. I The News Briefly Told , f Saturday. Dr. Larnber , * Russell died at Barre. Mass. , of mumps , aged 99 years. He was the oldest Harvard graduate. The powder mill plant of the Potts- ville ( Pa. ) Water company , located In the Indian Run valley , destroyed eigh teen tons of powder. The condition of Tim Murphy , the comedian , is alarming. His tempera ture is 102 and his lungs are much sorer. A Chicago physician has been telegraphed for. Ezra P. Merrill , aged 74 years , pro prietor of the chutes and toboggan slides at Coney Island and a reputed millionaire , died from the effects of an accident he met with on Wednesday last , on one of the slides. The proclamation recently issued by Governor Stephens , in which the rules governing the inspection and admis sion of southern cattle in Missouri are prescribed , has caused some uneasiness among the live stock commission men at the stock yards. The United States Plate Glass comr pany , capital $1,000,000.was incorpor ated at Trenton , N. J. . 'to manufacture glass of all kinds. The incorporators are William H. Brearley , Frederick B. Hyde , Kenneth McLaren , all of Jersey City. The minister of war , Lieutenant General Polavieja , has received a dis patch from General Rios , Spain's prin cipal military representative in the Philippines , announcing the sailing from Manila for Spain of the Danish steamer Catalunt with Spanish troops. ' The minister of war , Lieutenant ' General Polivieja , has received a dis patch from General Rios , Spain's principal military representative in the Philippines , announcing the sailing from Manila for Spain of the Spanish steamer Cataluna , with Spanish troops. Dr. W. D. Storer of Chicago , who was called to Oshkosh , WIs. , to attend Tim Murphy , the comedian , said that lie entertained hopes for Mr. Murphy's recovery , although the patient's con dition is critical from a relapse. The doctor found on arrival that aside from pneumoniat pleurisy had devel oped. * Luis Nunez Rivera , ex-premier of the Brooke cabinet in Porto Rico and representing the planters' interests , called on President McKinley and dis cussed economic conditions on the is land. He urged as necessary to save the planters' industry , in view of the crisis through which Porto Rico is passing , the necessity of giving Porto Rican planters the right to enjoy all the trading privileges that olher Americans enjoy. Monday. John Buehler , president of the Gar den City Banking and Trust company , Chicago , has died of cancer. An American syndicate has secured the electric lgi..ting franchise at Puerto Principe , Cuba , for $70,00J. President Edwin Gould , Continental Match company , denies any coalition 01 his company with the Diamond people. An American syndicate has bought 18,000 acres of land in Puerto Principe province , Cuba , and will erect a sugar factory. An attachment for $1,750 has been issued in New York against the Rail road Equipment company in favor of Lsvita & Co. , on bonds. The Hamburg-American and Furness steamship lines have agreed on the Montreal traffic being controlled on the American side by the former line. The $65,000,000 of silver now in the Philadelphia mint will be transferred immediately to the new mint ; 680 wagon loads of three tons each. The wage committee will meet at Pittsburg , Pa. , Thursday to compile the scale for 80,000 skilled workmen , and a demand for a raise is expected. It is reported at New York that T. G. Shaughnessy , vice president of the Canadian Pacific , will succeed the president , Sir William Van Home , this week. Owing to the prevailing conditions , Cuban planters are unable to obtain loans on their lands , cannot sell them , except at a great sacrifice , and are consequently starving. President McKinley has directed that the customs receipts at Havana be deposited at the bank of the North American Trust company , established at Havana , thereby giving that bank a $2,000,000 deposit. James S. Lynch of Company C , * ) Ismth United States infantry , reported 1 among the dead at Manila , was a son " * of James Lynch of Syracuse , N. Y. , and 21 years old. He enlisted last | f July. Corporal Willia'm L. Higgins and Private Harris W. Mallory of Company B , Ninth infantry , were re spectively of Watertown and Camden , N. Y. A dispatch from Manila was re ceived in Washington asking that the Nebraska troops be Removed from the firing line , in view of the fact that there were but 375 active men out of some 1,400 that had gone to the Phil ippines over a year ago. This appli cation was made to General Otis , who has full authority to relieve the regi ment from active service at his dis- 'cretion. Tuesday. General Otis reports to the war de partment that the transport Puebla left Manila for San Francisco "on he 7th inst. . and that the Zealandia left today. Augustus an Buren , for many years one of the foremost criminal lawyers of Chicago and the state , died of apoplexy plexy , aged 60. His father was a cous in of President Martin Van Buren. Major John A. Logan , assistant ad jutant general , U. S. V. , ndw in Wasu ington on leave of absence , nas been ordered to Atlanta , Ga. , for duty as adjutant general of the department of the gulf. The Missouri house adopted the sen ate amendments to the state depart ment store bill and passed the bill as amended. The bill levies a license tax on firms carrying more than one of seventy-three classes of goods as clas sified in the bill , of from $300 to $500. The bill applies to firms In St. Louis , Kansas City and St. Joseph. It goes to the