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African Ingenuity.
The novel methods resorted to by natives
on the east coast of Africa, about
fifty miles from Guardaful, to loot the <
steamer Indra, which went ashore ,
there, are told by the Aden correspondent
of the London Daily Express.
About tons of sugar had been
convoyed to tlie snore, it had been
packed into sheepskin?, which were
then inflated and floated ashore.
Pope Leo's Private ltoonm.
Out of the Vatican's 11.000 rooms ;
Pope Leo has reserved for his personal
use only three?a small sitting rootn, a
little dining room and a bedroom.
Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!
Ask your grocer to-day to show yon a pneks ]
age of Grain-O, the new food drink that tnko- ,
the place of coffee. The children may di-ink J
it without injury as well as the adult. All who
trvit.likeit. Gbais-0 has that rich seal brown <
of" Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure ;
grains, and the most delicate stomach receives
it without distress. ^ the price of coffee.
15 and 25c. per package. Sold by all grocers. '
I
Chickens are now plucked in a wholesale ,
m:inncr hv the use of nneumatie m.icliin
erv. There is a receptacle in which the 1
bird is placed after being killed, and into ]
this are turned several cross currents of |
air from electrical fans revolving at the i
rate of 5000 turns per minute. In the '
twinkling of an eye the bird is stripped
of its feathers, even to the tiniest particle
of down, and the machino is ready for another.
(
There In a Claim of People
Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently
there has been placed in all the grocery stores
a new preparation called Grain-O, made of
pare grains, that takes the place of coffee.
The most delicate stomach receives it without
distress, and but few can tell it from coffee.
It docs not cost over ^ as much. Children
may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and
25 cts. per package. Try it. Ask for Graix-O.
While frequent appeals are being made
in the United States for the preservation
of forest lands other lands are giving the
timber question serious attention. M. Melard,
Chief of the French Forestry Bureau.
points out in a report that the consumption
of timber in the world is greater
than the production of the accessible
forests with the obvious result that the
governments must soon take measures to
preserve their timber lands.
Coughing- Lead* to Conaumption*
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. 5
Co to your druggist to-day and fcet a sample o
bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles, j
Go at once, delays are dangerous.
Down in the "Queen City" they are f
boasting of a steel engraving of Cincin- j
nati. Onio, and suburbs, the river, boats
and bridges, with sections of the cities on 1
the Kentucky side, the largest engraved I
panoramic view of any city in the world,
representing nearly one year's close application
to its execution, by Charles F. Ullrich.
It adorns the lobby wall of the Gib- ,
son House, and has attracted much atten- *
tion and elicited many ecomiums. <
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l.anr't Family ftcdicine r
Moves the bowels each day. In order to be "
healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the 1
liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. ?
Price 25 and 50 cents. 1
A French investigator has come to the ?
conclusion that the brains of military and *
naval men give out most quickly. He
states that out of every 100,000 men of the
nrmv nr naval nrofessions 15)9 are boneless
lunatics. Of tKe so-called liberal profes- g
sions, artists are the first to succumb to
the brain strain, next the lawyers, fol- ?
lowed at some distance by doctors, clergy, 1
literary men and civil servants. t
Nervoie Pi
A Noted Boston "V
> its Symptoms ai
. Severe Cases Ci
Pinkham's Vegel
"I am so nervous! no one
isn't a well inch in my body,
are diseased, my chest pains me
am so weak at my stomach, and
palpitation of the heart; am lo
and backache nearly kills me, ai
" There is a weight in the low
down all the time, with pains
can't sleep, walk, or sit, and blue
the most miserable of women.'
This is a most vivid descripti
nervous prostration, caused by
diseased condition of the worn
No woman should allow hersi
of misery when there is no n
Williamson's case and how sh<
Two Bad Cases of Norv
"Dear Mrs. Pinkham ; ? I
was suffering such tortures
from nervous prostration that
life was a burden. I could
not sleep at all, and was too
weak to walk across the floor.
My heart was atfected so that
often I could not lie down at
all without almost suffocating.
I took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and it
worked like magic. I feel that
your medicine has been of inestimable
benefit to me."
