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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-03
mURDERER WOOD KILLED.
Certainty Of Going to Heaven Civ,
Him Courage in the Electric Chair.

Certainty Of Going to Heaven Gives
Him Courage in the Electric Chair.
DANNEMoRA. N. Y, Aug. AT 80
this morning Murderer Joseph Wood was
taken to the death chamber. The color of
the mans face was pale and there was the
slightest tremor about the visiblv cool and
compressed lips, but he permitted no out
ward sign of emotion. When he reached
the chair the prisoner said:
want to thank Warden Thayer for his kind
ness to me and also my keepers. My time on
earth is not long enough to return thanks to
Judge Whitman for his noble efforts. He has
been dearer than brother to me, and hope he
will live long life and die happy in the Lord.
The religious feeling of the doomed man
found expression in these words:
pray that God will now give me the strength
to go and meet him. for 1 know l am going
there. God bless you all. May he make you
all happy.
As he sat down in the chair he said
"God remember me-" He repeated this
three times while the straps were being
adjusted His last words were: ''God
bless me-" AS the contact came Wood s
body Strengthened out rigidly, and his
hands turned upward on the arms of the
chair. Twelve seconds was ,he duration
OF the HrSt contact. l. ne SeCOnu WAS Two
seconds shorter. and as it reached its full
power a curl of blue smoke arose from the
murderer's forehead, and the odor of
burned rubber filled the room. This was
repeated in the third and fourth contacts
of six seconds each. Wood was in the
chair one minute and fourteen seconds.
There was a slight blistering of the flesh
on the forehead.
The autopsy showed that there were no
traces of the electric current upon the re-
mains save slight blistering of the skin
under the spot where the electrode rested
on the left calf.
Joseph Wood, better known as Cal Wood
was convicted September IL, 1891, for murder
ing his father law, Leader Pasco, farmer OF
Warren county, on May 10, 1890 Defendant
pleaded not guilty, alleging temporary insanity.
Successive courts adjudged him guilty, and
Governor Flower refused 10 interfere
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The Vendetta i'm Arizona.

PHOENIX, Ariz.. Aug. 2.-Tom Graham
was shot and killed today by Ed TewKs-
bury. Both are well-known citizens, Gra-
ham being a cattle raiser and Tewksbury a
sheepman. The shooting occurred near
Graham's ranch, short distance from
Tempe, as Graham was going to Tempe
with a load of grain. Tewksbury, who
lives in Tonto basin, spent last night in
Tempe and rode out TO meet Graham. The
shooting is the result of a family feud of
five years standing. during which time
twenty. seven men have been killed on
Grahams side and fourteen on Tewks-
bury's. Graham was the last one of four
brothers, who have all been killed, and
Tewksbury the last of six. 4 posse of
officers and citizens is in pursuit. Tewks-
bury will be lynched if caught. He passed
through Mesa City and took TO the desert.
He is mounted on a thoroughbred horst
and it is thought he has a relay of horses
to Tonto basin.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-03
Jews Want Circumcision Retained.

New YORK, Aug. 2.-rhe radical depar-
ture in regard TO the Abrahamic rite made
by the recent central conference of He
brew rabbis in this city has created re-
markabLe sensation throughout the He
brew world. The resolution of the con-
ference declaring the acceptance of the
rite by proseiytes TO the Hebrew religion
20 be optional has caused widespread dis
cussion, and movement is already on
foot TO express the sentiments of the con-
servative elements of the religion ia oppo-
sition 10 the reform" adopted by the CEN
trail conference. OF the two sects, the So
called orthodox body has already taken
measures to call a convention Of rabbi, to
excommunicate those who are responsible
for the change.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-03
Clarkson to Be League President.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-President w. w.
Tracy, of the Illinois Republican League,
says that in his opinion ]. S. Clarkson will
be elected president Of the National Re-
publican League by acclamation at the an
nual convention in Buffalo on September
/. He has talked with Clarkson and has
reason to believe that he will accept.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-03
North Dakota Repubiicana.

