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Show W " I v i I t. i 1 PEACE IS PltOMISEI) 6ULTAN REGRETS BUTCHERIES ' IN MACEDONIA. Oeclares Orders Have Issued to Prevent Their RepeUton, and That Guilty Parties Will Be Punished. la an audience with M Zinnovieff, the Russian embassador the sultan expressed his regret at the excesses committed by the Turkish troops in the villa) its of Mouastir and Adria nople. He said that oiders had been aent to the authorities (omerned to prevent their rt pit, turn and be gate the Hussaa embassador to undei stand . that the guilty parties would be pun-lehed- The German embassador, ftaron Uarsi boftll von Bieberstein, also had an audiem e with the sultan, who showed lmuself most optimistic The latter deflated that the liisinrectmn was drawing to a dio-- , in fact It had already been suppressed la some districts, and the porte would, therefore, ioilue liately issue proclamations announcing the resumption of the application of the reform si heme. KILLED Son IN POLO GAME. of Chicago Pork Packer Death on Polo Field. i Meets Brutal Murderer Has Been Located. As soon as the necessary papers can be secured from Washington, D. C., will be sent to Vancouver, B. (X, to bring Russell Colies, who has been arrested there, to Denver to stand trial for the murder of Harold Fri-boThe murder was committed on Hew Tears eve, 1901, when Friborn, who was 14 years old, and his sister, two years older, went to a pond in North Denver to skate. They were met by a man who killed the boy by a blow on the head with an ax and Bolles, brutally assaulted the girl. who. is a musician, fell under suspicion, and he was located after & long search by James H. Willis, town marshal of Sullivan, Ind., where he formerly lived. - Stable Silver Money. Great satisfaction Is felt In Mexico over the news of the successful result of the visit to Europe of the Mexican monetary commissioners, and It Is believed that when Minister Limantour shall have returned to this country from France a measure will be submitted to congress establishing silver money. The governments financial position is excellent CURED BY ELECTRICITY. Womans Speech Restored After of Three Years. a A remarkable case, In which woman has been made to speak after inability to utter a word for three years, Is that of Miss Emma Lewis, says a dispatch from Utica, N. Y. She Is 60 years old, and lost the use of the vocal chords through paralysis. A local physician has restored their use through electrical applications of varying power to the throat. She has now regained her full powers of speech. - Single Wire Used for Both Telegraph and Telephone. An Innovation In the line of railroad telegraph service has been put Into use on the New York Central rail- vend between Utica and Albany, By means of the apparatus a single wire cam be need for telegraph and telephone messages at the same time. While the operator Is ticking away a telegram In the Morse code, another person can telephone a message without the allghteet interference. Strangled Baty In Her Sleep, jjjr her confession, Mrs. Alexander Rlffla, a young woman of McAdoo, P , is the murderer of her own child, horn several days ago. Coroner A. L. Omars, who has Just finished an Inquest. says the woman told him a her strange tale of how she strangeld woman baby during her sleep. The had a dream. In which her mind became Impressed with the fact that some one had seized her child and was spiriting it sway. In her frenzy - she held to the Infant with all the force the could command. 1, " CONSPIRACY. MILITARY One Thousand Officers Said to be Concerned in It. The London Time- at Belgrade send-- , a nut-- of the situation in Servia in ahull he says the mllitaiy conspiracy at Nish, directed at the reguides, is far graver than the government dare acknowledge. Of a total of l.fiuo officers, 1,000 are said' to be concerned In it, and probably the bulk of the nation secretly sympathize with them. The clique of assassins, however, hold all the chief civil and military offices, the keys of the arsenal and the treasury, and any one crossing their path Is doomed. The king is surrounded, and many doubt If he will ever shake himself free Gentc hitch. In Minister whose house the regicide plot was hatched, and who conducted the secret negotiations with King Peter, Is alleged to possess an incriminating letter which Is kept hanging over the royal head. Lately, however, the regicides are beginning to realize that they have gone too far and must modeiate their altitude. WAR IS INEVITABLE. Only a Question of a Few Days Until Nathan Swift, son of Louis F. Swift, the packer, died Sunday from the effects of a blow' on the temple with a polo ball at Onweutsia field during a