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A BAD DOSE FOR SARAH.
THE FORTUNATE ESCAPE OF THE
GREAT ACTRESS.
----
A Detachment of Frence Troops Am
pushed by Band of Pirates
and Many Murdered.
TIE KING or sBRvIA REPORTED TO
HAVE BEEN MURDERED,
The Labor Party to Have Meetings on Nay
Day Mexican Mails Robbed-A
French Soldier Dead

Paris. January 2i..-sarah Bernhardt has
had narrow escape from death by poison
while performing In her now piece '1Eeil'
Friday last. Her new Dahomeyon ser
want Kerig. who attends her nj the re-
hearsals. poured some lauaonum into a
cup OF tea by mistake. Bernhardt how
ever. noticed the strange taste before
she had drank enough TO do hor any se-
rious harm.
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New York Jlnulry 1.-THE Frfnch
steamer la Brrtagne arrived here today
from Havre and reports heavy gales and
rough sens during the passage. on jan
uary 10. az 1920 p m, she fen In with the
fishing schooner Susan T. Hodge. from
Gloucester. Mass, dlsmantleI and In "a
sinking condition. boat was launched
and the crew Of fifteen men were rescued
and BROUGHT % this port.
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Berlin, January 2l.--A meeting OF tho
German Southwest Africa company was
held today and 1t wnf decided In view of
the ravages by Witbools at the trading
stations that the company viii make fur
thor Industrial undertakings dependent
only upon the emperor affordlng the neces-
sary protection.
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Thc MnIlr nnbhed.

city OF Mexico January p, --Anotbcr rob
bory OF mails has been made, resulting
IN the loss OF n check for Ii,i0o drawn 10y
Prince Torres Of Durango. payable to
Martinez Araura and Cobian Of Laredo.
II was deposited IN the mails on January
and payment ordered stopped
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Berlin. January 2i.-At meeting OF a
committee Of the labor party It was re-
solved 10 hold meetings wherever possi-
bic on May day and TO urge the enforce
mont OF the statutory limitation Of tho
number OF working hours one member
proposed general strike ne a protest
against the brutality choracterizing the
policy OF leading brewery.
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Caldwell, Texas, January 20-Messrs r.
Ge.aenschlog & Go. Of Mound Prairie have
fane7 FOR $3.50 The assets win more than
equal the liabilities. Their failure was due
10 inc assignment OF Grant Bros. Of Mey-
ers last week.
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Local Forecast.

Local forecast for Texas east Of the Tooth
meridian for the twenty-four hours from
midnight
North Texas-Fair; much colder Mon
day night.
Central Texas-Fair; much colder Mon
day night
East Texns-Falr; colder Monday night
Southwest Texas-I'air colder Monday
night
Coast District-Far; slight changes in
temperature
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Trcnch Troopa Amburhcd.

Paris, January GA foreign dispatch
states that detachment OF French
troops. commanded by Cnptnin Delaney,
was amhushed by n band of pirates they
were pursuing, roFuting In the killing OF
Captain Delaney, the woundlng of three
lleutennnts md the killing and wounding
q eighteen men. The mnbuscade occurred
near Cuihuh. December s.
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mi. on her body THIS pa
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papy,hia policy Is void ,,uIcs'
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Philadelphia, Pa, Jenuary 2l.-'rhe con-
dition Of George w Childs is not SO fay-
orable. The following bulletin was Is
sued at II o'clock Mr. Childs Is not quite
so well There has been some slight rise
in his temperature.
Dr. j. VI. Dacosta,
Or Jos, Leddy
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Paris. january 2i- General Emile Mel
ina. father of the French army, Is dead
lie was born at Nantes on tho nth OF
June, 1903, and was a son of the general
OF Tho enpiro.
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Buenos AyreF, January 2i.-The Brazil
ian government forces in Rio Grunde do
sui have arrived at santa Anna, pursued
by the rebels, Who have made heavy
levles upon the inhabitants, causing a gem
oral dlscontpnt
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Athens. January H.-Queen Olga ana
Princess Sophia who have been suffering
from an attack OF the influenza. are
slightly better.
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A yev ,ournnI snnotionod.

