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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-07-19

London, July 1.-THE Times, - !
financial article, comments at EN-
upon the American strike, and laivn,
light upon the question of the enla,.s
share labor been taking of the JOINT W.
uct of labor and capital. 1t conp..
that the questions of currency dep'e.
ton, silver, etc, sink into insignIhcans.
compared with the immense reducu% .,I I
the returns On capital due to a eOns ,. (
rise in wages. 1t says the capitali' Nh
the United States are reduced 10 = !
ing point at which they are prepa MN
stop their works unless a wages reu ...s
is conceded. The imitation OF s
finance and the labor market mao y "a
followed by a natural, and in sone =,
violent, collapse. In England u si.r
cess is less violent, but it is proce
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-07-19

Sacramento, Cal, July PA pasen-
ger train which started from Sacramento
for San Francisco was wrecked at the
first trestle west of Sacramento. The
engineer and four regulars were killed,
and four other regulars were injured.
The rails on the trestle had been tam
pered with n the supports of the
bridge cut away. Strikers and their
sy1nrathizers are credited with the work.
The troops are very much excited over
the outrage, and are anxious for an en-
gagement with the strikers.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-07-19

New York, July 14.-George NJ. Pull
man has issued a lengthy statement q
the attitude of his company in ~referens|
to the strike, it's causes, its merits aM|
its settlement. He does not dedan|
definitely against submitting to arbiusl
ton, but urges that it would be unbns
nesslike to consent to an a~rbitrsts|
which might decide that the Pulmn|
works be operated at a loss. He aH|
that he offered TO open his books for tAs
inspection of his employees to prove hi
works were running at a loss, but t]
offer was not accepted. He blames te
A. X. U. for the strike, and says n|
object was to begin just such a geneA|
strike and that his works were selected
for a beginning. He says that il woGA|
be nonsense to talk of arbitration vha
the works were running at a loss. bel
concludes by denying the charges tf|
his company compelled its men TO p!|
large rents and forced them to purchas|
goods of the company's stores.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-07-19

st. Paul, July 13.-The Omaha yester-
day resumed all its passenger trains on
the Northern division, and the Milwau-
kee will to-day restore its ii. & D. trains,
thus making service complete on all the
Chicago roads. Perishable freight and
live stock is still declined by one or two
roads, but otherwise freight service is
all right everywhere, except in the Twin
Cities and at the Minnesota transfer,
the Great Northern still declining to re-
ceive except by wagons. The Northern
Pacific expects to resume its usual sery-
ice of all kinds over the entire system
to-day 1t is said that every man on the
800" road will strike to day, tying up
the system completely.
Ogden, July 13.-Late last night a
tain left for the west on the Southern
Pacific bearing four companies of the
Sixteenth infantry under the command
Of Col. Poland. How far the train is ex-
rtcted to go is not known. Mail and
passenger trains will be sent out this
morning. 1t is believed that one COM
pany of soldiers is to be stationed at
Truckee, one at Wadsworth, one at Reno
and one at Carlin until the present
trouble is settled.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-07-19

Toledo, July 14.-So far as this city \
concerned the great railroad strike q
1894 has passed into history. LVe
road excepting the Wheeling 4 Ls|
Erie moved some freight to-day, ana y
a meeting of superintendent held y
day it was decided to resume win y
men if they would come back, and Il n@
with new, at Z o'clock tomorrow las|
ing regardless of the turn affairs MI
take effect in Chicago. Many Of =
strikers have applied for reinsta'snSA
and a number have resumed WORK.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-07-19

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
AN OUNCE OF ARSENIC.
By JULIUS CHAMBERS.

