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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-14
Building Their own vessels.

Though it costs from 25 to so per
cent. more to build merchant vessels
in France than in England, according
to Vicomte d'Avenel, France will build
her own ships.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-14
Fatal Flowers,

Buttercups were devoured recently
by an English child with fatal result
At least the coroner could find no othe,
cause for death.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-14
DO YOUR CHILDREN THRIvE??

1t is the business of children to eat
and grow. If you have a child that
eats well but does not grow, If its APP
petite is variable, you have cause to
suspect worms. There are apt TO be
other symptoms. Face is pale, eyes
are dull, sleep is broken, the child
picks at its nose and is restless and
fretful Use Whites Cream Vermi-
fuge. Every worm viii be destroyed
and the child will be able to grow and
develop as nature intended. Price,
% cents. Sold by e. Reuss and c.
Schasse.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-14
wor< for london MiIIiner,.

1t is stated in fashionable journal
that 100000 bonnets were sold in
London during one week recently.
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Will Occur at Carson City on the
Seventeenth of March.
Has Other Attractions to Take Place
at the Same Time-Wiil EndeavOr
to Arrange Match Between
Sharkey and Maher, and Expects
to Have a Live Bird Tournament,
Attended by All the Noted Shots
of the Country.

CARSON, Feb. 11.-Dan Stuart has at
big fight between Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons will occur in Carson March 18th.
Although Stuart had reiterated all the
way up from Texas that he had not de-
cided where the fight was to be held, it
did not take him long to make up his
| mind after be got here.
The pugilistic impressario gives as a
reason for the selection of Carson in
preference to Reno that the Carson peo-
pie worked hard for the passage of the
prize fight bill, while Reno citizens We're
| opposed to it. Stuart thinks that the
facilities for the accommodation and
transportation of a big crowd at Carson
are fully sufficient, and says that he
has made very satisfactory arrange
ments with the railroad people.
If the matter can be arranged to suit
/ him, Stuart will offer big purses for a
live bird shooting tournament which
he expects will be attended by all the
noted shots of the country.
| When Dan Stuart announced at IL
| O'Clock this morning that he would
bring off the bg fight between Corbett
/ and Fitzsimmons in Carson City he set
| all sorts Of business machinery in mo-
ton. First there are the hotel men,
! who are engaging all the available
rooms that can possibly be converted
into use for lodging apartments. Then
| there are the booksellers and others
| in similar lines, who are gobbling up all
| the vacant store buildings and large
rooms suitable for their purposes.
| This evening E. G.. Cooke, Corbett's s
advance agent, who had been here sew
eral days to select training quarters for
the champion, announced that he has
completed arrangements with the pro-
prietor of Shaws Springs, and carpen-
ters will commence tomorrow on the
| handball court, which will be a large
| factor in Jim's training The contract
| provides that this shall be completed by
Wednesday morning, and Jim will be
| installed in his new quarters on the fol-
| lowing day.
| No announcement as yet has been
made from any official source as to
where the pavilion would be built, but it
probably will be in the heart of the city,
and but few minutes walk from the
| railroad. A local agent gives it out
| that the first building, owing to the
| short time in which there is to erect it,.
will not be a permanent one, and there
| fore there will be many places in the
heart of the city where it could be
erected without Interfering with any
one.
There will be many other attractions
at the same time, if present plans are
carried out and most of them Will be
| in the pugilstic line, although it is in
| tended that the worlds championship
wing shooting shall be settled at the
same time. Just what men will meet
in the ring besides Corbett and Fitz-
simmons Stuart will not say, beyond
that two of them will be Sharkey and
Maher if these men can come to any
agreement and will fight for a reason
able purse.
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STOLEN LETTERS.
Valuable Papers Taken and Sold by
Two Government Employees.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-Phillip Nc
Elhone, son OF the late J. j. McElhone,
for years official reporter of the House
of Representatives and Lewis w. Tur-
ner, both employed in the Congression-
al Library, have been arrested by Sc
cret service officers, charged with the
larceny of autograph letters from the
library. Both We're held by the United
States Commissioner in $4,000 bail
pending examination
A New York autograph dealer noti-
fled the authorities that he had bought
certain historical autograph letters and
was offered more. but became suspi-
cious lest they might have been alb
stracted from Government files.
An investigat ton by Librarian Spofford
disclosed that many letters were mis-
sing from the library. among them the
diary of George Washington for 1877.
the year of the Constitutional COnven-
ton, and letters of John Hancock. Ben
edict Arnold and George Washington.
When examined by the secret service
officers the young men admitted having
sold the papers. but dsclamed having
stolen them. Turner declared that he
found them outside the Capitol build
ing, and McElhone said Turner repre-
sented to him that the letters had been
the property of his mother-in-law. Mrs.
Miller. now dead. He said something
less than 100 Letters had been sold to
New York dealers for about 5000
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APPROPRIATIONS,
The House Committee Finishes the
Sundry Civil Bill.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE House
Committee on Appropriations to-day
finished the sundry civil appropriation
bill for the next fiscal year. 1t carries
$30, 664, 143, IS, III 0S6 less than the es-
Inmates, and $1S644, 100 more than the
appropriations for the current year.
OF the appropriation, S11, ,J29. 053 are
for carrying out the river and harbOr
contracts, and S4.072 193 for public
buildings. Among the items for carry
| ing on the work on public buildings
are: Boise City, Idaho, S100 900;
Cheyenne, Wyoming, 100000; Denver.
Colorado. Mint, 100000; Helena, Mon
tana, S1O0 600; Portland, Oregon, $500
600; San Francisco. 500, 600.
Among the sums for harbor work
contracted for by the Secretary of War
is $400 600 for Humboldt Bay, Califor-
mia The river appropriations include
$3.50, 900 for the Willamette and Yam
hill Rivers, Oregon.
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to the land grant roads, which received
20 per cent less than non-aided roads
Yet the transportation of mail was so
profitable to those land grant roads at
the reduced compensation that they had
put on fast mail trains in order to get
the contracts. He thought all the roads
should be put on the same basis. The
non aided roads could afford to carry
the mails at the rates paid laid grant
roads.
Bromwell (R.) of Ohio a member of
the Postoffice Committee, refused to
give his assent to the subsidy given the
fast mail from New York to New Or
leans. He declared the $4,000 appro-
priated was a free gift to the railroad.
He gave notice that he would tomorrow
move to strike out this appropriation.
Swanson CD of Virginia defended the
appropriation, which he declared fur
nished a fast mail service on a trunk line
for the distribution of mail throughout
the Southern States. 1t was, he said,
an inestimable service to this section.
The committee then rose, and at o:lO
the House adjourned
The record-union., 1897-02-12
LANKY BOB.
FitzsimmOns On His Way to the
Nevada Capital.

