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The herald., 1896-05-11
lvRlNo GAME TO DEATH.
Beasts Of Prey That Play % the Curiosity
of Their Natural EoSn.

of Their Natural Eosn.
A writer In we'll known sporting paper
tells how he and . friend lay down behind
log one day and watched for a fiook Of
canvasback ducks to como into the broad
river. Pretty soon in camea flock of thou
sands that alightod 500 yards from the
shore and began to plume themselves
duck fashion. One of the men tied his red
handkerchief on the end of stick and be-
gan to wave 1t at intervals in sight OF the
ducks. The ducks began to cock their
heads sideways and after awhile they be-
gan to swim toward the log. They came
within 20 yards, and the men jumped up,
and one got 10 and the other 8 ducks with
the four discharges.
The panther on the plains Of Patagonia
gets as near herd Of guanacos as it can,
then lies down behind bush on Its back.
1t puts one paw up in the air, then an
other, then the third and fourth, and after
q bit all four at once. That seems curious
to the guanacos and they come close to
investigate. Up jumps the panther and
lights on tho nearest ones 8 back and breaks
its neck. r
A fox up in Nova Scotia comes down to
the bay of Fundy and goes jumping along
the beach a couple Of rods and back again,
rising Oh ltS nina legS az edcn aDout race
and waving its big tail In the air. The
little flock of four or five Canada geese out
on the water begin to wonder what can be
the matter with the fox. They swim up
into the shallow water to investigate,
when In dashes the fox and grabs one by
the neck The men have taken advantage
of this trick and have trained dogs to do
as the fox does. For lack Of a dog men
themselves have ambled about on their
hands and knees to attract the birds.
A Wild house cat, black as coal, was seen
by hunter walking slowly up and down
a level stretch Of sand near an old house
on the Connecticut river. Three black
ducks were far out in the river, and, like
the geese, came swimming slowly in, out
of curiosity, but the man could not wait
to SEQ what would happen. He killed all
three ducks with his gun.-New York Sun.
The herald., 1896-05-11
SANTA ANA

SANTA ANA. May 10.-Harvey Rice
of Tustin was today seriously if not ia
tally shot while hunting in Santiago
canyon. endeavoring to kill some birds
for a sick neighbor. While riding in a
road cart with a neighbours boy the gun
was discharged, heavy load of shot
tearing Mr.. Rice's arm almost entirely
from his body He was still alive when
the report reached this city. Rice's
father is now on his way to the noun
tains to bring his son home.
The young man is a friend of Madame
Modjeska, near whose mountain home
the accident occurred
The herald., 1896-05-11
POMONA

POMONA, May 10.-The follow
ing delegates from the Universalist
church to this city have been Sc
lected to attend the Universalist con-
vention in Los Angeles on next Tues
Gay: Mines. j. c. Youngman, f. II.
Paine and II. f. Barnes, and Mr.. Robert
Bowler. The Y. p G. L. send Misses
Hattie Paine and Millie Bowler, Mines.
Damon and +. II. Paine and Irving Har-
ris.
Little Sherman Decker was thrown
from horse, a severe cut being inflicted
upon the head.
A series Of sermons upon Life for
The herald., 1896-05-11
Perpetuating tho Species.

There is stringent law In Japan that
when one calnphor laurel Is cut down an
other must be planted in Its place. Tho
tree is hardy and long lived, attaining to
an enormous size. 1t is covered with q
small leaf of a vivid green color. The
seed, or berries, grow in clusters, resem-
bling the black ourrant in size and appear
nnce. And the wood is employed for ovcry
purpose, from cabinet making to, ship
buildino
The herald., 1896-05-11
Mountain Visitors

Among those who visited Mount Lowe
yesterday We're: Miss n. b. Wright.
Miss c. r. Fink, Mrs. F. Heffner, Mrs.
r. T. Bradford, Mrs. Slayton, r. u.
Donegan, Miss Stella Donegan, Mr.. Bay-
er, Abe Cohn, Miss j. McCabe, Mrs. d.
McCabe, Los Angeles; Miss Bugby, In
dependence, Mo-; Miss OdeI NeW York.
Mrs Slayton, Grand Haven Mich: Miss
Gurney, Kansas City, Mo- Mr.. Fair
balm, Toronto, Canada; r. 3. William
son and. wife Master Roy williamson.
Mrs. Z. J. Soper, H. X williamson
and Wife, Hiss Hill, Miss Elliott, G. w.
Burleigh and wife, d. L. Olmstead, wife
The herald., 1896-05-11
Tlp Top Cough Syrup

