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IS perish" IN T1E1TRE HORROR Chicago Scene of Greatest Cal i ? _ n *i i> amny in Hisiory 01 American Stage. THE IROQUOIS A DEATH TRAP More Than 600 Men, Women and Children Lose Their lives in a Fire Panic. Beautiful New Theatre, Supposedly Tireproof, Crowded With Women and Children Attending Matinee Performance, Becomes in a Flash a Caldron of Flame ? Electric Spark From a Broken Wire Started the. Blaze ? Draught Swept the Flames Almost Immediately Into the Auditorium ? Stairways Became Choked Quickly? Bodies Tiled Three and Four Deep in Aisles?Fire Exits Not Adequate?Terrible Panic on the Streets. Chicago, 111.?More than 500 persons, mostly women and children, perished by fire in the Iroquois Theatre. It is estimated that the total number of the dead is 563. ,The fire began while a matinee performance of "Mr. Bluebeard" was beins played. An electric spark from a broken wire shot into the flies and an explosion followed. Then a panic ensued. From that time on until the flames filled the place the death crush continued. A mass of humanity was i jammed into the balcony stairway, surrounded by smoke and flames. The mass soon settled back into a death - ---? .*.1 At pose, ana mere w ere iuuuu uj mtraen. Trucks, express wagons and patrol wagons were all in use carrying away the bodies. The asbestos curtain in the theatre would not work, and the flames swept at once to the pit and adjoining walls. All the exits were soon choked by frantic women and children, and those on the inside, terror stricken at the advancing flames and smoke, were unable to move either way. Children were taken from the ruins, some j burned to a crisp, and others trampled beyond recognition. Women by the score were found in a tangled and scorched mass near the stairway. The theatre was almost in darkness in the second act. The stage was lighted only by the soft artificial beams from the calcium, which lent beauty to the scene during the singing of the "Moonlight Song" by the double sextette. A flash of flame shot across through the flimsy draperies, started L>y a spark. i A show girl screamed hysterically. The singers stopped short, but with presence of mind the director increased the volume of the music. Scores rose in their seats as the stage manager { shouted an order for the continuation nf thp soner. It was obeved with feeble hearts. The girls forced the words from their throats until two of their number swooned. Clouds of smoke poured from the stage into the auditorium, enveloping the struggling mass of panic-stricken men, women and children. Behind the scenes all was confusion. It required but a moment to perceive that the fire had gone too far to be conquered by the amateur fire brigade formed by the stage hands. In the dressing rooms as high as the sixth story were the score of girls of the ballet. At the first alarm the elevator boy fled from his post, and the flames soon shot upward in the wings and made escape by the narrow stairway impossible. The screams from the imprisoned girls in the upper rows of dressing rooms came to the ears of the more fortunate below, as they rushed to the stare doors. Some stODoed for a brief moment, thinking to give aid, but the clouds of smoke, growing denser and denser, forced them to flee. Their cscape even then was miraculous. The blackened bodies which choked the aisles and stairways, the lines of policemen and firemen carrying limp forms from the building, the overtaxed hospitals, the rows of dead and dying in the surrounding buildiugs, which were thrown open to the sufferers, tell briefly the tale. Only a few of the terrifying incidents will ever be known. Great loss of life was prevented and ' many lives were saved by the heroic rescue work of the students, faculty, janitors and workmen in the Northwestern University building. The rescue work of the people in the top balcony was effectively done by the people in the university building. The platform of the theatre fire exits on the top balcony was directly opposite the third floor fire escape platform of the university building and on a line with the law school lecture room. Kalsominers, decorators and painters were at work in this lecture room, using large planks to make platforms. ' The first seconds of the rush for life Costa Rica Recognizes Panama. Senor Calvo, the Costa Rican Minister, informed Assistant Secretary of State Loomis at Washington, D. C.. that his Government had formally extended recognition to the Government of Panama. Ball Player Shot Dead. Dennis Leahy, for several years a player in the Virginia Baseball League, and at one time a member of the Cincinnati team, was shot and killed at Knoxville, Tenn., by Frank Regan. Labor World. Kail KivCl" {Mass.; vtaut'is icv.cnuj organized. Montreal (Canada) firemen have been granted an increase of ten per cent, in