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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30
The Warrenton Gazette thinks some

The Warrenton Gazette thinks some
thing ought to be done to keep bridges
from washing away. 1t does seem
that they might be properly con-
structed and then chained. The
Gazette says: Bridge building costs
our county a goodly sum, and it does
seem a pity that no good way has yet
been devised to prevent their destruc-
ton by high water. We do not know,
but it seems to us most of the bridges
might be saved by being chained. Let
them float when the water reaches
them, but if they r properly chained
they must necessarily come back to
their proper place as soon as the water
subsidies"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30
BRO. HERBERT EXPERIENCES
RELIGION"

Where are they atG"-The friends
Of Cleveland who claimed he was q
friend of silver9 We said, after read
ing his message in favor of uncondi.
tlonalrepeal, he was against silver. but
some OF his friends expressed a con
trary opinion. Can anybody now say
and has been for along time, q goIdbu0
He is no Democrat.-KInston IRE
Press.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30

We heard a reformer say the other
day "'Coin's Financial School is all
the campaign literature WANT in 80"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30

The editor of the Farm Record, In
dianapolis, Ind, has visited various
sections of Indiana and Missouri re-
Gently and reports much activity
among the Alliancemen he met. New
Alliances are being organized and old
members are taking hold again. Such
news ought to come from every neigh
borhood in the United States.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30
GOLD STANDARD soPHIsTRlRs.


Probably the most absurd, but most
plausible argument against bi-metaii-
ism is that it makes the silver mine
owners rich. If this were true it would
not be strictly logical IF this should
be the result wouldn't it be better to
make, say ten thousand men rich by
using both metals, than five thousand
rich by using only gold9 Then, again,
wouldn't it be better to make ten thou
sand men rich than to make sixty-fve
million paupers, which will be the in
evitable result if the single standard is
continued
Wall Street stated this clamor and
the gold organs never fail to cite Sena-
tors Stewart and Jones as examples.
1t is said that each of these men are
worth several million dollars, having
made it out Of silver mine property.
We will not dispute it. But where we
find two or three who were on the
ground early and purchased what
turned out to be rich mines, and
bought town property that became
very valuable In a few years because
great cities were built on it, you a
find millions of people in the silver
States who are very poor.
Anew years agoit was estimated that
every dollars worth of gold produced
cost about twenty, we think. A few
make lucky finds, but thousands spend
every dollar they have and years of
labor and find that their mines turn
out little or no gold. The same is
true of silver. Yet, SO long as we use
the metals for money we must get
them somehow
In answer to these sophistries we will
mention a few facts. A Chicago man
invested in mining property. His sill
yer cost him 800 an ounce and he sold
it for 81 per ounce. Others have paid
as high as $40, 900 and $50, 900 per ounce
for mining experience. No n will
doubt the business capacity of Mr..
Palmer, the Chicago millionaire. He
spent millions of dollars mining and
his silver is said to have cost him
$50, 900 an ounce. He gave it up and
turned his attention to manufacturing
and real estate investments, and is
again a millionaire many times over.
Now friends, don't you see the alb
surdity of this nonsenseQ It is far bet
ter to run the risk of making a few
men rich than to make paupers of the
millions. Then consider that you are
making the few gold mine owners
richer by enhancing the value of tE3ir
gold until one dollar will buy almost
twice as much real estate or farm pro-
ducts as two ought to buy.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30

SIC am standing ROHU Just behind the
curtain, and in fun gLOGU0f the coming
sunset. Behind me are the SbGdOGCS on
the track, before me lies the dark GALLEY
and the riUer. WbeRI mingLe GCith cts
dark tCdters I IOGRt to cast M Snger-
Gnq look upon q country tUbOse govern
nIent is Of the people, for the people,
and 6y the pe0pL4"-L L. Polk, July
9Th, 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30
CASHIER GOES WRONG.
The RoxborO Bank Loses $4,000 AID
the Cashier Goes to Jail.

