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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-31

Washington, March 20-The senate
committee On judiciary made ty-1 am
endneuts - the house bill ~ abolish
capital punishment. in certain casas
before reporting 3 70 thu senate. TIL.
first q these added 'traasa-r 70 tbe
crimes OF which. VIXEN an accused PER
son was found guilty.. the jury nigh.
qualify The verdict by adding the words
without capital punishment The
second amendment provided that when
an Indian committed the crime Of rape
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-30
Bitter Pill for Crackers.

The Tribune is indebted to DR.. f.
w. Inman, of Winter Haven, for a
very pleasant visit. He is one of ma
lures noblemen, a man richly endow-
ed with all those qualities of head
and heart which are admired by the
better thinking element of mankind
The DR.. is the leading spirit of the
colony planted at that point ten years
ago, and while his enterprise has
helped thousands, he is making a
handsome fortune for himself. Incl
dentally, he remarked, the community
raise every thing at home consumed
on the farm, and the money crops go
towards making further improve
ments and increasing the facilities
for living.
We are reminded this example is a
stunning rebuke to the horrid croak-
er who is always sitting about on salt
barrels, and dry goods boxes crying
hard times. We have no sympathy
for such people-they don't deserve
any-and if they would get few
spurs into their heads and few on
their heels instead of their blighting
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-30
Good Crop of Pineapples.

Notwithstanding the severe setback
received during the winter of 1894-95,
the pineapple industry along the
Florida East Coast is forging ahead
and will soon become one of the lead
ing industries in the fruit line in the
state. Capt. w. J. Jarvis, general
freight agent of the Florida East
Coast railway has just compiled ia
bic Of more than passing interest. 1t
gives the total in crates and half
crates of pineapples forwarded over
the road for the seasons of 1894, 1895,
and for the season of 1896 up to No
vember 80. Capt. Jarvis figures are
as follows:
1894 ......... ........... 35,931
1000 '''''''' ''''.''' '''.'..'' f,1Sf
Increase of 1896 over 1895, in whole
crates, 38,S85.
The movement for November, 1894,
was 1875 whole crates, and for No
vember of this year 1896 whole
crates.
The movement of December, 1894,
was SGT whole crates. This move
ment will be increased several times
during December of the present year
AS can be seen from the above COM
parsons, the killing frosts of 1S94-'95
practically ruined the pineapple crop
that winter. But it is encouraging to
the growers to note that the next
year the shipments ran away ahead
of 1894, which was a very good year.
Unlike oranges, the pineapple plant
along the East Coast is re-establish-
ed within a year or fifteen months,
which may not happen again for half
a century, it is only the crop that is
in sight that is lost. These facts are
abundantly borne out by Capt. Jar
Wis figures. -Jacksonville Citizen.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-30

tongues, the country would do better.
No land under the sun offers great
er inducements to the honest endeav-
orer, and none yields more bountiful
ly and readily to the hand of indus
try. Then why croak, why curse
providence for bad luck while men
trample his blessings under their I'M
hallowed feet.-Tampa Tribune.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-30
To Prevent otato Scab.

Experiments relating to potato
scab show that it will infect turnips,
beets and possibly other root crops,
catching from one kind to another.
Scabby seed will produce a scabby
crop, and land where scabby crop
was grown this year will produce
scabby crop next year. Baunyard
manure increases the disease. Hence,
to prevent scaib, plant healthy seed ON
clean land and use commercial fer
tilizers. IF scabby seed must be
planted, first soak them an hour and
a half in fifteen gallons of water in
which two and one-half ounces corro-
siVe sublimate has been dissolved.
This will cost twenty-five cents and
will treat enough seed for five acres.
Soak seed before cutting, and wash
dirt off before soaking. The subli-
mate is a strong poison and coTrodes
and exercise great care. Put the mix
ture in a barrel and dip in "a bushel at
a time in a loosely woven sack, and
spread out to dry. The Rhode Island
station confirms the above points and
adds that two years tests have prov
ed conclusively that lime and ashes
aggravate potato sca-b, which consti-
tutes a serious objection to their use
on potato lands.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-30
Seeds to Burn.~
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dFourthG
fiji orderdi tfromH Mention tha
DAVID Seed Farmers Philadelphia Penna
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-30

