wo Ibcr Itcwo itc $ox Terms of Subeerlptloa: One Year, in advance.... Six Lontha lltree Months.. Entered at th. Supreme Court Given Washington File Suit. WHOM, ProprleUrt. STANDING .& at Brigham City .1 nU matter. Postofllce ancond-ciae- s BTKCU STANDING, Editor. Distractions to Correspondents. ' Itam. of new. r. solicited from .11 part, of the oountry. Write upon one sld. of the paper only. Write proper names plainly In order to proteot the publisher from persons, the full positions from irresponsible name of the author should be signed to all communications The identity of correspondents will be withheld whenever desired. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. UTAH STATE NEWS. The wool men of Lehi report a very good clip for this year.' The clerks of Provo hare organized and are making a determined effort to secure early closing. The board of health of Provo has began an active campaign for more sanitary conditions in that city. Moroni City is having trouble with Jovers of the gatnc of poker, a number of arfests being made last week. A bill has passed the senate appropriating J25,000 to establish a fish hatchery and fish station in Utah. The Ontario mine of Park City, has O, paid dividends amounting to $14,372,-iOO515,000, dividend recent the being Fifteen hundred head of cattle were shipped out of Willard county list week, most of them being loaded at Oasis. Bicycle thieves are operating in Salt Lake, more than a score of wheels being purloined within the past two weeks. There are abou t forty cases of measles in American Fork, and it looks as if but few families would escape from the disease. Springville farmers have contracted for over 900 aeresof beets this season Four planting machines are now planting the seed. Illegal liquor dealing is being investigated by the officials of Spring City, one man bein convicted last week and fined $50. There are about sixty men employed at the shearing corral near Becks Springs, and they are shearing about 3,000 sheep per day. The public schools of the state ob served Arbor Day Tuesday of last week in an appropriate manner. Many trees were planted by the students. Work has been commenced on the pew L. D. S. meeting bouse at Spring ville. The building is of brick with atone trimmings, and will cost about $5,000. The majority of the popular-price- d restaurants of Salt Lake will raise their prices on meats since the recent increase in price inaugurated by the butchers. John B. Furster, who is said to have been the first convert to Mormonism in Scandinavia, died at bis home in Salt Lake last week at the ripe old age of 88 years. Ir. Frankllu A. Meacham, who died in Manila last week from heart failure caused by overwork on the cholera cases, was formerly a well known physician of Salt Lake City. The death of Miss ..I ary B. Duncan of Salt Lake, last week, is probably the first case on record where a person born and reared in Utah ever contracted and died of consumption. The grand Bebekah assembly, the first in the state, and which will be to the ladies of Odd Fellowship what the grand lodge is to the mens lodges, was organized in Salt Lake last week. Henry Johnson, aged 8 years, Manti, fell from the ledge on Temple hill while at play and broke his neck. He fell a distance of fifty feet and his face was fearfully mangled on the rocks below. convenThe tion of the grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was held in Balt Lake last week, over a hundred delegates from different lodges in the , State being present. Bills have been introduced' In tbd house and senate by Utahs representatives providing that all of that ob-- : tion of Arizona Territory which' lies north of the' Colorado river be annexed . to the state of Utah. The preliminary examination of Mrs. Southwell, who shot Don Smith at Colton, resulted in the woman- - being bound over to the district court,, the amount of the bond being placed at $1,500. Smith is on the road to recovery. .Deal Bros. A Mendenhall, of Spring-vill- e have secured a contract for buildx miles of road for the twenty-siing Denver A Rio Grande on the branch line being built from Delta, Colo., and expect to secure Hie balance of fifty-s- ix . miles of the road. The assets of the Utah County Savings bank, which went into voluntary liquidation March 22, 1901, have now all been sold for a sufficient amount to jpay all liabilities, and pay the stockholders $15 a share on their stock, the (par value of which was $100. Beet planting has begun throughout (Cache county. The decision of the company to not write contracts for gnore than 3,000 acres has been abandoned, and they willwri te all contracts offered. They now have about j5,200 acres contracted for. Construction on the Salina cut-o- ff of Abe Bio Grande