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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-06
PRISONERS CHANGE NAMES,
by This Method nm Iowa fOrger Is
cnpcs q Sheriff.

a remarkable case of deception was
made known In the Illinois State peni-
Tertiary at Joliet. ILL.,. recently. says
the ST. Louis Globe-D Democrat. Henry
Failing. a convict. was discharged. af-
ter having i~mpersonated another man
successfully during his years SEN
tence.
About n year and n half age Failing
was confined in the county jail of Keo-
kuk. Iowa, having been arrested for
passing worthless checks. fIe made
his escape from the prison and 70! sew
cral months was lost sight of. Then
h Iowa officers learned that Failing
had been arrested at Rockford and sent
to Joliet for another crime. a year
passed and the sentence was finished.
The Sheriff from Keokuk arrived In
Joliet prepared TO take his man, but
when the prisoner was Sspught before
him he said: This Is III Failing"
The facts In the plot were then made
apparent. Failing had been sentenced
to IL years imprisoninnt from Rockford
together with Il friend named Newton
Lee. The deputy having thin in charge
had k them both to the penitentiary
and delivered them to the warden. but
on the way they planned to exchange
names. Henry Failing was stripped,
measured, photographed and number
ed as Newton Lee and was known as
Newton Lee for q year, while Lee was
known as Henry Failing. Both were
S'oNN ~ III bCilS SSlStS 10
work In the chair department and the
bogus Lee serving in the capacity of
night cook. Neither betrayed his Sc
cret.
One was a regular correspondent, but
tipa other wrote only occasionally,
hence the chance OF discovery was not
great. Tuesday night Lee, by name,
called FOR the chaplain and requested
to see the warden and get permission
FOR his discharge at 6 o'clock Friday
morning. when his time was out. This
was done and Failing walked out un-
accosted by the Iowa Sheriff and
joined his wife and child. who had ar.
rived in the city the day before.
Mr.. n Mrs. Jules Harmon. of Lam
singbTg, Mich. celebrated the silver
anniversary of their wedding in a
queer way last week. Sixteen years
after their marriage they were di-
yorced. and last Tuesday, the twenty
NTH anniversary, they we're Tsxpar-
y tLHAA Hn H- a ..
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-06
Don't Miss the Dry Goods BnrSafns
At HamIniiI's This Week. SnIe
Closes Saturday Might,

These prices are for cash only. Ham
mills, 320i High street.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-06
oHr Prices for Suits md Overcoats
Arc Cheaper by $500 Than Any
Other Store I'm tho Two

You can save that amount by buying
O Suit or Overcoat of us. NJ. Rosen-
baum. 116 n 1873 High street.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-06

MORSE, THE JOB PRINTER, will do
Your Printing. 4o5 Crawford strect, Star
6uiidiilE. side door, Portsmouth, Va.
~Iclephone 1899. nol5-1m I'D
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-06

DIR: JOSEPH GRICE offers his Pro-
l. fessiorlal Services to the. public. Of
ice. 41 Middle street. Residence. 3l4
North streSt, P~ortsmouth, Va. le1-2ws
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-06
PORTSMOUTH ApX,s.

street. five rooms AM with city water.
Tor terms. etc, apply at 419 Clifford
street. Possession given ut once.ggde6r3
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14
Equal to tho Emergency.

In the bonanza days drinking or even
having the odor of liquor about him
was enough to insure the dismissal of n
mine station tender, engineer or other
employee III responsible position. One
day Uncle John Mackay, as tho miners
called him, was riding down in tho
three decker cage with some friends
when no began to sniff the air suspi-
ciously. II smell w-whishy," he said
Mt last, with his we'll known stutter.
There" exclaimed tho station tcnder
to one Of his minor companions, II told
that Id barber not to put so much
bay rum on my hair. San Francisco
Arponaut
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14

The old theory that lightning never
Etrakes twice in the same place or the
same OBJECT is stoutly refuted by Viii
liam Tnssick of West Chester, Pa. Tho
other night he had been i'll bed half AN
hour when lightning struck his. house,
ran down the wall on the inside, picked
MIN up and threw him ont Of bed TO
the moor 1t was no gentle hand which
used him thus, and it was some time he.
fore herecovered from the shock. Light
ming seems determined to secure Mr..
Iussick for victim. About 90 years ago
ne was struck and knocked insensible by
o bolt, but was all right again in few
days. -Philadelphia Record.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14
a Lively Otter.

