t 2 THE COLUMBIAN. BLQOMSBUko, Kv Covering; Minor Happen- Ings from all Over the Globe. HOME AND FOREIGN Compiled and Condensed for the r.umj Reader -A Complete Record 1 of European Despatches and Int portent E rents from Ererrwlter ol)ed Down for Tlaatj Terns!. The Senate passed tha Aldrich till to enable the r.'cretary of the Treasury to combat a money stria- gehcy. President Roosevelt will appoint Senator J. C. S. Blackburn, of Ken- tucky, a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission. By a vote of four to three the Court of Appeals acquitted George W. Perkins, accused of criminality in connection with a New York Life contribution to the Republican Na tional Committee. Three passengers were killed and many hurt when the Chicago express on the Grand Trunk Railroad plunged down a thirty foot embank ment. E. II. Harrlman told the Inter state Commerce Commission he ousted Stuyvesant Fish from tho presidency of Illinois Central for misuse of funds. Three lnrgo appropriation bills and a measure granting service pen sions to army nurses were rushed through the Senate. Major General Frederick D. Grant explained to President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Tntt that he hud not criticised the. President in connection with the Japanese dis pute us reported. Tho House voted to give con sideration of the Ship Subsidy bill precedence over all other measures of general legislation. Jurors to try Philip and James Strother3 for killing W. F. Bywaters were quickly obtained and the trial began In Culpeper, Va. Mae Wood, who has sued United States Senator Piatt for a divorce, said she had named sixteen women rs correspondents. Mr. Jerome, District Attorney of w York City, confronted Evelyn shit Thaw with documents pur- rtlng to show that she had accused ' irry Thaw of having throttled and rashed her and compelled her to '.. cocaine, besides otherwise brutally maltreating her. E. H. Harrlman, before the Inter state Commerce Commission, admit ted that $60,000,000 of the Chicago and Alton Railroad was water. President Roosevelt visited Gro ton School and talked to the boys on fair play in sports. Willian J. Bryan, of Nebraska, and Senator Beverldge, of Indiana, engaged In a Joint debate on exten sion of power of the federal govern ment. The Senate Judiciary Committee will decide whether the ousting of Insurance Superintendent Kelsey shall be prompt or long delayed. The record of the present session of Congress showed that few bills of public Interest had been passed. Reformers plan a State League to watch and expose bad man and bad measures In the Legislature in Al bany, N. Y. Following his refusal to pay $600 to "Black Hand" blackmailers the store of Michael Alonge, in Elizabeth street, New York City, was wrecked by a bomb. Cnban liberals were Indignant at a decree of the Mayor of Havana for bidding a proposed cock fighting demonstration, and the order waa modified at Governor Magoon's suggestion. The House passed the Each bill regulating hours of labor of railroad employees, amended to meet Presi dent Roosevelt's wishes. By the will of her mother, Mrs. Ida Binge, whom she is charged with killing Mrs. Lottie Wallau, New York City Is the sole beneficiary. Governor Hughes of N Y. sent to the Senate a message calling for the removal of Superintendent of Insur ance Kelsey. By a vote of 28 yeas t 42 nays the United States Senate rejected the resolution declaring the neat of Sf na tor Reed Smoot vacant. In seventy-five minutes the S lata passed the Naval Appropriation and River and Harbor bills, aggregating $194,000,000. Joaqulm Nabuco, Brazilian Am bassador to the United 3tates, told the Liberal Club in Buffalo, N. Y., that Pan-Americanism n.eant peace among the American nations. President Roosevelt urged the building of children's playgrounds by every city In the country. ICvelyn Nesblt Thaw, under the nro of District Attorney Jerome's cross-examination in the Thaw trial In New York city was foced to ad mit that despite her alleged bitter hatred of Mr. White she accepted his money long after the affair In which he aooused him. FORF.IOIf NEWS. Mr. Heenan, American Consul at Odwss, hM Informed the Embawur of the 1'nlted 8tates that nil tha consuls in Od'jRsa have neon threat ened bceause of their protests agalnRt reactionary outrages. The secret of the defence of Tort . Artliur, the; basis of tho Indictment I on which General Stoensel and other ' Russian clTlcers are being tried for 1 their lives, and written by I.IeuMn ! n.it (leneral Smirnoff, charges (lon ; rral S'.oosjx 1 practically with trea son. K horiiHHiin'u Governor, accused of ' conivnnoo In the sale of