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WELSH PT'G CO., L't'd, Pub, WktLH, LOUISIANA, EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE. The Czar has signed a decree abel ishing martial law in Poland. The Catholic Bank of the City of Mexico, has closed its doors. The bank had about $00,000 deposits. C. B. Galloway, one of the most widely known hotel men in the South, died at his home in Memphis, Tenn., Friday. The demolition of frontier fortifi cations in accordance with the treaty reecently signed between Sweden and Norway is actively proceeding. Jan Kubelik, the Bohemian violnist. gave his first recital in America this season at Carnegie Hall Thursday night. His program consisted of con certos by Mozart and Wieniaski. The Canadian steamer Mokns Ha ven of the Algoma Central Line, is ashore at Pie Island, near Port Ar thur, Ontario. The crew were saved but the vessel is a total loss. The Boldien, an iron steamer of 2021 tons, sailing from Marseilles, France, went down in the Bosphorus with all on board, about twenty-two men, all of whom were drowned. The District of Columbia commis sioners have decided to send to the committees in congress a bill provid ing forr a juvenile court with request for its passage. Practically the business portion of the town of Arcadia, Fla., was destroy ed by fire, starting at an early hour Friday morning. Both telegraph and telephone communication were cut off A serious fire broke out in Buenos Ayres Friday in a warehouse contain ing inflamable merchandise, including 100,000 cans of petroleum. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. During a mass play in a game of football Thursday at Bridgeport, Conn., between local teams, Leo Mc Namy, aged 21, had his spine frac tured and is not expected to live. Silver is jumping up in price. It is now 654 cents per ounce. This is the highest price since 1896. Two months ago the market quotation was 50 c. Demand is greater than the sup ply, say the brokers. Santa Fe passenger train No. 1, westbound, went into the ditch at Ro mero, N. M., four miles south of Las Vegas. Engineer R. B. Brackett was cooked alive by escaping steam and died in great ageny. Bubonic plague is raging in Yoka hama according to officers of the steamship Dakota and possibly no more vessels will be given a clean bill of health until the scourge is wiped out. A disastrous wreck occurred on the Zwolle and Eastern Thursday after noon in which six people were injured one fatally, three seriously and the others slightly. The main line log train ran into a tree that had fallen across the track, smashing the loco tive. The death sentence was again im posed upon J. G. Rawlings, his two sons, Milton and Jesse, and the negro, A. B. Moore, all convicted of the mur der of the Carter children last June at Valdosta, Ga. Jan 6, next was fixed as the day for execution of the Iour, There is alarm among the author ,lIes of St. Pierre, Miquelon, the French colony near Newfoundland, at te extent to which immigration from the colony has grown, over 1,000 per sons of a total population of 6,500 hay lhg left there within the past three months. The Panama sanitary department extended its work to Chepo, forty away, where recently a few ca curred among the foreigners p played in building the government Sroad. Three hundred Americans celebra ted Thanksgiving day at a banquet at the Kaiserhof Thursday night. H. Percival Dodge, secretary of the American embassy, presided. Dr. Francis G. Peabody of Harvard Uni versity, made the principal address. Drugs worth from $25,000 to $50,000 haive been stolen from wholesale chemists in New York in the last few naonths according to detectives who arrested two men on the confession of a third. When the hunting season in Wis consin and upper Michigan closed Thursday night, all records of casual ties among hunters had been broken. There are twenty-six dead, and fifty five wounded, some of whom may not recover. Jewels worth from $3000 to $4000 were found on an alleged pickpocket by de:ectives at Buffalo, N. Y. The preponer gave the name of "Walter Dilon" and boasted that he was well known to the police of the West. , C . .. ..: . . !. . , . . 59TH CONGRESS NO UNUSUAL INCIDENS-WEATH. ER PERFECT. CANNON RE-ELECTED SPEAKER. Formality of Drawing Seats Gone Through-Minority Leader Wil liams Made a Speech. Washington, Dec. 5.