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laisfW- VIM. "German BY HALL db POTTHH. C. P. HALL, Editor.

KANSAS Mcpherson. Thk census figures show that during the past ten years the blacks have increased only about half as fast as the whites in Alabama, and there is reason to believe that the same is true as to the other Southern States. The Pension Office, from the 1st of January to the 15th, inclusive, issued 10,877 pension certificates, the greater portion of them being1 granted under the Dependent Pension law. This is said, to be the largest number ever issued during a like period. Syrup" For Coughs Colds.

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I recommend it to every one for these troubles. R. Schmalhausen, Druggist, off Charleston, 111., writes After trying scores of prescriptions and preparations I had on my files and shelves, without relief for a very severe which had settled on my lungs, 1 tried your German Syrup. It gave me immediate relief and a permanent cure. G.

G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer, Woodbury, New Jersey, U. S. A. Thk mystery surround ing the death or suicide of the heir to the Belgian throne includes the figure of a pretty German governess, who had been sent away from the court.

Another country, it seems, has escaped being governed by a person who could not govern himself. THE FEBRUARY WIDE AWAKE Is both timely and seasonable, in Lieut. Fremont's account of "Life at Frontier Forts," with illustrations from photographs, and in William Zachary Gladwin's opening "Valentine:" 'Twas an eve tor an eye and a tooth for a tooth In the old-time Scripture day; But I tell my love that a heart for a heart Ia by far the better way 1 A curious little article about "A Fish Army" is a sort of military pendant to Lieut. Fremont's article. "Sir Grim-bald's Ransom" is a ballad, by Mary Bradley, of the brave Crusader ancestor of the present British Minister of Washington, Sir Julian Pauncefote, whose braver lady gave her right hand to ransom her lord from the Saracens.

The unusually clever short stories of the number include the strange true account of "Aunt Dolly's Two Robbers," by Sydney Quarles, "Diamonds and Toads," by Mrs. Burton Harrison (author of "The and others.) "A Little Nobody Who Became a Great Somebody" is Mary Wager-Fisher's account of a poor French boy, who established cotton weaving in France and thereby became the friend of Napoleon. Miss Rimmer's drawing lessons are developing most ingeniouslj Dorothy Ilolcomb tells of "Home-Made Games." There are poems by Mrs. Whiton-Stone, Elizabeth W. Bellamy, Mary E.

Wilkins, and others. Kirk Munroe's railroading serial, "Cab and Caboose," becomes exciting, Margaret Sidney's "Peppers" is full of delightful doings, and "Marieta's Good Times" is unique as the naive autobiography of a little Italian girl. Men and Things sparkles with wit and anecdote. Bridg-man's amusing pictorial skit, "Through the Dark Continent," drops the curtain to the laughter of the audience. Wide Awake is $2.40 a year; 20 cents a number.

D. Lothrop Company, Boston. Too Ell'ccllve. Bride I'm so afraid people will find out that we're just married that I've made Will promise to treat me in public just as if he had no thought for'iiny One but himself. Matron I adopted that plan when I was married, and my husband never got over it.

N. Y. Weekly. Napoleon Bonaparte dictated and afterward signed his love letters to Josephinea somewhat formal method of love-making, surely. Ox the 26th John S.

Ilollerback, a retired business man of Cincinnati, committed suicide at Hartwell, by firing two bullets in his heart. The deceased was sixty-one years of age. lie leaves a widow and five daughters. It is believed that jealousy drove him to desperation. Ox the 27th Thomas King and Alfred Call, bosses in the employ of Peter Cos-tello, a contractor, engaged in a quarrel at Spokane, Falls, Wash.

King drew a revolver on Call and the latter run the tines of a pitchfork through King's head, killing him instantly. Call gave himself up. Two men, supposed to be the murderers of Conductor O'Neil, have been arrested, one near JJelle Plains and the other near Tama, not far from the scene of the murder. One of the men had a fresh bullet wound in his leg, presumably from Detective Purcell's revolver, who shot at the fleeing tramps after O'Neil was killed. Ox the 26th -a second attempt was made by unknown parties to destroy the office of the Oberlin (O.) Record by fire.

Ox the 27th ever one hundred men were killed by an explosion in the Frick Coke Works Mine No. 1, at Mammoth, Pa. Not one of those in the pit at the time of the explosion survived. Those who were not killed by the shock were suffocated by the deadly after-damp. MISCELLANEOUS.

At Columbus, the proposed raid of the law and order committee upon the Sunday theaters did not take place on the 25th as expected. Ox the 27th the first international convention of press clubs ever held convened in Pittsburgh, Pa. Delegates were present from Europe, Canada and the United States. The delegates while in the city were the guests of the Pittsburgh Press Club. It is said that the authorities of London have received information from their agents in A merica that the dynamite section is actively preparing to rc-su me operation.

