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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15
AMERICANS AIDED
MATOS REVOLUTION
Much Excitement In Venezuela
Over Alleged Charge.
FINANCES GIVEN REBEL LEADER.
President Castro Declares He Has
Proof that an American Concern
Helped Matos Rebellion While a
Claim Was Being Contested.

New York, April 12.-Much excite.
nent is said to exis in Venezuela
over the alleged discovery that an
American asphalt company gave fnan.
cial aid to the Matos revolution, which
was put down about six months ago.
Pres. Castro is said to have declar.
ed he has proof that agents Of the com.
pany in question aided Matos in his
revolution while the claim Of the com.
pany was being contested in the courts
Of Venezuela
He has declared that agents of the
company offered about half a million
dollars to him to have the courts de.
clare in favor Of the concession by
which the company gained the rights
in the asphalt beds and that when he
rejected the offer, the company,
through its agents, used the money
in melting the revolution.
President Castro has caused suits
to be entered for the abrogation OF
the concessions granted the company
If these suits should prevail the re.
cent decision OF the supreme court of
Venezuela in favor of the American
Asphalt combine would fall fiat.
The investigation asserted to have
brought out these disclosures has been
In progress some time and has not
yet been completed.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15
Third Time Firm Burned Out.

Nashville, Tenn, April 12.-Fire
early this morning partially destroyed
the stock and the three story building
OF Warren Bros. company, dealers In
paints, oils, varnishes and artists ma.
terials, corner College and Church
streets. This is the third time this
firm has burned out in the past 20
years. Loss estimated at $4,000; in.
surance, $4,000.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15
PISTOL DUEL CAUSES DEATH.
Sensational Affair Occurs at Birmino
ham. Ala.

Birmingham, Ala, April 12.-E. p.
Mcdonald, we'll known young man
Of prominent family. who has killed
two men and figured In several sensa.
tional shooting affairs, was shot and
instantly killed by Alex Lawson, an
employe Of the Louisville and Nash.
vile railroad. in street fight last
night. Lawson was also shot and
badly, though not fatally, wounded
The affair has created a sensation.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15
BUBoNIc PLAGUE CASES.

seourge Unabated at Lima, Psru-pis
trict Quarantine.
New York, April 12-Twelve new
cases OF bubonic plague were report
ed Sunday, cables The Herald's cor.
respondent at Lima, Peru.
All are in the lower part of the
city.
The districts will be closed by quar-.
antine, and communication between Ii.
ma and Callao also will be forbidden.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15
GIVES 100000.
Mrs. Kings MunifIcent Gift for Erec
tlon of a Chapel.

ton OF Chapel.
New York, April 12.-Announce.
ments have been made at dinner of
the Huguenot Society that Mrs., Ed.
ward King, Of this city, has given
100000 for the erection of a new Epis.
copal chapel as part of the Cathedral
on 81. john the Baptist, on, Cathedral
Heights. t%4
IL Is to be called the HueuSa1ot chap.
el, and will be the seconaan q series
OF seven. One chapel in me Series
already provided for and nearly finish.
ed, is the gift of August Befnont. in
memory Of his mother. This< chapel
1t is understood, has coet Sb0O.O00.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15
Steamer to Carry Supplies.

San Francisco, April 12.-The steam.
ship Redondo, owned in this city, has
been chartered by the Kamtchatka
Commercial Industrial company to car.
ry supplies from one of Russia's Pa.
CHIC ports. Baron Won Bruggle, Of
st. Petersburg, will have charge OF
the Redondo.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15
colony Of Jews for asoroI..

Savannah, Ga, April 12.-Rey. Geo,
solomon, rabbi of the congregatioh
Mickva Israel, has left for New York,
where he will institute colony OF
BOO Hebrews In Emanuel county. He.
says that a wealthy owner of land
has offered tract large enough to ad
mit ef q sattlemSnt Of 600 people.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15
Plug Denies Report.

st. Petersburg, April 12.-MaJor Gen.
eral Plug, in a dispatch from Muk.
den, denies the report that the jap.
anese advance guard has crossed the
Yalu and engaged in a skirmish with
the Russian troops.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15
On the Way to ST. Louis.

z;Natcbez, Miss, April 12.-The Unit.
ed States gunboat Nashville and tor.
pedo boat destroyer Lawrence passed
Natchez at 10:30 o'clock this morn.
ing on their way to st. Louis. The
Nashville was half mile In front of
the Lawrence. No stop was made
at this port.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15
Bio Plant Burned

Wilmington, N. c., April 13.-The
plant of the Pittsburg Lumber compa.
'nyR miles. north of Wilmington, was
completely destroyed today by a fire
which originated from sparks from the
furnace. The loss is estimated at $780,.
oOOt about onA-fourth covered by in.
suranee. -
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15
FIRE AT MCKINNEY. TEX.
Property Destroyed to the Value OF
0,oo0-lnsurance $3.50 600.

