Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 September 1897 — Page 6

NOTHING- BUT BEER

TEKftE HAUTE 18 SOON TO HAVE A NEW SKEWING COMPANX

*ho New Concern Will Be Bnllt at Once, Ground Havloj Been Practically Decided Upon, vl',

f: '*tia Tcrre Haute is ksown the country over as a distillery town. It is famous for having the finest and largest distilleries in the world. It is not unknown for its one nourishing brewery. It is, however, going to be more widely known &s a.Tjrewery city, for in a few days the' official announcement will be made that a new brewing plant is going to be erected. The. Express is in a position t® m-aKe: the statement wi/Jh authority, bu the people behind the enterprise are not ready to be known In connection with the deal.

There is unlimited capital behind the enterprise, some of the strongest .men in the country being identified "with it. The details the building or the brewery are of course not ready to be made public, *ut it is a fact that

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.

Two Well Known Men of Washington, D. C., Under Arrest.

Washington, August 31.—Herman W. Vanseoden, prtwate secretary to Secretary Carlisle in the last administration, and Dennis J. Canty, formerly clerk in the Interstate commerce commission, were arrested yesterday on warrants charging them with emtoezzl$hen£ of $£,887 from Wilkins & Co., a brokerage flrm. They were charged also with riuLmtaihing a gaming table. Vansenden and Canty went into the brokerage business -tWS '.'spring and the arrest followed a law'sujt-ibegun by Wilkins & Co. against them to recover moneys alleged to be due as the result

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The Terre Haute people who have capital are going to be given an opportunity to Invest in the brewery, though the erection of the plant does not in any way depend on the subscription of stock by people of this city. The only reason Terre Haute capital is desired in the industry is that It can be caHed a truly Terre Haute enterprise. In a few days the capitalists behdnd the brewery will consent to have their names mentioned, and when this is done there will be a genuine surprise.

ALASKAN MA/fL SERVICE.

Reading Material Can 'to© Sent to While Away the long Winter. Washington, August 31.—The first letter mail to be dispatched from this country to the Ktondyke region under the new reciprocal arrangement with Canada, effected by establishing an international exchange between Dyett, Alaska, and Dawson City, will be forwarded from Seattle by a steamer Heaving September 11th". From that time forward, letter mail will so over the new service' regularly once a month. The last opportunity to send newspapers and reading material generally into the gold region anttt next season, which wifl be forwarded by steamer leaving San Francisco, September 6th.

Reports (have reached here that persons fccquainted with the Alaskan gold situation geoem&y beiieve thai the Copper river valley will be the scene of gFeat activity very pooG. This news comes in a personal way from postal authorities, who have had an opportunity to inquire into the matter. It Is based not only on the reported productiveness of the valley but largely on the prescriptive measures the Canadian government Is reported to be about to establish, taking every alternate claim and demanding 20 per cent of the other profits. It is felt, according to these reports, that the establishment of tfiis'^cfticy would drive' the prospectors across tihe line into our territory and so derelop'e the fields within the domain within the United States.

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firms. .. Mr. Vansendea, it is understood, was a Silent partner in tile firm, which was styled Canty & Co. His friends say that he had no part in managing the busdness of the firm, and w&svafouent most of the time in (Kentucky, where he was state agent of an Insurance company. Canty & Co. suspended jseveml'weeks ag\ and Wilkins & Co. allege that Canty a»d Vaasenden divded bstweea Miem money forwarded here by their New York representatWes to pay profits accruing to Wilkins & Co., ob several stock transactions.

MAKING REATY FOR WINTER SPORTS.

The Gymnasium at the Y. M. C. A. Being Put in Shape for Fall Classes.

The gymnasium at the Y. M. C. A. is now being fitted up and put into shape once more after the interval of the summer months, when its use was given up for out-of-door •ports. The apparatus which had been *tored away is being taken down and put in place.

The fall term of physical instruction under Director J. P. Kimmell will commence about the 25th of this month. Mr. Kimmell says Gie prospects for large classes are very good. He looks for a-larger business men's class than ever before. The Junior department will probably be very strong also.

Secretary Jamison has not yet returned from Lafayette, where he is visiting his brother. He left the party of wheelmen at that city as they were returning from the WtoeAa encampment. He is expected home gome time this week. (Mr. Pence, of Warren, 6 one of the association workers of the state, was a visitor at the Y. M. C. A. room yesterday....

A Not«d Woman .ToOrSaliat

Juanita Walker, of Atlanta, fia., who will visit friends in this city Ufe latter part of Che week, is a newspaper' writer of prominence. Although a young woman, she has ield a very responsible position during the K'ashville Exposition, supplyiftg"a niihiber •f metropolitan dailies with jsooial and current news. Miss Walker at ©MrHim«-fvlived hi Terre Haute, leaving this, .place «for Atlanta. where she began her newsp&pet career. 6he will continue her work fQjJie St Louis Exposition this winter.

