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F% ^ . A# wn. *HONTt SEES FAST TRAIN IS A COUNTRY OF -s PtNNSYLVAN! A FLYER JUMP8 TRACK, CARS GO INTO RIVER. nmusHki) BY f. «k scnmcviiuu NEVER-FAILING P^Uft YtARS' CONTEST tff|MyN *' UTAH MAN'S FAVOR> ^ 8 INTO AN OPEN AT PITT8BURQ. No on* It Killed But Many ^Reported -- Accident Near JohmtoMA. flHI CNilf CoM< of Beater] Mrs. Sage is demonstrating that the money was left in fairly gopd hands. FlNAIr VOTE IS 61 INJURED ARE ALL WOMEN In northern Siberia a peculiar toad •too), deadly to any other people, it ••ten. Beards are liable to taxation in some Japanese villages. The origin of this curious custom is unknown. U, Zola derived his name froqi Zolla, which means a clod of earth, and he was proud of this derivation. To be happy you must measure your desires with your fortune and not your fortune with your desires. There is a woman in Portland, Ore., who is hearing her 120th birthday. Her motto Mas always been "'Don't worry." The phrase, "Art for art's sake," does not mean that we should present the naked truth on all occasions. ,,, Japan was not only' surprised, but pained when news from Toklo that it Wtas going to fight us was cabled ; ' : b a c H . ^ V " • ' The Interstate commerce commis­ sion appears to be passing out a whole lemon grove to the Standard Oil com­ pany. J A Kentuckian with the extraordinary v jjiame of Offa Stump has been appoint «&*.;• ed postmaster |j •. -county. of Pikeville, Pike A French scientist has discovered that insects have no minds. What's the matter with the insects? Do they amoke cigarettes? £ Nebraskahas an excitement about a 4S^girl witch" was casts spells over *v" young men. Great Scott! Is UWa Ne- i ^raska's first experience? Count Boni de Castellane is going to take an appeal. As he can not get any- 5«thing else he should not be grudged ' this little satisfaction. '? S€^ - • A California paper speaks of an ex­ hibition of "wheeze-wagons and cough- icarts." Probably they were sent there an account of the climate. Sir Alfred Mosely, after looking America over during a short stay, says its people are extravagant. But he is not telling us anything new. An Ohio man has been sent to prls- for six years because he has 13 Wives. He ought to have known enough to stop when he had a dozen. Defective eyesight, declares an au­ thority, is often caused by the wearing of tight collars, which interfere with iflte circulation of blood to the head. :;f Chicago claims to have an automatic kicking machine. Probably, remarks the Cleveland Leader, it has captured New Yoifcer on a trip away from jhome. _ Baron Kaneko says that Bushido, Japan's moral system, insists that not t %a finger shall be raised against a ben­ efactor. If Bushido is on our side we are safe. A private Japanese company is ar- ranging for the establishment of a ? Japanese colony in Alberta, Northwest rjN" * Territory. It will he the first Asiatic colony in westerij Canada. If you get a wrong steer from a man man who is talking to you over the telephone through his diaphragm you will know that it is a mistake of the heart and not of the head. Great Crowd Hear* Closing 8peeches ; Balloting--Hou** Passe^R!# :f*ost Office Approprla» ,"T' tlon Bill. • " • **• '"""t Washington.--Four years' contest against Reed Smoot being per­ mitted to retain his seat as a senator of the United States from Utah was ended Wednesday by 42 of his Col­ leagues voting to sustain him, as against 28 for the resolution to unseat him. Added to this there were 18 sen­ ators paired, making the actual stand­ ing on the resolution 61 votes against It and 37 for it. ^ Senator Smoot himself did not vote, and Senator Wetmore was absent and not paired. \ The Smoot resolution was called up soon after the senate convened. Every seat in the galleries was filled and during the, actual voting the standing room og/ihe floor of the senate was crowded by members of the house and employes of the senate. Seldom has there been a proceeding affecting the standing of a senator that has attract­ ed such marked attention. In the au­ dience were representatives of a number of prominent women's organi­ sations which have been active in cir­ culating and having presented peti­ tions of remonstrance against Senator Smoot. These women