Nebraska Newspapers

    1TC00K TRIBUNE.
F. M. KIMMKLL, Publisher.
McCOOK, NEBRASKA.
■OVER THE STATE.
Falls City has opened a new busi
ness college.
People of Wallace prayed for rain
and they got it.
Ex-Gov. Nance will build a 810,000
residence in Lincoln.
Thp.ee divorces were granted at
Eastings last week.
The assessed valuation of Dodge
county is 83,097,712.
Several stone buildings are being
erected at Lodge Pole.
New hay has appeared in Fremont
and is selling at 85 a ton.
Kearney is preparing for a fltting
celebration on the Fourth.
Turners of Nebraska City will ha7e
a great celebration in August
The assessed valuation of Pierce
county for the current year is $1,521,
490.
Lou Carroll of Hastings, for rob
bery, was given two years in the state
pen.
It is estimated that 75,000 sheep will
be fattened on Dodge county corn thi6
fall.
The costs of the jury during the late
term of court in Buffalo county, were
#2,001.
Warm as is the weather, Ashland is
having a series of religious revival
meetings.
The Lancaster county teachers’ in
stitute is now in session and will last
two weeks.
New potatoes are on the market at
Pawnee City. They are selling for $1.50
per bushel.
A Sarpy county farmer has some
alfalfa that has grown fifteen inches in
seven weeks.
Genoa has an Indian base ball club
They will probably play at Nebraska
City on the Fourth.
All reports to the contrary, there
will be a fair yield of wheat and oats
in Johnson county.
There was quite a hail storm in and
around Exeter, some of the stones being
as large as hen's eggs.
Two bp.ick blocks will be added to
the thrifty village of Laurel before
corn husking begins.
. onathan Martin and James Colgan
were committed to the asylum at Nor
folk from Cheyenne county.
The first teachers' institute in Ne
braska this year was held in Madison
County, beginning June 11th.
The Hastings gas company has re
cently changed hands, and cheaper gas
is promised in the near future.
Boys at Kearney brought in 2,500 go
pher scalps on circus day, and the lat
ter reaped a bountiful harvest.
ihe Amelia creamery is turning out
about 603 pounds of butter a day and
the product is daily increasing.
The Union Pacific officials have closed
the Willow Island station and trans
ferred Agent Pangborn to Gibbon.
J. Snider of Furnas county shelled
1,700 bushels of corn last week and sold
all but about 400 bushels at 35 cents.
Coi. Edgar, editor of the Beatrice
Express, occasionally occupies the mil
pit, being preacher as well as editor.
The new Christian church at Elm
wood was dedicated last Sunday. AU
of the indebtedness has been provided
for.
Farmers in Pawnee county report
the corn crop farther advanced thia
year than usual owing.to the early
spring.
Three little Indian boys who skipped
from tile Indian school at Lawrence,
Kan., were detected at Nebraska City
and will be returned.
A pig having seven legs and eight feet
was born on the farm of W. K. Hard
man, near Sprague, the other day. It
lived only a short time.
Honore Jaxox, who is credited with
being the head of the conspiracy to
blow up the public buildings at Wash
ington. is known in Omaha.
In the district court of Richardson
county last week Judge Babcock gave
five men one year each in the peniten
tiary for burglarizing houses.
The Santee Indian band will furnish
the Fourth-of July music at Randolph.
As an extra, attraction 200 members of
the tribe will accompany them.
.Editor Albin of the McCool Junction
Record came, near losing his only child.
The child had got into a package of
,parts _green.a.nd had put some in its
mouth.
Deputy United States Marshal
Coble .arrived in Omaha from Boyd
county,.having in charge F. J. Lopatch,
who is charged with selling liquor to
Indians.
F. Cool of Custer county was found
lying dead in his doorway last week,
having.been killed by lightning. His
body lay three days before being dis
covered.
Ezra ;Beeman pleaded guilty to the
chargeof-selling liquor without a gov
ernment license in the federal court at
Omaha.and.Judge Dundy fined him $25
and costs.
John P. Kelly, formerly a private in
the regular army, -stationed at Sidney,
was found dead on a railroad track in
.New Jersey. He became dissolute
■while at Sidney and was court-martial
ed and dishonorably .discharged.
Good soaking rains have brought
■•miles to our farmers' faces. Now pat
ronize home industry and keep money
In the state. You should always buy
Farrell &Ga.«,brand of syrups, jellies,
preserves and mince meat; Morse-Coe
boats and shoes for man. women and
children; American Biscuit & Manu
facturing Ca. Omaha.
