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AN • * >' " " m2m McHENRY, 5**P| WALL - -• V :'" - Ite jcBeary Plaiii4g»ler. Ptmnsnr.n i»r F, &. |i( HKKI!VEK> ILLINOIS. Mr. Rockefeller says he has a heavy Weight on his mind. He should buy * lighter wig. Arctic explorers should be careful about taking any bad men along lest they shoot out the northern lights. "This country is the instrument of the Lord," says Admiral Dewey. Di­ vinity uses the big stick, it seems, by proxy. - So Brazil is going to haW a war* ship of the Dreadnought type, eh? Why, the thjng is getting to ipere fad. be a The czar of Russia says he is sat- lilted with the new douraa, but, re­ marks the Omaha Bee, the douma Is tar from satisfied with the cxar. U Any more warships are sent to Central America, the crowd of spec­ tators will number metre than the omribined armies of the belligerents. A committee of the reichstag has voted to raise the salary of the Ger­ man ambassador at Washingtop to $30,000, but even if this la done ""Specky" will still be $20,000 behind Jimmy." Mme. Liza Lehman, the composer, fS a granddaughter of the late Rob­ ert Chambers of Edinburgh, the orig­ inator and publisher of that standard work, Chambers' Encyclopedia. Her father, Randolph Lehman, was a well- known portrait painter. Count Boni de Castellane may find 4 gleam of comfort in the fact that his ex-wife has discovered her di­ vorce was entirely too expensive, the Mils being regarded as excessive. Bat then, as a luxury, Boni himself TO8 even more expensive than the di­ vorce. Greek fire, which had several other names--wild fire, liquid fire, wet fire and fire rain--descriptive of its de- structlveness, is said to have been the most destructive engine of war pre­ vious to gunpowder. Discovered by Callincius, a Syrian, it was first used in the siege of Constantinople, 673? 678, and at Mecca, 690. At last poor, suffering man has found a defender. An Iowa legislator tint; introduced a bill making it deser­ tion, with appropriate penalties, if a Wife who is able fails to provide for her husband who is destitute. Count Boni should have moved to Iowa instead of going back to Prance, where hus­ bands are supposed to look out for themselves. Three important American cities, ftoston, Buffalo and Milwaukee, are How committed to the plan of provid­ ing penny lunches for poor school children. The idea, says Utica Presfe, is opposed by many on the ground that it will encourage pauperism, but these cities seem to think it just as profitable to run the risk of burying old people as to run the risk of caring for hundreds of diseased children. A plan is suggested for rescuing the passengers and crews of wrecked ves­ sels that is so simple that one won­ ders why it has not been suggested before. It is to maintain strong sea­ going vessels at life-saving stations, and take the people off on the sea where it is got practicable to reach them from the land, as is often the case. There have been several cases this winter where a number of lives were lost by exposure, and by being 'Washed overboard before help could reach them, that might easily have been saved in this way. employers would give the wait- «S, say five per cent of the amount of the bills of guests that they serve, It Bhould be a satisfactory arrange­ ment all around,' suggests a Baltimore man. "The waiter would have just as mnch object as ever in having the cus­ tomer give him a big order and would, therefore, try to please him. The cus­ tomer would not have to forsake his natural principles against tipping in order to get good service, and the employers who followed the plan and didn't allow tips could easily afford the five per cent, commission. The development of the Canadian WM'thwest makes an increasing use of life Hudson Bay route very probable. There is nothing to prevent railroads being run to the harbors on the bay. The only doubtful question is how far ,, the route can be profitably employed lor trade. The navigation of Hudson Say itself is comparatively safe and <asy. Some of its harbors are not leebound, even in winter. The serious problem is the entrance to the bay trough the Hudson strait. The ex­ perience of the Hudson Bay com­ pany^ navigators with that of the Whalers