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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-11
Dress Innings.

Possibly you have never seen the full
line of dress Innings we are compelled to
carry-the Dress Makers have, and you
would hazard nothing in taking a look
through at all the colors and Black.
Strong Percalines, all colors, and
Black ........................... 1Oc
Silk finished Taffetas, plain and
stripes-Fancy Silesias, Black
Back and Canvas ............12 Lee
Silketteen-a substitute for Silk
Tuxedo-Linen Canvas-and dou-
BILE facing Innings .......... 15c
Neer Silk-and two face satines.. Zoe
Oriental Silk and real Hair Cloth. Csc.
Mercerized Taffeta-fancy coat lin
ings ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 29c.
Silk Serges-stronger than real
SIX Surahs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Acc.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-11
All liver ills are cured by Hoods Pills, 25c.

The agency of w. w. Smith carried the
large amount of $14, 500 insurance on to-
bacco in Messrs. ]. Lewis & Co.'s ware
house and on Mr.. Pogue's dwelling, re-
Gently destroyed by fire. The same has
all been duly adjusted and promptly
paid-the adjustment having been made
by Mr.. Smith and by the other adjusters
for his company's interest.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-11

New additions here every day. TIL
coming and going of the latest things il
colored woolens, show that this store i
abreast of the times in retailing Ores
Goods.
Fancy Granite Weaves and Canter-
bury Suitings in raised figures on
solid grounds .................... 25C
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-11
1.-THE BETTER PART

of valor is discretion and the better part of
originates in impurities in the blood. Hoods
Sarsaparilla purifies the blood. People who take
it at this season say they are kept healthy the
year round 1t is because this medicine eXpels
impurities and makes the blood rich and health
giving.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-11

The man who treads on barrel HOOP
meets trouble half way.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
j. 5. POSTAL CHECK NOTES.
Proposed for Convenience in Send
ing Money by MAIL
WITHOUT EXPENSE T0SENDER.

Washington, March Ex-senator Nc
MILAN in the senate and Mr.. Lentz IN
the house have introduced a bill de-
signed to afford an easy and ineXpen-
sive means of transmitting money by
mail. They provide that all United
States and national bank notes, silver
certificates and treasury notes OF 81, 81
and IS denominations shall be replaced
by new notes to be known as United
States post check notes" Fifty mil
lions of United States notes of denom-
nations below SO shall be replaced
with like amount of fractional post
check notes of from to 80 cents. The
face and back of the notes are to make
them payable to payee named hereon
in place of the present inscription
payable to bearer on demand, and
the face of the notes shall have blank
space to insert the name of payee,
with space for receipt and stamp.
The holder of any such post check, by
inserting the name of payee and
affixing postage stamp may forward
the same by mail to the designated
pavee and it is redeemable at the post
Office named. The checks are then to
be cancelled and new checks issued.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
For New War Ships.

Washington, March 1.-THE house
committee on naval affairs reached a
definite and final decision as to the
number of warships to be authorized
the Forthcoming naval appropriation
bill as follows:
Two seagoing coast line battleships
of about 1880 tons each, to cost ap-
proximately s3,6oO,ooo each; three
armored cruisers of the highest prac-
teal speed and most powerful armor
and armament, to cost approximately
81, 900, 900 each; three protected cruls-
ers, to cost about 81, 141 900 each.
TWAS determined not to provide any
gunboats. in view of the opinion eX-
pressed by Secretary Long and Ad-
miral Dewey that General Otis recent
purchases of serviceable boats OF TINS
character met present gunboat re-
uuirementS.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Horse-Power.

Watt, the great improver OF the
steam engine, introduced into the vo-
cabulary of machinists the term horse
power. When he first began the man
ufacture of steam engines, he expert
enced much difficulty in ascertaining
from his distant customers what sized
engine they required, and they were
not less puzzled how to communicate
to him the information. He was fire.
auently guided, however, by their
mentioning the number OF horses
which the engine ordered was design
ed to replace. Acting upon this hint,
he ascertained by experiment that the
very strongest of the London brewers
horses (animals of wonderful size and
strength), could exert force equiva-
lent to raising $4,000 pounds one loot
a minute. This force he called one
horse power, and adopted 1t as the
standard in regulating the size OF
steam engines. Now, not one horse
in a hundred is able to exert that de-
gree of strength. A steam engine OF
ten horsepower can, in reality, do the
work of about twenty horses.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Arrest of Divine Healer Truth.

