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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
Would-be Train Robber Gets IL Light
Sentence

A telegram was received from Gin.
ton, Tom, by the express officials in
this city that Fred Gerding, tho train
robber, who ran into trapa set for
him In an express car at Coal Creek
tank some months ago had been sen
fenced TO two years imprisonment.
Jim Smith, who gave the snap away,
was shot at tho time and su bsequently
died. Gerding will appeal for new
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
THE FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS.
Bill for the Repeal of These Laws
Passes the Senate.

Republican Amendments to the Bill All
Rejected and the Repeal Passed by II
Party Vote, Stewart Only Voting With
the DE moorats. Animated Debate Upon
the Subjeot-Daniei Says the Party
strances Against the Wilson Bill Still
Being Received.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
a I,ilrcAiu,

A COMPLETE set of the Edinburgh
edition Of the Encyclopedia Britannica,
one of the tivo thousand certified copies
published is hereby offered for sale at a
very reasonable price. Further par.
ticulars may DO obtained by applying at
THE TINES office
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
-
Virginia Brain Producf.

WASHINGTON, Feb. The following
is list of patents issued to Virginia
inventors on Tuesday, January 80, 1894,
as reported from the office OF Patrick
O'Farrell, solicitor OF patents, Washing
ton, ID. c.; Henry d. Thacker, Peters
burg, trunk
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
Knahe Piano Chenn.

ONE now upright grand knabe piano,
fancy walnut case, at greatly reduced
price. Call II you want a real bargain.
Hobbie Music Company, 1877 Salem
aypnua
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Fob This
afternoon Sheriff Hobgood OF jackson
county, arrived in Little Rock with
Tom Brady, Jim Hydrick and Albert
Marsker, the three convicted train rob
bers who were yesterday sentenced to
hang on April 6. They were placed in
the penitentiary this afternoon for safe
keeping.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
a Big oner to IA Prominent Lecturer.

PEAMsBURG, Va, Feb rev. DR.. j.
ii. Roberts, of this place, has just re-
ceived an offer of s., 900 for one month
OF his time by the Lecturers Bureau of
Chicago. DR.. Roberts has been deliver.
ing series OF lectures throughout
Southwest Virginia and has won an
enviable reputation by them
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08

CHICAGO. Feb. 1.-Two fires occurred
to-day in the Worlds Fair buildings
but both were extiDguished with small
less. Both arc believed 70 be incendiary
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08

DR.. Roberts will be remem bered by
many Roanoke people who saw him
during his attendance upon the Baptist
convention last fall. Several efforts
have been made to get him to lecture
here, but as yet without success
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08

For rates and full Information call on
or address
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
Tillman's Laws Not working Well

CHARLESTON, S. G, Feb. IA spe.
cial to tho News and Courier from
Anderson says that there have been
five acquittals yesterday and today in
the trial justice court under the dispen-
sary law and no convictions. Juries
were asked in their cases and were COM
posed OF Tillmanites and conservatives.
CHARLESTON, s. G Feb. z The grand
jury of Berkeley county o-day found in
dictments against two parties for the
violation of the dispensary law. These
were the first indictments found in this
State under the law.
CHARLESTON, S. G., Feb six raids
were made by the dispensary constables,
liquor being found at only one of them
At Mira. Flesher's School, No. 1928 Camp
bell Street,
YOU are taught the entire system of
French dress and cloak making, design
ing draping, basting, boning, pressing
matching stripes, plaids, figures and
diagonals; cutting the seamless waists,
waists without shoulder seams. seam
less princess costumes, French bias
darts, dartless fronts and bias under
arm cores and all other fine points as
now practiced by all first-class French
and American lady tailors; private les.
sons to dressmakers desiring to learn
the fine points; tho system cuts so &C.
curately that personal fitting is not
necessary.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
W. S. MCClANAHAh & co.

