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The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-06-13

car. the American people have shown
that they have not forgotten the honors
which the japanese bestowed upon Gen.
Grant when be visited their country
after his retirement from the Prosi-
iency. Indeed. Yamagata is often
styled the Gen. Grant Of Japan. a title
which bis eminent services as minister,
president OF the priyy council, or
ganizer Of the new army. strategist and
victorious commander entirely warrant.
Yamagata Is Of humble lineage. being
Of the Samurai class. He Joined the
army at the age Of nineteen. and won
his promotions through merit alone.
Like Gen. Grant. he Is noted Tor his
modesiy and taclturnity. lie IS sixty
three years OF age. small Of stature, but
physically Of great strength and en-
durance.
Among the generalissimos stan were
Gen. Oshima. who. II his chief Is styled
the Grant. Is worthy TO be called the
Sheridan OF Japan for his brilliant SER
vices In the Chinese war: President
Tsudzlki, Of the Imperial Library. an
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-06-13

vas. after due consideration aud many
lebates. the unanimous opinion OF sey-
raj enterprising business mon. These
nea are Mai A. Edgewater l. ".
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-06-13

The Ralnos law Is at present stirring
up New York.
The man who introduced the bill into
the legislature. Senator Raines, Is
tail gentleman with determined face,
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-06-13
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS or INTEREST 10
AoRtCULTURlSTS.

some Up-to-Data Hints About Cuuiyn
tion % thr Soil and Yields Thereof
IIurilcuiture. Niticuiture aud ilon'
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-06-13
IN BRITISH HONDURAS
A VISIT TO THE LAND or PRR-
PETuAL SUMNER.
John Mckay Writes Of the Trip from
aldwinter e. Midsammer IN Central
America Personnel % the Parry
Eauerienccs.


aUiHtry In Honduras
S6uld by the aid Of
American capital
and energy be de-
yeloped so as 20
yield Infinitely
larger returns for
the amount invest
ed than could pos
slbly be effected In
the United States
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-06-13
THE GRANT OF JAPAN
ZEN. VAMAcATA THE WcToRl-
Gus MILITARY LEADER.
uis Rsesat Enthusiastic Reception In
Thls Coantry ruling return Tor the
Courtesy shown the Iamented Amerl-
can Commander.

n THEIR EN-.
thusiastic reception
Of the famous
japanese soldier.
General IN Chief
Marquis Yamagata
and his suite. who
recently passed
through this coun-
try en- route 10 Mos
COW to attend the
coronation Of the
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-06-13

The smallest hummlng bird weighs
twenty grains
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-06-13

WIt0' NIIlAftIsIs0 TiElNItWIINs
and Is not only a social leader but
marked force In the progressive and
humanitarian movement that Is making
itself felt In the new altruistic Chicago.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
HORROR IN TROY.
At Least Twenty Girls Meet Death In q
COnfiR gratinn.

At Least Twenty Girls Meet Death in Z
Confiagration.
Troy, n. Y, February 1s.--In the
cutting room of Stetheimers and Co. Is
shirt waist factory Lille Kreiger, who
was working near machine, called to
a small boy to light the gas over her
work. The boy struck smatch
and threw the burning stub to the
floor. 1t struck a pile of oily rags and
in an instant the girl was enveloped in
flames. With her clothes and hair
burning she rushed to the window and
in an instant the room became a strug-
Cling, shrieking mass of humanity,
filing the windows, the fire escapes
and the only stairway. There We're
$50 girls in the room, while the build
ing contained $50 Many of the girls
jumped from the upper stories, some
of them escaping with slight injuries,
but others We're badly and some fatally
hurt.
The firemen worked like heroes, but
the building was destroyed at loss of
100000. Three women are known to
be dead, while enough are missing to
make it reasonably certain that the
fatalities will number score when
the ruins have been searched. More
than dozen were burned, some of
whom will die.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
TERSE NEWS.

