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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1903)
THE OMAHA DAILY HKE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1903. GRAND JuRY AFTER POLK ftotlag Into Other Charges of OorraptionJ tni Indiotmsnts Expected. NO ACTION YET ON JURY TAMPERING 1lphn Companies Hes;lls;ent In Makla lutami to "tat Board of Equalisation lad Penalties Aro Threatened. (From a Staff Correspondent.) DB MOINES, la., Oct. SI. (Special.) The Investigation of rottenness In official af fair In the city of Des Moines appears to have Just commenced, for the grand Jury today Issued subpoenas for a large number of peraona to appear before that body next week and give testimony, and from the list of witnesses summoned It Is regarded as certain that the grand jury wilt go after the policemen and the city administration. Last week the grand jury started the movement to clean up the justice shops and get rid of bnodllng in general In a small way as It has been car ried on. The reports of the culpability of the police department have been more per sistent than of any other department of the city and It Is believed the grand jury will bring In a number of Indictments. The grand Jury aa yet has failed to return Indictments against the business men who were cited for contempt and fined for tam pering with Juries, and It Is now expected that If the fines are paid the matter will be dropped. The men who were Indicted for accepting bribes from the fallen women of the town will be put on trial next week. ! Telephone Company Negligent. The state officials are following up the matter of securing reports from the cor porations doing business In the state with more seal than In the past and today the secretary of the executive council sent out to the managers of the Standard Tele phone' company a formal notice which means that unless the company reports In accordance With the law the , penalties provided will be attached. The company operates In northeastern Iowa and thus far has failed to report on the mileage In Fayette and Clayton counties. The same trouble has been experienced with a number of -the telephone companies and It la getting to be a big task to care for this business for the state. Telephone Directory Proposed. A company has been organised In Des Moines for the manufacture of a general telephone directory for the entire state of lows, a novelty In the line of directories. The company Incorporated today. It Is the American Telephone Directory company, with 110,000 capital; A. M. Hansen, presi dent; O. O. Warrington, secretary. The artlclea of incorporation of the Iowa Block Coal company of Centervllle were filed with the secretary of state today; capital, 113,000; tby W. G. Clark, C. R. Porter and otheraV The Ward, Barnes, Wilder A Co. corporation of Cedar Rapids filed notice of reduction of capital from $10,000 to $7,000. ' State Fair Prise Cnp. ( The magnificent silver cup presented by the state fair management to the winner of the champion grand beet herd at the last state fair was received today by Sec retary Simpson, properly inscribed and ready for delivery to the winner. It goes to C. H. Gardner, Blandlnsvllle, 111., for hi herd of Angus cattle at the fair. The cup la a magnificent silver one, gold lined, about twenty Inches high With ebony base and very ornate. Want Train at Soldier, . The railroad commissioner today received a petition of residents of the town of Sol dier, Monona county, forwarded by the mayor and city clerk officially, asking the commissioners to order the Northwestern Railroad company to put back a certain passenger train which was operated for a time and has recently been abandoned. They represent that the travel along the Soldier valley branch Is greatly hindered by the lack of train service and malls are Irregular. Some time ago the commis sioners received a latter from W. C. Whit ing on this same subject and they referred it to Superintendent W. C. Gardner, who explained the matter by saying that the company had operated a train on that Una for eighteen months and -found that its average earnings were about 