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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22
PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES.

Governor Mckinley, Of Ohio, as the
Republican nominee for the Presidency
seems to be steadily gaining ground,
while Boss Reed, who a year or more
ago seemed to have New England solid,
is gradually receding from view as the
possible choice of the next national
Republican convention for that high
Office. Ex-President Harrison, who has
many friends. appears to be playing q
waiting game, 80 far as the Republican
nomination for President Is concerned,
and the probabilities are that while he
Ia waiting and resting on the "lsurels"
won In his first administration, some
younger and more energetic Republican
will walk away with the prize. So far
as the Democratic nomination for Presia
dent 10 concerned, there seems to be no
one prominently figuring for the place.
unless 1t Is Senator Hill, Of New York.
Mr.. Cleveland, so his friends in Wash
ington say, scouts the Idea of being q
candidate for third term, and this Is a
wise view for him to take. Ambassadors
Bayard is entirely too much English to
be available as Democratic candidate
for the Presidency in tho present state
of the public mind towards the mother
country. Mr.. Eustis, ambassador to
France, is American enough, but his
home is on the wrong side Of Mason and
Dixon's line. Vice President Stevenson
has many admirers, who in 1897 would
like to see him in the place now filled
by Grover Cleveland, but his boom, like
Boss Reeds among the Republicans,
has dwindled away until but little is
heard Of 1t.
The report that boom will be started
In Missouri for Senator Vest Is no doubt
joke telegraphed East by some West
ern humorist. On the whole, 1t Is i'm
possible just now to predict with any
certainty what the Republican and
Democratic national conventions will do
next year in the matter OF Presidential
candidates. The currency sgitation Is
we'll on. The times are ge.ting better,
and what some statesmen now think
will be the leading question in the next
Presidential campaign may be out of
the issue entirely then.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22
THE INCOME TAX DECISION.
What Russell Sage and President Harrison
Say AboutIt.


Say About 1t.
NEW YORK, May 21.-Russel Sage
being interviewed regarding the de-
cision OF the Supreme Court in the mat
ter OF income tax law says: THE in.
como tax decision Is very fortunate for
tho best interests Of the country. 1t
marks the beginning of the downfall
OF populism and extreme seotionalism.
1t will Still further elevate our credit
with other powers when they see the
integrity with which our courts dis
charge their duties. 1T will inspire COM
fdence in our stability and in our ability
to withstand periods of depression. |
believe the decision will have more
lasting effect upon our credit than any,
thing that has taken place in five
years"
Ex-President Harrison, in an inter
view said: II have not had time to read
the dispatches carefully but 1 am con-
vinced that the general effect Of the
decision will be good. mean that it
Will be better for the country at large
than the law as it stood after the last
action OF the Supreme Court-for 10
could not be worse under any finding.
~ am Inclined to think that 1t will
convince the people that they can ex-
pect some recognition in the admins
tration OF tho affairs OF the country.
When the Supreme Court handed down
an opinion some time ago the law was
left in badly mangled condition. No
more unjust, pernicious, unequal and
unfair measure could have been adduoed
by studied application than was the
income tax law rs 1t stood under the
recent ruling of the Supreme Court.
ut lifted the burden from the shoul-
derS of the bOndhOldara and aOunon
clippers and placed 10 upon the toilers
and the workers OF the nation. 1t might
have been just as fair for the govern
ment to have said to It's revenue Off :.
GERS that they should 20 out and sand
bag every third man they met and take
his money from him. Even that would
have been more just and equitable
measure than the law as 1t stood, for
then each citizen would have chance
OF escaping from the assault by not be-
ing the third man."
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22

The advent OF the circus here to-day
will carry joy to many juvenile hearts.
as we'll as pleasure 10 older people. The
surrounding country will be we'll repre-
scented, and although some money will
be carried away, large sum ought also
to be distributed snong our merchants
and business men. A oiEcus with 9 good
menagerie attached is equal to @ years
study Of natural history with books and
teachers only. Hero the pupils see
many strange varieties of animal life
that would never otherwise be seen, and
OF which they could form no conception,
except by pictures, which, however
fairly they may represent objects, are
not by any means equal to life itself.
The circus and menagerie are no doubt
the legitimate descendants OF the old
games and contests Of Greece and Roms.
except that they represent far more
humane and progressive civilization.
Mankind must have novelty and excite
ment, and when this is not wicked or
immoral and Is combined with oppor-
tunities for the increase of knowledge,
the disposition to crafty such desires
should not be discouraged.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22
INTERSTATE ENoAmpMENr.
Closing Scenes of tho Interstate Drill Yes.
Yesterday.

