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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06
Tho Stomach Drill,

A French colonel ut Fan.iers Is teaching
MS officers and men to crawl on their stom.
mems and has invented leather glove to
heip the process. The regiment can now
.ravel 100 yards in this manner without
fatigue.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06

Rev. w. \. Siaymaker.
Committee OF Arrang ements-George
g. Martin. chairman; James w. McDon-
ough, j. S. Rogers. w. S. Rudd. John
NJ, RcYkley. l.. l.. Woodsend, l.. Il.
Allen, L.. Hyslop. Jr.. W. H. French.
Flood Swain, coiored. who was locked
UP Friday for beating 4 colored woman.
was blilcd yesterday by Mayor Mccoy
-Four tramps We're locked up at tho
station house las: night.
The Kings Daughte:s s fair has closed
There will be union meeting held a t
Pythia4 Castle Hall this week.
The many friends of Mrs Walter Mar
shall will be panied 10 hear that she
has lost her mind.
Mr.. Frank NJ. Smith OF this place.
and Miss MoHie Lordlcy, of Hampton
we're married last Wednesday al the
residence OF The bride.
Mr.: Frank G. Rop3 ttson and Miss Ed
ma Hozier, OF this place. were marrled
In Elizabeth City last wednesday.
1t Is rumored that a wharf will be
built nj the foot OF Liberty street for
town purposes.
The Light Committee of the Town
Council would obl!ge the residents of
Pine street by having u light placed at
'he corner OF Mulberry street.
The schooner +. d. Endcott Is dis
charging n cargo OF coal al the Tide
water Terminal Company's dock. for
MIR. j. II. Jacocks
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06
santa clans, llcadousrtcrs.

this season will be at J. ]. Bi!soly'S. No.
522 Middle street. between High and
King. This is an invitation to all 10 ex-
anime our holiday stock de 6-lm
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06
Grand CIosiuc Out sale OF Dress GOODS

Remember we are closing out our en-
tire line of WOODEN dress goods at and
below cost
LAWRENCE & WELTON.
Cash and One Price,
Dry Goods Dealers
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06

sec Tam O'Shantcrs reduced to Csc
25c. kind lac. Come quick.
CHARLES Il. WELTON & co,
Low Priced Iiatters
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06
DON'T uuy mn Xmn. pr,,cnt.

Don't buy an Xmas present until you
have seen my stock. Onyx tables,
lamps. rockers, clocks and everything at
j. s. CRAWFORD'S
Furniture and Carpet House.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06
TcIcscOtr HIT.

One of the latcst novelties. y si!ve
hat mark with each hat.
w. L. NIRNELSON x co,
Cp-to-Date Hattevs.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06
Stylish HINTS.

Are always to be found with us. See
them. w. L. VIRNELSON & co,
304 High street. (Oxford Hall)
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06

According to the computation Of the
Russian chronologists, the creation took
place 3. @. 55Oa
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06
Attention. Ruyers.

An all-wool suit at $3.50; a still bet
ter one at $1,000. that are really Won
ders. BRESLAUER & ANTHONY.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06
u VIII Pny Won

to look at our suits from $3.50 upward
They are great
LEVY & JACOBS.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06
Fifty Years Ago.

Who could imagine that this should be
The place where. in eighteen ninc,v-,hree
That white world-wonder of arch and
dome
Should shadow the nations, polychrome. :.
Here Of the Fair was the prize conferred
On Ayers Pills, BY the world preferred.
chicago-likc, they q record show,
Since they startcd-so years ago.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06
Specials for To- Day.

Fine fresh New York creamery butter
soc per lib; fresh Fox crackers, lVc per Id:
new PIE peaches, Id. cans, &C., or for!
ron, currants raisins, sheiled almonds and
all kinds new nuts. new dried fruits, etc.
now Is the time to buy your fruits for your
goods are advancing rapidly. Finc mixed
candies, lOc. per h.. 4 good thing all
In the reach of every one, and I hat rs why
our cracked grain Java coffee Is gaining
such reputation at 23c. per ] b. s6F
PHONE 1910. ! - - u = = -
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06
NOTICE

