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111 l.WP TUKfiliAi bt. LOUIS POST-DlPATCH AUGUST 7, 1900. MAI" nun rn KRUGER SAID TO BE- JIM tJUILtli IIAIVItU WILLING TO YIELD. DOMINATED FOR CONGRESS IN THE TWELFTH DISTRICT. -o- Prepared to Surrender to the British if lie is Not Sent as a I'ris CONVENTION WAS UNANIMOUS.

oner to St. Helena. WASHINGTON AVENUE AND SIXTH STREET. Vaal river. He was Joined yesterday by a strong detachement of Brabant's horse and the Canadian regiment.

PRETORIA, Monday, Aug. 6. It is stated positively that President Kruger is willing and anxious to surrender, provided a satisfactory promise is siren as to his ultimate destination. He stipulates that he must not be exiled to St. Helena.

"The Boers attacked the garrison at Elands river on the morning- of Aug. 4 1 Wednesday's Information was sent to Carrlngton, who was on the way to Elands river. Ian Ham- LONDON, 7. Lord Roberts reports I ilton, who reached Rustenburg yesterday to the war office under date of Pretoria, I reported hearing heavy firing in the direc- Specials. AUg.

6. as rollows: tion of Elands river. Today the firing "Harrismlth surrendered on Aug. 4. The seemn more distant, which looks as if the neighboring country seems to be quiet.

I Elands river garrison had been relieved and Platform Adopted Declaring In Fawr of More Bridges Across the Mississippi. Jajnes J. Butler was Tuesday unanimously hoi-n as tha candidate for Congress bv the. Democrats of the Twelfth district. The idatjV.rm of the convent! which was held in L'hrlg's Cave, beside Indorsing the Kan-was City platform in its entirety, is notabi for a declaration in favor of construction of more bridges across the Mississippi river at.

St. Louis and for the improvement of rivers of the West. Ja.nes O'Coiincli was chosen temporary chairman, M. fJrossman secretary ani James Mlye nergeaj-i-iit-a'-niH. The temporary o-rariiza'ion was made permanent.

W. 1'. I.lKhdiolder was the chairman of the committee on resolutions. Mr. Holier was placed in nomination by Attorney lien Clark and the nominating upeech received a rouslncr second from Kitchener is with the force south of the was retiring towards Zerust." 2.V Pair Lace Curtains, in Nottingham.

Scotch Curtains 95c and French Guipure Lace, all odd sample pairs regular value to to clean up, pair HER TRAMP RESUMED THREE BOYS AT ONCE Ladies' Here is a grand Waist Bargain Waists Percale that were selling Irom to MRS. EDNA BOWER DECLINES ALL TRIPLETS BORN TO MR. AND MRS. 25c 39c CHARITY. F.

L. TAYLOR. Ladies' White Duck. White Pique. Blue Duck and Linen Skirts, some plain, some trimmed; were $1.50 to $2.00, now emu is WALKED HERE FROM KENTUCKY BABIES STRONG AND WILL LIVE.

Medium length Summer Corset A LOrSetS 11 made and good 4VC -Medium length Summer Corsets well made and good Father Has Already Named One of 4 ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME TO SOBER UP? Midt SO splendid wearing Brussels Car- A fm carpets pct ncw cors; 2 shape -SO rolls splendid wearing Brussels Carpet, all nice, new colors; was Sc a yard, now Them William, One Jennings and One Bryan. V. Hunter, who had been an opponent of the nominee in the race. Speechmakcrs from each ward then seconded the nomina- lOTi. Mr.

Rutler was called before the convention ami spoke to the large gathering for over half an hour. He pledged himself to support every plank in the party platform if he should he elected, and at the close of his address was tendered an enthusiastic reception. The new congressional committee met immediately after the adjournment of the convention and re-elected Kd K. Onion, chairman. Martin F.

Moore was elected secretary. The new committee is constituted as follows Fourth Ward. John A. Sheridan; Fifth, John J. Monohan; Sixth.

Kd K. Onion; Seventh. Herman Joern Twelfth, W. L. Collins; Thirteenth, Thomas Keane; Fourteenth, Martin F.

Moore; Fifteenth. Jeremiah Vteardon: Twentieth, J. F. Coyle; Twenty-first. O.

