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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-15
WANTED, LAND.

WE WANT 90 TO 50 ACRES GOOI
Land north Of city for term Of years.
w. T. HOOD & co. Nurserymen,
Office, 10 Hanewinckel Building.
de l3-2t Richmond, Va.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-11

MERCUR, September 1O.-One of
those accidents which result from the
careless methods of handling fire arms
occurred here yesterday joan Dale was
shooting at a mark in an Clubhouse
near the opera house, when, after firing
he was Mortified to see his neice, Min
ME Osborn, stagger out, blood stream
ing from her face. Minnie is the g.
year-old daughter of Jack Osborn,
with whom Dale was living. The child
was carried to the house and Dr.
Brandt was soon in attendance. 1t
was discovered that the bullet had en-
tered her mouth and came out through
her cheek. Although not dangerously
injured, she will carry the scar to her
grave.
Emil Swanson, a miner, died at the
hospital yesterday of typhoid fever.
The remains We're taken today to Eu-
reka for burial where the deceased re-
sided some time back, and where some
of his relations are at present residing
The fire brigade are as happy as a.
Mttla boy with in tin whistle over the
arrival of a new hose cart, and every
evening they are out practicing run
ming to a fire and attaching the hose
to hydrant.
The Northern Light, on Lion hill, is
making arrangements to put in a 200
ton mill. They are busy with the work
of development SO that they may be
prepared for supplying the mill when
it is erected.
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Montana Republicans.

HELENA. Mont, September 1O-The
Republican state convention tonight
nominated the following ticket: Gov
ernor, A. c. Botkin; lieutenant-go
ernor, P. R. Dolman; secretary of state
L. Rotwitt; treasurer, c. NJ. Webster;
auditor, A L. Love; superintendent of
public instruction, J. B. Hendricks;
associate justice of the supreme court,
P. H. Grub.
The resolutions endorse the ST. Louis
platform, save as to the financial plank.
Under agreement the silver men will
60 out of the convention and hold an
independent one, nominating presi-
Dental electors and congressman. The
gold wing will take the same course.
The probability is there will be two
state committees, one representing the
gold wing; the other the silver wing.
The silver men will nominate Charles
A. Hartman for congress and endorse
Bryan and SewaQ electors The gold
men will nominate Q. T. Goddard for
congress and place in the field McKin-
lev electors
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-11

HELENA, Mont, Sept. 1O.-The
Twenty-fifth infantry bicycle corps,
commanded by Lieutenant Moss, has
reached Helena from Fort Yellowstone.
The distance between the two posts Of
191 miles was covered in twenty-seven
hours. Lieutenant Moss and his men
left Fort Missoula twenty-five days ago
and have covered LOO miles of noun
tain climbing, across the Rockies and
through the national park. The OBJ
ject of the trip was to test the bicycle.
in a mountainous country. 1t is the
first practical test of the wheel for mill
tary purposes ever made. The trip
has been watched with interest by
men in the army The trip has proved
the entire practicability of the bicycle
for military purposes over such roads
as are usually found in a mountainous
country. Lieutenant Moss said:
This is the first real test ever made
with the bicycle as a. machine for mill
tary purposes. On several occasions
one officer and one or two privates have
made runs to see how fast they could
go. Those were tests of rapidity. Ours
is a. test of durability The party was
not made up of expert bicyclists who
are scorching through the country, but
Of eight ordinary riders selected from
the soldiers at Fort Missoula. We have
made and broken camp in the rain, rid
den through mud. sand, dust and water,
over rocks, ruts and stones, crossed
mountain ranges, fOrded streams, stop
ped for nothing, carried rations, cook
ing utensils, rifles, ammunition, thirty
rounds to every man. blankets, tents,
underwear, extra tires and parts; in
fact all Ia goa needed. ~
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WILL SEE THE MAJOR TODAY.

