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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

President Mckinley left Washington
ON Wednesday for Nashville, to visit
the exposition.
J. Il. White, whose family of five
children were burned at Keystone, W
Va last week in an incendiary fire
took his own life.
1t was officially announced in Athens
last Thursday that an arlnistice has
been signed between the Greek anG
Turkish military commanders in Thes
sally and Epirus.
After q lengthy cabinet council al
Madrid last Thursday, at which Pre-
| mier Canovas made an explanation oil
his position, the Queen-Regent request
ed him to remain in office.
IL is reported that Vim. J. Bryan
will make q trip around the world and
incidentally inform himself on eco
nomic questions in the various cOun'
tries which he visits.
Two mortgages for 5000. 900 each
recorded in Baltimore Friday provide
fer the Issuing of $4,000 600 per cent
bonds to complete and equip the Bou-
levard Line between Baltimore and
Washington.
Seth Low. president of Coluin bia
College, and ex mayor of Brooklyn, has
been decided upon by the executive
committee 81 the local Citizens Union
as candidate for mayor Of the Greater
New York, in spite of Mr.. Lows oppo-
sition 10 several clauses Of the charter
consolidating the cities.
The Kentucky silver democratic con
venrion to nominate Il candidate for
clerk OF the court of appeals, assembled
at Frankfort last week Ex-Copgress-
man McCreary, whose support OF Hry-
an WAS Iukewarm. made an enthusias-
tic speech, coming out squarely in
support Of The Issues of the conven
ton, and predicted the election OF
Bryan in 1900. The resolutions indoors
ed the Chicago platform in strong
terms and the issues as representing
true democracy. The resolutions also
Endorsed Bryan for President in 1890,
and approved the course of Senator
Blackburn.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-10
e. NJ Cushing & Son, Auctioneers.
COMMISSIONERS SALE.

VOu1IE Eli " NIL
By virtue of degree of the Hastings Court
OF the City OF StauGton, rendered in the case
of Hunter, Agt. VS.. Meel,S, j. F., &C., will pro-
coed in front of the court house of the City of
Staunton. on
Monday, the 2sth Gay of June, 1897,
County Court-day) to sell at public auction to
land, situated adjoining each other. abort one
mile Southwest of MpscOmD Station on the
shenandoah Valley Railroad; one containing
81 acres. and the other containing rs acres
being the same which were conveyed by Sue
z. Miller, William =. Miller and Fannie Y.
list, 1891; upon the following:
TERMS. -WIT:-Twenty per cent. OF the
purchaSe-mouey in cash, ana the reI.I eiuder
in three equal instruments, payable geSpec-
lively IN SIX, twelve. ara eighteen months
from the date of sale with interest from the
date OF sale, the purchaser giving bond with
approved personal security for the deferred
lnStalments OF purchase money, and the title
to be retained as ultimate security
JAMES BUMGARDNER, il.
Commissioner.
VIRGINIA-City of Staunton, to-wit:
hereby certify that James Bumss rdaer
Jr., Commissioner, has given bond, with Sc
curity, as required by law, and by decFes en-
tered on the 4th day of May fSr i'll Tx Cnan-
Gerry Cause of Jno. h. Hunter, Ag't against J.
p. Meeks, &c. pending in the Court OF Hust-
ings for the City Of Staunton.
Given under my hand this s6th Gay Of May
1897.
NEWTON ARGENBRIGHT, Clerk.
may 1-tdo
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-10

This paper has the largest cir
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lished in the Valley of Virginia.
The subscription list is open to
inspection.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-10
Another Southern Outrage.