their pay. Machinists at South Boston, Mass., have organized and will seek to secure a nine-hour day. Sacramento (Cal.) Electric Street Railway has increased the wages of Its employes. Cook County, III., has eight local onions of railway clerks, with a membershio of nearly 10.000. f among' those in the audience were J quiet, according vo tuo.se who live to tell the tale. Few, if any, in that throng realized what was to come. They thought only of themselves as they pushed and struggled for every inch as they advanced toward the exits. For an instant the stairways leading from the balcony were a mass of struggling people, with scores behind constantly pushing closer and fighting to get out. Those iu the van, unable to keep their footing, fell headlong. Those behind fell over their prostrate forms, crushing and suffocating them. The scene was then a bedlam. Women and children were in the majority of the fighting crowd, and their shrieks of fear mingled with the groans of the injured and the prayers of supplicants to God. Women seized their babies in their arms, frantically clung to them, beseeching ears that were deaf to entreaty to save them from the terrible fate impending. Had those appealed to been so disposed they could not have given ine assistance so pueuusij unsought. In the last hope, born of desperation, scores of those in the balcony, climbed to the railing and leaped to the pit of the theatre, many feet below. Their bodies were found long afterward, when the smoke had cleared away and the firemen could grope their way with lanterns into the place. The dense smoke quickly rose to the top of the building. To a score of those who had sought to jump from the gallery the smoke was kind, for it brought death quickly. Three women were found hanging over the rail, their faces distorted with agonies of death. I'rom a dozen sources the alarm went to fire headquarters, but before the vanguard of engines wheeled into Randolph street a dense crowd had gathered in front of the theatre. The firemen were quick to act, but hundreds of bodies were already motionless within the walls of the playhouse so recently opened. An awe-stricken crowd stood fixedly as those who had been nearest the doors rushed out, their eyes wild with fear. These yelled fire at the top of their voices, and the cry was taken up by the crowd and carried far into busy State streei and the other avenues of commerce. None realized at that minute what hud occurred. Each man asked his neighbor if there had been loss of life I or-injury. Not until the first black-1 i ened and limp body was borne forth in the arms of a policeman did the importance of the disaster begin to dawn on thoso in the street. In fifteen minutes nineteen dead bodies were carried out the Randolph street entrance. Then they came so fast that all count was lost. Every hospital in the city hurried ambulances to the scene, and with them every surgeou who could be spared. They were as nothing, though, as compared to the need. Two and three, and in many cases even more, were huddled into the ambulance and hurried off to the hospitals, where kindlier attention could be given them. The great majority of those who had occupied orchestra seats escaped with their lives, though scores were badly , hurt in the rush. Some were knocked down, and with broken limbs were unable to rise. They were left to die with a number of women who fainted from fright. With these bodies were found the corpses of those who had leaped from the balcony and gallery. In the exits of the balcony and galleries the greatest loss of life occurred. When the firemen went to remove the bodies they found a hundred or more piled in a mass in each place. The clothes were torn completely away from some of the bodies. Here and 1 there a jewelled hand protruded from the pile. All the faces were distorted with pain. From beneath one mass there suddenly came the moan of a woman. Trembling hands plunged their way into the tangle of human forms, and with a , mighty effort pulled to the surface the woman. The blackened lips parted, and a fireman bent over her to catch the words. , "My child, my poor little boy. where is he? Oh, do bring him to me." ] Again the lips parted. "Is he safe? Tell me he is safe and I can die." "He is safe," the fireman muttered, and all knew his reply was best. She died, and her body was lifted with | those of hundreds of others in that one spot. The calamity was so overwhelming that the firemen and the policemen, who were the first to reach the upper parts of the house, could not realize its astonishing extent. They began by dragging a body or two from the terrible piles at the head of the stairways, as if they did not know the piles were made of human bodies. , Gradually the full significance of the catastrophe dawned upon them. All j the lights of the theatre had been extinguished. The