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FIERCE JAGUAR ESCAPES IN
COLORADO TUNNEL.
Over 1900 People Held for Some
Time on Account Of the Escape
Of the Animal.

Over 1000 People Held for Some
Time on Account Of the Escape
Of the Animal.
Colorado Springs, Colo, July IT,
More than Z, 900 people and four passen-
ger trains Of the Colorado Midland Rail-
road were held at Tunnel No. 6, two
miles west Of Manitou, by a fierce South
American jaguar. Before he was cap
tlired the animal clawed Joseph Benz
nett, cutting a severe cash across his
right leg. Miss belmont, passenger
on one OF the trains, became frighten-
ed, and in endeavoring to scale high
cliff, fell distance Of 20 feet, breaking
one of her lower limbs. The iaguar
and a polar bear occupied two compart
ments in large cage that was loaded
upon a flat car of the train belonging
to "a circus. The cage was too high to
enter the mouth Of the tunnel and as
the cage struck the roof Of the tunnel
it was torn OFF. The keeper threw on.
the air brakes, stopping the train. He
threw rocks at the bear and fired blank
cartridges at the jaguar to keep them
from escaping. The animal crawled
under the car and during the efforts to
drive it into another cage Bennett re-
ceived his injuries. The animal was
finally driven into small cage, but be-
fore the door could be closed the train
started and the jaguar again leaped for
liberty 1t dashed through the tunnel,
but upon emerging at the other end
found itself in narrow cut. After
some effort the animal was again cap
tured and placed in his cage.
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GEN. BL LACEMAR
HAS PASSED AWAY
The Commander in-C Chief Of the @.
A. r. Answers Final Roll-Call.
DEATH CAME at BOISE, IDAHO.



Boise, Idaho. July 17.Gen. w. w
Blackmar. commander -in-ehief of the
G A. r.. died Sunday Of interstitial
nephritis.
His wife was with him during his i'll
ness. The body will be embalmed and
taken to the home Of the family at
Boston.
The general arrived here on July 10,
on tour, when he intended to visit
Grand Army posts throughout the
northwest.
He was Ill when he arrived and grad
Wally failed The seriouSness Of his
condition was kept from the public at
the request Of his wife.
i Gen. Blackmar was born July 25,
1S41, at Bristol, Pa. He enlisted in the
Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry and
subsequently joined the First West vir-
ginia. He served with distinction
throughout the war, and at Five Forks
was promoted ON the field by Gen. Gus
ter to the rank of captain. Throughout
three administrations those Of Cover
nors Long, Talbot and Rice, he was
Judge advocate general Of Massachu-
sets. At the last national encamp-
men of the G. A. r. he was elected
commander-in-chi
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BOUND FOR THE FAR NORTH
The Peaey Arctic Mxpeditton an
search of the North Pole De-
parts krom New York.

New York. July 1.-THE steamer
Roosevelt, IN which Capt. Robert r.
Peary hopes to reach the north pole.
started on her long voyage Sunday.
Capt Peary and q party Of guests were
on board at the start, and remained
with the ship on her trip down the bay
but they left her at the NarroWs. re-
turning 10 the city on navy tug
Capt Peary started at night BY rail FOR
Sydney Cape Breton, where he will
Join the ship.
The Roosevelt. which had been lying
In the North river. opposite Thirtleth
street, since Saturday night, weighed
anchor and got under way at ten min
utes to three o'clock Sunday after.
noon
On board the vessel besides the ex-
plorer's party were 4 number Of guests
and newspaper men who accom-
panied the ship as far as Sandy Hook.
A launch bearing a party Of excursion
lists attempted to run close alongside Of
the Roosevelt after she was under way
and neariy collided with her.
The Roosevelt was saluted BY ali
manner Of steam and sailing craft on
her way so sea. She passed out the
Narrows ut 4s45 p. no.
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for some time; head has ached and
back also has slept poorly, been quite
nervous, and nearly tainted once or
twice; head dizzy, and heart beats very
fast; then that bearing-down feeling,
and during her menstrual period she is
exceedingly despondent, Nothing
pleases her. Her doctor says: ssCheer
up: you have dyspepsia; you will be
all right soon.
But she doesn't get g all right, " and
hope vanishes; then come the brood
ing, morbid, melancholy, everlasting
BLUES.
Don't wait until your sufferings havs
driven you to despair, with your nerves
all shattered and your courage gone,
but take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. See what it did for
Mrs. Rosa Adams, of SO 18th Street,
Louisville, KY. niece of the late Gem
eral Roger Hanson, C.S.A. She writeae
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:--
9 cannot tell you with pen and ink what
Lydia e. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound
has done for me. / suffered with female
troubles, extreme lassitude, ths bluest
nervousness and that all-gone feeling I was
advised to try Lydia e. Pinkhans Vegetable
Compound, and it not only cured my fenEGhs
arrangement but it has restored meto perfect
health and strength. The buoyancy of Hy
younger days has returned, and do not suf
fer any longer with dependency, as did be-
FORE / consider Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound boon to sick and suffering
women
II you have some arrangement of
the female organism write Mrs.
Plnkham, Lynn, Mass, for advices
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THE WHITE RIVER DIVISION


