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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1896-05-21

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unb Vieren: 2e'ben tperben bur6 sfarl's
eloner &oot Sbse turirt. Gum yer'
tauf bel 8alieper & Sd1u6aro, Sames
@laDiu, Z. s. Spsaehp, u. @obn &
Co., .. 6tein, Central Drug Stsrs.
u. S6weppe.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1896-05-21

: Sie 46nisin Bictoria bon gns,
Lamb feiert am eonntag ibren Is. &c:
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1896-05-21

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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-09

our cities on account ot The carbon
monoNiIa present has 81 often caused
death Co its unconscious victims Cal
Cic carbide Is imaginable 90 such
degree that exposure to the tempera-
ture of a blast furnace has upon IL no
pcrceptihle effect
one ton os caIoic carbide makes IL
600 cubi" feet ~ acetylene gas. capa-
be Of Supplying $4,000 one-quarter foot
burners. each Of which gives more
lirht I'm practical Illuminating power
than - standard sperm candles for
one hour. or LOO 600 standard sperm
candles per tour for the ton. To 40
duCH al" same candle power with ordl-
nary city Eas 10 would require $4,000
cubic feat. Therefore. II city gas viii
cost in the holder a. cents per 900
cubic foot. o6i.0Hn cub fest viii cost
$1,000. which viii renrreent the equiv
alent in Illuminating value OF one ton
OF carbide costing about $50 When
brought into contact With water this
substance freely evolves acetyiane gas
at the rate Of from FIVE 20 five and
one-aalf cubic feet 10 the pound. The
residue. being lime. may be used
again In the manufacture OF carbide.
II ignitrd I'm the open air as generated
this gas burns with n yellow flame,
hut n burned I'm a suitable jet the flame
Is white, steady. Intensely luminous
Alln rFIN-l Go WatnHlL the ulue CEN
ter Of the ordinary tShtau gas fame
or the blue base OF the argand flame
from ordinary illuminating Eds. Acety-
l"ne IS a clear, CplOrless. heavy gas
which might properly bc described as
the concentrated essence OF coal gas
and Of water gas. both OF which owe
their Illuminating properties 20 Il. al
though 10 Is present therein only TO
the extent Of one-half OF one per cent.
As Indicating the possibilities OF
acctyleue simply as an illuminant, the
promoters Of the Niagara plant show
that the power available from the
present tunnel alone would enable the
production Of 300 600 tons yearly. suffi-
Client FOR the production OF $500. 600 900
cubic feet Of arrtyleue gas. Of about
four times tho Illuminating equivalent
ar an tGc coal Eas now consumed
throughout the whole Of the United
States.
Acetylene gas viii not necessarily
ruin the electric light companies. as
predicted, for the calcic carbide from
which 10 is made from coke and lime
10y powerful electric currents I'm sim
pie furnace. can Dee made with the ex-
listing electric plants. but slightly al
tered; and these plants. instead Of be-
ing run only az night q g IS usually the
case except whore power IS Sold. can
be run day and nlg'Nt. making carbide
at greatly decreased operating charges.
day labor being cheaper than night la
Dor. and the items Of interest. insur-
ancc, taxes. superintendent and Of
flee expenses being proDortionately
much less At a plant run night and day
than In one used only 10 hours only.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-09
Is IO3 Years Old.

Mrs Helen Dean has passed the CEN
tury mark and is apparently in the best
Of health. She lives at No. crI Carlton
avenue. brooklyn, and yesterday cclebra-
ted her 1881 birthday. Her nurse said that
Ms. Dean had lived so long because "she
Is lovely TO others"
1t IS because every one is lovely to
mo- is the way Mrs. Dean expressed
herself.
She reClined IN her back room yester-
day. and was greatly surprised when she
received several presents \ dainty lace
cap. from James Matthews. she put on.
and when she saw a basket OF rusks. OF
which she is very fond. she said 10 her
nurse:
Nay. Jane. these are all for me. You
ar" vary good 20 me, but you don't like
IUsks like I do"
Airs Dean was born in Ncw-J-trcrht
and before she was married was Mis-
Helen Ie-eman. Her father was FAR
NOR and she lived with him on NE oil
homestead until sh. was - wears OH
when shr married Major William 4
Dean OF 'l. Brooklyn guards. who lived
iu Fulton street near Sands. Sne was
married 'H years and has been "a widow
just 81 gears. Mrs Dean has lived in
Carlton avenue - years. Her memory OF
old Brooklyn is exceptionally good. and
she sees and hears as readily as persons
many years younger than she.-Neyy
York Times.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-09
L ELUDED TOnERS.
workincmen who Have Acce,,,dT.r

