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(tnnnn nmrri ruun uiuto i LANGUII [An Interesting Lettei 2 (| yV/55 (pfy i della. i U Ufe Miss Delia Janveau, Globe Hotel, Ottav known French Canadian families in Canada. Co., of Columbus, Ohio, she says: "Last spring my blood seemed, cli ached and 1 /ell languid and tired a for me, but a friend advised me to tr to state thit I found it a wonderful c In three weeks I was like a new wum buoyant, light and hippy and wltho liable family medicine." Adia Brittain, of Sekitan, 0., writes: "After- using your wonderful Peruna three months I have had great relief. 1 had continual heaviness in my stomach, was bilious, and had fainting spells, but they have all left me since using Peruna." ?Adia Brittain. If you do not derive prompt and satis oromoPromptly Head mm?n? ll^Health at HomTH.M "i Jimi through Hires Rootbeer?a E lTC0 m delightful preparation of iiWjJ yTH roots, herbs, barks and W|l i^'MI berries. Nature's own pre- tfioKH I-'SjM acription. 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Some years ago Lord Rosebery said these remarkable words: "There is one 6ignal quality which I specially admire in the policy of Russia: It is practically unaffected by the life of man or tho lansp of time?it moves 011. as it were, by its own impetus, and it is silent, concentrated, perpetual and unbroken; it is, therefore, successful." WUconftin's Centenarian. Mrs. Susan D. Crossiuan, of Beloit, Wis., recently celebrated ber 100th birthday She was born in Massachusetts, her father having been one of the Concord minute men and after, ward a major in the Continental Army. She has lived in Wisconsin since 184S and has fifty descendants, representing five generations. FASTEN A" Sick Kidneys make people look oldei days of life; fasten the marks of Doan's Kidney Pills is the Aching backs are eased. Hip, back, and loin pains overcome. Swelling or the limbs and dropsy signs vanish. 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For its special purpose the old engine has been pronounced more economical than many modern engines, and it Is likely to do duty many years more. Hard to Cure. An inhabitant of Creglingen, in Wurtemberg, whose name is Fritz Kottman, claims to be the champion Benedict of the world. He has been married no fewer than eleven times. His first three wives died young, the next two were drowned, one committed suicide, three died In succession, the tenth was gored to death by a bull, and he has just recently married the eleventh, who had a leg cut off by a railway train .last year, so that the wedding had to be postponed till now.?New York Press. The Oldent Woman in the World. Another contestant for the honor of being the oldest woman in the world has been found. This is a Mrs. Aune Cliarsley, who lives in Cape Colony. In In 1781 n ml Oilt; VY US UUIU Ui ?" has documents to prove it. Therefore she is 122 years old. Has Kaiaed a Large Family. Mrs. Lvdia Luntham, of Chester, Fa.. recently celebrated her ninetythird birthday. In the family reunion were sixteen children, seventy-live grandchildren and an even hundred great-grandchildren. During 1902 the lifeboats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution were launched 28'J times and saved 43f? lives. QE MARKS. than they are; hasten the evening premature old age. The world over recognized Kidney Specific. | Cambria, Wtomino.? Previous to taking ; the sample of Doan's Kiducy Pills I could I scarcely hold my urine. Now I can sleep all night ami rarely have to get up, and that aching across my hack :t little above my hips is i gone.?Isaac \V. Stephens, Cambria, \Vyo. FREE-TO BETTER KIDNEY HEALTH, j 5 11 S 'Pills, xMM ; >LA ?Tr? c>? ivT oa? - | : FoSTER-MlLBURN" Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 1 j Please send me by mail, without charge, j trial box Doiin's Kidney Pills. : Kame . I Post- office...