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The evening times., 1897-08-30
woMAN.s CORPSE IN A CREEK
Dead Body Rises to the Surface
With Marks OF Murder.

Elkton, Nd, Aug. 80, The body OF an
unknown, well dressed white woman, aged
between twent y-five and thirty years, was
found in Big Elk Creek, near Vinsngers y
Mill. Cecil county, at 6 O'Clock yesterday
evening htAlfred I. Marcus, who was fisn'
ing. The right side OF the woman's face was
badly mutiated, and, not withstanding sew
eral hundred people viewed the corpse,
it was impossible to identify her. Dr.
John II. lamar made an examination of
the hody, and the marks on the face lead
TO the supposition that the woman WIS
murdered and her body thrown into the
water.
There is a cut across the throat and sew
eral deep gashes OF her left cheek. Fish
have also helped to mutilate her face, but
DIR. Jamar, after close examination of
tie wounds. THINKS there is but little douot
hut that the marks are those OF knife or
some sharp instrument, ard that fish could
the wounds, asthe examina-
ton shows them to be clear cut. Just how
long the rernainsh had been in the water Is an
other mystery, Tut il was possibly not more
than forty-eight hours
The woman is about five eet in height,
with auburn hair, and is well dressed In
q black skirt, with blue and white shirt
waist and black belt. She wore black nat,
new pair II elastic-top shoes, with patent
leather tips, and earrings in both ears. Her
upper teeth are missing, and she evidently
had false ones.
Several clews as to her identity were
run out, but up to a late hour last night
her identity remained mystery. The
corpse was found in hole OF about four
fete of water, the deepest in the creek In
these parts.
Considerable excitement prevails Ia Elk
ton, as the case is certainly very sus-
picious one. The authorities will make
thorough investigation, but they have NO
knowledge OF any woman being missing
in this neighbor hood.
The evening times., 1897-08-30

The Franco Russian alliance being at last
"un fait accompli," events are moving,
and are likely for some time to move faster
thar they have since the cessation OF ac-
tive hOStilities In Greece. Abdurrahman
Khan, Ameer OF Afghanistan and self
STYLED Light OF Islam" is reported to
have summoned a meeting OF mullahs at
Cabdl, to discuss the propriety OF declaring
holy Wal" against Great Britain. Com
ing at this juncture, the movement is of
very serious import to our British cousins.
They hardly would fail to see the finger Of
Turkey in a pie OF the sort, and would no t
doubt that the finger Was directed by some
even greater inelueSoe than the sublime
Porte.
The evening times., 1897-08-30
MARYLAND FARMERS SUICIDE.
His Body Found Hanging to Tree
in the. Woods.

Upper Marlboro, Nd. Aug. 30. MI.
Henry Waring Grimes committed suicide on
his farm In Prince George county, adjoiil-
ing the village OF Nottingham, by hanging
himself to a tree. He had been missing since
sunda yisst, but as he frequently W enta a way
from home and sta yed several da US, nothing
was thought of his absence. He had evil
IDENTITY been hanging from the tree ever
since his disappearance, for when he was
found his body had begun TO decay. The
ROPE had stretched until his knees We're on
the grour.l and but for this his head would
have been pull ed off. as the remains We're So
much decompused.
Mr.. Grimes was about sixty-three years
old and n widower. He owned a fine farm
On the Patuxent River, about twelve miles
from Upper Marlboro. For the last ten or
twelve years he rented out the place, not
having any children. He made his home
with the tenants.
The evening times., 1897-08-30
AN ENRAGED YOUTHS REVENGE.
Fires Into Group, Killing His
Grandfather and wounding Others.