COMMENCING TOMORROW MORN
ling at 10 O'Clock, We viii sell our Lace
Curtains and Port eros nj cost. Those in
nctd OF Furniture, such as Wardrobcs
SineDonrds. Lounges. Bedroom Suits. sc,
VIII consult their interests by calling to
see our prices. We must close up our
business by the first Gf lie year
GEO. =. HE'LL Manager.
2l' IIiEh street, HOl tamOuth, Va.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-06
THEY WILL HAVE TO WAIT

The certificates OF election in the cases
of Congress ..ics ana Walker will
not be issued until Tho Y0st-Fleod mat
ter :; decided. 1t Is believed the Court
of Appeals will hand down its opinion
i'll the Eost proceedings next Thursday
but this is ny no means certain. Ne arly
everybody believes the decision will be
farora BILE 10 Yost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16

form in his mind strong desire to put
into concrete, substantial shape some
of his many dreamings. At first he
built a small villa upon it, but as ne
plunged more deeply into the roman
tic past and the great incidents which
he put into Marmion, Rokeby, and
other poems pervaded his thought, he
began to add to it in 1917, producing
in the end large castellated and
gaDled mansion, of which the interior
is finished in late medieval style. Seen
through the trees, mellowed by the
distance, the modern towers took on an
antiquated look, and a stranger seeing
it from one of the surrounding hills In
the cleaning would have thought him
self in the face of a place full of those
mysterious tragedies associated with
meats and dTawbridges.
An unrecorded incident of the poet S
life, well known to the poets intimate
friends, but never published in any Of
his Lives" is associated with such a
view of the castle which Scott caught
one evening returning from a hunt.
Among his companions was a beautiful
young lady of the vicinity, who entered
deeply into the spirit of her famous
friends composition. Scott refined his
horse TO a standstill on reaching the
height and seemed lost in reflection,
his eye fixed on the towers that reared
themselves in the distance. The LADY
finally broke in upon his musings by
saying: With a little fancy one
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16
A FAMILY SLAIN.
A Man Shoots B. o. Sands, His Family
and Himself.

Muskegon, Mich, April 11.-Word
was received here at midnight from
Pentwater Of an attempt on the life of
William B. o. Sands, president of the
Sands & Maxwell lumber company.
Suspicion pointed to H. B. Minchall, a
local insurance agent and attorney, as
the perpetrator of the deed. The officers
found his residence locked and broke in
the door horrible sight was pre-
scented. Mrs. Minchell was lying upon
the floor of the sittingroom with a bull
let hole in her temple. Near her was
the dead body of her daughter Ruby,
about Is years old. In the corner of
the same room lay Minchell with an
empty revolver clutched in his hand.
He, too, was dead. In an adjoining
bedroom were found the bodies of
George, aged 4, and his infant brother.
They were in bed together, and death
had evidently come upon them while
they slept. The motive for Minchells
crimes is still mystery, but it is
thought the inquest that is now in pro-
gress will clear the matter up.
From letter written by the muir
derer found on his premises it appears
that he contemplated killing his family
two months ago. Fear of poverty is the
reason offered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16
TAYLOR BROTHERS. NOTORIOUS
DESPERADOES, BREAK JAIL.

Carrolton, Mo. April 12.-Saturday
evening the notorious Taylor brothers.
condemned muderers of the Meeks
family, broke out of the county Jail.
George Taylor escaped, but Bill was re-
taken and is again behind the bars.
The brothers were to be hanged to-
gether April 80 for the brutal murder
o. the Meeks family.
The escape was made by beaking of
a bar of the cell. making an exit
through the garnet to the roof and let
ting themselves down to the ground by
means of a piece of hose used to clean
the cells. AS Bill Taylor reached the
ground Deputy Sheriff Cummings lit
tie girl heard the noise and gave the
alarm. Before he could escape a dep
uty covered him with a revolver and
put him back in his cell. The excite
ment is high. A large posse has gone
IN pursuit of George Taylor. Few
think he will be overtaken. Blood
hounds are being used.
The news from the vicinity where the
+ crime was committed shows great
excitement. A special train will bring
residents from there to join in the
chase.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16
Interior Armory HALL

