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EXPECTS FIGHT IN BMJ Senor Castrillo Looks for Clash Between Estrada and Madriz Almost Any Day. Aisoclsteii Washington, April 15. —News of a fight ir Nicaragua is expected any .lay hr beuor Castrillo, representative in Washington of the Estrada government. Senor Castrillo today received word from Bluefields the enemy cannot ad vance and scarcely 2000 men are in Acoyapa. A few days ago Castrillo wan advised the Estrada forces were occupying Lamagua, which is about 25 miles from Acoyapa. He believes the Estrada command will advance upon that of Madriz, forcing it either to fight or retire. HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL TONIGHT AT UVALDE Sptclil Dispatch. Uvalde, Tex., April 15. —The senior class of the Uvalde high school has been for the past week rehearsing for a musical and recital entertainment to be held at the high school auditorium tonight at 8 o’clock, under the auspices of Uvalde high school literary societies. The following is the program: Opening chorus, Messrs Otis Brum field, Lyle Stafford, Misses Glady Greg ory, Bessie Boyd: recitation. Miss Ruby Locklin; essay. Miss Annie Lockhart: piano solo, Miss Elizabeth Hare; recitu tion, Miss Tbalma Crump; reading from school newspaper, by Lyle Stafford, ed itor; musical quartette. Misses Bessie Boyd, Mary Edna Boothe, Beatrice Tur man, Constance Pulliam; recitation. Miss Bessie Musa; sketch. “Two Luna tics,” Mr. Otis Brumfield and M'ss Gladys Gregory; piano solo, Miss Viola Cobb; drill, Freshman girls: piano duet, Misses Marguerette Mangum and Jewel Karr; mook wedding. Crabbe Roberts, Adaline Vauham. Nell Hoag; prophesy, Francis Shire; freshman poem, Lord Douglass; ehorus, high school boys and girls. The proceeds will be used for the pur pose of decorating the interior of the assembly hall with paintings of Texas heroes. DR. PEARSONS HAPPY. Aged Philanthropist Receives Many Birthday Remembrances and Congratulations. Associated Press. Chicago. 11).. April 15.—No boy ever was happier with a birthday wagvn or pair of skates than was Dr. D. K. Pearsons, aged 90 years, philanthropist, with the birthday gifts that a lon t ' stream of messenger* deposited at his hon£ yesterday. Ine aged philanthropist practically had no relatives to remember his birth day celebration—he has outlived them ad—but the colleges and institutions tbst have been the recipients of his Charity for twenty-one years, ail remem bered him. Where he had given mil lions he received cakes, apples and mes sages of congratulation, but these gifts brought just as much joy to him as had the money to the objects of his gener osity. There was a great box of flowers from members of the faculty of Berea college, a cake from the girls of the same institution, a barrel of apples from somebody who remembered that he was born in Vermont, and a stack of congratulatory notes and telegrams. SAYED FROM AN OPERATION By Lydia 2. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound De Forest, Wis.— ‘‘After an opera tion four years ago I had pains down ward in both sides, backache, and a weakness. The doc tor wanted me to have another opera tion. I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta ble Compound and I am entirely cured of my troubles.”— — ' . “V uvuuiea. — Mrs. Auguste Vespekmann, De For est, Wisconsin. Another Operation Avoided. New Orleans, La.-"For yearslsuf fered from severe female troubles Finally I was confined to my bed and .he doctor said an operation w as neces- Jarv. I gave Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg. •table Compound a trial first, and was saved from an operation.”—Mrs Lily Peyroux, 1111 Kerlerec St, New Orleans, La. Thirty years of unparalleled success ronfirms the power of Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound to cure female diseases. The great volume of unsolicited testimony constantly pour ing in proves conclusivelv that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is a remarkable remedy for those dis tressing feminine ills from which so many women suffer. If yon want special ad vice about your case write to Mrs. Pinkham, nt Lynn, Maes. Her advice is and alw ays helpful* FRIDAY HE IS PRESIDENT OF “AMEN CORNER" T. O. McGill, newly elected president of the ‘‘Amen Corner,” the organiza tion which has gained national atten tion through its annual banquet and frolic at the expense of the leading politicians and officials of the country. .Many of the most prominent statesmen of the country have taken an active part in the doings of the ‘‘Amen Cor ner. ”• Mr. McGill is a New York man. He succeeds Harold McD. Anderson in the office. WASH BILLS 10 KILL THE GERMS Son of Secretary of Treasury Says It Must Be Done Be fore Ideal Is Reached. Associated Press. Chicago, Ill., April 15.