FARGO. n. D.. Aug. 2.-The Republican
state convention was called to order at 3
o'clock this afternoon. Alfred Dickey. of
stutzman. was elected temporary chair
man, without opposition. \ wrangle
vas precipitated by the report
OF the committee on cred
entails. A motion being made 10 amend
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-03

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Aug. Am en-
thusiastic meeting of Republicans was ad-
dressed by Vice-Presidential Candidate
Reid and Hon. Warner Miller tonight.
Mr. Reid made an admirable address.
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BLAINE TO TAKE THE STUMP,
He VIII Open the Campaign in Maine
on the isth.

Augusta, Me-, Aug. 2.-The campaign
in Maine will be opened by the Republic
ans on the 18th instant. Ex-Secretary
Blaine will take the stump.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22
CRACKS AT CONGRESS-.

WHATEVER course the silver question may
take there is no way by which the Demo-
cratic party can escape responsibility for
the course pursued by it representatives in
Congress.-Charteston Ne,os.
UNLESS out of the turmoil some man
emerges fit to take the lead of affairs we
shall have a wasted session. A wasted ses-
sion at this time means serious results for
the Democracy.-H. Paul Globe.
THE Fifty-second Congress is very much
afraid of pension legislation, but it takes to
legislation in favor of Southern war claims
as duck takes to water. But this is easily
explained Chicago Inter Ocean,
THE Democratic party asked to be put in
power in Congress in order that it mig ht
repeal "the iniquitous Mckinley law" Has
anyone heard that any practical steps have
been taken in that direction?-G Cleveland
Leader.
Now that the Democratic party is sure to
go on record in Congress in favor of the
Bland bill, sensible Democrats in the East
are writing against New York. New Jersey
and Connecticut. the words "probably Re-
publican Indianapolis Journal.
The Fifty-first Congress knew just what it
intended to do when it adopted Its rules.
1t did what it intended to do. 1t IS very
safe to say that the Fifty-second Congress
did not know just what it was doing when it
adopted its new rules Washington Star.
AS sample of the prodigality of the DEM
ocratic House where Southern war claims
are concerned take the case Of a college in
Tennessee, for which the committee re-
ported a bill appropriating 81, ,5OO which the
committee said was an amount sufficient to
cover all the damages done to 1t. But the
Democratic House made the sum 0,000 and
passed the bill.-Boston Herald.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22

ticket and, while persons of clerical train
ing might write out list of thirty-two Presi-
dental electors, and as many more Con-
gressional, State and local candidates in
the stated time, it is very plain that the
men to whom writing is slow and pain
full process could not possibly do it. It
has been said that the Prohibitionists are
all persons of intelligence and will find no
difficulty in preparing their manuscript
ballots-which is an involuntary compli-
ment to that party worthy of note. But
law which depends for the rescne of inde-
pendent. voters from disfranchisement,
solely on their being quicker with the pen
than the average citizen, has rather weak
foundation to stand upon.
Another point turns on the generally re-
ceived superstition, that If vote is cast
for man with his name spelled one way,
and another for him with his name spelled
another way, they must be counted as for
two different candidates. The number of
men who can write out a ballot containing
from four to forty different names with
out some errors of this sort in spelling is
very small Under this regulation of
writing out ballots the votes that would
be cast away by variations in spelling
would rise to very large proportion.
Whether this is disfranchisement in the
view of the law or not we leave it for the
Supreme Court to say. But in actual
practice there is no room for doubt that it
will work, and was intended to work,
practical disfranchisement for a large
share of voters who might wish to indulge
in Independent voting
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.

