The Corbin Voice from Wellington, Kansas • 3

CAT tCDX ISLO OTE CONDITION OF KANSAS CROPS. GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF OIL REGION TERROR. KANSAS STATE MATTERS. According to the1 CflnrieDf mocrat, more than 12.000 admission tickets 1 tee. Tka Rapatr mt tha State Department af ARE WHAT PARAGRAPHED CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK.

THE UAYHAWKERS DOING TO-DAY, AxrlciUtere far the Meat IstUav Mar Si, were sold far the afternoon performance of Singling Bros', etfeua the other day. Two thousand troops have been sent to suppress the Corea'ii rebellion. A British fleet is at anchor off Fort Hamilton prepared to protect the lives The month of Mar in some respects Condensed Xwi from All Parts of the Great Sunflower State A Gen eral Summary of Kansas New. has been, for the State as a whole, especially as to wheat and oats, quite Gleaned from the Four Corners of tha World and condensed in Short Paragraph for tUa Convenience of Hurried Readers. oi loreigners.

Tha Man With the lantern. Who Vanishes In tha Kiplosiea Ha Caaaea. The man with the lantern is abroad again. People outside the, oil regions do not know the terrible significance of that fact He has cost tne oil regions millions of dollars and many lives. The man with the lantern almost always disaapeara immediately after ho walks a.V Instances are rare where eveni much as a piece of his ear is ever found.

But he is not dead. The man with the lantern never dies in the oil regions, says a letter from Allentown, Penn. He will be sure to walk again a short time after he has disappeared once. He first appeared in history in 1814. This was at Marietta, Ohio.

No The big rolling mills of Newberg, closed down Friday for want of fueL It is estimated that between and 4,000 men are idle as a result of the shutdown. Tinfntiil1 CAfrt.arir ftf unfavorable chiefly from frosts on the 18th, 19th and 20th. and lack of general and soakmg rains. While the frosts appeared with about the same severety in all the counties (chiefly damaging on the lower lands) it scarcely affected any two fields alike, as one would be severely injured while its adjacent neighbor would scarcely suggest there having been a The principal damage was supposed to the Mew Era Building and Loan Asso- i ciation, ox at. iouis, surrenaereu mm-elf Friday, to the police, voluntarily, confessing himself to be short $10,000.

TO THE EAST. BEST DINING CR SERVICE IN THE WOULD. The Rock Island is foremost in adopting aiy advantage calculated to improve speed and give that luxury, safety and comfort that popular patronage demands -Its equipment is thoroughly coinplste with vestibuied trains, magnificent dining cars, sleepers and chair coachtis, all the most elegant, and of recently improved patterns. Faithful and capable management and n'tlite. honest service from em'' "Nueva Topeka" is the name given to a new Kansas settlement in Mexico.

Emperor Francis Joseph has gone to Buda Pesth and will stay there several days. The union depot at Hiawatha with all its contents, was burned to the ground Sunday afternoon. An old cannon, 6ent to General Lane' by the Emigrant Aid Society in the early days of Lawrence, is on exibi-tion in that city. Wallace county has been blessed with a copious downpour of rain which has revived crops and helped vegetation wonderfully. Ausrust Geveke, councilman of the have been done to potatoes and corn, but both have by their steady growth and vigor since demonstrated that not a hundredth part of the destruction feared actually resulted from The Nicaraugua troops in charge at Bluefields will retire if England demands that they do so.

Much dissatisfaction prevails. The San Francisco is coaling, preparatory to returning to Bluefields. The London police Friday raided the premises occupied by a French anarchist in Hamstead road, and made a body knew anything about petroleum in those days, but in digging a water well at Marietta, oil was discovered, as long ago as that It was called "fossil oil" by the local savants. There was much gas with it A lot KANSAS WHEAT. The one considerable crop that has Oregon held her state election Monday.

The dismissal of Stambuloff, the Bulgarian minister, will not -disturb the peace of Europe. i Richard Crocker, accompanied by his sons, Richard J. and Herbert, sailed Saturday on the steamship Umbria for Liverpool. Mr. Crocker expects to remain abroad nearly all summer.

1 The German legation denied Saturday the story that the German minister has notified the United States that Germany will place a retaliatory duty on pork if this government imposes a discriminating duty on sugar. The navy department has been informed of the sailing of the Baltimore from Nagasaki, Japan, for Chemulpo, Corea, to look after American interests there which are reported to be threatened. John Kane of Palatka. was hot and killed by Ernest Wolfe Monday afternoon. Wolfe is a German and a member of the A.

