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V . i: \ ??mmmmmmmm? ??? OxBisBlon* of History. The architect of the colossus or 'Rhodes was standing at a distance and :#ook';ng with admiration at the great fcrass statue. 'Tool* Bartholdi!'' he muttered. "If the idea had occurred to him to strad die Now Yoru Harbor with a figure | like that, instead of the poor, neglected, fwsaken statue he stuck on that Ktne island, its-torch would never have keen allowed to go out:" But great artists and architects, like great musicians, are proverbially jeal?us of one another.?Chicago Tribune. V He Hammered It Oat. Years ago a vessel was wrecked on tfno of the South Sea Islands, and the wners could not get their insurance because the account of the shipwreck was written in the chirography of the Islanders, and could not be translated. The paper was even sent to the professors of Harvard and Yale, but they ?onld not read it. The owners heard of a remarkable young blacksmith in the city of Worcester, Mass.?Elihu Burritt?who was educating himself, who thought he eoukl translate the account of the ship, wreck. lie did not know the dialect, hnt set himself to work in dead ear est to do what the great college professors had failed to do. He did it, 1 mid the ship owners got their insurance. Here was a bov who had secured his education from books sttulied at the Jorge during his spare moments and in lis half holidays who had succeeded In doing what the learned professors thought impossible. He succeeded because he had made every occasion a great occasion, as he could not telJ when fate might be taking his measure lor a larger place.?Success. sfv' ( Woman's Blind Loyalty In India. The present position of women cansot be better shown than by the following extracts from a government prize book for the girls' schools in the Bnmbay presidency: "If the husband of a virtuous woman be ugly, of good ,or bad disposition, diseased, fiendish, irascible, a drunkard, old, stupid, dumb, blind, deaf, hot-tempered, poor, extremely covetous, a slanderer, coward!^ perfidious, and immoral, never'thciess, she onght to worship him as a n->UV? cnoA/i h onr) nflrenn ?UU, V> I Lli UilllUf uuu ?w*?. The wife who gives an angry answer to her husband will become a village pariah dog; she will also become a fe male jackal and live in an uninhabited desert. The woman who eats sweetmeats without sharing them with he* husband will become a hen-owl, living in a hollow tree. The woman who walks alone without her husband will become a tilth eating village sow. The /' woman who speaks disrespectfully to *ei> husband will be dumb in the next Incarnation. The woman who hates lier husband's relatives will become from birth to birth a muskrat, living in filth."?Church Gazette. Cheefle?a English House*. 1 A writer in Harpers Magazine says: "1 doubt if the English live longer than wc lor living less comtortaDiy. ine lower classes seem always to Have ' colds; the middle classes, rheumatism, and the upper, gout, by what one sees or hears. Rheumatism one might almost say (or quite, if one did not mind >what one said) is universal in England *nd all ranks of society have the facilities for it in the indoors cold in ' which they otherwise often undeniably flourish." And a writer in Madame * tells of a friend's visiting book, in which against certain names she found a "substantial cross;" against others, t^o. What was the meaningV Not fcisses, as you might infer from reading the humorous accounts of breach- ofpromise cases, but curses. One cross against the country house that was 'cold/in its passages and staircases; ?wo crosses against the house with "no fires in the guests' bedrooms." Fleet. The pivot of the whole scheme may Ibe said to oe the Atlantic fleet, based .or. Gibraltar. That fleet will stretch no hand to the Mediterranean fleet and cue hand to the Channel fleet. It ' may also be the fleet on which J>oth the Mediterranean and the Channel fleets will rally and concentrate for some supreme effort. It thus makes Gibraltar one of the nibst important places in tte whole empire. Fortunately Gibraltar will now be equal to so great a destiny, since the breakwater 'and dockyard works there are all but completed. Cromwell, when he sent felake into the Mediterranean, is said to have pointed out to him the supreme strategic importance of the Kock. Our j new naval scheme fully recognizes and indorses the Protector's prescience. Gibraltar becomes, from the standpoint of naval strategy, the hub of the empire?Spectator. MIGHT HAVE SAVED IT. 