game. The accident at first was thought to be trifling. Mr. Sw 1ft was playing in a contest In which his companions were Frederick McLaughlin, W. W. Rathbone, Al. Farwell, Sidney Love, Walter Keith. R. R. McCormick and Charles Garfield King. The ball which struck Mr. Swift "was one that went In the air and from the mallet of Mr. Love. Mr. Swift did not appreciate his danger until too late, the glare of the sun preventing kirn from following the ball In Its flight. When the ball hit him he did not fall from his saddle, and when his companions galloped to hts side he was at first Inclined to make light of the injury. He was Induced to dismount, hut walked without aid from the field. Arriving home, he complained of dizziness, and later went Into a delirium, which was followed by his death. ( SERVIAN A BARTERED LIFE.' ON TRAIL OF DESPERADO. Posses After Kid Curry, the Notorious Train Robber. Posse are scouring every section of country In the vicinity of Bear Paw mountains, in Montana, after Kid Curry, the leader of the gang which held up two Great Northern express trains on Jul L liioi and who escaped from Knoxvil.e jail while awaiting trana port at um to t lie Ohio penitentiary to serve out a twenty year sentence for forging sigi.atmes to the stolen bank The hills obtained in liie robbery IKisses are composed of nien well acquainted with the country in which I'nrrv is traveling and who are equally as qipi h on the tugger as he or ain of his gang It is man j miles from where the search is being prosecuted to the nearest tel graph point, and It may be da s alter an encounter before an thing is known of what happened. Curry has lots o! f lends in the country through uhhh he is passing, and they will aid him to rea hthe rendezvous of his gang, where he will be safe m the fastnesses of the Bear l'aw mountains from pursuit or cap ture. t,-- i i n , trade. SHOT THREE BOYS. Oklahoma Farmer Goes Gunning With Disastrous Results. W. P. Price, a prominent farmer of Greer county, Oklahoma, on Monday last, shot andjcilleda neighbors boy named Parks, wounded mortally Parkss brother and wounded his own son. Price claimed that the Parks boy burned his barn some time 'ago, but alleges and that the boys had threatened hia Ufa. Be wounded his son accidentally. Bum Deweya Houses. Considerable trouble is being experienced with the settlers who persist in committing depredations on the Dewey ranch, near Colby, Kana. Three bouses hare been burned on the ranch during the past week: Detectives have been employed by the Deweys to look Into the matter. Ever since the killing of the Berry family by the Deweys last May there has been much more had feeling shown against the Deweys than formerly. The settlors are now decidedly hostile J to the ranchmen. . self-defen- j 'Tra-la-tra-- VICTIMS OF HURRICANE. Bodies of Three Men Found on Coast Near Lewes, Delaware. Three drowned men were found stations near Lewes, Dels., Sunday morning by surf men, one near Lewes station, one near Henlopen station and one near Reho-betstation. The 'man found at has been identified as Henry life-savin- h h Joyce of Cape Breton, N. S., by his son Harry, who is one of the crew of a fishing steamer now at the breakwater. Gay Preacher In Prison. Rev. R. A. Gould, a Free Methodist preacher, who eloped with Eva Flint, a girl of Central City, Neb., last March, baa been sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. He was tried under the kidnaping law passed by the state legislature after the Cudahy kidnaping in Omaha, and his conviction waa the first under thatstatute. He waa captured in North Dakota and brought to Nebraska, under requisition from that state. He had a wife and five small children. , Thirty-fiv- e Hunderd Out of Work. A Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., dispatch of the Consolisaya: The shut-dowdated LakeSuperior company, throwing $,500 men out of employment, haa caused a panic in the Canadian Soo, whicti fa In a worse condition than ever before In Rs history. Many people arel. preparing to leave that city at once, while merchants are curtailing their stocks and preparing in every way to get through the winter in the best possible manner with the ' n least expense -- i 1 TOOK WIVES WITH HIM. at the three -- - Anti-Mormo- American Consul Will Penetrate the Wilds of Africa. Under instructions from the state Robert F. Skinner, the department, consul-genera- l American at Marseilles, will penetrate the wilds of Abyssinia, guarded by a detachment of American marines from the European squadron. He goes to negotiate with the king of Abyssinia a commercial treaty, which it Is hoped will give important advantages to American s 1 Gult-chev- TRADE. ' piuii-ulum- n AMERICAN imi-m- 1 Sultan of