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BRITONS LOSE FAMOUS CUP.
Grand Challenge Trophy at Henley
Captured by Belgians.

Henley, England.-The crew rep
resenting the Club Nautique de Grand
(Belgium) defeated Trinity Hall.
Cambridge, by three lengths in the
final for the Grand Challenge Cup.
Time, seven minutes nine seconds.
The cup thus leaves England for the
first time in it's history. and for the
next twelve months will adorn the
headquarters Of the Belgian Rowing
Club
The ease with which the Belgians
beat the crack British crew was a
rather rough shock to the compla-
cency Of the home oarsmen and to
their belief in the hitherto unshaka-
BILE inviucibility Of their methods OF
rowing.
The short, quick stroke and lack
OF leg-work of the Belsians have
been criticised by the British experts
since the first appearance of the for
eign crew.
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Fl. MIX. TWOMBLY, JR., DROWNED
Seized With Cramps While Swimming
in Big Squam Lake.

Ashland, N. H.-H. NICK. Twombly,
Jr., only son of the New York capi7
talist, got a cramp and was drowned
in Big Squam Lake, Holderness, N.
H., six miles from Ashland. He was
eighteen years old, and four weeks
ago had graduated from Groton
School, in Groton, Mass. He had
looked forward to course at Yale,
and only a short time before his
death had been talking enthusiastic
ally of his future career at college.
The young man, whose mother Is
the sister of the late Cornelius Van
derbilt and of William X. Frederick
w. and George w. Vanderbilt, would
have been one Of the richest boys in
the United States had he lived to at
tain his majority.
Young Twombly had gone to the
lakeside with a party of students who
had graduated from the Groton
School. He was the best swimmer
in the little coterie.
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KENTUCKY fEUO|STS GIVE
Up REVOLVERS AND KNIVES
Fear of Assassination Keeps Wit
nssses From Murder Trial.
MARGUM ONCE SAVED BY BABY
Second Trial Of Judge James Hargis
Begun in the Mountain Courts
Mrs. Marc.tm'S Story-Statc'S
Witnesses Entimidatrd.

BaattyviI1a, Ky. ALI the men
known to be members Of the Hargis
or OF the Marcum faction were
searched by the Sheciff's officers for
firearms before they we're permitted
to enter court More than a dozen
revolvers were confiscated and sew
e:aI long knives taken from the
Breathitt County visitors. B. r.
Jouett made the opening statement
Of the prosecutions case in the new
trial Of Judge James Hargis and Ed
ward Callahan for the murder OF
James B. Marcum. He announced
that many of the States witnesses
had remained away because they
feared assassination. and warned the
Jurors that the Hargis-Cockrell feud,
which had disgraced Kentucky.
would continue unless justice were
done.
One incident he promised to prove
was a plot by which it was arranged
that Tom White was to kill Marcum
with a shotgun as he passed the
Hargis store Marcum passed by
holding his baby in his arms. White,
he said. was upbraided for not shoot
ing and replied that he did Eot want
to kill the baby. Hargis is quoted
as saying: You ought to send that
brat to hell with its daddy"
Jouett's statement was dramatic
in the extreme and the picture he
drew so vivid that Mrs. Marcum and
other women in the courtroom cried
Nose Feltner, upon whose testimony
the Commonwealth depends largely
was the first witness. Feltner told
of many alleged plots against the
life of Marcum, all of which were
inStigated by Hargis and Callahan
they agreeing to stand by him
The witness said he had told Smith
and Abner Of an agreement he had
made with Hargis and Callahan tc
kill Marcum, but afterward told the
defendants that he would not &C
into the plot with B. F. French, who
had been selected by Hargis as his
partner in the contemplated crime
Mrs. Abrelia Marcum, widow OF
the murdered lawyer. was examined
She told of the various times in
which she saw Curtis Jett. John Abb
ner, John Smith, and Tom White
lurking at places near her homo
after Marcum had been warned by
Feltner that they would be at those
places for the purpose of carrying
out the plots of Hargis and Gala
han to kill him. Mrs. Marcum had
seen Smith, Abner and Jett enter
and leave the house of Alexander
Hargis, where the window in one
room was raised about six inches.
Mr.. Patrick. lawyer Of Jackson,
saw Curtis Jett enter the side door
of the Courthouse in Jackson and
a few minutes later shots were fired
and Marcum fell dead in front OF
the Courthouse. It was called to
the attention of the court that
partisans of Hargis and Callahan
were intimidating witnesses for the
prosecution, causing some of them
to leave town. The court announced
that the intimidators would be Sc
verely dealt with.
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KILLED IN BURGLAR TRAP.
Prominent Farmers Son Found Dead
at Neighbor's House.

