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p .-' To Protect Trained Nurses. The graduate nurses of Baltimore imi Maryland are to be commended for their action, taken at a meeting hold recently, in regard to the need of legislation for the regulation of tL? profession of scientific nursing. They rvrr.nnv-i-i tr? nromw 51 hill. tO be intl"0 i?4vt.?/w iv r- T"~- ~ -- ? -- due <v! at the coming session of the Legislature, providing for the protection of thrir interests in a manner similar to that enjoyed by physicians. In the event of the bill's passage, all trained nurses will be properly registered, which will entail a test of their fitness for the profession. In the work of aiding the sick and the in.iured, the trained nurse is a factor whose importance is second only to ">? -v?^!/ilon TTVrvnnenHV her mat iuc pujoicmu. a-*vxjm? responsibility Is almost as great. Arduous training is required to fit ber for li rr profession, and when she is ready to take up her duties, not only great skill but unlimited patience is deirunded of her, which Is all the more reason why she should receive full credit for her abilities and be protected in her work?a protection that will benefit mutually both herself and the public?Baltimore Herald. Fanners All Rich in Texan. "There was never a-time-in the history of our State when the farmers had as much money as they possess this year." said C. K. MeClure, of Brenham, Texas, at the Riggs House. "Heretofore only a minority of our agriculturists were able to boast of having ready cash, but this year a large per cent, of them are in funds. Another thing is xu-i. r ~ Krtnrmnlnor fn 11CO t licit UUL icti xutrio a;c uc^iuuxn^ w ww the banks, instead of putting tlieir cash in old stockings or hiding it away in sec ret places; they are going to their county scats and depositing it in banks as business men ordinarily do. This has much to do with the financial showing our institutions are making. Their deposits are far ahead of what they used to be, and the deposits of many small country banks make an aggregate that is astonishing."?Washington Post. A K??ord Murder Trial. The quickest murder trial in the history of Northumberland County occupied just twenty minutes, and it was that in which Charles Mirarchwas acquitted last night of the murder of Fidele Codispoti in a hotel in Shamokin last Easter. One witness was examined, clearly establishing self-defense, and the court directed the jury to acquit.?Philadelphia Ilecord. Coughing "I was given up to die with quick consamption. I then began to use Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I improved at once, and am now in perfect health."?Chas. E. Hartman, Gibbstown, N. Y. It's too risky, playing with your cough. The first thing you know it will be down ? i i deep in your lungs aim the play will be over. Begin early with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and stop i the cough. "Three sties: 85c., enonch for an ordinary I' cold; 50e?, Just right for bronchitis, hoarse- 2 ness. hard colds, etc.; (1. most economical I for chronic cases and to keep on hand. b J. C. AYER CO.. Lowell. Mass. ? Blind, He Mad? a Fortune. David N. Selleg, who died at Northport. Mass., though blind since childhood, made a fortune recently as a business man and inventor. In 1851 he came to Newburg and began in a small way the manufacture of mattresses. The business growing, he began to make furniture, and went so far as to desfgn and carry out machinery for their manufacture. His sense of touch was so wonderful that he could detect the slightest flaw in articles matie ia his factory.?New York World. Eleven sovereigns and five half sovereigns tendered to cabmen in Dublin,' Ireland, in mistake for silver coins were given up to the police. FITSperman?ntIy cuied. No fits or nervousneesafter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great N??rveK3storer.?2t rial bottle and treatisefree Dr.R.H. Kliwe, Ltd.. 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. A man seldom sees a perfect man without the aid of a mirror. 10,000 Plants For 16c. This is a remarkable offer the John A. Kalzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., makes. They will send you their big plant and eeed catalog, together with enough seec* to grow 1,000 fine, sclid Cabages, "2,000 delicious Carrots, 2,000 Blancivng, nutty Celery, 2.000 rich, buttery Lettuce, 1,000 splendid Onions, 3,000 rare, luscious Radishes. 1.000 gloriously brilliant Flowers. This great offer is made in order to induce you to try their warranted seeds? for when vou once plant them you will grow no others, and ALL FOR BUT 16C. POSTAGE, providing you will return this notice, and jf you will send them 20c. in postage, they will add to the above a package of the famous Berliner Cauliflower. [A.C.L.] Some live men remind us of dead ones "who forget to get buried. When Baby Has the Croup give Hoxsie's Croup Cure. The greatest preventive known of Pneumonia and Diphtheria No opium. "No nausea. All druggists, 50 cts. The lazy man would rather sit down and hope than go after a certainty. At present essence of roses Is almost the only article exported to the United States from Btucaria. NY2 Deaf?e?4 Cannot Be Cared by localapplieations as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one way to cure deafness, and that isbyconsti. tntional remedies. Deafness is caused by aa inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tubs. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it Is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this t,ube restored to it3 normal condition, healing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh.whichisnothingbut an j inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. "We will give One Hundred Dollars for any . case ofDeafaess(causedby catarrh)that cannot be cured by Hair's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. P. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. v Bold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. 'THaTRE MANAGERS HELDs T Davis and Powers Charged With Manslaughter. s ALL CHICAGO THEATRES CLOSED Chicago's Mayor Decidcs That None Are Safe?Funeral?, of tho Iroquois Fire 5 Victims?Busiues* Generally Suspend- c] ed and Church Rolls Tolled for an <v Hour? Theatre Managers Held in g( 810,000 Bail. t< Ci Chicago, 111. ? The first blow was struck at the owners and managers of 7 the ill-fated Iroquois Theatre, when Will J. Davis and Harry J. Powers were held in bonds of $10,000 each on 11 a charge of manslaughter for the liola- ? caust. George Williams, Building a Commissioner, of Chicago, was arrest- li ed on the same charge and held in $10,- J* 000. The firm of Davis & Powers is said to own about one-third of the the- r< atre, the other principal owners being s< Nixon & Zimmerman, of Philadelphia, t< and Klaw & Erlanger. of New York. Davis and Powers are the resident managers. They are charged by Ar- c< thur E. Hull, whose wife and three 51 children perished in the fire, with the f( responsibility for the Iroquois calam- 0< ity. $: Nineteen theatres and museums were $( closed, and the sweeping order of the pi Mayor shut the doors of all the rest. These last are the leading theatres in ? 1 J-? ~ me uusmess secuuu vl uie citj, uuu. ,p< are tlie Studebaker, Grand Opera rt House, McViear, LaSalle, Garrlck, II- H linois and Powers. The last two are gi owned and controlled by Powers & fc Davis, the managers of the ill-fated ol Iroquois. The places of amusement were closed le for the one reason that they were not d< provided with an asbestos curtain, m This action is taken in consequence of ki violations of other sections of the or- C dinance regulating theatres. ni Fire Inspector Monroe Fulkerson an- tt nounced that he had finally discovered the secret of the fire. The asbestos si curtain upon which the safety of the cc audience depended was, according to la Mr. Fulkerson, blocked in its descent tt by a steel reflector, carelessly left open pj by a stage hand. While one end of ly the curtain got within five feet of the ai stage the other was suspended twenty vi feet above it, and beneath it swept the te flood of flame that carried death to so w many hundreds. 01 It was announced that every theatre in the city must hereafter comply with If the following provisions before they IS - a. ci.1 1 Mnn will De anoweu 10 open: o?;ei iun w curtains, wide exits, no combustibles of th any kind in the bouse furnishings, fire- Si proofed scenery, no calcium or "spot" bl lights to be used on the stage, skylights above the stage provided with tL automatic lids to permit the egress of m smoke, fire and gas, separate stair- ci ways?each exit having its own stairs of leading to the street. oc From the large number ?f complaints cc received of the loss of personal effects w from the bodies of fire victims, Coro- fr ner's office clerks estimated that $100,- m 000 worth of diamonds, watches, jew- si elry, furs and other personal property, cc was lost in the fire. Many of the victims had money in their possession dt which could not be found when the 32 bodies were examined at the morgues, in Much of the property of value was ai undoubtedly lost, but a large amount fij may have been stolen by ghouls. The in excitement which reigned at the scene 82 >f the fire .made it impossible to sys- lit tematically superintend the removal of st the bodies and 100 or more volunteers is assisted the police and firemen. Hun- cc dreds of the bodies were carried away bi In trucks or express wagons, and there svas no way of? preventing persons d< from searching the victims and taking si: their valuables. 16 Chicago's head was bowed in grief y< ?n the day of the funeral of the fire fo rictims of the fire catastrophe. Busi- 1*3 ness generally was suspended, the $1 banks being the only commercial cen- lo tres which for obvious reasons could ei _ -i j.