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HEWS OF THE WEEK I l6iBii9iS Another disaster has occurred in the Vesuvian region. Torrents of rain and a heavy gale caused avalanches ol "JStWStThonpsw'i Ey Water stop mm RENT. MANY PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Wewlllbuyatl.OOOtotS.OOOhome. Youpayonly I 87.50 PEU MONTH on enob tl.OOOwith 6 PJa CENT.

SIMPLE INTEREST per annum, pay able monthly. AcUlreRs THE STANDARD REAL ESTATE LOAN COMPANY, Washington, U.C WAS QUICKLY SPENT. tint $300,000 of the $2, 500,000 Appro prluteil for Sun Francisco lie- in ulna fur Itellef Work. Washington, D. C.

Commenting on the dispatches from San Francisco expressing the (surprise of the citizens' committee that only $300,000 of the relief fund of $2,500,000 appropriated by congress is still available for reiiet work, Acting Secretary Oliver, of the war department, Sunday night pointed" out that It was never contemplated that the appropriation should be spent by the citizens of San Francisco. The money, according to the resolution of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetablo GompttunsS Interesting Item Gathered from All TI7E3TY-FIVE BUSHELS OF WHEAT TO TEi AQHE parts of the World Condensed. Iuto Small Space for the Benefit of Our Iteuders. WPS'fl Mecr3 a pro- Alr A'jQtfJ rlnntlvn ra pacity In dol- mud, sand, ashes and cinders to fall upon several localities, doing great damage. Rules just completed of the Pan-American congress to be held at Ric Janeiro, Brazil, July 20 provide thai the deliberations shall closo September 1 regardless of unfinished business.

Henry G. Goll, formerly assistant cashier of the First National bank of Milwaukee, has been found guilty of false entries and misapplication of funds. A clash between union and non-union miners at Windber, resulted in two men being fatally wounded and several others more or less injured. Ouster proceedings have been filed in the circuit court at Toledo, Ohio, against the Standard Oil company and 17 affiliated companies. The court was asked to dissolve their franchises and appoint trustees for creditors and stockholders.

Twenty thousand double blankets are among Chicago's donations to San SIC per acre. congress was to be expended by the' war department; was to reimburse that department for the rations; tents, blankets, belonging to the army which were rushed to San Francisco and also to purchase other relief stores. The appropriation, Gen. Oliver explained, was allotted among the various supply bureaus of the army, certain amounts going to the commissary This on land which has cost the larmer notn. -Ing but the price of tilling it, tells its owa Btory.

The Canadian Government gives absolutely tree to every settlor 100 aores of such land. Lands adjoining can be purchased at from to $10 per aero from railroad and other corpora ations. Already 175,000 farmers from the United States have made their homes in Canada. For pamphlet "Tweptloth Century Canada' and all Information apply to Supt. of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to following authorized Canadian Government Agent J.

S. Crawford, No. 123 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. (Mention this paper.) bureau, the quartermaster's bureau and the signal corps, the money allotted to the latter being for the purpose of restoring telephone and telegraphic communication, etc CONFISCATED THE LEAE.

Francisco. The new Russian loan has proved more successful that anticipated the loan having been subscribed many times over. Several villages In Saxony have experienced earthquake shocks. No damage was done but the inhabitants were greatly alarmed. The war department will this year spend $40,000 on the extension and improvement of the national target range at Fort Riley, Kan.

A fusillade of 30 or 40 shots and the L. Douglas The wonderful powe? of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound over the diseases of womankind is not because it is a stimulant, not because it is a palliative, but simply because it is the most wonderful tonic and recon-Btructor ever discovered to act directly upon the generative organs, positively curing disease and restoring health and vigor, Marvelous cures are reported from all parts of the country by women who have been cured, trained nurses who have witnessed cures and physicians who have recognized the virtue of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and are fair enough, to give credit where it is due. If physicians dared to be frank and open, hundreds of them would acknowledge that they constantly prescribe Lydia E.

Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in severe cases of female ills, as they know by experience it can be re-lied upon to effect a cure. The follow-to letter proves it. Dr. S. C.