governor for his signature. News was received at Chicago yes terday that a strong movement is forming in the west to induce Admiral Dewey to make his entry into the United States next month through San Francisco. Wcdiicsdiiy. Stove manufacturers are in session at Cincinnati and expect to form a trust before adjournment. ' " A New York syndicate has acquired the Edison Electric Illuminating com pany's plant , Hazleton , Pa. August Brentano of the bookselling firm of Brentano Bros. , New York , died at a private sanitarium in Flushing. L. I. , aged 43 years. He was declared insane several months ago and it is said the business troubles of the firm , which failed recently , caused his breakdown. The secretary of war received a cable message from General Otis at Manila , saying that it is inadvisable on ac count of sanitary conditions to send to the United States the bodies of any more of the troops who lost their lives in the Philippines until after the close of the rainy season. Secretary Hay and the French am bassador had a talk relative to the re lease of Spanish prisoners held by the Filipinos , and the belief prevails on both sides that the French embassy will not act further for Spain , as Due d'Arcos will be here on the 20th inst. , prepared to speak directly for Spain. The steamer Humboldt has been chartered for the transportation of troops to Alaska. She will sail May 15'with fifteen soldiers and two officers of the Twenty-fourth infantry and about thirty tons of freight. The Four teenth infantry troops , now in Alaska , will be returned on the Humboldt. PresidentMcKinley purposes to make a tour of the west during his summer vacation. Arrangements for the trip have not been perfected , but it is un derstood that he will go'to San Fran cisco by the South Pacific route and re turn over the Northern Pacific. He will leave about the middle of July and be gone probably six weeks. The Illinois board of agriculture 5s- ssued a bulletin stating that of the 2- 039,000 acres of winter wheat seeded last fall 51 per cent was winter killed or so badly injured that it will have to be plowed up , leaving 1,000,800 acres for harvest. These figures differ con siderably from the government report , wJiich gives 701,000 as the reduction in acreage in this state. IhurMlay. Senator Fairbanks of Indiana will sail for Alaska about June 10 , to make investigation of the Alaska boundary question. The. Washington oapal delegatior has not yet been advised of the as sembling of the consistory at Rome to nominate ten cardinals. Ex-President Harrison has accepted the place of honorable president of the general committee of the ecumenical conference on foreign missions. The treasury department denies a sensational story published in the east that counterfeiting has been going on in the basement of the treasury build ing. The L'ubiness Men's Republican league of Pennsylvania challenged ex- Senator Quay to run for state treasur er this fall , to test his statement that the people want him at the head of Pennsylvania politics. The remains of Colonel H. C. Eg bert , which arrived in Washington from Manila , were interred at Arling ton cemetery with military honors. All the available troops in the vicinity of Washington were ordered out by the war department and many distinguish ed army officers were in attendance upon the funeral exercises. A majority of the senate committee on taxation in the Michigan legislature reported the Wagar bill , which is de signed to take the place of the Pin- gree-Atkinson railway taxation bill , the principles of which were declared unconstitutional by the supremecourt. The Wagar bill incr.-ases the taxes on the railroad earning about $100,000 per year r.bcve the c mounts now col lected. _ There will undoubtedly be an extra session of the New York legislature Tor the double purpose of amending the Ford franchise tax bill and passing over the veto of the mayor of New York the rapid transit bill. It is un derstood that the governor will sign the Ford bill , and affer signing it will call an extra session of the legisla ture for 'be purpose i emending th-1. bill so as to put it in the hands of a state board for administration , in or der to have an equitable arrangement of taxation , instead of different con structions of it in various portions of the state. Friday. At the request of the president Gen eral Americus V. Rice of Lima , O. , will be appointed purchasing agent of the census bureau. The United Presbyterian missionary convention adopted resolutions at Newcastle , Pa. , against the seating of Congressma'n-elect Roberts of Utah. A special from Eagle Pass , Tex. , says : News received today from the Hondo coal mines places the dead re sulting from last night's tornado at 22 and over 100 wounded. Many per sons are still missing and probably in the ruins. Judge Kimball decided that the sale of liquors on Sunday in Washington hotels was legal under the act of 1S93 , which ha holds was not repealed by the law passed by the last congress prohibiting such sale. The National Federation of Miners on April 1C issued orders for a general strike in the four coal mining districts of Belgium to enforce a demand for an increase of wages. The strike resulted in the closing of a great many factories in Belgium on. account of the lack of coal. Between 40,000 and 50,000 workmen have been idle on account of this strike. The kiss of true love sounds Like a 'zephyrs sough , 'tis said , And not like a clapboard rudely ripped From the side of an empty shed. Detroit Journal. " " said