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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-04
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also, at West Point with logk-kiyef
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TO an interest in our business Mr.. s. ID.
CRAIG. Mr.. JOSIAH VAUGHAN. and
Mr.. ID. J. PIERCE.
PURCELL. LADD & CO.,
ia La Wholesale Druggists
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-12

constrain us 10 object to the acquisition Of the
island or an interference with its control by
any other power.
Patience VIII Soon Cease.
1t should be added that II not be reason
ably assumed that the hitherto expectant atti-
tude OF the United States will be indefinitely
maintained. While we anxious to accord
all due respect to the sovereignty OF Spain,
can not view the pending conflict in all it's
features and properly apprehend our close re-
lations to 1t and its possible results without
considering that by the of events we
may be drawn into such an unusual and unpre-
cedented condition as will fix a limit to our
patient waiting for Spain to end the contest
either alone and in her own way. with
friendly cooperation. When the inability of
Spain TO deal successfully with the insurgents
has become manifest, and it is demonstrated
that sovereignty is extinct in Cuba for all pur-
poses OF its rightful existence. and when the
struggle for re-establishment has degenerated
into strife which means nothing more than
the useless sacrifice of human life and the ut
ter destruction Of every subject matter of the
obligations to the sovereignty of Spain will be
superseded by higher obligations. which can
hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge.
Leaves 1t to Mckinley.
Deferring the choice Of ways and methods
until the time for action arrives, should
make them depend upon the precise conditions
then existing; and they should not be deter
mined upon without giving careful heed to ev-
cry consideration involving our honor and in
terest, or the international duty owe to
Spain. Until we face the CONTINGENCIES sug-
gested, the situation is by other incidents
imperatively changed should continue in
the line of conduct heretofore pursued, thus
in all circumstances exhibiting our obedience
to the requirements of public law and our re-
gard for the duty enjoined upon us by the posi-
ton we occupy in the galaxy of nations A
contemplation of emergencies that may arise
should plainly lead us to avoid their creation
either through a careless disregard of present
duty even undue stimulation and ILL
timed expression of feeling. But l have deemed
II not amiss to remind the congress that a time
may arrive when correct policy and care for
our interests as well a regard for the in
terests of other nations and their citizens, join
ed by considerations of humanity and a desire
to a rich and fertile country intimately re-
lated to us saved from complete devastation,
will constrain our government to such action
will subserve the interests involved and at
the same time promise to Cuba and It's inhabi-
tants an opportunity to enjoy the blessings of
peace.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-12
CLEVELAND's VIEWS ON FOREIGN
AFFAIRS AND FINANCE.
Cubans Have Only IA Government on
Paper and should Not BE
Recognized.

Washington d. c., Dec. 7.-President
Cleveland's last annual message was pre-
scented to congress today. Following Is
the full text Of the document:
To the Congress of the United States:
AS representatives of the people in me
legislative branch of their government
you have assembled at time when Inc
strength and excellence of our free lu-
stitutions and the fitness Of our cltl-
zens to enjoy popular rule have been
again made manifest. A political contest
involving momentous consequences,
fraught with feverish apprehension, ana
creating aggressiveness so intense as 10
approach bitterness and passion, mas peSn
waged throughout our land, and deter
mined by the decree of free and inde-
pendent suffrage without disturbance OF
our tranquility or the least sign of weak
ness in our national structure.
When we consider these incidents ana
contemplate the peaceful obedience ana
submission which have succeeded a heaS-
ed clash of political opinions. we discover
abundant evidence Of a determination on
the part of our countrymen to abide by
every verdict of the popular will, and 10
be controlled at all times by an abiding
faith in the agencies established for the
direction of the affairs of their govern
ment. Thus our people exhibit patriotic
disposition, which entities them to de-
and execute their laws such faithful and
unselfish service in their behalf as can
only be promoted by a serious apprecia-
ton " the trust and confidence which
the acceptance of public duty invites.
In obedience to a constitutional re-
quirement, l hereby submit to congress
certain information concerning national
affairs with the suggestion of such leg
islation as in my Judgment is necessary
and expedient. To secure brevity ano
avoid tiresome narration, L shall omit
many details concerning matters within
federal control which, by no means unim-
portant. are more profitably discussed IL
departmental reports. 1 shall also fur
ther curtail this communication by omit
ting a minute recital of any minor Incl
dents connected with our foreign rela
tons which have heretofore found q
place in executive messages, but are now
contained in a report of the secretary al
state, which is herewith submitted
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-12
OTHER MINOR FOREIGN MATTERS.
Venezuela No Longer I'm Controversy
Consular AppOin tments.