'A Lot of Trouble Prom Too 3Iach Starch Food. - A little boy of eight years whose ^ parents did not feed him on the right kind of food, was always nervous aud suffered from a weak condition of the stomach and bowels. Finally he was taken down with appendicitis and after the operation the doctor, knowing that his intestinal digestion was verv weak. put him on Grape-Nuts twice a day. He rapidly recovered and about two months thereafter, his Father states, **Hc has grown to be strong, muscular, nd sleeps soundly, weighs G2 pounds, v - y. and his whole system is in a fine condition^, of health." Name given by j fostn'm Co., Battle Creek, Mich. It is plain that if he had been put on j Grape-Nuts at an earlier period in-his j life, and kept from the use of f^ods that he could not digest, he never .would have had appendicitis. That disease is caused by undigested food decaying in the stomach and bowels, rausing irritation and making for the growth of all kinds of microbes, setting up a diseased condition which is the active cause of appendicitis, and this is more marked with people who do not properly digest white bread. Grape-Nuts is made of the selected J nnrfs of wheat and barlev r.nd bv the ( peculiar processes of the cooking at.the factory, all of the starch is turned into sugar ready for immediate digestion and the more perfect nourishment of all parts of the body, particularly the brain and nerve centres. jr Read the little book, "The Road to WellYille." found in each Dks. I t' SOLD NEW YORK ROBBERY Ernest G. W. Woerz. His Daughter i and Niece Accosted in Their Home. I ONE MAN HOLDS UP HOUSEHOLD rhifif With Face Concealed by Haffier j Forces Entrance by Front Door, Fol? lows Maid Up-Stalrs and at Point of I Gun Relieves Rich Brewer of One - Hundred Dollar*. New York City.?Wearing a black silk muffler as a mask and waving a revolver of large size, with which he threatened to shoot to kill, a man entered the residence of Ernest G. W. Woerz, No. 1 East Sixty-third street, the other evening and i4held up'' Mr. Woerz and the women of his family. He demanded money, and left only when Sir. Woerz. convinced that the man was in deadly earnest, tossed $100 in bills to him. This daring robbery occurred at 6 o'clock in the evening. Mr. Woerz's residence is one door from Fifth avenue, within a stone's throw of the homes of George J. and Howard I Gould, John Jacob Astor and other l men of wealth. Coming at a time ! when the Police Department is under 1 " " nMfnnt tho hAmPS nf lire lur iihiuic iv vtULtvl " ? citizens, strict orders were given by police officials to keep the robbery quiet. Nothing was said about it until Mr. Woerz, finding that the detectives had accomplished nothing, gave | out the story. Mr. Woerz is president of the Beadleston & Woerz Brewing Company. In the house at the time of the robbery were. Mr. Woerz. his daughter, Mrs. C. M. Steele, and his niece. Miss Clara i Hoffman''. All but Mr. Steele were in their rooms on the second floor, dressing for dinner. He was on the third floor, and knew nothing of the robbery. Three women servants were also in the house, but only one of them, the maid, who admitted the robber, knew svhat was transpiring. The caller was well dressed, and ascended the front steps without attracting attention. In the vestibule he adjusted n black silk muffler to conceal the lower half of his face. When the maid opened the door he stepped inside. thrusting the barrel of a revolver Into her face, and said in a low tone: "I want money, and I want it quick. If you scream or give an alarm I'll shoot." "I have no money," said the maid, "but I'll get some." And she fled up the stairs. The man "with the revolver followed. At the head of the stairs the maid tripped over her dress and fell. Miss Hoffman, who was with Mrs. Steele stepped into the hall and looked over the balustrade just as the maid reached the landing. ' Before I could realize what was the matter the man had stepped over the ^ nAtnfinw O hi CT rfimll'Pr I LIU ill UilU. Wfto (/uuiuu^ ?t ?.v, v.. in my face.'' said Miss Hoffman. " 'I want money quick.' lie said. I backed into the room and he stood in the doorway. "Mrs. Steele was in the room, find he waved the pistol about, pointing- it first at one of us and then the other. I was frightened and stood still. " 'I've come to get some money, and I shan't go away without it. I am going to-get it or kill some one. If any one tries to trap me I'll shoot every one in the house.' he declared. "Mrs. Steele asked how much he wanted. 'All you've got,' said he. We knew that Mr. Woerz was in the front room, so we spoke* louder to attract his attention. I started toward the door, but the intruder ordered me back and got between me and the door. Just then Mr. Woerz came. The man pointed .the revolver at him and backed over toward the wall, where he could watch all of us. "The black handkerchief slipped down from his face and I had a good look at him. He pushed it up with his left hand. "Mr. Woerz asked what was wanted. 4I want money, and if you don't give it to me I'll shoot you,' said he. "Mr. Woerz took some bills out of his pocket. Th&y amounted to about $100. Ke rolled them up and tossed them at the burglar. The man picked up the money and backed toward the stairway. " 'Don't one of you move,' he said. 