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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-02
KEEP COOL.

The agitation of the Friendship Fire
Company directed against tho erection
of combination market and engine
house in the Third ward is i'll advised.
The most prominent in the matter seem
to be a lot of would-be leaders who have
done much more for themselves than for
the company or the Third ward.
There are evidently two main grounds
for the objec ton to the proposed struct-
ure. One finds its support at the hands
Of disappointed lot spcculator or two,
who failed to sell out to the city at a
good round price The other lies in the
fact that no small number Of the younger
members of the company want a dance
hall to be built over the engine house
for their amusement. The city is not
at present rich enough to go into the
dance hail business, and engine houses
are built for more serious purposes.
The crheadcd sentiment OF nine
tenths OF the freeholders Of the Third
ward will sustain its representatives in
Council in their unanimous position in
favor of the proposed combined build
ing. As for the covert threat of
disbanding Of the company in case thus
and so be not done, that would seriously
break in upon the peace OF mind OF
some Of the self-appointed leaders WHO
have been hanging on to 4 good thing
for several months.
The hot-ieadcd young members Of
the Friendship Fire Company had better
go SLOW in settling the IF .irs Of the
city-at least until they are of age and
can vote.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-02

Even the burglars are demonstrating
that this is an age of progress. a sci
cntific gentleman made secret visit to
a bank in the city Of Hanover, Prussia,
at the witching hour of night, when po-
licemen yawn, and evidently had very
little trouble, with the aid of electricity,
in opening and plundering the safe. By
bringing the poles of the battery In con-
tact with the safe the iron was made
rcd-hot, and consequently soft and easy
to cut In half an hour, with electrical
appliances, skillful burglar could
enter any safe. This plan does not en-
cumber the operator with many tools,
as several of the banks arc already sup
piled with electric lights, and it would
only bc the work Of O few minutes to
conduct the electric fluid to the safe and
make the metal glow with an intensity
Of heat 80 pleasing to the eye oAa scion
tifc burglar.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-02
TRIED TO KILL HIS WIFE.
a Former Roanoke Lady Shot at by lie
Husband.

a Former Roanoke Lady Shot at by Her
Husband.
BALTIMORE, Aug LIS Special -Heary
llouck, a painter from Washington, was
arrested yesterday for attempting to
shoot his wife. Mrs. Annie l.. IIouck
He came over from Washington in an
intoxicated condition, says he sat up in
a church till late hour, and then, tax
ing a Xxx, drove about the city in
search OF his wife. lie found her at the
home of her cousin, Mrs. Rose Ellis,
1898 ilollins street.
MIR. Ellis admitted him early in the
morning, and his wife came down stairs
to INC ct him. The greeting was cordial,
but about daylight, as Mrs. IIouck
started out, her husband drew re-
volvcr and fired at her. The pistol was
knocked out of his hand by Mrs. Ellis
before he could fire again. The plucky
woman finally ovcrcamc him and had
thrown him to the floor when an officer
came in and made anu .naGu .Ac arrest
Mrs. lloucll is an attractive brunette,
and was married to llouck in Roanoke
about scvcn years ago.
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THE TIMES can pe.tound regularly on

THE TIMES can be-tound regularly on
sale st the following places
Roanoke--George Gravatt. Jr., NJ. L..
Smith s, Hotels Roanoke. Ponce de I,eop
Elk's News Stand, 81 Salem avenue, and
Roanoke News Depot, los Henry street.
Bristol Tenn.--W. A. Ward, Front
Street, Steiner & Mathis.
Bluefield-- Bluefield Inn.
Lynchburg--Nor ell Arlington Hotel.
Pocahontas-- PocahortaS Inn.
Pulaski--Maple Shade Inn, Brown &
Brown.
Radford--Radford Inn, Jenkins News
Depot, Norwood Street.
Salem-W. Taylor's Book Store.
ashington--Willard's. The Metropoli-
tan.
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by a brother officer who owns up to hav-
ing had drink with him?
The police force of Roanoke is SO
small that, there is the utmost necessity
that every man on it should be physi-
cally, mentally and morally qualified for
the duties of the position. 1t evidently
needs to DO wceded out.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-02
More PAPERS to he Indicted.

