' No subject of a public nature Inter Mis and helps the farmer so much as tlint of Improved public highways. ' The new century will have twenty four leap years, the greatest numbet possible In one hundred years, enough to give nil the girls n chance. According to the latest railroad sta tistics more than one-half of the mile age of railway track In the world Is In the Western Hemisphere. The United States leads Europe, nnd North America Is ahead of Europe, Asia nnd Africa combined. Cleveland will have to look after the laurels she has long worn as the largest shipbuilder of the lake ports, for Chicago nnd somo other places bid fnlr to become formidable rivals In this industry. Altogether, they are building $10,000,000 worth of mercan tile craft this season. At the Paris Exposition a drop of water magnified a hundred thousand times Is shown on a screen by aid of the electric light. The wonder of it Is that the living creatures In this drop of water seem to have all the senses nnd to bo as sagacious as creat ures a hundred thousnud times as large. The Increasing number of scholar ships founded by rich men for the ben elit of poor men's sons shows a ten dency to make nil college education free. When scholarships enough have been endowed, other means will bo provided to give every student the benefit of a foundation. State univer sities are merely leading the way for the rest. Count Tolstcy has been giving his views on the ethics of Bulclde, which he declares to be neither sensible nor moral. Life, says Count Tolstoy, has not only been given ,us for our pleas ure, but for our personal perfection, nnd to serve general welfare. All work appears in the beginning disa greeable. Life has been granted to mnn on condition thnt ho serves tho general universal good, and not that he only makes use of his life ns long as It Is personally agreeablo to him. The Industrial progress of the South Is indicated by some recently reported Incidents In North Carolina. A r.an who has been living on a smnll fa'm, nlmost crushed with debts, went Into a cooton mill with five of his children, nnd In five years earned and saved enough money to pay off nil his debts nnd to buy another farm of eighty acres. Another poor farmer went into a cotton mill with seven of his chil dren, nnd In four years was able to pay off the mortgnge thnt had bur dened him, to buy another farm of a hundred acres, and still have money left la the bank. Tho New York Sun says: "A long harvest of wounds nnd death, most of them In the horrible form of lockjaw, Is now being reaped from tho uso of tho toy pistol on tho Fourth of July. Many of these wounds were from pis tols meant for the uso of blank car tridges, while others were from tho toy pistol, pure nnd simple. Tho uso of these pistols on the Fourth, or at any other tlmo, is prohibited In some of the cities of our country. The pro hibition ought to be general. Tho toy pistol Is a deadly toy. It ought to be suppressed in New York City and elsewhere." Admiral Dewey does not agree with Lord Wolseley that tho Chinese, aroused and educated in the arts of war ns practiced in Europo and America, might eventually expel every white mnn from Asia nnd overrun the world. It was ten years ago that Lord Wolseley gave that opinion. Ji.pnn's easy victory over China has slncu oc curred. For several hundred years tho Occident has been worrying from tlmo to time about the "yellow peril." Nothing has happened ns yet to change tho opinion expressed by disinterested and acute travelers lu China that the Chiueso nro a weak, Inert, Industrious people, iucupable of great concerted activities. The city of Junesvllle, Wis., has Just made an interesting experiment In free telephone service. A few months ago a local company was prevailed upon to establish a two free stations in the business portion of the town, and the City Council passed nn ordlnnnce pro tecting them from vandalism, as they do fire alarm boxes. At first the boothB were used constantly and be came very popular, but tho other day they had to be closed owing to their Ubuse by some mischievous members of tho commuulty. Not only were the telephones recklessly handled and used without ronton, but the booths and the instruments were injured. th.m. ac ixperiment cane to nothing. imomkTHE;'80iCfOF THE CANOE.'T? 