tle scientist "The way to sleep , entist , "is to think of nothing. " But this is a mistake. The way to sleep is to think it is time to get up. Tid- Bits. Commodore Gerry , owner of the Windsor hotel , has suits piled up againet him to the tune of $12,000,000 , the plaintiffs being the relatives of those who perished in the Windsor fire George Huff , of Portland. Ind. , claims to have discovered a new gas which is suitable for use as fuel or for illumi nating purposes , and which costs very little to manufacture. He says that water and air are the oniy ingredients used , and that the results are obtain ed by compressing the air and forcing it through water. A curious phase of the concert sea son in London is noted by Mr. La- bouchere in Truth. For the last week in April and first week in May no less than seventy concerts were announced which might be called public. Then there is a class of concerts in which the performer or sineer pays for an appearance as assistant to the prin cipal artist. The most lucrative of all the concerts are those given by rich hostesses , newly created million aires , and aspirants to social position. Prof. David Starr Jordan having repeated in a lecture story that one of the peace commissioners at a banquet in Paris was guilty of expectorating tobacco juice on the floor , Mrs. Wil liam P. Frye , wife of the senator , has written a sharp open letter to the pro fessor , denouncing the report as a "vulgar story , which has not even the merit of freshness or the appearance of truth. " Then she proceeds to show that none of tae peace commissioners chews tobacco and that none of them attended a banouet while abroad. There is now in Philadelphia a Buddhist temple as complete in every essential detail as any of the shrines of Buddha in the far countries of the Orient. It was put together by Pro fessor Maxwell Sommerville , of the de partment of archaelogy and Paleon tology of .the university of Pennsylva nia , and occupies a portion of the new archaeological building. Professor Sommerville collected all the material from which the temple was constructed while on a recent tour of the world , buying the idols and all the objects of worship and religious rites from the priests of Buddhist temples in China , Japan , Corea , India , Siam and Bur- mah. In a description or the marvelous products of a Tennessee boom town , a lady eulogist , quoted by the court in a recent case , said : "As to straw berries , I heard the Hon. Benton Mc- Millin remark at a dinner that 'two wouldn't leave room in a tumbler for a stick ! ' " On this the court said : "By way of annotation , we might add that the full significance of the remark of the Hon. Benton McMillin might not be appreciated by the uninitiated , who might wonder what connection there could be betv/een strawberries in a tumbler and a stick. The infer ence that we draw from the remark , evidently made with pardonable pride by Mr. McMillin , is that mint is also indigenous tothat locality , and , in deed , we could .conceive that , with the proper proportions , one strawberry and a stick would have been suffi cient. ' Do Your Feet A die and Barn ? Shake into your shoes , Allen's Foot- Ease , a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns , Bunions , Swollen , Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores , 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted , LeRoy , N. Y. Probably nothing hurts a man's van ity more than the discovery that some one has worker a lead nickel off on himt Hint to Housekeepers. ' "Faultless Starch" will make A little dry a large quantity of starch mixture and gives better results tban any other starch ; try it. All grocers Sell "Faultless , Starch , " lOc. Whisky glasses are not spectacles , but they enable a man to see a lot of queer things. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervonsnes ? after first day's u e of Dr. Kline's Cireat Nerve Kevtorer. Semi for FREK S2.OO trial bottle and treatise. Da. R. II. KU.NE , Ltd. , 231 Arch St. , 1 biladelplila , Pa. A bank failure may not upset the depositor , but it may cause him to lose his balance. Sirs. "Wlnslow's Soothing Syrnp. For children teething , softens tbe purr.s , reduces ic- { lamination , allays pain , cures wind colic. 23c a botila A man may dodge the earthly collec tors , but he must pay the debt of na ture as he goes. S15.00 Per Week. "VVe will pay a salary of Slo per week and expenses for man with Rig to introduce Per fection Poultry Mixture and Inpeet Destroy er in the country. Address with stamp. Perfection Mfg. Co. , Parsons , Kansas. The best friend you have on earth is a better friend to himself than he is to you. Piso's Cure for Consumption is our only medicine for coughs and colds. Mrs. C. Beltz , 439 Sth Ave. , Denver. Col. , Nov.895. Few men are born leaders , but lots of them grow up and become drivers. Coe's Cough Ilalsam Is the t oldest anil l.est. I twill break up a cold quicker than anything else. It is always reliable. Try It. Although the gas meter never fails to register , it isn't allowed to vote. Hevrare of .Fraud ccess breeds Imitators and counterfeit- Look out fur substitutewlnn you a-k for Cascarcts Gaudy Catliai tic. All druggUts , lOc , 20c , 50c. Truth lies at the bottom of the well and anglers never go there to fish. Turtle Oil. A healing antificptic for cuts , burns and wounds. Probably nothing stirs up a wo man's temper more than callers on washday. Lots of animated thinkers are poor talkers. London coroners are sticklers for their rights. A box