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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-01

follows; Under 3. three; between 8 and 10,
two. between 10 and %, one; between 70
and 30, one; between 10 and 40, onsl be-
tween 10 and 40. two: between 70 and 70.
two. over 50, one.
PERSONAL.
Walter V. Pierce, Que OF tho well known
local business men. is confined 90 his home
by illness.
LOCAL ITEMS.
The regular monthly meeting or the
watchemoket Fire company viii De held
I'm T1remens hall this evening.
Nothing doin was the report 81 the
Central station this morning.
The monthly meeting Of the adninistra-
tive board OF tina Natchemoket IRE DIS
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-01
ON BOOK ACCOUNT.
-Four Cases Entered In the Common Pleas
Division Of Appellate Court Today.

There were four book accounts entered
In the common pleas division OF the su-
preme court today:
John A. Battey OF Scituate has sued
S56S.50.
The Brovnell Field company has sucd
Thomas a Morrow to recover sS0S1.
The same company has brought suit
against Harlan Il. Brown OF Westerly TO
recover s365 TS.
James 4. Evans of WoonsoclCet has sued
Frank A. Sayles of Pawtucket to recover
S6357.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-01
MoRTUARY REPORT.

NJ G. Baxter certain real estate on the
same plat for $50.
MoRTUARY REPORT.
The report OF vital statistics for this
town for the month OF January r. "a fol-
lows:
Total deaths. II: natives. o; born In
Providence. 1; Ireland, 8; Philadelphia. 4;
Western Islands, ]; Germany, ]; Boston,
I. Two died from pneumonia. two from
old age. and one cach from branchitis.
suicide, exhaustion. nephritis. d1phtherta-
heart disease, abscesses. nunt ton. disease
Of tho bowels. grip and scarlet fever. An
unusually large number OF the deaths oc-
CURED I'm Riverside.
The agcs OF the dsoendents were as
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-01
GOLD UNDER TOWN.
Property Owners Of Grand Forks Digging
Under Their Dwellings.

Dawson. A. T.. Feb. 1.-The town of
Grand Forks Is being undermined in the
pursuit OF gold. The town stands on
what was originally claim No. above
Discovery on Bonanza Creek
Grand Forks has a population OF 500
The town has one street lined with bust
ness. and owners OF lots on which they
stand have begun digging under their
own buildings in the quest OF the yellow
metal and are having success
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-01

trict WIFI be held in the superintendents
office in Roy's block this evening.
Rev. John r. Blake at the quarterly con-
ference held last week was returned Ia
the Haven N. r. church here for the
fourth year. The congregation OF the
Haven church is highly pleased at tho
action OF the conference In returning the
pastor. wiross work here has been very
successful.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-01
EAST PROVIDENCE


weekly prayer meeting will be hold Thurs
day evening with John McCaus'and at
his residence on Broadway.
Al the Haven NJ ~ church the pastor.
Rev. John r. Blake. took for his subject.
"Glimpsc OF Ministerial Life." and de!iv-
cred a very interesting discourse. In the
evening his subject was 'Innuencs." The
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-01
THREE FIREMEN SUFFOCATED
Fire In Warehouse Kills Three and Over.
comes Twenty fIve--loss $4,000.

New York. Feb. 1.-Ffrs In the ware
house Of the American Manufacturing
company IN Brooklyn last night cost the
lives OF three nremen. overcome by the
fumes OF burning jute and hemp. with
which the warehouse was filed. one dying
almost imm cdiately and two others pass
ing away during the night.
twenty-five men I'm all were overcome,
two OF whom are now IN a critical con-
dition. The property loss was about
eyS nuN
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-01
CHAMBER or COMMERCE

The monthly meeting Of the chamber Of
commerce. will be held tomorrow evening
at s O'Clock. The address Of the evening
will be given by Lieutenant Governor
George n. tier. whose subject will be
"An Evening Talk"
After the meeting collation. will be
served.
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-01
REAL ESTATE REGISTER.