secured many thousands of signatures to their peti­ tions, which were sent to the senate in elaborately bound volumes. Although it was a foregone conclu­ sion that the resolution would fail and thus end the long fight against the Utah senator, the roll call contained some surprises. Of the 42 votes in favor of Senator Smoot, three were cast by Democrats. They were Sena* tors Blackburn, Clark of Montana, and Daniel. Senator Teller was paired in favor of Senator Smoot Of the 28 votes against Senator Smoot, nine were Republicans. They were Sena­ tors Burrows, Clapp, Dupont, Hale, Hansbrough, Hemenway, Kittredge, La Follette and Smith. At the conclusion of the voting there was a rush of Republican senators to the cloak room to congratulate Sena­ tor Smoot. A large number of mem­ bers of the house followed and there the senior Utah senator was patted on the back and his hands were shaken in hearty fashion by the men who ex­ pressed their admiration of his bear­ ing in the long and trying ordeal through which he has passed. On the floor of the senate and in the galleries it was many minutes before order could be restored. The post office appropriation bill, the largest ever reported from the committee on post offices and poet roads, passed the house Wednesday. All the provisions relating to in­ creased pay, affecting 90 per cent, of the postal employes, which Tuesday were stricken out on points of order, were restored to the bill. This action was accomplished by a rule presented by the committee on rules after the bill had been reported to the house by the committee of the whole. The naval appropriation bill, carry­ ing $100,727,807, was passed by the senate Wednesday night in 52 min­ utes. All the committee amendments ware agreed to. The senate then passed the river and. harbor appropriation Mil, carry­ ing a total v>f $92,720,472. . A woman educator now visiting St. Louis says that Americans lack thor­ oughness. They are a little rapid in arriving at conclusions, but the pace seems to answer their purposes. Enrico C. Creel, the new ambassador to Washington from the republic of Mexico, is the second richest man in Chihauhau, the richest being his fath­ er-in-law, Gen. Luis Terrazas. He be­ gan life a poor man. The village inn at Addington, Eng­ land, has been tenented by the mem­ bers of one family since the reign of Henry VIL The Jolly Miller's inn at Newham, Cambridgeshire, has been kept by a family of the name of Musk for the last 400 years. H. H. Rosseau, recently appointed head of the bureau of yards and docks of the navy department, is the youngest man ever called upon to fill this responsible office. He is only 36 years and ranks as a rear admiral His rise in the engineering world has been phenomenal. Sarah Bernhardt'is determined to be decorated with the cross of the Le­ gion of Honor as an actress or not at all. She made this plain to M. Bri- and, the French minister of public in­ struction, recently, when he informed her that she had been rerused the decoration once more. Another inn where Washington stopped has passed out of existence, but there are still many more taverns where the Father of His Country once sojourned. Like the specters in "Mac­ beth," they will evidently stretch out I* the crack of doom. * * for France has the largest development of canal building of any country in the world, the total length of her in­ land waterways being 7,459 miles, as against 6,214 for Germany, 3,907 for the United Kingdom and 1249 Belgium. The Immigration from the United States into Canada for the first four months of the current year fiscal year --July, August, September and Octo- --was 17,907, as compared with 12,664 for the same period of 1905 This is an increase of 11 pendent. "The man who tears the robe hypocrisy and oppression from the shoulders of tyranny is a great char acter. -f., Vi' ' & Spain's ministry is said to be tot- • ^firing. In symbolic MngBifiM, U _ walking Spanish*. , »-, .' 