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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25
FATAL INITIATION
CEREMONY
Prominent Iowan Burned at a
Meeting of the Des
MONIES EIks.

Des MONIES, To-, Nov. IS.-I
E. w. Curry Chairman of the
Democratic State c entral Com
mittee, died early this morning
at the Savoy Hotel, in this
city, where he has been sick
for two months. Mr.. Curry's
death is reported to have been
the result of injuries received
while being initiated into a Des
Moines lodge of Elks. Blood
poisoning resulted from the it,
juries, and this caused death.
As part of the ceremony, he
was seated in a chair with a
thin iron seat and a lighted
lamp placed under it. The ex
pectation was that the candi-
date would jump out Of the
chair when the heat become
unbearable. But he didn't
jump. With some friends he
had been out in the afternoon
and had been drinking, and it
is said that when he went into
the hall he was very much un-
der the influence Of liquor.
The allegation is that when
he was placed in the chair
and blindfolded his sensi-
bilities were SO benumbed
that he was severely burned
without knowing it, or being
able to move, The lookers-on
saw him fairly cook for some
times wondering at his nerve,
till they discovered smoke ris-
ing from the chair. Then he
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25
WILL FOLLOW
THIS COUNTRY.
Southern Republics Will not
Recognize Cubans Now,

Washington, Nov. 2o.-Di
plomats well informed regard
ing the conditions and senti
ments Of South and Central
American republics are author
ity for the statement that there
is no intention on the part of
governments of this country to
recognize Cuban belligerency.
Bolivia has evidenced a pur
pose to grant such recogniza-
ton, butt it is explained that
Bolivia has no ports nor com
merce that can be affected and
could take the step without
fear of any disastrous conse
quences at the hands of Spain.
The tone of official papers
of South America generally
has been friendly to Spain,
and the governments of the
respective countries do not
care to take any position which
might result in hostilities with
Spain.
The attitude of the United
States, diplomats in the South
ern Republics say will govern
nearly every South American
country as to recognition of
belIigerancy or non-interven
ton. This disposition on the
part Of the South and Central
American republics to coli
form their foreign policies to
that of the United States, it is
stated, has been more marked
since the Intervention of the
United States in the Venezue
Ian boundry dispute.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25
A CORNER IN TOBACCO.
"A Wall Street Syndicate Said
to Be Trying to Control
Havana Leaf.

New York, Nov. 20.-A corn
er in Havana leaf tobacco is
said 10 be possibility of the
near future. It was said down
town today that a Wall street
syndicate had negotiated for
the entire Cuban crop prior to
the death of Adolph Ladenburg,
and that the drowning Of MIR.
Ladenburg while returning from
Nassau, N. P, lad interrunled
the negotiations. Recently the
syndicate took a fresh start it
is said, and is now in the
market on large scale.
Thus far, however, no attempt
has been made to absorb the
tobacco in the local warehouses,
which amounts to about 60,00G
bales. Leading tobacco import.
ers report that the supply is
restricted, but that cansider
able tobacco is coming in from
San Domingo.
General Weyler's decree, cora,
manding the tobacco growers
in Cuba TO use the entire crcl
for home consumption, cut of
the source of supply to some
extent, but u great deal o
Havana leaf was shipped be
fore this decree went into effect
and there has been no decided
advance in prices as yet.
The continuance of the wal
in Cuba, however, will greatly
restrict supplies,an this branC
of tobacco naturally is in de
mand at slightly higher figures
than have been quoted hereto
fore.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25

tons and syndicates repre-
sented by the Cleveland admin
istration and the Republican
machine deserted the Demo
cratic ranks in the face of the
enemy, but their places were
promptly filled by thousands
of earnest, Jealous, courage
GUS men, who came to sup
port the party that had declar
ed for the people. The demo
cratic party in Ohio is stronger
today than at any time since
the days Of Jackson, and now,
with living issue, supported
Loyalty, zealously ane energeti-
-cally by a half a million voters,
will await the next contest with
the greatest confidence.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25

Three thousand telegraph
ers are employed in the sew
eral postofhces of London.
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MYSTERIOUS MAN
OF ARKANSAS.