It is a shrubby soft-wooded plant,
with large leaves and blush, potato
looking flowers. The ruits have the
shape and size of a goose egg, but are
pointed at both ends, and if perfectly
ripe are lennon yellow in color, beau
tifully striped with violet. Their per
muskmelon, and they are eaten just
the same. AS already said, the plant
is soft-wooded and quite tender, but
/ have NO doubt it could he profitably
grown as an annual in sections eX-
posed to frost but having very hot
summers. It is quite readily propa-
gated from cuttings.
Another plant belonging to the
same order of the potato like the pre-
ceding, but much more known and
more hardy, is the Tomato Tree
Cyphomandra betacea-from south
America. This will make regular
small tree with somewhat feshy stem
and branches and broad round leaves,
very ornamental when young; a pro-
fusion of pinkish flowers, followed
by berries oval in shape, the size of a
big plum and of beautiful orange col
or, ripening during winter. These
fruits, besides being SO attractive to
the eye, are quite wholesome and
pleasant eating, especially if stewed
in sugar. Occasionally they are to
be found ON the market, but not as
much as they deserve, considering
also their excellent keeping and ship
ping qualities.
Some other day in the near future
I hope to entertain the members Of
the Pathological Society of Southern
California with an account of other
semi-troic fruits which have not
yet quite obtained citizenship with
us. The brief review I have made
will bring evidence, [ presume, that
in the frostless sections there may
be good profits, outside of lemons and
oranges, and [ hope it will also lead
to the consideration of how import
ant to the development of the re
sources of Southern California will
be the establishment of some institu-
ton in a truly suitable locality, fur
nished with adequate means and to-
tally independent from politics,
where such patient work of investi-
eating and experimenting, crossing
and selecting useful trees and plants
shall be carried on steadily and sys-
tematically.- Redlands Citrograph.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The latest fad among the male fools Of
New York is bleaching the hair to a pale
straw color.
BY personally soliciting for money from
house to house the Dean of Norwich has
raised $50, 600 for the restoration Of the Ca
thedral.
The mother of Aubrey Beardsley, the art
list of the wierdly symbolicaf school. is a
gentle, old-fashioned English woman, who
lives entirely for her son and his pretty
young sister. Mrs. Beardsley regards him
with reverential admiration, but he is SAID
to take himself overseriously.
Barney Barnato was once playing Jacob
McCloskey'' in the "Octoroon'' at the KIM
berley Theater Royal. and had just come
to the climax where he offers 6 1000 for the
girl at the slave auction. The audience was
worked to a high pitch OF enthusiasm. and
a swarthy old miner leaped UP In the pit
and shouted: by thunder. FL go six"
Bishop William Taylor says that your
Dom Paul is about the busiest man in Afri-
ca At $50 o'clock. for instance, when most
presidents and kings ara presumably eating
their breakfast Dom Paul has left his house
and appeared in the executive chamber to
day, too. Is sometimes a busy day with him,
for whenever the pastor OF his church is
absent. Mr.. Kruger goes into the pulpit
himself. and Bishop Taylor says he
breaches with ability and power.
I was staying at the house OF Sir William
Smith Marriott. In DsSset. some few years
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-05

