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Four and onehaif days New York 20 San Fran
cisco. That's the new schedule for fast mail--ocean
20 ocean-and 1t three and one-haif days from
Indianapolis TO the Golden Gate. To passengers
who leave on ur 1l,05 m. trains TO Chicago ST.
fast one.
after year, patronize she Big and It's connections
will make the swift fight with the business the Joy
and tho sorrow I'm the mute messengers In olosed
pouches In 40 journey TO the land OF gold meant
six months hard travelling swamp. river. plain
mountain and DESERT or 1000 miles OF river stage
and rail TO New York. doubling Of Cape Horn or
crossing the Isthmus. Now, it's less than four days
away in palaces, carrying you surely and swiftly.
Yet only forty years has made all this change-one
half mans short nfe surely railroads civil
izers. and the Big Four spreads civilization East,
West, North and South.
J. II. MARTIN, d. PA
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Firewood for the sufferers.

WASHINGTON, Oct. SO.-Upon presenta-
tion of facts by Hon. II. G. Hansbrough.
Representative-electf from North Dakota, as
to the suffering condition of the settlers in
that portion of North Dakota. near Fort
TOtten military reservation, Secretary
Proctor has granted permission for the set
tiers to secure wood from the reserv alton
upon such conditions as may be agreed
upon by the post commander and board of
commissioners to be appointed from each
of the counties in which the suffering ex-
lists, the permission to xtend to the cutting
of fallen timber, dead standing timber. and
such trees as may be cut with benefit to the
growth of remaining timber.
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Monument in Memory Of Caesar Rodney.

WILMINGTON, Del, Oct. S0.-The cere-
mony of unveiling the monument over the
grave of Caesar Rodney. one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence and
place at Dover this afternoon. The monu-
ment is of Quincy granite, seventeen feet
high. surnounted by an urn: and was erect
ed chiefly through the exertions of an asso-
citation of young men called the Rodney
Club. A memorial address was delivered
by Hon. Thomas +. Bayard. Bishop Morris,
Of Oregon, a relative of the Rodney family.
closed the exercises with benediction.
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BEssEMER. Mich. Oct. 30.-The trial of
Reimund Holzhay, the outlaw highway
man, who murdered Edgar Fleischbein. at
Gogebic lake, OH Aug. 26 was begun this
morning. Henry j. Gerpheide. of Chicago
Holzhay's lawyer, asked for and obtained
an adjournment until tomorrow morning
to produce important afiidavits. The de-
Tense will try to prove that Fleischbein
was killed by a shot from the revolver of
Donald McKercher, of Minneapolis, Fleisch-
bein's companion. who opened fire on Holz-
hay when the latter demanded the cash Of
the party. The trial promises to prove
aansational
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OTTAWA, H.. Oct 30.-The Supreme
Court of Illinois filed an opinion in the
case of True. treasurer of the city of Lake
view, VS.. Davis. treasurer of the county Of
Cook, a petition for writ of mandamus
to compel the defendant to pay to plaintiff
as treasurer OF Lakeview certain moneys
collected by Davis in his capacity as county
collector. The suit involved the validity
of the annexation of Lakeview to Chicago.
it being alleged that the combined debts of
the two municipalities exceeded the legal
limit. The Circuit Court of Cook county
the Supreme Court affirms the Judgment of
the court below. This was a test case, and
had True's position been sustained the an
nexation of all the suburbs taken into Chi
cago last spring would have been declared
illegal
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American Electric Lights I'm China.