~ j State ?? (Cut oat coupon on dotted 11dm and mail to | Foster-MiJburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.) | Medical Advice Free?Strictly Confidential TOM MIGHT TIE UP Western Railroads Pay $170,053,000 For New Rolling Stock. ro MOVE GREATEST WHEAT CROP Traffic Managers Believe Tliey Will Be Able to Handle It, Bnt Cannot Make a Positive Tredlctlon?Coal Strike Contributed to tlie Block Between the East and West Last Fail. Chicago.?Ia view of the Government's forecast of the biggest winter ' wheat crop in the history of the country, and the prospect of an immense acreage of spring wheat and corn, the serious question is being asked, Will the railroads be able to move the crop and at the same time take care of their other traffic without a repetition of last fall's freight congestion? So far not a railroad man in the West is bold enough to predict that there will be no such hindrence of traffic, but traffic managers and other officials talk hopefully and cite various reasons why they believe the experiences of the past season will not be repeated. It is pointed out that freight traffic is - . 1 so uncertain ana irregular ?uu unuu.iu business so peculiar that a congestion is likely to result temporarily at any time, but, looking at the situatiou in its larger aspects, traffic observers disbelieve there will be a widespread and long-continued interruption of public carrying operations the coming year. Briefly stated, here are the reasons for a hopeful view: First?Car capacity and traction power are being greatly enlarged. Second?Terminal facilities are undergoing great extension and improvements. Third?Better methods for returning and utilizing empty cars are being formulated. Fourth?There probably will be no big coal strike and attendant consequences to upset calculations or disturb natural movements of freight. Fifth?Elevator and storage facilities will be bettor than heretofore. Sixth?Much freight hitherto passing through Chicago to the East will be diverted to Canadian and Southern lines, going to tne Aiiuuut; uy i?u through the provinces, and by water from New Orleans. Seventh?Roadbeds are being hardened, grades reduced and curves eliminated, thereby increasing the drawing power of locomotives. The figures show that tbe in tho last three years the roads in question have spent a total of $170,053,000 for locomotives and freight cars, counting the average cost of locomotives $17,000 and of freight cars $1000. Based on the tables prepared by the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission, these returns show an increase of equipment of nearly fortythree per cent, in locomotives and forty-one per cent, in freight cars, while in power and carrying capacity the new equipment marks an advance of almost half as much again as these percentages indicate. The reason for this is that the average tractive power of locomotives, as it is callcd by railroad men, has increased from 17,308 in 1900 to 23,034 in 1903, and that the capacity of the freight cars has been enlarged similarly. The following table shows the number of locomotives and cars under construction at the present time, and what the total equipment will be when these are completed and put into commission: Equipment. Under contract. Total. Engines 908 2,709 Box cars 7,027 40.097 Coal cars 2,373 12.103 Stock cars 300 4,832 Refrigerator cars... 200 3,032 Flat cars 1,540 5,806 Ballast cars 300 1,724 The foregoing table is made up from the returns of fourteen roads. Other Chicago systems not included in the above table report the following total equipment, covering the last three 3'ears: Locomotives 350 I * * ' OA f'reignr cars o?,wiu In addition to those there have been added since 1900 nearly 12,000 other cars, known as gondolas, hoppers, cinder cars, tank cars', ore cars, vegetable cars anil the like. "Western roads nnd the big Eastern lines are doing their best to anticipate nnd avert another congestion," said Mr. Thompson. "The situation last fall and winter was an abnormal one, on account of the big coal strike in the East. It brought abort a condition which hindered the handling of all other kinds of freight. The grain traffic, corn and wheat together, does not in itself cause a congestion. The trouble comes when there is a sudden and prolonged rush of all kinds of freight. I don't look for great difficulty in handling the coming crops of corn and wheut. Much depends. of course, on market conditions and the eagerness to deliver grain on a good demand at attractive prices. With anything like a uniform distribution of the grain movement through the delivery period there is nothing to fear. The new winter wheat crop will not