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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
what browns Good Swimmers.

ANtN ioih loitEtan.
There is conclusion of practical wis
dom presented by circumstance com
mon to nearly all the drownings of
strong swimmers that have occurred in
tile surf this year. Their bodies have
been recovered, if at all, only after long
intervals and with the greatest difficulty.
This shows that they have been car
ried out to sea. That fact means that the
tide was then running out. Else their
bodies had been rolled ashore almost
while they were warm.
This is proof conclusive that these
drownings were not due to the cause
that has been almost invariably assigned
the undertow. That conclusion is an
eminently reasonable one, A good
swimmer has nothing TO do with what
is called the undertow-hardly more
than cork or a lifeboat. The under
tow is the bugbear only of the non
swimmer. who is liable, if not supported
to be swept off the feet with every wave
that perhaps temporarily overtops the
head and causes ut once loss of balance.
loss of breath and loss of presence Of
mind.
Not even should the outroine tide. or
any unfamiliar current oil shore. alone
suffice to drown the able swimmer. II
might provemore than a match for his
swimming mowers in the matter of com
inc ashore. Yet il need NOT drown Tho
buoyancv of the sea is rs great or greater
we'll ont from shore. where il is deener
and less boisterous and where in any
position of the body the undertow can
NOT nnssiblv he folt
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
PEACHES THEIR RUIN1TIoN.
Kent County ts1d) Farmers Would be
Better or without "a Tree.

CHEsTERTowN Sept. THE great peach
season will virtually be finished this week.
though few of the very late varieties will
be on the market during next. With the
wane OF the season the vast army of
pickers-estimated at twelve or fifteen hum
dred in Kent county alone-has COM
menced migrating to their northern homes.
and in two weeks only a few stragglers will
be left. Without the pickers, however, it
is estimated that one-half the peach crop
OF 1891 must, of necessity, have remained
on the trees. The crop of this year has
been disappointment to growers, and
some peach men now declare, without
hesitation, that Kent county would to-day
be in far more healthy financial condi-
ton had her great industry of peach
packing never developed. They had
proiited, everything being considered by
supplying only the demand for domestic
use. A number of growers have already
commenced taking out trees, and it isprob-
able that before another season thousands
of trees i'll Kent will have been uprooted
A prominent farmer states that so favor
able season for corn has rarely, if ever,
been known within the past twenty years
The crop. promises to be correspondingly
large. Much wheat throughout the
country is still unthreshed, and much that
has been threshed is badly damaged by
heating. The peach crop has prevented
the farmers giving attention to general
farm work. AS Il result, but little fallow
has been touched for the fall seeding of
wheat.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
MIGHT as TELL BE DEAD.
So Alabama Judge Decided in the Case
of a Man Who Was Killed.

"Your Honor" said prosecuting at
torney in an Alabama backwoods court,
according to the Arkansas Traveller,
"rhe prisoner at the bar is charged with
killing one of the most exemplary citi-
zens of this country. Andrew d. Boy
son, your honor, was in every respect a
model man, He was beloved member
of the church, and was never known to
be guilty Of an unchristian act. Why,
your honor, he was never known to bet
on horses, play poker, drink whisky or
use tobacco. He"-
"Hold ON minute" the Judge broke
in; "you say he didn't bet on horses ?"
"Thats what / say, your honor"
"And he didn't play pokcr?'
"Never was known to play game"
Sand he never drank liquor :"
"Neyer drank drop, your honor"
sand he didn't chew tobacco?"
"Never took chew in his life."
swell, them" said the Judge, leaning
back with sigh. Il don't see what he
wanted to live for. There want any
thing in life for him, and l don't see
why he Amt about as we'll off dead as
alive. Release the prisoner, Mr.. Sheriff,
and call the next case"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
THE CHURCH AND SALOON.
Bitter Fight Between Christianity and
Sunday--A Deacon Scares Away a Horde
of CowardIy White Cans.