General Insurance Agents, COZ South
Jefferson st, opposite Terry Building,
Roanoke, Va.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
ORDERED OUTBY THE GOVERNOR
Alexandria Light Infantry to Pro.
tect Two Negroes at Manassas,

Who Are to be Placed Upon Trial To-day
For Rape-The Sheriff Afraid of a
Lynching and Says He Cannot Get a
Strong Enough Posse to Protect the
Prisoners-Governor O'Ferrall Cannot
Give Evans Up on These Papers-Other
News From the Capital.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08

WASHINGTON, Feb. THE statement
that Secretary Carlisle is preparing a
substitute for tho Bland silver seiRnor.
age bill Is officially denied at the
Treasury Department.. Secretary Car.
Isle is opposed, at this time, to the
coinage of silver seignorage, and has SO
informed members OF Congress who
sought his views on the subject.
His conference with silver leaders
Yesterday was to make the Bland silver
seignorage bill, il Il was determined TO
push 1T to passage, less Objectionable
from the administrative standpoint
than the original bill.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
TUE WEATHER.,

Forecast for Virginia: Rain, siishtrs
change In temperature, south winds.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
GOLD FOR GOLD.
treasury Being Depleted for the Purpose
of Buying the:New bonds

Treasury Being Depleted for the Purpose
of Buying the.New bonds.
WASHINGTON, Feb. : Official figures
at the Treasury Department show that
within the past twenty-four days, since
bond issue was practically assured,
gold has been withi from the
treasury for tho purpose Of paying for
the bonds.
On January the gold balance was in
round figures SS0,0O0,OO0 Of United
states notes and of Treasury notes of
ls9o, both redeemablo in gold there
were Si5, 900, 900.
Yesterday the gold in round figures
amounted to S64, O0O, 900, decrease of
$4,000, 900, while tho legal tender no,es
had increased to So, 900, goo The net
difference OF ST. 900 in gold was paid
out to noet current expenses.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
"WhO
Hard
Times?'

This week and next week We will
make a special run on Tea Sets,
finest quality,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08

Now in window and more in store.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
QUADRUPLE PLATE,

From the best makers. There are
only few of them. and we want to
make room for new goods. At
nights, while waiting for hubby
think over these prices:
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-08
Arrested For. Em bezzleme nt.

RICHMOND, Feb. "A Hot Springs,
va special to tho Dispatch says: Late st
reports deny the truth OF the rumored
fatal fight between United Statos mar
shals and Illicit distillers. Tho remote
ness OF the place makes it difficult to
test the truth of the rumor.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08
DEADLY MACHINE GUN
A WEAPON WHICH FIRES 1000
CHARGES A MINUTE EASILY.
Particularly Well Adapted for Use
Shipboard. the Accles Machine Gun Is
Equally Effective with Field, Parapet,
or Embrasure Mountings.
Naval Men Like 1t.

The latest improved type of ma
chine gun is the invention of j. g.
Accles, who for many years was asso-
ciated as practical expert with the
manufacture of the Calling gun.
The navy has ordered one Of the
Accles guns, and in case experience
with it, under service conditions, is
satisfactory, orders for others will be
issued at an early date. Lieutenant
Commander Couden, an attache Of
the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy De-
partment, has expressed the opinion
that the Accles invention meets sat-
isfactorily all the requirements of the
naval service, and has fewer defects
than any inventions Of the kind
which he has had occasion to exam
inc. Several of these guns have been
purchased by England and other
European powers for use in the mill
tary and naval services.
In general way the Accles gun
resembles the Calling gun. 1t pos
sesses, however, number Of impor-
tant features which give to it's dis
tinctness and increased efficiency.
For general purposes of description
it may be regarded as modified and
improved Calling gun, containing
many of the best elements of that
weapon, together with notable i'm
provements and new devices, which
go to make it machine gun of much
excellence. BY simple clutch at
the side the firing mechanism can be
thrown in or out of gear instantane-
ously, and, secondly, the gunner can
either throw continuous stream of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08