1. Hurleign; Twenty-second. J. P. Hllgh: Twenty-third.

John Milllkcn: Twenty-fourth, James A. William Jennings Bryan has had thous BEATEN BY A POLICEMAN 15 pieces all pure Linen Cream Table fX I (fiPflS Damask, full wide; were 1 IC BABY ONE SUFFERER ands of children named in his honor, per haps, but until Monday night he doubt a yard, now. Thomas McCoy and Anthony Pitts Expects to Find a Home in St. Charles, but if Necessary Will Resume Work in the Fields. Without a penny for food or lodging, and refusing to accept proffered money and railroad transportation, Mrs.

Edna Bower started Tuesday morning t3 walk to the home of her sister in St. Charles, as the had walked to this city from Louisville, Kentucky. After one night's rest from her long tramp to this city.Mrs. Bower started out Tuesday morning. The police officials offered her money for the needs ol her Journey, and promised to provide for her rail less never had three babies of the same parentage named after him.

Today there 100 Large Size Japanese Folding Fans, Fans Told in an Interesting Story in Judge Wislizenus' Court. is William, and there Is Jennings and thero lace stick, parchment paper, carved ana spangled, the regular prices were lc, 25c and 35c each; your choice at. each is Bryan, all born In St. Louis at 5152 San NEIGHBORHOOD QUARREL SERIOUS TO A LITTLE ONE. Francisco avenue.

Thomas McCoy of 914 Petnrose street thinks the night of Aug. 6 will live in his They came Into the wrorld the same night memory a long time. Neither will he forget a tall gentleman and all of them are the children of Mr. and F. L.

Taylor. Hosiery -Ladies' Imported French Lisle Thread Hose, high-spliced heels and toes and fine cotton boot patterns; sizes a little broken; were 35c, now ONE WOMAN LOST CLOTHING. dressea in blue uniform and sporting a William and Jennings each weighed five fierce sorrel mustache, who is the cause of road ticket if she would wait a few hours, 19c 10c 10c pounds at 3 a. m. Tuesday.

Bryan weighed rive and one-half pounds. McCoy bitter reflections. but she declared that she was ashamed of 800 Ladies' and Children's Leather and En route to the home of his sweetheart, ur. Garonne a. hklnner of 2629 Cass ave Beits nue, who attended Mrs.

Tavlor. takes a whom he had not seen for two moons, was Mr. McCoy Monday night, when he met his the scant charity she had already accepted in taking a day's board and a night's lodging at the Four Courts, and was determined to be the recipient of no more iavora of this sort. pride in these babies, which she has never has occasion to take In anv other aroun friend. Anthony I'itts.

Elastic Belts, all colors and styles, regular price 50c, 75c, $1, 1.25; your choice -Pure Castile oap. green and white, worth 25c a bar, at, per bar of youngsters. "They are fat boys," she says, "and they are lustv and everv one Togethre they adjourned to a soda fountain and after consuming several orange phosphates McCoy bade his companion I can walk to St. Charles." said Mrs. Bower, "and it will be nothing compared Soap of them is going to grow up and they ought to coming to St.

Louis on foot. If it is necessary I can work in tne harvest neia. come to renown. Healthier triplets or their years I mean of their hours were never seen. No babies: ever born in St.

good-by and resumed his journey. Near Hanaman's station he met Pitts again, but thla time they didn't patronize anv prohibition eluhroom. as I did when coming nere rrom is.e.i- Louis will be given better care or closer tucky. I will not take any more charity "Do have something." insisted Mac's attention than will this notable trio." from the city. Mrs.

Victor "Whiteside of St. Charles is friend. But McCoy said "No," that his Mrs. Taylor is declared strong and in Oorinan; Twenty-fifth. F.

A. J. Heller; Twenty-eight Thomas A. Koe. The pli.tforin In full is as fll.ovs: litnl, Thnt the I leiiio.T.its of the Twelfth IMftrirt of Ml4oni ufiirm their I li jrijim-e t.i Wi-tiHfiTat If priiii'ip a ns set forth 111 liie jrlil I form lll.t.'I wt tin litnuo-i-rtit t'i'itvftitinn.

held KnnjiH 'itr, mi1 tlie Jiir.i mount Issue of the iliiv is the pieservrti ion nn.l perpetuation of the repuh liy our folvfathirs. do hereiiy Invite the of every voter cjiHieil to mi.l Thnt In common with the file of the vnly, we that of the Interior waterways shall no lorr.r be aubTrillnate to the claim of wait. mi.l harlNtrn und ileimill.l amp f.r lie Improvement of the rivrr. we drmin.l stt.h lesrlslntion as to over the river as will jrive f.i.-EIi to hut prevent ri in 1 ii itioii an to cities or ami we dorian I Rll infill of the l.tws as to lirii'-'e. i-riirtnl.

