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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-24
JUMPED THE FENCE
ND SWIPED THE STAKES In AN
EXCITING RACE
That h Exactly what Jack Cougher Did 1t
in q 500 Race Between y Horse and
Bicycle and In the Excitement He Van
ished with the Mouey-Hs Game 10
Wichita where He Dot Avoid AnybSdy-
Now They are After Him Red Hot with
Little Hope of Capturing Him.

Little Hope of Capturing Him.
A very excited delegation OF citizens
of Butler county headed by Ed Butter
was in town last night.
They were here looking for a MINI
BILE individual named Jack Cougher,
who has somewhere about his person
$500 in hard cash-the legal tender coin
OF the realm-that belongs TO the afore-
said Mr.. Ed Butler.
Thursday the good town Of FL Dora
do INDUCED in the exciting pastire
of a race between a bicycle and a horse
a distance of ten miles. the contestants
being Ed Butler and Charles Beck
Cougher who was an operator at E
Dorado. was chosen as stake holder
and each side put up 500 into his hand.
Time was called and the Indian pony
and his rival the bicycle came to the
scratch.
The start was made and all was ex-
element. The men hurrahed and the
women shook their handkerchisfS as
the bicycle passed the horse and the
horse in turn passed the bicycle.
The mile post was passed nine times
and as the horse and bicycle came up
the stretch the excitement was intense
ne Nlic was pdSScu i>uhfet
was declared the winner. All the good
people gathered around him and he
ives the hero of the occasion.
Just then some one asked where the
stake holder was and Mr.. Jack Cou-
CHER was nowhere To be seen He was
gone.
In the very middle OF the exciting
contest he, climbed over a fence into a
cornfield and then hung handker-
chief on stick as a signal for d con-
federate 40 follow him In due time
the confederate caught up with him
having horse ready for him by which
he was enabled 10 get out OF the coun-
try.
Now. then the first thing Ed Butler
and his friends did was to keep this
matter out of the newspapers and
this is exactly where they fell down
as is always the case. II they had
given the matter TO the newspapers
the Eagle would have had IL yester-
day morning and Jack Cougher would
he now in jail, for he was in Wichita
yesterday without any apparent effort
to conceal himself and was in at the
Western Union Office where he was
known nearly all day. He sent tel
egram 10 Butler saying he was going
TO Pueblo. hut that was a decoy for the
purpose of throwing him of the track
This is how Butler found that he was
in Wichita.
The town was searched from center
to circumference last night by Butler
and his friends as well as local detec-
tives but Mr.. Cougher could not be
found.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-24
HATTON GETS THERE
EE WALKS AWAY WITH TIE FIELD
IN THE LAST STRETCH.
Doughcrty Comes in Second and Bladder
Very Large but it is Very satisfactory
All the Candidates Made Good Race
and the Vote Cast was Larger than was
Expected-Judge Balderston Expresses
His Feeling at the Expense of Tiger
VilIism-Vote of Townships and Totals

c. II. Hatton is the Republican NOM
inee for judge by a small. but entirely
satisfactory plurality
The returns were all in last evening,
but before completed it looked like
Dougherty carried the city, that Bal
derson carried the county, and that
Hatton got the nomina ton. This was
a mistake. Hatton carried the county
outside the city by small plurality.
The vote is as follows, the first col
umn Of figures showing Balderstein's
vote; the second Dougherty's vote, and
the third Iia ffnn'S Uofe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-24
COMING LOCAL EVENTS.

! Or. Miller Of Wellington will occupy
! the Methodist pulpit next Sunday
| in the absence of Sir. Colt.
The Baptist social which was TO be
! held Friday evening was postponed
| on account of rain, Will be given to-
night
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-24

Total vote, city and county. ..259 3SS Ali
Hattons plurality, %.
The vote was not so small as at first
regarded. In fact, comparing it with
the former returns, with the conditions
the same. it was a mighty good aver
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-17
ARMY NEWS.

