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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-13

It IS not the ''bicycle face" but the
bicycle leg that attracts most men 5 at
tention.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-13

1t may be Naomia, or Jane or Steph-
anie, but a girl by any other name
won't be boy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-13

Some one has started the sensational
rumor that the work On the national
census of 1890 will soon be completed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-13

Several editors have thought of
Maria Halpin this week, and haven't
had the audacity to say So
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-13

Nervous apprehension causes the "bl-
cycle face" There must be ''presl-
Dental face"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-13

= raii-@r.ss fslsd "a S--ws. pair %
biolzs-rs sa.-s rzasg aassat de All rsoov-
e. --C1.ae.zs EseS1
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-13

Ralph Burton still insists that II Is
John j. Pants.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-13

C. Reeds duty is now to go up hill
and down Dale.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-13

Lewelling bribed the local Demo
Gratis. That's the buttermilk IN the
cooconut
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
a TRIPLE TRAcEDY

as ~Indinninn Chops on the Head OF Els
Fathsr-in-Law while tn tine Woods
Hunting CooHs-caliz Up His ~grothsr-fn-
Law and Cleaves His Head with IA Az
Later. Being Pnrsaed by . Posse, Shoots
and Kills himself
SULLIVAN, Ind, Sept. 6.-James
Ward murdered Aaron Hunter, his
fa~ther-in-law, and John Hunter, his
brother-in-law. near here. last night,
by splitting their heads open with an
ak, and committed suicide by shoot
ing when he was surrounded by q posse
determined to lynch him. The double
murderer lured his victims : o their
death.
The trouble grew ont of q domestic
quarrel. Thursdaysnight at II o'clock
Ward and Aaron Hanter were in to wn
and apparently arrived at a satisfac.
tory understanding. Ward insisted,
however, upon the old maj. going to
the woods for the purpose of hunting
coons. While the hunt was in pro-
gress and Hunter was sitting on a
stump, Ward hit him on the head with
an ak. His head was split wide open.
When Hunter fell. Ward struck the
PROSTATE body again and cut off the
head. The ak sank into tile ground.
The murderer then proceeded to kick
the head of his victim about.
He then went home, awoke his wife,
and told her to call her brother, as he
and the old man had freed a coon, and
ask him to come and help fell the
tree.
The younger Hunter got up, and
went out into the yard with only his
shirt on. when Ward, with one stroke
OF the ax. felled him to the ground.
Young Hunter died almost imme-
diately with his head split open.
Ward then told his wife to keep quiet
about the whole affair, that il she did
not she would suffer the same fate as
her father and brother.
Ward then went about half a mile
down the road and stopped at the
Breckels' home. He told Mrs. Breck-
els that he had killed both the Hunt
ers.
Before many hours the crime was
generally known. and a posse, consist
ing of miners and farmers, started on
the hunt for Ward, armed with vari-
u weapons. Ward had two revolt
vers, and this fact was known by his
pursuers.
The posse became enraged when the
old mans body was found and more
determined than ever to hang Ward IL
caught.
Just as the posse had located Ward
and surrounded the field in which he
had been hiding, a single shot was
heard. The posse closed in on the
spot from whence the firing had come
and found Ward on his back on the
ground with a revolver in each hand
and a bullet wound under the left ear.
He was dead.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
MINERS ~ENTaAPPEp.

