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The herald., 1896-10-16
PULLMAN PROFITS.
Strikes and Dull Times Don't Destroy
All Profits.

CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-The annual
meetinC of the Pullman Palace Car
company was held today, over $27, ,0c0, 900
of the capital stock being represented
George NJ Pullman, Marshall Field j..
w. Dove. Norman Williams and 0. 5.
j.. Prague Of Chicago; Henry c. Hurl
burt of New York and Henry 3. Reed
of Boston We're reelected as directors.
The usual quarterly dividend of 81
per share was declared payable No
vember 18th and the board Of directors
elected the following officers: George
NJ. Pullman. president; Thomas II.
Wickes, vice president, and A. A Wein-
sheimer, secretary.
The total revenue of the company
during the last year was s9,244,?92, and
the total disbursements $7,5A6,975, leav-
ing surplus for the year of Sl,647, ,4o7.
OF the disbursements S2,SS0,o00 was paii
out in dividends. The number of pas
sengers carried during the year was
5112, 965, against 4,1sS,509 in the preced-
ing year.
The herald., 1896-10-16
ROOSEVELT GROWS SEVERE
In Ills Denmnciation Of he\Democratic
Candidates
The Public Will Agree With His Asser-
ton That Great Big Men May
Have Mysteries.

CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-Theodore Roose-
welt of New York spoke at the Coliseum
tonight on the issues Of the campaign.
He had an immense audience and was
enthusiastically received.
The address was long and covered the
principal issues of the campaign. The
speaker was particularly severe in his
Characterization of Candidates Bryan
and Altgeld. His denunciation Of Gov.
Altgeld brought forth cheers from his
Republican hearers. In speaking of
Candidates Bryan and Atlgeld, Mr..
Roosevelt said: 1t is not merely school
girls that have Mysteries; mob leaders
sometimes have them and so do we'll
meaning demagogues when their heads
are turned by the applause of men of lit
tie intelligence and their minds inflated
with the possibility Of acquiring solid
Leadership the country.
1.-THE dominant notein Mr. Bryan's ut
terances and in the campaign waged in
his behalf is the note Of hysteria. For
Mr.. Bryan we can feel the contemptuous
pity always felt for the small men un-
expectedly thrust into high place. He
does not look we'll in lions skin. but
that is chiefly the fault of those who put
the skin on him. But in Mr.. Altgelds'
case we see all too clearly the jaws and
hide of the wolf through the f1eecy COW
ering. Mr.. Altgeld is man more dan
gerous than Mr.. Bryan. He is much
slyer, much more intelligent much less
silly, much more free from all the re
straints of some public morality. The
one is unscrupulous from vanity, the
other from calculation. The one plans
wholesale reputation with light heart
and bubbling eloquence because he lacks
intelligence and is intoxicated by the
hope of power; the other would connive
at wholesale murder and would justify
it by elaborate and cunning sophistry
for reasons known only to his own tor
tuous soul. For America to put men like
these in control of her destinies would
be such dshonor as it is scarcely bear
able to think Of"
The herald., 1896-10-16
COCHRAN KISSED.
Anti-Bryan Remarks Not Well Re.
ceived at Toledo

TOLEDO. o., Oct. 15.-Bourke Cock
ran spcIe to two immense audiences
here tonight numbering fully 10000 pco-
pie. The first speech was delivered in
Memorial hall, and the second in an
immense tent pitched on the commons
During his speech in the hall he made
reference to Bryans ignorance of the
word premium when he was greeted
with a storm of misses from the silver
men in all parts of the house, which rem
dered it impossible for him to proceed
for minute or two. The Kisses were
SO general that the police could not
iocate them SO as to expel the disturb
ers.
The speaker was particularly severe
on Mr.. Bryan all through his speech
The hisses and disturbance was re-
newed toward the close of Mr.. Cock
rar's speech, and the police were COM
PEELED to eject several of the silverites
from the hall, in the midst of great
excitement.
The herald., 1896-10-16
THE GOLD CAMPAIGN