who frequent these seas seonifi oa the whole to confirm the •pinion that no more than three months moid be counted on with any «srteinty, ^ SOUTHERN PACIFIC OVERLAN& OPEN SWITCH. , KUtOWN DEAD NUMBEtt 23 Muncie, Ind., Man One of the Victims --Others Mostly Italians--Dl»- * asUr Occurs N*arC«l- if*', ft ton, Cal. • * \ . k • Colton, CaL -- As * result of the disastrous wreck of the west­ bound Southern Pacific Sunset ex­ press in the east Colton yards late Thursday afternoon, 23 dead bodies lie in a local undertaking establishment, eight terribly injured are in the Colton hospital, and more than 50 others, whose Injuries are less seriom, have been taken to Los Angeles on special trains. The dead were all passengers on the wrecked train with one exception. Following is list of the dead: Al­ bert W. Shie,' mail clerk, Los An­ geles; George L. Sharpe, Muncie, Ind.; F. I. Walters, Sacramento, a Southern Pacific fireman, who was a passenger on the train. Twenty Italians of New York and New Or­ leans, on their way to San Francisco. One Italian womaa was killed. Of the seriously injured, those now in the Colton hospital are In the worst condition. One of them Is sure to die, and several of them may not survive. Cause Not Yet Determined. The exact cause of the wreck will not be determined until the coroner's inquest is concluded. The train was running fully 40 miles an hour at the time it struck the open switch. The Southern Pacific was blocked at the point of the crash until Friday night. Ten of the 14 coaches of the train were derailed and three of 'them WS^re. smashed completely. The Ital­ ian^, who numbered nearly 100, were in two old immigrant cars and th£s& cars were literally crushed into kindling wood. The passengers in the Pullman cars escaped uninjured. Early Friday morning Coroner Van Wye commenced to take preliminary testimony from the switching crew to ascertain whether they should be held for responsibility for the wreck of the Southern Pacific overland train near Colton Thursday. Switch Foreman Alvord testified that when he came to work in the morning he saw that the first section of the Sunset express, known as No. 9, was chalked up on the board as eight hours late. When he returned from his lunch he Inspected the board and found it silent as to No. 9 and as the eight hours' limit had expired, he concluded the overland had gone through during his absence. This error was not discov­ ered by him until he heard his en­ gineer whistling a frantic signal at the switch to.,th* overland to stop. The overland waa then half across the Santa Ana bridge. It was impossible to get baek and close the switch be­ cause the fated train had reached It. Operator Held Responsible. In this statement Alvord is corrob­ orated by his switchmen. He evident­ ly means to be understood as placing the responsibility, or part of it, on the operator, whose duty it was to keep the time board checked as a guide to the switcAmen. The coroner later stated that under the rules of the com­ pany the switch foreman seems to have a good defense; that their first order in the morning was that the overlaid train would arrive at 1:45 o'clock, eight hours late, when, in fact, it was ten hours behind; that the oper­ ator should have notified the switching crew, who were far removed from all telegraphic communication, and fur­ thermore, he stated that the rules pro­ hibit trains over ten minutes late en­ tering the yards without having their train under complete control, and the yard limits at Colton are over a mile east of where the accident occurred.. The death of George Sharpe of Mun­ cie, Ind., whose life was instantly crushed out, was particularly pathetic. Sharpe was on his way to this city to meet his wife, from whom he had became estranged three years ago. He formerly resided here, but wheu Le and his wife separated he return­ ed to Indiana. Recently he notified friends here that he was coming to Los Angeles to see his wife and se­ cure fi. reconciliation. Sharpe did not know that she had secured a di­ vorce from him more than a year ago and had remarried. . ZangwlB, the author, was recently •ike€ toy a daily paper to prepare for meaLt morning's issue a history of fa- meuB trials. Mr. Zangwill sat down with a stenographer then and there, dictated a two-column article such as desired, giving a resume of every >us trial for the last 200 years-- fuooa memory. A* Oklahoma teacher who whipped * boy In his school was killed by the ot&er pupils. Will courses in man- ataughter have to be added to our educational institutions to meet the 'demand? PENNSYLVANIA STATESMAN SUC* v^f^CUMBS TO OLD ,Hae Record-Breaking Service in Con­ gress--Was the Father of the Homestead Act. Ringhamton, N. Y.