The best argument that we make ir
favor of Tip Top is the syrup itself. Thi;
is so much better in every way-effect
-taste-safety-than any other cougl
remedy that it's users are constantly rec
ommending it to their friends. Wher
you are in need of remedy to cure a
cough or cold it will pay you to try Tir
Top. All druggists, soc.
The herald., 1896-05-11
c. A. .ludtf

Velvet carpets, soc per yard
Tapestry carpets, soc per yard.
Ingram carpets, 30c per yard.
Linoleum, 40c per yard.
Mattings, 20c per yard.
Art squares, "a each.
Wall paper, sc per roll
522 S. BROADWAY
The herald., 1896-05-11

The largest gold brick ever cast in the
Black Hills was recently deposited in a
Deadwood bank. 1t weighed a trife
less than 125 pounds and was worth
about $4,000 1t was the result of a
fifteen days output.
The herald., 1896-05-11

A man, says a statistician, smoking a
pipe of medium size blows out of his
mouth for evory time he fills the pipe ZOO
smoke clouds II he smokes four pipes a
day for 20 years, he blows out 30, 440, 900
stpcr- rir,,Is
The herald., 1896-05-11
los ANGELES HERALD MONDAY MORNING. MAY II. 1850.

evening at the Presbyterian church by
Rev. H. II. Rice, the first being upon
Life in the Home.
H. G. Tinsley and wife went to Los
Angeles Saturday.
The herald., 1896-05-11
LETTER BAG
The Wright Act

(The Herald under this heading prints
communications. but does not assume re-
sponsibility for the sentiments expressed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The summer law school at the Uni
versity OF Virginia has opened. About
sixty students are already on the
grounds.
Mr.. Benjamin Beard, one ofthe old
est citizens of Loudoun, died on Sun.
day last, at the residence of MIR. j. E.
Douglass, In Aide.
Elmer Weatherholtz. charged with
shooting and killing his wife, neal
Forestville, Shenandoah county, and
who escaped from Jail, was captured al
Harrisonburg yesterday.
Captain r. D. Yancey has rendered
his resignation as the captain Of the
Fitz Lee troop ofcavalry, of Lynchburg,
for the reason that he has not the time
to devote to the affairs of the company.
A man by the name of Stewart, said
to have been at one time lightweight
pugilist, was killed yesterday on the
exposition grounds in Richmond by a
man named Craig. The two men got
into dispute, when, it is charged, that
Craig seized baseball bat and killed
Stewart.
R. D. Ward, a well-known lawyer
and for many years the tipstaff of the
Court of Appeals, died in Richmond
yesterday. He was captain in the
Confederate army, and during nearly
all of the war was the commandant OF
Castle Thunder, the prison for Confed-
crate deserters and federal spies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03
couRT OF APPEALS.

The following opinions were handed
down in the Court of Appeals at
Wytheville yesterday:
Virginia Coal and Iron Company vs..
Kelley, from the Circuit Court of Lee
county, amended and affirmed; opinion
by Judge Rely.
Hall and others VS.. Rattliff, from the
Circuit Court of Buchanan county, re-
versed; opinion by Judge Buchanan.
Appeals were allowed in the follow
ing cases: Selden vs. Camp ct al. from
Norfolk city; Van Wyck ct al. vs.. Van
Wyck's executor ct al, from Norfolk
city; Buford & Co. VS.. North Riverside
Improvement Company, from Roanoke
city; Etna Life Insurance Company
VS.. Ramsdale's administrator, from
Pittsylvania county; Kinneer's admin
istrator vs. Woodson, from Roanoke
city.
Appeals were refused in Leech, as
signee, vs.. Wheatley, from Rockbridge
county; Merchants National Bank vs..
Sterrett, from Rockbridge county, Page
VS.. Pack, from Radford city.
The case of Utz, administrator, vs..
Woodson, from Roanoke, was argued
and submitted.
The following cases were disposed of
Wednesday:
Bethel & Co. VS.. Salem Improve
ment Company, argument concluded
and submitted.
Hickman va. N. & W. Ry. Co., dis
missed for failure to print.
Argument was begun in the case OF
Hickman vs. Hickman.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03
THE BATTLE ABBEY.

