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Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

She was thin, narrow, dark-visaged
woman with "specs" on, and she car
ried a package Of tractlets and leaflets,
which she scattered broadcast among
the sinners In the Cass avenue car on
which she rode, says the Detroit Sun.
When only one or two Of the pamph-
lets were left a man got In. He was on
his way to the depot, countryman go
Ing home. evidently. He had big tur-
key, which he disposcd tenderly on the
seat next to him, and glass flask with
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

The Secretary of the Interstate Deep
Harbor Committee. which some years
ago took hold Of the project to secure
deep harbor at Galveston, reports that
the work is nearing completion. Two
Jetties are built, having lengths of six
and one-eighth and four and one-quar-
ter miles. They now are over the crest
of the bar and are being extended sim
ultaneously, with an excellent prospect
that the securing by ocean water will
keep the channel open after II has been
formed The work will also result In
free docks and free railroad facilities
ct point on the main land known as
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

st. Louis expends nearly three times
as much per lineal mile for cleaning
streets as does the city of Chicago. Re-
ports of the two cities for the years 1880
to 1890 inclusive show the average ex-
penditure in the city Of st. Louis for
the purpose stated was $119, and that
Of the city of Chicago but $43. The
cost per capita to Chicagoans was but s
cents per lineal mile and that to the
people of st. Louis % cents per lineal
tnfle
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02
Beneficial.

Carrying weights upon the head grad
uated to the strength OF the bearer,
tends to straighten the spine and i'm
prove the condition of the chest. This
form OF exercise, taken for say half an
hour day, will do much good to young
people who are becoming stooped and
round-shouldered The exercise should
be commenced at an early age, and the
weight must be very light to com
mence with. 1t should at, first, indeed,
be more an exercise of balancing.
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

Mrs. Langtry's averment that rich
mems sons make her tired is doubtless
true. She has worked them for years.
AS Mrs. Langtry makes all but the
sons Of rich men tired considerable of
the WEAKNESS of the world seems to
center about her.
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

The Standard trust Is having a great
deal of fun with the oil market and
producers who share IN the increased
prices for the crude product thorough
iy enjoy the fun. All others, including
the independent refiners who are being
thus legally" strangled, consider 1t
rohharv
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

According to the London Times the
United States appreciates the justice of
the English demand on Nicaragua. 1t
is not worth while to argue that. The
important fact is that England will not
be allowed to enforce any such demand
by taking n single foot of Nicaragua's
territory-not a foot!
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

Lady visitor-Well, Maisie, have
come after that new baby. You know
you told me last week that you didn't
want 1t and that could take 1t home.
Maisie-Well, you can't have It I
want 1t myself now, but I'll get you =
piece of paper and you can cut q pat
tern. Mercury. y
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

While no one has asked that women
remove their hats in church, the Kan
sas City Non Partisan Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union has decided to
do so in the future. They might re-
move a section of the title Of their So
ciety without being considered i'm
modest 1t is by no means decollete as
it stands, and decollation might be Of
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

Expert evidence has at last been Civ
en- that the gas meter under certain
atmospheric conditions cannot tell the
truth. How is it that 1t always lies on
.he side of the companies?
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

Harvard has decided to permitsfoot-
ball under 'rules which will make the
game quieter." Coroners henceforth
will not be called upon toareferee the
games.
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02
HUNG IN A TREE.
Young Man Meets Death in a Very Pc
cu1iar Manner.

culiar Manner.
A peculiar and fatal accident befell
George Brady, son of Nathaniel Brady,
of Homing Falls, w. Va, recently.
Young Brady was riding frisky young
horse, and the animal ran off with him.
Passing under a large apple tree grow
ing by the roadside, the boys neck was
caught in the forks of two large limbs,
and his neck forced up into the crotch
of the limbs. The horse was going very
rapidly, and the force drew his neck
into the forks of the limbs so tight as
to hold him there. strangling him, and
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02
HoNoR,Nc GERMAN GENIUS.

