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Likely to Revolutionize Pharmacy.
A HAPPY COMBINATION
Of Just the right proportion of cach
of the roots of several indigenous,
or native, medicinal plants, or,
rather, of the active, medicinal prin
ciples skillfully extracted therefrom
by the use of chemically pure glycer
ine of just ITW right strength, con
stitutes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre
scription for the cure of weak, in
valid, nervous, "run-down," over
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Dr. Pierce discovered that chemic
ally pure glycerine, of proper
strength, is a far better solvent and
preservative of the medicinal prin
ciples found in our indigenous or
native medicinal plants than is alco
hol. Believing, as he does, that the
use of alcohol, even in small por
tions, if long continued, works great
harm to the human system, he de
termined not to employ this com
monly used agent in making his
medicines, but to use pure, triple
refined glycerine instead. Now,
glycerine is not only perfectly harm
less, but possesses intrinsic medici
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Their ingredients are printed in
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per.
The EXACT PROPORTION of
the several ingredients used in these
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paratus and appliances employed in
their manufacture, are withheld
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and trespassed upon by unprin
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WHAT OTHERS SAY.
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reading and instruction. The af
flicted can, therefore, rely upon such
testimony as in every way truthful
and trustworthy.
A LITTUC BOOK
has been compiled,/nade up of brief
extracts from many standard medi
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some few of the many good things
written by leading medical authori
ties concerning the several native
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Buffalo, N. Y., and requesting a
copy will receive it FREE by return
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THE COREY DIVORCE.
Reported That Millionaire Has Re
marriage Plans.
There will be no sensations in the trial
of the divorce suit irf Mrs I^aura Cook
Core> against W. Ellis Corey, president of
the I'nited States Steel Corporation. At
torney Sanl!.? Summergeid of Reno, Nev..
will represent Mr Corey, but Mr Corey
Is not going to appear. He will offer no de
f< : m t<? his wife's suit, but will allow her
to K' a decree by default. Each is to be
privileged to marry again, and it in under
stood by the friends of Mr. Corey In Brad
diM k. Pa., where he made his start as clerk
in ? coal Offl. c, met and married his wife,
wfco was f:!s father's servant, and rose to
eminence in the steel world, that he la go
ing to marry again as soon as he procures
his freedom from his present wife. He al
ways considered her a dead weight, who
Interfered with him gaining an entrance
into New York society.
All the arrangements for the trial of the
divorce suit were completed in Braddock
week* 'g<>. Ml Corey's attorneys and Mrs.
Ct?re> ? attorneys met there and tixed on
the plan of campaign Mr. Corey is not
going to marry M.ibei Gilman, the actress.
It Is announced by his friends that the
second Mrs. Corey is a woman now resi
dent In New York, who will enable him to
shine in society as he desired, for she is
capable of tilling any social position. But
she announced that if the names of any
women appeared in the trial of this di
vorce suit it was all off with her. She did
not want Any sensations. She thought
there had been enough already. 80 out of
deference to her wishes as much as his
own. and he certainly does not want any
more than he has given the public already.
Mr. Corey Insisted that co-resjiondenta
should be cut out of the case Mrs. Corey
agreed to this and brought the suit on the
ground of desertion. On that charge alone
she will light the cafe out.
In con?'.deratlon of agreeing to keep out
the names of the women she had intended
bringing into her suit. It is said Mr. Corey
has placed In escrow for his wife a sum
between fcl.iioo.Oiio and P.000,000, this is to
be paid over to her when the divorce is
granted. He is also to settle all court costa
and her attorneys fees and they will prob
ably Ik- well up in the thousands. They
OPEN TO ALL.
This little book of extracts con
tains in plain English the name o
every ingredient which enters into
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery, the famous cure for weak
stomach or dyspepsia, torpid liver
or "biliousness," bad blood and all j
catarrhal diseases of the several
mucous passages. By reading this
little book you will learn WHY this
medicine cures such a wide range of
diseases. You will find that two of
the prominent ingredients of the
"Golden Medical Discovery" are
recommended by the medical writ
ers of all the several schools of prac
tice for the cure of diseases of the
mucous surfaces, as catarrh of the
nasal passages, of the stomach and
bowels, including ulceration of the
same. You will find these agents
also spoken of as the best of reme
dies for all cases of atonic dyspep
sia, that is, dyspepsia dependent
upon weakness of the stomach itself
?MUSCULAR weakness; also ior
kidney and bladder diseases.
