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Tombstone epitaph., 1891-08-02

JOIN MARION, the pioneer oi AriEo na journalism, is no more. His battle is done. Peace to his ashes.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-08-02

Nearly an inch of rain fell at Ph@' nix last Saturday night.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-08-02
BORN.

HERRERA-In Tombstone July 90. to
 the wife of Fred Herrera, a son.
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-08-02

dictment charging him with misde- meanor. The alleged offense was his publication in tie Evening News, of which he is the city editor, Cf the de- tails of the execution of Slocum and Smiler and the others recently pot to death by electricity at Sing Sing. His counsel banded up demurrer in which the indictment as found is unconsti- tutional, inssmuch as it restraints the liberty of the press, guaranteed to it by the constitution.
 ST. PAUL-On Thursday the affairs of the great trust formed in 1879 and consisting of A. H. Wilder and E. T. Drakets which were given the lands granted to the five roads which form the present Omaha road, bv which trust nearly 36O,OnO acres of land have been sold and 2OO,OOO people brought into Minnesota, the trustees having handled millions Of dollars in its af- fairs will come to an end, it's work be- ing completed.
 CAFE MAY-Csrdinal Gibbons and Archbishod Ireland, called and spent some time with the President this a. m. The cardinal who has been here for the past two weeks will return to Baltimore this afternoon. His health which was poor when he came to the seashorr, has been much benefited by his short stay.
 BERLIN-The grand duke of Meek euburg is dying. His limbs are becom- ing paralyzed.
 BERuS-Herr Schlick. conserva- tive has been elected 10 the seat on the reichstag made vacant by the death of Count Von MorIke.
 SAN FRANCfsCo-The state bank commissioners have examined the condition ot the Peoples Saving Bank nnd their report shows it 10 be good The Pacific Bank furnished enough coln lo meet the run on the savings bank, and all deIusit0rs who applied for their money yesterday, were paid.
 WELLS, Nev.-Two Shcshone buck E, Bruce Aleck and Laughing Charlie fought bloody duel at an Indian camp near here yesterday. The IIoub!e was about A squaw. The bucks were hobbIed together and fought with knives. They were horribly mangleI bruce Alrck wIll die.
 LoCIsvILLE-Proctor Knott. at one time the most faClous horse on tine turi and sIll the pride vf Kentucky, is ill from lung fever. In making the trip from Chicago to Saratoga he con- rraeied cold which developed into the most dangerous of diseases,
 PsRIs-Seyen additional people, victims of the collision, died last night, making total 50 dead account eI fO-, but the terribly consumed state of some of the remains found. make 1t possible that in some cases tite heaps of cinders collected may be those of two people which have been counted ss one.
 SAN The Chronicles Los Angeles special says: An officer of the Charleston gives 1t as his opin:on tha; il Balmaceda succeeds in getting his three ships from France the war wil! be practically ended. Their ap- pearance on the Chilean coast is re- sarded with horror by the insurgents party.
 NEW YoRK-A BuzEard Bay special says there Is well founded rumur going about this town that Edwin Booth is dying from the effects of io1 much smoking. He is such a slave to the weed that he cannot give up smoking even though he knows it Is killing him. Its effect upon his
Tombstone epitaph., 1891-08-02

TIE bulletin issued by the census department on copper mining has just been sent out and contains some very gratifying information for Arizo- ns. We rank a big third in tn, lisi of copper producing states and terri tories. Here are the figures:
 POUNDS Montana. -...-..........-.9 .9s, ,222.444 Michigan n...............S .S7, ,455.67j Ariz.na a...................3I, ,5S6, ,675 New Mexico ............. 3.6S6,I37 toloTado- -..--..-...--.---- l.liV,UJ0 The other states and territories pro duced but little. from I56.OJ0 pounds down to IS,0O0 pounds.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20
They Could Count on Him.

