Wisconsin Weekly Advocate

State Historical Society WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO RACE CHARLES H. ANSON, REPUBLI (Party United in Nominating the Veteran an CHARLES H. ANSON, REPUBLICAN STANDARD BEARER (Party United in Nominating the Veteran and Old Citizen at the Convention Yesterday.) Charles H. Anson, the Republican nominee for mayor, was born in Peru. Clinton county N.Y. November 22, 1841 methods of administration which have characterized the conduct of his private affairs. Charles H. Anson, the Republican nominee for mayor, was born in Peru, Clinton county, N.Y., November 22, 1841. He attended the common schools and also received an academic education at Keesville, N. Y. In 1857 he moved to Vermont, where he lived until 1862, when he enlisted as a private in Co. E, Eleventh Vermont volunteers. September 1, 1862, he was promoted to regimental quartermaster sergeant, and August 11, 1863, was made second lieutenant of the Eleventh Vermont volunteers. He was again promoted December 28, 1863, being made first lieutenant, and January 21, 1864, was made adjutant of the same regiment. From March to May, 1864, he was acting assistant adjutant general of the First brigade, Haskins' division of the Twenty-second army corps. Early in 1865, upon the recommendation of the brigade commander, Gen. L. A. Grant, Mr. Anson was promoted to a captaincy, by brevet, the appointment being made by the President. April 2, 1865, he was promoted to major by brevet, the recommendation being made by Gen. George W. Getty, division commander. On the same date he was appointed A. D. C., Second division, Sixth army corps, in which capacity he served until mustered out of service, June 24, 1865. Maj. Anson came to Milwaukee in 1866 and with his brother, Frank A. Anson, established the grocery business of Anson Bros. In his personal relationships he is genial and approachable, and among his business associates he is popular. He is a member of E. B. Wolcott post, G. A. R., and also of the Loyal Legion, having been the commander of both organizations. He is a consistent and active Republican, always interested in party affairs. With the exception of a seat in the Assembly, to which he was elected in 1890, Maj. Anson has held no political office. His candidacy is urged by the business men of the city, who believe that as a business man he will call to his aid those careful and safe M. B. Mr. Joe H. Reuth, our candidate for supervisor of the Fourth ward, is making splendid progress with his campaign. Mr. Reuth is perfectly reliable and you may rest assured he will if elected kindly remember the poor and needy. He has been in business on the avenue for a period of twelve years and we are compelled to say that he is one of the most popular r. Friends election day and day in The people and we are if we can. If you ties of the consin W. VOLUME IV. M. H. MR. DEWITT C. ADAMS. We take great pleasure in presenting to our many readers of the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate, Dewitt C. Adams, one of our leading business men of the Fourth ward, who is candidate for alderman on the Republican ticket. The above has been in business for the last twenty-five years and has always been a staunch Republican. In this case it is not the man seeking the office but the office seeking the man, and he is a loyal friend to everybody and we believe he will run ahead of any of the candidates on the ticket. Mr. Adams is a man who will never take either side in a story un- popular men in our community. Friends and voters, don't forget him on election day. Our club will be open night and day in the interest of the candidates. The people of this ward demand a change and we as voters propose to help make it if we can. If you want to find out the good qualities of these gentlemen read the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate each week. til he has both sides. There is no one who can find a flaw in his character. He has been a constant supporter of our paper for the last five years and we don't propose to leave a stone unturned until we land him in the city hall on the first of April. Remember you have only one more opportunity to register and that is on the 25th of March. We wish him success in his campaign. The Colored Republican club will be open from now until the campaign is over in the interest of these three gentlemen of our ward. The taxpayers of the Fourth ward want a change and by electing these gentlemen they can have it. 4 MR. FRANK. H. PIERCE. Mr. Frank H. Pierce, our able candidate for alderman of the Fourth ward, is a man that is always reliable and we, as colored voters of the Fourth ward, cheerfully recommend his election and we feel that with Mr. Pierce in the common council we will certainly have a splendid representative, a man that anyone can trust not only while you are looking at him but at all times. We have a good reason to say that he is a colored man's friend all through. Mr. Pierce has held the position with the St. Paul company since his boyhood days and that company has a great deal of confidence in his ability. Mr. Pierce takes hold of a proposition with all the vim and spirit that a man can and holds on with the tenacity of a bulldog until the job is completed. The manager of this paper is under many obligations to Mr. Pierce for the many favors conferred upon him. He is ever ready to give his wise council to help me out in my many adventures in business. [Name] Lyman G. Wheeler, the nominee of the Republican convention for circuit judge, is 39 years of age. He has been a practicing attorney since 1899, in which year he graduated from the University of Wisconsin law school. He is a son of Lyman Wheeler, one of the early settlers of Milwaukee county. Aside from doing some speech making for another candidate Mr. Wheeler has done very little in a political way, devoting most of his time to the practice of his profession. He made no effort to secure the nomination for circuit judge. He is considered an able lawyer. Mr. Wheeler resides in Wauwatosa and has offices in Milwaukee. Rev. Geo⁷Brown to Marm The popular minister of the Northwest, so well known here, is to wed in April. The fortune lady is one of the most beautiful and well educated girls of Illinois, the only daughter of a very wealthy family. Her age is 20. The couple will go East for several months to the beautiful home of Mr. Brown's mother. Special Notice. The young people are preparing to give an Easter entertainment, musical and dramatical, at St. Mark's A. M. E. church. Some of the best talent of the city are going to take part and it is hoped there will be a large crowd out. Church, corner of Fourth and Cedar streets, commencing 8 o'clock sharp. CREAM CITY NOTES. We will be glad to publish news of local and race interest if left at the office. 519 Wells street, before 6 o'clock Wednesday evenings. We would respectfully ask our readers to bestow at least a share of their custom upon those who advertise with us. Anyone desirous of private tuition in the ordinary or higher branches without publicity can hear of a competent teacher at reasonable rates by applying at the office of the Advocate. The various remedies and hair restorers advertised in this paper can be had at the advertised price at the office of this paper. * * * W. H. Brown, 238 Elliott street, Detroit, Mich., is our duly accredited agent in that city. * * * Matthew Walker, Racine hotel, is acting as our agent in the Belle city. A Chance for Southern Girls We are in a position to place from twenty to thirty good respectable colored girls in first-class Wisconsin families at wages ranging from $4 to $6 per week. For further particulars address the Advocate, 729 St. Paul avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. Miss M. Green of Chicago has been in our city a few days visiting Mr. Oliver Davis. Miss Jeanette Patterson of Chicago is in our city visiting Miss Jessie Baker. Mr. Charles Bland, who has been ill, is able to be around again. Among the callers at our office interest in our work, were Mr. J. Miller Mr. Beard and Bishop Jackson. It is very nice for these gentlemen to call and help us out in our line of work. We wish others would call. * * * We received a very nice little missionary pamphlet from Rev. Father De Coven of Menasha, Wis. It is a very nice book and explains his mission work among the Negroes and the Indians. He is one of the true friends of the Negro race. ☆ ☆ ☆ W. T. Green, attorney, has been called to Keokuck, Ia., in a lawsuit. ```markdown ``` Mr. J. W. Green, 208 Wells street, has opened a very fine shop. Mr. Hence Washington is his assistant. * * * Mr. D. Truss has moved into his new office, 206 Fourth street, which is fitted up with the latest improvements—wood, coal and express. Anyone wishing anything in his line give him a call as he is one of our race. * * * Mr. A. Palmer, who formerly has been in our employ, is sick at the hospital. We sympathize with him in his hour of sickness. Mrs. Arthur Stevens of 33 Juneau avenue has got out a beautiful circular. The most gifted elocutionist of the Negro race. A dramatic reader of unequaled ability. She is assisted by her husband, Arthur Stevens. They leave here on their tour East. We wish them success. * * * There will be a political mass meeting held by the colored men of Milwaukee at their clubrooms, 326 Wells street, Friday, the 21st. All are cordially invited to attend. Miss Lottie Bell, formerly of Milwaukee, now of St. Louis, is cashier for her father in his new business. We wish this talented young lady success. * * * The noble-hearted William Plankinton, who has a reputation of good deeds and kind acts, has shown his loyal spirit by allowing Mr. Tony Burgette move his shining stands in the Loan & Trust building while a new building is being erected on the old spot where he has catered to the wants of his many patrons for three years. Mr. Plankinton will not be forgotten by our race. ```markdown ``` The editor called on Mrs. Dr. Herron at her lovely home, and Mrs. Herron gave him some interesting news about Mrs. Dr. Smith, who now resides in Hot Springs, Ark. We regret very much to get the news that she has been quite ill. But we hope ere this she has fully recovered. She expects to pay us a visit in the near future. Removal Notice. Tony Burgette and his splendid artists have moved to 204 Grand avenue, in the Loan & Trust building, where he will be glad to cater to the wants of his many friends. He is cleaning, oiling, dyeing, shining and repairing all kinds of shoes. He has for sale all kinds of shoe polish, shoestrings and bootblack supplies. Also attendant for parties, balls, weddings and receptions. Give him a trial, please. The Engelmann Botanical society of St. Louis, whose object is to encourage concerted action in city tree planting and floriculture, will begin systematic operations as soon as the season opens. It is the aim of the society to beautify back yards as well as other open spaces, and it will offer prizes for private city gardening of all kinds, including that on window ledges. WILLIAMS AND JOHNSON We take great pleasure in presenting to our readers Mr. Peter Pawinski, nominee for comptroller. He is 45 years old and a native of Excin, province of Posen, Poland. When 10 years old he came to this country and direct to Milwaukee with his parents, and received his education in St. Stanislaus' and St. Gall's Catholic schools and in Marquette college. In 1892 he was appointed by the common council as school commissioner for the Twelfth ward and served for four years. The same year he was a WILL'AM A. STARKE, Candidate for Treasurer. J. (Park Commissioner Was Chosen in the Republican Convention by Acclamation.) William A. Starke, who will make the run against Peter Pawinski for the office of treasurer this spring, is one of the staunch and valuable citizens of Milwaukee. He is a Republican from every viewpoint and has worked hard for the party. It is predicted he will prove one of the strongest men on the ticket to fight the Democratic nominees. Mr. Starke was formerly active in the business of the Starke Dredge and Dock company, but within the last few years has retired from active work, being wealthy. He has been a representative of his ward, the Fifteenth, in the common council. About six years ago he ran for the nomination of treasurer on the Republican city ticket, but was defeated. He is at present a member of the board of park commissioners. His term will expire in June of this year. St. Mark's Church News. The class meeting last Friday night, led by the pastor, Rev. Lewis, is the best we have had here in ten years. It was quite well attended and a large number out. The pastor selected Matthew, fifth chapter, and the twentieth verse, Sunday morning. "For I say unto you that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Rev. Lewis is adding and making many improvements to the church. The Sunday school work under the super-intendency of Mr. I. W. Bess and Mrs. Gant is doing nicely, and we wish the older ones would come out and help. The song services and the prayer meetings and the different societies of the church are doing good work. delegate to the national Democratic convention which nominated Grover Cleveland. In 1894 he was elected alderman of the Twelfth ward and re-elected in 1896. Two years ago he was a candidate for city treasurer and was defeated in the convention by one vote. Mr. Pawinski is director of the Kosciusko Monument association and of the Kosciusko Guard association and is identified with various other Polish organizations. He has always been a true friend to the Negro race. O JOHN O. CARBYS. Francis X. Boden placed John O. Carbys in nomination. In doing so Mr. Boden said his candidate was born in Thiensville and was 32 years of age. He spoke of him as a graduate of the class of '92 of the University of Wisconsin, a class that had developed many distinguished lawyers. Since 1895 he has resided in Milwaukee. He is an able, forceful and conscientious lawyer and a fearless supporter of the right. Mr. Boden alluded to Mr. Carbys' activity as a political speaker. "Let us take pride in our candidates," said Mr. Boden in concluding. "Let us in a spirit of co-operation and harmony work together in perfect accord, and let it continue to be said that he shall be the strongest patriot, the best Republican, who shall do most to perpetuate the achievements of the past and promote the glories of the future." "Standing Room Only." Henry Irving tells a story illustrative of the "ruling passion" or the old "warhorse" spirit in the thorough actor. A certain down-at-the-heel "crushed tragedian," who had seen better days, came in touch with Irving one day. He wore a mournful expression and admitted that he had lost a beloved mother and had just come from the funeral. "Too bad! Too bad!" murmured Sir Henry. "Were there many at the funeral?" The old actor straightened up, swelled out his chest, and the light of other days glowed in his eyes. "Ah, Irving, my boy," he said, with a Marc-Anony-addressing-the-Romans gesture, "it would have done you good to have been there. We simply turned them away." Africa promises to rival South America and the West Indies as a producer of cocoa. SEVERAL LIVES LOST. Steamship British Queen Buried and Several Lighters are More or Less Damaged. New York, March 19.—Fire which broke out in the covered pier of the Phoenix line in Hoboken last night resulted in the loss of several lives and the destruction or a large amount of property, including several vessels. The flames were fanned by a strong northwesterly gale and the fire quickly drove from the pier the 200 longshoremen who had been engaged in loading cargo on board the steamship British Queen and, setting fire to a flotilla of barges and lighters laden with oil and alcohol, it sent these blazing down the stream, utterly destroyed the pier of the Phoenix line, that of the Barber company, and converted into a hulk the British Queen. The pier of the Holland-America company had its northern walls scorched. Only one of its vessels, the steamship Maasdam, was endangered by the blaze, and prompt work on the part of the tugs saved her from destruction by towing her to safety before the flames could reach her. The flames spread so quickly as to cut off from retreat a number of the 'longshoremen. They frantically shouted for aid, but as there was none to assist and the flames were driving them toward the river end of the pier, they were finally forced to take the chance of drowning against the certainly of being burned alive. Twelve leaped into the icy stream, and so far as is known only one was rescued. Ship is Quickly Destroyed. The steamer British Queen, owned by the Phoenix people, was tied up to the south end of the pier and the flames quickly leaped to her upper decks. These decks were covered with cattle pens, which, being built of light timber, were the means of at once spreading the fire over the steamer. There was no chance to cut her loose from her berth until about 11 o'clock, when tugs laid hold of her and got her into midstream. Her crew had a narrow escape. In the same slip as the British Queen were a dozen or more lighters cotton laden. These caught fire and only one or two were saved, partially burned. The captain of the lighter Tonawanda saved himself, wife and child by pushing a cotton bale into the water, placing his family and himself on it and paddling into the river. The crew of the United States training ship Portsmouth got them ashore safely. Fire is Rapidly Spread. From the lighters the fire got into the Barber line pier. The steamer Heathburn of this line, just in from Hong Kong with tea, was hauled out into the stream with fire spreading over her. At 11 o'clock half a dozen tugs were pouring water into her in an effort to put out the blaze. The captain, his family and the crew escaped. South of the Barber line pier is that of the Rotterdam line. It began to blaze about 10:30 o'clock, threatening the freighter Maasram. The captain had steam up and soon had his vessel safely in midstream. At 11:30 the fire on the piers and on the lighters left in the slips was under control. The Heathburn and several lighters were floating down stream all ablaze. Seven lighters are more or less damaged. About midnight Chief Croker of the fire department of New York city became alarmed for the safety of the piers on this side of the river. The burning barges from Hoboken were floating to this side and the chief thought it best to get a large force of engines and other fire apparatus lined up along the river front near the American line and other piers which are on the water front between Cortlandt and Murray streets. The Loss of Life. No definite estimate could be made today of the loss of life, and it was thought the number of dead would never be known. Some of those who jumped into the water, were picked up by tugs, yet it is feared that a number sank before they could be reached by the rescuers. Many of the 'longshoremen are single men and have no relatives who could report them in the event of their being missing or having perished in the fire. Patrick Hussey, a 'longshoreman, who was burned while trying to escape from the Phoenix pier, died today. He was 40 years old and leaves a large family. Those seriously hurt in the fire are John Jensen, who jumped from the burning pier and struck his head against a beam, and Peter Carroll, who was badly burned. Chief Engineer Scott, who it was supposed perished in the fire, walked into a Hoboken hotel today. He was badly burned about the face and said he had had a dreadful experience. It was learned today that Fireman Thomas Cooney of the fireboat David A. Boody fell off his boat last night and was drowned. Besides Hussey four 'longshoremen were taken to St. Mary's hospital and are now under treatment there. All were more or less burned. Some of the 'longshoremen who saved themselves by swimming ashore say they saw twenty or thirty men leap into the river. Estimate of the Loss. Supt. Mason of the Phoenix line said that it would be impossible to definitely state the loss by the fire in less than two weeks. He was asked if he thought $1,250,000 would cover it, and he replied that he did not think it would. The British Queen was worth $800,000, and there was a great quantity of valuable merchandise on that vessel, on the pier and on lighters that was destroyed. This included cotton, hides, oils, grains and a quantity of harvest machinery. Mr. Mason said he thought the blaze started in a quantity of Belgian wicker baskets on the Phoenix pier. TURKEY IS OBSTINATE. Refuses to Repay Money Paid for Miss Stone's Ransom. London, March 19.—A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Constantinople says: "The Turkish government has flatly refused the demand of the United States for the repayment of the sum of money ($72,500) paid to the brigands as a ransom for Miss Ellen M. Stone and her companion, Madame Tsilka. Kimberly Has a Relapse. London, March 19.—Lord Kimberly, the Liberal leader in the House of Lords, who has been ill for some time past, suffered a relapse yesterday evening and today is in a semi-conscious condition. Betty Green a. Widow. Bellows Falls, Vt., March 19.—Edward Green, husband of Hetty Green, known as the richest woman in America, died at his home here today. He had been ill for a long time of a complication of diseases. CLAIMS WOMAN SHOT HERSELF. Myron Seymour of Stephenson, (Mich.) Charged with Shooting His Cousin's Wife. Stephenson, Mich., March 18.—[Special.]—Myron Seymour, a horse trader, entered his cousin's home Monday afternoon and, it is alleged, made insulting proposals to his cousin's wife. She presented and he pulled out a revolver and fired at her, saying: "Then you will die." Mrs. Seymour held her hand before her face and was shot through the right hand. The bullet entered her cheek and came out near the ear. She fell to the floor helpless. Seymour ran out, jumped on a horse, and rode to Daggett for a doctor. Not finding a physician there he telephoned to Stephenson for a doctor and then returned to his cousin's house. The vcitim's brothers, answering her cries, came to the house. They found blood spattered over the door and walls. When Seymour returned they set upon him, beating him severely. Seymour stated that the woman played with the revolver and shot herself. He was arrested shortly after and taken to Menominee. He persisted in his statement that the woman shot herself. In the evening before being taken to jail the prisoner asked permission to talk to the woman, but Justice Larsen refused the request, fearing that influence by him she would shield the prisoner. Today Justice Larson secured testimony from the victim, who gave the facts as stated above. In want of $1000 bail the prisoner is remanded until Monday. CROWE IMITATOR LOSES HIS LIFE. Would-be Blackmailer Reaches for the Money and is Shot by a Deputy Sheriff. Filley, Neb., March 18.—Willie Smith a prominent young man, was killed while grabbing a package of money left in a spot designated by him in a threatening letter to one of the leading merchants of this town. Yesterday his father declared he would shoot the slayer. The letter was addressed to P. T. Lewellen and directed him to place $150 on the porch of the Methodist church at 8 o'clock last night. If he failed to do this the writer declared he would burn his store and poison the stock on his farm. At the suggestion of the sheriff four men watched the entrance to the church at the appointed time, and when Smith attempted to grab the package a shot fired by Frank Shadley killed him. It is thought the crime was planned by older heades and subpoenas have been issued for George Suthers and Wade Lafflin, the latter being a school teacher at Crab Orchard. WIRELESS MESSAGES FROM CAPT. M'KAY. Commander Talks with Detroit While Steamer is Out on Lake Erie. Detroit, Mich., March 18.