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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
WILL TAKE TWO YEARS..
Gen. weyler Thinks 1t VIII Take This
Time to Crush Rebellion.

Gens Weyler InlnkS IL Will laRe In1b
Time to Crush Rebellion.
Madrid, May 2.-The Heraldo pub
fishes what purports to be a report of
an interview with Capt. Gen. Weyler in
Havana wherein Weyler is alleged to
have expressed the opinion that it will
require two years to suppress the re-
bellion in Cuba and that it will be neces-
sary to postpone all political reforms
on that island until the insurrection is
crushed.
Kingston, Jamaica, May 2.-Recently
IA quantity Of articles contraband of
war have been shipped from Jamaica to
Cuba. Upon the facts becoming known
TO the authorities the alleged shippers
Of the goods were taken into custody,
but their release was ordered later, it
being found impossible to secure suf1-
Gent evidence to prove case against
them
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
omcc far princcss ne.trice.

London, May Princess Beatrice,
Youngest daughter of Queen Victoria
md widow Of Prince Henry of Batten
berg, has been appointed governor of
the Isle of Wight, the Office previously
held by her husband. This is almost
the first time that such an appointment
has been bestowed upon lady.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
Bank Statement.

New York, May 2.-The weekly state
ment OF the associated banks shows the
following changes: Reserve, increase
$s,2eb,6Oo; loans, increase s3,3so,s 800;
specie, increase 1921 400; legal tender,
increase, S3,S67, 100; deposits, increase
1891 600; circulation, increase $4,000.
The banks now hold $22,944,275 in ex-
cess of legal requirements.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
Senator Hale,s Home Burned.

ELLSWORTH, Me-, May 2. = The resi-
dence of Senator Eugene Hale was
burned Saturday morning. Loss, $751;
300; insurance, $45 10000. The house was
unoccupied, but was undergoing re-
pairs. The valuable library and furnish
ings in the house were saved.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
Col. Grant Reappointed.

New York, May Col. Fred d.
Grant, appointed police commissioner
ty Mayor Strong in May, 1895, TO sue
iced Michael Kelwin, was reappointed
police commissioner for the full term
Of six years and sworn into Office by The
rlayor Saturday afternoon
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
Rebellion in Nicaragua Endod

Washington, May "A special cable
gram received here Saturday from Man
aqua announced that the rebel forces
In Nicaragua have surrendered, and
that the rebellion in that republic has
ended. ....
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
Nav Enter and Clear Free,

Washington, May 2.-Word has been
received here by telegraph that the
Canadian government has adopted an
order in council eNempting American
,essels from entry and clearance
charges at Canadian ports.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
MORE BUSINESS.
Gain Is Less Than There Was
Reason to Expect, However,
Improvement in Retail Trade Has
Failed Thus Far to Materially Affect
Mills and Factories.

New York, May 2.-R. G. Dun & Co.,
In their weekly review of trade, say:
"As the season advances there is more
business, but advices indicate that on the
whole the prevalent feeling is that the
gain Is less than there was reason to ex-
pect, while retail trade has been active
enough to materially lessen stocks and OBJ
legations, and thus to prevent great many
threatened embarrassments. 1t has not
yet brought enough new business to mills
or factories to prevent decrease of untitled
orders and closing of some works. SUBJ
stantially the same state of things exists
In all the great industries, notwithstand-
Ing the strong combinations in some, and
evidence of inadequate consumption ap-
pears In the fact that the general range
OF prices of commodities, farm and mine
as we'll as manufactured products, is near
ly one per cent. lower than it was April I.
and the lowest ever known, the decline
since October. 1892. being 1871 per cent. Nor
can this be attributed to scarcity of money,
which is easier and more abundant as the
liquidation of many dealers lessons out
standing obligations Foreign operations
have been of no influence in American Sc
curities. but shipments of silver have again
been large. Stocks have remained practi-
cally without change.
Speculation has raised cotton an eighth,
though receipts and crop prospects still
favor lower prices and accumulated stocks
Of unsold goods are very large. Wheat has
declined 45s cents for cash. With only
two months of the crop year remaining
there is little to encourage higher prices.
Silk has weakened little owing to the
overlooking of Japanese dealers. Wool is
weak. the wool year closing with the
greatest quantity of wool on hand ever
carried at this season. Wooden goods have
not improved in demand. and f1annels have
opened to Is per cent. lower than last
year. Dress goods are helped by the restric-
ton Of foreign imports. but the association
reports that on the whole, wool machinery
is not more than half employed Some
cotton mills have ceased production. There
Is fair demand for boots and shoes. though
not enough to prevent gradual exhaustion
of orders untitled, but the only change in
prices has been slight advance in some
qualities. Leather is weaker, with very
narrow demand. and quotations average
a shade lower, as do prices of hides.
1.-THE volume of domestic business shown
by clearings has been s154 900 daily in
April against s153,0Oo.o0O last year; 136,OO0,-
OO0 in 1894; $751; GOO In 1893. and 1856. 900
n 1892. These figures show a greater shrink
age than appeared in recent months. and
indicate that Improvement is slow.
Failures for the week have been 23S in
he United States, against 231 last year, and
81 in Canada. against "a last year,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
FRUIT GROWERS TO COMBINE.
Meeting to Be Held in Chicago to Or
ganize National Union.

