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The record-union., 1894-11-17
Gold Discovered in san Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16.-Gold was
discovered to-day in a tunnel beneath the
Sutro monument on Clarendon flights.
The tunnel is for a main of the Spring
Valley Water Company, and the quartz.
which is pronounced rich in gold, was
discovered by blasting rock in the way
OF the tunnel. Great excitement prevails
in the neighborhood over the find.
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Police Indicted for BrIbe-Takinp.

New YORK. Nov. 16.-Three ex-police
captains, five ex-sergeants of police and
several ex-wardmen and patrolmen who
are under indictment for bribe-taking
or other forms of oppression, were be-
fore Justice Ingraham to-day. Counsel
for some OF the accused obtained permis-
sion TO iile denlurrers to the indictments.
and their cases were set for hearing OF,
Monday next. Then argument was be-
gun upon the demurrer 10 the indict-
ments against ex-Captain Stephenson.
Counsel for Stephenson said fair trial
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Found Dead In Bed.

Boise, Nov. l6.-Judge Allison Smith,
aged So, was found dead in bed to-day.
In former years he was prominent on the
coast, and was at one time associated
with Senators Mitchell and DoIph of
Oregon in the law practice.
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Pratt win 6nntast

Los ANGELES, Nov. 16. = ATTORNEY
Charles Z. Hanlon made his argument in
behalf of the contestants in the Pratt will
case to-day, and occupied the entire
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morning and afternoon in an able argu-
ment, III which he scored General Mans
field, claiming that he and Mrs. Cross
brought Mrs. Pratt to Los Angeles and
got deeds to lands and thousands of dol
lars from her while she was an imbecile.
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Harrison a Candidate for President.

SPRINGFIELD (O.), Nov. 16.-Thomas
Taggard of indianapolis, Chairman of
the Democratic State Central Committee
OF Indiana, stated to-day that BENJAMIN
Harrison will unquestionably be candi-
GATE Ior the nomination as President. He
added it was Harrison against the field y
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VORDEN'S DOOM SEALED.
Judge Grant Passes the Death SEN
tence on the Train -Wrecker.
TO BE HANGED AT FOLSOM PRISON
ON FEBRUARY TWELFTH

Tho Motion of Counsel for Defendant
to Set Aside the Verdict on the
Ground of Error in the Instructions
to the Jury Promptly Denied by
Dismiss worden on the Ground
That the Court Had No Jurisdic-
ton.
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Adiudged Insane.

VENTURA, Nov. l6.-A. J. Harrington,
who lost his right hand while firing a
salute at Budd rally here, was adj
judged insane this afternoon. lie will
be taken to the San Bernardino asylum.
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could not be had. There is no precedent
Tor showing cases in the manner that is
oelng- done. Justice Ingraham said he
would establish precedent and that the
trial would go on.
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a, Arct,,. Fxnedition 1yrecked.

ARcHANGEL (Russia), Nov. I6.-The
Arctic expedition commanded by Cap
tain Joseph Virgins of Kara Sea fame
has been wrecked near 1uggyshar. All
hands were saved.
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Too Bad.

Jess-How do you argue that men are
naturally better than women?
Jack-No man ever had seven devils
cast out of him.
,Jess-No-o; they've got 'em yet
Truth.
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Offered.
Special to the REcoRp-UNIoN.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoE.
ELMIRA On. W, Nov. 16.-Martin J.
Straight, a well-known flour and feed
dealer, this afternoon fatally shot his
wife, put one bullet into the body of
Mrs. William Whitford, which may
cause her death, and then turned the re-
volver upon himself and tried three
times to put bullet through his own
heart, inflicting wounds which will un-
doubtedly cause his death.
The shooting was the result of domestic
difficulties. The Whitford and Straight
families until recently lived in the same
house, the women being sisters. Straight
and his wife quarreled and separated, but
soon resumed marital relations. About
three weeks ago they again fell out, and
Straight tried in vain to gain the good
will of his wife.
This afternoon Straight saw his wife
and sister-in-law in the business section
shopping. He followed them across the
river toward their home. The first init
nation they had of his approach was
when ne began shooting, the first shot
being at Mrs. Whitford. 1t struck her in
the side and she fell. He wife turned
about with cry. and he fired three bull
lets into her, ali striking her in the
stomach and passing through her. He con-
tinued shooting until one revolver was
empty, then took another and fired three
bullets into his left side, in an endeavor
to reach his heart. In all he fired ten
shots, and then calmly seated himself on
horse block. lie and his victims were
helped to house, but Mrs. Straight died
tonight.
The physicians say Straight and Mrs.
Whittord cannot recover.
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Cold Wave in British Columb,a

