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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-27

LONDON, Aug. "a. - Nineteen of the
miners who were buried In the explosion
at the Park Slip mine yesterday were
taken out alive to- day. Twelve dead
bodies were also recovered.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-27
Chone sing Wont Die.

The police have failed to capture the
assailants of Chong Sing. the laundry
man, up to date. Perhaps 1t would be
pretty hard to identify them. Chong is
doing very well.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-27
/ Sunday Concert

There will be concert at Roger Will
liams Park tomorrow evening II th
weather isn't too bad.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-27
AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.
Marshal Hilliard Refuses to Let Mrs
Reagan Deny the Quarrel Story.

Marshal Hilliard Refuses to Let Mrs.
Reagan Deny the Quarrel Story.
Tne most extraordinary event since the
Borden tragedies three week ago, oc-
Cured last night just after the adjourn
ment OF the hearing. Several reporters
crowded around the attorneys for the de-
fence, who showed the following clipping
from the Fall River Globe:
"Wednesday afternoon reporter OF
the Globe learned that Matron Reagan
had heard Lizzie Borden quarreling with
Emma, accusing the latter OF giving her
away. He went to Mrs. Reagan to have
the story corroborated. The question
was put to the matron: How Is Miss
Lizzie conducts ing herselff' She replied: !:
she is very much agitated and has been
sincs her sister called today. She 10
wringing her hands and walking mp and
down like crazy person.
"The reporter then asked what trans
pired when Emma called and the story,
which the reporter had already heard
from other sources, was corvoborated In
detail by the matron. Matron Reagan
told this story to other persons"
This article stirred counsel for defence
and its correctness is denied.
The Globe representative, however,
will make affidavit that Mrs. Reagan corr
roborated this account, and another
newspaper correspondent will make oath
tuht ~ pcEbon " positiOu w khoW
whereof he speaks, told him the same
facts and said they came directly from
Mrs. Reagan.
Attorney Jennings was much worked
up over the matter and at the earnest
sol citation of the reporter, seconded by
a number OF prominent citizens, the at
torney drew mp form OF affidavit, deny
ing that she made the statement attribu-
ted To her, to be submitted to Mrs. Rea-
gan for her signature.
Rev. Mr.. Buck was delegated to take
the document TO the matron, but soon
returned, saying that she refus-cd to sign
IL unless the marshal said so. Mr.. Buck
went to the marshal, who positively re-
fused to allow the matrop TO do any
thing OF the kind unless she was placed
on the witness stand.
Mr.. Jennings, who had followed Mr..
Buck into the Office, grew very indig-
nant and told the marshal IL was the
meanest thing he had ever heard.
The marshal thanked him and hot
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-27
NAIICk.

The trouble over the O'Donnell build
ing continues. Excl ement was great
yesterday. The police were called but
made no arrests. Mrs O'Donnell re-
mains in possession and cannot he elected
until the court passes on the case.
There will be bitter fight before the
matter Is finally adjusted.
Windows have been taken out and re-
placed, shelves taken down and goods
dumped into the street during the past
few days and carpenters have been kept
busy.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-27
Only Rags Burning.

The alarm of fire from Box 372 to-day,
was for burning rags in house on Oak
streaf
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-27
Chicago Grain Market.

100000 yards of borders all widths and qualities.
worth from to 20c. per yard. lc per yard 20 close.
- u. II. CApY, 800 High street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-27
Cotton Market.
QUOTED BY A. p. wEEDES.
Chicago Grain Notes.

Chicago Grain Notes.
QUOTED ny A. r. wEEDEN.
London wheat market quiet, prices un-
changed.
Liverpool spot prices unchanged, fu-
lures H@Hd higher.
CHICAGO
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16
FORCE BILLS.

