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This woman says she was saved i
from an operation ?>y Lydia E.
P inkham's Vege t a 5>! e Compou nd.
Lena V. Henry, of NorrLsto wn, Ga.,
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writes to Mrs. nuiuiam;
" I suffered untold misery from female
troubles. My doctor said an operation
was the only chance I had, and [
dreaded it almost as much as death.
"One day I read how other women
had been cured by Lydia E. Pink ham's
Vegetable Compound, and I decided to
try it. Before I had taken the first
bottle I was better, and now I am entirely
cured.
"Every woman suffering with any
female trouble should take Lydia BL
Piukham's Vegetable Compound."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands o t'
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulceration,
fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, flatulency, indigestion,
dizziness or nervous prostration.
YVhy don't you try it ?
r Mrs. Pink ham invites all sick
women, w wnw uci iui aunw
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Flames Front Water.
Natural gas is a wonderful thing
and the tricks it can play seem to
upset many of the laws of nature. Up
Deer Creek in Allen County, Missouri,
the well drillers have a pumping
plant to supply the boiler of the drill
rig with water. Among the pipes
that are run down to the creek i3 one
carrying the gas which leaks from
the casing of the big well. This pipe
has been run out into midstream and
the escaping gas causes the water to
boil violently. The escaping gas has
been ignited, and so this boiling-fountain
in the middle of the creek burns
with a hot, boiling flame, each bubble
being filled with gas. The sight
at night is weird, as the water seems
a bubbling mass of flame, and tha
pipe being invisible, the fire seems
to come directly from the water.
New Smoke Density Meter.
Edmund J. Kunze has devised a
smoke density meter, consisting of a
short piece of brass tube about an
inch in diameter, to one end of which
is nivoted a revolving disk of transparent
celluloid. This carries four
different tints of gray, corresponding
with the different densities of smoke
between no smoke and jet black. In
the centre of each tinted section
there is a small hole. Wheu the instrument,
is used the observer looks
through the tube toward the smoke,
turning the disk until the^tint nearest
the color of the smoke has been
determined.
Not That Kind of a Talker.
"On one occasion when in Congress,"
said James F. Banks, of Boston,
"Gen. Benjamin Butler arose
fn his place and intimated that the
member who occupied the floor was
transgressing the limits of debate.
" "Why, General,' said the member
reproachfully, 'you divided your
time with me.'
" 'I know I did,' rejoined Butler.
;rimly, 'but I didn't divide eternity
with you.' "?Washington Herald.
Picture Made by Lightning.
A log of mahogany which has been
sawn through at Belfast was found
to contain right through a^very clearly
defih^d "photograph" of a small
deer and a larger animal running.
Tho "nhrtfrn^rranh" was nrobablV
transmitted by lightning during a
storm and the pictures must have
f?een taken a long time ago. as the
tree, being four feet in diameter, is
an exceedingly old one.
Every plauk on the log right
through shows the images clearly.?
London Standard.
LOST $300
buying Medicine when Right Food
was Needed.
Money spent for "tonics" and
"bracers" to relieve indigestion,
while the poor old stomach is loaded
with pastry and pork, is worse than
losing a pocketbook containing the
money.
If the money only is lost it's bad
enough, but with lost health from
wrong eating, it is hard to make the
money back.
A Michigan young lady lost money
on drugs but i3 thankful she found
a way to get back her health by proper
food. She writes:
"I had been a victim ot nervoua
dyspepsia for six years'and spent
three hundred dollars for treatment
in the attempt to get well. None of
it did me any good.
"Finally I trted Grape-Nuts food,
and the results were such that, if it
cost a dollar a package, I would not
he without it. My trouble had beeu
caused by eating rich food such as
pastry and pork.
"The most wonderful thing that
ever happened to ui<\ I an: sure, was
the change in my condition after 1
began to eat Grape-Nuts. [ hfgan
to improve at once aud the firs- week
gained four pounas.
"I feel that I cannot express myself
in terms that are worthy o\* tfce
r benefit Grape-Nuts has brought to
m*. and you are perfectly free to
publish this letter if It will send
3ome poor sufferer relief, sucii as has
come to me."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
/Creels, Mich. Read, "The Road to
Wellville." in pkgs. "There's a R&v
8011."