Coatesvillc, Pa, Aug. 30.-In a fit Of
ungovernable anger yesterday afternoon,
Ralph Moore fired with a shotgun into n
group of fodr men at Mortonvile and in
stahtly killed his grandfather, Reuben Seq
ner, who was one OF tn. party. Victor Seq
ner, the young mans uncle, was danger
ously wounce1, and Charles and BENJAMIN
Moore each got portion Of the load in his
body. How seriously they are hurt cannot
be ascertainee.
There was p dispute among the five men
in front of old Segner's house, and in the
crossfire Of words young Moore grew ter
ribly incensed against the others. For
some time past ne has not been on good
terms with his relatives, and during the
quarrel he made all kinds of dire threats
against them. Finally he declared that he
would shoot theinI heads off, and went
into the house. A moment later he ap
peared at aa upstairs window with a gun,
and pointing it at the men below, fired
before they fairly realized what he was
about. lie only shot one barrel, but that
did terrible execution.
wildly excited crowd gathered in n
moment. AMI carried the victims OF the
tragedy into the house. In the confu-
sion, Moore rLade his escape from a rear
door, leaving his coat and hat behind.
lie cut across four miles of country 10
his home at Boxtown, a suburb of Coates
vile. bot soon after he was seen there lie
disappeared. Chief of Police Umstead was
soon on his track with warrant, and other
officers joined In the search. Late in the
evening the fugitive was arrested by
Constable Nafe.
Charles aud Ben ia min Moore, who were
wounded, are no relation to Ralph. They
are residents OF Coatesville. With Vic
tor Segner, they are in the doctors hands
Just how serious Mr.. Segner's wounds win
prove cannot be told, as much depends on
whether inflammation can be prevented
Reuben segner, who was killed, was about
siXty.five years of age.
The evening times., 1897-08-30

1t is likely that the Sultan would lie
willing enough 10 sell the sovereignty OF
Palestine FOR some cash and tribute; and
capital engineering, irrigation, assisted
agriculture. viticulture and such things
would do the rest. But IL happens justnow
that the Sublime Porte seems very much
to lie under the influence and tutelage OF
Russia. What that power would think
about the proposition is not clear to us,
and It's attitude, on the basis of the present
division of power in Europe would be apt
to decide the course of Abdul Hamid. What
ever may eventuate, the evolution of tis
Zionistic aspiration and movement will
be watched with much and rcspectfulinter
est wherever throughout civilization there
is care for human advancement.
The evening times., 1897-08-30
Hurled at Arlington.

The funeral service of Mr.. Charles Harry
Dow. who died on Friday, were held at the
family residence last evening at Z o'clock,
AMI were conducted by the Rev. DR.. CooS,
assistant rector OF the Church of the As
cension. The remains were inferred at
Arlington Cemetery today at 2 p. M, when
the services at the grave were conducted
10y the Union Veteran Legion. The pail
bearers were j. NJ. Kline. j. J. Balm, +. ]
Foster, II. NJ. Gilman, N. Shatswell, D.
Reiff, w. 3. Douglass and c. E. Troutman
The evening times., 1897-08-30

The Zionist conference at Basic, Switzer-
land, opened yesterday, with about two
hundred delegates present from various
parts Of the world. As our readers already
know, the object Of this important meet
mgis to discuss the great Hebrew race ques-
tion of a Hebrew state in Palestine, with
Jerusalem as its capital and a Prince Of
House OF David as its ruler, under Turkish
suZeTainty. As heretofore noted, American
Hebrews do not favor the project to any
great extent, so far as they personally are
concerned, and opinion considerably is
divided az to the desirability of the move
ment for any purpose, or on any grounds.
Considered as splendid modern scheme of
colonization it has its attractions, and is
really not as chimerical, from a financial
and economical point of view, as it would
have appeared a generation ago. Among
them the Hebrew people, not only haveth
necessary capital, but the organizing and
business ability probably 20 make the resur-
rection and drevivification of Solomon King
dom, q success and a good paying invest
ment.
The evening times., 1897-08-30

The Republican political situation in the
State OF Maryland continues on the whole
quite satisfactory to all who aneopposed to
The party. Mir. Wellington is reported as
about To renounce his State charmanship
and to declare that he will use his Federal
patronage for the glorious purpose of get
ting even withthose who have despitefully
used him, ard used him up. He VIII See
MI Mckinley Immediately that great man
gets ready TO discnjunket himself and re-
turn 70 business. Wellington still appears
to have cunfidencein his place in the Pres
idential "Abraham's BOSOM" Whether he
has OF NJ! is little matter. He is "big
enough and bad enough, and uglyenough,"
as the children say, to keep UP fermeht
that wsll disrupt things, whichever way she
Administration cat may jump. 1t is good
opportunity for thorough Democratic organ
ization on the dead line of bmet allism and
the Chicago platform.
The evening times., 1897-08-30

It is announced in those OF the dis
patches, sent TO this country from Havana.
which sre inspired from the captain gen.
erals palace, that Miss Cisneros occupies
q pleasant and airy apartment in the
pany OF several other ladies; that she Is
allowed &c receive visitors three times a
week, and is well cared for What do the
women OF America think OF an American
correspondent In Cuba-doubtless the one
The evening times., 1897-08-30