—Wireless messages from the steamer City of Detroit, which left here this morning bound for Cleveland, have been received. The first came at 11 o'clock while the vessel was still in the river off Grassy island. It said: "Everything working nicely," and was signed by the operator aboard the ship. A second message sent as the steamer was passing out of the river into the lake said: "We are meeting some ice. A good brisk wind is blowing." At 12:20 a message dated "On Lake Erie" reported that one of the wire screens used in connection with the telegraph instruments on the steamer had been blown away. This afternoon General Passenger Agent Schantz received the following message: "Lake Erie, 2 p. m.: Making good headway. Encountering no ice." LAAGER CAPTURED. Bruce Hamilton Kills 4, Wounds 6 and Makes 17 Prisoners Including Botha's Brother-in Law. Pretoria, Monday, March 17.—Gen Bruce Hamilton has captured a small Boer laager, eastward of Vryheid, south-eastern Transvaal. Four Boers were killed, six were wounded and seventeen were made prisoners. Gen. Botha's brother-in-law, Gen. Emmett, was among the Boers captured. FED BY THE KING. Half a Million of London's Poor to Have Dinner at Edward's Expense. London, March 18.—Half a million o. London's poor will be the guests of King Edward during coronation week. His majesty notified the mayors from the metropolis today that the sum of £30,000 was placed at their disposal, and he invited them to make the necessary arrangements to entertain the very poor to the number of 500,000 at a dinner in celebration of his coronation. LAND AND TIMBER CONTRACTS Held to be Assets Properly Assessable for Tax Levies. Marquette, Mich., March 18.—[Special.]—Circuit Judge Stone has filed a decision in a taxation case of importance throughout the state. It was a suit brought by the city of Marquette against the Michigan Land & Iron company to enforce the payment of the taxes on land and timber contracts, which it was claimed were an asset properly assessable, and which the company denied. The court decides that the contracts are a credit which can be taxed, and has accordingly, rendered judgment for the amount involved—$1650. The taxes levied were for the year 1901. Astonishing Leap of a Flea The common flea leaps 200 times its own length. To show like agility a man 6 feet tall would have to leap a distance of 1200 feet. The cheese mite is about one-quarter of an inch in length, yet it has been seen to take the tip of its tail in its mouth, and then, letting go with a jerk, to leap out of a vessel six inches in depth. To equal this a man would have to jump out of a well from a depth of 144 feet. A Musical Passion Play A musical Passion play in sixteen tableaux has been written by the cure of a Paris church, and will be produced this month. Swiss Salt Mines. Switzerland has, at Bex, salt mines which have been worked for 348 years. The galleries are twenty-five miles in length, and the profits $75,000 a year. There were in Cuba in 1899 60,711 farms, with an average size of 143 acres and an average cultivation of thirteen acres EXPOSED BY ROOT. Steamer Engaged in Filibustering While In Service of the Government. Washington, D. C., March 19.—Some remarkable assertions are made in an official letter which Secretary Root has sent to Congress along with the claim of Maj. J. B. Bellinger, an army quartermaster, to the extent of $143, paid by that officer to James McKay of Tampa, Fla., the owner of the steamship Fanita. That vessel was chartered by the quartermaster-general in April, 1898, and ordered to report to the quartermaster at Mobile. When the government was through with the vessel it was transferred to McKay, and the sum of $143 was charged by him as the cost of certain repairs and changes necessary to put the boat in the same condition it was in when the government chartered it. The comptroller d'allowed the payment, and held the charge against Maj. Bellinger, who sought to have McKay reimburse him. This led McKay to write a letter which contains some interesting information and implies that the steamer, while in government service, was engaged in a filibustering expedition of secret character. Mr. McKay in his letter says: "The quartermaster at Mobile loaded the steamer with munitions of war and instructed the captain to follow the directions of a secret service man who was then at Mobile, and by him the captain was ordered to follow the instructions of one Jiminez, who is now President of San Domingo. "When the captain found that his vessel was going upon a filibustering expedition against a country at peace with the United States he refused to go, but after being bribed by this Jiminez he consented to do so. The vessel touched at one of the Bahama islands, there secured a pilot, went to Cape Haitien, and from there entered the port of Monte Christi in the island of San Domingo. At Cape Haitien there was a party of men who came on board and broke into the cargo and equipped themselves, and landed and attacked the fort at Monte Christi. In a short time the entire party was killed, with the exception of the now President of San Domingo, who made his escape by getting into the steamer's boat and getting on board before any of the soldiers could secure a boat and board the steamer. "The vessel returned to Florida, remained at Tampa for a few days, and then was ordered on an expedition with the steamship Florida to the south side of Cuba, where it landed these supplies and a lot of men and was engaged for the balance of the four months in the use of the government in transporting stores, etc. "In regard to these statements that I have made I can refer you to the assistant secretary of war at that time, Mr. Meiklejohn, for the correctness of my statement. Now, I do not care to enter suit against the government for this money from the fact that all of this that I have stated would come out in the trial, and I do not thinks it would look well for this expedition to be made public, which certainly would be the case if there should be a trial. "I refer this matter to you, asking if you will kindly use your influence to have the decision of the comptroller reversed. My vessel was a legally chartered vessel, the same as all other vessels were chartered, but the war department did not care to give me a charter party, as it does not want it known that the administration had anything to do with the expedition it was on." GUEVARRA GIVES UP. Rebel Chief In Island of Samar Finally Surrenders to Gen. Bell. Manila, March 19.—Gen. Lukban's efforts in influencing Guevarra, who recently issued a proclamation declaring himself the successor of Gen. Lukban in the island of Samar, to surrender, have been successful. Both Gen. Smith, in command of the United States forces in the island of Samar, and Guevarra have agreed to an armistice to facilitate the collection of Guevarra's men with their rifles, when the formal surrender will be made. The arms will be paid in at the fort. Gen. Smith cables that Guevarra has 400 rifles and that Guevarra guarantees the absolute peacefulness of his men. Gen. Chaffee is greatly pleased with what he considers as closing the active insurrection. The resistance in Bataangas and Laguna provinces practically is over. There are daily surrenders there of men and guns. The insurgents have been completely starved into submission by Gen. Bell's aggressive tactics in preventing any exterior assistance from reaching them. Some surprise is expressed at the number of rifles to be turned in by the men under Guevarra, as it was thought there were but 200 in Samar. PROSECUTION RESTS. Demand that Statements Made by Florence Burns to Detectives be Thrown Out. New York, March 19.—Julia McCarthy, a colored chambermaid, testified for the prosecution in the Burns case yesterday. She was in the employ of a Mrs. Hitchcock of 216 West Forty-fourth street, where Florence Burns boarded for two weeks. She swore that the comb which was found in room 12 of the Glen Island hotel belonged to the girl. Mr. Schurman announced after the girl left the stand that the prosecution was through. Justice Mayer then made a long address, in which he said plainly that he had strong doubts as to the a'd missibility as evidence of all alleged statements indicating guilt, said to have been made to detectives by Florence Burns when she was arrested. He took the ground that the girl was deliberately deceived by the officers and was not properly informed of her rights. He asked the assistant district attorney and Mr. Backus to submit briefs on this matter. If this testimony of the detectives is wiped out it will leave the case against Florence Burns hanging alone on the evidence which Julia McCarthy gave. RATES ON FLOUR CUT. Action Taken by Northwestern Freight Agents at St. Paul. St. Paul, Minn., March 19.—One of the most important freight meetings from a Northwestern standpoint this season has just completed its session. At this meeting lake and rail rate on export and domestic flour and products incidental thereto, were determined upon. The flour rate was cut 3 cents from the tariff in effect when the season of 1901 opened. This season the lake and rail rate on domestic flour will be 22 cents to the seaboard and $19\frac{1}{2}$ cents on the export business. These rates are 3 cents under the agreed all-rail rate, the recognized differential allowed the lake carriers. These new tariffs will take effect on April 1. Kentuckians as Wage-Earners. Of Kentuckians but 2.4 per cent. are wage-earners. The largest number of these are employed in railway shops. The number occupied in the production of liquor, spiritous and malt, is but 1703 a falling off of 800 from a year ago. CONGRESS. House. The House on the 13th after some routine business resumed consideration of the post-office appropriation bill. The annual discussion of the items for additional compensation for special mail facilities between Washington and New Orleans and Kansas City and Newton, Kas., was then inaugurated in a speech by Mr. Crumpacker (Ind.) in opposition to the special appropriations. Mr. Underwood (Ala.) defended the subsidy to the Southern railroad on the ground that it was absolutely necessary to give the South quick mail facilities. Mr. Jenkins of Wisconsin took occasion to explain his position regarding Cuba, which is that the island is now domestic territory of the United States. He quoted many decisions of the Supreme court in support of his contention that "foreign territory" must be territory beyond the jurisdiction of the United States, whereas he maintained that Spain had relinquished sovereignty over Cuba to the United States and that such territory could be only relinquished or alienated by congressional enactment. Holding this view in our relations to Cuba, he argued that Congress would waste its time talking reciprocity with an island under the sovereignty of the United States. The House on the 14th passed the postoffice appropriation bill. The only amendment of importance adopted was one to incorporate in the bill the provisions of the measure to classify the rural free delivery service passed a few days before. Mr. Davidson (Wis.) moved an amendment to provide that the postmaster general should make specifications covering the style of rural free delivery boxes which the department desired and to permit any manufacturer to make them. The present system, he said, constituted a virtual monopoly for the manufacturers of the fourteen boxes. Mr. Loud said his committee had come to the conclusion that the department should have control of the matter. He raised a point of order against the amendment, which was sustained by the chair. Mr. Loud's amendment then was adopted, and without further amendment the bill was passed. When the House met on the 15th Mr. Parker (N. J.) reported back from the committee on military affairs the resolution introduced by Mr. Richardson, the Democratic leader, a few days ago, calling upon the secretary of war for the reports of certain army officers who examined the transport service between San Francisco and Manila, with the recommendation that a substitute be adopted which calls for the facts relative to this transport service, instead of the reports. Mr. Parker explained that reports were necessarily confidential and contained in many cases freely-expressed opinions which it might be unwise to make public. The House then went into committee of the whole and entered upon the consideration of private pension bills. Consideration of the river and harbor bill was begun in the House on the 17th. Mr. Burton of Ohio made an extended speech in explanation of the measure. Several other members spoke briefly, among them being Mr. Bellamy of North Carolina, who protested against the treatment his state had received. Mr. Foster of Illinois and Mr. Cochran of Missouri discussed the Boer war, criticising the majority severely for failure to allow Congress to express the sympathy of the American people with the struggling republics. While Mr. Cochran was speaking an elderly woman in the gallery, with pro-British tendencies, frequently shook her fist at the gentleman from Missouri, and at one time became so violent in her demonstrations of disapproval that one of the doorkeepers was obliged to admonish her to keep quiet. Just before adjournment Mr. Wachter of Maryland denied a newspaper story to the effect that Speaker Henderson had attempted to influence his course on the question of Cuban reciprocity. The general debate on the river and harbor bill in the House on the 18th was enlivened by Mr. Pheburn (Iowa), who made his annual onslaught on the measure. Contrary to his usual custom, he found several things in the measure to commend, although some of his criticisms on what he called the "pork" in the bill were quite severe. The other speakers were Messrs. Ball (Texas), and Lawrence (Mass.), both members of the committee, and Messrs. White (Ky.), Thompson (Ala.) and Bunnett (Ala.), who spoke in favor of improvements of interests to their districts. It was agreed that general debate on the bill should close at 3 p.m. on the 20th. April 26 was set aside for memorial services on Representative Stokes of South Carolina and Representative Crump of Michigan. Fair progress was made with the river and harbor bill in the House on the 15th. After the close of general debate, tweety-seven of the 116 pages of the bill were disposed of. Several members took advantage of the latitude allowed in general debate to discuss other topics. Mr. Snook (O.) spoke in opposition to ship subsidies. Mr. Lewis (Ga.) favored tariff revision and Mr. Powers (Mass.) advocated irrigation in the West. Mr. Burton, in charge of the bill, in closing the general debate answered the criticism advanced against it. The bill then was read for amendment under the five-minute rule. Mr. Fitzgerald (N. Y.) offered an amendment to appropriate $300,000 for widening and deepening Buttermilk channel, New York harbor. The amendment was lost by a vote of 73 nays to 27 years. No other important amendment came to a vote before adjournment. Senate. After the passage of a considerable number of unobjected bills, the Senate on the 13th resumed consideration of the ship subsidy measure. Mr. Berry (Ark.), a member of the commerce committee which reported the bill, made a vigorous argument in opposition to the bill. Mr. Hanna replied to some of the points made by Mr. Berry and a brief colloquy, participated in by Messrs. Hanna, Berry, Spooner and Clay, followed. Mr. Penrose favorably reported the Chinese exclusion bill, and it was placed on the calendar. Throughout the session of the Senate on the 14th the ship subsidy bill was under consideration. The measure was discussed by Mr. Foraker (Ohio), Mr. McLaurin (Miss.) and Mr. Harris (Kas.). Mr. Foraker supported the bill, although he admitted that he would have preferred to build up the American merchant marine by the levying of discriminating duties. Both Mr. McLaurin and Mr. Harris opposed the measure on the ground that in their judgment it was not constitutional. The Senate spent an hour in executive session on the convention growing out of the Hague peace conference, relating to the conduct of war on land and sea, and finally ratified the agreement without a division. The discussion turned entirely on the conduct of the war in the Philippines and related especially to Gen. Funston's capture of Aguinaldo. Senator Burton replied to the inquiry, speaking especially for Gen. Funston, and said that he was sure the proceeding on the general's part had been not only humane, but that it had been in accordance with the rules of civilized warfare. Differences of opinion on the Republican side appeared in the Senate debate on the ship subsidy bill on the 15th. Mr. Allison (Ia.) indicated that he was not quite satisfied with the measure as it stands now and gave notice of amendments he proposed to offer to it limiting the time of its operation and limiting also the amount of money annually to be paid from the treasury on account of it. He was followed by Mr. Spooner (Wis.), who took exception to some provisions of the measure. Mr. Spooner gave notice of an amendment he proposed to offer to the bill reserving to Congress the right to amend or repeal the measure without, however, impairing the operation of any contract entered into under its provisions. Earlier in the day Mr. Teller (Col.) made a speech in opposition to the measure. Mr. Elkins (W. Va.) followed with a brief address in support of it, although the West Virginia senator admitted that he would prefer the adoption of the policy of discriminating duties. The day in the Senate on the 17th was chiefly devoted to consideration, amendment and passage of the ship subsidy bill. Among other bills passed were those appropriating $150,000 for a public building at Colorado Springs, Col.; appropriating $100,000 for a public building at Laramie, Wyo., and appropriating $5000 for the erection of a dwelling for the keeper of the lighthouse at Kewaunee, Wis. A resolution providing for the appointment of a board to investigate the project of constructing an interoceanic canal across the isthmus of Darien was reported unfavorably by the interoceanic canals committee, and was indefinitely postponed. For three hours the bill providing for the protection of the President of the United States and for the punishment by United States courts of those who commit assaults upon him was under consideration in the Senate. Mr. Bacon opposed the bill and Mr. Hear and Mr. Mason supported it. Mr. Bacon's argument followed the lines of his speech delivered eleven days ago. Mr. Hear's speech was largely legal and constitutional. He maintained the right of the government to protect itself against assaults upon its sovereignty through the President. Earlier in the day a lively debate was precipitated by the effort of Mr. Rawlins to have printed a document some Philippine correspondence. Eventually the matter was ordered printed as requested. It consisted of a collection of private letters exchanged between unnamed persons in this country and prominent Filipinos in which were discussed the political relations of the United States and the Philippine Islands. Two veto messages from the President were laid before the body and ordered printed. The first was a veto of an act to grant an honorable discharge from the military service to Charles H. Hawley and the other was a veto of an act for the relief of James W. Howell. Thirty-nine private pension bills were passed, the calendar being cleared. An executive session preceded adjournment. During most of the session of the Senate on the 19th, the bill providing for the protection of the President of the United States was under consideration. Mr. Spooner contended that the government had an absolute and inherent right to protect itself against assaults made either upon itself or upon any of its officers. He maintained that an assault on the President was in the very nature of things an assault on the government; for there never was a time when the President was not in the exercise of the duties of his office. His argument was largely legal and constitutional. Mr. Hoar, in charge of the measure, elucidated some arguments he had made previously, and Mr. Teller and Mr. Bailey spoke briefly upon the bill. Mr. Culberson offered a substitute for the bill. Mr. Bacon introduced a bill for the deportation and exclusion of alien Anarchists. It was the one which, introduced by former Senator Hill of New York, had been passed by the Senate but had failed in the House. A House bill for the relief of F. E. Coyne, postmaster of Chicago, was favorably reported by Mr. Mason chairman of the committee on post-office and post roads, and passed. The purpose of the measure is to relieve Postmaster Coyne from the loss of $74,610, the value of stamps stolen by burglarst October 19, 1901. This Is Simply Wonderful Champion, Mich., March 17.—Mrs. A. Wellett, wife of a local photographer, has had a remarkable experience recently. Mrs. Wellett tells the story this way: "I could not sleep, my feet were cold, my limbs cramped. I had an awful hard pain across my back. I had to get up three or four times every night. I was very nervous and fearfully despondent, I had very little appetite. "After I had suffered in this way for five years, I began to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. When I had taken a few pills you ought to have seen what came from my kidneys. It looked like a spoiled egg, only darker. "I kept on using Dodd's Kidney Pills till I was cured. Now I can sleep well and do not have to get up in the night. I have no pain in my back or limbs and I feel better than I have for years." LATEST MARKET REPORTS. Milwaukee, March 19, 1902. EGG AND DAIRY PRODUCTS. MILWAUKEE—Eggs—Market firm; fresh, loss off, cases included, 14½@15c; fresh, cases returned, 14@14½c; seconds, 9@10c. Receipts were 376 cases. Butter—Market steady; fancy prints, 27½c; fancy or extra creamery, per lb, 27c; firsts, 25@25½c; seconds, 17@18c; dairy prints, 21@22c; extra fancy dairy, 20@21c; lines, 16@19c; packing stock, 14@15c; roll, 16@17c; whey, 9c; grease, 4@5c. The receipts today were 14,245 lbs against 8946 lbs yesterday. The receipts of creamery are fair and demand good. Dairy is scarce and wanted. Cheese—Steady. Receipts were 2360 lbs today against 6358 lbs yesterday. Full cream flats, new, colored, fancy, 12@12½c; good to choice, 11@11½c; Young Americans, new, 12½@13c; daisies, new, 12@12½c; fancy brick new, 13@14c; low grades, 11@12c; lilmburger, per lb, No. 1, 13½@14c; low grades, 10@12c; imported Swiss, 25c; Block Swiss, domestic, 15@16c; fancy loaf, 15½@16c; No. 2, 13@14c; Sapsago, 20c; farmers' 10@11c. CHICAGO—Butter—Firm; creamer'es, 18 @27c; dairies, 19@24c; Cheese-Firm; twins, 11%@11½c; daisies, 12%c; Young Americas, 12@12½c; Eggs-Weaker; at mark, cases included, 14%c; Dressed poultry—Un- changed; tukeys, 10@14½c; chickens, 10@ 11½c. NEW YORK—Butter—Receipts, 5663 pkgs; market firm; state dairy, 22@28c state creamery, 22@29%c; creamy held, 20 @25½c; renovated, 18@24½c; factory, 18@ 21c; imitation creamery, 19@24½c. Cheese —Receipts, 3971 pkgs; market firm; state full cream small early made fancy colored and fancy white, 13c; full cream large fall made fancy colored, 12c; fancy white, 12c. Eggs—Receipts, 9738 pkgs; market firm; state and Pennsylvania, 16%c; Western at mark, 16%c; Southern at mark, 16@16½c. Coffee—Dull; No. 7 Rio, 5%c. MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK MARKET. MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK MARKET. HOGS - Receipts, 7 cars; market firm; light, 5.95@6.20; mixed and medium weights, 6.10@6.30; common to good packers, 5.90@6.25; choice heavy, 6.35@6.50. Pigs, 90 to 120 lbs, 5.00@5.25. CATTLE - Receipts, 2 cars; steady; butchers' steers, medium to good, 1050 to 1300 lbs, 5.50@6.25; fair to medium, 950 to 1050 lbs, 4.50@5.25; heifers, common, 2.75@3.50; good, 4.00@5.50; cows, fair to good, 3.25@4.50; canners, 1.75@2.50; bulls, common, 2.75@3.25; choice, 5.50@4.25; feeders, 800 to 950 lbs, 3.50@4.00; stockers, 500 to 750 lbs, 3.00@3.50; veal calves, common to choice, 4.50@6.25; milkers and springers, common, no demand; choice, 30.00@45.00. SHEEP Receipts none; market higher common to choice, 5.00@6.25. SHEEP—Receipts, none; market higher. 