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FORT MILL TIMES. * ? VOL. XIII. FORT MILL, S.C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, li?Oi. NO. <>. LOSE A WAR VESSEL Japanese Suffer a Siiglit Set-Back to Their Hopes TORPEDO BOAT NO. 48 CUT IN TWO She Was Lost During a Series of Operations at Kerr Bay?The Japs Failed After Several Attempts to Blow Up a Mechanical Mine Which Later Exploded of Itself, Sinking Wo. 43. V >kio, Br Cable. -The Japanese tori 1 o boat No. 48. was destroyed while : -soring mines from ">rr Bay, n r;h < ' Talien Wan (Po.t Dalyn) Friday, j Seven men were killed and seven ! vounded. This is the first warship JaI ;.n has lost in the war. he torpedo boat was lost during a s' m of bombardments and surveying < < rations at Talien-Wan. Deep an I K rr bays by Admiral Katr.oka, torn- j n under of the third squadron. The ad- j r . al arrived at Kerr Ray early in the H oming and detached the cruiser ltukushinia. Nisliin and Myako, orderre: them to bombard tlie land batter- ; m while a flotilla of torpedo boats wept the harbor for mines. A second : >tilla of torpedo l>oats, which ha;l r>n engaged in guarding the previous night, joined the squadron and began ilie work of surveying the harbor. The Myalro discovered a company of Hessian infantry and a detachment of rivalry on shore and dispersed them. The survey was completed at " oYlork'ln the afternoon. The torpedo boats that were reconroitcring and removing m'nes in the . < st. shore of Kerr Hay discovered a olograph line running along the Ta1 Uhltnn peninsula. In order to destroy il Lieut. Hotta and four sailors landed . n.'l scaled the heights under the pro- j ' tlon of the guns of the torpedo boats :.rifl i \i* 1 lie line Tl>?? I ? . n discovered thro bodies of Rust-i troops. one large and two .small ,>s. upon which the .squadron advanced close to the shore and shelled 11' in. A Russian force estimated at ten tympanies, took refuse behind an emit.'-nce, but it was dispersed by the Jap>3e. Torpedo boats Nos. It and ? i diseov d a large mechanical mine in Kerr 1 Their various attempts to blow it i failed and it sad ' m>1; exploded it> cutting No. 4X : ..>?. Tj^e torpeboat >ank in seven minutes. The : ,'indron hurried boats to the rescue picked up th" wounde 1. Three oth mines were discovered end exploded e squadron complete.! its operations . (? o'clock in the evening and returnto'its base. Official Report. St. Petersburg. By t able.?Emperor N holas has received the following i ff trial dispatch from General Kurol tltin: At dawn May 11. the Japanese be". a to emerge from Feng-Wang-Cheng the laao Yang road. The advance :: ard marching towards Snelichen con- sted of a regiment of infantrv. four ns and a regiment of cavalry. Suelit hen was held by a troop of Cossacks . ting as a screen while the Chansilin i!< file was occupied i?> two sotnias. Two companies of Japanese inarched i n Chansilin and another company advanced on Suelichcn, turning our right dank. The C'ossrcks then retired, still heeping the enemy hack with their fire, ;>rst. upon the Fang-Tien defile and tin j illy towards the deflle in the neighborhood of the village of Ehumynzo, vhere they took up a position. "The captain of the sotnia, Dewahu. as wounded and two Cossacks were lilled. "ICuan Dian San < Kwan Tien Sien) v.as evaluated May Id h.v the enemy ...ml occupied by our Cossacks. "Rocounoisances failed to discover llio presence of the Japanese in the valley of the Tsacheo, 37 miles southwest. of Gaimadza. (Samntzi or SaiMah-Ki*> "On May 9th and 10th, the enemy's l. vonaeks were spen in the valley of ii.e river Cnsianheo. near the village Taindza. IS miles east of Kin-Yen and :v. Sedzkhedze. at the confluence of the Vayang and Sedzi rivers. On the mornng of May 10th. a Japanese infantry detachment, about 10.000 strong, with :rom r.t? to 80 guns, which concentrated j .i 8nli's7.aipudz. started towards Sin Yen. ___ The Next Cotton Crop. Washington, Special. The Department of Agriculture is making elaboiate arrangements for its report on the rragc and condition of the cotton rop on May 26. the condition of cotton .Tune 25. and for reports on other rop? for July niul June. A large num. " ar of correspondents will send in detailed reports on the cotton acreage and onriition on May 2fith. greatest care, specially for acreage, and to base their Tinion oxi inquiries as well as upon ' reservation and to avoid underestimatng or over-estimating th' year's crop. '! he acreage will be expressed in the fnrm of a percentage of Inst year's erreage. as in previous years. The cottan Hchedule for June 25 will l?e con tnidl solely with the condition of the cotton 'rop on that date. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION A Permanent Organization Effected? A Petition Asking the Southern and Northern Branches to Come Together in Behalf of the Negro Expected to Raise a Breeze. Nashville, Special.? When the Southern Baptist Convention was called to order at the Tabernacle by President James P. Eagle, 1,041! delegates were in their seats. The first business was the effecting of a permanent organization, and President Eagle was elected. The same lienor was -conferred upon Secretary Lansing Burrows and O. F. Gregory and on (5. W. Norton, treasurer. and W. P. Harvey, auditor. The vote on vice president was announced at tile afternoon session the fnllowinsr being chosen: John \V. Thomas, Nashville, Tenn., C. H. Willinghnm. Macon. CJa.; C. W. Stephens Columbia, Mo.; Robert C. lluckuer. Dallas, Tex. A petition introduced at the morning session by Virginia delegates may cause* a breeze in the convention. The ulterior object seems to be l'or Southern and Northern white liaptists to come together in tho work for the negro as well as to bring the Northern and Southern branches of the Church closer together. It is said, however, that there is h strong sentiment in the Convention opposed to the purpose of the Virginia delegates to refer the negro question to a committee to he appointed at this session, and to repoi t at t ln> next. Tlie afternoon session of the Convention was devoted to hearing of reports. The Sunday school board report shows the largest annual rein if< hwtnrv i hi? mark being passod. The Home Mission Hoard's report shows receipts of $125,81)0 for the year. The Foreign Mission Hoard reported contributions of $217.<>11. The annual convention sermon was delivered tonight, Routine business occupied the remainder of the night session. Sayc She Was Abducted. Paris, Hy Cable. United States Consul (leneral dowdy recently received a letter from an American girl saying that she was locked up in a provincial jail without any charge having been made against Iter. The consul general sent a representative to the jail and secured the girl's release and returned to Paris, lie then cabled til her parents, residing at Decatur. (la., requesting funds for her return to America. The girl related a sensational story. Site claimed to have been abducted by an American seeking to marry her. and said she accompanied him on an automobile tour, was locked tip in a room in a j country hotel, escaped and attempted to walk across the country, but was ari stcd as it wanderer by the French authorities. Inquiries made by Mr. | dowdy's representative established the correctness of her detention at the proI un- ia! jail, but the story of her abduction was not verified, except by the statement, which has been reduced to an affidavit before the consul. The names of the parties are witheld. as no legal steps have been taken against the alleged abductor, and owing to the doubtful character of the accusations. rending tne arrival nf muds the young lady is being cared for by the American Young Women's Christian Association. Verdict for $10,000. Sherman, Tex., Special.?A jury renders Louis James a judgment for $10,000 against the Oriental Hotel Asi siooiation, of Dallas, Texas, for libel. It is alleged the hotel people sent a telegram to James and wife requesting them to return pillow slips said to have been missing from the hotel. James sued for $10,000 actual and $10,000 exemplary damages. Death Was Accidental. New York. Special.?An autopsy performed this afternoon Anally disposed of the inurdo" theory in connection with the death of little Josephine McCnhill. Coroner Jackson said the child's death v.