Great a. have been the difficulties in
reaching Dawson City and its surrounding
district, reports directly from there at
this time representthat nothing can prevent
q famine next winter. Last year the cup
plies brought in aggregated about $500
tons, OF which perhaps 900 tons were In
food supplies and clothing. The whole busi-
ness was cleaned up and there was great
suffering. Good authorities state that the
total Of all supplies possible to get in be-
tween tine opening and close Of communica-
tion for 1897, cannot exceed 4,500 TONS
of which quite half is represented by
liquors, furniture and such things. Inas-
much as there are more than three times as
many people in the Klondike country as
there were in the winter OF 1867 it IS
not difficult to see that a terrible disaster
impends. Relief will be impossible. After
the Yukon freezes over, which now must
happen shortly, the only possible communi-
cation by the nearest route would he
1,2oO miles by dog sledge train, and il is
said that a train of that kind cannot feed
itself for 200 miles out OF what it can
carry. News dispatches tells us many
other painful things about the Alaskan con-
ditions II is evident that the sudden rush
has been miserable mistake. There would
have heen amuchbetter slio W for everybody,
starting in the spring. Now seven or eight
this summer, are stuck somewhere on the
trails for the winter. They will eat their
heads off, even ic they do not freeze OF
Etarve to death.
The evening times., 1897-08-30

weyler and his allies in the United States
arc trying on a new dodge in the case Of
poor Evangelina Cisneros. With the use Of
rertain press facilities, weyler is pushing
pat further attempts at explanation, ap-
parently in the hope of confusing the mat
ter by telling some excellent Spanish lies
regarding details. For instance he has the
Satanic nerve TO assert that he had about
made up his mind to release the young
lady, when all this row was kicked up,
and then OF course he would not do SO.
Also, he is credited with saying that the
governor of the Isle of Pines does not
think her Offeuse was as criminal as at
first supposed, and he is in favor uf
rlemency! What does this beast take the
American people for? His first attempt, TO
escape denunciation and execration, by
throwing mud at the character OF an inno
cent girl, having failed, does he suppose
his present mendacities will serve him any
better? The case against him has been
cOmpieOely mace out. lie nes When ne
asserts or hints that he had any intention
Go release the fair prisoner. He was on
the point of sending her to Ceuta, in Az
rica, when The Times, Sun and Journal
correspondents discovered the outrage. The
procurator fiscal admitted that he had de
manded twenty years sentence. Berriz
himself was in Havana, urging Weyler TO
hurry up and get the victim OF his fears
and vengeance out of the way; and Weyler
was on the very point of obliging him.
when the correspondents caught him up
short
The evening times., 1897-08-30
CONDEMNS THE INJUNCTIONS.
Courts That EDtoined Miners AR
raipned by a County Judge.

Omaha, Neb.. Aug. 3O.-Judge Cunning
hai. Il. Scott, of the district court of Douglass
county, at convention of silver Republi
cans, held here Saturday, made powerful
arraignmcnt of those Judges on the bench
who enjoined the striking miners.
He said: ANY Federal judge, or any
other judge, who attempts to prevent
these miners, who are contendlng against
being paid $3.50 week, from marching g
pcaceeby upon the public highway, 50
long DIS they are not disturbing the public
peace, which they have not been, is n in
famous csoundrel.''
The evening times., 1897-08-30
FORTY SKELETONS UNEARTHEI
Grewsome Find of WOrkmen Near
PrieD Lake, louisiana.

Lake Cha rles, La, Aug. 3O-Forty human
skeletons have just been unea rthed on the
shores OF the Prien Lake, some nine miles
below this city.
Fragments of bone and in some cases en-
tire bones and skulls were first discovered
by party of'workmen engaged in digging
shells for the new coal road bridge on the
the banks of Prien Lake. They were only
about two feet below the surface on a
bluff fifteen feet high, few hundred yards
below the site OF the Burleson and Dupon
mill.
The skulls are very thick, the Jawlones
heavier and longer than those of the aver
age American.
The evening times., 1897-08-30

As all our news from the war in India
comes through government channels, il
Is fair prescription that it does not axe
the situation any worse than really ii is.
Judging from the general conditions and
dangers now menacing the British empire,
the suspicion is Justified that reports from
the scene of hostilties do not tell the
whole truth. The other day we were ad-
vised that the contract Afridi troops, who
were garrrisoninG the forts in the Khyber
Pass, defended them brayely for hours,
and ouly surrendered before fierce as
saclfs of vastly superior numbers. Today,
il appears that, after firing a few per-
functory shots, they opened the gates To
their kinsmen and joined them. lmIe-
diate!y on receiving this information
the commanding officer at Jamrud dis
armed the regiment OF Khyber Rifles at
that point, as measure Of rreca aution.
The evening times., 1897-08-30
And Then,

