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(f =3v PI * If You Want the 111 BEST COUGH CURE you will ask for Kempis Balsam " ?.nd if you get it you will have a remedy for coughs PI that will be satisfactory in ever}* respect. If you accept jsoinething else we do not El know what you will get, but it will not be the Best Cough < Cure. At all druggists', 25c., 50c. and $1. m< ^ Don't accept anything else. th . ? CQ Stamps up to the denomination of $500 p have been issued by the Government of Victoria, Australia. ga IN AGONY WITH ECZEMA. ^ Whole Body a Mass of Raw, Bleeding, a Torturing Humor ? Hoped Death ch Would End Fearful Suffering? en In Despair: Cured by Cuticura. ^ ""Words cannot describe the terrible eczema I suffered with. It broke out on my ^ head and kept spreading until it covered . . my whole body. 1 was almost a solid mass of sores from head to foot. I looked more . like a piece of raw beef than a human being. The pain and agony 1 endured seemed more i, than J could bear. Blood and pus oozed from the great sore on my scalp, from un- ^ der my finger nails, and nearly all over my ? body. My ears were so crusted and swollen I was afraid they would break off. Every es hair in my head fell out. I could not sit ca down, for my clothes would stick to the raw and bleeding flesh, making me cry out on from the pain. My family doctor did all at' he could, but I got worse and worse. My Pr condition was awful. 1 did not think I ca could live, and wanted death to come'and le? end my frightful sufferings. tr' "In this condition my mother-in-law on begged me to try the Cuticura Remedies, ak I said I would, but had no hope of recov- an ery. But oh, what blessed relief I experi- so enced after applying Cuticura Ointment. It uu cooled the bleeding and itching flesh and fo brought me the first real sleep I had ha<J in fr< weeks. It was as grateful as ice to a burn- co ing tongue. I would bathe with warm Cc or?,4 fWJmira Snnn thpn nnnlv the p]l Ointment freely. I also took Cuticura Re- tic solvent for the blood. In a short time the \ sores stopped running, the flesh began to Cc heal, and I knew I was to get well again, at Then the hair on my head began to grow, sh y and in a short time I was completely cured. ca I wish I could tell everybody who has eo jsi zema to use Cuticura. Mrs. Wm. Hunt, 135 be Thomas St., Newark, N. J., Sept. 28, 1908." pr Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props. ^ of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass. Little Charlie, a six-year-old, heard blJ a man practicing on the calliope pre- J"? paratory to playing it in the circus in' parade. Rushing to his father, he be said: "Listen, papa," "What is it?" ch asked his father. "It's de elephant in singing," said Charlie. Gi BACKACHE IS KIDNEYACHE. po ? de Usually There Are Other Sypmtoms co GV to Prove It. ty -Pain in the back is pain in the kid- is neys, in most cases, and it points to ire jffjv the need of a spe- "s (p*j[ cial remedy to relieve and cure the ,r? congestion or in- so iKHfliln flammation of the as kidneys that is in- da yilw terfering with their mi work and causing m; ^FtTvm makes y?u say: HAlV /' Henry Gullatt, of ?j t3jL says: "Two years (j, AP ago kidney disease c fastened itself on me. I had awful dizzy spells, headache and urinary ir. regularities. My back was weak and ^ tender. I began using Doan's Kid- " ney Pills and found quick relief. I j-0 was soon restored to complete good Ve health." s>d Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Se P'oster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ?ri ini The Japanese government has de- wl cided to transfer its five sawmills to Cs private companies, although the revenue from them for 1907-'08 is es- .. tinted at over a million dollars. | ^ How's This? | We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward i W lor any case of Catarrh that cannot be Lj cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. rv F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Tf We, the undersigned, have known F. J. . ' Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business Pi transactions and financially able to carry I ga out any obligations made by his firm. Di Walding, Kin nan & Marvin, Whole- so