Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 24, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 September 1894 — Page 2

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ONX a territory about the area of Montana Japan supports 40,000,000 people in comparative comfort. Reckoning our own area at twenty-four times that of Japan, this country at that rate would support 960,000,000 people. : _

. A PATENT has just been taken out for glasses and mugs. with a quicksilver thermometer, in order to enable the drinker to determine which tempera~ ture of the liquid will be most agreea~ ble to his taste and most beneficial for his health. N

It is not generally known that when a person falls into the water a common felt hat can be made use of as a life preserver. By placing the hat upon theswater, rim down with the arm 'arouzxd it, pressing it slightly to the breast, it will bear a man up for ‘hours. _ :

A BICYCLE ambulance is one of the latest inventions, and consists of a bicycle with an ambulance attached. The stretcher is fastened to the top of the bicycle, and the wounded or sick person lying on the stretcher can then be rolled along in a gentle and safe manner. ,

A NOVELTY in hospitals will soon be found in the Austrian town of Baden. It has just voted a credit of $lO,OOO for the benefit of rheumatic horses. The equine patients are to ‘have sulphur baths erected for their treatment, in which it is hoped that wonderful cures will be effected.

Two hours’ effort of a common laborer, says Edward Atkinson, in the September Forum, in one of our seaboard cities, who earns for his service twenty-five cents an hour, will pay the cost of moving 1,000 miles the barrel of flour that yielded <him his daily bread for a vear. I

Ex-SENATOR WARREN'S Wyoming ranch is 75:by 100 miles and is 'stocked with 2,000 horses, 15,000 cattle and 120,« 000 sheep. The sheep®are divided into buneches of 8,000 to 10,000, and driven from place to place, or rather, herded for a short time in one place, the herders living in movable houses built on wagons. '

Lorp ROSEBERY says that as soon as the story of his sleeplessness reached the newspapers, after he entered Gladstone’s cabinet, he was deluged with cures. One of the first, and what seemed to him the easiest, was to sip before going to bed a tumbler of hot water. He tried it, and since has had no further trouble of the kind.

- Tae island of St. Helena, where Napoleon passed so many years of his life in banishmient, is to become a health resort. Since the opening of the Suez canal the inhabitants have suffered severely from a money point of view, as fewer ships touch there than in former years. .The people want some other source of income and have adopted this plan. - '

Cou~xTt HiroßuMml ITO, the prime minister of Japan, and actual head of the empire, is a very able statesman, the equal, in the estimation' of many, of Li Hung Chang. One writer compares him with Alexander Hamilton. He has rare administrative talent, great skill in- management, and it is to him that Japan owes her recent progress in civilization.

MucH of the fine fruit which is sold on the street stands as a California product comes in reality from Oregon, and the natives of the latter state are beginning to grow jealous of their big sister stealing théir -thunder. An Oregon man, now in New York, says that all the best Oregon fruit {is bought. by Californians and shipped east as a California product. - -

ProrLE who are disposed to grumble about high prices should be thankful that they do not live in the town of Forty Mile Creek. on the Yukon river, Alaska. The town is the largest in the placer gold mining district, and flour sells for 17 cents a pound, while bacon brings 40 cents, beans are firm at 20 cents, butter is strong at 75 cents, and dried fruit is worth 25 cents a pound.

PaupeßrlsM has greatly declined in England since 1871. The préportion of child paupers has changed from 5 to 2.3 per cent.. that of the able-bodied from 1.4 to .5 per cent., and tnat of the old paupers (above sixty) from 21.5 to 13.7 per cent. of the population of the several ages.. Since 1858 the paupers who are not able-bodied have decreased not only relatively, but absolutely, by 30,-

AMOXG the interesting books of the future fo be issued {rom the government printing office is a history of the Six Nations, compiled and written by experts in the bureau of ethnology. It will be profusely illustrated and will contain full vocabularies of the words of the' Mohawks, Senecas. Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, ete. It will also contain the story of the Iroquois religion, manner of worship and" social customs. It will constitute a valuable addition to literature that is essentially American.. St

THERE are something over 2,000 patents covering the making of paper. It may be manufactured, under some one of them, from the leaves of' trees; from hop plants, bean stalks, pea vines; from the trunks and stems of Indian corn and every variety of grain; from moss, clover and timothy hay, and more than one hundred kinds of ‘grasses; from straw and cocoanut fiber, from fresh water weeds, and sea weeds; from saw= dust, shavings and asbestos; from shis~ tles and thistle down; from badana skins, tobacco stalks and tan bark; from hair, wool, fur, old sacking or baggingy. .

Trae Oklahoma legislature passed a free-and-easy divorce law among ita first acts. The object was to make the obtaining of a divoree so easy in Okla~ homa that it would be an inducement for persons desiring to break the marriage relation to come there, thus stims ulating Wnmigration and promoting business. The legislation no doubt led to the granting of a large number of divorces. Now comes a decision of the territorial supreme court rullifying alk divoreces granted under the act referred to, and declaring that subsequent marriages contracted by persons so dis votced are bizamous. L e :

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, ' FROM WASHINGTON. = IN his annual report. the comptroller of thé currency shows that the total number of accounts, claims and cases settled during the fiscal year ended June 80 last was 88,165, involving $280,602,002. - | “THE government crop report for September places the ¢ondition of corn at 63.4. Twenty per cent. of the area planted has been cut up for fodder or abandoned. - : DuRING August the exports of breadstuffs amounted to $10,851,8386, against $22,630,348 a year ago, and for %the eight months ending August last to $85,848,714, against $129,361,102 for the corresponding period of 1893. : ConNGRESSs having failed to make a sufficient appropriation for the purpose the custom of publishing in newspapers the list of unclaimed letters at post offices has been abandoned.