Bobby (sdmiring the India ink tattooing
on Dickeys arm) m)-nidit hurt much?
Dicky Not tan my mother sawft.-Boston
TRANSCRIPT
The evening times., 1897-08-30
Eou1rrNe SHIPS OF WAR.
Busy Sunday Operations at tn
BrookIyu Navy Yard.

Busy Sunday Operations at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
New York. Aug. 3O-The usual Sunday
quiet CT the navy yard in Brooklyn was
broken yesterday by the whirr Of machinery
and the sound of sledge hammers. Up 10
midnight of Saturday more than 100 men
had been busy in the blacksmiths', joiners'
and punch shops, the latter where plates
for boilers and tanks ARE shored and the
| rivet holes made.
| Yesterday morning the same men report
| ed for duty under orders, and all day
| forges blazed, shaft,ng 9 whirled, planes sped
| and hammers and sledges swung, though
| each gang of men knew nothing beyond
| the immediate task set them.
1t was rumored, among other things, that
Mr.. Roosevelt, the Acting Secretary OF The
Navy, was tr ying to make record In the
/ matter OF rushing ships into service. Then,
the war talk that always accompanies I'M
| usual activity in a navy yard was current
in various forms. Spain being, of course,
the party of the other part In all the sup
posed terms.
Another and apparently more plausible re
| port was that the gunboat Annapolis, for
| which all the work was designed, had re-
| ceiyed orders to sail on September l to
| relieve the Helena as filibuster watcher r
on the Florida coast.
| Constructor Hibbs could offer little ex-
| planation of the hurry orders received for
the four warshps under repair, the Cincin-
| natl, Terror, Detroit and Indianapolis, ex-
| cept that 1T was desired To have the last
| named start on her six days of final trial
| by September 1.
The Cincinnati was to leave the yard on
| September s. and her destination is com
| monty reported tc be Montevideo.
From another source it was learned that
| the Helena's recall from Southern waters
| was rendered necessary by her boilers hav-
ing burned out The Detroit and Terror
are to leave tn. yard on September IL.
| 1t was said today at the Navy Depart
| ment that the unusual activity displa yed
| during the past wesk. and yesterday at the
| New York navy yard was caused by the
necessity for preparing the cruiser Cincin-
| natl and the gunboat Annapolis for sea.
| TIE Cincinnati is under orders TO sail Sep
| tember Z for the South Atlantic station to
| relieve the Lancaster, which has been or
| dered home. To be able to sail on the date
| set II has been necessary to double the
| force pr men at work on the cruiser.
| The final trial trip of the gunboat is set
| down for September 7 off Hampton Roads,
| and the preparations for this event have
| also required extra wor X each day of the
| week, including Sunday.
The evening times., 1897-08-30
BAY RIDGE,
The Only Salt Water Bathing
Resort in the Vicinity Of
Washington.

EXCELLENT RESTAURANT.
Trains leave b. Il o. station, week days,
9:15 a. m, 4:3O p. IN; Sundays, e:36
q. m, 1:3O and 3:15 p. m.
Round-trip tickets, 90 cent?
For the 4:3O ID. Ia. train, I6 cents Win
he charged, and 25 cents refunded upon
return OF coupon 20 agent at Washington
station.
,.ate i;ay on the morning boat TO Balti-
more and return, for 20 cents. Tickets
for sale on Cafe Porch upon arrival Of
morning train from Washin gton.
je7-Mo, Thu, Sat, tillAU3l ,'97-em
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-20
POOR LITTLE VIOLET.

