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HIS LAST LEAP.
Diver Donaldson Fatally Injured
at Madison Square Garden.

NEW YORK March S-Thomas Dom
aldson of Bath Beach, L. l.. known the
world over as a champion high diver,
dove from the roof of Madison Square
Garden, distance of So feet. this after
noon with probably fatal results
Donaldson was the star attraction at
the sportsman's show now running in
the garden. He has been making two
dives daily. The tank is less than eight
1eet deep, and on two or three occa-
sions Donaldson did not have the sue
cess expected and came out of the
water with hemorrhages from the nose
and ears. Harry Cornish has charge Of
the water sports, and it was he who this
afternoon gave Donaldson the signal to
dive.
Three thousand people saw the ia
nous diver leap from the platform and
falling slowly forward make the
plunge. He shot straight downward,
but it was plain before he got half the
distance that he had lost control of his
body. He struck the water head first
and failed to come up. Small circles of
blood came bubbling up from the bottom,
and Harry Reeder, the amateur cham
pion swimmer, and an attache, plunged
into the water. The man dived several
times, and finally Reeder brought Dom
'aldson to the surface He was appar-
emily dead with blood flowing from
mouth, nostrils and ears. and from
wounds on the head. He was carried to
a dressing room and attended by several
physicians. He was then removed TO a
hospital
He has a fractured skull with COM
preston of the brain, and the right side
OF the face is crushed in. The surgeons
at the hospital say that his death is a
question of hours
witnesses of the accident say that as
Donaldson left the platform the colors
which were wrapped about him became
loose. His attention was diverted, and
he did not have his wits about him
when he struck the water. He weighed
more than 200 pounds and struck with
terrific force He was 40 years DID,
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Kinl;nr Continues to Mend.

NEW YORK, March S-Rudyard
Kipline,s health continues to mend
slowly. So far beef tea is his only ar
ticle of diet and nothing will be added
TO It until an improvement in his con-
dition will permit He has not yet
been told of the death of his daughter.
josephine. Elsie, the other daughter
rested quietly to-day. AT III O'Clock To-
night Mr.. Kipling was said to be rest
ing quietly, and making encouraging
progress. 1t was. said he probably WIFI
be moved to another suite IN the houei
in another week. merely to give him
change of surroundings.
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DEWEY IN POOR HEALTH.
The Admiral Aged Much During
His Stay at Manila.

