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''y-- S'- 'V' iT REPlJiMCAft: Ummet Co. Republican JiSTHERVILLE, IOWA. JENKINS NICHOLS, PUBLISHERS 8f ATE OF OKLAHOMA YTS CITIZENS GRESS FOR PETITION CON- ADMISSION. Over a Thousand Delegates Attended the Statehood Convention at Form a Tin Plate Combine. Oklahoma Would Come In.

KINGFISHER, Oklahoma: The inter- partisan statehood convention brought a thousand delegates and other interested persons to Kingfisher. The convention was wholly harmonious and adopted ananimously a resolut on petitioning the present congress to pass an enabling act providing for the admission of Oklahoma a state. The resolution petitions for statehood with such boundaries as congress may direct, with the simple recommendation that if Indian territory be in- eluded the residents in each of the five civilized tribes and Oklahoma vote separately upon the acceptance or rejection of the state constitution, which shall be oper- for such said sections as accept it. CHINAMEN BADLY BEATEN. Hew York Lanndrymen's Strike Makes Work for the Police.

NEW YORK: Several hundred laundry- Ben are on a strike in this city. John Bitterman. proprietor of tbe Walker Street laundry, put twenty Chinamen to work to his; shop. The strikers sent a committee to protest to Tom Lee, "mayor of Chinatown," and also sent a number of KM strikers to ask the "unfair" Chinamen fit stop working, but all in vain. The Strikers having obtained a permit from the chief of police had a parade.

More than thousand men, women and girls in tQe parade and there was a band of ten pieces. As tbe Chinamen left BiHerman's shop Friday night, fifty men, friends of the boners, lay in wait for them In doorways near by. The Chinamen were taken unawares and received severe punishment. Most of them were cut about the head and had their eyes blackened. TO FORM PLATE COMBINE Meeting with This Object to Be Held in Pittsburg This Week.

A committee of tin plate manufacturers of tbe United if ill attend a meeting of the Tin Plate Association in Pittsburg in a few days. 'The committee will report on the prospects Cor pooling the tin plate industry of the country. Meetings have bean held during the last six weeks at Columbus, Ohio, Chicago and Pittsburg. The committee is in New York trying to organize a syndicate to back the combination. The plan is to organize all the American tin plate companies under one general management, as was done in the wire trade.

There are 302 tin plate mills completed or contracted for in the United States. NEW PARTY BORN. PeoptoV Party Conference Bt. Lonla Forms a New Organtmatlon. ST.

Lotns: A ndw, party was bom Thursday night in the conference of the Populists and named the People's party. The People's party proposetfto go it alone. It has severed alt connection with the national Populist committee and made all arrangements for administering its own estate without tbe aid or advice of any out side With a few exceptions the delegates declared themselves unequivocally in favoi of going it alone in the future. The referendum system was most highly complimented and recommended for use among the "middle of the readers" in settling matters of national importance to the order, and there was a practical agreement among the delegates that a national presidential convention should be held this year. The entire forenoon and evening was spent in lengthy discussions and it was not until a late hour at night that the mode of procedure for future action was agreed upon.

A number of rules were adopted for government of the national organization committee, among them a rule that the national committee shall submit to a vote of the People's party any proposition, when petitioned to do so by not less than 10,000 members of the party. This concluded the work of the conference. There were seventy-four members of the committee represented by the members present or by proxies or letters, who favored a joint meeting of the national committee and organization committee in the spring. Forty states were reported at this meeting. STAMPS FOR THE EXPOSITION Series Will Be Issued Illustrative of the Trans-Mississippi Country.

WASHINGTON: The authorities of the postoffioe department have determined upon the subjects which shall be Illustrated upon tbe new series of postage stamps to be issued by the department in commemoration of the Trans-Mississippi and International exposition to be opened on the first of next June at Omaba. They are illustrative of the conditions, progress and accomplishments of the great west from its discovery to our own day. The series comprises nine denominations of stamps as follows: One discovery of the Mississippi River by Marquette. Two Indian chief. Four buffalo hunting scene.

Five Pathfinder, being a picture of Fremont raising the flag on the summit of the Rockies. Eight train of emigrants crossing the plains. Ten mining scene. Fitly cowboy and cattle. harvesting scene or a great flouring mill.

