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The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23
cLoupsURsT IN KENTUCKY
Ten Lives Lost and Great Amount OF
Property Destroyed.

FRANKFORT. July 22.-Tcn lives were
lost and untold loss TO property is the re-
suit In brief Of terrific cloudburst
yesterday at the head Of Benson creek,
four miles west Of Frankfort.
The dead, whose bodies have been re-
covered, are;
James Bradley. farmer with two
children.
Mrs. Bryan. a widow with two chill
dren.
Unknown man.
There are several persons missing.
It Is thought other bodies will be
found when the water subsidies. Heavy
rains Of the night were general all over
the country Dozens Of country road
bridges were washed away.
On the Louisville, Cincinnati and
Lexington, the Short Line division and
the Louisville and Nashville, traffic Is
suspended. A half dozen or more
county bridges have been washed away
Tho most valuable was one recently con-
structed over Benson creek and cost $50.
600. Trains ran to the bridge from both
directions, but the waters are so violent
that IL was impossible to transfer pas
sengers by boat or otherwise. Many
people living in Benson valley left Their
houses aud waded through the mad
waters, only escaping few minutes be.
fore the building washed away. Tho
destruction Of property in many parts OF
Franklin county is complete. Damage
is estimated at 100000 at the Lowest
figure.
4 tramp who was refused lodging by
James Hewett saved the lives Of hi
family lie stopped in the barn, after
ward came TO the door and Awoke th'
family just in time i0i them 70 get on
safely.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23
COLONEL MORALES At NEW YORK.
lie Tells Of the Cuban War aud Pre-
diets Success FOR the Insurgents.

lie Tells Of the Cuban War aud Pre-
diets Success FOR the Insurgents.
NEW York. July 92.-Lieutenant
Colonel Rafael Perez y Morales, one Of
the signers OF the Cuban constitution,
arrived in this city yesterday from
Kingston, Jamaica He had been shot
IN the eye during a recent battle and
came TO New York for surgical treat.
mcnt Colonel Morales was in the party
that left Cuba with General Roloff in
an open boat, and finally reached Kings.
ton. He has been engaged in many
battles in eastern Cuba under General
Sanchez.
THE reported death Of General Jose
Maceo was in no way due 20 the alleged
dissensions with General Garcia" said
Colonel Morales. when General Gar.
cia landed General Maceo willingly
turned over his command and made q
congratulatory speech TO the army He
served under Garcia in the preyiou.
war, aud said that he was glad TO do 50
again.
Scarcely day passes without an en-
Ragoment In eastern Cuba Almost IN,
whole province Of Santiago de Cuba j,
now in the hands Of the insurgents. Tho
army has 70 pieces Of field artillery
manned almost entirely by Americans
We call 10 the Wilmington battery, in
remembrance Of the assistance given n.
by the citizens of Wilmington. Del
What the Cubans most need now Is 49,
600 more rifles.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23
Charged WIN nmhs..Iemsnl.

MACON, No, July % Andrew Rein
hart, a German, aged 35 years, was ar
rested at Bevior on charge OF emboz'
element and viii be taken 20 Pittshurg
Kan Rciuhart was secretary aud
treasurer Of the German and Austrian
sick support societies and handled IA,
funds of those associations He wa.
working rs coalmincr near BoyioI
when arrested.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23
omcIal DemocratIc Forecast.

The following table was prepared
at the democratic headquarters
showing the States which they ex-
pect TO carry, together with the
number Of electoral votes in each:
Alabama, II; California, S; Colo
RADIO, 4; Florida, 1 Georgia l3; Ida
no, 3; Kansas, 10; Kentucky. 10;
Louisiana, s; Maine, g. Maryland,
Is; Michigan, II; Mississippi, 9;
Missouri, Il; Montana, 3; Nebras.
ka, s; North Carolina, II; North
Dakota, 3; Arkansas, $ Oregon, 3:
South Carolina, 9; Tennessee, -;
Texas, 10; Utah, 3; Virginia, u;
Washington, 4; West Virginia, 6;
Wyoming, 3. Total, 22S
As 22l electoral votes will decide
the combination would give Bryan
a majority of five. The democrats
place IlliLois, Indiana, Minnesota,
Ohio and South Dakota as doubt
fnl. They have a total of seventy.
five electoral votes.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23