PITTsBrRG. Pa. Oct. 30.-Pittsburg is to
furnish China with electric lights. The
Westinghouse Electrlc-light Company has
just secured the contract 10 erect a central
station for very large electric-light plant
in PekiD. China. The machinery for the
be lit up throughout with incandescent
lamps, whose number runs into many thou
sands. Electric men consider this a great
triumph for America. because the compe-
tition with European companies was very
keen.
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Don't commit suicide. II you have dyspepsia.
stomach, no appetite and all worn ont-but take
Hoods Sarsaparilla and he cured. ltcreates an
appetite and gently regulates the digestion Sold
by drugglsts.
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Iustructions TO CHIEFS OF Divisions.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-General Raum
has issued instructions to heads of divis-
ions in the Pension Office directing that all
claims involving large sums of money.
after they have been prepared for special
adjudication, are not to be passed upon.
They are to DO brought to this department.
and he proposes to give them his personal
consideration before the pension certificate
will be issued. This change will not delay
the final adjudication Of the claim. as the
Commissioner intends TO give the prefer
ence To business of this character and exam
inc the cases as soon as brought before hIm.
He does not intend to make a re-examnation
of the cases, but. in connection with the
official familiar with the cases. he will 60
over them so as to know what they are and
the principle upon which they have been
decided.
The Commissioner, in an order issued to-
day to chiefs of divisions. calls attention
to numerous fee agreements filed in the
Office, which are not in proper form, mas
much as they do not contain the provisions
of law which show that agreements for
fees in excess of SO are merely permissible
and not compulsory. The commissioners
orders that attorneys be advised Of this
formality and that the said fee agreements
must not be recognized for certitIcation Of
q fee in excess of $40 after Nov. IS. next.
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To Develop a Manly Christian Life.

NEW HAVEN, Oct 90.-The Yale corpora
tion has established . professorship OF
biblical literature In the academical de-
partment. The foundation for tho pro-
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Running Races at Nashville.

NASHVILLE. Tenn, Oct. S0.-Favorites
won only two out of the five events to-day
The racing was excellent.
First Race-Purse for three-year- -olds and
upward: selling allowances; six furlongs
Leo Bridget won; Carlton second, Rosa
Pearl third. Time, 1:20l2.
Second Race-Same conditions. Moal
won; Buckler second, Littrol third. Time,
1:19lo.
Third Race-Purse for two-year-old maid
ems; four furlongs. Mary III won; Kenil-
worth second. Radcliffe third. Time. :53le.
Fourth Race-Purse for all ages; six and
one-half furlongs. Renounce won; Kittie
X. second. Col. Hunt third. Time, 1:26.
Fifth Race-Purse for all ages: one mile
Moplta Hardy won; Mt. Lebanon second,
Nevada third. Time, las.
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PLANS OF THEBROTHERHOOD
Alleged Outline of What Will Be Done at
Next Weeks Meeting in New York.
Each Representative in Favor of the New Or
ganization Except Glasscock-Indianapolis
and Washington to Be Left Out in the Cold.

BosToN. Oct. 3O.-The Globe will, to-mor-
row. publish an outline of the work to be
done at the baseball meeting in New York
next week. which. it says. will be subject
to very slight changes. Mondays meeting
will be for members of the Brother
hood alone. Ward, Irwin, Wood, Brouth-
ers, Pfefier. Glasscock, Twitchell and
Hanlon will represent the different chap
ters. Every one of these men is in favor
of the new organization, with, perhaps, the
single exception of Glasscock. 1t has been
definitely settled that Brooklyn and Buff
falo viii take the place of Indi
annapolis and Washington. The players
of those clubs will be distributed
between the former cities and Pittsburg.
Arthur Irwin is booked for Philadelphia,
where he will captain the team. John M.
Ward will don n Brooklyn uniform, and
manage the team for that city. Comiskey.
of the St Louis Browns. will take Anson's
place on first base for the Chicago.
Pfeffer will manage and Comiskey
captain the team. As the st. Louis players
have not been reserved by the Browns
there will be no interference by the new
organization. Glasscock and Denny are
down for Pittsburg. taking the place Of
White and Rowe. who will go to Buffalo.
There are several players who have
not as yet been placed. The governing
board will consist of sixteen, one player
from each club, and one Of outside stock
holders. This board will have the power
to make up the teams at the end of each sea-
son contracts run ont f,r one year, and
new faces NAV Offon he f0und in cIu ha
The teams will stop at the same hotels in
the different cities. and cut down expenses
wherever they look extravaganza" John
Clarkson is one of the men
that the New York branch of
the brotherhood fears will not stick.
John Morrill, has been in full charge &c this
end of the business, and will attend the
New York meeting. John will not play
next season. but viii look ont for the bust
ness end IF the Boston branch. 1So League
magnates are not idle in Chicago. Phila-
delphia and Boston. and are on the look
ont for good players in the minor leagues.
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AN INSANE MANS PENSION.
Ruling by Assistant Secretary Bussy ThatWtu
Give an Ohioan $1,000.