\. j in OE Close uieir uuui?. The large dry goods houses along State street announced that they would st remain open during the earlier portion cc of the day in order to supply the de- in mand for mourning goods, which has ni been unprecedented in the history of ai the city. It being evident by noon that this demand had been fully met, the in stores closed for the remainder of the of 2ay. ni For an hour at noon the bells of the city tolled a requiem for the dead. The ^ Idea of an hour of mourning was not ty generally disseminated, but when at ooon the sound of the silver chimes If of St. James' Church, on the North ^ Side, were borne by the wind over the heart of the city, it seemed as though pi every other church in the city caught rc from it the inspiration, and the bells of L each responded at once. ^ MARTIAL LAW IN TELLURIDE. ct Colorado Authorities Will Keep Agitators Out of Mining District. Denver, Col.?Governor Peabody has 0 declared a modified form of martial law in Teliuricie, ana mat ciiy is piuceu under the same restrictions as now ? prevail at Cripple Creek. . The object of the order is understood E to be to prevent the return of the men ? who were sent out of the district. These men are considered by the military as ^ agitators who were responsible for the j? whole trouble at Telluride. A) Plot at Salonika. w Over 100 Turks were arrested at Sa- \* lonika, Turkey, on suspicion of complicity in a plot to massacre Christians. ^ Car Rolls Down Mountain. Two persons were killed and a large number injured by the breaking of a k rail on the Western Maryland Railroad, near Blue Mountain House Station. ^ A. coach was thrown from the track and rolled down the mountain. a Fighting in Uruguay. A revolution has broken out in the Department of Florida, Uruguay. In S a skirmish with the insurgents the Government troops lost one killed and S three wounded. P Iowa Bank Closed. The First National Bank of Storm Lake, Iowa, has been closed by direc- i tion of the Controller of the Currency r on evidence of insolvency. a South Africa to Import Asiatics. ^ After three days' debate in the Legislative Council a motion in favor of the e introduction of Asiatic labor into J South Africa was passed. Got $8000 in a Safe. Burglars dynamited the safe if O. 5 Cohen, jeweler, at I>es Moines, Iowa, 1 and secured $8000 in cash, diamonds, ( watches and other property.. J .. * 5TATISTICS OF PAST YEAR 'he Donations For Public Purposes Was Enormous. uicides Numbered 8597 and Homicidei 8976?Sliplit Decrease in Record of D?falcatlonf>. Chicago. III.?'The donations of 1903, y actual gift aud by bequest., to liarity, religious euterprises. eduitional institutions, libraries, mu?ums, galleries aud municipal bet?rments. amount to $78,912,411, as ampared with $77,397,167 in 1902; 123,S88,762 for 1901?the last belg a record breaking year. It should e understood that these sums dp not present contributions to charity in a eneral sense, or church contributions, ?* thnco inriivirinnt dnnntians ad bequests which have been pubshed as news announcements. Of the >tal amount stated above, there has een given to educational institutions 59,950,692; to charity, ?21,726,318: for ?ligious purposes, $3,906,912: for mu?ums, art galleries and municipal bet*ments. $2,927,500, and for libaries, r.583,556. Mr. Carnegie's share in this benefice is as follows: To libraries, $5,)5,500; to colleges, $1,294,500; fund >r pensioning steel workers, $4,000,)0; for the Engineers* Union Home, 1,000.000: for miscellaneous purposes, >8,000. He has also given for various urposes abroad $9,837,000. J. D. Rockefeller, Sr.. has given over 2,000,000 to the University of Chicago, 282,000 to other colleges, $173,500 to 'ligious bodies, and $30,000 to charity. :e has also intimated his intention of vine- or has nlreadv civen. $6,000,000 >r scientific research at the University ' Chicago. One hundred and thirty-seven edges have shared in the educational ^nations, but seven of these-Barard, Colombia, Cornell, Johns Hopins, Harvard. Tuskegee, University of hicago and University of Pennsylvaia?have taken $14,487,789, or more lan one-third of the total sum. The lynchings reported for 1902 lowed a decrease of twenty-nine, as >mpared with those of 1901, but the st year they have <ncreased again, le list standing 104 for 1903, as comired with ninety-six in 1902. Of these nchings. twelve oecorred in the North id ninety-two in the South. Of the ctims, eighty-six were negroes, sevenen whites, and one Chinaman. One oman was lynched in Mississippi and le in Louisiana. Til* number of legal executions in )03 was 123, as compared with 144 in >02,118 in 1901, and 119 in 1900. There ere seventy-seven persons hanged in ie South and forty-six in the North, xty- three were whites and sixty acks. Suicides are steadily increasing in :e United States and the value of huan life steadily cheapens. The suides of one year closely resemble those ' another year in causes and methIs. No special feature stands out nspicuously except tne ease \mu hich the victims can obtain poison om the druggists. Poisoning is the ost common method of committing licide, and carbolic acid is the most immon poison in use. The total number of cases reported iring the .year is 8597?5385 men and !12 women?as compared with 8291 1902. How steadily suicides increase inually is shown by the following jures: In 1899 there were 5340 cases; 1900. 