'And I thrill with the start For the rippka.ran snd the waters part , At the Song the paddle sings. Drip! Drip! And lo, it brings The word of a sweet command to mo, ' And leaping to answer it 1 am free! '' . f. .Water-weeds weaving in vain to stay me. Fain, fnin Are the reeds arrayed at tny prow to delay mc Vain, vain, They cast their luro and they bid me .bide, For the puddle swinging along my side IMpt Dip! Hath a dearer bribe than the still things . know And I go. I go! , Glide! Glide! Across the onlm of the evening tido When the hint white stars begin. Creep! Creep! Where the lilies sloop Stars in a sky ns oft, ns deep Tho paddle singing nie in. Irtish! Hush! For tho tnll roods brush My side as though they loro mc. Rest! Rest! On the inlet's brcuKt With the roof of the loaves above me. Arthur Ketehum, in tho Atluntic. 00000000003000000000000000 ISWEET RUTHi Soooooooooooooooaoooooocoo TT LLEN WEIR, walking, whlBt- ling nlong the country rond, came to a dead halt, whistle (T and all. With his great sombrero of a hat, his somewhat careless attlro and gait, he presented a striking contrast to the object of his attention a maiden In a soft, grny dress, white ncckkerchlef and neatly folded hair. . Allen Weir was nn artist and a young man, nnd nmst bo excused for staring, for both nature and art plead ed for him. However, he returned to a sense of the proprieties before he had qulte.dlsgrnced himself. No sooner had ho reached bis place of destination, under a greht oak tree, than out came canvass and colors, and the" Indefatigable pencil toiled until the sunset stayed It. It was a pretty bit of form mid color he left upon tho canvass. I nm sure there was something deeper In it than color nnd form, something more than a pretty Quakeress watering sweet peas. no was up In tho morning hard nt work. Ue passed the farmhouse again and saw his "subject," not watering sweet pens now, but stitching "a long, white seam; watched her long and si lently, himself out of sight, and went back once more and worked up tho expression. The picture wns a success. The greatest ono Allen Weir had ever achieved. But-something about the affair was altogether unsatisfactory. The evening found Allen Weir at tho Quaker farmhouse, with a pitiful etory of .fatigue. They were kindly people at 'the farm. U he was sketching near tie place, they said, he nrost leave his portfolio and enscl there till morning. And his heart and step wore very light ' as ie' went his way, thinking of Ruth that was her name. Sweet Ruth! tenderness and peace, and maiden love and. Innocence, and purity, it seemed ronlm (is well. .he'a'i'oma of eoffeo and buckwheat came from tho kitchen, tito sound of fchwnlng from the dairy, and Ruth, with-a rcat earthen pitcher of mUk, walked In at ono loor oC tho hall as Allen entered tho other. Jltuth,' he spoke out. - He was glad he! could call her so without offense, 'Both, let me show you something." '; She looked up hastily. He had turned back tho cover of the huge port folio anil she stopped forward, with the slightest tinge of pink rising in her fair checks, and looked upon her Imago with a little, suppressed cry of wonder and delight. "Is It -pretty?" ho asked hor. It was not. what he meant, but he said tho words that came first. ;"I' think It is Uko mo said Ruth, softly; "but theo has made it too too bright" : His hand was laid ever so gently on here" and they both started, for a face like Ruth's, but older and a littlo sad, was looking at tbctu. "Ruth, theo had better come now. Thy father is waiting breakfast." Off trudged Allen, half nshamed of his rash beglunlng half fearful of the effects of his temerity. It must be over soon this golug and coming from the Quaker farmhouse nnd what ul'ter that? There was a heavy fall In the pas sageway. Tho artist's great portfolio had slipped from Its resting placo nnd lying, bulging nt one end, appealed for assistance. Ruth's father lifted it ' They turned them over pretty sketches of rock nnd river and wood laud mosses and nt Inst one that was lifted out and looked at long uud efoadlly by the old mnn sternly, but his wife's face showed a ualf-plensed smile that lightened Its sad expression wonderfully. "Hnunuh, thy daughter Ruth must not see this thing," he says, sternly and solemnly. "I doubt she has seen It," whispered the wife; "but It cannot harm her, I think. Ue la going to-morrow la an other direction." Out In the moonlight, down in the pine grove, Hannah walked with a great shawl wrapped close around hor, for the night was cool. She had seen what Sho had soon, thongh she had held her peace, for her daughter's sake, nnd .lt may be she had noticed signs and tokens as well. Ruth came and went In her accustomed way, and did Iter accustomed duties, bat a mother's ye la keen. There was something astir ta the heart under that placid (act. . 