L
at Neighbor's House.
Richmond. Ky.-Branded by the
strongest sort of circumstantial evil
dence as a common housebreaker,
John Woods, twenty-three years old,
the son of William Woods, a promin-
ent citizen of Estill County. lies dead
in the home of his father with the
top of his head nearly blown off. The
killing was done by Thomas Boggie,
also prominent farmer. who lives
Just over the Estill County line from
College Hill. 1t was the direct result
of unique and original effort on the
part of Mr.. Boggie to bring down
the thief or thieves who have several
times recently stolen from his home
articles of value.
Boggie. who was going away to
spend the night, fastened his shot
gun Immediately in front of the door,
but on the inside of the room He
tied stout cord to the trigger, doub-
ling it back so that if the door was
opened it would pull the trigger and
fire the gun. In the morning he re-
turned at an early hour and found
Woods lying dead in front of the
door. The tragedy has created tre-
mendous excitement on account of
the prominence of the parties. Mr..
Boggie and Woods senior are close
personal friends.
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ADMIRAL ROjESTVENSKY
FORMALLY ACQUITTED
Four Other Officers Found Guilty
and Sentenced to Be Shot.
CHARGED WITH C0WARDlCE
Indictment a Scathing Arrangement
of Men Who Surrendered to Jap
anese - Sailors Left to Be
Drowred-Czar May Interfere.

Cronstadt, Russia. - Admiral Ro-
iestvensky. who was tried on the
charge of surrendering to the enemy
after the battle of the Sea Of Japan
before a court martial here, was &C
quilted after the court had deliber-
ated for nearly ten hours.
Four officers of the torpedo boat
destroyer Bedovi. who were placed
on trial with the admiral, we're found
guilty of having premeditatively sur
rendered the Bedovi, and all four
we're condemned to death by shoot
ing. On account of eytenuating cir
cumstances the emperor will, be re-
uuested to commute the sentences to
dismissal from the service.
The full report of the court mar
tial shows that Admiral Rojestvensky
was acquitted on the ground that he
was not in his full senses and, there
fore, was not accountable for what
transpired at the time of the surren-
der.
Some of the officerswho were tried
with Rojestvensky were acquitted,
their guilt not being proved.
The recommendations for mercy in
the cases Of Captain de Colongue,
chief of Rojestvensky's staff; Captain
Baranoff. of the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Bedovi; Fillipovsky and
Leontieff. who were found guilty and
sentenced to be shot, were in accord
ance with the regulations, and based
on the physical and mental demorali-
zation produced by the long voyage
and shock of the disaster in battle.
They were also credited with desire
to save the life of Rojestvensky.
The indictment charged Admiral
Rojestvensky, who commanded the
Russian fleet at the battle Of the Sea
of Japan, and the officers of the tor
pedo boat destroyer Bedovi with cow
ardice in surrendering to the enemy
The indictment was crushing ar
raignment of the decentralization and
cowardice of the officers, contrasting
their conduct with that Of the officers
of the torpedo boat Grozny, which, in
practically the same position as the
Bedovi, engaged and sank a Japan
ese torpedo boat.
The testimony brought out details
Of the coldblooded way in which Cap
tain Baranoff, of the Bedovi. aban-
doned the'crews of the battleships
Oslabia, Kniaz Suvaroff and Alexan-
der ILL., to death by drowning. The
president of the court virtually called
Baranoff a coward in open meeting.
Rojestvensky submitted his case,
in lieu of pleading by counsel, in the
following words: "Sirs: Russia's fleet
has been Inundated; the people have
confidence in you; L await my pun
ishment,"
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along without worrying much until
dropsy set in. My feet and ankles
swelled up, my hands puffed and be-
came so tense I could hardly close
them. I had great difficulty IN
breathing, and my heart would fut-
ter with the least eXertion, I could
not walk far without stopping again
and again TO rest. Since Using four
boxes Of Doan's Kidney Pills the
bloating has gone down and the feel
ings of distress have disappeared.
Sold by all dealers. so cents
box. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo.
=. Y.
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Told of Mark Twain.

