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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
Hard TO Kill.

The creature most tenacious of life
Is the common sea polyp. One may
be cut in two, and two creatures ara
the result. One may be slit length
wise INTO half dozen SECTIONS, MAX
ing as many animals. They may be
turned inside out and enjoy themselves
Just as well ms before; if two be divided
and placed end to end, the result will
be monster having head at each
end of its body.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
Ills WAY OF PLEASING

Sunday Teacher" 81 told you
last Sunday that wished each of you
would try to make ut least one person
happy during the week. Did you?"
Boy-"Yes'm; l made grandma
happy"
''That's noble. How did you do it 2"
81 went to vieit her, and she's al
ways happy when she sees I've got n
good appetite. Good News.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18

There is said to be an unusual in.
quiry for farming lands in Alabama.
The general manager Of the lands of II
railroad says he receives applications
every day from the North and West
from those desiring farming lands.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
SCHOOL CAKfi.

Beat together until foamy che yolk
of one egg, one cupful OF white sugar,
a piece OF butter the size Of an egg.
Add one cupful of sweet milk, one
pint of -four into which has been sifted
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
and the beaten white of the egg. Fla
yor with lemon or vanilla. Butter a
piece of white paper and put it in the
bottom of the cake pan. Bake in q
hot oven.-St. Louis Republic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
A Horrible Punishment.

The Chinese punish atrocious crimes
by inclosing the criminal in an iron
cage, his head passing through an
opening Mt the top at such height
that his knees are bent and lie can
neither stand nor sit. Criminals thus
punished usually become insane
through suffering in less than two
days.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18

The statement is made that there are
more than three hundred companies in
the United States that employ electric.
ity in running. operations for light and
power. 1t is also stated that fully one.
third of the copper refined in this
country is treated electrically.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
WE'LL yERsEp IN DIVISION.

Pa-"Bobby, the school teacher in
forms me that you are well up in di-
vision"
Bobby-"Yes, SIR"
Pa-"Well, Bobby, suppose I told
You to divide this apple equally he
tween your little sister and yourself
how much would she gct?"
Bobby-"The core. Judge.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
MARROW ESCAPE.

Eyes" said Mr. Smawll to one of
the guests, looking at his witch and
then gazing dreamily off into vacancy,
sit was exactly twenty-five years ago
Mt this moment that I led--ah, my
dear, was just observing to Mr..
Spoonamore that exactly twenty-five
years ago by the watch you led me to
the altar. y Chicago Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
FArAn GIrT OF BEAUTY.

"That is an awfvlly pretty girl that
Timmins is engaged to just now"
eyes. Too pretty, in fact. Tim
minis tells me that he is so fascinated
with her beauty that he has never Ind
the courage to turn down the gas when
he was calling on her for fear of losing
sight Of her pretty face. "-Indiannp-
oils journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
A Baby With Grandfather Brothers

The Kentucky Register, published
at Richmond, Ky, furnishesthe follow
ing surprising item of news:
Mrs. William Cook has given birth
to ten-ponnd boy. She is sixty-eight
and her husband seventy-two wears
OLD. They have named the baby
Grover Cleveland Cook, and the little
one has brothers who are grandfathers. 7"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
A FAMILY SECRET.

Neighbor-'I hear your father in
tends to put up new house. Who is
his buider?"
Boy" What's that?"
"Why, thc-er-onc who bosses the
job"
COIL Why, ma, of course. Good
News.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
sHUFFLE-SHooN AND AMBER.
LOCKS.


shufle-Shoon and Ambor-Locks
SIT together, building blocks;
Shunie-Shoon is old and gray
Amber-Locks little child,
But together at Tint play
Age and youth are reconciled,
And with sympathetic glee
Build their castles fair 10 seel
"When i grow to DO mani
SO the wee ones prattle ran
81 shall build castle-so.
With gateway broad and grand.
Hero pretty vine shall grow.
There soldier guard shall stanG
And tho tower shall DO so high
Folks will wonder 10y and by y
Shuflle-Shoon quoth. eyes 1 know,
Thus builded long ago,
Here cato aud there n wall,
Here window, there door;
Here stceple. wondrou5 tall,
Riscth ever moro and more;
But tho years haze levclcd low
What buildcl long ago''
So they gossip ut their plny
Needless OF the ilecting day.
Oncspcaks ofthat Long Ago
Where his dead hopes buried lie
One with chubby cheeks aglow,
Pra'ticth oftho By-and-Dy.
Side by side twin castles grow
By-an l-By AMI Lony-A.;o!
onS-Ago and By-nnd-By
Al, what years atwcen them lie
Yet. oh granlsirc, gaunt nh gray.
by what grace art thou bcguilci
That thou shares, in the play
Oi that little lisping child?
Children both, they build their bio ,hs-
Shnfll e-Shoon AMI Anbcr-I.o.ks.
Eugene Field in Ladies' Home Journal
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
NOT HALF DRESSED.