Heaolvetl. That we our best efforts to nnj.ort nml carry to a the Woi Id's I'uir to he held In the cltv of St. Louis in a. The most notable pledge made by Mr. Butler in his speech of acceptance was his promise to do all in his power to destroy the bridge monopoly at St.

Louis and to benefit St. Ixitifs shippers by encouging the bulld-inp of more bridges here. He said he stood squarely on the Kansas City platform and pledged his support to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 100 pieces Black Lace Lawn, Grenadine Lawns fffccj; rcguiar -5c Saie pricc Mg Ladies' Rough Straw Sailor -g lllinery Hats, whiteonly; were 49o, the sister at whose home Mrs. Bower hopes to find a welcome and rest iftor her long good health by the doctor and the father says that he is so puffed up with pride that he has taken on weight.

journey. She was four weeks on the road from Louisville to this city, and arrived at airs, tayior was formerly Mrs. Ella In- Story of the Melee Brought Out in Police Court Upon Complaint of a 13-Year-01d Girl. Mrs. Belle Miller and her stepdaughters.

Pearl and Lillie Hlghley of 112S South Eleventh street, were in the First District Police Court AVednesday morning to answer to charges of having disturbed the nea'ce preferred by Annie Jobe, aged 13, 1121 South Thirteenth street. The testimony brought out a story of an unusual tight, in the course of which a baby was thrown from its carriage and one of the belligerents was almost denuded. Annie Jobe said that July 24 she was wheeling her little sister in a buggy in front of Mrs. Miller's home. There had been a feud of long standing between the Jobe and Miller families, she said, because of the Millers' propensity for borrowing articles of household necessitv.

War was declared when Mrs. Miller attempted to borrow the Jobes' Ironing board She said that when she passed Mrs. nouse ''ay of the conflict Mrs Miller ran out and slapped her. The babv buggy was turned over and the baby thrown out. Mrs.

Miller's the Four Courts Monday exhausted, foot man of Louisiana. where she was born and grew to womanhood. Before her sore and ragged. All of our Sliding Screens Screens HAD WEAKENED THE POISON. will be closed out at 19c 19c Ladies' French Lisle Thread Vests, Lovesick George Ventress of Alton Underwear low neck, silk ribbon in neck and arms; white only; were 50c, "lady" wouldn't stand for him going to her house with the scent of hops or corn juice on his lips While debating the question a Broadway-car came along and I'itts made some remark to the motorman.

The merits of the controversy are in dispute, but it is of record that there was a lively scrimmage between the motorman and conductor on one side anil and Pitts on the other. Someone turned in a riot call and the police hurried to the scene from the Angelica street station. McCoy was in custody when the gendarme walked tip and. according to McCoy's story, told in the Second District Police Court Tuesday morning, struck him several vicious blows in the face. McCoy fell in the street and he testified that the policeman still continued to beat hint as he lay upon the ground.

McCoy and Pitts were each charged with disturoing the peace. McCoy's two eyes were closed and the officer who made the arre-U says he hasn't any idea of the Identity of the policeman who did the damage. Judge Wislizenus was deeply impressed with McCoy's story and he was allowed to go free Pitts was granted tht same Failed to ifind Surcease in Diluted Carbolic Acid. -Choice of all Boys' and Youths' Choice of all Boys and ouths mm BOYS HatS Straw Hats, worth up to 75c, (j You will find me in one of word to mr girl. So U.

W. V. first marriage she was Miss Cheeley. At the age of 34 she is the proud mother of seven children, all oftwhom were stout and healthy when born. Mrs.

Pearl Bee-lek, neo Inman, a daughter of Mrs. Taylor, resides at 5150 San Francisco avenue. In the residence adjoining her mother One of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, a boy, died at the age of 21 months, of membranous croup, but up to the time of fatal Illness from the disease peculiar to children he is declared to have been as lusty as any babe.

Mr. Taylor is the St. Louis representative of the map publishing house of Rand-Mc-Nally of Chicago. He was for years a resident of Belleville, 111., and removed to St. Louis with his wife only three years ago.