At a recent dinner Mark Twain, ac-
cording to an English report, made a
most amusing little speech which was
responded to as follows by lawyer
who was present: Doesn't it strike
the company as a little unusual" ne
inquired, "that a professional humorist
should be funny?" When the laugh
that greeted this sally had subsided,
Mark Twain drawled out, Doesn't it
strike the company as little unusual
that law. :. should have his hands IN
his own "-Harper's Weekly.
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S3S,543 IMMIGRANTS IN 1905.
$19,000,00o Brought in by Them
During This Fiscal Year.

New York City.-Commissioner
Watchorn, who has forwarded his re-
port to the Department of Commerce
and Labor. at Washington, said that
the total number of persons arriving
at this port during the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1906, was 1,062,054,
or 199,075 more than in 1905.
The immigration authorities on
Ellis Island passed upon SSS,543 i'm
migrants. of which 609.714 were
males and 27S,S2S females.
The greatest number of immi.
grants of one nationality was 222,-
606. from Italy. while the Jews were
second with 1875, 900.
The immigrants brought into this
country with them S19,000,000, and
Of those. passing through the Island
1888 were deported for various
causes. including l95 alleged Grim
inalS.
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DOCTORS SHIFT
Now Gets Along Without 1t.

A physician says: Until last fall l
used to eat meat for my breakfast
and suffered with indigestion until
the meat had passed from the stom-
ach.
Last fall I began the use Oh
Grape-Nuts for breakfast and very
soon found 1 could do without meat,
for my body got all the nourishment
necessary from the Grape-Nuts, ana
since then have not had any lndi-
gestion and am feeling better ana
have increased in weight.
"Since finding the benefit I derived
from Grane-Nuts I have prescribed
the food for all Of my patients suf-
fering from indigestion or over-feed-
ing and also for those recovering
from disease where I want a food
easy to take and certain to digest
and which will not overtax the stom-
ach.
"I always find the results look
for when I prescribe Grape-Nuts. For
ethical reasons please omit my
name" Name given by mail by Pos.
tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
The reason for the wonderful
amount Of nutriment, and the easy
digestion Of Giape-Nuts is not hard
to find.
In the first place the starchy part
OF the wheat and barley goes through
various processes Of cooking to per-
fectly change the starch into Dex'
trose or Post Sugar, in which state II
It ready to be easily absorbed by tho
blood. The parts in the wheat and
barley which Nature can make use
of for rebuilding brain and nerve
centres are retained in this remark
able food, and thus the human body
is supplied with the powerfuls strengt9
producers so easily noticed afteN one
has eaten Grape-Nuts each day for {
week or 10 days. "There's q rea
SON."
Get the little book, "The Road Il
M'ellyille," In pkgs.
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par;,s lark in the Clothes Brush.

The brushing Of dusty clothes in the
living rooms of the household is op'
posed to cleanly sentiment, apart alto
gether from the evil to health, which,
as the bactericlogy of dust distinctly
indicates, might easily be caused by
the process. The imagination does not
require to be stretched very far to
raaIize that the clothes brush might be
easily responsible for the dissemination
Of disease. Dust is rarely, Il ever
free from micro-organ;sms, and among
them pathogenic entities have been
recognized. Dust is. in fact. an enemy
to the human race. i vehicle OF disease,
and should everywhere and on every
occasion, however trifling. be prevented
p as far as means can be employed to
that end.
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Newsy Gleanings.

A record wheat crop is predicted.
One person in 400 is insane in
Ohio.
Some Americans are to open a big
department store in London.
Heavy rain spoiled King Edwards
birthday celebration; London cub
ways were flooded.
The Wells; Fargo G Co. Express
Company has been put on a ten per
cent. dividend Lasis.
Six hundred men in Indian Terri
tory hanged and burned a negro who
had assaulted a girl of fifteen.
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The Art of Writing Well.