Houston, Tex, April 12-Fire at Nc.
Kinney, Tex, today destroyed the
buildings occupied by the White Dry
Goods company, Sargent Bros, books
and jewelry; White G. Price, drugs;
Heard & Pierce, grocers, and A. E..
Dave, groceries. Other firms suf.
fered minor damage.
Losses are estimated at 5000 900,
with $15O,000 insurance.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-15

Channels OF Georgia rivers will net
be deepened at present. appropriation
having given out.
Holbrook argus., 1904-03-26
May Make tho Sahara q Sea

French engineers have declared it is perfectly feasible to convert the desert of Sahara into a vast lake, thus open Ing to commerce great regions of tho interior of Africa, which can now only be reached by long, tedious and dan gerous caravan journeys. They say that large portion of the desert lies below the level of the Atlantic. and that by digging canal to let in the waters of the ocean the great change could be effected easily and at cost which would be small compared to the benefits which would accrue.
 If the whole desert lay below the level of the Atlantic the flooding of it would create a sea more than four times as big as the Mediterranean; but as the Sahara is composed of elevated plateaus, mountain ranges and depres- sions, only part would be covered with water when the waves of the ocean were let in, and the new sea thus formed would be an irregular body Of water, probably of about the same size as the Mediterranean Great commea'- cial cities would at once spring up on Its shores and trade and civilization strike at once to the heart of Africa The sea of Sahara may never become a reality, but, in any event, 1t is gigan' tic and pleasing dream.
Holbrook argus., 1904-03-26
MOSLEMS IN ENGLAND.
Native Britishers Who Have Elm.
 braccd the Enith of Moha m III ed.

ANutiNS VuO huNG G"s
 braced the Faith of Moha m med.
 In Liverpool, Eng there are 300 res ident Moslems. of whom POO are native born Engllshmen. The head of this Moslem colony is w. II. Abdullah Quilllam, Liverpool lawyer of Manx The story of his conversion to Islam ism and the founding of the religion in England is interesting.
 In 1881 he made trip to Morocco for his health. While crossing from Gib- raltar he was profoundly impressed by the behavior of number of pilgrims, who, when the hour of devotion arrived, performed their ablutlons and said their prayers on deck, regardless of the curious glances of the foreigners. He thought that faith which could in- spire its followers until nothing else mattered must have something in it.
 He made the acquaintance of a mer- chant in Tangier, one Hadjl Abdullah, and Hadji argued with him that as the Christian regarded his religion as better than that of the Jew because of Its later prophet and its later message, so the Mohammedan regarded his faith as better than that of the Christian, being based on later revelation still. Struck with the argument, MT. Quilliam began to study the Koran and after two years investigation he embraced the Mussulman faith.
 "My friends, of course" says the sheikh, thought I wanted straight waistcoat. had to deliver lecture to a temperance society, and in 1t, while not disclosing my faith, showed how strong was the power of Islam in keep ing the world sober. After the lecture was oyer a man-a stranger to me asked me more about the Moslem faith, and told him all knew.
 If all this is true,' he said, why are you not a Mussulman yourself?' l confessed that I was. He said he would be one also I repeated the lecture Two others joined us, man and woman, and we four started the first Moslem society in Liverpool"
 Apart from the Liverpool colony there are Mussulmans in different parts of the country, many of whom are pro- fessional men,
Holbrook argus., 1904-03-26
"GODDESS OF THE PLAGUE"
How a Female Fake Imposed on the
 People of Bombay.


