Gibson City Courier from Gibson City, Illinois • 2

The WerM' lapslr Wtm 1 1 I wt BVPISH. William Lowensteln. a wealthy farm THE PEACE TREATY. BUJlIEDUNDEllSxXOW. er, killed hia wife and himself at their An English expert prophesies a onir, derUi in th wheat upply.

He clsinu ika th wheat prodacuuj soil is unequal to train that will Pt upoa Eve T.rri.i. alt th B.rsis home near Jasper, Mo. The president ended hi southern riB staataaaee i Tarsi City. A sassl at the raawa. aa Talerapae4 traaa the -1 lh-CaHal.

when th food supply oj toe wortd is amok E. LOWRT'S BQNSrPubttshei lour in Augusta, where hi recep Famous Chilkst Pasr the Scene of Another Avalanche. 7 thousands oecaui ineir auoroered ii seh fail to properly assinul.te the food th Mnatattar's GIBSON. I ILLINOIS. start- n.

fierce Are The Important Happenings of a tion wa cnokt and a great throng listened to hia address. The firm of Henry B. and Henry E. ix ew ui, (U) )Wel Chicago, Dec sn apparently farm the text of the peace Week Briefly Told. ea in n.n.r-.

by tn and tone up the stomach and sana, and enable them to perform tk proper functions. ITii great remedr dyspepais, torpid liver, nervousness and ,7 Mason, well-known Chicago lawyer. agent of treaty concluded ten daysago between United Bute's msy now be described ss a nation that situated her and there throng hout the world. went into bankruptcy with liabilities A WaHaa, Be Two Sob aa Three Other Peraoaa Um Their 4-aws Si Helt Fallare Spain and the United Btaiea u. mm It Hnes.

from of $100,000. IN ALLPAIITS 0OmJIMQ5( 1T A noted pianist declares that a worn- Madrid, there Is reason beMevat ite Duafnesi aectlo'nof Terre Haute; caused alocaof near tnsrie n. a at ihe Mutual Life Insurance company, i hourTdJ morning. wWeh resulted In th. death of three peraoni sad the serious Injury of several others, The dead are: -an wits a long- llrnma will nave ner own it ia genuine.

The 17 articles in wa f. i. rin'nnt differ material ly $1,000, way. He la right; and ao will a short- i i Advsses i "I ee you've got your lightning rod a for oflice again," sia the friend of the didate. "The lightning 'rod, replied the ejt date, who wss matter-of-fact Sort of nu "is one of the exploded humbugs if; oast.

What I'm trying to do is to tti. ly from the summary given out about All the Latest Kews of Interest from "Washington, From the East, too West and tho South. thumbed woman. foreign Intelligence. Mrs.

Thanes M. Ksymonu, Death reauHed trom compound fracturaat AXewark (N.J.) man haaaucd for divorce because his wife Insisted on anakea as beta. He probably felt trolley poles np for tb office-'Chicua I Tribune. TEE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES that she enoroaching upon a man I he time the negotiations were to an end. The first three srtlcles are devoted to a renunciation of Spanish sovereignty over of Cuba snd the direct cession of the Islands of Porto Rico.

Guam and the Philippines to United Statea. The article relating to AAnmm Tlflfl iMfS of th aM-flrala-OI TVS' Oeala-ni prerogativca. the ls sal Internal injuria Mrt. Vlctorl. Underwood 0..

sister of Mrs. Raymond, lumped trom the third-story window. Harriet Fee, domestic, burned todestn. The Injured: ifc Charles H. Rsymon overeom br smoka: WlUUm yesrsT waduotor.

Injured about th body scaTp wound: William F.rra. years, butler, lac lacerated, overeom by Ask your rrocer to-dy to show ym package of GKALN-tfc the new food drisi tnat tssea vue Maw itrinlr ik An old lady aaye that sleigh riding for port la like sitting with your ret-In a pall of cold water and ringing bell. It pan whwi in vQUdiw, without Injury ss well utk, ho try it like it. GRAIUfl WHO irj iv it. UIUUM -0 IUC I.

