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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-21
HE is A HUMAN SNAKE.
A Man Who Can Twist Himself
Into Many Shapes,
Not So Much tho Ability to Bend the Back
as to Stretch the Musclcs-The Po-
culiarltles of Twelve Years
Experience.

"Docs. it hurt to do O contortion act?
Well, sometimes it hurts moro than at
others, but it's not the plcnsantcst pro-
fession in tho world to follow up at
best"
The speaker had kindly volunteered to
give q New York Sun reporter the benc-
fit of his twelve years experience rs u
human snake" As he settled himself
into his chair he looked quite like an
ordinary mortal, and one could hardly
realize that the neat tweed suit covered
a body that could be twisted into all
sorts of shapes.
Eyes, l suppose I was built just like
other people Mt first, and until I wn.
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always settles in my back and the mus
cles across M abdomen and down the
front of the thighs. l suppose it's be-
cause 1 have to keep my muscles SO
soft. You sec, if I should take any OK.
ercisc hat would harden me up I'd be
no good for the business. 1t isn't SO
much the ability to bend your back as
it is to stretch the muscles from the
neck to the toes. Bend your finger back
as far as you can, and you'll find that
the stretching of the skin hurts moro
than the bending of the joints. That's
the way it feels when I've caught q lit
tie cold.
"Now look at the first photograph
That's what we call a close bend The
muscles across my abdomen must
stretch at least three inches before I
can get into that position. The doctors
say hat my digestive organs are
crowded way up into my chest cavity,
and once they put a machine on my
wrist that made little wavy lines on n
tap. After I came mp from a bend they
looked at it and said that my heart
didn't beat when I was in hat shape.
May be it don't. 1 know, though, that
I can't breathe.
There's another trick hat makes you
work. You stand on your chin and
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-21
AUCTION SALES.
4 UCTION SALE OF BABY CAR
~ RIAGES.

Don't forget the big auction sale of
baby carriages, oil paintings. picture
frames, mirrors. etc, at BERLlN'S
AUCTION HOUSE, lie Commerce
street, Wednesday, April -, at 10 a. M
iIauleS invited. apr2l-1t
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-21
NOTICES OF MEETINGS.
NOTICE.

NOTICE. -
The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers OF the Traders Loan, Trust and De-
posit Company will be held at the Office
OF the company, in the city of Roanoke,
va, on Monday, May 4, 1891, at IL
o'clock noon. e. Z. COLE, sec'y.
apr2l-2wks
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-21

STOLEN-From my stable, n very
~ heavy halter, bride and saddle. 4
su table reward will be paid for it's re-
covery. j. b. POLLARD, S29 Salem
avenue s. W. aprl9-2t
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-21

H'ouND-BUnch OF keys. Owner can
n have same by calling and paving rs
cents charges. mar 22-tf
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eleven years old
l didn't try any
cxpcrim e t
with my joints.
1t was about
that time that q
circus came to
town, n d of
course I took it
in with the rest
of the boys. 1t
struck me t h at
t h G IS n u X e
mans act n 6
w h t l should
like to do. So /
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LOST N FOUND.

STRAfED From my lot on Roanoke
~ street, asa Light Rcd Milk Cow,
expected to be fresh about MAY the LIST,
NO white marks, weight about 900
pounds, in good condition. ANY infor-
nation about hor will be libcrallv re-
warded. Address. postofiicc box IT'S,
Roanoke. j. ~. DALEY. apral.3t
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FOR RENT.

LOR RENT.-Furnishcd rooms at
l. No. 524 Seventh avenue s. W.
aprl9-lwk
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nj USIC-Vocal and Instrumental -
WI Mrs. S.. B. Williams, No. IA Com
MERGE street S. W. apr5-3taw-tf
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-10-29
THE RAILROADS.

The Southeastern Mississippi Valley Rail
way association will probably consolidate
with the Southern Railway and steamship
association.
Chairman Finley, Of the Western Passen
ger association, dismisses q complaint
made against the Milwaukee road by the
Omaha.
THE Chicago city council committee on
railroads has passed an order requi ing the
corporation counsel to frame an ordinance
commanding all railroads to elevate all
their tracks within the city limits fourteen
feet above the street level. The order is
the outcome of agitation over the number
OF accidents involving loss Otlite at grade
crossings.
CHAIRMAN BLANCHARD, acting as vice
chairman ofthe joint committee, confirms
the recommendation Ofthe freight commit
| tee of the central Traffic association that he
| ditterentials in use by the Continental line
and the Central States Dispatch via the
Baltimore & Ohio and connections on east
bound traffic transported by rail to Balti-
more and thence by water to Boston and
other New England points be authorized.
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SPORTING MATTERS,

