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- . . *• mmm #.Am .'hf. < V 1 i, S#" ' AfrWn OT THE TIME TO STOP", W0ULD-B6 CANDIDATE. lie McHenry Plaindealer. munu) by m. u. MBBnKia. 'Jpnam*, ILUNOIS, i /S UK- e*k- *iflr "K"-' •'• tg,. ' IP-M- - R$ «er tgw i . - The Moroccans act as if this world "Viie a perpetual world's fair. NEW BRIDGE OVER ST. LAW­ RENCE NEAR QUEBEC FALLS. -Money- friendship, like running wa­ ter, lasts no longer than its flood tide. The ^*h«el of fashion has made it possible for the diner to put his feet under the mahogany again. VICTIMS MAY NUMBER 80 Half of Structure Collapses, Carrying Workmen Under the Water Where the Wreckage Holds Them. COLLISION TAKES 15 LIVES SHOCKING DISASTER OCCURS NEAR CHARLESTON, ILL. When the fish trust is put on £rial will it demand a jury of fishermen, to that it may be tried by its peers? Those who look and feel for the sonny side of life will not be bothered much with the darkness of adversity. A coal miners' strike is threatened Just in time to put the price of next winter's coal up a few dollars per ton. As the age of airships has come the nation that wants to go to war should provide itself with a burglar-proof roof Commander Peary is almost never at home when it is time to vote, and yet he is all the time thinking of the poles. An inventory at long range of the ef­ fects of Nikola Tesla. the inventor, reveals only a large steel tower and a scrapbook. Mrs. Harry Thaw, we are told, is studying singing, and this looks as if she were still determined to be a woman of note. That woman who attributed her 107 years to the fact that she ate so many onions had a long life, but prob­ ably a lonely one. The London woman who chased her husband 5,000 miles must have been very easy to suit, considering that her spouse was an English tailor. Possibly it would be better not to offer prizes for large families without imposing some conditions as to the manner in which they are reared. The Filipinos* do not take to voting as a duck takes to water, but by and by when they are looking for office they will learn the value of the ballot Sir Thomas Lipton has never been accused of being an inebriate, though he has been following the cup habit So long and has not yet overcome it. Of course anything in the pure food line is to be encouraged, but why should "watered whisky" be consid­ ered more deterious than the unwa- twed? Rvery now and then a story Is told of some wild animal committing sui­ cide. Weary, perhaps, of being pur­ sued and misrepresented by nature Kfckeva. Ha, ha! Great joke on next winter! There being no peach trees left in the Michigan fruit belt, it cannot kill the peach crop, as has been winter's an­ nual habit. Kansas bakers are forbidden to knead their dough with their feet, though they need their dough with their feet as much as with any other part of the anatomy. A genius is said to have invented pants without buttons, but there must be some mistake about that Every man at some time in his life has had a pair without buttons. 1 In pardoning Col. Arthur Lynch, a British subject who fought against his country in the Boer war and was con­ victed of high treason, Great Britain did the only thing that was nearly logical in an illogical situation. The Boers themselves are in a position hardly less strange, remarks Youth's Companion, since their leaders, Botha and others, are the administrators of *a colony under the nation they fought. The pardoned man is an Irishman. Charles Gavan Duffy was tried for treason in 1848. Later he was prime minister of Victoria, and the British government knighted him. It was discovered some years that a pa r t o f t h e bus ine s s d i s t r i c t t t Minneapolis was built over a great subterranean cavern, whose rocky roof lay some sixty or more feet be­ low the surface, but the fact has been kept quiet until now, when the roof of the cave has been put upon the support of great concrete pillars. The cave had been caused by a subter­ ranean waterflow, which has been di­ verted. When accidentally discov­ ered, says the San Francisco Argo­ naut, the cavern contained a lake ot line ice-cold water, ten feet deep, and large enough to have supplied the city. The world is not yet so settled that all the old thrilling tales of new country mhst go out of stock. It is several years since western America furnished an exciting story of a rail­ way race for a pass through the mountains. But now from Alaska comes the old tale retold. Rival roads building from the southern coast northward toward the Yukon and the coppermines, have chased for the needed passes; and pitched battles have been fought with rifles. It is the same Btory wherever business goes in advance of the law. m': • If it is true that seagulls can talk, as that Chicago university professor says they can, there is danger that the repuation of some of the gunners who have been boasting of their ex­ ploits along the coast may be de­ creased. Quebec^ Que.