I archipelago by parallels of latitude and adUK. All bss that rich seal brown of Mocha or Jin, but it is made from pur grain, and tk. ia perhaps useless tu aajtnat tne oia lady writea "Miss" before hier name. smoa. a In ha basement tend AUV IU i.

ii. ha lower nart of the distress. the price of eofles. lSeta. i) 85 ct.

per packsge. Bold by all grocers touH wa enveloped in flames.Thers wss panle snd Mrs, Victor! Under meridians or longituae, as name the compensation of $20,000,000 to be paid to Spain by tbe United States within three months after the exchange of ratifications. The uceeedlng article from the fourth to the eighth, inclusfare, secure to Spanish vessels snd merchandise for ten years the same rights of sdmlssion nnrta nf the PhillDntnCS en joyed An interesting, teat baa jost been Bade by a Frenchwoman. With a Tiaw to finding out the sustaining power of chocolate, she lived on that alone for 0 days, and lost bat IS pounds in the interval. 1 c.

i wood, Mrs. Jtaymona youug v. L.mm nhlo tOIDtlll who oi wutv ttirChristmu holiday, juitped from tbe tlyrd tory wincow mu t9. I -a n.tan 1 alUJVSIf llWMtalMJS Mr. Baymond, occupied a room I by those of the United They th In the cathedral otSantlago.de Cuba, before a great eongregatloo, Abba Bernardo gave public thanks to God the United States for the "end of 400 years of cruelty, extortion and misery Jn Cuba," on on tne aecona noor, wa window by her husband and stood tbe eiri, panic-atricken and calling Seattle, Dec.

21. the steamer Al-KI, which arrived here Tuesday from Alaska, brings meager particular of an avalanche on th Chilkat pass, in which at least six persons wer killed. Five bodies have been recovered, as follows: Mrs. Darling, of Lake Ltndeman, and her two sons; Bert Johns, of Juneau; Harry Shaw, of Skaguay. The slide occurred December9tCrter lake, about one mile beyond the summit, on tbe Lake tindeman side.

Mrs. Darling'a husband wa at Lake Llndemsn. and. she had arranged to join him with her two ions, who hsd almost reached manhood. Shaw wa a Skaguay man who had business the lake.

Bert Johns, of Jnnean, was bnt 19 year old, and the reason for hi taking the dangerous trip doe not appear. He was.a friend of the Darling boys. The name of the sixth person hss not been ascertained. Aavie DlaresarOa'. Contrary to the advice of old-timers, who "realized that the trip waa a dangerous one In view of the recent storms the party set out with light outfit.

It wa storming very hard when they crossed the summit but they suceeded in reaching Crater lake, where the blizzard forced, them to camp, although it was but seven miles to their destination. While encamped there tons of ice and snow, mixed with and timbers, swept over them, evidently without warning, snd went on down tbe valley, leaving them buried under several feet of hard snow. Their bodies were found three-days later by a searching party The bodies were not bruised In tbe least A peculiar coincidence Is that the news of the snowslide Is brought by the same steamer that brought word of the terrible slide last spring, in which nearly 60 people perished. Another coincidence is that the two Slides occurred just about the same distance from tht summit, but on opposite sides. SOUTHERN TRIP CLOSED.

for up Help. IWO urCUlCll wcu sssiui ujJasa wrtllss n.w-.nl sn the C4111UK. 1 a. J- T.nWN,at M( to also proiu- ivr i the soldiers captured at Manila at the expense of the United States, and concede to Spain the right to retain the flag and stand of colors on vessels of war, together with the- small arms, ordnance, and other munitions of wr belonging to the land forces in the Philippines snd not captured at tbe dote of hostilities. They further providefor Tree HPIU.

UJ mvuu arvv jump, i'hey were ao confuted and. A Hew Jersey nan, who is suing for divorce, says In -hie petition that his wife baa made only one tapioca pud-ding during all of their married life. This ia a pretty strong proof that the lady doesn't like tapioca herself. frightened and half auffocated tnai they teemed not to know what they A it 4 kal WCrS Uvlugt Aw (de uiruicu um.u DtihcV FOR MAINE MEMORIAL TO BE ERECTED AT ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND. French serum ia being exploited as an improved cure for anake bite, The cure may be all right in France, butno self-respecting American will hare himself snake-bitten if it necessitates a resort to these foreign mixtures.

