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Identified by the Boy, Mr But Protests Innocence. CLOSE FRIEND OF PAT CROWE James Callahan, the Suspect, is a For mer Convict and Was Employed by the Packer at Omaha, Neb.?The Kidnaped Lad Asserts That He Is the Man Who Kept Guard Over Him. Omaha, Neb.?James Callahan.a former convict and a personal friend of Pat Crowe, is under arrest here and hng been positively identified as one of the men who kidnaped Eddie Cudahy in December, and to whom the boy's father paid $25,000. Mr. Cudahy and the police are convinced that they have one of the guilty men. Callahan has been living here with his sister. Young Cudahy says positively that the prisoner is the man who first accosted him on the street on the night of the kidnaping and told him he was the Sheriff of Sarpy County, pretending to arrest him for a crime committed in that county. He is also the man who kept guard over the boy in the cottage where he was held prisoner. The man is further identified by others. Callahan Is the one referred to in the circulars as "No. 3." J. N. H. Patrick, who lives in Happy Hollow, west of the city, says that Callnhan is one of the men who came to his home late last summer to rent a little house that stood in a cornfield on the Patrick -pmisps at considerable distance from the road. This house was the one fitted up by the bandits as the prison house, but was abandoned after it was visited by the police. In 1893 Callahan was sent from Omaha to the penitentiary at Lincoln to serve a five-year term for robbery. After serving a year and a half he was paroled, but was only out a few months when he was again arrested, this time on a charge of stealing a gold watch, and was sent back to serve the remainder of his term. Last summer Callahan was employed in, Cudahy's packing house in South Omaha, but left in July. Since then be. has had no regular employment. Callahan has admitted that he was a close friend of Pat Crowe for several years, but he denies all knowledge of the kidnaping. He says that be can prove an alibi, and that he has seven people who will swear to it. The Chief of Police says he does not fcxpect to catch Pat Crowe right away, but says he will know all the details of the plot in a few days. VALUE OF A WOMAN'S LIFE. An Ohio Judge Rules That It la Worth , Less Than That of a Man's. Akron, Ohio.?A verdict for $500 damages for the death of Mrs. Mary Hallon, who was killed In a wreck on Po/ifnrrt Sr fMpvelnnd Elec- I trie Railroad three years ago, nas Just been obtained by herv daughter. For his death In the same wreck, heirs of Justus Walborn, the conductor of the wrecked car, received $10,000 several weeks ago. In sustaining the verdict for $500 for Mrs. Hallon's death, Judge Hayden says ,the life of a woman under ordinary circumstances cannot be as valuable as the life of a man; that WalDorn was able-bodied and earning good wages for a young wife; that Mrs. Hallon was growing old and could not be of great use. Judge Hayden's decision has caused much comment. THIEVES COT TO THE MINE FIRST. wiion Rich Owner* Arrived to See the Big Strike the Gold Was Gone. San Francisco, Cal.?The Examiner says a rich deposit or pocket of gold was discovered recently In a Grass Valley mine. After the Superintendent had taken about $30,000 worth of rich quartz from the mine he boarded op the pocket, in which still remained a seam of gold valued at $15,000, and sent for the directors of the company. When they arrived it was found-the mine had been blasted out and the gold carried away. Detectives are searching for the robbers. Hawaii's Delegate in CongTess. I m ROBERT W. WILCOX. ?Th? first representative from our ne w island territory la the Pacific and his private secretary.) Seventy-tliree New Array Officers. The first class of the Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., was gradulted seventy-three strong. Area of Winter Wheat. The newly seeded area of winter wheat in the United States Is estimated at 30,282,504 acres. Four Dead in One Family. Another child in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Genone, of Vineland, N. J., is dead from scarlet fever. This makes four, of the six, Genone children who have succumbed to the disease. Nearly all the victims died within a few hours after beinf Btricken. Seven Mlneri Blown to Atom*. Seven miners, including the superintendent, were hlowu to atoms at t'10 Commerce Mine, in Graham County, Ariz., by the explosion of a magazine Labor World. Railroad traffic on the Portuguese frontier is tied up by a strike. L?ast year <y.?w men were empioyea in the fishing industry In Canada, the value of their catch being about $22,000.000. The strike of *2000 limestone quarry imen in