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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-03
THE SWARMiNG OF THE BEESa
Napoleon Regained His Empiret
twenty Days After Leaving Elba.

Napoleon Regained His Empirel
Twenty Days After Leaving Elba.
At nine o'clock a mighty shout Isl
heard without.
THE Emperor! The Emperor"
The palace echoes the cry, as across
the bridge Of the palace, and along the
Seine embankment in through the
Tuileries gate, thronged about by a
clamorous crowd, and surrounded by
his soldiers and his generals, Napoleon
enters the courtyard.
Paris Is wild with joy! The veterans
ting themselves upon the Emperur's
carriage. They seize him in their arms
They drag him out, and, bearing himf
on their shoulders, they rush with HIM
through the doorway, W to the foot
of the great staircase.
The palace rocks with the shouts Of,
welcome. The crowd bearing the Emu
peror, and the throng pouring down
the staircase to greet him, block the
way. Progress Is impossible. People are
everywhere, and Philip, standing at
the top of the noble Stairway of Honor.
laughs, as he cheers, to see Corporal
Peyrolles sitting astride the great Sill
yer statue Of Peace, his chapeau on The
end of his cane, his face red with shout-
ing and wet with tears Of joy.
At last q passage way is broken
through the crowd. Philip and Mon.
sieur de Lavalette, back their WAN
aloft and keep the passage open. and
so, up the clamOring stairway, along
the Gallery Of Diana, through the Blua
Room, and into the Emperor's study:
amid tears and cheers and shouts, and
tossing Of hats and waving of hand.
~kerchiefs, the Emperor comes to his
W again. In twenty days after leav-
ing Elba, Napoleon has regained his
empire. With but a thousand grena-
diers he has conquered thirty millions
of people. The Swarming of the Bees
ends in a carnival Of joy.-St. Nicholas.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-03
Horse on a Street Car Fender.

Detroit has a street car fender-one
fender, not a style of fcnder-which
beats that boasted of by Philadelphia,
which the other day picked up a bicy-
cliSt and his machine and carried them
uninjured for half Il block. The De-
troit car struck Il horse on Warren ave-
nue.. The horse vas scooped off its
feet and fell into the fender and was
carried along in it for 200 or 800 feet
until the car was stopped. Then the
horse got NJ, stepped off and trotted
away uninjured.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-03
It was in their later or degenerate days

1t was in their later or degenerate days
that the musters excited the ridicule Of
the looker-on, but it should not be forgot
ten that they were not the less ridiculous
TO those engaged in them, and that Sell
dom, even by tine participants, were they
taken seriously. So long rs soldiers were
really needed, militia training wal an i'm
pOrtant matter. and looked after with
sedulons care, but when every one felt
that there was no need for drilling, that
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-03

man in his shirt sleeves and with but one
suspender. while beyond him would be
ranged men with and without coats, men
with beaver hats" with straw hats, with
coonskin caps, the tail hanging down be-
hind, with felt or wool hats, the brims
Tapping over their eyes.
But these things are homogeneous only
in the eyes of those who are looking FOR
incongruities, and the militiamen Of our
early days were little accustomed to no.
tice trifies like these. Not dandies them
selves, they despised dandyism in others.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-03

g,iishcd from all other days by the most
casual visitor to the district or village
where the muster was to take place.
Early in the morning countrymen would
begin to arrive. some on horseback some
on foot. three out of five attended by one
or more dogs. generally ours of very low
degree. As soon as the arrivals had put
up their horses, by hitching them TO 4 con-
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-03

articles necessary To The equipment 81 a
soldier. As Il matter If fact. however.
when the company actually assembled
Tor drill, military equipments were on
spicu"us 10y their absence. If lhorc were
any muskcts with hayoEcts. they W"r"
probably relics of the war Of indcpcnd-
cnce, while the majority If the company
Were provided with ordinary rifles OF fowl
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-03

The cross made instead of a sigma
ture did not originate in ignorance. 1t
vas always appended to signatures In
medieval times as an attestatien Of
good faith.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-03

any number of troops that might be nee
essary for the defense of the country
could be raised in a month, no II could
see any particular necessity for drilling
in the sun, and so the muster day, with
its legal provisions Of bayonets and hints,
haversacks and bags of bullets, quietly
passed into disuse, and finally almost into
oblivion.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-03
DAYS OF OLD.
FESTIVAL IN WHICH OUR GRAND.
FATHERS DELIGHTED.
N;,;tia Laws of the States-What a
Militiaman Was Required to Have
on Muster Day-The Amenities of
the Occasion.
Source of Mirth.