FI STY-FIFTH COKCRESS. The United States senate waa not in session on the 18th- la the bouse the bill to extend the customs and revenue lawa of the United Statea over the Hawaiian islands waa passed without opposition and the bill to incorporate he International American bank wa defeated. Mr. Bixey (Va.) introduced a bill for the admission of confederates well aa nnlon soldiers to all soldiers' homes and government institutions maintained by the government There was no session of the United Statea senateou the 17th. In the house the Indian appropriation bill waa.

paaaed and bills were introduced giving two months' extra pay to Volunteer troops recently serving abroad and one month for those nerving at borne, and to extend the navigation, shipping and marine laws "of tbe United Statea to the Hawaiian Islands. In the United 8tates senate on tbe ISth the conference report on the urgent deficiency bill wna agreed to. Senator Piatt (Conn.) spoke against the Vest resolution, which declarea that the United States haa no power to acquire territory, and said that the power of a nation to acquire territory waa aa inherent aa its sovereignty. Senators Hear, Hale, Perkins, Simon, McLsurin, Clay and Tnrley were named as tbe committee on the centennial celebration of the city of Washington aa capital of the nation. In the house the bill appropriating $350,000 for the Philadelphia exposition of 1899 waa passed and a resolution for a holiday recest from December 21 to January 4 was FROM The president will submit the peace treaty to the senate during the present session.

It haa been decided by the naval board of construction to recommend that public-bids be invited for raising the battleship Maine, in Havana bar1 bor. Gen. Davis soy in a report to the war department that one-4inlf of the farmer population of lMnar del Rio, Cuba, haa been killed or starved to death, THB EAST. At the leading clearing houses ia the United Slates the exchange during tbe week ended on the 10th aggre Th filrl la Lews. "TTi f.

5 Bhe'e tlmU an believe In pesos, 8h shrink! trom war alanna; i Tet, womsnllke.vhs'U never cess To lov Ua CU to arm. -Judge. I'i'; Balldar Kxearsloaa, Excursion tickets will be sold st all tt. tions on th North-Westera line (C. W.

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R-) to all othernomg on this system and on the Union Piciic Railroad, within 200 miles of the selling a. tion, at grestly reduced rates, December 21 85, 28 and SI, 1888, and January 1 and 2, lait good until January 4, 1899. Apply tesnsa Chicago )iorth-Westera R'y for fnlTp ticulars. i AsHeBltarsa." i "Our town," exclsimed the man wholii accumulated most of the desinhl kti, 'has flourished like a great tree." "yes." said -the town cynic, "we in, done the rooting and you th Enquirer. Hoaa aeekers Cbeaa Exearalaaa.

On Kovembcr 1.1, December and the North-Western Line will sell home mi. era' excursion tickets, with favorable hat limits, to numerous points in th YVestud South at exceptionally low rates. Fortid-eta and full information apply to agtsa Chicago ft North-Western R'y. Tested as Foaad Waatlac Mrs. Matchmaker Marie, do yon think Mr.

Slowman is in earnest? Miss Matchmaker I'm afraid not, sua. ma. I mentioned diamonds last evniiaj and only yawned Jewelers' Weeldj, Caachlaa Lead te Caauasattla. Kemp's Balsam will stop the Coogi i once. Go to your druggist to-day and get sample bottle free.

Large bottles 25 audit cents. Go at once; delays are dangerou The Cllasat Feral It, Biggs Is It true that Smith, the icemu, is desd? Boecs Yes. noor fellow. Ha cnti an ia Tbe British steamer Ilios waa sunk In -a collision in the North sea and 20 persons perished. The American peace commissioner left Paris for New York.

v. to At IS ports. In Cuba army officer have been assigned to duty aa collector ot, customs. Spain's peace commissioner arrived! In Madrid from Paris. In the town of Chung-Yang Chinese rebels-massacred a French priest and 100 convert.

In Part Mrs. Detnetrlu CalllatBejr, formerly Mrs. P. T. Barnam, wa married to Le Baron Ales idryd Orangi-ana, a French nobleman.

American, troop In the Philippine, Cuba and Porto Rico are reported to be remarkably healthy. In Lelpslc Theodore Heine, the artist who caricatured Emperor William' trip to the Holy Land, ha been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for so doing. i Marshal Bamon Blanco, former cap-! tain general of Cuba, arrived at Alicante, Spain. The Japanese government favors the expansion policy of the United States. LATER HEWS.

