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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
THE SETTLERS SUFFER.

Ono Hundred and Twenty Settlers South
of Ashland, Wis.,, Will be Rendered
Homeless and All Their Bettermenta
Lost to Them by Reason of q Govern
-ment BIunder.
ASHLAND, Wis, Nov. 21.-One hun.
dred and twenty settlers south of Ash
land are, by a decision received from
the general land office, made homeless.
Their claims, 90 600 acres of land, with
every quarter section containing a
house and barn, will be taken away
from them by the government and
given 20 the Wisconsin Central Rail-
road Co.
This decision is carrying out the
ruling of the supreme court in the
Knight-Osborne case. Under this ruling
certain lands through this region which
were supposed to belong to the gov
eminent, and which have been opened
for settlement and entry by the gov
eminent and taken up by cores of set
tiers, are held by the supreme court to
rightfully belong to the Wisconsin
Central company.
Now the government is obliged to
cancel all the entries on these lands in
order TO give the railroad company
titles
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
WHEN LIBERTY CAME

-
It Found Eugene V. Debs Quietly sleep
Ing In Jsil-Tne Morning Spent Return.
Ing ~CaiIs-After Making n Lecture Tour
of Several OF the Principal Cities, Debs
Will Settle Down to Publishing n Week
ly Industrial Paper.
WOODSTOCK, Ill, Nov. %. - When
midnight he was fast asleep, but the
nervous tension attendant upon so i'm.
portant an era in his life would not
long permit him to remain SO, and at
3 o'clock he was wide awake and ready
to get up. His brother Theodore per-
suaded him to lie in bed two hours
longer, but at 5 o'clock he insisted on
rising, and at : he had had his break
fast. Then he INDUCED in the luxury,
denied him for twenty-six weeks, OF
taking a walk in the open air I'M
watched and unrestrained.
at is good to be free again." he said
to the representative of the United
Press. at is an indescribable feeling,
and no one who has never been through
a period of confinement can appreciate
it. l am glad to have been through
this experience, but | am also glad it
is over. 1t is like a surgical operation
it does you good, but it is something
you would rather have behind you than
before you"
kilograms of congratulation came
drifting in all the morning. There
several from friends in Chicago, a num-
Der from Terre IIaute, Mr.. Debs' home;
-, Al. o. - Tl ---
bly, and one from the Omaha American
Railway union organization. One from
the Trades assembly at birmingham,
Ala, read:
Birmingham sends greeting. South
ern hearts are with you till liberty
lives again"
Mr.. Debs reiterated his assertion,
made on a previous occasion, that he
would eve again accept money from
a labor organization for services rem
dered. lie intends to earn his living by
publishing a weekly industrial paper,
of which he will be editor also. First,
however, in response to many requests,
he will make speeches in most of the
big cities of the country.
Il never intend to accept another
political Office" said he. 81 have one
desire only, and that is the unification
of labor. To that end l shall devote
my life. Under no circumstances will
l ever again lead a strike"
At II o'clock 4 neat little cutter was
driven up to the Jail door, and Debs
and his brother clambered in. In one
hand Theodore held a card with the
names of twenty persons on it. On
these people the American Railway
union president called during the
morning. All of them had paid him Il
similar compliment while in Jail. The
afternoon was spent in preparing for
the journey to Chicago.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
a Generally Unfavorable Showing, for
Which There Is No Visible Cause.

