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I Tired Out "I wai very poorly and could I hardly get about the house. I was tired out all the time. Then I tried Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and it only took two bottles to make me feel perfectly well."? Mrs. N. S. Swinney, Princeton, Mo. Tired when you go to bed, tired when you get up, tired all the time, why? Your blood is im | pure, that's the reason. Vou are living on the border line of nerve exhaustion. Take Aver's Sarsaparilla and be quickly cured. SftijSS: Ask your doctor what he thinki of Ayer'a 8ir??parilla. He knows all about this (rand old family medicine, follow hU adrlce and we will b? satisfied. J. C. atks Co, Lowell, vui. A Keen Obrerrer. Prince Edward of Wales appears to be a been observer for one of such tender years. A story is being told which illustrates this. It happened during some or nis eariy meojogieai hiuuico when a kind teacher -was endeavoring to convey to him some Idea of the future abode of bliss. She told him that there all men and -women would be completely equal In happiness. He meditated over this thoughtfully and then inquired: "Shall we all, everybody. be really equal?" "Yes, my dear.'' "All of us, really?" "Yes, darling." "Great-grandma," referring to Queen Victoria, "and all?" "Yes, darling. even great-grandma." "I am quite sure," said the young prince decidedly, "that great-grandma won't like that at all. Quite sure."?London Tatler. The classified civil service now embraces 134,017 positions. N. Y.?19 An ideal Woman's Medicine, So says Mrs. Josie Irwin, of 325 So. College St., Nashville, Tenn., o! Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Never in the history of medicine has the demand for one particular remedy ,lor female diseases equalled that at 'tained by Lvdia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and never during1 the lifetime of this wonderful medicine has the demand for it been o great as it is to-day. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and throughout the length and breadth of this great continent come the glad tidings of woman's sufferings relieved by it, and thousands upon thousands ox letters are pouring in from grateful women saying that it will and positively does cure the worst forms of female complaints. Mrs. Pinkham invites all wo >>ft orn nii77lpd n 1 >f> 111 UU^ll If 1IV M1V their health to write her at Lynn, Mass., for aavice. Such correspondence is seen by women only, and no elm"""' i* made. The Vornciou* North S?-a. Heligoland is not the only land which is gradually giving way before the continued onslaughts of the North Sea. A strip of thirty-six miles of English coast between Flamborough and Spurn Head toses on an average two yards and a quarter, or thirty acres, a year. Over a mile has gone since the Norman conquest. Nothing has yet been devised to stop the inroads of the waves. A Sperm Whale'i Diet. As many as fourteen seals have been taken from the stomach of a sperm whale, says Nature, and his ordinary diet consists of squids, which often weigh several tons. Recent British experience is claimed to show that propeller blades of circu lar shape have a much more'powerful grip of the water than those of oval form. The 1902 prune crop of Oregon la estimated commercially at 15,000,000 pounds. The old, invariable virtue of ' I St. Jacobs Oilj X makes it the king cure for < | Sprains W U11U " | Bruises v Price, 25c. and 50c. < ' "the postoffice wuibi Investigation to Extend to All Largi Cities, Says Mr. Payne. THE STORY OF AN AUTOMOBILI A Costly Machine Bought For the Nei York Office, Ostensibly For Bnslnes I'nrposes, Bnt Keally For Private Us?The Inqalry Will Embrace Ever; Phase of Administration. "Washington, D. C.?Postmaster Yai Cott's automobile was the upperruos topic In the Postofflce Department in vestigation a few days ago. The In formation to be had at the departmen is that the automobile Is a good one and that It cost nearly $3000. It wai bought by Mr. Beavers, the late heac of the salaries and allowance division on pretext that it was a daily neces sity to carry money from the mail postofflce In New York City to the banl for deposit, and for safety and dispatcl an automobile was Indispensable. Mr. Van Cott, It seems, did not as! for the machine and did not realiz< that the office could not get alonj; without one. Mr. Beavers practically gave him the machine. It is of th< coupe pattern, with the platform foi the chauffeur up behind. The front Is curved and of the finest plate glass. From accounts received at the de partment It has not been used so mucl for the transportation of money froir the postofflce to the bank as for per sonal pleasure, and the statement was made by a prominent official at th( department that It is believed the rea! motive In buying the machine was t( provide an automobile for Mr. Beavers use in ftew York City. Postma&ter-General