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nrv^Tnnc XT* i ukj r Practicing Physicians recognize the Pills by prescribing thorn for Back rders?a tribute won by no other from "Notes of HisPractice," by fl (Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Gentlemen:?I have been engage tkm for ten years. This is a very sic Hear the Arkansas River. It is pa Beet with many and various abno prominent among the cases in which kidney disease. Many of these dlsori tack, often extending to other pari fresent, caused by uraemic or chron: Of kidneys, cloudy, thickened and f Corruption; inflammation of the kidn excess of uric acid and decompos times met with, caused by high stat There is no class of diseases a d jmriety of kidney diseases, in many rigors, followed by fever, a result of rt/1 nniann from the svstem. Suet their natural (unctions, then the pois hock to the nervous system averted I have, for some time, been usi manifestations and with uniform sui ny that even in hopeless cases wL Kidney Pills afford much relief and la conditions of excessive or defloie leecence from swamp-fever and mala cases in my practice. ? CASE 1. > Thos. Orell, Bear, Ark., age 30. ; Pain in back for several weeks, then chills, irregular sometimes, severe rigors followed by fever. 1 Gave good purgative of calomel and ! narlnnh and Doail's Kidney Pills. ' After taking four boxes of the pills, patient lip and en joying good health lor one of his age. CASE 2. i Mrs. Smith. Tarry, Ark., age \ 29, mother of four children. Had \ female complaint and kidney trouble, manifest by pain in back and urine irregular; sometimes very elear, changing to cloudy, and with I much sediment on standing in chamber. Gave local treatment for female complaint and prescribed Doan's Pills'; after using six boxes she regards herself as cured. These are a few of the typical ca OPills. In a great many instances I Hrhile with some others indicated ren I believe that by the judicious u cations are arrested and many hopelei prevented. I have often fonnd that one box o cnre, but in some cases I continue absent and the cure effectual and pei ; , A free trial of this great Kidney and Bladder Specific can be obtained by ad- /%. fc owing Foster-Mil burn Co, Buffalo. XL T. The regular size Is 60 cents per Box. If not for sale by your drapgist r dealer, will be sent by mail, charg?a prepaid. on receipt of price. Fall Dress Was Foielgn. When one of Mark Twain's daugh ters was a wee miss she gave evideno of uncr-nscious humor that delightei feer father. As a reward for beinj food she was once allowed her firs peep at 81 evening party. Apparentl: of the many unfamiliar sights the de collste gowns of the women impresse< her the most She gazed at the wear erg long and wonderingly, and then pulling her mother side, asked in ai awe-stricken whisper: "Mother, what country did they comi from ?" V* ch*11e?S* the world to pro- rSSSh m9^E?? 'oc* * nora prolific, ear If, big Pgjv^Bjy eared corn variety tbaa Soli?r'? flBBCuU llome Builder. *o naratd be- r^S^EjB ^VuK cause SO tcrei of tbit flno corn WqfiBHsI MH23u) yielded >o heavily la 190:, that 111 LTMlW net proc?d? built a beautiful bom# for the lucky pouxuor. See catalog. Here ere Mme of the yield* our |^~ ?EP eo?u>mer? bad of this corn lo 1903: NK9S a^g3yC 15? bu. per aere. kjlh?S| HKp" By John Flagvl, La Porte Co., lad. f{^M0 n^EflM 160 bn. per ?ere. I^BW^ By 0. K. Michael, UonL Co., O. 1190 bu. per aere. ^M| By RJchird Spaeth. Lake Co., Ind. 198 J)", per acre. RWH Br J. D. Walker, U&mblem Co., Ua^^iH Teur 220 bo. per acre. Mtoaf^H Br Lawrcoce SchcUtel, Ojemav 225 bn. per acre. kJ'AS By J. W. Ilu*c7. CrocLett Co., KwCS Tenn. C^l V 804 l>a. per aere. PJJ&H * 7 Stearns. Ransom Co., X. D. art: "Ripened in l-'O day*. T(elded .'<04 bu. per aere. Next wmX gear I will grow 400 bu. per aort National Oats. Kfl Enormouilj prolific. Doei veil UMffl ererjwhere. It wou't let j-oor acr? produce leu than 100 bu. Try It. Billion Dollar Grass, Moat talked of graas !n America. Would be ashamed of itself if it yielded let ? than 14 ions of splendid hay per acre. For 10c. In Stamps PFJIm and the name of thla paper, we RTT^Gfi will gladly aend you a lot of farm toed samples, well worth $10.00 to f *- H get a start with, together with our KpMS mammoth 140 pacje Illustrated catalog, describing uch novel* |a^| tie* aa Arid Land Barle kseaml Wheat. Two Foot Oats, Pea Oat, ?M Teosinte, Victoria n A J Rape. Scad m JR MH ITY^?/ft the 10c. to- A "jjOH W. L. DOUGLAS *3.?? &*3 SHOES S W. L. Douglas x hoes have by tueir ' ' g excellent style, &L easy-fitting, and (M. .aia. iuperior wearing 0- sgj dualities, achieved ) ggfF SN5& M the largest sale of ^?5) rny shoes la the _ W,y Th?y are just as crood IjjaaBg^'' vs as those that cost you ^OTaiPwBiil "'if $4 to 85 ?the only j difference's the price, L book for name and Hajra^tp^T ? price on bottom. Douglas nses Corona Coltaklii, which is everywhere conceded to bathe finest Patent leather yet produced. fast Ce'or Eyelets uand. Shoos 1>\ mall. 25e.estra. ?rlf?for Catalog. W.L.Douk1?k. Brockton. M???. VA ? % p ^ V wtw liiscuvism; tn^ |% \J I" ^9 I quick raliof ud oorM won Utv SeiM tor book of testimonials and 10 day* te*umeat FrM< Dr. H. B. GKEEH'8 80N8. Atlanta.Qi ^M&U M IJT" mV?