Important Rating ID a Pejudon vCn*e. Washington, August 31.—Assistant Secre«agft of the Interior Webster Davis today renie«9d an important decision*in a pension «&£» devolving the definition of a -valid marriage. The policy laid down affects a great •umber of cases. Mr. Davis holds: "Where it is shown by the evidence that botii parties fully intended and consented to t±m maintenance of bona fide marital relations at and subsequent to the. time when they «en competent to sustain' such status by removal of a pre-existing impediment and consent to the maintenance of such marital jtelaitons by constant and continuous cohabackaowledgia* each other as hus­

band and wife and being universally recognized ais such by the community in which they lived, joining the church membership, uniting in deeds and conveyances as husband and wife and deporting themselves generally in accordance with good morals, a valid, marriage is essentially established." -.

CHARTER OAK RACES.

Every Bace Was a Battle Although Two Were Won iu Straight Beats. Hartford, Conn., August 31—Every race at Charter Oak -park today was a battle, although two of them were won in straight beats. Even in these races the finishes were close and the leaders had trouble shaking the other horses off their heels.

Alcidalia furnished the surprise of the day by winning the 2:12 trot in straight heats. Grace Hastings was picked out to win the race, but she was not in the best of moods.

The 3-year-olds furnished three spirited finishes, but there was an impression that American Belle, the winner, had a few links of speed which she was not compelled to show. Thome and Timbrel set the pace for her and gave her three lively brushes coming home. Summary: 2:1

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erected will have a capaciy of 150,000 barrels. The building will be one the city will •be proud of, and the beer of a quality second to none. The men identified with the deal have options on three pieces of ground and have all but decided on the site. This will in all probability be settled in a few days. It is known fhat architects haVe oven worked on the plans for the brewery -which is to be compact and modern iji every respect.

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Alcidalia, b. m., by Sir Walter, Jr.— Comee's Sister (Dore) 1 1 1 Fred B., br. g. (Whitney) 2 2 3 Grace Hastings, ch. m. (Spears) 9 11 2 Vanzandt, b. m. (Devereaux) 4 3 6 Maple Valley, b. h. (OUerson) 5 4 5 Athanio, br. h. (Geers) 8 6 4 She, b. m. (Walksr) 11 5 10 Fred Kohl, blk. h. (Arthur) 6 9 8 fflueecliy, b. h. (McDonald) 10 7 7 Derby Princess, blk. m. (Sanders).. 7 10 9 Emma Offutt, b. m. (Starr 3 8 dr

Time—2:12 2:12 2:11%3:30 Puce, Purie 82,000. Passing Belle, b. m., by Helr-at-Law—

Windsome (Geers) 2 111 Forrest Herr, br. g. (Spears) 1 7.7 2 La Honda, b. m. (Easton) 8 3 2 8 Courier Journal, blk. h. (Wilson).7 2 9 6 Jessie McEwen, ch. m. (Smart) ..3 6 5 7 Samaritana, b. m. (Miller) 6 9 6 3 Miss Margaret, blk. f. (Walker)..4 6 4 4 Evadne, b. rn. Redmond) 5 4 8 6 Belle G., blk. m. (Howard) .9 8 3dis

Time—2:l©i4 2:11 2:14% 2:12%. 2:40. 3-Yenr-Old Trot, Parse 83,000. American Belle, b. f., by Rex Ameri-cus—-Beautiful Shirnes (Geers) .....1 1 1 Timbrel, 'blk. c. (Payne) 2 3 2 Thorne, b. f. (Hickok) 3 2 3 Fanny Foley, b. f. (Macey) 6 4 4 Phillip E.„ b. g. (Kelly) 5 5 5 Culldoene, br, c. (Wilson) 4dis Bellano, ch. f. (Hawkins) ..- dis

Time—2:17% 2:14% 2:19%. Marion Mills paced a mile without driver in 2:11%.

The Colt Box In Barred.

Cinoinoati, August 31.—The Newport judges issued an order today barring the colt Box in the betting. Four favorites won. The track was fast.

First race,five-eighths of a mile E:eanor .Holmes won, Elsie M. second, Spaldy Y. third. Time, 1:02%.

Second race, three-quarters of a mileCyclone won, Loyalty second, Islln third. Time, 1:15. Third race, one mile—Performance won, Joe Mussle second, Cappa third. Time, ll43%.

Fourth race, five ad one-half furlongs— Corcialia won, Laverna second, Nanipoo third. Time, 1:08%.

Fifth race, seven furlongs—Pouting won. Aunt Jane second, Box third. Thne, i:27%. __ "BEAUTIFUL CUBAN GIRL."