Eastern Ohio has been settled, the operators conceding the demands of the workers. By a new law children of between twelve and fifteen years are not allowed to work In Russian factories lucre than six hours a day. : &': . . ... ' . , . RAIDERS KILL A WOMAN Masked Men Enter a Saloon at Milwood, Kan., and Open Fire. Victim the Wife of the Han In Charge ol the Place ? Four of the Slob Under Arrest. Jfilwooth Kan. ? In a raid on a "joint" here by twenty masked men, heavily armed. Mrs. Rose Hudson, wife of the bartender, was instantly killed. William Webb, one of the raiders, was shot throngh one arm, and two or three of his companions were slightly wounded. Young farmers composed the party. Two arrests were made, and much excitement prevailed over the prospect of a still mor? serious collision. When the men entered the saloon half a dozen shotguns were raised and discharged into the ceiling, and two men rushed upon Hudson with guns leveled at his head. He grasped the barrels and pushed them aside just as they exploded. Just then Mrs. Hudson entered and dashed toward her husband, who. she supposed, had been shot. Another gun was discharged, and the whole top of her skull was blown off. Hudson bore her to the rear room, where she died. Ten men are said to have been waiting under arms to help defend the "joint" from the expected raid, but when the band entered the place and began shooting the defenders fled. When the raiders saw Mrs. Hudson fall dying they, too, became frightened and hastily quit the place without attempting to destroy the liquors or nxHires, snerin javernaray, or i.t'iivpnworth, arrested John nnd Henry Wilson, farmers, and two others, on a charge of participating in the raid. TEN CIRLS VOW TO BE DUMB. Unique Lenten Penanrc iUnriertaken In Earnest?Have a Code of Signals Chicago.?Miss Helen Johnson, the daughter of a prominent business man of this city, ha;? hit upon a unique manner in which tc observe the Lenten season. She and a coterie of friends have agreed not to speak during Lent or to go shopping or mix with the world. The society -was formed at Blnghamton, N. Y., where Miss Johnson is visiting, and a similar one has been organized here. The formation of the society -was brought about by eight Blnghamton girls, a young woman from St. Louis and Miss Johnson. The ten young women, all of whom are prominent In Episcopal Church circles, put their heads together, and when Miss Johnson hit upon the plan of living through the season of-eack cloth and ashes in silence her announcement was hailed with delight. The young woman arranged upon a set of signals by which they may communicate with each other, and the code Is nearly as extensive as any of the secret societies'. For communication with those outside the charmed circle the member during the forty days of their penance will carry pads and pencils. ^AVAL HONORS FOR JERRY, A CAT One of the Albatross's Mascots Burled and His Mnrderer Fat to Death, San Francisco, Cal.?Jerry, the famous fighting black cat of the United States steamer Albatross, "who had seen sixteen years of service, was buried with full naval honors by the crew. , Tho nnt irho was cettincr old. was badly injured in a recent fight with another ship's cat called "the Black Gentleman." The crew doctored Jerry, and he was on the road to recovery when his enemy once more attacked him and killed him. The crew held a court-martial on Jerry's slayer and decided that he was guilty of manslaughter. They sentenced him to walk the plank, and having loaded him with scrap iron, carried out the sentence. Then they took Jerry, wrapped in an American flag, in a launch to Fort Baker, where he was buried. The chief mourner was Rear-Admiral Home, a big goat who has been many years on the ship. t33.853.429 IN DEFICIENCY BILL Bat of This Amount 821,350,000 Is Foi the Army. Washington, D. C.?The deficiency appropriation bill, the last of the great supply measures or tne liovernmem, was reported to the House by Chairman Cannon, of the Appropriation Committee. The estimates on which the bill are based, exclusive of reappriations, amounted to $13,929,512. The bill carries, exclusive of $21,350,000 reappropriated for the expenses for the military establishment, $12,503,429. The other main items are: Treasury Department. $2,246,872; naval establishment. S3,973,145; postal service, $2,414,556. The Isthmian Canal Commission receives $75,000 for continuing its investigations. Most of the other items oover departmental requirements reported since the regular appropriation bills were passed. CIRL SHOOTS HER FATHER. Old It to Save Mother's Life, Which Appeared in Dancer. Fort Wayne, Iud.?Bessie Slater, fifteen years old, shot anil probably fatally injured her father to save her mother from death at his hands. The little girl was taken to the police station, and after an inquiry Set free. Slater came home, threw v>his wife on a bed and proceeded to choke her. The little girl got a revolver and fired a bullet into her father's neck, inflicting a dangerous wound. 