Ruling by Assistant Secretary Bussy Thatwin
Give an Ohioan $1,000.
WASHINGTON, Oct. S0.-Assistant Secre-
tary Bussey has rendered decision on the
invalid pension claim of Bernard Bruner.
late of Company @. One-hundred-and-
thirty-third Ohio Volunteers. The attend
ing surgeon at the time of the soldiers dis
charge certified that he was incapable of
performing the duties of soldier becauss
of mental imbecility, with symptoms of in
sanity. This disability. the surgeon says.
existed prior to enlistment. and upon this
ground the claim was originally rejected.
The Assistant Secretary reviews the evil
dence submitted, and finds that Bruner at
no time prior to his army service exhib-
tied more marked indications of mental
alienation than reticent manner, fondness
for solitude and the like. He says: "Ad-
mitting, that there was predispOsition TO
insanity, and that the cause, OF causes,
which sufficed to destroy his mind would
not haye affected a stronger intellect: that
fact cannot be pleaded as justification for
denying him a pension. 1t is we'll settled
article of practice in the adjudication or
pension claims that an unusia! suscepti-
bility to some form of disease existing be-
fore enlistment 10 no bar to pension II the
disease did not develop until after the
claimants admission to the service. The
rule is essentially just. The government
took this man apparently sonnd and re-
turned him to civil life manifest!y unsound.
1t took him when he was capable OF sup
porting himself, and returned him incapa-
bic, to be a burden upon others. | am
clearly of opinion that he is entitled to a
pension under the law
The soldier was discharged from the
service Aug. 12, 1858. and il is believed that
he will be entitled to receive between
$1,000 and $4,000 in arrears.
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no further danger is apprehended.
THE sUsQUEHANNA BOOMING.
Japanese Women.

In Japan the women have taken kindly
and quickly to the foreign methods of in
struction, and prove themselves faithful
and intelligent students. They show a
great deal of ability in the hospitals and
training g-schools for nurses, and much
quickness in learning, as well as fondness
for whatever they undertake to study. A
japanese woman's education formerly con.
sisted of strict and thorough drilling in
all the rules of etiquette, in learning to
play on the koto and samisen, and in ar
ranging bouquets; they were also taught,
those of the upper and middle classes, to
read and write the common language in
the hlrakanna or simple running charac-
tiers, instead Of the square characters of
the classic language. All newspapers,
novels and plays are written in the hira-
Kama, and in Japan, as we'll as in other
countries, women are great novel readers.
There have been literary women in Japan.
women who have written dramas. poems
and novels, as well as those who read them.
The women of Japan hope eventually to
attain position equal in consideration to
that OF American women. And since the
wife of the japanese Minister at Wash
ington has been able to learn the English
language in one year so that she speaks it
tiuently, it shows what japanese woman
can do.
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ARID LANDS.
An Important Meeting to be Held In San
Francisco tuesday.
rs. F. Bulletin, May Slst.I
last SnSSipn of TDprracs, ,boI-