Two Union Pacific bridge, showing a part of the city of Omaha. PULLMAN' ESTATE. B. THINKS IT IS A NEW METAL. JSdtaon Makes a Discovery Which May Cheapen Malleable Iron.

NEW YORK: Thomas A. Edison has accidentally discovered what he believe! to be a new metal which will do awaj with the slow and costly process of making malleable iron. Exhaustive experiments will bo made, and if successful it is promised full details will be given to the public. It is claimed that after a lot of iron is run through the magnetic ore separating mill the "pig" was taken from the blast furnace as nsual to be cooled and broken up. The lot in question proved refractory, the "pig" resisting all effort! of men with heavy sledges to break them The fact was submitted to chemists and the theory formed that there was some' hitherto unknown substance in the iron used and this is believed to be a new metal COFFEE PRICES CUT AGAIN.

Warm War Between the- Arbucklei and Sugar Trust People. YORK: As the Arbnckle sugar refinery in Brooklyn approaches completion the war of the sugar trust people upon the coffee trade of the Arbuckles grows hotter Last week the Arbuckles dispatched an agent to Europe to contract for raw sugars, and Wednesday the Woolson Spice big coffee plant acquired by Havemeyer to carry on the the price of roasted coffee a half cent a pound. This "cut," like all others thai have preceded it, was promptly met bythe Arbuokles. This brings the price of roasted coffee at wholesale down to 8Jtf cents a pound, as against 15 cents December Id, 1896, when the Havemeyers acquired the Woolson plant and began the fight. NOVEL WAR IN DENVER.

Department Stores Try to Force Newspapers to Cut Rates. DENVER: Extraordinary contests have been started In this city between all of the daily papers on the one side and fourteen of the largest department stores in the city on the other. Last week the business managers of the dailies were informed that the department stores had combined and decided that advertising rates must be reduced about 20 per the stores in the combination controlling about one-half of the regular city advertising. The newspapers declined to accede to this autocratic order for business reasons, and decided to maintain the independence of the press. A Strike Seems Likely.

NEW BEDFORD, Apparently a strike in the cloth mills next week can only be averted by withdrawing the notices of the 10 per cent, reduction posted in the mills December 81. The spinners have voted to 4 in favor of resistance to the reduction. The weavers' representatives claim they will ratify their previous informal determination to strike. IT IS GOV. SH1W SOW BECAME GOVERNOR OF ON THURSDAY.

IOWA Inaugural Ceremonies Take Place in the Rotunda of the Capitol at Des Molnes Occasion Witnessed by a Large Crowd. Iowa's New Governor. Leslie M. Shaw on Thursday took the oath of office at Des Moines and was made chief executive of the state of Iowa. The occasion was witnessed by a crowd that packed the rotunda of the state house, from the temporary platform, erected untier the great dome, to the doors.

Headed by a platoon of police, it formed at tbe Savory House and moved through the principal streets of the city to the state house. Following the minions of the law eimethe incumbent executive and his successor, with their families, in carriages, the retiring lieutenant governor and his successor, the speaker of the house, judges of the supreme court and state officers, the entire party occupying a long line of carriages. The two local companies of the national guard acted as a military escort to tbe governor's party. The parade was very imposing and moved in Rood order to the capitol, where the dignitaries were ushered to seats on tlte great platform. Throughout the ceremony good order was maintained, and the words of the retiring executive and his successor were audible to nearly all present.

At the conclusion of Gov. Drake's retiring address the oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Deemer to Mr. Shaw. He proceeded at once to deliver his inaugural address as governor of Iowa. Ways and of of Polk.

of Carroll. ot Washington. Cities and of Suppression of Intemperance Porrln of Chlckataw. Congressional and Jsdlclal of Delaware. of Franklin.

Constitutional Amendmends and Suffrage- Rlancliard of Mahaska. of Butler. of Allamakoe. of Lucas. Building and of Montgomery, Mines and of Davis.

of Linn. Senatorial and Representative Districts-Lothrop of Woodbury. of Adalr Compensation of Public of Cherokee. Public of Marlon. Educational of Jones.

of Jefferson. of Marshall. Penitentiaries and ol Adams. of Dallas. Federal of Scott.