SUNoL trots mile at Stockton, Cal, in
2:OS4.
THE purchaser Of the noted stallion St.
BlaiSe has, been offered $25, 600 over his
purchased price, which was 500, 900. 1t
is not likely that he will sell.
WILLIAM F. DAHLIN, of the Chicago
league club, signed with Milwaukee and
will cover third base for the Brewers next
season.
HANLoN, the ex-champion ofthe world
and Stephenson, the Australian oarsman
are matched for q race on Shawnagan lake
British Columbia, for purse of 5000.
HARVARD and Yale agreed to play an
nual championship foot ball at Springfield
Mass, for four years, 1891 to 1894 inclusive
on each Saturday preceding Thanksgiving
day.
Bob FITzsIMMoNs the champion middle
weight pugilist, said that the California
Athletic club, San Francisco would give a
purse of s., 900 for ten-rOund contest be-
tween Young Mitchell and himself
JACOB ScHAEFER, the billiard champion is
in New York, and proposes billiard tour
nament among the crack shots of the coun-
try the games to be played in New York,
Cincinnati and Chicago. Schaefer announces
'llat ne mas changed MS Style somewhat
giving up the gallery shots for which he is
famous, and cultivating surer and slower,
though less snowy style.
THE following officers were elected at a
meeting of the Chicago Base Ball club of
the American association; George II. Will
Jams, president; George H. Richey, vice
president and treasurer; Sam G. Norton
secretary, George II. Williams, &. H. Rich
e. = RNllinG II oil o11 w
GOggins, directors, Frederick Ptetfer will
be the captain and manager. 1t is rumored
that more Of the leaguerS will secede and
Join the new club.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-10-29
SINS AND SINNERS.

Rev. Sam Small is arrested in Boston on
a charge of getting $1,000 from a clergy
man by false pretenSeS.
IT is tOundt that Smith, the negro ravisher
at Omaha, died of fright and not from the
lyncherS attentions.
SIXTEEN st. Paul saloonkeepers are ar
raigned for keeping resorts for disorderly
characters.
ANOTHER and very determined effort is
to be made for the release of Oscar Neebe,
who was convicted with the anarchists and
sent to Joliet for - years.
A CHICAGO detective is in Hackensack,
\. J.. looking for Charles Alderman, whom
he charges with stealing about 100000
from Chicago publishing house
IN Columbus, Ohio, recently. when a
protracted wedding party was still in pro-
greSs, George Snyder shot and killed Ollie
Ham. The tragedy was due to jealousy
Oh the part OF the murderer.
CHARLES A. Benson, convicted of the
murder of Mrs. Mcttman, whose mutilat-
cd body was found in sack in the river at
the government reservation near here will
be executed Nov. I, at LeayenWorth, Kan.
IT is now thought that young William V.
Uesen, found dead in a room at the Wei
IingtOn Hotel Chicago recently, was muir
dercd by a Mexican, who went by the
name Of William Ellis. The latter has dis
appeared.
WILLIAM LYON, manager of the Linseed
Oil Company, committed suicide at Pitts
burg, Pa. by shooting himself through the
head Lyons was 90 years of age, and quite
prominent. He has been in i'll health for
several years and this is assigned as the
cause of the deed
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-10-29
NORTH DAKOTA.

Capt. Alex. Grggs, pioneer citizen, was
stricken with paralysis at Grand Forks.
The North Dakota conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church met at Grand
Forks.
Gotzier's dry goods store at Grand Forks,
was damaged 900 worth by fire.
George Williams, thresher, was killed
by a Northern Pacific stock train at James
town.
United States Marshal Price of Fargo,
was robbed of his valise on sleeping car
while en- route to S41nneapolis
Lorens Lorcnson sustained injuries by
attempting to board a moving train near
jamestown, from which he died.
Fargo will be connected with Moorhead,
Mimi, by an electric road, the contract for
It's construction having been let.
Grand Forks and Aberdeen, S. d., have
been given Tree delivery offices. An expert
mental office has been established at Faux
ton, s. d.
At meeting ofthe trustees of the new
Methodist University at Wahpeton, c. P.
Adams resigned, and Ex-Governor Miller
was appointed in his place.
The Forman Courier has been resurrected
by Thos b. Hurry at Harlem. Publica-
ton of the paper was suspended last fall
owing to poor crops.
A sensation was caused at Rugby juno
ton by the arrest of two little boys, sons
OF prominent citizens there for assault up
on J. H. Lockwood, also prominent cit
iSen.
United Statcs Commissioner McLoy at
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-10-29
FOREIGN NUGGETS.