Several of the ingredients enter
ing into the "Golden Medical Dis
covery," viz: Queen's root, Black
Cherry bark, Stone root and Blood
root are highly recommended for
chronic or lingering coughs and for
all chronic, bronchial and laryngeal
or throat affections. In fact, some
of the writers go so far as to state
that the active medicinal principle
contained in Queen s root ALONE
will cure bad cases of bronchitis. Is
it not reasonable, then, to expect
much in the way of curative results
from a compound containing not
ONE but FOUR ingredients, each
of which has a reputation for curing
bronchial and throat affections ac
companied with obstinate cough?
Observation, however, leads the
makers of this famous medicine to
recommend the "Discovery ' for
CHRONIC OR LINGERING
coughs, rather than for acute colds
and coughs. In the latter case it is
generally not quite "loosening" or
expectorant enough unless mucilage
of slippery elm, flax seed or Gum
Arabic be drank freely at same tirue
it is being used, but when the cough
has passed its acute stage, if still
persistent, the "Discovery" will
prove a sovereign remedy for its
control.
READ AND YOU WILL KNOW.
From the same little?4)ook of ex
tracts it will readily be seen WHY
Dr. 1'ierce's Favorite Prescription
works such marvelous cures in those
chronic and distressing diseases pe
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pelvic catarrh with weakening
drains, bearing or "dragging-down"
pains or distress, and in all men
strual derangements and irregulari
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right ingredients to meet and cure
the trouble.
Your druggists sell the "FAVOR
ITE PRESCRIPTION" and also
that famous alterative, blood puri
fier and stomach tonic, the "GOLD
EN MEDICAL DISCOVERY."
Write to Dr. Pierce about your
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the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical In
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is chief consulting physician.
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and much more comfortable. Con
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little "Pellet" is a gentle laxative,
two a mild cathartic. All dealers in
medicines sell them.
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For 31 stamps the cloth-bound vol
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Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
an both to be entirely freed of each other
anil the one child they have been blessed
with will go with the mother. He has stuck
to his mother all along, anyhow.
Mrs. Corey drove a sharp bargain wit*
the husband, who wished to be rid of her,
and he agreed to every point she presented
through her attorneys. The boy will share
better than any children Mr. Corey may
have by any second marriage he may con
tract, and in the event of his father dying
without Issue the son will get at least, half
of ^Corey's fortune.
AN AGED FARMER SLAIN.
Body Thrown Into Wsll ? Bobbery
Motive of Crime.
Brutally beaten and clubbed, then shot to
death the body thrown Into a well on his
little farm, four miles from New Canaan,
C'-nn.. at Selleok's Corners, was the fate of
Selleck Dann, seventy-three years old, who
had lived alone for years. The nearest
house is half a mile away, and the old man
often said lie wanted no nearer neighbors.
It waB not until today that the discovery
of the murder was made. Dunn had not
been seen since June 4.
??It was thought at first." said the county
medical examiner, "that a prowling tramp
who had heard that Dann was a rich old
miser might have been the murderer. Peo
ple are saying now that the murderer was
no tramp but a person near at hand. A
man Is under suspicion and an arrest will
be made soon."
Dann was a bachelor, and his home stood
in a lonely spot near the New York state
boundary line. He worked his small farm
and added to his income by his trade of
basket maker. His shop was in the base
ment of his house, and it was here that he
was attacked and murdered.
It was common talk in the neighborhood
that he kept his savings in the house, and
robbery was undoubtedly the motive for
the killing. The Interior of the house
showed that it had been turned upaide down
In a search for the reputed miser's hoard.
Carpets had been ripped up. furniture upset
and the wails ?ven attacked with a hatchet
In the search for hidden gold. f
If you want work read the want col
umns Ot The Star.
m SAGE BRUSH PARSON
BY A. B. WARD.