-as due to asphyxia, brought about through the wedging of the body in the narrow chimney line. All indication, said the corner, pointed to accident ns the cause of death. Sully Hearing Postponed. Now York, Special.?Tito hearing in tho bankruptcy proceeding? in the ease of Daniel J. Sully & Co., which was to have been continued was further adjourned until next Tuesday, counsel for Receivers Taft and ..1 illor not being prepared to go on with the examination of Sully. Counsel for Sully opposed the further delay. Russian Vuadivoctock Fleet Shut Out. London, By Cable.?The Daily Telegraph's Seuol correspondent says: "It is believed here that a portion of the Russian Vladivostoek fleet has born successfully shut out. and is now in ( Die Sea of Japan trying to evade the Japanese." THE MILL MEN MEET; Important Gathering of Manufactur-! ers in Washington City j EXISTING CONDITIONS DISClSStDj _ . President Heath's Analysis of the Sit- 1 uation?The High Price of Raw Cotton and Small Returns for the j Manufactured Product. Washington, Special. The American Cotton Manufacturers' Association resumed here Wednesday for its eighth animal session. The meetings are peine hold in th<* banquet hall of the A; Unburn Hot? 1. and will last two days. About 2U0 members of the association wore present. The programme of the morning session ineluded addr<\ s? 1>> W. C. lleath. of Monroe. N. t\. president of the association; Secretary f ar- j I tolvon, of tin' Department of Com- 1 merer and Labor; U. M. Miller. of i Charlotte. N. C.; Prof. R. C. Carpenter, of Ithaea, N. V.. and .1. \V. Norwood. of fJreenville, S. ('. j President Roosevelt is to receive tho memliers of the association at the I White House. I President Heath in his address sail thm most. seriour. condition now con I minting the cotton manufacturers Is i the high price of the raw cotton. coupled with the small returns for the I manufactured product. The tnanufaci turers are largely responsible for this I condition, he said. When the price of I raw cotton began to go up recently, | they had told their customers that the ' it.crease was due to speculation and j manipulation. This, lte asserted, was j riot the rase. The high price of raw cotton was due solely to a response tti I the law of supply and demand. The scarcity of farm laborers in the South, due to the migration of the negro to the cities, is one of the ; rious conditions to he met. To meet it the imtuigiation of Italhm and other foreign farm labor will have to he encouraged. ; Touching on the labor problem, Mr. Heath Uhsctlcd thai while the rig it of ; led o- to organize w.is not questioned. r."it hr?- '-win! l ?Jw? , ? . .......... !!! iir;:n or capilSl in combine bo questioned. Tito power of l;;bor organizations. Iio said. v.as In ing put at. present time to dRugm-ons uses. It was menacing individual rights; it was oven asking the government to flx the hours of labor. These developments. he concluded, threatened th very priniples of the government International Y. M. C. A. Mitffalo, Special.?Four!eon ho: d:?'d d-legates. inclu iing many promim nt al! walks of life, assembled here Wednesday to take part in the thirty filth j international convention of the Young Men's Christian Association of North Ante;iea. Two sessions were hold to ' day, at which the delegates were welcomed to the city and permanent ?> j ganizntinn was effected under the president of the hoard of commissioners of ! the DUti-ii I <>r e/.i.n..i.:? i-i.: - . .. . ... . ....mi Jills CVCMing I tho delegates atta banquet in i convention hnll at which l,.r?00 persons i were present. The following letter *>f i r< grct from President Koosevelt was i read: "White House. Washington, 1). C., May I 9. 1904. "My Dear Sir: It Is a matter of sin: cere regret to me that I am not able i to he present at the international meeti ing of the Young Men's Christian Association.' I believe with all my heart :n your work, for you have not confined yourselves merely to talking about what could he accomplished, hut j have striven in practical fashion to 1 rfiolloA i ? ? '* ? ~ 1 - ......... HI riiuiif U?