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tOMCM GROWERS WHIP THE TRUST American Company Finally Agrees to Pay Price Demanded. TOTAL MAY REACH $14,000,000 i _ Deal Just Closed Means the End of Night Rider Outrages in State of Kentucky ? Nearly 80,000,000 Pounds Held in the Burley Pool. Louisville, Ky.?The Tobacco Trust has been whipped to a finish and made to dow aown to ine cune.v iubacco Society. Some of the members of that organization unofficially formed the bands of marauders known as night riders, who resorted to arson and murder to attain their - ends. ? By a deal between the Burley Tobacco Society and the American Tobacco Company, closed lately, the 1906 and part of the 1907 crop of tobacco, involving 80,000,000 pounds, becomes the property of the American Tobacco Company at a cost of almost $14,000,000. The average price pe? pound for the 1906 crop was twenty and a half cents and seventeen cents for the 1907 crop. There Is great rejoicing in Kentucky among the night riders and those who sympathize with them. It is considered ft decisive victory for the night riders and will end the marauding in Kentucky. The Burley Tobacco Society is an organization that comprises about fifty-five counties in the northern and central portions of Kentucky, and has In its membership all tobacco raisers. These growers pooled all of their crops of 1906 and 1907 and the organization was controlled exactTy like any corporation or trust would be, that is, by officers and an executive board. Tobacco raising in the Burley district is very arduous work, and employs the time of the farmer practically the year round. It is estimated that it requires at least a price of eight cents a pound for a farmer to realize any profit on raising Burley tobacco. The tobacco growers, knowing th^t the trust was realizing at least from \ forty cents to $1 for the Burley tobacco after it was manufactured for consumption, decided, as a last resort, to organize against trust prices. This they did, with the result that by this deal they received an average of nearfly nineteen cents a pound for their tobacco, thus attesting that they have gained their point. This was done by x- *1 *? ? xu.-. on/9 r>nf curtailing me pivuu^uuu ouu raising a crop this year. TOM L. JOHNSON POOR. Cleveland's Mayor Says Fine Home and Autos Must Go. Cleveland, Ohio.?Mayor Tom L. Johnson, who for years his been credited with possessing a large fortune, (announced that he had lost everything and would be compelled to give kip his handsome home In Euclid ave- 5 nue and move into smaller and less expensive quarters. The Mayor also stated that ne wouia give up nis automobiles and other luxuries, because he could no longer afford to keep , them. His fortune was wrecked, the May or declared, by his devotion to the affairs of .the estate of his dead brother Albert, who was heavily interested in traction properties in the East. After Alberts death it was suggested to Mayor Johnson that he resign ^s Mayor and take up the management of Albert's estate. It Is said Mr. Johnson has recently lost approximately $400,000 in con- ' nection with his interests at Lorain, Ohio. DR. ROYCE OX FOOTBALL. "Result Unfavorable to Best Moral Education of Youth," He Says. 1 Boston, Mass.?The declaration that "the prevalent result of football Is not favorable to the best moral education of the great body of our youth," is made by Professor Josiah j T* J XVUjce, UL cue uepai tuiriiu ui punuauphy at Harvard, in a long article in the football number of the Harvard i Illustrated Magazine. In his article Professor Royce says further: "It does not train loyalty to see another man's bones broken. Among the spectators it makes a loyal life and practical love of loyalty impossible as far as the conduct and spirit i and results of these public displays are concerned." BAD SHORTAGE Forest Fires Did It, and Result Will Be a ting mat Represented a MarKE New York City.?With the peach crop scare forgotten months ago and 1 the oyster crop scare only a clammy ; ghost, it seemed there would be rest : from reports of shortages. But a man came to the front with an announcement which, in its possibilities of widespread gloom, made peach and oyster famines look joyous. If the situation is as bad as he said, Christ-mas Day in hundreds of thousands < of homes will seem as if there were a funeral, or the rent collector had come around