VANCOUVER (B. c., Nov 16.-The cold
wave has reached British Columbia.
There have been sharp frosts during the
past two days, and to-day there was
heavy snowfall
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HE FIRED TO KILL.
Domestic Troubles Cause a Triple
Tragedy at Elmira, N. Y.
A MERCHANT SHOOTS HIS WIFE,
SISTER-IN-LAW AND HIMSELF.

Commerce In Indian Territory Com
pletely Paralyzed as the Result of
the Reign of Lawlessness of Bill
Cook and His Followers-Organiz
Gangs Go From Place to Place,
Plundering Right and Left and
Adding Murder to Their Calendar
Offered.
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Death of DIR. NIcCosh.

PRINcEToN On. j., Nov. 16.-Dr. Nc
Gosh, President of Princeton College.
died at IL O'Clock this evening.
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Without steadiness of character in So
clal life there can be no true friendship
Harmston.
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The cause of all the blunders COM
mitted by man arises from excessive
self-love.-Plato.
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BULGARIAN ATROCITIES.
FiendiSh Cruelty and Death to
Unarmed Christians.
SICKENING STORY TOLD BY AN
AMERICAN TOURIST.

sixteen Thousand Persons Meet Fate
as Even the Darkest Ages of Africa
Hardly Witnessed-No Compassion
Shown to Age or Sex, Even by the
Regular Soldiers - Women De-
bauched and Stabbed to Death
With Bayonets.
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Charged with Being a Forger.

SEATTLE, Nov. 16.-John Fairfield, one
of the most prominent attorneys in the
city, was arrested this evening by Chief
of Police Rogers on the strength of let
ter from Chief Inspector Watts of the
criminal investigation bureau OF the Bos-
ton Police Department The letter con-
tains the information that Fairfield is
none other than John Z. Dore. who was
indicted at Boston in 1887 on four counts
of forgery. The money was obtained
from savings banks, and was the prop
erty of poor women. Fairfield is one of
the most influential men in the kino
County Democracy.
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Heavy Earthquake shocks at Cars

CARSON New, Nov. 16.-Three heavy
earthquake shocks were felt here last
night-the first and heaviest at 1l:O5, the
second at Il:25 and the third at IL The
direction was east and west. Though the
shocks caused a great deal of fright, no
damage was done.
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Dan Burns SERIOUSLY III.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. lett is stated
that Dan Burns, Secretary of the Repub-
lican State Central Committee, has
broken down, and is seriously i'll in this
city. Hard work and worry over the late
campaign, together with excessive Smok-
ing, are said to be the cause of his illness.
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The SAN Bernardino Bank Faiynre

SAN BERNARDINo, Nov. 16.-Bank Ex-
aminer Whitman has made his report TO
the Comptroller of the Treasury at WASH
ington on the condition of the First Ma
tional Bank. The report has not been
made public, but unofficial sources give
the information that the condition of the
bank was found favorable, and if Judi
ciously managed the bank will not only
pay depositors, but viii leave the capital
uniinnaired.
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Loss to Fruit-Growers bx the Strife

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1G.-The fourth
biennial report OF the State Board of Hor-
ticulture states that owing to the railway
strike California fruit-growers lost over
81, 100000. Had il not been for the rail-
road tie-up the season would have been
the most profitable for horticuIturists in
the history of the State The shinment
of fresh fruit 70 London is declared TO he
impractIcable until shippers can secure
cheaper and better transportation. al
though the frult sent to England was
very well received. In the Stale there is
an increased acreage of fruit planted in
the spring of 1871 OF IL 600 acres.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02
THE SALOON IN POLITICS.
An Honest Confession from an Unexpect-
ed Quarter.


