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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.


Farr Compulsory Education Bill Nearing
n second heading.
HARRISBURG, Feb 25-This Will be an
evenJful week at the state capital. The
legislature will recCnvene tonight after
ten days recess, and will probably remain
in session until Friday night. Beginning
tomorrow the house will hold two sessions
daily. A meeting of the board of public
buildings and grounds will be held this
afternoon, at which Colonel John X. Rob
inson, of Mifliintown, will be chosen as
the successor TO Major John Lockhart, of
Philadelphia, as superintendent of that
department Major Lockhart has been
asked to resign, but has refused.
The board of pardons will organize to-
morrow and consider applications in
nineteen cases in which clemency Is
sought. Among these is the case of Hugh
f. Dempsey, the Pittsburg labor leader
serving a seven years sentence in the
eastern penitentiary for poisoning non
union men in the Carnegie mills at Home
stead, during the memorable strike. The
new board will consist of Lieutenant
Governor Lyon, Secretary of the Common
wealth Reeder, Attorney General McCor-
mick and Secretary of Internal Affairs
Brown.
Governor Hastings is expected to send
to the senate tomorrow number of i'm
portant nominations.
Tomorrow evening a reception will be
given at the executive mansion to the
United States senators, congressman and
congressmen-elect of Pennsylvania, state
Judiciary, governors staff, the generals
and field officers of the National Guard
AT the close of the session of the senate
on Wednesday ex-Lieutenant Governor
Watres will be presented with solid
silver service valued at 81 600 as a testi-
mOnial from his colleagues during his four
years service as presiding officer in The SEN
ate. Senator McCarrell, of this city, will
make the presentation speech.
Chairman Moore, of the house agricul-
ture committee, will present, during the
week, memorials from the subordinate
oranges throughout the state, protesting
against the repeal of the oleomargerine
law.
The bill providing for the publication OF
5000 copies of the famous "bird book
will be sent to the governor today for his
action. The Farr compulsory education
bill is near the head Of the house calendar,
and will be considered tomorrow unless its
advocates allow it to go over. Another
bill on the house calendar for second read
ing is that creating the office of state Gus.
| todian, against which there is much oppo.
sition. 1t will probable be reached to-
morrow.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

The Russian Mediterranean squadron
has been ordered to the far east.
In some parts Of Ohio miners have
worked but eighty-five days in year.
Ella and Fred Brooks 10 and 20 years
old, were killed by a train at Mansfield, O.
Catholic Bishop Watterson spoke before
the Y. M. Q. A. at Columbus, o., yester-
day
During a hotel fire at Princeton, MS,
four dining room girls narrowly escaped
sutfoCatiOn.
Mr.. Thomas Henderson, Of the Anchor
Line Steamship company, died in Glas-
gov yesterday.
The body of Max Berman, with a hand
kerehief tied tightly around his neck, was
found in the ice of the river at Cincinnati.
John Otto Meiske was arrested in Balti.
more yesterday, charged with the brutal
murder, about a fortnight ago, of Louis
Gilman, butcher.
Charles Nichols while trying to board a
swiftly moving trolley car at San Antonio,
Tex, fell beneath the wheels and was
mangled to death.
Rev. William Meade Jones, an Ameri-
can abolitionist, who for twenty two years
was the minister of a chapel in the White
chapel district of London, is dead.
Manuel Ruiz Gorilla, the noted Spanish
Republican, while on his way to Spain
after many years of exile, was stricken
with apoplexy on the Spanish frontier.
Attorney Pope Higgins, one of the best
known lawyers in western Missouri, has
been missing from Kansas City since Feb.
2, and IL Is feared he has been murdered.
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CONViC Is ul u.@E FIRE.
Two Dead and Eighteen Others Have
Narrow Escapes.