The RoxborO Bank Loses $4,000 AID
the Cashier Goes to Jail.
Upon hearing of the robbery Of The
Farmers Bank of Roxboro, State Treas
urer Worth Immediately wrote t'
cashier of the bank, who replied @
follows:
"Yours of the Doth inst. to hand
We were robbed of 81, 800 last Satuf'
day and Sunday nights. We will DOL
close business. Will not affect us. 81
of our largest depositors have caD@
and expressed no u~neasiness whateVeE
We have today purchased good saS
Will have it in in a day or So"
(Signed) W. A. JONES f
The State Treasurer was not too FsA
satisfied with this, and sent his OSDA
examiner, Malvern Fl. Palmer, Esq,
to look into the matter. Mr.. Palm"
telegraphed Treasurer Worth on Sa'U
day:
Have discovered irregularities u
Farmers Bank. It has closed aoo'"
Cashier gone to Jail. Advise me-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT

Sheriff Jenkins, of Chatham couD'
was in the city Friday. !
County Treasurer G. D. Spence, ..
Harnett county, gave us a call a fs'
days ago. 49,.
Mr.. J. F. Ray, who was a Ieau .Es
member of the late Legislature on ~
Democratic side, and who is one Oh =
brightest men in the Western paf'"
the State, was in the city last week,
Messrs. E. A. Thorne, Of Han~
county, and Henry N. Clark, OF "~
rem, two of the States best cl'lD'D'
gave us a brief call Thursday.
Sheriff 81. s. Fortenberry, OF Cl0 n
land county, and two deputies, orO "asE
several prisoners to the pen last 0Ts
The sheriff dropped in to rene"
subscription.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-30

The date ON your label tells yoU
when your time ia out.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22
WITHOUT AN OFFICE.

The Pest OF Minister to Mexlco Preoese
cally Declared vncant-Ex-Sennt0r Rans
som Out la the Cold, and Technically =
Debtor tn the Governments to tho Amount
Diplomatic Post-An Adverse Decislon.
WAsHISGroN. Aug. 17.-Hon- Matt
w. Ransom. of North Carolina, is no
longer minister from the United States
to Mexico. That Office was practically
declared vacant yesterday by deci-
sion rendered by Mr.. Holmes Conrad,
solicitor general of the United States
and acting attorney general. Mr..
Ransom's incumbencv was declared to
be contrary to the federal constitu-
ton, and the acting attorney gem
era1 sustained the action of Mr..
Thomas Holcomb, auditor of the treas
ury for the state department, in de-
Ginning to pass favorably upon Mr..
Ransom's vouchers for salary and ex-
penses.
The decision of the acting attorney
general was based on question raised
by Auditor Holcomb as to the legality
of Mr.. Ransom's appointment to the
Mexican mission. in view of the exist
ence of section 2, article 9.
Va eAC COASt1tutlOus "AlOA SAO-
clares '.that no senator or rep
resentative shall. during the term for
which he was elected. be appointed to
any civil Office under the authority of
the United States which shall have
been created or the emoluments
whereof shall have been increased
during such time"
This decision apparently fitted the
case of Mr.. Ransom, for he was nomi-
mated by President Cleveland and con-
firmed by the senate before his term
of Office as senator from North Caro-
lima had expired and during that term
the salary of the Mexican mission had
been increased s., 900 year.
Mr.. Ransom was elected to the sem
ate in 1872, and served continuously
from April "a of that year until Feb
ruary %, 1895, when his nomination to
the Mexican mission was sent to the
senate and Immediately confirmed by
that body, and until the 4th of March,
when his term expired and his COM
mission as minister to Mexico was
signed by the president. he was
member of the senate. When the dip
lomatic and consular appropriation
bill was passed, it contained a provi-
sion raising the post of minister to
Mexico from a mission of the second
class to a mission Of the first class,
and increasing the salary of the Office
from Sic, 900 to ST., ZOO year.
1t is due to Mr.. Ransom's occupancy
of a seat in the senate chamber at that
time that he is to-day without an office
and that he is technically debtor to
the government for the amount of
salary he has drawn since assuming
his diplomatic post. Whether or not
he voted in favor of the increase, is of
no consequence; the fact that he was
a member of the senate when it passed
the diplomatic and consular bill as
stated. operated against him in hold
ing in a legal manner any civil Office
(which shall have been created. or
the emoluments whereof shall have
been increased" during the time for
which he was elected senator
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22
Tho Cruiser colambia All Right.
a TOUR OF INSPECTION.
Extended Trip Contemplated by super
vtsing Architect Aiken.

