jmt TO WORKING GIRLS FREE MEDICAL ADVICE Every working Rlrl who is not Woll is corrtlnlly invltod to write to BIrB. Plnklmm, Lynn, Mass., for mlvlco; it is freely given, and lius restored thousands to health. riss Paine's Experience. "I want to thnnk you for what you lmyc dono for me, nnd recommend kyillu E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound to nil glrla whoso work Itcops them standing on their feet In tho store. The doctor said I must Rlop work ; ho did nob seem to rcalizo that qlrl cannot afford to stop work Injr. My back ached, my appetlto was poor, I could not Bleep, and menstrua tion was scanty and very painful. Ono day when mifferinfr I commenced to taUo Iiydln E. PInkliani's "Vcgo tulilo Compound, and found that It helped me. 1 continued Its use, and Boon found that my menstrual periods wero free from pain nnd natural; everyone is surprised at the chnngo la mo, nnd I nm well, and cannot bo too frratcful for what you havo done for mo." Mihb Janrt Paink, MO West 12.1th SU, Now Yorlr City. fsoooforfilt If original of about litter proving gtnulnmm cui ict bt produced. Tako no substitute, for it is Tjydia E, Plnkliain's "Vegetable Oonipouiul that euros. "Little Animosity's" Curve. A ninn of geometry and trlgonome. try flKures out that "Little Animosity," tho baby 1G-Inch gun at Sandy Hook, Ik a certain failure in a light breeze. "It wltuossed tho llrco shots llrcd," Ijo siiyn, "nnd noticed that the projec (Ho described a curvo to tho right equal to about one-fifth ot a degree, or twolvo minutes. Now, supposing (lint this deflection from a straight lino hnd boon continued throughout tho en tire rango of tho gun, which la said (o bo between twenty and twenty-one miles, what would have happened? Tho projectile would havo described a coiupleto circle, coming back to Its iiturtliig point If this could he safely accomplished In practlco It would mean n great saving, as tho shells could bo repeatedly used." New Yoik Press. Could Be Seen. CasHoH'H Journal: Tho scarcity ot Horvant girls led Mrs. Vaughau to en gage a farmer's daughter from .a rural district of Ireland. Hor want of fa miliarity with town wnys und lan Kiingu has led to many amusing scones. Ono afternoon a lady caned at the Vaughau residence and rang tho bell. Knlbleen answered the call. "Can Mrs. Vaughan be seon?" the visitor asked. "Cun she bo seen," sniggered Kath leen. "Shuro, an' 01 think she can: she's six feet holgh and four feet woldo! Can she bo Been? Sorrah a hit of anything elso can ye see whin she's about." 1 He Went West and Prospered. Preeland', Kan., March 9th. Ono of tho most prosperous farmers In Har per County Is Mr. N. H. Mead. Some thirty-four years ago ho left hla homo near Clarence, N. Y., nnd came to Kan sas. Here ho has thrived splendidly, and last year harvested over ono bun drod and forty acres of wheat alone. But ovorythlng has not gone woll with Mr. Mead, for his health has not been good for tho last few-years. Ifo has suffered a groat deal with Kidney nnd Dladdor Troublo and could get nothing to stop It. Lately, however, ho has Improved a great deal, nnd ho Bays that ho has nono ot tho old nymptoms left and Is feeling splendid ngaln. Ho used Dodd's Kiduey PHI? nnd this remody secraod to work won ders In his case. He says himself: "Dodd's Kldnoy Pills havo made me well. They are all right and a reliable remody for Kidney Troublo. They helped me right from tho start, giving mo great relief, and finally cured me." ' Tho puffin Is tho most punctual ot birds iu tho matter ot Its annual mi gration. To Cure a Cold In Ono day. 'l'nko Laxative Uromo Quiuluo Tubloti. All druggisUrofundwottoyl(KfulUtouure.'.!5c. Irony Is an insult conveyed In the form of a compliment. 13. P. Whip ple. The woll earned reputation nnd Incrwis lug popularity of tho IjowU' "Single Hinder," straight 5c clgur, U duo to the nirtintalnwl high quality nnd appreciation of tho smokor. Industry may not ho ultra fashion able, but it Is doservlng. BrATB or OlIIO.ClTVOrTOLKDO, .. Litoam Count-, i hs- frank J. Cheney m:iltfw oath that ho I thi WMitnr partner of th Arm of V. J Cboney & Co., il'tlnc Imslnfee in tho City of Toledo, County unci Stale nforosald. nnd that said tlrm will pay tho fcum of ONK HUNDUKl) DOM.AUS for u h nnd every cne of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by tho use of UuM'h CutarrU Cure. I'KANIC J. CU1SN15Y. Rworn to before xne and subscribed in my lrot.once, this 6tU day of December. A. D. 181 ISkal.1 A. W.UU'.ASON. isl:AU1 Notary Public Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous turfactt J( thti system. Send for testimonials, free. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. SoldbyDruKlKt,7So. liall'b Faintly I'll la are tho best "Do not hold everything as gold whloh shine like gold.' -Alauus do Insulin. MURDER MINERS MARSHALS FIRE QN DEFENSE LESS CITIZENS. SHOT WITHOUT PROVOCATION What Investigation of West Virginia Killing Shows Union Attorney Throws More Light on the Sanguin ary. Conflict. INDIANAPOLIS. Tho official re port of Chris Kvans, who was sent to tho West Virlglnla coal fields to In vestigate the killing of colored miners at Atklnovlllo on February 2G, has been received ot the headquarters ot tho United Mine Workers. The report says General St. Clair, who Is the attorney for the coal com panies, created an agination to have tho men arrested and taken to Charleston nnd that Immediately afterward arrangements were mado with tho United States marshal by tho Mine Workers' officials to give bond for all who were arrested, but that later, on account of the agita tion created by Deputy Marshal Cun ningham, tho agreement entered Into with tho marshal was broken mid Cunningham was sent to arrest the men. According to the report there was great feeling against Cunningham and the men decided not to allow him to arrest them and he was driven away. Mr. Evans says he sent u telegram to tho men to submit quietly, but the coal companies, who own all the tel egraph and telephono lines connected with the town, refused to deliver It and before he could get any message to the men Cunningham nnd his dep uties, whq, he says, were the worst characters ho could collect, went to the town u second time and killed the miners In tho night-time In their beds. Mr, Evans sayn ho went to the scene of tho trouble the next morning, when forty-eight men had been arested for conspiracy to kill Cunningham, and found, In a house occupied by a col ored man called "Stonowull" Jackson, tho dead bodies of William Dodson, William Clark and Richard Clayton, all colored. The report continues: On Inquiry wo find that the wife of Jackson, with four children, together with olght colored men, were in the house, and that about daybreak all wero awakened by idiots being Hied Into tho house from the outside. This shooting took place without tiny thing being said, nnd tho three colored men I havo mentioned were found dead on tho floor. Two were in their night clothes and tho other ono partly dressed, with ono shoo on, partly laced, and the other foot bare. We visited another house whore Joseph lllzer lay mortally wounded, having been shot through the window ns ho was stooping to put his trousers on after getting out of bod. Hlzer lived with his ulster and she made the state ment ut tho Inquest that she pleaded with those Bhootlug not to kill her children and In reply Cunningham said: "Women and children must take care of themselves." In no instance do we find where tho persons were asked to surrender until after the deputies hud commenced to shoot at the occupants of the houses named. RESUME PROTOCOL SIGNING. Minister Bowen Resumes Negotiations for Venezuela. WASHINGTON, D. C Herbert W. Dowen, tho representative of the Ven ezuelan government, who, with Mrs. Bowen, went to Brooklyn to attend tho funeral of Mr. Bowen's mother, returned to Washington Friday night. He will resume Immediately tho nego tiat.ons for the signing of the proto cols for the set! icment of the claims of foreign government against Vene 7.uela. The protocol with Belgium Is now ready for signature and will be signed by Baron Moncheur, the Belgian min ister, and Mr. Bowen Saturday. It will follow mainly the Hues of the pro tocol of the United Slates. When Bel glum's agieenient has been signed, five of the eight protocols with the peace powers will have been completed. The piotocols with tho blockading powers, Great Brituin, Germany nnd Italy, for the reference to The Hague arbitration tribunal of tho question of preferential treatment iu tho payment of the claims of tho citizens of tboso countries, also will be taken up lm- Kansas Votes Silver Plate. CUBAN RECIPROCITY TREATY. Is Not Smooth Sailing at Havana De nounced as a Scheme. HAVANA The reciprocity treaty was up in tho senate again Friday and the debate was.adjournod until Sat urday. 