ST. Louis, July 16 The White River
division Of the Iron Mountain Route,
between Newport, Ark, and Carthage.
Mo-, Is rapidly approaching completion.
The report Of representatives Of the
passenger department, who made a trip
over the line recently, indicates that
through trains will be running within
80 days.
Mr.. II. 9. Townsend. general pas
senger agent, in speaking Of the new
road, said:
While several thousand tourists
have already made the trip from each
end OF the completed line, and we
hauled during the month Of June
over forty fishing parties from Car
thage, who desired to make the i've
day float from Galena to Branson, re-
turning on train in fifty minutes, for the
complete daylight run over the new
line there win be a tourist travel
unprecedented over any line in this
part Of the country. The fishing prop
osition is becoming 50 well known that
number Of club houses on the james
river, between Galena and Branson,
are now completed and are taxed to
their capacity
The romantic features of the new
line are naturally the ones to attract
the most general attention, but the ag-
ricultural and minerel possibilities
of this new region are remarkable.
.The road itself is marvel of en-
cheering, and the s5-pound rails, with
rock ballast, promises the highest de-
gree of speed and safety =
The road will open up one Of the
finest agricultural countries west of the
Mississippi, and a stream Of immigra-
tion will soon be pouring in. The min
eral resources Of northeastern Arkan-
sas are believed by many to excel those
Of southeast Missouri, where fortunes
have been made and are now being
made in lead and zinc. Inthe Carthage
district alone the lead and zinc mined
annually exceeds $1,000, 900, so it can
be understood what the road means 10
the mineral section Of Arkansas. The
new road also makes O short line be-
tween the southeast and northwest,
and for through traffic is one of the
most important pieces Of railway built
west OF the Mississippi in many years.
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Prof. Joseph Levi, of Milan, Italy.
the discoverer of the iodine cure Of
tuberculosis, in discussing his new
method, said: 1T is a well-known fact
that iodine can Immediately convert
Itself into vaccine and become virus
of the most active and deadly kind. 1t
follows from this that a person affect
ed with tuberculosis becomes capable
Of making by himself and in himself
his own curative serum, ready for
healing purposes when this iodine can
circulate integrally in the blood. It is
precisely this which have obtained
by my new method
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MANY DEATHS FROM HEAT.
Hot Wave of Last Week Sweeps
Back over New York.

New York, July 17.After respite
of one day the hot wave that swept
over New York last week causing
scores of deaths and hundreds of cases
of prostrations, returned today with re-.
newed intensity, the temperature being
by far the highest of this season.
The highest point reached was at 4
o'clock this afternoon when the Wealth
er Bureau thermometer touched 95
degrees. In the streets, however, the
heat was much greater, some thermom-
eters recording as high as 1O5 degrees.
While the heat was intense the air
was stirred by light breezes and the
general suffering was somewhat miti-
gated by the absence of the excessive
humidity that prevailed last week. It
was largely owing to this that only two
cases of death by heat were reported.
The total number of prostrations for
the whole city was less than so. There
was little diminution of the heat after
nightfall, the mercury standing at 81 at
II pm. There are no prospects to-
night of any relief for several days to
oornn
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KNOCKED OUT BY sLUGGERs
Michael DonneIIy, the Union Butch
ers' Chief IN Chicago, sIugged
and Left for Dead.

Chicago, July IL Sluggers OF the
'.wrecking crew. type invaded the
Chicago Federation of Labor at its
election, Sunday, and after holding up
the judges at the point Of revolyers and
tearing up the ballots. used brass
knuckles and slung shots on Michael
Donnelly, prominent among the con-
servative labor leaders, and left him
for dead on the floor Of Bricklayers
hall.
The assault of the thugs, which was
carried out with Wild West audaci-
ty and precision that showed careful
drilling, was the method adopted to
block santi-machine. reforms in the
organization. The assailants are UNI
known.
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MOMA- COAlANCHE LANDS.
People IN Oklahoma Want Them,
Opened for Settlement.