again. i Simply, there is going to be the worst shortage of Christmas trees i this country has known. The man who said it deals in those trees by Two Maine Canoeists Drown. Miss Maud Boliff, twenty-two years old, of Monroe, a teacher in one of '1 the public schools of Bradley, and i Edwin M. Gray, twenty-one, of Brad- 1 ley, were drowned in Great Works stream about two miles from Brad- 1 ley, Me. They were on their way in a canoe to a hunting camp. , Lookout Inn Burns. Famous old Lookout Inn, on the crest of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., ^ was burned to the ground, together Kith all its contents. Far Eastern Notes. Jepan is buying more American Iron and steel pipe each year. Egypt's sugqr cane crop this year Is only 400,000 tons, against 5C0.000 tons in 1907 and 700,000 tons in 1906. The sailors of the American fleet at Amoy, China, contested in various I sports and the winners received < prizes. An unsuccessful attempt to shoot Sir A. H. L. Fraser, Lieutenant-Gov- i ernor of Bengal, India, wa3 made by i Bengali at the Calcutta Twn Hall; ; Che criminal was caught. j LANDSLIDE FOLLOWS ' FATAL BUS EXPLOSION Half a Block Slips Into 48-Foot Trench in Brooklyn. ~ LABORERS PERISH IN FLOOD Bursting Water Main Inundates Excavation?Men, Women and Children Go Down Under Water and Earth in Gold Street Sewer. Brooklyn, N. Y.?Twenty-two-lives are believed to have been sacrificed in an unusual accident in a sewer trench in Gold street, this borough. Half of the block in Gold street, between York and Front streets, fell into a forty-eight-foot trench after a gas explosion that wrecked a twentyfonr-inrh main and loosed thousands of gallons of water. Men, women and children walking on the sidewalk slid into the excavation and were drowned or were burned by a gas flame that rose eighty feet above the pavement and burned for twenty minutes before the Brooklyn Union Gas Company shut it off. Exact knowledge as to the number that perished will not be had until the big trench is pumped clear of water. The accident is one of the most unusual in the city's history. The 1 street is in such a condition that Deputy Chief Lally, of the Fire Department, refused to permit his men to work at night in the .trench, and issued an order that no- attempt at recovery of bodies be made until 7 o'clock next morning. If there are twenty-one buried in the mass of sand, timber and water, there is not a chance for getting any out. alive. One body is out of the trench. More than half the block has gone down from building line to building line, ana the foundations of the oldfashioned frame houses that line the block are washed by water. R Among the dead is Frederick H Scheffmeier, of the Brooklyn Sewer Bureau, who went into the trench to inspect the work on the thicteen-foot sewer at 9 o'clock a. m. Scheffmeier was overwhelmed by the flood of water released from the burst main. Four carpenters employed by 'Hag-* gerty & Rogers, of Manhattan, the contractors, were swept through the finished section of tjie sewer to the 1 bulkhead at the end of Gold street t and cjimbed out almost drowned. They collapsed on reaching the surface, and were cared for by one of the six ambulance surgeons wno responded to calls. The known dead are: Samuel Abrams, fifty-four years old; body recovered. , . Gustave Anderson, foreman carpenter. Francis Armando, laborer, Brooklyn. Jacques Armando, brother of Francis, also a laborer. IN . Eruil Bachman, carpenter. * . John Brady, six years old. Vincent Doherty, seven years old. Charles Farrell, foreman laborer. Felix Green, carpenter, Manhattan. Gustave Lane, carpenter, Manhat* tan. h( Charles Nelson, carpenter/ w Frederick Scheffmeier, city sewer 2inspector, Brooklyn. . Gustave Wallo, carpenter. The unknown dead are: y3 ? Ti-11. ? ,.1. i< i wo iiauan lauurers. A woman,. . The Injured are: ^ Domlnick Labonio, laborer; scalp m wounds. I1 Archie Gunochlo, laborer; laceratlons of face and scalp. The cause of the catastrophe prob- IV ably will never be absolutely known, tE though the general belief Is that It rc was the result of the accumulation of y( Illuminating gas In the sewer trench and some of Its pockets. u CLOSES "MOTHER'S ROOM." " ?? 