On Sunday last, as Mr. Alfred s.
Babylon of Frizzelburg, Carroll county,
Md, was sitting in the yard of his
homo, large otter entered and attacked
his dog, which it whipped in few sec.
ends. In fighting, the animal stood on
It's hind legs, biting savagoly with its
sharp teeth. AS soon as the dog was
whipped the otter turned its attention to
Mr. Babylon and attacked him, giving
him hard fight, IN which he found
sseat difficulty in avoiding its teeth,
but he finally succeeded in killing it. It
weighed 20 pounds, and tho skin, which
is hne one, will be stuffed and kept as
trophy. No one had ever seen an otter
around Frizzelburg before. Baltimore
Sun,
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For Sale by W. R. Martin.
Notice of dissolution.

Notice 's hereby given that the oo-part.
nrership heretotore existing betwe.n John
C niir@o. Geo -. Gregory ami Jos q.
The VlkGls,IAN PR. MING co. Burke
n5regor! = Carroll. proprietors. is tbis dav
ulTs s oy mutual consent. AIR. ]. C. Car
ne Ho@kbinding and Job Printing bust
ness Will be continued at the old stand IN
IhE hIHclN;AN building by John Il. Bnrke
ana Geo. u. Gregory, who retain the firm.
hene. HE VlRGINiAN PRINTING co.
inrtes indebted 10 the old firm are re-
qqesrcd to make prompt settlement with
eitner JOHN T.. DUIiKE or GEO b.
49NEGORY, to whom all bills of the old
nrm shonli be presented properly authenti-
Gated for payment.
JOHN e. EURKE.
GEO. Is GREGORY,
3oZ'fUe JOB. @. CARROLL,
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14
Big Deed of Trust.

The biggest deed Of trust ever filed in
shls Utah territory has boen placed on
record III Ogden, covering the entire
systenn of the Bear River Canal com
pany and Ogden City waterworks. 1t is
given to secure payment of So, 900, 900
70, bondholders. S. NJ Jarvis and R. r.
Conklin, receivers of the Jarvis Conklin
mortgage Trust company Of Kansas
City, are named as trustees.-New York
World.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14
GREAT CIRCUS OF WHALES
Capt. Bakef=Had a Remarkable Ex-
perience After Long Voyage,
The Good Ship Runs into a Veritable
School of Whales. The Vessel
Runs Aground on Several
Miles of Porpoises. A
Prize Fish Story.

Captain J. G.. Baker of the four mast
ed steel ship Kenilworth is man of un-
doubted verrcity and ID both sober in
his judgments and his habits This state
ment is due the bluff skipper, for he
brings to port with him fish story OF
heroic proportions, suck one as will
make the ordinary sea serpent yarn seem
quite trivial i'll comparison.
The Kenilworth dropped anchor in
New York bay after q run of &c DAYS
and 10 hours from Honolulu, having
covered nearly 10000 miles. She
brought 3,99S tons of sugar, the first
cargo to make like trip to that port in
nearly 90 years.
The ship was about $50 miles cast OF
Cape Henlopen ut o'clock on Monday
afternoon. 1t was then that u school of
whales was sighted about mills away
on the staEboard quarter. Captain Baker
declares there were 20 Of item, of vary
ing sizes Some of them We're splashing
the water and playing sort of deep sea
leap frog. Others were doing series OF
giant acrohatics which would make the
fortune of any summer resort. Captain
Baker is usually an uninpressionable
man, but as he watched tho demonstra-
tion he exclaimed, Great gosh
But that wasn't the only surprise he
was to meet At night the good ship
sailed into strange looking sea- 1t was
cut up into small hummocks, and when
the Kenilworth trelnbled and shook and
jolted the bo's'n said, We're gone
ashore But he was wrong. Captain
Bakers. keen eye ut once discovered that
the ship had sailed into great area of
porpoises.
Porpoises, porpoises rs far as the eye
could -reach-papa porpoises, mamma
porpoises and all the little porpoises,
who were blowing themselves and
making merry. 1t seemed MS though the
ship was riding on their backs. Then
the neon came up, and Captain Baker
says lie never before saw such sight in
his life. The backs of the fish showed
before him i'll glistoning, spray dashed
acres. 1T seemed. said he, las though
we had run aground on porpoises. "
A stiff breeze sprang up just before
morning, and the Kenilworth drew
away from tho fish.
But still there was moro in store for
Captain Baker. He has sailed the sea
for many years, but he solemnly avows
that he never saw such whale rs was
sighted off Barnegat on Tuesday after.
noon. 1t was just to loeward and lash
ing the sea and spouting in an awesome
manner. 1t was OF the sperm species,
and the captain says that ut conserva.
tive estimate it must have been ut least
100 feet long.
Captain Baker told his story in the
office of D. B. Dearborn. Mr.. Dearborn
IS the agent for Arthur Sewcll of Bath,
Me-, owner of the ship. The Kenilwortll
was formerly British craft and was
built in 1887 ut Port Glasgow. She was
burned in San Francisco a few years
Later, and then Mr.. Sewell bought snd
Febailt her. New York Herald.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14