10,000 Typhoid Cases in Boer War. It was announced in the British House of Commons that from the befflnning of the Boer war to December 31 there had been 19,101 cases of and *23:*. deaths from typhoid fever in the British army in South Africa. Whipplnc Post For "WlTo Renters. A bill to establish llio whipping post for wife-beaters and wife-deserters will be introduced in the Illinois Legislature. The Chicago Bureau of Charities has recommended corpora* punishment for deserting husbands. 85,000,000 For St. Louis Fair. The bill appropriating $5,000,000 for the St. Louis Fair in 1903, was passed in the House of Representatives, hi Washington, by a vote of 191 to fortyone. The bill provides for a Government commission of nine members to nass on the site and sunervise the ex penditure of the Government's money. Mrs. Nation Sent to Jail. Mrs. Nation was tried twice in To peka, Kan., for the destruction of property, decision being reserved In one case, and in the other she was sent to jail in default of a bail bond for S20*v SERIOUS CRISIS IN CHINA United States Government Opposec to German Aggression. ORDERS TO GENERAL CHAFFEE To is Not to Talc* Part in Connt vo? Waldersee's Offensive Campaign?Thli Government Believes It Will Cans* Another Crisis and Terhaps Brine 01 a General War?Feeling in Wasfainfftoi Washington, D. C.?President McKinley has decided to take a determined stand against the expedition which Field Marshal Count von Waldersee, Commander-in-Chief of the allied forees In China, is organizing to clear out the Chinese Imperial troops In Chill Province, In which Pekin is situated! In the opinion of this Government the plans of Count von Waldersee, If jarrled- out, will canse another crisis In the relations of China and the Pow?p? nprhnns hrlncr on a general war which will result In the dissolution of the Empire and Its division among the nations that favor that course. So far this Government has taken no steps other than to make representations to the several Powers to secure their support in opposition to Waldersec's scheme. It Is understood that the character of the opposition which the United States will make to the expedition will depend somewhat on the attitude of some of the Powers. Should Great Britain, Japan and Russia, foi example, coincide with those of the United States it is likely that a formal protest against a hostile movement in China at this time will be addressed to Germany. The position of this Government la that while peace negotiations are in progress It 1b Inconsistent and unfair to engage in hostile operations against ' ^ j? ? ~_.,i toe uimiese. mujur-ueuuiui uuaucc, commanding the American forces 1e Pekln, was Instructed by telegraph not to participate in the expedition and additional instructions will be sent to him when the policy of the Govern ment has been fully determined. He has been directed also to use his influence against the expedition. It was from Major-General Chaffee that the Government learned of the German Field Marshal's Intentions. A dispatch on the subject from him wai the subject of conferences between the President, Secretary of War Root and acting Secretary of State Hill. Majorgeneral Chaffee said, it is understood, that Count von Waldersee was organizing an expedition to drive the Chinese troops out of Chill Province and had asked him to join. It did not take the President and his advisers long tc reach the conclusion that the declared policy of the United States was ir direct opposition to the objects of tht expedition and the instructions referred to were sent without delay. LOUISIANA NEGRO LYNCHED. He Had Butchered a Man, Woman an< Their Two Children. New Orleans, La.?A negro namec This Jackson was lynched at St. Pe ter, a station about twenty miles abov< the city. Jackson's crime was particularly fiendish. About 9 o'clock a. m he visited the home of Alexander Bourgeois, the engineer of the drainage machine on the Belle Point Plantation, some distance from the planta tion quarters, going there on a tricy cle. He told Bourgeois the managei wanted him, and the engineer mounted the tricycle with him. A little waj further on Jackson stabbed the engl neer in the back and then threw thf body lo a ditch. He then returned tc fha Vinuaa anH hnf/?harD<1 Af rfl "Rniir. geois and her two babies and ran aacked the house. Two boys were visiting the family and when they caught the firstglimps< of the attack on