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The record-union., 1896-02-28
Three Children Burned to Death.

BALTIMORE (Md), Feb. 2T.-Three
children, aged / month, : years and 4
years, of Nelson Parkers. near Echo
beth, were burned to death yesterday.
Their mother locked them in the house
while she went to a store. The father
was chopping timber in the woods.
The bodies of the children were badly
burned and they were taken out of the
ruins on pitchforks.
The record-union., 1896-02-28
Mother and Two children Dead.

EUREKA IS. d., Feb. PA
mother and two of her children were
burned to death to-day by a gasoline
explosion at Frank B. Puckett's house,
which was destroyed by the flames. A
baby was saved by the servant girl.
Mr.. Pickett was absent from home
The victims are Mrs Frank B. Puckett.
Frank, aged Z, and Clarence, aged 4
years
The record-union., 1896-02-28
Kentucky Senatorial Contest.

FRANKFORT tKy), Feb. PA
Joint caucus of the Democratic MEM
bers of the Legislature will be called
within the next day or two to consider
the propositions looking to the with
drawal of Blackburn. There was no
change in the ballot to-day.
The record-union., 1896-02-28
Fire ut Omaha.

OMAHA CNeb), Feb. 27.-The H. F.
Cady planning mill and the plant of the
Santa Clara Manufacturing Company
were tonight destroyed by fire. both
being a total loss estimated at $4,000
The record-union., 1896-02-28
DUNRAVEN'S DISGRACE.
Expelled From Honorary Membership in
the New York Yacht Club,
The Oldest Organization of the Kind in
America.

The Action Taken by the Club Because
the English Lord, Though Given
Sufficient Time, Neither offered to
Apologize Nor Resign-Only by the
strongest Influence of Certain Mem
bers That He Was Not Long Since
Expelled.
The record-union., 1896-02-28
DIED IN GREAT AGONY.

A RattIesnalse Bite Causes an Aged
Rancher's Death.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27.-Jacob
King. an aged rancher Of Antelope Val
The record-union., 1896-02-28
PRIEST MORTALLY WOUNDED.
-Four Bullets Fired into the prelateS
Body by an Insane Man.
An Intense Feeling Had Been Aroused
Over the Tragedy.

Miss Overman Testifies Before the
Council Investigating the Charges
Dies at Los Angeles From the Eff
fects of Chloroform, But Whether a
Case of suicide or Accident I'm
known.
SANTA BARBARA, Feb 27.-very
Rev. Ferdinand Bergemeyer, Father
Superior of the Franciscan Mission,
was fatally shot by Bernard Henry Ger
hard Krusemeyer, a man who has been
employed at the mission for over a year.
Three shots entered the priests body
and one in the head. Father Berge-
meyer is still alive, but recovery is i'm
possible.
Krusemeyer Immediately gave him
self up and is now in Jail He has given
conflicting stories, and it is supposed he
is mentally deranged.
The other priests say there has al
ways been a friendly feeling between
the Father Superior and Krusemeyer
and they can give no other reason for
the attempted murder.
The shooting occurred in the mission,
and intense feeling has been aroused.
Father Bergemeyer has been here ten
years, and is held in great esteem by all
classes.
LATER.-The aged prelate fingered
in great agony until sundown tonight
when he passed away.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08
JONES' SILVER NINE

The present interest in anything re,ot.
ing to silver recalls James Russell Low
eli WHY rhymes OF twenty years ago;
DIALOGUE
Jones owns silver mne'-"Pray who
Don't vex my ears with horrors like Jones
ownsi" S 'ohes
why. Jones is Senator and so he strives
10 make us buy his ingots all Our lives
Al i,' sun premium on the market price.
silver currency would be so nice y,
What Is Jones' pan?"-"A coinage IN h.
sure, " NC
10 rise and fall with Wall streets tom.
peratule. te"-
You wish to treat the crowd: your dollar
'hdrGamed percentums while they mix the
Jones mines quicksilver. thenY'-"Your
wit won't pass: Aour
us! CONS mercurial but his mine is hrass ',
Jones owns"-"Agaiu! your iterntion.
worse Ni"tioh
IIn the slow torture Of an echo-vers.
II teii you one thing Jones WONT own
that is, WIN OWN
mat the cat hid beneath the meal ia his ;.
Cleveland World
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08
Free Wool and Free Silver.