Charitable of Warren. of Fremont. of Boone. of Rlnggold. of Black Hawk.

Public of Fowestilek. of Sioux. Horticulture and of Hardln. of Webster. Public of Johnson.

Fish and of Des Moines. Engrossed of Humboldt Enrolled of Muscatlne. THfi HAWKElTE STATE FEAR A DEBATE ON CUBA. Congressmen See Danger in Fiery Speeches. WASHINGTON: The boose managers decided not to consider the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill Friday, but to give the day to the consideration of private pension bills.

This was doubtless done to avert the possibility of precipitating a sensational Cuban debate. Inflammatory speeches during the present critical state of affairs in Havana would, conservative leaders believe, be particularly unfortunate. Mr. Perkins of Iowa presented a resolution directing the director of the geological survey to prepare and have printed 40,000 copies of a map of Alaska, showing the most feasible rentes to tbe gold fields. Adopted.

For Good Roads. AtBAHT, N. There was introduced in the senate Friday a good roads bill which provides for the construction through each of the counties of tbe state of a macadam highway, which shall follow the leading market and travel routes. The expense ot the construction of such toads is to be borne by the state and the work is to be done under the direction of the state engineer. The only expense to the counties is the preparation of a detailed survey of the highway selected.

Separate Soboorlmw Void. GOTHBIE, Oklahoma: The supreme court has promulgated an opinion in which the separate school law, passed last winter,) making it a misdemeanor for a white ehijd'to attend a colored school, or a colored cnild to attend a white school, was declared null and void because of the ambiguity and of conflict with both the letter and the spirit of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, Lower Floor Rates. CHICAGO: The Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul road has telegraphed to the Inter- State Commerce Commission that it will make a proportional rate of 0 cents from Ht, Paul to Chicago on flour and mill consigned to eastern territory. This a reduction of 4 cents.

Have Voted to Strike. KJEW BEDFOBD, The Weavers' Union has rejected tbe offer of Richard Darry of the state board of arbitration, to over the difficulties. The loom carders and pickers associations and tenders have unanimously voted strike. A Louisville Fire, IkomaviLi.x: Fire Thursday night in tbtploir iactory of B. F.

A Sons dldljabont $76,000 worth, of damage. The carnage; was sufficient, however, to MOM a suspension of operations. The lolly covered by insurance. IPO Ont of Tobacco Combine. 8 1 Itome: All negotiations between the two Wg tobacco factories of tbiscity 'an4 the American Tobacco off and tfcere be no consolidation, so it Mated by the officers of the Leggitt A and the Drumnioud Throw Botnba.

According to a dispatch from the Bosnian embassy has with bomb outrages, "un- witndraws her opposition to i of tlte condition of tbe inventory Filed by Executors N. Ream and Robert Lincoln. CHICAGO: An inventory of the estate of tbe late Geo. M. Pullman was (iled in the probate court Friday by Norman B.

Ream and Robert T. Lincoln, executors. The inventory lists tho real estate and personal property of the deceased, though il places no valuation on the former and gives only the par value of the securities which form the major portion of the trust According to the estimates given at tht time the will was filed the real estate worth $200,000 and the personal estate As carefnl an estimate as could be made in the short time, of Mr. Pullman's and bond holdings shows them to be close to $8,000,000. This estimate is based on the present market value of the holdings There is, however, a large amount of securities on which no estimate could be made.

The real estate is estimated bj good judges to be worth not far from $2,000,000, and over that.amount rather than under. Says OO.OOO Have Perished. JACKSON, Advices from Maj. George L. Donald of Mississippi, now in Cuba, on whose information the state senate passed a strong resolution, say thut 90,000 persons have perished by starvation in the province of Banta Clara alone since January 1,1897.

Maj. Donald says one cannot go twenty steps without some poor starving woman or child begging for something to eat, and that a person cannot sei down to a meal without being asked foi bread by starving children. Durrani's Body Cremated. Los ANGELES, The body of Murderer W. H.

T. Durrant was cremated at the crematory at Altadena Thursday. At 2 o'clock the ashes were removed from the furnace and delivered to the parents. No one saw the Inside of the crematory except the employes and the Durrants. Everything was done very quietly.