AWp DehA anu hlslt6th ObiSEb AAdNu
Narrow Escapes.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. ga fire oc-
Cured in tho Rock slope of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad company's mines
at Pratt City yesterday that resulted in
the death OF Louis Stevens and John Pat
ton, two miners, and more or less serious
injury to eighteen Others Twenty miners,
all convicts, were in the Rock slope, near
the air shaft, when they detected the smell
of smoke, and shortly afterwards an i'm.
mense volume of it came towards them
from the engine room, which was between
the air shaft and the cage leading out of
mine.
Driven by the smoke, the twenty men
hurried to the air shaft and there they
huddled together to keep from suffocating
Meanwhile the smoke became thicker, as
the fire issuing from the engine room
seized seven trans, and just on the out
side lot of waste and oil, and burned furi-
ously. Breathing became an affair of ex-
treme difficulty. Twenty three mules in
the stable in tho mines also felt the smoke
and tried to escape, and began kicking one
another to death and making night hide
Gus with their cries
John Patton and Louis Stevens finally
left the crowd at the air shaft and tried
to get to the cage shaft. They never
reached it, but were afterwards found
dead near the engine room. One of the
men had his head beaten almost into {
pulp, indicating that he had tried to Kill
himself rather than suffocate to death.
Smoke seen issuing from the shat
brought help via the cage, and in thre,
hours the fire was out, and the eighteer
men at the air shaft were brought up in {
more or less serious condition from suffo
cation. The mules worth S3,0OO were suf
focated or killed by kicks.
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LONDON, Feb. 25. "A Capetown mail
says a panic prevails at Lorenzo Marquee,
East Africa, in consequence of disaster
to the Portuguese forces on Feb. 2. Kaffirs
entered the Portuguese camp at dawn,
pretending that they were friends Most
of the soldiers were sleeping. Many OF
them were suffering from fever. The
Katfirs began killing them with assegais
Finally the troops were formed in hollow
square, and with the aid of the Maxim
guns they repulsed the natives, killing
800. 1t is reported that 200 of the Portu-
guese and their allies were killed and sixty
wounded
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An Insane Mans Crime.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 2~-At day
light Altamont G. Walker, "~,l known
business man, awakened his sleeping wife
and fired at her, the bullet IMPEDING itself
in the pillow. Mrs. Walker started to flee
from the room, but was grabbed around
the neck by her husband, who, with re-
volver in either hand, fired two more shots,
one wounding Mrs. Walker slightly in the
hand. Walker then turned the pistol on
himself and sent a bullet through his
lungs. He lived but short time. Mr.. and
Mrs. Walker, with their three children,
lived in a handsome house In one Of the
most fashionable streets. Insanity is sup
posed to be the cause of the tragedy.
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Forty Warrants for ons Theft.

PAULsBoRo, N. j., Feb. 25.-Warrants
were sworn out before Justice of the Peace
Isaac J. Cowgirl for the arrest of forty
workmen, all of whom are employees of 1.
p. Thomas, Sons & Co., the fertilizer man
ufacturers of this place. The charge was
the theft of $500 from the office of the COM
pany. The money constituted the pay of
the workmen for the last two weeks, and
while it had been laying carelessly in the
office some one of the employees, it is sup
posed, stole it. 1t is supposed that the
money has been hidden by the thief
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Another ALLEGED Thievlng Bank onioial

LYNCHBURG, Va, Feb. 25.-Walker G.
Hammer, for twenty years the trusted
teller of the First National bank, was ar
rested here yesterday, charged with en-
bezzling S23, 900 of the banks funds. The
announcement startled the community
and has been the talk of the town all day.
The bank officers are engaged in making
an in"rsrigation, ana will make public
an official statement. Hammer is bonded
for $15,0OJ and the bank, which is one of
the soundest in the south, will lose only
S8,0O0
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Bound and Gagged by Robbers,

robbers broke open the door of the resi-
denoe Of Miss Jane Momson, an aged spins
ter, seven miles north of the city. They
tore up sheets and bound Miss Momson
and Henry Bowers and wife to their beds
and gagged them, They searched the house,
overturning everything, and secured S2OOin
money, certificate of deposit for large
sum and gold watch. They escaped with
their plunder, and their victims plight
was discovered by neighbors and they
were released in the morning.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