. St Petershurg January 2i.-Thc govern
mcnt has sanctioned the establishment
Of a new political literary journal called
The Voice Of Russin, which VIII be exc
cmpted from censorship.
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A cold Nugget round.

I.eaIyiile, Colo, January 2l--A gold mug
F-' Weighing fifteen ounces has been found
~ breckenridge on the property belong
ms 10 George Camplon, which Is leased.
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Bilbao. January Heavy gales In the
bay during the past twenty-four hours
have wrecked number OF hshing boats
and drowned AZ least twenty-five fisher
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Washington. January 2l.-F5r Eastern
TeXas-Far south winds shifting 10
north; PROBABLY cold wave in the north
ern portion by Tuesday morning
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London. january 2i.-The Daily News
dispatch from Vienna SAYS II is rumored
there that the king OF servm has been
murdered The rumor lacks confirmation.
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Hamburg January 2l,-3aron ohiendorf.
head OF one OF the leading commercial
houses here. is dead.
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NOW ARRIVING,

Large Stock OF
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IRON PIPE AND TUBES
IRON AND BRASS PIPE FITTINGS.
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The morning call., 1894-04-13

celery compound; years have shown tile
wisdom of doing so.
April has always been set down as the
best time to remove the impurities from
the blood and to regulate the nervous sys-
tenn.
The formula for Paine's celery COM
pound was given 10 the world by Edward
h. Phelps, NJ. d.. LID, while he was still
active professor in the yarmouth medical
school. A remarkable nerve food and
blood purifier, it is the most valuable con-
tribution to the worlds progress that
American college influence has sent forth.
It's power of restoring lives of countless
men and women from feebleness and de-
spalr to strength and usefulness is known
In every part of the country. 1t has added
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sands of weak. tired-out, ailing women
who thought themselves doomed to be in
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hnally rheumatism. neuralgia, dyspepsia.
diseases of heart, liver and kidneys and
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PLANTS AS FOOD.
Some Queer Ones That Are Used by
the Indians.
Washington Star.

At the Department of Agriculture In Wash
ineton, hidden away in an obscure corner. is an
odd sort OF exhibit of queer foods eaten by out
of the way people. There is Loaf of bread
made from he roasted leaves of plant allied
TO the century plant. Another kind Of bread Is
from a dough Of juniper berries. These are
relished by some tribes OF Indians, while others
manufacture cakes out of different kinds OF
bulbs. The prairie Indians relish a dish Of
wild turnipS, which civilized people would not
be likely To enjoy at all. In the great
American desert the "screw BEANS" which
grow on mesquite bushes, are utilized for food.
Soap berries furnish an agreeable diet for some
savages in This country, while in California the
copper col0red aborigines do not disdain the
seeds of salt grass Also in California the
Digger Indians collect pinenuts, which are the
seeds OF certain species OF plne-somef1mes
called .pinons"-by kindlng fires against the
trees thus causing the nuts to fall out OF the
cones. At the same time sweet gum exudes
from the bark, serving the purpose OF sugar.
The seeds of gourds are consumed In the shape
of mush by Indians In Arizona.
In addition to all these things the exhibit re-
ferred TO includes jar of puverlZed crickets,
which are eaten In that form by the Indians OF
grasshoppers and even slugs. These delicacies
are cooked in pit. being arranged ID alternate
layers with hot stones. After being thus pre-
pared, they are dried and ground TO powder.
They are mixed with pounded acorns or ber-
ries, the flour made in this way being kDeaded
into cakes and dried in the sun. The Assinl-
BONES Used a kind OF seed 10 stop bleeding
at the nose. Among other curious things used
for food are acorns, sunfiower seeds, grape
seeds, flowers of cattailS. moss from the spruce
fir tree and The blossoms OF wild clover. The
exhibit embraces a number of models repre-
sentlDg grape seeds enormously enlarged. 1t is
actually possible to tell the species of grape
by the share of the seed. There is a jar of red
willow bark, which Indians mix with tobacco
for the sake of economy. This. however, is
only one of a thousand plants that are utilized
in a similar fashion.
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KEPT In IGNORANCE.
1t Took Frank Willis Thirty-Seven
Years to Find Out Who He Was.