6 cents a mile and this waa too much of a loss for the company. Collecting; Collateral Taxes. The October collections of the collateral Inheritance taxes by State Treasurer Oil bertson amounted to $7,930.09. This Is an average month, but much less than last month, which was exceptional. . The col lections came from twenty-six different es tates. , ...:. Biew Rales Aro Adopted. The Iowa supreme court this afternoon adopted new rules for the guidance of the court and attorneys to fit the new law to the present custom. The rules change In some degree the plan of making filings and the time for getting in papers. The court will meet every month during the year and papers will have to be filed more promptly so they can be rushed through and hear' Inga be had soon after the cases are made up. The rules are the result of conferences with a bar committee and the judgment of many of the best lawyers of the state. They will be published immediately for the benefit of the lawyers of the state. Dewey Coming; West. Admiral George Dewey is coming to Des Moines. It was announced this morning that the great naval commander had been tendered a warm Invitation to be present at the opening of the army post and that the committee has every assurance that he wilt accept 1U The announcement that Dewey will pay Des Moines a visit Is made after much effort on the part of the Com Querela! exchange and others to secure him. It Is expected he will make a number of speeches while here. Admiral Dewey has a number of relatives In Des Moines. Iiprrmc t'onrt Proceedings. The supreme court this evening closed the October term and decided a number of coses, as follows: New trials refused: M. O. demons, Har din county; Belle Lrunse, Ciayton; John V. Booth, Howard; Joseph Bailiff. Johnson; W. 11. Coleman, Polk. Application of J. K. Fink of Clinton-for reinstatement was re ferred bark to district court. Cases de cided: School dMrlrt of Grant, appellant, flffnlnst Carroll School, Carroll county, af firmed: NefT agaliiFt Manut hi prllant Keokuk, reversed; Bwlgert 1 toward, appellants, against Tllcien, Linn, reversed; Tucker, appellant, against Stewart. Du buque, reversed; Topping, appellant, against IxiukIbs, Van Uuren, dismissed; State Sav ings Bank of Logan, appellant, against Hunter, Harrison, affirmed; Green Bay Lumber Companv, appellant, against Ode bolt School District, Sac, afilrmed; Hawley. appellant, against Griffin, Clay, modified and affirmed. Charged with Embesstement. Harry Spellman, assistant ticket agent for the Great Western, was arrested this even ing on a charge of embezzlement. It Is said he Is short between $1,000 and $2,003. He was unable to give bail. He is prom inent in society and quite popular. Jadae Maejr Improves at Hospital. HARLAN, la., Oct. 81. (Special.) Judge N. W. Macy, who has been a patient at the Presbyterian hospital at Chicago for several weeks, la Improving. He went there for an operation upoVi his eyes, which have been very poor for some years. The operation was successful, but It will be necessary for the judge to re main In the hospital for several weeks yet, until special glasses have been made for him and fitted. The judge has many warm friends all over Iowa who will be glad to know that he will soon be able again to resume his duties on the bench. Iowa Cadet In Trouble. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Oct. 81. First Class Cadets W. F. Chaffee of Wisconsin, J. F. Lefand of Iowa, and J. D. Little of Ohio were placed on the prlnsonshlp Bantee at the Naval academy wharf today, charged with hazing fourth class men. It Is said the hazing consisted of personal Indignities. TWO KILLED BY TORNADO Town of Hydro, In Oklahoma, Is De molished by Heavy Wind Storm. ' OKLAHOMA CITY, Okl., Oct. 81. Three persons were killed, one fatally Injured, two perhaps fatally and half a dozen farm houses were demolished by a tornado that formed three miles north of Hydro, In Cadio county, at 9:30 last night. Dond: ' FRANK BROWN, aged 14. MART BROWN, aged 8. MRS. BROWN. Injured: Mrs. William Nelson, fatally, Man tell Beachell, aged 18; badly crushed, probably futal. Bertha