ICoPYRIGHr. 1894
The past two months have been
fraught with great misery to me. The
period began with tragedy, but I am
glad to say it ends with comedy.
was drug clerk; but am now a
free man. was apprenticed at the
nge of twelve, passing several years in
the mental duties of a boy of all work.
By gradual stages, rose to be clerk
in the pharmacy and was intrusted
with the compromising of prescriptions.
never had diploma in pharmacy but
know my business,
During the spring season we were
taking stock and many Of the drugs in
bottles, packages and boxes were re-
moved from places they had occupied
for many years. You will understand
that the druggist is SO familiar with
the location of certain drugs that he
can take down the right bottle or open
the proper drawer with perfect con-
idence that he is not laundering.
Heavens! how well remember the
night! 1t was raining outside and the
customers were few, when a young
woman entered. She was poorly at
tired, as I remember her-God knows
1 nevc. cEn forget her!-apparently a
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ing woman whose face and form were
only vaguely known TO me. hoping to
detect among the hundreds who
thronged the street on that busy Sat
urday afternoon the possessor of the
ounce OF arsenic.
reached the station house just be-
fore the six o'clock relief was sent out
The men were drawn up in line by the
sergeant and instructed regarding their
conduct in the terrible emergency.
This is what he said:
at will be your duty, men, to leave
no means untried to find the present
possessor Of the ounce of arsenic. You
will enter every apartment house and
tenement, knock at every door and ac-
quaint the residents of their danger
You will ring the bell at every private
house, and insist upon seeing the re-
sponsible member of the family in or
der that the information you impart
shall reach the ears of people who will
appreciate its gravity and act upon it
at once. have just wired the infor-
nation to police headquarters. and Su-
perintendent Brynes will doubtless act
upon it Immediately. Now. men. to
your posts, charged with the sacred
duty of saving human life, in imminent
and deadly perilr'
Superintendent Byrres sat in his Of
fee and was just lighting cigar
when his most trusted sergeant en-
tered with a dispatch that had just
been received from the Tenth precinct.
acquainting him with the fact that
woman, name unknown, residence I'M
known, description unknown, had Sc
cured possession of an ounce of arsenic
for purposes unknown.
Briefly, the dispatch recounted the
facts, without, of course, referring to
the agony of mind under which l,
poor drug clerk, lived. moved and had
my wretched being. Captains and SER
geants of police do not possess the ro-
mantle qualities in highly developed
degree and cannot be expected to sup
ply nerve-tingling romance to their as
sociates. Their lives contain much
tragedy and comedy; and with them
everyday existence is SO essential that
their keen sense of the dramatic in life
grows dull.
A general alarm was sent out to each
of the thirty-four precincts, and within
three hours every member of the force
on duty was engaged in house-to-
house canvass for the woman with
the ounce of arsenic"
In five hours time the entire city
was in commotion! Thousands of men
and women had visited the pharmacies
and the all-night dispensaries to have
their medicines examined, in order
that they might be assured as to their
character. Hundreds of pounds of
harmless baking powders, soda. borax
and other arsenical-like salts were con-
signed to the sewer, in order to render
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

| governess or lady's maid. She asked
me for one of the small sample bottles
of a popular medicine given for head
| aches, and went at once to the proper
drawer, opened it. reached therein,
took ont bottle of the specific,
wrapped it in paper, handed it to the
girl. received her money and resumed
the work of posting up the ledger for
the day. I may as well confess that
my thoughts were somewhat distracted
by letter had received from Emily
had been engaged to Emily fof.three
years and nothing but the failure Of
my employer to increase my wages (as
he had often promised to dol. prevent
ed our union. Young as 1 was, l had
seen enough of life to realize the ne
cessity Of money about a house and
although Emily was quite anxious
to make the mad plunge into
matrimony, was averse to
taking her from comfortable
home and setting up an establishment
of my own on the small salary of SO
a week. Only that afternoon 1 had re-
ceived letter from the dear creature
that appeared to me cold and spiteful
and in the postscript detected real
sting. It contained only the words:
Don't come tonight; am going out"
Oh, if she could have known the misery
for me in those wretched little sen.
fences! If she had not written them l
am quite sure l never would have suf-
fered the agony of mind which had
made me SO misera bic.
AS sat writing there suddenly came
into my head the feeling of indefnable
dread. I felt that something terrible
had occurred or was about to happen.
] knew iustinctively that it was assoei.
ated with my solitary customer and the
drug that had given her. ] sprang to
the drawer, opened it to find, as had
sur!nised, that it's contents had been
changed and that / had given the girl
q bottle Of arsenic instead of the sim
pie and harmless salt of bromide and
magnesia as had supposed.
Every fiber of my blood thrilled with
horror
REALIZED that might be response.
bic for hundred tragedies! The won.
an might be a cook in a hotel; or a
child's nurse and feed the deadly salt
to an innocent infant. She might be
Respondent wife, angered by harsh
treatment and burning with thoughts
of revenge toward a vicious husband;
she might be discarded sweetheart,
bent only on ending her own sad life;
she might be a heartless daughter,
goaded to desperation by cruel step
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