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! $10,000,000 ME i I
CHELSEA, MASS.,MADE
12,000 HOMELESS i
Boston Suburb Loses 13 Churches, 5 i
Banks, the lily Hall, Many Factories
and Hundreds of Tenements.
FLAMES CUT PATH TWO
MILES THROUGH TOWN
llartial law Proclakned-BIaze Began at II A.,
M? and Burned For Twelve Hours Despite j
Firemen and Soldiers?Fire Started in a
Rubbish Dump and Fanned by a 40 Mile j
Gale Soon Spread to Factories and Thence
to the Heart of the Town.
THE DAMAGE AT CHELSEA.
More than u square mile
burned.
| Property loss estimated at
[ $10,000,000.
Three women and one man I
killed, and more than fifty persons
injured.
The main street, including the
City Hall, wiped out.
Two hospitals, the public library,
thirteen churches, five
school houses, twenty business
blocks, twenty factories and
more than 300 other buildings
destroyed.
The flames leaped across
Chelsea Creek and caused the
big tanks of the Standard Oil
Company in East Boston to blow
up.
More than 1500 families are
homeless.
The smoke was seen as far as
Portsmouth, N. H. .
Boston, Mass.?Swept through the
city by a forty-t.ve-mile gale. Are
which started at the west boundary
of Chelsea burned almost the entire
city, being stopped only by the ocean
on the east. Twelve thousand persons
are homeless and $10,000,000
worth of property is in ruins.
Five bodies have been taken from
the debris and at least seventy-five
people are known to have been injured.
Wnen not permitted by militiamen
to enter her burning home on Chestnut
street, a woman drew a revolver
and shot herself dead. Her name is
unknown. '
The distress and the confusion of
cnousanas 01 innaDjtanis neemg uetore
the, onrushicte conflagration'1s
rarely equalled." Few American aittes/
are more thickly settled, to which cirstance
was added the high wind fanning
two blocks of fire front over a
city of inflammable buildings closely
placed.
While people were burning up in
efforts to save property babies were
born in the streets.
The fire started among a lot of old
rags scattered about the dump in the
rear of No. 265 Second street, near
the Everett line, occupied by many
dealers in old rags. The district is
New England's clearing house for
junk.
Firemen Were Powerless.
The fire area, which was in the
lurui ul nu. ellipse, a. unit? uuu a ucwl \
long and half a mile wide at its
broadest part, extended diagonally
across the city from a point near the
boundary between Everett and Chelsea
to . the waters of Chelsea Creek.
It'was useless for the firemen to attempt
to check the ionrush of the
flames before the gale, and their main
efforts were to prevfent a spread of
the blaze upon either side. Their last
stand was taken at Chelsea Square
late in the afternoon, and for hours a
doubtful battle was waged. At 9
o'clock word was passed that the firemen
* were winning and, with renewed
energy, the contest was
pressed. At 11 o'clock p. m. official
announcement was made by Chief H.
A. Spencer that the fire was under
control.
The great majority of the buildings
were of wood and were completely
destroyed, but structures of other material
were almost as quickly and
thoroughly incinerated by the fierceness
of the blaze.
All the banks, more than threequarters
of the churches, half of the
business blocks and nearly all the
schoolhouses were wiped out. One
hospital-and a dayuursery were destroyed.
In the turmoil many of the
sick and4hfijfm found difficulty in obtaining
assistance and several of them
had narrow escapes.
Late in the afternoon the gale carried
burning embers across Chelsea
Creek and buildings in East Boston
caught fire, but extensive damage
there was prevented by prompt and
energetic work by the firemen.
Two men are said to have been
shot by militiamen when discovered
looting property. Their identity is
unknown. An unknown man, who
had lost all of his property, committed
suicide in Union Park. The
military guard of the district was by
the First and Fifth regiments, M. V.
M., and one company of the Eighth
Regiment, and by a company of marines
from theCharlestown Navy Yard.
Driven by a northwest gale, which
attained sucn a velocity tnat it carried
embers down Boston Harbor as
far as Nantasket and Cohasset and
set fires/to roof tops in'^hpse towns,
the fire had gained a headway against
which the Efforts of Chelsea firemen
and companies that had been called
from Boston, Everett, Maiden, Lynn,
Saugus and all the towns surrounding
Chelsea were powerless.