" EXxcHANGES at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended, on the l4th aggregated $853,263,145, against $794,382;538 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 7.8. g T

IN a jealous rage Thomas Taylor, 88 years of age, killed his wife, who was 25 years old, in Washington by shooting her and then shot himself.

IN the United States there were 207 business failures in the seven days ended on the 14th, against 215 the week previous and 814 in the corresponding time in 1893. NEW counterfeits are in circulation, one being a slosilver certificate, chéck letter A, series 1886, and the other is a 85 note of the First national bank of Cincionati. -

THE EAST.

AT Pittsburgh the crowning event of the twenty-eighth national encampment of the Grand Avmy of the Re public was the parade of the old soldiers and sailors. Thirty-five thousand veterans marched over a route 8 miles long and 500,000 people cheered the m,arcﬁers.

' Tnﬁ New fYor‘k _constitutional convention by a large majority. struck out the £5,000 limitation which may be recovered in case of death by accident. ‘ ' A TRAIN killed Mr. and Mrs. Orson Higgins and fatally injured a little girl at Putnam, N. Y. T

DirecTtors of ‘the. Western Union Telegraph company have declared the regular .quarterly dividend of 1% per cent. payable October 1. : TuE failure was announced of Marshall H. Abbott, an extensive real estate operator at Salem, Mass., for $500,000. A TaE Grand Army of the Republic encampment at Pittsburgh listened to reports of officers and decided on Louisville as the next place of meeting. The report of €Commander in Chief Adams showed that 7,283 veterans died during the past year, leaving the total membership 869.083. i} AT Connellsville, Pa., Bernard Toker was shot and killed and his wife Mary fatally wounded by Franz Morris, a 13-year-old boy. that they had befriended. The lad stole $l3 and escaped. ' OFFICIAL figures of the election in Maine give Cleaves (rep.) for governor a plurality over Johnson (dem.) of 3§,424. ;

ARTHUR VINCENT, a New York boy, who had circled the globe without a cent of money, landed in Philadelphia from .the Norwegian steamship Forbuna, from Java. = He left New York two years ago at the age of 14. At the G. A. R. encampment in Pittsburgh Col. Thomas G. Lawler, of Rockford, 111., was elected commander in chief. ‘The Daughters ‘of Veterans elected Mrs. Ellen' M. Walker, of Worcester, Mass., as president. and the Voman’'s Relief Corps selected as president Mrs. Emma R. Wallace, of Chicago. '

Jubee LrppiNcorT, of Jersey City, in accordance with a recently enacted law, refused to receive a plea of guilty made by a murderer. THE 8,403-mile run from Southampton to Sandy Hook was made by the American liner New York in 6 days 7 hours and 20 minutes, breaking all records. .

WEST AND SOUTH.

LaeaTNING killed five valuable imported stallions owned by M. W. Dunham, at Wayne, 111.

"IN Chicago Dr. Swayze B. L. Merrill dropped dead in the Illinois Central depot from heart disease.

ALIx trotted a mile on the Terre Haute (Ind.) track in 2:04, equaling the world’s record of Nancy Hanks. Carbonate lowered the 2-year-old record to 2:10. Vi

IN a family quarrel W. F. Breckman, a farmer, killed his wife and Robert King, his stepson, at Rosebury, Ore.

.MArcus Murray and Thomas Os‘born quarreled over hogs at Polkville, Ky., and killed each other.. ' THE following congressional nominations were reported: ~Michigan, Eighth district, Rowland Conner (dem.). Wiscopsin, First district, James R. Doolittle (dem.). Ohio, Sixteenth distriet, 0. O. Barnes (dem.). Maryland. Sixth district, F. Williams (dem.). Alabama, Ninth distriet, T. H. Aldrich (rep.). Minnesota, Second district, John Moonan (demn.); Sixth, Kittle Halvorsen (pop.). -

THE Nevada democratic convention in session at Carson nominated R. P. Keating for governor and G.E.Gignoux for congressman. A TRAIN was hurled from the track near Charleston, Mo., by a c¢yclone and two passengers were killed and a score injured, a number fatally. NEeAR Chestnut, 111., Isaac N. Woicott, a wealthy farmer, killed his wife, wno had begun suit for divorce, and then blew off his own head with a shotgun. o THE republicans of Colorado met at Denver and nominated a ticket headed by A. W, Mclntyre, of Alamosa, for goveruor. .