VANCOUVER (B. c., March s.
Among the passengers who arrived here
to-day on the Empress of India was
Captain Frazer of London, England
late of the Imperial forces. He has
just come from Manila. He said:
It dined with Admiral Dewey prior
to leaving for Hongkong. He is in
poor health, and certainly should be Or
dered home. l believe he has aged
much, and certainly his hair is very
white. He is an unassumrig man,
and is, I should think, a born COM
mander. The strain which he has
undergone and is undergoing must be
very great From the way in which
the American naval commander
speaks. he fully appreciates the diff
Guilty in the way of the colonization of
the 1,200 islands that form the great
group of the Philippines. Admiral
Dewey thinks that it will take at least
two years to subjugate the Philippines,
for they are fighters from away back
phrase that Admiral Dewey himself
is said to have partially for"
Captain Frazer thinks that there will
be many avenues for trade in the ISL
ands when they are in more civilized
condition.
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torpedo boats in Germany. just before
the war was declared last spring. An
other paper bearing on the war is ZAP
prentices of the United States Navy"
by Joseph Coblentz Croft. This viii
interest every boy who has ever
thought of going to sea as a career--in
other words, pretty nearly every boy in
America. Like Lieutenant La Notes
article, and almost every other story.
sketch, or poem in the magazine, it is
fully illustrated The Best Game We
Play is the soldier game" This is
lively bit of verse by Annie Steele.
"Dorothea Puts the Room in Order is
the title of little story illustrated with
pictures that show room in anything
but orderly condition. The features
we have mentioned are all of them
new; but the popular serials are here.
too-Mr. Henty's sole Survivors," Mr..
Houses Bright Side. of History" and
Miss Carolyn Wells STORY of Betty
The most interesting or important ar
ticle in magazine is not always to be
found at the beginning. Sometimes
striking feature is secured when half
the forms are ready for the press, and
latter end of the magazine. 1t was so
with General Skaters Capture of
Manila in the February Century" it
is so again in the March number with
Major General Greene's Capture of
Manila General Greene is the au-
thor of the standard history of the last
Turco- Russian war, and of other mill
itary works. This is the first of two
articles from his pen. Lieutenant Hob
son tells in this number of his expert
ences in prison in Santiago and his OBJ
ssrvations of the siege; Lieutenant j. B.
Bernadou, who commanded the torpedo
bot Winslow in the action at Carde-
mas in which Ensign Bagley was killed,
tells the story of May 11th; Leuten-
ant Cameron Winslow, who command
ed the cable-cutting expedition at Glen
fuegos on the same day, describes the
hazardous operations which he directed
and Arthur Houghton gives a realistic
glimpse of s'Scenes in the Spanish Cap
ital' .on the eve of the late war A
more momentous war than that of 1893
is the subject of Professor Wheeler's
papers on Alexander the Great the
current installment of which is devot-
ed to the Macedonian victory at Issus
Though Mr.. Crawford's Via Crucis" is
romance of the second crusade. there
is no warfare in the present chapters.
That an American woman has become
Vice Refine of India gives interest to
cat the Court of an Indian Prince
written and Illustrated by r. D., Mack
enzie. But nothing in the March
Century is better worth the careful
consideration of American readers to-
day than British Experience in the
Government of Colonies by the Right
Hon. James Bryce, NJ p The from
tispiece is a reproduction of 1.-THE Gold
en- Galleon," by Ross Turner, engraved
on wood and printed in gold and green.
There will be five issues of the
Youths Companion" (Boston) during
March. That for the week of March
I'd contains Adventures at Mag
ara" by F. A. Acland. The issue for
the week of March 9th will contain
Charles X. Bottoms article on The
Profession of a Librarian" and two
special stories. one by Mrs. J. A. Field
called His Sacred Honor" the other
by Mrs. Eva Wilder Brodhead. entitled
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LONDON, March S.-Vice Admiral
Philip Howard Colomb, retired, lee
tured this afternoon on the lessons Of
the Spanish-American war before the
members of the United Service Insti-
tute
After dealing with the impossibility
of secrecy in warfare hereafter, owing
to the vigilance of the press and the
necessity for protecting cables in shall
low water, he said he thought that if
Spain had showed real comprehension
of strategy. the United States would
not have been SO successful. The sure
way for the United States would have
been for her to- send a sufficient force
to the coast of Spain to balance the
forces known to have been in Spanish
ports, and to send a squadron to the
Cape Verde Islands the moment it was
known Spanish fiotilla was assemb-
ling there. If, he added, the island of
MinOrca had been seized as a base,
nothing of consequence on the other
side of the Atlantic would have been
attempted by Spain.
The lesson to be- deduced was, accord
ing to the lecturer, that the American
strategy was hazardous, in so far as it
departed from the stereotyped rules of
naval warfare. Admiral Cervera's ships
were lost sight of, causing anxiety on
the American coasts and obliging the
Americans to keep considerable squad
rons wholly in a defensive attitude, in
stead of maintaining command of the
sea. 1t was clear, he added, that if
there had been coal supplies at Santi-
ago de Cuba and if Admiral Ceryera' 6
squadron had been reasonably efficient,
instead of a misera BILE abortion, all it
could have purposed to effect by enter
ing Santiago might have been effected
without any interference upon the part
of the United States navy.
From the actions between the Span
ish forts and American ships, the
speaker deduced the idea that inefficient
batteries were able to keep ships at
distance.
Regarding the purely tactical ques-
tons involved the Admiral said it was
plain Admiral Dewey took advantage of
the superiority of his guns and gun
ners, and placed himself in so distant a
position that neither the Spanish ships
nor their batteries were able to ade-
quately reply to his fire.
The whole thing, continued the lee
turer, was terribly businesslike on the
American side. with a pathetic parade
Of Quixotic gallantry on the other.
In conclusion, Admiral Colomb COM
mented on the fact that all orders to
the American ships We're sent from
Washington, which he considered was a
momentous change in naval warfare.
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Money to Pay Cuban Troops.