-rFormer Cwb gressman Galusha A.. Grow died at hi* home in Glenwood, Pa., Sunday after­ noon as a result of a general break­ down attributed to old age. Mr. Grow was elected to congress from the Wilmot district of Pennsyl­ vania as the youngest member of that body, in 1851, and after retirement from public life for nearly 40 years he reentered the house of represent* tives as congressman at large from Pennsylvania 14 years ago. When he retired four years ago, his public ser­ vice in the house extended over t;he longest period, although *ot continu- . . . "t: "* , * > •?> • x .1 <>v' ' Vv * ... ;•*'. --i J4* ~i 4 * 4»*' 1 . 4 . .if - } Oft •*!'- * • AO § • & r f l b j y • mm* GO QQO i6tj Qorj OODOG V. ** Ijp 88UB9 it r ' i inn innn s ChrtartdAfrald to Go In. Won and Bear Afraid' li $6' 1 ^7, Gahisha A. Grew. otw swi'vlce, of any man who etet iat }n that body. During the antebellum days he was one of the best known men in the United States and in 1864 he came within one vote of being nominated for vice president in place of Andrew Johnson, who became president on the death of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Grow was elected speaker of the house of representatives in 1861 and occupied that position during the first two years of the war, until his retire­ ment from congress in 1863. Mr. Grcw's greatest public service was as the father of the homestead act, through which measure many mil­ lion acres of western farm lands were opened up to settlement by homestead­ ers, an act which has been credited with doing more than any other one thing for the development of the great west. He was the last surviving mem­ ber of a family of six children. He was never married. "8ILENT" SMITH IS DEAD. Fifty-four Killed by Johannesburg, Transvaal. -- Four white men and 50 natives were in­ stantly killed and three whites and 16 natives were injured by the explo­ sion Thursday night of two cases ol dynamite at the Dreifonteln mine., , Jennie Burch Goes to Asylum. Carmel, N. Y.--Jennie Burch, who killed baby Wilbur Winshlp, was found not guilty by reason of Insanity and the court committed her to Mat- tea wan asylum for criminals. Missouri Millionaire Head. - Joplln, Mo.--State Senator Thom­ as Connor, the millionaire mine owner of this city, died Friday, aged 52 years, at a sanitarium at San An­ tonio, Tex., where he had been jpr sev­ eral months. The remains will be taken to Tiffin, O., his boyhood home, for burial. Morgan Buys Great Collection, Brussels.--It is currently reported that J. Pierpont Morgan, of New York, has acquired for $1,200,000 the unique collection of Jules Van Den Pore- boom, which comprises furniture, pic­ tures, arms, brasses, ancient engrav­ ings and chimney pieces. <r. The king of Italy and John D. Rock­ efeller are said to be the world's greatest coin collectors. But the for­ mer is collecting only the rarest *fnd,/ while the latter collects all he can get his hands on. . Of course Capt. Daring may have "••ached the north pole in his airship, bat he does not mention whether or not It was a hot airship. A New Jersey farmer owns a which he says is 72 years old, yet there are boarders who claim io b9j9 eaten all of that dotage. Kansas City Merchant Dies. Kansas City, Mo.--William B,. Thay­ er, a member of the Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods company, conduct­ ing a department store here, died Sunday night, aged 55 years. Spain Msy Have Heir Soon. ^ ̂ Mkdrld.--The physicians who arfe in attendance upon Queen Victoria have reason to believe that she may be con­ fined sooner than has been antici­ pated, and it has been recommended that King Alfonso curtail hij v|ajt to Cartagena. Gorky Has Consum London.