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The news & observer., 1897-05-21
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
4 Family Comes From Washington t,
Settle in This State.
Salisbury Wurld.)

salisbury World.)
\ caravan which PASSED Through the
city to-day attracted considerable atten-
tion. Ii was composed of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. III. DlEhling and son and I'm adopted
daughter. and they travel in two covered
wagons, one resembling ~ prairie
schooner.
The party left Wyoming on the eth
of last November and the destination of
their journey is Pittsboro. Chatham
county. They expected to make the trip
in four months. but encountered bad
roads and were water bound and other
wise delayed.
Mr.. Duhling and wife are natives of
Pennsylvania. but left that State twelve
years ago. and have since been living in
the West. Tncy will settle iii Chatham
comfy and farm.
The news & observer., 1897-05-21

The death of Senator Earle in South
Carolina is an event to be widely de-
plOred. He was an able man, free from
the extremes that have afflicted South
Carolina. He had equipOise, wisdom,
brains. South Carolina has no trained
man now that he is gone who enjoys the
confidence Of the two elements.
The news & observer., 1897-05-21

The New York Tribune whistles to
keep up its courage. 1t says the silver
question will soon disappear from politics.
An ostrich, with his head in the
sand could not be binder.
The news & observer., 1897-05-21

A Lone Elm. Mo-, genius has invented
a lovers alarm clock. At 10 o'clock it
strikes loudly, two little doors open ana
a figure of a man, attired in dressing
gown, appears, holding in his right hand
a sign on which are inscribed the words.
.Good night"
The news & observer., 1897-05-21

The Senate-and no thanks to timid
McKinley-declared yesterday for human
right against human butchery.
The news & observer., 1897-05-21
is MR.. WELLMAN DREAMING?

/ FHpCmmra; IS ever, where take fresh couf-
Iaye now that Mr. Bailey, selected by the
House as the Democratic leader. has tax
on a stand against the Reed policy. we
| nave felt all along that his program OF
acuuiescence was most unwise and hur'-
full, alike TO the country and the party
4 minority that follows quietly III ne
wake of a majority, created and owned
by trusts and syndicates, cannot win the
confidence and respect of the country.
1t is refreshing to see Mr.. Bailey rise
from his lethargy and pursue in the House
the same manly course with reference to
the suffering Cubans that Mr.. Morgan
has adopted IN the Senate. 1t is man.
fest to the country from Shermans
change of front. as well as from other
evidences, that the present admlnstra-
ton is dominated by the same influences
that controlled the last. There is one
difference; Cleveland and Olney were
stubborn mcr, inclined to think public dis
approval rroof Of their superior virtue:
while Mckinley and Sherman are more
shifty politicians. With Cleveland, moth
ins but Wall street influence avaied.
With Mckinley, the same influence pre-
walls, but he seeks to compromise between
Western and Eastern sentiment. .ir
and Sherman are rs shifty and as change
able As any ftful winds.
Mr.. Wal1,r Wcllman, the well known
Washington correspondent of the On ca
20 Times Herald, writes of the purpose
Of the administration in Il way that seems
sensational in view of the timid pollcy
so far adopted with reference to Cuba.
Writing to his paper on the 18th INST.
Just before Mr.. McKinley's mild mes
sage was sent to Congress, Mr.. Wellman
said:
Cuba is to be Il dependency Of the
United States. 1t is to be acquired.
peacefully if possible. during the Nc
Kinley administration. This is the
real. the Sensa tional significance OF
the messa &c which the President will
send to Congress tomorrow or the
next day concerning Cuban affairs.
Ihe PRESIDENT message VIII ut'di
solely with the suffering of American
citizens in Cuba and the necessity
which exists for affording them relief.
Apparently the only purpose of this
message is to call the attention of
Congress TO the unfortunate situation
of our subjects in the island and to
ask for an appropriation. to be eX-
pended under the direction of the
President. for providing them with
food and medicines. But this is the
nominal purpose of the message. Be
hind it lies an intention which. il eX
ecuted. will change to Il most mOmen-
tous degree the traditional policy of
this government. 1t is a determine
tion TO annex both Hawaii and Cuba.
TO strengthen our strategic OutpOsts.
to go out to the sea for an extension
of our jurisdiction, our commerce. our
empire"
Since this editorial was in type news
has been received of Senator MOrgan's
signal victory in securing the passage of
the belligerency resolution in the Senate
by the signal vote Al to II. The Alaba-
mian thus scores Il victory for right and
Justice over both the Cleveland and Me
Kinley policy. All honor to him!
The news & observer., 1897-05-21
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The first woman who ever received a
diploma from Union Theological Seminary
Presbyterian) is the daughter of Prof.
Chas. A. Briggs, Of the Seminary faculty.
Tt is to be hoped that her theology is
sounder than her fathers.
The news & observer., 1897-05-21
VISITORS TO CHARLOTTE.