ganize National Union.
Marietta, Gu, May 2.-An effort is to
be made to combine all the fruit grow
ing interests of the country into one
big organization to be called the Ma
tional Fruit Growers association. A
call has been issued by the Georgia
Fruit Growers association, in con-
Junction with several other organiza-
lions, for a meeting to be held in Chi
cago on May 20.
The existence of such union would,
1t is thought, Immediately strengthen
all Of the many fruit associations in the
United States. Instead of each section
being in the dark as to the shipments
of competing sections, system could
be easily perfected by which each sec
ton would keep every other section
(using the same markets at the same
time), fully advised as to the quantity
and kinds of fruit en- route to all mar
kets, thereby enabling competing sec
lions to SO direct their shipments as to
not only prevent the disastrous gluts
now SO frequent, but it would make
more equal distribution of the fruits
In the many fruit distributing cities.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
Jameson Raid Deplored.

Cape Town, May 2. = Sir Hercules
governor of the Cape Colony,
in q speech upon The occasion of the
opening of the Cape parliament Fri
day, expressed himself as greatly de-
ploring DIR. Jameson's raid into the
Transvaal. The Cape ministry, he
said, had the entire confidence of the
Imperial government. While recog-
nizing the. advantage of maintaining
unimpaired the authority of the crown,
he continued, the Cape government
would seek cordial entente with the
adjoining states and colonies.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
To Play for the Championship.

New York, May 2.-Showalter will
meet Barry in q chess match of seven
games up for $4,000 and the champion
ship of the United States of America,
May 9. The match will be played at Bos-
ton
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
Arc Threatening Akasheh.

Cairo, May "a body of 1000 der
wish riflemen and a large body of
mounted dervlshes have been seen near
Askasheh. They appear to be concen-
Lcated for an attack upon that place,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05

New York, May 2.-The liquidating
trustees of the Standard Oil trust have
divided u sum equal to three dollars per
share and further sum equal to seven
dollars per share payable June Is,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
The Gold sbipmant

New York, May 2.--The shipments of
gold to Europe Saturday were $1,451,-
e01 In bars, all taken from the United
Dtetes asssy otRce Friday.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
CLEARINGHOUSE RETURNS.
Report Showing Percentage OF increase
or Decrease.

New York, May 2.-The following TIA
ole, compiled by Bradstrect's, shows
the total clearances at the principal
cities and the percentage of increase
Dr. decrease as compared with the COR
responding week of last year:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
Gresham's Remains Reach washington.

Washington, May 2.-The president
and cabinet met the train bearing Gen.
Gresham's remains on it's arrival at four
o'clock, and accompanied the body to
Arlington for interment. All the mem
bers of the cabinet were present except
Secretary Hoke Smith, who had gone to
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-05
DISPUTE JoHNsoN's WORD.

