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BOSTON CORBETT.
Unpleasant Incidents Of Booths Stay
er's Residence I'm Kansas.
Kansas City Journal.

Kansas CITY journal.
Boston Corbett, the slayer of John Wilkes
Booth, once had an experience in Kansas
which nearly cost him trial for threat
ened shooting. 1t was when he lived in
Cloud county that the episode took place,
and j. w. harrett, of Kansas City, who
then lived in Cuba, Kan. knew him and
saved a newspaper clipping which tells of
the affair. 1t took place in 1886 and is de-
Scribed thus:
Boston Corbett, the slayer of ]. Wilkes
Booth, who assassinated Abraham Lin
coin, lives quietly and peaceably on little
farm in Cloud county, Kansas. For some
have been annoying him by throwing stones
at his house, driving over his land and
otherwise Fostering the usually peaceful
old patriot and avenger of the death of
old Abe Recently he was arraigned be-
fore justice OF the peace court in Con-
cordia for threatening to shoot some of his
annoyers. During the trial as Boston was
giving his testimony on the witness stand
some one intimated that he was a liar
Immediately drawing a revolver he COM
mended the court, counsel and jury to the
his horse and went home. The next morn
ing DR.. Dabury, or that place, and the
county sheriff went to the old mans home
with warrant for his arrest. But he was
not caught mapping. Still. he entertained
them with a good breakfast and the story
OF his wrongs, reminding them, however,
that he did not intend to be arrested, and
always keeping one hand In close proximity
to his weapon and his face toward the
would-be 'conservators of the peace FL
nauy the doctor and the sheriff left, think
ing that discretion was the better part of
valor, and there are not men enough in
Cloud county to-day to arrest the avenger
of the death of Lincoln. When unmolested
Boston Corbett Is quiet, inoffensive and
neighborly. Aroused he is as full of yenge-
ance as when he committed the deed which
rendered him long to be remembered as q
trustworthy though perhaps extreme friend
of the great and good Lincoln"
Mr.. Harriet bears out the assertion as to
Corbett's general reputation. saying he was
a quiet and generally peaceful man except
when wronged.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

Thieves raided Plainville, O., Tuesday
morning. robbing the postoft1ce, depots and
the stores of w. III. Bunch, William Lit
tie and John Denny.
Charles l.. Vreeland, on her way to st.
Louis to attend the dedication of the st.
Louis fair. arrived at New Orleans Tues
day.
Tuesday night of the Auburn ON. W Bust
ness Mems Association at its annual BAN
quet. His toast was, Our Country-Wise
Should Be the Craftsmanship"
During a quarrel yesterday at McAdoo.
Pa, resulting from lawsuit, Mrs. Joseph
Tomaso shot and fatally wounded Mrs.
Rafael Farintena. The injured woman is
dying at a hospital and Mrs. Tomaso is in
Jail.
Jack Pierce shot and killed Mrs. Barney
Hedigar and man named Patten and then
killed himself at Gilt Edge. Mont, Monday
night. The men had quarreled over the
woman. Pierce found her with Patten, and
the shooting followed.
the Beall local option law constitutional.
the decision being unanimous. The decision
was given in the case or Cambridge sa-
loon keeper who sought to escape a SEN
tence of Imprisonment on the ground that
the law was unconstitutional.
At Milwaukee on Monday Henry Hensler,
a carpenter, in the employ of the Johns
Manville Covering Company. attempted to
murder his foreman, Peter M. Weyer, and
then shot himself through the head, death
resulting almost instantly. Meyers wounds
are said not to be serious. The men quar-
relied.
The Wisconsin Assembly committee on
state affairs has decided by a vote of five
to two to recommend the Williams anti
negro marriage bill for passage. The ac-
ton came after long and spirited hearing
on the bill. The measure, If adopted, will
prohibit marriages between whites and ne
groes within the State. The Assembly has
ordered to engrossment the anti-cigarette
hill
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LET HIM ENJOY HIMSELF.
Mr. Roosevelt Should BE Let Alone
When He Goes to the Woods.