Much of the Romance Attached to Evangelina Cisneros' Arrest Swept Away. Washington, August 31.—Consul General

Lee's invesigation into the circumstances attending the arrest of the young Cuban girl,

'Evangelina Cossio Cisneros, has resulted in sweeping away a great deal of the romance

that attached to her case. He cabled the state department today from Havana that the girl is not the neice of the Marquez Santa Lucia as has been publicly proclaimed, but is the daughter of a poor and respectable Cuban named Augustin Cossio. Her mother's name being Cisneros was added to her own, according to the Spanish custom. .She is not an only daughter nor has she been raised in wealth and luxury but is ono of five or six children.

HE SHOT TO KILL.

A Sensational Affray in the Jail at Minneapolis.

Minneapolis, August 31.—There was a sensational shooting affray at the county jail shortly after midnight this morning. James1 T. Murphy, a deputy sheriff, succeeded, by virtue of his official position, in getting access to the jail. He brought with him a woman of the town, whom he said was under arrest, and sent for Matron Woodburn. Having thus cleared the,way he entered the latter's apartments, and opened fire on her husband, Clavis H. Woodburn, who was asleep in bed. He fired eleven shots, five of which entered Woodburn's body, exclaiming: "'I'll teach him to ruin my daughter."

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The watchman rushed in and prevented Woodburn, who had by this time secured his own weapon, from firing at his now retreating enemy. Murphy gave himself up, and refused to discuss the case, except to say that he was a Kentuckian, and had shot to kill. Woodburn is dangerously but not fatally shot. iSe will not talk.

1VIrrt. »«vi« Wan tefc OfT.

Mrs. Davis, an old woman of East Poplar street, who was arrested for provoking her daughter-in-law, was tried' yesterday before Squire Turk. Mrs. Ella Davis, the complaining witness, is the woman who was so terribly beaten by her husband last week. After a lengthy trial the case was dismissed by the court. Mr. Hollinger appeared for the defendant.

Canning Factory to Start Today. The factory o« the Terre Haute Packing Company will begin operation with the new month. The company has voluntarily raised the price for the tomatoes it buys of the fartSers 5 oents. The market price for them is much higher than last year.

An Electrician'® Peculiar Accident James N. Carlos, an electrician of the street railway company, has a very 6ore eye, the result of an accident yesterday. A loose wire swung against his face and cut a gash in the ball of the optic.

The Rev. FenwSck Reed Resigns. The Rev. C. Fenwick Reed, the popular pastor of the Grace Tabem-acle, has determined to resign his charge and go to work in the evangelical field. He has had experience in this branch of church service and already won a reputation.

PEBS0NAL P0IHTS.

lira. Jebn A. Logan was not able to attend the G. A. B. convention at Buffalo. Her sprained knee is still causing her considerable trouble.

The legislature of Uruguay bas conferred honorary citizenship and tbe sum t»f $10,008 on Dr. Sanarelli aa a recognition of his discovery of the yellow fever microbe. _____

General Wilson, ohief of engineers, United States army, has recommended that the war department approve the application by the Vermont Central Railroad company to build a bridge across Lake Champiain.

Charles S. Cole, cashier of the Williamstown (Mass.) National bank, bas been named as treasurer of Williams oollega Mr. Cole is a native of Wnlliamstown and a graduate of Williams in the class of '70.

THE FAST BIG FOUR

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GREAT TIME MADE BETWEEN IND1ANAFOLIS AMU ST. LOUIS SUNDAY.

Train Hakes 187 Miles la 124 Minutes— Mew Mileage Agreement Want Into Effect Last Night.

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What is considered as a record-breaking run was made by the Big Four on the St. Louis division last Sunday. It is believed by railroad men that all records have been smashed, and aif day yesterday Colonel E. E. South was telling fcis friends about the great run. The train was a G. A. R. special, loaded with veterans returning from the encampment at Buffalo, and was running a second section ©f the Southwestern limited, which is the answering train of the Knickerbocker special. Hie -train left Mattoon at 4:18 p. m., arriving at Granite City at 6:33 p. m. delayed at Pana, four minutes Litchfield, four minutes East Alton, three minutes, taking water and oiling locomotive. The distance from Mattoon to Granite City is 127 miles, and the actual running time was 124 minutes, an'average of 60.02 miles per hour. Engine was No. 109, in charge of Engineer C. Reddng and Fireman M. Dawson.

This is certainly a great record for tihe Bdg Four, and coupled with the fact that the road made a cool million this year it is believed that President Ingalls will soon order a new depot for the popular road in Terre Haute. t-"

THE NEW MILEAGE BOOKS.

