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Show V. V Anna Gray Is Delighted With Her Western Canada Home. Anna C. Gray is a young lady formerly of Michigan. She la now a resident of Western Canada, and the following, published in the Brown City (Mich.) Banner are extracts from a friendship letter written about March 15 to one of her lady friends in that vicinity. In this letter js given some Idea of the climate, social, educational and religious conditions of Alberta, .the beautiful land of sunshine and happy homes. Over one hundred thousand Americans have made Western Canada their home within the past five years, and in this year upwards of 50,000 will take up homes The Passion Play of Oberammergau is to be given in St. Louis during the fair. General deBaldwin, in Detroit, clares the Filipinos make poor soldiers. A combine of the peanut industries has been effected, with a capital of ' $4,000,000. The Panama canal committee reports progress of the work on the Panama Canal. The state department Is planning to take vigorous action to head off Russia In Manchuria. The bill granting women the right to vote in Connecticut was rejected in the house of representatives. Feudists are causing a reign of terror at Jackson, Kentucky, and correspondents fear to send out the facts. Louis Reop of West Bay City, Mich., is dead, aged 105 years. lie was, it is said, in the battle of Waterloo under ility." there. Miss Gray took her leave for Dills-burAlberta, the home of her sister and other relatives and friends on Jan. 10 last, and after a two months sojourn In her western prairie home, she writes of it as follows: "I know I shall grow to love tho prairies. We have a beautiful view of the mountains and it seems wonderful to me to see home after home for miles, and it la becoming thickly settled all around us. With the exception of tlie last few days which have been cold and stormy, we have had beautiful spring weather ever since 1 came. The days are beautiful. I call this the "land of the sun, as It scorns to bo always shining; the nights are cold and frosty. On arriving here, I was so greatly surprised In every way. Dlds-bur- y Is quite a business little town. All the people I meet are bo pleasant and hospitable. They have four churches In Didsbury the Baptist, Presbyterian, Evangelical and The Evangelicals have just completed a handsome church, very large and finely furnished, costing $2,5u0. They have a nice literary society here, meets every two weeks. They have fine musical talent here. Your friend. Anna O. Gray. Blucher. An unconfirmed rumor Is current in Vienna that Albanians have murdered tho Turkish general of tha Uskub district James II. Eckels, former comptroller of the currency, is out in favor of an asset currency and the abolition of the Explosions in the Copper Cobra Mining companys mine at Prescott, Aria., resulted In serious injuries to three men, one of whom will probably die. A watter by the name of Cox fired four shots at May Warren, in Los Angeles and then shot himself, inflicting a fatal wound. The woman will recover. e. ANTIMONY NOW LITTLE USED. Albert Roberts, cashier of the government Ice plant at Manila, has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement. His accounts have been found to be $4,000 short. A French convoy has been attacked by tribesmen in the Flguig district, Algiers. The baggage train waa captured after fierce fighting, in which thirty men were killed. The quarantining of transports bound from Manila for San Fraqclsco haa been resumed, on account of the cholera. The epidemic Is making slight gains In Luzon. Ludwig Sedlazky, a prisoner, , charged with the murder of Anna and the serious wounding of her husband, committed suicide in his cell in Cleveland by hanging. The Polltlsche Correspondens states that the sultan recently isued an trade ordering the immediate construction of a large number of blockhouses along the Bulgarian frontier. John Czolgosz, brother of the assas-iof President McKinley, has been released by the police of Loa Angeles. The police are convinced that be Is a ; Medical Science Hae Almost Entirely Discarded It That terrible poison, antimony, known most familiarly in the compound called tartar emetic, has a very interesting history. It was Introduced Into medicine some centuries ago bj Paracelsus, Its name signifies that it is "against monks," as some on whoa it was tried displayed the now familial Its use in modern medi symptoms. cine has been reduced to the vanishlni point, with other depressing measures, such as bleeding. In the table which arranges the elements in series and shows their connections so that all are probably modifications of one universal substance there is a sequence, nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, bismuth. Sir Lauder Brunton has shown that these possess many common properties In their action upon man and that