Sulu Removes His Harem War Begina. to Singapore. A dispatch from the town of The United States government no fronon the tier, to the London Daily Mail, reports longer counts among Its subjects ths that great excitement prevails in the sultan of Sulu, with his six wives, his district because of a skirmish that oc- retinue of slaves and the resplendent dattos who make up his cabinet The curred between Turkish and Bulgarian troops Saturday on the mountain ruler of a picturesque corner of the Orient has removed to Singapore. range which forms the border line. The general impression is that war Although a young man in years, the is only a question of a few days, and sultan is said to be a total physical the people are removing their propwreck, and has but a short time to ento from frontier the districts joy the pension given him by the goverty ernment and the Income derived from of places safety. The dispatch adds that Turkey is his pearl fisheries. The reason for massing 40,000 troops in and around his departure is said to be his weakPalanka, ten miles from the Bulgarian ening grasp upon the throne, due to frontier, again-- ! which force the Bul- the American invasion and the fact garians have only 4,000 at Kostendll. that he has no male heirs. He appreThe Turkish frontier officers, says a ciated the situation, assisted. It is beldispatch to the Times from Kubnltza, ieved-, by his own people, and therefore moved to the Straits settlements. Bulgaria, report that the Insurgents under General Zontcheff have been Bones f Antedeluvian Animals Found defeated with great slaughter near In Wyoming. Melnik, and a great number of BulFrederick B. Loomis, of Professor garians were massacred In the neighAmherst the department, biological boring villages, several of which are college, has Just returned to Boston burning. from a three months expedition in Flood Sufferer Suicides. Wyoming, searching for fossils. Hs Despondent over the loss of $3,500 found the remains of many animals, In the June flood, Henry Mockley, Including the rhinoceros. horse, former proprietor of the Riverside camel, beaver and rabbit. In all about packing house, Kansas City, com- 500 animals were discovered. One, an mitted suicide by , sending a but extinct species known an the tltono-ther-e, let through his brain. The tragedy nearly as large as an elephant, occurred In a desolate room In a tene- was found In such a complete atate ment house. Mockley was 64 years that it can be set up. Another, a old, and bad lived In Kansas City sheep-lik- e animal, known as the oreo-dowas found with only the toes twenty years, coming from Switzeras a land. Years ago he established the lacking. A sea animal as large waa ruosasaurus, the whale, Riverside packing house and his busi- found. ness enjoyed a prosperous growth until the flood came, when he lost nearly Killed Whils on ths Road to Church. all of his property. Three weeks later A special from Colorado Springs, fire made the ruin of his packing plant Colo., says: A Rock Island passenger complete. train, running with extra speed to n Crusade in Denmark. make up lost time, ran Into a handcar The news comes from Copenhagen on which five people were riding, and that the Rev. C. Hausen, for many as a result of the collision Mrs. James L. Roberts, aged 50, Is dead, and her years president of the Danish Lutheran church in America, has arrived daughter, Susie, aged 22, Is seriously In Denmark to do missionary work injured. Mrs. Roberts, her daughter against Mormonlsm. The Mormons and three sons were traveling on the have attracted large nnmbers of handcar to Fountain to attend church. Danes to Utah and have been espec- The men were operating the car and saw the train as it bore down upon ially active of recent years In spreading their propaganda In Denmark. A them. They Jumped and were uninMormon temple was dedicated In Co- jured. The women were sitting on the The Danish platform of the car and were unable penhagen last year. Lutheran church In America sent the to alight before the train was upon Rev. Mr. Hausen to Denmark to them. Mrs. Roberts body was sevcounteract the Mormon propaganda. ered and horribly mangled. TO ADVANCE . ont-Hren- Turkish-Bulgaria- Turro-Bulgaria- and chose the shortest route to th valley, babbling with all its little might It was joined, before It had gone many feet, by other rivulets, and M'AKISN from a point midway in the descent, where the cliffs were steepest, came up tbe shout of a waterfall. This, and the tireless murmur of the evergreens, made up the music of this upper sancinternational press association until Constance's voice row from CP A1TI II 111 P i had young visitors, and there was, at tuary, the rocky table, sweet, full, exultant: "Psrbai n uu!,i t q, me for the dullest, the hope of release to conchange in) dr- e- ( i dln not cede her No ohe waa settled in life," "The wild streams leap with headlong to Infringe upon the drum r hour." said eould sit down with idle handg and sweep i h, at Constance, r door. d:i spend her days in contemplation of her In their curbless course o'er the.moun-tai- n Oh. 1 do i.u. Uiiiih ii. t on-iwould grandeur She had married well. Nck steep. approve of iln ii nu d her em- body looked askance at her when old All fresh and strong they foam along, !u ,i slu amended maids were the phatic condui 'res subjects of pity or rldi- - Waking the roqks with their cataract . n her inidurtuii, Mrs, rule. The most censorious eould not song. Withers is tile hoh ; i ..ice of her own couple her name with the dread word My eye bears a glance like the beam on actions, and di m ippeur to dic- "dependence." She bad no. household a lauce on cares. Mr Withers and Miss Field re-- 1 Ag I watch the waters dash and danco. tate, hut m some points jnl ill uejer of ladies' lieved her of all such. I burn with glee, for I love to see I attire is one of Uim And the mistress of ths mansion waa The path of anything thats free, luu known him SO long that am with left to her own devices? By no means. I love I Jove oh, I love the free! am con- H her husband were faKtldious. he was I love I love I love the free! all hia atniah'e -i ui inn, fident he Wou'd hr pY.i-.fto roe Mrs. also tyrannical He dictated not only Withers ashiinu- ih hi ad of in r table what dress his wife should appear in The skylark springs with dew on hit in full dinner mile But a n marked. dally, but also what laces and orna- wings, I do not piesunir to dn tale, to ad- ment3 she should sport; at what hours And up in the arch of heaven he vise, or even siickpsi. Mu Withers is she should take the air; whom she! sings undisputed eT.jire.--- i l e e Oh, sweeter far Having run must visit and whom invite; what trippingly through ms speech, she in- songs she should slug to him when he Than the notes that come through a flicted a third re;n it K ihla courtesy asked for music in the Evening, and ,, golden bar. when the day bhould close the day so The thrall and the state of the palace upon the noun, and wuiDhed. She is undi rhred and a meddler, wearisome In its similitude to all that gate decided Constance, while she made a had preceded and those which should Are what my spirit has learned to hate. rapid toilet. "I hate to he addressed in follow It. the third person. I thought it a form My cousin Is a man with aspirations The strain ceased abruptly, sod, in of speech confined, In this country, to above the frivolities of fashionable of the rapt musician, borne above kitchen maids and dry goodg store life, and excitement is injurious to hia place the of earthly woes to crush and power clerks. health. Miss Field notified the bride I petty vexations to sting, a woman grovBefore she could Invest herself in the that day after her elled upon the mossy cushion, weeping dinner dress that lay uppermost In her fear Mrs. Withers will tire of the even hot, fast tears, and beating agalnat the trank the bell rang to summon her to tenor of our way. rough rock with a childs folly of desI like quiet, Constance replied. But she did not mean stagnation. peration the white hand that wore tbe of her servitude. She was married in April, and on the badge What was she but a caged bird, bidMr. first of July the trio removed to Withers country seat. Here Constance den to preen Its feathers and warble not to wall for me, she said, hurried- - was to find that the dead level of her the notes its master dictated between A slave to whom state ly. She did not expect to be taken at existence had yet a lower plane of dull-h- golden bars? word, bat upon hrr descent to the ness. There was pot a neighbor within and thrall meant one and tbe same dining room she beheld her husband four tulles, hardly a farm house lu abhorrent thing? What had she to do henceforward with dreams of beauty seated at the foot of the board and Miss sight "We recruit here after the dlsslpa-th- e and freedom she, who bad sliced Field at the head. The latter laid down soup ladle and jumped up, fussily, tlon of the winter, Miss Field said, away her liberty of spirit and person, The solitude is enraptur- - voluntarily accepting In their stead Here she is, now. I resign my chair enjoyingly. to one who will fill It more worthily lng. One can sleep all day long If she the moet foul captivity a pure and upright woman can know? She felt herlikes. than I have ever done. This proved to be her favorite meth- self to be utterly vile plague-spotte- d Keep yonr place, Harriet!" ordered her kinsmas. Mrs. Withers