Closing Scenes of tho Interstate Drill Yes.
Yesterday.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May s1.--"Omaha"
Day was not down on the program as
originally intended by the drill man
aRement, but the last day of the on
campment cannos be properly called by
any other name. Memphis saw her
first crowd of 10000 people to-day, when
fully that number passed through the
gates at Montgomery Park to witness
the closing exercises Of the interstate
drill.
From early morning until late in the
afternoon every outbound car was jam
med inside and on top, and 1t was far
into the small hours of morning when
the last of the passengers got back to
the city. The shem battle and the
awarding of prizes were the attractions.
The mimic warfare was participated in
by every company on the grounds with
cavalry company and Calling gun
detachment on each side. Tue COM
handing officers were Col. E. S. Kel-
logg, United States Army, and Capt. h.
G. Ward, United States Army.
Following the sham battle the troops
were drawn up to parade reat in front
of grand stand, on which were Col. l. F.
Peters, general manager of the drill;
otcSlo, " o. "a Ou6 VI bQ0
three judges Of the drill; Gen. R. B.
Snowden. commanding the enoampment
and number of sponsors and their
aides. Up to this time no one but the
officers OF the drill had an inkling as to
what had been the result of the weeks
competitions. Opinions had been
numerous and various as to the compet-
ing companies, and there was no sur
prise when the sergeant was sent to
order ThurstoD Rifles of Omaha to res
port.
The Omaha boys were given rousing
reception. They have won many friends
during their short day in the city and
the bestowal upon them Of the Calves.
ton cup, together with the $4,000 first
prize, in class A, was q popular de-
cision. Captain Sharff mounted the
stand where the presentation Of the cup
and blue ribbon was made by General
Snowden and of the check by Colonel
Peters. He was congratulated by Lieu
tenant Steele on behalf of the judges on
the excellent work of his company.
Then followed in order the presen ia tion
OF ribbons and prizes in the other
classes.
Another popular victory was that of
the Morton Cadets The crowd had
been with them from the start and
they were expected to be we'll toward
the top of the list when the awards
were made. The prizes were awarded
as follows: GLASS A. infantry. free for
all-First prize, $4,000, won by the
Thurston Rifles Of Omaha, Capt. &. II.
Sharff, with q percentage of 90 s6;
second prize, S1,25O, Morton Cadets.
Washington. D. c., percentage, 96.6e;
third prize, $500, Company B, First Arr
tillery, infantry branch, Galveston.
Texas, percentage 1854.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22
The Elhs' Peace Convention,

BUFFALO, N. Y, May 2I.-Tne peace
convention Of the Elks ended with to-
days session, and after an excursion to
Niagara Falls to morrow the delegates
will leave Buffalo. The expectation
that the two warning factions would be
brought together by the conference has
only, in measure, been fulfilled as
yet and time only will show whether
the action to-day will end in one grand
organization or not. The result OF the
peace conference has been to strengthen
the jamestown faction and CORRESPOND
ingly weaken the other, as nearly all
the Atlantic City lodges represented in
the conference have joined hands with
the Jamestown faction.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22
AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.

Washington advices say 1t is not
probable that there will be an extra
session Of Congress in consequence Of
the recent decision OF the Supreme
Court In the income tax cases. Men,
bers of the administration acquainted
with the Presidents views, state un-
hes!tstingly that an extra session of
Congress is out OF the question. Nor Is
there the least likelihood OF another
bond issue. They say the Treasury now
has a balance of over $3.50, 900, 600,
which is available for all purposes. and
this amount is more likely to be In.
creased than diminished during the
next few months.
In the meantime, 1t is said, expendi-
lures will be kept down to the lowest
point consistent with good business
principles. and until the finances Of the
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22

The North Carolina Democratic ex-
ecutive committee at meeting Monday
night reaffirmed the declaration Of the
State convention in favor the free coin
age Of silver on q basis of 16 to l, and
endorsed the position of Illinois Demo.
Gratis in their demands for immediate
free coinage. They evidently intend to
take all the political ammunition out of
the Populists' wagon and use it where IL
will do the most good in the next cleo
ton.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22
A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.