PROFESSIONALLY the very worst fea-
ture of the liquor traffic is its power
full political influence. The barrOom
is great factor in the politics of
every large American city; but per
haps. there is no city in the Union
where it is so Supremacy powerful as
in New Orleans. The power that
controls the barrooms controls the
city, and the man who can WELD this
power is simply supreme in New Or
leans. The personality of such man
is nothing. 1t makes no difference
what or who he is, the possession OF
such a power will make him politically
invincible so long as the great masses
of the people submit as they have, with
the exception of very few occasions,
heretofore done.
AS consequence, every man VINO
has any political aspirations sooner or
later finds he must pander to this pow
erful interest, and he must either re
tire or accept the situation. NeU Or
leans PicdyHHe, Dem.
No Prohibition paper could have
stated patent truth more clearly and
forcibly than the Picayune has here
done, and what it says of the saloons
political influence in New Orleans, is
true to greater or less degree of eve
ry city and town in the American I'm
ion where it has an existence. The Sa-
loon is emphatically "in politics" The
marvellous thing is that so many Pro
hibitionists persistently ignore this
important fact and stress moral sua-
sion alone as the all-sutficient weapon
for its destruction.
The difference between the politics
of such Prohibitionist's and the saloon
lists is this: The saloonist is against
any man and any party that is against
the liquor traffic that is his principte;
while the the impractical, goody good
moral -suasion Prohibitionist is against
everybody and every thing opposed to
Prohibition it comes to carry
ing the issue into politics, and then
rather than sacrifice party for moral
principle, he is for every thing that is
aqainSt Prohibition. even to the point
of locking shields with saloon buns
and supporting avowed saloon candi-
dates of a license party.
Until the opponents of the liquor
traffic learn that they must be as loyal
and consistent in their support of pro
hibition as the friends of the liquor
traffic are in antagonizing it, the con
dition of things described by the Plea
yune will continue.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02
NEWSPAPER SPACE.

1t isn't everybody who realizes that
every line in newspaper costs some
thing. If it is for the benefit of an in
dividual it should be paid for. If the
grocer were asked to contribute groc-
cries to one abundantly able to pay for
them he would refuse. The proprietor
of newspaper must pay for the free
advertising if the beneficiary does not,
and yet it is one of the hardest things
to be learned by many that a newspa
per has space in its columns to rent
and must rent to live. To give away
ANYTHING for less than living rates
would be as certainly fatal as for a
landlord to furnish rent free. -Ndtche2
Democrat.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02
THE LEGISLATURE

The Mississippi Legislature, which
in 1891, under the new Constitution,
was elected for four years, meets in
special session today. The section of
the Constitution by which the action
of the body is to be guided, is as fol
lows:
The legislature shall meet at the
site of government in regular session
on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in January of the year a. ID.
1892 and every four years thereafter;
and in special session on the first Tues
day after the first Monday in January
of the year 1891. and every four years
thereafter, unless sooner convened by
the governor The special session shall
not continue longer than thirty days,
unless the governor, deeming the pubic
interest to require 1t, shall extend the
sitting by proclamation III writing, to
be sent to and entered upon the jour
nails of each house. for a specific num-
Der of days, and then it may continue
in session till the expiration OF that
time. At such special session the
members shall not receive more com
pensation or salary than 10 cents mile
age and per diem of not exceeding 80;
and none but appropriation and reve-
nue. bills shall be considered. except
such other matters as may be acted
upon at an extraordinary session call
ed by the governor"
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02

Mhoon. all personally known to me TO
no nersons of undoubted honor and IN
territy. who signed the above affidavit
and swore TO the truth of the contents
of same this 10Th day of December
1sa2 |. c. PTTCHFoRD,
Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
HNDs COUNTY. y
Personally appeared before the uh,
dersirned Mrs. George ID. Cassidy ana
Mrs. Ida Cordill. who make oath that
thcy have seen the charges made 10y
Mrs. Eugenia Foster against the man
agcment of the Blind Institute at Jack
son. and that the same are true they
having been eye witnesses to the same
Sworn to before me this December
IL 1892 Il. +. FORTNER.
Justice of the Peace.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02
1T is WORTH $40, 900 TO ME.