CHICAGO. Feb. 11-Robert Fitz-
simons, accompanied by Martin Julian,
Ernest Roeber and Dan Hickey, ar
rived in Chicago tonight at 9 o'clock
and left an hour later for the West.
The party will make a stop at Pueblo
and al Colorado Springs. and at both
places Fitz will give exhibitions. Julian
will not stop at Pueblo, and Will so
through to Colorado Springs, where he
will deposit the $1,000 yet due to the
F'itzsimmons side of the side bet.
Il will send 1T by draft he said,
back to All Smith in New York. / did
not put up the money before leaving
New York because of the law in that
State. / will put it in the bank at Col
orado Springs and then remit a once
to Al Smith 1 have the money right
with me now,' and Julian exhibited a
wad of bills which looked large enough
to have been twice the value he claimed
for it.
During the hour he spent in the city
FftZsimmonS walked through the
streets or UP and down the top of the
platform with his two dogs, and en-
joyed a snow balling match with some
boys He was met at the depot by a
crowd of sporting men, among them
being George Siler, who is to referee
the fight. He expressed himself mod
estly, but confidently, on the outcome
of the fight, and said that if it was not
for the thin atmosphere at Carson he
would be ready to fight at any time.
"All l want" he said. lis to get used
to that air out there and get limbered
up a bit after riding so long in the
cars, and then | Will be ready to fight
/ expect to lick Corbett, and feel sure
that | will. l will whip him all right
enough / don't know how many rounds
it will take, but l will be standing
when the winner is declared
F'itz seemed to be in excellent spirits.
and certainly in excellent condition.
looking big and strong. He is, for him.
quite heavy. weighing 10 pounds He
may fight at that weight or few
pounds under ii. 1t all depends on
how I feel when l get at work. he
said. Il am going to fight at the weight
/ feel best and strongest at. If l find
119 pounds makes me too slow. / will
take some of it off. I'll tell all about
that when l get out to Nevada
Julian said the men behind Fitz when
The record-union., 1897-02-12
NEW TARIFF BILL.
The Mckinley Duty on Lead Ores to
be Restored.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE most
important decision agreed upon to-day
by the Republican members of the
Ways and Means Committee, who are
working on the tariff BILL was to re-
store the Mckinley duty on lead ores.
The Mckinley rate is ~ cents per
pound, the present duty is Il cent. 1t
was also decided, instead of having i'm
ported lead ores assayed at the port of
entry as now, to admit them under
bond, and have them aSSayed at the
assaying office nearest their destina-
ton.
Copper, brass, gold and silver were
also restored to the rates of the Nc
Kinley law, which are 30 per cent. ad
valorem on copper, ~ cents per pound
on brass and 30 per cent. ad valorem
on gold and silver.
The committee also disposed of a
number of items among manufacturers
of iron and steel by giving them spe-
cific rates, equivalent to the present
ad valorem duties. This list includes
nails, spikes, tacks, needles, horse
shoes, nuts and washers, braids, rivets,
engraved steel plates, saws, screws,
umbrella ribs.
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REBELS ATTACK A CU-AN TOWN.
PLUMBER THE STORES AND BURN
BUILDINGS.
Over One Hundred Private Dwellings
Also Destroyed by Apply
ing the Torch.

! HAVANA (via Key WesO, Feb. IL
Advices from Manzanillo have been re-
| ceived to the effect that the insurgents
recently attacked and entered Blan-
quezel, plundering the stores and burn
| ing the storehouse buildings. as well as
126 private dwellings. They also pill
