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The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-05-14
A PARTIAL VICTORY.

Methodist General Conference Adopts the
 Compromise Report in Regard to the
 Women.
 CLEVELAND, O., May s.-By a vote of 425 to 96, the Methodist general con. ference decided the four women dele. gates might retain their seats. This does not mean that the women have won a complete victory. The decision was reached simply as the result of a compromise, and with the understand. ing that it should not prejudice the claims of women in the future or es- tablish precedent for future confer ences to follow. But by the same vote by which the women were given seats the conference also decided to submit to the annual conference proposed amendment to the constitution providing that here- after all general confere nee delegates shall be over 25 years of age and that they shall have been members of the Methodist church for at least five years prior to their election. The amend ment is construed to mean that women, as we'll as men, will be eligible as lay delegates, the word 'layman" not being used"
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CARTER ISSUES A CALL.

The Republican National Committee to
 Meet in St. Louis June 10.
 WASHINGTON, May S.-Chairman Car. ter, of the national republican com. mittee, has issued notice to the mem- bers of the committee requesting them to meet at the Southern hotel, St. Louis. Wednesday, June 1O at noon, for the purpose of preparing the tenn porary roll of membership and desig- hating temporary officers for the con- vention and for the transaction of such other business as requires the action of the committee. happening likely that an unusual number of contests will be presented, attention is called to the clause in the call for the convention that notices of contests must be filed in writing, accompanied by printed statements of the grounds of contest, and the cases must be presented on the date above designated.
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VICTORY FOR IOWA.
Result of the Interstate Oratoricai Contes
 at TOpeka-IliInois Second.

Result of the Interstate Oratoricai Contest
 at Topeka-IllInois second.
 TOPEKA, Kan., May S.-A. M. Cloud, representing Lenox college, Hopkin. ton. la, won the interstate oratorical contest last night with an oration en. titled Policy of Metternich." Fred Elliott, of Monmouth college, Mon- mouth, H., took second place. Kan sas' representative took third place, Indiana's fourth, Minnesota's fifth, Ohio's sixth, Missouris seventh, Colo rado's eighth, Nebraska's ninth. The result was not announced until long after midnight Besides its orator each state sent a delegation number ing from three to 40. A brilliant but disappointingly small audience faced the contestants and greeted each ora tion with generous applause. It was a Kansas crowd, with sympathies with the Kansas orator, but the young men who came from abroad have no reason to complain of coldness or lack of appreciation. The judges on de. livery were Rev. Mvron w. Reed, of Denver; William Warner, of Kansas City. and Lafayette Young, of Des Moines. The judges on thought and composition were President James B. Angell, of the university of Michigan; Russell H. Conwell, of Philadelphia, and John Temple Graves, of Atlanta. Only the judges on delivery were pres. ent. The contest was followed by banquet, and what with the music, toast responding and feasting, lasted until an early hour this morning.
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More Good News.

General Manager P. s. Mcgowan, of the Walter A. Wood Harvester Co.,, St. Paul, Minn., informs us that business is excellent and that his company will be able this fall to liuuidate it's entire indebtedness, and pass out of the receivers hands in most prosperous condition. He is our authority, also, for announcing the good news that some of the most influential st0ckholders oI the St. Paul and Hoosick Falls companies are now at work trying to effect reOrgani- zation, to the end of placing both companies in position to go along with the immense business in such manner as to maintain past reputation for solidity and progressiveness. If the reorganization is effected, which, from present progress would seem assured, the business will again be on solid founda- tion and under management that will push it's well known machines in every market on the giobe.-Fdrm MachimsrU, Apra 2f, fS96
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"This InSienture."

The phrase "this indenture" which is still frequently used in written con- tracts is probably unintelligible to most persons, since no one now ''in- dents." Indenting deed or contract consisted in cutting zigzag line across the top of the document from one side to the other. All English deeds were formerly written in dupli. cate upon the same skin of parchment and separated by cutting them apart with a knife in the zigzag manner re- ferred to. One of these instruments was given to each party named, and the fact that the two documents would exactly join each other was evidence of their genuineness Butler, in his verses on Human Learning, speaks of two persons
 Whloe tempers inclinations. sense and wit,
 Like two indentures did agree so fit
 .-Albany Times-Uniob.
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FRANK JAMES IN A NEW ROLE.
Express Officials Want to Employ Him to
 Guard Their Gold.

Express Officials Want to Employ Him to
 Guard Their Gold.
 ST. LOUIS, May u.-Frank James as a guard on express trains carrying large amounts of money or valuables is one of the novelties the express people are now arranging. Negotia- tions have been in progress for several weeks, and the probabilities are the contract will be closed within few days. The effect of James name, in view of his former prowess in robbing trains himself, is what the express companies are aiming after They do not know, they say, that he could stop a determined robber any more than one of their own messengers, but they think the ordi- nary train robber would hesitate to tackle him. James is willing to accept the position and guarantees that no train in his charge will be robbed ex- cept over his dead body, with one single provision, and that is that the express people put up bond of S2O 900. this amount to go to his widow in case of his death.
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A City XYiped Out by lire.