TEE recent severity of the W Gather may
he judged from the fact that several
Arctic birds never before seen in England
have been captured in the Cambridgeshire
Gens. Along the South Atlantic coast of
this country the fish are reported to be
bsnumbed with cold and, floating in the
coast rivers In large schools, are caught
10y the boatload.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

THERE still are a few persons left on
earth who favor the revival of the whip
ping post, just as there is here and there
= malicious minded malcontent who
would extract the keenest pleasure from
seeing all his neighbors put to the rack or
Gortured with red hot irons. Fortunately
che influence of these persons is not likely
10 make a tremendous impression on the
legislatures,
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

LITTLE Rock, Feb. 25.-After deliberat-
ing two and one-half hours the jury in the
Woodruff case at Perryville returned a
verdict Of guilty, and fixed the punish
ment at one years Imprisonment. This
is the fourth trial in the famous case, and
has cost the state nearly $4,000. Wood
rutf's bondsmen have paid into the state
treasury 100000 on account of his defal.
cation
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DEANN ~ 0----N aT0HItHT-


His Mild tr.-r-r Droualit Trouble 60 %
tl'lar .t Gao Church.
There is now I,iag in orc of tho hotels
of Indianapolis O r.,her pruminont bust
ness man vino, although a pillar in the
church he attends and O. r.rycut disciple
Of temperance when hc is called upon to
address mocJIne yet rather admires tho
shade of liquor whom e. ii red Now, this
same man got the idea somewhere that he
really needed good, stiff bracor Of whis-
ky before each meal, and after pondcring
over several schemes i'm the hope of arriv-
ing at something which would keep the
snap concealed be fixed it with the CLERK
that he was to have sent to tho room at a
certain hour each day a silver pot in
which was concealed a glass of "pepsin, ,"
as it was christenud for the occasion. And
this went into effect Before each meal
the bellboy would be sent up by the clerk
with pot of "pepsin."
One day the head clerk was very busy,
and, as he saw it was the time for sending
up the liquor he turned TO another clerk
and told him to send up Mr.. IS pepsin
right away And it so happened that the
new olork wasn't on TO the scheme, and so
he called bcllboy, sent him into the drug
store and told him to have prepared stiff
uOSe OF the real popsln ana take 1t up to
the room designated. The bellboy after
ward told what he saw. The gentleman
met him at the door with a benign smile
and lordly air Of oondescension.
All, my boy" said he as he wiped his
mouth with his tongue, you have brought
my pepsin, see, You are a good boy
I'll just drink it right here while my
wife is getting ready for dinner"
He turned tho glass into the air, opened
his throat and threw back his face Just
here the bellboy isn't clear as to what
happened. He at first said that the man
gave "A gasp Of horror and shouted that he
was poisoned by enemies who were jealous
of his social successes, and then the boy re-
members that somebody's foot came in
contact with his trousers and he began GO
ing down stairs at most terrible rate.
1t seems clear that the business man did
make his appearance in the office few
| minutes later and asked what kind of pep
| sin that was he had been given. The new
clerk replied that it had been bought at
| the drug store. But just then the head
clerk came up, and the whole thing was
explained. Real pepsin was too much for
the old mans digestion.-Indianap
Sentinel.
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Light sentence for MansIauehter.