tulCdEO ifiUuues
A lot OF young travelling men tempo
rarily located at cozy Wisconsin hote1
last Sunday, got up conspiracy against
the landlord. Everything about the
hotel was perfection itself. The cookery
was superb, the service first-class, the
appointments of the hostelry all that
could be desired, and the charges reason
able, but these wild young men, in secret
conclave assembled, resolved to make
the proprietor's life miserable for one
day by Kicking individually and collec-
lively against everything.
Before they proceeded to carry the
plot into execution, the ringleader of
the conspirators decided to take into
their confidence young man of impos-
ing exterior and much gripsack, who
had Just arrived, and was in the act of
registering.
"Youre travelling man, aren't your"
he asked in a low tone.
"Yes."
swell. there's about dozen of us
here, and we're putting up job on the
landlord. We are going to kick at every
blessed thing to-day-coffee, steak, bis
cult, pastry, fruits, vegetables, walters,
scenery, rooms, general accommodations
and all. Wen be glad to have you take
hand in it, if you are in for little
fun"
''If I'm in for little fun ~ echoed the
new arrival. Thunderl I'm travelling
for a London house, with headquarters
in N'Yawk. / always kick
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20
A BLACK BRUrE ARnEsrED.
The Assniiant of Mrs. Neimeyer Arrested
and Confined in jail.


GREAT NECK, L. l., Aug. 13.--John
saulted the wife of Constable Neimeyer
in the woods near here a few days ago,
was arrested in Jamaica early this
morning. The people in the vicinity
have hunted almost necessarily, day
and night, for the man, prepared TO
lynch him on sight. Deputy Sheriff
George Clark Of this place, took a
hand in the hunt yesterday. He at once
concluded that the people who were
beating the brush around about Man
hasset were on the wrong track. He
started out with bis face to the west.
Clark recalled that Mrs. Neimeyer had
given up all the money she had before
she escaped from her assailant The
officer knew that the man would seek
some low saloon in which to satisfy his
desire for drink. He was not very long
in getting in the mans track. He learned
that he would sleep at the house Of
Jacob Whitworth, near Jamaica, that
night The officer laid his plans accord
ingly.
About 9 o'clock this morning, with
four officers from Jamaica, Clark be-
sieged the house where Ambleman was
supposed to be stopping. When the
officer pounded on the front door of the
house an effort was made to rush the
fugitive out the back way, but con-
stable was on guard there.
When Clark was admitted he found
the negro covering in the hall with no
fight left in him. He was apparently
very much frightened and promised to
tell everything, if the officers would
only protect him from the crowd he be-
lieved to be on his track.
The man was taken to Great Neck
early this morning and promptly identi-
fed. He was committed to Queens
County Jail, to await the action of the
grand jury, having confessed the crime
charged against him.
The mans face and neck show the
marks Of Mrs. Neimeyer's fingernails,
evidencing the desperate fight she made
TO protect herself from the man. Amble-
man wore earrings. One of the rings
had been torn through the flesh in the
scuffie.
Immediately on the arrival of the Off
Ger with his prisoner in Great Neck the
cry went up: Get rope and we will
hang the fellow - A crowd began to
collect about the depot to intercept the
officer with his prisoner upon their re-
turn from the courtroom. Clark had
anticipated trouble. When the prisoner
was turned over to him to be taken 70
Long Island City he drove hastily to
Little Neck, and so gave the crowd the
slip.
Ambleman has evidenced the most
cowardly spirit since his arrest. He
feared lie would be lynchel and chung
close to the side of his captor when
passing through the street. He is now
in the Queens county jail under close
confinement, Sheriff Goldner refusing to
allow any one TO see him without the
permission of the district attorney.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20

In the spring, in the years when rain
has fallen for two months, the Karoo is
flower garden. As far as the eye can
reach stretch blotches of white and vel
low and purple fig flowers; every foot
of KaToo sand is broken up by small
Towering lilies and wax flowers; in a
space few feet square you may some
times gather fifty kinds. In the crevices
of the rocks little hard-leaved Towering
air plants are growing. AT the end of
two months the bloom is over; the bulbs
have died back into the ground by mil
lions, the fig blossoms are withered, the
Karoo assumes the red and brown tints
which it wears all the rest of the year.
Sometimes there is no spring. At inter-
walls OF few years great droughts occur
when no rain falls. For 10 or IS months
the sky is cloudless. The Karoo bushes
drop their leaves and are dry withered
stalks, the fountains fail and the dams
are fioored with dry-baked mud, which
splits up into little squares; the sheep
and goats die by thousands and the
haroo is desert. 1t is to provide for
these long rainless periods that all the
plant life in Karoo is modified. Moth
ing that cannot retain life habitually
for six months, and at need for twice
that time, without rain, can exist here.
The Karoo bush itself provides against
drought by roots of enormous length
stretching under the ground to a depth
of many feet. AT the end of 10 months
drought, when the earth is baked brick
dust for two feet from the surface, if
you break the dried stalk of a Karoo
bush three inches high, you will find
running down the centre tiny thread
of pale green-tinted tissue still alive
with sap.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20
PHI1ADELPn1A .ArFArRs.

