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^vAbout It ? That's always the way with our Hair Vigor. When persons use it they are always so Hio-hlv nleased with it thatthev ?6?/ r tell their friends about it. If your hair is short, too thin, splits at the ends, is rough, or is falling out, our Hair Vigor will perfectly satisfy you. If your hair is just a little gray, or perfectly white, Ayer's Hair Vigor will bring back to it all the dark, rich color it had years and years ago. One dollar bottle. If your druggist cannot supply you, send -as $1.00 and we will express a bottle to you, .all charges prepaid. Be sure and give us your nearest express office. J. C. Aye* Co., Lowell, Mass. Send for our handsome book on The Hair. ? %_ .119 A Safest, surest cure fbr 1 3P- Kl 111 Sail throat aud luug troubles. People praise Cough Syrup Refuse substitutes. Get Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Electrifying London. In a few years, if all goes well, visitors will no longer have to complain of the difficulty in securing transportation about London. The l.ondon Electrical Engineer publishes a short table of electric lines which have beei authorized and which are now building, representing a total of thirty-one miles. In addition to these there are "new projects and extensions of raii ways already authorized," amountiug to an additional 100 miles. The great defect appears to be that the several , lines have been laid out without regard to each other, or the demands of traffic. There are no term common terminii, which would make it very Inconvenient to get from one line to another, or from one portion of th> city to another not on tne same line. Under rational treatment the average yield of a bee hive in Palestine is 100 pounds. The Bank of England has usually about ?25,000,000 to ?30,000,000 of Its cotes In circulation. Asphalt streets In Hartford, Conn., *re sprinkled with sand during lcj* weather. ^ ? ? 1 This picture tells its own s older girl,, just budding into w ly with those irregularities an* sap the life of so many young Lydia E. Pinkham's 1 always be relied upon to rest suffer. It is a sovereign cure complaints,?that bearing-do^ and displacement of the womt and all troubles of the uterus expels tumors from the uterus ment and checks any tender subdues excitability, nervous entire female system. Oould anything pro\ fMoney of Mrs* Plnkh following strong statonn " Dear Mrs. Pixkham I was about a year and a half. I hare trie . i- -J T A neipea ids, i uuucprcuv vu coived no benefit. My ailment was . mp r i i I suffered fr< ovaries, and weak I had t ^ar<^ as to a getting well? , / v *tTk ii my sister I wi \ ^ answer carac bottles I was f jjktJr ri cure almost i | CR^CE B.STANSBURY for your tim ^ ' in vour nobl broken-down women. I have iull E. Pinkham Vegetable Co Herington, Kansas. *580011 _ > Two Hector* In Three Cenfnrleg. A correspondent of the Guardlar calls attention to the singular lengtl of tenure of the living of Broadwater in Sussex, England. Its last rectoi was instituted in 1797, and its presen rector was instituted in 1853. Then are probably very few livings In thi Church of England of which it can b< said that the last rector was appoint ed in the eif'iteenth century, whil< its next rector will not be appointee till the twentieth. Try Cirain-O I TryGrain-O! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a pack age of Grain-O. the new food drink that take the place of coffee. The cliildren may drink i without injury as well as the adult. Ail whotr; it. liko it. Ghain-0 has that rich seal browi of Mocha or Java, but it is made from puri grains, and the most delicate stomach receive: it without distress. X the price of coffee 15 and 25c. per package. Sold by all grocers The South African war has de stroyed the flour trade with that coun try. Where thousands of barrels were shipped prior to the war, not a barrel now is sent. A girl's maiden aim Is usually tc change her maiden name. Coughing Lead* to Coniumitiitn. Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once Go to your druggist to-day and get a sampl< bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles, Go at once, delays are dangerous. When In 1S37 the first railway line between Dresden and Leipsic was established, no one was permitted to buy a ticket before he had shown hia passport. There are about 8,000 libraries scattered over the United States. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal tor coughs and colds.?John F, Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, l'JOO. Observations. Wc often blame fate for adverse happenings, when we ourselves l'orce destinj' nand. If v.ne would delight a man, praise nothictr so much as his mental penetratlc . Who resists that, wears armor. The more gradually friendships are cemented, the longer they last, and the firmer their adhesive quality. The most constant beings are those who consider protest superfluous. The nearest we can get to loving our enemies is to avoid voicing our hatred. Glory on earth is a thing many work ror, only 10 nna 11 uuuipereu uy ueivcracking penalties. Mystery is simply the veil that truth holds before her face In the company of fools. Time is the vindication of truth, and the sole power that cannot be bribed by falsehood.?Philadelphia Record In one day recently sixty prairie schooners,' making a. string about a mile long passed Guthrie, Okla., on their way to the Kiowa and Comanche country. They were mostly from Kansas and Missouri tory of sisterly affection. The 1 nrr a a t._ Ml VJAiC*4*iAWV*j 0 i menstrual difficulties which woigen. Vegetable Compound can ore health to women who thus for the worst forms of female n feeling, weak back, falling >, inflammation of the ovaries, j or womb. It dissolves and 5 in the early stage of developicy to cancerous humors. It prostration, and tones up the /o more cleaHy tha ofam's Madiolna than tha 9nt of Brace Stansbury? a sufferer from female weakness for d doctors and patent medicines, but e horrors of local treatment, but repronounced ulceration of the womb, am intense pains in the womb and the backache was dreadful. I had 1 its worst form. Finally, I grew so o keep my bed. The pains were so lmost cause spasms. When I could lins no longer, I was given morphine, rrew short and I gave up all hope of Thus I dragged along. To please rote to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. Her i. but meantime I was taken worse ir the doctor's care for a while. feading1 Mrs, Pinkham's letter, I cony her medicine. After taking- two t much better; but after using- sis cured. All of my friends think my niraculous. I thank you very much e\y advice and wish you prosperity e work, for surely it is a blessing to and complete faith in the Lydia mpound."?Geace B. Stakbbubt, M Bfc Owing to the fact that some skeptical lUII people have from time to time questioned the genuineness of the testuaooia' letters wo are constantly publishing, we hava the National City Bank, of Lrnn, Mass., (j.ooo, paid to any person who will enow that the above tot retain*, or was published before obtaining the , pemisaion.?I,TDia. E. Putnjuc Ussicon Co. i 4. -4 * * T-.v MAJIY SUFFER FESH BED i | Tie Disease Assumes an Epidemi Form in the Cities. IS PREVALENT IN THE COUNTRY i It is Estimated That Thore Are Ov< 50f>.o?0 Victims in the United StatesBe:iorU Show That of Many Cases th 5 D?.vth Rate is Smaller Than Migt P Have Been Expected. 3 s Chicago.?Newspaper reports shov ' that more than half a million person | in the grip belt, which extends acros the United States from New York t the Itocky Mountains, are sufferinj , with the disease. [ The epidemic is greatest in the East Illinois is also extensively afflicted The Western coast is comparativel: ' free, and some of the Southern cities where it is dry and clear, are practi cally exempt. Pneumonia claimed 1G3 victims dur ing the past week, establishing a rec ord for the Chicago Health Depart ment. The number of deaths fron pneumonia due to grip has been in . creasing steadily until it has reachei the proportions of an epidemic. In the big cities of New York ant Chicago the changeable weather hai caused the grip to spread at an alarm ing rate, and, although few cases an reported as fatal, the number of casei is enormous. Here are the statistic: l from grip centres: Grip Cases Pnnnvlorl New'York .!. "^loaoaf Chicago 100,00? Philadelphia 70,00( Pittsburg 30,G0( Baltimore, Md 23.00( Washington, D. C 20,00< Wichita, Kan 12,00( Salt Lake City, Utah 12,00< New Haven, Conn ll.OOf , St. Louis. Mo 10.00( Fort Worth, Tex 10,00' Indianapolis, Ind 10,00< Peoria, 111 10.00C Cincinnati, Ohio 10,00< Disease Prevalent In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Penn. ? Physician; agree tnat the grip is more prevalen in this r^ty at present than at anj time since 18S0. wlien it first nppeare< nere. r ive aeauis rroiii mis l-uum were reported during the past week Among the most widely known suffer ers are former United States Scnatoi vjeorge F. Edmunds. Bisliop Cyrus D Foss, of the Methodist Episcopa Church, and Miss Olga Nethersole. Many Cases In Boston. Boston?Grip is prevalent here, nl though the physicians state that th< fall of snow has done much to Improve matters. While many cases are re ported, comparatively few are of a se rious character. The mortality rec ords show that there were hut fou deaths from the grip in the last month and all of these were complicated will other diseases. Fifty-four I)lc In St. LouJ*. St. Louis, .Mo. ? Fifty-four death 'fro grip in the past two weeks is tin C(- Tmiie TVio onulpilli 1CLU1 U Ul kJ I. ^iwuio. X4.x, ? continues to spread in St. Louis, a well as to towns in .ne State and t isolated homes in the country. ratal Case* in Pittsburg. I'enn.