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KILLS WHOLE FAMILY Negro Commits a Sorth Carolina Horrible Crime. , Raleigh, 8. C., March 22.—A negro, Tom Jones, commonly known in the eountry as “Preacher Jones,” this morning murdered Ella Jones and per oldest daughter, Ida, and then wt fire to the beds in which lay the podies of his victims and four sleeping bildren, ranging in years from a babe one month old to the largest boy; who was not more than 5 years old. The crime was committed at Gar- per's alittle town five miles east of here and the work was done with an axe. : The murderer, according story of little 7-year-old Jones, who escaped with her younger sister, deliberately struck the mother four times and then made two cuts to the Laura KIDNEY Disunclo If your Kidn death to follow. Se but they will soon overw Morrow's Kid-ne- > area Kidney tonic, nerve r Kid-ne-oids ar @ box at soc. Sells for asc. a box at drug stores. Kid-ne-oids and be r moved For sale at all druG stores. NEAR THE VALLE DE MENETIZ W ontaining a large quantity of iron ipes are carted to the winery in d made into wine. om western vineyards. ADE LIKE WOLVES THAT PREY UPON THE HUMAN SYSTEM. us troubles may seem very m you unless you stop their progress. of all diseases arising froin disordere Thin, Watery and Impoverished Blood. torer and blood builder. w tablets and are never sold in less quantities thau Morrow’s Liverlax cures constipation, lax are manufactured by John Morrow & Co. Mre.M W Jacows 317 Nor:h Foarth , St. Louis, says:—* People who are eflictea with kidney troubles doubting the curative prop- erties of Murrow’s Kid-ne-olds, I would advise them to give the remedies a fair trial as I have and [ dare eay all their doubts will I euffe red tor more than 8 yearfrom backache. ora cil }ain across the small ot my back ot ‘ngipains through my back in the segion of the kidneys Morrow’s Kid-ne-oida being 20 well recommend: dfor my trouble I got & package and in lese than a week I telt like adifferent perfon Scene in Portugal at the Rio Porto Vineyards. RYING THE PORT GRAPES TO THE WINERY, ON THE HEADS OF MEN AND WOMEN, MASHING VATS TO BE TRODDEN FOR PORT WINE. The rugged hills with projecting rocks of brown’ stone and shale , make it impossible to use wagons te hence the grapes have to be carried to the treading vat or larger sthey are called, and some are large enough for twenty persons to read, which they do dancing to music furnished by the proprietor. lashed between rollers made of rubber, which do not break the seeds, grand wines of Speer’s that have mellowed in flavor in the burse of years ot ripening, are the choicest wines in this country and monly be obtained by paying a price that is higher than new wines 0 Mr. Speer deems it necessary for a healthy Wine that it be allowed years to mature in wood to get rid of its Tse parts; with this object he keeps his wines several.years in gated cellars and frequently racks before bottling or offering for e. The repntation of Speer’s wines as a valuable medicinal and hily wine extends around the world {Grocers and Druggists sell Speer’s Wines and Brandy then fired the house and it was com- pletely destroyed. The body of Ella Jones and that of Ida, the 13-year-old child, were burn- ed beyond recognition The dead are: Ella Jones, the mother, aged 333 Ida Jones, 13 years old. Josie Jones, 5 veass old. Nancy Jones, 3 years old Eva Jones years old. An unnamed baby, one month old Thetwo girls who ‘escaped were Laura Jones, 7 old Sid Jones, 4 years old. ] into the body of the oldest child. He | | | | years and When the people heard the story of the murder they went to the Jones house to arrest him. They found his clothes still bore stains of fresh blood and that his hands werecovered with blood CABSTORIA. Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature | Lp Lite jfoe. It | tion that Cecil | SGA idee “IDNEY TRO far off at present entific discovery for the eure d Kidneys, Poor Nerves and They are an unfailing biliousness and costiveness. SETTLING WITH GERMANY. England Will Pay Hans Wagner’s Owners 150,000 Marks. Berlin, March 21.—The Kreuz Zeitung, in a remarkable article deal- | ing with the South African war, | says: “The j unanimity of feeling among the En- 'glish. They areallstanding together, through good and evil report, and war has demonstrated the are compelling the admiration of the | world. It has also shown in a most y the strength of the im- perialistic idea, having done much in amazing w welding the colonies into a veritable empire.’ The artic however, disapproves the plan of Lord Roberts to treat ‘the Boers as rebels, and it censures |Rudyvard Kipling for encouraging | the British to deal with them still more harshly, despite the fact that | England never fought amore gallant concludes with the declara- Rhodes, after his ar- rival in London, will decide the fate of the The question of dam: soers: s for de- taining and searching German ves- sels in South African waters is still pending between England and Ger- many. The precise amounts to beawarded to each vessel have not yet been set- tled, excepting in the case of the Hans Wagner, whose owners will receive 150,000 marks are being carried on in the best spirit but the negotiations by both sides, and will soon come to a satisf Doctor Schmidt, military surgeons, who have ‘tory end. Krummacher and Doctor just returned froin the British camps commerce, to show that it has no! water inits stock and that it has’ neither attempted in the past nor is | attempting to mcnopolize any branch | of business or production. The platform declares that the re publican party is endangering the | preservation of republican institu- | tions by placing the dollar above the man and violating