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The evening times., 1896-01-08
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SITUATION MOST GRAVE
Editor Norman Says the American Tenn
per Is Warlike.
EIGHT MODERN MARTYRS
Serious Results of out-or-door Baptismal
Ceremonies.
STIRRED THEM TO ACTION
Hyattsville People Thank The Times
Gambling Expose.
THEY HAD BURGLAR Tooks-
Tw" Men Arrested al the British En-
bassy.
DASHED INTO THE RIVER
Louisville and Nashville Freight Train
Runs Through a Bridge.
ASSAULTED BY FOOTBALLS
Hack Inspector Croft Bruially Beaten by
Four Men.
SAME OLD BILLS AGAIN
District LeGislat ion Seems to Move
in Vicious Circle.
CORRUPTION OF THE POLICE
Disclosures Before the Philadelphia In
veSiigating Committee.
TRANSFERS AND CHEAP GAS
Two Measures To That End Presented to
the House.
RELINQUISHED THEIR ARMS
Citlandcrs Resolve to Obey the Demand
of Transvaal Government.
BREWERY TROUBLE GROWS
Other Concerns Now Involved in The
Situation.
SILENCE THAT Is OMINOUS-
Sudden Dcarth of News From Cuba
Causes Unrest.
FOR LEGITIMATE RACING
Washington Jockey Club Plans It's Spring
Meet.
FLATS AND POLICE FORCE
Eas' Washington Citizens Discussed Them
Fully
THEY MUST CAUCUS AGAIN
Republicans Cannot Agree Upon the
Tariff Bill.
DINED THE PRESIDENT AND MRS
CLEVELAND
Secretary and Mrs. olney Entertained in
Their Honor.
SHOOK SAT0III'S HAM,
Prelatcs and People Greet the New
Prince of the Chu rch.
SENATOR VEST on SILVER
IrrepresSihle Conflict Might Well Come
Just Now.
INPURsUIT OF THE FACTS
Trial of Broker Chapman, Recusant Su-
gar Trust Witness.
sUPT. TRACEY EXPLAINS
He Admits the Truth of Some. OF The
Times Charges.
CHARITY FUNDS RUN Low
Clerk Sylvester Is Receiving Contribu-
tiops Every Day.
HARD RAPS FOR COMBINE
Breezy Debate in the House Over the |
Special Employees.
Mr.. GLEEsON HAD QUALMS-
Thought He Should Not Sit as Judge Of |
His Own Election.
The evening times., 1896-01-08

Mr.. GLEESON HAD QUALMS-
Thought He Should Not Sit as Judge Of
His Own Election.
The evening times., 1896-01-08
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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
is SINKING.

Sections of Land Dropping into the
Earth Causes Alarm.
The people in the vicinity of Mansfield,
Mo-, are becoming much alarmed over
what appears to be the gradual sinking Of
the earth in certain localities. It has
been q littls more than q year ago since a
whole field fell an average OF a little more
thar two feet. w ithin the last two weeks
the ground has become very dry from
want of moisture, and as a result, crew.
ices, some OF which are q foot wide, have
appeared In the earth. In Douglas
County there Is q very noticeable depres-
sion of several inches covering more than
a section of land.
Another evidence Of this inexplicable
phenomena occurred in Texas County a
day or two ago, when a sudden sagging
Of the earth swallowed up a horse while
hitched to a pillow, and 1t was with diff
Guilty that the driver saved himself.
The negroes have become so wrought up
over the matter that many of them are
leaving the country. They declare that
1t is an indication of the early arrival Of
the judgment day.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
THREE KILLED, FIFTEEN HURT
Dera.lment of a Trolley Car It Co.
lumbia, Pa.

Dera.lment Of a Trolley Car at Co.
lumbia, Pa.
Three persons were instantly killed and
fifteen injured, some probably fatally, by
the derailment of a trolly car on the Co.
lumbia and Donegal Electric Road, just
outside the borough limits of Columbia.
The place where the accident occurred
is at the base Of a steep incline, alongside
Of which runs a high em%bankment. The
car was loaded with passengers and as it
reached the edge OF the incline there was
no indication Of impending danger. Once
on the incline, however, the car began to
slip, owing to wet tracks. The motorman
applied the brakes and at that moment
the geer wheel broke, rendering the
brakes useless. The car dashed along at
a terrific rate, while within the terror
stricken passengers sat and stood petrifed
with fear. The car upon reaching the
bottom took a sharp turn and was thrown
up against the embankment. Word was
quickly sent to Columbia and a relief car
was sent to the scene,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
REDS A

