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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20
than had the prodigal son.-Norwich

than had the prodigal son. n.-NorWlch Bulletin.
 Let's see, isn't it the four-leaf sham rock that's lucky? Sir Thomas, you'll have to build another boat we hope Providence Telegram.
 Nineteen indictments against lynch rioters in Danville, III, reads as Ii somebody was going to pay dearly for that bad nights work.-Springfield Union.
 According to Parks, all the members of his union are com fortably situated, and can keep up the strike forever. If it is so easy to live in idleness, why should anybody ever work ?-@New York World.
 General Miles has already got into the toastmaster's tour next presi- dent'' list. However, there will be a long list of them before next June, and, since in numbers there is safety the general may escape any real seri- ous eration.-Boston Herald.
 The change of air and scene which the Saturday half holiday makes pos sible, is powerful factor in averting physical and mental ills and should gc far toward putting the community in a position where it may resist the in sidious efforts of disease to gain g foothold. d.--Meriden Record.
 Hartford is plunning herself on the fact that she has more automobiles than any other city in the state. Some people do take such pride irmere com meTcfd1 superiority. However, there are differences. Over here there are some people who pride themselves or the fact that TorTington has less sa- looms than any other town in the state of equal population Darlington Reg lister.
 A boy in Milwaukee was recently committed to the house of correction for thirty days for stealing quantity of wood. When the commitment was made out it was discovered that thert was no constable present. So tht lawyer said to the prisoner: 'sJohnny you know where the house of correc ton is, don't you?' ''Yes, sir. EsWelI, here's five cents and. this pa per. You take a car and go there and give them this paper, and they will let you in. VIII you do it Sure" And John kept his word.- New Haven Courier and Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20
THEIR CAMS FOR THE CHURCH
Rare Collection Made for a Set of
 Chalices.


 The Rev Alexander P Doyle, who is collecting funds for the erection of the Apostolic mission house in Washing ton, and who has been gathering old jeWelry for a set of chalices for the mission house, sent to the shelter yes- terday enough precious metal and gems to make several chalices. Among the collection were trinkets from some of the oldest and proudest families in America.
 There were a number of gems with strange histories Among these was a large ring, which has evidently been taken from the hand of some high dig intary of the church. As these in signia are always buried with prelates and the giver of the gem is unknown, Father Doyle believes the ring may have been the spoil of grave robber.
 The ring is of ancient make and bears a cross in perfect pearls, with the setting carved in jet instead of gold. While examining it, secret spring was accidentally touched and the top setting was removed, revealing tiny reliquary containing what the Latin inscription declared to be a relique of the true cross.
 
 circle the column of one of the richest of all the chalices
 Another curious article in Father Doyle's collection is a solid silver chalice which was found in an ash bar rel in Chicago. How it got there is not known. It is thought that it was either stolen from Chicago church or brought from the Philippines after the war. when stories of robbing churches in and about Manila were nu- merous In either case it is thought that the person who had it could not dispose of it for gain and abandoned it. The collection includes forty-four rings with tout settings. chiefly wedding rngs, twenty-seven rngs with settings. and in all eighty ounces of pure gold. There are a brooch. with thirty-seven large turquoises, and a gold locket with five diamonds. Nearly every known precious stone Is represented in the pile. There are sixty-one half pearls, ten whole pearls and many diamonds, emeralds and garnets. The brilliants received number ffty-one.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20
NOT ovER-W1sE.

There is an old allegorica1 picture ot a girl scared at a grasshopper, but in the act of heedlessly treading on a snake. This is paralleled by the man who spends large sum of money building, a cyclone cellar, but negieets to provide his family with bottle of Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and Diar- rhoea Remedy as safeguard against bowel complaints, whose. victims out number those of the cyclone a hundred to one. This remedy is everywhere recognized as the most prompt and re liable medicine in use for these dis eases. For sale by all druggists.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20
Cure for Ta1kinr Hab,t.