Chnles--"Arcn't you going out to
walk with mc?"
Henwy-'I cahn't go until 1 dress,
can r."
Chulles-'' What's the matter with
your present costume?"
Henwy-'I haven't got my chrys-
anthemum on. -Chicngo Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
RAILROAD cIyILITy.

Old Lady ito fat party on seat in
front of her)-''rd think you to close
that window, sir. I'm literally COW
cred with dust"
Courteous Passenger (opening his
gripsack) Il always like TO be oblig-
ing, madam. Here's whisk broom"
Judge.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18

1t is not only in the United { States
that foreigners are employedSas sail
ors. In England's merchant marine
service there are 5000 Scandinavians
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
ONLY THAT.

Author "Only one thing kept my
last novel from making sensation"
Friend-"What was that?"
Author-'No one read it. Chicago
Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
cuLrIvArINa TIE MUSE.

Poet-~"I have here some verses ]
would like to submit. They are not
perfect, / admit; perhaps they want
fire"
Editor-"You are quite right, sir
fire is what they want, but the waste
basket will do just rs we'll"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
OUTRAGED.

Tramp-"Can't you give me some
thin to eat, ma'am?"
Kind Woman Eyes; here is piece
of homemade mince pie"
Tramp-"I asked for food, madam,
not work. Truth.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18

Eastern Girl-"We have the cradle
that my grandfather was rocked in. "
Western Girl-"We have the boots
that my grandfather died in. Life.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
FROM
Destiny : Heirlooms Only That--A
Family Secret-Thc Hush Sling
er's Mistake = Cultivating
tho Muse, Etc, Etc.

II fate ono kindly moment knows,
One smile her face adorns.
lis when man steps on your toes
And 1t doesn't hit your corns.
Detroit Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18
THE HASH sLlNoEn's snsrAkE.

Sociablc Tcuton Ito waiter) -rWie
gents" ,,,,s.s,,sys;
fiasty II ching towsafil the
i;itcbah al 81 tss
I. al 81 Neil. nesil Bel
f y. 10 od viii be dick fsyou
sgst three swPeft NsWs
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18

The London Hospital says tea tip.
pling is producing in Britain results
not less serious than alcoholic drinks.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18

she Was promoted to the Lead of her
class. Vogue.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18

There arc every Year IN Australia
10000 arrests for crime and mis-.
demeanor aud over 1000 convictions.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-18

