.f" The fnct that Chlua is bossed by a wo nnu is one to be borne In mind by , those who discuss the woman ques tion. London dealers report that they can't hnlf supply the demand for toy soldiers, guns and sword. The Eng lish toddlers have surely caught the war spirit from their fires. i 1 A nniipne bill providing for the ro lonse of convicts to attend funerals of near relatives has boon introduced in the Massachusetts legislature Xat- nrallv the convicts believo in the policy of the open door." The water of the ltivor Spree is polluted with from 80,000 to 1)0,0 )0 micro-organisms per cubic centimeter. A procoss of sterilization has, how ever, beeu atii'licd to it nt Jorlin which forces it ovor a series of small falls, and during tho passage it is hiili jectcd t j a current charged with ozone. This destroys all of those micro-organ isms, except one in every H00, making the water potable-. Two Pennsylvania farmers have boon at war for eight years over 10 trees worth $5l!. Tho case is not yet set tled,' but tho costs amount to 11 13.73. In addition, there are fees of flvo law yers. One of the lawyers is undor treatinout for mental exhaustion. Culver claims that tho trees Uu.lott cut down wore on his land, but the dividing line botweon their farms is in dispute, its settloiuout depending upon a (iO-year-old deed. There appears to be a constantly growing favor in Australasia for Amer- can products. The good feeling which has been recently developed between the Uuited States aud Great Britain naturally extends to the tatter's colo nies and has much influence iu re moving prejudices agaiust American goods. American agricultural ma- ' chinery, lumber, illuminating oils and other products are already receiving the preference in Australia and New Zealand, and only care and elTort are needed to introduce other lines. Hhould it be a rule of life to get all yon can, or give all you can? That questiou is just now undor discussion, Well, how much can one give unless be first gets?- Tho men who are laying thousands or millions on the altars of education, humanity or religion have generally boon successful ns captains of industry, princes of commerce, or leaders of large business enterprises. Possibly also their chief benefaction has consisted in creating prolitable employment which is a kind of giv lug especially if Ihey have boen just aud considerate iu their dealings, and hnve paid fair wages. To got honost- ty is quite as legitimate ns to give genorously, and ought to tuko equal , ra.uk. A friendly liliotil.lor ship broke man's neck a few days ago in this city. There is only one worse nui nnee in the world than tho rib-poker and that is the shoulder shipper. They 'have both outlived thoir usefulness and are lit objocts of solicitude for the Society for Doing Without Some People. The fioud wlin takes you uiv aware on a crowded pavemont with a facetious bat on the shonldorhlade when you are meditating on tho idoal and the beautiful, uud expects you to twist your shaken vertebrae into a geuial nod and greet him with a hap py, nam lent siniio, possesses an Heroic soul that would not recognize the language of conventional remon strnuce. He is not criminal and he is not crazy; he is simply an idiot. The lunatic asylums and the jails are over worked, but the fool-killer doesn't half know his business. A party of veteran newspaper men were talkiug the other day about throe Aiuany reporters wno became mem bers of the oabinet of the president, of the United States: the lute Daniel Manning, secretary of the treasury (during Cleveland's first administra tiou; Daniel 8. Lamont, seoretury of war during Cleveland's second admin istration, and Churles Emory Smith, now postmaster-general. It was less than 25 years ago that they sat side by aide reporting the proceedings of the New York legislature. Colonel Mich ener of Indiana recalls au even more remarkable combination which ap peared iu the Uuited States court of Iudiaua some years ago. Walter Q. Oresham, the presiding judge, after ward became seoretury of state. Ben jumin Harrisou, who proseoutod the o.iHe,afterward became president of the Uuited States, while Thomas A. lien dricks, was afterward vice president, Joseph E. MoDoun'd and David Tur pie, who afterward became senators, were o i the other side. That group, for diNtiuotion, was probably never nrpnssed in a kiWle state; one presl' tlen, one viue-prea,ident,a secretary of statu uud two United States senuUrs. THE LOVE Vf