BARAeA, Mich, May 1.-The city of L'Anse, at the head of Kenawa bay, has been practically wiped out by fire. The LAnse Lumber Co.'S mill and nearly all the business houses in the place were burned. Two hundred per sons are homeless. The total loss is placed at S250,0OO; small insurance. The mill has been idle for several days owing to strike. At Nunising, Alger county, the entire population is fight ng flames in an effort to save the own. Forest fires are raging in sev- ,ral other counties
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Tennessee Democrats for Free Silver.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, May s.-The larg. est democratic state convention ever held in Tennessee has met and ad- journed. It was free silver conven- tion from start to finish. Fully $500 delegates and visitors were in attend. ance. The platform contains strong free silver plank, as follows: "We demand restoration of the money of the constitution by law pro. viding for the free and unlimited coin age of both gold and silver as full legal tender money at the ratio of six. teen to one, regardless of the action of any other nation" Ex.Gov. Robert L. Taylor was nominated for governor by exclamation
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Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot rcacl, the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an infamed condition of the mu. cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets intiamed you have rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result. and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal con- dition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
 We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
 F.J. CHENEY & Co.,, Toledo, O.
 Sold by Druggists, 75c.
 Halls Family Pills are the best.
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FOR COUNTRIES SAKE
An Indian Fighter Suffers Agonies
 from Disease.
He Was In the Battle with the Apaches
 When Geronimo Was Captured.
From tho Press. Ne,p Fork Ctty.

From the Press, Ne,o Fork City. Worn with the exposure of army life on the frontier, and poisoned by the continual drinking of alkali water, Joseph Flegauf returned to Philadelphia eight years ago, broken down in health and unable to do any work.
 He had served five years with the Ninth United States Infantry in many a desperate fight with the Indians in Arizona and other frontier States and had won an enviable record. In the fierce conflict when Geron- imo, the famous chief of the Apaches, was captured, Mir. Flegauf was among the brave | soldiers who, forgetful of everything but duty, charged upon the hostile Indians.
 Life on the plains sent to an untimely death many soldiers who were never touched by redskins bullet or arrow, and Mir. Fle- gauf came near such fate as that. A long | time before his time was out he was taken seriously ill, but he stuck to his post until an honorable discharge was fiisally given to him.
 When he reached Philadelphia, the Indian fighter was scarcely more than skin and bones, and for three weeks he lay desperate ly i'll in a hospital. He felt dizzy, and his stomach felt as if it had dried up. These symptoms were accompanied by bloody dysentery, which no medicine seemed to re- lieve.
 After two years of suffering, Mr. Flegauf came to New York and was treated by sev- eral physicians. These did not agree, some calling bis disease catarrh of the stomach, and others chronic diarrhpa. In speaking to q reporter about his illness Mir. Flegauf said the doctors helped him, but, with all the money he spent for advice and medicine, he was able to work only small part of the time Since moving to his present home, No. 5l7 West Forty-sec- ond Street, in New York, about q year ago. MT. Flegauf has been so ill that his voice and hearing almost left him.
 Then all medicines failed, and the sick man had little hope of recovery. At this critical time Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People were recommended to Mir. Fle- gauf, and, almost as last hope, he began taking them.
 "The beneficial effect of the medicine was felt at once," Mir. Flcgauf told the reporter, "and before I had taken a box began to eat with relish. Three boxes made me so much better that 1 began work and have been able to keep at it since, for five months" Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People arc not patent medicine in the sense that name implies. They were etirstcompounded as prescription and used as such in gen. eral practice by an eminent physician. So great was their efficacy that it was deemed wise to place them within the reach of all. They are now manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred, and the pub lie are cautioned against numerous imita- tions sold in this shape) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for S2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Will liams' Medicine Company.
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Midnight Fire at St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, May 1l.-Shortly after midnight this morning fire started in the kitchen of the Metropolitan res- taurant at S24 Olive street. In a short lime the flames enveloped the entire building, three-story structure, and It was soon destroyed. The two floors above were used as lodging house. The Rialto, a ten-story building ad- Joining, was threatened by the flames, which broke through the windows
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Michigan Instructs for Mckinley.

DETROIT, Mich. May s.-An animated fight over the money question was the most striking feature of the Michigan republican convention. It resulted in squelching both the gold plank offered by the majority and the silver plank submitted by the minority of the reso- lutions committee and the substitution therefor of the money plank of the Minneapolis platform of 1892. McKin- ley was indorsed most unequivocally and the delegates were strongly in- structed in his favor.
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HOLMES HANGED.
The Murderer Pays the Penalty for tha
 Crime of Nurder.