The board of trustees of the Rouss
memorial held their first meeting yes
terday. Gen. n. K. Jackson, of Ten.
| nessee, was made temporary chairman.
The board consists of one member from
each State and Territory in which there
is camp of United Confederate Vet
Grams,
Those present were General Jackson,
Robert Mite, of Wheeling, w. Va;
Thomas S. Henson, of Raleigh. N. c.;
]. A. Chalaron, of New Orleans; a. E.
Asbury, of Missouri; J. o. Caller, of
Oklahoma; General J. B. Briggs, of
Kentuckey; D. M. Bailey, of Indian
Territory; d. o. Gordon, of Washing
ton, D. c.; B. 81. league, of Aiken, S.
c.; George D. Johnson, of Tuscaloosa,
Ala; John Gill, of Baltimore; A. G.
Dickinson, of New York; General D..
81. Shirley, of Georgia.
A committee consisting of General
Jackson and Messrs. Johnson, Briggs
and league, will meet on Monday in
New York to confer with MIR. Rouss as
to scope of his plans for the proposed
memorial.
It was decided that the board should
hold its next meeting at Chattanooga
after the charter of the organization
shall have been obtained. This meet
ing will be called by the chairman
about the middle of the month. The
committee upon which is imposed the
duty of looking after the charter is to
meet this afternoon. The charter is to
be procured in Richmond.
Mrs. Jefeson Davis expresses herself
as strongly opposed to the location of
the battle abbey in Washington. She
is confident Mr.. Charles Broadway
Rouss has no special choice of location,
but was influenced by some of his
friends who want the abbey in Wash
ington. "Why, proposition to erect
monuments to Mr.. Davis, General Lee.
Stonewall Jackson, or Howell Cobb in
the city of Boston would come with as
good propriety," Mrs. Davis is quoted
as saving. "as that to place the Battle
Abbey Of the Confederate States in
Washington"
Mrs. Davis is deeply interested in
this matter, She entertains the high
est regard for MIR. Rouss and pra ses
his great msgninimity. She is conf
dent that when the question is proper
" presented to him he will see the I'M
wisdom of locating the Abbey in Wash
ington.
There is q very strong opposition to
the location of the abbey in Washing
ton, and threats are made that If the
project is not abandoned no further
attempts will be made to collect funds
in the South and the money already
secured will be withheld.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03

A MONUMENT TO STUART.-A jolly
crowd of Confederate cavalrymen gath
cred yesterday morning in Shockhoe
Warehouse, Richmond, for the purpose
of taking steps toward erecting mon
ment to the memory of General j. E.
B. Stuart. Lieut.. T. W. Sydnor made
a sensible and patriotic speech, during
which q most dramatic reference to the
name of General Stuart elected vocif-
erous applause. He then stated the
desire of the cavalrymen to erect a
monument to this noted leader, and
called on all to contribute to the worthy
object. Speeches were made by Lieut..
Col. VIM. Hemstreet, of the 18th Mis-
souri, infantry, Judge Isaac Christian,
General T. l.. Rosser, Lieut.. George P.
Haw, Col. e. V. White, Major A. r.
Venable, Henry T. Wickham, General
w. Il. Payne, Major Henry McClel-
land and others. Subscriptions for the
proposed monument were started, and
the projectors have every encourage
ment that the amount necessary will be
raised in short time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03

THE NEW L1NE.-There is every
evidence that there is going to be the
liveliest kind of a time between the
Bay Line and the new line of steamers
put on between Baltimore and Norfolk
by the Southern Railroad Company.
Both companies are for supremacy,
and they purpose to fight it out to s
finish. There will, therefore, ofneces-
sity, be an opening of the rate sluice,
and the rate-cutting knife will probably
be used with vigorous hand. Mr.. r.
Curzon Hoffman, president of the form
er company, says the Southern Railroad
Company, in forcing the fight for the
Chesapeake bay trade, will demoralize
rates sooner or later. The Southern
Railroad Company's new steamer at
lanta made the run from Baltimore to
Old Point in ten hours.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03

grounds for the gold standard men
this is the programme mapped out and
openly promulgated by those who as
sumo to have in their hands the control
of the approaching national democratic
convention. And they prophesy this,
with the utmost confidence four days
before the meeting of the convention
and with barely one third of the dele
gates present in the convention city.
This is the talk to day wherever the
silver men congregate and they claim
they can have everything their own
way.
The strange fact remains that accord
ing to all accepted gossip around head
quarters and with New York not vet
heard from it is assumed that the ac-
ton of the Chicago convention has been
settled in advance with as much Ger,
tainty as was that of the republican
convention at st. Louis. The latest
slate passed around is:
For president, Henry M. Teller, of
Colorado; for Vice President, John K.
Mclean, of Ohio: for temporary and
permanent chairman of the convention
Senator Joe Blackburn. of kentucky.
Some of Senator Blackburn's friends
do not limit his aspirations by accord
ing him the craftsmanship of the con-
vention. Col. Phil Thompson says he
will be pushed for the presidency, and
that ex-Congressman John S. Rhea, of
Greensboro, KY, will place him in
nomination.
Under the auspices of the Illinois
honest money democrats, national
headquarters of that element were
opened in the parlor of the Wellington
Hotel this morning with a meeting.
There was upanimity of sentiment that the
claim of Governor Altgeld and his delegation
that they represented the solid democracy OF
Illinois should be antagoniZed on the floor of
tho convention and it was decided TO refer 10
Il subcommittee the question rs how this could
best be accomplished. Othc subcommittee
were appointed to meet the eastern honest
money people scheduled to arrive from the
east this afternoon and evening and round
them up for the conference called for to-
niubt
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03