could hear the clash of swords off to-
ward your home yonder.'
Yes" replied the poet in his broad
Scotch. It's a dull soul that could not
hear more than that" and waving to
his company to proceed homeward he
took from his pocket a scrap of paper
and wrote these lines:
When on thy walls of gray l gaze,
I live again the days gone by,
When knights drew blood for lady's
praise,
Or smiled at death to win sigh.
He handed the paper to the lady and
the two rode home in silence.
It is this interesting property that
young Scott falls heir to. Unlike the
homes of other poets, it did not have
to wait till after his death to receive
the attention OF strangers. During the
latter years Of the poets life Abbots-
ford was often thronged with visitors
from all lands, to whom the poems and
tales had appealed so strongly. Scott
had four children, two sons and two
daughters. They were much beloved
by him, making up for him in great
Fart the want of intellectual compan-
ionship on the part of his wife, for
whom his affection, however, never
waned. 1t is through the female line
that the Scott line has been perpetual
ed. 1t is understood that the young
heir will do nothing to change the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16

coIdly and Systematically executed of
any OF the spectacular crimes of recent
years. The tale of Pearl -Bryan's kill
ing, with its incidents, surpasses in
horror the extravagances of Poe. The
hideousness of this crime is accentuat-
ed by the fact that all persons involved
are young men of liberal education.
considerable intellectual ability, and
some pretensions as to station and So
clal position. The unfortunate victim
OF these monsters of blood-guiltiness
was young woman of culture and re.
finement.
Pearl Bryan was killed on the night
of Friday, January 81. The following
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16
DAVENPORT'S AWFUL DEED
LOVER KILLS THE FATHER OF
HIS SWEETHEART.

Leayenworth, Kans., April 9.-YOung
Charles Lampern and Annie Lam bern,
his sister, who are in Jail here charged
with completely in the murder of their
father, have confessed to having active
ly assisted Thomas Davenport, the
lover of the girl, in the commission of
the crime. According to his confession,
Lambern and his sister left home to
attend a dance. Near home they met
Davenport, and it was agreed that the
aged father, who had forbidden Daven-
port to visit his daughter, and who,
though wealthy, was commonly accused
of making his children slaves to the
drudgery of farm lie, should be killed
Davenport then went IT, the house,
crept in through a rear door, and with
one blow of an axe, dispatched the
old man as he sat in a chair by the
fireside. The two men then burned the
dead mans will, in which he had dis
posed of an estate valued at over $780,
600. After this they joinei the girl
and the three proceeded to the dance
where they seemed to enjoy themselves
with the others. After the dance they
all returned to the house and slept
there. In the morning they spread the
news of Lambern's murder.
The officials of the British Chartered
South African company discrodit the
rumOr.
Buluwayo, April lot is now
stated that in the attack made by the
on
$50 of the hostile natives were killed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16

the old New York more than half a
dozen times in their lives. Down in
the center of Staten Island they have
never heard of the new woman, and if
one of The latter should appear among
them astride her bicycle and clad in
boomers she would throw the worthy
populace into a fever of excitement.
Yet they are all New Workers.
From the northeastern corner of the
big New York down to the southwest
ern corner it is forty-five miles as the
crow flies. This is the distance from
Mount Vernon to Tottenville at the end
of Staten Island. Across the new city
at the widest point from the westerly
end of Staten Island to the EASTERN most
miles in straight line.
This enables the New Yorker to do
considerable wandering without leav-
ing his native fireside. 1t is a six hour
journey to get from the northernmost
tip to the southernmost tip of the new
city, and to go from the eastermost end
to the extreme western point it takes
hFS DUH lutyS lIluSL We Jlldu6
in a roundabout way, with a good part
of the distance by water If the tourist
should happen to be unfortunate and
miss trains and boats, or if there were
a heavy fog in the bay the journey
would take endless hours
Men who have undertaken to think
about the task of forming this great
mixture of humanity into one munici-
pality have given up the job as hope
less puzzle How to form local laws
which will equally serve all the ex-
tremes, the millionaire of Fifth avenue
and the clam fisherman of Little Neck
Bay; the bloods of the Tenderloin and
the farmers of Hampstead: the
merchant prince of the dry goods dis,
trict and the general storekeeper of
Baysfde; the financial king of Wall
street and the hired man of New Lots,
will make things lively for years to
come.
The enlargement of the police de-
partments and fire departm the
carrying on of improvements in the far
off suburbs and giving the clam-diggers
and farmers the luxurious convenienees
Of metropolitan life will wiring the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16

