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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-12-06
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19
TELEGRAPnIC NEWS.
latest from all Parts Of the World.
SOLDIERS COMPLAIN.
They Say They Are Treated Worse Than

BUFFALO, March lS.--A general row
occurred among United States troops 1t
Fort Niagara. The men say they were
worse than dogs and their complaints
were ignored. The result was numerous
desertions occurred. Thursday seven
soldiers escaped to Canada, and when
il wss discovered there was great row.
The serceants and other minor officers
were censured and recrmination followed
until the fort was an open mutiny.
Bsyonets, sticks and axes were freely
used during the melee, and three rioters
were stabbed with bayonets, one
Of them will die. The gates OF the fort
were closed and outsiders were forbidden
admission. The escaped soldiers are in
Sc. GATHERINGS, Ontario. They say
they are not disloyal to. their country,
and are preparing lengthy document to
General Meigs. Inspector of United
States Forts, regarding their grievances.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19

BERLIN, March l8.-The body of
Helen Battrock of Milford, N. H.. was
taken from the river Spree Saturday
1t is supposed she committed suicide in
consequence of her rating at the Berlin
Academy, where she was music student.
She disappeared several days ago leaving
a note saying she would never return.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19

East St. Louis officials Charged with
Apprepriating City Bonds.

ST.. LOUIS, March lS,-The most
serious charges ever brought against the
officers of East Ste Louis, the big superb
of this city. on the Illinois side of the
Mississippi River were made by the
East st. Louis Signal. Many instances
of corruption are specified against the
Mayor. the City Clerk, members of the
Board of Aldermen and police officials in
the letting of contracts. etc. The hood.
ling aggregates many thousand dollsrr.
But these matters amount to insignificance
compared to gigantic steal which is
charged to the Mayor, City Clerk and
unnamed accomplices in the matter of
half a million dollars worth Of city
bonds.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19
THE SAMOAN CONFERENCE.


No Formidable Difficulties Feared.
BERLIN, March lS.-The Samoan Con.
ference is not t.expected to be confronted
by formidable difficulties. Slight doubts
are expressed as to the attitude Of Amer
lea, but the German Government will do
it's utmost to prevent friction and at the
same time maintain Germany's full right
to deal with the Samoan rebels. Conh-
dence is felt that the peaceful disposition
of all three powers will render an agree.
ment easy.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19
IN A RUSSIAN PRISON.
Blaine Iniercedes for n Citizens I'm
Distress.

BRIDGRPoRT. Conn, March lS.-At-
torney Klein is in Washington making an
intercession for Hermann Kempinski,
who. while on a visit to relatives in Row.
en-. Russia, was seized. thrown into
prison and condemned to exile in Siberia.
Unless the measures now being taken are
successful for his relaase, he will be trans.
ported to Siberia in five or six weeks.
Klein had an interview with Blaine and
a cable message was sent to the authorities
at Rowen asking for Kempinski's re.
lease.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19
A Valuable Brewery.

ST LOUIS, March lit is announced
here thai on Wednesday last an offer of
ST. 900. 600 was made for the Anheuser-
Busch Brewery property in this city,
which was rejected. The offer is said
to have been made by representative Of
the backing house of Baron Rotbschild.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19
T TAILORING
Ii J. b. BLEDSOE, ri
Third street Below Oriental Hall.

Az. ut for u oodrui S Co., New York. Suits
luade to order and Fit Guaranteed or no pay.
Finest o oi Samples ever brought to Whine
ulncts
Cleaning and Repairing q specially.
wlnnemvcca, April s, 1885.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19
EX.PREsIOENT CLEVELAND.
A Patriotic speech In Response TO a
TO9Sf.

New YORK, March lS.-Cleveland re.
sponded to the toast, "The United
States" at the dinner given by the
Friendly Sons of st. Patrick. Among
other remarks he said; whenever
there exists struggle for freer govern
ment and for mans enfrauchisement
there will be found the aid and sympathy
of the people of the United States. +"
dis address was full of patriotism, and
evoked warm applause.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19
AN0rmRR MURDER.
The sixteenih Deputy Marshal Killed
I'm Indian Territory.