Workincmen who Have Accepted Tempt
Ing on P To Go Ia Central America.
From the Washington Post.
For some time. advertisements have
appeared in different papers through
out the country Offering work in Cen
trail America 20 stouecutters and 9TH
ers. The advertisement was cleverIv
worded, and offered s. day wages
and transportation - the scene of op-
erations u all who accepted.
Several men I'm 81 Louis ard Chi,a-
80 answered the ads. and were hired
10 50 tu Guatemala L. work on rail-
road contracts. Tickets were sent 10
the men 20 New Orleans from their
homes, and there quite a party was
cougr5 gated IN a few weeks. and all
sailed al one time. on the trip the
men were Jubilant. believing they had
az last found a country where money
was plenty and work easy u obtain.
Castles were built Of a year or two i'm
Guatemala, ana then "a trip home with
hundreds Of dollars. but an these cas-
tiles. Ike most Others built in air. We're
doomed 20 an early collapse.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-09
WONDERS OF
ACETYLENE
SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF The
NEW ILLUAINANT.

Its Remarkable Power. Brilliancy
and Cheapness Enable 1t to
eclipse the Electric Lights old
in Cylinders Like Oxygen, II May
be Handled with Absolute Safety
II Was Discovered by Prof. Will
son In y orth Carolina and Not In
England, as Once Reported.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-09

Constipation causes more than halC the
Ills Of women. karI- Glover Roo. Tea
Is Pleasant cure IoI CONSULTATION.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-09

For a quick trip 10 Chicago Try the
Burlington route via Northern Pacinc
a. Billings.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-09

PHI Daniels. T. =. A. Butte Mont
". W. Johnston, G. A. Billings.
Mont
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-09

IL W''ITI'I y I'-I7T-II|'I y '|-T|-T W
production. oven with the crude IpplI-
unccs at Spray. The following gre Uhe
estimates as 60 candle power OF accty-
lenc, yield per not ton Of carbide and
cost of carbide per not ton. mode hv
both theoretical and practical men i'm
England. Germany and the United
States:
Feet OF Gas Cost OF
Candle Per Ton 81 Carbide
Power. Carbide. Per Ton.
theoretical ....250 ll.1S4 $40 90
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-09

tected from the intense heat OF the vol
taic arc by a layer of dense carbon ca
conductor Of electricity but not Of heaD
L. inches thick.
The iron plate. which is connected
with one side Of the transformer by
eight heavycopper cables fixed thereto,
forms one eleOtrode for the production
Of the arc. The other electrode I'm each
furnace Is built up 81 six carbon bars
or slabs. each 36x4N4 inches. clampcd
together side by side and forming
pencil So inches long. 70 inches wide
and \ inches thick. thus having 50
square inches. cross-seCtion. The in
tcrstiCcs between the seCmcuts ~ this
prism or pencil are rammed with pow
dCrcd coke and coal-tar and baked, so
as 90 secure complete electric cpntnui-
". This pencil is held i'm clamp at
the lower end Of an iron bar about iNi
inches I'm CroSs-scCtiCn, which his YER
teal motion through "a hole in the top
Of the furnace. and which bar is not
only connected by "a copper cable with
the other side of the transformer. but
is suspended 10y a chain passing over
pulley. and may be raised and lowered
by a screw and haud-wheel SO as to
regulate the distance between the car
bon-covered iron plate and the lower
end Of the giant pencil The upper
carbon is protected in "A measure from
the oNidizinE effect Of the air 10y a sheet
iron jacket.
The current intensity Is lowered by
is Thomson-I Houston ''step-down'
transformers type +. form 4. $4,000
volts capacity from lof0 volts TO - or
105. as desired. There are two T. IL.
current indicators of l2S volts. The
current IS conveyed to the furnace cleo
trodeS 10y % cables each threc-quarters
OF an inch I'm diameter, and each made
up of l23 No. Is Brown n sharp gauge
copper wire. spirally wound. Each
elcCtrodc is connected with the g"ner-
ating dynamos by eight strands %
cable. The primary wires are connect
cd i'm multiplcs 10 the transformers.
The secondary windings OF the trans
formers have co cycles per second. and
are connected I'm parallel with the two
furnaces.
The cost Of manufacture I'm the prim-
tive plant at Spray IS thus figured out
a. she result Of tests mad" there on a
commercial scale 10y number of we'll
known experts.
COST OF one Ton OF Carbide OF Cal
Cium-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-09
When you write
to your friends