lets just what you want-tiny in sza,
sugar-coated, pleasant to take and pleas,
ant in the way they act. They tone up
and strengthen the lining membranes OF
the stomach and bowels, and do permu-
nent good.
ness, Dizziness, Constipation, Sour Stom-
ach, Sick or Bilious Headaches, and Indi-
gestion, tako Or. Picrcc's Pellets. II
they're not satisfactory, in every way
and in every case, you have your money
back. In glass vials, Is cents.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14
Hs. Going TO navo a wnoe,.

RIOS SoAnS 20 anvo n wheols
or all tho great inventions
or this enlightened oge
Tho greatest Is tho bicycle,
And IL IS all tho rage.
There's many u queer contrivsnof,
don't know which is best.
Blu. just give mo n cycle,
And you may have tho rest.
Tho telephone and printing prcss
Are handy In their way,
But they emit hold n candle
To tho cycle of today.
Tho engine pnd tho telegraph
Both would DO sadly missed.
But IL you want to hnvo TING
The cyclic hcods tho list.
They're used by people great and small
And people Of all sorts.
Tho doctors and the ministers,
The lawyers and the sports.
Tho crooks and cranks arc riding Thorn,
Tho politicians too,
The hiphwaymcn Of Hongkong
And tramps Of Kalamazoo.
The ladies oven use them
And woar divided skirts,
The girl upon hor cycle
OFT with her lover flirts;
Htnid rnatrons look asiance at her
And fnin would stop tho ahow
VI neat propelilng fcet ana limbs
As matdcns come and go.
Although nm not ono OF these,
a cycle l will got.
But a. I'm short OF ready caah
don't know how Just ycs.
III beg or beat or borrow,
Do anything but sesai,
IN peddlo or III speculate
I'm bound TO hayo wheel.
may be worry foolish.
Some say am dead wrong"
But will face the universe
In this, Yy solemn song.
No doubt In take n tumble
And may perhaps get hurt,
But will havc a cycle If
have TO sei my shirt.
M. ~. Walsh in Chicago Record.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14
Want a Now Holiday,

At yesterdays meeting of tho judi
cinry committee of the city council Al
derman Finkler introduced communi-
cation from the North Chicago Club
league requesting that tho first Sunday
in August each year be known us "club
day" and it was ordered reported ia
voraoly to the council Chicago Record
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14

Rudolph Evans. young Washington
sculptor, is modelling bust Of Secre-
tary Morton. 1.-The young man has not
taken single measurement i'll making
this bust, " said the secretary, "and yet
its proportions are SO perfect that my
old hat fits it rs well as it does myself. !"
Chicago Tribune.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14

When the horse is finally extinct,
very likoly the progeny of those enter
prising men who are now selling horse
meat in Chicago will hit upon some
way OF putting woSnout pneumatic tires
ON the market as fresh tripe Chicago
Eacwd
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14

"Castoria isso we'll adapted to children that
irecommcnd 1t us superior to any prescription
known TO me-" II. a. ARCHER, NJ. D..
III SO. oxford ST., Brooklyn, n. Y.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14
"A Consumption Curing Spring.

People arc flocking by hundreds to n
spring near Mays lick, Kentucky Two
persons ut the point of death with con
sumption have been cured
Funuirar
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14

The use of 'Castoria Is so universal and
It's merits SO well known that it scems u work
OF appropriation To endorse it. Few nre the
Intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy rcach.''
CARLOS MARTYR, D. D.,
New Yorl, City.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-14
TMSsEE LETTERS

70 remember L. r.
+. They'll help to
remind you of DR..
Picrce's Pleasant Pei
lets = and those nre
the things 10 keep in
mind whenever your
liver, your stomach,
or your bowels arc
out Of order.
II you're troubled
with costiv, less,
wind and pain in tho
stomach, giGdineSs or
disturbed sleep. you'll
find fhaSo litfla Pol
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-09-19
THE YACHT RACES,
Tho International Series Are Ended and
the Americas Cup Stays Here.