1 LOW FARE8 IN WI8CON84N, State Railway Commission Orders a Reduction to 2'/2 Cents a Mile. Madison, Wis. -- The state rail­ way commission. Monday handed down a decision in the two-cent rail­ road fare question. It Is ordered by the commission that the railways in the state give a flat two and one-half cent passenger fare, and it is recom­ mended that family mileage books of 500 miles be issued for $10. The last legislature enacteg a law creating the state railway commission with power to fix rates and regulate service. The decision just handed down is the result of an extended hear­ ing before the state railway commis­ sion. during which time representa­ tives of the various railways operating in Wisconsin have appeared before the commission, when the questions of rates and service were thoroughly reviewed. Six 8eamen Drowned. Highland Light, Mass.--Six seaman lost their lives when the Phil­ adelphia & Reading - Coal com­ pany's barges, Ghtfrd and Alaska, went ashore and broke up off her* Monday. Two men, the captain of the Girard, and one seamon, were saved. They were hauled ashore in the breeches buofr by members of the life-saving crew of the Highland Light station. Johnstown, Pa. -- The Penn­ sylvania railroad'* 18 hour train, between New York and Chicago, is a wreck at Mineral Point, eight miles east of this city, with two sleep­ ers and the observation car piled up in the south fork of the Conemaugh riVer. There were 54 passengers on the train when it left New York Friday afternoon. A message received at 2:30 .a. m. states that 29 persons were hurt and none was killed. Eight of the injured were taken to Altoona and several others were brought here. Some of the injured, It is said,, are seriously hurt. i The wrecked train was an hoar and a half late and running at full speed. The wreck occurred a few minutes before midnight. When the locomo­ tive left the track it tore down tele­ phone and telegraph poles, cutting off all communication for a time. Salt Lake City.--Clinton B. Leigh, a well-known newspaper man of Salt Lake, was killed; Sttfte Representa­ tive Seth Taft of Wayne county, was fatally injured, and has since died, and Speaker Harry Josephs was slightly hurt in a collision on the Copper Belt railway at the mining camp of Bingham Friday afternoon. The victims were members of a legis­ lative party visiting the Bingham mines. j Mr. Leigh was representing the Salt Lake Herald. He was of a prominent Kentucky family and was at one time city editor of the Owensboro, Ky., Messenger. I CHABT SHOWtKG' ZLL ETTCCT OJr Too JZTKXNIXKJJ- EVrro 4K*nu*»«' teiTwtft HONOR WASHINGTON'S MEMORY. Birthday of Father of Our Cpuntry !£i';'• • Celebrated. • v..•& , Sale We of iRsltroad Man. El Paso, Tex.--A private telegram* received here from Mexico City says that E. E. St?ner, late general man­ ager of the Mexican Central railroad, died in Mexico City from wounds in­ dicted by himself. Ptomaine* Kill Two Children. Hillsboro, O.--The three-year-old son and five-year-old daughter of Fred Fenner, a prominent farmer living two miles south of this city, died Wednesday afternoon of ptomaine poi­ soning. Girl Shoot* Man and Marion, 111.--Nora Turner, daughter of O. H. Turner of Harrisburg, 111., shot Robert Kennedy Monday and then shot herself. Both will die. She had told Kennedy she would kill him if he did not marry her. * ----$ i-. y '• of To Commemorate Mavathe*. '•$ Athens.--The chamber of deputies decided to commemorate the battle of Marathon, in 1910, Just 24 centuries after tiie occurrence. This will take piace simultaneously wUh the next Olympic garalit v. - - • '.V: . V Nil# 'fbrit. -- Throughout Greater New York a myriad of Star Spangled Banners snapped in the breeze Friday in celebration of the anniversary of the birth of George Washington. Never before perhaps has the display been so general. In the poorer quarters and among the foreign born little flags of cheese cloth hung beside cracked windows told the same story of patriotism as did the silken folds along Fifth ave« nue. Business in the financial dis­ trict was suspended and stores and shops generally were closed. Vienna. -- A reception was held at the American embassy " Friday in honor of Washington's birthday, at which Mrs. Francis, wife of the am> bassador, assisted by her daughters and Charge d'Affaires Rlvep, enter­ tained the members of the American colony and numerous other guests. Berlin. -- Charlemagne Tower, the ambassador of the United States, and Mrs. Tower gave a Wash­ ington's Birthday reception to the American colony of Berlin Friday afternoon. ' » * MU8T NOT PUBLISH