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Ont of the Common Run.

The flag Of Greece is q white cross on
blue ground.
The Chilean Government telegraph lines
comprise 1900 miles.
Heavy snowstorms are blockading railroad
trains in the Northwest
The Horn silver mine of Utah has paid al
together In dividends S5,i90,OOO.
There are $50 American citizens, including
49S Hebrews, residing in J kSalem.
Rome's carnival this Eas the most
brilliant and animated hg 'ars.
Montana last year 81 8 previous
wears Output o. coppeI1 rive mill.
ion pounds.
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Cycling Notes.

Newark, n. j., now boasts of a woman's
bicycle club.
The latest membership OF the L. A. ". is
about ,0I0.
A gunpowder motor for driving bicycle
has been devised by T. NJ. Fremble, Of La
trobe, Penn.
The Hampstead On. W Bicycle Club. Is
raising money to be used III the construction
of Il club house.
A new bicycle boat has the propeller geared
to the pedals and the handle bars turn the
rudder for steering.
1t is estimated there are 107 bicycle clubs
in New York City, which comprise from hall
q dozen TO 400 or 500 members.
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Populists Cla ssed With Democrats.

The Popullst Representatives presented a
petition to Speaker Reed. OF the House OF
Representatives. at Washington, reciting the
saet that at the last election they had cast
about 1000, 900 votes, elected Governors N
hve States and chosen twenty-seven mem
bers of the present House. and requesting,
therefore, that they have representation on
the committees on Ways and Means, judi
cary. Appropriations, Banking, Coinage,
Elections AMI Others MIR. Ree'l has just re-
pli-l that he preTerrei to recognize the
PoDuii>,s as a part OF the Democratic organl- i
1aion, ana that decision will staul Tor tais
Ior.resS
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Steamer Burned at Sea.

The crew OF the Wilson Line steamer Rialto
arrived at New York in the Carthaginian af-
ter thrilling experience In mid-ocean. The
Rialto took fire and foundered at sea on
March 6. A part Of the Rialto's cargo con-
sisted OF chemicals. These caught fire,
there was an explosion. and after forty
hours Of desperate but unavailing struggle
to check the flames the officers and crew
abandoned the vessel and were taken on
board the Carthaginian.
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work with his hands from an unwilling soil.
He Is full SIX feet high, and while no orator,
his words, spoken In measured and emphatic
tones, never fail to impress his hearers. The
Senator is a native Of St. Louis and Is only
thirty-eight years old. His parents were
poor, and young Beitfeld after trief studies
In the grammar schools OF st. Louis, started
out West. He went to Kansas and to Wash
ington, and finally 10 Idaho. He trampsd
through the new country looking for work
and finding 1t as farm boy, laborer, stone
mason and other occupations, until he at
last settled down as an agriculturist. Then,
by incessant labor, he built up his little for
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-07
Disease Germs In Crude Rubber.

Germs Of disease in crude rubber are
blamed for the illness OF forty-seven en-
ployes of the Lambertville (N. J.) Rubber
Manufacturing Company. So far three deaths
have resulted. For want Of better name
the doctors are calling the disease typhoid
fever. although the symptoms are different
Impure drinking water was blamed for the
epidemic at first, but an analysis showed the
water to be pure.
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Three Men Lynched.

Three colored men, James Gilmore, James
Miley, and Otis Miller, were taken from the
Sheriff at Tallahassee, Fla, by fifty armed
men, strung up to trees, and their bodies rid
died with bullets. They were accused OF the
murder Of James Bareaeld, Postmaster at
Blue Springs, and his assistant, John R.
Turner, on March 8. The killing was the re-
suit OF an attempt at robbery.
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Relief Furnished in India.

The special representative Of the Associated
Press has just completed an exhaustive tour
OF the famine-stricken Northwest Of India.
In an area of 400 by eco miles 1,750,000 per-
sons are being relieved. Owing to the
Governments timely grasp Of the situation
the correspondent did not discover a single
instance OF death from starvation during the
whole tour.
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Minor Offices Filled.

