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'appeal for desthdte War Department Takes Measures to Be lieve Hurricane Sufferers. CIRCULARS SENT TO URGE CITIES Hundreds of Live* Hare Boon Lost, and Those Who Remain are In Absolute Destitution, Without Homes or Food A Generous Response Hoped For From All Sections. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—The -war department yesterday took prompt measures for the rollef of the hurri cane sufferers in Porto Rico. When the press dispatches and General Da vis’ advices made known the extent of the disaster steps were immediately taken to send supplies and the trans port McPherson was ordered put in readiness to sail from New York on Monday next. It will carry rations and other necessaries. Secretary of War Root yesterday sent the following appeal to the mayors of all cities of more than 150,000 population. Sir—The governor general of Porto Rico confirms the report that upon the 8th inst. a hurricane swept over the Island, entirely demolishing many of the towns, destroying many lives and reducing so far as he can estimate, not less than 100,000 of the inhabitants to the condition of absolute destitu tion, without homes or food. Unless immediate and effective relief is given these unfortunates will perish of fam ine. Under these conditions the president -deems that an appeal should be made to the humanity of the American peo ple. It is an appeal to their patriot ism also, for the inhabitants of Porto Rico have freely and gladly submitted themselves to the guardianship of the United States and have voluntarily surrendered the protection of Spain, to which they were formerly entitled, ■confidently relying upon more gener ous and beneficent treatment at our lands. The highest considerations of honor and good faith unite with the promptings of humanity to require trom the United States a generous re sponse to the demand of Porto Rican distress. This department has directed the immediate distribution of rations to the sufferers by the army of Porto Rico, so far as it is within the power of the executive, but in the absence of any appropriation we must rely large ly upon private contributions. I beg that you will call upon the public-spirited and humane people of iyour city to take active and immediate imeasures in this exigency. The gov ernment transport McPherson will be [Sent directly from the port of New York to Porto Rico on Monday, the 14th inst., to carry all supplies of food which can be obtained. Further trans ports will be sent at future dates, of Which public notice will be given. . Any committee charged with the raising of funds will receive full infor jmation and advice upon communicat ing with this department. Very re spectfully, ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of War. FIVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Aug. 12.— It is now said 500 persons lost their lives at Ponce during the hurricane. Terrible distress prevails there. Arroyo, on the south coast, has been destroyed. Sixteen lives were lost there and the town is still submerged in water. At Guayamo the houses were still standing. Seven persons were killed there. A number of houses were pil laged. Squads of soldiers were unable to maintain order and starvation threatens the population. The water supply of San Juan has heen stopped. The Coamo Springs hotel has been wrecked. It belonged to the Porto Rico company of Phila delphia. MORE TROOPS COMING HOME. South Dakota and Minnesota Men on the Sheridan. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—General Otis cabled the War department yes terday as follows: MANILA, Aug. 11.—City of Para ar rived. Private Cosley Reed, Company A, Twenty-fourth, died at sea. Sher man sails today. OTIS. The City of Para sailed from San Francisco July 13 with Companies B and D, Fourth cavalry; headquarters A, F, H and K, Twenty-fourth infantry, and B, engineer b^alion—thirty-six officers and 911 enlisted men, General Schwan commanding. The Sheridan will bring back the Minnesota and South Dakota troops. Indians at Paris Exposition. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 12.—W. B. Backus, principal of public schools of Chadron, Neb., is in the city on business with ine interior department. It is the intention of Mr. Backus to secure, if possible, the consent of Sec retary Hitchcock to arrange for an Indian exhibit at Paris next year. He was in charge of the Indian exhibit at Chicago during the World's fair, and after the signal success made at Omaha last year with the Indian con gress, feels that he can make an ex hibit at Paris which will be one of the leading features of the French expo sition. The Situation In Cuba. PLATTSBURG, N. Y., Aug. 12.