| laged the store at Venocia plantation
| and the stores at Cano, burning the
! buildings at the latter place. A large
number of houses were also destroyed.
These advices also report extraordinary
activity on the part of large number
of insurgents in that district. 1t is
thought that there are more insurgents
in that section than ever before. among
| them being many Cubans who We're
with Antonio Maceo in the province of
/ Pinar del Rio.
A report has been received here at
Havana that Calixto Garcia, the Cuban
! leader, is about to embark at FL Hab-
! nero, near Guayabal. and that he in
/ tends to leave the island This report
! however cannot be confirmed, and it
/ is given as a mere rumor.
! General Arojas leaves at once to take
/ command of the trocha in the vicinity
OF Jucaro.
! The engagement reported during the
/ first days Of February near Remedies,
| General Solano commanding the Span
| iards. is now said to have been with
| | 800 men, comprising the vanguard of
! General Gomez. the Cuban command
er. on the night of February 9TH, while
| the chief officers of the garrison at Ba-
! hia Honda were giving a banquet to the
| well-known English lady, Mrs. Catalina
/ Gonzales, and her niece, Elsie, mem
/ berS of the Red Cross Society. the in
surgents attacked the party and dis
! charged a volley over the dancing hall.
| A shower of balls passed through the
room and over the heads of the ban
quoting party. Other bullets pierced
holes in the tables and chairs. Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Sandino and Jose L. Blan-
co. a wealthy merchant, owner of the
house in which the banquet was being
given, and eight neighbors were seri-
ously wounded.
/ Late reports announce that the band
of Leader Arangureh attacked the pas
senger train near Campo. Fla. recent
lv. wounding two Of the passengers. on
the night of the 7th a large number OF
/ Cubans attacked the fortifications al
J EDcful 1dld. PRIV lllCS VI sSdIltd 1idid
| and were repulsed.
General Maxine Gomez the Cuban
| commander. still continues at the head
of his forces in the vicinity OF Sancti
| Spiritus.
Captain-General Weyler is now
marching in that direction
In an editorial commenting on the eff
| fects of the proposed scheme of Cuban
reforms, La Lucha" says that II has
| noticed little enthusiasm aroused by
reason of the reforms. This reveals
clearly that the inhabitants of Cuba
ara. tired OF all moves of politicians and
politics which have produced such great
agitations and commissions. These
moves have neither bettered nor intiu-
enced for good the situation of the
country, because the politicians regard
the socialist levers, the work and pro-
duction of the country, indifferently.
|
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TO CONNECT LAKES AND OCEAN.
Bill for Deep Waterway to the At
lantic Favorabiy Reported.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11-Senator
Davis, from the Committee on Com
merce, to-day reported with a favor
able recommendation the amendment
of the sundry civil bill. introduced by
Davis, making an appropriation for
the survey of a deep waterway be-
tween the Great Lakes and the Atlantic
tide water. The amendment was
amended SO as to require an estimate
of the cost of such canal as required as
we'll as an examination and survey so
as to make 100000 of the $150000 ap-
preparation Immediately available, and
require the work to be done by board
of three army engineers.
The committee report recommends
that the survey should be proceeded
with as rapidly as possible.
The record-union., 1897-02-12
SISTER ST. JOSEPH DEAD.
First Woman to Cross Between Lake
Superior aud Hudson Bay Basin.