'A figure .cama through the garden gate, a nguro wnn a square-snouto- ered coat and broad-brimmed hat. It might have been any one of a hundred of the. Friends, but nannah, with her woman's', wit, guessed his errand, and the man; by Inference, when he went his way to the porch where her hus band sat "Friend Wilson, who Is asking for Ruth," sho said to herself, as sho watched his friendly attitude. Friend Wilson was twenty years oW cr than Ituth. Just so much older had her husband been than herself. Meanwhile Friend Wilson stnted his case, and Ruth, with a curious flutter at her henrt. wont flown tho plno grove nil nlono, calling softly: "Mother! mother!" ami saying ta herself, "Mother wll turn against mo when she knqws, but I cannot be Friend Wilson's wife. No, I cannot." And sho thought of tho two men who were botu so nenr, though sho did not know it. Tho ono who thought her n sultnble helpmeet, the otherwholougcd to make her life bright. "Mother! mother!" softly. And sho camo upon them at the moment of de nouement. Then Hannah took Ruth's hand In hers, nnd Allen Weir whispered a little fondling word nnd pressed his lips upon It. Tho iiTs blue eyes were raised, and tho motler In Id her hand this time upon Allen's hend. "I believe he loves thee truly, Ruth." It was permission and blessing nil In one. Hannah was mistress of her own household in very sooth, nnd, in course of time Friend Wilson learned that his snlt was In vain, and Allen Weir boro Ruth away from her quiet home. New York News. DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE.' Two Bewildering Canes That Cannot 1U Kxnlnlneil nt Coincidence!. Speaking of dreams thnt come trno, a few days ago tho newspapers pub lished a strange but trustworthy story of a Mrp. Malloney.of West New York, N. J. In a dream Bhc saw her son caught under the wheels of a railway train. Tho vision was so vivid, it so wrought upon her that she rushed out into the night to the railway and there, crushed to death on the track, found the body of her son. When I rend this incident It recalled ono of a similar tenor, but more re markable, which was related to me by a prominent lady of this city, who spends much of her time abroad. "4 few yenrs ago," she said, "I was tar rylng a few weeks In Paris, accom panied by my maid, who had been In my service many years. One morning she came to me with her eyes ' red with weeping, and I asked her what the trouble wns. he replied that her mother had died tho night previous, in Philadelphia. 'How can you know that? said L 'During the night sho explained, 'my mother appeared to me In a dream and told me that sho had Just died. I saw her ns plainly as I see you, and I know she's dead.' I was attached to tho girl, who had faithfully served mo, so, having as sured her that It was silly to bellcvo In dreams, I promised that in order to convince her . that her mother was alive, I would Bend a cable Inquiry to Philadelphia. I did so, and tho reply camo that her mother was allvo end well. A. few months later we re turned to America, and, leaving mo in New York, my roakl went ever to Philadelphia tt see her people. And what thlak rou sbo discovered? Why, sho discovered that her mother had died on the Identical night of her dream, and that when she felt tlint her end was approaching sho made her family promise they would not let her daughter In Paris know of her death. 'Ill tell her myself,', eaid Vie mother, "but if you cable her or write her sho may leaTO her employer and como homo, and I wish to spare her thnt useless Journey.' Therefore the family explained to my maid when your employer sent the cable message we felt that Justice to your mother's request required ns to tell a flh." This story ns I have related It la absolute ly true In every particular. I wonder if tho Physical Society has anythltfg In its records which eclipses It? New York Mall and Express. lot What' He WmoI. It was plain to be seen that he was In a very depressed mood as he en tered the drug store and called for something thnt would ease his heart ache and mako death certnln. He had the sulcldul tendency, and It was a very