VI NoWaruly Nhlte caps.
MAscouTAp, Ills, Sept S.-The town of
south of here on the Louisville & Nash
vile railroad Is in high state of excite
ment over a bitter fight between the
church and the saloon keepers. Two
weeks ago the church leaders determined
to stop Sunday beer picnics. Accordingly
the following Sunday the law was en-
forced and every. saloon in town was
The two factions are about equally
divided and each one has a strong follow
ing: Sunday night about 500 armed men
on horses rode up to the residence of Mr..
A. Morgan, pillar of the church and one
of the wealthiest citizens in that county.
Each member of the party had a high
white cap on his head and a handkerchief
over his face The White Caps surrounded
th ge, mouse and called to Morgan come out.
The man they called for was at home
and the cleaning barrels of their guns
had no terror for him. He walked boldly
out with Winchester rifle in his hand
and opened fire upon his midnight visitors.
Three shots were fired in quick succession
into the crowd, and they fed in hot haste.
1t is more than likely that the White Caps
Will steer clear of Deacon Morgan in future.
!, Yesterday two strangers alighted from
the train and stayed at Granville all day.
They hired horse and buggy and drove
about the town. They finally met John
Tebau, church deacon and a prominent
citizen. They had evidently been looking
Tor him, and as soon as they saw him both
sprung to the ground and pounced upon
the deacon. The latter was badly beaten
and may not recover.
The affairs have greatly embittered the
feeling between the factions, and it is
feared that there will be more tragedies
enacted before the war is ended
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
NEGROES FOE OKLOHoMA.
Politicians Drawing Them From til
South With Gildel Promises.

CHICAGO. Sept. s.-A special from Kan
sas City. Mo-, says: sit is expected that
within few weeks the Iowa and Sand
Fox. lands, adjoining Oklahoma on the
east, will be thrown open for settlement
and in anticipation the faces of thousands
of negroes are turned towards the new
country. The circulars spread broadcast
over the southern states by negro politi-
clans have had the effect of starting
enough blacks towards the promised land
to pre-empt five times as large a territory.
1.-TWO thousand negroes" said Frank
Prouty of Guthrie, who is in Kansas CITY,
"are waiting on the border of the new land
at Guthrie and Langston City, for the
Presidents proclamation. Many hun
dreds more are on the way. The
exodus from the south, especially
from Arkansas and Texas, has been
well organized. There are very few negroes
in the south who have not heard OF the
beautiful country where the government
is giving away farm to every black man
who will come. The negroes seem to have
the idea that the land is for them alone"
Several car loads of Illinois and Ken
lucky negroes passed through Kansas City
yesterday ell route to the border..'
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
RUSSIA FOR THE RUSSIANS
The Gear Will Run Out Every
Other Nationality.
ONLY THE ORTHODOX TO REMAIN
War or Providence Are All
That can Check Him.
England VIII Fight When the Banish-
ment and Confscation Begin - The
Harvests Are Rottening For Want OF
Cleaners.

LONDON, Sept. 6.-The European staff
correspondent of the New York Times,
just back from protracted tour of private
investigation as to Russia and the two
great crises that have already cast their
shadow over Carbon, draws gloomy, an
instructive picture. The persecution and
expulsion of Hebrews are, he says, only,
precursors of a general movement in
Russia toward the banishing of all foreign
and non-orthodox elements of whatever
nativity. Confiscation of all realty and
non-portable property in such cases seems
TO be as much part of the imperial pro-
gramme with regard to other foreigners as
1t has been touching the Hebrews.
TWO POSSIBILITIES OF RELIEF.
After limiting at prosecutions and con
sequent arrest and exodus such as NO civil,
lied country has known since medieval
times, the correspondent says:
The situation might indeed be called
hopeless were it not for two chances of in
tervention-one by an armed Europe and
one by Providence. This Jewish persecu-
ton is only by accident aimed against the
Jews. II is, IN fact, merely an overture to
a grand performance of chasing all for
eigners and non-orthodox persons out Of
Russia.
within the next six months, several
hundred thousand German, English an,
other alien merchants inside the empire
VIII ma themselves in the position now
occupied by the unhappy Jews. When
this comes there is at least a chance tina
the rest of Europe will interfere and max
an effort to set some bounds to the savage
excuses of the Pan-Slavism run mad.
FAMINE ENHANCED BY Explosions.
Besides this possibility of relief by war
from without there is an equally gloomy
but less Objectionable, chance of hall
being called by famine from within. With
a blind stupidity Russia has busted herself
In destroying her most active mercantile !
class just at the time when its help was
most sorely needed to keep the country
going at all.
There has been great and calamitous
failure of the crops in Russia this year, as
the world already knows. What the world
does not know, and what the authorities
at st. Petersburg seem themselves only
dimly to grasp, is that very considerable
proportion of the breadstuffs crop which
did survive hostile frosts and drought,
and which figures in the estimates of the
yield, has not been harvested at all, but
lies rotten now on the vast steppes OF the
corn belt"
This calamitous condition in the famine
stricken empire is pointed out to be due
directly to the policy which has converted
Russia's thrifty Hebrews from an invest
ing class into one which seeks only to real :
ize and emigrate.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
ROAD AG ENTs' BOLD STAND.