who are coming West 90
visit you. just add a post
SCRIPT Ike this. BE sure
T. take the Burlington. rs
much The best
You are qu..e safe tn do
ing this. because our ser
vice from Oml IA. Kansas
cry, s.. Lou.s. Chicago.
and all other Southern and
Southeastern cities Is Just
as good "a our service 10
those points. And that. as
everyone who Is acqua mt
ed with a. viii testify. -
the best there Is.
Tickets and timeta bles
on application to the local
ticket agent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-19
RUSSIANS FILE SUITS.

Damage Cases for Which Omcer Gaznee.
SIuGginG PrOpensIties Are Largely Re-
sPOnsible.
Seven damage suits which will proba-
bly, cause more trouble to the often sued
Chief Wilkerson and five other mem
bers of the Topeka police force, than
any heretofore brought, were filed by J .
S. Ensminger in the district court today
They are the ones growing out of the
beating of the Russian women in the
Russian settlement in North Topeka on
the night of August IS, last.
According 10 law the issues of the
plaintiffs cannot be joined, so this makes
seven separate suits, one by each person
who was in the affray. Each action is
against Chief Wilkerson and Officers
Harden E. Gaines, ]. c. Owen, John
Ewing, Wesley Hale and A. W. Fowkes
The suits are as follows: George P.
Etzei, assault and battery, false impris-
onment, and injuries TO wife, $500;
Mary Etzel, his wife, who was the one
said to be most badly injured, assault and
battery, $4,000; Mary EzeI, his mother,
Lizzie Etzel, sister, and Jacob Egas. as
sault and battery, $4,000 each; Charles
Disch and Mike Etzel, false imprison.
ment, SO, 800 each.
1t is not likely that these suits for dam
ages will ever be made to stick, but thew
are great object lesson in the future to
keep bruisers and sluggers like Gaines
off of the police force.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-19

destin alton. Mrs. Shields was in dan
gerous condition, and Secretary Casey
says the Topeka authorities, had they
done their duty, would not have sent her
to Kansas City. 1t was at first the inten-
ton to send her back to Topeka, but
owing to her condition it was thought
best to send the woman on to Indianapo-
lis, where friends may care for her"
There is little doubt that the woman
is insane. She has a brother, Allison
Morse, living somewhere in Chicago,
with whom she is supposed to have
been visiting before she came to Topeka
While she was in Topeka she refused to
talk about her proposed trip to Denver
Her husband is in bank at Rochester
and while she was at Miss Merry's she
wrote to him but the contents of the let
ter is not kcown to Miss Merry. Miss
Merry says that she did not suspect that
the woman was insane though now some
of her actions appear to have been Pc
culiar.
Mrs. Shields is described as a tall
handsome woman with blonde hair. She
dressed well and appeared to be in COM
Portable circumstances. though it was
noticed she had no money. She was
dressed in lavender colored waist and a
wool skirt of novelty goods when she dis
appeared from Topeka. The child is
very small for her age and its name is
Ruth
If the police had been notified as they
should have been the woman and her
child would have been intercepted and
a great deal of trouble and anxiety saved
to the friends and family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-19
PRESIDENT GATES. HERE

And the Lectures at the Central Presb byte =
rian Church Begin Tonight.
President George A. Gates of Iowa
college, Grinnell, Ia, has arrived in To-
peka and will make three addresses at
the Central Congregational church to
fill the eng gagenents of Prof. George D.
Heron.
President Gates will tonight talk on
tfThe Sermon on the Mount, Applied to
Industrial aud Political Conditions -
His subjects for Thursday and Friday
nights have been announced. At noon
on Friday, President Gates will talk to
the Santa Fe shop men at the coffee
room in the machine shops.
President Gates brings the information
that Prof. Heron was stricken down
Monday morning with nervous prostra.
ton and has been compelled to cancel
all his engagements including several
lecture engagements at Cooper Union,
New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-19
NC KINLEr's WELCOME.
MassiIIOn's Citizens Give the Ex.
- Governor a Great ReceptIOn.