pronounced case. "I want to forget thnt I ever lived." he explained, "uud I don't want to take ny chances on the Inefllcaey of morphine, chloral or similar drugs." "Can you recommend anything surer thnu your fuvorlte agencies?" asked the puzzled druggist? "Well, here U a prescription I re ceived from a mnn on tho next cor ner," nud the strange customer banded over a slip of paper, uion which wns written: "(jet twenty-five cents worth of dynamite; make tea pills; tnke one every hour; turn a back flip at the end of ten hours, and a sudden stop will do the rest." The druggist gave him something for his nerves. Detroit Free Press. Ilftbblt. Warren In 11 Church, One of the most tumble-down, ruin ous churches In the country Is that of nuddlngton, a tiny village in Wor cestershire, England. It hns long been neglected, nnd Is In a miserable state. The walls are mostly out of the up right, the flooring Is much decayed, and In some places quite gone, while la the south novo wall at the present time ttsre Is actually a rubbit-warren. It 1b said that many generations of rabbits have been reared lu the church walls. An effort is now being made to obtain funds to put the building Into a proper condition of repair. The AntlQuary.' CHINA'S MILLIONAIRES. LI HUNG CHANG IS PROBABLY THE WORLD'S RICHEST MAN. How from Beggar Hot In the Hire Fletili He Itote to He the Moil Power ful Mandarin In the f'ftlitatlnl Kinplra Ilia I'ernllnrly I'li lumiqtie Career. People nre apt to believe that Ameri ca has a sort of monopoly on the pos sibilities that exist for the friendless, helpless boy nnd that no hand but de mocracy can ever show such startling nud rapid evolutions from poverty and humble surroundings to great wealth and power, says John R. Itiithon In the Chicago Tinies-llerald. LI Hung Cliniig.tlie "old fox with til? gray goatee," as Vlvievonn, the Italian freebooter, once called him. Is a man whose wealth Is reputed to be on a level With that of the Rockefellers, Hotlis t'hllds' and Yanderblltn, though stu dents of Chinese history will tell you that he could buy up any two of them. In 1H40 this representative of a "dead" nation was a puny orphan boy, work ing on a rice boat In tho marshes of Hwel Ling, where he wns born. I lis life was bounded on all sides by the rice fields. Imagine this barefoot beggar lad en ruing a few hnmlfuls of food a day for his lubor, shut In the heart of n province crowded with poverty-Btrlek-en coolies a father and mother labor ers before him. The village settlement, 20 miles away, was a place that, in his wildest dreams, he probably never hoped to be able to visit. Make n littlo leap nnd see this small earth creature ns he Is today; swaying millions of his countrymen with his bnro word, more powerful In reality than the empress if he chose to net, the friend nnd In timate of the leading potentates and statesmen of the world, the only chan nel through which the powers can hope for the piiclflcatton of China and the richest man In the world. How ninny other Instances nre there today of vast wealth allied to states manship, of millionaires being the un questioned lenders of their fellow countrymen? Not one. We nre accus tomed to sec great fortunes made in a few yenrs, to henr of half a dozen suc cessful stock manipulations placing a financier In the "six noughts" column, nnd to watch a business grow to enor mous proportions, enriching Its found er In what seems to be a twinkling of time. nut LI Hung Chang's exchequer hns been built up In a different way. He never gambles, for he hns no need to take any chance. "Many a mlckle mnkes a muckle" seems to have b en his policy, nnd the uilld-niitnnered old gentleman hns done fairly well by sticking to tho tenets of that homely Scotch proverb. To understand fully the manner In which Li Hung Chang has acquired his enormous wealth It would be necessary to understand the whole system and nut hod of life nnd govern ment In China, but In a geuernl way a few fucts may throw some light on the subject. It may be said in starting that LI Hung Cluing, though the great est Is only one of China's multi million aires. There are 20 or 510 of them, nnd having had tho sagacity to acquire their wealth, they know pretty well how to take care of It. The strongest European banking institution and gllt edged government bonds nnd funds nre tho great storehouses of these Chinese fortunes. In 1844 Li Hung Chang, by somo freak of fortune