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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
A REBEL BUSHWHACKER.
YET HAD NERVE TO ASK FOR i
PENSION
An Au-Around Tough-Hfs wounds
Nere Received After the War
Ended

washington. Feb. 2S.-There was a
observation-disclosures on the floor whsn the
UorSA met today The speaker laid be-
fore the House the presidents veto Of
The Bill TO pension Catherine Oct, and it
was referred to the committee on PEN
sions.
are on Tuesday night, (mOst Of them Of
minor Importance, were laid before Ihe
House and disposed of.
The. Senate amendments 10 me OH 20
red cross without permission o. the IA
ti0nal Red Cross society, was agreed 70.
Also Senate amendments 70 the OH
granting railroads in the Indian Terri
toryaadditonal powers TO secure right OF
The Senate bill TO regulate the reduc-
ton from the gross tonnage OF vessels
for tbe purpose of determining net ton
mage (Which form. The basis OF port
charges), was passed
Mr. McCrearY (DemocraD of Kentucky,
presented the conference report on lhe
consular and diplomatic appropriation
bin. ana moved that the House insist on
its disagreement TO the senate amend
Mr. Hit moved TO concur in a moIlo1
that took precedence This question had
been twice discussed in me house, ana
&c vote was on Mr. Hits motion with
out debate, The motion was lost-nS to
Then. without division, the House IN
Hawaiian cable amendment ana the bill
was sent to further conference.
Mr.. Martin (DemocraD Of Indiana
chairman of the invalid pensions COM
1,7ittee, then called up the president s
veto for the bin for the pension Of
Hfrnaa Rhea. and moved TO pass it. the
presidents veto Notwithstanding.
mr.. Martin said he believed he could
convince the House that il this bin was
DasSed oyer the veto that it would be in
tilahicterest of the people and of the
{rzSA,ry, and would, moreover, be All
aesklf justice to Rheas the beneficiary in
Mr, Cultivate CDernocraD of Ohio,
bitterly attached the motion. He read
from. afidaVits of some of Rhea's ac-
7uaintances alleging that he was a
notorious rebel bUshWacher. common
.1obber and a terror to the community IN
which he liYed-that he had in fact, al
one time belonged to the SiKty-fourth
North Carolina rebel regiment, that he
had BEEN wounded after the war and
that ha had been accused of murder
Congress should. Mr.. Cultivate declared
mass no bill in favor Of man with such
a disreputable record The vote YVES
Tsken by yeas and nays, in accordance
Nth the provision of the constitution and
+hs, bill failed to pass over the veto-9t
cfveral bills relating to The District
were passed and the House adjourned,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.
HOT SPRINGS SEEMS To BE ITS
STRONGHOLD.
Strange That the Demon Should Sc
Iect & Health Resort, Wherein to
Get In His Work.

Hot Springs, Ark, Feb 2s-Regard-
ing the smallpox situation in Hot
Springs, the president of the board of
health, Dr. Barry, this evening issued
the following bulletin.
TWO persons have been sent out to
the smallpox hospital and two
new cases are found in the
city. Everything is quiet. A
few physicians were careless about
reporting. The law requires prompt
reports and if they are made it Grip
pies the efficiency of the service, and
we trust our physicians viii all be
prompt IN this matter. A failure to
do SO subjects them to g penalty and
the board will not spare any one. There
was one death today"
Reports in papers outside of Hot
Springs are very much exaggerated
The disease is now considered well In
hand and every effort is being made
to stamp it out.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
ANOTHER SUGAR FACTORY.
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars to
BE Expended on a Plant in WASH
ingtOn.

Spokane. Wash. Feb 2S-E. H. MORT
son. of Fairfield. Ex-Governor Miles c.
Moore, of WaiIa Walla, and George Tur-
ner. of Spokane, today fled articles Of
incorporation Tor the WaVerly. Beet sugar
Manufacturing company. with a capital
stock of half a million dollars. 1t is
proposed to erect a three hundred ron
beet sugar factory at Waverly, in this
county.
1t iS understood that Chicago capitalists
are back of the enterprise,
b. SdliOh. an engineer who built tha
factories at Grand Island and Norfolk,
Neb., has inspected the site at WaTeriy
and made a study of the analysis of sugar
beets made by the state agricultural col
lege. he said today that the analysis is
the best he ever saw In the United States,
and that the soil Of this section is exs
cellent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01

