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after an examination thought the
trouble to be heart failure
The funeral will take place this even
ing at $50 o'clock from the home of
the deceased on Eustis avenue. \
short Episcopal service will be conduct
ed by Rev. Henry Morgan Stone rector
OF Trinity church and then the body
will be taken by boat to View York
and thence to Louisville. KY where 1t
VIII be buried beside the remains of
Mrs. Eustis.
lJames BiddeTI Eustis was born in New
orleans. La in 1894 His mother was
Louisianian- but his father came from New
England. After being graduated from the
Harvard law school in 1861 Mr. Eustfs prac-
tlced law in New Orleans until the civil
war. when he entered the confederate army
as Judge advocate. In 1876 he was elected
a United States senator He was reelected
IN 1888, and in 1898 was appointed by Pres
icene Cleveland as American minister and
later ambassador to France position ne
held more than four yearsI
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An UnknOwn Wan Climbs Over fine
Railing Of Brooklyn Bridge and
Leaps to- His D~ufh

New York, Sept I1--Midway between
the two great towers of the BROOKLYN
bridge Sunday morning man whose
name no one knows climbed over the
railing and went to his death in the
East river He turned over and over as
he fell, according to eyewitnesses whom
the police found, and struck upon his
back. The body sank. but reappeared
and was visible for a short time as the
flood tide. carried it up the river. The
bridge police have the mans hat, coat
and shoes. all telling of extreme pov-
erty, none of which furnish the slight
est cIew to his identity.
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LATER NEWS.

The transport Senator arrived at
Manila the 18th with 10 officers and
600 men.
The Boyden bottling works at Mason
City, TO-, was destroyed by fire.
The courtmartial that convicted
Dreyfus signed formal recommended
ton for mercy. Its object is to elimi-
nate the degradation feature of the
punishment.
Twelve members of the mob who
whipped Postmaster Cram, at Peck,
Fla, have been held to the federal
court for trial by the United States
commissioners.
coal train on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western dashed into the rear
end of a freight train just as it had
pulled out of a switch at Nayaug, Pa,
wrecking the caboose of the freight
and killing Joseph Parry and Patrick
Mullen, bralzemen.
Mrs. Paul Gilmore, wife of the we'll
known actor, died suddenly at Du-
buque, Iowa.
The season of the Western Baseball
League closed the 18th. Indianapolis
winning the pennant, with Minneapo-
lis second and Detroit third.
Senior Luis F. Corea was presented to
the president as the newly accredited
minister of Nicaragua.
The navy department. has decided to
assign Rear Admiral Norman H. Far
quar- to command the North Atlantic
squadron, to succeed Admiral Samp-
son, and to place the latter in COM
mand of the Boston navy yard.
A Hamilton, (O.) manufacturing firm
recently, shipped to Yokohama for
the, Japanese government equipment
for one of the finest paper mills in the
world. Japan has decided to make
her own paper.
Cramps ship building yards at Phila-
delphia resumed operations after hay
ing been closed from Sept. l. When
work was stopped at the plant, Charles
s. Cramp announced that the action
was taken in order ito give the veter-
ans attending the Grand Army en-
campment an opportunity Of inspect
ing the yard.
Fishermen returning from the La
brador coast reports great scarcity
of Goldfish.
Gen. Otis reports the Filipinos de-
feated in several minor engagements
Rev. 0. H. Sproul fell dead in the
pulpit while delivering a sermon at
Orthville. S. D.
In prize fight at Denver between
Kid Parker and Frank BARLEY, the
latter had his jaw broken.
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Near Columbia, s. g, q freight train
went through trestle, killing Engi-
neer Weatherly, Fireman Rennick and
two other men.
FoREIGN IN,g,TI,ElE;;LlLIGENCE.