WEATHER FOR JULY.-Hicks fore
casts the weather for July as follows:
July opens warm, in the midst of regu-
lar storm period, with mercury dis
turbsnce central on the 3rd. Prospects
are favorable for cloudliness and rains
the first few days of the month, with
tendency to continue over the reac.
tionary 9th and 7th. From about the
10th it will grow steadily warmer, the
barometer will fall to storm readings,
and many summer storms will occur
from 18th to 18th. Change to cooler
should follow from 18th to 18th. The
10th and goth are storms dates, and
should bring return of storm con-
ditions. About the oath, the date
of full moon, marked storm condi-
tons will arise in the west, and during
the 9th to 9th storms will pass across
the country. In the present state of
knowledge on this vast subject, no man
can now definitely say just how the
rains will be distributed in the extremes
of this wide country; but we believe
enough is known to justify the expect
tation of more moisture this summer
in central and northwestern, and less
in the southern extremes. This matter
was written in March, 1895. and we
predict that the conditions named
above will commence in the summer OF
1895, and grow to crisis of drought
in the south in 1896 and 1897.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03
NEWS Or THE DAY.

The New York Recorder was yester-
day placed in the hands of George w.
Turner. general manager of the paper,
as receiver.
The Countess Castellane, formerly
Miss Anna Gould, of New York, gave
an elaborate fete in Paris yesterday
costing 100000.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, United States
consul general at Havana, has protest
ed against the prohibition of the export
ofbananas from certain ports in Cuba.
Joe Patchen defeated John R. Gentry
at Chicago in two straight heats yester-
day. The time was 2:05! and 2:064
Six thousand people saw the race-a
much better crowd than was expected.
Even if Mr.. Mckinley should win on
the gold standard and protection issue,
the Senate, after March 4, 1897, is GER
tain to contain free silver majority, as
well as an anti protection majority I'M
til silver legislation is enacted.
Lincoln Post, G.. A. R., of Washing
ton. has joined kindred organizations
in protesting against the demonstration
at Richmond in honor of Jefferson Da'
Wis: At meeting of the post on Wed.
! nesday resolutions were unanimously
adopted declaring the Davis demonstra-
ton at Richmond an insult to the blue
The most sensational manifesto in
| Minnesota's history was that issued
yesterday by the silver republicans,
who refuse to support Mckinley fol
President, Clough for Governor, or any
of the republican candidates for Con-
gress. 1t is signed by leading silver
| men of the party, and declares that the
st. Louis platform is reputation OF
the fundamental principles of the re.
publicans.
John Grason, attorney for Joseph
| Cooking, who was lynched at La Plata
Nd, last week by mob of masked
men, on the charge of numbering MS
wife and sister-in-law, is now preparing
to enter suit against the authorities Of
Charles county, claiming heavy dam
ages for the fatal violence done MS
client, and for alleged neglect on the
part of the county officials to properly
protect him when in the county Jail.
Gen. A. R. Lawton, of Savannah,
Ca, died at Clifton Springs Sanitarium
New York, yesterday. He had stroke
of paralysis on Friday last from which
he did not rally. General Lawton was
one of the oldest graduates of West
Point, leaving that institution in 1885
as second lieutenant of First Artillery.
He served in the Confederate army and
| obtained the rank of quartermaster-
general. In April, 1887, he was ap'
pointed minister to Austria-Hungary.
Bloodshed again marked the trouble
at the Brown Hosting Works at Cleve-
land, o., yesterday evening. One man
was shot dead by non-union man who
had attempted to leave the works and
was attacked by portion of the mob.
The police managed to rescue him and
the police detail was besieged in Il shop
and had great difficulty in preventing
the lynching of their prisoner. Finally
call for troops was made and two OF
the four companies under arms were
hurried to the scene.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03

TIE FACT that MIR. Davenport, one
of the republican candidates for con.
sressman-at-large in Pennsylvania, is
in favor of the free coinage of silver, is
only another of the many things that
prove that the free silver idea
pervades all parties and ali sections OF
this country, and that there is nothing
in the Northern statement to the effect
that it exists, to any extent, only in
she repudiating South, and in the anar.
chistic West.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03
FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1896.