Blacks Can No Longer Share in
Tribal Relations or the Creeks.
The final decree has been promulgated
from Okmulga, the capital Of the Creek
nation, ~ It has been handed down BY
Judge Adams, chief justice of the SUI
preme court Of the nation, in the citizen
ship case. It strikes from the roll of citi-
Kenship Of the nation the names Of over
100 negroes. The decision held that the
action of the Indian council after the pas
sage Of the emancipation act by the
United States, in admitting negroes to
tribal relations was unconstitutional, and
therefore is at this time invalid. Since
the passage Of the act these negroes have
drawn in annuities $1,D0O,O 900 from the
Greek Government, have held positions OF
oficial trust and improved farms and edu-
Gated children at the nations expense for
twenty years. From the decision OF the
court there Is no appeal. The Interior
Department has held the same opinion in
a similar case. The Dawes commission,
which has been appealed to by the de-
posed negroes, claims IL has no right to
interfere with the decision Of the Indian
court.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Things Are Dimerent Now.

"How time changes" observed a
member Of the United States Supreme
Court bar. 1.-The other day q motion
was made in the ordinary routine way
to admit Ellen Spencer Mussey of this
city to practice before the court. Hard
ly any notice was taken Of it. and the
Chief Justice granted 1t, the same as
he did all the similar motions. with his
pleasant and welcoming smile. Thirty
years ago. or even later. had such a
motion been made it would have at
tracted attention all over the land. and,
indeed. all owe Europe. I remember
the preparation of my first argument
in favor Of the admission Of women to
practice law. l was ha mpered at every
point because of the lack of precedent.
Now there are hundreds Of presidents,
but there is no use for them. because
10 one opposes such a motion. and w0m-
en- have nearly every opportunity that
men have in the practice OF law, even
II they do not get as large fees"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
SPAIN is
Rioting Scares the Heads Of the
Government.

Rioting Scares the Heads Of the
Government.
Trouble of a serious nature is being
fomented in Spain, particularly in the
province OF Valencia.
That the large Spanish army in Cuba
must be still further and heavily re-en-
forced is looked Upon as a confession of
weakness and an admission of the grow
ing strength of the Cubans. In addition
many letters have been received by the
relatives of the Spanish soldiers in Cuba
that tell such a terrible tale of sickness,
.privation, incompetency, ~mismanage-
ment and lack of pay that a dangerous
feeling against the Government has arisen
among the Republicans, as we'll as the
Cuban sympathizers, the latter taking adj
vantage of the situation to push their
propaganda. and the combined move
ments are making more Roadway with
the masses than the Government will adj
NIT.
Madrid up to the present has been
quiet, but signs are not wanting that a
spirit OF discomfort is around, and the
efforts of the Government to gain support
by trying to throw the blame for every
thing upon the United States is the chief
bugaboo of the Spanish politicians, and
will not much longer avail.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
sTALLEsT IN THE WORLD.

Monster Sky Scraper Now Under
Construction in New York.
New York is to have the tailest sky
scraper in the world. The municipal leg.
islators OF Gotham have not yet followed
the Chicago aldermen in placing q re-
strictton on the height Of buildings, and
architects and capitalists have taken full
advantage Of their freedom to let their
fancy soar upward until now there is in
process Of erection in New York q struc-
ture Of thirty stories, which. when com
pleted, will measure 1856 feet from curb to
Cornice.
For its full width the building will have
twenty-seven stories, and the side orna-
mentations will rise three stories higher.
Tho cupola ID counted Is the thirty first
story. The construction plans are simi-
lar to other modern tall buildings. Heavy
steel girders will be used, many Of them
Weighing, It Is said, flfty-ive Ions each.
The foundation consists Of piles driven
below the water line, cut OF and cap ped
and covered with . concrete bed.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
BALLOONS FOR CUBA
Will OBSERVE THE MOVE.
MENTS OF THE ENEMY.
TAlless Building in the World Now
Under Construction in New York
ITO Contain Thirty.One Stories
WIN he Nearly 400 Feet High.
Balloons fbr Cuba.
ELK POINT. .. ..