--A Rome dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company says that Maxim Gorky, the Russian writer, Is seriously ill there with consump­ tion. American Millionaire Passes Away in Kioto, Japan. New York. -- A dispatch received here Wednesday from Tokyo, Japan, announces tfie death of James Henry Smith, one of the wealthiest capitalists of this city. At the time of his death Mr. Smith was on a wedding tour around the world with his bride, who was the divorced wife of William Rhinelander Stewart. They were mar­ ried in this city on Sept 13 of last year. Mr. Smith's death occurred Tuesday at Kioto, Japan. Heart disease is said to have been the cause. A dispatch received here Monday said that Mr. Smith was dangerously ill. In the party with Mr. and Mrs. Smith were the duke and duchess of Manchester. James Henry Smith, known as the "silent man of Wall street," inherited some years ago an estate valued at up- ward pf $50,000,000 from his uncle, George Smith, a pioneer banker of Chi­ cago. After the death of William C. Whitney, Mr. Smith purchased the Whitney residence in Fifth avenue and entertained there on a lavish scale. Mrs. Stewart obtained a divorce last year and at the time her decree was granted it was reported that she In­ tended to become the wife of Mr. Smith. She Is much interested in so­ ciety, as was Mr. Smith. Indeed, Mr. Stewart's indifference to social affairs was said to 03 one of the reasons for the estrangement of the couple. Mrs. Stewart was a Miss Armstrong, of Bal­ timore, and is a sister of Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia. ^ifDUR KILLED BY TRAIN. TWb Kansas City Men and Their Wives the Victims. Kansas City, Mo.--Four persons in a buggy--two men and their wives- were instantly killed late Sunday af­ ternoon at the Fifteenth street cross- lng of the Chicago & Alton railroad, two miles east of this city, by the Al­ ton's Red Flyer, west-bound from St LOUiS; ' s VK Pppe Praises Chicago Dlocense., Rome.--Cardinal Merry Del Val, the papal secretary of state, has written in the name of the pope a highly com­ mendatory letter to Archbishop Qulg- ley, of Chicago, praising the progress >of the Catholic clergy and his archdiocese. H. W. Goode Is Dead.® ^ ' Atlantic City, N. J.--H. W. Goode, of Portland, Ore., who was president of the Lewis and Clark exposition, died Sunday at a hotel of Bright's dis­ ease and pneumonia. . 5 Water Plant Belongs to Laporte»v 1 Laporte, Ind.--Special Judge McMa- hon Thursday granted a permanent In­ junction to prevent the city of Laporte from paying money to the Laporto Water Supply company, and held that the plant is the property of the city. Federal Prisoners Escape. •« South McAlester, I. T.--Seven pris­ oners overpowered their guards and escaped from the United States jail here Thursday. One than was recap­ tured. • 4 FIRE IN 6RISC0HTS HOUSE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR ,TO ROME NEARLY BURNED OUt.' Ball Room Celling Ruined and Several Paintings Damaged--Loss Is Estimated at $10,000. Rome.--While Lloyd C. Griscom, the American ambassador, and Mrs. Griscom were returning from the Easter services at the American church Sunday, they saw smoke ris­ ing from the roof of their home, the Palazzo del Drago. Mr. Griscom hur­ riedly entered the building and found the servaivts were unaware that the palace was "on fire. The ambassador led the way to the attic. Flames burst forth as he opened the door and. burned his hand and singed his eyebrows. When the fire­ men arrived the. beams, which were put in place centuries agor were burn­ ing briskly. The roof over the attic collapsed, causing the center portion of the ceiling of the magnificent ball­ room to fall. The furniture and paint­ ings were quickly removed, but not before several of the latter, notably one of President Roosevelt were dam­ aged. After working two hours the fire­ men succeeded in checking the blaze The loss is estimated at $10,000 and IB covered by insurance. Ambassador Griscom had Intended to sign the lease Monday for the house, which still is under leaso to the former American ambassador, Henry White. The origin of the fire has not been definitely established. NEW YORK BANK CLOSBSL^ Corbin Banking Company Assigns for the Benefit of Creditors. New York.