— Colonel L. V. W. Kennon had a long talk with the president yesterday re garding the situation in Cuba. Colonel Kennon has been on General Brooke’s staff at Havana as adjutant general for civil affairs. He arrived at the hotel in company with General Guy V. Henry and was Immediately hurried into the presi dent’s rooms. He talked with Presi dent McKinley for nearly an hour and went over the entire Cuban situation with him. A FAMINE IS IMPENDING. Gen. Davis Asks Authority to Succor l'orto Itlcans. WASHINGTON. Aug. 12.—The war department yesterday received a cable gram from General Davis giving fuller details of the damage done In Porto Rico by the hurricane. General Davis says a famine is im pending and asks authority to issue rations to the destitute. The message says: “Later reports show that hurricane was far more severe in interior and southern part of island than here. Data for estimate of number of Porto Ricans who have lost everything is deficient, but 1 am forced to believe the number on island cannot fall below 100,000 souls and a famine is impending. I ask that 2,500.000 pounds of rice and beans, equal quantities of each, be imme diately shipped on transports to Ponce. Some here. Urgent appeals to all post commanders for food for the destitute. Am I authorized to relieve distress by food Issues? Rice and beans only de sired. There have been many deaths of natives by falling walls. So far only one soldier reported dangerously in jured. Several towns reported entirely demolished. As yet have reports from only four ports. Complete destruction of all barracks at two and in two others one company each had bar racks destroyed. Troops are in can vas. No reports yet from the largest ports, Ponce and Mayaguez, but they were in the vortex of the storm. At least half of the people in Porto Rico subsist entirely on fruit and1 vege tables and storm has entirely des troyed this source of support.” TO RAISE THE QUARANTINE, Surgeon General Wyman of the Marine Hospital Sends a Message. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Surgeon General Wymann of the marine hos pital service has sent a message to the harbor authorities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore in forming them of the desire of the au thorities of the cities in the neighbor hood of Hampton, Va., to raise the quarantine against that city and ask ing that in case this step should be taken the northern cities would not quarantine against the places affected, including Norfolk, Newport News, Portsmouth and Old Point. Dr. Wy man says his own opinion is that there was no reason for quarantining against any other place than Phoebus and the Soldiers’ home. Dr. Wyman has re ceived favorable responses from Dr. Doty and Dr. Jones representing the health authorities of New York and Baltimore respectively. Surgeon Vick ery, the marine hospital service rep resentative at Hampton, Va., wired headquarters here today that the yel low fever situation continues favor able. There had been no more deaths from the fever. TRAGEDY AT ARAPAHOE, NEB. Two Young People, Seemingly Lover*, Die by Their Own Hand*. ARAPAHOE, Neb., Aug. 12.—The people of Arapahoe were startled yes terday by the report of a terrible trag edy in which two young people of this place were concerned. Workmen who were repairing the High school building on going to work about 7 o’clock found the lifeless body of James Bloodworth, aged 21, with a bullet hole in his right temple, in the east doorway of the building. In his clenched hand he still held the revol ver with which the deed was done. Lying partially on his body was the body of Miss Grace Cooper, with a bul let wound in her temple. She was still breathing, but died about four hou later. E a left a statement that it was a cas» )f suicide with each other. Objec tion. had been made to their keeping company and this is supposed to be the cause. Miss Cooper was about 15 years old. NO RIGHT TO INDIAN FUNDS, Auditor of Treasury Disallows the Ex. pense Account of a Negro, WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—The audi tor of the treasury for the interior de partment has raised a question as to a negro's rights to Indian funds by dis allowing expenses for the board and medical treatment of John Woodruff, a negro from the Pine Ridge agency, now at the government insane hospi tal here. The auditor says these ex penses cannot be allowed as a charge against the appropriation for the sup port and subsistence of the Sioux un til the man establishes a status as a Sioux Indian. The interior department expresses the opinion that neither the Sioux nation nor any tribe or branch tribe has any voice in determining what disposition should be made by the government of the fund question, so long as its obligations to the In dians are fulfilled. Supervisors of Census. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 12.—'The director of the census has sent out commissions of supervisors of census appointed for Nebraska. As the ap pointments are of the "recess” variety, they will hold only until the senate confirms permanent appointments. The same men will, however, be appointed in each instance. Thi3 action of the director is a departure from the usual course of procedure, but commissions are sent out at this time that super visors may map out their districts, select enumerators and be ready to begin promptly on the morning of June 1. Centralisation of Schools. SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Aug. 12.—The question of the consolidation and cen tralization of h tecountry schools is at present being earnestly discussed in educational circles throughout the state and it is probable that something definite will result from the discussion, as sufficient Interest has been aroused to induce the educational authorities of the state to take hold of the mat ter, with a view to adopting and in augurating some plan which will se cure the desired end. Never Judge the judge by the jury. According to (Jen. Otis’ Report It Was Very Successful. _ OUR LOSS, 5 KILLED, 29 WOUNDED UacArthur’a Rear Left and Right Now Swept Clear of the Knemjr—Their Loti In the Recent Engagement — The Great Difficulty Under Which Ameri can Troops Operated. - i ),;y WASHINGTON. Aug. 11.—General Otis cabled the war department the following report of yesterday’s engage ment: “MacArthur’s movement very suc cessful; serves to clear country rear and left and right of Insurgents; has advanced north to Calulet, six miles from San Fernando, whonce he Is now reconnoltering; his casualties five killed, twenty-nine wounded. Officers wounded: Major Braden, Captain Abernethy, Thirty-sixth volunteers, leg and arm, moderate; Lieutenant Williams, Fifty-first Iowa, thigh, mod erate. These troops operated to left and rear toward Santa Rita. Mac Arthur’s advance under Wheaton and Llscum consists of Ninth, Twelfth, Seventeenth, part of Twenty-secon^ regiments and portion Fifty-first Iowa. Movement very difficult on account of mud and surface water. MacArthur reports insurgents’ loss 100 killed, some 300 wounded; they were rapidly driven northward and last evening apparently abandoned Porac line, where they blew up powder works.” “OTIS.” MANILA, Aug. 11—Official reports received here from the scene of the recent fighting with the Filipinos say the day was spent in reconnaissance, during which the American troops found a few of the enemy. But there were no engagements of Importance. A battalion of the Seventeenth infantry under Major O’Brien advanced very close to Angeles. The major reports there are about 250 insurgents there. A battalion of the Twelfth infantry made a reconnaissance in the direction of Porac, but the enemy there scat tered. The main body of the Ameri can army is at Calulum. The line has been materially changed since the advance was stopped yesterday and now includes the towns of Guagua and Santa Arita. Major General Otis issued an order closing the ports in the hands of the insurgents to inter-island traffic. Agui naldo issued a decree July 24 dated from Tariac closing the insurgent ports to vessels flying the American flag and inviting vessels under other flags to visit them. Visitors under foreign flags cannot traffic with these jports without running the blockade. The gunboats Concord, Yorktown, Callao and Pampanga bombarded San Fernando Tuesday. The Filipinos re plied with cannon and musketry for an hour and then fled to the hills, the gunboats firing on them with their machine guns until they disappeared. The bombardment was continued for some time afterwards and many houses were riddled and destroyed, but the town was not set on fire. The gun boats did not land men. A SAD NEBRASKA HOME. Mr. Blue Returns Wltli Remains of Wife and Children. OMAHA, Aug. 11.