Philadelphia. Feb. 2S-An hope for the
steamship Kingdom. which left Ham
burg December IS last, for Philadelphia
via Charleston. have been abandoned by
the underwriters. The last heard of her
was when passing the butt of Lewes.
December q last She had a crew Of
thirty-SiX.
Another missing vessel is the bark
Ausebel. which left Port Tampa for the
CapeS on January 10 She had a crew OF
eighteen.
The schooner Governor Adams, which
left Salem. February 5. for the port Is
also missing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
AN AWFUL DEATH,
COAL MINER CAUGHT IN THE MA
CHINF;RY.
Scarcely a Whole Done Was Left in
His Body-Nercilessly Pounded to
Pieces,

Tacoma, Wash. Feb. 2S.-David T.
Thomas. a coal miner. met an awful
death at the Carbonate Coal mines
yesterday Connected with the ma
chinery of the mines. is q large fan
the bearings of which require frequent
oiling. Thomas climbed to the fan and
began the work of oiling. when his
blouse caught in the revolving wings
of the big fan. Before he could eX-
tricate himself he was jerked from his
feet, dashed against the iron supports
and framework and Whirled about
with the fan until there was scarcely
a whole bone left in his body. Thomas
was II years old and leaves a widow
and one child.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01

ordered by the minister to Key West
and the NeuVa Espana has been sent
to watch Costa Rica. The Venedido
recently arrived from Spain, is also
in the vicinity of the island, and is ex-
pected to put into Jacksonville or near
by that port very soon for further or
ders.
Garcia, the rebel leader. who has been
announced az having been killed, has
for years occupied a stronghold in the
mountains and has also occupied him
self and his band by carrying off rich
planters and holding them for ransom
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
MR.. FAIRS WILL.

1t May De nad For n Consideration.
San Francisco, Feb. 2S.-Charles l.
Fair has received a second letter from
an unknown correspondent at Brook
ings, 6. D., stating that he witnessed
the abstraction of the will Of the late
James G. Fair from the county clerk S
office on Jan. %, and offering to reveal
the identity of the thief for $4,000
The writer gives Fair until Feb. "a
TO remit the money. At the same time
he wrote the attorneys for the execu-
tors, making the same proposition. The
recipients say they paid no attention
to the letters. but there is much spec.
ulation concerning the clumsy, but
persistent. blackmailer
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
1t Mnn AmfuI.

City of Mexico. via Galveston. Feb. q.
An excursion train coming into the
city on the Inter-Oceanic railroad met
with an accident this afternoon While
rounding a curve on the side Of a noun
tain, FIVE coaches jumped the track and
went down the canyon. Forty-two PEG
pie We're killed and thirty OF more Seri-
ouSly injured. the accident occurred
about forty kilorneters from this citv
Wires have been down and it has been
impossible SO far to obtain any details OF
the awful disaster.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
HALF.MILLION CLUB.

san Francisco is Very Anxious For
Homes.
san Francisco, Feb. 2S-At a largely
attended meeting Of San Francisco
business men this afternoon. Half
Million club" was organized. The OBJ
jeot of the organization is expressed
in a resolution which was adopted.
FOR the purpose Of united effort in
bringing about such additions to the
resident population of this city that
it viii aggregate in numbers half a
million of people before the opening
OF the year 1900 The estimated popu-
lation of the city now is something
over 100000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
INSURANCE IN KENTUCKY.
Th1rty-One People Are Covered BY
One Indictment

Lexington. KY, Feb pa bitter war
fare waged several months ON the Ken
lucky and Tennessee Fire association,
known as the insurance compact, by ctti-
ZenS and newspapers which led TO eS-
haustive inquiry by the grand jury re-
suited today in the return OF q blanket
Indictment under the Kentucky anti
trust law, charging every agent Of the
local compact with combining and as
soeiating unjustly and oppressiveIy to
increase and augment insurance prem
iumS.
companies are covered in the Indictment
and on the insurance men found OUT
side the board, The Lexington fight has
all over the country Eighty-fve IN
surance companies are reported in the
agencies against which indictments we're
returned today Local sentiment against
the compact is very strong owing to the
recent re-rdting of Lexington. increasing
the premiums SO to rs per cent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
1T WAS CURIOUS,
Experiences of seamen on a Grain
Laden Ship.