The Venezuelan question has ceased to be a
matter of difference between Great Britain and
the United States, the respective governments
having agreed upon the substantial provisions
of a treaty between Great Britain and Venez-
uela, submitting the whole controversy to ar
bitration The provisions OF the treaty are so
eminently just and fair that the assent Of
Venezuela thereto may confidently be antici-
pated. Negotiations by treaty OF general
arbitration for all differences between Great
Britain and the United States are advanced and
promise to reach a successful contamination at
an early date.
Consular civil Service.
The scheme of examining applicants for GER
tain consular positions to test their competency
and fitness adopted under executive order
issued on September 20, 1895. has fully demon
strated the usefulness of this innovation. In
connection with this plan of examination, pro-
motions and transfers of deserving mcumbents
have been quite extensively made with ex-
cellent results.
During the past year 80 appointments have
been made in the consular service, q Of which
were made to fill vacancies caused by death or
resignation or to supply newly created posts,
two to succeed incumbents removed for cause,
two for the purpose of displacing alien consular
officials by American citizens and four merely
changing the official title of the incumbent
from commercial agent to consul. Twelve OF
these appointments were transfers or promo
tions from other positions under the department
of state, four of those appointed had rendered
previous service in the department, eight were
made of persons who passed a satisfactory ex-
animation, seven were appointed to places moi
included in the order of September 20, 1895, anc
four appointments above stated, involved nc
change of incumbency.
The inspection of consular offices provided
for by an appropriation for that purpose at the
last session Of the congress, has been productive
of such wholesome effects that 1 hope this i'm
portant work Will in future be continued
know of nothing that can be done with the SAM
slight expense so improving the service.
/ desire to repeat the recommendation con
tanned in my last annual message in favor o.
providing at public expense official residence,
for ambassadors and ministers at foreign
capitals. The reasons supporting this recon
mendation are strongly stated in the report o.
the secretary of state and the subject seems o
such Importance that hope 1t may receive th'
early attention of congress.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-12
DEPARTMENT. OF THE TREASURY.
Government Expenses Yearly Ex-
coed Government Receipts.

Cced government Receipts.
The secretary of the treasury reports that
during the fiscal year ended June 30. 1896 the
receipts Of the government from all sources
amounted to S409 AIS, 4OS.76. During the same
period its expenditures were %34, 67S, 654.4S ex-
cess Of expenditures over the receipts thus
amounting to S25 20S, 2O4.5O. The ordinary ex-
pendtures during the year were A.015. S52 q less
than during the preceding fiscal year. OF the
receipts mentioned, there was derived from GUS
toms the sum of $50 021, 75l67 and from internal
revenue SAG $50, 615.66. The receipts from GUS
toms show an increase of 81, 1858 1922 over these
from the same source for the fiscal year ending
June 80. 1895. and the receipts from internal
revenue an increase of 1884. 537.91.
Exports ana Imports.
The value of our imported dutiable merchan-
disc during the last fiscal year was 1868 $751; TO-
and the value of free goods imported s4O9. 967.-
40 being increase of Sc. 523, SIS in the value
of dutiable goods and $41,231, 034 in the value
of free goods over the preceding year. Our ex-
ports of merchandise, foreign and domestic,
amounted in value to $3.50. COG. 9SS. being an in
crease over the preceding year OF s75O6S, 773.
The average ad valorem duty paid duti-
able goods imported during the year was 39.94
per cent, and on free and dutiable goods taken
together 20.55 per cent
Internal Revenue.
The cost OF collecting internal revenues
was 2.7S per cent, against Psi per cent for
the fiscal year ending June 30. 1895. The total
production of distilled spirits, exclusive of fruit
brandies. IS. $751; 03 taxable gallons, being
an increase of (, 639 los gallons over the pre-
LAS, 676 gallons OF spirits produced from fruit
as compared with the preceding year. The
number of barrels OF beer produced was 80 500 -
$50, as against 33. $50. 7S4 produced in the pre-
ceding fiscal year. being an increase Of 2.25s. =
446 barrels.
Gold and Silver.
The total amount or gold exported during the
last fiscal year was SIZE, 409, 9l7 and OF silver
$780, 541 go, being increase OF 1854 466 OF gold
and $13 246 1884 of silver the expectations OF
the preceding fiscal year. The imports of gold
s2S525. 065. and OF silver s2s 77.1S5, being
So $50 6s5 less of gold and S. 566 OO7 more of sill
yer than during the preceding year.
The total stock of metallic money In the
United States at the close Of the last fiscal year
ended on the Both day OF June, 1896, was 81 276,-
s2e 035. OF which s57s. $50 1854 was in gold and
ss42, 72S Oh In silver
On the LIST day of November. 1896, the total
stock OF money OF all kinds In the country
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-12-12
PRESENTATION OF SEAL LIFE
Report of Commissioner to Bering
Sea Is Awaited.