The 15 cents an hour to seventy men
bow working on the canal at Kearney
means over $500 a week turned over to
the families of the laboring men.
The BushviUe hose team has offered
. B purse of between $50 and $75 to be
contested for by such teams as may care
to go there and race on the Fourth.
The $9,000 water bonds voted by Ce
dar Rapids last spring have been sold
after considerable delay. In two or
three days the board will be ready to
receiye bids for the construction of the
work, which will be pushed to comple
tion. The power w ill be furnished by
Abe Cedar Rapida Improvement and
Killing company.
Chadron is working to secure a beet
sugar mill and starch factory.
A fire in South (>*uaha destroyed
Mosher's livery barn, together with a
number of horses, harness, buggies,
etc. The loss is 54,000, with only 81,500
insurance.
Lightning struck the house occupied
by H. Wardell at Heemer, setting it on
fire. Mr and Mrs. Wardell were ren
dered insensible, but in a short time
fully recovered.
Seven head of cattle belonging to
Mr. Bollus, living.near Courtland, were
killed by lightning during a thunder
storm. The cattle were bunched along
side a wire fence.
There are butfew towns in Nebraska
that will not let the eagle soar on the
glorious Fourth. All along the line
preparations are going forward for due
observance of the day.
Mrs Eldora Johnson, who was struck
by a switch engine while walking on
the track in South Omaha, died of her
injuries. She was a widow and leaves
several small children.
Investigation shows that the dyke
*t the head of the Island in Otoe coun
ty, which was mentioned as giving way
before high water, was cut by a farmer
named Thaman. He will be prosecuted.
Ex-Sheriff D. S. Conelyan, alleged
■embezzler of Phelps county funds,
who escaped jail at Holdrege a few
weeks ago, was arrested in Champagne,
111. He was brought back to Nebraska.
Private Frank McKenzie, troop G,
Ninth cavalry, stationed at Fort Kobin
son, had an altercation with Miss Mary
Walker during which he was blashed
with a razor, necessitating several
stitches.
The citizens of Bancroft decided to
build a creamery at that point, and
operations will be begun as soon as the
stock can be subscribed. Several new
dwellings are being built and business
is booming.
Daniel Schell, living near Cortland,
Gage county, died from the effects of
being overheated. He was one of the
first settlers of Highland township and
was well known and esteemed through
out Gage eounty.
John Price of Nebraska City, a col
ored boy aged 14, was sent to the re
form scnool last week. He has 1’obbed
nearly fifty houses of small articles, en
tering by means of skeleton keys which
he made himself.
The residence of J. S. McCoy of Fair
bury was struck by lightning during a
severe thunder storm. The building
was badly damaged and Mrs. McCoy
and a young child were stunned, but
have recovered from the shock.
The average daily killing at the Ne
braska City packing house for the past
week has been 1,740. This is almost
the full capacity of the plant, and in
all probability the largest average for
any week since the house began run
ning.
John Dutcher’s barn in Boyd county
burned last week, destroying five head
of horses, seven sets of harness, one
hack, hay, grain and many other arti
cles. Loss, 51,200; no insurance. It is
thought the lire was the work of some
enemy.
Mary E. Smith Hayward, the bead
of the largest dry goods house in Chad
ron, was last week taken to a private
asylum by her friends, tshe has bee®
failing mentally for some time. It is
thought the affliction is only a tempor
ary one.
A woman claiming to be from Tecuro
seh complained to the police of Ne
braska City that she had been robbed
of horse, wagon, household goods and
her two children by one John Coma
way, with whom she states she was on
her way to Oklahoma
Julian Wood, the 18-year-old son of
J. P. Wood of Louisville, was drowned
in an old unused sandpit. He, in com
pany with another boy, was in bathing
when he took a cramp, and the water
being about thirty feet deep the other
boy was unable to rescue him.
Fremont parties have organized the
Fremont Canal and power company and
filed articles of incorporation with the
secretary of state. The object of the
concern is to build and maintain canals
for irrigating ana power purposes, and
the capital stock authorized is $,'>00,000.
Principals in Lincoln eity schools
will work next term for smaller sal
aries than they have heretofore re
ceived. The school board has reduced
the salaries of all principals of schools
of from Dine to twelve rooms to 5S5.
those of five to eight rooms was fixed
at $80 and to those having two to four
rooms $75 will be paid.