Miss Adele Williamson,
^^^^lWN^BoulevardjAtlantajGa.
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V* L111111 which will b? paid to any per?o
i VuUUU
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Tlia Jurn Mountain* Cracking1.
The Neuehatol district of Switzerland
is threatened with a fearful
disaster. A huge mountain in the
Jura range has been so quarried
that its sidfs are cracking, and
the whole vast mass of more than
a million cubic metres is in motion.
Indeed, when the present frost breaks
up it is feared that the mountain will
fall into the valley.
Several towns are in imminent danger
of being wiped out, and the inhabitants
have been warned.
The Jura range is the block of rnounrains
rising between the Rhine and
the Rhone, and forming the frontier
between France and Switzerland. It
is really a huge plateau, 150 miles long
nnd thirty-eight miles broad. The
lieight of the mountains varies consid?rably,
but that of the Chasseron, near
Veuchatel Is 528G feet.
The cracks in the mountain which
threatens to fall are growing daily
more ominous, and create sounds lik?ned
to thunder. The authorities, of
course, can do little to prevent the impending
disaster, but they are trying
to avoid it and to save life. London
Mail.
Towing a Kaft of Ice.
One of the companies harvesting Ice
>n the Upper Niagara is using a novel
neans of getting its supply. Their ice
louses are located at a point on the
jank where cutting cannot be carried
-? ? J-.ir, !n Ka ArvAn
JLI lu UU vuuuigtr, ? unc uui iu uic u|/cu
it no great distance from the ice lifts
here is plenty of good ice.
They are marking off the ice in
jlocks, as usual, but instead of sawing
t into strips and running it into the
ifts, they detach great rafts of the
alocks by sawing, and then tow the
aft to a convenient place near the ice
louses, where it is cut up for packing.
The cakes as marked off are twenty:wo
by thirty inches in size and about
;leven inches thick. These are deached
in blocks of about 3000 cakes
ind floated out into the open water.
Grappling hooks are put behind them,
md by the aid of a tug the big raft
if ice is towed to a slip cut in the shore
ce near the house. The tug is making
egular trips back and forth to the
ields in the middle of the river. Ice
larvesters on the Niagara say there
lever was better ice than there is
iow.?Philadelphia Record.
Three Women Frozen Together.
In the Sella Pass, in the Dolomite
fountains, above Botzeff, three worn
;n from Fassa lost their way in a
snowstorm and were found frozen together
in a stonelike group. They had
o be laid on a sledge together and
(ragged into the valley and thawed beore
a great fire before they could be
leparated for burial. ? London Daily
sews.
An Atchison Mother's Scheme.
In order to break off a foolish love
iffair an Atchison mother has sent her
;irl to visit her sister, who married for
ove four years ago, and whose life is
horoughly wretched.?Atchison Globe.
rostratian.
Voman Describes
id Terrors.?Two
lrfid bv Lvdia E.
o xj
C
iver suffered as I do! There
I honestly believe my lungs
so, but I have no cough. I
have indigestion terribly, and
sing flesh; and this headache
id yesterday I had hysterics.
rer part of my bowels, bearing
in my groins and thighs ? I
i ? oh goodness! I am simply
*
on of a woman suffering with
inflammation or some other
b.
*lf to reach such a perfection
ieed of it. Read about Miss
5 was cured.
rous Prostration Cured*
" I had nervous prostration
terribly, caused by female
weakness. I suffered everything;
was unable to eat,
i 1_ A fi.
sleep, or worn.. Aiuer a nunc
I was induced to try Lydia E. 1
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and I really began to
improve on taking the first
bottle. I continued to take
the medicine, and am row
better in every way, and feel
like a different person. I am
simply a well woman."
Mrs. Della Reiser,
Marienville, Pa.
;ed with the National City Bank of Lyon, 96000,
n who can find that the abort testimonial letters
ihed before obtaining the writer's special per*
LYDIA K. PINK HAM MIDICIKB CO.
TOM IK A 8M OF FB
A Flood of Blazins: Oil Pours Dowr
ni r?.ri M |
un uien uaiuiici, in j.