cut on BY Fire In = Michigan Copper Nin
Thirty Men Supposed TO he Lost-Qnly
| Ons Poor Chance of Escnps Through an
Abandoned HecIa Min shsft-Pafhefio
Scenes nj the Moush Of chs Mine.
HoUGHroS, Mich. Sept. z.-At 1880
o'clock this afternoon fire was discov-
cred by timbermen in the thirty
seventh level of the Osceola copper
mine. The timbermen at once rushed
to the shaft and when brought TO the
surface in the big bucket ave the
alarm Thirty miners were al work
at the time, and up to q late hour to-
night but n person had been res
cued, q pump boy, and he died shortly
after reaching the open air.
The blaze on the thirty-seyenth level
is !, 1000 feet below the earth's surface.
The underground workings are heavily
timbered with pine and as the fire
spread it generated great quantities of
carbonic acid gas, which sank to the
lower level, so that death from suffo-
cation is as certain to all in the level
below the thirty-seventh as to those
above.
Smoke is pouring in dense volumes
from the mouth of every shaft in the
mine, and escape through those OPEN
ings is impossible. The fire is evil
IDENTIFY gaining very rapidly.
The only hope for the thirty inn
prisoned men to effect their escape is
through an old drift which opens at
about the fifteenth level into the south
Hecla branch of the famous Calumet
and Hec,a mine, but that drift was
abandoned years ago. and doubtless is
choked up with decayed timber. But
it is the only possible avenue of es-
cape, and the hopes of the miners
friends cling desperately to it.
Gathered about the shafts of the Os-
ceola ire the wives, mothers and chill
dren of the unfortunate men, anx-
iously awaiting further news from
their loved ones. The scenes are very
pathetic. but beyong the doubtful as
that the men may have found
the abandoned Hecla drift, little COM
fort a be extended. Every effort is
being put forth to rescue the unfor-
tunate men. but hope is not high.
The Osceola is. next to the Tam
arack, the chief copper producer in the
Clark Bigelow group. 1t has been in
continuous operation since 1888, and
paid average dividends of $40, 900 an.
nually.
Upwards of 200 men were at work in
the levels of the mine when the fire
started. Many Of these were taken TO
the main shaft and brought to the
surface in the great buckets in q faint
ing condition. 1t is now utterly inn
possible TO quench the fire by the
usual methods and preparations are
being made to close the mouths of the
shafts to shut off the air. The side
shaft leading to the thirty-seventh
level is Theoretically sealed, but the
other shafts will not be closed so long
as hope remains. 1t is believed it will
take a month to ~extinguish the flames.
This is thought to be the worst disas-
ter in point Of loss of life in the cop
per mining history of MICHIGAN.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
THE PRINCE OF FoReERs.
Wanted In a Dozen states for Crooked
Work. Arrested In Chicago.

Wanted In n Dozen states for Crooked
Work. Arrested In Chicago.
CHICAGO. Sept. central Station
Detectives DeRoche and Buckmuester
made a sensational arrest in this city
yesterday in the person of Howard
Castle, alias CASTILLO. alias Raymond.
He is believed to be the most danger
u of modern check forgers, and
there are nov rewards offered for his
arrest By police departments of three
cities Castle began his career in De-
troit about ten years ago by forging
the name of his millionaire uncle to a
check for 5000 and getting the cash
for it This act landed him in the
Iona ~peniteutiary for two years.
1t is said the forger's father repre-
sents "a district OF one of the great
western states in congress, and has
paid out many thousands of dollars in
squaring up forgeries committed by
his hayward heir.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
ouN,s coMMgaclAL sgvlgw