Formula: One part horse sense, two parts manly determination to keep still; mix we'll, with an unlimited amount of the best quality of thought. 1t is impossible for a woman to talk all the time without saying lot of things that she shouldn't or without proving jolly bore to everybody about her. This tattling habit is not confined to women, though. Some men have the aff1iction terribly. Sometimes it's May wheat, sometimes it's Roose- welt, sometimes it's chess, sometimes it's baseball. A steady diet of one- kind conversation is always tiresome Take nibhIe of this and nibble of that, and your chatter will be more in- teresting particularly if there are plenty of rests between nibbles. Talk ing improves when there's silence by way of contrast Philadelphia h. uuirer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20
HEARD IN PASSING

Mir J. Pierpont Morgan is sadly in need of repairs in his wizard depart ment. Cleveland Leader.
 When the Waterbury strike was called off 1t had a worse appearance
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20
WANTED TO LIE DOWN
Old Woman Objected to Being Buried
 in an Upright Position.

For many years an old gray haired woman has stood near one of the iron gates of Warsaw, says an exchange, peddling crockery and other cheap articles. In sunshine and rain she stood there never sitting down, for the corner which the police gave her the privilege Of occupying was too marrow, and gradually she became so familiar a figure that when she van ished a year ago every one in the neighborhood heard the news and wondered what had become of her. Months passed and nothing was heard of the old woman, and her friends were beginning to forget her, when suddenly they saw her few weeks ago standing in her old place beside the iron gate A hearty wei come they gave her and then they asked her where she had been and why she had gone away.
 stOh I've a married daughter in London" she said. and went there. A good place it is, too, and had plenty to eat and drink. and l never did a stroke of work. My daughter, can tell you is well fixed. You should see the sofa she's got in her parlor."
 ssThen in heavens name, why did you come back" asked her friends.
 ..Pll tell you,'' she answered. "Lon- don, you see, is not like this place, for every foot of ground is worth a lot of money there. I never thought of that until I went to the funeral of one of my daughters neighbors a few days ago. A Pole he was and re spectable man. and thought 1t my duty to see him buried. Lord, but if you saw what took place in the ceme- tery There is so little room there that they bury their corpses standing for if they laid them down in the way Christians are usually buried they would be on top of each other Now you understand why I came back For more than fifty years I've stood here from early morning till late in the evening. and I don't want to die in a place where I'd have to stand af- ter I'm dead. Mono; a woman who has been standing all her life wants at any rate to lie down in her grave. Yes that's the reason I came back"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20
DYSENTERY CURED WITHOUT
 THE AID OF A DOCTOR.

'I am just up from a hard spell of the fux" (dysentery), says MT T. A. Primer, a well known merchant of Drummond, Tenn. ''I used one small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoed Remedy and was cured without having doctor. consider it the best cholera medicine in the world.' There is no need of employ ing doctor when this remedy is used, for no doctor can prescribe better medicine for bowel complaint in any form, either for children or adults. It never fails and is pleasant to take. For sale by all druggists.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20

When you want a pnysic that is mild and gentle, easy to take and certain to act, always use Cnamberlain's Stom- ach and Liver Tablets. Eos sale by all druggists,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20
WATER CRAFT AT WORLDS FAIR
More Than a Mile of Wide Lagoons
 Reaching Around Buildings.

St Louis, Aug 20.-Electric launches, large electric barges, Venetian gondo- las and a large number of other small craft will ply the mile of water ways at the worlds fair next year. The large boats will run over regular courses carrying passengers between landings which will be supplied in vari- ous parts of the grounds. The lagoons reach every section of the main pie ture of the exposition, passing by the facades of many of the big exhibit palaces and offering an unexampled view of the cascades and fountains. The intra-mural railroad and the mini ature railway do not reach this district so that the water transportation will be an attractive means of travel in the 'Fnaain picture"
 The electric launches will carry about twenty-two persons each, the barges seventy each and the pie turesque gondolas, with singing and playing gondo1iers. will carry from eight to twenty persons each. The lat ter will be rented by the hour. All boats will be equipped with awnings. Besides these boats there will be op- erated fleet of water craft of all na- tions. including the house-boat of China. the ba1so of India, the out-rig- ger of the South Sea islands. the surf boat of Hawaii, the canoe and dugout of the American Indian and the cata- maran of Australia. Novelty boats de- signed to represent peacocks. swans, sea serpent and other real and fahled beings will also be operated. Special boats, decorated and equipped with music and singing gondoliers. will be maintained for private boating parties, which will be a society feature of the exposition
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20

