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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-20
DIR. HOLMES rs RECOVERfNG.

TIE ,r,s sr.rrrrrD An ATTACK or GRIP. BIT
MS CONDITION Is not SERIOUS.
Boston. Feb Ig-Rcgar!ing several conhi'tinS
statements az 20 the health % Dr. Oliver Ncnie"
Uoucs Judge Holmes. The poets son. SAID To-Day
that the truth Of the story is tha; about TWO "'eh
80 bia f,fhrr was seized with slight attack "i
tho grin He has since recovered from ife attack
bu, i suffering 20 some cXi"ni from thc ',S uy ~
,rhiob sometimes results from tho disorder lie u
en- ,,hor respects in hs usut health. j. n1t CON
0ncl 70 his bel ana his condition IS not Snch az w
cauee any alarm.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-20
poUGBLY HANDLED BY BROTHERS.

e.,,ox,r PENN. Feb. Bon Saturday evening q
,.r,v Of Ave young men drove in sleigh from Dam
y,lle to Washinstonville. The party consisted Of
John Meyer John and Stephen HS%an 9rS,hsrs
an" ~" nsrty was in Washingt lnville Meyer and
Hahn Mme Hnffman became involved in a quarrel. and
J9in US thrown to ne noor. As he lay upon the
yds MoySdr siephen Herman bent over him and delib-
poaIus, 81 kis throat from ear with n pocket
erately ent ms rH The Hofrmans ned Meyer is stil
i,,,s hut II is thought he cannot live Mccormack
ar nd ifenbart have been locked UP as witnesses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-20
PROPERTY WORTH, sso.ooo.oo INVOLVED.

st. Louis. Feb. ia suit filed In the circuit
Court this afternoon which creates a sehsa.ou.
The action Is brought by the Recquette Property
Company. through its attorney John NJ. Glover
against Mary f. Patterson and Is the first OF a
series OF suits which will involve the titles 70 ai'
the property on one side OF owes Is value nearly
$50 OOO Over forty heirs are nteres,su III, ,i ne he
coming litigation. and In al sixty su''' "'' w
brought
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-20
ro1,p TRAIN ROBBERS CAUGHT.

Denver Feb l9-Wher the Santa Fe train arriVed
from the East yesterday two officers pounced upon
lanes Rutherford. OF Benton County ATM, i,o VINO
e. suspected Of being one Of the gang oi oh Uahas
n,ho robbed an Iron Mountain train at Olphaht
WI Wn Navcn1her l. In the scufie which followed the
arrest a revolver discharged %ounulns one oa
,he onicers G. H. Thlel, in the right knee. IhFee
more OF the robbers said TO be on their way 10
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-20
LITTLE HOPE FOR TIE MINERS.

prscr,rNG WORK At THE GAYLORD NINE
GOfsG OS SLOWLY.
Wukcsbarre. Feb l9-To enter the Town OF
pIvnou,h to-day one would never dream that n
catastrophe mad occurred there ana f'w
curlostv-scokers were seen at the Gay'orl nine
From all that can be learned. there ~ not ray oi
hone of securing the men alive anu IL VII" pe
many days y"' before they are fouil n,
The reports given out by many oi INC iiinr OH
clals are misleading. ani cannot DE ff"u upon.
,Tbe ne,vs that comes from the rescucrs below mas
been meacre al day. The work o' the rescuns
party is going on slowly. ana tn.y havr ihdue ~
ittle hcadway since yesterday. Inc MN" ~ ~
a,Ich n bad condition ihat the men cannot push
the work 10 any degree OF safety.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-20
nIo pHILADELpHTA HOUSE.

n.r...,nn,a. Feb 1a-one Of the largest business
f'er noro,,ated in this city has just been con-
BY firm Of c%Sf % a bF9hsr r srro Of M|a anS
kee %hD Do,Ions stcre Of Granville B. Haines Co..
s sd @ for nAs k.
delphia. - Ia un,ddersiood to be about ts00OO0
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-20
DIRK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1891 TWELVE
JOSIAH QUINCY, REFORMER.
FIGURES IN 4 NEW SCANDAL.