New York Teutons Will Erect Mon
ument to the Poet Heine.
A handsome monument and fountain
in honor of the German poet, Helm
rich Heine, is to be erected in Central
Park, New York, by the German socie-
ties Of that city. 1t will be Of Tyrolean
marble and will stand fifty feet high.
The center piece, column, shows the
medallion Of Heine in life size, a iig-
ure Of the Lorelei surmounts the pedes-
tai and on either side are figures of
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

$50 much is not often told in so few
words" the Lewiston Journal truly
says, "as in this remark of the Canaan
correspondent of the Pittsfield Adver-
tiser: The eleven little Dickey chill
dren all have whooping-cough."
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

The postmaster's boy and the profess
sor's boy were playing together. A
question of precedence arose, and the
professors boy exclaimed: "You ought
to let me go first! My fathers an A.
NJ" "Huh!' replied his companion.
That's nothing. My fathers a r. NJ
-Harper's Young People.
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

The confession of an Arkansas states
man that he has been bribed is viewed
with particular disfavor by other states
men, as he received only 800. SO
meager a price is naturally looked upon
as debasing u noble calling.
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

There. viii be trolley line all the
way from New York to Philadelphia
before the year is out. 1t is doubtful
IL there will be any steam railroads left
I'm 1910
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

The Lodi. Cal, farmer who claims to
have been hypnotized out of $1,000 may
find consolation in his theory. To the
hard-headed world he will appear as a
plain case of chump. NA
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

Hetty Green herself is the first to
deny the damaging rumor that she had
opened her heart and purse-strings for
a public enterprise Of any character.
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02
CHINESE IS TOO HARD.

Easier to LIE arm to Write than to Speak
Every Word a Picture.
The Chinese language Is the most
difficult for an adult foreigner to ac-
quire and easier to forget. Chinese is
as different from English as any mod
ern language can be. 1t Is made up
of many thousands Of characters, each
Of which is credited with only one
sound. The Chinese language has no
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

The wife-"One half the world
doesn't know how the other half lives"
The husband-"weIl, 1t isn't the fault
Of your sewing society, anyway."-IAfe.
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

Grand Rapids shows an Increase OF ID
per cent. during the period of ten years
from 1884 to 1894, which is the largest Of
any city having over 10000 population in
1884.
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02
ropular rights are those tnas are
coming our way.

Possums can be bought In Southwest
ern Georgia for Is cents apiece. And
yet the exodus from the South to Ii
IBERIA is still going on!
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

Z Customer-"why do you call this cleo.
trio cakeT Bakers boy-'T s'pose be.
cuz 1t has currants In it."-Philadelphia
Record
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

The new legislative manual gives ths
revised and final figures which show the
population Of Michigan's sixty incorpo-
rated cities to be as follosss In 1884 and
Crawford avalanche., 1895-05-02

There are several big Incorporated viii
lagos that exceed many cities in popula-
ton. The following list includes all over
5000 in the State and many of those
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A COURAGEOUS TALE.
How Little wlllis Green Conquered In t..

How Little Willie Green Conquered In ts-a
End.
CHAPTER L
Coward! Cowardy calf Cry babyi'
These were the shouts that greeted Viii
lie Green as he stood wiping the blood
from his lip, which had been cut from
blow given by James Beans, the rich
squire's son.
why don't you pitch in and lick him?"
asked Bill Jones, the school bully. ''You
are bigger'n him.
Because my mother told me never to
fight said Willie. And, besides, did not
the teacher tell US at Sabbath school that
it was wicked, and that he who conquered
himself was the greatest hero? I mean to
be a hero. -
CHAPTER IL
ibid I not do right, mother2" asked
Willie Green.
You did, my son, as she fondly wrap
ped two or three of his curls around her
worn and wasted hand Besides, if you
had given way to your temper, the squire
might have foreclosed the mortgage he
holds on our little home and turned US
out adrift on the cold, cold world. 1t is as
much as I can do now to meet the IL per
cent interest
They wept in each others arms.
CHAPTER Ill
E1r6!'
The cry rang out on the still night air,
arousing the sleeping villagers to action.
The Office of Squire Beans was in flames.
Strong men threw water on the blazing
building with pitchers, pails tubs and
anything that came to hand. And still
the flames arose.
my safel My safel'' shrieked tho
squire. "There are 81, 900, 900 worth of
securities in it, Am to be ruined9"
mo use, squire, - said one of the men.
''That there safe weighs 200 pounds, and
besides it is redhot'
CHAPTER ".
''Stand back If men will not act, let q
coward try!'
1t was the voice of Willie Green-Willie
Green, whom his thoughtless schoolmates
had called a coward because he had the
moral courage to abstain from rude fisti-
cuffs.
He rushed through the crowd into tho
blazing building. In another moment he
returned with the great redhot safe in his
arms and dropped it into a nearby cistern.
The squire's fortune was saved
MY boy,'' said the squire, ''none of
them will call you coward now. James,
my son, shake hands with true hero. ="
CHAPTER v
Willie Grean works for the squire now.
He only has to work 8 hours day after
school and gets So week. The squire has
reduced the interest on Mrs. Green s mort
gage to 11H per cent And even Bill
Jones, the school bully, realizes that one
can be brave without being brute.
THE END.
Cincinnati Tribune
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From q letter written by Rev T Gnn.
derman, of DimondaIe. Mich. we are
permitted to make this extract: 81 have
no hesitation in recommending DIR. KINGS
New Discovery, as the results were al
most marvellous in the case of my wife.
While I was pastor of the Baptist church
at Rives Janction, she was brought down
with Pneumonia succeeding La Crime
Terrible paroxysms of coughing would
last hours with little interruption and it
seemed as if she would not survive them.
A friend recommended DR.. Kings New
Discovery; it was Quick in its work and
highly satisfactory in results" Trial
bottle 10 cents at ]. K. Jones' Drug store
Regular size SOC and $1.OO
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CORINNE TONIGHT.
There is a GoodAdvanceS ale-Fritz Emmett
Monday.

