American News by Mail.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7713, 16 January 1905, Page 4

American News by Mail.

' SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23. A despatch from Chicago, December 15th, states : —S. H. Harris, president of the Chicago House Wreck- , ing Company, drew . a cheque for 500,000 dollars to-day in favour of j the Louisiana . Purchase Exposition | Company, and thereby became owner . of the famous Ivory City (Exposition at St. Louis), with buildings and contents. One thousand labour- , ers will be at work most of next -year tearing . down, taking apart, and shipping) the stuff to the buyers. There will be 300 master mechanics to do finer labour, and 100 I'urnit- f ure handlers to transfer innumerable | pieces of magnificent household | equipment, not to speak of 450 , mounted police to stand guard day , and night. Harris is optimistic re- . gar-ding turning! a large sum to his lj company's account. Among the |, items of the purchase of the lair are !j 100,000,000 feet of lumber, 200,000 j square feet of lumber sash, 1,500,- I, 000 square feet of skylights, 5000 tj flags, 650,000d01. worth of copper I, wire, two complete hospitals, lire i. department, street railway plant, in- , eluding tracks, cars, ami power- 'j house, ten steam rollers, 25,000d01. worth of surveyors' instruments, and 1 several complete steel buildings. PLEASURE STEAMER DISASTER. j A despatch from New York, December 17-th, says By the burning of the steamer Glen Island in Long -Island Sound to-day nine lives were lost, and property roughly estimated at a quarter of a million dollars destroyed. That more lives were not sacrificed was due to the courage of the officers and crew and the excellent discipline maintained when a : horrible death for all seemed almost a certainty. When the steamer was abandoned' she was fire swept from i sltem to stern, yet the only persons ■ lost were those whose escape was entirely cut off iby the fire before the alarm reached them. The Glen Island left the dock at New York at evening for New Haven. A t in id- 1 night there came a rush of stifling smoke from the hold, and every i' electric light was extinguished. The ] captain sent in the alarm for lire 1 drill, and jnen came tumbling out of j their bunks. The steering gear was ' blocked, and the pilots assisted in saving lives, which was accomplish- | ed ty means of boats. One woman, || on the way to the boat, rushed back into a blazing cabin, presumably for valuables, and was lost. Tugs soon j' came to the rescue, picking up the ji iioats, but were unable to rescue ,t nine persons known to he aboard the <i •burning vessel. JIU-JITSU. | " NEW YORK, Dec. 22. Five star athletes of the New York , police force went to heatjqiiarters to- ; day to act as subjects in experi- j iuents wrth. -jiu-jitsu. Mr Hagashi, ] formerly a teacher of jiu-jitsu in the college at Kioto, had been summoned by Commissioner McAdoo to illustrate (.the Japanesc method of de- I .offence.! The five police- j men selected for subjects included , an all-round strong man of the force, J a champion hammer-thrower, a for- j . mer amateur featherweight and later:, professional welter-weight, an ama- ' teur middle-weight champion, and a , boxer and runner and all-round nth- I lete. | These policemen are all powerful I, men. Hagashi is sft 3in. and he l' weighs 1201b. I He began with a policeman known i 1 as "Ajax" because of his marvellous.' strength. Ajax duplicities with" ease ' the feats strong man ever seen in a' circus. He towered a giant over the diminutive Jap, but after 'j .. a.very jjr'ief tussle the Jap had him ] down limp and black in the face. , .Ajax tried.it again, and in a second I was down again, showing such signs of distress that the other five policemen rushed to pull the little Jap off ' him. Hie other policemen after that were not willing to let the Jap try 1 jiu-jitsu on them.;

ECZiEMAV Nothing spoils a good disposition ] quicker, Nothing taxes a man's patience, lake any irritation of the skin. Piles aljmost drive you crazy. All day they make you miserable. 1 All night they keep you awake. , Just the same with eczema. Such miseries are* daily increasing. "People are learning they can be 1 cured. Plenty of j>roof that Doan's Ointment will cure piles, ' , Eczema or any irritation of the ■kin. 1 Lot* of . proof that this is so. Mr» B. Sheeban, Seaton-Streot, says " For three years 1 I hav« been suflari-ng with Eczema ' ob one on my lege. It used to itch so much that I had to 1 scratch amd I fancy tihlat I must haTg poisoned it, as it grew a'.nrmingly bod. I used ointments and that •ort ml thing right away, and Kept using one after another for three years, but I could never get anything that garo much relief. Some j. months ago I got a pot of Doan's • Ointment, and this preparation started to cure me immediately, and I was rapidly getting well when it ran Oat and could not get any more for a time. I got a substitute, but while I u&ed it the Eotema was getting bad all the time, and I felt that I would 'give anyMung flor a J»t 01 Doan's Ointment. X got it at last and am now all right again." Doan's Ointment is splendid in all skin diseases, eczema, piles, sores, insect bites, chilblains, etc. It ia perfectly safe and very effective. Very often two or three pots bays cured chxtonic cases after oliher -ranedfee have failed for years. Doan's Ointment is for sale by all chemists and storekeepers at 8/ per pot, or will be posted on receipt of price by Foster McClellan Co, 76 Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Vales. But be sure it is DOAN'S.