There are many elderly men still living
IN This country who remember the mus
fer days" of half a century ago, and
what events they were in the course of
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-10-03

however, first and last. relying on hi,
treating abilities to clinch whatever pop
ularity he might be able IL gain by other
means. He might be canvassing for II
State or county Office. or only for the cnn-
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13

Allison when he asked Garfield to make
him Secretary of the Treasury? Blaine
wrote: You can find no other man so Mt
with you and John Sherman counted out.
Sherman said the other day that he
thought Allison better posted in financial
legislation than any man except Garfield
and Blaine. This is authentic.
"Allison you have known thoroughly
and long. He is true, kind, reasonable,
fair. honest and good. He is methodical,
industrious and intelligent and would be a
splendid man to sail along with smoothly
and successfully. He would always
hearken to your views. In the whole
United States do not believe you could
do so well. What Blaine said is as true to-
day as it was in 1880.
"In speaking as I do of Mr.. Allison 1
do not wish to be understood as disparag-
ing the ability of Morton, Reed, Mckinley
or Harrison, but Allison is all right on
all public questions, especially that OF
finance. He is neither gold nor silver
man. He is a bimetallist, and platform
advocating bimetallism, arrived at by in
ternational agreement, will carry the vic
tory to the Republicans next year.
From observations 1 have recently
made throughout the country Allison is
either the second or the third choice of the
followers of all the other candidates. He
is in splendid position, therefore, in my
Judgment to obtain the nomination"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
THOUGHT THE ACT JUST,
Nephi BlamireS Tells of the
ButChery of His Aged
Stepfather.
Committed the Crime Because the
Old Man Threatened to Drive
Him From Home.

OGDEN, UTAH, July 12.-The prelim.
mary examination of Nephi Blamires fol-
the murder of his stepfather, Thomas
Boynton, came up before Justice John W.
Galley yesterday at Kaysville. When the
complaint was read to Blamires and the
question was asked, Guilty or not guilty" ?
the accused said:
"Well, l killed the old man, but think
l was justified, because he threatened to
turn me out. / knew that / could not
work and would starve to death, so |
thought 1 had better kill him than die
myself. 1 think it would have been a
terrible offense for him to turn me out, and
1 think it was better for him to die than
me-"
Blamires then narrated the circum-
stances of the killing substantially as given
in THE CALL, emitting none of the horrible
details. In conclusion, he said he thought
he would be acquitted on the ground that
the. act was justifable.
Several other witnesses were examined
and gave the details of the affair. Two
blows were struck with the back of the ak.
crushing in the right side of the old mans
head, and then three blows were struck
with the blade of the ak, cutting the skull
and face in shocking manner
AT the conclusion of the testimony
Blamires was held to appear before the
Grand Jury without bonds on the charge
of murder.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13

of San Francisco, presided, and prayer
and praise service began the service. Then
followed "The Parliament Of Nations
which consisted of four-minute greetings
on "Our Fellowship, +" from Alaska by Rev
Marsden; from Wales by Rev. r. Burgess
from India by Mr.. Prabala Ramachind-
rayya Garu; from Australia by Rev.W. ]. L.
Chose; from Bermuda by Rev. A. Bur-
rows; from North American Indians by
DeIosk Lonewolf; from Japan by Rev K.
]. Sunashima; from Persia by Jesse Mask
Yohan, and from Africa by Miss Anna M.
Cummins. The principal address of the
evening was by Rev. Edwin Hildeck OF
Hagerstown. His topic was the centrality
of Christian fellowship.
At Tent Williston the exercises opened
with praise service. Rev. Mr.. Albright
of the Pilgrim church conducted devotional
services.
The Christian Endeavor banner of the
local union for best work during the year
was presented by Rev. Irvington T. Lord,
DID,, of Brooklyn, N. Y, to the First
Church of the Disciples, Philadelphia
The parliament of nations considered in
brief sketches Christian Endeavor work in
nter-denominational fellowship. A reso-
luton was introduced expressing sympa-
thy with the suffering Christians of Ar
menia
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13