—‘‘We must wash our currency bills to prevent their conveying disease germs, and reduce them in size so that they will better fit our pocketbooks, before we will have approached the ideal in our medium of exchange,” said Eames MacVeagh. son of Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the United States treasury, before the South Side Business Men’s association last night. Mr. MacVeagh exhibited a dollar bill, half of which had been washed in chemicals at the Philadelphia mint and the other half left as it was when re ceived. There was the same noticeable difference as in a clean collar and one worn a week without change. Mr. MacVeagh said that the govern ment would save from $200,000 to $300,- 000 annually by washing its paper cur rency instead of destroying it. BROKEN NECK CURED. Memphis Young Man Discharged From St. Louis Hospital as Sound as Ever. St. Louis, Mo., April 15.—Ralph Ow ens, 27 years old, of Memphis, Tenn., who was taken to a hospital four months ago, with a broken neck, of which he was unaware, was discharge.' last night as cured. When taken to the hospital little hope was entertained for his recovery. His head was placed in a brace, and hie refusal to die attracted much at tention to his case. Physicians now declare his neck is as sound as ever. He suffered a fall four months ago and attributed the stiffness in his neck to rheumatism. DREAMED OF FIRE AND JUMPED OUT WINDOW Associated Press. 4> Little Rock, Ark., April 15.— | * A special to the Gazette from * Pine Bluff, Ark., says: Dream ❖ ing that her home was on fire I4> and that she was on the second ❖ floor, a Miss Gray of Dallas, ❖ Tex., jumped through a Pull 4- man sleeper window at Brink 4‘ ley last night, taking window ❖ and everything with her. She 4> was not seriously hurt. 4- + + + + <.+ 4.4 NOT EXAGGERATING. .... , ,, My dear, says the conscientious wife to her husband, ‘‘really, vou should not bo so extravagant in your statements.” ' " Hu ’ s wrong?” asks the man. Right before tl.o children you told: Mr. and Mrs. Brown that when vonr ' grandfather got J cold in his chest ho . I would cough so iLrd his hair fell off i Now, what sort \cf regard for the truth will our children have if thev bear their father tilling sneh ” ‘‘But didn’t yon know that mv grandfather wore wig?”—Chicaeo Post. < SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE CAN'T SMOKE, FEELS BADLY Mark Twain’s Doctor Prohibits Indulgence in Weed and Hu morist Pines for It. Associated Press. Redding, Conn.. April 15.—One feat- i ure of Mark Twain's illness, which the ; humorist finds hard to put up with, is: his doctor’s prohibition against tobacco.; A somewhat pathetic incident of the sick man's trip from New York to his' home here yesterday was noted us he' passed the smoking car in his invalid’s ehair. Mr. Clemens looked un with a smile and waved a trembling hand iu burlesque salute. His attendant explain ed the gesture by saying that he had been indulging in tobacco very little of late. Mr. Clemens believes that he will im prove rapidly now that he is home again. * “I am really feeling good now,” he was quoted today as saying, ‘‘bully, in fact. I’ll be all right as soon as 1 get my lungs full of this good New England air.” “Do you try your jokes on your friends before you. publish them?’’ ‘‘I used to; but 1 found 1 lost too many.” ‘‘Jokes!” ‘‘No—friends " THE AVIATION MEET I • The Greatest Ever Held in the United States Will Take Place Next Week at PARK After an inspection of a number of dif ferent locations, Mr. Curtis, pronounc ed Highland Park an ideal place for the meet. The fact that Highland Park is on a hill and that it is so ac cessible to the center of the city, and that it has such splendid street car facilities--being only 15 minutes ride from Houston Street, had much to do with its selection. Come out and look over Highland Park. Agents on the grounds to give you full particulars regarding the park and to show you the ground selected for the Aeroplane Flight. FORCE AN ACCOUNTING BE BROWNE’S PROPERTY Suit Filed In District Court for Partition of Effects Valued at $50,000. A suit having for its ends the fore ing of an accounting for certain prop-I , ejtv said to belong to William Li Browne, but alleged to be now in the. possession of James A. Browne