--There were si: deaths from grip in this city the pas week. In Allegheny, out of forty-fin deaths, sixteen were attributed to grip or diseases resulting from it. Tin doctors say the present cold snap wil chcck the ravages of the disease. "Were No Death* at Albany. Albany. X. Y.?No deaths from gri] have been reported. Lieutenant-Gov ernor Woodruff is improving rapidl.v There are cases in the State Depart menls* and among the legislative at taches. Syracuse a Severe Su/Terer. ^V A s*r\%\\rr\ c?a A? fllj Oyi'JlCUSUj r?. l>?A vau V aoo */t v physicians of Syracuse shows twenty live hundred cases of grip under treat ment. Hundreds of eases have beei reported to the doctors. KILLED WIFE AND CHILD. Shocking Double Murder and Suicide a Albany, fc*. Y.?Husband's Statement. Albany. N. Y.?Louis Carrier, fort; years old, cut his wife's throat with j razor, battered in the head of hi twelve-year-old child Archie, and the: cut the lad's throat, after which h cut his own throat with a razor, an drank a glassful of paris green. Th double murder and suicide took plac at Carrler'g home, 47 Alexander streel Carrier and his wife had been mat rled about thirteen years. They lia had frequent quarrels, and the hus band had been arrested several times the police say. The wife would neve appear against him, however. Carrier left a note in which he sal that the wife had brought the pari srreen to give to him. but he hai watched her too closely. He said tha he gave her a hard death, but that i was too pood for her. and he regrette< that he could not have given her harder one. He accused his wife o unfaithfulness. He said he had $25 insurance In the Taiuters' Unioi which money would bury them all. Universal Suffrage For Cuba. The Cuban Constitutional Conver lion has decided to give universal su) frage to the future republic. Maine Lumber Trade. The year 1900 was a sad time fc the Itlaine lumbermen compared wit the prosperous year of 1890, the repoi of the Surveyor-General of Bangc showing that only 142,690,243 feet c lumber of all kinds were surveyed s Bangor, against 181,482,589 feet 1 1S!)9. This shows a decrease of 38 783,346 feet from 1899, and on a other lumbering rivers lu rue Stat there was a proportionate falling o In the volume of businc-ss. Labor World. Tiinpn weavers of Westnhalia an the Rhine "will reduce output and a< vacce prices. Printers of Lebanon, Penn.. will d mand wages of twenty cents per hoi after March 1. All the coal miners in Northern Co orado have quit work, demanding ii creased wages. Last year there were forty fatal an seventy-five non-fatal accidents in tl Hazleton (Penn.) mining region. On January 1 the Pennsylvan Railway pensioned 400 employes wi tuvyc grows old in faithful service. ? ) I INVESTORS MAY REALIZE Anglo-American Association May Pay 10 Twanty Cents on the Dollar. The Receiver Testifies That Company'! Annual Income Wan S30.000, and f That Expenses TVerc 8150,000. w Now York City.?From investiga 51 tions completed by Deputy AttorneyGeneral Kisselburgh, representing 8 the State Banking Department, It would appear to be practically certain that the Anglo-American Savings r and Loan Association, with liabilities 9 on November 20 last of $3,013,305.59, s will pay less than twenty cents on the a dollar to its shareholders, and that the , attempt of its directors to stave off receivership liquidation by transferring the company's extensive holdings of ? real estate to a separate real estate , company will come to naught. t Deputy Attorney-General Kissel. ? 1_ ?m _,? 