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Poison in Tea.

The cablegram from London stating
that 100 persons had been poisoned by
tea, and several fatally, furnished o topic
of conversation to many tea drinkers IN
this city. Several of the leading tea i'm
porters were interviewed on the subject
bya Chronicle reporter.
"How can a person be poisoned by
drinking teaa" was the first question
asked. ...
HWith absolutely pure tea and q clean
teapot" said a prominent dealer, "one
cannot be poisoned. The danger must
come from s5sHae chemical impurity in the
Tea or the pot. The PFasssiisa PFassiissaa blue used
to color dark green teas is known eheHt:
ca!ly as cyanide of iron, and taken in
sufficient quantities is deadly poison.
Most teapots arc not made OF block tin,
but of sheet iron coated with tin. Every
housekeeper knows that if strong tea
stands any length of time the interior OF
the pot becomes deep yellow. This Is
caused by the coloring matter OF the tea
or tannic acid acting chemically on the
iron body Of the pot. If the housek9eeper
had quantity Of low grad tea eol!-c..sd l-.s!-
with Prussia6 blue, aud having boiled
the tea and allowed it to stand in such
bot, chemical reaction would take place.
in which the Prussian blue, the tannic
acid and the iron of the pot would be
combined, resulting in the formation OF
q poisonous sort of iron.
"Small quantities of this substance
would not cause death, but if the tea
were highly colored and of cheap quality
and the infusion had been allowed to
stand long time, it would form po-
| ton very sickening and fatal to some
constitutions. To prevent poisoning many
tea drinkers have taken to the use OF un-
colored teas, but the fact remains that a
large proportion of low-priced teas sold
as uncolored are really as much eolored
as ever. With damp teas the lead lining
of the chests produces poisonous salts'
which are absorbed by the tea. So in
furious have these brands of tea some
times proved that the Russian and Ger
man Governments prohibit the mporta.
tion of teas in lead lined boxes. Many
of the post advanced tsa dealers arg
/ seeking to avoid the use OF chests lined
With lead. Some Of the San Francisco
dealers have invented tea Ghosts in which
lead is not used."-SaH Francisco cAr0"-
! ;cb. =.
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South and West.

Ex-Governor PHILIP FRANCIS THOMAS,
Of MARYLAND, died in Baltimore, at the ad-
yanced age Of eighty years. Governor Thomas
served in almost every elective and appom-
tive State Office in Maryland.
TERRIFIC prairie fires have BEEN raging
east and south Of Dickinson, North Dakota.
Heavy losses CT crops are reported.
THE Minnesota Supreme Court has decided
that the upper bsrths of all sleeping cars run
ming in that State must remain closed when
not in use.
AT New Albany, Ind, William Carroll,
the eighteen-ysar-olds son Of John Carroll, q
painter, and Louis Grigss, young carpen-
ter, gotinto fight as the result OF scuff1e
begun in fun, and stabbed each other 70
death.
HARRISON NEWMAN, a Charity Commis-
sioner, committed suicide BY jumping into
at Louisville, Kentucky. He was out Of his
mind owing to troubles of his brother, Scott
Newman, who is accused of robblng the city
in granite contract.
The United States steamer Corwln has
arrived at Port Townsend, Washington,
from Alaska, with the Government exploT-
ing party on board
FORTY THOUSAND dollars worth Of prop
erty has been destroyed by prairie fire in
the town of Lawrence, Grant County, Mlnn.
Thousands Of acres Of wheat have also been
devastated. Cause, cinders dumped on
roadway from threshing machine.
PRESIDENT WooDRUFE, of the Mormon
Church, has issued from Salt Lake City,
Utah. un order forbidding plural marriages,
which virtually abolishes polygamy.
REPORTS have been received of the. find
ing Of immense veins of gold and silver In
the Arbuc!lls Mountains in the Ch1ckasaw
Nation, Indian Territory.
Mr.. ATKINS, leading cotton grower, and
his aged mother, Of Aulander, N. G., were
killed by a colored man, who crushed in
their skulls with an iron ball and then SCI
the house on fire in three different places.
THE crop estimates agree generally in
placing the wheat yield Of Minnesota ana
the Dakotas at about 90000,0O0 bushels.
1t is conceded that about 1000, 900 bushels
will be required for seed and local con-
sumption by farmers. Deducting this, there
remains TO- 1000, 900 bushels.
"RUBE" BURROWS, the famous train rob
ber, was entrapped and captured BY John
McDufHe, near Myrtlewood, Marengo
County, Ala, and is now in Jail at Linden.
JOHN n. HEWITT, the poet and musician,
and known as the father Of the American
ballad, died at his home in Baltimore, Md,
after lingering illness Of more than year
He was born on July II, 1901, in New York
city.
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DARING TRAIN ROBBERS.
Desperadoes Loot an Express
Car in Ohio.
The Messenger Bound and a
Brakeman Shot.