MONTREAL, Feb. 11.-By the death
Of Gertrude Anastasia Contlee (Sister
ST Joseph at the Mother House of the
Gray Nuns, st. Boniface. Manitoba, the
first woman to cross the line between
the Lake Superior and Hudson Bay
basin has passed away. On April %,
1S44. she embarked at Lachine, near
Montreal, in bark canoe and in two
months reached the site on which Win
nipeg is now built, founding there an es-
tablishment Of her order.
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FOUR PEOPLE BADLY BURNED.
Result of Lamp Explosion in Pitts
burg Tenement House.

PITTSBURG, Feb. 11.-By an explo-
sion of a lamp in an Italian basement
house to-day four people were burned.
TWO fatally. The injured are: Clara
Parmacanda, aged 6, fatally: Mrs. NJ
Garland was i'll in bed, and Garland.
Clara Parmacanda overturned a
lighted lamp. causing an explosion.
Garland, fatally; Frank Serino and
John Garland.
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Condition of the Treasury

WASHINGTON. Feb. 11.-To-days
statement of the condition of the treas
ury shows Available cash balance
S21G. .325. 2J1: gold reserve. SLID 9Ol. .OI3.
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he steps in the ring viii be Dan Hickey
Ernest Roeber and himself.
The record-union., 1897-02-12

The British arlstocracy includes II,
600 persons.
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Continued on Eighth Page.)
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-12-29


A business man is not the most pa
tent creature in the world. He can
not wait to hear any long-drawnout
story of the cause of his ailment. He
doesn't care two straws about fine
spun theory of how he should treat
himself. He may be predisposed to
scrofula, or consumption. ''That,' he
will tell you "has nothing to do with
the case He wants to be we'll. If
he can be cured, write out a prescrip-
ton and send in your bill. So, here's
the first part of the proposition.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry is microbe hunter and killer.
Many persons of scrofulous blood, en-
courage the breaking out of insight
ly sores, to prevent the disease 60
ing to the lungs. There is no need
of this state of dread and discomfort.
Purify the blood. 1t can be done.
Golden Medical Discovery will cure
90 per cent of all consumptive cases,
also of all lingering bronchial, throat
and lung diseases.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-12-29

