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Rock Island Argus., 1896-09-24
SHAME AMONG DECENCY,
Question able Characters Drifting Into the
Residence section.

Residence section.
Nc little degree of complaint is be-
ing made about the occupants of q
house located in one of the city's
best neighborhoods. And it is like
ly more distinct clanor will
arise if the authorities fail to re-
quest this latest acquisition to the
population of that section to move.
The leniency which has been
accorded questionable characters
has naturally encouraged them
in their boldness. So much so
10 fact until they have for
sahen their familiar haunts and
launched out in respectable neigh
borhoods to continue their revelrv
and imm oral actions.
The house referred to is within a
stones throw of one Of the public
school buildings, where the little
ones pass by the hundreds daily and
are awe-stricken by the brazen ma
neuvers of the yellow haired occu-
pants thereof. At night the neigh
bors are kept awake until all hours
with the singing and shouting Of the
four women and such company as
they can inveigle into their i,int.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-09-24

The stage of water at the bridge
this morning was l:75 and station
ary: the temperature GS.
The 10 Long. Winona, Abner Gile
and Climax passed up and the Verne
Swain and Boardman were in and
out.
The stage of the water at St. Paul.
Red Wing, Reeds Landing. Rock ISL
and, Des Moines Rapids and ST.
Louis is stationary. The water is
falling at North McGregor and Keo-
kuk. Very little change will occur
in the river in the next 81 hours,
but there will be slightly falling
tendency.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-09-24

The pleasant effect and perfect
safety with which ladies may use
Syrup OF Figs under all conditions
makes it their favorite remedy. To
get the true and genuine article,
look for the name of the Californis
Fig Syrup company. Printed near the
bottom OF the Packago. For sale by
all responsible dEuGItofo.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22

candidacy may provoke less tumultu-
GUS applause, but it unquestionably in
spires deep and abiding confidence.
He is q son of Vermont. with YER
monters this fact counts. He is man
of ripened wisdom. His experience
has touched and gilded every import
ant department of national affairs. He
is sound on the tariff. In finance he is
king. Recently his couutry's minister
at the great capital of Europe, the adj
ministration of the foreign affairs of
the government would derive strength
and intelligence from official residence
and observation abroad. From the
vice. presidency of the nation, from the
chief executive Office of the Empire
State of the republic, he has derived
the experience and has developed the
qualities that would make wise presi-
dent, conservative without weakness
without rashness, firm and patriotic.
Mr.. Morton would carry into the adj
ministration Of the presidential office a
dignified and forceful Americanism, re-
inforced by an all-round equipment for
its weighty duties and responsibilities
that would be sure guaranty of pros
perity at home and very respectful
consideration abroad.
Vermont, to-day, would undoubtedly
make her choice from this trio of ca
pable and patriotic men, all of demon
strated fitness for the office of presi-
dent. Her delegates to st. Louis will
very likely be left untrammelled by
instructions. That has been Yer
mont's way in the past. Men that can
be trusted should be chosen as dele
gates, to act at the appointed time as
wisdom shall teach.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22
Congressional Proceedings.