begin to move in quantities before the middle of July or the lirst of August." The British Food Snpply. A royal commission has boon appointed to inquire into the question of Great Britain's food supply in time of war, the Prince of Wales being a member and Lord Balfour of Burleigh the Chairman. Tho Sultan Again "Warned. Representatives of the powers at Constantinople, Turkey, have again urged on the Sultan the necessity of suppressing the disorders in Albania. The Austro-Russian entente as regards the Balkan situation remains unbroken. American iientlst* IJarreil. American dentists iii Dresden, Saxony, have been forbidden to use a doctor's degree or sian where their degrees have been obtained from Chicago institutions. I'umlne Kill* Chinese by Thoimnnris. The famine in Kwan^-Si Province, in China, is killing tens o? thousands of persons, and Avoincn mere are seuing themselves into slavery to escape starvation. The American Consul at Canton has inaugurated a. relief fund. Germany Suffers From Snowstorm. An unusually heavy snowstorm has caused much loss and suffering throughout Germany. Mmderea* Denied New Trial. A new trial was denied Mrs. Lena Lillie, who murdered her husband, a grain broker, at David City, Neb. FATAL CRASH OF TRAINS An Express Strikes a Freight at Red House, N. Y. Bodies of the Victim* Found in the Wreck. age?Many Person* Injured?Flmnos Destroy I'aiieucer Coaches. Jamestown, N. Y.?Eight persons are dead and ten are injured, three of them ( seriouslj', as a result of a collision be* tweeu an express train and a freight I train on the Erie liailroad near" Ked House, N. Y. Of the dead only one, Robert H. Hotchkiss, of MeaJviile, a brakeman, was, identified. Seven bodies, apparently those of three men, three women and a child, were burned beyond recognition in the fierce tire which followed the wreck. The women are said to have boarded the train at Youngstown, and to have come from Pittsburg. It. S. McCready, mail weigher, of Meadville, Pa., and Frank Barlilte, of Jamestown, a traveling salesman, were missing, and it was likely two of the unidentified bodies were those of the two men. The wrecked passenger train was a vestibuled limited express, known as No. 4, running from Chicago to New York, and was made up of Engine 545. iu charge of Engineer Samuel Cook and Fireman Fred Bell, of Meadville: one combination car, two day coaches, three sleepers and two private cars. It was derailed by striking a freight train which "w'as entering a silling at I'od House. The passenger engine and some of the coacnes ran on beside the track for a distance of three rods and crashed into a small wooden structure used as a feed store and school house. The tirst half dozen cars of the freight were wrecked. They were box cars loaded with coal. The coal filtered in anions the wreckage. All but three of the cars of the express followed the engine, and the whole mass of wreckage was soon in flames. The combination car, two day coaches and two sleepers, besides several freight cars, were consumed. There is some dispute : . to the cause of the wreck. The passenger train was running east, and the freight, which was westbound, had orders to go into the siding at Rod llouse and wait for the passenger train to go by. The siding is about a mile and a hail long, and there is a tower of the block system near the west end. The freight was drawn by two engines. Some trouble was experienced in entering the siding, and the foremost engine of the freight was sent in along the siding with a Jagman to hold the express. It is alleged *bat the operator in the tower?Lawrence Vale, a boy covpntoon vpnr.q old?saw the lieht en gine of the freight which was bringing up the flagman, and supposed the freight was on the siding behind it. With this mistaken idea, it is thought. Vale displayed a white signal toward the passenger train, indicating to the engineer that he bad a clear track. The engineer on the passenger train failed to see the flagman sent out from the forward engine of the freight train, and saw only the clearance signal from the tower. The train ran toward the east end of the siding at high speed, struck the second engine of the freight train .iust as it was about to clear the main line, tearing off the cylinder and part of the cab, and