'In tho course of the debate Sonor Sangullly denouncod the treaty as a pohomc on the part of tho Unltod States designed to keep Europeau com merce out of Cuba WHERE THE MONEY GOES TO. Distribution of the $1,564,108,514 Ap propriated by Congress. WASHINGTON, D. C Tho appro priations made during the session of congress which closed Wednesday, ag gregated $"G3,481,018, as ogalnst ?800 C2 1,190 for tho last session. Tho to tal for Iho entire congress footed ?1, GG1, 108,514, or something more than $100,000,000 In excess of tho total ap propriations of the Fifty-sixth con gress, tho total for that congress bo ing 1,4 10,138. Thcso figures were embodied In a stntemnnt presented to the senate .by Mr. Allison, chairman of tho commit tee on appropriations. Tho statement nlso contained an itemized statement showing the ex penditures by the past session by bills as follows: Agriculture, $5,978,100; army, ?78, 138,752; diplomatic! and consular $1, 908,250; District of Columbia, $8,047, 497; fortifications, $7,188,410; Indian, $8,512,950; legislative, executive and judicial, $27,595,953; militaray acad emy, $053,248; navy, $81,877,291; pen sions, $139,847,000; postofflcc, $153, 401,549; sundry civil, $82,272,955; de ficiencies, $21,501,572; permanent an nual' appropriations, $132,589,820; mis cellaneous, $3,250,000. GERMAN TRADE CONDITIONS. Exports to the United States Show a Large Increase. WASHINGTON, D. C Reviewing German's commercial record for tho past year, Consul General Frank II. Mason, nt llerlln, in a report to tho Btate department, declares that whilo a few branches of manufacture and trado experienced a partial recovery tho year as a whole belonged to the period of over-production, collapse and panic, which began In the summer of 1900, nnd has caused the condition still prevalent, wherein prices of food and raw materinls are nbove nil logi cal relation to tho tnnikct values of finished ntodticfS, Referring to German trade with the United States, tho consul general calls attention to the notable Increase in German exports to this country, amounting to $11,778,770, distributed through twenty-five consular districts. PENSIONS FOR PROFESSORS. Cornell Will Retire Teachers at the Age of Seventy. ITHACA, N. Y. Announcement was mado Friday ot a scheme for tho pen sioning of Cornell university profe soiss who, under tho rule adopted by tho hoard of trustees last fall, will be retired after attaining tho age of 70 years. A fund of $150,000 has been given tho university for this purpose, and this amount will Tc placed at com pound Interest until 191 1, when it will amount to $250,000. Each professor retired will receive an annual pen sion of $1,500, three-fourths of which will be paid from the pension fund and one-fourth of which will be contributed by the professors. It Is expected, however that profes sors who reach the ago limit before 1814 will also receive tho benefits of the pension scheme. THE PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND. Convention of the Railway Christian Association. TOPEKA, Kan. President Roose velt will be present at tho Interna tional convention ot tho Railway Young Men's Christian association, which will he held In this city from April 30 to May 3. Ho has not desig nated tho date of his visit. An effort will be made to have him officiate at tho laying of tho corner stone of the now Hallway Young Men's Christian association building, tho money for which was largely furnished by Presi dent Ripley of tho Santa Fe. Miss Helen Gould of New York and other well known people will attend tho conference. Delegates will bo present from all parts of the world. Riot Ends College Debate. ATCHISON, Kan. The regular ora torical contest of the Kansas Intercol legiate association onded In a disgrace ful riot Friday night. Tho trouble aroso over tho eligibility of Malcolm Garrard of Kansas university to com pote as one of the orators. Ho at tempted to spealc, hut was hissed down by the audience. The polico wero fin ally called In to oxpel tho unruly Kan sas uulvorslty studonts. EX-NE3RASKAN IN TROUBLE. Lewis S. Irwin Taken to Milwaukee to Answer to Forgery. TOLEDO, O. lcwls S. Irwin was on Monday taken to Mlhvaukeo to an swer to a charge of fo'gery. Ho has been In Jail here for somo time await ing an officer from Milwaukee. Ir win assorts his Innocence. Ho was flftoeu years a logal practitioner In Nebraska, where he was also promi nent in politics. THE MINERS WIN COAL 8TRIKE COMMISSION FIND INGS ARE FORETOLD. A TEN PER CENT WAGE RAISE Payment by Weight When Practicable Will AJso Increase Pay The Per Diem Men Are to Receive Same Sal ary for Less Work. NEW YORK. Tho Herald prints tho following as a summary of tho findings of tho coal strike commission appointed by President Roosevelt, which, It Is expected, will bo handed to tho president within a week. Thero will undoubtedly bo at least a 10 per cent advance In the pay for mining, to tnko effect from tho time the miners returned to work last Oc tober. Tho per diem employes will not havo their wages increased, but will be recommended for tho same pay of a day of nine hours. Tho system of pay will be regulated. Wherever practicablo