100 tons of Spelter, vast quantities of cop
per and iron pipes, brass sheeting and
machinery were carried off by the busy
thieves, the monotony of robbery being re-
lieved by shooting and clubbing, of which
even women and children were sometimes
the victims.
Presently powder magazine, situated
about a mile and half outside the city,
exploded, and the crowd, surging thither,
found fresh diversion-such as only
Chinese can thoroughly enjoy-in watch
ing the death throes of mangled and mutt
lated bodies that had been blown hither
and thither by the shock AS the day
grew older the range of looting and de-
struction widened, and it became evident
that the whole city was in imminent dan
ger OF fire and sack. English and German
marines guarded the foreign hongs, but
their numbers being small, they could do
nothing to save the Chinese residents from
the fate that threatened them.
But the mere intelligence of the Japanese
approach suficed to scatter the Iooting
and burning mob and Taipeh was saved.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13

year ago and had taken quite an active
part in local affairs. AT IL o'clock a gar
dener who lives mile from the city dis
covered his body in an old farm barn,
which was blown over by the terrible wind
of last Sunday. There was bullet hole in
the left side, close to the heart, which did
the deadly work. There was also deep
cash on the right side of the neck inflicted
by razor, which he still clutched. In his
hat was found the following note:
Those whom have befriended brought me to
this. To my good wife, sweet little boys and
mother, good-by. None of you know my
troubles. S. W. ANDERSON.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
ATTACK ON THE ARTHUR.
Ouer Fifty On Board the German Ship
Killed o1, WOu7aded.

Killed or Hotnded.
TOXIC, JAPAN, June 29.-While Taipeh
was passing through its ordeal of plunder
and contlagration, Tamsui, a town on the
coast at the mouth of the river upon which
Taipeh stands, did not fail to feel the dis
turbance. To get away from Formosa,
the founder OF the republic had to take
ship at Tamsui. A German steamer, the
Arthur, had just arrived there, and to her
flocked a crowd of soldiers and civilians,
including General Tcheng and the COM
mander of the ex-President's guard, as
well as the military paymaster, carrying
with him a sum of $4,000. The soldiers
on shore had no intention of allowing
either silver or other valuables to leave the
island without paying heavy toll. They
accordingly set themselves to fuslllade and
drive back the boats proceeding to the
ship, and directed toward the steamer
herself such hail of bullets whenever she
attempted to get away that she had to re-
main at her moorings. Meanwhile, two
parties of braves visited the Arthur and
carried off the whole of the paymaster' s
treasure, while their comrades robbed the
would-be passengers.
On the morning OF the 9th OF June the
Arthur made final attempt to get away,
but Immediately drew upon herself the
fire of field battery of nine Founders:
Four shells struck the ship, killing and
wounding over fifty of those on board.
Lying some 600 yards farther out was the
Iltis German gunboat of $40 tons. The
captain of the Arthur having s1gnaled to
the Iltis that he was attacked received
orders to drop astern of her. as she was
about to engage the fort. 1t was daring
performance for little gunboat to attack
a fort mounting Aston guns. With her
second she'll the Iltis got the range and
killed thirteen of the Chinese gunners.
The rest fed incontinently and the Arthur
was able to put to sea without further
molestation.
She did not carry ex-President Tang.
His efforts to get on board proved unsuc-
cessful; but he followed little later in the
Kwong-wo and picking up the Arthur at
Annoy went on by her to Shanghai. The
Iltis has demonstrated even more clearly
than the Japanese how little value attaches
to Chinese capacities for defense.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
CAPTIVES TO BE SHOT.
Campos R5lJ Sho,U No Mercy to Rebel
Prisoners.