PROF. TASSINARI has discovered that the
ordinary European bacillus detests tobacco.
In memory of Miss Josephine Mediil,
who died in Paris in January last, her father
will endow beds in Paris hospitals for the
use of Americans.
COMMISSIONER MCCORMICK is about to
go to Paris to attend the farewell banquet to
Minister Reid, and to consult with the
French supporters of the Chicago Fair.
IT is said that Seaborn Wright is the
most magnetic public speaker in Georgia.
He Is a youthful citizen of Rome with all
the eloquent diction of an old Roman orator.
FROM now until their departure from
Paris Minister and Mrs. Reid will attend
dinners given in their honor nearly every
evening. They in turn will give farewell
breakfasts.
THE son of the late General Cavaignac,
recently made Minister of Marine in the
new French Cabinet, is only 3S years old,
and is one of the youngest men ever called
on to fill SO important O place in the French
Government.
The latest reports about the Count de
Lesseps affirm that the great Frenchman is
almost in a state OF dosage. And with the
decline of his mental powers his bodily
vigor is beginning to fail fast. De Lesseps is
now nearly s6 years old.
COLONEL GoDwIN-AUsTEN saws the
Chogo Glacier in the Htmalayas, is one of
the most beautiful in the world. 1t is an
almost impossible sea of ice.waves on edge
But Colonel Godwin-Austen ought to see
some of our side streets after vernal snow
storm.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22
GOOD ROADS INCREASE vALUEs
More Would Live Out of Town IL Thorough
fares Were Passable,

More Would Live Out of Town IL Thorough
fares Were Passable.
Norwich Bulletin.l
In England the highest ambition of a ma
jority OF well men Is to have a place"
in the country. They don't banker after
city living the year around; indeed, they
don't banker after it at all, except as it may
be forced upon them in order that they may
live near their business. But the minute
their business reaches such a point as to
afford them some leisure, or the minute they
acquire sufficient means to retro, they seek
a. home in the country. England has good
roads, and these country residents are never
beyond the reach of good markets and of
the supplies which good markets OFFER A
town, but connected with it by u good road
q road good at all seasons and in all wealth
ers-isn't really SO difficult of access as some
city limits.
Has it ever occurred to land owners in the
towns that good roads to their lands would
not only bring those lands nearer the mar
kets they raise produce for, but would also
Bring those lands nearer the CITY where
business men do business, make them more
available for residence, and increase their
value? No man wants to travel two miles
every day to and from the city over such
But many men would be glad to drive five
or even more miles every day, if the roads
offered them were such that the drive was
q daily pleasure and did not put them at an
unreasonable distance from their Offices in
point OF time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22
SHIFTING THE SEASONS

March winds were proverb of the last
generation; but March snowstorms, if not
billiards., have taken their place. Whether
tits that old dpreconceptions were erroneous,
or that meteorological change has taken
place, it is notable that the former idea of
winter is now modified by the fact that
snow and other characteristics of real WIN
ter are now more regularly experienced
up to the latter half of March than in De-
cember. The traditional Inauguration of
winter used to be located at Thanksgiving.
Now we are become used to soft and
open Christmas, and do not begin to really
expect spring until April.
The discussion as to whether winter is
getting milder would attack a more per-
tinent topic if it directed itself to the
question whether by some unknown means
it has not had jog of a month or six
weeks further along the calendar In the
presence for several seasons of open and
mild weather in December, and of storms
and cold in March, those who are accus-
toned to appeal to legislation for correc-
tive of evils should be able to draft law
to meet the subject. Their idea of the
power of legislation might not 90 to the
length of bill against snowstorms after
March 10; but the appropriateness of the
seasons could be better conserved BY
changing next January to make it Decem-
Der, and to let March come in like lion
at the time when April now permits us to
begin hoping for spring.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22
THE HIGH STREET CASE.

The decision of the Supreme Court re.
versing the ruling OF the lower courts on
the right of the Central Traction Company
to operate its tracks on High street fully
confirms the right of the corporation to its
present route.
Thus ends long and rather peculiar
case, the legal points of which are fully
discussed by the Supreme Court The
final decision of those points by the court
of last resort renders further discussion of
them wholly supererogatory. But it is per-
tinent to speak of the effects of the decis-
ion on the public convenience.
While it is to be recognized that the oc-
cupancy of High street by both tracks of
the cable road for single block is an in
convenience to the occupants of that
block, it is also evident that the stoppage
of the road would have been greater in
convenience. The line furnishes increased
facilities for large section of the city and
has opened up to improvement a district
which, before the starting of the cable road,
was regarded as most remote by reason of
the time consumed in reaching it. To un-
reasonably hamper or wholly obstruct such
a public convenience, on slight grounds,
would not have been in the public interest
On the other hand the complete occu-
pancy of that single block by the cable
tracks emphasizes what The DISPATCH
has often heretofore urged. A proper
foresight in the grant Of franchises when
the new methods came into vogue would
have established single loop for the
downtown sections which all traction
companies could have used in common.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22
ABUSING PLAINTIFFS ATTORNEY.