NEW York, Aug. IL Special Dis
trict Attorney Nicoll to-day decided to
have indicted all the New York papers
that published accounts of the electro
cution at Sing Sing on July6. The evil
dencc in the hands Of the district attoT-
ney Will be presented to the grand jury
On Monday
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-02

A woman fell overheard in Jupiter
inlet, Florida and was eaten 10y shark.
For three years her husband has done
nothing but hunt Jupiter inlet sharks,
and up to date he has landed about
three hundred of them, and is still fish.
lag.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-02

Rowells American Newspaper Direc-
tory for 1891 puts the circulntion-of THE
ROANOKE TIMES above that of any
other paper in Southwest Virginia, and ut
Noanohe combined.
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The official test of the Gamewell fire
alarm system was made yesterday, and
proved satisfactory in every detail, The
fire and water committee made a
thorough examination and found it to
work with perfect accuracy.
why do animals lave boncs?" in
CURED the professo, OF anatomy.
1T is meat that they should have"
responded the student at the foot of the
ass.-Pharmaccutica Fra.
THE TIMES desires special correspond
hts in every town In Southwest Virginie
and the Shenandoah Valley.
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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
AID FOR THE INDIANS
Amended Estimates of the Amount whiC
VIII Rc Rcnuired the Cop,ino, Vcar

Amended Estimates of the Amount Which
Will BE Required the Coming Year.
The commissioner of Indian affairs.
in compliance with request from the
secretary of the interior, laid before
that official amended estimates of
amounts required for subsistence and
civilization of the Sioux for the fiscal
year 1892, that will enable the depart
ment to furnish the Indians with the
rations prescribed by the agreement of
Feb. 2S, 1877. The commissioner states
that the estimates for subsistence of the
Sioux now before congress amounts to
$780, ,OOO This should be increased to
81, 100000 in order to enable the office
to comply with the directions of the
president and to supply the full ration
stipulated to be furnished under the
agreement referred to. The commits
sioner also says that an item of $35, 600
for subsistence and civilization of the
northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes
should be increased to $4,000, so as to
provide them with the same subsistence
for the several tribes of Sioux.
In addition to the above items on ac-
count of the Sioux, the commissioner
has included in his communication sew
eral other estimates of appropriations
required for the Indian service for the
fiscal year 1892, among which are the
following: Support of Indians in Ari-
zona and New Mexico, increase from
$4,000 to $500, 600, to enable the de-
pactment to construct saw mill and
other necessary improvements at the
San Carlos agency, and for additional
support for the White Mountain
Apaches at Fort Apache, Ariz. The
item for pay of Indian police is in
creased from $3.50, 600 to $3fO, 600, in or
der to increase the force by the addition
of twenty-five officers and $50 privates
at larger salaries. An item of S150,000
is submitted for irrigating bitches on
Indian reservations; also an item of
$50, 600 for irrigation purposes on the
Fort Hall reservation Idaho; also an
item of $4,000 for the erection of
slaughter houses and issue stations
needed on many of the Indian reserva-
tiOns.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
A NARROW ESCAPE.
That of the Seventh Regiment from tn
Tragic Fate of Custer.

That of the Seventh Regiment from the
Tragic Fate of Custer.
PINE RIDGE S. Oak, Jan. SIT is
evident from the testimony of officers
and men that the Seventh regiment
barely escaped the tragic fate of Custer
in the battle of White Clay creek. The
troops had passed the Catholic mission
and were dismounted in the big valley
one and half miles wide, Just beyond
the school. AT the end of this valley is
a narrow canon, not over seventy five
feet wide and 300 yards long, opening
into small, circular park. 1t was the
object of the Indians to draw them into
this small valley.
The soldiers We're getting ready to
make a rush on foot for the top of the
hill when the cry arose that they We're
surrounded. Advancing now in one.
now in another direction on either SIDE
of the valley, tney found themselves
opposed each time by from 200 to 800
Indians. SS3n the hills began to swarm
with 1,800 to 1900 warriors, and in
twenty minutes more the tragedy would
have begun. when the untiring Ninth
rode in, as they rode before the Meeker
massacre, attacking furiously the rear
of the savage horde, scattering them in
every direction Before the enemy
could rally from their confusion the
boys in blue withdrew slowly and sui
lenly to Pine Ridge The enemy are
busy stealing horses and cattle in every
direction
While the blizzard made the old men,
women and children suffer, it will have
little OF no effect on the young bucks
and warriors. 1t is believed that Little
Wounds was the brain that planned
and directed the battle, as it showed
more generalship than has been -
played since Red Clouds fighting DAYS
Old Red loud sent in a letter Thurs
day night claiming that he was a pl'is-
Oner and begging soldiers to come and
save him. This is coroborated by
friendlies. who say that when the stam-
pede took r'pce Monday old Reds wife
began to t.4row things into the wagons,
and, with true witely spirit, said she
was for war and would go out on the
bloody path even if her liege lord re
manned and fonght on the other side,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
DEFENDS THE INDIANS.
letter from Father Craft, the Supposed
Dead Priest.