CANTON, O., Sept. Ex-Governor
Lippitt of Rhode Island telegraphed
Major Mckinley this evening that he
would call on him with his staff to-
morrow afternoon. Governor Bush
nell will be here with his staff some
time Friday, and three delegations are
scheduled to arrive during the day.
Hon. W. A Lynch, one of the most
widely known Democratic lawyers IN
eastern Ohio, addressed the Railroad
Mems Sound Money club at the taber-
nacIe this evening. The great auditor
ium was crowded to the doors. Mr.
Lynch made a stirring sound money
speech and has carried with him a
large number of Democrats who have
never voted the Republican ticket, Dut
who propose to do SO this year. Mr..
Lynch is the man who was chiefly re-
sponsible for Major McKinley's defeat
when he ran for congress six years ago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-11

CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-A locad paper
says: Walter Greer Campbell, a man
who is said to be known in New York,
Boston, San Francisco, st. Louis,
Butte and Helena, Mont, Cheyenne
and a number of other cities as the
promoter Of an electrical process OF
smelling iron ore, is wanted in Chi
cago. Incidentally, $4,000 in money
and diamonds, which he is said to have
secured while here during the Worlds
fair and during the last few months
here and elsewhere, would be welcomed
cordially by those who assert that they
were that much better off before they
knew Campbell than they are now, in
case he should return and bring it
with him. Another alleged victim
would like to secure whatever he may
have paid for 100000 worth of Illinois
Electrical Forging company stock.
Calvin A. Poage Of the Mill Creek
Placer Mining company of California,
with offices i'll the Adams Express
building, and residing at the Palmer
house, has sworn out a warrant for
Campbelrs arrest, and the police of
this city are in Geographic correspon-
d'ence witch the police of New York
and other cities.
Poage will neither admit nor deny
that he has taken this action. Never
theless he has been seen at the Central
police station making inquiries as TO
the search for the missing man. Poage
acknowledges being intimate with
Campbell. He says he is firmly con-
WINGED there is a fortune in the smelt-
ing and forging process.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-11

Lincoln, Neb., Sept 1O.-President
]. D. Shahan Of the defunct CONNER
cial State Bank of Champion, Chase
county, has been arrested upon a war
rant charging him with having received
deposits as president of the bank when
the bank was insolvent. The complaint
was signed by E. d. Sutton, county
treasurer, the county having about ST.
800 deposited in the bank when it closed
its doors in May, 1894 The county
judge today bound Shahan over to the
district court.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-11
\ pie consignment of Furs.

In order to give our customers in
Salt Lake the same opportunity TO get
the best the markets produce in quail
itv and styles, we made arrangements
with one of the largest importing
houses in this country to consign US a
lot of high priced furs in all the lat
est novelties. This enables US to sell
what is very latest, and also sell
cheaper than we could if we had to
run chances of carrying any goods
over. The lot is just in and comprises
Jackets, long, short and medium capes;
boas, scarfs. muffs. ETC., Of the very
latest styles; they come in seal, otter,
chinchilla, Persian lamb, astrakan,
electric seal, gray badger, mink. white,
black and eolored thibet and marten.
These goods will be put on sale We'd
nesday morning, September 9, for one
week only, as we have to ship them
back at the end of that time This
will be your only opportunity to get
high art goods this season. Come and
examine them whether you buy or not.
WALKER BROS. DRY GOODS co.
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TOUR OF THE WORLD.
A CYCLIsT FROM GERMANY AR.
RIVES IN NEW YORK.
Practical Test of the Bicycle For
Army Uses Now Being Made, with
Results Host Gratifying.

CHICAGO, Sept. 1O.-Albert Flick, a
cyclist from Germany, is in the city.
He says he is making a tour of the
world on wager of $1,000 to ride 80, 600
miles in four years. He asserts he
started from Hanover April 2. and has
since ridden 1000 miles Mr.. Flick is al
ready thirty-seven days ahead of his
scheduled time, and is confident of COW
ering the $4,000 miles in a much shorter
time than four years. He will leave
for San Francisco on next Monday
in company with Gustave Boerner.
From San Francisco Flick will go to
South America, thence to Australia and
thence to India and Africa and back to
Germany He is making leisurely trips
and allows himself a two months rest
on each continent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-11
THE CoUNTRY's CROPS.
Report of the statistician Of the De-
partment of Agriculture.