principles it once deemed essential! | | The Puerto Rico tariff bill is con- ;demned as a bold and open violation of the nation’s organic | | flagrant breach of faith, adding | “We assert that the constitution | | | | | | | | | law and a | follows the flag and de that doctrine that an executive or a n- | gress, created and limited by the con- stitution, can exercise lawful author- ounce ity beyond that constitution or in violation of it “The Filipinos cannot without endangering our civilizz they cannot dangering our form of and ion; be sublects without en-| government ;{ we are not willing tosurrender our civilization or to a re- public into an empire, we favor an immediate declaration of the nation’s purpose togive to the Filipinos, first, a stable form of government ; independence, and third, protection from outside interference, as it has} for nearly a century couvert given protection to the republics of Central and South America. “We favor the expansion for tr by means, but we are opposed to pur- chasing trade at the cannon’s mouth with human blood; neither we believe that trade secured and held by force is worth the price paid for it every legitimate and peacef ul in South Africa, speak in commenda tion of the sanitary arrangements there. They deny that dumdum or bullets are the British, anid assert that other torturing used by they did instance of the Red not witness a single actual breach of the rules of Cross Society. They will German War Office. The coming summer Germany will make a report to the increase the number of her war ves- sels stationed abroad from sixteen to China getting stead of six, and the American coasts twenty-one, nine in- getting three instead of one. The new arrangement will also in- volve sending three war ships to South Africa. The results of an over indulgence in food or drink are promptly recti- tied, without pain or discomfort, by taking a few doses of HERBINE. Price 50 cents.at H. L. Tucker's. Platform Adopted by Democrats of d somesimes sharp shoot- HERE THEY ARE DUMPED IN THE SS SSS ALFRED SPEER, ae Pioneer wine grower of New Jersey whose Port Grape wine and | limited coinage of gold and silver at urgandy rivals the world, imported the Port ago, and planted vineyards in the Passaic Valley N. J. The soil Passaic county, New Jersey, is identical to that of de’Menetiz. Speer’s New Jerscy Vineyards e situated in the Passaic valley below the mountain range and the Grape vines many the town of Passaic where they are Nebraska. The platform adopted by the Ne- braska democratic state convention March 19, wasinspired and approved in every detail by William Jennings Bryan. The platiorm reaffirms, in whole and in part, in letter and_ in spirit, the Chicago platform; favors an in- come tax, direct vote for senators by the people, the principle of the initia- tive and referendum whenever it can be applied, liberal pensions for deserv- ing veterans, and the Nicaraguan Canal. It opposes government by injunc- tion and blacklist, and favors arbi- tration. 5 It condemns the Dinglev tariff law asa trust-breeding extortion- inviting measure, and welcomes the opportunity offered to take the gov- ernment out of the of the republican party, which “has aban- doned American ideals and American ideas, and, at the command of cor- porate wealth, has plotted against the financial independence of the na- tion, industrial inde- pendence of the individual, and now contemplates the nullification of the Declaration of Independence.” It pledges the party to wage an unceasing warfare against all the trusts—money, industrial and the international land-grabbing trust It demands arm American financial stem, to be secured by the imme- diate restoration of the free and un- and hands menaced the the present legal ratio ot 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or con- sent of other nations. It demands the retention of the greenbacks as they now exist and the retirement «cf the national bank notes fast as greenbacks can be substituted them. The national administration is condemned for its failure to enforce the present anti-trust law or to ne- commend a more effective one: af firms the belief that congress should as for | supplement state efforts by legisla- tion that will require every corpor- | jand leaves the skin unharn It costs about one-fifth as much as the so-c¢ d shaving soaps and many purpose for years, will not The vegeta ch othe have used it for this any other. who have t for many special uses TO SUPPRESS THE YAQUIS. ye are in favor of exte yw the na- > We ae favor of extending th Na-) Mexican Army to Be Re-Enforced to tion’s influence, but we lieve that bee 2 the influence should be extended not the Number of 4,000 Men. e : } vsti “uy $ . * 1 by force and violence, but through} Austin, Texas, March 21.—A_ dis- persuasive power of a high and hon-| Pat hfrom Monterey, Mexio, says orable example. that the 9th Regiment of Infantry “We oppose militarism It imposes Stationed in that city, has received upon the people an unnecessary bur ord to proceed immediately to the den and is a constant menace. A|Seene of the Yaqui Indian war and small standing army and a_ well- join the forees of Gen. Louis Torres equipped state militia are sufficient |!" the campaign thatis now being in time of peace; inthe time of war] Wes “J against the rebels. It is prob- the citizen soldier should be a repub- able that permission will be asked of lic’s defense. the United States government by “We peace, commerce and ship with all nations, and entangling alliances, with none; and we regard with apprehension the doctrine, ad_|* vocated in some quarters, that this Jefferson, in friend-|* t believe, with honest nation should in its dealings or dip- lomacy show partiality toward any of the European nations. ‘Not baeause of hostility to Eng- land,” the platform states, “but be- cause we believe in the principles of a republic, and reject, as did fathers, the theory of monarchy, we sympathize with the Boers in their heroic efforts to preserve their na- The failure of re-|‘ Indians, and th € our fore- tional integrity. publican leaders, who four ars ago expressed sympathy for the Cuban patriots, to feel an interest in the struggle of the Dutch in South Africa shows the paralyzing influences of imperial policy to which the adminis- tration is now endeavoring to com- mit thiscountry Must Operate on Metcalf. Topeka, Kans., March 22.