned a large part of the town ot Albay. Indeed, most of the larger towns in that province are practically deserted, except by the garrisons. Scarcely any otthe inhabitants return to their homes. Tbey are camping in the interior and, it is supposed, armed Insurgents prevent them going back. 'Guerilla warfare continues south of Manila. Two attempts have been made to ambush tie Americans. General Schwan. while returning to Manila with his stall and an escort of a hundred cavalry from Batangas, was attacted by the insurgents. The latter were dispersed, but the Americans had five men wounded. , Plajjue Continues In Manila. Manila (By Cable).?The plague continues. Eight cases were reported In one weuk among" the natives and Chiuose. Smallpox is prevalent among the natives along the railroad and in the towns on the northern coast. Two American ofllcer3 have died ot the disease, and several soldiers hare been stricken. New York City's Increased Expenses. New Yoric City's running expenses wu; be $17,378,240.34 greater this year than were the running expenses of the territory included in Greater New York duriug the year preceding consolidation. The oxcess of the cost of government for throe years over the cost in 1897 amounts to $37,407,002.23. Hanged For KUUtic Sweetheart. William True3dale, colored, was hanged at Charlotte, N. C., for the murder of his sweetheart a year ago. He had to be taken to the scaffold, being overcome with fright. He protested his iauocence. New Philippine Cotntnlsslonera. Former Governor Eoger Wolcott, of Massachusetts, has Informed the President that he cannot aooept a place on the new j Philippine Commission. The three Commissioners alreadv selected are Judge Taft, Professor Worcester and Charlo3 Denby, the lost two having served on the old Commission. It Is probable that the President will select one .member from the South, presumably a Democrat. All of S300,000 Keturned. The s'jm of $100,000, the balance of $300,000 stoien from Parr's Bank '.in London a year ago, ha? been returned. The uotes were found a few days ago eaoloaed In a customer's oasabook.? * v t ' B^k fights~carneg7e7 ! He Brings a Sensational Suit in Equity, Alleging Fraud. Kereald the Amazing Profits Which Are Zklade by the Carnegie .Steel Company. [ PiTTsnrna, Penn. (Special).?Tbe threatened suit in equity of H. C. Fricfc against [ Andrew Carnegie was filed Tuesday in the | Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Frick makes the charge against Mr. Carnegie of mal. evolence, fraud and personal animosity toward Frick. The suit is by H. C. Frick, piaintin, againsc me uarno^io oicci wumpany, Limited, and the stockholders, the ( rule requiring that all, even those in sympathy with Mr. Frlck, shall be included in the suit. Frlck seek3 to restrain Carnegie from forcing him to sell out his interest in the i property except at his own terms. Frick declares that the company's profits for 1899 reached the staggering sum ol 821,000,000, after all expenses had been paid. In November of last year Carnegie est!.mated the net profits for 1900 at 840,000,000, and Frlck then estimated them at $42,000,000. Frick claims the credit for the firm's enormous profits. He thinks Carnegie is now about to assume the management, and this, he avers, will eventually result in great financial loss. He declares that he was forced out of the company by persojwl malice on the part of Mr. Carnegie. Frick also declares that his Interest in the company i3 valued at $16,238,000, but that Carnegie is trying to make him take $6,000,000. Forty partners are named in the bill, which makes thirty-nine pages of printed matter. The main points in It are that Carnegie valued the entire property at over $250,000,000, and avowed his ability, in ordinarily prosperous times, to sell it on the London market for $500,000,003. Frick claims that while he was actively engaged in making the business profitable, Carnegie lived in New York, passed much of his time abroad, at onetime, for eighteen consecutive months. Ho did not pretend to manage the current business, although I he was consulted as to important matters. The business