come to him who comes to help us,
but we should now be able to- help
ourselves. There must be no neglect
ed industries in Florida if we would
keep our treasury full.-Times Union
and Citizen.
The first fruits of the investiga-
ton Of the Tammany government in
Pensacola was the suspension of the
city marshal Ed. Wallace, followed
by his arrest on an Indictment by the
grand jury. AS an ex-conductor ''Ed''
is known all over this section as a jol-
ly good fellow and has many friends
who regret that he should have been
in such bad company.-De Funiak
Breeze.
In Jacksonville, Paul Palmer, a ne
gro drayman, was shot and killed by
j. W. Snyder, young white man.
Palmer claimed that Snyder owed
him for some drayage, and made
threats. Then Snyder went inside
the store, got "a pistol and struck the
darkey on the head with it. A scuff1e
ensued, during which, it is claimed,
the pistol was accidentally discharg
ed, killing Palmer. A coroner's jury
exonerated Snyder.
The auditors of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad have finished an
examination of the accounts of the
late w. D. Chipley, which they found
correct, and Thursday the announce
ment was made that Judge f. B. Bon
ifay, had been appointed to succeed
him as general land commissioner.
Judge Bombay was not an applicant
for the position, but has always been
the assistant land commissioner, and
the appointment is regarded as an eX-
cellent one.
a shipment of 5000 tons of Ala
from the port Of Pensacola a few
days ago. This means much for this
country and THE south. 1t means
that the United States can furnish
iron cheaper than any other country
in the world, and that the south can
furnish iron cheaper than any other
section of the United States. The
shipment referred to was solid in COM
petition with Birmingham, England.
iron, and the price is said to have
been 81 per ton less than was charged
for the English product. Future or
ders, and probably permanent
trade, may follow this shipment.-Pa-
latka Advertiser.
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right hand between the saw and log
the saw cutting off all the fingers Of
the hand just above the knuckles.
The orange crop in the tangerine
section of Orange county will be
large next year, and many trees are
now loaded with fruit This is very
noticeable on the grated trees, which
now have a top almost as large as
they were three years ago.-Palatka
Advertiser
Tilghman's new steamer, the LIE
Rive, is now receiving the finishing
touches, and within a few days vii,
enter the lists for charter to pleasure
parties, being especially adapted tc
that purpose, and fitted with appli-
ances for comfort not equalled by
any steamer on the St. Johns river
Palatka Advertiser.
The Hart and Lucas Lines of Ockla-
waha River steamers will be CONSOLE
dated again This season, and ruin as
they did last year, the Metamora and
Okeehumpka performing the service
between here and Silver Springs. The
first trip of the season up the famous
river will be made january 3.-Palat-
ka cor. Times-Union & Citizen.
ID. Mclean of Orlando, a veteran
pineapple grower, has purchased fifty
acres of land at Hallandale, which he
will turn into a pineapple plantation
He has one acre cleaned and planted
and two acres more nearly ready fol
planting. Mr.. Mclean proposes tc
make this one of the best plantations
on the east cOast-Miami cor. Times
Union & Citizen.
A mysterious shooting occurred
about two miles from Williston re-
Gently. Sarah Brown, a negro woman
who had separated from her husband
was sitting in her house by the fire
when some one fired a pistol through
an auger hole in the door, the bal
striking her in the hand and head al
the same time, inflicting a painful
but not serious wound.
Capt. Barber, who left Jacksonville
eight months ago ON canoeing
cruise through the headwaters of the
St. Johns river and has been camping
at Narcossee, struck camp Saturday
and continued his trip to the Gulf
Capt. Barber is sanguine of being
able, through the help of congress
to open up tourist route by way oil
these inland -Kissimmee Val
ley Gazette.
The regular fall term of the cir
cult court in and for Lafayette coun
ty was convened last Tuesday morn
ing, and was adjourned by the sheriff
sine die on account of the illness Of
Judge White, who has been very il
at his home in Live Oak for the past
two weeks. There is "a very heavy
criminal docket, and the bar will pc
tition for a special term as soon as
possible.
Sugar cane ought not to be neg
lected by the east coast farmers. Il
number of planters living in the
same neighborhood would plant g