-,Oil 11118 (Mrtll the ideals of Christianity. I feel that every Young Men's Christian Association throughout this Inml is a valuable adjunct to Rood citizenship. "With my last wishes, believe me. "Sincerely yours. "THRODORR ROOSHVKI.T. "To tae President of the Y. M C. A. International Convention." Discussed Freight Rates. Atlanta. Special.?The discussion of freight rates occupied mo. t of the time of the Southern Vehicle Asse jut ion l:rre. The report of the freight ( on'n t toe composed of A. P. Bellamy and I B. Creighton, dealt almost entinly with technicalities and suggestion.. of iitfprret * / * ihe ~ * ' 1 . ... in* iiii'iiiuiTK i?i mo ir.uie, j Officers will be elected tomorrow and the convention will come to :s close. Injunction Asked. Louisville, Ky., Special.?The Wreatcroft Coal & Mining Company filed a suit in the United States Court Wednesday asking an injunction against the union miners of Hopkins county to prevent them interfering with nonunion men employed by the plaintiff company. About .r>0 union miners are made defendants. U. S. Marshals Placed at Mines. Madisonville, Ky., Spe< ial.?The mines at Wheateroft continue to run with a short crew of non-union miners. A number of deputy sherttfs and United States marshals have been placed at the minea. NEWS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY Paragraphs of Minor Importance Gathered From Many Sources. Through the Soutn. After virion* attempts to hold together the Italian settlement at New l'nlerinn, It* miles north of Mobile. Ala., it has v re > pi-res. The leader. Salvador.' (A mulio I'ompanelli. is said to have left. The colonists are from New York and other Eastern cities and are Tin- battleship Missouri st- amed into Hampton Kinds Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'c lock and half an hour 1; tor dropped anchor there, Last ni;,Tt Captain t'owles came ashore and met. his wife and child. The Missouri will be docked nt the shipyards t<> receive whatever repairs are needed. It is renprted from Mexico City that In I we. ' ov.*r a million silver dollars \\? re shipped from here to Japan via | fsan Frame- <t. Japan paying a small ft'vntium over the Loudon quotation far [ dollar.0. Wshirsgton Happenings. i Secretary of the Navy Moody arrived ?t Havana. I Formal ops are being taker at We bingtt a io reiogn'ze the Morales Howrmm at in Santo Domingo. The trial of James N. Tyner and Harrison J. Barrett in connection with the I'losioffiro investigation was returned. The Court of Claims upheld the eollection of duty on goods sent from ti ls country to the Philippines during the military administration, tints saving the Government about $7,000,000. r?-.mnry rsnaw tietd a conference with J. !'. Morgan's partners to an tinge the linal ?] ::?!).? of tin- Panama canal payments. In the North. A tornado swept portions of Iowa, Kansas an 1 Missouri. Plans were discussed at a meeting in New York for establishing a great Jewish university. The Republican National Committee will d s ide rent is among <!> legates at CM ifigo on .June 1 .*>. Mrs. Mary \. Powell, at Dover, told in court of the killing of I'steP.e Albin and declared-it was in self-defense. An immense. mbsionary exhibit wns opened at tiie Methodist (Setteral ConIt retire at l.:;s Angeh s. Three white; were hanged at \Yin< 1.ester. Tenn.. and one white and one negro at Piti burg. all for murder. .lames F. Hale and T. il. I..ary, link f.i. were expelled from the New York Consolidate l Exchange. Directors. of the New York Central Railroad mijdeted errnny cunents for issuing 00.000 four per cent, bonds. Que a !.ii:o:i<: ;!ani, d< po ed rub c of Hawaii, and he. son. Plan e < tini. . a riv? I i i S.. I.ouis io s< she World's I'Y.ir. Cii -nit \uornoy J. \Y. Folk carried lo out of lh?* II ? "iiti-^s in Ml snwri that held prima rif Sat nr. lay. and his nomination fur (htvoinor by tho lienioi rats seems practically certain. " ' Trustees of tlio McKinley Memorial .tssotiatinn fund decided upon a limitoil paid com pot it ion for an architect r.l a meeting in Now York and passed resolutions eulogizing the late Senator Henna. Hev. J. M. King, of Philadelphia, introdnced a resolution attacking the Catholic position as to public schools in the Northern Methodist Kpis opal General Conference in t ?>c .vmmi. - >.m aftor Chiof Justice Lore, of Delaware, had defended the Catholics, the resolution was referred to a committee. Foreign Affairs. The ldrth of an heir to the Italian throne is expected in September. The Japanese were busy landing troops to the northeast of Port Arthur and on the west side of the Loao Tung ]>< ninsula. There were a number of unconfirmed rumors of a great land battle In Manchuria, in which the Japanese were defeated. and of a sea light off the Korean coast. Miscellaneous Doinga. It is denied that there is danger of a rising in Haiti. American financier:; agreed to take i no-half the Japanese loan of Sr.O OOO,o. the Hritis