The house resolution providing for adjournment from December 21 to January 4 wa adopted "lty'i the United Stated senate on the 20th. A protest was received from ex-Queen LUiuoka-lani against the appropriation of the crown land of Hawaii by the United States. Senator Teller (Col.) spoke in favor of expansion. In the house the conference report on the army and navy deficiency bill was adopted and the agricultural appropriation bill was passed. Mr.

Williams (Miaa.) in a speech opposed the annexation of the The bill increasing the regular army: to WQAQQ men waa favorably reported, News wa received at Seattle, of a snowslide on th Chilkat Pass in which six people were killed. Secretary, of the Interior Bliss has tendered his resignation to President McKinley and bopea to be relieved by January 1 The presidential party, after' an absence of seven day in south, arrived in Washington. L. Fire destroyed the dry goods houses of S. Greenshields' Son Co and Mcln-tyre.

Son in Montreal, the loss being $300,000. Capt. Charles K. fiawley, retired, V. S.

died at hia home In Wilmington, nged 65 years. Samuel Gompera wa reelected president of the Americas Federation of 'Labor at the annua) meeting in Kansas City. (Methodist) died The Smiths of Michigan will be represented in the next congress by Henry of the Second district; William Al-den, of the Fifth, and Samuel of the Sixth. They are all three republicans, all lawyers and all young m.n. Ex -Got.

Flower, of New York, recently aent $100 to the Salvation Army. When jokingly asked if he meant to enroll under Gen. Booth's banner Mr, Flower bluntly replied: "Xo, air; but 1 do belong to the great Christian army, and I don't care what flag they march tinder ao long aa they are boand to the cross." There is an impending fanfine in Russia, the czar has already given $330 ooo to the relief fund, and it is now said that American will soon be asked to give from her bountiful store. The knows that America is as grea in charity aa she ia in war, and when famine stricken all countries turn their eyes toward the United States. PrealSeat McKinley' aaa Partr ate.

tars After an Eveatfal Week. Washington, Dec. 21. The presidential party, after an absence of seven days in tbe south, arrived at the Pennsylvania station over the Southern railway at 11:30 o'clock Tuesday morning exactly on schedule time. With the exception ot Mrs, McKinley, who was slightly indisposed at Atlanta, every member of the party has been in the best of health and all pronounce the trip most enjoyable and a splendid success in every way.

Everywhere a stop waa made the president wa received with greetings and demonstrations of sn enthusiastic character, and during the entire week there was not a disturbing incident. Th run from Columbia, S. was uneventful, and on ita arrival now. Laae's Passu- Medicine. Moves the bowels each day.

Ia orders be healthy this is necessary. Acts irttljrta the liver snd kidnera. Cures sick star ach. Price 25 and 50e. Some people are so skeptical that taef even, doubt their own doubts.

Chiajj Daily Kews. i atbeaaaatlssa, I A San Francisco man, who ia an en thusiaatie admirer of Dewey, gathered gated 1,691,765.298, against the previous increase compared with the corresponding week of 1807 was 23.4. In the seven days ended on the 10th there were 201 businesa failurae in I herethe-peeial, train of six Pullman Itnri, under the personal supervision of nd aent to the great naval hero a large number of newspaper' clippings which told of preparations for a grand reception throughout the land when he returns borne. In due time he received a letter In answer in which Dewey aald: "Perhaps I bad better remain here at bis home in EnglewootT, ajmLSS the United-States, against 24S the week previous and 329 in the corresponding years, jie was the author of over 30 re Bend for information if you are nSerisj to the Rheumatic Treatment Co, MlQa ens, Michigsn, P. O.

B. 1008. We all love to see a (mart man nab i slip it reconciles as to being stupid. Ton Topic. l- Te Car a Celd la One Pay Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.

A3 druggiata refund money if it fails to cur. St 'A play is never satisfactory if therein nun or woman left over when the pairiagol occurs in the last act. Atchison Globe. window Mrs. Baymond stumbled snd fell.

Tt.r fllo-llt rira Mnvht An a mn. period Of 1897. Tbe recent commander of the United Statea military forces) in, the Philippines, Gen. Wesley Merrltt, and bis wife arrived in New York. Mrs.