 Crime of Murder.
 PHILADELPHIA, May B. Murderer Howard w. Mudget, ,alias H. H. Holmes, was hanged yesterday in the couu. ty prison for the killing of Benjamin F. Pietzel. The drop fell at lO:1Q o'clock and 20 minutes later he was pronounced dead by the prison offieinls, Dr. Sharp and Dr. Butcher. The exc cution was in every way entirely de- void of any sensational features. To the last he was self possessed and cool. even to the extent of giving a word oi advice to Assistant Superintendent Richardson, as the latter was arrang. ing the final details. He died as he had lived, unconcerned and thought less, apparently, of the future. Even with the recollection still vividly be- fore him of the recent confession in which he admitted the kill. ing of a score of persons of both sexes in all parts of the coun- try, he refuted everything, and all most his last words were point blank denial of any crimes committed except the deaths of two women at his hands by malpractice. Of the murder of sev. eral members of the Pietzel family he denied all complicity, particularly of the father, for whose death he stated he was suffering the penalty. Then with the prayer of the spiritual at. tendants sounding in his ears and with few low spoken words to those about, the trap swung and beyond a few inci- dental post mortem details, the execu- tion, which eliminated in one of the worst criminal stories known to crim- in0l0pY was anded
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SATURDAYS SENATE.
New Bond Resolution Introduced-M,
 Minor lllsDisposed Of.

New Bond Resolution Introduced-Many
 Minor BillsDisposed Of.
 WASHINGTON, May 11.-In the senate Saturday Mir. Dubois introduced res olution providing that no more bonds shall be issued until the president shall have communicated to congress he facts showing the necessity for he issue. The resolution was laid on he table. The senate succeeded in lisposing of large number of minor pills on the calendar and then took ID the river and harbor bill, MT. White (Cal.) finishing his speech in op- position to the item for a deep water larbor at Santa Monica bay, Cal.
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Hiccoughs Result in Death.

. WINCHESTER, O., May l1.-Miss Lydia ferguson, a popular young lady and teacher in the intermediate depart. nent of the public schools of Rains ooro, Highland county, who two months ago was attacked by a severe aiccoughing while laughing at one of ner scholars, died yesterday after. aoon in terrible agony. Although the o'ccoughs lasted only two weeks, the young lady grew weaker, and for over Io days previous to her death she aid not take an ounce of nourishmeut. An autopsy showed the stomach and towels to be badly diseased
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BOOSTERS WANT M'KINLEY.
Indiana Republican Delegates Strongly
 Pledged for the Ohio Man.

Indiana Republican Delegates Strongly
 Pledged for the Ohio Man.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May a-The Iu. diana repu blican convention yesterday instructed its delegates for Mckinley with scarcely a show of opposition, and the long impending battle between the Mckinley and alleged Harrison forces ended in commonplace peace. The platform embodying the instruc- tions was adopted by a viva voce vote and, without division, carried, being received without a challenge. Gen. Harrison did not make his eagerly ex- pected speech to the delegates, and did not visit the convention at all. The platform declares for sound money, favors the use of both gold and silver, at parity, urges bimetallism on an international basis, and condemns the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of sixteen to one.
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CONVENTION TALK,
The Men Who Will Place in Nomination
 the Candidates at St. Louis.

The Men Who Will Place in Nomination
 the Candidates at St. Louis.
 WASHINGTON, May s.-Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, will be awarded the honor of placing Reed in nomination at St. Louis. The Maine man will be seconded by Mir. C. E. Lit tlefield, one of the delegates-at-large from Maine, and he will probably pick up far western man and perhaps a southern man to help out in the sec- ondary oratory. Gen. D. B. Hender- son, of Iowa, at present chairman of the judiciary committee of the house, will put Allison in nomination. It is probable that Wright Cuney, of Texas, will be selected as one of Allison's sec- onders. Chauncey M. Depcw, of New York, will nominate Morton, and Sem ator Foraker will do the chief oratoric- al honors for Mckinley.
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Drought In Iowa.

WARSAW, H., May ll.-Northeast. ern Missouri, southeastern Iowa and western Illinois are suffering from a troughth which has reached a critical period. Wheat is heading out short, blue grass is ripening and grass gen. orally is taking on the yellow hue of summer. There is shortage of stock water, and farmers who are late in breaking cannot blow for corn. This condition is general over a considera- ole stretch of country,
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A Younp t;,rrs su,c,de.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May a.--Rena Donley, the pretty l6-year-old daughter of Harry Donley, tinsmith, living at 401 Locust street, committed suicide lase evening by taking strychnine. She left no letters to explain her course, nor did she leave any word for anyone. The poison was taken at a rooming house kept by d colored woman named Goodyear.
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EXECUTIONS DELAYED.
American Prisoners in Cuba VIII Probabl
 He Given a Fair Trial.