3.50@5.00; bucks, 3.00@3.50; lambs, common to choice, 5.00@6.25. Chicago receipts: Hogs, 30,000; cattle, 20,000; sheep, 14,000. CHICAGO POTATO MARKET CHICAGO POTATO MARKET CHICAGO, Ill., March 19.—[Special.]— Coyne Brothers report: Receipts, 14 cars; market much firmer, prices are higher; fancy dustys, 84@87c; rurals, 83@85c; Burbanks, 82@84c; mixed white, 79@82c; mixed red, 77@79c. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. MILWAUKEE—Flour—Steady. Wheat—Lower; No. 1 Northern, on track, 76c; No. 2 Northern, on track, 75c. Corn—Lower; No. 3 on track, 58½c. Oats—Steady; No. 2 white, on track, 46½c; No. 3 white, on track, 45@45½c. Barley—Steady; No. 2 on track, 65½c; sample on track, 59@65½c. Rye—Lower; No. 1 on track, 60c. Provisions—Higher; pork, 15.45; lard, 9.42. Flour markets steady; patents, 3.80@3.90; bakers, 3.90@3.90; two, 3.10@3.20. bakers', 2.90@3.00, rye, 3.10@3.20. Millstuff are steady and quoted at 17.00 for bran, 17.50 for standard middlings, and 19.00 for Milwaukee flour middlings in 100 lbs sacks: red dog, 19.50. CHICAGO - Close-Wheat-March, 72%c; May, 74%c; July, 74%c; September, 74%c; Corn-March, 59%c; May, 61%@61%c; July, 60%c; September, 59%c; December, 48%c; Oats-March, 42%c; May, 43%c; July, 35%c; September, 29%c; Pork-March, 15.27%c; May, 15.42%c; July, 15.62%c; Lard-March, 9.32%c; May, 9.40; July, 9.52%c; September, 9.65; Ribs-March, 8.40; May, 8.45; July, 8.57%c; September, 8.70. Flax-Cash North- west, 1.72; Southwest, 1.68; May, 1.71. Rye- -March, 56c; May, 56c; July, 56%c. Barley- Cash, 60@65c. Timothy-March, 6.70. Clover-March, 8.75@8.80. MINNEAPOLIS - Close-Wheat-May, 71%c; July, 72%c; on track. No. 1 hard, 74%c; No. 1 Northern, 72%@72%c; No. 2 Northern, 70%c. ST. LOUISE—Close—Wheat—Lower. No. 2 red cash, elevator, 81%c; May, 80%c; July, 73%@73%c; No. 2 hard, 75%@77c. Corn—Lower. No. 2 cash, 60%c; May, 61c; July, 60%c. Oats—Lower. No. 2 cash, 45%c; May, 43%c; July, 34%c; No. 2 white, 47%c. Lead—Firm: 4.02%@4.05. Spelter—Dull. 4.10. KANSAS CITY—Close—Wheat—May, 71c; July, 71%c; cash No. 2 hard, 71%@72c; No. 2 red, 79%@79%c; No. 2 spring, 70c. Corn—May, 71%c; September, 58%c; cash No. 2 mixed, 62c; No. 2 white, 65c. Oats—No. 2 white, 47%@47%c. NEW YORK—Close—Wheat—May, 80c; July, 80%c. Corn—May, 60%c; July, 65%c. DULUTH—Close—Wheat—Cash No. 1 hard, 74%c; No. 1 Northern, 71%c; No. 2 Northern, 69%c; No. 3 spring, 67%c; to arrive, No. 1 hard, 74%c; No. 1 Northern, 71%c; May, 72%c; July, 73%c; Manitoba No. 1 Northern cash, 70%c; May, 71%c; No. 2 Northern, 67%c; Oats—41c. Rye—53c. Corn—60%c. Flax—Cash and to arrive, 1.73. May, 1.75. Receipts—Wheat, 128,244. Shipments, 3300 TOLEDO—Wheat—Active and excited. Cloverseed—Weak and lower. Corn—Fairly active, weak and lower; cash, 60%c; May, 61%c; July, 61%c. Oats—Dull, fairy steady; cash, 43%c; May, 43%c; July, 36%c. A telegram was received yesterday by Mr. John C. Koch of Milwaukee, president of the Alta Mines company, from the resident manager of the mine at Telluride, Col., stating that the returns received from the American Smelting and Refining company for the last car of concentrates shipped to smelter amounted to an average of $40 a ton, or a return of $400 for the entire car. This is a sharp increase in the values of the ores which the Alta company is now reducing at its own mill and consequently is highly gratifying to the many Milwaukeeans who are stockholders in the Alta Mines company. The increase in values thus demonstrated amounts to an additional saving under the perfected processes of reduction of about $100 a day, or fully $36,000 a year. Mr. Koch has himself recently returned from Telluride, having visited there for the purpose of critically examining the condition of the Alta mine. He states emphatically that the prospects of the Alta are actually far in advance of the recent expectations of the most sanguine stockholders. A Parliamentary Knitter. The smoking room of the House of Commons has been slightly thrilled by the daily presence of a member who occupies a corner and knits as he smokes. The honorable gentleman, who votes with the government, carries about with him a small red bag containing a ball of wool and the necessary equipment of needles, and he employs his leisure in deftly knitting stockings. This opens a pleasant vista of the private idiosyncracies of our lawmakers.—London Daily Mail. It Will Surprise You—Try It. In order to prove the great merit of Ely's Cream Balm, the most effective cure for Catarrh and Cold in Head, we have prepared a generous trial size for 10 cents. Get it of your druggist or send 10 cents to ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., New York City. Ely's Cream Balm has completely cured me of catarrh when everything else failed.—Alfred W. 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An Essex (England) clergyman, experiencing a difficulty in obtaining the services of a bell ringer, has evolved a device whereby, with the aid of the electric current, he rings his own bells by presssing buttons in the vestry. Mrs. Austin has just come to Town. -In Zululand, when the moon is at the full, objects are visible at a distance of seven miles. By starlight one can read with ease. Coughing Leads to Consumption Coughing Leads to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50-cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. —The Russian mercantile marine has 745 steamers and 2293 sailing vessels. Mrs. Austin has just come to Town. —There are about 114,500 telegraph offices throughout the civilized world. TRADE MARK. 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When my paw was a boy; He never, never disobeyed; He beat in every game he played— Gee! what a record they was made When my paw was a boy! —The American Mother. Scenes and Incidents of Everyday Life in the Paris of America. Edward S. Doney died suddenly in the cafe of the New York Press club. Apoplexy is assigned as the cause of the death. Mr. Doney was born in Elgin, Ill., forty-three years ago, and was engaged in newspaper work there, and later in Chicago. He came to this city twenty years ago. The passing of another of the few remaining landmarks in the lower part of New York city is foreshadowed by the announcement that the old United States hotel on Fulton street, between Pearl and Water streets, has been sold. It is said a twelve-story building, containing both offices and lofts, will be built on the site. Seventy-five of the collection of oil paintings sold at auction by order of Arthur Furber at the Fifth Avenue Art galleries brought $31,790. Woth a few exceptions, the paintings were sold at fair prices, a landscape by Innes being one of the bargains. It sold for $1000. Gerome's "Feeding the Pigeons" brought the top price of the sale, $3500. Fould's "Flirtation" went for $2100. The jewels stolen from the cathedral of St. John the Divine have been returned. The jewels, which consisted of seven garnets set in the crown of the altar, together with several ornaments of mother of pearl, were inclosed in an envelope without any note. The return of the jewels is thought to have been prompted by fear of arrest, due to the publicity given to the robbery. A new theater, to be known as the National, is to be erected in the neighborhood of Longacre square by Edward Vroom. Mr. Vroom is negotiating with a prominent attraction to open the theater, after which he will produce "Ronsac of Goscony," which romantic play from his own pen was produced last year at Drury Lane theater, London, with the author in the title role. Grace Walton, the statuesque young woman who adds to the gaiety of nations in "The Hall of Fame" at the New York theater, and who some time ago brought suit against a soap firm for using her pictures for advertising purposes without her permission, has compromised her suit. The firm has promised not to repeat the offense. It was the "before using" representation of herself that Miss Walton objected to. New York society, in the person of the fashionable woman, is in a mood to loaf and invite its soul. It is dining and lunching and automobiling in a lazy way that is restful to see after a strenuous season and the stirring up Prince Henry gave us later. The restaurants are nightly so crowded that tables must be engaged days in advance, and, curiously enough, no matter how many new places open, the old ones seem to run on with just as much success. Friends of Putnam Bradlee Strong, son of the late ex-Mayor Strong, have received word from Japan that he and Lady Hope (May Yohe) are to sail from Hong Kong for Italy. What the plans of the couple are after they reach Europe is not known. Lord Hope is understood to have brought divorce proceedings against Lady Hope in the English courts. Lady Hope may go to England to defend the suit. Lady Hope's lawyer in this country refused to say a word about his client. Col. John Jacob Astor has leased Lyndenhurst, the handsome villa of John M. Hodgson of Bellvue avenue, for next season. Heretofore Col. and Mrs. Astor have spent a part of each season with Mrs. William Astor and Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Willing, the parents of Mrs. Astor. It is said that Mrs. J. J. Astor hopes to succeed her distinguished mother-in-law as the Newport leader, and that the leasing of a villa is the throwing down of the gauntlet to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., who covets the leadership. The main mast of Meteor III., which is being built for the German Emperor, has been stepped. The mast is 80 feet long and $21\frac{1}{2}$ inches in diameter, extends 11 feet below the deck, and is made of Oregon pine. Shortly after the main mast was stepped the bowsprit was placed in position. It is 59 feet in length and 15 inches in diameter. The men are now at work on the rigging, and in the course of a few days the sails will be bent on. It is said that if necessary the yacht would be ready for sailing in about ten days. There have been no hurry orders for the yacht, and it is expected it will not leave for two or three weeks. Col. Nicholas Smith, whom somebody once called "the handsomest man in the world," and who married Ida, the younger daughter of Horace Greeley, only a short time after her father's death, has, according to the statement of his former landlady, Mrs. Hurd of 59 West Ninety-third street, been dispossessed from his lodgings and those occupied by his two daughters, Miss Nicola Greeley Smith and Miss Ida Smith, because he couldn't or wouldn't pay Mrs. Hurd $62, the amount he was in arrears for room rent. This is not the first time Col. Smith has been hard up, but so far as the records show this is the first time he was ever dispossessed. A watch valued at $10,000 by its owner and said by him to be the most costly one in America is seen daily in the window of a Tenderloin pawnshop. The case of this princely timepiece is fairly affame with diamonds, to which the extraordinary value of the watch is due. On either side of the case twenty-eight diamonds are set in a circle, and on the front of the case ninety-three diamonds are worked into a monogram. The watch came into the possession of the pawnbroker as an unredeemed pledge. He states that it was the property of a rich young Englishman who came to this country, was forced by unfortunate circumstances to pledge the watch, and has been unable to redeem it. For some unexplained reason there has been a decided "slump" in the price of RAUOCH MOUNCE REDFERN BIRKENRAUTH E. JONES Although there is a great rush of American jockeys to foreign race tracks to take advantage of the sudden demand for things American, we still retain some first-class riders to the number of fifteen. Of these the above are among the foremost. Each one will this season earn a small fortune. Their ages run from 12 to 20 and their salaries range from $10,000 to $30,000. Although there is a great rush of American jockeys to foreign race tracks to take advantage of the sudden demand for things American, we still retain some first-class riders to the number of fifteen. Of these the above are among the foremost. Each one will this season earn a small fortune. Their ages run from 12 to 20 and their salaries range from $10,000 to $30,000. seats on the New York Stock exchange. A seat sold the other day for $60,000, which is $5000 below the last sale reported, and $15,000 below the high-level price of two months ago. Brokers ascribe the break to the fact that the market now, and for some time past, has been wholly "professional," or, in other words, the speculative public is standing aloof. Because of this marked apathy on the part of the general public the spring shearing of Wall street "lambs" has been postponed far beyond the usual date, and brokers, who generally at this season dine on diamond-back terrapin at $48 per dozen, are now content to partake of spring lamb at 16 cents per pound. Helen Southgate, who was shot nearly two years ago in the St. Charles hotel, Brooklyn, by Henry Grosvenor Barbour, who killed himself with the same revolver with which he had wounded her, is to be married this spring to a wealthy young man of Baltimore. Haunted by the horrors of her life tragedy, the girl turned to music as a balm and as she played hymns on the organ of a lonely country church the man who is to marry her stopped to listen to the music and learned to love the musician. That Miss Southgate is to be married within a few weeks is positively announced by her friends in this city, but her aunt, Miss Schell, who lives at 132 Second place, Brooklyn, absolutely declines, however, to give the name of her niece's fiance. Miss Southgate visited her aunt a short time ago. She recently wrote a note of sympathy and encouragement to Florence Burns, who is accused of killing Walter Brooks. Oscar Hammerstein, the builder of theaters, has begun work on a new playhouse. His plans have been passed by the building department, and he expects to have the building completed by November. The new theater will be called the Drury Lane and will be erected in West Thirty-fourth street. It will be the largest theater in the world, occupying a ground space of 125x200 feet. The Drury Lane will have a seating capacity of 4800. The prevailing prices will be of the popular order. A novel feature of it will be one balcony with a separate entrance, reserved exclusively for members of the colored race, of whom there are some 300,000 in New York. This balcony will be divided into high-price and low-price compartments, and will be supplied with every luxury that prevails in any other part of the house. LONDON'S MIGHTY FAMINE. Nothing to Eat Between Midnight and Breakfast Time. There are two things which invariably strike the Englishman on his return to London from America or the continent. One is that London, the greatest city in the world, is one of the worst lighted and the other is that the Londoner is compelled to starve between 12:30 a.m. and breakfast time. That public houses where only iqrour is sold should be closed at 12:30 is only reasonable and proper. But why should a man who has arrived in London after a long journey be compelled to go without food? The supper party after the theater, when several people are asked to meet at a given place, resolves itself into a scramble against time. Surely it is time these benighted regulations were altered, and no time for altering them could be better chosen than the beginning of the coronation season, when so many foreigners will pour into London.—London Express. A Storm that Helped Science European scientific journals remark that the great storm of red dust that swept up from Africa over Europe last March performed a service for which men of science should be grateful, by coloring the glaciers of the Alps on a grand scale, and thus producing a stratum in the vast ice streams the red hue of which will render it recognizable for many years. The importance of this consists in the fact that by noting the position of the dust-stained layer the movements of the glaciers can be studied more accurately than would be possible without the aid of so extensive and distinct a marking—Youth's Companion. Right Way to Treat Newspapers. The late Duke of Portland subscribed for all the ordinary newspapers and magazines of the day, and had them whole-bound in beautiful crushed morocco coats of many colors. Each of these volumes he put in a perfectly fitting oak box lined with white velvet and fitted with a patient Bramah lock and duplicate keys. The cost of each volume worked out at about £40—London Speaker. SLEET-WRECKED TREES. Should be Trimmed by Experts and Not by Tree Butchers. "Butchers," with saws and hatchets, are certain to be much in evidence for the next few weeks, importuning owners for a "job" to "prune" and put in shape the broken trees. If the people are wise they will be more than ordinarily cautious whom they employ to do this work. The trees are in a critical state, and in the hands of an unskilled person may suffer irreparable injury. The best course would be to employ men furnished by reputable nurserymen and landscape gardeners. If this cannot be compassed in every instance, then the owner should superintend the work himself, have the broken branches carefully and smoothly cut away and the wounds covered with mineral paint. If, when this is done the trees are much out of shape, it may be necessary to cut away some of the other branches, so as to make them in a measure symmetrical, being careful in every instance to cover the wounds with paint to prevent rotting. No concern need be felt for limbs that have become distorted, for it is almost certain that in time they will return to their former shape. If, as it may happen, nearly all the leading branches have been broken, that tree, if it is worth preserving, should be taken in hand only by a skilled man, otherwise it might just as well be rooted out at once, for, under the treatment of the "butcher" it will live but for a short time. Providing prompt care is exercised, the large majority of the trees that now appear irreparably injured will by next year be restored to a semblance of their former beauty, and some, indeed, will be handsomer than ever. Of course, none of this applies to trees that have been previously subject to the rough treatment of the saw and hatchet man. Where the limbs have been badly broken the trees are probably beyond hope of restoration.—Philadelphia Ledger. HONOLULU THIBSTY. Court Decision Expected to Send the Price of Beer of a Quarter a Glass. Judge Estee's decision, declaring unconstitutional the Hawaiian beer law, says the Honolulu correspondent of the New York Sun, will allow the monopoly of former days to be enforced again, and the price of beer will again reach the 25-cent-a-glass standard. Under an old act, passed when Hawaii was still a kingdom, a local brewery got a concession over the foreign beer men, the importation of malt products being free of duty, and a lower license fee for the sale of the home-brewed beer being collected. Not until a year ago did anyone see fit to take advantage of this concession, several former attempts to establish a brewery having been failures. For years beer has been retailed at 25 cents a glass and some of the saloon men became very wealthy, the malted product costing them but a trifle more than it did on the coast. With the establishment of the local brewery the foreign breweries cut the cost of their beer to 12% cents a glass, while the home-brewed beer was retailed at 10 cents. The latter had the advantage in that licenses to sell it cost only $250 a year, as against $1000 paid by the men handling the foreign-brewed stuff. The agents of the breweries in the states then decided to make a test of the matter in the courts, and the application to United States Judge Estee for an injunction to restrain the issuance of the cheap licenses was based on the ground that the law was unconstitutional and an unwarranted interference with their rights under the interstate commerce law, in that it discriminated in favor of a territorial corporation as against those of other states. On the trial the amazing fact was brought out that the saloon keepers were making a profit of nearly $50 a barrel, even at the cut rate. The Large Cities of Russia. There are only three cities in the Russian empire whose population exceeds half a million inhabitants. This fact, according to Consul-General Holloway at St. Petersburg, in a report to the state department, was shown by the last census taken in that country. The three cities referred to are St. Petersburg, with 1,267,000; Moscow, with 988,000, and Warsaw, with 614,800. There are thirty-five towns in the empire containing between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants, and eighty-two with from 10,000 to 50,000. Yakutsk is the smallest in the list, with 7000 inhabitants. Among the towns whose populations have grown most rapidly Lodz, Russia's great textile manufacturing center, stands first, having increased from 25,000 to 315,000 in fifteen years. LIFESAVERS ARE DROWNED LIFESAVERS ARE DROWNED While Trying to Rescue Six Seamen They Lose Their Lives. ALL BUT ONE PERISHED W. H. Mack, Wealthy Vessel Owner of Cleveland, Among Those Who Find Watery Graves. Chatham, Mass, March 18.