The flames forced their way toBig
German Cruiser Launched.
The German armored cruiser Blusher.
coating $6,915,000 and having a .
displacement of 15,000 tons, was '
launcnea at Kiel.
Mules in Demand.
The markets for mules still show .
a jood demand, for fifteen hands ,
high $100 to $150. and those a half ,
a hand higher $150 to $175.
By a decision of the Supreme Court
of Tennessee the Standard Oil Company
was barred from further business
in the State.
Prominent People.
Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, of ,
Boston, chaplain of the United States
Senate is eierhtv-siv vearn r?1H
Chancellor Day said there was no '
danger of the rich getting all the j
: money, as their "fool" sons would
i put it ia circulation.
j Governor Fletcher D. Proctnr, of
I Vermont, announced at Rutland that
I he would not be a candidate for UniI
ted States Senator next fall.
William Nelms, aged ninety years.
! who claimed to be the last survivor of
.' the "Noble Six Hundred" at Bala!
lclava, died near La Jara, Col.
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ward the northeast and then worked
south a few blocks. By afternoon
they had crossed Broadway, the main
thoroughfare of the city, and reached
Marginal street, which runs along
Chelsea Creek, a mile from the starting
place of the fire
Rnirinc Huron. Ud.
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Early in the evening embers carried
across Chelsea Creek ignited the
Standard Oil Company's tanks on the
East Boston side of the creek, and
.several of them exploded with a roar
that could be heard ten miles out to
sea and in all parts of Boston.
No one was injured by the explosions,
and the tanks were so isolated
that, the fire did not spread to the
rows of wooden tenement houses
which run from this point in East
Boston to the water front on the opposite
side of Noodle Island, on.which
East Boston is built.
So great was the heat that trolley
cars had to be abandoned in the
streets and many of them were
burned.
Engine 15, of Boston, one of the
lnrctiat in this cltv. was destroyed |
while flghttng theflames that followed
the explosion of the East Boston oil
tanks.
This is the most disastrous Are that
has occurred in the metropolitan district
(Greater Boston) since 1872.
when sixty acres of the business district
of Boston were burned, with a
loss of $60,000,000. That conflagration
started at the corner of Summer
and. Kingston streets, and was not
put under control for several days.
Militia Ordered Out.
When it became apparent that the
fire would probably havo to burn itself
out companies of militia, assisted
by sailors and marines from the
Charlestown Navy Yard, took charge
of the Are lines and prevented looting
by thieves, hundreds of whom had
gathered from all sections of the metropolitan
district. The miiltia was
given orders to shoot persons caught |
stealing.
Lieutenant-Governor Eben S. Dra- j
per, whp is at the head of the State
during the illness of Governor Curtis
Guild, Jr., was within the Are lines
aH day directing the'work of:the-militia
and aiding in the removal of the
homeless to places of shelter.
Mayor George A. Hibbard, of Boston.
at 8 o'clock p. m., called a meet
irg, at which it was votea to receive
subscriptions for the homeless. The
Intertrust Company, of Boston, told
Mayor Hibbard to draw on it for
51000, and it is expected that a fund
of $50,000 will be raised.
The Suburban Gas and Electric
Company, of the town of Revere,
which adjoins Chelsea, housed 200
fire sufferers and provided them with
food.
Acting Governor Draper requested
that a number of prominent citizens
meet him at the "State House for the
purpose of forming a relief committee
tcr.take charge of the funds and donations
for Chelsea.
" ''lie has'appointed Lee, Higginson &
Co. to act as treasurer.
John F. Moors, who was sent to the
San Francisco earthquake to attend
to the distribution of Massachusetts
funds ror tne siricKen peopie mere,
is in charge of the relief funds for
Chelsea. At midnight he reported
that all of the homeless had been
housed for the night.
Prominent Buildings
Destroyed in Chelsea
Only three churches, a chapel and
two schools are left in the burned district
of Chelsea. Prominent buildings
destroyed are:
Rufus Frost General Hospital,
Shawmut street.
St. Rose's Roman Catholic Church,
parochial residence, school and convent,
Broadway.
Chelsea Voung Men's Christian Association
building, Hawthorn street
St. Lujffr's Episcopal Ch\i?ch,sHawthorn
street.
