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ARE IN DIRE NEED OF HELP.
fictims of Hurricane Need Large
Food Supplies.
900 DEAD, 100, 900 DESTITUTE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Two dis
patches from Governor General Davis
Of Porto Rico, giving original details
IF the fearful havoc wrought by the
hurricane of last week, were received
1t the war department. yesterday.
They were mediately sent to Sec
:etary Root. who already has taken
measures for dispatching relief to
:he people of the island. The secre-
AIRY expects that the transport Nc
Pherson, with large quantity of rice
Ind beans, will leave New York to-
lay. and this will be followed by
other vessels as fast as arrang
IAN be made for sending supplies. He
thinks it is the duty of the govern
nent to make provision for feeding
5he people until the aid voluntarily
given by the citizens of the country
reaches them, and he will exhaust
every means at his disposal to this
end.
The following are the dispatches re-
.eived by the War department from
General Davis:
The true state of affairs throughout
the island is not yet known because
IF total destruction of all telegraphic
connections and great distinctions on
all roads. Not more than one-fourth
IF the towns have been heard from
but enough is known to warrant the
statement that one-ffth of the dwell
,ngs in the island are totally de-
stroyed and their owners without any
shelter whatever or any food beyond
what has been saved from the debris
The coffee crop and most of the trees
are ruined and thus reliance for sup
port is gone.
Fully one-third of the people sub
sist entirely on fruit and a small de-
gree on tubas All the former is
destroyed and much of the latter are
rotting in the ground A great many
thousands of cattle are drowned and
the debris carried down the rivers is
strewn over the ocean with the wreck
Of the storm and the dead bodies of
animals. The deaths from falling
walls and drowning will mum Der more
than thousand and may be several
times this number. The state of dis
tress is very great and when green
/! fruits saved from the debris are con-
sumed, the suffering will be very
great
Food of all kinds is needed, espe-
eially rice. beans and Goldfish, which
has been tina main support outside of
! fruit. Cheap cotton clothing is also
needed, for thousands rushed naked
from their dwellings at night when
The gale broke. Medicines are also
needed most pressingly, especially
4uinine and other simple medicines
estimate that at least 1000 tons of
food will be required weekly for sew
sral weeks.
While 1 have not yet full data. re-
peat the estimate that at least 100, 600
people arc homeless and destitute.
! General Davis second dispatch:
Further but still incomplete reports
confirm previous cable reports as con-
sentative
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
AGAIN THE ASSASSIN.
M. Labor, Dreyfus' Chief Counsel,
Shot Down on Way to Court
DOCTORS SAY He CANNOT LIVE

RENHEs, Aug. 1.-Two men am
pushed Maitre Labor, counsel for
Dreyfus, and one shot was fred.
hitting Labor in the back. NJ La
bori fell in the roadway. He is still
alive.
Maitre Labor left his house alone
for the court at about 6 o'clock this
morning.
His residence is situated in the sub
urbs of the town, about a quarter of
az hours walk from the Lycee, the
route being along a solitary road be-
side the river Vllaine. He had reached
a point half way on his journey
when two men who had evidently
been lying in wait for him, rushed out
of narrow lane and one of them
fred a single shot from a revolver.
The murderers were only couple of
yards behind their victim, and the
bullet struck Maitre Labor in the
back.
The wounded man uttered an ago
The murderers Immediately fed
through the lane from which they
had emerged and both escaped
At 1880 o'clock it was announced
that the bullet had entered the stom-
ach; that there was no outward bleed
ing and the physicians believe that
NJ. Labori will die from the wound.
a later story has it that NJ. Labor
was shot in the temple by man who
fired revolver at him outside the
court and that the miscreant was ar
rested.
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WILL BE A BUMBOAT.