4- ?u? DUr^n win hiso reijresem iu mc wun '* at the proper time that in the annual * statement of the company, signed by the directors, the mortgages executed by Mr. Pearce. one of the directors of the company, which figure in the eom. pany's table of assets as S4.342.872.04, t were represented as Interest bearing . loans, whether Intentionally or other3 wise, and that such representation makes the directors subject to criminal 1 prosecution if the State authorities de5 sire to construe the statement as per* jury. ? Joseph M. Dickey, one of the tem? porary receivers of the Association, 5 testified in the referee's proceedings before former Judge George G. Rey5 nolds that in a general way, so far as he had been able to judge from his ) handling the affairs of the company ) for two or three weeks, the expenses ) of the company for the last year had ) been about 9150,000, while the income 1 had been only about $30,000. * The Anglo-American Association is * now declared to be a bankrupt con* cern. There is no money in its treas* ury with which to pay the sharehold1 ers, and suit has been begun by sever al dissatisfied investors with a view to 1 forcing foreclosure proceedings. PeoI pie in every walk of life have put mon* ey into this concern, because of the prominence of the men at Its head, and the big inducements It offered. ' From seven to ten per cent, per an. num was guaranteed to investors, and . for a time these promises were ful; filled. Somehow, it became noised " about that the Association was making " large speculations in wild-cat real es~ tate, and a general rush of shareholders to secure their money began, j The treasury was soon depleted and the Association was forced to an' nounce its inability to liquidate outstanding obligations. j MORGAN CONTROLS LEHICH VALLEY Erie, Reading, Jersey Central and Lackawanna Represented in New Board. Philadelphia.?Changes made in the r. Board of Directors of the Lehigh , * Valley Railroad at the annual meetj ing of the shareholders a few days ago r\ 1 Af 4-hic nvAnort"V &UUW lliUl IUC V,UUUVi VJ. LUI.J |/4V|/V*v^ v is now completely in the hands of J. s Lr \\& Piei'Pont Morgan e VSSCr \H? and his associates. c W jo? These changes show s wkpZbL V) furthermore that the 0 & Erie, the Reading, the Jersey Central -rffflw^^y^Vaud the Lackawan'na interests are to c , have representation t W- iu ^ie management e *wW of the Lehigh Valif ley. s The new Board of Directors is com1 posed as follows: E. B. Thomas. President of the Erie Railroad; George F. Baer. representing the Philadelphia and Reading: J. Rogers Maxwell. Pres[> ident of the Jersey Central; George F. - Balcer, Robert C. Lippencott. Charles si-or.lp B Rnrip. ,T. Whartou, E. T. Stotesbury, Irving A. Sterns. A. Nesbit and Wilson S. Bissell. The first six names in this list represent the new interest. At a subsequent meeting of the di? rectors Alfred Walter was re-elected President; John R. Fanshaw. Secretary; M. C. Alderson. Treasurer, and 3 Edward J. Hartshorn. Assistant Treasurer. The effect of the election is that the interests represented in the board, un. der the directing hand of J. P. Morgan, 1 will in future control the Lehigh Valley. r ? TO ANNEX PART OF IDAHO. s q Plans to Attach the Panhandle to the p State of Washington. 4 Spokane, Wash. ? Plans are under e way here to secure the annexation of e the northern part of Idaho to the " State of Washington. State Representative H. D. Loritt intends to bring J this project before the Legislature at - I >*._ !? 'Tho nnrnose is to ' IIS L'UUilii^, acoonsu. A*?V r.? _ I. add to this State the entire region r known as "The Panhandle," lying north of the forty-sixth parallel, which ^ is the southern boundary of Washings ton. This would include Kootenai, ^ Shoshone. Latah and Nez Perc<? and t part of Idaho County, taking in alt of * the famous Coeur d'Alene silver-lead ^ mining district, as well as most of the ? rich Clearwater gold fields. 0 Alvord Gets Thirteen Years. ' Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., who pleaded guilty to having stolen $G!)0,000 from the First National Bank, was sentenced to thirteen years' iraprisonl* nient for his crime by Justice Thomas in the Criminal Branch of the United States Circuit Court at New York City. Five-Cent Shines For Kansas Legislators. Tiie Kansas House of Representah lives fixed by resolution the fee of t five cents for shining the shoes of the >r Legislators. This was done in granting the shoe shining right to Kepresentative .iall. Lt n I'ostotftce Appropriation Bill. Tim House Committee on Postoffices 11 and Post Roads, at Washington, D. C., le practically completed the Postoffice ff Appropriation bill. The total amount I carried by the bill is $1-Jli,748.688, as against $113,1*58,238 for tills year. A "Witch Hazel Trust. j- The formation of an important combination of manufacturers of witch e. hazel is reported. It is understooJ lr that the combination will include the