(Owtiflit, 1MB, hr Uttfe. Brown * OMfHM
CHAPTER Ttt
Eureka Ohangw Front.
There never was anything quite so home
sick and forlorn a* Annie Otter. She had
cried until her little peaked nose was u
pink as the raspberries (rowing In her
grandmother s garden at home; her (miffing
blue eyes looked as If they had been stltohed
In with red worsted. "JTI'm goln" back
ome," she conflded to the yellow do?. him
self a stranger in town, left behind by one
of the boarders, possibly as hostage for the
board money still owed to Mrs. McCllntock.
_ Tha yellow dog nestled against her skirts.
He knew what It was to be homesick and
forlorn. He looked sympathy and com
miseration out of his cinnamon-brown eye*,
and whined. They two were on the back
stoop, awaiting the lart call to dinner, while
Annie's mistress talked with her man, who
wasn't her man any more; neither was
Annie to call ber by his name?when they'd
come all this way to find him! Oh, It was
dreadful, and shocking, and impossible to
be borne! "H'lm goln' back 'ome," said
Annie Otter. ,
The botyders clattered out and down tlft
front steps. One or two of the younger
men called across the yard to her;
"Hi there. Posy!"
"Don't cry, Sissy. 'Tain't as bad as it
Jcoks!"
"Wait till the clouds roll by, Mamie!"
Annie Otter bolted for the kitchen, the
yellow dog at her heels, and collided wi?h
Mrs. McCllntock on the way to the back
?tacr>
"Did Mrs. Vaughan send f'me?" Annie
asked, then clapped both hands over her
mouth.
"The Wldder" jumped. She had hyard
agitated voices in the front room, had di
vined that this was no ordinary call, but
such a revelation went beyond the wildest
conjecture.
"No. Mrs. Vaughan's still a-talkin' with
him." she said cunningly. "S-sh?don't say
a word. The rest of 'em ain't to know."
Annie's, look of wretchedness changed to
one of relief. It was such a comfort to
have some one else In the secret! A secret
unshared is the most hopeless form of sol
itary confinement. "Baby there, too?" she
queried.
"Course!" replied Mrs. McCllntock. "His
father'd want to see him. There, he's
a-goin', now!" She scuttled away in the di
rection of the front room. Her heart was
In her throat, but if it choked her, she
must avail herself of the opportunity that
Fate had put into her hands. There was
still that old score over Dick Dale to be
wiped out, to say nothing of the countless
occasions when the parson had shown his
dislike of her and his contempt. She hur
ried into the hall. Delia was already half
way up the stairs with the child. The par
son had gone: he had escaped, but his wife
was at her mercy.
"What's your hurry?" she called famil
iarly. "Why didn't ye ask your husband to
stay and eat dinner with ye?"
Delia looked down over the bannister.
Her face was white. Should she deny her |
true relationship to Vaughan before this
woman? Whiter yet she grew, but she did J
not speak.
"Ye oug'hter kep yer husband to eat with
ye!" repeated the landlady.
Tell that hard-featured, mocking creature
that she was not Clement Vaughan's wife?
Impossible!
"He was in a hurry thl3 noon. He will
be in again, later," she said loftily, and,
wrapping her dignity of married woman
hood about her, went on to her room.
Very soon after she had entered it there
came a tap at the door. "I don't wanter
entrewed." said Mrs. McCllntock, entering
"but I was thinkin' p'r aps you'd like some
thin' different for dinner. The rest of us
had pigs' feet.'1 She seated herself in a
rocking chair and rocked to and fro.
"It makes very little difference what 1
have." snapped Delia, "so I am allowed to
eat it alone and in peace. Tell Annie to
bring the baby's milk, and a cracker, and be
quick about It!" She opened the door Into
the hall.
"My, but she's a Tartar!" commented the
landlady, descending the stairs. "I guess
he's got his dose, all right, without any
halo from me."
She found Annie and delivered her over
to her mistress, to be dealt with as Delia
sav good, then threw a shawl over her
head and went out the back way through
the alley to Mag Reddy's
To her, with voluble comments upon the
story, she handed the torch. Mag handed
It to Billy, her man. Billy took It to Jack
son's saloon. Before midnight the con
flagration had spread from the Gelger Grade
to Richmond Hill.
