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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
Applying to old Soldiers That
Are "HaIf Disabled"
is NOT NOT RETROACTIVE
BUT TAKES EFFECT APRIL 10 IT
SAVES THE GOVERNMENT
SOME MUNICIPALITIES
TO CERTAIN AGES.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Washington, March 1G-Commis-
sioner of Pensions Ware with the APP
prevail of Secretary Hitchcock, pro.
mulgated the most important pension
ruling that has been issued in long
time.
1t directs that beginning April 18th,
next, If there is no contrary evidence
and all other legal requirements have
been met all claimants for pensions
under the general act of June 81,
1890, who are over GO years old, shall
be considered as disabled one-half of
their ability to perform manual labor
and shall be entitled to Sc per month;
over IS, IS; over GS, $40; over TO-
$12.
The order concludes as follows:
Allowance at higher rate, not exceed
ing twelve dollars per month, will
continue to be made as heretofore,
where disabilities. other than age,
show the condition of ability to per
form manual labor. This order shall
take effect April 18th, 1904, and shall
not be deemed retroactive"
The former rules of the office fix
ing the minimum and maximum at Go
years and Is years, respectively, are
hereby modified as above.
The order itself is preceded by a
preamble, which after citing the law,
says the pension bureau has estab-
lished with a reasonable certainty the
average nature and extent of the in.
hmity of old age that 80 years after
The Mexican war congress In 1887
placed on the pension roll all Mexican
war soldiers who were over 62 years
old.
Commissioner Ware just before
leaving for trip south for his health.
speaking of the order said that it
would seem that if 80 years after the
expiration of service Mexican war
soldier was entitled to a pension at
60 years, that to soldiers of the civil
war who fought vastly more and long.
er at least, as good rule ought to APP
nly. The act affecting the Mexican
war veterans was passed January,
1887.
There is an advantage and saving
to the government in the use of this
order because every old soldier who
has reached the age Of G2 is able to
prove almost without a possibility Of
doubt that he is one-half disabled
from earning his support by manual
labor, says Ware, this being so, II
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17


4 More discord arose when the report
of the building committee came up.
The petitions of Jno. Glade Thos j..
Ryan and ]. w. Spies were granted
but that Of Winter Brothers for per
mission to erect frame ice house
between two brick houses was object
ed to. Capt Thistlewood again ad
dressed the council protesting and
the mayor asked that permission be
granted There was argument back
and forth, which showed a feeling on
the part OF councilmen that they pre-
ferred to have the mayor and Capt,
ThistIewood come to some amicable
agreement. To this end Alderman
Meehan moved that the matter be
laid over until the next regular meet
Ing To this the mayor objected
claiming that it had already been laid
over once and could not be laid over
again. Aldermen Meehan and Egan
centended that no report had ever
been made on the subject by the
building committee, which was borne
out by the proceedings, therefore this
was the first time II had come proper.
ly before the council But the mayor
ruled Alderman Meehans motion out
of order and when the alderman APP
pealed from this decision his honor
angrily declared the whole subject at
an end and directed the clerk to with
iraw the petition.
Alderman Fraser moved to adjourn
and in spite OF the protests Of several
members that more important bust
ness was to be transacted, including
an order for the city election in April
the motion was carried,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
lie Desirs To Purchase Tie Liza.
bilities Due TO Spain
THE U. S. NOT ASLEEP
AND WILL NOT PERMIT AMERl.
CAN INTERESTS TO SUFFER
OUR CLAIMS ARE ONLY
100000.

SanJuan, P. r., March 16,--Infor.
nation has been received from a re.
liable source that Germany is secret.
ly trying to purchase from Spain a
debt of upward of s21 100000 owed by
the republic of Santo Domingo.
The debt was contracted after the
war of independence of 1868, when a
treaty was signed in which Spain re.
eognized the independence of Santo
Domingo and the latter recognized its
Indebtedness to Spain in the sum
named, but which has never been
paid
1t is asserted that later, during the
presidential term of Ulysses Heu
reaux. prior to the Spansh-American
war;. Spain agreed to call upon Santo
Domingo to pay only in the event of
the republics free and voluntary an
nexation to some foreign state.
That Germany should seek to nego
tate the purchase of this debt at this
particular moment is therefore of the
greatest significance.
Should she make the purchase, her
claims in Santo Domingo would be
far greater than those of the United
States, which are about only about
$4,000 900.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
General River News.