THE proceedings of Wednesday and
Thursday are published on the third
page].
FRIDAY, January 1.-THE senate was not
in session. - An unusual and unprece-
denJed incident occurred in the house, when
the opening prayer OF Chaplain Conden was
loudly applauded. His invocation included
the following: Our Heavenly Father, we
thank thee for the degree OF special liberty
which we az people enjoy, and our hearts
go out for those in other lands who are
struggling for a wider liberty. Especially
do we pray for the Cubans, and ask that, IL
they be right, their efforts may be crowned
with success. And we pray that our coun-
try may do for them all that it can without
compromising 3 dignity or In disregard of
its sacred obligations and duties to other
nations" A message from the presid lent
was read, asking prompt le gislation to fur
Their extend the time in which litigation in
relation to the forfeiture OF railroad land
grants may be prosecuted by the attorney
general. Referred to committee on public
lands, The house again went into commit
tee of the whole to consider the pension ap-
preparation bill under the five minute rule.
MoNDAY.-In the senate concurrent
resolution in relation to the assertion and
enforcement Of the Monroe doctrine, which
was iron clad and without the slightest
equivocation, was reported by Mr.. Davis.
Numerous petitions were presented and
referred to committees in favor Of the Stone
bill relating to immigration, raising the
level of the great lakes, service pensions,
the recognition of Cuban belligereucy, the
retirement of greenbacks and relating to the
Transvaal republic. Joint resolutions
were agreed to in the house authorizing the
committee on foreign affairs to print papers
on matters coming before II, and authoriz-
| ing the Pacific railroad committee to sit
during the session OF the house. Also bill
inc operating the Supreme Council, Thirty
third Degree Scottish Rite Masonry for the
southern jurisdiction OF the United States.
Also donating condemned cannon to various
Grand Army posts.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22

ecutive in years to come, are without
doubt subjects OF plans and negotia-
tons. The settlement Of the candidacy
for the governorship this year, II it is
settled one way, settles also other very
important affairs, if the contracts of the
political stock exchange are, or can be,
carried out.
These arbiters of the affairs of the
state are acting without commission or
shadow of authority from the people.
If the freemen of Vermont desire to
keep their sovereignty under their own
hats, to retain the choice of their ser
wants and the control of their affairs in
their gn hands, now and in the future,
they must keep sharp eye on the poll
ticians. They must hold their fire till
it is time Tor the battle to begin out in
the open. And the WATCHMAN ex-
horts them to hold their fire.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22
Hold Your Fret

II any one of the great body of the
people of Vermont, those who cast the
ballots and are depended on to roll up
the $4,000 majority that is the pledge of
republican victory in national cleo
ton, were asked who his preference for
governor is at the next election, his an
swer very likely would be: 81 haven't
thought much about that matter yet"
and it would be an honest answer. The
great body of the voters have not yet
begun to think about the election of a
governor, but with some anxious souls
this question has been in an acute stage
for months, not to say years. Men
have been sounded, support solicited,
pledges sought and given. If this &C
tivity related only to the coming can.
vass and stopped there, there would be
less ground for complaint. But rumors
of bargains made and combinations eff
fected relate to the future. The sena-
torial office, the Office of the chief ex-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22
Specifications Called For.

Editor of Watchman :--Several news
papers in the state are claiming that
Major Josiah Grout should be the next
governor. 1t is true that Major Grout
was soldier, and that he has been
a member of the legislature several
terms; but there are several thousand
old soldiers in the state, and several
hundred members of past legislatures.
1t is not claimed, indeed it cannot be,
that Major GrOut has not had many OPP
portunities for good work; but how has
he improved them? What measure of
reform has he ever originated? What
measure of reform has he ever advo-
catedP What measure of any value to
Vermont is he the author of? know
of none, and hope that his friends will
specify.
A SOLDIER AND AN EX- MEMBER.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22
William Mckinley.

Governor Mckinley is the product of
what is best and truest in American
citizenship. His early life was an
earnest one. He had to fight his way
in those early years. He was an active,
hearty and boyish boy. Yet early he
saw what was before him-work. The
first call for troops in that loyal little
village of Poland brought seventeen
year-old Mckinley into the ranks as a
private. The same earnestness that
was already part of him showed itself
in the sturdy young soldier. For four
years he did battle for his country
Upon coming back to Poland, where he
made his first public speech at reunion
of the soldiers of Poland in the month
of August after the return of the
Twenty-third Regiment, he began at
once the battle of life with the same
energy and s'eadfastness that he had
displayed in the ranks and as an officer
Probably the experience of his early
life had as much as anything to do with
forming his character in the exact mold
that we fud it to-day. He went to
Canton to live; married most happily;
was elected to the Office of prosecuting
attorney, and later sent to congress.
Since his entrance into congressional
halls, Mckinley has been before the
people, both of his native state and of
the whole country, and never once has
been an unknown quantity. 1t is
therefore fitting that The World should,
at this particular time, devote 80 much
of its space to Governor Mckinley. No
man ever went out of the governors
chair of Ohio with the hearty good will
of all the people expressed in so marked
a way as Mckinley at this time.-Cleve-
land World.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22
Saattbman 4 Journal,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY %, 1896.
ARTHUR ROPES, General Bditor.