A number of people, and the list seems to be growing, are of the opin- ion that when the United States ac- quired the Philippines a white ele- phant was taken in charge which was not only going to prove troublesome but costly. The New York World in referring to the expenditure entailed in looking after our new possessions thus summarizes the financial bene- fits of imperialism: 'SBut the Philip pines stand by themselves, quite apart from our peacefully acquired posses sions. They represent the experiment of expansion by force, and our whole account with them is summed up in these round figures: Capital sunk in acquiring possession, $420,000,0 GOO; present annual cost of occupation, $37 100000; total annual trade with United States, $15, ,000,0 GOO; net annual balance of trade against United States, $8,oo0,oo0. Only short sum in arithmetic is needed to show that if the total value of our exports to the islands were all clear profit, it would not pay one per cent on our cap ital already sunk, nor one-eighth part of the yearly cost of occupation" Such is the showing the policy of imperial ism has to make in it's fifth year. From financial viewpoint it has been a glaring failure. The future prom. ises no better results. Measured by the purely dollars and cents standard imperialism stands self condemned As a menace to our republican institu. tions it is big with danger. It's de lenders can point to no benefits it has conferred upon the country. It's op ponents, on the other hand, have abundant material at their command to prove that it is a running sore or the body polite. which must be healed If the republic is to live.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20
A PROPHETIC CIGARETTE AsE.

"A novelty recently turned out by a manufacturing jeweler in New York, :" states a. Hewitt avenue dealer, lis T solid silver cigarete case, handsomely embellished with raised figures. In general appearance this cigarette box does not differ from other artistic cases used for the same purpose, but when the cover flies open miniature music box, concealed in a false bottom plays Nearer My God to Thee "-Everett, Wash, Sunday Review.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28
A Boys TERRIBLE DEED.
Son OF Indiana Farmer Murders His
Father, Fatally Wounds Mother
and Sister, and Kills Himself.

Frankfort, Ind, Feb. 26. - Earl
Woods, the 17-year-old son of promi-
nent farmer seven miles west of this
city, Tuesday evening murdered his
father, shot and fatally wounded his
mother and sister and then committed
suicide. The motive for the boys
bloody crime is not known. After the
shooting the young man went TO the
home ola neighbor and said that rob-
bers had entered the Woods home and
killed his father, mother and sister.
and that he escaped after running
battle with the desperadoes. He was
apparently greatly excited, and said
he was organizing a posse to pursue
his fathers slayers. The boy then
continued on his way towards this city.
and, stopping at the next house, told
the same story. When he was ques-
toned concerning the shooting he be-
came confused, and resented the in
quisitiveness of the farmer to whom he
told the story. Young Woods said he
had no time for further words, as he
had to run down the robbers, and he
started toward the barnyard at the
farmers home. After the boy disap-
peared behind the barn a shot was
heard, and the farmer to whom the boy
had been talking but a moment before
FASTENED to the barn, to find the youth
full murderer dying with bullet
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL TIE WORLD
CONGRESSIONAL.

The entire day on the Goth was spent by
the senate considering the Panama canal
treaty. No vote was taken on any Of the
amendments offered. In the house the
1ortlhcatlons appropriations bill was
passed, and the conference report on the
Dill for the protection of the president and
on the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill were adopted.
Washington's farewell address was read
IN the senate on the 23d by Senator Dubois,
or Idaho. The omnibus public building bill
was passed, and the post office appropria-
tlon Dill was considered. without final &C
tlon An agreement was reached on the
statehood question and a settlement of the
deadlock was predicted in a short time In
the house the general deficiency appropria-
ton bill, the last of the regular supply bills,
was passed. 1t carried s13,6sS, ISL The COM
m1ttee on merchant marine and fisheries
decided against favorable report on the
ship subsidy bill.
Most of the time in the senate on the 24th
was occupied in discussing the lndianola
(MissO post Office case, Senator Tillman
(Mlss } post office case Senat or Tillman con-
tlnuing his remarks on the race question
sldered and the committee amendments
agreed to, except the statehood rider, which
was passed OVer.....In the house the Phil
1ppine currency bill was passed. The con-
tested election case of Wagner versus But
Ter. from Missouri, was decided in favor of
Wagner.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28
A PITCHED BATTLE.
Deputy Marshals and Striking Miners
Fight in West Virginia and Fa-
talities Are Numerous.

