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HSTEBH M SITUATION Resume of the Russo-Japanese Conflict by an Expert. STATUS OF AFFAIRS IN KOREA I The Japanese Ilare Failed in Their Attempt to ' Bottle Up" the Russian Fleet In Port Arthur?The Mikado Has 260,000 Troops in Motion?Russia to Put 300,000 Soldiers in the Field. New York City?The war expert oC the Xew York World gives the following interesting resume of the Russo-Japanese conflict: The war has lasted eight weeks. In that time the Japanese have won mastery of the waters in the scene of conflict, have kept apart the Russian squadrons at Port Arthur and Vladivostok, and seem to be anxious enough to engage either squadron if it can be coaxed outside of the range of the guns in the Russian forts. Attempts to "bottle up" the Port Arthur fleet, made and opposed with equal bravery, have not been perfectly successful. While the censors on either side take care that no accurate information be given of the damage of the fleets, it remains that the Russian cruisers Boyarin and Variag. the gunboat Korietz, the torpedo boat Steregutschni and the torpedo transport Yenisei, have been destroyed. So has the Japanese gunboat Silni. On land, the Japanese, without serious conflict, have entirely occupied Korea, thus completing Japan's tirst Btep in the campaign. According to reports, carefully censored also, the Russians have taken themselves?it ? cannot be called "retreating," because the movement must be part of tneir plan?to the Manchurlan bank of the Yalu River. In all the skirmishes the Japanese have been victorious, admittedly. In the only engegement of importance. that at Chongfu. the Russians first admitted, then denied, defeat. Ir' is stated that the Japanese have 200.000 troops in motion and 00.000 more under arms in garrisons and at the depots. Military experts believe that Japan will operate three armies, each numbering about 100.000 men. the second army landing west of the Yalu River, and the third army southeast of Newehr.ang. The landing of a heavy Japanese force west of the Yalu's mouth is expected to force the Russians to abandon the fortifications they have built north of the Yalu to oppose the crossing of the river by Japan's first army from Korea. The Japanese, it is reported, have landed a force already in Manchuria. fit raivusuan. 10 uie east ol i>rwchu?ng. and. consequently in the rear of the Russians. The Russians deny, officially, that Japanese troops are in Manchuria. One man's guess is as good as another's?provided the other is not on the Japanese general staff?as to where Japan's second and third armies will attack. As to the number of Russian troops in the theatre of war. At the beginning of the war there were the garrisons of Port Arthur and Vladivostok and a certain number of troops in Mukden. Harbin and other centres. On March 29 the Russian Government announced officially to the Senate that lip to that date 100,000 troops had been transported over the Siberian Railway. 'According to the Russians 4000 troops a day are arriving at Mukden. The Japanese believe that Russia cannot maintain more than 300.000 troops: that the country cannot provide, nor +hrw v.iilmoTT ncr\Ai*f cncfanonna fnt* more. On the other hand. Prince Khilfeoff, the Russian Minister of Railways. who has returned to St. Petersburg from Lake Baikal, declares that ' the railway is working at only half its capacity. It needs no nrophet to say that the first great battle will be fought when each side thinks itself capable of winning it. Much depends. Despite her solemn assurances of neutrality. fickle China may declare herself the ally of the victor in the first great laud bat .COST OF PENSION* ORDER. About $7,200,000 a Year, Commissioner Ware Estimates. Washington. D. C.?Pension Commissioner Ware estimates that it will require $1,500,000 to meet the age service pension claims that will be presented to his bureau under-the new regulation between the date when the order goes into effect and the close of the fiscal year ending June 30. 1!