the State which gave the countr,
| President Mckinley and is the incar
nation of ali that has tended to elevate
morals and good government, hal
suffered q Southern outrage in the
shape OF a negro lynching, and either
killing by soldiery. Coming as THU
does in the midst of reduced wages o.
workingmen at Canton and other por
tions of the State, with the desperate
depression in all business save in the
foreclosure of mortgages, which is
brisker than ever before known in
Ohio, it may logically be coupled with
the other ills which Bryan and free
silver have heaped on the natica, and
no doubt this will be the solut :on of
the matter. Urbana, where this
''SoutherD outrage" took place last
Friday mas been twice the scene of
such barbarity and lawlessness, and
knowing the good name and fair fame
OF the Buckeye State as we do, We are
prone to believe that the awiess people
reside only there. The Governor was
not at home, we learn, else the crime
of this negro hanging and it's atten-
danJ casualties would not have occurr-
ed. bus We are not advised as to the
Governors whereabouts when the first
and wo:ae crime WAS committed, that
GA the poor defenseless woman.
The captain OF the company which
fred, Capt. Leonard, the sheriff, Ne
Lain, and all the military have left
town or hid themselves away in some
secluded spot and. are probably not
yet out of hiding; the body Of the
negro Mitchell, hung for long time
with no one to give it burial, until at
last decency compelled something to
be done as the relic hunters had nearly
denuded it in their efforts to get some
gruesome souvenir. The latest des-
patches say that now 1.-THE spectacle
of a peaceable community once more
presents ITSELF" This, in fact all the
is reassuring, and being sat
isfed that these adYices are not lean
ards" Congress may possibly not be
to bring forward resolutions,
neither may the colored conferences
yociferate and threaten blood, but
hey and the country can be Quoted
with the assurance that what thing
,oever is done in Ohio that thing is
light, Ohio being the head of this
can, like the King, do no
wrong, so that the hanging of negro |
e MIST there is eminently proper, whilst
u ifginia and Texas it is eminently
ID proper. Such doubtless is the opin-
on in Ohio.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-10

IL is reported that Vim. J. Bryan
will make a trip around the world and
incidentally inform himself on eco
nonic questions in the various coun-
tries which he visits.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-10

President Mckinley left Washington
on Wednesday for Nashville, to visit
the exposition.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-06-10
v1RG1N1A-Citv of staunton. to-w;t:
COMMISSIONERS SALE
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

Pursuant to decree Of the StauBton Hust-
ing Court entered on February sGth. 1897, in
the c.aDcery cause OF the William knabe
y Company Manufacturing Company VS.. the
Trustees of the Wesley an Female Institute.
the undersigned Special Commissioners, win,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-21
A CUBAN ROYALlST.