mid 1 others of Cameron county, has been 1 filed in the district court under the ti-H tie of I. C. Baker et al. vs. William < I. Browne et al. William I Browne is 1 the same who has a suit pending: I against .lames A. Browne lor $5110,000; I lor false imprisonment said to cover a l period of J1 yedra. In the present suit the allegations 1 say that William I Browne is the own I er’ of 200 head of horses, 100 head of 11 cat‘le, 500 head of goats and $10,000, I all of which is said to be unlawfully । in the possession of James A. Browne I of Brownsville. L O. Baker, C. M. ! |Chambers and A. B. Cowen claim each ; one-sixth of the value of these posses ! siors, and suit is brought here to coin- 1 ; pel an accounting and a settlement.:. The total amount involved is said to i lie close to $50,000. I. — « — — | j Rustic;- What he you ti-liiu’ for, , mister! - I'isberman; Oh —er —just for reere-I. atiqn. I Rustic: Well, you won't catch any. < Th. re be only minnows mid inud ceis ' l there. 1 SEGUIN fiREMEN TO CELEBRAIf NIT Si Arrangements Are Concluded for Big Time With Races and Grand Ball. Special Dispatch. Seguin, Tex., April 15— The arrange ment committee of the Seguin firo de partment, to arrange for the celebration for May 6, comjosed of C. J. Vivson, Geo. J. Kempen, Max Starcke and D. R. Adler, has outlined the program for the day. It lias been decided to have the installation of officers the first on the program. This will take place at the Central park aud will-be followed bv a band concert. At 2:30 there will be speaking by prominent men, prob ably Hon. O. B. Colquitt. At 4 o ’elock the' races will begin, reel races, hook and ladder contest, exhibition run ot horses with fire wagons and foot races. Suitable prizes will be offered to give additioual interest to these races. At night there will be a grand ball at the Kcmpenatein Opera house. D. R. Adler was appointed chairman of the music and bull committee, Max Stareko chairman of the committee on speak ing nn l Geo. Kempen chairman of the committee on ra--es. These commute- s will uport to the full committee rn April 20. The firemen have decide-1 that the celebration for 1910 shall be entirely on their own hook, and they will ask for no contributions from the business men or citizens. They can bo IT’S RAINING QUEER BIRDS AT AUSTIN-AIN'T IT AWFUL? Special Dispatch. Austin, Tex., April 15.—The recent rainstorm has brought to Hyde Park a queer bird, which no one can classify, it having one foot like a chick en and another webbed like a duck's, with a bill shaped like that of a kingfisher. The bird fell in the yard of Mrs. A. Singleterry on Avenue B It has plumage of dark purple and is rather smaller than a vouns chicken’ The queer fowl is being kept as a pet. * 6 j depended upon to give an entertain- : I ment that will be a credit to Seguin. ■ j There will be great preparations made I among the business houses for the com- | ing celebration and the city is expected [ to be crowded to the utmost on that I day- The Guadalupe river which nas been ' on a rise at this place, is slowly recod- ! ing. Although no material damage was 1 done at this place, the rise has over- i flowed some bottoms and left great quantities of mud and sand. The city water supply is so muddy as to alincst unfit for use. »«» ■ DUKE AND DUCHESS OF MANCHESTER PASS THROUGH — — * Following a stay of several weeks in Mexico, near Tampico, in which he landed several tarpon and shot a cougar ; the . uke of Manchester passed through ; the citv Thursday afternoon enrout to his home in New York. The duke was accompanied by the duchess and Miss Margaret Shonts an.) all report I having had a glorious time on their out-; ing in Mexico. They left last night for their homes I iu the ea»* APRIL 15. 1910. <”> + + 4 + 4 + * + <. + .!. + + * + * 4- NO POOR IN TOWN. ♦ TEAR DOWN POORHOUSE * * 4- 4> Associated Press. + 4- Mont Clair N. J.. April 15— ♦ 4- The town of Mont Clair believes 4 * that prosperity has come to ♦ 4- stay. There are no poor left in ❖ ♦ the township, and the authori- + 4- ties have decided to abolish the 4> 4> poorhouse. The building wiR be * 4* torn down this summer and the ♦ 4> land converted to the park de- ❖ 4> partment for use as a plav- * 4> ground. 4, ♦ + v4-«4-4>4'4 > 4-4-^4..}.4^.4.4. < , IT'S THE WORLD 8 BEST No one has ever made a salve, oint men or bairn to compare with Buck- Ion’s Arnica Salve. It’s the one perfect healer of Cuts. Corns. Burns, Bruises Sores. Scalds, Boils, I,'leers, Sult Rheum. 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