--The assem blage yesterday of the members of the Fifty-Ninth Congress for their first session was marked by no unusual in cldents, but It attracted to the capitol crowds of spectators who took a live ly interest in the proceedings. The day was perfect. The sun shone brightly and the air was keen. Society was out in force and reserve galleries were filled, while visitors, unable to find seats., roamed the cor ridors to catch good glimpses of pub lie men. One noticeable feature was the ab sence of flowers, w-hich had been com mon to the chambers. The absence of floral tributes was due to a resolution adopted unanimously by the Senate and by the order of the Speaker of the House, and robbed the occasio'i of much of its picturesqueness. The only coloring given to the cham bers yesterday was that of tne gal leries, where thundreds of handsomely gowned women gave a splendor to the event that made it the beginning of the Congressional social season. Senators Allison and Morgan were appointed by Vice President Fairbanks to notify the President that Congress was ready for an communication he desired to make. The Senate was in session only twenty minutes. Senators Aldrich, Knox, Warner and Frazier took the oath of office and an adjournment was taken as a mark of respect to the late Senator Platt of Connecticut. The preliminary steps to organize were taken by the House. .loseph Cannon of Illinois was re-elected as Speaker, the members of the house took oath of office and the floor em ployes of both were re-elected; the rules of the last Congress were adopt ed and members went through the formality of drawing for seats, all of which was enlivened by the presence of the crowds in the galleries, t'lhean imation of the reunion of veteran members and the interest of new ones. In a brief speech against the adop tion of the rules, the minority lead er, Mr. Williams of Mississippi, touch ed upon the interest of tariff legisla tion and told of the new Republican "ideas" which were being wafted to Washington on breezes from every part of the country. These, he said, might be properly legislated for should the "minority of the majority stand with the Democratic mem'bers in op. posing the adoption of the old rules and forming new ones, which permit consideration of such legislation as popular opinion might dictate." Mr. Williams was asked by the youngest member of the House, Mr. Wharton of Illinois, for an explana tron of what he had meant by the word "kids" in asking for support in op position to the rule from the new Re publican members. The retort was instantaneous and caused a burst of laughter at the young member's ex pense. "With that degree of reverence which tihe personal appearance of my interrogator excites in my mind, I should say he would be the last mem ber of this House to ask that ques tion," said Mr. Williams. A committee was appointed to act with the Senate committee on notify ing President Roosevelt that Con gress was ready to transact business. The rules committee and the commit tee of mileage were appointed, and the House adjourned after a session that lasted three and a ihalf hours, in com pliance with resolutions on the death of Senator Platt of Connecticut and Representative Marshall of Illinois. Lee Murder Trial Begun. Lake Charles, La.: The trial of Robert Lee, colored, indicted on a charge of murder, began before Judge Miller in the District Court yesterday morning. The jury was completed be fore the noon recess and the testi mony was begun yesterday afternoon. The crime for which Lee was indicted was committed at Oakdale during the past summer. The victim was an Ital ian named Frank Pallacio. The ne gro claims he acted in self-defense la killing Pallacio. New Phone Line to Moscow. Moscow, Texas: The telephone peo ple are putting up a new line from Houston. They have the posts up to this lace, and are stretching the wire, which is heavy copper. The people are hopeful of good service. Elks' Memorial Services. Victoria, Texas: The B. P. O. Elks )f this city held annual memorial ser rices in their elegant hall yesterday 'orenoon. The services were open for nemb'ers only, as no spetial program lad been piepared. CUBA'S PEST HOLE. New Orleans Passengers from Havana Say Situat:ion Is Alarming. New Orleans, La., Dec. o.--Passen gers arriving yesterday on the stam ship Prince A.