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. 15.-Generals
Palmer and Buckner, the candidates for
the presidency and vice-presid idency of the
National Democracy. reached here at 4
o'clock this morning being escorted from
Pulaski Tenn. by a committee of gold
Democrats from this city. A reception
was held in the parors of the Morris hotel
from II to Il O'Clock. Ii was largely at
tended. Many old soldiers called to pay
their respects. At noon the candidates
were escorted to the opera house. where
they spoke. Every seat in the opera house
and every inch OF available standing room
was taken.
The herald., 1896-10-16
ONELAsT EFF0RTT0 BE MADE
Which Must Succeed Promptly Or NJ
At All
March First Il Set Is the Date for ~
Decision
The Cuban Planters Are Anxious -
Insurgent Success in the Hope
Of Avoiding Unbearable
Taxation.
Associated Press Special wire

Associated Press Special Wire
NEW YORK, Oct. ia Herald spe-
cial from Cadiz, Spain, says: If Spain
has not put down the insurrection IN
Cuba by the first of March 1t IL the In
tention of the government to give up the
struggle and let the island 60.
The significance Of this statement,
coming direct from an officer Of rank In
the Spanish army within the week must
certainly be regarded as of no little im-
portance. The above determination IL an
open secret among those who are close
to the government and 1t is said that
the policy is being adopted Of exaggerat-
ing the magnitude of the trouble in the
Philippine islands, with view Of pre-
pairing the people for the ultimate design
of letting Cuba CO. BY way of further
corroboration Of this estimate of the sit
uation it may be remarked that while
Spain is sending more than 10000 troops
to Cuba, who are in the main very young
and undisciplined, she Is carefully
keeping her $4,000 well disciplined and
efficient soldiers who may be available
in case of an outbreak at home. She Is
also keeping in Spanish waters twelve
warships which are ready for sea, and
which could be of great service in Gu
ban waters in aiding the United States
in that police work which she now asks
that country to do for her.
w C. Foster, the manager Of the
Eastern Telegraph company here. speak
ing of the situation, said:
'There is no question that the gov
ernment is trying to use the Philippine
island troubles to distract tthe peoples
attention from Cuba. There is doubt
that Spain intends to do her utmost to
crush the Cuban insurrection between
row and March. Failing In that I am
informed that she will give up the strug-
gle.
"An important issue is the fact that
Cuba had a debt of $500, ZOO, 900 and that
if Spain puts down the insurrectfonCube
will have to pay that debt, whereas II
Cuba wins, the payment of that debt Will
fall on Spain, who contracted it on beflalf
of Cuba. Naturally the planters who
The herald., 1896-10-16
The P0PULBT POSITION
Is a Matter of Very Great In.
certainty
THE CANDIDACY OF WATSON
A Cause Of Anxiety to Populist Commit.
teemen
Watson Writes a Letter Roasting the
Men He Charges With Having
Sold Out the Populists.
Associated Press specia, Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
CHICAGO, Oct 15.-The projected
trip Of the committee appointed by the
Populist executive committee to call on
Mr.. Watson has been abandoned. Sen
ator Butler left for Washir gton last
night. Committeeman Reed of Georgia
and George F. Washburn, chairman of
the western branch of the committee
who were to accompany Senator Butler
of Georgia, are still in town and say that
no formal call will be made on Mr.. Wat
son. A telegram was received from the
Populist vice presidential candidate to-
day, but both gentlemen emphatically
deny that its contents were the cause Of
the abandonment of the trip. Mr.. Wash
burn stated that the trip was abandoned
because it was absolutely necessary for
Senator Butler to return to Washington
at once. What the contents of the tele-
gram were is causing considerable spec
ulation, as it was understood last night
that the committee intended to start
unless word was heard from Mr.. Watson
to the contrary.
WATSON is MAD.
TOPEKA, Kas., Oct. 15.-Abe Stein
berger. chairman of the state organiza-
tion of the middle Of the road" Popu-
lists, this evening received the following
message from Thomas Watson:
THOMPSON, Ca: liberated throat
will prevent my keeping appointments.
I greatly regret this. The middle of the
road Populists all over the union have
my sympathy and admiration. They
have been sold out and their party made
a footmat for Democratic politicians to
wipe their feet on under the hypocriti-
cal pretense Of patriotism. The fusion
lists have abandoned principle and gone
into mad scramble for the pie counter.
If Bryan is defeated, 1t Will be the fault
Of the traitors in his party and ours who
have ignored the St. Louis compromise
and tried to force the Populists' votes for
Sewall, the bondholder, national banker,
corporation plutocrat and gold clause
millionaire.
(Signed( THOMAS E. WATSON.
The herald., 1896-10-16
MOORE PLEADS NOT GUILTY