6755; in 1901, 7245; in 1902, 191. Physicians, as usual, head the jt among professional men, the record anding: Physicians, thirty-five; minters, five; lawyers, four; artists, four; >llege professors, two; actors, one; ink officials, twelve. The record of embezzling, forgery, faulting and bank wrecking for 1903 iows a slight decrease, being $6,562,io. as compared with $6,769,125 last >ar. The losses are distributed as llows: Stolen by public officials, $615,'6; from banks, $1,689,752; by agents, .,712,912; forgeries. $218,817; from an associations $188,28S; by postal nployes, $17,967; miscellaneous stealgs, $2,174,153. The number of homicides in 1903 iows a small increase, being 8976. as >mpared with 8834 in 1902, and 7852 . 1901. There was an increase in the jmber of murders by burglars, thieves id hold-up men. The total number of trains held up fourteen years is 341; total number ! persons killed, ninety-nine, and the amber of persons injured (shot) 109. ' The number of trains held up in 1903 as thirteen, as compared with twen-two last year. The number of stage robberies In )03 was six, while that of last year as seven. This year's record shows that no issengers or trainmen were killed by bbers, but there were six wounded, ast year one was killed and three ounded. One robber wi\8 killed in 1903. as jmpared with three killed last year. TWO LOST IN THEATRE FIRE. pera House at Mt. Sterling, Ky., Destroyed. Lexington, Ky.?J. W. Barnes and rank White lost their lives in the urning of the Opera House at Mount terling by being caught under a fallig wall. The fire started in tha large retail rocery of T. K. K. Burnes & Sons, l the Opera House building. A high rind was blowing, and the spire of the Eethodist Church, two squares northrest, caught fire from the sparks and ras destroyed. The church was saved. The Opera House, valued at $20,000, ras destroyed. Robbers Slay Woman. Mrs. Amanda Youngblood has been illed and her son, Robert, seriouslj rounded by three men who attempted > rob the grocery store they conducted t Valverde, Col. Bank President a Suicide. President Ahlman. of the Bank ol Itaten Island, at Stapleton, S. I., com aitted suicide in New York City. Th( itate Examiner closed the institutior lending an examination. Odds and Ends of News. Germany's pavilion at the World's 'air is under roof. The building is c eplica of the castle at Charlottenbarj nd the plans were revised by JEmperoi Villiam. The Shah of Persia is afraid of trav line in express trains, and on his Eu opean trips orders are always givei hat his trains must not exceed twenty niles an hour. Rear-Adnriral Sir Charles Drury, noT Second Lord of the British Admiralty s a Canadian. His wife is a daughte >f the Whitehead of torpedo fame am in aunt of Princess Bismarck, .. I--: >, . > .< . =issii flnlifncnin .mri (Vlpvir,-* FYnrpc: flni lides With Cattle Train. I NEWYORK MAN HERO OF WRECK Officials Place Responsibility For th? Horror Upon Ihe Fassenecr Enpineor, and Alleje Diaobedience of Orders ?Over a Score Are Injured?Accident Worst in History of Road. Kansas City. Mo.?The Rock Island's California and Mexico express, which leaves Chicago every Monday night at 3.1.30 for the West, collided head on at TVillard. Ivan., fourteen miles west of Topeka, with a cattle train. Seventeen persons were killed and every person on the train was injured. The train carried many persons for Oklahoma who had taken advantage of the home*eekers' excursion rates. It also contained through sleepers and chair cars for San Francisco and Los Angeles. The wreck was one of the most serious that has happened on the Itock Island system in years. Between Kansas City and Topeka the Rock Island uses the tracks of the Union Pacific, and as there are no general offices of either road in this city details of the disaster were obtained with difficulty. Occurring as it did at a small station with few facilities for aid and in the darkness, there was much delay in extricating tlie dead and injured and in caring for the latter. The train was composed of a combination baggage and mail car. a regular baggage car, a smoker, a tourist sleeper 5nd a standard sleeper. The wreck, according to the passen ?Ttrnt! M11M/I hv thA j LUllUUtlUl, >?UC vaugvu .