from 1892 to 1900 was enormously profitable, growing In l?aps and jumpsfrom year to year until, In 1899, tlio Urm actually made cn low-priced contracts in net profits, after paying all expenses of all kinds, $21,000,000. In November, 1899, Carnegie estimated the net profits for 1900 at $10,000,000. and Frick then estimated them at 342.000,000. In May, 1899, Carnegie actually reoeivod in cash, and still keeps, $1,170,000 given him as a mere bonus for his ninety days' option to sell his 58)? per cent, interest In this steel company for $157,950,000. Frick'a six per cent., on that basis, would be worth $16,237,000. \ VFrick now alleges that, right at the^ height of this enormously Successful business, whereby, at least, in part, be made for Carnegie these enormous profits and values, Carnegie suddenly and with malevolent intent toward him, on December 4, 1899,'arbitrarily demanded of him his resignation as chairman and this without any reason except to gratify Carnegie's malice. Frick, In the Interest of harmony/gave his resignation and subsequently, on January 11, 1900, after Carnegie had thus deprived him of his office, he (Carnegld) demanded of Frick that he (Frick) should I oali tn Hi a firm his intarafit In it at a fleure which would amount to les9 thau one-half of wbat.this interest Is fairly worth. Frlck refused to sell at that price, but offered to sell and allow three men to value the Interest sold. Carnegie refused this aud left Frick, threatening him for not yielding to his demand. Frick now alleges that after Ills resigna! tion and at the time of this last Interview Carnegie was fraudulently and secretly, without Frlck's knowledge or consent, attempting to carty out a scheme which, If successful, would -mable Carnegie, as Carnegie hoped, to confiscate Frlck's interest iu the ilrm at probably not much over thirty-three per <:e it. of its real value; that i3, say not over SGJOO.OOO for what, on the basb of Carneglo.j opinion, was worth $16,238,000. FLOODS IN NEW ENGLAND. : Heavy Rains Cause Damage to Property and Loss of Life. Bostok, Mass. (Special).?The gules of the equinox have scarcely over exceeded In force the storm which swopt over New England, leavlns in its wake damage by flood that i9 almost incalculable. For twenty-lour hours a heavy rain, after wiping away what fow traces there were of snow and Ice, brought to a climax the most uusea30uable winter New England has known for a great many years. JLTiDumry oouius 01 water, wuiuu u ion weeks ago were 90 low that the almost unheard of condition of drought in mid-winter-was threatened, have been changed into torrents of more threatening volume than in tbe usual spring freshets. From drought to flood, with all the damage done at both extremes to the manufacturing, logging and Ice-harvesting Interests, 1b now added the cost of replacing bridges swept away and of repairing railway and highway beds torn up. The most extensive damage reported is along the Merrimao and Connecticut Rivers. At Manchester, N. H., Aimer II. Jackson, a mlllhand, attempted to jump over a rivulet. but fell into the water aad was washed [ away and drowned. Dispatches from various sections of Vermont and Maine place theixalnfall at over three inches. In the Champlaln Valley rain' ha3 lasted nearly Ave days, so that the aftftr effects are expected to be more serious than now appears. At North Adams, Mass., the Hoosi: River ran strongortlnd higher than at any | time for thirty years, several mills having their lower floors flooded, with damage exceeding $10,000. Along the Kenneback River in Maine the ioe is so weak that it is likely to break op, and with the ice go all prospects for a harvest this season. . From all points in New England come reports of heavy damage to mill property and the destruction of small bridges by. ice jams. Fftra Dflftrl In a rininf. The bodies of Charles Belrne, eleven years old, and Martin Loeffle?, nine years old, both of New York City,1 have befin found in a closet in a vacant house near their honyj, where they were imothored. The lads wero playmates. On August 3 last they left their homes to take a swim in the North Kiver. Since then their late has been a mystery until the decomposed bodies t^ere found by two plumbers. They must have died a horrible death. 