People IN oklahoma Want Them
Opened for Settlement.
saMton, Ok, July 16. The news
papers of the original KiowarC Comanche
country of Oklahoma, which was opened
to settlement in 1901, have begun a
united and systematical fight against
the Secretary of the Interior for propos-
ing to lease reserve Indian lands of a
half million acres of these new counties
for a period Of five years for agricultu-
raj purposes, and in sodoing are voicing
the sentiment of nearly a quarter Of a
million people Of Southwest Oklahoma.
The cry is that the country does not
want families of three thousand tenants
on their lands Next to the statehood
Of Oklahoma, the people viii make the
strongest fight in Washington during
the coming session Of Congress to have
these lands opened to settlement.
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Kingston jamaica, July III DR..
Franklin Clarke. an American, was an
rested here this morning for breach Of
the official secret service act Some
days ago DR. Clarke was discovered
taking photo graphs Of the forts pro-
tectins Port Roy aud Kingston Tie
police found the photogra phs on him.
The pI soners llo is q graduate qf kIatS
ward has been a Eesld dent hers for four
months Before the court local lave
yef on the pl sonel's hshalA pointed out
that D Clarke action ithollf
Significance was hele s. GOO bal
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A farmers institute is to be held at
Mount Olive on August /, and will be
conducted under the auspices of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
The schedule Of farmers Institutes
now being prepared by the Agricultural
and Mechanical College officials will
distribute these Institutes all over the
State.
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No HONE Of Cooler Weather.

Washington, July II. The Weather
Bureau tonight announced that there
was no prospect for several days at
least Of a let up of the extreme heat
which has extended over the country
for the past few days.
The entire country from the Missis-
sippi Valley eastward to Southern New
England and the Florida coast is in the
midst Of a well marked midsummer hot
spell. The maximum temperature today
was as follows;
Philadelphia 96, Chicago 94 Cincin-
natl 94, New York "a, Detroit 81, WASH
ington 93, st. Louis 90, Pittsburg 81,
Boston 90.
The leader., 1905-07-22
An Tnnnrta,nt .T.AdaI Nintnr,.

Allen S. OImsted, Of LIE Roy, N. Y, Is
the inventor and proprietor OF Foot:
Ease, well-known proprietary article Of
merit and enjoying large sale all over
the world. Mr.. Olmsted has been
heavy advertiser, and has been able to
make trademark Of great value. Others
have noted this with jealous eye and have
sought, by underhand methods and by
copying, to steal the benefits to be had
from confusing the mind Of the public.
Mr.. Olmsted brought his dishonest com
petitors into the Supreme Court Of New
York State, which recently granted an
injunction with costs, restraining the of
tenders from making or selling foot pow
der resembling Allen Foot Ease inoutward
form or design or otherwise. The entire
advertising fraternity of the United States
owes debt Of gratitude to Mr.. Olmsted
for taking this firm stand against the buc-
cancers Of trade, who, having no inventive
power themselves, are always willing to
profit by anotherss brains, and, by meth
DDS akin to those of the bushranger, be-
come social highwaymen in stealing the
benefits Of long, extensive and clever adj
vertising.
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DENTISTS ENTERPRISE.
Took Unique Method Of Making Pee
pie Acquainted with His Busi-
ness.

"A young man with ingenuity enough 20
warrant success recently identified him
self with Milwaukee church that boasts
Of having one Of the largest congregations
in the city, relates the Evening Wiscon-
sin.
He made himself generally useful, Of.
fering TO sing m the choir, teach Sunday
school, act as usher, or do anything that
would help the good cause along. He was
finally asked to serve ID the capacity Of
usher, which Ne did with great alacrity.
As be passed the collection box the
minister noticed that he handed each per-
son q slip Of white paper. At first the
minister supposed they were the en-
velopes in which the money for specified
purposes is usually inclosed, but after a
few Sundays of assiduous work on the
part Of the usher, the minister decided to
Investigate.
He disco*eped that the young man was
q struggling young dentist, and was hand
ing out his business cards.
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Another Leak

Washington, July Ii. Secretary vii
son has begun an investigation Of re-
port that q certain female employe Of
his department has sold questions to be
asked in civil service examinations prior
to holding Of such examinations. A
complaint has been made that this
woman for several years has been aid
ing applicants for positions in this man-
ner. and that in number Of cases the
applicants have paid literally Tor the
service. The examinations alleged to
have been thus mani ipulated were for
positions requiring teclni cal knowledge
The leader., 1905-07-22
soldierg Turned BureIarg,