Little Rock, Ark, Novem Der
16 james Butler, the most
mysterious man in the State OF
Arkansas, is dad. He was
about so years old. BE came
to Arkansas thirty years or
more ago and has lived on the
Cache River in Greene Counl Y
ever since, leading the life of a
rpcluse. He owned a small tract
of land, and bad two ordinary
old road wagons, which stood
side by side, an on these wag
ous was built a small house,
In which h9 lived. He never
spoke to any one during his
thirty years residence in this
State, SO far as is known, but
he has often been heard to sing
while alone in his rude hut. He
WAS Ihonght 10 be a wealthy
miser, and was known 10 have
had an iron safe in his hIl, in
which bis supposed wealth was
kept.
The Coroner, in investigating
the old mars death, found u
library Of splendid books, sew
rral exquisite pictures, "a lot OF
carpenters tools and il regular
aitnory of guns and pistols in
the bat, bnt the iron safe had
disappeared. The verdict Of
the jury was death from natur
al causes. It is supposed thai
The safe WAS stolen after the
pld mau died
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SHE ROUGHT HIM.
Mrs. Bartlett Had Her Husband
Arrested TO Prevent an
EIopement.

New York, New. 20.-Mrs.
Gertrude Bartlett walked into
the Gates Avenue Court, Brook
lyn, today leading her husband,
Joseph, by the ear. The wife
complained that Joseph, who is
90 years her Junior, was about
TO elope with another woman,
and she preferred charge OF
abandonment in order TO keep
him at home.
II paid $50 for him." Mrs.
Bartlett testified, land be is
mine"
A few questions ELECTED the
fact that since his marriage,
Joseph has borrowed 81, 500
from his father in law. Re
Gently the old gentleman tight
ened the purse strings and
Bartlett left his wife. She met
him ON the street today and
placed bin under arrest. 10
seph, in default Of bonds, was
locked up for a hearing lomor
row.
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was taken out of it, and found
to be badly burned. His trou
sers were burned away and his
flesh was almost crisp. He
was taken to his hotel and car
ed for by the best physicians.
At his own request it was Civ
en- out that he was suffering
from another trouble, and the
true story did not leak out till
to-day. Even yet there is
much mystery about it,
Then story of how his inju-
ries we're contracted was given
out tonight by members Of the
Elks' Lodge, after a more SEN
sational story had been current
It was that instead Of a heated
chair he was placed on an cleo
trical chair and a light currel t
turned on in the expectation
OF making him squirrn. He
manifested no discomfort, and
the current was increased sew
eral times, without producing
any apparent effect. Then the
smoke WAS seen, and he was
taken out, half electrocuted.
This story was denied and
the story about the heated
chair given out. The mystery
ab6G4s~SSIass..., fair has caused a
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25
- - the best family cathartid
CATARRH MEANS DAN
GER,

Because if unchecked it may lead
directly to consumption. Catarrh is
caused by impure blood. This fact is
fully established Therefore, it is
useless to try to cure catarrh by out
ward applications or inhalants. The
true way to cure catarrh is to purify
the blood. Hoods Sarsaparilla, the
great blood purifier, cures catarrh by
its power 10 drive out all impurities
from the blood. Thousands of people
testify that they have been perfectly
and permanently cured of catarrh
Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25
THE VOTE OF
OHIO ANALYYED.
Cincinnati Enquierer.

Cincinnati Enquierer.
The vote of Ohio, as now
stated, shows that the Demo
cratic party cast the largest
vote for MIR. Bryan ever given
to any candidate of that party
since the organization of the
state approximating 475,ooo.
This is 10000 votes more than
were given to Cleveland in
1892, and 10000 more than
received by Ex-Governor
Campbell when he ran in 1895
upon the gold standard plat
form Of the Springfield con
vention. The free coinage
candidate for president Polled
47,OOo more votes in Ohio
than any Republican ever re-
ccIved in the state prior to
November ), 1896, as Govern
OF Bushnell, who received the
highest number Of Republican
votes ever given to any candi
date up to that date, polled
but $4,000 in 1895. There
is no doubt that some few
voters whose personalintere
were identical with those OF
the. trusts, combines, corpora
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25

Give was only little over
20 when he embarked on his
career of conquest in India.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25
THE BoYROoD OF GRANT