rs. F. Bulletin, May 3lst.I
At the last session of Congress the United
States Senate appointed committee to
consider the question of irriga ton of arid
lands. The duties of this committee will
be TO visit all communities that it may be
able to, and consider such subject in each
place and gather all data in relation to the
same that is available After the appoint
ing of the Senate Committee Hon. William
NJ. Stewart of Nevada was chosen Chair
man and, acting in such capacity, Senator
Stewart will be the adviser of the Senate
Committee concerning such investigation
on the Pacific slope. From what can be
learned the Senate Committee will start for
this coast from st. Paul Mimi, on the 1st
of August, and will probably arrive in San
Francisco some time about the middle of
the month.
California being directly interested in
this particular subject the State Board of
Trade is spariug no pains to help the Sen
ate Committee in its labors, and as result
a committee has been appointed to work
with that end in view. The gentlemen
that will act on the committee have all
slgnlhed their intention of serving, and for
the consideration of the subject the first
meeting of the Committee on Irrigation
and Arid Lands, that will act under the
auspices of the California State Board of
Trade, will meet at the rooms of the State
Board on Tuesday next at clock for the
discussion of the subject.
Eon. NJ. NJ. Estee has been appointed
Chairman of the local committee, and has
already issued call to the different mem
bers to. assemble in this city on the day
above mentioned. In his letter Chairman
Estee says that be has recently received a
letter from Richard j Hinton, Engineer of
the United States Geological Survey at
Washington, which contains many i'm
portant recomme ndations that should be
presented at a very early day for the con-
slderation of the committee above referred
to. it is desirable, the letter says, that the
committee should present a statement of
the needs of this State on the arid land
and irrigation questions, and early action
is required on the part of the committee,
so the same can be prepared and presented
for the consideration of the Committee of
the United States Senate on Irrigation and
Arid Lands when it pays its visit to this
coast, which is not now long distant.
The committee that will act in coniunc-
ton with the committee of the United
States Senate has been appointed. and con-
sists of the following gentlemen Hon. NJ.
NJ. Estee, Chairman, Napa; W. H. Mills,
W. L. Merry, San Francisco; General n.
?. Chipman, Tehama Hon. c. S. Wright,
Stanislaus; Hon. Jesse D. Carr, Monterey
Major E. W. Jones, Los Angeles; L. NJ
Holt, San Bernardino; Frank H. Cunning
ham, San Diego.
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Fork was washed away, and expressed an
opinion that all the bridges between South
Fork and Johnstown would be swept away.
The Chicago and New York day express
and all other east-b bound trains are sup
posed to be laid up between Cresson and
Pittsburg.
When Mr.. Pugh was shown copy of
the Associated Press dispatch from Pitts
burg announcing the breaking of the dam
near Johnstown, he said that this report
confirmed dispatch received from Will
more tonight, which stated it was reported
TO the Pennsylvania Railroad operator
there that the South Fork dam had broken
and the water had carried away the "cosl
tlpple" and the telegraph tower" at South
Fork Station, and also a portion of the
east-bound freight train.
The telegraph operator was in the tower
and managed to escape, but several of the
train hands are reported drowned. The
reservoir or dam at the South Fork, which
Is said to have burst with such terrible re-
suit. was described by gentleman ac-
quainted with the locality in which it was
situated for the old Pennsylvania canal. 1t
has been owned for several years by a
number of Pittsburg gentlemen who used
1t as fishing ground.
The gentleman who gave this informa-
ton said if the report of the bursting of
the dam was true, he had no doubt that
the damage and loss of life is fully as great
as indicated in the dispatches. The con-
ductor of the east-bound New York limited
express, who reported the safety of his
train, also said that the report had reached
him of the breaking of the dam. General
Manager Pugh said tonight that he could
not understand what was meant when he
received the dispatches announcing the
damage to the tracks at Lilly's.
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sllItiS | know of number of Young women
in high society who have consulted their
own symptom, and have concluded that
they, too, have .onSilitiS. and are proclaim
ing the fact 10 al their friends as being 4
most remarkable coincidence between
themselves and Ms. Langtrv. There Is =
mistaken idea with regard TO what tonsil-
It's Is, which Is accounted for by the recent
puhhcati9D- concerning Mrs. LangtrT. Ii
was stated shat an operation had been per-
formed on her nose, and also shat she Sut-
fered from Donsilitis
The two statements were made ideati~
cal, and il was taken ior -.rnte5 that ton
silitis was loCatsd in the .,,,>r SSch is not
the case. Any person = . inarv under
standing knows that tonRHtis nsass he 4
disease of the tunSils, which are located in
the throat. Ii II the swelling of the ton
sliS, from cold or other Caasc, whiSh ere
ateS the disease of those organs In Mrs.
Langtry'S case the trouble il accompanied
by an eNtraneOuS growth Of aesh in the
nasal organs, and rs tonSilitis renders
breathing very difficult under most ordi-
nary conditions, 1t must be doublv 50 when
respiration Is intercepted by y growth OF
superiluouS flesh in the nose In response
To your question As to whether the tousil-
tits is becoming epidemic, would say that
II some people were suffering from Iousil-
tits Of the imagination they wcUld have
less tonsiiitis Of the to2Sils 1t is not 4
contagious disease, and people wlas profess
to have II are for the most part doing il As
they follow a noted leader of the .ivle-
because its fashionable, dent you know 20
-PiRuiauiiu RrgrF,
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FEARFUL DESTRUCTION OF LIFE.
Estimated That the Lost VIII be Fully
One Thausaud