principal witch hazel makers in Con. necticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, these three States being the cenQ" tre of the industry in this country. Thje new company will be capitalized, id it is said, at $3,000,000. ie Tillman Succeeds Himself. la The General Assembly of South Car10 ollna unanimously re-elected B. R. Til man, United States Senator, to sueqeed himself. " .y. s o \ INCREASE IN INEBRIETY New York Prison Commission Says Growth of Drunkenness is Startling 32,859 COMMITMENTS IN A YEAR The Commission Believes That Habitual Drunkenness Is a Disease Quite as IVIuch as a Crime?Should Be Treated With the View of Curing Bather Than Punishing?Urges a Probationary Law. Albany, N. Y.?Drunkenness has increased to an alarming extent in New York State, according to the annual report of the State Commission of Prisons. There were 32,859 commitments to the penitentiaries, jrJls and workhouses of the State for intoxication during the year ended October 1 last. More than one-third of all the commitments to jails and workhouses, and nearly one-third of the commitments to the penitentiaries were for this offense. This makes no account of mauy thousand other convictions for the same offense punished by a fine. Adding the probable number of these to the foregoing, it is likely that one-half of the convictions in this Suite during the year were for intoxication. And, of course, in addition, there were manv thousand cases of drunkenness in which there were no arrests and of which there are no records. Under the head of "Treatment of Drunkenness," the report says: "Whether the punishment is by fine or imprisonment, it usually falls more heavily upon the family of the offender than upon the offender himself. The man of means suffers no inconvenience. In the case of the poor man, whether he pays his fine or goes to prison, his family is punished rather than himself. We recommend that in the case of first offenders the sentence should be suspended and the offender paroled.* Habitual drunkenness is a disease quite as much as a crime, and should be treated by the State rather to be cured than be punished. "The probation law in operation since 1891 in Massachusetts, which has proved advantageous In that State and a source of great economy (and is also now in operation both in Vermont and Minnesota) Is commended. Under this law Judges of criminal courts are authorized to appoint probation officers onH oiinnr thom r#>nsnnable comnensa tlon. The Judge has the discretion to suspend sentence for offenders of this class and put the offender In the care of the probationary officer, fixing a definite period of probation. At the end of this period the officer appears with his charge before the Judge and presents a report. If favorable, the offender Is discharged; if adverse, sentence is imposed." The total prison population of the Sfate Is 10,761. Among other recommendations the commission recommends the establishment of a State reformatory for male misdemeanants, the erection of a separate building for the confinement and electrocution of condemned men, and the employment of convicts in roadbulldlng in the new Palisades Park. FUND TO ENCOURACE MARRIAGES That Left by Poydrae to Be Devotea to tho Education of Poor Girls. v' T n ?Tho nn1i/>A "f 11 rv f)f i>ew uneaua, XJU.? J.UV West Eaton Rouge parish, as trustees of the Poydras fund, decided to divert that fund from its original purpose to a new one. Poydras was a French Protestant, who acquired a large fortune in New Orleans and Pointe Coupee. He died in 1S24, leaving a large fortune, part of which went to the establishment of the Poydras Girls' Asylum in New Orleans, still in evidence, and $200,000 to the local authorities of Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes, the interest to be given as dowers to the indigent white girls marrying during each year. As the French dower system has gone out of practice in Louisiana and as there are few claimants for the money, and as tfie fuud was thought to have a bad effect in the way of encouraging hasty maruiages. the police jury has decided to divert the revenue to the higher education of poor girls every year. Poydras wan a bachelor as the result of a disappointment in love, and as a consequence gave a large share of his uv mnriTi'nf Dlir vreuiiu IL> cuiuumBv ui..w^._0. lug the three-quarters of a century the fund has been in operation it has brought about thousands of marriages. FAMINE ON THE YUKON. Pood Rnni Oat in the Stored at Circle City?High Prices of Commodities. Victoria, B. C.?According