sale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure istakeninternally.act- j ingdirectly upon the blood and mucuoussur- I faces of the system. Testimonials 6ent tree, j Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. I Ni Take Hajl's Family Pills for constipation. ? A Simple Calculation. "Let me see," muses the man, "my wife told me to be sure to meet her an at the main entrance of Silx & Nosh- g, uns at 10 o'clock, as she would take al the car from home at 9.30 sharp and wj be at the store just at 10. So I won't he need to be there until 11 or later." "But," says the unmarried friend, "won't she be disappointed?" "Not a bit. I know she will be half an hour late catching her car and th that she will allow another half hour to for me -to be late keeping the appoint- th ment."--Chicago Post. Nnt- Rmrti The little Swede boy presented himself before his new schoolma'am. , "What is your name?" asked the mistress. "Yonny Olsen," he replied. al< "How old are you?" pursued the tai } teacher. "Ay not know how old Ay bane." aj "Well, when were you born?" con- to tinued the teacher. th "Ay not born at all; Ay got step- se mother."?London Answers. in! i Respectfully Declined. j Uncle Zebulon was on a visit to hi3 nephew in the big city, and the two be had gone to a restaurant for dinner, eli They had given their order and were m' waiting for it to be filled when the fa t V* younger man, who had been glancing at a paper that lay on te table, said: "By the way, uncle, did you ever have cerebro-spinal meningitis?" "No," replied Uncle Zebulon, after a few moments' mental struggle with pr the question, "and I don't want any. bu I'd rather have fried liver and bacon ca any day." ' ab [PORT ON PANAMA i IS SENT TO CONGRESS * tack on Lock Type Impedes Building Any Canal. j .ANS AND WORK APPROVED lgineers Estimate Canal Cost at $360,000,000?Roosevelt Lowers J* Gatun Dam Twenty Feet?Ho F Says It Was Needlessly Stror.g. si tl Washington, D. C.?In his special q sssage to Congress, accompanying e report of the engineers who rently visited the Panama Canal in mpany with President-elect Taft, .. esident Roosevelt threw down the untlet to those Senators who reaten to reopen the entire canal ni estion and advocate the digging ot w /]. sea-level ditch. The President deired that any criticism on the pres- } t lock plan is "really an attack on 01 e policy of building any canal at ta I." He added that any change in gi e system would be "an inexcusable fl: My." The recommendation of tho pi gineers unequivocally indorses the ;k canal. It disposes of all the w mors as to the stability of the SI itun dam by declaring that struc- a re to be entirely safe and capable t\ withstanding all strains to which a may be exposed. The engineers T< timate that the complete cost of the fc nal will aggregate $360,000,000. p] The President's message touches hi i all these points and then excori- w es those who have ventured to ex- b< ess their belief that a sea-level nal is the only feasible system. The p ider of these critics is Senator Kit- tc jdge, chairman of the Committee li Interoceanic Canals. Senator For- tc :er also is allied with Mr. Kittridge, d it is declared that the only rea- pj n why a vigorous fight has not been th idertaken by these two Senators is m und in the fact that both retire- bi am public life March 4, and the si ngested condition of legislation in tt mgress at the present time prejdes any consideration of the ques- cc >n before that date. ri "I commend to you," he says to hi mgress, "the most careful consider- w ion of the report. The engineer? w ow that the only criticism which te n be made of the work on the 01 thmus is that there has sometimes w en almost an excess of caution in oviding against possible trouble. } to the Gatun dam itself, they ow that not only is the dam safe, g, it that on the whole the plan alady adopted would make it* needssly high and strong, and accordgly they recommend that the height vi reduced bv twenty feet, which | ei ange in the plans I have accord- C gly directed." el The engineers report that, as the pi itun earth dam was the central a int of discussion, they gave it, un- tc r instructions from Mr. Taft, "first ei nsideration in the light of all new h< idence," and they add that "the pe of dam now under