bullets, or fire shots singly-at the
rate Of about 400 shots per minute
the crank being turned at a steady
rate all the time. The gun may be
mounted on field carriages, parapets,
embrasures, and on all types of naval
mouutings. On board ship the guns
are arranged so as to be actuated
both by hand and by electricity.
In using electricity the main current
from the ships dynamo is led to
smaller motor connected with the
shaft which works the gun. Great
rapidity of fire is obtained with this
latter arrangement, 1000 shots per
minute having been ared accurately
in recent experiments. BY the ap-
plication of electricity as a power,
two men can effectively operate the
gun, one to aim and fire it, the other
to supply the ammunition. Another
important and novel feature of the
Accles gun is the feed boxes. Instead
of being made in packages tied with
strings, or being carried to the gun
in heavy boxes and then thrown into
hoppers, the cartridges are placed
fiat in cardboard cases, and lie on a
thin, continuous futed strip Of tin.
The cartridges are thus packed for
use at the mandatory, and are not
changed in arrangement until placed
in the breech OF the gun ready for
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08
PHOTOGRAPHING IN COLORS.
Remarkable Results Accomplished by the
Heliochromoscope.

Remarkable Results Accomplished by the
Heliochromoscope.
The latest invention in the line OF
photographing in colors is an instru-
ment perfected by Frederick e. Ives,
of Philadelphia. 1t is called the
heliochromoscope and is device for
exhibiting triple-plate composites.
Only one observer at a time can look
into this little machine, and what he
sees is colored photograph produced
by three negatives taken on one plate.
by one exposure. The result is emf
nently pleasing and lifelike, and is a
vast improvement over any other
method of producing colored photo
graphs now in use.
The heliochromoscope as an exhib-
itor of the colored photograph sup
plemenus Mr.. Ives remarkable inven-
t1on of a camera with which it first
became possible to get three mega
tives on one plate by a single expos
ure, instead of following the clumsy
and unsatisfactory method Of taking
the negatives separately and in sue
cession. The manner Of exhibiting
these composites was by placing the
positive transcendencies behind glass
plates Of different colors and thus
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08

counties in the southeastern quarter,
and is thought to have been intro
duced from South Dakota, where 1t
has been for some seventeen years.
has done millions of dollars OF dam
age, and is SC firmly established that
the authorities despair Of being able
to eradicate it without aid from the
General Government. Stock cars are
carrying the pest from the stock
yards at South Omaha to many parts
of Nebraska. The plant is described
as "a tumble weed Of the worst kind, =
it's branches spreading over diane;
ter of two to five feet, and the prick
ly branches are so dense that it is i'm
possible to pass the hand to the in
terror of the bushy plant When it
breaks off early in the fall it rolls
away before the wind at rapid rate,
scattering it's seeds upon every rod of
ground that it travels over.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08
He Knew Better.

A certain popular but extravagant
musician was famous not only tol
his fine voice but for his almost ire
sistbile manner. At one time when
he was deeply in debt, carpenter to
whom he owed large amount called
at his house, and DANGEROUSLY de-
manded his pay.
The musician, who was indisposed
at the time, heard the angry voice in
the entry below, and going to the
head of the stairs, asked what was
the matter down there.
matter enough" cried the car
penter. 81 want my money, and I
can't get.it."
Don't get in a passion" said the
musician. soothingly: "do me the
favor to walk upstairs, if you please.
and we will talk the business over. "
"No, SIR, replied the poor carpen-
ter, mot step will I stir up those
stairs! You owe me a hundred dol
lars already, and if I came up, good
ness knows you'd most likely owe me
two hundred before I got down
again."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08