| Report of the Statistician Of the De-
partnent Of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1O.-The Sep
tember report of the statistician of the
department of agriculture shows a de-
cline in the condition of corn from the
August statement of five points, or from
sc per cent in August to 81 in September.
The averages in the principal corn
growing states are:
Kentucky, 90; Ohio. 1O4; Michigan, 1O4;
Indiana, 1O6: Illinois, 100; Iowa, 103; Mis-
souri,, So, Kansas, SO; Nebraska, 103.
Although there has been falling off
in condition in some states, particularly
in Kansas and Nebraska, the crop this
year promises to be a large one Nearly
all the great central states report high
condition, though with many local re-
ports of drouth, flooding rains, insects
or along the northern border early
frosts.
The Pacific slope sends favorable re-
ports. The general condition of wheat,
considering both winter and spring va
rieties, when harvested was 74.6, against
75.6 in 1895.
The reported conditions for the prin-
cipal wheat states are as follows:
Ohio, So; Michigan, 70; Indiana, So;
ILLINOIS, ~, w lScOQSlu, ~, AlUUtSOlc1y
80; Iowa, 81; Missouri, 10; Kansas, 20;
Nebraska, II; South Dakota, rs; North
Dakota, 81; California, 100; Oregon, 80;
Washington, 70.
East of the Rocky mountains, COM
plants Of both fertility and quantity Of
the wheat are almost universal, the
causes alleged being winter-killing, due
to deficient snow covering, stunted
growth, due to early drouth, insect
attacks, rust, and especially the preva-
lent heavy rains following harvest, from
which a large percentage of the grain
sprouted and rotted in the shock. A
few scattered counties are excepted.
The early threshed grain in some states
escaped injury, and the spring wheat
Jared generally better than winter
wheat. The Pacific slope suffered some
what from dry weather shrinking the
grain. but not so generally as the CEN
trail and eastern states.
The European agent Of the depart .
ment reports a general reduction from
earlier estimates of the wheat crop, ow-
ing to unfavorable weather, Wnlcn was
particularly bad at harvest time IN cen
trail Europe, though fairly good west
ward. Quality of grain reported high
oats and barley will be short.
The corn crop in the southern pen1n-
sIIa. is looking well Condition Of oats
when harvested was 740 per cent,
AGAINST 77.3 in August; rye, 81; barley,
80 2. b1lckwheat SS.2: tobacco, S1.0, q
fail of five points since August; pota-
foes. 83.2. against 9O.S per cent last
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breast. The insane man set his dogs
upon Moves dogs and endeavored to
strike Moves with the frying pan, ours
ing and swearing at him and telling
him to go away. Noyes went away for
q little while, but SOON returned and
tried to take the man with him. Fail
in this, he stayed with him, holding
him all night. The next night he had
help and on the second day, after find
ing Farley, they started to bring him
here. Farley has no relatives in Utah
and is a native of Missouri.
RICHFIELD FOR BRYAN.
A fair representation of the Repub-
lican voters of Richfield braved the
heavy storm of last night to declare
their intention to vote for Bryan. The
call was in accordance with the central
committee call, but it was soon made
apparent that the Mckinley men were
scarce. But six in the entire meeting
could be counted. OF course Bryan
Republicans were nominated to go to
the county convention. All went peace
ably. This morning two of the devout
Mckinley men of last evening declared
their intention to vote for Bryan, and
the other delegation is parading the
streets in search of enough Mckinley
men to send to Mount Pleasant.
Ills uIOiIIAIIS paper UILISo uTll-
mite word from the independent Re
publicans and no doubt the county con-
vention will act in harmony with the
same.
At present there is no indication that
the county delegation will aid to cap
ture the Mount Pleasant convention for
Bryan. Give them a chance is the
cry, ''for a snow storm will visit them
in November"
When asked what they thought the
effect of the Independent call would be,
the answers were many.
]. H. Eversoll thought the independ-
ent Republicans would fuse with the
Democrats.
Hans p Hansen saw no harm in
nominating Mckinley electors, but
didn't want the same convention to
name a central committee.
Mayor Brandley said the county Re-
publicans would have to choose be-
tween the Mount Pleasant and Salt
Lake conventions.
Nearly all were opposed to the action
of the state committee, but some
thought the independent move was an
unwise one, as it would give Utah into
the hands of the Democrats.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-11
WHOLESALE POISONING.
Strange Occurrence at n Wedding at
Bondurant, Iowa