AX unknown man robbed the Citizens’ bank at Rossville, lil., of $lO,OOO during the noon hour. ; REv. CHARLES CLANCEY, 0f Frontier, Mich., was tarred and feathered by masked men and :then rolled down a steep hill. -

O. H. MANN was nominated for state treasurer at a convention of the American Protective association held in Chi~ cago, 8: D. Snow was named for school superintendent and W. S. Mc¢Comas, J. W. Pickens and J. B. Struble for congress. o g

WHILE visiting in Chicago G. C. De Bronkart, the Belgian consul at Denver, died suddenly. = ' .

A TORNADO swept over North Memphis, Tenn., and one man was killed and two othérs'injured and @ property loss of $250,000 inflicted. : NoMINATIONS for congress ' were mude as follows: Wisconsin, Fifth district, Henry RBlank (dem.). Alabama, Ninth district, T. H. Aldrich (rep.). California, Fourth district, T. B. Shannon (rep.); Fifth, E. V. Loud (rep:) renominated. Virginia, Gardiner Tyler (dem.) renominated. : OFricIALB captured Buck Harlan, a notorious counterfeiter, near Shelbyville, Ind. ) e THE official returns of the Arkansas state election show that over one-half of the counties in the state voted against liquor license. . - J. C. Ferters and his wife were killed at Edon, 0., by a Wabash train an hour after their wedding. THIRTY buildings were consumed by fire in San Francisco, the loss being $lOO,OOO. . ~ Jupce TiproN ruled in a suit at Bloomington, 111., that druggists, dry goods and grocery dealers were not compelled to sell to colored people. - FArRMERsS in Kansas were selling their hogs for transportation charges to market, having nothing to feed them. $ » IN the trial at Chicago of President Debs and other officers of the American Railway union the taking of testimony was completed. The arguments will be made on September 25. FAxTASY lowered the record for 4-year-old mares at Terre Haute, trotting the mile in 2:06, beating her own time one second. WHITE cAPs drove William Enochs, of Martinsville, Ind., from his home for alleged cruelty to his wife. AT Selma, Ala., -Sam Johnson, a 21-vear-old negro; sold himself to Col. Stark Oliver. : , AT St. Joseph, Mo., a bottle of pop exploded and put out the eyes of William Gardner, aged 18 years. 5 Foßesrt fires in Wisconsin were extinguished by the first heavy rain that has fallen since June.. - CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made as follows: Wisconsin, Seventh district, G. W. Levis (dem.). Colorado, Second district, T. M. Bowen (rep.). Virginia, = Tenth district, Thomas Goode (rep.). New Mexico, T. B. Mills (pop.). : ' At Eddy, N. M., James Barrett was hanged for the murder of John Holihan at Seven Rivers.

ExocH DAvis, a wife murderer, was shot at Lehi, Utah, he having chosen that mode of execution in preference to hanging. , ' | RoBERT J. paced a mile at Terre Haute, Ind., in 2:0114, breaking all records. Carbonate put the 2-year-old mark at 2:09, and John R. Gentry cut the stallion record to 2:033{ in a race. WHILE drunk Fred Miller. 70 years old, fatally stabbed his wife at Kenton, 0., and then drowned himself in a well. .

"A ToMBSTONE fell on Susan Johnson, an aged woman, while planting flowers in a cemetery at Homeworth, 0., inflicting fatal injuries. _ DEMOCRATIC bolters met at Carson, Nev.. and nominated a state ticket headed by Theodore Winters. for governor.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE Spanish authorities ordered the governor general of Cuba to restore the import duties on American products.

Aporra FRIETSCHE, who sailed from New York August 5 in a schoonerrigged skiff 47 feet long, reached Queenstown in safety. 3 AT Montevideo fifty-five Brazilians were executed by order of President Peixoto. Military and naval officers were among the unfortunates. F. F. RapwAy, of London, at the Rosedale track, in Toronto, lowered the 100-mile bicycle record to 5:01:10 1-5.

Frames in ‘the leather market im London caused a loss of $1,000,000. IN Chung-King, China, thirty persons lost their lives -and 2,000 buildings were destroyed by fire. :

LATER NEWS.

OwENS was said to have been victori® ous in the contest for the democratic nomination in the Ashland (Ky.) congressional district. . His plurality over Breckinridge was estimated to be 410. ' WiLrLiAM BLANFORD,an alleged forger of Clinton, Ind., was arrested after a search of two years. : ! THE Mexican congress was opened by President Diaz, who, in his speech, said that Mexico was on friendly rela‘tions with 21l nations.

M. L. Davis, of Little Rock, Ark., tendered his resignation as American consul at Merida, Yucatan.

ANDREW BEE, who recognized Jeffer: son Davis when the latter was escaping, died at his home in Martin, Allegan county, Mich. LEONARD BLonGETT, of Luzerne, N. Y., aged 55, attempted to assault a girl and fatally wounded both her parents. WHILE passengers were being transferred past.a wreck at Hammond, Wis., an oil tank exploded and twelve were seriously burned.

A wixpsTorM did great damage at Niagara Falls and caused the ‘suspension bridge to sway like a cradle. - FIFTEEN persons were injured, several fatally, in arunaway accident near Irondale, 0., caused by the raising of an umbrelia. : IN a decision at Des Moines, la., Judge Spurrier held the mulet liquor law to be constitutional.

THE Mutual Benefit Life Association of America closed its doors under orders of the insurance department of New York state.