Brigham, of 4 Brigham Park, Fitchburg, writes: It gives me great pleasure to say that I have found Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound very efficacious, and often prescribe it in my practice for female dilhculties. "My oldest daughter found it very beneficial ora fomaletrouble some time ago, andmy youngest daughter is now taking it for a female weakness, and is surely gaining in health and strength. I freely advocate It as a most reliable specific in all diseases to which women are subject, and give it honest endorsement." Women who are troubled with painful or irregular periods, bloating (or flatulency); weakness of organs, displacements, inflammation or ulceration, can be restored to perfect health and strength by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

If advice is needed write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. She is daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty-five years has been advising sick women free of charge. No other living person has had the benefit of a wider experience in treating female ills.

She has guided thousands to health. Every suffering woman should ask for and follow her advice if she wants to be strong and well. V. L. Douglas $4.00 Cilt Edge Lino cannot be equalled at any price.

31 "SHOES ZL i ALL tfijl PRICES of one man marked the ne- Interior Department Deprives Guffey uiul Gnly ot Oil Property Hecause Kolingit Were Risreitnrded. Muskogee, I. TV The Indian agent acting under instructions from the department of interior has taken every producing oil lease owned by. Guffey Galy out of their possession and placed the land in the possession of the allottees from whom the lease was taken. This action wis ordered because Guffey Galy had sold their leases contrary to the expressed provisions of the lease and the rulings of the department of the interior under whose supervision the leases were taken! The price quoted for the sale, was alleged to be Guffey Galy have leases that cover fully the 4.S00 acres which is.

the maximum the company is allowed to lease The specific charge against fiuffey Galy is that they sold their leases including all their producing wells to a trust company of St. Louis and that the leases were transferred this time going to the Osage Oklahoma Oil Gas company. THE DISTRICT BURNED. I 7 U5EST I I world newal of the feud spirit in Breathitt county, Kentucky. Twenty-nine special trains arrived in New Orleans In one day recently laaen with Confederate veterans to attend the reunion.

The first corps of civil engineers sent to construct railroads in the Philippines left Kansas City recently for Seattle whence they will sail for Manila. Italians, French and Greeks won the rowing contests in the Olympic games at Athens recently. The Americana and English led in tha swimming races. All the books and papers of the Iowa Christian Endeavor union were burned recently while in transit from Red Oak to Marshalltown. The records from the organization up to the present were destroyed.

Labor conditions in France are JULY Capital NEW LAWS SENT FREE. Write Nathan Bickford. 914 Washineton. I). C.

W. L. DOUGLAS MAKES SELLS MORE MEM'S SHOES TtiA ti.f.NYO THER MANUFACTURER IN THE WOULD. 1 fl finn REWARD to anyows who can OIUjUUU disprove this statement. If I could take you Into my three large factories at Brockton, and show you the infinite care with which every palrof shoes Is made, you would realize why W.

L. Douglas $3.50 shoes cost more to make, why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe. IV. L. Douglas Strong ftlodo Shoe for Man, S2.SO, SZ.tiii.

Boys' School Brass Shoes, $2.50, $1.50 CAUTION Iiisist upon having W.L.Doug-laa shoes. Take no substitute. None genuine without his name and price stamped on bottom. Fast Color Eyelets used they will not wear brassy. Write for Illustrated Catalog.

TV. 1.. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. rapidly approaching the point where open rebellion against the law is mOTHER GRAY'S SWEET PO WBERS FOR GfflLBREM, A Certain Cure for Feverlghncfi, Constipation, Headache, Mtomach Troubles, Teething Disorder, and Destroy Worm. U'bey Break np old In 91 hniirs.

At nil 25 CM. common. Already the troops havo been assaulted' by striking miners. The government is suppressing the facts. BOTIIKK GRAY, Nurse in uiil Agents of the American Insurance NowYorkCity.iA.

S. OLMSTED, La Roy, N.Yi company of Boston have been directed HO Till 0K CITY, MO. (branch orncE at 3t Loma.) to write no new business until the company finds out the extent of its losses in California. Snn Fra'nciHco Earthquake. At the suggestion pf the president, Gov.