It was Mrs. Wellman who Ignited Miss
Emmellne, seeking her out for that purpose
as she sat alone in the library, rending
Katharine was in her own room, playing
softly to herself on the piano. The rest,
save the children, who were in bed, had
gone to one of the Infrequent dramatic
performances given by traveling companies
In the town hall. ^
"I never was go upset in all my days,"
said Mrs. Wellman. when she had repeated
what Mr. Morgan said that Mrs. Barker
said that Mrs. Jackson said her husband
told her. "And Shed's out of town, as he
always Is when there's anything going on. I
Just had to talk to somebody, so I come
over here. Shed fairly worships the ground
that man walks on. I don't know what on
earth the church'U do. I suppose It'll go
to pieces again. The superintendent of mls
slons'll have to take it up. He sent hlnj
her?."
"Has anybody seen her?" asked M1ss Em
mellne, In hushed, awed tones. "The woman
I mean."
"Mrs. Morgan thinks she saw her, the
day she came, standtn' on the corner In
front of Jack Perry's saloon, talkln' with
him, with the child in her arms. Just think
a child!"
"But if she's his wife " suggested Miss
Emmellne tamely.
"But they say she ain't," exclaimed the
visitor. "First, she said she was, then she
said she wasn't. Anyhow, it looks queer,
his not saying a word all this time."
"Yes, it does," said Miss Emmellne. The
vague doubts and suspicions which the
young preacher had aroused In her upon
his arrival returned.
No wonder he made her feel queer. What
would Katharine say? She listened absent
mindedly, while Mrs. Wellman went on re
peating gossip, ha?ray and ."upposltion.
i Now and then ghe interjected a sympathetic
or encouraging exclamation.
"I must go!" said Mrs. Wellman at length.
Miss Emmellne watched her down the steps,
off Into the velvety October darkness. There
was a damp, unwholesome odor of decay
ing vegetation In the air. Her delicate nos
trils quivered before It. It somehow soemed
related to the story she had heard, an at
mosphere to be avoided, to guard one's self
against. She Instinctively laid about her for
a protecting counter-Influence. Katharine
ought to know, anyway. She tiptoed across
the hull and rapped at the door of the
little sitting room.
Katharine sat before the piano, dreamily
fingering the keys. Her heart had been
filled with strange, changing emotions since
dawn. The sleepless night, the Intoxicating
consciousness of a presence that enfolded
and claimed her, had carried her through
the morning hours In a sort of rapturous
dream. Then had come the reaction, the
loss of the presence. She had dropped to
the hard earth, filled with vague terrors,
questions, doubts. In this mood she had
wandered about nil day and had finally
turned to the little song .for comfort and
euniKirt.
"I take the Joy. I dare the Pain! I dare
the Pain!'' she had sung over and over
to herself. Of course there must be pain,
there must be hurt; nothing so great as this
could be had without a price. Life was life
the world was the world.
"He sang the Pain mankind must know."
Was he suffering now, as she suffered?
There was comfort In the thought; that,
too, induced companionship, brought him
near.
The rap at the door aroused her. She
turned wide, startlecf eyes upon her sister
as Kmmtline entered.
"Did you say 'Come In?' I wasn't sure,"
Emmellne began plaintively, then plunged at
once into the middle of her tale. "Oh, Kath
arine, I don't know what you'll say! I have
such u dreadful piece of news for you!
Something perfectly awful has happened!"
Katharine sprang to her feet, recalling her
forebodings. "What has happened?" she
cried. "Is any one hurt?dead?" One never
knew what might happen In Eureka.
"Worse than that!" returned Miss Emme
llne solemnly. She seated .herself In a
straight-backed chair,herself as straight and
uncomfo^mlng. "Katharine, you know 1
ne,y*' did Relieve In that man as you did!"
\ou mean Mr. Vaughan," said Katharine.
She resumed her seat at the piano. Here
were more preposterous stories, evKWntly.
"Has Mr. Haverford been here? NoT Mr.
Wlnslow, perhaps? Who has been so kind
as to briny you the latest gossip about Mr.