jumped the track MERCER DECISION SUSPENDED. Action of Court Release* Over S4,00n,000 In May Dividends. St. Paul. .Minn.?juage sanDorn, in the United States Circuit Court, has granted the application of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railways that the decree enjoining the Northern Securities merger be suspended, pending the outcome of the appeal to the Supreme Court, insofar as it prevents the paying of dividends by these railroads to the holders of Northern Securities stock. The decision releases over $4,000,000 in May dividends. St. Paul. Minn. ? Counsel for the Northern Securities Company and other defendants filed their appeal from the decision of the United States Circuit Court in the railroad merger case. Thirty-four points of error are alleged. Exceptions are noted to every paragraph in tlie decree, and the court is held to be in error in rendering any decree save one for dismissal of the petition and proceedings. BOYS BURIED BY LANDSLIDE. Uiey Went to tlio KlversMo to Die an<V .lVere Overwhelmed. Holyoke, Mass.?Bernald and Walter, sons of Charles Axmann, aged thirteen and ten years, respectively, were buried under a landslide in view of their home and were suffocated -to death. The boys left their home near Ingleside, saying that they were going to visit relatives across the river. Inn?%/1 "n*nnf fn I SlUUU, Llic^ 1UVU ouu? V13 tinvi It vuc iu play beneath a high bank of sand which the river had shelved. When the boys did not come back men dug beneath the bank and found the bodies, which were buried beneath several tons of earth. BROKER SENT TO PRISON. E. J. Dunning to Serve Not Lam Than Five Y'^rn. Boston.?Edward J. Dunning, the Boston broker who recently was found guilty of the larceny of $23,000 from the estate of Francis G. Brooks, was sentenced to serve a term in State prison. The penalty is one of not more than eight nor less than five years, the first day to be in solitary confinement. The evidence presented against Dunnine was to thp oJTect that he obtained the money from Mr. 1*.rooks by frauilu. lent stocks transactions. Jtuljje Carluck a Cho'era Victim, Judge Carl lick, of the Court of First Instance, in the Philippines, is dead in Cebu front cholera. The epidemic of cholera is practically over, there being but a few cases iu the southern islands. New Tw?lvc-Tiich Rifle For the Iowa. Rear-Admiral O'Neill, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, at Washington, has ordered shipped to the Brooklyn Xavy Yard a brand new twclve-iiu-li rule to lake the place of that recently destroyed by an explosion on the Iowa. ? New* of the Tollers* Railroad engineers in France earn about $30 a mouth. The bituminous coal regions contributed $2,000,000 to aid the striking anthracite miners. Inside electrical wiromen at' Indianapolis, Ind., have been granted an increase of two and a half cents an hour. the now scale being thirty-live ceuts. There are 1G3 agencies established by the New Zealand Government where the unemployed may secure work under the Government at $2 a day sf eight hours. BOODLE SCMML GROWS Three Missouri State Senators In* Hir'-prl Fnr Rrlhopu. ? " JTHE PR08ING0F THE GW'vDJUitt The Dliappearance of Lleutenant-Gorcrnor Lee?A Search In Chicago Failed to Find Him?Many Witnesses Heard Upon Whoie Testimony the Indictments Were Returned. St. Louis. Mo.?Sufficient testimony was adduced before the April Grand Jury to justify the indictment for bribery by the Cole County Grand Jury of three State- Senators whose names have not heretofore figured in the Legislative boodle scandal, according to well-informed sources. It is said that Eugene Hausmann of St. Louis County gave testimony as to the sudden accession of wealth by legislators from the county. Senator Buell L. Matthews and Representative A. E. L. Gardner of St. Louis County cannot be found. Whether they are implicated in the 1 ,*? n mntfflf r\ P /?rm inp til rp hilt id 41 UUt'.LCl Ul VUUjvv^M.w, their disappearance from their home: is causing comment. Another fact was made public that will cause many a boodler to suffer from an attack of Insomnia, and that is that James Whltecotton, Speaker or tlie last House, and the man who first asserted that legislative corruption existeu, had an all-day conference with Circuit Attorney