HOW A GOVERNMENT CONTRACT WAS
SECURED THROUGH HIS INFLUENCE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-20

with that of the Peters Company without the
latter before him. Mr.. Fraser himself could not
have prepared a second bid exactly like the hrst
without copying line after line. 1t Is. therefore,
reasonable to infer that Horace kenney VINO
was not familiar with the lithograph business
could not do So and that the similarity between
the two bids was something more than an acci-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-20

Chicago. Feb 1s.-The condition OF Steele Mac
,.ua The manager and dramatist. was critical to-
dov The watchers at his bedside Mt the Richie
lieu Hotel said he was barely living and might ex'
,,ire at any momenl-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-20

THE SENATE ORDERS AN INNEsTi"AIioN-iiiA HE
ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO
BIDs OFFERED FOR fklNIi"" III"
"pArEST OFFICE GAZETTE WAS
CENTS AND MILLS IN FANoi'
OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATES
MANS CONCERN on TOTAL
OF si5ooOO-&O PLANT TO
10 THE WORK WITH.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-08-30
The Fascination OF Prospecting.

Prospecting is a fever-a mania
which grows on one as does the habit
OF gambling, which it resembles, both
being games of chance, The "knack
at hoping" and the excitement induc-
ed by the hope-keeps alive many
men to-day whose hair and beard are
as white as the snow on the mountains.
Once prospector, always prospect
or, unle y strike is made that will
keep the lucky one in affluence the
baian ce of his days. Then, oft times
the riches from one mine but serve
to dig Improbable holes in the ground
OF which the only product is hope.
And then one lucky strike-one man
made rich in few months! How
many men does it cause to shoulder
apick and shovel, tramp all day over
the mountains, sleep on the hard cold
ground at night and exc out pre-
carlous existence as prospector? It
is seldom that the man who discovers
the mine makes the money. 1t is the
man with the silver and gold in his
pocket that comes afterward. In
nlnety.nine cases out of hundred
the man who makes the money is not
the man who "hooofed" it into new
mining country but the man who, a
few years later, rides into town in a
palace car. Few prospectors get rich
fewer save their richer. The pros.
Pector's life is not an easy ono-t'is
simply happy onc.-Ex.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-08-30
AMENDMENT NO. XIV.

Resolved by the Senate. the Assem-.
oily concurring, That the Constitution
of the State of Nevada be amended as
follows:
Amend Section ID of Article V. of
the Constitution of the State of Neva-
da SO as to read as follows:
Section fourteen. The Governor.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
Attorney General, or a major part of
them, of whom the Governor shall be
one, may, upon such conditions and
with such limitations and restrictions
as they may think proper, remit fines
and forfeitures, commute punish
ments and grant pardons after con-
victions in all cases except treason
and impeachments, subject to such
regulations as may be provided by
law relative to the manner of apply
ing for pardons.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-08-30
AMENDMENT NO. XVI.

RESOLVED by the Senate, the Assem-.
bly, concurring, That the Constitution
of the State of Nevada be amended as
follows:
Amend Section II of Article V. of
the Constitution of the State of Ne
vada by entirely repeating and strik
ing out the same. This amendment
shall not shorten the term nor affect
the tenure of office of the present in
cumbent of the office of Lieutenant
Governor.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-08-30

1t is said that Emperor William
will endeavor to stop the observance
OF Sedan day, as it reviyes painful
memories on the other side OF the
border. 3d.. ......
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-08-30
POLITICAL announcements Al. PULLMAN l

Announcements under tits head
will be published up to IT, & General
Election for $3.50, invaI. iably in ad-
vance.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-08-30
DAILY INDEPENDENT.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 80. 1894
ConstituttOnal Amendments.
AMENDMENT NO. XIV.


Resolved by the Senate, the Assem-
bly, concurving, That the Constitution
of the State of Nevada be amended as
follows:
Amend Section 16 of Article V. of
the Constitution of the State OF Neva-
da so as to read as follows:
Section sixteen. All grants and
commissions shall be in the name
and by the authority of the State of
Nevada, sealed with the Great Seal of
the State, signed by the Governor,
and countersigned by the Attorney
General as eT-oBfcio Secretary of
State.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-08-30

Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
APass 0rapa cseasn u Tartar Powder.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
Killing Cattle Mercifully.