The stage of the river at p. M
yesterday was 3G.1, showing rise OF
0.3 in twenty-four hours,
The Boeckler went below yesterday
at 10 a. m. with one empty.
Bill Davis, formerly on the trans
fer boats, went to Mound City to go
on some boat there.
Sam Shoemaker went out as chief
engineer of the Boeckler.
The Russell Lord went below with
empties yesterday morning to Hatch.
lie river
Commodore w. H Grapevine is in
the city
The Mary Michael went to Paducah
with logs.
Mr.. VIM. King. of St. Louis, sue
ceeds Phil Schied as chief engineer
Of the Henry Marquand and j. r. Ell
ton, of st, Louis, succeeds Sam Shoe
maker as chief engineer of the Pa
cifc.
The abandonment OF the Cincinnati
and New Orleans trade has revived
the old-time fatboat as means of
freighting to that port. One of them
went by here yesterday morning with
275 tons of farm products from Indi-
ana. The last boat in the trade was
the John X. Speed.
When all the excursion boats get
around to ST. Louis for the Worlds
fair business they will find a scale Of
wages quite handsome. The Central
Trades and Labor union have submit
ted a scale including $500 per day for
barkeepers for excursion boats, SfJ
per week for musicians, four hours a
days work, with $3.50 per hour for
overtime Cooks 800 to $3.50 per
month. No excursion can get along
without these, especially barkeepers.
jim Steward has sold his interest in
the fish business and will go as chief
engineer ON the Raymond Homer He
takes with him as second, N. w. VIII
son, OF St Louis The Raymond Hor-
ner is coming with coal tow and is
expected to pass here today. These
fellows won't stay off the river unless
their licenses are taken away from
them. They won't do it then That
was tried in St Louis with bunch of
them. but they are all back now. Jim
did not like the fish business. it was
too much like a morgue and made
him feel creepy among those Holsters
and crabs
The Peters Lee is TO be entered in
the Memphis and Cincinnati trade
She viii leave Memphis on her first
trip on Saturday. March 26.
a Paducah dispatch to the Cincin.
matt Enquirer states that the under
writer's at Cincinnati have refused TO
insure the Bonanza and she will
thereby be forced from theCincinnati
and Memphis trade.
The Mary Michael arrived at $3.50
last night from Paducah.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
PENSION OFFICE
MAKES new RULE
Concluded from First Page.)

seems unwise to put the soldier to the
expense of time and transportation to
20 to the place where a medical board
can examine him to find that fact out,
and on the other hand it seems un.
necessary for the government to keep
boards established and then pay 81
for the examination Of soldier when
the result of the examination can be
SO accurately foretold.
I'm rulings of the department In
ability to earn support by manual la.
Dor does not include brain work, but
applies TO those who can by bodily
labor earn support
Concerning the effect of the order
he expressed the opinion that IT would
eventually save the government a
good deal of money As 10. the OK.
pense he says:
~ will without doubt increase the
payment ~ some extent, but no ono
is able % n the amoant Tho Iu-
reau has not considered that as a
proper clement Of consideration.
What the bureau has considered has
been whether or not II was the right,
just and proper thing to do leaving
the results to take care Of themselves.
/ do not think. however, that the In
creased expense in the long run will
be very noticeable because the death
rate Is always to be considered, and
there is also to be considered the fact
that the ones to whom we give the
pension without proof other than
their ages. would have proven them.
selves anyhow under former circum.
stances as entitled 10 pension by rea.
son of their disabilities"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
Tired
No Sleep for Weeks
Nervous, Weak.
Surgical Ope ration
Wrecked My Nerves.
DIR. Miles Nervine Re.
stored My Health.