THERE seems to be a distinction
between selling meat as merchandise,
not for immediate consumption by
the purchaser, and selling it to be
used by the latter as food. In the
former case there is no implied war
ranty Of soundness, while in the lat
ter case the courts hold that a war
ranty of wholesOmeness will be i'm
piled. There has also been some eff
fort made to distinguish between
cases where the person selling meat
for consumption as food knew, or
ought to have known, that it was
not fit for use, and where he did not
know that fact. Thus, a Massachu-
setts decision excuses a farmer for
killing and selling hog, to be used
by the purchaser, where he made no
representation concerning same. and
although he had other hogs that were
diseased with hog cholera. The most
recent decision on the subject is one
OF the Supreme Court of Michigan,
where it is held that a dealer who
sells food for consumption implicitly
warrants that it is fit for the purpose
for which it is sold. And If, in addi-
ton to this implied warranty, it is
found that he was negligent in sell
ing meats that were dangerous to
those who ate them, he wonld be liza
BILE for the consequences Of his act,
if he knew it to be dangerous, or, by
proper care on his part, could have
known its condition Keepers of a
retail meat market, engaged in the
business of selling meats for food
are bound to use due care to see that
the meats are fit for human coDsump-
ton. 1t is also question to be set
tied in such case whether or not
the purchaser, or other person made
sick by eating unWholesome meat,
has exercised due care on his part in
partaking Of same, as in case where
the meat did not smell right before
or after it was cooked.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08

POSTMASTER DAYTON, of New
York, has been obliged to make a
personal visit to Washington to call
the Postmaster Generals attention
to the DEFICIENCIES of the postal serv-
ice in his city. Philadelphians have
been importuning Congress to pro-
vide better facilities for handling
mails in the Quaker City, and for
years Chicago has been shouting in
the Congressional ear the defects of
her postal equipment. Thus the
three largest cities in point of popu-
lation, commercial Importance and
magnitude Of postal business are dis
covered groveling at the feet of Con-
gress, appealing for the relief they
should rightfully demand and Justly
obtain. And the gentlemen from
Chinchburg, Seedville and Tomato
patch frank to their constituents the
forty-ffth annual report Of the com
mission on "The Absence of Horns
on Muley Cows" and imagine they
are born conservators of the public
welfare.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08

THE newspaper of Chicago that re-
marked that Patti sang "Home, Sweet
Home" like novice is entitled to
the credit Of working the only ver-
liable modern miracle. 1t made
Patti mad enough to say that she
had been singing it forty years. Per-
haps it is necessary to add that the
number of the years is a warranted
inference. 1t was the span Patti de-
scribed, however. She says she has
been singing it from childhood. AS
the French proverb says that neither
woman nor music should be dated,
the confession wrought from the
finally farewelled diva must pass
among the monuments Of successful
exacerbation. 1t would be interest
ing to know where the critic came
from who pronounced Patti novice
in anything, and where he has lived
since befo' the wah. He must be
brother to that other Chicago critic
who wrote seriously about "Shaks-
peare's play of Richelieu."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08
Curious Chinese Proverbs.

The ripest fruit grows on the
toughest wall. 1t is the small wheels
of the carriage that come in first
The man who holds the ladder at
the bottom is frequently of more
service than he who is stationed at
the top Of it. The turtle, though
brought in at the back gate, takes
the head of the table. Better be the
cat in philanthropist's family than a
mutton-ple at kings banquet. The
learned pig didn't learn it's letters in
a day. The top strawberries are
eaten first. Pride sleeps in a glided
crown; contentment ina cotton night
can.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08

SIX years in States prison for steal
ing two cigars valued at 10 cents will
strike the average citizen as severe
sentence, but not when the circum-
stances surrounding the theft are
known. Thomas Bennett, a negro,
effected an entrance into an office
and confiscated two cigars and was
captured. A jury in the St. Clair
County Qll.) Circuit Court sentenced
him to six years in the penitentiary.
The theory on which the jury pro-
ceeded was that the thief stole the
cigars because nothing more valuable
could be taken. The thief, too, was
prepared to commit other crimes did
his safety and freedom demand it.
His presence in the Office, which was
effected by stealth, was, in the eyes
of the law, a greater crime than the
act of burglary itself. In some States
burglary is a capital Offense, as the
law presumes that the person who
would commit it would commit MUIR
der to protect himself. While the
penalty Of death is perhaps too Sc
we're, Imprisonment for life for burg
larry is not. In the last few years a
large percentage Of murders commit
ted in Chicago have been the out
come of burglaries. The probability
of spending the rest of life in con-
finement would deter many a crimi-
nal from committing burglary.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08
Earning q Dollar,