For the past seven or eight years
| have been a victim OF Nervous
Dyspepsia in its worst form. |
have spent thousands of dollars,
and have kept poor paying for med
icine and doctors bills. Up to the
time | began the use of Wilkin-
sons Matchless Mineral Water,
every kind of food caused me un-
told misery that none but God and
myself knew. After having tried
every thing that | read or heard of
| must confess that | had no faith
or hope whatever that the water
would do me any good. But "like
a drowning man grasping at a
straw" | bought from Mr.. Will
kinson one quart of his Mineral
Water and began to take one des-
sertspoonful after each meal and at
bedtime. Contrary to my expecta-
tons and to my very great JOY and
great surprise, in three or four days
| began to improve, continued to
do SO steadily until l was entirely
well. 1t cured me in spite of my
self. l could hardly realize the
truth. Now | can and do eat any
thing l want, at any time, without
it disagreeing with me in the least.
My digestion is perfect, my heart
trouble is all gone, | sleep we'll and
my general health is all | could
wish. All of which / am happy to
say, was brought about by one quart
of Wilkinson's Matchless Mineral
Water in the space of six weeks.
Will say in addition that | have
every reason to know that as con-
stitutional nerve tonic and restora-
tive it is unsurpassed. For $40. 900
| would not be put back where l
was when l began the use OF the
water and not be able to get any
more of it. Any one suffering as l
did can, if they choose, write to me
and l will cheerfully answer.
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P. o. Box 70, Montgomery, Ala.
FOR SALE BY
Chas. M. Flush, 1O6 Camp ST., New 0rIear \
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02

The LEADER gratefully acknowledges
the receipt of beautifully executed
New Year greeting, sent out by the
j. w. noted Butler Paper Company, of
Chicago, in honor of the oOth ami
versary of the existence of this old
and sterling firm. AS patron OF
this excellent and well-established
house, it affords THE LEADER pleasure
to bear testimony to its prompt and
satisfactory business methods and its
unlimited facilities for supplying pub
fishers with every thing in the paper
and fancy stationery line. May it go
on until it reaches its one hundredth
milestone, increasing in prosperity
and excellence as it grows in years.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02

Bradstreet's agency has been trying
to obtain reliable information as to the
number of unemployed wage-earners
in the United States, and has succeed
ed in gathering some facts which are
very impressive. Correspondents in
one hundred and nineteen of the prin-
cipal cities in the country send reports
showing that there are i'll enforced
idleness in those cities S0l,S wage
earners, and that nearly two million
people are dependent on these idle
workmen.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02

Mrs Mary E. Lease has been remov-
edsfrom the State Board of Charities
of Kansas by Populist Governor Lew
cling. In discussing her removal,
Mrs. Lease, who took it philosophical
ly, among other things to the Govern
or's discredit, said: II went into this
fight for principle, and | cannot and
will not tolerate the corruption of the
present administration, an admins
tration more corrupt than any Repub-
lican one that ever disgraced Kansas
Governor Lewelling seems to make ap
pointments to further his own political
ends, regardless of consequences
When he finds an appointee whom he
cannot use he deposes him."
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02

You may rest assured" said mem
Der of the Ways and Means Committee
in Washington the other day, in refer
ring to Secretary Carlisle's proposition
to issue bonds, that this Congress
will not authorize an issue of bonds.
Why should interest bearing obliga-
tiOns be issued when we can accom-
plish the same purpose by issuing
treasury warrants that will cost moth
ing and be just as good If the notes
be made receivable for all dues to the
government they would pass current
as readily as greenbacks. and when re-
ceived into the treasury could be reis-
sued and kept in circulation"
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02
\ SELECT LIST.
Leading Papers With Which
The Leader Clubs.

The LEADER has made clubbing ar
rangements with few representative
journals of different classes, with
either one of which it will be sent one
year to any subscriber at the following
rates:
You pay your money and take your
choice.
The Leader and the Voice, the ablest of
Prohibition papers, ....................... $40
The Leader and The Citizen official organ
of the National Pro- Committce) .........' 1 20
The Leader and the ChickaSaw Messenger
(Official Organ Of the state Alliance. 10
The Leader and the ClariOn-Lcdger dead
ing Democratic paper of MiSsiSSppb.... 1.7j
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02
THE BLIND ASYLUM SCANDAL.