But few persons gathered outside and before the ashes were removed those few had dispersed. Receiver for a Street Railway. CINCINNATI: Judge Taft, in the United States court, on petition of the International Trust Company of New York ap- pointej William Christy of Akron, Ohio, receiver of the Zttuesvllle street railway and tbe Zauesvilte electric railway. The petitioner holds a mortgage for $175,000 on the street railway and one for $500,000 on the railway of the electric company. Tbe petitioner asks for foreclosure and sale.

Immense Cargo of Corton. The British steamship Ranza cleared for Bremen with 18,200 bales of cotton, weighing 8,903,865 pounds, and valued at $624.062. This is the largest cargo of cotton ever shipped from an Atlantic port and is over 7,000 bales more than was ever shipped from this port on any other vessel. Value of Foreign Commerce. NEW YOBK: The forthcoming annual report of the chamber of commerce for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1807.

will show the total value of foreign imports in 1896- W7 was $880,278,419. The total value of Domestic was $1,127,701,048 of amount New York is credited with $467,621,856. Three Killed. CENTRAL CITY, James Doyle, oseph Ferko and Andrew Westland were Instantly killed and Daniel Munday probably fatally hurt by a fall of rock in the Hidden Treasure mina at 'Hwo'mile's from'here. Bohemian Diet Reassembles.

PRAGUE: The Bohemian diet has reassembled. Police guarded the approaches to the house. At the close of the chief provincial marshal's opening address the members heartily cheered the empAror. Charge with Swindling. NEW YOBK: W.

F. Goerdes, a member of the consolidated stock and petroleum exchange of this city, is in jail, charged with having attempted to swindle the firm of William llawley members of the stock exchange, out of $18,000. Goerdes gave a worthless check to Hawley Co. in payment for 100 shares of Consolidated Gas stock. American Engines fur the Orient DUNKIBK, N.

The Brooks Locomotive Woms of this city has about completed a shipment of ninety-two cars of locomotives for Japan and Corea. Of this order thirty-two are for the imperial government railways of Japan, and four for the Seoul-Chemulpo Railway in Corea. Ready to Loan to China. LONDON: The Chinese loan negotiations are progressing. Great Brltian has informed China that she is willing to find the money required and the details are now being discussed.

The amount will probably be £20,000,000. For Fusion In Minnesota. MINNEAPOLIS: A fusion of all the silver elements in Minnesota was officially indorsed by the Democratic state central committee. Chairman Rosing made the announcement at the Jackson banquet. Railroad to the Klondike.

TACOMA, It Is definitely announced by A. C. Bratnober that the Rothschilds will build a railroad into the Yukon country over the Dalton trail. GREATEST OF COLONIZERS. Municipal League Convention.

NEW YOBK: The executive committee of the League of American Municipalities has decided to hold the next convention in Detroit on August 1 to 4, inclusive. Eighty Lives Lost. VICTOBIA, B.C.: Tho latest advices from the Orient say the Japanese transport steamer Nara was wrecked, December 24, and eighty lives lost. common to prime, $3.00 to hogs, shipping $3.00 to sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to No. 2 red, to 02c; corn, No.

2, 26q to 27c; oats, No. 2, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 46c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 19c to 21e; new potatoes, BOc to C5c per bushel. shipping, $3.00 to J5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to shueii, common to choice, $3-00 to wheat, No. 2, 90c to 02c; corn, No.

'2 white, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. St. $3.00 to hofn, $3.00 to sheep, $3.00 to wheat, No. 2, 93c to 95c; corn, No.

2 yellow, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25e; rye. No. 2, 44e-to 45c. $2.50 to hogs, $3.00 to sheep, $2.50 to wheat, No.

2, 02c to 93c; No. mixed, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 45c to 47c. Detroit-Cattle, $2.50 to hogs, $3.00 to $2.50 to wheat, No.

2, 90c to 92c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye, 47c to 49c. No. 2 90c to 02c; corn, No.

2 mixed, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 46c to 47c; clover seed, $3.05 to $3.15. No. 2 spring, 87c to 88c; corn, No.

3, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 4Cc to 47c; barley, No. 2, 38c to 44c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. $3.00 to hogs, $3.00 to sheep, $3.00 to Nj0, .2 red, ftfte tu IJSfc; corn, No.

2 yellow, Slo, to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to New $3.00 to hogs fS.OO to sheep, $3.00 to wheaVNb. 2 red, $1.01 to corn. No 2, 34c to S5c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c 80c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; egga.

to 22c. Tuesday, January 11. Tuesday's events in the legislature were the announcement by Speaker Funk of the house committees and.the delivery of Gov. Drake's message before stepping out of tbe executive office. The houses in joint Session canvassed the vote for governor and lieutenant governor at the late ejection.

On governor it was found tq be as follows; Shaw, Republican 224,729 White, Democrat 194,853 Lloyd, Populist 6,296 Leland, Prohibitionist 8,248 Cliggitt. Gold Democrat Kremer, Socialist Labor 876 Total Shaw's plurality 29,876 In the senate the question of having regular chaplains instead of special ones each day occupied all the time given (o business, being finally referred to a com mittee for settlement. The house took the first step toward getting at state finances by the presentation of a resolution by Mr. Carr of Polk, demanding of the auditor a detailed statement of the state debt and outstanding warrants, income and expenses for tbe past year. The following are the chairmen of the committees named by tho speaker: Ways and of Pottawattamle.

of I'olk. of Delaware. Railroads and of Franklin. Municipal of lianks and of Linn. of Greene.

Private of Powoshlek. Suppression of Houten of Taylor. Elections-Eaton of Mitchell. Constitutional of Emmet. of Butler.

Public of Allamakeo. Building and of Page. Compensation of Public of Wlnneshlek. Telegraph, Telephone and of Cerro Gordo. ot Polk.

Schools and Text of Calhoun. County and Township of Marshall. Roads and of Montgomery. Mines and of Boone. Animal of Madison.

Domestic of PotUwut- tamla. Soldiers' and Orphans' of Warren. of Buchanan. State of Johnson. Senatorial of Webster.

of Rlnggold. Normal of Black Hawk. of Muscatine. of Linn. Retrenchment and of Sioux.

of Mills. Woman of Buena Vista. of Louisa. Public Llbrarles-Hinkle of Wayne. of Henry.

Industrial of Jackson. Police of Adams. Fish and of Scott. Federal of Tama. Representative of Hamilton.

College for of Benton. Hospital for of Cherokee. Agricultural of Scott. Institute for Deaf and of Dallas. Institute for Feeble of Howard.

Board of Public of Keokuk. Engrossed of Congressional of Iowa. of Wapello. of Appanouse. Mnch of the Earth Owes Ita Settlement to the Finding of Gold.

It has been well said that gold Is the greatest of colonizers, and this has proved especially true in the last half of the present century. To what lone regions the footsteps of man were attracted In the earliest time by the discovery of gold we may not know, but within the memory of living men great regions of the earth's surface have owed their settlement and occupation solely to the finding, by search or accident, of a few shining particles in the earth, California was a remote and outlying province of Mexico, Inhabited by Indians, gathered in missions, or scattered abroad, and cattle barons and their dependents, visited by a few ships each year In search of a freight of hides, when the picking up of a few grains of gold in the banks of a mill race called the gold seekers from the four quarters of the earth and transformed a wilderness into a populous empire. Australia was a corner of the earth, selected on account of its remoteness from their former homes, as a place of banishment for British criminals, when the glram of gold illuminated it and filled distant harbors with sails and their shores with cities. South Africa might have remained forever a grassy waste, the home of savages contending with the Boers and the British for the possession of illimitable pastures, had not gold called the miner and those who follow him to build Johannesburg. DANGERS OF THE PIPE.

N6VVS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. tncaneMan Commits Murder-Stranae Epidemic Rbwdieis Fined for Charivari Shoots Hie Wife. Insane Man Rnns Amuck. An insane man named John W. Stone entered the shoe store of O.

Kahler in Des Moines, stepped up to Frank L. Kahler, son of the proprietor, and deliberately shot him in the abdomen, wounding him so that he died within an hour. He then turned on Clifford Childs, who took to his heels. The shot fired at him glanced off his shoe. The third victim was Harris, one of the partners of the firm, who was shot through the left arm.

