Show IT BEAMS WHAT THE becent endors seem to indicate that the insurgents are getting worsted day announces a contract signed early during the month between the russian government and the arms factory by which the factory and its employed emp loyes are at the absolute disposal of bosait who hag given orders for three million rifles sutie f Colam lini may 18 at a mass meeting of italians last evening A movement started to erect a boston of christopher columbus to cost or the may 18 letters and akrc by mail from south america contain interesting facts concerning the in chili there boemi tob a probability of an immediate ending of the war in valparaiso beai jeaa is at a standstill many leading fA milie are leaving santiago for Buenos aboid prosecution at the bands of the dictator the principal buei neBS portion of is destroyed battha remainder of the town escaped any damage the danger of famine is now oyer army is said to consist at present of men the chilian soldiers are beine driven into foreign territory they are found in the argentine republic peru and bolivia stitt f the washington may 18 the signal office furnishes s special bulletin in which it chows an unusually low temperature saturday morning ohio west virginia western pennsylvania and western new york heavy frost have occurred throughout michigan and northern ohio agh frosta in the other districts named imbi jicie ST louis may 18 the emma jack company hai airone to pieces the members have had to pay their fare homo t dewied diw conn may 18 yesterday while out sailing in a yacht frank ebber and L lanphier of milford were drowned by capsizing their two companions were rescued may 18 A dael wr fought yesterday between signer barzilai a member of the chamber of deputies and capt bozzi as a result of a dispute originating in the chamber on may day the captain waa wounded in the arm and head hatm na tM may IS corte the italian consul at new orleans Orle acs arrived here but declines to talk good looks good looks are more than skin deep depending upon a healthy condition of all the vital organs if the liver be inactive you h ve a bilious look if your stomach be disordered you have a dyspeptic look and if your kidneys ba affected you have a pinched look secure good health and you will have good looks electric bitters is the great alternative ter native and tonic acts directly on these vital organs cures pimples blotcher blotches Blot ches boils and gives a good complexion pl exion sold at smoot drug co 50 cents per bottle goit ti iet gea cincinnati may 18 col L M dayton a prominent member of the society ot the army of tennessee and who perhaps was to gen abher man of all nis military family died this morning saih cirei may 18 A roua bush fire raging ifor several days at Omaha and in the vicinity of folder fayant floar and wilbur near the latter place great distraction dist ruction has re noted important to ladies know ye the citizens of brovo city that the time of year has come when something must be done by each and every store keeper and he feels it his duty to make some special efforts to please hia customers with something new and where as the firm of jas thomson co is a new firm they have decided to do something quite novel by the prices of all of their good to nearly piatr work done on the notice by CHAIN HAKO corner of I 1 street may of horn homo the death of mrs asa jackson in athene ga has brought up once again tho much talked of mystery of the where abonita of the original of john howard laynea home sweet home mrs jackson was a near relative of miss mary hardin who was much ad mired by john howard payne for a long time fifis hardin had the only known copy of tho famous song Q the handwriting of its author when she was dying several years ao in athens it was rumored that in me of her eccentric moods she had willed the copy to be buried with her but when asked on her deathbed if thia were true she told mrs jackson that she had not done so but had left the manuscript aa well as all her other earthly goods as a bequest to her after miss bardins hardins Har dins death the manuscript aft searched for by mrs jackson but was not found only a few days ago ft reporter called on mrs jackson and asked if nothing had tr come of the search nothing yet waa the reply but I 1 chopo to find it before I 1 die mary kept the copy conceited all th e time while she lived joha howard it to her alita ha wax consul to alders and between the enes were written lit ua love messages they were sweethearts once these two mary was offered tempting sums for the manuscript in her lifetime by publishers but would never part with it several lawyers have lately been to me to get my permission for them to ferret out the whereabouts of the manuscript but I 1 have refused to let them take the case I 1 feel certain that it will come to light before I 1 die it is generally believed that the manuscript will some time be found some think that the copy which waa known to be the only one extant written by payne himself was stolen from the house by a servant pittsburg dispatch murder will out ten years ago an old timer named tom poole who with his two children lived on a farm between pemberton meadows and lillooet Lilloo et lakes was found murdered the bodies of the children horribly mutilated lay across the fathers corpse in the cellar of the house which had been burned over their heads after the horrible butchery suspicion rested on a neighbor named graham who was