LOVES. DY MAMIIO CAWKIft. I have net seen her face, and yet Hlio Is more sweet tlinn Anything Of onrth) than roso or vlolnt That Avrll winds anil sunhnnms Drill S. 01 nil wh know, past or to onmo, VI lovnllncss nonii can lorRi't, Bbe Is tlio high compendium; And yol I have not tonoho.l her robe, and sllll Hlio Is more tlnar than Ivrlo wonts Ot music, or than strains that fill Willi brooks ami throats oi siimmar uiras, Ot nil we moan hy pootry. Hint rules tun soul ana unarms tuo win. Slio Is tut) dcop onltomo, Aim sun Bho Is tny worM, ah, pity met A (I ream Hint lies wnom i imrsuoi Whom nil pursue, whoe'er they bo. Who toll tor ii rt niul darn nnil ilo; The shsilnw-lovn for whom I hey sigh, The far Monl alllnlty, I'or whom they live or gladly illo. All, lll"l Saturday r.voulng Tost. C03333CC20SCC30032C333ww00 8 A Stori) el Hijpnatisrn. o 533303330OC0003033333030OJ ETUVTj body was not nu expression entirely without meaning for mo whou I ilrst met ttimcox. If any one had then asked mo what tho term mcaut, I would cer tainly have made somo attempt to do Bno it, although my dollnition would just as certainly have been vagno aud ansatisfactory. It was through. Claronco that I mot Simcox. The two had been friends in Ceylon, as I understood, though how or why I nover know, and it always icemoil strange. Clarence's business n Coylou was oolToe planting, and it seemed that Simcox's was astral bodies. The only natural thing about thoir old acquaintance seemed to be that Clarence always knew queer peo ple, and surely Simcox was queer. "Why, how old do yon take mo to be?" ho asked mo suddenly one day, when I nail said that something or other had happened beforo his time. Aud when I answered that ho looked to me to be about forty, ho laughed qnito heartily. It so happened that this conversa tion took plane as we woro walking to gether to Madison Sqnaro, whore wo wore to visit au exhibition of paint ings, old aud modern. Whon we had spont about half an hour tanging through the galleries, Simcox and I found ourselves stand ing before a portrait of a Spanish prince, who, ' I believe, livod some where about the timo of Queen Eliza beth. Tho figure was dressed in armor, except for the head, which was bare, and showed a fine bend of dnrk chestnut hair. "This is tho picture I wanted yon to see," snid Simcox. "Let's sit down on this settee and take it all in." I could not remember that Simcox had said anything to mo about seeing any picture in particular. "Woll, what do yon think of it?" Simcox asked mo picscutly. l'ino, 1 said. "I suppose it is," said Simcox. "I suppose it is fine. People havo boon Baying that about it for three hundred yoars. I snpposo all tho lords and ladios of the Spanish Court said il was fine whon they first saw it. I wasn't thore " "You're not quito so old asnll that?" I intcrjoctcd, thinking of tho mystery of his age. No," ho said, smiling, "not nuito so old. Aud I wouldn't have been at the Court of Spain, oithor. But there is oue criticism tho lords and ladies might have made, though I never board that they did." "What's that?" "Simply that it isn't true tolifo." "But yon don't mean to sav it isn't lifelike?" I said in astonishment. "What I moan is that it isn't as much like the original as it might have been. It would have been just as easy for Velasquez to have made it porfootly trno. I don't see why bo didn't I nover did. On the whole, it doosn't flattor His Highness. His jaw was not nearly such a ornel looking square thing as that. And yet the painter has taken the trouble to curl and lengthen au' ttanuiry the mustaohe almost out recognition." "Why, Simcox." I said, "ron tab, as if you know the original iu tin Ueshl" "Well," be said. "I don't and I do. Ion see, my dear follow, to know u man's astral body is about tho sairo thing as knowing the man iu what you call 'the flesh.' l'ou use the crude term of a wornont mediieval philoso phy. An astral body may prodnoe at limes a faint impressieu on the eye, but it standi to reason it must be oxnot." It ooourred to me at this poiut.that Simoox needed fresh air. I had never before beard any one talk in this pUb, matter of fact way about astral bunion. Either Simoox was orary or there was something uncanny about him, in spite ot bis brisk, boppy. every day manner. "Oh, you're surprised, are you?" be said, chuckling to himself, "I might have guessed that a man who talks about knowing people 'iu the flesh' would be. Let's ha a pruotioal doui oustratiou V "Oood heavens!" I orolaimed, "You don't moan to toll me that you are go ing to raise the ghost or this old Span lard?" "I don't 'raise ghosts,' " Biraoox answered, with some impatience, "or believe in them. But if you ore goiug to get fidgety, and as this is a public plaoe, let's go to my rooms. "Take one more good look at tho picture before you go," be mid, "and psy particular attention to tho chin, mustache and eyes. I want you to see U I'm not right in my oritioUu. I mm When we got to his rooms and tbad seated myself as comfortably as my nervous state of mind would allow, Simcox busied himself rnmaging in tho drawers of a rnlltop desk, "I don't need any very elaborate apparatus, you see," ho raid, "but there is ono thing somowheroiu these drawers, if I cau only find it, that ought to help n good deal. Ah, hero it is." Ho produced what I at first took to be a glass paperweight. On closer inspection it turned out to be n Japan ese crystal ball, very clear and exquis itely mounted, but not mountod on any carved stand, like most of those I have seen. "Just hold this, will you?" he said. I took tho crystal in my hand. "Yon had better sit hero," ho said, "with yon br.ck to the window. J want the light to como over your shoulder." I ought to sny that in that window frnmo thero was no curtain of any kind, only a brown holland window bliud, which was rolled np. Iu fronl of mo as I pat with my back to th light was nothing but an open carpet ed space. Indeed, bareness was tht most obvious clinracteriiitio of Sim cox's room. It was more like a law yer's ofiieo than . a private sitting room. "Now, I nm going to stand behind you, if yon don't miud," ho said, and acted accordingly. In nbedienno to his instructions 1 held tho crystal in my lap with both hands and looked intently at it. Once I could not resist (he temptation to took behind me and see what bo was doing. Ho was standing- with arms extended, waving his hands about. "Never mind mo." he said. "You keep your eyes fixed on that crystal." After that I kept my eyes on the crystal constantly. Presently a misl Boomed to shut out the point of light ou whioli I was gazing. It was a white mist at first, but turned to a dark brown. Out of tho mUt pres ently jamo the gray glimmer of armor; then almvo the armor I could make out flesh tints; then the curling chest nut hair, tho peaked beard and the mustache. Tho faco was more clearly deflnod than it was in tho portrait I had beou looking at. "Now," said Simcox, speaking from behind me, "was I right? Isn't the chin much more bumauo than "Velas quez inado it?" "Yes," I answered. "And the mnstncho is smaller and tho hair closer croppod. But it is a wonderful likeness, ou the whole." "It is," said Simcox. "And now you know what an astral body is. Let's go and havo some oysters." The wholo thing was gone. I was looking at the crystal ball once more. So we went out and got some oysters. Somo months later Simcox bimseli was gone. But I got by mail a marked copy of a small soientitio pamphlet. It was printed in England. The marked pnssngo was a terse statement of "Caso 10 Mr. X., Now York, U. S. A." The essential facts of tho foro going story wero given iu half a page of print. I was "Mr. X." "Clarenco," I snid next time I mei that interesting person, "who the denco is Simcox?" "Simcox? Didn't you know. II scorns that Simcox is a big man. Sim cox is Mclller, the English doctor export on hypnosis and hallucinn lions." San Francisco Call. l.iir.Ue' Stiatco Story. Lucilo Caldwell, a ten-ycar-ob". Sioux City girl, is tho boroino of n big, but trno f.naUo story. Miss Cald well took home from O'Xoill, Nob., the sceno of the story, 250 sets of rattlos from rattlesnakes to prove it. Hore is tho girl's tale in her owu words: "My nnclo and I were walking alonp tho banks of tho Niobrara Iviver, with cut thinking of any danger, when, all iu an instant, we woro surrounded hy a Bwnrm of loathsome rattlesnakes. I nover was so frightened in my life. My unole began killing them right aud left, and handod me a hoavy stick and told mo to defend myself. We stood side by side, and as the snakes crawled toward us we killed them. It was a fight for life. When the battlo was over tho ground was oovored with dead and dyingsnakea." Minneapolis (Minn.) Times. Not Aeftorilliis to tho lloffulntlans. Lord Iloherts, the British comman der in South Africa, is very popular umoug the rank and file, who usually refer to him us "Bobs." He began his career in 