*fSis/'Tla KiBv: Coogh Syrup. Tastes QooO. ueo IJi JjFTa In time. Sold by druggist*. IM ?B3SBEDaiW& ALL IN LINE. uufaillu&r reliability of Doan's Kidney ;ache, Klduey, Bladder and Urinary Dis Proprietary Medicine. Four eases cited r. Leland Williamson, of Yorktovrn, Ark, Yorktown, Ark., Mar. 1, 1904. (J In the practice of medicine in this sec* :kly climate, on the Bayou Bartholomew, rticularly malarious and miasmatic; we irmal conditions of the human family; i I have been called upon .to prescribe is iers manifest themselves by pains in the ts of the body; sometimes headache ia ic uric acid poisoning, soreness in region oul-smelling urine, discharges of pus or eys, extending to the bladder, is caused ition of the urine. Hemorrhage is somee of inflammation or congestion. loctor is called oftener to treat than the nf which the patient will have chills or the kidneys falling to eliminate the uric i case3 require the kidneys restored to on and foreign substances are removed? and natural health restored. ng Doan's Kidney Pills in these many ccess, curing most cases. I can further lere they have waited too long, Doan's prolong life. I can recommend the pills nt secretion of urine, as also in convarlal attacks, as verified by the following CASE 8. Bnowic Eaks, Wynne, Ark., age 21. Had severe case of malaria! hoemataria or swamp fever. Gave necessary liver medicine, calomel and padoph, and morph.-sulph., to relieve pain, and ordered Doan's j Pills for the high state of congestion and inflammation of the kidneys. Recovery resulted in two weeks. Prescribed Doan's Kidney Pills, to be continued until the kidneys were thoroughly strengthened and all pain in back subsided. CASE 4. Elijah Elliott, Tarry., Ark., age 34. Pain in back and legs ana headache. Uric-acid poisoning. Prescribed Doan's Kidney Pills After mvomI hrivPH nflin nuhnided ?urine became normal, or natural, and patient able to resume bia work. ses in which I have used Doan's Kidney use them alone with curative results, ledies are associated. se of Doan's Pills many serious compll58 and incurable cases of Bright's disease f the pills is all that is required to effect their use until all symptoms are entirely manent. Yours truly, Yorktown, Ark. Stitches of a Lifetime. The other night a party was in J. s Dreps' tailor shop discussing the I general topics of the day, when the I conversation turned to the subject of t tailoring and the number of stitches T required to make a garment Mr. - Dreps was timed for one minute, and 1 the number of stitches he made was - found to be seventv. This makes , 4200 aa hour, 28,000 per day, 21,462,i 000 per year. This tailor has followed his trade for thirty years and e during that time has made over 646,860,000 stitches. Cut the Boat In Half. The Minnetonka, built at Cleveland for seacoast trade, being longer than the locks in the Welland Canal, was dry-docked at the head of the St. Lawrence system and cut in two. The rear half steamed through the canal, while the forward half was towed. A foreigner cannot own land in Japan. N. Y.?10 Miss M. Cartledge gives some helpfui advice to young girls. Her letter is but one of thousands which prove that nothing is so helpful to young girls who are just arriving at the period of o/nmanttnnrl ?c I vdifl F. Pink TT VlUVMIUVVlft MU m-*J ham's Vegetable Compound. "Deab Mrs. Pixxhjlm: ? I cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegecable Compound too highly, for it is the only medicine I erer tried which cured me. I suffered much from my first menstrual period, I felt 60 weak and dizzy at times 1 could not pursue my studies with the usual interest. My thoughts became sluggish, 1 had headaches, backaches and sinking spells, also pains in the back and lower limbs. In fact, I was sick all over. " Finally, after many other remedies had been tried, we were advised to yet Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable - Compound, and I am pleased to say that after takiutr it only two weeks, a i wonderful change for the better took I place, and in a short time I was in perfect health. I felt buoyant, full of life, and found all work a pastime. I am indeed glad to tell my experience with Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound, for it made a different girl of me. Youra very truly, Miss M. Cap.ti.edoe, 533 Whitehall St, Atlanta, Oa. " - S5000 forfeit If original of above latter proutnq genuineness cannot be produced. CAPSICUM VASELINE! (PUT OP IN COLLAPSIBLE T(JBCS) s ] A substitute for and su perior to mustard or | j any other plaster, and will not blister th? most delicate skin. The pain-allaying and I curativequaliticsofthisarticleare wonder-1 tuL It will stop the toothache at once, and i ' relieve headache and sciatica. We recom-[ mend it as the best and safest extern*] counter-irritantknown.also asanexternal remed ^ for pain? in the chest and stomach andall'rheumatic. neuralgic a ndffoutycom* plaints. A trial will prove what we claim > ! for It* and It wili bi found to be Invaluable k Id the houaehold.ilanypeoplesaT"it i&the bestof ai. of your preparatlona Price 15 ct*^ata!l dmgarlst? 