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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

1t is a remarkable coincidence that
the figure 8 is Intimately connected
with every great mining excitement
of the present century The great
Algerian gold excitement came in
1899. In 1879 came the Mantazan
mountain mining craze, where, it
was reported, that gold nuggets as
big "as flower barrels" had been
found The California fever came
in 1s49, and the Pixies Peak boom in
1859. In 1869 the lead strike that
made Virginia City place of i'm
portance, and 1879 the Leadville
carbonates were discovered to be
valuable, OF course, the connection
of the figure 8 is only coincidence,
but it is none the less curious. st
Louis Globe-Democrat
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05
A RemarIsnbIe Pctltion.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.-Mr Came
ron OF Pennsylvania presented petit
tion in the senate yesterday morning
signed, he said, by 1it manufacturers
of Philadelphia, representing $75,-
100000 capital employing 100000
men, with yearly product of $780,
600, 900, in favor of legislation to pre-
serve the character of the tariff and
the integrity of silver as a money
metal. Tho repeal bill was then
taken up and Mr.. Harris addressed
the senate in opposition. He said the
passage of the bill meant no more
legal tender, and that silver would
only be used as a fractional currency,
which meant practically the demone-
ti2ation of silver. Mr., Harris quoted
from speech by Mr.. Voorhees,, de-
livered February IS, 1898, in which
he said he would have voted to take
up the Sherman bill some days prior
to that, but for the fact that Its
passage would undoubtedly demone-
tie silver and leave it supported by
not one word of legislation. In con-
clusion Mr. Harris said he would ac-
cept any rePeHhaLiy fair compromise.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

at Mansfield, the only producer Of
Bessemer ore in the Crystal Falls min
ing district and located six miles from
here, Thursday night. The mine
caved in from top to bottom, burying
twenty-eight workmen and entailing
loss of 5000, 600. The Mansfield
shaft is located on the west bank Of
the Michigamme river and the work.
ing levels run directly under the
stream and parallel with it for several
hundred feet. The first level is
thirty five feet below the bottom Of
the river and the lower levels, five
in number, parallel the first. The
bottom is 42S feet below the surface
OF the water. Tho accident is sup
posed to have been caused by the
giving way of the timbers on the fifth
level, allowing those above to follow
and at last the river 20 pour in upon
the fated men. After the cave in the
river bed below the mine was dry in
an hour and forty minutes. Forty
eight men descended the shaft Thurs
day night or this number twenty
escaped and twenty-eight found
watery graves. Their bodies will
never be recovered. Most of the sur
vivors were at the bottom level,
which has not yet been sloped out.
The men heard the crash of the cave
and started for the Underway, which
all but four reached before to torrent
of water down the shaft cut them off.
Eight of the victims leave families OF
children fatherless and about half the
remaining twenty were the support Of
parents. What measures, if any, car
be taken to rescue the bodies of the
dead are not yet determined.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

PlTrsBURG, Pa, Oct. 2.-In a riot
at Beuwood Saturday night among Il
party of foreigners--Poles, Italians
and Hungarians-four were seriously
hurt one fatally and dozens slightly.
The party started in after supper for
a spree, and at 10 O clock had gotten
drunk and in a fighting humor.
Franz Pelletti and Adolph Cuelo
started a row which became general.
Pellettis skull was crushed, and he
will die. Three others received dan
gerous injuries, but their names could
not be learnedAA
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
"A SIGNIFICANT CONFERENCE TAKES PLACE


WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-After some
time spent in getting quorum and
disposing OF the morning business
Saturday, Mr.. Woloott offered an
amendment to the silver repeal bill
which provides for the refunding OF
the cotton tax to the various states,
the moneys to he disposed OF as the
legislatures of the states affected after
the passage OF the act shall determine.
Mr.. Perkins also presented an amend
ment to the same bill providing that
the minis shall hereafter be open to
the coinage of crude American silver,
to be coined at the existing parity
with gold at Il seigniorage Of 20 per
cent; that no gold coin of less de-
nomination than ten shall be coined Z;
that no legal tender or treasury note
of smaller denomination than s. shall
DO issued, and that n commission of
five experts not connected with any
government department shall be APP
pointed, whose duty it shall be to
advise congress on all questions OF
finance.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 2S.-A tele-
gram received yesterday from Bell
vile, Mich, announces the killing Of
Mr., and Mrs. Henry Land of this city
and the badly injuring of Howard
Mordith and wife, also of Detroit, in
wreck on the Grand Trunk railway
at that place yesterday morning.
Grand Trunk No. was run into by
the Lake Erie express bound to Chi
cago. A cook and porter of private
car on the other passenger, names not
known, were also seriously injured.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