TANKS BURST IN TRAIN SMAS1The
Town is Almost Wiped Out by i
Hashing Stream of Living Fire Awakened
by the Noise the Inhabit
ants Flee to tbe Hills?Destruction o
Property Estimated at 875,000.
Glen Gardner, N. J.?Fire borne 01
a river of oil rushing down the moilnI
ain at the foot of which this village i
located almost engulfed the town an<
destroyed a large section of it. Th
i catastrophe was the direct result of j
freight train wreck on the Centra
Railroad, near the town.
In the wrecked train were thirteei
oil laden cars, and the concussion o
the two sections coming togethe
caused two of the tanks to explode
The escaping oil took fire immediately
and formed a river of burning oil. whic!
ran down the grade into the town, set
ting fire to everything in its path. Th
fire was under control at noon, am
uie ureiiieu tuunuuru n# ...v.
the burning oil tanks the rest of th
day. The loss of oil is estimated a
80.000 gallons. Before tlie flames wer
extinguished property valued at abou
$7.r).000 was destroyed.
The wreck occurred shortly after '
o'clock, before many of the resident
were astir, and before they realize!
what the matter was the Masonic Hall
the finest building in the town: a bij
storehouse belonging to William Car
ling, containing a lol of now agricul
tural machinery, and eleven dwellin:
houses were the prey of the flames
The occupants of the dwellings barel;
escaped with their lives. Most o
those who escaped from the burnei
district fled to the big hill north of th
town. The 500 inhabitants of th
place made hurried preparations to fie
to the hills, but the burning oil rai
down the hillside into a mountaii
stream which carried it away froc
the town.
Appeals for aid to fire companies ii
Washington and Somerville were mad
and were responded to, the apparatu
being brought here on a special traiu
and after a hard fight the flames wer
checked.
The fire extended to the other elevei
cars, and before they could be draw!
away from the wreck one after an
other burst, until the contents of al
of them aided in increasing the sea o
flame that for a time threatened to en
gulf the town.
FOLLOWED HER LE?IR HUSBAND
Devoted Hawaiian Wife Join* Him i:
Exile on Molokai Island.
San Francisco. Cal.?From Honoluli
comes a story of a wife's devotioi
which led her to simulate leprosy ii
order that she might be sent to exil
on Molokai Island with her leprou
-husband. She was a beautiful nativ
girl, Luhia, the daughter of a chief
She married Lui Hulapn. a young nn
tive, who two years after the mar
rlage developed signs of leprosy. Se
cretly he made all preparations to gi
to Molokai Island and left a lette
for his wife, bidding her an eterua
farewell.
The young woman was inconsolnbl
and after vainly trying to be allowei
to go to Molokai she enlisted the serv
ice of a kahuna, or witch doctor. H
gave her a preparation that: wiiei
rubbed on the skin for several week
made it silvery white, as though sh
were in the last stages of leprosj
Then she applied to the health boan
to be sent to Molokai.
The doctors suspected her, as he
face showed no traces of the discas
and when pressed she admitted he
deceit. The doctors were so much im
pressed with her devotion that the;
set aside the rule and permitted he
to join her husband.
PHOPHET DIED PRAYING.
Pronounced an Impoxter, He Vowed ffo
to Stay on the Earth.
London. ? Advices from Mongc
Uganda, are the effect tLat Mu
lu'lzi, th- new Mohammedan Madi
who recently proclaimed himself ii
Uganda, appeared before the court o
the Sultan of Mbogo, who is ihe nom
lnal head of Mohammedanism in tha
country and sought to establish hi
claim as the successor of the Prophet
Mbogo did not appreciate a rival am
denounced him as an impostor befor
i' > assembled chiefs.
Muludzi tried * ; effect of eloqunce
but this was received -rith ridicule
whereupon he indignantly declare*
that he would no l:nger remain in :
world which was unht to - ceive him
He ascended a small hill outsidi
Mbogo compound, knelt and callei
aloud on Mohar-med after which hi
Instantly expired.
ANOTHER RUSSIAN SECT MAY COMI
50,000 Molukanes of Trans-Caucasia WisI
to Seek Homes In North America.