During the many weary months after
the WilSOn-Gorman tariff had given the
death blow to the wool industry free
trade journals assured their. readers that
the blow would not be fatal In time the
industry would revive. Considerable pru-
prediction was confident that in the
course of time the industry would re-
cover from its paralysis. The Philadel-
phia Record was one of the most san
guinc of these free traders. That journal
simply knew that its theories could not
be wrong. Free wool must and would
enable our manufacturers to recover the
ually get good hold on the markets
of the world. In recent issue the Rec
ord threw up the sponge. 1t admits that
free wool is not strong enough to carry
free silver. The confidence with which
it attributes the failure of it's free wool
theory to some other persons free silver
theory would, if transferred to the money
market revive business even in these free
trade times. Says the Record:
THE distrust engendered by the sill
yer craze has checked sales of manu-
featured goods. increased the percent
age of idle mills and so narrowed the
outlet and crippled the financial re-
sources of Eastern distributors of wool
that the latter have practically ceased
markets. and in many cases have re-
fused to make even reduced cash ad-
vances on consignments."
The silver craze did not materialize
until free wool had had nearly three
years in which to show what it could
do. During all that time the wool in
the people are asked to believe that
free silver did all the miachief,-St, 10.
seph (Mo.) Herald.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

upon the farmer mind, the '.s,h.
the great truth. still remains that
the mind of the business man must origin
ate all the plans for the employment of
idle labor, and whether these industries
are little by little enlarged each year, en-
poylng more and more men. or whether
they are little by little narrowed each
year. employing less and less men. de-
ponds, not upon the judgment or the po-
ltlcal views of the men employed, but
upon the Judgment of the men who en-
ploy. When the farmers in the country
and the laborers in the city suffer them
selves to be led into some great national
movement which the business mind be-
leves is dangerous, then this business
mind. in order to protect the interests over
which it presides. begins the process of
narrowing its operations to suit the new
conditions.
farmer may believe in free coinage
and laboring man may believe in free
coinage, but If the business mind of the
country on which both the farmer and
the laborinG man is dependent is afraid of
free coinage, then the threat of free
coinage, instead of breathing new life in
to industry, strikes it with the paralysis
of death.
Every earnest thinking man in this
country at this time, whether he be a
farmer or laborer, above all things
above all party or personal preferences
desires to see the industries of the nation
revived. because labor can find employ
ment and farm produce find a market in
no other way.
When all the arguments have been ex-
hausted on both sides. the whole cues
tlon narrows into this proposition, that
activity in industry is dependent upon
the confidence the business men have in
the financial and tariff policy of the ma
tional government. Farmers NAV have
confidence in some untred and catchy
proposition. and the laboring man NAV
nave confidence and even be enthusiasts
NC, put II the mind of the business man
hlesitates then industry languishes. A
thousand laboring men may stand rcady
10 go to work in a factory. And The
farmers, may stand ready to provide
these laborlng men with food. but if the
MANAGERS of the factory are afraid to
start it. then it will not start. II NAV
appear to these thousand laborers and
70 these farmers that the mana cars of
me factory are unreasonable, and that
tney nave more power in the nation than
they ought to have. hut the truth will
remain forever, that mind, and nor mn.
Jorities. IS the controlling force rnon
which the industry of the nation dennnds
and that the judgment of one trained
business mind is worth more to n ~om.
mnnty than the judgment of many mon
who work with their muscles On 10
farm and in the factorv -
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08
Give it to the Indians.