Within few days President Roosevelt
will start upon an extended tour through
the West. During the greater part or his
journey he will literally be in the hands OF
his friends. He will not be his own master.
Hospitable committees, overlooking with
zeal and patriotism, will carry him hither
and thither. exhibiting him with conscious
manding speeches at every hour of the day
and night. He will be. during all this time.
very much in the center OF the stage, with
the limelight Of publicity thrown full upon
him.
Twice i'm his journey the President wants
TO break away from the music OF bands,
the glitter OF amateur soldiers. the cheer
ing throngs and the inevitable local COM
mittees. He proposes TO spend a few days
parks, accompanied only by one or two
personal friends. He wants to be free for
a little while from the pomp and show
which win attend him everywhere else
throughout his tour. and to feel that dur
ing this brief respite he Is Theodore
Roosevelt the man rather than Theodore
Roosevelt the President. Why should not
Jenkinses lay aside their facile pens for q
few days. We can survive, even II the sig
ziing wires fail to bring US the warm infor-
nation that the President ate three slices
of bacon for his breakfast We might even
worry along IL we failed TO be made ac-
Quainted with the fact that at shutdown he
engaged In family prayerl
Seriously, the desire OF the President for
a little privacy during his western tour
as an American citizen. Let him. there
fore, escape on these occasions from pub
lie view and have real good time In his
own sensible way
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FOREIGN FRUITS IN NEW YORK.

New York Sun.

New York Sun.
Among the fine and costly fruits now In
market are English dollhouse grapes. which
come from the Isle OF Guernsey. They were
selling last week at $3.50 pound. A little
earlier in the season they cost g pound:
a little later they will go down TO 81
South African peaches sold here last
week at IS cents each, though this is not the
highest price paid for peaches, dollhouse
peaches, when they are obtainable I'm the
market. running up to u.25 apiece.
Japanese plums from South Africa sold
last week for. 20 cents apiece. and good
fancy South African nectarines for - a
dozen. All the South African fruits sold
here are grown in the open air
II is a rather far country. South Africa,
to bring fruits from, but IL doesn't take
so long TO get them from there as might
be imagined. As a matter OF fact, IN these
days of fast steamers and close connections
only about four weeks is required.
There is no great quantity OF THESE South
African fruits brought TO New York: but
IL is greater than il was Fruits from this
source of supply are a novelty, for one
thing and they help. by chinking In. 10
make the supply OF those sorts or fresh
fruits continuous the year around.
A fruit by no means new here, which
may yet be novel to many when seen in a
fruit store window, is the fg banana, called
also the finger banana, which Is brought
from Jamaica. II has a yellow skin. IL Is
OF the same proportions as the ordinary
banana. and grows In punches In the same
manner. but IL only about half as big. IL
il sweeter than the banana Of ordinary size
and of a more delicate flavor. IL is not a
costly fruit, nor is IL cheap; II sells for the
same price as the more familiar fruit Of
full size.
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Admits Labor Unions Are Trusts and
Says Strikes Are an Evidence
of Civilization.
DEMANDS OF KENTUCKIANs
MINERS WANT NINETY CENTS A TON
FOR DIGGING COAL.
No Agreement Yesterday at the
Scale CONFERENCE.-THE thousand
Men Involved.

HUNTINGTON, w. Va, March 24.-Coal
operators. miners. laboring men. profess
sional men, bankers and business men to
the number of more than two thousand
crowded about the front of a local hotel
here to-day to listen to an open-air adj
dress by President John Mitchell. of the
United Mine Workers, on the subject of
strikes. His remarks were directed almost
entirely to the situation in West Virginia
at this time. He said in part:
THE capital and labor question demands
the serious attention and investigation or
the American public. 1t is the paramount
subject of the American thinking people,
and all chimeraS and theories must bow
before The great facts pressing for solution
and settlement. i am not an advocate or
strikes, but there are times when they are
necessary to clinch the argument OF truth
in the interests of the laboring people of
this country. Strikes are a feature of civ
ilization and they are merely means to
an end and in the great social evolution
that is now confronting the American peo-
pie. Barbarous countries and states have
no strikes; they are unknown there.
Strikes are the sledgehammers that weld
the connecting links of labor and capital
and make the endless chain of commercial
prosperity We want a better understand
ing between the employer and the employe.
and we come with offerings of peace. The
labor unions are trusts just like your doc
tors trust, the minister's trust and the
money trust, only we call these associations
and corporations. while we style ourselves
unions. There is no civilization without
labor; there can be no progress without
this potent factor, and should we not pro-
tect and foster the interests of such an i'm
portant element in our national progress?
We have an aU.uing faith in the people for
an amicable adjustment of the differences
between labor and capital: and truth, that
jewel for which our great economic statis-
ticians are searching, will settle all strikes
and adjust all differences. We desire an
amicable settlement of the pressing Ques-
tons of the labor movement in West Vir-
ginia, and every fair means will be en-
ployed by the United Mine Workers to
bring about this happy result,
The joint conference of United Mine
Workers and coal operators here to-day
failed to accomplish anything. They
agreed to meet in Huntington again on
Apri1 IL
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10 inform him that the association would
not accept the schedule of hours and wages