McClure's Magazine announ-
ces for publication in the De
cembrr number . paper of
"reminiscences of the boyhood
Of Grant. Mr.. llamlin Garland,
the novelist, who has long had
in mind the project of writing
an intimate personal life Of
Grant, has gone down to George
town and Ripley, Ohio, and
Maysyille. Kentucky, the towns
III which Gragt passed his life
until lie went to West Point,
and by induslIiously talking
with every man and woman
there who had any personal
knowledge of Grant, aud by
dplving into the local records
and newspa pers, has COTTON TO
gether a rare store of illumin
ating fact aud snecdote; and
out of this perfectly new mat
erial he has written the paper
which is to appear in the De
cpmber MeClure's. The promise
is that it will do what has never
been done before; exhibit the
youth Ulysses Grant exactly as
he was in Us humble life and
surroundings. Ia addition to
collecting information, Mr. Gar
land also collected pictures, and
something especially rare and
interesting is promised in the
illustrations Of tbs paper. For
example, there will he given the
earliest known portrait Of Grant
portrait owned by Mr.. Boeg
(the wife of Grants partner in
the real estate business at 81.
Louis), never before reproduced
or published, and quite un
known 10 the public and even
to members of Grants own
family.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25

The collections made during
the Conway expedition to
Spitzbergen have arrived in
London. These include, it is
said. a fairly complete series
illustrating the story of the
island.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25

More than 10000 persons
are engaged in the manufac-
ture of explosives in England.
Last year 40 persons in the
business were killed and I67
injured by accidents.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25

great sensation. The Elks
met tonight, but after their
session had nothing to say ex-
cept to repeat their earlier YER
sion. There has been no dis
position on the part Of MIR.
Curry's family to blame the
members Of the order, who did
all in their power Tor him dur
ing the illness. Mrs. Curry
and her daughter, the only
members of the family, earnest
ly desired that Mr.. Curry's fire.
Quently expressed wish, that
the truth should never be made
public, should be carried out.
Mr.. Curry lived at Leon, To-,
and was a leading lawyer OF
Southern Iowa. He was 4S
years old, and had been a
leader in State politics for sew
eral years. He was a close
friend of c. A. Walsh, Secre-
tary of the National Commit
tee, and was an ardent silver
man.
The remains will be taken
to Leon tomorrow and buried
in the afternoon. He was prom
inent in 1.-THE Masonic order
and the funeral will be in charge
of the Leon Masons and De>
Moines Elks.
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Or. PRICES Creasa. EakiIg Powder
Worlds Fair Highest award.

Our merchants should begin to ad
veriise their holiday goods in THh
HERALD.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25

The yield Of wheat in france,
owing to the careful cultiva
ton of the soil, and the large
quantity of guano and other
fertilisAs employed, is II
bushels per acre,
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-25

The greatest potato eaters
are the people of Germany
and Belgium. The consump-
ton of this vegetable averages
100 pounds per annum for
each person.
The first deposit of silver
bullion to be coined was by
the Bank of Maryland, July
I8, 1894, that institution send
ing in S8o,7I5735 in French
coins.
About 100000 OF the DO
vine species are now to be
found in the Argentine Repub
lie. They are all descendants of
eight COWS und one bull, which
were imported into Bsazil il
the middle Of the sixteenth
Iceatury.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-13
KIIIed by PoIato Bug Fumes.
From The Philadelphia Press