Payne said to the twenty newspaper men who made theii customary call late in the afternooi that the investigation authorized bj Congress wguld take in all the first ciass postomces 01 me country. j.ut scope of the inquiry will embrace everj phase of administration, including pos sible extravagance and dishonesty, nnc any other thing that had been or might be suggested as meriting investigation He had conferred with the President about that general investlgatior early last session of Congress, he said. When the Idea was first considered there was no talk of dishonest practices any more than the general matter oi extravagant and wastful methods and practices In the purchase of supplies, Latex*, when charges of all sorts of Irregularities were made, the present in vestigation was precipitated, and th( pending inquiry had developed a good deal that had not been contemplated in the original plan. There was a revival of comment oe the recent visit of Senator Lodge tc Washington, to see the PostmasterGeneral. It Is denied positively, however, that Mr. Lodge came here as the President's personal representative oi that he had told Mr. Payne that the latter would be forced out of the Cab inet if he did not at once suspend A, W. Machen, the Chief of Free Delivery from office pending the conclusion ol the investigation. It is true that Mr. Lodge did appea] to Mr. Payne in the strongest terms tc I suspend Machen, but he did not men tion the President nor make any allusion to Mr. Payne's possible retire ment from the Cabinet. He put tht matter on party grounds and said thai Machen, as a matter of common de cency, should not stay in the .department while he was under investigation Mr. Payne said that he had not yel taken any action looking to Machen's suspension or dismissal. SWEPT FROM RIGGING INTO SEA. Sailors In Wrecked Schooner Battle Foi Life?Fifteen Fexiah. Canso. N. S.?The American fishing schooner Glorlania, Captain George Stoddart, of Gloucester, ran ashore during a thick fog on the cliffs ir Whale Cove, near White Point Ledges and fifteen of the crew, including the captain, were drowned out of a total oi eighteen men. The Gloriania left Sable Island bounc for Canso, in a heavy easterly gal.' and a thick fog. She brought up or the inner reef in Whale Cove, buttec against a cliff and fell off into the sea When she strutk the cliff the three survivors rushed out on the bowsprii and climbed up on the rocks before J receding -wave carried tne vessel on again. Others of the crew started t( lower the dories, but each boat was smashed. Four of the crew jumpec overboard and were dashed against tlx i rocks. The others who were on th< vessel took to the rigging, but one bj one they were swept away. When das dawned only one man was left in th( rigging. When the survivors got as sistance he was taken down, but h< was dead. MIXED ON HISTORY. * Kohne BeTarldge'i Sculptural Version o the Charge at San Jnan. . London.?The World says that Mrs Kuhne Beveridge, the sculptor, has taken a house in Park street and com menced work on a monumental bas re lief depicting the charge of the Rougl Riders at San Jnan Hill. Preslden ' Roosevelt is leading the charge and ai 1 his feet lies Hamilton Fish. Sergeant Hamilton Fish was killed a 1 Las Guaslinas several days before th< ? fight at San Juan. Ill Health Cause ol Suicide. Despondent through 111 health, H. E Moran, of Helena, Mont., killed him self at Baltimore, Md. 43,038,800 Taxable Property In Hewpor The tax assessors of Newport, R. I have completed their labors and turnei over to the city clerk their books. A stated by them the total valuation o the city is placed at ?42.032.SOO. (livid ed as follows: Real estate. $34.GG8,20C personal estate. $7,304,000, on whic the tax is S504.393.00. Kins Edward Welcomed Homo. King Edward was welcomed on hi return to London by cheeking crowd which lined his path from the raiivca station to Buckingham PalacL*. Three Men Fnll Dead. > 'J.uree suuuuii uuuuis ucvurrea 111 iij > streets of Boston, Mass., within a da; J In all cases heart disease was tli ! cause. William Jones, eighty-one yoai > old; John H. Buckley, seventy-foi J years old, and Alexander MeLou< > forty-five years old, were the victims. > Cuba's First Consul to Germany. > The German Foreign Office hj ) granted the exequatur of the Cuba > Consul-General, Senor Velez, at Han > burg, who Is the first Cuban Consult > officer to be appointed to a post J > Germany. I LAST ACT OF DYING MAN Unknown to Family Left Death-Bed a to Pav Insurance Premiums. The Strange Case of a Cmnmlulon Merchant of St. Loots, Mo.?Fact DI?7 covcred After H1r Death. St. Paul, Mo.?From his dying bed w Frank S. Powell arose, went down* town and paid the premium on his 0 $5000 life insurance policy and re' turned home without the knowledge of his wife or anyone in the family. That night he died. 1 The fact that he had even left the t house did not become known until ne gotiations toward settling up the policy . were begun. In a statement of the circumstances of Powell's death, Charles W. Morgan, secretary of the Mer. fhnnts' 'Ryohflncp whn mnnaered the 3 matter for the widow, told the insur1 ance company that Powell was confined to his bed for seven days prior to his death. Later on the agent of the company i called on Morgan and in the course of j the conversation remarked that Mr. ^ Morgan had made a mistake in saying that Powell had been kept at home so . long. ? 