a Generally Unfavorable Showing, fol-
Which There Is No Visible Cause.
New YORK, Nov. 23.-R. q. Dun &
Co. say to-day in their weekly review
of trade:
Failures for the first half of Novem.
Der amount to ST, 143. sos in liabilities,
against So Coz, SOB last year, and 81, 24s,
279 in 1893. Failures for the week
have been 800 in the United States,
against S22 last year, and AZ in Canada
against 81 last year.
Reaction in business there is none.
Efforts to explain it, or to attribute it
to this or that. emporary influence,
are wasted.
Gold exports have been large,
amounting to s., 257, 900 last week and
presumably to 81, $50, 900 this week,
but are rather a result than a cause of
existing conditions.
A little selling of American stocks
on European account has followed
forced realizing in foreign stock mar
kets, but the new compact of trunk
lines promises better earnings for rail-
roads, though it has no speculative eff
feet, and meanwhile the corn-carrying
roads are doing especially we'll.
Products are lower, without dis.
turbance or sign of panic. The more
sober estimates of wheat months ago
rose 80, 600, 600 bushels or more above
the government and speculative guess
ers, and now a reputable estimate of
AIS, 900, 900 bushels excites little re-
mark.
Corn declines half a cent further.
Pork products also have JASON for
weakening, lard Is cents per hundred
pounds and pork 81 cents per barrel.
The, cotton market has been assisted
all the week by small receipts and re-
narkable stiff statements of scarcity.
Iron and steel products are lower,
averaging l per cent, for the week and
: per cen from the highest, Bessemer,
anthracite No. l and bar being quoted
lower, while sales below quotations are
frequent. There is frequent COMPETE
ton for orders, most works having
little ahead and new business is re-
markably small.
Structural work is cut down by the
strike of the houseworkers here, and
quite a number of mills, principally
bar, have stopped within a few DAYS.
The associations reaffirm prices, but do
not sell enough to keep the works
busy.
The demand for cheap boots and
shoes is a shade better. Shipments
for the month were 22.7 per cent. less
than last year. Leather is weaker,
though only one class is quoted lower,
but hides at Chicago have again de-
clined about . per cent. and average
relatively lower now than leather OF
shoes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
THE GOLD DEFICIT.

Another Issue of Bonds Likely to Occur
Soon. But No Psnlcky Feeling 10 Visible.
for Which President Cleveland Takes
no Small Credit to Himself-SO More
Reliance on Voluntary Contributions of
Gold.
CHICAGO, Nov. ga special from
Washington says:
Conditions to-day indicate strongly
that there will be another bond issue
in January, if not before.
1t is impossible to secure any au-
thoriZed statement on the subject from
the treasury department. Withdraw
ais of gold for to-day's shipment
leaves the reserve but lit tie over
Ssl, 900, 900. II the shipments the next
few weeks keep a C with the aggre-
gate of the week just closing, there
might be ground for expecting a reali-
cation of the prediction made a few
days ago that the president would or
der another bond sale when the re.
serve reached SIS, 600, 900.
1t is said by men in authority at
the treasury that the probability of
another bond issue does not hinge on
the S75, 900, 900 limit. No limit, in fact
has been fixed and the chances are the
reserve will fall much below SIS, OOO-
600 before an issue OF bonds is made.
The reason for this assurance is the
fact that the present drain on the re-
serve is attended by no panicky feel
ing in the commercial world. For
this favorable condition the president
claims no small share nj cradit ba-
cause he believes the public confidence
rests solely upon his assurance that
bonds would be sold as soon and as
often as it became necessary to main
tain the redemption fund in the treas
ury.
Treasury officials make no conceals
ment of the fact that they have ceased
to rely on the voluntary contributions
of gold from bankers, such as were
made a few weeks ago. These masters
of finance are showing no disposition
whatever to prOlong their spasm of
generosity exhibited a few weeks ago.
The shipment of gold next week
the fact hat none of the particular
vessels which usually carry these
golden cargOes &C abroad next week.
1t is the presumption, therefore, of
those who are only too glad to take
optimistic views of the situation, hat
this weeks large shipments were to
meet pa of the demands of next.
Yet there is no hope that the drain on
the reserve will cease for several
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
SPAIN HAS a CLAIM
Which She is Preparing to Press Agains,
Venezuela.

