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Evening star., 1901-11-18
Examination for Assistant Astrono-


The civil service commission announces
that. at the request of the board Of visitors
to the United States naval observatory. an
examination will be held on December IL,
II and 13. at various places throughout the
United States for the position of assistant
astronomer In the United States naval OBJ
servatory. at salary OF 81 800 per annum.
The examination will consist OF pure
mathematics. practical and spherical as
tIonomy, celestial mechanics. general me-
chanfcs, optics, French and German. ex-
perience in making astronomical observa-
tions. in making astronomical computa-
tions, In making and repairing. mounting
and dismounting and in caring for astrono-
mioal instruments, including auxiliary ap-
paratus: also ability to carry on original
astronomical investigations as evidenced
by printed or written memoirs, certificates,
etc
Evening star., 1901-11-18
GATHMANN GUN TESTED AGAIN.
The First Shot q Failure, Second a
Partial Success.

The Gathmann aerial torpedo and the big
eighteen-inch gun were tried at the proving
ground at Sandy Hook Saturday.
Two shots were fired and the heavy
charge Of wet gun cotton with which each
shell was loaded was detonated. The first
torpedo fired did not damage the plate or
backing to any great extent. The second
was more successful. cracking the plate
from top to bottom and doing considerable
damage to the bracing.
Each shell contained 500 pounds Of wet
guncotton. and 216 pounds OF powder were
used to drive them from the gun.
The hrst shot was fired shortly before
noon. The shell was placed on q Carriage
and then inserted in the big gun The tar
get was mile away. When the shot was
Evening star., 1901-11-18
Commander Grimn's New Duties.

Lieut. Commander Robert 8. Griffin, who
has been attached to the bureau of steam
engineering for some time past as an as
sistant to Rear Admiral Melville, has been
ordered to duty on the battleship Illinois
in place Of Lieutenant James NJ. Pickrell
who has been placed on sick leave. Lieut.
Chas. w. Dyson. on duty in the bureau Of
steam engineering, viii succeed to the du-
ties heretofore performed by Commander
Griffin.
Evening star., 1901-11-18

Expedition of Artistic Photography.
The Department Of State has received q
note from the Italian embassy At Washing
ton. asking that announcement be made
that the exposition Of decorative art at
Turin win comprise q section OF artistic
photography. Full particulars may be had
from the committee Of the exposition. e.
tablished for the United States at the con-
York.
Evening star., 1901-11-18

Conflicts resulting In much bloodshed are
reported to have occurred between Mussrl-
mans and Christians at Beyrout.
Evening star., 1901-11-18

man was stabbed and, It Is feared,
fatally injured In election riots In Galway.
Ireland. Saturday.
Evening star., 1901-11-18
I'm the Popular=Priced Garments,
$500. $3.50 and SIS. 90.

Our OF shapes and cloths Included
loose backs the tight backs the semng those with yokes and those
without yokes with regular sleeves and with
cuffs, and all other good styles.
Evening star., 1901-11-18
Fur NeCkpieCes and Wuffs.
And earlY selections are alWaYs best.

Black Narten Cluster Boas $50 Baum Maren Seamer Boas,
SS75 $1,000 and SI25o very elegant, $1,000.
Maren Sreamer Boas Sable Fox Straight Boa with
SI2e $3.50 and large FOX tals and Claws SI25o
Mink Cluster Boas $50 SS75, qiS Ss} anu POP
SaS ~ q' D-'' o anu from to yards long, $4,000,
Nj c. D. e S2o. 50, $1,000, S34oo and $500
eS Do"S' qlaoo' Isabella Fox Long Straight
9oo anu go" an elegant collection, $500, $I85 5o
stone Nlarten Streamer Boas $500, $4,000 and $500
@lo5o ana s2oo - Blue Lynx Boas, $500 and
Stone Marten Cluster Boas,I
SI25o and $500. Black LYNX Boas, SCI co.
Attention is also called to very complete line of
Childrens Holiday Furs,
and would that
is better than it will be just before Christmas
Prices from ST 90 to $1,000 set.
and included
Imitation Ene Imitation Chnchia Angora Electric Chincila
lhlbet Brook Mink, Sable OPossum Opom Nua, Krmmer
floor
Evening star., 1901-11-18
The New Funs.