 Bhagirathi Is woman of Bombay who for few brief weeks reigned in her city as a goddess. Then the heavy hand of the Indian government fell up- on her, and she was fined 100 rupees, formally enjoined from continuing to be goddess, and sent about her busi- ness. In the meantime, however, she had grown passing rich.
 It was late in February that Bhagi- rathi announced that the spirit of the Goddess Mana Kali had entered into her, but before that time she had wise ly prepared for the event by renting a plot of ground in front of her hut and building upon it large shed. Her first official act as goddess was to hang out a saffron-colored flag and hire a band; her second was to announce that she had come to save Bombay from the plague, which for seven years had ravaged India.
 In few days she was working "cures" by the hundred. In IS days in March she is known to have treated 839 sick persons, mainly plague vic tins, but with few smallpox cases among them. The people came in thFongs, sick and well together; public carriages were used by the sick, of course without being disinfected, and the neighbors of the goddess began to die in alarming numbers.
 Her method of cure was strictly oriental. She applied her lips to the diseased inguinal gland, rubbed betel nut on 1t with her foot, and smeared 1t with red lead. Then she struck the sick patient three blows on the fore head and received her fee. Twenty three patients fell dead close to her hut, and most of the rest died at their homes, for her treatment was distinct ly harmful. But her trade was on the increase when she was suppressed
Holbrook argus., 1904-03-26
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

There are but fifty flour mills in all Mexico.
 In Germany the goose Is the most popular fowl.
 Chestnuts are an important article of food in Italy.
 The average American marries at the age of twenty seven.
 In no country does the line of per. petual snow reach the sea coast.
 One out of every four persons who die in London die lon public charity"
 The population of Colombia is to that of the United States as one to twenty.
 Only 19,202 sealskins were taken on the Pribylov Islands during the season of 1903.
 The total area now in the national forest preserves comprises over 63,OOO- 900 acres.
 There are 5,147 national banks with authorized capital stock aggregating S76G,00O,OOO.
 In London million and a quarter persons live on $5 or less week for family of five.
 The United States now holds second rank among the worlds exporters of boots and shoes.
 The average cost of labor in the pro. duction and preparation of coffee is AT cents a pound.
 Roofs are usually blown of by sue. ton on the lee side rather than pres. sure on the weather side.
 The average yield of potatoes in the Province of Ontario for the last twenty. one years is given as 115 bushels to the acre.
 The average height of Englishmen is now five feet eight and a half inches; an increase of an inch in half a century.
 The new trans-Canadian route from Liverpool to Yokohama will be 2,2O0 miles shorter than that across the united States.
 The official figures show that of 122,- Al immigrants settled in Manitoba during the year, 4,1OO came from the United States.
 More than 5O,OOO,OOO pounds of India rubber, valued at more than $3O,OOO,. GOO, were imported into the United States last year.
 The Stuttgarter Mit-und Ruck- versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft is an insurance company, with a capital stock of $2,00O,OOO, which insures ma. chinery.
Holbrook argus., 1904-03-26
Equals the BrambIe Bush Story.

John Miller, colored, of Uniontown, Pa., became blind in his right eye many months ago and recently one of the family threw a potato which des- troyed the sight of his left eye. His physicians believed him entirely blind, but the sight gradually returned to the vight eye.
Holbrook argus., 1904-03-26
"Autos" Must Heed the Rules.

Motor cars we are assured have come to stay; they have created new indus try and new source of pleasure; but they have also created new abuse. and the condition on which they will continue to be tolerated is that they conform to the rules of roads made fo' others and net for them.
Holbrook argus., 1904-03-26
A Family Jar.

MT. Snapp-Well, what are you go- ing to do about it?
 Mrs. Snapp-Oh, don't be in such & hurry. It takes some time to make up my mind.
 MT. Snapp - That's strange; you haven't much material to wc~k with. Philadelphia Press.
Holbrook argus., 1904-03-26
Four-Leaf Clovers In Profuslon.

Two Saco, Me-, girls found 470 four. leaf clovers in less than an hour ono day vscently.
Holbrook argus., 1904-03-26
Ocean Depths.

The average depth of the ocean be- tween 60 degrees south and 60 degrees north is nearly three miles.
Holbrook argus., 1904-03-26

Speaking terms are to Dc found on . card in the telephone booth.
Holbrook argus., 1904-03-26