Balloons b Cubs.
The Cuban junta Of New York has been
carrying on negotiations for the past five
months with two expert %aeronauts for the
construction and manning Of a balloon
Tor observing and signaling the move-
ment OF artillery and troops on the field
In Cuba.
The balloon In which the daring aero
nauts will ascend on their tours of OBJ
servation 10 different from the ordinary
hot air balloon. It will contain 48, O00
cubic feet Of hydrogen. which will sup
port It in the air for twenty four hours II
neoessary. A light steel cable 1900 feet
long will anchor 1t to the ground. The
balloon II 8 70 constructed that the upper
portion forms . parachute, and IL the
lower part should be punctured and the
gas escape, the occupants OF the basket
would come down gently, as in = para
chute descent, and would not be seriously
Injured. In case the station below should
b taken the occupants OF the ballon could
cut loose the cable and sail away.
The undertaking Is = very perilous one.
Tor besides the ordinary dangers of bal
looming there will he great difficulty In
landing on the Island Of Cuba. The
Spanish gunboats and land forces as we'll
are constantly on the lookout, and IL the
~aeronauts shobld fall into their hands it
would probably be the last of them. The
daring b%alloonists, however, look upon
the whole undertaking stoically and as q
matter Of business.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
TRIPLE LOUISIANA LYNCHING.
Three Italian Murderers Hanged by
a Hahnville Mob.

Three Italian Murderers Hanged by
a Hahnville Mob.
There was a triple lynching in Nash
Willie, La, just before II o'clock on the
night OF the 9Th, and the next morning the
bodies Of three Italian murderers were
found swinging from the rafters of a tree
near the court house. One of the men is
Lorenzo Saladino, who so foully assassi-
mated Jules Gueymard at Freetown, La,
on the 4th, and the other two were Decino
Sorcoro and Angelo Marcuso, who mu
dered an old Spaniard on the Ashton
plantation, e Boutte station, some
time ago. The mob, which had been
concentrated on the outskirts of town, be-
gan to move on the Jail between 1890 and
1890 p. m. They captured the old negro
guard, and by the vigorous use of axes,
with which they were we'll supplied, soon
demolished the Jail and cell doors and
took the prisoners out and hanged them.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
HE MADE GOOD TIME
cYCLlST ANDERSON PACED 81
A LOCOMOTIVE.
Wheeled q Mile in 1908 Over q
Plank Path-Three Killed and Fiji.
Trolley Car.
Cyclist Makes Fast Time.

At 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, after
three preliminary trials, Cyclist E. E.
Anderson wheeled a mile ia 1903 over a
plank path. He was paced by a locomo-
tive pulling a coach, and rode q wheel
geared to 90. Anderson could have bet
tered this a few seconds, but he mistook
the signals and slowed up a little too
soon. The trial took place rear Olden-
burg. Ill.,, on the "Bluf" line. For a dis
lance Of W miles the road had been
planked up between the rails perfectly
smooth. One mile was marked of in the
center of this stretch with flags and tor
pedoes, the latter for the timers and to in
dictate to Anderson when to so ahead fast
and when to slow up. Anderson an
nounces that he will make another at
tempt on August % on q wheel geared to
100.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
LOST TREASURE RECOVERED.

Righwayman Returns to the Seem
OF the H0ldup.
A special gives . 70 nsational sequel to
the famous gold bar rob berry which &C.
CURED 1t Ensenada, Lower California,
nearly . year and Z half ago. and which
caused the imprisonment Of James E.
CARAT and Allan Pratt for sixteen
months. After hIs release CARAT went
to San Diego and on the 9Th inst. left there
Tor Ensenada. The Mexicans were
warned by detectives who were on the
watch and when CARAT, accompanied by
three men, set out to dig up the bar they
were followed by . party Of guards, with
whom wal Gov. Sanguinez. The gold
seekers found themselves surrounded and
covered by rifles. CARAT collapsed with
fear. At Gov. Saguinez' demand he dis
closed the spot where the bar was hidden.
The bar liz worth $l2, 800.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
shipwrecks in the Baltic Seas.