-v I freight crew running off scnedule. Tbe passenger train bad tbe right of way, he declares, and the freight train should have waited for it to pass at Maple Hill, six miles west of the scene of the collision. The wreck occurred at a curve. The hero of the wreck was a Dr. Bell, of New York City, a young physician. himself crippled'and walking on crutches. Dr. Bell, although slightly hurt as a result of the collision, was the first man to leave the Fullman sleeper, which was not damaged. Struggling forward on his crutches, he immediately assumed charge of the rescue work. First, he ordered the chair car and sleeper cleared. Then after directing the removal of the injured to these cars, he allayed the pain of tlie injured as much as was possible without medicine or instruments, bandaged broken legs and arms with strips torn at his direction by others from sheets and pillow slips, administered stimulants for the injured until the relief train should arrive, and saved the life o? the fireman by tying an artery with the aid of a penknife and a picce of string. After working until nearly exhausted, Dr. Bell only gave way when the physicians arrived from Topeka with medicine and instruments. Then he steadfastly refused to disclose his name, and it was only partially learned from his fellow-passengers. The dead that were identified on the morning after the wreck are: Gale Fuller. seven years old. of Brockton, Iowa; James Griffin, of Claremont, Mo.; Mrs. Mary Harvaille, of Chillicothe. Mo.; Benjamin Harvaille. son of Mrs. Harvaille, thirteen years old; Tot Harvaille. daughter of Mrs. Harvaille, three years old; .Mrs. J. H. Hill, of Greensburn, Kqn.; Mrs. Mary Kaiser, Russian, address unknown; Raymond A. Martin, of Chillicothe. Mo.; W. S. Martin, of St. Joseph, Mo.; Mrs. W. S. Martin, of St. Joseph, Mo.; E. E. Myer. of Buffalo. N. Y.; E. R. Rankius, of DeKalb, Mo.; urace iteeii, oi uuniicuiu?, ?j.v.f lit-unova Reed, of Chillicothe; Mrs. Susan Reed, sister of Mrs. Hnrvaille; William J. Wells, of Jacksonville. 111. General Superintendent Gruber, of the Rock Island, makes this statement: "The engineer of the passenger train had orders to wait at Willard for the special stock train. He passed on. mistaking a freight train on the siding at that station for the stock train. This caused the wreck. Nobody else is to blame, so far as our information goes. "The passenger conductor says that the accident was caused by the freight crew running off schedule. The express had the right of way. he declares, and the freight train should have waited for it to pass at Maple Hill, six miles west of the scene of the collision."' CUBA YIELDS TO BANKERS. Senate Passes Loan Law Amendments Without Minimum Feature. Havana, Cuba.?The Senate passed the amendments to the loan law after eliminating the provision for a miui mum price or ninety cents, tuus complying with the requirements of the New York bankers with whom the Government negotiated for the floating of the loan and also leaving President Palma free handed regarding the terms of the loan. In addition to the receipts from the internal stamp taxes President Palma is authorized to pledge whatever proportion of the customs receipts which may be deemed sufficient for the payment of the loan. The Senate added a new amendment, which is a compromise with those who have insisted on some sort of declaration that the army will be paid in full. This amendment > asserts that Congress, in view of the increasing amounts which will remain unpaid, will provide a means of discharging these debts without nffecting the guarantees given for the present loan. British Sailors Killed.i Forty-three persons have been killed l>y the explosion of the boilers of the . British cruiser Wallaroo, of Sydney. N. S. W. The Wallaroo is a third class cruiser of 2575 tons displacement, used for Australasian trade protection. Slio was formerly named the Persian. ' Banker Ends Life. M. \V. >!ills. Vice-President of the People's Savings Bank, at Sioux Kails. 1 S. 1")., shot and killed himself. Personal troubles are ascribed as the cause. World's Fair Poiulers. ? Map of United States in grooving 1 crops covers area of live acres. ! Rob-.c Burns' cottage at Ayrshire to L be reproduced on grounds. Ninety thousand gallons of water per minute flow over cascades. j Palace or Mines and Metallurgy, 525 f by 750 feet, cost $498,000. Forestry, Fish and Game Building, , 300 by GOO feet, cost $171,000. Three great cascades, largest waterr fuHs ever constructed by man. 3 The Grand Trianon aud Versailles Gardens reproduced bv France. ' /"I ". ''"Ir-T'V-/t<'\" v." 7;.J^"*' ' v-^ f - PRESIDENT ON PANAMA Justifies Our Government's Aotion in a Message to Congress. Denial of Complicity in Revolt?Prompt ' Recognition Based on Treaty Right* ami ' InterextH of Civilization. Washington. D. C.?President Roosevelt sent to Congress a 10,000 word message telling of bis action in Panama. It contains the text of instructions to our representatives on the Isthmus and their replies, notably Commander John Hubbard's detailed reports of the uprising and the action be took at Colon to prevent loss of American and English-lives, and to preserve transit unimpeded. As to insinuations that we inspired, the revolt and took a hand in it. the President says they are "as destitute of foundation as of propriety," and (ire alluded to by him only lest "unthinking persons might mistake for acquiscence the silence of self-respect."