Charleston, w. Va, Feb. ga
pitched battle took place at Wright's
coal works in Raleigh county between
100 United States deputy marshals and
deputy sheriffs under Chief Deputy
Cunningham, of Charleston, and Sher-
if Cook, of Raleigh county, and $50
striking miners who refused to permit
federal officers to serve injunction pa
pers. The posse met with a mob, armed
with Winchesters, who defied arrest
and service of papers. They followed
defiance with hostilities, opening fire
on the deputies at once. The deputies
responded, and the battle ragged furi-
ously for several minutes. Eight strik.
ing miners were killed, IL wounded
two mortally; one colored deputy
marshal was killed, two wounded and
Special Officer Howard Smith was shot
in the arm. Over 100 of the miners
were arrested and placed in Jail at
Buckley.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28
MAY BE A BLUEBEARD.
Albert A. Knapp, of Hamilton, o., II
Thought to Have Killed Sew
eral of His Wives. s-ss:

Indianapolis, Ind, Feb: 26-Albert
A. Knapp, of Hamilton, o., formerly Of
this city, was routed from his bed early
Wednesday morning at the home of his
bride, formerly Anna May Gamble, 65o
Indiana avenue, by the police and
taken to Hamilton on the charge of
murder.
The police say Anna May Gamble is
the last and surviving wife of mod
ern Bluebeard. Knapp was taken away
in irons. Although only Al years old he
has had four wives, and the Hamilton
police believe he murdered at least two
of them. Mrs. Knapp No. became the
wife of the prisoner about two weeks
ago. She is about Is years old and met
Knapp during the holidays in this city.
The other wives of Knapp were Emma
Stubs, Jennie Connors and Hannah
Goddard. Knapp is accused of killing
the two last named. The Hamilton po-
lice do not know what has become of
Emma Stubs, the first wife, or Han
nah Goddard, Mrs. Knapp No. 3.
Knapp was not suspected of murder
before Tuesday. when an uncle of Han
nah Goddard reported to the Hamilton
police that his niece disappeared De-
cember %, and that Knapp had mar
ried an indianapolis girl. An investiga-
ton was then begun.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28
SALARIES ARE ILLEGAL.
Opinion of Attorney General Hamlin
Hits Illinois Offceh olders and
Causes Excitement.

Springfield, ILL.,, Feb. 26.-Attorney
General Hamlin has rendered an opin-
ion which declares that the salaries
paid to all employees of state institu-
tions above that fixed and provided by
law are unconstitutional and void. The
decision has caused great stir in adj
ministration circles, as it hits the large
majority of the state officials, and their
present salaries are in some cases al
most double those provided by law.
For years the custom has been to in
crease salaries by items in the general
appropriation bill. Now the auditor
will refuse to pay more than the law
DrOyideS
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28
ACCEPT AGREEMENT.
Panama Officials Have No Objections
to Changes in Canal Deal Proposed
by Acknowledgement Knox.

Paris, Feb. 26.-The chief officials of
the Panama Canal company, it is said,
have informed American officials they
have no objection to the two changes in
the agreement suggested in the recent
dispatch from Attorney General Knox
proposing the acceptance of the CON-
pany's tender, subject to the two modi-
fcations and to the United States SEN
ate's ratification. It lis assumed among
the American officials here that this
willingness on the part of the COM
pany has been communicated to the
authorities at Washington. AS Mr..
Knox's proposition is understood to
refer to the ratification of the treaty
before March 4, the officials say that
the attitude which the company will
assume after that date is still undis-
closed.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28
GEAR may NAME TRIBUNAL |
Compliment Suggested by Mr.. Bow
en- to Russian Ruler Will Prob
ably Be Accepted. So
Three ARBITRAToRs TO Be CHOSEN,
They Will Pass Upon the Venezuela
Issues Carried to The Haxue-
Count Cassini Gratified ~ the Pro.
posed Honor to His Chief-Court
to Begin in September.