There is a GtoodAdvance Sale-Fritz Emmett
Monday.
Peerless Corinne," as people who read
the bill boards have been taught to call
her, will be at the Grand this evening in
the musical, operate, spectacular, bur-
lesque "Hendrick Hudson"
Sne and her company of nearly sixty
people are stopping about at the various
hotels today.
Corinne is as sprightly as ever and has
new dance or two. She also does her
old once.
The company is as clever as such COM
panies usually are and the costumes and
scenery are all right
On Monday night we will have Fritz
Emmett. His latest successful play,
Fritz in Mad House," is said to be an
excellent one, full of fine character rep
RESERVATIONS and interesting scenes. The
last act, or mad house scene, is one of
the most ridiculous conceits imaginable,
and the second act is pathetic picture.
All the characters are drawn from life.
and no one can withstand the magnetic
smile, sparkling eyes and sym pathetic
voice of ''Fritz" Emmett
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STRAPPED TO HIS BED.
One of the Horrors of the Hospital Fire al
Cleveland.

One of the Horrors of the Hospital Fire at
Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 2-Testimony of
a startling nature was given today at
the coroner's investig alton of the Dea-
connesses Home holocaust in which four
persons lost their lives yesterday.
Miss Annie Sommers, acting matron of
the home, testified that an explosion took
place proceeding the fire and the
entire house was wrapped in
smoke and flames almost instantly.
She said three men had been lettering
around the house for several days. When
the tire broke out she rushed to the front
door and found these same men were in
the yard. They paid no attention to her
frantic appeals for assistance in getting
out the patients. The explosion was evil
IDENTITY in the basement or near the fur
mace, as the registers were blown from
their places.
1t was shown at the investigation that
the burned building was without fire es-
capes of any kind in direct violation of
the state law.
VIM. Altmeyer, one of the patients
who was burned to death, it was stated,
was strapped to his bed when the fire
broke out, being under treatment for a
broken hip.
Minnie Bauer, the brave nurse girl,
was endeavoring to unloosen the straps
which bound Altmeyer when she was
suHocated by the smoke and lost her life,
rather than desert her patient
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NEW YORK BANK SHUT.