held at a railroad station recently , owing to the railroad officials having lost the waybill , was opened , though it was consigned to a Hamburg museum , and the body of a young woman and two skulls were found inside. The young woman was a mummied Peruvian and -the skulls were prehistoric , yet the coroner of the district insisted on holding inquests on both mummy and skulls unless the museum people would have them re moved. Women seldom live to be 100 years old ; they linger around 30 too long. Ko B.ore "Ordinary" Sleepers. Some time ago the Pullman Com pany , as an experimental measure , in troduced "Ordinary" sleeping car ser vice on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road between Baltimore and Newark , and Pittsburg and Chicago. The re- tults to the Railroad Company were very gratifying , but subsequently it was ascertained the Pullman Company was not in position to furnish this class of equipment to all roads oper ating Pullman cars east of Chicago and St. Louis , and to allay any friction that might result from this inequality of service , the Pullman Company re quested the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road to resume the standard cars pre viously in service , which will be done commencing April 10. U. S. Patent Office IJusincss. Patents are granted for inventions in many instances that have never been tested , but are theoretically oper ative and practical. In a recent deci sion by Judge Morris in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia occurs the following : "There is a great difference between imperativeness and imperfection. It is well known that many inventions were extremely crude in their incep tion , and it is not always easy to rec ognize the original conception in the perfected device. " As a rule inventions are not born perfect and the evolution of important inventions and industries is highly interesting. Where two or more in ventions contribute to the perfection of a machine or art each has rights that will be respected by the courts. The following is one of the claims allowed to C. H. Connelly of Fort Madison , la. , for a combined lock and seal in which a key cannot enter the lock without breaking the fragile seal : A lock casing , a latch-bolt therein , aleck lock bolt engaging said latch-bolt , a seal box within the casing engaged by the lock-bolt and a seal in said seal box registering with the key hole of the lock casing. Printed matter containing interest ing information sent free- THOMAS G. ORWIG & CO. , Solicitors of Patents. Des Moines , la. , May 6 , 1S99. Dr. John Duncan Quackenbos , emer itus professor of Columbia university , asserts that hypnotism may be em ployed not only to alleviate pain in some cases which he thinks is about all there is to Christian science but that it may also be used to reform criminals and to icmove criminal tendencies through "suggestion. " Ke instances some cases where he has cured boys of the confirmed habit of cigarette smoking by this method. 500,000 , FAMILIES RELY ON PE-RU-NA , W. H. B. Williams , publisher of The Farmers' Industrial Union , in a recent letter to Dr. Hartman says : "I have used Pe-ru-na as a family medicine for several years. I find it of especial use for myself. I have had several tedious spells with systemic catarrh and before using Pe-ru-na I had tried severaJ \ \ < s Mr. "W. H. B. Williams , Columbus , O. other remedies with little or no suc cess. But in Pe-ru-na I found a prompt and sure cure. I always keep the remedy which promptly relieves any attack of the same malady. "My wife also uses Pe-ru-na. She finds it of especial use for severe spslls , to which she is subject. We always keep it in the house as a family medi cine. We think it an excellent remedy for the various ills to which children are subject , especially climatic dis eases. Address Dr. Hartman , Colum bus. Ohio , for a free book on family medicine. A coffee house should make a man rich , declares Victor Smith in the New York Press. The finest Santos can be bought for 19 cents a pound , Maracal- ho for 25 and Mamlhellng Java for S3. The largest deml tasse in the city res taurant holds a trifle less than two ounces of the beverage ; but suppose we call it two. That would give us six ty-four half cups to the gallon , or 123 to two gallons. One pound of berries roasted and ground will make easily two gallons of drink , and at 10 cents a cup the profit is anywhere between $12-47 and $12.61 per pound , or about 4,300 per cent. ! It is equally as important to be sure 3'ou are wrong before backing out as it is to be sure you are right before going ahead. "What "Kalsomlnes" Arc. "Kalsomines" are cheap temporary preparations manufactured froia chalks , clays , whiting , etc. , and ars stuck on the wall with decaying ani mal glue They bear no comparison j with Alabastine , which is a cement j that goes through a process of setting , | and hardens with age. Consumers , in | buying Alabastine , should see that the | goods are in packages and properly labeled. Nothing else is "just as good" as Alabastine. The claims of new imitations are absurd on their face. They cannot offer the test of time for durability. Dry plaies are all well enough in a photogiaph studio , but mniisters do not think favorably of them in churches. Are You USIJR Allen's F ot-Easr ? It is the only cure for Swollen , Smarting , Burning , Sweating Feet , Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease , a powder to be shaken into the shoes. 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