President Mckinley has nominated Joseph
L. Bristow, Of Kansas, to be Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster-G General: Bin2er Hermann,
OF Oregon, to be Commissioner Of tho GEN
sral Land ONCE; Boyd B. Jones, OF Massa-
ehlsetts, to be Attorney OF tie United states
for the district Of Massachusetts: james d.
Elliott. OF South Dakota, to be Attorney OF
the United States for the District OF South
n,,I
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THE TRANsvAAL's NEW TREATY.

South African Republic and Orange Free
State to Support Each Other.
A dispatch from Pretoria says that drafts
Of treaties between the South African Repub-
llc and the Orange Free State, which have
been concluded at Bloomfontein, the Orange
Free State capital, are published in the Pre-.
toria papers.
The treaties. which must be ratified by the
Yolksraands OF both republics. give the
burghers of each State the franchise In either
republic, and bind each republic to support
the other In the event of an attack.
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Elephant Strangled to Death.

The unruly elephant Tip, belonging to the
Barnum and Bailey show, was strangled to
death at the winter quarters of the circus at
Bridgeport, Conn. Death came In about
ninety seconds. Efforts to poison Tip by
concealing ca psules containing large guam
titles OF cyanile Of potassium in his food
were futile.
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Mr. Cleveland at Home.

Former President Grover Cleveland ar
rived at Princeton, N. j., from Cape Charles.
Va where he concluded his hunting and
fishing trip. It Is his first visit since he pur-
chased his private residence at Princeton.
Mr.. Cleveland left the train at Princeton
Junction, where he was met by his coachman
with the family carriage and driven to town.
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123 Heads on Morocco's Walls.

Insurgent tribesmen In soos, the southern.
most province Of Morocco, ampushed and
cut to pieces the expedition sent there by the
sultan OF Morocco to quell rebellion. A
force defeated the rebels and sent eighty
heads to the Sultan as proof OF victory.
These, with forty-thres others, are now ex.
posed at the gates OF Morocco City.
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Havoc From tho Broken Levee.

The valley OF the lower Mississippi Is
vast inland sea. Death, desolation and dis
tress are spreading from as far north as
Birds Point, No., to the country below Hell
ena, Ark. The heavy rainfall in the Ohio
Valley and the consequent floods are the Inn
mediate causes of the frighsful swelling In
the Mississippi in the vicinity OF Cairo and
south of there.
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GREEK TRANSPORT SUNK.
An Austrian Gunboat Fires on Schooner
Carrying Cretan Insurgents.

An Austrian GunDoat Flres On scnoonor
Carrying Cretan Insurgents.
The Government at Vienna has received
,dvices that the Austrian gunboat sebenico
las sunk Greek schooner with cargo
,t munitions OF war and number, OF
Cretan insurgents on board. The Sebe-
nico, under the orders Of the British
Admiral commanding the British squadron
In Cretan waters was patrolling of Cape
Oia, Crete, when the schooner hove In sight.
The schooner was hailed by the gunboat and
the insurgents on board in reply opened fire
upon the Sebenico, whereupon the latter
turned her guns on the schooner and sunk
her, The crew Of the schooner swan ashore.
None Of them was injured.
Greece will protest against the firing upon
and sinking of the schooner. She will claim
that the action Of the Austrian warshtp was
arbitrary. The incident Is regarded as
proof that the concert Of the Powers Is per-
tect .H :
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Is not the only intimate child friend Of Mrs.
Mckinley. That lady is very fond Of the lit
tie ones, and surrounds herself often with
little babbling guests who own and control
the Mckinley household while under its roof.
This will no less be true OF the White House,
and the children In Washington may look
forward to gorgeous times during the next
four years. As child mistress OF the White
a stupendous scale, II Mrs. Mckinley has
anything to say about 1t, and she undoubted-
lv will
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Dutch Republics United.