'I'll kill any one who tries to give an alarm.' "He didn't stop to take a purse I had in my hand, or to get any of the jewelry on the dresser in the next room, but ran down the stairs, slamming the door and ran toward Central Park, removing the mask as he went out of the house. "Mr. Woerz then went to the teletin DaI 1/lft. UoQr?ni1(ir. liuvuc ?uii taiiru up a. uuvtr ters. It was about half an hour before a detective arrived. By that time there was no trace of the robber."' THREE DEAD IN FIRE. Men Trapped by Blaze Which Destroyed Four Houses. Pittsburg, Pa. ? Three men were burned to death, four frame houses were destroyed and two others were damaged in a fire at Harmarville late at night At an early hour in the morning the bodies of the victims were in the cellar, covered with smoldering ruins. They were John Hido. Jos-eph Kramer and a man of' the name of Frank. They were in a bed in a second' story front room, and were hemmed in by the flames before they bad an opportunity to escape. KILLED IN DUEL IN ROOT. Rivals For a Woman Use Pistols and Survivor is Wounded. Chicago, 111.?Thomas Davis, a hotel keeper, and William McManus. a waiter in a restaurant, fought with revolvers in a room in Davis' establishment. Both men were wounded and Davis died on an operating table in the County Hospital a few hours after the shooting. The fight grew out of a quarrel about a womau. TOWN RAISES LIQUOR LICENSE. ' Waycross, Ga., Doubles Yearly Tax of $15,000 Tax on IU^Saloons. Wa.vcross, Ga.?The City Council has placed a license tax of 830,000 per annum on saloons. The tax was formerly $15,000. The city has only G000 inhabitants. To Adoot the Telautograph. The French Government, according to a special cable dispatch, purposes to adopt the telautograph throughout France. REPORT ON PHILUPINES Conditions as Set Forth in Official Reports of Governor Taft. \ Hope Even For the Moroi?Redaction af Tariff Here on Prodact* From the Islands Frjfed Asrain. Washington. D. C.?Secretary Taft has submitted to the President the annual report of the Philippine Commission. together with the separate reports to the commission of the civil Governor of the islands, and of the heads of the four departments. The Secretary, in a letter accompanying them, summarizes and brings out the recommendations in the reports, which, he says, show the great benefit that has been conferred upon the islands by a continued state of tranquility. Except in the wild, mountainous regions of the unexplored Island of Samarkand in the Moro region of the Rio Grande and Lake Lanao. in the sparsely settled Island of Mindanao, and in .the Island of Jolo, conditions as to tranquility and ladronism continue to imnrove. and except in the places mentioned agriculture and the arts of peace are not at all interfered with by lawless bands or depredafirtnc He says it is quite satisfactory to observe the good effect of a settled policy with respect to the civil service, under a atrineent civil service law, on the personnel and efficiency of the service. Many of the Filioinos are learning English, and applying for examination as English clerks. The falling off in the Government revenues has reduced the funds available for education. From the central Government last year the amount expended did not exceed Sl.200,000. as against $1,600,000 the previous year. Regarding the new coinage of the islands the Secretary says that one of the most satisfactory results of the Government's transactions during the year in the islands is the establishment on a firm basis of the(new coinage. During the year the commission has enacted an internal revenue law and abolished the industrial taxes which had come down from the Spanish regime The industrial taxes subjected all kinds of business, even the smallest, to a license tax, and wa3 thought to work proportionately harder on the smaller businesses than upon large enterprises. The present bill imposes a tax on the production of liquor and alcohol, upon the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes, and also upon banking and corporations. The improvement of Manila Harbor has made good progress. The work of constructing a temporary wharf at the important port of Cebu has been completed. and the improvement of the harbor at Iloilo is in progress. Regarding the tariff on the Philippine products in the United States the Secretary says: "The reports of Governor Wright and of Commissioner Worcester show, what has appeared in the reports from the islands since the American occupation. the necessity for reducing the tariff on Philippine products entering the United States, in order that we may give to the islands a market in America, leading to a revival of business in the islands.'' fionoPdl WnnH has q wnrd fftV the Moros. "With all then;-.faults," he says, "they are bn^ve and resolute, and under good laws and an honest government in time will give a pood account of themselves. He says thp standing of the American people among the natives of his province has been much Injured