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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
OFFICER AND
PRISONER DEAD,
A California Sheriff Fights a
Highwayman to Death.

Nevada City, CAL, Aug. L.
The dead body of Sheriff David
Douglass and the corpse of an
unknown highwayman were to-
day found lying a few feet
apart in the woods two miles
from town. There were five
empty chambers in the pistol
of the Sheriff, who had. been
shot through the heart and in
the right eye and hand. The
bullets of the Sheriff had gone
through the robbers heart, alb
domen and hip. The unknown
man had a rifle, but it had not
been used.
II is supposed Douglass was
shot by an unseen and un-
known confederate of the high
wayman.
a number..of bold highway
robberies recently reported in
this neighborhood have all
seemed to be the work of one
man, who stopped coaches and
private ..conveyances on the
roads near Nevada City. The
Sheriff and his deputies had
been untiring in their efforts to
capture the highwayman.
Finally Sheriff Douglass, be
lieving that largs squad of
deputies served to put the high
wayman on his guard, deter
mined to attempt the chase
single handed. He started out
yes ,erday, accompanied only
by his dog The dog returned
at midnight, and at day break
searching parties tracked the
Sheriff to the spot were officer
and prisoner lay dead side by
side.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
ONE IDE4 CAMPAIGN.

TIE present presidential
campaign is bound to crystalize
around one idea, and that is the
money question. It is in vain
to attempt to divert public at
tention 10 any side issue. The
tariff question may serve Major
Mckinley as a text for rhetor-
lcal display and a plea on
which the fat may be fried out
of manufacturers and monop-
olists, but, as a campaign
slogan, it is failure and can
awake no enthusiasm. 1t is
nearly a dead issue. The peo-
pie are tired of its eternal dis
cussion and will have no more
OF is. This fact puts Mckinley
at a great disadvantage. He is
probably armed at all points
on the tariff question. 1t would
be strange if he were not, and
it is just to concede that he
knows What he talks about
when he attempts to elucidate
that subject, but, when it comes
TO the real question at Issue,
Bryan is infinitely his superior,
FIRST, because be has made a
specially of the free coinage of
gold and silver and secondly
because he has the attention of
a majority of the American peo-
pie when he opens up his favor
tie subject.
Thus it happens that one
candidate is bound both by his
attachments and the record of
his party to discuss a dead is.
sue, while the other is up to
daFe and has the Invest subject
chat is before the American
people at the present time.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

THE republicans of the Elev-
enth district are a good set of
people and number among
them men of sense and stand
ing, but they simply beat the
world for falling out among
themselves. There cannot be a
question of policy or principle
raised among them that they
do not go to pieces over. They
might remember an ancient sen
timent which runs about this
way: ''For behold how good
and pleasant it is for brethren
to dwell together in unity"
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

way to protect The landing OF
an expedition. General Weyler
thereupon detailed three col
umns of Spanish troops, under
Colonel Perol, who formed an
ambush in the narrow pass at
CalleJonyaya,ne Gabriel, Ha-
VaDa province, through which
Aayas would pass. The main
force of the insurgents was re
ceived with two volleys of
rifle shots and then charged
with the bayonet, after the
squadron Of Almanac had
charged. The insurgents were
taken wholly by surprise, and
General Zayas fell at the first
volley wilh~a ball through his
left eye, coming through the
left temple. Fifty FIVE insur
gents were killed, the bodies
of ten being found in the neigh
boring fields. Among them
were Captain Julio Plansas, the
leadar Perpinan, and a lawyer
named Navarette. The body
of Zayas was found to be well
dressed in the uniform of a
general.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
A DEFENSELESS POSITION
Indianapolis Sentinel.

