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To \ Ca ne oon oren nap wens ap o n reque nene n n o « + a TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13: Whr pom Superintendent of State Prisons Not Guilty. DECISION OF GOV. MORTON CHARGES OP MALREASANCE IN -:OFrRMIOB AND AcGUS4A. ~ (IONS HAD HUNG OVER HIM TOF MORE THAN A YHAR-THE . CfaARGES DrsMIgsmDp. ALHAXY, Oot. 10,-Governor Morton has rendoved it decision dismissing tho charges agidnst Conoral Austin Lithrop, Super- fntendorit of prisons, thus disposing of a </ question which has beon beforo the legig- lature and oxccutive dopurtments in one Aorm or anothor for upwards of in year and. 'a balfi 'This is the second timo a chief ex- , ecutlvo of the state has dismissed charges against SuporIntendon t Lathrop, Covernor Flowor having had similar churges to deal with ind dismissing thom. The oxocutive order dismissing the chargos Is accompanied by an exhaustive opinion, covering. over 85 largo pagesin * typownrlting and roviowing cach of tho 1B apocifientions andthe wholo caso in detail, The governor sets 'out by reolting the facteTcnding up to this inquiry, which be« [ gu with un Investignblon by a sub-com- mitte of a joint logistavive continittco appointed in Fobruary, 1805. Khe ropors of that sutb-committcound thoactlon taken .* boforo 6 was transmitted to the legisla- # + titre und to tho govornor in May follow- ing, but no fornink accompanied shom iand no action was tukon In relation « #horata. _ Who mabterlay dormant unt!l Sopt. 17, , 1805, whon format charges were proforred -with i potltton for the romaval of the su- perintendont from office by John M. Wobor and Jublal B. White of Platts burg. A copy of was sorved on SuporIntondont Lathrop as required by the constitution a wook or so later, and in due timo hoffled in answor donying the accusations, specificilly and gonorally. Hon, Hon R, Brown: of Watertown was appointed by tho governor to tike tho tos- thnony and to roport tho materinl facts decmed by him to be established by the evidenco, A laurge number of sittings wore had, and on Juno 40 lust Commis- slonor Brown fled his report. 'The tostlmony and roport submitted by 'the jolht logislutive committes wore made and considored as a: part of tho charges,. Briefly stated the charges wore that the . stuporidfondont was gullty of gross mal- feasianco and nogloot of duty through the purchiso of Inforlor beof by the agont and witdon of Aubuen prison at highor thin © inatket prices for boof of batter quality; * that tho sald agont and wardon sold a largo quantlty of sorap fron and brags be- longing to the state, worth from: $700 to $1,000, for $75; that ho also. sold a number of horgo collars manufactured in the pris- on fora sum much below tholr market valug and conconled the record of the salo on the prison hooks; that excessive sal- aries und componsation wore paid to Charles N. Smith and one Poetorson, as employes of Auburn prison and that the wccount of contractors with the prison wore not required. to be promptly sottléd; thut the bookkeoping at the said prison was nogligont imd the books unbalanced until the coniptrollor sont an export ac- countant to oxamino thom in the spring of 1800; that largo profits from prison labor in hollow-ware manufactures were lost through the suporintondont pormit- ting a clivnge from the \public necount'\ system to tho \pleco price\ system; that tho superintendont pormitted tho Iubor of convioty to be lat by contract it a per diem rato, contrary to law; that the principal keepor at Sing Sing prison was pormitted to occupy iv dwolling house on tho prison grounds and belonging to the stato, with- out paying ront therefor; that suid prin- olpal keoper was pormitted to sit in judg- mont upon the offenses of refractory pris- oners ind to prescribe and cause to be in- Alicted, cruel and inhuman punishment pon such prisoners without the advice or knowledge of the agent and warden and with consont of the superintendent; that through negligence of the supsrintendont & $18,000 contract was let for coll locks: fop Sing Sing prison in 1898, upon which transaction tho contractor made an ex- cessive profit umounting to about $5,000; that the superintendont was guilty of lax- Aty and mlamanagement in permitting prisonors it the Clinton prison to enjoy nnlaw ful llbortles outside the prison walls; that ho has permittod someof the wardens | and othor officers of the prison. to. use the propotty of tho state for their private gain and to purchase property for tho state at excessive prices so as to securo for them- selves some gain or advantage. Tho pe- titioners: charged that theso acts were commiltted by the subordinates with the