Furs fashionable and they
Every form and shape that these rch
taken this show and called magnificent
Evening star., 1901-11-18

Handsome Black Cheviot PaddOcks, lined through
out with silk, and made with a yoke. This gar
ment has tight back and extends only to the knees,
and is quite popular.
$4,000 each.
Evening star., 1901-11-18

Handsome Black Cheviot Garments extending to
the bottom # the dress: lined throughout with fine
black satin Made with yoke back and front;
semi tight fitting an exceptional garment at
$500 each.
Evening star., 1901-11-18
Women's Wrap Department
Now Displaying
Fashionable Long Carr
WrT1arkefs, Automobiles,
Box Coats, Rain Coats, Paletots,

Handsome BroadclOth ard Venetian Long Gar
ments, in black, tans, browns and castors; very
superior CLOTH made in the pleated belted-in
back style, with yoke back and front-the very
newest shape In long garments this
S2S.OO each.
Evening star., 1901-11-18
SidebOards.

Very Neatly Carved Solid Oak Sidesaard
with beveled plate mirror. A very Gm 1E
SVO SdD for Fine Oak Sidcboards. worth
~@@sSV fully $50
500 VS fer Very Handsome Oak side
board, worth at least $40.
Evening star., 1901-11-18

Handsome Black Cheyiot Garments extending 10
the bottom OF the dress and lined throughout with
superior satin Made with yoke front and back
with numerous rows Of stitching outlining the yoke;
the back is In the new loose automobile shape. \
very stylisl and dressy garment
$1,000 each.
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

France bought $So9,200 worth of
toys of Germany in 1900.
st. Petersburg, Russia, is discussing
S1O0,0O0,000 overhead railroad.
Residents in England have e110,-
100000 invested in mortgages in for
eign countries.
The expectation of beer from
France has increased in ten years
from 947,421 gallons to 2,144,O3o gal
Ions.
Holland has 1O,100 windmills, each
of which drains 80 acres of land, at
an average cost of 25 cents an acre
year.
The recent census of Malta gives
the total population, including troops,
as $4,000, an increase in ten years of
about 5000.
At meeting of the National Poul-
try Organization association il was
stated that the annual consumption
of eggs in the United Kingdom aver
ages 100 per head of the population.
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
To Identity Her Picture.

She pictured his room with her photo
graph smiling down at him from over the
mantel, while another of her pictures
ooked demurely at him from leather case
on the dresser.
She could see him often standing in front
of her mirrored likeness and making VOWS
of constancy and fidelity. She knew he
would rather part with anything ne had
relied and she felt she must ask him to, re-
turn her photographs, and she wrote to him
accordingly. -,--,-
tainted. Here is what the wretch wrote:
"Dear Mabel: I would like awfully much
to return your pictures, but honestly you
girls all dress and pose so much alike for
pictures that 1 can't tell any two of you
apart. If you like, | will send you over
300 or 400 pictures that | have of miscel-
laneous girls, and you can pick yours out.
Hoping this will be satisfactory, | am, sim
cerely, etc, etc"-Chicago Tribune.
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
MARsHALS AND MooNSHINERS
Government officials Ambushed Nenr
Monterey, Tenn, and the
whisky Makers Win.

Washington, July 21.-Commission-
er Yerlles, of the internal revenue
bureau, has received the following
telegram from Collector d. A. Num-,
at Nashville, Tenn:
Deputy Collectors Bell and Stone,
accompanied by Deputy Marshal
Price, Special Enlployc Floyd and two
possemen, went on raid near Mon
terey. They were ambushed at A
o'clock this morning. Deputy Mar
shal Price killed. Possemen Corder
and Mackey wounded. One moon
sinner severely wounded. Body of
Price was left on tie ground. Posse
organized to return and recover the
body"
Commissioner Ierkes has tele-
graphed the collector directing that
everything possible be done to re-
cover the body of Marshal Price, and
tc capture and punish the moonshin.
eIs.
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
SIBERIAN CROP FAILURE.
Grent Grain Producing Regions
Have Suffered From "a Two
Months Drought.