1 White Man Lynched In Texas. James Sweeney, white, was lynched by a mob at Port Arthur, Texas. 8weeney was a cotton screwraaa foreman, and had killed Charles Crumbach, a follow laborer, by jamming a bayonet through his neck. A jury had acquitted him of the charge of murder. Triple Murder in Florida. Mr. Roberts and his two sisters were murdered at their home near Jacksonville, Fla., a tew nights ago. Roberts had a safe iu his house which often oontaiaed much money. All three persons had been killed with an axe. Prominent l'eople. The late Duke of Westminster had an annual Income of 83,750,000. General J. C. Bates Is one ot the few officers who speak the Filipino 41&lect ?u* ontly. r ' j Henry Clews, the Slew York baDker, finds his best recreation In irorking out difficult chess problem^ & | President Eliot, of" Harvard, Is something ot n pedestrian, and never rldea | when time and distance permit him to walk. i.;: When General $ootor MacDonald r^njj ceived his call to prooeed from Indla jp South Africa be was enga#^ *n monograph on the training of sarafS troops. i . - HC80IITBUSISSI01 A Statement of His Reascris Foi Leaving" Pretoria. MAIL OPENED BY BRITISH CENSOF He Sympathized With the Boers, He Says aud He Couldn't sacrifice Ills sen-xteapect by Serving: an British ConsulCliargen That the Former Consul Makes Against British Authorities. Washington, D. C. (8pecial).?Charle? E. Macruao, who abandoned the AmorlcaD Consulship at Pretoria under singular circumstances, left for East Liverpool, O., after Riving out for publication a signed statement in which he explains his course The statement is, in part, as follows: "The situation -in Pretoria was such that first, as an official, I could not remain there while my Government at home was iparently in the dark as to tho exact con? 'Hons In South Africu. Secondly, as a uian and citizen ot the United .States, I could not remain in Pretoria, sacrificing my own self-respect and that ot the people of Pretoria, white the Government at home continued to leave me in the. position of a British Consul and not an AmerioansCons u I. . , - "I want to say right here that there was not one single request made of me through the Department of State looking to the care of British interests in Pretoria which I did not fulfill and report upon according to mv order*. On the otlier hand. Ameri can interests in South Africa were In that condition Which demanded that the Department of State ahonld be cognisant of them. "I issued the statement received from the State Department that American* must remain neutral! In the tacp of this, Americans were continually going to the front and taklngvp arms In the cause'of the Boers. I alsoknow that many of them, in utter despair at' the apparent attitude of our own Government,''were taking thedatb of allegiance: Mt'^M^Transvaal 'Eepubller When affaire ifa d;redehed that state that my Vice GOnaul. Mr. Van Amerlgen, closed up ilia btfal&^.^Oo't the oath of alle>tauce .republic, and went to the front aS3jflfefrft?fe,'l thought the time had 'omo whetf-2 should maW a report of these stopped at'Cape TownJ^^efcof the High Commissioner. When tM^faoll. Whs finally torwarded to me, after OSTpnftiroowe, the4 /Jonsul General at Cape> T^j^S^(gecaired' its release, I had the hliiM^J^j^Ss'Vtb'e ing me?tliaM-"io eoaten tivhad ?oinK oo before the war anif^ftttte"??! speno J were of aach ? serious jMtar^MKfc would require such detailed (^tolauation*; Lhat on November 61 flle'd a. fl?W6T?.the'' department, In code, stating that! wished leave of absence to visit the SERes. Ixesolved from the department a reply>nd? vising ria'e that my presence at Pretoria was important to publio interests. "On the 8th I telegraph again, advising the department that the situation was not critical and that my presence In America was Important. No reply was received. I wirod again on the 11th. No reply was received to this. On the 14th I again wired the department. On tho 18th I again filed a