knowlodgo, consont and approval of the auperintondont, und that after his atten- tion had beon drawn to them by.the leg- j@lative Inquiry aud the report of thas commititeo, he rotrined those culpable subordinates in office, knowing that they were no longor flt to hold such rosponsi- bio posttions. m BuporIntendent Lithrop dented cach charge categorleally and specifically, - The governor raviows with palustaking dotall tho testimony relating to cach churgo, and which was fully reported in the nowspapors while the Invostigntion was ind the result of his con- «lusions ag to euch specification is given «An the summing up of the proof and is in almost: enol; instance favorable to tho atiperinitondent, or if not exculpatory, at jeant fairly and rensonably oxplanatory of Rix action so fat as his subordinates wore gencerned, | As to the 19th count, tho gov- <«rnor finds that Albort Thayer, a brother «of the wurden of Clinton prison, while employed as an officor In the prison, acted as ngont of a flrm: who: had a con» ract in 1898 for the manufacture of chairs 'by prison ltbor and that he recelved $20 a month thorafor for two yours, and hedind& that the employment of Albort Thayer in this capacity was clourly im- propor and says that it Is \a mattor which should bo cavefully invostignted by the suporintondont.\ wease + atm Orloket at Chicago. 1, CHICAGO, Oct. 10. first In- ~. \ning 206 rung; Chicigo: Wanderers, sec- ond innings, 8 wickuts for 58. runs, is the history of the second day's play in the drioket match of the Antipodeans vs. the World'@ Fair city players, ‘ « U BANDS ROX 10 BART One Kills Himself to Avoid ' _ Capture. nnn THE OTHER BEHIND BARS. PERPETRATORS OF 'THE ROB- BERY AND DOUBLE MURDER AT NHE BANK OF SHERBOURNE WALL INTO THE HANDS OF A POSSE OF CITIZENS. Mitxxrarorts, Oct. 10.-The history of tho robhery of the Fank of Rhorbowrne has onded tragically, J. D. Suir, one of thepatt of the murderous bandits, being all but captured, killed Murshal Galion, the leader of his pursuers, and sending i+ bullet into his own brain, fell dead at the feet of the murdered nmutsbal's posse. The dariog robler hid shot his way out of a farm houso surroundcd by officers and would have made good his escape but for | an accident to the bleycle he rofie, The other participant in Wednesday's robbery is believed to be undes urrest in Juckson, Minn, Almost the wholeamount stolen wes recovered from the body of the dead man. Hair and his accomplice rode their bicy- cles Into the Hitle town of <herbourn» Wednesday aftern=on, sand in robbing the cash tray of $1,000 inurdered Cashier Thor- burn and Olaf Ostran. a traveling sales mun. The bandits set out for the southwest, pursued by ilaurgs posse. Sheriff Bray. ton of Kossuth and Marshal Gallion with a posse from Bancroft took the tail, At 7 o'clock Suir stopped at a fnrmhouse and was surrounded by the officers. Sair dart» ed for a window. Marshal Callion was statloned there, but before he could level his gun tho bundit sent a bullet through the breast of his victim. ' The bandit mounted his bicycle and rodo eastward at a tremendous rate. 'The posso started in hot pursuit. 'The robber was about ia mile In advance when his bi- cyole was, punctured and he left it by the side of the road und set out on foot through a cornfleld, * Deputy Shoviff Brayton was close upon his heels ind opened fire with,. a double barrolled shot gun. The handit seeing he had no chunce to make his escape, placed a revolver to his head and sent a bullet through his brain. By the time the deputy sheriff reached him he was deud. Most of the money tuken from the bank was found on his person. 'The man who ts undor urrest at Jackson tallies exactly with the doscriptrion of the second robber. Tho man killed is J. D. Saiv, who was at one time at eron Lake, The other is supposed to be Fred Pratt, who was seen with Hair two days before the robbery. A report is made that a toll man entered the biunk of Hardee, southcust of Luverne, Ta, snd covered the castdor with a revolver and demanded the proceeds. He was hand- ed out $700 and made his escape. a nee com omer mae a FOREIGN HAPPENINGS. Record of the Day's Events In Lands Across the Sen,. LONDON, Oct. 10.--In regard to the Bur- img railroad feature of the Venezuelan dispute, the press is informed that the ex- citement in the United States on the syb- ject is cvidently bused on a misconcep- tion as, it is claimed, the line is within the Schomburghk line nid the fact that the bill authorizing it was passed during an open session of the council of British Guiana und the policy of that colony itself are evidence, it is further alleged, that the undertaking in no way infringes whe un- derstanding on tho subject arrived at be tween Great Biituin and the United Stutes. indium Grain Famine. ALLAHABAD, Oct. 10.