Washington, D. C.?United State.1
Consul-General Guenther writes fron
1 Frankfort to the Department of State
"It is reported from St. Petersburj
that the people belonging to the re
liglous sect called Doukhobors hav
lng left the Caucasus and found i
new home in Canada, the Molukanes
another Russian sect residing ii
Trans-Caucasia, also wish to emigrat
to North America. They numbe
about 50,000, and are located at Tidis
Jelsawetpol, Baku and Kars. The;
are known as industrious agricultur
lsts and they desire to emigrate oi
account of lack of land and increase*
taxation."
Burned Herself to Death.
Miss Eliza Burrs, a well-knowi
young woman of Murfreesborougb
Tenn., committed suicide. She saturatei
her clothing with coal oil and set fir
to it. She had been deeply distressei
aver the loss of a position as teacher ii
a school there.
? ~ ? A?rll.
ivruger ?v?v ? ?r
The Geneva correspondent of th
London Daily Mail says it is reportei
there that Mr. Kruger, if his liealtl
permits, -will visit the United States il
April.
Labor World.
The number of Krupp's employe
last May was 47,330.
Indefinite closing has been orderei
at the Colchester Cotton Mills, Bur
lington, Vt.
President Mitchell has declined th
gift of a home from the United Mini
Workers' Union.
The Atlantic Coast Seamen's Unioi
has decided to demand higher wage
in all ports of the Atlantic coast.
A strike of union pressmen has beei
ordered on the Chicago Tribune
Times-Herald, Record, News, Eveainj
Ffcst and Journal.
' THE NEWS EPITOMIZED I i
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WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Secretary Root and Adjutant-Gener'
al Corbln expect to visit the Philip- ;
pines in the summer for the purpose
of personally studying the military
situation.
Thn finriirnmpnt. through Secretary
I Play, declined to protest against the i
seizure of Manchuria by Russia. J
The reply of the British Government
? declining to accept the amended Hay_
Pauncefote treaty was made public.
> Attorney-General Griggs tendered
f his resignation to President McKinley,
and announced his plans for resuming
the practice of law.
a Germany is declared by a diplomat
in Washington to have inspired England's
rejection of the canal treaty. j
3 Director Merriam caused the arrest ,
* }f a Washington policeman on account j
e Df the alleged census frauds in Marya
land. t
I Contracts for furnishing the United :
States army with nearly a million
pounds of meat, for use in the Philip- y
II pines, were awarded to Chicago packf
ers.
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.. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
The Philippines Commission sailed
[? from Iloilo for Sulu to confer with the
; SuJtan.
p General Miles thinks the Cubans
3 will agree to the proposals of Conlj
;ress and the Administration at
e Washington.
* The work of raising the wreck of the
j Maine in Havana harbor was begun.
The postage rates between Cuba and '
p the United States will hereafter be the
p same as the domestic rates in both
^ j countries.
I, Governor Alien expects to leave ruib
to Rico in a fortnight for Washington
to conter with President McKinley.
I* A large number of insurgent officers
3 and men were captured by American
troops in Cavite Province, Luzon, P. I.
v. Congressmen returning from Havri
ana declare that Cuba must wait until
Congress meets again, and that
0 the wealthier classes favor annexa0
tlon.
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DOMESTIC.
a Although no date has yet been set
for the launching of the battleship
n Maine, now in process of construction
e at the Cramp Ship Yards, iu Phlladels
phia, It will take place in a few weeks.
' Members of the Woman's Sabbath
e Alliance, at New York City, inveighed
against compulsory Sabbath desecra0
tion at colleges.
n It was said that the Rogers Locomo!!
tive Works, at Paterson, N. J., were
j sold to a syndicate headed by August
Belmout.
The Minnesota State Senate defeated
an Anti-Cigarette bill, and there
were rumors of a boodle fund supplied
by cigarette manufacturers.
0 The village of Sing Sing, N. Y., gave
up its name for that of Ossi'ning, an ..
J Indian Chief of the seventeenth cen- '
0 tury. (
1 John Keith, aged ninety-nine years, *
e at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, choked 11
s while eating and died two hours later.
