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i - * ' "w. Doc AnuoTiRcei CroMlnri* A blind man and a spaniel dog leadtog him with the aid of a chain furbished * curious sight in Chestnut itree* the other day. Pedestrians ooked on in amazement, and many Allowed the blind man and his friend to see if anything curious would happen when they reached a street crossing. Stranee enouch. the dog barked when the curbstone was reached and In that way informed the blind man that he should be careful and step down.?Philadelphia Press. DISFIGURED BY ECZEM/) ITontferful Change in a Night?In a Montli Puce "Was Clear an Ever?Another Cure- by Cuticura. '7 had eczema on the face for five Jnonths, during which time I was in the tare of physicians. My face was so disfigured I could not go out, and it was going ?rom bad to worse. A friend recommended Cuticura. The first night after I washed any (ace with Cuticura Soap, and used Cuticura Ointment and Resolvent it changed wonderfully. From that day I wak able tc go out, and in a month the treatment had removed all scales and scabs, and my face was as clear as ever. (Signed) T. J. Soth, 117 Stagg Street, Brooklyn, .N. I." } An Inquisitive Servant. A gentleman had an inquisitive servant, relates "Chums," whom he once saw open a private letter of his. The nest day he sent another letter by the servant, containing a postscript: "You may send a verbal answer by bearer; he has taken the precaution to read this before delivery." The r. S. Dept. of Asrricnltnra Sivcs to Salzer's Oats its heartiest en? orsement. Salzer's New National Oats yielded in 1904 from 150 to 300 bu. per acre in 30 different States, and you, Mr. Farmer, can beat this in 1905, if you will. Speltz or Ensmer, above illustrated, fives 80 bushels grain and four tons hay besides per acre. It's wonderful. Salzer's eeds are pedigree seeds, bred up through eareful selection to big yields. Per Acre. Balzcr's Beardless Barley yielded 121 bu. Balzer's Home Builder Corn... 300 bu. Speltz and Macaroni Wheat.... 80 bu. Salzer's Victoria Rape 60,00? lbs. Balrpr's Teosinte Foader 160.000 lbs. Balzer's Billion Dollar Grass... 50,000 lbs. Salzer's Pedigree Potatoes 1,000 bu. Now such yields pay and you can hava them, Mr. Fanner, in 1905. SEND 10c IN STAMPS >nd this notice to the John A. Salzer Seed Co.? La Crosse, Wis., and you will get their big catalog and lots of farm seed . samples free.' [A. C. L.] f\ ' . \ New Use For Stamps. The monks of the Hospital of St. Jean de Dieu, at Ghent, have in their leisure moments decorated the walls with gorgeous landscapes, glowing with color and full of life, formed entirely by means of the postage stamp's of all the nations of the world. Fal aces, forests, streams and mountains are represented, butterflies flit about In the air, birds of beautiful plumage perch on the branches, snakes and lizards glide about, and innumerable animals flW places here and there. tThe pictures are most artistic, in the PliinAeA frnrHonin<* PLJTAC Vi VUliiCOC lauuovttj/v, &*-* * and already between nine and teu Billions of stamps have been used.? Kew York Herald. Her P olnted Question. Nell is a little girl who is allowed to Join the diners at her house when there are guests, on the stipulation that she shall keep very quiet. On several occasions the little girl was refused dessert on the ground that "it was not good for her." Recently, when there were not a few guests at dinner at the house in question, the youngster, having ob-tained permission to speak, naively eeked: " 'Mother, will the dessert hurt me. i?r is there enough to go round?"?Collier's TVeek'y. William tbe Conqueror. William was a grate man wno couia flte like a ,wildcat and be done some grate fiting at Hastings against a flter Darned Harold who got shot in the eye and then he quit because he couldn't see wharfe to retreet or nothing and Wllliaw prased the man that shot Harold and said, "Good eye, old man." < .-Little Robbie, in Milwaukee Sentinel. All autocracies are doomed, whether In Church or State. TwE SIMPLE LIFE Ways That Are l'lensant and Paths That Are Feac?. ilt is the simple life that gives length , of days, serenity of mind and body and tranquility of soul. Simple hopes and ambitions, bounded by the desire to do good to one's neighbors, simple pleasures, habits, fooi and drink. . f Men die long before their time be J tause tliey try to crowd too mucn into their experiences?they climb too high and fall too hard. A wise woman writes of the good that a simple diet has done her: "I have been using Grape-Nuts for about six months. I began rathei sparingly, until I acquired such a iiklng for it that for the last three montha I have depended upon it almost entirely for my diet, eating nothing else whatever but Grape-Nuts for break fast and supper, and I believe I