SHREVEPORT, La, Sept. 2S.-Tues
day night between IL and u O'Clock
Capt. Thomas Lyles, postmaster al
Midway, about nine miles east of this
place, in Bossier parish, was shot and
mortally wounded while working on
his books at his desk The shooter
fired eight times at him through the
window, six balls entering his body.
The guilty party made good his os-
cape, No clew. DR.. L, j. Hill, the
attending physician, thinks there is
no hope of his recovery but the last
reports are that he is still alive.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

BRUNsw1ok, Ga, Oct. 2.-Twelve
new cases Of yellow fever were re-
ported yesterday, ten white two col
ored. This elfectually dispels the
idea that ne roes are by nature exempt
from the disease. The negroes in the
epidemic have, to date, been the
greatest sufferers, and there arc so
many fatal cases among them that
scientists are investigating. Having
partially exhausted itself among the
lower classes, the disease is getting in
its work among the more favored
populatiOn.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-Yesterday
at o'clock the repeal bill was taken
up in the senate and Mr.. PETER, Pop
ulist, of Kansas spoke He had read
by the clerk the letter of the presi-
dent to Gov. Northen of Georgia.
The letter did not dissipate, said MIR.
PETER, the confusion in the public
mind as to the presidents real opin-
ions on the monetary question. He
might be a monometalist, he might
be bimetalist. There is nothing in
the letter to show what kind of
metalist he is. The only thing he in
sisted on was the repeal of the Sher-
man law. Whenever the administra-
ton, represented by It's friends upon
this floor, declared Mr.. PETER, is
ready to accept the pending amend
ment or some other amendment
which will bring about the restora-
tion of the law Of 1887, it can pass
the repeal bill in twenty-five minutes.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. 29.-Tho
Louisville and Nashville passenger
train which left here at O'Clock
Wednesday night, was wrecked eighty
miles east of New Orleans, the engine
jumping the track at switch. The
baggage, express, mail car and tho
front coaches We're demolished. Two
negroes were killed and one was badly
injured. The engineer and fireman
were severely hurt and the baggage
master and mail and express messen'
gers were slightly hurt. Division
Superintendent Marshall began the
construction of a track around the
wreck few hours after the accident.
North and south-bound passengers
were transferred at the wreck yester'
day morning, and travel was only in
terupted few hours.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. 30.-At Mount
Vernon, Montgomery county, at noon
yesterday, five negroes We're hanged
at one time from scatfold. Three
murdered Alexander Peterson last
July, another killed 5-year-old child,
the fifth killed a companion. The
hanging was public, Thousands We're
present. This was the first hanging
in the county since the war. Their
names were; Hiram Jacobs Hi Brew
ington, Lucien Manuel, Russ StriclS-
land and Wilson Gordon.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

GUTHRIE, Ok, Sept. 26. AT Perry
last Sunday religious services were
held in the tent of circus showing
there and the services were conducted
by A. T. Carter, converted gambler.
Two hundred buildings are going up
and fifty more carpentsrs were inn
ported yesterday. Several more dead
bodies were reported to have been
found last night in the burnt district.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

WARSAW, Sept, ga false alarm
of fire was given yesterday in the
synagogue at Kalwarya, near Sualki.
All the worshippers started for the
exits and it was ten minutes before
the rabbi could subdue the panic.
Nine dead bodies were found and
twenty persons lay unconscious and
bleeding where they had been tramp
led. Fully one hundred persons were
injured, of whom fifteen %ill die.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

LONDON, Sept. ga dispatch
from Capetown says: Chief Wither
destroyed twenty German wagons
which were on their way from Wend-
holk to Swakop Four wagons re-
turning from Swakop were also de-
stroyed The chief, in addition, cap
tured ADO oxen and quantity Of
arms. He killed twenty natives, but
spared the Germans.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

WASHINGTON, Oct 2.-Secretaries
Gresham and Carlisle had a confer
ence with the president at the white
house Saturday night. The subject
of the conference is not definitely
learned, 1t is understood it was re-
garding the proposed compromise on
the silver question.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

KINGSTON, Wis, Oct 2.-The noor
in one of the rooms at the residence
Of o. w, Howe gave way during the
funeral service of Mrs. Bowe yester-
day and precipitated fifty persons to
The cellar, Several were injured and
Mrs. Ayonherg received injuries which
may lroVe fatal.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

WASHINGTON, Sept 29.--The speech
of Senator Cameron in favor of free
coinage of silver continues to attract
attention here, AT meeting OF the
Republican league at Reading, Pa,
an attempt to censure Senator Cam
eron for his course was defeated by
two-thirds majority, The explana-
tion OF this, and indeed OF the attitude
the senator has taken, is furnished by
an intelligent movement on foot
among the protected manufacturers
of Pennsylvania to effect combine
ton between the protected interests
and the free silver men, which shall
have for its aim the defeat Of logisla-
tion looking to tariff reduction and
the qualification of the vests desire
for free coinage under modified con-
ditions.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05
WHITING BACKWARD.
Tho Remarkable requirements of
German Rcvolutionist of 1S40.