‘J. L. GoopMAN and B. Y. Armstrong, Gatesville (Tex,) editors, shot each other to death in a street duel.

AT Portland, Ore., J. W. Stanegels, a eivil engineer, killed Mrs. Mabel Calvin and committed suicide. Jealousy was the cause. : AT Monticello, 111., Mr. and Mrs. George Clouser celebrated their seventieth wedding anniversary. THIRTEEN men were indicted by the grand jury for complicity in the recent lynching of six negroes near Millington, Tenn. ~ ScraNTON, Pa., suffered a loss of $250,000 by a blaze in the business district. ' _ :

THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week - ended on the 15th were: Baltimore, .684; New York, .653; :Bp_ston, «647; Philadelphia, .576; Brooklyn, :546; Cleveland, .513; Pittsburgh, .402; Chicago, 438, Cincinnati, .425; St.. Louis, .400; Washington, /847;-Louis-wille, At e ok Gl

OWENS WINS. On the Face of the Returns Breckinridge Is Beaten. - The Colonel Refuses to Acknowledge His Defeat, and May Contest the Result of the Primary—A Memorable Contest. : : THE VOTE. : _ LExiNGgTON, Ky., Sept. 17.—1 n the primaries of the Seventh congressional district Saturday W. C. Owens is believed to have secured a safe majority of the delegates, The vote was about as follows so faras the returns already received indicate: . Breckin- - COUNTY. Owens. ridge. Settle. BOUrDON. .ease -unttiinsaaes.l.o3o 1,151 58 Fayette .. ... .ol 812 1,97 480 Fra0k1in......c.. 4.0, .. 1016 & 995 288 Henry ...0c.0..0 i, 488 857 669 OdHam ... e 107 243 265 OWEH iiio.iiives ol aenns 2290 11880 1.300 Seott,.oti ii, 0824 & 686 168 -Wooadfard. .. o iiiaiiieensy o 811 688 141 Totals. ..o ... 0k L 0 BORT LOR7 3400 Owens’ plurality, 410. . Breckinridge leaders claim thatin Scott county Owens received many fraudulent votes, as 600 more democrats voted in this county Saturday than at the 'last election. Desha Breckinridge said he was confident of his father’s election. Said he: ‘I cannot give out a statement by counties, but our latest, reports reduce Owens’ plurality to 141. I am sure that the count will be given us by the district committee when it meets. If it does not I am not prepared to say what will follow; may be a contest.” There was a report Saturday afternoon that Owens, Settle and Breckinridge would eachissue a card to the public.: This was on the theory that Breckinridge was about to contest the election. Breckinridge absolutely refuses to talk. The most thorough investigation failed to find ground for the rumor. Everybody is thoroughly tired of the fierce contest that terminated in the primaries. A notable indication here is the doffing of Breckinride badges and the donning of Owens badges by the most ardent young men who supported Breckinridge throughout the campaign with their money and their personal services. These men say that they went to the election Saturday, believing that every voter at the primaries was morally bound to support the nominee. Now that their favorite for whom they fought so valfantly seems to have suffered defeat they feel in honor bounda to support his opponent. i :

FrRANKFORT, Ky., Sept. 17.—Breckinridge men here are reluctant to acknowledge their defeat. Some of them are still claiming the nomination of Col. Breckinridge by a small majority. They base their hopes of contesting. the election on the fact that the Owens county vote fell off 500 from last fall. Chairman: Gains, of the Breckinridge committee here, went to Lexington to consult with party leaders there. Owens men claim the nomination by 241 votes. FrANKFORT, Ky , Sept. 17.—News has been received here of a double killing in Lockport, 12 miles from Eminence, in Henry county. Jim Hoskins, an Owens man, and Wallack, a Breckinridge man, had a fight at the polls Hoskins shot Wallace, after which Wallace drew a knife and stabbed his opponent repeatedly. ‘Walldce is dead and Hoskins cannot recover. .

Paris, Ky., Sept. 17.-—At Riddles Mills, this county, at 7 o’clock Sunday morning Ben Duval shot and fatally wounded Ed Faulkner, aged 22. The trouble originated over the former challenging the latter’s vote at the election Saturday. {The most eventful primary in the history of Kentucky, if not the entire country, was the one of Saturday when a democratic candidate for congress was chosen for the AshJand - district. .It has been a remarkable - campaign, and has : attracted attention by reason .. of the fact that the principal candidate had been a repreresentative of this district for ten years, was considered one of the most polished orators of the land, and that he had fallen. When the sensational charges were brought against him Dby Madeline Pollard hundreds of his Dbest frlegds believed he would not make the race;” and when the trial was decided against him they were surprised and shocked when he announced his determination to ask the people to return him to congress. Then followed the uprising of the people in May and June, when they held indignation meetings. : The women took up the fight and pushed it until the last hour. They have made the fight in their churches, in their public meetings, on the streets; in the stores and in their homes. They have aillowed no opportunity to escape them and fought Breckinridge with that same determinatior and heroism that marked the pioneer women of Kentucky, when they helped their fethers and sons to fight the Indians. : :

The Breckinridges have talked of them in every way; called them brazen female politicians, referred to them as short-haired women, have said they would better be athome attending to their children and household duties, but nothing deterred these noble women. They braved all censure and even faced the tongue of slander to carry out the work of retiring from congress the present representative.