weyler Is Not Half Savage Enough to
Please Sonora Camel.
The newspaper in which are to be found
some of the most bitter and fiery senti-
ments that are anywhere printed against
the Cuban insurgents is La Cotorra, a
weekly Havana paper whose owner and
publisher is woman. Her name is Sonora
Eva Camel, and she Is the widow of Eloy
p. Buxo, who was we'll known journal
ist, and who founded the journal which
she has so ably conducted since his death.
Sonora Camel Is daughter of old Gas.
tile, Spaniard to the back bone, and of
course the cause of Cuban liberty finds
little favor In her sight Every week the
columns Of her publication fairly seethe
with scathing denunciation of the "trai-
torous sorfs" who are In rebellion, and she
stoutly calls upon the government to be
still more rigorous and implacable In its
dealings with them. The cruelties of the
bloody Weyler are not half savage enough
to please her naughty and bloouthirsty ma
ture. On the Cuban leaders she exhausts
all her invective, and writes things which
1t would be decidedly unpleasant for them
to read.
OF course all this makes Sonora Camel
very popular with the royalists. Her paper
is virtually the organ of the government,
and the Havana journalists have given to
her cordial invitation to become mem
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afoat. She Is always favorite with the
crew, which can seldom be- said of sec
ond mate.
Mrs Powlos Is minister's daughter,
her father being Rev. Mr.. plummer, rector
of Stratford Tony parish, Salisbury, Eng
land She is AN accomplished and well
educated woman, speaking almost every
modern language with fluency and having
more than II slight knowledge of several
sciences. She has ono son, who was born
at sea on voyage from Calcutta to San
Francisco. The young man is 10 years old
now and has been learning the science Of
navigation on IN English training ship,
but Is soon tn become an apprentice on his
fathers ship.
Captain ard Mrs. Powles live an ideal
life aboard ship Mrs. Powles Is good
musician aud has piano of her own in
the big, rop:Hy cabin. The captain is an
enthusiastic amateur photographer, and
has several large albums filed with pic
lures which he has taken in all sorts of
odd corners Of the earth. They have nu-
merous animal pets, including several
dogs and number Of Australian song
birds
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pressed in the closing lines of the rhymes
which tell how "Little Brooches" was
saved after his thrilling ride "hell to split
over the praires" and in which the author
declares:
think that savin little child
An bringin him to his own
Is adurned sight bettor business
Than loafn around the throne.
But II there is it will not be remem-
bered half so long as this, couched in the
rough and rugged dialect of good old Pike
county, Ills
Colonel Hay was born In Salem, Ind,
In 1885, His father was a physician, and
his grandfather was one Of the heroes of
the Revolution. After being graduated at
Brown college young Hay went at the age
of 21 to Springfield, Ills, where he en-
tered the office of Abraham Lincoln and
commenced the study of law. When Lin
coin was made president, he selected Hay
as one of his private secretaries. The other
was Nicolay, who later on oollaborated
with Hay in writing the history of the
martyred president
After Lincoln's assassination Hay, who
had seen some service during the war and
had gained the title of colonel, went to
Paris as secretary of the United States le-
where he did some of his best literary work.
In 1879 Colonel Hay returned to this
country and accepted an editorial desk on
the New York Tribune He retained this
position until the election of President
Hayes, who invited him to become first as
sistant secretary of state, an appointment
which was very agreeable to him. At the
conclusion Of his term Colonel Hay went
m hOmn nf yui "a "a
ents, and devoted several years to writing.
In 1881 he returned to The Tribune at the
request of Whitelaw Reid and managed
that newspaper while the latter went on a
wedding tour to Europe. Although Is was
time of great political excitement the
Garfield Blaine. Conkling quarrel occur
ring during this period, Colonel Hay con-
Quoted The Tribune to the satisfaction Of
ell concerned.
Colonel Hays marriage to the daughter
of Amasa Stone, the Ohio millionaire, was
undoubtedly the spelling of rare literary
genius, who might have given the world
much more of his graceful work had he
been urged on by necessity. But his
wealthy and somewhat eccentric father-in-
law treated him with such generosity that
the incentive to use his pen was removed
For awhile Colonel Hay and his wife lived
In handsome residence on Euclid avenue,
and when the old millionaire died the
management Of his big estate was turned
over to Colonel Hay. Since then he has
written but little. He built the Washing
ton mansion which he now occupies and
spent much time and money In filling ii
with rare and curious treasures. There he
has entertained capital society in dazzling
manner and has generally lived life of
ease AT the court of st. James he may be
expected to repeat these entertainI lents,
for he has not only the means, but the am
bition, or at least his wife and daughter
have the latter, to achieve social triumphs.
FRANCIS b. TALBERT.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-21
A WOMAN NAVIGATOR.
70 Get n Masters Certificate After Eight
non y.or. ,f s,orartnu

70 Get q Masters Certificate After Eight
cen Years of Scafaring.
For 19 years Mrs ,Jane Powles has fol-
lowed the sea, and srch good use has she
made Of her opportunities that she Is soon
10 take out a masters certificate, which
will enable her to ship as captain, should
she so desire, of any kind Of sailing craft.
1t is not likely, however, that Mrs. Powles
will seek n new berth, for she already car
fies second iunte's papefs on board the
British ship James Kerr, Of which her hus.
band, T., Y. Powles, ia captain. The
James Kerr Ia big four masted ship
whose capncious hold will contain eight or
ten trainloads OF freight, and her second
mate Is person Of no little Importance.
Mrs. Powles has held this position for
seven years, and is so thoroughly skilled in
navigation that she could take the craft
around the world and back again even IL
her husband were not with her.
Ever since her marriage Mrs. Powles
has accompanied her husband on his trips,
and during that time they have circled the
globe together 10 times and have visited
almost every port of Importance In the
world. Instead Of doing fancy work un-
derneath the cabin awning, Mrs. Powlos
has studied and practioed navigation, and
her husband says she Is just as competent
to take command as he Is. On more than
one occasion she has been In charge Of the
deck and has shown herself to be cool and
courageous In emergencies She knows
every rope on the ship and can take her
trick at the wheel with any sailorman
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-21

