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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisements In this column will repay
perusal.

WTANTED-JOB PRINTER. ONE
w thoroughly verscd with every
detail of the business. Recommends
tiODs required. Address at once.
LOOKABILL'S PRINTING HOUSE,
Roanoke, Va.
apl17-1yr
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ARGE PLEASANT ROOMS. CEN
IL trally located. also stable; for
rent. "a Sixth avenue s. w. noy6.1mo
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WALSAK'S NEW PLACE..
w Walsak, the expert dyer and
cleaner. has opened new place Mt the
corner OF Commerce and Campbell
streets, and invites his old patrons and
the public tn call and sec him.
Suits cleaned for S1.50
Suits dyed for $500.
Goods called for and delivered. Sat
isfaction guaranteed. nov29-imo
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NURLE'S TONsORIAL PARLoR.
~ at No. Jefferson street, is the
finest in Virginia. The celebrated
Climax Revolving Chairs end French
plate mirrors. Flrst-class BARRIERS
only. Ladies waited npon at their
homes. l.. j. CURLE,
may1e-6mo Proprietor.
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DoANoKE PAPER STOCK AND
METAL COMPANY.

Holiday street,near R. e s. Depot
Buy and sell hides, furs, rags, bones.
beeswaN. old papers, iron, brass, cop
per, lead, etc, etc. nov99,iyr
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A L. FUQUA, PLUMBER, GAS
stoves, .nces, hs atcrs, iron al d terra
Gotta p ping, er., at lowest p ices.
No. III Conmere street.
1urc19- jmo.
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EREDERICK j. AMwEG. C. e.,
A RI. Am Soc. G. E. & Engr's Club
OF Philadelphia engineer, contractor
and builder, Commercial Bank Build
ing, Roanoke, Va 49,. aur22-tf
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DIANO-FORTES MOVED WITH
Il safety truck, and furniture trans
ferred by w. w. ROBINSON, Office at
Massie IL Martins drug store, Salem
avenue and Commerce street.
nov21-lm.
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THAMES ! TAXES !

SEAL PRESSES, PLAIN, 50. SELF
~ mixing rubber stamps. from rs cents.
up to IS. Hand stamps, from Is cents
up. Self.supplying pads, IS to so cents.
Stamp supplies OF every description, as
low in price as any manufacturer in the
United States. Call on or address J.
HALL, 103 Third avenue.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

" ANTED-A LIMITED NUMBER
w of pupils in china painting, by an
experienced decorator. Apply corner
Henry street and Seventh avenue, at
MRS. TATE'S. nov2o-1w
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TOR SALE-20 SHARES AMERICAN
H. Bridge and Iron Works. 10 shares
Jeanette Land Co. 10 shares Glens
Falls Land Co. 10 shares Central Land
Co., buchanan. 10 shares the Grottoes
Co., Shendun. 10 shares the Roanoke
Iron Co. IS shares the Salem Imp. Co.,
Salem, Va. ego feet on Franklin road.
House and lot on Pine street. Address
v. H., ZINES Ofhce. Oct14-tf
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EAST ROANOKE STEAM DYE
~ Works.-All kinds of clothing
dyed, cleaned and repaired. Gentle
mems garments, dresses, shawls, rib
bons, sashes, neckties, kid gloves and
feathers cleaned and dyed in tho best
possible manner and for the least money.
Black silk dyeing speciality. LEON
THlERY, Proprietor, 10 Second street
II. @. Remember location, foot of Ran
dolph street bridge. nov15-tf
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BUSINESS NOTICES.
GALE OF STOCK.

On Monday, November 80, 1891, in
front of the courthouse in Roanoke
City, at IL o'clock M, I will sell to the
highest bidder, at public auction, GER
titicate No. II, for so shares of the CAPT.
tai stock of the Security investments
Company, now standing on the books Of
the said company in the name OF p B.
Stanard, held by me as collateral for
the payment Of Sl77.63, with interest
from May 80, 1891.
November 20, 1901.
nov2lto3O HOBBIE MUSIC co.
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MARY LUKENS, ART TEACHER.
1s1 Studio Campbell street, over
Brooks photograph gallery. nov2s-1wk
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FOR RENT.