[ Z 80
In Spain six of the leading CONNER
cial bodies have accepted theinvitation
to send delegates to the international
commerce congress in Philadelphia on
October TO-. '-~
In storm in the Gulf of st. Law
renee hundreds of fishing boats were
wrecked and over dozen lives were
lost. ta1s
In an interview Montague White, the
consul general of the South African re-
public in London, said that Queen Vic
toria would not permit war with the
Transvaal. \: ,tf.. So
For term of four years Eduardo
Romano has been inaugurated presi-
dent of the republic Of Peru. ~
At Gibraltar Admiral Dewey inspect
ed the United States training ships Sar-
atoga and Alliance and was loudly
cheered. ~.
Advices from Pretoria represent
President Kruger as prepared to rec
ognize Great Britain's suzerainty in the
Transvaal.
With Admiral Dewey the United
States cruiser Olympia sailed from Glib
raltar for New York.
At Rennes Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, ac-
cused of high treason to the republic
OF France and convicted by the court.
martial of 1894, has been condemned
again by the court-martial of 1899 to
ten years. imprisonment.
Filipinos attacked Santa Rita, and
simultaneously Guagua and San An
tonic were attacked by bodies of reb-
els numbering about GO men. All the
attacks were repulseG without loss to
the Americans.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

Flames at Marble Rock, Ia, destroyed
six business blocks and contents.
Robert Myers and Spencer Bromfeld
were killed and George Adler and John
Griest fatally injured by lightning on
the fair grounds at Camargo, III.
In Omaha Ned Copeland, for years re-
ceiving teller of the Nebraska national
bank, was accused of embezzling $1O,-
900.
In Centralia, Mo-, fire destroyed 16
buildings, including o. G. Byram's liv-
cry stable, where 70 horses and so bug
gies were burned.
Bankers association elected as presi-
dent Walker Hill. of St. Louis.
For $2.50o,00O cash an English syndi-
cate has purchased the properties of the
Big Five Mining company at Ward, Col.
Fire damaged the plant of the Shelby
Steel Tube company in Shelby, o., to
the extent of 100000.
Fred Hamilton, Clarence Hardesty
and Eliza Powers lost their lives in
mine near Fairmont, w. Va, by pow
der explosion.
Fire destroyed St. Xavier's academy
and the Sisters of Mercy convent at Of
tawa, ILL.,, the inmates, 60 sisters and
pupils, escaping in their night clothes.
Henry Fry killed in St. Louis William
c. Pape, general superintendent of
parks, because he was refused a ped
dler's license, and then killed himself.
Illinois attorney general says that
the treatment of disease without med
icine by Christian scientists is not an
| offense under the state criminal code.
In Key West, Fla, the number of
yellow fever cases is above the 100 mark.
Flames destroyed the stove foundry
of Bridgeford 6; Co., and the Phoenix
Canning company's works in Louisville,
Ky, causing loss of $250,0O0.
In the bay at Quincy, Ill.,, a boat was
overturned and two women and one
man were drowned.
In Des Moines the funeral of Samuel
Merrill, governor of Iowa from 1868 to
1872, was held. - ..-:@
Lieut.. Gov. Asa w. Jones of Ohio
| was elected commander in chief at the
| national cncampment in Detroit of the
Sons of Veterans and Syracuse, N. Y.
was selected as the meeting place next
year. =
At Cachise, Ariz., four masked men
held up Southern Pacific train, blew
open Wells, Fargo & Co.'s through
money safe and secured probably
$4,000.
While preaching Rev. O. II. Sproul,
presiding elder of the Methodist church
for the Aberdeen district, died at North
vile, S. D., Ss2.
In Detroit the annual reunion Of the
Society of the Army Of the Cumberland
will be held September 1927. *.s.
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IF YOU WOULD BE POPULAR

Don't find fault.
Don't contradict people, even though
you're sure you are right.
Don't be inquisitive about the affairs
OF even your most intimate friend.
Don't underrate anything because
you don't possess it.
Don't believe that everybody else in
the world is happier than you.
Don't conclude that you have never
had any opportunities in your life.
Don't repeat gossip, even if it does in
terest a crowd. -.-
Don't be rude to your Interiors in So
cial position.
Don't express a positive opinion un-
less you perfectly understand what YOU
are talking about.
Don't jeer at anybody's religious be-
lief.
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ANTITRUST CONVENTION.
'ather'ng OF Governors and Aft0r-
neys General to he Held i'm st.
Louis, September 70,

Austin, Tex, Sept. 1.-THE antitrust
convention OF governors and attorneys
general, called by Gov. Sayres to meet
in st. Louis, will convene there on Sep
TENDER 20. Gov. Sayres and a number
of state politicians who intend being in
attendance as spectators will leave here
Saturday night. September Is, for st.
Louis. 1t can he stated authoritativeIv
that no programme of arrangement as
to who will speak or what will be the
policy of the meeting has been mapped
out. Up the present time Gov. sayres
has not received single letter from any
governor evincing a desire to outline
any policy in advance. or announcing
that he proposed to make speech upon
that occasion.
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TIE EAST.