* The timely proximity of oar naval forces at the revolt of Panama he attributes to the common foreknowledge of its imminence, derived from press dispatches, as early as August 31, which he quotes, as well as from special advices, which warned our Government to be ready, in pursuance of its established policy, to maintain free and uninterrupted transit over the Isthmus. For this reason, on October 19. the Boston, the Dixie and the Atlanta were sent to convenient stations, and on October 30 the Nashville was ordered to Colon with instructions to keep transit free and prevent conflict. In his reports Commander Hubbard of the Nashville charges Colonel Torres, the commander of the Colombian troops which landed at Colon on November 3. with practically making war against the United States. Colonel Torres notified our Consul that' if the Colombian officers who had been seized by the independents in Panama on that day were not released forthwith he would "open fire on Colon ana Kin every unitea oiates ciuzeu in the place." i Commander Hubbard advised that . the women and children be sent to ships and that the men take refuge in a stone shed of the railway company, which was guarded by our marines. Colombian troops for an hour and a half surrounded this building in menacing attitude, evidently determined to provoke an attack, but tire coolness of our men averted bloodshed. Later Colonel Torres' asked for an interview, professed friendship for th^ Americans, sayiug that the whole affair was a mistake, and agreed to withdraw his men if Commander Hubbard would leave the town in possession of the police. Meantime Commander Hubbard had been advised of the uprising in Panama and the establishment of a provisional government there, and bad thereupon 1 directed the railway officials to refuse to transport the troops of either party. He disavowed all interest in either side, and expressed his determination to maintain a strictly neutral attitude, save in defense of our rights. Finally Colonel Torres was persuaded by representatives of the new government to return with his troops to. Cartagena. In these negotiations Commander Hubbard declares he had no part. * Th* promptness of our recognition of the new-republic, contrary to custom, the President says, was based upon mo AAno /1\ rinr tronftr Hcrhfft* luiyc A CftWVUW VMI. F | (2) our national interests and safety; (3) the interests of collective civilization. Regarding our intentions toward Panama. the President refers "those who are pessimistic as to our action" to our conduct in Cuba. Referring to Colombia's proposal that if we will restore the status quo before the revolt she will ratify the canal treaty unconditionally,' the President says: "I will not for one moment discuss the possibility of the United States committing .in act of such baseness as to abandon the new republic of Panama." The President concludes with these words: "The question actually before this Government is not that of the recognition of Panama as an. independent republic. That is already an accomplished fact The question, and the only question, is whether or not we shall build an Isthmian canal." LOAN AND TRUST CO. CASE. Decision in Omaha Suit May Affect Millions of Eastern Money. Omaha. Neb.?An important decision in the first of the Omaha Loan and Trust Company cases was rendered by T--.1 ? cn. rru? JUUgt; Olieiiuil. jlut: lilac ucliucu duo that of R. R. Pace vs. the Gilbert School Company, of Winsted, Conn. Mr. Pace had paid the Omaha Loan and Trust Company a sum of money, and later his mortgage aud interest notes, amounting to $1400, turned up in the hands of the School Company. The action was to enjoin the collection of notes and mortgage by the School Company on the ground that the money had been paid the Trust Company and receipted for by it, and Mr. Pace won his case. The defendant contended that the plaintiff having willingly paid the wrong party was not entitled to relief from his mistake. The loan and trust company failed three years ago, and millions of dollars of Eastern money are involved in its transactions. Its method was alleged to be to make loans on farm property and sell the securities to Eastern financiers. The Winsted company had invested a portion of its endowment fund in the loan and trust company's securities. New Guinea Massacre. Th<? natives of Parrhaven. German New Guinea, rose November 14 and massacred two Europeans, two Chinese and ten friendly natives. Twenty-five of the hostile* were killed sub* scquently. ,7ew Mayor Congratulated. Mayor Patrick A. Collins was inaugurated at Boston, Mass.. tor bis second term of two years. He points out that the gross debt of Boston is $So,1MG.000 and the borrowing1 capacity $3,325,000. Mrs. Moffat Not Guilty. The jury in the case of Mrs. Alice Moffat, charged with attempting to poison her husband, Philander Moffat, at Bennington, Vt., returned a verdict o? not guilty. Macedoniaus Dying. Macedonian prisoners in Turkey whose liberation was promised by the Sultan are dying of cholera by the score. Submarine Boat Floated. The submarine boat Moccasin has been floated from the beach near Currituck, N. C., where she stranded. rp7?r- V ' < - s'V?