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THE GAZETTE. One Year..... $1 50 Ix Months..... 1 00 Three Months..... 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by post- office money order or registered letter. Ensured at the post office in Cleveland, Ohio, the second-class matter. Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Member Ohio Legislature, 1894 to 1896. 1896 to 1898. 1900 to 1902. ALLIED PRINTING TRADE SCHOOL COUNCIL CLEVELAND CLEVELAND. SATURDAY. JAN. 2. 1904. THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. HAPPY NEW YEAR! The Gazette is indebted to the Boston Guardian for the cut of Rev. D. L. Ferguson used on our first page today. For more than twenty years The Gazette has been issued regularly EVERY WEEK and ON TIME. Its record and reputation is known the country over and appreciated. While you are enjoying yourself during these holidays, occasionally call your friends' attention to these few facts. The National Suffrage convention held recently in Washington, D.C. only weakened itself with our people generally by "squabbling" over an endorsement of the Roosevelt administration. That is the one thing it should have done without discussion beyond that necessary to politely inform the president that Booker T. Washington's counsel on all else save industrial education in the south, was not best for the race. The National Republican committee at its recent meeting in Washington, D. C., appointed a committee "to investigate the question of guaranteeing the rights of Negro citizens." This committee consists of George R. Sheldon, New York; Myron T. Herrick, Ohio; J. E. Addicks, Delaware; J. G. Capers, South Carolina; J. W. Lyons, Georgia and is all right except that democrat, Capers, whom Chairman Hanna appointed and has retained a member of the National Republican committee in spite of the protests of the republican organization of South Carolina. George Dixon, so long featherweight champion of the world only to lose it about three years ago to Terry McGovern whom Young Corbett vanquished, has in recent months whipped Pedlar Palmer and all the English pugilists of note in his class, and is coming back to America to attempt to regain the feather-weight championship. This is not improbable from the fact that the present champion and other leading feather-weight pugilists here have outgrown (gotten too heavy for) their class. Stranger things have happened too. WHAT NEXT? United States Marshal Simmons of the Southern district of Alabama, has made public his resignation tendered to President Roosevelt. Simmons holds that the color line is drawn in favor of the Negro and that the door of hope is closed to the white man and he therefore tenders his resignation as marshal of the southern district of Alabama. What folly! what blindness! and indeed what supreme hypocrisy. Simmons is certainly seeking to make a point or to pose as a sort of a martyr to some childish whim which renders him an object of commiseration rather than of respect. Poor white men struggling to earn bread for their families need to know what they are doing. They as well as others of the laboring and dependent class, need to reflect and determine well their line of action before giving up a good job to become loafers and see their families suffer. But Simmons held a position which no Afro-American holds under this government today. His position was a lucrative one, of which any honorable and intelligent Afro-American would be proud. But Simmons gives up his position because he conceives in his mind some oolish idea that the president is friendly to the Negro. But what else should the president be? White men ever since we became a nation have been professing a kindly interest in our people. Then why does Mr. Simmons whine and become indignant at what the president has done? Is it that others have been less sincere and that Mr. Roosevelt is disposed to act upon what he professes? Is it really so that Mr. Roosevelt maintains that high integrity of his great soul and means to prove himself a man of deeds as well as of words? But does not Mr. Simmons render himself supremely ridiculous and foolish in the attitude he taken in this matter? He held an office and was receiving an ample compensation for his services. The very position which he held may seem to indicate that he was a favored son of the republic. Then where is his point and what is his motive for the part he presumes to play? Does it not appear that Mr. Simmons has become the tool of some wily politician who is attempting to play his hand against the administration? Men do these things as is well known; yet they do them for some hidden motive. It is no argument at all that the line is drawn against white men THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1904. when in fact they hold all the fat places. Is Mr. Simmons crazy? Is he a knave or is he both? Like the dog crossing the stream with the bone in his mouth, he spied the shadow of that bone upon the water. That dog let loose his bone and grapped at the shadow Simmons has lost. THE NEW YEAR. Every new year marks the beginning of a brighter and more glorious era in the life of man, or one of less achieved worth and fame. But it depends upon ourselves, whether we shall move on to nobler things or relinquish our endeavor to win the goal. It is not enough to share in the triumphs of the past nor to content ourselves with advantages already attained. The age is still advancing and we must keep step with the onward tread of the moving millions. Onward must be the watchword of the hour. We must profit by the past, we must grow in everything that is helpful to the cause of humanity and the world. We live in a dark and desolate earth burdened with the sins of the poor and deluded of Adam's race. But we live for noble lives. Invention, discovery, and science are evidenced in proof that the natural tendency of mankind is to develop whatever faculties are offered in the intellectual, moral and physical life. To utilize and develop the means of grace incident to our condition is the mission, to which all men are called. But do we realize this truth and are we fully conscious that to develop every favorable means that we are strictly answerable to him, who is the giver of every good and perfect gift? During the last year, thousands of clever people were wholly indifferent in regard to their own manner of life. They put off for tomorrow what should have been done today. Such seems to be the universal tendency of human nature, so that the new is too often lost in absolute forgetfulness of what is promised in the future. But "Now is the accepted time," says the written word. God has signified his will and intention in his own spoken word and if we would grow in the ways of wisdom and righteousness, we must improve the time which is ours. The new year is upon us and if we mean to make hallowed our opportunities, we must start out with renewed energy and zeal, and press the battle to the gate. Trust no future, howe'er pleasant. Let the dead past bury the dead, Oh! we would that every living mortal could more fully realize the value of time and could more justly appreciate his responsibility to his maker. Think you, dear reader, that coming years would not exceed the peace and happiness of the time already spent? Think you, that the earth in all its bitterness, sorrow and woe would not enjoy a sweet respite from the condemnation which so often overtakes us in our folly and moral blindness? The present new year is a blessed offering to the children of earth. It dispels the sad murmurings, which are heard in the darkness, and felt in every guilty conscience, uttering loud these words: "Ye knew your duty, but ye did it not." There is a promise of reward for us all in all succeeding years. The star of hope leads on to the better-coming day. How rich in all that is precious, is the hope, that inspires the soul of him, who perseveres and presses forward to nobler life! To our patrons and loved friends and to those who feel with us a brother's care, we offer fond greetings, wishing you a joyous and happy New Year. Let the New Year awaken all of us to higher resolves, when other years shall in marvelous rapture and melody welcome us to the general jubilee, where we shall find seasons of rest and triumph in eternity, where angels shall tell of promises fulfilled in the matchless glories of God, our father. Shoot the Wrong White Waitress Shoots the Wrong White Waitress. Trinidad, Colo.—Geo. Badger, a porter, shot and seriously wounded May Woerkel (white) a waitress, and killed himself by firing a bullet into his own brain. Badger was "after" Sadie Coffey (white), and secreted himself in her room for the purpose of killing her. He mistook Miss Woerkel for his intended victim, as the former was entering the room and shot her. It is not believed the injured woman will die. Both Badger and the Coffey girl, formerly lived at Fort Dodge, Kan., and were old acquaintances. Eleven Mobocrats Fined! Chicago, Ill.—Eleven of the fourteen men indicted for riot by the grand jury in connection with the lynching of the Afro-American school teacher, David S. Wyatt in the public square of Belleville, Ill., June 6 last, were fined $50 and costs in the St. Clair county circuit court by Circuit Judge R. D. W. Holdry recently. New England Prelude. Nashua, N. H.—Dr. Booker T. Washington was invited here recently, to address a woman's club. When he reached the city he was refused accommodation at all of the hotels. Learning of the matter a prominent divine offered his hospitality and Mr Washington became his guest. Prof. Ransom Remembered. Boston, Mass.—Prof. John F. Ransom, formerly of Columbus, O., was presented a beautiful umbrella for Christmas by the choir of Columbus Avenue Zion church, of which he is director. "Young Corbett" Wins. San Francisco, Dec. 30.—In the fight here last night between "Young Corbett' and Eddie Hanlon for the featherweight championship Corbett won in the sixteenth round. Hanlon put up a great fight. One Included a "Ferris" Wheel of Presents—"The Little Pebble"—Social, Personal and Church Dolngs. Lockland and Wyoming, O.—Rev. Joseph Alexander of Hamilton, preached the sacrament sermon at the A. M. E. church at 3 p. m., Sunday. The presiding elder did not arrive.—Last Sunday at the Baptist church at 3 p. m., sacrament was administered by Rev. Orr and Rev. Overall.—The Christmas tree celebration at the A. M. E. church was largely attended.—At. M. Zion church on Christmas eve, a "Ferris" wheel was erected and filled with presents for the children.—Mrs. Alice Porter, teacher, and Mr. Easton, principal, of the public school gave their pupils a Christmas treat Wednesday.—Mrs. Augustus Gray entertained at 5 o'clock dinner, the 25th, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gray, Mr. Charles Gray and wife, Mrs. Birdie Dixon, Miss Mattie Wells and company.—Mr. and Mrs.M.V.Roberts were entertained at 5 o'clock dinner at Mrs. Lawson Johnson's of Cincinnati.—Mrs. A. Williams' mother, Mrs. Osborne, of Walnut Hills, entertained the above at 5 o'clock dinner, Christmas.—The concert at Mt. Zion church was well attended. The paper, "The Little Pebble," was well delivered by Mrs. Beasly; trio, Mrs. J. G. Orr, Mrs. Frazier, and Mr. Fred Robinson of Cincinnati; instrumental duet, Misses Cora and Hattie Orr; solo, Mrs. Emma Morris; recitation, Miss Gray; solo, Miss McKinney; solo, Mr. Robinson, of Cincinnati. Others participated.