—Capt. Marshall N. Eldredge and six members of his crew from the Monomy lifesaving station were drowned near Shovelful shoal while trying to rescue W. H. Mack of Cleveland, O., and four men from the stranded barge Wadena. Mack and his four companions were also drowned. The lifesaving crew of eight men had succeeded in taking Mack and his companions off the barge, but in attempting to return to shore the lifeboat capsized repeatedly. The lifesavers and the rescued bargemen, exhausted in their efforts to right the boat, were washed away one by one by the heavy seas. Only one escaped—Surfman Ellis—and he was rescued by Capt. Elmer F. Mayo of the barge Fitpatrick, who heroically put to sea in a dory in spite of the gale and the boisterous waves. The barges Wadena and Fitzpatrick stranded on Shovelful shoal last Tuesday, and wreckers had been at work for nearly a week in getting them off. The Fitzpatrick had been floated, but the Wadena was still fast last night. When the southeast gale came on last night Mr. Mack sent most of his men on board the tug Peter Smith, and told Capt. Hansen to anchor in a place of safety. Mack and two Portuguese sailors and the cook remained on board the barge. Lifesavers to the Rescue. Yesterday morning a fierce gale was prevailing and the Monomoy lifesaving station was notified of the perilous situation of those on board the standed barge. Capt. Eldredge walked down to the point, a distance of four miles, and saw the barge had distress signals flying and the men were on top of the after house, with the seas breaking over the craft. Capt. Eldredge telephoned to Surfman Seth Ellis to nave the crew hurry down to the point in the big lifeboat. In an hour the lifeboat, with Capt. Eldredge at the steering oar, was seen out among the breakers on its way to the barge. The weather was so thick that the lifeboat was soon lost sight of by the watchers on shore. Two hours later Capt. Elmer F. Mayo of the barge Fitzpatrick rowed ashore in a dory with Surfman Ellis lying unconscious on the bottom of the frail boat. He reported seeing the overturned lifeboat drift by his barge with four men clinging to the bottom of it. He jumped into the dory and started to their assistance. As he rowed on he saw the men disappear one by one from the overturned boat. He reached the boat in time to save Surfman Ellis. Ellis Tells Harrowing Tale. Late last night Ellis regained consciousness and told a most graphic story of the catastrophe. "We reached the bark," said he. "and took the five men off safely, but in getting away we got into the heaviest cross sea I ever saw. Finally an enormous comber struck us broadside, capsizing the boat. Most of us managed to get hold of the boat and finally righted her, but as soon as we got in the five men from the Wadena were so excited that they turned her right over again bottomside up. Then some lost their heads and were drowned. Twice more we righted her, but the cross sea filled her so fast that she went over as quick as we got in. By that time all but four had been lost, and Capt. Eldredge decided we had better cling to the bottom of the boat. There were then left the captain, Elijah Kendrick, Arthur Rogers, and myself. Eldredge, Exhausted, Gives Up. "Capt. Eldredge had been supported by the mast and sail that had washed out from under the thwarts, but he was so terribly exhausted that he had to give up, and exclaiming, 'It's no use, boys; goodby,' the bravest seaman that ever lived was washed away. That took about all the strength we had left, and the next sea carried off Rogers and Kendrick. I had given up all hope when Capt. Mayo grabbed me, and have no recollection of what happened after that." Capt. Eldredge had served at the Monomoy station thirteen years, and was appointed captain three years ago. A complete list of the victims is as follows: Lifesavers: CAPT. MARSHALL N. ELDREDGE, keeper, South Chatham. ARTHUR ROGERS, North Narwich. ISAAC THOMAS FOYE, South Chatham. VALENTINE NICKERSON, Harwich. From the barge: WILLIAM H. MACK, Cleveland. CAPT. CHRISTIAN OLSEN, Boston. ROBERT MOLANUX, Boston, steward of tug Peter Smith. WALTER A. ZEVED, Cottage City. MANUEL ENOS, Cottage City. Mack was Wealthy Vessel Owner. Cleveland, O., March 18.—W. H. Mack, drowned near Chatham, Mass., was the son of the late Capt. William S. Mack. Youn^ Mack was the manager of the Lake Erie Transportation company and was one of the heaviest owners of the lake property. He was not yet 30 years of age. He lived with his widowed mother in a suburb of Cleveland, his residence being one of the finest in this section of Ohio. Capt. Mack, Sr., was one of the old-time lake masters. Like many others of his day he acquired a fortune and a large fleet of vessels. Young Mack has been noted for his aggressive work. The Wadena and Fitzpatrick are owned by the Boutelle Towing and Wrecking company, of which Capt. Ben Boutelle of Saginaw, and Capt. John Mitchell, W. H. Becker and W. H. Mack of Cleveland are the principal stockholders. HANGED FOR MURDER. John Young Pays Extreme Penalty in Jail Yard at Mt. Holly, N. J, Mt. Holly, N. J., March 18.—John Young was hanged in the yard of the county jail here today for complicity in the murder of Washington Hunter, an aged man and wealthy farmer who was killed in his home at Riverside, on the night of January 25, 1901. Young made a confession in which he admitted having led the murderers to the Hunter home, but denied having struck the blow. Young is the second of the four men who participated in the murder of Mr. Hunter to pay the death penalty. HURONIAN STILL MISSING. Vessel Sighted Off St. John Proves to be the Virginian. Halifax, N. S., March 18.—There is no news in Halifax about the steamer Huronian. A dispatch was received here stating that a steamer thought to be the Huronian was entering that port. The steamer, however, turned out to be the Virginian. CLAIMS GOVERNOR WAS NOT MURDERED. Report Published In Finnish Paper at Calumet (Mlch.) Discredited at St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, March 19.—An investigation of the report published by the Paivatchti, a Finnish daily newspaper of Calumet, Mich., of the assassination of Bobrikoff, the Russian governor-general of Finland, who was said to have been shot three times by a soldier while alighting from a train here, and who was alleged to have died from his wounds February 14, shows that Governor-General Bobrikoff was transacting business at Helsingfors, the capital of Finland, March 13. HUGE ICE GORGE IN MISSOURI RIVER. Water Pilling Up Behind and River Becomes a Mere Creek in Front. Sioux City, Ia., March 19.—The formation of a huge ice gorge in the Missouri river imperils thousands of dollars' worth of property in this vicinity. Early on Sunday morning the river suddenly ceased running till the water was but 2 feet deep at Chamberlain, S. D., and so sudden was the fall that a ferry boat was stranded in midstream. The great stream is still running as no more than a creek. Couriers sent up the river to find the trouble report a great ice gorge had formed at Little Bend, sixty miles above Chamberlain, S. D. For sixty hours the water has been piling up behind this obstruction and there is now enough water collected to sweep the Missouri valley in a flood that will cause disastrous loss. In all the records of the government engineer's office here nothing like this has occurred. In the great flood of 1881 two counties were flooded by an ice gorge, but enough water escaped the dam to make a good-sized river. Between Chamberlain and Battle Bend there are enough tributary creeks to supply all the water now running. In this city, 250 miles from the gorge by river, the water has fallen three feet within twenty-four hours. WORKED SUCCESSFULLY. Primary Law Tested In St. Paul In Nominating Candidates for City Offices. St. Paul, Minn., March 19.—Owing to the late hour for closing the polls counting of the ballots in the first direct primary nominations in this city was not completed until today. The new law worked successfully and seemed to be popular, over 60 per cent. of the voters being represented at the primaries. The ticket chosen by the Democrats is headed by Robert A. Smith, present mayor, who was renominated by a big vote, and includes Louis Betz for comptroller, Otto Bremer, present incumbent, for treasurer, and W. L. Kelley, Jr., and O. H. O'Neill for municipal judges. That of the Republicans consists of F. B. Doran for mayor, J. J. McCardy, present incumbent, for comptroller, J. H. Wolterstorff for treasurer, Robert C. Hine and John W. Finehout for municipal judges. Both tickets also have a full set of assemblymen, aldermen, justices of the peace and constables. FIRE FOLLOWS ROBBERY Safeblowers Responsible for the Destruction of $150,000 Worth of Property. Marissa, Ill., March 19.—Safeblowers are responsible for a fire which destroyed $150,000 worth of property in Marissa last night. They entered the Commercial hotel, where fifty persons were asleep, shortly before midnight and blew open the safe. Obtaining $2500 the robbers escaped, leaving the building in flames. The fire spread rapidly and was not checked until a dozen business buildings and several residences with their contents were destroyed. The Commercial hotel was totally destroyed. The loss is well covered by insurance. Several persons had narrow escapes from death. TARIFF CUT FOR CUBA. Supporters of Reciprocity Defeat Beet Sugar Men by Vote of 79 to 57. Washington, March 19. By a vote of 79 to 57 the supporters of Cuban reciprocity defeated the opposition in the conference of Republican members of the House last night. These figures give the result of the vote by which was defeated the proposition of the beet sugar men that a rebate be given Cuba on articles imported from that island. Immediately afterward the caucus adopted by a vote of 85 to 31 the ways and means plan for reciprocity to the extent of a 20 per cent. reduction of duties, modified by a Sibley amendment limiting the lifetime of the reduced rates to December, 1903. CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY. Many Citizens of Port au Prince Are treated and Imprisoned. Port au Prince, Hayti, March 19. Many citizens charged with conspiring against the government were arrested and imprisoned today and a number of others sought refuge in the various consulates. Among the citizens imprisoned are Judge Bourjolly of the Supreme court and Gen. Destouche, M. Zeneque, a candidate for the Presidency, was refused an asylum in the French legation. The agitation is spreading in the republic. The minister of public works, M. C. Leconte, has left Port au Prince for Jacmel with a detachment of troops. OFFICERS ASSIGNED. MacArthur at Chicago, Funston at Denver, Kobbe at St. Paul. Washington, D. C., March 19.—By the direction of the President Maj.-Gen. Arthur MacArthur was today assigned to the command of the Department of the Lakes with headquarters at Chicago, Ill. Brig.-Gen. Frederick Funston to the command of the Department of the Colorado, headquarters at Denver, Col.; and Brig.-Gen. William A. Kobbe to the command of the Department of Dakota, headquarters at St. Paul, Minn. These changes will take effect on the 25th inst. Negro Murderer Lynched Natchez, Miss., March 19.—John Woodward, the negro murderer of Leonard Calvitt, a white planter at Union Point, Concordia parish, La., was lynched this morning. Moscow's Great Hospital. Moscow has the largest hospital in Europe, with 7000 beds. There are 96 physicians and 900 nurses, and about 15,000 patients are cared for annually. INDICTED A RAILROAD. Louisville & Nashville Charged with Violations of Interstate Commerce Law. Louisville, Ky., March 18.—An indictment returned against the Louisville & Nashville railroad by the federal grand jury was made public today. It charges a violation of the interstate commerce law, the offense consisting in the road charging less for the transportation of corn in carload lots than the interstate commerce law prescribes. There are two counts in the bill, which sets forth that on November 14, 1901, the Louisville & Nashville and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroads, operating as common carriers through the states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama, and into Georgia, made a rate to Szorn & Co. of this city on 464,000 pounds of corn shipped to Atlanta from Louisville by the roads named. This rate made the total freight charge on this lot $974.40, when it should have been $1113.60. The difference or rebate amounted to 3 cents, being 21 cents, when it should have been 24 cents. The other count sets forth that on the same date on another lot of 46,000 pounds shipped by the same roads to Atlanta, a total freight charge of $117.60 was made, when it should have been $134.40, this also being a 3-cent rebate. The witnesses named in the indictment are H. F. Smith, A. S. Dodge, M. P. Washburne of the Southeastern & Mississippi Valley Tariff association; Fred W. Hudson, traffic manager of the L. H. & St. Louis; Joseph A. Bushfield, and John S. Greene. WHIPPED BY REBELS. All the Mandarins of Fen Chuan Killed or Captured and the Town Looted. Hong Kong, March 18.—Gen. Ma has been defeated by the Kwang Si rebels, who have taken possession of Fang Chen (Fen Chuan?). They have killed or captured all the mandarins and have looted the town. Gen. Ma attacked the rebel stronghold, but after an engagement lasting two days, was forced to retreat. The rebels then established their headquarters at Cang Sheng. The rebellion is spreading rapidly in the provinces of Kwang Si, Kwang Tung and Yun Nan. A letter received here from Tien Pai, fifty miles from Kwang Chou, says all business is suspended there owing to fear of the rebels. Marshal Su is at Lien Chou and Gen. Ma is at Kao Chou (both in Kwang Tung province). Both of these commanders are awaiting reinforcements. They wish to join their forces, but the rebels are holding all the intervening passes and prevent a junction of the government troops. Many of the imperial soldiers are joining the rebels, owing to the superior pay offered them and the opportunity for looting. REFUSES TO QUIT. Commissioner Powderly Says He will Not Get Out Until He Is Put Out. Washington, D. C., March 18.—Terence V. Powderly, commissioner general of immigration, has announced to his friends that he must be dismissed from office before he will retire. Mr. Powderly came to New York today to participate in the St. Patrick's day celebration, and, it is thought, to talk with friends for the purpose of obtaining their support in his campaign for retention. Mr. Powderly's chief grievance is his removal at the same time with Mr. Fitchie and Mr. McSweeney. He holds that his administration has been clean and that he should not be dismissed in company with men whom he has strongly condemned. The President believes, however, that the good of the service demands a thorough sweeping out. It is a fact that representations have been made to the President which reflect upon Mr. Powderly's administration, though the commissioner general is confident he can answer each and every allegation in such a way as to prove that what he did was in accordance with law and requirements. TAKEN BY INSURGENTS. Government Troops Defeated and the Town of Juan Griego on Island of Margarite Captured. Port of Spain, Island of Trinidad, March 18.—A force of Venezuelan insurgents, supported by the revolutionary steamer Bolivar, captured the town of Juan Griego, on the island of Margarita, yesterday morning and afterward moved to the town of Asuncion, capital of the island. The Venezuelan government troops were defeated and there was every indication that the insurgents would soon be masters of the whole island. Washington, D. C., March 18.—Secretary Long has received the following cablegram from Commander Rodgers of the gunboat Marietta, dated Colon, today: "Liberal army has gained a victory. Rebels have possession of country west of Panama. Fighting is expected on the isthmus." HUSBAND IS A GHOUL. Woman States She was Made to Wear Clothes Taken from Corpses. Pittsburg, Pa., March 18.—Ida B. Hunter gave remarkable testimony against her husband, Thomas F. Hunter, in a plea for divorce. He worked as an apprentice for an undertaker. She alleges he frequently took bodies from coffins, hid them, placed stones and bricks in the coffins and buried the stones, selling the corpses to medical clinics and students. He went to Detroit July, 1896, and engaged with an undertaker named Patterson. He had rooms over the shop and many corpses were hidden in their closet while the boxes were interred laden with stones, the bodies sold, and Hunter spent the money with his brother. He took all the clothes from the dead and demanded that she and her children should wear them. When she refused he abused her and forced her to do so. OFFERED TO MANLEY. Maine Man Tendered Position of First Assistant Postmaster General. Washington, D. C., March 18.—Joseph H. Manley of Augusta, Me., the Maine member of the Republican national committee, is being pressed by the administration to accept the office of first assistant postmaster general, but it is not yet known whether Mr. Manley will accept the office. It is likely that Mr. Manley will not take the office, his private interests being in the way. Killed While Loading Logs. Menominee, Mich., March 18.—[Special.]—Edward Hubert of this city, a brother of Peter Hubert, was killed this morning while handling logs on the Holmes & Sons' logging road. The body will be brought to this city for burial. The deceased was 37 years old and was single. One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.25 Three Months .75 Send money by Express Money Order. P. O. Money Order or Registered Letter to the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. ADVERTISING RATES TO CONTRIBUTORS: All communications must be sent with the name and address of the sender as an evidence of good faith, but not necessarily for publication. No manuscript returned if not accepted, unless accompanied by stamps. The Wisconsin Weekly Advocate company wishes to notify the public that all contracts and business transactions with this company must have the company stamp, otherwise they will be void. 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While he caught nothing during his run through the country, they caught the scarlet fever without effort in any direction. To the friends of those on board, the news that the Etruria has succeeded in reaching the Azores is far more cheering than would have been the news of a record-breaking voyage with unimpaired engines. It seems probable that the scow type of skimming dish will be recognized as a yacht by amateur sailors on the Great Lakes. But formal action of this kind will not make a plank-on-its-side a real yacht. Wyoming's twenty-five flowing oil springs indicate an oiliness of the earth in that state that will probably throw the Texas spouter district in the shade when the well-borers begin to send down their drills. Prince Henry's "send-off" in New York harbor was as vociferous and almost as booming as his greeting, and he must feel that for a few weeks at least his lines were laid among a host of good fellows and American beauties. There is no need of hurry. A London dispatch states that there is little likelihood that those who rush to London to see the coronation parade will have to pay more than $25 for a seat from which they can see the royal equipage as it rolls by. A description in mixed detail of an airship for the British war office, has been telegraphed from London. It is a combination of gas vessel and wheels that will probably score another failure for the lighter-than-the-air principle of aerial navigation. The St. Paul iceboat which has achieved a record of 100 miles an hour could round the north pole and return to the north coast in a day if it wasn't for the fact that Arctic ice has a way of piling up in heavy and immovable waves that call for Alpine climbing. It will be noted that the steamer Waesland, which was sunk by collision off Holyhead was a craft of the vintage of 1867. Had she been constructed on the transverse and longitudinal bulkhead plan she would undoubtedly be still afloat. After maintaining his bodily health throughout a rushing trip that was punctuated with formalities in the wintry air and cermonious indulgences in the richest of foods, the Prince undoubtedly felt when he arrived at Cambridge that he was entitled to a "sheepskin" as some kind of doctor. The report that the sloop Columbia will race against all challengers in European waters during the coming summer has been denied, but it has caused so much pleasure among yachtsmen on both sides of the Atlantic that the owners of the yacht may yet consent to revise their plans and put the yacht in commission. Two persons were killed and a building reduced to kindling wood by an explosion of acetylene gas at Reading, Pennsylvania. As this gas is now quite commonly used, with the belief that it is harmless under all circumstances, it would be well for those who are handling the carbide product to revise their estimates to the extent of exercising greater care. The capsizing of the Mississippi river steamer Providence, with a loss of twenty lives, shows that the river steamer's lofty "house" is a source of danger from other sources than the lamps and the fire hold. The towering cabins of such steamers afford a large expanse of surface for wind-pressure, and act as a sail caught unfurled by a squall, throwing the steamers down on beam ends. Lake steamers are sometimes careened heavily by windage, but they are safe against capsizing because of their heavy draught of water, in comparison with the very light draught of water of the average river steamer. 1910 MR. JESSE C. COOGAN. We take pleasure in presenting to the colored voters of the Fourth ward a likeness of Mr. Jesse C. Coogan, who is an independent candidate for alderman. Mr. Coogan has been a good and consistent friend of the colored people and has secured employment for them at various times, as will be substantiated by Mr. Tony Burgette and others. Mr. Coogan is a clean and respectable young business man who has been selected by a large number of Fourth ward voters and business men to make an independent run for alderman against the regular Democratic and Republican nominees on the following platform: 1. Clean methods in politics-honesty and efficiency in local government. 2. The conduct of political meetings in an orderly manner—as opposed to the present disorderly tactics and rowdy rule. 3. Orderly conduct of cancuses and an honest count by honest men. 4. The control and leadership in politics in this ward in the hands of taxpayers and reputable citizens—not political "helicers." 5. The election of representative, honest men to party conventions, instead of delegates who offer themselves to the highest bidder—a fact of public notoriety which has put a stigma on the Fourth ward. 6. No more dictation in Fourth ward politics by outsiders and representatives of corporate interests. 7. Representation by men who are engaged in a reputable business. gaged in a reputable business. 8. Representation by men who are not corporate employees, elected by corporate influences to carry out corporate schemes. 9. The protection of property interests and the good name of the ward demand an immediate change in the present condition of affairs. Mr. Coogan solicits the votes of all of the colored voters of the Fourth ward on the basis of what he has done for the colored people in the past, and not upon what he promises to do in the future. He is an extensive property owner and heavy taxpayer in the Fourth ward, and as a prominent business man he will make the right kind of an alderman, and it can be assured that the colored folks will certainly get a fair shake from him should he be elected. Quite a number of our most prominent citizens are working among their colored brethren in Mr. Coogan's behalf, as it is intended to show that the colored voters are not a lot of cattle that can be bought and driven one way or another by unscrupulous politicians, but that they have a mind of their own and will support a decent, respectable candidate, especially as he has proven himself to be a consistent friend of the colored man in the past. RACE NEWS. From Our Exchanges. President Roosevelt appoints a white Gold Democrat, William Fleming, postmaster at Athens, Ga., to succeed a Negro, "Pink" Morton. The people began to hold mass meetings against Morton as soon as the question of his reappointment arose, and so the President concluded to try another color.—Springfield Republican. Rev. J. F. Thomas, who has stood up in his pulpit in Olivet Baptist church and pronounced his blessings upon Bob Motts, and asked the Lord to let Bob prosper because he gave him some money (and perhaps a bottle of whisky) is running a prayer or a revival meeting which will last from now until the 1st of May, and Elder Thomas may pull Motts through and induce him to become one of the deacons of Olivet.—Broadax. A Kansas newspaper man's motto is: "Lie, steal, drink and swear. When you lie, let it be down to pleasant dreams, when you steal, let it be away from immoral associates, when you drink, let it be pure water, when you swear, let it be that you will patronize your home paper, pay your subscription and not send your jobwork away from home." This motto should be adopted by every man who desires to live right and see his home town flourish and grow.