EOR RENT-oFFICE NO. 100.
Il I1MEs Building" Apply at 113
henry street. aug29-tf
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THE ROANOKE TRANSFER
Il Company is prepared to do all
kinds of hauling. They keep good
wagons, good teams and rcspon-
siblc drivers. Prompt attention.
Offices. Freight depot aud Jefferson
street. south. Telephone, 119.
oct1-1-yr
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DEAK ~ CO.,
Il Private Collecting Agency,
lines Building, lib Henry St,
Roanoke.
Masonic Building. Church street,
I.ynchburg.
Special attention to claims of mcr-
chants, doctors, business and profess
ional men generally. No charge uu-
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THERE WILL BE A GENERAL MEETING
i OF the stockholders OF Tho Powell Real Es-
y Rivcs. in the city OF Roanoke, on Tuesday,
December 1, 1891, at O'Clock p. III. All stock
holders are requested to be present In person or
by proxy. BY order OF the board of directors,
a. l.. PAYNE,
hoVl-lmo Secretary.
The above meeting Is postponed until Thurs-
day, December 8, 1891, Mt O'Clock p. m.
tdm sccret.rv
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THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
Il stockholders of the Roanoke De-
velopment and Guarantee Company
will be held at the Office Of tho Fidelity
Loan and Trust Company on Thursday.
December 10, 1891, at o'clock p. M.
All stockholders are required to be-
present in person or by proxy. as mat
tors OF Importance to all will be brought
before the meeting.
novloa Ot GEO. G. McCAHAN, Sec'y.
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y EXTINCTION STANDARD TYPE
III writer 10 the best on the market.
For supplies, terms. ETC., apply to X.
ID. GUM, agent. No. II Campbell
street, opposite postOflicc. nov14-1m
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poANoKE PHOTOGRAPHIC
u Studio, 100 Salem avenue
ELIZABETH a. RODDAN AND
LUCY ID. BALDWIN, Photographers.
Outside work and interiors spec
ialty. Development and printing done
for amateurs. my13-6m
The morning call., 1891-06-15
The SILVER QUESTION.
Views Of CleVeiaTd en- the Policy Of
Purchase and Coinage.

WASHINGTON, June IA. - Information
comes in private mail from New York
That Cleveland will attempt to guide a COM
promise on the silver question when Con-
gress convenes. Cleveland is trying hard to
head off the change in sentiment on the
question of his nomination. He fears the
solid South and the unyielding West on
the financial question. His idea is some-
what like that proposed recently by his
eX-Secretary of Treasury FaTchild. 1t IS
free purchase, but not free coinage OF Sill
Yer. He wants a scheme which will buy
bullion so long as it remains popular, but
stop when sentiment calls halt. He would
coin when there is a demand and it is at
par, but shut down altogether when there is
evidence OF a corner or a movement from
any OF the foreign nations indicating dis
position To impoveriSh our supply of gold.
This would make silver a nOnentity as
political factor. 1t would give Cleveland
and his party a chance to straddle the ques-
tion again. All propositions of this charac-
ter contemplate placing the coinage queS-
ton wholly within the discretion Of the Sec
retary Of the Treasury, and they are there
fore out of the question SO far as Congress is
concerned. Several attempts have been
made during the last few years to enlarge
the purchase OF silver bullion, and all have
been turned down without consideration II
they in any degree gave the Secretary larger
discretionary powers. The silver men. eS-
peciaily. deplore this thing of making un-
certain the quantity to be purchased or the
breadth of coinagr. That is one thing they
demand shall be fiual and definite.
The morning call., 1891-06-15
A SAD ACCIDENT.
DeplOrable Result Of the Care
less Handling Of a Gun.
4 Young Girl Of San GreSOriO Fatally
Shot by Lad.
The Boy Driven Insane With Grief Over
the Tragedy and Prevented From
Killing Himself By Friends.
specisl to THE MORNING UAsr.

REDWOOD CITY, June 14-Word was re-
ceived here this morning of a fatal accident
at San GregoriO, twenty-five miles west Of
this place on the coast, whereby young
girl lost her life. Lizzie Kreiss, IA years
old, daughter of Louis Kreiss, was shot and
instantly killed by the accidental discharge
of gun in the hands of Albert Brown, son
of wealthy Oakland undertaken. who was
spending his vacation at Kreiss' hunting
and fishing. Brown is about II years old
and in the course Of few weeks had be-
come quite friend to the girl. They were
amusing themselves by handling gun and
he was showing her how it was used. his
sleeve caught on the hammer and the gun
was discharged, the load striking the girl in
the forehead and terribly mutilating her
face. She died in five minutes. When
Brown saw the effect of the accident he
went insane with grief. He broke the gun
in pieces and would have killed himself if
he had not been prevented by others. They
have had to watch him closely since to pre-
vent his doing bodily injury to himself.
The parents of the lad were telegraphed for
to Oakland. Coroner Grove left Redwood
City this morning to hold an inquest. The
funeral takes place tomorrow.
The morning call., 1891-06-15
THROUGH A BRIDGE.
Fearful Loss Of Life by a Rail-
road Accident.
Sixty Persons Killed and Hundreds In
juTed In Switzerland.
Part Of a Crowded Excursion Train Plunged
Into a Rivera Carload Of
Passengers Drowned.
Ereoial to THE MORNING CALI