Campos RIIL Shotv No Mercy to Rebel
Prisoners.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, July 12. - A
special to the Times Union from Tampa
says:
The Mascotte brought over several i'm
portant personages yesterday afternoon.
Campos has moved from Pascho to Tunas
de James. Gomez marched as far as the
dividing line between Port-au-Principe,
Remedio Province, and then fell back a
point near Puerto Principe, where he has
| fortified his forces. The clash between the
Spanish and insurgent forces has been
averted for the present by this movement,
so far as the two leading armies are con-
cerned. A decisive battle is expected at no
distant date.
The election of Palma to succeed Marti
gives universal satisfaction among the
patriots on the island. The Cuban leaders
believe the Spanish Government intends
to make an aggressive warfare from this on.
A cablegram to the Times Union from
Key West says:
Late advices to this city from Havana
state that battle was fought near Manza-
milo on the Sd inst. between 500 fresh
Spanish troops, commanded by Major San
chez, and 200 insurgents, commanded by
Major Rabi, in which the Spanish troops
were routed. The insurgents captured
fifty Spaniards.
In the battle fought between Amador
Guerra and Bocres, the Cuban leader was
killed, being the only one lost by the in
surgents. The Spanish troops were almost
annihilated, only two officers and six
soldiers escaping owing to the fact of hav-
ing good horses.
The report is confirmed that Martinez
Campos has issued orders that all rebels
captured shall be Immediately shot.
Maximo Gomez has issued a manifesto to
the farmers and owners of Cuban planta-
tions saying:
From this date all are prohibited from send
ing products to towns occupied by the enemy.
Owners of sugar plantations are warned to
stop all work. The plantations of those ignor-
ing this order will be destroyed. Those who
will so against this order show that their
sympathies are with the Spanish authorities
and will be considered as traitors, and if cap
tured, will be treated as such.
Among the passengers last night on the
Mascotte was Richardo Truiillo Almas,
who took an active part in the last revolu-
ton, being chief of staff of Gomez. He
reports many bands going to the insur-
gents from Colon, in the province of
Matanzas, and it is rumored in this city
that he is the bearer of important mes
sages.
A call has been made for mass-meeting
at the San Carlos Hall for the purpose OF
raising $50O,0O0 to carry on the winter
campaign.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
LAUNDRY GIRLS IN ARMS.
Organize at Washington to
Drive Out Chinese
Labor.
Their Wages Have Been Reduced
Owing to Competition Of
the Celestials.

WASHINGTON, .. c., July 12.-The
four or five hundred laundry girls OF
Washington are afraid they will be ruined
by Chinese cheap labor and propose to
organize labor union to drive the
Celestials out of competition with them.
The Chinese population of Washington
is increasing rapidly, and they now have
their Chinatown near the Capitol. Their
opium and gambling joints are frequently
raided by police ana highlander fights are
becoming frequent.
Thus the public men of Washington are
given an idea of what the Pacific Coast
people contend with. 1t is an object
lesson for legislators and executive Off
GERS. The Chinese have made cut of 25
per cent in laundry work, and the SYM
pathy of Washingtonians is with the
working girls, who have appealed to the
public to boycott the Chinese. The Chi
nese cut in price has been met by one of
the laundries. This fact is an indication
that there may be corresponding cut all
along tie line of white laundries, which
circumstance would naturally carry with
it reduction in the wages of laundry en-
ployes.
The girls are perfectly well aware that as
soon as the Chinese can reduce the cost of
labor to the minimum and control a larger
share of the floating business the COM
panies cannot really pay them living
wages and their occupation will be gone.
They have however confidence that the
public will not be a party to their losing
their jobs" They are told that the laun-
dry girls OF Cleveland, Ohio, after breaking
up laundry, went in and made the estab-
lshment success, and it is now running
to the satisfaction of the new girl manager
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
HARRISON AND ELK|NS
They Join Forces for the
Struggle in the Con-
VentiOn.
WAR ON THEIR ENEMIES.
Actively at Work to Secure the
Downfall of Plat and
Quay.
ALLISON's STAR rs RISING.
Favored as Second Choice by Fol-
lowers of Nearly All the Lead
ing Candidates.
WAR ON THEIR ENEMIES.
ALLISON's STAR rs RISING