Western is to begin as soon as the contracts can be let. Bids Jiave been asked for on the grading of the first twenty miles out of Salina, and it is expected that work will begin by the end of the month. twenty-eighth-annu- al . SEVENTY-FIV- STATE CAN SUE MERGER. E ITS UP LIVES LOST ON A BURNING STEAMER. tev 44 to Of One Hundred and Fifty Persons on Board, Not More Thao Half 44'er Saved, Many of the Latter The United Staes supreme court Beiug Injured. Monday granted leave to the state of Seventy-fiv- e for people lost their lives bill an file original Washington to near Ogden's Landing, twenty-fo- ur an injunction against the Great Northfrom miles Cairo, 111., Sunday mornNorthern ern Railway company, the and the ing, in one of the worst disasters in Pacific Railway company Northern Securities company in connection with the petition of that state recently filed in the court. The opinion in the case was delivered Chief Justice Fuller, who stated that the court had always exercised the utmost care in its proceedings in original cases, and that the present decision to grant leave to file was intended to be entiiely without prejudice to either party at interest. Reference was made to the case of the state of Louisiana vs. the state o Texas concerning the quarantine regulation of the latter state in which leave was given to file, and the state of Minnesota vs. the Northern Securities company, in which the petition to file was denied. Referring to the latter case, he said the petition had been refused because of the insuperable objection that indispensable parties to the case could not be brought into the court. This objection did not, however, confront the court in the present case, and the court felt that because of its desire to proceed with the utmost care and deliberation in all cases where original actions are brouelit in this court, the case precedent of the Louisiana-Tex- as should be followed rather than that of the Minnesota case in the present instance. IJeDce leave to file would be gr&nted and subpoenas would be issued returnable on the first day of the next term of court in October. In Kttneae le so Great That Special Prayers are Off- ered lo Churches. The need for rain in Kansas has become so great that Bishop Fink, whose diocese consists of the eastern third of Kansas, has ordered prayers said daily by every Catholic under his jurisdiction. Sunday last, prayers were offered in all the Leavenworth (Kan. Catholic churches. Under the orders from the bishop the prayers will be continued until rain falls. The hot south winds that swept over the better part of Kansas Monday prevailed again Tuesday and no reports of rain bad been received at the local NOT A PLEASURE TRIP. weather bureau. Increased damage to vegetation of all kinds will doubtless General Smith S;i Campaigning In Samar Is a Stern Reality. result. The temperature in central Orders been received in Manila have Kansas and in the northeastern corner from Washington to hold court of inof the state ranged from 90 to 96 dequiry into the general conduct of grees above in the shade Monday. The ground generally is reported dry affairs in Samar. General Smith claims and hard and badly in need of rain. that, to the best of bis belief, the The midsummer weather experienced officers and men of bis command bad in Kansas City Sunday, when the to face insurmountable difficulties; theiyriometer rose 33 degrees in seven that the hardships they encountered were almost unbearable, and that the hours, from 59 to 91, prevailed Monday with perhaps a slightly cooler treachery of the natives of the island is unequalled in the history of warwind. Dispatches from Topeka aay dry, hot fare. He says that the American soldiers wind, blowing thirty miles an hour from the southwest and changing to acted in the circumstances with the the south, prevailed over that section greatest forbearance shown in the war of Kansas Monday, with a high tem- in the Philippines. Campaigning in perature. MaDy telegraph and tele- Samar is not a pleasure trip, but a phone wires are down. Sunday the stern reality, said General Smith. He also expressed his doubt if the wind blew 6teadily from the southwest at the rate of forty miles an hour. troops of any other nation in the The maximum was 94, the highest in world would or could have acted in the April for sixteen years, except in 1893, circumstances in Samar as well as did the Americans. when it reached 97. RIVER AND HARBOR BILL One Hundred and Fifty Lives Lost In Ex- Passes the senate- - The Measure Carries 870,000,000 Appro- prUtloote Without a word of discussion of the merits of the measure, the senate Monday passed the river and harbor bill, carrying in appropriations about So thoroughly had the $70,000,000. bill been considered