by the presence of a large, touch class of Americans, "whose energies have been princioally expended in the construction, maintenance and patronape of rum shops, which outnumber other American business establishments." Referring to the proposed bond issue of $5,000,000 for general improvements the Secretary says that owing to a deficit this.,year it is very important that the section of the bill which has passed the House and Senate already authorizing the issue of the bonds be enacted. The Secretary further says that it is likely the customs revenues during the next six months will increase to their normal amount, avoiding the possibilifv of a deficit. In regard to the regulation of the opium trade the Secretary says the plan of the opium committee ought to be adapted with one variation, and that is instead of a Government monopoly for three years a very high license be instituted with sale of the drug only to officially registered smokers and a total prohibition of the sale of opium after three years, except for medical purposes. NEW TRIAL FOR BURTON. J". S. Supreme Court Reverses Action Against Kansas Senator. Washington. D. C.?The case of Senator J. R. Burton was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States dismissing the writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and reversing the verdict of the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on the ground that the payments to Burton were made in Waskington. ' The District C*urt was therefore reversed and the case remanded for a new trial. Two Asphyxiated by Gas. / Two men, one . of whom has been identified as Alexander Robowski. were asphyxiated at New Haven. Conn., a gas jet being left open in their room. c For Red Cross Hospital. William T. Wardwell offered a $100 000 site for a Red Cross hospital in New York City. The Indus Floated. The steamship Indus, stranded four j r.i:? fln.itml U.U,V!> UU J1 lit" l.tliUlll Mill, ?>uo IIVUII.U and towed to New* York Harbor. To Tax Standard Oil. A bill has been introduced in the Kansas Legislature to tax Standard Oi! pipe lines in that State. Minor Mention. The San Francisco (Cal.) police advocate the establishment of a public whipping post for footpads. A spring wagon that is sixty-five years old and can stand a load of 1000 pounds, is owned by Robert Hi!!, near Ear!. Mo. At I-Iille. France, the other day. a floor gave way under fifty people. Two persons were killed and many others severely wounded. The fastest train in Europe Is said to run between Leeds and Edinburgh, a distance of 230 miles, making the trip in 259 minutes. \ ' ARBV ENTERS PORT URTHu! .) One Regiment From Each Brigade of Japanese March In, I ? !CORRESPONDENTS INSPECT FORT i Wild Lawlessness of Russian Soldiers Just Prior to the Official Surrender? Procession of Mtkado's Armr Fire Miles Long-Gen. Stoessel Blamed For j the Surrender?Memorial Services Held ! Headquarters of the Third Japanese | Army at Port Arthur, via Tientsin.? | The victorious Japanese army formal! Jy entered Port Arthur. General Nogi I with his staff entered first through the [ old town and took his stand in the pubj lie square of the new town. The army i n-ss rpnr^sented bv one regiment from eacli brigade. The procession, which was five miles long, was three hours passing the saluting base, : after, which the troops passed out of the city through the new town. The correspondents then visited the captured city for the first time. The old town buildings were badly smashed by shells, but in the new town the damage was slight. All the shipping in the harbor was badly dataaged by shell fire, the warships being practically useless, owing to the injuries they had sustained by shells. Proposals for the surrender of Port Arthur were first made December 29 at a council of war. General Stoessel was in favor of surrender, but some of his general officers were bitterly opposed to it. The regimental officers and the troops were not consulted. The-first neyrs they had of the surrender was January 1 after General Stoessel had communicated with the Japanese. The scenes which followed were disgraceful. Drunken soldiers filled the streets and refused to oney tneir oracers. Many of them destroyed the guns upon the positions they had defended and came into the city -without permission. The infantry loudly protested that i the fortress had been given away, threw their rifles and ammunition into the harbor and proceeded to break into warehouses and loot and drink vodka until in a helpless condition. It was evident'that the surrender was not necessary, as there were 31,00? effective men in the fortress. The supply of ammunition was short, but it was not exhausted. Food whs scarce, but private stores were not requisitioned by the military. There is no difficulty in getting good meals in the city even now from the stores in private possession. A portion of the fortress was capable of defense for months longer. It was the opinion of