They have gone out among the people and have collected many hundreds of dollars to aid Mr. Owens in his campaign. They regarded it ‘as a fight for the honor of their homes, for the purity of their sons and daughters. It wasa woman’'s war and nothing but a woman's war could have awakened such widespread and self-sacrificing opposition to the former idol of Kentuckyv.

Saturday morning at 11 o’cleck the good women of Lexington held a prayer meeting in Morrison chapel. at wilich Elders McGarvey, Jones and Dr. Bartlett offered prayers. and Rev. Mr. Ward. of the Episcopal church, rcad lessons from the Bible. It wasone of the most solemn religious services ever seen in Lexington, and the earnestness of those engaged in it Indicated the strong feeling against the return of Col. Breckinridge.] i ’ -

Mexico’s Independence Day.

Mexico Crry® Mex., Sept. 17.—The three days’ festivities in honor of the birthday of President Diaz and the declaration of Mexico’s independence have opened throughout the republic. The military parade and sham = battle on the plains of Pearlvillo, was one of the grandest military pa',g'ea.nts witnessed for many years. At night the plaza of the government palace was filled with thousands of people while the palace was thronged with the nation’s elite attending thepresident’s grand annual reception. - : ;

Killed by a Bursting Cannen,

Quincy, 111, Sept. I%.=—During a' republican rally at Green City, Mo., Saturday afternoon a cannon exploded, killing Mr. Strickler and wounding several other persons. The cannon, heated from a shot just previously fired, was being reloaded by Mr. Strickler, when it suddenly exploded. A piece of the metal toreaway his jaw bone and crushed in his skull. v

Robbed His Partier.

Cuicago, Sept. 17.—E. A. Weil, =& liveryman, has disappeared after embezzling $3,000 from his partner. He left a letter intimating suicide.

BLAZING OIL. : - Sixteen Passengers on a Train in Wiseon- : sin Badly Burned. EAu Cramre, Wis, Sept. 17.—A freight train on the Chicago, Bt. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, which left Eau Claire a,g 12 o’clock Friday night, was ditched 2 miles west of Hammond early Saturday morning. The train comprised two oil cars. One oil tank took fire and exploded at the time of the acecident. A car of @ cosal and the caboose also ' burned. The track was blockaded and the limited passenger for Chicago leaving here at sa. m. was run to Minneapolis by way of Spooner. The worst incident of the wreck occurred at 10:45 a. m. while the passenger train from Minneapolis was waiting west of the scene of the accident. The -~vhole traiii load of passengers were passing around the wreck totake a train on the other side, when the other oil tank in the wreck exploded. The fragments of the tank whizzed through the air like bombshells and a shower of burning oil fell upon the afrighted people. The list of injured is as follows: ° : John Belwick, of Minneapelis, back, hands and face badly burned; Willlam Conroy,of Ellsworth. hands badly burned; Robert B. Clark, _of Chippewa Falls. neck and head scorched; S. U. Curtis, of Milwaukee Sentinel, neck burned; U, R. Dickey, of Cleveland, 0., hair burned off, hands badly burned, — Fredericks, conductor, hands badly burned while rescuing passengers; Edward Gardner, of - Hammond, hands badly burned; John Hoagland, of Hudson, hands - burned; C. Kromrey, of Neillsville; head, burned and clothes scorched; Levy W. Myers, of Wapello, la., American consul to Victoria, B. C., hands and. face burned; Mrs. W. J. Notting, of Menominee,; hands slightly burned; Olaf Oakwald, station master, hands, face and body burned; H. Rudiger, of Menominee, hands and face burned, clothes burned off; Ed. Syverson, section hand, badly burned; T. J. Watkins, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, knocked down by the explosion, head scorched; unknown old man, very seriously burned. ; No one had supposed that there was any danger that the tank would blow up, as the oil had been burning for some time. The tank contained about 6,000 gallons. of oil. Messrs. Dickey and Rudiger and an elderly man, whose name could not be learned, ‘were the most seriously injured. Mr. Rudiger’s clothes were all burned from his body. The hands of several of the injured were so badly burned that the flesh peeled off.

BOTH ARE DEAD.

Texan Editors Kill Each Other at Gatesville—A Bystander shqt.

Waco, Tex., Sept. 17.—At Gatesville, terminus of the Cotton belt, 43 miles west of here, a fatal street duel took place between J. L. Goodman, editor of the People’s Voice, and B. C. Armstrong, editor of the Star, both weekly papers. The duel grew out of a personal controversy in the papers over the Ed Cash lynching of a few months ago. The two men opened fire on each other just as they met in front of Goodman’s office. Goodman was shot through the heart and Armstrong through the bowels; both dying at once. J. G. Beeman, a bystander, was fatally wounded in the neck by a stray shot. All leave families and all are well known in this seetion of the state. ; .

