davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-11
Minneso,a,s Peoples Party.

81. PAUL, July 1.-THE peoples
party was formally organized in this
city today. Alliance men were present
and the session was hotly debated but
ended harmoniously.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-11
The Dry Lake Flood.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.-Muoh inter-
est is being taken in the investigation
as to the source of the water running
into the Dry Lake of the Colorado des-
ert. The source of the water seems to
be pretty we'll established by the Indian
runners who were sent out from Yuma
and Salton, and their reports agree that
the water comes from New River, which
receives the overflow from the Colorado
River. The theory that the water comes
from the Gulf of California by an un-
derground channel still has adherents.
but the fact that a strong current was
noticed by the Indians in New River
setting toward Salton seems convincing
that it is Colorado River water which
has aroused SO much excitement on the
desert. A few thousand sand bags
would probobly stop the overflow from
the Colorado below Yuma, and the
checking of this overflow would at once
end the currents in New River and cut
off the supply of water pouring into the
desert. The theory evolved by q Red
lands man that the water comes from
Great Salt Lake is ridiculed by San
Francisco scientists. A special from
Salton says a large amount of salt
stored in warehouses is being removed,
as it is feared the supports of the build
ing will be washed away. The
water is rising very slowly, but the lake
is surely increasing in extent, and will
soon cover the machinery of the salt
works. The widest part of this new salt
lake, which may possibly put out Of
date all present maps of California. is
that part from Salton directly across to
the base of the San Jacinto mountains,
whose very feet the water seems to lave.
To the west the water narrows to q point
about three and a half miles away. but
to the east and southeast the boundaries
of the lake are indeterminate, the dis
lance rendering a clear view of its ex-
tent imperfect. I have placed its length
at thirty miles on the best information
obtainable. Thus it will be seen the
amount of land covered by water is be-
ing greatly exaggerated. 1t does not
even fill the basin known as Dry Lake
on the maps, which undoubtedly at
some earlier age was q fine body of
water, it's outlines being still plainly
distinguished by the salt line the waters
left in their evaporation.
The nearest point to the Southern Pa
cifc main line which the water reaches
is about two miles east of and fully half
a mile distant from the track. The most
liberal estimates place the surface Of
the water fifteen feet below the rail-
road. The flooding Of the heart Of the
desert has excited intense interest here,
and many theories are advanced in re-.
gard to the change Of climate. It has
also revived accounts of former attempts
to food the desert. William s. Chap
man, q California pioneer who drove the
first artesian wells in the San Joaquin
Valley, and who was the original devel.
oper of the Fresno County colony
scheme. furnishes valuable material in
regard to his early scheme for turning
the waters of the Gulf of California into
the great basin where Salton now
stands.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-11
The Itata ma Charlestou Home.

SANDmao. Gal. July 4-The Chilian
1tata, and the q. 8. cruiser,
Charleston, arrived in port at $50 this
morning, direct from Iququa.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-11
ElectrOcuted.

SING SING, N. Y, July -Four mur
derers were put to death by electricity
in the states prison here early this
morning for the crime of murder. The
men were James J. SIocum, who killed
his wife at No. 2 Cherry street OF Dec.
81, 1880; Harris A. Smiler, ex.salvation
army captain and bigamist, who MUIR
dered his second wife on April 8, 1889,
at No. % Seventh avenue; Joseph Wood,
a negro acqueduct laborer, who mur.
dered a fellow lsborer, an italian, named
Carlo Ruff, in May, 1889, and Shibuya
Jugiro, an ignorant Japanese sailor, who
brutally killed his fellow countryman,
Mura Oanni, in the James street board
ing house. The execution of the four
men is declared to have been perfectly
successful and without any of the hor-
rors attending the execution of Muir
derer Kemmler at the Auburn prison.
A Frlghtful Accident.
RAvENNA, Ohio, July Sat 8 o'clock
this morning passenger train No. 2,
eastbound, was lying quietly at tine sta.
ton at this point. Something was
wrong with the coupling of the special
car, and the train crew gathered in a
little knot about the end car, while the
regular yard man whistled cheerfully as
he tapped each smoking wheel, to be
sure all vas right before the train
heavily laden with its precious human
freight was forever beyond his
control. Meanwhile there was one
upon whom all their lives depended,
Nagman Boynton, idling lazily toward
the rear end of the Car, and thence back
into the night with his flag and lantern,
to ward off danger from that point. He
was not long walking to the end of the
car, not longer than any n might take
when there was no danger, and surely
there was no death in the peaceful,
quiet darkness that stretched away to
the rear of the train. Boynton wa not
long in starting, and he surely
was not long in reaching
q point distant enough from the train he
was bound to protect. No matter how
long he took, it wat too long. No mat
ter how far back he walked it was not
far enough, there was some dreadful
mistake, or carelessness, or fate. There
was o sudden dazzling flash of q locomo-
tive light in the bewildered eyes of the
rear fagman, the cry of the warming
when it was too late, an awful crash and
deep silence but only for a moment. |
Nineteen precious. human lives we're
lest in an instant and twelve others we're
manned and injured.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-11
GRA