by the commerce committee that every senator was content that it should pass as reported from the committee. In response to an inquiry by Mr. McComas, Mr. Frye, in charge of the bill, said that no appropriation bad been made for dredging the harbor at the Annapolis training school because the aggregate appropriation carried by the measure was already large and the committee was of the opinion that Annapolis Could wait. ' Seventy-five- - Victims of Steamboat deut. plosion In Barracks. Some members of the Conservative party caused aD explosion in the mili- tary barracks at Managua, Nicaragua, on Wednesday night. Nearly 150 lives were lost in the explosion, and the barracks were destroyed. There has been considerable bitterness shown by the Conservatives against the Liberal party, which is in power and of which President Selaya is the leader. Gave Birth to Five Girls at a Time. Isaiah Rhodes of Bailoys Gap, Ulster county, N Y., announces that his daughter, Mrs. James McGowan, aged 28, of Tucker's Corners, a hamlet in Ulster county, Friday gave birth to five children, all girls, 'and that ail are doing well. , Mrs." McGowans other children are a son .and a pair of twins Hot Weather In Nebraska. Accl- - Sunday wgs the hottest April day in fifteen years at Omaha. The therS Although no Complete list of either mometer at 5 p. m. reached 95, the the victims or gurvi.vors is yet obtainhighest previous record being 91. able, investigation, indicates that al-- l While no prostrations occurred, the most one-ha- lf of the 150 people on the was responsible for high temperatnre City of Pittsburg were lost when that several attacks of illness, two occur-in- g steamer was burned near Cairo, Ills. in one church during the day. At Many of those" who were brought to Falls City the merenry reached 100 in Cairo are suffering from injuries, ex- the shade and the fail wheat is sufferposure and fright. The number aboard from the want of moisture. Other was about equally divided betweeu ing in southern Nebraska report points passengers and crew. The latter sufg weather for April. fered the greater loss in casualties. Sixty Families Made Homeless by Fire In Duel to I ; ' "' record-breakin- Death. In a fight between cattlemen west of Collinsville in the Cherokee nation, I. T William Phillips was instantly killed and Frank Mayfield, Jessie Skidmore and Lige Johnson were morAll are prominent tally wounded. cattlemen who own pastures not far from Collinsville. The fight was, the result of an old feud between Skidmore and Mayfield, which had its origin in a court contest over some grazing land. Trouble had been ejected for some time. ? Chinas Exclusion Act Still In Fores. The United States supreme court has rendered a decision in the case of the United States vs. Lee Yen Tai, coming from the court of appeals for the second circuit, submitting the question at toi whether the twelfth section of the congressional act of 1882, requiring certificates from Chinamen about to enter the United States, had beeh abrogated by the treaty of 1894 between the United States and China. The question was answered in the negative, the law being held to be still In effect Kansas City. A destructive fire visited the CITY WIPED OUT AND FIVE LIVES LOST. ill 4 ote on the Question of Peace In South Africa. April 16. Houss-T- he friends of the Cuban reciprocity bill won a substantial victory by carrying a motion to close gent rat debate on Friday at 3 o'clock. The vote was 153 to 123. Thirty-thre- e Republicans voted against the motion. The debate was featureless. The speakers were Messrs. Roberts of Massachusetts, Patterson of Tennessee, and Cochran of Missouri for the bill, and Messrs. Bartlett el Georgia, Corliss of Michigan, Broussard of Leulsianat Bell of Colorado and H. C. Smith of Michigan against It. Senate The drastic Chinese exclusion bill originally framed by the senators and representatives from the Pacitlo Coast states met defeat in the senate, and In Its place was substituted a measure offered by Mr. Platt of Connecticut. eatending tbe provisions of the present exclusion law and also applying that exclusion to all Insular territory under the jurisdiction of the United States. The senate failed to substitute the enacting clause of the bouse bill for the senate measure, 80 that the bill now will go to the house as an original measure and from a parliamentary standpoint will have to be acted on and treateda the same as though the house had not passed Chinese exclusion bill already. The senate, after disposing of the Chinese exclusion bill, made the Philippine olvii government bill the unfinished business. over-thre- w ur Afty-Av- 1 . fifty-eig- One Billion Minutes Have Elapsed It Began. Since Camille Flammarion has announced at a meeting of the