NEW YORK, N. Y, July 12.-New York
and Pennsylvania have suddenly become
Republican Presidential storm centers and
henceforth until the National convention
meets these two States and events in them
are going to be perhaps more interesting
politically than any other two in the
country.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
ROUTED By THE REBELS.
G. enerGJ NdUdrrO's Arny Almost Annt
Inflated Il fter q Fierce Battle.


NEW YORK, N. Y, July IA Re
corder special from Santiago de Cuba says
General Navarro LANDED in Grand Piedra
near this city, with an expedition on July
6. He had under his command 1850 Span.
ish troops and two guns. The mules har-
messed to the ammunition carts took fright
at the report of some shots fired by the in.
surgents and bolted. The whole column
started in pursuit, but when the Spaniards
reached the open country they found NO
trace of the carts.
On their reeurn they were fired on from
all directions by absut forty bands of in.
surgents in ambush in the mountains
under command of Garzon and Uuintano.
The Spaniards hastily formed and started
on the double quick down the road, where
upon the insurgents emerged and an obsti-
nate battle ensued. An incessant fire was
kept up for five hours. The ammunition
of the insurgents then gave out, but the
Spanish column had been so reduced in
numbers by that time that the Cubans felt
encouraged enough to make another
charge.
General Navarro, at the beginning of The
five hours battle, had sent detachment
of soldiers to this city for help. As the
forty bands descended the mountains to
charge with their machettes, they were
warned of the approach of the reinforce
ments. Half their number were promptly
dispatched to meet the Spaniards, who,
after short, but sharp encounter, re-
turned to Santiago de Cuba on the run.
During this time General Navarro's s
forces had been utterly routed, only 400
out of the 1850 men of which it was origin
ally composed being alive to accompany
him to his retreat.
Soon after his arrival here General
Navarro left for Havana to explain his de-
feat as best he could at headquarters.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
TO BAND ALL CL|MES,
Christians Move for the
Forming of a Worlds
EndeaVor.
SCORES OF MEETINGS.
BoSton'S Guests Hold Praise
Services in All Parts of
the City.
MOODY IN FANEUIL HALL.
San Francisco Finally Chosen as the
Place of Holding the 1895
Gathering.
MOODY IN FANEUIL HALL.

BOSTON, MASS, July 12.-An important
meeting for the formation of worlds
Christian Endeavor was held in Mechanics
Hall at P. NJ, with nearly 1900 present.
Rev. Francis E. Clark, D.p., president of
the United Society of Christian Endeavor,
presided and stated that this was no new
thing, as it had been considered for more
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
CLASH WITH THE REBELS,
Engagement Between CubanS
and Spaniards Near
Remedier.
Captain Lopez and Sergeant Morales
Numbered Among the
Killed.

NEW YORK. N. Y, July 13-A special
cable to the Herald from Havana says
there has been an important engagement
of the infantry forces of Marena and Bor-
bon at Ell Seboriucal, one league from
Remedier. Captain Gonzales Lopez and
Sergeant Morales were shot and killed.
The enemy suffered heavy loss.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
INVITED TO HIS W1FE,S WEDDING.
Instead of Attfndtn0 H1IIiaB, Belts Seeks
n DiUorce Court.

ROCHESTER, N. Y, July 12.-William
D. Belts, well-known engineer, who tips
the scales at 302 pounds, received an invita-
tion by mail a few days ago to attend his
wife's wedding. Mrs. Belts left home
mysteriously in 1892 and her husband
knew nothing of her whereabouts until the
invitation arrived postmarked Santa Clara
Cal, stating that she was to wed gentle
man named ]. w. Abe of that place This
was followed by another letter signed,
"Mrs. Albe, not your wife,
Instead of complying with Mrs. Belts
request, the husband applied for and was
granted yesterday divorce by Judge
Werner