—Messrs. Frank Farmer and Mennefield visited here the 25th.—Miss Rowe, missionary, gave many baskets to her night-school pupils, on the 25th. The school is increasing rapidly.—Mrs. Maggie Lucas of Morning Sun, has been spending several days with her mother and sister, Mrs. Gooding and Mrs. Jones, on Maple street.—Miss Maud Poston of Oxford, is spending the holidays with her uncle, Mr. Charles Poston and family.—Rev. J. C. Turner and wife of Middletown, were guests of his father and sister Christmas. MASONS GAVE A "STAG" SUPPER. Knights of Pythias Memorial Services -Zion's Literary Society-The Berry Dance and Reception-Personals- Social Items, Etc. Youngstown, O.-Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson of Salem and Miss Georgia Washington of Warren, spent Christmas here.-Mrs. A. M. Marrow and daughter, of Elgin, Ill., is the guest of her sister, Miss McConnaughy, of Griffith street.-Mrs. Joseph Finney of Wallace street, slipped, fell and bruised her right knee, Thursday evening.-Mr. George Johnson of Warren, was here Monday evening.-The dance given by A. H. Berry, the 23d ult., was largely attended. Those present from out of town were: Miss Lucy Scott, of Warren, Fred Berry of Pittsburg, Misses Minnie and Grace Gardner, Alice Campbell, Grace Thornton, Miss Garnes, Miss Allen, Mrs. Mattie Coleman, the Johnson sisters, Measrs. Will Davidson and Joe Williams, of New Castle, Miss Gertrude, Messrs. Will and Charles Robert of Jamestown, N. Y., and Mr. Davis of Painesville. It was a grand success.-Mr. Berry will give a reception for his pupils and friends, Thursday evening.-Mr. Frank Hall left for Jamestown, to remain a short time.-The "Do Drop" club met last week, added a few more to the roll and elected new officers.-John Eccles is having plans drawn for a fine residence on the south side of the town. He says the date will be announced later.-Some of our young men should be more careful of their actions on the streets.-Mr. Oscar Smith has been suffering with his eye for the past few weeks.-Zion church has organized a literary society, which meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p. m.-Miss Maria Eccles entertained about twenty Monday evening in honor of Miss Gertrude Roberts of Jamestown. The evening was spent in games.-Covenant Lodge, F. and A. M., gave a stag supper for members and a few friends. The evening was spent in talks by members and the local representative of The Gazette. The gathering was a treat to all that attended.-Logan Lodge, K. of P., will hold memorial services in their hall on the 10th, at 2 p. m. Empire State News Olean, N. Y.—Irene Hornbeck is visiting in Smith Port, Pa.—Those out of town who attended the Kelly-Atwell wedding were Mrs. Harvey Kelly, Mrs. Frank Dallas of Cuba, Mr. Wm. Kelly of Ithaca, and Miss Lizzie Bird of Bradford, Pa. It was held at the groom's sister's, Mrs. Robert Alexander, Rev. Loyd, of the A. M. E. church officiating.—The L'Ouverture club will meet at Mrs. Sara Hall's, Wednesday evening. It is working hard to pay the interest on the church debt.—Miss Randal is the guest of her brother, Claude, for the holidays.—Owing to the small attendance at the Sunday school no Christmas exercises were held. Parents send your children.—Watch meeting was held at the A. M. E. church.—Mr. and Mrs. Fred Maybee of Cuba, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Tomkins. Alfred Maybee is home again. Keystone State Notes. Meadville, Pa.—George A. Miller, who recently opened a first-class barber shop in the Flood building, is the only licensed barber in the city. A very neat certificate, tastefully framed, hangs in his shop proclaiming the fact that he has complied with all the provisions of the New York law, relating to barbers, and that he is a registered barber of that state, entitled to all the rights and privileges under said act.—Messrs. Wm. Gordon, R. C. Peyton and W. J. Jones spent Christmas in Franklin.—Mr. and Mrs. Albert Douglas of Erie, are spending the holidays with their parents.—Miss B. Butler is spending a few days at Cambridge Springs.—Mr. and Albert Jackson are home for the holidays. The Pope's Message to Afro-Americans New York City.—Rev. J. E. Burke, rector of the local Afro-American Catholic church, St. Benedict the Moor, was received in private audience by the pope recently. The poutiff evidenced great interest in Father Burke's account of his mission, and said: "Carry our love and apostolic blessing to the colored people." Reduced Rates for the Holidays. Via the Nickel Plate road. Tickets sold Dec. 24, 25, 31, and Jan. 1, return limit Jan. 4, 1904. Inquire nearest Agent or address E. A. Akers, C. P. & T. A. Cleveland, O. (236) FIRE HORROR AT CHICAGO. Six Hundred People Perished in the Iroquois Theatre. It was an Awful Catastrophe----Women and Children Fatally Burned in Their Seats. Hundreds of People Trampled to Death in the Wild Rush to Escape from the Burning Building---Explosions of Gas Added Terror to the Dreadful Scene. Chicago, Dec. 31.—About 550 people were killed in ten minutes Wednesday afternoon during a fire in the Irocouois Theatre, the newest, the largest and as far as human power could made it, the safest theatre in Chicago. Estimates of the dead and injured vary. The police account of the dead is 536. The estimate of the newspapers is 562. Besides this there are 55 people missing, the majority of whom are probably among the dead in the morgue and various undertaking establishments. Eighty-six of the dead have been positively identified and 92 others are known to be injured. A few of these people were burned to death by fire, many were suffocated by gas, and scores were trampled to death in the panic that followed the mad plunge of the frightened audience for the exits. There are bodies lying by the dozens in the undertaking rooms, in the police stations, and in the hospitals from which nearly everything that could reveal their identity to those who knew them best is gone. Their clothing is torn to rags or burned to cinders and their faces have been trampled into an unrecognizable pulp by the heels of the crowd that trampled them down as they fled for safety. The fire broke out during the second act of the play "Mr. Blue Beard," which was the first dramatic production given in the theatre since its erection. The company, which was very large, escaped to the street in safety, nearly all of them, however, being compelled to flee into the snowy streets with no clothing but their stage costumes. A few members of the company sustained minor injuries. The accounts of the origin of the fire are conflicting and none of them certain, but the best reason given is that an electric wire near the lower part of a piece of drop scenery suddenly broke and was grounded. The fire spread rapidly toward the front of the stage, causing the members of the chorus who were then engaged in the performance to flee to the wings with screams of terror. The fire up to this time was not serious and probably could have been checked had not the abestos curtain failed to work. As soon as the fire was discovered, Eddie Foy, the chief comedian of the company, shouted to lower the curtain, and this was immediately done. It descended about half way and then stuck. The fire thus was given practically a flue through which a strong draft was setting, aided by the doors which had been thrown open in the front of the theatre. With a roar and a bound, the flames shot through the opening over the heads of the people on the first floor and reaching clear up to those in the first balcony, caught them and burned them to death where they sat. Immediately following this rush of flames there came an explosion which lifted the entire roof of the theatre from its walls, shattering the great skylight into fragments. As soon as the flames first appeared beyond the curtain a man in the rear of the hall shouted "Fire! Fire!" and the entire audience rose as one person and made for the doors. It is believed that the explosion was caused by the flames coming in contact with the gas reservoirs of the theatre, causing them to burst. As near as can be estimated about 1,300 people were in the theatre. Three hundred of these were on the first floor, the balance being in the two upper balconies and in the hallways back of them. The theatre is modelled after the Opera Comique in Paris and from the rear of each balcony there are three doors leading out to passageways toward the front of the theatre. Two of these doorways are at the end of the balcony and one in the center. The audience in its rush for the outer air seems to have, for the greater part, chosen to flee to the left entrance and to attempt to make its way down the eastern stairway leading into the lobby of the theatre. Outside of the people burned and suffocated by gas, it was in these two doorways on the first and second balconies that the greatest loss of life occurred. When the firemen entered the building the dead were found stretched in a pile reaching from the head of the stairway at least eight feet from the door, back to a point about five feet in the rear of the door. This mass of dead bodies in the center of the doorway reached to within two feet of the top of the passageway. All of the corpses at this point were women and children. The fight for life which must have taken place at these two points is something that is simply beyond human power adequately to describe. Only a faint idea of its horror could be derived from the aspect of the bodies as they lay. Women on top of these masses of dead had been overtaken by death as they were crawling on their hands and knees over the bodies of those who had died before. Others lay with arms stretched out in the direction toward which lay life and safety, holding in their hands fragments of garments not Three Men are Cremated. Troy, N. Y., Dec. 31.