0* other dealers, or by , 8endiu(f*.hisamoun*toTisin postage stamp? I we willsend vou a tube by mail. No article -1?voownnkwJ bvtheDublicunlossthe oanles ou? labe., as otherwise i t i 9 no 11 Mnulna CMESBBROUOll MPO. CO., j ii - ' ' BIS HOTEL COLLAPSEi Many Men Crushed to Death Unde % i / . i wreckage# ROAR HEARD FOR BLOCKS AWA^ Tli? Unfinished Darlington Building Fall Under It* Own Weight?Hu;e Mans o Steel Smashes Into Dining; Kooin o Adjoining House and Kills Sirs. Storra a Guest,"at Luncheon. New York City.? The giant stee skeleton of the Darlington Apart j ment Hotel, which for several months I line linan in nn?nd{c nf PrPftiOll fill tllf I u%io ucca 1*1 j/iwww ? I north sid? of Forty-six street, betweer Fifth and Sixth avenues, collapsec suddenly without warning, carrying with it nearly every one of the work uien engaged on the ten stories thai had been raised. Emergency Contractor Dunn saic his men had discovered seveu bodies in the sub-cellar on the west side ol the building, and that two more wen known to be pinned under the wreck age on the east side. The crash came with the sudden ness of an explosion, but the might? roar ?f the hundreds of tons of falling metal lasted f?r several seconds Shrieks and groans rose through the swirling dust that enveloped the wreck age. As the cloud slowly settled ii was seen that the buildings on all sides had been greatly damage, most of al the Patterson, a ten-story apartment hotel at 5S and GO West Forty-seventb street, immediately in the rear, where 1 * . ? ? ? 1 a u. | tlie dining room nau oeen wretkeu u,j the crashing steel, and Mrs. Frank L Storrs, of Rye, N. 1*.. a transient guest had been killed as she sat at luncheon in an alcove. For many blocks in all directions the appalling roar of the building's fall drowned the noises of the city streets and people rushed headlong from theii homes, thinking their own walls were tumbling about their ears. There were no explosions to jar the structure. The steel skeleton, 149 feel in height, fell of its own weight and telescoped into a heap of broken and twisted steel girders and fragments of crumbled masonry in the cellar. II went down so straight that hardly a brick fell into the street, and there was very little of the debris on the side walk. But from the bottom of the eel lar the rubbish was piled up to the level of the second-story wiudows of the adjoining houses. FEDERAL BANK LOANS. Favorable Report on the Measure tc Take Real Estate as Security. Washington, D. C.?The House Com mittee on Banking and Currency authorized a favorable report upon the bill introduced by Representative Lewis (Dem., Ga.) to empower nationa banks to make loans upon real estate to the amount of twenty-five per cent, of their capital stock and fifty per cent, of a fair assessed valuatiou of proper ty, exclusive of improvements. The vote of the committee to report the bill favorably was unanimous. The measure is a marked departure from the powers now conferred upon banking corporations, and is one which Mr Lewis, who is a member of the committee, has been advocating for many years. MAX HELD FOR RA*\SOM. Brother of Railroad Official Kidnaped in Mexico. TT i/s ? rPAvne KrlffOn^C nuuaiuil, lCAUO. JXCAIcail L/u^aiiu>. kidnaped Dan Cushing, brother of E, B. Cushing, engineer of maintenance on the Southern Pacific Railroad. They forced him to write a note saying that a ransom of $10,000 was demanded foi his life. It is said that the money must be placed on the steps of the Mexican schoolhouse in Del Rio. The note was found tacked to the door of Cusliing's cabin at Devil's River. His cabin is two miles from the Mexican and three miles from any other habitation. He is thirty-two years old and married. NEW ISLE OF PINES TREATY. Confirms Cuba in Her Title to the Disputed Territory. Washington. D. C.?Secretary Hay nnd Senor Quesada, the Cuban Minis ter, signed a treaty confirming Cuba iu the title to the Isle of Pines. " * - 1 ?_ At. - CI to guard against a lapse in iue ornate, as was the case with a previous convention, the treaty signed was framed purposely by the State Department without the designation of any special period of time within whicli ratification must be exchanged. The new treaty will be sent immediately to the Senate. It must go also to Ha vana to be acted upoxv by the Cuban Senate. World's Merchant Marine. The Bureau of Commerce and La* bor has published a table showing the division of the world's merchant ma rine among the several nations. Greal Britain has 5929 steamers of 100 tons and over, Germany 1193 and the Uni ted States S40. The gross tonnage ol these vessels are: Great Britain, 13, i 900.972 tons: Germany. 