Blaine is said to be getting better.
Idaho has q population of but "a, 1856.
Locusts have destroyed Southern Per-
sia crops.
Canadian crop prospects are reported
excellent.
A cyclone killed ten conviots at Baton
Rouge, La.
There were fifteen fires in st. Paul on
the Fourth.
Burglars are industriously at work in
Minneapolis.
Russia will take part in the Chicago
Worlds Fair.
Turkey wants to be represented at the
Worlds Fair.
An editor was murdered at a picnic in
South Carolina.
Homeseekers propose to invade the
Cherokee strip.
Defaulting bank president Marsh is
not in Chicago.
Powderly attacks Secretary Foster in
savage fashion.
Joseph W. Taylor, a Boston tailor,
failed for $65, 600.
The net balance in the National Treas.
ury is 1851. 401, 81.
Alex Lund, clothier, was killed ana
robbed in Chicago.
Berlin bussmen have struck for more
pay and less work.
Eighteen Mormon missionaries left
New Yerk for Europe.
The English parliament will sit till
the end of the month.
President Harrison has gone to Cape
May for six weeks rest.
The threatened Arizona Indian out
break has been checked.
Emperor William and the empress
have sailed for the Hague.
Textile workers want an exhibit at
the Columbus exposition.
1t is reported another bloody rebel
lion is probable in Hayti.
There is a big kick among Pennsyl-
vania republicans against Quay.
German newspapers are gratified at
the emperor's reception in England.
A car containing 90 1000 tons of tea
was dumped into San Francisco bay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-15
Monsignor Seton's Lecture.

Ri. Rev. Mgr. Robert Seton. DID,, delivered
yesterday afternoon at the Catholic University
the second of his public lectures on Christian
archaeology. His subject was Early Christian
Symbolism He said that the architectural
and artistic remains of the early Christians in
the Roman catacombs and elsewhere abound in
representations of various objects, animate and
inanimate which were used according to strict
rules as symbols of certain religious ideas.
There was, in fact. vast system of symbolism,
constituting hieroglyphic language capable
of expressing all the principal mysteries of re-
hgion. These symbols were also means of
mutual recognition among the faithful, who
were Obliged for their own safety to assume a
veil of secrecy. They were also deliberately
intended as a simple and piOus mode of instruct
ing the young and the ignorant. 1t has been
said that the early Christians took their symbol
ism principally from the Hebrews. and through
them from the Egyptians and other oriental re-
ligions, and ever derived from the old classic
paganism a considerable part of them. There
would be really nothing improper in such a
course, the intention with which a certain sign
Is used determining its character. The most
common OF all figures on the Christian monu-
ments of the first three centuries are the fish
the lamb and the dove. but there were in ad-
dition innumerable other objects observed
from pagan mythology. Bible history tire pas
toral and agricultural and fishery profession
and familiar animals and plants. Orpheus
tanning by the sweetness of his music the wild
beasts that gather around him and Ulysses
bound to the cross of the mast and deaf to
the melodies of the sirens are favorite embIems
of our Lord and his faithful disciple. Mgr. Seton
explained the mystic significance of various
signs and gave the probable cause of the selec-
ton of the symbol in each case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-15
CANADA'S CONTENTION.
Sir John Thompson Sees No ImprOpriety in
the Course Of the Dominion.