ago. says a writer in an English paper.
when the butler came into his masters
room one morning with a. very long face.
morning. Poor Mr.. - mentioning the
name or q clergyman In an adjoining Wiz
lage) has been and gone and hung himself.
ana tnatS not the worst OF IL, Sir Wlliiam,
that there fox has broken into your pre-
serves again and killed twenty-five OF your
young pheasants."
Mary Cowden Clarke's statement. in her
autobiography. that she has heard Charles
Lamb say that he never suffered when
he told a lie. recalls a witticism by James
Madison; as told in Henry S. Randalls
Lille or Thomas Jefferson (Nolume 8, page
49,: Madison was lying on his back on
a. sofa, at Montpelier, complaining of con-
siderable indisposition, but talking with
great volubiitty TO some guests. The Doc
tor suggested hat he would not benefit
himself by speaking so much in that po-
sitiOn. oh, Doctor I always talk easiest
when L lie. was the reply"
Bishop Creighton, of Peterborough, who
has just been appointed Bishop of London.
is a man of mark. In 1854 he became pro-
fessor Of ecclesiastical history in Cam
bridge. In 1856 he was present at the two
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. anniversary ce.eb. "a
ton OF Harvard, and received from 1t the
degree of LII. D.. He is the author of sew
eral historical II ks and is one OF the
hardest working bishops Oh the bench. He
Will probably be an archbishop before long,
for the diocese of London Is likely to be
made an archieliscopal see; and, aside from
that, he will almost certainly be the sue
cessor Of DR.. Temple in the primacy. He
IS fifty-one years old.
Ii Hung Chang was greatly pleased with
the attentions showered upon him in New
York. On the eve Of his. departure he CAV
the manager of the Waldorf a number of
articles of rare beauty and richness and
several packages of priceless tea. He COM
plimented him also by asking him to come
dorf. He was most generous with his tips,
having a list OF all the hotel servants who
waited upon him brought to him SO that
he could apportion gifts among them. His
last graceful act was to provide hat to
each lady who was a guest of the hotel
should be presented "a bunch of American
Beauty roses. with his compliments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-05
ANALYSIS of THE VOTE.
Republicans Lost on Poll Book Show
ing in Railroad Precincts.

An analysis of the vote in Marion county
shows that the Republicans fell behind ex-
pectations in several precincts where the
railroad vote was strong. considerable loss
es On the poll being evident. In the ninth
precinct of the Eighth ward, a strong rail-
road precinct. the Republican poll showed
200 Republicans, but only 199 votes were
cast for the Mckinley electors, and while
the poll gave but ninety-seven silver DEM
oc>ats. thirty-two gold Democrats and six
teenteen doubtful Democrats, Bryan re-
ceived 157 votes. In the seventh precinct
of this ward, also another railroad pre-
cinct, Bryan had one undre votes, though
the poll showed him only forty, with ff-
teen gold Democrats and ffty-five doubtful.
Mckinley received l31. the poll book show
ing only 126. The eleventh precinct of this
ward gave Mckinley but 139, the poll show
ing l61. While the poll allowed the silver
Democrats only s-eveEty-seven. Bryan re-
ceived 1s0. There were twenty-one gold
Democrats and ten doubtful ones in this
precinct. The twelfth precinct Of the ward
did much better. for the look only showed
ninety-nine Republicans, and there were
40 Mckinley ballots in the box. Bryan got
sixty-one out of a poll showing thirty-ninc
silver Democrats. twenty-three doubtfuls
and twenty-eight gold Democrats. The
biggest slump for the Republicans was I'm
the Eighth ward. In Precinct 5 Of Ward ..
where there arc q great many railroad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-05
SLAVERY Or THE ARMENIANs.
They Live I'm Constant Terror of the
Turks-The MASSACRE at Ecin.

A letter received in Boston from Harpoot,
eastern Turkey, dated Oct. 6, says: Since
come from there, not even the regular
muleteers. A soldier from the city, who
had a share in the massacre has arrived at
Harpoot, and he was much affected in tell
ing his Armenian neighbors of what had
taken place at Egin, especially of the heart
rending appeals OF the women. The place
will probably never recover from the blow
which IL has received. The proportion of
men and women and children remaining
alive is small; There were two hundred
women and children and only ten men in
the Protestant service last Sunday.
Letters have been received to-day from
women in Egin begging that they might be
brought here to escape the insults Of the
Turks. The evidences multiply that there
was a plan for a general massacre of which
the affair at Egin was only a part, but that
1T was countermanded, perhaps through the
influences of the ambassadors at Constan-
tinople. Some suppose that II has been
merely postponed. Hundreds of Armenians
are arriving here who have been expelled
from Constantinople. They are mostly in a
pitiable condition. They were not allowed
to go to their lodgings to secure their cloth
ing and comforts for the journey, or even
to their shops to arrange their business.
They were hustled away without any cere-
mony. The most of these men were bread
winners in Constantinople for their families
here. Many of them with their families
will now be dependent upon charity.
The Charsanjuk region, to the northeast
of us, Is ruled and oppressed by a few
feudal chiefs. They control the lands. the
gardens and vinelands and even the houses
of the people. In many cases this summer,
the tenants were not allowed to harvest
the grain which they had sown. Their
fields were given to others to work: yet
they did not venture to make complaint.
Mr.. Fontana. the consul. gave the vaili here
a few Of the names of the men thus de-
spoiled, and our commissioner was sent 10
investigate. The poor tenants, through
fear. denied the truth. Osman Bey, of Har-
ask. of the same district. is building a
large house wholly with free labor. Even
the timber is brought from a distance with
out paw. This is the custom of the district
to exact labor without wages. This was
one of the charges investigated with the
same result as the others. Osman Bey,
suspecting one of the men OF his village as
a complainant. hung him up by the heels
for several hours. beating and kicking him
occasionally, although the victim was Who'll
ly Innocent of the charge. All this a year
after the adoption of the reform scheme"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-05
THE EFFECT ABROAD,