cable. To this I received a reply immediately, which was a reiteration of the reply to my first cable. "December 4 I received this reply from the department to my cablegram of the 14th: " 'You may come home. Put Atterbury temporarily la charge. Department will send man from here.' "I left Pretoria the night of December 16, and arrjved in Washington February 5. ' On ray'wny to Washington, believing that I waV still the Consul in Pretoria, I refused to?make any statement that would involve the department or embarrass it. My one object was to lay information before the department as to the true.state of affairs In South Africa. If the department thought these facta were of a value sufficient to warrant the expenses of the trip I had taken I expected to be remunerated and return to Pretoria. "Instoad of this, I And Secretary Hay saw fit not to wait until I could present my reasons in person and has been a silent or conniving partner to discrediting reports of my official acts. I come home to Hud an attempt has beeu made to tour down my reputation. "I wish to state right here that when I accepted my post a3 Cousul I know nothing of any secret alllanco between America aud Great Britain, and that I had seen nothing In tho regulations which made the Consul of the Amerioan Republic subject to the whims and caprice of an English military censor at Durban. I came to America with a motive of which I am no) ashamod." SHREWD COUNTRY POSTMASTERS. How They Incroase the Showing of Business Dono by Them. Washington, <D. C. (Special).?Thrifty country postmasters will bo surprised when they learn of the check which the postal authorities have designed to put upon them in iuture. As is generally known, all postmasters, except tho one iu New York City, whose salary is fixed by law, have their salaries gauged by the amouut of money received during the year from tho sale of postage stumps. -alt ho3 for years been the custom of country postmasters to swell thesalesof stamps at .tlielr respective offices far iuexccss oi the business of the town or village, and thus render , themselves eligible for Increased pay, by inducing Now York merchants and manufacturers who live in suburban towns of New Jersey, Hew York And Connecticut, aud who use grout quautitias of postage stumps in their business, to purchase these stamps from tho village or'town postmaster. More than 81,000,000 in stamps bought In country postpfflces aro handled in New York City nlonciyearly, aud as a rosult the local authorise* get no credit for tho work they have.to do with this big mall. Steps have beak taken to stop this scheme to benoflt the country postmasters at the expense of thoqjtia the large cities. Hereafter allTpostage stamps delivered to postmasters will bear, a Department private mark, Which, it-is thought, will put a stop to the business. This now rule will go into force pretty aoon. Peanut Crop la Large. The present crop of peanuts, while not of excellent quality, is abnormally lurge. Arrested For Kllliug His A~ed Wife. William J. Garland, of Philadelphia, who has been running a saloon in Phoobus, Vu., for several months, lias bean arrested ehurged with the murder of bis wife,whom he married in Camden, N. J., six months ago. H<Hs thirty years old; she was seventy anir rich. When the woman's body was e^jTmlned by physicians, a pinhole was foajid through the heart. Garlund denies (be crime. Naval Academy's Now Commander. _ Rear-Admiral Nair has been detached from the command of the Naval Academy at Annapolla, Md. Commander Richard Wainrlght succeeds him. '" 1 Sewny 01esmo(? , Paris needs 700,000 quarts * of milk a day. -! ' ' ./, ' Pirates were reported both numerous and boldln Obina. I There is an Increased demand for American coal In Franoe and England. The Peary Arotio Olnb will send a relief expedition from Brooklyn on the Windward about Joly 15. ? Ifhe 8803 national bank^ of thfr United States hold (1,913,122 nickels and cents In j their oash reserves. The new smokeless powder for sportsmen Introduced by the French Government has many advantages over the article formerly used. I I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, j