the operators will bo required to pay by weight, In stead of by the car, and elsewhere by the llenal yard. Tho miners will have checking representatives at tholr own expense. This will practically amount to a second Increase In wages. There will be Indirect recognition of tho union, which will come when the findings are submitted by President Roosevelt to John Mitchell, ns presi dent of the miners' union. The causes of the strike as round by tho commission will not bo comforting to the coal mining companies. Tho boycott will ho condemned and tho principle will be laid down that a miner has a right to work without molestation, even though he does not belong to tho union. Tho terms of the verdict are to hold good for three years, and recommenda tions are to be mado for settlements of other questions at tho end of that period. In local disputes the operators will bo advised to treat with committees of tho miners nnd there may be a sug gestion of a local board of arbitration. MORGAN DOES NOT BUY CUBA. Denies Reports of Hotel and Railroad Purchases. TAMPA, Fla. J. P. Morgan arrived at Port Tampa Sunday afternoon from Havana. Immediately after dis embarking his party hoarded a spe cial train for New York. A rumor that the Flagler system of hotels in Florida and the Florida East Coast railroad had been turned over to Morgan, presumably for the Southern tall way, and that the At lantic Coast Line and Southern wore to own the property jointly and that lie intended to build a largo tourist tourist business' in Florida and estab lish a modern line of steamers be tween this state and Cuba, was men tioned to him. "I know nothing whatever of such a deal," ho said, making the state ment with considerable emphasis. HE DESCRIBES LA SOUFFREIRE. American Geologist Examines the Vol cano. KINGSTON, St. Vincent. Ernest Howe of the United States geological survey, after a personal Inspection of La Soufrelre, gives this description ot tho slight eruptions now frequently oc curring: "Without warning big puffs of steam riso constantly and countless rockets of black mud and stones are shot up from the crater and spread outward. Then the mud nnd stones fall back Into tho lake with n loud roar. Other clouds of steam, charged with dust, rise and drift over the country. An other Interesting feature of the region Is the deposit of ashes. The Walllbou river Is still hot enough to cause tho water In the stream to evaporate In huge columns, laden with dust." Mexicans Pray In Streets. COLIMA, Mex. At 10 o'clock Fri day forenoon tho volcano was again In action, tho eruption being the most violent yet. The people of Tuxpam aro In consternation. According to advices from that point tho eruption was accompanied by bhowers oi asues and dense clouds, darkening tho sky. Some of the peoplo have fled to neigh boring hills and the people have In their fright knelt In tho streets to pray. Many houses and stores have been closed. Crowninshleld to Retire. WASHINGTON Rear Admiral A. S. Crowninshleld, commanding tho Europeau station, has applied for re tlremont In accordance with the pro visions of tho personnel law. He will be relieved In command of the station by Roar Admiral Charles S. Cotton, at prosent commanding the Norfolk navy yard. Admiral Crowninshleld is No. 20 on the list cf roar admirals, and his retirement will place him in the first grade, whero his retired pay will bo $5,025 per year, THEIR WORK OVER. Fifty-Seventh Congress Passeo Into History. WASHINGTON. Tho fifty-seventh congress expired at noon Wednesday by limitation. Thero has not heen in many years a demonstration in tho house as occured Wednesday, owing to tho fact that Speaker Henderson was retiring not only as presiding officer, but from tho house as a member. Tho bitter partisan feeling that has sprung up In tho house of representa tives during tho past week reached a pitch which prevented the unanimous aproval of tho house for tho usual resolution of thanks and courtesy which was offered. Moro than this, tho resolution had to come from the republican side, and whilo this has oc curred before, It is not tho usual cus tom. Tho usual resolution of thanks to President Pro Tem Fryo was unani mously adopted in the senate. Two years ago, when tho Fifty-sixth congress expired, It was remarkable, not only for tho Inauguration ot Mc Klnloy, but for the fact that Senator Carter of Montana talked the river and harbor bill to death, occupying the time of the senate up to within a few minutes of tho end. Senator Mason, whose term expired, also talked an unlmportnnt bill to death, but In his valedictory ho lec tured tho senate for Its unlimited de bate, which allows bills to bo killed