intelligent than the others, and he had
learned to splice wire as we'll as run
the track bicycle. One bitter cold day,
when my line gave out, asked Jim if
he would go out and fix the break. Jim
was delighted. Igave him coil Of new
wire and sent him off. He came back in
q couple of hours and assured me that
he had done the job in good shape.
tried the wire, but found it did not
work. Then I kicked Jim out of the
Office and went out myself. About two
miles down the track found the break
and Jim's connection. The scoundrel
had stolen the new wire, but had put in
its place about 90 feet of old rope. He
had even tied on piece of wornout
leather line, thinking, in his guileless,
Indian way, that l would never know
the difference. trusted no more repair
ing 20 the Indians.
In the big cities new type Of line
man has made his appearance within
the last decade or so. He came when
the wires went underground, and he is
becoming more numerous every day.
While the city streets were still incum-
bered with lofty poles whose numerous
crosstrees carried network Of wires the
midair lineman was quite a hero and
often attracted big crowds as he calmly
worked away 80 or 40 feet above the
pavement.
The underground lineman does his
work unobserved and silently. He DRESS
es like an ordinary individual, too, and
does not even wear belt. He comes
along with q helper, who prizes off the
cover Of manhole on street corner,
and down into the black hole the sub
way lineman crawls. 1t is great mis-
take, though, to think that all the dam
ger was removed from his occupation
when the wires were put underground.
Down in the subway death turks as
we'll as up in the air. The very iron
ladder by which he descends may be
connected with an electric light wire
aud az soon as he puts one foot on the
earth the circuit is established. When
this happens the helper above calls an
mbulance, and there is vacancy to be
filled.
The work Of the subway lineman il
even more hazardous than that of the
man who does "field work." and fully
as many fatal accidents occur, although
not nearly so many men are needed to
look after the buried wires. But whether
he is sent up pole or down into a sub
way the lineman is constantly facing
death in a terrible form and doing it,
too, for 20 much day.
CYRUS SYLVESTER.
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FRIEND OF LINCOLN.
THE FIRST OF COLONEL JOHN HAYS
MANY HONoRS.

Tho Famous Author OF Little Breeches"
May BE ambassador TO England-His
Experience In Diplomatic Life-A Poet
of the People.
1t Is announced on what seems to be very
GOOD authority that Colonel John Hay will
Vucceed Mr.. Bayard as ambassador TO
England. Mr.. Mckinley has more than
the precedent Of sending literary man to
the court of st. James TO urge him to make
the appointment, for, although Colonel
Hays name did not appear as prominently
as did those of many other Of Mr.. MoKin-
ley's friends, yet he took deep and active
interest in the late presidential campaign
Besides this, he is an old friend Of the pres.
ident elect and has many qualifications
which at him for the post.
Colonel Hay Is man of varied attain
ments He Is one of the best known men
In the United States, but his acquaintance
ship has wide range. In the literary
world he Is known as the author Of "Cas-
lillian Days" and "The History Of Abra-
ham Lincoln"
Politicians know him as a man who for
the past 90 years has been able to ask Of
Of the pleasant offices within It's gift, and
who has only taken advantage of his OPP
portunities so far as to accept two or three
minor foreign posts and the Office of assist.
ant secretary of state. ~
In journalistic circiS he IL known as
about the only man whom Whitelaw Reid
would trust TO edit the New York Tribune
while ho went abroad
Washington society knows him as a man
Of great wealth, generous hospitality and
marked good taste who lives In magnih.
cent residence overlooking Lafayette
square and almost exactly opposite the
White House.
But the great American public knows
Colonel John Hay as the man who wrote
"Little Brooches, and long after his other
achievements have been forgotten his fame
will be preserved by his "Pike County
Ballads" verses which he Is said to have
written In jesting mood and as sort OF
parody on Bret Harte's dialect poems. In
"Castilian Days" Hay has shown that he
Is a master of graceful style, eEudite die.
ton and pure English, but where there IL
one person who has read his tales of old
Spain there are thousand whose hearts
have thrilled at the metrioal story detail
ing the "Wreck Of the Prairie Bell" and
telling how Jim Bludsoe, the engineer
did as he swore he would when he said:
I'll hold her nozzle ag'in the bank
Till the last galoot's ashore.
There may he finer sentiment, too, II
some Of his other writings than is ex
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-21
THE MODERN LINRMAN.