BERNE, June IA horrible accident
occurred on the Moenchen, Stein and Basle
railway to-day through the collapse of a
bridge beneath heavily loaded excursion
train. The train was crowded with fpeople
on their way to attend musical fete. Sixty
persons were killed outright, while
hundreds were injured. Two engines and
the first ear plunged into the river and all
of the passengers on the car were drowned
Two cars remained suspended from the
bridge. All of the train-men were killed.
Thirteen cars were saved.
I The musical fete at Moenchenstein was
abandoned as soon as the news of the acct
dent arrived and hundreds of villagers
hurried to tine scene to assist in rescuing the
victims. The bridge was an iron skeleton
structure which was considered well-built
and substantial. The only apparent reason
for the collapse of the bridge is that the
train left The rails and threw its entire
weight on one side Of the bridge.
The morning call., 1891-06-15
TEN SELF MURDERS.
GhaStly Record Of a Suicide Club at
BTidseplTt, Conn.

BRIDGEPORT Conn.,, June IA. - Robert
Louis Stevenson, when he wrote the famous
romance of ''The Suicide Club" included
in his series Of stories entitled Modern
Arabian Nights" never dreamed that any
set of MOI bidlY inclined misanthropes
would put his horrible schemes into opera
tiOn, but, as is well known, the famous Sui
eide Club of this city was the result, and
yesterday the self-murdeT Of Z. T. Schmidt
at Birmingham, by blowing his brains out
with a shotgun, makes list Of ten victims
to this horrible passion. The club was
originally formed With six members, SIX
years ago, and the number was intended to
be limited as formed, but new members
were add from time to time and despite
the protests of the original members no less
than seven applications were received from
abroad for membership last year. The sui
ci des so far are August HeiSteThOgen, sui
eide committed in bed with a revolver :;
Joseph happ, shot himself while in bed ;
George LpavenwUrth, died in Cases Hotel
from laudanum self-adminiSteTed; William
Nickel. cut his throat with a razor in his
room; John klenZy, shot himself through
the heart with a rifle in the cellar of his
saloon; John i. Schneider. threw himself
in front OF an express train at the depot,
before a dozen friends; John HatteTn,
hanged himself in his shop; Wendell Baum,
cut his throat with jack-knife in an open
lot in New York City; W. II. Maby, blew
out his brains with q revolver; E. +.
Schmidt, blew his brains out with shot
gun. The President Of the club now is
William ZesGs, a sal0On-keeper at Cod
street and the club meets in a room in his
house. Daniel LOeSer is Financial and Cor
responding SecTetarV
The morning call., 1891-06-15
FAST STEAMERS
The Advantage Remains Yet
With Side. Wheelers.

"HOw many sea-going steamers do you
think are afoat that can steam twenty
knots an hour~ was the question asked by
q steamer captain of half dozen merchants
in the Exchange yesterday morning.
Each of the group put on his thinking
cap and returned answers ranging all the
way from 40 to $50.
'You are all long way above the mark"
said the captain. "There are not ten sea-
going steamers in the world that can do it
even for short time. Of the big Atlantic
liners only six have ever made twenty
knots, as glance at LlOyd's register will
show. They are the City of New York and
her sister ship, the City of Paris of the In
man line; the Majestic and TeutOnc of the
White Star. and the Normania and Furst
Bismarck of the Hamburg American Packet
Company.
The fastest of these, the City Of New
York and the new German flyer, Furst
Bismarck, can steam about %. There are
three other vessels that can do even better
than this. The mail steamer Calais-DOyer
has made % knots an hour between England
and France. She belongs to the London,
Chatham and Dover Railroad.
BY far the fastest steamers in the world,
however, are the Queen Victoria and Prince
of Wales, belonging to the Isle of Man
Packet Company. Both boats are exactly
dllke III iOHUdStp SlZb anu Speeu duu eau
steam % knots an hour. This speed is kept
up day in and out, and not given as the re-
suit of trial unier favorable circumstances.
They run from Liverpool to Douglass, Isle
of Man, and can carry 1000 pas
sengers. Compared with the 10000 ton
Atlantic flyers they are small vessels, being
only 1857 tons register. with length of
$50 5-12 feet, beam 80 LIP feet and depth
of 10 1-6 feet. OF course, all the Atlantic
steamers are screw vessels, the Scotia of the
Cunard Line the last side-wheel steamer
that ever crossed the Atlantic, having been
taken off several years ago. The Isle of
Man steamers are side-wheel boats, and so is
the Calais-Dover.
There are several river boats that can
make twenty knots an hour, but of course
they never 90 to sea and would not last half
an hour in gale of wind.
in spite Of the fact that they are side
wheel steamers the Queen Victoria and the
Prince of Wales have often gone to sea
when the big Atlantic lines have been COM
PEELED to remain in harbor. Both boats are
built Of steel and are whale backed to the
smoke-stacks. The Irish Channel is bad
place to sail in, as any one knows that has
been there in winter, yet the boats have
never missed trip or been more than half
an hour late in the worst weather. There
is only one vessel in the world that can
steam faster than they, and that is the
Spanish torpedo-bOat, which has often
steamed twenty-nine knots in one hour.
The morning call., 1891-06-15
How a Vermonter and His Worldly Pos
sessions Came West.