-'"4. - : ' . , ; . * ' ' :" ' ' iiiiiMSlr WASHINGTON ITEMS. _ President Roosevelt lias pardoned nt Robert F. Ashley, serving a two-year sentence iu the Southern Illinois p.enifunHoiu: ffti* n.iuuinrr AAii!irarPflIf nmhai' v'.uitat. j ii/i paooiii^ vv/uuiti LV,H, UIVIIVJ . The Distvict Criminal Court has overruled the demurrers to two of the three indictments against former As- . sistant Attorney-General James N. Tyner and Harrison J. Barrett, growing out of the postal investigation. Minister Allen, at Seoul, has advised the State Department that the Empress Dowager of Korea died on the morning of January 2. The Y/ar Department has decided to mount the great slxteen-inch breechloading rifle now at Sandy Hook on a disappearing carriage of the same type as that now used in the service. A cable message to the Navy Department announces the arrival of the gunboat Vicksburg at Chemulpo, Korea. The Department of Agriculture announces that commercial estimates indicate that the orange crops now coming on the market will be the largest ever produced in the United States. The Navy Department received a telegram from Rear-Admiral Sands, at T.rrt*r fXf firtrr! f fllA f KAQ f yy trot, ?ajiiig mai uic iui j/cuv uvul destroyer Lawrence, while at anchor at Key West, was rammed by the passenger steamboat Olivette. He says that a report will follow later. President Roosevelt sent a message of sympathy ou-the recent fire catas- | trophe to people of Chicago through Mayor Harrison. ? Associate Justice Brown, of the Supreme Court, will probably be retired by special act of Congress if he does not regain his sight. tt Secretary Moody will remain at the head of the Navy Department until the B end of the present Administration, ac- cording to his present intentions.-. U1 Secretary Root will give a reception ?' and. dinner on January 29 in honor of rj Governor Taft, who is now on his way j* from the Philippines.' ^ xne tjrerman .amuassauor auu iue Baroness von Sternburg, accompanied gj by the latter's sister. Miss Ivy Lang- ^ ham. will attend the German-American e< ball in Philadelphia, which takes place on February 8. , . y Two mountain batteries, one at Fort ri Leavenworth and the other, at Fort Ri- g ley, have been ordered by the War De- a partment to be In readiness to proceed v to. Panama immediately. T OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. A General Ricarte, the recently re? turned exile from Guam, now in hiding in the Philippines, has written a letter " outlining a new revolution. ? Perez, a former Secret Service man, I who saved the life of General Smith in an attack from ambush, has been garroted with two companions for murder. Governor Hunt, of Porto Rico, has received advices from Washington P countermanding the order to jlismount ^ mAiinfAfl T-? ir?o n iuc remuiuiiig uxuuuivu * vs-w A??VMU troops. | Lieutenant Elmer B. Melton, of the ? Pliilippine'constabulary. has committed suicide. The transport Zafiro. with Captain Matthews' company of marines, has ^ left Manila on its way to Seoul, Korea. Fire in the Pueblo of Calumpit de- ? stroyed 250 homes. Several lives were lost and 1000 persons were rendered 1 homeless. .. ? k. - .. a The Philippines Commission has ap- ^ propriated $75,000 for the expenses of e an honorary board of commissioners, e composed of fifty Filipinos, to visit the a St. Louis Exposition and the principal f( cities. <' ? Af fha Phi'Hnn?n0a I 4-1 iue oupiciuc vjvuh, ui wt u has confirmed the sentence of death B; imposed on four natives who butchered _ three marines in September, 1902. The vessels of the Asiatic squadron, ,, under command of Rear-Admiral Evans, sailed from Honolulu for Manila by way of Guam. E e DOMESTIC. c The Amalgamated Association's con* ? tract with the Carnegie Company at ** Mingo Junction, 0., has been cancelled and the men will make individual contracts. The strike of chandelier makers, ^ brass molders and polishers in the Gen- * eral Fixture Company's plant at Chi- c cago, 111., has spread until 1500 men are tl now out. / :' > & Arrested on a charge of defrauding n the United States out of thousands of ti acres of land, John A. Benson was re- j leased in $10,000 bail in New York City. After eighteen hours' deliberation the jury hearing the $50,000 personal dam- c age suit of Miss Inga Hanson against _ ? - a. * the City Railway Company, ai cuiuugu, 111., returned a verdict for the company. 1 Convicted of sending threatening letters to the Northern Pacific Railway C?mpauy. Isaac Gravell was sentenced at Helena, Mont., to ten years in jail and to pay a $5000 fine.' With bullet holes through their heads Alford and Hayden Johnson, brothers, were found dead in Inez. Ky., the result of a drunken row ou the highway. FOREIGN. John Redmond has announced the intention of the Irish members of Parliament to open an active fight for home rule. The National Directorate of the United Irish League at Dublin, Ireland, has passed resolutions in favor of home rule and the maintenance of the national organization in full power. A'treaty of commerce and navigation has been completed between Cuba and Italy. The natives 01 rarruaveu, New Guina, November 14 massacred I two Europeans, two Chinese and ten , friendly natives. Twenty-five of the * hostiles were killed subsequently. } At a secret session of the Peruvian < Congress the treaty of arbitration for . a settlement of the boundary dispute I jetween Peru and Bolivia was approved. A dispatch from Urmia, Persia, re- j ports that an attack on the Jews, ^ which lad been planned by the Persian j population, was frustrated by the en- , ergetic intervention of the Russian \ Vice-Consul. , As a result of the American mission i to Abyssinia, a treaty with the United i States has been signed by Emperor t MeneliU. 