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His Friends Ask That He BE Accorded a
Fair Hearing.

SANTA rs. y. NJ, October l9-Chief JUS
tice Vincent. lately removed from Office, ar
rived at his home yesterday, and last night
sent the following telegram:
To Hon a. IL. Garland Attorney General:
infer from newspaper dispatches that my
suspension was caused by the appointment
of Stephen W. Dorsey as one of the Jury
Commissioners in the Colfax County Court
a court having no jurisdiction of United
States land matters or business. A bad state
of affairs existed in that court. Large num-
bers of people were divided into angry and
hostile factions, arising out of strictly local
causes. \ great part of the remainder were
in sympathy with one or the other of these
factions. Criminal assaults had been
made on the county Jail and three
men killed. The factional feeling was
bitter and various armed conflicts had been
threatened. DISTINGUISHED and competent
jurors were difficult to be found. Among
the few men who had taken no part or who
had no sympathy with either side, was
Dorsey. 1t was believed his appointment
and action rs Jury commissioner would
greatly tend to alleviate the unhappy con-
dition OF things there. My action was die
tated solely to this last consideration. |
desire to visit Washington for She purpose
OF my vindcation. Please wire me.
WILLIAM \. VINCENT.
This despatch was indorsed by T.. G. Ross.
Governor Anthony Joseph, delegate to Con
greSs; Henry l.. Waldo, ex-Chicf Justice;
Charles II. Gildersleevc, Chairman of the
Territorial Democratic Committee; George
w Julian. Surveyor General George ".
Lane, Secretary OF the Territory.
The hief Justice states that he has moth
ing to say on the subject beyond that which
appears in this dispatch although he knew
the parties who preferred the charges and
the motives that prompted them. Every
member of the bar in judge NIncents dis
trict has sent dispatcheS Ia the President and
Attorney General, yOuching for the Chief
Justices fairness upon the Bench and asking
that he accorded fair hearing.
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A Slrewd Swindle.

EAGLE PAS, Tex, October l9--AbOut eight
months ago there driftcd into Eagle Pass man
who began peddling with pack on his shout
dcrs. In few weeks he became proprietor OF II
small dry goods store under the name NJ. ID.
SpirO. Then came the report and legal docu-
mcnts from Germany stating that Spiro had fall
heir To- lG3 coo marks by the death OF a wealthy
uncle. Soon after this news SpigO branchcd out
in business on an extensive scale. NJ. : stein
bardt, OF this place was taken in aS n partner.
They established big credit and bought perhaps
$1,000 worth Of goods OF various houses in Texas
and e. Louis. Among their creditors were the
Oppcnheimers. of SAN Antonio. and several large
houses of that city. While the collection OF Spiro
German legacy was ander way, Spiro was devoting
his leisure hours To planning the erection OF II
gorgeous Masonic Temple.
He had even let the eontracts for the material.
All his plans were shattered 10y the unexpected
arrival yesterday OF Oppenhcimer, of san Antonio,
who proceeded TO levy an attachment. on the well
filled warehouse of Spiro n Company. Their
business had grown SO rapidly that two large
StOrcrOOmS and warehouses were required to hold
the goods. Oppenheimcr had become suspicious.
and cablcd To Germany regarding the alleged
legacy and received cable reply telling him that
the whole story was fabrication; that Spiro had
no wealthy relatives. The willy man had been
sleeping across the river in Picdrasnegas. Mex
leo, for several nights and when he learned OF
Oppenhcimer's arrival, he did not come across.
IL us thought he has no less than $1,000 in cash
with him,
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MERE MATTER OF TIME.
Difference Between Standard and solar
Time May Save Murderer's Neck.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, October I7.-Thcre is great
interest shown in the trial OF Ike Wright charged
with being an accessory To the murder OF George
Edgar Names. The murder occurred September
]. Names a young travelling man and was de
coyed by a crowd If roughs to a point one mile
cast OF the city, where he was murdered and rob
bed OF u 100 Ice Sellers, a young man who fired
the shot, was lynched few days after. Lizzie
Hickman. the woman who was used a. a decOy.
SwearS ON crOSS-cN examination that Wright not
present when the killing occurred, hc having dis
gUisCd himself and gone away 10y another route.
Her testimony Is corrobOrated in nearly all in
portant parts by Crcditablc witnesses. Wright VIII
possibly establish an alibi through difference he
tweed sun time and standard time. lie can prove
he was i'm town at the time the killing occurred
according to standard time. Interest i increasing
and the court room i always crowded.
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THE ROMANCE OF A Rancho.
How soap Dorsey Acquired His Front
Yard.