P. A. while Kane was an Irish Catholic. Wolfe is under arrest. suffered from prevailing conditions since the last report is winter wheat; statements of its condition show that a double duty to the Company and Fifth ward of Leavenworth, dropped travelers and it is sometimes a task difficult of accomplishment.

Passengers on this line will find little cause dead at his house without a moment sickness Friday evening. Two sets of cars have been manu it is worse than one mopth before from 10 to CO per cent, and there is every probability that 35 or even 45 per cent is not too iarge a figure to describe the general decline, which will include of the oil was collected and put in a cistern. One night the man with Ha lantern came stalking on the scene, but the pyrotechnical wonders and splendors that were displayed in that vicinity for days and nights as a result of his visit failed to compensate his and six small children for his transfigura for complaint oa that ground. factured for the Atchison electric very important discovery. Particulars in regard to the raid are withheld for the present Tne si cretary of the treasury has sent to the house the recommendation of the public printer for a deficiency appropriation of $100,000 to prevent the partial suspension of the public printing this month.

Ladv Victoria Blackwood, the numerous counties' with but a poor street railwav. The quarrel is over The importance of can be prospect before, that now have prac which will be accepted. tically none. Scarcely a fraction of better understood if a short lesson ia geography be now recited. the total damage has been done by Superintendent Gaines says that the people of Kansas are very generally What is the great Eastern termini of chinch bugs, reported as doing some the Rock Island Route? Chicago.

etlthusiastic in supporting ana en couraging the county high school. younsrest daughter of the British em Abilene is few" when it comes to Memorial Dav orators. Six tion. He was absent ttBifrijl the beginning of oil operations Pennsylvania thirty-five years ago. Then he materialized.

He has. been walking ever since, and his, dread apparition will doubtless continue to walk abroad as long as oil wells and storage tanks last. He is generally an employe about the wells, and in nine cases out of ten a man of experience citizens of that place delivered ad dresses at other places on that day. The Telescope is authority for the statement that during the recent hail mischief in various localities, it being accounted for by "dry weather;" yet in great numbers of counties where this was undoubtedly the case other crops, such as corn and potatoes, have grown in a manner most gratifying and are reported upon very favorably indeed, while their planting and cultivation have gone forward uninter-uptedly, and the weeds are in the most thorough subjection ever known at this time of year. Eighty of the 105 counties report the present stand of winter wheat as in a worse condition than one month ago; 25 counties storm near Belleville hundreds of chickens were killed by the falling and intelligence, but he can't resist of ice, The State Historical Society has re the fascination of paying a visit now and then to some gas enveloped tank.

ceived into its collections two copies of the St. Gaudens bronze medals is What other sub-Eastern termini baa it? Peoria. To what important point does it run trains to the Northwest? St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Watertown and Sioux Falls, Dakota. To what important Iowa and Nebraska points? Des Moines, Davea-port, Iowa Omaha and REMEMBER The Great Rock Island Route runs all regular trains to Englewood suburban station, close to World's Fair grounds, and you can save time and trouble by getting off at that point and avoid tha crowd in the city.

For full particulars as to tickets, maps, rates, apply to any coupon ticket office in the United States, Canada ot Mexico, oc addrei: JNO. SEBASTIAN, ffSalTik Pass. Chicago, III carrying his lighted lantern. Some bassador, the Marquis of Dufferin, was married Monday at Paris, to Hon. William Lee Plunkett.

eldest son of Lord Plunkett', archbishop of Dublin. A Bluff line work train ran into a string of cars three miles east of Alton, 111., Sunday afternoon. The accident was caused by an open switch. Engineer Barnard was killed and Fireman Harrison badly wounded. Six of the workmen were injured.

Six thousand people witnessed the laying of the corner stone of the Norwegian hospital by the Norwegian Lu-thern Tabitha Society Sunday afternoon at Chicago. The hospital, when finished, will be the first Norwegian charitable institution in the city. Advices from Tuxpan, state that a terific wind storm passed over the village of Yahualica, about seventy miles back in the country, one day last week, and destroyed a number of store buildings and dwellings, and killed ten persons and wounded fifteen others. A killing frost visited many sections sued by the committee on the Wash' ington memorial arch. A few years ago binding twine cost times the result isn't disastrous, but that isn't the fault of the man with the lantern.