After Forcing the Car Open the High
waymen are Scared .Away--A Spirited
Exchange of Leaden Missiles--A Posse
in Hot Pursuit.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.-The Los
Angeles express was held up by two
masked men few miles south of
Modesto at 8.45 last night.
The robbers boarded the train at Ceres
and compelled Engineer Neff and Fire
man Wallace to extinguish the head
light and fill the boiler with water
They then made them get down and
opened. Conductor Roche and Brake
man Fox were in the front car and they
at once went out on the platform and
looked out of the east side Of the car.
At sight Of the conductors lantern one
of the robbers called out for them to go
back, firing shot at them. The con
ductor set his lantern back and fired
two shots at the robbers.
The conductor at once went back into
the car and sought Detective Len Harris
of Los Angeles and Detective Lawson,
who CHANGED to be on the train Harris
got out of the car on the west side and
walked towards where the robbers, who
had gone over to the side Of the express
car, were. When abouttwo cars length
from the express car Harris opened fire
with revolver, sending two shots in
their direction.
The robbers returned the fire, firing
three shots, all of which took effect, hit
ting Harris in the neck and over the left
eye. Meanwhile the robbers were com
pelling Engineer Nctf to hold a torch
while Fireman Wallace worked at the
door. They called several times to the
express messenger and his assistant,
Charles, to open the door and come out,
claiming that they would not hurt them,
but they refused to open the door.
A bomb was exploded against the
door, shattering the beams and making
an opening large enough for them to
enter through, but the shooting by
Harris and also shots fired by Brakeman
Fox evidently scared them off, as they
left without securing any treasure.
Harris was taken to Mercedes, where
he is dying.
As soon as the news of the attempted
robbery reached Mercedes special
train started for the scene, bearing oili-
GERS and a posse of go men, who are
now in pursuit. Officers have also
started from Tulare, Modesto, Mercedes
and Lathrop.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
rRE4K CHICK EMS.
Feathered Nondescripts Among tho Citi-
zens of Hanmonton.
phi1adolnhia Innuirar

Philadelphia Inquirer.
Washington Pressy Is one Of the
prominent citizens of Hammonton, N.
J. He holds the responsible position of
justice of the peace of that town, but his
prominence is also, in measure, due to
the fact that he stands six sect high and
weighs about 200 pounds.
Justice Pressy is recognized as a
genius by his fellow-citizens for he has,
during the so odd years Of his life, in
vented a stump puller, turnip crusher,
a new-fangled bicycle and double
back-action, self-cocking incubator.
This incubator is, of all the other of
his inventions, the pride of Justice
Pressy's heart. Year after year, as the
moons have waxed and waned since the
completion of that wonderful machine,
his two estimable daughters have at reg
ular intervals filled the incubator to the
brim, and in the natural course of events
it has Matched out brood after brood of
healthy young chicks, which have
flourished and grown to maturity and
proudly cackled on the barn yard fence.
Suddenly since incubator caused con-
sternation and excitement at Justice
Pressy's house. About three weeks ago
the two Misses Pressy's filled the ma
chine with the choicest of hen fruit,
started the heating apparatus and sent
it on its mission of usefulness. 1t has
yielded results, and such results were
never before known in the history of
artificial incubation.
When the Misses Pressy opened the
incubator yesterday morning they gazed
at one another in blank astonishment,
and well they might. Waddling about
among the broken egg shells were eight
little chicks, with web feet like ducks,
and two with heads of ducks and the
balance of their physical construction
the counterpart of chickens. One had one
eye, and that was set in the top of its
head, which was combless. Two had
two heads set on different necks, which
forked about one-eight of an inch above
the NAV. They were perfect in form
and in healthy and sound condition,
while yet another had its legs set in its
body backwards, while its head was
placed on its neck facing its tail. 1t
will be, in consequence thereof, COM
PEELED to perform its peregrinations
through life with its body and its tail in
front of it.
OF course the girls called their father,
the justice, to view these grotesque
freaks. He in turn called in crowd of
the neighbors. Then followed discus
sions and controversies that were long,
loud and vigorous. Justice Pressy him
self did not say much, but he stroked
his beard as he walked towards the
house and thought deeply. lie cried
suddenly to one of his daughters:
Emma, let's put some sour milk in the
internal thing and see what kind of
cheese cakes it'll hatch out"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10