Washington, Fb. 26.-The PROPOSE
tion by Mr.. Bowen to the allies that the
car of Russia be asked to name the
three arbitrators who, as The Hague
tribunal, shall decide the question of
preferential treatment, has not as vet
been accepted by the allies, but this is
regarded as well-nigh certain.
Comte Cassini, the Russian ambassa-
dor, will not be officially informed of
the fact until all the powers have
agreed to the suggestion, when he
will be asked to present the invita-
ton to his sovereign. The ambassa-
dor evidently was pleased on hear
ing of this renewed evidence of
friendship for his country on the part
of the United States and expressed
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28
COAL MINES SHUT DOWN.
Car Conditions Worst Ever known
and Scarcity Causes Many Idle
Shafts in PENNSYLVANIA.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 26.-The car con-
ditions just at present are pronounced
by coal operators the worst in history.
Outside of the river mines and those
along the Pittsburg & Lake Erie and
the Monongahela division of the Penn
sylvania railway fully 70 per cent. are
idle. OF the % mines of the Pittsburg
Coal company on the Panhandle road,
Is are shut down and the others have
but fair supply of cars. Six of the
largest mines on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad out of Is owned by the COM
bination are idle. This is said to be a
good showing compared with the con-
producers.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28
his appreciation of the courtesy of
Mr.. Bowen in suggesting the car for
this important duty.
Will Appreciate Compliment.

Will Appreciate Compliment.
II can only say" the ambassador
said, 'that his majesty will deeply
appreciate the compliment to him,
which Mr.. Bowen has proposed. AS
the parent of The Hague tribunal,
his majesty has all along watched
with gratifying interest the support
the great peace court has received
from the United States, and for whose
president and people he cherished
the friendliest esteem and regard"
At the French embassy, an Off
cial suggested that it was an espe-
cially appropriate tribute to the
founder of The Hague tribunal, that
he be invited to select the personnel
of the court which will pass on the
first case to be submitted to it by
European powers.
To Begin in September.
A feature of the protocol for send
ing the question of preferential treat
ment to The Hague, as proposed by
Mr.. Bowen, is that the court of arbi-
tration is to begin the consideration
of the question on the hrst OF sep
TENDER, and that it's decision shall
be rendered within six months. The
court, he proposes, shall decide when,
how and by whom the costs Of the
arbitration are to be paid. The pre-
sumption is that by the first of next
September all the mixed commissions
which are to sit at Caracas and ad-
Indicate the claims of the various
nations will have passed on all the
claims presented. The claims OF
some of the nations are small, one
of them being as low as $4,000, and
the suggestion is that The Hague
court in view of this fact may pro-
rate the charges incidental to the
arbitration according to the amount
of the claims allowed, instead Of as
sessing each one an equal amount.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Miss Ellen Smith, who, during the
past IS years has been in turn in
structor, professor and registrar of the
University of Nebraska, died at Lin
coin, Neb.
Mr.. Horace White has retired from
his position as chief editor of the New
York Evening Post.
John Quinn, a member of the Fifty
first congress, died in New York, aged
63 years.
Maj. Gen. Charles C. Doolittle is dead
at his home. He made a record for
bravery during the civil war, and rose
to the rank of brigadier general, COM
manding a<brigade at Nashville. At the
close of the war he was regularly brew
eted major general. .-~.~ 49,. -
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28
Depot Burned.

Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 26.-The ex-
tensive freight depot of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad and 90
freight cars, with contents, were de-
stroyed here by fire. The damage is
estimated at over 100000. Many of the
cars were loaded with merchandise, on
which it is difficult to place loss.