NAPA, Oct. 15.-Today in the superior
court a motion to set aside information
charging William Moore. alias Rowe, with
the murder of Mrs. J. G. Greenwood, was
argued. Attorneys for the defense inter-
posed this motion alleging that evidence
given at the preliminary examination did
not show that Moore had committed this
or any other crime. The motion was de-
MED by the court and Moore pleaded not
guilty to the charge. The trial was set
for November y. and veuire Of 125 jury
men was ordered drawn.
The herald., 1896-10-16
A NEwsBoY BOYCOTT
San Francisco Supplied With None but
Oakland Papers

usual spectacle of Oakland papers being
sold by newsboys on the streets of San
Francisco to the utter exclusion of the
local evening papers was witnessed this
afternoon. This peculiar condition was
the result of boycott inaugurated by
the boys against the Post, Bulletin and
Report because of the action of the
managers af those papers in discontin-
uing the check system under which the
newsboys have heretofore been allowed
The herald., 1896-10-16
THE SQUADRON SAFE.

WASHINGTON. Oct. Is. - Admiral
Bunce has reported by telegraph the
arrival of the North Atlantic squadron
at Tompkinsville. In his telegram he
makes no reference to the hard expert
ence of the hardships in the last big
storm and it is presumed that he will
run down to Washington and report on
the subject in person to Secretary Her.
har
The herald., 1896-10-16
A LYNCHING PREVENTED

COLUMBUS. Ga. Oct. 1J.-Polceman
Roberts, mortally wounded in the tragedy
yesterday afternoon in which James
White and two policemen were killed. died
this morning Henry White, the young
son of James White who escaped while
his father was barricaded in the home, was
captured today and secretly removed from
the county Jail to prevent lynching.
The herald., 1896-10-16
THE -FOUR YEAR TERM

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15.-The supreme
court today denied a re-hearing in the
case of Calm VS.. Sutro, and the recent de-
cision of the court that the county govern
ment act applies to certain offices of San
Francisco will stand The offices affected
by the decision, and which hold for four
years instead of two. are sheriff, auditor
district attorney. clerk, public admins
traitor and coroner.
The herald., 1896-10-16

to exchange unsold papers for fresh cop
les of the later issues.
The newsboys say that the strike is
on in earnest and that they are out to
win. They had statement of their
grievances prepared and printed in the
form of a circular, copies OF which were
distributed to the crowds of pedestri-
ans on the strets.
Over q thousand Oakland papers were
sold on the streets today and practical
ly no local papers outside of those dis
posed of by the news stands and car
ria
The herald., 1896-10-16
CHINESE RAIDS.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 15-Instead of
putting an end to the Chinatown trou-
BILE the action of the Chinese consul gen.
eral in adopting harsh measures has ap-
parently only served to further compli-
cate matters. The raid on the See Yups
was repeated today, but the latter, act
ing upon legal advice, are preparing to
protect their property by force and an
outbreak Of very serious nature is i'm
p,ipapt
The herald., 1896-10-16
AN OFFER DECLINED

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 15-The Even
ing Post will say that the Democratic ma
tional committee offered to send Senator
Tillman to stump California for Bryan, but
the Democratic state committee declined
to erecive him. alleging his advocacy of
Bryan in this state would harm Bryan
rather than help him.
The herald., 1896-10-16
CARELESS IS QUACKENBUSh
Signed q Little Contract Without First
Reading II
Mrs. Abbott's Attorneys Feel Able to
Prove That the Millionaire is
Legally Married.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15-Mrs.
Nancy A. Abbott, or Quackenbush. as
she prefers to be called. will give Nil
lionaire Thomas NJ. Quackenbush run
for his money. Quackenbush has asked
that Mrs. Abbott prove her title to the
name of Quackenbush or else forever
after hold her peace. Mrs. Abbott says
she can prove that Thomas is her liege
lord.
BY way of evidence, Mrs. Abbott has
two valuable papers. both of which
snugly repose in the safe Of her attor-
neys, Rodgers & Paterson. One of
these is as follows:
San Francisco, November IS, 1889
Know all men that !, Thomas NJ. Quack-
enbush, Of the city of San Francisco,
state of California;, and Nancy Ann Abb
bott of San Francisco, state of Califo--
MIA, do agree to live together as man
and wife, share and share alike, so
long as we both shall live.
Signed: Thomas M. Quackenbush,
Nancy Ann Abbott.
- This contract is. written on ordinary
letter paper in a feminine Hand. 1t Is
understood that Quackenbush does NOT
deny his signature. but says that he
signed the paper without reading 1t,
and under misapprehension as to it's
contents.
Besides the marriage contract, Mrs
Abbotts attorneys hold a written ac-
acknowledgement from Quackenbush, dat
ed 1892. in which he directs certain
person to deliver some d diamonds to "his
wife" The defendants attorneys main
tain that her contract is good, and that
other evidence is not lacking.
The herald., 1896-10-16