tVe non-combatants at Port Arthur that the surrender was unnecessary, as the troops were willing pnd able to fight to the bitter end. General Stoessel was much blamed for what wa"s characterized jis a diseraceful conclusion of a splendid de fense, which ended with the death of Major-General Kondratenko, who was loved by the soldiers, and was the life of the defense. Memorial services were held in honor of the spirits of the Japanese dead, upon the plain north of the village of Shuishi, a short distance from Port Arthur. Regiments representing the entire Japanese army were present. A shrine was erected on the crest of i a small hill, and the troops formed a circle around it. General Nogi and his staff were present. Lunch was served afterward in the open to all the officers present. It was a splendid spectacle. GEN. STOESSEL SAILS FOR HOME j Leaves Nagasaki With Staff and More Than 500 Officers and Men. Nagasaki, Japan. ? The French steamer Australien sailed just before ! 8 o'clock in the evening for Marseilles. France, having on board General Stoessel and his wife and 565 RusI !-!-> AJ__!?J-1 sians, 1111'iuui.ug auuiums v?i i$uiuiriii.u and Lockinsky, Generals Gorbatowsky and Reiss, and 245 other officers and their wives. The Australien was not allowed to leave the harbor before dark as a precaution against the Russians or others obtaining knowledge of the defenses. The steamer was piloted out of Nagasaki by Japanese naval officers. During their stay here the Russian officers bought curios valued at more than $12,000, having ample supplies of money, but the soldiers had not received their pay for many months. General Fock remains a prisoner in Japan. VAN OF PRISONERS WRECKED. One Killed by Wagon Going Over High Embankment. Philadelphia, Pa. ? While n prison van filled with eight long term prisoners for the House of Correction was being driven to the prison it went over o fwanfr-fAAi- om hn n b mon f nf the prisoners died an hour later from the injuries he received. The rest, including the guard, were placed in the new Municipal Hospital. The horse shied-at a piece of paper. JAPS -CAPTURE STEAMER. Dutch Coaler Heading For Vladivostok From Cardiff Stopped. Tokio, Japan.?A Japanese torpedoboat destroyer captured the Dutch steamer YVilhelmina. which was carrying Cardiff coal to Vladivostok in the Tsushima Straits and brought her to Sasebo. For New Prison. Prisons Superintendent Collins, lit his annual report, made public at Albany, N. Y.. favored the abandonment af Sing Sing and Auburn priscrs and the building of a big central institution. Sentenced For Stealing $73,000. James M. A. Watson, convicted of ?mbezzling $73,000 from the District government at Washington. D. C., was sentenced to ten years in jail. An appeal was taken. Uncle Sam's Farm. Illinois farm lands are selling at higher prices.. Three hundred and fifty-three pedi grees of Shetland panics were registered last year with the Secretary of the American Shetland Pony Club. The yield of spring wheat is estimated by the Department of Agriculture at 12.7 bushels, and the average quality at 75.7, against 85.5 last year. Missouri is now credited with the greatest corn yield, estimated last year at 315,000,000 bushels. Iowa is a close second, with 300,000,000 bushels, and Kansas and Nebraska follow. - ; .>. : . " rate bills introduced Administration's Plan For Regulating Railroad Tariff One Bill Empower* (he Interstate Com. mission to Ft* Rates?Other Creates a Conrt to RctIbw Kales Fixed. Washington, D. C.?Tlie so-called Administration measures to increase the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission were introduced in the House. There were two of them, one from Representative Esch, of Wisconsin. and th? other from Representative Townsend, of Michigan. These bills are regarded as having the indorsement of President Roosevelt, because their authors were told by the President that their ideas about dealing with the railway rate question accorded with his own. and at his suggestion they collaborated with Attorney-General in (IrofHnw tho nrnnnsAfl Ipcrisla. 1UVI/UJ XII UiUI.UU0 buv - - 0.? tion. The Eseh and Townsend bills arc along the lines of most of the suggestions made by other Congressmen to give a greater degree of Federal supervision over railway freight rates. The Esch measure gives the Interstate Commerce Commission the right to fix a rate, and the Townsend Bill provides for the creation of a court of transportation, which shall have authority to say whether that rate is reasonable. In thus proposing a special court to deal with rate adjudication the Townsend bill adopts the suggestion of Secretary of the Navy Morton, and goes contrary to the idea of Representative Hepburn, Chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, and Senator Elkins, Chairman of .the Iutersjate Commerce Committee, that provision should be made for an additional Judge in each Federal circuit to handle interstate commerce