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Then Puts an End to His Own Life
With the Same Weapon.
The Stoneman House, at Yosemite,
Together With Its Contents, De-
stroyed by Fire-Opening Day of
the Race Meeting at Woodland
Republicans Preparing for Big
Meeting at Los Angeles.

SAN PEDRO (Cal), Aug. 24.-Im-
PEELED by jealousy Robert C. Johnson,
ships cook, this morning shot and
killed his divorced wife, Mrs. II. S.
Lane, after which he placed the smok-
ing revolver with which the murder
was committed to his own head and
sent two bullets with mortal effect
crashing into his brains.
Johnson and his wife came to San
Pedro from Tacoma about two years
ago to engage in the restaurant busi-
ress. The woman was we'll thought of
end popular, but for some reason or
other could not get along with her hus-
band. Things came to climax three
months since, when Mrs. Johnson
sought a divorce and presented such d
strong case in court that a. divorce was
rendered in her favor In a few days
the community was surprised at the
marriage of the divorced woman to H
S. Lane, foreman of the Southern Cali
fornia Lumber Company.
Johnson sWOre to have revenge, and
often threatened to slaughter his wife
and then take his own life. Mrs. Lane
was aware of his intentions and avoid
ed him. This morning they accident
ally met on the east side at the ferry
landing
AS soon as Johnson saw his ex-wife
he walked up to her and pulled out his
pistol She shrieked, and attempted to
escape. He pursued her along the edge
Of the wharf, and when within a few
feet of her placed the pistol close to
the back Of her head and fired The
ball lodged in the brain, killing Mrs.
Lane instantly. Her body fell into the
waters Of the bay, from whence it was
rescued by Ed Duffy. who witnessed
the tragedy, and had made efforts to
disarm the murderer.
As soon as he realized that Mrs. Lane
was dead, Johnson placed tire sun to
his head and pulled the trigger The
bullet ranged inwards, but did not pro-
duce Inconsistencies, and the assassin
fired again, the second time with dead
1y effect.
He fell to the wharf mortally wound
ed and was carried to the jail, where
he died a few hours later
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WOODLAND FAIR.
Auspicious Opening of the Race
Meeting at YoIo's County Seat.

WOODLAND, Aug. Woodlands
fifth annual fair and race meet opened
auspiciously to-day. The track was in
fine condition, and it is not improbable
that some records will be broken before
the week closes.
Two-twenty trot. three in FIVE purse
5000, Laurel won, Mamie Griffin sec
ond, Clay S. third. Best time-2:134
Running, half-mile and repeat, selling,
purse $3.50, Hymn won, Stormy second,
George l.. third. Time-0:4S4.
Running, three-fourths of a mile.
purse 500, Hallelujah won, Gladiola
second, Howard S. third. Time-1:14.
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Bishop Grace at Eureka.

EUREKA, Aug. 24.-Bishop Grace of
Sacramento administered the sacrament
of confirmation to nearly 100 young peo-
pie in st. Bernards Catholic Church
yesterday. Six converts also received
the sacrament at the same time, three
of them being hoary-headed men. who
have decided to adopt the guidance of
the Catholic faith during their few re-
naming days. The ceremony was wit
messed by over 500 people, who filled st.
Bernard's Church to it's utmost capac-
ity
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shaggy. When Detective Burke step
ped up to him and asked him if he had
any relatives, the old printer said he
had brother he thought had died
years ago. When Burke told Doheny
his brother was waiting to see him in
McCoy's Hotel, across the street, the
laan was delighted. The two brothers
were brought face to face. and wept in
each others arms with joy
The millionaire oil king took his
brother to barber shop. where he was
given the full benefit of a tonsoriaI
artists labors. Then he enjoyed a bath.
n fashionable haberdasher furnished
the best of wearing apparel and a
ciothier a brand new suit of clothes. A
dinner at the Auditorium was enjoyed
by the brothers, and then both retired
to their rooms in the annex.
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CORBETT AND SHARKEY FIGHT.
The Meeting Place Not Yet Decided
lDOu