1851 as a Second Lieu tenant in the artillery, and fought and worked bis way up with remarkable success. No one bettor understands "Tommy Atkins." When near a bar racks iu Iudiu ono day he was an noyed by several terriers belonging to the soldiers Tho owners rushed forward, kickod the quadrupeds, and humbly apologized for their pets' mis. deeds. The Colonel listoned aud then said: "Xliey undoubtedly make good son tries, but I don't like the way they salute their superior ouloorB." Phil adelphia Saturday Evening Post. Anlinnls That An Not Uylug- Oat. Buffaloes and elephants are by nc means approaohiug oxtiuotion as rapid ly as is commonly supposed. Im mense herds of buffaloes roam about the vust nqrthern plains ot Australia, but bloodthirsty natives are also nu merous in that regiou, and bufl'utr, hunters oarry their lives in their t bauds. Also, aooordiug to the latest number of the British North Borneo Herald, large numbers of elephant oceupy the jungles of that colony. The jungles to the south of Baudakau Bay are full of them. .It is suggested that they could be turned into a valu able assot for the oolony if deooy ani mals were imported from India and the natives were taught bow oonstruok "keddabs." or trapping inolosarea. "DOLLARS McX." The Common Currency of A Clrent Iri4 or tlm Far Kast. Report, of reront military opera tions in tho Philippines include state ments that the American troops have raptured from tho insurgents so many thousand Moxican dollar.. Such state ments must not bo interpreted as more verbal artitlcos to magnify the i in i ortnnce of the exploit by using a sina'.l unit of value in reckoning the booty. Tho public are thoroughly familiar by this time with the distinc tion so common nmouy the Americans at Manila between "dollars Mex" mid "dollars gold," and the fact that one of tho former is worth loss Lthan half one of the bitter, but the treasury of Agninnldo was, iu all probability, stocked neither with paper money nor with coin of the United States mints, but with actual Mexican silver dollars. The .Voii an silver dollar is, in fnct, the popular currency, not only of the 1 hilippiue Islands, but also to a largo extent of tho t'hiiieuo coasts, of the Malay Archipelago, and, outside of such great men nntile centres ns Singa pore, of tho Straits Settlements, as woll ns of Japan. Hong Kong and Canton linvo iu general lulleu in with the peniuiury huhita of the British colonists and trailers, and Japan has a very convenient currency of her own, in harmony with advanced western ideas. But the yellow races of the East, ns races have tnken a strong fancy to tho white metal of Mexico. '1 ho persistence in the preference is more easily understood than the mnnnor iu which the preference first gained its hold. A New York financier explained the original faot partly ou n-sthetic grounds. "The design of tho Mexican dollar," he snid, "is a bold and striking ono, aud it impressed those Orientals from the time the, coin first began to circulate among them. Thar, I suppose, was more than 50 years ago. At that period there was very little trade betweer. fins country anil tho Philippines or any of those far Eastern regions. Of course, among the population of the islands, the natives bt being iu au advanced stage of commercial civili; a- tiou, the convenience of English sin.Jl change was not apparent Not being informed of the tlunncial stability of of the British Empire, they could not be expected to appreciate the Btanip that gives the shilling most of its value; what they did appreciate was the bigness and tho weight aud purity of the Mexican dollar, as well as the imposing appearance of it. "As to how the demand came to be so well supplied, that is easy to under stand when you remember that most of the silver iu the world was then pi oil need in Mexico.andthat the coin age of it was free and unlimited. As the traders in the far East wanted Mexican dollars,1 it was to the interest of the Mexican mines to export thoir output in that form, and it cost them nothing to have tho stamp put on. It was only necessary for them to keep the coining of their, dollars down be lq,v the point of glutting the market; in other words, it would have been possible to shit) so much coined silver to the East, either direct through Lon don or through London by way of New York, that tho premium ou it would fall. "Ihoie is a premium on the Mexi can silver dollar in that 'part of tho world even now. Hete, for instance, is