We have during the last year labored faith
fully and against unfavorable conditions TO
cure better preservation OF seal life in Bering
sea. Both the United States and Great Britain
have lately dispatched commissioners to these
waters to study the habits and condition of the
seal herd and the causes OF their rapid de-
crease. Upon the reports Of these commission
ers, soon to be submitted, ana with the exer-
else of patience and good sense the part
of all interested parties. 1t is earnestly hoped
that hearty cooperation may be secured for the
protection against threatened extinction of seal
life in the northern Pacific and Boring sea-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-06-23

GREEN BAY, June s3-Ex-Representa-
tive T. K Hudd died at his home in this
city late yesterday afternoon Of 2aralysis
Of the heart He leaves q wife and four
children He was one Of the best known
politicians In the northern part q TIE
state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-06-23
1 QUEEN Of SVMnDlRRS
The Bold and Original
Methods of a Brilliant
Confidence Woman.

The most accomplished swindler and
confidence woman in America lies in the
county Jail at Hartford, Conn, and but
for lucky accident she would shortly
have been let loose to prey once more upon
the public.
Mrs. E. Wallace Howe is the name Of
this woman whose talents, II properly d.
rected. would have made her famous in
any legitimate profession. She has swim
died something like a Thousand college
alumni. Harvard preferred, ON the class
mates sister or classmates widow game
She has worked" the Masonic fraternity
in similar fashion. She has played upon
the sympathies of Grand Army men to the
tune Of thousands She has given "fake''
lectures to society women east and west.
She pulled the wool over the eyes of Lord
and Lady Dufferin when the former was
governor general of Canada. She has been
through the Boston fire and the Johnstown
flood. As the Drummer Boy of Lookout
Mountain she whecdled thousands out Of
their dollars when most of the present
generation of swindlers were in their era
dies Tho woman is 4S years old. Her
operations cover a period of nearly 80
years, have extended from the Aristook to
the Rio Grandc ard have yielded a mint
OF moncy-nobotiy knows how much.
Mrs. Howe was sent to the Hartford Jail
in August, 1894, for swindling Yale alum
nj living In that city. She would have
been released under her sentence, with de-
auctions for good time, on July 12, but
the other day an incident occurred which
Will cause the pOstponement Of her liberia
ton. The Jail officials discovered letters
which she had written to her husband and
other confcSierates planning n new cam
paign of swindling as soon rs she should
obtain her release. As several criminal
charges arc hanging over Mrs Howe, it is
likely to be some time before she will have
an opportunity to resume her trade
Mrs Howe's maiden name was Martha
E. Stiles, and she was born in Manchester,
n. H., in 1s4S. Soon after the war she
began her career of fraud, giving a series
of lectures on war topics In the guise of
the Drummer Boy of Lookou. Noun
tain. She said she enlisted in a Michigan
regiment as Homer Mortimer and served
through many battles
She used to appear before her audiences
in a drummer's blouse and fatigue cap,
remarkably becoming. One of herystorics
was of her appearance before President
Lincoln to plead for the pardon Of her
brother, who had been sentenced to be shot
for sleeping on post. She told the story
with remarkable force and verisimilitu6e,
always reaching her climax thus:
THAT little girl now stands before you I"
These stories did service for rcnIarl:a-
bly, long time, both in public and in pri.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-06-23

vate, until one day q Michigan Grand
Army man looked up the cords and
found that no such name as II mer Morti-
mer was enrolled from Michigan.
1t was during one of her lecture tours
that the woman happened to be in Boston
when the great fire Of 1873 broke out She
did heroic duty for the sick and wounded
and showed great bravery in the work Of
rescue
She married, in 1876, A. H. Clayton, q
clergyman of the Church of England. He
allowed her to support him for several
years, and then che divorced him. and, as
Kate Homer Clayton, went to the Pacific
coast where she renewed her Grand Army
lectures and swindles.
In San Francisco. in 1884, she married
Edward r. Howe He was a commissioner
from California to the New Orleans Cotton
exposition, and in the Crescent City the
two spent their honeymoon. From New
Orleans they drifted to Boston, where both
joined Modjeska's company, meanwhile
working the Harvard game whenever they
could BY way of variety she also posed
on occasions as a Biason's daughter and
made some money out of trustful brothers
They soon left the stage and went west,
where Mrs. Howe gave public entertain
ments. notably children's drama called
'Komo." Her powers of mind made ar
impression everywhere, but everywhere
she left unpaid bills and broken promises
She and her husband were in Chicago
early in 1893, when he was arrested on
complaint of the president of the Harvard
club The wife then went to New York,
and from crelulous Yale and Harvard
men obtained the money to employ coun
sci for her husband defense. He was re
leased, but she continued her operations
until August. 1894, when she was locked
up ut Hartford.
Howe has been lying low ever since
sitting namby pamby," as his wife says.
He has had remarkable career also Born
IN Cincinnati Of good parcntage in 1S43,
he served in the army and graduated at
Harvard in 1864. He became president of
the Lawrence Technology society, after
studying mining in Frciburg and at the
Ecole dcs Mines in Paris He was super
intendent of a rolling mill in Pomeroy,
o., and an assistant engineer of the Bos-
ton and Lowell railroad. In San Francisco
he was auditor for the Western Union
company and prominent in social and pub
lie life.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-06-23
OHIO TO FOLLOW ILLINOIS
She win Send TO Chicago . Radical Ere
Silver Delegation.