indianapolis Sentinel.
Notwithstanding the unpar-
dons BILE ignorance Of the gold
bug press of New York City, in
the discussion of the financial
question, light is breaking
throughout the Empire State
and We hazard the opinion that
the National democratic ticket
for the first time at a presiden
tial election will sweep the
Hudson in November with a
majority of not less than So.
900 anticipated in the metropol
is, and will give Bryan and Sc
wall 100 600 majority over the
Mckinley pIutocratic, trust mon
ger com bination.
The New York gold bug pa.
pers put forth any quantity
ofnegative arguments on
the financial issue, that is,
they damn and denounce the
silver side, but advance no
positive argument for gold
recommendation. They dare not
do it. Take the New York
World, for instance. 1t declar
ed last Saturday for the odious
gold monometalic plank as
adopted by the fragment of the
republican party at st. Louis,
as follows:
"While on the subject of the
first st. Louis convention we do
not mind saying, however, that
the financial plank which it
adopted, and which Mr.. Nc
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

York meeting. Mr.. Bryan is
not making any dates for
speeches at this time and will
not do so until after the Ma
tional committee has been con-
suited. He has received a
large number Of invitations to
speak in almost every State in
the Union. Most of them have
come by mail or wire, but
many have been extended by
men who have come in person
for the purpose. To each he
has given the same answer,
that he would make no APP
pointments until after the
meeting of the National COM
mlttee. A dispatch received
this evening from Amos J.
Cummings of New York says:
The Tammany executive
committee has just unanimous
ly Endorsed your nomination:
My personal congratulation."
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

The campaign mathematician
has resumed business. There is
one thing about this peculiar
character who makes himself
known in every presidential
contest and that is that be fig
ures things out to his own
satisfaction and is therefore
happy. His readers are not
always 80 cheerful as he is
and the most of them take
the wise course of waiting ill
the votes are counted before
they tell the result.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

Kinfey had accepted, is extre-
mely clear and sensible. IT is
the one plank in that platform
that we approve"
That plank declared for gold
recommendation until bimetail.
ism can be reached by interna-
tional agreement. In the same
issue the World retreats as
follows:
1t is a common carelessness
of speech to refer to the sound
money democrats as gold mem
and to characterize republicans
as gold bugs
"This is an error that should
be avoided. There no gold bug
party in this country in the
sense of a party favoring gold
recommendation. All sound
money men, unless it be a few
bankers or doctrinaires and
their echoes, are for bimetall
ism-the coinage and use of
both gold and silver at an
honest ratio as money of equal
value and necessity"
The republican party clearly
favors gold monometallism, as
expressed in the st. Louis plat
form, and although the World
has given in its adhesion to
gold recommendation it does not
and can not make an argument
in defense of it that can not be
blown to pieces.
The gold bugs may denounce
silver coinage and the National
democratic platform; call the
Chicago convention a gathering
Of cranks and anarchists, and
propbesy all manner of evil if
Mr.. Bryan is elected, but they
dare not defend gold monome-
tallism as it exists in the Unit
ed States today under present
conditions.
Under this campaign of
education" the people are gra
dually getting their eyes open
to the idiotic position that re-
publican fnanciering has final
ly landed the country and
which is being defended by
certain newspapers of both
parties As Senator Black burn
said in his Chicago speech:
Christ drove better men from
the temple than many of those
who have been managing the
financial affairs of this Nation
for the past thirty years"
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

For your Protection. Catarrh "Cures" or
Tonics for Catarrh in liquid form to be taken
internally, usually contain either Mercury or
Iodide of Potassa, or both, which are injur-
lous if too long taken. Cstarrh is local, not
a blood disease, caused by sudden changeto
cold or damp weather. IL starts in the nasal
passages, affecting eyes, ears and throat.
Cold in the head causes excessive Aow Of
mucus, and, if repeatedly neglected, the re-
suits Of catarrh will follow; severe pain in
the head, roaring sound in the es-s, bad
breath, and oftentimes an offensive dis
charge. Theremedy should be quick to allay
inflammation and heal the membrene. Ely's
Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for
these troubles and contains no mercury
nor any injurious drug. Price, so cents.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
HAVANA PAPERS
COMMENT.