>04, a period of two and a half months, or at the rate of above $7,200,000 a year. The House Committee on Appropriations received this estimate from Secretary Hitchcock, transmitted through the Secretary of the Treasury. The Commissioner of Pensions also informs the committee that in addition to the $1,500,000 needed for age service pensions be will require for the remainder of the liscal year $2,o00,000 more to pay the pensions provided for in legislation enacted by Congress since the last estimates were submitted, making a grand total of 34,000,000. Woman Suspect Arrested. Charged with being implicated in land swindles in Oregon, Mrs. Einma L. Watson, of Portland, Ore., was arrested at Chicago, 111. Blow-Out Caused the Disaster. The Pennsylvania State mine inspectors attending the inquest of the Harwich mine disaster came to the conclusion that the explosion which cost ITS lives was caused by a blast being blown out which set fire to the gas in the mine. Major Seely Re-elected. Major Seeiy (independent) was reclecipd without opposition to represent tho Is!? of Wight Division of Hampshire in the House of Commons. : News From the Far East. Japan has now 2UO.OOO men on the march. The Russian General Staff has an. nounced that no more volunteers would be accepted for the present. Officers and men of the Variag and Korietz, which were sunk at Chemulpo, Were received jubilantly at Odessa. The official Japanese report of the Az-i+iitn of Plmixrin nliif'Oil thoii* Is-iceixc civ. uvu at vuvmjij? ^44^14 >voowg at five killed and fourteen wounded. The Russians proclaimed New Chwang under martial law. according to an official dispatch from Tientsin. SENATOR BURTON GUILTY Six Months in Jail and a Fine oj $2500 Imposed. Defense ?an mat nn acwi vnr..vily of an Attorney?Appeal to Re Taken to United States Court of Appeals. St. Louis, Mo.- Senator Joseph R, Burton, of Kansas, was fined $2500 and sentenced to six months* imprisonment in jail for using his influence before the Tostoffice Department in behalf of the Rialto Grain and Securities Company, of St. Louis, and for having received payment from the company for his services. The sentence was passed in the United States District Court by Judge Adams, after a review of the motions that had been filed for a new trial and for arrest of judgment, both of which were overruled. To the Court's question, whether the defendant had anything to say before senteuce was passed. Senator Burton declined to respond. Senator Burton's attorney. Judge Krum. immediately filed a bill of exceptions in the case, anil offered a bond of $10,000, which was accepted. Then Senator Burton and Judge Krum together left the court room. Senator Burton at his hotel declined to discuss the sentence. He left for his home in Kansas, after having been visited by r< r?aimi? Prpsiripnt of the Iii alto Grain and Securities Company. The case will be appealed to the United States Court of Appeals. In the bill of exceptions, which was filed, one of the principal points forming the basis of the appeal is that Judge Adams admitted as evidence several checks received by Burton from the Rialto Grain and Securities Company while he was in Washington, D. C. The defense contended that in the matter of this evidence the St. Louis court consequently did not have jurisdiction. Another point upon which Senator Burton's attorneys laid stress in the bill of error was the introduction of testimony and documentary evidence. which, it is alleged, tended to prejudice the minds of the jurors against the defendant, while it had no j direct bearing upon the merits of the charge against Senator Burton. T>cnn irvf Qnnn Mr fmm I i5eiliUUt JL>Ul lull, orunn ?.? I Kansas, was convicted after an exhaustive trial, in which various letters from liiui to the Rialto Grain and Securities Company, the checks which he received in payment for his services in behalf of the concern before the Postoffice Department, and the testimony of numerous agents of the Government were introduced. Senator Burton's defense was that he was acting merely in the capacity of an attorney, and did not employ his Senatorial influence in the work. TURXER CASE ARGUED. Supreme Court Asked to Fass on the Anti-Anarchist Law. Washington. D. C.?The first case calculated to elicit an opinion from the United States Supreme Court on the provision of the act of March 3. 