The FOLLOWING real estate transactions
have been presented for record at the
town clerk Office.
Frank Lavcnda mortgaged TO Minnie T.
Howard certain real estate on the Bright
ridge plat No. ? for si50.
Louis T.. Lnvenjs mortgaged TO Annie
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-01
100 smyrna Rugs

Fpvorth League meeting was led by Miss
Fnnie stacy The subject was "Chfistan
Stewardship"
Rev Alfred stowel OF New Hampshire
conducted the services at the First Bap-
tist church at East Providence centre. HE
tonic was "see My Hand" The Christian
Endeavor meeting was led by John Her
ring
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24

Tho mcactary unit of the republic Of
Panama after December 81 next will
be the gold dollar Of the same dimen-
sions and weight as the United States
dollar
Japanese financiers estimate the cost
of the war at $2G5 .OO0, 900 year.
The Russians were avoiding de-
cisive engagement until 100000 troops
have been concentrated in the far east,
meanwhile being ready to allow the
Japanese to occupy Vladivostok and
Port Arthur. The report that Port
Arthur already has fallen is pro-
nounced incorrect.
p China sent mission to Viceroy Alex
left to assure him that the celestials will
not intervene in the war in the far east.
Official protest has been made'to the
United States by the residents of New
chwang against the withdrawal of the
British and American gunboats from
that place.
Irish members of the house of COM
mons by clever coup defeated the gov
ernment by II votes with the aid of the
liberals Premier Balfour declared he
would not resign, despite the blow.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24
FOREIGN.

King Alfonso has signed DEGREES rati-
flying arbitration treaties between Spain
and Great Britain and Spain and France.
The Japanese are reported to have en-
gagged the Russian Vladivostok squadron
In the open sea and to have sunk or cap
:ured the entire fleet of four warships.
1t is also reported that IN an engagement
between Japanese and Russians at a
point 100 miles from Vladivostok the
Russians were defeated.
Reports say that the Russians have
evacuated Port Arthur, leaving the city
in flames. AS result of the recent bonn
bardment by the Japanese, SO Russian
soldiers were killed and more than 100
wounded. Vice Admiral Togo's official
report of the attack claims victory for
his ships.
The Japanese war loan has been SUBJ
scribed AZ times.
In a five hour naval battle at Port
Arthur the Russians and Japs each
lost torpedo boat, and the Russians
admit losses of four killed and 80
wounded.
The Colombian government has issued
a decree reducing the standing army to
5O00.men and declaring peace again in
the republic except Panama.
A rumor was current in Toxic that
the Russian fleet escaped from Port Ar
thur on the night of March II and Joined
the four cruisers Of the Vladivostok
squadron. News of a big battle was
expected hourly.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs George w. Vanderbilt has ,estab-
lished at Biltmore, N. c., a school Of do
nestle science for colored girls
Bourke Cochran has been appointed
q member of the house ways and means
committee in congress instead of Will
liam R. Hearst
| A great pilgrimage to Lourdes, Rome
and the Holy Land is being organized at
Mexico City. 1t is expected at least 2,O0O
people will make the journey.
An autograph letter from Thomas JEFF
ferson, written 100 years ago to the In
dians of the Louisiana purchase. has
been unearthed from the archives of the
Sac and Fox Indians in Oklahoma.
Secretary Taft recommends to the SEN
ate subcommittee on interoceanic canals
that the canal commission be clothed
with legislative, executive, judicial and
administrative powers.
Negroes are preparing an appeal to be
delivered to Robert T. Lincoln, presi-
dent of the Pullmn company, asking for
equal rights with the whites in sleeping
cars throughout the south.
The state of Minnesota is enriched to
the extent of $4,000 by the recent death
|of Mrs. Pureheart Wakeley, of Sharon,
aged III years, who left no heirs. She
had lived alone for many years.
The steamer Lombardia, which arrived
at New York from Genoa, Naples and
Palermo, brought 16 camels from Tunis
for the ST. Louis exposition. They werc
in charpe of five natives
Rates for steerage passengers be-
tween New York and Mediterranean
ports under the new agreement between
steamship lines have been materially ad-
vanced.
A bulletin just issued by the University
|of California estimates the age OF the
Sierra Nevada mountains, the Oldest part
of California, at nearly 100000 years.
Augustus Cook, for years known as
one of the best actors i'll this country
died in New York.
William Nj. CanbCy died at Augusta,
Ga. He was a noted botanist and a trus-
tee of the Prof Gray botanical fund.
First Lieut.. Arthur G. Sharpley, of
the Twelfth cavalry, having been tried by
court-martial at Manila and found guilty
of charges affecting his moral character,
has been dismissed from the army.
The senate of Glasgow university has
conferred the honorary degree of LII. D.
on Joseph Choate, United States ambas-
sador to Great Britain.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24
This Il Miraculous.