Letter from Father Craft, the Supposed
Dead Priest.
New YORK, Jan. 5.-Ihe New York
Freeman's journal publishes a letter
from Father Craft, the Catholic Indian
missionary who was fatally shot through
the lungs in the Indian fight on Mon
day. The letter is dated Dec 90, and
was mailed from Pine Ridge Agency,
S. Oak.
Father Craft says that from the
beginning of treaties with the In
dians they have been disappointed,
cheated, starved, deprived of both their
customs and those of the whites.
which they had fondly hoped TO assume
with the aid of the government and
in every way abused, Knocked and dis
Couraged
"In their despair, Gen. Crook brought
them hope. Their confidence in him led
them to hope that he would be able to
realize their hopes. His death was
their dtathblow, and they so felt it.
Their fears and despair after Crook 8
death were increased by a further re-
| duction Of rations, and a delay even of
these. MIR. Lee, who took the census,
made grave mistakes, counted less than
the real numbers, and made false re-
ports of prosperity that did not exist.
The rations estimated for the reduced
numbers were not sufficient for half
even of these. The Indians were more
than ever in abiect misery, starving
without hope of redress, aud without
hope Of living in any way. 1t is not to
be wondered at that they believed in a
Messiah, and listened to every dreamer
who promised hope.
interested whites took advantage of
this state of affairs, and howled for
troops. The troops came Interested
whites again came to the Indians and
persuaded them that the army had
come TO complete their destruction. The
Indians did not fight, but ran away in
fear and despair Father Jutz Gained
them and brought many back, and the
prudence and kindness of Gen. Brooke
1 convinced them of safety.
All this Indian trouble can be traced
/ through all its phases to its true cause
/ starvation, abject misery, and despair
the cause OF which is the Outrageous
/ conduct of the Indian department for
many years, eliminating IN the later
/ bluuders and cruelties of the present
( Commissioner Morgan.
The death Of Sitting Bull was caused,
/ If military reFogts OF the facts
and my knowledge of the situa-
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
May Employ Chinese Detectives.

OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. 5.-A govern
ment officer just returned from an in
spection from Winnepeg TO the Pacific
says the United States is nearly losing
$1,000,0 900 annually through opium
smugglers. The illicit dealers are just
now playing big game in British
Columbia and there is not a day on
which large quantities of the deadly
drug refined are not smuggled into the
states from some point,
This smuggling is not by any means
confined to British Columbia, however,
he says. as short time ago he caught
persons in the province of Quebec in
the a of smuggling opium across the
boarder. Z he thing is going on all the
time and the smugglers only laugh at
the United States officials The officer
suggests a remedy that the United
States treasury engage a number of
Chinese detectives to watch the opera
tions of suspected parties.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items of
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Frisco quaked twice Friday.
Indiana school fund is S922. .513H.
December decrease of public debt, $1l,-
005, 39S
Fire Friday night at the Columbus, o.,
buggy works caused $4,000 damage. In
| sured.
The Office of the treasurer of Wright
county, Mimi, WI robbed Thursday night
So 500.
The Indiana Tariff Reform league will
hold its annual meeting at the capital,
March 4.
Mrs, Thomas Phipps, of Brazil Ind.
took her two children and cloped with Il
19-yearold 10y.
Asbury Coffey has become unsettled
mentally by too much Bible study at Mar
tinsville, Ind.
Johnny Mckenzie, aged II, killed him
selye at Cleveland because his 14-year-old
sweetheart Tilted him
James l.. Hubbard, the Connecticut
paper manufacturer, leaves his Sj,0OO,C0O
to his wife and only son,
The Peoples bank of Fayetteville, n
! c., failed because President Moore used
the funds in his private business.
DR.. Bors, of Hungary, has discovered a
cure for diphthera, by the use of which
only % per cent. of the cases prove fatal.
Fire in New York Friday night de
st Dyed the Fifth Avenue and Herrmaun's
! theaters and dozen stores. Loss, 1851
! 100
AT Coshocton, O., the Tuscarara Novelty
company introduced the most popular
novelty of all in banquet to its one
hundred employees
Judge Wesley Beck, leading lawyer of
| Laurens county, Ga, suicded Thursday
night with morphine. Family troubles
are supposed to be the cause.
Charles Schultz, 80, Of Shelbyville, Ind,
day laborer, lays down the shovel and the
hoe to take charge of $ls5 900, left at the
death Of his father in Germany.
Thomas Geoghan was fatally shot by
! Policeman Jones, in New York, while at
/ tempting to rescue prisoner from the
officer. Geoghan fired two shots at the
officer before he used his weapon
Sheriff William Smiths bondsmen at
/ Columbus, Ind, are discussing the ques-
| ton of what TO do with the sheriff, who
! gets beastly, bowling drunk, and is locked
! mp in his own Jail when he ought to be
/ putting others therein.
| Married William Woodberry explains
/ how he and Florence Kline came near
| dying at the Empire hotel, Akron, o., by
| saying that Florence gave him morphine
/ purposely, being SO insanely in love with
/ him that she Woodberry him before seeing
him return to his family
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
modelled After the Minnesptn Law.

CHICAGO, Jan. g. A preliminary
meeting to effect the permanent organ
ization of the Chicago Ballot Reform
league was held Friday night, number
of prominent citizens being present
A constitution was adopted by the
meeting which declares that the objects
of the league shall be to employ all
honorable and lawful means to secure
for the city of Chicago and the state of
Illinois what is known as the Austral-
ian ballot The draft of the bill to be
introduced in the Illinois legislature at
its next meeting was considered. The
bill is in the main modelled after the
Minnesota one.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK.
WHERE THEY ARE FREE.
Mississippi Black Men Take Up tn
March to Oklahoma.

March to Oklahoma.
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan 5.-The Rev. B.
7. Foster, colored, who was candidate
for auditor of state ON the Peoples
party ticket, has come from Kansas
City with twenty families of colored
people from Kemper county, Miss, en-
route to Hennessey, O. T. The families
number about one hundred people. Mr.
Foster says;
This is but the beginning of tre-
mendous exodus Of colored people from
the south, Thousands of them will
leave the southern states within the
next sixty days We look upon
Oklahoma as our peaceful heaven
where political ostracism is I'M
known, and where every man can
cast the ballot of his choice with
out fear from any source. Many of the
colored people of Mississippi are re-
fusing to enter into new labor con-
tracts, and those who have property are
disposing of it.
Mr. Foster said further that the open
ing of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe and
Iowa Indian lands, which is TO occur in
February, was attracting many people
to the territory,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
Killed with an Ak

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. Charles
M. Gossin white, aged 80, miner,
formerly from Cincinnati, was struck
on the head with an AK by j. H. Nichels,
another miner, at WILSON mines, five
miles out on Thursday and died of his
wound on Friday. Gossin was a
widower with three children. His old
dest child, daughter, lives at Clarhs-
vile, Mo. Nichels made his escape,
and has not been apprehended
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
Assaulted and Robbed of s3, 500.

BUFFALO, Mimi, Jan. 5.-The office
of the county treasurer of Wright
county, was robbed of $500 Thursday
night. About 6 o'clock, as the money
was being put in the vault, two masked
men entered the Office, fired one harm
less shot, and knocked the treasurer
senseless. hen they gathered up the
money and fed There is no clew.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
Father Crafts Not Dead.