Globe Democrats Washington Special
The suspension of William A. Vincent,
the new Democratic Chief Justice of New
Mexico, was at the instance of Secretary
Lamar After ii was known here that Judge
Vincent had appointed Stephen w. Dorsey
one OF the Jury Commissioners the records OF
the General Land Office were produced, and
it was shown that the reports of special
agents sent out during the past two or three
years TO investigate the land frauds in New
Mexico contained frequent references to Dor
sey. 1nasmuch the Grand jury to be
appointed is expected TO devote par
ticular attention to these frauds Judge
Vincents action was declared by the
Secretary to be simply ineNplicable. 4. e..
Burnham and Juan Carills, the other APP
pointees of Judge Vincent, are said 10 have
business interests with Dorsey. The ease in
veStigated by the Representatives was that
of Miguel Obeytia. According 10 the records
of the Land Office at Santa Fe, il appears
that Miguel Obeytia had entered tract OF
land lived upon il from 1917 TO 1855. made
improvements. and thus obtained title
The county records show that month after
Obcytia proved up his entry and obtained
full possession he transferred the land
to stephen W. Dorsey for $500. The Obeytia
claim is now the site of Robert G.. Inger-
soils collection OF log houses. The inspect
ors, who made a thorough investigation OF
this ease, discovered that Miguel Obeytia was
a myth; that no such person had ever lived
on the tract within the period spoken Of,
as sworn by men who had been employed by
Dorsey on his place. The tract is i'm front of
Dorsey's house, and only quarter of IA mile
away. Not only was il established that the
land had never been occupied by such man,
but.it was shown by afiidavits that Miguel
Obeytia was not known in that vicinity.
Further than this, educated Mexicans assur-
ed the inspectors that no such man as Obey
tia was known in their language. And yet
Mr.. Dorsey's title to the tract descends upon
Miguel Obeytia's deed, and the mythical
Miguel obtained his claim by an alleged resi-
dence of six years on the land. Not only did
the inspector fail to find Miguel, but he also
failed to find any of the witnesses who swore
to Miguel's residence and Improvements.
They, too, we're wholly uulkRewR ia that vi
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Cuts His Mife's Throat.

ANFmcrs, Ga, October 15,-Reliable news
comes from Preston that a terrible tragedy,
with almost fatal consequences, occurred in
that quiet village early this morning. Mr..
George w. Davenport got up. dressed him
self, stirred about the house for a while, then
returned to his wife's room. She was still in
bed. lie kissed her and bid her goodbye
and went into an anioining room She fol-
lowed just in time To see him in the act of
cutting his throat She tried To interfere,
when ne. actuated by some sudden impulse
turned upon her and made several frightful
gashcS in her neck, which it was at first
thought would prove fatal; but the latest
news is that both are still living. Mr.
Davenport Is one OF the oldest and most
honorable citizens OF Webster County. and
was twenty years Ordinary of the county.
quitting the office last January. He is over
forty years old, and has been in bad health
for year, and mas at times shown evidence
OF serious mental alteration. He is brother
of Colonel W. I. Davenport, OF this city.
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A NARROW ESCAPE.
A Cohee-Houss Cook Puts Rough on Rats
in Dish Of Soup.
Twenty-Five People Narrowly Escape Death
"A Mother and Child Burned to
Death in a Prairie Fire
in Dakota.