Wnflhlncton Item*. Resolutions on the death of Mr. dickering, ot New York, were adopted and a committee to attend his funeral was appointed, after which the House adjourned. All Fprrouh Bey, tho Turkish Minister, who has been absent from Wo3hiug(.ou for nearly a year, called at the State Department and renewed bis acquaintance with Secretary Hay. who congratulated him on his return. A reciprocity arrangement with Italy was signed bv Commissioner Kassoa and Ambassador Fava. Senator Allison in a speech for the Currency bill declared that all dollars were now od a parity with the gold dollar. The House Committee on Military Affairs completed the Army Appropriation bill. It carries $111,700,364, against 580,030,104 Id the bill for the current year. It Is said that ratification of the HayPauncefote Canal Treaty is not to be made a pacty question In the Senate. The Navy Department has asked for an appropriation t>f 87.5,000,000. Congress la likely to allow It 965,000,000. |. The Controller o" the Treasury has decided that the enumerators of the deaf, dumb and blind are entitled (to receive the same rates of pay as for the restricted enumerations, viz., five cants.for each name returned. ' . * '-.wtof Consul Hill, at Amsterdam, has tran?^: mltted an appeal foe aid of the dl^mofd , workers, 3000 of whoriLard "oatjof iroirlc; op account of the SopitU Alrlcranwar..,^ Former Consul vlfow ram rertuqjei to Washington, whereyft?w'rt9 said that he.li< Uo|?he^bear|ro^ a message froaTiugerlj Ch?r Adopted Governor Lear> of Guam wants a IRrtary . for that Island. ?MK General Ludlow says"Ore fubllc schoofo1 will be opened in Havana on May-1. The civil government will go Into effect July % Puerto Bieo iff taking great interest ^ tne gooa roaas movement iuuugucai.au v? Generul Roy 8, Stones Honolulu isnow absolutely free from.the plague. I _ ^ / The island of TutuIU, one part of '9k& Samoan group, has be<$n place$ under tftei control'of the Navy Department. AaStw; taut "Secretary Allen Is chargedjuritU Its Ear' ministration. General Wood and his. party returned to-, Havana, having completed their tour of ? / < ". tvV- iw?incstic. fjabr^. > The Honse of BepreseataU7efc4t'.Colurn' bos. OMtf, by a vote of 05 to $3?'passed the :;Saflaa^aiti-ConvIct Contract 'Labor'bill 'whicb'irpaodelled after a law of thdsame .kind niowjn force |u.Nevv York State. The prO&wed aid inevitable increase in the strcnjgfft of the nrmy will demand a !:cprreipo'i^&g Increase in the strength of 'the corps otcadets at the West Point Mill- j ~f Th& Maryland Legislature voted down Irofdltttioj^or1 sympathy with the Boers, CT'BfayojpBitfttrobo saying that greed for ^^wipWfepause of the war in South apt'reaericc'ismirur, 01 Broosiyu, wm re- i (torn the Brooklyn Rapid | Trandir'Comprfq^as a ro?alt of a decision ! of ttif ^"i rf r rftnjftfi iH ' the company tbrouRh nts Jmralfiii for damages 'l^gorsonal inJurlwP sustained by balm, ttnfctJver by ofce of "its cars, and won W ?p%*U thu courts. flq^I^ilowTi, alias Reed, was captured whtott' aitottt to blow open the safe In tbe [ postoTBce at Nantlcolce, Penn. He was taken before United States Commissioner Hahn, In Wilkesbarre, and, ia default of ?2000 ball, committed to jail. Henry B. aad Henry E. Mason, of the law firm of Mason Brothers, Chicago, were declared bankrupts and relieved of liabilities aggregating ?400,000. Their assets are $700,000, consisting principally of Incumbered real estate. The New York Assembly, at Albany, unceremoniously killed Mr. Mulier's bill abolishing capital punishment for murder in the first degree. Fifty Irish-American nurses, who are going to South Afrioa to tbe war, sailed on the French line steamship La Gascogne for France. Thev are going as Red Cross nurses, but it fs said they will make for the Boer side of tho battlefields. At the Anti-Trust Conference in Chicago the Resolutions Committee agreed to ro- I port la favor of Government ownership of | railroads. Speeches wore made by exGovernor Aligeld, Mayor Jones, ex-Attorney-General Mounott, Tom L. Johnson, George Fred Wlllinins and others. Mrs. Grace Brady, widow of the young stock broker wbo committed suicide some months ago, killed herself in Now York City. Yale seniors petitioned the faculty to abolish the sophomore secret societies, declaring they ure the "destructive factor of that democratic feeling" which has distinguished Yale Life. Slona Martin, twelve yeai^ drowned in the Nashua River a|r/ HcmtM Fltchburg, Mass., durmg he-r attempt la* leave her borne, which, rlsixg water surrounded. 