REPORTED SPECIALLY FOR THE LIGHT.
The remains of Col. Heye, late in
spector general department. Of Mis-
souri,, were inferred at Arlington
National cemetery Sunday last.
Troops A, F, G and H, sixth caval-
ry formed the escort and furnished
the firing.
Frank Rankin, Company d,
Seventeenth infantry, committed
suicide at Columbus barracks.
Rankin was at one time First SER
geant OF Troop F, Seventh cavalry.
Private Anderson of the battery
has been given a furlough for
three months.
The target season has been post
poned so that it may be par
ticipated in with the new rifle,
which it is understood, has been
shipped.
Private Norden, troop G, Fifth
cavalry, will be released from con-
finement on February 1st upon
recommendation of his troop and
post commander.
Sergeant Harry Hume, OF troop
q, Fifth cavalry, has been granted
a furlough for three months.
1t is believed that is a vote Of
the enlisted men in the garrison
was taken, as to whether the post
mess should be abolished or not,
over ninety per sent, Of the voters
would be in favor Of wiping it out.
Those who have had no practical
experience in connection with post
messes can theoriZe as the wiser,
but the fact still remains that the
post mess is a snare and a delu-
sion, and is detested by those who
have to use it.
H. Visited, who has served in
company H. OF the Second, and ID
Of the Third cavalry, enlisted this
morning for Captain Schuyler's
troop, Of Fifth cavalry.
This morning Just before guard
mount. While Private Esnest, OF
company E, Eighteenth infantry
was about to clean his rifle the
weapon exploded, sending the bull
let through his left ankle. He didn't
know it was loaded. Ernest is now
in the hospital, where he will prob
able suffer for some time.
Major and Mrs. Smith gave {
fancy dress ball in the quadrangle
last evening.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-17
LIGHT FLASHES.

Mrs. Kate Schlessinger, Mother.
in-law OF Mr.. w. H. Parker, is seri-
iously ill at her residence No. log
Buena Vista street.
Mayer & Adler, though moving,
will see that all orders are prompt.
ly filled. L 10 II
There will be surprise party
near the Arkansas Pass depot to.
morrow night.
Mayer & Adler removing from
temporary quarters to old stand,
1902 E. Commerce st. 16 tt
Mrs. d. Loveece, mother Of the
Loveece brothers, who are fruiter-
ers in this city, was seized with a
severe paralytic attack yesterday,
and is quite ill.
Mayer & Adler removing to
their old stand, next Commerce
street bridge. l6 If
-Strayed: One black mare about
l45 hands high, from North Flores
street. Liberal reward for return
to Geo. Sampson, care A. B. Frank
Company.
An extradition case against
Rafael Ramirez is being heard by
Commissioner l.. F. Price this
afternoon. Forty-nine witness es
are to be examined.
An Elmendorf and Buck Hice
club, composed mostly of railroad
men, with 81 members, has been
organized near the International
depot.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-17
BRIAN WOULD BE MAYOR.

WRITTEN AND SUNG BY j. c. CUMBERLAND
Our Brian would be mayor, boys, his
speech is out at last,
He's sly and deep, and thinks we sleep,
and have forgot the past,
His fingers they itch sore, boys, our sew
er teat" to drain,
We've cut him short before, boys, and
so we will again.
And so we will, yes so we will, and so we
will again.
We beat him bad before, boys. and so we
will again.
Bold Brian would be mayor, boys, he
must be poking fun,
Did he recall the city hall, or Houston
street" job done?
His sewer fight" we bore, boys, our
pleadingS, al In vain,
We froze him out before, boys, and so we
will again. -,
And so we will, yes, so we will. so we will
again.
We slew his gang before, boys, and so we
will again.
King Brian would be mayor, boys, for our
credit nOw's o. K,
Thad, Nat and Joe have grOomed him so,
their nod he will obey,
Mayor Elmendorf has swore, boys, his
manhood TO maintain,
He beat them once before, boys, and so he
will again. -,
And so he will, so he will, and so he will
again.
We beat this crowd before, boys, and so
we will again.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-17
PERSONAL MENTION.