John Dillon has been elected chair
man of the Irish parliamentary party.
The grand jury of Campbell county,
Kentucky, has indicted jackson and
Walling for the murder of Pearl
Bryan.
1t is SAID that diplomatic relations
between Germany and England are
considerably strained over the situa-
ton in the Transvaal. Advices from
Germany say that il looks like Ger
many must give up her interests in the
republic or quarrel with England, and
she has no intention of abandoning her
interests in the Transvaal.
Advices from Rome say: Baron Blanc,
minister of foreign affairs, authorizes
the announcement that President
Cleveland, having decided to accept the
position of arbitrator to settle the
questions in dispute between Italy and
Brazil, a protocol has been signed
referring to his arbitration all claims
that were not amicably settled by the
two countries within two months
lu lIdl IiSiluCIIb lCCcHUll oOhu Dllloll,
in speaking on the address in reply to
the quee ms speech, said he would be
surprised if 1.-THE beggarly character Of
the references to Ireland" did not
more firmly fix in the minds of Irish
men the conviction that nothing could
be obtained from England except by
violent agitation. He announced an
amendment censuring the government
for not proposing self-government for
Ireland. Dillon referred to the recent
talk about British ships blowing up
America. This had happily ceased,
but arbitration was to be accepted now
after America had been forced to
threaten. He warned the government
that the Irish party would resist to the
utmost any idea of war between Great
Britain and the United States. John
Redmond combatted Salisbury's
declarat ton that home rule was dead.
He wanted to know whether the
liberal leaders were still in alliance
with the nationalist and what the
terms of alliance were.
The steamer Commodore, the recent
career of which has caused much in
terest in Cuban and Spanish, as well as
in American circles, steamed out of
Wilmington harbor with clearance pa
pers indicating that she was bound for
Charleston. Her cargo, which is in
part of arms and ammunition, with
considerable quantity of stores, leads
to the impression that she is elsewhere
bound. Though she left at an hour
approaching midnight, there was a
small crowd on the docks to bid her
bon voyage, and they cheered her as
she left the port.
A Constantinople dispatch says: 1t is
announced that foreign consuls at lei
toun have induced the insurgents there
to accept the conditions of the Turkish
government for laying down arms.
At Chicago recently William II.
Hughitt, the 22-year old son of Marvin
Hughit, president of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad, shot and killed
himself at his fathers home on Prairie
avenue. The young man, who was a
law student at the University at Madi
son, Wis, had come home owing to
illness and is supposed to have taken
bis life while temporarily insane.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
THE CATHODE RAYS.
Demonstrated That in Photographing
objects the Rays Can BE Focused.

Demonstrated That in Photographing
objects the Rays Can BE Focused.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, February lit has
been demonstrated that the cathode or
X rays used by Roentgen to produce
photographs of interior portions of the
human body and photograph ordinary
objects through opaque substances, can
be focused. This is the most important
discovery thus far made in connection
with these wonderful scientific exper-
iments and it will make it more val
liable in every manner. By being able
to focus the rays, any particular organ
of the body may be photographed
without the surrounding tissues being
shown. 1t has also developed that the
shadowgraphs produced were smaller
than the articles photographed. This
demonstrates that with proper condi-
tions the rays can be focused on any
given article or portion of anatomy and
the image photographed of them.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
REMARKABLE CASE.
a Town Incorporated for Saloon Purposes
Within Another Town.

a Town Incorporated for Saloon Purposes
Within Another Town.
TUSCALOOSA, February 2o.-The mulct
law has brought about some queer
things in. Oskaloosa and vicinity. One
building was erected in triangular
shape to escape one unwilling property
owner, and another remodeled by
taking the front out SO that the bar
could be placed at the rear, and still
the opening be at the front. But the
queerest of all has been the establish
ment of the town of Baxter right in
the heart of the town of Muchakinock.
The town of Muchakinock was bodily
opposed to saloon. but several enter
prising adjoining property owners
conceived the idea of incorporating a
new town, and the municipality of
Baxter sprang into being. with four
lots, seven buildings and population
Of twenty A majority of the people
were willing. and soon after three
saloons were started, and have been
doing fourishing business. The
town is entirely out of debt and has
money in the treasury, as the license
has been $500 per year for each saloon,
one-half of which goes to the county
and the other one-half to the town.
The mayor is proprietor of one of the
saloons and the alderman-at-large owns
the other. The town ran along
smoothly for a year or more, and
probably would have continued SO had
not some of the citizens decided they
needed jail. This caused split, and
one of the incorporators has brought
suit for the vacation of the town, and
The case is to come on for hearing in
The district court at Oskaloosa.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
NEWS FROM JAPAN.
| The Yankees OF the Orient Have No Fear
| of Russian Encroachments.