Special to the New York Herald.
OTTAWA ONT. Jan. Al confess 1 cannot
see why the action Of the Canadian government
in becoming party to the application of the
owner of the Sayward should arouse indigna-
ton in the United States, as the Herald claims
it Is calculated to do" Sir John Thompson
said to your correspondent last night.
II think, on the other hand. our action is a
tribute to the reputation of the Supreme
Court, which is calculated 10 arouse pride
rather than Indignation. ANY one familiar
with the Boring sea dispute will remember at the
very outset that We we're told that the United
States courts were open to us for redress if any
wrong had been done to our citizens Well. at
that time We thought our most direct course to
obtain redress was by negotiation with the
American government
After six years negotiations with no pros
pect of a settlement, We appeal for judgment to
one of their own tribunals. The Herald is
wrong when il describes Mr.. Blaine as retreat
ing. The very last letter of his of which We are
cognizsnt contains proposals which, if acceded
to by us. would involve further long delay, and
at the end of that We would be no nearer a set
Element of the real point at issue-namely. the
question of jurisdiction outside the three-mile
limit.
with regard to the unparalleled nature of
our application have only to ray that we have
adopted n mode of procedure which is familiar
to the Supreme Court in cases where a foreigner
brings an action in that court. With respect
TO the probable action of the court i think it
improper to speak, but there can be no ques-
ton Of its power to prohibit an inferior court
from adjudicating on action taking place
outside OF the territorial limits of the United
States
Il do not think the court will take within its
purview that the matter brought before it has
been the subject of diplomatic negotiations 1t
Is supreme in judiciary affairs and liable
neither To control nor to opposition from an
other branch of the government"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-15
THE PINE RIDGE AGENCY,
The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs Will Co
operate With Capt. Pierce.

The commissioner of Indian affairs has writ
ten letter to Capt F. Z. Pierce, acting Indian
agent at the Pine Ridge agency in South Dakota
in the course of which, after assuring him of
the fullest support and cooperation of the In
dian bureau in the discharge of his duties. he
Says:
Congress having ratified the Sioux bill il
Will be practicable at early day for this Office
to carry forward the suspended payments and
distributions authorized by Congress for the
benefit OF Indians at Pine Ridge. To each of
these your attention will be invited.
Il am specially anxious that the work of
education should be carried forward with all
practicable efficiency and to this end especially
invite You TO give personal attention to the
present condition Of schools under your con-
troll and ask you to recommend to me any mod
iflcatiOns or changes which you think the good
o. the service may require.
Il am anxious also that YOU should have the
assistance of persons in all the subordinate
places at the agency who shall be thoroughly
competent for their work As YOU are aware
doubtless. the question of politics does not and
should not enter at all in the matter of qualifi-
cations for service in the subordinate places at
your agency and you are hereby requested and
Instructed to make inquiry into the dualifica-
uons OF your subordinates. clerks, farmers
DC, and report to me any persons whom
you deem unfit for their respective duties
stating specifically your reasons for your
opinion.
Il am very DESTROYS also that any who NAV
have been wounded or otherwise injured dur
ing the troubles may receive such care and
help as II Is possible to extend TO them.
'."ldesire that you will forward to me O full
statement of any complaint complaints that
may be preferred by any Indian or Indians
under your charge regarding their pas: treat
ment and any request they may have to make
regarding their future welfare.
.'ln Short let me saw that / repose full con-
fdence in your ability and in yong desire TO
promote the civilization and welfare OF these
unhappy people, and that extend to you assur-
aaces Of most earnest cooperation and the ex-
ercise Of all the authority vested in this Office to
bring about as rapidly and as completely AZ
possible the great object aimed at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-15
THE BILL DISMISSED.
A Decision That the Preferences in Levi
Kaufman's Assignment Hold Good,