MassiIIOn's Citizens Give the Ex.
Governor a Great Reception.
MAssILLoN, Ohio, Feb. 19.-The well
come given ex- Governor Mckinley at
the reception at the Massillong club was
of such a character as to ma ke the occa-
sion the most memorable society event
that has ever taken place in this city.
Acceptances from nearly 700 people, 800
of whom came from distant points,
caused the spacious clubhouse to be
crowded from o'clock until past mid
night. General Manager Woedford, of
the Cleveland, Lorain 81 Wheeling rail-
way, brought about forty invited guests
from Cleveland down by special train.
Mr.. Mckinley received with Mr.. and
Mrs. j. w. McClymonds, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Steese, Mr.. and Mrs. @. NJ. Rus
sell, Mr. and Mrs E. l. Baldwin, Messrs.
w. f. Kicks and w. &. L. Warwick. Mr..
Warwick is the son of the late congress
man who defeated Mr. NJ cKinley in 1890.
The club house was brilliantly illumina--
ted and decorated, and the guests of
honor seemed to enjoy the purely per
sonAl nature of the affair Dancing be-
gan at 10 o'clock and continued until a
late hour. Greatly to the regret of the
company present, Mrs. Mckinley was
obliged to absent herself on account of
an attack of the grippe.
Mr.. Mckinley was the guest of honor
at a dinner given at the residence of J.
W. McClymonds prior to the reception.
The club was filed with a magnificent
loan collection of pictures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-19
AWAY UNDER NIAGARA.
Never Before Can Man Remember Hav-
ing Explored Under 1t So Far.

Never Before Gan Man ReIne IN Der nav
ing Explored Under 1t So Far.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Feb 1S.-A
remarkable incident in the history of the
falls made possible by the dry condition
is just reported. Under the guidance of
John Barlow, the Cave of the Winds
guide. a party of thirty last evening
made an exploration of the Cave of the
Winds, which could be reached by reason
of the remarkab BILE ice formation.
The cave as they found it, presented
remarkable appearance and could hide
a small army of men. In some places the
ice formed on the rock lowered so to 80
feet above the heads of the spectators.
Instead of the immense volume of wat
er ordinarily coming over, there was
scarcely more than a mist. Following this
the entire party, starting from this spot.
which is within the circle of Horsesh hoe
falls walked east on the ice bridge
to the incline railway directly before the
American falls and in full sweep of it,
following almost the line of the course
taken by the Maid of the Mist in the
navig able season.
This is the first time in the history of
the falls that the bridge has been known
to extend so far east, and no one in the
memory of living man has travelled over
the route just taken, nor indeed, is any
one ever likely to do so again, unless it
be this winter, for conditions such as the
present may never exist again. Hun
dreds on the banks saw the perilous trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-19
WELCOME WORN OUT.
The Grand Jury rs Staying Too Long
to Suit Taxpayers.


to Suit Taxpayers.
If there is one thing in Shawnee couu-
ty which is emulating the proverbial
horse which is always eating its head off
it is the present grand jury.
1t is not even content to die in peace
after devouring its own thinking appar-
atus, but insists on-living after its life of
usefulness has long since become a
thing of the past.
The jury is hanging onto life with bull
dog tenacity. People expected that,
out of very shame, it would adjourn
ended and the jury still offers the suffer
ing tax payers no relief Probably to-
morrow will close with no sign of quit
ting.
1t is costing Shawnee county $32 day
to pay the jurors and bailif, without
counting witness fees, mileage, and the
thousand other ills which grand juries
healed only by the county treasurer.
Before the "secret" body returned last
Monday the expense already heaped
upon Shawnee was over $1,000. 1t is
likely that,little less that $1,000 has now
been sacrificed on the altar of "Secret"
investigation
The grand jury was called tc investi
to do, to any satisfactory extent. 1t was
not expected to take up the indicting of
miserable jointist, nickle in -the-slot ma
chine men, and to consider violations of
law which can be seen with the naked
eye.
The people rejoiced because the great
and powerful grand jury was to ferret
out hidden crimes which would battle
conviction if the Investigations were ex-
posed to the purifying light of open
court But their confidence has been
betrayed! The consideration of the
grave robberies would have netted
the jurors but about $40 apiece
and so they have investigated everything
Imaginable, from prying into the affairs
of bankrupt merchant TO indicting CT
gar dealers who sell cigars by nickle-in-
the-slot machines
If the jury has finished the grave rob-
berries it should quit. If it has not fin =
ished them in the whole two weeks and
half it has been working, it should also
quit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-19
MCKINLEY MAY NOT WIN.