'He was downtown and paid the pre* ; mlum to me the day before his death," ' asserted the agent. } Mrs. Powell was asked to decide the I point. She was positive that she had ' been with him constantly during his ' illness, and that he certainly could not have been outside the house without j her knowledge. Told the agent's story, j she recalled that her husband had asked her to go downtown for some5 thing he desired and had asked her to , tell other members of the family that [ he was not to be disturbed while she j was away. She said she had gone i downtown by the most direct route and had returned without delay. > On her arrival home she found her ' husband in bed. He said nothing abqut | having left the house, and did not menr tion his life Insurance. Powell was a well-to-do commission , man. His illness had lasted barely a ; week, when it terminated fatally. "It is the strangest case I ever en[ countered," said Mr. Morgan. "The t evidence would seem conclusive that it could not have been possible for Mr. [ Powell to leave his home at all, and ' certainly not to go downtown and back without being noticed by any one of I his family. Yet the agent received the . premium on the policy from Powell, ! whom he knew well. He recalls that [ Powell looked pale, almost ghostly. and had nothing to say. I am almost ' tempted to believe that, if there is any such thing, Powell projected his astral [ body into the presence of that agent j and paid him the coin of the spirit , land. It makes my flesh creep to think about it." 1 ABUSES IN THE CONCO STATE. i American Missionary Tells of the Tyranny of the Whites. > London.?The Rev. William Morri son, of Lexington, Va., a member of > the American Presbyterian Mission, . who is here on his way home after six , years' work along the Kassai River, , about 1200 miles in the interior of the ! Congo State, fully confirms the stories of the abuses in the Congo administra[ tion. > He has furnished an exhaustive re. port on the situation to the Congo State . authorities, to the American and Brit. ish Ministers at Brussels, and to For; elgn Secretary Landsdowne, detailing t the results of his personal investiga. tion. He shows that the situation is . growing worse, as a result of the rubber monopoly's introduction of forced I labor, virtually amounting to slavery. , On his way to tl?e coast Mr. Morrison covered 800 miles of the Kassai River, formerly thickly dotted with villages, , and he says there are now less thau a dozen villages there, the people having fled into the forests to escape the tyranny of the whites. The missionary i p declares it is Impossible for the natives ! to get any redress from the Congo State . officials for the flagrant abuses and t cruelties to which they are subjected. ;| BANKER'S J3AUGHTER SLAIN. She "Was Defending Her Father From a Highwayman. ' Boston, Mass.?Miss Nellie Sturte5 vant, daughter of .Tames Sturtevant, 1 President of the Medford Co-Operative ' Bank, "was shot down on her father's doorstep on Sturtevant Terrace, Med^ ford, late at night by an unknown 1 man. 1 The case is one of the most rnysf terious which the police of that city ) have ever had to contend with. Jfhe | young woman was shot at three tunes ' by her assassin, each of the bullets J taking effect in her body. i Miss Sturtevant was one of the best \ known young women In the Hillside 7 district of this city. She was twenty Ave years old. Jt?er ramuy is one 01 me * oldest la the city and is highly re1 spected. The assassin "was attempting to rob Miss Sturtevant's father, as he was returning from a bank meeting with a t satchel filled with checks and money. After the shooting the man jumped upon a bicycle and escaped. J BRITISH MONROE DOCTRINE. * No Power Can Have a Nayal Vase In the 1 Persian Gnlf. 1 London.?Foreign Secretary Lanst downe has proclaimed a British Monroe Doctrine in the Persian Gulf. "I say without hesitation," said the t Foreign Secretary in the House of ? Lords, "that we should regard the establishment of a naval base or a fortified port in the Persian Gulf by any other Power as a very grave menace to ' British interests, and we should cer* tainly resist it with all the means at our disposal." ' RESTRAINS 3000 STRIKERS. ^ Federal Court Bar? Interference With f Freight tn Oinalia. I- Omaha, Neb.?Judge Munger, in the >; Federal Court, has issued a sweepiug h injunction against the 3000 