Beachell; probably fatal. William Beachell and wife, parents of above, and two small children; all slightly hurt. William Brown and wife, parents of dead children; badly hurt. Mrs. Melham; serious. The tornado traveled over a course from northeast to southwest sweeping nearly everything before It for a distance of four miles. Farm houses, barns and fences were completely wrecked and crops ruined. The property losa Is estimated at $50,000. MAN CAUSES HER DOWNFALL Woman Accused of Embesslement ' Slakes a. Complete Confession . . Money Goes for High Living;. NEW YORK, Oct. H. Marie Layton, who was arrested a few weeks ago and pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement brought by officers of the United Playing Card company, la reported to have made com plete confession showing that she diverted from the company's bank account $37,000 while acting during six years as con fidential clerk in the New York office. Miss Layton Is now awaiting sentence. She has turned $5,000 back to her employers, all the money she saved. In her confession she ' mentioned the name of a prominent officer of & New York corporation who sh says, profited by her stealings. She alleges that the man got her to cash checks and in that way she got lid of a good deal of the money. The balance went In high living. REJECTED SUITOR USES GUN Kansas Man Kills Toasg Woman and Commits Bnlclda Near Man. hattan, ' , MANHATTAN, Kan., Oct. 81. Leonora Smith, aged 18 years, was shot and killed by her Jilted lover, Horea Bowers, aged 80, at her home, ten miles north of here today, after which Bowers turned the weapon upon himself and took his own life. Bowers had threatened the girl on different oc casions, and they had frequent, quarrels. Miss Smith was in love with another young man and Bowers in a fit of Jealousy today railed at the Smith home and when the girl opened the door he shot her. Miss Smith was of good family and highly respected. TWENTY-SECOND ON ROAD On Battalion Starts for Manila from San Francisco on Transport Sheridan. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Sl.-The United States transport Sheridan sailed today for Manila via Honolulu and Guam. It had on board 675 enlisted men of the Twenty-second Infantry, besides a full list of cabin passengers and $1,660,000 In pesos for the Philippines CRUSHES OUT THE LIFE a. - t. dT t m i jm The most loathsome and repulsive of all living' things is the serpent, and the vilest and most degrading of all human diseases is Contagious Blood Poison. The serpent sinks its fangs into the flesh and almost instantly the poison passes through the entire body. ' Contagious Blood Poison, beginning with a little ulcer, i aooa contaminates every drop of blood and spreads throughout the whole system. Painful swellings appear in the groins, a red rash and copper col- ' red splotches break out on the body, the mouth and throat become ulcerated, and the hair and eye brows fall out ; but these symptoms are mild compared to the wretchedness and suffering that come in the latter stages of the disease when it attacks the bones and more vital parts of the body. It is then that Contagions Blood Poison is Been in all its hideousness. The deep eating ab scesses and sickening ulcers and tumors 6how the whole system is corrupted and poisoned, and unless relief comes soon this serpent disease tightens its coils and crushes out the life. The only antidote for the awful virus is S. S. S. It cures permanently the most desperate cases. It is nature1 m remedy, composed entirely of vegetable ingredients. S. S. S. destroys every vestige of the poison and removes all danger of transmitting the awful taint to others. Nothing else will do thin- Strong mineral remedies, like mercury and potash, dry up the sores and drive in the disease, but do not cure permanently. Send for our home treatment book and write us if in Deed of medical advice AT ijhsoUI information. litis will cost you nothing. - J7.x swtn specinc co., Atlanta, ca. r If the Clerk Forgets to Give Stamps Please Ask for Them. fo) i3 Ml N J VI 11 V tTT3 C7"3 i Dry Goods Surprises Cotton Hoso One hnndred dosen ladies