After being in ignorance OF his name, birth
place and parentage for tnirty-seven years,
Frank Willis, the waif OF the burning steamer
Niagara has learned who he is and will in a
few days be reunited with the members OF his
family. who survived the memorable disaster
off Port Washington, In September 1856,
wnep as a 2.year-od babe, he f1oated ashore
on a plank from the blazing vessel, SAYS a
Manitowoc ;(Wis) dispatch TO the New York
Recorder.
Advertisements were inserted in many papers
In the hope that they might meet the eye OF
some one related to the child, or who would
recognize him from the Dame Franc Willette
engraved on the cross attached TO the little
one's neck. All these efforts at identification
failed, however. Willis has now learned that
his name Is Franc Willette, and that he was
born at WinoosKi, Chitenden County, W., 39
years ago; that his father and mother and
three brothers--he being the next youngest
chlld-were lost on the Niagara; that he has an
aunt at Fond du Lac. Wis.,. cousin In Grand
Island, Nebr., and other relatives at the place
OF his birth in New England.
During the past two weeks ne mas received
half dozen letters, all containing information
concerning his friends and his babyhood home.
One came from Fond du Lac, the writer being
Mrs. Peter Allard, who says she Is bis aunt;
another is from a woman IN Grand Island,
Neb who greets MIN as her cousin; Others
from Park River n. Dak., and cities in the
East and all tell the same story.
On Monday Wills Will go TO Fond du Lac
and visit his aunt, Mrs. Peter kllard, and may
90 10 his birthplace in Vermont and make the
acquaintance OF his relatives there.
The morning call., 1894-04-13

as nature cures. by feeding the vital inGost
parts of the body, the blood and nerves.
Ali the parts of the body are adjusted
with the greatest nicely. and deraage-
ment of one affects the whole. We cannot
stop this complicated mechanism for re-
pairs, because we do not know the secret
that would set it going again. The repairs
must be made when it is in motion.
1t is in sleep that the machine goes
slowly, the heart beats less rapidly, the
blood circulates less quickly. the nerves rests
the muscles relax, and each gains vigor in
the only way it caa-by sleep and rest.
Paine's celery compound quiets and regu-
lates the nerves by supplying the material
for their repair, and the tired, exhausted
man and woman, on the verge of breaking
down. gets sleep aud the means OF recoy-
cry to health and strength.
All over the country Paine's celery COM
pound is convincing oyerworked business
men, anxious housekeepers, women behind
counters and in Offices, schoOlteachers. and
all who use their brains excessively, that
the unqualified praise from physicians and
others. VINO are careful of what they say,
is none too strong fer this great remedy
that is M king so many we'll and strong.
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CORNELY'S MEN.
No Commissioners Sent
by Belgium.
Revelations by Consul Chapman at
the Hearing of Charges
Against Pierson.