construction'' J< one which meets with their "unan- J< ious approval." They say they are tc atisfied .that there will be no dan- di rous or objectionable seepage pi rough the materials under the base ii the dam, nor are these materials Is soft as to be liable to be pushed tc ide by the weight of the proposed p m so as to cause dangerous settle- te snt. We are also satisfied that the p; aterials available which it is prosed to use are suitable and can be Je adily placed to form a tight, stable n d permanent dam." gi b; HTORS INDICTED FOR LIBEL, tl and Jury at Washington, D. C., , barges Joseph Pulitzer and Others. Washington, D. C.?The Federal ^ and Jury returned indictments ainst the Press Publishing Comny of New York (the World) and , seph Pulitzer, owner; Caleb N. ^ in Hamm, and Robert H. Lyman, q itors of that paper, and Delavan g] aith and Charles R. Williams, own3 of the Indianapolis News, charg- j g libel in publications in connection th the purchase of the Panama fl, LLlcLl uy LUC UUIICU Olttics uufCiu- a tnt. The indictment against the pub- g! her,fl of the Indianapolis News ^ arges Smith and Williams with tho xj ime of libel in seven counts, and jt at directed against the New York , orld charges Pulitzer, Van Hamm, x, man, and the Press Publishing . impany with libel in five counts. p le persons alleged to have been ? >elled in the published stories are esideqt Roosevelt, J. Pierpont Morin, Charles P. Taft, Elihu Root, )uglas Robinson and William Nel- P n Cromwell. j INDIAN CHIEF SHOOTS TWO. | nety'-Year-Old John Hndson Takes Warpath on Shinnccock Reservation. ^ Southampton, L. I.?John Hudson, p ninety-year-old Shinnecock Indian, e ?nt on a rampage, murdered a worn- 0 i, shot an old Indian named Nelson p inn and held a Sheriff's posse and k I the reservation Indians at bay :th a shotgun for two hours before t< ! was captured. h The murdered woman was Mrs. jnrietta Eleazor, who kept house for e nonagenarian Shinnecock on a .tie farm he owned on the reserva>n. Some time ago Hudson gave .. e farm and the small house on It the woman and her daughter, with ? e understanding that they should 12 ep him comfortable. " 5 d KILLS GIRL IN TAXICAB. ?, E >ung Telephone Inspector Ends * Night Ride With Double Crime. Reading, Pa. ? While speeding ^ ang in a taxicab here, Stella Rock- ^ shel, eighteen years old, was shot ^ d killed, and her companion, ^ sorgc E. Kraut, twenty years old, ter directing the chauffeur to hurry 0 a hospital, turned the revolver t] at killed the girl upon himself and nt a bullet into his heart, dying ^ stantly. b ixxra congress session luurcu 10. i The extra session of Congress will convened on March 15. President3ct Taft authorized the announce- j, ent. Discussion as to the time for ' Uing the extra session was had be een Mr. Taft, Senators Hale and aox and Speaker Cannon. Bulge in Oats. Market conditions, existent and ospective, seem to be shaping for a p ilge in the price of oats. In Chigo the stock of oats is inconsider- t, le. Current receipts are light. 2 IE HIS LIFE FOB MOTHER'! rave Act of Assistant Chief ai Fire in Milwaukee. ames Gunning Risked Certain Deatl to Save Captain Shieds, Who Had Recovered From Pneumonia. Milwaukee, Wis.?Giving his lift >r a subordinate, Assistant Chie lines Gunning, of the Milwaukei ire Department, heads the list o x who perished in a $200,000 fire a ie city plant of the Johns-Manvilli ompany. Of .the dead five are fire len, the Sixth being a Greek labore: ho saw the explosion of the barre C varnish which started the fire. O ie ten injured eight are firemen, anc iree of the injured cannot live. Unusual features marked the fira at the least being the manner ii hich Chief Gunning went to hii 2ath. Chief Gunning a moment be >re the wall crashed in, carrying Dwn two engine companies working i an adjoining roof, ordered (Jap tin William Shields to go to th( round because Shields was on his rst tour of duty after an attack ol aeumonia. Shields refused to take duty elsehere, but Gunning insisted, and af tilelds reached the ground the crast Line which carried Gunning and th( vo companies through the roof o! four-story building to .the ground d recover the bodies it was necessarj >r men with ropes to go down into a It of fire through a narrow hole and over hand