2.707,403 ami the United States 1.G10.4GU. Strikers Arrested. Aided by a detachment of militia. Sheriff Rutan, at Telluride, Col., ar rested thirty-seven striking miuers. Women Burned to Death. In the fire that destroyed the Sher man House, at Prairie du Chien. Wis. a mother and daughter from Ilichlauc Centre were burnod alive. The fain ily of Edward Rodgers, proprietor o! the hotel, escaped with difficulty. Tin loss is 53000. J. M. Fitzsimons Dead. .Tames M. Fitzsimons. Chief JusiiCv of the City Court of New York, ant for fourteen years a City Court .fus tice, died at his home froui pneumouiu. War in the East. Russia is suspicious of China, regard ing her as a secret ally of Japan. The Korean Government ordered it: troops to join the Japanese in the held. Russian videttes have cut the tele graph wires between Anju and Pin* Yang, Korea. Two British coal-laden steamers, cap tured by Russians and taken to Suez have been released by order of tin Czar. St. Petersburg advices said that tin laying of a cable from Guam to Japar would be considered a breach of ueu tralily,. - ? ? M-ACHEN FOUND GUILTY Postoffice Conspirators Convicted on r l iweiva Counts. Ilaxiinam Penalty, 510,000 Ftne and Imprisonment For Two Years ^ ; On Each Coaut. Washington. D. C.?The jury in the * Machen-Groff-Lorenz conspiracy trial, after being out nine hours, returned a f verdict of guilty as indicted against '' former Superintendent Machen, of the free delivery division of the Postofflca [ Department; George E. Lorenz, the perfumery manufacturer, of Toledo, ; Ohio, and Samuel A. and Diller B. ? GrofT, of Washington, inventors and manufacturers of the Groff patent let* 1 ter box fastener. I The indictment was under Section j 5540 of the Revised Statutes and contained twelve counts. Conviction was had on all of them. The defendants t were confident of acquittal, and were dumbfounded at the verdict. Counsel 1 for the defense immediately gave notice of a motion for a new trial and , requested a stay of execution. Later the bonds of the defendants were re newed. pending appeal, and they were * released otf $20,000 bail. The maximum penalty is $10,000 fine and imprison' ment for two years on each count. [ Postmaster-General Payne and the ' other officers of the Postoffice Department, who were active in the scandal 5 | investigation, recently closed, were in" formed of the result and expressed * I themselves as pleased that justice had | been done. ' Machen, Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz and t the Groff brothers were Indicted on 1 twelve counts alleging conspiracy to - defraud the Government in connec4>Um t. XI-- " _ii ? - ' uuu wilxi iue pui jiiuse 01 uron iasten ers. It was alleged that the Groffs of? fered George E. Lorenz, who was 1 known to be a personal and business intimate of Machen, then superintend ent of the free delivery division, a L half interest in the Groff fastener for > his services in securing its introduction. i It, was brought out on the trial that Lorena never did anything toward pushing the sale of the fasteners, hav: lng been .told by Machen that the de1 vice had already been adopted by the | postal service and would be introduced as rapidly as possible. Lorenz re: ceived 40 per cent, of all money re1 ceived from the Government by the 1 Groffs, one-half of which he turned over to Machen. Checks and drafts showing the various payments by the \ Government to the .Groffs, by the Groffs -to Lorenz, and by Lorenz to ruacnen, were otrerea in evidence by the Government The defense admitted the "circle of money," but contended that Lorenz had an interest In Jhe Groff fastener, and that all payments by Lorenz to Machen were on account of a debt of ' $25,000 contracted years ago. The I conspiracy had been in operation since ; 1805. I FOURTEEN LOST AT SEA. Pacific Coast Steamer Afire in a Gale and Lifeboats Capsize. Port Townsend, Wash.?After suffering harrowing experiences from fire and storm the steamer Queen put in 1 here to report the loss of fourteen lives. While off the mouth of the Co lumbla River the Queen caught fire in her after saloon in some unexplained way. The fire rapidly gained headway and threatened soon to envelop the whole ship. The heavy seas running meant death to any sent away in the lifeboats. The flames became more and more threatening until, when it seemed a choice of deaths, Captain Cousins ordered the lifeboats launched. ' Thev were manned hv tho crpw nnrt nr. ; dered to remain close to the ship. In ' these the women and children were . ! placed. Hardly had the boats been ; ! cast loose than, unable to weather the fierce waves, two of them were capsized. , WISCONSIN'S CAPITOL BURNED. i Building Ruined and Valuable Records i of the State Lost 1 Madison, Wis.?The Wisconsin State Capitol is in ruins as the result of a fire caused by a leaking: gas jet Although the walls and the roof, with the exception of the covering of the Senate Chamber, are still standing, the interior | is so thoroughly burned and ruined I that in rebuilding very little of the > present structure can be used. The direct loss in round figures is 1 ! over $1,000,000, and when the expense ! of a new building is figured in, the cost ' i to the 'State from the fire will probably 1 | reach fully $2,000,000. 