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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28
died While at a Funeral.

East Charleston, Feb. 25.-Mrs. VIM
slow was stricken with heart failure as
she entered the door of the Catholic
church to attend funeral, and she
died within few minutes.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28

The New York World is still throw
bricks at the old soldiers and bemOaning
the increasing outlay required for pen
sions. The World need not worry.
The pension list will never be any
larger. The ranks of the old veterans
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28

The discretion which outranks valor
was illustrated in the case of the ex-
press messenger out west, who when
the train was held upby robbers, locked
his safe and took to the woods. With
out the messenger the robbers were
helpless, and left empty-handed.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28

France has followed the example of
Germany and Belgium in forbidding
the importation of American cattle,
but she does not offer the thin excuse
that ii is from fear of diseased meat.
There is no concealment of the fact that
it is done in retaliation for our placing
tariff en- sugar.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28
LrBERATToN NOTICE.

Motto is hereby given that | have given
nv son, Willie II Mason, his time du ing the
rest of his minority and shall pay none of his
debts nor claim any of his wages from this
ALBERT o. MASON.
Grafton, vt, + eb. %, 1925.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28

If an old, streng and popular
New England Life Insurance
Company, where you can
bui d up n permanent and
increasing income? Such an
opportunity awaits a man
of successful experience.
Address z. q. Drawer No.
65S, Albany, n. Y
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28

E95-It is our invariable rule to expect noti
ficati0n from subscribers who wish THE
TIMES discontinued to their address. We
have no desire to force our paper upon any
one and q postal card order TO our Office will
promptly take from our list any name not in
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28

One copy, one year, IN ADVANCE, $3.50
One copy, six months, IN ADVANCE, rs
One copy, three months, IN ADVANCE, 40
Single copies, .o5
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28

change of residence will be held responsible
for all papers sent to old address, unless
ordered discontinued and PAID TO DATE.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28
CHANGE OF ADDRESS.

Subscribers who change their postoffice ad-
dress should notify us promptly of the fact
and send their old as well as nezU address, that
we may be able to make the change on our
books without delay.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28
NOTE AND COMMENT.

A proposition to pay the bounty due
on last years sugar crop was favorably
acted upon in the senate yesterday.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28
8naimsaa Gnrna.

e. S. PARMENTER,
TEACHER OF VIOLIN AND CORNET.
Arranger for Military Bands and Orchestras.
Leader of Huntoon's Opera House
Orchestra.
Enquire of H. j. Huntoon or at Times Office
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28

THE O. M. BAKER JUNK co.
DEALERS in ALL KINDS of OLD JUNK.
Rubber and Metals speciality. Rags, Old
Rope, Bags, Sheep Pelts, Furs, etc. Agents
~anted to buy old Junk. Cash furnished on
safisfactory guaranty. Commission al
lowed. George Street, Rellows Falls. 2s-40
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-02-28

HENRY C. EARLE,
PUBLIC HACK.
Passengers carried to any part OF the vii
iaee. Order Book at Aldrich'S
a5-3e Confectionery Store.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
RAILWAY CAPITALIZATION

However much the capital stock Of
our railway companies may be
watered, the fact remains that their
capitalization per mile averages much.
less than that Of European roads.
According to a recent published re-
port of the English board of trade
an official body which passes on all
applications for railway charters in
England-the estimated average cost
per mile of the 1857 miles of roadway
built and projected under the applica-
tions filed with it in the last ten
years was $2SO,OOO, or nearly four and
half times as much as the average
mileage capitalization of American
roads. The average for the United
States is little over $63, 200. The es-
innate for one English road $50 miles
long, chartered a year ago, is over
$5OO,OOO, and the lowest reported by
the English board of trade for the
decade is $S9,OOO per mile.
England's railroads have, however,
a big advantage over ours in cost of
operation and volume of traffic. While
their carrying rates are lower than
those of most American roads for
short distance hauling, the general
average is higher in England than in
the United States.
These three factors combined-more
business, better rates and cheaper
labor-enable English railway COM
panies, notwithstanding their enor-
nous per mileage capitalization, to
pay dividends averaging 4 per cent
year-more than twice the average in
come from the capital invested in
American railways.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
THE LADIES BLooMER WHEEL.
Does Away With the Skirt Guard and
Lessons Its Weight.