\rt hur fromtHla\vana bring the information that the yellow fever situation in Havana is fast becoming alarming, principally hecanseo the au thorities are concealing facts about the number of cases. It was asserted that tlhere were thirty cases when that ship s:ilhel. l'assengers were emphatic in cc;nfirmatiou of the state meeont of l)r. .lohn N. Thomas. Lou isiana's quarantine officer, that yellow fever had existed in Havana for many months, and was there the past sum mer. With ye-terday's announcement comes the statement that Surgeon General Wyman ihas stopped Havana passengers from entering the United States through Gulf ports. Hie has in structed Consul General Seinhart in Havana to refuse to give passengers for Gulf ports clean bills of health. This will practically divert all pas senger traffic via New York. Wants an Appropriation. Chicago, Ill.: A dispatch to the Tr* bune from Washington says: Congressman Lorirner of Chicago would have Congress appropriate $31, 000,000 for a 14-foot channel from the drainage canal down the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers into the Mississip pi and thence to the Gulf. Mr. Lorl mer was at th~e head of the committee which recently visited St. Louis and made an extended excusion along the route of the proposed waterway. lie comes to Washington imbued with the project, and has a bill prepared which will be offered in the House immediately. lie declares that digging such a channel would create a new type of ocean going steamer which would ply the waters of the Mississip pi river and connect with points on the Great Lakes without ehange. This is one of the strong points which he proposes to make in favor of the pas sage of his bill. Home for Aged Negroes. Washington: Representative Brown low of Tennessee yesterday intro duced a bill providing for t'he appro priation of $10,000 for the establish ment of a home for ared negores in Washington, the money to be taken from arrears of pay and bounty du3 estates of deceased negroes, soldiers of the Civil War. liHe also introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to buy a tract of land near Greenville, Tenn., where the body of Andrew Johnson, former president, lies, and es tablishing the same as a fourth-class National cemetery. Jews to Provide Christmas Tree. Lake Charles, La.: Rev. J. E. Trice, superintendent of the Baptist Orphanage, informs the press corre spondent that Dr. I. Warsaw was ask ed for and received on behalf of the Sunday School of Temple Sinal the privilege of furnishing a Christmas tree and Christmas presents for the children of the Baptist orphanage. The children of the Jewish synagogue will accordingly join in the gift of a Christmas tree and presents for the little ones of the orphanage, and each one of the fifty-two will be appropri ately remembered. Bishop Verdaguer at Laredo. Corpus Christi, Texas: Yesterday Bishop Verdaguer went to Laredo in company with Father Jailott and Dr. Redmond of this city. 'Dhe bishop re. cently returned from Spain and was taken ill at New York on his return. He has been ill in this city for several weeks. Hungry Burglar. Lake Charles, La.: Some time be tween Saturday night' and Monday morning a hungry burglar or burglars entered the store of Mrs. A. J. Medus on Ryan street, between Kirby and Iris streets, and abstracted supplies enough to last an ordinary family part of the winter. Mrs. Medus estimates that between $25 and $30 worth of flour, bacon, ham, lard, chewing gum and 100 cigars were taken. Charged With Breaking a Cistern. Cameron, Texas: County court convened here yesterday morning. The criminal docket was first called and somne cases set. The civil cases will be tried this week and next, as there will be no jury for the third or last week. The case of the State vs. Jeff Cam mer, charged by complainant with ma. licious mischief in breaking .a cistern at the public school, is now on trial in the County Court. Bazar Was a Success. Wharton, Texas: The bazar held Friday and Saturday of last week was well patronized, and the Ladies' Aid express themselves as well pleased with the result. Over $100 was raised, to be used on the new Baptist church to be erected' in the near future. Rev. Carroll for Hearne. Hearne, Texas: Rev. H. R. Carroll of Waco has been called to the pas torate of the Baptist church in this cIty. RUSSIAN STRIKES' FINNISH OPERATORS ARE OUT ON STRIKE. RAILROAD MEN MAY STRIKE. Imperial Guard Has Revolted--Con' verting Money into Gold-Ex change Has Risen. St. Petersburg, Dec. 3.