NEW YORK, March S.-Paymastef
General Carey, U. S. A, visited the
Sub-Treasury to-day and presented
warrant for 100000, drawn on that
department at Washington. The
money will be drawn from the Sub
Treasury and shipped to Cuba, where
it will be USED to pay off the Cuban
troops, in accordance with an agree
ment. General Carey has been direct
ed by the War Department to take
charge of the money until it is turned
over to General Brooke at Havana
General Carey will be accompanied by
a detachment of regulars, who Wall
guard the money on it's way to Cuba
The money will be placed in small safes
and strong boxes.
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The Valley Road.

STOCKTON, March S.-A small party
Of engineers in charge of Engineer Will
Jams of the Valley Road left here to-
day to drive the stakes for the small
piece of track which will connect the
present end of the Valley line with the
Southern Pacific at Lathrop. The dis
lance is but a mile and half. but il is
the only gap in the line between Stock
ton and Chicago. Ill. The distance be-
tween Bakersfield and Mojave is to be
covered by the track agreement be-
tween the Southern Pacific and Santa
Fee, which goes into effect in July.
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Acquitted of Bribery.

FRESNO, March S.-Ex-Supervisor
Charles W. Garrett, charged with bri-
berry, was acquitted by a jury in the
Superior Court here to-day after a
short trial. He was accused of receiv-
ing a money consideration from James
K. Hopkins, with a view to influencing
his vote as a member of the Board of
Supervisors last summer. The evidence
upon which it was hoped to secure a
conviction was ruled by the Court as
incompetent, and the jury was instruct
ed to return a verdict of not guilty.
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VANCOUVER, March S.-Further de-
tails from Ichang, China, show that
the murder and torture of Father Vic
torien Jean del Brousk, Belgian
Catholic priest, by natives, was most
revolving one. Father Victorian was
tied to tree, pieces were cut from his
thighs and eaten. Fire was applied to
his body and slugs were fired into the
ncn-vital parts. Finally his body was
cut from the chest to the bottom OF
the abdomen. He was disemboweled,
and various organs were taken out and
eaten by the Tartarians. who at the
same time drank his blood. He was
also mutilated in a way that cannot be
described, and his head cut off.
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Eighth Senatorial District Election

COLUSA, March SIN the election
held to-day for successor to State
Senator Boggs to represent Colusa and
Glenn Counties, J. w. Goad, Democrat,
carried Colusa County by a consider
able majority over Barker, Republican.
WILLOWS, March SIN the election
for State Senator to-day, ten out of fif-
teen precincts in Glenn County give
Goad Oem-) 30S, Barker (Rep) go.
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Wages Going Up.

GAINESVILLE co., March S.-No-
tice has been posted at the Ohio Iron
Company's plant announcing that all
wages will be increased 10 per cent. on
April 1st- The increase affects 300
men. The. plant was idle for five years.
but resumed abott year ago, and has
all the work it can do.
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Utah Senatorial Deadlock.

SALT LAKE. March San immense
crowd in attendance at the meeting of
the joint assembly tonight. Four bal
lots were taken, the last ballot being as
follows: McCune %, George Q. Cannon
10, F. J. Cannon Z, King -, Suther-
land .
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A Drummer Asphyxiated d.

SAN FRANCISCO, March Sired
erick Stiel, drummer for a liquor
firm, was found asphyxiated in his
room to-day. He went home in an in
toxicated condition last night, and
probably turned the gas cock partially
on after extinguishing the light De-
ceased was 6S years of age. and is well
known to the coast liquor trade.
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China Ready to Apologize.

ROME, March S.-The Tribune says
it learns that the Chinese Government
has offeredIto send the Italian Minister.
Signor Mino. a written apology through
Sir Claude Macdonald, British Minis
ter at Picking, for the terms in which
the Tsung Lii Yamen couched the Chi
nese refusal to grant the concession re-
Gently demanded by Italy of San Nun
Bay. Province of Che Kiang, to be used
as an Italian naval base and coaling
station.
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SEATTLE, March S-Walter H.
French street railway engineer, died
to-day from injuries received While
caught in a cable winder. French was
at one time a member of the Nevada
Legislature and an engineer on the ia
nous 'Comstock Lode
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Fire at Los Angeles.