Experiences of Seamen on a Grain
Laden Ship.
New York. Feb. 2S-Tne American
ship Reaper. Of Bath. got here last
night from Portland. Or, after a voy-
age of 1874 days with 10000 bushels OF
wheat In the North Pacific, about
$50 miles above the equator. a month
after she left Portland the Reaper
passed through a strip of black water,
about sixty feet wide. extending as far
as the eye could see from the north
west TO southwest or parallel with the
west coast of Central America and
Mexico. On Nov. %, in the South Pa
Gift, a hard squat that affected only
the stratum Of air above the course
carried away every stitch of canvass
except the three lower sails There
was only a light air deck when the
upper sails went dying down with the
blast
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
JEALOUSY THE CAUSE.
GREENFIELD MONSTER CAUSES
THREE DEATHS.
A Sergeant Kills His Mistress, His
In a Minute.
:. BeIgium. Fe

yeryiers, Belgium, Feb 2S.-A
tragedy, which resulted in the death
Of three persons, occurred this evening.
4 sergeant belonging to an infantry
regiment in garrison here recently be-
came Jealous of his mistress. This
evening he followed her to q cafe
where he saw her seated at table in
com pany with another sergeant be-
longing to the same regiment. The
Jealous man shot the woman and her
COMPANION with a rife and then dig
charged the weapon at himself. All
three died soon after the shooting took
place,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
GUILTY OF ARSON.
An Insurance Adjus4er at the He,d
9.

An Insurance Adjuster at the Head
of n Gang OF FIrebuEs.
New York, Feb 2S.-Max Grauer, the
insurance. adjuster, whose trial on the
charge Of arson has been extended over
ten days. was today found guilty OF
arson in the first degree. The MAXI
mum penalty is life imprisonment.
Grduer was charged with having been
an organizer of a gang OF fire bugs
who set fire to Levi Weinburgis shoe
store on Canal street.. He viii be sem
fenced tomorrow
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
McLaurtu'S views.

washington. Feb. Ex-senator Nc.
I.aurin, of Mississippi. speaking today
of the proposed formation of new
silver party. gaid:
/, Il a1n in favor of the unlimited coin.
age OF silver at 16 to I, but 1 am d
Democrat. loyal to my party. and
hope to see this accomplished by the
Democratic party. 1 win not join any
new party. The Democratic party il
good enough for me-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
THEy MANI sar1Rns-

Cincinnati, Feb. 2s.-w. I. squires. of
Toledo. is reported missing All the police
and a host Of friends have searched the
city in vain The last seen Of Squires
here was when he attended the state con-
VentlOn of Republican clubs over two
weeks ago Squires was for several
years president OF the Ohio league and he
was prominent in politics well as
successful in business.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
TROUBLE IS OVER.
unomeiaI .Iuformatfon Receive
From CuDH.

washington, Feb 2S--No further
of,c,a; dispatches have been received
by ths Spanish legation here in regard
. affairs Ia Cuba, but from unofficial
trfarruation Minister Mirugua thinks
fne trouble is about over None OF the
sisb,,stering parties that were an
,sounced as ready to start from Key
west. Costa Rica and San Domingo,
have reached Cuba and The 0dnds OF
d Izolutionists in the interior seem to
ma TIE 1 Infanta Isabella. a warShip. was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
SUNDRY CIVIL
BILL IS PASSED
Over Five Million Dollars Ap-
propriated for Sugar
BountieS.
BIlNETALLISM AGAIN ON TOP
Wolcott Makes a Vigorous and
Fiery Speech,

A Severe Arrangement of the White-
WhislSered Gentleman From Ne
vada-The Senator From Colorado
Receives Recognition Prom the
GaIieries-Dubois Seeks to Strike
Ont the Appropriation For the
Utah Commission.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
DIsGT0NENTED SPIRITS.
General Ruger RebuISes Some Fort
Sheridan Soldiers.

Washington, Feb. 29-General Kruger,
commanding the department of the
Missouri, has made a careful inquiry
into the complaints that have appeared
from time to time of insufficiency and
bad quality of the mess supplies at
has reported to General Schof1eld that
there is no foundations for the charges
which have been put afoat by q few
disconnected spirits found at every
army post
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
EVE The PEI.