--The Corbin banking company Thursday assigned for the benefit of creditors to George C. Aus­ tin. At the office of the company the following statement was given out: "The assets exceed the liabilities by more than $1,000,000. The principal assets consist of valuable real estate, which could not be sold, except at a sacrifice, in time to meet maturing ob­ ligations. The creditors will undoubt­ edly be paid in full." The Corbin Banking company was established by the late Austin Corbin, Sr., who was for many years the con­ trolling influence in the Long Island Railroad company. Mr. Austin Bald a rough estimate placed the liabilities at $1,700,000, and the assets at $3,- 000,000. KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDEMf, Niece of Collie P. Huntington Victim of Her New Motor Car. Oneonta, N. Y.--Mrs. E. S. Love- land, a niece of the late -Coins' P. Huntington, and a beneficiary under his will, was killed Sunday while op­ erating a new automobile which had been delivered to her Saturday. In attempting to turn around on Chestnut street Mrs. Loveland unin­ tentionally turned on full power and the car shot across the Bidewalk and plunged over a stone wall that crowns a 20-foot embankment. Mrs. Love- land was thrown from the car as it dropped to the ground and her neck was broken. ^ Passenger Train In ColllstoMu Fairmont, W. Va.--Baltimore & Ohio passenger train No. 11 collided head- on with a freight train at Pritchard's Mills, seven miles west of here, Sun­ day. .Over 100 passengers were se­ verely shaken up and bruised. h Take Revenge on Torturer, Kursk, Russia.--Druzsaninnlltoff, - an ex-policeman who was sentenced Feb­ ruary 21 to a year's imprisonment for torturing peasants during A punitive expedition, has been killed by peasant prisoners in the jail here. . v^olumbus Ice Men FinecJ,, Coluinbus, O.--C. M. Kinnafwl, of the Crystal Ice company, and William F. Holley, of the Franklin Ice com­ pany, found guilty of entering into a conspiracy in restrain^ of trade, were each fined $1,000. Nebraska Primary Bill Passed. Lincoln, Neb.--The senate Friday passed the state-wide direct primary bill with amendments which the house concurred in. The. biU does away 1 with state, county Mid city nomi­ nating conventions • ' 80UTHERN TOWN IN FLAMES. Fir# pestroys^Kch^Property J» New- Laurens, S. C. -- Fire a£ Newberry, S. C., a thriving little city of 6,000 population, Friday destroyed 22 res­ idences, ten stores and two churches, entailing a loss estimated at between $150,000 and $200,000 with insurance of about $85,000. The conflagration started In the rear of the Newberry hotel at 11:30 o'clock in the morning. A gale was blowing and the flames spread with great rapidity. The citizens became alarmed and appeals for assistance were telegraphed to Columbia and to this city, but engine^ could not, be sent into Newberry on account of the destruction of the railroad tracks. The Newberry fire department exert­ ed every effort to check the flames, but the fire wis beyond control. Two hours after the fire broke* out the en­ tire city water supply was exhausted* and the town was left practically at the mercy of the flames. SALVADOR ANXIOUS FOR PEACE. Seeks Good Offices of Mexico to Enl Central American Struggle. , ; Washington. -- Mr. Creel, the Mex­ ican ambassador, Wednesday con­ firmed the press dispatches that Salvador has expressed a desire for peace in Central America and is anx­ ious to have Mexico exert its good In­ fluence in ending the war involving Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. The desire of Salvador for peace is regarded by diplomatists as an indica­ tion that the war is practically ended, because Honduras is not strong enough to continue it single-handed. This ac­ tion of Salvador will doubtless prevent Guatemala or Costa Rica from taking any part in the support of Honduras. Mr. Creel had a conference with Mr. Corea, the Nicaraguan minister and probably will confer with Secretary Root as to how Mexico and the United States can be^l; exert^ tjb^ ̂ orls^ restore peace. I * rL < *" HILL sTock isiljfe # ^ -n I Great Northern's $60,000,000 Increase / ' ta Upheld. state supf&rie ccnill Thursday upheld the Great Northern railroad in its contention that It had the right to issue $60,000,- 000 additional stock which was au­ thorized by the board of directors several months ago. The issue was enjoined through the intervention of Attorney General' Young, who held that the railroad company should first go before the state railroad and ware­ house commission and submit to an examination to show the necessity of the issue. The contention of the state was upheld by Judge Hallam In the Ramsey county district court, and he ordered an injunction to issue. The supreme court reverses that decision. The opinion of the court was unan­ imous. Chief Justice Start delivered the opinion, Man Killed by Fireworks. New Yofk.--A spark caused by a blow from a hammer ignited a quan­ tity of set pieces in the finishing room of the Consolidated Fire Works company at Granitevflle, S. I., Wednes­ day and in the explosion that followed one man was torn to pieces, a boy and two girls %ere probably fatally in­ jured and seven other persons were burned. St. Louis Brewery Workers Strike. St. Lduis.--In an effort to enforce demands £pr Increased wages made by members of the United Brewery Workers' union, about 850 brewery workers walked out of the 23 brew­ eries In St. Louis Friday. ' 7 ' X ' V • - V V- » > v. ,, r • rvii*;: French Troops Occupy Morocco. Oudja, Morocco. -- A column Of French troops occupied this city at ten a. m. Friday. The Moorish gov­ ernor met tha French commander and gave him an assurance of the friendli­ ness of the population. Great Fire In Virginia TowM* Danville, Va.--Fire In South B$s!&fi, Va., Thursday afternoon destroyed to­ bacco factories and other buildings, threateaed the destruction of the en­ tire town and entailed a loss estinsat- ed as high as $1,000,000. ' Sad Tragedy In Canton, O. ' O Canton, O.--Miss Bertha Mcl&Hy, 28 years oM, committed suicide Thurs­ day by taking carbolic acid. It was the day set for her wedding to Emil Knolle, a Pittsburg policeman, who died six weeks ago. . , LUNACY COMMISSION SUMMONS W4R«Y THAV#S WIFE. . • „ •, • • „ ' 8H£ 18 MUCH DISTURBED Report to the Court Thursday, The Trial Is E^weterf Being Ad­ journed for Three More Days. "WAV ' '-Itew is probawe tftst tir5 ThaW lunacy commission will report Thursday morning. The case was ad­ journed last week until Monday morn­ ing, and when the jury was called be­ fore. the Court Justice Fitzgerald ad­ journed again the trial until Thursday morning at 10:30 o'clock. The lunacy commission will meet Tuesday and it Is expected that they will be ready to re­ port Thursday. When Mrs. Evelyn Thawv made her dally visit to her husfyand in the Tombs Monday she was met by a process server who handed her a subpoena directing her to appear bo- fore the lunacy commission. Mrs. Thaw apparently had not anticipated this move, and she appeared very much disturbed when the nature of the paper was made known to her. "Do they expect me to testify against my husband?" she asked. She was told that her presence probably ,was desired merely as a matter of routine, but this did not seem to assure her. District Attorney Jerome declined to make known his purpose in calling Mrs. Thaw before the commission. The members of the Thaw jury have drawn up a petition to Justice Fitzgerald asking him to allow them five dollars a day for jury services Instead of the customary allowance of two dollars a day. Their action is based on an instance in which the court made a similar increase in the jury's allowance after the case had been extended to an unusual length. It was reported Monday that when the lunacy. commission resumes its hearing Mr. Jerome will call as his witnesses Drs. Pilgrim and Gregory, of this city, two of the alienists en­ gaged by the defense, and will endeav­ or to prove by them that Thaw is now insane. Dr. Pilgrim is head of the New York state lunacy commission and Dr. Gregory is in charge of the psycho­ pathic ward of Bellevue hospital > CARPENTER8 ALL QUIT WORK. Building Operations in .Minneapolis 7'.r; Come to a Stop. '• ... Minneapolis, Minn.