strikers. The order restrains the striking teamsters from interfering with freight between warehouses and depots or dess tined for other States; from congres gating in large crowds on the streets, or (1 in any way interfering with the transaction of business. Minor Mention. e President Eliot, of Harvard, is sixtyr nine years old. ic Dr. Bertenson, one of the Czar's phy s sicians, also professionally attends ii* f!nunt Tolstoi J. The Duchess of Marlborough's portrait is to be placed in the National Library at Paris. John S. Cranston has been appointed is head coach of the Harvard football n eleven for J903. a" The majority of ball players have ir gray eyes. Gray eyes have a quicker in and truer sight than eyes of any other color. CRASH OF 8TE1EBS IN FOG The Hamilton Sinks the Saginaw Cfl the Virginia Coast. AT LEAST A SCORE PERISH The Wrecked Teasel Goes to the Bottom Within a Few Minutes? Victims Asleep ! When Disaster Overtakes Them?Life* boat, Filled With Fifteen Women, ' Swamps and All Drown. Norfolk, Va.?Replete with the tragedy and heroism which form so large a part of the annals of the sea Is the story of the sinking of the steamer Saginaw, of the Clyde Line, from Rich, mond and Norfolk, for Philadelphia, and the drowning of at least twenty of her passengers and crew off the Virginia coast. The steel prow of the steamer Hamilton, of the Old Dominion Line, from New York City for Norfolk, cut off twenty feet of the Saginaw's stern, as though it was so much cheese, and then, in the darkness of fog so thick that objects a boat's length away could hardly be discerned, with the almost bisected Saginaw sinking, as the waters rushed in, ensued a shipwreck scene more thrilling than which the pages of fact have seldom recorded. From both steamers boats were lowered into the pit of the fog amid the clamor of panic and the silence of despair from passengers who had been aroused from sound sleep and rushed on deck to see the water pouring into the ship. As the first boat from the Saginaw's side struck the water it capsized, and fourteen negro women sank. With the roar of a battleship's broadside the decks of the Saginaw burst and belched forth freight, crew and passengers into the sea. Lashed to a mast above it all was Captain Tunnell, with some of his ribs broken, and others of the crew and passengers who had taken refuge there, and amid the wreckage, the struggling and the drowned sped the lifeboats of the Hamilton, picking up those who had kept - A *. \\TUrx~, +1?A GnMnA-nr annlr a UUUttU ?T uca LJ1C kjuaiuun ciiiAivy u few minutes after the collision, there went to the bottom with her some who had been killed In their bunks by parts of the cargo, which had fallen on them. The list of the dead and missing, so far as known, is as follows: Passengers?A. Gilmore, P. L. Pendleton, Florence Newby, Edna Ward, M. E. Jones and Mary Robertson. CrewEdward Goslee, first mate; William Bitters, first assistant engineer; Mnry Anderson, stewardess; , cook; William Morris, steward; unknown colored waiter; Peter Swanson, missing. The scene of the wreck was about fourteen miles offshore between Winter Quarter Lightship -and Fenwick Island Lightship. The first officers of both steamers were at the wheel, both were proceeding under reduced speed and both were sounding their fog sirens, each hearing the other. Captain R. B. Btfaz says; "It was clear when we left New York City, but we ran into a fog bank four miles north of Egg Harbor, the fog lasting until we reached Cape Charles. It was about 4.40 o'clock a. m., and we were proceeding at about nine knots an hour. We had been under reduced speed since encountering the fog. We could not see a snip s lengtn ahead, when we heard a whistle on the starboard bow two points ahead. We stopped the Hamilton and then l heard another whistle. Suddenly the Saginaw loomed up three points ou the bow, and the Saginaw attempted to run across the Hamilton's bow. We backed at full speed, but sttuck the Saginaw on the port quarter. In a vefy short time she went down. When the Hamilton backed off she was settling. We lowered two boats, but meanwhile the Saginaw had lowered her boats and a raft. I picked up two of these boats and the raft." When the Saginaw was sighted after the first impact her stern was under water and her bow was high in the air. Panic stricken people rushed over her decks and scrambled toward the Ik-w. A boat fronvthe Hamilton saved Second Officer W. L. Morris and the colored stewardess of the Saginaw, who were in the lifeboat that capsizeu. The woman died In the Hamilton's boat. She had been held up by First Mate Goslee, of the Saginaw, who sank himself as the Hamilton's boat reached them. The other two boats and the life raft lowered from the Saginaw and the Hamilton's two boats picked up the people who clung to floating wreckage, but so quickly did the Saginaw sink that when the lifeboats of the Hamilton reached