People's A. M. E. Church, Fourth
street.
Central Congregational Church
Chestnut and Fifth streets.
Mount Belllngton Methodist Episcopal
Church,
Horace Memorial Free Baptist
Church, Webster and Spencer avenues.
St. Stanislaus' Roman Catholi(
Church. Chestnut and Third streets
Elm Street Synagogue.
Jewish Synagogue, Winnisimmel
street.
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Shurtleff street.
First Unitarian Church, Hawthors
street.
Church of the Redeemer, Fourtt
and Chestnut streets.
First Baptist Churcb, Central av&
nue. ,, f
Chester Avenue Chapel.
Epi&copal Church. Shurtleff street
The Chelsea Trust Company
The Chelsea Savings Bank.
The Postoffice.
The Park Hotel.
The Chelsea Hotel.
The Savoy Hotef.
City Hall.
Armory, Broadway.
Central Fire Station.
Public Library, Broadway.
County Savings Bank, No. 425
Broadway.
Odd Fellows' Block, Chelsea
square.
Frank B. Fay School, Evevet" avenue.
Bellingham School.
Broadway School.
St. Rose Parochial School.
Shurtleff School.
Sanation Army Building.
Chelsea Day Nursery.
First MgtJwdfef'Sfpiscppal Church.
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Br^ce Sigfoi Treaty.
Treaties for determining the Canadian
boundary and regulating the
fisheries) of the great lakes were
signed at the State Department at
Washington, D. C.. by Secretary Root
and Ambassador Bryce.
AUSTRIAN GOVERNOR SLAIN.
Ruthenian Student Shoots Count Potoclti
in Lemberg.
Lemberg, Austria.?Count Andreas
Potocki, Governor of Galicia, was shot
in his palace here by a Ruthenian student
of the name of Siczynski, who
obtained admission to the Governor
r\ n f V? ?> nrotovt tVio f lia HocivoH t r? natl.
tuuw uvo.mi iv |yoution
him for appointment as a school
teacher.
Siczynski was Arrested. He expressed
the hope that the Governor's
death would stop the Government's
oppression of the Ruthenians.
The National Game.
It ig settled that Paskert will be
Cincinnati's regular centre fielder.
Infielder TI?rzog is playing a great
game with the New York Nationals
ritcners lozer ana upp are regarded
already as fixtures on Cincinnati's
pitching staff.
Fordham defeated Yalo in. a baseball
game at ihe Polo Grounds, New
York, by a score of 4 to 1. '
Hugh Jennings says the boys who
have been raiser! on a farm are the
ones for baseball. ' They make the
city lads take the back seat every
time." he declares.
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?Timely c art
KNEW 1 MAN TILL 29, T
Miss Pratt, of "Women's Comi
Belle! It Was a Sin to Marry
Founded by a Woman H
and Formed a Colons
Philadelphia.?Back of the marriage
of Miss Adah Pratt, of 3 437
Irving street, Washington, to B.
Franklin Hoover, of Philadelphia, lies
a story of unusual romance.
Miss Pratt lived until she was
twenty-nine years .old without forming
the acquaintance of a man. She
was horn and raised in a commuuity
of women taught to-believe that marriage
wa3 a sin. She was bound by
teaching and belief always to remain
single. Then she married the first
man to whom she ever had been introduced.
She did more than half
the courting herself.
Nearly thirty years ago. in Texas,
where Mrs. Hoover's mother lived at
r\ KJf r*a M'nnfHa M^Whift'Or
I LUC tlLUC| a irno. uiui bUu Ai&v rr ut* ww> ,
of Waco, announced that she had had
a visitation from the Almighty, and
had been told that it was sinful to
live with man. Accordingly, she left
her husband and, gathering about her
a small party of women followers,
I went to the little town of Belton and
there established headquarters pf the
new creed.
It was called the Woman's Commonwealth.
Its members were all
well to do and self-supporting. Some
were spinsters, some had been married
and some had children. Mrs.
Pratt was one of the conv? ts of the
religion, and, leaving her husband,
she joined the colony wh^re, two
months afterward, the present Mrs.
Hoover was born. There were ten
children in the colony, all girls.
Ten years ago the "commonwealth"
moved to wasmngton, taicing up a
farm of 172 acres in Mbntgomery
County, Maryland, and a large house
in the city. The children were taught
to beware of meu. They never were
permitted to have acquaintances with
any of them.