Folk and would appear before the local Grand Jury and retell his story. Captain "Bob" Lee, brother of the fugitive Lieutenant-Governor, had an interview with Mr. Folk and assured him that he would have John A. Lee in the city ready and willing to go before the Grand Jury. Not much importance is attached to this promise, however, as it Is asserted that the Lieutenant-Governor's testimony before the April Grand Jury was contradictory. Among the witnesses before the local Grand Jury were the Rev. Cray ton Brooks, of Jefferson City, whose charges of legislative corruption precipitated the present investigation; Representative Joseph R. Lee, Senator John Sartorlous, J. T. Craighead, man. ufacturer of baking powder; Representative Siebert. a saloon keeper; Stanley Stoner, a lawyer and representative of the Pennsylvania Salt Company, which lu said to have sold alum to companies outside the trust, and Anthony Faust. Jr., who testified as to money raised to defeat the Audubon bill. Chicago, 111.?According to a St. Louis dispatch published ^iere, LieutenantGovernor Lee of Missouri, who is wanted in that city to testify before the Grand Jury in the baking powdoi legislation investigation, is in Chicago Inquiries at the Auditorium and the Annex, at one of w?iich hotels it was rumored that Lieutenant-Governor Lee would stop, failed to find any tracc of him. Searcu at the other downtown hotels likewise failed to reveal any ttace of him. Jefferson City, Mo.?Four more indictments were reported by the Cole County Grand Jury. One was local tc Jefferson City and^not connected with the Legislature. The three otners are believed to be Senators Farris, Smith and Sullivan, who are all reported absent from their homes. Senator Mat thews is believed to have been in the three iudictments. This makes a total of seven indictments returned after a week's investigation. The three indictments just returned, it can be said on almost absolute au thority, were for boodling. The in dieted men will be brought to Jefferson City as soon as apprehended and will be permitted to give bonds foi their aopenranee in court. Bail will be fixed at 55000. SUICIDE HAD $40,000. Had No One to Care For Him?Heft Hl? Treasnre In Hit Motel Rnoin. Omaha, Neb.?With $40,000 in cash and railroad bonds secfeted in his room. John Bohn, of Omaha, committed suicide because of ionesomeness and his inability to secure some one to care for him. Bohn was ;-.n old-time business man of this city, but retired several years ago. Three years ago his wife died, and he moved into a small room in a third-class hotel. He had no relatives !>!.* /lA.mfpr hut was sunnosed to be well connected in Germany. Foi several weeks Eobn bad made threats against his own life, but friends paid no attention to him. A few mornings ago he failed to respond to knocks at his door. The room was forccd and Bohn was discovered sitting in the corner cf the room dead from a bullet hole through the heart. His pistol was in his hr. ?d. Knowing Bohn to be well off tl" > lice searched the room. The mo. and securities were discovered in odd corners and old clothes. Lying in one corner of the room with a lot of old newspapers were ?10,000 in Government bonds. In an old waistcoat was $3000 in cash. Certificates of deposit for large amounts were hidden in an old book. Under the em-pet were railroad bonds. A bag of gold was found in an old cupboard. The authorities have taken charge of the funds until ;i claimant appears. Snow In Rnmanj. Unseasonable cold weather with heavy snowfalls prevails throughoul Germany. Triple Drowning in a i?ake. The capsizing of a rowboat on .1 small lake six miles enst of Kalkasmia Midi., resulted in :i triple drowning The victims are John Victor. Ills w;f< and Maggie Fnetz, Mrs. Victor's slstrr All were from Kentucky. The inifor Innate people went clown in llie watei when only six rods from the shore. C.-nr. <! >I?