Pardee has made a formal request for the use of troops of the regular army at San Francisco. The action was taken simply to observe legal forms tind avoid complications. At the request of the citizen's committee at San Francisco but 1300 troops will be sent there instead of 2500 as previously requested by Gen. Gre'ely and approved by the war department. Street cars have begun running on i several cross-town lines In San Francisco.

The first building pfermit issued in Ban Francisco since the earthquake was for a 12 story steel structure, and was Issued to Thomas McCee. Kansas City's theatrical benefit netted $6,500 for the San Francisco sufferers. Secretary Taft has suggested to Gov. Pardee, of California, that 'in order to avoid legal 'complications a formal request should be made for the use of United States troops in San Francisco. So great is the quantity of supplies, arriving at San Francisco that cities and towns of the state have been asked to hold consignments for awhile-.

Orders have been issued by the officials of the Carnegie Steel company making contracts for structural material destined for San Francisco "emergency orders" and giving them precedence over all other contracts. A map recently published in San Francisco of the burned district shows an area covering 453 city blocks. It Is estimated that the buildings de-cwroyed number 60,000. The revised figures from Santa Rosa, show 51 dead, 63 injured and seven missing, A well-known engineer states that the area devastated by the fire in San Francisco approximates 10,000 acres, about 15 square miles. The distribution of all, supplies at San Francisco has been placed in the hands of the quartermaster's department of the United States army.

It is estimated that 300,000 people have left San Francisco. The work of removing the ruins in the business district of San Francisco is proceeding rapidly and arrangements are crystallizing for the construction of a new and greater city. There were 61 churches of all denominations destroyed in the recent earthquake and fire in San Francisco. The empress dowager of China has Bent a check for to the American legation for the San Francisco sufferers and is sending $20,000 to the Chinese of that city The restrictions preventing general access to San Francisco have removed and all persons having business in the city are allowed to go in. Miscellaneous.

Proceedings in involuntary bankruptcy have been started against John Alexander Dowie in Chicago. The claims involved amount to $7,000. The suit threatens to disrupt Zion City. The Kansas democratic state convention at Topeka recently nominated a strong ticket with former Senator V. A.

Harris as candidate for governor; Hugh Farrelly, for lieutenant governor, and. David Overmyer for attorney general. The platform declares for the enforcement of all laws, for a two cent fare and the abolition of railroad passes. Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give $25,000 to the permanent endowment fund of the Southwest Conference College at Winfield, Kan." The steamer Euckman from Seattle with supplies for San? Francisco was struck by a tidal wave off Cape Blanco and almost overwhelmed recently. It was supposed the wave was caused by subteranean disturbances.

William A. Brewer, formerly president of the Washington Life In eurance company, has been indicted by the New York grand jury for perjury in connection with the companys reports to the state Superintendent of insurance in 1903. Suits have been filed at Austin, Texas to forfeit the charters of the Forth Worth Live Stock exchange, the Fort Worth Stock Yards company and Armour for violation of the anti-trust laws. 1 A tornado swept the town of Belle-vue, recently. Twelve persons were reported killed.

An attempt was recently made to blow up the house where" former President Loubet, of France, is passing his Easter vacation. Gov. Folk has ordered the withdrawal of the militia which has been maintaining order in Springfield since the recent lynching. The net earnings of. the steel trnst for the first three months of 1006 officially reported to be $36,634,490, an increase of $13,608,594 over the first quarter of last year.

NO MORE MUSTARD PLASTERS TO BLISTER CAPSIGU The interior department has taken LINE The San Frnnclseo Fire Swept Ovet 10,000 Aerps, or 13 Sqnare Miles of Territory. Oakland, a 1 i f. A well known engineer states that Ihe area devastated by the fire in San Francisco approximates 10,000 acres, about fifteen square miles. There are few cities in' the world where such valuable property is contained in an equal territory. Within this 15 square miles were nearly 100 banks, some of the finest buildings in the thousands of mercantile and manufacturing establishments and more than inhabitants, besides some 40,000 transients.