NEw ORLEANS. October H.-Twenty-five
people altogether narrowly escaped death by
poisoning to-day in the coiee-house OF
Charles Ross, corner of Tchoupitoulas and
St. Andrew streets. a number of longshore.
men take lunch at the saloon, and did so at
noon to-day, to the number OF twenty.
Among other dishes served was soup. Mrs.
Ross, wife of the proprietor, was the first TO
discover that something was wrong with the
food She had partaken OF only a small
quantity of the soup when she was seized
with violent cramps in the stomach. A
physician was summoned at once. but before
he arrived several Others who had eaten of
the soup were similarly affected as Mrs.
Ross When the doctor arrived he discOy-
cred that the entire party had been poisoned.
Suspicion fell upen the negro cook, Kate
Robinson, nineteen years old. She was
charged with the crime but stoutly denied
it. She was then told 10 prove her inno-
cence by eating OF the soup. After swallow
ing two or three spoOnfuls she refused TO eat
any more, and then acknowledged she had sea-
soned it with Trough on Rats" She said
she had no motive i'm using the poison other
than an insane desire to put il in the soup.
She had been in the habit of seasoning with
pepper, but as the box of the poison was in
the hoase, she hunted il up to-day and used
it instead. The box was examined, and it
was found that most of the poison had been
poured into the soup. After the girl was put
under arrest she repeated her confession, and
added that there was no cause for her action,
no grievance, real or fancied, to avenge At
a late hour tonight all the victims OF the
poisoning are alive, and the condition of
mny OF them is much improved. 1t is eX-
pected..that all Will recover.
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DISASTROUS WASHoUTS.
Midnight Danger and Terrible Suferings
People Fleeing for Their Lives.

READING. Pa. October IA disastro:> hr.lS
in the bank OF The SchuykiI Canal occurred a., The
six Mile.Lcvcl. near BrisborO resulting in'-n "a
washout by the recent storm. The canal is about
seven feet higher than the surrounding country.
and when about 100 feet OF the bank was swept
away the water rushed out with reSistiesS fury
flooding the noighboring farms and inundating
number OF houses. Some fields were covered with
three feet of water. The disaster came in the
night. and people had to fee to the top stories 10
save themselves from drowning in their houses.
All their furniture and provisions are ruined
Several narrow escapes from drowning are re
ported, and one childS life was saved through the
heroic eXertiOnS of its brother. who plunged into
a flooded apartment and came To the surface with
the babe in his arms Families were kept prison
without food. fire drinking for ten and
tweYe hours. Navigation is entirely suspended
the wafer is out of the canal Tor many miles
Over forty loaded boats bound for tide water are
laid up al this point. large number of light
boats coming up are lying at Birthstone. The
break viii hardly bc repaired this week.
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TWO NOTED M1NsrRELs.
who Have Won Fortunes and What They
say About Stage Life.

lS.sge Whispers
Billy" Emerson has recently made Phe-
nOmenal success in Australia, and IS rich.
Emerson wss born az Belfast in 1886. He
began his career with Joe Sweeney's min
strels in Washington in 1851. Later on he
jumped into prominence in connection with
Newcombs MINISTRIES wit, whom lac visited
Germany. He visited Australia i'm 1874, and
on his return to America Joined Haverley's
Ministries in San Francisco at 500 week
and expenses. With this troupe he played
before Her Majesty, the Queen, the Prince of
Wales, and royalty generally. After this
trip lac leased the Standard Theater, san
Francisco, where for three years he did the
largest business eyer known TO minStrclsy.
In April last be went to Australia again.
where he has "beateR the record"
BILLY" is a very handsome fellow, an ex-
cellent singer, dances gracefully, and is a
true humorist.
''Yes. sir | have Travelled all over the
world. have met all sorts OF people, come in
contact with all sorts OF customs, and had all
sorts OF experiences. One must have a con-
StitutiOn like a locomotive to stand it.
Yes, l know 1 seem to bear it like ma
iOr and do, but / tell you oandidly that
with the perpetual change OF diet water and
climate, If | had not maintained my yigor
with regular use Warmers safe cure should
have gone under long ago
George III. Primrose, whose name is known
in every amusement circle In America, is
even more emphatic, ifpossible than BILLY"
Emerson, in cOmmerdation OF the same ar
ticle to sporting and travelling men gener-
ally, among whom it j. a great favorite.
Emerson has grown rich on the boards and
so has Primrose, because they have not
squandered the public'S ''favorS."
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Brutality Beaten in Confinement.