Talk about force bills. The force bills
now existing in some Of the states In
the shape of election laws. are the ones
that deserve most Of our attention. For
instance, the election laws of Missouri,
which are so technical that is almost
impossible for party IN dlsfavor 10
gain recognition by the powers that be-;
again, those Of Indiana, which allow
none but members of the two leading
parties on the election board, and allow
no one to be present at the count-one
of the best machines for fraud that law
has ever iavented; then the election
laws of Arkansas, where every negro
vote must be preceded by that OF white
man, thus virtually DISTINGUISHING all
whose ballots are not wanted. Talk
about free decentralization County
Index, Pop.
The foregoing is not an exaggerated
statement. And in every one OF the
states named the laws are the products
of Democratic ingenuity. When the
Republicans protest against such out
RACES, Democrats rear up and howl
force bill" and until the processes were
brought to bear upon the new party in
some of the southern states, that party
Joined in the refrain of 'force bill" All
this brings to mind the old saying about
disagreements among robbers giving
honest people chance.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16

keys, so far as we remember,
exhibited considerable affection to-
ward one another when ILL But
that may have been due to the civilizing
influences Of his society. Generally
speaking, monkeys NOPE and seek SOL
itude when sick. But Sally" the
chimpanzee at the Zoo, during her last
illness behaved exactly as human DO
ing might in similar circumstances
While the large gibbou in the next
cage, which died just afterwards. retired
to the farthest corner, and refused all
assistance, Sally came TO the bars in
front, where she could most easily re-
ceive her medicine and food, and took
her balsam or anise-seed for bronchitis
as her keepers dictated. Only when
very i'll did she retire TO her kennel. and
even then would reach out her hand to
the doctor" But there is not much
faith in physicking at the Zoo. Pre-
vention is better than cure, though one
bear generally takes castor-oil. which il
likes, when suffering from bad throAtl
and very fine bird, the African horn
bill, would allow medicine to be given
to it by its keeper. a lady visitor was
good enough to leave prescription to
cure the savage Indian wild dogs OF
mango. But as she left no directions
rs to whether the remedy was for inter-
nal or external application, the dogs
were allowed to cure themselves by
taking sulphur baths in straw sprinltled
with the remedy.-London Spectator.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16
The dahia Daily gaolc grdaY ornng, september 16 1892

overcome US like a summer dream without
our special wonders Now the next thing
we will near of is bifurcated skirt fac
tory at Lecompton.
II Ed Howe's foreman would put all OF
Eds philosophy, and his editorial and the
local matter together in separate columns
of the Globe the readers of that most val
ued paper would appreciate IL. and could
more thoroughly enjoy it. Eh. Ed?
The Globe says the official board of an
Atchison church has limited the sermons
Of the preacher to thirty min
utes. Next they will prescribe the tone
of voice, jesticulations, andsoforth, and
then dictate his themes. It takes Atchi-
son to do things
Atchison is being raided by an army OF
collectors for churches in the different
parts of the country and the burden is be-
coming SO heavy that tue citizens are
threatening to remove enmass to Kansas
City. AS j. n would say that seems to
leave it on K. c.
While Mrs. Lease was speaking at the
Iowa State fair at Des MONIES last week.
some one stole her hat and gloves which
she had laid aside. Now she has some
thing to 'calam" about. OF course the
articles We're stolen by some light fingered
Repu blican. as she WAS addressing Re
publican assemblage. exclusively.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16
SUNFLOWER SILHOUETTES.

The State Trotting Horse Breeders as
ISOLATION aud races at Abilene next week.
a Lawrence girl calls them the James
jams. That isn't as good vulgarism as
the kentucky ''Jeems preserves.
Mrs. McCourt, while standing in the
doorway of her home in Atchison Satur-
dav evening. was struck By Lightning and
instantly killed.
Cornelius Wedel, living in the Russian
settlement north OF Newton, was fatally
kicked by horses hitched 10 wagon Sat
url;ay afternoon
An eastern journal has made the start
ling discovery tina, sunfowers ia Kansas
are higher than ever before; the direct re
suit OF the Mckinley bill.
Even the tTsnps OF Kansas are liter
sry" Every day o. two one goes into
newspaper Office and gets few exchanges
to read while waiting Tor the blind bag
sage-Salina Republican
The Journal has been issning a daily
edition this week, saens the Ssliaa county
fair 'Twouid De : great thing for S-slina
If Il could have two such dxilies ss the
Journal a4ld the Republican al Sue time
A bicycle factory has been established al
lOssw.tarnie- Ian such telaas DC Az
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16
BE ADMONISHED.