Venezuela.
New YORK. Nov. GA special cable
dispatch to the Herald foom Havana,
says:
1t is reported here that Spain is pre-
pairing to press important claims upon
the government of Venezuela stimuli
~taneously with the demand of Great
Britain upon the same country. There
is a report current in this city also,
that France will join Spain, as she has
claims of her W to settle with Vene-
zuela. The cruiser Alfonso NH. has
sailed for LaGuavra, Venezuela. The
Spanish warship left the port of
Havana hurriedly Monday night.
Senior DeCastro. the Spanish minister at
Caracas, who has been in this city for
some time, was on board the vessel.
Senior DeCastro, before his departure,
held 4 conference with high officials
here. 1t is expected that matters of
great Importance were discussed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products 20
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is Eien-
ufactured by the California Fig Syr2P
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
AQUARIUM tanks Gre made self.

Aquarium tanks dre made SELL
sustaining by the introduction of just
the right mount of plant life. by
which the water is aerated and kept
sweet for a considerable time, even in
such small bodies. Ulva, or sea let
luce, e beautiful green plant. is often
used for this purpose. When it is un-
disturbed air collects under the ulva
and buoys it up. Fishes and crabs tear
holes in it, making it less buoyant. so
that it is apt to sink. In aquarium
practice this destruction of the ulya is
in some measure prevented by the
simple expedient of placing corkS I'M
der it to keep it out of reach of at least
some of the crabs. as, for instance, the
hermit, that might otherwise climb
into 1t.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
CAPT. HOWGATE,
Taken to the Albany Penitentsary.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 90. Warden
Leonard of the district jail left yes
terday with Capt. Howgate for Albany,
n. Y, to deliver him to the prison au-
thorities. Capt. Howgate was the
former disbursing officer of the signal
service, who after many years absence
and a sensational escape, was rear
rested in New York and recently con-
victed in the criminal court of the
district of Columbia and sentenced to
eight years Imprisonment for forgery
and Enforcement.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
A HOOSIER ~DYNAMITING
Being Traced to the Guilty Parties-Ons
Turns States Evidence.

ELKHAgT, Ind, Nov. 2~1.-Detective
James Z. Hurts, of this city, arrested
William Franks, a young farmer, Tues
day, as accessory to the 'dynamiting"
of the Office of DIR. J. j. Swaziland, at
Mottville, a few miles east Of here,
Wednesday night, when the office was
wrecked, and Andrew Gray, a patient,
was seriously injured. Franks has
turned states evidence, and says that
Allen w. Thompson. who is held for
the crime, tried to hire him to throw
the bomb, but that he absolutely re-
fused to have anything to do with the
matter.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
AN INCENDIARY FIRE.

ResuIts in the Death OF Three Persons
Near Stony Point, Ky.
BROWNSVILLE, Ky, Nov. 23.-Three
persons lost their lives by an incen-
diary fire IN a colored cabin e
Stony Point, in this county, Thursday
night. The cabin was owaed by Glib
son Armstrong, colored, wEo, with his
wife, two daughters and niece, Mollie
Whitney, were asleep when the fire
broke ont. NancyArmstrong and Mollie
Whitney were burned to death in the
cabin, and Fannie Armstrong was SO
badly burned that shS died YESTERDAY.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
THE SALT COMBINE
IL Worrying the Chicago Packers an
Costing Them Many Dollars.

IL Worrying the Chicago Packers and
Costing Them Many Dollars.
CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-A morning paper
says:
The leading packers in sthe stock
yards, as well as the Olesser ones, are
worried by the salt combine, which
has been raising prices, until now it
seems the effect of the Salt trusts
squeeze will cost the packers a matter
of 500, 900 OF $500, 900 Il year. An in
~teresting feature of the affair is that
Jay Morton, eldest son of Secretary of
Agriculture Morton, established ,the
salt combine, and is now making a
more successful fight on the packers
than his father did. Rock salt has
been advanced in price nearly 100 per
cent
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
A Monster Petition.

TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. 23.-The petit.
ton containing 6,743 names of Kansas
people memorializing congress to take
some action in the case of ex-COnsul
John L. Waller, nov in prison in
France, has been delivered to Treas
urer of State Atherton. He will have
it bound, and then will forward it to
Congressman Curtis
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
Confinement and Hard Work

are far more prejudicial to health than ex.
cessive muscular exertion in the open air.
Hard sedentary workers are far too weary
after Office hours TO take much needful exer-
else in the open air. They often need a
tonic. Where can they seek inauguration
more certainly and thoroughly than from
aostetter's Stomach Bitters, a~renovant par
ticularly adapted to recruit the exhausted
force Of nature. Use also for dyspepsia,
kidney, liver and rheumatic ailments.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
NEW METHOD
For tho Distinction of Imported Hides of
Neat Cattle.

WAsInSGToN, Nov. 21.-The secretary
Of the treasury will issue a circular in
a day Or two giving the details of a
new method of disinfection for i'm
ported hides of neat cattle, suggested
by the secretary of agriculture, by
means of sulphur fumigation for dry
hides, and immersion in a carbolic acid
or bichloride of mercury solution, for
fresh or moist hides. The new method,
it is claimed, will avoid injury to the
hides.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
a WORLD BEATER.
Largest Known Vein of Gold Ore Found
in southern Colorado.

DENVER, Col, Nov. 2l.-Maj. w. s.
Peabody has arrived in the city from
Archuleta county, southern Colorado,
bringing specimens of ore taken from
the largest vein ever discovered. The
vein, as described by persons who have
visited the spot, is 1000 feet across.
The ore averages on the surface fully
eight dollars to the ton. If the discov-
cry sustains the claims of those who
have been upon the ground, a new
collaborating region has been found
which will eclipse anything known ir
the world,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
HENDERSoN'S PLEA SUSTAINED
The Dunlap (has) Chopper Acquitted on
the Ground of S~eIf-Defense.

EMPoRIA, kas., Nov. 23.-Dave Hen
derson, the colored school teacher
who chopped four people in the head
with a Ratchet the other evening at
Dunlap, and who had a hearing before
a justice of the peace Thursday, was
released on the evidence, his plea of
self-defense being sustained. The
parties whom he assaulted are placed
under bonds to keep the peace. Hen.
derson is now in Emporis. but says he
will 60 back to Dunlap.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30

Was the Attempt OF Two Desperate Grim
inals to Escape From Jail.

inals to Escape From Jail.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Nov. 21.-Two
desperate criminals, armed with iron
bars, sawed from their prison cells,
were frustrated in IN attempt to es-
cape from the Allen county Jail Tues
day. The prisoners are William Duffy,
under arrest for attempting to kill
Deputy Sheriff Harrod, and who is
wanted at Mansfield, O., for murder;
and Harry Shreldoo, who is serving a
Jail sentence for attempting to hold
up a Fort Wayne freight conductor.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
BANDIT A BRADY
Found Guilty of Murder and Given a Life
Sentence.

Sentence.
M~ARYsvILLE, Cal, Nov. 21.-Baudit
Jack Brady has been found guilty of
murder and sentenced to Imprisonment
forlife. Brady and companion named
Browning rode on their wheels
from San Francisco and held up the
Oregon express near Wheatland.
Browning was robbing the passengers
when Sheriff Bogard of Tehama county
shot him dead. Brady shot the sheriff
in tbs back, killing him.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30

"OH, boy, I'll give you a dollar to catch
my canary bird" ''He's Just caught.
ma'am.'' "Where-where is the precious
petf' BLACK cat up the roads got i'm ~
Chicago Record.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-09
HUTCHINSON STILL KICKS
HE INVITES THE AUTHORITIES TO
INSPECT THE EIGHTH
The Friend OF tho Neglected Ward
Challenges Official
Review.