NEW YORK, Aug. PAD. J. Lynch
representing Tom Sharkey of San Fran
cisco, the sailor boy" pugilist, and
Samuel Thall, Jim Corbett's repre-
sentative, met this evening to fix a
time and place and consider PROPOSE
tions for the Corbett-Shari1ey fight
His representative said that Corbett
desired to have inserted in the articles
a clause providing that the winner Of
the fiSht should be awarded the cham
pionship Of the world belt, which Cor
bett claims by right of forfeit from
Fitzsimmons. This was agreeable to
Lynch, and the articles were changed
accordingly.
w. II. Wheelock, on behalf of Dan
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DEMOCRATS AND POP.ULISTS.
Reach an Agreement on a Plan OF
Fusion i'm the State.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24.-The joint
conference committee selected by the
PopulistS and Democrats to devise a.
plan of fusion on Presidential Electors
and State ticket reached satisfac-
tory agreement tonight. The Demo-
Gratis obtain five Of the nine Presiden-
tial Electors and four of the seven Con-
greSsmen. The designations of all pre-
viois nominees of either party will be
received tomorrow by a joint COM
mittee appointed by the Populist, DEM
ocratic apd Silver parties for the pur-
pose.
Commenting on this arrangement, the
"Can'' tomorrow will say: The Dem
oc1ats will take the Third District un-
der the new arrangement. Judge Ma
gUire will resign as candidate from the
Fourth District, and his resignation will
be handed back to him Immediately. It
is understood that Joseph Kelly will re-
fuse to retire in the Fifth, and that
Colonel Taylor Rogers, the Peoples
party nominee, will also stand pat. In
the Sixth an effort will be made to
have Patton, the Democratic nominee,
withdraw in order that a union may be
effected on c. a. Barlow, the Peoples
party candidate. In the Seventh it is
the intention to allow Mr.. Castle, the
Populist candidate, to remain on the
ticket, and not to put up a Democrat
against him. De Vries is to be turned
down in the Second District, which
means victory for Grove Johnson. In
the First District, George W. Monteith
declares that he will not resign under
any circumstances, but it is on the
that ba shall ba I~,7ifo1
SOUND MONEY DEMOCRATS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24.-The
Sound Money Democratic League of
California affected permanent organi-
cation this afternoon and nominated
the following delegates to the Indianap-
oils Convention: Nathaniel Harris.
jeremiah Lynch, John p Irish, William
Thomas, e. S. Heller, San Francisco;
-. A. Stanley, Warren Olney, Oakland;
Clay W. Taylor, Shasta Cassisus Car
ter, San Diego; John Roth, Visalia; J.
Fl. O'Brien, Marysville; Thomas B.
Bond, Lakeport; F. Lippitt, Petaluma
-Four delegates were left to be named
by the Los Angeles Sound Money Dem
Ccratic Club, and the selection of the
eighth member of the delegation was
deferred for special reasons.
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modious building. and with its charm
ing location and excellent accommoda-
tions, was a favorite resort for visitors
to the valley.
The Postoffice, express and Western
Union Telegraph offices and the stage
office We're all located at the hotel.
J. J. Cook has conducted the hotel for
q number of years.
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Kern County Democracy.

BAKERSFIELD, Aug. 24-The Dem
ocratic County Convention was held
here to-day J. w. Ahern was nomi-
mated on the first ballot for Superior
Judge, and George W. Ear, editor Of
the Gazette" for Assemblyman II.
a. Jastro and Dell Hill We're nominated
for Supervisors. In the First District
no nomination was made, there being
a tie between the two candidates.
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To Honor Ii Hung Chang.

WASHINGTON, Aug. "a. = Orders
have been issued to the four troops of
cavalry. with mounted band, stationed
al Fort Myer, opposite this city, to
leave for New York Wednesday morn
ing by train to take part in the parade
in honor of Ii Hung Chang.
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Democratic and PopuIist Fusion.