1003, prohibiting the landing in the United States of theoretical anarchists from other countries, was argued in that court. The case is that of John Turner, an Englishman, who. soon after landing in New York last October, was taken into custody at the instigation of thr? Ronrd of Immigration and ordered deported. Secretary Cortelyou affirmed the finding. The Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus, and sustained the constitutionality of the act in question. The case was argued for Turner by Clarence S. Darrow and Edgar L. Masters, and for the Government by Assistant Attorney-General McReynoIds. The specific charge against Turner is that of advocating anarchistic doctrine, but it is not alleged that he has recommended the assassination of rulers. FAST FIRING OF BIG GtW'S. Lieutenant Wilson Shoots a 13-inch Rifle at Intervals of 38 Seconds. Washington, D. C.?Letters received at the Navy Department tell of a re markable record in gun loading maae by Lieutenant Thomas D. Wilson, of the battleship Alabama, during the current serai-annual target practice at Pensacola. Lieutenant Wilson has charge of one of the thirteen-inch gun turrets. Under his tuition his crew has become so proficient that in actual target practice a thirteen-inch rifle is loaded and tired in thirty-eight seconds, and at drill, between fires, in thirty seconds. It is regarded as good work to get a thirteeninch gun loaded and ready for firing in sixty seconds. The Navy Department is pleased with what Lieutenant Wilson has accomplished. COLLEGE WOMEN DROWN. Five Persons Lose Life by Capsizing of Boat at Tampa. Tampa, Fla.?Five persons, members of a pleasure party of seven, from the Florida Methodist College at Sutherland. were drowned near Anclote Lighthouse. The dead are: Mrs. Walker, wife o? the President of the college; Miss O'Connor, of Atlanta; Miss Slaughter, of Sutherland; Miss McCray. of Sutherland; Mr. isouland, of Sutherland. President Walker and Miss Newton reached the beach alive. President Walker had taken the party out for a cruise to the lighthouse, but met rough weather and the boat was overturned in the Gulf. Explosion Kills Three. An explosion in the Citizens' National Bank Buiiding at Albla. Iowa, killed three persons and injured several others. The explosion is supposed to have originated in tlie heating plant. Besides the bank building, a clothing store and two grocery stores were destroyed by tire. The financial loss is $75,000. Irish Member of Parliament Dead. Thomas McGovern. Nationalist Member of Parliament for the West Divi sion of Cavan, Ireland, (lied at (Juvan. Education Brevities. Kiosafouro "I'utarai. professor of engineering in the Kioto Imperial University, Japan, is in the United States studying certain branches of civil engineering. A new dormitory is to be prected at Dartmouth College. The building will be throe stories high, size 120 by 58. made of brick, and will bo one of the best of the college buildings. Late registration statistics place Syracuse fourteenth among the leading universities of the country from ihe stnjidpoint of the number of students. The total this term is over 2200 ' CUBAN CONGRESS MEETS f President's Message Read Only i the Senate. ' | ELECTORAL LAW IS DEFICIEN' ! I : No Quorum in the House of Represents tires, Because the Liberal* Kefused t Enter ? Public Health is Excellent. I The Death Kate in Havana the Low ; I est Since 1820. | j Havana. Cuba.?The sessions of th I Cuban Congress began when Presiden , ! Palma submitted his annual flfessage. The message was read in the Senate but not in the House of Represents fives, there being no quorum in the lal ter. The Liberals feared that if the; allowed the session to oegm loruian, tlie Conservatives, with the Bravoites followers of Sefior Bravo, would aj prove of the disputed elections in Pina del Rio. Puerto Principe and Santiagt defrauding them of what they assei Is justly theirs. An attempt was made to settle th trouble, the Liberals proposing tha the members for Havana. Matanza and Santa Clara should take thei seats and the rest should wait unti their credentials are examined. Th Conservatives assented, but said tha they could not vouch for the Bravoites The latter met later with severa Conservatives, and insisted upon tab ing their seats, whereupon the Liberal refused to enter the House. Ther were thirty-four Conservatives an< Bravoites present, leaving the Hous eight short of a quorum, those absenl ing themselves being nineteen Libei | als, three independents, three newl ! elected members from Pinar del Ri j and two from Camguey, one Libera ! from Santiago and oue who js in jail. In his message President Palma sai that the elections served to show th good sense of the Cuban people, wh went to the polls without any lament able disorder. The President declare that the electoral law is deficient an | should be changed. He abstained froi j intervening in any of the disputes, b< ! cause he was not empowered to do so J These disputes had beeu taken t court, where 038 suits were now bein j tried, showing that the people Uuot i .the proper republican practices. I The message says that the publi i health is excellent. The number o deaths in Havana in 1003 