American Prisoners In Cuba VIII Probably
 He Given Fair Trial.
 LONDON, May 1.-The Madrid cor respondent of the Standard says: "Senor Canovas del Castillo has pub- licly stated that America has not pro- tested against Spain's right to punish 6libusters, but only against the sum. mary trial. American citizens are en- titled to be tried in the civil courts under the treaties of 1795 and 1871 The Spanish government is willing to consider the demand and has cabled to Capt Gen. Weyler to delay the execu- tions pending the result of negotia- tions, which are actively proceeding between Washington and Madrid to define the interpretation of the afore- said treaties
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Mckinley Will Sneak in Topeka.

TOPEKA, Kan, May s-Maj. Tom Anderson. delegate-at-large from Kansas to the national republican con- vention, who is now visiting Maj. Mo Kinley at Canton, O., wires that Mckinley has given positive assurance that he will attend the soldiers state reunion at Topeka this fall and deliver an addcess
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Shot According to Law.

ANTLERs, l. T., May s.-Yesterday at the Pushmataha court grounds, 30 miles west of here, Charles Homes, a full blood Choctaw about 35 years old, was shot legally for the murder of Charles Kiotubby, his stepson.in.law. Fully 800 persons were present,
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TrIumphant Bostonians Return.

NEW YORK, May s.-Crowned with victory and loaded down with valises, honors and walking sticks, the mem. bers of the Boston Athletic association who competed in the Olympian games in Athens reached New York yester- day and will start for Boston to-day.
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The Significance of Gray Overcoat

Upon the tongue, yellowness of the skin and eyeballs, nausea and uneasiness be- meath the right ribs and shoulder blade. is that the victim of these discOmforts is bill ious. The ''proper caper' under such cir cumstances is to take Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which also cures chills and fever, constipation, dyspepsia, rheumatic and kid ney complaints and nervousness.
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SENATOR DUBOIS added to the follow ing which I will get from other par ties on the silver movement to defeat the republican party in Idaho."
 Dubois friends here are much eXer- cised over the declaration. Straight up republicans who are expected to go to the Pocatello convention next Saturday say that under such de- claration they will bolt the convention there if Dubois friends succeed in se- curing the adoption of a resolution in- dorsing the action of the senator in the senate. The bolters will elect a set of delegates and send them to St. Louis as a straight republican dele- cation for Mckinley.
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Women, Children and Horses Burned.
 BERLIN, May s.--The riding school attached to the university of Heidel. berg was burned last night and two women, two children and 27 horses were burned to death.
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Cuban patriots in America have de- cided to send three vessels loaded with arms and ammunition to the insur- gents an9 are buying vessels for that purpose.
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FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No fits after first days use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and g trial bot tie free Dr. Kline. 93l Arch St.. Phila., Pa
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MAN carries under his hat private theater, wherein greater drama is acted than is ever performed on the mimic stage, beginning and ending in eternity.
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To HAVE a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have difference for others governs our manners.-Sterne
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"MAMMA, saw dog to-day that had only three legs" "Weren't you awfully sorry for himl' 'No'm; he had one more leg than had !'-ChicagO Record.
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HEAT expands and cold contracts; but there are exceptions. Coal and gas bills are larger in winter than in summer.-Nor- ristowu Herald,
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THE REASON OF IT.-"Is your daughter going into the country for her healthf' "Oh, no. Purely for art. She wishes to become bronzed. ."-Detroit Free Press.
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"WHATis the best sign of spring weather" 'That delightful feeling which makes you want to sit down and watch other people work "-Chicago Record.
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SHE--"You say that man is outl" He "Yes, he was struck out" She-"Why, no one struck him. ."-Cincinuati Commercial Gazette
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TRUE statesmanship is the art of chang. ing nation from what it is into what it ought to be.-W. R. A,ger.
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LAM entirely cured of hemorrhage of lungs by Piso's Cure for Consumption.-LoUIsA LINDAMAN, Bethany, Mo-, Jan. $, '4.
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RICHES do not eXhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. Gregory.
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leading republicans of the state, in which he stated:
 Tn the event the St. Louis conven- tion adopts a gold.
 bug or straddle platform, or nom. mates a gold bug or straddle candidate,
 I shall bolt the con- vention. l believe that I have sutf- cient personal fol. lowing in Idaho
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VIRTUE itself offends when coupled with forbidding manners.-B Bishop Middleton.
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THE GENERAL MARKET,

A SENTENCE, well couched, takes both tue sense and the understanding g-Eeltham,
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DUBOIS MAY BOLT.

rhe Idaho Senator Threatens to Follow
 Teller on the Silver Question.
 BOISE, Ida, May 1.-The Evening Mail printed parts of long letter written by United States Senator Du. bois to r. A. Fenn, of Boise, one of the