As train No. 2 on the Cincinnati San
ausky and Cleveland road was pulling out
bf Urbana, Ohio, at o'clock the other morn
hg two masked men broke into the Adams
express car, and, presenting revolvers at the
head ofArcher L. Scudder, the express messen-
per commanded him to throw up his hands.
fhev then tied him securely, robbed the safe
nf packages containing it is said, $40, oOo and
nther yaluables. While they were at WORK
4 brakeman attempted to enter the car ana
was shot at by one robber. De gave she
alarm, and the train was slowed up 70 give
an opportunity to capture the robbers, but
Ehey Jumped from the train just as 1t was
entering West Liberty and disappeared IN
the darkness, it then being just about nVe
o'clock. ,d
nv the time they were through Scudder had
reoained his voice and began to shout. At this
one Of the masked men placed revolver at
hishead and pulled the trigger, but theweapon
snsnped without exploding the cartridge:
The other robber then interfered and saved
the messengers life by standing between him
and his pal, saying: 1--WE don't need to Kill
him" % u..
liberty the crew were under the guns OF the
robbers and could do nothing. AS the tram
slacEened Just before reacnlnS 1uun Sne ~
bers Jumped and fed to the woods. Scudder
from his car saw them jump and fired upon
them. They returned the fire with voley
from both ravolvers but did no damage.
) A reward has been offered for their cap
ture and a large posse of men went hunting
for them near Bellefontaine. Superintendent
Bimple, of the Adams Express Company, IN
a circular describes the men as follows: FIVE
feet eleven inches in height, weighing In the
neichborhood of $50 pounds each, wearing
plain black overcoats, one with cap, the
other with hat"
.:scuddcr is about fifty years old, live: in
Cincinnati, and has been on this run since
the Adams Company took charge OF the e1-
press business on it, three years ago: De
was previously in the same company's en-
1ploy on the Ohio River line.
. It is understood that no one except the
messenger is permitted in the express cars
but this rule is violated every day, and 40
cess to the car is as free as to the smoker.
/ The robbers went through Scuddera
rockets and abstracted therefrom his watch
and about $3.50 in money. He had re,
ceived his months salary that night and
placed it in the safe, and that was among thu
booty secured BY the robbers. ...-.
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Washington.