—A man upon whose countenance care, anxiety and sorrow were depicted alighted from an incoming train at the union depot yes terday. He gazed about him abstract edly at the signs of life and activity apparent on hand and then with heavy tread walked toward the baggage coach ahead. Three pine boxes were tenderly lifted fro mthe car by the baggagemen and the eyes of the man filled with tears as he watched them until they were safely transferred to the baggage car of a Union Pacific train bound for the west. These boxes contained the' earthly remains of the wife and two children of the man, who was W. F. Blue of Gibbon, Neb. His family were the victims of the dread ful street car accident which happened at Bridgeport, Conn., last Sunday, in which thirty lives were lost. Mrs. Blue and her two children went to Bridgeport last fall, where the wife and mother hoped to benefit her health, which had been considered im paired after long treatment for a can cer. Mrs. Blue was fast improving and was almost ready to return to her Nebraska home, when the catastrophe occurred. A sister and two children were also in the same terrible calam ity which befell Mrs. Blue and chil dren. TERRORS OE THE KLONDIKE Returned Gold Seekers Tell of Hardships Endured. WRANGEL, Alaska, Aug. 6—(Via Seattle, Wash.)—Aug. 11.—The Stic keen river steamer Strathcona arrived here yesterday with thirty survivors of the Edmonton trail. The unfortunates tell heartrending stories of hardships endured, com rades lost and abandoned and strongly denounce the trading and transport companies, as well as the Canadian officials and newspapers that so pro fusely advertised this route as a feasi ble one to the Klondike gold fields. To outward appearances the men certain ly give evidence of the awful suffer ing undergone since leaving Edmon ton, eighteen months ago. Most of them are sickly looking with un kempt beards and greasy clothes— pictures of physical and flnanaclal wrecks. Several are gray and bear the marks of scurvy. Teacher Shot by an Editor. ELI ABETH, Colo., Aug. 11.—Geo. W. Blazer, superintendent of the Elizabeth public schools, was shot and instantly killed on the street last night. The murderer escaped. It is supposed that the shooting was done by W. L. Holland, editor of the Eye, who has disappeared. He was seen in company with Blazer shortly before the tragedy occurred and ill feeling existed between them. TNOISANDS Or ACRES RUINED. Northern Minnesota and North Dakota Stricken by Ralu and Hall. ST. PAUL, Aug. 11—A Fargo, N. D.. special to the Pioneer Press says: Two million bushels of wheat are esti mated to have been lost In yesterday’s hailstorm, which partially destroyed the crop on nearly 250.000 acres of land In the state. Farmers who were busily engaged in the morning in tak ing in wheat were driven to their barns for shelter and afterward found it unnecessary to take their binders back to the Helds, as the grain had been harvested by hall In a few brief moments. Just before 11 o'clock the storm struck the northern part of Cass and southern part of Traill counties. In addition to a big area over which hall fell thickly heavy wind and rain storms completed the destruction of thousands of acres of grain on cither side of tho center cf the path of the hailstorm. Covering an area of fifteen miles north and south between Argus ville and Gardner, in Cass, to Kelso, in Traill, and on the east and west ter ritory ranging from five miles wide on south to fifteen or twenty miles on tho north the country is practically de vastated. Losses are estimated all tho way from 60 to ICO per cent of tho crop. The acreage in Cass and Traill coun ties is placed at from 100,000 to 200,000 acres. Many conservative estimators say that 60 per cent of the crop of 125,000 acres is not too large a figure for the destruction in Cass and Traill. In the northern part of the county the storm seems to have begun as far west as Erie and Galesburg and gono directly east on the county line be tween Cass and Traill to Red river and then over into Minnesota. The hail was apparently heaviest along this line and crops on big farms like tho Grandlns and Standfodrs, near Kelso, were completely wiped out. FIFTY THOUSAND MAY STRIKE Building Operative* In Chicago May A Go Out. CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—The brlckmak ers’ strike has reached the critical Btage, and from assertions made by the manufacturers in answer to the demands of the strikers, It is believed that a general tie-up of building oper ations in Chicago and a strike of 50,000 craftsmen is imminent. A meeting between the contending parties