DETAIL8. Minnesota 8uprem* Court Bar* Par­ ticularized 8torle* of Hanging*. St. Paul, Minn. -- The supreme court Thursday handed down a decision sustaining the constitution­ ality of the "John Day Smith law," a state law which forbids the publica­ tion in newspapers of the details of the hanging of criminals In this state. The case originated when the Pioneer Press, the Dispatch and the Daily News of this city published the com­ plete details of the hanging of Mur­ derer William Williams last spring. These newspapers were indicted and interposed a demurrer to the indict­ ment attacking the constitutionality of the law and setting up the claim that the facts alleged did not consti- offense. Judge Bunn demurrer and the su- to-day upheld Judge The case has been re­ fute a public overruled the preme court Bunn's ruling. STEAMER LOST OFF HOLLAND; ELEVEN SURVIVORS SAVED m - .. . Another Aceldent * on P*nri*ylvan la M Friday Niflfflto Diaaster Are Doing Well. AWFUL DI8ASTER OCCURS DUR­ ING TERRIFIC GALE--OVER $00 LIVES LO8T--80ME OF VICTIMS RESCUED BY ; .K BRAVE DUTCHMEN. London. -- ^he worst disaster for many years in tne hlBtory gether 143 persons, were at first be­ tween England and the continent oc­ curred during a violent gale shortly before six o'clock Thursday morning, when the Rotterdam mail steamer Berlin, from Harwich to Hook of Hol­ land, having safely weathered the hurricane, was wrecked as she was entering port With one single exception all her passengers and crew, numbering alto- lieved to have lost their lives. The terrific seas broke up the steamer with such awful suddenness that all efforts to save life appeared to have been utterly hopeless. At a late hour Thursday evening it was report­ ed that some few survivors were still clinging to the wreck, but as the heroic efforts all day long of the life­ boat crews had failed to reach them, little hope that they would be saved remained. 8aved from Wreck. Hook of Holland.--Eleven survivors of the disaster to the steamer Berlin, from Harwich to Rotterdam, which was wrecked off the Hook of Holland Thursday morning, who could be seen clinging to the afterpart of the steam­ er all night, were saved Friday after­ noon. The efforts to rescue them were continued throughout the night and morning, but proved futile before 3:30 owing to the furious seas and the heavy snowstorm which raged all night long, rendering it impossible for the tugs or lifeboats to approach the wreck, over which mountainous .^eas continue to dash. Although several of the persons res­ cued were in the last stages of exhaus­ tion, they now are on the road to re­ covery and some of them have been able to tell the story of their awful experiences. So intense was the cold that it was believed that those who were still on the wreckage must have been frozen to death, but the rescued persons sur­ vived the terrible experiences of the 24 hours. The stern of the Berlin Is so firmly Imbedded in the sand bank on which she went ashore that it does not seem to have moved during the night At high water Friday morning the poop deck houses were the only portions of the steamer visible, and there the few survivors huddled. J1 The prince consort,- after his first visit to the wreck when he saw with his own eyes that there were still some survivors on board, declared: "We won't return to The Hague be­ fore we save them; we must get them somehow." , ~ The news that this determination had been fulfilled reached the waiting crowds in the shape of a rumor short1 ly before three o'clock in the after­ noon, and a pilot later confirmed the tidings. There was then a wild rash of the people to the various points of vantage overlooking the harbor. In the meantime, every preparation was being made at the harbor to take care of the individuals rescued. Six motor cars, including that belonging to the prince consort, were drawn up in readiness to convey the survivors to the Amerika hotel, where a staff of medical men, especially summoned, was waiting to give succor. j The small lifeboat was the first to reach the harbor and Capt. Jansen, its Bkipper, received round upon round of ringing cheers. He reported that two women and a child, who had re­ fused to jump, were still aboard the wreck of the Berlin. Capt. Jansen had hardly