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An Important Papal Appointment

Washington, May 5.-Formal notice of an appointment made by the pope was received by the papal dele gation here today, when the official brief recognizing the very Rev. Benjamin Kelley, D. D., as bishop Savannah, Ga.. arrived. Archbishop Marineili, the papa1 delegate in
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What is a Tonic :?


 A tonic is any remedy that invigorates the nervous system. A weakened nerve either needs more rest or more nutri- ton. A true tonic accomplishes both these ends. It procures more rest by removing all irritation, and it increases nutrition by regulating the digestive organs. This is why Peruna is to be classed as tonic.
 Spring Lassitude.
 Why is nervousness more frequent in the spring? Why do the people feel languid, tired and depressed as hot weather approaches? Because the in- vigoration of winter weather has acted as stimulus to the nervous system. In spring this is gradually removed. It puts a severe strain on the human sys- tenn to adjust itself to the climatic change from winter to summer. Many diseases are acquired at this season of the year. Peruna is indispensable to tide the nervous system over this un- usual strain. No one should neglect to take short course of Peruna during the spring. It will fortify the system against the depressing influences of hot weather. Buy bottle to-day and com- mence.
 Mrs. Hannah Lind, 1132 E Long street,
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 Medicine Company, Columbus, certainly nnexceed
 
  
 Washington ndmansy must mphehM Pndd m n awo1ynp npuhdo respected fhomea dbd
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Judge Willard Dead

Washington, May 5.-Amiel J. Willard, chief justice of the supreme court of res construction days. died suddenly today in his 79th year. A
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PERSONAL.

Miss Sadie Randolph. who has been the guest of Mrs T. V. Boardman, left for her home in Greensboro last night.
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Columbus, Ohio, writes: "For years I
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BOOKER WASHINGTON PRAISES PERUllA.

Booker T. Washington the famous educator, founder of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, has done more than any col ored man now living for the advance ment of his race in this country.
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mine, after a running fight with the
guards, are still at large. The men took
shelter in the timber that surrounds the
penitentiary, and in the shots ex-
changed last evening before darkness
made further pursuit impossible, it was
believed that one of the convicts had
been shot. Search at daylight, how
ever, indicated that neither was hit.
Armed mounted guards are today
searching the timber in all directions.
Sam Smith, the convict shot by one Of
the guards during the break for liberty,
81 still alive. but will die. Smith first
came to the Kansas penitentiary from
Sumner county in February, 1898, under
a years sentence for grand larceny.
He broke away from an outside guard
in the following June, stole horse and
rode to Butler county, where he took
part in a robbery of train and killed
a man. Smith was convicted of murder
and brought back in December, 1898,
under sentence of death.
1890 p. m.-Estell and Cravens have
been surrounded in an old farm barn
west of the prison, and reinforcements
have been sent to the posse. The con-
victs are heavily armed. The barn is
surrounded and will be fired If the con-
victs refuse to surrender. Warden Tom
1inson has sent to the federal prison for
Krag-Jorgensen rifles, his guns being
deemed insufficient.
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BIG INTERNAL REVENUES.
Best Year But One in History of the
Service.

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE annual re-
port of the commissioner Of internal reve-
nue., for the fiscal year ended June 80.
1900, shows collection exceeded but once
in the history of the bureau. The receipts,
1926, 1856, ,1O7, being s1O,S16,107 ins excess Of
the estimated amount, and $21S31, 534
more than during the previous year. The
percentage of cost of collection was 1.5S
as against 1.6S for last year, being the
smallest in the history of the internal
revenue service. Commissioner Wilson
estimates the receipts from all sources of
internal revenue for the current fiscal
year will approximate $295 100000. A
number of amendments are recommend
ed to be made to the war revenue act.
The clause of the law which probably
has given more trouble in it's administra-
ton than any other is that which requires
a tax of ten cents on certificate of any
declaration required by law not other
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American was finally overpowered and
put under guard. He was soon released,
but according to his statement he was
struck while under arrest by French
6ff1cer. The man stated that two guards
held their bayonets at his heart while an
officer hit him in the face, cutting a cash
over his eye. The matter is now under
investigation.
The feeling between the French and
American soldiers apparently dates from
the killing of Corporal Hughes of the
3rd artillery some weeks ago by French
sentry, whom he, with two companions,
attempted to rush in order to cross the
bridge after dark. The camps Of the 18th
infantry, the 3rd artillery and section
OF the French force are very close and
there is evidently considerable bad blood
between the two. It cropped recently
when French soldier cut the lead team
I of an American army wagon across the
head with stick. The teamster jumped
out of the wagon, and, according to re-
ports, gave the offender and several of
his companions some pretty rough hand
ling.
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GREAT NORTHERN SUPREME
GIGANTIC COMBINATION OF R0ADSN0RTHERN PACIFIC WILL
BE CONTR0LLE BY J. J. HILL