Boston, March 19.-Fralcis Truth,
head of the divine healing association
which bears his name, and whose adj
vocates have been spread over the
whole country, was arrested at his
office charged with using the mails for
fraudulent purposes. The prisoner
was locked up A large amount OF
mail matter was seized by the officers.
Truth has been conducting the es-
tablishment for about six months and
has had all the business he.could at
tend to with the help of % clerks. lie
took his arrest very calmly and made
no statement. Mrs. Truth was not
molested. 1t is said that Truth be-
longs in California. 1t is said that his
business brought him in 100000 week
regularly.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
VIOLATES ANTITRUST LAW.
Resolutions to Instruct Attorneys
to Prosecute.
AIMED AT STANDARD OIL co.

Washington, March 1o.-Representa-
tive Fitzgerald of New York introduced
the following resolutions;
"Whereas, 1t appears a matter OF
public record that the Standard Oil Co.
paid in the city of New York on March
is. 1900, the sum of Sl7,000,000, this
amount being an extra dividend in ad-
dition to the regular quarterly dividend
of So, 0oO, 900; and
"Whereas, 1t is matter of public
record that this last dividend is SIS, 00o,-
900 in excess of the last quarterly divi-
dend paid by this corporation; and
"Whereas, 1t is also Il matter of pub
lie record that the price of kerosene oil,
the sole means of lighting used by the
middle and poorer classes of people,
during the period of time between the
declaration of these dividends was in
creased cents per gallon, constituting
a tax on every home in the land; there
fore, be it
"Resolved, That, in the opinion OF
congress, this action of the Standard
Oil company is in direct violation OF
the provisions of the Sherman anti
trust law and therefore punishable by
fine and imprisonment, and the attor-
nev general is hereby directed, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of that
act. to direct the several district at
tornevs of the United States in their
respective districts to institute pro-
ceedings to bring the above named
yiolators of the laws to justice"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
FASCINATING PLACE TOMARKET
Infinite Variety of Everything - Peas
Sold by the Saucerful.

Probably there is no better market
in the whole world than New Orleans
affords, says the Boston Transcript. In
the historic old French market the
products of every cline meet on COM
mon ground. Here is the fine refrig-
Grated beef from Chicago and Kansas
City, kept until it is just the right
mellowness, here are the marvellous
products in infinite variety of south
ern waters-pompano, sheepshead, deep
sea trout, redsnappers, founders,
crabs, shrimp and crawfish for the
bisque beloved of Creoles, and thou
sand nameless varieties Of fish and
shellfish; here in season may be
bought deer and bear and duck and
wild turkey and snipe and quail and
all the varieties of birds and game we
know in the north, with papabotes
and grasses and delicate little reed
birds to makean epicure's mouth water
merely to look upon them; in the
vegetable department the stalls are
heaped with every vegetable you have
ever known, and many whose names
and usages are unfamiliar to you
queer things from Central American
ports, with queer favors that you first
endure, then adore. Here, squatting
on the outskirts, by the side of their
baskets, are the last remnants of the
Choctaw tribe of Indians, dull, fiat
faced women, with file and bay and
sassafras leaves to sell. But nothing
else is so odd to you as the fact that
in the French market you have had
to adjust yourself to an entirely new
system of measurements. You can
not buy your peas or potatoes by the
| peck or bushel las you have been used
to all your life. How much?" you
ask the market woman in her stall.
and she replies SO much a saucer.
There they are, piled up in neat lit
tie pyramid in saucer, the delicate
green peas or the pink new potatoes,
and you haven't the very slightest idea
how many saucerfuls it will take to
make a meal for your family.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
FRANCE BRlSTLlNG UP.
Calls For Statements From Colonies or
Available Soldiers.