Extended Trip Contemplated by Super.
vtsing Architect Aiken.
WASHINGTON. Aug. z.-Wm. NJ,
Aiken, supervising architect of the
treasury, will make an extended tour
of the northwest and west for the pur.
pose of inspecting public buildings
now in process of construction. Leav-
ing Washington about the Goth in
slant. he will visit Omaha. Kansas
City. Portland, Ore; Port Townsend,
WASH; Boise City. Idaho. and San
Francisco. for the purpose of examin-
ing the sites for the new post Offices.
New and Important witness In the
Durrant Case.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19.-Durrant
appeared to be q little nervous before
court opened yesterday morning, but
he was himself again after the arrival
Of his attorneys with whom he held !.
short consultation.
The report that the police had found
. Mrs Leak who claims to have seen
blanche Lamont and Durrant enter
Emmanuel Baptist church ON the day
OF the formers disappearance had NO
apparent effect upon the prisoners
counsel. for they came into court with
their usual cheerfulness.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS,

THE Gumry hotel on Lawrence, be-
tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets, in Denver, Col, was COM
pletely demolished by an explosion
shortly after IL o'clock on the morn
ing of the 10th. The wreck soon after
took fire, and the work of rescuing
the bodies of the killed and the in
jured was further retarded by fear of
tottering walls. It is estimated that
of the seventy-five persons thought
to have been in the hotel forty or fifty
persisted.
Sixty-third and Wallace streets, Chi
cago, was attacked by fire-believed to
have been of incendiary original
midnight of the 18th. and was almost
totally destroyed. together with what
ever evidence it might yet have con-
tanned relative to the crimes commit
ted there. Loss to building and ten
ants, about So5, 900.
The associated banks of New York
city, in their statement for the week
ended the 18th, showed the following
changes: Reserve, increase, So, 226, 100;
loans, increase, $299. 100: specie, in
crease. secs, 700; legal tenders. in
crease. 3,0O3. 900; deposits. increase
S., SAG, 900; circulation, increase. SS1. 500
FROM present indications it locks as
though advantage was being taken of
the dispatch of large bodies of troops
from Spain to Cuba to inaugurate an
| active movement looking to the over
throw of the monarchy and the esta5-
lishment Of a Spanish republic.
II is the intention of the duke of
Marlborough to leave London for a
visit to the United States in the course
of few weeks to see the country, for
which he entertains great admiration,
which his stepmother, now Lady Will
liam Beresford, encourages
THOMAS p. DRUITT, the founder of
the Newsboys' home in Pittsburgh,
Pa, died in that city on the 18th. He
was 81 years of age. Mr.. Druitt was
a printer and newspaper man by occu-
patton. and was well known through
out the country
COL SEaIrCIIoFF. az tic Russian inn
2erial guard, and Prince Ali Fail,
cousin Of the khedive of Egypt. fought
duel near Paris, on the 18th, with
pistols The latter was wounded, bat
not seriously.
STATE SENATOR CHARLES A. PORTER,
Of Pennsylvania. has entered suit
500 900 damages for alleged libel.
|. On the 18th the associated banks OF
New York city held 81, EGG. SIS in ex.
| cess of the requirements of the 25-
!! percent. rule
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22
FIERCE AND BLOODY BATTLE.

Between Police OF Toledo, O., and Gang
of Tramps who Refused to Dlsperse.
TOLEDO, o., Aug. 1s.-Police and
tramps had a desperate and bloody en-
counter in the Stock Yards district of
East Toledo yesterday morning.
Shortly after o'clock Patrolman
Steve Shafer came upon a gang of
tramps lounging upon the Oak-street
bridge. He ordered them to dispense.
Without warning, James Smith, one
volver. With terrible oath he fred
report aud Patrolmar Shafer was seen
to stagger in his tracks.
Although terribly wounded, the Of
ficer did not lose his presence of mind.
He drew his own gun and commenced
to blaze away at the trio who were on
the run. The officer, who had been
shot in the left breast. was taken to
house near by. and his wound was pro-
nounced fatal by a physician.
The alarm was sounded, and soon,
two wagon loads of policemen arrived
and were Joined by farmers with pitch
forks and shotguns in the chase after
the fleeing tramps The officers were
close on the heels of the tramps, and
as Patrolman Smith leveled a shotgun
and fired, he himself was shot in the
right wrist by one of the tramps. The.
tramp who did the shooting had his
legs filed with shot, but he kept on
running. leaving a trail Of blood be-
hind him.
Patrolman Parks was after them in
an instant with a revolver in each
hand. He covered the slower of the.
trio with his gun and ordered him to
surrender. The fellow hesitated a
moment and then threw his gun down,
held up his hands and was bundled
into the wagon.
Meanwhile the other two. including
the one with the shot-riddled legs,
were making across the country. The
two tramps reached barn where thew
found a hired man named Robert
Brown, to whom they offered five doll
lars to allow them to hide In the barn
and not tell anyone they were there.
and the two men climbed into the hay
loft and burrowed their way out of
sight. A gardener saw the operation
and gave the officers pointer and the.
barn was surrounded.
When the men saw they were cor
nered they thre W down their weapons
with q curse and surrendered. Great
crowds followed the return of the.
wagon with the prisoners to the police
station.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22
An AWFUL HOLOCAUST.