cases. It is generally believed that the Esch and Townsend bills were read and approved by the President before they were introduced. > The Esch bill provides that the In terstate Commerce Commission snau declar?. when complaint is made, what shall be a just and reasonable rate, practice or regulation for the future with respect to any matter of transportation. The order shall become operative thirty days after notice to the persons affected. At any time within sixty days any person feeling the rate to be unjust, unreasonable or discriminatory. may institute proceedings in the Court of <Transportation, sitting as a court of equity, to have-it reviewed. The Townsend bill creates a Court of Transportation with the powers of a Circuit Court, and is to have original exclusive jurisdiction of all cases growing out of such orders, regulations and requirements that may be made and promulgated by the Interstate Commerce Commission,- either in law or in equity. It is to be composed of a Chief Justice, to whom a salary of $9000 a year is to be paid, and four Associate Justices at a salary of $8300 each. Appeal from this court is to be had to the Supreme Court of the United States only. A rate bill representing the view3 of the six Democratic members of the House Commerce Committee and also those of Representative John Sharp Williams, tbe Democratic floor leader, was introduced by Representative Davey. of Louisiana. It gives the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to fix a rate that is to remain in force until overruled by the United States Court haviug proper jurisdiction. SAT DEAD FACE TO FACE. Murder Followed by Suicide Over Investigation of a Treasurer's Books. Tnrl ?.Tnhn Rrant. a f CCUClOUUi^f ***? w? ? well-known Democratic politician, and Charles Eckburg, financial secretary of the Odd Fellows' lodge, of this city, were found at 4 o'qlock in the afternoon sitting facing each, other in a barber shop, each dead from a bullet in the brain. Brant was a member of a committee appointed by the lodge to investigate Eckburg's books, and a letter on Eckburg spoke of intended suicide and that he "would carry Brant with him."Until the letter was found it wa3 supposed that the two men had quar-* reled and fought in the barber shop, which they entered early in the morning. Pistol shots were heard, but the sound was muffled. Eckburg's letter, addressed to the public, shows that lio had planned to assassinate Brant and for that purpose invited him to the shop. A revolver was found in a cuspidor near Eckburg's body. The men leave families. The Coroner began investigating the case. ' DROPS DEAD AFTER SERMON. Rev. Dr. Harvey Hatcher, of Atlanta, Ga., Dies in a Hotel. Charleston. S. C.?Rev. Dr. Harvey TToit,?hQr AHmitii fin., r^nresenta tive oi! the American Baptist Publication Society, of Philadelphia, fell dead in a hotel lobby in Beaufort. He had preached in the morning. PALACE OF PEACE SITE. Netherlands Government Selects Place For Carnegie's Gift. The Hague.?The Government has selected the military parade ground near the Bosch (the royal park) as the sjte for Carnegie's Palace of Peace. The selection is made subject to the approval of the States-General. Panther Attacks Train. A panther attacked a car of sheep on the Erie road, near Mast Hope, when the train stopped to cool hot journals. jbTen.cu auioisi r wuu. ; Henri Fournier, well known Frencli autoraobilist, was fined for speeding in Fifth aVenue. New York City. Grand Duchess Dead. Grand Duchess Caroline of SaseWeimar is dead. Dropped For "Plagiarizing." Eight students, three of them girls, were dropped from the rolls at the State University at Lincoln, Neb. Chancellor Andrews declined to give the reasons for their dismissal, but at chapel said: "The damnable practice of plagiarizing that has been going on in this university must stop or I will make public examples of tbe guilty ones." Two Killed in Wreck. The east-bound California limited on the Santa Fe Road was wrecked near Raton, N. M., killing two persons xiul-'iaiurioc a, scora , ; - ' " , ' \ V ' . - / . ... V;V MANIAC FLOURISHED GUN Man EVi fara Hmidfl atWinsted. I uioatiu iuau m?* ?v*w ???? ? v Conn., Threatening Inmates. After Ilach Parlaying He In Peraaaded to GItu Up Hit Weapons, and Goee to Jail Peacefully^ i I Winsted, Conn.?"Peace or war!" ex| claimed an insane man as he darted into tae dining room of Mrs. Ellen M. Phelps, at No. 53 Park place, about 7 o'clock at night, and thrust a loaded I revolver in the face of her son, William H. PLelps, cashier of the Hurlbut National Bank, who was dining. Around the wrist of the man's left hand was wound a slunjshot; in a belt around his waist was a knife with a twelveinch blade, keenly sharpened; in his pockets another sharp knife and straps and f ally a pint of red pepper and salt. . Mrs. Phelps fled out of doors. Her daughter, *Mi&* Judith, went up-stairs to he>: brother's room, obtained his two revolvers- and, returning