AUSTIN Tex. October 1G.-Recently sew
eral oltrages have been perpetrated upon
colored servant women throughout the city.
Two have been brutally murdered and three
outraged by some mysterious fiend, vino at
tackled the women in each instance in the
same manner. Many arrests have been made,
but rs yet the detectives have not captured
the right party A week ago the City Mar
shal arrested negro named Alexander
Mack on suspicion of being implicated in
the murders. Mack was held in confine-
ment for q week without a hearing and lib
Grated to-day, nothing having hccn proven
against him. lie made complaint
to-day 10 one of the daily
papers that during his confinement
he was brutally beaten and strung up until
nearly dead in order 10 cXtort a confession.
He SAYS the night he was arrested the City
Marshal and two detectives took him To a
tree near the African Methodist Church and
told him they were surely going to hang him
unless he confessed. He persisted that ne
had had nothing TO confess when they put
a rope around his neck and pulled him up,
and held him there until lac felt himself
growing unconscious, and then let him down.
This operation was repeated without effect
ing confession, and then they took him TO
jail and beat him numerically with heavy
sticks saying they would beat him to q Jelly
unless he confessed. This plan also failed.
and then the detectives seem TO have con-
cluded that Mack was innocent. Mack pro-
poses to have the Marshal and detectives ar
rested
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= singular Coincidence on Lake Erie.

BUrrALo, October IA singular and sur
prising coincidence was noticeable on Lake
Erie yesterday. The stormy east wind
which was blowing here, lowered the water
two feet at this end OF the Lake so that the
work of loading crafts with coal i'm the
Blackwell Canal had to be suspended. AT
Toledo the wind blew a gale from the west
and the Maumee River dropped two feet be-
low the level, and the steam barge Diable
could not leave that port on account of low
water The two currents must have met
somewhere off Port Stanley, Ont, so that
from that point and at the American shore
there must have been hill of water of at
least four feet high IN the lake. Such a
thing has never before been known on the
lake
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Advice TO Mothers.

Mrs winslow's Soothing Syrup should always
be used when children cutting teeth. 1t re-
ieves the little sufferer at once. 1t produces
natural. quiet sleep, by relieving the child from
pain, and the little cherub awakes as bright
button. 1t is very pleasant to taste. 1t soothes
the child. softens the gums allays all pain, re-
heves WIND regulates the bowels. and is the best
known remedy for diarrhea, whether arising
from teething or other causes. twenty-five cents
q bottle.
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PRAIRIE FIRES.
4 Dakota Farmers Wife and Child Perish
i'm the Flames.

FARGO, OAK, October 1.-THE news haas
Just reached here that the wife and child OF
Seth Staunton persisted in a prairie ere IA
Barnes County. thirty miles from here, sat
urday. The fire started from thlashing
machine on the LesSar farm. while the men
had left il far dinner Mr.. Staunton who
was some distance from his house, two miles
from the origin of the fire. was barely able 30
reach there before the flames and thought
il too late TO save the buildings. lie took
one little child under each arm and told his
wife to follow with the oldest one Soon
looking back, he saw his wife and child en-
Yel0ped in flames Mrs. StauntOn persisted
there, and the child was so badly burned
that ii died next day. The fire parted at the
house, and left il untouched. The total losses
from fire in Barnes County this season ara
nut nj 500 Osn
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Josh BILLINGS. -"
Sudden Death of the Noted Humorist Ist
Monterey California. Yesterday.

MONTEREY, Cal, October l4.--H. W. Shaw,
better known as Josh Billings" died a. 10
O'Clock this mOrningof apopleSy. The body
will be embalmed and sent East. AbOgt
9:i5 this morning DR.. Heintz was summoned
to the Hotel Del Monte to attend Josh
Billings, who was sitting in a chair ie
the vestibulc apparently enjoying the best
of health. When the physician arrived he
complained of severe pain in the chest and
remarked; My doctors last ordered rest
of the BRAIN and added. throwing back his
long hair, "bUt you can see do not have to
work my brain for simple lecture.
ii comes spontaneously" While he WAS
talking he suddenly threw his hands over
his head and fell backwards unconscious. lie
was carried TO his room. and at the end OF
three minutes life was extinct. lil> vile,
who accompanied him ON his trip L. the Pa
ciiic coast was with him
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ein5ty, and MI Dorsey,s Own. employees
pleaded ignorance regarding their existence
II wac established BY the affidavit OF the
proprietor OF the paper in which the Obeytia
entry notice was published, to fulfil the
legal requirements. that only half dozen
copies of the paper containing this and SIM
ilarly designated notices We're printed, and
that the matter was left out of the regular
issue of the paper by instruction, double
price being paid for this kind of work. This
Is one case which was followed up and re-
ported upon. The property thus acquired
constitutes Mr.. Dorsey's front door yard.
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Fractured His skull.
u ~ ttI1 ~ HHIN s-FNltITs
Special to the Sentinel.