Manhattan, Kans., March l4.-One Of
the strangest cases that has ever been
heard of in Riley Co. is that of the three
year old daughter of Mr.. Jonas Brubakel
of this place.
Some time ago the little girl took whoop'
ing cough, which was followed by pneu
mona. When the pneumonia left her, she
was taken down with malaria fever with
at times symptoms Of Spinal Menningitiss; l.,
through these troubles, but after the fever
Bright's Disease set in and the doctors
gave her up. Her father tells the rest OF
the story:
eve began to give her Dodd's Kidney
Pills and after she had taken about three
and half boxes, she was entirely cured
Now she is well as any, child, running and
matter matter with her. fhe doctors said she
was beyond the reach Of medicine. D9dd,s 4,
Kidney Pills, certainly saved our little
girls life, when she was SO far into the
chronic stage of Bright's Disease that we
thought nothing could save her"
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24
LATER.

The entire time in the senate on the
10th was spent in executive session con-
sidering Il e confirmation of Gen. Wood g
nomination. IN the house, during the
consideration of the post Office approprla-
ton bill Mr.. Spight (Miss0 discussed
the negro question, and declared unjust
the attacks on the people OF the south,
who had been charged with brutality
and barbarism toward the colOre6 race
Mrs. Nancy Tigue celebrated her ore
hundred and fifth birthday at her home
in Lafayette, Ind.
A threat to be revenged on George
Cayer, one of the jurors who sentenced
the car barn bandits, was carried out IN
Chicago by burning his house.
The duke Of Cambridge, cousin OF
Queen Victoria, Cied in London, aged 80
years.
w. E. Brown, president of four defunct
banks, was indicted at Storm Lake, Ia
for receiving money when he kneWthe
banks to be insolvent.
In the building trades in New YORK
city &c, 900 men are locked out OF work
Commissioner of Pensions Ware has
issued an order making the minimum
age for disability Of civil war veterans
62 instead of 65 years
Andrew Carnegie has duplicated the
late Senator Hanna's gift of $4,000 to
Kenyon college at Gambler, 0.
Further returns Of the referendum vote
of mine workers indicate that two-thirds
of the workers favor accepting the wage
reduction.
Ben Springs (colored) was found
guilty of the murder of Jesse Case at
Terre Haute, Ind, and sentenced to hang
July 1.
Berlin believes that the kaiser has
been asked by the czar to mediate IN
the war, and that an effort to bring about
peace will be made soon.
Lightning struck powder magazine
at Diegosuarez, in Madagascar, causing
an explosion which killed 27 persons.
The appellate court at Springfield, ILL.,,
holds that saloon keepers are liable for
the death of their patrons who are killed
while under the influence of liquor.
The republicans of the Eleventh dis
trict of Georgia have nominated Rev. A..
B. Finley. Of Douglas, for congress.
Crews of three Norwegian steamers
arriving at Shanghai from Port Arthur
state that 127 persons were killed by the
latest bombardm ent by the Japanese, and
the buildings of the city wrecked by the
accurate gun fire from Togo's fleet. The
Russian fleet escaped after the engage
ment, and it was believed it had gone
to join the VlaGivostok fleet.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

John w. White, head attorney for
the Modern Woodmen, died at his home
in Rock Island, ILL.,, aged 81 years.
Frank Hancock, aged LOG years, died
at Sparta, Wis.
Mrs. Margaret Todd Kellogg, of Gin
cinnati, died at Daytona, Fla, aged 30
years. She was the sister of Mrs. Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Mrs. Adam Carte died at Deckerville,
Mich, aged III years.
Prominent Iowa democrats met in Des
Moines and launched boom for Gen.
Nelson A. Miles for the democratic
nomination for president
Henry MacCracken, of Urbana, has
been nominated for congress by the
democrats of the Eighth Ohio district.
J. Fred Rhodes, editor Of the Eldora-
da News, has been nominated for con-
gress by the republicans of the Sixth
Missouri district.
Nebraska democrats will hold their
state convention at Omaha June 1 to
select delegates to the national conven-
tion.
Indiana republicans have renominated
Hemenway in the First district and
Brick in the Thirteenth for congress.
The North Dakota republican conven-
tion to name national convention dele
gates will be held at Fargo May IS.
Judge Jonathan w. Crumpacker, as.
sociate justice of the supreme court of
New Mexico during President McKin-
leys administration, died at Laporte,
Ind
William E. Miller, who claimed to be
a survivor of the light brigade which
made the famous charge at Balaklava
in 1854, died in Groton, Conn.,, aged 7j
years.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24
A WEEKS RECORD
All 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 THE WORLD
CONGRESS AT WORK.
Daily Proceedings Of the Senate and
House Briefly Told.