? . Fire, started by a stroke of lightning,
destroyed St. Andrew's Roman"'
; Catholic Cathedral, at Grand Rapids, f
L Mich. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $20,- ^
0 000. .
r The new torpedo boat Tingley was >,
1 launched at the Columbia Iron Works,
at Baltmore. Md.
A snHsfir>ri mnrfrrn??*? for $100,000 was l
c ??r- I
3 burned in St. Andrew's MetJiodist ,
. Episcopal Church at New York City. g
e Several Union Pacific trains were ?
a stalled by snowdrifts in Nebraska, [
s where - blizzard was raging. b
e A one-legged man robbed Joseph C
' Scliultz, at Chicago, and fifteen cripJ
pies were arrested, but Schultz could
not identify his man.
1 Minnesota was reapportioned into
l nine Congressional districts.
,. The City Hall at Rutland, Vt., was
9 destroyed by fire. All the records were
j saved. The loss is $30,000/
By a compromise decree the celebrated
Thompson win case, involving
$1,300,000, was settled at Brattleboro,
Vt., the heirs receiving $200,000 and
1 the rest going to form a trust fund for
charity.
>, The applications of forty Japanese
* for citizenship papers at San FrancisI,
co, Cal., werr refused.
J Miss Hattl Mills, a rich actress
' ended her life with carbolic acid, a.
* Troy, N. Y.
* After blindness of twenty-eight
r>.i_ T-? _ i j.: ir,i
. | years vaienine ouiz, oauiuiuif, iuu.f
j had his sight restored.
e Fire Chief Webber, of Boston, Mass..
was retired on half pay because of
lf injury to his eyes.
The battleship Massachusetts ran
1 aground at Pensacola, Fla. She is not
i damaged.
It is proposed by a syndicate to build
s the world's-largest dry docks on flats
I between Bedloe and Ellis islands, at
e New York City.
r FOREIGN.
The bubonic plague is reported to
II be spreading at Cape Town, South
Africa, and in India.
3 The Russian Government decided to
3 adopt more lenient measures In the
cases of students charged with riot.
* It was reported that a mine was dlsr
covered under the palace of the Czar,'
^ at Tzarskoe-Selo, Russia.
; Boer raiders succeeded in capturing
many cattle in Zululand.
e It is believed In Mexico City that
r American railroads are absorbing the j
i, great lines of Mexico. t
7 Mr. Matsul, Secretary of the Japan- j
'* ese Legation in London, declared that
a war with Russia must come now or '
J later, and that his Government would i
not hesitate to strike now.
The British General French defeated
several Boer forces in his campaign,
, taking 1200 prisoners, and many guns
j and cattle. 1
e Arthur Chamberlain, son of the
i British Colonial Secretary, received an ,
a award of $1000 damages in a suit for j
libel against the London Star.
The Rev. J. Stonehouse, of the Lon- ,
don Missionary Society, was murdered
e by brigands near Tien-Tsin, China,
i J.?pan Is reported to have determined
b to oppose, at all costs, any agreement
between Ruesla and China as to territory
contiguous to Korea. ;
The Germans defeated the Chinese
imperial troops in the passes on the
? Chib-li-Shansi frontier.
, Queen Alexandra of Great Britain
1 arrived at Copenhagen, Denmark, on a
visit to the KInir. her father.
The third snowfall of the season is
e causing serious delays In traffic
e throughout Austria.
Earl Cadogan, Lord Lieutenant of
1 Ireland, authorizes the statement that
3 he will retain office for another year.
Fifteen lives were lost In floods in
Italy.
' Philip Botha, brother of the Boer
Commander-in-Chief, was killed In
battle in South Africa.!
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mm A PRISONER
ieneral Funston Captures the Insurgent
Leader.
IARING PLAN 13 SUCCESSFUL
ha Filipino Chief Brought to Manila by
the Intrepid Volunteer Soldier on
Board the Gunboat Vleksburg ? Waa
Surprised In His Hiding Place in the
Province of Isabella, Island of Luzon.