81 Thousands of Christian Scientists Have Made It a Shrine. T] Boston, Mass.?By order of the 8< board of directors the "mother's tl room" in the original part of the m great Christian Science tabernacle in the Back Bay has been shut to the P* public, curious or devout, without a 4( single explanation beine given as to fi"1 the reason. to Ever since the original church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, was C< dedicated, the "mother's room" has Iti been one of which thousands of the 01 devout made a shrine. At first it was ei open to the public at all times, then it was decided to open It only on three tt days a week. ei fu OF XMAS TREES - ai i Rise in Price?Trees Ready For Cut- ?0\ it Value of $100,000 Burned. ti wholesale. He asserted the recent ^ forest fires, that swept hundreds of . f0 acres in the northern section of k Maine, killed off thousands of young a( trees. Already dealers are in the m north woods of Maine, having the trees cut and getting them ready for j) shipment. A large real estate dealer a, in Maine says the forest fires de- l, stroyed Christmas trees ready for g| cutting that represented a market or value of $100,000. All "famine" stories, whether of bueuusu, iruit or trees, winci up witn | Wl a certain form of announcement. It ! comes with the Christmas prediction. It is: pj PRICES WILL 3E HIGHER. n< Chestnut Crop Good. jB The chestnut crop in New Jersey is the best that the State has enjoyed in the last ten years. In some places the ground is covered with nuts. While the nuts are smaller this year N than usual tbey are almost entirely free from worms. w ji Pinchot in Taft's Cabinet. At Washington, D. C., the post of it Secretary of Agriculture In President Taft's Cabinet has been offered to gi Gifford Pinchot, and it is almost cer- tli tain that Mr. Pinchot will accent. fli Prominent People. Ellhu Root, Secretary of State, said be would accept the Nov; York Sena- S] torship. C( Senator Elkins denied that his 0j daughter is engaged to the Duke of jc the Abruzzi. . A movement was begun to over- s throw Charles F. Murphy as the lead- 61 sr of Tammany Hall. B' Dr. Waldemar Jochelson left New tl York City on a two years' ethnologi- tii cal expedition among the Aleuts. il; In his annual report Rear-Admiral "( Pillsbury recommended restoring the in rank of Vice-Admiral of the navy. SIG^OF RI^URNI^ ?Season's cleverest cartoon by WSPEH1TY W~FELT IN C ailroads Plan Gigantic Improvem XT nllnnnl D?nonai>]Hr UUilOi o*"Xlauuiicu x jl v/opwi iij . No*More Work to D< The certain return of prosperity is < in the news of the .past week. From all over the country have con* factories after ten months of cessation. vthe,employment of thousands of men anc ing to do. While only a short while ago mills ^ to-day they are rushed with work and ai who apply. Railroads are feeling the Aladdin-lik planning to expend millions of dollars upi been a loosening up of the money market gigantic projects contemplated are to be Correspondents send in glowing rep manufacturing centres. In the North we: everywhere there are signs of better time One positive evidence of the improve in the disbandment of the National Prospe Its chairman, E. C. Simmons, explained swiftly returning, there is no more work t fews of a Week Thai tvidence Washington, D. C. ? Reports re- Th sived by the International Brother- tion jod of Operative Potters during the plant eek indicated a general opening up nong; ' work everywhere in that industry. Th he force at the Riverside Pottery at Pitts! Wheeling, W. Va., has been greatly take icreased, and the firm is getting or- 500,C jrs in a steady stream. Th The Dresden Pottery is working at Keesj ill force. The Klondike Pottery will time, ive no slack time this winter, its Th< nployes having all they can do. The put a ibring Pottery, at Sebring, O., has Th id the busiest November it has pany, aown in years. It is expected that of its ie American China Company, of To- Ev >nto, will operate steadily to the Midh jar's end. , Conn The Union Buffalo Cotton, Mills, of mills Q r> mhlnh 4o oalH tn nnprfttp Th ore looms than any other textile mills >rporation in the South, received ing t ich a rush of orders that it will be riod j Dliged to run all of its three im- work ense plants to their fullest capacity. Th bis sets going 17,000 spindles and- Comp )0 looms, which were idle during ed be ie summer. The mills employ 2000 start< en and women. ed to The Fales & Jenks Machine Com- 1 Mi iny, of Pawtucket, R. I., employing Comi )0 hands, began working on a fifty- three re-hour-a-week schedule. The