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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-03-17
Evening Herald
TUESDAY, MARCH II, 1896.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

To the Republican electors of Pennsylvania ::
The Republicans of Pennsylvania, by their duly
chosen representatives, will meet in State con-
vention Thursday, April %, 1896, at 10 o'clock
a. m, in the opera house. city Of Harrisburg, for
the purpose OF nominating two candidates for
representative.nt-large in Congress and thirty
two candidates for Presidential electors, the
selection of eight dclcgates.atlarge to the Re
publican National convention, and for the
transaction of such other business as may be
presented.
BY order of the State Committee.
NJ s. QUAY,
Attest .-JERE B. REX, Chairman.
". r. ANDREWS, Secretaries.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-03-17

April 16.-Musical and dramatic entertain.
ment by the Guilds of the All Saints church
in Ferguson's theatre.
April 1O.-Grand phantom dance under the
auspices of the Clover Club of Shenandoah at
Robbins opera house.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-03-17
BIG GlFT TO HoMEsTEApERs.


Congress Relieves Them from the Pay
ment of Fifteen Million Dollars.
WASHINGTON, March 17.-The senate
had an hour of spirited Cuban debate late
yesterday, after the early part of the day
had been given to set speeches by Mr..
Lodge on immigration and Mr.. Pugh on
silver. The Cuban discussion was mainly
important in bringing out the full reading
OF statement of the Spanish side of the
case as presented to Secretary Olney by
Senor De LONE, the Spanish minister. 1t
claimed to detail the insurgent methods
of guerilla warfare, the burning OF cane
fields, and the disorganized character of
the insurgent bands. Mr.. Morgan COM
mented severely on the minister's state
ments. The senator had several sharp
controversies with Mr. Hale over various
phases Of the Cuban question. During the
day Mr.. Elllins offered q resolution direct
ing the committee on foreign affairs to re
port as to the status of the war in Cuba
before a vote was taken in the senate
1t being suspension day in the house,
several bills were passed. The most i'm.
portant was the Oklahoma homestead bill,
which relieves homcsteaders in Oklahoma
of the payment of the purchase price of
their homesteads. According to the re-
port of Secretary Smith this bill will re-
lieve the settlers of the payment of about
Sl5,OOO,OOO. The concessions of these lands
from the Indians cost the government
$4,000. 900 As the supreme court yester-
day decided that the territory known as
Greer county, Tex, was public domain,
and therefore part Of Oklahoma territory,
an amendment was added to the bill sus-
e, ie
territory pending Legislative action. The
house also decided to consider the resolu-
tions censuring Ambassador Bayard to-
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-03-17

SHAMoKGS newspapers are agitating the
question of city charter for that town
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STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS
Closing Quotations of the New York and
Philadelphia Exchanges.

NEW York, March le-The stock market
today was only moderately active and the
fluctuations recorded simply reflected manip
ulatiOn. Closing bids.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-03-17

@ID you EVER suffer from real ner-
vousncss? When every nerve seemed
TO quiver with a peculiar creepy
feeling, first in one place, and then another
and all seemed finally to concentrate in q
writhing tumble in the brain, and you be-
come irritable, fretful and peevish; TO be
followed by an impotent, weakened condi-
Jion OF the nerve centers, ringing in the
ears, and sleepless, miserable nights?
Dr.. Miles IN Mrs s;,,11 Eugene s. s9aTlSs 4fi5,
Nervine hart, Ind, says; "Ner-
vous troubles had made
Restores me nearly insane and
TToo14t. physicians were unable
ACdltus'soss to help me. My memory
was almost gone and every little thing
worried me until l was almost distracted.
really feared I was becoming maniac. l
imagined all sorts OF evil things and would
cry over nothing. 1 commenced taking DR..
Miles Restorative Nervine and four bottles
of this wonderful remedy completely cured
me- and am as well now as | ever was"
DR. Miles Nervine is sold on guarantee
first bottle will benefit or money refunded.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
REMEMBERS HER WELL.
Ex-Judge Levy at One Time Denied
Mrs. Langfeldt
Divorce.