-Intense alarm prevails here. Communication with the outside world by telegraph ceased yesterday morning when the Finnish operators joined their Russian brothers. The Embassies, Legations and banks are organizing private po lice services to guard themselves. The population is almost in a state of panic, fearing that the police will fail them and join the stiikers. Another fear is that the railroad m'en may join the strikers. Stories that the guards of the im perial regiments are in open revolt cannot be confirmed. Yesterday morning newsboys were openly hawking red-lined sheets head ed "Down With Monarchy and Autoc racy." According to reliable information re ceived last night, the stories that the imperial guard have revolted is true. The stories which were sent from other sources yesterday stating that the Grand Duke Vladmir had attempt ed the Czar's life on Friday are de nied. The people are rapidly withdrawing their money from the bank and con verting it into gold. Exchanges on London yesterday rose 9.50, over a ruble above the nor mal. The Associated Press has learned from a high authority that the situa tion in the Baltic has grown grave and that the troops at Reval and in the neighborhood are in open mutiny. This was the real cause of tl::e Cabinet meeting which was 'held at Petershoff yesterday morning. According to reports., the troops are regarded by the Government as the most dangerous factor that has thus far developed. A strike of the police men and firemen of St. Petersburg is scheduled to take place immediately. Count Witte continues to refuse to deal with the strikers, and declares that the Government would deal with them as individuals and not as a body. Instructions are being sent the gov erns an the local authorities with great dificulty over the teleghaph lines. Brokers Held up Bonds. St. Petersburg: A quieter tone pre vailed on the bourse yesterday, brok ers helping to stay the panic by tak ing all of the Imperial 4s at 78, yes terdays close. The Government tried to dispel the gloomy feeling on the bourse by assurances that the removal of martial law in Poland would help the situation. At the war department it was de* clared that the outbreak of troops in the Baltic provinces were confined to reserves who were insisting on dis charge. The officials refused their demands. Arizona Wrought Up. Washington: The people of Arizano who are opposed to joint statehood with New Mexico are rather wrought up with the information they have that the president has recommended in his message the admission of Ari zona and New Mexico as one state and Oklahoma and Indian Territory as an other. Protection for Meyer. Washington: It is said here that a number of marines from the gunboat Massachusetts have been sent by a special train from a point in Germany to St. Petersburg to protect the per son and the Embassy of Ambassador Meyer. Nothing official can be ascer tained, however, as to this. Addition al information is looked for later. Arrested for Wife Murder. Fayetteville, Tenn.: Win. Beard, a farmer living near here, was arrested yesterday charged with murdering his wife. The woman was shot in the temxple. Before giving the alarm Beard drove four miles to a relative's house, passing several persons on the way. Kieff, Russia: There has been se rious street fighting between the hood. luams and the "Black Hundred." Martial law has been proclaimed. Criminal Docket at'La' Grange. La Grange, Texas:. The criminal docket in the District Court will be taken up today. The' Ecfts of John Boyd, colored, charged - with criminal assault, and Milton Siebel, charged with murder, the only. special venire cases, were set for the 6th and 7th of 'recember, respctively. - * . • State of Minos Siege. St. Petersburgr.. A state of minor selege has been declared in Trans-Caia pi an md Saratoff. FIFTEEN.CEN T COTTON. Brown Says Balance of Crop Can Be " Marketed at That Price. New Orleans, La.: W. P. Brown, form'er bull leader, last night issued his estimate of this year's cotton crop at 10.175,0(1 bales (commercial). This includles this year's growth, linters, city crop, and w'hat old cotton may have been carried over from last year. He declares cotton wili go to 15 cents and adds. "I contend that prices are only relative, and that the world to day is bet ter abl!