1 On the fourth floor thousands of rec; ords in each office were lost, many of which cannot be replaced. r Many Perish in Flood. Extensive floods have occurred along l the Amundare River in Turkestan. The city of Petroalex was the main sufferer, many buildings being overturned and many inhabitants killed. Inventor of Lee Rifle Dead. : At Short Beach, near Branford, : James Parish Lee, the inventor of the * rifle bearing his name, died after a ; lingering illness. He was seventy-one years old. L Devastation by Tripoli Floods. Torrential rains have flooded and devastated Tripoli and the streams have been transformed into torrents, sweep' iug seaward and carrying numerous corpses. Bandits Shot in Fight on Train. Pietro Gonzales, an Italian laborer, and C. II. Moore and a bandit were [ fatally shot while officers were trying . to arrest Moore and his partner on a [ passenger train of the Clark railroad, , at Salt Lake City, Utah. Cyclone Kills Several. A cyclone blew down a high tower at > Reus, Catalonia. The debris crashed L into two boarding houses and a num her of persons were buried in the ruins. World's Fair Pointers. Forty carloads of building material have arrived at the World's Fair ' grounds for the Oregon building. Thomas Smith, the American Vice* Consul at Moscow, has been appointed ; World's Fair Commissioner to Russia. N. G. W. Lagerstedt has been named - Commissioner General of the Royal . Swedish Commission to the World's i Fair. The appropriation for the municipal > exhibit of New York City at the i World's Fair has been increased to - ....... , - . . . j MINOR EVENRBF THE WEEK | WASHINGTON ITEMS. Secretary Hay is confined to his homt> by a slight recurrence of the grip. Agues French, the white maid who recently stole a quantity of jewelry from the apartments of PostmasterGeneral Payne, was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. The Senate Committee on Pensions authorized a favorable report on the ! Pension Appropriation bill, with an 1 amendment increasing to $100 a month i the pensions of veterans who are toj tally blind as the result of service in I the Civil War. M. Bunau-Varilla, the Minister from Panama, ha3 cabled his resignation | as such to the President of that Republic. The Navy Department has received a cable message from Admiral Evans saying he will sail for home about March 26 on tiie battiesmp Kentucky. Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General Bristow, who has been ill with grip for several weeks, is improving slowly. and will soon go to Old Point Comfort to recuperate. The Isle of Pines treaty having been negotiated to run for nine months, and the time having expired, the convention is declared to be dead, having lapsed by limitation. It is reported that the Ameer's boundary pillars on the Afghan-Turkistan border have been destroyed by Russian agency. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The battleship Wisc6nsin, now at Manila, in the Philippines, has beaten the world's record with thirteen-Inch guns, its expert gunners having made nine bull's eyes out of ten shots fired within ten minutes. The First Presbyterian Hospital at Porto Rico was opened at San Juan with appropriate ceremonies, roe Hospital cost $20,000, which was raised in New York. ' * The Supreme Court of Porto Rico has sustained *he decision of the lower court, which sentenced to death Pedro Diaz, for shooting a man during the election riots at Humacao in August, 1902. Postmaster Harry Earl Biscoe, of the United States battleship Oregon, now at Manila, in the Philippines, has been ordered under arrest by Rear Admiral Evans ior an alleged irregularity in his accounts. Five cases of diphtheria are reported on board the United States ship Monongahela, at San Juan, Porto Rico. Surgeon-General Wyman, of the United States Marine Hospital service, at Honolulu, has invited Dr. Charles B. Cooper, of the Board of Health, of Hawaii, to become chair man or a committee to unaertaae an exhaustive investigation and study of leprosy. A parade was held at San Juan recently by the American Federation of Labor in honor of Sam Gompers, the President of that organization, who has come to Porto Rico in the interests of the Federation. Major