wooded base of the Peak between him.
self and his pursuers, he dashed oil, us
he had been told.
No one will ever know the details OF
what happened after this There WAS
n natural barricadc of stones on top of
the Peak, and keeping behind it she
had the advantage over her foes i'll the
open prairie. The Indians seem finally
to have taken positions inside the tim
Der around the Peak, and then gra-
dually to have drawn their lines nearer
the summit. Doubtless they were I'M
able to tell whether it was defended
by one person alone or by more.
Doubtless, when they had drawn nearer
and were preparing to make the last
fatal rush, she dropped her rifle and
used her heavy six-shooter with deadly
effect. Certain it is chat she was game
to the last Finally, the last cruel
rush was made, and the brave teacher
queen had given her life Tor those of
her subjects.
All this took time. and time was
valuable just then. There were not
more than three or four families then
living within several miles of the Peak,
and the boy messenger had ample time
to notify them and get them hidden
Ill the timbered bank IF the creek. 1t
must have been after the niehtfall
when the summit of tine Peak was fin
ally stormed, and about 10 o'clock a
force of men came galloping in from
Clear Greek, having heard of the
threatened attack. The Indians still
remaining left under the cover of
night Next morning the settlers Wis
tied the Peak. There, behind big
bowlder, on the very summit they
found Ellen Quinn, the prairie queen,
stiff and cold in death. Her body had
been pierced by half dozen bullet.
and her scalp had been taken. Rifle
and six-shooter were both missing.
Around the barricade, down in the
timber Mt its base, and out in the opcr
prairie, they counted the bodies o.
eleven Comanches. That told tho
story.
No death in the whole Of this parI
of Texas could have moved the people
as did hers. She could have escaped
by merely doing nothing, hut she de.
liboratelY chose to die that the lives OF
The morning call., 1894-03-31
COXEY MARCHING ON.
Crooks and Drunkards Will Be
Thrown Out.
Stringent Orders Issued to Preserve
the Morals of the Common
veal Army.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio, March 80
After a day of ovation the CommOnweal
had rather cool reception at East Pales-
tine. Trustee Duss of the Harmony So
Ct ETY. was in town to see the arrival of the
army. His visit, he said, had no signif-
cance, but he and Ccxey went East to-
gether on the afternoon train. Coxey went
to Pittsburg, but will return to-morro W.
Very stringent orders were issued by Mar
shall Browne after supper, and the men
have been placed under severe discipline.
Drunkenness or disorderiness will result
in dismissal. Ali crooks will be dismissed.
Two men began fighting at the midday
halt at Waterford and were instantly dis
missed. Twenty-Five recruits, FIVE being
nailers from New Brighton. joined the
army and took their badges here. The
midday meal tomorrow will be at Dar-
lington.
Owing 10 the number Of recruits joining
since the Commonweal left Columbia a
new commune. making three, has been
formed. They are the California. Chicago
and Coxonia. Brown says band of pre-
tenders are marching one day ahead gath
eriDg food and clothing. which they repre-
sent is for the Commonwealers.
AUSTIN, Tex, March 30.-A detachment
Of Coxey's army. 40 strong, reached here
on a special train from Sierra Blanca,
Tex, via San Antonio. under command of
Colonel r. c. Aubrey and Lieutenant
Colonel j. B. Payne. with General Lewis
Frye as chief of brigade. Frye wanted to
march the men to Governor Hogg's man.
sion to thank him for getting them out of
Sierra Blanca. but the police prevented
them, compelling the men 10 remain in the
cars. The men tell of their suffering since
leaving Los Angeles from cold and hun
ger as well as weary tramping. The train
left here for Long View after a short stay.
There the Texas Pacific will take them TO
its junction with the Iron Mountain, " hich
is expected to transport them to st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, March 30.-"The Frisco will
not haul tramps for nothing" said Snperin-
tendent Wentworth to-day, in discussing
the progress Of the Coxey army. "Tramps
can take possession of trains, but they
cannot run them. There is no power on
earth to compel US to operate our road if
we do not want to-"
At the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Offices it was stated that the tramps now
crossing Texas would not be delivered to
the Iron Mountain by the Katy" but by
the Texas Pacific, the junction point being
Texarkana.
DENVER. March 30.-Commander Bert
Hamilton has succeeded in mastering only
about 800 men. instead of 1000, in his
SILVER Legion" They will leave Denver
for Washington tonight or tomorrow if
they can capture couple of boxcars in a
freight train.
Bert Hamilton. organizer and COM
mander of the Silver Legion, the Denver
contingent of the Comm on nweal army, was
arrested tonight on q charge of stealing
suit OF clothes. He says the charge is
trumped up to prevent his army from
leaving tomorrow.
The morning call., 1894-03-31

indictment, but none of these were present.
Sherc i'll is in Nebraska prison, Edwards
in Folsom prison and the other mans
whereabouts no one knows. There ap-
pears 20 be an erroneous impression
abroad as TO how those men came to be
connected with the Wachhorst robbery,
as it was all explained a few weeks ago
by the publication in the Record-Union Of
three letters from Detective Pinkerton of
Chicago to Chief of Police Rodgers of this
city. PinkertoD arrested Shercliff for the
robbery of a diamond salesman on a train
near Omaha. The prisoner was convict
ed in Nebraska and sentenced TO seven
teen years Imprisonment. Pinker-
ton learned from Shercliff thathe, Edwards
and Black. were connected with the Sac
ramento robbery and sent word to the
Sacramento officers. The latter found that
Edwards was already in prison for rob-
berry committed in San Francisco, but had
no difficulty in securing the arrest of Black
through the San Francisco police. Black
was brought here a few weeks ago, aud
was identified by Wachhorst's clerk as the
man who presented the pistol at his head.
while the others smashed the show-window
and gathered up the diamonds.
The morning call., 1894-03-31
INTO THE EARTH.
Crushed Under a Mass of
Steel.
BURSTING OF A STANDPIPE.
Without Warming the Flood
Came Down.
URSTING OF A STANDPIPE.
WILD EXCITEMENT IN THE CITY.
Wives and Mothers Came FTocking
to Look After the Safety of
Loved Ones.