>th?r'ii Dputli. Mrs. Marie P.oylan, rrazed by new? of her son's death, stepped before ai Krie train near Montclair, N. J., ant was killed. I'ct'Bonal Mention. P. A. TV Widener has offered to piv( his &?,000,001) art collection to Phila delphia. General Sir George White, who was the defender of Ladysmlth. has biei promoted to the rank of Field Mar shal. Count Adami has presented to th< Pope his magnificent villa near Chleti Italy, ami some COO works of art con tained therein. When Mrs. Ellen M. Stone finlshei her lecture course tills spring, begui last October, she will have told 14! audiences the story of b r kldttipinj ivr Macedonian brlcands. ARABS GREET M. LOUBET A Brilliant Ceremony Held in the Algerian Desert. f rlbeatnen Express Their Loyalty and tin Chief* Are Decorated?French PreiU dent Begin# Hit Return Journey. El Krelder, Algeria.?President Lou* bet has witnessed a remarkable demonstration by the nomadic tribesmen of the desert who acknowledge the suzerainty of France. The tribesmen gathered in thousands from all parts of Southern Algeria for a ceremony of Oriental splendor. M. Loubet had heretofore visited only those sections of Algeria which show the advance of French colonization. He now entered the desert country, with Its sparse and burned vegetation, where the stretches of sand and hot sun produced the curious effects of mirage. The ceremony was held on a vast plateau. Here the tribesmen assembled from all quarters, some of them having journeyed 300 or 400 miles across the desert. Their tents were arranged In circles after the Arab custom; each ti-IliQ npfinnvitifr n pirflp in tllG I H.MV *~r> ? ?8V ? centre of which were droves of richly liaruessod camels. The chiefs were mounted on horses, but the tribesmen were on camels, and formed great caravans. More than 8000 men participated in the gathering. A superb tent of camels' hair fabrics and Arab tapestries had been erected for President Loubet. As each tribe passed in review its chief dismounted and paid homage to the President of France, who distributed decorations tc the principal leaders. After the review came a native exhibition of sports. There were Teats oi horsemanship and much burning of gunpowder, the exhibition ending by a charge of all the native cavalry, whicL wheeled across the plain and galloped toward the station occupied by the President, pulling up their horses within 300 yards of his position. A mimic combat followed. It represented the attack upon and capture of a caravan by a desert tribe. The ceremonies were brought to ji conclusion by a grand "diffa," or Arab banquet, given by the chiefs in lionoi of M. Loubet. The menu, which wa? printed in Arabic and French, included such desert delicacies as roast gazelle, "couscous." and camel's milk. Dance? executed by celebrated native beauties followed, and after an exhibition of na tive methods of hunting, -which in 1 eluded n hare chase by trained falcons the day's entertainment ended. 1 The President then started on his re turn journey to Saida. The tribesmen 1 mounting their norses, rode at full cral 1 lop alongside the train as long as the\ could keep u? the pace, their many col ored bornouses fluttering in the wind i making a brilliant picture. The day's entertainment presented a spectacle of barbaric splendor such as seldom has been seen by Europear ' eyes. i A COLORED SUPPLEMENT "VICTIM,* | Lurid Ink Canned a Ntwudealer to Die o Blood Polaonlng. Providence, R. I.?Willis S. Scribner [ who resided at 65 Wood street, anc was a newsdealer at 44 Plain street, is dead from blood poisoning, due, it is . claimed, to handling the highly colored . supplements of Sunday newspapers , particularly those from Nevr York, th< t ink used on which is gummy and ad ! heres to the hand. i Mr. Scribner was accustomed to use . ills rignt maex nnger in lipping . the bundles. He cut his finger with tin . raw edge of the paper and got some ol the ink into the wound. This happened two weeks ago, and while the finger be came swollen and discharged pus, Mr Scrlbner did not become alarmed untl 1 a week ago Sunday, when his arm be . came exceedingly painful, and a large spot appeared near the elbow. 