Il was so lonely" a violet said,
AS she nestled close to an eagles breast,
$50 tired, too of the dusk and the dew,
God sent you / think, to give me rest.
Bear me away to the gates of day,
To heights that forever are glad and
green,
And soft on your breast as a bird in it's
nest,
Let me learn what living and loving
mean"
The wind crept cold by the eyrle's edge
That night, in his cavern beside the sea.
The bird slept well, but the pride of the
dell,
Forgotten and faded, cried, "Ah! me!
For the sweet, sweet dream by the ehad-
owing stream,
For the lcnely life that 1 used to hate
For the dusk and the dew so tender and
truev
But the wind made answer: TOO late.
too later
Today In the calm of his cold content,
High on the cliffs the bold bird sits,
And never a thought of the harm he
wrought
Through the sunny space Of his memory
fits;
But the wind in glee ereeps up from the
sea,
And finding the violet doomed and dead,
Watts II away from the gates of day,
And burles II down where the dusks are
shed.
New York Tribune.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-20

Certain local papers seem disposed
to make political and circulation cap
ital out of the present labor situation.
Their wild and anarchistic sentiments
may have little weight, yet the efforts
to create or aggravate discomfort with
q large class of people is not to their
credit any more than it is to abuse
every newspaper which they term
corporation sheet because it takes a
conservative stand in the interests and
for the benefit of all concerned in the
present crisis. 1t Is safe to assert that
not one of the proprietors Of thesI'
papers which are now endeavoring to
incite labor against capital ever did
anything to promote a labor industry
in his whole life. In their present at
titude they are much like the man
who burned his neighbor's barn in or
der to roast two eggs for himself. BY
their ill-advised words they would pro-
duce a national calamity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-20
Sons Now Safe at Yale.

Fond mothers, who contemplate send
ing their boys to Yale, will probably re-
joice to hear that one grave danger
which menaced them at that college
has now vanished, since Miss Neg
bauer seems this time to be married
for keeps to Matthew Borden. She was
the beautiful New Haven girl with
whom every college man proceeded to
fall in love as soon after arrival as the
circumstances would permit. There
have been rumors of suicides because
of reflections by this superlatively
lovely daughter of tailor, and 1t Is
asserted that many broken-hearted
youths have given up a college career
and gone back home, all for love of her.
She is a thrifty young woman, for
she married young Borden four years
ago, but as his millionaire father would
disinherit his son if the marriage were
not annulled, she consented to a divorce
with consideration of $4,000, which
sum was carefully invested. The other
day she remarriad her former husband
and they have the $4,000 for their sup
port while he secures surgical prac-
tice.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-20
GEN. WOODFORD'S MISSION.
From the Washington star.


General woodford has now entered on
his official duties In Spain, and whether
he proceeds swiftly or slowly, speculation
as to the scope and character of his in
structions will be widely INDUCED In both
here and abroad. The field is open to all,
and for the present one mans guess Is
about as good as another's. Three propo-
sitions have already received good deal
of attention of this kind.
~ Autonomy. Even Spain comedies
that Cuba has been badly governed, and
hence her talk about reforms. But auton-
omy, as understood in the United states
and illustrated in the case of Canada, Is
| not within Spain's nearing as respects
any change in her policy toward Cuba.
That Is admitted, even by Senor Segasta.
Precisely what autonomy Is In the Span
ish conception of colonial government we
do not readily grasp In this free country.
| But the Cubans grasp II, and refuse IL on
the score that 1t is merely a trick re-
| arrangement Of burdens. They believe
that they would be as much harried under
| the so-caled autonomy as ever. They
| have come to abhor Spanish rule OF any
kind and of all kinds.
(9 Purchase of the island by the Gu
| bans This proposition Is coupled with
| the suggestion that part OF the price 10
be paid shall be an assumption by the
Cubans of share OF the enormous debt
| that has been incurred by Spain In the
prosecution of the present war. The bare
statement of this proposition is sufficient
| to explain it's objectionableness In Cuban
circles. Spain has laid Cuba waste, and
squandered millions of money in perse-
cutting the Cuban people, and the Cubans
are to be assessed at the top figure for q
desert, and for n full share of the money
| expended in an effort to exterminate
them. There need be no wonder that the
Cubans, even in their distress, laugh at
such thing.
| (9 Independence. The war still goes
| on. The Cubans keep the field and con-
tinue to win victories. Spain is bankrupt,
and has been fought almost to a stand
still. Why should not the Cubans insist
on Independence? Why should they give
up, or dicker for paltry terms, with sue
cess seemingly in sight? Why not go on
| until every ves tige of Spanish authority
is rotted out of the island?
The United States, there Is good reason
to believe. is not at this time behind any
proposition but that the war in Cuba
| should be brou ght to close. 1t desires
that result, and will assist in an honor
able and a proper way to bring that about.
but it would be idle to deny the fact that
| with Independence for Cuba as the result
the people of the United States would feel
the liveliest and sincerest satisfaction.