The advent of the bloomer wheel
promises an innovation. 1t is 26-
inch rim, 51A-inch tread, 21-inch frame
and weighs from 1S to 10 pounds. Like
the bloomer costume itself, the new
machine is expected to be little slow
in gaining foothold, but the comfort
of wriding without cumbersome skirts,
the freedom from guards, and other
accessories of the ladies' wheel, which
add to it's weight, and the more i'm
portant absence of danger from acci-
dent, are all bonud to make it sue
cess eventually. For touring purposes
it is incomparably better than any
thing ventured so far by the makers,
artistic costumes that have been de-
signed Ito go with it, the only possible
objecdidn-its conspicuousness- ss-has
been banished. The New York so
ciety women have taken it UP and the
new club organized there, with Mrs.
Robert Jaffray as leader, will make it
"go," as nothing else could. The
New Workers, too, have introduced
what is called the Emusic ride" sort
Of cycling german with fancy figures
TO an orchestra accompaniment, given
in the academies, and finished off
with q promenade concert and refresh
mentS.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
BLOOD CURDLING CRIME
A Fiendish or Crazy
Mother
Deliberately Kills Two
Children.
Had Planned the Deed a Week Before
and Went from Home to Ex-
ecute 1t.

COLUMBUS. Ohio, April Last
Saturday Mrs. w. II. B. Williams,
wife Of a real estate man residing at
Grove City, a village about eight
miles southeast of Columbus, arrived
in the city with her three children,
Anna, aged "A. Maud, aged l.. and
Harry, aged Z, and registered ait the
Park hotel. This morning about 8
o'clock Mrs Williams left the hotel.
About 3 p. m. the chambermaIid found
two children, Maud and Harry, dead
in bed with their throatS cut. There
was a bloody razor ON the foot of the
bed. Mrs Williams arrived this after
noon and would not permit her
daughter Anna to enter the room
Latter, Williams, his wife and daugh-
ter were locked UP ait the police sta
ition pending am investigation. Mrs.
Williams showed no evidence of insan-
tty and told the STORY of the horrible
crime in a calm voice. She said she
had made up her mind last week to
kill herself and her children and came
to Columbus for THAT purpose.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
The Great Edison and
His Phonograph.
Will Manufacture Them
Himself.
He Does not Care to Have Any One
Else Have a Lien on His
Brains.

NEW YORK, April 1.-The World
says: Thomas A. Edison and his pho
nograph are going to join hands once
more and the wizard of Menlo Park
promises improvements and novelties
which will astonish the public. The
phonograph has been controlled by the
North American Photograph company,
which went into the hands of a receiv-
er last August. The company was cap
italized at $6,OOO,OO0 in 1883 and Jas.
III. Lippihcott, the promoter, went in
sane when he found it was a fizZle.
The receiver has advertised for bids
for the entire assets and Edison's Of
fer of $12O,OOO has been accepted.
Mr.. Edison said: 1.-The company has
one asset which I am willing to pay
a high price for: that is a claim on
all my future inventions and improve
ments of the phonOgraph. l do not
care to have any one else have lien
on my brains, so 1 made a bid which
proved higher than all others. l shall
manufacture the monographs myself
now and expect to keep all the prom
ises 1 made when l first introduced
them. I am going in for the house
holds instead of the nickel-in-the-slot
machines and in a short time expect
to produce an entire opera or a COM
plete novel on cylinder. I suppose
it will cost me $1,000 to have the
opera Of Norma sung to machine,
but 1 can reproduce that on almost
as many cylinders as please. think
can afford to pay Du Marier more
than Harpers and newspapers have,
SO that any gentleman can have 'Irli-
by read to him in his parlor In the
course of an evening"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
\ TEsTAMENTARY SERMON.
Remarkable Provisions in the Last
Will of California Lawyer.

