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The Penn's Grove record., 1899-05-05
Tb.yaIos ofa Maux Cat.

A comedy young woman brousnS,
suit in the Seventh District ClVll
Court, New York City, recently 10,
$50, the value of a cat which she salu
had been lost at the cat show. ING
defendant was the secretary OF n OF
the associations among the exhibitors
at the show.
"was this a Kilkenny cat?' asked
the Justice.
ooh, no." replied the fair plaintiff
''Tt was a different kind. Mime was q
Manx. 1t had no tail and its naiHe
was Zenda."
"Whatl no tail?" said the judge in a
surprised tone.
"No, they are born without tails
The defendant said that it was a
rule of the association that it was no'
responsible for the loss of cats.
Eyes, you are, too, said the young
lady Indignantly. "You had posses
sion of it,"
Then the secretary called a witness
who was supposed to be an expert on
cats. He said that ''no cat living is
worth $40"
"Well now I think you are wrong
about that" said the Justice. 1--WE
got a Tom up in myplace in the u
try that you couldn't have for $50
He had saved me more than that from
destruction by rats"
The plaintiff got judgment for the
iull amount,
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IMPORTANT INSURANCE DECISION.
New York Judges Hold That Surplus
Funds Belong to the Insured.

New York Judges Hold That Surplus
Funds Belong to the Insured.
New YORK CRY (Special).-Judge Wood
ward, in the Appellate Division of the SUI
preme Court in the Second Department.
has handed Town a decision 10 favor OF
Emil Greeff, who brought suit against the
Equitable Life Assurance Society. This
decision, If it stands, will result in almost
q revolution in the conduct of life insur-
ance business in this State. 1t is not the
unanimous opinion of the court, for Justice
Goodrich filed a dissenting opinion.
The decision maintains that the holder of
an endowment policy must receive his pro
rata share of all the net earnings Of the
company in which he is insured; that the
directors cannot, at will, hoard large sur
pluses, although they may set aside a
proper part of the profits for the protection
Of policy holders. The surplus profits must
be paid over to the policy holders.
Greeff took out a policy in the Equitable
Company in 1882. The policy was what is
known as an endowment policy, to mature
In fifteen years. 1t matnred in May. 1897.
Greeff's policy was for $40 900. When 1t
became due in 1897 the company paid the
face of the policy, together with s3932 as
Greeff's share of the surplus.
Greeff demanded S70S7.3S additional,
which he holds is due him under the pro-
visions of his contract that he should
participate in the net surplus OF the com
pany. He says that the amounts Of the
surplus announced by the company from
1882 to 1896 inclusive showed a net surplus
OF $40, 277, 179, of which his share should
have been S7OS7. 80 more than he received.
or $11 ,019.3S in all. He was awarded the
full amount demanded.
The company has 10000 policy holders,
and if Greef'sjudgment is sustained, all of
the other policy holders may demand their
share of the company's surplus to an
amount in proportion to their policies and
the premiums they hare paid.
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Attempts are being made In Cuba to oh.
tain reform in the prevailing system Of
marriages.
Italy has decided not to purchase more
warships until the consideration OF the
naval estimates.
Large and valuable copper lodges have
heen discovered near Mount Rainier. in
Washington state.
Special courses of lectures on r%allroadlpc
as a science will be delivered in Berlin and
Breslau, Germany, during the summer.
e. woman in Greensboro, N. c., has won
a suit against a water company because
there was no water in the %stand-pipe when
her home took fire, thus rendering the
liremen powerless.
The Dawson City judiciary is reported
to be imprlsoning people for debt under
the old English master and servant act.
A school for instruction in the system nj,
wireless telegraph Is to be established I'm
London. The Board of Trade is interested
in the project.
The New Jersey State Military Board has
determined upon the style OF uniform FOL,
the recognized National Guard. 1t Is the
same as that used by the regular army
with the regulation army hat and cap.
Judge G. D. CLARK, in the United stataa
Court at Chattanooga, Tenn, has decided
the State-line controversy between Tenues.
see and Virginia in favor OF Tennessee
putting about 5000 acres OF land from
Virginia into Tennessee and North Care,
lima.
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Education in Russia,