Manila.?General Frederick Funton's
daring project for the capture
f General Emilio Aguinaldo in his
liding place in the province of Isalela,
island of Luzon, has proved
ompletely successful.
Aguinaldo was captured there
larch 23.
The United States gunboat Vicksurg,
Commander E. B. Barry, with
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GENERAL FREDEE
- (The captor of Agulnald*
Jeneral Funston and Aguinaldo on
)oard, arrived here Thursday morna?.
Several reports have been received
rom time to time during the course of
he campaign in the Philippines that
iguinaldo was dead, and several ef*
orts have been made to capture him,
)ut up to the present time it was not
mown certainly whether he was alive
>r dead.
Early in the war there was a story
hat he had been shot while crossing
. river, and his body had been seen
loating away. Late in 1899 Major
'eyton C. March, of the Thirty-third
nfantry, conducted a long search for
lim through the Benguet Mountains.
iut finally abandoned the pursuit, and
EMILIO iOUlNALDO.
(The capturcd Filipino leader.)
n May last It was reported that the
Filipino leader, driven into the woods
)y Major March's command, had been
ilain by the savage Igorrotes. Withn
a few weeks, however, he was said
o be personally organizing a large
irmy in the north.
A dispatch from Manila on June 6 1
Germany Confiscates American Frnlt.
Advices from Consul-General Guenther
at Frankfort, Germany, state
that under the German law dried
fruits which have been treated with
sulphur are considered injurious to
health and are subject to confiscation,
[n several instances this actually has
taken place.
Anfttralla'g H\g Wheat Crop.
It Is officially estimated that the
wheat yield o? Australia will reach
17.790.570 bushels, or an increase of
2,552,(J2S upon last year's yield.
Newsy Brevities.
Bombay, India, shows a decline in
population of 50,000 in ten years.
fionoTrn about 3D 000
lucic aic tu vivuv ?- ? ? ?
French, who show a disinclination to
become Swiss citizens, to escape certain
duties.
A British punitive expedition has
burned the capitals of the two marauding
Emirs in Nigeria and released 200
slave women.
Arrangements exist in Athens for
annual special excursions for archaeo-1
loglsts to the Greek Islands and the
Poleponnesus.
last told of the return of Major March
from his long chase after Aguinaldo
in the highlands of Cagayan. The
men were worn out by their hardships,
and only thirteen of the fifty horses
they had out with them survived. Natives
reported the insurgent chief as
wounded in the shoulder. Major
\Tnrr>h hnwpvpr. had a Daekaoe of
letters raptured In the baggage of a
notorious leader which he had seized.
Aguinaldo's wife and sister wefe
captured on January 1 of last year at
Talabin, Province of Bontoc, by
Major March. Four rebel officers,
eighteen of their men and one American
surrendered with the women.
His mother was also captured. One
son died during the flight of the
family before the American troops.
The women have been well treated in
Manila.
general funston's career.
The Adventnronii Little Kansan is a Veritable
Soldier of Fortune.
General Frederick Funston is a veritable
soldier of fortune. He was
born in Ohio Id 1806. and was raised
on a farm near Iola. Kan., to which
his father removed when he was four
years old. He attended the Kansas
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JCK FUNSTON.
the insurgent leader).
University at Lawrence, but left after
finishing his sophomore year.
Mr. Funston was employed on a
newspaper at Fort Smith, Ark. It
was not very profitable. He then
went on a botanical expedition to
Death Valley in the following year
and later to Chilkoot Pass in a blizzard.
At the head of the Yukon he
built a canoe, in which he went down
to the Klondike country, where Dawson
City is now situated.
General Funston two years later
made arrangements with the Cuban
Junta to enlist as a lieutenant-colonel
in the Army of Liberation, joined a
filbustering expedition and landed at
Camaguey in August of 189G. He became
second in command in charge of
artillery to W. Dana Osgood, and had
much hard fighting. Osgood was killed
by a Spanish bullet, and Funston assumed
command. At Bayamo he led
a cavalry charge with 500
mounted Cubans attacking 2500 Spanish
infantry. ' At Las Tunas Funston
was shot and had his horse killed
under him. The horse fell on him.