How Vermonter and His Worldly Pos
sessions Came West.
When ID. p. LOveland of Northern Yer
mont purchased farm in Shelton a serious
problem presented itself to him. He had a
hOusefui OF goods and some live stock. To
sell them meant a sacrifice to bim, so he set
his Yankee ingenuity to work to see how he
could move his stuff to his new home with
out too heavy expense. This is how he did
it: lie went TO the station agent and char
tered the largest and longest bOx-car to be
mad. Then he loaded his goods into it..
These consisted of all his household goods,
one wagon, a plow and hOrse-rake, 800
pounds of butter. fifty bushels of potatoes,
two barrels Of buckwheat, three horses,
five COWS. two pigs, eleven sheep, sixty
chickens and three turkeys. BY putting up
partitions and making loft over tie heads
of the cows and horses for the smaller ami
mails and poultry be got his live stock into
less than one-third of the car.
Then he began at the other end and
packed his household goods, taking his
wagon and bOrserake apart for the sake of
compacLness. These occupied nearly half
of the car. Then he slung hammock from
the roof Of the Car, put in a stove, running
the pipe out of the door and prepared to ac-
company the goods himself. The trip occu-
pied five days, and during that time Mr.
LOveland occupied the car with his effects,
animate and inanimate, and says he enjoyed
the trip. His live stock came out of their
cramped quarters In good cOndition.-Bos-
ton Transcript
The morning call., 1891-06-15
Clearing-House Statements.

BosToN. June 14.-Clearngs: New York,
S564, 756O0O. decrease 267; Boston, SS1,710,
600, decrease 275; Chicago. $50, 4S5, ,00O in
crease 80; Philadelphia, S5S512. 600. de-
crease 149; St Louis. $50, $685. 600, decrease
100; San Francisco. S14. 1872 600, decrease 1856;
Baltimore, S12,952, ,000, decrease 0.6; Gin
cinnati. Sl2 ,000, decrease 04; Pittsburg,
S13,2l6. 900. decrease 10.1; Omaha, $42JS, 600,
decrease 249; Denver, S4,626 600, decrease
Ill; St Paul, &4,517 600, decrease 1.2; Gal
weston, So 3245,000. increase 2j4.5; Minneap-
oils, S5,SS6 GOO, increase 22l; Port
land, Oregon, 81, 224, ,000 increase 40: Salt
Lake. 81, $4,000, decrease 28.1; Seattle. ST.
100000. decrease 21; Tacoma, $3.50 113, in
crease 90; Los Angeles, S694, 1874, increase
POI. The total gross exchanges of the prin-
cipal cities Of the United States and Canada
Tor the week was S997, ,26l, 800; decrease
2O1 per cent, as compared with the same
week last year,
The morning call., 1891-06-15
A TOUCHING CASE.
The Remains Of Child Held for Lack OF
Funds to Bury Them.