Bellefontaine, o., Dec 6.--Rev pau Ld a.
a well-known colored minister OF TINS CIV '..
died yesterday from a strange cause. ee
eral months ago he planted patch OIL "a
tatoes. Potato bugs covered the vines ~
he proceeded to gather them in TO 20"
and burn them. -
Unfortunately, Mr. Ladd inhaled SON,
Of the fumes, which seem to have pesn
deadly poison for at once his lungs Oeo, On.
strangely affected, and he sank INTO a, oV
sumptive state, which resulted IN ms u'a
at an early hour yesterday mornlns'
--"Yoh wants ter be sho' yoh gifts ne
in de right place." said Uncle Eben; .,or
funnies' story dat cher was ain gwiinie'So
be 'preciated ef yoh stops In de m .e',,rS.
kyahvin' de tu'ky ter tell it"-W as''"'
ton Star.
Bad Either Way.-"Oh dear W.
knew what 10 do about Charley VIM slm.
do you meanT III tell him loes srd
I'm afraid II will make him concei g, ,,eyef
II / don't tell him. I'm afraid ne Nv
find II out. PUCK
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is IN poor health, or one who has Co.
cuilar gift. Painters may have 9S spe5 Pc
nan nan1 ana TN TINS opera singer has one En- Ia
of violinists, people who love 70 cl't to hands
string and listen to the Vibration 'oGeh a
sensitive souls find companionsbin ba lher
The x-ray palmist says that agar mere
son should have a shadowgranb per-
hand made. It can be done with VI me
tized plate and an x-ray light se9sl-
worm will give the light. And ~ GLOW
can be bought of any photogranbaise Plate
1t you can read the hand correctIv win
Thls new palmist SCOTS at tha
of Mercury, Apollo, Saturn and mounts mounts
and says that the names viii boupiter;
be used in palmistry only to d les eal ,er
the bony structures. But the linz 's nate
crosses, now so fancifully denicta, ana
the marks, the dots and the NJ. by
palmists will lose their Significance 'eSe
This is a gauntlet thrown down to D,,..
lists, and public contests of handreo PAIN
with and without the x-ray. nav eS Sl
pecteu. Harvey TipcoiN
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carried into practice. Curiously enough,
few people are conscious of the danger
they run by exposing the usually made,
quately protected shins to currents OF coo
air. This is the usual way in which coids
are caught on omnlbuses. When DRIVING
one takes care to cover the legs win
rug or waterproof, but on the more demo
cratic conveyance rugs are not often avaA'
able, and the reckless passenger by ana
by awakens to the fact that the iron nas
entered into his soul-in other words, thaI
he has caught cold" People who wear
stockings, such as Highlanders, golfers
and cyclists, invariably take the precau,
ton of turning the thick woollen mate!Ia'
down over the Sims, the better TO piv
tect them against loss Of heat, though, III
cidentally. the artificial embellishments o.
the calves may not be altogether torelsG
to the maneuver. This Is an instance u u
how all things work together for gooo'
does not, of course, follow, because ce.,
tain areas are peculiarly susceptible
cold. that a chill may not be conveyeu
to the nervous system from other poins,
Prolonged sitting on a stone, or even w
the damp grass, is well known 10 DC q
fertile source of disease; and wet CVis
feet are also, with reason, credited WI"
paving the way TO an early grave.
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change of scene which is supposed to
work wonders in heart affections, and
presto! at a few hours notice, father
mother and daughter were on board am
Atlantic liner.
For nearly year the "change of
scene prescription was faithfully pur-
sued, and the patient always cheerful
ly submissive, gentle and charming, OBJ
viously grew Trailer day by day Almost
IN despair, the old man brought his idol
lzed child home again, and one morning
he gathered the courage to ask her il she
still care for Mark Hanna.
why, papa" she replied. 81 shall al
ways love Mark; 1 told you that. you
know, a year ago.
Poor old uncle Dan Rhodesr' That
was bitter day for him, but he was
equal to the occasion. Sending for the
obscure young man, he said to him: "Mr.
Hanna, Gussie loves you; that is my only
reason for accepting you as her future
husband. You are poor. I'll fix it so
Gussie can live as she has been accus-
toned to; and suppose l must see you
marry her.,
Mr.. Rhodes" he said in reply, II most
gratefully accept the gift Of your datfrh-
ter's love. To marry her is for this world
10 become paradise to me, but / cannot
make her my wife unless she will he con-
tent to live as my means will enable us
can neither accept aid nor permit nv
wife to accept It from anyone"
So Mark Hanna and Gusse Rhodes we're
married and the bride went from her IA.
TIERS big house to live In tiny little cot
tage. where, with one maid-of-all-work.
she was as happy as a queen for some
years
1T was true love match" the old IA
Their would say; there's no accounting for
woman's taste, but what Gussie could
see In Mark Hanna has always been a
mystery to me I'D almost as soon have
seen her marry one of those darned
'doodks' that were continually chasin' ar
ter her on the other side but Lord bless
you, she never would even look at anyone
but Mark. She would have Just quietly
died for the love OF Mark Hanna IL hadn't
given my consent.
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peculiar thing about taking an x-ray MIC
ture You can get glimpse of what the
photograph will be long before it has been
cast upon the sensitzed plate
The photographer laughed because he