—Ex. Mother and Son Strangely Reunited. An incident in connection with a masquerade ball in the village of Galesburg, Mich., borders closely on the romantic. In 1866 Mrs. Catherine Sinclair, with her husband and infant son, was captured by Sioux Indians while the former were crossing the plains on the way to California. Mrs. Sinclair was wounded, scalped and left for dead. Her husband, believing her to be dead and being closely pursued, was forced to leave her, taking the baby with him. The boy grew to manhood and enlisted in the regular army and spent many years in the Indian frontier wars. On the occasion of the masquerade Mrs. Sinclair, who was discovered by troops and who recovered from the injuries inflicted by the Indians, was a spectator. She was then 64 years old. Incidentally, she entered into a conversation with a middle-aged visitor in the village, who also was a spectator, and during the talk it developed that their names were the same. This led to further investigation, and today it was found that the two are the mother and son so tragically parted thirty-six years ago. Among a lot of Indian relics belonging to Sinclair is a woman's scalp and strange to relate it was found to conform exactly with the scar on his mother's head. A Satisfactory Explanation. Delegate Flynn of Oklahoma had a candidate for office who was charged with drinking too much whisky. Mr. Flynn wrote to his man, told him about the charge and asked him to write him the whole truth about the matter. Today he took this letter to the President: "My Dear Dennis: I haven't tasted a drop of red-eye for eighteen months and do not expect to for a long time to come. Prior to that time, I frankly admit that I went all the paces in the direction of enveloping various brands of red-eye. If I missed anything at all it was through ignorance, not intention." Mr. Flynn waited until the President had read the letter and then said, "Well?" "That man is all right," the President replied, "he tells the truth. I won't hold the drinking against him." Reading's superintendent of schools has officially told the teachers that they must read the daily papers and keep the run of events. "In my judgment," he says, "the teacher who says she never reads the papers is not qualified to teach." Straightens Kinky, Curly Hair OZONO TRADE MARK KING OF ALL HAIR TONICS. 50¢ BEFORE. AFTER. BE WARNED IN order to protect the public from the numerous quack nostrums now on the market, which claim to straighten and cause the hair to grow long, and which are simply put up by a lot of quacks, charlatans, and fakirs, who have no chemical skill, with the sole idea to get your hard-earned cash and give you nothing in return for your money but a dirty, sticky mass of worthless greases, which injure the hair and cause it to fall out, we have placed our trade-mark, granted to us by the Government of the United States of America, on every box of OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers and Hair-Straighteners. This trade-mark consists of two heads, as shown in this advertisement—one head showing short, curly hair, the other showing long, flowing hair. Any preparation showing the heads with the hair done up in a coil, or showing features different from the faces shown in this advertisement, is not OZONO. Seeing our marked success with the true hair-straightener, OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers, numerous firms are now widely advertising spurious compounds, and trading on the reputation that we have made for OZONO. Do not be fooled by these flaring advertisements, which are all promises. Buy the genuine and only original King of all Hair Tonics, OZONO. Two hundred and fifty thousand colored people bought OZONO in the last twelve months. OZONO is sold in every State in the Union, all over Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, also in Cuba and the West Indies. Its fame has travelled around the world, because it is a true Hair Tonic, that straightens without any outside assistance. No hot irons are used; nothing but OZONO. It not only straightens the hair, but produces a long, silky, beautiful, luxurious growth of soft, fine hair. To neglect your hair is more than foolish, when you can increase its beauty by a few applications of OZONO. We can send OZONO to any place that you may live in, no matter where you may live. The price of OZONO is 50c. a box, sent to any point on receipt of price. Four boxes is a complete treatment. In order to introduce this great Hair Tonic, we will send to you, on receipt of only $1.00, the following grand aggregation: Four boxes of OZONO; one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, which softens rough skin and brightens black skin, making it several shades lighter, worth 50c.; also one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, Nature's cure for all skin diseases, such as Pimples, Tan, Acne, Itch, Eczema, and Boils. It also removes Wrinkles, and makes the skin soft and pliant. We will also include a one-pint package of ANTI-ODOR, which removes all smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm pits, &c.; also one bar of our PURITY SCALP SOAP, made expressly for the human scalp. This grand aggregation offer is made to introduce honest goods. Cut out this coupon and mail to us, with $1.00, and we will send the goods the same day we receive the money. If you send $3.00, we will send you four lots; if you send $2.00, we will send you three lots. If you have a friend who wishes to take advantage of this lot, let them pin their name to this coupon, and the goods will be sent promptly. If this offer is read by some one who does not own this newspaper, they can get the goods by simply sending $1.00 and mentioning the name of the paper in which they saw our advertisement. Parties who desire one of our MAGNETIC COMBS, which aids materially in the straightening process, can obtain same by sending 50c. extra. Remember, OZONO is guaranteed to straighten the hair—to When writing to advertisers please mention Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. PIANOS I Sell on Monthly Payments and Easy Terms, and also Rent Pianos. The Oldast Piano House in the City. Established 1872. CALL AND GET MY PRICES BEFORE YOU BUY ELSEWHERE. Bison Fresh Fish and Oysters in Season B. BRADFORD BROADWAY PIANOS Pianos from $150 up Monthly Payments and Easy and also Rent Pianos. House in the City. Established 1872. GET MY PRICES BEFORE BUY ELSEWHERE. While in city visit . . . STEPHENS' HOTEL and RESTAURANT First-Class Accommodations Home Cooking a Specialty... AUKEE, WIS. No. 2832 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. OZONO is guaranteed to straighten the hair—to make it grow long, soft, and glossy; also to cure all itching, burning, humiliating scalp diseases. To make the hair grow out again on bald spots, especially around the temples, there is no Hair Tonic on earth one-half so good. The Boston Chemical Company holds a charter granted by the State of Virginia. We also refer to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va., and to the Southern Express Company. Register your letters; it protects you. Address your letters plainly to— BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY, 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. Telephone Black 685-5. D. MOORE, Pr J. H. ELLIS, OPEN L DAY AND GHT The Keystone Hotel Club ine Wines, Liquors and Cigars always on hand 208 Fourth Street, MILWAUKEE. --- Fine Wines MEN DOUGLAS MOORE SAM PATTERSON, Asst. H. C. COWAN. D. J. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars always on hand 208 Fourth Street, MILWAUKEE. Members of the Keystone Club DOUGLAS MOORE, Pres. CHAS. JOHNSON, Vice-Pres. J. H. ELLIS, Treas. PATTERSON, Asst. Treas. WILL HARRIS, See'y. E. M. HAWKINS, Ass't. H. C. COWAN. D. JOHNSON. H. KING. SAMUEL BANKS. WM. SMITH. WM. BOLTON. H. CREETCHER. DOUGLAS MOORE, Pres. CHAS. JOHNSON, Vice-Pres. J. H. ELLIS, Treas. SAM PATTERSON, Asst. Treas. WILL HARRIS, Sec'y. E. M. HAWKINS, Ass't. Sec'y H. C. COWAN. D. JOHNSON. H. KING. SAMUEL BANKS. WM. SMITH. WM. BOLTON. H. CREETCHER. Each Subscriber To the Wis will present to the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate the edi will present a handsome souvenir in the fo an elegantly gotten up portrait of the To the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate the editor will present a handsome souvenir in the form of an elegantly gotten up portrait of the late President McKinley. Those wishing a First=Class Meal at Any Hour are Cordially Invited to Call at the 519 Weils St., Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Lee Woodard, Prop. SUNDAY 5 O'CLOCK DINNER A SPECIALTY. OPEN ALL DAY AND NIGHT GEORGE HAYS Turning Mill and Box Factory Rockers and all kinds of Restaurant Blocks, Extension Ladders, Tea Caddies, Boxes, Turning, Sawing, Mitchell Improved Washers, Trestels, Swinging Scaffolds. Repair Work PromptlyAttended to TELEPHONE MAIN 252. 228-230 Fifth St., Milwaukee, Wis. Before Starting on Your Travels CALL ON Geo. Burroughs & Sons MANUFACTURERS OF PREMIUM TRUNKS VALISES, SAMPLE CASES, Etc. 424 & 426 East Water St., Milwaukee. WHEN IN KENOSHA CALL ON MATT GREENWALD Who is Up-to-Date in His Business. AGENT FOR E. KLINKERT'S RACINE KEG and BOTTLED BEER. Depot: No. 15 North Main Street. Telephone 163. KENOSHA - WISCONSIN KENOSHA - WISCONSIN S. F. PEACOCK & SON Funeral Directors AND EMBALMERS 431 Broadway. MILWAUKEE, WIS NORTH OR SOUTH Always ask for tickets via the Monon Route THE SHORT LINE BETWEEN Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville Six trains daily between Chicago and the Ohio river. For folders, rates, etc., call at any Monon ticket office or address FRANK J. REED, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Chicago. S. B. JONES, C. P. Agent, 232 Clark St., Chicago. Don't Let Your Hair Fall Out FREE Sample of LUSTORONE to every one When you can save it by the timely use of our great hair tonic, "LUSTORONE." If your hair has been scalded, burns and split out by the roots by harmful applications of fajigour so-called hair tonics, or by sickness, fevers and disease, our celebrated "LUSTORONE" will prove a boon to you. A Gedscnd to suffering humanity because it produces an abundant and beautiful growth of soft, fine hair. As the hair grows it softens and becomes straight. "LUSTORONE" curves all scalp diseases. Removes scurf and dandruff. Causes the hair to grow out again on bald spots and bare places. It is the greatest hair tonic on earth. To prove the merits of this great remedy, we will send to any one who will send us their name and address together with roc. to pay for mailing case and post-age, a free SAMPLE that will prove its own worth. Write to DOMINION M'E'G CO. 2220 East Marshall St. Richmond, Va. --- THE HOUSEHOLD Brooms that are choked with dust, hair and threads cannot do effective service; they should be kept clean, if you wish them to sweep clean. Keep a pailful of warm suds in the sink every sweeping day, and as often as the broom becomes dusty take it to the sink, dip it up and down in the pail, shake well and continue the sweeping; then, when all is swept, wash it once more before putting it away. Not only will the broom wear longer, the suds toughening the splinters, but the carpet will look brighter. Many use a sprinkling of salt before sweeping; while it brings out the color, it gathers dampness. Do not sweep from one side of the broom alone; it will wear uneven and shorten its life. Carpet sweepers should be freed from dust and threads before being put away, and, as the brush wears off, it should be lowered a trifle. A very little oil will stop the squeaking of the wheels. Cooking Vegetables. Be economical. Steam or boil potatoes in their skins. Lay all greens in cold, salted water before cooking. Boil greens fast with the lid off, and skim well. Drain well and serve hot. Throw water in which cabbage has been cooked outside the house, if possible, not down the sink. All root vegetables, except beets and onions, are scrubbed. After peeling or scraping, lay vegetables in cold water to keep the color. The proportion of salt added to the water should be one teaspoonful to two quarts of water. Burn all vegetable parings.—Philadelphia Ledger. Orange Fritters. Make a nice light batter with one-half pound of flour, one-half ounce of butter, half a teaspoonful of salt, two eggs and sufficient milk to give the proper consistency, which would be about one pint; peel the oranges and divide each into eight pieces without breaking the thin skin; dip each piece into the batter; have ready a pan of boiling lard or clarified dripping; drop the oranges in this and fry them a delicate brown—from eight to ten minutes. When done, lay them on a piece of white blotting paper before the fire to drain away any greasy moisture that may remain; sprinkle them over with white sugar and serve hot. Sardine Sandwiches. Sardine sandwiches may be made with bread or crackers. Drain off the oil; lay the sardines on soft paper to absorb all the oil possible. Pick over with silver knife and fork, removing the bones, etc., and mincing fine. For a box of sardines, use the juice of a small lemon, and one or two teaspoonfuls of melted butter, a speck of cayenne pepper and salt. Sometimes the mixture is rubbed through a sieve, but that is not necessary in every case. Spread the bread or crackers with this paste. Oil would be preferred to melted butter by many, and sometimes a slice of ripe tomato is put in each sandwich. Jumbles. Cream half cup of butter; add one cupful of granulated sugar; beat the yolks and whites of two eggs separately; add them to the sugar and butter, with one teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon extract; then stir in enough flour to make a soft dough; toss on a floured board; roll out a small piece at a time and cut in rounds with a tin cutter and stamp out the center; place them on a slightly floured pan; brush over with the white of egg and sprinkle with granulated sugar; bake in a modern oven a light color. Caramel Mousse. Stir a cupful of granulated sugar in a saucepan over the fire, constantly, until the caramel stage is reached; add gradually a cup of hot milk and stir over boiling water until the caramel is dissolved, then add a rounding teaspoon of gelatine soaked in two tablespoons of cold water and half a cup of sugar. Strain into a pan, chill and add whipped cream, flavor with vanilla and freeze. Garnish with whipped cream and sprinkle macaroon crumbs over all. Lemon Pie. One cupful of sugar, one heaping teaspoonful of flour, two eggs (reserving one white for frosting) and the grated rind and juice of one lemon; beat thoroughly, and pour on one cupful of boiling water; cook in a double pan; line the pan with your crust and bake quickly, then pour in the lemon custard, pour the frosting over it, return to oven and brown. Stuffed Ham. Cut out a piece from the thick part of the ham as square as possible. Take a strong skewer half an inch in diameter; pierce the meat full of holes, and fill with a dressing such as is made for turkey. Tie in a thick cloth and boil from three to four hours. After it is cool, cut into thin slices for the table. Stewed Dates. Break the dates apart, wash in cold, then in hot water, drain them and cover with cold water; cook until tender—a very few minutes—take out the fruit, add a little sugar to the water and boil five minutes, pour over the dates and set away to get cold. YOUNG LAD BANISHED. An Extraordinary Sentence for Depraved Boy Who Plotted to Murder a Little Girl. Banishment from home for three years is the strange sentence meted out by Judge Conklin of Blue Point, L. I., to Leonard Robinson, the notorious 14-year- THE FILM "THE MISSING WOMAN" BY JOHN H. HARRIS, WITH A PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN H. HARRIS. Robinson and His Intended Victim. old boy accused of plotting to murder Jessie Danes, a former playmate. This is probably the only case on record in modern jurisprudence where banishment has been made the punishment for attempted murder. Shed Old Suit Too Quickly, A story is told of a Pennsylvania farmer who wore his old suit until every one was tired of it, and his estimable wife was almost ashamed of the hustling man who had been inside it so long. But one day he went to town to sell his produce, and while there he determined to buy a new suit, and, happy thought, surprise Eliza. So he bundled a neat suit into the wagon and drove homeward. It was after night as he hurried homeward, and at a bridge over a river he stood up on the wagon and "peeled" and threw the despised old suit in the water. Then he reached for his new clothes. They were gone—had jolted out of the wagon. The night was cold and his teeth chattered as he hurried for home. He surprised Eliza even more than he anticipated. Northwestern House APPLETON, WIS. JOHN A. BRILL, - Proprietor. Terms $1.00 Per Day. Accommodations the best in the State. When in Appleton stop at the NORTHWESTERN WHEN IN MADISON Call at the Avenue Hotel... M. J. REGAN, Prop. $2.00 Rate . . . . Free 'Bus. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: OZONIZED OX MARROW This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp and prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. It is made for straightening kinky hair. Beware of mutations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair at home. Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is the best and most economical. It is not possible to make it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists and dealers or send us 50 cents for one bottle or $1.40 for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Send postal or express money order. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. WE TRUST YOU AND SEND OUR GOODS TO YOU ON CREDIT. We Pay all the Express Charges. OU can earn from $10.00 to $50.00 a week selling our great remedy. If you already have a position, you can make good money by working in your spare time. Now is the accepted time. Write before some one else gets the Agency, as we only want one Agent in a place. How many opportunities to make money have you lost? Here is a chance for every man or woman, boy or girl, to make money every day in the year. IRONAL, the great natural medicine, is a certain cure for all diseases of the Stomach, Liver, Kidneys, Bladder, Bowels, and Blood. It cures Headache, Backache, Cramps, Colic, Pains in the Shoulders, Arms, Breast, Back, Legs, and Lungs. Cures Rheumatism, Sore Throat, Dropsy, Kidney Diseases, Fevers of all kinds, Malaria, Gout, Lumbago, and all diseases of the human system which are not of an organic nature—such as Cancer and Consumption. It is especially curative in Asthma, Scrofula, Syphilis, Eczema, and all breaking-out diseases of the skin. Also cures all forms of diseases peculiar to women. It is Nature's own remedy. Non-poisonous, and no dose, no matter how large, can hurt any one. It is taken both internally and applied externally on Sores, Eruptions, &c. The price is 25c., mailed to any address on receipt of price. We want one Agent in every locality to sell this great remedy. It never fails to satisfy. If you want the Agency, send in your application quick, and we will send the goods promptly by express. Send no money; just fill out the coupon, and we will not only send you the goods, but we will also pay the express on this end. Now is not this fair? You can see that we are not frauds or fakirs, for we trust you with our goods. We will send you two dozen packages of IRONAL; these you sell for 25c. each, or $6.00 in all. You keep $3.00 and send us $3.00. After you have sold out, and remitted the money to us, you can get all the goods on credit from us that you want. Write your name and address plainly, so that we can read it. If the name is not plainly written it makes trouble and delays shipping the goods. THE IRONAL CO., 106 $ \frac{1}{2} $ E. Clay St., Richmond, Va.: GENTLEMEN, I hereby apply for the Agency for IRONAL, the great natural remedy. Please send me at once by Express two dozen packages of IRONAL (24). These I agree to sell for 25c. each, or $ 6.00 in all. I will send you $ 3.00 and keep $ 3.00 for my trouble. The Ironal Co. is to pay the express charges. If I cannot sell the goods, I will return them. If there is no Express Office in your town, state nearest town where there is one. When writing to advertisers please mention Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. THE IRONAL CO., 106½ E. Cla GENTLEMEN,—I here Please send me at once by Express to 25c. each, or $6.00 in all. I will send pay the express charges. If I cann My Name is The Name of the Street I live My Post-Office is_____ My State is_____ If there is no Express Office in your NORTHERN WISCONSIN RAIL- ROAD LANDS Are increasing in value from year to year. Railroads are the great civilizers, for they give the settler as well as the manufacturer equal opportunity to work in undeveloped fields, thereby rapidly settling the country and bringing forth its undiscovered riches. Northern Wisconsin is rich in iron ore, clay, kaolin, marl, timber and fine farm lands. It has made many a settler independent and added to the wealth of manufacturers who have sought this territory. Opportunities have not passed, as there is still a generous supply of land which can be obtained at low figures and on easy terms. THE WISCONSIN CENTRAL RY. Was one of the first roads to penetrate the vast Northern Wisconsin Wilderness which stretches across the State from east to west. It, also, has developed from year to year and today offers the best of transportation facilities, enabling all to ship the products of that section to any market in the world. Illustrated pamphlets and maps which are interesting as well as instructive can be obtained by addressing W. H. KILLEN, WISCONSIN CENTRAL RAILWAY. TICKET OFFICE, 400 EAST WATER ST. Tel. 624. TO AND FROM ST. Paul, Minneapolis, Iron Town, Ashland, Superior, Duluth, Pacific Coast ... Morshott Ll., Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire ... Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Neenah, Menasha ... LEAVE *5:00 am *8:45 pm ARRIVE *7:15 am *8:00 pm *7:15 am +3:20 pm *8:00 pm *7:15 am +10:15 am +3:20 pm *6:15 pm *8:00 pm *Daily. +Daily except Sunday. E. F. POTTER, Gen'l Supt. JAS. C. POND, Gen'l Pass. Agt. Milwaukee, Wis. WILLIAM T. GREEN Lawyer Notary Public Rooms 17-18 Birchard Block. 105 GRAND AVENUE. Telephone White 9214 MILWAUKEE. WANTED--AGENTS We want 100 agents in every city, town and hamlet in the U. S. for the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. It will be devoted to the interest of the Negro race and will contain the news of their sayings and doings throughout the world. WISCONSIN WEEKLY ADVOCATE MILWAUKEE, WIS. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year four months, $1. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN & Co. 361Broadway. New York Branch Office, 625 F St., Washington, D. C. 4 to $50.00 a week selling our great remedy, good money by working in your spare time, else gets the Agency, as we only want one money have you lost? Here is a chance for you in the year. IRONAL, the great nature, Liver, Kidneys, Bladder, Bowels, and Bladder Shoulders, Arms, Breast, Back, Legs, and Diseases, Fevers of all kinds, Malaria, Gout, not of an organic nature—such as Cancer, Profola, Syphilis, Eczema, and all breaking-earl to women. It is Nature's own remedy, art any one. It is taken both internally and 25c., mailed to any address on receipt of pity remedy. It never fails to satisfy. If you send the goods promptly by express. Send you the goods, but we will also pay the amount we are not frauds or fakirs, for we trust you of IRONAL; these you sell for 25c. each, have sold out, and remitted the money to us. Write your name and address plainly, makes trouble and delays shipping the goods to— THE IRONAL 106½ E. Clay St. E. Clay St., Richmond, Va.: I hereby apply for the Agency for IRONAL express two dozen packages of IRONAL (24 will send you $3.00 and keep $3.00 for my I cannot sell the goods, I will return them. At I live on is___ The number ___ My County is___ My nearest Express Office is___ in your town, state nearest town where the mention Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. ...UNIQ Laundry and No. 208 Six GEO. W. ...ALL WORK CAR Lowest Prices and Sat PARTIES intending to w Ark., this will tronize the RAMMELS BATH HOUSE MARK SA 21 BA calling our great remedy. If you already have in your spare time. Now is the acceptance as we only want one Agent in a place. Here is a chance for every man or woman IRONAL, the great natural medicine, is a cesser,adder, Bowels, and Blood. It cures Headache, Breast, Back, Legs, and Lungs. Cures Rheumal kinds, Malaria, Gout, Lumbago, and all cure—such as Cancer and Consumption. Ana, and all breaking-out diseases of the skin Nature's own remedy. Non-poisonous, and even both internally and applied externally address on receipt of price. We want oneails to satisfy. If you want the Agency, simply by express. Send no money; just fint but we will also pay the express on this end or fakirs, for we trust you with our goods. You sell for 25c. each, or $6.00 in all. Youmitted the money to us, you can get all the and address plainly, so that we can read 11 days shipping the goods. THE IRONAL CO. 106½ E. Clay St., RICHMOND Bond, Va.: The Agency for IRONAL, the great naturalages of IRONAL (24). These I agree to and keep $3.00 for my trouble. The Ironalails, I will return them. 106½ E. Clay St., RICHMOND, VA. My County is rest Express Office is nearest town where there is one. ...UNION... dry and New No. 208 Sixth Street E.O. W. SAYLE WORK CAREFULLY t Prices and Satisfaction Guarantee TIES ending to visit HotS k., this winter, sho ize the MELSBERG H HOUSE, MARK SARGENT, M 21 BATHS $3.0 THE BAKERY No. 208 Sixth Street GEO. W. SAYLES ...ALL WORK CAREFULLY DONE... Lowest Prices and Satisfaction Guaranteed. PARTIES intending to visit HotSprings Ark., this winter, should patronize the MARK SARGENT, Manager. 21 BATHS $3.00 A man is whispering to a woman. ALL CASES DEAFNESS OR I ARE NOW by our new invention. Only the HEAD NOISES CEAS F. A. WERMAN, OF R. Gentlemen: — Being entirely cured of deafness a full history of my case, to be used at your discretion. About five years ago my right car began to s my hearing in this ear entirely. I underwent a treatment for catarrh, for three ber of physicians, among others, the most emm only an operation could help me, and even tha then cease, but the hearing in the affected ear wou I then saw your advertisement acciden al y i ment. After I had used it only a few days acce to-day, after five weeks, my hearing in the diseas heartily and beg to remain Very truly you ALL CASES OF NESS OR HARD HE ARE NOW CURABLE new invention. Only those born deaf are inc NOISES CEASE IMMEDIAT A. WERMAN, OF BALTIMORE, SAYS BALTIMORE, Md. ing entirely cured of deafness, thanks to your treatment, to be used at your discretion. Go my right ear began to sing, and this kept on getting entirely. iment for catarrh, for three months, without any succe ing others, the most eminent ear specialist of this cid help me, and even that only temporarily, that tiring in the affected ear would be lost forever. advertisement accidentally in a New York paper, and it only a few days according to your directions, the my hearing in the diseased ear has been entirely re main. Very truly yours, E. A. WERMAN, p. S. Broadway Gentlemen : — Being entirely cured of deafness, thanks to your treatment, I will now give you a full history of my case, to be used at your discretion. About five years ago my right car began to sing, and this kept on getting worse, until I lost my, hearing in this ear entirely. I underwent a treatment for catarrh, for three months, without any success, consulted a number of physicians, among others, the most eminent ear specialist of this city, who told me that only an operation could help me, and even that only temporarily, that the head noises would then cease, but the hearing in the affected ear would be lost forever. I then saw your advertisement acciden ally in a New York paper, and ordered your treatment. After I had used it only a few days according to your directions, the noises ceased, and to-day, after five weeks, my hearing in the diseased ear has been entirely restored. I thank you heartily and beg to remain. Very truly yours. Mention the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate when answering advertisements. The number of my house is Prominent Resident of Calumet County Passes Away. He was 32d Degree Mason and Well-Known Republican—Death of Brillion's Former Mayor. Hayton, Wis., March 19.—[Special.] —Richard F. Connell, for many years a resident of this place, died here early this morning of stomach trouble, at the age of 58 years. He was born in Washington county, Wis., in 1843, and until the age of 25 he remained on his father's farm. After this for some years he traveled in Oregon and Texas, in the employ of railroads then in course of construction, as a master carpenter. In 1873 he came to Hayton, and with his brother, James Connell, now of Milwaukee, engaged in the mercantile business. Some three or four years after his arrival at this town he established the grain and lumber business which he conducted until his death. For some time he was chairman of this town, and for years had been identified with Republican politics in this county. Mr. Connell was a thirty-second degree Mason, and was well known in Masonic circles. He leaves a wife and one child, a son. Jacob Roemer, Manitowoc. Manitowoc. Wis. March 19.—[Special.]—Jacob Roemer, senior member of the Rand & Roemer wholesale hardware company, died at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home on South Eighth street in this city after an illness of two weeks. Death was caused by pneumonia. Mr. Roemer was born in Croev, Germany, August 26, 1839, and when only 12 years of age came to this city in company with his father and has always made his home here since. October 15, 1865, he was married to Miss Catherine Hessel and four years after her death in 1885, he married Mrs. Kirscher, his present wife, who survives him. Beside the wife, seven children survive. They are the Misses Anna, Olive and Theodore and Charles and Richard Roemer, Mrs. J. H. Staehle and Mrs. Joseph Kucera, all of this city. Former Mayor of New Lisbon. New Lisbon, Wis., March 19.—[Special.]—Ex-Mayor Henry Bierbauer, a resident of this city since 1859, died yesterday of paralysis. He was a native of Bavaria and was born at Einselthum, Rheinpfalz, on February 12, 1828. After four years of business activity in New York city, 1850 to 1854, he went to Utica, N. Y., and became a brewer. His main business here was the brewery. He was also a partner in the Bierbauer & Smart Roller Mill company and the H. Bierbauer Hardware company. He leaves a widow and several grown children. I. G. Erdlitz, Marinette. Marinette, Wis., March 19.—[Special.]—Attorney John G. Erdllitz of this city, a brother of Mayor Erdllitz of Menominee, Mich., died this morning of consumption, aged 30. He was a former member of the Indiana Legislature. Chippewa Falls Man Drops Dead. Chippewa Falls, Wis., March 19.—[Special.]—Joseph Magnan dropped dead this morning at Nebagamon. His wife and eight children reside here. Dies in the Philippines. Mosinee, Wis., March 19.—A letter received by Fred Werner announces the death of his son William in the Philippines last December. Mrs. Phebe All, Ironton. Ironton, Wis., March 19.—[Special.]—Mrs. Phebe All, who came to Ironton in 1853, died last night at the age of 79 CELEBRATION IS FATAL. North-Western Road Not Responsible for Death of Kenosha Boy. Kenosha, Wis., March 19.—The suit of Charles Euting vs. the Chicago & North-Western Railway company, a suit for $5000 for personal injury, came to a sudden termination when Judge Belden took the case from the jury and ordered a verdict for the defendant. The boy was injured by the explosion of a railway torpedo and the fireman who placed the torpedo on the track went on the stand and stated that he had placed the torpedo to assist in the celebration of the Fourth of July and not for the uses of the company. LIVED AT INSANE ASYLUM. Oshkosh Trustee Offers to Pay $15 for Four Months' Board. Oshkosh, Wis., March 19.—[Special.] Hereafter if any of the trustees of the Winnebago insane asylum desire to remain over night or take meals at the institution they must pay for what they receive. This was decided upon by the county board this morning, which has just finished its investigations of charges that E. R. Mathewson, a trustee, had been living at the asylum. It was found that Mathewson had resided at the institution for the greater part of four months and that he had paid nothing to the county. Mathewson offered to settle for $15 when the investigation was started. MUST PAY GATES $20,385.10. Amount of Chippewa County's Indebtedness is Settled. Chippewa Falls, Wis., March 19. [Special.]—The commissioners appointed to make a settlement between Chippewa and Gates counties reported to the county board yesterday afternoon, that the amount to be paid Gates by Chippewa county is $20,385.10. The supervisors believe that the value of the county buildings is placed too high and the board deferred action until Thursday CLAIM IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. Verdict of Coroner's Jury in Drowning at Prairie du Chien. Prairie du Chien, Wis., March 19. [Special.]—The body found in the Mississippi river has been positively identified as that of Peter Holley, who disappeared last October. The coroner's jury brought in a verdict of accidental drowning, although the general impression is foul play. FINE HOTEL FOR WAUSAU. Forty Thousand Dollars will be Expended on the Bellis. Wausau, Wis., March 19.—[Special.] —G. F. Bellis & Son, proprietors of the Bellis hotel, have decided to expend $40,000 this spring in making that hotel one of the finest north of Milwaukee. Woman Infatuated with Coroner. Racine, Wis., March 19.—Henry W. Nelson, coroner of Racine county, who left the city recently saying he was going to Minneapolis, is at work in a Chicago department store and refuses to return to Racine. The governor will have to appoint a temporary successor. It is said that Nelson left the city to escape a woman that had become infatuated with him. HOTEL AT KILBOURN TOTALLY DESTROYED. The Park, Owned by J. T. Bresnan, Burns, Causing a Loss of $10,000. Kilbourn, Wis., March 19.—[Special.] —The Park hotel, owned by J. F. Bresnan, caught fire yesterday from the furnace and was almost entirely consumed. The loss is about $10,000 with $2500 insurance. DEPERE COLLEGE CORNERSTONE LAID. Bishop Messmer of Green Bay Conducts Services-Norbertines Control Institution. Depere, Wis., March 19.—[Special.]—The cornerstone of the new St. Norbert college was laid this afternoon with great solemnity and ceremony by Bishop Messmer and many of the clergy of Green Bay diocese. The stone was blessed in St. Joseph's church and was then carried in procession to the site of the new building, where it was laid by the bishop, who made an address on "Catholic Education." Today was the feast of St. Joseph and it was celebrated by the bishop at St. Joseph's church, the center of St. Joseph's archconfraternity. Rev. Father Steinbrecher of Kaukauna preached the sermon. A large number of priests and many Catholics from surrounding places were in attendance. The ground for the new college was broken last fall and the foundation has been completed. The building will be very handsome and will cost $40,000. It will be ready to begin the college courses next September. The college will be under the control of the Norbertine Fathers and they will conduct business and classical courses. CUTS DOWN ARCHITECTS' FEES Plans for School Were Rejected—Story of Inquisitive Hog. Baraboo, Wis., March 19.—[Special.] The people of district No. 6, town of Baraboo, desired a new schoolhouse and asked Claud & Stark of Madison to prepare the plans and specifications. Nothing was said about the proposed cost of the building and instead of preparing plans for a structure costing a few hundred dollars, the architects planned for a building to cost fully $5000. The patrons of the school could not accept the work and refused to pay the architects the $225 asked. In the circuit court yesterday before Judge Seibecker it was decided that the architects be paid $60 for their services. Charles Klitzke had an inquisitive hog which was in teh habit of making explorations on the property owned by Sarah J. Thorne. On one of these trips the hog came to his death as the result of Mrs. Thorne's dog giving him a livey chase and the owner of the hog came into court to obtain damages for his property. The jury awarded him the value of the porker. NOYES JUMPS BAIL BOND. Baraboo Man, Charged with Forgery, Does Not Appear for Trial. Baraboo, Wis., March 19.—[Special.] —F. A. Philbrick has been granted a judgment of $520 against D. W. K. Noyes. Through an attorney Noyes persuaded Philbrick to take a note to the First National bank and get it cashed. It turned out to be a forgery and Judge Siebecker awarded him the value of the note and costs. For a time Noyes was in jail and while there part of his bond was deposited in the bank, but before it could all be raised he obtained his release and then Philbrick garnisheed the money and obtained it through the court. Noyes failed to appear at the trial and his bond must be paid. He will be subject to arrest if he appears in Baraboo during the next six years. He is a brother of Judge Noyes, who was recently removed by the President from his office in Alaska. MYLREA TO LEAVE WAUSAU. Ex-Attorney General will Remove to Chicago Where He will Open Office. Wausau, Wis., March 19.—[Special.]—Ex-Atty.-Gen. W. H. Mylrea has decided to leave Wausau and has entered into a partnership with J. E. Paden of Chicago, to which city he will move about the middle of April. Mr. Mylrea has been a resident of Wausau for the past nineteen years. Coming here in 1883, he entered into law practice with C. V. Bardeen, now a justice of the Supreme court, and continued that practice up to 1894, when he was elected attorney general for this state. Since his retirement from politics in 1898 he has made a specialty of insurance cases, in which he has made a state reputation. FOR A NEW COLLEGE. Government Money for Chemical L.L. Engineering College at Madison Madison, Wis., March 19.—Dean J. B. Johnson of the college of engineering of the university said that as soon as the bill, now pending before Congress and providing that the proceeds from the sale of public lands shall be appropriated to the support of schools of mining and similar sciences, had passed a new department to be known as a school of chemical engineering would be established as a branch of the college of engineering. SHERIFF PROTECTS MILLS. Paper Strike is Spreading at Stevens Point. Stevens Point, Wis., March 19.—The strike of papermakers is spreading and strike leaders are still hoping for men to come out and quit. Mr. Whiting reports to the sheriff that men are resorting to coercion and intimidation to keep nonunion men from working. Sheriff Gaylord appointed a guard of three deputies to protect life and property at the mills should there be any attempt at a hostile demonstration. Some of the imported men and others who had remained at work during the two previous outbreaks are now out with the strikers. IRVINE COAL SHED BURNS. Wisconsin Central Railway Company's Lose by Fire Chippewa Falls, Wis., March 19. [Special.]—The large coal shed of the Wisconsin Central Railway company at Irvine burned this morning, together with 583 tons of coal. The fire department responded, but owing to the distance, the shed was wrecked before its arrival. A spark from a locomotive is believed to have started the fire. G. P. Hewitt Honored. Kenosha, Wis., March 19.—George P. Hewitt, formerly editor of the Kenosha Evening News, but at the present time a post-graduate student at Harvard college, has been elected a member of the National Historical association. To Represent Platteville. Platteville, Wis., March 19.—Frank Faucett will represent the normal school of Platteville in the interstate normal oratorical contest at Superior, March 21. MEN NOT YET RESCUED Tug Unable to Go to Relief of Stranded Fishermen. Families of Missing Fishermen Fear They Were Carried Out on Floating Ice. Marinette, Wis., March 18.—[Special.] —There is a great deal of anxiety here for the safety of the fifteen Marinette fishermen who were caught in the moving ice Saturday night. The Gagnon, which started out to bring them back, was unable to make the trip on account of the heavy sea, and returned. The tug will make another attempt this afternoon. In the meantime friends and relatives of the missing men, whose whereabouts for a certainty are not known, are in great alarm and making every possible effort to hurry the trip of the tug. Nothing has been heard from the missing men, and it was taken as a matter of course that they had got ashore on Chambers island, but it is likely that they had a hard time of it and some of them may not have made the island. The ice moved unexpectedly and when it started up it was moving along at the rate of about seven miles an hour. A break in the island side of the ice would have made it impossible for the men to land and they would have been carried out into the lake. EXPLOSION IS FATAL Boller In Mill Near Wausau Blows Up, Wrecking the Plant. Wausau, Wis., March 18.—[Special.]— At 7 o'clock this morning a terrible explosion occurred at the Gavitt mill, about ten miles east of this city, which resulted in the death of three men. The dead are: GAVITT, WILLIAM M., owner of the mill, 48 years old; lived fifteen minutes after accident. GOLDMAN, CASPER, 27 years old. Instantly killed. DOHONESCKI, JOHN, 15 years of ago. Instantly killed. The mill had just started up for the days' run when the accident occurred. The boiler, which was a large one, was driven 600 feet from the mill, wrecking the engine room and striking the three men in its progress, killing two instantly. About fifteen minutes before the explosion the entire crew of fifteen men were in the engine room warming themselves and had they remained a few minutes longer, hardly one would have escaped injury, for all were crowded near the boiler. The Dohoneski boy's head was nearly blown from his body and he was otherwise injured. Goldman's skull was fractured on the right side and Gavitt's skull was fractured above the right ear and his left arm was broken. Gavitt came here from Damascus, Pa., fifteen years ago and engaged since that time in the lumber business. He leaves a wife and five children. The cause of the explosion is thought to have been neglect of the water guage. DR. EATON AT REST. Death of a Prominent Physician of Oakhosh. Oshkosh, Wis., March 18.—[Special.] —The funeral of Dr. Leonidas H. Eaton, a well-known physician of this city, who died Sunday morning after an illness with diabetes and heart disease, took place this afternoon at 1 o'clock. Dr. Eaton was born on a farm in the town of Oshkosh, Winnebago county, September 2. 1849, the son of Jefferson and Jane Brooks Eaton, both of whom were natives of the state of New York. In summer he worked on the farm and in winter attended the district school. During the winter of 1868 and 1869 he was a student in the public schools of this city. He also taught school at about this time. During the winter of 1869 and 1870 he studied medicine in this city. In the fall of 1871 he entered Rush Medical college at Chicago. Two weeks later he had entered the college was destroyed in the great Chicago fire and he returned to this city and pursued his study of medicine privately. In the meantime the college was rebuilt and he re-entered it in the fall of 1872 and completed a full medical course in the spring of 1874. He was city physician in 1882. Deceased was a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen and also the Sons of St. George societies. Those who survive him are his brother, M. H. Eaton, and a sister, Mrs. Ellen Neville, both of this city. DECREASE IN BIRTHS. Nearly 2000 Less in Wisconsin than During Previous Year. Madison, Wis., March 18.—According to the returns made by county registers of deeds to Secretary of State Frechlich, the total number of births in Wisconsin in 1901 was nearly 2000 less than the preceding year. The greatest decrease was in Winnebago county, which reports a falling off of nearly 100 per cent. The number of marriages increased 500 and the deaths 410. All counties in the state except Juneau have made their reports to the secretary of state. FIGHT WITH BUCK DEER. Racine Man Badly Wounded by Enraged Animal. Racine, Wis., March 18. After fighting thirty minutes with an enraged buck deer, Joseph Shulax, an employee of ex-Mayor M. M. Secor, came out alive, but badly cut and lacerated, and it will be weeks before his wounds are healed. Mr. Secor is the owner of a small zoological garden in which are kept deer and other animals. A large buck got loose in the orchard and Shulax attempted to drive it back into the enclosure. HENRY J. LAUN DEAD. Pioneer Sawmill Operator of Kiel Passes Away. Kiel, Wis., March 18.—[Special.]—Henry John Laun, one of the most prominent citizens of this vicinity and a pioneer of the town of Schleswig, passed away at the age of 64 years of apoplexy. He operated one of the first sawmills in this part of the state. He is survived by his wife and four sons, J. B. Laun of this place, Louis Laun of Elkhart, Henry G. Laun of Waukesha and Alfred A. Laun of New Holstein. LUMBER BURNS AT ELAND. Fire Breaks Out in the Yards of the Traffic Company. Eland, Wis., March 18.—[Special.] Fire broke out in the lumberyard of the Eland Traffic company, destroying about 500,000 feet of lumber, yesterday. By hard work by the fire department the rest of the lumber was saved. ABDUCTED PROFESSOR. How Madison Teacher Happened to Fall In Love with Rich Seminary Girl. Binghamton, N. Y., March 18.—[Special.]—The announcement of the marriage of Prof. Clark Landis, formerly of Madison, Wis., to Miss Ethel R. Shearer is the culmination of a romantic abduction on the part of a class of schoolgirls in which the professor was the principal. The freshman class of the Susquehanna seminary had arranged a banquet. with Prof. Landis as toastmaster of the evening. The sophomore girls made an unsuccessful attempt to raid the banquet hall and then did the next best thing. They abducted the toastmaster, Prof. Landis. He was hurried into a carriage and then driven to a house in an adjacent village, where he was detained for twelve hours. One of his jailers, was Miss Shearer, who under these peculiar circumstances met the professor for the first time. Although he is 38 years old and she is but 18, it was a case of love at first sight, and rather than involve her in any unpleasantness, he refused to make charges against the students who participated in the prank, to the faculty. Miss Shearer is the daughter o. wealthy parents, but they offered no objection to the union, and Prof. and Mrs. Landis are receiving the congratulations of their classmates and friends. WILL NOT PAY TAXES. Racine Company Considers Assessment at Sheboygan Exorbitant and will Fight It. Sheboygan, Wis., March 18.—[Special.]