could at it for dinner with fruit aud be satisfied without other food, and fee! much better and have more strength tc Co my housework. "When 1 began the use of GrapeNuts I was thin and weak, my muscles ? trere so soft that I was not able to dc any work. I weighed only 103 pounds Nothing that I ate did me any good I was going down bill rapidly, was ner tons and miserable, with no ambitioi for anything. My condition improvec rapidly after 1 began to eat Grape Nuts food. It made me leel like a net; woman; my muscles got solid, raj figure rounded out, my weight iu creased to 12G pounds in a few weeks my nerves grew steady and, my mint better and clearer. My friends teli m< they haven't seen me look so well foi years. "I consider Grape-Nuts the best foo< on the market, and shall never go bad to meats and white bread again.' Name given by Postum Co., Battli Creek. MiclJ. There's a 1 en son. " Look in each pkg. for the little book "The Road to Wellville." , \ KUROPATKIN DISGRACED ! Commanding Russian Genera! Per empiorilv Called Home, [ utN.LINEVITCHTAKESCOMMAND L ? I So Blention of Former Leader's Resignation Made in the Dispatches? ^ Kecord of the New General?Tie Pass Captured?Trouble Still Spreading in Russia. St. Petersburg, Russia. ? With the Japanese hanging on the heels and flanks of the remnants of the broken, defeated Russian army. General Kuropatkin, the old idol of the private soldier, has been dismissed and disgraced and General Linevitch, commander of | the First Army, has been appointed to 1 succeed him in command of all the Russian land and sea forces operating against Japan. The word "disgrace" is written in large letters in the laconic imperial order gazetted, which con tains not a single word of praise and also disposes of the rumor that Kuropatkin had asked to be relieved. The Russian military annals contain no more bitter imperial rebuke. While it was known that the war council had already decided to supplant Kuropatkin after the Mukden disaster, the decision to confer the task of saving the remainder of the army on Linevitch in the very midst of its flight came as a ' surprise. It transpires that Emperor [ Nicholas upon the advice of General Dragomiroff and War Minister Sakharoff determined that the step was necessary when it became apparent that Kuropatkin, while concentrating for a stand at Tie Pass, seemed unaware that the Japanese had worked around westward again and practically allowed himself to be surprised. Old reporfe brought by General Gripenberg regarding Kuropatkin's failing mentality;lalso had influence. A dispatch from Chang-tu-fu reports that General Kuropatkin has left there for St. Petersburg. Under the circumstances, therefore, it was considered imperative, in view of the exceedingly perilous position of the army, to turn over its command to 1 Linevitch, who alone had been able to bring off his army in order after the battle of Mukden. His record during the Chinese war had also demonstrated his capacity as a commander. The task confided to Linevitch of withdrawing what is left of the great army of 350,000 men to Harbin seemed a desperate one. General Linevitch is in his sixtysixth year. He saw his first fighting when he was twenty-one years old, took part in the war with Turkey in 1877, and was in command of the Russian troops in the relief of the legation at Pekin in 1900. For his services in China he was congratulated by the Czar. With the Japanese Left Armies.? The pursuing armies fully occupied Tie Pass at midnight, after a severe fight, the Russians retiring north in confusion after setting fire to the railroad station and supplies. The successful conclusion of the armies' mission makes the movement the greatest of' modern history. The armies covered almost ninety miles in a fortnight, fighting practically every inch of the way. * Home Troubles Spread. ' Warsaw.?Reports of the spread of the peasant agitation are coming from nearly every part of the country. In the Government of Pukov bands, ranging from 100 to 500, are marching from village to village and inciting laborers to join in the movement. A dispatch received here from Lodz says that owing to rumors of an approaching mobilization the workers in the woolen mills there have struck. The Seventy-fifth Brigade of Artillery has been withdrawn from Lodz, and will be dispatched to Manchuria. It will be replaced by artillery reserves from Nljni Novgorod. The Government has requisitioned all the horses in this district. The workmen in the big factories here threaten to strike, and some of the men in the smaller factories have already walked out. ROOSEVELT IN NEW YORK CITY. Attends Wedding of Niece and Speaks - x, m a I xv>u uiULieia. New York City.?President Roosevelt arrived here from Washington, D. C., at 12.53 p. m., going straight to the home of his sister. Mrs. Henry Parish, where he gave his niece, Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, away in marriage to his cousin. Frank Delano Roosevelt. In the evening he spoke at the dinners of the Friendly Sons of St, Patrick at Delmonico's and the Sons of the Americau Revolution at the Hotel Astor, returning to Washington at midnight. KUROPATKIX'S PLEA ACCEPTED. Grand Duke Nicholas to Take Com, mand in Manchuria. Paris, France.?The correspondent at St. Petersburg of the Petit Parisien ; says that General Kuropatkin's resignation has been accepted and that . Grand Duke Nicholas Nlcholaievitch , has consented to take chief command in Manchuria. 