Fort SMITH Ark, March l8-Informa.
ton has been received OF the murder Of
Deputy United States Marshal w. A.
Moody in Indian Territory by men he
was trying to arrest. Moody is the
sixteenth deputy killed in the Territory
within q year.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19

.y~~. SIC RJTERS' tUIT e is
s.yfTs iaSust. ldarch and Sept,
4 NA eacS year. II is An sncy.
B. a. ciopedia III use,u I'll iD.oi-
T. Avs nation for all vino psc-
e. s4srySsNF chase the Mxurlea or tie
%&2MW necessities OF hfe. We
e@u clothe you and furnish you with
AL the necessary and uuneceaEarT
apI Iliances 10 ride. walk, danoo, slee.',
eat, fish, hum, work. go to churcn.
o. stay at home, and in various fiaes,
etyles and Quantities. Just figure uu'
what \. required to do all these th'r 5S
CnEs0RTkeif and yon can r,nahe -,
as' -aate OF the value of the ~ A-i.l
Gtr,pE, e'hlcl will be sanL npo'
retaipt Of 70 cents 10 pay pos.aga
MONTGOMERY WARD e CO.
n1.I1d Mi;.tsivnu ve-t, ~hjcaro Il.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19
MAGGIE MITCHELL, THE ACTRESS.
A Charge that She Refuses to Recognize
Her Sister.

EAsroN, Pa, March l8.-Mrs. John
Abel claims that Maggie Mitchell, the
actress, il her sister aud refuses to recog.
nize her. Mrs. Abel's brother. who is
living at Rhinelander, Wis.,, corroborates
the story. They went to the theater
aud recognized the actress as their sister.
They told Paddock, her husband, but he
refused them ap interview.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19

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yOs. GERMAss. r-cprietss.
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announcing to his 'qinrerous friends and rh,
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The Tables wiz always oe supps-o wit
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-19
ruE s0UIn FACTORY EXPLOSION.


The Dying Foreman Explains Its Cause.
WILKEsBARRE, March lS.-George
Rees, foreman of the squib.fsctory at
Plymouth, that exploded and killed ten
persons, confessed on his death-bed that
he. and not Katie Jones, caused the ex.
plosion. He was smoking a pipe in the
cellar when spark fell in keg of pow.
der.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-01

where the creek forks the last time, and he
never lets up on an enemy. If OHIO SENDS a
republican to the senate to succeed Payne,
let it be the field martial by all means
His pungency would be an excellent OF
set to the dry rot that generally chsrac-
tcrjzes the utterauces of members of the
American house of lordz.-Fort Worth
Gazette.
The Salvation army services continue at
the court! house and opera house alter
netely, with good interest. Staff Captain
Reese is sweet singer in Israel, and the
banjo and tambo1rine Accomplishments
are something never before heard in this
community conf eoted with the worship OF
God .-Burnet Bulletin.
The Courier-Journsl thinks Texas is too
big for one state. 1t say the Lone Star
state should be divided into at least two
states. Thanks for the advice. At pres
emit we prefer to remain as we are. The
time may come, however, when it will be
necessary to divide Texas into two or
more statee.-Williamson County Sun.
Never will it come we believe. Texas is
destined always TO lie with unbroken
autonomy-the greatest single state in the
noblest collection of states, ever the pro-
duct of free and self-government.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-01
FAULTS IN MODERN EDUCATION.

While the wonderful impetus of modern
progress has been felt in education, as in
other departments of SOCIAL advancement,
it is apparent, the improvements in the art
of imparting knowledge to the young are
in some degree counterbslanced by errors
which practice has demonstrated, and the
DRY might have predicted, The chief
fault into which the educational methods
of our day have fallen, is completely
where simplicity ought to be the rule
The list of studies Of the free schools,
which ought to be adapted to the intellec-
tual horizon of the child, not the ad ult, is
not only too complicated but often too alb
struse for the young learner, who cannot
be expected to handle the profound prob
lens of philosophy with the ease of the
savant. The free schools, and especi-
ally their lower grades, are for the
masses, and beyond reading, writing
arithmetic, geography and gram.
mar, the curriculum would seem
to be transcending the limits for which the
public free school is designed and endowed
by modern government. Our boys and
girls in the public schools have too many
studies, many of them having no adapt.
ability whatever to the school in which the
children of the masses are being instructed
for the plain, practical business of life
Time is not only wasted in studies prac-
tically useless to the boy or girl, but the
young learner is confused by the multi
plicity of his books, and his attention is
impaired and set adrift by so many de-
mands upon it. la fact, the tendency in
the public free school systems of the day, as
in many of our higher institutions of learn
ing, is towards superfciality and sort of
Jim Crow education which will not bear
investigation. What our children lea IN
in the common school they ought to learn
thoroughly and well. This they cannot
aud will not do if confused and "rattled"
by the modern, high-sounding, clap-trap
and humbuggery which passes for an edu-
o ltion,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-01
Confederate Veteran Associations,