FIGURES issued by the Census Bureau show
that the total population Of New Hampshire
is 975 Sa7. In 1880 the population was 346,-
99l. Increase, 1885, or S.3l per cent
In the ten months of the session just closed
President Harrison sent to the Senate 1887
nominations, of which all but twelve were
confirmed.
The Department OF State has received
despatch from the United States Legation
at Buenos Ayres, announcing that the Pres.
ident Of the Argentine Republic has issued
decree accepting the plan for an lntercontl-
mental railway commission.
The Postmaster-General has issuel in
structions to postmasters regarding the en-
forcement of the Anti-Lottery law.
The Treasury Departments monthly
statement of changes in the circulation shows
net increase during September amounting
to S62, 009, 767.
SECRETARY W1NDoI issued an order clos
ing the Treasury Department for one day
out of respect to the memory Of Philip
F. Thomas, Of MARYLAND, who was Secretary
Of tho Treasury for twenty-nine days in
1850, under President Buchanan. The build
ing will also be draped for ten days.
The President appointed Austin J. Brad
dock, of Rockville, Md: Henry j. Aten, of
Hiawatha, Kan; John s. Mayhugh. Of Elko,
New, and Miss Helen P. Clark, Of Montana,
to be special agents to make allotments OF
lands in severalty to Indians under the pro-
visions of the act OF Congress approved Feb
ruary s., 1887.
ORDERS were issued from the Navy Depart
ment to the commandant of the Navy Yard,
Mare Island, California, to accept cruiser
No s. known as the San Francisco.
The Secretary of the Nav awarded to
William z Cramp s. Sens, of Philadelphia.
Penn, Re contract for tie construction OF
twelve feet over the departments plans, for
So, ,G30, Geo each.
CAPTAIN JAMES E. WHITE. Superintendent
of the Sixth division of the railway mail
service, with headquarters at Chicago, has
been appointed General Superintendent of
the railway mail service at Washington,
vice j. Lowrie Bell, recently appointed Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster-General.
ACCORDING to the Census Bureaus figures
the population of Indiana is 2,1S9,0 ,030, an III
crease of 210, 729 in ten years; of Michigan,
2.0S9. .792, increase, 452, ,S55; New Mexico,
IA, s62, increase, 25,297; California, 1904
0O2. increase, 339,3 3CS.
THE President has appointed Charles A.
Dougherty, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary
of Legation to Mexico, and II. Remsen
Whtehorse, of New York, to be Secretary
OF Legation to Italy.
The President left Washington via the
Chesapeake and Oaio Railroad to attend the
Grand Army reunions at Galesburg Topeka
and Kansas City, and incidentally to visit
ST. Louis indianapolis, Peoria and other
cities en- route.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on his Western
trip made speeches from the rear platform
Of his train at N.rth Bend, Ohio; North Yer
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Question and answer is clever thing,
and so it is reckoned.
Contradiction animates conversation;
that is why courts are generally monoto-
nous.
To one person trust thyself, not to q
second, the world knows what is known
to three.
Many persons criticise in order not to
seem ignorant; they do not know that
indulgence is mark of the highest in
telligence.
A foolish man thinks he knows every
thing while he needs not the knowledge;
but he knows not how to make answer
when he is questioned.
Long is the journey to a deceitful
friend though he dwell near thee; but
direct lies the p4th to a friend faithful
though he dwelleth far off. )
A foolish man lies awake the night
through and resolves on many things:
thus he is weary when the day cometh
and the old care remaineth.
If thou hast friend whom thou canst
confde in and wouldst have joy of his
friendship, then mingle thy thoughts
with his, give gifts freely and often be
with him.
We must look downward as well as up
ward in human life. Thoug many have
passed you in the race, there are many
you have left behind. Better a dinner
Of herbs and pure conscience, than the
stalled OK and infamy.
Whes you make mistake don't look
back at it long. Take the reason OF the
thing into your own mind and then look
forward. Mistakes are lessons OF WIS.,
dom. The past cannot be changed. The
future is yet in your power.
Watch thy tongue, out of it are the
issues of life. Speak not till thy thought
has silently matured itself. Speech Is
human; silence is divine. No idlest
word thou speakest but is seed cast into
lime and grows through all eternity.
One person may not succeed in dis
oelling all the miasms of the earth, but
L he can only cleanse one little corner of
It, if he can but send through the murky
lir one cool, bracing, healthy gale, he
will do much better than to sit under his
7ine, appalled, by the greatness Of the
evil. ..'
The world is upheld by the veracity oi
good men; they make the earth whole.
some. We call our children and oui
lands bv their names. Their names are
wrought into the verbs of language, theh
works and efigies are in our houses, and
every circumstance of the day recalls an
anecdote of them. ...e
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Sparrow Slaughter.

Tobe Lobe, township clerk, has paid
out S121. so to the boys this summer for
cadavcrs of the English sparrow and our
foreign friends seem even more numer'
ous than ever. The law authorizes him
to pay a bounty Of twenty cents per
dozen for all of these birds killed, and
the price paid would indicate that the
small boy has been on the warpath to
the extent of 1890 Britishcrs. Tobe says
that au English sparrow will decay inside
of two hours after being killed and that
some of the overripc lots brought to him
have almost made him throw up his po'
sition.-Lima (Osio) Gazette.
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BURNED IN THEIR HOME.
John NIcBce's Wife and Three Chill
dren Perish in the Flames.

Tie residence of e1-Policeman John Nc
Bee at Dubuque, Iowa, was discovered to be
on fire at o'clock the other morning. A
neighbor tried to arouse the family. While
knocking at the door the window in the up
per story crashed and McBee fell to the
ground For a few moments he was senseless.
When he recovered he began crying that his
family were upstairs The flames were
quickly extinguished. :,
The mother and three children were found
and quickly removed. Mrs. McBee and the
elder daughter Rose, aged eighteen, were
dead. The younger daughter, Bertha,
aged sixteen, and Charley, five years
Old, were still alive The boy died that
afternoon. The girl cannot recover. Nc.
Bee was too dazad to give connect, |
account of the affair, but it has been
gathered that he awoke nearly sutfocated
and aroused his wife. They CROPPED in the
smoke and darkness until McBee struck the
window, through which he leaped or fell.
The mother was with him, but remember.
ing her children, went back to save them.
When found the family were in group,
with their arms about each others necks.
The bodies were very slightly burned.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED,
Eastern and Middle States.