1 Killed His Brother. On unfriendly terms for some time, ! Cnarles Hinks shot and killed liis brother, Frederick, at Chicago, 111., and I then killed himself. I Asphyxiated by Gas. > Robert Barclay Leeds was asphyxiated at table with his colored cook at . Atlantic City, N. J. > Vault of Bank Robbed. The vault in the bank at Petersburg, . Va.. was emptied of about ?7000 by . burglars. Two Negroes Hanged. Two negroes were hanged afc lucli* nvond. Va.?Edwin Austin for criminal assault, and Peter Danc-b for murder. Labor World. Bakers of Richmond, Va.. wont on * strike. i Union labor is to have its own finanr eial institution in Chicago, 111. The Canadian authorities are increas1 ins their efforts to encourage inuni?l grntion to the Dominion. Working girls in Berlin average nine J hours and a half each day, for which they get about $2.80 a week. ; A ten per cent, wage increase was .<. given 4000 employes of the Copper ' Range Consolidated Mills, at Houghton, Mich. < . . , 11 BOULDERS SMASH WALLS g l Apartment House in New York CTty Fartly Demolished. Carelessly Controlled Dynamiting Cau?e? Havoc-No People Killed or Injured. New York City.?Big boulders, burled j by the force of dynamite, crashed | 1 against the rear walls of three flat houses in Lexington avenue, near 101st street, and smashed them in from the foundation to the second floors. The living rooms of the occupants were exposed to view, and there were many narrow escapes from death. The entire neighborhood was thrown into panic. In the bombarded houses women and children ran to the front windows, screaming for help. Into one of the rear rooms a rock weighing | about 400 pounds was hurled with ter- , rifle force, fell on a dining room table, smashed it into kindling wood, crashed through the second floor to the flrst and 1 wrecked the furniture there. 1 A stove was demolished and started . a blaze, which was put out quickly. Jagged rocks weighing from fifty to , 100 pounds crashed into other rooms. . For all this wrecking, it is said, a con- j tractor, biasing out rock in a lot at the ^ rear of the houses, was responsible. Frederick Lamura had been blasting | for four weeks, and protests had been made against the way he was doing the work, for fragments of stone had , broken windows. Still, it is said, he- J took no precautions to prevent such an 1 accident as that which happened. It is ; supposed he expected to make short , work of what remained of the giant ^ boulder, and put a heavy charge of dy- t n.imito intr? n driller! hole. The heavy charge was exploded and the earth seemed to rise up all around. Two blocks away two members of Senator Frawley's Miami Club were thrown from their seats in the clubhouse. The force of the concussion close to the rock was terrific. Bigsec- g tions of the rock torn away by" the a blast shot straight at the rear walls of a Nos. 1593, 1595 and 1597 Lexington avenue. Like eggshells the walls gave g way before the fearful force of the t missiles. Not a brick stood in position . from the foundation to the window ' | ledges of the second floors of the three t houses. The sound of crashing glass ^ echoed through the district for several f minutes after the roar of the explosion f had ceased. t The biggest rock landed in Edward .j J. CabiU's home, in No. 1593. His wife and children were out. Cahill had t just left the rear bedroom when'the j 400-pound stone tore its way through q the wall and wrecked everything in the j place. On the same floor lived Julius j Neiburg and his family. Luckily all a were out. Every bit of furniture in 0 the rear rooms was crushed. The big c stone kept on into the apartment of t Pt?A?