New York, Nov. 17.-The Mail and Ex-
press today prints the following:
Two gigantic railroad deals, involving
the Northern Pacific, Great Northern
and Union Pacific, on the one hand, and
the Atchison, Southern Pacific sys-
TENS, on the other hand have Just been
completed and will shortly be announced.
This statement is officially made by
one of the highest executive officers Of
the Northern Pacific company who ad-
mits that his company is about to pass
under the control of the Great Northern,
according to the long cherished plan OF
j, ]. Hill of the latter road.
Mr.. Hill is acting in close harmony
with ]. Pierpont Morgan, who is the
chief factor in the management Of the
Northern Pacific, and 1t is for the pur-
pose of putting through the big COM
bination that the Northern Pacific voting
trust has been dissolved.
There Is to be no consolidation or
lease of one property to another, for
Messrs. Hill and Morgan recognize that
the laws of certain western states would
not permit of such thing. Mr.. Nor.
gan and Mr.. Hin, acting with the
Deutsche bank Of Berlin, which always
has been a large owner of Northern Pa
cif1c stock. have recently greatly added
to their holdings of Northern Pacific
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WILL BE NO INQUEST.
Nothing Left for Coroner to Work
Upon.

Limon, Col, Nov. 17.-No inquest, it
is said will be held over the remains
OF Preston Porter, Jr., commonly known
rs John Porter, who was burned at a
stake near Lake Station last evening
by mob to avenge the murder of
Louise Frost, which the young negro
confessed he had committed In fact,
the coroner can find no remains upon
which to hold an inquest. A few men
remained last evening on the spot on
the prairie where the murder was COM
mitted and renewed the fire again and
again until every vestige of the negro
was gone. The iron rail to which the
victim was bound, will be left standing
as warning to all inclined to deeds
similar to that for which young Porter
was burned.
A mound of earth has been piled up
around the iron rail, covering the ashes
and 1t will remain as monument in
sight of all passing trains. 1t is esti-
mated that 700 people witnessed the ex-
ecution. No women remained during
the cremation. but many of them went
to the scene before the fire was lighted
and the negro was led from carriage
for inspection.
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WEYLER'S CUBAN ARMY JOKE
EASIER FOR HIM TO WIN BATTLES NOW THAN AT THE TIME THE
WAR WAS ON.

San Francisco, Nov. 17.-Major General
w. r. Shafter, when asked to comment
on Gen. Weylers criticism Of the Spanish
conduct of the war in Cuba. was not in
clined to take Weyler's assertion SER
iously. He said that evidently Weyler
was talking for effect as every military
men knew that Spaniards in Cuba. with
out the aid of a fleet to prevent the land
ing of invaders in any required number.
could not have held the island against
the Americans. Gen. Shafter adds:
II do not care to speak of Gen. Wey-
ler's record in Cuba or whether or not he
has received unjust censure.
ut is very we'll known that the force of
Spain in Cuba outnumbered by several
times the force landed for the reduction
of Santiago, but there was but few avail
able to operate against the American
troops.
Had the $1,000 troops stationed at
other points not far from Santiago
promptly moved to the attack on the
Fifth army corps the difficulties of the
Americans would have been greatly in
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FREE FIGHTS s
FRENCH AND AMERICAN TROOPS
IN CHINA NOT ON GOOD
TERMS.