The East Side Bank With 100000. LA
biIities Goes to the Wall.
New YORK, Feb 2.-The East Side
Bank on Ground street has been closed
by Superintendent of Banks Preston, in
order that an examination into its condi-
ton may be made.
The capital stock of the bank is $780,
600. The cash on hand when business
was suspended was $4,000, liabilities
to depositors, $46O,00O. The balance of
the assets of the bank are in bills receiv-
able. Thomas R Majors, a Canadian,
and formerly resident of Toledo, o., is
the president.
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.
Furnished by the Associated Press to ths
State journal.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2-Wheat was dull
and easier today. The dizziness here and
at New York was against the price and
to the fact that the export demand IS not
up to the expectations also favor the
bear side May opened unchanged at
53A, touched % and reacted to 5s1 s.
Corn was dull. following wheat May
opened unchanged at 4324c. touched 435s
and reacted to 4338.
Oats were easy sym pathizing with
corn. May opened unchanged at $3.50
and declined TO 2S12.
Provisions were dull but steady, help
ed by small hog receipts and steady
market at the yards.
May pork started unchanged at $3.50
May lard sold at $500. and ribs
$51715
Hoes-Receipts today, 14.oOJ: official
yesterday 27,51U; shipments $500; left
higher: trade slow. Light, $390@405;
mixed So S0@4-15; heavy $3.75@43O;
rough So 1898 80
CATTLE : Receipts. SO Official
yesterday, 1911; shipments 2,544 Mar
ket strong at yesterdays prices.
SHEEP = Receipts 1900 Official
yesterday 8,O19; shipments 1851 Mar
ket strong.
Estimated hogs Monday $4,000.
WHEAr-Feb. 1920; May. 527s ask
ed; July 53c asked
CoRN-Feb. 4O5sc; May, 43@1sc; July
43c
oArs-Feb. 1854. May. 2816,; June
283sc
Pork : February 1915; May,
$1,000.
LARD-February, $645; May. $500
February $5.O5; May $52215
FLAx-Cash northwestern $L44; May
SLAB.
TIMoTHY-Cash $3.50
BARLEY-Choice 56c; medium 54c;
common SIC
RYE-Cash SOC; May SIC.
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COOLEST OF THE COLD.
Thermometer Marks So and AZ Below In
Wisconsin and Michigan.

Thermometer Marks So and AZ Below In
Wisconsin and Michigan.
WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, Feb. 2.-To-day
was the coolest of the winter here, 80
below zero.
BosCoBEI, Wis, Feb 2.-The Their
mometer registered "a degrees below
zero here this morning.
IRONwooD, Mich, Feb 2.-Forty- one
degrees below zero was the record here
today. Other points on the Gogebic
range reported from 80 to AZ below.
WHITEHALL. Wis, Feb To-day was
the coolest of the season, 50 degrees be-
low zero being the record
GRANTsBURG, Wis. Feb. with a
cold wind and drifting snow last night
the thermometer registered AZ degrees
below zero.
Signs of the business revival are seen
everywhere. DR.. Prices Baking Powder
never sold so rapidly as now.
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Fnrther ParticnIars.

CHE Foo, Feb. 2-The western forts
of Wei Hal Wei were taken by the ia
panese on January 80, as previously re
ported in these dispatches, in spite of the
good resistance made by the Chinese. One
Japanese gunboat was sunk after having
been badly damaged A shell burst in
the magazine of one of the Chinese forts
and the whole store of powder blew up,
aud it is believed to have caused great
mortality.
The authorities of Che Foo are Selling
and beheading runaway Chinese soldiers
who ran away from Wei Hal Wei.
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RECEIVERS RETURN.

The Receivers of the Santa Fe Abandon
Their Western Trip.
Receivers Walker and McCook, of the
Santa Fe. and General Manager Frey ar
rived in Topeka at 2: 40 p. N. today from
their western trip. The receivers did not
stop in Topeka. For some reason the
proposed trip to California was abandon
ed The party inspected the branch lines
of the road with the exception of the
Colorado Midland between here and Al
buquerque, n. NJ, but went no further
on The main line. They will go direct to
CHICAGO
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GREENHUT DENIES 1T.
Saws the Trust Had no Intention of Pre-
venting Examination of Books.

Says the Trust Had no Intention of Pre-
venting Examination of Books.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-President Greenhut
emphatically denies the story that any
effort had been made to prevent an ex-
animation of certain books and accounts
of the trust at Peoria
yesterday" he said, ''the court ord
cred the officers of the whisky trust to
appear in court tomorrow morning. l
telegraphed the directors to come here
at once, aud Vice President Beggs came
last night With him came Mr.. MCGEE,
one of our book keepers.
Mr.. MCGEE was the only man who had
the combination to that part of the vault
where the accounts desired were kept,
but he did not know it nor did the court
authorizing the examination of the books.
I wrote the assistant secretary at Peoria
that the examination would be made, but
in the meantime Mr.. MCGEE had started
for Chicago.
81 did not know he was in the city I'M
til this morning. l was greatly sur
prised and sent him back to Peoria on
the first train. He arrived there in time
to open the safe and get the books but
some have evidently misconstrued his
absence 1t may seem as though we
brought Mr.. MCGEE here intentionally
but we did not"
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nThe Man of the Hour"