>A +>^on emoehafl IliPAinrh VV llllUili VsiaiiC, UUCU OUitt-3UtU the floor. t( Mrs. Daniel Reardon, on the second r floor of No. 1595, had just called her D husband and children from the front j, room to dinner. A stone weighing 100 ^ pounds flew into the dining room and s smashed a sideboard and dining table a to fragments. r After the hubbub ended it was seen the walls gave signs of collapsing. An p emergency force was sent by the Build- c ing Department to shore them up. La- j, raura tried to escape, but was caught p by an angry crowd. He would hare been beaten only for the police. He v was locked up, -charged with criminal e negligence. , q The scene alter the blast looked as s if that section of Harlem had. been un- r der bombardment by a hostile army. n Windows were broken for at least a a block in every direction. c AN EXPERIMENTAL GARDEN. Government to Transplant Date Palms P From Egypt to Yuma. tl Washington, D. C.?The Department ? of Agriculture will establish an ex- r1 perimental, garden on the old military reservation in the town of Yuma, Col- ? orado. Numerous varieties of date palms v from Esrvnt. Algeria and Arabia, also f with varieties of seeds and grasses that 11 appear to. be particularly adapted to ? this region will be planted. A corps ? of agricultural experts have visited the valleys of the Tigris and the Nile and 2. they believe taat they can transplant many valuable plants from those regions to the regions of lower Colorado. a The pistachio nut is one of lae new j3 products they think will be adapted to 11 this trans-cultivation. . v MENINGITIS CLOSES SCHOOL. J Twenty-five Out of Twenty-sis Philadelphia Cases Fatal. Philadelphia, Pa.?A ten-year-old Ital- t ian child, a pupil at the George W. b Nevenger Public School, Sixth and Car- v penter streets, in the Italian quarter, v was found to have cerebro-spinal men- P ingitis, and the school was closed by or- s der of the Board of Health. n This is the twenty-sixth case of the disease in this city since the first of 8 the year, twenty-five having proved ii fataL: w * a RELIEF FOR ANDALUSIA. Spanish Government Appropriates $400,000?Drought Caused Distress. ? Madrid, Spain.?The Government will <, devote $-100,000 to the relief of the t distress in Andalusia, caused by the prolonged drought.' Disturbances are reported in the'provinces of Cordova, Malaga, Seville and Cadiz, whicil form a portion of Andalusia. MISSOURI FIGHTS STANDARD. J Proceedings Begun to Oust Oil Trust From tile State. Jefferson City. ? Attorney-General s Hadley filed an application before f Judse Marshall of the State Supreme r Court for an Older to the Standard Oil j Company, the Waters-Pierce Oil Company and the Republic Oil Company to appear and give testimony regarding allegations that they are in a combination to control prices and the supply o 1 J oil in Missouri. KAISER SUPPRESSES A BOOK. Scandalous A'-count of His Private Life is Confiscated, j | Berlin, (iermany.?me hook onritieu .1 "The Private Lives of William II. antl < His Consort." published by Heinemar.11. which is dirty and Uu!: as well ( as scandalous, has been eor.tisr'ated by ] order of the Civil Court. New Army For War. , Advices from St. Petersburg say that : the Czar has decided to send 450,000 men rn the Far East t SCORES BURNED TO DEATH Fire Follows Boiler Explosion in Shoe Factory at Brockton, Mass.. TWO BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED Hundreds at Work Near Boiler Room at Time?Four Story Building In Ashes Within an Hoar?Engineer Killod at His Post ? Whole City Tire Department Called Oat. Brockton. Mass.?A boiler exploded in the R. B. Grover slioe factory here, and was followed by an outbreak of Are in the factorj*, in which many persons lost their lives and many more tvere injured. Over wo score bodies were recovered, many so terribly burned as to be unrecognizable. A number of dead were women or girls. Over fifty are known to be dead, less than a score of these having been identified, while over two score were resorted among the missing. David Rockwell, the engineer who svas in charge of the boiler which exploded. died from his injurieF He aad been detained by the police pend ng an investigation of the accident. The explosion took place within an iour after the GUI') or more employes it the factory had begun work. It ivrecked a section of the building and started a fire which destroyed the uins and spread to other buildings lear by with great swiftness. It was eported that upwards of 200 persons ;vere at work in the departments near :he boiler room, and the first indicaions were hrrdly one coulj have es:aped. The factory,' a large four-story woodm structure, was in ashes within aD ieur. The flaEies extended to several Iwelling houses near by. and to the )ahlburg Block, across the street from he factory. These also were conumed and other property was damiged. The money loss is estimated it $200,000. . Two houses were wrecked as the re(ult of the explosion. The boiler was hrown in a northerly direction, and mssed through the upper part of the louse occupied by David Rockwell, he engineer, practically wrecking the twelling, and, continuing its flight, ell upon another dwelling, 1C0 feet urther away, demolishing the strucure. This house wa3 owned by Mrs. Sffie Hood. The Grover faetorv