In that manner, and he also mado a final plea for tho freedom of the Fil ipinos. As all tho Important supply bills had pascd beforo tho two houses took a recess, no legislation was necessary, and none was attempted. The bills which had passed and reached the stage of enrollment were all signed by President Roosevelt, who, with mem bers of his cabinet, entered the presi dent's room In the senate wing of tho capltol. This biennial visit of the pres ident to tho capltol Is one of the fea tures of a closing congress. FOUR NEW BATTLESHIPS. Naval Appropriation Bill Provides for Building. WASHINGTON. Senator Halo, from tho committee on naval affairs, report ed the naval appropriation bill. Tho most Important amendment recommended by the committco re lates to the Increase of tho navy. The entire house provision is stricken out and in its stead provision is made for four first class battleships of the gen eral type ot the Oregon and two first class armored cruisers of tho type ot tho Brooklyn. The battleships are to cost not exceeding $3,200,000 each and the cruisers $2,750,000. The battleships are to be of 12,000 tons displacement, and tho cruisers of 9,500 tons. There is a provision that not moro than two of thcso vessels shall be built by ono establishment, and for tho building of any or nil of them In tho. government yards In case of a combination to deprlvo tho gov ernment of the benefit of fair compe tition. LARGEST NUMBER OF BILLS Introduced During Session 17,500 and Passed 2,000. WASHINGTON, D. C.The number of bills Introduced during the Fifty-seventh congress aggregated 17,500, of which 3,918 were reported and moro than 2,000 passed. Tho houso calendar Is clearer at the close o fthls congress than It ever has been before, only seventy-eight bills remaining undisposed of. In tho Fifty-fifth congress 2,21,4 bills were reported and J, 473 passed; In tho Fifty-sixth congress 2,787 were reported and 2,204 passed. The near est approach to the number of bills in troduced in tho Fifty-seventh was in the Fifty-sixth congress, when 14,399 were brought In, and tho greatest number reported were in the Forty ninth congress, tho aggregate being 4,181. Tho number of private bills passed by this congress havo been exceeding ly large. Fifty members of the houso died dur ing tho congress just closed, an un usually largo number. Plague Record at Mazatlan. MAZATLAN, Mexico The number of deaths hero In February was 107, of which fifty were from bubonic plague. From January 1 to March 1 thero were burned by the sanitary au thorities 291 houses of a cheap class, for which tho owners wero paid $73, 000. ' President Receives Smoot. WASHINGTON, D. C President Roosevelt on Monday received at tho white houso several members of the senato whoso terras begin with tho extraordinary session, called for next Thursday. They were senators-elect Hayburn ot Idaho, who succeeds Mr. Hcitfeld; Ankony of Washington, who succeeds Mr. Turner; Smoot of Utah, who suc ceeds Mr. Rawlins, and Mr. McCreary of Kentucky, who succeeds Mr. Me-boo. Changes on the Northwestern. President Marvin Hughltt of tho Chicago and Northwestern recently, announced that his company has pur chased and entered into possession of, tho Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri valloy railroad in Nebraska, Wyom ing and South Dakota, and that It will be operated hereafter as tho Nobraska and Wyoming division of tho North western systom. Following this notlco announcement was made by General Manager Gard ner ot tho appointment of C. A. Cairns as general passenger agent of tho Chicago and Northwestern, with headquarters at Chicago. Mr. Cairns has been assistant general passenger agent of tho Northwestern since 1892, and for several years prior to that was assistant general passen ger agent of tho Chicago Great West o:n. He has been in railway service sinco 1878, commencing as a messen gor In the president and treasurer's office of tho Cleveland, Columbus, Cin cinnati and Indianapolis railroad. G. F. Bldwell, who has heen tho general manager of tho Fremont, Elk horn and Missouri Valley, Is appointed manager of tho Nebraska and Wyom ing division, Including tho lino from California Junction to Fremont, with offices at Omaha. J. A. Kuhn, form erly general freight agent ot the Elk horn, Is mado assistant general freight and passenger agent of tho North western at Omaha. W. H. Jones is made division freight agent, nnd J. W. Munn division passenger agent at Omaha. It's ono thing to write a book and another to write a right dooK. Flso'i Cure for Consumption Is an lnfalllbls medietas for coughs and colds. N. W. 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