ia! !ntf the other half. Maurus Jo'.ai the Hungarian novelist, die.! at i'.ud p; St. (lencral K i !;t lin<! y repor ted officially that Ins Icr-f in the battie of Sunday last were ov< ;* J.oOO. Tire Venezuelan Congress conferred dictatorial powers on President Castro for one year. The Davis bakery, at Norfolk, was operated under guard. The Railway Auditors' Association is >!i session at Old Point. Peru agreed to evacuate the disnuted territory in Acre pending a settlement with Brastil. The late Solomon l.ooh left about 1100,000 to charitable and educational institutions, mostly Hebrew. It was stated railway earnings had decreased SI0.000,000 sinee April 1, as compared with last year, and the roads . re cutting expenses. A motorman was killed and five passengers hurt in a tear-end collision on the Third avenue "L," in New York. i AN AUTOPSY IS HELD Body of Younjj Wcntz Found to Re Perforated By Pistol Bail MANY THINK HE SHOT HIMSELF ?.?0 An Empty 32-Calibre Pistol was Found Near the Remains, While a Ball of the Same Calibre Was Found in the Body. Ilri lol.Va.. Special.?-The shrunken and <! <-rt\? d body of ltd ward 1-. Went/, was lilerally talon to pieces Tuesday afternoon by physicians and detoc lives. h> the course of tho coroner's Inqux.t. which was begun at four o'clock in the dark cavern of Hlaek Mouu'aiu, and was closed without a \ordlet by the coining of night. At T.oO the jury was adjoruned mi. til Wednesday morning, when the session will likely lie held at Stonepa. ami many witnesses were heard. The startling feature of the inquest was the discovery' of a it"calibre pistol ball iu the body, which might have ir on discharged from an empty pistol of the same calibre ! found eighteen feet from the remains. I Tb ball had passed through the tifth j rtb. entering in front, had penetrated I tho heart, a hack rib and lodged in | the numisclcs of the hark,one and a j 1 half im lies front tho spine. Several 1 , holes were found In the elothing otho- 1 J I than where the bullets entered, hut j ! beneath them the body was found in ; ' (met. Tht right hand was found 1 missing and was probably borne awar by wild beasts. A white is-arl button, j which coul 1 not have belonged to the murdered man, was found near. ( There is liitle doubt hut that tho hall penetrated the heart, as the pliyslelr.n.. friuml evidenco of hemorrhage in that portion of the body, and an Immense amount of ldood congested back of the lungs. Detectives on the scene ma da careful examination of tho pistol, finding it to die a Smith Wesson, No. 8Ft-0*Ti0. Two car- , tridgos were on either side of the I hammer, but the chamber under the hn.nmer contained nn empty shell, as well as the two lower chambers. A loaded cartridge of Hi! calibre was found several feet from the body. Many articles in bis pockets were found intact. Honors Simonton. Iti htnoml V.'.. Special Chief Justice FnM' : cf the railed States Supreme .Court, sat with the other judges in the special session of the 1'edernl Circuit Court of Appeals hcbl lu re Tuesday in l.u ory of the late .Judge Simonton. Ti < j uge.t, other than the Chief Justh . si tiug during the memorial meet j lng wi'i'f Judge I'urnell. of Nortli Carolina; Judge Hrtuvley, of South Car ouna niuge Morris <>l" Maryland; Judge (.<>1T. of West. Virginia, and Judge Waddill. of the District Court ot Virginia. Resolutions from the var-# ious districts in this circuit and from various bar associations, city and State, were presented, with appropriate remarks. the chief justice being among those who paid tribute to the departed jurist. The Hag on the Federal buildI big was at half mast during the n?e- j ! taorial exei ises. Arr ;sted for Fraud. Berlin, Special?Die Post publishes a news agenev dispatch from St. Petersburg wh'ch says that General Sehv.edoff lost over half million dollars through speculation in stocks and took the mom y from the Red Cross treasury. In order to avoid a scandal the Knipress Dowager, who is the proj tertress of the Red Cross Society, and a friend of Gen. Schwedoff, reimbursed the sums. The dispatch further says the Prince Galitzln and Count l.ansky also have been guilty of irregularities in connection with the Red Cross management. Wallace Coief Fnnin^r Chicago. Special. ?John F. Wallace, general manager of the Illinois Central Railway. Tuesday aftern?x>n accepted the npie'ntrnr nt as chief engineer of tho Panama Canal. He will leave not Icier than enr!