Of all the diseases organism afflicted
 
 is applied, the patient seldom
 Being fully this Pnkham early in her careful study the subject and producing her great remedy for woan ills Lydia D. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound that and combination of which harmony with govern system E hams Vegetable Compound the only especially for
 Read What Mrs. Wesslitz Says. '
 "DEAR MRS PINKHAM-For two years my life simply bur- dn suffered with female troubles and back and os The doctor told that had kidney troubles and prescribed for For three months took his medicines but steadily My husband then advised to try Lydia D. PnLhams Vegetable Compound and brought home bottle is the greatest blessing brought to home Within three months changed My pain had disappeared complexion became clear bright and entire system good shape-R PAULA Proof that Kidney Trouble be Cured by Lydia Pkhm Vegetable Compound
 "DEAR Mas PNKHAM-I very you the good medicine has done had doctod for years steadily growing had trouble with kidneys and two doctors told had Bghts diseases also had falling of the womb and could not walk block tme My back and head ac all the te and was could not sep had hyser and ntng spells tired all the tme had such pain left side that could hardly stand at times without putting my foot on something
 docored with several good doctors but they did not help took a twelve bottles of Lydia E. Pinkams Vegetable COm pound five boxes of Liver used three packages Wash and feel eat and sleep we do all work walk miles without feeling tired The tell me that kidneys all right happy be we and feel that owe all to your medicneMs OPAL STRONG, Dalton, Mass.
 Mrs. Pnkham invites all advce She has guided thousands health. Address Mass VVVVV Lydia E Pinkham Co,
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-08-06
NOT TO MISS HIS CHANCE
How Lord Ross, Practical Engineer
Saved . Large Manufactory
(COurier-JOurnal.)

Courier JOurnaI.)
They had been talking about Eng
lishmen of title who toor, up useful
work. Somebody mentioned Lord Ross
who Is a good practical engineer. and
then somebody else told this story:
Lord Ross having once--unknown to
the employes-entered the engine room
Of a large mandatory. the engineers
attention was attracted by his odd be-
havior.
"Well. what's up now?" he growled
at the peer. What are you shaking
your head and pulling out your watch
for? What have you got to find fault
with. anyhow"
"Oh!" replied Lord Ross, 1T Is all the
same to me. have got no fault to
find. am just waiting till the boiler
explodes."
1.-THE boiler explodes? Why, you are
crazy. man." exclaimed the engineer
angrily. preparing to turn the peer out
as q dangerous crank.
WELL" retorted the earl, III you
work ten minutes longer with that
loose screw there the boiler will GER
tainly explode"
The engineer, grazing in the direc-
ton indicated by Lord Ross. paled and
jumped to stop the engine.
why didn't you say so sooner he
blurted out.
why should II" answered the peer
II never yet have had an opportunity
Of seeing q boiler explode"
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-08-06
rhG kEMDRick FIRE

livery ones sympathy goes out to
Iksndrick the Inflated city this morn
lng ana every hand u stretched forth
n willingness 10 aid her people. The
destruction of the city was almost total
eut evsry citisen Of the wide awake
1 c6mmuuity II busting about In all
cnssrfulnsss making plans for bet
Ater ana larger Hendricks. 1t II this
spirit that has built UP the west and
~ eitiss ana made 4 ~ II u today the
shack hone a the United states. The
ss6siss Il disasters that have visited
llSendrick have N no manner daunted
~ splrit II NJ pluciv people It the
sssns tiuns ~ shpsid hssd the warn-
! ~ thAesis ~ sivsn her and pro-
- her new city With adequate ilre
etacGion. The turb0lant Potlatch y
slsht = her 1esr with magnificent
III that with but little effort can b.
olndo q taxa ~ course above the
ebwn, furnlshlng an unsQualisd iire
lrotsctien and an abundance q power
| ~ ~ tramways and manufactures
M giving that sense q ssosfiv snd
{Ariftyness which y - sss(ntial -
ia1ucsmsnt y the homo sss1pr The
1lsissy 81 III citiss that have bssn
ewept 81 ths flames. where tils indcdhs
ksSls spirit prevails. y that The 'amsa
Sava Sesn blessing In disguiss rather
(lan calamity and same can Be pre-
1ieted Tor Ken1rick for che has this
6plrit = svidsnced by the immediate
cail for lumber and new stocks by her
ssssrchanta.
speaking Of the indomitable spirit
The TELLER takes this occasion for q
iittle self lAudation, In spite Of al
most lnsurmountable difliculties The
Ts,lsr rave 70 tn readers full report
81 the conflagration. With wires down
In ali directions the feat was . splendid
one.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-08-06
PORTLAND AND HoLo.uPs

The numerous hold-ups on the Port
land street cars can not fail to give to
the outside world the impression that
Portland Is infested with dangerous
class Of criminals with which the mu-
nicipality seems to be unable to cope.
X vital mistake seems to be made In a
Great many Of the cities Of leaving the
outlying resident districts and suburbs
% take care Of themselves while the
police force hovers like moth around
ths brilliantly lighted business districts
where the possibility Of danger is the
minimum. when crime stalks 10
boldly there IL certainly something
amiss and the serious phases OF 1t come
from the districts away from police
protection. THIS can be brought home
70 our own city without displacement
- the resident district Is insufi,ciently
lighted ana patroied.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-08-06
THE WEATHER