Tien Tsin China, October 24.-The
presence of a large number of troops
here, in contiguous camps and with ma.
turally existing pickets, is causing con-
siderable friction and several unpleasant
incidents have occurred. So far, how
ever, none of them have progressed be-
yond the stage of Incidents easily ad-
justed, and on all sides there is very
evident disposition to treat these occur
rences as the natural result of military
conditions. One of the chief causes of
friction has been the number of pom
toon bridges thrown across the river,
There arc three of these within the space
crowded with junks and towboats, some
conflict has been the result. Most of the
trouble has occurred at the French
bridge, and twice trouble has resulted
between the French guards and the
American sentries on the boats.
A few days ago a string of twenty
junks coming down the stream was held
UP at the French bridge for several
hours, in spite of the protests of the
American guards on boart. Finally
word reached the American headquar-
ters of the condition of affairs and an
officer was sent up to the bridge. He
found French sentinel on the forwa "a
boat and promptly ordered him off.
Their was sharp interchange between
the American and French officers but the
sentry was removed. Gen. Sumner then
arrived and the result was that the
bridge was opened and the boats allowed
to pass. A day or two ago there was an
other bit of friction in which both sides
rather overstepped the limit and are
fairly chargeable with some blame. The
bridge regulations require that only one
boat may go through at time. A fleet
of junks in charge of a non n-commission-
ed American soldier came down and an
attempt was made to take three of them
through the draw abreast. In coming
through the junks jammed in the draw
and the American on the leading beat
and the French bridge guards clashed.
The French attempted to arrest the
American, and fist fight ensued in
which one Frenchman went overheard,
and several were badly used up. The
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shares until they have a majority IN
the great pool This is to be turned
over to the Great Northern, giving the
latter control of its rival. The Great
Northern, 1t is believed. will pay for this
huge block OF Northern Pacific stock
by the issue OF new Great Northern
combination stock or by means of a new
security yet to be determined,
The dissolution of the Northern Pa
cific voting trust, which becomes ef-
fectinve on January l next, instead or
q year later, as originally proposed. win
permit the distribution of the stock of
the company. as above proposed. and
enable James J. Hill to take control of
the property.
I Mr.. Hill and several of his friends
will enter the directory of the North
ern Pacific. some Of Mr.. Morgan's asso-
ciates in the Northern will be elected
directors of the Great Northern and
Union Pacific interests will also have
representatives in the boards of the
pther two northern railroads. It is in
furtherance Of this colossal deal that
11r. Hill has decided to relinauish the
presidency of the Great Northern to
his son, Samuel Hill, who is now gem
eral manager of the company. Mr.. Hill
will remain chairman of the board of
directors.
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! Washington, Nov. 17.-Brig. Gen. A. w.
Greedy, chief signal officer Of the army,
In his annual report, says that the sig
nal corps exceeded in amount of work
and varieties of duties performed the
record Of any previous year.
Referring to Alaska and Canada, where
he endeavored to make arrangements for
telegraphic communication with the mill
itary posts in Canada, Gen. Greedy says
Sir Wilfrid Laurier. the Canadian pre-
mier, showed marked interest in the mat
ter ana an appropriation was made by
the Canadian parliament for extending
the Canadian telegraph line down the
banks Of the Yukon to the Alaskan boun-
darv.
Gen. Greedy approves the recommenda-
ton Of the commanding general in Alas
ha for cable from Skagway to Valdes
and from Skagway to Seattle. passing
lotte islands to avoid international COM
plications. This would be about 1900
miles long, and cost about $500, 900. He re-
cards the connections as absolutely nec-
eseary for the use of the government in
Alaska.
The report shows that the telegraph
service in Cuba is more satisfactory than
ever before and is conducted at a greatly
reduced tariff from that charged under
Spanish rule.
A brief summary Of what the signal
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GOOD WORK OF SIGNAL CORPS
BEST YEAR IN ITS HIsToRY-CUBA ALASKA, PHILIPPINES,
NETWORK OF STEEL NERVES.