Kaufman's Assignment Hold Good.
In the case of Hammerslough ct al. VS.. Hart
man ct. al. Justice Bradley yesterday in the
Equity Court delivered an opinion directing a
decree for a dismissal of the compliments
bill. This litigation. which has been carried
for a number of years. arises out of an as
signment for the benefit of creditors executed
by Levi J. kaufman. giving preferences to the
Hartman firm in the sum of $4,000. The
compliments alleged that by reason of false
reports made by the HartrIans to the Ma
tionai Clothiers' Association as to the condition
of the accounts between the Hartmans and
kaufman the compliments, who are wholesale
clothing merchants, were induced to sell Kauf-
man and extend his credit and prayed that the
defendants be enioincd from collecting their
preferences under the assignment. The court
holds that the proof conclusively showed that
the amount preferred was due: that no inter
ference with the provisions of the assignment
can be made by the court, and that il the ccn-
plainants have any remedy it is by an action at
law for damages.
The compiainants were represented by
Messrs. W0rthington and Head, ard the de-
defendants by Messrs. Leon Tobriner and II. Z.
Davis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-15
CARL OURS ESTATE.
The Administrator Files Q Bill for . Dis
covery and Account.


covery and Account.
Job Barnard. administrator of Carl Dur,
has filed q bill for discovery and account
against Louis Steele. He states that deceased,
who had been employed as a craftsman in the
United States geological survey, died in March,
1880; that he was a native Of Switzerland and.
in 1888, inherited S2s 600 from his fathers es-
tate, and, through the Swiss consulate, some of
the money was paid him. but that when he be-
came a citizen here the consulate refused fur
Their to act and the drafts we're thereafter sent
to him. Deceased took a trip to Colorado and
it is believed he made some Investments there;
that while there he drank to excess and on re-
turning he roomed with defendant on near
1lth street northwest, and the administrator is
informed that drafts amounting to LAS "a
we're sent deceased, but the complainant does
not know what portion was used in the Colorado
purchase. After Ours death Steele furnished
the administrator statement that Dur had
given him $500 to pay for his physicians and
other expenses and $500 for his friend Roux
and that he had expended of this s755, and that
draft TO Dur had come since his DEATH which
he declined to receive. His heirs and the adj
ministrator, not knowing what has become Of
this money, pray a discovery, &c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-15
A FREE COINAGE BILL
The Silver Men in the senate Change the
Finance Bill Completely.

The Silver Men in the Senate Change the
Finance Bill Completely.
Yesterday session of the Senate lasted until
after midnight and before it adjourned the
committee finance bill had been slaughtered. a
free coinage silver bill passed and the federal
election bill taken up Mr.. Stewards free
coinage amendment to the finance bill was
adopted by vote of AZ to 20. Then every
other section Of the bill-providing for the
Issue of 2 per cent bonds, reducing the mini
mum deposit Of bonds for national banks, &c.-
we're stricken out until the free coinage amend
ment was all that was left of the bill. Mr..
Vest then offered complete free coinage bill.
which was adopted Il substitute for the skel-
eton containing the Stewart amendment This
bill being passed Mr.. Hoar moved to take up
the federal election bill. Upon this the vote
was n tic, and. the Vice President casting his
vote in favor Of the motion, the bill was taken
up-
The Idaho Senator's voted with their party.
and six republicans voted with the democrats
Messrs- Stanford (Cal.). Washburn Min.
Stewart and Jones (Nev) and Teller and Vol
colt Coli
The vote stoOd-yeas, IS: nays So.
The Vice President then voted in the affirma-
tive. making the yeas IS
The vote was as follows:
Yeas-Mcssrs- Aldrich. Allen, Allison. Cam
eron. Carey. Casey. Cullom. Davis. Dixon. Dolph,
Rdmunds. Evarts. Frye. Hale. Hawley. Hiscock.
Hoar. Mcconnell. Mcmillan. Henderson.
Mitchell. Paddock. Platt. Power. Quay, San
ders. SAWYER. Sherman, Shoup. Spooner, Stock
bridge. Warren. Wilson Uowal-33.
Nays-Messrs. Barbour. Bate. Berry. Black
burn. Butler. Call. Cockrell. Coke. Daniel. Eus-
tis. Faulkner. Gibson. German. GRAY. Hamp-
ton. Jones Ark. Jones New. kenna. Nor
gan, Pasco. Pugh, Reagan. Stanford. Stewart,
Teller. Turpie. Vance Vest voorhees,. Wal
thall, Washburn, Wilson (Md.) and Wolcott
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-15
Physicians Contending Over Kochine.