down a rope, whict as used to hoist out of the pit th( idles of the dead and dying. The wives of Chief Gunning and ol ipeman Crafts went .to the hospital i see their husbands, supposedly stil ving. Both women fainted wher >ld of the death of the two firemen The head nurse at Emergency Hosital almost fainted when she lifted ie covering from .the head of Pipean Jack McKee and recognized hei rother-in-law. She telephoned hei ster, then went on about her wori iroughout the long afternoon. It was not known that the twc )mpanies had perished under th( lias until Pipeman Nimmer, witt Is back broken, climbed in delirium ith his body dragging below hh aist, out of the debris where six !en comrades lay helpless. He coulc lly beg for help for the others. He as fatally hurt. asMissiis UISJI uin LAiiun. aprcmc Court Holds Unions Musi Pay For Guards Against Boycott. White Plains, N. Y.?A decision o ist importance to labor unions anc uployers was filed by' Suprenu ourt Justice Mills here. It is, ii feet, that labor organizations whicl icket a factory and try to maintaii boycott, thereby forcing the ownei > employ guards to protect his prop *ty, must pay him for the expens< i incurs. The case involved was brought b: )seph W. Jones., president of th< jnes Speedometer Company, anc 10k two weeks to try. The suit wai irected against George M. Maher resident of one of the lodges of th< iternational Association of Machin ts, which called a strike in his fac try in1 New Rochelle in March, 1907 lcketing was resorted to and an at impt was made to boycott the com my's product. In May, 1907, Jones applied for ai ijunction and also brought suit t< ;cover the money he had paid t< aards and for other expenses causet y the strike. The damages due ii le case are placed at $3847. CHARGED WITH JURY FIXING. /arrant** For Ten Men Have Beei Issued in Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa.?Another most sen itional graft chapter has been adde< ) Pittsburg's history. Two men harles Cotbert and Johtf, his broth r, are in jail and warrants for tei thers ar,e in the. hands of officers, al larged with embracery. District Attorney William Blakel; ad George Waggoner, chief of th< lleeheny County detectives, say on< f the most extensive schemes at jur; xing in the history of the countr: as been uncovered. It is chargei lat twelve men have been busy try lg to buy up the entire panel of ven emen who are to report soon. Fror leir number a jury is to be chosei ) try Councilman John Klein, o ittsburg, and A. A. Vilsack am /illiam Ramsey, the bankers, whi re charged with grafting. LAXTERS IN DUEL; ONE DEAD ustiflable Homicide the Verdict o Jury Which Exonerates Slayer. Pensacola, Fla.?A duel with re olvers in a crowded restaurant wa itnessed at Milton, Fla., whenFranl leming and Robert Pinton, promin nt planters, met to settle a ,grudg f long standing. The aim of Pinto: roved the better, and Fleming wa illed. A Coroner's jury exonerated Pin jn, rendering a verdict of j^ustifiabl omicide. Great Waste of Valentines. Half a million extra pieces of ma) re credited to devotees of St. Vaien i i / t\ n \ iliu uy UltJ VV iiailiugluu V J-r. \J.I yuc fflce officials this year. By far th irger number of the missives ar ost cards, mahy improperly ad ressed or without postage. IVERY ONE VOTES IN SWEDES fniversal Suffrage Measure Passe Both Houses by Good Majorities. Str^khnlm Sweden.?Both cham ers of the Swedish Diet passed th ill providing for universal suffrag( rlth proportional representation i tie Parliament. All the inhabitants of the countr ver twenty-four years of age are en [tied to vote. The bill passed the first chambe y a vote of 12 0 to 98 and the secon y 134 to 94. Girl Pleads Guilty of Killing. Agnes Brady, of Leadville, Col ighteen years old, daughter of th xte Paddy Brady, the pugilist, wh hot and killed Samuel A. Davis, line owner, some time ago. pleade uilty to involuntary manslaughte nd was sentenced to one day in jai: Wife For a King. King Alfonso ended his visit i 'ortugal, the object of which was t ommend to King Manuel as a wlf he Spanish Queen's cousin, Princes leatrice of Coburg. ?Cartoon by C. ] Women Attacked r? _r n- TT??? , j ocnes uj. imcs u pun inuu 5 More Than One "Ripper' c Pleasure of Pain, Not M i Knives in Broac i