Beeman, the bystander who was wounded, is still alive. He says that Armstrong was passing the office of the People’s Voice, of which Goodman was editor, and he (Beeman) called to him, saying: ‘T want to see you.” 'As Armstrong approached Beeman, Goodman came forward and sail: “I want to see you, too, Armstrong.” This had hardly been said when Armstrong pulled his revolver and fired. Beeman’s back was turned to Goodman and he is unable to say whether or not Goodman made any demonstration as Armstrong approached. BASEBALL. Standing of the Clubs in the Champion- { ship Contests. . The following t&ble shows the number of games won and lost this'season by eclubs of the National Baseball league: : - CLUBS. ! Von. Lost. I'er (L. Baltimore. ..o 0080 37 .684 New York...i.,.i..ctiia.cndf 42 653 BOStONn i...ooiiis v A 647 Philadelphia.ciiic.. setonse..BB = 50 576 BYOORLYD i ivisives v v 200 D 54 .546 Cleveltind .. cveaoii 00, .00 57 .513 Pittsburghii. oot sooiieiiin BB 60 492 Chifßßo. .. Ziiiiavne i 99 68 438 @Gincinmati. oo i sol 69 45 S Bouissiaiiia e 48 72 .400 Washington..... (.iao.. 0. 42 79 . 347 Loutsville. ... oo ol 33 86 297 Western beague: CLUBS. . Won. Lost. Fer(C., Sloux Cibty ... iaaviaivdiven?l 46 .607 Kansas CltV...v..ccdiisaese 08 51 571 Minneapolis. il ... il e 62 54 534 Moledo:......oviicva i 9 000 Y 53 527 Grand Rapids. .. o .00 61 .492 Indianavolif. v oo i 053 64 .458 Hetrolt. ... o il o tdY 67 422 Milwankee. . .. ..ol i i 70 .388 Western association: ' CLUBS. Vion. Lost. Zer (. Rock 151 and........ ...........69 48 .590 Lincoln .. o eivo oo i i 0 66 52 .559 Peorin ... il ol .. 0B 53 .b 55 Jacksonville:. .. .. 82 0 od 534 OmAha. . icoiiis i . O a 7 .51 StJoseph.. .. ... .00 G BB 61 .479 Des Moines. ... iiani o 00l €8 - .429 Quittey: .oo o w4O 78 .339 MANY CHINESE DROWN. A Fatal Panic Among the Shipwrecked : Troops. : SHANGHAL Sept. 17.—Six survivors of the persons aboard the Chinese transport Chean, which stranded in the Che Tung pass recently with 1,400 troops on board, while on her way to the Island of Forfmosa, have arrived ‘here. It was first, announced that, in spite of the panic which prevailed on board the transport after she went ashore, all the troops and crew were saved in the ship’s boats. But the six persons who have reached Shanghai say that they estimate that about 200 soldiers were drowned in the Che Tung pass. : , Germany Will Put a Tax on Sugar. BERLIN, Sept. 17.—Among the new rules which the government is preparing is one imposing a tax on the export of saccharine and other chem-ically-produced sweets which enter into competition with German beet sugar. This is intended to meet the complaints of the German sugar manufacturers, who are dissati'sﬁed with the new United States taviff. Killed His Would-Be Assassin. Lima, Peru, Sept. 17.—An attempt was made to assassinate Geun. Borgona, but he seized his assailant and kßilledhimy, . 00 o b 0 a 0 £ - Helped to Capture Davis.' = | Drrrotr, Mich., Sept. 17.—Andrew Bee, late of Company L, Fourth Michigan cavalry, died late Saturday night at Martin. To Bee belongs a good deal of the credit for the capture of Jefferson Davis, he being the first man to recognized the confederate president as he uttempted to escape in disa'iﬁse. Li < ,’ .;{:i‘(‘ :a ‘h, ,:a; : -Inteﬂ@r.mmﬂm Eﬁiﬁo}”% _ WasiiNGToN, Sept: 17.—The register of the interior department, complete to July 1. will be issued in a few days. playes then was 14,043, =~

RAILROADS AND "THE PEOPLE. An Excelhm‘t/’;ddress by President M. E. Ingalls, of the Big Four, on Their Relations, the One to the Other. o !