Usually, though, an explosion follows. If it is not succeeded by a destructive fire the fact report it "about the same" or better. During the last three or four days of May there were heavy rains in many places, but not general in character, and in most instances too late to benefit much of the more debilitated wheat. jfe- SPRING WHEAT. I the grain growers of Kansas Irom 16 to 18 cents a pound.

This season sisal twine is being sold for 7 cents will be one worthy of special note in and the best manilla for 9. oil-region chronicles. A roll call of tie employes of that oarticular oil Colonel Thomas Moonlight of Leav property, and the taking account of the toolhouse stock, will show that enworth has been a constant sufferer from neuralgia since he arrived in La Paz to assume his duties as United States minister to Bolivia. 2 John Mustard, a member of the senior class at the State university, has written a novel entitled "The politician," which has been favorbly noticed by some of the Lawrence papers. As a scheme to attract attention the Admiral Erben, of the United States cruiser Chicago, will entertain his personal friends and many of the army and naval officers and their fair relatives on board' the American ship on the 11th, inst.

The surgeon general of the marine hospital service has received a dispatch from Breman confirming the information that there have been no cases of cholera along the river Obery, as had been reported. At Portland, the river has fallen about four inches since Friday. In Eastern Oregon and Washington a lower temperance is prevailing and the Columbia and the Umatilla and the Snake river, at Riparia, are said to be slowly -subsiding. Captain E. Beaman, of Lafayette, an old conductor on the Monon road, was found dead, with his head cut and his pockets turned out, Saturday about three miles out of town, alongside the railroad track.

It is thought he was murdered and robbed. Secretary Carlisle late Saturday afternoon received a telegram from Captain Hooper, commanding the revenue cutter Rush, now at Kan Francisco, btating that there was no truth in the report that the Md been wrecked at the entrance jitka harbor. The publishers of the P. J. Tynan's book- Irish National Invincibles and Their Times," have informed the St.

James' Gazette, London, tha.t, contrary to the statement of that newspaper Saturday, Tynan is very much alive and the publishers are prepared to prove the fact. The efforts of the authorities of Jop-lin, Mo to apprehend the firebugs who have been burning mining plants in that district re meeting with success. Charles Freeman was arrested Sunday' at Webb City, and George Gordon, Monday, at Galena, Kansas. Other arrests will follow Rev. W.

A. Passavent, the founder of Passavent hospital, and a veteran in charitable work, died at 10 o'clock ST JoiTS. CaiW BaaaiBaiaBBHBaaaaaaaaaaaaBBaHB ARE YOU GOING Ifso TRAVEL via MEMPHIS the man with the lantern ha3 been walking again. He appeared at an oil storage tank near this village recently in the person of T. J.

Applebee, tank inspector. He discovered a leak in the tank. He went up to investigate it with his lantern. Applebee was not killed by the explosion that followed, which was a most miraculous and almost unheard of experience of the man with the lantern, but he will be blind and terribly crippled for life. The tank and 500 barrels of oil were destroyed, and a disastrous conflagration was averted only by hours of persistent effort.

Yet the man with the will be walking soon again somewhere va the oil regions as sure, as fate. Memphis For stated in the foregoing the limited area of spring wheat, confined to the northern counties, offers little prospect of any considerable yield. 4- OATS. 4 The conditions as to oats are almost identical with those of spring wheat. The stand is scattering, the plants feeble, and with a tendency tojrema-ture and very short heading.

CORN. A good stand, good growth, promising condition and unusual freedom from weeds is the burden of the information with reference to corn. Here and there slight or temporary injury was done by frost, but comparatively, and in the aggregate, amounting to little. Tremendously increased arejs have during the. month been planted to corn, in a soil not wet, but sufficiently moist to insure prompt germination and continuous growth.

POTATOES. In spite of considerable damage by frost potatoes are generally promising fairly well, and are ee from weeds." FRUIT. Frost damaged fruit of all kinds more or less, but to no such extent as was at first feared. 111 HTSlft Charleston in Northwestern Ohio Tuesday night, and much damage is reported to early fruit and vegetables. In Seneca county the frost was the heaviest experienced since that in 1859, when the crops throughout the state were ruined.