was the low est since 1S20. The rate in the islan was not over lifteon per 1000. Cattle have increased from 033,01 head in 10O2 to 1.223,013, and horse and mules from 1S7.728 to 230,473. j new agricultural station has bee started. Mr. Earle, an American, is i charge of this station. This is an in portant step, and should result in th introduction of uew forms of cuitivt uun. Since November the special loa taxes have yielded $1,373,324 to Marcl 1904. The taxes will probably yield surplus. The interest paid on th bonds of 1S9G and 1897 amounts t $579,209. The exports in 1903 wer valued at S7S.4SG.409. The sugar m ported amounted in value to $10,457 010 more than in 1902, leaf tobacco t SG02.G78 more and fruit to $950,57 more. HARTFORD GOES REPUBLICAN Conservative Democrats Oppose Mayor Who Made Incendiary Speech Hartford. C'onn.?In the hardest mi nicipal campaign that Hartford h.i ever known Judge William F. H*unej the Republican nominee for Mayor, an his whole ticket were elected over th Democratic ticket, headed by Iguatiu A. Sullivan, who has been Mayor fc two years. Judge Henney's plurality was 59' It was the heaviest vote ever recorde here, 14,413 votes being cast out of total registration of lY.'JJY. BRITISH REVERSE IN NIGERIA Many Members of a Punitive Fore Killed or Wounded. London. England. ? Meagre detail have arrived here of heavy lighting i Nigeria (British West Africa) and of reverse sustained by the punitive e: peditlon sent against the Okpoto tribi which iu December cut up a Britis patrol, killing two British officers an forty or fifty native troops. In the recent fighting the Okpctc fought their way into the midst of British square and killed or wounde many of the British. BABY AND $300,000 LOST. Fire Destroys Fifteen Blocks in We! Tampa, Fla. Tampa. Fla.?A fierce fire, wine swept West Tampa, destroyed fiftee blocks of business houses and near! 200 tenements, caused the death of Cuban DaDy ana created a wua pan among hundreds of men. women an children, operatives in the forty ciga factories located in the town. The property loss exceeds $300,00i Hundreds of families of cigarcuake: are homeless. Millions for Salt Water Mains. An appropriation of nearly $3,500 j 000, to equip the boroughs of Manha tan and Brooklyn with an auxiliar system of salt-water mains to t) used in connection with lighting fire was voted by the New York Board c I Estimates. Of this amount, about $L! j 500.000 will be spent in Manhattai | and $1,500,000 will go to Brooklyn. More Indictments For Land Frauds | Secretary of the Interior ITitehcoc j received word that sixteen addition: ! indictments had been for.ml by tl i Grand Jury which is investigating tl frauds in connection with the admii | istration of the Timber and Stone a< j in Wyoming and other Western State S ergea n t-n t A nr. s Fatally Wounded I At the Democratic convention : 1 Lawton. Okla. Colonel Hawkins. So J geant-at-Arnis of the Legislature. w; I fatally wounded by Editor llusseli. Prominei t. People. M. Bourguereau has been chosr j President of the Society of French Ar ists. M. Henri Cordier has been chosc President of the Paris Geographic! Society. The Rev. W. E. Garrison, associal editor of the Christian Evangelist, h: been selected President of Butler Co lege, of Indianapolis. Pope Pins X. is a fine pianist, ar one of his favorite amusements is i sit down at. the piano which he hi installed at his private apartment ar rehearse some of his favorite pieces J | CITY TO OWN RAILWAYS, J I ! Chicago Takes First Step to Got ! D J All Public Utilities. I I I i Votes by Throe to One For Municipal Ownership of Its Traitsporta"j" tion Facilities. I ' I Chicago. I!!.-Chicago voters went on | I record in favor of ultimate municipal ! ! ownership of the street railways. The | ! referendum question on this subject I j was carried at the city election by a j large majority, and the vote was three ; e to one in the affirmative. t What is known as the Mueller law. j passed by the State Legislature, was ' , submitted to the voters. The enact- j * ; ment authorizes cities in Illinois to | L* 1 construct, own. operate and lease street > | railways and to provide the means j i therefor. r ! The voters also balloted on the ques" j tions. "Shall the Council, upon the ' i adoption of the Mueller law, proceed ?