On the occasion of the recent opening of the new and magnificent terminal station of the Missouri Pacific & Iron Mountain, the Wabash, the Louisville & Nashville, the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern and the Big Four at St. Louis, begun five years ago, President M. E. Ingalls, of the Big Four, delivered an address on the ‘“Necessity for Better Feeling Between the Railways and the People.” After reviewing briefly the history of the effort which had had its fruition in, as he declared, ‘‘the best, the most artistic, the most commodious of any railway station in the world,” and congratulating the people of St. Louis on its completion, President Ingalls paid & just tribute . to Dr. Taussig, president of the Terminal association, to whose efforts a large part of the success of the new structure is due. He then referred to | the phenomenal growth of the railroads in this country during the past ‘ sixty years, and claimed the unparalieled development and prosperity of this country during that time was its’ direct result and that its future de‘'pended upon the success of its transportation facilities.: “That the railways should prosper,” he said, ‘“‘is to the interest of every man, woman and child in this great country of ours, no matter what his calling or business. To attain this success there must be better feeling betiveen the railways and the people, between the railways and their employes.” - Referring to the recent strike as ‘‘the greatest, the most causeless and the most unsuccessful” in the history: of strikes and questioning what conditions made it possible that “a few worthless demagogues” could induece such a large number of railway employes to neglect their interest and forget the loyalty due the companies, thre speaker asked what was the cause of the great dissatisfaction? As managers it behooves them to consider the question carefully and endeavor to find a solution, for somewhere there was an answer. The great strike was not without its lessons, one of which was that “no strike ean succeed which has no real ground of grievanee and which public opinion does not support.” Continuing, President Ingalls said: : - “But out of it the wise men should seek for the cause of the evil and its cure. If the system of profit-sharing among employes could be adopted, I have always believed that it would be a cure for these evils; but béfore this can be successfully adopted we must secure the profits. We ought also to establish a . system of pensions for those disa= 'bled in the service, and for annuities for those who have been worn out serving their corporations. There must also be a better feeling built up between the railways and the communities they serve. The situation l is much improved.now and it is not as fashioni able as it used to be for newspapers and public bodies to abuse railways and their management. but there are many statesand communi- . ties to-day where there exists a feeling of great hostility towards railway corporations, This is unfortunate, and it is the duty of rail- ‘ way managers and of statesmen to discover . wherein lies the trouble and endeavortocure it.

*‘To-day more than one-fifth of all the railways in .the country are in the hands of receivers, and nearly one-fifth of all the investment in railways is unproductive. ~This represents a capital of over two thousand millions of dollars. And yet you will find people preaching a crusade to-day through the ballot box against railway property and its management. You will find all manner of threats of hostiie legislation. Taxes in every state and c¢ity are being increased almost beyond endurance, and vet these very communities depend for their existence and their future prosperity upon the railways which they would destroy. This must be cured in some manner. The railway managers themselves are-. responsible in many cases and to a great extent for this trouble. They have managed their railways arbitrarily; they’ have endeavored to maintain that they were private ecorporations and could not be controlled by the publie, but tkat day has gone - Dby. The wise manager to-day has accepted the situation: he fully realizes thatv a railway corporation is not a private partnership; it is a great public institution with public duties to perform and with responsibility to the public and subject in certain ways to public control. Even the interstate commerce . law, which was bitterly opposed by the great majority of the railway managers, has been accepted: they all believe it has come to stay and. that it will take the place of the disjointed legislation of the dif: ferent states, and out of it future good to the business communities and to the railways can be obtained.

“We must have certain reforms, and railway raanagers must worl these out subject to law and legislation. It seems to be the consensus of opinion that the interstate commerce law should be amended; amended so us to legalize contracts between rallways, so as to bring this vast interest of our country under. the protection as well as the burden of the law. Our system of freight rates must be changéd.” We eannot raise the rates on the great products which are exported and which have to be carried long distances, for they will not bear higher rates of transportation. but a terminal charge should be exacted on all freights, as it is in England. One cent a hundred pounds terminal charge would not be felt by the great mass of the people, but it would bring prosperity and comfort to the railway owners and' employes and would enable them to better serve--the communities which are their patrons. o “The system of running passenger trains and of making passenger fares must be changed We haul a Pullman or Wagner car. weighing fifty tons with twenty-five passengers fifty miles an hour and charge the same rate per mile to the passenger occupying the same that we'do to the one occupying a coach that weighs twenty-five tons and carries fifty people at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour. = The railivays should own, either hy contractor lease, their own sleeping cars; they should sell their tickets at one rate, good on limited trains, and this ticket should furnish sleeping and parlor car accommodations, and they should sell a ticket at another rate on their slow trains, which should furnish merely seat accommoda~tions. : o e @

“Finally, a better state of feeling between employes and the management, between business communities and the inanagement, should be built up by association, by an accommodat= ing spirit on the part of each. I pledge you tonight the railways to work to this end.” T e ST ORIGIN OF COMMON THINGS. STEEL pens originated in England in 1803. S - - TrLES were used om houses in 'Rome 500 B. C. - ; LAWYERS were known in Babylon 2300 B. C. - . BOOEREEPING is first mentioned in Italy about 1569. _ - COCE-FIGHTING was ‘introduced into England in 1191 S TiTLES are older than written history. King is the oldest. PAINTING in both oil and water colors was known in Egypt 1900 B. C. SHoES are first mentioned in Egyptian annals 2,000 years before Christ. Stamps for marking goods were in use at Rome before the Christian era. CrEss was of military origin and known in India betﬁre the :C%u-i’s’tihn efa. ~ L Tug use of the Christian era in chronology began in Italy in 525. It was not employed in England until 8186. e ; . Tar first telegraphic message that _ever passed over the wires was com‘posed of the words: ‘‘What hath God Wht?’,’ - e A ey f‘ ﬁ