-'The Pioncer,re- ferring to the recent serious rioting in different parts of Indin in conntction with the rise in the price of grain, says that all information points to the fact that the disturbances wore the result of a prear- ranged conspiracy in which people of good position were implicated. The distress, however, is spreading and the government has ordered the construc- of wells ind short railtouds in order to af- ford reliof, It is hoped that more wheat from Cali- fornia will bo shipped to the different In- dian ports. Turkish Question Settled Once More. LoxDox, Oct. 10.-'The Rome correspon- dent of The Chronicle asserts that the czar and Lord Salisbury have agreed to a set- tloment of the Turkish crisis, involving the opening of the Bosphorus to the war- ships and merchantmen of the world. The sovercignty of the sultan is to be main- tained, he says, but the powers are to con- trol the collection of taxes and the nom- ination of the ministers. Big Fire In England. LoxDox, Oct. 10.-Three of the Anglo- American company's storage oil tanks on the railway near Huddersfield are burn- ing,. Iwo: terrible explosions have oc- curred, and all traffic has been stopped for many hours. Each of the three tanks held 2,000 gallons of oil. Death. of Explorer Mueller. MELBOURNE, Victoria, Oct. 10.-Baron Mueller, the Australian explorer, is dead. Within the last decade the population of Europe has increased by about 30,- 000,000, of whom Russia contributed 12,510,000 and France only 67,000. No Qrips When you take Hood's Pilis. The big, old-fash- loned, sugar-conted pills, which tear you :4to pleces, aro not in {t with Hood's. Fasy to tals Hoods and gasy to operate, is true n I i 5&3! of Hood's Pills, which are up to date in every respect. Safe, certain and sure. All - druggists, 250, C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell. Mass, The ouly Pilin to tike.with Hood's Sursanarilia. a # * 2h ais 2 b C2 BATTLE. I Is Fighting Por Equal Rights For All, N Privileges For None. The cf the United States know what is was about and knew what it would have to fice when in national convention it declared for free coinage of gold and silver aud a stable dollar. It knew that it would have to meet al the tremendous power of the whole privileged class, who have come to be- lieve that they possess a divine license to prey upon the masses. A nation of 26,000,000 was taxed to starvation to maintain the 2,000 or 8,000 aristocrats who glittered around Louis XVI and Antoinette at Versailles, and those gor- geous gentlemen and ladies were not mors profoundly convinced that Provi- dence had created France for their bene- fit than are our own money grandees that their special interests aro para- mount to all other considerations. That they should rise in a body against the Democracy when it has the courage to declare war upon their unjust privi- leges is only natural. It is only natural, too, that all tho faithful retainers of the plutocracy should draw the sword and charge upon the Democracy with a fury superior even to that of their mas- ters. It has ever been so with retainers. As there are '\'Catholics more catholic than the pope,\ so there are multitudes of dependents on the wealthy who are more capitalistic than capitalists. Such of these dependents as have called them- selves Democrats obey the law of their parasitic being by going over to Hanna, advance agent of the plutocracy, who is wallowing in money. But as the United States happens to be populated chiefly by men, not coo- lies, the Democratic party asks with con- fidence for the support of the plain peo- ple, whose battle it is fighting. 'The contest, as a contributor to The Jour- pal's fund for the education of voters happily put it, is between those who make things and those who take things. 'The issue is too clear to be obscured. On the Republican side are ranged all the men whose hands are habitually in the people's pockets, all the men who seek to use the power of the government to further enrich themselves, all the shearers of the wool of the labor sheep, all the men who understand and prac- tice the art of getting much for little. 'These are the kind of enemies the De- mocracy is and ought to be glad to fight. They are the natural.foes of the Dem- ocratic idea, and their success in this campaign would advance prodigiously the movement for turning the republic into an oligarchy. 