assurance doubly assured. Many nerv'
Gus and hysterical women passed the
night in sleepless dread and fear.
When the morning opened, of course
the papers were filled with the star.
thing announcement. Several of them
gave the incident sensational headings
that added greatly to the general alarm
and threw several predetermined peo-
pie completely off their mental bal.
ance.
Meanwhile had not ceased in my
efforts. Finding job printing Office
on Sixth avenue that was open all
night, had five thousand large posters
printed bearing the fearful and start
Ting heading: "Your life is in dan.
ger'' At the bottom of the flaming
announcement was this concluding
line: "You are about to die!''
At the end of the third day. ambu
lance calls were quadrupled in mum.
Der, coming from people who believed
they had been poisoned and insisted
upon being taken to a public hospital
During all these days, l, the innocent
cause of so much human misery. hard
ly sept or ate. For more than week.
l never had my clothes off!
actually forgot Emily
Womanlike, reading of the noto-iety
into which had suddenly spl Il ,. she
called at the store to see me; sh' ove1
spoke of me with sympathet.c lsiud-
ness and left word of greeting md
hope with the boy who delivered the
prescriptions.
My nervousness continual Is.
creased When I looked at myself n
the glass, I was shocked to see how
pale and thin had grown. felt ths.
the strain could not much lonrer con-
tinue.
NV worst premonitions were verife'
/ fell very Ill and was taken from my
cold and cherries hall room-vnere.
In nv delirium, I raved and bemoaned
my fate-to the home of Enily's
mother. Then she and the faithfrl
girl nursed me back TO life. But as
reason fully returned. the old distress
reentered my mind. and in my weak
and feeble condition, when alone,
would burst into tears and bemoan the
carelessness that had brought me sc
much wretchedness-
One cherries afternoon relief came.
I was cured in an instant
The little colored boy at the phar.
macy came rushing into the house,
coatless, GREATNESS aud hatless-hav-
ing run the entire distance from the
drug store. He insisted on seeing me,
and, although against the doctors or
der, pushed his way into my sick-room.
In accents that were almost inaudible,
because OF his shortness OF breath, he
exclaimed:
''Is found her. Gully
"Where?r I literally shrieked. sitting
up in bed for knew as veil as IL he
had talked an hour that he referred to
'-the woman with the ounce of arsenic -
IVY. she's de wife Of de isnitor on
our top floor
Not over the drug store"
Cert"
Emily's mother was not quick enough. |
to catch rue, for fell back in dead /
faint
Within an hour had revived. and. /
weak as thought | had been, had /
found strength 10 rise. dress myself /
and go TO the old stare where. two /
steps al jump. climbed the five I
fights of stairs that led TO the 5anitor's /
a partments There saw the woman 4
and regained possession of the package /
with feelings of infnise relief Sbe /
had not opened it /
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

THE theory now is that all dis
eases are caused by germs" Yes"
Il wonder what kind of germ it is
dipsomania. 81 don't know. There's
one thing sure, it amt any kind of a
water bug IN. Y. Press.
Did talk in my sleep last night? 81
he asked. "A little" replied his wife.
What did / say?" "You used the in
terjection OH several times. -
''Rumph! That wasn't any interiec-
ton" What was ito" 1t was q
verb. "-Washingtou Star.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Elegant reclining ciiair cnrs all Trains and
Pullman sleepers from Wichita 10 Kansas City and
chicago without change night trains. Tickets
sold and baggage checked through to all points
north south. east and west. and steamship tickets
sold to all European points at lowest rates CITY
iicket office 100 East Douglas avenue, Main
avenues. Telephone la9.
J. II. PHILLIPS. 7fcket AGENT
mo SEBASTIAN. u. i. n =. A. Chicago, III.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

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mothers injustices-indeed she might
be all these characters in one, so far as
the uses to which she could put the
deadly poison were concerned.
I rushed out upon the street. I for
got whether locked up the drug store
or not proprietor afterward de-
clared that had left it open. Ha;less,
dashed along the thoroughfare, seek
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-23