From the Texas Mirror.
The Sulphur Springs Gazette, in MOTTO
ing the formation of the ex-Oonfederate
Veteran association at Gimer, says.
"There are in Texas hundreds and thou.
sands of ex-Confederates who served in
the war from other states, and vino are too
far remote to be intimately associated
with their former comrades, and do not
feel fully at ease at the annual meeting of
the old veterans here. If their names are
included In such associations as are here
referred TO, they would he known as men
who stood true to the lost cause amidst the
hardships OF the war, and would feel more
at home with their Texas friends who en-.
6a1gered their lives in the same cause"
The Gazette is right and that feeling
was one of the prime reasons for the
formation of our association. Another
reason was the disgust of the old soldiers
at the begging trip of Maj. Stewart in the
north. We fe t that if the ex-Oontederates
all over the stAts would organize they
could 80 build up, endow the Austin Home
that such shameful bringing to our old en-
emies would never happen again. Other
reasons will occur to every man why such
an association would be good thing in
every county.
At the pres. time there are at the very
lowest estimate 10000 ex-Confederate SOL
diers residing in the state of Texas. If
these men were organized into county
veteran associations and each man con-
tributed one dollar annually to the home,
we would not be shamed and disguised by
begging trips north. This can be done.
If the newspapers of Texas will help the
movement by calling the attention of the
old veterans to the matter they will not
be slow in coming to the help of the
Home.
Here in Upshur cUunty we have 1873 old
| Confederates enrolled, and expect to
reach 200. Navarro is at work in the same
direction, land all the counties, we doubt
not, will soon fall into line, and soon the
directors of the Home will be rejoicing at
the opportunity and privilege of extend
ing its usefulness.
The meeting of ex-Confederates at
sicana last Saturday wac perfect sue
cess, over 100 veterans were present, and
they adopted resolutions expressing in
substance some of the ideas expressed
expressed above, especially as to aiding
the Home. The meeting adjourned to
meet again August "a next, to adopt con-
stitution and bylaws.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-01
Pensions.

We have learned the fact that our war
expenses are growing at such rate that
they will soon surpass those of our Euro
pean neighbors. 1t is true our army is
small, but then there is our immense army
of pensioners.
The army of Germany cost that gov
eminent last year 1921, 96l 900; the army
of England cost $105, 614,655. These are
very large sums, but only thiuk of the
United States expanding the sum of $780,
100000 for pensions during the same
year. This present year 1t will not fall
short of $115,000,000. Is it not time to
stop and thiuk?
There is not doubt but this is only a
beginning. The republican party now
has ejority in both houses of congress,
and the presidency. 1t is expected that
they will, the coming winter, pass the de-
pendent pension bill. This bill was We
toed by President Cleveland. If Presi
dent Harrison and the next congress
carry out the policy of the party that
lected them, by the close of the present
administration the pension appropriation
of this government will be at least $780,,
100000 annually, almost equal to the cost
both of the French and German armies.
No do1bt but this is the policy of
the republican party, and unfortu-
nately, seems to be the wish of the Federal
veterans. We have a sample case of this
sort of spirit being in our land, in the
case of an election In the state of Pennsyl-
vania for department. commander, where
it seems that the point to be gained is a
good pension agent for the G. A. R.,
rather than that of brave soldier. This
spirit has never showed itself palmer than
it did in that election. At the time We
mention they elected Mr.. Stewart, de-
partment com mander of the Grand Army
of the Republic at Erie, Penn, an active
politician, who is connected wi b the per-
sion rings. This man was elected
over Gen. McCreery, veteran who was in
service during the war, was pensioner
and carried in his body several ounces
of lead, shot into him by the rebels. He
was an American soldier of the nobIest
class. Mr.. Stewart, who was elected over
him. never smelt the burning of hostile
powder. Mr.. Stewart enlisted when
bounties were big, February, 1865, was
put on clerical duty and received his dis
charge in June, 1865, after serving only
four months. Cannot anyone see through
all this? The G. A. r. at this rate will 10
little while become a ponderous pen
sion machine that will finally crush out the
life of this government.
The argument presented to justify this
act is that the money is kept at home
These same eag'e-eyed gentlemen can see
that the European nations are drafting
the life blood OF that continent by their
large standing armies, but cannot ses that
the money paid to these soldiers all stay
at home.
Never in the history of the world has
there ever been concooted a grsnder
sche ne of bribery than this pension bribe
Endorsed by the republican party, which
purposes TO buy the old soldiers votes BY
distributing among them $2OO,OOOOCo
pensions annually.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-01
AMERIcA,s aRoYAL GRANTs.n