PuhADFLrHIA, July 22-The tenth
annual convention Of the Building and
Loan association began here. Mayor
Warwick delivered the address u wei.
como The secrctary's report shows
there are over 5000 building associations
in the United States, with assets Of ESQ.
100000 The sums paid out every year
for Withdrawals and maturcd shares AZ.
grpratp ass 600 900.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23
TAlLoRs ON A STRIKE.
weivc thousand Ordered Co nut 10
Inforce Higher Prices

Twelve thousand Ordered Co Quit 20
InforCe Higher Prices
Nav YORK, July 22-Twclvc thou.
sand coat tailors were ordered on strike
today to enforce higher prices from
wholesale manufacturers and stop the
renewal Of the task and piece work sys'
tenn. The manufacturers were taken by
surprise a. IL had been given out that q
strike had been deemed inadvisable by
the leaders Up 10 noon 1000 tailors
had walked out and 1000 more were ex.
pected to quit work. The 1900 in Brook
lyn aud Brownsville are expected 10
join in the strike as they decided to dc
80 several days ago,
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23

WASHINGTON, July 92,-Secretary La.
mont has returned 20 Washington from
New York and held a conference with
Secretary Carlisle. Il can be- stated pos.
itivoly that the administration has not
now, and Ia not had recently. any in.
tontion Of resorting % apnther bond is.
sue for the purpose Of re..enishing tho
gold reserve and in the present oondi.
ton Of the treasury and the prospects Of
business in the near future no approhou.
sion Is felt that recourse must BE- had to
such issue
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23

LlulE Rock, July 22-Mrs Lulu
King Mcdonald, familiar figure about
the wharf, was killed by J. W. Conner
driver Tor the Herman Kahn Liquor
company, IL is claimed that Connoi
struck the woman over the head with a
chair and fractured her skull. lie wa,
placed In Jail
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23
KILLED inA weli.

LANPAsAs. Tex. July IS. Ash Bales
was killed here by falling backward in.
20 Hugh Espy's wen, about 10 miles
from Lampsas He had become faint
from foul air, and calling for the bucket
sogoup. but after getting within 10 feet
Of the top. fell hack over 80 feet
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23
Queen Victoria Arbitrator.

VALPARAISO, July lS.-Tho foreign
minlstcr az Santiago has received an
important dispatch from the Chilian
minister In London stating that Queen
Victoria consents 20 act n arbitrator in
the boundary dispute between Chill and
Argentina.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23

ALTON, Ills, July iS,-A running
hoighttrain ON the Chicago aud Alton
parted at Godfrey, and IN the collision
that followed Brakeman Grant Cowen
Bloomington, Ills, was instantly killed,
and Conductor Boyd Of Godfrey, wa
painfully injured.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23

CARRoNDALE, HIS, July 22.-A dis.
astrous railroad wreck occurred ON the
Chicago and Texas railroad, ab,u, one
mile south Of Murphyshoro A trcstlo
over Big Muddy creek gave way as the
result Of rcoont rains and one passenger
ooach was ditched Twelve persons
were injured, two Of whom viii die.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23

LEXINGTON Ky, Jnly s2-rhe first
Negro to commit suicide in the Blue
Grass region for years was Joe Barton,
well-io.do farmer Of Jczaminc county,
who emplied the contents Of . double.
barrolod shotgun into has stomach. &c
was horribly disdgured
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23

BASTRoP, Tex. July lS-Lazarus
Gage, colorcd, drove into the river here
and was drowned together with the
team. Il is supposed that he did not
know the river was so high until he had
gone too far and, being unable 10 swim,
all went down together
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23
PRINCESS MAUD MARINES.

She WEEDS Prince Charles. son Of the
Grown rriuce of Denmark.
LONDON, July 22.-Princess Maud,
the third daughter Of the Princess Of
Wales, was married at ~ 80 O'Clock to-
day to Prince Charles. the second son OF
the Crown Prince Frederick Of Den.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23
Will KeEP The RESERVE UP.