fleeced lined fast Mack Cotton Hosr .4 gj ribbed top. spliced heel and toe full fashioned and worth 'c per pair on sale Monday per pair - Girls' and Boys' Hose Fifty doien girls and boys' Hose fleeced lined warranted "fast 4P. black ' double knee, high spliced heel worth 26c per pair on Mon- QfJ day all slses per pair , Ladies' Camel's Hair Vests and Drawers All Silk bound and crochet finish "will not shrink" sites 34 to 44 f.Q-j worth $1.26 garment on sale Monday er "Ow' garment Samples of Underwear Sample lot of child's, boys' and misses' Vests, Pants and "Drawers iQ Goods worth up to one dollar per garment on sale Monday tOS per garmont Ladies' Scarlet Medicated Wool Shirts and Drawers "Fashion cut" silk trimmed fuil sises, from 84 tA 44 usually sold QO" at $1.25 per garment Monday we sell them per garment Washable Ribbons CO pieces all silk Washable Taffeta Ribbons In belt, sash and nerk 4 4 widths all the seuson's newest shades worth up to 26c yard Mon- I I W day we put them on special sale per yard 14c and Clcau-up Sale of Misses' and Ladies' Belts Monday wo put on sale fifty dosen Belts all this season's styles fr worth up to sixty-nine cents J JC each Great Ia chains in Trimmings at Our Lace and Trimming- Counter Fifty pieces all silk Gimp Trimming three-quarters-Inch wide very new black, white and all colors at I If Q per yard i A very stylish Jot of new Silk Gimps in plain and fancy - colors only per ,l C yard .mm-' Forty-flve-lnch black All Silk Net very correct for dresses regu- rx f lar value one dollar and a naif at per UfJ yard v-r w Embroideries 100 pieces pretty Embroideries and Insertions In Swiss, Nainsook and Ham burg the widths are 1 to 8 inches wide In the very neat, dainty patterns for baby une to the heavy sklrfing embroideries values aa high as 4 1 thirty-five cents) per yard all go In one lot Monday at I .tC fer yard aMw Our Green Trading Stamp Plan is Warm ing Up the Old Town. Everybody with froaat Instincts has a Stamp Book, and Is Ailing It, too. Scores of Omaha householders have) already filled their books, and THEY'VE GOTTEN JIST THUS PRE. MIIM THEY STARTED OVT TO GET. AXD THERE NEVER WAS A DOl'BT AHOl T GETTLIQ IT, EITHER! As well doubt the aathentlclty and validity of a greenback as donbt the redeemablencss of a Greea Trading; Stamp. It's a cosmopolitan Idea. Yonr stamps are Jnst as good from the coal and wood dealer and he handles them front the hay and feed store they are there, too or from the laun dry and yon can get them there Jnst as good as from any of the de partments of BENNETT'S BIG STORE, See the point f A poll all together will All yonr book the quicker. No bonus plan on earth today begins to compare with the value of Green Trading Stamps, Don't you forget it! Don't fail to attend our great sole of Bed Blankets and Comforts Commencing Monday Morning. 0) 0) U3 JV Ml s Furniture Dept. Don't Forget the Sale of Beds An opportunity to secure n handsome bed ot one-fourth the real value. Let these prices Kink in 95c $1.50 $3.25 Special Sale of Nottingham Lace Curtains All the high grade and expensive effects are now re produced In these popular goods prices were never so low. $1.25 value 3 yards long plain center, nrtistic 70r border per pair A zs lw ?1.75 value 3 J yards long, generous width Qftr dotted center with border per pair iOw 2.50 value 3 J yards long Jfenhissance de- i yfY sign per pair He $3.50 value 3 J yards lorrg fine weaves in iml- 1 QO tation of Brussels per pair 1 VO . Special Sale of 10-Wire Brussels Carpets borders to match sold with or without border they are made in floral, scroll and Oriental designs and are unequalled for wear per yard J Bissell's Standard Carpet Sweepers on sale on I t Q C third floor each , ..IiOV Cocoa Mud Mats 14x24-inch special each. . .38c Cocoa Mud Mats Hx27-ineh special each.. ..49c Mammoth sale of Floor Oilcloth per square - JZf yard up from IOC Fancy Soaps IN SOAPS FOR TOILET AND BATH WE CARRY A LARGE AND VERT CHOICE ASSORTMENT. EVERY BRAND GUARANTEED BY THE MAKER AND IS OP SUR PASSING EXCELLENCE. Toilet Soaps in Drug Department. 