lanterns of the fire- j men cast only a dim glow over the piles of dead. From the bodies arose small curls of steam. The firemen had , drenched the piles before they knew ( they were made of human corpses. Then the work of taking out the inanimate forms began. There were constant appeals for more help. The bodies of little children, torn and bleeding, were tenderly lifted, each by a fire- . mnn nr nnlioomQn nnrl <-?jirriprl tn th(* street below. Two or three men were needed to bear the heavier burdens. Every now and then a form faintly breathing was dragged out of the pile. These were handled with even more tenderness than the others as they were carried down the marble stairway of the gilded foyer. Now and then a faint groan was heard coming from the bottom of the pile. This was the signal for renewed and frantic efforts on the part of the rescuers to untangle the human mass. In the balcony scattered about the aisles and among the charred seats, were found many bodies. One mother. < French Parliament Adjourns. Both houses of the French Parliament adjourned afl?r passing the budget. Etienne Brisson was elected to succeed M. Bourgeois as President of the Chamber. Embezzler Under Arrest. Russell Beckett, wanted by the Chilean authorities on the charge of em- ( bezzlement of $5000 from the Bank of Tarapaea. was arrested on board the ship YValden at Philadelphia, Pa. Prominent People. The Czar of Russia has sent his autographed photograph to William J. Bryau. Sir Thomas Lipton has to pay taxes on property in Chicago, 111., assessed at ?3o0,000. Count Rudolph von Welserheim has been appointed Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at Madrid. B. W. Findon, a nephew of the composer, is writing a new biography of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Dr. H. F. Swanbact, of Nevada, j wears the iron cross of Prussia, given I I kirn by Frederick IV. I M clasping her child, was found kneplln; as if in prayer, with her back to tbi stage, from which had come the deatl dealing sheet of flame. She bad pro tected her child from the flames, bu the little one was dead in the arms o its mother. As the work of rescue pro gressed dozens of blankets wen brought, and the bodies were carriet down in these. v The scene, immediately after the fin was got under control and the work o rescue began, was appalling. All tin gilt and tinsel of the theatre, all thi silks and plushes, all the rich bang iugs, all the frescoes, had been wipet out. The flames from the stage hhc swept the entire theatre and left theii blight everywhere. The upholstery 01 many of the seats was still intact though. But for the failure of som< one to act, when action meant life foi hundreds, only a few might, have per islipri The thin shppf of asbestos thai could have saved all failed. In a remarkably short time raer whose wives and children had gone tc see "Mr. Bluebeard" reached the scene It was a hopeless task to try to tine their loved ones. Through the tiers ol dead and dying in the buildings al about men and women searched witl frenzied faces. Now and again i searcher would find one for whom h( looked. When the dead was found th< searcher knelt in prayer. One man pushed his way into th< lobby of the theatre. His eyes wer( blinded with fear and he did not se? th? firemen pass out with unconscious forms. Before a group of men he stood for a moment. Then he aske<3 u any one had been injured in the fire. "My wife and boy were there," he murmured. "Did every one set out?" Tears came to the eyes of the men ii the little group. At that instant fiv( firemen staggered down the stairs, eact bearing a human form. One of th? men pointed to them, and the husband and father fell to the floor. Amid even such sad scenes the pick pockets were busy. The police kept watch as best they could, but the ghouls snatched many purses from the dead and dying, and wrenched rings from the fingers that could no longei offer resistance. Several of these men were caught in their work. Tbey re ceived at the moment punishment all too light for their crime. Only a few were arrested and taken to the police station, where they will be held tc await the course of the law. The chorus was compelled to dress lt\ fliA \fonr r\P 4-Kn xvnmon in the dressing room when the fire started. Exit from the cellar was cul off by heavily barred doors. The mer were forced to break them open. Dur ing this delay many of the girls re ceived painful burns. The girls were forced into the street wearing tights They took refuge in the rnion Hotel and the Sherman House. Viola MacDonald. one of the most beautiful chorus girls on the stage, was in tights when the cry of :'fire" ranp through the theatre. She turned to the girl next to her and said: "I'll not go out on the street in these tights if I am burned to death." She then ran down stairs to a dress ing room to put on her