It Is stated on what is regarded as good
authority that as a result OF the visit OF
President Krseger, of the Transvaal, to
President steyn, OF the Orange Free State,
a federal union Of the both Republics has
been decided upon. Such union Is re-
garded by the British with much concern.
as it would seriously complicate the situa'
tIOn.
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John Z. Gowdy, of Indiana, Consul-Gen-
eral of the United States at Paris.
Joseph q. Brigham, OF Ohio, to be Assist
aut Secretary Of Agriculture.
Perry s. Heath, Of Indiana, to be First As
sistant Postmaster. General.
Interior-Sylvester Peterson, OF Minnesota,
to be Register Of the Land Office at Crooks
ton. Minn.
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Shot by Their Father.

At Philadelphia, Penn, Frederick Frank,
shot and killed his nine-year-olds son William,
dangerously wounded his fve-year-old
daughter Amelia, and then turned the pistol
on himself, inflicring fatal wound. The
tragedy Is said to have been the outcome o9
a Jealous quarrel with mis- wife.
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RAND Transit tor New York City.

The New York Court OF Appeals decided
that the Rapid Transit acts affecting New
York City are constitutional: The Board OF
Aldermen, by O large majority vote, adopted
the underground rapid transit plan sub
nitted by the Rapid Transit Commission.
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Real Indian Ball Player.

Manager Tebeau, Of the Cleveland League
Base Ball team, has signed outflelder Stock
alexis, formerly Of the Holy Cross College
team. The player Is full-blooded Indian.
and Is said to be strong batter and fast
aaldar
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Gladstone Thunuers.

Mr.. Gladstone has issued a pamphlet on
the Eastern Crisis" in which he says that
Greece has done noble thing in interfering
in Crete, and that the Powers are playing
disSraceful game in trying to coerce her.
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Girl Killed by Lightning.

Lily Johnson, seven years old, daughter OF
Coles johnson, a bayman living at Baldwins,
Long Island, was struck by lightning and in
stautly killed. younger sister standing
beside her escaped uuinjured. Johnson's
house was wrecked by the lightning.
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William I. Comm EN- morated.

The monument commemora.tnS the GEN.
,enary Of the birth OF William was unveiled
in Berlin, and the day was observed as
holiday throughout GERMANY
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Crimes of O Jealous Farm er.

Bee Rainwater, farmer living in 0rrick,
near Kansas City, No.. murdered his wife,
his mother-in-law, step-daughter and a
step-son. He then shot himself. Jealousy
Is said to have caused him to commit the
crimes.
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Five Children Burned to Death.

death OF five children of Frank Penrod at
their home at Laddsdale. Iowa. 1t Is not
known how the fire originated. The chill
dren were all under twelve years OF age.
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Reducing a City's Payroll.

During twenty-one months OF Mayor
Swift's administration in Chicago there has
been decrease OF nearly s2,OOo.0Oo in the
payrolls Of the city.
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death of the heir apparent, which has been
KEEP. secret for State reasons, will probably
be announced ut the same time that the En-
peror issues the proclamation designating
Prince Arisugawa Takahito his successor.
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For Governor OF Rhode Island.
Elisha Dyer, OF Providence, was nomt-
mated by the Republicans for Governor Of
Rhode Island.
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THE WHITE HOUSE PET.

It VIII Be Marjorie Mckinley Morse, the
Presidents Grandniece.
A Washington dispatch says that the Baby
Mckee OF the Mckinley administration will
be Marjorie Mckinley Morse. the grandniece
OF the President. This charming miss Is a
special favorite Of Mrs. Mckinley, and in
order to be persona grata ut the Executive
mansion 1t will be necessary for every one to
conciliate the little lady. Little Miss Morse
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NAMED BY PRESIDENT.
A New Batch of Nominations Sent to the
Senate.

The President sent to the United States
Senate the following nominations:
state-Powell Clayton, Of Arkansas, to be
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of the United States to Mexico.
William NJ. Osborne, of Massachusetts,,
Consul-General of the United States at Lon
DON
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Greater New York Charter.

The New York Assembly at Albany passed
the Greater New York charter by a vote OF
118 to 2S
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THE NEW FARMER SENATOR.
Henry Heitfeld, Idaho's Junior Represen'
tative In the Upper House.