Mach progress is being made in
these days in educational matters in
Russia. A university, which is open
to all classes, was recently established
in Odessa, and a report, Just issued,
shows that it is a pronounced success,
Popular lectures have been delivered
on history, geography, chemistry,
geology, physics, literature and other
subjects, and they have been attended
by 1850 students.
The lectures on literature proved
most attractive, the number OF stu
dents attending them being S14, while
those on geology attracted only Alb
students. Most of the students come
from the State schools, and the others
received their early education at
home. Of the entire number more
than a thousand belong to the labor
ing class. A similar university has
been opened in Moscow, but has not
proved as successful, and apparently
for the reason that certain unpopular
restrictions are imposed on the stu
dents.
A third university of the same kind
will be established in st. Petersburg
at an early date. In taking this step
the Russian authorities are following
the example of England, which has
had popular schools and colleges for
several yea rs.-New York Herald.
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COURTS HELP STRIKERS
Arkansas Judges Restrain the Rail.
roads From Importing Miners.


LITTLE Rock, Ark. (speciaD.-Goyerno,
Jones keeps in close communication with
Prosecuting Attorney johnson, of Fort
smith, on the situation in the coal mines
of Western Arkansas, and the entire mower
Of the State will be invoked by the Cover.
nor II necessary to enforce the Injunction
issued by Circuit Judge Rowe, restraining
the railroads from bringing into this state
men Intended to take the place of the
locked-out coal miners. The Governor has
Instructed the Sebastian County author
tiles to spare no Efforts in enforcing Judge
Rowe's injunction.
The Governor has teen informed OF sus.
pected movements to send armed men Into
the mining districts to take the strikers
places, and he has given Instructions to
Sheriff Harrell, of Sebastian, to meet all
such persons at the State line and promptly
place them under arrest. He tells Sheriff
Harrell to summon every able-bodied man
In Sebastian County, II necessary, to en-
force the order Of Judge Rowe. Governor
Jones says II the situation warrants 1t he
will go to the scene in person and direct
the carrying out OF the courts order,
which, he believes, Is the only way by
which riot and bloodshed can be avoided.
The Governors present advices are that
The situation is well in hand, but that the
authorities are keeping q sharp lookout in
order to checkmate any movement to de-
feat Judge Rowe's order. As yet there has
been no direct conflict bet ween the Federal
and State authorities, though there ap-
pears to be a full supply Of Deputy United
states Marshals on hand ready to carry out
the orders of Federal Judge Rogers, which
are in conflict with the injunction granted
by Judge Rowe, Of the State court.
Governor Jones's plan is to arrest not
only those who come into the State in vlo-
lation OF Judge ROwe's order, but also those
Who furnish arms to the invading men.
The Governor told one Of the largest mine
operators that be, too, would be arrested
II he attempted to defy the authority of the
State by bringing into the State men to
take the places of the miners.
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The Scottish American has a story
of a north country servant girl, who
was living with an English family in
the neighborhood of Oxford.
One wet day she happened to step
into a heap of mire, and returned
home with her clothes much solled.
"What have you been doing?" asked
her mistress.
"Oh," said she, az stepped into a
humplock Of glaur."
"And what's glaur?'
"Just clairts,' said the girl.
"But what's elairts?"
cts iustTclabber."
"But, dear mel What is clabber?"
"Clabber is drookit stour."
"But what is drookit stour?" in
sisted the amazed lady.
"Weel, weel," said the girl, Gave
nae patience wi ye ava. Ye sud ken
as weel as me, it's just wat dirt"
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HEAkTHFUK
OLD AGE

tIeS, was cured OF ooth
l am now enjoying good
Id feel very grateful for
good your medicine has
9 me. 1would
} all women suffering as /
was"
Mrs. N. E. LACEY,
Pearl, La, writes:
"Ihave hsdleucerrhoa
for about twenty years,
falling of womb by spells
for ten years. and my
bladder was affected, had
backachs a great deal.
/ tried a number of
doctors. They would re.
lieve me for a little
A while. then l would be
@worse than ever. |
then thought l wculd
Z try Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Eleven bottles of Com
pound and one box of
Liver Pills cured me
and I am nnw so,,d
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TROUBLE IN NICARAGUA
Prosecutions Of American Citizens by
the Government Must Stop
FORCE TO BE USED, IF NEEDED