IT is reported thai Mr.. Balfour will retain
his position as the chief secretary for Ire
land.
THE wife of the late William Henry
Smith, the leader in the house OfCommons.
will be elevated to the peerage.
THE late Emperor Frederick William.
had he lived, would have reached the age
OfGO years. The anniversary was 1ittingly
observed in Hamburg.
WILLIAM REDMAN has been elected as the
Parnelitc candidate for the parliamentary
seat for Cork, made vacant by the death of
Mr.. Parnell.
(. The earthquake shocks at the island of
Pantellaria and its vicinity continue. A
volcano has arisen in the bed of the sea off
the coast of pantellaTia, which elects mass
es of stones to great height.
. EMPEROR Francis JOSEPH opened the
museum of fine arts in Vienna in the pres
ence of the diplomatic corps. The collec-
ton OF pictures, engraVingS, statuary, ETC.
Is one of the finest in the world
A PHYSICIAN of Berlin writes thattgentv-
two different species of bacteria find q
lOdgment within the human mouth Kiss
ing he prOnOunces to be habit of untold
danger, and one that should beabandoned,
IT is reported that the German govern
ment has made q proposition to Great
Britain with the view to taking united &C
ton i'll South America for the protection
oftheir common interests,
ADvTcEs from Teheran are to the effect
that the shah of Persia has appointed Mr..
Pratt, the ex-minister of the United States
to Persia, to be the Persian commissioner
for the Columbian Fair at Chicago IN 1893.
THE German imperial family have ordered
some costly presents to be sent to the prince
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-10-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

ARRANGEMENTS are completed for opera
ting the famous Anaconda copper mine.
A LIVELY war between the whisky trust
and the Kentucky distillers is on.
The famous Bacon heir case, involving
land at Sioux City worth 81 ZOO, OOO is de-
cided against the heirs.
THE Sun and Tribune of New York with
draw from the associate press and organ
lZe new association, entitled the National
Associated Press.
THE biennial convention of the United
States UniVersalist denominations, which
covers the entire territory of the country,
has opened at Worcester, Mass.
THE sinking fund commissioners of Penn
sylvania have decided to redeem state loan
bonds on Feb. l, 1892, amounting to 49,
028, $50.
THE New Orleans Times Democrats San
Antonio, Tex, special says that the influx
ofChinamen into Texas by the way of the
Mexican border continues. Not q dav
passes that one or two of them is not ar
rested by deputy marshals.
SPECIAL dispatch from Paulding, Ohio,
states that the so cases of diptheria have
compelled the suspension of the public
schools and caused many people to re-
over.
THE schedules in the assignment of
Abraham Backer, the New York note
broker, were filed The liabilities are ST.
62S, 946. The nominal assets are 81, 841. 7O7
and the actual assets applicable to unse-
cured debts, are $414 769.
The monument recently erected by the
states of Maine Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, New York, New jersey,
Delaware, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan
and Minnesota at the "high water mark of
the Rebellion" was to have been dedicated
on the 19 of November at Gettysburg, but
the event has been poisoned until early
next summer.
THE-board of control of the National
Worlds Fair commission, in Chicago, con-
tirmed the nomination by Director General
Davis of E. w. Cottrel, of Detroit, for Chief
of the department of live stock, and now
the names go to the directory. Two COM
missions, one to visit Spain Italy, Turkey,
the Danqbian and North African states,
and another to visit MEXICO, are being ar.
ranged.
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of Wales on the occasion of his jubilee.
b Prince Henry wilIpfo badly take the gifts
to England