Totals U. S.... $685., Ss5, 5i1 go. 10
Exclusive of N. ". 420,670,626 -. 9
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place in the world where SO many de-
vices of torture are concentrated.
Ceuta is very small place, and the
Moors constructed chain OF fortresses
around it to guard against any possible
attack. 1t is in the cellars of these an
cient and decaying fortresses that the
dungeons are located. They are heWn
out of the solid rock, and are in tiers
to depth of fifty or sixty feet. Inc
| approach to them is made through
narrow openings in the stone floors or
the fortresses, and when the horrible
hole Is opened the foul odor of filth
and decomposition Is overpowering.
These dungeons are inhabited almost
solely by political prisoners, and many
Cubans arrested during the present re-
bellion are there. Some are in solitary
confinement. Others are in dungeons
holding thirty or forty men.
| When man is placed in solitary
confinement hole is cut in the ma
sonry large enough to admit the pass-
age of his body, and he is dropped in.
A blacksmith follows and welds on the
! fetters. Locks and keys are never
used. A heavy weight with chain ls
welded to the ankle and an iron band
is welded about the waist. A chain at
! tached to the latter is welded to an
iron ring sunk in the wall of solid rock.
The hole in the masonry is bricked up
again with the exception of small
space a few inches square. Through
| this comes the scant air and the scraps
of food allowed the victim.
After that the man is left to live or
rot. The filth of these holes cannot
be adequately described. Disease is
merciful here, for few men survive the
torture for any length of time.
The herald., 1896-01-19

black handkerchief is tied over his
face, and he is manacled TO chair.
Then around his neck Is placed the
band of the garrote. Two turns of a
powerful fbumb-screw crushes the
neck Of the victim, and almost sewers
the head from the body.
Death is claimed to be absolutely in
stantane us. After the execution, the
body of the victim is allowed to re-
main for several hours in plain view OF
the crowds which have seen the accom-
plishment of the deed of justice. All
executions are looked upon by the
lower Spaniard as being excellent en-
tertainment.
While torture has been nominally
,, abolished, the prisons themselves, com.
biued with the system, are such that
the agony of the culprit is continuous
and long-enduring.
As far as possible the Spanish gov
ernment sends all of her greater crimi'
nails to her great convict colonies in
Africa, or in the Canary or Balearic
islands. In the few towns which remain
to Spain from her once conquest OF
Northern Africa she houses her des-
perate convicts. They are hardly q
| fitting relic of the once magnificent CO.
lonial empire of the kingdom. The
largest penal colony of the empire is
on the two islands Of the Balearics,
The herald., 1896-01-19

situated in the Mediterranean near the
coast of Valencia, in Spain. There the
convicts are housed like dogs in ken
nels. Day and night they are forced to
wear chains foot long, which are sus-
pended from girdle.
They work in the cultivation of wheat,
barley, yams, dates and figs, and in
coffee plantations, the result of their
labor being shipped to Europe, when
in African colonies, and till the soil
for its products equally in Canary and
Balearic islands. The largest penal
colony in the Canary islands is on the
island Of Fuerteventura, which is sixty
three square leagues in dimensions
and has population Of 5000, nearly all
being convicts.
Deportation to these penal colonies
is made in the most shiftless and cruel
manner. From all parts of Spain the
prisoners who are to be sent to the
penal colonies are marched through
rain or snow to the Sladero, or deten-
ton prison, at Madrid. Then they are
marched, with insufficient clothes and
with absolutely no provision for food,
to Valencia.
Here they are shipped to the colonies
in old antiquated ships, which are over
crowded to the verge of positive dam
ger. Herded like cattle in pens, beaten
by ignorant and brutal soldiers, they
60 to living death in the colonies,
where stripes are given more often
than food, and where brutality is
visited with the smiles of superior Of
ficers. No wonder that suicide is the
natural thought of the usual Spanish
convict.
The political prisoner fares worse
than the criminal guilty of assassina-
tion. The latter is regarded merely as
the enemy Of the individual, while the
former is regarded as the enemy of the
king.
Most of the political prisoners are
sent to Ceuta, Africa. Ceute is an old
Moorish seaport town in Morocco, op-
posite Gibraltar. The town is on the
side of the ancient mountain Abyls,
which forms one of the Pillars
of Hercules, the Rock of Gibralter
being the other. 1t is almost i'm
pregnable, and is to Spain what Siberia
is to Russia, with the exception that it
is even more horrible. The town was
built by the Moors about 945, and it is
probable that there is no other one
The herald., 1896-01-19