honor thrust at one swoop upon more
than million of people is a misfortune
too heavy to bear. From now on he
knows that he will be claimed as a
fellow citizen by the clam digger of
CanarSie, the fisherman of Jamaica, the
Dutch farmer of New Lots, the tough
of Long Island City, the sand digger of
Flushing, the smells of Barron Island,
the elephant of Coney Island, the Yahoo
of Staten Island, the rustic of Rocka-
way, the truck farmer of Gravesend, to
say nothing of the inhabitants of Little
Neck Bay, of CreedmOor, of the Kill
Won Kull of New Dorp, where the Van
derbilts were great people a hundred
years ago, and the sand flats of Jamaica
Bay.
All these are now, or shortly will be,
official New Workers. They are entitled
to a friendly feeling for the swells
of Fifth avenue, the sports of the Ten
derloin, the mugs" of the Bowery, the
millionaires of Wall street and the poll
ticians of Madison Square. They live
in the same town as the Astors, the
Vanderbilts, the Goulds and the Rookie
fellers, and may one day belong to the
four hundred They can take metro
politan interest in Teddy Roosevelt.
Tom Platt, Tammany Hall, DR.. Park
hurst, Steve Brodie and other celebri-
ties, They can swear at the IL road,
ridicuie the reform movement, part
their hair in the middle and shout for
the Giants when they win at baseball
with all the fervor of the native New
Yorker.
Moreover. they can feel that they
live in the second biggest city of the
world, for with its new population of
something over 100000 New York
leaves far in the reaE the 2,447, 957
people who compose the great city of
Paris. They can cast envious eyes at
London, their only superior, which has
4,231, 431 people living in the 6SS square
miles composing that wonderful city.
And they can take satisfaction in the
thought that the population of New
York is increasing twice as rapidly as
that of London, and that in a few years
more they will be living in the biggest
city in the world, and at the same time
in a farm house, where the nearest
neighbor is a mile away.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16

morning the headless body Of a young
woman was found in field in the Ken
lucky highlands opposite Cincinnati,
about a mile south of Fort Thomas.
The head has not yet been found. There
was no clue but a check dress, a corset
and one shoe. The shoe was the sole
clue of value. 1t was traced to Green
castle, Ind, dealer. Farmer A. B.
Bryan, living near Greencastle, identi-
fed the shoe and dress as the property
of his daughter, Pearl Bryan, who left
home January % to go to Indianapolis
to visit Mrs Louisa w. Fisher, of No.
Is Central avenue. She did not go
there but, as subsequently learned by
the detectives working on the case,
went to Cincinnati, where she met Scott
Jackson Pearl Bryan was the young
est of twelve children, of whom seven
daughters and a, son are still living.
The girls all enjoy local celebrity for
their good looks and accomplishments.
Pearl, the child Of her parents old age,
was even handsomer than her sisters
attention. In the neighbornood she
was widely popular. She graduated
from the Greencastle high school four
years ago, ind since that time had
studied much at college. In person
she was small and graceful. Her
beauty was of the pronounced blonde
type.
The Jackson family had it's origin IN
Maine. and lived for some time in New
jersey prior to coming to Greencastle.
jackson, when in the east, became IN
volved in the embezZlement Of $4,000
belonging TO the Pennsylvania railroad
company. He and his partner in guilt.
Alexander Let's, squandered the
money at the race tracks and in high
living. Jackson furnished the evidence
which convicted Let's, and the latter is
now serving a sentence in the New
Jersey penitentIary. AS his reward
for testifying against Let's, Jackson
was permitted to go free. He came west
to friends III Indiana. He entered a
school Of dental surgery at Indianapo-
lis, and made frequent visits to his
friends in Greencastle. There he met
Pearl Bryan, and they became intimate
The country maiden was not able to
re sist the wiles Of the racetrack plum ger
and toughened man of the world. Their
illicit connection began last September
Later in the fall Jackson went TO Gin
ciInati to prosecute his professional
studies. He was Informed by Mis-:
Bryan that her disgrace could be con-
cealed no longer Then was opened a
correspondence in which instructions
were given the girl which she followed
to her death. The girl was to leave os-
tensibly for a visit TO indianapolis
but was really to go TO Cincinnati
where Jackson said he had made the
necessary preparations for criminal
operation. He had taken into his con
/ fidence Alonzo Walling, a fellow stu
/ dent at the Cincinnati dental college.
/ They had been at the indianapolis in
stituticn together, and in the Ohio
4 town were roonmates. The week be
/ fore the girl came Jackson had beer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16