was located at he corner of Main and Calmar streets, n the southern outskirts of this city, .'he building extended 100 feet along Iain street and 200 feet to the rear, n the rear of the main building was n L section, and it was in this part f the plant that the explosion and ollapse occurred. The boiler was on he ground floor. The first knowledge of tire disaster o outsiders w.is the roar from the diection of the factory. People living ear by looked out, to see a dense pilir of smoke rising from the top of the uilding. A moment afterward flames tarted out from the mass of wreckage nd quickly crept up and around the est of the wooden structure, spreadngT with great rapidity. Most of the ersons in this part of iue factory esaped. although many were, injured a the panic which followed the exloskm. When the employes who were at rork in the main section of the plant scaped from the building, they circled uickly around to where the exploion occurred, and there succeeded in escuing many persons from' undereath wreckage who. without assistnce, would have been unable to get lear of the heavy timbers, and who rould undoubtedly have perished rben the flames r.wept across that art of the plant. A onmmrtnorl nil A OCi ICO Vi ttiaiuio ?... tie Are apparatus In the city to the cene, and aid was also sent from earby places, mostly shoe manufacuring towns. The firemen experinced great difficulty in fighting the ames, as the Grover factory was of rood, and nearly all the floors were aturated with oil. The flames exended to the Dahlburg Block, a fourtory wooden building on the oppoite corner of the street, and to a numer of wooden dwellings, half a dozen r more of which were destroyed. The )ahlburg Block was also burned. The Brockton Hospital was notified t once of the disaster, and hurried reparations were made to receive the ajured. AH the ambulances, police ragons, and many street carriages rere sent to the district. All the availble physicians and surgeons in the ity were sent up in. .lacks and by troljy. Mayor Keith, accompanied by Med?al Examiner A. E. Paine, stood by be ruins while the fragments of the odies were being removed. The bones rere piaceu in ooxes us iasi us mcj rere taken out. and driven to a temorary morgue. The work proceeded lowly, as the ruins were so hot that 10 one could venture into them. At the request of Mayor Keith clerymen of ail denominations assembled n the Aldermanic chamber at the City lall for the purpose of arranging for public service for the victims. Sultan Honors Raisuli. As an apparent sequel to the Perdiaris c.ise Raisuli has 1 received from he Su tan a letter appointing him ;overnor of a number of important ribes between Tangier and Fez. Governor Masoredoff Shot. Governor Masoredoff of Viborg was hot by a Finnish boy fifteen years *!d. NEW UPRISING IN RUSSIA. lews Said to Have Killed a Chief of Police and Assistants'. Borisof, European Russia. ? Three ouadrons of dragoons have started 'or Berezina, where armed Jews were eported to have killerl the chief of )o!ice and a number of his assistants. Assemblyman Perhani Dead. Assemblyman F. E. Perbam died from pneumonia at Albany. N. Y. The Assembly adjourned out of respect. Education Brevities. An attendance of about 400 in the fnle summer school is now looked for. Cornell University has purchased a Tact of land adjoining Eddy pond, lust east of the campus, in Cascadilla J rove. The University of Pennsylvania has lecided to add to its curriculum next " " ~tri TMlhllP T?Ill a COUL5?U ul mauuLuuu *?.* ^? /?... liealth. The practice of giving honorable mention for honor courses has been ibolished by the faculty of KcKihester University. ? HUNDREDS MASSACRED Men, Wom9n and Children Slaughtered at Baku. Corftackt Aided the Tartar*?Victim* Shot, Stabbed and Barned to DeaCfi? Armenians Unarmed. Vienna. Austria.?Full reports of the Baku atrocities are published here. The massacres of Kishineff and Gomel were child's play in comparison. Over 1000 Christians, men, women and children. were slaughtered within three days by Mohammedans, amid scenes defying description. The victims were shot, stabbed or burned to death, their eyes gouged out and otherwise mutilated. All this happened in the presence of the police force, a regiment of infantry and several squadrons of Cossacks and the Governor. Prince Nakashidse, who were unmoved onlookers for three days. The officers and troops amused themselves while the slaughtering was going on. The whole was arranged by the Government to prevent the political manifestations threatened by the Christian Armenian population. The Mohammedaris, who are called in those parts Tartars, were supplied by the Government with revolvers and ammunition and given a free hand. At rue House or miaoeK i^aiayea up- : ward of forty persons were burned to I death, those