r.etv rav.. rhou~ht 10 - Lest % aoeel'
Disasser--Wreck Of tho Gunary - Des-
Yer, Col--The work Of Beecue Oelayoo
and Retarded by Fear Of Cru1elang
Walla-Meanwhlle Horror = A06eQ -
she scene BY Fire.
Denver, Col, Aug. l9.-The Gumry
hotel on Lawrence street, between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets,
was completely demolished by IN ex--
plosion shortly after IL O'Clock this,
morning. 1t is not known positively;
that anyone was killed, but at this.
hour e .. MI six or seven people are
missing.
The rear portion Of the building. -
hve-story brick, fell shortly after the
explosion. The front wall is expected
to go down ut any instant. and this
keeps the firemen from prosecuting.
the search for the missing from that
part of the structure.
The hotel, while not . large one.
was well-flled with guests. The help.
of the hotel, which sleeps in the top
floor in the rear portion of the build
ing, are among those missing. VIM
dow glass in all the buildings near the
hotel was smashed to atoms, and in
many cases the buildings were badly
shaken up.
At l2:45 Eve persons had been taken
out They were guests, and were on.
the next to the top floor. They were
not seriously injured, as the floors.
sank, and were apparently not wrecked
by the force Of the explosion.
All the fire department and police.
were at once summoned to the scene,
and calls for reserves and ambulances-
followed in a short time.
Two women were taken out about L
o'clock. They were seriously injured
and it is feared that several bones had
been broken.
The bodies Of several more can be.
seen among the debris. in the rear of
the building. The rescuers are maxi
ing all efforts possible to reach them.
but progress is retarded by the mass.
of iron and wood, intertwined among
which are electric wires which add
greatly to the danger.
The explosion was caused by the
bursting of the boiler in the basement
of the hotel. The lower floors were.
wrecked, and the entire mass caught
fire, the flames shooting rapidly up,
through the remaining floors.
s:l5.-The fire is now under control.
but the smoke hanging about the
ruins is SO dense that the firemen are
unable to proceed with the search.
Only fifteen of the people who are
known to have been in the building at.
the time of the accident are accounted
for at this hour. This will leave fifty
who are supposed to be dead
Mr.. McClain and family arrived
at the hotel at late hour to-
night from Huron, Kan. They
occupied front rooms. Mr.. McClain
thinks there were about sixty guests.
in the house. This with the help en-
ployed on the premises will make
seventy-five persons in the building at.
the time of the explosion. The dead.
body of Mrs. Trainer has been taken
from the ruins.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
Its Friends Urged to Stand True, and WOrh
For Its Best Interests.