* j to acquire ownership of the street railr : ways under the powers conferred by , | the Mueller law?" and "Shall the Coun. j I cil instead of granting franchises lii cense the street railway companies une | til municipal ownership can be secured t i and compel them to give a satisfactory g service?" r In addition to choosins the Aldermen [j and voting on municipal ownership of e street railways, the voters balloted to t decide whether the members of the 5 j City Board of Education, now appointj j ed by the Mayor, are to be elected by the people. This, too, was carried, g The municipal ownership proposition e was generally indorsed by the press on A the expectation that its carrying would e strengthen the city in its negotiations .. with the existingcompanies. and would commit the city to the policy of "ultiy mate ownership." 0 ; Everybody in Chicago has been inj reighing bitterly against the means of I transportation with which the city (j ; has had to put up. and when the mate ! ter of adopting the Mueller law came 0 ' tip, giving the city the right to proceed . j to ultimate ownership practically all (j ! the city's organizations favored the 4 ! proposition because they believed it : n ! would put Chicago in a position to get \ j. favorable concessions out of the com- i panies. which have bean hanging out a for several years for the so-called ? 1 Ninety-nine-Year act and other advann />!l r ic o frtrca tn rr i v- ' XT i la?9^ro " U1V-U u.rw?.*iv. wvr rt? i ingc ; As for the rote on the proposition { f I which commits the city to the policy of j j goiug after municipal ownership of the i ^ ! street car lines at once, it is generally j agreed that Mayor Harrison is right in I ^ saying this radical proposition was car- i g J ried because the majority of the voters } ^ j did not know what it meant. It was j n the uneducated vote that put through 1 u ( this proposition, as an analysis of (he ' j. j returns shows. The vote is so heavy j e j in favor of the question, however, that j t. j it indicates a seriou3 conviction on the i part of the city as a whole that the | n | idea of municipal ownership is a good i . I thing as soon as it can be brought j a* ' about. 'e j The radical proposition referred to is 0 i that the City Council shall proceed at e j ouee to acquire ownership of the street i railways, now that the Mueller law i has been adopted. '0 j The adoption of this proposition j 1 means little, because it is absolutely j impossible for the city to put it into j execution until its debt Incurring priv j ileges are enlarged by tHe Legislature. d i POSSE KILLED TWO BROTHERS. " | Dead Men Resisted Arrest Engineered j to Stop Texas Feud. i3 ' j I Dallas, Texas.?James and Walter j I Herring, sons of B. H. Herring, and e | connected with the most prominent |g j families of Henderson County, were i killed at their home, near Athens, while j resisting arrest. Their father comruit 1 ted suicide in the Athens jail in 1897, | and sensational feudist conditions have a : existed since. j The Kennedys were particularly disI liked by the Herrings, and one of tbe L J Kennedy women was talked to abusive' | ly by the Herring brothers. Neighbors ' sent notice to the officers at Athens to come to the locality of the trouble before the Xenendy men should start 1$ out for vengeance. u J City Marshal Wofford and a posse a ! hurried to the Herriug homestead, c. I James Herring surrendered his pistol ?i j at the doorway and then knocked tne h j Marshal insensible with a blow on (] ! the temple. Springing inside the house he seized a rifle and a tight began. ?g Sixteen shots were tired. a Walter Herring was killed instantly d and James Herring lived only two hours. He had $000 in bis pocket, which he presented to his six-year-old daughter a few minutes before he died. 5t HUNDREDS KILLED IN SUMATRA Achinese Suffer in Battle Wita the ^ ; Dutch Troops. n I y Amsterdam, Holland.?A dispatch a from Kotaradja, Sumatra, says that lc the column of Dutch troops which is d operating in the Acheen district found tr all the villages in Gajooleas strongly Intrenched. A fight ensued between 0. the Achinese and the Dutch troops. 3 The enemy had 541 killed. The Dutch loss was three killed and twenty-five wounded. Im Milwaukee Re-elects Mayor Rose, t- Mayor David S. Rose, of .Milwaukee, y Wis.. (Dem.), seems to be re-elected be,e 1 yond a doubt. One hundred precincta s out of 117 give Rose (Dem.), for Mayor, ,f 20.038; Goff (Rep.). 14.891; Berger (Soc. !,. Dem.), 12.3S7. Returns from the State ;|t indicate that Louis K. Luse is elected Justice of the Supreme Court. Republicans Carry Lincoln, Neb. 1. i Republicans of Lincoln. Neb., elected i Vi I their city ticket by majorities ranging lp j from 0()0 to 1100. The Republicans ' j elected four Councilmen and the Dem,Xm I ocrats three, a Democratic gain of one. j The proposition to vote bonds for j s j municipal lighting plant carried I j Law Firms Get $73,000. 