PITTsBURG, Feb. 25.-Thomas j. Scan
lon, convicted Of voluntary manslaughter
for the death Of Peter J. Brill was SEN
fenced by Judge John M. Kennedy to the
penitentiary for one year and eight
months. A motion for a new trial was
ovarruled
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

ALTOONA, Pa, Feb. 25.-A horse and
sleigh was unearthed by workmen who
were clearing off snow on the public road
between Chester Springs and Carrolltown.
The horse was frozen to death. 1t is be-
lieved that the person or persons who oc-
cupied the sleigh had left it to seek shell
ter, and will be found underneath the
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25
Our New Minister to Mexico.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The president
on Saturday nominated Senator Matthew
w. Ransom, of North Carolina Cwhose
term will expire March a, to be minister
to Mexico, vice Gray, deceased Mr.. Black
burn at once moved for an executive ses-
sion, and the senate confirmed the nom
ination without reference.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

Al a banquet Of lawyers in Edinburgh
not long ago toast was drunk to "The
greatest benefactor of the profession-the
man who makes his own will" This
seems to imply that wills drawn by law
Eers are not successfully contested in
scotland. A better toast would be to the
aaEn who wants to be benefactor and
EXECUTES his own will.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

LONDON, Feb. 25.-The Times has a dis
patch from Montevideo saying that it is
stated on good authority that the Brazil
ian government will attempt to make
terms with the revolutionists in the state
of Rio Grande do Sui. Admiral da Cana,
who succeeded Admiral de Mello in the
command of the rebel fleet during the late
insurrection, is at the head Of the move
ment, and it is said that he has a we'll
armed and we'll mounted force.
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Insanity in Oigarettes.

SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Pa, Feb. 25-Rob-
ert Smith, an 1S-year-old youth, was SEN
fenced by Judge Scott to imprisonment in
reformatory for having attacked his
father with a knife. He was steady Gig
arctic smoker and it is now alleged that
the lads mind is affected A lunacy com
mission will examine the case.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

SIX veterans OF Waterloo, fought eighty
years ago, are still living in France, four
teen in England and three in the United
States. This represents about all that
will be left OF the veterans in this coun'
try ffty years from now.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

NEWTON, Ia, Feb. 25.--J. r. Sollinger
a prominent merchant and ex-sheriff of
the county, reached his home with blood
flowing down his face, and in answer to
questioning said he had fallen or been hit
He died without speaking further. 1t is
believed he was murdered.
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rarmer LIAR M,Ins Hia nnmnre snit.

UNIoNTowN, Pa, Feb. ga verdict for
S3, ss1 was rendered in favor Of Daniel Hair
against Reed Brothers, operating as the
Acheson Coke company. They under.
mined his farm, causing it to cave in. IL
was also claimed that the mine is on fire,
burning products of his farm.
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saucy Little Japan.

LONDON, Feb 25-The latest commun-
ications between the British foreign office
and Japan in regard to peace negotiations
with China are reported to have led to a
distinct declaration on the part of Japan
that she is not desirous of any interfer.
ence by European powers.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

THERE will be no more new states ad'
7nitted during the present session of Con-
4yress, for the simple reason that the
Democrats do not care to increase the
strength of the Republican party in the
next Presidential election.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

THE high premium at which the bonds
of the latest loan are quoted shows that
The Government ought to have got better
terms than it did from the money lenders.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

TIE only effect which free silver talk
can have in Congress now is to delay ur-
gent legislation. No free silver bill can
reach the President either in this Con-
gress or the next one.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

TIE Japs have set Corea to rights and
are doing well with their job of house
cleaning in Asia. 1t is a large contract,
but the fiery little men have given no
81 gn Of a tired feeling.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

TRENTON Feb. 25.-Josephine Light, a
colored woman, Of this city, is under the
care Of four physicians, who think she has
hydrophobia, the result Of a dog bite re-
ceiyed last December She was bitten on
the little finger and aeshy part of the left
hand, and the wounds healed without any
trouble, On Saturday she was seized with
commissions, which have required every
few minutes since that time.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

LOOKING at his large yet helpless hands,
Mr.. Cleveland is doubtless thankful that
he is not to have this Congress on them
much longer.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