Havana, July 31.-La Lucia
has a comment upon the report
from Washington that Pres
ident Cleveland's proclamation
of warning to filibusters is de
signed to fulfill all necessary
formalities On the part of the
United States government as to
claims for indemnity which the
United States intends to make
on Spain for losses suffered by
Americans during the war i'll
Cuba. The paper observes
that such a course might not
be so bad for Spain as it ap-
pears. and might even he in
her favor, because the Madrid
government would come back
with REPUTABLE proofs of claims
on the Washington government
for all damages caused by the
negligence which has always
been displayed by the United
States government toward the
prevention of filibustering.
The proved compliance of local
and high national officials of
the United States with the
plans Of the filibustera, says
La Lucia, and the fact that
they have lent their protection
to the arming and dispatching
of expeditions which they were
ordered to prevent, constitutes
a serious crime, as President
Cleveland, in his proclamation,
points out. This journal con
clades that where Spain would
have to pay SO indemnity she
could easily collect $4,000.
Additional details have been
received here of the manner in
which the insurgent leader
Bruno met his death. 1t seems
that Captain General Weyler
had received confidential in
formation that Sayay and other
insurgent leaders had effected
a junction and were on their
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

People find just the help they SO much
need, in Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t fur
nishes the desired strength by puri-
flying, vitalizing md enriching the
blood, and thus builds up the nerves,
tones Che stomach and regulates the
whole system. Read this:
81 want to praise Hoods sarsaparilla.
My health run down, and I had the grip.
After that, my heart and nervous system
were badly affected, 30 that could not do
my own work. Our physician gave me
some help, but did not cure. decided
to try Hoods SarsaparilIa. Soon could
do all my own Homework. have taken
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

Hoods Pills with Hoods sarsapariIIa,
and they have done me much good. 1
will not be without them. 1 have taken IL
bottles OF Hoods Sarsaparilla, and through
the blessing Of God, it has cured me.
1 worked as hard az ever the past sum-
mer, and 1 am thankful to say I am
well. Hoods Pills when taken with
Hoods Sarsaparilla help very much"
Mrs. NJ. NJ. MESSENGER, Freehold, Penn.
This and many other cures prove that
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

Women are the real heroes of the
world. Thousands on thousands of them
endure the dragging torture of the ills
peculiar to womankind in the silence of
home. They suffer on and on-weeks,
months, years. The story of weakness
and torture is written in the drawn
features, in the sallow skin, in the list
less eyes, in the lines of care and worry
on the face.
Unborn tnodesty seals their lips. They
prefer pain to humiliation. Custom has
made them believe the only hope of
relief lies in the exposure of examina-
ton and '1ocal treatment"
Take ten cases of "female weakness"
and in nine of them "local treatment"
is unnecessary, There is no reason why
modest, sensitive women should sub
NIT 70 IL E1oHlH upEH,c
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

SINCE Bob stayton quit, the
question is, who will be on the
slate for land commissioner
Has Baker made up with the
Administrations
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

Tom REED, in his speech
opening the campaign in
Maine, said his party was in a
bad fix and something must be
done. Ii is fact. Thomas
is not a fool.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05

THE safest place for a soldier
in battle is in the ranks. This
fact has Significance in politics
$50.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
VICTIMS OF IN .,,sron7on
lsu'es - e Have Been Tested
al Found to Be of Service.
From the Philadelphia Record.

ed with this peculiar and I'm
comfortable sensation after eat
ing is by no means small. 1t
means simply that either be-
cause the person is fatigued or
because the food is indigestible,
or because the nervous system
which controls the digestive
processes is out Of order, the
act of digestion is either. wholly
arrested or is very improperly
carried on. People troubled in
this way can observe two or
three plan rules which will en-
tirely prevent the difficulty and
will be of great benefit to their
general health.
First, eat nothing until there
is positive appetite for food.
1t will be far better to skip
ones dinner entirely, and far
less injurious to the general
health, than to eat when weary,
when excited, when nervous or
when the appetite is not pres
ent. II great hunger comes on
in the middle Of the afternoon
an apple or a piece of bread
and butter will have a relish
and flavor undreamed of under
ordinary circumstances. and
will prevent the faintness which
might arise before the regular
hour for a nourishing supper.
Second, eat something which
requires considerable chewing,
especially at the beginning of
"a meal. This involves the use
of dry foods, but it does moi
mean the entire absence of
liquids from the meal. The
reason why. food that has to be
chewed is valuable is because
in the process of mastication a
large amount ofsaliva is secret.
ed and this is an important
factor in digestion.
If liquid is desired at meal
Time it is not likely TO do great
harm If it is not too cold, pro-
vided it is not swallowed at the
same time the dry food is put
in the mouth. The man who
washes down each mouthful of
bread with q swallow of milk,
tea or coffee has no saliva mix
ed with his food; whereas, if he
thoroughly rnasticates bis
mouthful of dry food, swallows
il, aud then takes his swallow
of milk, he will interfere far
less with the proper processes
of digestion.
Dr. FL. Kellogg has made
some interesting experiments,
showing the amount of saliva
secreted by the glands of the
mouth While dry food is being
chewed. a piece of paraffin
chewed for five minutes produc-
ed two-thirds of an ounce of
saliva; l ounce Of granose, a
dry food prepared from wheat,
increased in weight to 9 ounces;
l ounce of bread chewed for
five minutes caused the produc-
ton of l ounce OF saliva; 1
ounce of raw apple produced
II ounces.
Third, eat digestible food
only. Digeslible food is vari.
able term; and is determined
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-05
WINE OF CARDUH