Available Soldiers.
New York, March ia private
cablegram from an unimpeachable
source in Paris says that the ministers
for the colonies sent cipher cables to
the governor of every French colony,
almost in the words of Mr.. Chamber
lain to the British colonial governors,
asking how many soldiers were availa-
BILE for immediate service. Mr.. Decrais
asked for detailed statement from
each governor of the number and
service of the colonial forces, and lists
of officers and men. The minister's
cables were long and in cipher and
were sent all over the world; to colo
MES in Africa, Madagascar, TonglSing,
Guadalupe, Martinique, French
Guiana and every French colony on
earth. 1t is also said that cables of
similar tenor were sent to French con-
suls, asking for lists of French soldiers
in foreign countries who could return
to France in the event OF their services
being needed.
Paris, March 1.-THE minister OF
foreign affairs, NJ Delcasse, in the
senate denied that France had refused
to join Russia in making friendly
suggestion in the direction of peace
between England and the Transvaal.
He then declared: 1.-THE union between
France and Russia draws closer every
day and defies all malevolent asser-
tions to the contrary" France, he
added, had never ceased to be the most
generous nation the world had known.
But after so many hard and sometimes
cruel experiences she could no longer
admit that her duty to the world
should stand before her obligations to
herself.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
BOGUS BATTLE SCENES
Made to Order by Frenohmen - Posing
For tho Scenes.


New York correspondence chicago
Inter Ocean: The demand for photo
graphs of Boer war scenes for publ
cation has so far outrun the supply
that ingenious Frenchmen have de-
vised a scheme by which any style on
war pictures may be made to order on
short notice. The French photographs
have secured some old horses, a few
guns and score or more OF supers
from one of the Paris theaters. The
supers, who are photographed as
Beers, may be distinguished by their
long whiskers, and the Englishmen
may be known at glance by their
uniforms. Near Paris imitation
breastworks have been constructed,
and these are stormed several times a
day by the supers while the camera
man takes their pictures. When a
general officer is wounded the scene is
produced by the aid Of an old horse
and super, who is photographed In
the act of falling out of the saddle.
Such little odds and ends of war as
photographs VI ouipeTS, plChclo,
stretcher-bearers, ETC., are easily coun-
terfeited before a camera, and the re-
suits are just as good for the papers
which buy them as would be photo
graphs from the battlefield. There is
one genuine picture of a ford some
where in South Africa which has done
service every time river is crossed.
1t is a peaceful looking picture, with
a big tree at the left in the foreground,
a shallow river behind it, and half q
dozen COWS or sheep wading to the
farther shore. Whenever any division
of the English army has crossed a
river anywhere this picture has been
trotted out to illustrate the exact place
of crossing. If the English forces keep
on maneuvering as they have for the
past two months they may cross this
particular river at this very ford.
Along with the mass Of counterfeit pic
lures which are sold in this country
are many genuine ones None of the
genuine photographs up to date, how
ever, has been half so dramatic as the
French counterfeit.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Severe storm South And East.

Washington, March 17.-About eight
inches of snow fell during the day on
Thursday, followed by snow and hail
during the night and Friday. Consid-
cradle of the early snow melted as it
fell. The storm prevailed over most of
the southern states east of the Mis-
sissippi. beginning in Louisiana.
Snow fell in north Texas where
fruit trees are in bloom and vegetables
just coming up. Wheat is no where
injured as far as known.
At New York and throughout New
Jersey snow and sleet fell for nearly
twenty-four hours.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23

Washington, March 19.-General Joe
Wheeler is in the city. He gave Cen
eral Corbin brief description of the
conditions in Luzon when he left. He
insisted that the war was over and
that nothing more was to be done
except to run down few guerrillas
and irregulars. There was difficulty
in this work, he said, and there was
danger, too, but it was not war
Ambuscades were frequent and it was
not easy to tell whether the hidden
force was strong or weak; three men
had been mistaken for a company in
some cases. The general said the
troops were doing splendid work there.
They were sound and healthy and in
quite as good shape as they would be
at home engaged in similar service.
This was owing, IN measure to the
excellent care for their men exhibited
by the officers and to the watchful
precautions of the staff of the army.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Imitation Butter Bill Doubtful.