—Moses T. Clough, aged 89 years, the nestor of the kenssalaer county bar and the last survivor of the class of 1834 of Dartmouth College; William Shaw, head of the law firm of Shaw, Bailey & Murphy, and Benjamin W. Kinney, manager for the Fuller-Warren Co., of Boston, lost their lives in a fire which partially destroyed the Troy club at an early hour Wednesday. Although the doomed men were seen at the windows, nothing could be done to save them, so dense was the smoke and so rapid the progress of the flames. The loss is $55,000. their own. They were evidently torn from the clothing of others whom they had endeavored to pull down and trample under foot as they fought for their own lives. As the police removed layer after layer of dead in these doorways, the sight became too much even for police and firemen, who were hardened to such scenes, to endure. There were women whose clothing was torn completely from their bodies above the waist, whose bosoms had been trampled into a pulp and whose faces were marred beyond all power of identification. Bodies lay in the first and second balconies in great numbers. In some places they were piled up in the aisles three and four deep, where one had fallen and others tripped over the prostrate forms, and all had died where they lay, evidently suffocated by the gas. Others were bent over backs of seats where they had been thrown by the rush of people for the doors and killed with hardly a chance to rise from their seats. In the aisles nearest to the doors the scenes were harrowing in the extreme. Bodies lay in every conceivable attitude half naked, the look on their faces revealing some portion of the agony which must have preceded their death. There were scores and scores of people whose entire face had been trampled completely off by the heels of those who rushed over them and in one aisle the body of a man was found with not a vestige of clothing, flesh or bone remaining above his waist line. The entire upper portion of his body had been cut into mincemeat and carried away by the feet of those who trampled him. A search was carefully made with a hope of finding his head, but at a late hour last night it had not been discovered and all that will ever tell his friends who he was is the color and appearance of his clothing on the lower limbs and this is in such a condition as to be hardly recognizable. The theatre had been constructed but a short time and all its equipment was not yet in place. This was unfortunately the case with a fire escape in the rear of the building. The small iron balconies to which the iron ladder was to be attached were up, but the ladder had not yet been constructed. When the panic was at its height a great number of women ran for these fire escapes, only to find as they emerged from the doorway up on the little iron platform, that they were 30 to 50 feet from the ground, a fire behind and no escape in front. Those who reached the platform first endeavored to hold their footing and to keep back the crowd that pressed upon them from the rear. The effort was utterly useless and in a few moments the iron ledges were jammed with crowds of women who screamed, fought and tore at each other like maniacs. This lasted but a brief interval, and the rush from the interior of the building became so violent that many of them were crowded off and fell to the granite-paved alley below. Others leaped from the platform, fracturing legs and arms and two were picked up at this point with fractured skulls, having been killed instantly. The building in which the calamity occurred stands midway between State and Dearborn streets on the north side of Randolph street. Although all the patrol wagons and every ambulance owned by the city was pressed into service, they were utterly inadequate to carry away the dead and in a short time there was a line of corpses 50 feet long piled two and three high on the sidewalk in front of the theatre. Doctors and trained nurses were on the ground by the score within half an hour after the extent of the calamity was known, and every wounded person who was carried from the building receiving prompt medical aid. A number of doctors waited at the entrance to the theatre with stethescopes in hand and as soon as a body which looked as though it might possess life was carried out, it was at once examined and if dead placed on the pile lying on the sidewalk. The others were at once placed in ambulances and whirled away to hospitals or to the offices of physicians in the immediate neighborhood. While scores of men were busy carrying out the dead and injured, others, fortunately few in number, searched the aisles and seats for valuables. Two men were found who had provided themselves with baskets and were filling them with the property of the dead. They were immediately arrested and the theatre ushers and stage hands were given the work of collecting all the valuables on the floor of the theatre. During the evening the police arrested over a dozen men accused of being thieves and pickpockets. The Iroquois Theatre was completed less than two months ago at a cost of $500,000 and was the finest playhouse in Chicago. It was opened to the public on the night of November 23 with "Mr. Blue Beard." It had a total seating capacity of 1,724 chairs, with plenty of standing room on each floor. The balcony had seatings for 475 persons. Miners Strike. Hazleton, Pa., Dec. 31. Operations at the Silver Brook colliery of J. S. Wentz & Co., which was among the few in this district that did not close down during the holidays, were suspended yesterday by a strike. About 450 hands are affected. The men allege that the company failed to abide by the award of the conciliation board with respect to the computation of the wages of certain classes of employees, and has violated the findings of the strike commission by refusing to meet committees of the miners for the adjustment of grievances. REVOLUTIONS RAGE REVOLUTIONS RAGE Three of Them in Full Blast in San Domingo. The Capital Is Besieged by Jiminez' Forces-United States Government Sends Another Gunboat to Protect the Interests of American Citizens. Washington, Dec. 30.—With three revolutions raging on the island, the forces of Jiminez attacking San Domingo City, and excitement prevailing, Minister Bowell thinks the situation demands the presence of an additional warship and appeals to the state department for aid. Admiral Barker has cabled the navy department from Trinidad that he has sent the Scorpion to reinforce the Newport in Dominican waters. San Domingo, Dec. 30.—The insurgents are attacking this city, which is being defended by the troops of the provisional government, who are now fighting in force. The Clyde line steamer Cherokee arrived in port Sunday. The government authorities demanded that the portion of the Cherokee's cargo destined for Azua De Compostela be discharged here. This demand was resisted by the steamship agents, who notified the government that the Cherokee would proceed to Azua De Compostela. In case of aggression on the part of the government authorities the steamship agent will ask United States Minister Powell for protection. A commission from San Pedro De Macoris, which has declared in favor of the insurgents, has arrived here and is demanding the surrender of San Domingo to the insurgent forces. Gen. Morales, the provisional president, is determined to resist to the limit all attacks by the insurgents. He has left on the Dominican gunboat Independencia with the intention of attacking the insurgents in ports to the south. BAD NEGROES. Two of Them Narrowly Escape Being Two of Them Narrowly Escape Being Lynched at Council Bluffs, Ia. Council Bluffs, Ia., Dec. 30.—Neely Zimmerman and George Burke, the negroes who on Monday night narrowly escaped lynching at the hands of an infuriated mob, were last night taken to the state penitentiary at Fort Madison, Ia., for safe keeping. During the afternoon the men were taken before Judge Wheeler and waived preliminary examination. The judge then signed an order for their removal. The men were hastily spirited away and Sheriff Cousins left with them on the first train for Fort Madison. During the day Sheriff Cousins learned of an organized plan to lynch Zimmerman and Burke last night and again made a request for a company of militia to guard the county jail and arranged for a heavy force of city police to assist in case their services were required. Feeling against the prisoners increased and during the afternoon small groups of men gathered in the vicinity of the jail to discuss the matter. Sheriff Cousins then decided that the safer course was to remove the men from the city and applied for an order of removal. Four assaults within a week similar to those made on Mrs. Sparks and her daughter had wrought up the working people of the city to a pitch of feverish excitement and this feeling was freely voiced on every corner. Monday night's experience and yesterday's developments were sufficient to lead the authorities to the belief that a bold attempt would be made by a well organized mob to lynch the negroes, and they then decided to avoid all trouble by removing the cause for a repetition of the disturbance. WILL NOT ARBITRATE. Chicago Liverymen Reject a Proposal Mode by Strikers. Chicago, Dec. 30.—A positive refusal to arbitrate was the decision of the joint associations of liverymen last night on the proposal submitted by the striking livery drivers. The strikers asked that the adjustment of the whole difficulty be placed in the hands of former members of the Chicago board of arbitration. The reason given by the livery owners for their refusal of the proposition of the men was that the selection of the arbiters by the drivers gave the employers no voice in the matter. Many desertions from the union were reported yesterday. At the headquarters of the Liverymen's association it was claimed that fully 60 strikers had applied for their old jobs and had been put back to work. Sued for $495,000. New York, Dec. 30.—Proceedings to recover $405,000 damages for the sinking of the steamer Kiowa in Boston harbor by the steamer Admiral Dewey on December 26 were begun here Tuesday when proctors for the Clyde Steamship Co., owners of the Kiowa, filed in the United States district court a libel against the American Steamship Co., owners of the Admiral Dewey. The proctors ask for $300,000 for the loss of the Kiowa, $100,000 for its cargo, and $5,000 for the effects of its officers and crew. The libelants charge that the Admiral Dewey's officers were responsible for the loss of the Kiowa. A Big Railway Project. A BIG RAILWAY PROJECT. Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 30.—The Pan-American Railway Co., with headquarters at Guthrie and with $250,000,000 capital stock, to build a line from Port Nelson, on Hudson Bay, British America, to the Argentine Republic, was chartered yesterday. From Port Nelson the road is to run via. Winnipeg, in Manitoba, through North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Texas, thence through Mexico, Central America, the republic of Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru into the Argentine Republic. Four People Burned to Death. A Locomotive Explodes. Port Jervis, N. Y., Dec. 30.—Frank Loven, a fireman, was killed, Engineer Wallace probably fatally injured and three other railroad men badly hurt by the explosion of a locomotive on a westbound Erie train near Hankins yesterday. OUTLOOK FOR 1904. Bradstreets' Review of Trade Conditions—Country Stronger Financially Than Five Years Ago—Satisfactory Business may be Looked For. New York, Dec. 31.—In its annual review of the business year of 1903, Bradstreets says: Nineteen hundred and three was a year of irregularity in speculation, distributive trade and industry—in some cases of severe strains variously applied and as differently withstood. As the residuary legatee of at least five years of great prosperity, it had to bear cumulative effects of previous years' mistakes, and at the same time to carry burdens having their inception in the year itself. Yet the tests were well withstood and, while excess occurred, the course of events so far has proved that the general trade foundation was essentially sound, and that the structure reared upon it was in the main well built. Summarizing the year's developments, the review calls attention to the excellent condition of trade and industry during the first quarter and the multiplication of labor troubles during the second quarter. June 1 seeing the largest number of men out of employment in many years. Building construction at many large cities was checked, and it was practically at a standstill at New York throughout the summer. The high price of cotton caused the more or less constant idleness of 2,000,000 spindles and 100,000 operatives in the middle of the year, while reductions in wages of many thousands of workers in the last months impaired the purchasing ability of the industrial element. It is with a chastened spirit, coupled with some doubt, the review concludes, that the business community awaits the developments of 1904. Unsatisfactory conditions are sufficiently widespread to take away some of the buoyant feeling with which the advent of recently preceding years has been contemplated. Efforts to revise costs of production and readjustments to meet changed demand and supply conditions have made good progress. The presidential campaign may be unsettling, though not, as in previous years, a source of financial disquiet. The strength of the agricultural interest makes for confidence in good trade in the country's basic industry. Building operations bear a better appearance. Free exports of excess manufactures and minerals are to be expected, but as yet no evidences exist of overproduction. Up to the middle of 1903 the country had been traveling at a swift pace, but no marked signs of over extension are visible. Moreover, the United States of today is in a far stronger position than it was ten, or even five years ago, and we owe less abroad than ever before. There are still some cloud shadows, but the barometer has begun to rise, and the commercial world may expect a fairly satisfactory business. BOODLERS BUSY. More Evidence as to Crooked Work by the School Board of Kansas City. Kan. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 31.—Further evidence of boodling on the part of members of the board of education of Kansas City, Kan., was presented before the grand jury yesterday. George McL. Miller testified, it is said, that another member of the board had agreed to secure for the agent of a Chicago book firm, for a bribe of $700, the contract for supplying the public schools of the city with books. George Morrison is said to have testified that when he tried to sell the board of education a site for a school building for $3,000, agreeing to divide his commission, that the member told him that he came too late. Later another real estate man sold the same site to the board for $4,000. Mr. Morrison also testified that he had paid rebates on insurance to a clerk of the board. An Important Decision. Pittsburg, Dec. 31.—In the United States circuit court yesterday Judge Acheson handed down an opinion in the case of William Doyle vs. the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. which will be far-reaching in its effect. In the opinion Judge Acheson virtually says that a railroad company is responsible for the full value of goods lost in transit, notwithstanding the printing of a clause on the face of the bill of lading calling for a maximum allowance for release, unless the agreement as to value shall have been made between the railroad and the shipper, and also agreement as to freight rate, and the signature of the shipper secured to the agreement. A Republican Love Feast. Indianapolis, Dec. 31.—Republicans from every section of Indiana attended the annual "love feast" of the party in this state yesterday. Senator Charles W. Fairbanks made a brief address in which he said he had no doubt that President Roosevelt would complete the work of the isthmian canal without any act of national dishonor, although his way is beset by serious embarrassments. Senator Beveridge also spoke. Explosion in a Brewery. Explosion in a Brewery. Quincy, Ill., Dec. 31.—By an explosion of a rice cooker in the main building of the Dick Brewing Co. yesterday the building was almost completely wrecked. Parts of machinery, brick work and girders were hurled a hundred feet or more. Leo J. Goorres, a watchman, was the only person in the building at the time and was badly hurt. Loss $60,000. Found Silver in Colner's Trunk. Atchison, Kan., Dec. 31.—A trunk belonging to W. N. Lockett, the confessed counterfeiter arrested at Leavenworth and containing ten pounds of melted silver, was found yesterday in his room on a farm north of Atchison where Lockett had worked as a farm hand. The police are certain that Lockett had confederates and that they have operated extensively in this section. Steel Mills to Resume Work. Pittsburg, Dec. 31.—President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, returned yesterday from Youngstown where he was in conference with James H. Nutt, secretary of the labor bureau of the Republic Iron and Steel Co., concerning several clauses of the wage scale that were not clear. A satisfactory interpretation was made and the company will immediately resume operations at the Valley and Brown-Bonnell works, two of the largest plants in the Youngstown district. a SG Ta A _ i “ _— sae ee ini i cuaeie eia th _aee ee e rr TENE \ , SERRE gp LOCAL DEPARTMENT. Sache ae ave so iba dha NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Subscribers not receiving TAEGAZETTE regularly should notify USAT ONCE We desire every copy delivered promptly. ‘We advise our patrons to carefully examine ‘TRE Gazerre’s advertisements before making Purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-Amer- deans. The fact that they advertise is assur- ‘dnce that they want it. Kocal reading notices (advertisements) ten ‘cents line (six words in a line). te op \ he aesthetic DENNIS H. FOWLER, Local Reporter. ae ONEEE, Looe Reporter. _ | CLEVELAND. SATURDAY, JAN. 2, 1904, reece Purchase “The Gazette” at PUSHAW's News Store, Cuyahoga Building, Opon Sunday. GoopMAn's News Depot, No 586 Central ‘venue, cor. Sterlingarenue Open fSunday. F. Vaventine’s Grocery Store, No 368 Central Ave., between Perry and Harmon St's N. Hexrezn's News Depot, City Hall Build- img, cor. Wood and Superior streeta Open Sunday. ’ S. H. Moopy's News Store, No. 387 Superior street, second door west of Bond stree. Open ‘Sundays alsu LW. Gricc's News Depot, No. 529 Central avenue, near Greenwood street. 1. W. Guicc's News Depot, No. 529 Central avenue, near Greenwood strect. ge ern ener Miss Minnie Long visited in Oberlin, recently. ‘Wm. Crawford visited in Warren, Christmas, ‘Springfield has three first-class ho- tels conducted by our people. Mr. George Copes visited his father in Oberlin, during the holidays. Miss Sadie Green spent the holi- days in Salem, with her mother. Miss Bessie Simpson of Salem, is in the city visiting relatives. Harry Simpson is spending his va- cation With his parents in Akron. (Mrs. Gela Childers and Mrs. Fannie Blackburn were Springfield visitors, recently. ‘Mrs. Blackwell gave a dinner last ‘Thursday evening in honor of Harry Bowles, Miss Nettie Ballard spent the holi- days in Cadiz with relatives. It is her former home, Miss Jessamine Lancaster of Collin- wood, left Tuesday morning to spend ‘New Year’s in Ravenna and Akron. Mrs. J. A, Ford of the Old Folks’ Home, fell in her room on Dec. 22 sand injured herself severely, She was helpless for awhile. Harry 0. Bowles, of Granville Col- lege, is spending his vacation with his mother here. Mr. E. Grasti,: of Oberlin College, is his guest. * Miss Ida Brown left last week Sat- urday morning to visit her cousin, Mrs. Henry Bolden, nee Miss Sadie Cisco, formerly of this city. Syd ‘Thompson, it is said, may be Gov. Herrick’s messenger. It is a $65 a month job and the messenger has to do porter or janitor work. The Friday Study club met at Mrs. ‘Albert ‘Richardson’s in Collinwood, ‘Tuesday afternoon, and entertained some of the holiday visitors in the city. . Mr. Riley, financial agent of | the ‘Hall Memorial Industrial School of ‘Massillon, was in the city, last week. He paid The Gazette a pleasant visit on Saturday. ‘All Odd Fellows in the vicinity ‘of Hackman street, ought to patronize “Brother” Will 0. Bowles, who has a barber shop on Central avenue, east " of Grant street. Mr. Samuel Barrett, an Ann Arbor, Mich., University law student, was in the city several days last and this week, and paid The Gazette several pleasant visits. Mrs. Hattie Brown, of Bowling Green, who has been visiting her sis- ter, Madam Emma French, of May- flower street, several weeks, return- ed home the first of the week. |, Miss Viola Holmes of No. 4 Hud- son street, entertained at dinner on Christmas day, the Misses Zola Graves of Iowa, and Josephine Lawson, of Washington, D. C., students of Ober- lin college. : ‘Three members of Red Cross com- mandary, whose identification with the race is easily noticed, have de- cided to go to the Hollenden House barber shop for a shave this after- noon or next Wednesday. ‘A prize masquerade baft will be giv- en at Forest Street armory, Tuesday evening, Feb. 2nd. Beautiful prizes will be awarded to the best fancy and comic costumed ladies and gentlemen. Refreshments will be served. ‘The Philigeans’ party last Tuesday evening was a very pleasant affair. The Aufait chib, a young ladies’ or- ganization, gave a very pleasant dancing party at the Alta House last Saturday evening. The Altas (the only Afro-American ‘basket ball team in Ohio) will go to Ravenna New Year’s day to play the strong three-year- team of that city. ‘The train leaves Euclid station at 1:20. ‘An exchange says that Herbert ‘Thomas, an industrious Afro-Ameri- can of Woodstown, N. J., has fallen heir to $48,000 by the will of a white woman for whom he worked as a boy. The Presbyterian and Episcopal churches (white) are having “their troubles” as a result of their Afro- ‘American membership and their prejudice. And yet they regard them- selves CHRISTIANS! } iA “straw” vote taken among the ‘95 Afro-American employes at the White wedding the past week, de- veloped the fact that anly two of the entire number voted for Mlenry Eu- banks on election day. From 60 to 80 ‘per cent. of our voters in this city id not for him, we verily. believe. + Christmas day was marked by the ‘reunion of the immediate connections ‘of the Hackley family in this city, at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Nicholas Hackley, No, 11. Richiand avenue. Covers were laid for thirty-two. Miss iAmelia Lawson and Mr. Louis John- ‘son were guests of the family. “At Mt, Zion church Sunday evening, ‘Christmas exercises were rendered by the primary classes of the school under the direction of Miss Mary’ Brown. ‘Their treat was given them ‘Wednesday evening, during which time special exercises were rendered. ‘Tomorrow evening the junior and senior members of the schoot will give o New Year’s entertainment. ‘Miss Pearl Heath’ of Akron, re- turned 6unday evening after a few days’ visit with Miss Elsie’ Mountain. Bypday Miss Mountain. entertained: ‘at dinner in her honor, Misses Lizzie ‘Blackwell, Eva, Jessamine and Rob- ‘ert Lancaster of Collinwood, and Miss Elsie Oliver of Blaine street. In the ‘evening they were entertained at Suncheon by Miss Ade Redman of #04 Miss Luella ey, daughter of ta Wednesday evening at the ‘THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1904. parents’ residence. It was a swell social affair. Many valuable and beautiful presents were received. Dr, and Mrs. Cox will live in the “Queen City” and are away on their honey- moon trip. Miss Cora Jackson, a teacher in the Baltimore, (Md., high school for Afro- Americans, and daughter of Mr. and ‘Mrs. J. Harvey Jackson, sr., former- ly of this city, Oberlin, and Detroit, was in the city last week Thursday, en route to the last named city where her aunt, Mrs. 0. T. Jackson, is very ill at the residence of her brother, Mr. Harvey Jackson, jr. Mrs, (Oliver) Jackson was brought from her home in Boulder, Colo., to De- troit, by Mrs. H. Jackson, sr., a few weeks ago, critically ill, but has im- proved since arriving there. She was formerly Miss Sadie Cook of this eity and Detroit. Her husband lived here years ago and is a