The parliamentary debate in England
on the subject of royal grants will serve to
adorn tale as we'll as point an excellent
moral. The English people love their
good Queen Victoria, while tradition, his
tory and their universal national custom
have made royalty almost part of them
selves. Yet in the swing of things, save
when the nations life is in peril, man is
nearer to himself than is his government.
and when that government tries to come
between that man and his shirt, then
trouble is brewing. The great mass of
the English people have not objected
to beautifully supporting Queen Victoria,
$3,600,OOO are annually put aside for that
purpose. Her children, too, have been
handsomely pensioned, but now comes an
appeal for her grandchildren, and the
common people are drawing back their
hands. Queen Victoria's income has been
said to be 100000 year-can she not
afford to put aside considerable mar
riage portion for her grandchild, and not
appeal to parliament for it? With less
popular ruler on the throne we believe
parliament would not respond favorably
to this petition, but as it il, and with Glad
stone on her side, Victoria will win, but
this debate has set marked precedent
for all future opposition to royal grants.
And cannot we of the United States
gather profitable lesson from such ex-
smpleH We are just beginning prac-
tice the progressive element of England
is ryiug to throw off. Luckily, by wise
constitutional inhibition we are forbidden
to confer knightly and other far-sounding
honors and titles, but in monetary prac
tices we are upquestionably erecting a
privileged class. About this matter we
would not be considered oaptious or use
lessly faulifnding, but is it not due the
public that their attention be called to the
present drift of practiceH Is not the
treasury being used as never contemplated
by the Constitution or its trainers? What
sanction is there for a certain class
of pensioning that is being done?
Why should the widows of de-
ceased presidents and distinguished
soldiers be pensioned, and they be granted
the postal frank privilege? How long
will it be before others than these two
classes are admitted to these privileges!
Ex-senators, Representatives, poiti-
clans, x-governors-and where will the
list endH And, indeed, why on the same
principle should not presidents and their
families be pensioned Immediately on
their retirement from Office and before
the death of either? England, after the
lapse of many centuries, now is turning
against practice she has long continued.
Peculiar conditions have of late made de-
mands upon her government unusually
exacting, and the breath of the nineteenth
century independence has stirred her to
protest. 1t should be lesson for US and
keep US from entering upon course
which we must eventually regret
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-01

IT takes as long for letter to go from
Austin TO Georgetown or Bastrop as it
does from Galveston, where the distance
is many times greater, to either of those
points. Nor is it through any fault of our
postal facilities, but on account of the
wretched railroad connections. Oh for q
state commission that would force the
railroads to give the Capital city of Texas
reasonable accommodations.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-01
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-01

The White Caps have resumed opera
tions in Illinois, fragrant and cowardly
outrage being reported from that section
this morning. II the citizens of Illinois
had spunk enough TO treat the White Caps
to heavy doses of their own medicine it
would considerably help matters. That
is, when the miscresnts are caught and
identified.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-01
Statistics of sleep may not prove an

Statistics of sleep may not prove any
thing of Importance, but they are inter
esting. According to statistics prepared
10 Russia, the need of sleep is greater il
women than in men, the duration of SLEEP
being longer and the percentage of tired
morning and evening aud of not tired
being 3 to 2 aud to 3 respectively
as compared to the men. Students sleep
longer and are less tired than other men
The time needed to fall asleep is about the
same in three classes-2O.S minutes for
the men, III minutes for students and
IL 2 minutes for women. 10 each case,
however, it takes longer for those who are
frequent dreamers and light sleepers to
fall asleep than persons of opposite
characters tics.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-01

Gov. GORDON, of Georgia, has recon-
mended that the Legislature of that state
provide liberal pension for every ex-
Confederate soldier in Georgia who is in
capacitated, either from wounds or disease,
from providing for himself. Texas is
rich and prosperous and should not be be-
hind Georgia in caring for her homeless
and INDECENT veterans.