Famous Methodist Church In Evanston,
Ill, VIII BE Put to IenobIe Use.
CHICAGO, Aug. 14.-Evanston's ia
nous old Methodist church, the build
ing in which Frances E. Willard read
her essays as a girl graduate, the
building III which Abraham Lincoln
spoke, and a landmark in Evanston
since its erection, in 1857, is to pass
the rest of its days in ignoble service.
Mounted on a raft and anchored in
the lake off Evanston, beyond the pale
of the local prohibition law, the old
church will be used as bum boat,
from which beer, whisky and all the
ordinary brands of hard drinks will
be dispensed.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19

L. Xavire Eyma, a Frenchman, who
came to this country in 1S47, wrote an
article in ILLUSTRATION of Paris, pub
lished July 22,1S4S, giving his expert
ences on the railroads of the United
States. He says that at that time
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had
a length of seventy leagues and that
the cost of the road was 4,116,7 44
francs, the receipts 3.9S8,45 francs and
expenses 1,964,741 francs. He also
gives considerable space to the in
terror arrangements of the sleeping
cars used at that time and says that,
"they are actually houses where moth
ing is lacking for the necessity of life
and are divided into compartments and
sleeping rooms, some for men and
some for women" Each room held six
beds or rather little couches in three
tiers along the sides. He winds up his
account by saying that valuables were
not particularly well taken care of, as
in America there were no such things
as sneak thieves"
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Pain Conquered; Health Re-.
stored by Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound.
ILErrER 20 nRs. FIxkHAn 80. ez.6.pl


81 feel it my duty to write and thank
you for what your Vegetable Com
pound has done for me. 1t is the only
medicine 1 have found that has done
me any good. Before taking your medi-
cine, was all run down, tired all the
time, no appetite, pains in my back and
bearing down pains and a great suf-
ferer during menstruation. After tax
ing two bottles of Lydia z. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound felt like new
woman I am now on my fourth bottle
and all my pains have left me. feel
better than have felt for three years
and would recommend your Compound
to every suffering woman. hope this
letter viii help others to find cure
for their troubles" = Mrs. DELLA
REMCKER, RENSSELAER,, IND.
The serious ills of women develop
from neglect of early symptoms. Every
pain and ache has cause. and the
warning they give should not be disre-
garded-
Mrs. Pinkham understands these
troubles better than any local ply
stefan and viii give every woman free
advice who is puzzled about her
health. Mrs Pinkham's address is
Lynn, Mass. Don't put of writing until
health is completely broken down
Write at the first indication of trouble.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
FRENCH PLoTTERs ARRESTED.
Charged With ConspIrinE to Overthrow
the Present Government


the Present Government
PARIS, Aug An Paul Deroulede,
founder of the League of Patriots,
and a member af the Chamber OF Dep
uties for the Angouleme division of
Charente, was arrested Saturday
morning at his estate at Croissey,
near Paris Other members of the
Anti-Semite and Patriotic leagues
were arrested later.
The arrests were made on the
charge OF plotting to overthrow the
present government, according to
semi-official nc>e.
NJ. Deroulede was taken into custo-
dy by four gen6arnles and was driven
to Paris On his arrival here he was
incarcerated in the conciergerie pris-
on. The arrest of NJ. Marcel Habert
is expected.
The police have closed the Offices of
the Patriotic League, which are now
guarded by gendarmes.
When an attempt was made to ar
rest NJ Guerrin, president of the anti
Semitic league, he refused to surren-
der, and barricaded himself in his
house. He says he is prepared to hold
out for three weeks, having a good
stock of food and firearms.
The doors and windows of his resi-
dence are barricaded and NJ Guerrin
announces he will blow up his house
before he surrenders.
On the application of NJ Fabre,
fresh searches of various houses were
made, including the headquarters of
the anti -Semites. where only unim-
pOrtant papers were seized.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
~EEsPERATE WORK OF RECRUIT
Kills Two Police omesrs In Cold
FLOODED Manner