Mrs. Bourgeois thej hid In the woods. After the negro's departure they went to St. Peter and gave the alarm and returned with a mob of several hundred. The negrc was traced to his home, fully identl fled by the boys, and was hanged and his body riddled with bullets befon the Sheriff arrived. TRAMP BAKED TO DEATH. Pid Qone to Sleep in the Drying; Honsi of a Terra Cotta Works. Perth Amboy, N. J.?Alfred James, a Welshman, was baked to death in a drying house at the Perth Amboj Terra Cotta Works. His body was sc black that an employe looking in th? window thought it was a negro and sc reported to the night watchman. The man was cut of work and homeless, and had evidently gone into the fac tory to sleep. Cobbler's Scheme to Prevent Eviction. Joseph Custer, a stioemaker, " ob iected to boine evicted from his hom? at St. Louis, Mo., because of failure to meet bis rent and nailed bis furnlture and other belongings to tbe wallj so that the constable could not remove them. The constable, however, was an industrious fellow, and with his corps of assistants succeeded ic unfastening everything and placing 11 on the sidewalk after a hard day's work and the outlay of $5 extra foi hire of assistants. Morocco Settle* Claim. S. R. Gunmere, United States Consul at Tangier, has received from the Sultan of Morocco $5000 as compensation granted to the family of the late Marcus Ezagui, an American citizea who was jnurcto^^MFez last year. A Legal Hangin^^^^^k^^Carolina. George Tbomas^^^^HBAb^ted in the 0. The execution from the fact that Tb^^^^M^flBRH negro who has ever ^R|HHBH hanged in that State fo^^BXCfHH Indiana's Largest VV Mrs. John Jordon dicnHtt^^EB sis at Dr?ser, Ind. pounds, and was the teen children. She wa^EBfl^RBj woman In the State. Newiy Uleanii^HHB^^^H Iowa forty-six col^^^^^^^H Recruiting for service iHJD^HB ca is brisk in London. DHnM A new ordinance in Se^H^9a9 prohibits side entrances to^^^^^H The demand in New Y(HHH babies for adoption is gH^MQHj the supply. 1WWWI James Pbipps, of San Cal., claims to have sung^^^^Hn boy at Victoria's coronatlon^^^QHBj Id the past fiscal year banks were organized In nHoREM lino, making a total of tba State. |9^R9 ^H9H H FOUND DEAD IN WOODS A. Student Kills a Widow and Him| self at Atlanta, Ga. Set Tire to the Underbraah Before Death to Prevent Identification?Bodies There For a Week. Atlanta, Ga.?The dead bodies of Mrs. H. M. Wilson, a beautiful young widow, and William Hamilton, a student in pharmacy, who disappeared from Atlanta a week ago, were 'found one mile from the end of the Chattahoochee i\iver car line. The surroundings indicated that Hamilton had killed Mrs. Wilson, set fire to the woods near her body and then ended l.s own life. Both bodies were burned fearfully and rested upon breastworks thrpwn , up by the Confederates to stem the advance of the Federal Army on Atlanta In the Civil War. The bodies were found by two negroes. Mrs. Wilson was lying by the side of a fallen sapling. There was a bullet hole through her right hand and another In the right temple. The left foot was burned off, the'flames had destroyed her hair and her left hand was incinerated save for one finger, which bore a wedding ring. By the side of Hamilton was found a revolver and an empty tobacco box. There was a hole in Hamilton's left temple and a few inches from his left hand lay a small mirror, evidently used to direct the bullet. When Mrs. Wilson left her mother's home one week ago she wore only a morning gown of light material and a light weight dressing sack. She was I without a hat and her feet were incased in slippers. Hamilton came to Atlanta from Mobile. His tuition and expenses in college here have been paid by Mrs. H. M. Goodall, of that city, according to a recent letter to Mrs. Wilson, i It is known that Hamilton had i been devoted to Mrs. Wilson, but her parents assert that she gave1 no encouragement to him. Jealousy is the . supposed cause for the crime. Jealousy Ohms Two Deaths. St. Louis, Mo?In a fit of jealous 1 rage Charles E. Bent killed his wife and then committed suicide. Bent 1 went about the crime with great deliberation. After fatally wounding his wife he knelt before a mirror and 1 blew out his own brains. , MRS. EDDY AND VACCINATION. Urge* Christian Scientists to Obey the \ Law and Then Appeal to Gospel. Concord, N. H.?Prompted by erro1 neous statements which have appeared concerning the attitude of Christian , Scientists with respect to reporting ; contagion, Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy has issued a statement, in which she says: "I have always believed that Chria , H118. Vim BIKER O. EDDT. | tian Scientists should be law abiding. Rather than quarrel over vaccination I recommend that If the law demand an individual to submit to this process he obey the law and then appeal to the gospel to save nim from any bad ef| fects. | "This statement should be so inter| preted so as to apply, on the basis of PKrloflon QstfArtnc* fn fho cr nf [ contagion to the proper authorities when the law so requires." I 3000 DESERTED FAMILIES. 