House br1euy 1OAo.
The nomination of Gen. Leonard
Wood to be major general occupied
most of the time Of the senate on the
18th. In the house Speaker Cannon
was named for president by William
Alden Smith (Mich.) after an excited
debate over the Bristow postal report
involving congressman. A resolution
was adopted ordering an investigation
of postal affairs so far as members OF
the house are concerned by select
committee of seven members 10 De
appointed by the speaker.
The senate on the 18th considered the
fortification appropriation bill ana
passed bill having for it's purpose the
prevention of the descration of the Amer
ican flag by it's use for advertising pur-
poses. In the house Speaker Cannon ap-
pointed a select committee to conduct
the investigation of the Bristow postal
report
In the senate on the 14th Senator
Hoar reported bill to correct lrregu-
larities in admissions to citizenship
and it was passed The fortification
appropriation bill occupied the re-
mainder of the day. In the house the
post Office appropriation bill was dis
cussed.
The fortifcation appropriation bill
was passed in the senate on the 18th.
In the house bills were introduced to in
crease the salaries of postal clerks and
rural carriers and providing for pen
sioning of postal employees at the rate
of one-half pay for injuries received in
the line of duty. The post office appro-
priation bill was further discussed.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24
DOMESTIC.

One million women have begun q
crusade against Reed Smoot, and all
pastors in the United States are urged
to appeal to their congregations on
March 27.
The postal receipts at the fifty larg-
est post offices in the country for Feb
ruary show an increase OF 9.79 per
cent. over February. 1908.
E. B. Critchlow,> formerly assistant
United States attorney for Utah, testl-
fed in the Smoot case in Washington
that the Mormon church used ostra-
cism to enforce absolute obedience in
all things, business and political.
Russian refugeesS succeeding In
evading military duty at home, reached
New York and related thrilling stories
Of escape.
Buffalo Bill'' Cody has filed suit for
divorce against his wife in North
Platte, Neb, charging that she is
cruel
Nine of the 1S militia companies
have been withdrawn from Springfield,
O., and renewal of outbreaks by the
lawless elements was feared. 49,
MARK Duuu was uduSCu dI ~ w
seph, Mo-, for the murder of Alfred
Fenton at Rushville. On the scaffold
he declared that Fenton was killed by
Cy Fisher.
The Farmers bank of Garden Grove,
Ia, with a capital Of 100000, and the
bank of Coin, Ia having assets OF
100000. have assigned.
Rain and sleet delayed the work of
repairing ravages of the flood at Mic
dletown, Pa, and added to the discom-
fort of homeless hundreds
Judge Hiles, Of Salt Lake, testified in
the Smoot hearing in Washington that
polygamy had been more than usually
fragrant in Utah since 1890.
Death on the gallows is the fate de-
cided on for Harvey Van Dine, Peter
Neidermeier and Gustav Marx, the Chi
cago car barn slayers, whose escapades
were attended by many murders.
In fit of jealousy Bert Washington. a
negro at Donora, Pa shot and killed his
wife and then killed himself.
The United States now leads all the
countries of the world in the value Of it's
exports of domestic produce.
Fernando Walters and his three chill
dren were burned to death in their home
near Garfield, Ark.
Since the explosion on January 25 In
the Harwick coal mine near Pittsburg,
Pa, 17S bodies have been recovered.
An unknown negro was taken from the
Jail at M6jave, Cal, by mob and tarred
and feathered and then shot to death for
criminal assault.
Holy Rosary academy, maintained by
the Dominican sisters in Essexville.
Mich, was burned, the loss being $c5. 600,
and several inmates were badly injured.
Miss Virginia Burkholder, noted
magazine writer, died in New York as a
result of being run down by an automo-
bile.
A heavy snow storm occurred in Kan
sas, Missouri, Iowa and central Illinois.
Fearing that a writ might be served
on her, Nine. Patti los ked herself in her
stateroom on the Luc-nia, on which she
sailed from New York for home.
The large grain elevator owned by the
Beardstown Lumber & Grain company at
Arenzvilie, ILL.,, with $4,000 bushels of
corn, was burned.
The heavi>st snowfall of the season
occurred in Iowa, Illinois. Michigan
and Wisconsin. blocking railway traffic.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24
Fastidious.

