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, „ J \X ; *"4y\ V *->%.« *y* v -;. < j\* ^ i f , « 4 K -tits! FOR PURE DRUGS AND ^VW-Vi';; > <v ( <s "4 , "V^ t -"S -1 ^ At ,»•.., Tii _ •••• jg^• • 'ii'^ • .'"y Vu." .; / i[ « '?• v1.' m&mM Wwrwif1!* ^S%g!S? N«w» from All Parts of th« Qr*at World. f&T" W - : ' I-V .y , •' * *ttminnw» BRIEFLT All the tMNt Good Newt, Foreign Kvtnta Wktok An ot Oound IatMWt, Disas­ ter*, Crimes ud Other Rtl^eM Chroai- •W la OMdnaad IMa tor thm Buy Reader. i* iffcS .^ Lt it ft "'?.--i «r;--r % mm* $"t, '<• ffs, J,"-j, " V .v •' - * "! mri 1 er No newspaper can hope to reach n, but with untiring gf- forts, step by step, we can attain excellence. i f i f if THE WAR XH TBI PHIUPP1NI& The United States hospital ship Mis­ souri, from Manila for San Francisco, with 286 sick soldiers aboard, arrived at Nagasaki, Japan. Twenty-four rebels killed and sixty prisoners is the result of an advance of Colonel Bullard with the Thirty- ninth regiment. There were ten com­ panies of the rebels and the resisted stubbornly, for Filipinos. One United States soldier was killed and two offi­ cers were slightly wounded. Major Cheatham, with a battalion of the Thirty-seventh, on his way to San Pablo, dispersed 400 insurgents whom the cavalry are pursuing toward Alamlnes. A troop of the Third cav­ alry lost two men killed and three wounded in an encounter with the In­ surgents near San Fernando de lo Un­ ion Jan. 12. ' ; ' " Washington The comptroller of the currencyhSs declared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent national banks as follows: One per cent, Merchants' National bank of Great Falls, Mont.; 8.05 per cent., National bank of Kan­ sas of Kansas City, Mo. Secretary of War Root authorizes by letter the statement that he Is not and will not be a candidate for vice presi­ dent Senator Allen has Introduced a bill In the senate granting a pension of $10 a month to every soldier and sailor who served In the civil war for three months or more. TBI ORiaUMAL BBOOBB. Cornelius Shew and James Eagan, the murderers of Jackson Pepper, an aged and wealthy farmer, were hanged 'at Montrose, Pa. Max Krebs, a young German, Recent­ ly arrested in Washington, has con­ fessed to being "Jack the Slasher," who cut a number of ladies' dresses. James Calhoun, formerly resident manager of the Equitable Life Insur­ ance company at Harrlsbarg, Pa., com­ mitted suicide by shooting himself. He was In poor health. Because he was behind in his rent David Lafferty probably fatally shot George Werbach at Toledo, O. David Mann and Jerry Trumbly were held at Chicago to the grand jury at the coroner's inquest, charged with killing of Boger O'Brien, Who was one of a mob attacking Mann and Trum­ bly. Worried over the Incarceration of her husband on a charge of drunken­ ness, Mrs. Joseph Christie of McPher- son, Kan., murdered her two children, cut her own throat and then set firs to her home. Robbers blew open the sate tnthe bank of McGlnnls, Teel & Co., at Ow- ensville, Ind., and secured $15,000. The building ' was wrecked. The robbers escaped on a handcar. Members of the Omaha school board are charged with accepting bribes for granting contracts. William J. Affleck, secretary of the board of water works, Sandusky, O., has been arrested on a charge of em­ bezzlement of $10,000 city funds, S. W. Smith and Thomas Pagan of Newport News, Va., were arrested on the charge of making counterfeit quar­ ters and nickels. Smith confessed. Diamonds and other valuable jewel­ ry to the value of about $5,000 were stolen from the heme of Mrs. Joseph Wood, tn Bast Thirty-third street, New YCT^U : SUS1MSA8 The contract for the er< electric lighting plant at the Norfolk navy yard was awarded to L. L. Leach & Son of Chicago at , their bid of S7S,- 871. The Produce Exchange Trust com­ pany, which suspended at New York on Dec. 18, has resumed business, hav­ ing been entirely reorganized. A. Kleppisch, dealer