"AfewYears ago had TO submit 10 surgical
operation which caused me severe sp1nss
trouble After treatment ! could notgain
strength because Of extreme nervousness. |
took everything | could hear Of that was
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weeks. when one day one Of your cro1lars
was thrown into our YARD and after reading
what your Ecrvine had done for Others, re.
yolyed toitry a. The second night after tax
ing il slept soupdly for the first time in
many mon rs and after taking few bottles
I was completely cured, i also used the
Nerve Plaster for backache with very erail-
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the benefits received from DIR. Miles Restor-
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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
TWO MoNARcHS HosNoB.
BY the Associated Press.

Vico, Spain March 16-At $3.50 this
morning King Alfonso and Emperor
William went aboard the Spanish
gunboat, Vasco Nunez de balboa,
which weighed anchor and proceeded
to review the Spanish war ships AS
the gunboat passed the Spanish battle
ships Pelayo and the despatch boat
Urania, both vessels fired salutes,
Pelayo's band played the German
national anthem and the sailors who
manned the sides enthusiastically
chesred the two monarchs, After the
review the two monarchs boarded the
Spanish Royal yacht, Giralda, for lun'
cheon. Emperor William subsequent.
ly sailed for Gibraltar on board the
steamer, Koenig Albert and was &C.
companied on that vessel by King Al
fonso until outside Of the Spanish
waters.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17

The crest of an area of high pres
sure. conferred yesterday morning in
the Ohio valley. A second high cen
ters In the northwest. An extensive
area of low pressure centcrs in the
southwest or western Texas.
The temperature has risen in west
ern Minnesota, western Missouri,
eastern Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas
and in the Dakotas. and fallen
throughout Montana, elsewhere It
has remained nearly stationary.
Within the last &c hours light pre-
cipitation has occurred in the upper
Ohio valley in western Missouri, Col
orado, North Dakota and eastern
Montana.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
With President Hill and Other
Officials OF Securities Co.
TOO MUCH GUESS WORK
BY OUTSIDERS, SAID JIM HILL,
AND WE HAVE NO DEFINITE
PLANS-WlLL OBEY ORDER
or THE COURT.
BY Associated Press.
OF THE COURT.

BY Associated Press.
New York, March 1G--Lawyers
representing the various interests in
the Northern securities company were
in conference with President Hill and
other officials until late in the day.
j G. Johnson, Philadelphia, who ar
gued the Securities case before the
United States Supreme court, was re.
ported to have been one of the party.
Others included Francis Lyde Stetson,
of the couRsels to J. p Morgan and
company and r. S. Lovett, represent
ing the Hartman interests. Later
Hill said: I'VE are waiting for the
order Of the court Nothing can be
done until we receive IT, would like
to say, however, that there viii be no
attempt to eyade the judgment of the
court. We have no definite plan or
plans under consideration. There has
been altogether too much guess work
by outsiders. They. have tried to
make a mountain out of mole hills
and there is not even a mole hill"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
River Forecasts.

The Ohio.-At Evansville, will fall
rapidly during the next three or four
days. At Paducah will commence fall
ling by this morning. AT CAIRO, will
rise very slowly during the next II to
"a hours, come to a stand, then fall.
The Tennessee AT Florence. will
continue falling. At Riyerton, will
fall today. AT Jacksonville will fall
today
The Mississippi From Chester to
above CAIRO will fall slowly during
the next SO to As hours
P. Fl. Smyth. Observer.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17


several years past and it Is a wonder
to me why ii is always put off till just
few weeks before the election. Last
campaign ii was brought up and
worked off on the people for all 1t
was worth. know all about it.
was in the plot anu know it worked
all right; but | also know it was all
buncomb-nothing but buncomb I'm
der the proposition we have before us
We can save the city 1910 year by
taking the five.year contract and |
think il Is a good thing. II the mayor
wants to prolong this matter until the
election comes on, all right I'm will
ing. am willing to go before the
people Of the First ward on that is
sue. It's all buncomb and am tired
Of IT,
Alderman Egan asked the mayor
How long would it take for other
people to come in here and put up
plant to light the city?
The Mayor--That's a great ques.
ton to ask me.
Alderman Egan-You don't know.
Yet you want us to delay this matter
on your word that if the old company
doesn't supply us light some other
company will 1t will take two years
for any company to put in plant
here with the poles and wires to thor.
oughly light the city. and what will
the city do for light while they are
building II? asked YOU in the com
mittee how you proposed TO finance
municipal lighting plant and you
haven't answered It yet 1t is all bun
comb.
Much more was said but II is impos
sible to reproduce even synopsis of
IT,
The minority report of The commit
tee was adopted providing for arc
lights tin midnight and for gas the
remainder Of the night. at a total cost
Of about $1,000 year.
The annual appropriation bill was
then adopted providing for sums Us
r.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
Broken Condolences.