Seven deaths from heat stroke were
investigated Thursday by the coroner.
Rose Shimberg, years old, was run
over by car on Fourth street Thursday
and had her skull fractured.
Willie McAllister, years old, of
Camden, was drowned Thursday while
bathing in the Delaware river.
John Lyman, II years old, had his
skull fractured on Wednesday week
with brick thrown by Eugene Slavin,
II years old, who was arrested. Slavin
says the injury was accidentally in
tlicted while they were playing.
The Children's Country Week Asso-
citation Thursday sent 800 children to
points along the Baltimore Central rail-
road, and AZ colored women, with their
aabies, to Lansdowne, as guests of the
Picnic Association of that place.
The board of health Thursday declared
the umbrella frame works of d. M.
Redmond u Co., limited, a nuisance by
reason Of the foul odors caused by o,p-
ping the hot frames in fish oil. The
firm was notified to abate the nuisance.
A contingent bequest of $1,000 to
endow a free he'd in the Presbyterian
Hospital, in the will of Margaret K.
Maxwell, which was executed on Au-
gust Sd, is imperative under the law,
Mrs. Maxwell having died on the Sth
instant
The Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets
Passenger Railway Company is laying
tracks for an extension of its line on
Thirteenth street, between Cumberland
and Cambria, and on Cambria to Broad,
where the tracks will connect with the
company's North Broad street branch.
The Judgment for $1,672.96 entered
July 3lst in favor of the assignee Of
John Bardsley and against the Chestnut
Street National Bank has been marked
Satisfied" The action was to recover
a balance alleged to be IN the hands of
the bank belonging to the personal ac-
count of Bardsley. Judgment was en-
tered for want of an affidavit of defence
The board of revision of taxes sub
mitted to the county controller Thurs
day the statement Of the assessed valua-
ton of taxable real and personal prop
erty upon which the tax rate for 1899
will be based. The total value of real
and personal property subject TO taxa
ton is given at $735, 500, 772, an increase
of $21,793, $50 as compared with valua-
tion on which the tax rate for the pres
emit year is based.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20

There were six deaths from the heat
in New York city Thursday.
A farmers picnic at Shelby, Ohio,
Thursday was attended by 10000 people.
Major Mckinley made an address.
A thick vein of high grade silver has
been struck at Leadyille, Col, within
one block of the city's main business
street.
Samuel Rees of Ebensburg, Cambria
county, Pa, was last Thursday shot and
instantly killed at his house by an un-
known man, who made his escape.
Eugene II. Bonnick and his young
wife Of Denver, Col, were found dead
in bed at their residence Thursday, they
having taken morphine in large guam
titles.
The post office department has de-
cided that postal cards the shape Of
which are materially altered for adver-
Using purposes cannot be sent through
the mails.
A. w. Wilcox, aged 70 years, who
lived near Waters, Mich, Thursday
split open the head of Mrs. West, his
granddaughter, with an axe, fatally in
juring her, and then killed himself by
shooting himself in the head and near
the heart.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury
has authorized the collector of customs
at Burlington, VT, to allow the transit
of cattle by rail through his district to
Montreal, Canada, without the quaran-
tine inspection heretofore required, pro-
vided the cars are sealed and bonded.
A freight train on the Cincinnati di.
vision Of the Pan Handle railroad just
west of Columbus, Ohio, Thursday
parted and the two ends came together
again, piling up 16 cars. John Holland
horse trainer, was seriously injured
ind horse valued at 81 900 was killed
The British minister to the United
States Thursday communicated to the
State Department a telegram from the
Marquis Of Salisbury conveying from
Queen Victoria message of regret and
sorrow at the death of James Russell
Lowell. An appropriate acknowledge
ment was sent by the President, who
also sent copy of the message to Mr..
Lowell's family.
A dispatch from Chicago says the
Great Northern railroad has made cut
in all classes of freight rates from 10 to
10 cents per 100 pounds from Boston to
St. Paul by the New York s. New
England, Northern Steamship Company
and Eastern railway of Minnesota, via
Buffalo g. West Superior, and cut OF
three to seven cents from and to the
same points by way Of the New York &
New England, and Erie canal combina-
ton.
Mr. Charles S. Wolfe of Union county
Pa, fell dead in the street at Harris.
burg Thursday of heart disease. He
had attended the morning meeting OF
the Pennsylvania Worlds Fair Com.
mission, by whom he had been elected
executive commissioner, and he was re,
turning to the capitol after dinner wher
the fatal attack of heart disease occurred
The commission reconvened last even
ing and adopted appropriate resolution.
relative TO Mr.. Wolfe's death.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20
4 REG ULAR @ uM GAVE.
Touching Episode in the Life of a vassa
Grizzly A. Lookeron.