London, July 21.-A dispatch to the
Evening Standard from Odessa says
that according to the reports of spe-
cial agents the Siberian crops appear
TO be nearly a total failure.
In the great grain-producing regions
OF Minussinsk and Krasnoyarsk, al
most the entire growth of cerals has
perished as result of the two
months drought. The South Rus
sian crop may be described upon the
whole as fairly average, yet there are
disastrous shortages in the populous
districts in the Ekatrinoslaff govern
ment, and an instance is cited of the
utter destruction of about 900 acres
OF grain by hail storms and the Hes
sian fly.
l he worst of all are the Volga prov
lnees' The peasantry of this vast re-
gioh are alredy practically destitute,
lhcy have sold the cattle and horses
they could not feed, and have CON
hulhed nearly their whole scanty
S'ogNs of food and seed grain.
iie lSussian minister of ways and
communications is making active pro-
'lSioh for the timely transportation
OF 1000, grain sad other supplies
from the south.
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
Goes Round the Earth in 90 DAYS,
13 Hours, 20 Minutes,
AZ As Seconds.
CHARLES CICIL FITMORRIS AGE II YEARS
The Records of George Francis
Train, Nellie BLY, are Laid i'm the
shade-WelcOmed to Chicago by
the Acting Mayor, Col. Cody and
His Father and Mother.

Chicago, July 2t.-Charles Cecil
Fitzmorris, the 17-year-old Chicago
schoolboy who was one of three lads
sent out by w. Il. Hearst, the news
paper proprietor, in an attempt to
break the record for the trip around
the world, arrived here at 6:55 a. M,
in time which breaks previous records
made by George Francis Train and
Nellie Bly,.
He was met at the union depot by
his parents, Acting Mayor Block,
Col. VIM. Cody, and numerous friends,
but he tarried only moment, as a
carriage was waiting to whisk him
to 214-16 Madison street, the point
from which he had started.
AT this point it was announced that
the young man had made the trip of
20545 miles in exactly so days, 13
hours, % minutes, AZ As seconds, win
ming easily from his competitors sent
out from New York and San Francis
co. The time given includes delays
and stops equal to about six days.
Some of the longer stages of his
journey were made as follows:
Chicgago to New York, 900 miles,
25 hours.
New York to Queenstown, 1850
miles, 5 ID days.
Moscow to Irkoutsk (by raiD, $500
miles, days.
Ust Shiliia to Khabarovsk (by
steamer, LOO miles, 7 days.
Vladivostoek to Yokohama (by
steamer), 1850 miles, days.
Yokohama to Victoria, ALA miles,
Il days.
Seattle to Chicago. 1900 miles, 31s
days.
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
Rest for the bowels.

No matter what ails you, headache to a
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature,
cure you without grippe or pain, produce
easy, natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put
up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. G. G..
stamped ON it. Beware of limitations.
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
A Balloon Aseensionist Killed.

A balloon ascensionist was recently killed
while making one OF his daring trips, Life
is too valuable to trihe with in fool-hardy
adventures. 1t is better to employ our
selves in peaceful pursuits, where we may
be secure. Then if we take care OF our
best means Of promoting health is Hostel.
ter's Stomach BEters. This medicine cures
dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, tiatu.
lehey and insomnia. Be sure and try it.
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
Men with WeaIx InteuectS

The captain on a Cunarder forced a
Skin" gambler to give up his gains. The
gambler, of course, regards it as an unjust
discrimination, as man who does not
read the papers enough to keep away from
steamboat poker is pretty sure to give his
money to the first bunco man he meets
after he goes ashore.-Washingto Star.
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
A Ready Reply.

The wit of the tenement district urchin
is irresistible, sitting at naught the dig
nifty of the most dignifed among his VS.
itors. Some workers who are interested in
boys clubs recently met on the ground
floor of a tenement on the lower East side
and spent an evening discussing ways
and means;" at the end of the evening
the presiding officer, schoolman of great
repute, and thinker of precise and logi-
cal mind, undertook to sum up, the re-
cults. He did it with wonderful clear
ness, and his peroration was a work of
art but just as he reached his climax,
with his audience listening raptly, small
boy peeking through a hole in the win
dow shouted: you're a lobster!"-and
N Y Post,
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26

try package of LION COFFEE and will understand
the Of its popularity. - - -
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
DO Your Feet Ache and Burnt

Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot-East
powder for the feet. 1t makes tight or New
Shoes Feel Easy, Cures Corns, Itching,
Swollen, Hot, Gallous, Smarting, Sore ana
Sweating Feet. All Druggists and nc, Shoe
Stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE Ad.
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
B1oodshed Avoided.