Plans ON Fout 60 Ease the Exchange
Market Untn the Crop Moves.
NEw YORK, July 22.-A meeting Of
representatives ~ a large foreign bank.
ing house was held today az the Office
Of J p, Morgan a Co. 70 consider plans
for the protection Of the treasury gold
reserve II understood that a plan
has been arranged 10 ease the exchange
market until the crop movement turns
the balance the other way.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23

mark. The ceremony took place In the
private chapel Of Buckingham palace,
So far rs the general public Of London
is concerned the wedding did not at
tract rs much attention rs had been be.
slowed upon other royal marriages Of
recent years.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23

WASHINGTON, Jnly 2a. Tho gold re.
serve now sande a -. olla. Saa. there
having been Withdrawn tl1S. 30 h ooin
md alaoa N haEa
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-23

pruLapkLpnIA, July iS.--The Trading
Historical PA liehing company has made
m assignment The liabilities wiz
reach t;co. ee ,u,iirnale q sssels 500. /.
nan
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-05
Weighing a Hair.

In Broadway store, which is the
branch Of a big out-of-town scale fac
tory, are more different kinds of scales
than most people imagine were ever
made. There are specimens of every
grade of weighing machine from the big
track scales that can weigh a railroad
car full of pig lead and weighing 3d.
900 pounds, down to a tiny balance so
fine that it is kept in glass case which
you could carry in your pocket. The
smallest scale of all is made for deli
cate tests in assaying. 1t is adjusted to
milligrammes. Its constituencies is SO fine
that you can weigh hair or an eyelash
on it. You can write your name on a
slip of paper with a lead pencil and
then find out just how much your sigma
trre weighs. The weights are the merest
bits of aluminium. not half SO big as the
head of pin. The machine is so deli
cate that a little dust blowing in from
the street will affect it's accuracy, and
it has to be carefully cleaned after each
exposure. 1t is made of aluminium,
platinum and the fnest-tempered steel.
People do not use it as a plaything as a
general rule Il costs as much as it's
weight in gold.-New York Recorder.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-05
WHY AND WHEN PEOPLE FORGET.
Psychic Phenomena Which Are Ex-
planned in Various Ways.

Psychic Phenomena Which Are Ex-
planned in Various Ways.
Sir Henry Holland vert down a mine
in the Hartz mountains, and suffering
from fatigue, completely forgot his Ger
man, and could not remember q word of
ter ascending. We all experience this
in a less degree. Sometimes it is an
injury which causes the blank in the
backward gaze. An English professor
once received violent blow on the
head and at once forgot all his Greek,
and musician lost all memory of mu-
sic from the same cause. Mr.. Whymper,
fell over a flightful precipice, 200 feet
high, with the result that his past was
for time wholly blotted out of his
memory, says the st. James Gazette.
The most singular cases of memory
loss are in connection with language.
1t is quite common in our hospitals to
see a sick German unable to speak
word of the English he had thoroughly
mastered.
A clergyman some time ago lost all
recollection of words, but he could still
remember the letters of which they were
composed, and could express his ideas
freely by spelling the words. An Off
Ger suffered from slight attack of apo
plexy, and as result forgot all but a
speak he merely uttered nonsense. but if
book or manuscript were handed to
him he read it with perfect facility.
One of the most extraordinary of all
memory losses is when a person forgets
how to write with his right hand but
still has the power to do so with his
left hand. In such case, after he has
written with his left hand the desired
sentence he can copy it with his right
hand
When the memory of words is grad
ually lost it invariably progresses in one
particular order. First the proper nouns,
then adjectives, and this stage is fol-
lowed by failure of power to recollect
events. Very many people suffer from
the first degree; excessive smokers, for in
stance, it is said, sometimes find it difficult
to recall proper names. Drunkenness is
a well-known cause, and there is the
very curious case of a man who mislaid
a package while drunk, forgot where he
had put it when sober and had to get
drunk again to find it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-05
One on Senator Sawyer.