thereby depriving his enemies of the pleas
IRE of carrying his head around on a spear.
with his name, rank and title attached. for
the edification of all beholders. A knife of
Shakespeare's time is represented in the
collection by drawing from the original
in the British Museum.
1t looks very much like q razor, and the
blade s .ncribed with a rhyme, as was the
custom in those days:
My love Is fixt, 1t will not range
My chose SO good l will not change"
1t was probably written by jack knife
poet. However. it is as good as some mod
ern obituary poems. / don't imagine the
immortal William wrote such verse, al
though he refers to it when he says: For
all the world. like cutters poetry upon a
knife, love me and leave me not"
One of Daniel Boone's numerous knives
IS in the museum collection. The drawing
will show its appearance better than a de-
scription. 1t is very rusty. and does not
look like a dangerous weapon. The knife
from Corea has one steel and one brass
blade, and n tortoise-shell handle with a
brass tweezer attachment. There are two
knives from Norway, one with hollow
handle that looks like a NINA ture beer key.
.he blade sliding in and out. A knife from
Madagascar probably originally came from
England, as its mate can be found on any
kitchen table.
An interesting collection Of knives. made
by prisoners out of hoop Iron and springs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-23
A Put In job.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Girls he said dejectedly, as he sat with
his head resting on his hand. ''girls make
me weary"
What's the matter now?" inquired his
mother.
WELL" he went on spasmodically, Il
went to see that Linwood girl last night
she's been holding me off for q month
wanted me to pop. I'm sure; kept limiting
every night L went there that was staying
too late: but l never took the hint: girls
have way Of shying at a chap in that
style: they read about 1t in the papers;
last night l made up my mind to nail her
to the mast; talked right along for l don I
know how long; girl yawned two three
times, but l never let up: finally / got
where l thought was the place to make the
break, and was just on the point of asking
her when the clock began to strike; l count
ed up TO twelve and had no idea 1t was SO
late; clock kept on striking and / kind of
gagged and had to stop for It, it didn't STOP
though; gil began to Singer; clock kept
right on; then l began to get warm; when
the old clock had struck sixty-seven 1t laid
down and quit; then before had a chance
to get my second wind, the old man sung
out from the head of the stairs: Say
Lizzie, II that fellow Is going to remain
much longer after the clock has struck
sixty-seven, he won't get home till some
time next week, will he? and got up and
left. Now, what do you think OF that.
MOTHER" and the mother got the camphor
bottle and gave 1t to her boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-23

can get an idea of the antiquity Of the
Clipped blade. when you remember that the
animals of that period were extinct before
cur earliest knowledge of natural history
and the climate of France was probably no
warmer than the arctic regions today.
Inc nrSt metal blades We're those of the
bronze age. The two specimens in the
museum are from the lake dwellings of
Switzerland. The bronze was composed of
tin and copper and was partially brought
from Asia Fifty-seven foundries for the
casting or bronze implements have been
found in France and number in Italy
the one at Bologna having no less than
fourteen thousand pieces broken and ready
Tor recasting. The bronze workers were
descendants of the neolithic age their
blades being similar in shape to the stone
implements OF that period
The Clipped stone jack knife is made
ana used in our country today. While
you are reading The star. which repre-
sents all or the most wonderful modern in
ventions. the telegraph. telephone, type
writer, photograph and the type-settin.
machine. the Hupa Indians of northern
California are cutting wood with stone
knives and catching fish with shell and
stone hooks.
The Hupa Is an expert stone worker. He
taxes piece OF jasper or obsidian vol
canic glass; and heats IL in the fire. In
cooling. 1t breaks into chips. He takes
one OF the most promising chips in his left
hand, after having first put on u rough
Skin glove Tor protection against the sharp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-23

think they are seldom seen now, outside of
little notion shops and country stores. 1t
was all cast iron. The handle was fashion
ed in the likeness of dog with outstretch-
ed legs. and was painted beautiful green,
with red polka dots. 1 think it must have
Been invented by some old bachelor for the
punishment of little boys. 1t was in
strument Of torture to the youthful carver.
full of uneven Jumps and jagged edges.
The more you tried to cut with 1t the more
the dogs hind legs dug into your hand.
until the offending canine had to be sewn
up In a piece of cloth to ease the pain;
yours, not the dogs. After the dog-knife
came the Barlow, the one we used 20 make
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-23
A Remarka BILE Tortoise.

FROM the LONDON Times.
THE oldest Of residents In Colombo will
remember a famous tortoise which sor
years has been a curiosity In Cplands. The
recent death OF this reptile has formed he
subject of correspondence between his ex.
cellency, the governor Of Ceylon and the
curator of the local museum, with whom
its remains have been deposited In prefer
ence TO the British museum. 1t is supposed
tfat the creature was brought to Ceylon
over a century ago. when the island was
taken over by the British from the Dutch
II had been blind for years, and from snout
to tall measured fully six feet, though ex-
perts are of opinion that II reached its full
est size nifty years ago. So nearly extinct
mas this species of tortoise become that DR.
Gunther of the British museum made an
offer Of flo for IL. dead or alive. Mr. Hay
the curator at Colombo. has undertaken
the charge of Il. and the process Of stuff
ing is now going forward The species is
one that was confined to the Seychelles and
the Mauritius group. This has now died
out, and the class can only be obtained at
the north Of Madagascar"