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Tracy & Co., New York and Chi
cago brokers, have failed with., one
million dollars liability. m
A Paris cablegram carried by the
Associated Press says: "M. Pugiliesi
Conti, a member of the chamber of
deputies, offered a resolution in the
chamber asking President Fallieres
to dissolve parliament on the ground
of its impotency. He supported his
resolution in a speech charging that
the , majority was bringing discredit
upon parliament by utterly neglect
inc the interests of 'the country. He
said the chief accomplishments of
parliament had been to increase the
salaries of the members and declared
that the 'bloc' and Free Masons were
dividing the patrimony of the coun
try. At this statement, M. Baudry
Asson, royalist, shouted: 'It would
be better to dissolve the republic.'
M. Pressense, socialist, agreed with
M. Puerliesi-Conti that the majority
was bankrupt, but he said that 'the'
socialists refused to coalese with the
reactionaries. Premier Clemericeau,,'
in a spirited reply, insisted that noth
ing justified the onslaught 6f M".
Pugliesi-Conti. He declared that
there was more disorder ini.Francei
today than ever before, andthat tlie
only liberty denied was the liberty
of violence. He defended the policy
of the government and asked form
vote of confidence, iwHich iWas given,
379 to 83. Previous to this. incident,,
the Marquis de Dion violently dd
nounced the signing of the interna
tionale in the chamber on May ,13.
He characterized this as, an ,ins,ult
to the Frenoh flag and an moitemejnt:
of the army to revolt." , , u ,
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The United States supreme" court
has decided in favor of Mrs. Eliza
beth Peck a damage suit brought by
Mi's. Peck against the Chicago vTrib-
linfa. Shfi Rllftrl tTiA THhnrm honanco
'Jm of the publication of her portrait in
an advertisement endorsing a certains
brand of whiskey.- Her. pictu,re,wag
iniuiuu uver uuutuer name, in Lite
lower courts the newspaper won the
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victory, but the supreme court ruled
iu mvui uj. iu.iu, jrouit.
Thomas A. Creigh' of Omha,
formdr department commander jpf the
Grand Army of .the Republic for Ne
braska, is dead. '
KILLING ELEPHANTS . "
General Nelson A. Miles recently
aald: "I never could quite see why
a man wants to shoot elephants,
zebra, antelopes and other animals
wilfully. Elephants are so useful to
us, you. know, lorthey are put to
work.. at so niany things. Why,
shooting' a an elephant is just like
pouring shbt into the side of a farm
bam; It is really too bad to kill
them,"
THE PRICE OF IT
"There," said Rorum, "that's what
I think you should do in the matter.
I'm no lawyer, but this is just a lit
tle bit of advice that costs you noth
ing What do you thinlo of it?"
"Well," replied Wise, "it's worth
it.,"-v-The Catholip Standard and
Times.
A DELICATE HINT
Sandy and hjs lass had been sit
ting, together about "half an hour in
silence.'
"Maggie," he said at length,
"wasna I here on the Sawbath
nicht?"
"Aye, Sandy, I daur say-you.were."
"An' wasna I here on Monday
nicht?"
"Aye, so ye were."
"An' I was here on Tuesday nicht,
an' Wednesday nicht, an' Thursday
nicht, an' Friday nicht?"
"Aye, I'm, thinkin' that's, so," .
"An' this is Saturday, nicht, an
I'm hero again?"
"Weel, what ,,for, no? I'm sure
yo're very welcome."
Sandy (desperately) "Maggie,
woman! D'e no begin to smell a
rat?" Success Magazine.
An Addis Abeba, Abyssinia cable
gram says: "Prince LIdj Jeassu,
aged 13 'years, grandson of King
Menelik and heir apparent to the
throne, was married to Princess Ro
man!, aged 7, the grand-daughter, of
the late Emperor John and niece
of Emperor Taitou. The marriage is
of great importance politically as it
unites tho two dynasties and the
families of powerful chiefs." ' '
A passenger train on the Great
Northern railroad was held up be
tween Colbert and Mead in Washing
ton shortly after midnight. Refer
ring .to this train robbery the- Spo
kane dispatch, to the Denver News
says: "Twelve persons were injured
when the engine and mail car, run
'wild' down the track by the bandits,
after they had rifled the mails, col
lided with the remaining cars of the
train. The bandits detached the en
gine and mail car from the train,
ran them down the track a consider
able distance and then, after the
registered mail had been opened
sent the engine back to collide with
tho .standing cars. The conductor
saw the wild cars coming down tho
track at a rate of twenty-five miles
an hour when they were a consider
able distance away ,and ho and one
of the' trainmen placed a tie on the
.track, in an endeavor to stop their
wild -flight.. The engine and xjar were
.partly stopped by the tie but plunged
into the .standing coaches. There ,
was a frightful crash and the passen
gers in all of the qars were thrown
from their seats, most of the injured
being hurt by glass frointti proken
windows. There , were injure)! ,; per
sons in every car. When '"the11 train
reached Colbert, some switchinnad'
to be done. While the engine 'crew
was busy at this work two men sud
denly appeared in the cab of the en
gine and thrusting a revolver against
the body of tho engineer, William
Miller, ordered him to do as com
manded. The engineer and fireman,'
John Hall, obeyed. The car was
coupled on to the train and it pulled
.out. After the train had proceeded
a'few miles the engineer was ordered
to stdp arid he and his fireman were
forced to dismount from the cab.
Two of the four or five men that
were seen then went to the door of
the mail car and ordered it to be
opened. Their command was obeyed
by Benjamin F. Stiimp, the mail
'clerk. Meanwh'iletwo other bandits
were with the ngineer and fireman,
ho were uncoupling the mall car
"and the locomotive' from the rest of '
the train. Soon after the train
shopped the conductor, C. L. .Robert-'
son: jumned from the''car. 'but was" .
driven back by the shbts of tlie h61d-t
lipsi Nearly a dozen Bhotslifwerevflred:t'
Hastily -climbing into' the cab,' tho
outlaws opened the throttle and
dashed down the track. How far
they went is not known. As soon
as the conductor was aware that
there was a holdup he ordered a
brakeman to the rear of the train to
prevent a collision and he had an- '
other brakeman cut in on the tele
graph wire to send word to Spokane.
A1 ' third member of the train'' crew
was hurried tb the station - with the
.n'ewd. About a half liour after the
engine and mail car had disappeared
thoy Were seen coming back down
the track and hurried reparations'
were made to ditch the runaways, but
W.ijthout success. Two special , train
loads of officers were, hurried from .
Spokane when word of the holdup
was received. Doctors were also tak
en out on the train tb care for the in
jured. Help was sent out from Hill
yard and the train was brought to .
Hillyard about 3:30 o'clock in tho
morning. It is reported that the
bandits obtained a large sum of mon
ey from the registered matt,Lthe .
amount being placed at $20,000,, -The .
two bandits who climbed into tho cab ,
are described as follows: One more
than six feet tall, weight 190 pounds;
face wrinkled; about 35 years old or
older, evidently an experienced en
gineer; the other man, about 5l feet
9 inches tall, and weighing about l!?0
pounds. Both men wore dark cloth- ,
ing and slouch hats and were ,
masked. As they entered the cab the
tall man said to the engineer: "You
have heard of us before, Indicating , .
that they had been Involved In others
of the numerous train holdups in tho
vicinity of Spokane within the last
few months."
King Manuel haa , bestowed, upon
his mother, Queen Amelia, decora
tions of three orders for" the heroism
she displayed on theUpccaslon of tho
the assassination of Her husband and
son in February, 190 g. A LJaboa
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