The sheriff of a western county pre
sented a bill of expenses at the gover
nor's office recently, in which he claim
ed that he was entitled to pay for the
amount expended by him in recaptur
ing an escaped prisoner. The claim
was not allowed, and the inference
drawn is that the state will not hold
itself responsible for such escapes and
will not pay for recaptures.
Edgar was treated to a sensation the
other day. in which a woman, a man
from Fairfield and a gun took promi
nent parts. The woman oecupiesrooms
over a saloon and the man, whose name
is Enwald, went to her room and at
tempted to force an entrance The
woman shot him in the left breast with
a 32-caliber revolver. The bullet ranged
across his chest and was extricated
near his right shoulder He will re
cover.
There was a disastrous wind at
Chadron last week Much damage was
done. The buildings of the Excelsior
Lumber company were torn to pieces
and the manager, John F. Tenzer. who
attempted to escape when the crash
came, was caught by the wind and
blown across the street and thrown
violently against a blacksmith shop,
head first, crushing his skull and fatal
ly injuring him. He died in a few
minutes Mr Tenzer was a prominent
man of Chadron and an old resident.
He has relatives living at Toledo O
Charles Harman and John Hoiker
of Hopkins. Mo., were id Nebraska
City looking for three men. who.
Hoiker alleges, relieved him cf 85.000
eas,Li the day before on the bogus farm
sale racket Harman was looking for
a team which he thinks were stolen by
the same men. Three men answering
the description given by Harman and
Hoiker had been in Nebraska City.
Florin Geiger, a well-to-do German
farmer living six miles southeast of
Utica, was instantly killed while re
turning home from Utica with a load of
lumber by bis team running away and
throwing him under the wheels of the
wagon, which crushed bis breast.
PRESIDENT CARNOT MURDER- |
ED BY AN ANARCHIST.
STABBED TO DEATH IK HIS CARRIAGE.
Giovanni Santo, an Italian, the Slayer—
The Wretch Almost Beaten to Death
by the Populace — The Whole
World Shocked — President
Cleveland Issues a Mes
sage to Congress*
.
Lyons, France, June 26.—President
Carnot of France was stabbed through
the left side by Cesare Giovanni
Santo, a young Italian Anarchist, last
night while on iiis way to attend a
fete at the theater, and three hours
later was dead. The knife of the
murderer had pierced through the
upper liver and from the first there
was no hope.
The wretched assassin was terribly
beaten by the infuriate'd people who
witnessed the terrible crime, but was
saved for the guillotine by gendarmes
and soldiers.
The international silk exhibition in
this city was opened yesterday, and
President Carnot and most of the
ministers were honored guests. The
distinguished party spent some time
at the exhibition and were then ten
THE 'MURDERED®*RESIDENT, SADI CARNOT,
dered a banquet at the chamber of
commerce. A gala performance had
been arranged at the principal theater
for the evening, and the president
and his party started for the struc
ture at 9:25 o'clock, the president’s
carriage in front. The streets were
lined with enthusiastic people who
cheered repeatedly for their popular
chief magistrate. All seemed per
fectly bright and only one of all the
hosts on the streets was aware of any
cloud to mar the happiness of the
people of France.
THE CRIME DONE IN A MOMENT.
The president’s carriage, which was
in the lead, had beeD driven slowly
down the Hue de la Republique when,
just as he was waving his right hand
and saluting with liis hat in his left,
a man pushed his way through the
cheering masses and leaped upon the
step. A long knife was in his hand.
A moment it flashed in the electric
light beams as it was raised aloft.
Then before even one ery of warning
could be uttered, it descended with
terrible force. The president fell
back on The seat of the carriage while
one hand pressed his left side.
M. Rivand, prefect of Lyons, whose
guest President Carnot was, leaped up
like a flash and and struck the cow
ardly assassin a blow full in the faee,
hurling him from the step just as he
was preparing to raise the bloody
poinard for a second blow.
The tragedy occupied but an in
stant. but that instant plunged all
France into mourning.
THE PEOPLE BATTLE FOB REVENGE.
The people, who a moment before
had been cheering enthusiastically
for their chief magistrate, instantly
cried: “The president is assassinated.
Death to the assassin!” and pressed
closely around the wretch. Dozens
seized him and tried to tear him limb
from limb, while each moment the
angry cries gathered fresh force.