A great many stories are told abou-
Philetus Sawyer, the sturdy old Repub~
lican who once represented Wisconsin in
the United States Senate, says the Troy
Times. Among them is the following:
# was in 1881, when Mr.. Sawyer, was
seeking his first election to the Senate,
that Col. Calkins said to him: "Mr. Saw
yer, one of the Winnebago county assem-
blymen, Mr.. Jones, here, is all right on
the bill which proposes to pay me for
work I did for the state over twenty
years ago, but I don't know how the 9th
ers stand. :, L wish you would fix them
up for me- Of course the colonel was
told one of the few funny stories he ever
INDUCED in. "Calkins," said the senator
your request for help on that printing
bill reminds me of an experience had
a good many years ago. When we were
living on my farm at Rosendale it be-
err wanted a certain COW or none at all.
1t happened to be the COW | had given to
my wife I went into the house and told
my wife. She, the good soul, said: Sell
her, bat l want the money sold the
cow, gave my wife couple of dollars
and said: Call on me when you want
more. When she wanted to buy dress,
ask for some of that COW money. l had
paid back several thousand dollars of
the cow money, and was wondering
when the demand would cease. A house
was built 1t had to be furnished. We
figured up what the furnishing would
cost. It amounted to several thousand
dollars. I said: Wife, I'll pay you the
balance of that cow money, and you can
pay for furnishing the house with it,
1t was a bargain, and the COW deal was
over" The $50 cow cost the old senator
not far from $4,000, but he never COM
planned at the price.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-05
FARRIGUT AT THE BosPHoRUs.
No Sultan Could Stop Him from Going to
Constantinople.

No Sultan Could Stop Him from Going to
Constantinople.
The refusal of the Sultan to allow the
Bancroft to sail up to ConstantinOple is
not an unprecedented occurrence, and it
is strange that Minister Terrell did not
mer experience it had with an American
ship-of-war, says the San Francisco
Chronicle.
In October, 1868, Admiral Farragut
visited Constantinople. He was in the
old Franklin, a fifty-gun ship, now EN-,
in reply to his application for permis-
sion to enter the Bosphorus with her, he
met with a prompt refusal. He was
told that the treaty of Paris expressly
provided that foreign vessels of war
should not enter that sea: Instead of
Bancroft appears to have done in the
like case, the hero of Mobile protested,
and informed the Grand Vizier that it
was his purpose to anchor his flagship off
the city of Constantinople. The Turks
were shocked, and a council of foreign
which had been parties to the treaty of
Paris. was called to rebuke the impudent
Neither Farragut nor our minister to
Constantinople, Lovejoy Morris. "scared
worth cent, Farragut declared that
III Tic SGOSIdplllc StuulSu II w dS
nowhere stated that the Creator had be-
slowed on Turkey exclusive dominion
over the arm of the sea which divided
Europe. from Asia. Lovejoy Morris re-
minded the Divan that the Nevski, a
Russian ffty-ton frigate, had been al,
lowed to sail up to the city. TO this
last argument Sultan Abdul Aziz replied
that the Nevski was commanded by a
prince of the blood, which made all the
difference. To this Farragut retorted
that he commanded 700 sailors who were
all princes of the blood in the United
States and he emphasized his purposes
by lowering his royal masts and all his
upper spars. This done, he politely in
formed the port warden that he pro-
posed to do himself the pleasure of call
gin, in his flagship, ON the following
morning. The visit was duly paid, and
the Sultan informed Mr.. Morris that so
far as he was concerned the admiral
was welcome; that it was two of the
foreign ambassadors who had objected.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-05
AFTER MANY MONTHS.
Puget Sound at Last Gets Cargo of
Wheat AhOat.

Puget Sound at Last Gets a Cargo of
Wheat Ahoat.
Tuesday was red-letter day in the
history of Tacoma, and not for months
has there been as much excitement along
the front of the city with bottomless
harbor, says the Portland Oregonian.
The occasion was the shipment of an en-
tire cargo CT wheat, the American ship
Clarence S. Bement clearing fer Queens
town with 1880 bags, valued at $685.
500. This event was not altogether UNI
expected. For months the big decapod
engines of the Cascade division of the
Northern Pacific have been hauling trains
over the mountains, and sending them
on into Tacoma. Some of the trains
would bring an entire carload of wheat
at time, while others would bring just
cars, without any wheat, but as sum-
mer merged into autumn, and autumn
began reaching for the caresses of Win
ter, the wheat pile began to increase.
Of course ell of it did not come in by
rail- The saddle-colored soil cultivators
of the Puyallup reservation would &C.
ccsionalIy float down that river with the
obroxious name, and deliver an entire
canoe load at once; and an occasional
rancher from the wilds of Steilacoom
would drive round to the elevator and
relieve his blackboard of it's sack or two
of golden grain, which was to aid in
maintaining the prestige of Tacoma as
a great wheat-shipping port. All of
these Influences working in harmony at
last resulted in making up a cargo, and
if the te1edo did not eat any holes in
the Dement'S steel hull during her long
wait for it. she will reach the Old
World by the time another cargo is
ready to follow.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-05
The Raising of Vanilla Beans.