PEORIA. ILL.,. March 80. Shortly afler
II o'clock this morning the citizens of
Pegria were startled by a dull roar that
came from the direction of West Bluff. In
few moments the fire alarm was turned
IN, and shortly after he patrol wagon and
ambulance were dashing up the street to
the corner of Bourlan and College avenues.
This is the spot where the great standpipe
OF Peoria's water was located.
When within two blocks of the place all
were obliged TO stop. Great volumes were
rushing through the streets, houses were
floating away. fences were demolished,
and four feet of water was rapidly spread
ing over the vicinity and flooding the sew
ers of the city. All was confusion and
terror.
Investigation showed that the massive
standpipe, 40 feet in height and 25 feet in
diameter. had collapsed. No warning was
given to the people in the vicinity, but
with few sharp cracks and dull roar
100000 gallons of water were precipi-
tated to the ground. Several workmen
were engaged on the tower at the time it
fell. and how they escaped instant death is
miraculous.
The pipe stood in a vacant lot used by
children as playground. One of them.
Frank Hogan, was caught beneath the
mass of steel and literally crushed into
the earth. Wild rumorS were Immediately
afloat, and distracted mothers and wives
could be seen gathering in the vicinity.
Thousands of citizens came from all parts
of the city. and workmen at once set to
work as soon as the water had run off suf-
ficiently.
The great standpipe lies crushed like an
eggshell across the vacant lot and into the
street Across the street four or FIVE
houses were swept from their foundations.
One large house was in splinters. The
property loss will not be less that $4,000,
and besides the death of the one lad men,
toned three others of The injured will die.
A list of casualties follows:
Frank Hogan, caught beneath the falling
tower and instantly killed.
Fatally injured:
Frank Caldwell. frightfully injured and
will die.
W. D. Norris. terrible cash in temple;
will die.
William Kennedy. badly crushed and
cut; will die.
Injured:
Rollo King,
Charles Littlehsld.
Howard Anderson,
Clyde Powell,
Charles Needham.
Frank Caddop,
John Huber.
Alfred Gross,
Hazel Isom.
Mrs. j. B. Trapp,
Mrs William McGrath,
Bertha Norman.
The morning call., 1894-03-31