to inform him that the association would
not accept the schedule of hours and wages
oHereo oy the company
AT the conclusion of a meeting Of the
BOARD OF directors of the New York. New
haven & Hartford Railway Company Tues
day president Hall announced that a sched-
uie had been decided on and that il would
De sent TO the mems grievance committee
at New Haven first. In keeping with the
previous proposition the schedule will be
submitted on Wednesday.
On and after April anthracite mine en-
ployes who desire TO join the United Mine
Workers will have to pay $40 as an initia-
ton fee. instead of 81, the present fee. This
rule has been adopted by the three anthra-
cite districts of United Mine Workers, and
applies TO every local in the region. 1t
is, expected that nearly every mine worker
will be enrolled in the union before March
81.
Forty men were called out at the Elkton
mine at Cripple Creek, Tuesday, by the
Western Federation of Miners because the
company is loading ore TO be shipped to the
standard mill at Colorado City. 1t is I'M
derstood that all the mines under contract
with the United States Reduction and Re
timing Company will follow the lead of the
ElktOn, and if their men are called out 1t
is feared the strike may spread indefinitely.
involving the mining industry and allied
interests of the whole State.
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well understood that II he CONTROLS the
organization, Bell will have little chance
OF nomination.
The Bell campaign Is going on with zeal.
Machine men are at work In every ward
I'm his interest The most embarrassing
question they have 10 answer Is: why
should Bell be the candidate2"
The answers are mostly suited 10 the
individual. but are not In all cases re-
ported To be either relevant or satisfac-
tory The Bell campaign is to placate all
elements for him. regardless Of the con-
test for chairman, and then overwhelm
Eeach's friends IN the primaries that are
to elect delegates to the city convention,
which Is now deemed preferable TO direct
nominations In carrying out this pro-
gramme the machine workers have had
several plain demonstrations that Reach
II constructing a machine of his own and
that whenever a struggle between the two
IS on IL will be fierce one and the sur
viv0rs implacable.
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Fought
De ath all Night
Grew Worse.
Doctor Said Baby
Would Die.
DIR. Miles Nervine Re.
vived and Cured Her.

When your nerves are tired and deranged,
your troubles begin and remain with you until
your nervous system is toned up and reg
ulated. DIR. Miles Nervinc is the great Nerve
Tonic and Regulator. Read what glatcfri
mother writes of what it did Tor her baby'
MY baby had sinking spells so bad We
despaired of her life. Four or FIVE times she
would faint away and be to all appearances
dead. When she was eight months old she
took very severe cold and the doctor and
all who saw her thought II impossible for
her to recover. We hardly revived her from
one sinking spell until she would 90 into
another. One morning after a most wretched
night spent fighting death and when all
symptoms were growing worse, / remem-
bered an almost empty Bottle OF DIR. Miles
Restorative Nevine and without saying any
thing about IL gave the baby nearly half
teaspoontul. Then 1 noticed she slept more
naturally. She had no more spells that day,
and in the evening ! gave her a few more
drops, which was all there was, and now
though she is three years old she is well and
strong and has never had the slightest symp-
tom since the first attack. i know of several
persons, among them relatives, who have
used the Nervine with excellent results. IL
saved my baby's life. You have my permis-
sion to publish this as I wish to do all / can
to benefit otherx"-Mrs. w. i. Totten. Port
land, Ind.
All druggists sell and guarantee first bot
tie DIR. Miles Remedies. Send for free book
on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address
DR.. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
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RUTH HANNA ILL.
Senator's Daughter Stricken with Ty-