From an American and patriotic point of
view one of the most important results of
the election of Mckinley will be its effect
abroad. The effect at home will be more
direct and immediate, but not more i'm
portant. In this country the effect will be
felt in a revival of confidence and trade,
in more work and better wages, in the en-
largement of existing factories and the es-
adjustment of new ones, and in the gen.
eral stimulus of business. Abroad, the eff
feet will be moral rather than material.
1t will be notice to the world that republic
an government in the United States has
triumphantly survived the second great
test put upon it's strength and endurance.
The first was that of the civil war.
settled the question OF the physical strength
of the government and the military re-
sources of the people to carry on a great
war. The election of Tuesday settled their
ability to deal with a great political dam
ger by political methods. The result OF the
civil. war proved that we are a military
people. Tuesdays election proves that we
can put down social as well as armed rev.
olution. The war showed that we could
put down a rebellion with bullets; the
election shows that we can meet an upris-
Ing Of the proletariat with ballots. The
effect abroad will be immediate and great.
1t is hardly possible to exaggerate 1t. 1t
is the second grand vindication of popula
government. 1t will have an immense effect
in Europe In the way of promoting Amer
lean credit and advertising the strength of
republican institutions. 1t decides that we
are an honest, debt-paying people. 1t de-
cides that VIC are not Il nation of rascals.
1t is notice to foreign capitalists that mon
ey invested in this country is safe. The
result will be an immediate strengthening
of American credit and securities abroad
and a steady influx of foreign capital to
this. The money that will come here by
this impulse will be gold. or as good as
gold, and it will give new and healthy life
to business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-05
Mckinley Electors Run About 1,:G2
Ahead of the Vote for County
Treasurer Schmidt.
HE EASILY LED HIS TICKET
THE COLL DEMOCRATS HELPED
SWELL THE NATIONAL VOTE.
Republicans Made Lightest Gains In
Railroad Precincts-An Analysis Of
workmanship Board To-Day.

h returns from Marion county. almost
complete and with close estimates on the
precincts still out, show the plurality for
the Republican electors to be 7,075. Official
returns on the entire ticket a been re-
ceived from $50 precincts, and on the head
of the ticket from about twenty more, out
of a total of 216 precincts in the county.
In making the estimates of the lacking
precincts the vote that was considered abb
solutely certain to 60 for the Republican
ticket was put in the Republican column
and all Democrats, Popocrats. Populists,
Prohibitionists and doubtful Republicans
were given to the Popocratic ticket. This
makes it probable hat the plurality, as
shown by the accompanying table, will be
slightly increased by the Official returns.
The pluralities show that a good many of
the gold-standard Democrats cast their
votes for Mckinley anG the Republican
State ticket, but voted the Popocratic coun-
ty ticket. McKinley's plurality is the lar
gest on the State ticket and is 1,262 higher
than Sckmidt's plurality. Schmidt ran from
100 to 500 ahead of the other county candi-
dates. The following tables show the total
vote by wards and townships, with the to-
tai vote and pluralities of the city and the
total and pluralities in the county. on both
State and ccrnty tickets:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-05
exclusive OF Marion county. In round num-
bers there are $500 precincts outside of Ma