OMAHA, Jan. 5.--A correspondent tel
egraphs from Pine Ridge agency: Il
called ON Father Crafts this afternoon
and found him sitting up in a chair and
and able to converse quite freely al
though not to any great length. He
now seems to be out of danger, very
much to the surprise of even his physi-
clans He is in the Catholic school
house at the agency and is receiving
every attention,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
GIANT POWDER EXPLOSION.
A Mexican Miner Bites Cap to Tighten
It--Twelve Killed

A Mexican Miner Bites Cap to Tighten
It--Twclve Killed.
EAGLE PASS, Tex, Jan. 5.-Word has
just been received here of an accident
which occurred at Socobon mines, the
property Of the Pinoles Mining compa-
N.Y. seven miles from Mopine, durango,
Mex On Dec. 20, at s o'clock, D.
m. fifteen miners entered the powder
house to secure their weekly supplies of
giant powder. Each man had received
his allowance when one of the miners
who had been preparing stick for a
cartridge attempted TO secure the cap
on defective fuse by the use of his
teeth. The cap exploded, when the de-
tonation set off the entire explosive con-
tents of the powder house, each mans
allowance going off as he happened to
be holding it, one on his shoulder, an
other on his head, etc The explosion
demolished the building and tore most
of the wretched miners to pieces.
Twelve were killed outright, and the
remaining three cannot possibly survive
their Injuries
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05

ton agree, as they seem to, by
the Indian agent, through desire for
notoriety, causing trouble in order to
quiet it, and then interfering with the
army, which alone had the means, the
prudence and the confidence of the In
dams necessary to properly manage
such things. y
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
FATALLY SHOT
BY Pistol That Fcn From the Town
NIarshaI's Pocket.

It WVENVIF
HARRoDsBURG, KY, Jan. 5.-Allie G.
Hove, young man about 81 years old,
was accidentally shot'in the abdomen
Friday, by ball from a 1885,
caliber pistol that fell from the pocket
of Town Marshal William w. Wag-
goner. The wound is serious one and
may prove fatal The sad accident oc-
CURED in Green's saloon, on the corner
of Chiids and Market streets, about 10
o'clock a. m The young man was iv-
ing here with his mother Mrs Emma
Hove. a granddaughter of the late Gen.
Robert McAlee His father, Dr. J. Add.
Hove, is practicing physician in Gin
cinnatus, Kan. He has an uncle in
business in Cincinnati.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
AsSasslnAteh.

ANTE CITY, La, Jan, Sc. G.
Howe, prominent citizen, was assas-
sinated Friday night at o'clock on the
corner of Railroad avenue and Nul-
berry street, the most conspicuous
place in the city, yet the spot where the
killing was done was dark place. He
was shot six times and instantly killed,
The murderer escaped
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
DUEL TO THE DEATH
Between Tennessee Farmers One Killed,
the other Dying.

the other Dying.
KNOXVILLE. Tenn, Jan. 5.-News
comes from Well Springs, an isolated
village in Claiborne county, Of bloody
battle there in which one man was
killed and another fatally injured. For
some time James Claiborne and Syl-
vester Sprangler, farmers, have been
quarreling about their landed interests.
Recently they met, and sailing TO set
tie their differences with words resort
ed to force. Claiborne shot Sylvester
through the breast, causing death in u
few minutes Sylvester before dying
cut off an arm Of Claiborne, and
crushed his skull with an AK. Clai-
borne is reported dying. Relatives Of
the men are not satisfied with the fight
and seem determined to renew the bat
tie. Frank Sylvester, an eye witness
to the murder, has been arrested as an
accomplice
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
At prnviGence. Il. l.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Jan. 4-The Gen.
eva wooden mills in this city were totally
destroyed by fire Saturday morning.
They We're owned by Maurice Niihmann.
The loss is estimated at 100000, with
an insurance of S66, 600. No one insur-
ance company carries over $4,000.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
A right win cuban Briganas.

HAVANA, JAM MANUEL Garcia, the
brigan chief, was overtaken by troops
Thursday night and surrendered His
horse was killed under him and he was
wounded, but he succeeded in making
his escape. Sexto Nerela, Garcia's prin-
cpal lieutenant, was shot and killed.