thnt nobody has ever been nble to discover the truth about, reached Canton, nnd a year Inter, thanks to the wny In which a ragged and friendless beggar lad an seek and obtain an cducntlon whl'.e the tate feeds nnd clothes him In that "effot" and "barbarous" land, he was admitted to the famous study cells. In l.Stll, after five years of hard work, he out stripped all competitors nnd became secretary to the viceroy of Kowloon Province. In the following year this viceroy led 50,0o0 men against a rebel uprising. He was killed In action, nnd LI Hung Chang tolSk his place, pur sued the enemy and won a great vic tory. In 1851 ho wns called ti Fekln and became secretary of war, and In the ten years following ho studied und mastered the whole Intricate system of his country's government. Th year 18(15 saw him still a poor young man, but when he wns appointed gov ernor of Klnng Su he began to accu mulate money. In Klaug Ku are the great salt mines of China, und the governor of the dis trict has the privilege of "farming" the monopoly. Then too he begun to round up the mandarins in his province. They tried to tell this young, qulet-maiiiiered governor that they were only earning a bare living out their fcis but he as tonished them by exhibiting eomplitf knowledge of their methods, ami soon 50 per cent, of their emolument went Into his capacious pockets. In 1KU3 came the great rebellion, and General Gordon began his triumphal march ngalust the Insurgents. Li Hung Chang, the war genius of the empire, became his right-hand man, and after four years of marvelous xue eesa on the field bis emperor londid him dowu with more honor and em oluments. In 18(55 ho was appointed governor general of the Liang King provinces, with four viceroys and 100 mandarins under his orders and abso lute control of the salt tux, the rice tux, New Englund nine, the suuipun tux and the house tax all inllulteslmnl charges on tho Individ ual but when 0110 directs the mulct lug of 11)0,000,000 people it Is the frac tious thnt count. lu 1808 bis wealth was estimate! by foreigners who knew hltn Intimately to be 145,000,000. Btlll he remained in Imperial favor, and In 1872 came his Culminating triumph, when he wna made vleeroy of Te Chi LI, the Imperial province, with a palace In the royal city, and practically the collection of nil tho national funds under hlseontrol. Here he evolved a peculiar method 0)f seml-mornl squeezing. His emis saries visited every province regularly and took good care to guard the mass of the people from extortion nt the hands of the mandarins. An olllcer found guilty of demanding or accept ing more than the set amount of tax ation wna promptly dismissed from his office In disgrace. LI Hung Chang saw that with such an enormous popu lation there was 110 necessity to crush tho individual with heavy taxes. Ho Insisted on one-half of every tax being turned Into his hands, nud one-half of these receipts he handed over In turn to the Imperial treasury, keeping the balance for himself. There was 110 false pretense about It. The emperor, happy In the fact that never before had he found a niun who could drag such enormous sums out of the bands of the mandarins, was more than satisfied with the share that came to him, and he knew very well that his mluihtcr was divid ing equally with him. As viceroy of IV Chi LI, LI Hung Chang started to build a navy. He let contracts for ships, nrmnmeuti and dockyards, and, beginning to mingle with Europeans In this way, soon came to see a vista of new possi bilities for the acquiring of wealth. Ho wns chief pvfimoter and Is today principal owner of the China Mer chants' Ktenm Navigation company, the only nntlve steamship line in ex istence, with a monopoly of all inter nal and most of the coast traffic. The fluctuations In the value of sil ver gave him a chance for the accumu lation of more millions by skilful man ipulation of deposits In the great Hongkong bank, of which he Is now one of the largest shareholders. In 1.ST7 the members of the diplomatic corps nt Teklil presented a memoran dum to the emperor begglug for tlu establishment of nn exact system of coinage. The viceroy told them plainly that he would see about It He haa been seeing about it ever since. The sale of titles and honors n re cognized perquisite of the viceroy of IV I'lil LI, was in Ids hands for several years, and his policy was to charge "all the traffic would bear" to mer