Walter Levy, ex-Judge of the Superior
Court, has some recollection of Mrs. Lang
feldt. He was discussing the matter last
evening at the Concordia Club.
MY recollection" he stated, 'is not
very distinct as to details, but do remem-
Der the lady's case quite well from its
oddity. Whether il was under The name
OF Langfeldt or some other, she was before
me when was on the bench. seeking to be
divorced from her husband. My under
standing of the case was that the husband
was as anxious as she was to be divorced,
but l saw no way by which l could ac-
commodate the pair and l denied the
motion.
The testimony resolved itself into this ::
The lady married the man believing ne
was wealthy and he. believing her 10 be
wealthy as well, gave her his name. In a
little while they found out their mistake
and each was anxious to be divorced from
the other. l saw no way, however, ac-
cording to the law, to free them from each
Othero
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17

less. Then he was ordered out and since
then has been practically homeless.
He borrowed q camera a few days ago
from Tubbs, the artist, on plea that he
was going to San Jose to secure some
illustrations for magazine article, which
he protested to have an order for.
Tubbs meeting him subsequently on the
street asked for the return of his camera
Excuses were offered until the artist be-
came suspicious and undertook to trace
the camera on his own account and found
that Blanther did not have it. A detec-
tive threatened to arrest him upon this
discovery and Blanther drew a revolver
and declared he would blow out his own
brains, as he was starving.
Tubbs took the revolver away from him.
Since then Blanther is known to have
been driven TO still greater extremity and
to have pawned his overcoat.
George A. Dodge, the architect lived at
222 Haight street, and became acquainted
with Blanther. He has befriended him
several times since he became an outcast
from the Haight-street house, even to sup
plying him with food.
Blanther is an Austrian, a man who has
travelled, and claims to have written for
Eastern papers and magazines. Those
who know him say he has small feet, such
as might fit to print of a shoe that is
marked on the floor of Mrs. Langfeldts
room and in her blood where the murderer
dragged her body.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
at the National Library, the

manuscripts at the National Library, the
journalist on the qui vive for news, and
mingled among them the piano-teacher,
the daily governess, the professor with his
threadbare coat, the shopgirl, the counter
jumper and the petty Government official.
Nowhere, in fact, can one see so many in
teresting phases of Partisan life, so many
different gradations of society, as at the
hour of neon in any of these "Boulllons
Duval."
They were founded in 1860 by the father
OF the present owner, butcher in the rue
de la Monnaie, who started the practice on
a small scale of selling cups of bouillon
made from the surplus meat left over from
one day 10 another in his shop The idea
took so well and proved so popular that to-
day the 'Bouillon Duval" concern is al
most as vast as a Government department,
employing an immense staff and possess
ing its own slaughter-houses, its steam
laundries, its bakeries, its farms, its mar
ket gardens and its fruit orchards. 1t is,
therefore, easy to understand that the mar
rage of ''le patron" as M. Alexandra
Duval is called by his vast army OF Gus
toners, employees and dependents, should
be treated as an occurrence of almost met
ropolitan mportance.-Paris correspond
ence of the New York Tribune.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
Lr. Fish was infuenoeda" the reporter

asked.
"Mr. Fish was influenced" answered
Mr. Rubens, ''by the knowledge that his
negotiations with Spain looking to the
liberation of the slaves in Cuba and the
peaceful settlement of the questions be-
tween Cuba and Spain would be stopped
by the recognition of the Cubans as
belligerents. The slavery question was
more interesting at that time for the
United States than anything else. Mr..
Fish preferred mediation TO recognition,
attough he admitted that to mediate
between Cubans and Spaniards was to
recognize the Cubans as belligerents.
bat So decided was General Grant for
Cuba,'' added Mr. Rubens, that in 1869
ne wrote and signed proclamation rocog-
nizing Cuba's belligerency. He handed it
to Mr. Fish for publication in case the
answer to Minister Sickles' proposals to
mediate in Madrid was not satisfactory.
Mr.. Fish refused then to do it, and Grant
did not stick to his resolution"
In regard to the international laws,
authorities upon which General Grants
m ossages were based by Mr. Fish, Mr..
Rubens said:
"The only authority Mr.. Fish used to
derive arguments from was 'Dana's Notes
to Wheaton, and this book contains SUBJ
stantial errors on the beIligerency ques-
ton. l quote English, French and Ger
man opinions, and prove why Mr.. Dana
was wrong in this case. New York Sun.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17