Clayton. y. c.. May 20.-(SpeciaD-
Messrs. c. w. Horne. d. 0. McCullers
and A. ID. Creech went via Southern to-
day to Charlotte to attend the Expo
sition.
The news & observer., 1897-05-21

AooD'S PILLS euro Liver JIIs, Bill
tosasness, indigestion, headache.
kasy - easy to operate. 26c.
The news & observer., 1897-05-21

Among the trees which grow in Alaska
is one called the yellow cedar, which has
a fragrance somewhat like that of a
sandalwood, and nearly as marked. 1t
is a grainless wood. OF straw color. ana
tho Russians build ships of it.
The news & observer., 1897-05-21

The dying miser who ordered his
shroud made with pockets has now the
agreeable company of another curmud-'
geon who, finding his end approaching,
converted all his possessions into green
backs, and then burned the greenbacks,
that no one might inherit his wealth.
The news & observer., 1897-05-21
HARRIS
Lithia Carbonated.

We guarantee that one glass OF Har-
ris' Lithia Carbonated Water will relieve
any case of indigestion in one minutes
time or money refunded. or If taken
after each meal will cure any case of in
digestion. Read what the noted DR..
Davega, of Chester. s. g.. has to say
for it:
MIR. J. T. HARRIS:
Dear Sir-For the past eight monrhs
! nave been using Harris Lithia Water,
with the most excellent results, where
have been able to get my patients to
drink a sufficient quantity daily. The
Carbonaied has no equal in gastric dis
tnrbances. In old chronic dyspeptics If
you will wash the stomach with salt and
water. and an hour later have your pa
tient drink the Carbonated IAithia you
will make many friends and improve
many stomachs 1t is ah excellent table
water. 1t is an excellent laxative, and
is sure cure for fatulent dyspepsia.
s. M. .DAvEGA, NJ. D.
SOLD BY
The news & observer., 1897-05-21

The Washington correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer says that III. A. Gud-
ger is now booked for the consul general
ship at Shanghai. Mr.. Gudger told the
Citizen that so far as he had been in
formed there was no foundation for the
story. This is the place Mr.. JerniSan
holds.
The news & observer., 1897-05-21

J. r. FERRALL & CO., Grocers
And wholesale agents for Harthorn Sara,
toga Water. Trade supplied.
The news & observer., 1897-05-21

People at the Navy Yard at Ports
mouth. n. H., claim that the 5000 al
lowed by Congress will not even make the
old frigate Constitution watertight. and
that $4,000 would not fit her for sea.
People at the Portsmouth Navy Yard do
not wish her to leave it, either for Boston
or Washington.
The news & observer., 1897-05-21

American manufacturers, encouraged
by the fact that paper railroad rails have
been successfully introduced in Germany
and Russia, are experimenting along Inc
same lines. Paper car wheels have given
satisfaction for many years, and results
so far attained indicate that rails made
from the same material will be equally
desirable.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
DR.. BOYLE RESIGNS.
Trouble in the First Christian
Church the Cause of It.

The resignation of Rev. D. D. Boyle
of the First Christian church will
be accepted at the meeting of the board
of trustees tonight.
The trustees voted a week ago that
he should not be retained, and his reSig-
nation was accordingly presented to the
board and will be acted upon tonight.
Some of the members of the church
claim that the board of trustees has
exceeded its authority and that it had
no right to ask the pastor for his resig
nation. They claim that the congrega-
tion should do that. The meetings have
the members have accordingly been
somewhat in the dark about what has
been done.
Rev Mr.. Boyle was given a leave of
absence early in the season. He went
to Colorado and was quite sick for some
time He returned three weeks ago and
resumed his work. Then came the act
ion of the trustees, and it has OCCASION
ed no end OF surprise to the members
One of the complaints against the pas
tor was that he preached a sermon the
Sabbath following Memorial day and
did not mention the old soldiers. Anoth-
er is that he is not in robust health and
is therefore unable to keep up the
work
In the church trouble a. year ago, in
which ]. ]. Hit was expelled from the
church, Rev. Mr.. Boyle was supported
by nearly all the trustees, but the same
men do not stand by him now.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
ARREST JOAN OF ARC.
Deputies are Badly Bruised but Take
Four Women to Prison

Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. 13.-Emma Haas
the miners Joan of Arc-and three
other women, were arrested for march
ing at Plum Creek this morning by
sheriff'S deputies.
The attempts to make the arrests pre-
cipitated an incipient riot in which the
deputies Jared badly. No one was SER
iouSly hurt, but scarcely a deputy es-
capped a clubbing and Superintendent
De Armitt was cut ON the hand. Two of
the women arrested carried babies
The moment a deputy laid hands on a
woman he was surrounded by Others
waving clubs in the air and using them
on the head of a deputy when the op-
portunity offered. Deputy Walker was
severely clubbed and S. c. De Arnnitt
was cut in the hand. He says he was
attacked by woman with a knife. The
deputies finally got their prisoners into
the company stable and later brought
them to this city, where they were
lodged in Jail. The names of the We
John Kosar, Mrs. Frank Haas and Mrs
EiSner.
Mrs. Kosar and Mrs. Eisner had their
babies with them.
After the removal of the prisoners
from Plum Creek the excitement sub
sided and the women and strikers re-
turned to camp. The reason that more
of the women were not arrested was
that four or five deputies were required
to hold one of them and the force was
not large enough to take charge of the
crowd.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
LEW HANBACK'S PLACE.
Appoir tment to be Made for This Po-
sition Not This Week

Concerning the appointment of an as
sistant adjutant general of the Kansas
G. a. r., to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Lewis Hanback,, Depart
ment Commander Botkin said today:
Il shall not, in all probability, make
the appointment before next week. 1t
is matter 1 must have time to con-
slider but l will not have time to do so
this week. There are several general
orders to prepare and issue and at least
four reunions this week, at which l am
expected to speak,
The following persons are applicants
for the position: J. E. Stewart, T. S.
Slower and ]. Y. Niles, Topeka; Judge
J. V. C1ymer, Hutchinson; w. P. Camp
bell, Wichia; J. J. Stewart, Fort Scott;
a. J. Georgia, Pittsburg; Ben Pagan,
Ellsworth; A. L. Voorhis, Topeka, and
]. A. Gardner of Pratt-
Commander Botkin arrived this morn
ing from Hutchinson having just re-
turned to the state from his trip to the
national encampnlent at Buffalo. Ac-
cofnpanied by his wife the commander
visited her old home in New York after
the encampment.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
SIWTE EP! AWAY.
Port Arthur and Sabine Pass
Entirely Destroyed.
Every Building Torn to Pieces
and Scattered.
Thirty People Reported to Have
Been Killed.
MANY BADLY INJURED
Wires All Down and Few Par
ticularS Yet.
Tidal Wave Pours in From the
Gulf.

st. Louis, Sept. ia special to the
says information has just reached there
that severe hurricane visited the
towns Of Port Arthur and Sabine Pass
last night and blew down all the build
ings and killed thirty people.
The wires are all prostrated and no
particulars have been received. The
storm which led to the destruction of
the towns blew up about 6 o'clock last
evening from the ocean and by mid
night was so fierce as to produce
tidal wave all along the coast, complete
ly wiping out both places.
Eight persons are known to have been
drowned and twenty wounded.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
HADTO SLEEP IN FIELD
John Ruthven Terrorizes His Family
and Smashes Up the Furniture.

John Ruthven. a wealthy farmer liv-
ing IA miles southwest of Topeka was
arrested yesterday by Sheriff Kepley
and Constable Jackson on warrant
sworn out by his wife charging him
with threatening her life. Ruthven
went home Saturday night about dusk
in a drunken Surly mood and commence
ed to make things quite unpleasant for
his family He ordered them out of the
house and then commenced to smash up
the furniture. He commenced on the
chairs and when they were fit for kind
ling wood he went after the bed. He
tore that up and then waged war on his
daughters trunk. He tore off the lid
and threw the clothing about and
smashed the trunk to pieces The next
to go was the table. When that was
demolished he went after the organ and
did not stop until he had made a total
wreck of it. BY this time the family
were pretty well frightened. He ordered
his wife out of the house and told his
eight children to go with her. She re-
fused to go and he threatened to kill
her if she did not. The family was
forced to leave the house in his posses
sion and had to sleep in the cornffeld
that night. Ruthven kept the family
out of the house all night. Sheriff KEEP
ley did not find him in the house and
found him asleep in the cornfieid. He
was brought to town and will have a
preliminary hearing today.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
NUGGET WORTH $3.50.
Creates No Excitement in the Klon-
dixie Country.