chants who were able and willing to pay for handles to their names or tho right to wear gold buttons on their caps, in 1S04. when he became com mander In chief of the Chili' se fores, he was "visited" by dozens of contractors, but It may be said to his credit that he listened to none of their advances, possibly because their "olli ces" were so small In comparison with his vast wealth that he chose to overlook them: possibly too because be wished to give them the Idea that he was not 11 man who could ha bought In addition to the many sources ot revenue mentioned he has bad per centages of very large customs dutlt s, the export silk tax, the Jade iuIium nnd municipal earnings of many cities. No one in the empire can ap proach LI Hung Chung lu the hold ho has on tho common people In Clilnn. They know of his great riches, but they also know that for 40 years ho has stood between them and tho ex tortions of petty mandarins. Ills fortune is an accumulation of mites and atoms. WEST TEXAS PEARL-HUNTERS. Growl li oranObaeuro Imlustrr Valuable Gems Sent North. "Some fine pearls from tho Concho river In Texas tire now marketed In New York City." said a dealer In pre cious stones. "Of lute yenrs, pearl hiliitlng In that locality has been de veloped Into a considerable Industry. The harvest Is brought north by a competent man about twice a year. As a rule the pearls command ns high r-i..,. m 111 iv lii the market. No finds of extraordinary value have been made, so far us I know; but the nvur ao Is very good. Most of the penrU find a sale at between $5 nnd $:i5; a good many como nearer the latter price than the former. Some years ago nobody considered the Texas pearls ns Important; the growth of the Industry bus been gradual nnd quiet. 'Men hunt along the Concho from its mouth to Its source tit various times; but the most profitable fields seem to bo In Sterling. Concho, and Tom Green counties, where a number of pearl-trading companies have organized, both for harvesting uud selling. "These counties nre thinly settled; that accounts for the fuct that the ex istence of the Industry Is not well known In Texas at least, not the ex tent of It. The nearest railway, sta tion is many miles nwuy; so but few people pass through that locality In the course of a year, and the work Is carried on very quietly. While Ster ling, Concho, and Tom Green counties yield the greater part of tho harvest, the Lhmo river and other tributaries of the upper Colorado river nro good hunting-grounds. 1 have heard it suld that some valuublo pearls have been fouud there Marehall'a I'lllar. One of the stalking natural euriosltli a of America Is thut known us Marshall's Pillar, loented lu Fayetto county, Va. It Is an impressive muss of rock rising lu columner form to a height of 10J0 feet, nud Is an object of great Intere.r to tourists. KElfSTOfiE STATE KEWS CONDENSED PENSIONS GRANTED. Prohibitionist! Nominate Their Ticket Im prisoned for Life New Coal Company Incorporated Other Itomt. Pensions granted last week: Henry Crist, dead, Stcclton, $8; Jeremiah M. Wciblcy, Port Royal, $10; Addison Wil son, New Brighton, $8; William Ben nington, Monongaheta. $12; Joseph Mc Gregor, Manorville, $10; Martin S. Sherwood, Edinboro, $12; Julia A. Hoff man, Beech Creek, $8; Joseph Good man, Huntingdon, $8; ilezekiah H. Blair, Philipsbiirg, $10; Patrick Burk, HollidayMiurg, $8; Margaret Walker, Apollo, $8; Sabilla C. Lucas, Leechburg, 8. Alderman Benjamin l.clie, Contrac tor William Mitchell, William A. Hall and K. M. Allen, of New Cat!e, and Benjamin Klinordlingcr, of Pittsburg, composed a party that went fishing out to Elliott's mills, in Slippery Rock town ship, Lawrence county, last week. After wading through a swamp infested with snakes they fell into a cave that appeared to be 100 feet long and infested with snakes and bats. They escaped by ar old ladder and returning killed 189 rep tiles. A certificate of incorporation has been issued by the secretary of state to '.he Tompkins Coal Co., of Clifton, Mason county, with $500,000 capital. The in corporators are K. W. Tompkins, M. T. Dresback, F. J. Kropp, Lewis Janes and C. U. Honeywell, all of Wilkesbnrre, Pa. The company is composed of ex perienced coal producers, who have taken a big tract of coal land on the Ohio river, with the view of opening mines nnd operating them for shipment by boat to lower river markets. George M. Stanley, former treasurer of the liconomy