DIES MONIES, Ia, Sept. 1O.-At the
wedding of j. C. Tombs and Miss
Emma Henderson, at Bondurant yes
terday, a wholesale poisoning occurred.
Immediately after the wedding, which
was at noon, a dinner was served to
about seventy-five guests. Nearly all
Of them were poisoned by something
they had eaten, supposed to have been
chicken pie, cooked in copper vessels.
A number quickly recovered, but about
twenty were in a dangerous condition
until today Most Of these are now
out of danger. Those who were most
seriously i'll were: Miss Love Daily,
Miss Rose DAILY, Mrs. Read Henderson,
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Thorpe, Mrs
b. F. Rothrock, Read Henderson, Mrs.
Margaret Henderson, Mrs. c. W. Che
ney, Frank Scott, Edward Austin,
Maggie Austin, Cora Long, James
O'Brien, Nellie Bondurant
Physicians were sent for from Des
Moines today, and this evening it is
reported that all will recover, with the
possible exception of Mrs. Rothrock
and Mrs. Read Henderson.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-11
APPOINTS TWO SONS.
Representative Catron, of Mexico,
Looks After His Own.

Representative CatrOn, of Mexico,
Looks After His Own.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1O.-A Sun special
from Washington says: Judge Catron,
the representative in Congress from the
Territory of New Mexico, is not to be
frightened by the experience of other
statesmen who have appointed their
sons to the government schools, for he
has deliberately selected two OF ms own
for cadetship at West Point and An
napoIfs. The judge had the satisfaction
this week of seeing one enter the naval
academy with high honors, and he IS
confident that his other boy Will meet
the requirements at West Point In the
March examinations next year. HIS An
napolis boy had as alternate the BOY
already designed to appear at West
Point. and had the first one failed, the
iudge proposed to send the other up at
once and then nominate the rejected
candidate for West Point. He has taken
every precaution to get his boys in the
two institutions, and early in the sum
rner made each the alternate Of the
other. Now the judge will have to see
that his second son is not rejected by
the military authorities, for II ne is
there will be no possible way OF entering
him at Annapolis unless the boy now
there should be disqualified at the semi
annual examinations in January, in
which event Judge Catron might send
his boy intended for West Point to An
napolis and give the naval man
chance at West Point.
The authorities have no record OF a
delegate or congressman who over be-
fore had the courage to designate two
sons to West Point and Annapolis, al
though there have been several in
stances where one son has been ap-
pointed in a year. The occasions, how
ever. have been rare. The last member
of Congress to appoint his son to West
Point was General Wheeler of Alabama.
and the young man is now second
lieutenant of artillery.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 1O.-Money on call
quiet at 5@6 per cent. Last loan at c
and closing offered at 6.
Prime mercantile paper, SQ9 per cent,
Mexican dollars, 5I1kQ5S
Sterling exchange is irregular, with
actual business in bankers bills at 4S2
@A.S2A for sixty days and 4.SSsz CASA
for demand. Posted rates, 4s21a@4S41a.
Commercial bills, 4.SO04.S1.
Government bonds, easier
State bonds, duh
Railroad bonds lower
Speculation AT The stock exchange
WAS Irregular and rather feverish. This
is only natural, in view Of yesterday s
heavy realizaLons; and the efforts of
professional operators to bring about
4 reaction, which they claim is long
over due. Advance in the Bank of En-
GLAND rate OF discount to 25s per cent,
The first change since February %,
1884, a rise in the price Of eagles in
The London market, and sitter dis
counts outside of the bank, coupled
With lower prices for American Secu-
rites abroad, ali assisted the reaction
Rry movement The action of the bank,
II was argued, would check gold ship
ments; but the reverse proved true and
the Bank of England for American ac-
count today footed up 1896, 600.
At home the bank troubles at New
ORLEANS, and the report of the agricul-
tural department for September on
cotton were the unfavorable develop
ments. The favora BILE news Of the
day, other than the engagements of
gold, were the report of the st, Paul
road for the first week of the current
nd hc 10 of 10
ual dividends by the directors of the
road.
As stated, operators were bearishly
Inclined and prices gradually yielded
under moderate pressure. At inter
walls the downward tendency was
checked, but in the final trading the
market was weak in tone. The loss in
prices ranged from a TO 21s per cent,
Tobacco, Sugar, Rock Island, Pacific
Mail, Manhattan, Louisville and Nash
willie, Tennessee Coal and Reading be-
Ing prominent in the reaction. Lon
ION houses were credited with sales
Of ten to fifteen thousand shares prin-
eipally ST. Paul and Louisville & Nash
Vile. The last named were sold on the
damage to cotton crops and trade de-
nloraliZation in the south Specula-
Ton left off weak in tone. Net changes
chow declines OF Il to 211R per cent. In
the specialties Consolidated Gas fell 2
TO las, and later rose to 14S; Illinois
Steel declined 2 to 370371k; Big Four
preferred jumped to So Total sales
were 1S1. 154 shares, including 81, 800 Su-
gar, $4,000 st. Paul, L, 300 Louisville and
II 300 Burlington.
The bond market was dull and weak
Total sales were S596,0OO. Atchison gen.
eral As fell 1 10 74z Atchison adjust
ment, IL to 80: Reading general As
10
TO 80: Reading thirds, / to 16%; Texas
Pacific seconds, IA 10 152z, and United
States Cordage 6s, certificates, / to r.
In government bonds, $4,000 registered
Is of 1907 sold at LO61s al O6ss, and $780,
600 regular 5s at L1ON Clio.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-11
Notorious Crook Caught.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 10
John Mccarthy, who is supposed to
be one of the most notorious bank rob-
bers in the United States, was arrested
by a local detective last night Nc
Carthy is charged with having been
implicated in the recent attempt to
loot the First National Bank Of Los
Angeles by tunnel1ing beneath the
vaults. The plot was discovered in
time by the police, but the robbers es-
capped. The police claim that Nc
Carthy's capture is a most important
one, inasrnuch as he is believed to have
been concerned in several notable
crimes both on the Pacific coast and in
the east The prisoner made stout
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-11
A STRANGE FATALITY.
1t overhangs the Peak Family at
Camden, N. j.