of Wales on the occasion of his jubilee.
; Prince Henry will pro baby take the gifts
to England.
SIR JOHN BADEN POWELL and DR.. George
Dawson, Behring Sea commissioners, have
arrived at Ottawa aRd@will await orders.
They will probably go to Washington at
sealing question is expected.
TIE committee of the French chamber
ufdeputics having the matter in charge
the dramatic censorship for three years.
This action is in the nature of an expert
nlent.
The French senate committee met again
when the subject of the admission of
American pork was debated at considerable
length, finally recommended in favor of Il
proposition to impose Il duty OF % francs
per 100 kil4S on sailed meats of all kinds
including pork, ham and bacon, instead OF
20 francs which the chamber of deputies
had already passed.
SEVERAL eminent French lawyers have
been consulted upon the matter of the re-
lease of the fund Of the Irish parliament
airy party, now on deposit here. They
agree that the problem is knotty one,
and believe that the first step must be an
application to the court of chancery by the
heirs of Mr.. Parnell and those of Mr.. Big
gar, for Mr.. Biggar was II trustee ofthe
fund at the same time Mr.. Parnell was.
The French judges will not act, probably,
contrary to the decision of the English
court, unless in declaring themselves in
competent to adopt it. This would cause
prolonged trouble. lfthe money goes into
the NaiS t~eed CONSIDERATIONS 1t is lost to all
ings will serve to keep it from everybody
for many years and then it will fall to the
state Meantime Messrs. Monroe & Co.,
the Paris bankers, have funded the whole
in securities bearing )! per cent interest,
realizing t25OO annually. This amount
added to the fund, will reach large total
before the vexed legal question can be set
| tled
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-10-29
IONA.

Barney Baldwin, the man with the b1ok-
en- neck, is in Jail at Des Moines, suffering
an attack of delirium tremens.
Canover, the noted bank swindler has
been sentenced to 9 years in the state pen-
tertiary. He has swindled at least seven
banks in Iowa and Minnesota.
barrow, the supposed murderer of Lar
son, has been indicted by the franklin
county grand jury for murder and
forgery,
The night agent of the Chicago & North
western railroad at Boone was held up by
a burglar, who compelled him, at the point
ola revolver to surrender the company s
funds in his office.
Edward Kline committed suicide at lie
Mars by hanging himself to the manager in
barn. He was a single man, thirty-two
years old. Sickness and discouragemen,
are supposed to have been the causes.
The will Of the late Judge Edwin Flint
was opened at Mason City. In it was be-
quest of $50 900 to establish what is to be
known as Flint protessorship in the nat
ural or technic sciences at the State Uni
versity of Vermont
AGobelI LFOCh "OOu, peer wagon 0rlVel
employed at Glalee Brothers brewery, Du-
buque, went into the stable to quiet the
horses, when he was kicked by one of them
in the head. His skull was crushed and
there is no hope of his recovery
Black dlptheria is spreading at an alarm
ing rate in Norwegian settlement in SOL
diers Valley, Harrison county. Fourteen
persons have died of the disease. One FAM
lily of ten lost six members, and but one
other is expected to recover. The place
has been quarantined. A terrible state OF
affairs exists.
w. H. Oliver, who has been pro lessor of
penmanship in the Northwest normal and
business college ut lie Mars the past year
and who holds similar position in the
public schools, left suddenly leaving no
word as to where he was going or when he
would veturn. He is known to have pur-
chased ticket to Sioux City since which
time nothing has been heard from him.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-10-29
ASUALTIES s,

Four people are killed aII lover score
injured in a wreck in Illinois.
\ PRESS. feeder for Cunningham & Co.,
printers OF st. pauI, is killed by a fly wheel.
FIRE has destroyed the town of Dida, Rus
>ia The government office, and over tour
hundred other buildings were consumed.
WILLIAM UryLEE and wife, all aged
couple were killed at the West Shore cross
ing near Brrgrntrlds, y. j., recently.
BAKrwEI.L. EoBINsoH & Co. Minneapolis,
manufacturers OF sash, doors and blinds,
suite" Il loss OF $4,000 10y fire.
AN explosion of natural gas in Allegheny
City. Pa wrecked Snamun'~ carpet store
and seriously injured five people.
Ar Upt};hl, Ma, the 0peIika Hotel
with all uutbuildingS, burned. All the
guests escaped with baggage. Loss, $50, 600;
insurance. 9Il,UUU.
The warehouse of the New Jersey Wine
company at Passage, n. j., was destroyed
by tire. Loss 100000; partly insured.
The office and plans of the Passage Item
was also destroyed.
AN engine on the Philadelphia 4 Read
ing road exploded near PottcrviIlc, Pa,
killing brakeman Charles Warnrker, En-
gineer Harry Wagner and Fireman keete
and fatally injuring Brakeman Charles
Bower.
NEAR Monarch, COL, William Davis and
l.. Lock, two miners were overcome by
foul air while descending a mine. They
fell out of the bucket to the bottom of the
shaft, - feet below, and were crushed to
DEATH
AT Belgrade an animal tanner entered the
cage of a Bengal tiger, which attacked him,
and tl,n lII,f ,rtI n
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-10-29