Persian chil dren, has been dismissed. Kupturs between CnrJlnal Rich ard and the French government as to the church leases In believed to be dell til to. Plots to make a raid on the Dutch Island of Celebes, In the Malay Archipelago, have been discovered in -Pe lwn. Nlraragun complained that Hon- duras was invading her territory, and that the latter country was aided Sal""" In filibustering expeditious. Keen competition is promised In the coming London Horse Show ow- lng to competition from America nd the Continent, says a special despatch. Mme Sarah Bernhardt, a despatch says, will begin her course of In struction as a teacher In the Con servatoire this week. According to a despatch from Paris, the newly appointed women cab drivers are meeting with much opposition from thtlr masculine rivals. Despatches from Caracao and Trinidad announce that the condi tion of President Castro Is hopeless and his death is expected soon. A despatch says Mr. Whitelaw Reld, American Ambassador in Lon don, Is popular with all classes, de spite allegations by newspapers. Pope Pius, according to French clerical organs, will reject the gov ernment's new church lease ulan. Emperor William, In conversation with the President of the Reichstag, said the elections show that tho so cial democracy has been overcome. President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, Diamus Honduras lor beginning tne Central American war, saying ho offered arbitration, but it was re fused. It Is feared tho French cruiser Jean Bart, wrecked off the west Afri can coast, will bo a total loss. SPORTING NEWS. I German professor ut Harvard said President Roosevelt's "mollycoddle" speech on college sports was luck ing In Justice. England has selected a strong team of acrobats, who will try to win tho International Cup at St. Louis, Mo., next November. National Rifle Association will provide a special code for the con duct of boys' rifle shooting matches. Alfred G. Vanderbilt's prize horr.ea left for England, where they will bo exhibited at the International show. Members of the Aero Club made a trial uscenslon In the balloon Amerl- ca from Washington, D. C. Before the members of the State Racing Commission arugument on I behalf of Issuing a racing license to ' the Empire City corporation was heard. Decision was reserved. Head Cut by Circular Saw. Point Pleasant, N. J., Feb. 26 ; William Lawrence of the firm of Cbafey & Lawrence, butchers. Is dy ln here as the result of a cut on the head from a circular saw. Lawrence an J Darrlel Mcllhenney, one of his men, drove to Herberts vllle, five miles distant, to get a 'cad of sawdust for the shop from Os born's sawmill. While Lawrence was under one of the huge circular saws filling a sack, the men started tho mill. Lawrence raised his bead and struck the revolving saw, which out on the right side of 1.1s he.id a gash over two Inches deep the whole length of his head. Screams In 'Phone for Aid. Oentervllle, la., Feb. 27. Rural telephone users all over Wayne County heard the screams of Mrs. George Stech while she struggled desperately with a tramp who at tacked her in her home near tha county line. Men in the homes of her nearest neighbors who hastened to get out teams and rush to her assistance, were too late to save Mrs. Stech from mistreatment or capture her assail ant. JcitlciiiN of American Autos. Paris, Feb. 27. Les Sports vlo lently attacks the proposed tour of American automobiles through France as dangerous to the French industry, and demands that it be prohibited. La Presse concurs In this demand. Both papers maintain that If American manufacturers want to ad vertise the capabilities of their cars they should enter the French tests or allow French cars to participate In the tour. Tried Dynamite in Stove. Steubenvllle, Ohio, Feb. 26. "Red" Urlch, a Slavlan workman at the Carnegie Works furnace stock house, Mingo Junction, threw a stick of dynamite In a stove Just to see what woud happen. The stove waa blown to pieces and the stock house wrecked Urlch and "Mike" Lai re h were blown some distance and fa tally Injured. "Tony" L&loch and) three othov workmen vese erlouan fturl hi hi i an, Pennsylvania's Special Slides Down 70-Poot Embankment. STEEL TIES SPREAD. That All of the Passengers on the Eighteen Hour Train That Was Hulled Into lUver Were Nut Killed Considered Miraculous . Train Rolls Down Kmbunkiiient, j Johnstown, Pa., Feb. 26 Rushing around the sharpest and most dan gerous curve on the linn at teniae speed, In an effort to make up forty six tnlnuteB of lost time, the wet bound Pennsylvania Special, Hie company's crack elglvteen-hour trnla between New York and Chicago, left