In fine china- ware at Burlington. Ia., has assigned for the benefit of creditors. Liabilities, $10,000; assets over that The directors of the Federal Steel company met and declared a quarterly dividend of 1% per cent, on the com­ mon stock, payable Jan. 20. The purchase of the McCassy Bros.' washboard factory In Cincinnati by the Saginaw Manufacturing company of Saginaw, Mich., is said to be the beginning of a consolidation of the washboard manufacturing business. A conservative estimate of the coal in the Pittsburg harbor awaiting ship­ ment feuuth to placed at 8,000,000 bushels. MISHAPS AND DI8A8TEBg, The house of Joseph Pulitzer, pro* prietor of the New York World, was destroyed by fire. The family escaped, but the housekeeper was burned to death and the governess is missing. Tom Toreneney, who worked at Ne- koosa. Wis., was drawn between pa­ per rollers and crushed to death. Mrs. Edward A. Wall, aged 50, was run down and fatally injured at a cross­ ing on the Burlington road at Chicago. S. Dana Greene, an aid on Governor Roosevelt's staff, and his wife were drowned while skating on the Mohawk river at Schenectady, N. Y. At Stoneboro, Pa., George Potter and Mabel Hogue, aged 16 years and 15 years, respectively, were drowned in Sandy Lake while skating together. William Klatz, 15 years old, acci­ dentally shot and killed Fred Schultz, aged 14, In front of the latter"s home at Chicago. Three children of Thomas Brown, Thomas, Jr., aged 19 years; Margaret, 21, and Jane, 17, were drowned while skating on the La&e of Bays, near Black Point, Ont Augusta 8tryc*unskl, 11 years old, and (her sister Olga, 2 years old, were burned to death at Chicago as the re­ sult of playing with matches. Three boys--Richard French, Thom- ss O'Brien and Charles Pachow--were TuV'fcT' *rv-. • by the ice glvilig way. By the preittOttire explosion of * Mast in the Mountain Consolidated mine at Butte, Mont., Peter Sullivan and Thomas Smith were instantly killed. By the explosion of a can of gaso- Itne in a woman's tailoring establish­ ment at Chicago Iflss Nellie Williams, the proprietor* was blown into the street and so severely burned that she may not recover. J. S. Harrison, a real estate man ot Kansas City, and a brother of ex- President Harrison, was kicked on the head by a vicious horse and seriously injured. Joe Metfvich and Joseph Maxwell, working in the Colsnna-Parrott mine in Montana, were instantly killed by the explosion of a blast that bad hung fire. THE BOER WAR. Great Britain's losses since the war began are fast approaching 8,000. A war office compilation of casualties shows a total of 7,213--1,027 killed, 8,675 wounded and 2,511 missing. General Joubert la reported seriously injured by having his horse shot from under him. A dispatch from Amster­ dam says a British cruiser fired on the Dutch cruiser Frlesland, killing one officer. General Lord Roberts, the new com­ mander of the British forees in south Africa, and his chief-of-st&ff, General Lord Kitchener, have arrived at Cape oTwn. The London Dally Mall says: "Wf learn that In the attacfc on Lady- smith Jan. 6 the British losses were 14 officers, 84 wounded and over 800 non-commissioned officers and men killed or wounded. The Boer losses, we hear, tire estimated at between 2,- 000 and 3,000. General Buller reports from Springy field (west of Colenso): "I have oc­ cupied the south bank of the Tugela river at Potgieter's drift and seized the bridge. The river' is flooded. The enemy is strongly intrenched four and a half miles to northword." The Earl of Ava. who died at Lady- smith as the result of a wound re­ ceived during the recent fight there, was the eldest son of the Marquis of Dufferin. General Warren has crossed the Tu­ gela river and occupied a strong posi­ tion north of the river. NOTABLE DEATHS. Daniel W. Green, one of the best- konwn lawyers In northern Indiana, died at Liglonler, Ind., aged 57 years. Judgs