Socite Astronomi-qu- e de France, Paris, that one million minutes elapsed at ten minutes past 6 p. m, on April 18th since the beginning of the Christian era. January 1st of the year 1 is taken as a starting point for ths calculation. .The average year during the nineteen centuries is composed of 525,857 minutes and eighteen seconds. Killed bj n Mans Bite. Reason Why Two Young Men Were Not Lloensed to Preach. Becaused they declared their belief that Adam and Eve were mythical characters, two young men who asked to be admitted to preach, have failed to get the necessary license from the Elizabeth, . N. J., Presbytery. The candidates were Gilbert Lovell and Harrtson K. Wright, who are members of the Crescent Avenue' Presbyterian church of Plainfield. . Lovell has been a church member thirteen, years. Anto Fast ss a Traio. Five hundred miles between Glasgow and London in twenty-eigh- t hours, with hut one stop, in the automobile record just established by S. F. Edge with a sixteen-hors- e power machine, says a dispatcu fron London. The, trial was intended for an endurance test, and no attempt at speed was made, although a high rate was maintained, Mr. Edge expressed himself well satisfied with the result, which, he said, demonstrated fully the utility and reliability of automobiles. . Martin Tobin died at the hospital in Kansas of the reKansas City of part City, Sunday, laying waste a section of dwelling-house- s sult of his finger being bitten a month almost a quarter of a mile long ago by John MeVey. MeVey has been and a block wide, and doing damage to held under bond on a charge of maywhich probably will be changed the amount of $75,000. . About fifty hem, to that of manslaughter. dwelling-hous- es were destroyed and . Russians Attacked at New Chwaag. sixty or more families were rendered A post on the outskirts' of New homeless and destitute. A high wind, amounting almost to a gale, was blow- Chwang, garrisoned by forty Russians, ing, and ihe flames spread with alarm- las been attacked by bandits. One Russian officer and four privates were ing rapidity. killed. Fire Bugs at Work In Texes. Fries Because of Amwln of Banian Official a RevolutionTwo persons were fatally injured and Restaurants Advance High Fries ot Manta. . ary Leader. a property loss of 5350,000 caused by restaurants of New Officials Popular price St. at , several fires which occurred at Dallas Petersburg privately York City have advanced prices of admit that the murder of Sipiaguine Texas, shortly after 3 oclock Sunday steaks and roasts of beef an average of wag one of many exceedingly alarming morning. At that honr an alarm was turned in from the Dorsey Printing Scents, owing to the continued rise in symptoms. It was learned that the the price of beef. High priced reschateau of the Duke of Mecklenburg, establishment, which was totally detaurants have made no change, as in southeast Russia, was recently pilstroyed, the loss being $300,000, and their margin of profit ia larger.' Relaged and then razed by rioters. The several other alarms from different tail prices for fresh vegetables, butter, young clerk, Orloffwho was compromparts of the city were turned in in beans and even canned ised in the revolutionary movement quick succession. It is believed the eggs, poultry, goods are now quoted at the markets and who hanged himself in prison, befiree were the result of incendiarism, from 10 to 40 per cent higher than a longed to a and several persons are suspected. group of prisoners who reyear ago. fused food and were artificially fed. seuth-weste- WEEK IN CONGRESS. The government leader, A. J. Balfour, in the house of commons Friday made the following important stateThe Inhabitants of the Town are Camping; ment; In the Open Air for Safety, Not After two conferences between Lord Daring to Return to Their Homes. Milner, the British high commissioner in South Africa, and Lord Kitchener The three earthquakes on Friday and the Boer delegates at Pretoria, Lord Kitchener, while refusing to night reduced to ruins Quesaltenango, grant an armi$tice,on military grounds, the second city of importance in Guatemala aDd haviug 25,000 inhabitants, has agreed to give facilities for the and completely destroyed the town of election and maintaining of representaAmatitian. Both of these towns were tives of the various Boer commands to capitals of the departments of the same consider the position. The Boer leadname each bears. It is reported that ers have, therefore, left Pretoria to carry out this plan. 500 persons were killed in QuesaltenanMr. Balfour added that it was not go, but the rumor lacks confirmation. that commumication between expected be The exact loss of life caDnot now the British authorities and the Boer ascertained. News of the