EDITOR HERALD:-In continuation of
my remarks concerning the condition of
the alleged public improvement, OF the
Eighth ward. allow ma to cay that do
not wish to be understood as rejecting
in any way upon the official career of
our present councilman, Mr.. Hugh
Smith, nor upon the probable course of
Mr.. Savage. councilman elect.
wish to be understood as criticising
and condsmnng the action Of the ma
jority of the councl-the clique that has
always done all it could for the Third,
Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and one or two
other wards to the utter neglect of the
Eighth at all times and under all cir
cunstancss. AS a dweller in the Eighth.
l have thu honor to invite the mem bers
of the council, and all other city off cials.
to accompany me on tour of inspection
OF ways that are dark" on any day or
night they may choose.
can show you in one block in China
town more gates leading directly to the
bottomless pit. and all wide open with
the sanction ard connivance OF the Off
cias, than can be found anywhere else
in this quarter OF the world.
If you, the said officials. desire it, 1
will show how the money is raised to
keep the gates open, and might even
show you where some of the hinges that
need the most oil are located.
The same is true OF the locating" of
the electric lights. and I have even
heard of men who were Influential
in the locating" Of postofices aud post
office stations.
We are sadly in need of DR.. Psrkhurst
OF New York and the Lexow committee.
AT present the doctor could not survey
our "tenderloin district" without the
aid of a boat or mud scow.
1t may be that we must euffer the
lack OF neoesaares that some other
wards may have plenty of Injuries; at
any rate. matters will be better when
the mud driep up-snd whsn corrupt
officials are in the country whore there
10 said to be no mud for lack of water to
mix it with. Yours truly,
EDWARD HUTCHINSON.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-09
THE CHICAGO STRIKE.

An Able Pap~r by Labor Oommissioner
CARROLL ID. Wright.
At the seventh annual meeting of the
American Economic association, which
held the most successful session in it's
history last week at Columbia college,
Now York, Carroll D. Wright, United
States commissioner of labor. read the
first paper. Mr.. Wright is very much
afraid the government is going to take
charge of the railroads. His subject was
The Chicago Strike. Mr.. Wright wrote
an official report, in which he placed
great deal of blame upon the Pullman
company.
Mr.. Wright said the strike was an
epoch-makiug event, because OF its vast
proportions and powerful influences
and the elements contributing to 1t;
because it had shown the power of
expansion OF the c3urts, and the right
of the federal government to protect
property.
81 believe" Mr.. Wright said, "that
the Chicago strike, in developing legis.
lation which shall accomplish the great
purpose Of placing the railroads and
their employees on basis where they
shall recognizes their allegiance to the
public, will be worth all it has cost, even
admitting Of the accuracy of the esti-
mates of public journals, chiefly Brad
street's, that it involved loss oil over
$4,000, 000."
But to Mr.. Wright's mind the chief
reason why the strike is en- epoch-mat.
ing event lies in the fact that it consti-
tutes a subordinate element in q revolu-
ton which is gradually taking place in
the popular mind, and Of which all that
follows in upturning institutions and
reconstituting society is but. the necss-
sary sequence and expression. Mr..
Wright announced that he wrote from
as a system.
81 have no faith in it," said he, mo
adherence to it and no fondnssa for it.
Nor have l any faith in compulsory ar
bitration as a system for the settlement
Of labor troubles. Nor do l believe that
either the state or federal government
can or ought to be allowed a, rule, to
regulate rates OF wages or prices OF com
modities."
Mr.. Wright reviewed the interstate
commerce act. He referred to the pool
ing bill which has passed tho house OF
representatives as state-socialistic
measure. which equals the compulsory
insurance Legislation OF Germany. He
declared that the bill providea for O
great trust, with the government of the
United Ststes az trustee. Tho great and
powerful wedge of state socialism was
driven one-quarter it's length into tina
timber of conservative government by
the FIRST bill to regulate commerce. The
pending bill, If it becomes q law, will
draw the wedge three.quarters OF its
length. Mr.. Wright concuded:
"rhere will then be needed but one
moro blow to drive the wedge home,
and tha. blow will come at the instance
of business and not OF labor, entire gov
eminent control of all tho railroads of
the country. instead OF partial control
under the laws now existing or proposed.
With % per cent Of all the railroad in