1 Kecreant Chicago Husbands Tax the Bureau of Charitea. Chicago.?According to the Chicago Bureau of Charities over 3000 families 1 were relieved in Chicago last year. Three different opinions of this are exi pressed. One holds that the propori tion of desertions to population is not ' increasing, but that a more thorough i study is bringing the facts into new i prominence. Another holds that laxity in mar! rlage and divorce laws is begetting a , widespread disregard to family ties and obligations, and that the remedy lies in stricter laws and their rigid enforcement. The third opinion maintains that the influx of large numbers of ignorant foreieners is responsible for an abuor . mal increase in the evil. I BRIBE-TAKING CAPTAIN DISMISSED. Quartermaster King's Case Is Left to Civil Authorities. i Washington, D. C. ? Court-martial proceedings for alleged acceptance of f a bribe from the contractor for work at Fort Morgan, Ala., will not be taken against Captain Cyril W. King, Assistant Quartermaster of Volunteers, as he has been discharged from the i service by direction of the President, to take effect February 15, 1901, "his i services being no longer required." Further proceedings under the charge upon which he was arrested will be left to the civil authorities. "Went to Bury a Live Girl. I D. J. Murphy, an undertaker of To|Ati|^Abio. 'while about to prepare the j^R^BHAfetwin brother and sister, McCanu and Eliza I as merely 111 :i trance, d to consciousness and Arl and Himself. Bp, aged twenty-two, ^Satally shot Maggie ^^ecn. and then hirn ^^kshlloli" Dead. "the Drumat Lancaster, B^^Ken years old he Q^^vces as a drum S^Bttle of Shiloh and hravknown by ^^HH^Kner of ShiraBHBiii s?ng and his the H i SYSTEI OF SLATER? Al II. IJ - O.-.l II I.. negroes neia in oiocKaaes unuer Form of Contract to Work. SOUTH CAROLINA COURT AROUSED Judge Benet, In Anderson County, Chargfa the Grand Jury to Investigate the Syrtern?On a Labor Contract, He Sayr, "Kren Women and" Little Babes" Ar? Imprisoned?Even Worse Than Slberl* Columbia, S. C.?Judge W. C. Benet has ordered a special term of the Coprt. of Scions to int-ft ar Anderson on March 7, to receive rlie report of the Grand Jury he has charged to investieate the "shameful nrnotlppn" 1 and "stockade scandal" of Anderson County. In charging the Grand Jury to make a thorough and fearlcsa investigation, the Judge said he had heard rumors of the conditions of slavery in that county, but the evidence brought but during the week in the trial of James Newell, a farmer, for the murder of "Will" Hull, a negro, "astonished the Court." The Judge stated that Hull had been killed while attempting to escape from Newell's stockade. and that he was not a convict, but was held a prisoner under a labor contract that gave the landlord every right ever claimed by a master over slaves. Hull had run away and gone home, where he was arrested, at the instance of Newell, by a constable, and by that constable taken to Newell's stockade instead of the jail, and turned over to Newell's guards. Later, when he aeain attempted escape, he was killed. The Judge said he was informed that not only men. but women and children, were held in this bondage. He read the labor contract in force in Aaaersoir, saying 11 couiu iioiu iu uu free country: no court would permit a man to barter himself as a chattel, and this they did here. The contract, besides allowing the use of force and subjecting the laborer to "plantation regulations," which permit whipping, contains this clause: "The said landlord shall have the right to transfer his interest in this contract to any other party, and I agree to continue work for said assignee the- same as for the original party of the first part." It is understood that the wealthiest men in the county are involved. The Judge urged the jury to see that justice was done to the negroes, who . should be considered the wards of whites. ,"There are said to be stockades in your county without a single convict!