told his story when the steam pilot boat, the Helvoetsluis, with the rescued on board, hove in sight The survivors so narrowly snatched from death were removed to the Amerika hotel, and when the prince consort came ashore his face was radiant with grateful joy. Every Dutchman present forfeited his na­ tional reputation for stolidity by Join­ ing in a roaring cheer. No cause yet has been assigned for the terrible accident^ and it probably never will be known how the steamer came to miss the channel which, al­ though 300 yards wide and well buoyed and lighted, is always difficult of access in rough weather. It is con­ jectured that some derangement of the engines or steering) gear may have rendered the vessej/ uncontrollable. Capt. Precioua^_o£^tne Berlin had a good record of 14 years' service. The list of passengers on the fated steam­ er was lost and all the names of those who were on board have not yet been learned, but so far as has been ascer­ tained there were no Americans among the passengers. manded for trial. BAILEY WARNED OIL TRUST. Say* He Told It* Officials It Not Reenter Texaa. Could Austin, Tex.--Before the investigat­ ing committee of the house and senate Wednesday Senator Bailey continued the story of his financial deals with various financiers. One of his most important state­ ments was that^he had been asked by the Standard Oil Officials In New York, immediately after the Beaumont oil field boom, to give them an opin­ ion as to what the opportunities were for them to reenter the state and do business. "I gave them a written opinion in which I stated that if they attempted to do business in the state they would be put in the penitentiary and their property absorbed in fines and ties," said Senator Bailey. President Visits HI* Son*. ^ Washington.--President Roosevelt lfef^ Washington Friday afternoon for Boston and Groton, Mass., where he expects to spend Saturday ana Sun­ day visiting his sons, Theodore and Kermit, who are in school... Hewes T. Gurley Is Ilea#. New Orleans.--Hewes T. Gurley, a prominent member of the bar and a law partner of Eugene D. Saunders, who was recently appointed judge of the federal court here, died Friday of pneumonia. * Drug Hou*e° Burnfetf. Steubenville, O.--Beall ft Steele's wholesale drug house was totally de­ stroyed by fire Wednesday, entailing a loss of $100,000. Adjoining build­ ings were damaged to the extent of $35,000. Finsen Ray Blind* Prof•••«•. Colorado Springs, Col.--As a result of experimenting with the Finsen ray, a newly discovered powerful electric ray, Dr. J. C. Shedd, of Colorado col­ lege, has* probably been blinded for 'JPl! , • /*' „ ACCUSED OF KILLING HUSBAND. Michigan Woman Arrested on Charge .of Poisoning 8pou*e. Stanton, Mich.--Mrs. Cora Stebbins Courter, aged 24 years, of Sheridan, a village eight miles from here, Is in custody of Sheriff Caffield, charged with poisoning her husband, Albert Courter, aged 28, who died suddenly at their home last Thursday. Considerable mystery surrounded the death of Courter and the physician who attended him declared that he showed symptoms resembling strych- nine poisoning. Hughes Would Oust Kelsey. Albany, N. Y. -- Gov. Hughes has recommended to the senate the removal of Otto Kelsey, state superin­ tendent of Insurance, on the ground of unfitness for the ^position, demon­ strated by what the governor regards as a lack of appreciation and grasp of the needs of the department, especial­ ly as disclosed by the investigation o| the Armstrong committee. , Americans Presented at Court. London.--King Edward and Queen Alexandra held the first court Friday night. The Americans presented were Mrs. Cecil Andrews of New York, Mrs. Millard Hunsicker of London, and Miss A. VanAlen, daughter of 1* VanAlen, of New York. Nine Coal Miner* Hurt: Collinsville, 111.--Nine coal miners were injured, two seriously, by the explosion of a compressed air tank 200 feet belj0w the surface in. Lumaghi mkie No, 2 Friday afternoon. Woman Burned to Death. Red Key, Ind.