The news from New York in regard to
the cholera is no more than could reason
ably be expected when the large travel
between foreign infected countries and
the United States is taken into considera-
ton. That the cholera can get much
of a start IN this country this season OF
the year is doubted by the best authority
we have. There are said to lie over one
thousand patent remedies for cholera IN
the list at the United States patent Of
fee, but better than all these is the
prevention, and every city and town
in this country should without delay,
inaugurate such sanitary measures as
viii best protect from the ravages OF this
dread disease 1t will be wise 20 do this
whether the cholera ever gets within a
thousand miles of them, for it will re-
duce the amount of sickness of all kinds.
Cleanleness is desirable at all times, but
it is absolutely necessary now.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16
LEGISLATIVE REMEDIEs

From the Atchison Champion.
Legislatures can do the things allowed
bv the constitution, but the limit cannot
be stretched or overrun.
OF late there has been a growing habit
of thought born of necessity, showing a
tendency in the popular mind toward
the idea that the statute making power
in state and nation has within its prov
ince curative powers and ready relief
remedies for all the evils of life.
There is growing habit of thinking
that statutes will cure social and per-
sonal disease. There is tendency
toward the idea that somewhere, hidden
away ia his capacious pockets, Uncle
Sam has the remedy needed for all our
iils-political, social, financial and
moral.
There are those who commended as
did their fathers in the days of Salem
witchcraft and the Connecticut blue
law, that solemn, long winded statutes,
legislative bulls against social and pol
itcal comets, are the proper remedy.
The over mortgaged property owner
forgetting his own past imprudence, or
lamenting the stress of outward weather
or, perchance, his own sheer neglect,
turns longing eyes toward the govern
ment" and asks that 1t shall furnish the
oil of greenbacks, or the ointment of
silver, to heal his financial wounds.
There is no legislative remedy for
moral obliquity, financial mismanage-
ment, social evils or personal depravity.
The law may provide punishment for
evil doors. 1t cannot give them saving
grace. The statute may provide modes
of relief for the suffering. It cannot
provide panacea for the improvement,
or a new and better nature for the
shiftless citizen.
There is something radically wrong in
the idea that legislative remedies are es-
sential TO personal and general pros
perity. 1t is not an American idea. 1t
is cross between the idolatry of Asia
and and the stupid superstition of Eu-
rope. Stripped OF its sentimentality it
is brutal, lustful and wholly loathsome.
The true American boasts OF FRANCIS
Marion and his men" He is justly
proud of Molie Stark and Nal Anthony
WAYNE. lie instinctively loathe5 the
white-livered fellow who refused TO fol-
low Washington but preferred to pray
to Good to bless Good King George"
and hoped he would take care of them,
and pay their debts and treat them as
his dutiful children.
The genuine American citizen feels
that he Is part of the government. II
he is not as large part AS he ought to
be il is MS own fault, and he knows it,
and strives to fill the bill, and generally
wins. Lack of nerve, want of courage,
softening of the sinews OF patriotism,
are not the ingredients of American
manhood. The real citizen knows that
lie must paddle his own canoe, without
legislative remedy. II he allows It to go
to the bottom it is not the fault of a
party or of a government.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16

Free traders delight in quoting General
Garfelds expression, wherein he de-
cIared in favor of tariff reform that
would lead to free trade. The great
soldier statesman evidently anticipated
the tariff act of 1890, under which 90
per cent of the articles imported come In
duty free, as against only IL per cent
under the good old Democratic act of
1916. to say nothing of the operation of
the reciprocity clause of the present law.
If General Garfield were living today he
would unquestionably be one of the most
Jealous supporters of the much maligned
Mckinley law.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16

The Topeka Democrat begs the Demo-
cracv of this state to take Kansas out of
the Republican column by voting for the
Weaver electors, and says it has private
advices that Cleveland cannot carry
New York, and that he must be elected
by the efforts of che western Democrats.
The Democrats admission affords the
thousands of Democrats in Kansas who
refused to endorse the seli-out of the
party all the argument they want for
standing firm for the party in this state.
Without New York they know there is
no chance for Cleveland to be elected,
and there is no sense, and less reason, for
their deserving the party and joining an
avowed and bitter enemy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16
THE CRYTOPHONE FOR WAR.
An inexpensive Device to Warn Ships OF
Approaching Torpedo Boats.