5' f Kasimar Adamowslci, a special deHViwW messenger at the Chicago Postoffloev'jEI under arrest in Chicago and bas confess^! to the theft of scores of letters. Ali Ferrouh Bey, Turkish Minister to ttofl United States, arrived at New York Ciqfl aboard the French Line steamship La Qr*$i-i| cogne. He was accompanied by - hi* W(uk3 They went to Washington. Under the auspices of the United IJrltt Societies of Chicago thirty-nine young' soldiers left Chicago bound for New York City, whence they will still for Lorenzo Marques to act as an ambulance corps id 'he Boer army. Vorolcn. "r The London 3treets am In a fearfal condition from the snow and Bleat, ,and many pedestrians bavo sustained fractured limbs ' Irom falling on tbe icy pavements. Tbe horses have suffered greatly, many having to be shot after breaking their legs. Several gales have swept the const. The British War O.-tlco issued details of a reconnaissance on February 12, by Lord j Dundonaid's cavalry, which has been do- | ing the scouting work, for General Buller, and some skirmishing near Springfield, in which a lieutenant and six men were captured by the Boers. The entire Australian infantry, now with the British forces in South Africa, has been mounted. This was done because mo3t of the men were fine horsemen. Only fifteen per cent, of the command ne;ded coaching. The remaining elghty-flve per oent were thoroughly at home on a horse. " The British Indian Office has received a dispatch from Lord Curzon, the Indian Viceroy, in which he says tljat the distress arising from the famine is steadily increasing and that those novtin receipt of relief number 3,784,000. ; Several-jhundred released Spanish prisoners btiwb'atrlved Barcelona, Spain, and tbey*ated*that; they owed their freebuck to to a blizzaai. .^It ia'ltttenaely coid\ in London nnd rrtrrnrfa nt'severe. weather are coming in-from'all partt ol United Kingdom. Telegraphic Communication was seriously Interrupted. . Gtarga'Wyndhamanffbuneed In the British Parliament that tbo Government will attempt to democratize the urmy by making It possible for men who are not rlah to be officers. British Commissioners Kiddle and Sutherland, who had been engaged lo/the demarcation of the Barmo-Chinese boundary, have been murdered in the Monghem Dija- : trlct. Consul Litton was wounded,c|?tr escaped. ,/v" Heavy snowfalls throughout Germany bava greatly Interfered with' railway and telegraphic communications. .j&JbaBoers have talron Inkandla, a Zululahd magistracy. The Magistrate the night previous exploded the magazine and, with his staff and the police, evacuated the olace and oroceeded to Esho^e. THE FBESHBT AT ALBANY High Wate? Cause Damage of Halt a Million Dollars. MUCH DISTRESSAMONGTHEPOOR Ice Gorges Caused the Water to Back Up : iid Compelled Families to Flee For ! '(afety?Worst Flood Since 1S57?Three Men Are Drowned?Floods Caused Heavy Loss? Rise o( Hudson River. Albakt, N. Y. (Special).?The inhabitants of Albany on Wednesday looked upon the j greatest freshet which has takon place in j the valley of<he Hudson River since 1857. | A steady rain for forty-eight hours molted : the deep snows in the Adirondack Moun- I tains and along the valley of the Mohawk, | and there has followed a mighty freshet j which Alls all; the lowlands of the Hudson River from Troy southward to Hudson. A large part of the cities of Albany, Ren?selaer and Troy are submerged. In . Albany \nany. business houses and residences in the lower half of the city were flooded witb water. The p?wet house of the street railway .company ^was filled with seven feet of water,.and eleotric power was thu#- shut I ofl-from the qteeet car lines. lvJpi^nai%:in?n -living alonp the water i front.suSaSf&om. ft loss to property con- j gervitlveiyedtlautted'at more than $500,- j lives. The men who w<^9!