'The plain people are not to be de- ceived. They know with which party their interest, the interest of the coun- try, lies in this great struggle for the supremacy of manhood over money. As for the leaders who have gone, let them go. Generals who deem it wise policy to be friendly with the enemy are not the sort of generals who win victories that tell for Democratic principles and the welfare of the masses. The party is better off without them. . Every American who owns himself and stands by the doctrine that the ma- jority of its citizens should rule the re- public for the common good will vote forBryan. Equal rights for all, privi- leges for none; that is true Democracy. -New York Journal. fa ke If gold is a better metal for coin than silver because it can be handled easier- that is, because large mmounts of it are less buiky-why not have diamonds as a standard and let one South African trust control the world? Who Fight Should Govern, Says Bryan. Show me those people who now call us anarchists and I will show you a class of people who, if we had a war, would never go to the front, but they are the onés who abuse those who would fight and save their own proper- ty. *I believe that the men upon whom the nation most relies when it wants to increase its martial strength are its se- curity in hours of peril. I believe that these people can be trusted to cast their ballot in times of peacé to devise the various policies for this nation. If under a free silver law the silver dol- lar fell below par-that is, below the gold dollar-as silver men believe it would not, we should make all our own goods in- stead of importing them and paying the difference. His Duty Clear. to Hanna says.that there is no more in- telligent class of citizens than the farm- ers of the west, which is to say that they have too much good sense to vote for a man whose policy is bound to in- crease their burdens and lessen the chances for the fullest development of intelligence in their children. - St. Louis Republic. If with the free and unlimited coinage of silver the dollar would be only a 53 cent dollar, the Iaw of supply and demand must be a myth. There would be an un- limited demand for all silver up to $1.20 an ounce. The Outlook In Kentucky. The majority in Kentucky for Bryan and free coinage is more likely to be 10,000 above the majority for Cleve- land than 10,000 below. Save this to compare with the returns Louis Post-Dispatch. If under a free silver law the silver dol- lar remained at par, as silver men believe it would, the country would be benefited by having more money and not borrowed money. It could supply its own capital. It took the whole of the world's history up to this century before it was discov- ered that gold was better for money than silver, and by far the larger part of the world doesn't think so yet. One Way to Get It. If the Hanna crowd want to get back the money they paid out to rescue Mc- Kinley's property from the sheriff, they should take it out of the Republican campaign {and. -Exchange. * 1 RELIEF FOR THE ARMENIANS. Impracticability of the Meaus Adopted in This Country. The Armenians are certainly to be pitied. Just as they are rallying some- what from the massacre and the subse- quent destitution and demoralization, there comes a proposition which will do more than almost anything else to cut off the sources from which relief has come, and._also bind them more closely under Turkish tyranny. About $700,000 has been collected in this coun- try and England, which has been ex- pended chiefly for food and clothing, but also for implements of labor. It is pot a large sum, but it has accomplished marvels in the preservation of life and in the reviving of hope and courage. Of late there nas nrisen a feeling that conditions, to continue such charity is simply to \pour water into a sieve,\ and the question has arisen, would it not be better to get the Armenians out of the country. One of the relief asso- clations has taken up the idea, end calls for a million-dollar fund to secure emigration. There is something plausible in this, yet really no more impracticable or per- pricious scheme could well be proposed. There are about 1,500,000 Armenians in the disturbed sections of Turkey. They are mostly peasants or small tradesmen, thoroughly wedded to their oriental homes, manner of life and methods of work. Misfortune has left them poor, broken spirited, with little courage for change. The Turkish government is bitterly opposed: not merely to their leaving the country. but to their chang- ing residence. 