skirt. She go1 into the skirt and then heard a crasl; overhead. She found her egress barred by falling and burning timbers. She was the last person to leave the stage part of the theatre without injury. She was hauled through a coal hole bj three brawny firemen. Father McDonald of the Holy Name Cathedral, in company with S. E. Car roll, came along Dearborn street, whei: the shrieks of the chorus girls who triec to get out of the theatre reached them Father McDonald and Mr. Carrol rushed into the alley and saw font Kirls trying to get out through a coal hole back of the stage of the theatre The priest and his friend rescued the four women, who were taken to theii homes. Their names are Violet Young Dora Selfe^ Alice M. Bartlett and Dodie V. Goodman. In the basement of the theatre wber the fire started, Maggie Levine was ir charge of twelve girls who were pre paring to appear in the scene entitled "The Hunters." When Miss Levine heard the cries of fire and the sounds of the commotion following over hei bead, she shouted, "My God, girls whal can be the matter?'' A moment later a panic Strieker crowd of fifty or more chorus girls were struggling for their lives. Smoke rolled down through the trap doors ir suffocating clouds and almost oblit erated the dim lights from the incan descents. Doxie Marlowe. Dot Down ing, Zaza Belasco and Marie Janette were knocked down and trampled bj their sister chorus girls and the few men in the chorus. Doxie Marlowe was so much overcome by the smoke that she was unconscious for the time being and had to be carried out. James Gallagher, a member of the men's chorus, took command of the frightened and half-suffocated girls and instructed them to take hold of one an other's hands. He took the lead anel prasping the foremost of the girls by the hand led the way through the base ment from the stage to the front of the fheatre building, where he reached the cirUn'nIL- in T>o?. i uai tniai UUUCL luc oiutn a?a *u aiuu clolph street. With a stick he forced the coal hole covers off and this sufficed to signa the firemen that help was wanted Ladders were lowered and each of the fifty girls and their male companions were drawn out of the basement. Some had sisters and all had friend! in the blazing building. The bitter col( pierced them through and through, foi they were clad only in their thin stag* gowns, with necks and arms exposed Nevertheless, they had to be draggei from their station in the alley and int( neighboring stores. juuwyers x>uineu 10 jL?eum. Two men were burned to death ai the club at Troy, N. Y. One was Moses T. Olough, one of Troy's oldesi lawyers and the President of the club The other was William Shaw, also om of Troy's best known lawyers. QUICK JUSTICE IN OKLAHOMA Murderer of a City Marshal Caughl and Killed in Half an Hour. Guthrie, Okla.?City Marshal L. E Ferguson, of Ringwood, was shot nn< instantly killed by Clintou Fox, n farmer. As soon as the shooting occurred Foj mounted his horse and rode out ol town. A number of citizens quicklj organized and gave chase. Fox headei toward his home, but was overtaken it little over half an hour. lie was lirei upon and killed. World's Fair Pointers. The thirty-five miles of roadway a the World's Fair have been practically finished. The Louisiana Purchase Expositor covers two square miles?1240 acres It is larger than the Chicago, Omaha Buffalo and Paris expositions com bined. The design for the Russian buildinj at the St. Louis Exposition has bcei approved. It will be a handsome struc ture, on the style of the Palace o: Romanoff Boyarda, at Moscow, am T~ ... ; COTTON BROKERS IN PANIC t f Opening Advance Succeeded iw s . General Collapse in Prices, t SMALL SPECULATORS WIPED OUT x ^ ? j Thousands of Bales Thrown Upon the 1 Marlcet?PriceB Thrown Down SoventyF five Toints ?Heavy Bidding Alone * Saved the Market ? Sale* Estimated j at Over One Million Bales. New York City.?Twenty thousand t small speculators were wiped out by the sudden slump in cotton, and many J brokers declare that it was the bull clique which engineered the slump in 1 order to get rid o? the little fellows t who had overbought the market. For ' an hour there was a panic of the wild, est description, while the market broke ? eighty points, or ?4 a bale. If the bulls ? had planned the break they did so at i a tremendous risk, for they lost control ; of the market completely, and it was j not until big supporting orders were [ put in at New Orleans that they were ; able to stop the panic. I May and July cotton were selling at about 14.25c., when the break started , selling from some quarter, causing the market to ease off, and by points it ! went down to near the fourteen. Then , came the rapid decline. , It is estimated that there were at i least 1,000,000 bales of cotton of different options held subject to stop loss orders, and they all semeed to come