follows: Age 80 TO 81, height 5 feet IL, slim
build without being lean, square shoulders,
rather hat-chested and no stomach; good
frame, but rather angular in build; no surplus
flesh; hair light brown and straight, mustache
light color eyes blush gray nose medium
size, teeth good size and very white, face
broad, slightly hollowcheeked rather long
and narrow toward the chin, which is slightly
square and retreats TO neck at right angles;
skin OF face is clear, with slight yellow tfnge,
no color IN cheeks; dark gray mixed business
suit, probably cutaway, rather think he
wore stiff hat, no overcoat or gloves or cane,
white shirt, whole suit the same; paid but
little attention to his dress Claims to be an
American, but gives one the impression of
a German student; talks German grammati-
cally ana English with a sIig hit German accent:
says his name is BlaGther.
The reason | called last Wednesday instead
OF Thursday. as had been my custom, we
ma had arranged to go to the theater = Mrs:
Kleineberg, Mrs. Langfeldt and myself |
called there and told them that there
was nothing worth seeing, and asked
him if he knew of good show. He said no,
there was none; they were all poor. He spoke
OF having seen every show az the Tivoli, and
spoke OF having seen Blue Beard, etc. Also
said he had been TO the flower show at San
Jose and also at Healdsburg.
He SPOKE good English and good German !;
in fact, he looked SO much like a German that
when was introduced TO him L spoke German
to him. One might take him for q Scaniina-
Wan. He had no scar, was not particularly
voluble nor very reticent; he seemed to be
strong silver man, and said he dined at Del
hiOh4SO OSCdSlOudllN dHu luhl II lOOk MIN
twenty minutes 10 go from Delmonico's to the
Palace.
In connection with the established fact
that Blanther called on Mrs. Langfeldt Fri
day night, the testimony of Charles Schef-
fer, cashier for Dalton Bros, who lives in
DE- kleineberg's house is very strong. 1t
reads:
came home last night about o'clock, and
/ expected somebody to call on me- and so
when | heard the bell ring about $50
thought it was somebody for me, and l
turally went out to see. Mrs Langfeld opened
the door and some one, a gentleman L imagined
b. the voice, came in and talked pleasantly
and ehatted with Mrs. Langfeldt and laughed
and went to her room
went back to my room and at about 1880
P. NJ neard heavy fail and intended TO go
downstairs, but changed by mind, thinking it
was none OF my business Then Invent to bed,
and did not know of the murder until o'clock
this afternoon.
l saw this man last Wednesday night as
was going to my room, and Mrs. Langfeldt
called me in and wanted to introduce him to
me- Mrs. kleineberg was also there. | ex-
cused myself, saying l was tired and wanted
to go TO bed. l just had passing glance of
him and noticed he wore glasses or spectacles.
could not tell how tall he as he was sit
ting down.
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feldt, young clerk in a wholesale house.
Their acquaintance ripened into an at
tachment that resulted in marriage. From
Langfeidts marriage to the widow, who
was ten years his senior. began the young
mans successful career. He was offered
very lucrative employ ment in Yokohama,
Japan, and he and his wife took up their
residence there. About twelve years ago,
while at the height of their prosperity,
they visited Europe.
In return for the valuable presents
Langfeldt took to the Duke of Mecklen-
burg, he was created Consul of Commerce,
and later, for valuable services rendered
the Austrian Navy while in japanese
waters, the Emperor of Austria also
honored him with prominent decoration.
Soon after returning from their tour of
Europe, and after a marriage of twenty
five years. discord crept into the house
hold that had never been blessed with
children. The result was divorce. Mrs.
Langfeldt returned from the Orient and
took up her residence in San Francisco,
having an independent fortune at her dis
posal.
Here she unhappily met, married and
was divorced from an adventurer named
Snlde-. That was about three years ago.
Snider got some money from her and then
deserted her. Upon inquiry she learned
that Snider had been married several times
before. The marriage was accordingly an
nulled and Snlder was sent to San Quen-
tin 20 serve term for bigamy.
Langfeldt, the other divorced husband
and the one whose name she retained, is
now living in Japan, having married the
widow of a former partner of his, Mrs.
Nachtigal.
Although Mrs. Langfeldt was at the
time of her death 60 years of age, she had
always maintained a cheerful, lively and
almost youthful disposition, and her un-
timely death will be lamented not only by
great number OF friends but by long
list OF poor people, who always found in
her a ready hand and kind heart to assist
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17

THAT THIS NOTED SPECIALIST STANDS PRE-EMI-
nently the head of the medical profession longer
question doubt That he has Investigated farther
mysteries e and penetrated deeper the of disease
than his quite worthy but less successful associates
knowledged by all His experience is lifelong and his record
right here Francisco, at Market street, simply
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
GENERAL GRANT AND CUBA.
New Facts About Cuban Belligerency
in a Book Soon to Be Published.