MERCEDES, CAL, Sept. S.-Mrs Graham.
who with her husband was camping last
night near Keyes, three miles south of
Ceres, has identified a photograph of Bill
Dalton as that of one of the two men who
stopped at their camp on the night of the
train robbery at Ceres. About $50 o'clock
when fairly dark, two men came up and
asked for . drink. One, tall man. came
shorter, kept in the dark. The tall man
carried shotgun wrapped in a coat. Mrs.
Graham unhesitatingly recognized the
portrait of Bill Dalton as that Of the short
man. The Grahams will be confronted
with Dean as soon as possible and if they
identify him as the tall man evidence
against the men arrested Sunday night
near Trayer will be complete.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10

CAMBRIDGE, Nd, Sept. Thames F.
Robinson's large store, near Bishops
Head, Dorchester county, was totally
destroyed by fire Saturday night, with
Its contents. A large hall above the
store was occupied by the local
lodge of knights of Pythias, and
their furniture and fixtures were
also destroyed. Mr.. Robinson's loss is
estimated at $4,000, upon which there
was an insurance of 81, 900. The lodge
property was valued at 5000, upon
which there was an insurance of 5000.
Mr., Robinson has no doubt but that the
iire was of incendiary origin, as it was
,lrst discovered on the outside of the
building. His loss is serious one to
MN, as he had just laid in his fall and
winter goods. Popular feeling is very
much aroused in the neighborhood, and
II the incendiary is caught he will be
roughly handled.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
RESIGNATION OF A CASHIER.
George ID. Armstrong Sewers His Connec-
ton with the First National hank.


Announcement was made on Monday
at the meeting of the Clearing House
Association of the resignation OF George
ID. Armstrong, cashier Of the First
National Bank. A meeting of the di-
rectors of the bank was held during the
afternoon, when Mr.. Armstrong; resig-
nation was accepted, and p. Il. q. Smith,
paying-teller, was elected to fill the
vacancy.
Mr.. Armstrong has been cashier of
the bank for over 81 years, having been
appointed in August, 1864, when he
was clerk in the post-office under the
late Col. A. II. Grimshaw. At that time
the First National Bank had been in
existence only a few weeks, having
been organized out of the Mechanics
Bank, one of the old State banking in
situations. He has served faithfully and
acceptably ever since. Ill-health is the
cause of his resignation, as he has been
unwell for month past. His resigna-
ton was before the directors for several
days before it was decided to accept it.
Mr.. p. Il. r. Smith, who has been
chosen to succeed Cashier Armstrong,
although not by any means old in years
is also an old attache of the bank, hav-
ing started in as a clerk when very
young man. He steadily rose through
the slow, but sure, promotion of faithful
service in banking institution, and for
several years past has been paying teller.
For long time he has enjoyed the rep
utation of being one of the most efficient
and accurate bank officers in the coun-
try and is very popular with the patrons
of the bank. Having had other plans
for the future under contemplation for
some time, Mr.. Smith is not sure that he
will accept the position, but will be per-
mitted to hold the matter under advise
ment for several days. If he declines
it another appointment will be made by
the directors. If he accepts, Henry
Bush will succeed him as paying teller,
and the other employees will be pro-
NOTED in order.
Edward Belts, President of the First
National Bank, has occupied this posi-
ton almost since its organization. He
speaks very highly of Cashier Arm
str1ng's long term of faithful service.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
TO RECOGNIZE THE JUNTA.