"Let us restore the conditions that ex.
listed prior to 1873" says Mr.. Teller.
Very well; let us tear up all the rail-
roads that have been built since then;
let us reduce the acreage of wheat and
corn and cotton to what it was then: let
us send back to barbarism those parts of
the world that have since been reclaimed
to civilization: let US plug up the Rus
sian oil wells and destroy the wheat
fields of India and the Argentine: let us
smooth over the hills Of Leadviile and
Cripple Greek, and fill up the mines, and
reduce the production of silver from
$40 100000 year to $50. OOO, 600: let
us kill of about 10000, 600 of our people.
so as to make the population what It was
in 1878: let us have a paper basis for our
money. as we had then. and gold at a
premium of Is cents or more on the dol
lar-in short, let us try to turn back the
hand on times dial, and make everybody
as happy and wealthy as all the people
are now '"ced to have been before
1ST3.-Colc- do Springs Gazette.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08
He is Mistaken

IN ms speech at Springfield, O.. on
We. Mtedhesday, Candidate Bryan spoke of
the nations peasantry." There arc
no peasants in this country. and the
lfcation is unworthy tho sunport Of
the free American sovereigns. Everv
man is prince and no man is n neos,
ant. With the ballot in his hand the
voter ranks with Vanderbilt The rich
man OF today may be the poor man to-
with wealth at this moment NAV be
millionaire before the close of doc.
s ade' his tarraying of the people of
the United States into classes Is tho
most pernicious thing that has ever been
da~empted IN this country, and the
righteous attempt deserve the contemnt
INTO which they are sure to fall.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08
Remember This.

When Bourke Cochran. in his recent
great speech in New York. uttered the
following sentence, he uttered a sentence
which should be posted over the door of
every honest laboring man. whether Re.
publican or Democrat. in this corntrv
Il can take $40 gold piece and defy ali
the power of all the governments of this
earth to take cents value from II
l can go to the uttermost ends of tho
earth. and wherever l present it, its
value will be unqueStioned, unchallenped
That gold dollar the honest masses NJ
this country, without distinction of party
divisions, demand shall be paid the Ia.
borer when he earns il. and no mower
on earth shall cheat him out Of the
sweat Of his brow."-Galesburg Evening
Mail.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08
silver Dollars Arc Legal Tender

Many of the plain people" of tho
United States have wondered what is
meant when II is said that Congress in
1873 struck down onc-half tho moran
in the country. The figure is forcible
but somewhat obscure The Denver
News comes to the Rescue. 1t says: "By
not only closed to silver hut the silver
money of the country was demopetized.
il was deprived of its legal tender oual;'
ty. Thus the silver money of the conn.
try was struck down"
The News is in error. Section 67 Of
the act ct 1873 contained proviso thai
this act shall not be construed to affact
any act done. right accrued, or penoltr
incurred. under former acts, bur eyery
such right is saved" This language
preserved the legal tender quality of The
silver dollar. since the right to nav ones
debts in silver dollars was one of the
rights accrued under former acts. which
nothing contained in the act was permit
ted to destroy.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

speech in from, Of the Hotel Lincoln.
someone asked. What about Mr.. Sew
alI:' bourylly replied, II know moth
Ing If Mr.. S.whll aud | don't want any
Tim. to do with him. If had my way
he would come off Of that ticket in
tWcnt: four hours" Mr.. Donnelly then
went into bitter TRADE against all
bankers ana business men in general,
ana The lah"r.us men who heard him
nppiaudrd his utterances. Now il must
nave occurred 10 the more thoughtful Of
mes" iAhoru. men that every days work
ana every dollar paid tn labor must first
be thought out and planned by some
business mind. Before labor can begin
Va any industry thpr" must be some
thought fore" and some business judg-
In"nt which passes upon the plans Of
mat industry and believes that il will
succeed There must be fnan"icrs
bank - and capitalists TO consent and
Ih"lr consent must be based upon the
iafh that the industry will succeed. If
MI Donn"l!y and Mr.. Bryan were CAPT
tallSts ana business men. then they
themselves might promise employment
!! labor. Or, if the plans proposed by
MI p'hneliy and Mr.. Bryan were re-
c'itihg the endorsement Of the business
judgment Of others who have ,apital
theh 1t might seem reasonable that free
COINAGE might revive industry and brin.
better times
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

The Woman's bureau is under the di-
rection of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster. the we'll
known orator and political writer of Des
Moines. Ia, for several years president
of the Woman's National Republican as
ISOLATION. The bureau is esta blished in
commodious quarters in the Auditorium
Annex, Chicago. quite away from the
noise and activities of the national COM
mittee, where Mrs. Foster is provided
with every convenience, and assisted by
capable aids.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08
In all parts of the country woman h. -