--Mrs. Thomas Bagot, of Anderson, was burned to death early Wednesday in a fire which de stroyed the home of Mrs. E. B. Con­ nelly, her sister, whom she was visit­ ing; Mrs. Connelly escaped. MEXICAN MINE DISA8TER. Over Hundred Believed Dead In Tar- fibi. > Tel. "ifejilcb from Las Esperenzas, Mexico, 68 miles south of here, says that more than 100 lives are believed to have been lost in Conquista mine, belonging to the Mexican Coal and Coke com­ pany as a result of the explosion which occurred here late Monday aft­ ernoon. Over fifty bodies have been removed and more than 50 miners are still in the compartment where the ex­ plosion occurred. Whether they are all dead or not is not known. Many of the men who were killed are Japanese. The Mex­ ican Coal and Coke company is com­ posed of Americans who are identified with the Erie railroad Interests. The catastrophe has caused intense excite­ ment among the several thousand min­ ers employed at the mines and troops have been sent to the scene ^pre­ serve order. /J- Pittsburg, Pa.--The Philadelphia express on the Pennsylvania railroad, due to arrive here at 6:36 Sunday night, ran into an open switch in the yards at Sixteenth street about seven o'clock. v The ambulances from the Western Pennsylvania and Allegheny general hospitals were hurriedly summoned to the Union station, but according to the railroad officials and hospital phy­ sicians no one was injured. j;. The New York express, due here at •even o'clock narrowly escaped run- '.Jtlng into the Philadelphia train, and caused a panic among the already frightened passengers. One coach on the Philadelphia train Was telescoped and two others de­ railed. The train was late and waa running faster than usual through the yards. It was learned about 11 o'clock that five women passengers had been in­ jured. It i$ said they sustained seri­ ous cuts and bruises. They were given medical attetnion by the hos­ pital and railroad physicians-and later continued their journey. The condition of the passengers in­ jured in the wreck of the Pennsyl­ vania special Friday night was re­ ported Sunday night from the Al­ toona (Pa.) hospital and the«Allegheny general hospital.in this city as being excellent. John F. Kline, postmaster of Joliet, 111., who is the most serious­ ly injured, passed a favorable day. In addition to many cuts and bruises, Mr. Kline sustained a puncture of the lung. It is said at the Altoona hos­ pital that he will recover, however, unless complications set in. Frederick A. Busse, postmaster of Chicago; Sam­ uel F. Nixon, Philadelphia; Felix la- man, Philadelphia; Frank P. Hedgera, Chicago; E. J. Murphy, Joliet, 111., and C. W. Winkler, Chicago, who are also in the Altoona hospital, are resting easily and will be able to leave the Institution in about ten days. M. F. Pippenbrink, Joliet, 111., will be able to go home at once. W. H. Baker, of Chicago, who was in the Al­ legheny general hospital, departed for home early Sunday and J. Wood Wil­ son, Marion, Ind., and Thomas Bauer, of Lafayette, Ind., will, it is said, leave the hospital in two days. DROPS LAMP, BURNED TO DEATH. ell-Known Pennsylvania Lawyer V!o» tim of Terrible Accident. Meadville, Pa.--Patrick C. Sheehan, aged 48 years and one of the best- known members of the Crawford coun­ ty bar, was burned to death early Sun­ day at his home in Conenautville. Sheehan went to the library of his home, in his night robe. Apparently he was stricken with apoplexy and dropped a lighted lamp. The whole lower portion of his body was horribly burned. SAVE8 8ON; LOSE8 HER LIFE. Woman Killed by Her Husband Kansas City. In Kansas City, Mo.--Mrs. J. Oscar Richardson, wife of a stationary en­ gineer, rushed between her son and husband in the act of a peacemaker at their home in Rosedale, Kan., near here, Sunday, and was stabbed to the heart by Richardson. The couple had been quarreling when the son inter­ fered, taking his mother's part. Rich­ ardson then attacked the son knife. Bailey Inquiry Near End. Austin, Tex.--It is expected that the findings of the legislative committee Investigation into the charges against Senator Bailey will be reported to the two houses of the legislature not later than Tuesday. Senator Bailey and his attorneys are urging upon the com­ mittee the need of haste, as he an­ nounces he will leave Thursday In order to reach Washington by March 4 to be installed as senator. Gets a Rhode* Scholarship. Lincoln, Neb.