bpaniards have made a study of tor
Gure, and the long accumulation of
knowledge handed from one genera
tion to another, and elaborated upon
by each, makes their prisons the worst
on earth. There are men forgotten
and unnamed rotting away in the
Spanish dungeons today, under condi-
tions more horrible than that pictured
by Dickens in his Tale of Two Cities,
in the character of the old doctor con-
fined in the Bastile for twenty-five
years. Men who took part in the pre-
vioCs Cuban rebellion, nearly genera
tion ago, may still be living in the dun
geons. Thirty years hence some of the
men who are now fighting 30 valiantly
in Cuba may be rotting away in the
same pest holes. 1t is this prospect
which makes them desperate and blood
thirsty, and eager to accept thousand
risks to shake off the torture which
awaits them.
Each week patches of Cuban sus-
poets are sent to Spain. To be a sus-
pect is equivalent to being guilty, and
those who go will, in all probability,
never return. If wealthy planter is
suspected of furnishing financial aid
to the insurgents he is pounced upon
ana Bulppcu OAs
would have been his fate had he
ioiued the insurgent army and been
killed on the field Of battle.
The ordinary suspect is not executed
but if he be proved guilty of treason
the garrote will speedily end his
troubles. The garrote is tine official
form of capital punishment in Spain.
Nearly all the death sentences are
executed in the Pradera de la Ysidro in
Madrid. All the executions are pub
lie, and are usually held early in the
morning. The criminal is always
mounted upon the back of tiny
Spanish donkey, and goes to the place
of execution in procession that con-
sists of citizens, priests and soldiers.
Prior to leaving the prison in which
the condemned has been confined,
mass is celebrated, and the death SEN
tence is read to the guilty wretch.
When the prisoner reaches the place of
execution. he mounts scaffold,
The herald., 1896-01-19
THE HERALD

Is popular paper Pacific During the past
rapid strides forward both circulation and all the feau
metropolitan journal, that it Isonshed all competitors
avore with the During 1895 it WILL with the aid
than has done i'll 1870. The
The herald., 1896-01-19

in their system of warfare. 1t is true
very little quarter is given the Spanish
soldiery in any of the conflicts where
the insurgents have the upper hand,
but there is good, substantial reason
for this seeming heartlessness.
The soldiers of the insurgent army
know that fate blacker than death
will be their allotment if they fail. The
kingdom of Spain has never displayed
gentle hand to it's enemies. Dark
echoes of the Inquisition permeate its
treatment of malefactors, for as such
the Cuban insurgents are regarded
The prison system of Spain is more
barbarous today than that of either
Turkey or Russia, and that is saying a
good deal.
For more than thousand years the
The herald., 1896-01-19
HOW WORDS ORIGINATE


to find curious words. Most words
have an interesting history as to de-
velopment and change of sense, and
the regular processes of formation by
one new vocable are very interesting as
study. If you desire to know the
English language we'll and to be able to
express thought clearly you cannot af
ford to neglect the study of etymology.
One of the most intere sting dis
coveries made by the students of ety.
mology will be the unaccountable ori-
gin, or rather the utter absencs of
systematic origin, of some OF the COM
monest words Thus, gas is name that
has never been explained, beyond the
mere statement that it was invented bya
Belgian Chemist named Van Helmonu.
Guesses have been made about what
suggested it to him, but he gave up no
information as to its source, but mere
ly wrote in Latin: "This vapor, hither
to unknown, l will call by new name,
gas"
Certain snakes are called adders. Is
it not a curious fact that the name ad-
der originated simply through errone-
GUS understanding Of sound? The
Anglo-SaXon word was naedre, and the
German is natter. Adder comes from
misunderstanding nadder as an ad-
! der, and the Century Dictionary says
| that apron, anger, orange and umpire
| arose through a. similar mistake. Just
! opposite to this peculiar change from
nadder to adder is that which gives the
name newt for what used to be an ewt.
A common saying is that surprised
person is taken aback. This is said to
have originated from the same express
sion used nautically, as in saying that
sails are taken aback when they are
driven by the wind against the mast
Probably it would be hard to prove
that either of the sayings had its origin
in the other, for they both use the
work aback in its literal sense--back-
ward. Aback and similar words dis
close curious fact in their etymology
namely. that the first syllable is mere.
| Anglo-Saxon word on, which meant
not only what our present ION" means,
but also at. to, into or almost anything
of that kind, according to circum-
| stances.
hCCOAQ5 SOhSOlo dbe1 COm6
, from what seems queer thing to sug-
gest such words for the sense in which
! they have always been nsed. In each
the second syllable is from the Latin
word heart. Accord in its elements
means "to the heart" Real agreement
or harmony must have been considered
so sweet and SO aare that the only fit
ting name for it must contain that of
the heart as the seat of human affec-
tion.
Caprice and capricious seems to arise
from the fact that people could find no
better comparison for certain actions
i, than the capering of goat. The ety.
mology of these words that connects
them with the Latin word for goat is
questioned by the Century Dictionary,
but there is no doubt that caper is
from that Latin word.
Pilgrims were so-called for very
good reason, and the word was used in
queer way. They walked through the
land, and, as this was their prominent
characteristic, it suggested the name
for them, which is made from the Latin
words per. meaning through, and ager,
meaning land.-Philadel phia Times.
The herald., 1896-01-19
THE SPANISH
DUNGEON HELLS
The Terrible Fate of Cap
tured Cuban InSur=
gents
THE HORRORS THEY ENDURE
Spain's Prisons Are the Worst on
Eartfl=-sMen Are Sealed Up in Sol.
itary Vaults and Die Forgot-
ten and Unnamed
THE HORRORS THEY ENDURE