The Yankees OF the Orient Have No Fear
of Russian Encroachments.
SAN FRANCISCO, February 90
Steamer advices from Toxic are as
follows: In discussing the budgetary
items relating to military and naval
expansion, the Japanese house of
representatives has observed great
privacy. Twice its debates have been
held behind closed doors, but enough
has transpired to afford a glimpse of
one important phase of national policy.
Debating the periods fixed by the
government for completing it's schemes
of expanded ornaments, the house
naturally considered the fact that,
after the completion of the Siberian
railway, Russia will be able gradually
to concentrate at Vladivostocll force
aggregating 100000 men. In that
degree would Japan be menaced by
such a contingency, and what capacity
to meet it would she possess at the
time? Those We're among the questions
debated by the representatives, and
they arrived at the conclusion that,
although Russia might perhaps succeed
in massing Il great army at Nladivo-
stock, She could not possibly maintain
it at such an immense distance from it's
base Of supplies by means Of a solitary
railway. Maratime communication
would be essential, and any line of sea
communication would be exposed to
attacks by the Japanese navy, which,
by that time, will be fully three times
as strong as the Russian squadron now
assembled in eastern waters.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
THE NEWS IN IOWA
CATTLE GO MAD AND DIE.
Remarkable Disease In Northern lows
kills Many Cattle.

Remarkable Disease In Northern Iowa
kills Many Cattle.
Iowa FALLS, February 19.Early in
the fall large number of farmers in
this part of the state reported the loss
of cattle from some mysterious disease,
but of late the reports have grown less
frequent, and it was thought the
trouble had died out, but last week
Joseph Harper, a large cattle raiser
living northwest of the city. lost nine
head of fine steers within q few hours
after turning them into field of corn
stalk The victims of the disease had
it in it's most virulent form and before
dying became rayi1g mad, attacking
everything that came in their way.
No one has been able to explain the
cause of this strange disease and no
remedy has been found that is potent
enough to save the lives of the cattle
attacked by it. Various theories are
advanced by those who have made the
disease a study, but many of them have
been disproven by practical tests.
That it is stomach trouble is admitted
by all, but what it is that brings on
the ailment is as yet indefinitely
explained. Hardly a farmer in this
section has escaped the loss of one or
more head during the past fall and
winter. and as the loss has followed
the feeding on cornstalks, most feeders
are inclined to abandon cornstalk
fodder until the matter can be ex-
planned, or some remedy discovered
that will at least partially combat the
disease.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21

IN the province of Smolensk, there
Is little state practically governed
md inhabited for the greater part Of
the year by women. The state is about
forty miles square and includes num-
bsr of villages which formerly belonged
no the convent of Besjukow. The state
Y IS known as the Kingdom of Women"
l, because the male Inhabitants emigrate
q ascertain time each year to seek work
"a other parts Of the empire, leaving
Hairs Of local government to their bet
]. ter halves. The woman mayor presides
aE the communal assemblies. where the
women discuss with praiseworthy zeal
questions Of public interest. The fnan-
|%scia. condition of the state is said to be
SGxcellent, and the women have all the
pin money they want.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21

The Chicago papers contain the an
ouncement that young man has won
&c FIRST prize for oratory in a certain
Agh school This sort of thing should
Z stopped at once. There is nothing
nnat Is killing off our promising high
MO0l pupils like oratory. There seems
Il be some subtle poison lurking in
Dc flowing robes of oratory that saps
y young life ere it blossoms into man
I'd Thousands Of high schools
Goughout the land are shooting thou
1fds Of brilliant young orators
cough the manhole Of fame before
ssy are well out of knee breeches. But
Tat becomes of them? No one ever
sars Of these great orators becoming
land holding senates spellbound, as
olY once held high schools. Tie NOR
deAy Of the boy orator at the present
sir must be 100 per cent This ter
Hes slaughter of young lives should
putopped at once.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
TWO TRAVELLERS SUSPECTED