The will which a man leaves may
be safely taken as an exposition of
his character and as an index to the
business ways of his life. In sharp
contrast to the late James G. Fairs
will, with all its evidences of cyni-
cism, suspicion, possibly revenge, and
certainly small respect for the law
and for the integrity Of the courts, is
the will of Alfred BarstOw, an OAK
land lawyer who recently died. 1t is
true that he left an estate of only
$50, 900, which looks insignificant in
comparison with Mr.. Fairs, but that
makes no difference when we analyze
the essentials. Mr.. Barstow was
kindly, modest, generous man OF
more than ordinary ability. His home
life was ideal for it's sweetness. har-
mony and comfort, and the high
worth of the parents and of the home
which they made is generously reflect
ed in that of their children. But it
is better that Mr.. Barstow's character
should be read in his will, which con-
tains the following unusual provisions:
I desire my estate to be distributed
in accordance with the laws of the
state of California.
I desire my widow to be executrix
of this will, and that no bond is re-
uuired Of her in any proceedings grow
ing out of her trust. I authorize and
empower her to sell any and all real
or personal property belonging TO my
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
TILE PRESIDENT VISITED.
A Delegation from Chicago Calls upon
His Excellency.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-The pres
ident this morning received repre-
sentative delegation of Chicagoans in
behalf of the leaddng citizens of Chi
cago, irrespective of party affiliation,
to invite him to q public reception to
himself and Mrs. Cleveland, as am ex-
preston of the appreciation of his
steadfast preservation of a 'tsound ma
tional currency" Members of the del
egation were: William T. Baker,
president of the Chicago board of
trade; George w. Smith, ex-president
of the Union League club; John A.
Roche, eX-nayor: T. w. Harvey, ex-
president of the Commercial club;
David Kelly and Henry o. Robbins.
The president expressed his gratifica-
tlon, but gave no assurance of his ac-
ceptanee saying his duties might re-
quire his presence In Washington for
SOME time
AS spokesman for the delegation Mr..
Robbins described their reception as
follows:
eve We're received very pleasantly
and explained to the president the
non-paHitisan character of the invita-
tion. We also told him the business
men of Chicago HEARTILY endorsed the
movement. While lit was intended as
"a PERSONAL compliment to him, it had
a still further motive in view, the de-
velopnlent of am aggressive sound
money sentiment throughout the west =
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
A DEAD BODY FOUND
IT WAS STANDING IN A CREEK
LEANING AGAINST A TREE.
Identified as F. E. Rood, an Expert
StenOgrapher and Accountant,
Who Disappeared in November.

ASTORIA, April ion Sunday
Charles Thomas and Charles Cath
lamet in going up Beaver creek, about
eight miles back of Cathlamet, Wash,
discovered the body of a man standing
in the creek leaning against a tree on
the bank. Near by on the limbs Of the
trees were hanging the mans under
clothes. He had on trousers and a
long black ulster. The body was iden-
titled as that of r. E. Rood, who left
Cath1amet in the early part Of De
cember for Waterford. He had evil
IDENTIFY been dead over three months.
Rood came to Oregon year and a
half ago from Omaha, where he has
relatives and wife and child. He
was an expert stenographer and ac-
countant and for several years was
employed by the Armour, Cudahy
Co. of that place. When he came to
Oregon he worked for the Hapgood
canneryman and last August came to
Astoria in the employ of one of the
canneries. The latter part of Novem-
ber he disappeared suddenly being
short several hundred dollars in his
accounts. Where the body was found
lis one of the widest parts OF the
country and the only way he could
travel was by wading the middle OF
the stream. He is supposed to have
died from exhaustion.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
A WHOLESOME RULING.
Pharisaic Prayers May Be Libelous
and Are not Privileged.

Los Angeles, April Judge Clark
today overruled demurrer interposed
by Rev. J. c. Campbell in a suit charg-
ing him with slandering Miss Tesa L..
Kalsc, librarian of the Los Angeles
public library. The basis of the action
was prayer offered by the defendant
before his congregation in the First
Methodist Episcopal church in which
he said:
"Oh, Lord, vouchsafe thy saving
grace to the librarian of the Los An
geles city library and cleanse her of
all sin and make her a woman worthy
of her Office
The reverend gentleman in his de
murrer took the position that his state
ment was privileged. The court held
that a SANDER can be perpetrated in
the form of a prayer as readily as in
any other form of speech and no COM
munication made by parson or priest
to his congregation is privileged be-
cause of such relation, unless, per-
haps, when made in the discharge of
his pastoral duties with one subject
to the discipline Of the church, and
then only when made without malice.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
A WONDERFUL WEAPON.