these properties vary in relation to the place of each in the scale. In the days before chloroform antimony and tobacco were used to produce the partial unconsciousness which attends their action. Laundering the Babys Clothes. Many mothers ars ignorant of the seri- ous Injury that may result from washing the clothing of sn Infant with strong washing ppwtlers and Impure soap. For this reason it should bs laundered at home under the mothers directions and only Ivory soap used. To throw the little garments into the ordinary wash shows great carelessness E. It, Parker. d 0 BURIED ALIVE. Horrible Fate of Woman Who Wronged Her Husband. A stone mason was at work on an old wall in the center of the town when a carriage swiftly drove up to him, two masked men Jumped out, threw a bag over his head, bundled him Into tho carriage and galloped away, says a dispatch from Baku to the New York Herald. After half an hour's furious driving the mason was told to alight, the sack was taken from his head and he found himself in an court yard. He was pushed through a door into a corridor and in an empty room he noticed an openings In a stone wall In which was wedged a woman, trembling and with terrified face. The men who had brought the mason pointed revolvers at his breast and TETUAN SURROUNDED Plot to Assassinate Three Hundred Celestials Has Been Discovered. r Two of the four Chinese societies presidents arrested in San Francisco for alleged complicity In the killing of Tom Ylck, a member of the Chinese Educational socelty, on Friday night, have signed confessions in which they admit that a conspiracy existed among the different ramifications of the powerful See Yup society to put out of the way 300 members of the Educational organization; that a price of $500 was to be paid for the murder of each of those suspected of giving information td the police relative to the plans of highbinders and gamblers; that $300 was to be forthcoming for every other one of the 300 members put out of the way; that $200 in gold would be paid to the gun men men for each one and hatchet maimed; that In the event of arrest and prosecution for the wholesale butchery tho society would pay all the expenses of the defense, and that in tho event of conviction, $1,500 would be sent to the relatives of the convicted men In China. high-blnde- Parrot Saves Mans Life. Attracted by cries of Murder! Come quick! neighbors of Help! George B. Andrews of Washington, N. J., ran to his house to find out the 7 ZBZSbQT LAVNDerJ7ZXC CZKXEV OOCL4L IIol-loma- n D-- y jrzvo jBt&aa Hzzaxnza jvjkbts mrrrjxrzTt axs-sarj- jaaaar Advices received from Tetuan say the inhabitants of that town, which Is now entirely surrounded by hostile tribes, who have set fire to numerous gardens and plantations, are in a state of great panic. The situation is critical. The sultan is sending 3,000 reinforcements to that port. They are expected to reach there May 22nd. The British battleship Renown has taken all British subjects away from Tetuan. There are still 200 Spaniards there, who have taken refuge in the Spanish consulate, as well as several French subjects. Heavy firing occurred at Tetuan during Monday night, many houses were burned and communication with the town has been completely cut off. OMAHA BUSINESS MEN Labor Unions of Nebraska City Secure Sweeping Injunction. Judge Dickinson, in the district court at Omaha, Tuesday night, on application of John O. Yolser, an attorney representing the waiters unions, whoso members are on strike, issued an Injunction against the business men and proprietors, even more sweeping than that issued by the federal court against the unions last week. The order restrains the business men from refusing to sell goods to dealers who employ union labor, prevents them from boycotting 'union labor, requires the Business Mens association to cease holding meetings, or conspiring against the imions or in any way interfering with the unions In the management of their affairs. RIOT IN FRENCH CHURCH. Killed In Ball Game. Iu a baseball game between college nines at Springfield, O., Charles Glenn, center fielder for tho Ceilarville team, has been fatally injured. A short fly was struck and the and censhortstop ter fielder both ma le a rush to get it. Neither saw tlm oilier. and they collided with great force. Doth being knocked unconscious for a few 3 skull was while Claude Phillips, the fractured, shortstop, has an ugly gash over the eye. White Child is Turning Black From a Peculiar Disease. Marion Prosser, aged 5 years, of min-5.l!,'n- n cause. They knew the cries were made by his parrot, but they had never heard it scream so loud before. Andrews lay on tho floor unconscious, bleeding from a great gash In his neck, lie had been repairing the cell, ing and had fallen from a a stove. A physician took six striking over his head and of an In the wound and said that in hour later