GREESsBURG pa, May 41st.-The course
of the torrent from the broken dam at the
foot of the lake to Johnstown is almost
eighteen miles, and with the exception of
one point the water passed through a mar
row shaped valley.
Four miles below the dam lay the town
of South Fork, where South Fork itself
empties into the Conemaugh river. The
town contained about two thousand in
hsbitants. 1t has not been heard from,
but it is said four-ffths of it has been swept
away.
Four miles further down on the Cone
maugh river, which runs parallel with the
main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
was the town of Mineral Point. 1t had 500
inhabitants, 30 per cent. of the houses be-
ing on fiat and close 10 the river. II
seems impossible at this time to hope that
any of them have escaped.
Six miles further down was the town OF
Conemaugh, and here alone there was a
Typographical possibility of the spreading
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RAGING RIYERS.
All Railroad Traffic Through Pennsylva-
mia stopped.

hld ctoppcus
GREENsBURG, May 3lst-Superintenden
Pitcairn promptly took charge of the rail
road and of work and began double duty.
clearing the tracks and sending all possible
aid to those in danger. His prompt work
no cOubt saved many lives. In order to
understand the nature of this calamity it
is necessary 10 describe the location of
reservoir at JohnStown. 1t is about
eighteen miles northeast OF Johnstown
and is the site of the old reservoir, which
was one of the feeders of the Pennsylvania
canal. This sheet of water was formerly
known as Conemaugh lake. 1t is from 200
10 800 feet above the level of Johns
town, in the mountains. 1t is about three
and half miles long and from one to
one and quarter miles in width, and in
some places it is 100 feet in depth. 1t
holds more water than any ether reservoir,
natural or artificial, in the United States
The lake has been quadrupled in size by
artificial means, and was held in check by
a dam 700 TO 1000 feet wide. 1t is ninety
feet in thickness at the base, and its hight
is llO feet. The top has breadth of over
twenty feet.
Recognizing the menace which the lake
held 10 the region below, the South Fork
Club, which owned the reservoir, had the
dam inspected once a month by a Penn
sylvania Railroad engineer, and his inves-
tigation showed that nothing less than
some convulsion of nature would tear the
barrier away and loosen the weapon of
death.
Steady rains of.the past forty-eight hours
increased the volume of water in all the
small mountain streams which were al
ready swelied by lesser rains earlier in the
week. From the best information obtained
at this time it is evident that som ethipp / n
the nature of cloud burst must have been
the elimination of the struggle of the
water against the embankment. The diff
Guilty of obtaining definite information
added tremendously to the excitement and
apprehension of the people who had rela-
tives and friends al the scene of the dis
aStpr
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Mischiefmakers in Milk.

According to Professor Vaughan, tyro-
toxicon does not develop below 600 Fahr.,
and Is anaerobic-grows when air is ex-
cluded. Some very simple measures, then,
are preventive
l. Scrupulous cleanliness A little dry
milk on the rim Of can or vessel NAV
breed the germ which will find a culture
ground in fresh milk
2. A low temperature-below 60o Fahr.,
). Ventilation in an untainted atghos-
phere.
1t is but Just TO say that these precau-
tions are generally observed by careful
dairymen and cream mahufactures. There
is grave reason to fearS however, that thew
are not generally observed after the milk
reaches the consumers hands. Also, the
slightest -Sarelessness may affect seriously
| that class OF the community which does
not speak for itself-the very youngest.
Statistics prove with increasing testi-
mony that all artificial feeding is not only
unnatural but hazardous, and to be success
ful requires the most intelligent attention.
However, If all mothers and nurses could
learn that milk exposed to foul or warm
air for any length of time may not only
sour, but become the vehicle of virulent
poison, perhaps the summer months would
bear better health record.
One word of warning may not be amiss.
Whenever Young child is fed upon cows
milk, and this causes symptoms of disagree
ment, the diet should be changed at once
either to meat or rice for, if the chief mis-
chief-maker be at work, the best milk will
only furnish it with the medium in which
1t tiourishes, and, deprived of this, 1t will
inevitably perish.-By Alice 3. Treedy in
the Popular Science Monthly for June