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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.
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BACKACHE IS KIDNEYACHE. po
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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.
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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, 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
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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.
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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. Fovd, fl
1938 Lansdowne St, Baltimore, Mi ;
The most successful remedy in this I
country for the core of all forms of "**
female complaints is Lydia E. Pint Q
ham's Vegetable Compound. It'has A
stood the test of years and to-day is ,, I
more widely and successfully used thaa .
any other female remedy, it has cured I
thousands of women who have been I
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that bearing-down feeing, flatulency,
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have given Lydia E. Pinknam'* Vege- >
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If you would like special advice
write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn.
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PILES
H I La Ei^r 53d* 9s? M
' Book tent br mad
FREE.
RE A CO.. DEPT. 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. She writes:
"I had been a coffee drinker nearly
I all my life and it affected my stomach
| ?caused insomnia, and I was seldom
without a headache. 1 had heard
i about Postum and how beneficial it
! was, so concluded to quit coffee and
1 " 1
) uy 11.
"I was delighted with the change.
! I can now sleep well and seldom ever
; have headache. My stomach has got- v
j ten strong, and I can eat without sufi
fering afterwards. 1 think my whole
system greatly benefited by Postum.
"My brother also suffered from
stomach trouble while he drank coffee,
but now, since using Postum he
feels so much better he would not go
back to coffee for anything."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new -cm*
one appears from time to time. They
arc genuine, true, and full of humaa
interest.
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