—Attorney Kearney of Racine addressed the city council last night, giving notice that the company intended contesting the payment of its tax assessment of this year, considering it exorbitant. The company's tax is over $9000, about $1000 increase over the year previous. Fleischer circle, Ladies of the Grand Army, gave their first card social last night. Over 300 took part. First prize was won by A. Ottstedt, second by W. Kupsch. Mrs. Edward Debell led the lady bowlers last night at the Elks alleys, scoring 157. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Tallmadge are in San Francisco. MURDERED FOR $12. Body of Man, Who Had Been Missing Months, Found in River Near Prairie du Chien. Prairie du Chien, Wis., March 18.—[Special.]—The badly decomposed body of a man was found by hunters in the Mississippi river, a mile below the city. It was identified as Peter Holley, who disappeared suddenly last October from Ahren's dairy farm, where he was employed, and had not been heard from since. The general impression is that Holley was murdered for $12 which he had just received for his wages, as he has a deep gash in his neck, on the right side of his face and over the left eye. There are blood stains on his clothing and the body is not bleated, which strongly indicates murder. From appearances the body was probably in the water all winter. All valuables were taken from the body. COLLEGE IN PERIL. Students Turn Fire-Fighters and Save Institution from Destruction. Racine, Wis., March 18.—[Special.]— For a while last evening it seemed impossible to save Racine college from total destruction by fire. The students, under President Robinson, turned fire fighters and battled with the flames until they were extinguished. The loss was slight, but property valued at $200,-000 was in great peril. LOSES HIS EYESIGHT. August Ebert, Living Near Necedah, Accidentally Shoots Himself While Out Hunting. Necedah, Wis., March 18.—[Special.] —August Ebert of the town of Preston, near Friendship, was shot by the accidental discharge of his gun, while hunting. Part of the charge penetrated his chest and also one eye, destroying the sight. He was sent to Milwaukee to have the eye taken out. FIRE AT FOND DU LAC. Block of Old Wooden Buildings are Destroyed. Fond du Lac, Wis., March 18.—[Special.]—Fire early this morning almost completely destroyed the wooden block of buildings on the west side of Main street, near Second street, owned by William Clancy and M. M. Anderson and occupied by the Kietlow Bros.' cigar factory and store, the Sommerfield barber shop and the Ideal restaurant, owned and operated by Mrs. F. E. Case. The fire started at about 2 o'clock, presumably in the Kietlow store. The total loss is estimated at $6000, well covered by insurance. WINS SENIOR ORATORICAL. Michael B. Olbrich of Lawrence, Ill. Takes First Place. Madison, Wis., March 18.—Michael B. Olbrich of Lawrence, Ill., won the "senior open" last night with an oration on John Quincy Adams, the judges giving him four out of six points. Thorwald P. Apel of Kenosha and Frank W. Bucklin of Brodhead were tied for second place. John V. Brennan of Tomah qualified for the final by obtaining fourth place. It is expected that the final oratorical contest will be held March 28. ROUTS ROBBERS WITH SHEARS Masked Thieves Fail in Attempt to Hold Up Dunbar Man. Dunbar, Wis., March 18.—Two masked robbers tried to rob W. E. Hallenback. He was alone in his sitting room when he heard someone step up on his porch and rap. He picked up a pair of large shears and went to the door. On opening it one of the robbers shoved a revolver in his face and told him to hold up his hands. He struck at the fellow and then slammed the door shut. The robbers were evidently green at the business. Former Milwaukee Man Sued by a Woman at Manitowoc. Manitowoc, March 18.—[Special.]—Civil damages for alleged breach of promise are sought by Anna Kohlbeck of Kossuth in a suit which has been instituted in circuit court here. Emil Cizek, until recently a resident of Milwaukee, is the defendant and the plaintiff seeks to recover $5000. OBJECT TO SUNDAYSHOWS Appleton Ministers and Churchgoers are Indignant. Opera House Built by Subscriptions from People Who Object to Sabbath Breaking. Appleton, Wis., March 17.—[Special.] The first Sunday attraction ever booked by the management of the Appleton theater was put on the boards last night and was the signal for open warfare between the local ministers and their staunchest followers, and the members of the Appleton Theater company, who are some of the most prominent and representative business men in this city and the Fox River valley. The play had been extensively advertised throughout the week, giving the pastors ample time to prepare a knockout blow for a repetition of this practice. Rev. F. T. Rouse of the First Congregational church was perhaps the most strenuous in his attempt to compel a discontinuance of engaging Sunday night attractions. He denounced the action on the part of the company, declaring that he was positive that none of his people and but few others in the city who contributed anything towards the erection of the new playhouse, did so with the idea that it would be open on Sunday evenings and thus furnish a rendezvous for the rough element who attend church only as a last resort. A union meeting of all the church workers in the city has been called for some night during the coming week, at which time the matter will be thoroughly discussed and steps taken to suppress a repetition of Sunday evening shows. The new Appleton theater, which was constructed at a cost of over $35,000, and which was dedicated but a few weeks ago, is the private property of a firm of which John S. Van Nortwick, the millionaire papermaker, is president. Nearly one-half of the cost of the house was paid by the citizens of Appleton, who to the number of over 1200 subscribed from $10 up toward the erection of the new playhouse. Many of the heaviest subscribers being prominent and influential church members, it is thought that the fight against Sunday attractions will result in much bitter feeling among the leading citizens of the city. SHOT IN THE HEAD. Cowardly Attempt to Murder the Former City Clerk of Brillion. Brillion, Wis., March 17.—An attempt was made to murder John Otto, formerly city clerk of this place, a shot being fired at him through the window as he sat in his parlor, Saturday evening. The bullet crashed through the window glass, struck his head, glanced off and entered the arm of his son, who was sitting close by, inflicting a painful wound. Why Mr. Otto's life should have been attempted in such a manner is a mystery. Neither he nor the officers working on the case have been able to offer any reason or furnish any clue that would throw light upon what appears to be an attempt to murder him. ASKS $10,000 DAMAGES. Seymour Swarts of Chicago, Who was Ejected from a Kenosha Hotel, Brings Suit. Racine, Wis., March 17.—[Special.]—Seymour Swarts of Chicago, president of the American Iron and Steel company of that city, has notified his attorneys, Cooper, Simmons, Nelson & Walker, to bring suit for $10,000 damages against William Papferwein of Kenosha, proprietor of the Hotel Kenosha. Swarts was ejected from the hotel last Thursday. Papferwein was fined $2 and costs in the municipal court for assaulting Swarts. KILLS BROTHER WHILE HUNTING. Bullet Hits Stone and Glancing Off Enters Boy's Abdomen-Dies In Few Moments. Marinette, Wis., March 17.—[Special.] The two young sons of Frank Forvielly of Ingalls, Mich., were hunting rabbits Saturday. The older one fired a shot, the bullet struck a stone, glanced off and penetrated the abdomen of the younger boy. He died in a few hours. He was 12 years old. BAYFIELD COUNTY PINE. Edward Hines Lumber Company Holds Option on Tract. Duluth Minn., March 17.—An important deal in standing pine in Bayfield county, Wis., is pending. The Edward Hines Lumber company of Chicago holds an option to purchase the standing pine owned by the Bigelow Bros. Lumber company of Ashland. The deal carries with it the Bigelow sawmill at Ashland, and altogether is one of the biggest transactions in this line that has been announced for a long time. It is reported that cruisers for the Edward Hines Lumber company are looking the timber over, and after that is done the deal may be completed. 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Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alx. Senna + Rochelle Salts - Anise Seed + Peppermint - Bitartrate Soda + Worm Seed - Clarified Sugar Wintergreen Flavor. A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Char. H. Hitchner. NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Char. H. Hitchner. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. MISS VIRGINIA GRANES Tells How Hospital Physicians Use and Rely upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Twelve years continuous service at the sick bed in some of our prominent hospitals, as well as at private homes, has given me varied experiences with the diseases of women. I have nursed some A. MISS VIRGINIA GRANES, President of Nurses'Association, Watertown,N.Y. most distressing cases of inflammation and ulceration of the ovaries and womb. I have known that doctors used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound when everything else failed with their patients. I have advised my patients and friends to use it and have yet to hear of its first failure to cure. "Four years ago I had falling of the womb from straining in lifting a heavy patient, and knowing of the value of your Compound I began to use it at once, and in six weeks I was well once more, and have had no trouble since. I am most pleased to have had an opportunity to say a few words in praise of your Vegetable Compound, and shall take every occasion to recommend it."—MISS VIRGINIA GRANES.—$5000 forfeit if above testimonial is not genuine. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has stood the test of time, and has cured thousands. Mrs. Pinkham advises sick women free. Address, Lynn, Mass. 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At 6 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. ELECTRIC Great King Electric Belt It Cures Men It is the Best we send you the Belt. It is yours to keep for or accept any money for it either now a tive statement of facts. We guarantee it trial will prove to you its power, a week's vigor that alone makes life worth living. NERVOUS, SEXUAL, URINARY, such as impotency, varicocele, spermatorium to its magic influence. We give away only You; then your friends will all want one. Write today in confidence, telling all about will be sent you free at once. WISCONSIN MEDICAL INSTITUTE, Many School Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, successfully used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, break up Colds in 24 hours, cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms, Ten thousand testimonials. THEY NEVER FAIL At all druggists' 25c. 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C —There is a general crisis for wine growers, because of an overproduction in the entire world. Lane's Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Officials of Westminster abbey charge fees aggregating over $2000 when a memorial is placed in the abbey. I find Piso's Cure for Consumption the best medicine for croupy children.—Mrs. F. Callahan, 114 Hall street, Parkersburg, W. Va., April 16, 1901. Mediterranean oranges and those from Florida come to us in birch boxes made in Maine. Each package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYE colors more goods than any other dye and colors them better, too. —The General Electrical company sold apparatus during last year to the amount of $74,000,000. MRS. 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BELT FREE Why be a sorrowful Weak Man when this King of all Electric Belts will restore you to health and happiness? This great free offer is made to you and it holds good for a few days only, so write today. Write today—it is yours for the asking without one cent of cost to you. This is no deposit scheme, no 30 days' trial scheme, no scheme of any kind to get your money out of you. You simply send us your name and forever, and we under no circumstances ask or in the future. This is a plain, simple, posithe Best Electric Belt made. A few minutes' wearing of it will restore strength and manly All forms of KIDNEY AND LIVER DISEASES, shea, conditions from abuse, etc., yield at once a limited number of these belts. It will Cure and from those sales we will make our profit. It your case, naming this paper, and the Belt 307 Grand Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. An Easter hat it was, displayed Within a window wide, And many a matron, miss and maid Upon it gazed, and sighed. And some exclaimed: "Oh, what a dear!" And some: "Tis just a dream!" And some, while pressing ever near, Could scarce keep back a scream. Yet I, a man, beheld the hat, And tried in vain to see What magic was contained in that Grotesque monstrosity. Its foliage of funny hue— The like no garden knows! Its blossoms—ah, a gorgeous crew Between a squash and rose! But stop. A transformation rare Occurred on Easter morn— This self-same hat, I do declare, Put hats around to scorn! I cannot grasp exactly how I'd been so much misled, For what a vision was it now. Perched snug on Dolly's head! —Edwin L. Sabin in Smart Set. Humorous Items. The more some men are worth—the less they are worth.—Schoolmaster. An actor never knows what a genius he really is until he gets into the hands of a New York press agent.—Philadelphia Ledger. "Who is the fellow with the long hair?" "He's a Yale College boy." "Well, I've often heard of those Yale locks."—Yonkers Statesman. Qualified.—Bizzer—"Upon what does Flasher base his claims of being a society man?" Buzzer—"He's had gout and appendicitis."—Ohio State Journal. Mrs. Stubb—"But, John, how do you know that welsh rarebit is going to disagree with you?" Mr. Stubb (sadly)—"I have inside information."—Chicago News. Mr. Bacon—"I see by this paper that ice one and one-half inches thick will support a man." Mrs. Bacon—"I always said there was an enormous profit in ice, John."—Yonkers Statesman. "It seems a bit queer," remarked the Observer of Events and Things, "that it is not until a political meeting is called to order that the disorder really begins."—Yonkers Statesman. Friend—"A scientist needs a great deal of patience." The Professor—"Yes, indeed. A man may toil for years without attracting enough attention to be denounced as a humbug."—Brooklyn Life. Mrs. Newrich—"But, Henry, how could you have given £10 for this dog? Is he really worth it?" Mr. Newrich (with deep feeling)—"Worth it? Ah, Emily, if you or I had the pedigree that dog has!"—Exchange. Mary had a little hen, That caused her many a tear. It used to lay when eggs were cheap And quit when they were dear. —Washington Star. Family Pride.—"Quick, George!" the wife screamed; "hurry to the baby; she's trying to swallow her rattle!" "I know it," replied the husband, calmly. "I want her to get ahead of Buffkin's baby, who swallowed a button."—Ohio State Journal. Claribel—"I wonder what that creature meant!" Lizzie—"What creature?" Claribel—"Why, Tentworth, of course. When I told him everybody said I was improving in my singing he said he was delighted to hear it."—Boston Transcript. By the Sounding Sea.—"Ah!" sighed the romantic young woman who was one of the fashionable Lenten sojourners at the shore. "I wonder why the ocean moans so." "Perhaps," said the practicis pinching its undertow."—Philadelphia cal young man, "some crab or lobster Press. Two elders were discussing their new minister. "Mon, Sandy," said one of them, "it's an awfu' peety the noo minister speaks through his nose." "Yes, mon," replied the other, "it's an awfu' peety, and it's no like as if he was pinched for room through his smooth."—Tit-Bits. Elsie—"Melville says he thinks platonic friendship is the thing, and that he will never marry." Maud—"I used to know a fellow who said that, too." Elsie—"Where is he now?" Maud—"Upstairs playing with baby." —Tit-Bits. What's in a Name.—Tess—"I've written Mame Woodby an invitation to my tea. I suppose I must." Jess—"Yes, but you've spelled her name 'M-a-m-e.'" Tess—"That's so. She spells it M-a-m-e,' doesn't she?" Jess—"Oh, no; she did three months ago; but it's 'M-a-i-g-h-m-e' now."—Philadelphia Press. "What is heredity, mamma?" asked the little girl, spelling the word out through her falling tears, and waiting to write down the meaning. "It is—'m, how shall I explain it? Oh," said the mother, "something you get from your father or me." And the small child wrote down on her paper of home lessons: Heredity—spanking."—Tit-Bits. "What is the longest sentence in the English language?" asked Clerk McDowell of the House, as he met Representative Patterson of his own state. Patterson gave it up. "Life imprisonment," said McDowell, and then he laughed so heartily that the marble statue of Daniel Webster winked his left eye. "I should like," said the man, "to get a position as proofreader." "Sorry," said the publisher, "but we've laid off all our proofreaders; don't need 'em." "You don't?" "No; we're publishing nothing but dialect stories now."—Philadelphia Press. McJigger—"You know Kadleigh, that awful cynic? Well, he's lost his mind." Thingumbob—"Heavens! That's terrible." McJigger—"Oh! I don't know, it's not so—" Thingumbob—"What! Suppose some decent fellow should find it."—Philadelphia Press. Plausible Enough.—Ascum—"How did you make out with that story you sent to the Klap-trap Magazine?" Scribbler—"Rejected. I fancy it was too clever." Ascum—"Too clever?" Scribbler—"Yes. I suppose they were afraid it would distract attention from their advertising pages."—Philadelphia Press. Priest Writes Play for Henrietta Crossman. Henrietta Crosman is producing an historical drama written by Rev. John Talbot Smith, a Catholic clergyman of New York city. It is a five-act, five-scene play, entitled "A Baltimore Marriage," dealing with the troubled history of Elizabeth Patterson, the Baltimore girl who became the wife of Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon L. in 1803, and whose marriage was annulled by Napoleon two years later. The scene is laid in France and brings on the stage Napoleon, the Pope, Cardinal Consalvi, his brother, the famous Fouche, minister of police, and Mme. Patterson-Bonaparte. Beside the fact that its author is a Catholic priest, another unusual thing about the play is the introduction of the Pope as one of the leading characters. This is the first time the Pope has appeared in the English drama, it is said. DEATH FOR THE SICK. This is the Practical Sentence for The Bible Fiction Narratives Those Who Take Boer Medicines. A study of this Blue Book, issued last night, goes to show that everything humanly possible is being done for the comfort of those men, women and children whom the Boer methods of waging war have thrown on our protection. Some good people—they are mostly proBoers, their protestations of humane motives notwithstanding—have made a great noise about the mortality in the camps. Many of these deaths have been brought about by Boer ignorance, as the following extract from Dr. Kendal Frank's report on the camp at Bloemfontein goes to show: "One day J. Kruger, a nephew of the ex-President, asked the superintendent to use his influence with Dr. Beaumann to allow him to give his wife a cow-dung bath, which, he stated, was the best thing for rheumatism." * * * Mr. Randle was surprised to see a cat running about the tent with all its fur clipped off. He inquired the cause, and was informed that the fur had been cut off and roasted, and then applied to Abram Strauss' child's chest as a remedy for bronchitis. Dr. Pern, the principal medical officer, told me that he was once sent for to see a child who was ill in one of the tents. He then discovered that the parents had killed a goat and cut it open, removing all the internal organs. They had then put the child bodily inside the goat, with its head alone protruding through the opening made by removing the breastbone. Some of the Boer remedies have a strong savor of superstition. Thus, a favorite remedy for jaundice is to rub the patient's body with cabbage seeds. The seeds are then sown. When they come up the jaundice disappears. "The tooth of a horse worn on a string round the neck is believed to cure rheumatism. A piece of potato put into each ear, and a necklace made of square pieces of the same, is said to cure earache. Toothache is cured by cutting the finger and toe nails of the sufferer off short. These parings are put into a bottle with a lock of his hair and some water. The bottle is then corked and buried, and the toothache disappears. A black fowl opened and applied hot and bleeding to the chest is a cure for inflammation of the lungs. These are only samples of treatment culled from the experiences of the medical officers in the Bloemfontein camp, and I believe such methods are responsible for much of the high mortality found in the camps."—London Express. A LOST ROYAL CLOAK. How it Fell Into the Hands of a Second-Hand Clothes Dealer. An amusing story of how a royal cloak once fell into the hands of an obscure second-hand wardrobe dealer at Portsmouth is just now going the rounds of naval circles of this port. As is well known, there are periodical sales of "condemned stores" at the various dockyards, and on the occasion in question among the "lots" brought under the hammer were some of the cast-off furniture and appurtenances of the late Queen's yacht, Victoria and Albert. A local dealer purchased some of the smaller lots, and upon unpacking them on his arrival home he discovered that among them was a neatly tied-up bundle containing a magnificent cloak of purple velvet, lined with silk of a rich crimson hue. While he was endeavoring to decide what he should do with the precious raiment a sailor belonging to the ship called in, and upon being shown the cloak he identified it as one he had seen the late Queen Victoria frequently wearing while on the yacht. Jack went back to the vessel full of the story, which quickly spread from lower deck to gun room, and from gun room to ward room. Here the officer responsible for the cloak's disappearance heard of it, and visions of breakers ahead were followed by a determination to get it back at any cost. But the task was not so easy. To his chagrin the officer found that since its disposal the value of the cloak had risen by leaps and bounds, and his offer of a five-pound note for the garment was received with scorn. After a great deal of arguing and "beating down" the dealer was dazzled by the twelve bright sovereigns in the open palm of the officer, and he consented to accept that sum for the cloak. Thus it was restored to its rightful place, and, although minus his twelve sovereigns, the officer had the satisfaction of seeing the cloak again donned by her late majesty shortly after, she little suspecting since she had last worn the garment it had been temporarily located in a second-hand shop near Common Hard.