> in June for the isthinits. His successor as general manager of the Illinois Central will probably be cither A. W. Sullivan, 1. (J. Kawn or \V. J. He.rahan. I May Give City to Chinese. New Chwang. By Cable.?Of the five Russian regiments which were in garrison here, four have left^and the other received orders to go today, but this order was cancelled an nour later. The Russians are strongly entrenched at An Ping, where the guns from the New Chwanv forts h?vc ?? en ?*??. rv.ir.i-, i Muenthe, the military adviser of Vicetoy Yuan Shi Kal, commander-in-chief of the Chinese forces arrived here this afternoon. It is believed he cenie to New Chwang to confer w!:h the Russians re* arding Jhe proposal to turn New Chv.ang over, to th?- Chinese. The Russians are known to he communicating with tho Chinese biigands and la be stirring up a state of terror among the natives. ' newsy i.leaxixus. Now Y??rk is suflTorin" an epidemic Of moaslis. It is now sure that Russia will make an exhibit at tin* St. l.otiis Exposition. Mrs .lost ph .tones. just from I>nblin. was \\ nleoinntl to Now York 1?y site sons, who liavo imnlo ill >ir way in fliis* con u try. Tito original imliotmoiits of Aaron T.nrr for troason and misdoiiionnor \\" 1*1*1? IniiinK ?? -.'-I ? - 1 ? - "ii inniK 111 UICUlllnnd. \ .1. New N ??rU theatrical managers will levy :i t;i\ ol ???ii cents i>nrli on complimentary ii kets. ? \|?t*? ii?ito raise S.IiHI.f.OO yearly for tile v. tors" Flllltl. The sy ntlic.ite which took tip tlie lmlk of i In- S't'J.ihn?.<?!ii? i>sii(> of NewYork t'il\ bonds have formed a pool ami will clear at least StUio.iKMt on lite ileal. Superintendent Slrattluntillor. r>r New York t'ity. w ho says many hoys go to east siile schools in onler In commit petty thefts, claims that tenement cmiilitions hreeil thieves .lohn Cantplc'll Smilh of N >w York f'ity. wini seven c.a : go Inherited S1 ,titmt.tHitl. is a hankrnp. The last of his fortune vanished immediately follow ilea; the Sully failure. ltoherl Trml I'aine told n peace meeting in New York ?'ily that it cost Mill I.IMWM.IM Din : i' : 111. 11V lo II l.'l i 111 a i It our **' vy ii, -it .i upporl the nation's schools. President William 1' Will TTyile. of rtowiloin i'o!! <:". in :it address at l'rnnswiek. Me., favored the s -grogation of whiles and negroes in school, ahureh and society. where the negroes ire nutneroits. Joseph Hallell. of Miildleotiry, Vt.,1 lias bought Illicit Mountain, whieli rises iimmi iee{ above the iowii of Warren. VI.. ami purposes to convert it into ;t park for the henctit of the cilizcus of the Given Mountain Slate. Examination of Dr. Woodend. New York. Spceial. The examination of l>r. W. K. Woodend on a charge of grand larceny, preferred hy Edwin 1*. (loouwny, a stock broker of Petersburg, Vn., was resumed in the Tombs jmliie court. The hearing was a brief one. Goodwyn. the only witness examiieM, testified that lie had dealings t'.'. t Dr. Woodend, and when lie ?* hi d t<? close his accounts (here was $s.i;ni> due him. lie had asked repeati t'.iy for a settlement. Woodend explained, witness said, that lie had met. wnn reverses and did not have dm money to settle the account. Wallace Chief Engineer. Chira.au, Special. John K. Wallace, general manager >f the Illinois Central Hallway. Tues;| :y afternoon accepted the appointment as chief engineer or the Panama Canal, lie will leave not later than early in June for the isthtars. His .suen sri r as general ni:rniT.cr of the Illinois Central will probahly lie either A. \V. Sullivan, 1. (!, Kawn or \V. .1. liarahan. Examination Suspended. Now York, Special. Judge Holt, in tin- l'nited States District Court., signed an order suspending and staying all further examinations of Edwin Hawley and Frank ii. Hay, in connection with the bankruptcy proceedings of Daniel .1. Sully &. Co.. pending the d( ision of the i'nited States Circuit Court of Appeals on the petition in review. llaron von KardofT. in the Reichstag, urged that, the (lennan navy use submarine boats. I FEMALE I | WEAKNESS | rW M'21-2 Congrea < St. if Porti.a.nd, Maixb, Oct. 17,1902. lj jfi I consider Winn of ("urdtii superior H ~lm to any doctor'." medicine t over used B anil I know whereof I apeak. 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