DR.. w. E. Pugh, Of Rockport, is
at the Mahncke.
o. f. Goodell, Of Lincoln, Neb., is
at the Maverick.
August Faltin, a capitalist Of
Comfort, is at the Mahncke.
w. J. Libberton and wife, Of
Chicago, are in the city,
J. s. Sheriff. and Miss Clio
Sheriff., of Greenville, Texas, are
in the city, at the Menger.
d. B. Mcdonald and J. A. Swag-
erty, Of st. Louis, are at the Nav
erick.
Mr.. A. Lamner, a we'll known
young business man Of this city,
has accepted a position with Mr..
Otto Zirkel.
Mrs. L. st. Leon, of Montreal,
Can, arrived in the city this morn
ing, and it quartered at the MAYER
lex.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-17
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

The picturesque auditorium Of
the Opera House should be crowd
by a fashionably dressed throng,on
next Saturday evening, for Robert
Mantell, the almost idealistic &C
tor in the roles he assumes will be
seen in his most popular play "The
Corsican Brothers." in which Mr..
Mantell will appear as "The Twins"
Luois and Fabian del Franchi.
Mr.. Mantell is virile and forcible
actor, naturally gifted with the
qualities Of voice and physique
necessary for the heoric roles he
affects, and showing fine training
in the admirable reading Of his
lines and the display offeature.
"SHE"
The attraction at the Grand
Opera house tomorrow night will
be A. Y. Pearson's gorgeous scenic
spectacle "She" is an entirely new
dramatization OF H. Rider Hag-
CARDS novel of that name. The
present adaptation was expressly
made for Mr.. A. Y. Pearson by
Edwin Barbour, author Of "The
Land OF the Midnight Sum-" 1t is
entirely free from confusing COM
plications, telling the original
story concisely and clearly. Miss
Sadie Farley assumes the charac-
ter Of the beautlous Ayesha.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-17
/. WOLFSON'S
TWO FIRES.
Family Made Homeless by Hungry
Cat-A Collision

Family Made Homeless by Hungry
Cat-A Collision
Last night at 8 30 o'clock box %
called the department to the home
of Mrs. Hays, widow, at No. 1911
West Houston street. The dwell
ing was a comfortable, large, one
story frame, and was we'll ablaze
before the fremen reached the
place. The fire die not burn the
entire building, but completely
Quilted the inside, even the furni-
ture and carpets being destroyed.
Two trunks containing Mrs. Hays
valuables and insurance papers
were saved. A considerable sum
Of money, in a pocket book in one
Of the beds, was destroyed. Mrs.
Hays was too hysterical to be able
to say what the amount OF damage
would be, but the house was fully
insured. The damage is said to be
about $1,000.
Mrs. Hays and her daughter
were in the front part Of the house.
A lighted lamp had been left on the
supper table in a back room and
it is supposed the cat jumped upon
the table and upset the lamp. The
fire had gained great Roadway be-
fore it was discovered.
This morning at IL 10 o'clock the
department was called to the resi-
dence of a colored postal carrier
named Mitchell, at No. 32l Dawson
street, where lace curtain and a
mosquito netting had caught fire.
Neighbors eXtinguished the flames
before the firemen arrived.
Mrs. Mitchell ran out OF the
house and gave the alarm.
In going to this fire Chief Kehoe
and firemen were driving in his
buggy down Commerce street very
rapidly, and when in front of Sulli-
vans shoe store, a woman in a
buggy suddenly began backing
her horse and vehicle directly
across the street. 1t was too late to
check the speed Of the chiefs horse
very materially, and a collision
occurred, which threw the chiefs
horse to the ground and threw the
driver out of the buggy. He was
not hurt and after they had seen
that the woman was not hurt, they
got around her buggy and hurried
on to the fire.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-17
THE NEW MAGDALEN."
Mile. Rhea in Her Best Play.

The Washington Post, March 16, 1894.
Rhea Changed her bill at AL
baugh's again last evening, pre-
senting "The New Magdalen,"
which proved to be one of the best
plays in her repertoire. The play is
a dramatization OF Wilkie Collins
novel Of the same name, and is too
we'll known to need further des-
cription. 1t is notable first for a
story OF strong human interest
without, as the name might sug-
gest, developing any Of the moral,
or perhaps rather immoral specu-
lations or some more modern
plays.
In the second place the play is
notable for the number Of good
characters it contains, and not on
Iy does Mile. Rhea appear to ad.
vantage in the role Of Mercy Mer'
rick, which she looks and acts ad-
mIrably, but the other parts are
we'll played by the company. The
character Of Julian Gray, is per
fectly interpreted by w. S. Hart
1t is quiet part, but he makes Il
most impressive.
Mrs. Isabel Waldron draws thu
character Of Lady Janet Roy very
discreetly and effectively.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-17
For Elmendorf.