Scott has returned to Manila from a successful pursuit and punishment of the Vigan mutineers, and the promptness with which the affair was handled has caused widespread satisfaction. DOMESTIC. Two,postal clerks on a northbound train , two miles north of Meridian. Miss., were shot and killed by a ..negro during an attempt to rob the train. George S. Brainerd, President of the Farmers' aud Merchants' Bank, of Montgomery, Minn., was sentenced to fivA vpars' imDrisonment for receiving deposits when his bank was insolvent Attacked by a jaguar during a performance. Harry # Welles, a Bostock trainer, was nearly killed at Philadelphia, Pa. He was urging the animals to leave the cage and in the narrow passageway to the stage one of the jaguars sprang at him. Jealous of Mrs. Ben Ramsey, at Terre Haute, Ind., Jerry Dugan killed her and her two children, then sotight a policeman, confessed and gave himself up. Fifteen workmen were killed by the collapse of a scaffold in the dome of the new postoffice building, at Chicago. 111. Maine Socialists, at Bath, nominated Captain William P. Rogers, of Freeport. for Governor. Five Chinamen were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a laundry at San Francisco, Cal. T7?/^T>T7TT?XT s uuriiu;'. The Morales) Government has d<s cided to buy from Venezuela the gunboat Miranda for $200,000, to be paid in six installments: 5000 Mauser rifles and a million rounds of ammunition. Sir William Vernon Harcourt. Liberal member of the House of Commons for the West Division of Monmouthshire. England, has announced hfs intention of retiring from Parliament. Larrikins or roughs chased John Alexander Dowle round the city of Melbourne, Australia, after breaking up a meeting he was attempting to hold. Colonel Leutwein, Governor of German Southwest Africa, telegraphed from Swakopmund that Major Estorffs column had a severe ten hours' fight with the Hereros near Otjihinanaka. during which one German officer was killed and four officers, among them Barou Schoneau-Wehr, were wounded. The United States torpedo boat flotilla. escorted by the auxiliary cruiser ijurraio, lias ieu rort oaia ou us way to Manila. H. M. S. Bonaventure, the new flagship of the British North Pacific squadron, en route'from Portsmouth to Esquimalt. went ashore ou the South or Central American coast. In Santa Clara Province, Cuba, the ruffians who caused trouble during the recent electoral registrations are con tinuing and increasing their intimidations. The by-election in South Binning ham. England, resulted in a victory for Lord Morpeth, Unionist, by a vote of 3200 to -22.'! votes cast for Hirst Ilallo well. Liberal. Advices from Quito say two heavy earthquake shocks were felt there re eently. From high authority here it is learned that Turkey and Bulgaria are on the point of reaching a pacific understanding regarding Macedonia. The French Government will ask for the authority of Parliament to expend $2,000,000 in completing the defenses of Saigon, capital of French CochinChina. Pietro Allini. the Italian Socialist, who tired a shot at Sijrnor Torrielli. the Italian Consul at Havana, Cuba, on June 12, 1903, was seiuteuced to eight years' imprisonment k ;v:: ? '*_:: NOTED CHARACTER DEAD Noah Raby Claimed He Was Oldest Mm in tha World. He Lived to Do Within One Month of One ITcndred and Thirty-six Years? UU Father Wait an Indian. New Brunswick, N. J.?Noah Rnb.v is dead. Just before be entered the Piscataway poorhouse Noah establislied bi3 age at 100. His proofs as to the date of bis birth were not such as would be accepted by a court; but they satisfied him and all who listened to him. He has lived within one month of thirty-six years since then, and his J--"- III U- 4-U f\ AAnilfTT atfiiiu win ue euintru uu iuc wumj records as having occurred in his 130th year. Although totally blind, shriveled and shrunken, and with hardly any life in him. he retained his memory until within a few months ago, when he lost all recollection of the past and apparently was merely able to mumble to himself. "Uncle Noah," when he told the story of his life to visitors, gave the Gates County Court House, at Eatontown. N. C.t as his birthplace, and said his father was an Indian and his mother a white woman. He never at tended school. He learned to read*a little, but never to write. When he was seven years old he was apprenticed to a farmer and stayed with him until he was twenty-one. Then he became a hired man on the farm of "Widow" Penelope Parker, ia his home county. Later he was employed by her step-daughter, Miss Sarah Parker. "I fell in love wltl. Miss Sarah," he would say, "but I thought she -would not have me, and so I left her farm and went to sea for awhile. When I came back she had married her overseer. She asked me why I went and when I told her she said I ought to be ashamed of myself for having such a faint heart." \ Noah's birthdays were the occasion for