to telegrams which reached Skagway prior to the sailing of the steamer Danube, there is a food shortage at Circle City and on the lower Yukon, amounting almost to a famine in certain commodities. Flour is held at $43 per sack, and is Surchasable only from men with outts, the stores having run out. Potatoes, bacon, sugar and rice are unobtainable at any price. Brides Eaten by "Wolves. Advices from many people in Roamania tell of packs of wolves killing and devouring travelers. Two wedding couples who were sleighing in tho Marnjeros District were attacked and all four persons were killed. The driver of the sleigh escaped up a tree, but ? no IXUI.U CrnTfln tn Hpnth. wua uuunj .w ? Hebrew Immigrant! For Chicago. The steamers Lake Superior and Tunisian arrived at Halifax, N. S., from Liverpool with GOO aud 400 passengers respectively, chiefly immigrants. On the Lake Superior were 500 Hebrews bound for Chicago. Killed While Cleaning a Gun. While George Dersheimer, of George town, Wayne County, Penn., was cleaning a gun which he did not know was loaded he accidentaly pullpd the trigger. The j?uu was discharged, killing him instantly. Sporting Brevities. Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock II. will have live "trial horses." A project is now o'i foot to organize a university basketball team at Princeton, N. J. The Yale basketball team defeated Hiram College team at Cleveland by a eeore of 22 to 7. To prove the utility of automobiles a race from New York City to Buffalo has been arranged. Ice yatching In New Jersey has begun and the South Shrewsbury let Yacht Club has a score of boats on thp Ice at BranchDorL N. J. * . ? _ ? 1 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WASHINGTON ITEMS. Secret Service Chief Wllkie reports a new counterfeit bank note. It is a poor direct photo<rraphlc renroduotion of the $10 note of the Tompkins County National Bank of Ithaca. N. Y., check letter E. charter numner 13G1. bank number 3894, series of 1S82. W. W. Rockhill, special Commission er of the United States to China, has tfaen recalled. The State Department received official notice that the amendments to the Hny-Pauncefote treaty are under consideration at the Foreign Office in London. The speech of Representative Cushman, of Washington, riduculir.g the River and Harbor Committee revealed a new humorist in Congress. Because of tho Powers' opposition, President McKinley withdrew liproposal for a commission on Chinese indemnity. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Nearly 1300 men were arrested in cockpits situated in various towns south of Manila, P. I., on suspicion of being guerillas. Most of them were released. a :?*.!- _ J. *r?. ~ A pnuuug tstuuiisiiiiieiiL nt Jiiin.in, P. I., charged with publishing seditious matter, was confiscated. A proposal to incorporate a city of Honolulu, to Include the Island of Oahu, was made to the Republican Committee on Charter of the Hawaiian Legislature. The proposed city would have an area of 600 square miles. The Government work at Pago-pago, Samoa, is going on well, though the San Francisco contractors have met many difficulties. The Philippine Commission has decided to organize an American police force of 300 men for service in Manila. W. Horace Wright, newspaper man and a leader of the Royalist party in Hawaii, committed suicide at Honolulu. DOMESTIC. Minister Wu Ting Far\g addressed the State Bar Association at Albany, N. Y., on "Chinese Jurisprudence." A passenger train crashed Into a frolwht train nunr Rath >1 V nnH several persons were injured. Bishop Potter is organizing a Vigilance Committee of 5000 men in Ne\* York City to assist in stamping out police-protected vice and crime. Experts said the invention of Professor Pupin would probably make telephoning around the world a possibility. Thirty-three converts were baptized by John Alexander Dowie, the Zionite leader, at the Morning Star Baptist Church, in Boston, Mass. Mrs. Carrie Nation, of the W. C. T. U., in jail at Wichita, Kan., for a month, charged with smashing saloon fixtures, was released on bail. The British steamer Monarch at New Orleans, La., cleared for Cape Town with 1100 horses for the British Army. The second trial of Jessie Morrison, charged with the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle, will be held at Eldorado, Kan., in March. Porch climbers broke a private safe n<- tho rAstidptirp nf Anrrm Tvnhn. nn Jit torney, at Louisville, Ky., and robbed it of $5000 worth of jewelry and money. Three poverty-stricken Missourians, two nephews and