Dispatches received at Paris from Brazil say that the Federalist bands in the province of Rio Grande do Su. have met with successes which have enabled them to advance. The Brazilian government has sent reinforcements of troops into the state of Pa-rangua. The following senators have been appointed a committee, in compliance with a resolution from Senator Black burn agreed to in the senate Friday, to receive petitions and. hearings on the existing industrial distress: Vilas Smith, Blackburn, Gallinger and Pat-ton.

Thomas Breman, who livee in a tenement house at S3 Queen street, Long RAILROAD. Train3 IcareSIeaiphis Hor.Kivo andEvEviNa after arrival of train from the West anl Southwest, running or Connecting in 1'sio trou for the East ah Tbe Mfnjnh-3 a ad The ar.il Beat ThrAUA-h Car Line To RAl.TlttOHK. rillLADrXPHIA. LYXdlBI R4J. SIT? YOR2.

j. Willi Veaiibuled DIMX) C.tB Service Via Hie Renutiful "Kheiiiiiidonh Valley Charleston P. ail raid ami the East Tenn va. Ga. have eantfcl the reputation t'j'JT delivery of the salutatory in Latin at the Emporia normal school has proved a success, but as an exibition of superior culture it is a decided failure.

Corbett fc Forsyth have sold the Wellington Mail to Puckett Nourse, who announce that they will continue to conduct the paper on the policy that "news is news and business is Geo. W- Winans, ex-superintendent of public instruction and one of the best known educators in the state, has been elected to the superintenden-cy of the Hutchinson schools for the coming year. A chinch bug infection station has been established under the supervision of Warren Knaus, the newly appointed postmaster at McPherson. Knaus, by the way, is an entomologist of no mean ability. Wheat harvest commenced in i-ner county this week.

The dry wei: of the last week has ripened the grain very last and some wheat is already in the shock. The yield promised is good. The Winfield Chautauqua Assembly begins on June I9th and ends June 28th, The speakers include Henry Watterson of Kentucky, Judge Tour-gee of New York, Major Dane of Boston, and Dr. Gray of Chicago all first-class orators. One fare for the round trip on all railroads, Tony and Christ Schonlow, brothers, were drowned Sunday while bathing in a lake near Danville, Harper county.

One of the brothers became exhausted in the water and the other lost his life while trying to rescue him. A friend of the two men was also drowned in attempting to help them. The Missouri Pacific is not hauling any more freight than is absolutely necessary, on account of the scarcity Quickest Time. BeJl Through Car Servls and all tbe Latest anJ Pinest Accommodation It is the Princ.pa! Thoroughfare to tha Summer Resorts in t'i Summer" and WiaUr Reports in tlie Winter. Passengers Dy ihi route cross tbe New Steel Bridge at Memphis and will avoid tedious Ferry Transfer across tbe Mississippi River, necessary by any other gateway south St.

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A novel which was recently crowned by -the French academy as possessed of unusual merit contained a sentence of which the following is a translation: "It was midnight A-man who lay in ambush listened to-their conversation; but suddenly a dense dark cloud passed in front the moon, and prevented him from hearin? more. Here is another phrase, written in full earnest fey a master of Frenoh criticism: "It was one of those duels in which one of the blades literally buries itself in the heart of the other." A criticism in a French journal upon a dramatic performance lately ended with these words, which are worthy of Sir Boyle Roche: "Mme. Judic's talent is like the froth 'on good champagne. Beware of thrusting the scalpel into it; fpr if you do, there will remain naught but a pinch of ashes at the bottom Ms alembic." Another French journal, in, speaking of the results of certain false reports, declared: is the handiwork of evil tongues manipulated by cruel hands." Argonaut. Her Confidence Shaken.

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D. Vi. ITrean, Uea. Jt IkU Affrat, Enolvlll Tut, of coal. An order is expected daily to Office of Insurance Department, Topeka, May 22, 1S94.

By request of the State Insurance Company of Des Moines, Iowa, I have made a personal examination of the said company at its Jjgjge sffis8? arnjjleased to say that I found the company perfectly solvent and in splendid condition, and well worthy the confidence of the insuring public. The premium receipts of the company thus far this year show a handsome increase, while the losses reported to date are very much lighter than for the corresponding period of 1893. S. II. Snider, Superintendent of Insurance.

The Reno county normal institute opened Monday with an enrollment of 150, The Little River manufacturing has been incorporated to manufacture and sell the Sprigg's patent boll grip at Little River, Rice county. One of the questions ask at the recent examination was, 'Name the the state ind county officers to be elected this fall." There were seven young ladies who could only name one of-the entire list and that was the clerk of the court Dighton Herald. An anti-herd law campaign is on in Logan county. No new cases of smallpox have been reported at Atchison for two weeks and each of -the twenty-one patients now down with, the disease seems to be in a fair way to recover. The afflicted persons' are all kept at the pest house outside the city limits so that there is in fact not a single case of smallpox in Atchison.