Ox the 20th the lower House of tho Austrian Reichsrath was dissolved by an unexpected decree which was published in the official journal. The elections will be held immediately. Count von Taaffe, the Premier, desires a new Conservative majority in the House, having abandoned dependence on Bohemian and Slav members, whom he considers unreliable. Ox the 2(5th the war vessels of the Chilian revolutionists took up position in the roadstead of Porto Quimbo, and commenced bombarding that city. The insurgents have captured the towns of Limach Alto and Quillota.

The contract for the building of fifty-five miles of the (ireat Northern railway, between lionner's Ferry, on the Kootenai, and Kootenai Falls, has been let to Burns Chapman, Spokane Falls. The contract will involve an expenditure of over a million dollars. NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. CONOR KSSIONAL PROCEEDINGS' In the ttonute, on the Mr.

Alurleli moved conHidcratlon of hla resolution to amend the rules. A point of order wun mad by Mr. Harris that the question before the; Senate was the approval of the Journal of the JOth. After an extended debate the point of order was overruled and the cloture resolution wan brought before the Senate. Discussion of this resolution occupied the remainder of the session In the House the Journal of the 20th was finally approved, The District of Columbia Appropriation bill was then passed without further difficulty, and the House In committee of the whole considered the Naval Appropriation bill, but without action on It adjourned.

IN the Hennte, on the 23d, the entire session was taken up with the discussion of. the cloture rule, Messrs. Cock re II and Gray addressing the Senate In opposition to It. Mr. Aldrich endcurored to have an hour fixed when debate should close, but without action the Senate took a recess at 6 p.

in. until lrven o'clock on the 24th In the House, or. demand Mr. lirecklnriilue, the Journal was read in full, and after some debate was approved. There were some sharp passages between the Speaker and Mr.

Cooper, of In-dlana, growing out of a point of order by Mr. Mc-Kinley on a resolution offered by Mr. Cooper directing the committee investigating the Tension Iturcau to report the resolution to the House. The resolution was finally reported and referrod to the committee on rules. The House then went Into committee of the whole on the Naval Appropriation bill.

in uie Senate, on the 24th, after a brief executive session, held soon after meeting, the remainder of the day was spent in discussing the cloture resolution Senators Stewart and Morgan spoke in opposition to the proposed change In the rules, and Senator Huunderp spoke In support of the resolution, and Incidentally favored the passage of the Elections bill. During the afternoon Mr. Aldrleh asked unanimous consent to limit debate on tlie resolution and to name tlieWtli as the day fortakinga voteon It; but objections to each request came promptly from the Democratic side of the chamber. the House two hours' time was spent In tho reading and approval of the Journal. The Naval Appropriation bill was then taken up in committee of the whole, but without disposing of the bill the committee rose and the House adjourned.

is toe nunum, on tile 20th, Mr. Morgan continued his speech against the cloture rule and the Klcctions bill. At 1 p. in. the Senate adopted a motion offered by Mr.

Wolcott to take up the House Apportionment bill, thus displacing 'temporarily the cloture resolution, by a vote of 35 to M. The Journals of the 20th nnd Vint wereapproved In the House the reading of the Journal was demanded by the Democrats. Mr. MeKinley demanded the previous question on the approval of the Journal, which as accorded, and the Journal was approved. In the Senate, on thu 27th, the Journal ol the 22d, covering the proceedings of the four succeeding dayg, was approved.

The credentials of Mr. Stanford and Mr. Irby, as Senators from California and South Carolina for the term beginning March 4 next, were presented and tiled. The Apportionment bill was taken up, but without action the Senate went Into executive session and later adjourned In the House a bill was passed for a bridge ueross the Missouri river between Council liluffs, and Omaha, Neb. The House then went into committee of the whole on the Military Academy bill, thu late Indian war and the Klcctions bill being made subjects of adverse criticism by several speaker).

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. On the 27th the Kansas Legislature voted for Urited States Senator. The vote in the House was rfeffer, 0(5; In-galls, 23; C. W. Mair, 6.

Senate 85; rfeffer, 2. 'William Alfred I'feffer, the successor of Mr. Ingalls, is editor of the Kansas Farmer, up to a year ago a stanch Republican, an ex- Children always Enjoy It. The German Reichstag has by a vote of 133 to 10. refused to repeal the prohibition of the importation of American pork.

This is protection for German farmers pure and simple without any tariff indirection or swindle in it. The pretense that it is done for sanitary considerations does not fool any body. The Department of Justice of Canada has decided to purchase a newly-patented photographic apparatus of great value in detecting crime. The invention will enable a copy to le taken of the image in the retina of the eye of a dead person. This is regarded as very important, especially where there is no other' clew to the perpetrator of the murder.