"The greatest industry in our neigh
borhood," said Mancos Quedalia of Pa
pantla, Mexico, at the st. James, lis
the cultivation of the vanilla bean.
'The cultivation Of this. plant DIFFERS
from the general idea of agricultural
care, for it consists entirely in cutting
away forests to give it room to grow.
The vines are naturally grown from cut
tings. Just as the grape vines, but they
can also be grown from seeds, in which
case it is much longer before they be-
gin to bear The vine is very hardy
in it's native element, and sometimes
takes root even if thrown careleSsiy Oh
the ground, providing only that it has
shade and moisture. 1t grows best in
virgin SOIL where streams abound and
where the soil has a slight intermiXture
of sand.
"After setting out the plants, if they
thrive, they will begin to bear fruit in
three or four, years. The yield OF beans
increases each year after that until about
the fifth when it begins to dwindle..
In about the tenth year there is little or
no Weld and the plant is cut down. The
vines Weld. when they are in their great
est development, from 80 to 200 beams
The beans are not ripe until they be-
come yellow, which occurs III January
or February, but they are cut psenla.-..
turely on account of the depredatlons on
thieves. and on account of the great de-
mand.
Taking the average for the last ten
years the number of beans gathered in
each yeardS.S6eP has been about 10000
GAS a r the K.t~ters do not know
how to cure sextry guda'is is a matter
n wnlen ma lived: The cost i Il buy buy
the beans ses the finz you maya cure
them themSfB 'sos
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-05
LONDON SHoRE-WoRKERs.
They Go Through the Sewers to Search
for Articles of Value.

They Go Through the Sewers to Search
for Articles of Value.
Shoremen, or shore-workers they some
times call themselves, but their most ia
miliar appelation is ''toshers,' and the
articles they pick up ''tosh," according
to an account in London Mail
They really belong to another well-
known class, the mudlarks, but consider
themselves a grade or two above these
latter, for the genuine tosher does not
confine himself as they do, travelling
through the Thames mud and picking
up old pieces of coal or wood, copper,
nails, bolts, iron and old rope. The
toSher, when the coast is clear of the
police, makes his way into the sewers,
and will venture sometimes for miles in
quest of valua bles that occasionally find
their way into them by the kitchen sink
or the street grating.
When about to enter the sewers these
men provide themselves with a pole sew
en- or eight feet long, on one end of
which there is a large iron hoe, bag
carried on the back, a canvas apron tied
around them, and a dark lantern, similar
to a policeman's. This they strap on
their right breast, so that while walking
upright through the large sewers the
light is thrown straight in front When
they come to the branch sewers and
have to stoop the light is thrown directly
at their feet. AS they make their way
they use their noe In the mud at tnelF
feet and in the crevices Of the brick
work, and occasionally shillings and sill
yer spoons find a temporary resting place
in the bag at their back or in their capa-
cious coat pockets.
The toshers generally go in gangs of
three or four. both for the sake of COM
pany and to be able to defcnd themselves
from the rats with whicl The sewers
swarm. When they come near a street
grating they close their lanterns and
watch an opportunity to slip past unno-
ticed, for otherwise a crowd of people
might collect at the grating, whose pres
ence would put the police on the alert.
They find great quantities of money, cop
per money especially, in the crevices of
the brickwork little below the grating,
and not infrequently shillings, half
crowns and siXpences, with an occasional
sovereign or half-sovereign.
When sin Mck' they find many articles
of plate spoons, ladies, silver-handled
knives and forks, mugs and drinking
cups, and now and then articles of jewel
ry. They generally also manage to fill
their bags with the more bulky articles
found in the search such as old metal.
bones and ropes. These they dispose of
to marine store dealers and rag-and-bone
men, and divide the proceeds, along with
the coins found, among the different
members of the gang. At one time the
regular toshers used to earn from 30
shillings to e. week each but with the
construction of new sewers, grated at
the mouth, their industry is not SO easily
exercised and is consequently much less
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