Jones-What would you do if your bur
glar alarm went off in the night? :.
Brown-Well, in the dark, you know. 1t
would take me a good while to tind my
shoes and my pistol, and that would give
the burglar time to get away.-Detrolt Free
Press
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
DiIntOry.

'It's kind of discouraging, Ethel, said
Mr.. Cumrox; "kind of diseouraging.
What is, father"
"It's nearly month since you read your
your advice on how to run the government
yet."-Washington Star
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26
Insignifcant.

She-I don't believe you're telling the
truth.
He-You are most annoying sometimes.
| suppose you think you can read me like
a book. =, ,,
"O no. Like paragraph, should say"
philadelphia Press.
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26

"What is your husbands favorite fc>
tion" asked the inquisitive person. 81
can hardly say at moments notice." said
the patient wife, whether he prefers the
invalid-friend story or the detained-at the
office-on-business narrative. London Tit
Rits
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli-
Bile medicine for coughs and colds W.
Washington telegraph., 1901-07-26

Don't swear at the mercury May +
1t has been climbing up to find cool place
indianapolis News.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01
ASSASSIN PAYS PENALTY
Leon Czolgosz Electrocuted at AL.
bany, N. Y, by Due Process of
Law for His Awful Crime.
DEFIANT AND SELf-pOSSeSSeD TO END.
Breaks stiffness of Death Chamber
by Expressing satisfaction over
killing of President-CurrentP Puts
End 10 Outburst-Autopsy shows
Normal brain.

Auburn, y. y, Oct. 20.-At 7:12X
o'clock Tuesday morning Leon Cool.
gosz. murderer of President William
Mckinley, paid the extreme penalty
eXacted by the law for his crime. He
was shocked to death by 100 volts
of electricity. lie went TO the chair
in exactly the same manner as have
the majority of murderers in this
state, showing no particular sign of
fear, but in fact doing what few OF
them have done-talking TO the wit
nesses while he was being strapped
in the chair.
Il killed the president because he
was an enemy of the good people-of
the good working people. | am not
sorry for my crime"
These were his words as the guards
hurried him into the chair.
y moment later. mumbling through
the half-adjusted face straps, he said:
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01
Jumped on a Ten Penny Nail

The little daughter of Mr. j. n.
Powell jumped on an inverted rake made
of ten penny nails, and thrust one nail
entirely through her foot and second
one half way through. Chamberlain s
Pain Balm was promptly applied and
five minutes later the pain ! ad disap.
peared and no more suffering was ex.
perienced In three days the child was
wearing her shoe as usual and with alb.
solutely no discomfort Mr.. Powell is a
well known merchant Of Portland, Va
Pain Balm is An antiseptic snl heals
such injuries without maturation and in
one third the time required by the usual
treatment Foi ale by Bivins & Rhod, g..
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01
Who robs a scholar robs the public.

Last winter En- infant child Of mine
bad Group in violent form, " says Elder
John w. Rogers,a Christian Evangelist.
Of Filley, Mo. II gave her few doses
Of Chamberlain Cough Remedy and in
short time all danger was past and the
child recovered" This remedy not only
cures Group, but when given as soon as
the first symptoms appear, will prevent
the attack. It contains no opium ar
other harmful substance and may be
given as confidently 70 a baby as 10 an
adult For sale by Bivins IL Rhodes.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01
Hank snfe blown Omen

DeS Moines. Ia. Oct. 20.-The safe
in the bank of Huxley. at the town of
Huxley 30 miles north OF here. wa,
blown open 10y robbers during the
night and 500 was taken. The cit.
liens have organized a posse and are
now in pursuit of the perpetrators.
Chief of Police Mathis. of this city.
and a number OF officers have left for
Huxley to aid in the pursuit..
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01
That Throbbing Headache

Would quickly leave you, II you used
DR. Kings New Life Pills. Thousands
OF suffers have proved their matchless
merit for sick and nervous headaches
They make pure blood and build up your
health. Onty 25c. Money back IL not
cured. Sold by Sharrar * Mulholland.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01
Brain WINS Normal