Neglecting P; r ' Berlin, Germany.?The newest de\ generacy, displayed in unprovoked . and cruel attacks upon virtuous and ; unoffenslve women, continues to manL ifest itself here. 11 Over twenty-five such outrages * have been committted. There seems to be more than one decadent, such as "Jack" this and "Jack" that, who j committed wanton and inexplicable assaults against women in other capi,* tals. without taking booty; without : seeking, apparently, anything but the gratification of a semi-maniacal impulse. Five attacks made upon women in the eastern suburbs brought the day's total up to seven and the aggregate fc to twenty-five since the beginning of these vicious assaults. f One woman was seriously wound. ed. The others' injuries were slight. s It seems enough for .their assailants J to cause them to sufTer pain. x Many persons, most of them wornj en, declare they have seen the mysterious assailant, but, as he turned to the injured woman, he escaped. The " description of these witnesses agree to a certain extent'. So the police might theorize that one man is guilty of all the attacks. But many wit. nesses swear that three men simultaneously attacked one girl, a servant, in the street. One with a sharp ' knife stabbed her in the abdomen, then the three ran away without even " attempting to take the bundles or the purse the girl carried. ' The police have doubled the pa' troi in the streets, and are watching particularly women of whatever character who walk out, unaccompanied, day or night. A merchant's wife, a staid woman , of irreproachable character, was walking in a street in the southern part of the city. She had not the slightest warning from her assailant, who approached her from behind, 'aced her and struck at her with a knife. The hand she raised in de1 fense was wounded and then the man stabbed her in the thigh and fled. Five women of the working class " were wounded in the city and in the * suburbs, two were seriously hurt. ? The first attack occurred in the Mo" abite quarter at 9 o'clock in the1 * morning in the open street. The as1 sailant stabbed his victim in the upper arm. Another woman was Y Wounded in the thigh during the foree noon in the northern section of the 9 i sity. A girl was attacked at 3 p. m. ^ In the eastern section. She warded I rff the blow with her hand, which * was wounded. j In the evening one of these deca* jlents attacked a butcher's wife in the a & y //-M T T 19/ i buiciaeijeague ai o One Man With Revolver-Hunts ? Room?Correspondent t 1 Taken to g London.?The Daily Mail's St. [j Petersburg correspondent declares . that neurasthenia is claiming an ever Increasing number of victims in all q i;eclions of St. Petersburg society and g throughout Russia in general. A surprising number of people, j. tired of life, seek death by various e methods. Persons of fashionable so| ciety journey to Finland and fling | themselves into the romantic Imatra Rapids. Strange clubs and societies are in existence. One of these is ' styled "Tiger and Hunter." Two " members draw lots to decide who I '' shall be the tiger and who the hunter. e A silver bell is hung around the e tiger's neck, and the hunter is given a * loaded revolver. Both enter large I r Kansas Legislator Would Mulct Bachelors After 45 Years Old. g j Topeka, Kan.?Kansas bachelors over forty-five years of age may be j taxed $25 a year. A bill to this effect j l" was introduced by Representative e Cron, and it was immediately ad-( l' vanced on the calendar. D A telegram sent to President Roosevelt by its author says that when a y bachelor reaches the age of forty-five L" there is no hope of his getting married and that he ought to be heavily ' : taxed as a penalty for not raising a d family. The World of Sport. Now that Matty Mclntyre has signed his contract, the Detroit oute field is all in line. 0 Jem Driccoll has made more than a $10,000 out of boxing bouts since his d arrival here last fall. ,r Frank V. Goodman, who coached * tne uoiumoia Daseuau nine last year, has been reengaged for the coming season. McGuire will be Manager Lajoie's n right-hand man next season. He will 0 relieve Larry of the duties attending e the overlooking of the catching and ;s pitching staff. El. Macauley, in the New York World. by Berlin Slashers L