PORTLAND (Or), Aug. 24.-The
Conference Committee of the Peoples
party to-day submitted plan of fu-
sion satisfactory to the Democrats.
Each party Will withdraw two of its
four Presidential Electors, and the
combined vote of both parties will be
cast for the remaining four. further
condition is that the Electors shall vote
for Bryan and Watson, inasmuch as
the Populists are stronger than the
Democrats in OREGON.
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VIII Not Affect American seamen.

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 24.-Andrew
Furuseth, Secretary of the Pacific
Coast Seamen's Union, says that the
dispatch from New York printed this
morning stating that general strike
Of seamen throughout the world was
contemplated is wholly untrue as re-
CARDS American sailors. He is entirely
ignorant Of any such movement, and
expresses the belief that American
seamen would not be affected by strikes
in Europe, We're such to occur.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17
From the Mexican Border.

Mr.. d. T. Roy, well known in Colum.
bus, and son Of the Hon. Alexander
Roy, formerly mine inspector of Ohio
writes to friend in Pittsburg, Kan,
concerning matters and things in Mex.
leo. Mr.. Roy is general manager of
the Rio Grande Land and Irrigation
company, near Larada, Tex:
"You might tell some of your free
silver friends that we pay SO cents per
day for drivers, SO cents for timbermen,
20 cents for trapper boys, 75 cents Tor
outside labor good carpenters get 81
per day, and a good blacksmith 81 l5.
We pay in United States currency, but
across the river in Mexico the same
prices obtain except that they are paid
in Mexican money, which, as you know,
is about one. half In fact, yesterday,
bought Sl05 IN Mexican dollars, con-
tanning more silver than our own for
S55 American. A miner, blacksmith,
q carpenter, mason, a laboring man of
any kind who favors the free coinage Of
silver should be examined by DR.. Will
liams and sent to the Ossawattomie
Asylum for the Insane"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17

Whitelaw Reid, whom i'll health pre-.
vented from attending the meeting Of
the Republican Editorial association at
Canton sent letter which is classic
on the currency question. 1t can be re-
duced to volume on the subject in
sentences:
No party has the right to say that the
moral law may be reversed.
We sell more than fifteen times as
much of our products to gold countries
as we do to silver countries.
Do we want to take pay for this
wheat, beef, pork, cotton, corn, not as
now in gold, Int in silver bullion, to be
given free coinage at our mints?
This becomes question not of paying
silver, but of taking silver.
The grocer raises his figures long be-
fore the laborer can have his wages ad-
vanced.
The laborer never really catches up
until the inevitable crash comes and
both tumble together
Cheap money never cheapened the
necessities of life, but it cheapens tho
men. Look at Mexico, China and India.
The bullion owner may get hundred
times more silver than now stamped
into dollars, but he will not be any more
willing to give the wheat raiser a single
one OF them without getting a round
100 cents worth of wheat for it.
Neither the editors nor the great ora
tors OF the party are making this cam.
paign. The plain people are thinking
it out for themselves.
Horace Greeley wrote no more in.
cisively, no more effectively, for the
great cause of his day than his success
sor in the same chair, Whitelaw Reid, for
the great cause of this day.--Chicage
Times Herald.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17
VOLUME OF MONEY,


THE PER CAPITA MONEY CIR
CULATION FOR TEN YEARS,
FROM 1881 TO 1891 WAS ABOUT
THE SAME, AND YET THE PRICE
OF WHEAT IN OHIO. WHILE AT
$132 IN 1882, WAS ONLY so CENTS
IN 1887. THE PRICE OF. OATS,
WHILE 72 CENTS IN 1882, WAS
ONLY SO CENTS IN 1890. THE PRICE
OF BARLEY. THOUGH BUT 81
CENTS IN 1886, WAS n CENTS IN
1890. THE PRICE OF OATS WAS 80
CENTS IN 1882, 20 CENTS IN 1886,
4S CENTS IN 1890. THE PRICE OF
HAY WAS S11.63 PER TON IN 1885,
AND $14.79 PER TON IN 1887. PO-
TAToES WE'RE $3.50 PER BARREL
IN 1881, s1.47 IN 1888, S1.30 IN 1888
AND $2.99 IN 1890. WHO WILL
SAY THAT PRICES FLUCTUATE
WITH THE VOLUME OF MONEY?
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17