A Big Supply of Tihem Has Been Received in This City. *,

Every road in the Central Traffic Association, with the exception of the Monon, last night at midnight refused to sell any more old mileage books, the new agreement going into effect. This is the book that sells for $30 with a $10 rebate. The local ticket offices have been supplied with the new issue, and already there have been calls for them.

The fact that the MoQon Is not in the agreement has caused passenger men a good deal of uneasiness. They know that this means that every broker between Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and .Louisville will become in effect a Monon ticket agent. There are in the territory mentioned about 178 brokers. It means, the passenger men fear, that there is to be an ugly rate war. As soon as the repairs between this city and Cedar Lake are done, the Monon running time will be reduced to four hours, land General Manager McDoel is authority for the statement that the time will be shortened to three hours, if possible. It is understood that an effort will be made to make the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton mileage (books good for through pasetigers between Cincinnati and Chicago. .To this the Monon will not agree, unless the Monon books are good from Indianapolis to Cincinnati. The result will probably be that the Cincinnati, 'Hamilton & Dayton and the Indiana, Deoatur & Western will also withdraw, and the people in this part of the country will have some cheap traveling. The talk that the Monon withdrew because the other roads would not lengthen their running -time is a mistake. D. G. Edwards, passenger traffic manager of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, and Frank Reed, general passenger agent of the Monon, discovered that the other roads had "split" mileage in the hands of the brokers, and here is the place they are getting even.

Railroad Notes.

Jeff Blything has taken a position In the Vandalia auditor's office. Bud Woolsey, who is now a train dispatcher on the Northern Pacific, is in the city shakng hands wth old frends.

George Walker, an old C. & E. I. brakeman, has been promoted to the position of conductor.

Five-new locomotives have been purchased by the C. & E. I. They will be put into the freight service.

E. O. McCormick, passenger traffic manager of the Big Four, will be married at Cincinnati about the middle of October.

An order has been issued forbidding wheelmen from riding through the train sheds at the depot. The practice was broken up through fear of an accident.

H. I. Miller, superintendent of the Vandalia, has ordered trainmen and station employes to don their winter uniforms October 1st. Requisitions must be in by September 10th.

There has .been some apprehension among railroad officials that some of the men in the train service would go out on a strike in sympathy with the miners: It is stated on authority, however, ihat there is no thought among the railroad employes of striking.

Only fifteen reports of the condition of businesss of the Illinois railroad companies have been received by the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners at this time. There are 101 more to hear from and the reports are all due September 1st.

The railroads and elevators in and around Chicago are being literally swamped with the unprecedented movement of grain from the West. The railroads not only have every bo* car in service, but are boarding up stock cars and rigging up other equipment .in vain efforts to handle the traffic.

The great rush of freight and the scarcity of oars has compelled the railway companies entering Seymour to hunt up all of their strays. The numerous washouts on the Evansville & Richmond Railway last March caught seventy-five freight cars on the switches of the road between Seymour and Bedford. Of this number the Pennsylvania claims forty-five and it will begin at once to make temporary repairs that will allow it to get their oars.

SHAKE INTO YOUR SH8ES.

Allen's Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a fcertain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try It today. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmstead, Le Roy, N. Y.

ICchoeo of the Co arts.

Sheriff Seeburger attended the funeral of his cousin, Mrs. Emma May, yesterday. The county commissioners spent yesterday in the southern part of the county, inspecting bridges.

Thomas (Robertson has been qualified aa executor of the estate of Strawder Robertson.

County Auditor Soules, Deputy Samuel Gray, Janitor John Hartley and Cirunty Clerk Watson attended the colored soldiers' reunion at Seeleyville yesterday.

The road reviewers have been summoned to assess the damages on the land of Sarah Fox. Mrs.. Fox claims the recent grading of a road by her place took up a strip of l^^d amounting to half an acre, which was worth $25, and the resetting of the fence $10 more.

The Journal Printing Company filed articles of incorporation yesterday. The company is capitalized at $10,000 with J. C. Kolsem, G. W. Biegler and Theodore Golder directors.

Taken From Police Records William Moudy was fined $3 and costs yesterday as a result of a row in Sand Burr Hollow. William indulged in some noisome

epithets against some of the fair of that settlement, among whom was Frances Hawk, who caused bis arrest.

A warrant was issued yesterday for the arrest of Felix and Jacob Compton for raiding Manuel Price's melon patch, ten miles south of the city.

D. V. Smith, 1318 South Thirteenth, complains of Ira Purcell and Charles Streator, two small boys, breaking in his shed and carrying off his kindling.

A $2 bill raised to represent a $10 bill was passed upon Landlord Rector of the Arlington Hotel yesterday. He thinks he received it at one of the banks.

The wash room and gymnasium of the police station are undergoing improvements and repairs.