--A section of the new bridge across the St Lawrence river, five miles below this city, collapsed late Thursday, carrying scores of bridge workers and mechanics into the water. It is estimated that the loss of life is at least 60 and may ex­ ceed that number by 20. The bridge was about a mile and a half in length and half of it, from the south shore to midstream, crumpled up and dropped into the water. Ninety men were at work on this sec­ tion of the structure and the whistle had just blown at 5:30 for the nflen to quit work for the day when there came a grinding sound from the bridge midstream! The men turned to see what had happened and an instant later the cry went up "the bridge is falling." Few HaVe Time to Escape. The m,en made a rush shoreward, but the distance was .too great for them to escape. The fallen section of the bridge dragged othfers after it, tlie snapping girders and cables booming like a crash of artillery. Terjpr lent fleetness to the feet of the frightened workmen as they sped shoreward, but only a few of them reached safety be­ fore the last piece of iron work on i the south shore was dragged into the river. Near the shore the wreckage of the bridge did not go below the surface of the water and eight workmen who remained above water were rescued and taken to the hospital at Levis. Mourning in the Villages. There is scarcely a family in the villages of St. Romuald and New Liv­ erpool which has not been bereaved, while! in some cases five and six men of a single family have been killed. From almost every house is heard the sound of lamentations of women. The disaster caused much excite­ ment here and is regarded as a na­ tional calamity. Nothing is known of the cause of the disaster. There was nothing of an untoward nature reported that could give the slightest indication during the past few days that the huge structure was in a dangerous condition. It was built on such immense lines that it did not seem possible it could break down. » Was to Be Wonderful Bridge. The bridge was remarkable In that it was to be the longest single span cantilever bridge in the world, the length of the span in the center being 1,800 feet, or 200 feet longer than that of the Firth bridge, at present the /World's longest single bridge, span. The bridge was begun about seven years ago and it was to be finished in 1.909. Subsidies had been granted by the federal and provincial govern­ ments and the city of Quebec, and the estimated cost of the work was $10,- 000,000. The Phoenix Bridge company, of Pennsylvania, had the contract for the construction of the bridge, and was working from both sides of the river. Only 15 Bodies Found. Quebec, Canada.--Seventy-nine men, it is now fairly certain, lost their lives when the Quebec bridge col­ lapsed, and the bodies of nearly all of them are still held under the wa­ ters of the St. Lawrence by the mass of debris. Fifteen bodies lie at the morgue awaiting the result of the coroner's inquest. Of the total of 79 dead or missing, 16 are skilled American me­ chanics brought here by the Phoenix Bridge company of Phoenixville, Pa., to work on the structural steel parts of the bridge. Women May 8top Strike. New York.--The New York papers announce that Helen Gould, Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay and Mrs. J. G. Phelps Stokes, representing the wo­ men stockholders in the Western Union and Postal Telegraph compa­ nies, held a secret conference late last week on the strike situation, and took action looking to a settlement of the difficulty. After the conference, ac­ cording to the printed stories, Miss Gould cabled to her brother, George J., who is in Europe, to come home at once. It is reported that he sailed last Sunday. Nelson Morris Passes Away. Chicago.--Nelson Morris, pioneer Chicago packer and multimillionaire, died at his home, 2453 Indiana avenue, Tuesday, of heart disease, aggravated by kidney trouble. Mr. Morris was born in the Black Forest, Germany, in 1840, and came to America penniless when he was 11 years old, made his way to Chicago and went to work in the stockyards. Metcalfe Son Elopes. San Francisco.--William Howard Metcalf, youngest son of Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Metcalf, social favorite and Oakland bank clerk is married. The young man eloped to San Rafael and was married to Mrs. Wida Bevans, a widow. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, which I ' ' says: "This year's expenditures to the north and the south pole number * three each way," meant to say, of course: "This year's expeditions," but the misprint seems an inspired If jv k i i - i . k Kaiser's Daughter Wfll Wed. London.--Emperor William, it is un­ derstood. will arrange a marriage be­ tween his only daughter, Princess Vic­ toria, and Prince Leopold, son of the Princess Henry of Batteaberg. Michigan Troops at Norfolk. Norfolk, Va.--Company E, First reg­ iment, Michigan National guard, of Lansing, under Capt. E. C. Rode, ar­ rived at the Jamestown exposition Thursday and went into camp. They will remain here one week. Yellow Fever Near Havana. Washington.---A cablegram from Ha­ vana to the Marine hospital service reports the appearance of yellow fever at Campo, across the bay from Havana. There is one undoubted and other suspected, cases. Injure*# Number ; Fifty--Interurtoan Express Train Collides with Trac­ tion Car and is Telescoped. *_ Mattoon, III.---Fifteen persons were killed and about 50 injured in a head- on collision between an Interurban ex­ press train, consisting of a motor car and a trailer, and a traction car on the Mattoon and Charleston electric line at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning. The crash occurred on a sharp curve one mile west of Charleston, 111. A confusion of orders received over the telephone is said to have been the cause of the terrible accident. The cars approached each other at a high rate of speed and the impact was so terrific that the motor car and trailer were telescoped by the traction car. There was no warning and few passengers had time to escape by jumping. The passengers, nearly all of them en route to the Coles county fair at Charleston, were crushed or maimed where they sat in their seats. Some of those who escaped death and were able "to talk say the scene at the wreck was grew some. The dead and dying were jammed together in a mass. Women were shrieking with pain and children were crying for mothers who were thought to be among the dead. When the news of the wreck reached Mattoon special cars were hurried to the scene and the dead and injured were brought to the morgue and hospital here. Some Of the injured are in a critical condition and there is little hope for their recovery. The motormen of both cars jumped and neither was injured seriously. The empty car, which was used for haul­ ing express, had no one aboard with the exception of the motorman. Most of those killed were riding in the front end of the first car of the passenger train, used as a smoking compartment. Medical aid was summoned from this city, but in the meantime doctors and others had hurried from Charles­ ton, a mile from the scene of the dis­ aster. The dead and injured were ex­ tracted from the broken mass of tim­ bers and seats. First, aid was given the maimed and bruised and the dead were laid alongside the track. The victims could not be taken to Charles­ ton, because the track was blocked in. that direction, and consequently were brought to this city. The line on which the disaster hap­ pened is but 12 miles long, running between Mattoon and Charleston, and has but a single track. Telephones are placed every few miles, at which orders are transmitted to the con­ ductors and motormen of the cars passing over the road. A misunder­ standing of one of these telephone or­ ders is said to have caused the dis­ aster. CONVICTS ELUDE POSSE. Two Men Who Escaped from Joliet Still at Large. Chicago. -- A posse of 100 men, led by Deputy Warden Henry Sims, is in close pursuit of Harry Har­ mon and "Eddie" Quinn, convicts who escaped from the Joliet peniten­ tiary. The men were believed to be trapped in a box car at Brander's Bridge, near Joliet, but they eluded their pursuers. The convicts left the car just as the carriages conveying the posse ap­ peared in sight. Jl through fast- freight train on the Santa Fe was passing at the time, and the fugitives, risking their lives, boarded the train. The escape of the men was one of the most sensational prison flights In years. By means of a rope made from strips of a sheet and an improvised hook they scaled the high penitentiary wall, eluding the armed guards and sentries, and gained their liberty be­ fore the alarm was given and posses started the search for them. Witness Fee 8ent to Rockefeller. Chicago.--At last John D. Rocke­ feller's claim of $73.95 against the United States IB paid. Chief Deputy Marshal John P. Wolf made out a check for the amount, put it in an envelope, addressed to the Standard Oil company president's Cleveland home, and deposited it in the mail. Vesuvius Is Threatening. Naples.