--Samuel N. Rlnaker, a sophomore in the University of Ne­ braska, was awarded a Rhodes schol­ arship Friday. He was the unanimous choice in a contesting class of four. His home Is at Beatrice, Neb." "Ghastly Find In Gotham - New York.--The feet and portions of the legs of a man and woman were found in a box in a snow bank in the back yard of a tenement house in Third avenue Friday. The legs had 1 been chopped off with an ax. Fourth Case of Smallpox. JefferBon City, Mo.--John M. Dough- arty, of Howard county, an engrossing clerk, was stricken with illness Sun­ day that was pronounced smallpox. His case is of a mild form. He is the fourth man connected with the house of representatives to contract the malady. Theater In Altoona Burned. Altoona, Pa.--The Lyric theater, conducted as Keith's vaudeville house, was destroyed by fire Sunday. The fire is supposed to have been caused by crossed electric wires on the stage. The loss is about $90,000. Lottery Man Put Under Bond*. Dallas, Tex.--Gen. W. L. Cabell, commander of the trans-Mississippi de­ partment, United Confederate Veter­ ans, was placed under a bond of $5,000 Tuesday in connection with the Honduras lottery matter. ^ ; Dies on Sweetheart's Grave. *" Joliet, 111.--After weeping over the grave of his sweetheart, Estella Cos- tello, at Mount Olivet cemetery, Fred Foster committed suicide with poison. He was discovered by the sexton, but Jews Attacked in Odessa.--Ninety-five Jews and Jew­ esses have been removed to hospitals suffering from injuries sustained In an attack made upon them Monday night by members of the Union qf Rus- men. Italy Decorates Mr. Meyer. ' Rome.--King Victor Emmanuel has signed la decree bestowing upon George Von L. Meyer, the newly ap­ pointed postmaster general in Presi­ dent Roosevelt's cabinet the grand eordon of the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus. . , Senator Doiliver'* Brother Die*. Fort Dodge, la.--Victor B. Dolllver, 46 years old, a brother of Senator Dol­ llver of Iowa, was found dead in bed $unday evening. 0 * 1 - Ohio Centenarian Die*. ' ' - Piqua, O.---Alexander Green, who last December celebrated his one hun­ dredth anniversary, died Sunday morn­ ing of old age. Mr. Green was a de­ scendant of the famous and aristocrat­ ic German family, Von Greenfeld. is- M died a few mtnutes lata?. V k*/ Street Car* Burned Up, A Warren, Pa.--Fire Sunday destroyed the barns of the Warren Street Rail­ way company and caused, a loss of $125,000. Only four cars were saved and arrangements were made to bor­ row ears from Jamestown, N. T, ^ . '• "" v Riymondville, Tex., Ftt>; ^ This town is in the central part Cameron County, Texas, which county lies along the Gulf Coast and is bor­ dered by the Rio Grande River on the south. The St Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway traverses the county ;; from north to south. At Raymondville last spring a fleW of corn attained a height of eight feet without rain or irrigation, simply from the moisture that was stored in the soil. After that it required irrigating In Cameron County, Texas, the eai9 are setting on the stalks when thft 7 Iowa farmer Is planting his crof.V "Roasting ears" are in the market ig that region in the early spring, as weft as in the late fall, and at Christmas- tide. Take alfalfa, also: The Northern^ farmer who is satisfied with three I four cuttings a year from his alfal% v field will hardly believe even the coj ^ servative facts about alfalfa In Camefl^ on County, Texas. Here the farmtar harvests seven or eight cuttings in tbK first year." rJF Sugar cane, as is, generally known, Is grown by planting the stalks tbenfe selves In furrows, but this does ua|?-v have to be done every year. In that Rio Grande Valley of Texas a single planting will last for eight or teH years. Another point: Rio Grand|r cane contains about thirty' per cenf£- > more sugar than that of other localf* ties. It was this fact that won thit gold medal at the St "JLouis Exposjft tion for cane from the Closner plant' tation, near Hidalgo, Texas, which iif fifty miles above Brownsville. A comprehensive book of eighty s t pages, profusely illustrated and fully . descriptive of the #rexas Gulf Coast may be obtained by addressing Johp, Sebastian, Passenger Traffic Manager* . Room 1, La Salle St Sta., Chicago, ogf'M Room 1, Frisco Bldg., St. Louis. : . f 5 Typical Soldier ef Fortune. Though