Touching Episode In the Life OF Nassar
Grizzly A. Lookeron.
'My gum is lost and am sad,
ne'er can chew it more;
My gum is lost; feel so bad
Since dropped it on the floor"
Her cheek grew pale, her eye grew red,
She wept, her heart was sore.
"What shall do, oh tell" she said,
pray tell me, implore."
Cheer .IGg'" quoth he my charming
Your loss do not deplore;
To win smile I'll be repaid,
Your gum l will restore"
He stopped and raised it in his hand,
Twas covered DER with dust;
He picked the shreds, brushed off the sand
Yet do still more he must.
"Oh, Brandywine, dear Brandywine
Thou hadst part in days of old,
Thy name on history's page doth shine,
With Washington's thy tale is told;
ooh, Brandywine, come to thee,
Thou'lt help me in this case
This gum from dirt and soil set free
And joy shall grief displace."
With rapid step this valiant man
Rushed to the hydrant cold
He plunged it meath the stream that ran
The gum grew pure as gold.
"Oh, Brandywine, on Vassar's shrine
Thy name inscribed shall be,
And valiant man, much praise is thine,
What reward is meet for thee?'
The gum was saved, the Vsssar girl
Began once more to shine,
She glanced an eye, she shook curl
He thought her quite divine.
The Vassar girl is now wife.
Thanks to that chewing gum;
To him It brought the joy of life.
She chews and says Yum, YUM"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20
ScoURGING THE CzAR.
The Hebrew Prosecutions by Russia De-
nounced In Darkest Hussia.',


LONDON, Aug. 13.-The book "In
Darkest Russia, which has just reached
its second edition, presents a mass of
statistics to prove that the statement
alleged to have been made by the car
that the Hebrews were connected with
dynamite outrages is unfounded.
The czarina is charged with an in
stance OF intolerance, in that, while in
speeding recently the garrison of Mos
COW, she caused the Hebrew soldiers to
be confined to barracks, alleging that
the sight of them was offensive to her.
The book contains a letter from the
Duke of Westminster saying that things
in Russia are going from bad 10 worse.
The inhumanity of the Russian author
tiles, the duke declares, is astounding,
almost incredible. The czar, according
to the same authority, renders himself
liable to be placed in the category of
rulers, who like Philip ii. of Spain,
clothed with irresponsible power, have
used it, not for the happiness and bene-
fit Of their subjects, but for their ruin.
Such rulers, the duke says, deserve the
contempt and loathing of all that is best
in the civilized world.
A letter from Hebrew residing in
Russia says that the police of Libau re-
Gently issued an order prohibiting
Hebrews from bathing in the sea in
summer.
BARON nIRscH SPARES no MONEY.
LONDON, Aug. 13.-Baron Hirsch is
negotiating with the Turkish govern
ment to rent land along the railway in
Asia Minor for a Hebrew colony. He
offers. 100000 yearly for the land.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20
A GREAT TRoTTER.