corps accomplished in the Philippines is
as follows:
On June, 1899. there We're in existence
only 1876 miles of telegraph line which
connected division headquarters with the
various garrisons and outposts in Luzon.
One year later Bats miles of signal corps
land lines and cables were operating, be-
sides S03 miles of field lines constructed
during the year. but which are no long,
er in existence.
On June 80, 1900, there We're in opera
ton 3,007 miles of telegraph lines and
cables with 406 telegraph and telephone
offices, of which no less than 301 connect
ed directly with the headquarters of the
commanding general at Manila, the total
number of messages sent and received
during the year aggregating 1,4S1, ,04O. AL
though the signal corps is designated
non-combatant, Gen. Greedy refers to the
fact that in the Philippines for the past
year the percentage of strictly war cas-
ualties exceeds that Of the army as
whole. Out Of force of 302, there have
been killed wounded or captured, 12 men.
In connection with the proposed Amer.
ican Pacific cable, Gen. Greedy calls at
tention to the necessity for amended in
ternational cable regulation, and avs
that the various defects brought to no.
tice by the Spanish american war could
be brought to the notice Of an interna-
tional cable conference.
He recommends a cable from the Unit
ed States to the Philippines
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Bishop Potter Of New York Takes Mayor
Van Wyck to Task on Questions
Of Vice.
May BE SECOND PARKHuRST
..MMANY HALL WILL HAVE A F0EMAN WORTHY OF THEIR
STEEL-B|SH0P WILL CARRY MATTERS
80, TO CONCLUSION.

base completely of the police of New YorN
with the lowest forms of vice and crime.
they are subject.
"And, in the name of these little ones.
these weak and defenseless little ones.
Christian and Hebrew, alike Of many
races and tongues. but of homes where
God is feared and his law of decency
honored, exemplified, call upon you, sir,
tc save these people who are in a very
real way committed to your charge.
from living hell, defiling, deadly, dam
ming to which the criminal supiness that
made you the authority for the de-
Tense of decency and goor order threat-
ems to doom them.'
Bishop Potter, in conclusion, says he
has no methods to suggest for the bet
tering of the conditions; these are in the
hands of the mayor. He says his letter
is in accordance with instructions laid
on him by the convention Of the Episco-
pal church Of this diocese and he leaves
the matter in the mayors hands.
Mayor Van Wyck at once replied to the
bishop by letter in which he said he had
passed the bishops communication to
the district attorney, and then adds:
II wish here to assure you that I will
exert every power which the law has
given " IlSHI lHo wrongs ana 10 CO
away with the conditions of which you
complain, and to secure a hearty and eff
oient cooperation by the police depart
ment with all who are working to do
away with public violations of law and
dccency. I stand ready at all times to
assist and cooperate with you in this
matter"
Mayor Van Wycks letter to the dis
trict attorney requests him to cooperate
with Bishop Potter and the police depart
ment in the movement. In a letter to
the board Of police commissioners the
mayor encloses a copy of the bishops
letter and directs the commissioners to
at once conduct a searching investiga-
ton into the conduct of two police
officials, who, the bishop says, insulted
the clergyman. He also directs them to
at once do away with the conditions
complained of on the east side. The
mayors closing paragraph is:
Il wish it distinctly understood that to
this end I shall use to the utmost limit
all the power vested in me, and that T
shall hold to personal responsibility those
who fail to exert themselves in like
manner"
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creased, but I do not think they could
have been driven into the sea. 1t is poS-
sible, however, that if these troops had
cO-operated with the 5000 troops that did
reinforce the troops on Santiago on the
night of July 2, in making vigorous at
tack. they might have placed the Ameri-
can army on the defensive for flew
days, but the ultimate capture of Santia-
go could only have been delayed. Gen.
Linares kilograms to his government as
to the condition Of offairs clearly indi-
cate this.
THAT the fleet was necessary for the
preservation Of Spanish possession in
Cuba was clearly shown by the fact that
Immediately after its destruction and the
surrender of $4,000 Of the 10000 soldiers
then in Cuba, Overtures for peace wero
commenced, the island being then abso-
lutely at the mercy of the American
army and navy.
Results are more conclusive than
theories, and what General Weyler might
or might not have done is a matter
which appears to be Of very little inter.
est at this time."
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Negro Ravisher and Murderer Burned at
the Stake By an Avenging
Mob.
NO HANGING IN COLORADO
LAW COULD NOT GIVE ADEQUATE PUNsAMENT-FATHER OF
THE GIRL VICTIM APPLIES
THE ORCH.