fac- duced ry had been running on half time. J. The Easton & Burnham Machine repre Diapany, of Pawtucket, R. I., started tbe P s factory on full time, after running to N< l short time during the summer. It tract< nploys 100 men. tion Lumbermen of Tifton, Ga., report know iat nil thA mills are booked with the ] lough orders to keep them going Coast ill tilt for three months. Some are Paul jcllnlng orders until Harch 1. three The American Tobacco Company ions jreed to take seventy-five per cent, get S' ! the 60,060,000 pounds of tobacco Off ! the Burley Leaf Tobacco Society, road he deal involves $10,000,000. costii After a shut-down of six months, soon. ie Illinois Steel Company reopened exten iur of its plants at South Chicago, electi )0 men being put to work. Several conte Idltlonal furnaces, requiring 500 Ge: en, will be blown at once. cy, g< Prominent railroad men, including tutioi onald G. Reid, of the Rock Island, cline id E. C. Converse, of the Baldwin slacki Dcomotive Works, and the United mone :ates Steel Corporation started the ton e: ganization of a $2,000,000 corpora- ports on to manufacture steel. Most_of show le bonds have been subscribed. Tne tres : orks will be located near Gary, Ind. most Contracts were awarded by the grow] rescent Steel and Wire Company to dustr instruct a new plant at New Cor- Coi irstown, Ohio. rema; ivention of Great Importance to Danci Ironclads Exhibited in Germany. Charlottenburg, Germany.?At a Pa eeting of the League of German skirts aval Architects, Dr. Anschuetz- dance lempfe, of Kiel, exhibited a compass impei ithout a magnetic needle, which has the c ist been invented. It is in the form sultec ! a gyroscope, which, when suspend- depri i in a certain way, always adjusts llhooi self Darallel to the earth's axis. Th The invention is regarded as o! decre eat importance to ironclads, where other ie compass needle is frequently de- steps jcted by the adjacent metal. U3e o Family Cannibalism. The English spoken by the "Penn rlvania Dutch," a3 the inhabitants oi ^ jrtain districts in the easte'rn pari wlnnj ! tho 'State are popularly known, af wjth irds some rare specimens of exprcs Ar on. A man who was passing a name nail house <n the out skiits of "Sous bilt ? esselem"? that is the nearest possl' Yaclv e spelling of the local pronuncio- Th on?heard the daughter of the fam to re: V calLing her brother in to supper. | The Jeorge," she said, "you come rlghl j *?^ne^ now; pa's on the table, and ma'a ' i. l... . j , ' effort ilf et! V-Everybody s. - a ' G CONFIDENCE \ 1 - III I ' bT If ' 11,1 Li,Lili j Davenport, in the New York Mail. OUNTRY'S INDUSTRIES. s ients Costing Millions oJ Association, Having ), DiSfeandsi iloquently indicated in items e reports of the reopening of Whirring machinery tells of " 1 women who have had nothvere running on half time, re giving employment to all e touch of prosperity and are on improvements. There has f so that funds to carry on the had readily. c torts 01 conditions m an tne i st, the 'South, the East? j s. s jment in conditions is given rity Association, of St. Louis. I that now that prosperity is or the organization to do. ? j : Shows of Better Times I c e United States Steel Corpora- 1 decided to erect a $3,000,000 v at Monessen, Pa., in the Mo* c ahela Valley. a e Schoen Steel Company, ol p burg, announced that it would v on 300 more men and'spend $1/ c *00 in improvements. p e National Tube Works, of Mc- f port, Pa., ptttced its plant on full t s WestlngLouse Electric Companj f II its. departments on full time. t e Republic Iron and Steel Com- i: of Pittsburg, ordered every on? t furnaces run to full capacity. e ery spindle in the cotton mills o) r am and New London counties: i ., has been started up, and th? are rushed with orders. ' I e American Woolen Company'i at Moosup, Conn., are prepar- J 0 run full time; after a bad pe* in which less than half time waj ed. e Michigan Lake Superior Powei 1 any, of Chicago, which suspend- 1 cause of the financial conditions, i id to reorganize, and it is expect* c resume within a few weeks. t lis of the International Paper c >any, at Berlin, N. H., idle foi months, reopened with a re* t 1 force. c D. Farrell, of Seattle, Wash., * sentative of E. H. Harrlman, in to acific Northwest, has been called to 3w York. Financiers and con* t >rs say that railroad construc* work on a scale heretofore un* c n is about