Stone next ran toward Earl Smythe, a clerk in the store. Smythe dodged him, and while the maniac was trying to take aim, Smythe jumped on him and tried to disarm him. A desperate struggle ensued, in which two shots were fired, neither doing any damage. Smythe, assisted by others, succeeded in holding the murderer until the police cnme and took him away. Dnncombe is to have a grist mill.

Tania'8 water supply has been greatly improved. A tfew linseed oil mill is to be built at Burlington. the approved Sport Fatal to Man and Beast. Joseph Kern, living south of Luzerne, reports that a strange disease bos broken out among the cattle and hogs in his neighborhood and is causing the loss of thousands of dollars' worth of stock. Among the cattle the disease seems to be the most fatal to milch cows.

A cow belonging to John Figgs died of the malady. A few days later a son who had milked the animal experienced queer pains in the arms and legs, and in three days died in great agony. Mrs. Figgs, who nursed the boy, was taken down with the strange disease and hor life is despaired of. When the disease attacks a steer or a hog the animal turns black on the right side and the legs become paralyzed.

Rowdies at a Wedding. H. A. Mateon and his second cousin were married at Stanhope. After the ceremony about thirty young men gathered to charivari them.

The newly wedded couple did not respond as quickly with refreshments as it was thought they should, so the mob commenced to batter in the doors and break windows. Through one of the broken windows they threw the body of a polecat into the midst of the guests. Eighteen of the gang were arrested the next morninc, but owing to a technical mistake were dismissed. Later in the day four of them were arrested and immediately given a trial before a jury, which found them pruilty. Wednesday.

January 12. The legislature transacted practically business today in either branch. In the evening the joint Republican caucus was held, and the following nominations wore made by acclamation: For State.Printer—Freeman Conuway of Brooklyn, for a third term'. For State Young of Des Moines, for a third term. For Warden of the Fort Madison N.

Jones of Atlantic, for a tliirtl term, For Warden of the Anamoaa A. Hunter of Belte Plaine, elected on the first ballot. The nomination Mr. Hunter was made unanimous. Thursday; January 18.

At tbe conclusion of the inaugural the joint session'of tbe legislature adjourned, each house going back to its chamber. In the members of the last general assembly, over long sessions Lieut GoTTTarrplt bad presided, presented him a handsome gold watch, with the" Inscription: "Presented to Matt Parrott, Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, by tbe Members of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly, January 18,1898." Mr. Parrott, In response to an eloquent presentation speech by Senator thsuikwr the for shown him, and turned the gavel over to his successor, Lieut. Oov. Milllman.

Mr. Milliman briefly assured the senate of his anxiety to perform bis duties faithfully and fairly and for tbe best interests of the state, and proceeded to tUe announcement of The chairmen aret Blindness Frequently Caused by Kx- cessive Use of Tobacco. It Isn't the cigarette, but the work- lugman's pipe that poisons most, according to a writer in a medical Journal. The day laborer, who works out of doors and consumes great quanti tics of food and oxygen, has a stomach which is proof against the wiles of the strongest pipe. The cigarette smoker escapes because bis stomach gives out before his optic nerve is in danger.

Many a workingman finds his vision becoming impaired and lays it to the advance of age, when, in reality, the cause Is a pipe that is never cleaned, and black, juicy tobacco. The results are the impossibility of reading and the presence of a hazy cloud that Is extremely annoying. His central vision is so poor that he has to turn his head from side to side to use the outer parts of the retina. The man is sure that he can see better at night or at least the haziness is not so disagreeable then. Whisky so often Is a contributing cause that the physician frequently is at a loss whether to lay the impairment of vision most to alcohol pr to nicotine poisoning.