THE Dana meeting at Lowell Thurs
day evening was one of the most enthus-
iastic meetings of the season. Stanley's
Hall, where it was held, was filed to
overflowing, and there was present
more than sprinkling of Democrats.
There is no Republican Club in Adams
township, but that does not prevent
them from being in most enthusiastic
state. There has been many gold hat
put on the head of former Demo-
crat up there.
Senator Dana was in his best form,
which is certainly very good. He
spoke to his interested audience for
over an hour and he dealt out facts with
logical reasoning.
A number of Democrats sought to
floor or disconcert him by sending up
for him to answer a list of ten questions.
These questions he met squarely and he
answered them with forcible truth,
much to the satisfaction of the Repub-
licans and disappointment of the Demo-
Gratis who occupied corner and sought
to founder the speaker.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17
bankruptcy Coming.

The treasury statement for Oct. 1
foreshadows the coming bankruptcy
of the government under the deficit
producing Wilson tariff law. The
revenues were over $500O,000 less than
the expenditures during September;
and for the first three months of the
fiscal year the deficit exceeds $25, ,O0O,-
900. And during those three months
the expenditures over receipts have
been S6,000,000 more than for the cor
responding period last year.
If this rate of shortage in revenues
continues for three months longer,
the treasury will not have money to
meet the ordinary daily expenses of
the government, unless it uses the
gold reserve to meet them. The gold
in the treasury has gained $24,000,0 900
in three months, greenbacks bein7
taken out as the gold was paid in. This
has diminished the currency in the
treasury by that much.
What will Cleveland do? The law
gives him authority to issue bonds to
keep up the gold reserve, but not to
meet the ordinary government expedi-
lures. The treasury would have been
bankrupt long ago had it not been for
the previous bond issues. True, the
gold was not used directly for ex-
penses; but when it was drawn out
greenbacks went into the general fund
and were used for ordinary expendi-
lures. In effect, the proceeds of the
bond issues have been used to cover
the deficit created by the Wilson law.
The people should take note of this
condition and vote on Nov. for a
policy which means abundant revenue
Blade.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17
TRUTH ABOUT MONEY.
Much More Per Head In Gold Countries
Than In Silver Countries.


Than In Silver Countries.
1t is more money" the Bryanites
want.
We have already shown that Bryan's
policy of free silver would at first, con-
tract the currency of the United States
to about one-third what 1t is at pres
ent.
Now, which nations have the most
money. those with the gold standard
or those with the silver standard?
The silverites are fond of talking
about per capita circulation.
The per capita circulation of the
world is about s5.15.
The per capita of the gold standard
countries is $500.
The per capita of the silver standard
countries is s4.30. -ss
The gold standard countries have a
per capita of silver alone of S54O.
The silver standard countries have a
per capita of silver alone of S2.32, the
rest of their their small circulation be-
ing mainly deprecated paper.
Under free coinage OF silver the
United States had per capita circula-
tion in 1900 of S4.99.7; in 1896 we have
one of S21.10.
The gold standard countries, with
less than one-third of the worlds pop
ulation, have very nearly two-thirds
of the worlds currency circulation.
And yet Mr.. Bryan would take the
United States from the gold standard
and place It upon the silver standard
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17
Show Your Colors.
Mr.. EDITOR.