on the market at once. Every broker who held cotton for customers on the i twenty point stop order tried to sell before something worse happened. , The market went down ten and , twenty points at a drop. Brokers J rushed to the pit and fought for places in the inner ring, every broker shouting I at the top of his voice and fighting for , a chance to unload the cotton he had , been fighting to buy only a few min, utes before. Within a very few minutes the active . options dropped about seventy-five , points. Then the bulls came to the \ rescue and there was a rally. The mar; ket swung back almost as rapidly as J it had dropped. The market was hardly less wild, and there was almost a3 . much noise around the pit as when the k market dropped. A recovery of forty points was made on the sudden recov[ cry. Then the market began te fall again. After the partial recovery tne market ruled very irregular, with sen\ timent very unsettled and trading fevl erishly active. The close was steady 1 net forty-one to fifty-three points lower, with sales estimated at 1,500, , 000. The slump served to wipe out nearly all small speculative accounts. Since t the upward movement in cotton began , many thousands of young clerks and > other employes have deposited their , savings with brokers in order to get [ rich quickly. Money has been drawn > from savings banks 'by many to put "r into cotton, and the speculative mania among employes seems to have been , greater In the cotton market than it [ was in the stock market about a year j ago. This, too, in face of the fact that ^ the heavy declines in stocks have ruined many men and many houses, j New Orleans, La.?A little clique of . bears played havoc with the cotton I market, driving May cotton at one time down seventy-fiv^ points, or $3.75 a ; bale. This was followed by a slight ; reaction, and net losses for the one day were from forty-nine to fifty-four i ; points. The loss for March was forty-' nine points, or $2.50 a bale. { Thousands of bales were thrown on ( the market and prices dropped ten to twenty points, while trades were being [ negotiated. Brokers with twenty-point , holdings grew frantic in their efforts ' to save their customers, and the scene . became one of the wildest confusion. l This condition lasted for an hour. " until the tremendous buying by bull ( leaders checked the decline. \ WOMAN MURDERER SENTENCED, i Mrs. Rogers to Spend Year Awaiting Execution in Vermont. > Bennington, Vt.?Mrs. Mary A. Rogr ers, convicted of the murder of her huar band, Marcus H. Rogers, was sen? tenced in the Bennington County Court 5 to be hanged on the first Friday in Feb\ ruary, 1905. Leon Penham, the confessed accom? plice of Mrs. Rogers, was sentenced to ? life imprisonment. [ If the sentence of death fs carried . out Mrs. Rogers will be the second I woman to be hanged in the history of .Vermont, and the first prisoner to be put to death in the State in twelve T> rvl 1 TTrt tifoTT TTrh/Y ? .VUaia. 0,yiTt-9LCl UCll, Ul lianiaA, ttuv was hanged in 1891 for the mnrder of his wife, was the last one to pay the death penalty. A session of the Legis. lature, which holds the pardoning I power, must intervene between the sentence of death and its execution. 5 LABOR MEN INDICTED. J A Texas Grand Jury Takes Action on Dynamiting Cases in the State. 1 New Orleans, La.?The Grand Jury of Bexar County, Texas, has found 1 twenty-five indictments against Frank * 4-\y r\ eaorafflrv r\f fhft t HUJtUIUU, IUC OCVICIIIIJ V*. iwv wv>w? Car Men's Union, of San Antonio; F. C. Boyd, business agent of the Carpenters' Union, and T. D. Holcomb, a strikt in? motonnan, for dynamiting street ? cars and attempting to murder the pas. t sengers in them. The street car strikes in Texas recently have been attended [ In nearly all cases by indictments, most of them for manslaughter. Big Fire in Pittsbnrg. For twelve hours thirteen engine t companies battled with n stubborn Are In the six-story storage warehouse of Tlaugh & Keenan, at Third street and ; Duquesne Way, Flttsburg, Pa. (Crossed ' Moctric wires, ft is said, caused the fire, 1 Tho loss will be about $700,000, with Insurance of $70,000. f High Voltage For Murderer. ' Six electrical contacts were neees1 *ary before Frank White, a negro muri rtrtrnr wiis nrnnounced dead in the 1 prison at Auburn, N. Y. College and Educational Notes. Good scholarship hereafter will be t required at Princeton of all students r who are candidates for athletic honors. Dorothea Beale, LL.D.. has com1 pleted forty-five years as the head of . Cheltenham College for Girls in Eng, land. The report of the treasurer of Cornell University shows a total income for the j year of $1,415,874. and expenditures i amounting to $1,058,123. , Sir v/iiiiam Muir, former principal of f the University of Edinburgh, has just 1 had conferred upon him the medal of the Royal Asiatic