has been called for this even ing before a committee of the building trades council. The brickmakers’, alli ance insists that the South Side manu facturers of Cook county where the non-union article now is generally used. By compelling the union yards to enter into competition with the non union manufacturers are alliance cal culates to force the latter into becom ing unionized. The manufacturers go to the confer ence declaring that they will not do the bidding of the strikers. The build ing trades council avers that it will assist the brickmakers. If those senti ments are adhered to it is asserted that a general strike will be called within a few days. FRESH TROOPS FOR PHILIPPINES. The Matter of Transportation of 80,000 Men flomevliat Porplozlng. NEW YORK. Aug. 11.—A special to the Tribune from Washington says: The schedule of the army transports for raising the force in the Philippines to 50,000 men has been completed and will be delivered to Secretary Root. It shows that if additional steamers are chartered about 18,000 soldiers can be sent across the Pacific to reach Ma nila by the end of November. The remaining 2,000 which it is proposed to send to General Otis, if he needs them, will he sent by way of the Suez canal. The latter route consumes nearly two months, and if the war department is compelled to wait until the renova tion of the Atlantic transports Thomas and Logan is finished troops on those vessels cannot reach Manila beforo January 15. DOG FRUSTRATES A HOLDUP. The Station Agent at Ogden Aided by Hie Faithful Canine. FORT DODGE, la., Aug. 11.—An at tempt was made last evening to hold up Station Agent E. Groom of the Minneapolis & St. Louis road at Ogden. The northbound passenger which leaves this place at 11:57, had gone and Agent Groom was preparing to go home. He had turned out the lights and was going out when he was con fronted by a man with a gun, which was pointed at him. Mr. Groom had a hunting dog with him, which made a rush at the robber and received the charge of shot Intended for the station agent. While this was going on Mr. Groom made a break for his desk for a revolver and when he returned the would-be robber had disappeared. THE REMAINS OF COL HAWKINS. A Vast Concourse of Citizens Do Honor to Ills Memory. WASHINGTON, Pa., Aug. 11—When the funeral train bearing the remains of Colonel Hawkins reached here, a vast concourse of citizens gathered at the station to do honor to the mem ory of their fellow townsman. The funeral escort was met at the station by Post 120 Grand Army of the Republic, the ex-members of Company H, Tenth regiment and Camp 316, Sons of Veterans. After the casket had been placed in the funeral car, the procession moved to the former resi dence of the deceased. Ail the business houses and residences were draped with the national flag and crepe. Today the body will be placed in a vault to await the arrival of the Tenth regiment from San Francisco, when a military funeral will take place. Smothered In * Corn Din. WATERLOO, la., Aug. 11—Reuben Follett, the 10-year-old son of W. Fol lett, postmaster at Dewar, this county, was smothered to death in a bin of shelled corn yesterday. The boy was playing in an elevator when the chute was opened to fill a car. He was thrown down and burled under the corn. DECREASING IN STRENGTH. Movement of the Weat India* Barrlesne le Very Plow. WASHINGTON. Aug. 14.—The West Indies hurricane appears to be do creasing in strength and the chances are it will gradually expend Itself be foro making further progress. This is the welcome news given out by the officers of the weather bureau tonight. It is based on the fact that there has not been a decided fall in the barom eter in the localities that ought to feel it. The movement of the hurricane is apparently very slow and even at Jacksonville the velocity of the wind this morning was but twenty-one miles an hour. The opinion of the officials is that by the time Charleston Is reached there will be no more than an ordinary blow. Wilmiugton, N. C., and Norfolk have taken down their hurricane signals. The storm now appears to be on the east coast of Florida and the latest reports from Jupiter, dated 4 a. m. this morning, indicate a pretty severe blow at that place. It is now south of Jacksonville, indicating a slow southward movement during the night. The bureau has had no wire reports from south of Titusville, Fla., some distance below Jacksonville, and none from Nassau, Bahama Islands, since Friday afternoon. MAY CALL TOR MORE TROOPS. Secretary Knot U Said to Hare the Mat* ter Under Consideration. WASHINGTON. Aug. 14.