Tho Remarkable requirements of
German Rcvoiutionist of 1s4o.
An old man with long white hair
and beard and an anxious look was
seen by Pittsburg Dispatch reporter
porting over a directory When he
was asked what he was hunting for
he said: "I'm trying to find the only
man who l can count on as a friend.
He was living here forty years ago,
but his name is not in the directory
now
As he was talking lady approached
to ask a question. The old man.
stopped suddenly and with Il "beg
your pardon dotted his hat and stood
aside at a respectful distance in a
Chesterfield manner. Continuing
after the lady had left, he said; "4ou
are correct in thinking that l have
seen better days My name is Carl
Maier, and l was one OF the revolu-
tionists in Germany in 1919, being
secretary of the Democratic party
and civil commissary at Buchen IN
the grand duchy of Baden. | am an
example OF shattered ambition, 1t
being my one ann in life to do some
thing for the good OF the public.
After the failure of our cause l was
forced to lee to America, and went
to the house OF Frederic Hecker'
chief OF the German revolution, who
had also come to America and located
in Illinois. Here l resumed my Ola
calling as professor and taught his
children, When | look back upon
my seventy years OF life l can say
that the only friend have IN the
world is myself
Did you ever see person begin
writing Il letter at the last period
and then write backwards and finish
up at the harinning? That's what
Carl Maier can do without the least
eXortion. 1t seems just as easy for
him to remember the words and let
tiers of Il sentence in reversed order
as it is for the ordinary person to re7>
member them in their regular order
1t is an easy matter for him to think
backward, and, what is more aston
ishing, he writes upside down. The
letters are all inverted as he looks
at them when writing And, again..
performing this feat, which one
thinks would require all the power
and attention of his BRAIN he is not
disturbed by carrying on converse
tion with you, no matter how foreign
the subject may be- Maler's per-
formance would almost make one
believe the theory promulgated by a
scientist that we have "double-bar-
relied brains" If you repeat a sem
tence to Maier, no matter how long
it may be, after hearing it once he
will commence and write the sentence
verbatim starting ut the last letter
of the last word and 1inishfng--+tr
through the 4irst letter OF the first
word
1t seens to be natural to him to-
invert his mind in his work, for he
never falters or stops to think, but
writes as rapidly as u person writing
in an ordinary way al acquired
this in Il peculiar manner" said
Maier "While / was clerk in a
grocery store in Saxony | was an
ambitious sort of boy and always
wanted to do everything differently
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

WAsHINGroN, Sept 3O.-The secre-
tary of the treasury transmitted to
the house yesterday the instructions
to customs and other officials OF the
department with reference to the
Chinese exclusion act. Secretary
Carlisle said he estimated the numbor
of Cinnamon in the country at J6, fS|.
The number registered was 1928,
deLortel uone.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05
rnIlIng or In Postal neyennes.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The gross
receipts of the postoHice department
for August show an actual falling off
OF per cent compared with August
year ago. This means that the gem
eral business of the country has fallen
off, and the deficit in the postal rev
enues is likely to be $4,000 900 or
SIC, 900, 900 for the year.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

ROME. Sept, 29.-There has been a
new and most serious disagreement
between King Humbert and the vati-
can. The pope refused to recognize
the king right to nominate patri-
arch for Venice and in consequence
the Italian ministry has decided to
refuse eXequatur TO all bishops nomi-
ruted at the fall consistory.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

WASHINGTON, Sept 27.-The house
committee on banking and currency
have decided to at once begin hear
ings on the proposed increase of the
national bank circulation and the pro-
nosed reneal Of the low ON stnte hnnl1s.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

Johnny-Papa, what is "glitter-
ing generality"
Johnny's Pa, who has too many
uncollectable accounts-It IS a gilt
tering generality, my son, when a.
debtor of long standing says he will
pay up in few days. - Chicago
Record.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05
Postmaster and Assistant murdered

DENVER, Col, Sept. so. Postofiice
Inspector Small has received Il tele-
gram notifying him OF the brutal MUIR
der of Postmaster Potter and his as
sistant, Robert Roberts. at Monitor,
Yuma county Thursday. No details
obtainable. Indians are suspected of
being the murderers.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

Vancouver, b. c., Sept. 2S.-Ad-
vices by the Empress of India states
that the boiler Of Il steamer plying on
the Japanese coast exploded August
"a. Thirty persons were killed
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 26.-Charley
'erring male desperate effort yes
lay afternoon toward killing his
%lJ TN suiciding. He used re-
,olyer. Both are in a critical condi-
ton.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-05

CRYSTAL FALLs, Mich, Sept. So
4 mine casu llty without parallel in
he history OF thfs country occurrcd
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-09-28
COURTESY TO WOMEN.
The Demand for Equal Rights May Les
sen 1t.