The Indictment of the directors OF the
Whisky Trust, known under the more pre-
tentious title of "The Distillers' and
Cattle Feeders Company" awakens the
indignation of the Wine and SPIRIT Go
zette. That journal, as perhaps is to be
expected from its organic character, is un-
able to find any phase of the proceeding
which suits it. 1t thinks it wrong that
the prosecution should have been located
in Boston instead of Cincinnati, Chicago
or New York, which would have been
much more convenient to the Trust mag
mates; it intimates that short operations in
the stock of the concern inspired the
prosecution; and it finally wants to know
why the Whisky Trust "was singled out
as an object of attack from among all the
other combinations to which the Sherman
act might be applied"
All of which creates the impression that
the Trust is in danger of being hard hit
when its organ flutters so wildly. The
prosecution was located i'm Boston because
the United States District Attorney of
that district discovered there the evidence
of its violation of the statute If the Dis
trict Attorneys of Cincinnati or Chicago
had been equally on the gui uiUe for evi-
dence of violation of the law, the prosecu-
ton would probably have taken place ill
one or the other of those cities The
charge that stock gambling is at the
bottom of the prosecution has been pro-
duced so unvaryingly against every at
tack on the combinations as to have lost
all significance, except that of the belief
that the only persons entitled to do any
stock manipulating are those who get up
Trusts for the sake of infusing market
value into water. As to the question why
the Whisky Trust is selected, that would
be very pertinent if all enforcement of the
act were to be dropped with this one suit.
But prosecutions must begin somewhere
although we presume that the Wine and
SPIRIT Gazette and the Whisky Trust may
be somewhat slow to perceive the necessity.
Trades of this sort will not avail the
Whisky Trust magnates as a defense
against the charge of violating the law
But it is manifestly in the line of abusing
the other sides attorney.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22
GROWTH OF.THE SOUTH
Industrial Development for q Week il
Several Lines of Trade.

Industrial Development for Week in
Several Lines of Trade.
The 1rudesnsd,,, Chattanooga, Tenn, in its
review of the new industries established in
the Southern States for the week ending
March 49, says that the movement of South
ern coal to the markets of the North and
East has greatly increased during the week,
and that the ability of Southern miners to
furnish the supply Of bituminous coal at
prices which will control the sales has been
demonstrated, that the output of iron, both
in ore and in the manufactured product is
being steadily maintained at the maximum
amount, that there is con ntinued activity in
railroad circles as shown by the number of
corporations chartered and organized dur
ing the week, and that reports as to the
acreage of cotton to be planted indicates
that the quantity will be about Is per cent of
that of the last season.
Water works are to be built at Bay St.
Louis, Canton and Port Gibson, Miss, Cor
pus Christi, Texas, Orange ..fty, Fla, Lnm-
ber City, Ca, and Lake Providence, La. The
coke ovens at Lewlsburg, Ala. are to be en-
latged by the building OF 1870 new ones. the
ice factory at Lake Providence. La, will in
crease its capital to 100000, the car-wheel
works at Houston. Texas will add $4,000 to
their capital, and enlargements OF wood
working plants are reported at Statesboro,
Ga, and at Ashland and Catlettsburg, Ky.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22
PTTTSBURG. TUESDAY. MARCH %.
TWELVE PAGES
NOT A DISSOLUTION.