will waive od of recuperating her exhausted ener- - in soul and flesh la the lonely sublimher claims ra this occasion, since she giegi Mr. Withers, too, liked a post-l- ity of this mountain temple a leper, and incurable, constrained late," designating a chair at his left prandial siesta, "prescribed by his phy-a- s condemned that Intended for Constances occu- - slclan as eminently conducive to diges-W- s to cry out at the approach of every "Unclean! unclean It would have waited for tlon." Constance was not more lonely passer-bpancy. would have been better for her to beg yon, Constance, had I been leas faint when they slept than when they were and weary. My physician has repeat- awake. The horrible sterility of her life ber bread upon tbe doorsteps of the edly warned me that protracted absti- was not to be ameliorated by their so- wealthy, and, falling that, to die by tbe nence is detrimental to my digestion. ciety. It commonplacenesa be a crime, wtyelde with starvation and cold, than Harriett her, understands my consti- Mr. Withers and his cousin were of- to live the life of nominal respectabiltution so well that I am seldom, when fenders of an aggravated type. Harri- ity and abundance, of real degradation at home, a sufferer from the twinges of ets affectations and Elnathana plati- and poverty, which were now hers. The tears were dried, but she etill eat dyspepsia, that have afflicted me in my tudes were to the tortured senses of ths third person of the party less endura- on the gray carpet, clutching angrily absence., , L Thoseliorrtble public tables," cried ble than tbe cicadas shrill monotone at it and the wild flower r'epln Martlet'll assure you I never sat down through the hot summer day, aaiTAne through thw crevices of the rock, rending them as passion had torn her; her to a Dwvsf when you were away without katydids endless refrain at night which bad hitherto paralysed bosom heaving with the unspent waves sighing over your tn plight in being pout suhjeeted to ths abominable cookery her by their weight, began to gall and of excitement and a mutinous And btolerable hours of hotels. fret Into her spirit She grew unequal upon her Ups, when a crackling among "I Id not know you were a dyspep- in temper, nervous tnd restless, under the brushwood thrilled her with as untic," bserved Constance. You seemed the restrictions imposed by her spouse. comfortable sensation of alarm. to enfcy good health during our tour." An insane Impulse beset ber to defy bis Before she could regain her feet or TUt was because Mrs. Withers authority and set at naught his coun- concert her scheme of defense or does lot yet comprehend your marvel- sels; to rush into soma outrageous flight, tbe nearest cedar boughs werw ous pitlence the courage with which freak that should shock him out of his pushed aside, and a man stepped Into yon betr pain, and the unselfishness propriety and provoke the prudish toad tbe area fenced in by the hardy mountain evergreens. With subsiding fears., that leads you to conceal its ravages eater to natural speech and action. from (he eyes of others, explained This madness was never stronger as her quick eye Inventoried the variMiss Field, ogling the Interesting suf- than on one August afternoon when she ous particulars of his neat traveling ferer, who was discussing a plate of escaped from the house, leaving the suit, gentlemanly bearing, pleasant excellent whits soup with a solemnly cousins to the enjoyment of their re- countenance and deferential aspect conscious air. Now that you are safe cuperative naps In their respective toward herself, Constance arose, visibly under four own roof, we will soon undo chambers, and took her way to the embarrassed, but dignified, and awaitthe mlfchiet that has been done. You mountain back of the villa. She had ed his pleasure. The stranger betrayed do not know what a prize you have never explored It, tempting as was ths neither surprise nor contusion. Walkwon, Mrs. Withers, until you have seen shade of the hemlocks and pines that ing directly up to ber, he removed bis him in the retiraey of home. His vir- grew up to the summit, and the walls hat, bowing low, with a bright, cordial tues an such as flourish In perfection of gray rock revealed through the rifts smile. "Unless I am greatly mistaken In the shadow of his own vine and of the foliage. A current of fragrance, I have the pleasure of seeing my brothshed their sweetest perfume upon the odor of the resinous woods, flowed ers wife. And you are more familiar the domestic hearth." down to greet ber ere she reached the with my name and my handwriting "As you perceive, my good cousins outskirts of the forest, and the lulling than with my face. I am Edward Withpartiality