An inexpensive Device to Warn ships Of
Approaching Torpedo Boats
The cryptophonc. which was designed
in 1883. and which was then regarded
more as scientific toy than of any
practical utility, has beer perfected and
made available for military and naval
purposes. The apparatus consists of
highly sensitive vibrator and micro
phone suitably arranged in a pine box,
which is buried two or three feet under
the road which it is desired To keep
watch over. The apparatus Is connected
by wires with the indicator at the OBJ
serving station. The vibrator is SO SEN
sitive that it is affected by the passage
of half dozen men along the road,
or by the vibration caused by a cart be-
ing driven along within hundred yards
of where il is placed AS soon as the
vibrator gives any indication Of disturb
ance the land wires are connected with
q telephone, and the noise made by the
traffic can then be distinctly heard and
the direction in which the movement
is taking place can be determined.
The cryptophone is equally effective
Tor naval purposes for some SIinc uii-
flculty was found in keeping the inside
watertight and in equalizing the inter
nal and external pressures, so as not TO
destroy the sensitiveness of the vibrat-
ing needle or the tension of the dia-
phragn This, however. was at length
successfully accomplished and most
satisfactory tests have been carried out
in France The instrument can be used
not only for ordinary signaling pur-
poses between ono ship and another,
but for announcing the approach of An
other ship during fog. Ia the expert
ments in Cherbourg harbor. the regular
thud Of the screw of vessel entering
or leaving the harbor over a mile away
was clearly perceptible II is said that
four crvptophones, costing altogether
about four hundred dollars, placed on
board an ironclad would be sufficient
70 warn the ship OF an approaching
torpedo boa. and 20 indicate the d.
rection in which il Is travelling. -Elec-
tricity
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16
LONG HAIR AND GENIUS.
Musicians Are About the Only Oaes Vow
Who shun tho HArbers' Shears.

Musicians Are About the Only Oaes Now
Who Shun the 3Arbers' Shears.
Long hair was in vogue among mu-
sicians and artists long after il ceased
to be worn by the rest of mankind. The
long-haired artist, with his velvet coat,
his som brero, and his mysterious cloak,
has altogether disappeared, and lengthy
locks only linger nowadays, with few
exceptions, on the head Of the musician.
Indeed this luxuriant thatch would ap-
pear to exercise potent influence on
audiences, for il IS said that, in the
agreement Of noted pianist about 70
go on q foreign tour, there IS special
clause that ne shall not have his hair
cut This possibly Is an invention, b1.
il is an extraordinary thing that nu-
sicians are well nigh the only people
left who give bu. limited employrnens
20 the shears of the barber. IL Is also
fact that their hair foc-ishes better
than that Of most people ! have re
Gently hard q theory that the great
prevalence OF badness IN the present
dav Is entirely due TO the constant close
cropping which has existed for tae last
hve and twenty years II you look ~
the portraits Of celebrities OF THIRTY Or
forty years ago, you viii be perfectly
astonsshed nt the carefully arranged
coisure which meaniered over their
coat collars. and you feel inclined 10
begin singing: Get yer sir cut, with
out further delay. You VII siso be
amazed 20 learn thai IDs. CT them re-
tanned this extraordinary growth 20 TIE
end Of their davs. Il IS sincerely 70 BE-
hoped that the theory which has re-
Gently been started wil ncf ne tne
means Of the introduction 81 = race o.
long -hsirs. psn,-AoGaca sEsysss
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16
MoNTEBANK VS.. STATESMAN.