To Senator Davis of Minnesota, a
member of the committee on foreign
relations, was assigned the task of
formulating a resolution enunciating
the Monroe doctrine. Senator Davis
report was adopted by the committee,
Senator Gray of Delaware alone dis
senting. The resolution, reported to
the senate on Monday, recites in detail
the original attitude of President Mon
roe and states the long acquiescence in
its execution. 1t reaffirms the doc
trine and declares that The United
States will support the position declared
by President Monroe. 1t will further
more regard any extension of foreign
dominance in this hemisphere-either
on the mainland or outlying islands, or
toward the control of any isthmian
canal-as manifestation of unfriendli-
ness toward the United States which
it will be impossible for the United
States to regard with indifference.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22

There are 80 742 policies in force, insuring
500, 1913 643. Since the organization of this
co pany there has been paid to Dolicy-
holders S12, 100 04 .30-a showing of which
both policy holders and officers have rea-
son to be proud. Among; the prominent
agents of this company who we're presen :
were j. f. Makeley, manager of the Met
ropolitan district, New York; o. N. and
George III. Olmsted, state agents for Ohio,
and General L. 5. Peck, general agent for
Chittenden county.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22

DOES anyone suppose, if Mexico, or
Venezuela, or Brazil, or any other of
the republics of Central or South Amer
lea, had been the claimant against
Great Britain for the damages done by
the " Alabama" and other Confederate
cruisers built and fitted out in English
ports, that Great Britain would have
submitted the claim to arbitration? Not
any. On the other hand, if British
merchantmen should be hauled up on
the high seas by cruiser of Central
or South American Republic, has any
one doubt as to what that unfortunate
people would suffer thereto? The
Corinto incident answers the query.
Taunts and sneers have come from the
mouths of American clergymen of the
rank of DIR. Lyman Abbo respecting
those countries down there" yet the
fact is recalled that Brazil was deemed
worthy to furnish member of the Ge-
neva Tribunal that considered the Ala
bama claims and awarded the United
States $15, 500, 900 in gold in settlement
therefor. "Those countries down
there" are all right if let alone. Give
them the same chance to rise from the
barbarism and trammes of centuries of
subsection, as colonies, to Spanish and
Portuguese rapacity and oppression,
as these same critics of their civiiza-
ton and efforts at constitu sional gov
eminent are demanding for the negro
released from the barbarism of slavery
in the states of the South, and they will
develop the capacity for enlightened
self-government. And they will be far
better neighbors for the United States
as independent, sovereign people, than
as British colonies.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22

THE house committee on invalid pensions
has ordered favorable report on the senate
bill granting pension OF $40 per month to
the widow of General William Cogswell OF
Massachusetts.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22

IT is conceivable that James Gordon
Bennett, Joseph Pulitzer or Charles A.
Dana would put his paper in charge of
an editor, and declare in personal
card in his own columns that he "has
no voice in what appears in this paper"
but one would hardly look for such an
exhibition of folly and self-abnegation
in Vermont newspaper king" In
m aking a statement of this kind, the
person whose name appears as the pro-
prietor of the St. Johnsbury Republican
and the Bellows Falls Times would
seem to be impeaching his reputation
as a somewhat thrifty and prudent
man, or confessing that he is only
fgure-head in the matter of proprietor
ship. Is his position rational one?
In case of libel, for example, against
whom would the aggrieved person seek
redress, the DR.. Jekyll or the Mr..
Hyde of the combination? And would
the latter escape responsibility on the
plea that the voice of the paper was the
voice of DR.. Jekyll? The reference to
the WATCHMAN in the card illustrat-
ing the novel relationship between the
proprietor of the Republican and the
Times and their editors is not entirely
happy. The WATCHMAN expresses the
views of its management, as we'll as its
editor, in it's support of men for office,
on the subject of temper ,nce, the tariff,
and all questions of vital importance.
The republican principle of the rule of
the majority prevails in any matter of
divergence of opinion, but there is gen.
orally substantial unanimity.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-01-31