to be inaugurated in F Pacific Northwest. The North i' Chicago, Milwaukee and St s and Harriman system are the 5 4 4-Virt nnon/Hn(y r\f mill. . laULUI 3 ill LUC opcuuiug Vfc uitir for a dominant position in Puound and Northwest Coast. Lcials of the Lackawanna Rail- j announced that improvement* lg $25,000,000 will be begun * Plans have been drawn for th? sion of the road to Chicago. Tht q ification of the suburban lines is f, mplated. s nerally, the shipment of curren- jj aid and silver to financial insti- s is in rural districts begins to de- n in November, in accord with the fi *nlng of trade and the receipt ol- j] y from abroad on grain and cot. importations. But confidential reof the St. Louis reserve agent? thai the shipments to all cen* In the South and West are al- ji as large as last month. To the f, [ng trade and invigorating in* fi y is attributed the activity. T nditions in the whole South show b rkable improvement. e ing Masters Solve Problem x of Clingsome Drapery. ris.?Women are dow wearing i so tight that old-fashioned c is are Impossible, and it became ative to devise means to meet rlsis. If the present styles re* 1 in stopping dancing they would a ve fhfe dancing masters of a live- d 3. ' c ey met, resolved and forthwith s ed that waltzes, polkas and all A dances be danced with shorter (1 until fashion gives women freer li f their lower limbs. s The World of Sport. le has thirty-five candidates for ions in the hockey team. t ? - - e K.. vanaerDiit neaas me use 01 w Ing owners on the French turf a total of $263,640. g thur Curtlss James has been a d to succeed Cornelius Vanderis commodore of the New York si t Club. J ere Is going to be a bitter fight store racing at Hot Springs, Ark. business men there have com- e 1 in favor of the sport, and they; F tiey hope to be successful in their a :s. f li MANY KILlEDjy TORNADO [ Two Mile Wide Path Through Arkansas is 70 Miles Long. Visited Western Edge of State, Leaving a Trail of Death, Suffering and Destruction. ' ?r I Fort Smith, Ark. ? From meagre reports received here from a score of jij towns in northeast Arkansas it ap- a pears that twenty-five people were m killed, fifty injured and a number are missing through a tornado which swept through this section of country. s The path of the storm was two i miles ''vide and seventy miles long, i Its force was felt in the greatest de- I gree in the vicinity jof Ozark, Ark. t rhe small town of Cravens, four miles 1 west, was completely wiped out. Four people were killed and three fatally ? injured. I The dead are Mr. and Mrs. John c Rosin and two children. The injured e are Dr. and Mrs. Hill, an aged couple, c who were caught in the collapse of I th?lr house and crushed. Grocery stores in which several people had I taken refuge were blown to 'pieces an/1 oil tho nnnnnntita mnrp or less * hurt. . 't Dr. Croker, of Lenall, Ark., was r slightly hurt. Eight people?three ' t men and two women and three chil- t Iren?are reported missing in Crav- 1 3ns. All were seen before the storm. At Knoxville, Ark., the storm ( passed over at the mouth of Piney Dreek, demplishing everything in its r path. Twenty people were injured -] ind several are reported to have been f filled. t CaJAs for doctors have been sent g !rom Barr, a small town four miles e lortheast of Knoxville. Physicians vent to the stricken town on a hand- I :ar and have not returned. Barr was iwept nearly off the map. j The country between Knoxville and 3arr is waste, the farmhouses were a ihattered and some of the occupants j, filled. The path of destruction in 3 tome places is four miles wide. ? The damage at Berryville is con- f Ined mostly to stores and churches. t Che storm came up from the west at t !.15 o'clock and lasted but a few min- c ites. The Methodist Church was vrecked and the parsonage badly 1 lamaged. , ; >. s The homes of four doctors, frame itructures, were completely demol- r shed. The Baptist Church cupola f vas blown 150 feet, and.a neighbor- t ng frame house, unoccupied, was re- g luced to kindlings. Eleven other Iwellings were blown from their g oundations and barn3 unroofed. A telegram from Knoiville at 11 'clock states that the'storm passed : lear Russellville at 3 o'clock in the ifternoon and killed fifteen people md injured a score. GERMAN MENACE REAL. J fteld Marshal Lord Roberts Startles House of Lords With His Words. I ' London.?Speaking