MR. EDITOR.
am in receipt of an anonymous let
ter enclosing a newspaper clipping
calling my attention to supposed vio-
lation of Federal Law, and inviting
me to 'show your colors if you are a
good officer. can only reply in the
columns of the press as the writer
hides his identity. I will say to him
''show YOUR colors if you are a good
CITIZEN" File an affidavit, and war;
rant will be issued. l can only act in
the legal way. Don't ask men to go
beyond their powers, when you fear to
do your duty, when you know of a vio-
lation of law.-I am tired of being a
target for anonymous letters.
B. e. GUYToN,
U. S. Commissioner.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17
DOES IT DO IT?

DOES INCREASING THE VOL
UME OF MONEY, AS MR.. BRYAN
CLAIMS. INCREASE THE PRICES
OF FARM PRODUCTS ? TIL
MONEY CIRCULATION WAS IN
CREASED FROM S2341 PER CAP
TIA IN 1891 TO s24.44 in 1892. AND
YET THE PRICE OF WHEAT FELL
FROM 99CENTS TO 80 CENTS, CORN
FROM 60 CENTS TO 4S CENTS. RYE
FROM S5 CENTS TO 73 CENTS,
WHILE POTATOES INCREASED IN
PRICE FROM SLAB PER BARREL TO
s1.75. DOES VOLUME OF MONEY
CONTROL PRICES, OR IS 1T THE
LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND?
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17
Cure For Headache.

AS a remedy for all forms of Head
ache Electric Bitters has proved to be
the very best 1t effects permanent
cure and the most dreaded habitual
sick headaches yield to it's influence.
We urge all who are afflicted to procure
a bottle, and give this remedy fair
trial. In cases of habitual constipation
Electric Bitters cures by giving the
needed tonic to the bowels, and few
cine. Try it once Fifty cents and
sl.00 at w. II. Styer's Drug Store.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17

THE PERIL OF FREE SILVER IS
A MENACE TO BE FEARED; WE
ARE ALWAYS EXPERIENCING THE
EFFECT OF PARTIAL FREE
TRADE. THE ONE MUST BE
AvERTED, THE OTHER CORRECT
ED.-WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17

Bryan's Version.
Friedrichsruhe.
August "a, 1895.
Honored Sir
Your esteemed ia
vor has been duly
received. I hold
that this is tn g
very hour that
would be advisa-
BILE to bring about
between the ma
tions chiefly en-
gage d N tn e
worlds commerce
a mutual agree
ment in favor of
the establishment
of bimetallisn.
TheUnited States
are freer by far in
their movements
than any nation
of Europe, and
hence if the people
of the u n j t @ d
States should find
it compatible with
their interests to
take Independent
action in the direc-
tion of bimetal-
lism, I can not but
believe that such
action would exert
q most salutary IN
duence upon the
consummation of
an international
agreement.
BISMARCK.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17
German M. e, Church.

The revival at the German M. e.
Church is gaining in interest from day
to day. The services for Sunday will
be as follows: Sunday School, 0 a. m,
preaching at 1890 by Rev. H. B. Roller.
AT p m. a mass meeting for young
and old, led by Mr.. Roller. Preaching
at p. IN. by Rev. Roller. The evening
service will be largely in the English
language. All are welcome.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17
THAT LETTER
Prince Bismarck's Position
Grossly Misrepresented.
THE BRYAN GARBLED VERSION.

The Old Chanoellor's Opinions Are In
Harmony with the Republican Plat
FORM" Believe That 1t Would he
Commendabie to Obtain by Endeavors
of Those Nations Chiefly Engaged In
the Worlds Commerce an Agreement
In the Direction of Bimetnllism."
Not content with having garbled the
speeches OF Blaine, Garfield, Grant and
other great Republican leaders in a
vain attempt to make the people be-
lieve the leaders of Republican thought
have for the last rs years favored the
Bryan idea of coming Accent dollars,
the Popocratic candidate for president
and his hackers have carefully edited
the letter which they have been using
as coming from Bismarck, the venera-
BILE old ex-chancellor of the German
empire, to suit the needs of their ar
guments.
The letter, upon investigation,
proves not to have been forged, but
the form in which Mr.. Bryan uses it,
and the form in which it has been
printed by all free silver organs in the
country, is so gross a misreprensenta-
tion that it is little better than a forg-
cry. The New York World has sent to
Texas and had the letter copied in
German from the original in the files
Of the governors Office. Below we
give a correct translation side by side
with the version used by Bryan and
the free silver organ.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17