trying to escape the flames being instantly killed, soldiers and officers coolly looking on. Lalayeff. | with his old wife and nephew, .escaped to tiie cellar, but were found and cruelly tortured, their eyes being pierced. The military interfered only when resistance was offered by the Christians, and then the Cossacks helped the Mohammedans to beat the Christians. The wells are still full of corpses. Reuter quotes the Petersburgkiya Viedomosti for the following account i of the massacre at Baku: From 6 o'clock in the morning of February 20 and from noon on February 22 a massacre without precedent and quite unexpected took place in the streets and public squares at Baku. The Tartar inhabitants, armed to the teeth, attacked the Armenians, who were unarmed and defenseless, and pitilessly massacred them, without distinction of rank, position, age or sex. The panic was general. All the shops and places of business were at once closed, but the owners.of thom were shot down. A sort of torpor, which it is impossible to describe, seemed at first to have taken possession of everybody. There aifpeared to be nobody to take the defense of the unfortunate people. The soldiers did not attempt to disarm the fanatical murderers, who hunted men like wild beasts,, killing them by hundreds.. It was in vain: that the defenseless inhabitants implored the Governor by telephone to send help.. The reply ! J.U~ "V/*. oL-o . I WU5> UAYVUJ3 I IXC 9UUiC,. i.iv no guard." It was equivalent to the verdict:: "Die. since- thou art taken." The bodies- of men,, -women and children and horses- were' lying in the streets- and squares by dozens, by hundreds. There*was- no roe* to take them away.': The authorities remained inactive. Blood flowed in streams,, and everywhere the criminal apathy of the authorities -was the subject of universal indignation. The massacre lasted almost three days. Toward noon on February 19 a Tartar entered an Armenian church and began to fire- on an Armenian soldier. The police officer who was present arrested him, but aiterward set him at liberty without disarming him. and shouted to- the crowd: "Kill him,, or he will kill you all.."' En saving himself the criminal fired on the crowd., one of whom ran after him and tilled him. I This seems to have ben the signal. In 1 all no fewer than; 10,00). cartridges I were expended. The Armenians were no'; armed, and any of the young people from Balaki hany and the Black Town (engaged in the exploitation of naphth.. and in factories) who> had; r>* lvers were disarmed by the guard.} posted cn the road from Balakhany aud tae- Black Town or -were' not permitted to> enter the town. In a word, the unfortunate Ar! me;..ans were left tovtheir fate. Peace was only restored on the third day toward noon. For- the most part Armenians were killed,, but the stray bullets struck Russians, Georgians and Jews Indiscriminately.. A telegram from- Erivan (Transcaucasia)' says an affray took place between Mohammedans and Armenians there. Some persons were killed. BANDITS GET ?10,000. | Hold Up a Messenger Carrying Money to Standard Oil Refinery. Berkeley. Cal.?J. E. Daly, an Oakland liveryman, who was acting as a messenger for the Central Bank of' Oakland, was held up and robbed of $10,000. He was on his way to the Standard Oil refinery in Point Richmond. There were two highwaymen. AAtwtAil T?At'nlroru ? - jouin tanicu 4c? i/ii The robbery took place on the roadway between Stege and Point Richmond. The highwayman sprang from a clump of brush at the side of the road and covered Daly and former Deputy Sheriff Roach, who was riding with him. At the point of revolvers Daly and Roach were compelled to get out of the buggy and give up the sack of gold. The robbers tied them to a fence and gagged them. Daly and Roach managed to free themselves and go half a mile to Stege station. Investigating Beef Trust. A secret investigation into methods of the Beef Trust is being conducted by United States District-Attorney Burnett in New York City.~ following th? instructions of Attorney-Gene a' Moody. - - - Dies as Martyr. Miss Jennie Blauveit. a young nurse at the I-Iarleni Hospital. New York City, volunteered to care for children ill with cerebrospinal meningitis, was stricken with the disease and died. Sporting Brevities. Three new automobile bills have been introduced into the Now Jersey Assembly. Columbia defeated Yale at basket ball by a score of 24 to 21 nnd won the intercollegiate championship. Prominent automobilists visited the' location of the proposed twenty-mile speedway in New Jersey and approved of it. Commaedo. the race horse owned by James R. Keene, died from lockjaw at the Castleton stud, near LeXi i/'agtou. Ivy. - >. -.' ' .'