Its Friends Urged to Stand True, and Work
For Its Best Interests.
President r. III. Jesse of the state
university, Columbia, is sending out a
letter to friends of the institution,
from which the following extracts are
taken:
MY DEAR SIR: We hope that with
true loyalty to your Alma Mater, you
will try faithfully to send us for next
fall as many students as possible. We
want, you know. only those who have
good moral character. ability to learn,
determination to work, and sufficient
attainments to enter. But we would
like to have next fall every student in
Missouri that can meet all four OF
these qualifications Please send as
many as you possibly can.
The professor of physical culture, G..
w. Cutler, NJ. D., is busy getting ready
the gymnasium. bath rooms and ath-
letic grounds. There will be gym
nasium for men, and one on the second
floor for women. About 81. 600 will be
spent on the equipment of the gym
nasium and athletic grounds. In spite
of the lack of a separate building the
gymnasium will be among the best in
the state, and the athletic grounds
will be better than can be found in any
state adjacent to the state of Missouri
The director is q doctor of medicine,
an athlete and a trainer of expert
ence. The athletic association will
have, besides, q special trainer for
football.
In the medical Department. two labor
atories have been furnished, at an ex-
pense of several thousands of dollars,
one for physiology. under DR.. Como
way, and one for bacterio1ogy, under
DIR. Graham. Excellent rooms have
been reserved for these Laboratories in
the Biological building. Four of the
best rooms on the first floor of the new
Academic hall have been assigned to
DIR. Moss and DR.. McAlester. The old
Medical building will be used entirely
for anatomy. A thousand dollars have
been spent recently for medical books
and journals
The contract has been let for provid-
ing the boarding club for students
with plumbing and steam heat. The
bathroom will be provided with tubs
and shower baths. The kitchen will
be furnished anew with appliances for
cooking by steam and by fire.
The five rooms, including bath
room, reserved for the private use OF
the young women of the university
have been furnished beautifully and
every visitor to Columbia now goes to
see them.
We are now buying in Europe con-
siderable collection for the Museom of
Classical Archaeology. This will be .
new and attractive addition.
II we can aid you by sending catar
1ogues to students whom you are try
ing to influence. please send me their
names and addresses. For this pur-
pose stamped envelope is inclosed.
We will understand that you are try
ing to send here every student whose
name you send me.
The arnory will not be all that We
could desire, but it will be far better
than the university has ever had be-
fore.
The session of 1so4-95 was by far the
most successful in the history of the
university. Let rs make that of 1605-0e
break all former records.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22

THE New York democratic state
committee, on the 18th, selected SYRIA
cuse as the place, and September "A as
the time for holding the democratic
state convention.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22
WILL BE CENSURED
For Prematurely Making Public State So
crets.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-Indian Agent
Teter, of the Fort Hall Indian reser-
walton, in charge of the Bannoclxs, will
as soon as mail from the Indian bureau
at Washington can reach him. be
greeted with an unpleasant surprise
quarters for giving out official COM
munications in advance of their re-
ceipt at the Indian bureau.
A few days ago he gave out his re-
port on the recent troubles with the
Bannocks and the whites before it
reached the officials at Washington.
and he has since made public an Of
fetal dispatch that the bureau was
especially anxious to keep secret for q
time. This is why he may receive an
unpleasant communication in a few
days.
The dispatch in question was about
q ditch which Agent Teter wants his
Indians to work on. It is an extern
sion of the Idaho Canal Co. IS irrigating
ditch. The lands of the reservation
are to a large extent worthless for
agriculture without water, and it Is
almost impossible for the Indians to
make living by farming until they
can secure the water for irrigation.
Recently contract was made with
the Idaho Canal Co to extend its
bitches into the reservation. The
company was to receive $90. 000 and
the Indians were to do the work. Be
fore the contract was approved by tho
secretary of the interior complaints
=.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22

THE steamship China. which sailed
from San Francisco for the orient, on
the 18th, carried in the cabin ten
Presbyterian missionaries, undaunted
by the reported massacre of their COM
patriots in the east
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22

SEVENTY alleged nihilists were ar
rested in restaurant at Odessa on the
night of the 12th. After the police had
raided the place the keeper of the res
taurant committed suicide
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22

THE Paris Figaro says that in conse-
quence of advice received from certain
French prelates, the pope has definite
ly abandoned his policy of advising the
Catholics of France to rally to the sup
port of the republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22

The Pail Mall Gazette. in an article
ON the situation in Cuba, says that
though Capt-Gen. Campos gets his
Ole, 900 men, Cuba will get autonomy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22

THE St Petersburg Novosti recon-
mends that Russia, France and Ger
many act jointly with Great Britain
and the United States to obtain salts
faction for the Chinese outrages on
missionaries
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-22

THE report of Indian Agent Teter,
Of the Fort Hall reservation, upon the
recent Bannock trouble was received
at the Indian bureau on the 18th. 1t
confirms the published accounts of the
killing of the Bannock Indians