Devils Lake held John Gladly, of st. John,
for trial in the United States court for sell
ing liquor to Indians, and fixed bail at
800.
The Fargo Argus plant was turned over
by the Citizens National Bank to George
X. Shaw, who will be manager and editor.
Maj. Edwards is entirely out Of the paper
The Argus will be continued as Repub-
lican paper.
A shipment of $500 head of steers rs be
ing shipped from Ransom, to Peoria, Ill
They have been ranged on the TT. Ssseton
military reservation, are in prime condi-
ton, and are owned by Mott and Delaney
Bros, Of Hampton.
John Lowry, herder, who was thrown
from his horse and fatally injured at San
born while cutting out cattle, died. He
was rendered unconscious by the accident,
from which he did not recover He has no
relatives here.
The Alliance Mill Company has been or
ganized and Incorporated at Minor with a
capital stock of $50, co., divided into shares
of $25 each. Sheriff Christensen and Jens
Peterson are among the chief promoters Of
the scheme.
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What is

Samuel Pitchers prescription for Infants
Children. 1t contains neither Opium Morphine
Narcotic substance. 1t is harmless substitute
Parcgoric Drops Soothing SyrupS, and Castor OIL
It Pleasant. guarantee thirty years by
Millions Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allayS
feverishness. Castora prevents vomiting Sour Curd.
cures DiarrhOea and Wind Collie CastOria relieves
teething troubles, cures Constipation and hatulency
assmilates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas-
toria is the Chdrens Panacea-the Mothers Friend.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-10-29
Mexican
Mustang
Linirnent.

A Cure for the Ailments Of Man and Beast
long-tested pain relever
us use almost universal by the Housewife the
STOCK RAISER and by every requiring effective
lnIment.
NO other application compares with it in efficacy.
Ihls weknown remedy has stood the years. almost
generations.
No medicine chest is complete without bottle of MUSTANG
LIN1MENT.
Occasions arise for its use almost every day
All druggists and dealers have it.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-10-29
LABOR CIRCLES.

THE cabinet makers strike in Chicago,
which has been in existence since Sept 1,
involving about nine hundred men, has
ended in a complete victory for the EN-
plyers.
THE carpenters of London, after strike
lasting six months and costing $25OOO
have resumed work They have submitted
their dispute to arbitration.
TIE machinists and engineers at the Bel
laire Steel Works are out on a strike, the
entire plant being shut down, throwing
POO men idle.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-10-29
SOUTH DAKOTA,

F. P. Thomas has been appointed post
master at Forest City.
J J. Adams elevator at Garretson, burn
ed. Loss $4,000; insured.
Sioux Falls expects to have a linen fac
tory III operation by February l.
a test case will be made at Pierre to find
out ftcachers are obliged to attend insti-
tuteI
NJ. LeVinger who is at the head of the
brewery at Sioux Falls has been arrested
for selling beer contrary 70 law.
South Dakota was awarded $1l, $3.50 as
the per cent. on public lands sold between
the date of admission to the Union and
June 80, 1891.
Maj. G. b. Barrett sold the plant, fixtures
and goodwill Of the Aberdeen Republican
to the Star Publishing Company, of which
Senator Kyle is a member, which will
make the politics of the paper independent.
John Nears, Mary Nears and Alvna
McGinn were convicted at Sioux Falls on
the charge Of sending obscene matter
through the mails addressed to Miss Mag
gle McGlinn, school teacher,
Bishop Stanley, OF North Dakota, passed
through Aberdeen recently en- route home
from the vicinity of Ashley, in Mcintosh
county, where 302 Russian ettlers were
confirmed
VIM. Rowland, dealer in general mer-
chandise in Madison, made an assignment
for the benefit of his creditors j. W. Davi-
son, assignee. Liabilities between 81, OO0
| and s., 000 assets about $1,000
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astoria.

"Castoria Is an excellent medicine for chill
lren. Mothers have repeatedly told uO Of its
rood effect upon their children"
Dr. q. c. OsGoon,
Lowell. Mass
"Castoria is the best remedy for children Of
which l an acquainted. I hope tie GAy IS Let
car distant when mothers ,ulconslLeC the real
interest Of their children. and use EAstoria IN
stead of thevarlousQuack nostruDs which are
destroying their loved ones, nv forcing Opium.
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurt<ul
agents down their throatS, thereby sending
them to premature graves
Dr.. J. F EINCHELoE,
Conway, Ark.