down stairs, waited in the hallway for an opportunity 1o pass the weapons to her Brother. Failing in this she finally follojved her mother to the street. Several hundred people who gathered outside could see Phelps and the dining' room windows. Before the arrival of the police George Taylor, David King and Fred Woodbeck entered the house. As they passed into the dining room the madman moved back a short distance from Phelps and pointed the revolver first at one and then tne other, remarking as he did so. "Is it peace or war?" The three citizens passed out - "Where is your sister?" the insane man . asked of young Phelps,' who replied: "I will go alid find her," and started to leave the room. The visitor commanded him to remain and pushed XL"' **"""""!%;? t)KAlno tilt? rcwivci iii 1X19 lavx. x. XXC1 po Uicw to humor tlie. man by offering him a cigar and supper, but he accepted neither. After fifteen minutes Phelps remarked that he would go outside and see what was doing. The stranger offered no objection and the cashier walked leisurely out of the house. The stranger snapped the lock behind Phelps and passed from the dining room to the front hallway, stepping into an alcove, where the crowd out? side could not see him. Chief of Police S. C. Wheeler, who had learned that the stranger was Frederick -Baker, a stone cutter, who came here with his wife and thsee children from Kent. Nv Y., last May, stationed a policeman at the front door,, while he went inside through a rear door. As he opened the door to the dining room Baker came In from the hallway. t "Peace or war?" he cried. Both meri were pointing revolvers at each other. "Why. peace, of course. Baker." answered the Chief, and dropped hin weapon by his side. Baker dropped his pistol also^ Then Wheeler advanced slowly to Baker and took hln weapons away. Then the Chief led him to the police station, where he wan searched. When the Chief put his hand into the pocket containing th?j pepper and salt Baker said: "Be careful and not get that in your eyes; It will be the end of you." It is^,supposed Baker thought Miss Phelps had something to do with hia losing a position at the marble works of 0. H. Ripley recent^, PENS HIS NAME IN HER BLOOD. Act of Infatuated Woman After Attempting to Kill Herself, i Svracuse. N. Y.?Lottie Burner, alias ! Hamilton, infatuated with another woman's husband, slashed her own throat with scissors when the object of her affection, Morton Parrot, refused to accompany her. The deed was committed in the presence of Parrot's wife, who tried vainly to prevent it. Rushing to a nearby physician's office, the woman then with a pen wrote in her blood a letter in which she told the - name of the hian for whom she tried to end her life. She rushed through the streets, resisting for a time all efforts to capture her. Finally she was overpowered and locked up. Parrot has been arrested. His wife was prostrated. mu/v kaoniti ttqqra r?rra Tho Parrots were married la Utica. There the Hamilton woman -appeared soon after the wedding,- it was said, and almost caused a separation of the newly married couple. SLAIN BY MEXICAN BANDITS. fra A. Sanger, Relative of Mrs. George M. Pullman, the Victim. Chicago, 111.?It was reported here Ira A. Sanger, a relative of Mrs. Geo. M. Pullman, of Chicago, has been slain by Mexican half-breed bandits in the mountain wilds of Sipalca, Mexico, Robbery was the purpose of the rnurdei". Mr. Sanger, who was well known in Chicago, although for the greater part of his life a resident of Colorado, had been in the northern section of Mexico, along the Texas border, 'for | three years, interested in mining and I ranches. His companion was George ; L. Stewart, of Chicago, who has just reached El Paso, Texas, with news of the murder. The victim probably was ambushed, Mr. Stewart reported. Mr. Sanger was well to do, having property and investments worth, by the El Paso estimate, between $40,000 and $80,000. Usually he had a large Xf,. ?fo.nr .sum or mouey wiui. iiiui, uul .<u. ,, art says he had only a small amount at the time of the attack. Crop Report. The Agricultural Department has made public its flnal figures on the principal farm crops for 1004. Corn heads the list with 2,407,000,000 bushels. having a value on the farm estimated at $1.0S7,000,000. Winter wheat i was 333.000,000 bushels, worth $320. 