few hours ago has changed to snow and
is being whirled through the air in
binding clouds by 40 mile an hour
gale. Every exposed surface is covered
with an ICY sheathing, and the mercury
is rapidly falling. Yet this is just the
kind of weather in which the lineman
Is busiest He cannot bundle himself up
in an overooat either, for his limbs must
be left free SO that he can do acrobatio
feats in midair. Out into the storm he
goes. coil of wire over his shoulder.
iron climbers strapped to his legs, his
pockets stuffed with spare insulators
and his wire nippers dangling from the
leather belt around his waist
Perhaps he walks mile or two over
the rails before he finds the break. Thon
he climbs up the swaying pole, and,
with the wind bowling about him, his
fingers benumbed with cold and his eyes
almost blinded by snow, neatly joins
the severed ends. New York and Phila.
delphia are once more connected by No.
AZ, and he can tramp back to the sta
tion, where perhaps he has just thawed
himself out, when he is sent of ON
similar errand
Crossed wires are the bane of the
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-21

lineman. An ordinary telegraph wire
may be handled with impunity, but
when, as often happens, it comes in con-
tact with an electric light wire whose
insulating covering has been worn off
then ID carries an alternating current Of
several thousand volts and becomes an
instrument of death. Many lineman
has picked up an innocent looking wire
and been knocked lifeless to earth.
After every storm Of any consequence
linemen are sent scurrying out by the
early trains to repair the damage that
invariably results. Winter storms do
the most mischief. Sleet storms are
more dreaded than hurricanes, for,
while the latter may NOV down path
few rods wide across the line Of the
telegraph, taking poles and wires with
&c, a sleet storm will so load down the
wires that for many miles the whole
system will be paralyzed. A wire need
not necessarily be broken to disable it,
Let few insulators be missing and let
the wind sway it, and it will become as
useless as IL 1t were broken in dozen
places.
In every important telegraph center
big forces Of linemen are kept ready to
send out at moments notice. Very Of
ten as many as 800 linemen are sent out
in one day from the main Office Of the
Western Union in New York. They 20
prepared to do any kind Of work.
81 acted as lineman one winter" said
an expert telegraph operator, "and got
enough Of it to last me for lifetime.
was operator, station agent, baggage
master and several other things at o
little station ON the Northern Pacific,
way up in the northwest. As the near.
est lineman was 200 miles or so away,
had to make my own repairs, and the
company furnished me with railroad
bicycle for that purpose. There were
several Indians who loafed around the
station good deal and whom occa
sionally got to help me. One Of them,
whom called Jim, seemed to be more
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-21

Persons who are troubled with iudiges-
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Colo, Cholera and Disrrhoea Remedy.
For two years have suffered from indi.
gestion, and am subject TO frequent at
taoks Of pain In the stomach and bowels.
One or two doses OF this remedy never
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80 cents. Sold by O. N. Nye, corner
Barnett House; Soblsbsoh's drug store,
esb N. Marketi E. L. JiInson, 200 Tus-
oarawas street.