destruction, which extended 100 miles along the leaders could be resumed in less than western part of the republic, is coming three weeks. Mr. Balfour's statement made a genin slowly, because all the telegraph favorable impression. It was erally wires are down. ' April 17. It is known that Amatitian exists no argued among the members that the reof Caban the The House. opponents action of the Boer leaders demonstrate moreas a town, the seismic disturbance bill occupied most of the time of the ciprocity ed that at any rate a majority of the debate, the feature being a vigorous speech by having been so great. The inhabitants of Washington against that is, those of the 10,000 residents delegates favor the acceptance of the Mr. Cushman (Rep.) Cushman the measure. Mr. arraigned the suggested British peace terms. who escaped death in the cataclysm committee on rules and the house leaders in a to a The submission of the question are camping in the open air for safety, breezy, and at times, sensational fashion. A not daring to .return to the ruined con- vote of the burghers is according to portion of this criticism was in a Boer law, which requires the leaders vein, out some of It was decidedly fines of the town. Some of the inhabiof armed forces in the field to take the caustic. tants are building temporary mud Mr. De Armond, one of the leading Demooption of their followers before huts. crats of the house, delivered a forcible speech , In favor of the tariff reduction on trust articles. More news has been obtained of the The other speakers were Messrs. Pierce of condition of affairs at Amatitian than Douglas of New York and Lacey of at Quesaltenango, as the former is only North Carolina Man Invitee Friends to Tennessee, Iowa, for the bill, and Messrs. Jenkins of WistVitnesa HI Death. fifteen miles south of Guatemala City, consin, Gaines of West Virginia, Warner of From Rutherford county, North Car- Illinois, Gardner of Michigan, Jones of Washwhile the latter is more than 100 miles olina, comes a report of one of the ington and Loud of California, against it. to the northwest. A veto message was received from President most unusual affairs. A man has Roosevelt of a bill pensioning Thomas F. Walsuiall made WILL VOTE ON PEACE TERMS. preparations to commit ter, and was referred to the committee on Incide and intends to make of it a gala valid pensions. t It is Believed the Boers Will Vote to End occasion. Allen Senate. Soon after the senate convened Cogsdell is an aged, the War offered by Mr. Culberson, diwealthy and very eccentric farmer of the resolutions General De wet has gone to Ileilbron, the secretary of war to send to the recting that section. It is said he has sent out a statement of money paid by the United Orange River colony; General Botha, invitations to all of his numerous rela- senate States on account of the Philippine commisthe Transvaal commander-in-chie- f, has tives to attend a big dinner which he sion and a statement of the amount of money gone to Vryheld, 'Transvaal, and Gentends to give at his home on June expended for sending troops to the Philippines, and for their maintenance, were agreed to. eral Delarey, together with Mr. Steyn, 10th. of the Orange River Free The unique feature of the invitation, April 18. State, has gone to Klerksdorp, Transis said, is that it contains the anit The Democrats and the Republican House. vaal. They have arranged to meet the over the house nouncement that at the noon hour, Insurgents rode rough-sho- d burghers at different rendezvous and those present are to have the leaders when the voting began on the Cuban sharp, submit the British terms. the ruling reciprocity bill. They pleasure and experience, the novel of the chair in comihittee of the whole on the It is believed the Transvaalers will sensation of seeing him take his own question of germaneness of an amendment to everywhere accept the terms, as they life. remove the differential from refined sugar durare in no way anxious fora winter ing the existence of the reciprocity agreement The only difficulty likely WHAT NOON MEANS. provided for in the bill. The vote to overrule campaign. the decision of the chair, made by Mr. Sherto occur will be, it is thought, with the man of New York, was 171 to 130, Republicans Ohio Supreme Court Decides Cass of Great OraDge River Btates, many of whom to the number of thirty seven joining with a Importance are expected to prove recalcitrant. Noon comes at 11:27 legal standard solid Democratic vote to accomplish this reIn the meantime there will be no sult. Having won this preliminary victory, cessation of hostilities. The delegates time in Akron, Ohio, according to a the amendment was adopted In committee, 164 in the house by a still larger are expected back to Pretoria the mid- decision just handed down bythe to 111, and 109later to 105. On this occasion sixty-fodle of May, and in anticipation of their supreme court. Thomas Mier took out majority, Republicans voted with the Democrats return they have given orders for new a fire insurance policy on his saloon at for the amendment. 