shows Nc Real Resction in Che Volume 81
Businsss-Tempornry Gsins are Vanish
Ing, but . Decided increase Over Last
Year at Date Remains. Although Prices
of Commodities Range Considerably Low.
er--Fsiiures
NEW YORK. Sept Z-R- @. Dun q
Co, in their weekly review of trade,
issued to-day, say:
There is no real reaction in business.
Gains which were recognized as tenn
porary are vanishing, but there re-
mains a decided increase over last year
at date. although prices average 8 8
per cent lower than q year ago. 1t
needs no keen observer to see that the
reaction against the rapid advance of
prices is strong. Cotton is strong,
but has paused. The general ten
dency to curtaii purchases where
prices have notably advanced grows
clearer in boots and shoes, wool aud
in some products Of iron.
Imports are large. but it is stated
that Bradford manufacturers find 1t
hard to get labor enough to fill their
orders, so that delay may cancel many
contracts, as inferior quality has can
celled some already.
The brightest feature in all the
horizon is the certainty that the crop
of corn will be enormou Frosts now
can only affect a small fraction. and
the surplus viii go into the manufac-
ture of meats. because at 1857 cents at
New York, nearly 4 cents lower than
a week ago, there is no other profit
able use for corn. One farm product
which has been strong because GER
tainly short in yield, rose from s.19
cents for spot cotton last week
to s.25 on Tuesday, but has since
been weak in spite of con-
certed official statements that the
decrease is 80 per cent in some states
and 81 per cent, in Texas. The public
observes much skilled labor in these
reports and also sees what many spec
ulators refuse to see, the 1900. 900 bales
old American brought over. 1t is
earnestly hoped that southern agricul-
ture has not sustained so great a
calamity. The annual reports, show
ing a larger yield last year than has
been supposed, only indicate that more
cotton must remain in the country be-
side the unconsumed stocks abroad.
A quiet market without much change
in prices for a time would be a bless
ing to the south.
The railroads have gained 3 of one
cent in earnings over last year for Au-
gust, the last week doing better,
though the tonnage east-bound from
Chicago vas Z per cent. smaller for the
month than in 1892. and the earnings
of all roads were IA. 3 per cent smaller.
The demand for commercial and
manufacturing loans and for the west
is somewhat larger, but the money
market is still easy.
Failures in four weeks of August
show liabilities of So, 046, 237. of which
50. s44, s39 were of manufacturing and
S4,052, 1856 of trading concerns, against
$40, 139. at last year. in all IS, IT'S. $40
manufacturing and S5,O77, $50 trading
concerns.
Failures for the week have been 1856
in the United States, against 219 last
year, and in Canada SO. against AZ las
veal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
A MYSTERY CLEARED UP
BY h Finding of the Badly Decomposed
BODY Of Mrs. Jane Merrill.

Body of Mrs Jane Merrill.
TOLEDO. o., Sept. THE mystery
surrounding the disappearance of
Mrs. Jane Merrill. a wealthy colored
woman of Monroe. Mich, was cleared
up yesterday by the discovery of the
badly decomposed body in a brush
heap on the farm. She had for some
years been living with John Larkins
as his wife, although they were never
married. Some time ago he died, and
she set up a dover interest in the
property. Larlins' son. after having
exhausted his means attempting to
dispossess her of the farm. compro-
missed by deciding her forty acres of
the land.
Shortly after this he came tc this
city and executed n fraudulent mort
gage on the land. representing his wife
as Mrs Merrill. Soon after this Mrs.
Merrill received a large amount of PEN
sion money that was due her husband.
The fact OF her receiving the money
was well known. and shortly aftershe
disappeared, Larkins setting at rest
the suspicious of neighbors by stating
that she was travelling. The fact OF
the fraudulent mortgage making its
appearance aroused the suspicious OF
her attorneys. and they instituted a
search with the above result Lark.
ms and his wife were arrested for the
murder and are held in Monroe, Mich.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
THE SUGAR BOUNTY CASE.

Ehe Adverse Decision of Conptroller low.
Ser May Lead to Serious Deyeiopmcnts-
Have heDeciaration of = National Polite
Aesi Platform All the Binding Force Of =
supreme Court Decision?
CHICAGO. Sept IA special to an
s- 1g paper from Washington says:
~~aecision of Comptroller Bowler in
the sugar bounty cases is expected to
lead to some very interesting develop
ment in the neal future.
While there is little interest in the
matter of the sugar planters getting
or not getting the S.. 0o0, 600 promised
TO them, there is a great deal in the
question of whether an officer APP
pointed by the president in the execu-
Five branch Of the government a as
sumo the highest functions Of the iu-
dicial branch. and whether the dec
iaration of a democratic national con-
vention that protection through the
tariff and bounties is unconstitutional,
has all the force of a decision of the
supreme court in controlling the ac-
lion of the executive department.
The decision of Mr.. Bowler. is re-
garded as a political move, which.
while it may lose Louisiana to the
democrats, is intended to give the
color of Judicial sanction to the demo-
cratic platform declaration that all
forms of bounty are unconstitutional.
The new republican congress will
probably care very little about the in
dividuai interests of the Louisiana
planters, but they will not be apt to
pass without notice this attack upon
the protective tariff, policy. 1t is re-
4garded as almost certain to result in a
congressional investigation. and it is
expected that articles of impeachment
against Mr.. Bowler may be intro
ciuced.
If the planters a carry their case
to the supreme court, it will probably
result disastrously to the democratic
platform declarations. A majority of
the supreme court believe in the inter-
probation put upon the constitution
by the republicans, and they would
probably not let the opportunity go
by to have a decision by the highest
tribunal or this question, which was
raised squarely for the first time by
che last democratic national conven-
rtio1. though it might not be neces-
isary to a decision of the case involving
the question of the comptroller's au-
rthority that the constitutional status
of bounties should be discussed.
The political phase of the mere
question OF paying the planters
claims is greatly mixed. 1t is be-
iieved, however, that in the next cleo
ton Louisiana will be lost to the
democrats, both on the presidential
and the congressional ticket. It is
possible that Louisiana may figure
prominently in the settlement of the
presidential contest of '96, as it did
twenty years before.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
DESPERATE BURGLARS
Shoot a Young Man and FIee-Captured by
Section Hands.