-yet filled with men guarded as convicts, worked as convicts, punished as convicts, and sometimes shot as If felons escaping from prison and' the custody of the law." RUSSIA HAS RETALIATED. Duties on Many American Product* Increased Thirty Per Cent. Washington, D. C.?Count Cassini, the Russian Ambassador, received a cablegram from the Russian Foreign Office confirming the report of the Issue of the decree imposing increased duties on certain American imports 1 into Russia, and took steps to inform the State Department accordingly. It is believed that a grave crisis has been reached in the trade relations between the United states and Russia. The immediate effect of the Russian decree, when it becomes operative on March 3, will be to increase by fifty per cent, the duties on American machinery, steel, and iron goods. These goods already enjoy two separate reductions, thirty per cent, being taken off from the general, and twenty per cent, from th? conventional duties. The articles referred to in the Russian decree are machinery and tools, and manufactures and products of cast iron ana sreei. Roughly stated, the United States is said to have exported goods of this description to Russia last year to the amount of about $30,000,000. The addition of fifty per cent, to the duty will, it is thought, prove practically prohibitory. St Petersburg, Russia.?The Finance Minister, M. de WItte, has proved his ability to .hit quick and hard. He sent to the Senate on Wednesday, for publication. an ordinance levying thirty per cent, increased duty on the most important American Imports into Russia. The ordinance was published in the Official Messenger, and becomes effective on March 1. ACCIDENT ON THE KEARSARCE. Shell Bnrst in Thlrteen-Inch Gnn, Doing Little Damage. Washington, D. C.?A mail report giving an account of the bursting of a i shell in the bore of cne of the thirteeninch guns of the United States warship Kearsarge has been received at the Bureau of Ordnance of the Navy Department. The accident occurred several weeks ago while the ship was at target practice off Pensacola, Fla. The damage resulting is said to be not serious and consisted mainly in the deforming or "gouging" of the tube. This will not prevent the gun being used again. It is probably the lirst .line, however, that an explosion has occuir.id in one of the thirteen-lnch guns. The pecuniary loss will not be large. Troops and Treanure For Manila. The transport Sheridan sailed from San Francisco. Cal., for Manila via Honolulu with 1400 soldiers, a large number of cabin passengers, more than $1,000,000 in treasure and 3000 tons of freight. Annt Peffjjy Jones, Aged 124, ia Dead. Aunt Peggy Jones, aged 124, the oldest person in Kentucky, died at Ghent a few days ago. Her oldest living child is Charlotte .Tones, just a century old. Charlotte is as active as a person of half her years, and cared for her mother during her last illness. Aunt Peggy lived to see five generations of her descendants. Fnblic Franchises Are Taxable. The Supreme Court of Michigan has decided that public franchises are taxable. Minor Mention. St. Petrsburg, Russia, has 1,439,000 population. A strike in Paris has threatened the supply of tailor-made gowns. California is enjoying an unusually heavy tourist travel this winter. There have been over 100 deaths from freezing in Canton, China. Medical inspection of school children has been adopted in Minneapolis. Minn. The new mint at Philadelphia is being sumptuously decorated with glass mosaic. / THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WASHINGTON ITEMS. Philip C. Knox, legal adviser of the Carnegie Steel Company, la President McKlnley's choice to succeed Attorney-General Griggs. Foreign interests are expected to oppose removal of countervailing duty on Russian sugar. President McKinley issued an order reuucing me export duties on uuDan tobacco fifty per cent, after April 1. The President and Mrs. McKlnley gave a dinner at the White House in honor of the Diplomatic Corps. . The Senate confirmed-all the President's nominations of Brigadier-Generals. The Administration fearsr the imposition of countervailing duties on Russian sugar may lead to commercial war between the United States and Europe. The President nominated former Congressman Charles A. Boutelle, of Maine, to be a captain on the retired list of the navy. In accordance with the recent act of Congress. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Miss Martha Ah Fong sailed from Honolulu, Hawaii, for Manila, P. I., to marry Lieutenant A. J. Dougherty. The Philippine Commission established a provincial government in the Province of Tarlac, Luzon. Hawaiian Delegate Wilcox appointed as the islands' first cadet at West Point Joseph K. Aea, a full-blooded Kanaka, eighteen^-ears old. a. r. uueuu, .acuug ,a.i.i.wriitjjr-v*t'uoral of Porto Rico, was given a $5000 judicial appointment in the Philippines by Secretary Root. In a fight at Sibuyan, Batangas, in Luzon? the Filipino General Malbas was killed. The principal government of the Province of Parapanga, P. I., was organized and officers were appointed. DOMESTIC. Edwin