Of course they saw men. Mrs.
Hoover says she often had noticed
them. But she never paid attention
to any of them until she met Hoover.
This is the way she told her story:
"Five of the girls grew up," she
said, "and then slipped away to be
married. Of course they were regarded
as sinners. I thought them
MEN TO BE ABOARD M0N1T
I irtey Wiim fr-erera m a lowei
Danger From
Norfolk, Va.?The iffdicatious are
that men will b<? aboard the monitor
Florida when that vessel is made a
target for the test of twelve-inch gun
fire, two or three weeks hence. An
observation tower, sixty or seventy
feet above the main deck, id being
constructed from the stern of the vessel.
There could be no use for such a
tower, but to observe the effects of
the fire. The tower will be large
enough to contain several men. Their
height from the deck will niiuimize
BARS SISSY CHRISTIANS
Building Boss Discharges
Do Much ft
Los Angeles.?General Superintendent
C. B. Weaver, who has charge of
the construction work of the now Y.
M. C. -A. building nere. nas ctscnargea
all the Christians. He declares that
non-Christians do 2!> per cent, more
work than the church members.
"There's not a Christian on the job
as far as I know." said Weaver.
Lancashire Spinners Abandon t!i?'
{'[an to Have American S-Ntate*.
Manchester. ? The Lancashire cotton
spinners have abandoned the
scheme to purchase cotton growing
estates in the Mississippi Delta, owing
to legal impediments against
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iiutjua umuiut^ icai <roi.u<.7.
The Cotton Spinners' Association
had already appointed a committee to
take preliminary steps to form a company
to take control of a cotton plantation
in the United States, this being
one of the results of the visit of
the British delegation to t'.iar country.
FcnnnJne Notes.
A royal decree ha3 been issued in
Holland abolishing the rule promulgated
three years ago which forbade
women employed in tin- postal rolegraph
offices to marry.
Miss Helen Canacu. daughter of
the Speaker, has been eiw*hou *.r-1
ary president, of a n-*w p-.ifrior.ii* .* -1
ciel.y to lis known as Daunlif'?rs of J
CJ/in _ %??,! T> wi'lhTK
L?titi.i M. Snow, a uril-nt ? )f 'It*
Woman's Callage of Baltimore, in if I
! the hea<l of the department of l-i-|
ology in (lie S^al ? N.irrua! School of j
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but we'll soon get used to 'em.
ooa by Triggs, 11 thu New York Press.
HEN SHE WED THE RDST
nonwealth," Was Reared in the
?belonged to Strange Sect
Vho Left Her Husband
r Who Saw No Men.
bad. But about a year ago I went
down town with a girl friend and she
introduced me to Mr. Hoover.
"Somehow or other f could not get
him out of my mind. I found myself
wishing I might see him all the time.
-I-knew it wasn't right; at least, I
thought it wasn't. Later I met him
down town again, and several times
after that. Then he told me he was
going to leave the city and a3ked me
to write. . I told him I would."
From tier story it seeni3 that Hoover,
who is a hotel clerk, went to Chicago,
then came to Philadelphia, and
wrote his intention to Miss Pratt,in
Washington.
"I was crazy to see him." she admitted,
"and decided to risk the fear
of my mother's displeasure. So I
slipped quietly out of the house in
Washington and came here. When I
found Mr. Hoover he was greatly surprised.
" 'Why, Adah, have you come up
here to marry me?' he asked.
" 'I don't know that I thought
much about that,' I replied, 'I just
felt I had to see you again.'
" 'Well, will you marry me?' he
asked. It took me by surprise, although
I was not wholly unprepared
for it.
" 'I'm willing,' I said finally.
" 'Right away?" he asked. Thia
was 30 ' sudden it took ' my- breath
away.
" 'Can't you wait until to-morrow
night?' [ asked him, and he said he
would."
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. J. B. G. Pidge, pastor of the
Fourth Baptist Church, at the parsonage.
The same evening the bride
wrote to her mother, but has not received
an answer as yet.
"I'm afraid she never will forgive
me," she said. "She always was very
strict with me. There are still three
unmarried girls atthecommonwealth.
They are twenty-three, twenty-eight
and thirty-three years old."