Ellen Allen and her daughter ot tbe ladder and -her body 'whirled arouna as It feU to tbe flagged ares. She waa picked np unconscious and wa taken to Roosevelt hospital, where the and Mrs. Allie Alger ndJennte Cre- General Agent L. 8. Brown, was run up the 'Sixth street siding where alighted.

The general impression prevailed that the trip had cemented to a marvelous degree the good feeling between north and south, and had brought into prominence the excellent conditions and capabilities of the army. The original object of th visit, to celebrate the peace with Spain, lost Ita significance directly after tht president's now famous speech made at Atlanta, in which be declared that the government should share in the care of the confederate dead. GRIP IS RAGING. rner Were killed by the cars at across-lng while returning from a Christmas shopping trip to Asbury Park, N. J.

oieq iuesasy night. Mrs. ltavmond waa the first nrraMnt of the New Tork lied Cross snd was The death of Harlan P. Halsey, the Piao's Cm for ftmaurnptioB has so cent ss a Couth medicine. Fl M.

Abbott, XI benecs el, Budalo. M. May US. Some people seldom lend helping bsi unless it is to help themselves. Ram's Hon.

Stand straight and strong St. Jtoli OU cores lam back care promptly. also chief patron of the Red Cross hospital. Unon the onenlna- of hntilltl. ligion works for young people: A grand jury in Lexington, in-indicted 101 saloonkeeper for selling liquor on Sundays and also indicted the mayor for not enforcing tht law.

A powder magazine in the Chinese camp at Hang-Chow exploded, leveling a square mile of houses and killing 3,000 soldiers, i. -V The fine residence of Charles H. Raymond was burned in New York and Mrs. Raymond and her aister, Mrs. Victoria Underwood, of Zanesville, and Harriet Fee, a domestic, lost their livea.

An incendiary fire at Maiden, de-. stroyed 25 business bouses and tw.i residences. By direction of the president a dl-aion to be known the Division of Cuba, consisting of the geographical departments and province of the island of Cuba, with headquarters in the city of Havana, haa been created, under command of MaJ. Gen. John It.

Brooke MINOR NEWS ITEMS. I author known as "Old Sleuth," occurred at hia home in Brooklyn, N. nged 61 years. The city of New York Is suffering with Spain Mrs. Raymond volunteered There are two curious coincidences In connection with the Mary Washing-ten hospital at Fredericksburg, ground for which baa been broken.

George Washington Smith, who. waa born on Washington's birthday, drew the plans, and George Washington, who a' so first saw the light on February 22, will auperintend the work of building. Mrs. Harriet It, F. Stanford, of Cottage Olty, has presented to the government the flag carried by John Paul Jones' frigate, the Bon Homme Richard, during her famous battle with the British Serapis On September 23.

1779. Mrs. Stanford haa decumentary evidence, to the fact that this flag Is the first atars and atripea ever hoisted over aa American man-o'-wor and that it was the first ever saluted by afarelgn naval power. to go to ny poll tnat the society might aasiga her. Th flag carried from an epidemic of the grip as pro A good man's son inherit Uh Proverb.

nounced aa the great epidemic of 1890. it carried aupplie to the front were On the 19th the visible eupply of tne worx ana gilt or Mrs. Baymond. Costly rir la MsatreaL Sore and stiff from cold; don't wait uJ Suffer; use St Jacobs Oil and get cured. Some lovers think that in order to bf tent they must be frequent.

Town Tosas grain IntheUnlted States was: Wheat, 30,559,000 bushels; com. 18.153,000 bushels; oats, 6,009,000 bushels; rye, OOO bushels; barley, 4,169,000 bushel. -Powder exploded In Fort Adams, at Montreal, Can, Dec, 21. A Are which broke at nVlnlr T-. night completely gutted the big dry The pain that tortures sciatica.

Cure that cures it St. Jacobs 00.. Newport, R. killing three soldier pooas warenouse ot a. lireenshields' Son one of the larcvat An and Injuring 30others.

Dr. Tboma McKee Brown, for 28 years rector of the Protestant Epiv topol church of St. Mary the Virgin In New York, died of pneumonia. houses In Csnada. HaW an hour after the fire started the roof fell in and ten minutes later one of the walls fell out into Craig street snd the other into McGill street.