Fourteen Persons Blown to Atoms by
Nitro-Glycerine at San Fran CISCO.
SAN FRANCIsCo. May 21.-A terrific
report and conclusion which was dis
tinctly felt to-day all through the city
and towns around the bay for distance
OF forty miles, was at first believed to
have been caused by an earthquake,
but proved 10 be an explosion in the
nitro glycerine and mixing houses of
California Powder Works st Plnol, across
the bay. The crew at the glycerine
house, four In number, and the foreman
80 the mixing house were all killed, as
we'll as nine Chinese workingmen IL the
laster department..
The explosion occurred in the nitro.
glycerine house and was probably
caused by the Chinese dropping can
OF explosive. The cause cannot bs
definitely ascertained, however, rs ell
connected with the building are doad.
There -ero two hundred Chinese in the
adjacent mixing room, and ab the sound
OF she explosion all ran. The force OF
the explosion WAS tremendous. Huge
pisces OF wood were thrown into the
bay distance of half mile, and
nitro glycsrine tanks were hurled
distance Of 500 yards. Hands, legs and
other parts of the mu tilated remains OF
the dead were scattered along the road
for mile.
The nitroaglycerine house first went
up. then the mixing storehouse and gun
gun cotton house followed by the nitro
Rlycerine house, three story frame
structure twelve hundred by fifty feet,
OF which not vessige remains; 1t con-
tanned eight thousand pounds of nitro.
glycerine and two thousand pounds Of
Hercules powder. A remarkable feature
OF the explosion Is although the store.
house containing one thousand pounds
OF Hercules powder is completely
wrecked It's contents are intact. In all
one thousand pounds of explosives went
up with roar and sheet of flame.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22

SEARCH for Captain Kidd's buried
treasure is again mania with Long
Islanders. Recent reported finds OF
coins and silver bricks on the eastern
end OF the island have set all the peo-
pie there to spadiDg with the probablliA
ties that the land will become doubly
productive, and thus the old and only
reliable method OF getting gold out the
ground will be fully realized by the
anxious searchers.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22
SOUTHERN pREsBYTEgIANs.
Proceedings of the General Assembly al
OAllas, Texns, Yesterday.

HFoccouinBs Oh tn6 sfenerai Assembly at
Dallas, Texas, Yesterday.
DALLAS, Tex, May 21.-This was the
fifth day of the Southern Presbyterian
general assembly. The committee ap-
pointed by she general assembly of 1894
reported First, Against the ACCESSIBILITY
of combining the foreign missionary and
home missionary because Of the practi-
cal difficulties in the way OF Joint man
agement Second, Again for the transfer
Of the invalid fund and Its management
to the trustees Of tho general assembly's
homo and school at Fredericksburg.
Third, Recommending an endowment
OF 800, 900 for the invalid fund, the de-
tails thereof to BIO left to the discretion
OF the committee having the invalid
fund In charge, subject to fuller as
semblies. The report was adopted.
The report OF the standing committee
on colored evsngelizstion and o minor
lily report on the recommendation of an
independents synod led to q lively de-.
bate. Rev. A. L. Phillips in ans er to
an inserrogatory submitted by one OF
tho committee said the question OF sep
arate organization had been settled
twenty-one years ago. Rev. p. Fl.
HoRe, of Virginia, wanted the report
recon mitted when read the first time,
but the sentiment OF the committee Was
against the procedure and the matter lie
pending.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22