he was put out of tho car- stitches a few only minutes Andrew would in a of tho rlty. riage lonely part As avion as he could fret himself have been dead. of the sack he did ao, hut the carriage had disappeared. Ho went Immediately Alllea Will Sign Protocol. to tho police and told his atory, but, Final permission has reached the although the police aro ransacking the house in tho Mohammedan quarter, Italian, British and German embassies they can find no trace of the locality at Washington for the allies repreof this horrible crime. t sentatives to sign with Mr. Bowen, Venezuela's plenipotentiary, tho proCold Standard for Nicaragua. Nicaragua ta contemplating a change tocol submitting the question of preffrom tho silver to the gold standard. erential treatment to The Haguo triIt is expected that tho chango will bunal for arbitration. As soon as the can agree have to be gradual and that it prob- allies representative ably will require several years to ef- among themselves a to whether The fect It. Mr. Gores, tho Nlcurngunn Hague convention shall he signed sepminister at Washington, ha submitted arately among the three power or to his government an exhaustive on the financial system In the Jointly, tho signatures will bo afilxed. United Stales with a view to Its in- On this question Mr. Bowen ha detroduction Into Nicaragua. clared himself neutral. threc-quarter- step-ladder- a re-w- rt Attacked by Dogs. Mr. Tbomaa It. Leonard Is at her horn in Syracuse. N. Y., in a precarious condition a the result of an attack made upon her by two ferocious bulldog. Mr. Leonard tried to separate tho dogs, which wer fighting on tho plaza of her house, when she was knorkod down and almost t hewed to Tho dog atplot o by the animals. tacked her simultaneously, ono burying hi teeth In her throat, and the other selling her by the left arm. A colored man came to her assistance Jo tlm to eavo her lifts Drowned While Boat Riding. Alfred Taylor, aged 24 year, and Mrs. II E. Kenney, aged Jl, were drowned In tho Kaw river off Armour-dalKan., near Kansas City, while boating. The enuptc started out at 10:30 at night, having hlrod Roy Van Metro, a boy, to the boat While In the middle of the stream they fell overboard. The boat remained upright, but Van Metro waa loo excited to render any assistance, and, rowing to shore notified the The bodies hav been recovered. e, nia-mg- po-lic- e. Ot-tal- N. Y., has commenced to turn black and unless something can he done tho (hild will soon bo converted Into a negress. The skin Is becoming covered with black spots as largo as a hand, and nt tho present time the child presents a strange piebald appearance. She suffers no pains. Her parents are both white. Her case Is a puzzle to doctors of western Now People Praying for Rain. Without stopping work for forty hours, exhausted and choked with smoko, the lumbermen and mountain-corof Cambria, Somerset and Westmoreland counties. Pennsylvania, are e fires that have been raging for a wool By almost superhuman efforts of th Inhabitants, and with the aid of fir companies from Altoona and John, town, tho villages and mills at Dunk '"1 Twln nrk'' h b" saved" Vjmamug ueaia Miner. Bnc t the Mar y kicking him. irderod him to wall up the opening elth tho woman behind it, threatening to shoot him dead If he refused. Stones, mortar and trowels wero In tho room. He was told that th woman was a Mohamedan who bad Injured her husband. The mason fenilt up the opening, the sack was again drawn teg-lec- Dr.'. S.C., in eh; acting back insane Patients Brutally Abused. The result of the first days examination by the legislative committee of affairs in the state insane asylum at Osawatomie, Kans., shows that conditions are worse than at the Topeka asylum. The committee has issued subpoenas for a large number of witnesses. J. R. McCurdy, superintendent of tho detached buildings of tho asylum, was the main witness. He testified that while on his rounds one day he found an attendant boating, kicking and choking a patient inflicting seric, us injuries. At another time he found one of the patients in the epileptic ward prostrate on the floor with an attendant stamping on him and JYJZQTJ& ZV CHICAGO g e Situation More Critical, Inhabitants Being in a State of Panic., There was a small riot Tuesday in a church at Aubervllliers, a village five miles from Paris, France. Father Coube, a prominent Jesuit and author, was announced to deliver a discourse and a large crowd of made a demonstration against him during which M. Tory, editor of a socialist organ, interrupted the speaker. A pitched battle followed inside the church. Fists, canes and chairs were used, and the able valadier was struck in the face wtih a cane and felled a blow from a chair. Fifteen of the by rioters were arrested. tfSXtNZ&iGY tax the kidneys. Dont anti-clerica- TZOPGtfnr wlo' over- In Moroccoan Village Grows Fists, Canes and Chairs