11:30 standard time, five years ago, the The bill then was passed by an overwhelming clothes, provisions, etc. policy being dated noon of that day. majority, 217 to 62. An analysis of the vote shows that 124 ReCossacks Charge Helpless Finns. At the very minute he was getting the publicans and 123 Democrats voted for the A dispatch from Helsingfors, Finpolicy the saloon caught fire and was amended bill, and 42 Republicans and 10 Demoland, says that in a levy of recruits burned. Ohio law makes standard crats against it. from the Helsingfors district, out of time legal time, and the company reSenate. Consideration was begun of the bill temporarily to provide a form of governto fused on the insurance 857 summoned, only fifty-si- x $2,000 pay complied. ment for the Philippine Islands. The reading The remainder absented themselves as Miers saloon. The case was fought of the measure was concluded at 3:50 p. m., all a demonstration against the new army through to the supreme court, which of the committee amendments being agreed to has decided that "noon meant the with the understanding that all parts of the edict. time the sun passed the meridian at bill should be subject to amendment. The same day, April 18, a disturbMr. Rawlins of Utah, a member of the Philance broke out. It began in a trivial Akron, which is at 11:27 standard time. ippines committee, offered a substitute for manner. A youngster was jeering the The court ordered the insurance comcertain sections of the measure relating to the method of government of the islands, the One of the pany to pay. police and the senators. i the courts, and extending to the latter, General Kaigeroff, thereupon ilJPP,ne8 the land laws of the United States. wae Passed appropriating 25.000 to Saved a Dray-loa- d of Pennies. ordered out the Cossacks, and a scene establish a fish hatchery and fish station In Utah. Herman Boyce, a German grocer at quite equaling the St. Petersburg riots e the passed private ensued. The Cossacks charged the Goshen, Ind has made a fad of saving pensfonWlta6 public in the Senate square and the pennies for the last twenty years. The April 10. adjoining streets. They used their quantity became so great that Boyce House Mr. Mondell secured the passage of knouts indiscriminately, and the chief bad no safe place to keep them, and he his bill appropriating 500 for the erection of sufferers were cripples, aged persons has deposited them in a bank. There monument to mark the site of the Phil Kearney massacre In Johnson county, Wyo. This and children.! were 19,700 pennies in the accumulaIs the site where Colonel Fetterman and his Some men resisted the Cossacks, and tion, and the bulk of copper jvas so troopers were surrounded In 1866, on take' both sides were heavy that he had to many persons it to the and after a bloody fight, all wereDecember, killed. It Is one of the three battlefields In the world where wounded. The crowd refused to dis- bank on a dray. there were no survivors of the perse until the military ordered them vanquished Stricken at the Altar. army. Alamo and Custer's battlefields being' The away. burgomaster finally perthe two. other Charles Finck and Mary McIntyre suaded General Kaigeroff to withdraw were about to be married in the Sacred theSenate Among other measures passed were the Cossacks, and peace was immedifollowing: Granting permission for the Heart church, Trenton, N. J., when erection of a monument or statue in Washingately restored. both the bridegroom and the best man ton, D. C., to the memory and in honor of the JEALOUS MAN USES DYNAMITE- - were taken late Benjamin F. Stephenson, founder of the suddenly ill with appendiArmy of the Republic: to confer juris1 citis. The priest was at the altar and Grand diction on the court of claims to render JudgAttempts to Wreck Home to Get Revenge the bride and ment for the plaintiff and Interest in actions to bridegroom were advancon Servant. toward it when the young man was recover duties collected by the military au ing Early Sunday morning an attempt stricken. As he fell bis best man also thoritles of the United States upon articles im was made to wreck the house of Prof. ported into Porto Rico from the several statea was stricken. ' between April 11, 1899, and May 1, 1900; to con .F. Maglott of the Ohio Normal univertrue the dependent pension act of 1890 so as to A with at O., stick Ada, Divorced After Fifty Years. sity dynamite. Include all persons who served