Horatio S. Rubens, counsel of the Cuban
delegation in the United States, will pub
lish soon book on "Cuban Belligerency"
for free distribution throughout the coun-
try. The main object of the book is to
prove that according to international law
the Cubans are entitled to belligerent
rights, and that the resolutions of Con-
gre SIS were based on the best grounds.
'The facts which l state" said Senior
Rubens to a reporter of the Sun, "are
those which are admitted by the Spaniards
or reported by your Consuls. The object
of the book is TO show that the action of
the Congress has ample Justification, both
in law and in fact, the petition of Senior
Palma for the recognition of the Cubans
being annexed to prove that Congress
really acted after having the facts therein
stated confirmed from other sources"
Mr.. Rubens reveals in his work some
facts not generally known concerning
President Grants opinion about Cuban
belligerency during the ten years war in
Cuba which began in 1868. Mr.. Rubens
says that General Grants S own private opin-
ion about the Cuban war was exactly the
reverse of what appears to his own mes
sages to Congress in 1870 and 1874. Gen
eral Grant, Mr.. Rubens says, was deeply
influenced by Mr.. Fish. his Secretary of
Stale.
And do you know by what or by whom
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
Known by His Lung.


An eminent Scotch surgeon and profess
sor in the University of Edin burgh was
entirely devoted 10 his profession. A quaint
incident in his practice will show this.
The poet Tennyson had at one time con-
suited him about some affection OF the
lungs. Years afterward he returned on
the same errand. On being announced he
was nettled to observe that Mr.. Syme had
neither any recollection of his face, nor,
still more CALLING, acquaintance with his
name. Tennyson thereupon mentioned
thn fact of his former visit. Still Syme
failed to remember him. But when the
professor put his ear to the poets chest
and heard the peculiar sound which the
old ailment had made chronic, he at once
exclaimed, "Ah, remember you now L
know you by your lung" Can you I'M
agine greater humiliation for poet than
to be known, not by his Tyre, but by his
lung 2-Montreal Star.
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
BLANTHER Is KNOWN.
He Was Introduced to E. Schroe-
der by the Murdered
Woman.

Captain Lees and his detectives have
secured the City for people calculated to
know something about Mrs. Langfeldt's
friends and visitors. From the present
outlook the chief aim is to locate the man
Bianther, who was with the murd er ed
woman Friday night, and against whom
the breath OF suspicion is strong.
The news agent at the Russ House, &.
Schroeder, is the most important in
dividual found in the way of being able to
cast some light on the mystery.
His statement made to Captain Lees is
very explicit, telling of his relations with
the murdered woman and of her introduc-
ton OF him to the suspect. It reads as
follows:
have known Mrs. Langfeldt for about tw o
years. Have been in the habit OF visiting her
once week, generally on q Thursday night.
We would chat and play a game of cards. On
last Wednesday night got up there at about
$50 p NJ, and after had been there little
While she told me she expected a call from q
gentleman who apparently was anxious to
secure rooms in Mrs. Kleineberg's house, and
she, Mrs. Langfeldt, knowing him was errang-
ing the matter for the Kleine bergs He mem
toned to her that he stopped ct the Palace
but that he desired getting a room up there
She told me that he wanted n folding bed, and
had bought hers, or made her an offer for it,
saying he would buy it.
After that the bell rang and this gentleman
came in and l introduced to him as Mr.
Bianther. Mrs. Langfeldt also told me that
he was a journalist and worked for Harper
Bros. He sat down to the right of me- We
started playing treeZeout and he looked on
asked him to join us, but he pretended not
to know the game and said he enjoyed watch
ing Us play. We had glass OF wine and we
stayed there until little before II. helped
her put away the glasses as was my custom
before leaving her, as she suffered a little from
rheumatism and Banther and left, walking
down Geary TO kearny and at Geary ana
Kearny we parted, he presumab ly to go to
the Palace and to the Russ House.
On our way down j referred to his German
conversation. Mrs. Langfeldt asked him why
he did not talk German to me. He said he did
not like 10 speak the language because he was
afraid OF making so many mistakes. He saiu
he was an American, although he had spent
sixteen years in Germany, had been there
when he was years old and had spent eight
years, | believe, at Heidelberg. He spoke
better German than English, and he spoke
English with foreign accent. / spoke to him
about his name and said that 1t indicated he
was German. He said then that his name
was spelled B-l-a-n-t-h-e-r and that the 9TH" in
the name made it German. / told him did
not see why it should.
He asked me where lived and told him at
the Russ House, and then he asked me what
time the train left for Sacramento, and | told
him believed one al O'Clock in the morning
and one at 8, and he said, "Oh, yes, / know"
L lett him at the corner and have never seen
nor heard of him since. His description is as
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
ON BLANTHER'S TRACK.
The Police Secure a CleW to the
Identity of the Man Under
Suspicion.