THE New York Central has declared war
against tho Knights of Labor and lElro
Vice-President Webb issued an order for the
discharge of all members of that o:ganlze-
ton in the roads employ.
COLONEL E. F. GATLoR, of the Forty-Sev-
enth Regiment, was arrested IN Broeklyh'
n. v, for failing to account Ter trust 1unas'
TIE iron and steel men of England, Ger-
many and the United States held their an
nual session in New York city; statue OF
Alexander L. Holley was unveiled; a BeSSe'
mer medal was presented to ex-Mayor
Hewett and there was dinner at Dei'
monico's in the evening.
HIs ROYAL H1GHNESS TIE COUNT OF
PARIS, with his son, the young Duke OF Or-
leans, and an extensive suite, arrived In New
York city on the Germanic and were "el-
coined by number Of officers OF tne Army
of the Potomac who knew the Couht "neL
he served during the late war on General
McClellan's staff.
Two children of Nelson Dixon, aged seven
ond fou- years. were burned to death at
Marlborough, Mass, by the explosion OF
kerosene lamp.
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, cele-
brated his ninetieth birthday at his home at
Newport, r. l.
JAMES REILLY, aged thirty-fve, q well
known conductor, was run over ana klueu oy
a passenger train at Wilkesbarre, Penn.
ALFRED WANAMAKER, Of Reading, Penn,
a cousin of Postmaster-General Wana-
maker, committed suicide in cheap loag-
ing-house at ST. Louis, Mo. He left letters
stating that domestic trouble and liquor
drove him to suicide.
THE Comte de Paris visited General Nc
Clellan's grave at Trenton, n. j., and then
went to Philadelphia.
THE Slade Osborne, Mechanics, Mata
comet Cornell and Seaconnet Mills. at Fal
River Mass, shut down for one week to re-
lieye the depression in the cloth market.
GERMANS in e number Of Eastern cltle:
celebrated the two hundredth anniversary ol
the coming to America of the first German
THE conference committees of the RepuD'
licans, County Democracy and the People
League agreed that County Democra,
should lead the coalition municipal tlcke'
against Tammany in New York city.
AT North Lansing, N. Y, Mrs. Samuel At
water got up during the night TO extin
cuish a light that had been left burning &c
keep away burglars. Her sonin-law, Waitei
Havens, installing her for burglar, sho'
her dead.
A MOB of 500 friends Of the striking plust
weavers at the Catasauqua Silk Mills READ
ing, Penn, attacked Superintendent DesneI
and five strikers who had returned 70 Wori
on their way home.
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PLRALYZED BY FRIGHT.
Two Spell-bound Men Meet Death
With Clasped Hands.

An excursion train on the Lehigh valley
Railroad struck and killed two men near De-
lano, Penn. The train was made up Of seven
coaches, loaded with Sunday-school children
from Mahenoy City, en- route to Glen Onoko
for their annual picnic.
As the train rounded the curve near De-
lano the engineer saw the men on the track
ard at once reversed the lever and gave the
alarm. They did not move, and the engineer
realized that for some reason they were un-
able to get out of the way. The momentum
of the train pushed the engine forward at q
rapid rate and threw the men from the track,
WHEN heir bodies were picked up it VA:
evident they mad become terror stricken and
in desperation clasped each ether il death;
ly embrace: One arm of each was wo.nd INC
about the body of his companion, and the
other hands were found u short distance
away clasped together:
The picnic was abandoned because Of th'
accident and the children were taken home.
The unfortunate men were entire stranger;
in the vicinity.
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NATIONAL BANKS.
A Large Increase in the Number Dur.
ing the Year.

An increase Of 900 national banks is
shown by the annual report Of the Comp
troller of the Currency during the twelve
months which ended September 80. This
IS the largest number Of new Institutions
in single year since iS6o, "hen me artsrs tae
under the National Banking act The ag
gregate capitalization Of these new = msst%, sait}E
in the growing regions OF the Northwest ana
Southwest. ,,s,-
New England, with so many banks already
established, reports only eight new ones; WIN
an aggregate capital Of s625, 900. New York Il
reports eight new institutions, with an aggre-
gate capital of 81. 900, O0O and Pennsylvania,
The six States recently admitted TO tne
Union na new banks Ks Win arase aa
increase is shown in the two States OF texas
and Missouri, the former of which repesTsts ss
sixty-three new banks and capital OF 90
900. COO. and the latter twenty new banXs'
with capital of 81, 400, 900.
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non, Ind; Seymour, Ind, and Terre Hsute,
Ind.
WASHINGTON was visited by the Count OF
Paris and his companions.
THE sixteenth annual convention OF the
Catholic Young Mems Union opened In WASH
ington.
ACCORDING to the figures issued from the
census Bureau the population of Iowa Is
! 0O6 729: increase, 2s2,114; per cent, 1873.
West Virginia, 760, AS; increase, l4l, ,99l;
per cent, 22.96. Ohio, S,666,7l9; increase
4GS, ,657; per cent, 14.65.
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MURDER QUICKLY AVENGED
Assassination of a Georgian and
Tragic End ofHis Slayer.