|jipjM fW?" William Rhlnehart of > Tboittis Shea of Bath, and j Jose "oFvVan Rensselaer Island, ' ' -Ste<flood rtactf?dvits: height at 3 o'ciock InTB^ernoon. wJxen it registered twenty ! fetf^Mpdhe ordmferlevel. At midnight ! The police are-dfetrlbntfag food, coal ^nd clothing among rflog poor.^families j ftlong tho river front. jjfare-the water , Beached tke second.^fl?lfcof -the -houses. t^t ^ have been Idle for several dsys oa account1 bridges oa the streams 'years. All creeks and s^B^'^w&an'dlng the city are out ot many v; ' -'s ? ' J^^dy ' 11',' >j;' 'f^fflifefc'.. JfllW^^'aH MKMyi^iV^NHHBL^ The other offloaw, Including tue Be v. Anna Shaw,. Vi'ooiPrtBldent-at-Large; Bachaet yostor Arory? Corresponding 8?Wtary, and Alice Stone Black well, BecordingSecro1 'ary, wer? re-el^tfad. , # BOERS CLAIM 120.000 MEN- H ???? Correspondent Informed That Rop^blltl Can Indefinitely Continue tike War?v?. London (By Cable).?A dispatch from ' Ronsburg says: "An Australian newspaper correspondent, Mr. Beay, an'fitfertst- . lng visit to the ^oer camion Sunday, to make inquiries ns cothe fate'ot bis missing colleague, Mr. Hales, of ttfe London Daily News, who was captured, af'^hci Boers ou February 7, at tbo time Mr. LaraWe, of the Melbourne Age, was killed. & , "Mr. Reay arrived at theJsamp, blindfoldod, just as church serjjf&e W03 commencing. He sat blindfolded throughout the service. Wlien he jaMj.ajtaw,, before Commandant Delarey h&''ty?;irere/un? bandaged.' "Delarey w?9 mwtt coartfeous to the correspondent. He aOwMNtB^pty regretted that a uon-gtatM^^Hgul been killed, aud o .t p r t>ssedjjd*'fflRIl1 .With Mr. Lambie's widovr^Hra^HHnn^pa !9Corted to Mr. Had the were handed over to SJr. "The escort iufornrt? MHmSajp: that the two republics had 120,000 ifr#fl|fbtlcg and .vere able to continue the wnngfiwnltely." Mr*. McKlnley's Aa^t.^DblAl). Four masked me a onterta thqhomo of Mrs. Maria S. Saxton, an auat of Mr?. MoKinley, near Canton, Oliio, a fewdays ago. Daniel Slanlcer, u brother of Mrs. S&xtoto, was awakened, but woo prevented from elvlni; the alarm by n revolver thrust in nlsfuce. The robbers escaped with a small 1 amount of booty. ... j r-$ Commander Shaw's Wlfo Dead. Mary Kleth Shaw, the wifo of General A D. Shaw, Commander-in-Chief of cho O. A. R., died suddenly Wedn esday, at Water- i towa, N. Y. Notes oT the Bo?>r War. The Boers continue to shell Kimberley. Oatshlo of her requirements for South Africa Greac Britain is accumulating immense storo3 of war material. Baron Bloch, tho great military oxpert, | says England cannot mobilize troops enough to force their way to Pretoria and capture tlio town. Tho last operations across tho Tugela cost the British 411 In killed, wounded and missing, of wnich tweuty-four were killed lad live misslnir. No bit of news that has trlckied In from Boer sources as yet has been false, and the worst news, from a British standpoint, always has come that way. ^ ' X \ \ i ,,r -. . A Great or Cloth. Oaa of the ornithologists attached to the Smithsonian Institution waa collecting specimens of the birds of southwestern Metieo not long ago, when he saw a cow-bird which seemed to him to possess a white crest. Npw, properly, the cow-bird ia altogether black, and the top of his head is as smooth as the poll of a young drygoods clerk. Evidently this strange matter required investigation, and a gunshot brought the bird to t^e ground. Then was found a more unexpected marvel than was anticipated. The "snow-white crest" proved to be :i piece of white cloth that had been stitched into the bird's scalp and trimmed to represent a cock's comb, "'it hid doubtless been done when tho bird was very young," says the observer, "by some of the natives, and the wounds of the operation were entirely healed."