After the election of Col. Albert D.
Shaw, of Watertown, N. Y, commander
in-chief, the thirtythird national en-
campment of the Grand Army of the
Republic came to an end in Philadel-
phia.
At least 10000 persons attended the
opening of the eleventh annual session
of the Western Pennsylvania EXPOSE
ton society in Pittsburgh.
At the age of 50 years Rear Admiral
Henry T. Picking, commander of the
Charleston (Mass.) navy yard, died sud-
denly of heart disease.
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the Sth aggregated
$1,370, 706,s61, against 81, 443, 564.Ss7 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1898
was 800.
In the United States there were 1872
business failures in the seven days end
ed on the Sth, against 131 the week
period of 1898.
In HlmllcO sound the schooner Gen.
Hardcastle, of Baltimore, was wrecked
and Capt. Todd, his son and crew of six
men were lost.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the 10th were: Brooklyn,
1914; Philadelphia, 1874; Boston. GOT;
Baltimore, .592; St. Louis, .563; Cincin-
natl, 1858; Chicago, SIG; Pittsburgh.
500; Louisville. .455; New York, AIS;
Washington, .347; Cleveland, Jas:
Mrs. Mary Gallagher, aged a5, poi
soned herself and her three children
with laudanum at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mrs. Gallagher and her four-months-
old baby are dead.
At the age of 65 James B. Eustis, of
New York, ambassador to France dur
ing the second Cleveland administra-
ton and formerly United States SEN
ator from Louisiana, died at Newport,
r. I.
The famous PAGER Joe Patchen was
sold by II. Y. Halves, of Johnstown,
Pa, to Senator Mccarthy, of Goshen,
N. Y, for over $4,000.
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A WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings Of q
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS or TIE UNION
All tho Latest News Of Interest from
Washington, From tho East, the ;
v West and the South.
TILE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
a.. a.~ ,=E itass 81
FROM WASHINGTON.

On the night of October 2 Admiral
Dewey will be given his real home-com-
ing welcome at Washington.
Secretary Root reported plans at the
cabinet meeting in Washington for
sending large force to the philippines
as soon as the rainy season should end.
An order has been issued by the
war department for the enlistment of
two additional regiments of volunteer
infantry to be composed of negroes.
This will provide for military force
of nearly $4,000 men for service in the
Philippines.
The war department sent instruc-
tons to Maj. Gen. Otis to provide for
the full cooperation of the navy in the
coming campaign in the Philippines.
In statement showing the contribu-
tons of the various states and terri
tories to the volunteer army Adjt. Gen.
Corbin says Georgia has furnished more
volunteers than any other state in the
country.
Reports from the war department
show wonderful increase in commerce
between the United States and it's new
possessions in the last seven months.
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Pretoria, Sept. 1.-THE News prints
an official statement from r. w. Reitz,
secretary of state of the South African
republic, in which Mr.. Reitz says:
The government considers that three
courses are disclosed by the communica-
lions Of Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, the Brit
ish secretary Of state for the colonies. The
first Is joint commission Of inquiry; the
second is q commission Of delegates from
both governments to discuss technfcaIities,
and the third il q conference at Cape
Town."
Secretary Reitz adds that the Trans
vaal government now agrees to the
second proposition and invites Great
Britain to define the constitution of the
commission suggested and the place of
meeting.
Pretoria, Sept. lin the course of
an interview State Attorney SHUTS said
that the Transvaal, having withdrawn
its offer of a five years franchise, the
condition thereto attached-namefy:
the REIMBURSEMENT of suzerainty-aIso
falls to the ground. He understands
the TransvaaI's last dispatch as an ac-
ceptance of the proposal for joint
commission of inquiry. "The Trans
vaal," he said, lis anxious to termi-
nate the tension existing, because trade
is stagnant and the country is being
ruined. Hence the Transvaa1 has a
greater interest than has the British
government in bringing about settle
ment." He declared that he fully be-
lieved the British government desired
% peaceful solution of the difficulty, and
expressed the opinion that the Trans
vaafs last dispatch would further that
end.
London, Sept. lit is understood
that Gen. Sir Redvers Butler will start
for Cape Town next Saturday. The
Indian authorities are charterins
steamers to transport troops to South
Africa as rapidly as possible. Although
the aspect of affairs is more peaceful.
the special dispatches from Johannes
burg report the greatest anxiety there.
Fifteen hundred people left the town
On Saturday. and ii is proposed to trans
fer the business of the stock exchange
to Cape Town. The johannesburg town
council is appealing to the government
for power to start relief works to meet
the exceptional distress.
A dispatch from Bloemfontein re-
ports the distribution of arms and a con-
siderable exodus to Cape Colony. Ac-
cording to this correspondent. the Beers
are massing on the frontiers and there
is no abatement of war preparations in
the Transvaal.
London, Sept. 1.-THE troops going
to South Africa as the result of the
decision of the cabinet council to send
10000 soldiers there. will proceed to
Natal, bringing the total number of men
in that colony up to $4,000. Reinforce
ments numbering 5000 men will be
drawn from India.
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From Arctic Rexfow~