—London Modern Society. MAD. FROM MAGUEY. A Cousin of the "Century Plant" and the Liquor it So Freely Yields. Pulque is made from the juice of the agave, or American aloe, a plant which is also known as the maguey. The agaves grow to a height of about twelve feet and are planted the some distance apart in big plantations by those who make a business of preparing the drink for market. The agave plant, by the way, is simply a large edition of the prickly pear or ornamental cactus, familiar to us as the century plant. As with palm wine, the wine of the agave—or pulque—is obtained only from the flower stalk of the plant. The agave blossoms only once in ten or twelve years, so that it can be seen that a large grove of the plants is necessary to obtain anything like a regular supply. When the Mexican attendant finds a plant ready to send up the long straight shoot which would bear the flowers of the agave, he cuts away with his matchete the spiny leaves of the plant until he is able to comfortably reach the center of the plant. Then he carefully cuts out the but and upper leaves of the plant and hollows out the cavity so made until he has formed a hole like a deep basin in the center of the plant. Into this cup the agave pours all the sap which nature intended for the nourishment of the flower shoot, the flowers and the seeds. So abundant is this flow of sap that it is supplied at the rate of from two to five gallons a day for several months. The sap abounds in sugar and when first drawn is very pleasant to the taste. The Mexican method of preparing pulque from this juice is to place the fresh sap in new rawhide skins and put it aside to ferment. Very naturally the fresh pig and goat rawhides ferment, too, and give to the pulque they contain the odor which the Mexican thinks so delightful and which the American declares so disgusting. There seems to be no reason whatever why the juice of the agave should not be fermented in clean vessels, the same as any other wine, and an attempt to make pulque in this way is to be made by an American firm, which has obtained control of one of the large maguey plantations—Beverages. CONGRESSMAN HOWARD. Of National Reputation Are the Men Who Recommend Pe-ru-na to Fellow Sufferers. A Remarkable Case Reported From the State of New York. CONGRESSMAN HOWARD, OF ALABAMA. House of Representatives, Washington, Feb. 4, 1899. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen—"I have taken Peruna now for two weeks, and find I am very much relieved. I feel that my cure will be permanent. I have also taken it for la gripe, and I take pleasure in recommending Peruna as an excellent remedy to all fellow sufferers." M. W. HOWARD. Congressman Howard's home address is Fort Payne, Ala. OST people think that catarrh is a disease confined to the head and months, to get a leave of absence in illness and go into the country. temporary relief. I went back but was taken with very distress. stomach. "I seldom had a passage of the rally. I consulted another physician better results. The disease kept until I had exhausted the ability Rochester's best physicians. The advised me to give up my work and go south. after he had treated me for one year. "I was given a thorough examination with the X-ray. They would not even determine what my trouble was. Some M disease confined to the head and nose. Nothing is farther from the truth. It may be that the nose and throat is the oftenest affected by catarrh, but if this is so it is so only because these parts are more exposed to the vicissitudes of the climate than the other parts of the body. Every organ, every duct, every cavity of the human body is liable to catarrh. A multitude of ailments depend on catarrh. This is true winter and summer. Catarrh causes many cases of chronic disease, where the victim has not the slightest suspicion that catarrh has anything to do with it. The following letter which gives the experience of Mr. A. C. Lockhart is a case in point: Mr. A. C. Lockhart, corner Cottage street and Thurston road, Rochester, N. Y., in a letter written to Dr. Hartman says the following of Peruna: "About fifteen years ago I commenced to be ailing, and consulted a physician. He pronounced my trouble a species of dyspepsia, and advised me, after he had treated me about six Win. J. Morg FINANCIAL Win. J. Morgan & Finck. FINANCIAL AGENTS THE ALTA MINES COMPANY OF TELLURIDE, COLORADO. JOHN C. KOCH, Milwaukee, President ALBERT C. BLATZ, Milwaukee, Treasurer ALBERT C. KOCH, Western Manager. CHARLES BUEHNEK, Milwaukee, Sec'y. TO THE PUBLIC: TO THE PUBLIC: The worth of The Alta Mines Co. demonstrated by numerous carloads blocked out in its mine, we feel that its proposition to the most conscientious skeptically investigate the statement pectus, a copy of which will be sent. The known sterling integrity of enterprise should, in itself, be an inceptus. We deem their proposition strange as it may seem, NOT OUR STOCK GOES TO A PROMOTER of an investor or in the treasury of each and every stockholder. We are offering to investors and share (remember, 100,000 shares only) We do not ask you to "send us we will, upon your request, reserve wish to invest in and give you all statements. Write to us for a copy of our pro Alta Nugget." It won't cost you any Respectfully yours, WIN. J. MORGAN Financial The worth of The Alta Mines Company's properties having been fully demonstrated by numerous carload shipments from ore bodies already blocked out in its mine, we feel that we are fully justified in submitting its proposition to the most conservative investors—investors who will skeptically investigate the statements and claims set forth in our prospectus, a copy of which will be sent to any address upon request. The known sterling integrity of the gentlemen at the head of this enterprise should, in itself, be an incentive for careful perusal of the prospectus. We deem their proposition worthy of your earnest attention. Strange as it may seem, NOT ONE SHARE OF THIS COMPANY'S STOCK GOES TO A PROMOTER: every share, whether in the hands of an investor or in the treasury of the company, inures to the ben fit of each and every stockholder. We are offering to investors any portion of 100,000 shares at 30c a share (remember, 100,000 shares only). Write to us for a copy of our prospectus and of our Magazine, "The Alta Nugget." It won't cost you anything. Respectfully yours, WIN. J. MORGAN & FINCK, Financial Agents, The Alta Mines Company, Pabst Building, Milwaukee. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES The Milwaukee County Hospital Training School for Nurses (Incorporated) offers superior advantages for the training of women between the ages of 23 and 35 years who desire to become graduate trained nurses; diplomas given on completion of course; monthly cash allowance no tuition or board expenses, all furnished free by the school. For announcements, application blanks, etc., address E. C. Grosskopf, M. D., Superintendent, Milwaukee County Hospital, Wauwatosa, Wis. SOUTH DAKOTA farm and stock land. Buy be rich soil; good farming and best country for stock, known. Winters short, mild, little snow. M. W. COYKENDALL, Wessington, So. Dakota. HOME WORK The year round, no canvassing, $5 to $6 weekly, working evenings, experience unnecessary, enclose stamp, work mailed on application. TWENTIETH CENTURY MFG. CO., D, Toledo, O. EXTRA large flowered sweet peas. Large package. To introduce 10c. Agents wanted. Elite Supply Co., 1500 Larlert st., Denver, Col. 10WA FARMS$4 PER ACRE CASH BALANCE CROP TIL PAID MULHALL SIGN CITYL months, to get a leave of absence from my business and go into the country. I did so and got temporary relief. I went back to work again, but was taken with very distressing palms in my stomach. "I seldom had a passage of the bowel's naturally, I consulted another physician with no better results. The disease kept growing on me until I had exhausted the ability of sixteen of Rochester's best physicians. The last physician died there." advised me to give up my work and go south. after he had treated me for one year. M. B. "I was given a thorough examination with the X-ray. They would not even determine what my trouble was. Some of your testimonials in the Rochester pspers seemed to me worthy of consideration. and I made up my mind to try a bottle of Peruna. Before the bottle was half gone I noticed a change for the better. I am now on the fifth bottle, and have not an ache or pain anywhere. My bowels move regularly every day, and I have taken on eighteen pounds of flesh. I have recommended Peruna to a great many and they recommend it very Mr. W. P. Peterson, of Morris, Ill., says: "I was nearly dead with catarrhal dyspepsia and am now a well man, better, in fact, than I have been for twenty years or more. highly. I have told several people that if they would take a bottle of Peruna, and could then candidly say that it had not benefited them, I would pay for the medicine." A. C. LOCKHART. Send for a free catarrh book. Address The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus, O. VENTRILOQUISM,HYPNOTISM,PALMISTRY, Can be acquired by anyone; our books tell how; 10c each or three for 25 cents. Kenwood Supply Co., 52 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. STEADY EMPLOYMENT In your own locality at satisfactory wages to you. If you are doing some work that is not congenial or if unemployed and you wish to have a means of honorable employment, address us at P. O. Box No. 740, Milwaukee, Wis. WANTED Young man to sell cigars to the trade. Experience unnecessary. Address IN- TERNATIONAL SUPPLY CO., Milwaukee, Wis. M. N. U. NO. 12,1902 WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS please say you saw the Advertisement in this paper. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Bert Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. 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Black All-Wool Mistral, 48 inches wide, elega quality—for $1.25 a yard—Thursday's sale price ... Colored Wool Crashes—one of the latest dres terials for summer wear—the never wear-out yard only ... 54 in. All-Wool Panamas, in new blue, brown, dark and light greys, very stylish for tailor gowns—Actual value $2.00 yard—Thursday... artists also beautiful creations from renowned American designers as well as exquisite and exclusive conceptions from our own workrooms. Thursday's sale will be still more interesting for Easter shoppers in our daylight cloak room. 4-in. Black Gloria and 27-in. Black Water-proof Japanese Silk for Waists or Dresses—best $1.00 goods for ..... 75c Black All-Wool Mistral, 48 inches wide, elegant quality—for $1.25 a yard—Thursday's sale price ..... 85c Colored Wool Crashes—one of the latest dress m aterials for summer wear—the never wear-out kind— yard only ..... $1.00 54 in. All-Wool Panamas, in new blue, brown, tans, dark and light greys, very stylish for tailor gowns—Actual value $2.00 yard—Thursday ..... $1.50 See Our New Waistings. REED BROS. REED BROS. & LENNON GRAND AVENUE AND THIRD ST. ENGINEER'S WARNING. An Incident o: Railroad Life in the Upper Peninsular of Michigan. "Well, the idea is all right, and I know an engineer up in northern Michigan who could testify to this, for a daylight variation of it once saved him his job," said a man more or less familiar with upper peninsula railroading, as he laid down a paper containing an account of the successful trial of an electric headlight on the Milwaukee road—a device that, in addition to fully illuminating the track for a mile ahead on straight stretches, sends a vertical shaft of light up into the sky, making the presence of a train known, in any region where there are curves, long before an ordinary headlight could be seen. "And before I get down to the story, I want to say that the test of this daylight smoke-cloud plan I am going to tell you about was one of the very few times when anybody ever got ahead of W. F. Fitch, who in working himself up to be general manager of a transcontinental line—the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic—picked up about every detail of railroading that a man can know. "It was soon after Fitch was brought from the Elkhorn line to become superintendent of the Peninsula division of the North-Western," continued the narrator. "One day he was out on the Mecominee River branch—just an engine and coach—and they were 'making their own time,' dodging in and out of the way of regular trains. Somewhere near Lake Antoine the special pulled in on a siding to let an ore train pass. The side-track was not far from the foot of a long and steep hill, and to make the grade more than ordinarily dangerous, there was a high bridge or trestle right at the end of one of the many reverse curves. "Let's walk up to the bridge and see how those fellows come down the grade," said Fitch. "I think it was Alex. Sutherland who was with Fitch, and I guess he was a roadmaster then; yes, it must have been Sutherland, and he hadn't been long enough off a footboard himself not to feel some sympathy for an engineer. You see, Sutherland, who, by the way, afterward went with Fitch to the South We take pleasure in announcing to the ladies of Milwaukee aud vicinity that on will occur our special display of the latest ideas in Spring Millinery-a first showing of the world's choicest creations-an event that has been eagerly watched for by fashionable dressers-it will be an exhibit of exquisite and picturesque hat elegance that will even more clearly manifest our position as LEADING MODISTES-We will show imported models from the Salons of the most famous European S. & LENN Shore, knew exactly how the engineers were in the habit of dropping over that particular grade, and it seemed to be a cinch that somebody was going to get jacked-up that day. It was before the advent of airbrakes for ore cars and it was a good deal of a job to set handbrakes on forty-five or fifty of the four-wheeled 'jimmies' they used before the double-truck, big-hopper cars became so common. Train crews as a rule didn't wear out any brakeshoes on that hill, despite cautionary rules about speed. "Sutherland suggested that it was a hot day and a pretty long walk, but Fitch insisted, and away they went. They got to the foot of the hill in ample time, but strange to say, instead of the reckless descent the superintendent expected—it would be unfair and unkind to say 'hoped,' because Fitch wasn't that kind of a man—to see, the train came over the grade under perfect control, every man at his post and every brakeshoe creaking. "Well, we didn't catch them this time; let's go back,' said Fitch. 'I'll bet they don't come down like that always; still, on the other hand, I don't think they knew we were here; do you?" "Sutherland didn't answer. He was too mystified. But as the pair turned to retrace their steps to the special, Sutherland, old engineer that he was, saw the explanation. The engineer on the special, knowing full well what was in the wind, had, as soon as his superiors had turned their backs and headed up hill, dumped several shovels of wet coal into the firebox and then turned on the 'blower'—the jet of steam used to stimulate the draft, you know—with the result that a steady column of smoke was sent straight up into the air, how high I couldn't say, but high enough to catch the eye of the engineer of the ore train way up in the depths of the forest that topped the hill. "There could be but one explanation for that cloud of smoke—a train at the foot of the hill; hence the ore train engineer, reluctant to even sound his whistle, had only to lean out of the cab window and give a hand-signal. The brakemen scented danger and, as I said, they had every brake set long before the dangerous part of the grade was reached. "That's why I've got faith in this newfangled headlight: that upward streak of light may prevent many a collision." THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Notion Specials 50 pieces pretty fancy frill elastic, assorted patterns and colors—Regular price 15c and 19c, Thursday special.....10c 25 different kinds of pen or pencil Writing Tablets, super quality paper—ruled or plain, note, packet or letter size—Choice.....5c Tar Soap—Nice size cake to handle—good for either hard or soft water—especially good for shampooing.—Special per cake.....3c BELTS—Regular price 35c and 50c—splendid assortment patent leather seal and other leathers.—Special.....25c RINGS—Beautiful assortment gold filled Finger Rings, nicely set with pretty jewels, all choice mountings—the same you pay 50c and $1.00 for elsewhere—Special.....25c HOSIERY Choice line of Imported Fancy Stockings—splendid quality and styles—the same you have paid 50c a pr. for, special.. 25c Men's and Boys' Furnishings A special thing in Men's Unlaundered White Shirts—linen bosom—reinforced yoke, back and front, split neck band—continuous seam gussets and absolutely dependable in quality and fit.—Not a regular 75c shirt, but positively the best shirt made to sell at..... 50c Boys' sizes—same price. See our new 25c and 50c spring neckwear ION GRAND AVENUE AND THIRD ST. Back to the Mob Cap There is always more or less debate about the proper method of treating the scalp, and since during the process of experiment thin locks may be getting thinner, this state of affairs is unsatisfactory. It is easy enough to give advice, but much of it is not worth taking. According to one successful hairdresser, what nine heads out of every ten need is to be left more in peace. In other words, the brush and comb should be sparingly applied. An over amount of brushing, braiding, pinning and twisting is fatal to hair unless it be full of vigor. Above all things has the use of side combs and big steel and wire pins weakened delicate scalps. When the scalp is devitalized it should have the hair dressed and pinned elaborately not more than once a day. According to the latest method of treatment, the morning hours or those spent at home must be improved by giving the hair its freedom. On rising, a very big, smooth-toothed comb may be used for straightening the hair, and the scalp is untouched. The length of the hair is then massed on top of the head, a big curved pin of aluminum is run through and then over all is pinned a cap. This may be a mob cap, a Puritan mutch, or a Queen Adelaide kerchief. It may be made of tulle, chiffon, crisp Swiss, lawn or lace, but it must be large enough to cover all the loosely caught tresses and hide the appearance of dishevelment. The caps are all in shape revivals of those worn some eighty years ago, when ringlets were in vogue and could not always be coaxed into appearance for the breakfast table. Bombardments to Please "Do we bombard the city this afternoon?" inquired the first lieutenant on board the Colombian warship. "No," responded the captain wearily. "The commander of the American man-of-war says he has a headache, and the noise would annoy him. But he says we may do so tomorrow if the day is sunny enough for him to take pictures of the attack with his kodak."—Brooklyn Eagle. TEMPERANCE TOPICS HOMES ARE RUINED BY STRONG DRINK. Thousands of Lives, Characters and Fortunes Are Annually Wrecked Along the Gilded Pathway, Having Its Beginning in the Wine Room. A poet has said of the saloon that it is appropriately called a bar: A bar to heaven, a door to hell; Whoever named it, named it well. A bar to manliness and wealth. A door to want and broken health. A bar to honor, pride and fame. A door to sin and grief and shame; A bar to hope, a bar to prayer. A door to darkness and despair; A bar to honored, useful life. A door to brawling, senseless strife; A bar to all that's true and brave, A door to every drunkard's grave; A bar to joy that home imparts. A door to tears and aching hearts; A bar to heaven, a door to hell. Whoever named it, named it well. Scotchman on American Temperance, The Rev. Hugh Black, an eminent Scotch Presbyterian divine, who recently visited America, and, while in this country, preached in several of our leading churches on his return home gave in the "British Weekly" his impressions of America. Among other things he draws a contrast between the drinking in England and the drinking in America. He says: "Then another feature, which means a big start in a race where Britain handicaps herself heavily is the temperance of all classes of the people. You would need to search in the slums of the large cities for what are common spectacles in our cities every day. In an English hotel the first thing a waiter brings is a wine list and makes you feel that you have done an injury to the house if you do not order from it; in an American hotel it is rather assumed that a guest does not drink wine unless he expressly asks for a wine card, and as a matter of fact looking over the dining-room of an American hotel, the great majority of the people drink cold water. Workingmen, also, are very much more temperate than their corresponding class in England. It has to be said in this, as in many other things, New York is hardly quite representative of the rest of the country; since there the circumstances are exceptional. It is the great open door of America; and many of the immigrants who arrive there never get any further, so that large sections of the city are appropriated exclusively by foreigners, keeping their home customs and habits. The temperance question is rapidly assuming great importance in France, where the population has been greatly debauched by liquor, and many agencies are operating to reduce the number of drinking places from the enormous total that they have reached 424,500—which is one to every 85 inhabitants. Legislation is to be resorted to, and, meanwhile, the private temperance societies, organized under one union, with branches all over the country, are carrying on an active warfare, their most enthusiastic and effective allies being the wine growers, who do not manufacture spiritual liquors. The parent society publishes a journal, under the management of the head of the asylum for inebriates at Ville Evard, and school teachers and men in military and naval circles display much activity in the temperance movement, which appears to be conducted on the principle of persuasion, rather than coercion. The saloen habitue is tempted to forsake his bibulous haunts by being offered opportunity to play games, organized for his benefit, on Sundays. The report is that the bowling alley in front of the school very frequently entices the tippler from his cups. The effort to lessen the number of saloons has for its definite object their restriction to one to every 300 inhabitants. France is grappling with the liquor problem very energetically. When Mrs. Hayes Won Her Point, The following story was one of those told by the late William M. Evarts, who was Secretary of State in the cabinet of President Hayes: "Speaking of diplomats reminds me that Mrs. Hayes, who was a staunch teetotaler, argued with me for an hour over the first dinner the President was to give to the foreign representatives. I tried to make her see that it would be no sacrifice of principle on her part to set wine on the table, but only the civility we always show to guests by recognizing their ways of living at home, "I'm afraid,' she declared, 'that the ministers will have to make up their minds to be sociable, with water.' "And I shocked her dreadfully by answering: 'Mrs. Hayea, I have never known people to be soelable with water except in a bath,'" "Did Mrs. Hayes carry her point?" he was asked. "Yes, indeed," he responded with a dry chuckle. "She had the dinner as she wanted it, and the water flowed like champagne." Alcohol in the French Army. Gen. Andre lately declared that three-fourths of the military offenses in the French army could be traced to the use of absinthe, and he has ordered that there should hereafter be monthly lectures in every garrison on the danger of alcohol. No Secret About That Process, An English chemist has learned how to make whisky prematurely old. The process of making whisky drinkers prematurely old has always been an open secret. And Jobber in Catsups, Mustards, Olives and all kinds of Country Produce. The New York 322 WELLS New York Tailor 2 WELLS STREET The New York Tailoring Co. 322 WELLS STREET (Bet. 3d and 4th Sts.) Ladies' and Gents' Suits Made to Order. We also Clean, Press, Repair and Dye All kinds of Ladies' and Gents' Garments. Satisfaction Guaranteed. . . . Milwaukee HARTONA POSITIVELY STRAIGHTENS —ALL— Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Harsh, Curly Hair. 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