--Ominous rumblings are coming from Mt. Vesuvius, and smoke is issuing from the crater. As a result, the inhabitants of the villages sur­ rounding the volcano are in a state of great alarm. These are the first signs of volcanic activity since the eruption of March, 1906. Strikers Will 8ue for Damages. Hibbing, Minn.--Suits for dam­ ages aggregating half a million dol­ lars will be instituted against the steel trust and St. Louis county by striking miners who have been ghot or Imprisoned by sheriffs. 200 Dying Daily of Cholera. Shanghai.--The epidemic of cholera among the Chinese in the lower Yangtse ports is spreading. About 200 persons die dally in the streets of Wuhu, in the province of Nganhwel, and Kiukiang, province of Kiangsi. Edward Is Shocked by Song. Marienbad.--King Edward has ad- aiiulstered a rebuke for the singing of indelicate songs in places of public amusement, and his action, which was taken publicly, has created intense ex­ citement in Marienbad. Fast Train Leaves the Rails. Oil City, Pa. -- The Niagara Ex­ press, one of the fastest trains on the Pennsylvania railroad between Buffalo and Pittsburg, left the rails at Centerville, 30 miles north of here, Thursday. The train, which was run­ ning 40 miles an hour, was a double- header filled with excursionists from Chautauqua lake. The forward en­ gine ran along the ties for almost a quarter of a mile before it was stopped, but did not overturn. AH the passen­ gers were badly shaken np, but nont hurt Manager Saw the Possibllltleafn the Situation. Jim Johnstone, the famous- base­ ball, umpire, said recently in New York that baseball crowds were far kinder to umpires than they Heed to be. "This is true of theater crowds, too," said Mr. Johnstone. "Why, with provincial touring companies in the past, maltreatment was regularly ex­ pected. In fact, the companies prof­ ited by it in more ways than one. "I know of a company that was playing 'The Broken Vow' in Paint Rock, a one night stand. The audi­ ence didn't like 'The Broken Vow,' and eggs, cabbages and potatoes" rained upon the stage. "Still the play went on. The hero raved through his endless speeches, dodging an onion or a baseball every other minute, and pretty sore from those missiles that he hadn't been able to dodge. "But finally a gallery auditor inv a paroxysm of rage and scorn hurled a heavy boot, and the actor, thoroughly alarmed, started to retreat. " 'Keep on playing, you fool,' hissed the manager from the wings, as he hooked in the boot with an unjbrella. "Keep on till we get the other one.'" PRESCRIPTIONS IN LATIN. The Public Should Have Them Trans­ lated by the Druggists. What virtue is there in the secrecy with which the doctor hedges about his profession? "Professional etiquette" occupies a prominent place in the curriculum of every medical school, and when strict­ ly analyzed "professional etiquette" seems to mean "doing what is best for the doctor, individually and col­ lectively." Among the things that "is best for the doctor" is the writing of his pre­ scriptions in Latin, and thus keeping the public in ignorance not only of what it is taking for its ills, bat forc­ ing a call upon the doctor each time a prescription is needed. in plain and unmistakable English the writing of prescriptions in Latin makes business for the doctors. Let us say that you have the ague. You had it last year and the year be­ fore. Each time you have visited the doctor and he has prescribed for you --in Latin. You have never known what he has given you for the disease, and so each time you are forced to go to him again and give him an oppor­ tunity to repeat his prescription--in Latin, and his fee--in dollars. If you ask the doctor why he uses Latin in writing his prescriptions, why he writes "aqua" when he means wa­ ter, he \yill give you a technical dis­ sertation on the purity of the Latin language, and the fact that all words are derived from It, etc. It will be a dissertation that you may not be able to answer, but it will hardly convince you. It would be a good thing for the pub­ lic to devise a little code of ethics of its own; ethics that will be "a good thing for the public individually and collectively." Let us apply one of the rules of this code of ethics to you, the individual. You call in the physician when you have the ague, the grippe, or any of the other ills to which human flesh is heir, and which you may have again some day. The doctor prescribes--in Latin, and you take this, to you, mean­ ingless scribble to the druggist to have it compounded. Right here is where you come in, if you are wise. Say to the druggist that you want a translation of that prescription. It Is your privilege to know what you are taking. While the doctor's code of ethics may not