H. Knight, at Saco, Me., was acquitted of the murder of Sirs. Fannie Sprague. Miss- Frances Roberts' suit to have her father, Dr. C. H. Roberts, a financier, declared insane, was dismissed in the Supreme Court at Albany. After giving away all hia property, Darious Gifford, of Ira Hill, N. Y., hanged himself. The Industrial Commission, at New York City, began an inquiry into tne coal roads combinations. Fire nearly destroyed the business section of Jackson, Tenn., wiping out opera bouse, banks and the finest buildings. Drug stores, Chinese restaurants and disorderly houses In Worcester, Mass., were raided In a feform movement. Fifteen persons were arrested. Colonel Roosevelt denied clrc .stantially the sensational stories, of ills alleged conflicts with wolves and bears In Colorado. The packing bouses of the North and West will make a test case of the matter of taxes for their branches in Georgia. The headless body of a man was found In a vault at Columbus, Ohio. By a boiler explosion in Chlckasa, Ohio, John Desh was killed and his three sons Injured. Alexander W. Longfellow, a brother of the poet Henry W. Longfellow, died at Portland, Me., aged eighty-six. At the Rhode Island Department oT the G. A. R. annual encampment Commander Read spoke harshly of private pension bills, stating that the practice was to be strongly condemned. For soliciting money and jewelry from many suitors, obtained through a matrimonial agency, Elizabeth Karburick, aged twenty-one, of Bloomington, 111., was held for vlolaflng the postal laws. A seat in the New York Stock Ex-i (Vin tho hi <rh >Y U3 OUiU 1UI <pi/X|VWf v*iv u>QM est price on record. The bill legalizing the whipping of wife beaters was passed by the Delaware Legislature after a lively debate. Mrs. Thomas C. Piatt, wife of New York's senior United States Senator, iied in her apartments in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, at New York City. She was in her sixty-sixth year. Mrs. Harriet Matteson died at the Old Ladies' Home in Dunkirk, N. Y., aged 101 years. Fire in the Kimberly Mills of the Kimberly & Clark Paper Company, at Apnleton, Wis., caused a loss of $300,000". Great ice floes in the waters about New York City seriously impeded navigation. FOREIGN. Grip Is again epidemic in Berjin. The student agitation continued in Russian aiid wholesale arrests in Moscow were made under martial law. Five men were suffocated by white damp at the Bath Colliery in Fifeshh'e, Scotland. Intense cold in Europe if shown by the fast closing of the sound by ice between Denmark and Sweden. There is a growing feeling of optimism in British military circles that the Boer war is drawing to a close. The officers of Chang Chi Tung, the Viceroy of Hankow. China, tried and decapitated eight alleged Boxer leaders. Five Boer prisoners who escaped from Ceylon, arrived at a Crimean port on the Russian steamer to which they swam in the harbor of Colombo. Many lives and $1,000,000 in Bolivian money were lost, caused by Foods at La Plnz, Peru. The death of the King of Gojam, Abyssinia, by poison, was made known and the fact that two pretenders are lighting l'or the throne. Ambassador Choate, at London, declined to discuss the report that President McKinley has offered him the office of Attorney-General. " The Ameer of Afghanistan wrote a sympathetic letter to Lord Curzon, of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, on the occasion of the Queen's death. Before a brilliant company, the Princess des Asturias and Prince Charles of Bourbon were wedded in the royal palace in Madrid, Spain. Fearing serious disorder, Madrid authorities put the city under martial law, with General Weyler in control. Strathcona's Ilorse, from Cape Town. South Africa, rcaehed Graves end, England, on the steamer Lake Erie. Another epidemic of the plague is raging at Bombay, India. Of 2000 deaths within a week 022 were due to this disease. An earthquake occurred at Grazaleina, Spain. It was accompanied by imifi rumblincrs. The inhabitants were panic stricken and many build* ngs were damaged. The Governor of the Province of 3hen-Sl, China, is appealing for aid In )ehalf of 4,000,000 inhabitants of the lamlne-strlcken districts. I.... V A Boer Marksman. V/ , , .t>< The Boer officer, who was observed by others that day picking oat our officers, was for some tline within a few yards of him. Eraser saw no . les^ than five officers fall to bis an _ it _? erring aim,ana so.iong as tney saoweu the slightest signs of life, he contin^ ued to Are at them. In the Interval? the Boer marksman walked perfectly leisurely about, pipe in mouth, then stopped again, knocked out theashe* of his pipe, picked out another victim, and iaimed longhand deliberately