FLOODED Manner
DENVER, Col, Aug. 1.-Two police
officers were murdered here at 1
o'clock yesterday morning by a re-
cruit belonging to Company L, Thirty
fourth volunteer infantry, now sta
toned at Fort Logan. Three soldiers
had been raising a disturbance in
Louis KlipfeIs saloon and Officer Tom
Clifford was notified of their action
and asked to keep his eye on them
He was about to accost the soldiers,
when one of them turned on him,
placing the muzzle of a revolver to his
breast, sent bullet through his
heart Clifford expired almost imme-
diately.
All three of the soldiers then start
ed to run, but two of them were over
taken and captured. The one that
did the shooting, however, continued
running. with Officer w. E Griffith
on bicycle in pursuit. The fleeing
man lodged through alleys and open
lots for several blocks, Griffith patron
izing the streets.
On Sixteenth street, near the union
depot, the officer saw the man making
for the viaduct. He shot at him twice.
the soldier returning the fire, NOR
tally wounding Griffith He died a
few minutes later while being con-
veyed in an ambulance to the station.
The entire police and detective
forces of the city were sent out after
the man and the country for miles
around has been patroled and searched
without getting any trace of the
double murderer.
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VIII Purchase Crow Lands.

Crow INDIAN AGENCY, Mont, Aug
f4.-The government commissioners
have effected an agreement with the
Crow Indians which will become a
treaty when ratified by Congress.
About 1,UO0, 900 acres of land will be
purchased on the northern end of the
Crow reservation from Fort Custer to
Yellowstone river and from Pryor
creek to eastern boundary of the res
ervatiOn, embracing the lower Big
Horn aud other smaller streams. This
leaves the Crows 2, 500, 600 acres and
will make them independent in time
and furnish homes for thousands of
civilized people.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
smelter Strike on

DENVER, Col. Aug. 1.-THE strike
of the employees of the American
Smelling and Refining company's
plants in Colorado was deci AIRED off at
a meeting of the Smeltermen's union
in this city last night. It is thought
now that it is but a question of a
short time until all the plants of the
American Smelling and Refining COM
pany in Colorado will be going at full
blast. The hours and pay will be the
same as before the strike
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. I4-Because
a girl dared him, William Grove Dor
rowed Gertrude Moore's bathing sui
and at o'clock yesterday afternoon
dived into the river from the Big Four
bridge, similar leap from which
killed Thomas Heavey just a weak
ago. Grove, who is an athlete of local
repute, made the descent of 90 feet
successfully and expresses a willing
ness to repeat the performance. Ger
trude Moore is a fisherman's daughter.
Grove is sutton, who. at least, stood
second in her favor. His bridge jump
ing feat was the result of bantering
by the girl and his rival
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
ATTOU ISLANDERS DESTITUTE.
Revenue Gutter Grant Finds Them in
StraItened Circumstances.

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. IA pri-
vate letter from Captain Slamm, of
the revenue cutter Grant, now with
the scaling patrol in Boring sea, states
that the inhabitants of Attou island
were found by him in straitened cir
cumstances, but in no Immediate dan
ger of starvation. The inhabita hts,
numbering seventytilree, twenty
three men and so women and children,
were in Il pitiable condition. Many
of the children were partially naked
and their elders were but little better
off All were dependent for bodily
warmth upon the common practice of
budding, five or six together, in their
''barabasos" or native huts.
The only fuel on the island is
scant supply of driftwood. The crew
of the Grant gave the people all spare
clothing
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sunk the Chinese Transports.

VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. 11.-Mail
advices from Asia bring news of dis
turbances in China Thousands of
robbers are ravaging the country.
Ten junks full of soldiers to head
them off were captured, arms taken
from the soldiers and the junks
burned. Hundreds of the soldiers
were drowned Seven hundred ma
tives who resisted the march of the
robbers were killed, while 2, 900 saved
their lives by joining the robbers.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
IAN Insult to Kentuckv."