great celebrations. Visitors would come to the poor farm by the score from miles around. For the last ten or twelve years of his life he slept sitting in an old rocking chair, because he was afraid that by lying down he might have a rush of blood to his head and succumb that way. MURDER ENDS LICENSE VICTORY After Trying to Kill Wife Madman Shoots a Woman and Child. Cumberland, Md.?Intoxicated as the result of election excitement, where, at Elkins, W. Va., a bitter contest wa3 waged between the license and the anti-license people, the former winning, Louis Tourville, forty-five years old, after an unsuccessful attempt to murder his wife, went to the house of his next door neighbor and shot down Elizabeth Moyer, wife of J. H. Moyer. He then shot and killed the infant son of Mrs. Moyer, two years old. Tourville was pursued by a crowd. There were cries of "Lynch him!" and when Tourville found he was hemmed in he shot and killed himself. It is believed he thought his wife, who had eluded him, was concealed in the Moy er home, aud, being like a raving maniac from drink, lie gave vent to his spirit of murder.,,. GAINS FOR NO LICENSE. 'Reaction in Vermont After One Year's Liquor Selling Experience. Burlington. Vt. ? Returns received from all parts of the State at the headquarters of the Vermont Anti-Saloon League indicates a decided change in the sentiment toward license in the past year. Out of sixty towns that voted for license last year only twentyone voted for it this year. There is only one town in the State that voted no license last year that is in the li* ceuse CIMUUIU uino jcm. Four entire counties have voted no license. There was only one county to so vote last year. 1 This city voted for license, by a narrow majority, as did St. Albans, Vergennes, Montpelier, Barre and Brattleboro, This city re-elected Mayor Burke (Dem.). PRESIDENT'S SALARY 573.000. Bill Gives Vice-rresidcut $13,000, Speaker $12,000, Members $8000. Washington. D. C.?Senator Gallinger introduced a bill increasing the salaries of the executive officers of the Government and also of Senators and members of the House of Representatives. The bill fixes the following scale: President. $75,000; Vice-President, $15ir>AA. Cm\o l-nr nf tha TTnneo r>f Rpnre UW, Vi tuw w. ? sentatives. $12,000; members of the Cabinet, $15,000 each; Senators and members of the House, $8000 each. The bill provides that the new salaries shall take effect March 4, 1905. Dick Elected to Succeed Hanoa. General Charles F. Dick, Congressman from the Akron District, Ohio, was elected formally United States Senator, to succeed the late Marcus A. Hanna. The houses of the General Assembly voted separately, the ballot standing: House. 87 to 21; Senate, 27 to 4. The Democrats unanimously supported John H. Clarke, of Cleveland. Robbers Burn Town. In an endeavor to cover up the attempted robbery of the Camden Bank, a branch of the Baltimore Trust Company. at Camden. Del., robbers started a fire which did about $20,00C damage. Kills His Fellow Prisoner. Scott Neil, a prisoner in the county jail, at St. Clairsville. Ohio, killed Tamoa SiTftrm a fellow prisoner. in a desperate attempt to escape, and was himself shot dead after a hand-to-hand struggle with Jailer Ciyde Bulger. Boys Fight a Fatal Knife Due!. Paul Barraekraan and Alvin W. McCorrunn. each fourteen, fought with penknives at a singing school in the village of Benwood, Ohio, and Barrackman was killed. Bank Fugitive Back. T. .T. Cornwell, formerly President of the Bessemer Savings Bank, at Birmingham, Ala., who. while under a charge of stealing $200,000 from that institution, fled to Honduras, returned home, haviug voluntarily returned to staud trial. A .Mrthlrt.in Tiicrlwif United States Minister Powell has been informed that the insurgents at San Pedro do Marcoris, San Domingo, hare seized the tugboat Burro, belonging to the Clyde Line of New York, and armed her a RUSSIA SHOWS REGRET ; Charge Against the- Commander ol the Vioksburg- Unfounded. .2 Denial of 'he Story That He Rcfutd 11 Aid in ltescbe of I(moi?n .Sailors at Chemalpo Accepted. / ;.;j Waashinston, D. C.?Officials of the Goverument received with satisfaction news that- the Russian Government has expressed its regret over the wrongful accusation that Commander ir..HnkA|t ~ TTn:^n/1 Cfufaa cnim Diaiduan UL LUC UUUCU KJta tto boat Vicksburg had declined to. offer assistance to the crew of the Russian cruiser Variag after the battle at Chemulpo. This slander has been the basis for bitter attacks upon the United States in the Russian press, \ aud the Administration felt that some j statement should come from the Rus- j sian Government to counteract the erroneous impression created in that country. ^ 1 The almost total ignorance of the , American Government's general policy displayed in Russia hasrbeen a cause of astonishment to the Administration. Every silly rumor seeming to show, ji that