It is often urged that the present
barbarous methods of slaughtering
cattle should cease. The plea for de.
cency and humanity in the work have
been made over and over and always
failed, but now the scientists are
aroused. They say that a change in the
method of slaughter would benefit the
health Of the consumer, for the terror
to which the animal is subjected neces-
sarily affects the flesh, at times ac-
tually poisoning it.
There is no necessity for the scenes
now enacted at the slaughter-houses.
Various devices have been invented to
perform the work quickly and decent
". The illustration represents the
Swiss method of slaughtering cattle.
The invention consists Of mask or q
plate of iron, which fits the forehead
of the animal, and is readily attached
by straps, which are fastened round
the horns. In the center of the mask
is fixed a steel gun, ten inches long
and of about thirty-eight callibre, the
breech being outward and provided
with steel needle, which, on being
struck with a small hammer explodes
the ordinary metallic cartridge with
which it is loaded. The barrel is
fixed at such nm angle to the interior
surface of the mask that the bullet
pierces the center of the brain, as
shown in the small side illustration,
and is buried in the spinal marrow,
producing instantaneous and painless
death. With tame, quiet cattle aform
of this implement is used which is not
bound to the head, but simply applied
to the forehead and fired. In either
case the result is the same. The OK
walks without fear or apprehension to
the shsmbles, touch is given to the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
An cid Maple Tree.

One of the most curious trees in
Germany stands on the left bank of
the river Oder, in Ratibor, Silesia. It
is maple, at least 100 years old, which
has been twisted and cut into sort of
circular two-storied house. A fight
OF steps leads up to the first level,
where branches have been gradually
woven together so that they make a
firm leafy floor; above this is second
floor of smaller diameter, formed in
the same way, and the ends of the
branches have been woven into solid
walls, and cut so that eight windows
light each of the apartments Below
the first floor, at the level OF the
second, and at the top of the tree the
boughs have been allowed to grow out
naturally, while the intermediate walls
and the edges of the window-like open
ings are kept closely clipped. Detroit
Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
The Nile by Night.

IT suppose no professional globe.
trotter' is ever satisfied" said James
T. Hurd, of New York, without q
sojourn in Alexandria and voyage
of four or five weeks up the Nile. The
river itself, I must say, did at first
sadly disappoint me. We Americans
are apt to be rather exacting in the
matter OF naturally enough,
considering the beauty and grandeur
of our own. When I saw the strong
stream in the hot sunshine, looking
like floating mud rather than water, I
hated to believe it the Nile of my
dreams. Beauty, majesty and power,
not utility, was what I wanted to see
in the historic river. But when the
sun went down and the moon gilded,
not silvered, the stream, then it be-
came, indeed, the river Of my i'm
sgination. The unsightly banks,
which by day were steep walls of black
mud, like huge unbakcd brick, be.
came picturesque and even beautiful,
with waving groves of palm and fields
Of grain. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
FALL FASHIONS.
FULLER SKIRTS AND LARGER
SLEEVES FOR DRESSES.
Reappearance Of Round Waists In
Numerous Ways-An Adirondack
Maids Hunting Costume
Quaint Divan' Pillows.

T7HE first autumn dresse:
brought over from Paris and
1 London, according to Har.
per's Bazaar, have fuller skirts
and even larger sleeves than those now
worn. The skirts are gored rather
closely about the hips, but are very
full in the back and wide at the foot.
They are lined and interlined, but
fortunately are of light weight wool
ems, and are very little trimmed. A
bias satin fold an inch wide headed
with narrow band of jet is around
the foot of very handsome cloth
gowns. Others have merely a fold of
the wool, camels-hair or basket cloth
below the edge, between the outside
and lining, and held there by three or
four rows of stitching, which give q
neat finish. Three back cores, pointed
at the top and spreading out in fan
pleats to the foot, are on many skirts,
some of them completed by the little
projecting basque introduced in the
spring with silk gowns.
Bias puffed sleeves are enormously
wide at the top, and are caught up or
draped by choux or bows. They taper
to the wrist, but are often left rather
large below the elbow and wrinkled
around the arm. which addsto the ef-
feet of great size.
Round waists reappear in many
way-box-pleated, slashed, with q
yoke, or with guimpe OF contrasting
material, the lower part carried up
above the bust in vandyke points and
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
4 Fireman,s Air Helmet.