Late last evening the police got track of
man named Blanther, who has until
recently been living at 222 Haight street.
de was compelled to leave the house
because of an inability to pay his rent.
bis description tallies exactly with that
given by Mrs. Kleineberg.
lie has been acting as agent for some
time Tor an art publication of Appleton's S
called Modern Art. Subscribers were few,
however, and it is known that he sold a
$40 collection of the books some days ago
for S. and that he has been pushed to
desperate extremities for lack of funds.
he gave his landlady check for $50 for
back rent, but it was found to be worth
The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
DiaanDOinted.

Snowman: "Hi, hill Walk up and see
he cherry -colored cat, to be seen alive,
.livel Twopence is all the charge"
Inside of Show-Voices (angrily):
Why, that's a black cat.'
Snowman: well, amt there black
,herries. This way out, please. "-Spare
Moments.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-10-29
Highest of all in Leavenng Power-Laes u. Govt Report
R3H!A!!! RsklHs
ABSOLUTELY PURE

Colonel Norton, who was promi-
nent candidate for the presidential
nomination of the popuhsts, says:
Whether Mr., Bryan is a populist
or not. one thing is absolutely certain,
every enemy when reformers have en-
oountered during the last twenty years
we find today among his bitterest and
most relentless opponents. Every mo-
nopolistic corporation, every oppressor
of labor, every land-grabber, every
trust and combine, every rObber syn.
dictate, every millionaire stock Jobber,
every subsidized newspaper, every
well paid corporation lawyer, every
millienaire coal baron, every Shylock
creditor, and every plunderer of the
worlds wealth producers-all of these
old enemies, whom reformers have
met on SO many battle6elds, are today,
Mr. Bryans enemies. Ii they are his
enemies, he must be our friend. HIS
success is their defeat; their defeat is
our victory
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-10-29
PERSONALS.
A Record of the Coming and Going of the
People That You Know.

The Frederick, Nd, Ne,os of Mon
day last says: miss Agnes Beltzhoov-
er, of Shepherdstown, W. Va, who
has been the guest of Miss Rose Chap
line, West Third street, returned home
today Miss Beltzhoover has many
friends in Frederick, all of whom re-
greet her departure.
Mr.. William Campbell, Of Charles
town, Jefferson county's member of
the Democratic congressional commit
tee, was in town on Monday, looking
after political matters. Mr.. Campbell
is working energetically for the sue
cess of the party.
Messrs. Rion Lucas and Holland
Miller, of this place, have gone to
Boyd's, Md, where the old wooden
trestling is being replaced by a new
iron bridge. They are at work on the
structure, under Mr.. Milton Wissler.
We had a pleasant call last Saturday
from Mr.. Brock Reinhart, of Elkins,
this State, who was here for a brief
visit. He says the outlook for the
Democrats is very bright in that Sec
ton.
Mrs. James S. Phillips, wife of Pay
master Phillips, of the Navy, has re-
moved to Norfolk, Va, where her
husband has a three-years' berth on
the receiving ship Franklin.
Mr.. S. A. Martin, Mr.. H. A. Riddle
and Judge John Stewart, of Chambers
burg, Pa, prominent officials Of the
Cumberland Valley Railroad, were in
town yesterday.
Mrs. VIM. H. Byers and her daugh-
ter, Miss Margaret, who have been at
their summer home near town for some
months past, returned to Louisville
yesterday.
We had a pleasant call yesterday
from Mr.. D. R. Hudgel, of Berkeley
county. He says the Democrats are
in excellent fighting trim in Berkeley
Mr.. Joseph L. Cookus is laid up with
a spell of rheumatism, or something
like it, and can only navigate with the
aid of crutches.
The family of Rev. DR.. Chas. Ghise,
lin returned last night from Rockbridg(
Baths, Va, where they have been fol
some months.
Mrs. Hugh P. Allen, who is always
welcome visitor here, is visiting hel
old friends in Shepherdstown.
Mr.. Fred Kruger was laid up with
an attack Of quinsy this week, but il
out again.
Mr.. Harvey w. Harmer, Of Clarks'
burg, this State, was in town last Sun
day.