Collector of Customs Wise has very
difficult problem to solve in determining
the guilt or innocence Of Pierson, the Bel
gian Commissioners, who is accused of
violating the law made Tor the benefit Of
exhibitors at the Columbian Exposition
and re-enacted for the benefit of the Mid
winter Fair showmen and cOncessionalreS.
The information against Pierson was
given by oAe who admittedly hates him
and makes no secret of his animoslty. but
because De Breyne,w wbo was Commissioner,
hates Pierson, who is Commissioner. IS
not accepted by the Custom-houSe people
as proof that the latter is innocent. one
thing, however, has been established In
the interest of the accused. The goods
found at his house were in small frag-
menls, and might have been admitted free
of duty as samples; but the invoice re-
ceived from Chicago is rather cloudy, and
whether the pi eces oil satin and lace were
samples or not remains to be determined
The Collector started his investigation
of the charges against Pierson at O'Clock
yesterday afternoon, paying no attention
10 the noise made by the workmen who
are tearing the 40-year-old mortar from
the walls of the building, or the heart
| reDding appeals of the reporters for ad-
mittance. Among those who were admit
iSQ W bHS scdiCH hClO 4hs lthsnCAaus "a
Belgian Commissioner; w. b. Chapman.
Consul for Belgium; NJ. Pierson, the ac-
cused Commissioner; M. de Breyne, the
accusing eX Commissioners Appraiser
Tucker and an Interpreter.
| Nothing definite resulted from the in
quest, which will be resumed on Monday
| afternoon, but some very interesting in
| formation was obtained from Consul Chap
man. He testified that the Belgian Gov
ernment never authorized Monsieur Pier
son, Monsieur de Breyne or Monsieur
Ramelau 10 represent 1t at the fair. Bel
! GUM has no representative at the fair. He
said the men who call themselves Belgian
| Commissioners were employed or appointed
! by Herr COrnely.
Ramelau was the first Belgian" COM
missioner appointed by Cornely. He was
dispensed with for some reason known
| only to The initiated. After him COrnely
appointed De Breyne, but De Breyne did
| not please The 0irectoI-generaPs right
hand man. be was removed. but still con-
siders himself the original and only COM
missioner and refuses to give up his badge
| of office.
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of cafe in Vienna. The miniature crea-
ure is 13 centimeters high, II long and
weighs about pound.
Mrs. WaldmaBn thought the tiny thing
so charming that only a royal child should
possess such a rarity. She accordingly
applied to the Crown Princess for permis-
sion to present IL to the little Archducness
as a Christmas gilt. Frau Waldmann
took :he dog with Ter to the court and
showed it to the royal mother. Ali were
at once taken with the terriers droli ways
ard its fine little head. and few days
afterward the dog found its way in a small
basket to the castle. On Christmas even
ing the dog was presented to the child
from Its mother and grandparents. who
had deposited il in a basket under the
Archduchess' Christmas tree.-St. Louis
Republic.
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NEW CORPORATIONS.
Another Dinmore Soap Company to
Be Established

The company once known as the
Wieland-Dinmor Soap Company has
sprung 10 life again in the form OF the
Dinmore Soap Company, for which articles
OF iueor poration were filed with the County
Clerk yesterday.
It will be at once noticed that the name
of Wieland is conspicuous by Its absence
from the directorate. which is composed
of the following: Charles Ii. Crocker.
William a. Lewis, n. l.. Dinmore, II. B.
Arnold. Walter r. Dinmore. The capital
ST. ok IS S25.000. fully subscribed, of which
n. l.. Dinmore is responsible for S24.9
Dutton & Co., hay and grain dealers,
have incorporated with capital OF
$50, 900, of which S11,500 has been SUBJ
scribed. Directors-George w. Dutton,
Samuel III. Duncan. Alexander Duncan.
William j. Dutto1, Charles Mackay.
The Medical and Surgical Protective
Associa at on has filed articles of incorpor a.
ton. Drectors-D. Gilbert Sexton, Fran
els Nj. Spon agile, w. II. Newell w. NJ.
Walker, j. A. Conklin. Capital, $500, COO,
OF which $155. 900 has been subscribed.
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GET NEW BLOOD IN APRIL.
The Body Machine that Cannot be Stopped for
Repairs==Paines Celery Compound Feeds It's
Shattered Nerves, Purfies the Blood Makes
Refreshing Sleep Possible

March winds and April showers sweep
and scour the earth and clear the air Of
winter impurities, making it sweet and
wholesome.
The same thing takes place in the body;
the pores open and the blood that creeps
in winter now rushes through the arteries
in fuller, stronger stream.
Now is the gre season of publication,
of new life, new hope, new ambition. 1t
is the best time to get we'll. Spring is
hopeful. and the invalid gets we'll quicker
when hopeful than when respondent.
Thousands of people throughout the
country are this month taking Paine's
celery com pound-the great spring medi-
cine that makes people well.
"What March does not kill may be done
for by April" says an old adage. The
nine weeks from February to May de-
velop the hidden germs of disease inside
the body and without. For health's
sake back yards, cellars, and the
dark closets and corners must be cleaned
out, and for health's sake every one needs
to take a spring medicine like Paine's
The morning call., 1894-04-13
The Fire Record.

Sparks from chimney set fire to the
roof OF the building 116 First street at 9
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The struc-
ture was slightly damaged.
Children playing with matches set fire to
a fence on City Hall avenue and caused an
alarm to be sounded from box 81 at :05
O'Clock. Loss $40.
a blazing kettle of tar iu Charles
RAINS plumbip g-shop, 2S14 Sixteenth
street. caused the alarm from box 143 at
5:13 o'clock. No damage.
Fire was started in the Chinese tene-
ment. 716 Jackson street, at 9:15 o'clock
last night by the explosion of a lamp.
The house is owned by the Gibson es-
tate. Loss on building and contents $3.50.
The alarm from box 297 at II 40 O'Clock
this morning was tor a tiny blaze in W.
Schiller's cigar-stOre, 412 Kearny street.
Ten dollars worth of cigars were burned.
The morning call., 1894-04-13
CHARITY BENEFIT.
The Concert Proved a Great Success
at the Vienna Prater.

at the Vienna Prater.
The children'S charity benefit coDcer,
drew a large audience 10 Franz Joseph
Hall of the Vienna Prater yesterday even
ing. The enthusiasm was up to the usual
pitch. Indeed, had there been a few less
determined encores the people present
would probably have enjoyed the concert
Just as well, if not better. As it was the
entertainment was prolonged till very late,
and many people were compelled TO leave
without having the enjoyment OF nearing
the programme out.
The concert opened with the march from
Mende ssohn's midsummer Nights
Dream" music which was delightfully."-
played by the orchestra. 1t almost seemed
indeed as if it were more than coiDci-
dence that on the first important public
appearance of Mrs. AlyiEa-Heuer Wilson
after her wedding the most popular of
wedding marches should open the pro-
grainme and be followed later by its rival
in public favor, the bridesmaids s.
Chorus" which was played incidentally
in the course OF very interesting Fan
tasia" ON '.Lohengrin" performed by the
orchestra.
Mrs. Alvina Heuer-Wilson, who ap-
peared gowned entirely in white, sang with
her usual taste and sweetness. Her voice
was poIudpS iiuI uuito aolSo Cboush lOi tnO
vastness or the building. but it evidently
pleased her audience. for they gave her a
warm encore. Robert Lloyd, the other
solo-vocalist Of the evening. came SO far
down op the programme that he had
scarcely so large an audience LETT as he
would have had If the Swedish Ladies
Quartet mad not been v0ciferously encored
four times Mr.. Lloyd, however, received
very hearty applause.
The orchestra, as usual, gave universal
satisfaction. The numbers were not nov
elites, but such composers as Beethoven,
Weber and Wagner gain by repetition.
particularly when so excellently per-
formed as were the overture to Leonore
No. 5, the overture TO "Oberon" and Wag-
ner's Dreams From the Five Poems
yesterday evening.
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his place in the regiment. which he did. and
served we'll until the expiration OF the term.
when he was mustered out with an honorable
discharge. Two years ago he applied for and
was granted pension. and is yet in receipt OF
the quarterly payment. After the death OF
Hiram at this place his widow. who knew mat
her husband, previous to their marriage, had
been a soldier but who did not know OF the ex-
change made by the brothers, applied for a
widows pension, and an Investigation OF the
records brought out the facts, which the sur
yiving brother corroborates.
According 10 the Washington Star letter.
which is pronounced 10 De the most curious
ever received at The Office, was one received at
me Buffalo pension agency. 1t was a refusal
to accept pension of s12 month and back
pensions for two years at the same rate,
amounting 20 S2SS. The letter reads as fol-
lows the names being withheld:
.'Mrs - OF this city brought 10 us your
card of the oath inst. inqulring why she did not