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THREE CONVICTS
Trio of Life-Terra Men Shot Dead
While Attempting Escape*
MURDERED THEIR GUARD
AH the Convicts Were Desperate White
Men and Made Fatal Break from
State Sawmill in Louisiana.
Four dead, and one dangerously,
perhaps fatally wounded, all white
men, is the result of an attempt by
three life-term convicts to escape from
Angola, La., state convict farm, on
Wednesday, at nine o’clock. The
dead are; Captain J. w. Block, fore¬
man of state convict saw mill; Jim
Singleton, Byrd and Dutch, convicts.
Wounded; J. \\\ Gibson, guard,
shot through the body, the ball pass¬
ing through the liver.
All of the convicts were sent up
from New Orleans and were working
in the sawmill. Wednesday morning
at nine o clock while Captain Block
was reading a paper, Singleton se¬
cured his revolver and, in company
with Dutch and Byrd, were making
off, when the attention of the guard,
Gibson, was attracted.
Gibson fired on the party and Sin¬
gleton returned the shot, shooting
Gibson through the body, and as Gin-
son fell, Byrd secured his revolver.
Compelling the foreman, Block, to
accompany them, the convicts started
toward the river, and had placed their
captive in a skiff when they were
fired on by a trusty named Deleath.
Singleton then shot and killed Block,
Pay Guard J. T. Ogden joined De-
leath and in the fusilade of shots
that followed, the three convicts were
killed.
Gibson was sent to Natchez, Miss.,
72 miles up the river, on the mail
steamer Betsy Ann and conveyed to
the Natchez charity hospital. Physi¬
cians declare his wound may prove
fatal.
A report to the state penitentiary
officials says that Captain Block was
killed by the convicts after they had
threatened to take his life if anyone
fired on them, and after the threat
had betn disregarded.
house passes baggage measure.
Bill Compels all the Common Carriers To
Check Throuqti to Destination.
A bill of great importance both to
the railreads and to the traveling pub-
lie was passed by the house Wedit¬
day under suspension of the ru , “s.
regulating the checking of baggage
by common carriers. The bill com¬
pels common carriers engaged in in¬
terstate commerce to check baggage
to its destination on transportation
offprpd offered whether whothPr in m the me form ioiin ot ui what wiu.c
is known as ‘‘split tickets” or a rag-
ular form of ticket on one line and a
nuleage or o.her ,, tiqket .. , on __ -inotui
line, to the destination where a tick-
e*. to the junction innetinn nnint point or or term in:.-'
tion of one road is offered and a mile-
age book, or other transportation on
the connecting road to the destina¬
tion of the baggage was effected. The
bill makes a refusal on the part of the
railroads to carry out its terms a mis¬
demeanor and provides a penalty for
its infraction.
PRESIDENT CANNOT INTERFERE.
Tells Jews of His Sympathy Anent the
Horrors Perpetrated in Russia.
A teleg-am from President Roose¬
velt, relative to the recent massacre
of Jews in Russia was read Wednes¬
day night at a mass meeting of JewSj
in New York city. In it the pres-
ident said;
"I shall go over the matter with
Secretary Root. You know how deep-
ly , we sympathize ,, , with .,i. vnl]r jour teenn feeling
and how shocked and horrified we art
at what has occurred in Russ’a, but
you knev also how well nigli impos-
sible it is to accomplish anything but
harm by interference.
“THEDOiRE ROOSEVE^T/IV’
DEADLY DUEL AT MASKED BALL.
Host of Dancers Look on While Two Men
‘Kill Each Other.
In the presence of thiee hundred
persons at a masquerade lall at Tal-
ladega, Ala., Thursday night, Dud-
ley Brov n and Henry Knight fought
a pistol duel, in which both men
were killed.
A young woman was slighu> iniur
ed by a stray shet in the anUe. kaca
man received four shots in the brfeas..
Both men were well known and pop¬
ular in Talladega, and thus iar no
explanation has been given -or tn-
tragedy. i
cause of the
Persons will never know what
a delicious breakfast food is until
they have eaten
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WHEAT FLAKE CELERY
the ideal food for all classes, the
result of years of investigation.
10 cents a package.
For sale fay all Grocers 6
Gold Ore Ballast.
The Eastern Railway of Mexico will
be ballasted with gold ore between
Texico and Rio Puerto, a distance
of 270 miles. This ballast rock is ob¬
tained from the gravel bed adjacent
to the new line of the road.