Senator's Daughter Stricken with Ty-
phOfd Fever I'm Georgia.
CLEVELAND, o., March Ex-senator
Hanna, who arrived here Saturday to take
part in the municipal campaign, received
a number of kilograms from Thomasville.
Ca, to-day concerning the serious illness
of his daughter Ruth. who is suffering
there from typhoid fever. While Miss
Hanna's condition is not as yet alarming,
the senator Is greatly worried and may
decide to break some of his engagements
and go to Thomasville shortly.
Senator Hanna has accepted invitations
to be present and speak at the Chamber
of Commerce dinner at Erie, Pa, April 8;
Chamber of Commerce dinner at Syracuse,
n. Y, April Is; Ohio centennial celebration,
Chillicothe, o.. May 20 and n. He will also
attend the dedicatory exercises at the ST.
Louis exposition April go Senator Hanna
and Col. Myron T. Herrick will be the
guests of honor and deliver addresses be-
fore the NJ. A. Hanna Club of Salem, o.,
on April "a.
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$4,000 GIFT TO A MISSION.

J. n. Corey Donates q House to a Pitts
burg Society to Convert Jews.
PITTSBURG. March PA $4,000 home
for a mission to the Jews is the gift j.
B. Corey has made to Rev. Maurice Ruben,
founder and superintendent of the New
Covenant mission Of the Friends of Israel
Mr.. Ruben was forced to vacate his Con-
gress-street quarters. and on hearing this
Mr.. Corey purchased the old Irwin estate
from E NJ. Sandys.
Speaking OF the gift and the circum-
stances under which IL was presented Mr..
Corey said: 'I made the purchase on ST.
Pasrick's day just as the marchers were
passing by. You know, we Protestants are
claiming share in st. Patrick's triumphs.
So thought 1 would give the Irish saint
a share In this grandest of all missions
that of bringing the gospel to our Jewish
brethren"
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Strike of Nonunioni.ts.

PITTSBURG, March A.-More trouble
broke out to-day in the structural iron
workers strike on the Wabash bridge
The sixteen nonunion workmen imported
here by the American Bridge Company went
on little strike Of their own and refused
to go to work when the whistle blew. The
cause Of the strike is the discharge of
one of the crowd by the foreman, James
Mcclure.
An agent for the American Bridge Com
pany left to-day for Philadelphia, where
he expects to get more men and bring
them on here. The union strikers are
The police are keeping a sharp lookout
Eight nonunion men were put to work DUR
ing the morning and are erecting a high
fence about the bridge property. There
was no interference from the strikers.
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

PLYMOUTH. March 25.-Arrived: Pa
tr1cia, from New York. for Cherbourg and
Hamburg. and proceeded.
NEW YORK. March A-Sailed: Kron-
prinx Wilhelm. for Bremen via Plymouth
and Cherbourg.
LIVERPOOL. March 24-Arrived: Cevic.
xrom New York Sailed: Saxonia. for Bos-
ton
MOvILLE. March 14-Arrived: Tunisiap
from Halifax. for Liverpool.
ROTTERDAM, March 2f.-Arrived: Am
sterdam. from New York
ANTWERP. March .24-Arrived: Fin
land. from New York
LONDON, March 24-Arrived: Minneha-
N. from New York.
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ALBANY, N. Y, March A.-Driven to the
upper story of their humble dwelling on
Montgomery's island. in the Hudson, by
the flood. Mrs. p. j. Harvey. her eight
children and the body of her dead husband
were rescued to-day. The rescue was made
by Capt. Ulster Davis and his crew with
a tugboat, which was sent out for that pur-
pose by the mayor. Captain Davis sailed
up to the front porch of the house and the
rescuing party disembarked. On the in
side of the house was a pitiful sight. There
about her. Those old enough to realize
what had happened were crying from fear
and grief, while the younger ones were
crying for food. of which there was none
in the house Mrs. Harvey said her hus-
band died last night of pneumonia.
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ST. LOUIS, March A.-In the United
States Court OF Appeals Judge Sanborn to-
day handed down a decision establishing
the relation or an agent TO the principal
concerning property In trust. The opinion
I'm effect sets forth that IL an agent pur-
chases property which he has been commits
stoned TO investigate and secure for prin-
cipal the title TO the property belongs in
agent has acquired the property on his own
account and In his own name after having
severed his connection with the principal
having taken advantage OF information.
The case was that OF Charles Y. Trice
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SIX Persons Drowned.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March PA. r. Hood.
an employe of an Arkansas saw mill. re-
turned from the flooded district of Arkan-
sas this morning, and reports that while
at Gavin. a station on the Frisco Railroad,
Saturday afternoon, he saw skin con-
tanning four drummers and two negro oars
men swept under the track OF the railroad
in a stiff current The boat was over
turned and all six of the occupants were
drowned. Mr.. Hood does not know the
names of the travelling men, but says they
had employed the negroes to row them
across the submerged territory to Mound
City, Ark, where they intended to take a
steamboat for Memphis
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An Envfed Parsonage.