30 per cent pure Glycerine -fl f Soap per bar, 4c; 8 for... 1 VC nankin's Volcanic (Fumlce) Soap per cake Colgate's Turkish Bath Soap per dosen, 50c per cake. . . .5c 5c Colgate's English Process Q per dozen, 80c per cake. .... O 7 Cacti Soap per bos of three cakes Witch Hazel Bath Soap per cake 25c 5c Glycerosa Complexion Soap per cake OC Contl Castile Soap per pound Iiocca belli Castile Soap' per pound , Lana Oil Buttermilk per box Violet (Vee-o-ley) Almond Soap per cake Kgg Tar Soap per cake Tinand'a Carnation Pink Soap per cake 20c 20c 21c 15c 20c 25c China ware and Glassware Continually giving bargains In first-class goods. We stand at all times for quality. Anyone can give bargains on seconds, Job lots or goods yellow with age. We buy nothing BUT WHAT WILL BK A STANDING ADVERTISEMENT for us when it enters your home. No difference how low a price we name on an article, THE QUALITY REMAINS PARAMOUNT. When you wish to make a gift YOU NEED TO PURCHASE IT AT BENNETT'S. You will get some thing that's, new, up-to-date, well telected bought from first handa and at the right price. FANCY GERMAN STEINS with nice raised figures of scenes irom tiie Fatherland with good metal 22c covers each '. mtm STEINS matchless In assortment and prices lOc prices ranging from each 110.00 to sVV HAV1LAND DECORATED CUPS AND SAUCERS OCc new shapes and decorations each ON SALE MONDAY OVER 100 TOILET BETS ALL NEW Prices, ranging from $1.88 to $18.50. We give a dlHcount of 20 per cent on any set In the house. ROYAL ENGLISH SEMI-PORCELAIN CUPE AND. SAUCERS, Decorated 3 Colors to select . AVtc from for set of 6 , JOHNSON BROS.' ENGLISH PORCELAIN FLOWN BLUE 100-PIECE DINNER SETS new pattern pn their , U 7R , new shape for Monday M DINNER WARE THAT DISTANCES ALL COMPETI TION. -See our elegant line. HEAVY IRON STONB CHINA HOTEL SLOP 7R JARS open and undandled each t ' tJ' HEAVY HOTEL BELL BOY JUGS large else- 1(r limited to U to a customer each DECORATED HAVILAND ft CO. BREAD' AND Otr BUTTER PLATES each ,...5UC GERMAN CHINA CHOCOLATE POTS-values 4Q from 11.60 to 2.60-Bpeclal 40C ROYAL COALPORT BREAD PLATES-that famous Enir . - lih china with the original Indian tree decora- f 75 tlons each : ; New and elegant line' of Cauldon, WedKewood. Doultoh and Coalport Engllxh china No longer necessary to visit the large eastern cities for these goods you nave this metropolitan department at your door BENNETT'S. Bennett's Big Hardware Department An institution of education is our great Hardware. Section, devices all marvels of cheapness. KNAPS FOR MONDAY NICKEL TLATED SAD IRONS set of three has handle and stand to match always bright and clean will not stick .' HIGH GRADE HATCHET the lind that stays sharp only "UNIVERSAL" MEAT CUTTER Will cut meats and vegetables can be adjusted as pulverizer or grater If wanted small family size Family size, 02c; large family size, $1.12. STOVES! STOVES!! A 14-inch Belle Oak Heater heavy steel body finely nickeled, draw grate, large ashpan bums any kind of fuel special sale Monday , Complete with all nianuer of labor-saving 86c 39c 78c 9.98 Special Sale of Standard Silverware Tea plate 3198 Four-piece quadruple nets thoroughly . well made and finished per Bet They are a standard make, will NOT tarnish, and are covered by our broad guarantee. , About 25 satin engraved iilate Crumb Sets-Monday Well made and plated and lutely guaranteed by us. quadruple ...1.25 abso- Cake Dish Special Monday speWal-quadmple plat satin hand engraved Bread Q8C Well plated, satin finish, with hnnd engraving and fully 92 guaranteed ,.k ItkJ Wall Paper , Third Floor. NOTE THE PRICES Good White Blanks s up from 3t Gilts with 9 or 18-lnch borders gZn up from ,.... Embossed Heavy Golds f 1 p from Tapestries ' Jflr up from Vfc f Room Moldings, Plata Rails, Etc. Green Trading: Stamps With AH Phone Orders. Phone 137. zn i ', i r " " TWO SUSPECTS IN CUSTODY Every Effort is Being Made to Capture Train Wreoken. OFFICERS HAVE ONLY SLIGHT CLEWS Sssts Compaar "Will No Trouble and Kiyenae to Locate and mulsh tho Uutltf Men. PUEBI-iO, Colo., Oct. 81. Every effort is being made to apprehend the men who wrecked the Santa Fe flyer at Apiahapa bridge on Friday morning. Special