Mrs. Hoover is tall, of a striking
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Figure auu siynsiuy nresseu. one ua=
a wealth of chestnut hair, brown eye;
and au expressive smile.
OR FIREO AT BY BIG GUNS.
r High Enough to Minimize
Cannon. 'Balls.
the dauger which they will run. II
is possible that volunteer officers and
men will man the tower. One of th
twelve-inch guns ha3 been taken from
the turret of the monitor and a stub
installed in its place. The stub will
be fired at.
A heavy plate of armor has been installed
between the other gun and the
stub to prevent injury to the gun
and a bullet head has been constructed
in the forward part of the vessel sc
that should it be struck at or below
n/i fr^r* lino t ha irrvacsal WlH tint sink"
FROM Y. M. C. A. JOB.
Them?S-ays INon-Believers
Aore Work.
"When [ began, f had some Christiau.s,
out; they, did not deiiveT the
good*. [ fired 'em. They were-a
sissy lot. aad thought !>ecause they
belonged to rh? church they should
get the soft end of everything. I've
hired fellow* who make no profession
aud rm getting twicv aa much work
out of them."
$7,000,000 ;?f Obscure
V'Hin^ AniiittTt to !{?* Realized.
Loudon. ? The London County
Council has derided to proceed with
the building of the proposed Count?
Hal! on the site selected on the banks
of the Thames ac Westminster. It. i.-.
estimated that it will cost S7.000.00C
aud fake seven years to build.
The architect h Ralph Knott, who
fill he wou that position by competition
was an obscure assistant in the
city architect's offico. He is twentynine
years old. His fees as. architect
? k
win iUil'JUUi lo f-vv,vw.
TCie Field of Sports.
Adam ttyaa, the Chicago light'
weight, is being sivi ?-stepped l">y all
the light?ightr< in Philadelphia
Ryan can tuak" J 5) r-,-tt:ad.s.
Pif'7-ftv? rrotters have ! .<?<??; eat<.'r?d
f> c at. ISartford on Labor
Day t >r SI ).) ) ) Charter OaI<
?-irs" for hors-M >:" 'I;1 class.
.i>' that. Eagii.ihmet; think ti"
gam.? develops r.tijjljaess of purpose
au-.l l:ror'nen.i ii" ai.it.hoii so nitj.-'i
is orick 'f." aav s 'h? baseball *nthi:.iia.it
That, may be. but it
iw riiir -.vliat it Jove.( mostly *.n
rii vt armiciue ciaoh
i OEMOQRflTIG CONVENTION"
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NSW Torxs UtJiegdlCo UU lu
Denver Uninstmctsd.
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The MeCarren Men From T*n Districts,
With MeCarren at Head,
Ousted After a Fight.
New York City.?Charles P. Murphy
and his ally, William J. Comiers,
leaders of the Democratic party in
the State, weeded Patrick H.. MeCarren
out of the organization after one
of the most sensational aassions of a
State convention ever held in this
State. It followed a dramatic appearancg
of Senator MeCarren before
the convention, in which he i
hurled defiauce at Tammany .and <,
threatened its disruption.
One of the most exciting episodes
occurred at midnight, when more
than two score delegates rushed to
the platform of Carnegie Hall, and,
with shoults of "Gag rule!" and "Outrage!"
demanded their rights.
They declared substitution had
i iip<?n made in the list of the new State
Committee and that the Murphy-Conne'rs
combination had seized absolute
control of the organization. 'i
The chairman announced that the ,
convention, instead of the Senate dis?
tricts, would choose the delegates.
This precipitated a riot. Delegates
rushed toward the p.'atform to assault
the chairman. Mr. Carmody, of
Yates, who was presiding, broke his
gavel. The sergeant-at-arms and his
assistants were knocked down. The
reporters and their tables were overturned.
Half the policemen seemed
fo be afraid to molest anybody or to
take sides. In the middle of all the
disorder the chairman announced the
resplution carried that the convention
should name the State Commitfee^ \
men from .the Twenty-severtTh, Thirty-sixth,
Fortieth and Fiftieth Senate,- ?
Districts. More than 100 delegates
were on their feet protesting. The
secretary called the roll while the
crowd clamored and Carmody declared
that the resolution was carried
through, 254 to 128. Then he
said the convention was adjourned.