in the House of jords, Field Marshal Lord Roberts 0 ixpressed .the conviction that the lack ]j if a military force sufficient to make 1 lopeless the attempt of an Invasion Jj rould in all probability be the cause 1 if the loss of Great Britain's suprem- 1 .cy at sea. In a studied speech he <. ointed out the comparative tease with s rtiich Germany could land an army oIiawao Af Pn trl onH TTnHor th A T 'U bUC ouuioa Vi juugtnuut MWW* V-W iresent conditions England would be c orced, he said, to submit to most ' lumlllatlng demands. He disclaimed all hostility to or ^ ear of Germany, but he declared that j he defense of the Islands required mmediate attention. There should I >e an army so strong in numbers and 1 fflcient In quality that the most for- I aidable of foreign nations would hestate to make a landing In England. j ENGLAND PANICKV OVER INDIA. ) f. / < fative Hatred.Intense?Drastic Pow- \ ers For Suppression of Outrage. ? London.?The daily records of vlo- t ence and seditious acts in India have j ong shown that the unrest there is ncreasing rather than abating. The iptnion ^s becoming general here that * he situation is more serious than is [ ifficially admitted. One of the latest Indications that 6 be trouble is growing is the sudden A letermination of the Viceroy, the 1 Jarl of Minto, to cut short a tour that , ie is making in the provinces. He las resolved to return to Calcutta en days earner tnan ne intenaea. Some of the newspapers here are ailing for sterner methods hi reiressing sedition, which, in one opinon, signifies a revival of race hatred uch as has not been shown since the lutiny. PRIEST SENT TO PRISON. "nlhcr Crocinta Gets Three Years For Participation in Murder. Rutland, Vt. ? The Rev. Francis Jrociata, a Sicilian priest, who was Dund guilty several days ago of asault in connection with the murder ist July of Accarito Santoro, was entenced in the Superior Court to ot less than three nor more than ve years in the House of Correction a this city. Getting Ready to Fortify Hawaii. United States engineers under Maor Winslow have begun the work of ortifying the Hawaiian Islands. The rst task is to prepare military maps, 'he dredging of the. large drydock to e built at Pearl Harborand the deepning of the channel will begin soon. MR. ROOSEVELT'S LECTURE. I Lccepts an Invitation of the Royal J oeograpiucai outiety. London.?President Roosevelt has i ccepted the invitation of the prpsi- ] lent of the Royal Geographical Soietv to deliver an address before the t ociety on his visit to London about ipril, 1910. The subject of his ad- j ] ress has not been determined, but it | , robably will deal with his Impres- | j ions of his African tour. Women in Mir Day's News. ! k Miss Hilma Johnson defied death hreats and frightened off two bur- ' lars in New York City. Miss Clara Howard, an American J irl, has been chosen for a free schol- ] rship at Girton College, London. . Mrs. Louisa Balderman, sixty- < even, of New York City, proposed to , ohn D. Haight, fifty-three, her oarder, and was accepted. Five hundred young girl friends * scorted to the grave the body of ' 'ranees Grossman, a leader in charit- 1 ble endeavor and a political worker 1 i New York City. 1 Latest News ! ^ BY WIRE. I jett $18,000,000 Estate. ' Jt Chicago, 111. ? Edward, Ira and fli drs. Sarah Morris, executors of the fli istate of the late Nelson Morris, filed 11 m inventory in the Probate Court, fli ?he value of the estate was fixed at is ibout $18,000,000 at the, time the Kg vill was filed for probate. ^ Voman Dies at Church Fair. * fMnHnnntf . Mrs T> T.po n &?? ixty years, of South Carthage, a sub- |?| irb, was stricken with apoplexy while em n charge of d booth at a fair in St. 'eter's Episcopal Church, and died in Ml he booth before a physician reached aj Luto Driver Killed, Others Hurt. I:* Washington, D. C.?Noble Davi3, a Ifj hauffeur, was killed and several oth- as rs were injured by the overturning |?