1he desperation of the Uubans who
are fighting Spain for the liberty of
their island excites wonder at times in
the American mind, and some are in
olined to think them too bloodthirsty
The herald., 1896-01-19

1t is by studying the little things
that we attain the great art of having
as little misery aud as much happiness
as possible.-Johnson
The herald., 1896-01-19

Those whose whole minds feed upon
riches recede in general from real hap
piness in proportion as their stores in
crease.-Burton.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-05-14
JAMES w. FLYNN.
EIperienoe of a Bell Boy and Clerk.

Experience of a Bell Boy and Clerk.
The next deposition read was that OF
James W. Flynn, clerk in the Broadway
Central hotel in New York, taken at New
York March 2. He used to live in Burling.
ton, and testified that he began work in the
Van Ness house as dining room boy five OF
six years ago, then served as bell boy awhile
and afterwards as night clerk. He was in
New York through the winter of 1915. but re.
turned to the Van Ness house for the last sum,
mer season, and finally left it about October
l, 1895. He said that the house made no pro
vision for furnishing guests with liquor, but
when a question as to the furnishing was re.
peated, went on -
A. The guests called bell boy to wait
upon them and gave the order to get glass
of ice water or perhaps go on an errand fol
them, and when they called for anything OF
this kind the bell boy usually went and got
1t for them.
Q. You say "anything of this kind"? A. !
mean liquor.
O. Did the bell boys have to report to the
office before they were permitted to go out
A. 1t was the rule, yes.
q. And did they make known TO you what
their errand was to be? A. No, not neces-
sariy, they did not.
O. Did they sometimes make known to
you what their errand was to bey A, |
would not say that they did.
O. How did you know what their errand
wasy A. We didn't question them; they
came in the Office and said they were going
out for such number.
Q. Did they tell you where they were 60
mgr A. Sometimes across the park, some.
times TO Sterns'; they usually told us where
they were going.
Q. And were there other drug stores that
they went to besides Serns'? A. Yes, sir.
Q. What others? A. Any of them; any
you might mention.
q. And did you furnish some money from
the office to go on these errands? A. Occa.
sionally we did.
q. Did you know on any of these occa.
siOns that they were going out to purchase
Intoxicating liquorsY A. would not say so
Q. Did you try to ascertain what they were
going for? A. No.
Q. Did you have any reason for not want.
ing TO know what they were going out fori
A. | didn't, in the slightest.
Q. When they returned what sort Of pack.
ages did they bringY A. That depended
altogether on what they went for; IL they
went for liquor they brought back liquor and
II they went for suit of clothes they brought
| 1t back.
q. The packages would be of the appropr
ate size for pint botte or a quart bottle II
they went for III A. Certainly.
q. And did you not inquire of them what
| they were going TO purchase when you fur.
| nished any considerable amount of money
A. Any considerable amount, OF course
1t was very seldom that boy
would ask for great amount Of
money; what mean Is possibly dollar OIL
| so, and 1t is very seldom that we gave any
| more than that, unless we knew who II wat
for and we would not give IL for stranger
Q. Didn't the boys sometimes have to use
more money than that for champagneY A,