j. C. Forsythe, one of the largest and best
known lumbermen in Georgia and native
of Pennsylvania, was ssssssinated at Nor.
mandale, Ga. Hewas Secretary and Trea.
surer Of the Normandale Lumber Company
He was sitting in his parlor smoking, all the
windows being closed. Suddenly a loud re.
port broke the stiffness and Mr.. Forsythe fell
to the floor, shot through the head.
Mr.. Forsythe was found lying on the floor
unconscious An examination showed that
a load of buckshot had struck him in the back
of the head, passing through his brain and
lodging near his left eye. He died two hours
later without speaking.
Bloodhounds were at once placed on the
murderer's track and he was caught in his
house, ten mics from where the deed was
committed. He showed fight and the crowd
fired, killing him instantly. His name was
Powell He admitted the killing and would
rot say anything further. There is theory
that he was paid to kill Mr.. Forsythe.
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P0LYGAMY IN UTAH,
The Governor OF the Mormon Terri
tory Makes His Annual Report.


tory Makes His Annual Report.
Arthur L. Thomas, the Governor of Utah
Territory. in his annual report to the Secre-
tary Of the Interior, estimates the popula.
ton of the Territory, upon information
furnished by the Supervisor Of the Census, at
23O, 932, an increase during the decade of about
fifty-fve per cent. The foreign-born popu-
lation brought to the Territory under Nor
mon auspices from 1881 to 1889 was 1854, an
average of about 1900 annually. This is
largely assisted immigrati5n. Tide valus Of
gold produced during the year 1899 was S499-
300: silver, 81, ,656, 254; unreAnei lead, ST.
37S'5s4; refined lead, $50. 66s; copper, $685.
079. The business prosperity which began
at5ut two years ago has continued.
There Is no reason, according to the G-ov-
ernor, to believe that any earthly power can
exact from the Norman Church any declare-
ton opposed to polygamy., While the ieac-
homes and see tne pleasant side OF life, the
aynan is doomed to lifetime OF toll Nor
monism involves slavery Of the mind and the
suhiecting Of tho energies Of the people il
phTsical. moral and religious sense to the
control Of leaders whose motives are too
often prompted by ambition end love OF
mower.
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DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
A Crazy Farmer Of Saratoga, N. y,
Kills His Wife and Himself.

a crazy drIIlcF VI otAhdIoSs, A'' Av
Kills His Wife and Himself.
James D,nton, wealthy farmer and
dairyman, at his handsome residence on his
3o0-scre farm four miles north Of Saratoga,
N. Y, recently murdered his wife,
with whom he had never exchanged O cross
word, and then committed suicide. He was
insane, and next week would have been
taken to an asylum for treatment, oil OF the
preliminary arrangements having been
made.
He attempted the life Of his sister-in-law,
Mrs Dr. Browrell but she escaped.
Farm hands attracted to the scenc by shots
and screams, were driven away from the
dwelling by Denton with tie smoking re-
volvcr.
Denton SHOT his wife as she was descend.
ing the cellar stairs three shots taking ef-
feet. After vainly searching for. Mrs. DR..
Brcvnell and soaring away tho labor
els, Denton locked himself in an
upper chamber, fred two or three shots Into
himself, and they not proving effective
killed himself with shot gun.
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HORRORS OF THE PLAGUE,
Vultures and Dogs Fight Over Chol'
era Victims in Arabia.

Accounts como from the Red Sea Of the
horrible condition of the cholera victims.
The Arabs and strangers in that region are
dying by scores. Persons are seized with
cholera and die within IN hour with cienche6
teeth and bodies terribly drawn up.
Birds and dogs feed on the corpses, which
the inhabitants are afraid to touch, and vast
Aocks Of vuhures dispute for tie prey with
the four footed scavengers. From the In
terror of Arabia the accounts ara fully as
heartrending, and the victims are ssld TO %
numbered BY thousands.