A Kansas Man at Washington Says He
Must Get 1t First Ballot
From the State Jonrnars Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb 19.-"hansas al
ways seems to get off on the wrong foot
said a man who is interested in Kansas
happenings. "The state seems to be
overwhelming for Mckinley, and when
the result of the national convention at
ST. Louis is known they will be out of 1t
entirely"
Then you do not think Mckinley
will be nOmlnatedr"
"No. sir, 1t is my opinion that unless
he gets it on.the first ballot he will never
be nominated, and he won't get ma
jority on the first ballot. Reed will be
the man.
alt is just as plain as anything can be
this far off Reed has the New England
states solid, that makes seventy eight
votes in a bunch which will never
change. Then the Morton boom is un-
doubtedly in the interests. of Reed, and
the vote of New York. seventy-two
strong in the convention, will be given
to Reed at the proper time.
mo one will gainsay, L think, that
Quay is working in the interest of Reed,
and guess it won't be disputed that Quay
will control the Pennsylvania delegation.
Representative W. A. Stone of Penn
sylvania, one of the most influential
politicians In the state, IS an avoWeQ
Reed man. Pennsylvania, therefore,
means sixtY-four votes more
The withdrawal of Harrison was un-
questionably in behalf of Mckinley, at
least it will serve to help him but look at
the other favorite son booms which have
been started in order to help the speaker.
Cullom in Illinois is running for no other
purpose than to keep Mckinley out.
And Senator Davis in Minnesota will get
the delegation of that state in order to
stop an Allison invasion from the south
and to keep down the Mckinley men.
IF you count all these up you will find
276 votes which will ultimately go for
Reed and which will be surely for him.
This is disregarding the numerous dele
gates Reed has already secured in the
south aud the friendly feeling there ia
for him in California.
"The delegates from the south which
will be pledged for him will bring his
nominal strength on going into the con-
vention up to such point that the judi
cial manipulation of the 'favorite SON
states, which are really for him, will give
him the nomination at the proper time.
"Then if the Kansas delegates have
been instructed for Mckinley or hold out
for him they will be- left on the pier
shouting and gesticulating as the Reed
boat pushes out into the current.
"Of course l don't want to see Kansas
lose any opportunities, but in my opin-
ion Reed is the man."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-19
Murder of J. y. LambOrn, a
Wealthy Farmer,
In His Home at Fall Leaf, Near
Lawrence.
HIS BODY Is FOUND,
With Many Wounds Sufficient
to Kill.
Robbery the Motive, With No
Clue to the MurdererS.

LAWRENCE, Feb 19-J. T. Lamborn,
a wealthy farmer, has been found MUIR
dered in his house at Fall Leaf, a remote
station northeast of Lawrence on the
Union Pacific The murderers literally
chopped the old man to pieces. They
some time Monday night during the abb
sence of Lamborn's son and daughter,
and while he was alone.
Robbery was evidently the motive.
The body was not found till late yes
terday afternoon, when the neighbors
broke into the house. They found Mr.
Lamborn weltering in pools of his own
blood, which had poured from numerous
wounds. any one of which would proba-
bly, have produced death.
He had been Drained with an axe.
taken from his barn and which lay near
him on the barn floor. His skull was
horribly crushed; his chest was caved
and leg broken. The body lay in the
eat his supper, prepared by his son and
dance that night. Lamborn was
respected. He was wealthy and was
house.
every direction for his murderer or MUIR
lynching point. An inquest will be held
har fo6o
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-19
INTO THE GULF.
Prize Fighters Now Going to Fight
a Tug in the Ocean.

Prize Fighters Now Going to Fight
ON q Tug in the Ocean.
GALVESTON, Tex. Feb. ia rumor
is current here this morning g
that Maher and Fitzsimmons will
leave Ell Paso tonight arriving at
Galveston, Friday afternoon and take a
tug with a barge attached and go three
or four miles into the Gulf of Mexico and
fight for the championship before the
kinetoscope and few witnesses.
1t is said the kinetoscope people are
willing to pay the purse and all expenses
and Stuart, despairing of the crowd
at Ell Paso, is willing to
do anything that will let him
out on the deal The scheme seems to
be entirely feasible and is believed by
sports here to be in contemplation if not
actually agreed upon.