"Good writing brings other satisfac
tons besides mere Incomes" The ar,
of writing we'll is as great as the art OF
building we'll, painting well, singing OF
playing well; it is more important thar
Of these. and more difficult. There is
much good writing done, but good only
in some particulars. Writing is a grea!
art which requires special preparation
and training. Try writing sonnet
every day for twelve months. Write
anything, write every rything.-Walter Il
Page.
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Snoring RreyitieS.

w. C. Weimer is the lawn tennis
champion of the University Of Penn
sylvania.
r ID. Little won again in the lawn
tennis tournament for the champion
ship Of England.
William ,!inot. OF, Of Boston. ha4
ben elected captain of the Harvard
track team for the coming year.
Minot is a consistent mile runner.
Twenty-onc horses, driven during
the season on Alfred Vanderbilt's
Venture coach were sold at auction
by Van Tassell G. Kearney for $1,000
an average of S461.
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ROJESTVENSKY PLEADS GUILTY.
Russian Vice-Admiral Courts Death
to Save SubOrdinates.

Cronstadt-In a manly effort to
save the surviving members Of his
staff and the other officers who, he
believed. surrendered the gunboat
Bedovi on account Of their affection
for their wounded commander and
their desire to save his life, Vice-Ad-
miral Rojestvensky pleaded guilty be-
fore a court-martial.
In short speech to the court the
Admiral declared that he took all
the blame on his own shoulders and
asked that he alone be punished to
the fullest extent of the law, virtually
an appeal for condemnation and
death, which is the penalty for haul
ing down the St. Andrews Cross to
a hostile vessel.
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TWO BROTHERS DROWN
Bcnj. Smith Perishes With Isaac.
Whom He Tried to Save.

Swedesboro, N. J. - Three boys
were bathing in Raccoon Creek here.
Isaac Smith, thirteen years old. was
taken with cramps and cried for
help. His fifteen-year-old brother
jumped to his rescue. The younger
lad grasped tightly about Benja-
minis neck and both went down af-
ter a terrible struggle. The bodies.
still clasped in each others arms,
were found an hour later.
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Too Thin.

Leanness is caused generally by lack
Of power in the digestive organs to
digest and assimiate the fat producing
elements of food. First restore digcs-
tion, take plenty of sleep, drink all the
stomach will bear in the morning on
rising, take moderate exercise in the
open air, eat oatmeal, cracked wheat,
graham mush, baked sweet apples.
roasted and broiled beef, cultivate jolly
people and bathe daily.
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HELEN KELLER TO AID BLIND.
Governor Guild Appoints Her Mem
Der OF a State Commission.

Boston.-Miss Helen Keller. Of
Wrentham, the deaf, dumb and blind
girl, will be a member of the new
commission for the industrial educa-
ton of the blind, which has long been
advocated by her, and which was re-
Gently authorized by the Legislature.
Governor Guild announced the ap-
pointment of five members to make
up this commission, and besides Miss
Keller, who will serve on the commits
sion for four years, are DR.. e. Hart
we'll, Of Boston, five years; Miss An
Meta P. Rogers, Of Boston, three
years: DR.. J. H. A. Matte, of North
Adams, two years, and Robert L..
Raymond. of Milton, one year.
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KAISER HAS A GRANDSON.

Berlin Decorated in Honor Of Birth
of Son to Grown Prince.
Beriin-1'he wife Of Crown Prince
Frederick William was safely deliv.
cred Of a son in the Marble Palace at
Potsdam. The infant is we'll formed
and strong. Berlin is decorated with
flags.
The news Of the birth of his grand
sou was communicated to Emperor
William by means Of wireless dis
patch from Kiel TO the steamer Ham
burg. on which his Majesty Is pro-
ceeding to Trondhjem.
Emperor William decided before
leaving Potsdam that the Crown
Princes child. if a son. should be
named Wilhelm. and selected August
II as the date for the christening
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Heavy Penalty For Land Fraud.

At Portland, Ore. Henry Meldrum.
former United States Surveyor Gen
eral for the District Of Oregon, was
sentenced to pay a fine of $3.50 on
each of twenty-one counts ana TO
serve sixty days imprisonment at
hard labor on each of eighteen counts,
in the Federal penitentiary. for con-
spiracy to defraud the Government in
connection with land deals ia the
State
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The Labor World.

The t2amstcrs of Miami. Fla, have
secured the recognition of thei,
union.
The boilermakers of Mattoon, ILL.,.
have secured increased wages and
other concessions.
All kinds of new local unions are
being formed. A baseball stitchers
union was recently formed in Phila
delphia.
Ithaca IN. Y.) striking carpenter:
started q fully equipped planning mill
and are now competing with theil
former employers.
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Feminine News Notes.