In the majority of cases stopping the use of tobacco and taking strychnine on prescription will improve the condition of sight, if It does uot restore the eye entirely to its normal state. Watch Geese. China Btlll uses two birds for special purposes, and shows no disposition to part with them. Duck-breeding on large scale is one of the Industries 01 the riverine population. The owners live In houseboats.

and every night the flockfl of ducks are driven home into floating pens for safety. la place of dogs the Chinese white goose, a domestic breed, not unlike a common goose, Is kept aa a watch neap the duck-pens. Is one of the moat wide- awake and Vociferous of birds apparently never sleeping, and uttering Its loud call when any person or animal approaches it. Mrs. Atkinson, when visiting the northern frontier' of China, found the mandarin In charge of the guard-post "playing" with, his watch- as If It a dog.

At Hampton Court; -wbejre a pair are kept, gander mounts, guard over all the ducks' nests' on thig side of the semicircular canal, and, if any one comes near the bank, sounds Its alarm incessantly. j.l in Italy. 'In Italy of apartments. In Vacant Apartments they have a Bovel advertising! vacant place of the inscribed "Boome," "To Let," or "To let," which adorns the windows of American houses, a white cloth, about the size of a napkin, flutters from tbe casement, intimating to the passer-by that the rooms can be rented. Aluminum Hats for Firemen, Portland's are spic and span in aluminum bats.

Lighter, stronger, and a protection against fall- Ing debris is what is claimed for Innovation A Question of Ownership. When Mayor Ray burn of Grinnoll dismissed the marshal on the occasion of the State convention for disobedience of orders, the firemen considered the action a reflection on tneir management, or conduct, and on the Mayor's refusal to reinstate him, the firemen disbanded as firemen, organized as elnb, sought and obtained other quarters, and removed the furniture, leaving hall as bare as a last year's bird's nest. A demand was made for the return of the Roods, but the custodians refused. Suit has been instituted. Prosecution Did Not Appear.

The seven prominent farmers arrested at West Point for complicity in the attempted white capping expedition which resulted in the shooting of Abe Balm, were to have had a hearing at but at the time the State did not appear against them and they were, Abe Balm is getting much better, and the chances for bis recovery are good. Shoots Hit Wife Four Times, Justice the Peace John McCowan went to the home of his wife at Bedford, shot her four times and fled. The woman died instantly. The couple separated for the third time weeks ago. They had twice been divorced, and three times married.

They had four children. Brief State Measles are reported at Carson. Greenville Is to have a creamery. The depot at Lacona was destroyed by fire. There is a great deal of scarlet fever about Arcadia.

A son of H. Selmiller of Blockton was drowned in the Platte. McGregor is now assured of the erection of an opera house. An independent oil tank line is to be established in Waterloo. A new bridge is to be built over the Iowa river in Louisa County.

A steel bridge has been placed over the Iowa river between Amaua and Homestead. Feeders In the vicinity of Marcus are paying several cents above the market price for corn. The house of Justice Horton at Agency burned, leaving the family in destitute circumstances. Mary Dickens has rendered a bill for $500 to the city of Dubuque for alleged personal Injurien, There are 220 men who draw $50 or over per month as pension through the Dos Moiues agency. A Dubuque man has made application to sink a mineral shaft on one of the streets of that city.

A brakeman named Green had his foot cut off or the depot at Centerville while making a coupling. The Government will be asked to make an appropriation for the purpose of keeping in repair the levee at Muscatine island. Page County fanners complain of the damage done to young stock by wolves that are numerous in the timbered parts of the county. Suit has been commenced in the District Court of Benton County to enjoin the school directors of Belle Plaine.from employing a musical Instructor. John Coohey, an experienced miner, Uas been panning Whitewater creek at Fillmore for gold, and has found enough to encourage him, though not enough to pay wages.

Mrs. Emily Ferguson of Des Moines believes that Henry Ferguson, the Klondike king, whose wonderful wealth been exploited lately, is her long lost husband. The assertion is made that there is no point in Iowa more than twelve miles from a railroad in a straight and but one county seat which is not 'upon a. line of road. J.

Wl 1 benley has been appointed post- masted at Delmar. The Red Men of Dunreath have ed a trw-o-story hall. A new postofflce has been established at Platte, Clay County. The price of gas has been reduced ta at Des Moines. An addition is being built to the poor house at Pocahontas.

About fifty cases' of measles are reported at Pocahontas. Hon. R. T. Wallace, formerly Mayor of Muscatine, is dead, aged 73.