. < ' ' VENEZUELA'S LA3TCHANCE Our Minister Presents Ultimalun to the Republic. Asphalt and Other Claim3 Mint Be Ai bltrated at Once?Pennllem Condition of Natives. Washington, D. O.?Iu calling upoi President Castro for an answer to hi proposition to submit to arbitration th< issues between the United States an! Venezuela, Minister Bowen was actin; in accordance with specific instruction: from the State Department, whicl have recently been placed in his hands Mr. Bowen made a proposition o this kind to the Venezuelan ForeigJ Office several months ago, and then was an exchange of notes on the sub ject, but its further consideration wa: cut off by the abrupt departure fron the capital of President Castro, at j moment when his own decision wa: required. The Venezuelan Government at tha stage had made a counter propositioi to Mr. Bowen looking to the arbitra tion of the dispute by The Hague Tri bunal, but with the important qualifl cation that the tribunal should arbi trate as a preliminary the questioi whether or not the United States Gov eminent had the right under interna tional law to intervene at all betweei the Venezuelan Government and Amer ican. concessionaires for the latter': protection. This was construed here as an at tempt to bring into play the old Caiv( doctrine, which the United States has resolutely and repeatedly refused t( accept in its negotiations with the southern republics. Mr. Bowen reported to the State De panment the fact of President Cas tro'a departure, and asked for instruc tionfr. These were prepared with greal care and after Attorney-GeneraLMoodj had, upon a call from the President furnished an opinion to tfye effect thai the proceedings in the Venezuelar courts involving the asphalt com pany's properties were so irregular as to amount practically to a denial o1 justice. Therefore Mr. Bowen wa? toic to renew Ms proposition for a free ar bitration of the issues between Vene^ zueiu and the United States at the first opportune moment, and this,, it ap> 11QQ ru ha Ha a nnnr Hnna Besides- the New York and' Berimr dez asphalt ease there are three othei matters- which are suggested as propei subjects for arbitration; namely, the Critchneld claim, also based on an as phalt concession; the claim of the Orinoco Steam Navigation Company based on: a violated franchise, and. tht claim of the newspaper eorrespondieni Jaurett for damages arising from his summary expulsion from Venezuela. The reported arrangement wherebj iVusident Castro has agreed to- set apart fifty pec cent, of all the Veneznelar. customs receipts outside the ports of'La Gu'ayra and Porto Cabello to sat isfy British- and! German bondholders will, it consummated, it is feared, make it impossible to secure a single cent from Venezuela for the paymenl of any just American claims, for there will be jno surplus, the remaining fiftj per cent, of the revenues beiug. required for the support of the Venezne Ian Government. Mr. Bowen's arbitration proposition is notv it is said here, dependent in- any way upon the future proceedings ii the Venezuelan-, courts relative to> the asphalt case, and'it is believed'that he has moved quickiy in order to forestall a ratification, of the foreign bond agree raent and to conserve the rights of the American claimants. Reports have- been arriving here for some time that many of the people oi Venezuela are penniless and in need of food. One foreign diplomat there recently reported that conditions were indescribable., and that the strict censorship-on everything sent out prevented the world from knowing the actua! condition of affairs. All foreigners were closely watched. ! No official' information has reached here regarding the seizure of the Italion ^qJ "rninuc nrvr hoa fha "EVonr?h Embassy; been advised further regarding the affairs, of the French Cable Company. CHARTER ELECTION RESULTS. Mew JTorlt State Villages Choose Theii Tickets. Glens Fall's,. X. Y.?Charles W. Cool, Republican, was elected Village Pres iclent. In South Glens Falls the Social Democrats elected C. E. Moore President and one Trustee and the Democrats one.. A Republican: will hold tbc balance of power. Sandy Hill over turns the present taxpayers' government. and.Dr. R. C. Pari* and the resJ ef the reform ticket is- elected. Ic Fort Edward President Murray (Rep.; was elected without opposition. LittLe Falls. N. Y.?Charter elections were held in five villages in Herkimer f'/Mintt" T'ninn IJ aI*a>^ n*A^?o /\1 Qrtf-Qfl LL L\J Lk lILaCIO IT Ci C ViCVLCW ia Middleville and Newport, the Demo crats made a clean, sweep in Dcd.ce villc and Frankfort., and the Repiibli can ticket was elected in Herkimer. Malone. N. Y.?Tbe citizens' ticket headed by a Republican, Tbomas Hinds, as President, and Moses Bes sette. William Dempsey and B. A Whitney as Trustees, was elected, de feating the straight Republican ticket. To Mutualiae Equitable' Tbe directors of the Equitable