for me tempts her to "become murmur of' the wind In the evergreen ers!" poetically extravagant In her expres-lions,- " boughs was like the sound of many (TO S OOVTIXOSO.I Mr. Withers said to his wife, In and wooing waters. The tender green well tassels of the larches tapped her head looking apology, pretended Coining of Nial-f- t. as she bowed beneath their low branchpleased, nevertheless. It is not generally known that all the I could not have a more patient aud- es. and tbe wide hemlocks were spread minor coins of base metal, such as itor thin Mrs. Withers, 1 am sure, re-- in benediction above ber. She was are made At the will &one with nature free for one short pennies and nickels, Mrs. Withers o)ned Harriet and that nearly mint, Philadelphia ennever take exception to my honest think her own thoughts and 109,000,000 hour pennies are coined there 'kusiasa. act out her desires. She laughed as a every year. This large number ia ocbushy cedar knocked off her hat at the casioned by the fact that thousands ofr instant that she tore her dress upon a pennies are lost annually, and thl govCHAPTER IV. bramble. ernment hag some difficulty In mala- "They are leagued with my legal talnlng a supply. The profit of the anONSTANCE proprietor In the commendable business government on their manufacture ia swered by her ster- of repressing the lawless vagaries of large. The blanks tor making them eotyped, . languid those who cannot get their fill of nat- are purchased for $1 a thousand from smile, wondering ural beauties through tbe windows of a Cincinnati firm that produces them only at the compla- a state chariot. But I shall have my by contracL Blanks for nickels cency with which a frolic all the same." same Way, costing Unin the man of her spouses Another and a higher peak tempted cle Sam a cent and a half a piece. only years and shrewd- her when she had satfor awhile upon Gold ie coined in Philadelphia and San ness hearkened to a boulder crowning the first, revelling Francisco. Not enough of It comes inthe bold flattery ot In the view of valley and hill. Includ- to the' mint at New Orleans to make his parasite. ing the basin in which nestled the tbe coinage of it worth while. Gold eastward and The exhibition house, the plain opening pieces are the only coins of tbe United eeased to astonish her before she bad toward the sea and civilization. The States which are worth their face valua lived is the same house with the -cou - second height was precipitous. In tom . - A double eagle contain intrinsically From $20 worth of ins for s month. Within the same pe- - places almost perpendicular. gold without counting th rlod she was gradually reduced to the treading fearlessly and rapidly from copper. part her-aelf of a cipher In the management crag to crag, she came to pulling poeitios of the wtabllshmenL After that first up gravelly banks by catching at Batrognkitlac. day Miss Field had not offered to abdl-ca- te the stout underbrush, and steadying Lord Nocount (proudly) "I can traoe the seat at the bead of the table, herself among rolling stones by tufts except St the only dinner party they of wiry grass. But she kept on, and my descent from William the ConquerYou have been a long had given. Then tbe handsome Mrs. forgot aching feet, scant breath and or." Cynicus satWithers appeared In d blistered hands when she stood finally time on the downward path. Truth. in and diamonds as the mistress of cer- upon a broad plateau hundreds of feet emonies to A dozen substantial citizens above the house, that bad dwindled Oo4 Atlvlet. and their expensively attired wives, en- Into a toy cottage, and the environing - haa threatened to kick m "Mr.X dured the two hours spent at table, and plantations of trees like patches in an next time he meets me in society. If I the two duller ones in the great par- herb garden. see him walk in what should I dot? ' This is life! she cried out in a snd- - "Sit down." Standard. lors, where the small company seemed lost and everybody talked as If afraid , den transport, and she sat her down of bis own voice ihe was no gayer than upon a cushion of gray, moss In the Oermtodixlnf IbpmIIi tbe rest by the time the entertainment shadow of a cedar, to gaze and wonder The caterpillars are great eaters, the , was half over. The atmosphere of re- - j and rejoice. Fhe made a discovery presently. A different species consuming from five epectable stupidity was infectious, and to twenty times their own weight ot new this pervaded every nook of her spring, clear and Impetuous, burst , home. In her brother's house she had from between two overhanging rocks. food each day I home-bringin- - t er a t y, 1 Her-chain- 1 fig-tre- e; , one-ten- th pearl-colore- ! I - i g. t i |