State Department Holds That Merchants
Are Right in Refusing to Pay Duties
TwIee-Slcaragua Must Do Justice to
American Citizens or she VIII Be
Made To-Cruiser Detroit There
wAsu1Sarox, D. G. tspecial).-The State
Department holds that American citizens
In Nicaragua are Justified in refusing to pay
again customs dues to General Torres, the
~Nicaraguan commander at Bluefeids, on
goods on which they have already paid
juty to General Reyes when he was the
representative Of the de facto government
The attitude of General Torres In emand-
Ing that they pay again to the heiaya Gov
srnment customs dues paid once In full to
General Reeves is held by the State Depart
ment to represent not the attitude OF an
Individual, but OF the Government.
Therefore, it is not within the range OF
diplomacy for the United States to de-
mand the removal of General Torres, for
that would not abate the obnoxious tax
demands or remove the cause OF the threat
ened clash, The demands OF Torres are
inspirited by official orders OF the Govern
ment of Nicaragua.
Having affirmed the correctness OF the
p~osition maintained by American citizens
at Bluenelds, and, shown that the Govern
ment Of Nicaragua is officially involved,
the State Department is prepared to sus-
tain its citizens, even II the result means
war with Nicaragua.
The statement that Minister Merry and
Captain Dayton have ample discretion to
use force II necessary in protecting Ameri-
can interests was made by high depart
mental authority, but this was coupled
with the general order that until drastic
measures shall become necessary the mat
ter will he left to the State Departments OF
the respective Governments to settle.
The outcome depends entirely upon the
American merchants, who are threatened
with Imprisonment and confscation OF their
goods unless they pay the double duty de-
mauded by Nicaragua. If they refuse to
pay, all the force of the American Govern
ment will be exerted to protect them, to
prevent the seizure OF their property and
their Imprisonment by Nicaraguan oficials.
Additional ships will be sent unless the
atmosphere clears. The Administration has
reason to believe that there will be trouble
in both Nicaragua and Honduras unless
these little Governments are given u con-
yincing instance OF the fact that the United
States will not tolerate violations of the
rights OF its citizens.
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OUR PARIS EXPOSITION SITE.
Commissioner Peck Takes Possession and
Raises the stars and stripes.

PARIS (By Cable).-Mr. Ferdinand W
Peck, United States Commissions General
to the Paris Exposition, took formal posses
sion a few days ago of the American site in
the exposition grounds. which is close to the
Invalides bridge. NJ. Picard, the French
Commissioner General Of the exposi-
ton, formally made over the site,
Commissioner Peck was accompanied
by his associate Commissioner.
Professor Woodward. A staff OF French
and American architects examined the
plans, after which the minutes were read
and the transfer was completed. The site
is an excellent one, and extends 25X25
metres. British Commissioner Spearman
was present Mt the transfer.
Four American flags are flying from the
corners of the American site, which Is
hanked by the Turkish and Austrian sit es.
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"Some months ago." says the Kan
sas City journal, professor L. t.
Weeks, of Southwest College, wrote a
poem which he thought was all right,
and which he offered the Century
Magazine for publication. His wife,
Ida Aheborn Weeks, made fun of his
literary aspirations, and kept telling
him about the fall which lay in wait
for his vanity. In due time, however,
an acceptance came from the maya
zine, accompanied by a check for $40,
and then that man began to lord it
over the oma Finally she got
mad, and declared that she could write
better poetry than he with one hand
tied behind her, and to prove it she
indited a piece and sent it to the Cen
fury. Almost at once she got back an
acceptance, accompanied bya check
for $40, and now she is making life
such a burden for her ten-dollar hus-
band that he doesn't know what to do"
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q RELIGION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
hi Decline of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the State.

Statistics OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church in New Hampshire show a decline
in the fortunes Of that denomination In the
State, and to that extent bear out the state
ments in Governor Rollins's Fast-Day pro-
clamation as to II lessening of religious
fervorin the Granite State. Compared with
the returns Of the previous year, the figures
show an increase OF only f%fty-three church
members for the entire State, an actual de-
crease Of eight In local preachers, and Il
decrease OF child baptisms of thtrty-three,
and of 292 in adult baptisms. Sunday
school officers and teachers have decreased
thirty-six, and the pupils 574. The average
Sunday-school attendance has fallen off
$50, the number Of pupils who are church
members has decreased $50, and the de-
crease in Sunday-school converts has been
247, which is larger than the actual num-
Der of such converts, 246. The churches
have paid S7s6 less for the support of pas.
tors, presiding elders, and bishops, 1904
less for current expenses, 1882 less for sun
day-school expenses, 5000 less for missions,
and 5000 less for other benevolenees.
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BLOW TO LEAD TRUST.
Court Declares 1t Cannot Collect Fol
Goods Sold In Missouri.