Mr. Taylor is 36 years old. Pictures of the Wllliams-Jennlngs-Bryan triplets will be taken as soon as the mother can be present, and an enlarged crayon picture will be sent to the political leader in whose footsteps their father hopes to lead them. The children will be christened during one of Mr. Bryan's campaign visits to St.

Louis, and it is hoped that his time can be so arranged that he may be the babies' godfather. Dear Frank: the iiathruoms. good-by. VH WILL CUT OUR REFRIGER Refrigerators off. After hearing all the evidence Judge Mdener gave the defendants the benefit of ATORS to ONE-HALF their Actual Value for lO-DAY ONLY.

Frank Bauer, the proprietor of a barber tne uouut and discharged them. shop at 305 Belle street, Alton, found this note pinned upon one of the chairs In his -Ladies' Vici Kid. Dongola Lace, with kid or patent Shoes SHOT BV A CAR CONDUCTOR leather tips, or hand-sewed soles. In shop when he came down to work it 7 this lot you ill find some Patent leather i o'clock Tuesday morning. -(The note was $1.98 Shoes: also Tan and Chocolate shades; not a pair above from Oeorge entress, a youth of 20 years.

Young Fred Benson Wounded in the worth less than $3.00 and up to $1.00 a pair; your choice1 Leg, but Declines to Prosecuta employed as an apprentice at the shop. Mr. Bauer went to the bath rooms and on the floor of one of the compartments he found Ventress In a violent spasm. His Assailant. 4.4.

V. I Half Rates Mountain Lake Park, Md and Return. "The Paradise of the Mountains," feet above sea level. Mountain Chautauqua. On main line of the B.

R. R. Tickets good returning until Aug. 31st. Full information at B.

O. S-W. offices, Broadway and Locust street. Dr. Waldo Fisher was summoned and he treated the youth and removed him to IROM St.

Joseph's Hospital. BRADY HELD FOR GRANDJURY Ventress had taken carbolic acid, but he DEATH OF A CUBAN WOMAN. Mrs. Orphelia Eaves, Wife of a Soldier had diluted the dose with water until it was too weak to kill him. Dr.

Fisher THE CALEBPOWERS TRIAL State Auditor Will Be Required Bring His Books Into Court to Rebut Testimony of Ex-Auditor. GKORtJIJTOWN. Aug. 7. The prosecution in the Powers case today was granted a suhpi-na duces tecum on State Auditor Coulter, requiring him to bring his records into court.

This is done to contradict the testimony of ex-Auditor Sam Stone, who testified that he discharged W. H. Culton in December and charged him with stealing tloixi. The prosecution expects to show bv the record that Culton was paid his salary in both December unil January, and bv other witnesses to prove that since that dale Stone recommended Culton to various people us being entirely trustworthy. The defense asked anil was granted a forthwith ttachment against E.

E. Hogg, Culton a broiher-in-la and attorney, who had been subpenued, for failure to appear as a witness. W. J. Iewis of Frankfort was the first witness heard today.

He said Ooebel fell at least ten feet fram the spot marked by the prosecution as the point. Oeorge Barnes, who was a clerk in the state auditor's office, said that on the day oi the shooting he was at the capitol Riminils and heard several persons say the guilty parties were being concealed in the executive building and It ought to be blown Hot Springs, Arkansas, Coroner's Veidict on the Killing of says he will recover. Ventress is a son of William Ventress, a James Spionel Was Simply a tinner at Alton. A -eek ago he told the Potash Sulphur Water, Th. Water men at the shop that "his girl had quit Bet lar him." Finding of Homicide.

A verdict of himlclde was rendered morning: by the coroner's jury Impan RESULTS OF CARROLL BILL STOMACH, LIVER, KIDNEY or BLADDER. uemg snot in the leg Fred Benson, aged 19, of I.a Salle street, refused to prosecute his assailant, a conductor on the Park avenue line of the transit com-pt y. Benson was found in the street at and Park avenues by the police late Monday night. He was taken to the City Dispensary and from there to his home According to his statement he became engaged in a quarrel with a conductor on an east bound car about a subject which he declined to state and he was thrown off the car. immediately after ejecting him the youth said, the conductor fired three limes at him with a revolver, striking him once in the fleshy part of the left leg and crippling him.