Balance in treasury. ..S35,717
The above balance stands to the
credit of the various funds as per
Treasurer's Balance Sheet, dated
Jan 2, 1896:
The evening times., 1896-10-28
HANGED BY THE WRISTS.
Two Young Men BrutaIly Treated by
Whifecaps.

Gordon, Pa, oct. .2S.-One Of the most in
human acts ever Committed III this section
Of Schuylkill county occurred here on Mon
day nj ght Robert Norton and a young man
amed Walsh, Of Mahony Plane, after cali
ing upon two young ladies, wendell their
way To the station to take u train for home
They We're met by five masked men near
the diSpatcher's office, who tyled them
selves WhitecaDs. They inquired the busi-
ness OF Mr.. Walsh and Mr.. Norton, and, not
receiving a very polite reply, began to
handle them unCeremOniously.
The Whtecaps covered the wo men with
pistols and comma nded them to jump into a
creek. The men refused and a terrific
struggle ensued. The two Were oyerpOw-
cred. when the Whitecaps tied ropes about
their victims and cast them into the creek.
dition and made them get down on their
knees and promise not to call on any Of the
ladies Of Gordon in the future
They then drove the men TO the Phila del
phia and Reading trestle, and, after tying
ropes about their wrists, they lowered them
into space and began to prick them with
slender rods. After enjoying this british
amusement for some time they retreated
into the town leaving the young men dang
hing from the trestle.
Several hours thereafter the crew OF a
Newberry fast freight train that stopped at
the Planes discovered the young men still
hanging, but unconscious and bleeding from
numerous stabs inflicted by the novel in
strum ents of torture. A posse was at once
organized and they are SCourin. the noun,
tains and town for the raiders.
The evening times., 1896-10-28
CROWDS AT BALL GAMES.
Philadelphia l. First. Baltimore
EnurIh and NaSlingIOn Seventh.

The cry OF small crowds at Baltimore
durug the past year at baseball gaines
did perhaps, the city aninIuStice. OfcUurse,
the attendance may have been less than IN
1895. but III actual weekday attendance
tl:at city stands fourth in the list OF League
cities. and, leaving out Cincinnati, where
especially exciting conditions have pre-
vailed during the last season, leads them
all ID point OF proportion to population.
Philadelphia comes first. With popula-
ton in 1880 of ,046 Sc 4. that city turned
cat a daily average OF B $50 people to see
the national game.
1890. and the special halo surrounding
this years work OF the team, comes next
with 4,944 average weekday attendance.
and ID, ,S1T Sunday attendance, or b.9l5
average combined attendance.
New York, with ,Tl0,715 population in
1890, could send only 4, ,4S9 daily to the
Polo Grounds. Baltiinore's population Of
434 439 in 1890 furnished 4,4s9 enlhusi-
asIic rUOters per diem.
The rest follow in this order. Boston pop
ulatiun, 44S .477: daily average, 3,94O
Chicago. population, l,0S9, 500; daily ay-
erage, 3.1S0; Sunday average, 10, ,096: com
bineG average, 4,T21. Washington popu-
lJtlnu, go ,3g2 ito say nothing of its large
footing population. daily average. $3.50.
Brooklyn, population. s53,945; daily av-
erage, 3.416 Pittsburg, population, 23s,-
GlT daily average 1915. Cleveland pop
ulation. 261 ,253; daily average, 2,45s.
St. Louis. population, i51 40: daily aver
age. 2,3OG: Sunday average, 9,143; com
bined average, 3.116. Louisville. popuIa-
ton, l61 12O; daily average, ,51I; Sun
day average, 6,344; combined average,
2 302
The evening times., 1896-10-28
. HARNESS AND SULKY.