|j if an automobile near Hyattsville, uj 'Ian Huge Auditorium. Washington, D. C.?A great audiorium for the use of national convenions and for the holding of inaugu- J al balls and other large functions,vis Cit o be constructed in Washington if ! he plans of a committee of well :nown men are carried out. ^ be Unnders Kills a Physician. . Chicago: ? Death from glanders, on are in a human being, overtook Dr. . ^ 'homas M. Wilson, of Atwood, Onta- JJj-] lo, at the Presbyterian Hospital, in his city. . Dr. Wilson absorbed the all ;erm of the disease while conducting ] xperiments at Rushwell College. Do rei 'rands May Total $2,000,000. % ha SO] Chicago. ? Further developments i n the real estate frauds of Peter yan \ Hissengen indicate that the total a? mount obtained through his forger- 8U! es will total $2,000,000, instead of j"" 700,000. The Blatz estate may lose te* 1200,000. Van Vlissengen was taken I fliA ziAiin + r -till frt TnHof fn ATI* I aim 1 UU1 LUC WUUVJ J U*1 bv W1IV w vw VM vr? er upon his sentence, fears being en- Pe ertained that he might attempt sui- ??l ide. 1 ' ~ t , nidation Breaks Leg. Lincoln, Neb,?Governor-elect A- of \ Shallenberger is confined to hia _ oom at the Lincoln Hotel with a ^ ractured leg. He was injured while fei >eing initiated as a member of the ihriners. to - ,, " it Che Emmannel Movement. New York City. ? The first of a ie. ourse of lectures on the principles, jn nethods and results of the Emmantel Movement, which have been arahged for in accordance with the re- tu [uest of a number of clergymen of his city, was delivered at Mendcls- eo ohn Hall by the.Rev. E. Wood Wxirester, D. D. fertilizer Merger. % . New York City.?Representatives 5? if many fertilizer companies, princltally of the South, met here to per- an ect plans for the merger of the com- ch >anies into a concern with $25,000,- ch i00 preferred and $25,000,000 comQon stock. j ' ^ >3,000,000 a Month For Canal. *r' Washington,* D. C.?Construction rork on the Panama Canal is now * osting the Government about $3,- ba >00,000 a month. f - i I BY CABLE. | L===============S===J th vaiser Effacing Himself. v? Berlin.?The Kaiser has apparenty begun his self-effacement disci- 10 jline. He excused himself from his ne iustomary attendance at the annual bi neeting of the Association of Marine, on Architects, which he has invariably ,ro ittended and dominated, pleading ex- ar remely urgent business. luler of Trade Navy of 112 Ships. ln London.?Sir John Ellerman, con- ^ rolling owner of the Ellerman, City- W( _j tt.ii rt+hof otpnmshin I 0D inu nan UUCO auu vwvi , onnage, has acquired control of the in >ntire Bucknall fleet of twenty-eight hi essels, giving him 112 steamers, f0 vith'a total of 430,000 tons. ^ 'enny Post Shows Quick Result. te' London.?The Postmaster-General ^' mnounced that the weight of mail natter from the United Kingdom to he United States in the month of Oc? ober increased twenty-seven per :ent. under the penny post, as com- to )ared with that in September. " m< lid kloro Revolt in Luzon. Manila, P. I.?Several hundred rit varlike Moros have gathered near . Halabang. A column of five *v> 1 janies of infantry, with a couple or ca: juns, has been sent out to make a econnoissance. It is hoped that after i parley the Moros will disband ^ jeacefully. ju }ueen Wilhelmina Expectant. thi The Hague.?In view of the fact hat an interesting event is expected lext spring, Queen Wilhelmina has )een forbidden by her physicians to told her customary private audiences. rhis precautionary measure is to , tvoid fatigue. Jervia Withdraws Guards. th< Belgrade.?The Servian Govern- to nent has withdrawn its special miliary guards on the Austro-Hungarian ha rontier and discharged the reserves wa ecently called to the colors. Ile U1 Target Records Broken. j Manila, P. I.?It is unofficially anlounced that the battleship Nebraska luring the target practice now in ret )rogress broke all recorfis established jy any navy in the world for marks- lor nanship with her twelve-inch guns, in sci Reorganizing Capuchins. Gr Lemans, France.?The police have { im seized evidence from five houses here jroving that there is a movement on f0, toot to reorganize a Capuchin mon- he, istery in the neighborhood which has - ' )een closed for some time. _ or special Rate For Jews. "? St. Petersburg.?The newspapers * )f St. Petersburg announced the in- "a ititution of a special railroad passen- we *er traffic for Jews emigrating to \merica or other countries not in an lurope as laborers. This new fare is bo ipproximately half the existing third -vy, :lass rate. Qr Montenegro Arming. Vienna.