The fire wall separating the Greenshields building from the dry When eyes snap, it must ba the ltuat that crack. Golden Day. Use St. Jacobs OH snd say to rheumitias: "vVUl see yon Ister." If yon take a eat to bed do not compile of its claws. Spanish Proverb.

Us St Jacobs Oi! promptly and bwi And say good-bye to neuralgia. I He who sews thorns must not go Proverb, A sprain may cripple but St. JacobjOi; Will cure it before it can. It cures. 1 a Senator Davis fathers an alliance of the United Statea, Great Britain and Japan.

Omaha citizen have organised the Greater America A Colonial Exposition company. Mgr. Antonio, Count lienier, for 18 yeara secretary to Pope Piu IX, died in New York. 1 Mrs. Keeley, England's oldest actress, 'celebrated her ninety-third, birthday recently.

guuu nouse oi Son 4 Co. eollansed and the flnm. ns MaJ dl -g vvcu me premise of that firm. The loss on Mc- luiyre stocx and bnilding will reach 1200,000. The loss on Greenshields' win prooaoiy exceed 1300,000.

Pardoned. Mme. Schumann-Malnk, the famous' During the recent blizzard in the east. Which blockaded railroads and sun-ponded' all traffic for days, Rev. George B.

Cutten walked from his pastorate in Montervese, to New Haven, where he delivered an address before too Yale atudenta on "diving aa an Aid 1o Christian Growth." Five miles of the walk was through snow drifts which teamsters had found an absolute barrier against passage. Rev. Cutten, it must be remarked, played center rush on the Yale football team this season. The average man, if asked what ia the lost important crop of the world, would unhesitatingly aay: ''Wheat." This is true In the United States, but Jar from the case in the world as a whole. "The first place must be given to the potato.

Of all the staple crops of the world the potato takes the first plarertbeannunl crop being mere than 4,000,000,000 bushels, against busbela of wheat, and 2,600,000,000 bushels of corn. Of the total potato crop Europe produces fully aeven-eighths, and one-half times aa much as ker wheat. Wv. L. UOV.

JIC- Laurin ha pardoned WIU Purvis, the fmnnit, If.M wmte capper, who was once uncucceasfully hanged in this ttato tnr t. j. Good Digestion! the mutual release of prisoners of war held by both nations, snd mutually renounce all claims for national or -private Indemnity in consequence of the late ar, as also the title to all government property ceded by the treaty. 'The remaining article are devoted chiefly to stipulations protecting the personal and property rights of Spanish subjects remaining in the islands, assurance of freedom in religions matters, and the regulation of procedure in the courts. The obligation entered into by the United State with respect to -Cuba Is limited, however, to the period of actual occupation of the island.

For the exchange of ratifications of the treaty six month from the date of affixing the signatures of the members of the joint peace commission to the document are assigned. This leaves nn-t June 11, 1899, for final action bycthe United States senate and the Spanish congress respectively. BATTLE WITH DESPERADOES. Twa Killed sal Oae Waaadeal la a Saaalaary CoaSlet Belweea Officers aaa Oatlaws. Jacksonville, Dec.

21. Two men lie dead at Orange Park, this tate, one of them a deputy marshal and the other seted-despcrado, as the result of an encounter, while th brother of the de-perado I a fugitive and a deputy sheriff 1 laid up from the result of a pistol wound. Dudley Johnson waa the desperado killed. Hi twin brother, Bra-dish Johnson, escaped. Deputy Sheriff William Kramer was killed and Deputy Sheriff W.

P. Edwards shot. The officers were try ing to arrest the Johnsons, and reached their home just after dark. The Johnsons ran out and commenced shooting. Kramer fell dead.

A general fusillade followed. Deputy Edwards engaged" in a duel, during which he waa Shot and Dudley Johnson fell dead. He continued exchanging shots with Bradish Johnson, but apparently without effect. Ha Oaa'l Like It. Somervllle, Mass, Dec.

tu Mayor A. Perry, a member of Wlllard C. Kinsley Post 139, Q. A. has written a letter to the post severely condemning that portion of President McKinley' address at Atlanta suggesting that it would be proper for the government to assist in care and preservation cf con- federate cemeteries.

i Naval Veteraa Dead. DeL, Dec. fl. Cpt, Charles ix Hawley, retired U. g.

died at hi home in this city Monday night. He waa born in Connecticut and was yeara old. Kat Ueaa. I Port au Prince, Hay tl, Dec. 21.