COMPTROLLER EcKELs of the curren'
cy, now in Chicago, working for the
gold standard, says "the silver leaders
will listen when it is pointed out to
them that the adoption of a free silver
declaration means the certain defeat OF
the party at the polls, as they would
lose every Eastern State" Courtesy
will certainly make them listen, but
that their intention will not be changed
by any such talk, is plain to be seen, as
neither any one of them, or even MIR,
Eckels himself, for that matter, believes
that a gold declaration by the
Chicago convention would prevent
any Eastern State from voting for Mr.
Mckinley. 1t is patent to every intelll'
gent man, with open eyes, and ears that
save only and except for the free silver
idea, the democratic party would now
be as those without hope.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03
BIcYcL1NG IMMoRAL.-Bicycle ridin

BICYCLING IMMoRAL.-Bicycle riding
as factor in immortality is receiving
the attention of the Woman's Rescue
League, and already the league has
sufficient evidence upon which to issue
a circular strongly condemning the
pastime.
This phase of the question is included
in a general investigation of the alleged
increase of immortality in the large
cities, and, according to the league, is
sufficiently prominent to warrant the
stand it has taken against it. Char
lotte Smith the president of the or
ganization, is now in Washington, and
stated last night that her investiga-
lions there have been productive of an
appalling amount of evidence tending
to show that bicycle riding is morally
injurious.
American women" she continued,
'as a class are very frail, and the BIZ
cycle craze will only make them worse.
If they desire exercise, let them go into
the wash-tub, let them learn to iron"
BAsEBALL.-The games played by the
National League baseball clubs yesterday re-
suited as follows: Chicago 8, Cleveland y:
Cincinnati z, St. Louis 5; Boston a. Wash.
ington q Brooklyn a, Philadelphia 8.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03
Foreign News,

ROME, July, Sin the Chamber o.
Deputies yesterday the Minister Of
Foreign Affairs promised to introduce
new emigration law and to establish
new bureaux for the surveillance Of
italians abroad.
CANEA, Crete, July 3.-The newly
anno;nted Christian governor of Crete
has issued proclamation on behalf OF
The Sultan offering amnesty to all in
snrgents who will lay down their arms
and return to peaceful pursuits.
LospoN, July 3.-Mr. Ellington, the row.
ing EXPERT Of the Field, says the Yale crew
this morning showed msrked Improvement
The I csius college four while pFastieipg this
morning ran into Dr. Mcdowell, Of ChicagQ
who was on the wrong side of the course, and
injured his boat,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03

SOME OF the purchased organs of the
Northern bankers say the mere fear of
q silver declaration at Chicago has al
ready caused a depreciation of at least
three hundred millions in the value Of
stocks and bonds. Why, it should have
produced the very contrary result, for
the natural effect of cheap money is to
raise the, price of every thing that sort
of money can buy. Such advocates OF
sound money do their cause no good.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03

DIGGING HIS GRAVE IN A SWAMI
Michael Burke was found in swamp
near Westwood, N. j., on Tuesday
standing in a hole which he had dug
with his hands. When he was asked
what he was doing he said he was dig
ging his grave, and was going to bury
himself, so that 1.-The man with the long
hair and whiskers" couldn't kill him.
He said the man had been chasing him
all night with an axe. He was locked
up to await an examination as to his
sanity. He said he was 33 years old
and plasterer. A man answering his
description has been stopping at the
Lords farm, where the Angel Dancers
live, during the past few months. 1t is
thought that the man with the long
hair that he speaks of is Mason T.
Huntsman, the head of the peculiar
little sect. Burke said several times
while he was on the way to Hacken-
sack Say, / don't believe that man is
a god, do you?" But when asked
whom he referred to he could not give
any ineligible answer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-03
The Situation at Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, o., July 3.-The situa-
ton at the Brown Hoist Works had an
ominous look this morning. One shot
from "scab" is likely to precipitate
bloody riot at any moment and the pc
lice and military are alive to the gray
ity of the situation. The opinion is
tnat the works will be shut down after
to-day, as it will take regiment to
keep them running. 1t was feared last
night that the strikers would attempt
to blow up the works.