New Orleans. Feb. 28.-The application
of Louis Octave des Farges, ono Of the
convicted Doodle councilnen. for q new
trial. was overruled by Judge Ferguson,
who then sentenced Des FargeS to I'VE
years in the penitentiary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
THE Los CERRILLos TRAGEDY.

Santa F'e. n. NJ, Feb. 29-The terri
torial legislature this afternoon apprO-
priated $500 for the relief Of the fami-
lies Of the miners killed in the explo-
sion at Los CerriIIos,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
Fifteen I'm Jail.

Savannah, Ga. Feb. 2S.-Fifteen Of
the men said to have been prominent
in the troubles Tuesday night were
arrested today. -Four Of them were
tried, of whom three were sent to Jail
for thirty days. Other arrests are to
follow,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
4 NIGHT AND
DAY OF WORRY
Intense Excitement Is Kept
Up at Savannah,
Georgia.
CATCHES MANY.
Men Armed to the Teeth Hear
Him Lecture.

White Conservative Men on Roth
Sides Deeply Depiore the Exist
ing Situation, the EI-Pr1est Seems
to Be Gaining Ground-An A. r..
A. Association to De at Once Or
gaDi1ed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01

of 100000 a year when his mother
dies. The family owns S2,000,000 worth
of real estate in New York City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
THIRTY GO
TO THE BOTTOM
All Hopes for the Steamship
Kingdom Have Been Aban-
dOned.
BARK AUSABEL IS MISSING
Schooner Grover Adams Is Also
Much Overdue,

Accident on an Excursion Train La
the City of Mexico Causes the
Death of FOrtJ-TWO PeOpIe-lTany
More Reported to he Very Badly
Injured.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-01
Democrats Hail with Delight
the Probable Restoration
OF Silver.
FREE, UNLIMITED COINAGE.
Fall Legal Tender Power at a
Ratio Of IS toll.

Resolution Tint Neither Hedges NOR
Dodges, But Speaks in No Uncer-
tain Ternas-cO-Operation of Every
Patriotic Citizen, Regardless OF
Previous Affiliations, is Asked
MeLaNrinss Views
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-05-09

against such intruders He and his
other day by prolonged squealing and
caterwauling. While they were hunt
ing up u weapon the noise suddenly
abated, and all they heard We're dole
full howls and hoarse grunts. They
found the pigpen the scene of the dis
turbance. One young porker lay dead,
and the old sow was badly scratched
and torn about the head and shoulders.
The partition between this pen and
that which holds Peter jackson, the
ugly old black hog, had been smashed
and the hog was giving passionate
grunts as he stamped with his sharp
hoofs and tore with his tusks dying
wildcat.
Old Sedge Spencer, negro who lives
by himself up north of the Salt Meadow
bridge, made novel experiment with
wildcats recently. He is an indie
fatigable fisherman, and so the idea
came to him of fishing for the big wild
cat that had been hanging around his
hen house of nights of late. He lashed
two big Goldfish hooks together, back to
peSNt aho iotC bitio touplC llOoh luoJ
to six-foot snood of light iron dog
chain, which he knew would resist the
teeth of the game. Then he dashed the
snood end to stout coil of clothes
line, baited his hook with a high
favored piece of beef, and as soon as
it was dark flung his tackle out
of the second-story window of
his cabin and awaited results He
was almost asleep when he heard the
bedpost creals, and, feeling for the
rope, found 1t taut as drumhead. A
howl rose from the darkness outside,
and Spencer grinned with delight as he
felt the captive plunge and run and
pull on the line. When he thought the
splitting, snarling creature was quiet
ing down a bit, he went to the window,
laid hold and began to haul in. Just
here was where his calculations all
went wrong. Scarcely had the cat felt
the hook jerked home when she emit
ted one long scream, and, leaping for
the wistaria vine on the side of the
cabin, began to climb for the window
with tremendous speed. Spencer was
SO terrified that he dropped the line and
tried to shut the window. 1t was
jammed and would not bulge. He
gave yell, ran into a small closet and
held the door shut tight. Not until
broad daylight did he dare to open the
door for peep, and then he found the
room empty. His line dangled loose
from the window, and he found that
the wildcat had bitten it in two and
freed herself. Spencer got his hooks
back on Wednesday of this week, when
two rabbit hunters found the cat dead
In patch of chestnuts. The end of
the line had caught around stump,
and, twisting around her neck, had
strangled her. She weighed forty-six
pounds
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-05-09
TOUGH ON WILDCATS.
In Connecticut the Beasts Are
Having Hard Time.
Three Small Gamecocks Put Out an Ugly
Monsters Eyes-A Marauding Cat Dis
patched by Hog-StrangIed
by Fishline.