Montgomery, Ala, July IT.. Three
unknown soldiers of the Second Regi-
ment, now in camp here, went into the
store Of r. S. Holmes, a negro, just
outside the city, just before day this
morning One held the negro clerk to
the wall with his bayonet while the
Others robbed the cash register and the
safe. The Governor has ordered the
Adjutant- General to make every effort
to apprehend the culprits and to see
that they are adequately punished.
The whole State Office Is stirred d
over the outrage.
The leader., 1905-07-22

Two venerable American scholars
of high distinction are worthy of men
tion. One of them is On Francis A.
March, so. who in the fall will have
rounded out half century as profes-
sor at Lafayette college He is one Of
the worlds best-known philologists,s
but man whose industry has been
eaualed by his modesty To have held
the lasting affection of a steady stream
of college boys for so years is a great
achievement. Also in the frant rank
of American scholarship is Or. Glider
sleeve, professor of Greek at Johns
Hopkins university.
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Peary oR for tlae North Pole.

New York, July 16.-Lieut. Robert
E. Peary today started on his journey
Id quest Of the North Pole. His ship,
the Roosevelt, weighed anchor and got
under way at $40 o'clock this afternoon.
on board the vessel besides the ex-
plorer's party were number Of guests
and newspaper men, who accompanied
the ship as far as Sandy Hook, where
they were taken off by . navy yard tug
sent out BY Admiral Coghlan. The
Roosevelt was saluted BY all manner Of
steam and sailing craft on her way TO
sea. She passed out at 4 :45 pm.
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house the back ache has been SO bad
that it brought tears to my eyes. The
pain at times was SO intense that ] was
compelled to give up my household
duties and lie down. There were head
aches, dizziness and blood rushing to
my head to cause bleeding at the nose
The first box Of Doan's Kidney Pills
benefited me SO much that continued
the treatment. The stinging pain in
the small Of my back, the rushes of
blood to the head and other symptoms
disappeared.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sale by
Ill dealers, so cents per box. Foster
Milbnrn Co., Buffalo. n. Y.
The leader., 1905-07-22

The Southern Express Company and
the American Express Company have
been cited to appear at the regular
August meeting of the State Railroad
Commission and show cause why the
assessment Of their property should
not be revised The commission has
collected evidence through municipal
tax assessors indicating that these
two companies have not made satisfac-
tory returns OF their property for as
sessment.
The leader., 1905-07-22
NORFOLK & WESTERN WRECK
Two Men killed and Four Injured In
Head-On Collision of Freights
Near lIidvaIes Va.

Roanoke. Va. July 1.-Two men
were killed and four more injured in
head-on collision between two freight
trains one mile north of Midvale, Va,
on the Shenandoah division of the Nor
folk & Western railroad
The dead:
p. S. Hite, Vesuvius, Va; brakeman.
John Dent, Roanoke: fireman.
Midvale is 64 miles north of Roam
oke. The north bound freight train had
orders to wait at Midvale for q south
bound extra freight. but the orders, it
Is alleged, were disregarded by the
north-bound crew.
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a ROOMING HOUSE TRAGEDY
Bessie barnes Shot and killed by
Mrs. Mary Carder I'm ST.
Louis Rooming House.

st. Louis. July 17.-While trying to
protect her sweetheart. Morris Roth, in
fight at the rooming house, No. 2702
Lucas avenue, Sunday afternoon, Bes-
sic Barnes, a 15-year-old girl, was shot
and almost instantly killed by Mrs.
Mary Caraer, 80 years old, wife OF
Jesse Carder. secretary OF Teamsters'
Union No. 7l5.
The shooting occurred in the pres
epce Of the dead girls mother and little
sister. the mother fainting across her
daughters corpse.
Trouble Is said to have arisen over
board bill, due, it is claimed, to Mrs.
Barnes, and eliminated in row be-
tween Jesse Carder and Morris Roth.
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POSSES SENT OUT
10 Arrest Alabamians Charged with
Peonage.