isive Females Seems to Prove ' is About?Seem to Seek oney?Cut Them With i Daylight, Flee, Dssible Booty. suburb of Hohenschoenhausen, bu the blade broke against the steels o her corsets. The assailant then bea his victim to unconsciousness. Sh< was founa half an hour later and tak en to a hospital, Later in the evening the wife o another butcher was wounded in th< thigh, this in the eastern section o: the city. In each Instance the assailant, whc seems to wear silent shoes, ap proaches his victim without arousinj suspicion, delivers his attack sudden ly and then flees. The people of the laboring quar ters of the city are muth excited ovei the frequent assaults. The streeti are deserted at night by the female! %rho frequent them usually. The po lice, whose watchfulness is high keyed, are nonplussed. v Many more arrests ha?e beei mat^e, but all the prisoners were abl( to prove their innocenfce. Some however, first suffered from the fur] of the imaginative crowds. A drun ken man who opened his pocket knift and flourished it was nearly killed. Some cases have occurred of worn en who have cut their own clothinf and pricked themselves for the pur - - 1 X -1.4,.^- X# nnUII, pose 01 uecuwmg uujctia ui yuu??> interest and sympathy. Whether th< list of twenty-six victims includes an] of these is not clear. The Idea original^ held .that somi maniacal Jack the Ripper was the au thor of the attacks has been aban doned. It is believed that the imou nity of the perpetrator of the earlie: outrages has encouraged sundr: toughs to imitate him. This theory if possible, increases the alarm, whicl in some districts has become a panic The police, whose very consider able efTorts have hitherto failed t( stop the crimes, have enlisted the air of the House Owners' Association This has been willingly given, and ii addition to the concierges of apart ment houses, who have been in structed to keep a close watch for at tacks on women, special watchmen have been employed to guard th< houses and patrol the streets. The police have also asked trolle: men, firemen, letter carriers and oth ers whose work lies in the streets, t: act as special constables. Further more, they have issued an appeal t< women of all classes to keep theii presence of mind in the event of ai attack being made on them, and t< try to insure the capture of the crim inal. The general public are urged if they witness an assault, to de^ot< their endeavors to catching the as -sailant rather than to hanging arounc the .victim. ^ T7L- J j-rewsome n*piuemu ? Another With a Bell in a Dart Tells of Strange Means End Lives. darkened rooms and the spectator! take refuge in safe corners. The hunt begins. The hunter'! eyes are bound. He is allowed si: shots, guided by the sound of thi bell. If he fails to hit the tiger, th< roles are reversed, and the hunter be comes the tiger. This continues unti blood flows. Another society has "champagn< evenings," where one among twentj bottles is drugged with morphia Sometimes in a single night there ar< numerous secret suicides, for whicl there is no plausible explanation, giv ing rise, says the Mall's correspond ent, to the suspicion that the victim! belong to the same league of self-de I sirucuou. Body of 8-Year-OId Girl Shows 28 Knife Wounds, Besides Barns Marseilles, France.?The discover: of a crime recalling a case which oc curred in Paris in 1907 has caused i sensation here. The body of an eight-year-old girl torn by twenty-eight knife wound! and further mutilated by burns, ha: been found in a populous quarter o! the city. A man who had been living with the girl's mother, who is a widow, ha: been arrested. He proclaimed his innocence. About Noted People. Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania says a silk hat is a "hoodoo" to him The death of Benoit Constant Coquelin in Paris removes from the French stage its greatest figure. Thomas F. Ryan, the financier finds his health broken down at fifty <5f>vr>ri nnri will nractioallv retire t( live the simple life. Italy decided to confer the honor o! Roman citizenship on Presiden Roosevelt in recognition of America's relief work among the earthquake sufferers, according to a special cabl< disDatch from Rome. 1300 LIVES IE LOST J II MM FIRE Film Starts Blaze at Entertainmenttin Acapuico. FESTIVAL FOR A GOVERNOR Roasted Bodies of the Pcnncd-In Audience Buried in TrenchesWooden Building Entirely Destroyed. Mexico City.?Between 250 and 300 persons were burned to death and many injured in a fire whi,ch destroyed the Florcs Theatre in the City of Acapuico. *:The Flores Theatre was a wooden structure and more than 1000 persons crowded it to witness a special performance given in honor of Governor Damian Flores, of the State of Guerrero, who was visiting the city. One of the numbers of the program consisted of a series of moving pictures. While the operator was exhibiting these a. film caught fire and a blaze was quickly communicated to some bunting which had been used , for decorative purposes. In ah incredibly short time the flames spread . to all parts of the structure. There were only three narrow exits and the panic-stricken audience rushed to them, many falling, to be crushed to death, their bodies choking the way to escape to others. The screams of those imprisoned were terrifying. Owing to the rapidity with which the fire spread and its intense heat it was impossible to attempt rescue work, and those imprisoned were literally roasted alive, as the fire burned with little smoke and few were suffocated, i The efforts of the fire department were confined to attempting to save the adjoinins J buildings, and they succeeded so that [ the property loss was small. The telegjaph office, postofflce and Custom House were damaged, but all of the Government's records and registered mail were saved. Pitiful scenes iof grief were en| acted in the streets of the little west 1 coast port. Men, women and children wandered from place to place, hunting for relatives or friends. Many, of the dead are from the first families of the State, the affair at the theatre tfeing a social event of Importance and calling out the wealthiest and oldest families for miles around. [ In some instances entire families ' were wiped out of existence. The 1 municipal authorities caused large trenches to be dug. and into these the bodies of the dead were laid. Ac' cording to telegrams received from there recognition of the head has = been an impossibility, owing to th% fact that the bodies were burned, in ' mo3t cases, to a crisp. I Telegrams sent to the American ; Consul at Acapulco asking for. the names of the American dead were not answered. ' Acapulco, on the west coast of the State of Guerrero, is one of the three : important ports of the Pacific coast of Mexico. Nearly all of the steamer ' lines make it a port of call, and the harbor is accounted the best in Mex 5 ico. BOY KILLED ESCAPING KISSES. ' Ink-Eraser in Vest Pocket Pierced His Heart. i New York City.?The bashfulness of George Spencer Millett, an office boy, caused his death in the MetroJ politan Life Building,at Twenty-third J street and Madison avenue. He didn't want to be kissed by half a i dozen pretty stenographers. In run ning away from them the lad stum bled and fell. A keen-bladed ink eraser that he had in his vest pocket i penetrated just below his heart. He i died a few minutes after an ambulance took him to the New York Host pital. Spencer, as they knew him at his i home, No. 425 Pleasant avenue, was fifteen years old. He had a present : or two in his pockets when he went t to the office, and announced, when 3 questioned about them, that it was ) his birthday. The girls threatened to kiss him once for every year of his . age. J - j SET ms WIFE ABLAZE. She Had Objected to Toolmaker's Attentions to a Woman Gnest. ? Port Chester, N. Y.?B.ecause hl3 ' wife objected to his attentions to a y^ung woman who was visiting her, Michael Hennessy, sixty years old, a : I toolmaker, poured kerosene over ner and set her aflre. Mrs. Hennessy v;as sent to the Smith Street Hospital and her husband put under arrest. Hennessy, who is a toolmaker bv trade, reached his home in East Willlam street, Port Chester, intoxicated. ; He found calling on his wife a young woman from New York, whose name : has not been disclosed. Hennessy, it t is alleged, at once began to make nd: vances to the young woman demite 3 the remonstrances of his wife And of . the visitor herself, j Knox Made Eligible. ; The House of Representatives, at ' Washington, D. C., refused to pass the bill