There is no part of the world which
has such a black record for wrecks as
the narrow Baltic seas. The number in
some years has averaged more than one
a day, the greatest number OF wrecks
recorded in one year being 425, and the
smallest 154. About SO per cent. of
these vessels became total wrecks, all
the crews being lost. In the four years
1S77'81 no less than 700 lives We're lost.
It must be noted with regard to these
wrecks, however, that many OF the YES
sells navigating these e are old aud
Ill found. especially those engaged in
the timber trade.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
DUN e co.'s REVIEW.
Tho Business World as Seen by
DUN Il Co.

DUN Il Co.
II. g. Dim & Co.'s Weekly Review Of
Trade says: The sensational collapse Of
spectators at Chicago who controlled
Diamond Match and New York Biscuit
stocks, and had hoisted them to fame y
prices, with the consequent closing of the
Chicago stock exchange for q period yet
indefinite, though followed by remark
ably few failures, brings a sudden change
in monetary conditions throughout the
country. The collapse also increased the
caution of bankers and other lenders re-
garding loans on securities Of a similar
character.
1t is important that the increase of mer-
chandise exports, $500, 900 or IL per cent.
over last year for the week. and the de-
crease OF imports, 500, 900, Or ~ per cent.
still continues to limit the sum payable
abroad. In five weeks the increase of ex-
ports has been 81, 800, 900, or 16 per cent,
and the decrease OF imports 50, 200, 900, or
Is per cent, which helps to balance ac-
counts. The movement Of wheat is again
large. Atlantic exports being 1,761, 0SS
bushels for the week, flour included,
against $685. $50 last year. Conflicting
crop reports are as numerous and noisy
as ever, but the more reliable mark up
winter wheat to 800, OOO, 900 bushels, and
the movement tends to sustain such esti-
mates, for since July / western receipts
have been II, 1888, 3S2 bushels, against o.
10000 last year. 1t is not easy to believe
that with prices 10 cents lower than a
year ago, farmers have marketed from a
smaller crop 80 per cent. more wheat.
Corn is also moving rapidly, with western
receipts OF 4, 873,09l bushels, against 1851.
GA last year.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
HELD FOR A RANSOM.
Millionaire Kept Bound and Gagged
for Two DAVIS.

Millionaire Kept Bound and Gagged
for Two Days.
James Campbell, the millionaire sugar
planter of Honolulu, who mysteriously
dropped out of sight for two days recently
at San Francisco, says he was imprison ed
and robbed by Oliver w. Winthrop and a
confederate, who attempted to obtain the
capitalists signature to a $50, 900 check as
the price OF his liberty. Winthrop, who
was tried and acquitted last year on the
charge OF poisoning a woman in the Lau-
rel Hill cemetery, of which he was assist
ant superintendent, has disappeared, and
no trace can be found OF his confederate.
When the newspapers published the
fact that Campbell had disappeared the
millionaire says his captors became
frightened, and after dark released him.
He was bound and gagged for two days.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13

= A meeting was held at the residence or
Mrs. Ii, j. Austin, in Vermillion, at which
were present between forty and fifty Of
the old teachers and scholars Of the old
log school house OF Verm'llion, the first
institution of learning In the two Da-
kotas. The object Of this meeting was to
perfect an organization to be known as
the Old Log Scool House Association.
This old school house brings tears to the
eyes Of many a resident OF the north west
to-day. 1t was built in 1865 by the SOL
diers Of Company A, Dakota Cavalry, then
stationed with headquarters in Vermill-
ion, under Captain Nelson Miner NOW
dead), assisted by the settlers. The logs
were furnished by Peter Jordan, one of
the first settlers, and were cut on the Mis-
souri, River bottom several miles north of
that city. The first term of school was
held therein in the fall of 1865 and was
taught by Amos Shaw, then a member of
Company A, Dakota Cavalry. The or
ganization starts out with a very enthu-
siaStic membership, and before winters
shadows fall the old school house will
stand forth as of old with its roughly
hewn logs, small, sliding doors and sod
roof, and all future meetings of the aSsO-
citation will be held within its narrow
walls. The association will hold a picnic
at the old site the first week in SeptembeE
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Double California Tragedy.