The Remains of Child Held for Lack or
Funds to Bury Them.
In small, bare, carpetless rear room on
the second floor of $40 Walnut street there
lies, for lack of funds to give him burial, the
cod, liieless body of a little seven year-od
boy, says the St. Louis Post-Dis patch. A
small pine coffin Of the pIainest and cheap
est kind, painted white, incases the re-
mains. Tommy Lipps was the child's name.
and the story is q sad one. His mother IS a
widow, and has been for six years past She
had been left with brood of little ones to
provide for, none OF them being old enough
TO be of any assistance to her. The mother
supported them by doing washing. Deaths
have occurred in her flock before. and only
two years ago she lost two tw ms together,
but she has always managed TO bury the
children without outside assistance. This
death, however, came at very unfaYOrable
time.
A week ago last Saturday little Tommy
and some other children were playing in a
wagon outside a livery stable on Ninth and
Walnut streets, and in some manner he fell
out and was hurt Tommy staggered home
and next day complained of being sick and
his mother took him TO the City DISpensaTy.
There was a bump on his forehead where
the little fellow had fallen, but the physi-
clan examined his throat, which was
swollen lie suspected it was a case of
diphthPria, which bad not, as yet, devel-
oped Telling the mother TO bring the boy
around again the next day, the doctor dis
missed them.
Monday and Tuesday, however the
mother claims that owing TO the rain and
other causes she could not take her child TO
the dispensary, and Wednesday morning he
was so bad that she sent him to the City
Hospital, where he died early Friday morn
ing Of diphthera, according to the hospital
physicians, but the mother insists that it was
the fall which caused the boys death.
There was not penny in the house with
which to bury the little fellow, but the
mother aid not want to have him ill pau
per's grave, so she had his body brought
home Mrs. Lipps also feared that if the
remains were left at the hospital. they
would be taken to some medical col
lege and be cut up as a subject. She
could not bear the idea Of her child's body
being subjected 10 this, and the mother en-
deavOred To raise enough money among her
neighb0rs to bury him. She collected Sl5
Friday and Saturday out of the S22 which
the funeral will cost. She had the little fell
low embalmed and LAID out and hoped TO get
enough more yesterday TO bury him this
morning. The unfortunate woman is sub
ject to epilepsy, however, and yesterday was
taken down and could not venture out in
the street. She did not go out o-day either,
but hopes To secure the needed money to-
morrow. In the meantime the little fellows
body lies in the coffin and there 1t will con-
tinue to remain until the mother can collect
enough to pay the funeral charges.
The morning call., 1891-06-15
IRRIGATION.
Contracts for a Big Dam Given Out on satur-
day Last.

Contracts for a Big Dam Given Out on setur.
day Last
MODESTO, June 14-The Modesto and
Turlock irrigation districts met yesterday
afternoon at Turlock and unanimously
agreed to award the contract for building
the Joint dam for both districts across TuOl-
umne River near La Grange to R.W. GOrrill,
President Of the Pacific Bridge Company Of
San Francisco. One dam will be construct
ed of rubble masonry. 1t will be 100 feet
high, 90 feet wide and 800 feet long at the
crest and 90 feet wide and 60 feet long at
the base GorrilPs bid is $40 SO per cubi C
yard, the districts to furnish the cement 1t
is estimated that between 10000 and $4,000
barrels of cement will be used
The site of the dam is between two solid
rock embankmentS. The contractor viii
Immediately commence putting in plant,
including electric lights, and will push the
work night and day and will complete the
same by January next. The dam will be
the highest overflow dam in the United
States. Turlock district has eighteen miles
of canal, seventy feet wide and eight feet
deep already excavated. Modesto has one
section of work partially constructed and
will let another section at the next meeting.
bids having already been received. The ac-
ton of the Directors in letting the contract
is generally approved and better feeling
prevails throughout both districts.
The morning call., 1891-06-15
The Ha, piness of a PHILOSOPHER,

"I have fou 3D." said man with philos-
opher's turn of mind, "a boulevard on which
| may parade with enjoyment. | am not
rich, and Fifth avenue and Broadway fill one
with envy and longing. | walk in the
crowded east-side streets. There is nothing
but saualor. The people are more poorly
dressed than l. Their faces betray an un-
happiness and a struggle greater than mine
l walk thro Ugh them happier, better
dressed, more comfortable in every way.
The only emf lions aroused are pity and
self-complaeen1y especially the latter. SO
can pray the Pharisee's prayer and enjoy
myseIf-N Y Sun
The morning call., 1891-06-15
UNPLEASANT POSITION.
Alleged Conspiracies Against the Life Of
Chief Justice in Samoa

Alleged Conspiracies Against the Life Of a
Chief Justice in Samoa
BERLIN, June IA. - Chief-Justice Won
Cederkrantz finds his position in Samoa
difficult to maintain, especially since
the death of Maietoa. He complains of the
intrigues be meets with on every hand. He
has reason to believe that conspiracies
ticularIy by the adhersnts of the former
pretendrr to the throne. 1t is doubtful
whether he will remain long in office. The
German company which maintains the line
of steamers 70 Samoa has made repeated
demands for payment Of its sub
sidy, which is far in arrears. but
no attention is paid TO it. Freight
and traffic of all kinds has steadily declined
since the end of 1889. The steamers will
probably soon be withdrawn. The Govern
ment would gladly avail herself of any de-
cent pretext tor drawing out of Samoa alto
gether.