a niece <?f William L. Rice, may share in the millions of the late >.ew York millionaire. In trying to crawl over a broken cupboard door at Chicago four-year-old Lilllfin Herzstram slipped and, unable to extricate her head, was strangled to death. Nearly 5000 deer were killed in New York State during the last season. The will of Roger Wolcott was admitted to probate at Boston, Mass. It shows personal property valued at SI,500,000 and real estate valued at ?130,000. Frank G. Clarke, Representative in Congress from the Second New Hampshire district, died at Peterboro from quick consumption. He was fifty years old. William S. Jennings, a cousin of W. J. Bryan, was inaugurated as Governor of Floiida, at Tallahassee. A bill has been introduced in the Colorado Senate restoring capital punishment, and providing for electrocution. in the year 1900 precious stones, diamonds and pearls valued at $13.3(i-v ol-">.26 passed through the Appraisers' i,iure? at tiie port of New York. FOREIGN. The Eolivian columns were defeateu by forces of the ' Republic of Acre." The Boers captured a convoy of wagons with provisions intended for the troops at Rhenoster Kop. They killed two of the British guards and wounded eleven. The others surrendered, but later were released. Tim nntnrift (Jovernment has re served 1,400,000 acres for a natioual park ar the head waters of the Ottawa ltiver. . The King of Servia in his speech to the National Assembly referred to his marriage and his father's departure from Servia as happy incidents. The Government of Brazil will advertise shortly for bids for tiie dredging of the port of Para, and for building piers. General Kitchener's dispatches, while recording British successes in repelling assaults in South Africa, show that the Boers are attaching with great spirit at many points and that their op eratious are preconcerted. Nine hundred recruits and twelve officers are going to Chinese wavers to reinforce the Germon iron-clad division there. Stephano di Lorenzo, a companion of the- notorious Italian brigsin.l Mussoiino. has been arrested near Reggie di Calabria. The Danish Government sent to the Itigsdag iue negotiations with the United States regarding the sale of Mie Danish West Indies. Venezuela seized two Rritsh steamships for use acainst rebels, who have risen in the east. The French Parliamentary Customs Committee decided to raise the duty on maize front three to five francs. Barcelonians are agitating for the abolition of bull fighting in Spain. Prince Alexander Petroviteh was sent from St. Petersburg to take measures against the plague raging in Southeastern Iiussia. Dr. Apaciblo, a Filipino, arrived from the United States at Faris, where he may succeed Agoncillo, Aguinaldo's agent. Liu Kun.vl, Viceroy of Nankin, has memorialized Emperor Kwangsu, of China, to abolish the distinction betwsca Manghufi and Chinese. r * * I "si ?i?????i?? PEKIN HEROINE'S STORY Miss Condit Smith Says the Women Were Schooled to Suicide. x If They Failed to Kill TbemwlvM th* ; Men Were Pledged to 8hoot - -Jrj Every One of Them. Washington, D. C.?The thrilling ex- [$ periences of Miss Mary Condlt Smith, M sister-in-law of Major-General Wood, , ^ and the other women who were shot up in the British Legation at Pekln >V during the siege, were kept In a diary from day to day by Miss Smith, who, | has sold the diary to New York pub- IVj Ushers for $10,000 for Its reproduction in book form. In telling of her expe- frm rlences In Pekln Miss Smith says: ?/?S0 "We grew to be horribly expert ln^?9 pistol practice. Every woman In the legation was provided with a pistol, ana me vital spots wnere a weii-airected bullet would kill Instantaneous- '-'fM ly were pointed out to her. "Every day the women practiced taxt.l&m get shooting for hours with revolver** &3I and also practiced with blank car-r trldges against their own person*. $? Every woman had promised to place M the muzzle of her revolver In her, mouth and blow the top of her head ' '.