reducing the salary Of the J Secretary of State from $12,000 to 1 58000, so as to remove the Consti tutional bar to the taking of that office by Senator Knox. Then, under 3 a special rule requiring only a ma jorlty vote, the bill was passed, 173 to 117. Party lines were broken. Gets 25 Years For Murder. Judge Ten Eyck, at Newark, NT. J., f sentenced to a term of twenty-five . years in the Trenton State Prison, i Vincenzo Buonvesba, who pleaded guilty of murder in the second degree. Buonvesba shot and killed his j son-in-law, Sabato D'Alisso, last Au4 gust, because D'Alisso had married [ his daughter against his will. Chinese School in 'Frisco. 1 A school will be established in San 5 Francisco. Cal., by the imperial Gov3 ernment for Chinese children in California. Newsy Paragraphs. Archbishop Farley said the stage was worse than in the days of pagant ism. J The French Riviera football team defeated a team from the American , warships. The Viceroy of Manchuria, fore) warned that he was to be removed, has resigned. I The Storthing, at Christiania, apt propriated $1S,000 to finance the ? Amundsen polar expedition. 1 Secretary Root offered his resigna' tion to the President, and Robert Bacon was nominated to succeed him. AFTER J FOURYEARS OF MISERY Cured by Lydia JB. Pink* I bain's Vegetable CompotHid, I Baltimore, Md. ? "For four years I my life was a misery to me. ^1 suffered new life had been J given me, and I am recommending it ,1 to all my friends."?Mrs. W. S. 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B. 4 MINNEAPOLIS, MINM. t Thompsoo's Eye Water Raising Money For Charity. From times immemorial in China a donation of 20,000 taels to .charit7 * has secured for the donor the much prized peacock'8 feather, while ior half that - sum a title of nobility Is conferred on one's ancestors to the > ; third generation. The late Emperor of Brazil followed the same method when erecting a hospital in Rio de Janeho. Having found difficulty in obtaining the necessary funds, he announced that the title of "baron" was to be conferred on every sub- i scriber of 100,000 milrels, and that of "count" on subscribers of 250,000 d milreis. This announcement produced the desired effect and the hospital was soon completed. The opening ceremony was performed by the Emperor and attended by a large < number of the newly ennobled, who did not altogether relish the words Inscribed in letters of gold on the gable of the new building: "Human I Vanity to Human Misery."?London Chronicle. A Spanish Commercial Float. A number of influential merchants ' of Barcelona have under contemplation the chartering of a large vessel ' , \ upon which theyintend to install an exposition of Spanish manufactures and Spanish agricultural products. This vessel is to make a ten months' I cruise, visiting the principal commer- . I cial ports of the world for the pur-j 1 pose 01 creating a icugei uciuauu lui Spanish, merchandise.?Daily Consular and Trade Reports. ?* ? Fred Big Wind, P. M. ' Representative Halvor Steenerson, , of Minnesota, recently made a recommendation for the appointment of a f rostmaster at Twin Lakes, Minn., which caused a laugh to roll from the seventh to the lower floor of the Postofflce Department. Mr. * Steenerson ___ proposed that Star Bad Boy, who has ^ been a "good" boy ever since he baa been a Federal postmaster, be succeeded for political reasons by Fred Big Wind.?Chicago News. A Cockroach Remedy. A housekeeper who was recommended to try cucumber peelings as a remedy for cockroaches strewed the floor with pieces of the peel cut not \ very thin and watched the sequel. The pests covered the peel in a short time so that it could not be seen, so voraciously were they engaged in [ sucking the poisonous moisture from I it. The second night that this was tried the number of cockroaches was reduced to a quarter and none were left on the third night.?Suburban Life. GOOD CHANGE Coffee to Postum. The large army of persons who have found relief from many chronic ailments by changing from coffee to Postum as a daily beverage, is growI ing each day. | It is only a simple question of tryI ing it for oneself in order to know the joy of returning health as realized by an Ills, young lady. 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