It was the most sensational Democratic
State Convention held since
Van Wyck was nominated for Governor
against Theodore Roosevelt, in
1893.
After .much trouble and many declinations
from prominent Democrats,
these four delegates-at-large were selected
:
Alton B. Parker, Lewis Nixon,
Charles F. Murphy and Charles
| p rutju.
| Alternates-at-large, James E.'
Sch^^tzenbach, Steuben; Francis K.
Pendleton, New York; George H.
Thacher, Albany; William F. Rafferty,
Syracuse.
Nathan Straus, of this city, and W.
I H. Fitzpatrick, were selected as elecI
tors-at-large. District delegates from
the thirty-seven Congress districts
were selected by their delegates.
Under the instructions of the con- i
vention the seventy-eight delegates I
from New York to the Denver convention
will vote as a jnitand as directed
by Murphy and Coanors.
The State Convention's resolutions
committee flatly refused even so
much as to consider a Bryan resolution.
Harry W. Walker, one of Bryan's
most enthusiastic supporters in New
York, declared he would issue a call
for another State convention to send
a contesting delegation to Denver.
! SHOOTS OBSTINATE DAUGHTER
As Sbe Sits at Piano, Then Kills Himself
in Ashcvillc School For Girls.
1 Asheville, N. C.?Dr. C. O. Swinney,
formerly of New York, who came >
here from Marion, N. C., about two
weeks ago to visit hia daughter, Nellie,
a sixteen-year-old student at the
! Normal and Collegiate Institute, I
' called on his daughter at the college.
While the two were alone in a re'
ception room and Nellie was at the
piano playing. Swinney fired three
' shots at her and '.hen fired a fourth
shot through his own head, killing
himself instantly.
Miss Swinney wa3 picked up un'
I conscious and is believed to he fatally
1 injured, two of the shots having taken
1 affect in her head.
Miss Swiuney, who is considered
the prettiest girl the college, had
been receiving attentions f:om young
men contrary to her t-father'sV^ishes.
remonstrated with her, but
: to no purpose. During their Calk in |
the afternoon Ne!lie grew impatient I
and commenced piaying the piano. j
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t "COL." WARD SENTENCED AGAIN.
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) At Age of Seventy-four He Begins |
' ! Another Prison Term in Boston.
Boston. Mass. ? "Colonel" Daniel
, S. Ward, who for fifty years has been
one of the most picturesque and in-.
[ teresting characters in the criminal
> history of the United States, was sen
tenced iu the Superior Court to two
and a half years in the State prison
I for forgery, and at the age of seventyi
frmr will commence his eighth or
I ninth prison term.
The "Colonel" commenced his pri- 1
j ; son career in I3fi3, when he was arrested
iu New York during the draft i
| riots with two other men for plotting I
. i to, burn the city. His confederates j
> j w^re executed, but Ward was j^art
I doried by President Lincoln. ' '
[ I Iron and Steel Dull.
Manufacturing conditions are little
L J altered, about fifty per cent, of the
: ! iron and steel producing capacity
; being in operation.
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! BARS BKTTlJltr ir?
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I Senate Passes Bill That Also Klim(
I iiiatos Pokrr Playing.
i j Washington. D. C.?The Senate
I j rushed through a bill aimed to put
| an end to betting at a local ra?e track.
? ! It is broad and it eliminates the Con
! gressional poker party, and prohibits
> | bridge whist, of which the Congres
| sioual women are L'orid.
: j The Hoa.se had already passed the
; measure.
HAltl'KK KSCAPE8 JAIL TEItM.
i
[ Despite President Washington Court
, | Fines Pun* Food Violator.
Washington. D. C.?President
Roosevelt failed to get a jail sentence
ri^r.Vf Wii'imi' rirvvqlrliMif of
Wl IV#U<?1 - i??. tiMl (/(.I I' . -T- -
; the Washington Chamber of Com:
til?'.':--, til-? first person convicted un:
i der ?Iij pure food aud drills law.
1 : T!i-? E'reslJ-'n' desired Harper should
! suffer rii* -iTem^ penalty, but Judge
j Kiailia'! .sent^nr* i Harper to pay a
, tin-' >! t'ri-) ->:i om* count and $200
' ! un :'.) .selling an alleged mis!