Washington, March 19.-Members OF
the agricultural committee of the house
are expressing doubt that favorable
action will be taken on the Grout bill
assessing tax of 10 cents pound on
oleomargarine made in imitation OF
butter. The sub committee is under
stood to be opposed to it, and the
whole committee would probably take
a like position, although the demand
for it's passage is general throughout
the dairy sections of the country and
all the Western members are receiving
petitions asking for favorable action.
1t has been arranged to have final
action on the measure decided by the
whole committee.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Epworth League OmciaIs.

Chicago, March 17.-Rev. Edwin A.
Schell, D. D., formerly general secre-
tary of the Epworth league, has
brought suit for $4,000 damages
against Rev. Charles Parlxhurst of Bos-
ton, publisher of lions Herald; Rev.
j. b. Jennings, western agent of the
Methodist Book Concern, and Rev.
Joseph Berry, editor of the Epworth
Herald, for alleged conspiracy to Gust
him from his 81 900 office. The trouble
arose over royalties on the song book
published by the Methodist book con-
Germ.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23

Topeka, March 16.-Governor STAN
lev has issued proclamation declaring
a quarantine on cattle shipped into the
state for breeding and dairy purposes,
coming from the states of Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, Iowa and Nebraska.
This action is taken because it is
learned that tuberculosis is found in
those states.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23

San Juan de Puerto Rico, March 10.
"A money deficit of $50, 1000 in the fiscal
year has been caused by an unexpected
slump in the city revenues from liquors
and cigarettes. The budget committee
in 1899 estimated that SOC, 900 would be
collected, but the amount to date is
only s2e, 900, though probably $4,000
more will be received by July. The
city owes the United States treasury
$40, 900 and the city hall is mortgaged
to the Spanish bank for $4,000. Prize
fights are ordered prohibited.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Texas Cattle Raisers.

Fort Worth, Tex, March 1.-THE
concluding day of the Texas Cattle
Raisers' Association was largely at
tended. The following resolution was
adopted;
That the executive committee be au-
thorized to gather data and inform
themselves upon the ability of this as
ISOLATION to protect its members from
excessive or extortionate freight rates,
and they are authorized to expend such
funds of this association as they deem
necessary to attain that end.
A resolution endorsing the pending
congressional bill extending from
twenty-eight to forty hours the time
cattle may be kept on cars, was adopt
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23

1t is said that with the exception OF
Queen Victoria no woman has been The
original of so much plastic art as the
Maid of Orleans" Joan of Arc. 1t IS
estimated that all the world over not
more than fifty monuments have been
erected to women. More monuments
have been erected to the Emperor Will
liam 1. of Germany. than to all the IA
nous women put together. Nearly
century after Maria Theresa's death
Austria erected a monument to her
memory. A beautiful statue of Queen
Louise of Prussia is in Berlin.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23

London, March 15.-Lord Roberts is
making very rapid advance, and he
is again misleading the Beers by con,
tinuing the advance southwark instead
of through the fiat country due east
of Aasvogel Kop. He will probably
seize the railway south of Bloemfon-
TEN, and, although another battle is
possible, it is more likely that the Beers
are only endeavoring to delay his ad-
vance until all the rolling stock of the
railways and the stores and troops from
the Orange river district can be gotten
away north
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
INCREASE IN TRADE;
Both Imports and Exports Much Heavier
Than Year Ago.


Than Year Ago.
Washington, March 15.-The monthly
report of the imports and exports OF
the United States for February last
shows as follows;
Merchandising Sos, $50,
of which nearly $31, 100000 was free OF
duty. The increase for the month, as
compared with February, 1899, was S.
100000. Exports, S119, 765, 762; increase
about sec, 100000.
Gold imports, 81, 800, 1878; decrease 3d.
100000. Exports, 81, 400, 65s; increase,
$3.50, 900.
Silver, imports, S2,7s6,o 95; increase
81, 900. Exports, S4,952,644; in
crease, $685.
During the last eight months there
was an increase in the imports of mer-
chandise of $127, S67,7 1884, as compared
with the corresponding period last year,
and an increase of $76, 439,S2 in the
exports of merchandise; decrease in
the imports of gold of $45, ,S1s, and
an increase of $l2, 62s, $50 in the exports
of gold. The imports of silver show
an increase or $573, 662, and the exports
of silver decrease of s., zoos, 1855.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
EInnrss nv RriedenthaI.