VaughanT"
"You won't speak like that when I tell
you what Mrs. Wellman said. Tes, It was
Mrs. Wellman herself who told me. She
got It from the Morgans, who heard it di
rect from Mrs. Barker, and she heard it
from "
"Never mind whom she heard It from."
interrupted Katharine Impatiently. "What
did she hear?"
"She heard," said Miss Emmellne, drag
ging her words out with Irritating delibera
tion. "that a woman and child have come
out to him from where he lived In Eng
land " she paused.
Every particle of color had left the bright
face before her. Only the eyes, black with
intensity of emotion, transfixed her where
she sat. "A woman? And a child?" re
peated Katharine.
"Yes. a woman and a child. First she
said she wasn't his wife and then she said
6he was. Anyway, he's been to see her, at
the McClintock boarding house; was there
for hours, this very morning "
"This very moming?" repeated Katharine.
| This very morning, when she had dreamed
i herself Into his arms!
"And the child, every one says, Is the
image of him. The woman Is quite good
looking. a blonde." finished Aunt Emmellne.
"To think that I've let that man hold ray
hand and go lo sleep the way he did!"
Katharine laughed, a wild, hysterical
laugh, then drew a long, sobbing breath.
"Emmellne," she said sternly, "did Mrs.
Wellman feel sure?that this "
"Sure? Do you suppose Mrs. Wellman, of
all women in the world, would come over
here, all upset as she was, if the story
wasn't true? You know how the Wellmans
have felt about him. She was wild!?Don't
look like that, Katharine! I should think
you'd be glad you'd found him out. Don't
look like that!"
"How do I look?" asked Katharine.
"Oh, 1 can't tell you?as if you had lost
everything." Miss Emmellne stretched out ?
her small, jeweled hands in protest.
"I have," said Katharine, speaking as it
to some one far away, ??ut of sight; "lost
everything, all faith in God and man. 1
have said of him, 'He makes me believe
In the Immaculate Conception. He Is what
Christ would have been with a human
father. His is the realization of the sins of
the world which he cannot take away, the
burden of the sorrow of the world with
which he Is afflicted and which he can
not remove! "He bears in his body the
marks of human suffering. He is one of
those on whom the stigmata are to be
found. They are In his face, his manner,
the intonations of his voice ' "
Here Miss Emmeline, who had broken in,
every now and then, upon the Impassioned
words, with little cries of expostulation,
cried out: 'Katharine, I beg of you, don't
blaspheme!"
"Is it blasphemy to tell the truth?" In
quired Katharine, still speaking In that far
away, dreaming voice. "I'm only saying It
because I must say It to some one. And
J'ou won't tell; you won't even take it In."
"Of course I won't tell," said Bmme
lln with energy. "I wouldn't for the
world have any one know that you ever said
such things! How you ever thought them
is more than I can comprehend. But you
always did have such an Imagination!"
Katharine turned away with an impatient
gesture. "Would you mind very much,
Emmeline." she said with an effort, "if 1
asked you to go to bed now and leave me
alone?"
"Why, no," said her sister amiably.
"There come Arthur and Mabel and Ned."
She hurried out into the hall. Katharine
could hear her exclaim and question, could
hear Arthur's low reply. Enjmeline had
asked him If he knew. H^^had answered
yes. They all went Into tl^R-oom opposite
for a consultation. They were asking Em
mellne how shei Katharine, "took It."
They would wonder what to say to her or
If they should ignore the topic altogether.'
She would have to meet them in the morn
ing, knowing that they knew, and they
would know that she knew. And there
was so much more behind which they did
not know, but of which she would be con
scious; her blind faith, her unqualified Bur
render, her agony of humiliation.
Why did he not tell her. If the woman
was his wife? Was she his wife?
Why did he?he?what had he done? She
had taken the Initiative, from the time he
brought Elate home. From beginning to
end It had been her doing, hers alone. He
had even evaded her. She had followed.
Invited, encouraged.overwhelmed him.
She would hare made him a king In the
dassled eye# of Eureka; Instead be was tp
b???corned here, sneered at there?she saw
it all plainly. His name would become a
byword, a Jest. In the saloons and dance
halls and dens; not that his experience was
a new thing to them, but because of the
high stand he had taken.