reading up on poisons and their effect
He made special inquiry as to CO.
caine and prussiac acid Monday Miss
Bryan reached Cincinnati and went to
the Indiana house. She saw Jackson
and Walling several times, and
Wednesday went to indianapolis. re-
turning Friday. Friday night she met
them at a saloon, whence they told her
they would take her to a room they
had provided, where she would be
cared for. Their tories conflict to such
an extent that the truth can only be
surmised. Jackson says Walling was
responsible for the young woman's con-
ditiou, ard Waliing asserts it was
jackson. AS to the fact there is little
doubt Jackson was the author of her
ruin. Each accuses the other of the
principal share Of the murder. 1t is
believed no operation was ever in
tended.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16

GULLY" ADAMS PET SGHEME
SCORES A VICTORY.

Washington, April 12-After two
days debate the house Saturday by a.
vote of 160 to SO passed the Groevnor
filled cheese bill. The democrates
voted solidly against the measure with
eleven republicans. Practically the
only amendment adopted was the one
reducing the tax on retail dealers from
$40 to $12. The bill requires manu-
facturers of filled cheese to pay tax of
$500 annually, wholesale dealers $3.50,
retail dealers $12, and a failure to pay
the tax imposes upon the manufacture
ers a fine of from $500 to $4,000, upon
wholesale dealers, a fine of from
$3.50 to $1,000 and upon retail dealers
from $40 to $500. 1t also requires the
branding filled cheese and the sale
only from original packages. The
bill requires retail dealers to post a
sign filled cheese sold here" In ad-
dition it imposes a tax of one cent per
pound on filled cheese, the tax to be
paid by the manufacturer. Imported
filled cheese is subjected to a duty of
eight cents a pound. The act is to go
into effect the nineteenth day after
passage.
The vote on the final passage of the
bill was taken by yeas and nays. The
republicans voting nay were: Aldrich,
ILL.,; Belknap, ILL.,; Brumm, Penn;
Cannon, ILL.,; Connolly, HI; Evans,
KY; Torminer. ILL.,; Long, Kan; Nc
Call, Tenn; Tracewell, Ind; Walker,
Miss.
The filled-cheese bill was drafted by
C. H. Adams, of Madison. He has
given much study to the matter and
has worked hard for the success of
the measure, going twice to Washing
ton to urge upon congressman the i'm
pOrtance of it's passage. The bill was
introduced by Congressman S. A, Cook
of Wisconsin, and Congressman J. w.
Babcock was one of its ardent sup
pcrters. Several private kilograms
were received in Madison Saturday an
nouncing the progress of the fight and
a dispatch from Congressman Cook
was the first notification that the bill
had passed the house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16

New York, April 12.-The good old
Gothamite, the conservative old-fash-
toned Knickerbocker, the man who
honestly believes that the United
States is bounded on the south by the
Battery sea wall, on the north by West
chester county, on the east by the East
river, and on the west by the Hudson
river, is sorely puzzled these days.
All of the Western Hemisphere out
side of those limits he has been in the
habit of looking upon as deep and
solid wilderness. He wonders at the
hardihood of people living anywhere
outside of New York. Brooklyn has al
ways been a sore problem to him. He
understands that a round million of
people live there and that it is a fine
place to be buried in, for it contains
twenty-five cemeteries, with an aggre-
gate population of million and a
quarter but beyond that he knows
nothing. He goes to Europe oftener
than he goes to Brooklyn, and he says
the journey is easier And this good
mans wife thinks the same
But now all is changed. The New
York legislature has passed a bill which
the governor is certain to sign and
which carries the boundaries of the
city into districts which the easy going
GOthamite never heard of. 1t makes
New Workers out of thirteen hundred
thousand people whom the good people
Of the metropolis have always regarded
as jays.
To be a New Yorker is a sacred dis
tinction in his eyes, and to see this high