Gendarmes stationed along the
street to preserve order gathered
about the now trembling assassin and
partially checked the infuriated peo
ple. Blows were rained on hint from
all sides over the shoulders of the
officers, who received accessions .each
moment and soon were strong enough
to hold the incensed hosts in check.
LAST HOURS FULL OF PAIN.
While the people were battling for
revenge, the president was driven to
the prefecture and placed upon a low
iron bed between two windows. His
clothes were deeply stained with
blood. The best surgeons of the city
were summoned and, headed by Dr.
Gailleton, mayor of the city, mide a
hasty examination of the wound.
Because of the weakness of the
president, chloroform was not admin
istered. During the probing of the
wound by Dr. Cellier, M. Carnot, who
had been unconscious, rallied and ex
claimed: “How you are hurting me!”
The president was reassured by the
physicians and the examination was
continued as gently as possible. Dur
ing this he cried several times: “My
God, will this never end?” "My God,
how I am suffering.”
As soon as the examination was
completed, the physicians agreed that
there was no hope and sent for the
Archbishop of Lyons to administer
the last rites of the church.
The president remained conscious
to the last.
EXCITEMENT JN THE THEATER.
In the theater, toward which the
president and his party were driving,
was the must brilliant audience of
the season. All were impatiently
awaiting the arrival of the guests of
honor when Prefect Ilivaud and Depu
ty Cliaudey appeared in the front of the
president's box. Tiie whole audience
arose as if to greet the president. The
prefect cried out in a voice broken
with sobs: “The president has just
been assassinated.”
The women screamed and several
fainted while the men uttered excla
mations of fury and ran from the the
ater with cries of vengeance.
When silence was in a measure re
stored, M. Rivaud continued: “In the
Rue de la Republique a miscre
ant, under the pretext of presenting
a petition stabbed M. Carnot with a
dagger.” M. Rivaud was again inter
rupted with shouts of “Death to the
murderer, revenge, revenge.”
Waving his hands for silence, M.
Rivaud again spoke, saying: “Do not
make my mission more painful. We
left M. Carnot in the hands of the
doctors. You understand that under
these conditions our hearts are filled
with sorrow, and that the proposed
performance in the president’s honor
cannot take place.”
The audience then left the building,
many of them proceeding at once to
the prefecture, when they stood in
the streets waiting for any report that
might be vouchsafed to them from
the building, and discussing the crime
they considered liad cast disgrace
upon the fair fame of their city.
VENGEANCE ON ALL ITALIANS.
A« soon as it became known that
the assassin was an Italian, mobs
wrecked Italian cafes, and then bear
ing French flags and crying “Down
with the foreigners!” “out with
them!” hundreds of people marched
to the Rue de la Barre, in which
street the Italian consulate is situ
ated. There is no doubt the consulate
would have been sacked had it not
been for the prompt action of the
police, who stopped the crowd and
compelled its members to disperse.
After the attacks upon the Italian
cafes the disorderly element among
the crowds devoted their attention to
the Italians whom they found upon
the street. Several of them were pur
sued by the mob and barely escaped
with their lives. The police, who
were extraordinarily vigilant, had
great difficulty in rescuingthe hunted
men. The Rue de la Barre is now
barricaded at both ends and guarded
by troops. .
MME. CARNOT WITH HER DEAD.
Mme. Carnot, accompanied by her
two sons, arrived at Lyons at ” o’clock
this morning. The widow was most
respectfully greeted by a large crowd
of people assembled about the rail
road depot. She proceeded immedi
ately to the prefecture, where the
body of the late president now re
poses in state.
When Mme. Carnot reached the pre
fecture the death chamber was cleared
of all but the family and the widow,
who had been joined by her third son,
was left alone with her dead. The
late president’s family remained for a
long time in prayer before the bier,
and then the widow was led away by
her three sons, all four weeping bit
terly.
Later a consultation between the
sons of the late president and the
authorities in charge of the body took
place. The exact nature of their de
liberations has not been made public,
but it was stated that Mme. Carnot
did not desire the body of her late
husband to be embalmed and wished
it removed immediately from Lyons
to Paris in order that it might lie in
state in the chapel of the Elysee
palace.
THE BODY LYING IN STATE.
The apartment at the prefecture in
which the body of the late president
lies in state presents a most interest
ing appearance. The body of the mur
dered man is clad in a dress suit and
across his breast is the grand cordon
of the Legion of Honor, of which, as
chief of the state he was grand mas
ter. Around the bier are stationed a
number of the high officers of the
president's military household, who,
with several Sisters of Charity have
watched the remains throughout the
night.