A CLOTHING FIRM FAILS.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 15-Dexter
Bros, Wholesale clothiers, credited with
capital OF 100000, failed today. The
liabilities are stated to be about si7o o0n
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
MISSES NORFOLK BASQUE.

illuminated serge in brown and tan
is happily combined with golden
brown velvet, making the stylish
basque pictured in the second large
cut 6eservedly popular for school,
cycling, best or general wear. The
adjustment is glove.fttirg to the waist
line, below which it falls with slight
ripple to fashionable length over the
hips, the box-plaits being graded and
applied from the shoulders and the
centre of fronts and back to lower
edge of basque. Two styles of collar
are provided, a high close-ftting collar
and low-cut revers collar, both OF
which are made of velvet. A belt OF
velvet is worn around the waist. The
fashionable full mandolin sleeves are
shaped in three sections, each seam
being piped with velvet. The top is
gathered and arranged over comfort
able Innings, the wrists being finished
with velvetpiping. Simple in con
struction and dressy in effect, this
style of basquerequir neither decora-
tion or trimming, and can be made
all of one material, if so desired.
Che,iot, serge, camePs hair, vicuna,
covert and ladies' cloth and all
varieties of smooth and rough-faced
suitings in plaid, striped, mixed or
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
Badger Dog for His Pet.

At the foot Of the middle butte OF
the Sweet Grass Hills in Montana
lives a miner named Byron Banner.
He is practically a recluse, seldom
associating with any neighbors or
even talking to them. He works his
claim all alone, and no one knows
whether he is rich or poor.
Like most recluses he has his pet,
but Banners pet is so uncommon,
even unnatural that it deserves to be
put on record. This pet, says the
Dupuyer Acantha lis a badger-dog.
The animal is small and has the feet
and legs Of a badger while the body
resembles dog.
It's claws have to be trimmed every
few months, as they grow out OF all
proportions to the foot. When 1t
walks it has the peculiar waddle OF
the badger. Its bark is somewhat
similar to that Of the lapdog. 1t Will
bite savagely when teased, but is
otherwise perfectly docile.
A cross between wolf or coyote
and dog is not uncommon, nor is 1t
so much of a freak, since they belong
to the same family. But a cross be-
tween different families, as the dog
and badger, is something for natural
lists and evolutionists to thiEk about.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

the finest sponges in the world come
from that coast and hundreds of men
are worked there. We coasted up and
down in thirtY-ton schooner-rigged
craft, with broad BEAM and drawing
but little water. We carried ten men,
including the cook, and four dingles,
which, you know, are small yawls.
Two men to dingy was the way we
were told of, one to skull and one to
hook. The dingies were eighteen feet
long and five feet beam, light and
strong. They are made light because
two men handle them, and they must
be strong and seaworthy because We
worked sometimes in heavy sea.
"The sculling notch was to one side
of the centre of the stern, and it was
cut in the end Of short bit of plank
which could be taken off if it was in
the way. The sponge hooks are made
of iron, have three prongs and are
curved. They are about six inches
wide, and long pole fits into the
socket. One man, as 1 said, sculled
the boat slowly along, and the other
hunted for the sponges. He used the
sponge glass and motioned to the man
in the stern to go this or that way.
When he saw good sponge he showed
the hook down over it and fastening
the prongs of the hook in it pulled it
from the bottom and into the boat.
"When we got boat load we
sculled to the schooner, and the
sponges were piled up on tne deck un-
til the curry ran out of them. The
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
century

The Atlanta Constitution remarks:
Out in Indiana an old lady OF seventy.
four offered $40, 900 for a young hus-
band. An enterprising fellow of twen-
ty-six came forward, but the woman's
family sued out q writ of lunacy to
prevent her from marrying. The jury
pronounced her sane, and she eloped
with her purchase and married him.
The Chicago Record in commenting on
this case makes the point that short
time ago young woman in New York
wanted husband with title, and got
him after big cash sum of several
million dollars had been settled upon
him by her relatives. Nobody limited
that the New York girl was insane.
On the contrary society thought that
she had distinguished herself. Our
Chicago contemporary thinks that it
makes q difference when the pur-
chased husband is an imported article
with title. If he is q home product
the woman who offers good price for
him is supposed to he crazy.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12
The SaWdust Industry.