Brigus, N. F., Sept. 1.-THE Peary-
Harmsworth steamer Windward, Capt.
John Bartlett, from Etah, North Green
land, August 26, arrived here Sunday,
reporting all well on board. She will be
followed in week by the Peary Arctic
clubs steamer Diana, Capt. Samuel ".
Bartlett, also from Etah. The Wind
ward reports that all on board the Di-
ana were well at the time the vessels
separated. Lieut.. Peary and the sIedee
parties were in the field almost con-
tinuously from October, 1898, to August
of this year, and have effected an ex-
traordinary amount of important worL
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There are 400 George Deweys in New
York city. Every one of these babies
has been named for the hero of Manila
bay. No other American, with the pos
sible exception of George Washington,
has been SO universally recognized by
having babies named for him as Adj
miral Dewey. At one time the merry
game went on at the rate of ten day.
There are no distinctions Rich and
influential parents apparently have as
great delight in honorirg Dewey as the
poor sands funlznown.s Many girls have
been named Georgiana Dewey, and a
few have been called Dewiana.
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yer get enough.

A New York lawyer has been in
formed by a decision Of the supreme
court that he must pay his wife's dress
maker for making silk dress, for
which he insisted his wife alone was
liable, on the ground that he provided
his wife with a weekly allowance, be-
sides paying the household expenses.
The presiding justice said that notwith-
standing the statutes which allow a
married woman to make contracts, etc.,
as if she were unmarried, the husband
was liable for such articles as she might
purchase for herself, if they were suit
able to her husbands means.
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Benson, A. r. Sept. 1f--Four masked
men held up soufhern Pacific train yo-.
10, west-bound, at Cachixe station
shortly before nidnigHt, blew open
Wells, Fargo & Cos througf-money
safe with dynamite. took the treasure
it contained and escaped 70 the noun
tains. The robbery was the boIdess
of all the famous train robberies of
The west Not shot was fred and
no one received the slightest injury.
Cachise station is lonely place ON
the alItaIi fiat. ten miles west of VIII
cox. and SO miles west of Henson The
station. freight house and section
house form the only relief 80 fine mo-
notony Of vast rolling plain Just
as the train stopped at the station
the four masked men appeared One
mounted the engine cab and covered
Engineer Richardson with a revolver.
while two stood guard Mt the side door
of the express ear. The fourth guarsi-
ed the coaches and sIeepers from a
point at the rear of the express ear.
One of the two men that stoo,s at the
door of the express ear jumped aboard
and ordered Hands up He then fold
Express Messenger Adafr 70 leave the
ear. As Adafr jumped to- the ground
the other bandit searched him for Hrms-
In hip pocket he found SIS
That's my private property said
Adair.
"You may have IT.. TIE don't want your
money said the bandit.
The man at the rear of the ear M
coupled IT. and at a signal the en-
gineer was ordered 20 pull out. The ex-
press care was taken westward mile
or more. then the throuyh-express safe
was thrown ont to the ground and
blown open by dynamite All bills and
gold were taken. Messenger Adafr re-
fused TO say how much the safe cor
tanned. but it is estimated that the sum
was exceedingly large One railroad
man expressed the opinion that the
strong Dox might nave contained close
to $40 900. Several thousand silver dol
lars in the car were untouched by the
robbers. None of the passengers were
moIested- After the contents of the
safe had been taken care Of the uu-
known quartette allowed Engineer
Richardson to run back to the train
Then they disappeared on foot TO 4
point where their horses were tethersd
and rode away.
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The editor Of the first American news
paper published in Cuba recently re-
turned from Havana To a friend he
told an amusing story of his trials at
gathering u competent staff of news
paper writers. This is specimen of
Cuban reporting" "A man killed a
dog belonging to another man. The son
ofs~sthe man whose dog was killed pro-
ceeded to whip the man who killed the
dog of the man he was the son of. The
man who was the son of the man whose
dog was killed was arrested on COM
plant of the man whose dog the man
who was assaulted had killed.
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The new factory law passed by the
legislature of New York has gone into
effect. 1t cuts the ground from under
the sweatshops by prohibiting the man
ufacture of any kind of merchandise in
tenements or residences without IL
cense from the factory inspector. This
is very important reform, not only for
those who work in clothing factories,
but for the general public that buys,
among it's wares, many that come from
dark and unclean garrets and cellars.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-09-15