The prefecture itself is surrounded
with troops, and a strong detachment
of infantry is guarding the building
in vvhieh Santo, the assassin, is con
fined.
THE ASSASSIN S PAST RECORD
The inquiries of the police this
afternoon resulted in showing that
Santo was born in Motta Visconti,
northwest of Pavia, in December,
1873. The prisoner is a baker by
trade and was tried in Milan in 1892
for breach of the peace, but he was
acquitted, owing to lack of sufficient
evidence against him.
Santo was known as a dangerons
anarchist and delivered anarchists
lectures of the wildest character
before going to Switzerland last year.
The police are keeping a s' -.ct
watch over Anarchists in all the cities
of France, and it is expected that sev
eral important arrests will be made.
There no longer seems to be much
doubt that the president’s assassina
tion was the result of an Anarchistic
conspiracy to avenge the deaths of
Vaillant add Emil Henri, the two re
cently executed Anarchists. Twenty
detectives have gone to Cette, depart
ment of Herfault, where Santo was
recently domiciled, in order to track
down his supposed accomplices.
SYMPATHY UNIVERSAL.
The Senate Shows Its Respect—Tributes
of Public Men—Europe's Regret.
Washington, June 2G.—The death
of President Carnot was the sole
theme about the senate to-day. A
prayer marked by deep feeling was
delivered by the Rev. Dr. Milburn, the
blind chaplain. Then Mr. Morgan,
chairman of the committee on foreign
relations, offered the following reso
lution:
Resolved, That the senate of the United
State-* unites with the American people in ex
pressing to the people of France their sorrow
and sympathy in the national bereavement
they arc suffering from the cruel blow of an
assassin which was aimed at the peace of
France and fell upon the heart of President
Carnot And as a m irk of respect due to the !
memory of the wise, virtuous and patriotic j
president of the republic of France the senate ;
will, at the close of this proceeding. stand ad- •
journed until to-morrow at 1J o'clock.
ScA-ond, that the president of the United !
States is requested to communicate this ex
pression of national sorrow to the govern
ment of France and to Mme. Carnot
Senator Morgan made a brief speech
in which* he referred to the patriotism
of the people of the French republic
and tho cordiality of the relations be
tween the two republics and at 10:30
the senate adjourned.
The following official action was
taken by the state department on re
ceipt of Embassador Eustis’ official
notification.
Executive Mansion. Warhinoton, June
25.—EiiitlR. Ambassador. Paris, l-'ranee: Ex
pruts to minister of foreign affairs the pro
found sorrow wiih which the president anil
America have heard of:the atrocious crime
which has robbed the sister republic of Its
wise, humane and patriotic chief magistrate
Ukksham.
The president took notice of the
tragedy in the following message to
congress:
To the Senate and the House of Representa
tives: The shocking intelU.ence is received
that the president of the French republic met
his death yesterday at the hands of an nsHas
sin. This terrible event which has overtaken
a sister republic cannot fail to deeply arouse
th sympathies of the American nation, while
the violent termination of a career promising
so much in aid of liberty and In advancing civ
ilisation should bo mourned at an affliction of
mankind. GnoVEIl Ci.eveuanu
Execuu ,’e Mansion, June 25. lRltl ,
The news of the assassination cre
ated a profound sensation here last
night, and members of both houses,
diplomatists and other public men
discussed it as a great calamity to the
world. There were many expressions
of misgiving, but more of the neces
sity of united action by the civilized
world to stamp out anarchy and deal
with Anarchists as they deserve.
When the house met to-day it was
generally understood it would adjourn
early out of respect to the memory of
President Carnot. Chaplain Hagby
referred in his prayer to the calamity.
A message from the president was an
nounced and tlie executive clerk,
l’rudden, appeared at the main door
bearing a largo envelop bearing the
presidents announcement. Mr. Mc
Crary, chairman of the committee on
foreign affairs thereupon arose and
offered the following resolutions:
Resolved. That the house of representatives
of the United States of America has heard
with profound sorrow of the assassination of
President Carnot and tenders tho people of
France sincere sympathy in their national be
reavement. That the President of the United
States be requested to communicate this ex
pression of sorrow to the (government of the
republic of Prance and to Madame Carnot and
that as a further mark of respect to the peo
ple of the French republic the house ot repre
sentatives do now adjourn.