at him. With the rank and file be did not concern himself-at all,, he only shot V at our officers. He seemed to feel no fear at all. A, lyddite shell fell just a -i little way behind him and burst. He turned his head and calmly watched it, then moved on with a contemptuous shrug of his shoulders. Fraaeif thought he must be a German; he wil * smartly dressed in long boots and breeches, his coat was off, and he wore ; a silk shirt with diamonds gleaming in his sleeve links.?From "Shadow? of the War." by Dosia Baghot. "So On." Lady Dorothy Nevill, one of the wit- ' tiest women in London society, is well A rr.V,,-. .rial* S KUOWn (O LUUBC Auiirntuua nuv < ? ? < London during the season. Some time ago there was r. rich and ambitions man in society who went in for entertains largely, and especially for making his parties interesting and representative. A marked falling off' hegan to take pi a op after a while In I he quality of bis guests. Lady Dorothy. commenting ci this deterioration, sold. "On.ce we usul to meet Browning nud Whistler and Henry James, and so on. rberc; but now we only meet? X so on."?Chambers's Journal. ' .Tvi The big Stanford stock farm at Palo Alto, Cal., is now arranged on a basil .3 where Is can be run almost forever, J the entire revenue going to the university. At the time of Senator Stan* ford's d^ath there wpre -403 horses >n the farm. That uumber has been systematically reduced till now there ace but 300 horses. Thfrc la n CIom of People Who are injured by the ns? of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the (grocery stores * a new preparation called Gbain-O, made of pure grains, that takes the plfce of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over V a* much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and 25 eta. per package. Try it. Ask for Gbaix-O. Statistics which hare been collected In Wisconsin show the average cost of raising wheat to be fifty-four cents a bushel and the cost of corn twenty-seren cents. In both cases there are Included Interest on the value of the u land, wlth%the cost of Implements and horses added in. t & TrjrOraln-Ot Try ?rain-0! Ask your grooer to-day to show yon a package of Gbaik-O. the new food drink that take* the place of coffee. The children may drink II without injury as well as theadult. All who try it, like it. Gbaih-0 bas that rich seal brow* of Mocha or Java, but. it is made from pun grains, and the most delicate stomach receive* it without distress. X the price of coffee. 15 and 25c. per package. 8old by all grocers. When there is company for dinner, a woman regards It as a feature of hospitality to scold her husband for forgetting to give one guost gra^y, and not insisting that anotner guest t.'l take beans. , m Lane'* Family ITIedtcine Moves the bowels each day. In order to ? be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50 cents. Hartford's new steam patrol wagon, which cos $2500, weighs 3000 pounds and is operated at an expense of two , and a half cents per mile. It is of twelve horse power, and runs from fifteen to twenty miles an hour. Coughing Lead* to Consumption* Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 60 cent bottles. Go at once, delays arc dangerous. While the established belt adapted to the cultivatlc-- of the prune extends Trom the State of Washington to Arizona, by far the larger percentage of the product is yielded by California. WHAT 15 oifAKiriS? J 4 ? I.J A dull, cnrooDing pain, accompanied by a sense of tenderness and heat low down in the side, with an occasional * shooting pain, indicates inflammation. On examination it will be found that the region of pain shows some swelling. This is the first stage of ovaritis, inflammation of the ovary. If the roof of your house leaks, my sister, you have it fixed at once; why not pay the same respect to your own body ? You need not, you ought not to let yourself go, when one of your own sex holds out the helping hand to you, and will advise you without money, and without price. Write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., and tell her all your symp mbs. a^xib Astost. toms. Her experience in treating female ills is greater than any other. living person. Following is a letter from a woman who is thankful for avoiding a terrible operation. " I was suffering to such an extent from ovarian trouble that my physician thought an operation would be necessary. "Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound having been recommended to me, I decided to try it. After using several bottles I found that I was cured. My entire ?ystem was toned up, and I suffered no more with my ovaries."?Mbs. Anna Aston, Troy, Mo. ur. 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