Baltimore, April Capt. Morslager
port, visited Fort McHenry today and
exhibited to the soldiers the new Ger
man rifle with which he did remark
able shooting. The rifle is one of the
first made by the German government
from brand new inventions of Mercer.
the great German firearm inventor. It
is of 32-calibre and the barrel is made
of three tubes, one inside the 9th, = ON
the same plan as the Krupp gun. The
powder used is smokeless. Fired
along at the height of the shoulder
the bullet will 60 nearly two miles
before it's force is spent and at 1000
yards lit would pierce bodies of seven
men, one behind the other
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
ABSOLUTELY PURE

estate at private or public sale, with
out the order of any court or tribunal.
and that she have as full and free
right of disposition thereof as though
the title of all said property vested in
her, and my only object in making
this will is to facilitate the settle
nent of my estate.
think that no man should have the
power to go farther than this. I do
not believe the dead should meddle
with the quick. When a person is
once comfortably laid away, let him
cease from trouble, and let the living
carry ON the business of life. Very
probably the dead one will have all
he can attend to if the religious doc
tors" are half right as to the truths"
they hand out.
The novelty of this remarkable will
lies in the first and third paragraphs,
as the provisions Of the second are
not uncommon. If this will does not
discover a particularly lofty character
we have read the riddle of human ma
ture in vain. Its first element is
dignified respect for the law and faith
in the honesty of the courts. Its sec
ond is the peculiar third paragraph,
which, besides sustaining in spirit the
first paragraph, calmly lays down the
rule of conduct for others. making all
who may read and heed it the bene-
ficiaries of it's provisions. Even the
grim and somewhat irreverent' humor
Of the last sentence carries lesson.
The last paragraph gives the neces-
sary inference that the maker of a
will has no right to leave his property
for any purposes other than those
specified in the laws of the state.
Chese laws were framed principally
to serve in the case of those who die
intestate. Mr.. Barstow's only varia-
ton from their provisions is the relief
of his widow from bonds and the
handling and disposition of the prop
erty by her without the supervision
of the courts. That he should be less
Ienient than the law and show a
greater confidence in the widow with
reference to the rights and interests
Of the children is private matter
with him and her and is one with
which the public is not concerned
S. F. Call.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
WE NEED PEOPLE.

What Oregon needs should be live
discussion, for it applies with equal
force to all of Oregon's towns. This
is by no means new thought, but
one which has suggested itself nat
urally to all old residenters. The late
R. P. Earhart once said to Mr.. Crock
er, upon the driving of the last spike
in the Siskiyous: "Now that we have
a railroad we need money" To which
Crocker replied: sNo, you don't need
money. you need people, and people
will bring moneyp' How true are
these words, yet what inducements
are being made to bring people, out
side of a few rustling real estate
agents? There are now many people
looking this way, shall We invite
them ?-Geryais Star,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04

bearing ON the Cuban revolution, al
though it is reported that they are pi-
rates, manned by renegade Cubans,
and coasting about the gulf and along
the coast of South America There
have been a number of strangers seen
within a few days in Progresso, Cam
pectle, Merida and other points in Yu-
catan, whose business is unknown, and
who are evidently Cubans. 1t is al
legged they are insurgents, and are in
Mexico for the purpose of gaining re-
crIits for the rebel cause. Cuba has
MANLY sympathizers in Mexico in her
attempt to throw off the Spanish yoke
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
A BOILER EXPLOSION.
Several Killed and Others Injured at
Tannery.