& off at the sight of the first Boxer should scale the wall of the legation N#| compound. Should the' women come panic-stricken, every man was ' pledged to shoot the women until not ^ one was left alive. "For days and nights together not a ,r$ soul in the legation dared to sleep, but stood ready at any moment to use the pistols in tyis hands, which, tired as they were, never once relaxed their hold upon the weapons of death. ^ "On one never-to-be-forgotten occaslon we were actually lined up, with % the men in a solid line in front of us V-? ready to shoot us, for It was' momen- . m tarlly expected that the Boxers wftuld Sffl gain possession. Night after night. since then have I Iain awake going all over it again, or sunk into sleep only 4m to be tortured with dreams as harrow- ing as the actual experiences. . "But even at such times there was left in us an appreciation of certain comicalities over which we actually laughed. *1 remember on one of the "' % occasions how Mrs. Conger made us laugh by saying that she actually, all through the siege, was more afraid of her husband than any Boxer who ever was born, for Mr. Conger was in such an overwrought condition she was mortally afraid he might shoot ber/Jra dead on some false alarm. "One of the worst things was witness the suffering and starvation A of the poor children huddled in the C legation. The positive heroism ^ of .. $ some of those children In trying to ''.3 distract .the attention of the starving' if ones from their pitiable condition and ^ give tnem neart 10 nve lurougu ujc# ^ awful experiences is beyond anything ';'Jk that ever was written. "I remember on one occasion one of ' a| the officers came to us holding out his sword reeking with Boxer blood, and <:V told me to use It for my own destroy tion upon the instant of hearing the signal which was then momentarily expected. , "Once the Empress sent to the lega- J'S tioners a number of horses for them to >3 use as a means of escape. The horses were loaded with sacks of food. Half of the food was found to be poisoned." Miss Smith's marriage to Lieutenant S9 Richard Hooker, United States Mar-' . ine Corps, will take place in this city at noon on February 12, with Bishop ".;Vj Satterlee officiating. ' Vl|| FATAL PANiC IN CHICACO. j Eight Killed and Over s Score Injured $3! as Result of a Cry of "Fire." Chicago.?Eight persons were f crushed to death and twenty more ?y\ seriously injured in a panic which followed a man's cry of "Fire," In c'r* West Twelfth street Turner Hall, In Vjg the Ghetto. , Eight hundred persons were In the 'J place witnessing the performance of a play called "The Greenhorn." Here ' is a list of the dead: Annie Gold,berg, seven years; Mullenbach, ' ; aged four years:. Solomon, thlr * ? Sz-ihooffpr tlillA , T. V t?ii J'CUl o, ftt wvM?*vM?.y ? -"~r*HD years; Mrs. S. Mendelsohn, forty years; Marie Wilzalm, two years; and two unknown women. The injured, W numbering about twenty, were distributed among five hospitals. The play was In Yiddish, and the audience was comprised for the post J part of women and children. The hall : stands in the centre of a district densely populated by Hebrews. The alarm of "fire" was false, there ' $ having been no blaze at any time. The furnace in the building is defec- fr tive and at times allows sparks to pass up through the registers. *?8 HER SWEETHEART WAS A LEPER. ' Hawaiian Girl Refused to Desert Him , ' and Thoy Died Together. ;u Honolulu, Hawaii.?Another tragedy of leprosy has been uncovered by the t discovery of two skeletons in an aban- ' doned stone quarry near this city. They are the bones or two young natives who disappeared several months . ago. Keewamahl was a bright Kanaka who was engaged to be married to a native girl. Just before the wedding he was found to be a leper and was ordered to Molokai. The girl pleaded to be permitted to go with him, but. in vain. He tried to commit suicide, and while in a hospital recover- 'V ing from his wound escaped. Slip dls- > appeared about the same time. It is supposed that in their despair they decided on suicide and killed themselves in this deserted quarry. New Way to Stop a Car. Fred Zolie, chagrined because three street cars had passed him in the rain without as much as hesitating, broke . the window of the fourth car with a A stone at St. Louis. Mo. It came to standstill and he coolly boarded it and took a seat. The conductor had him arrested, but in the police court the Judge fined him and then remitted the line, saying that he had noticed (he tenuency 01 me auwi t?i tuiuimuj iv? pass passengers, and he believed the prisoner's story. Prominent People. Ambassador White has been elected to the Berlin Academy of Science. The Duke of York has been gazetted a Rear-Admiral in the British Navy. General John W. Foster has been elected President of the American Bible Society. John Wanamaker has been elected a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Sir John Tenniel, the noted carica? turist, who is eighty years old, has retired from the staff of London Punch with which he has been connected for forty-nine years. 1 ' ,, ' Vy; . K Jjg : _ =s* . . '-j$