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AN IOWA BANE, J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. WEDDING OF, M'SS GOULD AND > HER FRENCH PURCHASE. DARING DEED OF DESPERADOES AT ADEL. / Ceremony la Performed by Archbishop . Corrigan--Only About One Hundred ^ Guests fg&Mt-=Magni^ceiit. Floral Decorations and-Supcrb Music. Cashier Leccli and Citizen Bailey Shot Down-Rob?jcre Moke Way with $15,000--One Is Killed, the Other Captured and the Money Recovered. THIRTY-THREE GIRLS ENGAGE IN REVOLT. -- - iioone, Iowa, Police Do a Good Job-- ChicagoT Nominations--One Woman's ^Way of Dealing With a Dive--No Gains in Prices; , SENTENCED FOR LIFE. Mate, Joniaux, the Belgian Borgia, Curses Judge, J»tiry" and Accusers. „ A Brussels caDtegram says that before Mme. Joniaux, the Antwerp poisoner,, could bo removed, ffoffi the prisoners!' dock after being sentenced to' death for •the, murder of-four of her relatives,..whose. Uvea she had heavily insured, she hurled the most"bloodcurdling curses and male­ dictions at. the jury, for having condemned an "innocent woman." The foreman of the jury dropped sud­ denly dead in the streets of Antwerp a few days afterward, although he was be­ lieved until then to be in perfectly sound health. And now. the other members of the jury as well as their families are in fear lost they, too, should be affected by the censure. Mine. Joniau'S,' who is a niece of King Leopold's principal aide-de-camp, the late General Baron d'Abldy, has had her sen­ tence commuted to one of imprisonment The American Flag Only. Chicago, with her great commixture of nearly all races known to .history, wants no flag but one on hor public buildings. That flag is the Stars and Stripes.--Chi­ cago Herald. Now that New York has declared that no foreign flag shall. hereafter be display­ ed from a, public building, Indiana cities should not permit them to be displayed in Bchool rooms.--Indianapolis Journal. Governor Morton on Washington's birthday signed the bill prohibiting the hoisting of any flag but the American flag over public buildings in New York. It was a good driy for such an act.--Chicago Inter Oceans. The anti-foreign flag bill just signed by Governor Morton will put an end to jang­ ling on this subject in New York, and the enactment is so sound in principle that it would be just as right for Hawaii as for New York.--Philadelphia Record. Every one fit to be an American citizen, whether by birth or adoption,' will agree that the only flag for official use in this country-is the Stars and Stripes, and it is gratifying that this Jong-time disturbance in New York city has beeu ended in this decisive and patriotic manner.--Philadel­ phia Press. . - J! The New Mexican Minister. Mr. Ransom will make a creditable rep­ resentative to the sister republic.--Indian­ apolis Journal. Perhaps the Hon. Frank Lawler has noticed that Senator Ransom didn't have a petition.--Washington Post. A® for Senator Ransom, who gets the late minister to Mexico's place, it isn't everybody that can walk out of a $o,000 job oil $17,000 velvet--Philadelphia In­ quirer. He is a man of ability and long experi­ ence, and his grace of manner, no less than his mental qualifications, should make him persona grata at the Mexican "capital. --Philadelphia Public Ledger. The President has done well in the choice of a successor to the late Minister Gray, but the enthusiasm with which the Senate indorsed Mr. Ransom proves little, for the Senate is in the habit of approv­ ing the selection of oiwt of their own num­ ber to till official position.--Indianapolis News. BLOOMERS ON THE ICE. A New York Skating Girl Astonished the Central Park Boys. The girl with bloomers has made her appearance 011 the ice. She looked pretty when she began cutting figures on the Central Park lake, says a New York paper. She was young and good looking. Her costume was of dark blue serge. The blouse waist was belted in by a knotted sash of the same material, the skirt reach­ ing to the swell of the rather full--one FAC-SIMILE OF TIIE WEDDING INVITATIONS, for life, the first ten years of which are to be spent in solitary confinement. Pop­ ular report ascribes to her the possession of what is known as the "evil eye," and thiSM>f course, only tends to confirm tins belief among superstitious people as to the efficacy of her curses. , W hile it is to be known as a, "billion dollar" Congress, the name has absolutely 110 reference to its value to the- country. The name of Sing Sing is to be changed, but evil doers-will continue to think it a mean place, no matter what name may bo given it. The sailors of our navy consume about fifty tons of plug tobacco a year, yet no millionaire'*s home has cleaner floors than JlJOSP&IP'. *••'-. -- x... *: Heavy shipments of American gold to Europe still continue. The Count and Countess de Castollane sailed from New York Wednesday. According to the Chicago jury's verdict in the Barnes case, a man "who helps to conceal the mutilated body of a murdered, man is guilty of no crime. "Underwear for women with arms" is the way a merchant in a neighboring town advertises in his window. Of course, he 1 means that the underwear has arms. If Cuban revolutions would last long •• enough for the reports of undying defiance - audi overtures of submission to appear 011 different days they would be more inter­ esting. The statement made in court that the collections in a certain New York^churc]/' fell off one-half when the organist left shows that there is more than one purpose in church going. Prince Kung asks, ^j&n Japan