recognize this right it is yours just the same. With the translated prescription in your possession you have two distinct advantages. You know what you are taking, and should you wish to call some other doctor at some time you will be able to tell him what drugs you have been putting into your system, and also if you should have the same disease again you can save yourself a visit to the doctor, and his fee, by taking this translated prescription to the druggist once more and having it refilled. ' Z -ismy THE HOOSlERtlERriAN WTIU'St. WOK*. SttNE OF THE Llfl cotfps MFRt GOINC IN HIS SPORTING DRAMA Bi THf Why Not Go on the 8tage and Make Enough to Cover Campaign Expenses. RiCHARD MANSFIELD DEAD FOREMOST ACTOR OF AMERICA HAS PASSED AWAY. Death Not Unexpected--Family Are at His Bedside at New London, Conn., When the End Comes. WIRE STRIKE NEARING END. APPEAL THAT WAS HEEDED. Judge Must Also Have Been Follower of the Gentle Art. John Quincy Adams, of Massachu­ setts, third of that name, who died about ten years ago, <«ras very fond of fishing, and not especially fond of his legal profession. One day, the story runs, a case in which he was counsel was down for trial in a Massachusetts court. Mr. Adams did not make his appearance, but sent a letter to the judge. That worthy gentleman read it, and then postponed the case with the announce­ ment: "Mr. Adams is detained on im­ portant business." It was afterward learned by a col­ league of Adams that the letter read as follows: "Dear Judge: For the sake of old Isaak Walton, please continue my case till Friday. The anu^s are biting, and I can't leave." New London, Conn.--Richard Mansfield, the best known actor on the American stage, passed away at six a. m. Friday at his summer residence, Seven Oaks, Ocean avenue. Death was directly due to disease of the liver, aggravated by complica­ tions. Dr. A. H. Allen, a local physi­ cian, who has been in charge since Mr. Mansfield's arrival here from Sar- anac Lake, N. Y., states that death was not entirely unexpected, although this fact had not been made public. Mr. Mansfield's condition had been reported as excellent. It was stated that he stood the jour­ ney well from Saranac Lake and that he was up and around his home here until three days ago. Then a turn for the worse' set in and Mr. Mansfield was confined to his room. Thursday Dr. McClellan, of Pittsburg, was sum­ moned. Dr. Allen said Friday that he had fesired the worst for several days. There were several conditions that prevented his getting well. Dur­ ing the great actor's last moments he lay in a condition of coma and did not fecognlze the loved ones at his bed­ side. There were present at the time of his death his wife, his brother Felix, his young son, George Gibbs, and the physicians and nurses. The intense nervous strain under which Richard Mansfield worked caus­ ed a complete breakdown last spring while he was playing an engagement in Scran ton, Pa., though he had been in poor health for some time. He re­ covered sufficiently to enable him to make a voyage to England. The Eng­ lish climate failed to benefit the actor and several weeks ago he returned to this country and went to Ampersand, in the Adlrondacks. Mr. Mansfield longed to be a± his summer home in New London, &>nn., and several days ago he was taken there in his private car. Companies and Leaders of Men Ex­ pect Settlement Soon. , New York. -- The strike of the telegraph operators which has been in progress throughout the United States for several weeks will come to an end by the middle of next week, according to prophecies made by both the strike leaders and the company managers Friday. The op­ posing leaders are by no means agreed upon the conditions which will bring about the Battlement, however. On that point they appear to be as widely apart as at any time since the strike began. Daniel L. Russell, of the teleg­ raphers* union, said he is confident that next Wednesday, will see a com­ plete capitulation of the companies with the granting of all the demands made by the strikers. Superintendent Brooks of the Western Union said he believed that empty pockets of the strikers will lead to a solution of the trouble. Some of the men already are returning to their old places, he said, and he looks for a general break in the ranks of the strikers by the mid­ dle of the coming week. .4 FIRE IN LOUISVILLE. QR08S EARNINGS OF RAILWAYS. Time to Fly. The trust magnate leaped up from the banquet table and made a dive for his 100-mlle-an-hour automobile. "Hold on!" cried the astonished toastmaster. "Won't you wait for us to serve the dessert?" "No," replied the nervous magnate; "I Just saw a suspicious face loom up at the window. The next thing served will be a process." And telling his chauffeur to put on full speed the wealthy fugitive headed for the next state. The Appropriate Location. Caustic Critic--Why did you put that joker at the very end of the num­ bers in your entertainment program! Member of Committee--Wasn't thai all right? I thought a wag oug]* naturally to come at the tail end. Riches Cause Trouble. Great riches are ever accompanied by great anxieties, and an increase of our possessions IB but an islet to new disquietudes.