ninety days of the explosive placed under the winWillard Lanfare, agsd 84, and his during the civil war and who were honorably dow sill destroyed the front of the resiwife, Catherine, aged 66, have been di- discharged, but excluding those of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth United dence and wrecked the furniture. A vorced at Jefferson, Wis., after fifty States volunteer infantry who had prior serjealous lover of a domestic employed years of married life. , There was no vice In the Confederate army or navy: to inby the professor is charged with the contest. crease the pensions of soldiers and sailors who crime. He cannot be found. have lost limbs In the service; and private pension bills, including one increasing ADAM AND EVE MYTHS. CALL ' TIME IN CHRISTIAN ERA. the HUNDRED the history of navigation on the Ohio others were more river. Seventy-fiv- e or less injured by the burning of the steamer City of Pittsburg. There were 150 persons on board, and not more than half of them were saved, many of the latter being burned or injured. As the register of the steamer was burned no list can be given either of the victims or of the survivors, and in the confusion it has been impossible to get complete lists. Capt. Phillips admitted that the death list may reach sixty. At 4:05 o'clock Sunday morning flames were discovered in the forward hatch, larboard; the fire alarm was sounded and the engineers at once started all the pumping engines and the crew brought all the hose into play. Amid the streams of water on all sides, the flames from the lower deck and dense clouds of smoke, the passengers rushed from their staterooms and a frightful panic ensued. The appeals of the officers and crew could not appease the terror-stricke- n crowds that interfered with those who threwwater on the flames, as well as those working with the life boats. Few could adjust life preservers or do anything else for themselves. The burning steamer was quickly headed for the bank. A number of passengers who jumped off the stern and tried to swim ashore through the swift current were drowned. Many also perished in the flames. Help, except from people living nearby boats from the shore rescuing a number of passengers did not arrive until 2:30 oclock in the afternoon and passengers with only night clothes and without food suffered terribly. At Caledonia, three miles below the scene of the disaster, the flames could be plainly seen and the sbonts of the passengers beard, and the people put out in skiffs to the wreck. They dn saving some of the passengers. Many passengers clung by finger tips to the burning boat, with bodjs submerged, until overcome by fire or water, they sank to death. PRAYING FOR RAIN. Need of Moisture GUATEMALAN TO THE BURGHERS. ,MPURE rn blood-poisonin- g, 60 ht pension of the widow of General Ludlow a month. ' April 21. House The house entered upon consioer-atlo- n of the military academy bill. In addition to the regular Items, It contains provMon for the extensive Implements of the grounds and buildings at WestPoInt. These improvements are to cost 6,500,000, of which 3,000,000 is proprlated in the bill, t . Senate. The river and harbor bill, carrying an appropriation of 70,000.000, was passed without a word of discussion of the merits the measure. Consideration was then begun of the Phi pine government bill. 1 The New York Board of Health Find Contains Alum and Rock, Declare' It Dangerous to Health and Damp It Into the River. Th New York papers report that 1 in the pr the Health Department of that jna eta city healtk has seized as dangerous to nearly two tons of cheap mixtures 80I4 for baking powder and dumped then into the offal scow to be destroy More of the powder was found in 4 Sixth ave. department store. The 14. port of the analysis of the Heal$ Department stated that it was "q alum baking powder containing alu and pulverized rock. The different Health Authority seem to have different ways of is. pressing the sale of bad baking pov. ders. In England they have prosecut ed the grocers under the general la and broken up the traffic. In Missoni) the sale of alum baking powder h actually prohibited by law. In Net York they seize the unwholesome stun and cast it into the river without any discussion. The latter way is certainly effective. y The alum baking powders are offered at a low price, ten to twenty cents a pound, or with som prize, as a temptation to the house-wif- bet lat vl-co. ho res las ye: co: be. th th fei th tic .ane ye pa , th la of to e fit be fa e-- wl ra co or m m In ,a Zf m tc Fooled the Landlord. Landlords are getting very particu. lar about their tenants. If a person has a dozen children hes very codlly told that he cannot have the premises. Have you any children, madam? inquired