At meeting of the Women's
Auxiliary" in -- it was agreed that
every member should contribute a
sum, not less than one dollar, which
she had earned especially for the
purpose. The money was to be
handed in at the next meeting of the
Auxiliary.
The time came, and the contribu-
tions were duly turned over to the
treasurer. Some members brought
two or three dollars, and the total
amount was really handsome and
encouraging. Then, of course, the
good women fell to rela ting their ex-
perience in earning the money.
One had done this and another
that; but Mrs Allen said nothing.
Finally her next neighbor asked:
How did you earn your contribu-
ton, Mrs Allen?"
Il got Mr.. Allen to give it to me- "
ooh! OH" cried several voices at
once, and young Mrs Smith said,
why, that wasn't according to the
agreement! We were to earn the
money ourselves [ shouldn't call it
earning it if l had got my husband
to give it to me-"
"Perhaps you wouldn't" said Mrs.
Allen. "And then again perhaps you
would, if your husband was like some
folks"
Nothing more was said. Mr.. AL
lens reputation was pretty we'll
known, and it was tacitly agreed that
Mrs. Allen had lived up to the spirit
Of her promise"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08

IT is to be hoped that Mrs. Thack-
cray, widow Of the novelist, has not
bequeathed private letters or journals
to some Froude who will proceed tc
pillory her and her husband and their
friends as Froude has done the Car
lyles. Thackeray was on terms of
confidential intimacy with a large
number of the most conspicuous peo-
pie of his time. He was an acute OBJ
server, especially of personal traits,
and pungent note-maker Of social
foibles. His literary remains, or
those of his widow, would be alluring
prey for sensational executor.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08

THE law looks with disfavor upon
all contracts in restraint of trade. If
the contracts are unreasonable, they
will not be enforced. Contracts of
this kind are held unreasonable when
they would prevent a person from
ever again, anywhere, engaging in a
particular business, or where, though
not so broad, they still cover too
much territory. Reasonable restric-
tions will, however, be enforced when
there is a sufficient consideration.
These rules apply with full force to
agreements not to buy live stock. In
case recently decided, the Supreme
Court of Nebraska upholds contract
by which a party, who sold his bust
ness and the good will thereof, agreed
not to buy hogs or cattle to ship from
certain point named, the agree
ment to be in force so long as the
purchaser should remain in the bust
ness of buying and shipping from
that place. One thousand dollars
was the consideration paid. The sell
CT Of the business, however, it would
seem, sought to break up the bust
ness of the purchaser. Thus, after a
number of farmers had sold their
hogs to the latter for as high price
as the market would bear, he would
come in and offer them a greater
price. Such course the court de-
clared clearly wrong. He should
either do business at some other
point, or else repurchase the business
sold.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08

A WELL-KNOWN chemist was boast
ing, in the company OF friends, of his
well-aSsorted stock in trade. "There
isn't drug missing" he said, mot
even one of the most uncommon
sort" "Come now," said one of the
by-standers, by way of joke, II bet
that you don't keep any spirit of con-
tradiction, well stocked as you pre-
tend TO be-" "Why not?" replied the
chemist, not in the least embarrassed
at the unexpected sally. "You shall
see for yourself" So saying, he left
the group and returned in few min
utes leading by the hand-his wife!
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-02-08

MANUSCRIPTS by noted authors
have SO great a value as autographs
that within the past few years some
authors have stipulated with publish
ers that their manuscript shall be
kept clean-perhaps copied on type
writer for giving out to the printers
and returned to them, that their
families may traffic in them after
they are dead, presumably. T. B.
Aldrich is said to be one Of the au
thors who always want their COPY
back.