Camden, n y.
CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. 1O.-The
strange fatality that overhangs the
Peak family was shown last night,
when William Decatur Hale, who six
months ago married Minnie Peak, shot
her and then himself. The wife may
die.
Barclay Peak, Minnies brother, ten
years ago shot and killed his cousin,
Mary, and is now serving twenty
years sentence. Annie Peak, Minnie S
sister, WIS murdered three years ago
by her common-laW husband, Wesley
Warner. He was hanged. Hale yester-
day, although out of work, purchased
a revolver and, he says, g. violin. He
and his wife had supper and drank
kettle of beer. Both say that he took
the revolver apart and was putting 1t
together, when it was discharged. The
wife was sitting opposite him at the
table, and the bullet entered her neck
and went through lung. He put the
weapon to his own head and fired.
Hugh McHenry, neighbor, broke IN
and found Hale with his head bleeding
and his wife in his arms moaning.
Minnie, darling, I did not mean to
shoot YOU" he was saying.
mo, VIII, 1 know you did not" the
wife gaSped and lapsed into uncon-
seriousness.
Both were taken to the Cooper hos
pital, where she revived long enough
to make an ante-mortem statement. NO
satisfactory explanation has been
made to the police as to who bought
the revolver. Hale up to last Monday
was employed as a baggage porter by
the West Jersey & Sea Shore railroad.
He was then laid off, with others, on
account of the end Of the summer
rush He had no prospects of work,
and the house contains only a couple
of chairs and a table. There is bed
ding on the floor, but no bed. Why
he should have spent his last money
for a revolver and violin is not under
stood. He is under police surveillance
at the hospital and his wife will Gle.
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1T WAS DESPERATE.
Leavenworth Prisoners Make an At
tempt to Escape.

tempt to Escape.
LEAVENWORTH,K Kansas, Sept 10.
William Blayiock and Charles Pond,
murderers, made a desperate attempt
to escape from the Kansas peniten-
tiary yesterday. During the noon
hour, they climbed out of the prison
coal shaft, 100 feet deep, by using the
brace scantlings, which are three feet
apart, and in the form of a ladder. The
scantlingS are wet and slippery, and
tire prison officials and miners never
believed such a feat to be possible.
While coming up, the coal cages
passed, and the prisoners saved them
selves by getting on the air shaft side.
On gaining the outside of the prison
wall tower, guards called upon Blay-
lock and Pond 10 halt, and opened fire
ON them when they refused. Eight
shots We're fired and each man was hit
and fell twice. Pond got UP the third
time and managed to gain the woods.
He is still at large. Blaylock was shot
through the left thigh and the abdo-
men and is fatally wounded.
Blaylock and his brother Jonathan
were train robbers, and in May, 1888,
shot and instantly killed City Marshal
David Gordon, of Columbus, Kansas.
They were captured after a hard fight
and sentenced for life.
Charles Pond is under sentence OF
death for numbering his wife at Ga
lena. He was about to be pardOned,
the state board just having completed
a favorable investigation of his case.