- to buy goods made of 15 cent cotton thae it .,s a few years ago goods made of i and S cent cot ton. The planters of the South can market the balance of this crop on an average of 15 cents if they stand to gether. "My investigation shows that we have practically a crop disaster la Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and three-fourths of Texas and Indian Ter ritory. Oklahoma, Tennessee and Ala bamia have fared somewhat better, al though yield in those states is very light. Georgia, the Carolinas and Flor Ida have good crops only." Accidentally Shot and Killed. Tishomingo, I. T.: Mrs. Josiah Brown m'et instant death at 9 o'clock Saturday morning from the accidental discharge of a gun in the bands of her son-in-law, S. H. ('onkin, Conkin had picked up the gun to carry it down town, when the hammer caught on the door frame and discharged the gun, the shot taking effect in the back part of Mrs. Brown's head, who was stand ing at a table washing dishes. She was the wife of Josiah Brown, a prom Inent Chickashaw, who died about two weeks ago. She was well known in the Chickashaw Nation. Woman with Gun. Girard, Kan.: Mrs. Ina Berny, who arrived here on a railroad train from Spokane yesterday, is still the mistress of the situation. Last night a special train was run from Wichita and a posse tried to dislodge her from her private car, but without avail. There has been no fire in the car since it was sidetracked here, but this does not seem to worry Mrs. Berny, who calmly sits at the window and points her revolver and rifle at the first head she sees. She carries provi sions for a siege of two or three days. Three of Ten Saved. St. Johns, N. F.: Three of ten schooners driven seaward during the severe gale of last Thursday have reached port safely, but no word has come from the others, and fears are felt as to their safety. Reports re ceived from coastwise points tell of many fishing vessels having been driv en ashore during the gale, and also indicate that much damage was done to fishing property. Boys Are Accused. Philadelphia, Pa.: As a result of the throwing of a bob into the prest dent's car yesterday nine boys were arrested here Saturday. Seth Smith, John Smith, his brother, John Jam'i son and Harry Franklin were taken to the Fifth District Station House. The other five boys were taxen to the Sixth District Station House and tak* en home by their parents. Seed Privilege Abused. Washington: Thirty of the leading seed dealers of the country have sent the president a petition against the distribution of seeds by members of Congress and urging him to include in his message a paragraph of disap proval of the free distribution of seeds. Its intent, the petition says, that the seeds are given to the public without price, and this has been abused. Bitten by Runaway Hog. Hearne, Texas: Conductor Al Vick ery, in the employ of the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company, was badly bitten on the leg by a hog which he was trying to prevent from escap ing from a car at Corsicana yester day morning. He brought his train into Hearne and the company physi. cian attended him. Rumors Not Exaggerated. London: A correspondent who has just returned from Sebastopol says that the rumors to the effect that there were thousands of people killed in the late massacres are not exagger. ated. Exonerated by Coroner. Shawnee, Ok.: The coroner's Jury exonerated P. O. Sullivan, who shot and killed his son-in-law, Dr. T. M. Hillman, at McCloud yesterday, re returning a verdict of Justifiable hom* icide. 700 Out at Warsaw. Warsaw: Seven hundred postal and telegraph officials are on strike here. Seven hundred more are expected to join them today. Two hundred bags of mail are lylnag here unopened. . Tokio Dissatilfled. London: A press dispatch from To kio says: Much dissatisfaction is ez* pressed, here over the announcement that Baron Kunivalu has been appolat ed Assistant Secretary of the navy do. .srtment, Nature Teaches Inventors, "We get our hinti from nature., the inventor said. "Take, for instane, the hollow piltar, which is stronger than the solid on'. 'IThe wheat Stra, showed us the, sup ,rior strength of the hollow pillar. ýslid. the wheat straw woull be una.s: u port it, head of gr'in. "Where did man e,: h:s iea of ar rlage sprn.s l.rom hu " hoofs of th, horse, whichl, lii:. th, s:'in., derivei from them are ma,! I l'irallel plates "Scissors we got from thie jaws rf the tortoise, «lichih are natural scil. sors; chisel; f'inl the uqI;rrel, who carries tlhi'et i i:s )ºiet'h : ;adzes from the hippope:lanlius. whil~,' i\ories are adzes of the best d,'! i n; the p1lau from the her's jaws, the trip-hammer from the woodpeckelir." Publications in Nations , Germany leads Eu ropifan countries in the number of Ipilicat!ions with 5,500 newspape'rs. of which 800 are dailies. England is second with 3,000, of which t)9 are dailies. France, It. aly, Austria-HuIngary. Spain, Russia Greece and Switz rland followed is order. Asia has nrot less than 3,000 periodical papers, anyl Africa 200 dal. lies. America has 17.22:1 publications of which 2.215 are dailies. Facts and Proof. Hulett, Wyo., Dec. 4th (Speclal) An ounce of fact is worth a ton of theory and it is evidence founded.0 facts that backs up every box of Dodd's Kidney Pills. The evidence of people who know what they do. Mrs. May Taber, highly esteemed resident of Hulett, says: "I know Dodd's Kidney Pills are a valuable medicine because I hasv used them. I took seven boxes and they cured me of a severe attack of Kidney Trouble. They relieved me from the first dose, and when I had finished the last box I had no pain and my Kidneys are now acting prop. erly." Dodd's Kidney Pills are now recog nized all over the world as the great. est Kidney Remedy science has ever produced. They cure Rheumatism, Dropsy, Gout. .umnbago, Diabetes, Urinary and Bladder Troubles. Bright's Disease, and all disorders arising from any form of Kidney Dis ease. Borneo women ldye the hair in fan tastic colors--pink, green, blue and scarlet. ?No chromos or "'hbap premiums, but a bett'r quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch fur the same price of other starches. Natural Bridge of Agate. There is uin'nding variety of marv elous sights to be seen in the petri. fled forest covet'ing thousands of acres in the eastern part of Arizona, but what is rearledl as the greatest of all is the bridge of petri:fied wood. It Is a huge petrilled tree-trunk span. ning a canyon like ravine fifty feet wide-a bridle. of agate and jasper overhanging the only c('lump of living trees within the forest's borders. Each end of the log is embedded in shale and sandstone, leaving 100 feet of it either wholly or partly exposed. So far, time has graciously spared the integrity of this natural curfosit, but In the last few years the log has begun to show signs of yielding to the natural inclination of petrified trees, and in several pilaces transverse cracks aplpear. Fearing that the briage would tunlmble to destruction the go. ernment has recently had two stoae abutments erected under it, m'akig of it a bridge of three spans. Carload of Ants. The Clyde Steamslip CompSaD brought a carload of ants to port a few days ago from New York. The ants were of a peculiar variety, foand in Central America, and said to be de structive to the boll weevil, the great enemy o fthe cotton plant. The in* sects were slhipped in glass tub., lroperly encased. The ants will be distributed through the southwesl where they are needed, from New OP leans.-Charleston Post. THE "COFFEE HEART." It Is as Dangerous as the Tobac e Whisky Heart. "Coffee heart" is common to masT coffee users and is liable to send the owner to his or her long home if the drug is persisted in. You caf rut l* or 40 yards and find out if ye lc rt' is troubled. A lady who was once I victim of the "coffee heart" writes from Oregon: "I have beetn a habitual user of cof fee all my life and have suffered ver much in recent years from allment5 which I became satisfied were direetly due to the poison in the beverage, s5 as torpid liver and indigestion, whichl in turn made my complexion blotcdt and muddy. "Then my heart became affected. It would heat nmost rapidly just aifter i drank my coffee, and go below normal as the coffee effect wore off. Some times my pulse would go as hlgh a" 137 beats to the minute. My famll were greatly alarmed at my condltion and at last mother persuaded me t* begin thile use of Postnum Food Coffec. "I gave utip the old coffee entfrdY and absolutely, and made PostuL St sole table beverage. This was six months ago, and all mny ills, the indi- ' gestion, inactive liver and rickLt heart action, have passed away, my complexion has become clear natural. The improvement set ii very soon after I made the chSbDE jlust as soon as the coffee poison l timie to work out of my system. "My husband has also been grit benefited by the use of Postum, we find that a simple breakfast wll Postum is as satisfying and me. strengthening than the old heaet ri meal we used to have with the otf : kind of coffee." Name given by posWB Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read tb;it book, "The Road to Wellville," ID