Mr. McCrary and Mr. Ilitt spoke
on the resolutions and they were
adopted unanimously and the house
at once adjourned.
EUROPE’S REGRETS.
The Capital? of The Old World Greatlj
Shocked Over the Assassination.
London, June 20. — Following the
precedent adopted at the time of the
late President James A. Garfield’s
assassination, the British court will
go into mourning for a week out of
respect to the memory of the late
President Carnot.
l The house of commons to-day
adopted on Sir William Vernon Ilar
court’s motion, an address to the
crown expressing sorrow, indignation
and abhorrence of the murder of Pres
ident Carnot and sympathy with
France in her bereavement.
Berlin, June 25.—The assassination
of President Carnot caused a profound
sensation in Berlin. All classes of
people are indignant and much sym
pathy is expressed for France.
Emperor William, upon receiving
the news at Kiel, immediately tele
graphed to Mrae. Carnot, expressing
his condolence in warmly sympathetic
terms.
Rome, June 23.—All the Italian
bourses have been closed out of
sympathy for the great loss France
has sustained by the assassination of
President Carnot.
FOR AGED VETERANS.
Increase? of Feusiong of Indian and Mei
ican War Survivors Upheld.
Washington, June 2G. —The bill
agreed upon by the house committee
on pensions to increase the pensions
of survivors of Indian and Mexican
wars from SS to 512 a month has been
reported favorably by Representative
Stallings of Alabama.
The statement of the commissioner
of pensions shows that there are on
the rolls 13,035 pensioners of the Mex
ican war and 7,01] widows, 3,199 sur
vivors of the Indian wars and 3,001
widows, while applications are pend
ing for 2,570 Mexican pensions and
2.132 Indian war pensions. The num
ber of Mexican war pensions increased
under the act of 1893 was 3,421. The
commissioner estimates that 1,979 ad- [
ditional Mexican pensions and 1.320 |
Indian war pensions will be granted, i
and he makes an estimate that the I
cost to the government of increases j
made by the bill will be $1,309,022 per j
annum.
NEARLY COT AWAY.
3Iurderer Clark Almost Succeed*? 1 In
Getting Out of the Kansas City Jail.
Kansas City, Mo., June 26.—Wil
liam C. Ricksher, alias John Clark,
made desperate by the thought of
death on the scaffold next Friday for
the murder of Madame Jane Wright,
made an almost successful attempt to
break from the county jail a few min
utes before 3 o'clock this morning.
He broke through the triple steel
bars of his cell with hammer and
saws, and five minutes of work on the
bars of the outer windows would have
given him his liberty. He was at
work on the bars with a saw when
discovered by the night jailer, P. J.
Kennedy, who shot at him. and,
though missing’ him, caused him to
surrender.
PULLMAN EMPLOYES OUT.
The Shop? at St. Louis and Ludlow, Ky.,
Closed by Strikes.
St. Louis, Mo., June 26.—The em
ployes of the Pullman sleeping car
company's works in this city struck
to-day in accordance with a plan
which is understood to embrace tHe
Pullman shops all over the country-.
The strikers number 336 men and
twenty women.
Cincinnati. Ohio. June 26.—The 200
employes of the Pullman company at
Ludlow, Ky.. went on a strike to-day
in pursuance of orders from Chicago ;
and will remain out until the compa
ny consents to arbitrate the diffieul- i
ties in dispute.
Kickapoo Allotments Completed.
Guthrif., Ok., June 26.—Major
Moses Neal has completed the Kick
apoo Indian allotments and has sent
his report to Washington. This will
result in the opening of some good
lands.
A KENTUCKY MIRACLE.
JUDGE JOHN M. RICE TELLS HOW
HE WAS CURED OE RHEUMA
TISM.
Crippled for Six Year* With Sciatica Id
Ita Worst Form—He Expected to
Die, But Was Saved in a
Marvelous Manner.
From the Covington, Ky.. Po-t.
The Hon. John M. Rice, of Louisa,
Lawrence County, Kentucky, has for
the past two years retired from active
life as Criminal and Circuit Judge of
the Sixteenth Judicial district of Ken
tucky.
He has for many years served his na
tive county and state in the legislature
at Frankfort and at Washington, and,
until his retirement, was a noted figure
in political and judicial circles. The
Judge is well known throughout the
state and possesses the best qualities
which go to make a Kentucky gentle
man honored wherever he is known.