A party of London fire department
officials are making tour of the great
cities of Europe and were recently
given an exhibition by the Vienna fire
department.
The appliance most interesting to
the English visitors was the chamois.
skin helmet and air life tube for use in
cellars or underground buildings when
on fire. It is the invention of Chief
Inspector Muller, second in command
of the Vienna Fire Brigade. The air
tube is spirally protected and cannot
bend or split. The end is attached to
a manual and the air pumped through.
The helmet is securely fastened to the
shoulders by two thin chains passed
under the armpits. 1t was subjected
to rigid test in the court of the Cen.
tral Fire Station. :, The fre-proof eel.
lar which the fireman thus equipped
entered was full of the densest smoke.
The English captains who assayed to
accompany him were quickly driven
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26

edged with jet galloon. Pleated waists
have two box pleats down the back,
starting from the shoulders, where
they are two inches and half wide,
and tapering an inch narrower at the
waist line. They are folded in one
piece, with the middle space being
plain. A side form begins under the
pleats so that the only seams shown
are those under the arm. The fronts
are much fuller than the back, having
two similar pleats and full gathered
plastron. The slsshing of waists is
confined to the front, like those de.
seribed in the summer.
Silk waists with wool skirts will re.
main in favor, and are Of very rich
fabrics-brocades, moire, satin and
velvet. A novelty for waists is silk
and wool moire, a similar fabric to
bengaline, but very soft and prettily
watered. The richest brocades for
waists are also soft, some having a
basket-woven ground, others armure
of two colors and the brocade o third
color, as b.ue and brown ground
with large green leaf design as glossy
as satin, yet sunk in the surface. Soft
collars with belt to match are Of satin
ribbons, or of the new supple moire
cut bias from the piece. Liberty
satin waists will be worn the color of
the skirt or in contrast to it. Thus a
mother and daughter just returned
from Paris have waists of the simplest
fashion of this plisble satin, the
daughter wearing corn-hower blue
crepon skirt with a mauve satin waist,
and also with q blue waist of satin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
STUDIES IN CREpoN.

We learn from the great importers
that crepons will be among the favor
ite materials. And this is not to be
wondered at when we consider that
crepon appears in 80 many forms and
designs. Those of this season thus far
are varied and beautiful The greater
number of them show groundwork
of one color, over which are thrown
stripes or designs in raised mohair or
soft chenille effects.
One of these latter is particularly
beautiful. The ground is an uneven
stripe of black crepon and black silk,
then bls,k and blue silk. Over this
is a dotted effect in cut chenille or
plush, in shades of golden brown,
shading from delicate yellow into rich
seal tints. The whole is most brilliant
and soft withaL Another crepon has
a dull heliotrope ground, with a black
chain stitch in mohair, forming q
stripe. Another produces black ef.
feet by stripes of dull sage and dull
plum color, with another stripe cross
ing these Of the curling mohair effect
in black.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
Famine In Japan.

There is village called Sammyo-
mura, among the mountains on the
southwest corner of the Province of
AVA, in Japan. It consists of three
hamlets, and has 600 houses in all.
Being cut off by natural obstacles
from other villages, it still retains its
primitive simplicity, and the in.
habitants have always intermarried
and kept an independent spirit Of
their own, never asking help, even in
times of greatest difficulty, from other
villages. Recently they have been
invaded by famine. The drought Of
last year, followed by similar ab-
sence of rain for seventy days tlis
year, have made their crops an utter
failure. Their sugar cane, indigo,
maize, oat and barley fields have
absolutely yielded nothing. But the
villagers, considering it disgrace to
ask help of other villages, resolved TO
wait quietly for death. In two OF the
hamlets, seventy houses with 334 in
habitants are suffering more terribly
than others from the famine. Their
neighbors can do nothing to help
them, for it is all they can do to keep
themselves alive. At first they fed
on grass and roots; and when they
were exhausted, they ground husks
and bran, and making them into
dumplings, ate them boiled. Even
these fell short. Next they turned
their attention to straw, which was
similarly treated, and now there is
not wisp of straw in the village, the
poor inhabitants lying at night on
bare boarding. Even young men are
now so weak that they cannot handle
their hoes. The matter has been
brought to the attention of the
Japanese Government, and steps are
to be taken for aiding the distressed
villagers. New York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
A Powerful Dredge.