The woman who reveals her inmost
thoughts to her friend has no reason
for complaint If that friend passes on
her condolences to another We can
not expect others to exert greater reti-
cence than we do ourselves. There is
responsibility in imparting our own
secrets, as we'll as in keeping those OF
others. Many broken friendship can
be traced to nothing more than re-
peated confidence, which should never
have been bestowed in the first place.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
Continued on Second Page,)
An Irish Bull.

George Moore, the novelist, has &C
cumuated from his residence in Ire
and a number of Irish anecdotes that
are not included IN bis sad book, THE
Untitled Field" Mr.. Moore says that
he was walking one day in a Dublin
street when an undertaker's assistant
passed him, carrying on his back
coffin unusually tiny. A young man
stopped the assistant near Mr.. Moore.
rs II possible" exclaimed the young
man, that this coffin Is intended for
any living creature?"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17

Mrs. B. w. Evans. Clearwater. Kan,
writes: my husband lay sick, for
three months. The doctors said he
had quick consumption. We procured
bottle of Billiards. Horehound Syrup
and II cured him That was six years
age, and since then We have always
kert bottle in the house We can.
rot. do without II. For coughs and
colds If has no equal 25c, SOC and
s1o0.
Schulz Drug Co.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
CASH PRIZES FREE
A Unique Guessing Contest Announc.
ed For Next Sundays
Bulletin.
DO You want q IlttIe easy money

Do you want little easy money?
Keep your eye on next Sundays
Bulletin. Read the advertisements
Read every one and every word Of
each Therein lies the way to wealth;
not much Of It, but just enough to
make it interesting and pay you for
your trouble
In various advertisements that will
appear in Sundays paper there will
be the name Of town with the coun.
ty and the state in which il is located
One advertisement will contain the
1ame Of the town. another that of the
county aud a third the name of the
state. A careful examination of the
advertisements will reveal the words.
no two of the three words, however,
will appear in the same advertise
ment and they will be pretty wefl
scattered throughout the newspaper.
They may be in the display ads, or
among the business locals or in the
classified column, or all three, but
they will be among the advertise
ments and not in the news or reading
matter. The advertisements may be
running now or they may not, but in
either event it will pay You to study
the advertisements in The Bulletin to.
day and every day as they always con.
tain good and valuable Information
Three dollars In cash prizes will be
given for the correct guess of the
names Of town. county and state and
the manner IN which the answers
shall be filed aud the general oondi.
1sas Of tie contest will be announced
in a later issue.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
{ atinn Ones Gods.

The gods of a South American tribe
of Indians are generally looked upon
as sacred. But when the gods become
a nuisance, 1t Is time to put an end to
them. AT least that is what certain
tribe along the Yabari river think.
They worship the iguna and monkey
but as soon as the iguna' started eat
ing chickens they thought it time to
stop worshipping HIN, and to eat him
in place of the chickens he had eaten.
This they do, AID they prefer iguna
stew to chicken fricassee.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
SALOON KEEPERS LIABLE.
Snpcial 10 The Rullotin.

Springfield. H.. March 16,-The APP
pelate court today decided that sa-
locn keepers are liable for the death
OF their patrons who die while under
the influence of liquor sold them by
the defendants.
The case was that of Kate Algood,
who was awarded $4,000 damages
against William Botwinis, saloon
keeper this city, for the death of her
husband, George Algood' who had
been drinking in the Botwinis saloon,
and who, while on his way home, fell
from his buggy and was fatally in
iured
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
DISCONTINUE UNION LABEL.