—Wilder S. Metealf, late colonel of the famous twentieth Kansas regiment, wil te obliged to undergo an operation as a result of a wound received while in the Philippines. During the battle of Guiguinto he was shot in the foot by a Filipino sharpshooter, from the effects of which he was obliged to re- tire from the field and enter the mili- tary hospital, where he remained several months. The bullet split a bone in the foot. but the weund healed to the satisfaction of the regi- mental surgeons. He wasaccording- ly discharged from the hospital and resumed command of the regiment. Since returning to America, however, the wound has been giving him con- siderable trouble, and lately he has been suffering intense pain. Colonel Metcalf was in topeka on legal busi- ness to-day. It is with great difficul- ty that he isable to walk General Lew Wallacesays: ‘“‘When the president recommended free trade with Porto Rico, that was McKinley speaking from the heart, when he urged congressmen to eat their ut- terances and vote fora duty on the industries of the island, going and coming, that was Mark Hanna. the great Obio suspect.” General Wal-| lace is a little late in discovering that} hearts are not trumps in the admin- istration game in which the great Ohio suspect. as he calls him, shuffles. cuts and deals the cards.—Kansas City Times. Fulton has already begun to talk upits street fair for next an | ation, before engaging in interstate It had one last year and liked it. President Diaz for this re: retary of War the Yaqui country. four weeks. ities are confide state central committee in iment and other military forces to pass through he United States by Pass, Tex., hat way of E. Ariz to and Nogales is the only rail route the rebellion. It is authoritatively announced in military circles in Monterey that Sec- Sernardo Reyes has letermined to send at least 4,000 re- snforrements to the troops vow in These troops will go from Monterey, Guadalajara Chihuahua and Guanajuato, and will be placed in the field within the next An aggressive summer vampaign is to be made against the rovernment author- tthat it will result successfully BALL WITHDRAWS FROM THE RACE Pike County Man Issues a Card Thank- | ing His Friends. 6t. Louis Republic. Ex-senator D. A. who has been in the city several days. issued a card last n withdrawing from the race for the democratic nomina- tion for Governor. The card is ad “To my friends in Missouri,’ wht dressed and gives as the reason for the candi- date.s withdrawal ‘the fact that the political situation in Missouri elimi- nates me as a candidate.” After re-aftirming his faith in the democratic platlorm of 1896 and the taking a shot at papers of the state for av hesavs, printing anything concerning his candidacy. Senator Ball proceeds to f the iding, recent action discuss the placing the state nominating convention be- | fore the national convention, to which. however. he devotes only 4 line or two In retiring fr reaffirms stronger than e he has said in his speeehes. the situation as I do and being pow- erless to meet it.’” he continues, “and after consultation with many of my friends, I retirefromthecontest.” In closing be thanks his many friends, whe have stood by him in the contest placing his future time and services at their command. It will nosbetoo far, hot or cold for me to respond to their call.” he declares Mr ver all that “Seeing n the rac Des Moines. Ia., March 22.—Just be‘ore the adjournment of the lower honse of the legislature at 1m day a resolution was introduced by Representative Kendeil declaring “that the people of lowa are unalter- ably opposed to the Porto Rico tariff bill passed by the lower house of After considerable debate the reso- on to- on- Intion was adopted by unanimous | vote. Ball | Mrs. Howard Gould Sued’. } New York March 20.—As Mrs Ho Gould was stepping into her {carr -in front of her home, No S24 Fifth avenue, today a young man handed her a legal paper. This paper was an official notice to Mrs Gould to appear in the ht Distrit« Court and end an action brou, against her involving $85, the p of a waist of blue panne and Russian lace. Mile. Mirabella, a fifth ave new dressmaker, isthe plaintiff. Mrs Gould imed that the waist did not fit. Mile. Mirabella that it was the perfection of the modiste's contended art. Payment for the garment After wait ing many weeks Mile. Mirabella insti wor demanded and refused tuted proceedings, and Lawyer Laski ‘ined from Judge Stiner the sur - Mrs, mons whieh served Gould Should Mrs, Gould appearand cor - misfit, insist th her » by trying the was upon tend that the waist is a the will millionaire plaintiff it is said, the wife of the prove vssertion to the Jud Waist on ourt $100 Reward $100 he readers of this paper will be pleas- -d to learn that there is at least one eaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hail’s Catarrh Cure is the | only positive cure known to the medical | raternity. Catarrh being a constitution- al disease, requires, a constitutiona treatment. 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