One of the most powerful dredges
in the world has lately been construct
ed in Scotland. Formerly when it
was needful to make channel through
rook it was customary to shatter the
obstacle by blasting and then dredg-
inc out the broken material, but re-
cent dredgers are sufficiently power
tul to cut the way through rock with
out the necessity of preliminary blast
ing. The new dredger in question
has been constructed to meet the re.
auirements of new and important
channel at Bermuda, and is of
special workmanship. 1t is also
described as being the largest in
the world, having a displalace-
ment of 22OO tons, and is built en-:
tirely of steel; its length is 2OS feet,
beam forty feet, and its depth seven
teen feet three inches. dimensions
that enable it to 80 anywhere and face
any weather. The dredging gear,
ladder and bucket chain weigh about
100 tons, and are represented as the
strongest in the world; the gear has
such an excess of strength, indeed, as
to enable it to pull up the engine if
any issuperable impediment is met
with in working, and disaster will thus
be avoided. The bucket ladder is
fitted with ten powerful buffer springs,
to crush any shocks that may be ex-
perienced when the dredger is work
ing in q sea swell. The vessel will
dredge to depth of forty-five feet be-
low the water level. .---Detroit Free
Press
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
Electric Ranch Fences.

There are electricians in Texas
making specially of installing bat
terry outfits for charging barb-wire
fences with electricity. There are
many thousand miles of such fence in
Texas which serve to keep the cattle
in bounds, except in case of a stam-
pede, when the pointed barbs are en-
tirely too mild. 1t has been found
that such fences charged with elec-
tricity will stop the widest stampede.
It is also contemplated to attach tele-
phone transmitters and receivers at
convenient points to such electrified
wire and thus enable the "rounders"
TO be in constant communication with
ranch headquarters. As many OF the
ranches are scores Of square miles in
area, the utility of such use of elec-
tricity can readily be seen.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
RIBBON MUCH IN USE.

Ribbon is as much used now as ever
for trimming dresses; straps, bows and
bands Of ribbon ore employed in every
conceivable way; long straps are ar
ranged on the skirt in straight lines
from the waist downward, ending half
way down the skirt or nearer the edge
in bow, but straps are also fashion
able, rising upward from the edge in
straight OF oblique lines, to q height
of about twelve inches, each strap end
ing at the top under bow or rosette !:
these straps ere put rather near to-
gether and form Il border all around
the skirt. Robings and panels of lace
and embroidery are also trimmed and
draped with bows.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
Take no Substitute for
Royal Baking Powder.
It is Absolutely Pure.
All others contain alum or ammonia.
A Beautiful Mirage.
others contain alum or ammonia.

BuHfalonians who lifted their eyes TO-
werd the northern sky between 10 and
II o'clock the other morning saw there
beautiful and wonderfully perfect
mirage. 1t was the likeness of the
city of Toronto with its harbor and
little island which lies in Lake Ontario
a short distance to the south. Toronto
is ffty-six miles north of Buffalo, N.
Y, but those who first witnessed the
phenomenon were able to count the
church spires in the Canadian city.
The phenomenon is classed by natural
scientists as mirage of the third
order, the objects looming up far
above their real level and not inverted,
as is the case with mirages of the first
and second class, but appearing likes
perfect landscape far away in cloud
land. ......
The mirage showed the entire
breadth of Lake Ontario, projection
east of the mirrored Toronto being
easily recognized as Charlotte, .
suburb of Rochester. In direct line
between this point and Toronto Boy
q large sidewheel steamer could be
seen making her way. The vessel ply
ing on the Ontario at the time was the
Norseman. Far to the north Of this
steamer were seen two black objects
surrounded by smoke and standing
out from the CLASSY surface of the
water. They were two large steamers
of the New York Central Line, plying
between Lewiston and Toronto. A
sailboat, apparently yacht. was the
most distinct of all the objects. Her
main sail was set and she was lying
close to the wind. She was seen to turn
and careen with the west wind and
then suddenly disappear, as though
nature had removed slide from her
magic lantern. In the same way slowly
the whole great scene began to dis
solve. A bank of black clouds swept
along and obliterated the picture, to
the intense disgust of thousands who
had swarmed the tops of the highest
buildings. Chicago Herald.