'To get any appreciable number away it would be necessary to overcome the hostility of the Turk and their own inertia, find a country to take them to, transport them, provide them dwellings, tools, and living expenses for some time, and pay the agents of the emigration scheme. The cheapest place would be Persia, but they would be little if any better off on the whole. Russia doesn't want them. There is no room in Europe. towards bringing them to and settling them on this continent? In fact the scheme is utterly imprac- ticable. More than that, it is, .very nearly criminal. It discourages the only way in which relief can come to them, and by arousing the jealousy of the Turkish government makes their situation more difficult. Bad as their condition is it is better than it has been, and the only way to relieve it in the fu- ture is to continue the gifts. A dollar of relief is worth $50 spent in schemes of rescue. So long as the missionaries are on the field, every cent contributed will be well used. Brown Brothers, of this sity, or the treasurer of the American board in Boston, will forward all that is sent.-Harper's Weekly. ENGLISH MUSIC-HALL SONGS. The More Popular Airs Produced by # Few Writers. At music halls the songs, or those with the best chances of being popular, are written. chiefly by only two or three writers; and to this fact sometimes is attrubuted what must be called their painful monotony, or, at the least, un- happy paucity, of theme. You have the mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law, of course, is a nuisance and an obstacle. You have the deceiving husband. You have the deceived, or deceiving, wife. Everyone, it seems, is busy in doing that which he pretends not to be doing, yet which all the world assumes that he 's certain to do. Along with these out- worn themes, from which one would fain seek relief in some fresh observa- tion of life and of the passing manners of the day, you have cccasionally, if the hall is \popular rather than fash- ionable, some very broad compliment to what are. called the \working classes\ as the base-the inevitable, priceless base-of society's column; and you have, in times especially'of excitement, appeals to patriotism, some of which are sound, but some of which make one think of M. de la Rochefoucauld's remark that there are \few of us who have not sufficient strength to bear the misfortunes\-yes even if those mis- fortunes be the wounds of death-\of other people.\ - The effect of familiarity and poverty of theme in the actual songs of the music halls is minimized, it is true. to some extent, by the measure of \gag\ of fresh and personal matter which the best comedians of the music hall-and many who are not the best-allow them- selves to introduce. But,after all, of the songs of the music hall it has got to be said, in parting from them, that the greater part of their comedy if based on coarseness, and that if you can imagine the relation of the sexes leprived altogether of its carnal side, or, if you will, that carnal side accepted once for all as healthy and above board? and so not open toinnuendoorcomment, the song of the music kall would at a stroke be deprived of half of its ma- terial.-Nineteenth Century. Oysters Becoming Rare. \Oysters will be a very rare delicacy in a few years,\ said C. C. Hunt, an oys- ter man of New York. \For many years the beds were preserved to a large ex- keping alive the popular idea that oys- ters were not good except from Septem- ber to April. This gave {our months during which the oysters were let alone and allowed to increase. As a matter of fact, I think they are a little better during those four months than at any other time. 'This was first discovered by. the seaside hotel men, and oysters were ser ved during the summer months. The guests demanded bivaives when they returned to their homes, and.now in all eastern cities the signs of 'Fresh Oys- ters' are as numerous in July and Au- gust as in January and February. The new demand is being supplied, and at no time are the beds left undisturbed. It is now only a question of a few year: beffre the oysters are gone, and all be cause the summer resort hotel men dis- abused the minds of the people as to their not being good to eat from April ' to September.\-N. Y, Bun. i unless there is hope of altered political - How far would the fund go' tent by having am oyster season aud | A DOUBLE CASE. __ Remarkable Cure of a Boston Man who was Afflicted with Salt- Rheum and Rheumatism. BOTH PROMPTLY CURED . BY DR. WILLIAMS® PINK: PILLS FOR PALE PEOPLE. From the Heral Those who have had the misfortune to be affiicted with salt-rheum, more especially when it has come in early childhood, can appreciate what it is to \ doctor\ for this al- most incurable trouble. 'They almost all tes- tify that they have \doctored\ for years, and often with some of the leading physi- cians, spending large sums of money without obtaining relief When this is complicated 'with an attack of rheumatism, especially in the case of a man whose avocation is one that exposes him to it, the serious nature of his physical ills may be imagined, and also the potent efficacy of such a remedy as Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, which has proved able to conquer such & concensus of bodily problems, and to put the man into & condition of vigor as a substitute for one of a most disheartening outlook. In view of the circumstances it isnot sur» prising that many in Boston, especially those of the railroad men, who have been familiar both with the individual and the attendant circumstances, should make so much com- ment on the cure wrought in the case of Mr. James Freeman, for a number of years past employed as a brakeman on the Old Colony Division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. 'This gentleman . had been afflicted with salt-rheum from infancy and his blood had a decided tendency to humors, in addition to which the exposed character of his occupation fromoted an ag- gravated attack of muscular rheumatism which threatened to destroy his usefulness and deprive him of this means of livelihood. But learning of the remarkable testimony which had been given to the efficacy of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People when- ever tried for these and kindred difficaltics, particularly such as arise from an impover- ished or disordered condition of the blood, he was induced to try them, and the result has been so gratifying that he has became a pioneer in recommending them to his fellow workmen, who through his words and the manifest results 'of his example have shown & constantly increasing use of the pills. , In view of the degree of attention which the case attracted, particularly in its effect of promoting the use of the pills among men who are not in the habit of taking medicine, the cireumstances were deemed worthy of personal investigation, and accordingly a re- porter made a call at the cosy home of Mr. Freeman, at 283 Shawmont Avenue, Boston, Mass., where be and his wife were found to be thoroughly free and. unreserved in stating the facts, and most cordial in appreciation of the Pink Pills. © M 'Yes, it is true,\ he said in response to inquiry, \I have the greatest satisfaction in iving my word as to what Dr. Williams' ink Pills have done for me. I have no per- sonal interest in speaking about the matter except that-I feel grateful for the cure they have caused, and I think it is only right that I should try and let others have the same opportunity for benefit as myself.\. In re- gard to the origin of his use of the Pink Pills he remarked : - \I was first led to try them on account of a certificate from a Montreal man which was published in the psgmrs, and I thought the same thing that Kad done so much for him would help me. . \I needed to take the Pink Pills for the condition of the blood and for rheumatism. The fact is that my blood has been of a very humory nature and I have been troubled with salt-rheum from infancy. My head d, Boston, Mass, was covered with it and a good deal, of my hair came off, It was very uncomfortable and nothing that I could do seemed to cure it. \Then came my rheumatic trouble dur- ing three months of last winter. I think it. came from exposure in the railroad yard dur- ing bad weather. It was muscular rheuma- tism and was located principally in my right arm so that I could hardly lift it that high.\ Here Mr. Freeman raised his outstretched right arm slowly to a position below the middle of his breast and gave a graphic idea. of the difficulty and distress which accom» pa’fiied that effort before taking the Pink Pills. \I began to receive benefit from the first time that I took the pills, and I have never ' known them to fail of doin ood. The: trouble with a good many people is that they think they do everything by taking the first small quantity of any remedy. 1 am not one of those who are satisfied with that kind . of sampling, and when I became satisfied that they were the riqlfi: thing for me I re- solved to use them with fullest effect. I soom secured about 25 boxes. I bought them mostly from Janes' Apothecary Store on: Washington Street. One of the first good effects found was an increase of appetite and the benefit of .a general tonic; My blood became purer and better, and the effects of the muscular rheumatism rapidly disappear- ed. As I took no other medicine the whole effect must have come from Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I was so gratified with their effect that I must have bought altogether about eighty boxes. , \'The result was that I was enabled to at- tend to my work as a brakeman on the cars, which you know requires a pretty free strength in the arms, and I found my gener- > al-health and spirits toned up. \In the early periods of taking the pills I took one as a dose, and latterly I increased to- two and then three, the toning effect being > all the stronger without any disagreeable. effect. \I was so pleased with the results of the Pink Pills in my case that I recommende@® them to all the railroad mer and others with- in my knowledge that I knew. would need their benefit. As a consequence quite a num- ber began their use, and from all that I hear their effects were very satisfactory, so that I doubt not they would be willing to reinforce my cértificate with their own imony.\ *Mr. Freeman's remarks were corroborated at intervals by his wife, who was a particle pant in the conversation and manifestly shared his genuine enthusiasm for the cura- tive effects of which she had been a witness and for which the name of Dr. Williams\ Pink Pills has become synonymous. He certainly looked well and no one coul® imagine by his appenrance and manifestation of energy the double siege of rheumatism and salt-rheum from which the Pink Pille - has rescued him. < \I am so satisfied,\ he said, \ as to the true results which the Pink Pills have brought. me that I can readily give an affidavit before: a Notary to that effect: All who know me and the cireumstances of my case will, how» ever, feel convinced without the need of that.\ - Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain in a con- densed form, all the elements necessary. to give: new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing spe- cific for such diseases.as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatics, , neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous heaénche, the _ after effect of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Pink Pille: are sold 'by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, or: aix boxes for $2.50 (they are never sold im bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr. Wile Hams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. FIRE IN TONAWANDA. STORE OF J. E. OELKERS DES- 'TROYED THIS MORNING. R North Tonawanda, Oct.9.-The whole- sale and retgil grocery store of J. E. Oelkers was completely destroyed by fire this morning at 440 o'clock. The offices in the second story of Dr. Allen, United States Customs office, Dr. Dill- man, Mrs. Snyder, dressmaker, were alo a complete loss. Dr. Dillman narrowly escaped with his life. He was half-choked when res- cued by the firemen. His boy attend- ant was unconscious when--rescued. They were taken out in their night- clothes. The jewelry store of Koetch & Fow- ler was also gutted, but the goods were saved. The damage has not been as- certained as yet. It is believed that it will reach $18,000. 'The burned building was at the cor- ner of Tremont and Webster Streets. The blaze started in the rear part of a wareroom upstairs. The fire companies of the North side were soon on the spot and in half an hour they thought they had the flames under coutrol. After a short time they were about to leave, when the flames were again seen issuing from the back of the office of Dr. Allen. Great volumes of smoke belched forth and a general alarm was sounded. Eight of 10 streams were soon playing on the flames The firemen began to remove the jewelry stock of Koetch & Fowler in the next «tore. The office of Dr. Dittman was in the. next block adjoining the big grocery store. He and his assistant, a young boy, roomed there. A rush was made to his door, but it was locked. When an entrance was gained the firemen found the doctor and the boy in,a semi-con- downstairs and some clothing given them. Everything in the office was lost. For some time it looked as if the fire would spread, in spite of the energetic work of the firemen. Goods were re- moved from all the different stores ad- joining. Luckily the fire was got under control before it advanced any further. The library and dispensing room of Dr. Allen, together with many medical cur- iosities, were destroyed. Miners Resuming Work. Leadville, Col., Oct. 10.-The mines are gradually resuming work. New men are applying for work almost daily. id all] ial lak EDUCATE # PROEIT , C©LEE%E- \ _._ Fall Term Begins - September 1, '96 Call or Write for—V Information. D. G, CLARK, - ~Princiga HODGE oprEra LOCKPORT, N. Y. HOUSE ‘ Man's Greatest Joy is his strength and vigor-the full possessionof his powers banish thecdangerous weaknesses of both sexes, revitalize the nervous system, enrich figuflfy the blood. They check all drains forever. $1.00 Per Box, 6 Boxes, $5.00, -A legal guarantee to cure or refund the money with every $5.00 order, Peal Medicine Co., Clevgfafifgtess