many of the descendants of. the illustrious Edgar Allan Poe inherit some of his illustrious instincts, it Is probably more marked in the case of "Johnnie" Poe, who can well be stylett a typical soldier of fortune. Mr. Poe belonged to the great Fifth regiment of Baltimore and served during the war with Spain, after which he went to the Philippines, where he was of ­ fered a commission for efficient work» For the second time, however, he ; fused the honor and remained a priy- '.. ate. At the expiration of his term hi" " came back to this country and wan­ dered to the famous Death valley and from there to the Tonopah districll^ from which he was lured in the la#% fall by the call of the gridiron. DeafnesS'Cannot Be Cured ' by local application*, aa they cannot reach tne eaaed portion of the car. Titers la only one war care decineas, and that Is by conatltatlonal remedies. Deafneaa 1* caused by an inflamed condition of th» mucous linlnjr of the Eustachian Tube. When tbla tube la Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or lot- perfect hearing, and when It U entirely cioned, Deafr- ness 1* the result, and nnless the Inflammation can b# taken out and this tube restored to its normal condfr tlon, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine case out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which Is nothing bat in InsuDod condition of the macout BurfiCMT^ . ^ ,v- 'M , '• L*' 11 .a We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of i/eafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be curd by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. "H' - - * F. S. CHENEY ft CO., Toledo. <B " Bold by Drtjtiflsts, 75c. •: • Take Hall's Family Pius for constipation. 'J*< ffr Has Pearl Monopoly. Joehua Pisa of the Isthmus of Pawtef ' ma and one of the greatest pearl mewls chants in the world is visiting Wash*; ington. He owns valuable conce^» * aions granted by the Panama goven|lfJ| ment, whereby he has almost a mori- opoly of the valuable oyster beds c^: ;i the Pearl Islands that are situated iffe* the Pacific ocean 75 miles from th|| city of Panama. He ahips his pearljp <,,> mostly to Paris. * • t Danger In Salt Baths. Salt water, so strengthening ordin­ arily, is most weakening when to#S./; warm. On most ocean boats there iih' an abundance of warm water in thfL bathrooms, and the daily salt bath if , a great tonic, but beware of getting i( . ' too hot It will turn you faint it yo^|:^ do, even if you are accustomed to ai|r>" equally high temperature in fresh wa^, ter at home.--Travel Magazine. ' It isn't likely that Homer knew thf|^f difference between heroic pentametep;/. *: * and a milk wagon; Rafael probablf, V never guessed that there was such *v " word as "genre," and the language op\r5 the average musical critic woul4;' doubtless have been too technical fof the understanding of Wagner. £>r Cardinal Fond of Golf. Cardinal Merry del Val, the Pope'jj secretary of state, is a keen golfei| Twice in each week he playB over private course in He grounds of tfc#; Villa Doria-Pamphill. * v * V i A FRIEND'8 TIP. 70-Year-0!d Man Not too Old to a Food Pointer. "For the last 20 years,"' writes a Maine man, "I've been troubled with Dyspepsia and liver complaint, and have tried about every known remedy/,: without much in the way of result# until I took up the food question. "A friend recommended Grape-Nut# food, after I had taken all sorts of medicines with only occasional, tem­ porary relief. "This was about nine months ag<v and I began the Grape-Nuts for break* test with cream and a little sugari* Since then I have had the food for at least one meal a day, usually for breakfast "Words fail to express the benefit J, received from the use of Grape-Nuta» My stomach is almost entirely fre# from pain and my liver complaint Is . about cured, I have gained flesh, sleep well can eat nearly any kind of food except greasy, starchy things and am Strong and healthy at the age of 70 years. "If Wan be the means of helping any poor mortal who has been trow bled with dyspepsia as I have been, I am willing to answer any letter enclos­ ing stamp." Name given by Postuia Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the lit* tie book, "The Road to "WeillviUe," iM: fkgs. "There's a Reason/*» f , • • • •k: