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A V i I /v I BPS.* Ck WEEKLY 4m Hundred Years Ago. The large cotton manufactory In «aco, Me., was burned, the lose being 4300,000. Napoleon controlled the entire mili tary department of Holland. The Portuguese government ordered that all ships, prize* of the English, should quit Tagus, and that no such prizes should again be admitted. Napoleon received the foreign en •oys, who presented letter# of congrat ulation from their respective court* sipon the birth of Prince Napoleon. The English government ordered that corn and other provisions from the I'nlted States should be admitted into all British possessions. The slave trade bill, presented to the House of Commons, provided that no negro slave should be admitted Into any of the British colonies. Seventy-five Year* Ago. Peruvian diplomat* arrived at Parta to solicit the recognition of their gov ernment. The Lyceum Theater of London WII burned. The petition of English Jews for the removal of tlielr civil disabilities •was presented to Parliament. Fourteen hundred troops embarked from Spain for Manila and 3,000 for Havana. fifty Years Ago. An industrial exhibition opened Paris. lieorge W. Green, a rich banker of .'iiloBgo, who had been convicted of the murder of his wife, hanged him •elf in prison. In All banks of San Francisco were closed and serious financial panic re sulted. The two British houses of Parlia ment began to communicate by letter. The Russians attacked Eupatorla, whlcJi was defended by the Turks, and were repulsed with a heavy loas. forty Years Ago. The Vnion army took possession of Wilmington, N. C. Sherman's cavalry were reported on the North Carolina border, with com munication between Charleston and Richmond cut off. Charleston, S. C., was in the posses sion of the Federal troops. The War Department announced the •capture of Columbia, S. C., by Hher- i auan. I Lee took general command of the Confederate armies nnd recommended the enlistment of negroes. Announcement was made In the North that Mexico and the Confeder acy had entered into a treaty by which Confederate deserters were returned. thirty Years Ago. The survey of the canal route across the isthmus of Pauama was being made. The Indemnity which Spain would pay for the Vlrginlus affair was Used at $500 for each case. The Pennsylvania Company refused the use of Its tracks in Philadelphia to the Baltimore is Ohio, an incident of a railway war. Sir Charles Lyell, the geologist, died In London. Dr. De Koven. against whose elec tion there had been much opposition, accepted the Episcopal bishopric of Illinois. The Eads Mississippi improvement olll passed the House of Represents tlvee. twenty Years Ago. Ths police In the Southern Russian provinces made a large number of ar rests In connection with a nihilist plot. bill for the retirement of Gen. Grant was defeated in the Houae by the votes of Southern Democrats. Congress passed an anti-foreign con tract labor bill. Dispatches from Kortl to London de «lsred Gen. Bnller surrounded and closely hemmed In st Abu Klea. The Swiss authorities Intercepted s plot to blow up the federal palace at Berne with dynamite. The Washington monument at Washington, D. C, wss dedicated. Tea Years Ago. The National Cornell of Wi Its convention in Waahlng- D. C. Mors than s Mors of (nail coast wlae vessels wet* reported to hare been lost in a blliaard that swept ths Atlantic coast. Field Marshal Oyama, In command of the Jspaasss st Wsttatrrtf, aa the —uaaflai sf ths I amoemx* ea eea and mm '**v KANSAS FIGHTING OIL TRUST. Whole Btste A roniid la Bi)rt tc Ifcsta Off Monopoly'* Qrip. Kansas has set out to light ths eons Ir#'» twmt powerful trust—Standard Oil l.'uder the Issderebip of a detenu toe'J Governor, It is demanding of the legis lature that -appropriations be :1* The Moaes of this crusade is Gov. E. A. lioch. a country editor with Ideals who was elected to the governorship is November. He began the fight between the State of Kansas and the Standard Oil Company when he advised In a sage to the Legialatare immediately af ter his inauguration that a State refinery be established. He declared that the trust waa getting an evil grij. upon the State and that it was not dealing fslrly with the producera of oil. Newepepers have charged that bribery o# a large scale has bees attempted and a commit tee was appointed to investigate, where upon there wan a wholesale exodus of lubbylsts from Topeks. Acting upon the Governor'a advice, a biff establishing a State otl refinery at a cost of has been introduced in tlie legi*lature. Other measures aim ed at the Standard Oil Company are a bill to make pipe lines common carriers and compelling them to deliver the pro duct of any producer to any consignee who may have a place of business near the Hue a bill fixing a maximum freight rate of 5 cents s barrel on crude and re fined oil from points in the field to the lsrge manufacturing centers of the State, and a bill prohibiting discrimination be tween different localities or consumers in different parts of the State on the prices of any commodity sold by any company or corporation. The latter measure is es pecially designed to prevent the Standard from selling oil cheap in one part of the State and increasing Its price in locali ties where it has absolute control of the situation. The trust instituted a l»oycott. Jt de clared that because of uiifriendly legisla tion it would purchase no more Ksnsas oil. The effect of this is to close the oil industry of the State, throwing out of work about 1.000 men. "The closing of the plants and shutting down of the pipe lines,'" says a Standard Oil magnitt- "will let the legislators and people see •vlist adverse legislation would do to the industries of the State and will probably create a sentiment among the people (n favor of the State abandoning the plan of entering the oil business." lu this conclusion he is in error. The effect has rather been to arouse the State to the power of the trust and make it more determined to rid itself thereof. The farmers of the State are urging the legislature to build the refin ery and hundreds of them are purchasing oil stock. The leaders of the anti-trust fight are confident that with the establishment of a State refinery, which will free the State from the shackles of the monop oly, a gre«t impetus will be given to the iudnstry, that thousands of men. not now employed in oil production, will be giveu work in this field and that Kansas will rival Ohio and Pennsylvania as a pro ducer. ENTOMbED IN A MINE. Scores of Workers Buried by Accident in Alabama Coat Shaft. One hundred and fifty-two miner/, who descended into the depths of the Ala bama Steel and Wire Company's Vir ginia City coal mines, six miles south of Ilesscmer, Monday morning, were sealed in a tomb hundreds of feet below the earth's surface as a result of an explo sion that occurred at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Between them and the distractcd wom en and children who gathered about the spot that once was the entrance to the mine were thousands upon thousands of tous of slate, coal and earth, and maasert of shattered timber, closing the shaft with a plug as solid as the walls of the iniue. and sealiug the death chamber as completely aa could the alchemy of a Hermes. There was no means by which air might penetrate to the entombed men. once the supply that was in the mine when the explosion closed the shafts should lose its life-giving qualities, and there was the probability that the ex plosion Itself filled the inner passages with noxious gases. Gangs of men work ed with desperate energy to dig into th* choked mouth of the mine. There Is some mystery about the cause of the explosion. By some it is aaid to have been the result of what is known in mining vernacular aa a "dry shot." The mem at work in the minew ere on the sixth lift, far underground. The noise of the explosion aroused the entire mining camp. At once a large gang of men was organised and equipped with tools and the work of opening the en trance to the mine began. An average of over 1.000 persona are killed every yesr in the collieries of the world through explosions, fires and fall ing debris that entombs them beyond the aid of rescue. The number killed in coal mines each yesr during the last decade is as follows: 1W» 1,«» 1KU0 1.025 1*»7 030 ISM8 908 1MW 910 190 0 1,012 190 1 1.131 190 2 1,018 1*103 1,188 11104 1.147 Of more recent disasters the greatest i-slsmHy befell the workers in the Albion colliery, nesr Pontypridd. South Wales, June 23, 1864. By sn explosion, to which was added the horror of lire and intombment. the greater part of the mis ers were killed. There were 286 bodies taken from the mine when the fire had homed itself out. la this country the moat horrible mine disaster waa that is Kraterrills, Teon.. where a boat 200 workmen were killed May IS, IMS. Ths exact number of desd wss never known, ss msay of the bodies were so deeply buried that they •mm* not recovered. More than 300 were ffit—ing after the calamity. Another mine disaster on July 10 of the aaase yaat killed MS workers in the Hotting Mill ef Pennsylvania. A third CMS! swiuted Jaaa 20. sot ths Uvea of 119 toys st Ha ana. Wys. pises -ths zPKtcrmww^y^ VVAB IN UAMJliUlUA. SCENE OF ACTIVITIES «N EAST HAVE SH.FTK.0 hi aid of the plan by which the Itn •1 feliet Interests are to be made to feel that they are not all powerful. Should Kaaita* be successful, similar results might follow in other States. Ever a tender In pah lie policies—and sometime* in public fol lies--the latest venture of the Kansas statesmen will he watched everywhere with interest. Throughout this State it baa aroused much enthusiasm. In flarwsrat Msvc THE JMasr Meeseeeweto lapsues* ths Been »s«»«fal Oyama Drive* ia KsropslUa'. Uft Flask sad Takas a To* a. The scene of activity iu Manchuria has shifted the past week from the extreme west to the extreme east of the long line on which the opposing armies face eacb other. Japanese uovemeati in the hills attracted ttns alaa attention ten days ago and reused fear that a flanking operation was be ing attempted on a large scale. A week sgo Saturday, therefore, Kuro patkln sent out a force described ss "two scouting divisions." which occu pied positions on the upper Taltse liv er and at a pass eleven miles south east of Talnkbetcbln. This latter place appears to be about fifty miles south east of Mukden. The Japanese drove both of these dlvlMona back to Talnkbetchln in bat tles fought ths 19th. -1st and 22d. The latest dispatches indicate that since then a mom Important engagement has been fought at Tslnkbetchln Itaelf, resulting In a Russian retreat from that place. Nine battalions and twelve guns are mentioned by the Russian* aa having been engaged on the Jap anese aide. Whether these develop ment* are the precursor* of another great battle Is not appareut, nor Is It clear whether the Japanese are at tempting to repeat tlielr flanking op erations through the hills east of the railroad !s the way which was so successful prior to the battle of LI so yang. To outflank nn army of 800, 001) men apread out ou a line aeventy flve miles long Is by no means so sim plea thin? as to outflank a small force where the fruits of the strategy can be at once gathered. The Japanese troops attacking the Russian left flank have occupied Taln khetcben aud vigorously attacked ths paaaes In the mountains held by Knro patkin's men. From advices from tbe front It is difficult to say how severe the losses have been Both Russians and Japanese have been sending raiding parties against each other's railroad communications, and for both a measure of stiocesa ia reported. The Japanese raid* are re markable because they have struck at the Siberian Railroad northeast of Harbin, and hence at least 400 miles from the Sbakhe river. A Japanese advance In northeast ern Corea Is reported, which seems to be on so large a scale that It portends a serious movement against Vladivos tok. A siege of that city, with the prospect of its early fall, would fur nish a strong inducement to the Cear to make peace while the port was still In his hands,( and at the same time It would prove disconcerting to Kuropat kiu because of tbe demands it would make upon him to send relief. Tbe seething discontent In Russia, the strikes In all parts of tbe empire, the clamor to atop the war cannot but unfavorably influence the chances of Kuropatkln's forces. His soldiers are now accustomed to defeat. In every •attle, indeed In every respectable •klrmlsh, they have been whipped. The moral weakneaa of expected de feat must be theirs in future fights, while the moral strength of expected victory will inspire their opponents. In tbe peace terms which flapan nnofflclaly proposed, no indemnity was asked, but Japau wanted some sort of assurance against s Rnaaian policy of revenge. Japan did not want Russia to start Into a big shipbuilding pro gram, which would put the Mikado's government to a similar expense and compel the two nations to play the game of "beggar ray neighbor." If the Russian fleet should be entirely wiped out In this war. the Muscovite empire would have so much to build op before being able to overtake the Japanese navy that Japan could con sider Itself sufficientiy insured against the game of "beggar my neighbor." Why. therefore, could not the Japs make it a condition of peace that the Ruasian Baltic squadron, now hiding la Madagascar, come oat and fight? So long as tbe Japanese retain con trol of the sea their continued tri umph seems aasured. And tbe Kus tfans have thua far dreaded tbe at tempt to win back again the control at the waters. Uojestrenaky's fleet hss stuck with leechlike tenacity to the sheltering harbors of Madagascar. Tbe latest reports are that atace the Rus sian ahlps will net come out to the Yellow and fight the Jap*. ti»e •ape hare started to Madagascar to catch the ffwlmi The Japanese am aatatml aad tralasd saltan. & 4# •"•V 4 4t V •. \&L~> RUSSIA HELD AT FAULT. North 8M Commission Holds Attack on Trawlers Not JutlM, "The commissioners recognise unan imously that the flshlug fleet commit ted no hostile act. and the majority *f ths commissioners being of ths opin ion that there were not, neither among the fishing boats nor In their vicinity, any torpedo boats, the ope: ing of fire by Admiral Bojeatvenaky wss not Jus tified." This decision In the dispute between Russia and England over tbe attsck on tbe North Sea fishing boats by ths Baltic fleet waa handed down by the international commlaaion Saturday at its closing session In Parts. As if to remove some of the sting for Rossis, the decision then goes on to say: "In any event, the commissioners •re glad to recognise unanimously that Admiral Rojeatrenaky personally did all he couhl from the commencement to the end to prevent the trawlers from being the object of fire by the Russian squadron." Four members of the court—that la to any, all but the ltuaslan represen tative—declare that there were no Japanese torpedo hosts In tbe vicinity of the British trawlers In the North Sea when the Baltic fleet passej through those waters. Therefore, they conclude. Admiral Rojestvensky's action in ordering his ships to open fire upon the imaginary enemy "waa not Justified." At the samo time tbe** memltera of the tribunal affirm that the admiral "bad reason to believe he was attacked." Tliey declare that "bia orders were not excessive In time of war. particularly under the cir cumstances, and that be bad reason to consider the situation alarming." The general Impression among tbe audience was that the decision waa in tbe nature of a compromise, as the NORTH SEA INQUISITORS EXAMINING A HULL FISHERMAN. majority approved the Britlab conten tion that no torpedo boats attacked Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron, and that therefore bis opening Are was not Justified, and aa tbe majority alao ap proved tbe Russian contention that Admiral Rojestvetisky acted according to bis belief, even though mistaken, and that therefore his action did not refiei-t upon bla military valor or sen timents of humanity. While the shooting was not "Justi fied," In tbe sense that there were n torpedo Itoots to ahoot at it seems plain that if Admiral Rojesfvensky bad good reason to think be was being attacked by aucb vessels ha most have I teen abundantly Justified in the Urer meaning of the terra. Thus, while on its face the verdict favors Britain. Russia cau have no reason for com plaint. Tbe blander of a subordinate oAcer who Imagined he saw hostile ships and slgnale 1 his belli* to the flagship aeems to have lieen primarily responsible for the catastrophe. Rns ala gets off lightly for the Incom petency of some of Its naval ion manders. All Araaad the Otofea. Adela Grant, count mo of Eswx, famed as a Ixndon besoty. has become an en tMsiastic vegetarian. Mrs. I'ajme Whitney, who was Helen Hay. has hopes that the novel she has written may make a hit. The irst break in the boilding trades lockout declared by the Boild*rs' Laagsc of Pittshors recently occurred when the wsge tommKtess of the masnfactarers of steam aad hot water appHaaeaa aigsad the us Iforai ague—at of the Bslldsrs' Laagsa •wotfwi WBvmmm 'Mmott hvthc jonr.' LOCATION OK ACTI VITUS* IS THE WAtt. Tfi#2Ub juurr -XEdtiB— /n" S5.000.000 FIRE LOSS. Immense Terminals of Illtnola Central at New Orleans Destroy**!. Fire Involving millions of dollars' loss In property and giving a serious blow to the export trade of New Or leans, swept nearly mile of the river front Sunday night, destroying the freight terminals of the Illinois Cen tral, known as the Stuyveeaut docks. Nearly a dosen squares of modern wharves and freight sheds, two grata elevators, hundreds of loaded ears and great quantities of freight, including £,000 bales of cotton and 1X000 bar rels of sugar, were destroyed, togeth er with fifty small residences. It baa not been determined whether there baa been any lota of life, but a number of firemen and employes of the docks were Injured. Actual estimates of tbe loasea are tmpoaalble now, though they may exceed 95.000,000. TUe fire waa discovered shortly after 7 o'clock. It was said to have resulted from a heated Journal. The whole plant was equipped with gigantic water tanks and dre-extlnguisliing apparatus, but the blase, sin all at the beginning, ijtiickly got beyond control, communi cating through the conveyors to the lower elevator and aome of tbe sbeda. In half an hoar the Are covered two squarea, tbe lower elevator was prac tically consumed and the firs was sweeping with Irresistible fury both op and down the river. As soon aa It became known that the sons of the fire was tbe Stuyvesant docks, harbor tttga hastened to the wharvea and ves sels moored there were palled oat Into tbe river. At the same time switch engines drew hundreds of box cam loaded with freight to points above the upper end of the terminate, Hun dreds more, however, were consumed. The weather was bright and warm and probably 50,000 people visited tbe scene during the progress of the Sn. HOT SPRINGS FIRE bWEPT. flame* Destroy 2SO If oases atad Csase *2,000,000 Loan. Eire swept the southern part of Hot Springs, Ark., early Saturday, caosiug losses variously estimated at from $1. 000,000 to $2,000,000 and the death of at least three persona. Several others are reported missing. The fire started at .1:30 o'clock, and In five hours burned over an area of one square mile. Block after block of resi dences, business houses, hotels and other buildings were awept away, and the en tire town was panic stricken. The fire swept area includes every house in Chapel street, alt of Market street from Central avenue west. Orsnge street to Grand avenue, and a part of Oak etreet Among th»« buildings destroyed are the Grand Central hotel, the Lee house. Moody hotel. Plateau hotel.. Columbia hotel, the county court house, Jail. First Methodist church, the Jewiah synagogue, and from 200 to 2S0 residences aad stores. Tbe fire started in the Grand Central hotel. Its MUM is a mystery. A strong north wind was blowing and before the ftre department could reach the scene the flames spread to adjoining buildings The firemen and police worked valiantly, but the water pressure gsvs out at o'clock. Bucket brigadea then w«*e form ed. citizens and visitors volunteering tfc»-ir services. Many lodging houses and restaurants were in the path of the fire and ecorae of occupants Jumped from windows many barely escaping with their Uvea. 8WAYNETNOT GUILTY. Tha Senate Acquit* Florida Jmdgm si Charge* Agatnat Htm. The Senate, sitting as a court of im peacfainent for the trial of Cbsrlei Swayne, district Judge for the northen district of Florida, acquitted him on al of the twelve snicies of Impeacbmen brought by the House of Representative* On none of the articles waa there evei a majority far conviction, although It re quired two-thirds to convict. The doses vote waa on the last article, the con te.!."! rase of W. C. O'Neal, thlrty-fiv S).. -ors voting guilty aad forty-eevet not guilty, while on two artklea oul thirteen Senators voted for conviction. The voting for the mast psrt wss 01 party lines, though there wss not n stxie alignment on any article. At ths sion of the voting ths presiding directed the secretary to eater a qnittsl npoa the reewda, aad the adjourned Judge Swsyna waa not la during tha roll calla, bat in I dent's room, jmt hack of the Tbe res sit of esch hsUot wss 1 him by his attorneys. Five of tike •*&* 4- as Vet eai jr is the Garden of the Oede a woaderful In Itself, bat to It to added the charm af esrtrosaeat A delightful wslkar drive brings the vis itor to the springs ti Mam ton. eoca presided ovfr by the Great Spirit of the Indian. To these deiidoue foua talna came Cheyenne and Arapahoe with tbetr offerings of beads sad wam pum here, in ell tbe gorgeous eoleia of their nstlons. they gstfaered to per form their sacred dances, while tha somber canyon.reflected tbe flames tbe campflre aad tossed from cliff to dlff tbe weird echo of their amp. Here, alao. came Ouray, chief of the Cacompabgrcs, who liked not the garb of tbe paleface, bflt who wooed and won the fair Chepita "while he wore a saddle blanket and a took of woe."— Vow-Track News. Cared Her Diabetes. Halo, ImL. Feb. 27tb,—(Special.)—It what will cure Diabetes will care any form of Kidney Disease, as no njsnjr physicians say, then Dodd'a Kidney Pills will cure any form of Kidney Disease. For Mrs. L. C. Bowers of this place has proved that Dodrt'a Kid ney PUIs will cure Diabetes. "I had Diabetes," Mrs Bowers says, "my teeth all beeaaie 1MM aad part of them came out. I paaaed a great deal af water with sac' burning ess ac tions 1 could hardly bear It I loak about 40 pounds ia weight I naed many medicines aad doctored with two local doctors but never cot any better til) I atarted to nae Dodd'a Kid ney Pills. They cured me so complete ly that la three years I have had aa •return of the disease. I am a well woman new, thanks to Dodd's Kidney Pills.- Dodd'a Kidney Pills cure all kidney all men ta from Backache to right's tttseaae. Cars your Butos* wltb them sad yea will never have Bright's Disss aa. Diabetes or Bheumatlam. Sboit, Bst iMroec. An eld woaaaa met a wsil-te-ds aad humorous Irishman, aad said: "Kind air, cosld yes give a penny te a poor old women who ia abort of breath 1" Ths lrishmaa gave bar s sbiUisg, with the remark: "There yoa are. my gesd wamsa. Now, doe't talk aay mors, far, begone, ys may be abort of breath, bet whet ye have sT it ia moighty stroo*.' .J* 1 .. .Chsnsy ft Os., 1 dlmewTgalSfrsff aettag Un snhm eI *«n*Os. larttMafas prieeas.par •all's Paad9 ms sis 1 Ha Mas the Ftre la. A bright lad waa givea a dine the •tber day by a vtailor to whom be had been exhibited ss the pride of the. bouaeboid. Tbe youngater promptly lost the cola under tha bad ia hia ma ud ia searching for it with a llfhted candle act fire be tbe bedding. Ha found tbe dime and went downstalra without Hying a word shoot tbe con flagration. A few mlnutee later the bead of tbe bouse aniffed aoapicioaeiy. "I smell smoke." be remarked. "Some tbiag'a burning." "It's my rooaa." fcd mitted tbe youthful prodigy, "but," be added reaaaurlngty, with a flaab of tha brightneae ia which the family took sa much pride, "the fire can't get oat I closed the door tight" Tbe At* de partment arrived In time to aave the houae.—Philadelphia Record. IT isljOLooo Neither Liniments nor Ointments Will Reach Rheumatism—How Mr. Stephenson Wss Cared. People with inflamed and achiag Joints, or palatal meacUa people who shuffle about with the aid of a cane or a crutch aad cry, Oh! st every slight Jar, are oonstautly asking,"What ia the beat thing for rbeumatiam V To attempt to cure rheumatism by sa. ternal applloatiotia is a fooliah wuSa of time. The asst of the lasses Is fa. tbe blood, and whils the sufferer is robbing iotkms nnd gresse ou ths akin tbe poisom ia ths circulation is increasing. Delays ia adopting a aenaibls treatment are dsngsroua becsuae rheumatism may at aay momsut reach tbs heart and prova fatal. Tbs only aafeconree for rheomatie sofferera is to get the beat poaaihla blood remedy st once. Mr. Stepheason'e axpsriaaos with this sbetinsts and diitriwaiwg aMIclim is tbat of "hundreds. He aaya: "About a yesr ago I waa attacked by severe rheunuvtio psins ia my lefb ihoaldar. Tbe psins were worse ia wafe weather, snd st these perioda caaaedma the grp^teet suffering. triod a bumbae itf traalmenta aad ointments, bat they failed to alleviate the pains" Then he realised thst tha csase murt deeper and the psin only s surface ia iicstton. He adds: I had beard Dr.Williama' Piak PiUa for Palo People reoommended aa a curs tor rheumatism, and when I found that I was getting no relief from sppUcstioaa. made up my ariad that 1 would try '.hem. Before the firat box was gone noticed that the psins were becoming less frequent, and thst they ware not ao «vere aa before. After ths aooond beat tad beea used ap I wss entirely Urea rom discomfort, aad I havs had ao taoss .f rheumatism einoe." The chsngs ia treatssent proved hgr dmost immediate reaalta that Mr. 'bomaa8tepheaaoo,whobveaat»o.lU iresnwood Meet, Spring ad found the trae menus atiea aad enrichment of hia 1 Dr. WOliama' Pink PUIs sre withoot 'nab* ths bset of sfl JMoed rsesedisa. jmnmirtan *OM7doBQUMrtt^tedM T4 -.v '4