There is no ground whatever for the rumor that President Heureaux, of the republic of San Domingo, has been assassinated. Gen. Heureaux arrived Tuesday morning at Jacmel, about 30 miles southwest of Port an Prince, and is in excellent health. Hleh airlk. Colorado Springs, Col, Dee.

HA itrike of gold In the Trickier tunnel being driven through Pilie's Peak to increase the water supply of this city haa caused tbe most intense excite-ment In Colorado Springs, ox a lellow white Purvis' neck waa not broken In 1,1. tne scanTold, va aypcuta, or It saouia uo tills Mas k. I 1 1 kill of the crowd around the JaU the sheriff cid not mske a second attempt to execute his riin, D. i WO UU1J WueD tu BVOUBftW healthy condition. Hood's Barsspanlli ln.

was later res cued br vuo uu mwvugUMSu SUB IHHUlLa digests food easily snd natnrsUy sua dyspeptio trouble vanish. Becomes -ilpldemle ol th Atlaatte Coast Flftr'TMoaaa Cases Ht-aortrd la Hew York. New York, Deo. 21. It la estimated that there are 50,000 cases of grip In this city.

Inefficiency In street cleaning Is blamed for the spread of the disease. Baltimore, Dec 21. Grip la now epidemic in a form more serioua than at any time sicce it first appearance in 1889. New Haven, Dec. 21.

Grip is so widely prevalent as to impede work in fSijtories and demoralize students and'Taculty at Yale. Five -thousand cases estimated. Dayton, Dec. 21. La grippe Is prevalent in this city to an alarmingex-tent.

One prominent physician estimates that at least 5,000 persons are afflicted with it, Ju one factory there are 200 iemploye confined to their home with ihe sickness, and in some cases whole families are downwith the ailment. So far as known nd fataii-tiea have resulted. Throe Thaaaaa Soldiers Klllsa. London, Dec 21. A dispatch from Shanghai to a newspaper here aay a powder magazine situated- in tbe center of the Chinese camp and Hang-Chow exploded, leveling a square mile of house.

It 1 estimated that 3,000 soldiers were killed, including tbe general commanding the forces. Haiaaas'i Rixata Cartallaa. St. Louis, Dec. 21.

Circuit Judge Wood has reversed the ruling of the probate court in regard to the adminla-t ration of the estate of Mrs. Mary B. McPheraon, holding that the common law that gave the husband absolute right over the person and estate of his wife ha ceased to e'xlst. ravarahlr Baperteat. Washington, Dec.

21. The House committee on military affairs on Tuesday afternoon ordered a favorable report on tbe Hull bill. Increasing the regular army to 100,000 men. The vote was to i on party lines. Mar ton, America.

Xew York, Dee. 21. Prominent members of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, hope that it will be possible to induce Ktv. John Watson (Ian MacLaren) to accept the pastorate soon to be vacated by Dr. Lyman Abbott.

Dr. Wat-ton I now pastor of the Sefton Presbyterian church. Liverpool. Sersteaat Ulaa ta Part Rio. Washington, Deo.

21. Gen. Henry, commanding In Porto Rico, has telegraphed the war department that Sergt. Thomas D. Varley, eomiany Eleventh infantry, died of typhoid fever on the 17th Ir 'uuen away for some time but finally gave himself Bp to the-authorities, and his sentence was coinmntml n.

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It was aot exactly hi accordance with the law, but very few will doubt that the punishment meted out to a wife-beater in Wilkesbarre. one dav re WEST AND SOUTH. The Minneapolis mills refuse to enter tbe proposed flour combine, which practically kills the scheme. At- Urbano, 111., Dick Collier was hanged for the murder of Charlea Free-bryant at Sydney in September last. At Chirlcston, 111..

Carter Eugene Martlnwa hanged for the murder of Albert Buter on October 3 last, At the age of 86 years' Henry A. Cha-pin, said to be the richest man in Michigan, died at his borne In Nile. His wealth is estimated at $30,000,000. The pioneer editor of Wisconsin, Edward Heeson, died in Fond du Lac, aged 84 years. Almost the whole of the business yart of Tifton4 Cairwna burned, Cuy Churchill anil bla wife- were killed by a Michigan Central train near Athena, Mich.