Topeka, March 19.-The state banks
show gross earnings of 34.3 per cent
and net earnings of $3.50, 4s6. 20, or las
per cent. Two hundred and seven
state banks, with capital of 81, 1854, 500,
paid dividends of s4ss. elO. Sc, fraction
less than 10 per cent. One hundred
and thirteen banks, with capital of
81, 34l, O75, paid no dividends. While
these banks. paid no dividends, there
were only nine state banks which
failed to show net earnings for the
year.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Jennie Creek Goes To Paris.

Fort Wayne, Ind, March 19.-Miss
Jennie Creek of Mill Grove, comely
girl of IS, will wear the star of the
French Legion of Honor and attend
the Paris exposition as her reward in
saving a Pan Handle worlds fair
special from being wrecked on Sep
tember 10. 1893. She discovered the
railroad bridge near her home on fire,
and taking off her red flannel skirt,
tagged the train. Only one other
lady is entitled to the honor of wear
ing such a star.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Wages Too High in New York.

New York, March 19.-The American
Tobacco company discharged its entire
list of 500 employees, men and women,
from the cigar factory at Fifty-second
street and the East river, and it will
move it's plant to its factories in Rich
mond, Va, Baltimore, Cincinnati and
Lancaster, Pa. Manager Gordon said:
Labor is too expensive here, and we
can get it cheaper in the other places. "
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Naval Officers Dismissed.

Washington, March 17.-As result
of an investigation of affairs on the
hospital ship Missouri on her trip out
from New York to Manila and then
back to San Francisco, Quartermaster
General Ludington has directed the
dismissal from the transport service of
Captain Dillon, master of the ship, and
the third officer.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Burghers Going Home.

London, March 19.-The Daily Mail
has the following dispatch from Lou
reno Marques: ''Intrenching is pro-
ceeding on the Vaal river at Vereeynig.
Late arrivals from Pretoria say that
the Beers themselves now admit that
their cause is hopeless General Lucas
Meyer refuses to fight again and has
-etn-ped 10 his farm General Schalk-
also returned, and the
going home by the hun
lis report is said to be
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Johannesburg Mines.

Paris, March 19.-The possibility of
the Beers destroying the mines is
causing some anxiety among French
financiers who hold one-third of the
shares. The Gaulois devotes an article
to the subject and calls upon the
financiers of Europe TO furnish the
Beers with the means of resisting
British invasion.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
The Sultan is Worried.

Constantinople, March 17.-There is
great anxiety in official circles here
regarding the Russian governments
refusal to modify its demands regard
ing railroad concessions in Asia Minor.
The Turkish government advises
against submission, and the sultan is
awaiting a military report on the
strategical aspect of the question be-
fore giving a decision.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Iowa Coal Miners.

Des Moines, Ia, March 19.-The con-
ference of coal miners and operators
which has been in session since Feb
ruary &c, adjourned after adopting a
uniform scale of prices for mining
which amounts to about IS per cent
increase for the miners. There will
likely be an increase in the price of
coal of about 10 per cent to meet the
Increased cost of mining.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Only Guerilla Bands.

Washington, March 16.-Acting Sec
rotary Meilzlejohn says;
"All the official and private advices
1 have received show that the insur-
gent forces in the Philippines have
disintegrated and that many of their
members have and are returning to
their homes and ordinary vocations.
The insurgents now in the field are or
ganized into guerilla bands, which
General Otis is destroying as fast as
DOssible
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23
Hard Luck For AguinaIdo.

Manila, March 17.-Flores, Aguinal-
dos secretary of war, has surrendered
to General Macarthur. Aguinaldo's
infant son, who was captured in No
vember and who has been suffering
from smallpox, is dead. Aguinaldo is
supposed to be in Japan still.