a cabin from Manila, dated .Inn. 12, which quotes tho Moxican didlais at i'i -X cents, gold. According to the current prico of silver, tho Jloxicau dollar was worth nt parabout 11 cent on that date, ine dulerence is ac counted for by local preference for Mexican dollars, Tho insurgents in the Philippines were well advised in using that coinage, because it is the coiuugo which the peoplo of tho conn try understand and like. If they were educated 1 ankers, thev would kuow that American moiioy takes up less room in proportion to its real value, aud thev might admire tho do sigu of our dollar aud dollar bill.i as much as the Mexican dosigu; as it is, they don't thoroughly understand the thoory of tokon money and uational credit. And so Mexico goes ou export ing ber 4('.()()i00U silver dollars an nnally to be the popular currency oi the far East." Kn w What I-he Wanted. Thev 3 was a tall and haughty young, woman in a provision store recently, t, pretty girl who wore a smart tailor gown and an air of great importance. It was obvious to the least observau on-looker thnt she took herself and ber mission very seriously. "Have you a nice 'roundhouse steak?" she asked the butcher sweetly, when be came forward to wait upon ber. The man's face assumed a beefy hue itself, and be looked well-nigh apo- plectio as be replied, 2o, miss, haven't a round aleak." "Thou send me a 'porteiloin About seven pounds would be enough J should think. "Tenderloin is the best cnt, miss snppose y.'U tuko that?" suggested the clerk, bia face growing still red der. "Kind'y send me what I ordered, said the young woman with great dig nity; "my mother-in-law is entirely couversaut with the outs of beef, and I am quite sure that's the noun sh told me; aud send 10 pounds of rice with it. Then she walked out of the shop with the pleased smile on ber face of oue who has found housekeeping the merest child s play, while the speeta tors murmured "bride" to each other nnder their breath. Baltimore News, I'rlinltlvo Traveling In China. In Perkiuand other northern local! ties in China much of the travel is done by mule litter, whore this ex pensive mode of conveyance oan be Horded, aud these lilteruieu are all oha utedaus. HOSPITABLE CANNIBALS; Kind to While Strii(cir, Thongh f tiry Occasionally Kat Ulnck Man. The Iter. Dr. R. II. Nassau, who left Baltimore on Wednesday, expeots to return in the spring to his field of missionary work iu Equatorial Africa. his is Dr. Nassau's fourth visit to the United States since, as a young man, be was sent to Africa as a mis sionary thirty-nine years ago. His hair and beard are white. During the last five years be has been sta tioned nt Liberville, Oaboon Province (French), engaged in translating four teen books of the Bible into the Fnug language. These translations are be ing printed by the American Bible Society. The Fangs are a tribe of cannibals, numbering about 1,000,000, and inhabiting the country lying fur lip the Ogove Uiver. They are large f stature, warlike and represent much the strongest tribe iu that portion of the country. Dr. Nassau saul hoforo leaving Bal timore that ho could not call thu na tives that be meets in Africa- savages; they are cruol, ho snid, but not blood thirsty; their desire to kill is moro for npersl itions reasons. There are can- lbnls, he snid, among them, il ) na i seen thorn l oilin-f human arms lor food nnd offering for ralo with other meats human bauds; "and one day." continued tho doctor, "while lloatiu own tho river iu a canoe, accom panied by my little girl nnd two natives to row tho boat, wo vere called to from a group of naked men standing on the shore to know if he wished to uy '.any meat, and, holding n;i a humau arm, they informed us in their language that they had just killed two men belonging to a hostile tribe not far from thero. This was about t-hir'y miles below niv bouse." Tho only menus of transportation through that portion of tho country, Dr. Nassau enid, is by bont. Trade is carried on without money, a calte of soap or ii 'pieco of calico or bead.