J" UT TOT u "' .fTO NVUHtIy WUIIeH uHve
organized campaign committees. working
under the direction of the Woman's bu-
reau of the national Republican commit.
tee. They distribute literature and use
their personal influence with husbands,
bro slers and other relatives TO secure
their votes for the good cause, paving
especial attention to first voters.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-10-08

Never was there before a presidential
campaign in which the women of the
country have taken such an active part
as in the present struggle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-11-13

Sometimes, when person wants to
make an unpleasant remark in pleas
ant sort of way about dull boy, he
will say, "That boy will never set the
river on fire." Now, that is all very
true, for even the smartest men in the
world could never set stream of
water on fire, and so perhaps many of
you who have heard this expression
have wondered what is meant by set
ting the river on fire.
In England, many, many years ago,
before the millers had machinery for
sitting flour, each family was obliged
to sift its own flour. For doing this,
it was necessary to use a sieve, called
a tense, which was so fixed that it
could BE- turned round in the top Of n
barrel. Ii it was turned too fast the
friction would sometimes cause it to
catch fire; and as it was only the
smart, hard working boys who could
make 1t go so fast as that, people got
Into the way of pointing out lazy
boy by saying that he would never set
The tense on fire. After while these
sleeves went out of use, but as there
were still plenty of stupid boys in the
world, people kept on saying that they
would never set the tense on
fire. Now, the name of the river
Thames is pronounced exactly like the
word tense; nd so, after
many years, : those persons who
had never seen or heard of
the fashioned sieve thought
that setting the tense on fire"
meant setting the river Thames on
fire. This expression became very
popular and travelled far and wide,
until the people living near other
streams did not see why it was any
harder for slothful boy to set the
Thames on fire than any other river,
and so the name of the river was
dropped, and every body after that
simply said "'the river" meaning the
river of his particular city or town
and that is how it is that people today
talk of setting the river on fire. st.
| Nicholas.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-11-13
X-Ray Pills.

New developments of the y rays are
continually taking place, the latest
being system of electric lighting for
the interior of the human frame, says
London Lightning. No dynamo or
other elaborate apparatus Is required.
The machinery consists of small
transparent pill, which. instead Of
containing aloes and soap, Is charged
with Roentgen rays. The patient
swallows 1t, aud it at once lights up
his internal economy and greatly
facilitates the Investigations of his
medical advisers. When the light
goes out the transparent capsule
simply melts away. 1t Is an Amerl-
can who has invented the Roentgen
pill, but 1t is quite evident that the
system is capable of much wider util.
itv than mere aid to diagnosis
With supply of these pills in his
pocket every man Is capable of becDm-
ing his own lamppost, and on the dark
est Of nights may turn himself into
an ambuiatory lighthouse, 10 the adj
vantage of himself and neighborhood.
But imitation of a dose would be-
come ABSOLUTELY necessary, because, II
rash person swallowed two or three
at II time, policeman might mistake
him for a confagratiou, and call ont
the fire brigade. There is evidently a
great future in store for this medl.
cine
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-11-13
PI.ni. That Spread OuirkIr.

The dAudeiiOn Is an Old World
flower, not native in America, save far
20 the North and some Of the highest
of our western mountains But some
how il was brought here, perhaps from
England in old colonial times. Nov
We see it's golden heads ani feaihery
halls at every gra.sv roadside, the
"eiocks" the boys and girls blow TO
tell the hour. A few years ago farm
ers in the northwest found new
weed, a vile prickly weed. IA their
wheAt.fields. Ia very short time this
weed, the Russian thistle, has spread
over wide acres of the best farm land
in that part Of the country, and has
done great injury to the crops.
How do these plants spread so
fast and SO far? They are not carried
about and planted. No one would be
so foolish ~ to SOW Russian thistles.
The mother-plaHt must have ways OF
her own for sending her offspring
abroad into the world. Plants prop
agate themselves in two ways, from
seed or from buds. Sometimes these
buds are borne on slender runners. A
strawberry plant, after 1t has bios
somed, begins to send ont such run
ners, with buds, unfolding tufts oil
leaves, along them. These tufts are at
first connected with the parent plant,
but later the runners between break
AWAY. and each tuft becomes new
plant. Many grasses like Bermuda
and the troublesome quick Or couch
grass, having creeping stems, each
Joint sending out bunch of roots be-
low and bud on the upper side. II
you try to hoe up such grasses you
only make matters worse, for each
Joint when cut OFF is ready to form an
Independent plant. Such grasses
spread very fast, and soon take posses
sion of the land they get into. st.
Nicholas.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-11-13
Lives with a Broken Neck.