the rails seven miles east of tills place Saturday. Treo sleepers went down a twenty-foot embankment Into the Conemnugh River. No one was killed, but of tho one hundred passengers on the train ail were hurt. Tho flyer was composed of the combination parlor car Kokomo, sleeping cars Cresheltn and Whit ford, and the observation car Wana tah. Tho train had left this city forty-six minutes late, and was run ning at high speed down the western slope of the Alleghany Mountains. A new piece of track had been put in at this point a short time ago. Instead of the ordinary wood cross ties the track was supported on steel ties, to which the rails are bolted. One of these bolts, the railroad men say, gave away, the rails spread and the train, running around a curve at sixty miles an hour to make up lost time, was thrown to the river. When the heavy train went over the embankment everything went be fore it, including the telegraph polos. For that reason it was hours before the outside world could be communi cated with and assistance sent to tba Injured. J-V. -J . , V ' I'rinre Von lletilow. the Chancellor of the German Em pire, who has received congratu- latons for his victories over tho So callsts in the recent elections. Lat est photograph of him and facsimile of his signature. yOlTH GOES TO DEATH CHAIR. Granger Murdered and Robbed llody of Who Employed Hlin. Osslnlng, Feb. 27. George Gran ger one of the youngest prisoners ever confined in the death cells at Sing Sing prison, was executed by eloctrlclty for the murder of his former employer, Charles Lutz. an aged farmer, who lived ot Middle ton in Duchess county. Granger was employed by Lutz as a farm hand and when he was dis charged Lutz paid him from a large roll of bills. The following day he met his former employer driving along a lonely road. He hailed him and asked Lutz to reemploy htm. The request was refused, whereupon Granger pulled a revolver and shot him and then robbed the body. 20 Negroes Die in Wreck. Charleston, S. C, Feb. 27. Twoc- ty negro passengers wuro drotnui or burned to death and a do-'en more are missing us tho result rf the burning of the steamer .Marioa at Hart's Landing, on Wadnrtlnw River, about forty miles from CliaV leston, Friday. Capt. Ferguson filed his report with the Government Inspectors here to-day. There wero seven white passen gers and about fifty negroes. Tha nogroes were terror-stricken and neglected to get life preservers,, of which there were 350 on board. Mica I'ost Cards Marred. Washington, D. C, Feb. 26. Postmaster Wlllcox announced tlia post curds ornamented with parti cles of glass, mica, or other similar substances llnblo to injure the per pons handling the mall are by an order of the Postmaster General ex eluded from the mulls, oxcept when Inclosed In suitable envelopes. Another Slunk in Kingston. Port Antonio, J a in lac, Feb. 26 a. severs earthquake shock was felt In Kingston causing several build ings, partially destroyed by former shock, to fall. One man was killed In the old ruins. ENGLAND'S MANY YACHT CLULi Tho Most Exclusive loathe Royal Yasht Squadron st Cowet. There are forty-three yacht clubs i:i Groat Britain, most of them estab lished at ports on the English coust. Several Important ones belong I.i Scotland and Ireland, the oldest or. J of them all tho Royal Cork havln,; Us headquarters at Queenstowu. This one was founded in 1720. The chief of all the British cl ibs Is the Royal Yacht Squadron, founded in 1812, with headquarters at Cowus. It Is the most exclusive Intuitu. .on In England, no one, until quite recently, being admitted a member of U with out the approval of King Edward. When his Majesty was l'mud of Wales ho olllcialed as commodore, but on his m-cesslon to the throne he re linquished the position. The- dub, however, still retains lis diaracter lor exWuslvencKs, and according tj llaily'3 Mar,a.l:ic, no candidate c:i:i hope to secure election utiles poa k!.sied of coiiti.ucritblu social Influence. The ballot Is so severe that tha j.iiiing" of extreme ly well knowa r.pi,risiiirn frequently takes placa, much to the chagrin oi their pro posers. On one ocasion a ertaia ropal personage Is said to have been so unuoyed at lindiug ore ol his nom inees blackballed that he promptly tendered his own resignation. Among those who have belonged t the dub lor at least thirty years ar? the Duke of Coiinaught, the Duke cf Fife and the Marquis of urniomle. Ct thuiM who have Joined more iv. uiiily the best known are perhaps tho hail of Duuraven and Marquis of Zcllaui'. The list of yachts registered to i:y tin rquailron burgee Includes such univer sally famous ones as the Meteor, be longing to the German r-r.iperor; Ilia Sunbeam of Lord Hramey, and tin Valkyrie of Lord Duuraven. On clc- -tion all members pay an entrain e W. of .tluil, while the annual subscrip tion is J-'ll). 