Society. , i v\ W - - \ %? c' JAPAN MAKES BOND ISSUE Assumes Control Over the Seoul. Fusan Railway, Japanese Cabinet In Emergency Session ?China Appeals to Japan For Arms ?British Naval Reserves Warned Tokio, Japan?An extraordinary meeting of the Privy Council approved the issue by the Cabinet of an eraergercy ordinance authorizing the guarantee of the principal and interest of an issue of 10,000,000 yen debentures for the purpose of expediting the worfc on the Seoul-Fusan Railway, which is expected to be finished by the end of 1904. The ordinance also provides for all possible military expenses for the protection of the railway and other interests. I The President of the Seoul-Fusan Railway has been dismissed, and M. Furuichi, President of the Japanese Railway Board, will succeed him. Other Japanese officials are taking control of the line. London, England.?The latest report in the Russo-Japanese crisis credits Japan with insisting that Russia shall reply to the last note before January 10 on the ground of the rapid approach of Russian naval reinforcements to the scene of action. Portsmouth, England.?The 'Admiralty has ordered the Naval Reserves men to send the addresses from which they could be summoned to active service if required. Pekin, Cl\ina.?Yuan Shih Kai, Viceroy of Chili and the head of the Chinese Army, has entered upon hurried negotiations with the Japanese authorities to obtain a million taels' worth of arms and ammunition. The Japanese, although they are desirous of furnishing the weapons and ammunition, are unable to do so unless China agrees to take part of the supply in models which are now obsolete in the Japanese Army. Ten ' thousand rifles -and 2,000,000 rounds of ! ammunition, which were purchased I last August to replace the obsolete weapons used by Yuan Shlh Kai's personal army, have not yet been delivered. Yuan Shih Kal will probably resort to Austrian and Herman makers unless the Japanese Government permits exports from her own reserves. Lien Fang, Vice-President of the l Board of Foreign Affairs, has visited M. Lessar, the Russian Minister, and asked him what Russia's intentions are in regard to the evacuation of Manchuria. M. Lessar said that nothing could be done at present, first because the cold prevents the moving of the troops from the positions they now occupy, there being no barracks elsewhere; and, secondly, an evacuation while the Russo-Japanese negotiations are proceeding would endanger Russian interests, as the Japanese might seize the occasion to invade Manchuria. It is stated that China is now so alarmed at the possibility of becoming involved in war that she prefers the alternative of Russia retaining control of Manchuria. CRAZED HUSBAND KILLS THREE Shot His Wife and Child in Her Arms and a Man. I Sergent, Ky.?William Shepherd, of Letcher County, has been arrested and j is lodged in Whitesburg. He went to the home of Obadiah Fields, his fathering w, and shot and killed his wife and her infant child, and Riley Webb, a teamster. Tue murderer fled, but was captured, v Crazed with drink. Shepherd walked into the house and without provocation fired a steel bullet through Webb's body, entirely severing the spinal cord. Then Shepherd turned upon ills wife and fired a bullet through her body, killing her almost instantly. The same shot pierced the form of the babe x^hich the mother carried in her arms for protection. The little one died in a short time. RICH 1002 MINING PRODUCTS. Quicksilver, Flint. Feldspar and Fuller's Earth Report Issued. Washington, D. C.?The Census Bureau has issued a report on the mining of quicksilver, flint, feldspar and Fuller's earth for the calendar year 1902. The figures relate exclusively to the raining operations and subsequent reworking of the minerals at the mine as incident to the production. The product follows: | Thirty-four thousand two hundred and ninety-one flasks of quicksilver (each weighing 76% pounds), valued at $1,467,848, together with 11,727 short tons of cinnabar, valued at $82,242; 36,365 short tons of flint valued at $144,209; 45,287 short tons of feldspar, val: ued at $250,424; 11,492 short tons of Fuller's earth, valued at $98,144. * DOWIE'S BIG FIGURES. Testifies That He Was Offered $3,000,000 For North Shore Land. W aUKegUIl, ill.?1U ills tAauiiuauvu in the Circuit Court in an electric railroad condemnation case Dowie said tnat before the Zion City project was well started he had had an offer of first. $50,000, then $1,000,000, then $3,000,000 and then ?3,000,000. for his bargain in North Shore land. Attorney Grover. for the Waukegan and North Shore Kailroad, cross-examined him closely when .Dowie insisted he should have $230,000 for allowing the railroad to cross Zion City on the lake shore. Mob Threatens Jail. A crowd collected around the couuty jail at Council Bluffs, Iowa, threatent ing to lynch two negro