Naturally almost the entire atten.
ton of the physicians assigned TO hold
the autopsy was directed towards dis
covering, if possible. whether the as
sassin was in any way mentally ire
sponsible. The autopsy was conduct
ed by DR.. Carlos F. Macdonald, +. 4.
Spitzka and Prison Physician Germ.
The top Of the head was sawed off
through the thickest part Of the skull.
which was found 10 be Of normal thick
ness, and it was the unanimous agree
ment of the microscopical eXamina-
ton that the brain was normal or
above normal. This demon
straled % the satisfaction of the ply
sic,anS thar in no way was Czorgosz'
mental condition. except as it might
have been perverted. responsible for
I he crime.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01

ters signed with full and proper names In
which coincidence was offered to the pris-
oner or threats against US were made. My
plan Is TO get the addresses OF these people
and keep the list for police reference be-
heVe that there may come a time when such
a list would be valuable In running down
anarchists. l have decided TO bury the
body Of Czolgosz in the regular prison plot
In the local cemetery. The funeral will
take place some time within the next 4S
hours. We will keep the grave guarded
day and night until such time as the
quicklime which will be placed around the
BODY shall have entirely destroyed H."
Electrician Davis made this state
ment as To the executions:
81 used LOO volts OF electricity. turnirg
II into the body at fun voltage for seven
seconds and then slowly reducing II for
- seconds. Then J threw the full voltage
on again for eight seconds. Then, at the
suggestion Of Or. Macdonald / turned IL
on again for few seconds did not think
there was any necessity for the third con-
tact, and the lack OF resistance shown when
IL was administered proved that life was
extinct The body showed eight amperes
or resistance. That Is little more than
would be given 10y larger or stouter man
where the current could have more chance
10 percolate. II was as successful an execu-
ton as ! have ever operated at In all my
experience
Rev Cordello Herrick, chaplain Of
the prison, was in the death chamber
ready for any call that might be made
Tor his services. lie was not wanted
by the prisoner. however, and sat
quietly in the rear OF the chamber
throughout the execution.
The clothing and personal effects of
the prisoner were burned. under di-
rection of Warden Mead, shortly after
the execution.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01

Cleveland. O., Oct. 20.-NeXt to the
witnesses in the death chamber at
Auburn prison where Leon Czolgosz
life was shocked out of existence
there were no more interested wit
nesses 10 the far-away vindcation of
justice than a little group of men
who had gathered in the local Office of
the press 10 learn the final act early
Tuesday. This group included the
next of kin, the nearest of all human
beings TO the assassin, his father and
two brothers. and half a dozen Of his
former neighborS in this city.
The same seeming Indifference that
has characterized the members of the
CzolgoSz family was maintained to
the end, and when the statement that
Leon Czolgosz had been put 10 death
was told 10 the old man i'm Polish his
fingers twitched uervously for a min
ute or so, a suspicion Of tear was
seen to come into his dark eyes and
he made reply in Polish TO friend
who acted as interpreter. The old
mans statement was 10 the effect
that, inasmuch "a il had to be. il
were better that il Is all over.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01
Current Turned On.

1t was just exactly 7:11 o'clock when
he crossed the threshold, but a min
ute had elapsed and he had just fin
ished the last statement when the
strapp.ng was completed and the
guards stepped back Warden Mead
raised hi, hand and at 7:12:3O Electri-
clan Davis turned the switch that
threw LOO volts Of electricity into the
living body.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01

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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01
In Communication with Mi.. SION.

Washington. Oct. 29-The state de.
partment has been advised by its
agents in Constantinople and Sofia
that communication has been estab-
'ished with Miss Stone. No details are
furnished.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01

The autopsy was completed shortly
before noon, when the surgeons issued
the following brief statements:
THE autopsy was made 10y Mr. Edward
a Sp.tzka. 81 New York. under the i'm
mediate supervision and direction of Or
Carlos +. Macdonald. Of New York and
Or John Germ, prison physician The
autopsy occupied over three hours and en-
hraced careful examination Of all the
bodily organs. including the brain The
examination revealed a perfectly healthy
state OF all the organs, Including the brain.
AL Of the physicians who attended the
,NecuiIon were present al the autopsy and
all concurred In the findings of the ex-
amintr>
(SigLeG)
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-01
Corning, Ohio, Nov. 8, 1901.
Pepsin Syrup Co.,
Monticello, Ill.

While visiting in Tsylorville, ILL.,, 1
came across your DIR. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin. Have used two and one.half
bottles and IL has done me more good
than all the medicine have used for two
years Please let me know il you will
send me three or four bottles and what
IL Will cost to send it to Corning, Perry
county. Ohio, and oblige, Mrs Sarah A.
McOracken. Sold by Sharrar 81 Mulhol
land.