—Secretary Root has under consideration the ques tion of calling for volunteers. While he has not decided definitely to do so, preparations are being made for the call should It be decided to Issue it when the thirteen regiments now be ing organized are completed. It is said that additional troops may be needed to relieve those who have Bervod some time in the tropical coun tries. It Is also suggested that It may be deemed alvlsable to increase the army of General Otis. Secretary Root has under consider ation suggestions from General Brooke for bringing home some of the troops now in Cuba. It has been practically determined to have five battalions sent to the United States. Kills Ills Wife and Paramour. READING, Pa., Aug. 14.—Solomon Quinter, a well known citizen and former railroad employe, shot and in stantly killed his wife, Annie, aged 48 years, and her paramour, Edward H. Kitzmiller. aged 28, at an early hour this morning. Quinter expected that his wife was unfaithful and, ly ing in wait for several hours, he caught the couple in a compromising position. He sent two bullets into his wife’s brain and an instant latei turned the weapon on Kitzmiller. Assignments to Reg'mnnts. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—The fol lowing assignments of officers to regl-,. ments by the secretary of war have been made: Colonel Abraham A. Her back to the First infantry, Lieutenant Colonel Sumber H. Lincoln to the Thirteenth infantry, Lieutenant Colo nel Greenleaf A. Goodale to the Third infantry, Major Thomas C. Woodbury to the Nineteenth Infantry, Major George Lee Brown to th» Tenth in fantry, Major Edward B. Bratt to the Twenty-third infantry. Chinese far the Exposition. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 14.—A special telegram was received by Yan Phou Lee from Hong Kong, stating that 250 Chinese men and women in tended for the Chinese village feature of the National Export exposition had sailed from that port on one of the steamers of the Nippan Maru line for San Francisco, where they will arrive September 1. They will leave for Phll dolphia as soon as the United States authorities grant permission. THE NEWS IN BRIEF, Advices from Honolulu by the steamer Mlowere are that the Hilo volcano Is making things decidedly Interesting for everyone In Hawaii. The strike of the employes of the American Smelting and Refining com pany In Colorado was declared off at a meeting of the smeltermen’s uinon. The contract for carving the ex terior stone work on the Omaha pub lic building was awarded to the Du gan Cut Stone company of Kansas City at $12,788. A statement issued by the treasury bureau of statistics gives the impor tations from the United States to Japan In 1893 at $G,090,408 yen and in 1898 at 40,001,097 yen. It is announced from London that Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall, president of Union Theological seminary of New York city, will succeed Dr. Fairburn in the Haskell lectures at Oxford uni versity. General Brooke at Havana reports the following deaths: Private Mil ton Smith, H, Second artillery, died 9th, pernicious malaria; Corporal Corporal Harry F. France, M, First infantry, died 9th, Addison's disease. A sensational duel to the death oc curred at Dallas Tex., on the 13th be tween Policeman A. P. Rawlings and Charles A. Daniels. Re\olvers were the weapons, the distance three paces and both of the principals are dead. A Nebraska soldier named Martin L. Halverson died in the post hospital at Fort Leavenworth. He was a pri vate in Company D of the First regi ment and was sent to Fort Leaven worth from Manila, where he was taken sick five months ago. Omaha is making an effort to raise $5,000 for the families of the firemen killed last week. The friends of Senator Beveridg' of Indiana, who is taking the waters in the Canadian National park, are crowding him with dispatches of in quiry concerning his health. To all the senator has answered that he is well. Port Arthur is now a seaport. The magnificent steamship St. Oswald, beautifully decorated with flags and streamers, entered the ship canal at 1 o'clock on the 13th and steamed through at a speed of eight knots an hour. The First Nebraska the Crash Regiment. Nebraska owns the crack volunteer regiment of the United States and also boasts of the Biggest Mall Order House west of the Mississippi. Hayden Bros, are rapidly absorbing the greater portion of western mail order trade and are even encroaching on the dis tricts of the eastern houses. Send postal cards for free price lists on any goods you need to Hayden Bros., The Big Store, Omaha. Lots of men never succeed in getting there Blmply because a dread of failure keeps them from starting. 