He could not meet It. he must not. Th?re
was no tact, no resource that could combat
such a condition. He could not?not now?
outwit, overcome his enemies; charm, con
vince his friends. He must go away.
Would he? It was not like him. It was
more like him to stay In the changed
Eureka, a coarse, cruel Bureka, a place he
had no known till now. Through all the
- -Mgnatlon and hurt and sorenesa which
filled her crept unnamed terrors, appre
hending tragedies to oome.
The man through whom she had been hu
miliated and wouaded went obstinately on.
as she had foreseen that he would do,
making his dally morning call upon his
wife and child, pleading with the woman,
coaxing the child. Sometimes they seemed
on the point of yielding. The woman soft
ened, the child smiled. Then, with a com
mon impulse, they turned their backs on
him. He no longer attempted to study or
write. Each day was begun with uncer
tainty. ended with dismay.
He was weakening, Delia saw plainly.
Another turn of the screw and the thing
would be done. When she had him safely
back in England she would be "good" to
him. He was already beginning to Bee this
place through her eyes.
It was indeed a different Eureka that he
saw. He no longer went gayly forth to
meet It, amused by its crudities, tolerant
of its faults, welcoming its whimsical ad
vances. touched by Its unexpected kind
ness.
The crudities were coarse, brutal even.
The faults1 paraded themselves openly; and
there were no advances, the kindnesses had
ceased. Eureka had changed front. When
it dealt with him at all. it was roughly,
familiarly, in a manner very different from
its former obsequiousness.
Well, what of that? He was no better
than other men; he asked no better treat
ment. He had never demanded homage to
"the cloth." He was willing to be judged
as a man. That they should forget how he
had served them, night and. day, at any
cost, with prodigal expenditure of strength
and time?ah. well, let it go. Ho had not
asked for appreciation or gratitude. There
was the thing to be done and he had
done It.
But it was hard that the only places In
town where he now felt at home were the
little church with the study where he
slept, when he slept at all, and the Mc
Clintock boarding-house, where Delia, con
tinued to conduct her experiments.
(To be continued tomorrow.
GEORGIA THE FASTEST SHIP.
Set a New Speed Record for the
Navy.
The battleship Georgia, on her official
speed trial -oft the Maine coast yesterday,
made a record of 19.20 knots an hour, not
only exceeding hj" more than a quarter of
a knot the speed required by her contract,
but establishing herself as the fastest bat
tleship of the United States navy. Her rec
ord exceeds by six one-hundredths knots
that of the New Jersey, made oft the New
England coast on March 20, which was the
best previous showing in the battleship
class.
All conditions were favorable. The llrst
hour's run was the best, 19.33 knots being
made. In the second hour, 19.27 knots were
recorded; 19.241 in the third, and 19.20 in
the final hour. During the last hour the
supply of picked coal gave out and ordi
nary fuel was used. This reduced the speed
for that hour and brought the average
down correspondingly.
The builders' trial, held yesterday, indi
cated that 118.9 revolutions of the propeller
per minute would develop the contract
speed required. The average attained yes
terday was 122.28 revolutions.
Mystic Shriners Elect Officers.
The thirty-second conclave of the Im
perial Council, Ancient Arabic Order No
tfles of the Mystic Shrine, came to an end
in Chicago Wednesday night with the elec
tion of officers. The retirement of Henry
A. Collins of Toronto, Canada, as past im
perial potentate, resulted, according to cus
tom. In the advancement of each subordi
nate officer one degree. D. J. Putman
Stevens of Lewiston, Me., was elected to
fill the vacancy in the lowest office, Impe
rial outer guard.
M ANT JEWS MASSACRED
TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER STARTED
BT BOMB THROWING. *
A cablegram from Blalystok. Russia, last
night say* A Jewish anarchist threw a
bomb among the Corpus Christ! procession,
which wma In progress here yesterday, and
killed or wounded many persons. In con
sequence the Christians attacked and mas
sacred the Jews and demolished their shopa.