There exists in Paris an organization known as the "Syndicate of Professional Mendicants," and statistics show that out of a population of 2,700,000 in the French capital 150,000 live on charity, a large proportion of whom belong to the syndicate, which has its branches all over the city, their collections being placed in a common fund and divided in equal proportions. The Home Reading Union has more than six thousand members scattered about the world, some of them in Turkey. They take certificates, not of knowledge acquired, but of books read, and the courses of reading which the union arranges seem to be very pleasurable exercises as well as productive of an acquaintance with the best things in English literature. scorn iUUlSI THE GENERAL MARKETS. CITY, Feb.

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PRICKLY ASH BITTERS Ile Proprietors, ST. LOUIS, MO. 45 74 years, who claimed to be the nephew and heir of Robert Percy Douglass, fourth Earl of that name, died at the 9 87'j 10 00 San Francisco C'oxmty Hospital, as a re painter, is dead. sult of dissipation and pneumonia. The Indian trouble in South Dakota tjeems to have been peacefully settled, but it seems likely that the troops will soon be called to another field of action.

Reports from Minnesota indicate a turbulent feeling among the Red Lake Reservation ure using their utmost endeavors to persuade thdr brethren of other tribes in that section of the CllntlT to join them and clean out the settlors. The people of the United States do well to deplore the unfortunate condition of the Semitic race in Russia; but that their resolutions or remonstrances will have any effect in changing Russia's attitude toward her Jewish subjects is negatived by the recent announcement that a Russian journalist has been banished to Siberia and his property confiscated for simply an oouncing the fact that the American people were concerned in Itoe knatter. It may be necessary foV the law to reach out once more for the sugar "combine." There is a strong conviction in the popular mind that its ehange of name and ehange of charter has involved no important change of methods. New York showed its ability to deal with the conspiracy in its original form, and the new legislation needed to cope with it now can readily be obtained. Monopoly, in no really objectionable and oppressive form, can long retain a foothold in this country.

The statute providing for the admission of women to medical examinations at Oxford, England, was rejected by only -four votes. This practically in It is said that Russia is not interfer ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Shipping Butchers' HOGS-Paeklnn BHKKP Fair to choice FLOUR Choice WHEAT No. 2 red OATS-No.

2 RYK-No. 2 BUTTER Creamery PORli CHICAGO. ATTLE Shipping HOGS Packing and shipping SHEEP Fair to choice FLOUR Winter wheat WHEAT No. 2 red COllX-No. 2 OATS-No.

2 RYE No. 2 BUTTER Creamery NEW YORK. CATTLE Common to prime, HOGS Good to choice FLOUR Good to choice WUEAT-No. 2 red CORN No. 2 OATS Western mixed 4 00 8 40 4 00 4 40 TilK negotiations pending for the purchase by the Vanderbilts of several ing with, sealers in the Retiring sea three miles from shore.

The seizures of American sealers reported some time Northern Michigan iron mines eontroled 4 70 60 4 40 6 Oil 49 44 71 27: 9 75 5 20 4 00 ago were for other causes. by the Schlessinger syndicate, will involve, if consummated, a consideration of several millions of dollars. Thkkk has been another massacre of Thk vote for United States Senator Spanish troops and residents by natives of the Caroline islands. About ninety soldiers and civilians were killed. in the Wisconsin Legislature, held on the 27th, resulted: SenateWilliam F.

4'jisa 7oi, a 22 a 9 70 8 50 0 8 55 a 4 40 0 1 (tM 60 a in a Vilas, 1(5; John C. Spooner, 14. House Vilas. (Mi: Spooner, 81. 6 10 1 101 63 64 At the banquet of the Doston Com mercial Club, held on the 27th, the 231ft BUTTER-Creamcry i'OUMi Nicaragua canal was the subject dis 9 75 11 75 cussed.

Speeches were made by Hon. 17 ALES RUBBERS! Tbe best Robber BOOTS and MMOKS In the world re branded WALES tiOOUYtlK HUOB CO. Wtien you wm rubbers call tot Warner Miller, president of the Nicaragua Canal Construction Company; President Hitchcock of the Maritime Clearing house returns for the week ended January 31 showed an average decrease of 15.4 compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York the decrease was 23.5. The army appropriation bill was before the Senate on the 31st.

After amendment the bill was passed. A large amount of business of a minor nature was transacted. The House was in committee on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. A case of leprosy is reported in Buffalo County, Wis. The victim is a Norwegian woman.

A cmsis has occurred in Italy owing to the defeat of Premier CrispL Rev. Ai.uert Hale, D. well Canal Company of Nicaragua, and Captain Selfridge, U. S. giving the his tory of the company, a resume of the work accomplished and the present en sures its success in the future, and the opposition will not be long couraging state of the enterprise.