44One Year's Seeding, Nine Years' Weeding." Bfjcglected impurities in your blood wO tow seeds of disease of which you rruy never get rid. If your blood is even the leAst bit impure, do not deity, but teke Hood’s SersepjLrilts tt once. Jn so doing there is sefetyt in deUy there is dsnger. Be sure to get only Hood’s, because The attempts of ex-Oovernor Charles Warren Lippltt, of Rhode Island, to suppress the playing of street pianos near hlB residence has proved unsuc cessful and have developed the fact that such music, or Buch noise, Is not nearly as unpopular as the paragraph- 1 era would have us believe. The Prov idence police have been uniformly In different to the ex-governor’s appeals, and now some of his neighbors, to show their lack of sympathy, are hav ing the pianos wheeled into their front yards and played there. New Patent*. During the past week 517 United States Inventors received patents, and of tola numoer 169 sold either; the entire or a part of their In vention before the patent had is sued. Amongst the concerns who bought patents were the follow ing: Columbia and Electrical Vehicle Co., Jersey City, N. J.; Victor Safe and Lock Co., Cincinnati, Ohio;; Union Switch and Signal Co., Swlssvllle, Pa.; Ansonla Brass & Copper Co., Ansonla, Conn.;. Western Electrical Co., Chicago, 111.; Singer Manufacturing Co., of New Jersey; E. P. Allis Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; Carter’s Ink: Co., Boston, Mass.; Whitehead & Coag Co., of New Jersey; American Wal tham Watch Co., Waltham, MaBS. Inventors desiring Information as toj the law and practice of patents, may obtain the same by addressing Sues & Co., Bee Building, Omaha, Neb. President McKinley has received the LL. D. degree from seven colleges. B. 6 O. Railroad Uses Crndo OIL The Baltimore and Ohio railroad Is now using crude oil on Its tracks, though not so extensively as lines which do not use crushed stone for ballast There are many road cross ings, stations, etc., where dust flies after the passage of fast trains, and these places are being heavily coated with oil. So far the results have been gratifying. Facts must be feminine—at least they are stubborn things. Heed the Red Fla* of Danger. Ro 1 plmplct, blotclioa, liolln, tori’! aro dangerous •iRiialtof torpid liver, polaouod blood. Catcarvt* Candy Cathartic will tare you, DruggUt*. lU.M.SOo The enlmity between Senators Chandler and Gallinger, of New Hampshire, was caused by a dispute regarding a postofllce appointment. Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease. A powder to shake in your shoes. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen,# Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. At all druggists and shoe stores, 35 cts. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Vegetables are like fresh air—Indis pensable for our health; they cool and purify the blood and add a necessary acid to It. Work for AH. Thousands of men are making good wages In the harvest fields of Minne sota, North and South Dakota. There Is room for thousands more. Half rates via the Great Northern Ry. from St. Paul. Write Max Bass, 220 South Clark Street, Chicago. The Chinese tael is a coin which has never existed. It is simply a unit used for convenience. FaultleM Starch. There are many starches on the market but only one “ Faultless." All grocers sell It. Every good housekeeper uses It. Try it and be convinced. Large package 10c. Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.—Ben Jonson. The truths we least desire to hear are those which it would be to out advantage to know. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gams, reduces tw OnmmMlon. alleys pain, cares wind colic. iUo a bottle Dr. Martin Luther Brooks, who died In Cleveland, O., the other day at the age of 87, made the first speech In fa vor of abolition ever made in Ohio. This was at Oberlin, which, through his efforts, was made the headquarters of the underground railway. Dr. Brooks later taught the first colored school In the west. He was an inti mate friend of Lincoln. Taking the government crop report as a basis for computation, the statis tician of the New York Produce Ex change figures that at present prices the harvests of this country, already in sight, are worth $1,504,499,000.