--Following the example of the teamBters, painters and upholsterers, the carpenters have walked out and building operations aa over the city are shut down tempo­ rarily as a result, although there is no strike. The walkout Monday for- lowed a decision reached at the meet­ ing of the master builders held Satur­ day night. Labor leaders say that fcf some time the carpenters have been asking for higher wages and the contractors have been equally positive in their statements that no higher Wages would be granted. MICHIGAN GOES REPUBLICAN. bentoerata Are Defeated by>MaJoWty 'v' ;/ of About 75,000. Detroit, Mich.--With about a normal spring election vote cast in Michigan Monday, the Republican state ticket, as was expected, has received a ma­ jority of about 75,000, according to re­ turns available. The successful can­ didates on the state ticket are as fol­ lows: Supreme court justices, Aaron V. McAlvay and William L. Carpen- ter; regents of the State university, Junius E. Beal and Frank B. Leland, and member of the state bdftrd of edu­ cation, William A. Cotton. FOOD ON THE ISTHMUS BURNS. Cold Siorage Plant at Mount Hope is Destroyed. Colon.--The cold storage establish­ ment at Mount Hope, one of the larg­ est and" most valuable on the isthmus, was almost, completely destroyed by fire Monday afternoon. The loss is placed at several hundred thousand dollars. The cause of the fire has not yet been ascertained. The building was filled with a large variety of food­ stuffs and other property. Riref Seeks Freedom From Elisor. San Franciseo.--Abraham Ruef Mon­ day asked the supreme court to free him from the custody of Elisor Biggy and order him into the charge of the sheriff, whom Judge Dunne disquali­ fied oil the ground of personal inter- *St • v Coal Plant Destroyed By P|r^;. Earlington, Ky.--Fire, believed t6 be incendiary, destroyed the plant of the West Kentucky Coal company at Stur- gis Monday causing a loss which Su­ perintendent Bucher places at about $85,000. Mansfield Considerably Better. New York.--After a conference of physicians In attendance upon Rich­ ard Mansfield, Manager Stevens said Monday they ha i reported Mr. Mans­ field to be considerably improved. Ho is yet a very sick man, however. Sheriff Arrested for Carrying Pistol. Columbia, S. C.--Sheriff Rabon, of Aiken county, this state, was arrested in Jefferson county, Georgia, charged with carrying a pistol. He was con­ victed, the sentence being $20 fine or four months on the chain gang. Bishop Dies Suddenly. f Richmond, Va.--Bishop John 0. Cranberry of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died suddenly at his home in Ashland Monday, while sit­ ting In a chair. He was 76 years old and had been bishop since 1882. Maher Lasts Only Two Rounds. Hot Springs, Ark.--Peter Maher, the one-time aspirant to heavy weight championship honors, was knocked out Monday night by Marvin Hart of Louisville in the second round of What was to bo a 20-round bout Pink Pills Are Safe and \ Favorite Household Motherhood may be the crowning blessing of a woman's life or it may bring grief and sorrow. Mrs. M. J. Wight of 170 Seventh Street, Auburn, Matee, relates her experience after the hfrth of hip daughter in 1901, as fol- iWMi: "I was all ran down at the time the baby came and did not Im­ prove in health rapidly after. I was pale, thin and bloodless. My stomach distressed me being full of gas all the time and my heart fluttered so that I could scarcely breathe. "Finally I remembered that a friend had recommended Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to me so I commenced using them. I gained in strength rapidly While the baby throve also. When I expected my next child I started tak­ ing the pills again as a tonic and strengthener and had no such diffi­ culty as before. I got up better And my strength came back much sooner. "A year ago last winter I had an at­ tack of rheumatism in the hands which went from one hand to the other. The joints swelled up and were so stiff I could not move them. The pain ex­ tended up through my arms and shoulders. I felt sick enough to go to bed but did not do so. This attack lasted for several months. I tried sev­ eral remedies but finally came back to using the pills which had done me so much good before and found that they benefited me almost at once. I have not been troubled since." All druggists sell Dr. Williams' Pinlr Pills, or they will be sent by mall post-paid, on receipt of price, 60 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Send for book ol cures. "•V.3 ' •: H . % •» ',*• Autographs In Demand. v At the present time the greatest demand is for autographs of the Eng­ lish literary celebrities, some of which bring thousands of dollars. Keats and Shelley command such high prices that they sell best abroad, where there are more collections. In London, Ber­ lin and Paris there are continual auto­ graph sales during the seaaon.