1 A physician was called, but it was too late. Mr. Scribner was forty-three I years old. AL. ADAMS GETS ONE YEAR. Policy Kin; Denounced as ? Persistent Lawbreaker. Now York City. ? Policy King "AP j Adams, who was convicted of bavins , policy paraphernalia in his possession ! was sentenced by Justice Scott to 6erv( , not less than one yfar aud not mori , than one year and nine months in tlu State Prison, aud to pay a fine of $1000 P.ofnra nrnnminrinsr sentence JllStiCf i Scott said to the prisoner: "Albert-J Adams, I am quite satisfied that nr [ other verdict could have been renderec ( by the jury in this case. For years yov , havo been a persistent lawbreaker, tin , mainstay and chief of a miserable i same that preyed upon the weaknesses of its victims. When the Legislature i fixed the maximum penalty for tbi< particular kind of crime it evidently had in view the conviction of just sucl , persons as you, and I see no reasoi i why the maximum penalty should noi be given you." . "I KEARSARCE'S CUN HUNG FIRE. Ensign TV1?o Investigated Closed tin Breech Junt In Time to Save the Crew. i Mobile, Ala.?The battleship Kear sarge, while at target practice at Pen i sacola, narrowly escaped a serious ex plosion in the after superimposed tur t ret. The gun was fired by electricity but the charge failed to explode. En I sign .T. W. Clement waited five min i utes before opening the block. On do i ing so he noticed smoke issuing fron the primer. He closed the block just as the charge exploded, escaping t'u recoil of the huge gun and saving the i lives of his own crew. t Admiral I-Iigginson compliments him unon his cool-heade .*s. Th( hang-fire lasted an unusual time. ' DREYFU3 DEMANDS AN INQUIRY. He Takes Up an Alleged Declaration ol liinperor William. Paris. France.?Former Captain Drey fus has sent a letter to War Minisivi Andre demanding an inquiry in rt'gar?3 to tile (lOCUDK'Ul 111 WX11CH, II ir? Emperor William, In a marginal note, ilocl a rod Dro.vfus had supplied ducii; ments to Germany. 1 Dreyfus' letter refers to E?terhnzy ,.f ' "one vrhr. stands before t Ii? entire world as the culprit." The <-inire lutlei is in a sustained rhetorical style. - BOY WEDS HIS TEACHER. He is Sixteen, Slie Twenty-four, :ind tilt 1'arciitH Consented. ! Mount Gilead. Ohio.?Sixteen-year-old Henry I-Iarper and Miss Sarah Beverly ? tweuty-l'our years old, his teacher ir ~ the village school, were married hen ! before a large company of guests, bj the Rev Ci. W. Hahn, of the Disciple Church. Miss Beverly has been a teacher it , the school for four years. Henry Har j per fell in 'ove with her, and after con ' slderable (Lffleuity gained his Darents consent to uieir marriage.' ' IINOR tYENTS OF THE WEEK WASHINGTON ITEMS. Professor Francic M. Scala, the First Director of the United States Marine Band, died at his residence in Washington, aped eighty-four years. He was born in Napleu, Italy, In 1819, and came to the United States in 1839, being then twenty years of age. The President appointed Robert C. Morris, of New York City, agent to present the American claims against Venezuela to the commission at Caracas. ' g$i AH promotions of postal clerks were held up by an opinion of the Controller , of the Treasury, nnd a general read- i justment of salaries will be made. a The State Deportment has asked the . 1 German Government for a statement I of*thj facts connected with the deportation from the island of Ruk to the Islan . of Ponnlie. another of the Caroline group, of a number of native students of the American missionary establishment there. In consequence of the unusual demand for fish fqr stocking rivers and small streams, the United States Fish ; Commission is preparing to make a " greater distribution this year than ever ,5 before. [ Counsel for the Government, in bp, posing apy modification of the North- ; % , ern Securities Company decree, "will * ' contend that the company is guilty, of violating a penal law. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. i At a meeting of the 3xecutive Coon[ eil the appointment of Roberto Todd as J Mayor of San Juan, P. R., succeeding I Ramon Latimer, who resigned for bnsi- . ^ ; ness purposes, was approved. i Eight warrants were issued at San i;y^ Juan, P. R.