is vegetable wine. It exerts a wonder
fully healing, strengthening and sooth-
ing influence over the organs of woman
kind. Itinvigorates aud stimulates the
whole system 1t is almost infallible in
curing the peculiar weaknesses, ire
gularities and painful arrangements of
woman. Year after year, in the privacy
of Eome-away from the eyes of every.
body-it effects cures.
WINE OF CARDUI - sold for SI.OO a
bottle Dealers in medicine sell &c. Five
bottles usually care the worst oasee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-01
SMALLPOX IN CUBA.
Thousand Cases Reported to BE fin
One City.


Advices received by Surgeon General wv
man of the Marine Hospital service dated
Santiago de Cuba, June 13, state that the
United States sanitary inspector has found
over 1000 cases of smallpox in that city.
There are a number of families down with
it within 200 feet of the United States con-
srlate. Information received from the
south coast of Cuba, from Cienfuegos to
Baracoa, is to the effect that that terri
tory is plague spot of smallpox, and the
Marine Hospital service is notified in order
that the quarantine officers may be put on
their guard to prevent the transmission of
the disease to this country.
Another report on the sanitary condition
of Santiago de Cuba for the week ended
Saturday, June 20, says: The total number
from smallpox, 5 yellow fever, pernicious
raging epidemically, the total number of
cases as far as known reaching up 10 about
800. The authorities and citizens are doing
all in their power to prevent its ravages.
Commissions and committees have been
organized to succor the poor with medicines
and food. Yellow fever is also on the in
crease this week, and affections of the in
festival canal are very common. Malaria,
as usual, is causing many deaths. The
captains and crews of the American
schooners Montana and Harriet G. have
been vaccinated. A large shipment of raw
hides prevented on account of non-
compliance with the law, which orders
such material to be thoroughly disinfectcd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-01

be done with the property, at the same
time remarking that he was not at liberty
to make any disclosures in the matter.
Mayor Hooper of Baltimore has approved
an ordinance passed by the city council to
sell to the Reading Railroad Company $685.
600 of bonds Of the company held by the
city. for $500. This the amount Of
fered by q syndicate, provided their bid
was accepted on or before certain date
but the time has now been past for some
weeks. and 1T is not known whether the
offer still holds good. Many years ago
Baltimore city loaned the Reading Railroad
Company the sum named. 1t has not re-
ceived any interest on The investment for
nearly forty years, and the road now SAYS
that the best that ii can offer is Ten cents
on the dollar. Not very long ago the COM
mittee of reorganization of the Reading
made an assessment of $4,000 on Balti-
more for the protection of the deprecated
stock. The city declined to pay and It is
now thought not improbable that the en-
tire loan, which. with the interest,
amounts TO nearly 100000, will be lost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-01
Shell Test mt Indian Head,

The ordnance bureau of the Navy Depart
ment has made successful shell test at
Indian Head. Tests Of twelve-inch shells.
from the Midwife Steel Company, and eight
inch shells, from the Misunderstanding Com
paly, were made and resulted in tho ac-
ceptance of both lots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-01
Elphonzo Youngs Co.