-r-A telegram from Cattaro Cr states that arms and ammunition are! W jeing distributed to the entire male population of Montenegro and that ne :he Montenegrin frontier is studded ^ ,vith sentries. | MR. WM. F. VAHLBERG. ur. wunam a. vuniuerg, uiiianom* ty, Okla., write*: j . / ' 'One bottle of Pcruria which 1 ,bare ten did more toward relieving me of an rravatted case of catarrh, of the stonin than years of treatment #ith, the ,V st physicians. '1 had given up hopes of relief, and ly tried Peruna as a last resort. 'I shall continue using it. as ] feel -sat- ' ed it will effect an entire and perinent cure. ,. '1 moat cheerfully recommend Penma'to who may read this.'' , Peruna is usually taken as a last resort. ictora frave been tried and failed. Other nedies have been used. 'Sanitariums ve been visited. Travel baa been re- / , ted to. U last Peruna is tried. Relief a found. < L'his historv as repeated over, and ov$r, . lin, evenr dav in the year. it la such retts as tnis this .give Peruna ita unsalable hold upon the people. We could r nothing that would ada force to such timoniafs as the above. That people o have had catarrh and have tried sry other remedy available, find relief in runa, constitutes the best argument that ild be made. ? Opening the Season. < It was the first night performance ^ the season, and at the end of the st act a man leaped hurriedly to his Bt. "I heard an alarm of fire," he said his wife. "I must go and see where is." It happened that her hearing was js acute, and she made way for him silence as-he disappeared, i ( "It wasn't fire," he saicf on his rem. ' "Nor water, either," said his wife , ' Idly.?New England Grocer. - Indian Babies Don't Cry. "Affection for children is an Indian aracter," says Dr. Charles S. jody, of Idaho. "I have never seen Indian mother or father punish a ild, nor have I ever seen an Indian ild cry. An Indian child iever sobs len hurt. Just an extra snap of e bright black eyes and a slight awn is all to indicate td the obser- . . r that the little fellow is suffering. . have never heard even an Indian ; by cry." The Ideal Short and Tall Woman. ' ,1 There is no longer a perfect type of jman, such as the Greeks admifed.' lere is the ideal short woman and e ideal tall woman, but they are ry different. Artists say that the ort woman should measure as folws: Height, five feet four Inches; ck, twelve and one-half inchfee; i ist, thirty-six inches; waist, twenty- ( *? Mno thlrtv-flfivon inches: lO 1UV/UV/U y U4J/W, ? v ~ # , und the largest part of the foremf below the elbow, eleven Inches, tklch should gradually taper to six ches around the wrist. Here are e proportions of the correct tall jman: Height, five feet eight and 1 ie-half Inches; bust, thirty-six ches; waist, twenty-five inches;: ps, forty-two inches; top of arm, urteen inches; wrist, six inches; ( igh, twenty^two inches; calf, four* en inches; ankle, nine inches.? V. jw York World. ^ For Snapshots. An album of brown paper in which stick all one's photographs is & jst useful thing. A friend of mine s one?merely sheets of brown par tied together at the back with >bon ties, and with tiny slits into1 lich the corners of the photographs a be fixed.?Home Chat. ? ^ Gas engines are rapidly replacing 2 steam engine in smaller factories, ey give twice as much power for 3 same quantity of fuel. NEW LiFE Found In Change to Right Food. __ ' After one suffers from' acid dyspepsonr stomach, for months and an finds the remedy is in getting i right kind of food, it is something speak out about. A N. Y. lady and her young son d such an experience, and she ,nts others to know how to get ref. She writes: "For about fifteen months my Htboy and myself had suffered with jr stomach. We were unable to ;ain much of anything we ate. "After suffering in this way for so lg I decided to consult a specialist stomaca diseases, instead 01 pre lbing drugs, he put us both on ape-Nuts, and we began to Improve mediately. j "It was the key to a new life, I and we had been eating too much avy food which we could not digest. a few weeks after commencing ape-Nuts I was able to do my T watro in tho mnrnlnP UaCWWI A, A V?V -.-o th a clear head and feel rested and ve no sour stomach. My boy sleeps 11 and wakes t^ith a laugh. "We have regained our lost weight d continue to eat Grape-Nuts for th the morning and evening meals, e are well and happy and owe it to ape-Nuts." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle eek, Mich. Read "The Road to ellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A. w one appears from time to time, ley are genuine, true, and full oI man Interest. . /