The Seventh Ward Colored
Mems club lest night held a rous-
ing meeting and endorsed Henry
Elmendorf for mayor.
A big Elmendorf club will be or
ganized in the Fourth ward in a
few days.
The Independent Workingmen's
club held a largely attended meet
ing at Convention hall last night
and several fine speeches were
made by members in favor OF
Mayor Elmendorf. There were 81
new members admitted to the
club.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-17
He Will Face the Music.

MEMPHIS, Jan. H.-Howard Jol-
ly, the missing representative Of
the Chesapeake and Ohio and
Southwestern railway, telegraphs
from Denver that he will be here
tomorrow or next day. So far his
accounts show a shortage OF $1,000.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-17

Byron F. Denison, proprietor Of
the Richelieu hotel Of Chicago, is
in the city and quartered at the
Menger.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-17

WIN. Pecock and wife, Of Clin-
ton, Mo, are in the city and stop
ping at the Mahncke.
Jacob Hash and wife, OF De-
troit, Mich, are in the city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-17
ErIanger, Cabinet. PiIsener and Standard Beers
Brewers of the Celebrated =

and warranted Corn Preparation
Malt aud Choicest used the manufacture
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-03-22
Sun, COUNTY. MD, friday MARCH p, 1895. NO

pottered about with the best Of inten.
tions, but with much disturbance Of
small, jingling movables. Helen's cry
ing was over now. She lay prone and
nerveless, with the exhaustion of such
tears. She heard the uproar among the
pots and pans and wondered family
about it.
Harry opened the door finally, with a
laden tray in his hands.
81 made the tea, he explained
breathlessly, land Bronson cooked the
bird, and we couldn't find the bread. "
Helen sat up and pushed the damp
hair back from her face
Bronson thought of it," hesaid IT
suasively "I'd try to eat hstle :"
And Helen drank her tea and nfsabed
her bird with an unsmiling sense OF the
unfitness of things when meat and drink
were offered as remedy for such trou-
bles as hers.
But it did her good. She slept dream
lessly that night, and ii she came out to
breakfast with heavy shadows under
her eyes the sad Tipped mouth had lost
little of its rigid line of pain.
lessness through the country for the last
few weeks. The particular manifesto
ton of the disease was horse stealing.
Now, to take mans horse was gener-
ally worse-for the community-than
taking his life. The public sense of JUS
tice did not always wait for the slow
and rather uncertain action Of the law.
Harry rode away that evening without
defining his business, and Bronson
found Helen alone in her hammock, as
usual.
These two did not find talk necessary.
They had reached that grade of ac-
craftsmanship where long silences are
unremarked. A soundless half hour
passed. Helen lay with half shut eyes,
watching the broad flood of sunset light
die out of the sky. Bronson was smok.
ing When the cigar was quite done, he
rose deliberately and stood beside her.
In the faint light, in her white gown,
her 25 years rolled back and left her in
girlhood again.
Helen" he said. touching fold Of
her dress with softly reverent hand.
She looked up at him with an in
stant's surprise; then her eyes fell.
''Forgive me-" he said humbly. II
have not seen many women. When you
came, it was like revelation. And now
know that love you.
She opened her lips to speak, but he
stopped her.
Il know" he said. Harry told me
your story. Won't you dare trust an
other man?''
There was something very childlike
in the simplicity Of the question. She
half smiled Then all at once the past
rushed over her
mo-" she said wildly, rising to her
feet. ''All that has gone by forever.
You do not know what you are saying.
A woman who has lived through such
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-03-22
Weren't the Mothers surprisedp

Some time ago there was dance in a
Canadian settlement for the benefit of
the settlers and their wives. Most of
the married ladies had babies with
them, whose noisy perversity required
too much attention to allow the ladies
the full swing Of their souls pleasure
in the dance. So number of young men
present gallantly volunteered to watch
over the refractory infants, so that their
mothers could indulge without let or
hindrance in the sweets of the eight
fantastic" exercise.
The gallant offer was readily and
oonfidingly accepted, but no sooner had
the women left their dear charges to
the care of those mischievous young ras.
Gals than they commenced stuffing the
infants, changing the clothing and CIV
ing one the apparel of another, till all
were transmogrified.
The dance and the music continued
into the 1--WE sma' hours" and then it
was time to go home The lights were
lowered, and each mother hurriedly
took baby, in the dress of her own,
and started for home, which, in many
instances, was 10 or Is miles away.
The following morning there was a
prodigious row in the settlement Moth
ers discovered what had occurred, and
then commenced some Of the tallest fe-
male pedestrianism on record Living
as they did miles apart, it required two
full days to unmix the babies and as
many months to restore the mothers to
their naturally sweet dispositions
Those young men never venture into
that settlement now 1t wouldn't be
safe. Montreal Star
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-03-22
Possibilities of Cuba,