Tho International Series Are Ended and
the Americas Cup Stays Here.
New York. Sept. lathe interna.
tional series between the Defender and
Valkyrie for the Americas cup is end.
ed. On the whole it has been an ex.
traordinary series, and while the re.
suit is satisfactory to the American
people, two ut least of the con.
tests that went to make up the
match were not. The Defender
won in q clean race on Satur-
day; on Tuesday last she crossed the
line behind the English boat, but was
awarded the race on foul; yesterday
she had q walkover. Lord Dunraven
said Wednesday night, and said mos,
emphatically, that he would withdraw
his boat on the morrow II an
absolutely clear course was
not provided. He claimed that
during the previous race his
boat had been greatly interfered with,
and as everything depended upon the
outcome of the third series, he adhered
to that decision SO closely that
the Vallsyrie merely crossed the
starting line and then retired from
the contest The Defender, who was
we'll in ad7nnce when the handicap
gun was fired, continued on her jour.
ney, and went over the course vel
within the time limit. by her three
straight victories the Defender retains
the historic cup for America.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-09-19
rAYLoRs. SCHEME FAlLgp.
Hurderers of tho Meeka Family Attempts
In Rriha The .yailar.

Murderers of tho Msska Family Attempted
to Bride the Jailer.
ST. Louis, Sept. IA special from
Carrollton Mo-, states that soon after
the jury in the second trial of the
Taylor brothers rendered verdict
finding them guilty Of the murder Of
Gus Meelts and his family, and
they were sentenced to hang
in October, they began To plot
to escape the gallows. The
special then goes on to say: They of.
fered Night Waterman Brown, Of
the Carrollton Jail, a liberal sum
of money to assist them in 'break-
ing" out Of Jail. Brown listened to
their proposition, and then gave
it in detail to Sheriff Stanley, who
instructed him to encourage them
and hear all their plans. Brown met
the Taylor brothers the next night,
and assured them he could and would
fix 1t SO they could escape. but that as
it would throw suspicion upon him and
the condemned murderers to be seen
conversing together, it was necessary
precaution for all parties to
conduct further negotiations in writ.
ing. They accepted the advice, and
as the letters were received by Brown
they were submitted by him to Sheriff
Stanley, who, of course, knew what re-
plies were sent to the Taylors. In
opening up the correspondence the Tay.
lors agreed to give Night Waterman
Brown $500 in cash. They then asked
Brown how he would like to become q
partner in scheme to counterfeit
gold and silver coin. william p.
that prior to the arrest of himself
and brother for murder, he cleared
IS, 900 out of that business, and
suggested that he and his brother
George and the Waterman be partners
in the scheme after they should escape
from Jail. All their plans were nc.
quiesced in by the Waterman under
the sheriff's direction. The watch.
man was to provide way for
them to pick the locks, and after the y
had gone, he, to avert suspicion, was
to fire several shots to raise an alarm
and shoot one bullet through his
clothes to make it appear they had shot
him.
WILLIAM TAYLOR DENIES 1T.
CARRoLLroN. Mo-, Sept. 13-William
Taylor, one of the brothers convicted
and sentenced to death for the murder
of the Meeks family, says he is the
victim of a conspiracy, and de.
clares that he did not write the
letters in regard to q plot to bride a
jailer and escape attributed to him in
Wednesdays revelations. He regards 1t
as an effort to prejudice the supreme
court against the application for a new
trial
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-09-19
Ministers and Secret societies.

YOUNGSTOWN, O., Sept. 13.-At a
meeting of the Pittsburgh synod OF
the general council of the English
Lutheran church sensational move
was made against Youngstown Lu.
theran minister, Rev. w. II. Tope.
An attempt was made to enforce the
clause Of the church constitution which
provides that no minister of that
church shall be a member of q secret
society which is ''unchristian or inf.
delic in its tendencies" The attempt
was failure, because majority Of
the ministers were themselves mem.
bcrs Of secret societies
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-09-19
ANOTHER HOLD.UP.
Masked Men Attempt to Rob . Southern
Kansas Train.