000,000, and spring wheat 2iy.uou,vw, north $185,000,000. Oats were 895,000.000 bushels, worth -5280,000,000. Potatoes were 333.000,000 bushels, worth $151,000,000. and hay was Gl,000,000 tons, worth $520,000,000. Reward For Firebugs. i The National Board of Fire Underwriters offered $1001) reward for apprehension of the Brooklyn (X. Y.) tirebug or tir?bugs. Jerome Presents Bills. District Attorney Jerome, of New I York City, went to Albany, N. Y.. and I presented three bills, one his old measI ure permitting saloons to open Sunday. Weds His Nurse. George Burns, the gamekeeper, shot ,in the eye by George J. Gould, wed the nurse of the New York City hospital jrho attended him ia the hospital. . ... v" "ovi'A'>: r , O10 CfttM 6f 1U?N?. ^ nhvo?Al?n tinAn h/vinrv nelfAil * *?u*vuu 0l??iau UJ/Vli UVlUg| UUUV-Uk recently what Is the chief cause of illhealth, replied: 'Thinking and talking about it all the time. This ceaseless Introspection in which so many of thrf rising generation of nervous folk indulge is certainly wearing them out. When they are not worrying as to whether they sleep too-much or too little they are fidgeting' overthe amonnt of food they take or the quantity of exercise necessary for health^ In short, they never eive themselves a moment's j peace."?The Housekeeper. "My nightly rest was^ broken, owing to Irregular action of the kidneys. I was suffering intensely, frooj, severe 'D&ins in the small of my back and through the kidneys and annoyed by painful passages of abnormal secretions. No amount of doctoring relieved. this condition. I took Doan's Kidney Pills and experienced quick and lasting relief. Doan's Kidney Pills will pitove a blessing to all sufferers from lddney/ disorders who will give them a fair trial" Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. I, proprietors. For sale by all druggists, , . . price 50 cents per box. Hi I - , 0?arid bj Dr. Hal*. f An Oregon newspaper man was once traveling*: in the back, country of Oregon, and, going to a little taw for lodging, was surprised to see-a large picture of Dr. Hale on the wall. The woman of the house explained it thus: "Well, you see, a good many strangers come here and want me, to keep 'em, and I don't know anything about 'em, but it they knoW Edward Everett Half's picture 1 know they're good for something, and I let 'em stay."?Barn's Horn. BABVS TERRIBLE SORE Body Raw With Humor?Canted Uatold . _ * _ . - Agonj?Doctor Did No twid-Motncr . Discouraged? Cuticura Cmwiat Oner. "My child was a.very delicate baby. A terrible sore and humor broke oat on his body, "looking like raw; flesh, and causing the child untold agony. My physician pre* scribed variou* remedies, none of which helped at all. 1 became discouraged and took the msrtter into my o^n hands, and tried Cuticura Soap and Cuticnra Ointment with almost immediate success. Before the second week had passed the soreness was gone, not tearing a trace of anything. Mrs. Jeannette H. Block, 281 Bosedale St., Rochester, N. Y." ' Blow to Batch*r a Goat. r irsc, catca your pom; tueii tuu mui and at once split him between the nind legs, so ia to make an opening sufficient to allow the pouring of a bucket of cold water (the colder. the better) into bis insides. The pouring of the w&ter Into his insides prevents any taint or taste from the intestines oc tfie animal. This also applies to the dressing of mutton. It is not the hide that causes the taste or taint of mutton or goats, but the taste comes from the entrails. Try this and be convinced that no taste or taint wilt'be found. A Guaranteed Cure For PltWi Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Druggists will refund "money if Pato Ointment faua to cure in 6 to 14 day. SOc. '* ' .'.its'.''- -^y^'a.XV1' 1 ? ^r_ _i_ The coldest city m me wona 19 xasucajt, Eastern Siberia. ' : Mm. Winslow>ScK>thingSyrttp forehfldren teething, soften tne gums, rednoeafrnflammv V tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25e.a bottl* There is rnore.cpaHu'Montana and Wyoming than ilk Pennsylvania. Piao's Car? cannot bo too bf^bly spokenoC sb a cough cure.?J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan.6,1900. \ 5 Among the spoil? of war takes at LiaoYang was a pet- pigeon. To Cor* CoM la One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AU druggists refund money if it fails to cure ?. W. Grove's signature is on box. 25c. Alligator hunters are wanted in Vena ruela. Haule, of Edgerton, WisM tells how she was cured of irregular! ties and uterine trouble, terrible pains and backache, by tfce use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "Dear Mbs. Pinkham:?A while ago my health began to fail becanae of female troubles. The doctor did not help me. I remembered that mv mother had used Lvdia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound on many oeUsions for irregularities and uterine troubles, and I f?lt sure that it- could 1st harm me at any rate to give it a iaL " I was certainly glad to find thai I Vithin a week I felt much better, the terrible pains in the back and side y were beginning to cease, and at the I time of menstruation I did not have nearly as serious a time as nerecoiore, bo I continued its use for two months, and at the end of that time I was like a new woman. I really have never felt better in my life, have not had * sick headache since, and weigh 2<Jj pounds more than I over did, so I un-: hesitatingly recommund your medi* cine."?Mrs. Mat Hadtk, Edgerton, Wis., Pres. Household EconomicsCluV? $6000 forfait If original of aton M ,* prgtfM . . ... 1