tOuIL DtNih1tN ~ ahA - 1oA
Goods Sold In Missouri.
ST. LOUIS, No. (speciaD Judges of the
Court of Appeals have unanimously decided
that Trusts, even If operating as corpora
lions duly chartered, cannot collect fol-
goods sold within the borders OF the State.
The Missouri Antitrust law, passed in
1891, is sustained as IN opinion by Judge
Henry Bond.
The case in point was that Of the National
Lead Company. known as the Lead Trust,
against the S. L. Grote Paint Company, of
this city, for $500 for goods furnished the
company by the corporation. The company
refused to pay on the ground that the lead
company was a Trust, and, therefore,
illegal under the Missouri law. In the st.
Louis County Court the lead company won
and Grote appealed.
Judge Bond held that the corporation
was professedly organized to acquire the
assets of its predecessor, the National
Lead Trust, an unlawful combination, and
it therefore had every facility possessed by
the Trust for controlling the entire bust
ness OF the country in the commodities in
which it dealt. Therefore, the corporation
was equally amendable with the Trust to
the provisions of the Antitrust law.
The debt is declared to be non-colleetible.
This decision means that any Missouri
merchant who buys from a Trust-and
there are hundreds Of them operating here
need not pay for his goods unless he
wants To.
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a CHARMING grandmother!
~ What a pleasant influence In th
ful old lady in good healthl

Mrs, MoLLIE BARBER, St. James
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Con
life, and have passed through that
critical period safely, l suffered for
years with falling of the womb and
female weakness. At times could
hardly stand on my feet, also had
leucorrhea. l tried several good
doctors, but instead of getting be
time, A friend advised me to try NJ
l did SO and after taking six bot
leucorrhea and falling of womb.
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A Kansas City mar who served in
the Civil War IS captain of a gunboat
believes that the Government owes him
SOL, 900 back pay. His name is J. T.
Weldon and he asserts hat he was
never mustered out of the navy,
thought he was sent home at the close
of the war. He claims that he was
SEN home to await orders, and that
he is still waiting. The captain had
his attention called to his claim by the
fact that a member of the Third Mis-
souri, Regiment was not mustered out
with the regiment and received full
pay till the error was corrected.
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A horse will live twenty-five days witt
out food, merely drinking water.

Americas greatest physicians have con-
quered La Grippe and Its after effects.
Their treatment has been thoroughly
tested In the hospitals of Europe and Of
this country, and is embodied in Dr.. Kay's
Lung Balm.
Rev. H.B. Dye, of Morrison. Iowa, writes:
"Mrs. Dye had a bad attack OF La Grippe
which settled on her lungs. She used DR..
Kay's Lung Balm, with most decided good
effects, which is a repetition of past ex-
perience with her. Nothing is so prompt
and positive In Its effects on her lungs"
You should write for free advice and a
copy OF DIR. Kay's Home Treatment, an
illustrated book of 116 pages of receipts,
etc. DR.. b. J. Kay Medical Co., Saratoga
Springs, N. Y.
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MURDERED A MILLIONAIRE.
Slayer Prepared His Reasons For the
Crime Before He Shot His Enemy.

Slayer Prepared His Reasons For the
Crime Before He Ii His Enemy.
New YoRK CITY Special james Neale
Plumb, formerly a well-known man about
town, shot and killed Alexander Masterton,
a retired banker Of ~Bronxvl!le, at the Bur
ington apartment house, in Thlrtieth
street. Plumb, who is tlfty-lve years old,
went to meet Masterton, who is seventy
two years OF age, with the deliberate In
tention Of killing him. He took with him a
small handbag containing several rolls OF
typewritten documents in which he told
why he was going to kill Masterton. All of
these papers were turned over to the po-
lice, who made the contents public.
Briefly, Plumb accuses the dead man of
separating him from his children. Undue
ing one daughter to sue him for an ac-
counting of her mothers estate and an
other to sue for his removal as her guar
dian, and of conspiring in other ways to
ruin him. Plumb had regarded Mr.. Mas
terton as his enemy for thirty-lve years.
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FOLLOWED HIS FRIEND IN SUICIDE.
Bates Heard That Harry Had Killed Him
self and Did Likewise.