Gil Curry will go TO Germany to train
trotters.
+ TIE get Of Gambetta Wilkes Won S32 600
this season
There will be three days trotting at
Point Breeze next week.
John splan will winter his stable at
Doan Brook Farm, Cleveland.
The stallion L. L. Robinson, 2.l7 3-4, by
Epaulet, has been sent to Europe.
Sulphide, 2.O9 II, and Carbonate, . 90
Will go through the Texas circuit
Ed Geers, who has signed to drive next
year for the Hamlins, will winter at Selma,
Ala.
JOHN X. Gentry, will take his last shy
OF the season at the record at Belmont
Course today.
1t is said that the pacing mare Pearl
Onward, 2:10 IA, has stepped a half in
50 1-2 seconds.
c. C. jerome, of Chicago. who bought
Phenol, 2.O1 l 4, in Kentuck V last eek, will
drive her to pole with Tom Ogden this
winter.
knap Mccarthy leaves the employ of
Messrs. Hubinger Bros to open a public
stable another season. He has done re-
markably Well with Frank Acan. and time
and again, by his desperate finishes wnn
n goodly part OF the money.
An old wager has been made betweon
two Pittsburg horsemen. George saxbv
bets 81 900 that he can drive bis borsa
Lakewood Prince to wagon from Pittshur,,
The evening times., 1896-10-28
BASEBALL NOTES.

McGunnigle announces that every player
on his team is for sale, provided he gets the
proper price.
McAleer is reported to be desirous OF leav-
ing Cleveland, and would welcome his eX-
change for Mccarthy.
julius Knell, center fielder for the De
troit baseball team. while out hunting yes
terday, was accidentally shot by his brother.
His face and right arm and breast Were
filled with shot. Julius may lose an eye.
II so, his pla yinS days are over.
Philadelphia and Chicago will have
a merry Tilt in the coming League meet
ing, regarding Pitcher Callahan, of Kan
sas City. Philadelphia claims to have
drafted him. while Anson says that he
bought the young fellows release i'll the
middle of the season.
Manager McGunnigle, of the LouisvilleS,
viii attend the league meeting in Chicago
with the principal object OF ascertaining
what several managers are willing to pay
for certain of LOuisville's outfielders. If
they bring money enough with them Mac
says they can he accommodated.
Pittsburg has offered good player and
cash bonus TO Washington for young De
Montreville. Washington is considering it.
Mr.. Kerr admits that the offer mas been
made, but refuses to tell who the player
offered is. If it is Ely he may be able to
secure DeMontreyille.-Phila Record.
Those $40 900 paid for Breitenstein's re
lease have suddenly dwindled perCcptibly,
and it is said tn at the cash consideration
was very small, while the absolute prom
ise of Brush Is support in the fight against
the St Louis magnate. which Won Der
Abe believes is imminent, was the big in
Observation-Disclosures Plain Dealer
Ted Sullivan who went to England as
the advance agent for the team of Orioles
Gesrous of invading the mother country.
writes as follows to a friend in New
York regarding his inability to arrange
games for the champions: THE weather
here this month is like December
weather in America. To talk of outdoor
games at this season OF the year, the
EHglishmen would think you were out
or your mind. This. of course. does not
apply TO football. which they play under
any and all conditions: in hail. snow.
rain or thunder. or in all combined.
hadnOubeenin thecountryt wenty four hours
before / discovered that the proposed trip
would be an utter failure. and so I
cabled the boys not to come. There is
l find. considerable interest in our ma
tional game here, but it is only played
in the spring and summer, when conditions
are favorable. / think team that could
arrange to play here in May would do Well"