TOLEDO, O., Sept. About mid.
night Thursday night two colored
tramps were found robbing the gen.
eral store at Britton, Mich. George
Clark, the night operator for the Wa
bash. ordered them out The stran-
gers commenced to shoot and young
Clark fell with a bullet in his breast.
The two men fed, leaving their
plumber behind.
A telegraphic alarm was spread up
end down the two railroad lines. At
daylight yesterday morning the sec
tion men at Rea saw two colored men
who answered the description run
across the track into a cornfield. A
posse followed. and one of them was
cornered and captured.
A report reached here last evening,
which is not confirmed, however, that
a posse had run down and mortally
wounded the other negro. A later re
port was to the effect that Clark was
sinking from his wounds.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
THE coWARoLY DoNs
Claim to Have Been Right in the Alliance
Affair and Yet A~pologlEed.

= ~ A18Fb 1bc6u night IN tine A1ll8uC3
Affair and Yet ApologiEsd.
madrid, Sept. Count Hobkbirk,
the Frenchman who was on board the
American steamer Alliance at the time
sshe was fired on by a Spanish war ship
of the coast of Cuba, in an interview
yesterday said that the Alliance was
so close to the shore hat he could see
the inhabitants clearly. When Capt.
Crossman, the master of the Alliance,
saw the Condo de venadito, the war
ship which fired on the American yes
sci. he was enraged, because he knew
he would not be able to land the arms
he had aboard the vessel. He exclaimed:
81 will kick up a nice row when I
reach the United States"
Senior Muruago, formerly Spanish
minister to the United States, has
written to the paper stating that he
resigned because he had proven that
&hesConde de Venadito was right in
firing on the Alliance. He could not
consent that Spain should give humil-
iatious to the United States for an in
cident in which the United States was
An fault Moreover, it is known in the
United States that Capt Crossman
fs1uggled arms to the rebels in Brazil
'during the civil wal in that country
and that he now carries OF a brisk
trade smuggling arms to the insur-
gents in Cuba.
Senior Muruago said that he had
statements of witnesses that the ALI
anca carried contraband of wal and
that she was only a mile and a half
from the Cuban coast when the war
ship hailed her. He sent these state
ments and a full report of the occur
nee to the Madrid government, but
they concealed them.
The Spanish press is indignant over
these revelations, and violently at
tacks the United States and the Span
ish government. The newspapers de-
clare that the action of the United
States in sending an ultimatum was a
gross abuse of strength, seeing SPANS
difficulty at the time.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
DEEP WATERWAYS