The LEADER today publishes GER
tain grave charges against the man.
agement of the State Institute for the
Blind at Jackson. certified to by May
or Chiles and other reputable persons,
which will form the basis of legisla-
tive investigation into the affairs of
that institution at the present session
of the Legislature. These charges by
Mrs. Foster were first published in
the Jackson News several weeks ago,
and have been since followed by a spir-
tied controversy in the Jackson papers
between DIR. Fairly, Superintendent of
the Institute for the Blind, and the
Board of Trustees of said institution
on the one side and Mayor Chiles on
the other. DR.. Fairly fatty denies the
verify of the charges, and the Board of
Trustees. headed by Governor Stone,
assert that they have fully investigat-
ed these and all other charges and
eXonerate the Superintendent and
asylum management. This led Mayor
Chiles to procure and publish the aft
davits which we append to Mrs. Eos
ter's statement, and he says other
testimony equally strong will be forth
coming at the proper time.
The LEADER, with no bias or preju-
interest save desire to see wrong
righted and justice done, has watched
the controversy in silence to its pres
ent stage. but we feel impelled now to
say we regard the vindication awarded
by the Board of Trustees to Superin-
tendent Fairly as a vindication that
looks to us that Governor Stone, for
whom we have always entertained the
highest admiration, has allowed him
to be i'll some way blinded or over
reached. As we see it, the investiga-
ton of these charges by the trustees
has been distinctly eX parte, insti-
tuted and carried out apparently with
the fixed intention of indicating Su-
perintendent Fairly, while Mrs. Foster,
Mayor Chiles and other credible wit
nesses, in every respect as worthy of
belief as DR.. Fairly or the members of
the board, and who would have given
eliminating testimony, were not called
upon to testify.
We have been slow to credit other
charges of official whitewashing
recently made at Jackson, but as the
matter now stands there is no escape
from the odious term so far as this
case is concerned. Tho Legislature
should by all means make Il thorough
and impartial investigation of the
whole subject and report accordingly.
Nothing short of this will satisfy pub
lie expectation or meet the demands of
common humanity and Justice
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02

CHICAGO, Dec %. -Pendergrast, the
murderer of Carter II. Harrison, will
be hanged for his crime. The verdict
of the jury has said that; the people OF
Chicago approve it. Ably defended as
the assassin has been, strong as has
been the evidence adduced to save his
neck from the halter, the jury found
him sane, and responsible for his act.
and decided that he pay the highest
price for his offense against the law
Defendants attorneys will take an APP
peal, which will delay the murderers
execution six months or year.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02
pROuIBITION On TIE COAST.
Handsboro, Mississippi city, Nt"nc""i''
Long Beach and BcauNoir Con-
- tinue DRY.

Long Beach and Bcauvoir Com
- tinue Dry.
HANDsBoRO. Miss, Dec. %, 1893.
Editor Of The Mississippi Leader:
! Enclosed find s1.0O for renewal to
The LEADER.
Our beat, in which are the towns
of Handsboro, Mississippi City, Stone
wall. Long Beach and Beauvoir, CON
tinues dry and has been in such
| dreadful condition about six months.
Several efforts to get license to retail
have failed. A present effort to that
end is now being made, which will also
fail think.
The past Christmas was the first and
only occasion of the kind for about
thirty years when whisky was not sold
by license in this vicinity and beat.
OF course. more or less of the stuff is
consumed, but there IS less hoodlum-
ism than in .he days of license, SO says
our justice of the peace, as is evidenc-
ed by the decreased sums he pays into
the county treasury.
There has been no whisky saloon in
Mississippi City for year, yet the last
summers hotel business was better
than the previous season. One new
100000 boarding house is now in
course, and another of about the same
value in contemplation there.
The terms of Circuit, Chancery and
U. S. courts, each twice yearly, are not
troubled as before with the sale of in
toxicants about one hundred feet from
the court house gate.
Business has not been injured by our
dry" condition. A first-class drug
store is now where the last saloon was
located, and more building is being
done and in sight than at any one time
for several years.
There is no boom of prosperity. but
there is healthy condition of affairs
not general wreckage and everything
gone to the demnitiOn bow vows as
was confidently predicted by the saloon
advocates. c. NJ. LIDDLE.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-01-02

The Warren County grand jury,
which has just adjourned, says in its
final report: evidence before us is of
such a character as to convince us be-
yond all question, that the officials of
the Y. & NJ. V. Railroad should raceive
the most severe censure for the en-
ployment of dissipated and incompe-
tent men as train dispatchers, thereby
endangering the lives of the train men
as we'll as the passengers on the road.
This jury, which, by the way, lives in
the rankest saloon county in the State
manifestly doesn't credit that old lie
of the devil, that 'if a person will LEI
whisky alone it will let him alone"