The severity of the winter has driven
the wildcats and foxes from Turkey
hill and Redhead ridge into the sur
rounding farming districts near Wheel
er's Farms, Conn, in search of food.
Not week passes that some poultry
yard or stable is not raided. If all the
farmers kept SO plucky breed of game
fowls as Lazarus Degsworth, there
would be less loss. Degsworth lives
down on the Housatonic river turnpike.
His nearest neighbor, the Widow Todd,
had her chicken house cleaned out by
the wildcats recently, and so when he
heard tremendous racket in his yard
the other night he guessed what the
trouble was. Grabbing n shotgun he
hurried to the rescue. His boy Sim
held the light while he tried to make
out the trouble. He could see dimly a
large creature Hopping and rolling
about in the house, and its screams and
hisses drowned the cackling of the
hens. Then three of the small game
cocks could be seen sailing into wild
cat. The largest of the original four,
splendid white pyle, was dead, and one
of the two reds was bleeding badly
about the head. 1t was a curious bat
tie, and much as Degsworth wanted to
take hand and help his brave game
cocks, he did not dare shoot for fear of
killing the birds. The frightened hens
were huddled in far corner of the
coop caclSling. After watching his
chance he saw an opening, and as the
three cocks retreated all together In
bunch from a stroke of the vicious
paws, he showed the muzzle of the gun
in and fired. When the smoke cleared
away he saw that the buckshot had
done its work, for the ugly beast lay
still. AS he dragged her out the three
little roosters crowed loudly and con-
tinued their triumphant trumpeting
till morning. The wildcat was found
to have been totally blinded in both
eyes, one of which had been torn from
it's socket. This was done by the birds
and not by the gun charge.
Hophni Platt's barnyard, says the
New York Sun, is also well guarded
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-05-09

ing. There were severe penalties, she
said, for taking possession without Sc
curing the attendance of the local po-
lice commissary. The bailiffs only
laughed at this, whereupon the lady
went out to complain, as she said, to
the police, and locked them in her fat.
Shortly afterwards she returned with
two policemen, and said: ARREST those
men. They have broken into my place ="
1t was in vain that the poor wretches
declared that they were honest brokers'
men. Possibly their looks were sus-
picious. At all events, the policemen,
while muttering something about
'having heard that sort of thing be-
fore" marched them off to the police
station. Arriving there they were soon
released on production of evidence of
their identity. The men contemplate
an action for false imprisonment, but
meanwhile they have to devise fresh
means to secure an entry to the place
from which they were so unceremo-
uiously elected
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-05-09

HEALEY GRAsPED BOTH OF THE HORNS.
self, had been sighted in the woods
near the confluence of Old and New
streams, which empty into the Machias
east of Northfeld, Thomas Hennessey
and jim Healey, accompanied by some
boys, started out to capture her.
Hunger had driven the animal from
the woods to the clearings, but nothing
could induce her to come near a human
being. When sighted, Hennessey and
Healey gave chase on showshoes, the
deep snow making rapid progress for
the heifer out of the question. She ran,
however, till her pursuers were close
on her quarters, when she suddenly,
says the New York Sun, turned to give
battle. Her bellowings were terrific,
and she looked so frightful when she
turned that Hennessey and the boys
gave way.
Healey was game. Two years ago a
she bear is said to have treed him, and
he has been the victim of more or less
guying ever since. He is powerful
young fellow and knows how to handle
cattle.
When the heifer turned he planted
himself squarely in front of her. She
hesitated, eyed him furiously for mo-
ment and charged. When she lowered
her head to give him the toss Healey
grasped both of her horns, threw all
the weight Of his body on his left hand,
bearing the heifer's head into the snow,
at the same time pushing up and over
on the left horn. It's trick that has
to be done on the instant, and when 1t
Is worked as Healey worked 1t down
goes the animal, as did the heifer.
Healey held her head in the snow
while Hennessey and the boys procured
ropes with which to tie her legs to-
gether. This being done she was
bundled into sled and taken to North
field, where she is now putting on fat
and getting used to her earlier sur
,.onp6iprs