Jerry Simpson in his speech at River
side park the other day practically said
nothing new, and never came within
mile of saying anything original. 1t IS
supposed by a great many that his no
socks fad is his greatest character
istic, but such is not the case. His
greatest forte is his parrot like imita-
ton of others. He puts forth as his
own that which lie has heard others say,
that strikes him as being good or start
ling. He at times uses the tactics of the
exhorter, the methods of the actor the
antics of the clown. 1t may have been
a mistake to dub him what Judge Sluss
did, but as an imitator he can discount
the monkey. He cannot for thirty min
utes carry on an intelligent converse
ton upon current topics. He makes no
argument for the principles of his So
called party, but is ready at all times to
give farce of an hour or twOs dura-
ton, and boasts that what the people
want is TO be humbugged.
That Simpson has lowered the stand
ard of congressman is conceded by many
of his supporters. That he lacks the in
s;incts of gentleman has been demon
strated time and again upon the floor of
the house. From his appetite for noto-
riety one would imagine that he was
preparing himself for the stage or dime
museum. 1t cannot be disputed that
never before in the history of this coun-
try has man been elected to congress
who would be worth his salt as a dime
museum attraction, bur Jerry could get
his hundred dollars week at any time.
Isn't it time the Big Seventh quits her
foolishness? Isn't two years Of a mistit,
of mis-statements and sockless butfoon-
cry enough? Isn't the farce getting
little stale? Men have been sent to con-
gresS for various reasons, and occasion
ally freak or prize-tighter; but they
never have been elected for second
term, and we don't believe Kansas will
establish such 4 precedent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16

\ contemporary tells of peculiar
method of making nominations for city
and county officers that has been fol-
lowed for many years in San Francisco:
"A convention having been selected. 1t
shuts itself up in secret session and meets
from night TO night to act upon names
suggested to il for nomination. Names
suggested ore day are canvassed and the
reputation and antecedents of the can
didates inquired into before they are
placed on tie ticket. Sometimes an en-
tire week is required for the nominating
convention TO complete the ticket. This
system completely battles the ward
strikers" Nevertheless the adoption Of
such method is something of an i'm
putation upon the honesty and intelli-
gence Of the community, both OF the
aspirants for the offices and the citizens
generally.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16

A general apathy among the people
concerning matters political is the latest
discovery of the genius of ford imagi-
nation. But if it were true it would no.
be matter of surprise. The truth is
the Republicans are fully confident of a
sweeping victory, which naturally
causes them to appear less earnest and
jealous than they would if the result
were in doubt; while the opposition, see
ing sure defeat staring them in the face,
cannot help rejecting such conviction IN
their actions and expressions.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16

A story was told the other day of q
little girl who discovered a cobweb and
then seeing a spider emerge from it, call
ed out: See the cob run, How fast
the cob runs As a matter of fact she
builded better than she knew. for cob or
cop is, according to the dictionaries. the
name sometimes given to a spider:
whence the word cobweb. which IS.
strictly speaking, copweb. Cop IN this
sense is probably an abbreviation of the
Anglo-Saxon aftercoppe, spider. TIE
analgy finds unique counterpart in the
Populite campaign This year. They
builded web of political economies that
TO many appeared beautiful and il
caught not few. But its deceptive
character being exposed, the builders
made haste to run away from il, aud
even the children make spor, Of the spec
tac.e presented
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16

From the subjoined excerpt from the
Journal one would infer that the s'city''
of Saiina has something of white
elephant on its hands in its charter as
city; but the suggestion is a good one,
nevertheless:
One thing the next Kansas legislature
should hasten to do is to wipe off the map
over 300 settles" in this state, and suhsti-
tute 10 their places the same number OF
thriving villages. A town Of less thau
5000 has no more business with a city gov
eminent than two year old boy has with
a pair of man S trousers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16
Robert F. Moore, the Republican non.i-

Robert F. Moore, the Republican nonsi-
nee for lieutenant governor, lives inButler
county. and is a practical everyday
farmer, and during the war served in
the Seventh and Twelfth Kansas reEi-
merts. He has lived in Kansas since
1854, excepting a three years soJourn in
Missouri after tie war. The republican
state ticket Is made Up almost entirely
Of men of that class and character. And
that isn't all; the Republicans of the
state are going to elec. them, everyone
OF them.