Spectacle Men Are to Be Arrested for
Maud Strawn's Murder.
SIBLEY, February 2o.-Sheriff Carter
das gone to Minneapolis to get two
men who were selling spectacles in the
ieighborhood of the Winters home on
she Wednesday Maud Strawn is sup
posed to have been killed. Their bust
ness card was found on table in the
rouse where Maud's body was found
6ull's attorneys are fighting every
nch of the ground. Morrow has been
discharged
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21

A great many exhibits in the way of
Mysterious disappearance come to the
cOgnizance Of the plural persons who
make the newspapers, but the loss re-
ported from a Furnishing western city
recently is surely the strangest of the
The person in question, says the
ssegram, drove into the center of the
Wy on Friday in the family carriage
ID tied the horse on the principal
eet; then sunk out of sight into the
wd. There is something positively
Fanny about this yanishment. This
choosing of the center of the city, the
Principal street and the middle of the
az gives the disappearance weirdly
eatrical effect. as though the vanisher
Eliberately selected test conditions"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
SAN FRANCISCO ROBBERY.
Bank Officials Locked in the Vault and
the Money Carried OFF.

Bank Officials Locked in the Vault and
the Money Carried Off.
SAN FRANCISCO, February 20.-Three
masked men entered the Market Street
Bank, small concern on Market street.
Cashier Hopkins and BoolSkeeper Hay
shorst were the only ones in the bank
at the time. Pointing their pistols at
the heads of the bank employees, the
robbers ordered them to throw up their
hands. Hayshorst obeyed, but Hop
kins endeavored to get pistol from a
drawer. A shot from one of the
robbers stopped him and he threw up
his hands. The bullet did not hit the
cashier. The robbers then went
behind the counter and hustled their
prisoners into the vault and then ral1ed
the money from the counter 1t is
thought they did not secure over 500.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
FIFTY OR SIXTY KILLED.
Miners Perish in a Colorado Mine Ga.
Explosion.

Explosion.
GLENwOOD SPRINGS, Colo. February
ia gas explosion occurred in the
Vulcan mine at Newcastle when there
were between fifty and sixty men in
the mine at work. At the shaft mouth
a hole 100 feet square was blown out
Ed WEIGH, who was just at the mouth
of the tunnel when the explosion took
place, was blown to atoms 1t is
almost certain that all the men in the
mine persisted. Smoke is rushing from
the shaft in dense, black clouds, which
prevents the entrance of the mine.
The fans were completely demolished,
and the last hope of anyone being
found alive is cut off.
1t is reported that the new woman
has arrived at Massardis, Me-. that
she pulled off her coat rolled up her
sleeves and went to work building a
lumber mill on the Aroostool river
Since his submission to the English
King Prempeh of Ashantee has adopted
several civilized customs. His longing
for progress has led him to take brandy
and soda as a highly elevating bever-
age.
La Revue DIES Duck Mondes will this
year send Paul Bourget to Japan
Pierre Lott to Persia and India, and j.
Chailly Bert to the Dutch Indies, for
new impressions de voyage
James Oils, who died near Pain is
vile, KY, recently, was credited with
being only nine days short of 1o5 years
old.
The German-American citizens Of
Baltimore are taking steps to com
memorate the 175th anniversary of the
birth of Baron de Kalb, the revolutions
airy soldier, which will occur on June
goth.
M. Lemaitre, the new French acade-
mician, is the son of a peasant school
master, and he was designed for the
priesthood, but instead he became the
favorite theatrical critic of Paris, and
then a successful dramatic author and
novelist.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
Major George F. Robinson, assistant