prisoners who are held for an alleged assault on two women. The Council Bluffs militia company were called out. The mob battered down the doors of the jail. The mob finally dispersed, haviug failed to secure the prisoners. Macedonians Menace Turkey. Four thousand Macedonians under Bulgarian leaders are reported to be mrtn.i/iinfr fho Turl/ifth frmiHor U ' r. uu IUV Jk m IMI U *<. wuv>v?t Newsy Gleanings. Uncle Sara's printing bill amounts to 50.000,000 a year. Florida'* orange and pineapple crop is estimated at 52,500,000. French officials made a strong denial of the report that France intended to interfere in the Far Eastern situation. The arbitration treaty between France and Italy is said to be practically identical in terms with the AngloFrench convention. The Pennsylvania Railroad will shortly establish its own sales department for the disposal of the products bf coal mines owned. f&ymm?:5 - > v ^; ? , jr .. New Classification*. Dr. Francis R. Lane, until lately di| rector of the high schools of Washington, is fond of repeating the following extract from a composition submitted to him for approval during the days when he was a worker in the school teaching ranks. The extract runs as follows: "Beings are divided into names, according to that which they feed on. The lion eats flesh?the lion is carniverous. The cow eats grass? the cow is herbarious. Man eats everything. Therefore, man is omnipotent." M onte Carlo Plangera. A sensation has been created at Monte Carlo by an Italian banker, who Is playing the most daring game seen here since the days of Wells, the "bank breaker." This gentleman, who hails from Rome. Dlavs simultaneouslv on four tables, and stakes the maximum at every coup. He has just won something like ?50,000, but he has lost far more than that sum since his arrival. Another big plunger, a rich young American, is playing maximums at roulette, and in one day cleared over ?20,000. Three-times running he backed No. 31, and each time his number came up amid the cheers of the excited crowd of spectators, many of whom were following his leads, but in modest ten or twenty-franc stakes. ? ?? - /, Give Mother ? Pension. A certain charitable organization in the city had a request the other day from a young Italian threatened with consumption who wanted help tb get back to Italy In the hope of saving his lfe. An agent was sent to investigate, tnd, as usual, asued the young man's toother for a list of the members of the family. The blanks furnished for this formality have nine spaces left for children. The agent filled up one blank and still the list went on. She filled two blanks without a word, the list of children stopping at eighteen. When she turned in her report, it embraced the following official recommendation: "That the boy be sent fo Italy, and that the mother be recommended to President Roosevelt for a pension." Want No More Mutton. A war against mutton is imminent tn Willard Hall, the women's dormitory of 'Nrwt-hwAatorn TTnivprsitv. Tin* vonna persons have other grievances, but their principal cause of eomplaint is the i^utton. "We count it a red-letter day when mutton is not on the menu," said Miss Charlotte Thompson, one of the leaders in the strike- movement "We have roast mutton for dinner and cold roast mutton for lunch almost every day in the week. The other day we have mutton hash for breakfast." The young women pay $6.50 a week for their board, and say that at thle price the university is making money. ?Chicago Tribune. B / man Womans' Club o doctoring for two ye of her kidney trou Lydia E* Pinkham's Of all the diseases known with v kidney disease is the most fatal. In fa is applied, the weary patient seldom si Being fully aware of this, Mrs. Pii study to the subject, and in producin Lydua E. Pinkham's Vegetable tained the correct combination of h? dreaded disease, woman's kidney tr in harmony with the laws that povei there are many so called remedies f ham's Vegetable Compound is for women. Read What Mrs "Dear Mrs. Pinkkam:?For den, I suffered so with female troi ? rrrL _ J - -a i.^1^ T 1011x3. jlufcj uucwji. wjiu. iuo buui xi for me. For three months I tool worse. My husband then advised Vegetable Compound, and broug blessing ever brought to our hoir changed woman. My pain had d clear, my eyes bright, and my entire Weisslitz, 176 Seneca St, Buffalo, Proof that Kidney Trouble can be Cured t "Dear Mrs. Pinkham:?I fee your medicine has done me. I had growing worse. I had trouble wit me I had Brigbt's disease; also hac walk a block at a time. My back ai so nervous I could not sleep; had h all the time, had such a pain, in nr at times without putting my foot oi " I doctored with several good < I took, in all, twelve bottles of Lye pound, live ooxea 01 .Liver fins, <i Wash, and feel like a new woman, < work, and can walk two miles with tell me that my kidneys are all