exclusive OF Marion county. In round num-
bers there are $500 precincts outside Of Ma
rion. At eight to a precinct these 2.e00 pre-
cincts would give a Republican plurality
OF o. 200. Add to the %. 200 the 1850 plurality
in Marion county and we nave 81. ESQ. From
this number deduct Mr.. Cleveland's plu-
rality in 1892 of 100 and there remains
over 24.OO0 as the Republican plurality.
Take four as the average gain for all the
precincts outside OF Marion and the Repub-
lican plurality would be II. 500. Deduct
from the 1,6O0 Mr.. Cleveland's plurality
in 1892 and 1850 would remain. Add Ma
rion's 1850 TO the $500 and L. $50 would be a
minimum Mckinley plurality for Indiana.
There had been no dispatch from any re-
liable source yesterday from any part of
Indiana which would warrant the putting
on a bulletin any announcement that In
diana was in doubt.
1t may be an excellent joke to deceive
ones supposed opponents, but what about
its friends-the friends whom the Sentinel
caused to go into ecstasies yesterday after
noon On the assumption that Indiana had
gone Democratic? 1t may be that some
thing could have been gained by such de-
ception before the day Of election, but
what could have been gained by the Sen
tinel yesterday by unnecessarily fooling its
friends?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-05

: If the Journal has some reputation for
honesty it has been obtained by a long
course of fair dealing with its readers. 1t
never garbles the news, never knowingly
prints false dispatches and never intention
ally misleads the public. 1t may some
times be mistaken. but it never perpetrates
frauds. This could not be said Of newspa-
pers which use the excitement Of the hour
or play OIL the anxiety of the people in
times of political suspense to arouse false
hopes or needless fears in order to sell a
few papers. The few nickels that are
gained by that sort of thing are no tempta-
ton to the Journal TO depart from it's ira
ditional course. The city papers which
yesterday issued bulletins entirely unsup-
ported by facts. thereby raising a cloud of
sensational and misleading street rumors,
are welcome to all the nickels they got
by IL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-05
NEW COUNTY OFFICERS.
Dates When the Various Will
Take Place.

OF the county officers elected by Tues
days ballots, William H. Schmidt succeeds
himself as treasurer, though his present
term does not expire until Sept. 4. 1897;
John V. Coyner succeeds himself as county
surveyor, Henry l.. Harding is reelected
commissioner from the Third district and
Charles S. wiltsie is to begin a second
term as prosecuting attorney.
Thomas p. Shufelton, sherif-elect, will
assume his duties Dec. 10, Albert Womack
retiring. The term OF Henry Clay Allen as
judge of the Circuit Court will begin Nov.
10, when thai of Edgar \. Brown expires.
Joseph E. Boswell will become county as
SCISSOR on Nov. 13, succeeding Joel A. Baker.
John McGregor is to take the place on the
Board OF County commissioners which has
been held by Julius Reinecke, on the first
Monday in December. He is elected for
three years from the Second district. DR..
A. w. Brayton will succeed Hiram Castor
as coroner on Nov. 10.
There is not much political significance
in these changes. The Board of County
commissioners becomes unanimously Re
publican by the retirement of Mr.. Reinecke.
1t has been two TO one Republican hereto
fore, however. All the other retiring Off
GERS, with the exception of Judge Brown,
are Republicans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-05
A QUEER PERFORMANCE.

There was at no time yesterday any basis
for the vague claims OF the Sentinel in re-
gard to Indiana or the result of the pres
idential election. To be elected Mr.. Bryan
must have had the votes of Indiana. Mich
igan and Minnesota. These were essential
TO make 2S2 electoral votes. II either of
them were lost to Mr.. Bryan he was de-
feated. There has not been an hour since
returns nave begun to come in from In
diana when there could nave been q rea-
sonable doubt on the part OF any man who
has any experience in handling election re-
turns that Major Mckinley had the State
The Sentinel had the same bulletins Of the
Associated Press OF the returns OF Indiana
that the Journal had At no time did these
returns show a smaller Republican gain to
. precinct than eight compared with 1882