Major George f. Robinson, assistant
paymaster of the department of the
Colorado, has been released from
further active duty. ITO Major Rob
inson,'' says the Boston Transcript,
belongs the honor of saving the life
of Secretary w. II. Seward from the
assassin knife The wicked-looking
instrument which was welded by the
hand of Payne on the night of April 10,
1865, is in the possession Of the major
and will remain in the family as an
heirloom. A magnificent gold medal
was the gift of congress-"
The friendships of the world are oft
confederacies in vice or leagues of
pleasure.
Lord Rosebery's Forthcoming novel
is awaited with more than ordinary
curiosity by several prominent English
men, who suspect that he has been
using pen dipped in satire.
Edmund Clarence Stedman, who is
the author of the best critical works on
he Victorian poets, says that Mr..
Austin will do as the poet laureate
during what may be called an
lnterregnum. y
Vicomtesse HouSsaye, whose salon is
one of the most highly esteemed in
Paris by men of intellectual distinction,
was formerly an American girl, Miss
Ritter, of California,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
FLAMES CLAIM HUMAN PREY

Eight Persons Burned to Death in a
London Tenement Blaze.
LONDON, February ia number of
horrible accidents occurred at fire in
a tenement behind the Palace Theater
of Varieties. Five children and three
adults were burned to death. One
man jumped from window and was
impaled upon the railing of fence.
He was removed to a hospital IN a
dying condition. Severalother persons
escaped with the greatest difficulty,
suffering with burned faces and hands.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
AFTER TWENTY YEARS.
DR.. Jones Killed a Man for the Out
rage of His Wife.

DR.. Jones Killed Man for the Out
rage Of His Wife.
DALLAS, Tex, February 19.-Dr R.
II. Jones, who four years ago killed
Capt. w. G. Veal at the reunion of ex-
confederates in Dallas, has been con-
victed of murder in the second degree
and given a sentence of twenty years
in the penitentiary. He had received
life sentence, but the state court of
appeals granted him new trial. He
killed Captain Veal for the alleged
cause of rape committed on Mrs.
Jones twenty years previous to the
tragedy, and when she was yet the
Widow Burlington.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
EDITOR SHERMAN BEATEN.

Judge Eichelberger Takes His Case From
the Jury.
OTTUMwA, February 1s.-Judge Eich-
eIberger has sustained the motion to
dismiss made by defendants in the case
Of Sam Sherman VS.. the Ottumwa
Electric Railway. Sherman sued for
SIS, 0o0 for damages sustained October
Is, 1893, when he was run over by one
IF defendants street cars. The court
found no negligence on the part of the
defendants employees. Sherman is
editor of the Bussey Banner.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21

The full bench OF the Maine supreme
Fnurt handed down decision for the
defendants in a suit for heavy damages
4 against a Bangor furniture concern that
sold folding bed which shut up like
iaeknife upon Mr. and Mrs. Frank
i White, making Mr.. White a helpless
and hopeless cripple and seriously but
\ not. permanently injuring Mrs. White.
i The court says that the defendant firm
\ had no knowledge of the faulty design
OF the bed which made it dangerous
trap, and that no phase Of the case casts
any liability upon the firm.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
COMES ON MARCH 3.

Governor Drake Calls Special Election
for Linn County.
Dies MONIES, February 19.-As soon
as both houses of the assembly passed
the special act amending the statutes
relating to the holding of special
elections SO that the time for nomina-
ton will hereafter be ten days instead
of twenty, Governor Drake issued a
proclamation to the voters of Linn
county, calling a special election on
March 3 to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Representative Nc
Clclland
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
COUNTY LOSES MONEY.

Additional Shortage Traced to Treasurer
Kirsebom, of Plymouth County.
SIOUX CITY, February 17.-An addi-
tional shortage of So, 900 has just been
discovered in the accounts of Treasurer
Kirsebom, of Plymouth county, being
the liquor tax collected since January
4. The liability of Kirsebom's bonds
men expired January /, and the sum
will be loss to the county
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
YOUTH IN TROUBLE.

Webster City Young Man Charged With
Keeping Gambling House.
WEBSTER City, February 10.-Quite
sensation was created here when It
became known that Harry Hoyt, one
of the best known and highly con-
nected young men of the city, had been
arrested on indictment by the grand
jury for keeping a gambling house.
The indictment was against Hoyt and
a young man very little known about
town. by the name of Alderman.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
IN CUBA.

HAVANA, February 17.-Late advices
say that the insurgents have taken
Managua, a large city only fourleagues
from Havana.
HAVANA, February 19.-In the last
engagement between the Spanish
troops and insurgents under Jose
Maceo, the latter lost seventy three
killed and eighty wounded.