About six years ago the bodily
troubles which finally caused hisretire
ment at a time when his mental facul
ties were in the zenith of their strength,
began their encroachment upon his
naturally strong constitution. A few
days ago a Kentucky Post reporter
called upon Judge Rice, who in the fol
lowing words related the history of the
causes that led to his retirement. “It
is just about six years since I bad an
attack of rheumatism, slight at first,
but soon developing into .Sciatic rheu
matism, which began first with acute
shooting pains in the hips, gradually
extending downward to my feet.
"My condition became so uao mat i
eventually lost all power of my legs, and
then the liver, kidneys and bladder and
in fact, my whole system became de
ranged. 1 tried the treatment of many
physicians, but receiving no lasting
benefit from them, I had recourse to
patent remedies, trying.one kind after
another until I believe there were none
1 had not sampled.
"In 1888, attended by my son John, I
went to Hot Springs, Ark. I was not
much benefitted by some months stay
there when I returned home. My liver
was actually dead, and a dull persistent
pain in its region kept me on the rack
all the time. In 1890 I was reappointed
Circuit Judge, but it was impossible for
me to give attention to my duties. In
1891, I went to the Silurian Springs,
Wakeshaw, Wis. I stayed there soma
time, but without improvement.
“Again I returned home, this time
feeling no hopes of recovery. The mus
cles of my limbs were now reduced by
atrophy to mere strings. Sciatic pains
tortured me terribly, but it was the dis
ordered condition of my liver that was,
1 felt, gradually wearing my life away.
Doctors gave me up, all kinds of rem
edies had been tried without avail, and
there was nothing more for me to do
but resign myself to fate.
“I lingered on in this condition sus
tained almost entirely by stimulants
until April, 1893. One day John saw
an account of Dr. Williams’ I’ink Pills
for Pale People in the Kentucky Post.
This was something new, and as one
more drug after so many others could
not do so much harm. John prevailed
upon me to try the Pink Pills. It was,
I think, in the first week in May the
pills arrived. I remember I was not
expected to live for more than three or
four days at the time. The effect of the
Pills, however, was marvelous, and I
could soon eat heartily, a thing I had
not done for years The liver began
almost instantaneously to perform its
functions, and has done so ever since.
Without doubt the pills saved my life
and while I do not crave notoriety I
cannot refuse to testify to their worth.
The reporter called upon Mr. Hughes,
the Louisa druggist, who informed him
that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have been
very popular since Judge Ilice used
them with such benefit. He mentioned
several who have found relief in their
use.
An analysis of Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills for Pale People shows that they
contain, in a condensed form, all the
elements necessary to give new life and
richness to the blood and restore shat
tered nerves. They are an unfailing
specific for such diseases as locomotor
ataxia, partial paraljsis, St. Vitus’
dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism,
nervous headache, the after effects of
la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale
and sallow complexions, all fcrms of
weakness, either in male or female, and
all diseases resulting from vitiated hu
mors in the blood. Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be
sent post paid on receipt of price, (50
cents a box, or 6 boxes for $2.50—they
are never sold in bulk or by the 100) by
addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y.
He Was Safe.
“My boy,” said a very practical
old gentleman, “let politics alone.
Never allow yourself to be put in
office.”
“Yes, father, but know that the
office sometimes seeks the man.”
■ “Very true. But you are safe.
There isn’t one chance in sixty of
its finding him if he is a resident of
the District of Columbia.”
Her Confidence Shaken.
“It is a dreadful thing not to have
confidence in one’s husband,” said
Mrs. Svvifkins.
"Yes,” replied the visitor. “But
you surely have no trouble with
yours. ”
“That is all that you couid be ex
pected to know about it. I was play
ing poker with him the other even
ing and he raised the limit on two
deuces, and then got scared and
called me. Now, what is to become
of a woman who has trusted her fu
ture to such a man?”
An Kcho from the World'* Fair.
The Lake Shore Route has recently
gotten out a very handsome litho
water color of the “Exposition Flyer,”
the famous twenty hour train in ser
vice between New York and Chicago
during the fair. Among the many
wonderful achievements of the Colum
bian year this train—which was the
fastest long distance train ever run_
holds a prominent place, and to any.
ODe interested in the subject the pict
ure is well worth framing. Ten cents
in stamps or silver sent to C. K. Wil
ber. Wesh Bass. Agt., Chicago, will
secure one.