her nothing but the topmasts were visible, with the men cling, ing to them. The lifeboats took them off. ' The Hamilton hovered around the sconu of the wreck for more than an hour, but no sign of life could be seen among the mass of floating freight Two bodies, one of a rann and the other of a woman, clad in nightgowns, were seen drifting between bales of cotton and cases of goods. The Hamilton has been in several serious collisions since she was launched In 1899, at Roach's yard, i Chester. Pa. On June 13, 1900, she struck and sink the steamship Macedonia, seriously damaging her own bows. Ten days later she sank the schooner John H. Ker, and on October 7, of the same year, she sank the schooner A. A. Shaw. Waterloo Vet?r?n Dies at 105. Louis Reep, of West Bay City, Mich., Is dead at the age of 105. It Is said he was in the Battle of Waterloo under Blucher. Salvador Mast Pay Up, The State Department, in Washington, has cabled Instructions to Minister Merry to notify Salvador that she Is expected to settle the El Triunfo claim without delay. This is expected to produce some definite statement of Salvador's position. Doorcase 'n Navies Favored. The Italian Under Secretary of State said that Mr. Balfour had declared that Great Britain was ready to diminish h?r navy if the other Powers would follow the same course. Head of Steel Trust Re-Elected. Hhnrles M. Schwab, at a meeting of the Bonrd of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation, in New York City, was unnnimously re-elected to serve as President for the ensuing year. All the present officers of the corporation were re-elected. Senator John F. Dryden, of New Jersey, was elected a director to take the place of the late Abram S. Hewitt. Bank Bobber* Get S3000. , , 'About $3000 was taken from the Merchants' State Bank of Freeman, S, D., by robber8. who escaped. % GIRL STRANGELY SLAIN A Priest Charged With Murder at Loraine, Ohio. Tracked by Bloodhounds to His Bed Ik Hospital?Victim'* Brother, Also a Priest, Believes 111 in Innocent. Loraine, Ohio.?The Rev. Ferdinand \\alzer, a Toledo priest, was arrested, charged with the murder of Miss Agatha Reichlin. Mr. YValzer was a guest at the Reichlin home when the crime was committed. He was taken to the county jail at Elyria. The Rer. Mr. Walzer celebrated his silver jubilee at St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Ind., on March 15. He was fifty-one years old. On the Sunday following his jubilee a great reception at Sacred Heart Church was tendered to him. He had been assistant pastor of Sacred Heart Church, In Toledo, for about six months. Mr. Walzer came to Loraine as a guest of the Rev. Charles Reichlin, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, in this city. The latter was called to Kelly's Island to officiate at a funeral late in the afternoon. At his home he left his sister and housekeeper, Agatha, and a younger brother. Casimer, to entertain the visiting priest. During the night, according to the story of Mr. Walzer, he heard screams from the room occupied by the girl, and declared that he trained the liallwav lust in time to see a man disappearing through an open window. When Mr. Reichlin reached his sister's room she was dead. Her head had been pounded nearly to a pulp with a rock or some blunt'instrument. Bloodhounds were brought here from Fort Wayne, Ind., and given the scent of the murderer. The dogs circled round the house several times and finally went to the room occupied by the priest on the night of the murder. They again took the trail and led the ofecers directly to St. Joseph's Hospital, where the priest slept on the following night. He was found at the hospital and placed under arrest, the officers claimnig there were many suspicious circumstances against him, in addition to the bloodhounds following his trail. The priest showed no excitement when placed under arrest and declared that he was innocent. Before he was locked up in the county jail Walzer repeatedly declared his Innocence. "Oh, my God!" he cried. "What e position to be in! I came to Loraine to have a quiet visit and this had to happen. I am as innocent as a baby. I have nothing to offer in defense. They will have to prove me guilty." Mr. Reichlin. in a sermon, declared his belief that his sister was not murdered by Walzer. CONGRATULATED DEWEY. President Sent Him Sleasage on Annl* erjarjr of Manila Fight. Washington, D. C.?President Roosevelt recognized the anniversary of the great naval victory In Manila Bay. five years ago, by sending the following personal telegram to Admiral Dewey from Topeka: "Admiral George Dewey, U. S. N.: "On this anniversary of your great services to the Nation. I wish you all possible happiness and a long life. % "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." The delivery of this message was delayed because Admiral Dewey was at sea on the Mayflower inspecting the North Atlantic fleet on