She win Send to Chicago . Radical Free
Silver Delegation.
COLUMBUS, June 23-Delcgates to the
Democratic state convention are coming
in slowly and the indications are that
there will be few visitors. The conyen-
ton does not meet until tomorrow. All the
preliminary work will be done by the
district delegates and committee meetings
this evening. Hon. John Mcmahon, of
Dayton. having declined to act as temper
airy chairman on the ground that he has
been too frequently turned down by the
party, the question of who will preside Is
being discussed, but the temporary chair
man will not be named until the state
central committee meets.
Dan McConville, formerly sixth auditor
OF the treasury, and Allen w. Thurman
are the leaders of the free silvcrites, who
will have big majority in the conven-
ton. McConville claims that there are
$50 delegates pledged to vote for a free-sil-
yer plank in the platform and eighty-two
pledged to the gold standard, while sixty
five are doubtful. The gold-standard men
only claim 100 to 125 delegates. The ma
jority of the free silver men ia so great
that the convention will probably adopt
the unit rule. The delegates at large to
the national convention at Chicago will
all be pronounced free-silver men of ma
tiOnal reputation.
1t is conceded that John R. Mclean, Of
Cincinnati; Allen w. Thurman, of Co.
lumbus, and j. W. Bookwalter, of Spring
field, will be three of the delegates-at-
large. The contest for the fourth place Is
said to lay between Lee Holden, of Clevc-
land; Z. B. Findlay, of Bucyrus, and
Judge K. J. Blandin, of Cleveland. There
is scarcity Of candidates for places on
the state ticket and it Is probable that
there Will be some new names on it. A..
A. Brown, a young attorney Of Cincin-
natl seems to be choice of the free silver
men for secretary of state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-06-23
AMERICAN r,Llsusfra KILLED.

Restless 0p1E3 VIZ - . Uaho1 - 49,
tng Rsyolue3eaaxy Novunsnfa,
KnsGsr0N, jamaica, June M-Advicpp
brought here By messenesas from tho isl-
and of Cuba report the death Of 0eneral
W. W. Wilson, the leader Of an American
expedition which landed In Cuha On Doc.
8, in order to assist the insureentsL Gen
ezal Wilson II sid to have been killed In
battle near Guantanamo.
General Wilson with about eaghtssn
men, four Of whom were graduates Of
West Point, landed in Cuba early In De-
cember Last with 800 rites, 5000 rounds Of
ammunition, supply of dynamite, ETC.
The expedition was fitted out in New York
by Americans who are interested In Cub.
General Wilson had seen service in Cen.
trail and South America, and was with
Cara ON the Mexican border some years
ago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-06-23
sPANIARDs AT MADRID RED HOE.
Senator Comas Wants to Abrogafe Al
Treaties with Uncle Sam.

Senator C0unas Wants to Abr0gate All
Treaties with Uncle Sam.
As showing the effect Of the foregoing
letter on Spaniards dispatch from New
York says that The Worlds special from
Madrid has the following: The profound
est sensation has been caused here by the
news Of the alleged purport of n report by
United States Consul General Lee to Pres
idcnt Cleveland on the state Of affairs in
Cuba. The effect Of the intelligence is
difficult TO cxaggerafe- All classes Of the
community are greatly wrought up, but
the commotion is especially great in par
liamentary and political circles
1.-The Hobbies Of the senatc were extremely
animated just before Senator Comaa
began an energetic and anti-American
speech on moving an amendment to the
address in reply 10 the speech from the
throne asking the government to annul
all treaties between spain and this United
States. The impression Is general among
politicians and military men that the gov
eminent will be requested to Withdraw
Consul General Lees exequator IL he
really has expressed opinions as unfavors-
BILE to Spanish s::.c q CHA, as rumoz
credits him with having done"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-06-23
VIII Adopt q Gold Platform.

that the Democratic state convention to-
day will adopt a gold platform by a ma
jority of two to one, although there are
many delegates who favor silence on the
subject, and still more who want silver
plank. General Edward 5. Bragg and
senator Villas will be two of the delegates
at-large. Some of the delegates will
doubtless be for silver, but under the unit
rule they will be smothered.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-06-23

InserastSsnal suoday-scbssa Csavenesoo
BosTOs, June x-Nany delegates from
al parts q the United States and Canada
TO the international Sunday school con-
vention. which opens here today, srS in The
ctfv.