Ox the 27th Mrs. Flack, formerly wife maintained. The number of women of James A. Flack, ex-sheriff of New students in the healing art increases York, died of paralysis. The district almost daily, and their achievements in Special Care Should be taken in the winter not allow the blood to become depleted or linpare.it if it dues, attacks of RUECMATISM or neuralgia are likely to follow expomre to eold or wet weather.

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Prepared only ty C. HOOU CO, AiHtbecanes, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar attorney said he could not say what the effect of her death would le on the the profession are constantly gaining in dignity and importance. A large hospital for women in London, lately known throughout Central Illinois as "Father Hale," one of the pioneer Presbyterian preachers of Illinois, died re new trial of Flack and his son for crim nd do not bedecelTed ftTbny'n other rubbers wltfc 1' tbe word "OoodTt-sr" nn them. Mhalnantettusrdi by other companies on inferior hIj to Caleb tli trade that the Wales Goodyear Shoe Co.

has estsn i Imbed br mtrr makinc rood roods, whirl, fart. cently, aged 91. He was for twenty- opened, which is nnnisterod to by women only, is crowded to its fullest capacity all the time. makes it economy to buy the WALES OOI-TEAB KTBrtERS. They make veneral strips, and remarkable Specialties, and the best.

Ksibber Bawls In the world. A method is now on trial at the Swe frcven years pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Springfield, 111. It is reported that the Nihilists have arranged for the "taking off' of the Czar on March 13 next, the anniversary of the assassination of his father. S. B.

Irwix, president of the Ken dish meteorological office at Stockholm which seems likely to throw some light on a subject which hitherto has been $1,000 in CASH CREATE aa ORIGINAL AUVEKTTAIXO- attended with some uncertainty, name tucky Farmers' Alliance, has been de ly, the determination of the path taken posed and Thomas Garden, vice-president, put in his place. KOVELTT llltA ADYKKTIm i RIDGE'S FOOD slurries, lor farlhsr UrnratatioR. address Adr. OepU WOOI.K1CH ASS. by storms.

From the telegraphic weather reports tables of the density of ELY'S Rr.AK I.M Applied into Nostrils Htjulrkly Ab'orbwl. Cleanses tbe Head. Heals the Sores and Cures Unconfirmed reports were received inal conspiracy in the divorce case. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Herman Fiklku took a party of frienda out for a ride on his ice-boatat Erie, on the 2.th, and while going at a terrific rate the craft struck a log which protruded above the ice.

Fidler's head was crushed, and he died in a few hours. Henry Schafer was also badly hurt, and all the party were seriously shaken up. A mas supposed to be V. E. Stanley, of Cleveland.

O- deliberately plunged into the Niagara rapids, on the 2.th. from the bridge connecting Coat Island with the main land, and as carried over the falls. Ox the 2f.th Tom Uctlund and Charles Thompson, ranchmen, wire arrested and lodged in jail at Pierre, S. for stealing range cattle on Had river and selling them in Pierre. This exonerates the Indians froi.1 much cattle stealing on West river laid to theai dm WAT A own the atmosphere have Wen constructed, at Birmingham, on the 1st of the rksj.1 this raria UA iA and other data have been collected which have been embodied in special CATARRH A ROBBER OR THIEF ra si killing of eighteen men in race troubles at Carbon Hill.

Troops were dispatched by (lovernor Jones. Later reports stated that only five negroes had been charts. These charts are found to give 1 TieMQrcsTaMenndSmell.quirk It He lu-ves Cold in Heal and 1l.r1ohj. tn much more relurble clews to the movements and origin of cyclones than the killed. IXY KR.

Warren N.Y.I Asa well shooter was on his way to usual methml of comparison of the iso-nars and isothems alone. The latest I better than the tyi9 scale a-eat who tells joa as gospel truth that Jones' $60. 5 Ton W2gon Scale not standard scale, and equal to as; uiul Fur free book and prx-e list, address Uoces of Eingiantoa, H.L a well at St. Mary's, near Lima, O. investigations show that storms move in with a load of nitro glycerine, it exploded and blew the horses, wagon and driver to atoms.

The onlv evidence Patenis-Penslons-Gleims. BKND FOR INVENTORS' GUIDE. PATRICK O'FARRELL, wtU! of iriUnilll(Uniistant the direction of the warmest and dampest air, parallel to the lines of equal density, leaving the rarer air to the of the disaster was a husre hole ia tne AC NTS INDUS II OK UO US. WANTEDu.Ssnosil.PBa.Co, St. Lwus.a.

road. tight hand. irg the last two months. i.