ALL who have read Secretary Car
isles speech must admit that it Is one
Of the strongest and most complete re-
views OF the currencyquestion from a
sound money standpoint that has yet
been made. No man should set himself
up as teacher OF finance who has not
thoroughly mastered the subject, and
yet the number OF quacks In that line
is constantly increasing.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22

country are in moro satisfactory con-
dition expenditures on account of
public buildings will be limited to the
actual necessities OF each case. Little
new work will BIO begun that can be
safely delayed, and the ordinary run
ming expenses OF the government will
be looked after with view to enforce
ing the utmost economy.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22
British Sealing Sch ooner Seized

SEATTLE, Wash, May 21.-The
steamer Topeka just arrived from Si.ka
bringing news thai the revenue cutter
Corwin seized the British sealing
schooner Shelby for violating the seal
Ing laws and brought her into Sitks.
She was turned over to the British
cruiser Pheasant, who sent her to Vic
toria This Is the first seizure this
season.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22
Argentine minister in washington.

WASHINGTON, May 21.-Senor v. S.
Dominique to-day presented to the
State Department his credentials as
charge in the affairs and minister adj
interim for the Argentine Republic. He
Genes from Madrid, whore he was sec
retary OF legation. Senior Dominique
left Madrid about the middle of April,
at which time tho prevailing opinion
was that Spain would end the Cuban re-.
bellion in about three months.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22

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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22
Five Peraons Bnrned

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 21.-It is now
believed that the loss OF life in the fire
at Gate City Sunday will reach five
persons. Further search of the debris
OF Fant's boarding house to-day dis
closed more chsrred bones. Besides
Pat Woods. whose body was recovered,
two missing men have not been found.
Two women are also missing, and the
bones found today are believed to be
those OF the four persons unaccounted
for. The two missing men had just
come to Gate City from Pennsylvanis
and their names are unknown.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22
Trial of Gentry Postponed,

PHILADELPHIA, Pn.. May 21.-The
trial OF James b. Gentry, who shot and
killed Actress MadRe Yorke, at Zeisses
Hotel on February II, to-day was post.
poned until the June term.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22

STRAW mattings in great variety and
at bottom prices at The E. II. Stewart
Furniture Company,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22

THE weather bureau at Washington.
in the review Of crop conditions for the
week ending May co. says the excep-
tionally cool weather during that period
has been very unfavorable for most
crops. and widespread injury has been
done by frosts, which have been general
throughout the northern and central
as the northern portions of Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi. Cotton has
suffered much from the unseasonably
cold weather. us growth has been
retarded throughout the cotton region,
and cold nights have killed part Of
the crop in the Carolinas and Georgia,
rendering replanting necessary.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22

WALL paper and carpets at 1874 Salem
avenue. VIM, L. Baker Carpet Co.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22

The opening Of 1872, 900 acres of public
land In the Kickapoo reservation to
settlement next Thursday will be fol-
lowed by another great rush OF white
men into the Indian Territory "Soon-
ers" are already swarming into the
country and the chances are that many
lives will be lost in the mad scramble
for priority. II some systematic plan
could be devised for settling the public
instead of making possession question
'ot strength andlendurance, such blessings
would be much more evenly distributed.
The present plan works like regular
scramble of barn yard fowls for grain
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22

NEATNESS taste and good workmanship
N'A1NA A'Ao, mako o readable "ad," Soel
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-22
Say, Mister Rover !!

Negllgee Shirts and
Summer Underwear
a-humming now.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-05-15
"TooK THE WRONG MEDICINE"
Why This Headline So Often Appears In
the Daily Newspapers.