Limon, Col, Nov. 17-John Porter or
Preston Porter, his true name. was
taken from the hands Of the sheriff.
who was bringing him back to the scene
of his crime and burned at the stake in
the presence of hundreds of silent de-
termined men. The torch was applied
by the father of the murdered girl,
Louise Frost, who was one of the lead
ers Of the gathering. There was no
cheering, no shouting, no waste of
words, as the crowd gathered around
the depot when the train came in,
bearing the sheriff and his prisoner.
The spokesman demanded the criminal,
and the sheriff could not but obey.
The negro was taken to the exact spot
where the crime was committed, a Sec
tion of railroad rail was set in the
ground and the wretch bound to it so
securely that he could not move. Fire
0ood was heaped around him, kero-
Hene oil poured over all and then the
torch applied. 1t was many minutes
before the shrieking, agonized victims
cries were stilled in the fierce flames.
1t had been proposed to hang Porter
and the crowd went prepared with
ropes' for the purpose. But that seemed
too easy a death, and the other plan
was quickly carried into effect, After
death, some of the crowd remained to
keep UP the fire until not a semblance of
human flesh was left at the stake.
Bones and flesh had all given way to
crumbling ashes which the wind has
scattered in all directions. The iron rail
to which Porter was chained Is left
standing, grim warning to all other
hendish criminals who may have such
crimes as his in their hearts.
There is little likelihood of any legal
action being taken against the avengers
of the dead girl. The movement was
popular one, and the people joining
almost en- masse in the execution. Gov.
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New York, Nov. 17.-Bishop c. Potter,
of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
New York, has sent letter to Mayor
Van Wyck in reference to vice in this
city, and especially on the east side
This letter is the one promised some
weeks ago, when the bishop publicly an
nounced that one of his rectors had been
grossly insulted by the commanding Of
ficials of a certain police station, and
that he proposed to take up the matter
in a manner which the heads of the po-
lice force should feel.
Bishop Potter first calls attention to
the work that is being done at the Epis-
copal cathedral, 106th street, in endeav-
oring to improve the conditions of the
east side tenement district, in which it
is located, and says it has peen recog-
nized as an important factor in pro-
noting the virtue and good order Of
the community in which it ministers. He
goes on to tell how, when the clergymen
at the police station Of the precinct went
to complain of the notorious condition of
affairs, one of them was told by the po-
lice captain that he lied, and that when,
disheartened by such an experience, the
clergyman carried his complaint to a
higher authority in the police depart
ment, he was met with insolent derision.
The bishop continues:
II am not, beg to say, unmindful Of
the fact that the existence of vice in a
great city is practically an inevitable
condition of the life of such a communi-
ty. I am not demanding that vice shall
be stamped out" by the police or any
other civil authority. This is task
which would demand for its achieve
ment a race of angels and not of men.
But I approach you, sir, to protest with
all my power against a condition of
things in which vice is not only tolerat-
ed, but shielded and encouraged, and in
the name of an unsullied youth and in
nocence of young girls and their moth
ers. who, though living under conditions
often of privation and the hard struggle
for livelihood. have in them every in
stinct of virtue and purity that are the
ornaments of any so-called gentlewo-
man in the land, and before God and in
the face of the citizens of New York, I
protest, as my people have charged me
to do, against the haIbitual insult, the
persistent menace, the unutterably de-
filing contacts, to which, because of the
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wise specified in the act 1t is recon-
mended that this be abolished
The receipts from the various sources
during the year were: Spirits, $1O9, $685.
S17, an increase of $10,585,2S3 Tobacco,
$59,355,0S4, an increase Of ,$6S61S76. Fer
mented liquors $73,550,754, an increase of
$4,906 1856. Oleomargarine, $2,543,7S5, an
increase of $5S7,166 Filled cheese, $17, ,064,
decrease, $1,033. Mixed flour, $7,439, de-
crease, $4o1. Other special taxes, includ-
ing theaters, $4,155, GAO, decrease, $405, 1852
Legacies and dstributive shares of per-
sonal property $2,sS4, ,491, increase, 81, ,649,
O56. Schedules A and B, $40, 1854 ,465, an in
crease of $2,S73,453. Miscellaneous, 1921,
decrease, $1.795.