Woburn, Conn.,, April 1.-Just before
this morning one of the boilers in
the Connecticut tannery exploded with
terrific force, killing five men and in
juring six others.
The dead are: John Parker, fore
man; Patrick Lally, fireman; Frank
Mcmahon, night foreman; Patrick Nc
Gonagle, oiler, and Samuel Tracy.
The injured are: John Kenny, John
Tracy, Patrick Riley, William Rhine
bress, James Dixon, Octavius Saun-
ders.
Patrick Riley died at the hospital at
12:40 p. M, making the sixth victim.
The seven men missing have been To-
Gated. They were not injured.
There had been trouble with the
boilers for some time, and early this
morning John Parker, the foreman,
was called to the boiler-room to see
If it could be fixed. 1t was found the
water supply could not be satisfactor-
lily adjusted, but this was remedied.
Five minutes before Parker entered
the boiler-room and ordered the whis-
tie to be blown to start the works.
The rope attached to the whistle was
pulled and instantly there was a fear
full explosion. The big iron smoke
stack on the boiler house was blown
high into the air and fell across the
roof of the shop and the tall brick
chimney fell into thousands of pieces,
crashing into the engine room be-
meath it.
Men hurried from all parts of town
and the work of removing those buried
under the ruins was commenced imme-
diately. Piteous cries of the injured
pinned under the debris urged the res
cuers on to rapid work, and in a short
time the bodies of four men had been
removed and six injured had been ta-
ken out.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
HEARD A sALVATIONIsT.

st. Louis Board of Trade Addressed
by Mrs. Booth.
St Loq1is. April AIT closing hour
today, President Booth called the Mer-
chants exchange to order and intro
duced Mrs. Ballingbon Booth of the
Salvation Army. Mrs. Booth, said this
was the first time she had ever had
the honor of addressing such an audi
ence. She referred to the former con-
Tempt the Salvation Army was held In
and the change which had come over
the people. Now, instead of feelings
of repugnance, the churches and the
people We're lending their aid In every
way.
'"The Salvation Army" she said, sis
not organized for the purpose of taking
away from amy church it's members,
but to bring them more members by
redeeming from sin and darkness those
who are found in the highways and
byways, the poor, needy and fallen
Mrs. Booths remarks were listened
to attentiyely
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04

M. Morrison, am old and respected
citizen is very ill at his home in this
city. G. G. Smith, another we'll known
citizen, is very low, in fact not expect
ed to live. He is less than 40 years
cid, but has been ailing three or four
years.
The Epworth league for this dis
trict, which embraces both sides of
the valley from McMinnville to Eu-
gene, will begin a four days session
here Thursday.
state will hold AN annral meeting here
teginning Tuesday of next week. It
is expected between eighty and one
hundred will be in attendance.
RESULT AT WOODBURN.
Woodburn, April 1.-The first city
election to be held under the new
charter took place today. There was
quite an amount of enthusiasm dis
played during the day and the citi-
zens' ticket was successful. The re-
suit is as follows:
Mayor-J. II. Settlemier, 129, Mr..
Young 81.
Recorder. A. Knight 211.
Marshal-W. II. Broyles 124, L. Hol-
lenback SS.
Treasurer-W. E. Finer 213
COuncilmen-TwO years, J. Doud
212; H. q. Spencer 2O9; one year, John
Gates PIP, F. Tomlinson POI.
The total vote cast was 218.
IN MONTANA.
Helena, April 1-At the city election
today DR.. VIM. L. Steele, democrat,
was elected mayor. The vote stood,
Steele, Democrat, 1,197; Lockley, re-
publican, 1,OO9; Reed, populist, 740.
The republicans eleHted police magis-
trate, city treasurer and five out OF
seven aldermen. The democrats and
populists elected one alderman each.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
THE WATCH RETURNED.

Springfield, O., April 1.-While the
late Confederate general, Albert Sid
ney Johnston, lay wounded on the
battlefield of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, a
Union soldier took the generals gold
watch. The soldier soon afterwards
obtained furlough, and in Canton.
Ill, pawned the watch to John Fisher
for $1O4. Fisher, while in Richmond, |,
Va, recently saw a picture of the late
General Johnston, and informed De
tective John T. Morris, of this city,
that he had the generals watch.
Detective Norris yesterday received
the watch, with instructions to for
ward it to Johnston's heirs. On the
inside of the watch the name "a. s.
Johnston, C. s. A." Is engraved.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-04
THE MARKET REPORT.

Liverpool, April 1.-Wheat, spot,
steady; demand poor; No. red winter,
4s Cd; No. 2 red spring, 5s I'd; No.
hard Manitoba, 5s 21ad; No. Califor-
MIA, As lid.
Hops at London. = Pacific coast,
e. los.
New York-Hops dull.
San Francisco-Wheat, shipping, S5c
is obtainable; milling grades are fairly
firm at 9O@95c.