The car, he says, then speeded away and he was left lying in the street suffering until the police came. Benson declares that he does not know the name of the conductor who shot him He explained that his reason for asking the police to make no investigation and for declining to prosecute was that his mother vouul object to any publicity regarding him in the police courts. Nevertheless officers from the Soulard street station are looking for the Notice to Commission Houses and a It poses tbe greatest solrent poww of LIGHT COMPANIES PROTEST They Object to the Seckner Contracting Co. Using Their Poles for Its Wires. Representatives of all the lighting companies in the city except the Imperial appeared before the Board of Public Improvements Tuesday morning to protest against the use of their poles by the Seckner Contracting the holder of the contract for downtown electric lighting for lu years after Sept.

1. The protest was referred to the committee on city lighting. The trouble was caused by the request of the Seckner company for a permit to place its wires on the poles of the other companies. ny wster known, la -gallon battles. New BLU of Fare at All the City Institutions.

Assistant Street Commissioner Hemen- of. the 8th Illinois, Passed Away at St. Mary's Hospital. The last chapter of a sad story was written at St. Mary's Hospital inEast St.

Louis Monday night, when Orphelia Eaves, aged 20, by birth a Cuban, by choice the bride of an American soldier, by fata a most unhappy woman, breathed her last. Orphelia Mahalla was a pretty Cuban girl when I'ncle Sam's boys in blue drove the Spaniards from the island. She met Eaves, who Is a mulatto, and It was a case of love at first sight. When the Eighth Illinois, to which company Eaves belonged, was sent back to the I'nited States Orphelia followed her soldier lover, and they came together to East St. Louis.

He was not a model husband, and the police records show that he was arrested for beating the girl who had given up her southern home to follow him over the sea. She was taken dangerously 111 as maternity drew on and was taken to St. Mary's Hospital for treatment. It became necessary to perform an operation and r. Waaacatk, wey notified the rnira street commission Hiz Veallnn bottles dn.

livored to any part of tlia city for Si. net. Order br mail or telepbon. Out-of-tow orders fillea at above price. houses Tuesday morning that the refuse which they have been accustomed to eled to hear the evidence oil the killing of James Sprouel by John Thomas Hrady In I'at Manley's saloon on t'hustnut Mrcet Hrady was held to await the action of the grandjury.

Those who testified were evewitnense of the shooting, which occurred night. The friends of the dead negro and a larage number of cur'ous spectators were present. Hrady looked collected. If not cool, and heard the verdict with lndifler-ence. Charles AVells, one of witnesses, was a deaf mute, and his testimony bad to I taken by means of a pencil and a tai-lel.

John Campion, colored, dil id that the dead man had asked him for the loan of a revolver. The other witnesses were Mamie Sheehan, Helle Brooks, Llcbi Sudduth, Charles Milan and Officers Noonan and IHinden. The verdict stated stmplv that the deceased came to his death by a gunshot wound from a revolver the hands of Hrady. and the case wis declared to be one of homicide. enrieu rut mini throw in the streets and which the rtreet cleaners have taken up.

must hereafter be deposited in barrels and will be taken up as garbage by Col. Butler's wagons. WATER DEPOT, I003 Pine Street. St. Louis.

Within the past five years 4S0.000 stands of rifles have been exported from Germany to Chfjia. Sanitary Officer Francis l.as given his sanction to this order, which was the only tip. jtarnes said that arter he went hack Into the executive building, he smelled Miioke, which he supposed was the result of the shots. He saw Whit taker arrested by a party of citizens. They took several pistols from him.

Prior to the assassination witness saw a Marlin rifle in the vault at the auditor's office. It formerly belonged to Henry Voutsey. but at the. "time of the shooting it belonged to Frank Roberts who has since been appointed a clerk in til- census bureau at Washington. He docs not know where the rifle Is now.

Witness talked with Roberts about the disappearance of the gun. but the court ruled that he could not detail the conversation, neither Powers nor Voutsey being present when the conversation occurred. means of cleaning the streets in this neigh though everything was done to save her she died Monday night and will be laid to rest in the city cemetery at East Si Louis $0.00 to New York via Clover Leaf Route. Cafe service on all trains. Ticket office Suo Olive street.

MSB beside her Infant, who also died TO HELP LONDON MARKET. Why Some cf the British Loan Was Placed in America. LONDON. Aug. 7.

In the House of Com Half rate Indianapolis and return, Bryan notification, going 7th and Rth, return Aug. 9. Vandalia Line. It Touched Her. Frnm T11 Bit mons today the chancellor of the exchequer.

"AZELL NOMINATED FOR JUDGE .11 Fill Jm'ge Robinson's Place Fend infr Election. Sperlnl to th HlM.iit.-h. KKFKRHON CITY. -Lieutenant and Acting tjovcroor It. this morning appointed Hon.

James Maxell California. Moniteau County. of this, the Fourteenth Judicial circuit of Missouri, to fill the vacancy causi I ll.it death of Judge T. It. Mr.

Ham II Is th Democratic nominee for Judge of thU circuit. Sir Michael lllcks-Heach. was asked the borhood after the shutting down of Mret cleaning work. Hereafter the commission men will be left at the mercy cf the garbage wagons. Dr.

K. C. Runge. superintendent of the city insane asylum, reported at the office of the health department Tuesday morning that he had placed In effect at that Institution a cut scale of table supplies by means of which he will try to keep within the reduced appropriation for food of patients provided in the Carroll bill. Heretofore patients have been given but- ter.

syrup and milk at breakfast and supper. Now syrup will be furnished at the morning meal and butter and milk in the evening. Instead of the former alternation between different varieties of meat, only beef will be hereafter provided for the noon meal. Less sugar, salt and coffee are to be purchased, and the patients will be given a charce to reduce their weight. A considerable saving.

Dr. Kunge thinks, can thus be made. reason for the early closing of subscriptions I want mr Fxeite.J n). tody ill the telephone! YELLOWSTONE PARK AFLAME Soldiers and Boad Constructors righting Spread and Wild Animals Have Fled Fr3tn All Devouring Fire. HELENA.

Mont Aug. 7 The big fire that Is in Yellowstone National Park is being fought by every soldier in the park and all the men engaged in road construction work. Deputy IT. S. Marsha! Jackson, who has returned from there and who reported the fire, said that when he left it was reported that the tire had extended for a distance of ten miles and was still spreading.

Men who have been In the park for years said that It was the worst they had ever nln. nt nit' e. Vol ifrini the firhmii'i Numtir. F.x-ltel I1t uiwpi'lshlyi: Only the fmirib. oil Imjitiilent fMn.

ror exeneiiuer nouns. I ne cnanceilor saiil the lists were closed as soon as the bonds had been subscribed for. He had received an offer from an Anglo-American house to place half the Issue in America on the same condltioiiN as issued here. Tills, he added, assured the success of the loan. Hut there was another reason.

Last Thursday the reserve of the Hank of Lngland stood at the lowest point for years, and he was advised that great relief might be afforded here by the movement of gold from the Initid Stat If a large pifrt of this loan was taken there. A PECULIAR DAMAGE SUIT Thomas Duffy, While Driving a Cart in a Womhouse Train, Was Injured by a Street Car. Thomas It. Puffy wants J'juvi damages from the St. Lois Transit Co.

for personal Injuries, which he claims he received in a peculiar way. According to his petition, he was driving a cart In the regular workhouse train Julv His cart was No. 7, and the pcf, n't the train was regulated by the speed of the head cart He was compelled to go as fast as the first enrt and to move when it moved As a consequence, he says, he was required to drive his cart on the track of lh defendant, directly in front of a rapidlv Hpproaehlng car. His cart was struck and DR. SAXDEN'S ELECTRIC BELT i HE WARNED THE NEIGHBORS seen.

Deer and elk have been driven out. of the fire area by the flames Buildings iOn 30 Days' I in in upper i.eyser basin are in danger. I lc the dense timber region everything is unusually dry and winds are carrying the i h. was Injured tnames wnn great rapidity. In Marshal it i Jackson opinion it will lie Impossible lor It Is claimed bv the plaintiff that was Incumbent upon the defendant to stop the force engaged to make any headway against the tire.

Its car until the whole train had passed Finest Trial "Big Four Route" to Cincinnati. crvice. track and equipment. IN HONOR OF W. L.CASSIDY.

Resolutions cf Respect Passed by ths Livestock Exchange. A meeting of the National Stockyards Kxchange was called st 2 p. m. on Tuesday to pass resolutions on the death of W. L.

Cassidy. who was the first president of the exchange, in tssfi. and who was twice elected to the office. W. 11.

Stickney. president of the exchange, called the meeting to order and a committee, composed of A. T. Atwater. II.

F. Parry and U. J. Hroderlck! drafted lengthy resolutions of respect and sympathy for the bereaved relatives. A handsome floral emblem was selected by the exchange ann the following gentlemen selected honorary pallliearers: W.