II.
The courteous Difference paid TO
women by all who have the slightest
claim to be considered as gentlemen Is,
IN the opinion of many persons, likely
to be Jesse ned by the demands for equal
rights and responsibilities made by the
advanced and progressive section of the
sex. The story of the lady who, on
getting into a full carriage, was met
by the question from the only male oc-
cupant as to whether or not she was an
advocate for the equality of the sexes,
and on replying in the affirmative was
informed she might stand during the
remainder of the journey. is scarcely an
exaggerated illustration of the feelings
of not few men.
In some instanc es women appear to
recognize their increasing responsible
ties, and a tale comes to us from New
port, respecting a grand dinner organ
lied by ladies at an expensive restaur-
ant, where the viands were par
taken of to the music of a band,
ladies alone being present, the hus-
bands being detained in the city by the
memorable claims of business or pleas
ure Each lady had the somewhat
novel experience of paving for herself
with her husbands money!, the feast
being what is known as Dutch
treat" We are further informed that
the whole proceeding was success,
and that. even at the end of the day,
''when the feast was Ger" and the
reckoning had arrived, when even men
are said to laugh no more, there were
no defaulters. and no lady had unfor-
tunately left her purse at home.
Seriously considered. the change in
the relative positions of men Ind women
must affect eventually many of the
smaller courtesies of life The man
whose place has been taken by woman
can hardly be expected to be as lavish
of his hospitality and as careless of his
expenses as when he was in receipt of
the income which she now appropriates
and the question may be pushed still
further, and the inquiry made as to
whether he is likely to become the pro-
prietor of household of his OWN.
Y. Commercial Advertiser.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-09-28
PITH AND POINT.

The wounds made by frieni are
the ones that smart the most.-Ram's
Horn.
Did you tell the lady, herself?"
mo; thought the news would be bet
ter broken by the servant. Puck.
II Told You Will-"What is
Tomson's political persuasion?'' Bill
| lit is impossible to tell until after cleo
ton. Yankee Blade.
Many young man has a great
future ahead of him. The great diff
Guilty is that il persists in keeping
there.-Washington Star.
Many a man would find that win
dow in Heaven would soon open, if he
would but stop grumbling and begin
to praise his wife.-Ram's Horn.
do you think that the lady who is
moving in above you is nice?n "oh,
dear, yes. Why, she noticed that ba by
had two teeth before she had been In
the house two hours. "-Inter-Ocean.
Have you a good ear for nusic,''
he inquired of the young man who is
both matter-of-fact and absent-minde l.
II don't know, was the reply; II never
tried to play on it. Washington Star.
AS She Saw It.-He-'Isn't it love-
" here? We couldn't have chosen a
better place for our honeymoon than
this" She-"No. | was just thinking
if ever had another I'd have it here. I"
"A Great Traveller Head of Firm
Have you had much experience as a
travelling man?" Applicant-"I should
say had. have just walked home
from the Worlds fair. Detroit Free
Press.
Hard Luck. -Featherstone-sWi
lie, did you tell your sister / was down
stairs?' Willie-"Yes." Featherstone
And what did she say?" Willie
''She said it never rained but it poured :"
Detroit Free Press.
One reason why some great men
ere more appreciated by posterity
than they were by contemporaries is
because their remarks have been
through the hands of so many clever
editors.-Washington Star
Prince Bismarck says that when
we read a medical book we are likely
To conclude we have all the maladies
IL describes. But when we read book
on morals we seem to think it is our
neighbor who has all the maladies it
describes.
One day Jonas and Priscilla were
out in the yard watching the ants.
Now, perhaps that big fellow there"
said Priscilla, sis some little ones
uncle, Jonas?" THAT might be-" re-
turned Jonas, land isn't it funny that
he is an aunt, tool''-Philadelph
Times.
Dear me, Uncle Ephraim?" his
niece exclaimed, as she met the old
gentleman in the hall way, ''you don't
know how surprised / am to see YOU.
Did you travel all the way from YER
mont alone?" Nav" he replied.
deeply offended at the question, as he
put his carpet-bag down. There were
forty or fifty people on the same train"