--Goldsmith. Enormous Increase in 1906 Over the Previous Year. New York. -- The gross earnings of the railroads of the United States during 1906, according to the fortieth annual number of Poor's Man­ ual, Issued Tuesday, made the enor­ mous increase over 1905 of $234,442,- 616. The net earnings increased $104,- 728,224. This was done in spite of a heavy increase in operating expenses due to higher wages and Increased cost of material. Over 71,000,000 more peo­ ple traveled by rail in 1906 than in the preceding year, while the railroads moved 1,610,099,829 tons, as compared 'With 1,435,321,748 tons in the preced­ ing year. The total assets of all railroads are reported as $17,534,381,633 or more than six times the total money in cir­ culation in the country. CouriertJournal Building Is Praotieally Destroyed by Fiames.i Louisville, Ky. -- The Courier- Journal building at Fourth and Green streets caught fire just after midnight Thursday night jand within half an hour was practically ruined. It was believed all the employes es­ caped safely. The fire spread with remarkable rapidity through the ofllce building, which was half a block in length and five stories high. The plants of the Courier-Journal and Evening Times suffered irreparable damage. The for­ mer paper was offered the use of the Morning Herald plant. The fire started at the top of an ele­ vator shaft at the north end of the building, and is supposed to have been caused by defective insulation of elec­ tric wires. HE HAD TO F-JAVE FRUIT, Grapes Beyond Hie Purse, Boy Took Humble Substitute. James Wilson, the secretary of agri­ culture, was discussing in Washington the aid which his department gives the American farmer. He pointed out the benefit that had been derived from the introduction of darum wheat, of the wheat-testing machine, and of the method of extracting potash from granite. "In fact," said Mr. Wilson, smiling, "I believe that eventually our finest products will be cheap enough to be within the preach of all. Then the story of the boy and the hot-house grapes will be as dead and antiquated as the theater hat stories of the past. "This boy--he was a bootblack-- entered a grocer's store one day, and, pointing to some superb grapes, said:' ** 'Wot's the price o' them there, mister?' -- " '0ne dollar *, j^tmd^ my lad,' %h* clerk replied. ' ' , . "A look of anguish passed over the bby's face, and he said, hastily: " 'Then give us a cent's worfcj^ carrots. I'm dead nuts on fruit* * CHILDREN TORTURED. ^ Girl H$HJ Running Seres from Eczema Boy Tortured by Poison Oak-w^T;, , Both Cured by Cuticura. ' - "Last year, , after having my little girl treated by" a very prominent phy­ sician for an obstinate case of eczema, I resorted to the Cutlcura Remedies, and was so well pleased vrtth the al­ most instantaneous relief afforded that we discarded the physician's prescrip­ tion and relied entirely on the Cuti- cura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cu­ tlcura Pills. When we commenced with the Cuticura Remedies her feet and limbs were covered with running sores. In about six weeks we had her Completely well, and there has been no recurrence of the trouble. "In July of this year a little boy in our family poisoned his hands and arms with poison oak, and in twenty- four hours his hands and arms were a mass of torturing sores. We used only the Cuticura Remedies, and in about three weeks his hands and arms healed up. Mrs. Lizzie Vincent Thomas, Fairmont, Walden's Ridge Tenn., Oct 13, 1905." • H .y, h Net Entire. , , The aeronaut, after painfully ex­ tricating himself from the wrecked balloon, limped to the nearest farm­ house. "Madam," he said to the woman who answered his knock, "can you ac­ commodate with a night's lodging a balloonist who has come tp grief?" 'Td be glad to," she hesitated, "but you are an entire stranger to--" "Not an entire one," he Interrupted, with some acerbity. "For I have left my left ear, three teeth, and certain portions of my nose back th«ff« Kith the ruined car." QUAKE ROCKS MARTINIQUE. Son Killed. Father Wounded. Greenwood, Miss.