The new union depot project at Moines is again being agitated. A cow belonging to a farmer near Rockford has given birth to three calves. Business men of Mapleton have organized a club and fitted up elegant rooms. J. C.

Hnbinger of Keokuk has secured! control of the Burlington opera house. An old man named Balm was found ae-, tunlly starved to death near West Point Mrs. H. V. Speers of Marshalltown was badly burned by an explosion of gasoline.

Four suicides have occurred within a week in a radius of twenty miles from Gladbrook. The Des Moines excelsior works were destroyed by fire, at a loss of several thousand dollars. Gladbrook is talking of securing power from a brick factory and putting in an. electric light plant. One of the Dubuque clothing houses furnished warm winter caps to sixty-five' orphans in that city.

A fellow who stole a rig in Griggsville, and one at Qniucy, 111., has been arrested at Burlington. Several of the largest cities in the State will be asked to bid for the next meeting 1 of the State poujtry show. The returns rj(ade by the township' assessors show ttfat the mulct tax nets over $100,000 in jefubuque County. The snJe of the glucose company at Davenport has been broken into for the fourth time within a few months. The men who robbed the Hamburg depot on Dec.

7 have been captured by the detectives of the railway company. Daniels and Davis, the young men cut up so badly in the row at Pekin. a short time ago, are both rapidly recovering. Davenport has secured a new factory for the making of overalls, wjjich will operate twenty-five machines as a. uing.

John Pack of Attica was accidentally, shot in the hip by rifle; the bone was 1 shattered and serious consequences are feared. By the explosion of coal stov6 in the rooms occupied by the family of W. 8. Price in Davenport a young boy was badly burned. Aztec Lodge, Knights of Pythias, has been established since 1889, and the first death among its 100 members has just occurred.

The industry of making pearl out of clam shells has been started at Dubuque by Joseph Seidel and Joseph 1 Schmelez. The public improvements in Des Moineg for the year just closed are figured nt $315,020, and the private at $500,000. At Dubuque, the Norwegian works, which have been idle for a year or more, resumed operations with a lilf force of men. Gov. Shaw has been invited to over the sound money non-partisan convention to be convened in Indianapolis 'on the 25th inst.

Guy Bratt, a LeGrand boy, suffered concussion of the brain as a result of a fall from a bob sled on which he war stealing a ride. Osceola had a small fire that threatened 1 the business section, but it was extinguished after having done damage. to tin extent of $3,000. The diphtheria scare at Audubon tinues, it having appeared in many families in the town almost before its presence was suspected. Tramps that make their home in box.

1 cars are molesting the people of Plaine, and the Union appeals to the people to starve them out. Jacob Conn of Genterville has. sued the-. builders of the new opera house for $2,000 damages for injuries received front- falling from a scaffold. The G.

A. R. post at Des Moines has received three pieces of captured artillery from the War Department to place on- their lot in the cemetery. The November report of the Iowa Central shows a net balance of $5,581.83, at against a deficit of over $8,000 or the cor- retipouditig period last year. The coroner's jury at Dubuque decided- that the death of Mrs.

Patick Fbgarty. which was at first thought to be suicide, resulted from natural causes. Rev. Father Loriginus, for several years pastor of the Council Bluffs Catholic Church, has been called to the church of St. Benedict nt Atchison, Kan.

Dr. Nicholas Bray of Dubuque has invented a device for calculating the distance of an enemy. It is intended the navy. The range is 19,000 yards. Squab farming is becoming an extensive industry in Mitchell County, and one farm there has thousands of pigeons kept for the purpose of raising the young birds, The sheriff contest at Knoxville is ended.

The commissioners' court for trying. the election contest between J. F. Ment- xer and William Davis for sheriff of Marion County bos been heard and decision' rendered. Their unanimous finding that Mentcer, Republican, is elected by fifty votes.

After several futile attempts to secure the necessary 65 per cent of the. voters to Howard County to a mulct petition the matter has been given up by those in charge. The deputy fish warden at Des Moines In one day recently destroyed nineteen been placed in the stream. J. McPberson, the first Democratic 1 sheriff Marshall County has ever had, has taken, possession of his otttce.

single exception Mr. McPhersoa is ttaty only Democrat ever elected to office In Marshall County..