British statesmen will have to ex-
tend the suffrage to women-in self
defense.
Countess Castellane. formerly
Miss Anna Gould, will not return to
America.
Miss Helen Homans won the Me-
tropolitan women's lawn tennis
championship, in New York City
Mrs. w. P. Fleming, of the Hai-
ward Observatory, IS the first Amer
lean woman elected to honorary
membership in the Royal Astronom-
ical Society.
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Altered in Repairing.

A man in Chicago. says a writer in
Judge, found himself in the chair of a
strange barber, to whom his features.
although unfamiliar, seemed to carry
some reminiscent suggestion.
"Have you been here 5efore?" asked
the haircutter.
Once" said the man.
Strange 1 do not recognize your
face"
"Not Mt ALL" said the man. at
changed a good deal as it healed"
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CLOSE MARSHALL FIELDS.
Building Inspectors Allege That Nee.
cssary Alterations Were Refused.


Chicago. Field & Co.'S
big retail store was closed on orders
from Building Commissioner Bart.
zen. Police were stationed at the
entrances to the big State street es-
tablishment and customers were
turned away. Persons in the store
were not interfered with. The clos
ing of the establishment was ordered
by the city authorities on the ground
that the building does not comply
with the city ordinances and that the
firm has persistently refused to make
efforts to observe the law.
Sergeant Dougherty and six po.
licemen were ordered to the store,
accompanied by deputy building in
spectors At the store the order had
been anticipated The doors were
closed as soon as the police arrived.
and it is said that admittance was
denied them. A great fight in the
courts is expected.
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Russian TroOns MutinY.

All Southern Russia is reported in
a ferment and fears are expressed
that the troops will aid the peasants.
nominally loyal troops at Tamboff
have refused to fire on the mutineers.
and there have been further riots in
ST. Petersburg
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says: FOR over
three years 1
suffered with a
dropsical condi-
ton without be-
ing aware that
it was due to
kidney trouble.
The early stages
were principal
ly backache and
bearing d 0 " n
pain, but [ went
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LAWYER KILLED BY STUDENT.
Chester Thompson Charged With
Murder in the First Degree.

Murder in the First Degree.
Seattle, Wash.-G. Meade Emory,
a lawyer. who was shot by Chester
Thompson, a university student, died
in the Minor Hospital. Thompson is
the son of a Seattle lawyer, and is
nephew of Maurice Thompson, the
author.
Murder in the first degree will be
the charge against Thompson, accord
ing to a statement made by the Pros
ecuting Attorney. The plea Of the
defense will be insanity, based partly
on the infatuation of the accused
youth for Charlotte Whittlesey, niece
of Judge Emory, and partly on
Thompson's eccentric actions re-
Gently.
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BORGEs GETS FIFTEEN YEARS.
Convicted of Larceny in Connection
With Ubero Plantation Swindles.

Boston.-Ferdinand e. Borges was
sentenced to from twelve to fifteen
years in States prison. the first day
in solitary confinement. for his con-
nection with the Ubero Plantation
Company swindles, whereby hundreds
OF investors were defrauded OF
money given to promote fictitious
plantations of fruit and products IN
Ubero, Mexico. In passing sentence
the Court adjudged Borges to be a
common and notorious thief.
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Brran Secs Reforms Triumph

William j. Bryan's studies of the
reform movement in European ma
tions have convinced him of the com,
ing triumph of that cause. according
to the New York Herald special cable
dispatches. Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan are
kept busy enjoying London hospi,
tality.
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Iron and Steel Orders Large.

The iron and steel industry is max
ing satisfactory progress, and book-
ings of new business are still MADE
at healthy rate.
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JAIL FOR TRUST LAWYERS.
TO Have an Opportunity to Prove
Charges Against Toledo Judge.

Toledo. Ohio.-Judge Kinkade, Of
the Common Pleas Court, who re-
Gently sentenced the icemen to the
Workhouse, sentenced Thomas H.
Tracy and Clarence Brown. their at
torneys, to ten days each in the coun-
ty Jail, and Alexander Smith, another
attorney, to pay fine of $3.50 for
contempt Of court in filing a motion
charging the Judge with misconduct
in the trial Of the icemen.
The sentence was suspended to
give the attorneys an opportunity to
show to the Circuit. Court that their
charges against Kinkade are true.
The three men sentenced are the
most prominent attorneys at the To-
ledo Bar.