Barney Baldwin, of Birmingham,
Ala, has lived for nine years with a
broken neck. He was formerly an
engineer on the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad In an accident near
Birmingham he was horribly injured.
Several ribs were broken, both legs
and one arm were crushed, his skull
was fractcred, his watch was driven
into the abdominal cavity and his neck
was broken. Despite all these injuries
he recovered and is now sound and
hearty, but suffers from the 'incon-
venience of having to wear steel
harness to hold his head up. He has
travelled all over Europe and America
exhibiting himself at medical colleges.
Doctors are unable to account for his
condition and his seeming defiance of
all laws of anatomy.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-11-13
Valuable Feathers.

Some feathers that are extremely
fashionable fetch more than their
weight in gold. The hunting OF birds
on which these feathers are found Is
a more profitable business, moreover,
than gold-seeking. 1t Is only natural
to compare the two because both gold
and birds are fonnd in tine same sec
tion-Lower California.
The egret feathers sell from S32 to
$50 an ounce at wholesale. OF course
they fetch at least double that when
retailed over the counters of New
York's most popular shops. They are
not sold by the ounce here, though !;
they go by the piece. One, or at
most three, from 80 cents to So each,
are the most that women even III com
Portable circumstances feel that they
can afford.
While there are probably hundreds
of men who make business of killing
birds for their feathers, the best
known of the feather hunters in the
West is Hamliu Smith, the white
chief of the Cocopah Indians. Their
reservation includes most of the land
on Madeline bay. In the marshes of
this broad sheet of water ARE found
the egret, heron and crane in large
numbers.
Even the heron's feathers come
high. They fetch at wholesale from
So to SO all ounce. One heron, Mr..
Smith says, will yield often feathers
worth $50. Ii herous are more plenti-
full than egret, they are more profitable
hunting, because there is onlya small
tuft of covering on the egret that is
marketable. Portland Oregoman.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-11-13
ATameat on the Roost.

G. II. Henderson, a farmer living
near Opelika. Ala, owns . hen con
eerning which he tells the following
fact:
About = year aud a half ago the hen
vent to setting. stealing her nest in a
corner Of the carriage house. Not
wishing to encourage a migratory pro-
pensity among the poultry, Hender-
son told one Of his children, a bright
little boy named Tom, TO break the
hen up aud to coax her back 90 the
fowl house. Tom made repeated eff
forts to carry out nis fathers Instruc-
lions, but 1t is easier said than done,
to break up setting hen. Day after
day the hen went back To her nest in
the carriage house till Tom was ia de-
spair, and he hit upon the following
novel plan to oust her from heE chosen
abode:
There CHANGED to be a litter OF kit
tens on the place that needed dIspOs-
ing of, and Tom thought to combine
business with pleasure by putting one
of tue mewing young things in the old
hens nest. This would seem to be "a
very effrctual way, not only OF break
ing mp the hens housekeeping, but OF
getting rid of the kitten as we'll, as
she would DO doubt turn upon the dis
turber of her peace and destroy it..
This was Toms idea, at least, but the
plan did not work.
Instead, the old hen, in lien of
something better, lowered over the
kitten until it passed beyond the
stage of adolescence, thereafter caring
for 1t as dutifully as if 1t had been the
most loving of chicks. In turn the
kitten seemed we'll pleased with Its
new quarters and its strange foster
mother, and would follow at her
heels, answering her cucks with a
dutlful new, picking up crumbs and
stray bits of meat that found their
way into the chicken food. The strange
affection thus engendered between
the hen and the kitten continues I'M
ublted, though the latter is now full
grown cat, aud Henderson says it is
worth its weight in gold In keeping
rats out of the fowl house. OF course
the rodents are not prepared to find a
eat perched upon the pole among the
fowls, and when he pounces down he
bags his game every time.