Henry Heitfeld, the new United States
Senator from Idaho. who has replaced sena-
t. Dubois, is one OF the most interesting fig-
ures In the Upper House. Ie is a plain,
blunt man, farm bred, with rough aud
ready experience In life and 3 snug little
fortune Of S35, 900 or $40 900 wrung by hard
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L. i,-..S EPITOMlZEO'
Washin1ton Items.

The Eepuo.can members OF the Ways and
Means Com nittee decided to transfer BOOKS
and scientific apparatus to the free list.
President Mckinley granted respite to
tho four murlerers of Francisco ChaNe ez. who
we're to have been executed in Santa Fe.
New Mexico.
The Government was notified Of the block
aiding OF Crete. 4 protest may be entered,
as no state of war exists there, and Spain
might close Cuban ports to American vessels
If n precedent be established.
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Fierce Fighting at Retimo.

Sharp fighting occurred betwee the Turks
and insurgents outside Of Retimo in Crete.
Tea men we're killed and eleven wounded.
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JaPAN's CROWN PRINCE DEAD.

Prince Arisugawa, the Probable Successor
OF the Emperor.
Passengers on the steamer Peru, which ar
rived at San Francisco, Cal, few days ago.
brings news Of the death of the Crown Prince
of Japan, Yoshi Hito Haruno-Miya. The
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was of iron. In his prime he was COM
petent to endure almost any fatigue and
hardship. He was brief of speech. Taci-
turnity is mark of his kind He was of
the pure Anglo Saxon type, blue-eyed and
fair-skinned. He looked straight at one in
talking He was averse to recounting any
of the hairbreadth escapes or desperate
combats that had made his youth and man
hood one long romance. His manners were
not in any way softened by contact with
later civilization. What he thought he said
and what he thought right he did This was
always natural but sometimes embarrass-
ing. No man ever saw him excited He had
been bred in a school wherein to be sur
prised was to commit a crime. A man who
for years went TO sleep with the sigh of the
prairie wind in his ears and was awakened
by the shrill whoop of the attacking savage
is not apt to be surprised by anything that
happens to him in these days of powder
puffs and stays. He had the stoicism of his
red foemen and would have suffered at the
stake mute they.
When rip Ford died his closing eye
noted the sky line Of soaring buildings
whose foundations rest on the yet unrotted
roots of the primeval forest. The clang of
car bells came through his open window.
Outside was the roar of traffic over mac
wires of light, of hearing and of written
talk The strident hum of commerce was
on the air. The cries OF hawkers, the
Jingles OF street musicians the countless
sounds of a busy city smote duly on his
ear. OF the passing throngs probably not
one thought of the old man dying inside,
like a toothless Hon I'm HIS lair Yet to him
and his kind they owe their city. freedom
to pursue happiness, life itself. He and his
companions rose superior to circumstance.
Across the streams, over the sands and
through the forest of the wilderness they
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he would say, has no echo. The human
voice has. He was an expert with the
rifle, the knife the bow and the lance He
had been taught his mastery Of the horse
unbridled and savage stations of the
prairies. He was familiar with a half
dozen dialects Scalps drying at the belts
of his comrades met his eyes daily. He
was tried in the crucible of those times and
came out of it a leader of men.
Colonel Ford was known all through the
Southwest as Rip Ford. 1t was So
recklessness distinguished in that day of
recklessness. Literally he was a man so
organized that the sensation of fear was i'm
possible to him. Occasionally one meets hui
man beings of this kind, but so nfrequent-
ly that they are classed among the phenom-
ena- Time and again. wounded in des-
perate fight or long foray, none of his hurts
approached the mortal. Among the Indians
he bore the reputation of charmed life.
Many silver bullets were fired at rip"
Ford first and last From the head waters
of the Pecos to the gulf and from the Sa-
bine the east to the Rio Grande on the
west his was name to conjure with among
feared as much in the Mexican jacal as in
the Comanche tepee. He believed ii to be
his duty when warning to smite and spare
not, and his band left behind ii thirty
foot-wde trail of blood. The country was
always quiet for a while s,fter rip Ford
had passed through it. The stockman fol-
lowed his cattle in peace and the lonely
wife of the frontiersman had no need TO
SILVER in bed with a palsy of fear at the
sound of hoof beats on moonlight nights
Col RIP" Ford, even in later years. had
the manner and appearance of the men who
made possible the settlement of the South
west Not above medium height. his frame
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IrYinEfnm.