Montgomery, Ala, July 16.-A spe-
cial posse, headed BY United States
Deputy Marshal =. j Bryan, left here
tonight for Fredonia, Chambers county,
with warrants for two white citizens,
named Heath and Adams, charged with
peonage.
on Friday negro from Chambers
came to Montgomery, and upon his al
legation warrants charging peonage
were issued against Heath and Adams.
These warrants were sent to Deputy
Marshal Hiram Gibson, at his home ii
Roanoke. Before Gibson had left for
Fredonia to arrest Heath and dams, two
negroes who were against witnesses the
two white men reported that they had
been run out Of Fredonia. A posss
was at once organized for the purpose
Of arresting Heath and Adams.
The leader., 1905-07-22

The reason the electric fan cold'' is
30 often accompanied by sore throat
is, according to a docter whose 1oca.
tion brings him many such cases, that
the draught made by the fan carries So
much dust with it. The fact is, says
this authority, that the air stirred by
the fan is not fresh air, unless the fan
is backed up against an open window.
When operating in an inside room or
In similar places. where. it is most ap-
preeiated, the fan uses the same air
over and over, and this air gathers up.
and keeps IN motion all the available
drsf.
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GEN. BLAcKmAR's SUCCESSOR.
senior vdce-Commander John n
king, Of Baltlmore, sncceeds.

senior vdce-Commander John r..
King, of baltimore, Sncceeds.
Boston, July 17.-Except to two or
three officials Of the Grand Army, the.
news Of the death of Chief Blackmar
was received with great surprise in
this city, the home Of Gen. Blackmar
and the headquarters of the organiza-
ton.
Gen. Blackmar is succeeded by John.
r. King, Of Baltimore, senior vice
commander.
Assistant Adjutant- General e. B..
Stillings, commander Of Kinsley Post
113, of this city, of which Gen, Black
mar was a member, will leave Boston
to-day for the west. He will assist Mrs.
Blackmar in arranging for the funeral.
which probably will be held in this
city.
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ARRESTED AND CONFESSED
John schidIofska, Wanted for wife
Murder I'm NIaasachusetts. Ar-
rested I'm COIor6dO.

Pueblo. Col, July ia special to-
the Chieftain from La Junta, Col,s
says: John Schidlofska. Pole, wanted
at Belmont. Mass. for the murder of.
HIS wife, last Wednesday night, was,
arrested, Sunday afternoon, by Sheriff
Barr, while passing through the city
on the Santa Fe railroad. The MUIR
derer confessed and gave full details Of
the tragedy which has been puzzllng
the Massachusetts police. He said he;
was willing to go back without requi-
sitin.
The leader., 1905-07-22

During recent examination in Amer.
lean history in one Of Hartford's schools
the question was put: What was the
Mayfower compact" This is the thor
oughly logical reply Of one good little
American:
The MayAower and the Speedwell
started together from England, and the
Speedwell went to peaces, and sunk, and
they put all the people into the May
pscped. I,sd .o-N. Z. Times. 80
The leader., 1905-07-22
vENEzUELANS SURPRISED.
Do Not Understand Action of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, They Say.


Careas, Venezuela, July II. Venez-
uelans are very much surprised on re-
ceiving the news that President Roose-
velt has appointed Judge Calhoun q
special commissioner to Venezuela to
investigate the claims of the Ameri-
cans. The Constitutional, the govern
ment organ, says:
If the claims of Americans or others
existed they would have been already
heard before competent authorities. It
may be that the President of the United
States requires information regarding
the case of the New York Bermudez
Asphalt Company which is still pending.
All other cases have been decided
by mixed commissions in conformity
with the Washington protocols.
The leader., 1905-07-22

In consequence of the privileges Of
fered to new industrial undertakings
establishing themselves at Naples, sew
eral iron works are to be erected
there. The Ferriere Italiane is about
to build a blast furnace. and the MI.
land Silyestri is building branch
works for making railroad materials.
The leader., 1905-07-22

Frequent hand-to-hand conflicts in
The Russian-Japanese war, between
troops armed with the high-power
rifles which we're expected to Danish
the bayonet and reduce war to long
range shooting, have upset the the.
ories formulated by experts and dem
onstrated the usefulness Of cold steel
as an instrument Of Wholesale honll
eide. Therefore. distribution Of fha
new Springfield rife has been de.
ferred, and the experts OF the war de:
partment are considering the question
Of adapting q practical bayonet to the
weapon.
The leader., 1905-07-22

A curious instance of the effect of
the shape of the ground apon the wind
blowing over it was recently noted by
M. Batut as he was experimenting with
kites in France. When a north wind
aoated the kite the latter kept its bal
ance easily, but when the wind came.
from the south or southwest the kite
pitched and bobbed in very singular
manner. The explanation was fur
nished by the character of the surface
over which the wind had passed.
The leader., 1905-07-22

Hens the other day scratched up
$1,000 in notes. bills and other nego'
table paper which was stolen from
the Prairie du Sac bank in robbery
two years ago. The papers had evi.
IDENTIFY been brought to Baraboo, Wis.
and hidden under the elevator in an
old bill book. where they remained till
unearthed and scratched into the
street beside the elevator.