-i being all that is necessary. "Ihe men there are polygamisl. their importance iu the community being estimated according to the num ber of wives, saul the doctor, "bat. he coutiuued, "i do not have to tell them ot the existence of a God a Supreme Euin. ' "They are kiud to their mothers, out abuse their wives. Our mission has succeeded in bringing about 18.) ) of them into tho Presbyterian Church. If before becoming Christians they bad married more than ou j wifo ro require them to sot all free (all t'.. -. . wives are slaves, bought a:id .,'u" but ono the one they miht prefer. "I ho African v very hospitable. No medicine evergavememore benefit than the Christian kindness of the.j heathen frieudn of our littlo mission. They have a reliioii they lire morn religious than you or T. They feel honored to receivo us as their ol'icinl pniests, and so wo can depend ujio.i their protoclUi." Ijnttiinorj) S;in. lllitilitiE at a liuii-ii Aiii-ii'io. A Dutch auction at Cape Town ii frequently exciting. If a honsi) is t be sold the auctioneer oilers. "i'Miy golden sovereign for iho man ivh Urst bids JEVK.D." Xoh.idy bid.". A pause, aud then "Filty golden sover eigns for tho man who ilrst bids l'.ll)0." This is lejpt up uutil a hid Is secured. But it by no means fol lows that tho house is sold t; this idder. Xo, tho auctioneer is then at it again. H-y that 111)0 is the Urst bid. The auctioneer cries: "Tucro nro twonty-tlvo golden sovere'igus f ir tho lirst niau who has the courage t x hid 11100." Perhaps no one has it. Then 25 is olferod for it bid. If there is eventually no bid above tho 1100 the man who made that bid i-t saddled with ths bouse. Otherwi io he pockets hid boi.'.s aud gets off fro 3 of it all. Iog on KnitlliOi HlominiHiitnl Iti-ntn. The most frequoi;t animal repre sented is the dog, which, as . the personification of lldelity, is to be seeu on many brasseB to ludijs. At Deerhurst is an interesting example of a dog which is ub nvu as a supporter of the feet of Lady Cissey. It is evi dently a favorite dog, for beueatu H its name "Terri." The only other known instance is on a brass formerly at Ingham, Norfolk, where the pet's name is recorded "Jaklce. The nogs are often fonud lying ou the ladies' skirts as lapdogs, ami looking up into the face of their mistresses. A collar of bells is represented round the neck, aud the bolls are curiously liko the bells used for a similar purpose at the present day. The Atheuieum. As to Mlislllcll0. God gave men mustaches to hido the meanness of their mouths. There is much character or the lack of it iu the month. Once I made the ac quaintance of a baudsome man with a proud mustache, aud in years became fond of him, without, however, quite understanding him. There was au indefinable something that was repel lent at times, that seemed to caution me not to trust bim too far. Ou a fatal oooasion be ihaved off bis mus tache, exposing a small bole iu bis face that looked exaotly like a slit out iu a pumpkin with a tarlow. No sooner bad I seen bis mouth than I said to myself, "That man is a scoun drel; he has a cold cross." And be turned out even worse than that. New York Press. worn In by a Girl Dapnty. An inoidenfa ooourred in the Distriot courtroom of Bosque County, which, perhaps, has no parallel in the oonrt history of Texas. When it beoaino neoessary to eleot a speoial judge to complete the term abruptly suspeu led by the illness of Judge Hall the duty of swearing in Judge Paindexter de volved upon a modest little girl ol seventeen summers Miss Nora Jones, Deputy Distriot Clerk, Houston ITsx.) Post. KEYSTONE Slf.it DS CONDENSED GRANTED PENSIONS Besvcr County 0ns Hundred Years Old New Castlo Mill Worker Rcwarrtod-S.nall-pox Near New Castle. Names added to pension roil wrck John I'ci-eock, Kittatiniiig, Charles McCrendy, New Ca-ilc. Inn $oj $8; John Uttgan, Itclkfonte, Wi am y ncisci, iscw Washington, ?S uuncan f jMCAiistcr, arilH, $12: Levi l'hori); Irccport, $6; minor of John G. Law son, Latrobe, $10; Silas A. F.tncry, drove City, $17; John Redman, VVi-..csboro, $10; Dmh A. Wilcox, Bradford, $12; (irorge Warcliam. Beav rr Kails. $6 to T. J. Miguel, New Castle, $0 to $u; John StoriiHT. Johns town, $6 to H; Henry Canity. West Lebanon, $12 to $14: John Neeb, Con nellsville. $8; Kliabcth Waldorf, West Middlesex. $S: llcnrv K. ltmati, Coalpnrt, $H; Bernard j. Rcid. Clarion, $u; Albert T. Clingsinitli. New Leba non, $10; John W. Gooillin. Indiana. $24; John Lewis. ConMalc. $i. Prank 1... Wilkinson, Washington. $; Sam uel II. Croyle, JcanncUe, $?: John W. Campbell. Grove City, $12; John Calla lian, riiillipsburo;, $10; Daniel fix, New Castle. $; Kliabcth Nickel, motftvr Worthington, $12. . One hundred years ago 'Monday Beaver county was established by an net of the Legislature. Sunday the cen tennial anniversary was used ns a theme in many local pulpits, but the celebra tion of the