special 10 the sentinel
NINCENNEs Ind, October 17.-Ncstcrday morn
ing about t O'Clock five tamps attacked an old
man OF sixty hitting him with heavy club, frac-
turing his skull. II Is supposed he was stabbed
with dirk knife in the right ear. as blood was
flowing thcrefrom in n stream. His forehead was
battered and beaten in jelly. Three Of the five
tmmpS have been captured. The Others are being
pursued The victim is unknown.
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CHIEF JUSTICE VINCENT.
Congressman Springer. of Illinois. Thinks
He VIII be Reinstated.

SrRINGF1ELE. H., October 16-This being
the former home of Chief Justice Vincent,
of New Mexico, recently suspended from his
duties. pending an investigation into his
official conduct. Great interest is felt here
in the final outcome of the matter. Congress
man Springer, who was one of those who
recommend Judge Vincents appointment,
having been interviewed by State
Register reporter to-day, said that
the suspension seems to have
been made at the instance of Mr.. Fishback,
of indianapolis prominent Republican of
that city. Mr.. Fishback, having little
knowledge of local affairs, supposed that the
iurieS selected by the Commission in Coltax
County had jurisdiction of matters arising
under the laws of the United States, and eS-
pecially land laws. This is a mistake. and
the Colfax County Court has jurisdiction
only OF cases arising under the laws
of the Territory OF New Mexico. The District
Court. which meets in Santa Re, has iuris-
diction of all matters arising under United
States laws, aud the jury for this court was
selected last July and Dorsey had nothing to
do with it. Mr.. Springer said it was great
mistake to recognize Dorsey in any way, but
that the Government was in matter preju-
diced by his appointment as one of the five
Jury Commissioners in Colfax County, all
being Democrats except Dorsey. Dorsey's
official duties were VII performed in a
very few minutes, and that Commission
has no further legal existence. Mr.. Springer
is of the opinion that upon a thorough in
vestigation of all the facts it will be found
that Chief Justice Vincent made the best
Judge New Mexico has ever had and that
his conduct throughout has been thoroughly
honest and conscientious, and with due re-
gard Tor the public interests. He also stated
that should an investigation prove otherwise
he would he the first to demand Judge Vim
cents removal
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MONTREAL. October LII is stated here that
the vacancy in the College of Cardinals created
by the death OF Cardinal McCloskey will be filed
by Archbishop Tascherau. OF Quebec. When
one of the Canadian Bishops went TO Rome some
time ago i'm connection with the matter OF the
division of the Diocese of Three Rivers, Cardinal
SimcOni pledged him his word that in case OF a
vacancy occurring i'm the college he would use all
possible means TO have ii filed by Archbishop
Tasplprau
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used one and half bottles OF your Ath-
lophoros for rheumatism and i am pleased
to say that it entirely cured me. would
recommend any one suffering with rheuma-
tism TO give il trial. Adolph Wagner, $40
Edgar street, Evansville, Ind.
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TO cure whistling, a Canadian physician
recommends that a stronger boy be sent to
knock the whistler down each time he COM
mences. The same doctor told patient
that. if he wanted to be cured of malaria. he
would have to knock it down" With Vic
toria Pills,
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Scotts Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil.
With Hypophosphites, for Wasting Chill

Dr. s. W. Cohen, of Waco. Tex, says: 81 have
used your Emulsion in lniantile wasting with
good results 1t not only restores wasted tissue.
but gives strength. and / heartily recommend it
for diseases attended by atrOphY."
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Denouncing the Chinese.

BosToN, October 1.-The National Associ-
alton of Iaundrymen adopted resolutions
dcnouncing Chinese labor in general, and
Chinese laundrymen in particular. The next
annual meeting will lie held in Cincinnati.
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Earnest, active Democratic friends. You
cant secure the best ewspaper in Indiana
easier than tn take the subscriptions of five
of your neighbors to the Weekly sentinel.
The - will bring YOU iN opies.