brother of James Harvey Jackson, sr., of this eity. Miss Cora paid The Gazette a pleasant visit while here. The fifth educational session of the Loyal Legion of Labor at Cory chapel last Sunday. evening was even more poorly attended than the fourth ses- sion at St. Andrew’s chureh, The or- ganization has clearly “lost ground” in the last few weeks. This is pos- sibly due to the absence in Toledo of Prof. Z. W. Mitchell, the supreme royal master, and the non-appearance of the Loyal Legion Educator and ether literature of the order which had a tendency to’ keep alive an in- terest. that now seems dormant throughout northern Ohio at least. ‘Among the persons whose names were presented for tndorsement as candidates at the little “Black Tam- many” meeting of last week were: W. H. Patterson, W. E. Beidleman, J. E. Edwards, John Brock, and Sam Moore. It is said, Mr. Edwards is not.a member of any of the clubs. The little “Black Tammany” had things its own way at its meeting last week in ‘Woodliff hall. The “Grafters” were represented by dele- gates who refused to participate. This, because their alleged organiza- tion, the so-called Twelfth ward Re- publican league (club), was limited to a small representation, a few delegates in the meeting, and other clubs were likewise treated, while the Central Republican league (club), better known as the little “Black Tammany,” voted its entire mem- bership present, on all questions. The result was that two “Tammany” members, John Brock and Sam Moore, were indorsed for porterships in the house of representatives at Columbus and none of the other clubs received any recognition whatever. ‘This has caused no end of soreness in the East End Republican club, the “Grafters” and one or two minior or- ganizations, The “Grafters” are quiet- ly booming. one of their members with a view to knocking out either or both of the “Tammany” candi- dates for porterships. ‘hey also ‘claimbghat it is‘an outrage for John Fulton to be holding the place in ‘Judge Wing’s court rooms made -va- eant by the resignation of Mr. S. T. Boyd when he became a letter car- rier, and that they propose to have that messengership for one of their number or a member of the East End Republican club. Things are going to be real hot for tne next ten days. Very few seem willing to brave the eold weather and make the trip to the Columbus inauguration even though transportation is given them. Everybody seems opposed to Fulton's eandidacy for that clerkship in the adjutant general's office at Columbus. Write. the governor your objections. For Rent—Rooms.—Mrs W. R. Har- ris has some first class rooms with path for gentlemen, ot No. 155 Cen- tral avenue. Wanted—To buy for cash, a light three-spring wagon. Call (Bell ‘phone) Doan 486 Y. Madam Emma (A. French, a gradu- ate of the Findlay, Ohio, Conserva- tory of Music, and’ an experienced teacher of piano, voice, musical his- tory and harmony, has located at No. 19 Mayfiower (Maple) st. It will pay those desiring to study the piano or have their yoice trained, to call on uurs. French, as she is’ painstaking and thorough and competent. Correspondents Wanted. The old reliable Gazette desires an energetic and honest agent, and a good correspondent, in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. We are especially desirous of hear- ing from persons in the _ following cities: Zanesville, Springfield, Gal- ipolis, Cambridge, Lima, Toledo, Ports: mouth, Circleville; Dayton, Piqua, Hamilton, Sandusky and other places where we have none. ’ Write to the editor of the The Ga- zette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, 0,, and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers can oblige us greatly by sending at once the address of any good person or persons in any of the cities named above or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. ‘Trial of Alleged Dyhamiters Begins. Georgetown, Col., Dec. 31.—Hearing of evidence began yesterday in the trial of 15 labor union men, charged with complicity in the 6un and Moon dynamiting at Idaho Springs on July 28, in which Phillip Fire, one of the dynamiters, was killed. All the de- fendants except D. C. Copley are members of the Idaho Springs Miners’ union and Copley is a mem- ber of the executive board of the Western Federation of Miners. Forty-six ptnesses have been sum- moned by the prosecution, some of whom, earns asserted by Attorney Talbot in his” opéaing™ statement, would divulge a plot for the destruc- tion of the Sun and Moon property. A Notable Religious Event. London, Dec, 30.—The Most Rev. Frencis Bourne, Roman Catholic archbishop of Westminster, was en- throned in the new cathedral of Westminster yesterday with the im- pressive ceremony incidental to such ecasions. The cathedral of West- minster is the first Roman Catholic cathedral that has stood in the met- ropolitan see of England since the Reformation. The building was’ be- gun only eight years ago, though it was projected by Cardinal Wiseman (who died in 1865) and was planned ‘by Cardinal Manning in 1875 Moved to Delay the Execution. Hamilton, Dec. 31.—A motion for a further suspension of the execution ‘of sentence imposed upon Alfred ‘A. Knapp, the strangler, was filed in the cireuit court yesterday, January 11 was the date set zane court for the electrocution: Ea oe app, who is dow in the sett ae Ole penitentiary owning ee ores, court in his applica for e new-trial.. "EMBROIDERED FURS. A Large exberugs of the Season's Garments Are Trimmed and Fringed. Furs are expensive this year, and for that reason it would seem more than @ pity to trim them or mutilate them in any way. Yet a great proportion of the new furs are trimmed, says the Brook- lyn Eagle. The other day there were seen two fur coats. One was a short; plain little coat of seal, the most service- able little coat imaginable. It was not quite three-quarters length, tight fit- ting and buttoned with big silver but- tons, a coat which one would admire any- where for its serviceability. But with the woman who wore the plain little seal coat there was another woman, and this one wore a blouse coat of moleskin, that skin for which there is such a demand this season. The blouse was hip length, pouched in front and belted with a belt of embroidered gold. The front was. buttoned with four large gold buttons, round as glbbes. It, ‘was open nearly to the belt, and the lapels were turned back to show a wealth of embroidery. The embroidery was in the oriental colors, brilliant blues, yellows, reds and greens, all put together with the recklessness of the Parsee em- broiderer and worked out right in the fur. It made a lovely display of color, but was recklessly extravagant, for the embroidery certainly does spoil the fur. It seems nothing less than a sin for Dame Fashion to set the style of em- broidery and ruffied furs, yet when one comes to examine the models closely one may come to the conclusion that there is economy in the method. And to prove this take an instance of a stole of otter, that fur which is enjoying a renais- sance. The collarette Which came just over the shoulders had two long ends which hung far down the front. The back was composed of gores or sections, each alternate one of fur, the other of vel- vet. The two sections were joined to- gether with a little very nice Armeniar. passementerie. Then came the em- broidery which entirely covered the vel- yet sections and was delicately traced upon the fur. The stole ends consist- ed of bands of fur and velvet put to- gether alternately and fully embroid- ered. It is easy to see how such a patchwork design might be carried out with the aid of a little old fur and a little new vel- vet, and how the result would be ele- gantly complete, as good, in. fact, as ‘though all new material had been em- ployed. Tails are very fashionable this year, and they are worn in all sorts of ways. Whole muffs are made of them,one tail next the other like a fringe, and those who can afford the luxury can make a very fashionable stole all of tails, with silk fringe underlying each row of tails. And, speaking of fringes, their uses re manifold and particularly are the white fringes used. White silk fringe, even a few inches of it, is valuable, for it can be used so very effectively upon the winter clothing. Coats can be trimmed with it, cuffs can have an edge of it, muffs are beautifully decorated with it, and winter bodices receive their finishing touch with a finger or so of handsome fringe. THE BANE OF BASHFULNESS. How the Shy Young Girl May Over- come the Miseries of Self- Consciousness, _ The shy little girl who buries her face in her mother's skirts on the approach of a stranger makes a charming and pic- turesque figure; that same child, be- come a young woman and suffering tho agonies of diffidence’as a wall-flower at a party, is an object of pity, says Youth’s Companion. No woman can be unsympathetic with the sufferer if she has herself once en- dured the miseries of self-conscious shyness; the fear of social blunder; the sense of physical awkwardness; the envy,, detested, yet cheristied, of the more easy and graceful friend; the bit- ter apprehension that no one will ever have the desire to break through the bar- rier of apparent coldness and discover the real woman. Yet this shyness has its root in a quality of character both noble and serviceable—in that admiration of the admirable which reaches to fear. The Germans have two words for fear— Furcht, which represents the fear of the coward, and Ehrfurcht, which repre- sents the fear of the man already wise, as he stands before his superior in wis- dom—honor-fear. It may seem idle to try to overcome girlish diffidence by an ethical argu- ment; but if once the timid girl can bring herself to’ regard the terrifying social group as simply her lessons and examples, she may gradually find her fear melting into admiration, and so into a wholesome imitation. Social grace is largely the self-forget- ting ability to put oneself in another's place. All the easy give-and-take which is the chief charm of the husk- ing in the country or the afternoon tea in the city, is the result, not of genius for conversation, but of practice in the art of entertaining. That art is ac- quired with far less tof! than skill in playing the piano or in embroidery or in cookery. : Olive O11, Olive oil should always be treated carefully to insure its continuing of good quality. Never allow the oil to remain exposed to a glaring light; a dark closet or cool cellar is the best place, and the bottle should be care- fuliy corked. It is also well, when the cork is first drawn, to wipe the mouth of the bottle carefully, and then use a fresh cork, discarding the old one pierced by the corkscrew. When care- lessly treated even the best oil de- teriorates rapidly, and dissatisfaction results.—Rural New Yorker. Exports of nig Countries. The United Kingdon has increased its export trade about 7% per cent. since 1872. Its population has increased 30 per cent. in thé same time. It exported to the United States and Germany $50,000,000 worth of goods in 1872, and only $365,000,000 in 1902. Delicious Orance Pic. ‘ Beat three-quarters cup white sugar and two tablespoons butter together, then add the yolks of. three eggs, salt and juice and grated rind of one orange and one-half iemon. Bake in one crust; cover with meringue.