The amount of actual dissolution there
is in the Standard OIL Trusts action of
yesterday may be perceived by few mo-
ments' consideration of the resolutions
which Mr. Dodd had prepared for the oc-
casion. This will show the ''dissolutiof,"
so loudly announced to be minimum
with maximum of preservation of the
illegal combination.
"All the property held by the Trust ex-
cept stocks of corporations shall be sold
by the Trust at private sale," says the
resolution. As the property of the Trust
is almost entirely the stocks of corpora
tions, this exception is very important, and
its reason appears in the further proceed
ings, which provide that each owner of a
trust certificate or certificates ''shal re-
ceive in exchange therefor assignments of
as many shares in each of the corpor-
tions" as are represented by his share of
the Trust As a means of facilitating this
distribution, the capital of the various
companies is to be watered up to the level
of the Trust.
This is not dissolving an illegal combi-
nation, but it is perpetuating as far as
possible the united control of the prop
erty of the Trust That it is not obeying
the judicial decision is apparent if the
nature of the ruling is considered for
moment The Court held that the illegal
purpose of the Trust rendered the con-
tracts by which it was formed illegal.
That necessarily required, if the deci-
sion were to be obeyed instead of evaded,
that the property be returned to the con-
troll of those who held it prior to the for
nation of the Trust. To simplify the
case suppose that A owns one property and
Downs another, and that they unite the con-
troll in Trust The Court decides that
the Trust is Illegal Obedience to the de-
cision will return A property to him, and
BIS TO him. But if the distribution is
made by giving A half interest in both
properties and B the other half in both
the decision is evaded by the perpetuation
of the combination.
1t may be somewhat more difficult to
keep the combination intact when the
shares are distributed among 1900 differ
ent owners than under the Trust. But in
view of Mr.. Dodd's former assertion that
the nine trustees own majority of these
stocks, this method of distribution indi-
Gates that their respect for law does not
go the length of giving up their grip on
the petroleum trade.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22
LATEST IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

The last effort of the Senate in the public
building line takes the somewhat improved
shape of laying down principles on which
the pork is to be distributed; but makes the
step in advance nugatory by leaving the
business open to all the old abuses of log
rolling and favoritism.
The bill passed by the Senate provides
for the erection of Government building
in every town where the yearly postal re-
ceipts exceed 1000, and where for three
years preceding they have averaged $4,000
or more. The cost of buildings, including
site, are to be not less than S25, 900 nor
more than $4,000. The plans and speci-
fications of each are subject to approval by
a board consisting of the Secretary of the
Treasury, Postmaster General and Secre-
tary of the Interior. The underlying
theory of the bill is what THE DISPATCH
has often urged; but the loopholes in this
scheme are wide. The moneys to be ex-
pended under the bill are to be appropri-
ated by Congress each year, and, if we
understand the published summary, the
decision as to the cost of the building in
each town will be settled by that body in
its annual appropriations. Here we have
the door left wide open for the regular log
rolling. Whether one town gets $4,000
building while its rival has to put up with
$4,000 will depend, not on the needs of
business, but on the activity of their po-
litical representation. If this is an error,
and the Senate bill puts the decision of
this question entirely outside of Congress,
we must credit that body with decidedly
reformatory streak.
But even then the provisions of the bill
suggest curious possibilities. Imagine an
ambitious town doing postal business of
say s., 500 per annum. What would pre-
vent the enterprising business men of that
town, when they wished to get public
building, from buying twice as many
stamps as they need for three years, and
using up the surplus stamps after the
building was erected?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22
PRACTICAL IF NOT THEORETICAL.

The decision of the Philadelphia court,
that the limitation of the Baker ballot law,
which excludes the Prohibitionists from
the list of parties entitled to have their
candidates printed on the Official ballot is
not unconstitutional, is the first indication
of the judicial view On the question. The
case will of course go to the Supreme
Court, but the decision of that body, even
if it should reverse the lower court, can
hardly be received in time to rescue the
Prohibition party from the disadvantages
imposed upon them by the act
The theory of the judicial decision and
Of the newspaper comments supporting it
is that the law does not disfranchise the
members of parties whose candidates are
not printed in the official ballot. A blank
space is left and they can write in the
names of their candidates, if they are not
printed This is all very well-in theory.
But in practice some other considerations
appear. The law limits the time which
the voter can spend in preparing his