overrun all of our providesT^^Jill heaven per­ mit it?" That depends upon what China herself may do about it. Heaven helps those who help themselves. If it is true that la grippe is really a contagious African malady, brought to this country by missionaries, all church collections for sable heathen should be postponed until hot weather, The report that representatives of $1)00,000 wonj4Ui will orgaime0a system of / 'national government at Washington ' need it't .frighten any one. They enn't do worse than 111011 at Washington. Three-fourths of the members <if the 1 House of Commons. are reported to be «suffering from colds. If Congress could be a.ttiicted in the same way we might , have less talk and more business. The Chinese Admiral Ting spems to ' have as many lives as a-cat. According 1 to the dispatches he has committed sui­ cide three different times, yet there i.s ' some doubt whether he is yet dead. A green goods victim, armed to-the j teeth, is tramping-.the streets of Chicago op the lookout for a man with a wart on his eyelid who swindled him out of $">00. , Those Chicagoaus who have friends with f warts 011 their eyelids' should have them j lemoved." . - - > f Buttermilk in winter is often a scarcity 1 \in a city like Chicagct. There are some 3 llairynion who refuse to furnish their'best .. V-ustoinors oftoner than, twice a week, s and then only with the understanding that a- tie customer buys sweet milk and cream 6 "Troie-tlw* same dairy. e Society people who want to keep right ^ up with the very latest fashions will iio , i doubt, be interested in knowing that at a <|v jr-ecent wedding reception the petitp, blue- eyed blonde" bride was handsomely attired n i» brown and pink. The tfill, coinjiiand- ' ing groom'wore the conventional black. might say baggy--bloomers. ' The right and left sections of this garment termi­ nated just below the knees, and the drap­ ing folds were held up by elastic garters. She w-ore a glistening pair of club skates. At once she became a target for the hoodlums. A mob of them--half grown 111011 and boys--surrounded her und fol­ lowed her everywhere, howling and yell­ ing. They called her "Tommy," "Pants" and other, irrelevant names. She put on speed to distance her tormentors, but the Central Park lake is not large and she could not shake them off. Finally she called a police officer to her assistance and ivitli his protection finished her skating and left the ice. " Last Gasp of Congress. The obituary eloquence of the Fifty- third Congress is also .as bad as usual.-- Washington Post. \\ The United States Senate is determined not to keep any of its skeletons in jme closet.--Exchange. - , - The Senate of the Fiftj-thiYd Congress does not even appear to be oil very good terms with itself.--Exchange. \ The country will be quite willing to be­ gin. its Lenten renunciation by giving up Congress.--Grand Rapids Evening Press. Congress dies, not because it wants to, nor because it realized the necessities of the situation, but simply because it, hits to.--Cincinnati Tribune: N With a record of a billiori dollars in its expiring appropriations tli\ Fifty-thirtf Congress naturally has moneyWbefrow. A-Xew York Commercial Advertiser. Another Kentucky Disgrace. Desha Breckinridge haviftg "been ap­ pointed income tax collectapat' his fath­ er's home is in a position to know how far Ins.:extinguished papa is from paying that Pollard verdict.--Minneapolis Times. Desha Breckinridge's appointment to be income, tax collector in the Lexington, Ivy., district is a disgrace. Desha showed himself alawless ruUiah during the Owens- Breckinridge contest last year, and his- appointment' is coiistruable as a h.eaxtv indorsement of his lawlessness. In the name of decency the appointment should be canceled.--Minneapolis Journal. SAVED HER FATHER'S LIFE. A New Jtirsey Man's Narrow Escape from an Angry Bull. John Martindale, a fanner living near Wiiislow, N. J., recently had a narrow escape from death by being gored by a bull while working 011 a farm. lie went into a barn to do soin'e work, when the bull turned '*>11 him, knocking him down and goring him.., ..Martindale's daughter, SOUTHERN SAVIXG -IIKit FATHER'S I.IFE Hattie, heard her father's cries and ran to his assistance. She grabbed a pitchfork, and, at the risk of her own life, prodded the bull with it "until it turned tail and ran away. Mr. Martindale Vas badly in­ jured. and his daughter had just suc­ ceeded in getting her father outside the fence when the' animal made another charge to attack them. Mr. Martindale will recover. ~ " ° . Rumors from Cuba.', It is an anomaly whiph cannot continue forever that brisk and energetic Cuba should be tethered to medieval and som­ nolent .Spain.--Boston Globe. Cubftia-secession from Spain seems to be a certain -tiling in the near ifuti/re, and there is much' reason, to think secession may succeed -- New York Advertiser. Here's good luck to the'Cuban rebel-i lion. Cuba ought "tbsjbe a free and inde­ pendent republic under~>he protection of the United States.--Minneapolis Tribune. Sparks Trom the Wires. Curbe Inge, a Greensboro, Ala., thief, was shot dead while resisting an arresting posse.-- . * : • General Booth of the Salvation army sailed Wednesday from New York for England. The ice bridge is broken at St. Louis, the river is open tq Cairo, and navigation was resumed Thursday. . ~ - Mrs, Amanda Hamilton, of Granville, Iud., aged 45, and her mother, agjjd^ 70, were beaten by .whitecapsir -A ' *' , Heavy rains fell over all the drought district of Nebraska, doing great good.