1{. | The law firms that handled the Fnir ! j will case, in San Francisco, Cal., were | ' 1 awarded $7."i.0()0 each in lieu or tne j I $100,000 foes which they demanded. College Notes. n The Carnegie Institute, at Washing- ! t- ton, has made a grant of ?."00 in aid j of research work in the department of j physical chemistry at the University 1 of Toronto. it Sixty-four students of the Agriculto tural College of the University of Wisconsin are out on a tour of inspection of some of the principal stock farms or W isconsin. Professor H. S. ..Tacoby. of Cornell t0 University, is spending the present IS term in the practical study of the 'bridges of the chief railroads of the United States and Canada. illEMFTIOEEII WASHINGTON ITEMS. Postmnst?r - General Payne's condition has imnroved. Preparations are making for the Postmaster-General's Southern trip, ou which he expects to start shortly. An estimate of $0000 was transmitted to tht? House from Secretary Hay to pay the expenses of the participation of the United States in an international congress to consider collisions at sea and salvage. The invitation has been extended by Belgium. The President approves the sentences of dismissal from the army imposed by courts martial 011 First Lieut. Arthur G. Sbarpley and Second Lieut. Jean S. Oakes. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Judge Irving F. Baxter, of Omaha, to be United States District Attorney for Nebraska, to succeed Williamson Summers. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. When Judge Kaiua. of the Second Circuit Court. Maui. Hawaii, heard of the charges against him in Washington. he adjourned his court uutil Juue 0. It is reported that .Tose Gomez Brio80. the newly appointed head of the consolidated, departments of charities, prisons and health, of Porto Rico, will remove all the Americans employed in these departments.Treasurer Willoughby. Auditor Post and Manuel Domenech, a member of the House of Delegates, of Porto Rico, composed the commission which sailed for the United States to coufer with the Secretary of the Treasury and banking representatives regarding the placing of the $.1000.000 loan which the Legislature has authorized for gen. ?ral public improvements, DOMESTIC. Robert D. Meldrum, a deputy sheriff, shot and killed a miner named Thissel in the boarding house of the Tomboy Gold Mining Company, at Savage Basin. Col. Thissel came into the room where Meldruin and several others were sitting and began to use abusive language. A little later he struck Meldrum. whereupon the latter shot and killed Thissel. "Jay H. Neff (Rep.), for Mayor, and the entire Republican ticket were elected at Kansas City, Mo., by 1000 plurality. The Republicans will probably control the new Council. ~W. J. Bryan lost his fight for ?50,? 000. Judge Gager, from New Haven, Int-me V^ULJll., UCtlUHij, lllill l ii c ocil i c u ivuvi is not a part o? tbe will of l'hilo S Bennett. The Capital Nal'.onal Bank, of Guth. rie. one of tlie oldest banking institutions iu Oklahoma, and a Territorial and United States depository, closed its doors. It was placed in the hands of the Controller of the Currency. Judge Kohlsaat, sitting in the United States Circuit Court, of Chicago. 111., entered an order restraining the officers and forty-one members of the Franklin Union No. 4 from interfering with the employes of the American Color Type Company. Application in Missouri for a pension led to arrest of a man who killed a constable iu Iowa thirty-six years ago. Tbe Socialists of Kansas have nominated a full State ticket, headed by the Rev. Granville Lowther, of Wichita, for Governor. A fire which threatened the Board of Trade district was discovered at Montreal. Can. Before they could be controlled tue names uuu uksliu^u uu entire business block and bad done $50,000 damage. William B. Hanson, the leading witness for the Slate of Wisconsin in the prosecution oi Contractor E. T. Webster, of Greeu Bay, for alleged briber}-, testified that Webester offered $300 if Hanson would leave the State. By the premature explosion of a olast at the Southern Quarry Company Works, at Fabers, twenty-three miles south of Charlottesville, Va., four men were blown to atoms and two were injured. Friction in loading an eighteen-foot breast hole in concrete rock caused the accident. Owing to an alleged technical error the car