one of these sharpers of a lady In modest black who was looking at one of his houses just finished and in Yes, said the gentle perfect order. mother, I have seven, sir, but they Without are all in the churchyard. further parley the. bargain was closed. Her little flock was. wilting for her in the churchyard around the corner, and were delighted to beer that she had found a snug little house so speedily. Pearsons Weekly. n ft N r a ts t 1 t a Do Your Feet Acte and Burn? Shake Into yonr shoes, Allens Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes fuel Easy.Hot Cure and Corns, Bunions, Swollen, and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists FREl-Address Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y,t " First Ca.e of Shaving. The first mention of shaving Is in Genesis xll, 14, where we read that Joseph, on being summoned before th' king, shaved himself. I am sure Plsos Cure far Consumption save my life three years ago. Mrs. Thos. Bobbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. Largest Balloon. The biggest balloon ever made wa by a German named Ganswendt, about is capacity was' twenty years ago. 20,000 cubic yards. It weighed 21 W tons and would raise 3VS tons intq the air. . t Pain Hamlin's Wizard OH. Use the last on the first, and you will neither , have one nor the other. Captain Samuel C. Wright, inspector of customs at Boston, was in twenty-on- e pitched battles during the rebellion, and was tbree times reported dead. . ,t 31 ALABASTINE IT WON'T NUB I rr. $nmiti7 KalsoaloM teal. u tea pofWT, rot, rab off and 1$ a ALABA8TINE f'tiro. permanent and artistic wall coating, ready bmh by mtxtnir In cold water, talc 7 pelet dealers everywhere. Bay in nackeees ler and beware ojf worthiest iroitMtona ALABASTINE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. A DBBnn There is no satisfaction keener than being dry and comfortable when out to the hardest storm. YOU ARE SURE OE THIS IF YOU WEAR !! LICKER MADE IN SLACK OR YELLOW BACKED BY OUR OUARAN... CO, BOSTON, MASS ASIC YOUR DEALER. If he will not supply you for rur fret cntaluque of ffarnrnta and hats off. The United States does more busi ness with Canada than the whole ol South America; as much as with Central America, Mexico and the West Indies together; and nearly as much with Africa, Asia and Oceanica, sa. United States Consul-GenerBittiu ger in his report. . al Adolphus Dewet, a nephew, of th Boer general, who was wounded and captured at the battle of Jakobsdal and who afterwards escaped from Ber rauda by swimming to a schooner pound for New York, hs arrived at Lima, Peru, where he will engage ia a mining enterprise, Peter Van Vlissiogen, who has been one of tbe most active friends of 'the Boers in Chicago, has sent to President Roosevelt an open letter, advancing an argument against the British mule traffic in the United Statea. He the traffic is in violation of the treaty cf Washington. re JUST THINK OF IT Every farmer his own lundlorfi, no lncum. hla bank account increasing year by year, land value increas mg, stock increasing, splendid climate, ex cellent schools and churches, low taxation, high prices for eattle and grain, low railway rates, and every posxl-- i ble comfort. Thiels the condition of tbe farmer in Western Canada Province of Manitoba and districts of Asalnl boia, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Thousands' of Americans are. now settled there. Reduced rates on all railways for homeseekers and settlers New districts are being opened up this fhe new forty-pagAtlas ol Western Ca nada sent free to ah applicants F. Pediey, Superintendantof Immigration, Ottawa, Canada or W. V. Boonott, Canadian Government 2: r AcenW 801 New York Life Bldg., Omaha. Neb. Dmncpw, e Efcast If net !Oe fait ilie, elegant eelorsdtl 011661 RIUlb ties, Copy, ext tnnlve lint. BenaforcntAtoff SI ftauuy St W. ft. WALLACE 4 Cft ill Whtn. Answering Advertisements Mention This Paper. th HI Consumers can protect themselves .baking by buying only high-gradpowder of established . name and reputation. Do not be tempted by th as Just grocer to take something as good or our own brand, for th trials show that the grocer himself i often deceived by, unscrupulous makers, and is selling an tlum powdep ' 1 without knowing it. on several good powders There are the market; let the housekeeper insist cn having what she knows is right, and not be induced to risk ,the life of the family for an imaginary saving ot ' , a few cents. Paper 1 'I usu-all- A. D. W, Wolmarans, the Boer dele gate at The Hague, says that he fc. no knowledge whatever of any particulars regarding the South African peace negotrations nor of the report published in Amsterdam to the effect that the negotiations had been broken BAK'J!DER ized Klndfy