Tacoma. Wash, Sept. 13.-Mrs. E. A.
Henderson, the first newspaper corre-
spondent to make the trip to Dawson
City, arrived on the Cleveland from st.
MichaeIs and is visiting friends in this
city.
She spent some months in the mining
districts and gives some interesting ez-
periences in the far north.
Talk about my report of the finding
of the $583.25 nugget, the largest yet
discovered in the Yukon country, which
Nick Kutzon picked up on No. sc El
Dorado and is bringing it to San Fran
cisco on the Excelsior, has increased
the excitement.
When the Excelsior, with its report
ed, but probably exaggerated cargo OF
nearly a million of dust, reaches San
Francisco the fever will probably reach
it's height.
Yet the excitement is all on the out
side. In the Klondike country even
this huge nugget, which is as large as
your hand, with almost perfect
hatchet-head shape, did not greatly ex-
II am asked a score of times rs the
KIondike country as rich as reported?' p
Il was prepared to say, 1t can scarce
ly be exaggerated But since then I
have seen newspapers and L reply more
cautiously. In several papers I saw
the statement that somebody had seen
five gallon coal oil cans of gold in one
cabin, the work of two men for one
winter. No one in that country ever
heard of such ca bin.
The truth is, 1 lifted less than $13.-
900 of dust in a granite bowl with diff
Guilty. Gold is heavy to bear in more
sense than one.
Dawson City is swarming with dis
reputable women. Early this spring
there were over forty; there are dozens
more by this time, for they go by every
boat.
ALEX Mcdonald, who went in not
long ago strapped, is now more than a
millionaire.
BILL Colwell bought a claim for 800
sold sixty feet of it for $4,000. This
was II Ell Dorado. On No. Ell Dorado
there is a streak above bedrock three
or four inches thick. The owners are
taking out very little beca use they can
do nothing with the cumbrous gold just
now. On the claim of Frank Dens-
more 80 pounds of gold was taken out
In one day That is equal to some
thing like S25, 900. The story of lucky
failures are extremely interesting Fritz
Kloke tried to sell his half interest in
claim for $780, He could not get it,
He has just sold the same half interest
to John J. Henley for $40, 900.
There are dozens of just such for
tunate Strikes made blindfolded. This
is the lucky side of Yukon mining"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
RAPID FIRING GUN
On the POrtIand's Deck to Pro-
tect KiOndike Gold.

Seattle, Wash, Sept. 13.-The treasure
ship Portland got away for St Michaels
at noon Sunday with big cargo, consist
ing principally of machinery for four
steamers which are to be constructed by
Moran Bros. at ST. Michaels this winter.
One steel steamer, The John c. Barr, was
complete.
On the Portlands forward deck was a
maxim rapid firing gun capable of now
ing down an army of privateers. 1t will
fire 800 cartridges, weighing one pound,
per minute.
Secretary Hamilton of the North Ameri-
can Trading and Transportation COM
pany was aboard. Inside the captain S
cabin are a dozen new rifles which will be
used effectively, if need be, to protect
the treasure which the Portland will
bring down from the Yukon mines.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
BIG INSURANCE TRUST.
Milwaukee Insurance President
Writes Webb McNan About It.

President Alfred James of the North
western National Insurance company of
Milwaukee has sent to Webb McNall
superintendent of insurance, a commu-
nication in which he says:
1.-The chief result of the meeting of
the fire insurance underwriters at the
recent national conference at Saratoga,
seems to have been the organization of
a gigantic trust which is dominated by
foreign countries. AS the attitude of
the companies in the trust is aggressive
towards companies which decline to en-
ter the combination, there are likely to
be some interesting bouts between the
two elements during the ensuing year.
This organization affects the welfare
of people who buy insurance as we'll as
those who sell it all over the United
States. II is expected to play a more
important part in insurance affairs
than has the so-calfed Western I'm
ion,' organized Is years ago. 1t contains
some of the strongest foreign and
American companies, but is controlled
mainly by foreign companies which
write heavy lines of business through
out the country and insure their excess
in Europe.
"A fight was precipitated in Illinois
and southern Michigan few weeks ago
by the Western Unions effort to drive
some of the non-union companies into
the compact. Twenty-Five OF them went
in. Now the union proposes to main
tain the newly organized trust or COM
bination by reason of the new -acces-
SiOnS to its ranks OF followers.
''It is proposed to evade the various
state laws by forming the combination
simply for the purpose of self-protec-
tion but the real motive is not only to
affect a combination for higher rates,
but to control the business of the Uni
ted States and squeeze the smaller non
union companies until they either join
the pool or join the long list of depart
ed companies
Some insurance men assert that the
result will be a conflict which will tend
to reduce rates on ali classes of prop
erty If that era should dawn in kan
sas. the organization of the trust will
be hailed as a benefaction.
In conclusion Mr.. James asys:
'.Since 1893 the conlpsflies in the union
have made a great deal of money. This
has been sent to Europe, and the result
is that a half dozen new foreign COM
panies have come to this country to
reap the rich American field In the
territory governed by the Western I'm
ion, insurance rates are too high by 70
per cent Competition has been doubled
in the past few years. A rate war Is
due and will come.
1.-The 100 companies in the union are
to be directed in their underwriting py
a small governing committee This un-
ion has been called a combination 1t IS
probabIy the most powerful, coerc1Ve
and arbitrary combination ever 1ormeo
by insurance companies"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
CONDEMN MARTIN.
1000 Countrymen of the Dead Min
ers Meet at Shenandoah