IL is an odd trait in human nature
that n man who has been ordered by his
physician to take paregoric will never
take it If there is any carboio acid or
prussic acid in the house that he can
absorb In preference.
Statisticians who have studied the
thing declare that an invalid will search
the whole house for poisonous drug
and drink It rather than the medicine
ordered by the doctor. The death no.
tioes in the newspapers in cases of that
kind are generally headed. "Tock the
Wrong Medicine.
A man arrived at his home tho other
evening, and glancing ON ths bureau
saw bottle of liquid that he had been
ordered by the doctor to take.
THAT looks like the stuff" said he.
"but I'm not sure. AS was locking up
the cellar saw behind an old shelf n
blue bottle that looked as If it hadn't
been touched for years. 1t said on it,
'Sulphuric Acid Now that bottle on
the table looks exactly like the ono
drank out of last night, but still have
an idea that the stuff down in the cellar
is what tho doctor means for me.
don't know how the dickens 1t got down
there when it's meant for me to take,
or how this bottle that isn't meant for
me to take got on this bureau. But I'm
not going to take any chances. I'll just
go down into the cellar and make sure,
and I'll throw this stuff out Of the win
dow"
Then he cautiously went down stairs
and took the sulphuric acid, and he
was buried in due form after an ambu-
lance surgeon had done his best and the
coroner's physician had made COM
plete investigation and autopsy.
1t isn't only children who make these
blunders. Doctors will tell you that they
have only to label a bottle Lotion, For
External Application Only" to make
sure Of its being drunk. If patient
gets bottle Of corrosive sublimate to
put on a felon ON his great toe and
doesn't I use It all, he will carefully save
It. Ten years afterward doctor gives
some cough mixture to him, and then he
goes and hunts up the corrosive subli-
mate bottle, plays three card monte with
1t and the cough mixture, gets them
thoroughly mixed up 80 that he can't tell
one from the other, and then when he
feels that tightness across the chest that
the doctor told him about he swallows
part Of the corrosive sublimate and
leaves his widow to collect the life
insurance BY no accident is the cough
mixture ever taken--it is always the
corrosive sublimate. New York Her.
aid.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-05-15
jacks Royal Spree.

"Kipling ought to study Jack, p" said
O naval officer. Jacks the most pic
turesque man ON land or sea, and no.
body has written about him as he is
''If could do 1t as we'll as Kipling,
there is one story know OF which is as
good as tho 'Reinoarnation Of Krishna
Mulvaney.'
"When was assistant engineer on
the San Francisco, there was a coal
passer named Tom Delargy under me.
He had been saving up his money for q
long time to cut big splurge when he
was discharged. think he had about
5000 coming to him. =
Jack is a royal 'spender. and his
shipmates all told him that he needn Z
60 farther than the Bowery to have the
most gorgeous spree.
"But Delargy wasn't going to be SO
commonplace He took time to think it
all out. and whenever he got hold Of an
American newspaper he studied II. The
way the railroad magnates enjoyed life
struck his fancy.
80 when his time was up. and Pay
turned over Delargy's 5000 to him, he
went and chartered private car and
rode around the country till his money
was gone. Then he came back and re-
enlisted. New York Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-05-15
CURIOUS WEDDING CUSTOMS.
Some Odd Phases OF Social Life In North
ern Michigan.

Some Odd Phases Of Social Life In North
ern Michigan.
Many curious customs arc in vogue
among the foreign population Of north
ern Michigan, especially in social mat
ters When French couple get mar
ried, carriage or q sleigh ride Is in
evitable, according to tho season Of the
year, The couples are not packed to-
gether In ono wagon or sleigh, but each
fellow and his girl have an individual
rig, the bride and groom taking the lead
and the others following like funeral
procession, but there is nothing funereal
about it, especially the pace set After
the procession has been riding for hours
dance ends the festivities
The Polanders have curious wed.
ding custom that is very ingenious as q
money getter, and takes the place Of
wedding presents After the wedding
feast follows o dance that sometimes
lasts 10 to IA hours, and even longer.
The chief honor is to dance with the
bride, and this is decided In curious
manner. The mother Of the bride takes
her place in one corner with plate in
her lap, which she takes very good care
shall be built after the plan Of an eat.
ing house coffee cup. The gallant who
wants to dance with the bride, and all
are in honor bound to do SO at least
onoe. must pull out piece of silver and
endeavor to chip or break the plate by
throwing their money upon II, and only
those who succeed in chipping or break.
ing the plate arc allowed tho coveted
honor. Let those who think II easy to
break an ironstone plate try It Few
succeed In doing 1t for less than 80
cents, and it is not an unusual thing for
the brides money to amount up to t76
or 800. even where the crowd Is ap.
parently as poor as o church mouse, and
1t may 60 even higher when the bride is
pretty and popular. All the money goes
to the bride. and In q baokwoods ooun-
try $50 to $40 will start happy couple
nicely in housekeeping. Detroit Free
Presa