3 The report that Germany contem- J plates the acquisition of a coaling sla- j tiou at St. Thomas. Danish West In- t dies, is semi-oliiciaily declared to be . unfounded. * In Trebinje and Bilek, in Hungary, t a serious revolt broke out among the troops whose terms of service expired ] but who were retained owing to the i failure of the Hungarian Parliament to / pass the annual recruiting bill. The French Minister at Seoul has { ' * l? Pmnm'/ll' r>f Tvorpa ( aeuvereu iu me ? the decoration of the Grand Cross of i the Legion of Honor. 1 The Russian squadron destined for * the Far East sailed for Alexandria. ' IMMODORE NICHOLSON OF OUR IAYY ; - 'A*'Sy-v' icomminds Pt-fu-na-*-fith?r Prominent Mm Testify. H^ry ; ^ ggj| ^JViC/iOf, Commodore Somerville Nicholson, oC . le United States Navy, in a lettec om 1837 R SL, N. W., Washington, . C., says: "Your Pernna has' been and is no*! sed by so many of my friends and ac-( uaintances as a sure cure for catarrh1 * lat I am convinced of its curative ualities, and I unhesitatingly recomlend it to all persons suffering from* tat complaint"?S. Nicholson. The highest men in our nation hare' Lven Peruna a strong endorsement [en of all classes and stations are jually represented. . v If you do not derive prompt and satifactory results from the use of Pe? una, write, at once to Dr. Hartman, Iving a fall statement of your cams nd he will be pleased to give r:a hit aluable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President oC he Hartman Sanitarium, Columiras, O- ; lsIc Your Druggist for a free Pertaui Almanac for 1904. (ANSAS LAND I want to buy land in Kansas owned by non-resident*.... Write to-day, giving legal description, and rice. M. HlftqETTE, Osborne, Kansas ipn D o YirewDisoovMtT; J W%. \J m 9 qaiokreltof aad oarwi wont lsm. Send fur book ot testimonials and 10 4myaP aatmeat Free. fa.I H.aiia'B OBS. JLUMtt*. ?; Carious Properties .of Kadi am. The properties of radium are exremely curious. This body emits with reat intensity all of the different rays lat are produced, in a vacuum tube. : he radiation, measured by means of n electroscope, is- at.least a million "lAo-WAM nnnufFnl than that frrtm JIH ,UiCO i-LlVA ^ |/vn V*4U?' MW V ?. - , . _ qual quantity of uranium. A charged lectroscope placed at a distance of everal metres can be discharged by a jw centigrams of a radium salt One an also discharge an electroscope arough a scree of glass, or lead five oc tx centimetres thick, photographic Iates placed in the vicinity of radian* re almost instantly affected if no creen intercepts the rays; with screens-, lie action is slower, but it still take* lace through very thick ones' if the rposure Is sufficiently long. Radium an therefore be used in the production f radiographs.?lime. Curie, in Cenury Magazine. # Gold Piece For First Coarse. R. I. Baker, of the Baptist Church, rhile holding a recent meeting at 'aintaville, was the guest at dinner, m ompany with the other preachers of tie town, at the home of Mrs. J. C. 0?' fayo. Imagine their surprise and de? ght to line |5 gold piece under each! umbler on the table. -Morehead (Ky.). fouataineer. i V.'I In 1870 the German people barely exeeded 40,000,000; in 1885 they had isen to nearly 47,000.000, and in 1900, he census returns gave 56,346,014. ! m hb Miss dannon, Sec'y Detroit V Amateur Art Association, teds wunjr women what to do to ivoid pain and suffering caused >y female troubles. ! " Deab Mas. Pinkham :?I can ?on- * scientiously recommend Lydlft E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound x> those of my sisters suffering with! female weakness and the troubles which so often befall women. I Buffered for months with general weakless, and felt so weary that I had hard work to keep up. I had shooting pains, md was utterly miserable. In my dia;ress I was advised to use Lydia E. g Pinkham's Vegetable Cornsound* and it was a red letter day to ne when I took the first dose, for afc ;hat time my restoration began. In iix weeks I was a changed woman, >erfectly well in every respect. ' I feli lo eiated and happy that I want all Qnffpr tfl CTfit Wftll a.S I did." -Miss Guila. Gaxitox, 359 Jones St..' G Detroit, Mich., Secretary Amateur Art H Vssociatioa. ? $5000forfeit If original ofaboM K9 etter proving genuineness cannot b* produced. When one considers that Miss H Glannon's letter is only one of the countless hundreds which we H ire continually publishing in the news* H papers of this country, the great virtue^M )f Mrs. Pinkham's xnodlcine must bit H ulaaitted by all.. H J