Used by the Combatants. AS SEEN BY THE HUMORIST. n peaceable, young man. The Radical Socialist group in tha French Chamber of Deputies haa adopted a resolution urging the Immediate nrgotlotlon of a treaty of arbitration between Great Britain and HOSTILE TRIBES HAVE TOWN AT THEIR MERCY. ENJOINED BY COURT. Panama Canal Region Unhealthy. General Haines, a member of the Isthmian canal commission, who has just returned from the isthmus, says that fever is prevalent there, and that it is quite dangerous to white men. He says it is either yellow fever or such a malignant type of malarial fever as to be as bad as yellow fever. The condition can bo improved, but It would require control by the government of sanitary measures. He thinks it would take a year to place the canal region In proper sanitary condition. Feff-ner- Proud of His Ancestry. Col. Henry C. Branch, who died re- France. Miss Louise Hadley, a chambercently near Lexington, Mo., was proud of his ancestry. He boasted maid at the Hotel English, Indianapothat on ono side he was connected lis, Indiana, has been discharged for with tho Harrison family, which has refusing to make up a bed occupied given two Presidents to the United Booker T. Washington tho nlgnt States, and on the other was descend- by before. ed from the Indian girl, Pocahontas. Ho was born In Virginia In 1827, and Bubonic plague Is increasing In had Jived In Missouri almost continu- Canton, Honan. Shuntak. Yeokung ously for sixty ycars.Kansaa City, and Yeengshan. Famine exists In Mo. Journal. Kwangsl, and an American missionary PUTNAM FADELESS DYES cost reports tbnt tho body of a victim bus but 10 ceuts per puckago. been eaten. A passenger train on tho Southern VANITY OF GUINEA FOWL. railway Jumped the track at White Pine, Tcnn. Engineer Robert n. Stand for Hours Admiring Them-eelvof Knoxville was crushed o In Mirror. death. Seven other persons wero A pair of guinea fowls were IntroThe tralu was running thirty duced as peta into the garden of a young man up town the other week, miles an hour, aaya the Philadelphia Record. The Joseph Trepanl, the alleged head of wings of the bird were clipped, ao a gang of Italians in New York, who that they might not fly away, and defrauded insurance companies by they were quartered in an outhouse that happened to contain a mirror. bogus deaths was sentenced to not Theeffect of the mirror on the guineas less than two years and not more than etna hardly credible. They poet four years and eight months in states themselves before it, and there, prison at hard labor. studying their reflection Intently, Eight machinists employed on the they atand perfectly motionless and Rock Island railroad simps at Horton, llent for hours at a time. It la Imto drive them away with Kansas, went on strike because tho possible ll, shout or They must company bad employed George be carried forth bodily, and an to alleged around and a pry spotter, then, oon as they can, they return. No report rases of delinquency. Six hunmatter how fine the weather may be, dred men are affected. the guineas remain In the outhouse, Alarming and conflicting rumors are gazing at themselves In the mirror. To get them to take exercise It ta heard at Yoknhoma to the effect that noceesary to carry them forth, and tho Russian concentration of troops Is then to shut tip the outhouse menacing New Chwang and Korea It The owner of the fowls thlnke tight that Is said that Japan is indignant at Bus-la- s perhaps the mirror hypnotize them. bad faith and will calmly mainruoi Cur for Con.unipitnn .q lnfslIUds tain her treaty rights. BinlU'lne for eouirtu sml cold. N. W, Sauusu In a dispatch from Tangier, it aiv Ouoaa Grove, N. J., Keb. 17, IMX ears that a British torpedo boat 1ms left there for Tetuan with tho secre-lorNew Ides In Dentistry. of the nrKlsh legation on board. Suppuration at the resits of teeth li treated by electric ray by Dr, Siebel Other dispatches report Insubordinaof Munich. A powerful electric light tion oil the part of the government it focused upon tho bony cavities of forces at Tangier and Tetuan. the Jaw, setting up Irritation, increasis Quicksand for the responsible ing to violent Inflammation, and a layer of tlrsue coin- - away. The sup- linking of the big dje house of the puration ceases, tho looseness of the urltan mill, a branch of the Ameritooth disappearing, Tho operstion I ca Woolen company at Plymouth, difficult, but Is reported to hnve boon Maas. Men are engaged In removing successful In fourteen cases. the machinery, but no hopo Is entertained of saving the building. hand-clapping- Formerly Rich Coffee Plantations stroyed Forever. News brought from Guatemala by people who have seen the ruin wrought by the recent eruption of Santa Marla volcano confirms all the previous reports. The situation could hardly be worse. "All tho coffee plantations In the vicinity of the volcano, says Manuel Huertado, just arrived here from have been destroyed for Guatemala, all lime. Ashes ten to fifteen feet deep cover the country. In the neighborhood of the volcano ashes are so deep that only some of the tops of tall trees can be seen. Scoria and ashes cover 1,000 square miles of land to a depth of five to fifteen feet, and 5,000 square miles to depths of one to five of the entire coffee feet. One-thircrop has been destroyed. About 300,-20quintals of tho choicest coffee have been lost, and all land upon which It was grown Is doomed to eternal sterDe- Ml Men-nonlt- WARRING CHINESE. RUINED BY VOLCANO. NEWS SUMMARY. LOVES THE PRAIRIES. I dan-gero- Colum u i "Af lud-- n a that used t rood I ofoth trou- ey bles llllow In its v take. 