Lift Assurance Society, at a meeting ir Sew York City, voted for the mutuali nation plan which allows the contro to remain in the hands of J. H. Hyde for four years. HAITI EXPELS ALL SYRIANS. Obnoxious to Natives?Reputed to Merciless Creditors. Washington, D. C.?The State De partment was informed by Ministei Powell in Port au Prince a proclama tion has been issued that all Syrian: must leave the republic by April 1. The Syrians are extremely obnoxiou: to the natives, as they have macage< to obtain control of most of the retai business of the country, and are re puted to be merciless creditors. Declares Fair Awards Just. David R. Francis, president of tin Louisiana Purchase Exposition Com pany. declared that the fullest investi gation of the World's Fair awards i sourted. , Steamer Arrives iu Port Overdue. After being smashed by terrifi siunus tue wnue star nner ueari arrived, iu New York City four day late. Divorce Bill Vetoed. Governor Higgins, of New Yor State, vetoed the Pliilligs Divorce bilU Fussing About Swtth. HQ - 1 famous physician upon being asked^B nsMofi* nhat fa thA <*htaf cause of UftH health, replied: "Thinking and talking? 1 about it all the time. Thia ceaseless? Introspection in which so many of th#H| rising generation of the nervooa foUoH Indulge is certainly wearing them ontH When they are not worrying as toH whether they sleep too much or to*K Httle, they are fidgeting oyer th?H amount of food they take or the quan-B| tlty of exercise necessary tot health, In short, they never give themselves aiHj a moment's peace."?Housekeeper. ^ HQ A QUICK RECOVERY. H ?? - KB 2 A Prominent Officer of tho Rabeccali^E Writes to Thank Doan') Kidney IlliiiH ' For It. Hfi S Mrs. C. E. Bumgardner, a local offlceii^H of the Rebeccas, of ' Topeka, Eans., Room <*&&&. BE 10, 812 Kansas are- ? fg H ? nue, writes: "I used ri& H e Doan's Kidney PiUs Vtf r - during the past year ' 2gj 9 for kidney trouble and jMkHB v,v BfS 1 kindred aliments. I jgm B IB was suffering from s pains In the back and 9HE3HU|yfS t headaches, but found THHifgB i after the use of one jagiBl ||l H - box of the remedy - I that the tronhloR errad ually disappeared, so that before I had da-1 [HpiKjlu Bfil ished a second pack- 8 fln^^PlflUG age I was well. I, therefore, heartily en- fca ffiBw dorse your remedy." (Signed) MRS. C. E. BUMGARDNER* A TRIAL FREE ? Address Foster^? Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For saloon by all dealers. Price 50 cents. A Nocturne. Qm? "You will have to accompany ;oae/*H| said the Dew and zealous officer offlfl the law, laying a firm hand on thdH arm of the seedy young man, who waaBB making night hideous with a< ceciiet "Certainly," said the musician, a.f-fl fectionately linking his arm la tho^E policeman's. "What do you wis!!* ' sing,.and'In what key?"?Yoatfc??<J?i*-*g Denmark exports 2,500,000 of hOnejr^H ' a year. N. Y.--12 flj FITS permanently cared. Noflts or norroaa^BK t ness after first day's use of DrJKttoe'fr <3cealH| NerveRe9torer,$2tTialbottIe|and treatiseirM^H Dr. R. H. Klixh, Llr#l..'J31 Aj-oh8t..Philai, England has- on* member oi Pariinmenl^H for every 10,200 etectors. 3B A OaarMtwl Cure For ?He?. - ; Itching, Bllndi, Blseding or Prqtradln^^Bj Piles. Druggists will refund money if P&xoNH Ointment falls-to oaro in 6 to 14 days, 50&B ; ' A full-grown- elephant can carry. threi^B ; \ tons on its back. Mrs. Wlnslow's-Sodhing Syrup for chlldreaH| teething, softenthe-gums, reduces lnflamnta?H tion,allays pain,cures wind colic,25o.a bottle^M| The coronation vobe presented to- thi^H Empress of Russia> was of for. Hp Plso's Care is thebe>it%ie<llolneTveeveras?4^K for ail affections of throat and lungs,?Wx.|H 0. Endslkt, Yanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, lttfcHB Safety reins for. xunaway horses areaa^H Austrian's invention. j^H To Care a Cold la One Day Hj Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets*. All^H druggists refund money it it tails tO'Caraa^H l E. W. Grove's signature is on box. 25o. HR The fiber of the pineapple leaf can. bdH [ made into a fabric as soft as silk. M ; ITS MERIT IS PROVlSj ! BcGOBO OF A GREAT MEBMU1EM Prominent Cincinnati Woman-. Ti?!1jjb How Lydia EE Pinlcham's Vegetabl*H Compound G&mjjlately Cured.Hee; The (freat good Lydia E. Pinkham'aMs Vegetable Compound is doing' among^H j. the women of America is attractmgHH the attention^ of many of oijr iead ing^H scientists, andi thinking peopl&gac.er-^H The foLtovriog letter is* only on* many thousands which are on fil j the Pinkham office, and; fro to pi*o?^U beyond question that Lydia E. PinkSH ' ham's Vegetable Compound must bej remedy of gTeftt merit,, otherwise i^H| ! could not produce such: marvel oujkto^H suits among- sick and ail?ag womenu H Dear Mrs? 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