Los ANGELES, March S.-The car
pet cleaning establishment of John
Blosser in this city was damaged by
fire to the extent of $1,000 to-day.
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An Editor Shot by Burglars.

PROVIDENCE Or. -, March s.
Frederick Ray Martin, associate editor
of the Journal was shot and Sc
verely wounded by burglars who were
escaping from the residence Of DR. e.
NJ Harris late last night.
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Smallpox at Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES. March S-The only
case of smallpox which developed to-
day was one that had been considered
a suspected case for several days.
There We're no deaths from the disease
to-day.
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LESSONS OF
The LATE War.
Had Spain Shown Real Comprehen-
sion Of Strategy,
The United States Might Not Have Been
So Successful.

The Whole Thing Terribly Bust
nesslike on American Side,
With a Pathetic Parade of
Comments of q Retired British
ivered at London.
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Queen Henrietta Worse.

BRUSSELS, March 4MidEisbt.-
Extra editions of the evening papers as
sert that the condition of Queen Henri
eta has grown worse.
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Presidents Of wellesley College.

WELLESLEY (Mass), March s.
Miss Caroline Hazard of Peacemeal. r.
l.. has been elected President OF Weiles-
ley College, to succeed Miss Julia ].
Irvine.
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Turkish papers were not allowed to
print the news of the assassination of
the Austrian Empress. They simply
announced that she had died.
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TEA
AND
COFFEE.

We have a large number of GUS
toners who have bought their teas
and coffees of US for years and who
are we'll satisfied There must be
reason for this. We believe it is the
excellence of the goods. We will
gladly refer you to said customers.
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A Most Revolving Murder.

The girl did not come to until two
hours after she was chloroformed.
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MUCH WELCOMED
FALL OF Rain.

Continued from First Page.)
The age-herald., 1899-06-04
THE PLUNGER'S DOOFq. Rise and Fall of the Most Famous Character i'm the His
 tory of the Turf