officers of the railroad company and the sheriffs and police In southern Colorado are on thi alert Already two suHpecta have been arrested and more ar- rufcts are promised. One of the suspects, a man about 40 years old, waa caught near Fowler, three miles from the scene of the wreck. He refused to give his name, but says he had been working on the streets at Trinidad until a few days ago. Later a man who gave his name as John Duffy was arrested In Pueblo. He was taken In on the strength of a telegram that a man having three pairs of trousers, sup posed to have been stolen from the wreck, waa on his way to Pueblo. Duffy, carrying a, package, was arrested as he left the shop qf a local tailor. ; When an attempt waa made to detain him he struck1 the proprietor and ran. He was captured, but a man who accompanied him ettcared. Duffy was held In S2C3 for a hearing. He declares his Innocence. JOHN MITCHELLJS VERY ILL Indications of Appendicitis Aro Pro. nonneed and Operation May Bo Necessary. SCRAN'TON. Pa., Oct IL John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers Is reported to be quite 111 at his hotel In this city and has broken several engagements. It is probable that he will be compelled to postpone bis visit and to remain here several days on account of bis weakened condition. It Is said that Indications of appendicitis are pronounced. Consultations bave been held by two physicians, but ss yet they have been unable to agree as to whether or not It will be neceseary to operate upon I tbe labor leader. ONLY TWO WHO CAN PAINT CATS Graceful Poses of Household Pet a Difficult Thing to Repro duce on Canvas. (Copyright. 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. 31. (New York. World Cablegram Special Telegram.) Two painters of the nineteenth century are conceded to have faithfully reproduced the cat on canvas. The subtle secrets' of the feline anatomy seem to have defied all other efforts to Immortalize the graceful sinuosities so suggestive of the curious nature of the domestic pet. One of the two Is Lambert, a Frenchman and a pupil of De la Croix; the other is Mme. Henrlette Sonner, who was born at Amsterdam In 1821, the daughter of a widely known Dutch painter, J. A. Knlp. With a grand fatlitr and uncle also artists, Mme Bonner was veritably born to an artlstio heritage: Her father lost his sight through his assiduity to his art and he forbade his daughter to touch a brush. But when he saw how she pined to try her little hand he aas moved, and when she was 11 years old he consented to her trying brush and pencils. Then, although blind, he became her master-and a severe one, teaching her that to succeed the painter must be his own most Inexorable critic. After he died in 1SS0 the young woman married M. Sonner. She and her husband were' poor and when children came she began to paint for a living. Her talent was long unrecognised. Then she cam to Brussels to live. There one day she saw In a street one of those big, sturdy dogs one sees hitched to carts In that city drop down and die In harness while its master bent over It sorrowfully. She painted this scene, calling It the death of a friend, and gained reputation. Soon afterward a stray cat took up Its abode at her house and she could not chase It away. She began to study Its graceful feline motions and thus took up cat portraiture. She studied cats in all at titudes and all environments, but under the greatest difficulties, for a cat dislikes, above all things, to be pictured. Finally she had an Iron cage made, shut pussy lnulde and had her at the mercy of her brush. Mme Sonner paints the cat with a marvelous surety, frankness and vivacious nesa. She has received two of the highest orders of Belgium for ber pictures of cats besides mcjiy other distinctions. Prof. Nonsuea Uneonnclous. BERLIN. Oct iL-MommHD, the his torian, -who suffered a severe apoplectic stroke yesterday, still lingers unconscious, ted baa bcea muved to bis airy work room adjoining the library, because it Is one of tho largest rooms in the bouse and farthest from the bedroom of his wife, who la near death from dropsy. ANARCHIST TO BE