building association, was arrested and held in $4,000 bail on the charge of appropriating $3,285.0! belonging to the association. The ar rest was made at the direction of George B. Woomer, who was appointed receiver of the association last April. The short ages had developed since the annual statement on September 1, 1890, and do not include an alleged shortage prior to that date. Important books of the as sociation, it is said, arc missing and can not be fov.nd. The faculty of the Indiana State nor mal school has undergone some changes. The vacancy left by Mis Mary MacM.irtin, the former musical instructress, has been supplied by the election of Mrs. Sawyer, of Connclls villc. Mrs. Sawyer has been teaching at Carlisle. The vacancy left by Miss Pcabody, who had charge of the Ger man and French classes, has been filled by the election of Miss Sanvage, New ark, N. J., a Vassar graduate. Prof. Robertson returns after a year's absencc to the natural science department. The Pennsylvania Oil Company has obtained a lease for the oil and gas on 7.000 acres of land in Lebanon. Oregon and Mount Pleasant townships, in Wayne county, in consideration of $JO, 000 and one-tenth of the oil. The com pany has one year in which to begin operations. The lease will embrace a. term of 20 years and as long thereafter as oil and gas shall be found in paying Quantities. Experts believe it will prove to be one o'f the most valuable oil terri tories in the State of Pennsylvania. A company of eastern capitalists is taking options on extensive tracts of timber land running from Ohio Pyle back and including the Stewart estate, in Fayette county. The intention is to make an enormous game preserve and country club of it. The bidders are said to be Philadelphia business men and sportsmen. The tract includes the famous Meadow run, one of the best trout streams in the country. Delia Gaines, aged 18 years, of Metz, Marion county, died at the home of Madame Schmalzcr, Wheeling. Three physicians had attended her, and it i announced that she died from blood poi soning caused by malpractice. She was. brought to the Schmalzcr house by a man who gave the name of J. M. Low ry, of Pittsburg, and who is supposed to be an oil man. The police are making' a search for Lowry. The Prohibition party of Blair coun ty, which numbers an exceptionally large voting part of the population, has. come out wit 11 an urgent address re questing all members of the party i support their own ticket and platfor; at the coming general election, and extend no nid whatsoever to any iii pendent political movements. While making excavations for a west of Union station, at Pittsbur workmen came upon a large quanti heavy sawed timber, put in place t" years ago in building a canal lock. timber was in almost a perfect state t. preservation, though it must have been underground lor iuUy 75 years. The remaining part of the old Clark farm, west of Washington, has been sold to T. G. Allison for $50,000. The real purchasers are Jonathan Allison, John W. Donnan and J. R. Kuntz, Jr., the largest shareholders in the Gordon Land Company. It is said the company will locate a number of mills on this plot. B. F. Raniage, a farmer near Edge cliff, Westmoreland county, was fatally stabbed by John Shannon. Raniage has charge of several farms belonging to the Oil Well Supply Company and Shannon was employed by him as a laborer. The assailant escaped. Joseph Botts. of Wayne C. H., was. shot and killed near" Kenova by Bol Meek. The men quarreled at a picnic on July 4, and when they met Thursday night the trouble W3S renewed. Tho murderer attempted to escape, but w.i soon captured. The Claysvillc school board ballot?J a times in the effort to elect a orinciual for the public schools, but failed. There are three candidates. a new ompany, the Lawton troop, has been organized at Connellsville. It has 52 members, nearly all of whom are old members of Company D and Com pany M, Thcv will offer their services, 111 case of war with China. William Fischer, an Altoona brewer" driver, was perhaps fatally injured h4 (ailing through a trap door while walk ing in his sleep. Fish Warden Brown, of Venango county, surprised and arrested four ofa party of Pittsburg campers who were dynamiting fish in French creek. William Becgle, 70 yean old, at Dry Ridti, ntar Creensburg, hanged himself tut barn. Cause unknown.
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