Before the Medical Association in Berlin YES
terdzy Prof. Nirchow resumed his lecture on
the subject of cases which have resulted fatally
after the application of the Koch remedy. He
said that he had nothing against the remedy,
he simply wished TO give warning regarding its
application. An animated discussion followed.
Profs- Frankel and Baginsky spoke in support
Of Prof. Virchow's contention that disease was
sometimes transferred 10 sound organs by in
EQUATION Numerous patients in Vienna after
reading the views expressed by Prof. Virchow
declined TO submit to further treatment
BY the Koch method. Pref virchow said
that IN some Of the post norton examinations
of patients who died after incubation with the
lymph the same symptoms were displayed as in
deaths due to abdominal typhus. He inclined
Ia the belief that the Koch remedy was the
cause thereof. DIR. Gutman followed He said
that n dozen cases now under his treatmen,
we're nearly cured and he argued that the ad.
we're results IN various cases reported by Prof
Wicklow and others merely showed that the
lymph should only be used in the early stage.
of the disease
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-15
The Int~rcontinen,a, Railway

At an adjourned meeting of the interconti-
mental railway commission held in this city
yesterday afternoon, with the president. Mr..
Cassatt, in the chair. 1ir. Hector de Castro was
elected secretary of the commission and a COM
mittee, consisting of Mr.. Cassatt and Mr.. III. G..
Davis Of the United States, Don FREDERICK
PARA of Colombia. d. Leandro Fernandez of
Mexico and ID. Laiz Blanco Of Venezuela. was
appointed to nominate committees. including
a committee composed Of four members of each
Of the countries represented at this commission
to have charge of the surveys and location of
the proposed line. The commission decided to
meet Tuesday of each week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-15

The pope has appointed a commission TO
stady the religious situation of the South
American republics with the view to reorgan-
izins the episcopates ON a system similar to
that prevailing in Brazil, which is based on
common law and religious liberty. The pope
Is Of the opinion that the era of concordsts has
passed aud that the church has everything 10
gain by claiming simply reign of liberty for
al. Above everything the pope wishes the
clergy 90 be in line with both the political and
social siruaticns Of their respective countries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-15
DISTRICT LEGISLATION.
Condition of Business Before Congress
Chances of the Street Extension Bill.


District business is in a rather pecarious con-
dition for the remainder of this session at the
Capitol There are so many important mat
tiers yet to be considered by both the Senate
and the House that it will be only by chance
when the District obtains the floor in either
body. The feeling on the matter WAS displayed
on the last District day when the army appro-
priation bill obtained the preference over the
District business There il an intention to
ask the House for an extra day to make up for
the loss of last Monday, but there is scarcely a
shadow of a chance of the request being
granted, as 1t will require unanimous consent.
Likewise, Judging from Mondays experience
the few remaining District days are in extreme
danger. In the Senate. from the nature of the
rules. things are on different basis and Dis
trict bills are liable to be considered at odd
moments almost any time.
In the House the bill at the head of the list,
and OF great importance to the District, is the
measure providing fOI the extension of the
city's streets on the present plan through the
outlying county. This bill is conceded to be
of the greatest Importance to the city. 1t.
however, carries a large appropriation and
probably some one will be found to make a
tight on that ground. Mr.. Hemphill has in
terested himself very greatly in this bill and
bias been hopeful throughout that the measure
might be passed this session. He said to a STAR
reporter today that an effort would still be
made to pass the bill. He did not know what
tight would be made on the proposal. but the
necessity for such a law was so self-evident. and
the fact that the sooner 1t passed the
cheaper ii would be was so equally self-evident.
that he had little fear for the fate of the bill if
only an opportunity could be obtained for a
fair discussion.
Mr. Grout was also in hopes that something
further might be accomplished in the interests
of the District before adjournment. but was
dubious Of any further measures of importance
being enacted He thought the District would
succeed in getting further time. but considered
II probable that only unobiected to bills could
be passed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-15
CITY AND DISTRICT.

sThe local circulation of The EVENING
STAR is not only the largest and fullest, but it is
also the BEsr, since the paper goes not alone
into the hands of the people Of the District Of
Columbia as a body, but regularly into 1teir
hosnes.-into the families of all classes and into
those of the mOney-spending as well as the
money-carning portion of the community. An
advertisement in its columns therefore reaches
the eye of everybody worth reaching.