A growing industry in this city is
the sawdust business. There are at
least five hundred men who make a
living selling sawdust. They have in.
vested capital of over two hundred
thousand dollars and are now doing q
business of 50, 100000 annually. Forty
years ago the lumber mills here were
glad to have sawdust carted away !;
twenty-five years ago it could be
bought for fifty cents load; now it
brings $3.50 load at the mills. 1t is
used in hotels, eating houses, grocer
les and other business places. 1t is
wet and spread over the floor in order
to make the sweeping cleaner work,
Plumbers use it a great deal about
pipes and buildings to deaden the
walls and floors. Soda water men and
packers of glass and small articles OF
every kind use it, and dolls are stuffed
with it.-New York Advertiser.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

Mr.. Whitton had only just arrived
in town when he was met by Re-
corder reporter yesterday. In ap-
pearance he is remarkably like Grover
Cleveland.
Whitton's tremendous girth is not
so apparent when he stands, but when
he sits he is startling. His measure
ments are: Height, 5 feet 10 inches !;
neck, 26 inches; biceps, % inches !;
chest, 6 feet; waist, Z feet; thigh, 49
inchesj calf, 26 inches. He comes of
astock noted for feshiness. He was
born in Northumberland County, On
tario, Canada, of English parents. Up
till the age of twenty-one years he
worked on the farm at home. Then
he went into the butcher business at
Brighton, Ont, which he attended to
up to three years ago, when his extra.
ordinary girth rendered 1t impossible
for him to handle the chopper.
When asked if he had endeayored to
avoid growing so fat Mr.. Whitton re.
piled that he had tried all remedies.
He has never tasted alcoholic drinks
in his life. He loses from ten to fif.
teen pounds during the summer, but
7co" not feel much relief from the
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

The Italians imported by Austin
Corbin to become land owners at Sun
nyside, Arkansas, are represented in
the New York Post to be superior in
morals and intelligence to the Italian
laborers with whom people in other
parts of the country are more or less
familiar. They are reported to have
been carefully sci, cted from very re-
spectacle and prosperous class. At
home they were small farmers, gar
deners and fruit growers, and the
methods of farming and careful culti-
vation to which they have been accus-
toned are expected to be great aids
to them in their new surroundings.
They have strong religious inclina-
tions, and their first act after arriving
at their new home was to conduct re-
ligious exercises in thanks to God for
the kindness bestowed upon them.
They were heartily welcomed at Sun
nyside, and at once announced their
intention to become citizens. Other
ship loads OF immigrants are expected
to follow this first importation.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-02-12

The sponge belongs to one OF tue
lowest orders of animal life. Its skele.
ton is strong fbrous substance, and
the fr imal part Of it is gelatinous
matrer which fills the pores and GOV.
ers the entire surface. If this matter
is not removed within few hours af.
ter the sponge has been torn from the
rock or stones to which it wss fas.
tened it is almost impossible to purify
it. The hooking or harpooning meth
DDS used in the Florida and Cuban
fishing grounds are useless when the
sponges lie in deep water.
in,some parts of the Mediterranean
Ses, where very fine sponges are
used. The diver fastens q stone to his
feet and with long rope in his hand
goes down feet first. Some divers can
remain under water for three minutes
at time. They snatch the sponges
from the bottom, working rapidly as
possible. If lucky the diver fills the
little basket he carries, tugs hard al
the rope and is drawn to the surface.
Another method employed in sponge
fishing is dredging. The dredge is
strong, heavy net, from six to eight
yards long and about one ysrd high.
1t is made of hair cords, with the
meshes about four inches square.
This IS dragged along the bottom by
rope attached to the bowsprit Of
small sailing vessel. AS it passes over
the bottom it tears the sponges from
their anchorage and they fall into the
net:
of late years divers clad in armor
have become common off the Greek
coast. They descend in thirty aid
forty fathoms and bring up the finest