Hundreds of persoAs were killed or wound
ed. The bomb was thrown fnwn the bal
cony of a house In Alexandre* street. A
Russian clergyman named FtderoPT was
among those killed by the \xpl >slon
Immediately after the explosl<<n Jews be
gan to Are with revolvers fr?m t^e windows
of the l)ouse Into the orowd. Soldiers sur
rounded the house and fired two volleys
Into the windows. Meanwhile the enraged
Christians attacked the Jewish stores In
Alexandrov and Suras streets, demolishing
the fixtures and windows, and throwing
the goods into the gutters and bntlng and
murdering the Jews. A crowd of Jews fled
to the railroad station, pursued by the mob.
which killed many of them there. Three
Jews were thrown from second-story win
dows of the railroad station building. The
Jews are fleeing from Blalystok to the
neighboring forests, and mobs are pursuing
them. Detachments of dragoons have been
sent out to protect the Jews.
Jews arriving here on railway trains have
been dragged out of the cars a id man\ of
them have been murdered. Troops have
cleared the railway station.
The latest dispatches to St. Petersburg
from Blalystok. which were received about
midnight, report a situation of the utm>,*t
gravity. The anti-J?>wiBh outbreak there
was still raging. The fighting was in
progress in the streetR; the firing was <-on
tlnubus; the best stores in the city had
been sacked, and many were dead or
wounded. Figures, however, were not
given, and probably the casualties are /lot
known In Blalystok, owing to the contin
uance of the disorders.
The signal for the outbreak, which ap
parently was deliberately planned, perhaps
as a counter stroke for the murder of Chief
of Police Derkatchoff. 011 June 1<>, which
was attributed to Jewish bundists. Is given
as the explosion of a bomb during a re
ligious procession. This was followed by
revolver fusillades in several quarters of
the city. The police are said not to have
attempted to interfere in the early stages
of the riot. The Jews, who number three
fourths of the population of the city, offered
the best resistance possible, many of them
being armed, but were unable to prevent
the pillaging of their homes and places of
business.
Finally the military interfered, but. ac
cording to advices received here, without
being able to restore order. Reinforcements
have been rushed to Blalystok from Grodno.
OUTING OF EAGLES.
Washington Aerie Spends Flag Day
at Marshall Hall.
One of the most enjoyable excursions of
the season was given yesterday to Marshall
Hail by Washington Aerie, No. 125, Fra
ternal Order of Eagles. Not withstanding
the Inclemency of the weather more than
one thousand friends of the popular order
availed themselves the opportunity of being
present. A feature of the affair was that
it being flag day and the order taking its
n:?me from the American eagle, each guest
was presented with a miniature silk
American flag. It was the committee's In
tention to have athletic games, but the
grounds was too wet for the contests and
they were postponed.
The excursion committee, consisting of j
Myer Fisher, chairman; W. B. Dawson, ex- I
officio; W. H Barghausen. secretary; J. |
B. Egloff. J. W. Hurley, Fred P. Aben- |
shein. W. T. Rlehey, Dr. I.. A. Walker. W. |
H. Fowler, endeavored to see that all pres
ent had a good time.
The dancing pavilion was In charge of
Murry Wolf, I-.uther B. Hayes and Law
rence A. O'Dea.
The Eagles' officers for the ensuing year
an! August Brill, past worthy president;
Wm. B. Dawson, worthy president; Chas.
C. Beveridge, worthy vice president; A. L.
Reir.burg, worthy chaplain; Wm. H. Barg
hausen, worthy recording secretary; J. j
BenJ Egloff, worthy financial secretary; J
Ij. Feeney, worthy treasurer Jacob Johnson, J
worthy conductor; Chas. A. Scheuch. Jr..
Inner guard; Hiram Richey, outside guard: j
Drs. Wm. F. Walter and Ijouis A. Walker, j
worthy physician*. J lArry Bradley. Frank
J Coleman and Samuel Solomon, trustees.
Grand Aerie members? Myer Fisher, Ross*
F. Downing. John l>oyl? Carmody, Hugh
F. Harvey and Partial A. Driscoil.
Km. WilliamB Party to Litigation.