William P. Howland, Is dead at Jefferson, O., of pneumonia, aged 68 years. He served In both branches of the legislature and was prominent in Ohio politics for many years. Charles M. Duncan died at Martins­ ville, Ills., aged 70 years. He was a pioneer, a lifelong Republican and a tending politician of southern Illinois. Bishop Joseph Rademacher of the Roman Catholic diocese of Fort Wayne, Ind., is dead. Thomas Linton, Denver, Colo., Is dead. He was born in England in 1828. He had been tyler of the Masonic grand lodge of Colorado since 1873. Spotted Tall, the well-known chief, died of heart disease at Paris Thur»> day. He was 89 years old. Alexander Williams, bookseller and publisher, is dead at Boston. John Quincy Adams Hoyt, formerly one of the most prominent business men in New York and Chicago, is dead. Felix Morris, the character actor, died Saturday at his home in New York, aged 53 years. Colonel J. H. Wood, the widely- known theatrical man died at Hot Springs, Ark., Saturday. Lieutenant Samuel Howard, who was the pilot of Ericsson's Monitor during her fight with the Merrimac, is dead at Washington, aged 79. A. T. Wheeler, for thirty years an attorney of Clinton county, la., and a prominent Democrat, Is dead of par­ alysis. * Mrs. H. G. Fuller, wife of the pre­ siding judge of the state supreme court of South Dakota, is dead. TBI FIKB RECORD. The Eagle Flour mills near Fountain City, Wis., were destroyed by fire. The loss was $9,000 with $6,000 insurance. The Newark City home, a reforma­ tory for children at Verona, N. J., was burned to the ground, involving a loss of nearly $100,000. Three hundred In­ mates were gotten out in safety. Fire destroyed the foundry, office, pattern shop and one warehouse of the Portage Lake machine works at Rip­ ley, Mich. Loss, $85,000; insurance, $40,000. Fire destroyed the business section of Dassel, Minn. Loss exceeds $50,000. Fire in the large dry goods store of J. B. Wells Son & Co., at Utica, N. Y., did damage amounting to frocu $75,- 000 to $100,000. ' ODDS AND BHM -- Terry McGovern has wrested the feather weight ouainpionship of the world from George Dixon, who had defended it for nearly nine years. The trial of the alleged Pennsylva­ nia legislative bribers, growing out of Senator Quay's re-election, has been postponed until March 23. The Nelson Kneass Monument asso­ ciation has been organized at Chilll- cothe, Mo., for the purpose of erecting a monument over the grave of Nelson Kneass, the musical author of "Ben Bolt" The influenza Is becoming epidemic in Great Britain, and has spread to the royal household at Osborne house. Ada Rahan has signed contracts with Klaw and Erlanger for a ten weeks' tour, beginning at Ford's Opera house, Baltimore, March 12. The manager and artist of the Paris paper, La Caricature, who published a cartoou grossly caricaturing Queen Victoria, were acquitted of the charge of outraging public morals. "Kid" McCoy got the decision over Joe Choynskl in a bout which lasted three rounds at the Broadway Ath­ letic club, New York. Ferdinand Peck, commissioner gen­ eral from the United States to the Par­ is exposition, Is In Washington. In a decision th<* Illinois supreme court holds that section 49 of the rev­ enue law of 1808 Is unconstitutional. One postage stamp brought $1,710 at the sale of the collection of F. W. Hunter of New York. It was a speci­ men of the-first issue of British Gnlana In mo. MEDICINES, NOTIONS - >•; -- -- • TOILET ARTICLES, STA- TIONERY, SCHOOL SUP- PLIES, BOOKS, FINE - - AND GLASS­ WARE, ETC. CALL JULIA A. STORY - *-• •*' 1 I 1 " s*' "I*'"." ' 'B y 'iN^tlii ""'••!** IMI •yriir, '<iii M'HENRY,, ILLINOIS - - - >• •>* 1" s *r * * ^ ! •atii* ~£z, •» ' . h • ' " $ -i )$ • v, 7,- ;v , h.' ' 'v£ ̂ " ..iiftjjiillij. If you are buying goods come in and save 35 cents on the dollar A NEW BILL OF GOODS J? 51 Men's heavy winter pants.. •>\L .. 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