Although Funston was badly wounded
he crept to the headquarters and
protested against the execution of fifty
Cuban guerillas, who were captured,
fighting under the Spanish flag.
Funston returned to New York City
in 1898. When war with Spain was
declared Funston at once offered his
services to President McKinley. He
was commissioned colonel of the
Twentieth Kansas, and was afterward
offered a position oil General Miles's
staff, because of his knowledge of
Cuba.
Funston fought through the Spanish
war and then returned to Kansas,
later going to California, where he
was married. Six hours later he
sailed with his regiment for Manila.
The Kansas soldiers who bad written
home about General Funston told
of how, although suffering from a
lame leg, he slept on the firing line,
and how he led the charges. lie was
with his regiment when it charged
into Caloocan and was the first white
soldier to enter Malolos. He was the
first American officer to cross the
riv^er at Calumpit.
General Funston was cuargea in
May. 1900, with summarily executing
two natives in the Province of Zambales.
It developed that General
Funston caught the natives in the very
act of murdering bound Macabebe
scouts, and his action in view of the
circumstances was considered justifiable.
Killed Himself With Dynamite.
Samuel Hagerty, a prosperous farmer,
at Payne. Ohio, took a quantity of
dynamite and went to the field, announcing
his intention to blast stumps.
Later a violent explosion alarmed the
neighbors, and on Investigation they
found a few scattered remnants of the
man. An inquest developed the fact
that he had placed the explosive in a
large stump, sat thereon, and deliberately
lighted the fuse.
Seal Catch Close to 400,000.
Sealing steamers which have arrived
at St. Johns, N. F., report that all
the other ships have from 10,000 to
2."),000 seals each aboard. The complete
success of the season is now as
sured. The whole catch is likely to
approach 400,000, being the largest in
twenty years.
China Did Not Signed Agreement.
China had not signed the agreemeut
with Russia respecting Manchuria
within the time set for its acceptance
or rejection.
To Honor a Brave Englishman.
The bronze tablet to be set up by
the Navy Department at Santiago.
Cuba, in memory of Frederick Wollaston
Ramsden, has just been finished
at the Washington Navy Yard
and is now ready for shipment. As
Consul-General of Great Britain
Ramsden rendered conspicuous aid tc
Hobson and his little band of heroes
by way of allieviating their sufferings
during imprisonment.
Smallpox In Forto R co.
Smallpox, to some exten;, is prevalent
in Porto Rico.
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Many Persons in and Near Birmingham,
Ala,, Killed. 1
GREAT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY ij
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The Storm Sweeps Through the City,
Leaving a Path Seventy-five Yards
Wide, and Then Continues Its Work
of Destruction In tho Suburbs? Militia
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Called Out to Patrol Ruined District.
Birmingham, Ala.?The most awful ,i
calamity that ever befell the city of
Birmingham occurred Monday. A tornado,
devastating in its effects, traversed
Jefferson County, of which Birmingham
Is the chief city, laying
waste wide areas of property and dejtroying
at the least calculation twenty
lives and injuring more or less severely
over fifty persons. '
The following white persons were
killed i-. the progress of the storm in
the city of Birmingham: Mrs. Robert
J. Lowe, wife of the Chairman of the
State Democratic Committee; a onemonth-old
child of Mrs. Lowe; Dr.
George C. Chapman, a leading physician,
who was killed by a telephone
pole, which struck him as he was entering
the store of J. Minter in order
to avoid the storm; J. Alexander, a
merchant; W. P. Dickerson, and Mamie,
the daughter of B. B. Hudson.
The following negroes were killed:
Margaret Sellers, nurse of B. B. Hudson's
daughter; F. Myro, a collector; ]
Carrie Hudson, eight years old; Mar
garet uievins, unrrie tieory, ten
years old; Lizzie Goodloe, eight years' .
old; Frances Stodemire, ten years old,
and Lizzie Glenn.
In the town of Irondale, Ave miles
from Birmingham, the following . J
deaths occurred: G. W. Bardiner, a
carpenter, and Mamie and Clarence
Hunter. These three persons were in I
a storehouse which was blown down
and were buried in the debris. They/ !
were dead when found.