?Ernest# the New Lippincott. What Shall We Hare For BeMert? This question arises in the family dally. Let us answer it to-day. Try Jell-O, ft delicious and healthful dess??rt. Prepared in 2min. No boiling! no baking! Simply add1 a little hot water set to cool. Flavors: Lemon,Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c. Berlin, Germany, has sixty-three publlo monuments. Beware ef Ointment* tor Catarrh Tliat Contain Jlercury, as mercury will smrely destroy the sense of ; smell andcomplotely derange the whole system when enteringlfc through the mueoussurfaces. Such articles should never be used except oaprescriptions from reputable physicians, a?th? damage they will do is-ten fold to thecood you can possibly derive from them. Ha'l's Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., containsno morcury, and Is tak?n J InfaMnallw nnffnr* nnan fhu Klrv/vl anil, mucous surfaces- of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure to uret the genuine. It is taken internally, an t is made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney <fe < o. Testimonials free. CS^Sold by Druggists: price, 75c. per bottle; Hall's Family Pills are the best. There are 40,000 men on tbe pay rolls- of the Cuban army. Uhd a Bad JrkM L K^ouqn "I Kid a bad cough for six weeks and cpjld sot find any relief whatever I read what a wonderful remedy Ayer's Cherry Pectoral was for coughs and I bought a bottle. Before I had taken I quarter of it my cough Hid entirely left me."?LHawn, Newingt Ont., May 3.1899. I Quickly t inures Colds , ;.';j Neglected colds always lead to something serious. They i run into chronic bronchitis which & '-ikV; t ' 11 1.1 pxi 113 a own your general ncaiin c tad deprives you of slee-p: or tkey end in genuine consumption with all its uncertain results. Don't, wiitv but take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral just as soon as you begin to fough. A few doses will core too then. But jt cures old colds/too* only it takea a little mote: time. We refer to suck diseases as Bronchitis, asthma* whooping-cotigl* consumption* and hard winter coogh : ' If you're just taken cold a 25 cent bottlfr i?all you'll need. For harder cases a 30 cent Dottle i* better: for chronic Tzonbfee, and to Keep-on band,, the- 9U? >?ttl?i? mort- economical. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 & 3.50 SHOES M iZti fl fl WZZtE?"'*' ^imT ^ IV, |i tUttfti JSbUSi^ 'SjuMRL, jr 1 VUS ? tub*titotft claimed to b?^-.. ~T->7 I V^C ? p>>d.t Yoqt Wextra for i |] itajitl State kind of ieather, m ^fcJalie. aod iSKwh or cap toe. Cat. fre?. SSoS L DB8BUB SHOE CO., Brockton. Mass PB FOR 14 CENTS | * wish to pain this Tear 2C0,(V0 S^9SHfHSI new customer.*, and nenc?* iifer A 1 B&flK I Pkg. City <iarden Beet, lie L rf?gjgJWB 1 Plcg.Enrl'ot r'mvraldCncnmberlCc * X Kffiil " LaCroue Market Lettuce, 15c X 2 Mgjmagwl " Strawberry Melon, 15o z ml " Early Ripe Cabbage, Mo i 1 ' Earl/ Dinner Onion, lOo I I 3 " Brilliant Flower Seed*. 15o I > Worth $1.00, lor 14 eeaU. JJI.WJ j | Above 10 Pkgs. worth $LOO,we willi mail yon free, top other with our ( I cruat Catalog,telline all about i i ' SALZER S MILLION DOLLAR POTATO ( i npon receipt of this notice 4 l-lc. / , tamps. We invite yonrtrade, and J know when yon once try Mai xer'a ; cede Ton will never do withont. ' ' *2<)0 Prize*on Salter's -??- ( | est earliest Tomato G iant on earth AC II JOHK A. 8AL2IB IKSD CO., LACROSSE, ...a. | f i nnn CLEARED YEARLY.-"" ^ I UUU LADY OR GENTLEMAN Wanted to sell Dr. Career's K. it B. Tea. One agent cleared a thousand dollars last year. We will send, prepaid, two 25c package* and au elegant silver pickle fork and free Maniple* and special agents' terras on receipt of twenty-five cents. Any lady can clear twelve dollars a week and not interfere with her household duties. Writs us for particulars. THE BKOWX MEIMt.'lXE i Q-, Erie, Pa. UanmrES rernedy for I JOHNSON'S MALARIAyCHILLS&FEVER Crippe and Liver Diseases. KNOWN ULDRUCCISTl. 35C, HOW TO GET OFFICE of Home Instruction by the Government Office Training School, Washinoton, D. C. Woman Eligible. Positions Permanent, CTUIfl A CUBED. TRIAL AO I nfflABOTTLE FREE. Db.Taft Bros. Med. Co.. 103 East 126;h 8t., N. Y ODADCV NEW DISCOVERY: liTH ^3 I quick relie' and oaraa wont caui' Book of taatimoniali and 10 day a' treatmao* ITr?. Dr. H. B. <Un'lMIH.?o? ?. Atlanta. 8a. ADVERTISIN Q i Tbomnion't EjiWittr