IS A CAMERA FIEND

DETECTIVE M'KAE CAPTURES T. M. BDDDX.KSTON AT SULLIVAN.

He Also Helps Out a Weak-Kneed Sheriff of Meroer County, Ohio—A Wall J'-'.. from the Sheriff.

Detective McRae returned to Terre Haute last night with T. M. Huddleston, for wthom he has been hunting for four days. Huddleston left Terre Haute last Friday, giving it out before his departure that he •was going to Bnazil. Huddleston had with him a camera belonging to Sam Haberly, employed at T. J. Grifntn's shoe store. It appears he borrowed the camera with the understanding he was to sell it if an opportunity offered. Detective McRae was given the case and while there was nothing against Huddleston at first an investigation disclosed the fact that the man had made away with other kodaks. He secured one from Bigwood, the jeweler, and also one from a Vandalia employe. The detective first went to Vlncennes for his •man, but yesterday afternoon came back ,to SuEivan. Here he found Huddleston, and a: once placed him under arrest. The (fellow was lodged in jaii. (Returning from Sullivan with McRae was G." H. Heffner, sheriff of Celjna, Ohio.

The Ohio sheriff also had a prisoner in *!he person of James Gosley, who is wanted by the authorities of Mercer county, Ohio, for assisting prisoners to escape. Sheris Heffner, was in anything but a pleasant mood. He was mad at himself, he was mad:at Sheriff Mayfield, of Sullivan, and at Bilty^ Mills, Sullivan county's ex-sheriff. Sheriff ifleffner declined to talk for publication, bat, information oomes from Sullivan "which gpes to show that either he was in a trance while there or else the Sullivan county .whisky proved too much for his .nerves.. Heffner says that the sheriff and other. people at Sullivan tried to throw evsry obstacle in his way. The Ohio sheriff •wanted to arrest a man named George

Batpon, who escaped from jail at Celina witlj the saws furnished him by the man Gosley, who IS now a prisoner. Gosley was oaptured by the Sullivan county authorities and lodged in jail, Heffner cording after him.

At the same time Heffner was at Sullivan Batson, the much-wanted man, was, jaccording to Heffner, in hiding but a few miles from that city, and he gives it out with a good deal of chest expansion that but for being thrown down by the sheriff there he would have bagged his game. Detective MelRae was kind enoug to tender his services to Heffner, but the sheriff af7ter accepting them and hiring a buggy to go down in the country for Batson, came to the conclusion that as a man from the camp where Batsen is supposed to be in (hiding was in the city the fugitive had been given the tip and was not to be found. Therefore Heffner refused to go to the camp at all. When it came train time, according to the story from Sullivan, XJosley refused to accompany the sheriff. The-man was in jail all fast enough, but

Heftier didn't have the nerve to go over arid drag him out. Accordingly Detective MciRas turned Huddleston over to Heffner to keep and went to the jail for Gosley. The fellow agailn refused to be taken out, but when McRae gave him five minutes to come or be jerked out he decided it would be a wise move to come on. This he did and he is now in jail here waiting requisition papers for which Heffner has gone to Indianapolis.

A WHIM OF THE TIDES.

An Incident Which Demonstrates That Troth Is Stranger Than Fiction. In September, 1892, the daughter of the blacksmith in Canoa, aa island of the Hebrides, was wandering on the shore, gathering driftwood for fuel, when in a small bay about 100 yards distant from her father's house she picked i^p apiece of wood bearing the inscription, cut with a knife, "Lachlan Campbell, Bilbao, Maroh 23, 189® On taking ifc to her mother, she became much concerned, as this was the name of her own son, who was a boilermaker in Spain, aad as would be the case with most people, certainly with highlanders, she could not get over the superstitious dread that this message jom the sea was tbe harbinger of evil tidings regarding^ her son. The family of the proprietor did their best to calm her terror, exhorting her to wait for an explanation.

When writing to her son, she told him of what had happened and was greatly relieved on receiving a reply assuring her of his well being, but was astonished to learn that he perfectly remembered how, when on a holiday, ho had written as described fn apiece of wood and had idly thrown it into the sea from a rook near Bilbao. We all know the power of ocean currents and need not be surprised at this piece of wood having been carried-about for six months, but the marvelous and, except for undoubted evidence, the incredible oiroumstance in this case is that this piece of wood, after its long drifting, should have been washed on t^ve shore within 100 yards of where the writer's mother lived and that it should be picked up hy one of his own family and taken home. Had any novelist dared to picture a message delivered as this was by means of an ocean current, every reader and certainly every critic, would have denooncod the outrageous deUMkad on faith. And yet the apparently impossible actually occurred in Canna.—Good'Words.

The Native Hawaiian*.