Miss India Brumfeld, of Winchester, Ind,
is a guest of Mrs. Norman at her home
on Central avenue.
Miss Ethel Roberts has returned from
Shelbyville, where she has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. E. E. Stroupe.
The Euchre Club was entertained last
night by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles M. Cross at
their home on Washington street.
Miss Adelaide Smith, of Fountaintown
Ind, is visiting college friends. Miss Smith
is an ex-member of the class of 1900.
Mrs John A. Thompson, who has been
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs E. c. Thompson
has returned to her home in Edinburg.
Miss Eta Story has returned to her home
in Lafayette after a week spent with
friends In Irvington and indianapolis.
Mr.. E. S. Ames has gone to South Bend
returning. home he will go to Chicago for
short visit.
Miss Evelyn Jeffries and Miss Pearl
Jeifries will go to Milton, Ind, on Wednes-
day to spend several days with Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Hall.
Miss Verna Richey and Mr.. Hunter
Richey have issued invitations for a party
to be given at their home on Downey ave-
nue. Wednesday evening.
Mrs. DR.. Cravens will entertain a num-
Der of young people with masquerade
party on Tuesday evening, Nov 3d. for her
son, Master Junius Cravens.
Miss Beryl Showers entertained num-
at her home on Pratt street yesterday
afternoon from till O'Clock.
The Pi Beta Phis were entertained in
formally on Monday night at the home of
Miss Gertrude McCollum. Miss Lena Ran
dali, of the sophomore class, was initiated
into the fraternity during the evening.
The Tuesday Club met last week with
Mrs. James Braden. The programme con-
sisted of two papers, one on THE Four
Georges" by Mrs. Powell, and one on
Napoleon and Wellington" by Mrs. Mary
Callxins. The conversation was led by Mrs.
Cross and Mrs. Kingsbury.
Mrs. /. N. Watts, who has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. E. f. Tibbott, on Grand
avenue, will return to her home tomorrow
Mrs Addington and children who have
been guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Tibbott dur
ing the quarantine in the South, will also
go to Winchester tomorrow for visit be-
fore leaving for their home in New Orleans
Guests day was observed by the Irving
ton Woman's Club on Monday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. r. c. Browning on Wash
ington street. Miss Nina Merrill read her
PAPER recently read before the Katherine
Merrill Club. The house was decorated
with carnations, the club flower, and Mrs
Browning was assisted in entertaining by
Mrs Hilton Brown, Mrs Baker Mrs. Barn
hill and Miss Braden.
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Dieting Sick EsIximos.
New York Commercial Advertiser.


When Lieutenant Peary's six Eskimos
were taken to Bellevue Hospital the author
tiles there anticipated some trouble with
them, owing to their peculiar tastes in the
matter of diet. They have been agreeably
disappointed in this respect, however. The
Eskimos are easy to cater for, and as a
matter of fact, are useful in that they pre-
fer food which to other patients would be
unpaatabe. No civilized being could digest
the food that the denizens of the frozen
north consider deicacies. A dinner for in
stance, of raw fish, rancid butter very
tough and almost rare meat, with a plenti-
full supply of sweet oil, would be apt to
upset a stronger appetite than that of a
hospital patient: but to the Eskimos it is
as Delmonico menu. The six funny look
ing little persons in Bellevue Hospital are
need be nothing wasted while they are
about
Before they were removed to Bellevue
Hospital the EskinloS were accommodated
in temporary quarters on one of the upper
floors of the Museum of Natural History.
under the care of Superintendent Wallace.
1t was the intention of Lieutenant Peary
to have tepee or hut built, similar to the
kind in which they had been accustomed TO
live, and then to place them on exhibition.
A little more than week ago, however it
was discovered that they were suffering
from bronchitis, which, in the case of the
two eldest, subsequently developed into
pneumonia.