Shenandoah, Pa, Sept. ia mass
meeting of about 1000 Lithuanians
Poles, Hungarians and Slavonians was
held on the grounds of the Lithuanian
church here last night to take action in
the Latimer shooting.
Rev. Peter Abromai1is of the Iith-
uanian church, presided, and M NJ.
Burke was present as specially engaged
counsel to operate in behalf of the To-
cal organizations in the prosecution of
Sheriff Martin and his deputies
Rev. J. Milukas, curate of the Iith-
uanian church, and Rev. Cornelius
Larrisin of the Greek Catholic church,
together with a number of representa-
tive citizens of the respective nationali-
ties made addresses, which, with reso-
lutions, were adopted, condemning the
course of Sheriff Martin and his depu-
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
The True Remedy.

w. NJ. Repine, editor Tiski1wa, ILL.,,
"Chief,'' says: I'VE won't keep house
without Dr. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Ex-
perimented with many others, but new
er got the true remedy until we used
as in it we have a certain and sure cure
for Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough,
ETC." 1t is idle to experiment with 9TH
er remedies, even if they are urged on
you as just a good as DR.. Kings New
Discovery. They are not as good, be-
cause this remedy has a record of cures
and besides is guaranteed. 1t never
fails to satisfy. Trial bottles free at
Swift Holiday Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
NO WORD RECEIVED.
All Communication With Kansas City
Offices Cut Off

Kansas City, Sept. 13.-Up to 2:45 this
afternoon absolutely no word had been
received at the offices of the Kansas
City, Pittsburg & Gulf railroad in this
this city over its lines of the hurricane
at Port Arthur and Sabine City, the
road terminals. The Associated Press
bulletins shown to Vice President Gill
statement, the first intimation that any
of the roads officials had received of
the storm Communication with it's
southern offices was imme edia tely start
ed to ascertain the facts - -
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
FROSTS--NOT HERE.
Thermometer Falls ga Degrees
i'm Vermont in Sc Hours.

Lancaster. N. H. Sept. 1s.-There was a
change of So degrees in. the temperature
during the last twenty-four hours' the
thermometer going down to 81 degrees at
midnight There was heavy frost dur
ing last night, but a dense fog prevented
much damage.
Newport, VT. Sept. 13.-The first frost
of the season in this vicinity came last
night. The mercury fell GA degrees within
thirty-Six hours.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
ecFast nrail'' of the Track

The front wheels of engine AL, pull
ing the fast mail train No. 11S, were
thrown from the track by striking
coupling pin in the Topeka yards about
S:35 Saturday night The train was
leaving Topeka on the way to Kansas
City, and was running slowly. No dam
age was done as the engineer at once
stopped the train by putting on the
air, and a switch engine coupled to the
rear of the train and pulled the engine
truck back on the track 1t is supposed
that the coupling pin WIS placed on the
track bY some child
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-13
roPEKANs THERE.
Col Dick Walker and H z. Dutton
Were Among the Residents

Mr.. H. E. Dutton, proprietor of the
Dutton House, has been at Port Arthur,
but it is reported that he left there a
short time ago. EX-United States Mar
shall Dick Walker and his son Ed are
located at Beaumont, Tex, which is on
the Sabine Pass. Mr.. Walker has an
office in Beaumont and one in Sabine.
Several other Topeka people have been
at Port Arthur lately, but it is not
known whether they were there the
last few days or not.