That race pays nothing whatsoever for medical attendance the government pays all of the doctors. It pays nothing for schooling, excepting a small part of the taxes. It pays little or nothing for religious instruction. It pays llttlo or nothing for the higher education of its children. If left alone, it would utterly fail in the oare ef its-lepers, as it has no concern about leprosy. It could not take oare of its finances, because there is not, nor has there ever 4toen, a responsible native naerohant. Amoqg the 790 business men of Honolulm, a few natives are rated as retail fish dealsrs end several, are back drivers awl'carpenters. There'was, and is, no stami^i ln'f&e race. In nearly every testaooe native fcqys fehat have been educated by ichalltable v^Jilte people have been failures. I'he IruRan said, "The white waye eats up the dark wave." Toward the close of the monarchy the administration of justice by the Inferior native judges was corrupt. The Chfinese and the Japanese were ^poring for verdicts in the lower courts. The white people who lived among the natives overthrew the native monarchy more in sadness than in anger.—Overland Monthly.

Golf*n Caaaot Com*.

•-All hopes must be abandoaed of the projected vifirto tbe United Scutes of a team of representative HrttlBh goiters. The failure of the sobetzw is due to the inability of tbe British geiftog champions to spare the time requisttajfor-lhe proposed matches in New Ywrk. Chioago, Washington, Boston and Philadelphia, neither H. H. Hilton, nor Mr. Allan, nor yet Mr. Balfour-Mel-ville being ablo to quit the United Kingdom this year.

JOHN BULL WANTS IT.

CLIPPERTON ISLAND MAY SOON BELONQ TO THE BRITISH:

r, la Mer# Bit of Coral, text Its Fttrehaae by the Kngliih Government May Cause International Complication*.

Meantime the Islaad May Sink,

Possibility of another diplomatic dispute with Great Britain is growing out of an attempt to add Clipperton island to the British possessions.

An outline of the English grab plan was Bent out recently when tbe steamer Navarro had arrived at San Diego from tbe island. The dispatch then published said: "The hint that the British flag would be soon flying there was dropped by a young Englishman who oame up this evening from Clipperton island on the steamer Navarro, Captain Higgins. The steamer left San Francisoo on July SO with a party consisting of J. T. Aruudel of London, representing the Pacific Islands company, a new Britiah syndicate Captain G. D. Freetb of Honolulu, representing tbe Ooeanio Phosphate oompany, which claims' the guano deposits on Clipperton island, and R. A. Macondray, Captain B. E. Holxnaa and Herbert N. Stone, friends of Mr. Arunael.^

Clipperton is a ooral island-600 miles off tbe Mexican ooast from Acapuloo. It is about nine miles in circumference, with a lagoon in tbe center. iV is famed chiefly for shipwrecks, phosphates and inquisitive orabe.

By some overnight Lord Clipperton, when be disoovered it, forgot to hoist tbe English flag, and England has never acquired a title to the island. Geographically the ownership should be vested in Mexico, but there is no precedent for a geographical distribution of the islands of tbe world, and Mexico bas not asserted her claim.

No nation has eve? roally wanted to own Clipperton heretofore. Merchant ships bumped into the island at intervals, and finally some American mariners disoovered, upon being sbipwrecked, that the coral rini wss rich in phosphates. Tbe Oceanic Phosphate company of this oity was then organized, and since that time the island bas been owned here and baq practically been United States territory.

The phosphate company has maintained a settlement there, having three or four men on tbe island at all times, and ships from this portjbav® made frequent voyages to tbe inland.

It is now asserted tharti English capitalists propose to buy the San-Francisco company's interest, and, having acquired a commercial control, to then place the island under Great Brita$p's flag. The return of the expedition Will probably bring the matter to a settlement, so far as the commercial interests are concerrfed, as there is little or no doubt that the San Francisco owners would sell if a good figure should be offered.

Mexioo may assert a olaim if England attempts to aonex Clipperton, and under the Monroe doctrine the United States would be expected^ to support it If Mexioo can show no^title 'to the island, the United States has a commercial claim that is ahead of any other.

Even though neither Mexioo nor the United States may want the island, the policy of the United States against the extension of European dominion on this continent may be extended to the coral island. Dipl«natio difficulties may arise in any event unless England desists from attempting to acquire ownership.

Besides its laok of value, the island is likely to disappear aft any time. Formerly there was an opening in the rim of the island, according to the stories of the navigators and as indicated by the old oharts. The opening is no longer tb'ere.

Governor Freeth, who has thoroughly explored the island' and brought many photographs of it, says so, and his assertions are corroborated by the statements of others. Freeth, who obtained his title while at the head of an inland colony, thinks that Clipperton's formation is changing, wbioh is not surprising in a coral island.