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Hast dinga It to renter f Hon cress i .Washi T1 fell catarr iestabl .have , highly 'cellem Dr. "Pi for coi ; and t it for and d f patiet cellen I 'never jOneo I the or n I Cat land 1 1 a result of a dynamite exploslo Tuesday morning in the Protertlu mine, owned by tho Western Fuel con pony, say a Vancouver, 11. c dt patch, John T. Wilson was fright full njurod and died on his way to tho ho Pltal, and three other miners wero bm hurt, but they mny recover. Wllso was handling tho explosive and wb making ready for tho charge when tli A dynamito from some unknown mt off In hi hand. ' caun throU mu 'of . An Imported Diamond. The finest diamond ever imp paid no duty to the customs oE having smuggled itself in from J other planet In a meteorite. Pa In a thick envelope of meteoric it fell to earth in Diablo canyo the foot of Crater mountain, ArlU its coating being broken into nr; ous particles by contact with rock formation of the ground. six weeks ago a party of geologi discovering these fragments, at S them indications of a I thought markabiy pure vein of iron ort, their true character was soon disced, and in one of the pieces pic upby Prof. G. A. Koenig, the mond was found imbedded. It lx i on exhibition at the American seum of Natural History. same weaki t Per Tribute to Birds. A number of Parisians who wen" the siege have decided to erect monument to the memory of the eons that carried the d spate which kept up communication the outside world. It' will consist a pedestal surmounted by a bro: vase, on which will be cast a group the birds that proved of such util, to the French. The Committee a eludes the names of many weIl-knT, literary and scientific people. gratitude comes somewhat late, i, after the war the pigeons in qu- tion were sold by auction and meocrated in pigeon pies. The Fan in Europe. The fan made an almost simulta:? ous appearance throughout Italy k France, in England and Spain li most artistic flights have bee achieved in France; but not even: France will Spain yield in its use the fan as an important weapoa ; the mimic warfare of coquetry ir flirtation." Whether the Spanish U is in church or a place of amusem'. whether visiting or walking. It is ways in her hands, frequently Dortrl t fi Ing the horrors of the responding with these, certain Frr revolution fans represent Char!'! Corday carrying a dagger la one In; and a fan in the other! A1 if: M tie bull-figh- 70i C Has Lived His Life. Amos Martin of Princeton. Pa., Just passed his ono bundled nndi; He was a Highland p" birthday. at the battle of Waterloo. When married his first wife, who was a r, stcr and owned a farm, he drove her plaee with a blind horse, found i In a shed milking a cow, held an tr hrella over her while he proposed it manner most unconventional for was raining and wedded her nextd. She died when he was 96 year c Five years ago he wedded a wid I1 Who Was 60 vqr 4 tmi old. A LAST RESORT. Pure Food Should Be the First When the human machine V wrong Its ten to one that the trout, and bogan with the stomach therefore be removed by the us proper food. A lady well know L Bristol, Ontario County, N. Y.. tf of the experience she had curing M only child by the use of scleutlt! food: My little daughter, the o: j child and for that reason doubly d inherited nervous dyspepsia. tried all kinds of remedies and foods. At last, when patience about exhausted and tho childs cct dltlon had grown bo bad the who family was aroused, we tried Grp' ij Q lur , ? Nut. A friend recommended the food one which her own delicate child1 kail grown strong upon ao I ptircht Id a boxaa a last resort. I .ihort time marked change In be') health and disposition waa ef'; What made our rase easy wa thlj he liked it at onco and It crU' nutty flavor haa made It an Imme-- , ate favorite with the most fasUdlo I la our family. "It's ueo seems to be thorough established In western New Yo,i where many friend use It regular' I have noticed It fine effects up the Intellect a well a the bod:", of thoie who use 1L We owe r, much. Name given by Poatutn C Battle Creslr. MIcb. ' Death "I fchanc you n i and si I 0n! i |