Mrs. Ellen Barbara Williams, the English
woman who was arrested in New York on
the charge of threatening to shoot Mf.
Charles Steele, a business partner of Mr.
J. Plerpont Morgan, has made a number of
visits to Baltimore. Mrs. William* claims
to be entltted to the Income of the estate of
the late De Witt Clinton Winans, of wfelch
Messrs. Osmun La t robe and Ross W.
Wklstler art trustees. A part of the finan
cial relations between Mrs Williams and
Mr. Morgan became publicly known when.
December 2#, 1901, attorneys for Mr Mor
gan. Instituted proceedings to recover fl.'UQ
alleged to have been lsnt Mrs. Williams by
Mr. Morgan. The petition asked that Mr.
Morgan be made a defendant In the pro
ceedings Instituted In the same court Jan
uary 22, INKS, by the trustees of the estat*
of Mr. Winans against Mrs. Williams and
others. These proceedings related to the
distribution of the estate. The petition filed
on behalf of Mr. Morgan staled that Mr.
Winans died November 27. 1RW2, leaving his
estate in trust to Mr tjurobe and Mr.
Whistler. Half the Income was to 1* paid
to Mrs. Matilda Felice Winans, widow of
Mr. Winans. for life, and half to Mrs.
Williams. At the death of Mrs. Winans the
entire Income was to be paid to Mrs. Wtll
lams for life. Mrs. Winans having died,
Mrs. Williams claimed to become entitled
to the entire Income. In the petition It was
alleged that Mrs. Williams mortgaged her
Interest In the estate to Mr Morn.in to se
cure cash advances amounting to A
statement annexed to the petition showed
that all the money was advanced to Mrs.
Williams in I'.M? $1 on April ??. JfiTrfi on
May ami J."*1 on May 4.
! Rockefeller Attended French Church.
A cablegram from Complegne. France,
says: "I-a Fete-Dleu" (Corpus Chris* I)
was celebrated throughout France yester
day. Here little children arrayed In tlwt
communion costume?girls wearing whl'.?
from their floral crowns to their satin slip'
per? and small boys in brand-new suits wit)
I white a rmlets - iwraded all day lon?
through streets full of admiring and sym
pathetic people. The onlookers, controlled
by unconquerable tradition, almost vener
ate "the little saints." as they piously ca.'l
the innocents. John I). Rockefeller was
deeply Interested In this characteristic ex
pression of a national habit. He attended
the principal Catholic < iiurch and carefully
followed the entire picturesque service.
"It Is well for the children ihat they re
ceive a special consecration" was his only
comment.
Sick and lired of legal w orries any n* ' -
paper attacks in America. Mr Rockefeller
Intends to prolong his stay In Europe far
beyond the limit he had fixed, it was re
ported in Harts. It is impossible to Inter
view Mr. Rockefeller at the moment, but
his secretaries Insist that there has been
no change In his plans.
Mexicans Killed American*.
Conflict between Americans and M< xic..i.a
of Starr county, on the Rio Grand* border,
is reported to have taken place, resulting
in the killing of ex-State Senator E. K.
l>ane and other Americans and Mexicans.
Gov. Lanhom received an appeal from
County Judge Monrofv that t. detachment
of rangers be sent to Rio Grande City to
assist in quelling the trouble. The rangers
were sent from Harlingen, Texa.?, yester
day.
Brazilian Died From Wound.
Col. Negrell, a French Instructor In tht
Brazilian Military Academy, died at Rio
Janeiro yesterday from a wound indicted
by Sergt. Mtllo. who fired on him during
a drill at San Palo a week ago. The ser
geant, who had been sentenced to a short
term of imprisonment a few days before,
fired two shots at Col. Negrell. one of
which killed a Brazilian lieutenant named
Mortts. who tried to protect the Frenctiman.
Woman Killed in Auto Explosion.
Mrs C. H. Patterson, wife of the presi
dent of the Bankers' Trust Company of
Kansas City, was instantly killed last night
when the large automobile in which she
was riding with, her husband, daughter and
the driver. I>. A. Phillips, collided with two
trolley cars at Sth and Harrison streets,
causing the gasoline tank on the machine
to explode.
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