RELEASED Ho Will, However, Be Conducted to French Frontier and Sent to England. (Copyright 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Oct. 81. (New York World Cable gram Special Telegram.) The authorities have fulled to make out a case against Panneggiunl, who has been released, but under the old sentence of expulsion, as an anarchist, he has been conducted to the frontier and sent to England. The Spanish heirs of the artist Esoosur will begin suit against his widow for right to possession of the srt treasures seised at No. a Rue De Londres. Enille D'Aurlgnac, whose term, with good conduct allowance, expired on September 39, will possibly be released next week, but he will be obliged to sign a receipt making over to the government the money seized on the Humberts in Madrid, amounting to 115,0(0 francs, to cover the expense of tho trial. It la said that Emlle will refuse to sign, thereby prolonging his confinement Indefinitely. Mme. Humbert's present occupation In prison, sorting feathers, will seem appro priate, she being expert at plucking pigeons. The proposed proceedings against Le baudy. "emperor of Sahara," suggests a Uilbertlan paradox, the Idea being to secure his extradition, bring him back to France and then banish him. BALLOON ASCENSION FAILS Guests Invited by Santos-Domont Are Disappointed , by the Weather. (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co) PARIS, Oct. 31. (New York World Ca blegramSpecial Telegram.) Santos Du mont Invited the grand duke Salvator, the Braslllan minister and Count Vauix to witness an ascent. with balloon No. 10. The weather, however, was such that he only was able to make a brief ascent held by ropes, ar.d even with this precaution the balloon struck a tree, Inflicting, hap pily, only slight Injuries. tribute busts ot Wagner and Liszt An . other artist will send a bust of Schumann.! The. painter, Hans Kolbe, la to contribute portraits of Bach and Johannes Hart-' mann. The plan of the hall In which the exhlbltj are to be portrayed, with objects of decorated art also. Is the work of Frits Drechsler, the architect. Art lit Le and Musical Exhibit. LEIPSIC, Saxony, Oct. 81. The clty-coun-cll has decided to make a special exhibit at tho 8t Louis exposition to emphasise the city's artistic and musical reputation. Prof. Max Kllnger, whose statue of Beethoven has been accounted the greatest piece of German sculpture for a century, will con- SWALLOWS TYPHOID GERMS Nurse in French Hospital Selects Peculiar Method to KnU Her Life. (Copyright, 1903. by Tress Publishing Co.) PARIS. Oct. 31. (New York World Cable gram Special Telegram.) A mi rue In a French hoapltal tried this week a novel method of coalmining suicide. She swal lowed two tubes of Kberlh's pure culture of typhoid bacllluH. on the third day she had a headache, but no fever, and loco spots were vlalhle on the eighth day. , The short duration of period of incuba tion la explained by the large quantity of bacilli Introduced tilrnultaneoualy. It proved a severe attack of typhoid, but not fatal. Countess I.onray is III. . VIENNA, Oct 31. Countess Lonyay, sec ond daughter Of King Leopold of Belgium, Is seriously 111 with peritonitis at Lucerne.. "Tho, nsnsw a CAN XDV CATHARTI C AftTiUAL GALE -TEN MILL. OH DOXEO Greatest In tho World A MILLION AMERICAN NUB8INO MOTHFRB keep themselves Snd their babies In splendid health Willi CASCAfcLTtJ Candy Calfturltc. Tho won derful things CASOAKETS do for mamas and their babies have become known through tbeklud words of those who have triad, the m, and ao tho sale Is now OVER A MILLION BOXES A MONTH. Mama takes a CABCAKET, baby gets tbe benefit Tbe sweet, palatable tablet, cmien by too nureing mother, regulates ber system, increases cer now ci miia. Hid makes her milk: mildly purgative, baby gets tho affect diluted and aa part ot It natural food: no violence no danger perfectly natural results. No mora aour curds in baby's stomach, no more wind colic, cramps, eonTulalona, worms, restless r,ighta. All drugjMsta. lOc, 25c, 6pp. tl iw .nlil In tiiiltr rionnlr.a Uhlnf atMinned C C C. 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