barn bandits, Van Dine, Niedermeyer and Marx were resentenced iu the Criminal Court. Chicago, by Judge Kersten. The bandits are to be executed on April 22. Mrs. Cordelia Bodkin was called as the first witness ror rue aeieuse iu ueL trial at San Francisco, Cal., for the murder of Mrs. John P. Duuuing by means of poisoned car.dy. She denied all incriminating evidence given against her by witnesses of the State. FOREIGN. The railroad switchmen have joined the strike of the railroad laborers. United States marines will be landed on the wharves and other property of the railroad. The Audiencia at Santiago has sentenced seven of of the rebels who took part in the so-called rising at El Caney in August last, on the occasion of President Palma's visit, to terms of imprisonment ranging from eighteen months to fourteen years. Marquis Qirolamo Serra, third son of the Duke di Casano, committed suitfde by shooting at Naples, Italy, because of the objection of his parents a- ?? ....In tn fl ffil'l of distill lO Ills LLlcl i lidjjt IV >-> . guished family. All Miose immediately concerned in the Servian palace murders have been removed from the King's entourage. The notorious Colonel Popovitch, the Kiug's First Aide-de-Camp, was appointed commandant of the garrison at Belgrade. Only two new cases of bubonic plague have developed at Lima, Peru The Government has ordered a strict examination of all passengers and disinfection of baggage on ail trains leaving Lima, and also on steamers leaving Callao. It has also established sanitary stations iu Payta, Callao and I to. Considerable uneasiness has existed among the Jewish element of Loin Painnlca. Bulgaria, owing (o the minder of a young Macedonian. There are also threats of anti-Semitic dis turbances in Bessarabia. The bubonic plague has reappeared ^ ?4.., it- !? nf n hnr JK i\muicisuaiu. .w character. A giant three-cylinder locomotive which it is the intention to exhibit a; the St. Louis Exposition, was testec on the military raiiroad in the presenn of a large company of civil and mill tary personages and attained a speec of eighty miles an hour at Berlin, Ger rnauy. A political meeting at Marseilles France, in connection with the muni cipal elections resulted in a free fight between the supporters of the present Mayor, M. Chanot, and the partisans of the former Socialist Mayor, M JTlflistiiftres i ' I t $ Art. Tbe man of affairs having como to tne age wiien. by all toe canons or polite asaga^ be should make an art collection, be had recourse to connoisseurs. "Gentlemen." said he to these, "I gTive you cart blonsh. but I shall watch yon. If I find that you are filling my house with a lot of stuff that doesn't bore me. I shall drop you and get somebody else." 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Above six rare novelties, the choicest arid finest of their kind, have a retail value of 70c., tut they are mailed to you free, together with Salzer's big catalog, well w?orth $100.00 to every wide-awake gardener, all upon receipt of but 30c. in postage and this notice. [A.C.L. | Nothing makes a woman so angry as to ask a man for his candid opinion of her? and get it. Laughing Babies Do not take opiates for crouD, coughs, colds and pneumonia, but take Hoxsie's Croup Cure, get well and grow fat. 50 cents. After buying experience a man seldom boasts of his bargain. riflO 3 uure is tneDesimeuicmewewvwruMou for aLl affections of throat and lungs.?Wm. 0. Endsley, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900; "Too many people are anxious to furnish a cause regardless of the effect. Fruit acids wiil not stain goods dyed with Putnam Fadeless Dyes. Nothing worries some men like the expected troubjes that never happen. 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It is free, and has i tn recovcrv. "8'" Mrs. Pinkham never violates ! her, and although she publishes j women who have been benefitc never in all her experience has si; the full consent, and often by sp< ftrnnn forfeit if we cannot forthwi \KI|l|y ab070 tediimonuia, wliicli will pre i ~ ~~~ RrPANS TABTLES aro tho beetdyiv JW0Q, pnpsla niedicma crur mode. Abiiny'TojjTJOSgR* dr*xl mil. 10115of thum b&vobeca .mM SO? iiPcTJ >" ? single year. Constipation, hoartKUrD.'u8'c headache, dlzztiieM. bad \0B?