Masked Men Attempt to Rob q Southern
Kansas Train.
WICHITA, Kan, Sept. 13.-At2 o'clock
yesterday train robbery occurred at
Curtis, Ok. At that point four masked
men crawled over bluff on TO the
Southern Kansas track, and covering
the section hands, who were at work,
with revolvers, compelled them to
pile ties on the track and draw the
spikes from several rails They
were then ordered to stop the west
bound passenger train, which was due
in few minutes The men withdrew
behind II projection of rocks, keeping
the railroad hands covered all the time
The train arrived in few minutes
The engineer, seeing the situation,
stopped his engine. When he did SO
the four masked men jumped to his
side and two of them covered him
and the section hands. while the
other two went into the express car
and compelled the messenger to open
the cafe. The railroad officers say
there was no money in the safe and
assert that the robbers got nothing
The train then went to Woodward,
where an alarm was given, and posse
organized to pursue the robbers. Cur.
tbs is small station in part of the
Cherokee strip which is very broken
and Sparsely settled.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-09-19
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.

Not Much Confidence Placed in the Govern.
ment's Reduced Estimate Of Corn.
New YORK, Sept l%.-R G. Dunn &
Co., in their weekly review of trade,
say: A slight setback, which may
mean much or nothing, according to
the final outcome of the crops, is not
unexpected at this season. II the gov
ernment crop reports were correct, the
situation would not be encouraging.
But not much confidence is placed in
the reduced estimate of corn, none at
all in the estimate of wheat and even
the most enthusiastic bulls do not
think it worth while to quote the gov
eminent report as to cotton.
The fact is that we are beginning to
market not far from 2, 200, 900, 600 BUSH
els of corn. though about 500, 600, 900
bushels will be moved from the coun-
ties where it is grown; about 450, 000,-
600 bushels of wheat, of which the
farmers are very unwisely holding
back large proportion, and about
2, 200, 600 bales of cotton.
The wheat crop is evidently larger
than the department has estimated,
though nobody knows how much larg-
err, and is coming forward with more
encouraging rapidity, no less than S.
ia, 173 bushels having been received at
western ports against 5, 446, Dol bushels
for the same week last year from a
much larger crop. The farmers have
undoubtedly been keeping back wheat
under an agreement among them
elves. 1t does not seem q profitable
,eration for them Exports from At.
n.ic ports for the two weeks of Sep
mber have been 2,4l7,s72 bushels
our included) against 5,3lo,926 BUSH
s last year. The price declined
arply, about 2 cents per bushel, with
tile indication of recovery. The price
corn has also yielded with strong
aspect of the largest crop ever
own, and at SO cents at New York q
rye proportion of the crop will be Of
tie profit to farmers.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-09-19
WAGES GO UP,
FIFTY Thousand Iron and steel WorkePs
Affected by q New Scale.


Affected by New Scale.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. l3.-The
wages of over $4,000 workers in the
Union iron mills of the country for
September and October have been fixed
by representatives of the Merchants
Bar Iron association and the
Amalgated association of Iron
and Steel Workers. The set.
Element gives all employees in
the finishing departments an adj
vance of per cent. The rate for pud-
ding is put at "a. 25 under the adjust.
ment, but as they are already receiv-
ing that amount, the puddlers will
not enjoy an advance. At the next
bi-monthly settlement wages OF both
the puddlers and fnishers will go up at
least 4 per cent more. The workers
will be benefited by every advance
made in the selling price. The cause
of only 2 per cent. being made at this
time was due to the fact that many
low priced contracts were filled during
July and August. All these cheap
contracts are now out of the way and
higher prices will now prevail.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-09-19
IVAN n. WALKER.


colonel, in March, 1868, and, on the
death of the colonel, in May following,
became commander of the regiment.
For more than year he endured all
the horrors of Libby prison,
having been captured ON a
daring raid into the enemy's
country. He escaped through
the historic tunnel in February, 1864
Returning to his regiment he rendered
most important service in the Army of
the Cumberland, protecting the line of
supplies between Stevenson and De-
catur, on the Memphis & Charleston
railroad and Tennessee river. during
the advance on Atlanta. At the battle
of Nashville he rendered valuable
service as aide, and received the
personal thanks OF Gen. Thomas. He
became member of the G. A. r. in
1867, and on the reorganization of the
department of Indiana. served as COM
mander of George II. Thomas post.
He was appointed A. A. G. of the de-
partment in 1883. and reappointed
three times. In 1891, declining a fifth
term, he was chosen department COM
mander. Last year he was elected
senior vice commander-in-chief of the
national order.