FRANKFORT, KY, Aug IA Gov
ernor Bradley, discussing the inter
view with Congressm an A. S. Berry,
of Newport, in which the latter de-
clared Bryan might be shot if he per-
sisted in coming to the state in the
interest of Goebel, said: Il cannot
think Mr.. Berry made the statement
attributed to him. In any event such
statement is an insult to Kentucky
and wholly without foundation or ex-
cuse- Mr.. Bryan would be in no more
danger in Kentucky than in any other
state in the Union. ="
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
RETURN OF JIM" CUMMINGS.
Noted Bandit and Member of the
James Gang at Home Again

Noted Bandit and Member of the
James Gang at Home Again
LIBERTY, Mo-, Aug. -. - Jim"
Cummings, who was a member of the
James gang, has come back to his old
home in the northern part of Clay
county after an absence of twenty-five
years. He was indicted in 1874 for
stealing a neighbours horse and he
will now answer to the charge if
called upon. He may not be prose-
cuted, as the horse was recovered and
it is doubtful if he could be con victed.
Cummings has been in various parts
of the country and states that he
served as a deputy United States mar
sha! at Eureka, Springs, Ark, for a
while. He has been reported dead
several times. His name was recalled
wildly when, in 1887, Wittrock, the
man who robbed the Adams Express
company at st. Louis, assumed it.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
Tragedy in a Texas Church.

DALLAS, Texas, Aug. IA negro
named Edward Lipscomb and the
wife of William Daugherty were shot
at church near Summonville last even
ing. Lipscomb is dead and the woman
fatally injured. John and Bill Rob-
ertson, two negroes charged with the
shooting were captured by members
of the congregation, but later made
their escape.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
MONTE CHRISTI BESIEGED.

Insurgents Have the Town at Their
Mercy-PeopIe VIII Be Starved
CAPE HAYTIEN, Aug. IA. - Monte
Christi is now besieged by the insur-
gents and the town is without pro-
visions. The village of Juan Nunez,
situated between Macoris and Moe,
has risen in favor of Jiminez
HAVANA, Aug. 14.-General Juan
Isidro Jiminez, the aspirant to the
presidency of the republic of Santo
Domingo, says he has received news
of numerous recent successes of his
partisans. He will go to Santo Do
mingo as soon as his partisans, who,
he says. are majority of the popula-
ton, desire.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
b. & O. Railroad Uses Crude OH.

The Baltimore and Ohio railroad Is
now using crude oil on its tracks,
though not so extensively as lines
which do not use crushed stone for
ballast. There are L any road cross
tngs, stations, etc, where dust flies
after the passage of fast trains, and
these places are being heavily coated
with oil. So far the results have been
gratifying.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured BY the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. 1t
is the one perfect strengthening laxa-
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habi5ual constipation per-
manently. Its perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and SUBJ
stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities OF the
remedy are obtained from SIENNA and
other aromatic plants, by a method
Known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
GO. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid limitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL
LOUISVILLE. KY NEW YORK. n. 2.
For sale by all Druggists--Price &c. per bottle
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Arranx,ne Coz nrobl,,nat,on

JOHANNESBURG, Aag. 14-The Trans
vaal government. Is is reported. has
Professionally arranged with the Meth
erlands South Africa Railway COM
pany for mobilization on the shortest
notice if required Immense stores of
provisions and war material have been
collected at Pretoria.
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STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO, g.
Z 3D.

STATE OF OHlo CIIHO TOLEDO, [gs
LUCAS COUNTY,
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he Is the
senior partner of the firm of F. ]. Cheney & Co,
doing business in the City Of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. d. 1885
(SEAL) a w. GLEASON.
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
OF the system. Send for testimonials, free
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo u
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the hest
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ysrnc,s Many Boots.

Jules Verne, the French author, who
wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues IN
der the Sea-" and many other books
well known by boys, has been buster
than any other writer, having written
six more books than the number o
years he has lived. Perhaps Miss
Braddon, among English writer's, with
IS novels to her name IN 81 years,
most nearly approaches this wonderful
record
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Lightning Score. Three Victims

BALTIMORE, Aug. I4.-George Gea-
ures, aged Is. and Tony Rixes, aged
81, were struck by lightning and in
stantly killed yesterday.
PLArTsBURe. n. Y, Aug. IL =
George II. Barber of Peru, aged IS,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed
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For Rioting Students.

LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE st. Peters
burg correspondent of the Times says:
1T has been decided by the govern
ment that hereafter any university or
nigh school student creating or in
stigating disorders shall be forcibly
drafted into the army and compelled
20 render from one to three years
service"
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Negro Assau1ter Is Lynched.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 14.-WilIie
Chambers, colored, arrested on
charge of criminally assaulting the
I4-year-old daughter of William Wat
son, was lynched by hanging near
BellbuckIe at an early hour yesterday
He was identified by his victim, who
is in critical condition.
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TO DRIVE OUT THE OIL TRUST.
a Suit Against the Standard Company
Is Brought In Nebraska

Is Brought In Nebraska
OMAHA, Neb. Aug IA Attorney
General Smith to-day began proceed
ings in the district court of
this county against the Stan
dard Oil company. The case is
brought under the Nebraska antitrust
law. He asks that the company,
which he alleges is trust and con-
trolls the price at which petroleum
and its prod ucts are to be sold, be
ousted from the state and njoined
from doing business. The petition not
only names the Standard Oil company
as defendant, but also a number of
other firms and corporations which
are alleged to be owned and controlled
by the Standard Oil company
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German Veterans Ce,shrats.

CHICAGO, Aug. IA One hundred
thousand German American citizens
participated yesterday in the celebra-
ton incident to the opening of the
fourteenth annual convention of the
Kreigerbund and the .twenty-ffth
annual reunion in America of the
Deutscher Kreigerverein. The for
mer includes veterans of the German
army, and the latter veterans of the
Franco-Prussian war
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
weather station in = church splre-

weather Station In Church SPfre'
It has been decided TO establish q me-
neurological observatory at the top Of
the great cathedral spire in Ulm, Ger
many. The Ulm cathedral is one Of the
most extraordinary in existence, on 40
count OF the great size and height OF.
its spire, which reaches an elevation
OF SIS feet Although the great church
was begun more than 500 years ago.
the spire was not completed until 1890.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
Earning. Of Men and Women.

A comparison of the earnings of men
and women in the state OF New York
shows that 69-2 per cent Of them
earned between $50 and s115 in the
quarter, while 37.S per cent earned be-
tween SIS and 500; the number that
earned more than $50 in the quarter
equivalent to 81 a day. was insigni1-
cant On the other hand, more than
one-half the men earned more than
$3.50 each.
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Detroit Fares Reducad.

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 1.-THE COM
mon council, at a special session,
adopted, by a vote of "a to 10, amend
ments to the ordinances of the Citi-
zens and Fort Wayne lines, changing
the rate of fare from 5 cents to eigh&
tickets for a quarter. There will be
hot legal fight over the plan to re-
duce the rate
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19

People who wear false hair will be
Interested in the announcement OF
strange discovery made at Antwerp. In
that city a bale of hum hair, weigh
ing 172 pounds, was stolen from rail-
road station. 1t was afterward learned
that the hair had been clipped from the
heads OF lunatics and convicts in pub
lie asylums and prisons.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
DEADLY DUEL IN DALLAS.
Police man Rawlings and Charles DanIsls
Settle Grudge with RevoIvers

DALLAS, Texas, Aug IA sensa-
tional duel to the death occurred here
yesterday between Policeman A P.
Rawlings and Charles A. Daniels Re
volvers were the weapons, the dis
lance three PAGES and both of the
principals are dead Eight or nine
shots were fred and plate glass win
dows for block around were shat
tered Rawlings lived ten minutes
and Daniels lived exactly an hour.
The former was shot three times and
the latter once. Rawlings was intox-
icated and an old grudge was the
cause.
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Did Not Go tn ohn-oh

PLATTsBURG, n. Y, Aug 1.-THE
President decided at the last mo-
nent not to attend church, but in
stead went for a drive with Mrs. Nc
Kinley, who has been prevented by
she cold, rainy weather from going
outdoors for the last two or three
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The Temple Ia sac.

It is said that the construction Of the
dam across the Nile at Assouan, Egypt,
will not SUBJ ge the temple at Philae.
The actual level of the water behind
the dam will be little above the pres
ent high-water mark, SO that the floor
of the temple will still be dry.