—Prairie Farmer. OHIO AT THE BIG FAIR, Buckeye State’s Fino (Headquarters at the Loutsiana Purchase Exposttion, Among tle buildings in the Plateau of States at the World's Fair, the ivory-white, gold-crested structure which marks the home of Ohio is rapidly nearing completion. The in- tramural railway, circling the | two square miles of exposition grounds passes the door of the Ohio buildjng. Spacious verandas at each end of the structure invite visitors to rest, The $100,000 appropriation by the Buck- eve state will portray her agricultur- al development in exhibits in the 23- acre Palace of Agriculture, as well as her remarkable growth in manufac- turing to be shown in the two build- ings devoted to manufacturers, which cover twenty-eight acres, October 6th will be Ohio Day. Ohioans have special advantages for reaching the World’s Fair, which opens at St. Louis April 30th, 1904. Fifty-four of the eighty-eight coun- ties of the Buckeye state are travers- ed by the Pennsylvania Lines, placing many cities and towns within a few hours of the greatest exposition of the age. “Look at the Map!” A striking feature of the preparations for the exposition is the extension of St. Louis train service on the Penn- sylvania System. A recent addition ts the World’s Fair Express, which runs from Columbus to St. Louis in a night, leaving Columbus Union sta- tion at 6:40 p. m., reaching St. Louis at 7:46 a. m., the coaches and sleeping car going through as a solid train. HOLIDAY TRIPS At Low Fares via Pennsylvania Lines. The Pennsylvania Lines will inaug- urage a new feature in reduced fares for Holiday Trips this year by sell- ing excursion tickets to all stations on those lines, instead of restricting them to 150 miles. Excursion tickets will be sold December 24th, 25th and Bist, 1903, and January Ist, 1904, good returning until January 4th, 1904. Excursion tickets on the certificate plan will also be sold to teachers and students at Universities, Colleges, and Seminaries (but not to teachers or students at Preparatory, Public or City High Schools.) Consult Geo. W. Weedon, District Passenger ‘Agent, Cleveland, Ohio, for particulars, ‘ HOLIDAY TRIPS. Any Point on the Pennsylvania Lines May Bo Visited at Low Fares. ee ee ee ee ee ‘The reduction in fares on the Pennsylvania Lines for Christmas and New Year holidays will cover alt stations on those Ines and no dis- tance restrictions will be placed on excursion tickets. ‘They may be ob- tained December 24th, 25th and 31st, 1903, and January 1st, 1904. ‘The new arrangement will permit trips to Chi- cago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Indian- apolis, Louisville, St. Louis, Toledo, Pittsburg, and to any other station on the Pennsylvania Lines in the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. DO NOT FAIL TOVISIT THE VINCENT CLUB 35 Chestnut Street, Fine Wines, Liquors & Cigars, POOL & BILLIARDS. J.R. SIMMONS Manager. Phone Cuyahoga, 1768. FOR SALE CHEAP. Dennis H. Fowler, With the Mars Wagar Realty Co., 619 WILLIAMSON BLDG. Bell ‘phone, Main 584. Cuyahoga “M" 72. > ~ TARVELERS’ REGISTER “Trains on all roads rua on Standard Time, TICKET OFFICES: 28 Public Sq., £31 Pearl St. and Stations. Eastbound. Daily. 2 4 Cm Pearl St. Station....8 pm 1 50am 7 63am Broadway Station...4 3pm 25am 8 20am ‘Buelid AV. Station./8 47pm 2 18am_8 36am Westbound. Daily. 1 L eae Buclid Av. Station..6 dium 11 jam 7 22pm Broadway Station,..6 25am 11 2am 75pm Pearl St. Station....6 30am_11 3iam_ 7 55pm ‘ " D Cleveland Union Station. Foot of Bank Street. ‘Ticker Grice a Dales Esation. Euclid Av, and and Av. , Ror City Tiekat Ofiou, No.1 Enclte Cor, Publica. UGH TRAINS BUN AS FOLLOWS BY CENTRAL TIME “Daily. Daily except Sunday. From Cleveland to ‘Leave. Arrive. Pittsburg & Bollaire......... +7 00am #11 20am Salem & Pittsburg........., #8 00am —*8 30pm Philadelphia & New York.. #4 00pm ¢11 30am Baltimore & Washington... *( 00pm *!1 30am Pittsburg, Bellaire & East.. ti 40pm +6 30pm Baltimore & Washington... +1 40pm 16 80pm. 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It used to be considered that only urinary and bladder troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all diseases have their beginning in the disorder of these most important organs. Therefore, when your kidneys are weak or out of order, you can understand how quickly your entire body is affected, and how every organ seems to fail to do its duty. If you are sick or "feel badly," begin taking the great kidney remedy, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, because as soon as your kidneys are well they will help all the other organs to health. A trial will convince anyone. I was a constant sufferer for a number of years with weakness of the kidneys and back and frequent desire to urinate, but after using Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, I am entirely cured and cheerfully recommend this wonderful remedy to any who may suffer from these common complaints. Most truly yours, Weak and unhealthy kidneys are responsible for many kinds of diseases, and if permitted to continue much suffering with fatal results are sure to follow. Kidney trouble irritates the nerves, makes you dizzy, restless, sleepless and irritable. Makes you pass water often during the day and obliges you to get up many times during the night. Unhealthy kidneys cause rheumatism, gravel, catarrh of the bladder, pain or dull ache in the back, joints and muscles; makes your head ache and back ache, causes indigestion, stomach and liver trouble, you get a sallow, yellow complexion, makes you feel as though you had heart trouble; you may have plenty of ambition, but no strength; get weak and waste away. The cure for these troubles is Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the world-famous kidney remedy. In taking Swamp-Root you afford natural help to Nature, for Swamp-Root is the most perfect healer and gentle aid to the kidneys that has ever been discovered. If there is any doubt in your mind as to your condition, take from your urine on rising about four ounces, place it in a glass or bottle and let it stand twenty-four hours. If on examination it is milky or cloudy, if there is a brick-dust settling, or if small particles float about in it, your kidneys are in need of immediate attention. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is used in the leading hospitals, recommended by physicians in their private practice, and is taken by doctors themselves who have kidney ailments, because they recognize in it the greatest and most successful remedy for kidney, liver and bladder troubles. EDITORIAL NOTE—You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful remedy, Swamp-Root, sent absolutely free by mail, also a book telling all about Swamp-Root, and containing many of the thousands upon thousands of testimonial letters received from men and women who owe their good health, in fact their very lives, to its wonderful curative properties. In writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure to say you read this generous offer in this paper. MARRIED BY PROXY. Absent Bridegroom Represented at the Altar by His Father—Interesting Ceremony Takes Place in Cuba. A Gentle Hint. "I—er—had a peculiar dream about you last night," said the girl on the other end of the sofa. "And what did you dream?" asked the Though Rafael Lopez' father has married the sweetheart Rafael has courted since their childhood days, neither the young lovers nor the father regrets the step that has been taken. The father of Rafael Hildalgo Lopez, of Paterson, N. J., lives in Cuba. The father, Senor Hildalgo y Liriano, has married the beautiful Senorita Anna Rosa Fernandez Wegener, sweetheart of Rafael. Anna wanted to marry Rafael, and Rafael wanted to marry Anna, but his father, the senior Hidalgo, was the groom. At first blush one would put the senorita down as a victim, the young Rafael as another, and the father as a hard-hearted wretch. Instead of that, Rafael is happy, Senorita Anna is happy, and the father is a good-natured, obliging man whom any young person would be proud to have as a parent. The solution of this mystery lies in the fact that Senor Hidalgo y Liriano acted thus onigingly in marrying his son's fiancee by virtue of a power of attorney. The father merely represented the son at the altar. Senorita Anna is an orphan and one of the wealthiest young women in Havana. She also has the distinction of being beautiful. She and Rafael have known each other since childhood. The girl was of Spanish and German parentage. Since they have been old enough to understand the meaning of an engagement they have been betrothed. When Rafael left Havana three months ago to become an American engineer, having obtained employment in the locomotive works at Paterson, the girl promised to wait for him until he had made his name and fortune in the United States. The young student recently heard disquieting news from home. He determined to marry his fiancee at once and wrote, asking if she were willing to marry him by proxy. She was loyal and said yes. Knowing that the laws of Cuba did not recognize a church marriage, but held a civil contract marriage binding, young Lopez wrote to a friend, who is an attorney in New York, to have a power of attorney drawn to his father. Thereupon the attorney had the following document prepared: "Know all men by these presents that I, Rafael Hidalgo Lopez, of Paterson, N. J., have made, constituted, and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute, and appoint Rafael Hidalgo Liriano, of Havana, Cuba, my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name, place and stead, to perform a civil marriage contract in my name with Anna kosa Fernandez Wegener, of Havana, Cuba." To make doubly sure of the legality of the power of attorney, the Cuban consul in New York signed the document and the county clerk indorsed it. Young Lopez forwarded the formidable looking document to his father and the marriage followed. Investigating Human Voice. Prof. Edward Wheeler Scripture, director of the psychological laboratory of Yale university, has arrived at Munich with the object of conducting experiments in the dissection of the human voice by means of the gramophone. The Hanover Courier calls attention to the frequent trips of American scholars to Germany for the purpose of conducting investigations for which America is unable to provide satisfactory material. Deserves Punishment. A New York man signed his love letters "Swak." This, according to the lady who got the letters and is using them as evidence in a suit for breach of promise, means "sealed with a kiss." Guilty or not, the man who swakked should be swatted. "That young man," said the visitor, "be haves as if he knew more than you do." "Naturally," replied the merchant. "Why naturally," asked the visitor. "I am merely his father."—Philadelphia Ledger. THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. O.. SATURDAY. JANUARY 2. 1904. DR. KILMER'S SWAMP-ROOT Kidney, Liver & Bladder CURE. DIRECTIONS. May treat one or three teaspoonful before or after meals and as bedtime. Children less according to age. May commence with small doses and increase to full dose or more, as the case would seem to require. This great remedy cures all kidney, liver, bladder and Uric Acid troubles and disorders due to weak kidneys, such as catarrh and the bladder, gravel, rheumatism, lumbago, and Bright's Disease, which is the worst term of kidney disease. It is pleasant to take. PREPARED ONLY BY DR. KILMER & CO., BINGHAMTON, N. Y. Sold by all Druggists. (Swamp-Root is pleasant to take.) You can purchase the regular fifty-cent and one dollar size bottles at the drug stores everywhere. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle. A Gentle Hint. "I—er—had a peculiar dream about you last night," said the girl on the other end of the sofa. "And what did you dream?" asked the young man in the case. "That I saw you in a jewelry store pric- ing engagement rings," she blushingly re- plied. "Cincinnati Enquirer. Not at Home. Mrs. Newrich had been describing her visit to Turkey. Friend-Then, of course you saw the Friend-Then, of course, you saw the Dardanelles? Dardanelies: Mrs. Newrich—Why, no, we didn't. They called, but we were out.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Should Have Known Better. "That was an unlucky thing for Peck, the engine driver," said the guard. "They gave him one o' them new engines yesterday, an' he named it after his wife." "Why unlucky?" asked the plate driver. "Why, it blew him up this morning."—Stray Stories. A German chemist has discovered a healing agent in coal oil which has created quite a sensation amongst sufferers wherever it has been tested, on account of the wonderful cures accomplished by its use. A few applications are sufficient to cure muscular Rheumatism, Neuralgia, headache, tooth, ear or backache, lameness, sprains, chilblains, in fact every severe pain. It is sold in drug stores as Dr. Bayer's Penetrating Oil in 25c. and 50c. bottles and warranted to cure or money, refunded. Whether a man is handsome, or whether he only thinks he is, he acts just the same.—N. Y. Times. Rheumatism's Killing Pain left in quick order after taking 10 doses of Dr. Skirvin's Rheumatic Cure, in tablet form. 25 doses for 25c, postpaid. DR. SKIRVIN CO., La Crosse, Wis. [k. l.] The doing of a duty sows the seed of a delight.—Ram's Horn. Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—J. F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.—Alger. Stops the Cough and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25 cents The wastes of wealth lead to the wall of want.—Ram's Horn. Fruit acids will not stain goods dyed with Putnam Fadeless Dyes. "Did she return your affection?" "Yea, unopened."—Detroit Free Press. Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.—Bovee. Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.—Johnson. "I came near marrying that girl once." "Did her parents object?" Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.—Epictetus. Worry is the worst wolf that comes to our doors.—Chicago Tribune. Even in a restaurant a man may reveal his religion.—Ran's Horn. Luxury is apt to transform pleasures into burdens.—Chicago Daily News. The man who puts his heart in his work is using good material.—Puck. The religion of success is never successful in religion.—Chicago Tribune. A man may be won by flattery; he can be retained only by cookery.—Life! "Some men," said Uncle Eben, "says dev don't care fur money, when as a matter ofack dey means dey ain't able to take care of it."—Washington Star. "You say you saw my sister at a recent wedding?" "Yes. It wasn't very long ago." "But I don't remember that she mentioned you." "Very likely. I was only the groom."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Dangerous for Him. Mrs. Church—Did you ever catch your husband flirting? Mrs. Gotham—That's the way I did catch him.—Stray Stories. Town Against Town. "Is it true," asked the funny individual from Cleveland, "that trains don't stop at Cincinnati unless they are flagged." "Well, even if it is true, it might be worse," said the Cincinnati man, "I understand they never stop at Cleveland because the engineers can't see the place." — Cincinnati Engineer. OBEYED INSTRUCTIONS. Photographer Planted His Camera Where He Was Told To and There Was Trouble. The city editor summoned the photographer of his staff, relates Youth's Companion. "Col. Welligan's house is burning," he said, "and I want a picture of the fire. Get out there as quick as you can with your camera and take a view of what's left of the building, from the inside of the fence corner." "But," said the photographer, "if—" "That's the point I want it taken from right in the corner." "But I think there's—" "I don't care whether there's a better point or not. You know what I want. Hurry up! You are losing time." The photographer took his camera and departed. A few hours later he came in with the proof of a picture he had taken from the desired point of view. "What is this?" asked the city editor. "That is a photograph of the ruins of Col. Welligan's house from the inside corner of the fence, near the street." "I can't, either," responded the photographer. "I tried to tell you there was a big tree standing between that corner and the house, but you wouldn't let me." Mr. Grover's Case. Frederika, Ia., Dec. 28.—Mr. A. S. Grover is now 74 years of age. For the last 30 years he has suffered a great deal of sickness, and, although he is a temperate man and never used spirits of any kind, his kidneys had troubled him very much. He said:— "I was told I had Diabetes, and my symptoms corresponded exactly to those of a young man who died of Diabetes in this neighborhood. My feet and limbs were bloated quite a little. "I heard of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and at last determined to try them. I took in all ten boxes before I was well, and now I can truthfully say that I am all right. The bloating is gone from my feet and legs. I have gained eight pounds in weight, and can sleep well at night, and every symptom of my trouble is gone. "It is some time now since I was cured, and I have not had the slightest return of any symptom of the old trouble." Getting Her Money's Worth. Milly—I was weighed this afternoon and tinned the scales at 993 pounds. tipped the scales at 993 pounds. Billy—I think that if the man that had weighed you had been real generous, he would have thrown in three-quarters of a pound, and made it an even hundred. "So do I. But he was raining one of those 'You weigh for a cent' affairs. The next time I'm going to try a 'inkel-in-the-slot' machine, and maybe I'll get more for my money."—Detroit Free Press. For 30c and This Notice the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., will send free Tough Proposition. Wicks—Tompkyns! You couldn't get any money out of Tompkyas if you should send a warship—Somerville Journal. An English Earl's Opinion The English, next to the Americans, are the greatest travelers in the world, and while they as a rule insist upon having the best there is to be obtained, they appreciate good service and beautiful scenery. The Earl of Shaftesbury, having, with his wife, spent some little time in the United States during the summer, speaks most enthusiastically in regard to what they have seen. A few days ago he said to a gentleman in Buffalo: "Our stay in New York was a delightful one, and the picturesque grandeur along the Hudson and its surroundings was a source of much joy to us all. "It has seldom been my good fortune to pass the time in such excellent sport as that furnished in your enchanting Adirondack Mountains."—Albany Times-Union. Cruel Rejoinder. Cholly Nimrod-Aw—and when is the season I can't shoot? son I can't shoot? Guide—Three hundred and sixty-five days in the year.—N. Y. Sun. A. Mrs. Fairbanks tells how neglect of warning symptoms will soon prostrate a woman. She thinks woman's safeguard is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: — Ignorance and neglect are the cause of untold female suffering, not only with the laws of health but with the chance of a cure. I did not heed the warnings of headaches, organic pains, and general weariness, until I was well nigh prostrated. I knew I had to do something. Happily I did the right thing. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound faithfully, according to directions, and was rewarded in a few weeks to find that my aches and pains disappeared, and I again felt the glow of health through my body. Since I have been well I have been more careful, I have also advised a number of my sick friends to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and they have never had reason to be sorry. Yours very truly, Mrs. MAY FAIRBANKS, 216 South 7th St., Minneapolis, Minn." (Mrs. Fairbanks is one of the most successful and highest salaried travelling saleswomen in the West.) — $5000 forfeit if original of above letter proving genuineness cannot be produced. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM BEST COUGH CURE If Cures Cold, Congn, Sore Throat, Croup, Influenza, Whooping Cough, Sore Chinitis and Asthma, a certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect after taking the cure. Everywhere, everywhere. Large bottles 20 cents and 40 cents. SHORT NEWS NOTES They Come From Many Parts of the World. Information of Recent Date Collected in Various Ways and Condensed for the Convenience of Our Busy Readers. With the object of ascertaining how quickly troops can be transported from the Atlantic to the Pacific, a special train left Halifax and is rushing across the continent to Esquimalt, B. C., with two batteries of royal garrison artillery. The train will run through only Canadian territory. The Sharon, Pa., plant of the American Foundries Co., which has been closed for two weeks pending a settlement of a wage scale for the molders, has resumed operations, an agreement satisfactory to both sides haiving been reached. It is stated that the men accepted a cut of 10 per cent., effective from December 1. A strike of 9,000 carriage drivers and teamsters in St. Louis is threatened. It is stated that if the Citizens' Industrial Association of St. Louis, in its announced purpose to enforce law and order, interferes with the proposed strike of cabmen and carriage drivers, which has been set for January 1, 9,000 men will refuse to work. At Birmingham, Ala., fire destroyed the building occupied by the Birmingham Grain Co. Charles Carper and Lawrence Stamp, clerks, were rescued from the roof by the firemen. Hansom Turner, a negro laborer, was burned to death. The loss is $15,000. Announcement is made of the appointment of C. M. Waters, as superintendent of the division of salaries and allowances of the postoffice department to succeed George W. Beavers, to take effect January 1. Mr. Waters is now acting superintendent of the division. Phillip F. Burroughe, a grain commission merchant and formerly British vice consul at Kansas City, died there recently from blood poisoning, the result of a spider bite. He was prominent in business affairs. Mrs. Burroughe was killed a year ago in a runaway accident. Maj. Malecolm McDowell, widely known as an iron and steel expert, is dead at Chicago, aged 75 years. He was the youngest brother of the late Maj. Gen. McDowell, who commanded the federal troops at the first battle of Bull Run. Maj. McDowell was aide-de-camp on his brother's staff during that battle. The finest business block in Marietta, O., that of the First national bank, was destroyed by fire which started from a gas explosion. It was a five-story structure occupied by the bank, the office of the Standard Oil Co., Dawes Lumber Co., Sarber Oil Co. and others. The loss to the building is $75,000, fully covered; loss to contents about half as much; insured. Hiram W. Beckwith, a law partner of Abraham Lincoln from 1856 to 1861, is dead at Chicago, aged 72. The directors of the Lake Shore Railroad