HALF dozen more Shermans and
GSrays and half dozen fewer Tellers and
1Ioneses in the Senate would be worth
billions Of dollars to the country's busi-
ness at this time, and be worth an
Sn6nitely greater amount to the country g
credit.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

THE fact of most Importance in the
financial matter is that there would be
no such trouble if the Democratic party
had been defeated in 1892
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

THE less the country hears of Congress
from March to December the better it
will be pleased. A rest from danger Of
currency tinkering is what is needed
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

ONE of the strongest props of the pub
lic credit is the foregone conclusion that
there will not be another Democratic Ad.
ministraUion in the next thirty years, at
least.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

THE present Congress will pass into
history as the one that missed more
chances of usefulness that any other that
ever existed.
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france DON'T Want Our Cattle.

PARIS, Feb. 25.-At "a meeting yesterday
of the cabinet council M. Gadeau minister
of agriculture, submitted decree prohib-
iting the importation into France of
American cattle on account of Texas fever
ard pleuro- pneumonia.
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BALTIMORE, Feb. 25.--Joseph B. Hall,
of North Beach, Md, was frozen to death
while attempting to drive across Sinepux-
ent bay on the ice. His horse dead and
buggy were later found fast in the ice
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Evening Herald.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1895.

IT is evident that Cleveland and Carl
sle are no match for Belmont and Nor.
gan in a bond deal
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BRIDGEToN, N. j., Feb. 95.-Mayor Ap-
plegate waited upon the cigar store pro
prietors of the city and warned them that
they must stop selling on Sunday This
action was taken in Difference to the re-
quest of the Citizens Municipal league.
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smallpox Near Bordentown.

BoRDENTowN, n. j., Feb. 25.-A case of
smallpox has been reported at White Hill,
near Bordentown. Joseph Pyott a mar
ried man, has been stricken with the dis
ease. The board of health has ordered the
premises to be quarantined
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25

The increase in the Treasury gold will
knock out the hoarders. Gold will not
be allowed to go to premium.
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Keokuk, an Indian chief furnished the
name for an Iowa town. The word means
sly fox
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EVENING HERALD
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aHHs gD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
rvDlicaton ONCE and mechanical department..
North Market Street.
Mbe BsrsId is delivered in Shenandoah and
surrounding towns for Six Gents
week payable to the carriers. BY mail Three
Nnllsra a year or Twenty-Five cents per month,
tH Edvanoe.
Advertisements charged according to space
t2r position. The publishers reserve the right
g1 change the position OF advertisements when
@voy the publication OF news requires It, The
stGht is also reserved to reject any advertise
w,ont, whether paid for or not that the pub.
tahers may deem improper Advertising rates
sade known upon application
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THE EVENING HERALD,
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During the Years Immediately preceding
the civil war $1,000 was a common price
for healthy young negro man.
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TIE only thing the Administration can
do in the matter of that obnoxious bond
contract is to plead paranoia
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The Boston brown bread is made Of rye
and oornmeal in the proportion of one to
two
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CITY OF MEXICO, Feb. 25.-In spite Of
all repo cUs to the contrary negotiations be-
tween Mexioo and Guatam ala are not ad-
vancing, and the delay is due TO De Leon S
dilatory tactics, wiiio Minister Mariscal
is doing all possible TO hurry the matter
up. De Leon asserts tha5 he is fully en-
powered 30 arrange matters to the end,
without the necessity Of consulting any
body The appOin Ilsu5 Of Senator Ran
som as minister to Mexico is received here
with the graa5rst satisfarsinn.
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Railway was once Rahwack, the name
of an Indian chief
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"The use of 'Castoria is so universal and
It's merits so well known that it seems a work
Of Rpererogation to endorse it, Few are the
intelligent families vino do not keep Castoria
within easy reach"
CARLos MARTIN, D. D.,
New York City.
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Castoria.

"Castoria $50 well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
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