Cablegram to the New York Herald.
SANTIAGO, CHILL, VIA GALVESTON, TEXAS
Sept 6.-The provisional government of
the Republic of Chill will be formally
recognized by the government OF the
United States tomorrow.
Minister Patrick Eagan to-day received
a cable dispatch from the state department
at Washington instructing him to treat the
Junta de Gobierno as the government de
facto of the country.
Information to this effect was unofficially
conveyed to Senior Jorge Mont, President
of the Junta, soon after the receipt of the
cable despatch, but official action will not
be taken before tomorrow.
Minister Egan will be cordially received
by the Junta for the news he brings, il for
nothing else.
Members of the provisional government
were much pleased at the receipt of this
information, though they were not greatly
surprised. They felt that as soon as the
United States understood the situation
here; that order had been restored
throughout the country and that the au,
thority OF the Junta was universally rec
ognized, Mr.. Egan would receive the in,
structions which came to him to-day.
1t is the opinion here that Senior Pedro
Montt who is now in Washington as the
representative of the Junta will be regu-
larly credited minister from Chill to the
United States rs soon as the matter can be
reached.
This, it is thought, will not be many
days.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
A Legal DAYS YORK.
Diversity of Opinion in England on tn,
Eight-hour Question.

NEW CASTLE, Sept. 1.-THE Trades Union
Congress opened here this morning. There
are over 500 delegates present, and they
represent about 800, 900 British worlmen,
skilled and unskilled. Mr.. Thomas Burt,
member of Parliament for Morpeth, North
cumberland, member of the royal labor
commission, was elected president. Mr..
Burt is the son of coal miner, and for
merly worked in the coal-pits. Since 1865
he has been secretary of the Northumber-
land Miners Mutual Association, trades
union having membership of 1900 in
Northumberland. Mr.. Burt has set for
Morpeth since 1874 and is radical in
favor of home rule.
The congress will discuss number of
questions OF great Importance to the work
ing classes, prominent among which will
be the question as to whether eight hours
should or should not constitute legal
days work. On this subject there is an
increasing diversity of opinion.
State insurance for workmen and their
employers liability in cases of accident
are also questions which are looked for
ward to as likely to raise considerable
amount of discussion.
The delegates from the London trades
unions will strongly oppose the proposal
that the unions represented at the con-
gress shall pay the sum of 81 per
thousand members before they are allowed
to vote.
The question of municipal workshops
will also be discussed, and it is probable
that proposition may be made to form
new national labor party in parliament in
spite of the fact that Mr.. Gladstone, upon
being questioned about this matter, wrote
letter deprecating such q movement on
the ground that If every class of the COM
munty exercised the right TO form party
I'VE should have queer parliament
Charles f. Garitee, Mamie Cole, George
Philpot, Dr.. George G. Brewer, Rev. Noah
Jackson and Mrs. L. Miller were put under
81, 500 bail each in Baltimore Monday on
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
United States Government. 1t is alleged
that Mamie Cole, a mulatto % years of
age, was married to 73-year-old' colored
pensioner named John X. l.. Cole while
the latter was lying unconscious upon his
deathbed, and that the other prisoners con-
spired with her to obtain the continuance
OF Coles pension after his decease.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-10
Mercantile Appraisers suspended.

:, Edward ". Patton, Albert Crawford.
James L. Bell, constituting the board of
mercantile appraisers of Philadelphia,
We're suspended from office Monday by
the auditor general and city treasurer,
pending an examination of the charges
made against the board by the city treas
urer. While the city treasurer Joined in
the order of suspension he expressed the
dismissal. District Attorney Graham yes
terday went carefully over the evidence in
the city treasurer's possession relating TO
the mercantile appraisers, and expressed
the opinion in writing to the treasurer
that, without explanation, the evidence
fully justities the charges formulated in
your letter to the auditor-general. 1t is
difficult for me to see how any adequate
explanation can be given"