Repeated assays have shown that
the ballast runs upward of $2 in gold
to the ton. About 4500 tons of rock
are used to the mile, making the
value of the gold $9,000 to each mile
of road, or $2,430,000 for the 270
miles. The gold values in the rock
are not sufficient to make it a mining
proposition, but passengers will ride
over the most valuable piece of bal-
lasting in the world.—Texico corres¬
pondence San Francisco Chronicle.
There was a touch of humor in the
bloodless duel between M. Millevoye,
Lite French editor, and Comte de
Noailles. After the shots were fired
the editor hustled away, perhaps to
get out a special edition. The Comte
Mathieu de Noailles scurried across
the field with an ugly looking knife
in his hand, uglier than the pistol, and
hacked away at a wooden fence at the
end of the ground. "I have it!” he
shouted, after a minute, the “it” be¬
ing M. Millevoye’s bullet, which the
count put in hla pocket. He has evi¬
dence that something was fired in
his direction. Of course, it is bad
form to hit.
The Earl of Wemyss, who Is eighty-
eigllt years 0 i ( j ) solemnly informed the
House of Lords that Great Britain
jj a<1 no army an d only sixty up-to-date
cannon. On the same day, laughing-
j y adds Town Topics, the official news
of the surrender of Turkey was an¬
nounced, and seriously impaired the
effect of the eloquent speech of the
noble lord, who was requested to
take a seat on bench No. 23.
"American criticism of poetry,”
says the London Academy, "is a
plant that has not yet fully blos-
somed; there will be more of it in
tbe course 0 j another hundred years
or so.”
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
With local applications, as they canno
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a
blood or constitutional disease, and in order
10 cure ic 5’°“ must take internal remedies,
Hairs catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
actsdirectly on the blood and mucoussurface
Hail’s Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine.
it was prescribed by one of the best physi-
cians in this country lor years, and is a reg-
u ] ar prescription, it is composed ol the
best tonics known, combined with the best
Wood p Uril ) er s, acting perfect directly on the mo¬
C0U6 8llr f aoe s. The combination of
the two ingredients is what produces such
wonf.erful results in curing catarrh, fiend
lor testimonials, free. Props., Toledo, O,
F. J. Chess? & Co.,
hold by druggists, price, 75c.
rake nail’s Family Pills for constipation
Prof. W. H. Schofield is preparing
two more volumes of “Literary His¬
tory of England,” to complete the
series which Stopford Brooke, Pro¬
fessor Saintsbury and Mr. Goose
have already contributed.
TORTURED WITH ECZEMA.
Tremendous Itching Over Whole Body
—Scratched Until Bled—Wonder¬
ful Cure Uy Cutlcura.
"Last year 1 suffered with a tremendous
itching on my back, which grew worse and
worse until it spread over the whole body,
and only my lace and hands were free.
For four months or so I suffered torments,
and l had to scratcb> gcratc h, scratch until
^ ^led. n j g ht when I went to bed
things g 0 t worse, and I had at times to
get up and scratch my body all over until
I was as sore as could be, and until 1 suf¬
fered excruciating pain, iney told me
that J, was suffering from eczema. Then
I made up my mind that I would use the
Cuticura Remedies. 1 used them accord¬
ing to instructions, and very soon indeed
I was greatly relieved. 1 continued until
well, and now I am ready to recommend
the Cuticura Remedies to any one. Mrs.
Mary Metzger, Sweetwater, Okla., June
28, 1905. ’
An ounce of contentment is more
beneficial .0 a woman’s complexion
than u pound of cosmetics.
Look Prematurely ■ f
You Old >
j at. Because of grizzly, Uaa “LA CUCOli'' HAIR RKITOffER. Price* $1,00,
those ugly, gray hairs. reta’I*
INSURES AGAINST HAILSTORMS
How the Kansas Wheat Grower Pro
tects Himself From Loss.
“Hailstorms have destroyed mm
wheat tn Kansas In the last ten years
than all the grasshoppers and chinch
bugs since the state was organized,
-aid a farmer from southern
whose crop was destroyed by a recent
storm in that section.
"Last year one hailstorm in the
northern part of Sumner county and
the southern part of Sedgwick swept
an area thirty miles long by two miles
wide. About 38,900 acres, most of
It in growing wheat that promised to
yield twenty-five bushels to the acre,
were destroyed. A half million dol¬
lars worth of wheat was ruined in
that one storm."
The hailstorm was never feared by
! the Kansas farmer until wheat became
a staple crop, Corn will recover from
a hailstorm and make an average
crop, but a light fall of ice at a cer
tain time will ruin a crop of wheat.
May and June are the months of hail¬
storms in Kansas.
In France and Spain, where the hail¬
storms destroy the grape crop, large
cannon have been placed on the hills
above the vineyards. At the ap-
proach of a hailstorm explosives are
shot into the cloud, and it s a belief
among fhrmers—laughed at by scien¬
tific men— that the storm is some¬
times dissipated. The Kansas farmer
doesn’t bombard the clouds, He has
found that it pays better to insure
his crops.
Hail insurance companies have been
organized, The farmer insures his
wheat crop against hail just as the
man in the city insures his house
against fire. He places whatever
value on his crop he can afford to paj
the premium on. Some farmers occa¬
sionally insure so heavily that they
would not object to a hailstorm to
save the expense of harvesting the
crop. companies
The first hail insurance
were mutual companies, organized
among the farmers of a county or a
district. It was soon found that those
companies were not safe, because a
hailstorm usually cleared a whole dis-
trict. Then each farmer was com-
pel led to bear his own loss, for the
mutual company could not pay. East¬
ern capitalists have formed a num-
her of hail insurance companies in tne
last five years.
Farmers have a belief that hail will
follow the same path for three con-
secutlve years, go if a hailstorm
destroys a crop they insure heavily
for the next two years—Kansas City
The "Wrong Box.”
A portentous discovery has been
made In a building used by the Brit¬
ish Women’s Temperate Association.
To everybody’s horror, a chocolate
box was found which smelt of whis¬
key. We were not present—which
we deeply regret, as it would have
provided a new and thrilling sensation
—but we gather that the blame was
thrown upon the maker, the pur¬
chaser remaining exempt. Ladles can¬
not, as we agreed here and Should be
agreed everywhere, always ask what
chocolate contains. It is the bound-
en duty of a confectioner, whenever
he sells to a lady who looks as though
she might belong to the British Wo-
men’s Temperahce Association, to
point out gently but firmly, that the
chocolate she proposes to buy is not
free from alcohol. Freely and fully
we absolve the owner of the box in
question, but would point out that
her fellow members appear to have
ignored a rather obvious duty in the
circumstances. They should have
banded together, with a flag if pos¬
sible, and paid a visit of denunciation
and protest to the wicked confectioner
and the still more wicked manufac-
turer.—St. James’ Gazette.
He Knew the Game.
A Kenwood man consented the oth¬
er day to go to the millinery depart¬
ment for the purpose of helping bis
wife decide on a h*t. After much
trying on the lady decided on two
hats from which to make har selec¬
tion. One of them was $24, the other
$16.
“Now, I want you to tell me honest¬
ly, George,” she said, “which of these
two you would advise me to get.”
Then she put one on after the out¬
permitted him view heT from '
er and to
in front, each side and from behind,
“Well, I’ll tell you,” he said, at
last, “the one you had on first looks
to me as if It might he more stylish
and all that, but the second one i
makes you look much younger man
you do in the other.
He had wasted an hour, but he
saved $8.—Chicago Recovd-Herall.
Baby thinks a good deal of his dad, |
but it takes mamma’s kiss to cure a j
hurt finger, says the domestic philos¬
opher of the Indianapolis Star.
Bird* Cross no Deep 3ea*.
Frank Chapman, of the New York
Museuni c f Natural History, has been
writing about the birds of England,
j u , more numerous but of
f.^ wev species than those In this conn-
(rv Curiously enough, only one of
hundreds of varieties is common to
countries.
A vvriUM . j n the London Outlook
points out that no birds cross deep,
even if ndVrow, seas. The narrow
Madagascar Straits are impassible to
birds, though the North Seas are. a
highway for them, Godwits pass
from the Nile to the shores of Nor¬
folk, though neighboring islands in
an archipelago may show no common
stock.
All birds, with the possible excep¬
tion of the sparrow, are stirred to
movement by different causes; wind,
weather, food, the bullying of parent
and other birds. Birds of prey drive
their young. Martins love familiar
eaves; successive ravens have built
on the same ledge for a century.
The longer passages are only made
over shallow seas that once were land,
and when once a journey is made the
memory is strong enough to urge a
repetition. The change of home then
becomes not a fashion but an inherit-
ed habit.
Disappearing Forests.
The National Hardwood Lumber As-
soeiation at its recent meeting in
Memphis adopted a report that pre¬
sented the dire possibilities of the de¬
struction of the forests in the short
period of thirty-five years, It was ea-
timated that there now stood in the
United States in the neighborhood of
1,475,000,000,000 feet of lumber, but
that 45,000,000,000 feet of lumber was
being cut every year, The report re¬
the immediate prohibition
of log exports and exemption from
taxes of tree plantations. Attention
was called to the desirability of State
legal enactments along the last line,
and some constitutional provision by
the general Government of like effect.
Mention was made of the custom pre¬
vailing in France of requiring a tree
to be planted for every tree cut down.
—From Daily Consular and Trade Re¬
ports.
Says the New York Press: “It is a
good deal better to think poetry than to
write it, and better to write it than
to print It.” Still there’s very little
harm in printing it if nobody reads
it.
FIT8,8t.Vitus’ Dance: Nervous Diseases per¬
manently cured by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve
Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free.
Da. H. R. Kline, Dd., 93J Arch Ht.,Phila., Pa.
Duse has no birthplace. She was born
on a swiftly m oving train.
_
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup lor Children
teething,softens thegums,reduces inflamma¬
tion, allays pain,cures wind colic.25c a bottle
Bank of England notes cost a half-penny
apiece to produce.
Itch cured in 30 minutes by VVoolford’s
Sanitary Mail Lotion; never tails, c-old by Drug¬
gists. orders promptly filled by Dr.
E. Detcnon, Crawtordsville. ind. fl.
Mark Twain collects obituary poetry.
He has 3000 specimens.
A Physician at Home
Is Dr. Biggers Huckleberry Cordial. It al¬
ways Children cures Stomach and Bowel Troubles,
Teething, etc. At Druggists 25c
and 50c per bottle.
You may feed a man brain food but
cannot supply the brains.
A HICKS*
i k CAPUDINE
immediately cures
■'T' / Tital Breaks HEADACHES m Mb a to up Ml it COLDS hour* Ai Intta «
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don’t pay far boon or »ii<U when you bar tban.
Nothin* gom into ■ Libby can but dean.
Iran, well-cookad Meat that i» rand* to eat.
Utb/i Product, axe tine and trouble and 1
money -arm—udappehte afanulatora. i
Libby', BooeLeM Qncken vritb Meyonnane
Drama* make, quick aaiad, ye« detdou >
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Try it when you >r hurraed ar bnaary.
Booklet bee, "Howl.Mala
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ALL HAIL PE-RU-NA.
A Case cf
STOMACH CATARRH.
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Miss Mary N. O’Brien, 306 Myrtle Ave.,
Brooklyn, cured Y., writes: weeks
‘•{•eruna we <n five
of catarru of the stomach, alter
suffering for four years and doctor¬
ing without effect. In common with
other grateful ones who have been
benefited by your discovery, 1 say,
All hall to l’erumi. ’’
Mr. II. J. Henneman, Oakland, N«b.,
writes:
"l waited before writing to you about
my sickness, catarrh of the stomach, which
I had over a year ago.
"There were cured, people but who told me that it
would not stay I am sure
1 am cured, for I do not feel any more ill
effects, have a good appetite anil am get¬
ting fat.
"So 1 am, and will say to all, I a at
cured for good.
“J thank you for lie your kindness.
(i I’eruna will our house medi¬
cine hereof ter, ”
Catarrh of tYo stomach is also know*
in common parlance as dyspepsia, medicine gas¬
tritis and indigestion. No will
be of any permanent benefit except it re¬
moves the catarrh.
A Great Tonic.
Mr. Austi M. Small, Antacid, Ore.,
writes: “During the hot weather of the
past summer I lost my appetite. I tried
Peruna, and found it pleasant to take, *
splendid appetizer and a great tonic.”
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You Cannot
CURE
all inflamed, ulcerated and catarrhal con¬
ditions of the mucous membrane such as
naaal catarrh,uterine catarrh caused
by feminine ills, sore throat, sore
mouth or inflamed eyes by simply
dosing the stomach.
But you surely can cure these stubborn
affections by local treatment with >
Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic
which destroys the disease germs,checks
discharges, inflammation stop3 pain, and heals the
and soreness.
Paxtine represents the most successful
local treatment for feminine ills ever
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It keeps the average man so busy
trying to cover up his past that he
hasn’t much time to boast of his fu¬
ture.