1 Lawrence is considerably excited over indications of a murder having been committed on the- banks of the river a mile from Tracks leading to the spot were of two men and a women. A derby hat was found with two bullet holes in it, and bloody, and the path indicated that a desperate struggle had taken place. A boat had been beached, as the bank showed, at the edge of the water. Four shots-were also heard in the vicinity. No clue 'as yet, and the- river is being closely watched.

for a floater, which in all probability will be found in due time. Printed in Topeka. Kansas, Wants to talk to you And all your folks, Andyourneighhors folks, About politics and other things. It's a Weekly Reform Paper All the year. 1 6 Pages.

64 Columns. Island City, awakened Sunday morning to find that his lamp had exploded and that he and his bedding were on fire. He jumped from the second story window and lit on his head on the sidewalk Wow, breaking his neck. The chan 'of' the Chicago, Kansas Western terminal from Emporia to Strong City, over which so much trouble and misunderstanding has existed between the Santa Fe company and Chase county people for a year past, bids fair to be peaceably settled this week. The German steamer Rhaetia reports having spoken the yacht Vigilant at 4:38 o'clock Saturday morning in latitude 40:35, longitude 68:17, and was proceeding under sail.

The wind was from the south and a moderate breeze was blowing at the time the Rhaetia passed. A disastrous fire at Ottumwa, Saturday resulted in the loss of one life, and four others being fatally injured. Five blocks were destroyed, including fifteen business houses and twenty dwellings. The loss is estimated at. $325,000, with about one-third covered by insurance.

Rufus Kay, a farmer living near Erin, brutally murdered his wife with on iron crowbar. The man then sent his children to one of the neighbor's inform them of his crime. When arrested he was attempting to cut his throat witli a razor. Ray seems to be totally indifferent about tlie affiiir. Four thousand tons of coal from Cardiff, Wales, was brought into New York Monday by the steamer Cynthi-ana, consigned to the Berwind-White Coal company.

The coal is for supplying ocean steamers, and is furnished at a loss to the contractors of about $3.50 a ton. This is a consequence of the strike in the bituminous coal fields. One hundred thousand persons witnessed at Glascow Saturday a procession that 1 had been arranged by the Radicals as a demonstration against the house of lords. The Irish residents of Glascow are put in strong force among the paraders. A public meeting followed the parade at which resolutions were adopted demanding the abolition of the house of lords.

General Charles H. Grosvener, Republican, was Monday renominated by acclamation by the Eleventh, Ohio, district congressional convention. Ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster arrived at San Francisco from the Orient Friday on the steamer China. After the Behring sea commission concluded its session at Paris Mr.

Foster started on a tour of the world. The collector of the port and other custom officers boarded the China on her way in and received the ex-secretary. Its will pay shot visit to Monterey and then leave for Sunday night at his residence in Pittsburg, aged 75 years. He has been a resident of Pittsburg 48 years. His last great work was the founding of the Chicago Lutheran seminary.

Illuminating oil sold by the Standard Oil Company has touched the lowest point ever reached in Chicago 4 cents the result of a fight against outside dealers. Firms, which are running oil wagons independent of the Standard company, have declared that they will meet the cut and a merry war is expected. The celebrated case of the state of Tennessee vs. E. B.

Turpin, charged with the murder of William Carter two years ago, has resulted in the ac-quital of Turpin. The case, which has been tried four times, was ended at Lebanon, Saturday. Turpin who is a wealthy man, shot Carter over a difficulty at Gallatin. 1 A strike of the lumber fleet, to go into effect Monday morning, has been declared against the lumber shippers in Chicago. The object of the vessel owners is to raise freights, and the vessel owners will be backed in their fight by the Seamen's union, which has declared that its men shall not ship on any boats during the strike.

Representative D. M. Mercer of Nebraska and Miss Birdie M. Abbott of Minnesota, were married at St. John's Episcopal church, Washington, Thursday afternoon, the Rev.