( for army officers and clvlj officials, who hnd been Indicted in con* ? ! nection with the smuggling cases. ' The Mayor of Mayaguez, P. R.,.who. was arrested, charged with municipal 1 frauds, was released on ball. | Cholera has attacked Captain Per- " | shing's troops, who are operating | \ against the Moros in the Island of Mln- - > ; oanao. J .'he Porto Rica:) Grand Jnry coin- 1 plained to court that the District Atfor- 3 t ney, acting under instructions, refused i , information aboutrthe smuggling cases . involving naval officers and others. , ,' j. ; A document lias been discovered in- ^'9 [ dorsed by Aguioaldo and dated soma time before the attack on the Amerii cn.;. troops at Manila, which commisi si aed a Filipino to hill General Otis. DOMESTIC. In a riot growing out of the arrest ' of a man at the celebration of the Greek Easter In Chicago, a policeman and a bystander who came to his, as| slstance, fired into a mob of Greeks, wounding three. Minnie Josephine, aged six, a daughter of William W. Barnard, a locomo* S L tive engineer, died at Cumberland, Md,. , of excessive rope jumping. i Arthur Perry, a cook, shot Mrs. Louise Bruce, of Sioux City, in a res- ^ , taurant at Des Moines, Iowa,.In.a<fit . & of jealousy, and then killed himself. r Two trainmen were killed" and four M badly hurt by the wreck of a fast mall near Castleherry, Ala. . :m j It was believed that the reported ^ } $1,000",000 loss by the fire at Beaumont, $ j Texas, had been underestimated. [ Burglars using dynamite got $2700 .'JS , from the State Bank at Allen, Kan. ^ After killing Lizzie Jackson, thirteen , *1 years old, with whom be was infatn- . ? ated, Harry C. Kline killed himself at I ! Fort Wayne, Ind. I \ Lieutenant-Governor Lee is %ld to ' ] have Informed the Missouri authorities j through a representative that he will return to that State If he is not QueS tioned about other "boodle" charge*.. ^ i Mr. W. K. Vnnderbilt has received . permission to marry from Judge Glegr ? erich, of the Supreme Court, at New - , York City, "who modified the divorce ] 5 judgment granted to the former Mrs. 'j } Vanderbilt. niilions are to be be expended liy ; Carnegie, Schwab and others to build f a big university in Pittsburg. k Buckwood Park. Stroudsburg, Pa., >?. owned by C. C. Worthittgton, of Nfevr . York, has lost fifty deer from 3tarva, tion. : Adjutant-Gencrni Henry announced I tLat the escort of GoVerno- Odell, of i New York, to the St. Louis Exposition ? will consist of 1000 men selected from National Guard organizations. i Andrew Carnegie has given ;250,000 \ for the enlargement of the Mechanics ^ ) ari Tradesmen's Institute, New York I I City. 1 . In a speech before the St. Paul'Credit fe ? Men's Association, ex-Governor Mer- f~, 1 riain, of Minnesota, said that he ap' proved of combinations, as he! believed 5 that they steadied the situation. \ Ex-Chief Devery told Deputy Police ( Commissioner Davis that the police } $' force of New York City should be In- \ t creased to 15,000 men. The United States Government has j connected the Farallone Islands, thirty miles off the coast, br cable with Sao Francisco, Cal. FOREIGN. President Loubet at Tlemcen, Aljeria, received many deputations of i natives, who attribute the breaking of i local drouth by a copious rata to the presence of the French President Two hundred and fifty Newfound* land seal hunters were blown to sea on Ice floes, but were "rescued. 1 Foreign Minister Prinettl, of Italy, A ^ will retire shortly in the hope of re| gaining his health. ; Government forces attacked San DoI mingo City in force, but were repulsed , with loss, among the killed being three ' general officers. The French Minister of War was notitied that a dctachraent of the Thirteenth German Dragoons recently .1 r crossed the frontier and made surveys. 'M ' King Edwaru reviewed a large force .of bluejackets at Malta and laid the i L foundation stone of a breakwater. ' | William Brown, a footman, was re| I manded n a Lond '? court on a charge of false entry in th_ registry olfiee; under the name of "Prince Athrobold [ Stuart do Modeua*' lie had riiarrjed . Countess Russell, -iio was divorced in J901 from her husband. . The French (iovernment is carrying out the law ordering expulsion of un* authorized orders in France, and disor? . ilors are reported from various parts of the republic in consequence. Germany -will enact reprisals against Canada on account of the Canadian | surtax on Gentian imports. , T' - Irish Nationalist Convention met > i Dublin, aud was addressed by ; t rtssrs. Jolm Redmond, William ' 0'iJrieu, Michael Davitt aud others, fl { wno advised acceptance of 2?Ir. Wynd- g ham's Land bill. A motion to reject 81 the bill was defeated by an overwhelm* > in,; majority, and a motion approving the measure In principle was adopted^ ,