money at the business and as they loved horses, they mad some good flesh in their stables. Mike always had a speculative turn, and he continued his efforts to in- prove the character of their animals until at last they found Rhadamanthus.
 The story of how the Dwyer brothers came to buy Rhadamanthue has never been told, but buy him they did, way back in 1876, and from that day until 1892, when Mike parted company with Phil, because he would insist on being a plunger, while Phil was willing to let his horses run for the stakes and let other people do the bet ting the brothers were the dominating fg- ures of track history season after season. No single partnership has ever been more successful, notwithstanding the fact that the brothers were so dissimtlar i'm their makeup.
 Rhadamanthus was the lucky piece for them and the first time that the stranger with blue sash passed under the wire an easy winner of a great race the two butch CTS had enough money on to make them feel happy for many day.
 Their success encouraged them and other good horses were found. With such ani- malls to run, and such a plunger as Mike Dwyer to back them, the making of money was a necessity of fact not the vagaries of fortune, and within three years from the time when old Rhad entered their stable they were regarded as millionaires.
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The fortune of a plunger who makes 1t @ business to play the races and who takes a pleasure is startling the sporting world by his unique betting methods is fully as uncertain as the summer wind. Today he has wealth at his command, tomorrow dire poverty stares him in the face. Today he is admired and courted by the scores of followers who hope to participate in his good fortune, tomorrow he is deserted and cast aside like a race horse that has had its day
 The history of the turf is filled by ex- amples that illustrate the truth of this as- sertion. There have been Walton days and Grammar days but they have passed and now poor Mike Dwyer has disappeared from the track, another instance to prove the folly of attempting to fight the book les. When the crash came and 1t was am nounced that Dwyer and gone the way of the many who had tempted fortune in this hard game the one-time plunger said:
 From my own bitter experience, after more than twenty years of racing, I say that Il beyond human power to beat the ring. Betting is, after all, a question of figures, or rather of mathematical propor- tion. On a moderate estimate I should say that there are thirty-two chances against
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opponents could give them without so much as winking.
 'There is Corbett. don't believe that he will ever do any more fighting. I have not a particle of i'll feeling against him. I always wished him the best of luck, but still I will say, and I say 1t candidly, don't think that Corbett was ever any, thing more than clever boxer. As box CT, he was one of the smartest men who ever entered the ring, but that is all that can be of him. There wasn't any force in his blows, he couldn't punch hole in a piece of card board
 q had Corbett hit me hundred times and I didn't feel it any more than you, but had been going too hard pace. You know a man can't drink and smoke and keep late hours without entirely running his career as a fighter. It Is my opinion that it is not so much a matter Of years as it is of fat with man in the prize ring, or with any other athlete for that matter, and I believe that if I had taken as good care of my health years ago as l am doing today I would be just as good a man as I ever was. A man ought to be just in his prime at fifty, provided he don't let his fat get the better of him.
 "There isn't any such thing as prize fight ing in these days. The beginning of the end came when they began to make laws against the sport. Now they have got so particular that they are putting an end to 1t fast. In few years people will have forgotten what a real prize fight was like. I don't call those boxing contests prize fights. So far as can see, 1t Is all 'hippo- droming,' and no fighting. Of course box ing is all right in its place, just like any other sport, but I can't forget myself so far as to be able to look at two men box ing with soft gloves and think I have been seeing prize fight
 For the life of me I can't see what ob- jection people can have to prize fighting. Ring fighting is no rougher than football nor one-half so rugh. I've seen football games that wouldn't have been mixed up with for money. There one poor fellow gets knocked down and twenty big, strap ping players run and pile themselves up on top of him and he don't stand any show at all. It's a great wonder that more young men aint killed that way.
 But take a prize fight and it's differ ent. When a mans down he's down, and his opponent lets him alone and if his peo- pie see he can't win they can throw up the sponge and save him further punishment. know men have been killed in the ring, but not half as many as have been killed or disabled for life on the football field,
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To enumerate the horses that the Dwyers have owned reads like a list of the years champions during the twenty seasons that the brothers were together. There was Rhandamanthus and Bramble, Luke Black burn, Hindoo, Onondaga, Dewdrop, Miss Woodford, Fremont, Hanover, Inspector B, Longstreet, George Kinney, Kinston, Race land, and all the rest of that brilliant ar- ray of stars that are so familiar to racego- CTS and that won races until the expression "Dwyer luck" became one of the sayings of the turf.
 Another ten-strike that the brothers made was when they took Jimmy Nc. Laughlin as their star rider. He was success from the start, and season after season he bestrode the Dwyer mounts and rode them to victory. Sometimes the Vc- tory was easy and sometimes the struggle was a desperate one, but it was all the same to Mclaughlin. He rode to win and win he did until at last some of the good men were ready to back his mounts with out taking the trouble to inquire the name of the horse on which he sat. Those were the good old days of the turf, the days when a hundred book-makers were lined up in the ring, and when the crowds that gathered before them held millions of dol lars that 1t was ready to risk upon the horses.
 There have been many plungers In Amerl- ca It would not require an old race fol- lower to remember scores or these DellOrS who have stood ready to lose or win a fortune with a smile. They have lasted day, week or perhaps a season. and then they have gone away and the track has known them no more. With Mike Dwyer 1t was different. He was the greatest plung- of them all, but he stayed on and on. He stands alone as one unique figure in turf history. He would play any sort of odds when he thought that there was a possibility that he had a shade the best of the bargain. Some of his exploits will be remembered as long as there are horses to run in races and men to bet on them.
 Once Joe Cotton was a 1 to 10 shot. The odds were considered as almost pro- hibitlve, but Dwyer put $6O,OOO on him to win $6.00o and he won his money.
 Hanover was one of his favorites and he would have risked his all on him. One day he bet $S0,O00 on him to win sS000 and the grand old horse brought the money home Again Mike picked Fremont as sure winner as the track was muddy and he knew that mud was the black colts long suit. He played s25 900 on him to win 5000, and Fremont did not disappolnt him. Such feats as there are enough to make any man famous. a
 When fortune turned Mike Dwyer was still game and he was game up to the