They were out recently married. At DeKalb, Ark-i a cf farmers lynched Newton Galnea (colored) for nsaaultlng a whlte woman. In.a railway wreck near Cu'on, T. Wells, of Areola, II, superintendent of the school of Douglas county, was killed. Ill the lower part of Monterey bundreda of people were on the verge of starvation because of tbe long drought.

i During the season of navigation just closed 94 victim, were claimed by the great lakes. The president (poke at a banquet In Savannah. Ua-, and received cordial welcome. Secretary of tbe NavyXong jlso made an address, in which he referred tenderly to the queen of Spain, and said she deserved the tenderest rympathy of every mother, every woman, in America, It waadeclded at the national convention in Kansa of the American Federation of tabor to bring the struggle of an eight-hour work day to a climax In the year 1900. Masked men entered the tore of Mrs.

Ida Merer in Josie, killed her and her married daughter, and stole 13.000 and then turned the store. In San Francisco wireless telegraphy hit been Introduced through the effort of local scientist. contralto singer, gave birth in New York to her eighth child, a son. Tbe Union Tobacco company has secured the entire capital stock of the Blackwell Durham company for Prof. Landerer, of Stuttgart, has published his discovery of what he believes to be a cure for tuberculosis in its first stagea.

Thomas F. Pendel, the chief doorkeeper at the white bouse, is the last surviving member of Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard. The British embassy at Washington wa stoned by Joseph W. Pierson, a printer, who refused to give say explanation of his conduct. Baron llolf Zederstrom, who is to marry Mme.

Pattl, la only 28 year old. The diva is 53, one year less than twice, her future husband' Walter IL Johnson has just- celebrated th fortieth anniversary of his service as organist of St. Panl's Methodist Episcopal church. New York. At the launching of J.

Plerpont Morgan's new yacht, the Corsair, in New York, 14 of tb guests represented a total amount of wealth in excesa of Ex-Senatof George F. Edmunds, formerly of Vermont but sow a resident of Philadelphia, haa been elected a trustee of Jefferson medical college cf Pennsylvania. A mob of women at Grenada, considering that the discovery of America was injtfieir opinion the prin cently by Alderman John F. Donahue, What do the Children contempt of court, has partiallv DntI go tree. Tuisley.

president of the Wenwood Cemetery company, refused to a receiver Drink? T1aU 1 at was pure justice. The circumstances were such that the aldermau had to pass judgment on the man who pound- ed a wife, and he did It. He ordered the doors closed, took 'off 1 his coat, ea'led upon the prisoner to Hand up aud defend himself, and then gave him what Ponohue called "a good lriih beating." be finished the prisoner was hardly able to walk. "The trouble with Luccbenl, who mus- preme eonrt auras tea vo Have von tried tha new toad drial nd preme court. district We.

nPheld AmA the Austrian queen, lias been. Honal 0f called GBAIN-Of It is delicto sad nourishing takes th piact of ooffes, Th more Orain-O yon give thi ehUdrea the mors health yon ditto-but through their systems. Qrsin-0 is made of pure grslM, when propsrly prepared taste bs th choice jrtde of ooffe but eort about i aa much. All grocers It I5cBdS6c TryGrain-0! lthatTwiiigltasyeiGBsl mptv new. xht.

of cecuioned by ve appointed Ji0tP, stated In simple language by the British Medical Journal, whicbfavsdt Is due "to some disrate o( iniwKijierhaps an encephaloroyelitia oAlaleaJ sclerosis, which compIeterpvery never took place. Lncchent. Vk type "of the The trouble with these desqirilibres, of which we have thousands In tVihnf i her are not ro-Ofrrird cipal, cause oSffS's misfortune. ministers to render TT OI xbtt police, oppress the evil. eary to lwVfaVww' stoned the statue of Columbus there.

Capt. Gen. Castellano ha suppressed the Havana lottery, and ordered the fund to be placed at his It Is announced that those who have purchased ticket will have tateir money returned to tbem. DPnCIT ITII mmmm es'asrnraretrical until they get in tbeSl I mill i i r- UUuX-h-uee, Protest the crowi und, -PPristion of lnitedStat.r b' deadly worts. uni- UJ police Is a desequllbremomeler.

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