Dr. Randolph MeKim performing the ceremony. The bride is a sister-in-law of Judge Loch-ren, the commissioner of pensions, who escoried her to the altar and gave her hand in marriage. For several days, unemployed men who are drifting about the country have been congregating by twos and threes in a sheltered grove near Slate Creek in the west end of the city, and fully thirty men are at present camped without anything in the nature of camp effects, however on the spot. The men for the greater part appear to be of an industrious character and they state an intention of scattering about the country and seeking work in the harvest fields.

Wellington Mail A dispatch from Buenos Avers says that in consequence of the fall in the gold premium all fears of the suspension of the payment of the interest on the national debt have been dispelled. John Lane, of New York, who died Saturday morning, was worth His two sons, who were at his bedside, (quarreled as to the inheritance. The old man was in his death agonies, but made a feeble gesture for Daniel, the younger, to stop. Michael tried to take him from the room when he knocked him down and a. scuttle ensued.

A copper was called in nd settled the row. It cost Daniel $10 1 V. 51. OO a Year. A Wise I Ittle KUte.i.

Little Dot My kitten is sick and I have been trying ever' so' hard to make-her take some medicine, but she won't touch it. Mother Of course' not. Cat3 never' take1 medicino whetr they are sick. Little Dot Why, isn't that queer I -waver would have' thought that a littlo bit of a kitten- would trust to the faith cure. stop the running of certain freight trains on the Central branch.

No extras have been sent out on the branch for some time, and will, not for some time to come, except for stock or other perishable freight. Hunnewell held an election in April in the old-fashioned way. As soon as the newly elected officers began to enforce the city ordinances it was discovered that the election was illegal and a new election Junder the Anstra lian ballot system was ordered. fThe second election took place last week and Hunnewell now has a set of officers who were legally chosen. The Winfield District of the Southwestern Kansas Conference of the M.

E. church will hold an old-fashioned campmeeting on the Assembly Grounds at Winfield, beginning August 23, and closing September 3. Members of the Conference will be in charge of all the services. Ample accomodations for tenters or boarders will be provided at reasonable rates. Rev.

A. B. Bruncr, pastor of the First M. E. church, Winfield, will answer all inquiries if stamp is enclosed.

The wheat and oats crops on the State agricultural college farm will be very short this year. Corn and Kaffir corn promise well. Tame grass sown this year has failed of a good stand, while hay has been cut short by the lack of rain. The new steam' heating and power plant which is beingerccted under the supervision of the State board of public works, will not be quite complete by the contract time. July l.

When done the'plant vrlll contain five boilers. Power and light will be conveyed to the various' buildings by means of electricity. 1 The senior class of the law school of K1SSAS LEADS THE PROCESSION. 1H8 ADVOCATE'S educational influence has been felt in every county in Kansa and in every state in the Union. It is recognized as a lkadkr in this great Political Revolution.

The people want good literature, and we want thera to have it. We also want a few-dollars with which to do business. You pa; the DOLLAR, we do the rest. ADVOCATB PTJB. Topeka, Kg.

FOR WILLING Of either sex, any age, in any part of the country at the employment which we tirnlsli. You need not be away from homo over night. You can giv your whole time to the work, or only your spare mo ments. As capital is not required you run no risk. We supply you with all that is needed.

It will cost you nothing to try tltusinejs. Any one can do the work. Beginners make money from the start. Failure Is unknown with our workers. Every hour you labor you can easily make a dollar.

No one who is willing to work fails to make mora money every day than can be made In three day at anyordlnary employment. Send for lreftook containing the fullest Information. H. HALLCTT a Box 880, PORTLAND. MAINE.

Tlie Hard I art. "Here's a piece in the 'paper I had around me, lunch," said Plodding Pete, "that tells how Chauncey De-ptw says it's easy to make an after-dinner speech." 'Course it is," replied MeanderinJ Mike. "Do element of is in de dinner." American Industries. the State university appeared before a board of examiners appointed by the district court Friday; The entire class, thirty-two of them, were admitted to the bar Saturday thereby giving us thirty-two new lawyers. H.

H. Jackson of Galena, while sleeping alone in his confectionary establishment, was beaten over, tlie head with a car coupling pin about 4 o'clock Sunday morning and robbed of his watch and i in1 money. When found he was unconscious, yet it is thought his- injuries will not, prore fatal. For Ladles Only. Old Gentleman There is something wrong with that slot machine in there.

It claims to tell your correct age. I am over 70 and it made ine out 85. Hotel Clerk That machine Is for ladies only, You will find a better in the billiard room. 1.