/JC\\Vy breath, sorv throat and every illnr-s arising fr<>m a <lleor<lor>'<l (-tomacli aro rdiared or cured by RioKas T.il> .... . . ,'iles. One will gen -rally rive relief withintwentyDiinutes. Tilt.' ft reconlptu:kaifoisonou^h I zor an oruinarj ucrnaiuu. ah uiuKhiJw w? . i i n n nncv new discovert; ? ? I |1 K \J r 3 I qnlek r.llff ?J co?. worrt Book of U?tlmo?l?U ?od 10 d(iy?' Fr?e. Dr. 1. H. oassa'8 80Bi. BoxB. Atlanta, lb 13 Brat Cough Syrup, 'l'afltes Good. Ueo fj f, V ?"5 f A Politician Writes HU Own Epitaph. Herman Alston, a member of the Texas Legislature, was at the Gait House last night, pensive, melancholy, disheartened, because be is a politician, "It's a hard fate tc be mixed up ia politics," he said. "Always looking for office. Always reachingout for something. Always getting so little if honest. so much if otherwise. "I have told my wife that when I die I want her to put upon my tombstone the epitaph: 'Here lies Herman. Alston, in the only place for which he never applied.' "?Louisville Herald. A/uii|ici.?ua A quaint and most disagreeable detail of Lord Curzon's recent visit to Koweit was the constant fusillade of ball cartridge kept up by his native escort. It does not appear that anybody, strange to relate, was hurt by the bullets, which must .have been dropping all about in the surrounding ' country, but it is quite common in that part of the world for byutandx^rs to be injured by these peculiar demonstrations of enthusiasts. Blank cartridge does not satisfy the feelings of these races when they are excited; they must, apparently. hav> the sensation of danger as well. The pure negro, on the other hand, even the Duhoman and the Fan. is quite happy so long as he may make a satisfactory noise.?Montreal Herald. j Facts About the Hair. Red-headed people are less subject to baldness than otuers. a aoctor explains the matter thus: The hair of the red-headed is relatively thick, one red hair being almost as thick as five or three brown hairs. With 30,000 red hairs the scalp is well thatched, whereas with the same nuifiber of fair hairs one is comparatively bald. It takes nearly 1G0.000 fair and 105,000 browt* hairs to cover adequately an ordinary, head. ? V. , * ? '.'/'VNew Iden In Kducntion. \ The Committee of the Berlin Tovn vCouncil in charge of the primary 1 schools is now proposing to spend $2500 every year for eight years ia painting frescoes on the walls of data rooms and corridors. These picture# will be simple In character, and will represent for the most part scenes ia ' German history. ?? ?-? >* // Vf I woman, Mrs. Dan- ^ r I Mich., tells how she I ; of the womb and I ains and misery by I Vegetable Compound. I looks dark indeed when a woman fl way and she has no hopes of ever ing a few months ago when I was H used by prolapsus or falling of the H knell to me, I felt that my sun had H retable Compound came to me as 9 ;t forces and built me up until my EN four months I took the medicine n nd strength. I am so thankful' for SS ise."?Mrs. Florence Dajjtobth, 1 so many women to health and H st be regarded with respect. This ,m's Vegetable Compound* which I medicine the world has ever pro r Mrs. Pink ham : ? For years I was H cdth falling of the womb, irregular H d menstruation, leucorrhcea, bearing- IsS is, backache, headache, dizzy and M pells, and stomach trouble. H fnr ahmif-. five vears but did V/UVH/V* AV* ^ to improve. I began the use of your and nave taken seven bottles of Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, H Blood Purifier, and also used the H Vash and Liver Pills, and am now H ood health, and have gained in flesh. H ink you very much for what you Hfl done for me, and heartily re com- H 1 your medicine to all suffering H en."?Miss Emma Sntdek, 218 East Vlarion, Ohio. H DYICE TO WOMEN".'* H -- f J id much sickness it tney wo illu. 3 as soon as any distressing sympput thousands of women on the lag the confidence thus entrusted to thousands of testimonials from :d by her advice and medicine, te published such a letter without E9 jcial request of the writer. gH th produce the original letters and signature* of ||B ivo their absolute penuinencss. afl a E. 1'lnUham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mau. MM I Are You Bow Legged ? We can positively remedy th?^H unsightly and mortifying de?|H f It nr /if Knw 1 0*Q. For particulars addre*a KWI EUREKA MFC. CO., Asbnry Park, N. J.Bj LKARN MliN PAINTINW by new,quick and^H practical method; uo Ion*, tedious ;tua uxpenslva^^H course, we d?liv?r tho (roods, prospectus fre?. AJ-^^9 diess BEKNAKD UEU1EU, lletropoliton, K. Y. BHTOn i\mM V/*l k IwlHaWiADIIM wiutotit pain, pli'in.Wfl ?r alio pwiitltrrlr eurca^HBE chronic blood dlieun ?ud Coa-^^H sumption. Trc?tl<c and Sjm jioni blank (rtrt free. 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