11. e yacht club next In iinpi rtanca la the Royal Thames, cstaonslieU li liL'l. The membership (winch is lim ited to l.uuu) induuus the Emp-nir tf Russia, the Kin;; of the Bclgi t!.-3 Prince of Wales, Lord Brassey u:vl Sir Donald Currie. The uniform oi the U. l. Y. C. 15 unique In its way. it consists of a plain blue cloth' dress coal iui.1 wliltj wahncoat, each with r pedal Lallona, and either blue doth or while dud; trousers, according to the season, la undress a short blue Jacket Is worn in place of the tail coat. Tho annual subscription is elht guineas, except in the case of mem bers owning yachts of not less than nine tons, Thames measurements. For these latter the yearly dues are re duced to six guineas. Another old c.-tabllshed yacht flu') Is the Royal Western Yacht Club of England. Membership is restricted to 60 , and no one can be elected if tm ballot shows him to have received oils black ball against five white. The clubhouse, which Is at Plymouth, con talus a number of valuable pictures and souvenir The Islo cf Wight being the chief yachting center in Great Britain, tha Royal Victoria Yacht Club has its headquarters appropriately enough at Ryde. It was established at this port In 1814 for tho encouragement of yachting among gentlemen owning property on the island. By its constitution membership 1j still confined to persons coming under this heading. Admission to tempor ary membership, however, may be ex tended to yacht owners who belong to other recognized clubs. Although it was established at so comparatively recent date as 1875, the Royal Southampton Club is recognizoj as a leader. Membership Is open to both ladies and gentlemen, the proportion of the former being large. The Irish Houss of Commons. The Irish House of Commons sat for the last time on June 10, 1800. It was the duty of Lord Castlereagh to move the third reading oi the union bill, and he discharged tne duty with the utmost apparent equanimity. Other members were not so com posed, and to conceal their emotion hurriedly left the room. The speaker, who hated the measure, rose to put the fatal question. He held up the bill for a moment In silence, and looked, according to a spectator's ac count on the scene, steadily rounu on the last agony of the expiring parlia ment. "Ho at length repeated In an emphatic tone, 'As many as are of opinion that this bill do pass say aye the contrary say no.' The affirmative wos languid, but Indisputable. An otner momentary pause ensued. Again his lips seemed to decline their olllce. At length, with an eye uverted from the object which he hated, he pro claimed with a subdued voice, 'The ayes have It.' The fatal sentence was now pronounced for an Insiaut he stood statue-like, then indignantly and with disgust, flung the bill upon the table and sank In his chair with an exhausted spirit. London Chroui cle. Successful Ostrich Farming. Consul General William 11. Michael of Calcutta Is sanguine of great sue cess in ostrich farming In certain parts of the United States. Its dovel opuient In India is also promising. If found sufficiently profitable It will no doubt extend largely In this country. Tho Klml You Have Always in uso for over 30 years, and rSt fional supervision Pinco its Inraney. eUcUAi Allow no ono todeeeivo you In thin. All Counterfeits, Imitations and Jiist-as-pood' nro hut Experiments that trlllo with and endanger tho health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment What is CASTORIA Castorla is n harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It Is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotlo substance. Its ago Is Its guarantee. It destroys 'Worm and allays Feverlshness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho Stomach and Dowels, giving healthy ami natural sleep. Tbo Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. VMS CENTAUR COMMNV. TV MUIIIUT Tt' CT. HCW TO CrTV. GKN. IWIMDKS EXKCtTKO. Seventeen Followers of Venezuelan Kewdutlonlst Also I'll' to Death. Washington. V. C, Feb. 21. The State Department has he-.in informed by a cablegram from the American Consul at Tort of Spain, Trinldud. cf he complete extirpation of the latest ititrnpted rebellion in Venez.