The sensational trotting horse of the
year 1891, so far, says the New York
Tribune, is the bay stallion Nelson,
record 2.10e. G. II. Nelson, the owner,
is said to have received an offer of
100000 for this magnificent animal,
and it is said that the sum was promptly
refused. Nelson's speed and promise
may be judged by the facts that he,
even earlier in the season than this,
trotted at Saginaw, Mich, to within one
second of his record, and made a really
wonderful performance at Freeport, ILL.,,
Thursday, August 9Th, trotting mile,
with his owner driving at a weight of
1870 pounds, in 2.11t. Many horsemen
believe that the 205s record made by
Maud ). may yet be beaten by Nelson.
Nelson's quarter-miles in the Free
port contest against his own record were
most irregular. The half-mile post was
reached in 1.05t, ali gait, and the
third quarter was trotted in 81 seconds,
a 2.04 rate for the mile. The second
quarter Of this mile (the whole mile
was trotted in full second better time
than Jay-Eye-See accomplished over
this track was made in 31f seconds,
or at the rate Of 2.07 for the entire dis
dance. OF course, the horse tired on
the last quarter with such weight to
draw.
Nelson is a superb bay horse. He
was bred and is driven by his present
owner, c. II. Nelson of Waterville, Me.
His sire was Young Rolfe, his dam
being Gretchen, she by Gideon. AT the
great Balch stallion race, at Boston,
nearly two years ago, the owner of Mel
son, or the friends of his owner, con-
spired to make a reasonable certainty on
winning the race sure thing, and
bought over the most dangerous rival
Mr.. Noble, the owner of Alcryon
Nelson and his owner were disbarred
from the National Association, but have
just been reinstated on the tracks oi
the American Association.
Though hardly as fashionably bred a:
his grand record would indicate. Mel
sons services in the stud would easily
make him fair investment at 100000
He could command fee of $500 for hii
service, and that would mean 1850 q
year for 25 mares, or 12t per cent on the
investment; and he would pay for him
self in eight years at this rate AS Mel
son is only nine years old, having beer
foaled in 1882, he might with the posi-
bilities of the next 10 years bring hin
very handsome returns,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20
FOSTERS F1ILURE.


his E-iHu To ihB
Loan Fails to Come up to Expectations.
WASHINGTON, D. o., Aug. 13.--ln-
quiry at the treasury department de-
velops the fact that Secretary Fosters
plan for continuing the Az per cent loan
at Q per cent has so far failed to meet
with the favor that was anticipated by
its advocates. On July I'd, when the
offer was made to continue the At per
cent bonds at per cent, there was out
standing $51 100000 of Al per cents, of
which amount $23,000,000 were held by
900 national banks as basis for circu-
lation.
Since then $1s,5oo,oOo of the bonds
have been continued. OF this amount
+ $3,000,000 came from private indi
viduals and $15,500000 from 800 ma
tional banks, leaving S7,500,000 of II
4 per cents in the possession of 300 ma
4 tional banks and $25,000,000 in the
+ hands of individuals.
These bonds, aggregating SEQ 100000,
in order to be continued under the pres
ent offer, must be presented on or be-
fore September cd, the date on which
their interest ceases. Otherwise the
Secretary of the Treasury must be pre-
DdlCh W lCltCiii vi
or make terms with the holders for an
extension of time at the present rate Of
interest. The available cash balance in
the treasury to-day, outside of fractional
silver coin and deposits in national
banks, is $13,500,000, and is gradually
increasing.
There is no doubt that the $500, 900
of bonds held by national banks will be
presented for continuance The whole
difficulty is about the 100000 held
+ by individuals.
The department had assurances that
these bonds would be taken up by the
f national banks and used for thepurpose
OF Increasing their circulation. This
was the argument that mainly induced
W. department to adopt the 2 per cent
faAn. So far, however, it seems the
assurances have not been made good.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20
NOT MUCH OF IN EARTRQUAKE.
1t Did Not Destroy Town and Upset
Things Generally as Had Been Re-
nnrfal

1t Did Not Destroy n Town and Upset
Things Generally as Had Been Re-
ported.
SAN FRANcIsco, CAL, Aug. 14.-The
Chronicles Yuma, Arizona, correspond
ent has made trip to the town of
Lerdo, Mexico, which was reported de-
stroyed by an earthquake July Both
He reports that the accounts of the
earthquake have been greatly exagger-
ated. No houses were destroyed and he
failed to find the place where the Col
orado river was reported to be pouring
into a fissure in the earth. There was
no tidal wave in the Gulf of California
and the shock was hardly felt there.
The statement that the hills disappeared
is explained by the fact that portion
of a sand bluE 100 feet high fell into
the river.
The correspondent also investigated
the alleged disappearance of the river
on the day of the earthquake. He found
that opposite Lerdo is large island.
Until month ago the river flowed in
the east channel nearer to Lerdo. Then
it began 10 change into the west chan
mel. The cause was the gradual cutting
away of a sand bluff on the main land,
which fell into the east channel and
helocked it up. This was noticed three
weeks before the earthquake.