brutal in the history of the Choc,aw Ma
tion. His victim was John Roden, a
neighbor. The two men were apparently
The best of friends until the night of De-
eember o. 1892. On that evening Davis
ntered Roden's house and accused his
neighbor of Insulting his WIFE Roden
protested that be was not guilty of the
charge. but Davis drew knife and
stabbed him TO death in the presence OF
Mrs. Roden. Davis fed but was captured
later on in Arkansas by Deputy Sheriff
DoIlarhide, who was afterwards mur-
dered by Miller Davis, brother of Man
ming. Miller Davis was hanged 10 Arkan-
sas just two weeks before sentence was
passed on his brother.
Jim Upkins was heavy-set negro, and
was one of the most brutal-loOking of the
Africanstype. G The crime for which he
Welded up his life was revolving in the
extreme. At Admore, L T., in 1898. he
assaulted his siX-yeaT-Old stepdaughIer,
May Warden.
The morning call., 1894-03-31
IN OPEN REVOLT.
Outrages by Natives in
Samoa.
MALIETOA LOYAL TO lDE.
Nevertheless the Whites Are
Greatly Alarmed.
LOOKING FOR A SHIP OF WAR.
Threat of a General Uprising gainst
the Allies, Which Has Proba-
bly, Occurred.
FOR A SHIP OF WAR.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, March 3d.
The steamer Alameda, from Samoa. brings
intelligence of serious uprising there. 1t
appears that Henry Ide, the American
Chief Justice under the joint protectorate
exercised over the islands by the United
States, Great Britain and Germany, fined
and imprisoned the chiefs of .he rival fac
tiOns and compelled them to work on the
roads like ordinary convIcts.
This angered the natives, who finally
broke out in armed rebellion. King Malie-
toa sided with the Chief Justice and sent
troops to put down the inSurrection.
Several sharp encounters followed, in
which thirty were killed and fifty wound
ed, the rebels being driven into the inte-
rior-
1t is claimed that Malietoa's troops iu-
dplged in all sorts of barbarlties and atroc-
tiles, such as mutilating the prisoners, be-
heading the dead and assaulting the wo-
men. This SO incensed the natives that a
general uprising was threatened at the
time the Alameda left.
The foreign population is greatly
alarmed and looking anxiously for the ap-
pearance Of warship of one of the na-
tions forming the prolectorate.
W hhICU OU.- Iu6 upIl6lQ8
in Samoa creates no surprise at the State
Department. as it was expected because
of the peculiar entanglements growing out
of the obligations assumed by the differ
ent Governments in connection with
Samoan affairs 1t is expected that the
complications may cause serious trouble.
Senator Morgan said tonight that he had
always regarded the arrangement as a
mischievous one and certain to produce
jealousy and contention. He declined TO
suggest the proper course for the United
States 10 pursue.
VALLEJO. March 3O.-Following the
story of trouble in Samoa comes the rumor
from Mare Island tonight that inquiries
are being made by the Secretary of the
Navy as to putting the wooden warships
now in Rotten Row in commission. In
conversation the ship Pensacola is men
toned. although nothing definite can be
learned beyond the fact that Cantain
AUuisUp, UUmmandant OF the navy-yard,
received a score of messages to-day from
the Secretary of the Navy, which is an un-
usual occurrence in the ordinary routine
of executive matters at Mare Island,
The morning call., 1894-03-31
SPOILED THE ROMANCE.
Mrs. Wilson Cruelty Upset All of
Her Daughters Calculations.

AtCA daughter - GdlCuidLIOHS.
WASHINGTON. March 3o-Society at the
Elsmere, which is a swell clearinghouse.
is all agog over the attempted elopement of
one of its young ladies yesterday evening.
The watchful mamma of Miss Anna c..
Wilson. beautiful blonde from San Fran
cisco. last night was informed that her
daughter had made arrangements to elope
with the hotel clerk, Phineas J. MCLEAN.
Phineas. besides being pretty, drives a
fast horse. sports diamonds on his shirt
bosom and tries g hand at poker occasion
ally. At the Elsmere the young people
frequently give amateur theatrical enter
tainments, at which Phineas is cast in the
lovers role. Phineas and Miss Anna first
met at the breakfast table and loved at
first sight. He was an ideal lover, and be-
sides his experience On the amateur stage
be had loved a score of other Washington
girls.
In less than six weeks these two were
engaged to marry. Mrs. Wilson sized
Phineas up and decided that he did not
quite come up to her standard of what a
son-in-law should be. She may have been
told, too, that another woman in Washing
ton sometimes writes anonymous letters
to Phineas' sweethearts. claiming that he
is her husband. Finding that mammals
objections could not be overcome, the pair
Of lovers decided to elope, but were be-
trayod by one of Miss Wilson's confidants.
Mrs. Wilson then bundled her daughter off
to West Virginia.
The morning call., 1894-03-31
EDWARDS STORY.
Confession Made by a
Convict.
BETRAYS HIS COMPANIONS.
Daring Diamond Robbery and
the Hillebrand Murder.
CLEARING OF A NOTED MYSTERY.
An Inmate of Folsom Says the Grocer
Was Slain by w. III. Black
and Kid Mccoy.

SACRAMENTO. March 30.-The Evening
Bee publishes a sensational story This
evening. including great diamond ROB-
berry in this city and murder in San Fran
cisco. Information has come to the Bee
from very reliable source at Folsom that
District ATTORNEY Ryan, accompanied by a
shorthand reporter. visited the Stat Prison
at that place few days ago, and from the
lips of one of the robbers secured CON-
plets confession of the crimes in which be
and his associates were implicated.
The prisoner who made this confession
is known in his criminal profession as w.
Ii. Edwards. which. by the way. IS not his
real pane. He has highly respected rela-
tives living in this city.
According to the statement of Edwards
be and Horace Black, now con fined in the
County Jail in this county, notorious