The front porch is dreadfully dirty,
Maria"
"ies, Know. But the new girl says
s6e-went wash it off until her trunk
comes"
"And what~has her trunk to do with
it?'
stockings when she washes porches."-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
yesterday Noyes-"And they let you
come away? Perhaps the places were 2u
taken ?"-Boston Transcript.
III order to ue popular, forget to say
~ Il '""l Felix q. Prime.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24

State department officials in Wash
ington are studying American sentiment
as to the far east war. Sympathy is ap-
parently with Japan, but is not antag-
onistic to Russia.
Bishop Derrick Of the A. M. f..
church, repudiates the United States
at meeting of colored preachers in
Brooklyn, declaring that it is no coun-
try for his race.
Herman Remert, farmer living
near Heller, Kan, while temporarily IN
sane killed his wife and then himself.
Thomas Tobin was put to death in
the electric chair in Sing Sing On. W
prison for the murder Of Capt. James
B. Craft in New York city
James Mcdonald has been indicted
for the murder of Sarah C. Schafer by
the Bedford Qnd.) grand jury.
The United States supreme court de-
clares the Northern Securities company
unlawful and trust in restraint of
trade. The decision is crushing blow
to all trusts and combines, and settles
finally the power of congress to regu-
late interstate commerce.
The Chicago city council changed the
closing time for saloons from midnight
to one a. m.
The special committee of the house
to investigate the post Office "indict.
ment" Of members of congress began
it's work in Washington.
Paul st. Peter has been elected presi-
dent of the National Window Glass
Workers association
Gladys, aged 10, and Winfield, aged
five, children of Hon. ]. H. Goeke. a
prominent attorney, were asphyxiated
by gas at Wapakoneta, o.
President Roosevelt has signed the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill, the first of the big supply bills to be-
come law
William Gunsauer, white man, shot
and killed Mrs. Anna Palmer (colored)
at Leavenworth, Kan, and then killed
himself.
The transport Thomas, from Manila,
arrived at San Francisco with the
Eleventh infantry.
Rear Admiral Charles O'Neil has
been retired on account of age.
Analysis of the stomach of Harry
Miller, found dead with his bride in
Sikeston, Mo-, after drinking wine,
shows morphine poisoning.
At meeting of the executive com.
mittee of the National Civic Federation
in New York Andrew Carnegie was
elected to place on the committee.
Financial powers in New York are
unanimous in accepting the supreme
court decision in the Northern Sc
curities case as final.
Three persons were killed and eight
injured in an explosion in the factory OF
the Chicago Toy Novelty company.
George Brandt, serving life term for
murder, hanged himself in the prison
at Waupun. Wis.
Fire destroyed the Palace hotel, the
largest structure at Red Lake Falls,
Mimi, and five other buildings.
Registration added "a $50 to Chicago's s
voting lists, making the total 448,172.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24
MINNESOTA REPUBLICANS.
The State Convention Meets in Ninneap-
..lls and Names Delegates to the Ma
tional Convention.
DELEGATES-AT-LARG

Senator knute Nelson, Alexandria,.
Senator Moses e. cIapp, ST. Paul.
Governor S. r. Van SAINT, Winona.
Thomas Lowry, Minneapolis.
ALTERNATES.
E. J. Herringer, Norman County.
A. r. McGiII, ST. Paul.
IT. w. Hugo, Duluth.
Frank r. White, Sherburne County.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24
Not Bigoted,

Brown thought you were vegetari.
an, but l hear you eat mutton.
Robinson-I am not a bigoted vege.
tartan. only eat the meat of such ami
mails as live on vegetable food.-Stray
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24
It Cures While You Walk.

Aliens Foot-Ease is a. certain cure for
hot, sweating, callus, and swollen, aching
feet. Sold by all Druggists. Price Csc. Don't
accept any substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, n. Y.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24

Putnam Fadeless Dyes are fast to ligh
and washing.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24

Unbidden guests are always welcomes
when they are gone.-Shakespeare.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24

Just as you are pleased at finding
faults, you are displeased at finding per-
fections. .-Lavater.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24

Ungratefulness is the very POISON o
manhood.-Sir p. Sidney.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24

"Pa, how much is Mr.. Rockefeller
WORTH" ooh, about billion dollars, my
SON." 'How much is that in doug
pa?-ToWn Topics.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24
salxer,s Home Builder Corn.

So named because so acres produced SO
heavily, that it's proceeds built a lovely
home. See Salzer's catalog. Yielded in
1908 in Ind. l57 bu., Ohio 160 bu., Tenn.
You can beat this record in 1904.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THESE YIELDS
PER ACRE?
l2O bu. Beardless Barley per acre.
3lO bu Salzer's New National Oats per A
80 bu Salzer Speltz and Macaroni Wheat
1000 bu. Pedigree Potatoes per acre:
IA tons of rich Billion Dollar Grass Hay
$4,000 lbs. Victoria Rape for sheep-per A.
100000 lbs. Teosinte, the fodder wonder
$4,000 lbs. Salzer's Superior Fodder Corn
rich, juicy fodder, per A.
Now such yields you can have, Mr.
Farmer, in 1904, if you will plant salzer's
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-24

in stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis, and receive their great cata.
log and lots of farm seed samples. TX. L.