the anniversary, and did not receive the message until his arrival in this city. DICUAD UIIRUT nFAD. Methodist Divine Hnd Been In Failing Health For Two lenri. Washington, D. C.?Bishop John Fletcher Hurst, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is dead. Bishop Hurst had been in failing health for nearly two years, and for more than a year It had been recognized that -a fatal termination of hia malady was but a question of months. He was stricken with paralysis in London last September a year ago, when attending the Ecumenical Conference. The news of President McKinley's assassination prostrated him, and the shock brought on rapidly the decline that finally ended in his death. TEXAS FAMILY BUTCHERED. Mother and Sou Chopped Up and Father's Braini Blown Out. Ennis, Texas.?Xews" has reached here of a triple tragedy in B'-istol, an inland town ten miles north. Mrs. Lineburger. a woman of about sixty, and hpr son Vestus were found dead, both having been chopped to pieces with an axe. The husband and father. W. C. Lineburger, seventy years old, later was found 011 his farm, four miles north nf Bristol, with his brains blown out with a shotgun. The Lineburgers came here from Tennessee. No cause for the tragedy Is known. RESIDENTS ABANDON FRANK: Town Pronounced Unsafe a? More of tn? Mountain May Fall. St. Paul, Minn.?A dispatch from Frank, N. W. T., says that the citizens are leaving the town, as Engineer McHenry. of the Canadian Pacitic Railroad, has stated that the remaining peak of the mountain Is creeping slowly. At a mass meeting Premier Haultain stated that the town was unsafe. The railroad is providing special trains for those who desire to remove. The railroad itself Is moving its rolling stock, and everything is being done to avert another calamity. Automobiles Shut Out of Suffolk. Vs. The Town Council of Suffolk, Va., has prohibited the use on the streets of automobiles or other vehicles propelled by steam, gasoline or electricity which make noise sufficient to. frighten horses. Automobile accidcnts caused the ordinance. Big Indian Flacno Mortality. , According to an official statement the weekly plague mortality in India ex- j coeds thirty thousand persons. The infected area includes nine British provinces and fifty-one native States. Conrt-Martlal to Try Murder Case. | The Navy Department, at Washing-, ton. has detailed a court-martial which will try William Anthouy, a colored sailor on the Olympia, for killing another colored sailor while the ship was In the maneuvres. It will be the first murder trial in the Navy for many years. Killed Wife In ? Quarrel. Mrs. Edward Morrison T?as killed by her husband, at Henderson, 111. Her husband levelled a gun at her brother Jn a quarrel, and "the woman jumped between the men. J IINOR EVEHTSOF THE WEEK WASHINGTON ITEMS. Senator Lodge urged Postmaster* General Payne to remove Superintendent Maehen. Mr. Payne declined to act as Mr. Lodge suggested. f ho TTnlfpri Stnloa Siirtrpmp Court de elded that the statute relative to bribery at elections of persons protected by the Fifteenth Amendment Is unconstitutional. Secretary Hay asked China to make Pekin an open port, a course that would render the carving of China more difficult. The opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the Alabama case, refusing the petition of negro voters for relief from disfranchisement, was made public. Attorney-General Knox appointed J. C. McReynoIds, of Tennessee, Assist* ant Attorney-General, to succeed James M. Beck, resigned. Secretary Hay expressed regret to the Russian Government that he misunderstood Its purpose as to Manchuria. The case of the United States on the Alaskan boundary question was delivered to the British Ambassador In Washington. OUB ADOPTED ISLA2TD8. Three vessels for the Philippines coastguard fleet, built in Japan, were found to be defective. Of ten deaths .lust reported in the Army In the Philippines, seven were do? to cholera. It is expected that the Pacific table will be completed to Manila by July 4, and that President Roosevelt and Governor Taft will exchange messages on that day. O. G. Milne, postmaster of Tacloban, Island of Leyte, P. I., was convicted of misappropriating funds. Governor Callles, of Laguna Province, and a party of volunteers captured RIos, the fanatical Filipino lender in that part of th? Island of Luzon, P. I. DOMESTIC. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court atfirmed a ruling which refused to grant a charter to a Christian Science Association. Struck by a Georgia Railroad train. Major James W. Warren, secretary to the Governor of Georgia, was killed at Atlanta, Ga. A torp?do factory in Cleveland, Ohio, blew up, killing many of the employes, and wrecking all the neighboring buildings. The election of United State Senators by direct vote was defeated by the Wisconsin Legislature. In a debate at Chapel Hill, N. C., Johns Hopkins University, of Baltimore, Md., was defeated by the University of North Carolina team. To secure the repeal of obnoxious Sunday closing laws at Pensacola, Fla., fifteen citizens had every business stopped for the day. His money gone in speculation, Bernado Bueno, formerly a millionaire Cuban planter, killed himself in New York City. Hallman Sims pleaded guilty to embezzling $94,000 from Capital City National Bnnk, at Atlanta, Ga., and was sentenced to six years in prison. Sims was once prominent In social circles there. A. i*. Kussen, postomce ciers at Knoxville, Tenn., was arrested for abstracting a sack of registered mall. Matt Hunter who, a year ago, at Mt. Ayre, Iowa, shot and killed Homer Holland, a college athlete, was sentenced to twenty-five years in the Iowa penitentiary. Thomas Moffatt, a wealthy farmer, of Clifton Park, Saratoga County, N. Y., died from burns received when attempting to extinguish a brush fire. At ihe second days' proceedings of the St. Louis Fair dedication the French Ambassador and the Spanish Minister were the principal speakers. William Williams, the oldest man in Buffalo. N. Y.. is dead. He was 102 years old. having- been born in Portsmouth. England. In 1801. Williams never had been ill a day in his life. FOREIGN. Andrew. Carnegie,s offer of $150,000 for a library was accepted by the city of Montreal, Que. Thousands of poor Hebrews fled from Kieff in consequence of reports that an anti-Semitic crusade was lm-a minent. Troops were patrolling the streets. Ten Turkish officers are reported to have been killed in a battle with revolutionists in the district of Mouastir. King Edward left Paris and arrived at Cherbourg, where he went on board his yacht for England; an enormous crowd acclaimed him in the streets of Paris as he rode to the statipn with President Loubet. Emperor William reviewed twentyfive thousand Italian troops on a plain near Rome; afterward he dhwd nv the German Embassy and received the dip| lomatic corps in Rome. The Presidential message to the Argentine Congress took an optimistic view of that country's prospects. It was authoritatively stated in Shannghai that no Russian troops have crossed the Yalu River. A Mexican officer, Colonel Alns, was killed in an ambuscade prepared by hostile Maya Indians. Saloniea, it appears, was thoroughly mined, and only the premature attack on the Ottoman bank prevented a genoi??i 1 rlaafmntiAn r\f frlua pltv German politicians were much disturbed over the unexpected success, of the Socialists in the recent elections. Quiet prevailed throughout San Domingo, and political prisoners there had been released. The American and Japanese treaties with China provide, among other things, for the opening of Mancburian ports. United States Consul Langer at SoIlngen, Prussia, was fined and sentenced to one day in Jail for impertinence to a local justice. General James F. Bell, Interviewed in London on General Miles' report on the Philippines, declared all the alleged cases had been investigated. An appeal was issued by the United Irish League asking Irishmen throughout the world to start immediate subscriptions to the Parliamentary fund of 1903. ? ?- - a xt ttt m L,are reports rrom rruuK., ?. >v. x., are that fifty-six persons lost their lives ill the landslide. Emperor William and Queen Wilhelmina were among those present; at the wedding of the Grand Duke of SaxeWeimar and Princess Caroline of Reuss, at Buckeberg Castle. Turkey declared Saloniea in state of siege. Luigl Arditi, the conductor and com* coser. died in England. r/ll V ? M (At * A A I l *1 I Al "f^flt ' fl KILLtU IN A ULUn I HUUTOL | Former Judge J. B. Marouri Mur- 8 derod in Jackson, Ky. j He Wa* the lait Surviving Leader o* 'I the Coclcrilli, \Yhn Had a Feud .-J8 With the nargliea. / Lexington, Ky.?James B, Marcnm, J| United States Commissioner in eastern H Kentucky, former County Judge ot ':M Jackson, Ky., and once prominent can- " 1 didate for the Court of Appeals, was 1 assassinated "while standing in front of "."-i the court house uoor at Jackson. He was shot in the head from behind bjr-*|9 some person standing in the dark hall ?! further back. This murder is another chapter in the J long-standing feud existing in eastern ;.j Kentucky between the Hargig- and \ 'v Cockrill factions, in which in the last 1m twetee months the lives of thirty-five men have been sacrificed. Marcum was the last recognized leader of the [Jg Cockrill faction. The feud originated over a contest for the office: of town marshal In 1896k 'M as the result of which John O. Hargis was killed by Jerry Cardwell. The., feud smouldered until the spring elec-' tlon of 1901, when the Hargi? fa'ctJod overran the independent ticket and g took possession of the offices of County Judge and Sheriff. Marcum was ft'' attorney for Teny and Davis, tte j testants for these offices. County Judge Tom Cockrill, a Card- J well man, shot and killed Ben Hargis Sicj in a saloon. Directly after this Dr. D: B. Cox, the guardian of the Cockrill \:'M bovs. was assassinated. Then Jim ^ Cockrill was sliot from a window in the court house. Marcum was Trrtrned to leave the .. > county, and through spies he learned of a plot to assassinate him. He fe-r , /*j fused tor go and barricaded himself M jga his house for seventy-two days. He then slipped away, com lug to Lexln$*;v$?j ton. He fought his opponent? in the courts from this place. NICARAGUA'S CIViL WAR, K?ToIatfonlst* Claim SaccesM* ht Republic. Panama.?The official news' emanatIng from Managua, Nicaragua, to the J effect that the revolution lias befen put . J down, Is contradicted. The Nicaragua!