event will not occur until June 10 to 22. Arrangements for rt I large celebration are being made and liov. htonc and staff nnd other state officials have promised to be present, besides many G. A. R. posts. James Loncrgan, night watchman a$ the Kingston brick works, Latrobe, while on his way to work, was fired up on by two men who were hidden along the road. He ran to the engine house, followed by the men, who fired a per fect fusiladc of bullets through the windows. Loncrgan escaped with a bul (et through his shoulder. This is the Jhird attempt to murder Loncrgan with in a short time. , A genuine case of smallpox has de veloped in South Canonsburg. The victim is Prank McCoy, who had been employed nt Homestead. He returned home last week and was at once taken ill. A consultation of physicians was held, and the sick man's aflliction was pronounced a mild type of smallpox. The house has been quarantined and the State board of health notified. Andrew I. Russell left Greenville for the Klondike in search of gold over two vears ago. He went to Dawson and fatcr be went to Cape Nome. Here he struck a paying claim and wa washing out considerable dust when be sustain ed a paralytic stroke, which unfitted him for work and he began his long journey home, arriving Thursday morning. Russell was a prominent oil operator prior to his Klondike trip. Deputy Sheriff E. R. May and Con stable Thomas Washabaugli, of Grecns-t burg, arrested eight alleged spcak-rasy proprietors nt West Newton. por years that place has boasted of its "dry" town. Local option is in force. By the good people the town 'was believed to be .1 model of morality. Recently strong suspicions were aroused that spcak-casics existed, and the people de cided to investigate. A . powder explosion at W'e-t Win field, a mining village on the Wintield branch railroad, seriously injured five men. The shanty was almost complete ly demolished nnd the five men were horribly burned, but it is thought that no deaths will result. The injured men are all Austrians with almost unpro nounceable names. Mrs. Lincoln Axtcllc and two chi)''' dren were nearly frozen to death in Deer Creek township. Mercer county, Tuesday night after their hitgtry broke down. They undertook to walk home, but fell exhausted. When discovered nil three were unconscious, and they did not revive for several hours. The new Methodist Episcopal Church nt Putixsutawncy was dedicated Sun day. The church completed cost about $,13,000. The combined seating capa city of the auditorium and Sunday school room.- which can be connected is about 1,200. There are all the con veniences of a modern church. Smallpox has broken out at HilNville, nine miles west of New Castle. It has existed for several weeks, the nature Cf . the disease hing unsuspected and hun dreds of people have been exposed to it. The village has been quarantined. The miners employed at the various works of Coulter & Huff, in Westmore land county, will be given an advance of 10 per cent. April 1. There will be sbout S.000 men affected. The advanc conies unsolicited. Despondency over a love affair fol lowed by religious excitement, has un balanced the mind of Miss Ira Craig, of Oakland township, Butler county. Saturday the young woman was taker) to Dixmont hospital, a raving maniac. Pure Food Agent McGregor, of In diana, has lodged information agaiust 10 of the merchants of Johnstown and vicinity on charges of having violated the pure food laws by selling adulter ated vinegars. The Title nnd Trust Company of Western Pennsylvania has let the con tract for its building at Connellsville to James Wherry & Co., of Pittsburg, for $64,000. Ihe building, when complet ed, will cost $85,000. George Templcton. colored, charged with the murder of Sanford White, su perintendent of machinery at Raitiey's M t. Braddock works, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. Frank Dewberry, a worker In a New Castle tin plate mill, has received word that he has been left $8,000 paid-up stock of the Anaconda gold mine by a woman he attended while a nurse in a hospital in Keango, Mont. About 40 glass workers have left Jcannclte to work in the co-operative factory at Point Marion, I ml. The ma jority of the men were stockholders In the new factory, which is known as "The Jeannette Glass Co." woiks. Monday Ida Games, aged in, acci dentally shot herself in the head at hcts tumie near i.iih.yu--i r.w. ing fatal.
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