. | The Humming-Bird’s Nest. - What & frail house to trust with family cares,! Halr, string and moss in cunning complex - twisted : Upon a branch exposed to windy airs, ' As though for nestlings danger ne'er existed!l! But there the humming bird, with bravo cour= S m' e S i Lays, and broods on her tinted eggs so slights ‘Within the woven cup, and for her forage Trusts thoughtless nature togive food aright. The winds may blow till like a leaf the nest Dances and whips upon the frolié breeze, Yet will the fledgelings thrive and take their ; rest ! i . . Rocked to small sleep amid the airy seas. The sharp-nosed fox about the wood may oprowly s - The sharp-eyed hawk peer down in search of prey, . And 'neath the stars may hunt the sharp-billed - owl, : But still the jeweled wee ones hide alway. A wonder 'tis, such tiny creatures dare " _Perils so fearsome in the unsheltered wild! But wonder greater that small son and heir - Survives such perils safe as eagle’'s child! - —Starr Hoyt Nichols, in Century. 5 ——— & . Cheap Excursions to the West. . An jexcep_tionall% favorable opportunity for visiting the richest and most productive sections of the west and northwest will be afforded by the Home-Seekers’ low-rate .excursions which have been arranged by the North-Western Line. Tickets for these ex« ‘cursions will be sold on Sept. 11th and 25th, and Oct. 9th, to points in northwestern, lowa, western Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Manitoba, Nebraska, Colorado, \V‘{loming, Utah, Montana and Idaho, and will be good for return passage within twenty days from date of sale. Stop-over privileges will be allowed on going trip in territory to which the tickets are sold. : For further imformation, call on oraddress Ticket Agents of connecting lines. Circu~ lars giving rates and detailed information will be mailed, free, upon application to W. A. Thrall, Geperal Passenger and Ticket Agent Chicago & North-Western Railway, Chieago, 5 . . D ey T Lucy—*Miss Aylett is not at all pleased with that notice of her in Sunday’s paper.” Jack—‘*Why, they spoke of her as a hand‘some . brunette.”’ Lucy--‘‘But they published her picture.’’—Harlem Life. e e A et 3 Everybody Is Going South Now-a-Days. The only section of the country where the . farmers have made any money the past yearis in the South. '“lf you ‘wish to change you should go down now and see for yourself | The Louisville & Nashville Railroad and connections will sell tickets to all points South for trains of October 2, November 6 and December 4, at one fare round trip. Ask your ticket agent about it, and if he cannot sell you excursion tickets write to C. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., or GEeo. L. Cross, N. W. P. A., Chicago, Il

.1 PROFESSOR - (seeing the sign ‘‘Freshly Painted” over the zebra's cage in the zoological garden)—‘‘How very strange! I could have sworn that those stripes were natural.”—Fliegende Blatter. . , z S Home Seekers’ Excursions. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway will sell tickets on Sept. 11, Sept. 25and Oct.: 9, at greatly reduced rates to all points in. '.l‘exas,.'t,o “Eddy, New Mexico, and Lake: Charles, La., good returning twenty days from date of sale. For further information. address H. A, Chenice, 12 Ro'oker&Building,* Chicafo, 111 ;T. B. Cookerly, 508 Locust st.,' Des Moines, la., or James Barker, G. P. a.nd T. Ag’t, St. Louis, Mo. : ¢ sl e . “Ir's doubtless a love match; a real, Eenn uine ‘one.” ‘“How can you tell?’ ‘‘He's given up cigarettes and she her cooking les< sons.”—lnter Ocean. e ¥ e e ——— . . Cures That Faith Won’t Effect | Are brought about by the use of Hostetter’'s Stomach Bitters, foremostamong American family remedies.. Rheumatism, neuralgia, dyspepsia, liver complaint, malaria and nervous complaints succumb to this reliable ‘remedy. It does its beni%-n worlk thoroughly, and those who use it reap a fruitful harvest of health. Physicians of the first standing commend it. LETTER carriers may. be seen collecting Jetters at midnight, but this doesn’t explain why some late males don’t arrive 'till near morning.—Philadelphia Times. ; Ll McViqker's Theater, Chicago. - Monday, Seg‘tember 17, comic opers, ‘Athenia, or The False Prophet.” An entirely new and original mystic satire in two acts. Libretto by John O’Keefe, music by Leonard Wales. Seats secured by mail. 5 @i ——————.——-—— THE man who was ‘‘waiting for something to turn up,” progosed to a sensible girl, and didn’t.like it a bit when she turned .up her nose at him. o e e { o et . As 1o ReErATlvES.—Little—‘‘Have you any distant relatives?’ Mutch—‘‘No; mine are all near enough to visit me at a moment’s notice.”’—Detroit Free Press. “Taig is jvery alarming,” said the old man, as he got up at four o’clock in the morning and threw the humming clock over into the next yard.—-Syracuse Post. “Miss PENscrRATCH tells me her employer is as thoughtful as an own brother would be.” Madge—‘‘Dear me, he doesn’t look as though he could be so d&agreea-ble. as that.”? e e e e | Tae desire of a boy to be just like his father doesn’t extend to wearing his father's made-over clothes. : A Dose in Time Saves Nine of Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar for Coughs, Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute, . T e ~ “THis is an awfully irre%ular watch. Do you expect to go by it?’ Jimps—‘‘Jupiter, no; L expect to go pawn it.” . ~ “GArLAND” . Stoves and Ranges are no higherin price than the worthlessimitations. - Ask to see them. L Lo : - L —— e REVENGEswiII make a man walk to places where charity could not coax him in a carriage.—Milwaukee Journal. .

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