"Her Royal Highness, Woman" was
of the O'Rellian manner. The captivat-
ing charm of his style was to be found in
the absolute command he kept over an
audience which was packed to the very
roof of the theater. For two hours he
held US spelibound, and the gods were in
complete subdual and eclipse.-The Star,
May 18th, 1898.
Sale of seats commences Monday morn
ing at Kellam's. The best thing Topeka
will have this sea5on.
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.HOLLY SPRINGS ROUTE

To Florida via st. Louis s. Carlo Short Line.
From St Louis, the Illinois Central
railroad to Holly Springs, x. c., NJ. & B 3,
the Southern railway and F. c. & P. rail-
road toJacksonville and all Florida points
This new route is the quickest line to
Birmingham. and direct route to Allan
ia, Macon, Charleston. Savannah and all
southeastern points.
Through Pullman buffet sleeping cars,
ST. Louis to Jacksonville, Fla.
Call on your nearest ticket agent for
our "Florida Folder" and full informa-
ton regarding this new route, or address
GEO. E. Larry,
General Passenger Agent,
St Louis, Mo.
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AMERICANS WILL HELP.
Uncle Sans People In Mexico Willing to
Aid without Pay.

Uncle Sans People In Mexico Willing to
Aid without Pay.
MEXICO CITY, Mex, Feb 1.-Minister
Mariscal and President Diaz have held
another consultation on the Guatemalan
question, in which the subject of indem-
nifty TO Mexico was further dis
cussed. Mr.. Mariscal intimated
to the newspaper correspondents that
the amount and general nature of the in
demnity due from Guatemala is prac-
tlcally the only question being consid-
cred at the present time.
Summarizing the number of applica-
tons of merchants and the amount of
followers thatthe applicants can place
on the field in fighting trim, it is evident
that $500 men of the United States are
ready to enter the service of Mexico
without mourning any expense to its
treasury
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Shot for a Aack OF Coal.

DENVER, Feb Frank Wiscomb.
while attempting to steal a sack of coal
from a Union Pacific freight car, was
shot and probably fatally wounded by
Special Policeman Peter Daley. Wis
comb had no work and determined to
steal rather than see his wife and baby
starve and freeze.
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BURNED WHITE DOG.
Chief of the Onondagos Dies During the
Festivities.

Chief OF the UnOnuaSoS DIGS Dur1ns ING
Festivities.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Feb. 2.-The Onon-
dago Indians celebrate the new year by
the burning of white dog and with
dances of great violence This tradition
al festival has just been interrupted by
the sudden death of Chief George Lyon,
of pneumonia. The white dog had been
burned and the dances were in progress
when he succumbed to the malady.
The Indians say there is an evil spirit
among them who is responsible for the
tragedy. Efforts are being made by the
pagan members of the tribe to discover
the person and the one whom they con-
clude to be he is likely to meet with vio-
lence. There is much excitement on the
reservation.
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WEI Hal WEI DOOMED.
Fierce Fighting in Progress Sea and
Land.

YOKOHAMA, Feb 2.-Oficial advices
from the seat of war are to the effect
that the enemies ships are still in the
gulf. There has been severe fighting
with heavy loss on both sides. At
4:3O on the afternoon of January 80 the
battle was raging. At Shanghai it is re-
ported that one of the Chinese war ships
was disabled and two torpedo boats sunk.
The Chinese fleet is still inside the har-
Dor at Wei Hal Wei
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HOME SALOONS.
Temperance Drinks and a Lunch on the
Side,

Side.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2-Articles of incorpor-
alton of the Home Saloon association
will be filed at Springfield today. The
incorporates are DR.. Revenberg, T. B.
Pemberton and Chas. E. Peck, and the
capital stock is $4,000. The association
will establish series of home saloons
where nom alcohol drinks will be served
with free lunch on the side.
The idea has become so popular and
has been so favorably commented upon,
that it is said private enterprise has al
ready forestailed the Peoples Institute
and a home saloon will be opened Mon
daV,
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E. DICKINSON. General Manager.

The exhibition of paintings at Library
hall will be kept open this evening and
tomorrow Sunday afternoon and even
ing, in order to give all as good an OPP
portunity as possible to enjoy them.