On these hot sultry days person
scarcely knows what to drink that is
cool and refreshing. Why not I'M
fermented grape juice, lime juice,
imported or domestic ginger ale
any of these are delicious.
We sell the finest imported ginger
ale at $1.25 dozen bottles-the usual
price of which is $I.4o and $1.5o.
We import it direct.
If you are going on a picnic or an
excursion on the 18th of July" any
of these would be excellent to take
with you. We would like to furnish
the eatables for that occasion, too,
and we have a stock of them without
an equal south of New York. Inn
ported and domestic sardines, potted
tongue, potted turkey, boned chick
en-, such French potted meats as
pate de Poulet, "'Pate de Lievre,"
''Pate de becasse," also Clipped beef,
sliced cooked tongue, olives, pickles,
corkscrews, can openers, lunch
baskets for one or a family of five or
larger, picnic plates, &c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-01
The Entire Crew Lost.

The United States consul at Port Stanley,
Friendly Islands. reports to the State De-
partment that on the night of the 18th ulti-
mo a ship under full sail struck the Billy
rocks, within 300 yards of the light house.
lost
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-01
Reading Transnctions.

Mr.. E. J. D. Cross, the law partner of
Receiver John K. Cowen Of the Baltimore
and Ohio, few days ago purchased the
Susquehanna and Tidewater canal and CO.
lLmbia dam and appurtenances, at an auc-
ton sale at York, Pa, for $780, 600. The ac-
ton caused much comment Mr.. Cross now
says that he was acting in the matter for
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company, but declined to say what would
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-06

OF money in circulation is constantly
decreasing. 1t is s2l.s5 per capita now,
as compared with ss4.44 in the prosper
Gus year Of 1899. In other words. there
per capita contraction of the circula-
tion Of s279 since the prosperous times
Of the Mckinley act. But the debt per
capita has considerably increased, and
the per capita tax for interest Is about
So per cent. more now than 1t was be-
fore Cleveland came into power" Yet
the Press editorially favors further con-
traction Of the currency and expresses
gladness that no more silver is to be
coined into dollars.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-06
MRS. SMITHS REpARTEE.
+. +. Curtis, in Chicago Record.

W. +. Curtis, in Chicago Record.
Mrs. Hoke Smith. the wife Of the secre-
tary of the interior, Is the wit among the
cabinet ladies, and her descriptions OF her
experiences with Washington society are
very amusing. Some Of the situations in
which she has found herself since she
came to Washington would furnish excel
lent material for writer OF corn edies, but
no professional could possibly relate them
with better effect than Mrs. Smith her.
self
One of her stores concerns an encoun-
ter with another lady by the name of
Smith, who has been spending the winter
in Washington and has been made good
Mrs. John Smith. as we will call her for
the sake Of distinction. attended Mrs.
SYrisA's reception, and In few days Mrs.
tVJke Smith returned the coll. When
that none of the receiving party recog-
nized her, and by way of a self-introduc-
ton. stepped up to the first In the line
and mentioned her own name.
Mrs. Hoke Smith"
The hostess took 1t for an inquiry rather
than announcement, however, and replied.
rather tartly: "No, / am not Mrs. Hoke
smith, although l am frequently mistaken
for her. ! never regretted tina. my name
was Smith until l came to Washington,
but since 1 have been here l have been
called Mrs. Hoke Smith regularly ten
times day, and it has become the mis-
sion of my life to convince people that
am not the wife Of the secretary OF the
interior"
~ am very glad Of that" said Mrs. Hokc
Smith sweetly, although she admits that
she had hard work to keep her temper.
.The secretary of the interior Is my hus-
band and 1t would be dreadfully enbar-
raising il you were his wife also"
The hostess attempted to apologize and
explain, and Mrs Hoke Smith was so good
natured and pleasant about II that the
storm blew over. Mrs. John Smith, how
ever, did not return the call. Three of
four months later. and only recently, Mrs.
Hoke Smith met Mrs. John Smith at the
house Of a mutual friend. and she COM
menced telling what funny experiences
she had met with on account Of her name.
Among other Incidents she mentioned that
which has just been related. when to her
astonishment she discovered that her new
made friend and namesake whom she
thought she had never seen before was the
other lady In the case.