srred % Its Complesson.
For many years the work Of creating
deep channels between Lakes Superior,
Huron. Michigan and Erie has been
going on At length the work IS done,
or under contract to complete, so that
from all the lakes twenty-foot channels
may practically be said TO exist. With
the completion Of the inter-lake
channels, all the immense and rapidly
increasing navigation converges to the
common eastern terminus at Buffalo.
The existence Of the great lakes has
made possible the so-called northwest,
since it has permitted the products of
the northwest to reach markets at q
much lower figure than has been
possible by all rail From Duluth 70
Buffalo, eleven hundred miles. It costs
about one.third as much as It costs to
transship and transport across New
York state. Increasing COMPETE
ton from those countries Of
the world possessing cheap land
and cheap labor makes it
imperative OF the producers, the farm
ers of the northwest, to search ont, II
possible. some way of getting their
crops to the eastern markets at q lower
rate than they have been getting. To
every producer in the northwest it will
be of interest to know that on Septem-
Der s4-26 there win be a convention
held in the city Of Cleveland for the
purpose of developing in 8 large way
the facts raiaffu0 "a fhfo 1aan ~ofar
navigation from Buffalo eastward.
With a view TO decreasing the cost, it
Is necessary to use the existing lakes
and river, with supplementary canals,
and to reduce the cost from Buffalo
east in some such ratio as has been se-
cured in the upper lakes An eminent
engineer. c. N. Dutton, who has given
the matter = great deal of study, has
prepared the following statements and
figures, which / beg to present, with
out comment, simply asking that they
be read and thought on:
"Sixtcen great states, namely. Ohio. Indi-
ana. Illinois, Kentucky. Michigan, Wisconsin.
Minnesota. Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota,
South Dakota. Nebraska, Kansas. Montana,
Wyoming and Colorado, must ship their sur
plus agricultural products from the great
lakes to the seaboard. Deep-water navigation
would effect an immediate reduction In freighs
costs, and consequent increase IN crop values
Of an average OF i've cent5a busheI on grain
and potatoes. four dollars q ton on hay and
dve dollars and upwards = ton on straw.
SIN the sixteen states most benefited. the
direct money gain. computed on the crop re-
ports OF 1895, will be as follows:
YEARLY GAIN.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
THE cHENo TU %
10 be Investigated by the United State,
Government.

10 be Investigated by the United States
Government.
! WASHINGTON, Sept. THE United
States government has decided to en-
ter forthwith upon an independent in
vestigation of the Cheng Tu riots with
the cooperation of a Chinese repre-
sentative There are also understood
10 be several reasons why the state de-
partment has decided upon an investi.
cation such as France has already
made and such as England will make
later. The department. is not yet pre-
pared to make these public. The in
vestigation is expected to be made by
some official now on the Chinese coast
1t will probably take a month TO reach
sCheng Tu. which is the capital OF the
interior province of Szechuan.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
JOSEPH DEXTER JONES.

A 6reen-Goods Man. Taken Back to New
York for Trial.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept Judge But
Ter. in the United States court yester.
day, granted q warrant of removal for
the transfer Of Joseph Dexter Jones,
alias John Doe. the '.green-goodsH
man, to New York, where he will an
swer q charge of using the mails in
carrying on ascheme to dafraud. Jones
was arrested at Easton. Pa. on An.
gust %. by Anthony Comstock, at the
instance of o. D. Kuhn, of Atchison.
Kan. who hal been swindled
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
A REGULAR BUM.

-Tke Missile Intended 20 Destroy the Roths.
chlids, Bank was Non-ExpIossye.
PARIS, Sept THE bomb found
upon the mar arrested Thursday in
abe bank of Messrs Rothschild, in the
Rue Lautte, was opened by experts
yesterday. 1t was found to contain q
mixture of chlorate of potash and or.
binary ~gunpowder. which, the experts
declare, =ould not have exploded even
had it come in contact with q lighted
fuse There were nc ~projectiles in the
-sbouab.- which was QUE of the rankest
fakes imaginable.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
THE DAMAeETo THE COLUMBIA
Capt. Sumner Makes a Statement Admit
ting Error of Judgment.

ting Error of Judgment.
BROOKLYN, Sept AFTER the ex-
animation of witnesses in the court
martial of Capt. Sumner for improperly
docking the cruiser Columbia at
Southampton, a statement by Capt.
Summer, was read and the court adj
journed until to-day.
The captain, in his statement, ad-
mitted that he was partially respon-
sible for the first charge against him,
culpable inefficiency in the perform
nee of his duty. There was no law,
he said, specifying what a captains
duty was under these circumstances.
and his duty was therefore a matter
of Judgment He therefore pleaded
that the damage TO the Columbia was
the result or an error of Judgment and
did not rise to the gravity of the
charge.