% NSoVNIUNNFI i EN9ot Y
Rochester, N. Y, March 16.-The
use of the union label has been dis
continued by more than thirty large
wholesale clothing manufacturing
firms of this city. The manufacturers
claim their customers demand goods
without the label on them.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Washington, March iG.-Confirma
tions--Charles Il. Robb, assistant
attorney general postmasters; Neb'
raska- Edmund j. Burke, Bancroft
John Ring. Hooper Wisconsin-Mar'
tin ]. Gosa. Palmyra. Capt Theodore
f. Jewell, to be rear admiral
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17

Ayers Sarsaparilla is composed Of
fluid extract of sarsaparilla, o.;
stillingia, or: yellow dock, 9 o.;
Mayapple, 9 or; sugar. | or; lodide
of potassium, 90 gr; iodide Of iron,
10 or.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
Monunen, 70 late kentucky Governor.

Kentucky Democrats viii erect TO
the late Gov Gobel, victim of assassi.
nation. the handsomest monument in
the state. It will be Of bronze. with
a pedestal Of Vermont marble. and will
stand in Frankfort.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
FALLING ROCK KILLS.
3v Associated Press.

by Associated FTSSS.
Calumet, Mich. March 1.-two
men killed and one Injured by fall
ing rock in No 3 shaft, in the Hecla
branch of the Calumet and Hecla
mine today The dead: Michael
Adam, chief of timber gang Geo Ma
irele, timberman
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
Washington Bulletin.

BY Associated Fress.
Washington. March 1G-lLLlNOIS
Rain Thursday and probably Friday
fresh east winds becoming north
westerly.
MISSOURI.-Rain Thursday, Fri
day fair in west, clearing in east por-
ton, Colder.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17

The earth has a fertile surface of
2S,2G9 200 square miles. a desert sur
face of 4.1S0,000 square miles steppe
regions measuring 13,901,000 square
miles; polar regions measuring d.,
SSS,SO0 square miles.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
USEFUL INFORMATION.

I'm this department all manner Of useful in
formation will be briefly given every day, any
question asked by readers concerning any Of
the multi,udinous affairs of daily life win re-
ceiye careful consideration.
Today the sun win rise at Gill and
set at Cos.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17

Rich wine sauce can be made of
one cup of butter and two Of powder.
ed sugar beaten to light cream; add
one,half cup Of warm wine; stir two
minutes till smooth and foamy.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17

The distance by mail route from
New York via London to St Peters.
burg is $3.50 miles and it requires
ten days to cover it.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17

Crust coffee is made by toasting
bread very brown, pour on boiling
water, strain and add cream, sugar
and nutmeg If desired.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17

The tobacco acreage in the United
States in 1902 was 1.030,734; produc.
ton s21 ,S23,963 pounds; value $751;.
56S,510.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
NOISE IN THE AIR

Will attract crowd; SO will loud
advertisement, but noise does not al.
ways please, and unless an advertise.
ment appeals to the reader and in.
spires confidence, II can never be
made to produce gccd results, no mat.
ter how much space is employed or
how good the medium.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
To Cure A Cold In One Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's. All druggists refund the money
II II fails TO cure. T. w. Groves sig.
nature Ia on each box. CSC.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
Fun AND PHILOSOPHY.

Every virtue is now fair when 1t ap-
pears in beautiful person. Virgil.
He who wishes 10 secure the good
Of others has already secured bis
-Ccnfucius
Wei. Robbie. you've got new 1T
tie sllter: she Just arrived this morn
'nl leld the psoud father DO you
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
MIIllons srsnt fer rnhzrcn-

At3ut BIO ,1on.ccA. q IS estimated. IL
aanaally speat On tobacco aad pipes
in the United Kingdom.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17

The earth's sensible atmosphere is
generally supposed to extend about
forty miles in height.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-17
NEWS OF THE WEATHER
Results of Government Observations
With Prospects for Cairo and
Vicinity Today.

Indications for Cairo and vicinity
today; Rain; brisk southerly winds.