The sugar production of Cuba, enor-
nous as it now is, can be increased ten
fold And by the aid of modern i'm
provements in the method of manufac.
ture sugar can be produced so cheaply
there that no other country in the world
can fairly compete with it. Only tithe
of the lands adapted to sugar is now
under cultivation Coffee growing,
which was once in the front rank of it's
industries, has now fallen to matter
of small Importance. With capital, and
confidence i'll the honesty and good will
of the government, this industry could
again be put upon profitable footing.
So near as it is to us, and with the rap
id improvement in means of trapsporta.
tion, it is the natural winter garden for
the United States There is no question
about the "tvost line" that bugbear Of
the fruit and vegetable growers in our
own south, and with cheap lands and
oheap labor and the encouragement
that steamboat lines are now giving we
could be supplied unfailingly with trop-
ical products from this source. Bananas,
cocoapptS oranges, lemons, pineapples,
would all pay well for careful and sys-
tematlc cultivation. .-Lippincott'
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-03-22

'FdCtCn," nc SGl0, LOuchtng tOtd OF heT
dress aCith softly rcUerent hand.
degradation Of i'll treatment and cruelty
as I-who has SO utterly mistaken her.
self and all the meaning of her life
has no right to listen to such words as
you have spoken"
They were standing face to face. She
put out her hands with a helpless,
strengthless air of repelling protest
Perhaps he misunderstood the gesture
He took them in his own and held them
firmly and gently. She did not resist
the clasp, standing mute and miserable,
Perhaps until that hour it had never oc-
CURED to her that any renewal of that
old story could be possible, She had felt
herself set apart from all the common
lot OF women. That he seemed SO inno-
Gently and so completely to ignore such
tragic facts as her life held, beat down
all her guard and swept away the land,
marks which had been the dreary re.
minders Of her past folly and sin.
He was what that other had been, a
plainsman, reared among the influences
of an almost lawless community. AL.
of civilization, where the other had
grown reckless, he was grave and self
contained, He knew books better than
many who had lived among them; th.re
was q gent4eness in his speech which
meant something better than mere
sweet temper, and Helen was wom-
an enough yet to feel the fascination Of
his muscular strength-the very clasp
that held her, gentle as it was, was ir.
yesistible II he chose to have 1t so.
''At least love you, he said at last
"You know it now, with long breath,
as of relief. II have not my secret to
keep and shall never love any one else "
She smiled again through all her
trouble. He believed in himself with
such manifest faith.
he released her hands. She went back
to her hammock ana he to his blanket,
and silence fell again between them.
Harry came back while they were still
in their places.
"Wo're getting it down fine" he
said abruptly to Bronson. I've been
oyer to Morgan's. We know how many
there are i'll the gang, and we have de-
scriptions of the principal leaders It's
a regularly organized thing The leader
Is Captain Go Ion. He'll find himself
captained with short rope if the league
gets hold of him. We know pretty we'll
their headquarters. "
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-03-22
He Explained 1t.

The Madison Advertiser says that two
young men Of Madison were looking
over The Constitution one day this week
and came across an article in which
was used the following expression, "An-
glosaxonize your minds, my friends. -
'Well," said Jim. that's some
pumpkins, l guess, but what on earth
does it mean, Bill?"
Great Scott. man. where was you
raised?" replied Bill. "That's the slang
way of saying, GO off and soak your
headp ATLANTA Constitution.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-03-22
Great Increase In Public Libraries.

The New Hampshire law providing
for the establishment of free public IL
braries through the agency of board
OF library commissioners was passed in
1891 At that time there were 60 towns
and cities i'll the state maintaining free
libraries, and l73 were without any.
The present record shows these figures
exactly reversed. There are now only
60 towns which have no free public Ii
brary. while l73 are provided with
them The Libraries recently established
reach population of 100, 900. Boston
journal.