It is known that every town in Jef- ;
ferson County, which contains a population
of 150,000 persons, was visited
by the storm and that damage was
done in each comumnity. There is not
a church left standing intact in Pratt .
City, and the schoolhouse at that
place was also wrecked. The schoolhouse
at Brighton, near Bessemer, ^ras
blown down and a number of the pupils
were Injured. Every storehouse
in the town of Irondale was razed.
The storm came from the southwest,
and was evidently of the same
character and origin as the tornadoes. '
which have destroyed the State of
Texas and adjoining territory. The
path was wide, except in the city of
Birmingham proper, where the path
was rather narrow, confining Itself
to the very lowest portion of the
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dred houses, and it Is a miracle, ft ,
would seem, tbat more persons were
not hurt. In a number of Instances
the houses were swept away and not
a.stick of furniture was left, but the
occupants found themselves unhurt.
Several hundred houses were left exposed,
and the Sheriff promptly ordered
out the military, and three companies
were on guard to prevent spoliation
of the ruined property. In a
number of cases the occupants of the
houses were burled under the debris,
but managed to crawl out without
strlous injury. The negroes were the ,
worst sufferers, their cabins being
blown to the ground by the dozens.
Green Thompson, a negro, who attempted
to rob one of the ruined residences
was killed on the spot by one
of a number of men who witnessed
his act. No effort was made to ascer-.
tain the name of the man who killed
the negro.
The path of the storm is clearly
marked. On the north side of Avenue
H, up which it traveled, all the houses y
are standing, while on the other side
for a solid mile, there is scarcely a
house to be seen. The trees on the
storm side were blown down, and
those on the other side are filled with
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deDris. presses, suins, uuu ?ui? ?*?
tides of wearing apparel are In the
highest branches.
Bessemer, Pratt City, Ensley. North
Birmingham, Brighton and other suburban
towns were visited by the
storm, and in each of these places
much destruction was wrought. In
the city of Birmingham proper the
money damage is estimated at $200,000.
Ten years ago a storm visited Shades
Valley, just across the hills from Birmingham.
but this catastrophe in
the narrow path of Jones Valley, in
which Is Birmingham, is acknowledged
to be the worst this region has
ever suffered.
Gale Tarns Over a Train.
Columbus, Ga.?A mixed train waa
blown off of the Central of Georgia
Railroad tracks one mile east of Buena
Vista, thirty-seven miles from Columbus.
No one was killed.
Tornado Strikes Michigan.
Kalamazoo, Mich.?A tornado struck
the town of Pavilion, a small village
southeast of Kalamazoo, wrecked a
t, lintiooo nnpnnfod trpf?S_ tOl'e
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down telegraph poles, and did much
other damage. Many persons were
njured.
Indiana Suffers Also.
Crawfordsville, Ind.?A severe wind
storm, amounting almost to a tornado,
and accompanied with electrical disturbances.
swept over East Fountain
and West Montgomery Counties. The
loss amounts to thousands of dollars,f
barns, fences, trees and wind pumps'
being blown down. No lives were
lost.
Insane People Must Not Marry.
The State Senate of Minnesota has
passed the bill prohibiting the marriage
of insane, epileptic and idiotic
persons, and requiring: a medical certificate
from all applicants for marriage
licenses.
Slew Babes anil Herself.
Made desperate by family differences,
.Mrs. Nathan Townsend, of Cass
City, Mich., poisoned herself and her
two children, a girl aged eight years,
and a boy aged ten, with laudanum.
All three died.
Miles'* Son at West Point.
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Isnerman auies, tne omy suu ui uiCutenant-General
Miles, has passed hie
entrance examinations for admission
to West Point, and "will begin his four
years' course for an army commission
on June 30 next. He was appointed
at-large by President McKinley last
July.
Safe Robbers Get 87000.
The safe in the combination banft
and drug store of Holt & Co., at Gueda
Springs, Kan., was blown open and
robbed its cash contents. The robbers
secured about $7000 and got
away without leaving any clfw. ....
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