this Government is not preserving neutrality is swallowed with avidity, and statements that have some foundation in fact are distorted. An alliance between the United States and Japan is found in report* that an American cable is to go-from the Philippines to Japanese territory, and the St. Petersburg editorial writers spare neither ink nor energy in anath- . ematizing this country upon the basis of the most palpable canards. The charges that the United States Government is giving either materialor moral support to Japan or has in any way violated its declaration of neutrality are absolutely false. KA/VM ?? a;MM|A aa4IA? k? ) JLUtric iiao uccu xiu oiugic avuuu uj this Government since Russia and Japan became open enemies thatvcan properly be construed as a cause foe suspicion or dissatisfaction in St Petersburg. inuui f PORT ARTHUR Itf PERILL ljj,' Hunger May Quickly Force Russian Garrison to Capitulate. - * Tien-Tsin, China.?Although every, , preparation has been made in Port Ar- a thur to withstand a fierce and persist* ent siege, there is little hope that the Russians can make a long defense."** Soon after the Japanese invest the town by land the Russians will hare to capitulate, even if not one shot is fired. Hunger will do much more to force surrender that will shot and shell. must uucuiaie IULUIUIUUUU UUIU ruii Arthur states that already the town is on very short rations and that the* prices of foodstuffs are going highec and higher. Very few civilians are in town, by; far the most of them having fled or. having been sent away. But the prob- ' lem of feeding those who remain is giving great anxiety to the authorities. The Japanese fleet's repeated attacks : have produced a condition approaching^ demoralization among the soldiers ot the garrison, the soldiers who, before the war, were loudest in prophesying the heroic deeds they would perform. On the other hand, the sailors of, the fleet, who were becoming most dispirited, have regained some confidence since they succeeded in balking the Japanese attempt to block the harbor. . MORO BAND < DESTROYED. ^|. Major Scott Punishes the Chief Whfll Ambushed Him. . ; Manila, P. I.?General Wood reports an engagement with the Datto Moro# under Hassan on the island of Jolo. Lieutenant West and six privates were wounded. One has since died. The, Moro loss was heavy. Hassan succeed^ ed in making ftis escape, mis original. force of three thousand has been re-\H ducsd to fifteen. The island is no*|H under control of the American autborl? K ties, and infiuential Moros are aiding H in the pursuit of the outlaws. Tb&H^ members of the constabulary who vol ted at Vigan are all in custody. TheH arms and ammunition taken by them^H have been recovered, and the tf<k>psrHS have returned to their station. jH| TURNER RELEASED ON BAII^'W Supreme Court Will Hear tbe AppealjM of the Detained British Anarchist; Washington, D. C ?In the Supreme^! Court of tbe Uuited States an orderflfl was issued for the release of John Tur-^| ner, on bail, and setting the hearing of^R his case by the court for April 4 next Ba Turner is a British subject, who waaHE taken into custody upon arrival in NewHS York last October, on the charge of be^H ing an Anarchist, and his deportation^H was ordered. He was detained at Ellu^H Island, and instituted habeas corpii^n proceedings in 'the Circuit Court foifl| Hiofninf A f V flnr VAflf^KI tuc ouuiucm viouiv,c v*. *!%,?? j.v. h^kj. His petition for a writ was dentedjHfl and be brought the case to toe SuHM preme Court. |gjfl| TWELVE LOST IN FIRE." Eleven Children and a Woman BurneoH in Canada. HB Roberval, Quebec.?Twelve lives werBB lost in a fire which destroyed tbe hora^H of Thomas Guay, ot St. Felicien. Whe^H the fire was first noticed by neighborc^H who live some distance away, th^Hi house had been burned to the grount^JB In it at tbe time were the eight sma^^f children of Thomas Guay. Mrs. Phili^^S fioffnnn and lipc thrr?i? small childrei^^^l Not one of the womeu or children e^HH c;?ped. Both Gagnon and Guay, th^Rfl fathers, were absent. SBlg Manufacturer a Suicide. . 8mE John Thompson, aged forty yenrHB committed suicide at San .Francise^^H Cal., by drinking carbolic acid. KB """""" Treaty is Signed. Hffi The arbitration treaty between Cire^^H Britain aud Spain has been signed T.nndou. sflBBi Inca Treasure Discovered. MiB Treasure of tbe Incas has been d^HH covered at Cballacatta, Bolivia. amounts to $18,000,000. MB ^ SB Promineit People. ' "HBB Simon Yandes, a pioneer of the ]^Hh diaua State bar. has just died at age of eighty-seven. nB| Mrs. Alice Gordon Guliclc. tbe Bost^HH missionary who spent thirty years^^^J opam, nas just uieu m juouaon. gaHSQj Sir Gilbert Parker, the author, tflHj achieved a prominent place in iHB House of Commons in a short time.^HnG The Sultan of Johore is visiting rope for the first time. The late Sul^BH| died while on a visit to England nHH| years ago. SM