Perhaps there Is no New York boy who
has not at one time or another secretly
longed to be the jaunty ambulance ply
stefan who IL ever clinging TO the rear seat
OF the ambulance. There is a certain
rakish, devil-may-care air In his loose seat
I'm the jolting vehicle. an atmosphere OF be-
ing ready for any emergency. In the sum-
mer time when his garb is mainly white
duck with a jacket OF military cut he is
Irresistible. But the day OF the inferno
upon the rear seat is not for long The
new auto-ambulance has glass and wooden
doors which will hide his careless grace.
His memory. however. is fun OF record
breaking rides and not few feats OF skill.
A tenement house girl once remarked OF
him TO a policeman: II don't believe he
can set me fathers legs so that they'll
both walk the same way again, but hes
a fine iookin' boy I'm UNIFORM"
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FIRE AND PANIC.
Many Girls and Women Alarmed
Ffremen Overcome by Smoke.

PITTSBURG, March A--Fire broke out
in the large eight-story brick building at
Penn avenue and Cecil alley, occupied by
the McElveen Furniture Company. about 10
O'Clock to-day, and before the flames were
controlled the three upper floors were
Quilted, and the stock on the lower floors
was badly damaged by water. On the up
per floors of the latter building many girls
and women were employed in the manufac-
ture of clothing and a panic ensued, but all
reached the street in safety. Two firemen,
Daniel Jackson and Harry Scheckler, were
overcome by smoke, but Ii is thought they
will recover The loss is estimated at $780,
600. fully covered by insurance. The origin
of the fire is a mystery.
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One of the city magistrates was asked
the fines he imposed were usually g. IS
or SO. The law provides I'm most cases
that the fine shall be not less than $ nor
more than SO.
Don't have to-" said the magistrate.
It'll make this a regular bargain day
The next prisoner convicted was fined
1888. Then followed nne OF $Ao7. The
S.S9.
Look here. judge" cried the chief clerk.
rushing over 70 the magistrate. Make the
will you7 Let's get this back to even
money. II may BE- lots Of fun for you but
it's tough on me. III have to employ .
bookkeeper."
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Suicide of Heartbroken Woman.

SAN JOSE, CAL, March 2.-Ruth Ziegler.
aged twenty-five years. lately public school
teacher OF Minneapolis. committed suicide
near Saratoga last night by drowning her.
self in Campbell creek. She received q
letter yesterday from a young man an
nouncing that he desired to break their en-
gagement. After reading the letter she left
the home where she had been staying and
was not seen alive again. She came to
California five weeks ago for her health
She was drowned In less than two feet of
water. and was lying on her face when
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Obituary.
PHOENIX

PHOENIX, A. T., March A.-Col w. T.
Christy is dead at his home here. aged
sixty-two years. He was q native of Ohio.
but lived for many years in Iowa. He
served in the civil war with the Eighth
Iowa Cavalry and was mustered out as
lieutenant colonel. He came to Arizona in
1862 Colonel Christy was prominent in Arr
IONA politics. He was president Of the VAL
ley Bank of Phoenix and was active I'm the
promotion Of irrigation enterprises.
DECATUR. Ill. March 2.-George D.
Haworth. inventor OF the first corn planter
and other agricultural implements, and for
forty years a leading manufacturer of De-
catur and owner of much valuable property
in Chicago died at his home here to-day.
PHILADELPHIA, March 24-Jefrerson
H Nones. a retired naval officer, died in his
apartments here to-day. aged seventy-nine
years. He entered the navy In l840, resign
ing at the outbreak of the civil war Since
then ne has lived in this city.