The island is, supposed to belong to Mexioo, but then it is not down on the map as Included in Mexico's possessions. At any rate, once the English company secures the guano deposits there wili un no difficulty aa to the island. It will readily pass into British control as a matter of course.—San Francisco Examiner.

THE FUNNY ENGLISHMAN.

gome of the Pranks He Plays on His Unsuspecting Victim*. To successfully annoy a, policeman is quite vne of the little arts. T*y this: Go up to the Bobby and eay, "Please con you direct me to such and such an address?" To whiob Bobby answers, "Go straight down there, take the first turning to the right, tbe seoond to the left and the first to the right again." You are stupid. You do not comprehend. Bobby complies with your request to repeat it. "Thanks. Then, to start with, I go straight in that direction?" (This with an air of respectful, trembling humility.) "Yes, sir." Then walk off bang in the other direotion.

And here is a new way of aggravating mathematicians. Say to your victim: "Think of a nunpber double it multiply it by 9 add 165 subtract 17 divide it by 22 add 865," and so on until the man begins to get impatient. Then say to him, "Well, you have arrived at a certain lesult?" "Yea." "Well, divide that figure by a similar figure ani^ I think you will find the resultre 1."

Which reminds jane of a simply horrid game for ladies I once invented. Here it Is: "Think of your age multiply it by 2, and then you get ycur real age."

And here Is something for poor old cabby: You hail him in Regent street and show bim a pieoe of paper with "Charing Crosji station" written on it. "Bleece gan you dake me to zat address, gabman?" you say. "Right, sir/ he answers. Arrived at Charing Crow station yon alight. "How mooh voz dat, bleece, gabmanf" you ask naively. 'Alf a sovereign, sir." "Right. There's a shilling fcr rou, you lying old sooundrelt" But don't do it to a very aged cabman. He may fall oft his box.

I will conclud* with apiece of advice—a warning. Without doubt the person best adapted for the profession of a practical joker is a champion of the racing track. The man who lacks that fieetness of foot, and yet wishes to practical joke, had better wear at least treble ssated trousers.— London Exehange.

HIS MEDICINES CURE.

Whether For Internal or External Use or For Whatever Disease They Are Alike. There is a local doctor who advertises a good deal on dead wallq- To those who know bim personally helloes not claim to be a remarkable scientist or even the most learned living disciple of iEsoulapius. "There Is a great deal of fraud in the theory of medicine," be will toll you confidentially. "Now, if I don't cure my patients I never hurt them anyway. I use only one article of medicine in all my practkw. I appeal a good den 1 to the imagination. It's entirely hi the mind, you knew. If a man thinks he's cured, in sine cases out of ten he is, and that's all about it."

His conscience is snf&cieatly resilient to allow him to aeeopt fees on this confession of medical fni&, and he says ho baa not. bad any trouble pajrdng Ms rent so far.

The other dayftei*M*d'an excitable patient who "Imagined" himself tbe viotim of fb&UJBatJg£a aag a doajn moro awful

maladies. After along aad etaoting precautlosaxy dtaworoao as to dfc* and things to do Mid not to do, he-dtamlMfcd btaa with two large bottles of tbe nnHf stuff. One was for Internal uee, one to be applied locally. He oanMoned htm solemnly to be very careful and keep j$e bottles apart.

The same afternoon the patient oamo into his office hurriedly, laboring under' the greatest excitement. He refused to I wait In the anteroom, belt said he mtasfc sec tbe doctor immediately. Tbe latter was called. When he came, the patient gasped: "DoctorI I've made a terrible mistake! I got that medicine mixed. I'xo^A taken the wrong one internally. I feel lip pretty bad—I suppose it's coining on I For heaven's safce, do something right away for me!" "Why, of coozse," said the doctor, and then he reached over and gave bim some *4 of the same stuff for an an&idote^-fClhioa-go Times-Herald.

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GENERAL MILES' POKER STORY. F'-f