Forecast for Northern Idaho. made
1t Portland. Ore. August 8.
p Tonight and sunday. fair; cooler.
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
An energetic AREA Of high pressure.
central over the British northwest. ex-
tends southsastward over the Rocky
mountain slopes An AREA Of low peue-
sure b over the lake region. Het
weather prevails over the plateau. The
Temperature reached zoe degrees u
Lewiston and Walla Walla yesterday,
le3 degrees at Boise and Red Blum. 100
degrees It Spokane and Phoenix. and
- degrees at KAmloops. The thsr-
monster registered 90 degrees 81
Walla WallA 1T o'clock, local tine.
this mOrning. Very cool weather prs
walls near the center Of high pressure.
HAHN Ill tn the Atlantic states and ct Z
~ seattsred stations. The only pre-
'clpitation In the northwest half Of he
,0ountry was .0l inch 1t Tatoosh I
A. =. ALPS. Omcial In Charge.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-08-06

Chicago-Puts, September corn, good
for Monday. 519kc: calls. Sc.
Chicago-Puts and calls. September
wheat, good for next week, &c away;
corn. &c away from the market.
Minneapolis Following just received
from our Amore. North Dakota. ONCE
sixty per cent damage from black
rust"
There was great activity In the pro-
vision list today caused by liquidation
Would advise to buy on all such recess
sions.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-08-06

The resignation from the supreme
bench Of New York. BY Judge Alton b.
Parker. the democratic nominee TOT
president. shows at least that the Judge
y preparing Tor . vigorous campaign
and that All extraneous matters must
rive way 10 the paramount interest.
The Judge shed tears over his resigna-
! tion presumably with the thought In
view that after the campaign II al over
back to the tall timber and innocucus
desustude.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-08-06
New Bank Statement

Reserves. increased, $31s.250; les
United States increase, $323.360.
Loans, decreased. 31.S61, 200.
Specie. increased. $1.935.300.
Legals. decreased. $1,854.100.
Deposits. decreased. $752.200.
Circulation, decreased. 1921. 400.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-08-06
COMING EVENTS

.
Monday. August s-Lasttug until the
13nd. There WIN - . meeting ana
conference Of the Christian Workers ct
--
Monday. Aug. s.-1hs rspubssea@s -
Nes Psrce county viii held , eeuven-
ton at The court house as Lewheen -
nominating conve1e9en-
Tuesday. August e.-Ihs Neg Percs
tn annual session at the Lewiston
High school building and remain In
Dsssion unth espesmbss =
-s'e-''-.--.
Tuesday. Aus. N-1ners wM - =
BurekA Mining. smelling = Power
company at ClasAtsh
as 4.
ington Game end Fish rfotecttvs asso-
ciataen vim nese sn TINS @ts AZ -
atstss Wsah4 &1hk j. 3&ks @
county sociAalse convention WIN meet "a
Kooskia to name . roM county uckee
"wednesday, aug. le'-Thsrs WIN %
Lewiston NAVIGATION company At tns
commercial club rooms.
wednesday. August 1s.-Tns reouo-
ican state convsntion VIII % nssd ~
Friday. August f2.-The democratic
county convsntiso win meet 70 ssssaon
IN Lewiston . name = county ucks'
ventton.
|
Monday. August is.-Ihs dsmoeseela
win b held n this casu.
Monday Aug 1.-THE AmertsAl
Ore. In annual session ana WIN -
up to and Including the Hth
| -
county superintendent. announces ena
teachers examinations wsh % nes
Thursday Friday and SATURDAY
4,
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-08-06

lican dollars and he dare not be .
democrat for fear Of losing socialist
and republican dollars and he dare not
be Z republican for fear Of losing the
socialist and democratic dollars. He II
dealing . haymow flush with the hope
of hogging the pot, but he will md that
1t will prove a bobtail. All good citi-
Gems admire men who believe some
thing and have honesty enough to say
1t, and who have purity OF character
enough to attempt to convince others
to believe as they do. But no good per-
SON has any confidence In the honesty
Of anybody who carries an Ice chest on
one shoulder and blast furnace on the
other. crying to the multitude. Il can
freeze you or roast you while you wait.
Pay your money and take your choice.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-08-06
{Weiser siRnal.l

(Weiser Signal)
Those newspaper clippings dealing
with the recent fiop of the Hon. Avery
C. Moore, when preserved In a large
scrap book. will make interesting read
ing for his descendants.