last seen near tie ranch he was arrested and tried in new westminster for the crime being afterward acquitted the provincial government offered a reward for the capture of the murderer and there the case dropped and public interest gradually died out within the past few months certain dLo veries have been made which go to graham was really innocent and the real murderer is an indian chief named nemiah who two years ago murdered a chinaman on the frazer river and has since been evading the authorities about two weeks ago nemiah quarreled with another indian in his band and the hands of the chief were almost stained with the blood of his third victim other indians present seized and bound him and immediately sent a message to B franklin justice of the peace at natlae lake that they had got nemiah and wanted the authorities to come up and take him on receipt of this information franklin accompanied lay a posse of special constables left immediately only to find on arriving at their destination that their bird had flown Nemia hs equaw had cut the ropes that bound him while the others were asleep making good use of his liberty nemiah took to the stick where he is supposed to be at present the party found that the indian guichou Gu ishou with whom nemiah had the quarrel was not dangerously injured all the other indians are willing to assist in the capture of nemiah or appear to be vancouver B 0 cor tacoma ledger mushroom diore A local espert proposes to make mush room hunting a specialty this summer and he is certain that if there is any section of maine where there are lovers ot this fungus it is right here in lewiston and auburn on his finger he can count scores of men has to use his fingers twice over and more too yon see who are fond j of them and know how to cook them j at one certain country house in lewiston the sunday mushroom dinner is a fixed thing in summer and my arent they deliciously the old rule for distinguishing gui shing them from toadstools toad stools viz eat them and if yon die they are toadstools toad stools is not now operative its a poor mushroom gatherer who does not know the difference the top ot the mushroom is white the under portion loose and lighter As it matures the top changes to a brown color and the under a dark red the sterna which is white and round when young also grows dark with age eatable mushrooms have pleasant odor and are never slimy A test proposed is to sprinkle salt en the under side or spongy part and give it time to act if it turns black the mushroom is good if yellow the toadstool ial poisonous lewiston journal woodpeckers justice A year ago a pair of red headed woodpeckers determined to peck a hole in the boarding under the eaves of a house as woodpeckers often do the owner of the house not liking such mutilation after repeated efforts succeeded in driving them away and they went to work at once and dug a hole in the nearest tree when the birds home was finished and housekeeping had begun the farmers boys captured the female as she sat in the nest and kept her in a cage hoping to catch the male also two days later he returned with another wife the boys relented at the eight they gave mrs woodpecker no 1 her liberty and awaited results to their surprise the male woodpecker after a relentless pursuit of about six hours killed her then he destroyed the one egg which she had laid and continued housekeeping with wife no 2 as if nothing had happened cor youths companion beating street car railways it is hard to get ahead of the street car companies but some people in chicago think they are going to do it they are having constructed vehicles exactly like street cars except that the wheels are a little larger they are gauged to fit the car tracks and it is proposed to run them on the tracks just like any horse car without asking wih your leave or leave they will stop like the street cars and charge the same fare if the car companies object owners of the new vehicles will point to the fact that they are simply omnibuses omni buses which are entitled to use any portion of the public streets whether tracks happen to be there or not if the car companies dont like their tracks to be used they are at liberty to take them away exchange hands that statesmen write among lord granviller Granvil lea other amiable possessions was that of a very neat and scholarly handwriting perhaps this ia one reason for his popularity with press men on the whole however statesmen certainly do not write worse than writers mr Glad stones hand is indeed spoiled by over indulgence in postcards mr balfourd Bal fours hand is not pretty and mr Gos chens is execrable mr john morless Mor leys hand has character but is not always easy to read lord salisbury writes clearly so do lord rosebery and lord hartington put it may be doubted whether any of those we have mentioned write at once so prettily and so legibly as did lord granville pall mail gazette when ton go to europe from one who knows continental hotels I 1 carried with me one good sized bedroom pillow encased in dark summer silk and wished many times that I 1 had brought one or tayo more as one is borci bly reminded of the block and guillotine when placing the head upon some of the miserable contrivances politely called pillows in many places in europe six miles off the ladrone islands in the pacific ocean a russian vessel took soundings a few weeks ago and found a depth of five miles the deepest spot yet found in any ocean |