Co. have declared a 4 per cent. semi-annual dividend. The last dividend was for $31/2 per cent. Dividend and interest disbursements to be paid in January by the leading railroad and industrial companies, banks, trust companies and traction corporations, also interest payable on the government debt will reach a total of $134,000,000. This sum is about $2,000,000 greater than the total payments in January, 1903. L. F. Loree, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., will, on January 1, become president of the Rock Island Co., succeeding William B. Leeds. Mr. Loree was chosen for the executive head of the Rock Island Co., which controls the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway system, at a recent meeting of the directors, when Mr. Leeds tendered his resignation. Two men were killed and six injured in a rear-end collision at Williamstown, Ky., on the Cincinnati Southern railway. A wrecking train was met by a freight train. The relief car and two cabooses on the wrecking train were wrecked and took fire. The cars burned so quickly that two workmen perished. Lawrence O. Murray, of Chicago, has been chosen as assistant secretary of commerce and labor. In response to a request from the Japanese government Brig. Gen. John Chase, commander of the Colorado national guard, has selected three members of the guard and will select three more to receive commissions in the Japanese army. The steamer Kiowa, inward bound from Jacksonville, Fla., and Charleston, S. C., was rammed and sunk by the steamer Admiral Dewey in Boston harbor. All on board the Kiowa, numbering 30 persons, were rescued by a tug. Three military prisoners on Governor's Island, New York harbor made their escape the other night from Castle William by sawing the bars. One of the men was immediately recaptured, but the other two, who are known as desperate prisoners, made good their escape. Savings banks in New York City which intimated a possibility of a reduction in interest rates to depositors from 4 to $3\frac{1}{2}$ per cent. have determined to maintain the existing interest rate and several savings banks in Brooklyn have advanced their interest rate from $3\frac{1}{2}$ to 4 per cent. The Manila, one of the Spanish gun boats captured in the Philippines, will be commissioned in a few days, moored near the receiving ship In dependence at San Francisco and placed under the control of the commanding officer of that ship. The Manila will be in charge of a commissioned officer and will be used as a prison ship. The Union Trust Co., of Baltimore, which went into the hands of a receiver on October 19, has resumed business, Receiver Miles White having been discharged by order of the court at the request of all the interested parties. A Wabash railroad passenger train collided with a cattle train near Mexico, Mo. One engineer was killed and several persons injured, but not fataly. Many cattle perished. At New York City Frederick M. Cushing, a naval veteran and said to have been at the battle of Manila Bay, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting his wife during a quarrel on July 21 last. The Japanese press is urging the immediate dispatch of troops to Corea, where, it is asserted, Japanese interests are menaced by Russian military pressure in the north and Russian intrigues at Seoul. In their effort to hide the lynching of Arthur Stuart, a colored prisoner, whom they secured from the jail at Pineapple, Ala., a mob is thought to have fired the jail, which was destroyed by fire, together with eight warehouses and the postoffice, valued at $35,000. The fleets of warships on both sides of the isthmus of Panama will shortly be reinforced by several vessels now on their way to that quarter. Mrs. Alexander Sullivan, well known on both sides of the Atlantic as an author and editorial writer, is dead at Chicago after one week's illness, following a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Sullivan, formerly Miss Margaret F. Buchanan, was 56 years old. The Seri Indians, who occupy Tiburon Island in the Gulf of California, have gone on the warpath, and are raiding ranches and committing depredations on the mainland. The Seris are said to be cannibals and are known to be the fleetest runners in the world. After failing to induce the district attorney to issue a warrant for the arrest of the man whom he alleged had alienated his wife's affections, David G. Van Houten, a farmer, went to a saloon at Portland, Ore., and without warning shot and killed Albert Young, one of the proprietors. Van Houten escaped. Col. Henry L. Thomas, for 34 years translator in the state department, is dead at his residence in Washington, aged 68 years. Mr. Thomas was a man of exceptional ability and was one of the most valued employees in the department. He spoke and translated 11 languages, beside having a general knowledge of several other tongues. A plan to operate a chain of cotton mills in North Carolina by tenement dwellers of New York City, taken there and trained by a few skilled workers, is being evolved by New Yorkers in the cotton business. If their scheme is carried out, it will result in the establishment of a self-sustaining charity which will take hundreds of women and children from the slums of the city into a healthy country life. The employes of the Union Railroad Co., with the exception of the trainmen, have been notified of a 10 per cent. reduction in wages, to take place on January 1. The Union Railroad Co. is connected with the Carnegie Steel Co. and is a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. A play has been produced in the Trinity German Lutheran church at Baltimore. It took the place of the usual Sunday night sermon, and was written, staged and produced by the minister in charge of the church. The tone of the drama, which was in German, was highly religious. Pursued by a fear for 21 years that death awaited him at the hands of a negro, Frank McNamee, who was the head of a syndicate that stole more than 60 negro bodies from Lebanon cemetery, in Philadelphia, was found unconscious on the street with his head fractured. He died a few hours later. Typhoid fever is rapidly increasing in Pittsburg and threatens to take on the character of an epidemic. For the first 23 days of December there were 459 cases. This breaks all previous records. The disease is virulent and a large proportion of those taken sick are dying. The Mexican government has granted the extradition of Charles Kratz, wanted in St. Louis for alleged connection with the franchise scandals in that city. Three men were drowned by the sinking of the dredge General Poe in Boston harbor. Twelve others were rescued. Rear Admiral Edwin White, retired, was stricken with apoplexy at the Brooklyn navy yard and died before medical aid could be summoned. He had come from his home in Princeton to visit Rear Admiral Rodgers, commandant of the navy yard. Rear Admiral White was a native of Ohio and entered the naval service in 1861. He was made a rear admiral in 1899. Secretary Cortelyou has ordered the deportation of the skilled glass blowers from Stourbridge, England, who were detained at Ellis Island under the alien contract labor law. They landed at Montreal and were bound for Corning, N. Y. The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. has purchased a controlling interest in the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Rapid Transit Co., paying therefor about $6,000,000. The Standard Oil Co. recently made a reduction of five cents a barrel in the price of high grade petroleum and also made a cut of two cents in the inferior grades. Mark Palzer, an American, has been arrested at Vienna, accused of forging a letter of credit for $10,000 on the Darmstadt Bank of Commerce and Industry, which he cashed in Paris. Miss Bethel Woodward, of Booneville, Ky., en route to Knoxville, Tenn., jumped from a southbound Cincinnati Southern train near Oakdale, Tenn., and was killed. The Russian government is considering making the sale of tea and sugar a state monopoly. There is much opposition to the proposal on the part of the tea trade and the grocers, but the growing needs of the treasury and the exhaustion of other resources are believed to make the adoption of the proposition probable. It is feared that the collier Vienne, of the French navy, manned by 51 officers and men, which left Rochefort for Toulon, has been lost. The minister of marine has sent warships in search of the missing vessel. It is believed that wreckage cast up on the coast of Spain confirms the apprehension entertained in regard to the safety of the collier. Orders have been received to immediately put in operation blast furnace No. 3 at Duquesne and furnace H, of the Edgar Thomson steel works, at Braddock, Pa. Both furnaces are owned by the Carnegie Steel Co. and have been out of commission for repairs for three months. The year 1903 takes the palm for the smallest record of foreclosure railroad sales in every respect—number of roads, mileage, bonded debt and capital stock. Since the year of greatest activity in bringing bankrupt roads to the block, 1896, when the sales included 58 roads, with 13,730 miles of line and $1,150,000,000 of bonds and stocks, the decrease in foreclosures has been constant. The eight-story brick warehouse of Haugh & Keenan at Pittsburg was threatened with destruction by fire recently, but after three hours' work, the flames were confined to the three upper floors. The building was used principally for the storage of furniture and the damage is estimated at about $100,000. SISTERS OF CHARITY NUN Ask Your Druggist for a free Peruna Almanac for 1904. In every country of the civilized world Sisters of Charity are known. Not only do they minister to the spiritual and intellectual needs of the charges committed to their care, but they also minister to their bodily needs. With so many children to take care of and to protect from climate and disease, these wise and prudent Sisters have found Peruna a never-failing safeguard. Dr. Hartman receives many letters from Catholic Sisters from all over the United States. A recommend recently received from a Catholic institution in Detroit, Mich., reads as follows: Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sirs—"The young girl who used the Peruna was suffering from laryngitis, and loss of voice. The result of the treatment was most satisfactory. She found great relief, and after further use of the medicine we hope to be able to say she is entirely cured." —Sisters of Charity. The young girl was under the care of the Sisters of Charity and used Peruna for catarrh of the throat with good results as the above letter testifies Send to The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio, for a free book written by Dr. Hartman The following letter is from Congressman Meekison, of Napoleon, Ohio: The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.: Gentlemen: "I have used several bottles of Peruna and feel greatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head, and feel encouraged to believe that its continued use will fully eradicate a disease of thirty years' standing."—David Meekison. David Meekison. Dr. Hartman, one of the best known physicians and surgeons in the United States, was the first man to formulate Peruna. It was through his genius and perseverance that it was introduced to the medical profession of this country. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O.