saw something peculiar about the Joints
or the hand. Later, when an x-ray
PIANIST got to work upon the radiograph
ne found that he had the very acme of
obstinacy in the joints of the Mckinley
hand
Take hold of the fingers of any one you
know and squeeze the joints If the per
son Is obstinate in disposition, the joints
VIII feel Ike knots. If easy to get along
with Dliable and sweet, the joints win
be soft, so yielding that you can scarcely
feel them.
The Mckinley joints are like rocks; and
they show what palmistry could never in
the world have shown, indelible, undying
firmness.
The hand Of Victoria concentrates in the
third finger the finger Of Apollo. the love
finger. This is filled with nerves and is
supplied with fuller veins than there are
in most third fingers. When the shadow
graph was taken of the hand of the
queen in Windsor by the court physician.
who amuses her majesty with all new
physiological experiments this popularity
was explained to her, and highly delighted
she was by it.
est Of the hand. 1t is heavy, irregular
and powerful. woman with big third
finger is sure to be domestic. She will
make a good wife, or a very useful old
maid, for she will do homework as long
as there is anything to be done.
Victoria is not very sensitive. There
are no sharp phalanges, none OF the point
ed-tipped bones that show great sensitive
ness.
An x-ray fiend went to a great deal of
trouble TO get picture OF the hand of the
tenor Jean de Reszke. Afterwards he was
sorry he did so; for the hand, Instead of
showing great talent and manliness. was
the model OF lady's hand The pointed
fingers were traceable to the small point
ed bones. These never are placed in a hu-
man organism that Is dull and STUPID.
Women have three small, delicate taper
Ing bones, and de Rezske has them. The
fingers. too, lie close together, and there
Is the delicate curve Of the thumb.
man whose x-ray hand shows small
tapering bones and who has few blood
vessels in his hands Or whose blood yes
sells are lightly filled, Is either a man who
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The x-ray put through the palm robs
1t of the mystic markings and leaves,
standing out in fine relief, the veins, the
arteries, the muscles and the tissues.
These are the things that make up the
hand and the only way by which it can
be read.
Until the x-ray palmistry was discovered
1t was thought that hand was a hand
in muscle and bone. 1t was supposed that
the physiology of all hands was the same
and that character could be told in the
superficial way of examining the marks
thereon.
But the X-ray has a surprise for palm
lists. 1t shows that all the lines and mark
ings disappear and can be traced to moth
ing back of them; while the hand itself
varies in shape and is different in accord
ing to temperament. occupation and char
acter This brings it within the scope of
the X-ray.
The first person TO have the x-ray put
through his hand was Thomas A. Edison
The Photograph was carefully preserved
and carried to the study of a former palm
list. That gentleman sat down and studied
the Photograph of Edison's palm for an
hour Suddenly rising from his desk he
stepped to his book shelves, and, gathering
up an armful of books on palmistry, walk
ed to the open CRATE fire and cast them into
the flames ''rhey are useless now. -
said he, 'in the light OF what have just
seem"
The palm OF Edison. strange to say
shows no sensibilty. lie is the thickest
skinned man, in the sense of being wound
ed in his feelings, OF any one you ever saw
The x-ray palmist. studying his hand care
fully could find none of the sensitive ar
teries running into his finger tips He
has no nerves. This accounts for the fact
that he can go days without sleeping. He
is a man who can sit in dentists chair
without finching and enjoys picking a
splinter out of his thumb. II does not
hurt. You may jump at him and you
will not startle him.
The x-ray also shows dreaminess. The
mount OF the moon has, In this case, many
little tissues punched. This causes his
hand 10 bulge out below the little finger
TO make rounding palm. Tehre is
stubby punching OF muscles and veins
there. This shows that the main artery
is well protected and that the life OF the
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Copyrighted. 1896.

New York. Dec. 1.-THE newest turn
of the x-ray science destroys palmlstry
and makes it quack art. 1t utterly
routs chiromancy, which concerns the
marks upon the hand, and leaves little
for chirognomy which treats of the ex-
ternal shape. The x-ray palmistry says
there is something left in chirognomy be-
cause it concerns shape, which depends
upon tissue partly. But there is POSI-
lively nothing in the lines of the hand.
The markings upon a human palm arc
found under the x-ray to be the most SUI
perfcial things in existence. A pin
scratch will make a line upon the palm in
delibly and the deep -creases are caused
by trivial things.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-13

Tho following was copied from a notice
posted on a building: "Notice-Tenants
should be careful not to throw cigars or
lighted matches about. Otherwise thew
may set fire to the building and oblige John
Blazer proprietor" --Tit-Bits.
More Room.-Young Mrs. Fitts-The
rrolieybys have such a Jewel OF hired
girl. Their floor is actually clean enough
70 eat off. Young Mr.. Fitts-By George.
that ought to be right handy when he has
TO carve a duck.-lndianapolis Journal