::t: i: rn.i-."lUcal compound. .
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personal efforts wiitMHe assistance
of the one truly bencj?nal laxative
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wKich enables onetojrorm regular
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wKcn no longer nceded astkebestof
remedies, wKen required, areto assist
nature and not to supjJant the natron,
al junctions, vrhicb must depend ulti*
matefy upon proper* nourishment,
proper efforts,and rifcKt livinggenerally.
To get its beneficial ej^ecl^, always
uuy ine genuine
syrup^figs^elutirfsenmi
manufacturedtyfee ,".,' J
California. ;
fio syhup cot oniy
SOLp GYALL LEADINCJDRUCblSTSt
one stze only, rtguiar price 50$ |*r Bottle
Could Take Her Choice.
As the railroad train was stopping, *
an old lady not accustomed to traveling,
bailed the passing conductor
and a3ked: "Conductor, what door
shall I get out by?" "Either door,
ma'am," graciously answered the conductor.
"The car stops at both ends."
Deafness Cannot Be Cared '
bylocal applications aa theycannot reach tb?
diseased portion of the ear.' There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness in caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucous lining of ,. t
the Eustachian Tu be. When this tube is inflamed
youhave a rumbling sonnd or imperfect
hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Pndfness is the teault, and uuleag thejtoflammotion
can b& taken out and this tube restored
to, its normal condition, bearing will
bede&trdyed forever. Nine cases out of tea
are caused bycatarrh, which is notbingbutaa
inflamed condition of the mucoos mrfaces.
We will rive One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused bycatarrh) tha t cannot
be curedby Ball's (Catarrh Cure. Send for
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Sold by Drugrgista, "Sc.
Take Hall's Family Tills for constipation.
Woman's Inhumanity.
" When you read about the way
they are killing those beautiful birds
down in Florida," said Mrs. Lapsllng,
"you wonder ho^w any woman can be
bo heartless as to wear a vinaigrette
on her hat! *
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a powder. It malws tignt or new shoe*
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Let m^ assure you once for all thai
as you grow older If you enable yourselves
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your own lives, what is true in thoM
of other men, you will gradually pfcr* i
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SPRING KIDNEY TROUBLE.
i
Vividly Described by One Who Has
Suffered Prom It.
Mrs. H. Mutzabaugh, of Duncan*
non, Pa., says: "I was sick and mis-:
ferable all last Spring,
and as I did not-knon
T what',was. the 'iqatter,
I kept goiqg down
y and down until I wad
B a physical wreck. I
had smothering spells,
flashes of heat over
V the kidneys, and pain
v * in passing the kidney
secretions, which con
talned sediment. My husband urged
me to try Doan's Kidney Pills, and at
last I did so. Tbey did me much
good, and 1 used in all eight boxes,
which restored me to perfect health."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Making the World Better.
We did not make the worjd, and
are not responsible .for its taste; but
we can make life a fine art, and, taking
thiagsjas we 'Snd them, like wise
men moid them 'tfs may best serve
own ends.?Johi? Inglesant.
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A Town Without Taxes.
Orson, in Sweden, has no taxes.
During the last thirty years the authorities
of this place have sold over
?1,000,-000 worth of trees, and by
means of judicious replanting hare
provided for a similar income every
i-?r fnrtv vpars. In conseouence
tUik K/J V4 ??? ?V ? _ _
of this source of commercial jvealth
there are no taxes, and locatorailways
and telephones are free, as are education
and many other things.?From
Tit-Bits.
The Rent-Payer's Reasons.
"Why." asked the real estate man,
"do you pay rent instead of owning v
a home?''
"I suppose," answered the mildmaunered
man, "it's just habit." So
long as I'm only paying rent I fool !
myself along with the idea that 9pe
of these days I'm going to move Into
a fine, roomy abode. But when I
buy I know I've got to stick. -Besides,
there would be no pleasure at
all in talking about yourself because
you didn't make repairs."?Washington
Star.
It jcm suffer from Fit*. Fallinc fHclrneai ot
MfflH tiparfma, or bam Children that do no, mjr
mh New Diacov*ry and Treatment
IB will Rive them,Immedlato rtIM, and
J3 all you nro inked tc do in to vend tor
HH a Free bottle of Or. May's
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