Everything in Iaris is now antomo~
bile, and the vehicle is used for many
purposes for which it is at present I'M
known in this country. For some two
months past an automobile hose wagon
has been in use by the Paris fire depart
ment. The machine with it's equipment
weighs over three tons and runs at an
average rate of Is miles an hour. The
department is having fire engine and a
ladder truck constructed, and it is be-
lieved it will soon be entirely ''horse-
less"
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Having read in the Bible that pas
sage which says: "Out of the stem of
Jesse there shall come forth branch"
John B. Branch, of Waterville, Me-, now
asserts that he is the Messiah and is to
effect the evangelization of the world
in ten years. He already has rs follow
ers, who were baptized secretly because
of threats of riding him on rail.
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EX-Speaker Reed, who has resigned

Ex-Speaker Reed, who has resigned
his position in congress and gone to
New York city to practice law, is 60
years old, having been born in 1889. He
has been continuously in politics since
1860, serving without interruption in
congress for % years of that time, and
having been last year elected for anoth-
er term. He says he has had enough Of
politics, and in this alone he shows
that he is great man, for few men who
have been in the political arena as long
as he ever get enough.
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A Boston electrician says that the
days of the underground wrought and
cast iron gas, water and steam pipes are
about numbered, and he ventures the
opinion that within seven years nothing
will be used for underground piping
except glass pipes. He says that cleo
trolysis is playing hob with the kind
of pipe now used, and that there will
soon come a time when every city in the
country will be suffering from bursting
mains of all sorts.
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Four thousand of the Smith family
held reunion at Peapack, N. j., the
other day. All of them trace their an
cestry to a certain John Smith, who
came to that part of the country as
boy 100 years ago. Whether he was
relative of John Smith of the Pocahon-
tas love affair is not known.
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If Miss Helen Gould were to appear
in public decorated with all the badges
and medals she has received since the
beginning of the Spanish-American war
she would rival the commander of the
German army on gala day.
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JAMES B. EUsTIs rs DEAD.
E'S-A M bnssador to- France Expires
Of Pnnemsnfa af ye-~-
port. r. r.

Newport r. T. Sept Thames B.
Eustis- ambassador TO France during
the second Cleveland administration
and formerly senator from Louisiana.
died at his summer home in this city at
eight O'Clock Saturday night of pneu-
monia. Mr.. Eustis was taken I'LL on
Wednesday, but the local physician
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Must He Buried IN Mex,~c

New York, Sept. flowing to the
laws OF Mexico prohibiting the removal
of bodies from that country until two
years after death, the body OF Frank
Ives. the former champion billiard play
er, who died at Progresso, cannot be
brought here for burial Mrs. Ives saws
that at the expiration Of two years she
Will have the body exhumed and
brought to this country.
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The main artery in the leg of a Ne
braska boy serving in the Philippine
Islands was severed by mauser bull
let and it's usefulness destroyed, yet
the man will have good limb when nc
gets well, SO perfect is the collateral
circulation.