--The Circle. . ; Low One-Way Rates. Every day to April 30th, 1907, the Union Pacific will sell One-Way Colon­ ist tickets from Chicago, at the follow­ ing rates: b $30.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake City. $30.00 to Butte, Anaconda and Helena. $30.50 to Spokane and Wenatchee, Washington. $33.00 to Everett,. Fairhaven, What­ com, Vancouver and Victoria, via Huntington add Spokane. $33.00 to Tacoma and Seattle, via Huntington and Portland or yift, Huntington and Spokane. : $33.00 to Portland and Astoria, 4*r Ashland, Roseberg, Eugene Al­ bany and Salem, via Portland. - $33.00 to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. Correspondingly low rates to many other California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah, and Idaho points. For full information call on or address W. Q. Neimyer, G. A., Boulevard, Chicago, 111. • - ' - & ' Home of the Icebergs. * Almost all the icebergs seen in the north Atlantic during June are products of the coast of Labrador, formed from the Ice fields that had filled the indentations of that co$st the previous winter. July's icebergs come from further north in the vicin­ ity of Baffin Land, those of August come from still further north, and though few^r in number than those of the earlier summer, are larger in individuality. From the coast of Labrador may be seen an endless procession of these ice mountains coming out of the north and taking their way majestically southward un­ til they lose their being in the warm­ er waters and climate of the south A t l a n t i c . - ^ M a t a e J o u r n a l . j ^ r ^ Indians In United Stsitee* In round figures, there are Indians In the United States at the present time, 91,000 of whom are in Indian territory and 15,000 in Oklaho­ ma, or 106,000 in the coming state. Those of Indian territory, the five civi­ lized tribes--Cherokees, Creeks, Choc- taws, Chickasaws aad Seminoles-- have been managing their own affairs for two-thirds of a century, and are in all respects fitted for the citizen­ ship which they are soon to exercise. All of these, and nearly all of those In the Oklahoma end of the coming state, wear civilized dress, and have schools, churches and the other ac­ companiments of civilization. lie's. ' : A FRIENDLY GROCER. * Dropped a Valuable Hint About Co9|f "For about eight years," writes a Mich, woman, "I suffered from nerv­ ousness--part of the time down in bed with nervous prostration. "Sometimes I wpuld get numb and It would be almost impossible for me to speak for a spell. At others, I would have severe bilious attacks, and my heart would flutter painfully when I would walk fast or sweep. "I have taken enough medicine to start a small drug store, without any benefit One evening our grocer waa asking husband how I was Wd he urged that I quit coffee and use Postum, so he brought home a pkg. and I made It according to directions and we were both delighted with it "So we quit coffee altogether and used only Postum. I began to get bet­ ter in a month's time and look like an­ other person, the color came hack to my cheeks, I began to sleep well, my appetite was good and I commenced to take on flesh and become interested in everything about the hou»e. "Finally I waa able to do all my own work without the least sign of my old trouble. I am so thankful for the little book, 'The Road to Wellville.' It has done me so much good. I havent taken medicine of^any kind for six' months and don't need any. "A friend of ours who did sot like Postum as she made ~ it, liked mine, and when Bhe learned to boil it long enough, her's was as good as mine. It's easy if you follow directions*? Name given by Postum Company, Bat­ tle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellvtlle," in pggg. "There's a reason.** '•i >"4 ' fez ' • -f •Is - .. ,'X\ t / t %"•