Broderick. Samuel Sea' ng. C. M. Kevs.

B. Overstreet. T. Daniels and it. II.

Mann. PATTERSON USTICK TRIAL That ordinary treatment fails to relieve painful periods They know Lydia Em Pink" ham's Vegetable Compound will and does and has, more than any other medicinem Every woman knows about Kirs. Pinkham's medicine Every woman knows some woman Pink-ham has cured. But nine vomsn cut of ten put off getting this reliable remedy until their health is nearly wrecked by experiments or neglect! Then they write to Mrs Pinkham and she cures them, but of course it takes longer to do so Don't delay getting help It you are sick Sho has helped a million women Why not you 7 Court Inquiry Into the Conduct of St. I SAD PLIGHT OF THE BOERS Dynamiting of a Car on the taine L-nr Preceded a Notice to Keep Away.

The dynamiting of a car on the Bellefon-taine line Monday niltht was followed Tuesday mornlns: by statements from several persons living in the neighborhood of 3W North Kleventh street, where the explosion tend'rg to show that the man hn placed the dynamite on the track did his best to warn the neighbors to keep out of the way. U. R. fohlman of Ssos North Eighth street that he was approached shortly be-lore the explosion by a man, aged about 3a years, with sandy complexion and 11k clothes, and about 5 feet 10 Inchen tall. drlvinK a bay horse.

The man drove east on Salisbury after warning Mr. F'ohlman against going near the track of the Belle-fontalne line Mrs. Jeff Shlnkle and Mm. Robert Hoffmann, neighbors at and North Kleventh street, mate that they received a similar warning from a man who, as they remember, was 5 feet 7 Inches tall and weighed about ITS pounds, wan of a dark Mr famous Electric Belt, Mo4cK given en SO days' trtal. It makra WEAK MEN Louis Woman Will Probably Ise Postponed.

Fiwlal to lh Pout HipiK-h. C1I1CAOO. Aug 7 -The case of Mrs. Sue L. i'stlck of St.

Louis and Arthur Wallie Patterson, who were arrested In a Wabash venue flat lust week, comes up this afternoon In a Justice court It is understood that a continuance will be taken. atroi by overcoming- tha efferta ct youthful error attachment Halt worn by botft n.n anl women for rheum it m. lan I I 1 tack. All any burntna any burntr tt coyrtni, pfavenlinar Kit her wrlr t-day or drop a n.y Claimed Thit the Commandoes Are Greatly deduced and the Burghers Divided Into Two Parties. LONDON.

Aug. 7. -A Lourenzo Marques correspondent of the Dally Telegraph states that a Frenchman has Just returned from the Boer frontier and confirms the telegrams which have been received during the last few days describing the pitiable character of the Boer position. (Jen. Botha's commando, originally 7V, now consist of fi3.

and other commandoes have been reduced in like proportion owing to desertions. The remaining burghers have divided Into two parties, one for peace and the other for war. The peace party is the stronger. cfTW for free eonauliat'on. Kery or.

kniwa tha Ir Banirn Beit to FURNACES GO OUT OF BLAST. Order to Be Issued That Will Affect 8000 Men. ri.KVKI.AXI. Aug. 7 -At a meeting today It was decided that all the Bessemer Iron blast furnaces In the country, with the exception of the Brown-Mill and Andrew s-Hltchco-k furnaces, ill go out of blast on Sept.

1. The drop In the prh-e of the product and the condition of the market Is the cause for the actlou. About SWU men will be affected. ba th beat In th world Tak nt substitutes. Cur youra an 1 ray o.

ftarward. Writ or ca.l t-day. i KAXE-M AKK. Put-in-Bay and Return, Via Clover I-af Route. Iist excursion of the season.

Ticket office 505 Olive street. Standard Oil Dividend. NEW YORK. Aug 7 -The directors of the Standnrd oil Co. of New Jersey have declared a dividend of per share, payable Sept.

is. In Juno 10 cent wai distributed Jul in March 20 Ler cent. I complexion and wore dark clothes. lDR. F.

A. SANDEN, 407 N. Broadway, St. LouU, Mo. Uih litu orricB bocks.

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i-t. wed ad sat. cntil r. u. The car.

o. 777 of the Heiierontalne line, which was In charge of James Allen, conductor, and Charles Kelly, motorman. was damaged to the extend of S50, but no person was Injured. i.