The aggregate of dead will probably hot exceed 700 and will certainly not reach 1,000. Notwithstanding the enormous and widespread destruction the homes of 150,000 people are still standing and practically unin. jured. There still remains the great ship yards at the Potrero, the Pacific Mail doclis, the stock yards at South San Francisco, the docks, manufactories along the water front from Mission Creek to Hunters' Point, the mint, the postofnee and a large retail district on Fillmore and Devisadero streets. every producing oil lease owned by Guffey Galy in the Indian territory because of violations of the rulings of department.

the SCIENTIFIC and MODERN EXTERNAL COUNTER-IRRITANT A QUICK, SURE, SAFE and ALWAYS READY CURE FOR PAIN DON'T WAIT TILL thb PAIN COMES KEEP A TUBE HANDY IT WILL NOT BLISTER THE MOST DELICATE SKIN IT IS ALSO INDISPENSABLE FOR CHILDREN I Erich Muenter, intructor in German at Harvard, and formerly of the Kansas university, has been arrested charged with the murder of his wife. The' National Congress of Mothers SUPERIOR TO ANYTHING IN USE FOR CHAPPED HANDS AND. LIPS AND TO ALLAY ALL IRRITATION OF THE SKIN. A SOVEREIGN REMEDY FOR SUN-BURN which was to have held a session in Los Angeles in May has been in definitely postponed owing to the dis VASE aster in San Francisco. Judge Abner Smith, Jerome V.

COLD ORE Pierce. G. F. Sorrow and F. E.

Creel-man were recently indicted in connec tion with the affairs of the defunct Bank of America of Chicago. KEEPS THE SKIN IN A SOFT AND HEALTH? CONDITION AND PRESERVES THE COMPLEXION. EACH OF THESE WELL KNOWN PREPARATIONS CAN BE OBTAINED FROM DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS, OR WILL SEND BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF 15 CENTS IN MONEY OR STAMPS, EXCEPTING CAMPHOR ICE, FOR WHICH SEND TEN CENTS CKE5EBK0UGH MFC. 17 State Street, NEW YORK SSB9B3RESSQ Hose's Name to Go on Ticket. Kansas City, Kansas.

The name of W. W. Rose will be placed on the official ballot here for the special mayoralty election May 8. George Foerschler, city clerk, ten days ago issued a saying that he would not place the name of W. W.

Rose on the ticket because the supreme court had decided that he was ineligible for the office when it ousted him recently. Friday morning Mr. Foerschler said that he feared that such an act would invalidate the election and that he would therefore place the name of Rose oh the official ballot. Congressional. The bill disposing of the affairs of the Indians in Indian territory, known as the "Five Tribes bill," has been signed by the president.

Senator Spooner spoke for three hours in the senate recently on the rairoad rate bill in reply to Senator Bailey. The president sent a special message to congress recently urging the nmediate appropriation of money for repairs at the Mare Island navy yard in order that employment, may be provided for persons in San Francisco. Personal. Brig. Gen.

'Edward W. Serrell, a noted civil and military engineer is dead in New York aged 80 years. He first surveyed the canal, routes across the Isthmus of Panama for the government. He also built the Hoosac tunnel and the Niagara suspension bridge. Lieut.

Gov. Herriott has announced his withdrawal from the Iowa gubernatorial race. fc Capt. Richmond P. Hobson has been nominated for congress, in the Sixth Alabama district.

Martin J. Sheridan, of New York won the discuss throwing contest at Athens, beating the world's record with a throw of 41 metres and 46 Vanlts ot the Treasury Intact: San Calif. The city officials were highly elated Sunday upon finding the contents of the municipal treasury intact. The vaults were located In a section of the city that escaped the Are and when an expert opened the doors Sunday morning he found gold, silver and securities scattered over the floor but there was nothing missing. The vault contained coin and currency; $300, 000 In securities of the German Savings bank and $12,000,000 of unsold city bonds.

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CO. Chicago Ths arttatlo Book of Prstsn 11U. Novel Illumination for City. Toulon, France. The strike of the employes at the gas works here continues and the only illumination in the city is from the searchlights of the warships in 'the harbor..