-e'a. The news Is contained in the follow ing despatch: "Genertil Antonio Parades and seventeen others wero shot after be- :mm: (Jeneral Antonio Parades. Ins captured by Government troon3 nar ilarancas, In the State of Ber niiKlei'." Pnral'-s landed on the coast of Venezuela from one of the West In dian Inlands about two weeks' ago. I-lIs p: ity conslbted of about twenty Lien, U it It was stated that he had ample I'.iuds and that he would soon reo'Ive n large supply of weapons v.'ll'.i which to arm the natives whom he expected to flock to his banner. SI KKCII IlKSTOItEI) I1Y BlltX. Mule had Touches an Electric Idjilit Wlrts and Meging to Tulk. Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 21. From practically a mute little Roy Dwyor, four years old, was transformed into d boy with his full gift of speech by ti painful accident. During the absence of his elders Hoy wandered into the sitting room of his home and took the Incandes cent bulb from its socket over tho writing desk. The light was burning, when a moment later the boy put hU flnsei into the socket he received n severe shock and the tip of his lin ger was burned nearly off. Ciylng with pain, the little fellow ran to his mother. In sympathetic tones she Inquired Into his trouble nud was amazed when, In tones strangely unnatural, her hitherto mute child answered, "I burned my finger, mamma." Roy is an exceptionally bright child He Is strong, healthy and has unusual knowledge for one of his years. But his speech was only gut tural sounds, such as are niado by a mute. Surgery has been applied In every form by the very best of sur geons In America. The boy's tongue has been slit, his throat has been doetorod und other methods have been tried, but all uvnilud iiothlue. Bad for American Packers. London, Feb. 21. The War Office Is taking steps to ascertain the pos sibility of obtaining for the British Army larger supplies of canned meats from Australia and New Zeal nud, so that the contract! with the American packers may be reduced in the future. Bought and which lias been has borno tho slpnaturo of has been made under Ins per- Signature of NO UNWRITTEN LAW. So Holds a Philadelphia Judge. Judge Martin, in the criminal court at Philadelphia during the trial of a negro on the charge of at tempting to kill nnothtr, refused, to permit evidence offeied by the cie- f. ndant s counsel to go to the jury, which tended to rove that the prisoner's action was prompted be cause he claimed that the other ne gro had stolen the affections of his wile. Judge Martin aid : "It sometimes happens that a man may catch Ins wile in a com promising position with another man, and there have been occasions when a shooting at such a time has been exonorated on the ground that the husband was temporarily in sane. Y hen the period of excite ment has passed, however, and the husband has had a chance to delib erate upon the matter, such a de fense could not be raised There is no unwritten law. Nor is iealonsy any excuse for murder. There is no proper remedy in the courts for any wrongs that a man may suffer in his home. The defendant was convicted. There are some women whi seem to be perennially youthful. The grown daughters are companions as well as children, and the color in the mother's cheeks, the brightness in ner eyes, tne roundness ot her lorm, ail speak of abounding health. What is her secret? She is at the middle age of life when so many women are worn, wasted and faded, and yet time has only ripened her charms. The secret of this matron health and beauty may be told in the brief phrase, Dr. Pierce's Favo rite Prescription. The general health of woman is so intimately related to the local health of the delicate womatilv oreans. that where these are diseased, the whole bodv must suffer. "Favorite Pre scription" dries the debilitating arains, neais ulceration and mllani ation, cures female weakness and imparts to the delicate female or gans natural vigot and vitality. Women who have bst their health and their beauty have been made "robust and rosy cheeked" by the use of this marvelous medicine. The flower of the family may be a blooming idiot. There is No Use Fighting Nature. Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy does nothing of that kind. It acts tenderly and in sympathy with what Nature is trying to accom plish. Do you have trouble with digestion, your liver or kidneys? Does rheumatism pain and rack you? Is your head thick and heavy? It will charm away these ailments almost ere you are aware. m . - - Oood news, interesting and up-to-date, of the State National Guard appears in The Press every Sunday. A special feature is made of this news and the article is written by a commissioned officer who is recognized as an authority in the matter. Every Feunsylvan ian ought to be posted on what the National Guard has done and is doing. m
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