* 4y revolutionary Junta here has received ^ a report from General Emlllan'a Chamoro, saying that the Nicaraguaa Gov-; V emment steamer Once de JnTIo been sunk by the rebel vessel Vfctortai-/<w The entire crew of the Government ^ utaka 1ao4- nifKafon/1 IrtIv fKa - 'u? uuai VTCIC ivoi, uuiuiiusuuiuuig uiv ?;i efforts made to save them. The rebel victory at Acoyapa and the ^aptisce of Ometepe and San Carlos have been m confirmed. The members of the Junta are hopefnl of success, and declare that the rebels cannot be .attacked, the Government forces not beinjfc aufr Jy flclently strong to do so. TEXAS WINS LAND SUIT. Owmerahlp of 376,000 Acre* Affected by * | Decision of the Courts. . jS Austin, Texas.?Tracts of land aggro- * .1 gating 375,000 acres, situated to the .:;J sputhwestern part of the State, which ,'J were originally a part of a Spanish & land grant, will pass Into the owner- tw ship of the State of Texas under a- de- v'l clsion rendered by the Supreme Court :| In the case of the State of Texas . '3 against Thomas O'Connor, for the recovery of 20,000 acres of land. ... The same question Is Involved to the cases of other claijnants to these IandS<|]| now pending in the courts. Some of | these claimants have had possession of the land for a half century or more, | and Improvements valued at many^iw thousands of dollars are located there- \J> on. CUBAN VETERANS WANT PAT. >J| Toll Falma and Cvrcrefi Ttury Ar? TIrod ' of Delay in Katilnjr Loan*. Havana, Cuba.?The Veterans* Asso- W ciatlon of Havana has sent a memorial ; to President Palma and Congress petting forth its dissatisfaction with the ' delay In raising the loan to pay the Cuban soldiers and asking Congress to appoint a committee to decide upon the 5 legality of the claims not recognized j| by the commission which Is preparing j tiie army lists. It is said officially tliat no difficulty g Is looked for in obtaining this $35,000,? | 000 loan, and that the collection of s taxes in payment of the loan soon will' & be begun. ? LOURDES CROTTO OPEN. Premier Combes Says It Will Not B* Closed Till Cotirt Says So. Paris, France.?A delegation from ? Lourdes which waited on Premier Combes was assured that the Orotto \ will not be closed until the courts have Kj decided whether the law under which, * the religious orders are expelled from & France applies in this case. This was considered equivalent to ' saying that the Grotto will not be dls* turbed. * . Buffalo Woman Shoots Rntbind. V John H. Cistello. capitalist, mine owner and lumber merchant, was shot and seriously wounded by bis wife In % the corridor of the Prudential building " of PnffolA "NT V T rr? m/iil i o folrr oftan < u L xjuu.aiu( lit A* JL miuv.uiu the shooting Mrs. Costello walked: m down to Police Headquarters and gave ' j herself up. The shooting was the out- I come of years of domestic infelicity J and open warfare in the courts be- 1 tween Costello and his wife. I U. 8. Congnl Eucapea Sentence. J The sentences of the local court in- <; 1 Solingen, Rhenish Prussia, imposed on | United States Consul Landger, a fine -M of $7.50 and one day's arrest, for disor- ? \ derly conduct in the courtroom, have( been canceled. j Swift'# Estate Valued at S12.000.000. * ' Letters testamentary were granted by Judge Cutting, at Chicago, to the administrators of the Gustavus Swift estate. The will provides that the estate shall not be divided within ten uyji lattri muii iwtrmj ^eaio. * The estate is valued at $12,000,000. Ji Philippines Postmaster Sentenced. O. G. Milne, postmaster at Tacloban, Island of Leyte, P. I., who recently "was convicted of misappropriating $ Government funds, lias been sentenced : to seven years' imprisonment. . I t Doblin Hopelessly Insane. The insane ward at Bellevue Hospk tal, at New York City, has lost Philip Doblin. the confessed perjurer of the 'J Quigg-Lesler scandal before the Congressional Committee. He has been sent to the Manhattan State Hospital s on Long Island, it being concluded that nothing can be done toward improv iug liis mental condition. Two Perish in s Fire. Mrs. Louis Piatt, aged ninety, andj* ~ | nine-year-old grandchild lost their lfte^ ' In a fire which destroyed the home o? I Mra. Piatt, near Union. Ohio. i