rig! and I feel that I owe it all to yo Dalton, Mass. Mrs. Pinkhara invites all sic] She has guided thousands to he* tcnnn forfeit if we cannot forth' VJUUU 4l>OTO wblobvrtRpn =========== .1 Dull Bat Obliging. The Globe was dull yesterday. On# excuse is, \f e were coaxed out of print: ing two items that were of real inter ' eat There is-.ai item in town to-day I that would prove a valuable lesson, but ] t we have been coaxed out of printing It > There is nothing disreputable' aboni n the item, but women and men have a*N j > exaggerated notion of some subjects, and we cannot print the item without ; feeling mean for a month, so many - worthy people have asked us to keep U out.?Atchison Globe. < Hark Twain Mined the Boat The success achieved by Mark Twain during his boating days on the Mississippl River was due not only to ths \ race that he was a skiiirm puot, dui that he was an earnest one, as ^ell During a talk over old times at llr. Clemens' summer home, Quarry Farm, -< Elmira, N. Y., recently, a guest who knew Mr. Clemens in those days told the others how the genial humorist once missed his boat Instead of ^ Inventing an ?xcuse,<as m$ny of hU companions did, he reported to his stn perlor officer as follows: "My boat left at 6.10. I arrived al the landing at 6.20 and could not catjcfc It"?New York Tribune.. ' " > FITSDermanently ouzed. No fits or narvotu* y npssafter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Orate NerveBestorer.$2trial bottle and treatisetrac Dr.B.B. Kline,Ltd^ 931 Arch St^PhlUu.Pa, Xabor Shortage In South Africa. , 1 The Transvaal Labor Commission has reported that there is a total short. , age or Z4i,uuu laoorers in aoutn Arnca, s; the deficiency being chiefly felt in agriculture and mining. There is a short* age of 40,000 men in the railway work* ings alone. How's TlilsT* n We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for ' any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Oatarrh Cure. F. J. CncKXT <fc Co., Toledo, O* the undersigned, have known P. J.Che* ' ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per-' fectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any oplig** tlons made by their firm. Y West <fc Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists,Toledo, Ohio. ' . WALDiNO,KijrHAM<kMABTiir, Wholesale Drag*, gists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall'sCatarrhCurels taken internallJVMt j ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of thb syste u. Testi monlals sent free : Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists Hall's Family Pills are the best. Foreign 'Waiters In London.-. < -V According to the latest statistics, the i English waiter in London is slowly but surely becoming extinct. Ther? are now 15,000 foreign waiters in that i city, the greatest number of whom > come from Germany. Italy, Austria, t France and Russian-supply the rest ' W Rheumatism'* Killing Pain. k Left in quick order after taking 10 doaef . ' of Dr. Skirvin's Rheumatic Cure, in tablet form. 25 doses for 25c., postpaid. Dr< : Skirvin Co., La Crosse, Wis. [A.C.L.J 1 A spanking machine is in successful op> ' eration in the State Training School at Redwing, Minn. / / / w: j *slderrt of the Ger-a ?f Buffalo, N. Y., after| ars, was finally cured; ible | by the use of Vegetable Compound*1 rhich the female organism is afflicted, ct, unless pfrompt and correct treatment irvives. . I akham,,early in her career, gave careful ?her great remedy for woman's ills? Compound ? made sure mat it con- h ;rbs which was certain to control that HI oubles. The Vegetable Compound acts H n the entire female system, and while 9 or kidney troubles, Lydia E. Pink- H the only one especially prepared H u Weisslitz Says. , I two years my life was simply a bur*' H lbles, and pains across my oack and h had kidney troubles and prescribed H lc his medicines, but grew steadily H [ me to try Lydia E. Pinkham'a |n ht home a bottle. It is the greatest B ie. Within three months I was a B isappeared, my complexion became system in good shape."?Mrs. Paula H >y Lydia E. Pinttam's Vegetable H si very thankful to you for the good fi| doctored for years and was steadily H h my kidneys, and two doctors tola H I falling of the womb, and could no! H id head ached all the time, and I was H lysteria and fainting spells, was tired H it left side that I could hardly stand H i something. SB doctors, but they did not help me any.. H lia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- H ind used three packages of Sanative H jan eat and sleep well, do all my own H out feeling over tired. The doctors H ht now. r am so happy to be well, H ur medicine."?Mr3. Opal Stbono, h k women to write her for advice* ilth. Address Lynn, Mass. .H| with prodnoa the original Utters and cignatarMof M ire their atoolute genuln?D?M. la E. Ptokham atedlolna Oft, Ijas, KaMb. Bfi J