Harvey Allender shot and killed Miss
Wally Fielner and v. Crossette al. San
Jose, CAL, and then attempted to kill
himself, but failed The shooting occur
red in a crowded street and caused in
tense excitement. Allender was in love
with the woman. He says he does not
know why he shot her. Crossette, he
says, attempted to pull a pistol, but he
got his out first and killed him.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13

Boys Fight with Pocket Knives.
A bloody fight among a crowd OF school
boys at Buckville, Montgomery County,
Ark. occurred a few days since. Robert
Chew and Beauregard Poole became in
volved in a rough and tumble fight, and
friends OF both the ~belligerents joined in
the fray. Pocket knives were used, and
several Of the boys were dangerously
wounded. Poole was stabbed in the
breast several times, and died of his
wounds. Chew escaped, and is still at
large.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
STREET CARS SOLD AT AUCTION

Kansas City Electric Line Bought in
by the Bondholders.
The Northeast Street Railway, an cleo
trio line at Kansas City has been sold at
public auction to Roland r. Conklin OF
New York for $780, 0O. Mr.. Conklin rep
resents the holders Of bonds of the first
mortgage of $4,000. BY order of the
court the first money to be paid out of the
$50, 600 which the road sold for, will be
the claim of $4,000 Of the Westinghouse
Company, which is the largest claim.
The road Is said to be paying 8 per cent.
ON an Investment of $3.50, 900.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
BLooMER GIRLS ARnEsTEn-
Female Baseball Nin> Causes n
Lively Sunday at ELK Point.

Elk Point was the scene Of riotous pro.
ceedings for AL hour or more sundav
afternoon. The Boston Boomers. IN
called, were arrested at the close of a
ball game by Deputy Carter and his SON
Fred. They were driven to the Office of
Justice Smythe, followed by a howlinr
mob Of men and boys. The Justice,
ordered that the prisoners be brought be-
fore him at the court house. They were
driven there, followed by a mob of 800 or
400, many of whom were applying appro-
bious epithets to the officers. The girls
left the carry-all at the stile in front of
the court house, when the mob Gro wded
the officers away and the prisoners re.
turned to the wagon and were driven out.
OF town at a rapid gait before the justice
had arrived. Fred Carter, a deputy, was.
pulled off the wagon and badly injured.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
N. r. LANDS BID IN.

President Winter Secures the Sec
tfons for $1.7O5,2OO.
All Of the lands of the Northern Pacific
Railroad in the state Of Washington, COM
prising II, 1902 sections of patented and an
indefinite quantity of unpatented lands.
were sold at public auction. The proper
ty was bought In by Edwin w. Winter
for the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany, Of which he is president, for 81, 7O5,-
InO
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Young Wife Dies OF Neglect.

Mrs. j. Larson, aged Fl years, died at
the Silver Cross Hospital, Joliet, III. She
had been without proper food for the past
two weeks, which led to her sickness and
death. She was a stranger in the neigh
borhood where she lived, and the neigh
bors knew nothing of her wants. Her
husband went to Aurora several days ago
to get his eldest daughter by his first wife
to take care Of her stepmother, and did
not return.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Smokehouse Burned.

An explosion in the smokehouse Of
Swift & Co.'s big packing house on the
Kaw River bottoms, Kansas City, resulted
in the killing of one of the company's
employees, the serious injuring of several
others aud started a fire that at one time
threatened to destroy the entire plant.
Joe Hoblowitz, a night Waterman In the
smOkehouse was burned to death.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Themain Stamp a Success.

The new Themain stamp at the st. Elmo
mine near Deadwood, is a success, though
it is the first of its kind ever used in this
country. 1t has two stamps, the equiva-
lent of a iive-stamp mill. In a run of l02
hours the mill gave returns of $40, be-
sides the concentrates, which are expected
to go from 81 to 500. A concentration will
he put in and the mine enlarged till is
will supply the mill steadily.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Rich Hills Strike.

In the Elk Mountain district, which Is
attracting attention all over the Hills at
present, a rich strike was made a day or
two ago by the Fitzpatrick brothers in
ground adjoining the Balmoral property
at Ragged Top. The vein is apparently a
true assure, about thirty inches wide, and
the sam pies have averaged about $500.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-13
Murdered and Placed On the Rails

Murdered and Placed On the Rails
Robert Hopper and Matte Johnson,
whose bodies were found on the Louis
vile and Southern tracks, SO mangled
that the coroner's jury could find no evil
dence of foul play, were murdered by five
negroes. Both were shot and their bodies
carried several hundred yards and placed
on the track near a curve. A negro who
witnessed the murder has told about it,
and the sheriff has gone to arrest the ne,
grOes. Robbery was the motive.