County Ticket.
For Probate Judge,
d. r. ROOD, OF Belpre.
For Sheriff,
JOHN S. McCALLISTER, Fourth Ward
Auditor,
w A. PATTERSON, of waterford.
For Recorder,
JOHN W. ATHEY, Marietta Towns p.
For Commissioner,
JOHN RANDOLPH, Wesley Township.
For Infirmary Director,
VIM. SCHNAUFFER, Newport Township
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17
The Purchasing Power Of Wages.

A communication signed Common
Laborer," and printed in the New York
World, gives some figures that are in
teresting as showing the effect of the
money standard on wages and the re-
suit of declining prices in the chief
staples, due to cheapened and increased
production. The writer gives copy Of
an account of 1854, the era Of cheap
money, from q general store in Maine,
in which certain amount of flour,
cloth, sugar, pork, kerosene oil and q
suit of clothes come to $3S, and it took
A days of common labor at SO per day
to pay for it. In 1879 exactly the same
goods cost $4l.SO, and took the labor Of
83 days at $l.25 per day to pay for it.
In 1898 the same goods were worth
$3.50, and at 81 per day the common
laborer could buy the goods with 18 7-l0
days work. In other words, he was
able to get two and one-half times as
much for his labor as in lS64.-Wash.
ington Post.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17

ADAMS township expects to send up to
Canton people to the extent of $50
strong
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17

Republican State Ticket.
For Secretary OF State,
CHARLES KINNEY, OF Scioto Co.
or Judge Of the Supreme Court,
MARSHALL ]. WILLIAMS, OF Fayette Co
For Food and Dairy Commissioner,
JOSEPH E. BLACKBURN, OF Belmont 20
FOR Member Board Of Public Works,
FRANK A. HUFFMAN, OF Van Vert Co.
For Circuit Judge,
HIRAM L. SIBLEY, of Washington Co.
For Common Pleas Judge,
JOSEPH NJ. WOOD, OF Athens Co.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17

For Pin Worms, Eczema, Hives, in
fact, any of the various torturing,
itchy diseases of the skin, Doan's Oint-
ment is an instant and positive remedy.
Get it from your dealer.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17

WE ARE NOT A NATION OF
CLASSES, BUT OF STURDY, FREE
INDEPENDENT AND HONORABLE
PEOPLE, DESPISING THE DEMA-
GOGUE AND NEVER CAPITULAT-
ING TO DISHONOR.-WILL
M'KINI.EY.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17
The ACTUAL Law OF rAa lANu.
Dollars Must BE Equal In Intrinsic and
Exchangeable value.


1t being the established policy OF
the United States to maiptain the two
metals on a parity with each other
upon the present legal ratio, or such
ratio as may be provided by law
Act Of congress, July ID, 1890.
1t is the policy Of the United States
to continue the use of both gold and
silver as the standard money and to
:oin both gold and silver into money
Of equal intrinsic and exchangeable
value, such equality to be secured
through international agreement, or
by such safeguards of legislation as
will insure the maintenance of the
parity of value of the coins Of the two
metals and the equal power of every
dollar at ell times in the markets and
in the payment of debts.-Act Of Nov.
[, 1893. 10 .iGc si3jo
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17

Pure blood is the secret of health.
Burkock Blood Bitters insures pure
blood.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-17

Even catarrh, that dread breeder of
consumption, succumbs to the healing
influences of Thomas Eclectric Oil.