--James Money, Jr., was shot and almost instantly killed and his father, James .Money, Sr., was mortally wounded late Friday night at their place of business at Money, Miss., by Dr. Grover Kirky. Miss Sutton Tennis Champion. jIlagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.--In the international tennis tournament in progress here Miss Sutton won the in­ ternational championship Friday after­ noon by defeating Miss Rotch, of Bos­ ton, in two well contested games. En^ipeer Killed in a Wreck. * Albert Lea, Minn.--Engineer Vi- deaux is dead and Fireman Eng is fatally injured as the result of an acci­ dent to the through Omaha train on the Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad at midnight Thursday night. Set New Record on Isthmus. Washington.--All records for exca­ vation on the line of the Panama canal were broken during July, despiteia re­ duction in the force of employes, ac­ cording to a report for the month re­ ceived here. Judge A. L. Williams Di4st Colorado Springs, Col.--Judge JL t^ Williams of Topeka, Kan., died here Wednesday morning in his summer home on Pike's Peak. He was former­ ly general ttWMHri for the Union P»- elfte. Another Mount Pelee Disaster Feared In the Island. Fort de France, Island of Martin­ ique.--Terror reigns throughout this Island because of a severe earthquake which was felt here at 10:50 o'clock Tuesday night. The inhabitants, with the details of the eruption of Mount Pelee in 1902 fresh in their memory, are in a 'state of panic, although no damage has yet been reported. The similarity of conditions preced­ ing the frightful disaster of five years ago has caused an exodus of citizens. In that catastrophe the finale was pre­ ceded by just such seismic phenom­ ena aB are now prevalent. Huge inky black clouds are rolling over Fort de France in great masses in which there are peculiar lightning flashes. Drop* Joint Statehood. Oyster Bay, N. Y.--By authority of President Roosevelt, James R. Gar­ field, secretary of the Interior, an­ nounced Friday that no further effort will be made by the administration to bring up in congress the question of joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. The verdict of the people in those territories, recently expressed, will be accepted by the president as final, Mr. Garfield said. The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great im­ portance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which Is safe to use on line fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffener makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with tbe result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Pointed Conversation • "Jack, I am going away." ^ ̂ "Going away, Madge?" "Yes, going away. But before I'go I have something to say to you." "Something to say to me, little wife?" m "Yes, something to say to you. Don't send me any poker stories in lieu of the weekly remittance. That'll be about alL" L By following the direction#, wttfoli are plainly printed on each package of Defiance Starch, Men's Collars and Cuffs can be made Just as stiff as de­ sired, with either gloss or domestic finish. Try it, 16 oz. for 10c, sold by all good grocers. Habits of Sperm Whaffu The sperm whale can remain below the surface for about 20 minutes at a time. Then It comes to the surface and breathes 50 or 60 times, taking about ten minutes to do so. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One sise smaller after using Allen's Ease. A certain cure for swollen sweating, hot, aching feet. At all Druggists, 25c, Ac­ cept no substitute. Trial package FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Granite as Fertilizer. . The government bureau of Plant Industry finds that ground granite makes excellent fertilizer. Fierce Battle at Casablanca. Paris.--A terrific battle is reported to have occurred at Casablanca, Mo­ rocco, between the French and Span­ ish troops encamped there and a vast force of Moorish tribesmen. Mounted on fleet horses the Arabs made a desperate charge, hoping to take the camp by surprise. They were met with volleys from the artillery and machine guns with which the French garrison is well provided and which mowed lanes through the tribes­ men's ranks. The result of the en­ counter was favorable to Europeans. Child Convicted of Murder. Oil City, Pa.--McKinley Richmond, a negro, aged ten years, was %md guilty of murder in the first degree at Clarion, Pa., near here, Wednesday. The court ordered him sent to the Morgania reform institute for an in­ definite period. YYI&T Morocco Sultan Reported Killed. London.--The correspondent of the Tribune at Tangier telegraphs his pa­ per under reserve a rumor that Sultan Abdul Azis has been ntsisslnstod in the palace at Fes. 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