ERIE, Penn. (speciaD Edmund Harty
and Norman Bates, friends and fellow office
men at the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern offices, are dead as the result OF shoot
Ing with suicidal intent. Harty had been
suffering from stomach troubles for some
time. After eating his dinner a few days
ago he had an attack of pain. Selling his
baby boys be caressed them and then rush
ing TO the basement shot himself to death.
Wben the news reached his friend Bates
the latter expressed great sympathy for
the suicide. He himself bad recently re-
turned from an insane asylum, and In dis
cussing Harty's death with his mother ex-
pressed the wish that he was with MS
friend. A few moments later he went to
bis room and killed himself.
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The young Americans in the city oil
Durango, Mexico. AVE announced that
they will give a bull fight on the great
holiday Of Mexico, with Americans MS the
cuadrillas. This has excited earnest pro-
tests from the missionary clergy there, who
regret that their fellow countrymen should,
not content with attending bull fights, now
begin to fight bulls themselves.
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A thunderstorm passed over the resiou
around Cumberland, Md, q few days ago
and three ,rackm.b were siilel " hsn
ming, A gang Of men vas thBnso nmmt,
nins, Killing Ii. ". Frall.S and g. n. Lewis
instantly, sud so tadly inlgr'ni H. wsa
Lewis tina. h, has sine tisd nv "'"
arc all married. and liv.d a. Oakland.
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A. Rabinoff, a native of Russia and
a lawyer of Chicago, owns a copy Of
the terrible "Code of Alexis" pro
mulgated by the early Romanoffs over
two hundred years ago. This is said
to be the only genuine copy extant
outside OF Russia, where it is very
rare.
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A Polish sehoolmaster, S~zcepanik
by name, claims to have invented an
electrical device which u~tilizes a beam
of light to explode bombshells, He
is also alleged to have perfected an in.
strument by means of which objects
at a considerable distance can be seen,
tinted with their natural %colors.
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FIERCE FIGHT WITH BANDITS.
Four Cuban Outlaws Killed While Seek
ing to Release Their Chief.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA (By cable).-At May
ari, in this province, between Holguin n
sagua de Tanamo, an attempt was made
by four outlaws to rescue the bandit CHIEF
Miguel Gonzales and five other bandits In
the custody OF the rural guards.
The sentinel who detected the attempt
ared, wounding one of the outlaws Ihe
guards rushed to the assistance OF tue sen
be rescuers being killed. Two of the guards
were wounded. The prisoners nave since
been removed to Baracoa.
The efficient service Of the gendarmerle
Is rapidly restoring serenity In this prov
ince.
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womeN's HATS OFF IN CHURCH.
New Rule Adopted by Ohio Methodist
Congregntion.

The official board of the Broad Street
Methodist Episcopal Church at Columbus,
Ohio, one Of the most fashionable OF the
Columbus churches, and the one attended
by Governor Mckinley during his oe.
cupancy of the Gubernatorial chair, has
adopted a rule requiring women to remove
their hats during service. The new order
has gone into effect. Some OF the members
raised objections, on the ground that no
place is provided for hats, and urged that
1t would be inconvenient to comply with
the rules of the church and hold their head
gear at the same time. The ushers are in
structed to request any woman d~lsobeying
the order to remove her hat, This Isl the
first Methodist church in Ohio to join In the
movement for the removal of hats.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-05-05

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar.
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm.
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, ~blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, Csc, SOC.
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Tho sultan has authorized Mr. oscar D.
straus, the American Minister ut oonstan'
tinople, Turkey, to telegraph to President ho
Mckinley Turkeys promise to ray tne
500, 900 claimed by Americans Tor tue ue
struction OF property in 1879
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Two men we're killed and several others
Injured by an explosion at the hehneoee
Fibre Pulp MIL. at Benton Eal'si Me- oI.
plosioa Of sulphuric acid gas in one oil tns
cookers" Charles skillins n Ea Miua
Truuworthy, who were near the machine
WcFO killed instantly.
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ITALIAN MINISTRY RESIGNS.


ROME (By Cablel.-Immediateiy after the
sitting OF the Chamber of Deputies was
called to order a few days & Premier
pelloux announced the resignation oil the
Cabinet. The members of the Extreme Lett
received the announcement with yells'
The Premier, amid great uproar, e1-
planned that the Cabinet found itseli IN.
equal to the responsibility Of wlthana" ,hs
resignation OF the Ministry, when, ne
said, had been accepted by the King