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"I don't poker myself," said Major General Miles. "In fact, I aim glad to suy that the gaxno has rather g&ne out in tho army, but I think I can olaim to have been a witness of the biggest game as to stakes that was ever played." "Tell us about it, general," said Colonel Ochiltree. "I have some pretty gocd poker stori08 in stock myself.," "And so have I," said Henry Watter6on. For instance, Joe Blackburn's about the game played in the trenches at the battie of Shiloh, with a table made on the bodies of the comrades of the play era,'• "Well," said John W. Mackay, "asto* stakes, I will enter a claim for somo of tho games played in the good old days in Nevada, when the boys had the Comstock lode to draw upon. But, general, let us have your story." "It was in the spring of 1865, when Davis, Lee and tbe rest of you Confederates, Colonel Watt-erson, wore in full rotreat from Richmond toward Danville, and we were pressing you night and day, hardly stopping to eat or sleep. On the eve of the battle of Sailor's Creek" "I was there," said Colonel Ochiltrce, "It was in that battle that I was wounded." "That day," continued General Miles, "we overhauled and captured a Confederate wagon train and found, greatly to the delight of the boys, that several of the wagons were loaded with Confederate bonds and Confederate money in transit from the Confederate treasury department in Richmond to wherever the govornmoat now on wheels might make its last stand. The soldiers simply helped themselves to the bonds and the money, and the officers did not care to deprive them of the spoils to which they were richly entitled. At night, when we knocked off work for supper and a few hours' rest and sleep, I had occasion to ride along the line and found, greatly to my amusement, a poker game going on around almost every campfire. Stopping to watch one of tho games, this is what I heard: 'How much is the ante?' 'A thousand dollars.' "'And how much to fill? Five thousand? Well, here goes. I raise it 810,000.' 'Good! I see you and go you $10,000 better. Twenty-five thousand to draw cards!' "Then cards were drawn, and presently a bet was made of $50,000. Some one went $100,000 better, but he-was ruled down. Fifty thousand was the limit. However, there was $500,000 in the pot when it wa hauled down by the winner, who had thret treys and a pair of jacks. I expressed mj1 surprise at the Blze of the game and toll •... the boys that they had better go slow their funds muld run out. "'Never fear, general,' replied one of them. 'We will keep within our means.

You ought to have been here just now# Why, we had a jack pot of $1,200,000.' "I think you will agree with me," oon« tinued General Miles, "that no biggef poker game than that was ever played." —New York Mail and Express.

CROSSING THE ROCKIES.

It Is Not All Ragged Natare That AW. tracts the Traveler's Attention. Crossing the Rocky mountains on th* Northern Pacific railroad affords an opportunity "for a thoughtful mind to canvas* the possibilities of time and wonder whatt shook the earth on its crazy bone. Covered with Christmas trees, snow and mules, t'he mountains rise about you like a thirsty crowd when some one says "beer." To/climb these high places big engines coined by the band of man, so strong that they could pull anything with two ends to it, are put on ahead, and the train jogs up hill as if the grade was tho other way. A man smoking a joint of fish pole got on the train at Helena, and when he wasn't setting fire to his fish pole he was telling ua that he was the principal man around there and had information to let.

There was a fenoe so near tho track wa thought we could read a sign on it, "Go to Fleming & Leweaux for your condition powders this man told us that that fence was 85 miles avrup and still going. A mountain that had been dug out to allow the train to pass by without running into the river we found was 75 miles away.j Tbe train stopped at a little town called Busted Knuckle. The largest building waa a saloon. A sign read, "Beer, 5 cents a glass," and we found that about half the people that traveled got left at that town. The salooa, instead of being a half a block, as it looked, was in reality 12 miles in tho country.

Near a station house a cow and a horse, and a few pigs were surrounded by a fenoe the cow was standing bow legged in order, to eat grass without interfering with the fence, and the horse seemed crowded foe room, while the pigs rooted around down stairs. This information tank led us to believe that the piece of ground oontained 1G0 acres of land, more or less, according to the government survey. He got off aV the next stop and took charge of a yoke oi oxen.—Northwest Magazine.

New Eyebrows.

We learn from French sources that a London perfumer has foaod a new way cj fixing up eyelashes and eyebrows. Instead of painting them in tho usual vulgar old style, he puts the genuine article there, and professional and aiuuteur beauties oi the great city are flocRlag to hbn to 1 made just too lovely for anything. Th* operation is said to be extremely delicate, though by no means painful. He takes A hair from the head of the beauty, or, if sh does not like precisely the color of her own hair, he takes one of any other color that she likes, threads an extremely Cue needia with the hair, nine it alonginsido the skin of the eyelid, sowing sailmakor's fashion, but leaving the loops sufficiently long tfl enable him to out tbem afterward, so thai they will"f«ntt a range of beautiful fringe and look perfectly natural. For eyebrowi he does the same thing, but tho cyobrow operation is, of coarse, less delicate.

Arched eyebrows, bushy eyebrows, straight eyebrows, cracked eyebrows, all sort of eyebrows, in any color or shade oi form, this wonderful perfumer makes foj the ladies of London, and It is said thai his success Is something astonishing. lndiu Hie«n.

Notwithstanding their reputation fni speed, the,Indian-racers of the northwt and Canada have repeatedly been beaten k. by white men, while in wrestling thoy never attainjhe ekttl of the whites and do not seem to learn boxing at all.

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A Paradox.

•-Speaking of minstrel pacfomutnces, Dobbs Is in the lead." "I always thought he was the ami '''—Detroit Free Press.